Port Adelaide Great Travis Boak Retires Just Short Of Milestone

Travis Bok: An AFL Legend Retires

After nearly two decades, Port Adelaide star Travis Boak has decided to hang up the boots. On today's show, we pay tribute to Boaky's illustrious 384 game career and impact on the Power. Get the inside scoop on his decision to walk away from the game and look back on his greatest moments. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
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We have to pay tribute to one of the all
type great I do love Gabamwag and here we talk
about him for ages. But no, it's Travis's day. Yesterday,
Travis Bok decided he was hanging up the boots for

(00:31):
port Adelaide three hundred and eighty four AFL games, which
means he is seventh all time in most games played.
Only six blokes have played more AFL games than him,
three time All Australian, three showdoun medals, He's won a
bunch of bnfs. Six years as the captain, he has
hung up the boots.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
The last three years. I've been saying to Mama, this
will be my last year, and she hasn't missed the
game since then. But yeah, this year's been a challenge
for sure. My body was probably the first to go,
and then yeah, my mind sort of was pretty quickly
after that that I can't do what I used to
be able to do, and my passion for what's next
is almost more now than than playing for you.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Oh, passion for what's next?

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yes, He said he wanted to become like a performance coach,
so he might still stay in footy, maybe even at
Port Adelaide and do that sort of stuff, stay in
the performance mental coaching. He's always been like that. He's
really driven, like rehab and preparing himself.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
He is universally loved.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Isn't he? He is? And I don't think you can
say that about a whole lot of people that play AFL,
especially people that play AFL where you have such a
crazy rivalry like Crows. Yeah, you should automatically just hate
all of them.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
I mean you can't, though you can't hate him.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Not many people hate Travis Bok, and I think it's
because of what he has done throughout his career. So
he was drafted back in two thousand and six. There
are a lot of people who support Port Adelaide that
actually don't know Port without Travis Bok.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, that was so long, a long time ago.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
My god. He played with Peter Bergoyan right in the
early days. He now plays in the same sun as Peter,
at the same team as Peter Bourgoin's son, Oh Jay's plays.
That's how long Travis has been there, Peter.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
It's nice and old.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
You could make a case that Travis Boke is top
three Port Adelaide AFL players of all time. There's like him,
Robbie Gray were on treadray and your man Gavin one game,
I would suggest they're thefore. Yeah, put him on afore.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
He's in the Hall of Fame now.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
And here's why everyone loves him so much. It's because
he's loyal. So he is a talkie boy over near Geelong.
And in twenty twelve Port Adelaide sucked like worse than
right now, sucked terrible worse than right now. Is that possible? Yeah,
thank you, leave the door open for you, just walk
right in. They were woeful and Geelong obviously his hometown club,

(02:45):
they flew all of their coaches over here to come
and speak to Trav and try and recruit him to
Geelong and they were a great team then they're still
a great team now. If he gone he would have
won multiple premierships. And he decided to stay and it
was like a turning point for the entire football club.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
I'm so grateful for this footy club. It's it's not
an understatement to say that this footy club perhaps and
be here without this man, you know, and our fans
should be recognizing Travis like no one else.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Wow, that does say a lot about his Like, that's
an amazing thing to do, saying no to his hometown.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
He could have gone to his hometown pretty much one
of the most successful footy clubs in the last two
decades and he decided to stay here. And the I
will say, it's a culture of success. And I know
a lot of poor people will be like they never
want a premiership, but they made prelims all the time,
and they were won a heap of games and a
lot of it. Most of it is to do with
a decision like that in twenty twelve from Travis bog.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
It's also like, as someone who doesn't love football, I
go for the heart and soul of people. And he
has a great heart and so he always gives back
to charities and things like that too.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Does and he's a heart and soul of the football club. Yeah,
he's always generous with his time. Sam Power Pepper moved
over here from wa and didn't have any family and
he lived with Travis Boke just giving me goosebumps.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
See, he's a lovely man. You could have you reckon
there'll be some power fans would be crying today. They
were actual tears.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Absolutely yesterday there would have been support people crying. He
is a he's on the mount rushball of the football
club and we're gonna lose him. Now I'm gonna lose him.
And he is a good looking he is a look
and he's a tall glass of water traveling.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
If you want to say, give you two bobs for
for Boky, We've got to Bye Bye Bokey hotline. If
you want to call us I numbers thirteen one oh
two three Port fans.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
If you want to reminisce about your favorite moments Crows fans.
If you want to say how good it is to
see the back of someone that torched you so many times?
He did win three showdown metals. He was good.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
I'd like to use something bad about him because it
seems like the perfect guy. We've got any dirt on Boky.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
That's also welcome. It's a bye Bye Bokey hotline thirty
one oh two three. We'd love to hear from you.
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