Speaker 1: Hey, Legends, working back to the Mason cock Show. We
Speaker 1: do have the season finale today, and what do we
Speaker 1: do We get back to the legends that are you
Speaker 1: listening now? We put it out on the socials questions
Speaker 1: you want to hear? What are you dying to get?
Speaker 1: Answered from us? And we're gonna go through all that,
Speaker 1: plus a bit of a season review of everything that's
Speaker 1: going on. There's a lot in this episode and some
Speaker 1: good little funny talking points too, that's for sure. So
Speaker 1: settle in because we start now, Hey, Legends, working back
Speaker 1: to the Mason cock Show. This is actually the season finale, everyone,
Speaker 1: so settle in. We are going to give back, Yes,
Speaker 1: give back to you, the fans of people that make
Speaker 1: this thing possible today, the footy fan questions. Yes, this
Speaker 1: one is purely dedicated to you. So without further ado,
Speaker 1: let's smash this out.
Speaker 2: Ah, get a mice in my head. It said I'm
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Speaker 3: Goodbye. Now.
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Speaker 2: claim or whatever, but YouTube. Let's jump straight into the
Speaker 2: fan questions. There's plenty of them. Loved getting them. Thank
Speaker 2: you to everyone that's sending a fan question. Legends and
Speaker 2: we jump off the top because we got the hard
Speaker 2: hitting questions everyone wants to know. One's from Adrian Addie.
Speaker 2: What size bed do you sleep in?
Speaker 1: I get this all the time. Actually, California King, I
Speaker 1: think is the American terminology, but here it's called like
Speaker 1: a super king.
Speaker 3: That's a big boy.
Speaker 1: Actually I want it on like the Footy show, and
Speaker 1: it's like a temper. It's like a ten twenty thousand
Speaker 1: dollars better or something ridiculous. It doesn't fit in any
Speaker 1: other room, Like it is so big. It just like
Speaker 1: you think about the gaps of the room, like walking
Speaker 1: on the side of like the bed. You have to
Speaker 1: shimmy sideways to get past the bed. That's how big
Speaker 1: it is. It's absurd. Well, I love it because I
Speaker 1: just like lay starfish fully, just like out cold, and
Speaker 1: none of my extreme these text touched the edge.
Speaker 3: That's wolde.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't want to get into the King single.
Speaker 2: Is that longer or wider or like you know, if
Speaker 2: you're starting at King single.
Speaker 3: Obviously I don't have a single bed single.
Speaker 1: I don't know about that.
Speaker 3: The beds get longer, yeah, you.
Speaker 1: Do, like the super I think whenever you put super
Speaker 1: in front of it gets longer. King is longer though than.
Speaker 3: The twin, so you need the longer beds.
Speaker 1: I'm all about the length baby length. The bed were
Speaker 1: starting a bit weird thing.
Speaker 3: To ava.
Speaker 2: Forbes wants to know what's your biggest takeaway from the season,
Speaker 2: So we're bringing it back.
Speaker 3: We're on the footy rails now.
Speaker 1: One of the craziest things I think this season. Obviously
Speaker 1: everyone knows how close the competition was, with like a
Speaker 1: Freeman went from the top to making outside the eight.
Speaker 1: For us, you know, it was, oh, we'd love to
Speaker 1: be in the top eight and we've all be playing
Speaker 1: finals right now. But realistically, I think the biggest takeaway
Speaker 1: was just how close the competition is. Yeah, you look
Speaker 1: at teams like Hawthorn that was down at the bottom
Speaker 1: of lader A lot of people predicted them not to
Speaker 1: be anywhere near the eight. They're in the eight and
Speaker 1: playing really well at the back end of the season.
Speaker 1: And you look at us, we tied two games, could
Speaker 1: have won one of those. We're in finals, you know,
Speaker 1: and we lost. We didn't lose. We tied both of them,
Speaker 1: which very rare, i'd probably say, in the season, and
Speaker 1: that kind of almost cost Us Finals. So it is
Speaker 1: such a thing about the little margins of people being
Speaker 1: healthy at the right times and the right kind of
Speaker 1: momentum and confidence at the right time at the end
Speaker 1: of the season, and there's so many things I have
Speaker 1: to go your way to win the whole thing. I
Speaker 1: think it made myself appreciate just how lucky we were
Speaker 1: last year goat times to have everything fall in place
Speaker 1: the way it did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, everything has to go perfectly for you to be
Speaker 2: able to make it. You had a rollercoaster end to
Speaker 2: the season last year, but it all came together just
Speaker 2: in the perfect way, just to get you across the line.
Speaker 2: This one was a real head scratcher because it's a
Speaker 2: good point. And I don't know how to pronounce the
Speaker 2: name because it's right on Arion NATCHI Yeah, I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: If you have a game at seven forty seven forty start,
Speaker 2: what time do you eat dinner?
Speaker 1: I do a later to lunch at like one or two,
Speaker 1: and then we won't eat till after the game. So
Speaker 1: you do kind of your carbloading the day before you
Speaker 1: eat a big meal. Yeah, you do that kind of
Speaker 1: Yeah day my kind of situation, I start two days before,
Speaker 1: I start with my lunch, my dinner, and then the
Speaker 1: next day lunch, dinner, and then game day obviously you
Speaker 1: have breakfast and then lunch, and then you have your
Speaker 1: dinner after the game. So if you don't want to
Speaker 1: have too much in your system and be running around heavy.
Speaker 1: But you got to think game is seven forty, you're
Speaker 1: probably not having dinner till ten thirty eleven. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you get like this little wrap after the game or
Speaker 1: something like that that probably doesn't fill you up after
Speaker 1: expending that much energy, and then you kind of have
Speaker 1: to get maybe Guzman or something like that on the
Speaker 1: way home.
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Speaker 2: Did you ever have the usher the ice cream that
Speaker 2: they used to make. It's a throwback and they got
Speaker 2: rid of it. It was like the ice cream they
Speaker 2: used to make it had they had the Golden Gay
Speaker 2: time they had like Aureos or whatever. That crush it
Speaker 2: was the mcflurry machine broke its basically like a mcflurry,
Speaker 2: but it just ship all over it.
Speaker 3: Anyway, We digress.
Speaker 2: That's have you ever like getting into footy you've been
Speaker 2: in it tenish years, you would have had times where
Speaker 2: you've completely stuffed up your run into games.
Speaker 3: Like your food situation. Are they just so on you
Speaker 3: about it?
Speaker 1: I mean I've I've had stuff that I've eaten that
Speaker 1: probably hasn't settled well. Yeah, definitely, And that's kind of
Speaker 1: made me have a very bland pregame meals and stuff
Speaker 1: in that sense, So why everyone goes just like rice
Speaker 1: and chicken, it's like it's blands. It can get you
Speaker 1: put your own spices and stuff on it. But like
Speaker 1: I think one of the biggest things that make you
Speaker 1: feel like you're on on the day is your sleep.
Speaker 1: Your sleep pattern in the night before. You have to
Speaker 1: get to get that right to be I think just
Speaker 1: like focus, Like sometimes you don't have good sleep, you
Speaker 1: get a bit of a blurred mind, whereas you have
Speaker 1: good sleeping it before and it's a lot easier said
Speaker 1: than dunks. You had the anxiety of the game and
Speaker 1: everything else you can imagine, like Grand Final, like last
Speaker 1: year with the Grand Final shoot, I don't think I
Speaker 1: would have slept much side before everything I was going
Speaker 1: through my head so you got to understand like you're
Speaker 1: probably not having the best prep whenever it's an exciting
Speaker 1: adrenaline rush game coming up. So that's probably the biggest
Speaker 1: thing in the lead up that's important, is making sure
Speaker 1: you get your sleep.
Speaker 2: I wonder if Pendall still has anxiety sleeps before it's
Speaker 2: just like going out there for the seven thousandth time.
Speaker 2: This one from Grandma Fraser. We loved Grandma. Do you
Speaker 2: want to walk the Kokoda track?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 3: Kakoda tracks?
Speaker 1: That's something I didn't know existed before I came here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't know anything about it, but I would love to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it'd be cool. I think it'd be pretty cool. I
Speaker 1: think it's I love the anxact kind of spirit here
Speaker 1: and everything that comes with it, and that's such an important,
Speaker 1: you know, moment in the history of that. So yeah,
Speaker 1: i'd love to do the Kokoda track. I don't know
Speaker 1: if they do like a thing where I look at
Speaker 1: other tracks, you know, like to Machi Pichu and the
Speaker 1: Inca Trail, and they get like a person or a
Speaker 1: donkey or something like that kind of carries the bag.
Speaker 1: Do you take a donkey and then you kind of
Speaker 1: like just walk with a lighter pack. That's the way
Speaker 1: I would want to do the track. I'm not carrying
Speaker 1: literally two weeks worth of food and everything on my back.
Speaker 1: I've got some other animal doing that for me, and
Speaker 1: I can just enjoy the view of the atmosphere and
Speaker 1: take in the history that is I think that's the
Speaker 1: way I'd want to do it. Is that cheating probably just.
Speaker 2: Take how can carry backpacks? He's all good ankle rehab.
Speaker 2: This one's a good one, but it might be a
Speaker 2: bit of a stumper. On short notice from Melsey, what
Speaker 2: is the best unknown story from twenty twenty four? So
Speaker 2: something that you can let us all know about now
Speaker 2: that you couldn't during the season because it's all hush
Speaker 2: hush secrets.
Speaker 1: I can tell you a personal one that I knew
Speaker 1: about and so obviously I had a big injury in
Speaker 1: the middle of the year, torn mcl broken rib, concussion,
Speaker 1: broken cheekbone in that instant. Also see me tore my
Speaker 1: a cl Oh what no one knew about it?
Speaker 3: That's wild.
Speaker 1: So I was playing on that for the back half
Speaker 1: of the year, but we decided as a team not
Speaker 1: to say anything to the public just because people would
Speaker 1: comment about it. And things of whether I should get
Speaker 1: surgery and things along that line. So we made the
Speaker 1: decision it was best for myself to keep that secret.
Speaker 1: And you know, we've got to the point now we'll
Speaker 1: go in the off season and be healed up by
Speaker 1: the time we get back. But yeah, that's an unknown
Speaker 1: story that no one knew about. You didn't even know that.
Speaker 2: No, that's pretty wild, and it was Yeah, it's probably
Speaker 2: a fair assumption that you did everything in that car.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like people looked at him like, dude,
Speaker 1: that should be a torn acl And in my mind
Speaker 1: I was like, what it was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you did the full James Brown splits. Ah, that's wild. Well,
Speaker 2: well done to get through that, because now you have
Speaker 2: an excuse why you couldn't kick it forty meters.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was My goal kicking definitely took a bit
Speaker 1: of a hit towards the back end of the year
Speaker 1: for a good reason. Oh yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 2: That is a good one. Thanks for the question, Melse.
Speaker 2: This one from stephie d favorite game you played this year.
Speaker 2: Let's we know that the Anzac day, the moments, the occasions,
Speaker 2: they're all good.
Speaker 3: They're good.
Speaker 2: So but like something outside of that, like a nice
Speaker 2: win and close come from behind or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Always good to beat Carlton. That first game when we
Speaker 1: beat Carleton. That was also Nicks coming out of the
Speaker 1: stoppage kicking and winning goal, like just going absolutely nuts.
Speaker 1: That was unreal. I think that's probably the topper than
Speaker 1: the Brisbane game recently, Like yeah, you know, getting that
Speaker 1: one point win, kicking three goals in like four minutes.
Speaker 1: I think those are the two that stick out the
Speaker 1: most heartbreaking games. You look at the Sydney game. Ye,
Speaker 1: Sydney game very much a heartbreak game. Knowing what was
Speaker 1: on the line at that time and a few calls,
Speaker 1: it just didn't go your way and it cost us
Speaker 1: the game and other people on their team Isacin You
Speaker 1: just stood up in a pivotal moment, just killed it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, those are probably the polar opposites of good
Speaker 1: games and bad games, and so those are the ones
Speaker 1: that come to mind right away.
Speaker 2: There's always a few freaking good ones in there. If
Speaker 2: you play for the Pies. That was great. The nicknames one.
Speaker 2: I was at a wedding and everyone was watching it
Speaker 2: on the dance floor at the wedding and it was
Speaker 2: victory was sweet. Let's jump into the next one, breed
Speaker 2: would you say anyway?
Speaker 3: Anyway?
Speaker 2: I'm getting these all run right. Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 2: What's your favorite off field pastime outside of fishing?
Speaker 1: I'll give you this. Actually how many people know this,
Speaker 1: but I do have breathwork once a week now. So
Speaker 1: there's a place called Breathouse, is it Nathan Freeman as
Speaker 1: a pot owner in it. You used to play at
Speaker 1: the Pies and they've got a couple here in Melbourne.
Speaker 1: So once a week I go and do kind of
Speaker 1: like a meditative breathwork class there, and I've really enjoyed that.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a good time to get away from technology,
Speaker 1: put the phone away and just kind of really simplistically
Speaker 1: breathe in the conscious way. And it's kind of been
Speaker 1: a nice like meditation for me to get away from
Speaker 1: the stresses of AFL. So I highly recommend it for
Speaker 1: anyone else wants to try it. But that's not much
Speaker 1: changed that I haven't done previously that I've enjoyed. And
Speaker 1: if Field like kind of I don't know, experiences of life,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: I've spoken to him about it before and I think
Speaker 2: in my head meditation and breath work. I thought that
Speaker 2: would like the same thing, but like breath work is
Speaker 2: a bit more conscious, right, it's telling you to breathe
Speaker 2: and bath, but at.
Speaker 1: The same time you get this like high, kind of
Speaker 1: tingly feeling from it. Yeah. This kind of makes no
Speaker 1: sense from saying, oh, you're just breathing, but like the
Speaker 1: way you do it, the breath holds, and you know
Speaker 1: they talk about like whim half. You know, it does
Speaker 1: kind of these things, and yeah, it's all guided someone.
Speaker 1: They're kind of telling you like three seconds and three
Speaker 1: seconds out and doing it kind of with you. And yeah,
Speaker 1: you get this kind of euphoric feeling from it, which
Speaker 1: is pretty cool if you you know, fully lean into it.
Speaker 1: You have to. It's like meditation, right. You can't just
Speaker 1: be like, oh, I'm going to have to do this
Speaker 1: like now. You have to fully like kind of give
Speaker 1: yourself up to it to get the full experience from it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I need the guide because I can't. There's terrible
Speaker 2: things happen inside my head.
Speaker 1: Yeah I had, I had, I brought you a friend
Speaker 1: of mine and Clint stand Away came to it and
Speaker 1: he'd just been to Paris and then went straight from
Speaker 1: Parisch of Sydney to do the weekend show and then
Speaker 1: comes to Melbourne. He's been wanting to do it with
Speaker 1: me for a long time. So it comes in there
Speaker 1: on the Tuesday and we you know, we go into
Speaker 1: the class and there's him an empty spot for you know, Matt,
Speaker 1: and then two cute girls to the right of us,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, well said you dog me and going
Speaker 1: you're gonna put me on that mat right, You're gonna
Speaker 1: put me in the middle there. You have to talk
Speaker 1: to the person next year. They opens a conversation up right.
Speaker 1: So I was like to shake brother to shake. Clint
Speaker 1: appreciate that, so he SAIDs there. We go through the
Speaker 1: meditative thing about three quarters away through. I'm sitting there
Speaker 1: and it goes hold your breath goes super quiet, instructor
Speaker 1: goes quiet, music goes quiet. Everyone's just hushed. And next
Speaker 1: to me, I just hear this.
Speaker 4: He's full, just snorted, woke himself up, heels hit the floor,
Speaker 4: shakes the whole fucking shot and he's just gone on
Speaker 4: and then he just kind of goes it, just kind
Speaker 4: of laughs because he knows what he's doing. Five or
Speaker 4: six people around him start laughing. We're all just trying
Speaker 4: to just calm, meditative state. He's just embarrassed the heck
Speaker 4: out of himself. It was one of the funniest things
Speaker 4: I've ever heard. And it was just like, as soon
Speaker 4: as the class finish, I couldn't have seen him getting
Speaker 4: out there quicker.
Speaker 1: He was bolting for the door. See later.
Speaker 3: That's so rough.
Speaker 1: That's funny. Would you recommend it?
Speaker 2: Would you do they do ie gazing I was talking about.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to get down there to I gaze with me,
Speaker 2: where you just stare into each other's soul for like
Speaker 2: an hour, just looking right into each other's eyes.
Speaker 1: That's interesting, that's a real love. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: feel like that's maybe start with your partner.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't mind saying it.
Speaker 2: Off season plans US trip talk about that from Chelsea.
Speaker 1: Uh trip. So I'll fly back September three, I go
Speaker 1: back to the US and then the fifth I'll fly
Speaker 1: to Croatia seven day crews there, fly to Malan after that,
Speaker 1: let Coma for three days, then go up to the
Speaker 1: Dolomites in Italy, do some hiking, high out to training,
Speaker 1: then over to Munich. Do October first and then the
Speaker 1: Barron Munich. Game is what the plan is. Fly back
Speaker 1: from my brother to Austin, spend a month in training
Speaker 1: in Austin, do a few trips up to Dallas to
Speaker 1: the mom and dad. USAFL is in Austin this year,
Speaker 1: so shout out to them. The AFL A competition over there.
Speaker 1: They did the national competition in Austin, so I'll be
Speaker 1: an ambassador for that. Get to go a roll around,
Speaker 1: you know, spread the game over there and spread the
Speaker 1: words be cool. And then yeah, I've got a family trip.
Speaker 1: I think out to New Mexico November seventh. I'll be
Speaker 1: back to fourteenth, jeez.
Speaker 2: And then you be going on and you train for
Speaker 2: two weeks and then you go on another holiday. That's it, right, Ciga.
Speaker 2: Of these players, let's get into our personal life stuff.
Speaker 2: This is where it always gets good. And this one's
Speaker 2: heavy off the top. So this one's from Heaves Smith.
Speaker 2: Where do you see yourself in five years time?
Speaker 1: Jeez? Probably playing Game three ninety nine, Just go I
Speaker 1: got to know three years in me. Yeah, in five
Speaker 1: years time. I love to be in the media in
Speaker 1: some capacity. I'm not sure what it's going to be.
Speaker 1: I'd love to promote the game overseas and do that
Speaker 1: through the AFL in some way, shape or form. Not
Speaker 1: sure how it all pan out, and love the radio gig,
Speaker 1: love the podcast gig. So love that kind of side
Speaker 1: of it. And I think I've also essentially done my
Speaker 1: coaching accreditation too, so be kind of a unique thing
Speaker 1: to do a part time job helping out, you know,
Speaker 1: I think these young kids are coming through the system.
Speaker 1: Myself never played football before, had to learn the game
Speaker 1: from scratch. I think there's a lot of value in,
Speaker 1: you know, being able to teach these people who may
Speaker 1: have transferred from basketball or something else and haven't played
Speaker 1: AFL for a long time and some of the skill
Speaker 1: sets and the things I learned throughout my career and
Speaker 1: be able to help the next generation in that sense.
Speaker 1: So hopefully that's a possibility. I'm not sure what clubs
Speaker 1: out there listening, but if you are and five years,
Speaker 1: i'd be interested.
Speaker 2: One day, we're going to see five years someone come
Speaker 2: through this two hundred and twelve cent till in five years. Well,
Speaker 2: I'm mainly focused on my business. I'm sure I have
Speaker 2: outside things that I want to do.
Speaker 1: You want to run a marathon, I'd love to see
Speaker 1: you run a marathon the next five years. Can we
Speaker 1: can we lock this in? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Well, I was talking to Mace off air and I
Speaker 2: accidentally almost ran a sub twenty minute five k just crazy,
Speaker 2: which yeah.
Speaker 3: And it was.
Speaker 2: I thought I was going slow, but I was in
Speaker 2: the zone with my headphones on. And I've always been
Speaker 2: half blessed with like just like my legs don't get
Speaker 2: sore and my lungs don't burn, so I'm not quick,
Speaker 2: but I can just like run.
Speaker 3: But beers are my problem.
Speaker 1: Are definitely they.
Speaker 2: Always get me. But yeah, I feel like I can.
Speaker 2: I know I can run a half marathon. I've done
Speaker 2: it a couple of times where I just go and
Speaker 2: run it, whereas yeah, a full marathon is that's a
Speaker 2: lot of mentals like yeah, raw Dog, imagine raw Dog
Speaker 2: and marathon, no music, no nothing, You're just out there,
Speaker 2: just raw Do.
Speaker 3: Shorts throw me back to the Budgies? Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 2: That would be a great challenge. I want the business
Speaker 2: to just keep growing. I want to hopefully buy like
Speaker 2: a studio and like a bit more space and do
Speaker 2: custom sets and grow the podcasting side. And it's all
Speaker 2: growing very quickly, so that's it's yeah, it's fun. Business
Speaker 2: is fun and.
Speaker 1: Hell at the same time, your own business.
Speaker 2: Let's jump into Mike bees question. Biggest off field accomplishment.
Speaker 1: Wow, it's a a general there's a lot of those.
Speaker 1: I think just as a whole. Like people you know
Speaker 1: in Australia don't want you to pump yourself up and
Speaker 1: things like that, but I think I like my experience
Speaker 1: and you know, the order to get you more, you
Speaker 1: reflect on it and what you've kind of been through
Speaker 1: and how you've handled it and what's where it's kind
Speaker 1: of made you as a person. I think, like over,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty proud of myself for what I've been able
Speaker 1: to do here, not only from on field stuff, but
Speaker 1: also to live away from family, create your own life here,
Speaker 1: you know, make some incredible friendships and stuff like That's
Speaker 1: not easy, especially the older you get. So I think
Speaker 1: for myself, I'll look back on the whole is something
Speaker 1: I'm quite proud of and as an off field accomplishment
Speaker 1: of just doing that and get citizenship here and things
Speaker 1: along those lines. That doesn't it doesn't happen very often.
Speaker 1: It's a very few and farm between a lot of people.
Speaker 1: Come over from overseas and they go back home and
Speaker 1: things like that, and they've stuck out for so long
Speaker 1: and be able to you know, not probably be looked
Speaker 1: at as one of those that goes home all the
Speaker 1: time and misses home in that sense, you know, it's
Speaker 1: like I've fully committed to this place. I think that's
Speaker 1: probably the one I look back on and holistically say,
Speaker 1: you know, that's something I'm extremely proud of as an
Speaker 1: accomplishment in life, to say, no matter when this finishes
Speaker 1: up and you know, who knows where my life's going
Speaker 1: to take me, I'll look back on my time here
Speaker 1: and be like that was pretty cool. Yeah, not many people. Well,
Speaker 1: no one has the exact same story as you, and
Speaker 1: you did it your way totally different to anyone else,
Speaker 1: and a cop criticism along the way and is what
Speaker 1: it is. But I know there'll never be another Mason
Speaker 1: Cox in this world. Yeah, which is pretty cool to.
Speaker 2: Say, Yeah, you've done heaps. She's definitely recognized all around
Speaker 2: Australia alone Melbourne and coming over at twenty four. Like
Speaker 2: there's people that will never solo travel for like two
Speaker 2: weeks in their life, let alone move over here and
Speaker 2: do everything that you've done, which.
Speaker 3: Is pretty crazy mine.
Speaker 2: I think I've just become a better person over time,
Speaker 2: which is just I used to be more, believe it
Speaker 2: or not, of a bitter, twisted prick and just hated
Speaker 2: people and just work flat out, which I still do.
Speaker 2: I'm just slowly finding calmness and patience, which is patience
Speaker 2: if most of my clients here swallow, But yeah, it's yeah,
Speaker 2: I feel comfortable, which is like, I feel like being
Speaker 2: comfortable with yourself is like such a journey to get
Speaker 2: to that point, especially heading through your twenties twenty suck,
Speaker 2: but getting to your thirties, you think it's going to
Speaker 2: just click, and it doesn't. But yeah, now at the
Speaker 2: position where I am, feel so much more comfortable with
Speaker 2: who you are, and it just makes life just that
Speaker 2: bit easier. It makes the whole thing a lot easier,
Speaker 2: less stressful, for sure. Let's jump into Zach Matthews, and
Speaker 2: this is along the lines of a lot of what
Speaker 2: we got, So I'm just reading out this one and
Speaker 2: we'll group it into one. It says, surely one of
Speaker 2: you is going to get a girlfriend this summer.
Speaker 3: It's not that hard, Zach says, Yeah, Zach.
Speaker 1: Ladies, ladies Jesus keeping them all. Yeah, I mean we'd
Speaker 1: love to. Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 2: You're going over to freaking like Italy and traveling and
Speaker 2: you're going through the mountains.
Speaker 1: You're only going to be there for four days.
Speaker 2: That's a rough one to put on the Tinder profile
Speaker 2: in town for four days.
Speaker 1: I need a two of guys relationship out of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the donkey on the Concada trail. You might bring
Speaker 2: it back, afraid o. Maeah, Yeah, we'd love to. I
Speaker 2: think we always kind of joke about trying to find
Speaker 2: a podcam. I do think probably our work situations is
Speaker 2: not sometimes you know, a good environment for a girlfriend
Speaker 2: to be involved in this.
Speaker 1: Book better too much, I reckon.
Speaker 2: I've been on the best role that I've been on,
Speaker 2: like it, and it's only been two months of like
Speaker 2: work life balance, making sure I get out, keeping the
Speaker 2: weekends as free as I can, doing stuff, going on dates.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but the thing is, we get a girlfriend, it's
Speaker 1: just going to be way less entertaining. Yeah. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: did not to say that getting a girlfriend's doll, but
Speaker 1: I think, like I think there's just way better stories
Speaker 1: that happen whenever you're single because people are shocked by
Speaker 1: some of the stuff that's out there, and you know
Speaker 1: what happens. They as a person that has a girlfriend
Speaker 1: or boyfriend, go, I feel a lot better about.
Speaker 3: My relationship appreciated.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because he is having an absolutely terrible time. It's
Speaker 1: not great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I was telling you I don't and
Speaker 2: then it was too close to the time. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I was like telling the hairdresser about all my dates
Speaker 2: and when she spun me around to the back. There
Speaker 2: was a guy that was like, mane, you should write
Speaker 2: a book like shock it. There was a girl head
Speaker 2: butted me in the face on one of my dates,
Speaker 2: like before I took a break, like fools, head butted
Speaker 2: me in the chin. It's so hard that I bit
Speaker 2: my lip and she's scared you for a long No,
Speaker 2: that was what I had a good run there, so
Speaker 2: but no, I am getting better, like getting out there,
Speaker 2: going on a few dates. I don't get nervous anymore,
Speaker 2: which is I think that's a great sign going out there,
Speaker 2: not having the pre anxiety and not having to be like, oh,
Speaker 2: I have a beer or two just to like before
Speaker 2: I head off, just to loosen up a bit. I'm
Speaker 2: enjoying the process more. I like, I like going out
Speaker 2: and eating and stuff and like, so I look forward
Speaker 2: to that. And then it's like, well, someone's going to
Speaker 2: be in the realm of a ballpark of like good communications.
Speaker 1: And you'll find out very quickly I want you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you usually know on a date in the first five
Speaker 1: to ten minutes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so like I don't know about you, but my
Speaker 2: like the structure of it is like date ones, the
Speaker 2: vibe check and you get that real quick. So that's
Speaker 2: a coffee or a drink, so like you get in,
Speaker 2: you can have a chat. Obviously, it can go for
Speaker 2: longer if you have drinks and it ends up bleeding
Speaker 2: into four hours or whatever. Happy days. But if it's
Speaker 2: not great, you can get out of there.
Speaker 3: Oh I actually drove.
Speaker 1: I have a commitment after Yeah, well you know, they
Speaker 1: just texted me out. I've got to run here in
Speaker 1: like fifteen minutes. So I just want to give your
Speaker 1: heads up.
Speaker 2: And I feel like everyone's on board with that.
Speaker 1: Like you can be having a good date and still
Speaker 1: say that and be like, look, I don't want this
Speaker 1: to drag out.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, but if yeah, the vibe and then something
Speaker 2: that the second date is a bit more locked in.
Speaker 2: So it's like you go out, you eat or whatever
Speaker 2: a commitment you trap there, go be halfway through your.
Speaker 3: Panini and be like I'm going see it.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, Yeah, we'll get there, eventually get there. We
Speaker 1: will take feedback on board.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna have some updates like next episode back,
Speaker 2: but we have we put it out there, heartwarming stories.
Speaker 2: We wanted to hear them, and we got some good
Speaker 2: ones back. Dan Mixtaye coming back from his ACL was yeah,
Speaker 2: quite amazing what he's being able to do in a
Speaker 2: short time. Miss the last game with a bit of soreness,
Speaker 2: but you can see straight away what he does to
Speaker 2: the structure of the team coming back in.
Speaker 1: Well, whenever Brodie Markscheck went out too, it was almost
Speaker 1: so much more important than he came back. You know,
Speaker 1: December did an ACL, you know, didn't play in the
Speaker 1: Grand File to the pre limit like PCL. I think
Speaker 1: it was just had a tough runt, had a very
Speaker 1: tough run. I think like everyone saw how already worked
Speaker 1: in the gym every single day and it's not easy
Speaker 1: to be doing that with you know, such a long injury,
Speaker 1: not being able to see the light at the end
Speaker 1: of the tunnel and when he came back, it was
Speaker 1: such a confidence booster for us and a you know,
Speaker 1: just a spirit lifter more than anything, to say, hey,
Speaker 1: this guy's put in the work, like let's you know,
Speaker 1: let's do this for him, Like let's win some games
Speaker 1: for him. And you know, he was he was massive
Speaker 1: in the back end of the year, and I know
Speaker 1: he didn't play in the last game, so he had
Speaker 1: a bit of awareness. I think it was, but incredible
Speaker 1: the man's resilience throughout the year. That was I think
Speaker 1: you talk about highlights of the year, like that one
Speaker 1: was the one that just sticks out instantly in my
Speaker 1: mind of just someone who's been through a bit of mud,
Speaker 1: been through a bit of you know shit, if I'm
Speaker 1: being honest with you, and then you know, coming back,
Speaker 1: you just you feel so happy for him and his
Speaker 1: family and everyone else that's involved to be able to
Speaker 1: have that moment.
Speaker 2: And a bit of a throwback Lucky Sullivan's first game
Speaker 2: when he came on, kicked that goal and everyone got
Speaker 2: around him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, snap on Carlton game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a pretty amazing moment.
Speaker 1: The great story, yeah too.
Speaker 2: And what about Jake Waterman, His season, his couple of
Speaker 2: seasons really, but he's just for how he's how tall
Speaker 2: he is. I I guess i'd put it as like
Speaker 2: a key forward Oscar Allen going down early and then
Speaker 2: him being like the.
Speaker 3: Main man one out.
Speaker 2: He had a pretty amazing season. Now this one we
Speaker 2: can all get around beating Carlton twice. Yeah, I love
Speaker 2: that big fan under heartwarmings.
Speaker 1: There's someone I wild say his name. There's someone in
Speaker 1: the media that once told me, I said, if you
Speaker 1: don't make finals, your best beat Carlton twice. It's like
Speaker 1: finals obviously important, right right under that beating Carlton.
Speaker 2: Twice, it's just because yeah, you can have it over them,
Speaker 2: like Carlton made finals, Yeah, but didn't beat Collingwood.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 3: That's good to say.
Speaker 1: I think we're I think we're winning in the total overall.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'll have to ask.
Speaker 2: Let's jump into Matt Gwealfie's painted nails. That was that
Speaker 2: was a special one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that one. You talk about Dyson Happle
Speaker 1: his retirement stuff and you know the people he got
Speaker 1: involved to. That was a beautiful kind of experience. I
Speaker 1: think for everyone to be able to see in one
Speaker 1: of those feel good stories that get to put out
Speaker 1: into the media and you wish there was more of them.
Speaker 1: You wish you could see all the different things that
Speaker 1: players do for people, because there's so many things. But yeah,
Speaker 1: Gwthy's painted nails like that was pretty cool. I think
Speaker 1: was it the Good Friday Appeal game or was it
Speaker 1: I know they went to the hospital and he said
Speaker 1: he'd do the celebration and all that, and that was
Speaker 1: a beautiful moment for sure.
Speaker 3: That was so good, And yeah, it's good.
Speaker 2: Sally Pendaal's game four hundred getting the win pretty wild.
Speaker 1: I think he always you look at four hundred, Yeah,
Speaker 1: winning after the sign essentially, you know, Carlson didn't didn't
Speaker 1: make the kick after the sign. I guess it's the
Speaker 1: best way to put it. But you look at that
Speaker 1: game four hundred, such a milestone, sixth person I think
Speaker 1: ever in the NFL history to do it. Obviously, it's
Speaker 1: one on the calendar you kind of circle and go, okay,
Speaker 1: like let's you know, like we're looking forward to this one.
Speaker 1: And then the fact that it fell against Carlton tight game,
Speaker 1: like important game, so cool to see him and his
Speaker 1: family kind of get the lotted so they deserve throughout
Speaker 1: the week because it's not just him making it to
Speaker 1: four hundred. It's his wife, his kids, his parents, like
Speaker 1: everyone else that's involved, his brothers, his whole family. It
Speaker 1: was cool to have them involved for the week and
Speaker 1: really just kind of pay homage to what he's been
Speaker 1: able to accomplish most disposals ever by any player in
Speaker 1: the AFL. You know, we talk about players that you talk,
Speaker 1: you know, ten years after you retire, like you talk
Speaker 1: about how you played with him. He'll be one of
Speaker 1: those nick ta cross him, like all these guys that
Speaker 1: you Travis Cloak and Swany and all these people you
Speaker 1: tell stories about for the rest of your life. He's
Speaker 1: made such an incredible impact on so many people. It's
Speaker 1: great whenever he played four hundred to really kind of
Speaker 1: show the respect he deserved.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is a good point.
Speaker 2: Shout out to Alex who's put up with him for
Speaker 2: four hundred odd games. That's he would have been. That's
Speaker 2: a loving wife preak at times. I imagine with his
Speaker 2: he's gonna just he's like zero skinfold skin fair.
Speaker 3: Imagine how much shit you would have to.
Speaker 1: Eat every morning He's waking up just at the crack
Speaker 1: of dog you're trying to sleep in the kids are hooting.
Speaker 2: And holl arod, you would have no wiggle room on
Speaker 2: his regime of like fitness and health and all that crap. Anyway,
Speaker 2: shout out to Alex. We move over to the Clangers
Speaker 2: of the Year. We had a few people send in
Speaker 2: one and one was the man that you just mentioned
Speaker 2: not long ago, Mitch McGovern's miss.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's tough. I feel for him. He's also had
Speaker 1: a won his one off his boot and after the Sirens,
Speaker 1: so he drew. He drew. Sorry, just felt like a win,
Speaker 1: I feel like at that time. But yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: going to be tough to tough Phil. So I will
Speaker 1: say credit to Carlton's teammates. They all got around immediately
Speaker 1: after he kicked out. They're all kind of helping.
Speaker 2: Did you know it's not on him, it's on the team.
Speaker 2: They shouldn't have been in that position, but fortunately didn't
Speaker 2: take the opportunity. Let's jump to the top. We just
Speaker 2: talked about this last episode. But the bottle chucker, what
Speaker 2: the heck man can't be chucking?
Speaker 1: What a doing? Man? What are you doing? This isn't
Speaker 1: like a European Soccer League's flares going all that stuff.
Speaker 1: This is it. This is a sophisticated gang all right here,
Speaker 1: can't be doing that, can't be doing that. I think
Speaker 1: it's the fact that like, like I'm more I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm pissed obviously about the whole situation, but like throwing
Speaker 1: anything on the field is unacceptable, and then like hitting
Speaker 1: an umpire that's a goal umpire, like you know, like
Speaker 1: the fact that it was that situation just made it
Speaker 1: even more infuriating to me. People that, you know, just
Speaker 1: do it because they love it. Yeah, you know, I
Speaker 1: think there's devid road. Can you imagine the nicest guy
Speaker 1: always has a smile, gives the fingers, pistols, gives the
Speaker 1: fans that they want. Can you imagine if the bottle
Speaker 1: is throwing to them, Oh, you'd be lived.
Speaker 3: I reckon it's like.
Speaker 2: Throwers in general, because obviously it's that was a hard
Speaker 2: shot to hit. He hits the umpire. I still feel
Speaker 2: like it should be the same punishment if it misses
Speaker 2: the umpire, like unfortunately it causes the incident. But like,
Speaker 2: just don't throw stuff, don't throw stuff out in the field.
Speaker 2: I don't like people that throw stuff out in the
Speaker 2: field in general, don't litter while we're on it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's like litter is anyway.
Speaker 2: That's an absolute clanger. The bloke that said Umpiring has
Speaker 2: been the best it's ever been, oh dill still, that
Speaker 2: one just annoyed me because it's clearly it wasn't. And
Speaker 2: at the time, it was like coming out every week
Speaker 2: to say that they stuffed up another thing.
Speaker 1: Just a learning moment. It was a learning moment for
Speaker 1: him on side.
Speaker 3: God damn.
Speaker 1: I think it was just like the timing and then
Speaker 1: what transpired over the next few weeks of you know,
Speaker 1: calls that people were you know, very opinionated about it
Speaker 1: just didn't go down with the fans well. And I
Speaker 1: think with Empire you can't like make a statement like
Speaker 1: that in general because like it's you know, it's going
Speaker 1: to get dissected so much by the media, so you
Speaker 1: kind of have to give a bit of a you know,
Speaker 1: just a bit of it and even say, look, Umpire's
Speaker 1: doing the best, They're doing exactly what they can. We're
Speaker 1: proud of what they're doing. Yeah, And that's that's kind
Speaker 1: of like the way to go about it it.
Speaker 2: I'd like them to come out and be like, look,
Speaker 2: we're not making their job any easier. We keep changing
Speaker 2: the goalpost for him.
Speaker 1: It's it's one of the hardest capers man. I can't.
Speaker 1: I would never in my lifetime think, you know, being
Speaker 1: an umpire is easy, just sir, like, yeah, it's such
Speaker 1: an opinionated game. You're ever going to make everyone happy.
Speaker 1: The best you can do is just not even be noticed.
Speaker 1: Like it's like it's a crazy thing, but yeah it was.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a learning experience. It's a learning experience
Speaker 1: for everyone.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: I've said some stupid things in my past too.
Speaker 2: Na the West Australian, Now that's a good one because
Speaker 2: they went super hard on Adam Simpson when he was
Speaker 2: wrapping up at the West Coast and basically said like
Speaker 2: see a Simo, as like they were kicking him out
Speaker 2: the door.
Speaker 1: Such a bad taste in my mouth or where that
Speaker 1: was handled, all the all the l's on the front
Speaker 1: page and stuff like you gotta be better than that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I do love. I do love the way you clap
Speaker 1: back though in the press conference. Yeah, I was live
Speaker 1: in that. Yeah, I think there's not many coaches do it.
Speaker 1: But whenever you don't have the coaching gig game or
Speaker 1: I can say whatever I want. I give my honest
Speaker 1: opinion because I'm not like held to the club standards anymore. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like it was so good and the fact that all
Speaker 1: the media people were like clapping over like laughing too,
Speaker 1: and you would have felt like you were just on
Speaker 1: your own on an island if you were that person.
Speaker 2: That all the players in the room to back him up.
Speaker 2: But the West Australian like the it's not that Northern Territory,
Speaker 2: you know, the Northern Territory has their paper and they
Speaker 2: come out with like funny puns and ship that's funny.
Speaker 2: Like people can get around that. It's not punching down
Speaker 2: on anyone or like kicking them while they're down or
Speaker 2: I love it anyway. Jesse Hogan stopping his teammate from
Speaker 2: kicking a girl.
Speaker 1: Man that was gold that it reminded me of Pendle's
Speaker 1: kid after running through the banner and just absolutely launched
Speaker 1: the ball into Crispy's head from five meters out from Gold. Oh,
Speaker 1: it was absolutely hilarious. Yeah, that's that's that's definitely a clanger.
Speaker 1: You can't be give it to Jesse go just learn
Speaker 1: win the lear Win, the Coleman. You got to know
Speaker 1: the Colemans in the back of his head.
Speaker 3: Just give it to you, Give it to the bloke
Speaker 3: that kicked it, not to Jesse Hoakan.
Speaker 1: I'm giving to the block that kicked it. Give it
Speaker 1: to your star. You're up by probably a hundred anyway.
Speaker 3: I don't mind it.
Speaker 2: And then obviously the clanger of the year is free
Speaker 2: I losing in the last round of port to just
Speaker 2: drop finals. Didn't want to play finals apparently, Ah wow,
Speaker 2: s this is the I now got months until anyway,
Speaker 2: this is the wrap before we go. We've we've put
Speaker 2: it out there for people. Mark of the year, Goal
Speaker 2: of the year, Brownlow winner. What's yours?
Speaker 1: I want to go, Bobby Hill Mark of the year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm going to go Goal of the year.
Speaker 3: Not as obvious, is it, But I think there's.
Speaker 1: Not one that really stands. I mean, I always obviously
Speaker 1: bias insense of myself of Nick de Costs two bounces,
Speaker 1: shoving off someone kicking one on the rhine. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: kind of like gets me up and about. But it's
Speaker 1: I think there's, like, you know, there's a few.
Speaker 2: Had the ghost game, the Nick Dakos one, with that
Speaker 2: one two back forward kick the goal.
Speaker 3: But you're lost.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I don't know who's going to
Speaker 1: win Goldie Year. That's up for debate. There hasn't been
Speaker 1: like a obvious just like Eddie bats shimmy, shimmy, two people.
Speaker 1: I can break out a tackle snap kind of goal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that kind of comes to mind. But that's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 1: One Brown though. I'm hoping Nick day Cass. Yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: say if it's not him, but to Pelly.
Speaker 3: Okay, that would be nice to see win it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he deserves it.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go Bobby Mark because he did the
Speaker 2: little extra float in there the landing, yeah, and then
Speaker 2: he landed and on his feet but it looked cool.
Speaker 2: And then I'm going to give it to Harley Reid
Speaker 2: out of the middle.
Speaker 3: Yeah he did. I do remember that was unreal the
Speaker 3: middle and drilling the girl that was sick.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And then give him the best first year player surely, Yeah.
Speaker 3: We can do it.
Speaker 2: We don't count suspensions in the Mason cock Show.
Speaker 1: I forgot that. Oh my god, you spend it in San.
Speaker 3: Darcy, got suspend it.
Speaker 1: So go to someone I probably don't know.
Speaker 3: It's like Carlton making the finals. Did you you lost?
Speaker 2: But anyway, yeah, I hardly reads the best player the
Speaker 2: first year, Sam Darcy's close second seven goals already Jesus
Speaker 2: and then Brownlow Yeah good point. Ah. I think like
Speaker 2: Locky Near, he was good late, but they were not
Speaker 2: great early. So that's the only thing that kills me.
Speaker 2: And if they're going to be more mindful of Nick
Speaker 2: Dacos this year after you know, it's normally their lag period,
Speaker 2: it's like a year later they give them more votes.
Speaker 2: But he would have won it last year if it
Speaker 2: wasn't for the injuries.
Speaker 3: Let's do like a.
Speaker 2: Little wrap the season in retrospect looking back. Obviously not
Speaker 2: you know, happy, not content with not making the finals
Speaker 2: coming off a Grand Final.
Speaker 3: Just how hard was the season personally?
Speaker 2: But then how hard did you find the whole thing
Speaker 2: coming back from the prelim loss the year before?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and going again.
Speaker 1: I think the early start was not a deal. But
Speaker 1: obviously there's other teams that had to do it too.
Speaker 1: I'm I wasn't really a massive fan of the Round
Speaker 1: zero experience. We'll be interesting to see if they keep
Speaker 1: it for next year, but I think the shorter kind
Speaker 1: of time frame with that, and the teams you're probably
Speaker 1: wanting to play in Round zero, probably the teams that
Speaker 1: went further in finals, you know. So I think that
Speaker 1: was kind of a frustrating kind of thing to deal with.
Speaker 1: I guys like less less off season. Obviously you want
Speaker 1: Maximin's off season the rest. So that was interesting start.
Speaker 1: We probably as a team didn't start the way we
Speaker 1: wanted to with a few losses on the on the books,
Speaker 1: but you know they had they had the injury of
Speaker 1: the big injury of our cheek bone and knee and
Speaker 1: ribs and concussion, and that knocked me about for a
Speaker 1: long time. So it was the first kind of his
Speaker 1: first concussion I've ever had. And I think that whole
Speaker 1: process of going through it, like we've always been quite
Speaker 1: strict of saying like we need to look after players'
Speaker 1: health and mental health and concussions and all this stuff,
Speaker 1: and I think that almost made me just double down
Speaker 1: on it now.
Speaker 3: Yea.
Speaker 1: It took me for four or five weeks whoever it was,
Speaker 1: to just kind of get back to normality. And you
Speaker 1: see the friends that played football, you see kind of
Speaker 1: how that's affected them. You know, you talk about Nathan
Speaker 1: Murphy and you talk about Josh Carmichael who retired from
Speaker 1: our team. Because it can cush in you, you realize
Speaker 1: how important it is for us to recognize and be
Speaker 1: able to, I guess, try to get this thing as
Speaker 1: early as possible. And myself going through that this year
Speaker 1: I think was a real realization point for me of
Speaker 1: just the impact you can kind of have on you
Speaker 1: and that kind of that threw me around for quite
Speaker 1: a bit. So the rehab of that was quite tough.
Speaker 1: I will say the knee. One interesting thing I'll take
Speaker 1: a positive out of it was it was cool to
Speaker 1: see every single week a new accomplishment, right, So, I mean,
Speaker 1: it first happens, you can't even like bend it at all,
Speaker 1: second week you can bend it to you know, closer
Speaker 1: to forty five, and then the next week better, and
Speaker 1: the next week better, and it was like every week
Speaker 1: you could see a major accomplishment that you were being
Speaker 1: able to do. So that was kind of a pause
Speaker 1: the thing I think through that time of you know,
Speaker 1: the darkness of rehab and doing things on your own
Speaker 1: and all that, like that was kind of a cool
Speaker 1: moment for me to say, you can see an improvement
Speaker 1: and a short amount of period that you probably don't
Speaker 1: see very often in your career now.
Speaker 2: And it's yeah, it's different to all your other injuries
Speaker 2: when you talk about like your spleen is the unknown,
Speaker 2: your eyes or the unknown, like, yeah, it's at least
Speaker 2: an injury that you people have had, they how to
Speaker 2: rehab region it's proper.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So that was interesting. And then you come
Speaker 1: back towards the end of the year and you have
Speaker 1: this kind of like, hey, we need to make finals,
Speaker 1: and we need to do it now, you know, like
Speaker 1: times running out, so the pressure was on. I think
Speaker 1: we performed pretty well over the last little chunk when
Speaker 1: we all got back, So for me, I was pretty
Speaker 1: proud of myself to get back out there with you know,
Speaker 1: the things that were going on and being able to
Speaker 1: sort it. But I think overall, like mentally, it was
Speaker 1: a Yeah, it was a tough year at times. Not
Speaker 1: always the easiest whenever you don't make finals, especially with
Speaker 1: the expectations of after last year, not always easy. But
Speaker 1: you look back and you say, look, it's it's just
Speaker 1: it's a I filled a swallow, but you have to
Speaker 1: and at the end of the day, you take it
Speaker 1: as motivation for the next year, and you go, okay, like,
Speaker 1: you know, these are things maybe we didn't do as
Speaker 1: well as we'd like, and yeah, this is room for improvement.
Speaker 1: And yeah, like I've said before, it's not going to
Speaker 1: be the same faces every year, So you know, I'm
Speaker 1: sure we'll get some new faces. I'll come in and
Speaker 1: hopefully be able to help us out try to get
Speaker 1: back to where we were. But overall, the oh the
Speaker 1: year you wish you'd be playing finals. You know, not
Speaker 1: to say that it's a oh or nothing kind of thing. Obviously,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of success in the year and a
Speaker 1: lot of things that you are proud about, But overall,
Speaker 1: I think you're the one they will stick out for you.
Speaker 1: Eternity is going on twenty twenty four. We didn't make finals. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's the statement everyone will say, and that's yeah,
Speaker 1: that's just the truth. You've got to be able to
Speaker 1: take it.
Speaker 3: So where does the improvement come from for next year?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hopefully we have a bit more consistency with
Speaker 1: the group with injuries and everything else. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff along that line, and yeah, hopefully that's kind
Speaker 1: of one of the main things for us I think
Speaker 1: is just being able to have a team that's played
Speaker 1: together for an extended period and hopefully has had success together,
Speaker 1: you know, winning games, and that puts you in a
Speaker 1: really good stance for finals and allows you to go
Speaker 1: on a bit of a run. So that's the one
Speaker 1: thing I look at and I go, I hope that
Speaker 1: we can have that next year. Obviously it's out of
Speaker 1: our control, but hopefully we can do that, which allows
Speaker 1: for more consistency, which allows for us to kind of
Speaker 1: feel confidence with the people who are playing with and
Speaker 1: you know, feel like we'rell on the same page in
Speaker 1: that sense during the back end of the year, hopefully
Speaker 1: with wins under a belt.
Speaker 3: What do you think you need?
Speaker 2: Obviously Jordy comes back, gets back in there with Nick,
Speaker 2: you got some pretty good midfield talent, got some good
Speaker 2: wing talent.
Speaker 3: So is it more getting just.
Speaker 2: Your key pillars back up for you, get Brodie back,
Speaker 2: you get Dan out there more often, got some good
Speaker 2: small forwards, and then maybe shore up defense a bit.
Speaker 3: With obviously Murph going out.
Speaker 1: We had quite a few tolls kind of go down
Speaker 1: this year, so we lacked height probably for a decent
Speaker 1: chunk of the season. Good for me to realize that
Speaker 1: something we locked. But you know, Nathan Murphy going out,
Speaker 1: I think we'll have to probably fill a key back
Speaker 1: role because we only you know, they essentially have Jeremy
Speaker 1: how Darcy Moore, Billy Frampton are kind of like the
Speaker 1: big bigs that play back, and so we'll probably have
Speaker 1: to find another one to help kind of those stocks.
Speaker 1: You know, we talk about a big ford. Who knows
Speaker 1: if we'll go and grab one of those. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure you know you have the likes of Christian Petroc
Speaker 1: of you know, oh my go, he's the interesting in calling,
Speaker 1: is always going to throw the callingwood name around, but
Speaker 1: you just never know what happens. So yeah, it'd be interesting.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you just sit there and ask me
Speaker 1: about the Petroka thing, like I think every single player
Speaker 1: in the AFL would go, yeah, I'd love to have
Speaker 1: Christian Petroc on my teable. He's one of the best
Speaker 1: players of the league. Of course, you're going to say, yeah,
Speaker 1: So we'll be interested to see how all those kind
Speaker 1: of trades and everything else kind of pans out over
Speaker 1: the next little chunk, and you'll be a few new
Speaker 1: faces next year. But hopefully you know, it helps us win,
Speaker 1: you know, more games and be able to get to
Speaker 1: where we want to be as a player.
Speaker 2: During the off season, do you watch the trade period
Speaker 2: with keen interest, thinking who's going to come in, who's gonna.
Speaker 1: Once it's settled. Yes, you'll send the messages out, try
Speaker 1: to catch up with them and things like that. But
Speaker 1: I think, well, it's speculated. You don't want to like
Speaker 1: get into it too much.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: It's one of those things where you go, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: like until it's actually setting stone in the contract so
Speaker 1: you've signed it and you're gonna be on our team
Speaker 1: next year, you probably don't pay attention to it too
Speaker 1: much because you know how much just smoke is blown, right,
Speaker 1: Like there's no like legitimacy to all these comments and
Speaker 1: statements being made by people. They're trying to drum up
Speaker 1: some story that doesn't exist, you know, and these things.
Speaker 1: So you got to take everything with a great, you know,
Speaker 1: grain of salt, and I don't know, I don't really
Speaker 1: probably pay attention to it too much until you get
Speaker 1: back and you kind of meet them. You go kind
Speaker 1: of like, you know, what are you about? What your
Speaker 1: character ist? You know, like what do you what is
Speaker 1: your kind of character and stuff like that, and you
Speaker 1: kind of see how well you volved with them really,
Speaker 1: so it'll be interesting see kind of what happens.
Speaker 2: It's going to be because you don't have any draft picks,
Speaker 2: so you're going to have to if you're going to
Speaker 2: do something that's going to come through the trade period,
Speaker 2: which is for fans out they're the most exciting period.
Speaker 2: Draft is so so because it's a you just planting
Speaker 2: the seed and you've got to wait to see what
Speaker 2: it grows into. Going through the trade period, you can
Speaker 2: just go get some bona fide talent, So that'll be
Speaker 2: great wrapping things up. Obviously what you just said, disappointing season,
Speaker 2: but you know, build towards next year. What are you
Speaker 2: doing for Are you going to watch the Grand Final?
Speaker 2: Are you going to watch the finals? Are you going
Speaker 2: to be in Australia? No, you take off when for.
Speaker 1: The Gan Final, So Timothy, I'll be back in America,
Speaker 1: so I probably won't see too many finals. I'll I'll
Speaker 1: try to watch as much as I can. Obviously I
Speaker 1: don't think he has an international subscription, but we'll see.
Speaker 1: I'll watch as much as I can. I think the
Speaker 1: Grand Final, like, I'll be back in Texas, so I'll
Speaker 1: definitely try to watch that, but I'll be interested to
Speaker 1: see kind of how finals pan out because it's really
Speaker 1: a bit of a crap shoot. Who is going to
Speaker 1: win it. There's no clear cut favorite at the moment,
Speaker 1: so it's going to be an interesting thing for fans
Speaker 1: to be able to look after. But I think after
Speaker 1: not making it, you have a little bit of a
Speaker 1: you know, jealousy towards the time, like the teams are
Speaker 1: in the eight and you know, sometimes just kind of
Speaker 1: pushing that aside and just ignoring it sometimes can be
Speaker 1: good and healthy. So I'll watch a little bit of
Speaker 1: it if I feel up to it mentally, but if not,
Speaker 1: I'll just kind of push it aside.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is a good point, and normally it's if
Speaker 2: there's a team in there that you're like, oh, we
Speaker 2: beat that and stuff like that. Yeah, the Grand Final,
Speaker 2: it's like May the Grandfather is going to be interesting
Speaker 2: because if it is like a port VGWS, it's like
Speaker 2: Kenny either gets his flag or GWS gets there first.
Speaker 3: Like there's a few stories like that throughout it.
Speaker 2: But it should be a very exciting final series because
Speaker 2: there's some competitive teams in there, so I can't wait
Speaker 2: to see it.
Speaker 1: It's going to be great. But yeah, that's that's it
Speaker 1: from us.
Speaker 3: Man, that's us another big year. What do we three
Speaker 3: that's the end of our third year.
Speaker 1: Into the third year.
Speaker 3: Well, it's a lot.
Speaker 1: I know. I know, we have obviously Finals to go through,
Speaker 1: but we're going to take a break. We're gonna I'm
Speaker 1: going to go overseas. You're going to do some more
Speaker 1: work with the with the company, I know. So a
Speaker 1: bit of an apology, i'd say to the listeners that
Speaker 1: want to listen to the podcast throughout the finals campaign,
Speaker 1: I think we need a bit of a break to
Speaker 1: be able to reset, a bit of a detox from
Speaker 1: everything that's going on. That's been a bit of a
Speaker 1: full on year. So apologies to the fans out there.
Speaker 1: I do want to hear for the next four weeks,
Speaker 1: but for us, I think for our mental health and
Speaker 1: everything else, we're going to take a bit of a
Speaker 1: break and look after ourselves as everyone I feel like
Speaker 1: it's at home should hopefully understand, and if you're in
Speaker 1: the same position, please do.
Speaker 2: It is surprisingly easier to talk about Finals when you're
Speaker 2: in them.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's a lot better. It's a lot more exciting,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. But massive, massive thank you everyone for
Speaker 1: understanding that, and appreciate you as always being part of
Speaker 1: this community and listening in every single week. You're absolute
Speaker 1: legends and we love and respect the hell out of
Speaker 1: THEA and we really appreciate all the love you you
Speaker 1: give to us in return.
Speaker 2: Love the support from the fans, and yeah, it's going
Speaker 2: to be weird not doing it week on week as
Speaker 2: it always is when we do. You're not you know,
Speaker 2: normally rap for the year. But it's been a great well,
Speaker 2: it's been a great year of footy. It's been like
Speaker 2: wild up and down. You don't know what's coming, what's
Speaker 2: happening week to week, so many close things, so many
Speaker 2: big talking points.
Speaker 3: But yeah, another massive year for the pod.
Speaker 1: Pretty nuts, pretty nuts to wrap it all up, but
Speaker 1: here we are. Man, wouldn't a pictured of this one day.
Speaker 1: One day we'll get to it, but no, massive thank
Speaker 1: you as always to everyone out there listening. I really
Speaker 1: appreciate the love and support throughout the year and sharing
Speaker 1: this amazing podcast with some of your friends and family.
Speaker 1: A massive, massive thank you, so thank you for being
Speaker 1: an incredible listener, for being a credible audience. Our love
Speaker 1: goes to you. Have an amazing final series and we
Speaker 1: won't talk to you untill probably after Christmas, So have
Speaker 1: an incredible little holiday period, show some love to the family,
Speaker 1: spend some quality time with them, and we'll be back
Speaker 1: hopefully come February and be able to entertain the hell
Speaker 1: out of you again. Stay safe, Stay safe, Legends speak
Speaker 1: to you soon. Yeah,