Speaker 1: Hey legends, welcome back to the Mason Cock Show. Now
Speaker 1: this week in the sporting segment, plenty happening. We've got
Speaker 1: umpire Ascent, We've got clanger of the week, NBA players
Speaker 1: smoking the Reefer. We also have my injury. We'll talk
Speaker 1: a bit more about it, but settle in. It's going
Speaker 1: to be a big show starting now. All right, thanks
Speaker 1: for tuning in. Let's get it started. Welcome Brandon, hey Mace.
Speaker 1: Now we just went to the f ones and we'll
Speaker 1: chat about that. But my clanger of the week this week,
Speaker 1: I want to jump straight into it because these guys
Speaker 1: are idiots at the f ones. Everyone knows Albert Park,
Speaker 1: Melbourne best f one track on the face of the
Speaker 1: planet Earth. Well, there were some idiots that somehow managed
Speaker 1: to get tickets and they invaded the track before the
Speaker 1: race was finished. Yes, I saw this. I know you
Speaker 1: ducked out to go to the bathroom at some point.
Speaker 1: Now does that correlate somehow?
Speaker 2: I just wanted to get a little close look at them.
Speaker 2: But these guys went through the fence onto the track
Speaker 2: because they wanted to run to the end to be
Speaker 2: a part of the celebrations. The post match post match
Speaker 2: post race celebrations and they got on there a little
Speaker 2: early and they were jumping out. There's people filming from
Speaker 2: the very side of the track with their phones on
Speaker 2: the inside of the fence as f one cars a
Speaker 2: hum and passed at a billion miles an.
Speaker 1: Hour or whatever.
Speaker 2: They're far out, So yeah, I can't imagine what would
Speaker 2: happen if you got hit by one of them. It
Speaker 2: would be bad for everyone involved.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't be here anymore. I'll tell you that, you'll
Speaker 1: be in a different in a different heaven or hell,
Speaker 1: whatever it is.
Speaker 2: But there was people, yeah, yelling out good off the track,
Speaker 2: but these yeah, they didn't. And then as soon as
Speaker 2: they the cars went past, they just started sprinting for
Speaker 2: the finish line.
Speaker 1: So, oh geez. It is pretty cool to go on
Speaker 1: the track post the actual race. And I say post
Speaker 1: the race because it is an absolute hazard being on
Speaker 1: enough one track. If you don't understand why you don't
Speaker 1: need to be on the track, then that's a problem
Speaker 1: within itself we all have to go into. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a huge safety concern obviously, and that's
Speaker 1: why they put the big fences up. So seeing people
Speaker 1: trying to climb that was just absolutely insane.
Speaker 2: Free food for the ducks at the lake. If you
Speaker 2: get hit by one of those cars, you just turn
Speaker 2: into little breadcrumbs.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like it's at the end of the race,
Speaker 1: so hopefully you know, like the cars have gone. It's
Speaker 1: like the same life. And I understand you want to
Speaker 1: get front row. You want to get front row for
Speaker 1: the champin shower, get a free bit of free booze,
Speaker 1: maybe even if they get your out of the distance.
Speaker 2: I actually did see another one. A little sneaky is
Speaker 2: the sub mention of my clanger of the Week, But
Speaker 2: this drunk guy jumped over one of the red ropes
Speaker 2: and climbed into one of the F one cars to
Speaker 2: take a photo. He was it was inebriated, but the
Speaker 2: security guard when he was kicking him out, the guy
Speaker 2: leant on one of the mirrors and snapped the mirror
Speaker 2: off his F one car. And apparently they're worth like
Speaker 2: tens of thousands of dollars just for a mirror. Jeez.
Speaker 1: That's it was with a group of.
Speaker 2: His mates and half of them were trying to talk
Speaker 2: him out of it. The other half were like, I
Speaker 2: just kind of want to see what happens.
Speaker 1: Let's let's provoke their idiot friend of doing something stupid.
Speaker 2: Anyway, what's your clanger of the week.
Speaker 1: Now, I don't know many people. All this at a
Speaker 1: Dodgers game twenty twenty three Major League Baseball, which is
Speaker 1: baseball in the US. They had Opening Day, which is
Speaker 1: the first game of the season, and one of the
Speaker 1: fans decided to run out onto the field and was
Speaker 1: going to propose to his girlfriend, you know, the most intimate,
Speaker 1: beautiful way of doing it at a sporting event. I
Speaker 1: will never understand it, but security took it as an opportunity.
Speaker 1: This man was just open, absolutely open on a knee.
Speaker 1: Wasn't expecting anything. Security guard. He must have been the
Speaker 1: just tight end or the middle linebacker in the football team,
Speaker 1: because he absolutely murdered the shit out of this guy.
Speaker 1: He just absolutely collabored him, took his head off.
Speaker 2: All of these security guards most of the time, when
Speaker 2: they hit someone like that, they go viral for like
Speaker 2: a good reason. It'd be like, oh, pitch invader, and
Speaker 2: I think he thought it was his moment.
Speaker 1: Oh It's time to shine.
Speaker 2: So he just lines up this guy and murders him
Speaker 2: in front of everyone. And yeah, I don't think he
Speaker 2: got the reaction that he was really after.
Speaker 1: No, well it's yeah, jeez, I've since read that. You know,
Speaker 1: they shared a post on Instagram saying, you know they're
Speaker 1: you know, out together. Obviously they've got the fiance has
Speaker 1: got the big rock on her finger and the Dodgers
Speaker 1: one eight two. So he's happy. But that will live
Speaker 1: on in infamy as one of the best hit sticks
Speaker 1: I've ever seen on the baseball field.
Speaker 2: It adds to the story.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it does. But like I'll just if you see
Speaker 1: the video out there, the man is absolutely murdered. Like
Speaker 1: it's cool, Like I can't put it into words. He
Speaker 1: gets fucking he gets his head blown off by this
Speaker 1: like security guard tackle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's not because he's also on one knee,
Speaker 2: so he's like real open.
Speaker 1: No, just folded him like a launch. Oh gosh. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll move into the next time. We've got the news stories. Now,
Speaker 1: obviously in football world, there's been a lot happening, but
Speaker 1: a very very interesting week in the AFL world, and
Speaker 1: we'll started off with one of the biggest I guess
Speaker 1: controversies of the week. Now we've got the arms out
Speaker 1: descent rule very questionable.
Speaker 2: I think we kind of agreed that it was like, okay,
Speaker 2: descent in you know, the long run, not good, want
Speaker 2: it out of the game, want to encourage more umpires
Speaker 2: to you know join. Yeah, this was different because most
Speaker 2: of the time we see a player give away a
Speaker 2: really obvious free kick and then they say something on
Speaker 2: the mark and it's normally fifty. This was a free
Speaker 2: kick paid because of descent, and obviously with the umpire
Speaker 2: being miked up, we can hear the conversation, and the
Speaker 2: conversation was basically he put his arms as Stephen Cannelio
Speaker 2: put his arms out and said, how is that a
Speaker 2: free kick? Now, I don't know if that crosses the
Speaker 2: line into descent and you get a full like set
Speaker 2: shot right at the tip of the square kick a goal.
Speaker 2: So at the time gws were up, So this not
Speaker 2: only put them behind, but it.
Speaker 1: Was changed the momentum of the game. Like it was
Speaker 1: so the you know, the tackle, someone got tackled, it
Speaker 1: kicks a point and then after the point kind of
Speaker 1: like a bit of a stoppage and play. Obviously they
Speaker 1: kicked the ball in and Steven goes over to the
Speaker 1: umpire and puts his hands answers, you know, how is
Speaker 1: that not a free kick? And I can tell you this,
Speaker 1: that's been said many times on a football field, many
Speaker 1: times on a football field, and the umpire didn't like it,
Speaker 1: and he said, yep, descent bang right away. And because
Speaker 1: it was a point, he's essentially going, no, we're going
Speaker 1: to stick you straight in front of the goals and
Speaker 1: just give you a free goal. And it's like the
Speaker 1: most just frustrating thing I can imagine Stephen would have
Speaker 1: been thinking at that time, going like, you're really going
Speaker 1: to take that personally? Are you really going to take
Speaker 1: this personally? And then like then you have to essentially
Speaker 1: just turn around walk away because you're gonna be that
Speaker 1: frustrated that you just don't want to make it even
Speaker 1: worse the situation.
Speaker 2: We don't want to give away another one. But I
Speaker 2: think what people took an issue with was the fact
Speaker 2: that throughout the rest of the weekend there was numerous occasions,
Speaker 2: even from the same game, people went back and like
Speaker 2: saw like numerous occasions where it happened and it wasn't
Speaker 2: paid for descent, there was no free kick, there was
Speaker 2: no so like the consistency in there, I imagine like
Speaker 2: with the players is the most frustrating thing when anything
Speaker 2: like this happens, when it's like any just rule interpretation
Speaker 2: or new rule or change or whatever. Just now, how
Speaker 2: do you guys move forward from this? Going like, well,
Speaker 2: is that going to be a free kick? If I ask, it's.
Speaker 1: Just it's a It's almost one of those things now
Speaker 1: where you just, yeah, I know that your hands out
Speaker 1: automatically is going to be an issue. Like, so you
Speaker 1: just can't you can't have to refrain. I know, it's
Speaker 1: like a natural reaction to do that whenever you think
Speaker 1: it's a bad call, But you just have to refrain
Speaker 1: from that because I look at the weekend Jack Higgins,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, you lost his shit went absolutely a
Speaker 1: wall and then nothing was called. But then the same way,
Speaker 1: like you know, in a different game, like that's you know,
Speaker 1: just a subtle like why didn't you call that? You know,
Speaker 1: it goes to a descent and totally changes the whole
Speaker 1: momentum of the game. So yeah, I think from a
Speaker 1: player standpoint, like if you're going to have this ascent rule,
Speaker 1: like you need to have clarity from the AFL, clarity
Speaker 1: for the umpires, clarity for the players, that this is
Speaker 1: the present, We're going to say, and like, if this happens,
Speaker 1: then that's just going to be the ruling and there's
Speaker 1: nothing you can do about it. Where if you make
Speaker 1: it more opinionated, then you're just never going to know
Speaker 1: what the actual ruler, you know, how far you can
Speaker 1: take the rule.
Speaker 2: Yeah, anyway, to watch this space, because watch the space.
Speaker 1: All happened again this year, yeaharanteed, Oh.
Speaker 2: It happened again this ran. It always happens the week after.
Speaker 2: But moving on, we've got Jamara hugil Hagen obviously terrible
Speaker 2: incident where he was racially villafired a couple of weeks back,
Speaker 2: came out and played an absolute kicked and yeah, it
Speaker 2: was great to see, and not only that one of
Speaker 2: the most iconic photos taken in sport in a long time.
Speaker 2: Obviously Nicki Windmar did the iconic jumper up point to
Speaker 2: the chest, which Jamara kind of emulated on the weekend.
Speaker 2: The whole thing start to finish was you know, great
Speaker 2: to see, but like powerful, especially post match, Bonte Pali
Speaker 2: standing next to him for the postmatch interview and obviously
Speaker 2: like Jamara was a bit emotional. It's good to you know,
Speaker 2: see him come out and have such a you know,
Speaker 2: a strong performance but then also spread more of a
Speaker 2: word and awareness about the issue.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty amazing for a guy his age to
Speaker 1: be put in that position and is not our deeal
Speaker 1: and for him and the way he handled it, credit
Speaker 1: to him. It was pretty phenomenal to see. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: mentioned it. I think a postgame interview when Never was
Speaker 1: standing next to him, he got emotional like that was
Speaker 1: one thing that really kind of got the heart strings.
Speaker 1: And yeah, you never want to see anyone have to
Speaker 1: go through what he's had to go through. But the
Speaker 1: way he's handled it, the way he's been so mature
Speaker 1: about it, I think like it's a credit to him.
Speaker 1: Like I saw him on the weekend at the F
Speaker 1: One and just kind of like, you know, sendem the
Speaker 1: message and stuff. Over the weekend song with the F
Speaker 1: One just said, man like so priud of you, Like seriously,
Speaker 1: not something you should have to deal with and the
Speaker 1: fact that you had to deal with is unfortunate. But
Speaker 1: the way you handled it, man, you just you did
Speaker 1: it with absolute class. So credit to it. Man, It's
Speaker 1: it's pretty amazing. And NICKI willmar you know, he backed
Speaker 1: himself up or back tomorrow up, you know, and talked
Speaker 1: to it, made some comments around it too, saying like
Speaker 1: it was pretty powerful. So and you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: something I guess in the Indigenous community that they keep
Speaker 1: having to deal with. Every single year. There's always someone
Speaker 1: that you know is vilified in some sort of way,
Speaker 1: and you know, hopefully we get to that point where
Speaker 1: we don't have this happen in a game or in
Speaker 1: the game, and you know these unfortunately of these things,
Speaker 1: you know, like they happen, and you know, whenever someone
Speaker 1: handles it the way Jamaara has, I think it really
Speaker 1: shows how powerful, you know, you can be in reacting
Speaker 1: to it in the right way, and not everyone wants
Speaker 1: to handle the situations and be in front of it
Speaker 1: and have to face up and be like a person
Speaker 1: in the media for it. You know, like he's here
Speaker 1: to play football. He's not here, you know, he didn't
Speaker 1: get recruited to the Bulldogs to be an indigenous activist,
Speaker 1: like and that's you know, he's been put into that
Speaker 1: role and he's handled it very well. But that's not
Speaker 1: why you know, he's on television, that's not why he's like,
Speaker 1: you know, at the Bulldogs football club. So it's like
Speaker 1: I said, it's a credit too on the way I
Speaker 1: handle it. You know, it's a position I couldn't I
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to put anyone in or ever be in.
Speaker 1: But for himself and the way he handled it, I
Speaker 1: thought it was pretty phenomenal.
Speaker 2: And that's what he said post game. He's just just
Speaker 2: a kid trying to play football. So another one is
Speaker 2: Daisy Pierce not being allowed in the rooms. You think
Speaker 2: this is with Richmond and there's another team.
Speaker 1: Chris Fagan said something yeah, So I.
Speaker 2: Guess where do you stand on something like this? Obviously
Speaker 2: it's inevitable that it'll happen at the Collingwood game, and
Speaker 2: I believe Collingwood's already come out and said that it's
Speaker 2: okay and days he will be allowed in the rooms.
Speaker 2: Is this you know? Is this just gonna happen over time?
Speaker 1: I think there's so many connections in football. It's a
Speaker 1: small world. So like everyone that's on Channel seven and
Speaker 1: covering the football has some affiliation. Brian Taylor, you used
Speaker 1: to play Collingwood, loves Callingwood. He's in the rooms every
Speaker 1: single weekend. You know, like there's there's crossover for everyone,
Speaker 1: you know. I think what people don't realize as though,
Speaker 1: is the Channels seven commentator commentators stuff don't really go
Speaker 1: into the room that all the information's in. So you
Speaker 1: think of the team room, right where like everyone sits
Speaker 1: down and the coach gives his address to the team
Speaker 1: and it's on the whiteboard and what they're going to
Speaker 1: do and who they're going to target, whatever it may
Speaker 1: be that's in that room, and like Channel seven doesn't
Speaker 1: have access to that, and I think that's the information
Speaker 1: that a lot of clubs are worried about, you know,
Speaker 1: getting out there of what they're doing with certain teams
Speaker 1: or certain players, and they don't they don't have access
Speaker 1: to that. So I don't really have an issue with
Speaker 1: them being in the rooms. I mean, we had David
Speaker 1: Noble who was coaching North Melbourne. Whenever John Noble on
Speaker 1: our team was playing, he was supporting his kid, and
Speaker 1: it's like that's an imposing head coach in our changing rooms.
Speaker 2: So she's crazy. I don't think you could get a
Speaker 2: bigger conflict than that.
Speaker 1: But no one really had an issue back then. So
Speaker 1: it's it's this weird thing with Daisy, I guess because
Speaker 1: she's female, and you know, she's in the media, and
Speaker 1: people like it's an easy kind of story, I guess
Speaker 1: to write. People want to go about it, but at
Speaker 1: the AFL will kind of squash this. I think Channel
Speaker 1: seven will also, and I think what will end up happening,
Speaker 1: unfortunately for Daisy is w'll probably start having to pick
Speaker 1: someone else just to go into the changing room, so
Speaker 1: they can kind of bury the story of this. I
Speaker 1: think Daisy is very reputable. I think she's an amazing,
Speaker 1: you know, commentator, one of the best out there, and
Speaker 1: we hope that you know, that's I guess we can
Speaker 1: understand I guess like the player that is or sorry,
Speaker 1: the coach that is Daisy Pierce, and also the media
Speaker 1: personality that is also her too, So I'm not really
Speaker 1: too sure I can understand both sides of it. But
Speaker 1: as long as she's not going into that like that
Speaker 1: actual coach as a dress room, I think there's not
Speaker 1: really too much of an issue. There's not. All you're
Speaker 1: really looking at is these big billboards that people celebrating
Speaker 1: really in the in the like or in the rooms
Speaker 1: that you're actually warming up that she would be in,
Speaker 1: and that's really the only the information she might be
Speaker 1: able to get when you.
Speaker 2: Do put it that way, there's not a lot that
Speaker 2: happens post song nah, like and like most of the
Speaker 2: time then they either like parked away in the little
Speaker 2: corner of the room, yeah, and like just waiting for
Speaker 2: player interviews and stuff. So yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Don't lingering around trying to hear a conversation somewhere, you know,
Speaker 1: And if you are having a serious conversation, you're probably
Speaker 1: not doing it out in the open like that. You're
Speaker 1: in a like confined room. So yeah, I don't really
Speaker 1: see an issue myself with it. I can understand why
Speaker 1: a club would be like that though, you know, they
Speaker 1: want to have an inner sanctum like a lot of
Speaker 1: clubs do. And you know, if that means having to
Speaker 1: cut some people out of it because they're not part
Speaker 1: of it, like or they might be affiliated with another team,
Speaker 1: I can totally understand. But her as a media personality
Speaker 1: and as an assistant coach of a football club is
Speaker 1: sometimes I guess can have a bit of a conflict there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, interesting, but I don't know. We'll see how it
Speaker 2: pans out.
Speaker 1: We'll move into world sport. Now there's something that's happening
Speaker 1: in the NBA, and this has been on the cards
Speaker 1: for a long time. The NBA players are notorious for
Speaker 1: I guess, enjoying a little bit of marijuana, a little
Speaker 1: smoking the reefer. There's been a few stories, obviously, and
Speaker 1: now that reefer is somewhat legal in most places in America,
Speaker 1: the NBA has decided to allow them to smoke the.
Speaker 2: Reefer when just all to just cruising him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well they're not gonna They used to come down
Speaker 1: hard on them, Like I remember whenever I was back
Speaker 1: in college, it was like a no go and you
Speaker 1: got drug tests and everything else for it. And there's
Speaker 1: probably some people I think that we're probably found ways
Speaker 1: to get around it. But the NBA now has just
Speaker 1: got to the point. Players have been asking for this
Speaker 1: for a long time because they don't feel as though
Speaker 1: there is a competitive advantage by doing it. That they
Speaker 1: now have finally got the tick of approval to say
Speaker 1: it's okay.
Speaker 2: It is very interesting because there's not yeah, if it's
Speaker 2: if it's no longer a legal issue, and like you
Speaker 2: can have it, you know, you play a game, you
Speaker 2: can have a couple of postgame beers or whatever, and
Speaker 2: that's fine. But like over there in some states, marijuana
Speaker 2: is like the same as like alcohol is the same
Speaker 2: as anything else. It really just comes down to performance. Yeah,
Speaker 2: which if you start smoking weed all the time and
Speaker 2: there's a decline in your performance and you stop getting
Speaker 2: picked for games and stuff like, that's kind of where
Speaker 2: it affects you. But like outside of that, it probably
Speaker 2: should be free, right right.
Speaker 1: Well it's in the US. It's it's actually quite popular now.
Speaker 1: So like whenever I go back and travel there, you
Speaker 1: just play you smell it now, you smell it everywhere.
Speaker 1: Imagine that I coming back and it's like, well it
Speaker 1: was legal there.
Speaker 2: That's the that's the image we need. You just smoke
Speaker 2: weed every day and like you're holding your bong and
Speaker 2: your gun and just post it on Instagram.
Speaker 1: Over the next iconic podcast posts home Sweet Home is
Speaker 1: the Sweet Home. Yeah, Kanye West is homecoming play in
Speaker 1: the background, let's go uh Now it is in the US,
Speaker 1: And about travel back. One thing I've noticed over the
Speaker 1: last probably five years is there's a lot of like
Speaker 1: CBD oils and stuff, and obviously with the electronic vacing,
Speaker 1: vaping pens and things of that nature, it's it's a
Speaker 1: lot harder to probably, I guess I just find people
Speaker 1: that you know are smoking weeds. So a lot of
Speaker 1: these states that you know previously had had it as
Speaker 1: an illegal thing, they now just opened up the doors
Speaker 1: or stopped like decriminalized it or things like that because
Speaker 1: it is so hard to actually, I guess confined because
Speaker 1: now it's all on oils and it's like you open
Speaker 1: up every single bag and test every single oil someone
Speaker 1: has in there, and a lot of people are like sorry,
Speaker 1: able to get away with it, and you smell it everywhere,
Speaker 1: like just walking around, just walking the streets, just smell
Speaker 1: in the air, and everyone's just smoking weed as if
Speaker 1: it's a cigarette and it's out of those little vaight
Speaker 1: pens that everyone's using.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which is crazy. I see like marijuana from a
Speaker 2: medicinal standpoint as like super handy. Like I know a
Speaker 2: lot of fighters, like UFC fighters and stuff like swear
Speaker 2: by it for like their injuries and stuff. And Dimmer.
Speaker 2: Dimmer is like like invested in CBD, Realisenal CBD over
Speaker 2: here in Australia, so he's like at the forefront of that.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's it's an interesting one. I don't see
Speaker 2: how it can assist you for performance, like, if anything,
Speaker 2: you should probably see a decline in.
Speaker 1: Like I'll look at it in the same I guess
Speaker 1: like scope of alcohol. During too much alcohol, you know,
Speaker 1: your performance play goes down, Like I think weeds very
Speaker 1: similar in that sense. I would never know anyone unless
Speaker 1: they're like to to energize for something they need, like
Speaker 1: a bit of a chiller, like maybe, but I can't
Speaker 1: imagine it would be a performance enhandser if that makes sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'd be like there'd be studies out there that
Speaker 2: show stuff like maybe you can't sleep post game. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't go into the room's pre game. Just whip
Speaker 2: out the gatorade bottle and a little bit of host.
Speaker 1: Imagine I just passing the token up after a game
Speaker 1: and just passing that around, just be like, oh, we've
Speaker 1: gotta get to sleep some point.
Speaker 2: So at the huddle, caught a time huddle, All right, boys,
Speaker 2: pass this around. You guys are too amped up, chill out.
Speaker 1: It's a bit of.
Speaker 2: Bob Marley playing in the background.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh. Well, in other news, we have other world news. Now,
Speaker 1: do you want to talk about Rick Flair's daughter and
Speaker 1: how she got absolutely embarrassed by in Australian.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well she just got smoked by Rhea Ripley.
Speaker 1: Got smacked down.
Speaker 2: Rihea Ripley from Adelaide, So she went over there WrestleMania.
Speaker 2: As we all know, big WrestleMania goes over two days now.
Speaker 2: But Riha Ripley just defeated Charlotte Flairer to win the
Speaker 2: SmackDown Women's Championship. And with this, Ripley became the seventh
Speaker 2: Women's Triple Crown Champion and the fifth Women's Grand Slam
Speaker 2: Champion and is the youngest Grand Slam champion male or
Speaker 2: female in WWA history. She's only twenty six.
Speaker 1: Pretty wild, isn't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And she's like big time, so it's pretty cool
Speaker 2: to see. And a lot of Australian wrestlers are doing
Speaker 2: really well at the moment. So it's like Australia, we
Speaker 2: have a lot of land, but not a lot of people.
Speaker 2: And for the amount of people that we have, we
Speaker 2: do a lot on like the global stage in sport.
Speaker 2: I mean, it probably does make sense. It seems we
Speaker 2: invest most of our money into sport, but you know,
Speaker 2: we're doing it everywhere at the moment.
Speaker 1: I think with like I think of the swimming, right,
Speaker 1: So every time when I was in the US, like
Speaker 1: Australian Olympic swimming was just absurd for some reason. That
Speaker 1: was like the one time you always heard about Australia.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, the Olympic team killing it in the
Speaker 1: pool again, absolutely murdering it. And it's like you always
Speaker 1: just think like US and China and everyone else gets
Speaker 1: all the gold medals, you know, and then like for
Speaker 1: the first like week that swings on, like Australia is
Speaker 1: in the top three for some reason, and then like
Speaker 1: once the rest of it happens, yeah, just kind of
Speaker 1: like the gold medal count just like pushes them down
Speaker 1: the actual ladder.
Speaker 2: But Donald Trump stop the vote like the first week
Speaker 2: where like Australia is just on top, smashing it. But yeah,
Speaker 2: because we've got to learn to swims so we don't
Speaker 2: drown to death. But they're just surrounded by water everywhere.
Speaker 1: Ae's got nippers and over. They're like five years old,
Speaker 1: so everyone's been swimming since kids.
Speaker 2: We're doing it everywhere. We got some you know F
Speaker 2: one drivers coming through. We got UFC fighters like as
Speaker 2: champions taken over, and you know at the wrestling we're
Speaker 2: doing it all. Not that we're saying wrestling is like
Speaker 2: a sport. It's probably more entertainment.
Speaker 1: The funny thing is wrestling, it's professional wrestling. But then
Speaker 1: actual wrestling is like amateur wrestling. I don't understand how
Speaker 1: that happens.
Speaker 2: But yeah, we actual wrestling, actual wrestling.
Speaker 1: It's not about entertainment. Here in Australia all about the entertainment.
Speaker 1: But I it's Ripley, well done. Congratulations, big props to
Speaker 1: you doing big things overseas, and we love to see that.
Speaker 2: They call her mummy mommy. Now I got that as
Speaker 2: a I can you put that on a soundboard. That's
Speaker 2: a good one. Thanks for that. Nice. Let's jump into
Speaker 2: the weekends foot you, because plenty was happening. Now last
Speaker 2: week you said, Jem, don't have to push the panic button,
Speaker 2: don't have to hit the big red button yet. Well
Speaker 2: now they're one three and just lost the Gold Coast.
Speaker 2: So are we are we pushing the red button yet?
Speaker 1: Not yet? Not yet. I mean, if you get the
Speaker 1: quarterway through the season, you still haven't won a game.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's alarm bells one o one. But I
Speaker 1: think Gold Coast is better. They were playing in gold Coast.
Speaker 1: Obviously Gelong still has a few injuries. It's still trying
Speaker 1: to sort it out. Don't get me wrong. It's only
Speaker 1: three games though they are eighteenth at the moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, dead last.
Speaker 1: They're dead last from finishing the year with a cop
Speaker 1: to dead last. It's a it's a quick downfall. But
Speaker 1: I think they'll be.
Speaker 2: Back very often. But you also said it's probably more
Speaker 2: due to personnel. And they obviously got Stewart back and didn't.
Speaker 1: Trying to make me look bad, don't you, Dagalia. But yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll keep away from that one. No, Stewart did come back.
Speaker 1: They were playing up in Gold Coast. It's I think
Speaker 1: Gold Coast is actually a pretty good team. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be it's gonna be interesting because now the pressure is
Speaker 1: on them. It's a bit of a bit of pressure
Speaker 1: cooker with with what's going on. And yeah, hopefully they
Speaker 1: can turn around because I actually am a big vantage along.
Speaker 1: I think they're a great team and I love number
Speaker 1: people prove people wrong. So everyone says, oh, they're too
Speaker 1: old or to this and that, you know, and I
Speaker 1: just I just think they're entertaining. I think Jeremy Cameron
Speaker 1: freak absolute freak. We've said this before on the podcast,
Speaker 1: and yeah, I don't think it's alarm bells are like
Speaker 1: crazy going off right now. I think they just need
Speaker 1: to get one win on the like on the board,
Speaker 1: and then kind of the pressures off a little bit
Speaker 1: and then they just keep winning from there. A bit
Speaker 1: of a bit of consistency.
Speaker 2: Do you reckon losing Joel Sellward's leadership would have an
Speaker 2: impact or because they have a lot of senior players,
Speaker 2: not as much.
Speaker 1: I did see Joel at the f one over the weekend,
Speaker 1: just shook his hands at high didn't mention what we
Speaker 1: talked about last time i'd seen him, and they essentially
Speaker 1: a semi final. I think it was talking abit trash
Speaker 1: to each other. But yeah, no, I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think he definitely was a glue for a lot
Speaker 1: of those people. But there's so many people that are
Speaker 1: still there that are in leadership positions that have been
Speaker 1: at like jewel And Football Club for a long time
Speaker 1: and have a lot of experience. I think if b
Speaker 1: SAVS is a massive one, you know you've got Paddy Dangerfield,
Speaker 1: You've got you know, the Tom Hawkins who have been
Speaker 1: there for a long time, and I think Joel definitely
Speaker 1: was important for them. But I don't think everything crumbles
Speaker 1: because he's gone, if that makes sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Saints they're marching in Oh They're marching.
Speaker 1: They are marching the.
Speaker 2: One hundred and fiftieth year celebrations one cup. Let's not
Speaker 2: dwell on that. But they are doing very well. Then
Speaker 2: it's it's like a flashback to twenty ten because Saints
Speaker 2: and Collingwood top of the ladder. I don't I don't
Speaker 2: know what he's doing down there. I reckon he's still
Speaker 2: in the cheach and buddies. Ross has just got them
Speaker 2: hummon at the moment, and they're playing fast footy.
Speaker 1: They're playing fast footy and fast footy at the moment,
Speaker 1: looking at all the games, that's what's winning games. Like
Speaker 1: those teams are playing fast foot year at the top
Speaker 1: of the ladder at the moment. So crowit to Ross.
Speaker 1: The Saints are a flying. I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: the caller they wore this weekend because I was a
Speaker 1: big fan of that, the old school caller. I think
Speaker 1: at one point someone did a little pop the collar
Speaker 1: in the middle of the game and a little fonsie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a little fonsie, but yeah, big one fifty, Big one
Speaker 1: fifty for him. At the MCG had a bunch of
Speaker 1: the Hall of famers come around and they got to celebrate,
Speaker 1: which is pretty cool, and I think it's it's awesome
Speaker 1: to have, you know, a celebration like that, but also
Speaker 1: be able to win that game on the day, which
Speaker 1: is pretty awesome for him. And yeah, they're flying, absolutely
Speaker 1: flying Saint Kildo Football Club. And I don't think many
Speaker 1: people would have probably said that at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the year.
Speaker 2: It's pretty crazy that Tony Locket's kicked thirteen times more
Speaker 2: goals than you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he used to hick like thirteen in a game,
Speaker 1: Like when was the last time someone did that?
Speaker 2: Buddy at lawn System. But look at that just stats
Speaker 2: off the bat, the.
Speaker 1: Freaking dome, the Derby Jesuise. That was an absolute just
Speaker 1: murder fast down there. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: So they had five injuries McGovern Showey, Ryan Witherden and
Speaker 2: Crips and they were you know, they put Ryan back
Speaker 2: out there and he was his knee was sticky taped
Speaker 2: back to his body and it was brutal. Every time
Speaker 2: he touched the ball. It looked like his leg was
Speaker 2: going to fall off, and if you were Adam Simpson,
Speaker 2: you'd be like, let's just call this, like how long's
Speaker 2: going and going? But they were still the game for
Speaker 2: a bit though. It held on, which was like sketchy
Speaker 2: from like Freo's point of view, like when are you
Speaker 2: going to blow the doors off this one? Because it's
Speaker 2: they just kept sticking in it and if anything, in
Speaker 2: the third quarter, towards the end of the third quarter,
Speaker 2: West Coast were on top and like coming home strong,
Speaker 2: but obviously the wheels fell off. Having you know, four
Speaker 2: players out there they could play like the bench is gone.
Speaker 2: You're just looking for a substitution.
Speaker 1: There's no one there. Everyone's got the coat ons, like
Speaker 1: not I'll play anymore today.
Speaker 2: It was bizarre and obviously the first two that went
Speaker 2: down Showey and McGovern like you're sitting there as the coach,
Speaker 2: just thinking, come on, can we get like a pincher
Speaker 2: luck and we it's really sad for Luke Shuey who's
Speaker 2: just had a really bad run with injuries, and yeah,
Speaker 2: you kind you don't want to see any anyone get injured,
Speaker 2: but yeah, he was visibly upset when he went to
Speaker 2: the bench and punched the wall and yeah, you could
Speaker 2: tell it. You know, it's not good for him. But
Speaker 2: we'll see how they go. We'll see what they feel
Speaker 2: next week. It'll be well.
Speaker 1: I think Nick Knat's, you know, there's able to talk
Speaker 1: Nick dexon come back soon. So Nick Knack, Patty Whack,
Speaker 1: give a dog. Obama and Mike just absolutely turned that
Speaker 1: club around.
Speaker 2: They might have to put Adam Simpson and Drew Petree
Speaker 2: is one of the coaches down there for the Petrie
Speaker 2: dishback out.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 2: So let's talk about your game because everyone's been waiting
Speaker 2: for us to talk about this big talking point. You
Speaker 2: last week were sitting in here and we were pumping
Speaker 2: you up about just about smash Richmond. What happened during
Speaker 2: the week. So you went to training and you did training.
Speaker 2: As far as I was concerned, everything was going smoothly.
Speaker 2: Then what happened, well, I.
Speaker 1: Thought so, So essentially in the game on Saturday, I
Speaker 1: got a bump really sore, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I feel like something might be broken. We'll go in
Speaker 1: and get scans on Sunday. So Sunday I went to
Speaker 1: go get scans. Scans come back negative on the break.
Speaker 1: They're just like, you got a bit of contusion in there.
Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, well, I'm just bruised, so
Speaker 1: I'll just have to kind of work the bruising out, right.
Speaker 1: So I just have to work out a bunch, get
Speaker 1: the movement going in my like kind of chest and
Speaker 1: all that.
Speaker 2: So they basically said, you're a big sissy guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they said, essentially, I's been four concrete sort of
Speaker 1: shit out. Let's go big game this week on Friday,
Speaker 1: so don't want to miss you on there. So anyway,
Speaker 1: so we get into training during the week and I'm
Speaker 1: thinking I'm still feeling a bit something's it off and
Speaker 1: I was like real nauseous and had shoulder pain and
Speaker 1: all those kind of random things that weren't really attached
Speaker 1: to a rib, you know, and did all the stuff
Speaker 1: to try to get up for the weekend. We get
Speaker 1: to Wednesday's training and I go out and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: were this guard. I've got to bash my off a
Speaker 1: few times just to make sure I'm good to go,
Speaker 1: like pop some pan at all, got the pain patch
Speaker 1: on everything else as possible to like get my head
Speaker 1: away from this pain, right, And I go out there
Speaker 1: and it's like I'm doing rock work. I'm hitting bodies
Speaker 1: and stuff, you know, I'm doing extra running after the session,
Speaker 1: and I come off and go I'm good to go, Rube,
Speaker 1: and I just feel a bit nauseous and weird and
Speaker 1: I've got this weird shoulder pain and goes, okay, well
Speaker 1: we'll calm back up and how the radio. I'll just
Speaker 1: look at it again. Radio ill just looked at it
Speaker 1: again and goes, oh, you got hum and time and
Speaker 1: you're playing. I was like, sorry, what and he's like, oh,
Speaker 1: essentially you've lacerated your playing. You've got internal bleeding, and yeah,
Speaker 1: you should probably get that sorted. And I was like okay.
Speaker 1: So four days after we took the original scan, I
Speaker 1: figure out what's actually wrong, and yeah it was it wasn't.
Speaker 1: It wasn't our doctor's fault. Our doctor is an absolute
Speaker 1: legend and a great man. But yeah, essentially I went
Speaker 1: to the hospital after finding that out and got a
Speaker 1: proper scan CT scan with a dying man stuff and
Speaker 1: got all that kind of sordid And the next day,
Speaker 1: on Thursday, I was at the team meeting and I've
Speaker 1: been told by that doctor He's like, you essentially not
Speaker 1: gonna doing anything for weeks on end, you know, And
Speaker 1: I went to the surgeon. Sorry, I went to the club.
Speaker 1: The next day, I'm in the meeting and I get
Speaker 1: the call from the surgeon and he goes, oh, I've
Speaker 1: talked to the best surgeons in Melbourne and we've come
Speaker 1: to a conclusion that we want to do this operation
Speaker 1: on you. And I said, okay, like when do I
Speaker 1: need to come in? He goes, can you be here
Speaker 1: in the next thirty minutes. I was like sitting there
Speaker 1: at the club, going, yeah, I guess, so I can't
Speaker 1: really do anything anyway exactly. So I wasn't really sure
Speaker 1: what we're going to do, and just kind of like
Speaker 1: showed up to the hospital, got driven there and next
Speaker 1: thing you know, they cut open one of my arteries
Speaker 1: and put this like big wire down me and get
Speaker 1: to my spleen and like, you know, patch it all up,
Speaker 1: and I was out of there, stayed overnight, and was
Speaker 1: out of there the next day and went to the
Speaker 1: game on Friday night, and then ended up going to
Speaker 1: the f one with you on Saturday, and then went
Speaker 1: again on Sundays. So it's been a big week, a
Speaker 1: big crazy week, And yeah, it's I feel fine now,
Speaker 1: feeling actually pretty good now. So it's it's more frustrating.
Speaker 1: I just can't do anything for a bit at the moment.
Speaker 2: Which was nuts. So you had internal bleeding for a
Speaker 2: few days, didn't know, and then trained with it.
Speaker 1: I mean I told you last podcast, I was like
Speaker 1: I feel a little bit off. Yeah, like stop through it,
Speaker 1: shut up. I was bleeding internally, Brandon.
Speaker 2: Hey, if I hadn't known, I probably would have said
Speaker 2: the same stuff. So you there's so much like confusion
Speaker 2: because it was a real roller coaster because you're sending
Speaker 2: me stuff going like hey, might have to do like
Speaker 2: postpone this because like it's sick, and then like oh yeah,
Speaker 2: I hurt my spleen and then it's like I'm going
Speaker 2: to be out forever, and then it's like I'm going
Speaker 2: to be out for a day, and then I'm going
Speaker 2: to be No. It's like this was like it was
Speaker 2: just up and down as you kept getting news that
Speaker 2: was like wholer opposite and different, and it's that must
Speaker 2: be super frustrating. So what are the the steps Now?
Speaker 2: You can't do anything.
Speaker 1: No, I can't really do anything. So the spoon's got
Speaker 1: to essentially repair itself and then so at the moment,
Speaker 1: just chilling, and then we'll have some scantoon in about
Speaker 1: a week and we'll kind of get a bit of
Speaker 1: an understanding of how it's recovering and how it's healing,
Speaker 1: and then from there we'll get a better idea of
Speaker 1: a time frame. It's not great with Darcy camera going
Speaker 1: down over the weekend, so it's kind of a bit
Speaker 1: of pressure on me to come and get back as
Speaker 1: soon as possible. But yeah, at this point, I can't
Speaker 1: really do anything at all. I can't do anything more
Speaker 1: to try to get back sooner or anything like that.
Speaker 1: The body's just got to recover. So it's just relaxation
Speaker 1: and rest and hopefully you know that the white blood
Speaker 1: cells do their thing and repair everything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the white blood cells. So what's your diet
Speaker 2: got to be.
Speaker 1: It's essentially just red meat. I've just got to eat
Speaker 1: steak steak for weeks. The doc told me is like,
Speaker 1: you eat a lot of red meat and steaks. I
Speaker 1: was like, hey, it's been a real rough day, but
Speaker 1: this has been the best news I've got.
Speaker 2: I feel like, you gotta this is filthy feels time
Speaker 2: to shine. It just chuck you limit at the barbecue
Speaker 2: joint around the corner. He's got to fit the smoker
Speaker 2: on the plane and fly over. I've got to look
Speaker 2: after me, boy boy. So you can't do anything, is that?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And the pressure again on you to like, you know,
Speaker 2: because straight away I was going to send you a
Speaker 2: message going like they need you back, because it's like
Speaker 2: that's got to be the most frustrating part that there's
Speaker 2: nothing you can do to aid your recovery.
Speaker 1: Now it's just sitting around like, just don't get whacked
Speaker 1: in the spleen essentially, is what he said. And he said,
Speaker 1: can't get your heart rate up for a bit, can't
Speaker 1: do anything. So I've essentially started helping out with the
Speaker 1: Rocks this week, started a bit of coaching. I guess
Speaker 1: you'd say, and get that double pay, get the enough
Speaker 1: I'm still waiting to get the single pay, but no,
Speaker 1: I'll go up to Brisbane. I'll go to the game
Speaker 1: and be there for support and try to help out
Speaker 1: some of the Rocks. Obviously, we'll have some guys in
Speaker 1: there that haven't played a lot of rock for the team,
Speaker 1: so we'll you know, be able to hopefully help them
Speaker 1: and try to find different ways for them to be successful.
Speaker 2: Do you know what happens if you do couple whack
Speaker 2: on the.
Speaker 1: Spleen, internal bleeding? Straight to the trauma center. So for
Speaker 1: a while I was having to carry a piece of
Speaker 1: paper with me, so if something did happen that I
Speaker 1: essentially it said like where to take me, what was
Speaker 1: going on, and what to do. So like if someone
Speaker 1: I'd just be like, I'll just read the paper and
Speaker 1: just go to this sorry Alfred hospital or this hospital,
Speaker 1: take me straight to the trauma ward. This is what's
Speaker 1: going on. It's kind of like wild think.
Speaker 2: But yeah, you don't do a normal injury. We're talking
Speaker 2: about this.
Speaker 1: Why do that? It's no fun, Brandon, Why be normal?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know what you got left in yet.
Speaker 1: Well, the world is my oyster. The world is my oyster.
Speaker 2: Parents are going to be like, we sent our boy
Speaker 2: over there play this weird game and he's come back
Speaker 2: with no eyes and he's spleen busted and he's freak.
Speaker 1: He has bruised constantly. But we'll go to So during
Speaker 1: the game, obviously, one of the big things that did
Speaker 1: happen was Darcy Cameron went down and there was one
Speaker 1: person we probably couldn't afford to get injured Darcy Cameron,
Speaker 1: and of course it happens he's done an MCL injury
Speaker 1: and yeah, it's going to be a decent amount of
Speaker 1: time on the side line for him. Luckily it's not
Speaker 1: an ACL, which would have been probably season, so it's
Speaker 1: it's probably glasses half full kind of moment where he's
Speaker 1: he's going to be back hopefully before mid season, which
Speaker 1: would be pretty cool. So a bit of wait and
Speaker 1: see with him also, but it is going to be
Speaker 1: an extended period on the sidelines unfortunately for him. So
Speaker 1: we've got to find someone to fill the rock roll
Speaker 1: that's Berdie Grundy's gone and the other two ruckman that
Speaker 1: we thought we're going to fill a spot or both injured.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so what happens now with that because obviously postmatch
Speaker 2: Fly said that Beg isn't probably in the spot where
Speaker 2: he needs to be, like match fitness wise, I think
Speaker 2: he's only played one VFL game.
Speaker 1: So the back injury at the moment two So they
Speaker 1: chucked in.
Speaker 2: Ash Johnson played for a chunk of it and that
Speaker 2: that a defensive absolute Sama, he's for a ball up
Speaker 2: Like I was like, oh, God, it's exciting, but I
Speaker 2: loved it. So what's the what's the plan now for
Speaker 2: a rock stuck at Collingly. Yeah, so we've got essentially oscars.
Speaker 2: We recruited him at the beginning of the year. He
Speaker 2: is a rock in development. He might get the call up,
Speaker 2: you know, he might have the opportunity to come in
Speaker 2: and play. He's young man, he's like eighteen nineteen years old,
Speaker 2: so I'm sure in his mine right now, he's like,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, this See there's going to be an
Speaker 2: amazing opportunity to get some AFL games and an early
Speaker 2: time in my career. Yeah, but I'm not really too
Speaker 2: sure exactly what we will do if we give him
Speaker 2: an opportunity or we go somewhere else. We've got Damn
Speaker 2: k Stay obviously, ash Billy Frampton's a big boy that
Speaker 2: can play in there too. I've done a few rocks
Speaker 2: with him and he's he's I think the strongest guy
Speaker 2: at the club. So he's you know, he's benching like
Speaker 2: upwards of one forty if not more, and he's a
Speaker 2: massive human so he's.
Speaker 1: Tough to move. Yeah, yeah, same to you, right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But over the weekend we played Damn stay in the
Speaker 1: right quite a bit, so if you know, we go
Speaker 1: to the same kind of route, he'll probably play a
Speaker 1: little bit more so. The first thing I asked him
Speaker 1: this morning whenever I went in was do you have
Speaker 1: a shing guard? And he was like nope. I was like,
Speaker 1: I saw it. So he's he's gonna try to get
Speaker 1: that done and I think Ash might jump into I'm
Speaker 1: not really too sure what we'll do, but it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a different look. It's gonna be a bit of
Speaker 1: a different look when we go against big Oscar mcinnerney.
Speaker 1: So he's a he's got probably close to the same
Speaker 1: height as me in the same build, and he's a
Speaker 1: big boy. So it's it's gonna be a tough ask
Speaker 1: for whoever goes in there and plays against him.
Speaker 2: Well, they did throw Pendles in there at stage the
Speaker 2: Rolls Royce was that, Yeah, I'd got your heart in
Speaker 2: your mouth every time you see that.
Speaker 1: I told him after I said, we'll have a little
Speaker 1: bit of a you know, a rock breakdown. You come
Speaker 1: to the review of Ruckman for.
Speaker 2: The week that, well, are you trying to teach him stuff?
Speaker 1: No chance I'm teaching him anything. He's still trying to
Speaker 1: teach me how to bounce of football.
Speaker 2: And now the VFL. We have mentioned it a couple
Speaker 2: of times, but they got the dub over the weekend
Speaker 2: and Jess returned kicked a couple of schnaggers. Good to
Speaker 2: see him back. But it was quoted that he he
Speaker 2: looked like an AFL player playing at VFL level. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's going to be hard for him to get back
Speaker 2: into the team.
Speaker 1: That's an interesting thing. We've got a team that's playing
Speaker 1: pretty well, and I've been in this position that Guinea's
Speaker 1: in before. It's it's quite frustrating because with the team
Speaker 1: playing well, like you don't really want to change too
Speaker 1: many magnets on the board, and the people are playing
Speaker 1: in this position are actually playing really well. Also, you know,
Speaker 1: you've got the Jamie Elliott and you've got you've got
Speaker 1: Bobby playing really well too. So it's not a position
Speaker 1: I want to be in as a coach. I think
Speaker 1: this is one of the probably the hardest things as
Speaker 1: a coach, is like trying to fit everyone on the
Speaker 1: white board. You know, it's you've got to break someone's
Speaker 1: heart every single week. You break multiple people's hearts every week.
Speaker 1: Him playing well in the VFL is going to get
Speaker 1: him the best opportunity to play AFL and you can't
Speaker 1: look past that. Hopefully playing well at that role, you know,
Speaker 1: playing AFL level in the VFL, and yeah, that's what's
Speaker 1: going to put him in the bestead to hopefully get
Speaker 1: a call up in the AFL.
Speaker 2: There will be a moment that pops up where he
Speaker 2: gets a chance, and you just got to be ready
Speaker 2: for He's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got to be realized that we're not going
Speaker 1: to be one hundred cent healthy for the rest of
Speaker 1: the season. There's going to be injuries, there's going to
Speaker 1: be formed differences and all that, and if he continues
Speaker 1: to play well in the VFL, he will eventually get
Speaker 1: a call up.
Speaker 2: Well, he did talk about the big oscar. You got
Speaker 2: Collingwood Brisbane this weekend. What are you doing your cruising
Speaker 2: up gets some sunshine or.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not going to say no to the little
Speaker 1: trip to Brisbane slash Gold Coast, mate, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to say no to that. And we've got about three
Speaker 1: days off as a club after so a few people
Speaker 1: are going to stay up in the area and just
Speaker 1: soak in the sun before we turn into winter here
Speaker 1: in Melbourne.
Speaker 2: Not bad. So how do you see that game playing out?
Speaker 2: Because they're really good at home, like they've they've been
Speaker 2: a bit sketchy away, but they're one win, two losses.
Speaker 2: But they got the win at home in the when
Speaker 2: the lights turned out against Melbourne, and before that they
Speaker 2: were really impressive, like they were up by forty points
Speaker 2: before Melbourne came storming home, So that'd be really confident
Speaker 2: up there. And then obviously no Rock. How do you
Speaker 2: see this plan out?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna be interesting. Like you said,
Speaker 1: Brisbane's a very good home team and they're coming off
Speaker 1: a loss to the Bulldogs, so they're going to be
Speaker 1: fired up. They're going to get a bit of a
Speaker 1: spray from Chris Fagan, I'm sure. And yeah, being at home,
Speaker 1: they're a good team. And it's a the Gap is
Speaker 1: a very kind of like it's a night game, and
Speaker 1: whenever you play a night game up at the Gap,
Speaker 1: but it's a it's a dewey, kind of wet like
Speaker 1: moisture kind of place up there, so you almost expect
Speaker 1: someone of the conditions of a late rain, if you
Speaker 1: could say so. The ball is going to be slippery.
Speaker 1: It's not going to be probably the cleanest of games,
Speaker 1: so it will be an interesting game. I think their
Speaker 1: defense is pretty strong, so with obviously having to move
Speaker 1: some more forwards, probably into the rock or whoever it is,
Speaker 1: there's going to be quite a bit of movement in
Speaker 1: our team to figure it out. So maybe that's going
Speaker 1: to be a problem for us, but hopefully we'll be okay.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, we travel as a club pretty well,
Speaker 1: like as Collingwood if you look at the statistics, I
Speaker 1: think we travel really well, and we get around each other.
Speaker 1: We need we enjoy the experience of being all way together,
Speaker 1: and yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna be a good one.
Speaker 1: Thursday night footy, Thursday night footy at the Yabba. I
Speaker 1: just hope they can keep the lights on.
Speaker 2: You go down to the lights and just if you're
Speaker 2: trailing by a little bit, just mess with them and
Speaker 2: turn them off again. We know they don't perform well
Speaker 2: after lights have been turned off.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's the key. Maybe that's the key.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just walk around with a big bucket of water. Whoops, whoops. Okay,
Speaker 2: that's I think that's about all we got.
Speaker 1: That's about all we got man. It's it's been a
Speaker 1: big week in sport and it's definitely been entertaining nonetheless.
Speaker 1: And I think one thing we'll learn is that you
Speaker 1: can't say anything to Emparras anymore. That's that's the big
Speaker 1: learning lesson.
Speaker 2: Remember that one last year where you withheld your yes ms.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's the best way to handle the players out
Speaker 1: there that are listening. Cross the arms and just give
Speaker 1: them dead eyes.
Speaker 2: And then you get a podcast and you dissent them
Speaker 2: on there.
Speaker 1: Yes, just and then you get an umpire on the
Speaker 1: podcast and talk about dissenting them. Check out Razor Raise episode.
Speaker 1: It's actually legit. But that is it for the sporting segment.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for tuning in. We've got the entertainment
Speaker 1: segment coming out on Thursday this week. Sorry, check it
Speaker 1: out Thursday morning. That will be launching and there'll be plenty,
Speaker 1: plenty plenty on there. Sorry, all the best, Thanks so
Speaker 1: much for tuning in. We'll see you soon, yeah,