Speaker 1: All right, legends, welcome back to the Mason Cock Show. Now,
Speaker 1: there were three games over the weekend. You could almost
Speaker 1: say that went down to the wire. So some absolute
Speaker 1: thrillers we're going to talk about now. Brandon also thinks
Speaker 1: that the VFL is trending a little bit better in
Speaker 1: the IFL. Right now, we're going to break that down
Speaker 1: and what he means. And lastly, I'm gonna give you
Speaker 1: the review that you never asked for. I'm talking cricket
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. You best believe it. It is a
Speaker 1: heck a heck of an experience over the weekend. But
Speaker 1: without further ado, let's get into the podcast. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get into it. Brandon welcome.
Speaker 2: Oh get I nice, he's your weekend van.
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Speaker 2: It's exciting. I've seen a couple start to roll out
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Speaker 2: Real collect design it. Onsell it. Not that I'm saying
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Speaker 1: Let's get into the podcast. Let's go Cleaner of the week.
Speaker 1: What do you got for me?
Speaker 2: I hate to do this to one of your teammates, nice,
Speaker 2: but Mike Clanger of the week, and it's about as
Speaker 2: funny a moment as you can get. So I got
Speaker 2: a touch on it, Ash Johnson. Now he's been playing
Speaker 2: in the af well he first came back and the
Speaker 2: VFL a bit of an embarrassing moment. Now Collingwood got
Speaker 2: the job done against the Dolph's fins up for the Dolphins.
Speaker 2: Fins went down on the weekend to Collingwood. But your teammate,
Speaker 2: Ash Johnson, took a mark contested mark good one on
Speaker 2: the wing right in front of the dolph bench.
Speaker 1: They've got the bongo joms over there on the hill.
Speaker 1: You know, they get into you. They get into you
Speaker 1: down there in Frank.
Speaker 2: Well, his opponent that he took the mark on went
Speaker 2: over the boundary, fell over, kind of ate ate a
Speaker 2: bit of shite anyway, Ash Johnson looks back, shows him
Speaker 2: the ball real like show buddy. Here, I took the
Speaker 2: mark Maye and off I trot, goes running down the wing,
Speaker 2: goes to take a nice little bounce, slips out from
Speaker 2: underneath him, doesn't do the whole Pendle's laced down trick
Speaker 2: that he mustn't have got taught that one yet, skid
Speaker 2: it out from underneath him. He's fumbling around, picks it
Speaker 2: up by then in one of his opponents, Chase tackles
Speaker 2: him down, pulls his shorts down around his knees, and
Speaker 2: he gets done for holding the ball. Oh, it was
Speaker 2: just everything. It just kept getting worse step by step.
Speaker 2: It was one of those real filet under instant karma.
Speaker 2: I reckon.
Speaker 1: Look, I'll say this, I've had a few clangers in
Speaker 1: my lifetime. Ash, don't worry. They happened. Okay, they happen,
Speaker 1: and they will forever live on an infamy. But I've
Speaker 1: had some absolute clangers down there and franksin there's a
Speaker 1: few of those in my first early years of playing.
Speaker 1: Sorry has this, I will say this style the game was,
Speaker 1: I mean pretty much over. It was eighty and twenty
Speaker 1: two whenever this happened. So it's a bit of fine.
Speaker 1: There's a bit of wrestling and grappling and fight's going
Speaker 1: on down there and Franks in between the Dolphins and
Speaker 1: the old Magpies, and you know, maybe he was just
Speaker 1: keen to let him know who's actually went on the scoreboard.
Speaker 2: You actually reminded me I had a clanger once in
Speaker 2: Frankston I went down to cover the VFL might have
Speaker 2: had a couple of beers the night before you do,
Speaker 2: and forgot the base plate for the camera. So I
Speaker 2: had the camera, the tripod, no bass, play, can't attach
Speaker 2: the two. So what do I do? I go into
Speaker 2: the trainer's room, get a bit of the tape and
Speaker 2: I tape the camera to the truck. But you know,
Speaker 2: you've got to be resourceful.
Speaker 1: Outrank one of my biggest clangers in Frankston, I did
Speaker 1: play on from the goal scoring, got it smothered. Did
Speaker 1: have that old Heath shure about it?
Speaker 2: Were you up at the librarian like Ash Johnson had
Speaker 2: a clanger but you're sixty points up?
Speaker 1: Yeah, now we were. I think we're up by a
Speaker 1: fair bit. But fortunately for me, it wasn't a televised game,
Speaker 1: so there's no vision of that even living on and infamy.
Speaker 2: So it's just between you, your coaches, and your teammate's.
Speaker 1: And a few teammates starts Moore. It continually reminds me
Speaker 1: of it. What's your clanging, mate, my clanger? It's unfortunately
Speaker 1: on myself. Now I had the experience. And this is
Speaker 1: because we love we love this man. We've talked about
Speaker 1: it many times on this podcast, and it baffles me,
Speaker 1: absolutely baffles me. At this club has not signed this
Speaker 1: man for another contract. Ken Hickley, we love the KINNI
Speaker 1: we love the Kinny on the podcast. And you know,
Speaker 1: they were coming into Melbourne as we were leaving Melbourne, right,
Speaker 1: so we kind of cross over each other in the airport,
Speaker 1: you know, walking through the gates and I'm walking past
Speaker 1: and Kitten's walking past the other way. And we've kind
Speaker 1: of known each other over the years as they kind
Speaker 1: of recruited me from the very beginning. And I didn't
Speaker 1: go there, but Ken and I have known each other,
Speaker 1: and it's kind of like this, you know, hey, how
Speaker 1: you going, you know, what's up? You know, And we
Speaker 1: go there and he comes up with me and he
Speaker 1: goes with the and a lot of people probably experience this,
Speaker 1: you know, whenever someone like you want the handshake, but
Speaker 1: then they kind of tilt the hand up and you going, oh,
Speaker 1: we're going to dap each other up here. I didn't
Speaker 1: see it. I went for the handshake, you know, thinking,
Speaker 1: you know, he's a bit of hierarchy to me, he's
Speaker 1: a head coaching a bit of respect. Right, Ken goes, boy,
Speaker 1: dab me up? You wanted the boys, And then it
Speaker 1: became this awkward and everyone's experienced this, the old awkward
Speaker 1: handshake in between dap, and it was all my fault.
Speaker 1: I should have just and I would have had a
Speaker 1: great story coming in here and be like Yo, man
Speaker 1: Ken dapped it up over the weekend, bro. But No, Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: my dumb ass decided to try to go for the
Speaker 1: handshake and just screwed the whole thing up.
Speaker 2: That sounds worse than the Ash Johnson clang out.
Speaker 1: It is it is, And it was an embarrassing moment
Speaker 1: for me because I'm usually the DAP, but I'm like, oh, yes,
Speaker 1: I've got this.
Speaker 2: Genuinely a phobia of mine is handshake situations, not knowing
Speaker 2: where to go.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: But like from the country, I feel like everyone there
Speaker 2: has one play. It's the stock standard handshake. The only
Speaker 2: thing about it is how hard you can go. It's
Speaker 2: all about pressure. So they try to break all your fingers.
Speaker 2: I'm fine with that. That's better than you am. I
Speaker 2: dapping it up, and sometimes I force them back into
Speaker 2: like they'll come in full that mode or like the
Speaker 2: you know that Arnold Schwartz and egg of Power clap
Speaker 2: in the middle and I get a real high elbow
Speaker 2: and I come in and I fall force some fact,
Speaker 2: Tolater that's the only way. The real spanner in the
Speaker 2: works was like I was trying to figure out that
Speaker 2: would be fine if there was only those two options.
Speaker 2: But then yeah, I got mates now from the country
Speaker 2: that bring it in, give me the big hug.
Speaker 1: There's too many options.
Speaker 2: It's too many options.
Speaker 1: Well, I just want to apologize, Ken Hinckley. I will
Speaker 1: next time. We need to maybe just be on the
Speaker 1: same page. I'll come in real, go hey, dap me up,
Speaker 1: my brother, dap me out. And I'm gonna come in
Speaker 1: one of these days and be like, you know what,
Speaker 1: Ken and I because I think we play port in
Speaker 1: a few weeks, I'll go dap them up full the game.
Speaker 1: You know, I said, what's up? You don't fix this
Speaker 1: issue we got, and that's I think.
Speaker 2: You've got to come in from like ten meters away
Speaker 2: with your hand position established for the DApp or the
Speaker 2: handshake or whatever it is that would.
Speaker 1: Make me happier to get that good connection.
Speaker 2: Just that, Pop, I know what you're gonna do, because
Speaker 2: you know now he'll be thinking handshake, You'll be thinking DApp.
Speaker 2: What if you come in with the hug.
Speaker 1: The third option he's got the third option. Well, Ken,
Speaker 1: if you're listening, we're dapping it up next time. Mate.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I think you're hugging it up if I
Speaker 2: get my way.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get into this little nugget because you're saying,
Speaker 1: am I giving this right? That VFL was better than
Speaker 1: the AFL this week?
Speaker 2: Nice? The VFL is always great, but the AFL was
Speaker 2: particularly shit this week. Now, there was some great moments
Speaker 2: in the VFL. One Tipper Tip, Yeah, kicked the match
Speaker 2: when I will be at a behind. But after the
Speaker 2: siren for Essendon, very rare. Essendon win after the sign.
Speaker 1: Very rare, and you'll hear more about that soon.
Speaker 2: And then we had Collingwood going up against the Dolphins
Speaker 2: the finners as we already touched on with AJ. But
Speaker 2: your teammatee Guinea, he's always in and under just you know,
Speaker 2: he doesn't bring it on himself. This one was very interesting.
Speaker 2: It was a free kick was given to Collingwood after
Speaker 2: the fact a bloke from the Old Dolphs just caught
Speaker 2: Guinea high and then for some reason he took offense
Speaker 2: to the fact that he got Guinea high and then
Speaker 2: just started a fight, which was you know, everyone jumped
Speaker 2: in and it was an all out down there at Franger.
Speaker 1: All I can do is put myself in Guineas shoes, right, like,
Speaker 1: week on week, if he's having to play VFL, he's
Speaker 1: going to be the target, not just because he's a
Speaker 1: great player, but also because of the media attention that
Speaker 1: comes with him, right, And Guinea is one of those
Speaker 1: you know, he's a bit of a shit stir. We
Speaker 1: all know that, right, you know, maybe pricks people the
Speaker 1: wrong way, but Guinea's a good player, and him having
Speaker 1: to play in the VFL at the moment, like, it's
Speaker 1: a tough team to crack into, so he's he's having
Speaker 1: to do it. And I've I've had I've been there
Speaker 1: many and many times and it's not an easy thing
Speaker 1: to do. But it would be even more frustrating knowing
Speaker 1: that every single week of going and playing, you're going
Speaker 1: to be a target for the opposition.
Speaker 2: It would be very similar between you and him, because
Speaker 2: a lot of a lot of these VFL teams get
Speaker 2: the chance to have a swing at the big time,
Speaker 2: at the big Mason Cock's coming down to the VFL.
Speaker 2: You would have copped a lot of you know, if
Speaker 2: I been a jump, a tag and pulling, punching.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but like I'm the biggest con of the ground.
Speaker 1: Usually he's not the largest human. Like I remember whenever
Speaker 1: I played, I can't remember, it was I think pressed
Speaker 1: in last year. I was playing pressing oval and there
Speaker 1: was like six guys that were ripping me. If it
Speaker 1: was essentially adelated like I hap him, there was six hours.
Speaker 1: At one point I'd got my shirt ripped in half.
Speaker 1: I was old Brandon Main, I just chest out. I
Speaker 1: was a going ladies and then yeah, and that's just
Speaker 1: like it's one of those things whenever an NFL player
Speaker 1: that's had to go back and play in the VFL,
Speaker 1: you become a target for the opposition because you're one
Speaker 1: of the best players in the team. Therefore they're going
Speaker 1: to try to take you out. And that's what some
Speaker 1: of the getting at the moment. It's going to be
Speaker 1: frustrating put myself in issues I can imagine, and I've
Speaker 1: been there it is. But the only thing you can
Speaker 1: do is continue to play well and hopefully the opportunity
Speaker 1: comes up for you to come back into the AFL.
Speaker 2: Well, there were some highlights of him from that same game,
Speaker 2: smothering chasing, tackling pressure was great to see. One point
Speaker 2: he tackled so hard his head band came off. That's
Speaker 2: always good. You know you're really trying hard when the
Speaker 2: head band comes off. Now, I don't know how many
Speaker 2: of the Australians out there, I definitely don't know how
Speaker 2: many of the Americans out there have been watching this
Speaker 2: little game of cricket called the Ashes.
Speaker 1: Zero Americans? Is the answer to that one? The game
Speaker 1: of the Sorry, I don't know. The series of the
Speaker 1: Century for the Smallest Trophy Award.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well maybe it looks small to you, mates because
Speaker 2: you're so large, but it's one of the biggest trophies.
Speaker 1: He's saying, size doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: Size doesn't matter, Mace. That's what I based my whole
Speaker 2: life around. Well, it's been a very interesting city so far. Now,
Speaker 2: what did you see over the weekend? Because controversy was
Speaker 2: coming out of every orifice.
Speaker 1: Obviously, whenever you think of cricket, the name Mason Cox
Speaker 1: comes to your mind. Says I would love to have
Speaker 1: his dissection of the game the cos I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: you the dissection of what happened in the cricket over
Speaker 1: the weekend. Right, So, the start off this whole thing.
Speaker 1: We've got Stark, right, Stark goes catches the ball and
Speaker 1: if this is the backyard cricket game, this is any
Speaker 1: other game of cricket, right, that's a catch and it's
Speaker 1: an out. But he falls to the ground and I guess,
Speaker 1: like you know, a blade of grass touches the red ball,
Speaker 1: and all the palms are out there going, oh, excuse me,
Speaker 1: according to the rules, this does not count. And Stark
Speaker 1: and everyone else in the Australian teams I give fucked anyway, Well,
Speaker 1: karma's a bitch, right, Let's fast forward a little bit, right,
Speaker 1: So all of a sudden we've got Johnny bearst Down.
Speaker 1: I'm probably saying it wrong, Barstow, whatever the hell his
Speaker 1: name is. He's batting for England, and you know he's
Speaker 1: being a bit cheeky, right, he's leaving his crease and
Speaker 1: that's just not you know, you can get penalized for that.
Speaker 1: And he soon found out the wicket keeper Carrie for Australians, right,
Speaker 1: he sees him, he's leaving the crease, he's being a
Speaker 1: bit of a prick and he's going, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna lob this so old Barstow leaves the
Speaker 1: crease and Old Carrie lobs the ball at the wickets
Speaker 1: and he just snatches the edge of the post and
Speaker 1: the wicket falls off, and everyone almost goes silent. Is
Speaker 1: not everyone's quite sure what the hell just happened? And
Speaker 1: that is an out And based on my very extensive
Speaker 1: cricket knowledge, he can't leave the crease and if he
Speaker 1: does and the ball hits the wickets, you're out Barstow. Therefore,
Speaker 1: all of Australia cheers, all of England loses their shit.
Speaker 1: They Internet blows up. All the English are saying, you're
Speaker 1: terrible sports people. You know, you're a terrible and I
Speaker 1: can't believe you do that. That's not in the you know,
Speaker 1: that's not in the nice, nice spirit, the spirit of
Speaker 1: the game. Run all this stuff. But then if you
Speaker 1: look back, right, you look back, let's rewind a little bit.
Speaker 1: There was a moment the English tried the same shit,
Speaker 1: just their wicket keeper or their wicket keeper couldn't hit
Speaker 1: the wickets. Therefore, it's a bit rich the old palms
Speaker 1: for saying that, you know, it's not in the spirit
Speaker 1: of the game to do this. Whenever it's in the
Speaker 1: rules of the game, you know what out Trench's spirit
Speaker 1: rules that you make the old game boy.
Speaker 2: Which was very funny because all the old blocks up
Speaker 2: in the long room are the guys that rot the
Speaker 2: bloody rules match.
Speaker 1: And they were livid. Ah, the fricking MCC of the
Speaker 1: Lord z CS or whatever the LCC or the hell
Speaker 1: you call them, the Old White Dude Club, they were pissed.
Speaker 2: The folks.
Speaker 1: Huh, oh my gosh. I looked at the vision of that.
Speaker 1: There was no diversity in that room whatsoever.
Speaker 2: It was straight out of Game of Thrones, like the shame,
Speaker 2: shame shit, and they were like cheets, cheats.
Speaker 1: Cheats, all ridiculous and it was I just couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1: And it's a whole bunch of people that I'm assuming
Speaker 1: are probably named Arthur long Bottom of the Fourth or
Speaker 1: some shit like that, you know, being all upset with
Speaker 1: no hair and you know, just aging and just saggy
Speaker 1: as fuck. And the Australians are walking up the stairs
Speaker 1: and they've just got this cheeky smile on their face
Speaker 1: because they know the whole place probably hates their guts
Speaker 1: the moment for what they just did. And in their minds.
Speaker 1: They're probably going, well, you know, you kind of invented
Speaker 1: this game, so you can be mad at us, but
Speaker 1: you know we're following your rules, so get stuffed.
Speaker 2: It was just so sweet, just the nectar of you know,
Speaker 2: one day before they're saying, oh, it's not the rules,
Speaker 2: it's not the rules. Then one day later it comes
Speaker 2: back and bites them on their big old flappy ass.
Speaker 2: It was great to see they were chanting the whole time.
Speaker 2: They were chanting after the game. They were booing the
Speaker 2: players after the game and singing the same old chant,
Speaker 2: same old as he's always cheating, Yes, the same old
Speaker 2: as he's always winning. Mace two nil up in the series.
Speaker 2: I feel like we're going for a whitewash. Here, go
Speaker 2: for the big old five nil take it.
Speaker 1: Home Toosier in England. That's gotta hurt home field advantage.
Speaker 1: You've lost both both matches. Oh, that's gotta sting a
Speaker 1: little bit.
Speaker 2: Think they would be used to it though, because they
Speaker 2: suck mas they so much.
Speaker 1: Well, that's about it. As an extensive cricket knowledge that
Speaker 1: I know. Let's move into the football.
Speaker 2: Right Thursday night, Brisbane via Richmond up at the Gabba,
Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty four Brisbane put on the board,
Speaker 2: which is you know, we saw some big scores this
Speaker 2: weekend and some terrible footing. Now, Joey Danaher kicked five,
Speaker 2: five goals sho I think is this baby shirt? But
Speaker 2: Young one of his goals, Young from Richmond did his
Speaker 2: best to like save the ball going through the goal line,
Speaker 2: but unfortunately stopped the dead on the line and Joe
Speaker 2: almost like waltzed in. Yeah, he just walked up and
Speaker 2: was like, can I kick this goal? And then just
Speaker 2: sock at it straight at the heads of the cheer squad.
Speaker 1: There were some people that just sell their life flashed
Speaker 1: between their eyes or before their eyes, just like that
Speaker 1: was a hell. It wasn't just like a chip shot.
Speaker 1: He launched that thing into the cheer squad.
Speaker 2: It was very interesting. But five goals for big Joey
Speaker 2: d Richmond. You know a couple of excuses. They don't
Speaker 2: have Dusty or pressed yat two important players to their team. Now,
Speaker 2: I don't know if you have one of these players
Speaker 2: that plays with out of mouthguard. And I'm not suggesting
Speaker 2: that Charlie did. My god, you got to protect your teeth.
Speaker 2: Twenty or so seconds into the game, Charlie comes in
Speaker 2: off the line first center bounce and just smashes his
Speaker 2: face into Trent Kotchin. I'm not sure if he's still
Speaker 2: got all the teeth left inside his head, but it
Speaker 2: didn't look very good.
Speaker 1: He might just have his teeth fall out, and then
Speaker 1: he just goes down to the rooms, I think after that,
Speaker 1: and they're like, I'll just put the mouthguard back in.
Speaker 1: We'll fix this memby post game. I'm not really too sure.
Speaker 2: That freaks me out when they're just like they stick
Speaker 2: them back in. They're like, I don't know, we'll sus
Speaker 2: it later, because well, yeah, I guess what are you
Speaker 2: gonna do.
Speaker 1: There's nothing you can do. It's like, I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't even know. I can you get your teeth put
Speaker 1: back in? I'm I'm really too sure. But Brisbane does
Speaker 1: get the win and get the massive win, and they're
Speaker 1: a fortress up there. They don't lose up at the
Speaker 1: gab but I'm telling you they're a good, good team.
Speaker 1: At home.
Speaker 2: It's starting to look scary and it's a good time
Speaker 2: of the year to start ramping it up now. Unfortunate
Speaker 2: news for Richmond. Short pulled up Short with a hamstring,
Speaker 2: which you know.
Speaker 1: It's a long bombs from him soon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just a it's not looking good for like
Speaker 2: they were. They were coming off a bit of momentum
Speaker 2: and this kind of put a holt to it straight away.
Speaker 2: So it was, yeah, it wasn't a great game for them,
Speaker 2: but you know, hopefully they can come back, reset and
Speaker 2: go again. Let's jump into the next one, and I
Speaker 2: reckon this was.
Speaker 1: Your favorite, wasn't it.
Speaker 2: This was one of the worst games that I've ever
Speaker 2: witnessed with my eyeb games. It was so for the
Speaker 2: expectation coming in both teams outside the eight trying to
Speaker 2: get in. It's a Grand Final ramatch match, you know,
Speaker 2: all these things that just build it up to be
Speaker 2: what you expect as a good game, and wouldn't have
Speaker 2: been any worse. Sydney really dominated throughout the whole game,
Speaker 2: but kept glong in it just by their hutred goal kicking.
Speaker 2: It was disgusting.
Speaker 1: It was an aggressive adjective. It was the worst.
Speaker 2: I actually can't remember a time where I've seen more
Speaker 2: wasted opportunities at goal from simple places.
Speaker 1: The one I think it was the Hickey out front
Speaker 1: and he'd be replaying that in his mind a hundred
Speaker 1: times over.
Speaker 2: But there were so many so Hickey missed it. I
Speaker 2: give that a part that was at the top of
Speaker 2: the goal square. Big boys boys not great goal kicking.
Speaker 2: There was a long way from hand to foot Yep,
Speaker 2: stuff happens. Win, but they had a couple of shockers.
Speaker 2: I would say that Fox running into an open goal
Speaker 2: to win the game and he kicks it into the post.
Speaker 2: The crowd couldn't comprehend what they just saw and just
Speaker 2: went into a state of shock. They were like all
Speaker 2: up and about cheering before he even kicks it, because
Speaker 2: you can't miss mine. Nan would kick that. She's been
Speaker 2: dead for ten years, mate, Like, I don't know how
Speaker 2: you don't kick that anyway, They don't win because of
Speaker 2: stuff like that. But yeah, the whole crowd just went
Speaker 2: silent and kind of like, well, I don't think anyone
Speaker 2: deserved to win. And that was the only shining light
Speaker 2: for the rest of the competition was a draw was
Speaker 2: not good enough for either of these teams. They need wins,
Speaker 2: mats punished, so they both essentially lost to this. Now,
Speaker 2: there was a bit of a trend through the whole
Speaker 2: round that no one wanted eighth spot. Most teams that
Speaker 2: could snag a spot that eighth spot ended up losing
Speaker 2: over the weekend, and this was just another situation where
Speaker 2: teams didn't want it. There was no clutch moments, there
Speaker 2: was no clutch players, there was nothing to want in
Speaker 2: this game. There was no thing that was redeeming. There's
Speaker 2: not one redeeming feature in this entire game.
Speaker 1: She's really loved this game.
Speaker 2: Well, the problem was I sat there on the couch.
Speaker 1: You had been hy because you think and Sydney right
Speaker 1: got smashed the Grand File home game rematching on. This
Speaker 1: is their opportunity. Everything is aligning for them to have
Speaker 1: a good, good outing versus g'long. Then there's a tie,
Speaker 1: a few misses here and there, not the greatest skill
Speaker 1: execution throughout the whole game. It's like the most anticlimactical
Speaker 1: thing ever.
Speaker 2: You spend three hours sitting on the couch with no
Speaker 2: memorable moments, and then at the very end, no one
Speaker 2: kicks a match winner. They kick a behind to draw
Speaker 2: the game. So there's not one moment out of the
Speaker 2: game that you get to take away and go like geez.
Speaker 2: It was a well executed, exciting game with moments throughout.
Speaker 2: It just happened to end in a draw. It sucked
Speaker 2: from start to finish and ended with no redeeming feature
Speaker 2: at all.
Speaker 1: Well, I've got a way to fix this, Brandon. So
Speaker 1: I think we take out the tie. I think we
Speaker 1: just play pig with three players, play pig, and whoever
Speaker 1: wins the pig game wins the game. You've got to
Speaker 1: get your sharp shooters in front of goal. You pick
Speaker 1: it out. It's kind of like a pillow shootout in
Speaker 1: football or soccer, whatever the hell you got it. It's
Speaker 1: like that for gold AFL. No more draws.
Speaker 2: You know, sometimes you go like, well, neither team like
Speaker 2: deserve to lose. There's there's draws like that. There's draws
Speaker 2: like this where both teams deserve to lose. But yeah,
Speaker 2: maybe a bit of excitement. I like the idea of,
Speaker 2: you know, putting three on three in the goal square
Speaker 2: and it's like a sumo match. You gotta like push
Speaker 2: push people out, and whoever's left that's that's the winner.
Speaker 1: Who's your best person at sumer match? In the AFL?
Speaker 3: Then well you gotta put your big boys in Tom Hawkins, Tommy, Yes, Tom.
Speaker 2: Does it in the Rucks all day.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I think someone else would be Oh, Shane
Speaker 1: Mumford would have been impossible back in the day.
Speaker 2: Big boy, who are you nominating? Who's your three? I'd
Speaker 2: probably go Maynard Checks?
Speaker 1: Is that quin Bank to be real good? I feel
Speaker 1: like absolutely, you really get you. He's so quick, you
Speaker 1: just like you have some move that's just like some
Speaker 1: ridiculous move to throw you on your back.
Speaker 2: And he doesn't lose one on one. So if it
Speaker 2: came down to him, be someone, he's gonna win it.
Speaker 1: AFL take note sumer wrestle and the square, last last
Speaker 1: one standing. That's how you fix the tie.
Speaker 2: Now let's head over to what we all knew was
Speaker 2: going to be a blood bath. Adelaide v. North at
Speaker 2: Adelaide not an easy task by any stretch. North turned up.
Speaker 2: They were in it for the first probably half of
Speaker 2: the game, which.
Speaker 1: Is I continually happens.
Speaker 2: I think that's enough. If I was a North supporter,
Speaker 2: you take out little wins, you see what your players
Speaker 2: are doing looking for the young guys coming through, and
Speaker 2: you take a solid half of footy against Adelaide at
Speaker 2: Adelaide Oval.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Adelaide Adelaide Oval is a team like I said
Speaker 1: this before. Adelaide's going to make it into the eight,
Speaker 1: I think. And for them to be playing at home,
Speaker 1: they're playing on that deck so well so North Melbourne
Speaker 1: to be even in the game at halftime. They continually
Speaker 1: show up week after week. Yess, they might have beginning
Speaker 1: the wins on the board, but they are showing their
Speaker 1: supporters they actually care no matter how you know, no
Speaker 1: matter what the odds are against them, as far as
Speaker 1: the betting odds, they continually are there showing up saying
Speaker 1: we're not going to go down without a fight.
Speaker 2: And I think Clarko looks like he's going to start
Speaker 2: transitioning back into coaching, which is great exciting for them.
Speaker 2: Now Rankin kicked five. I don't know what we gotta
Speaker 2: oh the ranking file. They always go with the ranking
Speaker 2: fire good, but yeah, he kicked five. Text still on
Speaker 2: top of the Coleman after kicking three, you probably wouldn't
Speaker 2: be happy with three.
Speaker 1: I reckon tax is going to win the Colman this year.
Speaker 1: He took someone's free kick. Did you see this? He
Speaker 1: took someone's free kick from like the fifty meter on
Speaker 1: the boundary essentially and then just like ran like five
Speaker 1: ten meters and kicked one from like the corner. I
Speaker 1: was like, this man's a freak.
Speaker 2: Now, one interesting stat that came out of the game.
Speaker 2: I saw this on Reddit Ben McKay, which is this
Speaker 2: is kind of brutal. I feel bad in many ways,
Speaker 2: but Ben McKay, he's played for seven years, sixty three games.
Speaker 2: He's he's had seven wins.
Speaker 3: Seven total, one win a year. Yeah, Oh that is
Speaker 3: so rough. He's currently on zero for this year.
Speaker 2: Oh and he's had another year where he was on
Speaker 2: zero sixty three games. So you started in twenty sixteen. Yeah,
Speaker 2: him twenty seventeen. So imagine only winning.
Speaker 1: Hey, it's a credit to his adversity. Say that that's resilient.
Speaker 1: That's resilience. One on one.
Speaker 2: So prayers up for Ben McCay. Hopefully.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna win by the end of the year.
Speaker 1: For sure, at least one.
Speaker 2: They're playing good games. They've just been so unlucky on
Speaker 2: a few situations and then you know, coming up against
Speaker 2: some tougher ponus.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about lettering on the podcast. What West Coast
Speaker 1: almost did to Saint Kilda. I mean, I'm telling you
Speaker 1: one of those experiences they get the.
Speaker 2: Dub there's a lot of almost though with these with
Speaker 2: a couple of these teams. So Western Bulldogs v. Freo
Speaker 2: another one where Freo unfortunately couldn't get it done for
Speaker 2: that eighth spot. But the Bulldogs look in the bloody
Speaker 2: at the moment.
Speaker 1: They're a very good team. We're playing them this weekend
Speaker 1: on Friday Night Thriller. We're back on the Friday nights.
Speaker 1: They fuck, it's canna get stuffed and it's going to
Speaker 1: be a really interesting game. They're they're on a bit
Speaker 1: of a hot streak at the moment and they're a
Speaker 1: very very good team.
Speaker 2: Well, one player in particular that you need to look
Speaker 2: out for is Jamara hugil Hagen because he's arrived. He's here.
Speaker 2: He was massive in this game. Four goals, four massive
Speaker 2: contested marks, big hangars, and then eight score involvements. So
Speaker 2: he's doing it all around the joint. It's good to
Speaker 2: see him really start to flourish because we all knew
Speaker 2: that he could be this dangerous player, like through his
Speaker 2: younger ages, showed a lot of promise and now it's
Speaker 2: all starting to click.
Speaker 1: He had so much pressure on I feel like in
Speaker 1: the first few years that that maybe they got to mental.
Speaker 1: I'm not really too sure, but like I feel like
Speaker 1: we over hyped Jamara at the very beginning, and it's like,
Speaker 1: let him just play, let him just settle himself in
Speaker 1: the AFL, let him like get into it. Now he's
Speaker 1: really hitting the straps.
Speaker 2: It's the curse of the tall forward that everyone loves
Speaker 2: the tall forward, they love the big key. They want
Speaker 2: to see him succeed, and they rip apart game. So
Speaker 2: that's why they get paid the big dollars. So they
Speaker 2: come in with.
Speaker 1: Get paid, not you. Okay, I was like, what I've
Speaker 1: can screwed here?
Speaker 2: Big key Ford. It's not tall key forward, big key forward.
Speaker 2: But no, they always come in with tons of pressure.
Speaker 2: We had Travis Kloak earlier on the podcast You have
Speaker 2: a great chat talk about pressure. He had it week
Speaker 2: in week out. All of these guys, Buddy would have
Speaker 2: had tons of pressure early draft pick coming through that.
Speaker 2: But then there always seems to be a moment where
Speaker 2: it clicks for him and then they just rip apart
Speaker 2: the competition.
Speaker 1: Absolutely skys element well. Another person that kicked four on
Speaker 1: the game was Walters. That man tithing a hell of
Speaker 1: a year.
Speaker 2: There was always the knock that he kind of focused
Speaker 2: on free kicks and stuff like that, where I've been
Speaker 2: watching a fair few Frio games lately and for the
Speaker 2: most part, he's got that out of his game and
Speaker 2: now he's just gone back to he was. He was
Speaker 2: winning games off his own boot like a few years ago,
Speaker 2: and we all knew that he could do it. And
Speaker 2: it's good to see that form is coming back well
Speaker 2: and truly because he took this game by the scruff
Speaker 2: of the neck for a small period of time for Freo,
Speaker 2: kicked two goals back to back to get them right
Speaker 2: in it before they drifted out of the game. But
Speaker 2: you know, he can only do so much.
Speaker 1: He's pawn his weight, There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 2: They're always rippers. To now ex teammate of yours, Caleb Poulters,
Speaker 2: the man himself.
Speaker 1: Man well, he loves a TikTok video.
Speaker 2: Of course. He went to the Bulldogs. They love a
Speaker 2: mullet over there, and he played his first game after
Speaker 2: being picked up in the mid season draft by.
Speaker 1: The Bulldogs very quickly playing games yeah.
Speaker 2: Straight in And I feel like that's what these mid
Speaker 2: season picks do. They get picked up for a very
Speaker 2: specific purpose and they slot straight in. Did you see
Speaker 2: any of this game? See Polter run around there setting
Speaker 2: up a couple of goals.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was good to see him back out there.
Speaker 1: He's he lived with Jack Chris for a long time
Speaker 1: and I think he's only recently moved out him and
Speaker 1: his missus. And Paul's is a bit of a quiet
Speaker 1: but hilarious guy. Like he puts some some absolute pearlers,
Speaker 1: I think, as you say, on the social media, and
Speaker 1: he was the butt of some jokes, let's just say,
Speaker 1: and some team meetings throughout last year. But no, he's
Speaker 1: a really good, really good kid, really good fella, and
Speaker 1: it's great to see him get the opportunity at the
Speaker 1: Dogs and be able to have a resurrection of his career.
Speaker 1: Like it's it's one of those things you see so
Speaker 1: many players get like pushed out of the system, and
Speaker 1: then it's great to have this mid season draft to
Speaker 1: be able to give another opportunity for these players who
Speaker 1: you know are talented but maybe just didn't fit within
Speaker 1: the system and there's too many players within their role
Speaker 1: at that team and they got pushed out that you know,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, they were all opens up at
Speaker 1: another team and they're able to get in.
Speaker 2: Keep your eyes peeled because he is starting a clothing
Speaker 2: label with your of course, teammate, Bo McCreary.
Speaker 1: Is he wow words with you tomorrow.
Speaker 2: I gotta get some free hoodies or something now. One
Speaker 2: of your favorite players in the entire competition. Nat Fife
Speaker 2: unfortunately subbed out of the game injured again, the same
Speaker 2: foot problem that he had earlier in the season that's
Speaker 2: been keeping him out and not letting him get back
Speaker 2: to his best this year. I just wanted to see
Speaker 2: him get a good run out.
Speaker 1: Everyone wants see him like actually just dominate again. He's
Speaker 1: a freak athlete and he shows he showed over the
Speaker 1: last few games. I feel like he's showing like a
Speaker 1: lot of these opportunities where we can do some pretty
Speaker 1: crazy stuff, but his body's just kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: given up on him at times. It would be the
Speaker 1: most frustrating thing as a player. It is like you
Speaker 1: mentally want to do something that your body doesn't allow
Speaker 1: you to and that's kind of where he's at. But
Speaker 1: another person that played really well, and we said we'd
Speaker 1: call these people plumbers, right, You get fifty taps in
Speaker 1: a game as a ruckman, you're a plumber. So Plumber
Speaker 1: of the week goes to Sean Darcy, the big foul.
Speaker 1: He's back from the hamstring injury a few weeks in
Speaker 1: the game. He's gone, boys, I've taken over the middle.
Speaker 1: Fifty taps. You boys are plumber this week.
Speaker 2: It's so good to see the big year and it's
Speaker 2: getting around there and you know contract talks coming up.
Speaker 2: So he starts to play well as you all do
Speaker 2: as you do magically. Let's jump into the Essendon Port game.
Speaker 2: Game of the week now the Yeah, I would have
Speaker 2: to say this is game of the week seventy four
Speaker 2: seventy eight Port's way win after the siren. Dan Houston
Speaker 2: thirty two touches and the game winner. Now this was
Speaker 2: more impressive for multiple reasons. Essenmon with the dump kick
Speaker 2: outside of defensive fifty got to cover that dropped into
Speaker 2: Houston's arms right on the fifty arc. Yeah, utmost confidence
Speaker 2: in his ability.
Speaker 1: If that was me, Oh, I'd be looking for the handballer.
Speaker 1: I'll be looking everywhere. I'll be looking everywhere but the goal.
Speaker 1: There's no chance of kicking that vomb from fifty quick
Speaker 1: just was like Doc didn't even look for the options.
Speaker 1: He was like, nah, I got this. Don't worry boys,
Speaker 1: let me settle the game.
Speaker 2: The only thing is he's got to know that there's
Speaker 2: forty four blokes or whatever standing inside forward fifty. The
Speaker 2: whole thing was, you know, clogged right up. I think
Speaker 2: also this.
Speaker 1: Also it was wet, so this ball is probably twenty
Speaker 1: kilos also, and he still has a confidence go, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm about to launch us thing sixty meters.
Speaker 2: And for all those that have ever played local footy
Speaker 2: out there, it's like kicking a bloody rock. So he's
Speaker 2: gone back. Didn't even look around, just took it back
Speaker 2: in his swagger. One of the moment cuts to the bench,
Speaker 2: our boy Kenny Hinckley, big beam and smile on his face.
Speaker 1: He was ready. I think he knew. He's like Dan
Speaker 1: Houston's gut there we got the dub.
Speaker 2: Well, he bloody knew that he was a chance because
Speaker 2: he's a cannon of a kick, goes back, kicks it long,
Speaker 2: everyone groups up on the line and it gets touched
Speaker 2: over the line goal for Port Adelaide. They win the match.
Speaker 2: One you know unsung hero out of all this, well,
Speaker 2: he actually he's been you know, his praises have been
Speaker 2: sung quite earlier this week. The goal umpire on the
Speaker 2: line hilarious. He's getting crunched by about you know, there'd.
Speaker 1: Be twenty like twenty just all on top of.
Speaker 2: Them, and he's like kind of shoving some out of
Speaker 2: the way and he's like he doesn't want to miss it. He's,
Speaker 2: you know, employee of the month, Materias of the mind.
Speaker 2: It's just like he's got his The best part is
Speaker 2: the gold camera still shows him in mint like position.
Speaker 2: He's just like.
Speaker 3: Prime vision to the ball too, just on the line,
Speaker 3: pick the gap in the in the pack and sees
Speaker 3: it goo across the line.
Speaker 2: They always call for these things.
Speaker 1: They go to you have to and it was only
Speaker 1: like a foot over the line. So you talk about
Speaker 1: how close it is and just that one little foot
Speaker 1: maybe you know, maybe fumbles it and go back whatever
Speaker 1: it is, like he was right on his limit.
Speaker 2: The fact that like Houston went back and just put
Speaker 2: a hundred percent into it. Because we saw one earlier
Speaker 2: this year Sydney was it Sydney Geelong or whatever when
Speaker 2: it was dropped, No, it was a Sydney Port again
Speaker 2: drop short on the line. Yeah, oh man, So Sidney
Speaker 2: Port and didn't really quite kick through. It only went
Speaker 2: thirty meters drop short, didn't make the distance. Houston wasn't
Speaker 2: having that problem. He goes back, kicks right through it,
Speaker 2: launches himself off the ground and skyrockets the ball fifty
Speaker 2: one meters gets across the line. What a great win
Speaker 2: for the Port Adelaide Football Club. Kenny Jigger Joy.
Speaker 1: Jigger Joy. It was so good seeing it was hyped again.
Speaker 1: It was hyped again.
Speaker 2: It was back up and about Kenny Hinkley turns around.
Speaker 2: He always tries to pump the crowd up. Can't get up.
Speaker 2: I think that's what he's actually trying to look at
Speaker 2: the camera and he's saying, a Koshi, you know, get
Speaker 2: those numbers up, get those numbers.
Speaker 1: Another year on the contract. No, there's Kenny Hickley. I
Speaker 1: think is enjoying his football more than I've ever seen
Speaker 1: him enjoy it.
Speaker 2: Well, it helps when you win, of.
Speaker 1: Course, but I mean, like I think, is I feel
Speaker 1: like whenever I see him out there, he just he
Speaker 1: has so much more of a smile on his face
Speaker 1: than I've seen in previous years, and it just I
Speaker 1: love it. You know, he's this little fellaw just just
Speaker 1: grinds it over there in Adelaide for Port Adelaide, and
Speaker 1: he's getting success finally now and he just seems like
Speaker 1: he's really enjoying the moment.
Speaker 2: Just got a bit of weight off his shoulders. It
Speaker 2: must be good. I feel so good for Kenny. It's
Speaker 2: so good to see. Now. Another thing that I saw
Speaker 2: and read it.
Speaker 1: It's a Reddit pod for you just you know, didn't
Speaker 1: do it this week now.
Speaker 2: Essenon not a very good history of having goals kicked
Speaker 2: against them after the siren now in recent times. Oh,
Speaker 2: Gary Rowan took a mark goal, square kicked the goal.
Speaker 2: Not great, Jamie Allen, Great for your teammate. He goes
Speaker 2: back kicks a goal after syn clutch us in his veins. Now,
Speaker 2: Houston after the siren goes back kicks the goal, wins
Speaker 2: the game. Essendon, on the other hand, don't really do
Speaker 2: that to many other teams. Now. The last time that
Speaker 2: Essendon kicked a goal after the siren to win the
Speaker 2: game was back in nineteen thirteen. What round sixteen?
Speaker 1: This is still? Don't you know how they have these stats?
Speaker 2: Still one of your favorite players, Jimmy Gordon, Oh, Jimmy
Speaker 2: boy against one of your favorite teams. University, University, What university.
Speaker 1: There's only one in Australia at that point, just call
Speaker 1: it university.
Speaker 2: One hundred and ten seasons ago.
Speaker 1: That's a long drought. That is a very very long drought.
Speaker 1: And I think I'm pretty confident in saying this without
Speaker 1: going on right and looking this up. That might be
Speaker 1: the only time they've won it after the siren. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well you say that we're not known for our facts,
Speaker 2: but yeah, I just thought that was a very interesting
Speaker 2: little statu.
Speaker 1: It's a great little statu. Well done. We'll moving to
Speaker 1: the next game. We got Hawthorne versus Carlton. Now Carlton
Speaker 1: smashed them. Carleton's back since the bye week.
Speaker 2: They haven't lost for three weeks in our own Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's great to see a win. You
Speaker 2: know what you don't want to see is this overhype
Speaker 2: because it just gets them back into the same situation.
Speaker 1: George, I'm not sure that the.
Speaker 2: Carleton fans are buying into it though, but if you
Speaker 2: listen to the commentators yesterday, they just beat the reigning
Speaker 2: premiers and they're going back to back to back.
Speaker 1: They just needed some love. Okay, two wins.
Speaker 2: In a row. Good, you beat Hawthorne, Great, but like,
Speaker 2: what does it actually mean? We can only wait to
Speaker 2: see if they can bring that pressure. That pressure was insane.
Speaker 2: They brought the pressure Hawthorne couldn't do anything, which is
Speaker 2: awesome to see. But now we just wait to see
Speaker 2: if they do it to a team that sits in
Speaker 2: the eight because they haven't done.
Speaker 1: It well, Tom will tell I think literally Carlton's biggest
Speaker 1: issue I they can do their confidence back.
Speaker 2: They can beat anyone, So maybe they get their confidence
Speaker 2: back coming off to maybe.
Speaker 1: They maybe they three weeks without a loss.
Speaker 2: Maybe they sat down and had those beers after the
Speaker 2: Gold Coast win that we were saying that maybe that's
Speaker 2: a good idea around.
Speaker 1: A few beers turned turning around.
Speaker 2: Charlie subbed out just as a bit, you know, a
Speaker 2: bit of a tactical sub rest up the big boy
Speaker 2: him and Harry.
Speaker 1: And to go into the Coleman race. We need to
Speaker 1: make this interesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, that's I was get me.
Speaker 1: Subbing them out. I mean, like Jazz is out for
Speaker 1: two weeks because of a concussion, you know, essentially texting Charlie,
Speaker 1: we need to have a bit of competition.
Speaker 2: They text might just run away with it. If they
Speaker 2: they might, they don't take him off. The old boy.
Speaker 2: Well they did rest him for that beller Rap game
Speaker 2: that was constantly that I bring up every other week.
Speaker 2: Let's go up to t Io Stadium, which we all
Speaker 2: know Alice springs up there in the Northern Territory Territory Melbourne, VGWS.
Speaker 2: This was not fantastic, but as a reason, yes, it
Speaker 2: was pissing rain.
Speaker 1: Pissing rain in the desert. Probably the one day of
Speaker 1: the year it rains in the desert. It happens to
Speaker 1: be whenever they was.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't you just be so pissed off you finally go,
Speaker 2: you market in the calendar, when you one of these
Speaker 2: teams go and finally get up, get some rays, you know,
Speaker 2: and get some sun. Heading into the depths of winter,
Speaker 2: it'll be great. Well they go up there, it's eight
Speaker 2: degrees pouring rain. Didn't help the game of football. Forty
Speaker 2: five to forty seven. GWS's way low scoring affair. Melbourne
Speaker 2: extremely inaccurate. Don't blame them, GWS. Is probably more to
Speaker 2: the fact we're quite accurate, which is impressive given the conditions. Now,
Speaker 2: Josh Kelly, the smooth operator that he is kick the
Speaker 2: match winner probably, I'd say on the run from sixty
Speaker 2: sixty five. It was a long bomb and it only
Speaker 2: dropped like a meter short, but impressive goal to win
Speaker 2: the game for GWS. And I've been saying it for
Speaker 2: pretty much the entire season mass and I'm just gonna
Speaker 2: hold on to that.
Speaker 1: Make the top eight, you're going to be sitting there
Speaker 1: going I told yourself to everyone out there, are gonna
Speaker 1: be like I told you so.
Speaker 2: Don't sleep on the Giants because as they're competitive now,
Speaker 2: they're not the Ferrari They've always been there like a
Speaker 2: They're like a jeep or a tank or something something with.
Speaker 1: A real trustworthy it breaks down like.
Speaker 2: The high Lucks. They're just durable, reliable, dependable. They're the
Speaker 2: high lux of the competition now and unfortunately, really bad
Speaker 2: news for Melbourne, who you know, they've already had Oliver
Speaker 2: out for a number of weeks which has been very
Speaker 2: costly to them. Now Frich Bailey Fridge injured going up
Speaker 2: in a marketing contest and had like an ankle tweak
Speaker 2: which didn't look good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a nasci little injury and that's it's
Speaker 1: one of the players it's going to be pretty important
Speaker 1: going into the back end of the season. So we'll
Speaker 1: see and wait until scans everything else see how long
Speaker 1: it's going to be. But not a good sign for its.
Speaker 2: West Coast Saint Kilda OPTAs Stadium. I don't know. I
Speaker 2: thought it was going to probably, you know, continue on
Speaker 2: the trend, West Coast imploding on itself, all the media
Speaker 2: kind of coming in on them, and you know, Perth itself,
Speaker 2: the bubble, the dome over there, the little Cave, the
Speaker 2: other inter national national football club that you call it
Speaker 2: over there. I thought this was going to be much
Speaker 2: the same. But West Coast Eagles were incredibly competitive.
Speaker 1: They were in the North Malbourne of this week.
Speaker 2: They just dropped the match to Saint Kilda seventy seven
Speaker 2: to eighty five. Saints with an all mighty scare.
Speaker 1: I mean, like West Coast Eagles at home. I mean
Speaker 1: they had a run on ice we played them, so
Speaker 1: they don't get me wrong, injuries aside and everything else, right, Like,
Speaker 1: that's been the hell of an experience for them this year.
Speaker 1: But whenever they play home they are always a chance.
Speaker 2: It was still a pretty tight tussle all the way
Speaker 2: through to the end. West Coast fans really appreciating it.
Speaker 2: At the end of the first it was pretty much
Speaker 2: a standing ovation for just how competitive they were up
Speaker 2: until that point, which is great to see good fans
Speaker 2: over there, maybe not for the away team, but good
Speaker 2: fans for the home team.
Speaker 1: I'll say West Coast s Eagules are one of the
Speaker 1: most passionate fan bases. I'm not going to say who's
Speaker 1: the top five, but West Coast Eagles are definitely within
Speaker 1: the top two top five. No chance there's gonna be
Speaker 1: some people cancel on me.
Speaker 2: Saint Kilda's only really going to grow for here. They
Speaker 2: got that youth through. They're not relying on a whole
Speaker 2: bunch of old talent. So it's it's exciting times for
Speaker 2: Saint Kilda. I for one, at the start of the
Speaker 2: year did not see this coming. I thought grim times
Speaker 2: ahead for Saint Kilda in a full blown rebuild. But
Speaker 2: still well and truly sitting inside the eighth to see.
Speaker 1: Your man, your man, mister gad Ray Bottle Rossy or Rossy.
Speaker 1: He's been sick and there's vision of him after the game,
Speaker 1: just coming out of the box, coughing up all he's
Speaker 1: still struggling.
Speaker 2: I feel like as strategic at this point where he's like,
Speaker 2: I don't want to get it up near these fans.
Speaker 2: I'm just going to.
Speaker 1: He's still dodging the media. It's his excuse. I'll be
Speaker 1: doing the same thing.
Speaker 2: But I realized it was a good tactic last week,
Speaker 2: and he's like, I can avoid everyone if I just cough.
Speaker 1: Just keep coughing.
Speaker 2: All right now. The game everyone wants to talk about
Speaker 2: because the big Mace Dog was playing gold Coast Verse Collingwood,
Speaker 2: a bit of a smashing started, just blow them out
Speaker 2: of the water. It was. It was not good. I
Speaker 2: think it was probably most of the way through the
Speaker 2: second quarter I'm going to say before Gold Coast actually
Speaker 2: kicked the goal put it on the board.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I remember one point during the game I looked
Speaker 1: up and credit to our defense. It was like ten points.
Speaker 1: I know this is the second or the third quarter,
Speaker 1: but I just remember looking up and be like, holy smokes,
Speaker 1: like we've shut down there Ford line.
Speaker 2: It was pretty crazy to see, and they've got a
Speaker 2: pretty potent forward line at times, so very impressive by
Speaker 2: your back line. Jamie House streaming out of theirs, just
Speaker 2: looking good week after week. The game was a sellout.
Speaker 2: How was the crowd up there? That's what I was
Speaker 2: interested tonight.
Speaker 1: It was good. The big question was whether out they
Speaker 1: were going to break the record. Unfortunately they didn't. I
Speaker 1: think they're out by about a thousand fans. But it
Speaker 1: was an awesome experience because even away it feels like
Speaker 1: home game.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I feel like it's a lot of the
Speaker 2: Collingwood fans going for I just need some sun.
Speaker 1: Man. It was like the first or second quarter they
Speaker 1: were doing the Collingwood chant already.
Speaker 2: You had some moments in this game. You came up
Speaker 2: against your old teammate Jared Witz going on to be,
Speaker 2: you know, dominant force of the Gold Coast Sons captain.
Speaker 2: So very good to see. How was the battle with
Speaker 2: Big Win.
Speaker 1: It's always he's one of the best players, and he
Speaker 1: really provides them first access in the middle, and you
Speaker 1: got rally in there, eating the grass and getting down
Speaker 1: to the ball and you know, getting the ball forward
Speaker 1: for him. And he kicked two on the day I
Speaker 1: think it was, and back to back to kind of
Speaker 1: get them back in their momentum and gain a bit
Speaker 1: of school board pressure. But the Witch is one of
Speaker 1: those players. He's one of the dominant rockman of the league.
Speaker 1: He was a person I think myself and Darcy Cameron
Speaker 1: know going up against him it was going to be
Speaker 1: a tough day. And there's a credit to Wits. He's
Speaker 1: a of a player what he's done up there for
Speaker 1: the Gold Coast signs now being a captain and being
Speaker 1: there probably the person that you look at that's the
Speaker 1: most consistent in their team outside I think that's pretty
Speaker 1: easy to say that. He's just been really good. And yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a credit to him. He played really well
Speaker 1: over the weekend and for us it was a challenge.
Speaker 2: Now you owe someone an apology, was that Taylor Adams?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I do, because Taylor Adams went back, had a set
Speaker 2: shut and he was going to kick that goal.
Speaker 1: He did.
Speaker 2: Actually he celebrated it, well, did he because it got
Speaker 2: taken off him because someone gave away a free kicking
Speaker 2: the goal square Mason all that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So all the thing is I laid up.
Speaker 1: He looked me off. I wasn't too happy with that,
Speaker 1: so I went back to the golf square and in
Speaker 1: my you know, angry phase of the game, I might
Speaker 1: have thrown one of their players and the umpire didn't
Speaker 1: like it, which I thought was interesting because I'm wondering
Speaker 1: if this is because I'm just a big man and
Speaker 1: whenever you kind of like shove someone, it's like too
Speaker 1: much of a shop. I mean, like, what's too much
Speaker 1: of a shop? He needs to shove off someone that
Speaker 1: come with the ball.
Speaker 2: So I would argue you threw Mac Andrews to the ground.
Speaker 1: Yeap, right, that's probably truth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I get the points. His skinny lad hasn't
Speaker 2: really filled out. Jared Witz not a free kick, Yeah,
Speaker 2: well that's what I think. The umpire just looks at Wits.
Speaker 2: He goes, mate, you're a big boy. You know.
Speaker 1: They didn't have to Wits in the game. But if
Speaker 1: it was him, I feel like it'd be a different determination.
Speaker 2: Hey, I would like to see you try to throw
Speaker 2: Joe Nowitz to the ground. He's a big, big, solid unit.
Speaker 2: Now you had your moment back a little bit not
Speaker 2: too long after.
Speaker 1: Joe Wits holding love call. Don't get those very often,
Speaker 1: so I'm pretty had with that, right, pretty much on
Speaker 1: the goal square kick the goal, yeah, and there's certain players, right,
Speaker 1: I'll talk a bit of trash, don't get me wrong. Right,
Speaker 1: and after I kick the goal, sometimes to get into
Speaker 1: people's ears. But because I'm kind of like mates with
Speaker 1: Jared Wood would be like the same as like kicking
Speaker 1: and goal against Brodie Grundy, Right, I might try to
Speaker 1: get in his head, but like he knows as well
Speaker 1: as I do that it's part of the game plan
Speaker 1: and we're kind of mates at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of a bit of a laugh. Right.
Speaker 1: It's a free kick, so it's not like I outmarked
Speaker 1: him or anything like that. It was just kind of
Speaker 1: a call from the umpire, So it's not like you
Speaker 1: technically like showed them up by means, so after you
Speaker 1: kick it, you know what up And I was just like,
Speaker 1: I can't remember what I said to be honest, just yeah,
Speaker 1: tough shit, brother.
Speaker 2: I think the most disrespectful thing you can do on
Speaker 2: a football field is pat someone on the head. And
Speaker 2: they showed the replay you gave him a pat on
Speaker 2: the head, a little ruffle of the feathers.
Speaker 1: Up, sound like a little hug, and then like behind
Speaker 1: the you know, just a tap on the back of
Speaker 1: the head.
Speaker 2: I reckon. It's the physical equivalent of champing someone, wow,
Speaker 2: rubbing their hair.
Speaker 1: I didn't rub his head, Charlotte not.
Speaker 2: I don't know you were there.
Speaker 1: I can't remember.
Speaker 2: We'll have to go back. We'll have to check yours.
Speaker 2: I think you patted him on the head. But we'll
Speaker 2: move into Jamie Elliott's goal, which was incredible to say, freak.
Speaker 2: It looks like he's got a one on one streaming
Speaker 2: towards the goals, loses his opponent, looks like it's going
Speaker 2: to go through. Yeah, he taps it back to the
Speaker 2: IQ and then sockers it through.
Speaker 1: I think it's kind of those things where you realize
Speaker 1: it's going out right and like a lot of bigs
Speaker 1: do this on the line, right, So you try to
Speaker 1: keep the ball in if it's not going to go
Speaker 1: if it was going to go through the point right,
Speaker 1: So as a defender you try to punch it through
Speaker 1: the goals. As off like offensive player, you try to
Speaker 1: keep it in play. So it's kind of almost like that.
Speaker 1: But the ball's running towards the line and he's going
Speaker 1: either we take the behind or I give us an opportunity.
Speaker 1: Maybe one of my players is behind me, they can
Speaker 1: kick the goal. So he's running there and then as
Speaker 1: soon as the ball gets almost like dead on the line.
Speaker 1: He is able to get a hand to it and
Speaker 1: pull it back in and then like loops around the
Speaker 1: goalpost to come back to kick it again. And it
Speaker 1: was cool. It was cool on the day seeing and
Speaker 1: I was just like, oh, you can do that. Okay,
Speaker 1: that does make sense. Like he was like, well, I
Speaker 1: think he sucked about earlier. It was like he had
Speaker 1: gone down to pick up the ball thinking he could
Speaker 1: like get the time and then you know, be able
Speaker 1: to pick it up and kick it. Then halfway down
Speaker 1: he realized that guy was about to just smash him,
Speaker 1: so he just kicked it off the ground ended up
Speaker 1: kicking the goal.
Speaker 2: It was such a good he couldn't have had a
Speaker 2: better tap. It rolled perfectly back around to the girls. Now,
Speaker 2: why didn't you think of this when you were against
Speaker 2: Harry Taylor.
Speaker 1: That's a great question. I was maybe only a year
Speaker 1: into my career, and you know, I will say this,
Speaker 1: there's only one thing you can make this call better,
Speaker 1: and I think it's a back heel by Jamie Elott.
Speaker 1: I think he should have done that. I reckon a little.
Speaker 1: You Knowail Ronaldo back heel would have made it even better.
Speaker 2: So you go give him that tip and one of your.
Speaker 1: Five goals, the bag he kicked on the weekend, or
Speaker 1: billy bit of that. Here's a bit of how you
Speaker 1: can make it better.
Speaker 2: Roffle him on the head.
Speaker 1: No, he would whoop my ass probably.
Speaker 2: Now there was a little bit of a myth that
Speaker 2: there was. I missed it. I was pissed. I was
Speaker 2: on the ground, I missed it. It was a weird one.
Speaker 2: They showed this like pixelated behind the goals two hundred
Speaker 2: meters away. Thing kind of looks like Tom Mitchell knocked
Speaker 2: Anderson's mouthguard, maybe out of his hand or something, and
Speaker 2: then Anderson just flipped his lid. I think probably because
Speaker 2: you're getting flogged at this stage, so you.
Speaker 1: Need to I mean, I was like, you know, you
Speaker 1: need to get a bit of energy in it, you know.
Speaker 2: And he had a great game. Anderson had an absolute
Speaker 2: re blinding it, so you know, maybe you just got
Speaker 2: to let out some aggression.
Speaker 1: But I was pretty upset because essentially happened in this
Speaker 1: moment was I was the other side of the ground
Speaker 1: and Bobby I'm watching him and he just the ball
Speaker 1: goes one bomb bomb and then it's like over the
Speaker 1: back and Bobby I'm just like screaming. I'm like, just sprint.
Speaker 1: There's no one in the league that's going to be
Speaker 1: able to catch you. Just sprint straight. So he's just
Speaker 1: dead set going and I'm like behind him trying to
Speaker 1: keep up, which just means that I'm essentially losing ten
Speaker 1: meters per second that he's running. And I get to
Speaker 1: the point where he kicks the goal and I go
Speaker 1: to celebrate with him. This is like, it probably takes
Speaker 1: me five seconds and I was probably even with Himmember.
Speaker 1: We started this race and I turned around. There's this
Speaker 1: huge beef in the middle of the ground. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is my moment. And I was like Braidon manor
Speaker 1: the other week, like do I go Doko? Do I
Speaker 1: go Doco? Took about three steps towards it, and then
Speaker 1: everyone kind of dissipated.
Speaker 2: I was like, come on, man, and that's what I
Speaker 2: was looking for. So I thought, you know, Tay Adams
Speaker 2: was in there. I was like, oh, that's good. I
Speaker 2: love that its Braidon Man. And then I was like
Speaker 2: kind of flat. I was like, oh, Brus isn't there.
Speaker 2: You know, As the pack disperses, I realized that he's
Speaker 2: in and under like the bottom. I don't know how
Speaker 2: he got there so quick, but he was like one
Speaker 2: of the establishing pack of the of the little brawl
Speaker 2: that they had going on, which is again he's always
Speaker 2: in and under now. Oleg markov Lady, one of the
Speaker 2: new Collingwood teammates, playing against his old side Gold Coast,
Speaker 2: kicked his first goal for the Buyers against his old club.
Speaker 1: That would have felt good. It was from fifty two.
Speaker 1: It wasn't an easy goal. He's so it doesn't happen
Speaker 1: very often. And him, John Noble and who else, Billy
Speaker 1: Frampton all kicked goals on the day, which are not
Speaker 1: people that you're probably thinking whenever going to a game.
Speaker 1: Those going to be some goal scorers we've seen on
Speaker 1: the statue. But Oleg kicked his first goal from fifty
Speaker 1: and then to do it against his old team who
Speaker 1: dropped him, would have been a great feeling.
Speaker 2: The sweetest of ghost, real dagger in just oh. That
Speaker 2: was it for the games. There was some sad news
Speaker 2: throughout the week. Matt Rendella unfortunately passed during the week.
Speaker 2: What are your experiences, isn't it?
Speaker 1: That was one of the first people I met. He
Speaker 1: was kind of the recruitment team whenever I'd kind of
Speaker 1: come to Collingwood. And he's a he was a large
Speaker 1: man of rockman, you know, and he was very much
Speaker 1: a passion for the game, and he was unequivally himself right,
Speaker 1: So he always gave his opinion, you know, and it
Speaker 1: was he didn't care whether or not you agreed with it,
Speaker 1: whether you disagreed, whether he was going to tell you straight.
Speaker 1: And that was something I very much respected about it.
Speaker 1: But he was an amazing person I think in those
Speaker 1: early years, you know, and those those people really kind
Speaker 1: of helped you through some of the tough times, gave
Speaker 1: you advice and you know, showed faith in you and
Speaker 1: showed that you, you know, you might be capable, capable
Speaker 1: of doing something special. He was one of those people.
Speaker 1: And you know, he unfortunately with COVID and a few
Speaker 1: other things, you know, like it was, he got moved on.
Speaker 1: I hadn't really talked to him since for a while,
Speaker 1: but I always looked back on some of those early
Speaker 1: days with such fond memories of him, and he was
Speaker 1: kind of I guess my first probably experience of a truazzi,
Speaker 1: like a person just tells it how it is and
Speaker 1: tells you straight, and it was like sometimes it was
Speaker 1: just direct as it could be. And that was just
Speaker 1: how he was. And he was just an absolute legend.
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's really sad news over the week. It
Speaker 1: was just kind of out of the blue. I don't know,
Speaker 1: you just sometimes you kind of think everyone's going to
Speaker 1: live forever, you know, and then unfortunately these circumstances happened
Speaker 1: and we're all sitting there trying to trying to deal
Speaker 1: with it now as retrospectively.
Speaker 2: He was one of the old time storytellers.
Speaker 1: Oh I love this story. Very good at telling him too.
Speaker 2: He will be sorely missed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it pays up to his family thinking of you
Speaker 1: all and yeah, hopefully you know it's going okay. And
Speaker 1: like I said, Maddie, Rondell is an absolute absolutely the
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