Catch up on all the footy news from AFL 360, Wednesday the 20th of August with Gerard Whateley and Garry Lyon.
Gerard Whateley and Garry Lyon return for a big edition of AFL 360, diving into the developing Izak Rankine case as the Adelaide Crows continue to push back - and asking the big question: are they entitled to argue their case? Plus, Brisbane Lions veteran Dayne Zorko joins the show ahead of his 300th game and new contract.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Danes Orco's tale of perseverance and excellence reaches the game's
great milestone. The veteran Lion joins us ahead of Game
three hundreds.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Dealing with self inflicted wounds. Our coaches put us in
the mind of Matthew Nicks in a crisis torn.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Week and playing through the pain. Zach Merritt gloved up
to face the Blues tomorrow nights.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
We talked about his step into it, embrace all of
it in the room, and it's unedifying for a senior
coach to do that. They're on the side of Courtia
with the brain tape.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
The man on they played.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
The best footy I've ever seen at the start of
the season, and in the resident left the couple older said.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Of course they do. Is the stuff that legends are
made of. What is holding the ball?
Speaker 4 (00:44):
I don't think I could answer it clearly right now
that I can do something wrong, you know, and I
need the game and the boards, actually.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
The fans, lover and with no fans, no through sixty
year old.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I just made the mistake of asking Gas whether it's
ever been involved in famous final round escapades, and seven
minutes later, the five.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Man Gale talk to the hand.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
We're back in nineteen eighty seven and lose the whole
show of a telling story.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Okay, I can't, I can't. We will take us through well,
miss dane Zuko. But it was a famous last round
in nineteen eighty seven, and Jason Dunstall, my great friend
and colleague, kicked a goal four Hawthorn to beat July,
which allowed Melbourne, who were beating the Western Bulldogs, to
go into their first final series in twenty four years.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Do it for Robbie.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Robbie Flower came out, he ripped the game to shreds
in the second half and Melbourne went into the And.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
What did you do?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I was in hospital with a broken lenk. Jared not
that funny, No, I wouldn't think of that. And Melbourne
sent Jase a, I think it's either a slab or
a keg in thanks, which I'm surely he took care
of that.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Quickst one all right. So that might be what we
see on Sunday night, as all sorts of fates are
into twines. What we have for you tonight, our favorite
John longbye and Adam Simpson. The teams are in for
Essendon and Carlton. There's a couple of stories there Danes
orco shortly from Brisbane. What a milestone this is for him?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Is in rare company, Jared, You'll see it and cheers
in rare company.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Fellow author Libby Birches here on the weekend picks to
bring it home, and then last Crack Preview, Ben Dixon
will set up David King and Lee Montagna to go
in depth on round twenty four. Who is it D
Day four? For Ossie broad Down.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
There's only one game, the D Day game, and that
the one will be out and calling, and that is
the Western Bulldogs and Frew and I'm going for the
Fremantle Dockers. When I say going for them, I'm putting
them on the D Day slide. So it's all or
nothing for this club and I think they're a big chance, Jared.
I think there are a genuine chants against the Bulldogs.
They've got a forward line that can really stretch the
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Dogs where they're vulnerable. They just can't freeze like they
did against the Brisbane lines on Friday night on the big,
big stage over there, so they'll come with the steely resolve.
I like long View today. He's president. He is a
bit combative, having a bit defensive, and he's going to
last time I looked, we'd won one more game. I
like that attitude. Now the players have got to pick
it up and run with it and don't deliver this
sort of stuff. Just go out test this Western Bulldog's
(03:10):
defense for wrong and Brayshaw's record against the Western Bulldog's outstanding.
So this is at the moment and I'm gathering over
to you.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yes, well, why don't we hear from Justin Longmoor first
to properly set the scene.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
Yeah, the pressures on them as well, isn't it. Last
time I checked, theye one less game than us. So yeah,
the narrative around some of this stuff gets me a
little bit because, yeah, last time I checked, we're on
the same amount of wins as coming were sitting forth.
So everyone's talking to like we're going to miss the finals.
(03:46):
I've got full faith in this group to be able
to go over there and get it done and play
our way and confident that our way is good enough.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
That's a great backdrop.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I love that. Yet I don't know whether he had
to be put up to do it or he just
got on the front and went whack. But That is
exactly the mindset that the club's got to come to
Marvel Stadium with on a Sunday. And if it's not
coming from the coach, where is it coming from. So
I loved it all right.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
It's d D for the Bulldogs clearly, as well as
if they go through a season when Richard's Bontonpelli, Darcy
and Norton have played like this and missed the Ape,
we will go what the sam hell were they up
to coming into the season. It was a year to
take aim at the top four, so they haven't managed
to do that. They haven't managed to do it because
the only team in the top nine they've beaten is
the Giants. They've lost ones to Fremantle. They are pretty
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unfulfilled when they came back from the West for that.
They have been scoring for fun at Marvel, so all
the advantages are with them. It's there are no excuses,
go out, get it done and then plot a path
to a preliminary final. That's the sort of footy from
time to time they're playing. I won't extinguish my candle
for the Bulldogs until the finals are and then.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I'll have to reluctantly do it that's sort of Sunday
ticket that you can't get excited about. So the Giants
just to shore up their spot and get the best
possible position into the cutthroat, into top four kind of territory.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
That is a good way to finish the home and
away season. I think we've got the straight homework on
the Wednesday, but we'll get.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
To that soon.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
We will get all right. Top of the agenda is
the torturous process to reach the conclusion. The Isaac Rankin
investigation continues on days of parry and thrust on a
legal front still unresolved. On a Wednesday night, it will
tip into Thursday as the Crows pull out all stops
to minimize the bat.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
We've been too slow to learn and grow and develop,
I suppose as people.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Unfortunately, but through suspensions you need to change in behavior.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
No doubt it will. We cannot say this, cannot say this,
You can't say the players haven't been mourned about it.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I've got no sympathy for him.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
There's no place for it. Place for it. Ranking would
be beside himself, side himself.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
He's very remorseful, and he understands that he's made a
mistake and he'll accept whatever comes his way.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Probably the penalty to me that I had a little
bit of an issue with.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
What's a fair penalty for things like this as we know,
to get four or five weeks for a physical indiscretion, jig,
you want to knock someone in the next week, get
five weeks, won't you.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I don't condone it. The behavior. It's a term that
you'd never be used on the football field, we understand.
But I think we.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Painted ourselves in a corner with regard to the penalty
and the length of penalty to start, Is.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
It a distraction for the group? You've been so good
at being narrow focus this year.
Speaker 8 (06:27):
No, this is, but no, not where we're locked in
on what we're doing this weekend. And I just said
before we just put support around Isaac because it is
a tough thing to go through and he goes you
know it's going to be it's going to be tough
from here, but we'll work our way through it.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Hopefully it's the last time it happens. Who knows if
it is, But obviously no room in the game for it.
Speaker 8 (06:49):
It's going to cost his team, and it's going to
cost his club, and it's going to cost him.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
This one's going to really stink.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
This is not sympathy for Isaac. This is simply for
the Adelaide foota club. The ramifications unbelievably significant, unbelievably significant.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
So those ramifications sit so heavily over the process, which
you'd have to say is convoluted. The incident happens on
Saturday night. Phone call is made between colling And and Adelaide
on Sunday and referred to the AFL's Integrity Unit. Interviews
are conducted on Monday an AA there's an Adelaide submission
to the AFL which accompanies those The AFL's determination goes
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back to the Crows, which sets out the five week ban,
of which the Crows have the right of rebuttal, which
they are exercising at the moment, and they've been granted
additional time to do that. So that's due with the
AFL tonight and then a determination tomorrow. So if I may,
there's a few points here that is an intolerably convoluted
process and it risks the AFL looking indecisive. Perhaps behind
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the scenes they haven't been that at all, but that's
how it looks from the outside. It does make me
wonder why Andrew Dylan and his legal team you can
go to Adelaide on Tuesday, sit in the boardroom and
stay until matters were results, I think on a public front.
So this is going to run all the way until
game day of round twenty four. It's a nasty story,
it's got an unsavory edge, and some of the debate
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around it is it's damaging to the code and runs
all the way. But my focus really is on Adelaide,
who seemed desperate to fight every angle of this. It's
not a picture of accepting responsibility and acting in a
contrite manner, and they are arguing the toss at every
turn formally and informally finals games should be worth more
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than home and away even though there's no precedent in
the system for that. They have going with Rankin was provoked,
which is a big stretch. I think in what he
was antagonized but provoked is a big stretch. Informally they've
even raised Snoop Dogg. I would put to you that's
the domain of talkback radio, not a responsible footy club.
(08:51):
I think there were three possibilities here. Is front up
to what happens, pledged to address whatever it is in
the environment that allowed this to happen and accept what's coming.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
It's a fine line, well is it a fine line?
They also it's incumbent from a supporter's point of view,
to do the best job they possibly can to see
if they can get Isaac back playing now. As unsavory
as that may sound, and as you've pointed out, it's
smacks of them not wanting to take responsibility. I think
they are entitled to argue their case as vociferously and
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as strongly as they possibly can given the stakes that
are at play, so long as they are accepting in
the final verdict that it doesn't go too far. But
I understand what you say. It's drawn out, and I
like your first alternative, get over and fix it. I'm
always one of those to get on the front foot
and get in front of each other and nut it
out til it's done. The Crow supporters want to have,
you know, they want their man to play, and then
(09:48):
the administration now saying well, well, do do whatever we can,
but there will come a time where they need to
put their hand in the end and go enoughs.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Enough so the AFL is going to be need to
be resolute when they announce their punishment. There's a constituent
see that's waiting to hear and even the raising of
Snoopbog by the club, they're going to have to front
up to those questions. And Adelaide, who have their history
on this front is they fought tooth and nail every
step of the way on their preseason camp. I hope
they have learned a lesson or two along the way
(10:16):
in the way that they address this public with you
when the.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Time Well, that's that is a very interesting point. And
there's a football club that's sitting on top of the
ladder and a Premiership favorites. There is a way to
deal with it. And as I said, I don't begrudge
them right to fight and fight hard, even if that
means getting in the trenches a bit. But there comes
a time when you do you need to show some
humility and be accepting of the penalty and that'll come.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Craig McCrae, the Collingwood coach, spoke today. This was his insights.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Yeah, it's a bit making sure applies to say, but
also I don't want to demonize Isaac Keitha. Everyone's going
to make mistakes. Young lad seems like a really respectful
young man and he's manon Erra. So yeah, the IFL
take their own course on that, but you've don to
make mistakes too, so we respect.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
You've been talking about provocation in terms of submission.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
And that is there no provlication for something like that.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
You look, I don't want to have he said, She
said stuff. I think the reality is and that we're
all really comfortable to what we want a workplace to
look like, and these things step over the boundary line.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
If it turns out that Colin would go back to
Adelaide for a qualifying final, that is an explosive backdrop
for that game to take place in front of So
we wait to see on that front. Craig McCrae was
also He offered great clarity around the Bobby Hills scenario,
which has sort of lurked in the background with a
degree of uncertainty in all manner of rumor and innuendo
about it's both publicly and I think within the club.
(11:38):
Having had dinner with Bobby last night, he looked to
set matters straight on the record.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Had dinner with Bobby last night, As I continue to say,
it's a week by week, day by day thing with Bobby.
It was it's nice to catch up with him on
a social level, just to check in care for him.
There's two things that I always lived by, this high performance,
and there's love and care. And I've just sort of
left the high performance for a just making sure the
young lad's okay. Time's running out in the season and
(12:05):
maybe the high performance might be a bit far at
the moment, but we'll just take it off the table
for now and hopefully and keep back in the club
and then be happy and then we'll see where we
go from there.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
So off the table for a moment. McCray also said
that when he was asked does that mean he won't play,
he said he'd ask Bobby how Bobby wanted him to
answer that. He said, just give me this. It just
give me a glimmer of hope that I could work
my way back.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Yeah, I would suggest this season is done, given the
amount of work that he's missed, and given the game
that we're about to play, and that is the most competitive,
high pressure game of all and that's Finals footy, and
that's sad. So from a Bobby point of view, I
think again, the issues are the issues, and then there's
the footy issues, and I'm glad that Craig has addressed it.
(12:49):
In the end, the playing group need to know the
playing group, and I'm sure that communicated this to their
players as well maybe the supporters. Hey, this is where
it sits, unambiguous. We're not worrying about footy right now.
That's not on the table. So if you're not worrying
about foot in a round twenty four then and having
missed the work that he's done and that's a long
shot that he's playing, I think that's good to get
that out there because then we can go, okay, we'll
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let him deal with what he's going to do. We
don't need to pressure them about when he's going to
come back to footy. That's a long long shot. The
playing group need to know because they don't need to
answer it every time they go to the milk bar
and every time they buy the paper whatever. So it's
out there, it's done, and then I hope Bobby can
get sort of what he needs to get sorted. But
the footy now is the focus for them.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
They have clearly missed him, so yea that there's no more,
Well wait till we get Bobby back, they're going to
have to find a way without him with another reason
why you got to move on, Jared, And that appears
to what's been what's happened today, and I think that's
a good thing for Collingwood. They're going to get moving
and move on and there's a final series to be won.
Teams are in for tomorrow night. There's a story or
two here as well at Essendon and Carlton, so they're
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both in a paralss state with what they've got. Zach
Merritt does return, as he told us last night, he's
got the medical all clear. He's got the glove on
to protect us as much as he can the plate
that's been inserted, So merrit is in. Shield comes back,
so Keltoum. He was reporting today that by a mutual agreement,
this is the last time Shield will play for Essendon.
He will see if there's a buyer for him in
(14:12):
the trademarket el Hully and Hobbs are the two who
are omitted, so the two injured players from last week
of Laverde and McMahon are named to get up and
on the Carlton side of things, that Lucas Camparelli, who
we saw in the early couple of rounds in White Return.
Fogerty and Lord are injured, so they get a little
younger again. The story here is Mitch McGovern's not been selected.
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He's an emergency, so stuck on seventeen games. He misses
the trigger which would have given him the contract extension
for next year. So there's sort of one of two
things that play. But his previous contract is now at
an end.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yes, so it puts the cart and Footy Club back
in the driver's seat by not playing. And if he
is to play on at the Cart and Footy Club,
then that is to be negotiated. Should he have played
this game, then he would have assuming exercised the trigger,
played on at his want and at the contract that
he had negotiated. So it doesn't necessarily mean that he
won't be a card. Not an overly positive sign, but
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doesn't necessarily might be done. He could renegotiate it, maybe
on half the money, if they're both happy and push forward.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Charlie Kurno's fate. So the back page of the Herald
Son had the story out of Sydney Today saying that
he's the Swan's number one target, which wouldn't be a surprise.
Two elements to this. The first one, would he be
a good fit for Sydney.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Yeah, I think he fits the profile, he fixed, the
history of the Sydney Swans and what they've been able
to do in terms of attracting big name key forwards
with a profile and a presence and someone that fits
into the market. So yeah, he'd be perfect. He'd be
absolutely perfect for the Sydney Swans.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
The second part is should Carlton consider a trade, particularly
if there's a three team market for him.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yeah, they should say no under no circumstances. And when
we're considering it, would we consider a trade and then
sit back and see what comes their way? That's the
way this thing works here, been in it long enough now.
History's littered with players and clubs have declared that no,
under no circumstances, and we take the bait and then
two days later they go, I'll change your mind. The
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deals may've done, so that's open. I think everything's on
the table, and yeah, if something crazy comes Carton's way,
then I wouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I think the next step is at the exit interview,
is Charlie Kerner going to say to carlten that he
would like to be elsewhere or will he bury that
deep down and just see what happens.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Well, he shouldn't. He got to get up in front,
up and he said it publicly. I want to stay
in the story. But what he says to Carton might
be different. But you only get one shot at this
these bugs, and it doesn't necessarily mean if he says
I want to go, that he goes. But be upfront
and be honest. It's a time of change. A Carton Footy.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Clubs put him on the table our special guest waiting
for us in Brisbane.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Rare rare company.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Yeah, three hundred games is the great milestone of the
game and the great Zorco was. He was instantly dubbed
when he came to the game, So it was round
seven twenty twelve that he was named for his to
do with the Brisbane lines and our then program League
teams had a bit of fun with him.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Plenty of ins and outs, drumming Hawksley Rains, Mkiva and
Zorko come in at cop Cornelius, Lester and Chris Well
hopefully performs some magic on the weekend for the Lions.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
I hope has got some tricks.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
If he comes out of the big black hat.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Is going to win. I'm going to get the interview.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
At the mat from the game guarantee to take a
head out and take a cane, rap.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
It out putting a box.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
You both aread his career bus.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Like, look at it. What a name to play with.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
What a player he turned out to be. Game three
hundred for Dane Zorko with the Lions meet the Hawks
on Sunday night. It's our great pleasure to have him
back on three sixty day. Congratulations and welcome.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Thanks so much, Jared, Thanks Gary, really appreciate it that.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I just thought you were going to be a one
trick pony.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Those boys. I'll tell you what, there's some feedback for
you before you play a game.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
I've had my data throughout my career, even before I
made it into the AFL, So yeah, I think that
was probably one thing that just continued for me to
keep going and keep persisting and keep trying.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
So proved it wrong once and I'll keep proving them
wrong again.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
It is the game's great milestone. Have you been a
little bit reflective over what you overcame to be able
to achieve it.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Yeah, I have a little bit, Jared.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
I've tried not to delve into it too much, but
I am really really proud of what I've been able
to achieve.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 7 (18:51):
And you wouldn't have given a bloke much hope getting
drafted the age of twenty one, to reach in three
hundred games, to play fourteen odd years and the and
been able to play, you know, consistently, week in week
out in this sport.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
It's really really hard to do.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
And to reach this milestone is I think it sits
right up there with the Premiership. I really do. It's
not a lot of players do that. I think I
got told it will be the one hundred and ninth
player to do so. With how many people have actually
played in the AFL, do only a one hundred and
nine to reach this milestone.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
It's something I'm really really cradled.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
And you have a special place in that one hundred
and nine. You are the oldest to reach the three
hundred game milestone. You inherit that from Alistair Lynch, who
inherited it from Roger Merritt, who inherited it from Kevin Murray.
This is a Lions thing, Dane.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
Yeah, it certainly is, and we're going to catch up
with you a little bit later tonight, so I'll be
sure to rub it into him somewhat. But yeah, I mean,
it's yeah, just phenomenon. It's great to hear all those
names as well.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I mean, they're.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
Absolute club legends. The history that those guys have provided
for our football club has been absolutely enormous and for
my neighbors sit up there alongside them, I'm really proud
of that.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
You deserve it zor congratulations, just an outstanding performance and
there you can go one or two ways. Well, I'd
imagine when you get to three hundred you can limp
to the line and there are some who have celebrated
and poke fun at themselves by just getting there and
being nursed along. Or you can charge through it like
you are. You're coming off an Australian year last year
and a half back flank and you you know there's
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every chance there's a great chance you're going to do
it again. What is the secret to this longevity? And
I don't think that's any coincidence that their Brisbane players
like Kevin Murray would have enjoyed the sun out there,
but the others certainly did have you got in there
if bit of an insight.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Oh, the woman weather certainly helps, has no doubt about that.
I think both Grant Virgil and Luke Coach can attest
to that.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
And even the boys that we've drafted in the last
six or seven years, like Linc McCarthy, like Locke, Neil,
Joe Danaher, these guys had injuries at other clubs that
probably really struggling to get on the park down Southern States.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Be coming up to the warmer weather. It certainly helped
with their bodies.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
But I think for me there was certainly a crossroad
at the end of the twenty twenty two season where
I was really struggling with injury. I had Achilles ten
nighters for the past two and a half years, and
I felt like I was really letting myself down, and
more importantly, I was letting the team down, and I
didn't feel like I was at my absolute best. And
I remember walking into Phase and Domuen Brogio in our
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exit meetings.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
In the end of twenty twenty two and I.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
Said, if I can't get this right next year, it
will be my last year.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
I can't feel as I'm letting the team down any longer.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
It doesn't sit well with me, and thankfully, due to
Daniel Rich's ability to network, I found a needle expert
up here in Brisbane by the name of Jim Bostock
who worked on my body for a month or so
and delivered some of the most incredible results that have
now and I still see him to this day.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Helped me perform with the highest possible level.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
He released a lot of trauma in my body through
his needling work and from there I've been able to
find a new lease on life.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
And I think at the start.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
Of the twenty twenty three season when Fags threw me
down back, that was another sort of opportunity for me
to expand my game, expand my knowledge and feel like
a kid at school again, learning all these new things
about being a batman and really joining that core group
of boys down there that have held up the four
for so long.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
So there's been a couple of little.
Speaker 7 (22:28):
Areas over the last few years that have really regenerated
and rejuvenated me to want to be the best.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Footballer I could possibly be.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
Getting my body right with certainly one of those and
the positional changes at fakes asked me to give a go.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
I certainly help with that as well.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Freaking Jim Bostok's going to get a couple of cools
might seeing the selfix.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
You've signed a new contract today. Is this an easy
decision to go on?
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Yeah? Absolutely, It's sort of been in the pipelines there
for a few weeks.
Speaker 7 (22:57):
Jared and I guess we were just sort of waiting
for the right time to do it, and you thought, well,
why not, let's just load the week up. So yeah,
forever grateful for the club for first of all giving
me the opportunity under Rob Kerr and Michael Boss, you know,
fourteen nine years ago, but for the club to see
still fit for me, the opportunity to go on next
year and really help with these emerging players that we
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have on our side at the moment and helped fast
track their careers to keep this.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Club up top of the ladder where it belongs.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
So yeah, I'm grateful for that opportunity once again and
hope off and do the Colors crown.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
We love talking to people about you. We spoke to
Locke here last night about you. His smile comes over
his face when we speak to FaZe. You are combative,
I think is a nice way to say it. I
reckon you would have got into trouble a lot as
a kid at school. I reckon you could have argued
most points given the way that you interact with the
umpires over the journey. It's no criticism though there was
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something along the way you did tread the really fine line.
But you've come out the other side just this much.
Love footy figure and as well, but you have played
with a bit of a chip on your shoulder.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Yeah, it's interesting you say that.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
Gas Jonathan brown in our first in my first year
at the football club, at the end of the season,
we all sat down in a circle and we spoke
about each individual just as a playing group. And Brownie,
obviously sitting next to me in the locker room, being
number sixteen, he had some wise words.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
For me, and he could see.
Speaker 7 (24:24):
Early on that I certainly had a chip on my
shoulder from obviously not getting drafted for a number of years,
and he urged me to continue to leave that chip
on the shoulder at all costs, you know, don't let
it come off, keep fighting, keep working really hard. And
I remember came Farrell saying to me one night from
Port Adelaide, saying, you're just a competitor, mate, You're an
absolute competitor.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
And yeah, there's no doubt. I've had some.
Speaker 7 (24:48):
Things in my football career that have turned a little
bit ugly and have gotten me into hot water of
but I've just I just want to win. I wanted
to win the whole entire time i've been at the
Brisbane lines. And that's just me. I'm one of four kids.
I was a third child, had an older brother that
always used to wrestle me, fight me.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
I always lost, and you know, enough was enough.
Speaker 7 (25:09):
So when I got to the AFL and I was
pretty similar to that in my junior football as well.
It was quite feisty and always had an argument and
that point to prove. But I think it helped me
a really good stand. Although I really float on that
line occasionally. I'd like to think for the majority of
three hundred games, I've been Okay, we've.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Got your merch here, we'll have it on while we're
watching the footy on Sunday night. I think you found
it out to get hold of We've got it. You
can't play fourteen seasons without having a deep love of
the game. What's your favorite part of footing?
Speaker 7 (25:42):
Oh this might' so how weird and a little bit strange,
but I absolutely just loved training. And I think during
that period between twenty twenty and twenty twenty two where
I couldn't really train, that really frustrated me and it
really hurt a lot. So the last three years of
pre season, you know, I've just enjoyed being back out there.
I love training week in week out with the boys,
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you know, trying to get better, working on our craft,
making sure that we can be the best possible team
you know that we can be, and with that we've
been able to get some great success off the back
of that.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
But I absolutely love the game. I love the teammates
that come with it.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
It's it's really sad, you know, we'll head into this
part of the year where you know there's the ultimate
glory of a premiership right there for you, but at
the same time, you know, come October, you know you're
going to lose teammates as well that have to either
be moved on or whatnot or retire. So it's a
really difficult period coming up, but even better if we can,
you know, salute at the end of the year. And
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I think that's why we all play. We want to
hold that Premiership Cup up. I've been fortunate enough to
do it once and I want to keep going.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Sunday is a great stage. It's a worthy setting for
a tremendous milestone.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Enjoy it and the best.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Of luck and we'll see afterwards in September.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Awesome, guys, thanks having me. Cheez.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
That's the Dane's orco Reaches Game three hundred on Sunday
at the Gap up. All right, let's bring it in
our favorite pair. They make us smarter every week. There's
a bit to look into on the coaching front tonight
as well, the self inflicted wounds John Longmire and Adam Simpson,
who have shared so much together they've lived the current
day experiences of various coaches.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
On a cuss for this final series
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Nicole Vine says, yeah, an Ingria player, Kim eat the
Paula run.
Danes Orco's tale of perseverance and excellence reaches the game's
great milestone. The veteran Lion joins us ahead of Game
three hundreds.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Dealing with self inflicted wounds. Our coaches put us in
the mind of Matthew Nicks in a crisis torn.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Week and playing through the pain. Zach Merritt gloved up
to face the Blues tomorrow nights.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
We talked about his step into it, embrace all of
it in the room, and it's unedifying for a senior
coach to do that. They're on the side of Courtia
with the brain tape.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
The man on they played.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
The best footy I've ever seen at the start of
the season, and in the resident left the couple older said.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Of course they do. Is the stuff that legends are
made of. What is holding the ball?
Speaker 4 (00:44):
I don't think I could answer it clearly right now
that I can do something wrong, you know, and I
need the game and the boards, actually.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
The fans, lover and with no fans, no through sixty
year old.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I just made the mistake of asking Gas whether it's
ever been involved in famous final round escapades, and seven
minutes later, the five.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Man Gale talk to the hand.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
We're back in nineteen eighty seven and lose the whole
show of a telling story.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Okay, I can't, I can't. We will take us through well,
miss dane Zuko. But it was a famous last round
in nineteen eighty seven, and Jason Dunstall, my great friend
and colleague, kicked a goal four Hawthorn to beat July,
which allowed Melbourne, who were beating the Western Bulldogs, to
go into their first final series in twenty four years.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Do it for Robbie.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Robbie Flower came out, he ripped the game to shreds
in the second half and Melbourne went into the And.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
What did you do?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I was in hospital with a broken lenk. Jared not
that funny, No, I wouldn't think of that. And Melbourne
sent Jase a, I think it's either a slab or
a keg in thanks, which I'm surely he took care
of that.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Quickst one all right. So that might be what we
see on Sunday night, as all sorts of fates are
into twines. What we have for you tonight, our favorite
John longbye and Adam Simpson. The teams are in for
Essendon and Carlton. There's a couple of stories there Danes
orco shortly from Brisbane. What a milestone this is for him?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Is in rare company, Jared, You'll see it and cheers
in rare company.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Fellow author Libby Birches here on the weekend picks to
bring it home, and then last Crack Preview, Ben Dixon
will set up David King and Lee Montagna to go
in depth on round twenty four. Who is it D
Day four? For Ossie broad Down.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
There's only one game, the D Day game, and that
the one will be out and calling, and that is
the Western Bulldogs and Frew and I'm going for the
Fremantle Dockers. When I say going for them, I'm putting
them on the D Day slide. So it's all or
nothing for this club and I think they're a big chance, Jared.
I think there are a genuine chants against the Bulldogs.
They've got a forward line that can really stretch the
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Dogs where they're vulnerable. They just can't freeze like they
did against the Brisbane lines on Friday night on the big,
big stage over there, so they'll come with the steely resolve.
I like long View today. He's president. He is a
bit combative, having a bit defensive, and he's going to
last time I looked, we'd won one more game. I
like that attitude. Now the players have got to pick
it up and run with it and don't deliver this
sort of stuff. Just go out test this Western Bulldog's
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defense for wrong and Brayshaw's record against the Western Bulldog's outstanding.
So this is at the moment and I'm gathering over
to you.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yes, well, why don't we hear from Justin Longmoor first
to properly set the scene.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
Yeah, the pressures on them as well, isn't it. Last
time I checked, theye one less game than us. So yeah,
the narrative around some of this stuff gets me a
little bit because, yeah, last time I checked, we're on
the same amount of wins as coming were sitting forth.
So everyone's talking to like we're going to miss the finals.
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I've got full faith in this group to be able
to go over there and get it done and play
our way and confident that our way is good enough.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
That's a great backdrop.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I love that. Yet I don't know whether he had
to be put up to do it or he just
got on the front and went whack. But That is
exactly the mindset that the club's got to come to
Marvel Stadium with on a Sunday. And if it's not
coming from the coach, where is it coming from. So
I loved it all right.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
It's d D for the Bulldogs clearly, as well as
if they go through a season when Richard's Bontonpelli, Darcy
and Norton have played like this and missed the Ape,
we will go what the sam hell were they up
to coming into the season. It was a year to
take aim at the top four, so they haven't managed
to do that. They haven't managed to do it because
the only team in the top nine they've beaten is
the Giants. They've lost ones to Fremantle. They are pretty
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unfulfilled when they came back from the West for that.
They have been scoring for fun at Marvel, so all
the advantages are with them. It's there are no excuses,
go out, get it done and then plot a path
to a preliminary final. That's the sort of footy from
time to time they're playing. I won't extinguish my candle
for the Bulldogs until the finals are and then.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I'll have to reluctantly do it that's sort of Sunday
ticket that you can't get excited about. So the Giants
just to shore up their spot and get the best
possible position into the cutthroat, into top four kind of territory.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
That is a good way to finish the home and
away season. I think we've got the straight homework on
the Wednesday, but we'll get.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
To that soon.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
We will get all right. Top of the agenda is
the torturous process to reach the conclusion. The Isaac Rankin
investigation continues on days of parry and thrust on a
legal front still unresolved. On a Wednesday night, it will
tip into Thursday as the Crows pull out all stops
to minimize the bat.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
We've been too slow to learn and grow and develop,
I suppose as people.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Unfortunately, but through suspensions you need to change in behavior.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
No doubt it will. We cannot say this, cannot say this,
You can't say the players haven't been mourned about it.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I've got no sympathy for him.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
There's no place for it. Place for it. Ranking would
be beside himself, side himself.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
He's very remorseful, and he understands that he's made a
mistake and he'll accept whatever comes his way.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Probably the penalty to me that I had a little
bit of an issue with.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
What's a fair penalty for things like this as we know,
to get four or five weeks for a physical indiscretion, jig,
you want to knock someone in the next week, get
five weeks, won't you.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I don't condone it. The behavior. It's a term that
you'd never be used on the football field, we understand.
But I think we.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Painted ourselves in a corner with regard to the penalty
and the length of penalty to start, Is.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
It a distraction for the group? You've been so good
at being narrow focus this year.
Speaker 8 (06:27):
No, this is, but no, not where we're locked in
on what we're doing this weekend. And I just said
before we just put support around Isaac because it is
a tough thing to go through and he goes you
know it's going to be it's going to be tough
from here, but we'll work our way through it.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Hopefully it's the last time it happens. Who knows if
it is, But obviously no room in the game for it.
Speaker 8 (06:49):
It's going to cost his team, and it's going to
cost his club, and it's going to cost him.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
This one's going to really stink.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
This is not sympathy for Isaac. This is simply for
the Adelaide foota club. The ramifications unbelievably significant, unbelievably significant.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
So those ramifications sit so heavily over the process, which
you'd have to say is convoluted. The incident happens on
Saturday night. Phone call is made between colling And and Adelaide
on Sunday and referred to the AFL's Integrity Unit. Interviews
are conducted on Monday an AA there's an Adelaide submission
to the AFL which accompanies those The AFL's determination goes
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back to the Crows, which sets out the five week ban,
of which the Crows have the right of rebuttal, which
they are exercising at the moment, and they've been granted
additional time to do that. So that's due with the
AFL tonight and then a determination tomorrow. So if I may,
there's a few points here that is an intolerably convoluted
process and it risks the AFL looking indecisive. Perhaps behind
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the scenes they haven't been that at all, but that's
how it looks from the outside. It does make me
wonder why Andrew Dylan and his legal team you can
go to Adelaide on Tuesday, sit in the boardroom and
stay until matters were results, I think on a public front.
So this is going to run all the way until
game day of round twenty four. It's a nasty story,
it's got an unsavory edge, and some of the debate
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around it is it's damaging to the code and runs
all the way. But my focus really is on Adelaide,
who seemed desperate to fight every angle of this. It's
not a picture of accepting responsibility and acting in a
contrite manner, and they are arguing the toss at every
turn formally and informally finals games should be worth more
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than home and away even though there's no precedent in
the system for that. They have going with Rankin was provoked,
which is a big stretch. I think in what he
was antagonized but provoked is a big stretch. Informally they've
even raised Snoop Dogg. I would put to you that's
the domain of talkback radio, not a responsible footy club.
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I think there were three possibilities here. Is front up
to what happens, pledged to address whatever it is in
the environment that allowed this to happen and accept what's coming.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
It's a fine line, well is it a fine line?
They also it's incumbent from a supporter's point of view,
to do the best job they possibly can to see
if they can get Isaac back playing now. As unsavory
as that may sound, and as you've pointed out, it's
smacks of them not wanting to take responsibility. I think
they are entitled to argue their case as vociferously and
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as strongly as they possibly can given the stakes that
are at play, so long as they are accepting in
the final verdict that it doesn't go too far. But
I understand what you say. It's drawn out, and I
like your first alternative, get over and fix it. I'm
always one of those to get on the front foot
and get in front of each other and nut it
out til it's done. The Crow supporters want to have,
you know, they want their man to play, and then
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the administration now saying well, well, do do whatever we can,
but there will come a time where they need to
put their hand in the end and go enoughs.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Enough so the AFL is going to be need to
be resolute when they announce their punishment. There's a constituent
see that's waiting to hear and even the raising of
Snoopbog by the club, they're going to have to front
up to those questions. And Adelaide, who have their history
on this front is they fought tooth and nail every
step of the way on their preseason camp. I hope
they have learned a lesson or two along the way
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in the way that they address this public with you
when the.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Time Well, that's that is a very interesting point. And
there's a football club that's sitting on top of the
ladder and a Premiership favorites. There is a way to
deal with it. And as I said, I don't begrudge
them right to fight and fight hard, even if that
means getting in the trenches a bit. But there comes
a time when you do you need to show some
humility and be accepting of the penalty and that'll come.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Craig McCrae, the Collingwood coach, spoke today. This was his insights.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Yeah, it's a bit making sure applies to say, but
also I don't want to demonize Isaac Keitha. Everyone's going
to make mistakes. Young lad seems like a really respectful
young man and he's manon Erra. So yeah, the IFL
take their own course on that, but you've don to
make mistakes too, so we respect.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
You've been talking about provocation in terms of submission.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
And that is there no provlication for something like that.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
You look, I don't want to have he said, She
said stuff. I think the reality is and that we're
all really comfortable to what we want a workplace to
look like, and these things step over the boundary line.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
If it turns out that Colin would go back to
Adelaide for a qualifying final, that is an explosive backdrop
for that game to take place in front of So
we wait to see on that front. Craig McCrae was
also He offered great clarity around the Bobby Hills scenario,
which has sort of lurked in the background with a
degree of uncertainty in all manner of rumor and innuendo
about it's both publicly and I think within the club.
(11:38):
Having had dinner with Bobby last night, he looked to
set matters straight on the record.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Had dinner with Bobby last night, As I continue to say,
it's a week by week, day by day thing with Bobby.
It was it's nice to catch up with him on
a social level, just to check in care for him.
There's two things that I always lived by, this high performance,
and there's love and care. And I've just sort of
left the high performance for a just making sure the
young lad's okay. Time's running out in the season and
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maybe the high performance might be a bit far at
the moment, but we'll just take it off the table
for now and hopefully and keep back in the club
and then be happy and then we'll see where we
go from there.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
So off the table for a moment. McCray also said
that when he was asked does that mean he won't play,
he said he'd ask Bobby how Bobby wanted him to
answer that. He said, just give me this. It just
give me a glimmer of hope that I could work
my way back.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Yeah, I would suggest this season is done, given the
amount of work that he's missed, and given the game
that we're about to play, and that is the most competitive,
high pressure game of all and that's Finals footy, and
that's sad. So from a Bobby point of view, I
think again, the issues are the issues, and then there's
the footy issues, and I'm glad that Craig has addressed it.
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In the end, the playing group need to know the
playing group, and I'm sure that communicated this to their
players as well maybe the supporters. Hey, this is where
it sits, unambiguous. We're not worrying about footy right now.
That's not on the table. So if you're not worrying
about foot in a round twenty four then and having
missed the work that he's done and that's a long
shot that he's playing, I think that's good to get
that out there because then we can go, okay, we'll
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let him deal with what he's going to do. We
don't need to pressure them about when he's going to
come back to footy. That's a long long shot. The
playing group need to know because they don't need to
answer it every time they go to the milk bar
and every time they buy the paper whatever. So it's
out there, it's done, and then I hope Bobby can
get sort of what he needs to get sorted. But
the footy now is the focus for them.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
They have clearly missed him, so yea that there's no more,
Well wait till we get Bobby back, they're going to
have to find a way without him with another reason
why you got to move on, Jared, And that appears
to what's been what's happened today, and I think that's
a good thing for Collingwood. They're going to get moving
and move on and there's a final series to be won.
Teams are in for tomorrow night. There's a story or
two here as well at Essendon and Carlton, so they're
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both in a paralss state with what they've got. Zach
Merritt does return, as he told us last night, he's
got the medical all clear. He's got the glove on
to protect us as much as he can the plate
that's been inserted, So merrit is in. Shield comes back,
so Keltoum. He was reporting today that by a mutual agreement,
this is the last time Shield will play for Essendon.
He will see if there's a buyer for him in
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the trademarket el Hully and Hobbs are the two who
are omitted, so the two injured players from last week
of Laverde and McMahon are named to get up and
on the Carlton side of things, that Lucas Camparelli, who
we saw in the early couple of rounds in White Return.
Fogerty and Lord are injured, so they get a little
younger again. The story here is Mitch McGovern's not been selected.
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He's an emergency, so stuck on seventeen games. He misses
the trigger which would have given him the contract extension
for next year. So there's sort of one of two
things that play. But his previous contract is now at
an end.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yes, so it puts the cart and Footy Club back
in the driver's seat by not playing. And if he
is to play on at the Cart and Footy Club,
then that is to be negotiated. Should he have played
this game, then he would have assuming exercised the trigger,
played on at his want and at the contract that
he had negotiated. So it doesn't necessarily mean that he
won't be a card. Not an overly positive sign, but
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doesn't necessarily might be done. He could renegotiate it, maybe
on half the money, if they're both happy and push forward.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Charlie Kurno's fate. So the back page of the Herald
Son had the story out of Sydney Today saying that
he's the Swan's number one target, which wouldn't be a surprise.
Two elements to this. The first one, would he be
a good fit for Sydney.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Yeah, I think he fits the profile, he fixed, the
history of the Sydney Swans and what they've been able
to do in terms of attracting big name key forwards
with a profile and a presence and someone that fits
into the market. So yeah, he'd be perfect. He'd be
absolutely perfect for the Sydney Swans.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
The second part is should Carlton consider a trade, particularly
if there's a three team market for him.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yeah, they should say no under no circumstances. And when
we're considering it, would we consider a trade and then
sit back and see what comes their way? That's the
way this thing works here, been in it long enough now.
History's littered with players and clubs have declared that no,
under no circumstances, and we take the bait and then
two days later they go, I'll change your mind. The
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deals may've done, so that's open. I think everything's on
the table, and yeah, if something crazy comes Carton's way,
then I wouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I think the next step is at the exit interview,
is Charlie Kerner going to say to carlten that he
would like to be elsewhere or will he bury that
deep down and just see what happens.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Well, he shouldn't. He got to get up in front,
up and he said it publicly. I want to stay
in the story. But what he says to Carton might
be different. But you only get one shot at this
these bugs, and it doesn't necessarily mean if he says
I want to go, that he goes. But be upfront
and be honest. It's a time of change. A Carton Footy.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Clubs put him on the table our special guest waiting
for us in Brisbane.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Rare rare company.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Yeah, three hundred games is the great milestone of the
game and the great Zorco was. He was instantly dubbed
when he came to the game, So it was round
seven twenty twelve that he was named for his to
do with the Brisbane lines and our then program League
teams had a bit of fun with him.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Plenty of ins and outs, drumming Hawksley Rains, Mkiva and
Zorko come in at cop Cornelius, Lester and Chris Well
hopefully performs some magic on the weekend for the Lions.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
I hope has got some tricks.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
If he comes out of the big black hat.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Is going to win. I'm going to get the interview.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
At the mat from the game guarantee to take a
head out and take a cane, rap.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
It out putting a box.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
You both aread his career bus.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Like, look at it. What a name to play with.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
What a player he turned out to be. Game three
hundred for Dane Zorko with the Lions meet the Hawks
on Sunday night. It's our great pleasure to have him
back on three sixty day. Congratulations and welcome.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Thanks so much, Jared, Thanks Gary, really appreciate it that.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I just thought you were going to be a one
trick pony.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Those boys. I'll tell you what, there's some feedback for
you before you play a game.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
I've had my data throughout my career, even before I
made it into the AFL, So yeah, I think that
was probably one thing that just continued for me to
keep going and keep persisting and keep trying.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
So proved it wrong once and I'll keep proving them
wrong again.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
It is the game's great milestone. Have you been a
little bit reflective over what you overcame to be able
to achieve it.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Yeah, I have a little bit, Jared.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
I've tried not to delve into it too much, but
I am really really proud of what I've been able
to achieve.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 7 (18:51):
And you wouldn't have given a bloke much hope getting
drafted the age of twenty one, to reach in three
hundred games, to play fourteen odd years and the and
been able to play, you know, consistently, week in week
out in this sport.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
It's really really hard to do.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
And to reach this milestone is I think it sits
right up there with the Premiership. I really do. It's
not a lot of players do that. I think I
got told it will be the one hundred and ninth
player to do so. With how many people have actually
played in the AFL, do only a one hundred and
nine to reach this milestone.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
It's something I'm really really cradled.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
And you have a special place in that one hundred
and nine. You are the oldest to reach the three
hundred game milestone. You inherit that from Alistair Lynch, who
inherited it from Roger Merritt, who inherited it from Kevin Murray.
This is a Lions thing, Dane.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
Yeah, it certainly is, and we're going to catch up
with you a little bit later tonight, so I'll be
sure to rub it into him somewhat. But yeah, I mean,
it's yeah, just phenomenon. It's great to hear all those
names as well.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I mean, they're.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
Absolute club legends. The history that those guys have provided
for our football club has been absolutely enormous and for
my neighbors sit up there alongside them, I'm really proud
of that.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
You deserve it zor congratulations, just an outstanding performance and
there you can go one or two ways. Well, I'd
imagine when you get to three hundred you can limp
to the line and there are some who have celebrated
and poke fun at themselves by just getting there and
being nursed along. Or you can charge through it like
you are. You're coming off an Australian year last year
and a half back flank and you you know there's
(20:28):
every chance there's a great chance you're going to do
it again. What is the secret to this longevity? And
I don't think that's any coincidence that their Brisbane players
like Kevin Murray would have enjoyed the sun out there,
but the others certainly did have you got in there
if bit of an insight.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Oh, the woman weather certainly helps, has no doubt about that.
I think both Grant Virgil and Luke Coach can attest
to that.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
And even the boys that we've drafted in the last
six or seven years, like Linc McCarthy, like Locke, Neil,
Joe Danaher, these guys had injuries at other clubs that
probably really struggling to get on the park down Southern States.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Be coming up to the warmer weather. It certainly helped
with their bodies.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
But I think for me there was certainly a crossroad
at the end of the twenty twenty two season where
I was really struggling with injury. I had Achilles ten
nighters for the past two and a half years, and
I felt like I was really letting myself down, and
more importantly, I was letting the team down, and I
didn't feel like I was at my absolute best. And
I remember walking into Phase and Domuen Brogio in our
(21:25):
exit meetings.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
In the end of twenty twenty two and I.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
Said, if I can't get this right next year, it
will be my last year.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
I can't feel as I'm letting the team down any longer.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
It doesn't sit well with me, and thankfully, due to
Daniel Rich's ability to network, I found a needle expert
up here in Brisbane by the name of Jim Bostock
who worked on my body for a month or so
and delivered some of the most incredible results that have
now and I still see him to this day.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Helped me perform with the highest possible level.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
He released a lot of trauma in my body through
his needling work and from there I've been able to
find a new lease on life.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
And I think at the start.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
Of the twenty twenty three season when Fags threw me
down back, that was another sort of opportunity for me
to expand my game, expand my knowledge and feel like
a kid at school again, learning all these new things
about being a batman and really joining that core group
of boys down there that have held up the four
for so long.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
So there's been a couple of little.
Speaker 7 (22:28):
Areas over the last few years that have really regenerated
and rejuvenated me to want to be the best.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Footballer I could possibly be.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
Getting my body right with certainly one of those and
the positional changes at fakes asked me to give a go.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
I certainly help with that as well.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Freaking Jim Bostok's going to get a couple of cools
might seeing the selfix.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
You've signed a new contract today. Is this an easy
decision to go on?
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Yeah? Absolutely, It's sort of been in the pipelines there
for a few weeks.
Speaker 7 (22:57):
Jared and I guess we were just sort of waiting
for the right time to do it, and you thought, well,
why not, let's just load the week up. So yeah,
forever grateful for the club for first of all giving
me the opportunity under Rob Kerr and Michael Boss, you know,
fourteen nine years ago, but for the club to see
still fit for me, the opportunity to go on next
year and really help with these emerging players that we
(23:18):
have on our side at the moment and helped fast
track their careers to keep this.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Club up top of the ladder where it belongs.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
So yeah, I'm grateful for that opportunity once again and
hope off and do the Colors crown.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
We love talking to people about you. We spoke to
Locke here last night about you. His smile comes over
his face when we speak to FaZe. You are combative,
I think is a nice way to say it. I
reckon you would have got into trouble a lot as
a kid at school. I reckon you could have argued
most points given the way that you interact with the
umpires over the journey. It's no criticism though there was
(23:52):
something along the way you did tread the really fine line.
But you've come out the other side just this much.
Love footy figure and as well, but you have played
with a bit of a chip on your shoulder.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Yeah, it's interesting you say that.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
Gas Jonathan brown in our first in my first year
at the football club, at the end of the season,
we all sat down in a circle and we spoke
about each individual just as a playing group. And Brownie,
obviously sitting next to me in the locker room, being
number sixteen, he had some wise words.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
For me, and he could see.
Speaker 7 (24:24):
Early on that I certainly had a chip on my
shoulder from obviously not getting drafted for a number of years,
and he urged me to continue to leave that chip
on the shoulder at all costs, you know, don't let
it come off, keep fighting, keep working really hard. And
I remember came Farrell saying to me one night from
Port Adelaide, saying, you're just a competitor, mate, You're an
absolute competitor.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
And yeah, there's no doubt. I've had some.
Speaker 7 (24:48):
Things in my football career that have turned a little
bit ugly and have gotten me into hot water of
but I've just I just want to win. I wanted
to win the whole entire time i've been at the
Brisbane lines. And that's just me. I'm one of four kids.
I was a third child, had an older brother that
always used to wrestle me, fight me.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
I always lost, and you know, enough was enough.
Speaker 7 (25:09):
So when I got to the AFL and I was
pretty similar to that in my junior football as well.
It was quite feisty and always had an argument and
that point to prove. But I think it helped me
a really good stand. Although I really float on that
line occasionally. I'd like to think for the majority of
three hundred games, I've been Okay, we've.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Got your merch here, we'll have it on while we're
watching the footy on Sunday night. I think you found
it out to get hold of We've got it. You
can't play fourteen seasons without having a deep love of
the game. What's your favorite part of footing?
Speaker 7 (25:42):
Oh this might' so how weird and a little bit strange,
but I absolutely just loved training. And I think during
that period between twenty twenty and twenty twenty two where
I couldn't really train, that really frustrated me and it
really hurt a lot. So the last three years of
pre season, you know, I've just enjoyed being back out there.
I love training week in week out with the boys,
(26:03):
you know, trying to get better, working on our craft,
making sure that we can be the best possible team
you know that we can be, and with that we've
been able to get some great success off the back
of that.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
But I absolutely love the game. I love the teammates
that come with it.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
It's it's really sad, you know, we'll head into this
part of the year where you know there's the ultimate
glory of a premiership right there for you, but at
the same time, you know, come October, you know you're
going to lose teammates as well that have to either
be moved on or whatnot or retire. So it's a
really difficult period coming up, but even better if we can,
you know, salute at the end of the year. And
(26:36):
I think that's why we all play. We want to
hold that Premiership Cup up. I've been fortunate enough to
do it once and I want to keep going.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Sunday is a great stage. It's a worthy setting for
a tremendous milestone.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Enjoy it and the best.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Of luck and we'll see afterwards in September.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Awesome, guys, thanks having me. Cheez.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
That's the Dane's orco Reaches Game three hundred on Sunday
at the Gap up. All right, let's bring it in
our favorite pair. They make us smarter every week. There's
a bit to look into on the coaching front tonight
as well, the self inflicted wounds John Longmire and Adam Simpson,
who have shared so much together they've lived the current
day experiences of various coaches.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
On a cuss for this final series
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Nicole Vine says, yeah, an Ingria player, Kim eat the
Paula run.
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