December 13, 2023 • 26 mins
On the final episode of the year, Chris Coleman and Adam Jansen take a look back at the big moments and results from a great year in sport!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Super Serious Sports Show with Chris Coleman and Adam Jansen.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Adam Jansen, ordinarily around this time I would ask you
what's caught your eye in the last week of the Sport.
But it is the final edition of The Super Serious
Sports Show for twenty twenty three and possibly ever. We'll
find out next year. What's caught your eye this year
in sport?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
I plan on coming back.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
That's nice. Okay, okay, I.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Caught my eye this year in sport.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I haven't an official renewal letter, so you know.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Co host pending.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Okay, look at all this. Oh good lord, he's done prep.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Yeah, it's been the year of prep.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
We will note at the week commencing the December he
actually did prep.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Something did catch my eye?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
This What did catch your eye this year?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Wasn't the Lakers?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
No, no, no, they won?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
They did.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I won a thing.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I know It's on my list.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Okay, Fullham. Good. Look they've won twice, five mill in
a row.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
They've won by a combined title of ten nil in
their previous two games. They're coming for that title.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Chris Coleman, Well, they're coming for something.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
They're in the top ten. Now that's a plush.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Look at them go though, they are one of the
best perform outside of Leicester on are the best performed
recently promoted to the Premier League sides. Ever, there you go.
So they're doing all right, they are, Thank you for that.
What happened to Lester after a couple of years of
doing all right?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I assume they're doing pretty well and whatever the next ones.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I think things went not so well, but they're still around.
They're still around anyway. We've got a lot of things
to look back on from twenty twenty three, and who knows,
we may have even pull out the crystal ball and
have a look at twenty twenty four. If there's time
on there's edition of the Super Serious Sports show. Well
it is cricket season AJ twenty twenty three. Australia once
again world champions in the one day format. Some would say,
with the number of times that Australia have won the
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fifty over Men's World Cup that it is Australia returning
to their rightful position.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
You know what I had at the top of the list, though,
did you have at the top? I actually had Australia
winning the World Cup as second. Maybe it's because I
was just going in I wasn't really going in order
because I had Perth beating Brisbane in the Big Bash
earlier in the year. But Australia retaining the Ashes.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Oh, that's far more important than winning the World Cup,
especially the way it was done this year and the
number of people that have got serious under the skin.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Of Australia retaining the Ashes over moral victors England momoral victors.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
England had a moral victory not so long ago as
well against the West Indies. Aside that didn't even qualify
for the World Cup. England went to the West Indies
and lost a three match One Day Series two hundred
to the West Indies, but claimed the moral victory three nils.
So that's okay, Oh, there you go.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
What was your highlight of the Ashes series?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Oh, it's got to be the stumping. It's got to
be the stumping.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
The stumping wasn't it wasn't a runout?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
It was a stumping, ye yeah it was yeah, yeah,
too bad.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yeah. What's his name from, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley? Yeah,
Ron got run out.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah. It was that and the fact that the Piers
Morgan just became a bigger flog than he already is,
and introduced himself to a whole legion of Australians who'd
never heard of him prior to the Ashes.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I hadn't heard of him until Brett Lee started bowling
thunderbolts at him. That I remember that.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
That was funny. That wass That is one of the
funniest things I've ever seen on television, was that that
was what was it an mcg test and Peters Harman said,
I can't be that hard, so they told it saw him.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
It was brutal. So yeah, Australia retaining the Ashes, it was.
It was too all. And then of course they won
the World Cup over India in India, having lost their
first two games and from memory playing very very poorly.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
It was very ordinary at the start, it was and
I was one of many who said that, you know,
if Australia does not improve, they will be gone. Well
they fortunately improved. Glenn Maxwell finally came and I think
lived up to the big show. Handle He has produced sporadically,
but this time he produced on multiple occasions.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yeah, on the biggest stage too. He was. He was great.
Travis Head had a couple of good innings, joining the
not joining the squad late because he was always in
the squad, but becoming a part of the tournament once
he was fit to play. And of course I know
you don't like him. I know he's in the Book
of feuds. But Dave Warner had a fantastic World Cup.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Well he did all right.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
He did okay, Australia's leading run score and they won
the World Cup.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
He did okay.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Virach Cohley, for the record, did was the leading run
score in the World Cup. And of course I mentioned
it earlier, very early in the season or very early
in the year. Perth beat at Brisbane to win I
think about their six big bashed title. Was a cracking
game and I'd actually I'd forgotten about it till I
looked up the score. I was like, oh, that was
that one where two young kids by the name of
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Nick Hobson and Cooper Connelly came in and belted the
ball all over up the stadium to give the Scorches
the title.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
The other highlight of the for me and cricket did
not happen involving the Australian team. Didn't happen at international
level or even at national level. That happened just a
couple of days ago. I don't know whether you've seen
the picture that's doing the rounds from a Canberra grade
game on the leekend. The ball has taken middle stump
and tipped it back about thirty degrees. The baals have
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stayed in place, somehow, lodged between leagan off stump and
the two outside are there. What would you have done
if you were the umpire in that one, because.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
The bails have to be moved, don't they.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
The law of the game says that the wicket is
broken when either the bales are dislodged or a stump
is removed completely from the ground.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Was the stump removed completely from the ground?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Stump was tipped back thirty degrees, It was still in
the ground, but.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
It wasn't touching the bales.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
It wasn't touching the bales. Does that count to you
as bales were dislodged?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
No, not out. Interesting but that's my other highlight, just
because it's happened previously. There was one in Melbourne. I
remember because I was living in Melbourne. It was in
a grade game and there was a guy. He was
out because he was given out bold when middle stump
was taken and cartwheeled about thirty feet behind the wicket keeper,
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but the other two stumps stayed there. The batsman started
walking off and then everyone's ignoring the batsman is standing
around look at the stumps and he's turned around, come
back and had a look, but he was still out
because the stump was gone.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
There you go. Well, the low light was the pitching
Geelong the other night, and I'm just going that's going
on there. It was terrible.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
There's so much Moore we can talk about. We'll save
that for some sort of a rap on the big
Bash in the new year. Moving right along into rugby
league territory. Are we are we excited yet about the
forthcoming rugby league season? Have you have you got anything
from last season that's lingering? Is there anything else in there?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
You met me? I'm always excited about the upcoming rugby league.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Seas true because it's always in late December early January
that you can get genuinely excited about the canber Raiders
prospects for the coming year.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Yeah, it's when all the new players start arriving at training.
It's great. I love all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
When Tigers fans even get interested at this time of
the year.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Yeah, they got problems already. David northa loomis effectively has
he effectively taken the club to hr It.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Sounds that way.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
It's he just wants out, doesn't he.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yep? Do you reckon? He looking green?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I think he looks all right. But we just don't
need winners, need the wingers.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
No, he did really well on that short stint he
had when he was loan to Melbourne. Yeah, but I'm
always excited about the about the upcoming rugby league season.
I think twenty twenty four could be a really good
year to be a Brisbane Broncos fan. I think they
probably go into the season as favorites.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Surely that loss in the Grand Final, not so much
the loss, but the manner of the loss, the manner
in which they took a game that they had by
the scruff of the neck and on let me see
what was Oh, that's right, a short goal line dropout
that went horribly wrong and everything from that point fell apart.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
You know, it got lowlight of the year, the shot dropout,
the low lighter of you the year for rugby league.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Second lower that'll be the second bottom rank. I'll give
you the bottom rank in a minute. But the way
they lost that Grand Final, that's got a sting. And yes,
a couple of those players have moved on to other clubs,
but gee, the core of that squad, it's a strong
squad and that is going to burn inside them for months.
And when Brisbane played Pandal, I don't know what round
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of the rematch is. You take the rent money and
you put it on the Broncos because they'll be set
for that one for sure.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Well I think they'll be the two favorites. So the
Year in Review for Rugby League, Penrith beat Brisbane twenty
six to twenty four in that Grand Final.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Do they win the World Club Challenge when it's played Penrith?
Do you reckon they will?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Okay, yeah, I don't even know who they're playing, but yeah,
they were trailing in that game twenty four points to eight.
Nathan Cleary won the Clive Churchill Medal. I actually uncovered
something during my research today. So Newcastle beat the Gold
Coast twenty four to eighteen in the nrl W Grand
Final to meet u Upton scored twice in the final
eleven minutes. Did you know Chris Coleman two players scored
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hat tricks on Grand Final day and both for the
losing side, ezra Man and Jamie Chapman. Yes, both sides lost,
and you know it's even better both sides are from Queensland.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah, it hasn't been a great year to be a
Queensland sports for now. At least they got the Grand File.
Well done to the Gold Coast. They won the AFLW,
so you know, good on them, but they lost a
lot of other things.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
I just say that both those Grand Finals were absolutely
amazing as a neutral observer to both games and that
masterclass that Nathan Cleary put on. Having had a pretty
poor game for about fifty eight minutes, but in that
final twenty two minutes, it was just incredible. The Raiders
lost thirty to twenty eight in a golden point what
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do you call it, a quarterfinal.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Qualifible final, round of eight, whatever, round of eight.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
But I thought it was despite the fact they lost,
I actually thought that was the Raiders' best performance of
the season. It was an incredibly spirited performance in a
game where it felt like we've had this a few
times as Raiders supporters. It felt like we weren't getting
the rub of the Green.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
It has happened a bit, but you know, what do
you do the Raiders. I think the Raiders have got
players with baggage out there, and I think there are
you know, you can say, oh you like the referees
don't get a set on players, but you know they
if they know that there's a player that they've given
a penalty too for offense X in the past and
they think he's done it, they're going to do it again,
you know. And I don't think the is the only
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side that suffer from that and get pinged a little
bit unfairly, but it's the way it goes. I'm excited
with the name on.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I know Victor Radley looks at a referee and it's
ten in the year exactly.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yeah, I know there is a casing point. And having
said that, most of the time Radley has usually done
something beforehand that deserves ten in the bin. But there
are occasions where he's copped ten that other players wouldn't
have copped ten for.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yeah, he's not the only one, I think. I think
there's a there's a few, there's a few, but of
course New Zealand won both Pacific Championships thirty points to
nil over Australia.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
That's the low light.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I was gonna say that was the low lie.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I don't care that New Zealand won and New Zealand
be Australia. That doesn't bother me. Losing thirty mil in
a final that is unforgivable. That should be costing players jobs,
that should be costing coaches jobs. That's pathetic.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
It's not my low light of the year. Well this
isn't it. But New Zealand also won the Women's Pacific
Championship twelve six, also over Australia. Now Coinsland winning the
state of origin again. Seriously, had enough. Freddy's had enough.
We've had enough of Freddy. He's moved on. Looking ahead.
Michael Maguire, whole new New South Wales side next to you.
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I reckon there'll be a whole heap of debutants. He'll
pick a whole new squad, he'll bring a whole new
direction to it. I hope so, because he's going to
have to, hopefully, hopefully there's no Jerome Leway.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Pick on form. It's really simple. Actually, there's two rules.
Pick on form and take a leaf out of the
Sydney One's a few years back. No dickheads and it'll
work quite nicely.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
But you need to have some Penrith players.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
They can't all be well maybe they are, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
They're not.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
They're super serious sports show all right to the middle
of summer.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Let's keep talking about footy.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Then the FLW Grand Finals just the other day.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
I still don't get it. I'm sorry. I get well,
I do get it, but I don't get it. Football
is generally a winter sport. Australian rules football has to
be a winter sport. You need the ground to be soft.
They're trying to force the women's thing into a longer
season that's going to go deeper into Some grounds are
going to be harder. The major stadiums are not available
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for it. I just don't get it.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
No, I think the NRL does the women's competition far
better than the AFL, but.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Apperil look at the Let's go to soccer for a second.
You know, the English Premier League's on the Women's Super League.
They run concurrently. Most sports do it. Cricket runs its
WMS and women's seasons largely concurrently. The AFL. I know
what they're trying to do. They're trying to extend the
time of year that people talk about forty in Victoria.
It's not gonna work.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
No, Well, Brisbane won their Grand Final forty four to
twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
So if you're sorry for North losing a Grand Final
and the women's after being let's face it, a rabble
in the men's comp for several years.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
No, because again, I was a teenager in the nineties
and North were good. Yeah Wayne Kerry, I know, I
know he didn't finish his career there, but I still
associate North Melbourne with Wayne Kerry, which, sorry, North, not
a good thing. Because Collingwood won the AFL Grand Final
ninety points to eighty six.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Great game over Brisbane, great game, one of the classic
Grand finals.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Former Giants player Bobby Hill won the Norm Smith Medal,
which just came out of nowhere.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
He had a blinder, he did. He was the standout.
I don't think you'd argue with he was the standout,
best player on the ground that day.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Well had a great final series as well, and of
course your favorite team and your least favorite team GWS
and Carlton both Chris Coleman came storming home after a
pretty ordinary start middle part of the season.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
But came from they broke the old record for the
furthest out of the finals race to make it to
the finals. They both broke that record.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Both broke the record, so both made the prelim finals
and GWS I lost by a point to Collingwood. Are
you still angry?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I was disappointed, not angry. I was disappointed that they
didn't win, but gee they put in they really did.
Twenty twenty four is going to be a really interesting
year for both of those clubs, For those two clubs,
in particular for Carlton and GWS. Now they've got a
show that it wasn't a fluke, that it wasn't just
a bubble, that they managed to have a runner form.
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They need to build on that next year. Coleywood need
to defend their title, Geelong need to bounce back, Essendon
need to actually show some form and actually have recruited
to do it, and the Gold Coast Sons need to
play in a final under Damian Hardwick. There's six storylines
for twenty twenty four in the AFL.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Well, speaking of Fluke's my Sidney Swan's Yes two games.
They won one game agads North because North miscounted the
amount of subs and then they won a game against
Adelaide because of a behind that was a goal.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Look, I still don't get how that one comes into place,
and video umpiring is a conversation for us to have
another day.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Sidney did finish the season quite strongly. I thought I
thought they were pretty good towards the end. Who's your
Who's your way? Too early prediction to win the AFL
Grand Final.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
You know, I'm only going to give you one at
this stage.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
I think it's I think it's it's very possible.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I think it could be GS.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I think it could be North No, it could I
think it could be GWS.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
So you know, who's not going to be winning anything
exciting in twenty twenty four Essendon besides Thissendon another one.
Let's go. I'm just a crocrossing code.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
You think, oh you're going to go, you jump on
across to the well.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I don't want to spend all the rugby. I don't
want to spend a lot of time talking about rugby
because there's not all that. There hasn't. I don't think
there's been a highlight in Australian rugby to talk about
for twenty twenty three. I don't think there's been a thing.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Well, here's the year in review for rugby. South Africa
won their second consecutive World Cup, beating New Zealand twelve
eleven in the final. The Wallabies, as we know, missed
the quarter finals after losing to both Fiji and Wales.
The Crusaders won the Super Rugby Pacific Final again over
the Chiefs YEP twenty five to twenty. Here's something I uncovered.
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Did you know only four countries have won the Rugby World.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Cup Australia yep, England YEP, South Africa and New Zealand YEP.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
And France are the only other team to make a final. Yeah,
but Ireland, Ireland to come in Ireland to get in better.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
The world of rugby is getting better at the top end,
except for one country.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Australia getting worse.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Australia as far far away.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
As the West Indies in cricket, where the only team
they're going to beat England.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
That's not such a bad thing.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Rather than beat some other teams too, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Not just Argentina. Onto the round ball game. Aj Okay,
that doesn't actually rule out too many sports, because a
lot of them have a round ball, the global round
ball game that could even still count for basketball, onto
football or soccer, depending on what you will, How do
you grade twenty twenty three for football for soccer?
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Massive for Australia the Matilda's Yeah, that was huge and
that was our sporting highlight of the year.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
If it's not well, you know, Sam Kerr at the
World Cup, but you've got one nill down against England,
Claire Hunt gets intercept which bounces to Katrina Gorri. She
then takes it from what about up to Sam kur
who's just short of the halfway line. Curve breaks through.
There's two English players in defense. They're backing back thinking
that they're going to actually block her off with the
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with the angles, and then she lets fly with a
rocket with the right foot from what about twenty two
to twenty three meters out, puts into the top corner
on that and a country goes the zik.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
The whole World Cup was just drama. Yeah, from even
before a ball was kicked for Australia, Sam kurrz.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Injury an hour and a half before kickoff, we suddenly
find out she's not there.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Yeah, and then there was the will will she or
won't she she play Australia a couple of times early
in the tournament, looked pretty ordinary to be honest, and
then made it all the way of the semi final.
That quarter final against France. That penalty shootout that is
possibly the most nervous I've ever been watching sport.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
That or the penalty shootout that got Australia's men's team
into the World Cup in two thousand and six.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Oh that was intense too.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yeah, that was you know, but both happened at the
same ground. Oh he no, no, the Brisbane one. The
Friends one was in Brisbane, wasn't it. Yeah, I think so, yeah, yeah.
But for both of those to happen on home soil
for Australia, but amazing stuff. The other thing I've said
this at a sports function I was had a few
weeks ago. I think that that World Cup has actually
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allowed a lot of Australian sports fans to mature. You
don't have to win the big title to get people
on side. Now, you've just got to go out there
and actually give it a red hot go well.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
The only thing too, is that it turned some of
the Matilda's players into household names. Oh god, you Mary Fowler,
Haley Russo Little, merely Mary Fowler. She's amazing. Was she
nineteen or twenty or something like that.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
There's the next she won't she won't be a good
as Sam Ker perhaps, but she'll certainly be as famous as.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
She's got some time up a sleeve to get there.
But of course Spain went on and won the World Cup.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
And then sucked their coach and then say their coach quit.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
They had. Speaking of drama, they had some drama. Probably
one of the other highlights of the Women's World Cup.
The US got knocked out in the round of sixteen.
Did you remember that commercial campaign where it was like
I were invincible?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah, yeah, no, this is our right, this is We've
got to turn up and then get big. I didn't
like how I said, how Australian sports fans had matured. Gee,
the American sports fans, they turned on Megan Rappano after
that result. She missed a penalty. Do you know how
many penalty she's missing her career? You count them on
one hand. Sure, she picked the worst possible time to
miss one. But in the end, and as she said,
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in the end, it is only sport. It's not like
she suddenly dropped the vile containing the only cure for cancer,
and it's gone down the drain.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
When I think miss penalties though, I still think there
was at Roberto Baggio was a ninety four World Cup
for Italy. He hit the crossbar, he cleared.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Across think I think of the number of times England
have been eliminated on penalty shootouts. That's that's always good.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Well, speaking of England, across to across the club football
over there, man City won the Premier League. They also
won the FA Cup yep. Man United won the Pristige
just EFL Cup over Newcastle yep and full and one
two straight games. Five mil.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I want to know when Manchester City are going to
cop their punishment for the financial irregularities that is still
hanging up in the air. Apparently still has to be
determined what punishment they're going to get.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Well, Everton got that big points deduction or whatever. But
they've won some games and they're well and truly clear
of relegation. I can tell you now the three teams
are going to get relegated in the Premier League.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
The three teams that are in the bottom now, they're
going to go anywhere.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
It's the three teams that just joined.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
And sometimes that happens.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Yeah, it's a shame.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
It would be remissive us not to mention in this
program the biggest sporting deal of the year. It turns
out to be the biggest individual sporting contract of all time.
Put it in Australian money. It's a billion with a
B dollar contract.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
He got more than Kyle and Jackie.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Oh, he's got more than anybody. It's more money than God.
If you're wondering, if you haven't heard what we're talking about.
Shah O'tani a rare breed in baseball, quite possibly the
best baseballer ever, certainly up there with Babe Ruth, the
other best baseballer ever pitchers and hits, and the Los
Angeles Dodgers assign him. Now, I'm going to put this
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into four numbers for you. Okay, ten year deal, seven
hundred million dollars is the deal.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
That's US dollars, So seventy million per year, that's.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
What you'd think. Do you know what his actual per
year salary is going to be for the ten years
of the contract two two million dollars.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
So what happens to the rest of it?
Speaker 2 (21:29):
The rest of it is deferred payments, so he's going
to be paid by the Dodgers for another ten years
or more after he's after his contract is up. So
six hundred and eighty of that seventy million he gets
after he's played for the Dodgers. It's a hell of
a superannuation policy.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Have they done that for cap reasons?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
They've done it for cap reasons. O'tani's idea apparently he said, look,
I'm happy to take the bulk of this because he
makes like seventy million a year in endorsements. He makes
more than the contract in endorsements. So he said, I
want the Dodgers to be able to buy players to
play alongside me so that I can win titles with
the Dodgers. Okay, there's a small floor to that, and
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I say, this is a Dodgers fan. The Dodgers are
not renowned for winning titles ah okay, one World Series
in the COVID effect of twenty twenty season in the
last three decades, but they have and will have because
I suspec there's probably another couple of signings. They may
even sign a former Canberra Cavalry pitcher, another Japanese pitcher
Showtera Ima Naga. He's the starter for Team Japan. He's
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up for posting to Major League Baseball and they may
sign him as well because it would give them an
extra marketing push into LA. And he's also a very
very good pitcher, So keep an eye on that one. Anyway,
that's the biggest sports deal of all time. And yeah,
am I happy that he's coming to Los Angeles to
the play for the Dodgers. So happy that I actually
looked at the idea of seeing if I could get
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over to Korea where his first games will be for
the Dodgers in Korea against San Diego. They're opening the
Major League Baseball season in Korea in March next year.
I looked at flying over for those two games. Seriously,
I was there that day. Well I would have been,
but I couldn't get flights back. I get flights over,
couldn't get fight back flights back in time for the
Raiders game on Friday night.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Well, we'll see how the Dodgers go in was it
the twenty twenty three, twenty.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Twenty fours, twenty four seasons?
Speaker 3 (23:16):
In March twenty four season, well, the Texas Rangers. They
won the twenty twenty three World Series on the beat
Arizona in the in the World Series.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
And that's why good on them.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Well, we're running out of time, Chris Collins. I'm gonna
have to rip around the rest of the world very quickly.
Max Verstappen won all but three races and route to
his Formula One World Championship. The Las Vegas Golden Knights
beat the Florida Panthers four to one in the Stanley
Cup Finals. Tom Brady Tom Brady retired for.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
A second time for a second time, and this time
seemingly meant it after.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Three hundred and eighty three games and seven Super Bowl wins.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
So the Patriots posted during the week went the Attorney
deal show any ten years, seven hundred million dollars for
baseball Tom Brady twenty three years at the New England
Patriots three hundred and twenty two million dollars.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Still a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Both a lot of money, but money is an obscene
lot of money. Yep.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
The Chiefs won the Super Bowl thirty eight to thirty five.
They're not going to back it up over Philadelphia. They're
not going to back it up Chiefs. Yeah, No, I
don't think they are. I think the forty nineers are
going to win across of the world of basketball. The
Denver Nuggets won the NBA Championship for one over Miami.
Of course, the heat progressed all the way from the
play in tournament. Just the other day, the Lakers won
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the inaugural inn Season Tournament, beating Indiana in the finals.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
It was a bugy that forever. Now during the NBA
Cup as it will become much more popular that the
La Lakers will be regarded as the inaugural NBA Cup champions.
Does that bother you?
Speaker 3 (24:46):
No, not really, because the big ones the NBA Championship
and they're not winning that because their best players will
be injured by then. The Sydney Kings beat the New
Zealand Breakers three to two after allowing the Breakers to
score just three points in the last six minutes and
fifty nine seconds of the fourth quarter of Game five.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
That's pretty handy basketball.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Germany won the Feeble World Cup over Serbia. Australia missed
the quarter finals, Canada came third, the US came fourth.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
There you go, and that's our year in sport.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
It's been a big year. Chris. It's funny going back
and doing all that research earlier. It's been a really
really good year of sport.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
It's been a great year of sport. Next year is
going to be huge.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
We had dug grand finals in the NRL and the
AFL in twenty twenty two, so to have that grand
final weekend that we had, Yeah, of course, Brodie Costeki
one last thing. He won the V eight Supercars Championship
over Shane Van Gisberg and who's off to NASCAR.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Aj Wheel provided to get a renewal notice at some
stage between now in the middle of January, we'll like
to talk sport. Otherwise you're doing it all on your
own and enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
How many games of tot and I'm going to win
between now and then.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
I don't know. I haven't even looked at the fixtures.
They'll win all of them, there you go. I'll be
undefeated between now and when we return in the new.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
How many games? But I reckon they win half.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
They'll do better than that. Anyway.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
You enjoy a Christmas years catch.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Up in January for another year of the same A
series sports.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
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The Super Serious Sports Show with Chris Coleman and Adam Jansen.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Adam Jansen, ordinarily around this time I would ask you
what's caught your eye in the last week of the Sport.
But it is the final edition of The Super Serious
Sports Show for twenty twenty three and possibly ever. We'll
find out next year. What's caught your eye this year
in sport?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
I plan on coming back.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
That's nice. Okay, okay, I.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Caught my eye this year in sport.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I haven't an official renewal letter, so you know.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Co host pending.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Okay, look at all this. Oh good lord, he's done prep.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Yeah, it's been the year of prep.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
We will note at the week commencing the December he
actually did prep.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Something did catch my eye?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
This What did catch your eye this year?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Wasn't the Lakers?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
No, no, no, they won?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
They did.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I won a thing.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I know It's on my list.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Okay, Fullham. Good. Look they've won twice, five mill in
a row.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
They've won by a combined title of ten nil in
their previous two games. They're coming for that title.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Chris Coleman, Well, they're coming for something.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
They're in the top ten. Now that's a plush.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Look at them go though, they are one of the
best perform outside of Leicester on are the best performed
recently promoted to the Premier League sides. Ever, there you go.
So they're doing all right, they are, Thank you for that.
What happened to Lester after a couple of years of
doing all right?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I assume they're doing pretty well and whatever the next ones.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I think things went not so well, but they're still around.
They're still around anyway. We've got a lot of things
to look back on from twenty twenty three, and who knows,
we may have even pull out the crystal ball and
have a look at twenty twenty four. If there's time
on there's edition of the Super Serious Sports show. Well
it is cricket season AJ twenty twenty three. Australia once
again world champions in the one day format. Some would say,
with the number of times that Australia have won the
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fifty over Men's World Cup that it is Australia returning
to their rightful position.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
You know what I had at the top of the list, though,
did you have at the top? I actually had Australia
winning the World Cup as second. Maybe it's because I
was just going in I wasn't really going in order
because I had Perth beating Brisbane in the Big Bash
earlier in the year. But Australia retaining the Ashes.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Oh, that's far more important than winning the World Cup,
especially the way it was done this year and the
number of people that have got serious under the skin.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Of Australia retaining the Ashes over moral victors England momoral victors.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
England had a moral victory not so long ago as
well against the West Indies. Aside that didn't even qualify
for the World Cup. England went to the West Indies
and lost a three match One Day Series two hundred
to the West Indies, but claimed the moral victory three nils.
So that's okay, Oh, there you go.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
What was your highlight of the Ashes series?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Oh, it's got to be the stumping. It's got to
be the stumping.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
The stumping wasn't it wasn't a runout?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
It was a stumping, ye yeah it was yeah, yeah,
too bad.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yeah. What's his name from, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley? Yeah,
Ron got run out.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah. It was that and the fact that the Piers
Morgan just became a bigger flog than he already is,
and introduced himself to a whole legion of Australians who'd
never heard of him prior to the Ashes.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I hadn't heard of him until Brett Lee started bowling
thunderbolts at him. That I remember that.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
That was funny. That wass That is one of the
funniest things I've ever seen on television, was that that
was what was it an mcg test and Peters Harman said,
I can't be that hard, so they told it saw him.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
It was brutal. So yeah, Australia retaining the Ashes, it was.
It was too all. And then of course they won
the World Cup over India in India, having lost their
first two games and from memory playing very very poorly.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
It was very ordinary at the start, it was and
I was one of many who said that, you know,
if Australia does not improve, they will be gone. Well
they fortunately improved. Glenn Maxwell finally came and I think
lived up to the big show. Handle He has produced sporadically,
but this time he produced on multiple occasions.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yeah, on the biggest stage too. He was. He was great.
Travis Head had a couple of good innings, joining the
not joining the squad late because he was always in
the squad, but becoming a part of the tournament once
he was fit to play. And of course I know
you don't like him. I know he's in the Book
of feuds. But Dave Warner had a fantastic World Cup.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Well he did all right.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
He did okay, Australia's leading run score and they won
the World Cup.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
He did okay.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Virach Cohley, for the record, did was the leading run
score in the World Cup. And of course I mentioned
it earlier, very early in the season or very early
in the year. Perth beat at Brisbane to win I
think about their six big bashed title. Was a cracking
game and I'd actually I'd forgotten about it till I
looked up the score. I was like, oh, that was
that one where two young kids by the name of
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Nick Hobson and Cooper Connelly came in and belted the
ball all over up the stadium to give the Scorches
the title.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
The other highlight of the for me and cricket did
not happen involving the Australian team. Didn't happen at international
level or even at national level. That happened just a
couple of days ago. I don't know whether you've seen
the picture that's doing the rounds from a Canberra grade
game on the leekend. The ball has taken middle stump
and tipped it back about thirty degrees. The baals have
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stayed in place, somehow, lodged between leagan off stump and
the two outside are there. What would you have done
if you were the umpire in that one, because.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
The bails have to be moved, don't they.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
The law of the game says that the wicket is
broken when either the bales are dislodged or a stump
is removed completely from the ground.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Was the stump removed completely from the ground?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Stump was tipped back thirty degrees, It was still in
the ground, but.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
It wasn't touching the bales.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
It wasn't touching the bales. Does that count to you
as bales were dislodged?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
No, not out. Interesting but that's my other highlight, just
because it's happened previously. There was one in Melbourne. I
remember because I was living in Melbourne. It was in
a grade game and there was a guy. He was
out because he was given out bold when middle stump
was taken and cartwheeled about thirty feet behind the wicket keeper,
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but the other two stumps stayed there. The batsman started
walking off and then everyone's ignoring the batsman is standing
around look at the stumps and he's turned around, come
back and had a look, but he was still out
because the stump was gone.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
There you go. Well, the low light was the pitching
Geelong the other night, and I'm just going that's going
on there. It was terrible.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
There's so much Moore we can talk about. We'll save
that for some sort of a rap on the big
Bash in the new year. Moving right along into rugby
league territory. Are we are we excited yet about the
forthcoming rugby league season? Have you have you got anything
from last season that's lingering? Is there anything else in there?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
You met me? I'm always excited about the upcoming rugby league.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Seas true because it's always in late December early January
that you can get genuinely excited about the canber Raiders
prospects for the coming year.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Yeah, it's when all the new players start arriving at training.
It's great. I love all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
When Tigers fans even get interested at this time of
the year.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Yeah, they got problems already. David northa loomis effectively has
he effectively taken the club to hr It.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Sounds that way.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
It's he just wants out, doesn't he.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yep? Do you reckon? He looking green?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I think he looks all right. But we just don't
need winners, need the wingers.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
No, he did really well on that short stint he
had when he was loan to Melbourne. Yeah, but I'm
always excited about the about the upcoming rugby league season.
I think twenty twenty four could be a really good
year to be a Brisbane Broncos fan. I think they
probably go into the season as favorites.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Surely that loss in the Grand Final, not so much
the loss, but the manner of the loss, the manner
in which they took a game that they had by
the scruff of the neck and on let me see
what was Oh, that's right, a short goal line dropout
that went horribly wrong and everything from that point fell apart.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
You know, it got lowlight of the year, the shot dropout,
the low lighter of you the year for rugby league.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Second lower that'll be the second bottom rank. I'll give
you the bottom rank in a minute. But the way
they lost that Grand Final, that's got a sting. And yes,
a couple of those players have moved on to other clubs,
but gee, the core of that squad, it's a strong
squad and that is going to burn inside them for months.
And when Brisbane played Pandal, I don't know what round
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of the rematch is. You take the rent money and
you put it on the Broncos because they'll be set
for that one for sure.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Well I think they'll be the two favorites. So the
Year in Review for Rugby League, Penrith beat Brisbane twenty
six to twenty four in that Grand Final.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Do they win the World Club Challenge when it's played Penrith?
Do you reckon they will?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Okay, yeah, I don't even know who they're playing, but yeah,
they were trailing in that game twenty four points to eight.
Nathan Cleary won the Clive Churchill Medal. I actually uncovered
something during my research today. So Newcastle beat the Gold
Coast twenty four to eighteen in the nrl W Grand
Final to meet u Upton scored twice in the final
eleven minutes. Did you know Chris Coleman two players scored
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hat tricks on Grand Final day and both for the
losing side, ezra Man and Jamie Chapman. Yes, both sides lost,
and you know it's even better both sides are from Queensland.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah, it hasn't been a great year to be a
Queensland sports for now. At least they got the Grand File.
Well done to the Gold Coast. They won the AFLW,
so you know, good on them, but they lost a
lot of other things.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
I just say that both those Grand Finals were absolutely
amazing as a neutral observer to both games and that
masterclass that Nathan Cleary put on. Having had a pretty
poor game for about fifty eight minutes, but in that
final twenty two minutes, it was just incredible. The Raiders
lost thirty to twenty eight in a golden point what
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do you call it, a quarterfinal.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Qualifible final, round of eight, whatever, round of eight.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
But I thought it was despite the fact they lost,
I actually thought that was the Raiders' best performance of
the season. It was an incredibly spirited performance in a
game where it felt like we've had this a few
times as Raiders supporters. It felt like we weren't getting
the rub of the Green.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
It has happened a bit, but you know, what do
you do the Raiders. I think the Raiders have got
players with baggage out there, and I think there are
you know, you can say, oh you like the referees
don't get a set on players, but you know they
if they know that there's a player that they've given
a penalty too for offense X in the past and
they think he's done it, they're going to do it again,
you know. And I don't think the is the only
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side that suffer from that and get pinged a little
bit unfairly, but it's the way it goes. I'm excited
with the name on.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I know Victor Radley looks at a referee and it's
ten in the year exactly.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yeah, I know there is a casing point. And having
said that, most of the time Radley has usually done
something beforehand that deserves ten in the bin. But there
are occasions where he's copped ten that other players wouldn't
have copped ten for.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yeah, he's not the only one, I think. I think
there's a there's a few, there's a few, but of
course New Zealand won both Pacific Championships thirty points to
nil over Australia.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
That's the low light.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I was gonna say that was the low lie.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I don't care that New Zealand won and New Zealand
be Australia. That doesn't bother me. Losing thirty mil in
a final that is unforgivable. That should be costing players jobs,
that should be costing coaches jobs. That's pathetic.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
It's not my low light of the year. Well this
isn't it. But New Zealand also won the Women's Pacific
Championship twelve six, also over Australia. Now Coinsland winning the
state of origin again. Seriously, had enough. Freddy's had enough.
We've had enough of Freddy. He's moved on. Looking ahead.
Michael Maguire, whole new New South Wales side next to you.
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I reckon there'll be a whole heap of debutants. He'll
pick a whole new squad, he'll bring a whole new
direction to it. I hope so, because he's going to
have to, hopefully, hopefully there's no Jerome Leway.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Pick on form. It's really simple. Actually, there's two rules.
Pick on form and take a leaf out of the
Sydney One's a few years back. No dickheads and it'll
work quite nicely.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
But you need to have some Penrith players.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
They can't all be well maybe they are, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
They're not.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
They're super serious sports show all right to the middle
of summer.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Let's keep talking about footy.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Then the FLW Grand Finals just the other day.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
I still don't get it. I'm sorry. I get well,
I do get it, but I don't get it. Football
is generally a winter sport. Australian rules football has to
be a winter sport. You need the ground to be soft.
They're trying to force the women's thing into a longer
season that's going to go deeper into Some grounds are
going to be harder. The major stadiums are not available
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for it. I just don't get it.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
No, I think the NRL does the women's competition far
better than the AFL, but.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Apperil look at the Let's go to soccer for a second.
You know, the English Premier League's on the Women's Super League.
They run concurrently. Most sports do it. Cricket runs its
WMS and women's seasons largely concurrently. The AFL. I know
what they're trying to do. They're trying to extend the
time of year that people talk about forty in Victoria.
It's not gonna work.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
No, Well, Brisbane won their Grand Final forty four to
twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
So if you're sorry for North losing a Grand Final
and the women's after being let's face it, a rabble
in the men's comp for several years.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
No, because again, I was a teenager in the nineties
and North were good. Yeah Wayne Kerry, I know, I
know he didn't finish his career there, but I still
associate North Melbourne with Wayne Kerry, which, sorry, North, not
a good thing. Because Collingwood won the AFL Grand Final
ninety points to eighty six.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Great game over Brisbane, great game, one of the classic
Grand finals.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Former Giants player Bobby Hill won the Norm Smith Medal,
which just came out of nowhere.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
He had a blinder, he did. He was the standout.
I don't think you'd argue with he was the standout,
best player on the ground that day.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Well had a great final series as well, and of
course your favorite team and your least favorite team GWS
and Carlton both Chris Coleman came storming home after a
pretty ordinary start middle part of the season.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
But came from they broke the old record for the
furthest out of the finals race to make it to
the finals. They both broke that record.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Both broke the record, so both made the prelim finals
and GWS I lost by a point to Collingwood. Are
you still angry?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I was disappointed, not angry. I was disappointed that they
didn't win, but gee they put in they really did.
Twenty twenty four is going to be a really interesting
year for both of those clubs, For those two clubs,
in particular for Carlton and GWS. Now they've got a
show that it wasn't a fluke, that it wasn't just
a bubble, that they managed to have a runner form.
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They need to build on that next year. Coleywood need
to defend their title, Geelong need to bounce back, Essendon
need to actually show some form and actually have recruited
to do it, and the Gold Coast Sons need to
play in a final under Damian Hardwick. There's six storylines
for twenty twenty four in the AFL.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Well, speaking of Fluke's my Sidney Swan's Yes two games.
They won one game agads North because North miscounted the
amount of subs and then they won a game against
Adelaide because of a behind that was a goal.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Look, I still don't get how that one comes into place,
and video umpiring is a conversation for us to have
another day.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Sidney did finish the season quite strongly. I thought I
thought they were pretty good towards the end. Who's your
Who's your way? Too early prediction to win the AFL
Grand Final.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
You know, I'm only going to give you one at
this stage.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
I think it's I think it's it's very possible.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I think it could be GS.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I think it could be North No, it could I
think it could be GWS.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
So you know, who's not going to be winning anything
exciting in twenty twenty four Essendon besides Thissendon another one.
Let's go. I'm just a crocrossing code.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
You think, oh you're going to go, you jump on
across to the well.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I don't want to spend all the rugby. I don't
want to spend a lot of time talking about rugby
because there's not all that. There hasn't. I don't think
there's been a highlight in Australian rugby to talk about
for twenty twenty three. I don't think there's been a thing.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Well, here's the year in review for rugby. South Africa
won their second consecutive World Cup, beating New Zealand twelve
eleven in the final. The Wallabies, as we know, missed
the quarter finals after losing to both Fiji and Wales.
The Crusaders won the Super Rugby Pacific Final again over
the Chiefs YEP twenty five to twenty. Here's something I uncovered.
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Did you know only four countries have won the Rugby World.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Cup Australia yep, England YEP, South Africa and New Zealand YEP.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
And France are the only other team to make a final. Yeah,
but Ireland, Ireland to come in Ireland to get in better.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
The world of rugby is getting better at the top end,
except for one country.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Australia getting worse.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Australia as far far away.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
As the West Indies in cricket, where the only team
they're going to beat England.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
That's not such a bad thing.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Rather than beat some other teams too, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Not just Argentina. Onto the round ball game. Aj Okay,
that doesn't actually rule out too many sports, because a
lot of them have a round ball, the global round
ball game that could even still count for basketball, onto
football or soccer, depending on what you will, How do
you grade twenty twenty three for football for soccer?
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Massive for Australia the Matilda's Yeah, that was huge and
that was our sporting highlight of the year.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
If it's not well, you know, Sam Kerr at the
World Cup, but you've got one nill down against England,
Claire Hunt gets intercept which bounces to Katrina Gorri. She
then takes it from what about up to Sam kur
who's just short of the halfway line. Curve breaks through.
There's two English players in defense. They're backing back thinking
that they're going to actually block her off with the
(17:00):
with the angles, and then she lets fly with a
rocket with the right foot from what about twenty two
to twenty three meters out, puts into the top corner
on that and a country goes the zik.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
The whole World Cup was just drama. Yeah, from even
before a ball was kicked for Australia, Sam kurrz.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Injury an hour and a half before kickoff, we suddenly
find out she's not there.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Yeah, and then there was the will will she or
won't she she play Australia a couple of times early
in the tournament, looked pretty ordinary to be honest, and
then made it all the way of the semi final.
That quarter final against France. That penalty shootout that is
possibly the most nervous I've ever been watching sport.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
That or the penalty shootout that got Australia's men's team
into the World Cup in two thousand and six.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Oh that was intense too.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yeah, that was you know, but both happened at the
same ground. Oh he no, no, the Brisbane one. The
Friends one was in Brisbane, wasn't it. Yeah, I think so, yeah, yeah.
But for both of those to happen on home soil
for Australia, but amazing stuff. The other thing I've said
this at a sports function I was had a few
weeks ago. I think that that World Cup has actually
(18:10):
allowed a lot of Australian sports fans to mature. You
don't have to win the big title to get people
on side. Now, you've just got to go out there
and actually give it a red hot go well.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
The only thing too, is that it turned some of
the Matilda's players into household names. Oh god, you Mary Fowler,
Haley Russo Little, merely Mary Fowler. She's amazing. Was she
nineteen or twenty or something like that.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
There's the next she won't she won't be a good
as Sam Ker perhaps, but she'll certainly be as famous as.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
She's got some time up a sleeve to get there.
But of course Spain went on and won the World Cup.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
And then sucked their coach and then say their coach quit.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
They had. Speaking of drama, they had some drama. Probably
one of the other highlights of the Women's World Cup.
The US got knocked out in the round of sixteen.
Did you remember that commercial campaign where it was like
I were invincible?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah, yeah, no, this is our right, this is We've
got to turn up and then get big. I didn't
like how I said, how Australian sports fans had matured. Gee,
the American sports fans, they turned on Megan Rappano after
that result. She missed a penalty. Do you know how
many penalty she's missing her career? You count them on
one hand. Sure, she picked the worst possible time to
miss one. But in the end, and as she said,
(19:28):
in the end, it is only sport. It's not like
she suddenly dropped the vile containing the only cure for cancer,
and it's gone down the drain.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
When I think miss penalties though, I still think there
was at Roberto Baggio was a ninety four World Cup
for Italy. He hit the crossbar, he cleared.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Across think I think of the number of times England
have been eliminated on penalty shootouts. That's that's always good.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Well, speaking of England, across to across the club football
over there, man City won the Premier League. They also
won the FA Cup yep. Man United won the Pristige
just EFL Cup over Newcastle yep and full and one
two straight games. Five mil.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I want to know when Manchester City are going to
cop their punishment for the financial irregularities that is still
hanging up in the air. Apparently still has to be
determined what punishment they're going to get.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Well, Everton got that big points deduction or whatever. But
they've won some games and they're well and truly clear
of relegation. I can tell you now the three teams
are going to get relegated in the Premier League.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
The three teams that are in the bottom now, they're
going to go anywhere.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
It's the three teams that just joined.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
And sometimes that happens.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Yeah, it's a shame.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
It would be remissive us not to mention in this
program the biggest sporting deal of the year. It turns
out to be the biggest individual sporting contract of all time.
Put it in Australian money. It's a billion with a
B dollar contract.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
He got more than Kyle and Jackie.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Oh, he's got more than anybody. It's more money than God.
If you're wondering, if you haven't heard what we're talking about.
Shah O'tani a rare breed in baseball, quite possibly the
best baseballer ever, certainly up there with Babe Ruth, the
other best baseballer ever pitchers and hits, and the Los
Angeles Dodgers assign him. Now, I'm going to put this
(21:08):
into four numbers for you. Okay, ten year deal, seven
hundred million dollars is the deal.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
That's US dollars, So seventy million per year, that's.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
What you'd think. Do you know what his actual per
year salary is going to be for the ten years
of the contract two two million dollars.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
So what happens to the rest of it?
Speaker 2 (21:29):
The rest of it is deferred payments, so he's going
to be paid by the Dodgers for another ten years
or more after he's after his contract is up. So
six hundred and eighty of that seventy million he gets
after he's played for the Dodgers. It's a hell of
a superannuation policy.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Have they done that for cap reasons?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
They've done it for cap reasons. O'tani's idea apparently he said, look,
I'm happy to take the bulk of this because he
makes like seventy million a year in endorsements. He makes
more than the contract in endorsements. So he said, I
want the Dodgers to be able to buy players to
play alongside me so that I can win titles with
the Dodgers. Okay, there's a small floor to that, and
(22:08):
I say, this is a Dodgers fan. The Dodgers are
not renowned for winning titles ah okay, one World Series
in the COVID effect of twenty twenty season in the
last three decades, but they have and will have because
I suspec there's probably another couple of signings. They may
even sign a former Canberra Cavalry pitcher, another Japanese pitcher
Showtera Ima Naga. He's the starter for Team Japan. He's
(22:31):
up for posting to Major League Baseball and they may
sign him as well because it would give them an
extra marketing push into LA. And he's also a very
very good pitcher, So keep an eye on that one. Anyway,
that's the biggest sports deal of all time. And yeah,
am I happy that he's coming to Los Angeles to
the play for the Dodgers. So happy that I actually
looked at the idea of seeing if I could get
(22:51):
over to Korea where his first games will be for
the Dodgers in Korea against San Diego. They're opening the
Major League Baseball season in Korea in March next year.
I looked at flying over for those two games. Seriously,
I was there that day. Well I would have been,
but I couldn't get flights back. I get flights over,
couldn't get fight back flights back in time for the
Raiders game on Friday night.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Well, we'll see how the Dodgers go in was it
the twenty twenty three, twenty.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Twenty fours, twenty four seasons?
Speaker 3 (23:16):
In March twenty four season, well, the Texas Rangers. They
won the twenty twenty three World Series on the beat
Arizona in the in the World Series.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
And that's why good on them.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Well, we're running out of time, Chris Collins. I'm gonna
have to rip around the rest of the world very quickly.
Max Verstappen won all but three races and route to
his Formula One World Championship. The Las Vegas Golden Knights
beat the Florida Panthers four to one in the Stanley
Cup Finals. Tom Brady Tom Brady retired for.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
A second time for a second time, and this time
seemingly meant it after.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Three hundred and eighty three games and seven Super Bowl wins.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
So the Patriots posted during the week went the Attorney
deal show any ten years, seven hundred million dollars for
baseball Tom Brady twenty three years at the New England
Patriots three hundred and twenty two million dollars.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Still a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Both a lot of money, but money is an obscene
lot of money. Yep.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
The Chiefs won the Super Bowl thirty eight to thirty five.
They're not going to back it up over Philadelphia. They're
not going to back it up Chiefs. Yeah, No, I
don't think they are. I think the forty nineers are
going to win across of the world of basketball. The
Denver Nuggets won the NBA Championship for one over Miami.
Of course, the heat progressed all the way from the
play in tournament. Just the other day, the Lakers won
(24:31):
the inaugural inn Season Tournament, beating Indiana in the finals.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
It was a bugy that forever. Now during the NBA
Cup as it will become much more popular that the
La Lakers will be regarded as the inaugural NBA Cup champions.
Does that bother you?
Speaker 3 (24:46):
No, not really, because the big ones the NBA Championship
and they're not winning that because their best players will
be injured by then. The Sydney Kings beat the New
Zealand Breakers three to two after allowing the Breakers to
score just three points in the last six minutes and
fifty nine seconds of the fourth quarter of Game five.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
That's pretty handy basketball.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Germany won the Feeble World Cup over Serbia. Australia missed
the quarter finals, Canada came third, the US came fourth.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
There you go, and that's our year in sport.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
It's been a big year. Chris. It's funny going back
and doing all that research earlier. It's been a really
really good year of sport.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
It's been a great year of sport. Next year is
going to be huge.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
We had dug grand finals in the NRL and the
AFL in twenty twenty two, so to have that grand
final weekend that we had, Yeah, of course, Brodie Costeki
one last thing. He won the V eight Supercars Championship
over Shane Van Gisberg and who's off to NASCAR.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Aj Wheel provided to get a renewal notice at some
stage between now in the middle of January, we'll like
to talk sport. Otherwise you're doing it all on your
own and enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
How many games of tot and I'm going to win
between now and then.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
I don't know. I haven't even looked at the fixtures.
They'll win all of them, there you go. I'll be
undefeated between now and when we return in the new.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
How many games? But I reckon they win half.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
They'll do better than that. Anyway.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
You enjoy a Christmas years catch.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Up in January for another year of the same A
series sports.
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