Ads & Dunks 🐶🦁 Reviewing the losses & Tassie announcement!

Ads & Dunks 🐶🦁 Reviewing the losses & Tassie announcement!

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Step is a step towards a vibrant and beautiful outdoor entertaining Space and we’re back for another episode of the ads and dunks podcast as always brought to you by the Oz American Aces my name of course is Adam with me as always in Queensland beautiful hot Queensland my best mate Joshy dunkley mate what a couple hours we have just

Had so typically typically usually it’s me stuffing up it’s my fault you know I’m I’m unprepared I’m I’ve got me 2K game in front of me right now I’ve actually played a half of 2K been waiting to get on online Josh’s internet has decided to play up and we’ve been

Sitting here for about an hour and 10 minutes Paul bro’s stressing Tommy Sheridan stressing I don’t know why I just called him Tommy Sheridan calling him Tommy everyone’s stressing we’re finally doing the episode so mate how good yeah I know how good how good that we’re actually doing the episode now and

Thanks for the welcome mate it’s nice to be here um but yeah I think we figured it out tippa was watching a bit of Netflix and downloading all these things and it’s just taking over the Internet so I didn’t realize that was actually a thing so I’ve had to change a few

Internet settings the Internet Optimizer my dongle or whatever you call it the thing that Tommy’s talking about and we got it sort of mate so we’re here we’re good is it true that Tommy was stressing out that he was pretty much telling you to go to Chris Fagan’s house to set up a

Podcast room just so you can get the episode going because we know Tommy’s a big stresser mate he’s called me and I’m sitting on here trying to listen to you and bra like trying to do things and he’s like DC’s like come on like surely there someone from the club you know you

Can just get them on the line and and get them to send you their media dongle or whatever it is like or go to Mitch Robinson’s house to go and you know he might have a set up I was like come on mate come on mate s o’ at night call MIT

Robinson hey it probably would have been better than listen to me try and play the keyboard over there I’ve got a keyboard over there that I’ve been practicing and I uh we filled in a couple minutes me playing the keyboard and playing a bit of 2K here but no

You’re right mate we’re um we’re up and running how good not so good week for uh for you and I uh Al for our footy Club but in terms of I mean away from footy how was your week obviously played last week Mike first game was this week other

Than footy what did you get up to anything exciting uh not a lot new compared to last week other than the bedroom near B actually finished today so we’ll have to I’ll have to send you a couple of videos over the next few hours to show you what it’s like because you

Haven’t seen it but um other than that we went to Perth on Friday so we’re over there for a good few days and I was lucky enough to catch up with some family you know them over there we were talking about you in the kitchen cuz

Last time you were there you were there with me and um we had dinner and and whatnot so it was nice to see them and the cousins and actually Ellie my cousin just had a newborn baby so that was pretty cool to see that and uh yeah it’s

Uh it was yeah nice little experience yeah congratulations Ellie I uh I love your family over there had some great memories over there and uh it was funny cuz I um I feel like now the day before a game I always send you a little

Snapchat or a photo of my dessert CU my dessert came up and last year on one of our episodes or last yeah or last year um got some good traction my dessert the peanut butter and uh and the baguette or whatever roll it is so it’s good they

Just all lost it mate they were all loving it it was funny as and then I started talking about you and how remember last time when you and I went there for dinner and you’re like n I’ve got to have spag Bowl I’ve got to have

This salad I’ve got to have this make sure you have this peanut butter this bagette because you are so routine routine Bas I went over this week and was like nah just whatever whatever uh mate and how did we go I already know

How we went we won by I think we won by 20 goals against the West Coast Eagles how did you guys go on the weekend maybe you’ve got to be like me your pasta your salad your your peanut butter your baguettes whatever it may be your Coke

Zeros can’t miss out on that maybe a bit like that fair enough that’s a cheeky little dig there but I’ll cop that one on the chin hey we didn’t either so you can dig at me all you like but um that’s good sounds like you had a good weekend

Yeah how’s yours what have you been up to uh mine was all right other than footy it was a uh yeah it was good I um as I just said before I uh played a little bit of keyboard for you I’ve been trying to learn the keyboard um

Self-taught because I don’t have the patience to sit there and get taught how to do something because I’d probably just get angry because I won’t be able to do it if they’re telling me to do something so um not like it’s me getting angry at that stuff but anyway um yeah

That’s kind of what I’ve been doing playing a bit of keyboard I um I’m really looking forward to the girls being down so um this time next week the girls will be down and George’s birthday so what is the next week will be the 25th I think when we film so her

Birthday is on the 23rd so she’ll be a nice four-year-old which I cannot wait uh to see I was going through some of my old photos yesterday and Snapchats and I was looking at some of her um yeah just when I’ve filmed her over the last

Couple years man they grow so damn quick I mean I reckon she’s already a better swimmer than what I already am mate I am a horrendous swimmer I am what were you gonna say you gonna say that’s not hard yeah I was gonna say that’s not hard

Even a little to B out about you oh thanks mate there’s your de but um yeah she’s uh she’s she’s been doing a lot of swimming practice and mate she’s doing she was doing learning this side stroke that she learned today that as I said she’s probably already a better swimmer

Than me so um yeah it’s uh I can’t wait to wish happy birthday but yeah my my week was good mate other than the footy side the footy side was obviously a little bit disappointing but um the weather’s been nice here so been able to go to the

Beach and um hang out a bit and you know not not necessarily worry about uh footy until footy actually comes and now in the routine of you know thinking about the game you know what went wrong why we didn’t play well where I can be better where we can be better reviewing the

Game so it’s just the cycle repeats itself now and um yeah we we just uh we we move on yeah well we might as well get into it because we I know we both want to get it off our chest a little bit um we know we talk about it every

Week so the highs and lows you know obviously we’re both in that position at the moment of not winning that Trend continues that we talked about last year uh when you lose we lose so we need you boys to win so then we can get a win oh

Yeah you’ve got a buy this week so we win then you guys win hopefully uh hopefully there’s no more losses for us but yeah we may as well I’ll I’ll touch on my game first yeah so we we obviously played on the Sunday which is quite

Unique for us we haven’t started well I haven’t started a Sunday game in a very long time would have probably been when I was at the Giants so probably a reflection of how we went last year because the AFL scheduled the Blockbusters on the Fridays and The

Saturdays and we’re in one o00 time slot on the Sunday um and yeah it was a uh I was saying off air before to you that it was probably the hottest game that I’ve actually ever I can’t remember ever being like that hot throughout a game

There was no reprise from the Sun at all like the sun was just there the whole game we might have had five minutes of clouds coming over other than that it was just constantly in the sun it was 28 degrees and and I sound like I’m bitching and moaning here because you

Train and playing 28 degrees and living 28 degrees up there in Queensland but mate when you’re not used to that that was Inc oh mate it was just incredibly hot and that was the first thing um that uh that I thought when I was about to

Play oh this is going to be a hot game and then yeah the game itself I mean I felt like we started really well which we did um we definitely didn’t capitalizing some opportunities early on in the game we um yeah we sh ourselves in the fo a little

Bit we got some good turnovers and then we weren’t able to go the you know the other end and score and and I felt like the kick going inside 50 really let ourselves down a bit we kind of blazed away a little bit we might have got one

Of our teammates into time and space but then you know didn’t really capitalize with the guy who had the ball and you know whether it was Blazing away or kicking to the wrong person or whatever it may be we felt like we did that too

Much um and then yeah kind of ebed and flowed throughout the game but um the start of the last quarter was still full of confidence I mean um although was was extremely exhausted and gassed um because of the Heap Melbourne were clearly playing it as well so so no

Excuse there but I still felt like we were a big chance and and we started off the last quarter really well we had a couple shots I think Jamar had a couple shots and um we could have gone 10 points down early into the last quarter

But um you know as soon as I think Melbourne kicked a goal was kind of like the back breaker for us and um you know that’s where they clearly had more running their legs and they overran us which was the most disappointing thing that um you know if no one watched the

Game they just see the result and see that it’s a 45o loss when I genuinely don’t think it was reflective of how he actually performed across the whole game um you know under estimate again how how well Mal play but the the extra game that they had last week clearly helped

Them um I definitely feel like there’s plenty of learnings from our game um you know not only from a physical point of view where it’s we’re going to be better prepared this week but definitely from a learning point of view where the things that we weren’t able to do well which

Was defend um you know the way they wanted to move the ball through us we can practice that learn that we had a really good review today um so yeah we we we’ll we’ll move on really quickly um definitely won’t be a you know that’s

Going to be an outli for us I genuinely believe that and already looking forward to the game this week against you know one of the informed teams of the whole competition in the goco Sun so um one that we got to move past quickly the game on the weekend yeah it was

Interesting I got to watch I actually got to watch most of your game because it was at 10: a.m. it was on at 10:00 a.m. over in Perth so we didn’t have to leave the hotel until I think around 1:00 or 1:30 something like that so I

Got to watch literally all of it which was pretty cool and um like you said yeah second to what you what you’re saying you know you looked like you dominated so many parts of the game and probably just couldn’t execute on the scoreboard and it was a similar story

With us like we we felt like we you know early on got a good jump on them um probably caught him off guard them having not played a game last week uh and us obviously playing that game last week probably helped this with the the start of the game but unfortunately our

Second and third quarter again similar thing to last week where we we just you know let the foot off the gas a little bit lost a bit of our hunger at the contest and didn’t finish our our you know inside 50s and scores so similar Tales probably a little bit different

Story-wise um for us but yeah disappointing again that we didn’t get out there and and get the job done because we certainly gave ourselves opportunities to um that’s probably the most frustrating thing you know you know what it’s like as a player you’re getting it inside 50 and you’re not

Scoring and then they go down the other end of ke goal just really deflating and I’m not putting any pressure on our our key forwards or anyone our our small forwards for not kicking goals it’s everyone it’s all of us as a group you know mid’s not squeezing in to make sure

That it’s held inside 50 and numbering off and and then the defender not killing the ball to get it back in so little things like that cost us on um on Sunday afternoon or Sunday night for you probably watching at home but uh yeah all in all I think we’ll learn a lot

From it and we’ve got the week off this week so I will kick back and watch you play against the Suns and then get ready for the pies on Thursday night Easter Thursday yeah no I couldn’t agree more with what you said with your game I was

I was fortunate enough to watch that as well didn’t miss um I didn’t watch much footy over the weekend but I watched your game from start to finish and um are you worried at all that you I guess this is probably a question that you boys will get asked um over the next

Week until your next game um that your first two games you’ve had really good starts and you’ve gotten a pretty good lead I mean you’re up 27 to two I think it was against fo early and and then you kind of let them get a run I mean it was

Different to the Caron game where they came later and was a lot closer in the end than what the Freo game was but does that worry you at all that you know maybe like I don’t want to say the word complacency because I know I know there’s no complacency at all um but

Like is it a worry at all that you know maybe it’s like oh well we’ve got a good enough lead we’re just not going to be as brutal or we’re just not going to defend as well as we probably should if the game was closer does that worry at

All guys talk about that at all or not really no it’s a good question I don’t think we we’re not worried about it I feel like it’s more um you know as an individual you want to be playing a role and for us you know that’s that’s that’s

The challenge week in week out not only for us for every player in the competition so that’s I feel what we’re just slightly off at at the moment like we’re all slightly off and um if we can get that back to you know making sure that we’re doing our our role for the

Team and and making sure all those little things are you know the efforts there they’re you know sticking tackles we’re having a crack we’re cracking in at the contest we’re bringing the ball to ground or we’re taking contested marks like that’s what’ll help us um at

The moment we’re slightly off but as we all know it’s literally like that much and you turn it all around and then all of a sudden you’re a different team and you’re back to that first quarter and well I thought our fourth quarter on the weekend I think we kicked five goals

Three to their three goals so the way we start and finish games is really good it’s just that middle patch that we got to tidy up yeah yeah well it’s clearly going to be something that whether you address it or not but I’m no doubt it’s

Going to be a focus for you boys in your next game what’s your what’s your take on Foo I mean a lot of the interstate teams especially here in Melbourne I mean it’s obviously unique for you being one of only two teams in Queensland but no one really talks about the interstate

Teams here unless it’s you know maybe Sydney who are gone really well at the moment um the Giants Gold Coast what about fre what’s your thoughts on for this year because to me they look super impressive and considering they had some injuries they had three injuries um obviously would have

Affected them but their Midfield looked really really really good I mean that midfields probably been together for a few years now but now they look like you know they’re really ready to take the next step and really drive the group forward and and play a quality brand of

Footy I mean they look like they they clearly did that on the weekend yeah they’re Midfield and led by Joel Cory who’s one of the in my mind one of the best coaches that I’ve ever been involved with um he he’s obviously got them going really well and their

Cohesion and even Luke Jackson in the Rock he’s just you know both times we’ve played him over the last 12 months he’s been dominant and getting around the ground and taking grabs and just doing everything at ground level and then obviously led by Caleb wrong too like he

Had a he had a game for the ages where he just gets given the ball all the time but his his ball use his cleanliness is just incredible so they’re going to be good I think they’re going to be a good side this year and um there’s no harder test than going over

There and trying to beat them on their home deck too especially coming from you know the Eastern side of the the the the nation you should as we’ probably say um it’s a it’s a tough trip so I feel like they’re going to have a lot of wins you

Know on their home ground playing against opposition teams that have to go over and play against them because they are and one other thing too I I really rate about them is they young key forwards they young key forwards are kicking straight they’re they’re taking marks like they’re jumping at the ball

So yeah it’s it’s a whole different look for them they like to take the game on they’ve always liked to get their forwards up really high and then springboard back but they beat us in a different way this week I felt yeah no couldn’t agree more with what you’re

Saying that um a Miss am Miss Amos am Miss is that pronounce am he’s very very impressive for someone who’s so lightly built he’s got some great hands and he kicks straight he’s one of the best kicks in the competition but um yeah I was very uh interested to know what you

Thought because yeah to me they look really really really good they’re going to be a very hard team to beat this year um which is great I was just talking to someone today about how even the competition is um across the uh across the league is there any uh any other any

Other footy moments that caught you or anything you want to talk about I know sometime I know sometimes well a lot of the times you have stuff that comes across uh your plate and you want to speak about it and whether it’s a controversial topic or just anything

Generic uh usually there’s something on your on your mind no I was I did think it’s something that I was going to write I was going to write it down on my phone the other day but I thought I might remember it and it’s the uh I actually

Clarified with the umpires when I saw him on Sunday um one thing that it’s sort of going around the game at the moment which I feel like players might be taken advantage of and it’s it’s when you get tackled and someone tackles you here and you fight the tackle

So then it forces them to go high should that be a free kick in your mind do you think that’s high no so I did one it’s not meant to be I agree I agree I did one to Jack vony on the weekend so he we

Were both essentially like in a in like a we like lunging almost the ball was on the ground and I like I literally couldn’t tackle him anywhere else other than pretty much where his arm was there or higher and the knew that and they seen it and it was

Play on it wasn’t a free kick and yeah I remember when I did it I was like oh [ __ ] sorry mate cuz I got him real high goes no it’s my fault I ducked into it so like yeah I I agree with that it’s not a free kick I think it’s similar and

I actually seen something today about it Kan KS mentioned it today um which it’s funny because I never think to do this but I know players do this and they do do it a lot is when you feel someone tackling you from behind deliberately push yourself forward and hopefully get

A free kick for a push in the back I’ve seen that today and I feel like players there there’s an art to it and I feel like players are are are doing that what do you think yeah no I agree I agree with that and that’s what I’m saying

This other one now is because it’s such a focus of head high contact you know we don’t want we we don’t want concussion in the game full stop but no it’s a Focus S like keeping the head safe at the moment in our game and anything that

Hits ahead is getting called but this one it shouldn’t be called cuz I was like I was asked I literally asked the umpires the other day and I was like is that what’s meant to happen and they’re like yep so it’s meant to be play on if

That happens if you get him there and you slip High because they make you then it’s play on should be yeah well I agree why was there a free kick given against you no it was last it was the night before I think it was the Collingwood

Game pendle’s got one maybe Doos got oh yeah he did pend got one in the D50 I remember he went down went low and got High um yeah yeah I agree with that what what’s your thoughts on the pushing the back one do you reckon do you reckon

That should be play on say say the Umpire sees the player intentionally fall forward because you can tell when someone clearly does it do you reckon that should be play on yeah 100% I Reon it happened in your game a couple of times where they got a free kick

Potentially when they fell forward from what I saw it looked like you go forward there’s an to it no worries at all so I I think it should be play on so do I the other one for me actually come to think of it because this probably happens to

Every Ruckman is the blocking off the ball and there needs to be more clarity because like there’s a difference between like deliberately I guess like trying to hurt the Ruckman off the ball versus just impeding his run like blocking his run which like say you’re getting tagged

Right and happens to that person getting tagged always anyway so what’s the difference between that and and the Ruckman getting blocked off the ball because quite often you see free kicks um you know to Ruckman who where you’re just like what the heck just happened

You look at the replay and you just see someone’s just literally put body on him which where the ball’s 50 meters away but it’s it’s it’s not an intention it’s just literally impeding his run like you can tell how Furious I get about it because freaking it happens a lot to

Chile Chile it happens quite a bit to Chile and then it happens to you know clearly we out of uh Max G has a focus when he’s such a dominant Ruckman teams go out of their way to to try and hit him off the ball Brody Grundy would cop

It do you think like do you think there needs to be a little bit more clarity on what you can and can’t do yeah well you tell me this so if your opponent like is running past you for a drop a ball for argument sake like what do you do you

Try and like push him off his off his line you check you check him so he can’t get pass that’s exactly the same thing as what we’re doing to the what players do to the Ruckman so I don’t think it should be it frustrates me because how often do

You hear and you would hear it as well out on the ground when like You’ have gone out of your way to try and you know block for our Ruckman so you might hit the opposition Ruckman you hear the umpires let him run let him run let him

Run or pay a free kick and it’s like for what like I’m just like stepping in his way I’m not doing I’m not hurting him I’m just like you know so yeah oh I’m glad we spoke about a couple things because uh we’re not going to get any free kicks from now on

Because the ums are going to hate us I don’t really get free kicks anyway but um but no it’s definitely an interesting topic because I’d like to know what because yeah I’d definitely like to know I definitely think rck different Ruckman you know would get looked after

More so than what other Ruckman would you know do you know what I mean so like you know not saying who who’s probably Max gorn’s the best Ruckman Tim Tim English broy Grundy those three Royal Marshall those boys are probably the best Ruckman in the competition and yeah

I just feel like you just can’t you can’t hit these guys off the ball because it’s just going to be a free kick so anyway let’s move on from that let’s move on from that because that’s going to annoy me um did you watch did you watch any of

The other games any other like are you are you as impressed with Sydney first and the goal Suns as I am because I’m extremely impressed by both of I feel like they’re playing some really really good footy yeah I I watched the Sydney game I didn’t get to

Watch the Gold Coast game but yeah I’m very impressed with them and we played them a few weeks ago and they had a few out but similar kind of team and they’ve just been playing really really well it’s it’s a credit to them you know the way the way they’re covering for the

Injuries that they’ve got at the moment you know you look at their Midfield and oh Mills is out um Parker’s out Adams is out there’s there’s three players that’ll definitely be playing for him and they’re performing the way they are beating Collingwood and and obviously

They win last week as well so against a d so it’s a it’s Ultra impressive and yeah they’re going to be a formidable side this year I feel yeah that’s my right now going after two weeks they’re probably the team that that’s impressed me the most the giants has as well both

Sydney teams have been super impressive like it’s crazy because I think about still Giants is only the J Johns have only been around for um well how long now like 2012 was our first year so that 12 years and their their sustained success is incredible and they just keep

Getting better and they’re another team that has been super impressive to me um what about Matt Ral are you I need to have a weekly like I feel like I’m look mate my favorite player in the AFL is you and it will always be you mate

You’re my favorite player in the AFL I love Toby green he’s one of my other favorite players I love Jeremy Hal love broy Grundy but mate Matt he’s one of my favorite players to He is unbelievable I seen this thing the other day where I think to Miller today or yesterday might

Have said that he is probably the best one-on-one player in the competition in terms of if there’s a ball between you and someone else like him and someone else like he’s probably going to win that footy and I just can’t like I agree I actually watching him inside is

Unbelievable yeah he’s and we played him in the preseason so not long ago his ability to like like you said but he just scraps so you think you’ve got the ball he’ll jump in and he’ll rip it out he’ll just be rolling around he get himself dirty like he just does all

These things to then wrestle the ball off you and then just flick it out like he’s unbelievable at doing that so it’s a credit to him and no questions as to why he’s playing so well at the moment yeah so does it make you like think because quite often his criticism which

Was clearly unfair was his outside game cuz you know you know he’s literally 85% of a contested ball player but sometimes that is good enough that is what you need to be like do you sometimes find that a little bit silly that they try and nitpick but once they start playing

So well it’s a bit like Nick Doos with his with his outside game versus his inside game when when he might be getting tagged or whatever it is and not having a really good game they’re going to question his his inside stuff when his outside stuff is is probably better

Than anyone in the competition it’s interesting because I feel like they do that with everyone like whether you’re player you’re an outside player you’re always criticized for the weaker side of your game and it’s actually quite funny because as a player you can you can take

On that feedback and listen to it and then go and work on it but you’re actually losing your strength almost because you you wanted to improve the the deficiency in your game and then you go go do the do that and then you take it away from your strength so I just

Think I think maybe Matty ra over the past couple years years has done that like potentially he’s going oh you know I need to work on my outside game because everyone’s saying I need to work on my outside game but now it’s just like new coach might have come in and

Been like mate we just want you to be the inside ball you we know you can be and that’s it so it’s it’s clearly working for him M I cannot wait to see when him and Tom Green go against each other that is going to be because

They I swear I swear when we did our Brown low tips did I say Tom Green I know I said Nick doos did I also say Tom Green I hope I did far out I hope I did because him and Matt ra have started the season off unbelievably well and they’re

Two of the most impressive players that I’ve seen so far but um yeah that’s uh that’s uh those two players have been unbelievable um this week you’re you’ve got the buy before we talk about our game or my game what are you gonna do mate is there anything exciting that

You’re going to get up to it’s a bit weird that you you’ve got to buy you know three games in yeah well I feel good I actually had a quar Zone today though so body’s not feeling so great in the ankle but um yeah so it’s strange

But it’s come at a probably not a bad time for us to be honest because you know obviously ow and two and um quite disappointed with how we’ve been going out on the field so it’s nice to be able to have a few extra days to really

Dissect it and really look into it and make sure that we come out on Thursday night next week against a Pi’s full head of steam and and ready for the contest so do you guys train do you have like a few days off like for the PE fans out

There who clearly interested in what you do like do will they schedule a training session for you like so you play on Thursday so I presume you might train on the Thursday main session just to replicate like a week between games and stuff yeah yeah yeah so we so from

Sunday when we played we’ve had every day so we flew back on Monday so it doesn’t really count but we have Tuesday Wednesday off and then Thursday we’ll train Friday we’ll have off Saturday train so train on Saturday and then Sunday sort of like day on day off until

Next week and then next week’s just full week so Monday Tuesday Wednesday at the club and then Thursday play so it’s a little refresh refresher or freshen up I probably should say and then you get stuck into it uh early next week has uh yeah rude of me not to mention Loy NE

Will he be back next week because he was clearly a big loss inside for you as well yeah he’ll be back next week he was itching to play this week and I know that for a fact because the physios are telling me that he was he was he was

Raging when he couldn’t get picked but uh um yeah they it’s obviously the risk of doing something worse if you’ve got that tightness there so I’m sure he’ll be back next weekend and um fully ready to go what a ripping game that’s going to be I can’t can’t wait to see firstly

How the pies go this uh Thursday because they’ve clearly you know well you’re not here in Melbourne mate but that who is who everyone is seemed to be talking about at the moment just because they’ve gone 0 and two but we still know that theyve they’ve got the same group

Essentially as last year’s Premiership winning team so uh that’ll be a blockbuster that game uh next Thursday when they do play but this Thursday will be a good game as well there’s a lot of good games this weekend that I’m really looking forward to yeah same here what

When’s your game this week we play beautiful ballad on the Sunday mate at one o’clock oh so you missed the F1 in Melbourne this week yeah actually I did a I did a um an appearance at 7-Eleven uh Red Bull event on Monday I know you

Would have been nice and uh that would have been a perfect opportunity for you if you in Melbourne you would have been the first one there you know you would have got everything you got the photos with the F1 car max fappen replica but no it was really cool it was it was

Actually really really cool we we actually got to go to the um it was the 7-Eleven on the corner of St Kilda Road and Elma Road um in St Kilda obviously do you know can you picture that in your head you would be able to you would have

Driven past a million times um and like they kind of blocked off the 7-Eleven and and they just had you know they had Red Bull athlete which was Christian Peta which was great we played him the day before and he was there uh obviously you know always a little bit salty when

You lose to him but no he’s a um a ripping fell we uh we did an appearance with him and got a photo with the um with the replica F1 car which is really cool but then I was able to take my brand new Raptor which was sick was able

To take it through so part of the um I guess the the filming bit of it was you drive it up to the where the petrol is and you got the um the pck girls they’re all dressed in the in the Red Bull outfits and and they’ll clean your car

And actually got a free tank of fuel as well mate so that was a a big tick especially in these trouble times mate with finances and petrol and money and however whatever else you got to pay but got some free pedrol but yeah it was it was a really cool experience and yeah

I’m a bit bummed that I’m going to actually miss the F1 because I was I was actually really Keen this year to go but um probably be the same result it is as it has been the last three years hasn’t steppen just one every year yeah he’s

Too good Maxi I think this year though it’s pretty even they’ve evened it up a little bit so it’ll be a good watch the the Australian Grand Prix on Sunday but uh let’s let’s talk footy um you were talking about Matty rail you and him are going to go head-to-head in the middle

Or you going to get Liber to do that or Bonte to do that what’s going to happen oh I don’t know yet mate I might it Liber and R would be unbelievable contest those two competitive animals but um no I’m looking forward to the game I mean as I said before they

They’re ult they’ve been Ultra impressive they’ve played two really good games um you know they’re clearly a a very strong contested ball team and that’s led by their Midfield I mean we’ve mentioned Matty ra but n Anderson’s Best feris winner um a star of the of the game and Tuk Miller’s

Another player that we seem to not mention who’s who’s been a best first all Australian winner as well um Sam Flanders Jared witz is an underrated Ruckman um they’ve got some quality across the field so uh I I feel like it’s really great for our group knowing that we’re coming

Up against the team um you know that is flying and it’s a great challenge for us we we we know that no no team is an easy beat at all um but we love coming up against the teams that are obviously in good form and and we know that they are

And um we’re looking forward to getting up to bat we we play two or three games there a year and and we we enjoy playing there we seem to play really well there in bat and we get a great turnout from our bellat fans which is which is what

I’m excited for and and I’m glad that I’ve already looked at the forecast it’s not going to be 28 and just Sun just peppering down on you um so that’s already a win but really looking forward to it can’t wait to see how we bounce back I know the boys are extremely

Motivated and driven um as I said we reviewed the game a little bit today and we reviewed a little bit more over the next coming days but we’re we’ve already set our sights for for the game Sunday and really want to rectify the areas that we got wrong on the weekend yeah I

Look forward to watching that one hey one thing I’ve been meaning to ask you and I know you’re really close with this guy um Riley Sanders it was pretty topical that uh he got subbed out on the weekend how is he one but um yeah like how was his reaction how’s he bounced

Back from obviously that happening to him we know some players probably just cop it on the chin other players might hurt a little bit more in your first game of AFL football getting subbed out yeah I just really want to know get an insight into how he’s feeling yeah

Obviously um yeah it’s tough for him clearly was tough to get I don’t think anyone ever wants to get subbed out um yeah but he understands he understands you know what the team needs he’s he understands what you know what uh the mindset was we needed to bring on some

Fresh legs obviously Caleb Daniel came on and had a enormous impact for us and um you know almost changed the game for us in in some ways he was brought this energy new new yeah Just Energy around the ball and was great but yeah obviously um you know was a little bit

Uh flat that he went off as we all would have been you know we no one wants to get subbed off but the the beauty about Sando is he he’s Ultra professional Ultra driven Ultra motivated and you know was able to talk to him today and um he’s just ready to ready and

Preparing himself to um you know go out there this week and and and just be a better version of himself and and he will be I mean he had some good moments had some great moments I mean he got involved early had a shot on goal I felt

Like his contested ball stuff was really good he’s such a big strong powerful lad um and I mean it’s not easy coming up against Christian Peta uh Clayton Oliver Jack vony Christian Salem in your very first game and oh I’ve just mentioned the goal Coast Midfield doesn’t get any

Easier but it’s a great experience for him and I feel like he’s just going to get better and learn a lot more from these experiences so yeah I guess to to simply answer your question um obviously flat that he gets subbed out but totally gets it totally understands it and

That’s the best thing about him and um you know it’s it’s uh it’ be sooner rather than later when he when it clicks for him and it will click for him you know sometime early this year and he will dominate a game and he just has the

Ability and the power of the mind to do that so I’m looking forward to him going out there this weekend and um you know having another crack and and just enjoying being out there he’s he’s definitely he’s definitely someone who is ultra motivated you can just tell by

The way that he is a around the club and the way that he trains and and how diligent he is so um yeah looking forward to seeing how he goes this week but it’s good it’s a good question because you’re right it has been a bit

Of a um you know a talking point but there’s always talking points out of teams that don’t win so um yeah looking forward to seeing how we bounc back this week do you think those talking points come from uh like we’ve talked about this before but the the game now is so

Stats driven like I think he had 15 touches to in the second quarter and but what what challenges young players face coming into the game and you can talk about this too is the game’s not all about offense like as an 18yar old as a 16y old it’s all about offense and

You’re just trying to get the footy and trying to get stats like that’s what it is but once you get draft it becomes a team philosophy team mentality and is that what he’s still growing as a player you think definitely definitely I think that you know you’re right being someone who was clearly

Clearly the best player on every team that he was in and and defense is not taught into a youngster you know coming through the ranks I mean you you never taught defense as a youngster I mean you taught the basics of tackling and and maybe running the other way but that was

More so just to get the footy where where now it’s you know especially if you’re you’re not necessarily playing midfield if you’re playing that high half forward or or Wing or whatever it may be it’s so you know those positions are so vital to Def defensive structures

For all teams it’s not just our team all teams and you know whether it’s the Winger getting back to help the Defenders whether it’s the high half forwards uh getting up to clog you know inside 50 kicks whatever it may be it’s definitely an area that you know is is

Is something that he’s learning on the go and you’re not going to learn it like that I mean you know I still have clearly areas that I’ve got to improve on and and you know so do you and and so to some of the great midfielders in our

In our game but yeah I feel like um that’s definitely an era where he can keep growing and um as I said he’s as professional as diligent as I ever as I’ve ever met and he’s constantly asking you know where do I need to be what

Position do I need to be in in terms of like a defensive position um when should I go when should I not go how should I approach this contest stuff like that those questions that you don’t typically get you know from 18 n year old kids so

The Willing the willingness to learn is there and um as I said it it’ll click it’ll click you know super quick and um you know he he’s going to tear games apart this year not only this year but for years and years to come and um yeah

I I look forward to you know seeing that progress over his over his journey actually one thing I wanted to touch on it just reminded me of Sando because he’s a tazzy boy as’s a Tasmanian team getting announced I know and you’ve jumped me because I was going to have

The tazzy team as my uh the bloom of the week this week so we might as get we might as well get into it and thanks to Brook and the team for always supporting us we love her work and um we’re really pumped to be part partnering with them

Throughout this year and uh hopefully into the future as well but mine this week the bloom of the week for me is the tazzy Devils I was trying to find out something you know like I said at the first episode just trying to do something different I was gonna say

Bloom of the week might be the Reserve Bank for slowing interest rates down a little bit but I’ve gone with the um the tazzy Devils announcement and yeah I think the all the hype around it I think I saw today they’ve got this $10 membership founding membership thing going on and it’s over

75,000 already which is incredible it doesn’t surprise me because tazzy is OB clearly just the football dominant State and they’ve been petitioning for a team for a long time but that’s a great um Bloom of the week that’s um that’s cool it reminded me of the time where where

We announced so the Giants as in the gws Giants we announced our team and the Giants we we were called team gws and then you know 3 days into all of us being together as a 17y olds we announced our team a big launch I remember izy Izzy F was the Marquee

Player who was at the front and I bet you brdo can cut up some good vision of that because there’s some cool vision of myself as a 17 year old Jeremy Cameron Dylan Shield Izzy I think Nathan Wilson might be there some players who had long careers and it’s quite funny because the

Tasmanian side are going to go through the same thing so it’s a great Bloom of the week well done mate thank you I think uh we should have a bit of a competition you and me with who gets the bloom of the week who gets the best

Bloom of the week we’ve got our tipping comp which we haven’t which we haven’t uh touched upon this week I’ve got no idea who’s ahead but I feel like I’m ahead yeah you’re ahead you’re ahead before we move on I want to talk to you about the the jumper what are your

Thoughts on the The Old State jumper I thought personally before you go I thought that it was pretty traditional I get it but spice it up a bit let’s see something bit different what do you think well I’ve just had to quickly I totally forgot what it look like I just

Quickly Googled it and there’s richo with the uh the tazzy uh the tazzy Devils oh I don’t I don’t mind tradition I don’t I I actually don’t mind it you know what I I was already calling them the Tasmanian devils because I just presumed that’s what they going to be

Called I mean but what what like give me what’s another nickname can you give me something no no other no other nickname but their logo so the logo that I saw so the tazzy um this logo Joshy no no that’s their jumper there there’s a logo

Ads there’s a logo oh this one it’s actually like a the tazzy dev yes so put that front and center of the jumper potentially like the dogs do with you know that their um what was that jumper the it would have been a retro like a fight back yeah Retro One or something

Like put that at the front with the the colors and you can still have the the tazzy um emblem there but I feel like that logo would been sick yeah come to think of it with that little oh with the all the devil yeah I feel like though as

As they expand and grow there’ll eventually be a jumper where the where the logos on it but the the the generic jumper that they were going to bring it doesn’t surprise me I thought that’s what it was going to be do you remember the tazy team in the vfl did you ever

Watch him yeah yeah I remember in the vfl or the the you remember him in the VF no no do you remember him in the vfl comp years ago oh no I don’t remember in the vfl comp only under 18s they used to be in the vfl comp and that’s kind of I

Think that’s what they used to wear so it’s no real surprise to me that um that they’re wearing that but um no it’s exciting man it’s exciting for the Tasmania no doubt they’re going to be coming after some absolute superstars of the uh the competition so

Look out every team I feel like I’ll be well and truly retired by then so unless they want an aging 38 or 39 year old but um it’s exciting for tazzy um my my Brooks Bloom of the week mate we forgot to do mine my Brooks Bloom of the week

Which I’m really excited to do mine is um I’ve been told by Tommy not to do any more American uh sport for a while so I won’t do American Sport and I’m not going to do footy I’m gonna go to the NRL field the storm our boys the storm and

By the way Clubhouse boys thank you thank you so much for S especially oh I’m gonna give a shout out to to money Camy monster wearing his Bulldogs jumper last week on the podcast was unbelievable I need to rep a Melbourne storm pod uh Jersey next week for the

Potty um you know he’s a true true Bulldogs fan so thanks money for giving us the support but my Brooks Bloom of the week is xavia coats try mate what is that not the is that one of the I’m gonna say Israel F’s try where

He went up and grabbed it and scored was probably yeah I’d say that’s probably the best try I’ve seen Xavier coats is probably a close second almost first try that was incredible yeah I didn’t watch it live but I know Charlie Cameron was watching it live and he he was texting

Our group chat like going nuts he’s like o OMG OMG OMG save codes is he a is he a storm fan yeah he is Chuck yeah big storm fan even though he gets around all the other teams because he’s a he’s a Brisbane boy and he loves the Broncos he

Loves everyone um but no he’s a storm fan of heart I think and yeah I watched it back on the replay and I was like geez that’s probably one of the best I’ve seen I’ve ever seen yeah I’m going to say it’s definitely top two top three

For me the the display of athleticism and then to keep himself in bounds with his hand to score the trial while it’s falling out like that is just yeah mate unb and to do it in the I think it was the 80th minute when he did it as well when when the

Boys needed a try I mean unbelievable don’t know who uh don’t know who KY goes for but hopefully it’s the Western Bulldogs because um yeah that was impressive that was uh yeah my Brooks BL of the week I like it I like it you going to send him a jumper or something

To make sure that he’s on the Bulldogs bandwagon or what yeah I will I may as well do that I’ll send it out to uh the Melbourne storm facility and and get money to give it to him because I know money loves his boys I know uh huy

Jerome Hughes loves these Bulldogs boys as well so um I think there’s quite a few Western Bulldogs fans out at melbour storm I mean you’re you’re you’re a melin storm fan at heart I know you are yeah well we used to connect a lot you

Know after I think it was 2016 178 we used to meet up L go din so that relationship was always there and the boys were all over it so doesn’t surprise me that they’re still cheering hard for you boys um and obviously I’ve moved so it’s uh I G have to try and

Drag a couple across potentially no I stick with the uh stick with the storm boys mate but um is there anything else you you’d love to talk about on this lovely night where we started the podcast three hours ago and and we’re finally about to finish which is uh

Which has been another good one now I just St I want to give one shout out before we finish up and it’s to a lady or a girl over in Perth I don’t know you’ve probably seen her at Open campus run or open training or whatever she has

You and me a t-shirt of you and me and I don’t know if she if she listens to our podcast I want her to reach out and um I want to send her a couple of our or t-shirt and a hat that we’ve got because

On the day I was like I wish I just had something there to give to her because she’s such a big supporter of ours so I’m not sure um what her name is but yeah feel free to reach out because I we love the support um and obviously

Getting it over there in Perth to was pretty incredible so reach out and we’re going to send you some kit because we’d love for you to enjoy that I know the exact lady that you’re talking about because she has the signs and she she

Does the ad oh man I wish I could find it before this podcast ends because of I’ve seen it a million times but so she did she come and watch your game did she she came to our Captain’s run I’m sure if she came to the game but I saw her

Prior to or the day before so I just wish at the time I had something to give her but um we’re gonna have to chase it up oh we’re gonna have to chase it up but great shout out mate that’s very very nice of you I can’t wait for to

Shout us out we can’t wait to get your ads and dunks haton Polo but um yeah mate another uh another great episode yeah it is mate and thanks to uh Brook and the team at Brooks blooms for supporting us again we always talk about him best Landscaping Company in the in

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