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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Sign's a tool sport with Adrian Barrage.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Yes, good to see you too, mate. We don't you
don't get a holiday, not just yet. You've still got a.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Man so much sport on it, that's right. You can't
afford to believe it. I don't know if you went
to Optic yesterday, but I didn't, but I saw it
on the TV scorches. What a start started with a
bang good crowd, great crowd, record crowd for an opening
game of the season. What was it, thirty one thousand.
I've been down here somewhere sensational and they've got this
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player Cooper Connolly, who's surely he looks like a rock star.
It looks like a surfer. Actually, he's surely going to
be a good player for Australia one day. Just really
really good player. How old is he like welve? He's
just so yeah. It's like he's got to start turning
the wheel. And Jie Richardson the fast bowler. He should
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be playing Test cricket regularly. It's been hampered by injury,
I know, but he's special as well. It's interesting with
the bowling trinity that they've got the Triad, the Troika
or whatever in the Australian Test team, Stark, Hazlewooden Cummings.
I'll tell you what. They wouldn't want to mess up
or not take wickets because there's Rich, there's Lance Morris,
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the wild Thing, people waiting in the wing, Gotty Bowler.
Yeah it took five wickets, got the lemon and sass
nessa and I you know, and the Ashes are next year.
Everyone wants to play. Actually going off in a tangent
usman I saw Osman Kawhaja's he just turned I think
he turns thirty eight this week. He wants tomorrow actually
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he wants to play in the Ashes, like which is
next summer.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Summer, so he's going to be well if he's going
to be very close to nudging forty.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
There's so many young players that want to come through.
It's almost like, come on, boys, Gilly gave it up early,
Hussy Vonting, don't hang around too long. Give someone else
a go. Ridge coming from me, I suppose in the media.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, but you don't have to be match fit every time.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Thanks mate. I think that was the back ended compliment.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I know, you know, they don't worry for a sporting
commentator you're looking great.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
You're looking great for a reside sporting commentator, slim down
on a block of flats all that. But yeah, scorches
six wicket winner of the Melbourne Stars for the five
time chances biggest crowd for the season. It will be
forty five thousand there on Boxing Day. Yeah, when the
next play, it'll be monstrous. The incredible scenes. What about
those awful scenes? Hilton can't write? You see him?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
No, I didn't. Actually, I didn't see all of the game. Unfortunately,
he dive.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
You know how they died.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Saw that highlights? Yeah, and they had to carry him
off to the hospital. Yeah, yeah, off on the stretch
and the next ray much of the incident. I think
he hurt his neck. So we send out our best wishes.
I think he's going to be a right tough guys playing.
He's one of our guys. He's playing for the Stars.
And then I think I've seen everything. Now the spud King.
You see the spud King Tony Glady.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
He has a similar action to old Johnny Howard spud King.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
But he really struggles to get the you know, the
ball over the shoulder.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Well you know why that may be because he bowled
the ceremonial first ball of the season, and you know
what he bowled it with. Never guess a potatoes spud
spud he did it actually happenedd It was fantastic, well,
great publisher. A bounce, it sort of went to it
looked like a leg spinner. But I don't know what
those those white white potatoes what they do. But you
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could see we're all in for a route awakening. My friend,
he should have appealed, yeah what I am? Anyway, I
did getting out. Then he had an orange outfit on
the first time. He's not warning the blue singlet you
know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
No one would have recognized it.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
But a nice to see. Still the eyebrows good man
for test. Yeah, it just got underweight. It's a bit
weird at the moment. One of the Fox commentators is
a goa. She had to apologize. She did a full
blown apology before play started for a comment she made
about a player using a word that I don't know,
it's kind of accurate but not I suppose defically, yes, yeah,
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what you don't say. So Gilly had to sit there
and Ravi Shastri as the poor girl, had to do
the apology. So yeah, it's a different world, no doubt
about that. I won't buy into it. They just started
day three. Steve Smith moved to second on Australia's all
time century maker's list behind that didn't he Oh yeah,
he needed hasn't scored it.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Was very disappointed with himself when he got out though.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I mean he made it. He made a ton and
he was he always wants to make two hundred. It
looks pretty annoyed. Who's made the most centries for Australia.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I think that's Ponting.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
It is Ponting forty one thirty three for Smith, not
the Don. The Don made twenty nine.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
But couldn't get enough games.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
That Don only played six months to get to the
next match. This rush. Ponting played two hundred and eighty
seven times for forty one tons. That Don played eighty
times for twenty nine tons. He played two hundred matches
and kept up with him. So Travis Bridge kicks in
you see exactly all, but does it again.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Ninety nine point nine, eight ninety four.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Sorry, don't go to quiz nights without and that ready, buddy,
it always gets a run. Travis Head got gave into
your head ache. T he's scored a ton seven four
hundred and five. They start out, so plays underway. It's
going to be a drawer. I'd say this, it's.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Going to say, I mean, has it started raining yet?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
It looks like should they not just play all the
tests really in Perth and Adelaide? Yeah, yes they should.
Good test in Perth, second third in Well, you.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Could not play at the G. I reckon it's going
to be a record. I mean, just for the weather
ninety thousand day one at on Boxing day at the
G ninety thousand, why.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Don't they just play the first day in Melbourne, play
Boxing Day in Melbourne and then move it the rest
of it to somewhere where it doesn't rain.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
You know. The weird thing is with the Australian team
is Pat come and says he's got to have a
rest for Sri Lanka or missed Indy's one of those tours,
and so that means does Steve Smith become captain again?
Surely not. I couldn't bring back Sam paper Gate and imagine,
please not. I don't want to see those pictures again.
Bankroft's guard, don't put him.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I think I would just steer away from it, wouldn't
they trying to avoid.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
The Yeah, I think Travis here day and I know
because you're such a smart bloke. You are probably the
smartest bug in radio. It's no doubt Hannah survived you.
Look at you're doing everything. There's no one else in
this room, there's no producers. You're on fire, no wonder,
you feel like valuable. So I want to tell you
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about this, Ricky Ponting. This is noble. He's been made
a doctor of philosophy. Sorry sorry at Uni of Tasmania
honorary degree.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
See now that's the path you could have chosen after
your sporting career finished. But no, you want it to
be on the telly mate on the radio.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
If you're actually a doctor of philosophy from your study,
like you've done seven or eight year study, would you
be thinking that's a idea, make some cricketer doctor of philosophy.
Why is there nothing rather than something? Or why is
there something rather than not? What is the meaning of life? Ricky?
What a good and evil? You know?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Like, please, we'll see it, if we'll see it. If
he can weave any of his philosophy into his special
commentary on what he's on TV.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
If they offered me, what would they offer me? A
doctor of I don't start out a doctor of sports science.
I'd say no, please come on, doctor of media.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Doctor media specialty though media special.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Immediate for sure, I've survived this long, I would say no.
I'd say you to a level, thank you. I don't
want to be doctor. Barrett's's ridiculous that design has a
lot of doctors driving to work as we speak.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Barrow talking basketball and Bryce?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Bryce, is he just on fire? First player since nineteen
ninety one? Can you believe to score forty plus points
in force straight games? He probably should be back in
the NBA. Actually, well because he did have a dabble beard. Yeah,
he's thirty two. Even at thirty two, but I mean
players always play really, really well when they're coming out
of contract, and he's he is going out of contract,
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and they're offering they reckon, they're offering him a million
bucks a season, a million bucks of season. So highest
paid NBL player of all time. He helped the Cats
score one hundred and twenty eight points too. You played
a bit of basketball one hundred and.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Twenty eight No, but I saw the score, and that's
pretty unusual score for them.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
In the NBL against Cans. Yeah, so he's going to
be offered that. It's interesting because imagine what would be
offered in the NBA just to play off the bench. Well,
you cod be at about ten twenty. Yeah. Well I
was looking at compared because lebron James is thinking of retiring.
He's thirty nine. He stepped away from the Lakers for
personal reasons, a bit of fatigue. And guess what's he
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he's on a season. He gets seventy five million a season,
and he gets one hundred and twenty five MILLI in endorsement,
so he can afford to take Yeah, he's on two
hundred mil. Wow, and now Man would be on a million.
His son, Bronnie is actually making more than Bryce's and
because he sold a heap of jerseys his son, he
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hardly plays.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
And they can just keep earning and earning long after
they've retired.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah, so I wonder if Lebrono he will retire four time,
you'd be pulling up leading score after But a Tiger
would say that he's third, He's the third banana. It's
you know, obviously Michael Jordan the best. Yeah. Yeah, And
the fellaw who passed away second best. Yeah, so interesting.
Now that what guys, I'm really sort of feeling bad
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for is the glory, the Perth glory now.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Not living up to the name of the moment, are they.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Unfortunately at the Brokes the other day when we had
the Christmas show on Friday, there was a guy there,
big glory man. I said, I'd mentioned the glory and
that was before the game. I couldn't believe that they
could lose like this, one loss away from equaling the
longest winless run in the A League men's history for
glory and they lost four Niel too fellow strugglers Newcastle
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Saturday night HbF Park.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
So to lose by that much at home to the
team that has only one spot ahead of you.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Pun to at the bottom, not too happy. So I'm
hoping that Stan Laser Reads and co. Can turn things
around there. But gee, that's tough going and we've all
been there. But that let's hope that they can do something.
In good news in soccer about to be announced at
Opter Stadium, I think with Rita Safioti and her team
done an amazing job here, Soccer US are back here
next June blockbuster v Japan Opta Stadium in the lead
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up to the World Cup. All right, world type Cup
qualifier and it could be that we just need to
be Japan and we're in the World Cup. Wow, the
twenty twenty six World Cup happening here, happening here? Can
you imagine? I remember John Aluisi when he scored that
goal and round around the field, took his shirt off
and one of the great sporting moments in Australian history
couping here thanks to Rita at OPTAs Stadium. They get
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a good crowd in for that made it b blockbuster.
So I hope that works out. We could advance to
the twenty twenty six World Cup the USA. It's in USA,
Canada and Mexico in it. I think they they're sharing
it around. Yeah, so pretty good. And finally on soccer
before we just took a little bit of afl W
last night. A lot of Spurs fans here because van
sepasta Cooglar. Yes they won? Was it four nil or
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five nil? Five nil? Yeah? Five nil?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
He was under a bit of pressure.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah, and guess what he beat Southampton five nil and
guess what happened? The other manager got sacked, just sacked, Diager,
I tell you I've just gone No, that was terrible.
You're out power. He would be a manager. Football clubs
are just continually paying out people. You're either sacked or
you're about to get sacked, I say, isn't it they're
going to get relegated.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
That's your sir, Alex Ferguson, you're about He's about the
only one who ever goes that, ever went out on
his own turn exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Yeah, that was Moldhouse's philosophy. You're either sacked or you're
about to be sacked when you're a coach. And every
time he lost two games in a row, he thought
he was going to get sacked. So he was just unbearable,
Like you just drive, you're going to win this week.
I'm going to get sacked. He was like that said
he was thinking and big cheery. Yeah, a zippy fish
eastromantor player who's going to get drafted tonight. Molli O'Hare
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get drafted as well. And young Claudia right from the
Subie juniors, my old club, she was in iz Kick
and now she's gone all the way to the afl W.
Just great stories and what a great name Zippy Fish
and she's quick too, thank god, living after the name.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
We're not going to sack you. We're going to rehire
you on Friday. Come in and tell us what's happening
next weekend in Sport. We will see you then.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Good on your brother. I thank you very much