August 28, 2025 • 8 mins
Barra dropped this week’s sporting gossip: the All Stars won the Legends game despite Ben Cousins missing due to surgery, while Dave Hughes was hospitalised with cracked ribs and a punctured lung. Jordan Clark and Caleb Serong made the All Australian Team, but no Eagles were selected. Murphy Reid was voted best first-year player, Lisa asked how it differs from the Rising Star award. Plus Barra commended Bailey Smith upfront discussion about his mental health battle. In tennis, Taylor Townsend and Jelena Ostapenko had a heated exchange after their second-round match Plus, if you see the Matagarup Bridge and the Graham Farmer Tunnel lit up red and blue this weekend - its in honour the Australian ice hockey finals.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
West took sport with the Adrian Barrage.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
When you've got to get work here, you've got to
get into work Clobber. Their eight trade stores are everywhere,
so when you need it you can get it or
check out worklubber dot com dot a'tus NOFL games with
plenty of AFL.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
News, Yeah there is. And it was weird.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Last night the Legends game was on, so they brought
back all the old Legends to play in a charity
game for prostrate cancer. Prostagous just fix that up for me,
and they had the All Australian selection as well. On television.
It was the AFL Awards Night and the actual Legends
(00:39):
game rated its pants off. People love seeing the old
boys come back and play. Some of them look like
they'd swallowed the sheep, you know what I mean, Like
Brandon Favola fared income me. I swallowed the sheep. There's
no mirrors at my place either, by the way, and
Sarah REALI he has lost nothing. He kicked a goal
out of the middle. He kicked it out of the square,
so it would have been about seventy five eighty meters.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
He didn't kick it that far in his day.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I know he was a talk as well.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I'm thinking of ringing him up and getting into per
footy club next year with the Brandon Parfit. So the
All Stars basically won the game. They beat the Victorians.
And how's this cause he didn't play, he was a
late withdraw. Yeah, I think they crossed to his hotel.
Hotel room, to his hospital room. I was having surgery
on his knees.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Let him have his surgery.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Famous he was under sedation. What's that song? I'm under sedation.
Let's let's stop Williams. I think he is thinking time. Yeah, yeah,
where were you going? Anyway? So then, and guess what
(01:45):
happened as well?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Poor old Hughsey, you know Dave Hughes, he got run
through by someone. I don't know if it was gorange,
the influenza or some redhead anyway, and he's ended up
in hospital. What so he is in hospital with cracked
ribs and a punctured law Dave Hughes, can you do
radio with those things going on?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
And they were crossing his room as well, don't worry
about that.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
So the other thing that was on, of course, was
the All Australian team and as we forecast yesterday. Great
to see docer Jordan Clark in the team. This wonderful guy.
Great and great. You know, it just deserves to be there.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
It wasn't the only one, was it.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah, and Caleb's wrong. So Caleb's third time, Jordan's first time.
Let me just say, what about the Eagles. Let me
just check my notes. No Eagles, No Eagles, not this
year later, Harley soon Murphy Reid, the other Reid, was
voted best first year Player.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
A Star of the making, different from the Rising Star award.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah, so this Murphy Reid is voted in by the players, okay,
is the best first year player?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Oh? Okay? And the Rising Star is awarded by a panel.
So it looks like he could go two.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I reckon he'll get it on Brownlow Night as well,
so that would be massive. Bailey Smith and Noah Anderson
were the joint winners of the Coaches Awards, so it's
the best player the competition. And then you don't expect
news to be broken at events like this. But then
Smiley he opened up to the presenter and talked about
when he wrecked his knee last year and just how
(03:12):
bad his mental health battle was.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Listen to this. It was about a year ago.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
I got out of a cycle. It I was in
Epworth Campbell for like four weeks and I got a
couple of hours out of day and I spent that
sort of training and I went through a really dark
time and yeah, I didn't think i'd get to I
suppose the other side. And it's not a sympathy for
me thing. It's just more to raise. When it's that
you can put your hand up and yeah, I don't know.
(03:38):
It's a tough period, but yeah, it wouldn't change it
for the world. Always makes sense in retrospect, So just know, yeah,
whatever dark period you're going through, one day it will
makes sense.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, you finished with a positive there that you know,
he looked like he was in a real bad space,
but he got out of it and now he reflects
on it. It's probably what he had to do. So
that was quite a REMARKA would hear the best player
in the camp open up? Like now the Dockers are
tickets they're going on sale at ten o'clock, So what
time is it now? You got just under two hours
to get ready, get on ticket Master. You've got to
(04:08):
go in Earler that's the tricks in five minutes early
start logging, logging, logging, logging.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Until I don't know, it's bail. It's a bit sends
you through.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah, we bet the old days, I know, right.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
And I reckon all time, big crowd for the Dockers.
I reckon they'll be record.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Do you think there'll be any left for the general
public at three pm?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
They do hold some back.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
It's a strange thing they have to do because they're well,
I suppose it's not strange, but anyway, that's what they do.
So fifty eight nine and eighty two is the record
for the Dockers. That was the first ever AFL final
at OPTAs. So I reckon they'll burst through that. I'll
smash through that.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
That is live coverage of Dave Hughes last night, but
it was from his hospital bed this morning. Apparently he
because Dave Hughes got taken out during the Legends game,
five broken ribs and a punctured lung, but he he
played on through cause he's not tough, hung around for
the after party, got over at two am, and then
(05:06):
got his wife to drive him to the hospital in
the very early hours of this morning.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
It's always when you lie down and you cool down
and you go, oh, think I've done something?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Do you shut Upole? I didn't walk it off.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
May they feel so bad you bruise them and you think, yeah,
back in sixteen, you know, I go into the toilet
is the worst. Imagine coughing. You said someone broke their
ribs cock.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
To the girl in Melbourne who she was had such
a bad fluid. She was coughing so much she broke
a rib.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
That is unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Now ready with the pronunciations. You know what do we
need Julian Us Open Tennis? Can you help me out?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Actually? These these ones are okay.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
So there was an incredible match last night Taylor Town's End,
Thank you very much American and Cereal hotthead Elena Ostapenko,
she was involved. After their match, they had a heated exchange.
I love that word. Heated exchange. They met for a
postmatch handshake and then they started finger wagging. Osta Pinko
(06:04):
was wagging like she was doing a kata. Basically yeah
yeah yeah, but her American opponents.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Nothing worse than a finger in your face.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I disrespectful flares things, doesn't it does? She reckoned that
Town's ind the American was being disrespectful because she hit
a netball at a very decisive moment and she didn't
say sorry, do.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
You know what a netball is?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
You know when it hits kIPS the net and goes
over and you normally go, oh, that was a fluke. Sorry,
she didn't do that, so she got upset Ostapinko. And
then for her part, Townsend said Ostapinko had insulted her
after the post match handshake, and you might have the
audio listen to how she described it.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
She told me, I have no class, I have no education,
and to see what happens when we get outside the US.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
She's going after an outside the car part next huge
so possibly racial undertones that reckon turb it anyway, no class,
no education. I'll see what happens now when we've been
here outside the US. Anyway, While for weekend it's huge, Lease,
I am I able tomorrow your your Royals versus the
(07:11):
Tigers and Revo Fitness Stadium.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Go the Mighty Royals.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Yeah, and then the big one, sudden death, Good Grocer
Park east from Antal versus Perth be there or b
Square calling all demons, fans calling all demons fans come
out like a phoenix out of the ashes and quickly.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
You've had a great year. Yeah, it's been well done.
So we can get and thank you and a little
one a lot more than just me, but.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
You're their spiritual leader.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Quickly.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Have you seen all the monuments around Perth, like Matta,
Garrett Bridge and Graham Farmer Tunnel all being sort of
in red and blue?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
And I was thinking that must be for West Perth
or the Bulldogs or something. It was actually four Australian
ice hockey. Well, the finals are on over the next
three days. Yeah, the per thunder will play the Melbourne
Mustangs in Melbourne today one pm our time. Get down
to Varsity and Morley if you want to watch it,
it's on ESPN. And if they win, they'll play the
(08:09):
Camera Brave in a semi final tomorrow, also at one
o'clock out time. If they win that, they'll be into
the grand final on Sunday at midday.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
So go the Gary.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Scary game ice hockey.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Don't let Dave Hughes play. He's a big softy year.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
That's what happens when soft humans meet former footballers.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
That's what happens.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I'll just quickly be serious for one second. There's an
alarming news story today as well. You might heard it
in our news Adam Hunter posthumously diagnosed with CTE, so
that will become a big issue in footy.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I guess that is a big issue in foot there
West took sport with the Adrian Barrage.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
When you've got to get work here, you've got to
get into work Clobber. Their eight trade stores are everywhere,
so when you need it you can get it or
check out worklubber dot com dot a'tus NOFL games with
plenty of AFL.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
News, Yeah there is. And it was weird.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Last night the Legends game was on, so they brought
back all the old Legends to play in a charity
game for prostrate cancer. Prostagous just fix that up for me,
and they had the All Australian selection as well. On television.
It was the AFL Awards Night and the actual Legends
(00:39):
game rated its pants off. People love seeing the old
boys come back and play. Some of them look like
they'd swallowed the sheep, you know what I mean, Like
Brandon Favola fared income me. I swallowed the sheep. There's
no mirrors at my place either, by the way, and
Sarah REALI he has lost nothing. He kicked a goal
out of the middle. He kicked it out of the square,
so it would have been about seventy five eighty meters.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
He didn't kick it that far in his day.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I know he was a talk as well.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I'm thinking of ringing him up and getting into per
footy club next year with the Brandon Parfit. So the
All Stars basically won the game. They beat the Victorians.
And how's this cause he didn't play, he was a
late withdraw. Yeah, I think they crossed to his hotel.
Hotel room, to his hospital room. I was having surgery
on his knees.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Let him have his surgery.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Famous he was under sedation. What's that song? I'm under sedation.
Let's let's stop Williams. I think he is thinking time. Yeah, yeah,
where were you going? Anyway? So then, and guess what
(01:45):
happened as well?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Poor old Hughsey, you know Dave Hughes, he got run
through by someone. I don't know if it was gorange,
the influenza or some redhead anyway, and he's ended up
in hospital. What so he is in hospital with cracked
ribs and a punctured law Dave Hughes, can you do
radio with those things going on?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
And they were crossing his room as well, don't worry
about that.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
So the other thing that was on, of course, was
the All Australian team and as we forecast yesterday. Great
to see docer Jordan Clark in the team. This wonderful guy.
Great and great. You know, it just deserves to be there.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
It wasn't the only one, was it.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah, and Caleb's wrong. So Caleb's third time, Jordan's first time.
Let me just say, what about the Eagles. Let me
just check my notes. No Eagles, No Eagles, not this
year later, Harley soon Murphy Reid, the other Reid, was
voted best first year Player.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
A Star of the making, different from the Rising Star award.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah, so this Murphy Reid is voted in by the players, okay,
is the best first year player?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Oh? Okay? And the Rising Star is awarded by a panel.
So it looks like he could go two.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I reckon he'll get it on Brownlow Night as well,
so that would be massive. Bailey Smith and Noah Anderson
were the joint winners of the Coaches Awards, so it's
the best player the competition. And then you don't expect
news to be broken at events like this. But then
Smiley he opened up to the presenter and talked about
when he wrecked his knee last year and just how
(03:12):
bad his mental health battle was.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Listen to this. It was about a year ago.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
I got out of a cycle. It I was in
Epworth Campbell for like four weeks and I got a
couple of hours out of day and I spent that
sort of training and I went through a really dark
time and yeah, I didn't think i'd get to I
suppose the other side. And it's not a sympathy for
me thing. It's just more to raise. When it's that
you can put your hand up and yeah, I don't know.
(03:38):
It's a tough period, but yeah, it wouldn't change it
for the world. Always makes sense in retrospect, So just know, yeah,
whatever dark period you're going through, one day it will
makes sense.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, you finished with a positive there that you know,
he looked like he was in a real bad space,
but he got out of it and now he reflects
on it. It's probably what he had to do. So
that was quite a REMARKA would hear the best player
in the camp open up? Like now the Dockers are
tickets they're going on sale at ten o'clock, So what
time is it now? You got just under two hours
to get ready, get on ticket Master. You've got to
(04:08):
go in Earler that's the tricks in five minutes early
start logging, logging, logging, logging.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Until I don't know, it's bail. It's a bit sends
you through.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah, we bet the old days, I know, right.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
And I reckon all time, big crowd for the Dockers.
I reckon they'll be record.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Do you think there'll be any left for the general
public at three pm?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
They do hold some back.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
It's a strange thing they have to do because they're well,
I suppose it's not strange, but anyway, that's what they do.
So fifty eight nine and eighty two is the record
for the Dockers. That was the first ever AFL final
at OPTAs. So I reckon they'll burst through that. I'll
smash through that.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
That is live coverage of Dave Hughes last night, but
it was from his hospital bed this morning. Apparently he
because Dave Hughes got taken out during the Legends game,
five broken ribs and a punctured lung, but he he
played on through cause he's not tough, hung around for
the after party, got over at two am, and then
(05:06):
got his wife to drive him to the hospital in
the very early hours of this morning.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
It's always when you lie down and you cool down
and you go, oh, think I've done something?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Do you shut Upole? I didn't walk it off.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
May they feel so bad you bruise them and you think, yeah,
back in sixteen, you know, I go into the toilet
is the worst. Imagine coughing. You said someone broke their
ribs cock.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
To the girl in Melbourne who she was had such
a bad fluid. She was coughing so much she broke
a rib.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
That is unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Now ready with the pronunciations. You know what do we
need Julian Us Open Tennis? Can you help me out?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Actually? These these ones are okay.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
So there was an incredible match last night Taylor Town's End,
Thank you very much American and Cereal hotthead Elena Ostapenko,
she was involved. After their match, they had a heated exchange.
I love that word. Heated exchange. They met for a
postmatch handshake and then they started finger wagging. Osta Pinko
(06:04):
was wagging like she was doing a kata. Basically yeah
yeah yeah, but her American opponents.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Nothing worse than a finger in your face.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I disrespectful flares things, doesn't it does? She reckoned that
Town's ind the American was being disrespectful because she hit
a netball at a very decisive moment and she didn't
say sorry, do.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
You know what a netball is?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
You know when it hits kIPS the net and goes
over and you normally go, oh, that was a fluke. Sorry,
she didn't do that, so she got upset Ostapinko. And
then for her part, Townsend said Ostapinko had insulted her
after the post match handshake, and you might have the
audio listen to how she described it.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
She told me, I have no class, I have no education,
and to see what happens when we get outside the US.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
She's going after an outside the car part next huge
so possibly racial undertones that reckon turb it anyway, no class,
no education. I'll see what happens now when we've been
here outside the US. Anyway, While for weekend it's huge, Lease,
I am I able tomorrow your your Royals versus the
(07:11):
Tigers and Revo Fitness Stadium.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Go the Mighty Royals.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Yeah, and then the big one, sudden death, Good Grocer
Park east from Antal versus Perth be there or b
Square calling all demons, fans calling all demons fans come
out like a phoenix out of the ashes and quickly.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
You've had a great year. Yeah, it's been well done.
So we can get and thank you and a little
one a lot more than just me, but.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
You're their spiritual leader.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Quickly.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Have you seen all the monuments around Perth, like Matta,
Garrett Bridge and Graham Farmer Tunnel all being sort of
in red and blue?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
And I was thinking that must be for West Perth
or the Bulldogs or something. It was actually four Australian
ice hockey. Well, the finals are on over the next
three days. Yeah, the per thunder will play the Melbourne
Mustangs in Melbourne today one pm our time. Get down
to Varsity and Morley if you want to watch it,
it's on ESPN. And if they win, they'll play the
(08:09):
Camera Brave in a semi final tomorrow, also at one
o'clock out time. If they win that, they'll be into
the grand final on Sunday at midday.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
So go the Gary.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Scary game ice hockey.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Don't let Dave Hughes play. He's a big softy year.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
That's what happens when soft humans meet former footballers.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
That's what happens.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I'll just quickly be serious for one second. There's an
alarming news story today as well. You might heard it
in our news Adam Hunter posthumously diagnosed with CTE, so
that will become a big issue in footy.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I guess that is a big issue in foot there
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