WEBVTT - Kiss Celebration 😘 Finals Bound 🏆 Mad Monday 🍺 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:08.880 Good day, guys. Welcome to another episode of The Mason 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:12.479 Cox Show. No, obviously, I'm not Mason Cox. Mace's up 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:14.640 in Sydney and he will be joining us via the 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:16.720 power of the Internet. But I am here to give 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:19.320 you a little sneak preview to this week's episode because 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:23.520 we talk all things Finals, including Collingwood's big win over 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:26.000 Essendon that gets them the form they need heading into 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:30.400 the final series, and Jack Ginevan actually got a free kick. 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:34.040 We'll talk about that. We'll talk about the score reviews 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:37.879 going up through the roof score review galore, and we'll 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:40.559 talk about the Coleman race that was between Charlie and 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:43.400 Text and how all of that played out and it 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:46.519 was down to the wire. Really. All that and more 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:49.680 on this week's episode. So sit back and enjoy the show. 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:57.560 Okay, legends, let's get into it. Welcome Bradon Cox. 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:00.720 Good a, Mason. Now I've got some news for you. 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:03.639 Did you know that you guys are still in finals, 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:05.920 because it doesn't look like you're in Melbourne. 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:08.119 No, not Melbourne. I haven't jetted off for the off 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:10.000 season just yet, Brod, and I am up here. We've 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:12.720 got the weekend off obviously with a bye week before finals. 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:15.880 So I've taken the initiative to come up to Sydney 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:17.839 for the weekend just enjoy a bit of warmer weather, 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:19.080 head to the beach and get it brid of that 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:20.399 vitamin D as they. 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:23.760 Say, gotta love getting some of that D. Let's jump 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:27.360 into the clanger because they were just contradictory this weekend. 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:31.959 Where the commentators all last week obviously the agenda was 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:35.560 we need to fix his score review system. We need 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:37.800 a better system. We need more score reviews, we need 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:40.840 less score reviews, we need to tighten things up. Well, 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:44.320 they like a bit of both ways. And throughout the 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:47.240 whole weekend we saw a ramp up in score reviews, 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:50.240 and we saw some correct decisions being made off the 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:53.760 back of those. But boy, oh boy, wow weed, didn't 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:56.280 we see some of the commentators just having a big 0:01:56.280 --> 0:02:00.920 old silky winge wine. Oh they delaying. The things are 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:04.120 slowing down. We got to the correct decisions, and I 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:06.520 think that was the whole point of the system. We 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:09.520 got some correct decisions this weekend. We got some overturns, 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:14.240 we got some confirmations, mostly off goal reviews, which doesn't 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:16.720 slow down. Shit. Mace so I don't know what they 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:19.560 were sucking about, but it was ready, they had it primed. 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:21.919 They knew exactly what they were going to complain about 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:24.919 this weekend. Either there was going to be another mistake 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:28.079 and they were gonna, you know, tee off, or there 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:30.960 was going to be a lot of score reviews, and 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:33.000 boy oh boy, didn't they just suck it up. And 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:36.280 so I'm clanging all the footy commentators that had a 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:39.080 big old winge about the score review system because we 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:42.040 saw zero issues with it this weekend. So I don't 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:43.320 know what they were complaining about. 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:47.200 Mace people just are never happy, you know, they just no, 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:50.840 there's no solution that's absolutely perfect for everyone. Now it 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:52.560 is a big shout out to the score review and 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:54.280 we're going to get into that because that actually was 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:56.280 used correctly, and you wouldn't believe that the feedback the 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:57.880 rest of the world has been given them. Maybe they're 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.959 taking it on, who knows, but into my cleaner of 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:03.960 the week now. It happened in our game, and there 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:07.080 was obviously a massive ordeal with Andrew Phillips and tip 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:11.040 I playing their last game for Essidon and Tippa obviously 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:14.040 you know he's not a massive human. And they carried 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:16.880 him off on the shoulders. But Andrew Phillips, no love, 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:19.480 didn't get anyone to grab him, you know, throw him 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:21.720 up on the shoulders, carry him off. Nothing, just had 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:23.360 to walk off on his old loan some and all 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:25.000 his just so. I was upset. I was not happing. 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:26.280 I looked at Angel like, hey, if you need a 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:28.280 big fellow to carry off man, I'm happy to do it. 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:31.160 You just let me know. But Essen just got to 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.280 be better. You know, it's not just Tip his last game, 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:35.840 it's also Andrew Phillips. Give the man some love, all right. 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:38.280 That's what they needed. They needed a rent a big men. 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:40.680 They needed to get a couple of big boys across 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:43.360 from Collingwood just to help out probat him up, because 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:46.240 they you know, they'd a bit down in the in 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:48.080 the big man stucks over there at Essendon. 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:50.480 At the moment, I think DC and myself would have 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:52.680 been happily to take one leg each and carry him 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:53.920 on our shoulders off and it would have been a 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:56.320 beautiful moment for everyone. I will say that. But we'll 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:59.240 get into the games this week now, Hawthorne. First off, 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:02.480 the cab cabrank We got Hawthorne fifty six versus Freemantle 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:06.400 ninety three the score and Caleb Strong playing pretty well 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:08.640 and also playing against his younger brother John, so it's 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:11.320 a bit of a family affair this weekend and Strong 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:14.520 it finished with thirty two disposals nine clearances. That's fair 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:16.640 to say he had a decent game. I'm not sure 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:19.120 what Joe did. He didn't make the highlight package, so 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:22.919 I'm assuming Caleb Strong took out their brother win jeeesus. 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:26.320 You know how competitive it is between brothers, Mace, you 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:28.120 go get the got to get the runs on the 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.720 board early, especially if you're the older brother because you 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:32.839 know the younger brothers coming for your throne. 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:37.080 Understand John, maybe he'll have better a career, thank a 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:39.520 little bit eventually. But Caleb at the moment one of 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:42.480 the stars over there Freemantle and playing well. And fore 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.080 they reached the semi final last year. But obviously now 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.200 with the eight finished up, they do miss the eight, 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:50.080 finishing in a ten and thirteen record, but they can 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:52.520 hang them so hang their head high because they've won 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:54.279 three of the last five, so they didn't just fold 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:56.520 over at the very end of the year. They still 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:58.400 made a bit of a run for it and were 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:01.360 able to have a bit of I don't know respect 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:02.680 going into the end of the season. 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:06.320 How do you see that because obviously there was expectations 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:08.960 on them going in off the success from last year. 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:13.080 Does the you know late little flurry that doesn't really 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:16.839 mean too much checking that appeases the fans. 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:20.000 I think it appeases the coach and also the fans. Yeah, 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:22.040 it's it's well as say we look at We'll talk 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:23.880 about North Melbourne at the very end and then playing 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:26.960 well against against their their team, the old Gold Coast 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:29.760 Sons down there and Tausi later today but later in 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.719 the episode. But I think these you know, these showing 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:35.159 up at the very end of the season, and you know, 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:37.159 whenever you don't really have anything to play for and 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:39.080 you're maybe out of finals and still wanting to get 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:40.800 the win on the board, it's a sign that you know, 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:42.840 you've got some people that are investing in the future 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:45.000 and see a definite future with some of the younger 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:45.760 kids on the list. 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:48.760 And how did our boy Finn McGinnis go. Because we 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:50.760 like to touch on finn Finns up We've got a 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:54.440 few Finns in the League. But how did Finn McGinnis 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:55.920 go this week shut anyone down? 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:58.839 He did. He started on Luke Ryan, which was unique 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:00.960 because I think everyone was specting him go straight to 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:03.400 Sarrong and he shut down Luke Ryan for the first 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.240 chunk and then went to Strong but Sarong was just 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:07.080 having a heck of a day and he ended up 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:09.960 just releasing the tag before the end of the game. 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:12.680 So FM McGinnis did his job, don't me wrong, the 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:15.720 old tagman, but they kind of just let him go 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:17.000 at the end of it and didn't really go with 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:19.520 the tag. But he is one of those people. I 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:21.320 feel like he's probably one of the most talked about 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:23.680 people there at Hawthorne. Him and sicily up there with 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:27.000 the most I guess headline worthy people. I would say 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:28.080 over there at Hawthorn at the moment. 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:31.000 Now let's jump into North v. Suns, because I did 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:33.719 say last week and I put a clip up saying 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:37.800 that the Suns should forfeit. Now, in hindsight, I'm sure 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:39.800 they're looking at this one going maybe we should have 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:43.719 because they went down and went down convincingly in the 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:46.400 end because it was competitive at the start, a bit 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:49.320 of a blockbuster for the four thousand, three hundred and 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:53.159 seventy eight Tasmanians that showed up to Blenstone Arena, but 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:59.400 North one thirty two massive score defeated the Suns ninety seven. 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:00.520 Wow. 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:05.279 I don't if if your season wasn't already just that flat, 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:08.200 traveling down from Gold Coast to Tazzy and getting pumped 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:12.280 by a team that has lost twenty on the trot, 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:15.560 I don't even what do you what do you? What 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:16.120 do you say? 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:18.480 Hey? As an avid Sun supporter, is a blip on 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:20.640 the radar, brighton his a blip on the radar and 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:23.320 thank god no one saw it but four thousand people, 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:27.040 So it could be worse. It could be worse. But 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:29.280 I'm excited for that Tasmania team to get down there 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:32.880 and get all five thousand supporters. But Nick Larky on 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:35.840 the day kicking nine and this man has been outstanding 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.640 for the last chunk of this year, kick none on 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:41.320 the day and he's he's up there for all Australian contention. 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:43.480 There's a few rumors going around he might be in 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:45.560 the in the squad, but he did have a heck 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:49.080 of a day in the North Melbourne Football Club. I'm 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:51.720 so confused. West Coast last week, you know, threw the 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:53.320 number one pick out of the door and said we 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:55.680 don't want it. And now North Melbourne said the exact 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:57.440 same shit, literally a week later, and I said, you 0:07:57.440 --> 0:07:58.880 know what, we don't want the number one draft pick. 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:01.160 We're gonna win. We're gonna give up the wooden spoon 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:03.040 to someone else this year. We're going to give it 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:05.320 over to the West Coast, and North you know it 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:07.360 decides to go with maybe the number two pick this year. 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:09.680 I don't get it. I just don't understand it. I 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:12.200 truly get to the point where you go, let's look 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:14.760 towards the future. This game means absolutely nothing. No one's 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:16.200 here and no one gives a shit. 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:19.960 You think you're confused, Imagine being Harley Reid's sitting at 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:22.880 home on the last couple of weekends going like, oh, 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:25.280 I'm going to Perth. All right, cool, get used to that. 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:27.720 Oh wait, no, I'm going back to North. Oh wait, no, 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:30.400 I'm going to Perth. Oh wait, I'm going on. He 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:33.160 must be that, his head must be spinning. It's like, 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:37.040 does no one want me? Why they all winning games? 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:39.680 All of a sudden they want the number two pick? 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:42.160 Big Harley Reid's like, what about me, just sitting at 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:44.600 home on the couch scratching his head. I will say, 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:48.800 just touching on Laki one more time. Normally North is 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:51.559 always touted this big war chest. They've got a war 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:54.360 chest to take to the trade period and pick up 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:57.240 whoever they want, except for the tiny little thing of 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:00.960 no one wanted to go there. That that's just one 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:04.280 tiny little part of it. But you reckon, they need 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:06.720 to be opening up this war chest and giving Nick 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:09.360 Larky just a big fat stack of cash to keep 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:11.920 him at the club. Surely you're doing everything to keep 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.720 him there because if he's kicking goals, now wait till 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:17.079 your team's any bloody good and he'll be kicking it. 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:18.720 He'll be the next guy to kick a hundred. 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:21.079 I reckon, there's two people next to guy to kick 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:25.360 a hundred. That's f It's just card. Yeah, Car ranges 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:27.120 for a bit, But I think there's two people in 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:28.960 the league I'm looking out right now. It's Larkie in 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:32.320 Oscar Allen that need to sign a bag. They need 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:34.520 to sign an absolute bag with whatever club it is, 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:36.600 and they need to get their money's worth because they 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:39.760 are holding their team in competition at the moment, and 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:43.120 they're two absolutely shining stars in the competition. So I 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:45.720 think hopefully, I don't know where all sits as far 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:47.880 as this contract, but I would expect him to be 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:50.040 signing a long year deal if North Melbourne is trying 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:50.920 to lock him away. 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:53.559 And you'd be loving being his manager at the moment 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:55.760 because you know it's coming. Surely, you know it's coming. 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:00.240 He's not the only exciting name coming out of the 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:03.720 North Melbourne Football Club though, because obviously he got Sheezel 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:07.760 who broke the record for the most disposals in a 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:08.720 first season. 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:10.840 Oh we all know. She's is one of my favorites 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:12.880 and his mom's even a favorite of mine too. Now 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:16.200 he brought Nick d Class's record that was that was 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:18.600 made last year, and he's he's one of those guys. 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:21.360 Obviously it's plug gonna win, you know, the first Year 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:23.920 Rising Star Award, that's pretty much a lock for I 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:26.320 feel like she's at the moment, and it's incredible what 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:28.120 he's been able to do at a team that's, you know, 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:30.240 like I said, lost twenty straight before this game, so 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:33.160 he's been performing in an underperforming team as far as 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:35.359 the rest of the competition goes. And it's an incredible, 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:37.360 I guess accomplishment for him and something he should be 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:39.640 definitely proud of. It's yeah, it's something you should hold 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:42.560 his head high with. It's a pretty incredible accomplishment throughout 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:42.839 the year. 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:45.080 Yeah, I think that's enough from that game. We're done 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:47.120 with that game because we've already spent way too much 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:49.400 time on it. It was for nothing, for no reason, 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:51.719 no one got anything out of it. So let's move 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:54.480 on to Brisbane versus Saint Kilda, a team that had 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:58.640 something on the line for both sides, Brisbane and getting 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:03.120 the chocolates seventy two. Sixty got the big w up 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:05.800 at the Fortress up there in Brizzy, But it wasn't 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:09.320 easy because Saint Kilda telling you they're just a tough 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:12.120 defensive team. And I was going to say, now that 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.679 they're getting the score on the board, but sixty points 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.439 probably want to get that north maybe up to eighty 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:20.840 or something. But yeah, it kind of set in stone 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:26.640 that Brisbane home final going to be very tough to beat, 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:29.400 you know, with the if they can get that first 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:32.280 win and then they go straight through to another Gabba 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:37.680 home pre limb, very very scary. They're undefeated at the 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:40.200 Gabba this year, eleven from eleven. 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:43.360 It's wild to think, but yeah, it's to lock away 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:47.160 that top two spot after another result that happened with 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:50.400 Port Adelaid later in the in the week on Saturday, 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:53.000 I think it was it's it's a massive win from 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:54.599 them because you got to think two home finals of 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:57.600 the Fortress, no matter what, is going to be tough 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:59.000 to be able to beat them up there. Like you said, 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:01.800 they've been undefeated there year and going into a finals 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:03.960 campaign that's a massive tick for them to be able 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:06.839 to do. And during this game they lived inside their 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:08.880 forward fifty and so other forward half. Really it was 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:10.520 it was tough for Saint Kildo to be able to 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:12.000 get their ball on the forward line. That's probably why 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:14.760 they scored only sixty points. But they also held Brisbane 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:16.640 the seventy two. And we all know Brisbane's got quite 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.079 a few weapons up forward with the likes of Joe 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:23.520 Danaher and oh favorites hold Charlie, you know Charlie out there. 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:27.400 It's they've got quite a put in attack. So to 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:29.400 hold them to seventy two points at home also a 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:32.920 massive accomplishment for them. But Callum Wilkie, I want to say, 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:35.440 this is the Australian in your mind, like he's had 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:36.400 an incredible year. 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:38.360 And it's going to be a tough year. I think 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:42.199 the defenders are going to be the hardest to pick 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:46.120 because there's so many good ones and the fact that 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:50.280 probably the best defenders have missed a handful of games. 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:53.000 So you're looking at Darcy Moore missed you know, the 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:56.319 back end of the season, and you're looking at Sam Taylor, 0:12:56.400 --> 0:13:01.320 who he's you know, he's just a brick wall back there. 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:03.600 You can't get anything past that guy. But he has 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:05.280 missed a chunk of footy this year as well, so 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:08.200 that kind of shakes things up a bit because you 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:10.360 can't really just slot them straight in if you're looking 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:13.040 at the whole year. But yeah, Wilkie's got to be 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:15.800 up there. He was really impressive on the weekend. You 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:18.040 did say they kept him to seventy two, but it 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:21.000 didn't help that Joe Danaher was just shanking them from 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:24.880 the top of the square. These were like I think 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:27.440 there's probably only a small handful of people when they 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:29.400 mark them at the top of the square that you're like, 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:32.960 I'm still gonna watch this because it's not in the book. 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:33.280 Yet. 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:35.760 It's not in the book, and we saw why. He 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:38.880 just drilled him into the post. He missed a couple 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:41.280 of shockers from about twenty out and then he got 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:45.120 the old Joe the goose and bashed at home from 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:47.600 the goal line, and he gave the big, cheeky Joe 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:50.200 Dana hurt smile, like, I couldn't miss that one. 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:52.800 Oh man. He had a clutch goal in in the 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:54.360 last quarter two to be able to get them over 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:56.960 the line. But as a forward man, there's no worse 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:59.160 nightmare than missing a set shot straight out in front. 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:00.760 And luckily it was in the first quarter so he 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:02.199 could make up for it. Imagine if it was in 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:05.040 the fourth, it'd be absolutely kicking himself. But yeah, missing 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:06.560 one from the goal scorer. I feel like we've all 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:09.520 been there, and it's just the pressure of the moment 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:11.320 gets to you because it's literally one of the easiest 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:14.400 kicks you can possibly have in football. But it happens 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:16.360 to everyone, happens to the best of us. Joey day 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:18.640 and I've got mad love for the math. I think 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:21.360 ever since that one day he was someone was doing 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:23.360 a set shot. He ended up just sitting on the boundary, 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:25.520 like up on the fence. Do you remember that. Yeah, 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:27.720 just set up on the fen just chilling, having a 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:30.840 nice little breath, just hanging out, and the footy world 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:32.520 lost their freaking mind. But it was just the most 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:35.600 Joey d thing ever of just casual living life, you know, 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.240 loving life up there in Brisbane, and I've been a 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:40.160 big fan of Joe de ever since. Then we'll move 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:41.920 on to the next game. We got Geelong versus the 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:44.880 Bulldog's massive game for the Bulldogs, they needed to win 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:46.520 this to be able to at least have a chance 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:49.400 at finals and keep their hopes alive. And they ended 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:52.280 up getting the Chocolates first win at GMHBA since two 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:54.640 thousand and three. It's been twenty years since they won 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:59.440 a GMHBA and they essentially is a good game until 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:02.120 the last They kicked six goals to the Cats one 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:04.200 in the final term, so they kind of, I guess, 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:05.840 got a fire lit up under the button and then 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:08.800 their ass and you know, decided to actually go out 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:10.680 and win the game and give themselves a finals chance. 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:13.880 So Geelong it did make seven changes for the match also, 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.120 so there's quite a young team for them and they 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:18.920 maybe were already sorting out their their Mad Monday kit. 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:20.640 I don't know, maybe they were kind of looking past it. 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:23.000 But it was a big day for the Big Bond, 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:25.880 so that makes the brown Low race very interesting. We 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:27.440 all will talk about this, I'm sure for the rest 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:30.880 of the finals campaign between Nick BoNT and Petroca. Who's 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:33.440 going to win the brown Low Race. But it's been 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:35.320 impressive year for the Bond. He's one of the best 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:37.080 in the league, as we all know, and he had 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:38.560 definitely a good game of the weekend. 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:41.320 It was a bit nerve wracking there for the Bulldogs 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:43.000 because everyone knew that they had to win it and 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.880 they came out like a team that had all of 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:49.120 the expectations on their shoulders. They were missing kicks, their 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:53.520 disposal efficiency was shocking. On the other hand, Geelong had 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:55.800 nothing really to play for except for just getting the 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:59.280 last win and heading into the Mad Monday happy with 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:03.800 something to talk. But yeah, it was you know, you 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:07.960 can't right off Geelong ever at GMHBA Stadium, even if 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:10.520 they are fielding a team of kids. But there was 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:12.880 one old bloke out there amongst them while there was 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:16.520 a couple of dangerous still playing. But Isaac Smith's final 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:20.000 game and he was just going for it. You know, 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:21.760 they must have told him that he had all the 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:24.360 freedom in the world. He had thirty six touches and 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:26.320 kicked a goal, kicked the first goal of the game, 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:30.480 which was awesome to see big smiles on everyone's faces. 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:33.040 The whole team got around him. But then he just 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:37.040 didn't stop taking shots he took. He had a snap 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:40.240 on the run from a stoppage. He was just banging 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:42.520 him home from every well, not home because he missed 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:46.120 everything else outside of that first kick, but you could 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:48.040 just tell he was having fun. There was one where 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:51.600 he tried to cherry pick a little handball from an 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:54.880 inside fifty mark and the umpire wasn't having any of it. 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:58.960 He kept going yep, Isaac, out out out, And then 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:01.440 it cut to Isaac and he was standing outside the 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:05.280 boundary on the fence, just like, all right, I'm out. 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:07.400 How much far out do I need to get? 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:09.800 There's one thing we've realized about Geelong is even the 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:13.040 boundary has no limits to him. That's still in play. 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:15.640 So you know it's a fair call by Isaac, But yeah, 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:17.880 he had. He kicked the first goal and had thirty 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:19.359 six touches, so he had a good game and he 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:21.280 was just smiling from grinning from ear to ear. So 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:23.480 it's great to see him go out with a smile 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:25.159 on his face. And I think at one point he 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:27.920 almost hurtled over Patrick Tangerfield after he kicked the goal. 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:30.359 That was a wild celebration. He just he seemed like 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:33.560 the happiest man you could possibly imagine. And it's an 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:36.440 incredible career he's been able to have an accomplish and 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:38.040 it's a credit to him. I guess going out there 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:39.959 just I don't know, it would be a great feeling. 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:42.680 I guess not that you're you know, the game doesn't 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:44.359 mean anything, but to go out there and just literally 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:46.080 have fine and your coach play, not give a shit, 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:49.000 what do you do? It's like a great experience I'm 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:49.520 sure to happen. 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:53.000 And it was Sam Menngola's last game for Geelong. Still 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:56.199 going to go out there and explore his options. But 0:17:56.680 --> 0:18:00.240