November 20, 2025 • 9 mins
Barra joined Lisa & Russell in the studio to talk all things sport. He is stoked that The Ashes is in town and described it as an honour. With some Aussie injuries - could this be a real chance for England to win? Plus - AFL drafts have been announced. Barra has the latest.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Time for barriers bits. Well, good morning, hey guys, finally here.
I know it feels like a long time coming. Yeah,
but as a sports lover, it feels really great, almost
an honor to host the first Ashes test in Perth.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Off the stadium.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
We're already seeing the all the tourists walking down street
out of the studio window.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Here we know where they're going.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Such a great vibe from Subi, you know, to the stadium, Lathlane, Rivervale.
You know, everyone's staying in this precinct is sensational everywhere,
cricket fans walking past the studio.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
As you said, you know who I feel sorry for?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Who? A worker who wakes up today and feels very
unwell and rings his boss and goes, hey mate, it's
really sick. You're going to have a hard time.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Shut up, Joey, especially going to cricket. No, I'm really sick.
I want him sick day please. So, So it's a
real who's who too. I'll tell you this.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I'll go through the list of the people who are
here at the moment, amazing everyone anyone who's anyone in
Australia or English cricket is in Perth. So who wins
pretty tight, so many unknowns. Australia hasn't gone into a
big Test like this without two of their big four bowlers,
which is obviously Cummens and Hazelwood. So a real chance
for England. I reckon it's a sixty to forty game.
(01:22):
The Poms haven't won here since the seventies. Seventy eight
David Gower was playing.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Remember I remember him of the hair and elegant Star.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
And there's two debutantes for Australia, Brendan Doggett and Jake Weatherall.
Actually we had Justin Langer on this morning and Justin
and I had a bit of a moment regarding Brendan Doggett.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Have listened to it. Listened to this moment.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Brendan Doggett like a greyhound. Wait this thing as fit
as you like?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
And greyhound dogg.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Also, yeah, where you go my coverage call to a dog?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Oh my god?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Here if that makes the headline tomorrow when he takes
five wickeards from the gohound dogg and I'll send you
the commission.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Okay, best to have my life, Berty good. So you're
catching on seven. The coverage starts about nine o'clock.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Actually the big j L. Yeah, so well saying so
who's who?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
So down the road from the stadium, at the Camfield,
at Crown, all the hotels around the city, the Empire Bar.
So have a listen to the bloke because everyone's come
over and they're all earning cash on the side at
gigs right like it's incredible. So they either work for
TV and gigs or TV and radio plus the cash
on the side the taxmill.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Have a few days of these people, so I have
seen thanks for the ATO crack down there.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
They're all getting between two and ten grand to do functions.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Did you get that at down and it's cash?
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Someone not?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, mate, d i'd the host for free Sir James
Anderson here, Michael Atherton, David.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Boom Yeah, but Bernie's here.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
A thousand Bert Both's here, I and both of them,
Stuart Broad's Alistair Cook. Some of these spokes have been Knight.
It's it's unbelievable, really, isn't it. Jason Gillespie, Gilly obviously,
David Rodney, Holk, Kim Hughes, merv Ews heck, even Gladston
Small's here, Gladston Gladston Gladston Small.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
You remember the music man.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Justin Langer obviously mentioned Monty Panas, Ricky Ponting, Graham Swan,
Mark Taylor, Mark.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Vad Mark, who's not here right, I don't think that Tomo.
There was a function yesterday at Crown which I didn't
get paid for.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Honey Jager. Damian Fleming was the MC, and there was
three poems. David Gower, Phil Tufnell as funny spoke in
history and Jeff Thompson who looked.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
A bit under the weather to be honest. Chris Stewart
Broad was there.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Then three Aussies Tomo, Dizzy Gillespie and Mitchell Johnson and Mate.
They were just on fire, absolutely on fire. Look Out
for Ben Stokes's new shoes, bespoke cricket shoes.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
What is bespoke mean? Please least made just for him?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Is that? What have made yes for him?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Well, he's going to be wearing these shoes with a
bird on the heel, which as a tribute to his
late dad Jed, and looks like a Serbian bird, you know,
like that Novak wears, you know, the sort of eagle. Yeah,
so look out for that. That'll be on the coverage.
But the classic for me was Steve Smith versus Monty Panasa.
I went to the media conference yesterday and Monty Panasar,
(04:38):
who's a former bowler for England, right spin bowler, not
very good. He got belted by Gilly one day, absolutely
belted out of the whacker. Monty suggested that the English
should hound Smith about sampaper Gate, bring it all up again,
starts legging him, get stuck into him. So Smith he
was none too happy about that, and he said, mate,
you shouldn't listen to that bloke. Did you see him
(05:00):
on Celebrity Mastermind? And we went no, we didn't, actually
what happened? So he must have an IQ about fifteen Monty,
because I haven't listened to some of the answers he
come up with. He thought Athens was in Germany, he
thought Oliver Twist was a season, and he even thought
America was a city.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Just let's have a bit of a listener.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
This is a yeah, who have you in the room
have seen Mastermind and Monty Panasar on that? Any of you? Yeah, Well,
those of you have you'll understand where I'm coming from.
And those of you haven't do yourself a favor because
it's pretty comical.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
In which city is the olympir Study On, built for
the nineteen seventy two Olympics and where Germany's national football
team pleayed international matches until two.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Thousand and one. Roads lead to Perth Stadium today, would
I be right, Barrah?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, and I'm calling it Optus Stadium. I don't care, Mad,
I've gone out and been a rebel. It's Optus today
for me. I was just a big cheerio to for
great Bobby Shields. He's got the Lucky Shag, which is
a place opposite the Bell Town Love the Lucky Shag.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Such a great location. The food's always good, the drinks
are good. I like that.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Did you see the BBC crew there yesterday? Because it's
been taken over by the tour and froms because.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
It sounds like an English pub name.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Is that what it sounds like? Well?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yes it does, yeah, yeah, thanks.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Well the sign out a sign out the front says,
let your Perth adventures start with the Lucky Shag, and
the poms think it's the funniest thing ever and they're
just taking photos and setting him out. What the Lucky
show A look at this, it says, Brady, brilliant, buddy,
It is funny funny bab I love them. I wonder
they started our country. I guess look AFL draft right
(06:50):
they did land it. You've got a few convicts.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
And what else is going on there?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Right on to the draft Big week and there's a
kid by the name of Charlie Banfields, son of Drew
Banfield and Amber.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
But his dad right.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Two sixty five games to the Eagles, two flags, all right,
club champion, number one draft pick, Rookie of the Year,
best clubman, any danger.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
The Eagles that pick him? Please? He's gone of the Saints.
I can't believe it, and honestly can't believe it. Otherwise
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
They just ran out of picks. They didn't have enough spots.
So Eagles otherwise did pretty well. Kobe Evans, though, was
in their NNGA Next Generation Academy and he's gone to Brisbane,
so they missed him. But they got Willem Durzmar, who's
a very good dancer by the way, and good mates
with Harley. He looks really good, rock forward, Cooper duff
Titler he looks really good and Josh Lindsay very good kick.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
So overall, would you say they've done well out of
the drive very very well.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Yeah, apart from Banfield, So twenty thirty should be winning
the flag.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
It's good if I'm still around, hold me to it.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
The Dockers Adam Swede calling him little Weed like from
Bill and Ben Adam Sweed one hundred and seventy eight cent.
I met a midfielder and Mason Cox, the famous American pie.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
He's getting huge. Is he going to come over your record? Yeah? Absolutely, Yeah,
he's thirty four.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Hey, there's big basketball news. I'll go out with this.
I'm going to test you out, Perth. Get ready because
one of the biggest legends in NBL history, NBA history,
NBA history is touching down for Hoops Fest in January.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I'll give a few clues.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I'm talking about the man with the most famous crossover
in NBA history. Doing a crossover? Is it when you
change hands and you're just very hard to do in basketball?
You change direction really quickly. No, former League MVP Hall
of Famer.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Six's is it? Michael Jordan.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
He had an iconic press con We're getting closer, Larry
Bird iconic media conference where he said practice, We're talking
about practice, man, We're talking about practice. Twenty six times
he said it his nicknames. The answer and was a
I Brett Bryce Cotton's idol. His name is I don't
(09:06):
know Alan Iverson, never of him.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I've never heard of him. I've heard the name back
in the Harlem Globetrot. He's a genius, guys right week,
Hi
Time for barriers bits. Well, good morning, hey guys, finally here.
I know it feels like a long time coming. Yeah,
but as a sports lover, it feels really great, almost
an honor to host the first Ashes test in Perth.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Off the stadium.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
We're already seeing the all the tourists walking down street
out of the studio window.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Here we know where they're going.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Such a great vibe from Subi, you know, to the stadium, Lathlane, Rivervale.
You know, everyone's staying in this precinct is sensational everywhere,
cricket fans walking past the studio.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
As you said, you know who I feel sorry for?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Who? A worker who wakes up today and feels very
unwell and rings his boss and goes, hey mate, it's
really sick. You're going to have a hard time.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Shut up, Joey, especially going to cricket. No, I'm really sick.
I want him sick day please. So, So it's a
real who's who too. I'll tell you this.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I'll go through the list of the people who are
here at the moment, amazing everyone anyone who's anyone in
Australia or English cricket is in Perth. So who wins
pretty tight, so many unknowns. Australia hasn't gone into a
big Test like this without two of their big four bowlers,
which is obviously Cummens and Hazelwood. So a real chance
for England. I reckon it's a sixty to forty game.
(01:22):
The Poms haven't won here since the seventies. Seventy eight
David Gower was playing.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Remember I remember him of the hair and elegant Star.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
And there's two debutantes for Australia, Brendan Doggett and Jake Weatherall.
Actually we had Justin Langer on this morning and Justin
and I had a bit of a moment regarding Brendan Doggett.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Have listened to it. Listened to this moment.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Brendan Doggett like a greyhound. Wait this thing as fit
as you like?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
And greyhound dogg.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Also, yeah, where you go my coverage call to a dog?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Oh my god?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Here if that makes the headline tomorrow when he takes
five wickeards from the gohound dogg and I'll send you
the commission.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Okay, best to have my life, Berty good. So you're
catching on seven. The coverage starts about nine o'clock.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Actually the big j L. Yeah, so well saying so
who's who?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
So down the road from the stadium, at the Camfield,
at Crown, all the hotels around the city, the Empire Bar.
So have a listen to the bloke because everyone's come
over and they're all earning cash on the side at
gigs right like it's incredible. So they either work for
TV and gigs or TV and radio plus the cash
on the side the taxmill.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Have a few days of these people, so I have
seen thanks for the ATO crack down there.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
They're all getting between two and ten grand to do functions.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Did you get that at down and it's cash?
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Someone not?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, mate, d i'd the host for free Sir James
Anderson here, Michael Atherton, David.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Boom Yeah, but Bernie's here.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
A thousand Bert Both's here, I and both of them,
Stuart Broad's Alistair Cook. Some of these spokes have been Knight.
It's it's unbelievable, really, isn't it. Jason Gillespie, Gilly obviously,
David Rodney, Holk, Kim Hughes, merv Ews heck, even Gladston
Small's here, Gladston Gladston Gladston Small.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
You remember the music man.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Justin Langer obviously mentioned Monty Panas, Ricky Ponting, Graham Swan,
Mark Taylor, Mark.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Vad Mark, who's not here right, I don't think that Tomo.
There was a function yesterday at Crown which I didn't
get paid for.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Honey Jager. Damian Fleming was the MC, and there was
three poems. David Gower, Phil Tufnell as funny spoke in
history and Jeff Thompson who looked.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
A bit under the weather to be honest. Chris Stewart
Broad was there.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Then three Aussies Tomo, Dizzy Gillespie and Mitchell Johnson and Mate.
They were just on fire, absolutely on fire. Look Out
for Ben Stokes's new shoes, bespoke cricket shoes.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
What is bespoke mean? Please least made just for him?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Is that? What have made yes for him?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Well, he's going to be wearing these shoes with a
bird on the heel, which as a tribute to his
late dad Jed, and looks like a Serbian bird, you know,
like that Novak wears, you know, the sort of eagle. Yeah,
so look out for that. That'll be on the coverage.
But the classic for me was Steve Smith versus Monty Panasa.
I went to the media conference yesterday and Monty Panasar,
(04:38):
who's a former bowler for England, right spin bowler, not
very good. He got belted by Gilly one day, absolutely
belted out of the whacker. Monty suggested that the English
should hound Smith about sampaper Gate, bring it all up again,
starts legging him, get stuck into him. So Smith he
was none too happy about that, and he said, mate,
you shouldn't listen to that bloke. Did you see him
(05:00):
on Celebrity Mastermind? And we went no, we didn't, actually
what happened? So he must have an IQ about fifteen Monty,
because I haven't listened to some of the answers he
come up with. He thought Athens was in Germany, he
thought Oliver Twist was a season, and he even thought
America was a city.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Just let's have a bit of a listener.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
This is a yeah, who have you in the room
have seen Mastermind and Monty Panasar on that? Any of you? Yeah, Well,
those of you have you'll understand where I'm coming from.
And those of you haven't do yourself a favor because
it's pretty comical.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
In which city is the olympir Study On, built for
the nineteen seventy two Olympics and where Germany's national football
team pleayed international matches until two.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Thousand and one. Roads lead to Perth Stadium today, would
I be right, Barrah?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, and I'm calling it Optus Stadium. I don't care, Mad,
I've gone out and been a rebel. It's Optus today
for me. I was just a big cheerio to for
great Bobby Shields. He's got the Lucky Shag, which is
a place opposite the Bell Town Love the Lucky Shag.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Such a great location. The food's always good, the drinks
are good. I like that.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Did you see the BBC crew there yesterday? Because it's
been taken over by the tour and froms because.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
It sounds like an English pub name.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Is that what it sounds like? Well?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yes it does, yeah, yeah, thanks.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Well the sign out a sign out the front says,
let your Perth adventures start with the Lucky Shag, and
the poms think it's the funniest thing ever and they're
just taking photos and setting him out. What the Lucky
show A look at this, it says, Brady, brilliant, buddy,
It is funny funny bab I love them. I wonder
they started our country. I guess look AFL draft right
(06:50):
they did land it. You've got a few convicts.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
And what else is going on there?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Right on to the draft Big week and there's a
kid by the name of Charlie Banfields, son of Drew
Banfield and Amber.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
But his dad right.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Two sixty five games to the Eagles, two flags, all right,
club champion, number one draft pick, Rookie of the Year,
best clubman, any danger.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
The Eagles that pick him? Please? He's gone of the Saints.
I can't believe it, and honestly can't believe it. Otherwise
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
They just ran out of picks. They didn't have enough spots.
So Eagles otherwise did pretty well. Kobe Evans, though, was
in their NNGA Next Generation Academy and he's gone to Brisbane,
so they missed him. But they got Willem Durzmar, who's
a very good dancer by the way, and good mates
with Harley. He looks really good, rock forward, Cooper duff
Titler he looks really good and Josh Lindsay very good kick.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
So overall, would you say they've done well out of
the drive very very well.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Yeah, apart from Banfield, So twenty thirty should be winning
the flag.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
It's good if I'm still around, hold me to it.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
The Dockers Adam Swede calling him little Weed like from
Bill and Ben Adam Sweed one hundred and seventy eight cent.
I met a midfielder and Mason Cox, the famous American pie.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
He's getting huge. Is he going to come over your record? Yeah? Absolutely, Yeah,
he's thirty four.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Hey, there's big basketball news. I'll go out with this.
I'm going to test you out, Perth. Get ready because
one of the biggest legends in NBL history, NBA history,
NBA history is touching down for Hoops Fest in January.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I'll give a few clues.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I'm talking about the man with the most famous crossover
in NBA history. Doing a crossover? Is it when you
change hands and you're just very hard to do in basketball?
You change direction really quickly. No, former League MVP Hall
of Famer.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Six's is it? Michael Jordan.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
He had an iconic press con We're getting closer, Larry
Bird iconic media conference where he said practice, We're talking
about practice, man, We're talking about practice. Twenty six times
he said it his nicknames. The answer and was a
I Brett Bryce Cotton's idol. His name is I don't
(09:06):
know Alan Iverson, never of him.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I've never heard of him. I've heard the name back
in the Harlem Globetrot. He's a genius, guys right week,
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