September 18, 2025 • 42 mins
This week on Two Good Sports, we're deep diving into the greatest rugby league match Georgie has ever seen and unpacking the AFL finals chaos, including why Bailey Smith might be your favourite villain.
And finally, the most important news: Robert Irwin can DANCE.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Here at Two Good Sports, we would like to acknowledge
the traditional owners of the land on which we record
this podcast. There were innerie people. This land was never seated,
always was, always will be. Dear listeners, are you listening?
Welcome to another episode of Two Good Sports Sports he's
(00:21):
told differently and yes, who's back.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
She's alive. Thank god, it's a holiday coming in here, Georgie,
Tony Hello, and you know only the plague could have
kept me coming in here to go into a deep
dive of you and Robert on the race. I had notes.
I have been taking notes, and it was denied of
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me last week literally because I had pneumonia. But she's
back and I would like to highlight so many things. Firstly,
how does it feel to be Australia's most loved couple
thoughts and people.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
That's very lovely of you to say that, it actually
feels very nice. We've had such I've so denial. What
do you say, No, it's a fact, because there'll be
some challenges coming in this series where I may have
referenced before that you know Asian Scott are like the
ultimate power couple right like she's she's part of the
Bravo family ash and she's divine, and Robert and I
(01:18):
there being like the awkward cousins who were the last
minute advice to a family wedding, and we're just like hello,
So it's nice that everyone is loving us. Right now,
down the track, our full ineptitude will come to the surface.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Well, I have laughed so hard knowing you guys so
well at how much Robert would have been wounded by
Gretel Colleen calling him unathletic. And then come another episode
where they literally are like, well he's not a dancer,
And all I can think of is Robert quoting Jane Austen, going, well,
you've insulted me in every which way, so therefore you
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can have nothing more to say, because that's what Robert.
Robert will describe himself as an athletic dancer.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
You've cut me to the marrow.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Also, I've listened to your other pod, yes, and they
have claimed that you are Team Maroon. Oh yes, because
it's a tailor reference. Yes, and you're cheating on the Morons. No,
that make it relevant to this podcast? So how have
you pulled this off?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Team Marone?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Once again? She is the vendiagram. So I it's it's
just one of those things where my life just perfectly
fits into both the Taylor Swift world and the sport world,
and Team Morone Maroon was the best way for us
to mold all of those things. And as we've discussed previously,
I look great in Moron. So that was just another
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some people trying to say team Burgundy.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
No, no.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Ron, no wear Maroon.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
It's been honestly so fun to see people's reactions, like
you messaging me and sending me videos of you is
just like the best us. The latest episode of us
throwing up in some poor woman's poor woman's actual house
being the operative word in the In this place, it
(03:07):
was Bekista and this poor old lady you can.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Now say that home and as Bekista, yeah, who welcomed us,
and all we did was throw up from like every orifice.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
It's just it was the Exorcist on steroids, the devil
in that room.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yes, i'll quote you back to you. I've watched it
that many times anyway. The fact that I have to
be Team Marone and not Team Conrad in this room
because you haven't watched it when it's the single most
georgy coded show known to mankind.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
It's a big day. It's a big day here on
two Good Sports because Gelmy is just living in a
cloud of the summer. I turned pretty. It's the show
that's taken over the world. Just behind the amazing race.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I think I am going to keep my review very swift.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Of the of the finale, it.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Was too sweet. Oh it was too sweets, too much.
You know, you goat me everything I wanted and it
was too much.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
It was do you know what it was? It was
your challenge where they put thirty bowls of caramel in
front of you and the first bowl was delicious, but
you're like, this is agony, give me anything else. It
was so obvious and it was too much. Do you
know what I think it sometimes shows like this.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Obviously they took over our lives in the best possible way.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Oh and this is not usually my jam.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
No no, no, no, no, no, no again.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Just reciterate.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I'm not usually into teenage love triangles. I should have
been watching they the best. I should have been watching
Goal Gaut make the semi. I watched that on replay.
Yah yeah, yea, because I was making sure that no
one spoiled the summer.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I turned pretty I know me to be fair to you,
that wasn't a final, So that's okay, that's okay. But
the thing about these shows and teenage love triangles is
it's just everyone can get.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
On board because everyone was a teenager once, right, yes,
and it loved.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
It's the nostalgia of it all. And you'll and I
think for us as millennials, this is we are the
target demo. It's not for today's.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yet because they've got four men's Leo and lobbed it up.
It's Leo DiCaprio. Their hair's the same.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
This is I'm just it's so coded for us and
so made for us. What is just a beautiful time
to be alive.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
This is a sports podcast. So I've hijackson oh the
first what five.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Minutes of your listening listeners, So I haven't.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Seen each done.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I've seen each other in a week and this is
this is a real explosion of just everything that I
wanted to talk about.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
But you have a good sport.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I do have a good sport. I do have a
good sport that is randomly from us sport related at
the moment. So over the weekend, dear listeners, thank you
for the welfare checks because a lot was happening in
my world.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Oh my god, I already know what this is.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I may have watched nay. I survived the greatest game
of rugby league I have ever seen, I have ever seen.
It was arkable. I claimed last week that it was
going to be a blockbuster and the Broncos were going
to win the whole thing in the NRL. Broncos b Raiders.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
What a time Raiders.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
The minor Premiere is Broncos scraping through, limping through.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
To the finals.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I say that they're in the top four, but everyone
was questioning whether they had form lines coming into this
to take on a team that had been so dominant.
And it was the game of the round, which is
the first round of the finals.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
It had more drama in it than all three seasons
of the summer.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I turned pretty and.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
We all know who the jeremiahs. They even have the
same hair coloring. He drinks out of a toilet. No,
race isn't Jeremiah, Yes he is. He's got olive skin,
curly hair, drinks out of a toilet.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Lines Upmetz and I was originally team Jeremiah. So things
are tracking, Things are tracking. Here, But then who's team
Conrad the Broncos one for us to ponder. All I
know is that I was and I was having the
time of my life.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
So just set it up for people that didn't see
the game. Put it this way.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
We were watching the game and I was watching out
of the corner of my eye, and we sat down
for dinner because what it was five o'clock.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yes, and I've just.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Gone, oh, well, that's sad. Yes, because we try not
to watch Telly.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Why we have dinner? And I thought it was a
fatal complete.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
It was done for a half and a half, so
a whole half, the first half and half of the
second half. The canber Raiders were winning, and I thought, okay,
well Broncos, let's just prepare ourselves to have a do
or die match next week going back to Brisbane. It's
going to be okay. Ko Weeks was absolutely tearing us apart.
The canber Raiders full back. They're half strange, he was insane.
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I was like, this is just not our day. It's
not our day. Then Reese Walsh head Budtt Hudson young
and got sent from the field and I was like.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Oh shit, but he's available. To play this week, headbutt
and you're fine.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
In the NRL, he got sent off, Pat Carrigan got
sent off. Hudson Young also got sent off. So at
one stage we were still down a million points and
we had there was twelve on eleven when it should
be thirteen on thirteen. Guys like, you know, I'm not
great at maths, but the abaicus ain't abocus. That's not good.
How do we come back from here? Then, in the
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ultimate non Broncos performance I've ever seen, led by Jeremiah
himself Riese Walsh, he single handedly turned the game around,
scored a try, set up a try, nearly scored the
match winning field goal, got us to a game, got
us to a game tie in conversion, it.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Was like you know when you watch Space Jam and
they have Michael's secret stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yes, it was like that. Yes, it was like he
found another gear.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Honestly, honestly, it's the toilet water. I don't know what
to tell you. I don't know what to tell you
that someone has done a comparison of his stats in
the rounds before drinking from the toilet bowl and after
drinking from the toilet bowl, and they are way better.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I will just clarify that it's not just Georgie saying this.
I listened to Crash Credit saying that this is the
greatest rugby league game that we've seen in a century
of football.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
The Camber Raiders ce raided their victory in the game.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Almost the fans almost charged the field, yeah, believing they'd won.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
It twice and they had that security were holding him back. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Oh yes, they thought that they had won because Reese
Welsh was awarded a penalty literally on the siren of
full time and they're like, oh my god, we won.
No you didn't, No, you didn't. Resw Welsh tie the game.
Then it goes to extra time. The camber Raiders they
had already thought that they had scored a try and
then it's like no, no, no, that got sad. That
got taken off them too. And then it goes to
extra time. No one could make it, could score. Then
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it went to golden point extra time, like this is
a ninety four minute match. It's only meant to go
for eighty minutes. It was the greatest spectacle. I them
went on national television shaking.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Why does this keep happening to you? I know, Swiffer
really it's an album. They're like, go on sendy in hysteria.
The Broncos get home and she's literally unhinged, and you're
likely unhinged.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
It was honestly the greatest performance I have ever seen
from a player, bar Nathan Cleary the twenty twenty three
Grand Final.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
They're still alive.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Oh I can't. Yeah. Look, do I think that that
was the greatest game of rugby leaguer I may have
ever seen? Yes? Do I think the Broncos will win
again this season?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Nah?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Nah?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
That was their Grand Final. But they brought you enough joy.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Brought me so much joy. We have a week off
before we go into the pre limb for everyone playing
at home, I don't think we're really going to win
that because we're going to be up against the pen
with Panthers most likely they take on the Bulldogs this week.
I think that they'll win that easily. The Bulldogs don't
have Steve Crichton, They've got so many injuries. If that
happens to be Broncos Panthers, I think.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
The Panthers can beat us Panthers.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I think with the Broncos coming off a rest, with
the Panthers having been last on the ladder after round
twelve and everyone was like, well, finally, yeah, we might
not have someone go back to back to back to
back to back.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yep. This would be their sixth straight Grand Final and
potentially they lose straight win.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
So if you ever wake up in the middle of
the night, dear listener, and you think it's like three am,
and you wonder, God, what I wonder why I'm awake?
I wonder if anyone else on earth is I am?
Because I'm thinking of we have the body hairfast, they
will last after round twelve. How can we still be here?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Cleary?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I just it is.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Enough to keep you up at night. Guys, That's all
I can say.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
And now that you've been like oh so much on
the sport, I better mention Tory lewis running a national
record in the one hundred meters.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Yes, absolutely, Shkerry Richardson was in the race as well. Phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
We're talking about the Tokyo World Champs and also Sam
curs back. Sam curves back and she's running around. So
that's just two Aussie women absolutely killing it. But we
got four hours for today's podcast because I listened to
last week's at lav divine you two talking and this
is so and it's heavy.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
It's NL heavy, it's heavy, it's heavy.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
What's coming up after this?
Speaker 1 (11:45):
We might have some Aussie rules for you.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
By the time today's pod hits your ears, it will
be that this evening we are about to see one
of the great finals in AFL history. And but that
I mean, this weekend could not be more poised with
some of the more successful teams that we've ever had
in Australian rules football going head to head, headlined by
the Cats taking on the Hawks, who just bloody hate
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each other.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
There's not the way to put that.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Is there?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
No, no they? Even As someone who came to Ossie
Rules late, I learned very very quickly in a Melbourne
newsroom the hatred that exists between Geelong and Hawthorne. I
remember palpable. It is because I remember I had to
do so many of those Eastern Monday games. Yes, so many,
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it's one a year.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
It feels like a lot, though I was about to
say it's annual by design.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
But the actual tension that was in the air just
from fans of either of those teams in the room
with me palpable.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
And as if that wasn't good enough, on Saturday, we
have Collingwood taking on Brisbane, who.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I think is a modern day rivalry. Right, Oh honey,
for me, I grew up hating Collingwood. I know you're
meant to, but as a Brisbane fan, you know, do
we really have rights to hate anyone? And I hated Collingwood?
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Do we have rights I hate anyone? You absolutely do. Now,
I'm going to go with my fun fact early.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
So since two thousand and one, yes, sixty percent of
all premierships in the AFL have been won by these
four teams. No way, really, Yes, you think the Panthers
are disgusting? These four god just for twenty five years.
So these are the most winningest, most prolific teams in
the AFL. And we are going to give you the
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most unhinged breakdown as to why we're starting off with
the Hawks.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Now, Georgie has married in to the Hawks family.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
If not for Emma Race, Robert would be the number
one ticket holder. He liked to think, so he wears
enough merch. I can't that you believe that he probably
is more involved?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yes, you would think that he was if not Sam
Mitchell at least second too. The Hawks coach like you
think he's an assistant coach with him out emerged that
he's rocky.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
You mentioned sam Mitchell.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
A narrative running around this weekend that hasn't got something
to do with the finals but does have a lot
to do with sam Mitchell is that sam Mitchell has
had a lovely.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Dinner with Zach Merritt. Yes, who is the captain of
Essendon and.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
By and large their best player is looking like he's
going to win their Best and Fairest next month and
may or may not actually go to the awards ceremony
because this story has blown up. He is a contracted
player that still has two years left on his contract
and wants.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Out and once.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Away from the club, Essendon as early as last season
were like, you know what, we're underpaying you. We're going
to give you a little bit more money. Just they
didn't have to, but they were like, look we see
at market value. We're not treating you the way you should.
He is a little bit more. Here's a little bit
of this. Brad Scott has had to go on TV
been like we are he is not for sale. We
shall not be trading him. The president and the CEA
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have both said absolutely not no. So you've got this captain,
this leader of a young team and a struggling team
who haven't won a final since I don't know Jesus
was a center half back. And now they're in this
situation where all the leaders of this club have said
you cannot go anywhere. You've got the captain saying I
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desperately want out in saying that we haven't heard from him,
but he clearly hasn't come on the front foot to
say no, I believe in the club.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
So the silence is deafening.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
One do you believe sam Mitchell should be able to
have dinner with whoever he likes or is this a
dog act where that's a contracted captain of another club
you need to leave him alone.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
And second fold, do.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
You think that the Bombers should release Zach Merritt if
he's that unhappy?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I think that sam Mitchell can have dinner with whoever
he wants to. He can have dinner with whoever he
wants to. And if he decides that that's going to
be a public dinner and that Zach, it still rocks up.
I mean, that's on New Zak. That's on New Zach.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
He's landing painted like he's the Antichrist. I'm like, the
bloke invited someone for dinner. Yeah, and he accepted.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I mean, look, as an overall footy world, if I
was wanting to have private negotiations about my football club,
potentially that could affect me meeting up with Sam Mitchell.
But also if I was that keen on playing for
him and joining his club, it's probably not going to
stop me. So I think he can have dinner with
who every wants to.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
This is also in the lens of Sam Mitchell supposedly
flying to Perth to meet with Oscar Allen, remember who
was getting a contract West Coast player during the season,
and the West Coast captain who then had to give
the most forlorn, sad press conference being like I'm so sorry.
I'm like, bro, you're not You're not though, but he
probably was sorry. He was sorry that everyone was coming
at him with knives. But I'm like, in any other business,
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everyone's got one eye somewhere, yes, being like, is there
a better option for me?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
That's just human life.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I think that four And I've heard this argument before.
It was actually Bob Murphy, who the former Bulldogs captain.
I mean his a legend, the former Bulldogs legend, who
said that he just thinks it's a different narrative because
they're captains. Yes, And I think that that actually might
hold up for me. I think that if you are
a captain and you are openly negotiating with another club,
Zach Marrett is slightly different to Oscar Allen because I
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believe Oscar Allen was like a free agent, where Zach
Marrey still has time on his contract. Then that's a
different ballgame for me. But if he's going to be
like Sam's like, hello, I'm over here, hot girl at
the party, what come driving? I dive in, Yeah, thank you,
then obviously I'm like, okay, well that's on new Zach,
and now you have to wear whether or not you
actually got to rock up to the best and fairest
that you will win because everyone hates you.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I just love the amount of analysis that would have
gone into this this week.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
At no point has he been described as the hot
girl at the bar.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Well, but welcome to sports and I for mine, I
think we need more of it in AFL.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
But there is a clause in NRAL, where you couldn't
do this.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Oh yes, So in the NRL you can have players
midway through a season be like, look, it's been fun,
but by this time next year, I'll be playing for
another team.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
We're all good with that. Let's play on. We've seen it.
The Pantthers do it.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Very successful, very successfully though, But that.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Doesn't happen in AFL. So there's all this like quiet
chat and trade period stuff. But everyone's talking to everyone
but you supposedly there's a moral compass.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
This is business.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I don't think that that's the case. I far more
appreciate the NRL approach to it. However, I like the
drama of the A It's just very very dramatic. Do
we think, though, with the Hollywood Hawks taking on Geelong,
do we think that any of what's happening off field
is going to effect on field?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yeah? Nah, I don't know, because if I'm a Hawks player,
I'm like, yeah, he's trying to get the best players
I better play really well.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
I think he's at market.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
For different players to come in and that's a good thing.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I think that that has been part of the Hawk's
success this whole season is that they're actually playing out
of their skin when everything is firing and there on
song because they know that they can be replaced. They
know that there's a box He'll a're doing real well,
like they can just come through and take their spot.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
How do you feel about Zach Merritt if he is
not released from his contract and now there's other storylines
going into it where there's been leaks about the fact
that he said disrespectful things to afoor W players within
the club. Whether that's true or not, no one knows,
but apparently Zac's very upset at that storyline. So there's
just everyone's pointing, you know that Spider Man where everyone's
pointing a gun at everyone. Everyone's pointing a gun at everyone,
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and everyone's body unhappy. But if they do reach a
stalemate and he is Kenny captain next year, when he's
had two teammates come out and say, look, this is
really disappointing.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Oh I don't think so. I don't think he'll be
at the Bombers. There's no way he's like on a
fast exit strategy. How then my they'll let him go.
They him.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
We've got players that.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Are signing for like seven year deals on X amount
of million dollars.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Yeah, thanks, but.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Then is it worth the paper that it's written on.
So the players get the job security and the financial
security of knowing, Hey, if I want to, I can
hold them to this. But if I want to, I
can just be like, I don't want to be here
anymore and they have to let me go.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
If you're a club, why are you signing players for
seven years? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I know, that's that's crazy. That's crazy. There is there's
been as there was a storyline over in the EPL,
and it happened I think with Liverpool a player from Liverpool.
I actually I don't remember that. There was a storyline
in the EPL where this I'm talking trillion dollar man
decided that he did not want to play anymore and
so just sat out until he got traded to another club.
(20:27):
But they still paid him his salary. I'm like, well,
if you don't want to be there raying for and then.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
There are angry fans calling talkback, be like sit him out,
telling me he's got to be held to his contract,
which legally they can do, and put him on the sidelines.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
And I'm like, but then you're paying for someone you're
the best.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Player, and by that I mean by a country mile.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Which I think he knows.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
And I think the thing is he's been sold this
story of success and at the core of this is
Paul brad Scott having to go on AFL three sixty
or whatever it was and be like, yes, so he
came for dinner the other night and we're really close.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
I'm like, we'll clearly not close enough. So what is
going on?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Anyway? So Hawks, Hollywood Hawks only finished eighth, and they
are just the team that you believe could actually do it.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I think that they could do it on their day.
They can beat anyone. On their day, they can beat anyone.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Well, especially when they've got John Newcomb who just decides okay,
he is a free his last four finals, he's been
best on ground.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Yeah, it's it's insane. His performance in finals, I mean
their game against who'd they play last week?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Adelaide?
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Oh my god, that's right, Adelaide, Sorr. I'm so sorry.
I forgot you already, Adelaid my catcher. What a great
season from you. Ah for me, you knew that game
was over in thirteen seconds, that's all it took for
John to completely just and you were like Adelaide has
nothing to come back with with it, like they're just done.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
And just decided to be.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Benjamin Button an amazing resurgence though it away playing in Brisbane,
coming back playing for the Hawks, and now he's all
Australian and arguably one of the biggest problems that he's
facing Geelong is how they're going to stop him.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
In saying all of that. Yes, I think that the
Hawks can be anyone on their day. Do I think
they're going to beat Geelong in the prelim final?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
No? So if we were going to call Sam Mitchell
a villainy, Geelong have the AFL's version of Satan running
around at the moment in terms of public discourse because
the world's pretty angry at Bailey Smith.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I haven't heard of him.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
The world's pretty angry at Bailey Smith because there were
photos and you talked about it very eloquently and probably
a lot more professionally than me calling him Satan last
week on the pod. But I obviously I don't believe
that he's Satan. Let's just really backtrack. They can just
see that Jealmis the actual devil. He said some very
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choice words to a female photographer who was invited by
the club to the ground just doing a job.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Flip the bird.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I've seen enough people give the finger and I'm turning
into Caro Wilson. Stop dropping the f bomb.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
That was Reese Welsh as well. He did that in
the camera game got finned eighteen hundred dollars as uside.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
But it started to be a joke and on my
kids watch.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
This, they do and they'll try and they'll do it
sentences like I.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Swear like a trooper when I'm not on air.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Have I ever done it on air? No, because this
is not on air, that's not on the ABC. It
doesn't count. You know how to pull up.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
You know how to pull up, we know how.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
To behave yeah, said. The culture of Geelong has long
been put on a pedestal as this is what you
should want, this is what you need to emulate to
achieve amazing on field results. They have had the worst
look in terms of a culture of a club in
the last fortnight than nearly any other team in the
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last decade.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Because Chris Scott twin Brats Brad Scott that we were
just so the Scott families had a week. Chriscott supposedly
yelled an AFL staffer who was also female, because there
was a legally blind journalist in the press conference that
had a minder, and for whatever reason he took offense
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to that and decided to yell about it.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
It's crazy any sense.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Doesn't make any sense, and we haven't heard comment from anyone.
But it's just been a week of real negative press
around two very key figures of the club.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
But what DeLong do so well is they kind of
reprimand but they absolutely don't.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
No, they don't. I don't think they do.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
So we had Bailey Smith earlier in the year joking
about getting on the nose beers as someone who previously
has posted on social media holding a white bag of
substance next to his face. Gave an apology at the
time when he was at a previous club. It was
very oh, well, you've this is just a joke gone wrong,
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isn't it. You just got to let that go, and
even you know, listening to Patrick Dangerfield being like, oh,
Bailey's remorseful. He didn't mean to, you know, like we
all just we we clearly just move on and like
there's just there's a different rule for Geelong seemingly and
especially they're good players than everywhere else and it just
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breeds success because everyone wants to be there.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Everyone wants to be there. Overnight breaking news is that
Charlie Kurno from the Carlton Football Club his first list
of options that he would like to go to rather
than be at Carlton. Number one is Geelong.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Of course, it is in the same way that Jeremy
Cameron wanted to go, Like, yeah, they want to go there.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I don't know how they keep doing it. It is
a I think controversial culture at the moment, but they
do have a winning culture.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Oh, Bailey Smith is likely to be in the top
three of the Brown line. And I was playing unbelievable football.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I was at that opening final against Brisbane, the qualifying final,
and they were unbelievable Geelong. Brisbane did not like I
know that. In the they suffocated them. Brisbane was not
in it ever, not in it ever. And that's the
reigning Premiere. So Geelong have they are on. I think
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they are eyeballing that flag and I just don't I
don't see them losing. I don't see them.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
I think there's so many parallels between Baileysmith and Reese
Walsh where they love this noise around them because.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
They are friends. What, Yeah, they're friends. Yeah, they're the
cross code friendship that everyone needs.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Have they been perpped leaving a very popular restaurant.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Whenever he's in the Gold Coast because Reese lives there,
so whenever Bailey's up at the Gold Coast. Yeah, they
hang out. Oh, of course, of course they do.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Of course they do.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Of course they do. Do you know what I mean? Like,
of course they do. I want to have a raise
an issue with Geelong that I also noted when I
was in the stands watching that qualifying final, as I've
watched any Geelong game so far this season. How do
they continuously field a team of how many players on
an AFL field in twenty two twenty two? How do
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they feel twenty two players when they literally have one
person playing seven different positions? Let me bring the evidence.
This person is that person? Is that person? Is that person?
Is that person? Is that person? And if you squint
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and put a headband on him?
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Is that person? What? What? These are not different people?
Speaker 1 (27:53):
You can what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (27:56):
What?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
I can understand what they're looking for in the draft,
like in those what are those those basketball combines.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
It's like how high can you just comes out with
a bit of a beach, a bit of a tip
and just relaxes. Those colonels will be down there.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Charlie Kurno is a headband and you're right a straightener
away from Geelong.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
I mean, maybe that's why they're so successful. It's technically
a cult.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
I realized that this is an audio platform, guys, and
so just so you know, that will go up online. However,
what I showed Jelmy was a slide show.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Of eight players. Eight players a longish unwashed bob.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
They look exactly the same way with this player is
look at it. This is Mark Bittsubs, that is Sam Daconing,
that is Dempsey, this is I want to say, Zach Guthrie.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Is that his name?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
This is Tom Stewart, that is Bruce Stanley, and this
is Bailey Smith. But I think we can all agree
that actually John Smith and poker contest.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Now someone who previously I'm going to bump around our
auto here, because someone who previously would have fit into
that list but had a remarkable transformation on the weekend
after a year of form that he'd probably liked.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
To leave behind him.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
It was ky Lehman.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
He previously could have played for. He was a real
real we're talking the Lions now. We moved on Saturday
night and it's the Lions taking on Collingwood. He shaved
his head and we're not talking like we're talking like
to the scalp.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Yep, yep, yep, we are talking Alcarez.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yeah, he did a full Alcoraz and Lockie Neil, who
was injured, was speaking pregame and he was like, I
honestly think it's a mental thing. And I was like,
meant as in, he'd had a season where he just
wanted to shake something up. He just wanted to do
something different, so he shaved his head.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
He went for Brittany. You know I understand that.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
No he did.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
He did what he cut bangs.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
He cut bangs.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
He did the male equivalent of cutting banks.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
When girls go through a breakup or something's they go
do I'll do I'll get a fringe that'll fucking fix everything.
And he had a good friend to tell you he
has shaved his head, and supposedly, supposedly he said, oh,
the barber went a bit high with the fade, so
I just said, take it all off, lies, lies, lies, lies,
he cut bangs, Brittany whatever it was, and going through something.
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I mean, that game was over so early, and it
was so sad for me because I loved the sons,
I loved the narrative. And you know what, They've won
their final, which when was the last time Essendon won
a final?
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Unfortunate.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
We could ask Zach Merritt, can you suck? Can you
sell lines to me though? The winning Yeah, because they're
without Locky Neil, they're obviously without Dana Hurston said last
one of flag.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
I'm not gonna lie. It's a hard cell. It is
a hard cell for them to go back to back.
There's nothing Panthers like about them. In all honesty. They're
limping towards this pre limb because yes, Locke kneels out.
Other than Cam Rayner, there's no one of real dynasism
that I see on that field being a game changer,
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let alone a game winner. Unfortunately, and I say that
as a Lions Fanshrofts are amazing. They aren't amazing there,
that's true. They are amazing and they do have incredible hair.
I did hear a narrative about Kai Lohman's hair that
he was just getting sick of being confused for an Ashcroft,
so shaped it all off. I will say that Will
Ashcroft has some of the greatest hair I've ever seen
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in my life, so we love that for him. I
they're great that I don't think that they're good enough
to win a flag back. I hope I'm wrong. I
hope I'm wrong. But we just look. Our defense is great,
our midfield is okay. Forwards, Charlie Cameron is not in
good form.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Will your engagement survive a Lions Hawk's final.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Yes that insert insert thinking music here, Yes, Yes, because god,
it would be fun. Now, imagine if what we don't
think is going to happen happened. Think about the entertainment.
The Hollywood Hawks up against the Lions, great time.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
It wouldn't be if you went, like Robert is the
sort of person who will go into hiding for a
week if they if it's if Lions with and Hawks lose,
won't you won't know where he is.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
That's true. Why would he'd still be in his clothes
of morning, which you've got football.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Team, you've got excavated happening under your house.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
It would just bury himself under there and call it
a day.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
But I don't think it will happen though, because the
Lions are taking on Collingwood now.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Collingwood were that team all season that were top of
the table, daylight than everyone else, and then they decided
to see It's like when someone sees the finish line
and just stammers their way there. You know how you
watch sometimes, especially in Olympics, in longer events, when people
like start to ease up, oh and all of a
sudden others come charging home. And that is difference between
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what we've seen with Hawks and Gelong. Hawks have charged
towards the line. Collingwood stammered their way there. Lost loss
loss loss bang Bang bank bank bank not great. Yes,
they've decided to bring the best in finals footy because
their game against Adelaide they were phenomenal. Now they're in
a position where supposedly Bobby Hill's not getting a game
even though that he's available for selection. We saw Darcy
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Moore return to his absolute best against Adelaide in Adelaide,
and we know the narrative and how much noise was
going into that game. Yes, Decos for Mine wins the
brown Low On Monday I agree with you, and if
he doesn't, and if he doesn't, that makes it.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Yeah, you have to clarify which one Josh. Although Josh
could come close. I'd be sad if Nick doesn't.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
I would be sad if Nick doesn't as well. And
now I say this with respect because if he doesn't win,
it probably means that Jordan Dawson from the Adelaide Crows
wins and I have most recent.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Anderson there, it's Dawson, Anderson and supposedly Balley Smith.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
I just feel that, as someone who has put a
video up on social media recently likening Jordan Dawson to
an analyst that you've got no idea what they do.
I'm like, you cannot win a Brown though.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
See, I desperately want Jordan Dawson to win because he's
the only player, active player that we've had on offsiders
this year. And if we're if and he was delightful
and very generous with his time, and I'm like, if
you if we're one for one Brownlow medallist, what a time?
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Yeah? Actually that's it would be like if Harry Grant
came out won the DLI.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Like I'd say, two good sports had a thing to
do with that.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
S that's any to claim by association.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Yeah, he's a transponsor.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
It's not even a word.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Also, listeners, if you have missed it, Georgie is playing
a really fun game.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
It's pretty tumultuous on her own.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Social media where she likens what AFL players would actually
do based.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
On their jobs. What are their real jobs? Again?
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Analysis that you won't find an AFL three sixty, which is.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Why chef gian Yukim, Are you a finals player or
are you a whale shark to a guide? These are
just questions.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
It's so fair.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
You can see him in like the blue shirt, can't you?
I know, can.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
You with a bookachell necklace?
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Just because you're into men that wear shell necklaces doesn't
mean you need to bring you come down with you righto. Now.
When we play the fun game called predictions, you gamously
predicted that the Saints would make Top four last season,
So this could go anywhere.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Oh god, that's absolutely skewered me though, makes.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
It who makes it into the granny and who wins it? Okay?
And I'll even make a norm Smith medalist.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Play okay into the Granny. I think it's Geelong Collingwood.
It hurts me to say that also because their jerseys,
let's look too similar. I'm sorry, don't come for me.
They do, So that's those are my grand finalists. I
think Geelong wins it. And I think that the Norm Smith,
I mean, the entire narrative of the year is making
(35:54):
it be Bailey Smith. But I want to go out
on a living Saturday.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
To Stuart Tom Stewart.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Yep, he is a gun. See he is one of
the seven players that look exactly the same, but he
is a gun.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Maybe that's how they confuse the votes.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Was that him? Who knows which which ones?
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Who's three?
Speaker 2 (36:19):
I mean, my heart wants to say it would be
amazing if it was Hawks Collingwood. But I actually do
think it's going to be Gelong Collingwood and my norm
I reckon.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
Collingwood winner. I'm going to go Collingwood and I reckon.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
That's two and three years.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
I know, well that's the thing they've been up there.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Normally I'll go I'm gonna be the most boring, like
I'm literally picking odds on everything. I reckon d Well
it's only Nick day cost me. If Collingwood are to win,
Nick needs to start. Like if I if I was
going to go Geelong winning, I would say Jeremy Cameron
for Norm because I think jess Are.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Would have to kick five.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Yeah you're so right. Yeah, yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
So it's like if then yeah, if colling would win,
then Dekos would have had a day out.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Do you think that the league universally hates Geelong or
Collingwood more if you don't go for them, like this
would be the battle of the most hated teams?
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Fair.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
I am surrounded and from being in the seven newsroom,
Geelong fans everywhere, the plague, they are everywhere, And I said,
I love you Beck, madam, hello number one ticket holder?
Who I shed an office with it. I watched Beck
watch last year's prelim final cry and then be on
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air ten seconds later she watched them lose and then
had to do one of these with the like wipe
under her eyes with the mascara and then be like
tonight on seven News And I was like, she is
not well. She was so unstable, Like what a professional?
She is a professional? But no that there are our
predictions there, but also it's just the most wonderful time
(38:02):
of the year. We'll talk more NRL coming up, but honestly,
if you were to script a better weekend of footy,
you couldn't find it.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Can't can't find it. Let's see if we're right, Jeremy.
I know you've already dropped your fun fact throughout this
episode to help it, which has gone for four hours
as we promised. But I have a fun fact as well,
which is some know him as a crocodile wrangler. What
(38:31):
you're going to realize is though that Robert Irwin is
actually a dancer.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
What am I watching?
Speaker 1 (38:46):
You are watching the US Dancing with the Stars, and
Robert Irwin, legend of this country dancing to sports is
annihilating this dance And I.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Just highlight it's hard to tell who's the professional, right,
there's a blurred line between if you just said I'm
going to show you this from range and you have
to pick which one is the celebrity. He looks like,
oh my god, yeah, there was some sort of pirouette thing. Yes,
Usually when blows to Dancing with the Stars, the girls
have to work so hard, like they're throwing themselves around
(39:19):
because the guys can't move this. Oh my god, he
jumped over it. He has jumped over like a lizard
and there's some sort of give footstep.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
This is okay.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
So that's why they couldn't get him in Australia. He
was saving this for the US.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Wait for it. The best bit's still coming.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
They can't be better. No, unbelievable. Unbelievable is he single?
Speaker 1 (39:42):
He's single. His sister did it, now he's gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
I know he so what He's just been quietly learning
the two steps for three years. So if I as
we we haven't discussed. I've been asked to do dancing
with the Star. I was when I was at seven
five times, five five and five times. I was like,
that is not in your or my interest for this,
for this and also can I just say, on the
(40:13):
one hand, I had a network telling me, you know,
we really need you to be taken seriously in sports,
so maybe die down like the cosmetics and like that
sort of stuff, because you know you're a sports can
you as sequence in a leotard and fucking perilwete for us?
What house it? Not any plan?
Speaker 1 (40:32):
So anyway, are you Are you a crocodile hunter, because
that's how you get away with it. You can do whatever.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
No, but also I would do it. Oh oh if
I was classically trained. You know those people that are like, oh,
I'll do it. Yes, So I trained Australian Ballet Academy.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Yeah, there is an epidence for a long time ago.
There is an episode of The Amazing Race coming up
where I think that I was trained at Juilliard in
the horn section.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
And I was not. Very clearly I was not.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
In the horn in the horn section, and you'll see
people who go up there and it's like, oh, that's.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Not a euphemism.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
I see people pass this challenge. This is a spoil.
I see people pass this challenge. I'm like, how have
you got in front of me? And it's like, I
played French horn when I was younger. Oh, the trumpet, yes,
best friends with me?
Speaker 3 (41:19):
And I'm like, what did you would have played an instrument?
Speaker 1 (41:22):
Yeah, piano. Where's that got me? Where's that got me?
Speaker 3 (41:26):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (41:26):
Yeah, but there's no planet where you didn't play an
instrument growing up?
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Oh yeah, I had money on clarinet.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
But I wanted to play the saxophone.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
I played the sax oh yeah alto this fun factic
but also so many oh god, here we go. It
was so big and I was so gangly that carrying
it on the bus and had to sit next to me.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
So really help young gelmy make mates.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
So I had to repopularity on the band the sax
when I'm just thinking, you just talk to the saxon
my phone. Sax on my phone. No, and but the
sacks also you think it's fun. I'm not good at
being bad at anything, and you've got to be bad
for a long time before you're good. Yeah, kids stay
in school, try hard at things.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
But I was like, no, this can go.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
This isn't good anyway. That was my fun fact was
that Robert El was going to win the US version
of Dancing at the Stars.
Speaker 3 (42:21):
Dancing is a sport.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Dancing is a sport.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
This has been very loosely to good sports. Mostly two
unhinged women having a catch up there. The rebrand might
be the rebrand coming to you next season, but until
next week, be an unhinged sport.
Here at Two Good Sports, we would like to acknowledge
the traditional owners of the land on which we record
this podcast. There were innerie people. This land was never seated,
always was, always will be. Dear listeners, are you listening?
Welcome to another episode of Two Good Sports Sports he's
(00:21):
told differently and yes, who's back.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
She's alive. Thank god, it's a holiday coming in here, Georgie,
Tony Hello, and you know only the plague could have
kept me coming in here to go into a deep
dive of you and Robert on the race. I had notes.
I have been taking notes, and it was denied of
(00:45):
me last week literally because I had pneumonia. But she's
back and I would like to highlight so many things. Firstly,
how does it feel to be Australia's most loved couple
thoughts and people.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
That's very lovely of you to say that, it actually
feels very nice. We've had such I've so denial. What
do you say, No, it's a fact, because there'll be
some challenges coming in this series where I may have
referenced before that you know Asian Scott are like the
ultimate power couple right like she's she's part of the
Bravo family ash and she's divine, and Robert and I
(01:18):
there being like the awkward cousins who were the last
minute advice to a family wedding, and we're just like hello,
So it's nice that everyone is loving us. Right now,
down the track, our full ineptitude will come to the surface.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Well, I have laughed so hard knowing you guys so
well at how much Robert would have been wounded by
Gretel Colleen calling him unathletic. And then come another episode
where they literally are like, well he's not a dancer,
And all I can think of is Robert quoting Jane Austen, going, well,
you've insulted me in every which way, so therefore you
(01:52):
can have nothing more to say, because that's what Robert.
Robert will describe himself as an athletic dancer.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
You've cut me to the marrow.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Also, I've listened to your other pod, yes, and they
have claimed that you are Team Maroon. Oh yes, because
it's a tailor reference. Yes, and you're cheating on the Morons. No,
that make it relevant to this podcast? So how have
you pulled this off?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Team Marone?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Once again? She is the vendiagram. So I it's it's
just one of those things where my life just perfectly
fits into both the Taylor Swift world and the sport world,
and Team Morone Maroon was the best way for us
to mold all of those things. And as we've discussed previously,
I look great in Moron. So that was just another
(02:39):
some people trying to say team Burgundy.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
No, no.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Ron, no wear Maroon.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
It's been honestly so fun to see people's reactions, like
you messaging me and sending me videos of you is
just like the best us. The latest episode of us
throwing up in some poor woman's poor woman's actual house
being the operative word in the In this place, it
(03:07):
was Bekista and this poor old lady you can.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Now say that home and as Bekista, yeah, who welcomed us,
and all we did was throw up from like every orifice.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
It's just it was the Exorcist on steroids, the devil
in that room.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yes, i'll quote you back to you. I've watched it
that many times anyway. The fact that I have to
be Team Marone and not Team Conrad in this room
because you haven't watched it when it's the single most
georgy coded show known to mankind.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
It's a big day. It's a big day here on
two Good Sports because Gelmy is just living in a
cloud of the summer. I turned pretty. It's the show
that's taken over the world. Just behind the amazing race.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I think I am going to keep my review very swift.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Of the of the finale, it.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Was too sweet. Oh it was too sweets, too much.
You know, you goat me everything I wanted and it
was too much.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
It was do you know what it was? It was
your challenge where they put thirty bowls of caramel in
front of you and the first bowl was delicious, but
you're like, this is agony, give me anything else. It
was so obvious and it was too much. Do you
know what I think it sometimes shows like this.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Obviously they took over our lives in the best possible way.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Oh and this is not usually my jam.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
No no, no, no, no, no, no again.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Just reciterate.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I'm not usually into teenage love triangles. I should have
been watching they the best. I should have been watching
Goal Gaut make the semi. I watched that on replay.
Yah yeah, yea, because I was making sure that no
one spoiled the summer.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I turned pretty I know me to be fair to you,
that wasn't a final, So that's okay, that's okay. But
the thing about these shows and teenage love triangles is
it's just everyone can get.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
On board because everyone was a teenager once, right, yes,
and it loved.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
It's the nostalgia of it all. And you'll and I
think for us as millennials, this is we are the
target demo. It's not for today's.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yet because they've got four men's Leo and lobbed it up.
It's Leo DiCaprio. Their hair's the same.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
This is I'm just it's so coded for us and
so made for us. What is just a beautiful time
to be alive.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
This is a sports podcast. So I've hijackson oh the
first what five.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Minutes of your listening listeners, So I haven't.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Seen each done.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I've seen each other in a week and this is
this is a real explosion of just everything that I
wanted to talk about.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
But you have a good sport.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I do have a good sport. I do have a
good sport that is randomly from us sport related at
the moment. So over the weekend, dear listeners, thank you
for the welfare checks because a lot was happening in
my world.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Oh my god, I already know what this is.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I may have watched nay. I survived the greatest game
of rugby league I have ever seen, I have ever seen.
It was arkable. I claimed last week that it was
going to be a blockbuster and the Broncos were going
to win the whole thing in the NRL. Broncos b Raiders.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
What a time Raiders.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
The minor Premiere is Broncos scraping through, limping through.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
To the finals.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I say that they're in the top four, but everyone
was questioning whether they had form lines coming into this
to take on a team that had been so dominant.
And it was the game of the round, which is
the first round of the finals.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
It had more drama in it than all three seasons
of the summer.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I turned pretty and.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
We all know who the jeremiahs. They even have the
same hair coloring. He drinks out of a toilet. No,
race isn't Jeremiah, Yes he is. He's got olive skin,
curly hair, drinks out of a toilet.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Lines Upmetz and I was originally team Jeremiah. So things
are tracking, Things are tracking. Here, But then who's team
Conrad the Broncos one for us to ponder. All I
know is that I was and I was having the
time of my life.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
So just set it up for people that didn't see
the game. Put it this way.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
We were watching the game and I was watching out
of the corner of my eye, and we sat down
for dinner because what it was five o'clock.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yes, and I've just.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Gone, oh, well, that's sad. Yes, because we try not
to watch Telly.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Why we have dinner? And I thought it was a
fatal complete.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
It was done for a half and a half, so
a whole half, the first half and half of the
second half. The canber Raiders were winning, and I thought, okay,
well Broncos, let's just prepare ourselves to have a do
or die match next week going back to Brisbane. It's
going to be okay. Ko Weeks was absolutely tearing us apart.
The canber Raiders full back. They're half strange, he was insane.
(07:39):
I was like, this is just not our day. It's
not our day. Then Reese Walsh head Budtt Hudson young
and got sent from the field and I was like.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Oh shit, but he's available. To play this week, headbutt
and you're fine.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
In the NRL, he got sent off, Pat Carrigan got
sent off. Hudson Young also got sent off. So at
one stage we were still down a million points and
we had there was twelve on eleven when it should
be thirteen on thirteen. Guys like, you know, I'm not
great at maths, but the abaicus ain't abocus. That's not good.
How do we come back from here? Then, in the
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ultimate non Broncos performance I've ever seen, led by Jeremiah
himself Riese Walsh, he single handedly turned the game around,
scored a try, set up a try, nearly scored the
match winning field goal, got us to a game, got
us to a game tie in conversion, it.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Was like you know when you watch Space Jam and
they have Michael's secret stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yes, it was like that. Yes, it was like he
found another gear.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Honestly, honestly, it's the toilet water. I don't know what
to tell you. I don't know what to tell you
that someone has done a comparison of his stats in
the rounds before drinking from the toilet bowl and after
drinking from the toilet bowl, and they are way better.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I will just clarify that it's not just Georgie saying this.
I listened to Crash Credit saying that this is the
greatest rugby league game that we've seen in a century
of football.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
The Camber Raiders ce raided their victory in the game.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Almost the fans almost charged the field, yeah, believing they'd won.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
It twice and they had that security were holding him back. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Oh yes, they thought that they had won because Reese
Welsh was awarded a penalty literally on the siren of
full time and they're like, oh my god, we won.
No you didn't, No, you didn't. Resw Welsh tie the game.
Then it goes to extra time. The camber Raiders they
had already thought that they had scored a try and
then it's like no, no, no, that got sad. That
got taken off them too. And then it goes to
extra time. No one could make it, could score. Then
(09:30):
it went to golden point extra time, like this is
a ninety four minute match. It's only meant to go
for eighty minutes. It was the greatest spectacle. I them
went on national television shaking.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Why does this keep happening to you? I know, Swiffer
really it's an album. They're like, go on sendy in hysteria.
The Broncos get home and she's literally unhinged, and you're
likely unhinged.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
It was honestly the greatest performance I have ever seen
from a player, bar Nathan Cleary the twenty twenty three
Grand Final.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
They're still alive.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Oh I can't. Yeah. Look, do I think that that
was the greatest game of rugby leaguer I may have
ever seen? Yes? Do I think the Broncos will win
again this season?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Nah?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Nah?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
That was their Grand Final. But they brought you enough joy.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Brought me so much joy. We have a week off
before we go into the pre limb for everyone playing
at home, I don't think we're really going to win
that because we're going to be up against the pen
with Panthers most likely they take on the Bulldogs this week.
I think that they'll win that easily. The Bulldogs don't
have Steve Crichton, They've got so many injuries. If that
happens to be Broncos Panthers, I think.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
The Panthers can beat us Panthers.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I think with the Broncos coming off a rest, with
the Panthers having been last on the ladder after round
twelve and everyone was like, well, finally, yeah, we might
not have someone go back to back to back to
back to back.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yep. This would be their sixth straight Grand Final and
potentially they lose straight win.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
So if you ever wake up in the middle of
the night, dear listener, and you think it's like three am,
and you wonder, God, what I wonder why I'm awake?
I wonder if anyone else on earth is I am?
Because I'm thinking of we have the body hairfast, they
will last after round twelve. How can we still be here?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Cleary?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I just it is.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Enough to keep you up at night. Guys, That's all
I can say.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
And now that you've been like oh so much on
the sport, I better mention Tory lewis running a national
record in the one hundred meters.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Yes, absolutely, Shkerry Richardson was in the race as well. Phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
We're talking about the Tokyo World Champs and also Sam
curs back. Sam curves back and she's running around. So
that's just two Aussie women absolutely killing it. But we
got four hours for today's podcast because I listened to
last week's at lav divine you two talking and this
is so and it's heavy.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
It's NL heavy, it's heavy, it's heavy.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
What's coming up after this?
Speaker 1 (11:45):
We might have some Aussie rules for you.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
By the time today's pod hits your ears, it will
be that this evening we are about to see one
of the great finals in AFL history. And but that
I mean, this weekend could not be more poised with
some of the more successful teams that we've ever had
in Australian rules football going head to head, headlined by
the Cats taking on the Hawks, who just bloody hate
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each other.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
There's not the way to put that.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Is there?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
No, no they? Even As someone who came to Ossie
Rules late, I learned very very quickly in a Melbourne
newsroom the hatred that exists between Geelong and Hawthorne. I
remember palpable. It is because I remember I had to
do so many of those Eastern Monday games. Yes, so many,
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it's one a year.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
It feels like a lot, though I was about to
say it's annual by design.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
But the actual tension that was in the air just
from fans of either of those teams in the room
with me palpable.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
And as if that wasn't good enough, on Saturday, we
have Collingwood taking on Brisbane, who.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I think is a modern day rivalry. Right, Oh honey,
for me, I grew up hating Collingwood. I know you're
meant to, but as a Brisbane fan, you know, do
we really have rights to hate anyone? And I hated Collingwood?
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Do we have rights I hate anyone? You absolutely do. Now,
I'm going to go with my fun fact early.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
So since two thousand and one, yes, sixty percent of
all premierships in the AFL have been won by these
four teams. No way, really, Yes, you think the Panthers
are disgusting? These four god just for twenty five years.
So these are the most winningest, most prolific teams in
the AFL. And we are going to give you the
(13:45):
most unhinged breakdown as to why we're starting off with
the Hawks.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Now, Georgie has married in to the Hawks family.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
If not for Emma Race, Robert would be the number
one ticket holder. He liked to think, so he wears
enough merch. I can't that you believe that he probably
is more involved?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yes, you would think that he was if not Sam
Mitchell at least second too. The Hawks coach like you
think he's an assistant coach with him out emerged that
he's rocky.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
You mentioned sam Mitchell.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
A narrative running around this weekend that hasn't got something
to do with the finals but does have a lot
to do with sam Mitchell is that sam Mitchell has
had a lovely.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Dinner with Zach Merritt. Yes, who is the captain of
Essendon and.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
By and large their best player is looking like he's
going to win their Best and Fairest next month and
may or may not actually go to the awards ceremony
because this story has blown up. He is a contracted
player that still has two years left on his contract
and wants.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Out and once.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Away from the club, Essendon as early as last season
were like, you know what, we're underpaying you. We're going
to give you a little bit more money. Just they
didn't have to, but they were like, look we see
at market value. We're not treating you the way you should.
He is a little bit more. Here's a little bit
of this. Brad Scott has had to go on TV
been like we are he is not for sale. We
shall not be trading him. The president and the CEA
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have both said absolutely not no. So you've got this captain,
this leader of a young team and a struggling team
who haven't won a final since I don't know Jesus
was a center half back. And now they're in this
situation where all the leaders of this club have said
you cannot go anywhere. You've got the captain saying I
(15:23):
desperately want out in saying that we haven't heard from him,
but he clearly hasn't come on the front foot to
say no, I believe in the club.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
So the silence is deafening.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
One do you believe sam Mitchell should be able to
have dinner with whoever he likes or is this a
dog act where that's a contracted captain of another club
you need to leave him alone.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
And second fold, do.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
You think that the Bombers should release Zach Merritt if
he's that unhappy?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I think that sam Mitchell can have dinner with whoever
he wants to. He can have dinner with whoever he
wants to. And if he decides that that's going to
be a public dinner and that Zach, it still rocks up.
I mean, that's on New Zak. That's on New Zach.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
He's landing painted like he's the Antichrist. I'm like, the
bloke invited someone for dinner. Yeah, and he accepted.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I mean, look, as an overall footy world, if I
was wanting to have private negotiations about my football club,
potentially that could affect me meeting up with Sam Mitchell.
But also if I was that keen on playing for
him and joining his club, it's probably not going to
stop me. So I think he can have dinner with
who every wants to.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
This is also in the lens of Sam Mitchell supposedly
flying to Perth to meet with Oscar Allen, remember who
was getting a contract West Coast player during the season,
and the West Coast captain who then had to give
the most forlorn, sad press conference being like I'm so sorry.
I'm like, bro, you're not You're not though, but he
probably was sorry. He was sorry that everyone was coming
at him with knives. But I'm like, in any other business,
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everyone's got one eye somewhere, yes, being like, is there
a better option for me?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
That's just human life.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I think that four And I've heard this argument before.
It was actually Bob Murphy, who the former Bulldogs captain.
I mean his a legend, the former Bulldogs legend, who
said that he just thinks it's a different narrative because
they're captains. Yes, And I think that that actually might
hold up for me. I think that if you are
a captain and you are openly negotiating with another club,
Zach Marrett is slightly different to Oscar Allen because I
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believe Oscar Allen was like a free agent, where Zach
Marrey still has time on his contract. Then that's a
different ballgame for me. But if he's going to be
like Sam's like, hello, I'm over here, hot girl at
the party, what come driving? I dive in, Yeah, thank you,
then obviously I'm like, okay, well that's on new Zach,
and now you have to wear whether or not you
actually got to rock up to the best and fairest
that you will win because everyone hates you.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I just love the amount of analysis that would have
gone into this this week.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
At no point has he been described as the hot
girl at the bar.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Well, but welcome to sports and I for mine, I
think we need more of it in AFL.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
But there is a clause in NRAL, where you couldn't
do this.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Oh yes, So in the NRL you can have players
midway through a season be like, look, it's been fun,
but by this time next year, I'll be playing for
another team.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
We're all good with that. Let's play on. We've seen it.
The Pantthers do it.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Very successful, very successfully though, But that.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Doesn't happen in AFL. So there's all this like quiet
chat and trade period stuff. But everyone's talking to everyone
but you supposedly there's a moral compass.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
This is business.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I don't think that that's the case. I far more
appreciate the NRL approach to it. However, I like the
drama of the A It's just very very dramatic. Do
we think, though, with the Hollywood Hawks taking on Geelong,
do we think that any of what's happening off field
is going to effect on field?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yeah? Nah, I don't know, because if I'm a Hawks player,
I'm like, yeah, he's trying to get the best players
I better play really well.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
I think he's at market.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
For different players to come in and that's a good thing.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I think that that has been part of the Hawk's
success this whole season is that they're actually playing out
of their skin when everything is firing and there on
song because they know that they can be replaced. They
know that there's a box He'll a're doing real well,
like they can just come through and take their spot.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
How do you feel about Zach Merritt if he is
not released from his contract and now there's other storylines
going into it where there's been leaks about the fact
that he said disrespectful things to afoor W players within
the club. Whether that's true or not, no one knows,
but apparently Zac's very upset at that storyline. So there's
just everyone's pointing, you know that Spider Man where everyone's
pointing a gun at everyone. Everyone's pointing a gun at everyone,
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and everyone's body unhappy. But if they do reach a
stalemate and he is Kenny captain next year, when he's
had two teammates come out and say, look, this is
really disappointing.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Oh I don't think so. I don't think he'll be
at the Bombers. There's no way he's like on a
fast exit strategy. How then my they'll let him go.
They him.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
We've got players that.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Are signing for like seven year deals on X amount
of million dollars.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Yeah, thanks, but.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Then is it worth the paper that it's written on.
So the players get the job security and the financial
security of knowing, Hey, if I want to, I can
hold them to this. But if I want to, I
can just be like, I don't want to be here
anymore and they have to let me go.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
If you're a club, why are you signing players for
seven years? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I know, that's that's crazy. That's crazy. There is there's
been as there was a storyline over in the EPL,
and it happened I think with Liverpool a player from Liverpool.
I actually I don't remember that. There was a storyline
in the EPL where this I'm talking trillion dollar man
decided that he did not want to play anymore and
so just sat out until he got traded to another club.
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But they still paid him his salary. I'm like, well,
if you don't want to be there raying for and then.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
There are angry fans calling talkback, be like sit him out,
telling me he's got to be held to his contract,
which legally they can do, and put him on the sidelines.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
And I'm like, but then you're paying for someone you're
the best.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Player, and by that I mean by a country mile.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Which I think he knows.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
And I think the thing is he's been sold this
story of success and at the core of this is
Paul brad Scott having to go on AFL three sixty
or whatever it was and be like, yes, so he
came for dinner the other night and we're really close.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
I'm like, we'll clearly not close enough. So what is
going on?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Anyway? So Hawks, Hollywood Hawks only finished eighth, and they
are just the team that you believe could actually do it.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I think that they could do it on their day.
They can beat anyone. On their day, they can beat anyone.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Well, especially when they've got John Newcomb who just decides okay,
he is a free his last four finals, he's been
best on ground.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Yeah, it's it's insane. His performance in finals, I mean
their game against who'd they play last week?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Adelaide?
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Oh my god, that's right, Adelaide, Sorr. I'm so sorry.
I forgot you already, Adelaid my catcher. What a great
season from you. Ah for me, you knew that game
was over in thirteen seconds, that's all it took for
John to completely just and you were like Adelaide has
nothing to come back with with it, like they're just done.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
And just decided to be.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Benjamin Button an amazing resurgence though it away playing in Brisbane,
coming back playing for the Hawks, and now he's all
Australian and arguably one of the biggest problems that he's
facing Geelong is how they're going to stop him.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
In saying all of that. Yes, I think that the
Hawks can be anyone on their day. Do I think
they're going to beat Geelong in the prelim final?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
No? So if we were going to call Sam Mitchell
a villainy, Geelong have the AFL's version of Satan running
around at the moment in terms of public discourse because
the world's pretty angry at Bailey Smith.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I haven't heard of him.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
The world's pretty angry at Bailey Smith because there were
photos and you talked about it very eloquently and probably
a lot more professionally than me calling him Satan last
week on the pod. But I obviously I don't believe
that he's Satan. Let's just really backtrack. They can just
see that Jealmis the actual devil. He said some very
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choice words to a female photographer who was invited by
the club to the ground just doing a job.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Flip the bird.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I've seen enough people give the finger and I'm turning
into Caro Wilson. Stop dropping the f bomb.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
That was Reese Welsh as well. He did that in
the camera game got finned eighteen hundred dollars as uside.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
But it started to be a joke and on my
kids watch.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
This, they do and they'll try and they'll do it
sentences like I.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Swear like a trooper when I'm not on air.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Have I ever done it on air? No, because this
is not on air, that's not on the ABC. It
doesn't count. You know how to pull up.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
You know how to pull up, we know how.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
To behave yeah, said. The culture of Geelong has long
been put on a pedestal as this is what you
should want, this is what you need to emulate to
achieve amazing on field results. They have had the worst
look in terms of a culture of a club in
the last fortnight than nearly any other team in the
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last decade.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Because Chris Scott twin Brats Brad Scott that we were
just so the Scott families had a week. Chriscott supposedly
yelled an AFL staffer who was also female, because there
was a legally blind journalist in the press conference that
had a minder, and for whatever reason he took offense
(24:24):
to that and decided to yell about it.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
It's crazy any sense.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Doesn't make any sense, and we haven't heard comment from anyone.
But it's just been a week of real negative press
around two very key figures of the club.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
But what DeLong do so well is they kind of
reprimand but they absolutely don't.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
No, they don't. I don't think they do.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
So we had Bailey Smith earlier in the year joking
about getting on the nose beers as someone who previously
has posted on social media holding a white bag of
substance next to his face. Gave an apology at the
time when he was at a previous club. It was
very oh, well, you've this is just a joke gone wrong,
(25:07):
isn't it. You just got to let that go, and
even you know, listening to Patrick Dangerfield being like, oh,
Bailey's remorseful. He didn't mean to, you know, like we
all just we we clearly just move on and like
there's just there's a different rule for Geelong seemingly and
especially they're good players than everywhere else and it just
(25:29):
breeds success because everyone wants to be there.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Everyone wants to be there. Overnight breaking news is that
Charlie Kurno from the Carlton Football Club his first list
of options that he would like to go to rather
than be at Carlton. Number one is Geelong.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Of course, it is in the same way that Jeremy
Cameron wanted to go, Like, yeah, they want to go there.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I don't know how they keep doing it. It is
a I think controversial culture at the moment, but they
do have a winning culture.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Oh, Bailey Smith is likely to be in the top
three of the Brown line. And I was playing unbelievable football.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I was at that opening final against Brisbane, the qualifying final,
and they were unbelievable Geelong. Brisbane did not like I
know that. In the they suffocated them. Brisbane was not
in it ever, not in it ever. And that's the
reigning Premiere. So Geelong have they are on. I think
(26:24):
they are eyeballing that flag and I just don't I
don't see them losing. I don't see them.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
I think there's so many parallels between Baileysmith and Reese
Walsh where they love this noise around them because.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
They are friends. What, Yeah, they're friends. Yeah, they're the
cross code friendship that everyone needs.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Have they been perpped leaving a very popular restaurant.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Whenever he's in the Gold Coast because Reese lives there,
so whenever Bailey's up at the Gold Coast. Yeah, they
hang out. Oh, of course, of course they do.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Of course they do.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Of course they do. Do you know what I mean? Like,
of course they do. I want to have a raise
an issue with Geelong that I also noted when I
was in the stands watching that qualifying final, as I've
watched any Geelong game so far this season. How do
they continuously field a team of how many players on
an AFL field in twenty two twenty two? How do
(27:20):
they feel twenty two players when they literally have one
person playing seven different positions? Let me bring the evidence.
This person is that person? Is that person? Is that person?
Is that person? Is that person? And if you squint
(27:44):
and put a headband on him?
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Is that person? What? What? These are not different people?
Speaker 1 (27:53):
You can what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (27:56):
What?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
I can understand what they're looking for in the draft,
like in those what are those those basketball combines.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
It's like how high can you just comes out with
a bit of a beach, a bit of a tip
and just relaxes. Those colonels will be down there.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Charlie Kurno is a headband and you're right a straightener
away from Geelong.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
I mean, maybe that's why they're so successful. It's technically
a cult.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
I realized that this is an audio platform, guys, and
so just so you know, that will go up online. However,
what I showed Jelmy was a slide show.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Of eight players. Eight players a longish unwashed bob.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
They look exactly the same way with this player is
look at it. This is Mark Bittsubs, that is Sam Daconing,
that is Dempsey, this is I want to say, Zach Guthrie.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Is that his name?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
This is Tom Stewart, that is Bruce Stanley, and this
is Bailey Smith. But I think we can all agree
that actually John Smith and poker contest.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Now someone who previously I'm going to bump around our
auto here, because someone who previously would have fit into
that list but had a remarkable transformation on the weekend
after a year of form that he'd probably liked.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
To leave behind him.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
It was ky Lehman.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
He previously could have played for. He was a real
real we're talking the Lions now. We moved on Saturday
night and it's the Lions taking on Collingwood. He shaved
his head and we're not talking like we're talking like
to the scalp.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Yep, yep, yep, we are talking Alcarez.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yeah, he did a full Alcoraz and Lockie Neil, who
was injured, was speaking pregame and he was like, I
honestly think it's a mental thing. And I was like,
meant as in, he'd had a season where he just
wanted to shake something up. He just wanted to do
something different, so he shaved his head.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
He went for Brittany. You know I understand that.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
No he did.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
He did what he cut bangs.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
He cut bangs.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
He did the male equivalent of cutting banks.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
When girls go through a breakup or something's they go
do I'll do I'll get a fringe that'll fucking fix everything.
And he had a good friend to tell you he
has shaved his head, and supposedly, supposedly he said, oh,
the barber went a bit high with the fade, so
I just said, take it all off, lies, lies, lies, lies,
he cut bangs, Brittany whatever it was, and going through something.
(30:20):
I mean, that game was over so early, and it
was so sad for me because I loved the sons,
I loved the narrative. And you know what, They've won
their final, which when was the last time Essendon won
a final?
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Unfortunate.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
We could ask Zach Merritt, can you suck? Can you
sell lines to me though? The winning Yeah, because they're
without Locky Neil, they're obviously without Dana Hurston said last
one of flag.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
I'm not gonna lie. It's a hard cell. It is
a hard cell for them to go back to back.
There's nothing Panthers like about them. In all honesty. They're
limping towards this pre limb because yes, Locke kneels out.
Other than Cam Rayner, there's no one of real dynasism
that I see on that field being a game changer,
(31:03):
let alone a game winner. Unfortunately, and I say that
as a Lions Fanshrofts are amazing. They aren't amazing there,
that's true. They are amazing and they do have incredible hair.
I did hear a narrative about Kai Lohman's hair that
he was just getting sick of being confused for an Ashcroft,
so shaped it all off. I will say that Will
Ashcroft has some of the greatest hair I've ever seen
(31:25):
in my life, so we love that for him. I
they're great that I don't think that they're good enough
to win a flag back. I hope I'm wrong. I
hope I'm wrong. But we just look. Our defense is great,
our midfield is okay. Forwards, Charlie Cameron is not in
good form.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Will your engagement survive a Lions Hawk's final.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Yes that insert insert thinking music here, Yes, Yes, because god,
it would be fun. Now, imagine if what we don't
think is going to happen happened. Think about the entertainment.
The Hollywood Hawks up against the Lions, great time.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
It wouldn't be if you went, like Robert is the
sort of person who will go into hiding for a
week if they if it's if Lions with and Hawks lose,
won't you won't know where he is.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
That's true. Why would he'd still be in his clothes
of morning, which you've got football.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Team, you've got excavated happening under your house.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
It would just bury himself under there and call it
a day.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
But I don't think it will happen though, because the
Lions are taking on Collingwood now.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Collingwood were that team all season that were top of
the table, daylight than everyone else, and then they decided
to see It's like when someone sees the finish line
and just stammers their way there. You know how you
watch sometimes, especially in Olympics, in longer events, when people
like start to ease up, oh and all of a
sudden others come charging home. And that is difference between
(33:00):
what we've seen with Hawks and Gelong. Hawks have charged
towards the line. Collingwood stammered their way there. Lost loss
loss loss bang Bang bank bank bank not great. Yes,
they've decided to bring the best in finals footy because
their game against Adelaide they were phenomenal. Now they're in
a position where supposedly Bobby Hill's not getting a game
even though that he's available for selection. We saw Darcy
(33:23):
Moore return to his absolute best against Adelaide in Adelaide,
and we know the narrative and how much noise was
going into that game. Yes, Decos for Mine wins the
brown Low On Monday I agree with you, and if
he doesn't, and if he doesn't, that makes it.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Yeah, you have to clarify which one Josh. Although Josh
could come close. I'd be sad if Nick doesn't.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
I would be sad if Nick doesn't as well. And
now I say this with respect because if he doesn't win,
it probably means that Jordan Dawson from the Adelaide Crows
wins and I have most recent.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Anderson there, it's Dawson, Anderson and supposedly Balley Smith.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
I just feel that, as someone who has put a
video up on social media recently likening Jordan Dawson to
an analyst that you've got no idea what they do.
I'm like, you cannot win a Brown though.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
See, I desperately want Jordan Dawson to win because he's
the only player, active player that we've had on offsiders
this year. And if we're if and he was delightful
and very generous with his time, and I'm like, if
you if we're one for one Brownlow medallist, what a time?
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Yeah? Actually that's it would be like if Harry Grant
came out won the DLI.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Like I'd say, two good sports had a thing to
do with that.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
S that's any to claim by association.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Yeah, he's a transponsor.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
It's not even a word.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Also, listeners, if you have missed it, Georgie is playing
a really fun game.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
It's pretty tumultuous on her own.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Social media where she likens what AFL players would actually
do based.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
On their jobs. What are their real jobs? Again?
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Analysis that you won't find an AFL three sixty, which is.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Why chef gian Yukim, Are you a finals player or
are you a whale shark to a guide? These are
just questions.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
It's so fair.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
You can see him in like the blue shirt, can't you?
I know, can.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
You with a bookachell necklace?
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Just because you're into men that wear shell necklaces doesn't
mean you need to bring you come down with you righto. Now.
When we play the fun game called predictions, you gamously
predicted that the Saints would make Top four last season,
So this could go anywhere.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Oh god, that's absolutely skewered me though, makes.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
It who makes it into the granny and who wins it? Okay?
And I'll even make a norm Smith medalist.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Play okay into the Granny. I think it's Geelong Collingwood.
It hurts me to say that also because their jerseys,
let's look too similar. I'm sorry, don't come for me.
They do, So that's those are my grand finalists. I
think Geelong wins it. And I think that the Norm Smith,
I mean, the entire narrative of the year is making
(35:54):
it be Bailey Smith. But I want to go out
on a living Saturday.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
To Stuart Tom Stewart.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Yep, he is a gun. See he is one of
the seven players that look exactly the same, but he
is a gun.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Maybe that's how they confuse the votes.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Was that him? Who knows which which ones?
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Who's three?
Speaker 2 (36:19):
I mean, my heart wants to say it would be
amazing if it was Hawks Collingwood. But I actually do
think it's going to be Gelong Collingwood and my norm
I reckon.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
Collingwood winner. I'm going to go Collingwood and I reckon.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
That's two and three years.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
I know, well that's the thing they've been up there.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Normally I'll go I'm gonna be the most boring, like
I'm literally picking odds on everything. I reckon d Well
it's only Nick day cost me. If Collingwood are to win,
Nick needs to start. Like if I if I was
going to go Geelong winning, I would say Jeremy Cameron
for Norm because I think jess Are.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Would have to kick five.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Yeah you're so right. Yeah, yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
So it's like if then yeah, if colling would win,
then Dekos would have had a day out.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Do you think that the league universally hates Geelong or
Collingwood more if you don't go for them, like this
would be the battle of the most hated teams?
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Fair.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
I am surrounded and from being in the seven newsroom,
Geelong fans everywhere, the plague, they are everywhere, And I said,
I love you Beck, madam, hello number one ticket holder?
Who I shed an office with it. I watched Beck
watch last year's prelim final cry and then be on
(37:40):
air ten seconds later she watched them lose and then
had to do one of these with the like wipe
under her eyes with the mascara and then be like
tonight on seven News And I was like, she is
not well. She was so unstable, Like what a professional?
She is a professional? But no that there are our
predictions there, but also it's just the most wonderful time
(38:02):
of the year. We'll talk more NRL coming up, but honestly,
if you were to script a better weekend of footy,
you couldn't find it.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Can't can't find it. Let's see if we're right, Jeremy.
I know you've already dropped your fun fact throughout this
episode to help it, which has gone for four hours
as we promised. But I have a fun fact as well,
which is some know him as a crocodile wrangler. What
(38:31):
you're going to realize is though that Robert Irwin is
actually a dancer.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
What am I watching?
Speaker 1 (38:46):
You are watching the US Dancing with the Stars, and
Robert Irwin, legend of this country dancing to sports is
annihilating this dance And I.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Just highlight it's hard to tell who's the professional, right,
there's a blurred line between if you just said I'm
going to show you this from range and you have
to pick which one is the celebrity. He looks like,
oh my god, yeah, there was some sort of pirouette thing. Yes,
Usually when blows to Dancing with the Stars, the girls
have to work so hard, like they're throwing themselves around
(39:19):
because the guys can't move this. Oh my god, he
jumped over it. He has jumped over like a lizard
and there's some sort of give footstep.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
This is okay.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
So that's why they couldn't get him in Australia. He
was saving this for the US.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Wait for it. The best bit's still coming.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
They can't be better. No, unbelievable. Unbelievable is he single?
Speaker 1 (39:42):
He's single. His sister did it, now he's gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
I know he so what He's just been quietly learning
the two steps for three years. So if I as
we we haven't discussed. I've been asked to do dancing
with the Star. I was when I was at seven
five times, five five and five times. I was like,
that is not in your or my interest for this,
for this and also can I just say, on the
(40:13):
one hand, I had a network telling me, you know,
we really need you to be taken seriously in sports,
so maybe die down like the cosmetics and like that
sort of stuff, because you know you're a sports can
you as sequence in a leotard and fucking perilwete for us?
What house it? Not any plan?
Speaker 1 (40:32):
So anyway, are you Are you a crocodile hunter, because
that's how you get away with it. You can do whatever.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
No, but also I would do it. Oh oh if
I was classically trained. You know those people that are like, oh,
I'll do it. Yes, So I trained Australian Ballet Academy.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Yeah, there is an epidence for a long time ago.
There is an episode of The Amazing Race coming up
where I think that I was trained at Juilliard in
the horn section.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
And I was not. Very clearly I was not.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
In the horn in the horn section, and you'll see
people who go up there and it's like, oh, that's.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Not a euphemism.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
I see people pass this challenge. This is a spoil.
I see people pass this challenge. I'm like, how have
you got in front of me? And it's like, I
played French horn when I was younger. Oh, the trumpet, yes,
best friends with me?
Speaker 3 (41:19):
And I'm like, what did you would have played an instrument?
Speaker 1 (41:22):
Yeah, piano. Where's that got me? Where's that got me?
Speaker 3 (41:26):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (41:26):
Yeah, but there's no planet where you didn't play an
instrument growing up?
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Oh yeah, I had money on clarinet.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
But I wanted to play the saxophone.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
I played the sax oh yeah alto this fun factic
but also so many oh god, here we go. It
was so big and I was so gangly that carrying
it on the bus and had to sit next to me.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
So really help young gelmy make mates.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
So I had to repopularity on the band the sax
when I'm just thinking, you just talk to the saxon
my phone. Sax on my phone. No, and but the
sacks also you think it's fun. I'm not good at
being bad at anything, and you've got to be bad
for a long time before you're good. Yeah, kids stay
in school, try hard at things.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
But I was like, no, this can go.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
This isn't good anyway. That was my fun fact was
that Robert El was going to win the US version
of Dancing at the Stars.
Speaker 3 (42:21):
Dancing is a sport.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Dancing is a sport.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
This has been very loosely to good sports. Mostly two
unhinged women having a catch up there. The rebrand might
be the rebrand coming to you next season, but until
next week, be an unhinged sport.
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