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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Good morning everyone, Welcome to the water Boys for another
super Saturday of sports at Brent Costelo with you and
sitting opposite me today it's a big welcome back to
cam Brown. How are you, Bronie.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Going well this morning, Brenchie.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
There's some big scores that we've got to get through
overnight as well as our show today. Brent's two hours
coming up.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
We roll in and some days we've got one or
two scores to get through, but plenty going on overnight.
Run me through what you've got, Plase.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Well, we'll start with the NBL which is Game one
in the final series. Brentan an upset in Sydney. Sydney
were defeated by New Zealand. New Zealand ninety five to
Sydney eighty seven. That's huge humssive result because Sydney would
have gone in as heavy favorites in that one. It
sets up now Game two in New Zealand on Sunday four,
o'clock our time.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Big.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
It's a huge result and not a lot of people
like the Kings, Brownie, so I think a lot of
people will be happy with that. They wake up on
this Saturday morning.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
New Zealand.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
I don't know what you saw the game. They just came
out right from the word go and they were on song.
Sydney made a charge at them, but they really steadied.
They did, and it was a very mature performance by
New Zealand. Sets them up really really well.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
It was in They had some footy last night as well.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Yeah, three matches last night. In the preseason match sin
killed at ten seven sixty seven defeated a disappointing essenon
three fourteen thirty two. I know you were personally very
disappointed with that. You might have had some personal investment
in that match.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Well, you just think Esiden might suddenly become a good
team under a new coach and you know, fresh start,
but not there worst Brownie.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Yeah, they were disappointing last night, no doubt about that.
Sydney fifteen seven ninety seven defeated Carlton seven twelve fifty four.
Errol Gordon, I don't know where they called his game
three goals and forty possessions.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
One hundred and eighty fantasy points too. That's a huge fantasy.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Of course, some want to go on the early craze
only twenty, but I reckon, you know, sort of towards
the back end of the season, we could be talking
about him being in an All.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Australian squad or something like that.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
He's a star.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
And the final game.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Disappointing result last night for West Coast Eagles seven ten
fifty two against Adelaide seventeen to nine one hundred and eleven.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
You seeing in that game, Brenn, I can't watch off
the hook there. I watched all of it.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Ordinary Brownie Ordinary talked to you on the phone earlier
in the evening. I said, I think will be better
than people think, but they haven't got off to the best.
That starts the Eagles. But anyway, we might talk about
that a little bit later in the show hockey last night.
Hockey of course in Hobart this week and the hockey
rows unfortunately went down one Niel to Argentina. Better news
for the Crooko bar is a three goals to Neil
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win over Argentina. They play their final games today against
Spain will talk to Colin Batch later in the showt
the Kooko bars coach, which is going to be really exciting.
Sheffield Shield overnight Tasmania trailing by one hundred and thirty.
He runs against way In at second innings where one
for twenty seven stops Wards the out batsman so far
five dual twenty one and Dora and one of the
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unbeaten batsman at the crease. So a lot of work
to do there for the Tigers get themselves back in
that game and must win too if you want to
be any chance of making the final. A good win
for Australia and the Cricket Brownie. I was a bit
worried about the chase yesterday, a tricky chase, but we
got there in the end by nine wickets, no problems
at all. Usmand Kahwaja and the batsman out for a
duck and head forty nine. Labashane twenty eight got the
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job done for us NRL. Last night. Brisbane a big
upset against Penrith in the opening round of the season
thirteen points to twelve, and the earlier gave New Zealand
twenty against Newcastle twelve and a big upset set in
the A League last night I say upset. It was
second place Adelaide United defeating Melbourne City four goals to two.
So that separates one and two b only by six
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points on the ladder at the moment. So plenty happening
in the A League as well. We've got a big
show ahead as you alluded to before, Brownie Runners through.
What's happening in our number one place.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
You're going to be talking to Richard Welsh, the race
director of Run the Bridge. Richard always very obliging of
his time. We're going to be talking to him shortly.
Jared bearst I now signed during the week for the
Hogbut Chargers as the jack Jumpers forward too, so that
continues the association that the jack Jumpers have now with
a lot of their players in the off season of
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the NBL playing with the Hogbut Charges.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
So that's terrific.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Now you mentioned the Hockey two and we only be
catching up with the Kooker Borroughs coach Colin Batch too today.
That's all on the first hour.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Looking forward to that to our two this morning as well.
Sarah Coit will join us. At this time last week
she was running a mark at Blunts that are owned
an incredible final over the Tasmanian Tigers in the WNZL final.
Looking forward to chatting to Sarah Coy. The new SFL president,
David Oburn will join us as well, looking forward to
chatting to Abi about what he's got in planned for
the SFL season coming up. Chad Wingard will join us
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as well from Hawthorne. They just went down to Collingwood
at Utah Stadium back on Thursday night and the wind
up the show, Steve dev We'll jump on the phone
to bring us up to speak with everything happening in
Tasmanian harness racing. That's all coming up for you this
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Kombota dealer. It is the water Boys with Brent cos
Elo and Cam Brown for your Saturday morning.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Reflecting on scot from the past seven days. Here's the
water Boys week and wise.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
So we look back at everything happening locally, nationally and internationally.
We're going to start nice and close to home today though,
because during the week we lost a really really important
member of the Tasmanian football community. I speak of Lance
Sporting of course, who sadly left us earlier last week.
Really touched everyone and just a wonderful man. Springer. Before
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I get your thoughts on on Lance's tragic passing, Branny,
I caught up with a few of his closest friends
during the week, Brett Gape and Scott Wade, Matthew Armstrong,
Robbie Devine and also Andy Bennett, and this is what
they had to say about the tragic loss of that Sporting.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
He's a teacher, he's a mentor of mine and a mate.
Like it is, ticked all boxes.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
It was really a contemporary thinker. He didn't mind discussions
about change in the future, but he was There's no
substitute for passion and enthusiasm, and he springer roused all
of that. You get account contact with Lance, Tim Murders
from where he is, you start smiling.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
The time you get to him, you're smiling and you're laughing.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
He's just one of those people.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
In footy and sport year people bad people all the time.
But I never heard anyone bad Lance at all.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
Say this thoughtfully, I'm the best teammate and club men
that I've ever encountered, and I've been involved in forty
in three states.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
So I say that on a shame.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
I never seen him a bad Danny's life. He always
had a smile on your face and when you walked away,
you know you felt better for being in his company.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Really sad loss for the Tasmanian football community. Shock loss.
It's fair to say you and your like I did,
Cam and must have been a real shock when you
found that in the news, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
It was. And lovely tributes as well.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Had a little bit to do with Lance too when
I was playing at sny By many years ago and
now he's actually an assistant coach for Troy Clark, who
also sadly passed away a few years ago. And one
of the things about Lance too, you could hear some
of the commentary there. Brent very into personal, very relational
in some of his football journey as a coach. Also,
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he was the perfect foil and conduit sometimes between player
and coach and player and assistant coach and massaging and
managing those relationships. But he was also able to translate
that into a senior coach as well on his own right.
And one of the things about Lance Sporting it was
the personal connection that he prioritized in his interactions with
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everyone in the football community.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
And to be sadly missed absolutely Rest in peace, Springer.
He was an absolute star, there's no doubt about that
and will be sadly sadly missed. One of Springer's old clubs,
the Hobart Footall Club, going through a tough time at
the moment. Cam looks they've got a shortage of players
and you know, canning down to the season, we're really
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close now, obviously, and speaking of the new president of
the SFL yesterday, David O'Byrne. Will talk to him a
bit later in the show as well. But they're trying
to do all they can to help Hobard obviously, Alex
Gilmore the senior coach, and a lot of players left
are not too long ago and it's left them in
a little bit of a hole, it's fair to say.
So hopefully they can get on the park because you
know what Glenorky's gone through over the last month or
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two and it looks like that's good news too. During
the week that they will take their place in the
tself still hopefully in a precreious position for me. Hopefully
they can get through the season. But two of our
famous foota club's doing it tough at the moment.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
As a kid, Bren I went along to the nineteen
eighty TfL Grand Final. It was played between Hobart and
Clonorky and looking back then in the crowd that would
have been in that game, it's staggering to think that,
you know, forty or so years later, we're talking about
two teams that are fighting for survival and existence in
their respective competitions.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Absolutely, how we had the AFL here in Tazzy on
Thursday night Hawthorne Collingwood, my dear our wife went up
there to watch the game and she sent me a
picture about three o'clock with the crowds lining up. I
thought they were going to get fifty thousand people in here, Collingwood, Yes,
she is. They're going to get fifty thousand into you
tes tonight the way the lines were. But I think
it's only about five thousand in the house in the end.
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But what do you make of that? Having Hollywood back
here for the first time since twenty fifteen.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
I didn't see a lot of the game to be fair,
only caught the Highlights brand had something on in the evening,
But yeah, I would have thought it a disappointing crab.
But it is sometimes hard to get people engaged and
excited in a preseason competition. And I think what's important
that what we want to have and we've been being
on a long time now, is in the main fixture
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outright the regular season. Having teams like Collingwood come is outstanding,
but with having him in the preseason comp probably doesn't
tick that box, does that? I mean, how many times
have they been down the pies in the journey of
I think Hawthorne and Northlan to.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Be none for a regular season, that's right.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
So that's the next step.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
And in fairness, Jeff Kenned has been someone that has
advocated really strongly for the bigger clubs to come here.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Now I don't know whether that's.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
A political position that he's trying to portray in those
situations and scenarios, and some of his commentary.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Been happening in cricket at the moment, a lot of
discussion about some of the players that could be on
the move from the Tasmanian Tigers, high about Hurricanes Matthew
Wade was announced that he might have some interest and
his interests as well might be with the Melbourne Renegades
moving forward. He's still got a year to run in
his contract with the Hurricanes.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
But that's interesting why the Melbourne Renegade's great.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I don't know what the issue would be there and
why he'd want to move away from Tasmonia after moving back.
It's interesting.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Obviously it must be some issue you think, so wouldn't
you be happy at the Hobart Hurricanes over that period
of time he's come back to the Hobart Hurricanes.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Cricket has been another family obviously invested in crit.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Has been been really good to him to this back
half of the season. Obviously not playing shield cricket at
the moment, he's off on the T twenty circuit and
maybe that's where his future lies and he doesn't play
Red Bull cricket and one day cricket for Tasmania after
this season. But we'll have to wait and see there.
Ben mcdermot's another one that's been linked to Queensland at
the moment and returning home.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
That's definitely happening. Brent lock It in yep Okay he
will go back to Queensland. We'll play with the hope
Art Hurricanes. He'll still play with the Hurricanes, but he
will go back to Queensland.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Oh, I see and Peter Sittles the other one linked back.
That's to Victoria. So that'd be a loss for us
because that was the whole idea to get him down,
I think to finish his career and then develop a
coaching career. So that'd be a big loss, I reckon
because he'd be wonderful to have around here with our
next generation of pace bulls coming through. So I watched
his space. Good news there during the week for cricket
to has Molly Strano resigning. Water Boys own Molly Straana
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resigning for a further three years, which is a great,
great get for the Tigers. Good luck to the great
cricketers this weekend too, Brown and the women's competition the
one day final tomorrow. We've got Newtown and the Greater
Northern Raiders going head to head. Do you tip there please?
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I'm going to go to the TOWNI sprint.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
He would too. That's where you heart lies, doesn't it?
And I want to give a shout out to bow
Belbin we'll try to get him on the show next week.
We've got a big fight coming up next Sunday against
Nikita Zoo, obviously the brother at Tim Zoo. Tim's fighting
later in the day against Tony Harrison. This is a
huge thing though for Bo Belbourne. It's obviously during the
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day here in Australia because that's prime time Saturday night
in America. So he wins his fight brand it opens
up a lot of doors.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Yeah, it does.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
And exciting for the boxing community because we know we
work really really hard to promote boxing in Tasmania, don't
when we've had some great associations.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
With Daniel Gel, Luke Jackson, Grant, Tazzy brown of course
Justin Crawford. Lots of people over the journey Brownie. So
absolutely Bo Belburn right up with the best of them.
And good luck to him next Sunday afternoon. As I said,
we'll try and get him on the show next week.
That is the week that was for us today though,
Lots to get through there and lots to come in.
Our number one of the show this morning, not too
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far away is Commin Batch the kook bar is also
how about charges signing Jared besta but up next we're
looking to tomorrow is a big event Run the Bridge,
which will be held in home. But Richard Welsh, the
race director, joins us after this here on the water
Boys run across Tasmania thanks to Tasmack, your local Komboda dealer.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
He's the water Boys.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Welcome back to the water Boys doing it all thanks
to our friends at Tasmack, your local kommoda dealer. Big,
big day ahead for Tasmania's capital. Tomorrow comes to a
standstill for a couple of hours when we run the Bridge,
one of our iconic events, now in its fourteenth year.
And this is the man organizing it all, the race director,
Richard Welsh. Welcome back to the water Boys Welshy House.
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Things shaping up for tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
Yeah, guys, we did three thousand entries yesterday so hopefully
to get a couple of hundred more today and I've
been on par with last year's achievements of being Tasmania's
biggest fun run. So looking forward to closing down as
roads as you say and letting it be running tracks
for so many people.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I'll ask you yesterday what's special about the event, and
it really is about the Bridge, just shutting down. As
you said, it's Tasmani's busiest piece of infrastructure. So for
you to have the power to shut it down for
a couple of hours and get people up there to
experience what it's like without any traffic on it is
a pretty surreal experience, isn't it.
Speaker 8 (14:14):
Well you know better than me.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
You're up there on the bridge whereas we're closed and
run as a walker's galore, and I'm down the finish
line making sure things happen down there, so I actually
haven't been up for me what it's all about.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Like, Yeah, it is cool, especially when I get there
nice and early because no one else is on there
at that point. You don't let anyone up there till
just before the race, So it is very surreal feeling.
Speaker 7 (14:37):
Yes, yeah, yeah, look, and you know we've got to
close it for a couple of hours and that we've
been doing it since twenty eighteen, and you get a
few NASAs out there, of course, but it's a safety
thing for the participants and for the drivers as well,
so they don't get distracted going across, and it's only
for a short period of time. So yeah, a wonderful
opportunity and if you haven't done it before and you
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want to do it well.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
You can still end to talk three o'clock today, And
while she can, we start with the women's race. Can
you give us some of your predictions. Who are the
athletes that we can expect to be right there at
the finish line.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
Yeah. So like all our fun runs, we have a
major road race component and bring down some elite athletes.
So the elite women's Fiel, we're bringing back the race
record holder, Jen Gregson. He might remember her from getting
wheelchaired off from the Olympic final in Tokyo from the
steeple chase and having double achilles surgery and she since
had a child, but she's back racing and she ran
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the cross country trials for Australia back in January, so
she's returning as a race record holder, which is great.
We got Lean Pompiani who was twenty second and the
second place ossie at the World Cross Country Championships recently
in Backhurst racing.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
The goal will.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
Both be going up against the girl who was seventh
in that race in Bathurst, Chrisca Chessaing who you met
during the week, brench from Uganda and she's only nineteen.
She was an Olympian run the five thousand at the
age of seventeen, the World Junior bronze medal of twice
over five thousand. Clearly will start the favorite and streets
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of Hobart if you're not into running, but at least
time I'll watch world class athletes. These these athletes will
be chairing through the streets of Hobart and will be
an amazing thing to watch the stride of the Africans.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Talking to Richard welsh the race director of Run the Bridge, Welshie,
can we see anybody defeating four time previous? When Liam
Adam's going for a fifth win, where do you think
the competition will come from for him?
Speaker 7 (16:32):
Yeah? Liam has been back a few times. He's actually
not won the last four times. He's dined out, so
he'd be hungry for a win. And he did run
really well. He got in that golden ticket at the
World cross Country so he is in good shape. He's
going to be up against. To be honest, we've got
Ryan Gregson coming down, who of course is the Olympic
final so fifteen hundred meters and husband of Gen. But
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we've got two agains as well in Dan Corvette and
Kenneth Kiprop. Now they ran in the junior race the
World Cross Country Champs to Uganda, which means that they're
good and they'll fourth and fixing that junior race, so
I say those two will be lining up as a favorite.
But a little dark horse, the guy who was in
the top twenty of the junior race from Great Britain
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has come down as well and sticking around Jacob Jakin,
and he's trying to break one of the British ten
k road records of twenty nine to seventeen. If he
does that, you'll be thereabout So it could have a
really nice international flavor this year.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
And just quickly and if you still want to enter,
what's the guy plays? So you got to all three
o'clock today? Is that right?
Speaker 7 (17:34):
You do at Hobart run the Bridge dot com got
a you or pop down and see us at the
Healthy Lifestyle Expo today which is at PW one. It's
pre to enter. There's forty odd exhibitors down there down
at PW one ten or three. Go and see the
market and then duck over into the shed and see
some healthy lifestyle things. We got everything from gym's and
pilates to healthcare and all sorts of stuff that's good
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for you.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Probably a place on a to be that sounds wells you.
Good luck tomorrow morning. Hopefully it all goes well. I'm
sure the five k start will be exceptional. Apart from that,
hope everything else goes well. And thanks for joining us
on the water Boys this morning.
Speaker 7 (18:11):
Beautiful, thanks bub very nice.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
There he goes Richard Welsh, the race director of Run
the Bridge, an iconic event for us here in Tasmania.
We've got lots more so to come. This out on
the water Boys. Not too far away is the Koo
Barras coach Colin Batch. But up next we're talking basketball
with JB Jared Bestow, who signed on with the Hobart
Chargers this week. That's after this on the water Boys.
Thanks to Tasmack, your local Commoda dealer.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
This here's the water Boys.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Thanks very much to Tasmack, your local Koboda dealer, for
their wonderful support of the water Boys in twenty twenty three.
You are with Brent Costello and Cam Brown.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
This morning it's time to shoot some hoops at the
water Boys talk all things basketball.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Our next guest this morning is part of the Mighty
Jack Jumpers organization, but this week he signed a fresh
new deal with the Hobart Chargers. Jared Bestow joins fellow
JJ Sam McDaniel at the club for a second straight season.
I caught up with JB during the week and asked
him if he was excited to be back.
Speaker 9 (19:06):
Yeah, very his decision. I think we built something pretty
strong last year obviously, and it's just something I want
to continue on. Obviously, A great group of guys, love
playing with Stewey last year. I love the environment down here,
so yeah, I was keen to get back into it.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
You've got Semmi Mack joining it too, So getting the
band back together in many ways. Olie's back of course,
but a bit of a younger looking squad too this season.
Speaker 9 (19:27):
Yeah, obviously something is a huge pickup for us to
keep him on board. He was great during the final
series last year in the back end of the year.
Ol He's an absolute monster, So looking forward to throwing
up some loves for him. And then the younger group.
You're bringing guys like rich O who, although he's stealingly
what twenty one so got to some experience around the league.
And then there's a lot of younger guys last year
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who played sort of in some capacity, limited minutes, but
had the potential to step up, and I think it'll
be interesting to see what they can do this year.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
What's the off season look like for you? Obviously some
guys go over seas, some don't play it or what
is it Tassy and hi Abart for you?
Speaker 9 (20:00):
Particularly for right now, It'sasy's home to me. It feels
like home. We're pretty well established here and basically I
love being amongst the community down here. So yeah, it's
awesome to be able to represent the state in another
capacity again. And I just enjoyed more time down here.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Absolutely, And you're confident you can really push for finals again.
Obviously winning the championship maybe a little bit harder with
the younger group, but finals was the goal, was it
in the first instance?
Speaker 9 (20:25):
Yeah? I mean finals one hundred percent the goal. Obviously
with Sammy coming back, Olie rich O, myself, there's still
a core group of guys that were there last year.
I know they're considering another important position that they can
add to that to help strengthen that. So obviously losing
roles or something and Aj and Jamar, But you know,
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with what we've got, I don't see why we can't
run it back and continue to build.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
This group had a bit of over a week now
to digest the NBLS season and what's your thoughts looking
back on what the JJ's are able to achieve this season.
Speaker 9 (20:57):
Yeah, obviously it was not the result we want in
the end, but a fantastic year nonetheless, and seeing the
growth of guys like Sean McDonald, Isaac Whitett, seeing Milton
come into the league and really make an impact was unbelievable.
And now it's just looking to next year and looking
to see how we can build and improve and continue
to grow.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
The coach was sort of saying at the mvpay night
that you need to really push for that championship.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Now.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I guess the fairy tale and that's been nice the
first couple of years, but championship really is the goal yet.
Speaker 9 (21:25):
I mean, yeah, I think the championships a goal every year,
but I think you turn around now and look at
it and you're not a foundation club anymore. You're not
new to this. It's sort of part of the process
and it's yeah, sort of the yearly grind that it
is now rather than new and fun and exciting. So yeah,
championship is definitely the goal.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
How do you see the Grand Final series playing at
do you lot the Kings or the Breakers?
Speaker 9 (21:48):
It'll be really interesting actually, because the very conflicting styles
of play. For me in a championship series, I think
the way New Zealand play big and strong and physical
will be interesting. But the Kings have been there before,
they know how to do it, so it'll be interesting
to see how it plays out.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
And just finally, you've got the King of Tasmania coaching
it for the Jack Jambers, you've got a bloke that
wants to be the King of Tasmania and Anthony Stewart
coaching with the Charges. Tell us about the different coaching
soles between those two men.
Speaker 9 (22:14):
Plays the very different Stewy's very fully free flowing, Rothy's
very structuring in what he wants done. So yeah, it's
always good. But I like Stewey's free flowing mentality for
the off season, especially because you're a lot of freedom
to play and have some fun with it and just
relax in the off season.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
So it's nice.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
And I said, just finally, but this is the last one.
Your injury. You went in for surgery on Monday and
that might keep you out for the tiny bit of
the start of the season, but all going well, it
won't be too far away.
Speaker 9 (22:45):
Yeah, it should just be a quick six week recovery
and sort of beer back into it by hopefully the
second or third round. So nothing major, won't rush into it,
but at the same time it shouldn't be a big
deal going into the season.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Jared Besto, good luck with the Charges and thanks for
chatting to us on the water Boys.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Easy.
Speaker 9 (23:00):
Thanks Roy.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
There he goes JB. Jared Besto joining us on the
water Boys this morning. Can't wait to see him suit
up for the Hobart Charges again for season twenty twenty three.
Lots more so to come on the water Boys this morning.
Heaps of footy coming up. In our number two, we're
going to talk to Chad wing Guard from the Hawthorn
Footy Club and also new SFL president David O Burns.
Sarah Koit will join us as well the WNCL final
(23:23):
hero from this time last week. But next we're switching
our focus to hockey when Kooko Barro's coach Colin Batch,
joins us here on the program right across Tasbury doing
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Speaker 3 (23:36):
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Speaker 2 (23:39):
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Saturday morning, March the fourth, twenty twenty three. We are
turning our attention to hockey now and the Kooko Barro
has got their pro league campaign back on track last
night with a big three goals to Neil win over Argentina.
And this man was at the helm of it. It's
the Kooko Barro's coach, Colin Batch, who's been good enough
(24:00):
to join us nice and early on the water Boys
this morning. Thanks for your time, Colin.
Speaker 10 (24:05):
Yeah, pleasure. Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Great to talk to you mates. As I said, a
bit of a tough start to your time here in Hobart,
but a really nice bounce back win last night. You
must be really waking up this morning.
Speaker 7 (24:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (24:17):
Look, it was a good turnaround. We you know, we
didn't start so well against Argentine on that first game.
We had control of the game and this last quarter
on the Tuesday night we let it slip, so I
thought we played much better against Spain but didn't get
the win, and then to turn it around last night
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and have a win, a good performance all around.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Well, how do you hold the Pro League? I suppose
obviously you got the world chance in the Olympics and
all that sort of thing, where it's the sort of
Pro League sit in all that for you as a coach.
Speaker 10 (24:51):
Yeah, look, it's a good question. We've obviously the Olympics
from the World Cup of the two major tournaments, and
we've just finished the World Cup, so you know, once
upon a time you used to have a break after
the work one of those big events. So we're straight
into Pro League. World couple we finished a month ago,
so we do have a few players missing, a couple
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through injury and a couple that need to work, and
the hockey calendar is very demanding. So Pro League was
set up to actually give hockey a profile right through
the year, and we're getting that. But you know, you
don't always have the top seam sorry, the top players
being available right through the season. It is a long season.
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It actually started in October last year, although this is
our first matches in the Pro League for this coming season,
so it is very demanding. It does give us an
opportunity to expose a few newer players and we've seen
that on this.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Weekend talking to Cooko Bars coach Colin Batch this morning
on the water Boys, Colin, if you can indulge us
with a few Tasmanian connections we've got in the playing group,
And the first one I just wanted to ask you
was the wholly decorated Eddie Hokinen and noticed that obviously
he's moved out of that senior leadership role, but can
you can you bring us some insights into some of
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the conversations that I guess led to that change and
what's sort of been involved in that transition and handover
that no doubt has taken place at the leadership change.
Speaker 10 (26:23):
Yeah, look, Eddie's been co captain with Aaron Zaluski for
four or five years now, and look, we all know
Eddie said such an outstanding career and he's still playing
extremely good hockey. If you just looked at yesterday's game,
he was one of our best again and his World
Cup was very very good as well. So it's not
a case of making it. We made a decision after
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the Comwealth games as a start to say, look, let's
open up the leadership after the World Cup. So it
wasn't a knee jerk reaction on us coming forth at
the World Aaron and Eddie has done a great job.
We just wanted to expand the leadership a little bit,
exposed a couple of players to see if they can
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lead the team in a different way and challenge the
team in a different way. At the moment, Jeremy Hayward's
got that job, but we're not saying in the future either.
We could go to him later on. But what I
hope to do is expose a few players this year
in pro league and then settle on a captain for
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the paras Olympic.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Team and colin a couple of other Tasmayans running around
and really making a mark in the hockey field of
Josh Beltz and Jack Welsh, and we also know Hayden
belt is a very close to the program as well.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Do some commentary on that for our listeners.
Speaker 10 (27:46):
Yeah, look, Josh of course played at Tojio omen Piff
and he's sat on the fringe of the team until
he's really established himself over the last couple of years.
A really good contributor for us. We're playing him in
the midfield at the moment, but he can play a
defensive role as well, and he may do that going forward.
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But look, there's a number of good qualities at Josh
springs to the group and he's very team orientated. I
think that's very fair to say about all the Tasmanis.
They have that real team ethics that we love in
the Koko Barus and Jack Welsh of course he's playing
here and again he sat on the fringe for a
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little while. We believe he's got some great qualities. We
want him to want to see that in him. He's
had some disruption over the last couple of years through
illness and injury, and at the moment he's injury free
and he'll go to India when we leave on Monday
and play in the series there. And of course Josh's
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brother Hayden, he's going to India as well, So that
team does change a little bit with the group going
to India. We played Germany and in year Darren Hayden
will come in as a defensive player in that team.
So again great opportunity to Hayden. He has worked with
his last couple of years without getting an opportunity, so
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he'll be thrilled to join.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
His brother and colin if you can indulge us a
little bit on a personal level too, because we know
a highly decorated player and you own right over one
hundred and seventy matches for the coooker borroughs and medals
at World Cups and Championships trophies. But you've been coaching
for a long time now, having spent some time at
Belgium and New Zealand as well in national capacities. Was
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that something that you were looking to get involved in
even in the back end of your playing career or
did coaching come post I guess after a period of
time away from the game.
Speaker 8 (29:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (29:46):
Look, I think it's reflective on the sporting landscape. When
I was playing, I had no thought of being becoming
a professional coach. In fact, you know, it really didn't exist.
It wasn't until the nineties that you know, the AI
started to establish national coaches and programs started to be
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well funded, so you had to trickle down effect from
the national coaching structure. Then we had the state institute
coaches that were being paid and working full time, so
I didn't really have a plan after I finished playing,
and you know that that's definitely something that we try
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and take care of now through various work that the
institute's are doing to look after player's career once they
finished playing. So yeah, I've had an unbelievable experience. I
was assistant coach for eight years under Barry Dancer. Of
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course we won the Athens gold medal and then it
was a bit of bidding Limbaro. I had an opportunity
to go over to Belgium and coached then and that
was great experience and I was part of that young
Belgium group that now won a goal Olympic gold medal
and a World Cup gold medal unfortunately at our expense.
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And then the opportunity to come to come closer to
home and terrific experience being in New Zealand and New
Zealand just like Australia, Australia with their lover's sport. And
then fortunately in twenty seventeen I was off at the
Ozzie job, so it was pleasure to come back and
be part of this program again.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Absolutely, Colin quick On before we let you go, Eddie
Hockenhan back to ed, how long can this great man
keep playing hockey for? Do you think he's obviously earmarked
at Paris for But his longevity's quite outstanding, isn't it
in hockey?
Speaker 10 (31:47):
Yeah, it's incredible. And look, you know you don't like
saying this, but he's hardly been injured along the way.
You know, he does look after his body extremely well.
He's been blessed in.
Speaker 7 (31:57):
Some ways, but he does do a lot of work
away from the ground. Look, I remember having a conversation
to him when I took over, and it was along
this line that he said. I said, do you want
to go to Tokyo? Use at your aim? And he said, yeah,
I definitely want to go to Tokyo, but I don't
see that as a finish. So now we're heading up
to Paris. We're not fifteen months out or sixteen months
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out from Paris. Look, he's playing extremely well. He's one
who is still one of the best defenders in the world,
and he's still getting forward and creating some opportunity in
the front half of the ground. So I don't know
when he's going to finish. It could be at Paris,
it could be a bit later. But he's had tremendous
sport support from his family. He's got three young boys
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which are keeping his partner Lou very busy and she's
been a great support. But just the people that he
knows and the family around Hobart, he has a tremendous
support and that's very important for players that want to
have an international career.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Absolutely, it's been great to catch up with you this morning.
We do appreciate your time, particularly on game day and
you've got Spain later today for your final match here
in Hobart, so all the very best for that and
thanks very much for joining us on the water Boys
this morning.
Speaker 10 (33:11):
Yeah, thanks boys, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Really appreciate it. Colm Batch, the coach of the Kooka Bar,
is joining us. Really appreciate his time on game day.
That wraps up a big first out of the show
this morning. We've got plenty more for you too though.
In extra time. Sarah Cooit, the Tigers WNC ol final hero,
will join us. We'll talk footy two with New SFL
president David O'Byrne and Hawthorne footy club player chad Win
Guard and Steve Devree will join us on the Tasmani
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at Pacing Club to wind up the show. That's all
coming up for you in our two of the water
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Speaker 3 (33:42):
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Speaker 2 (33:46):
Well, really big first out of the show this morning.
We've got plenty more still to come here in extra time,
as we always do. Though before we get to that, though,
let's go through the overnight scores. Brownie Footy results.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
Please Yeah Footy results. Three matches and killed A ten
seven sixty seven defeated Essenon three fourteen thirty two. Jack
Higgins with three goals for the Saints Sydney fifteen seven
ninety seven. They were led by three goals and forty
five possessions from Errol Gordon defeated Carlton seven twelve fifty four.
T As you watch, Lucky Cown pretty solid and had
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some nice moments ten possessions in that game off half
back for the Blues West Coast seven ten fifty two
were trounced by Adelaide seventeen nine one hundred and eleven
four goals each to Fogglety and Keys, an unlikely multiple
goal scorer in that game. NBL Game one of the
finals last night and upset Brent. New Zealand ninety five
defeated Sydney, who were playing at home eighty seven. Just
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eight points for Xavier Cook, so they'll be looking for
him to bounce back in game two on Sunday, and
they were led by mcdale white nineteen points, nine rebounds,
nine assists and one of your favorites, Barry Brown Junior,
also had nineteen points for New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
I do like Barry Brown Junior as a player. He's
again a league. Last night Adelaide upset Melbourne City four
goals to two Ossie's. Of course it's a non wicket
win over in India, which was a great result. The
Tigers in a bit of strife against wa in the
Sheffield h We're resumed today one for twenty seven, still
trailing the Warriors first innings titled by one hundred and thirty.
And in the hockey last night it was Argentina won
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the hockey rus and nil and the Koka Bars three
bouncing back against Argentina zero hey big for second hour
coming up here. Lots of footy on the show. David
I Burned, the USFL president will join us as we'll
chad Win Guard from Hawthorne. But up next we're talking
to the Tasmanian Tiger's new cult hero. The WNCL final
hero Sarah Court joined us on the show. Can't wait
to talk to her. Thanks to Tasmack your local Commuta deala,
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Speaker 3 (35:40):
Here's the water Boys.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Thanks to Tasmack your local Commuta dealer. It is the
water Boys with Brent Costello and Cam Brown for you
Saturday morning.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
It's the water Boys.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Cricket report, Well Brownie. This time last week it was
quite extraordinary what took place at Bluntson Arena, with Tasmania
pulling off a remarkable week over South Australia in the
final of the w NCL. If you've been living under
a rock and you haven't heard the highlights, here is
the closing stages of the game. She faces Sarah coit.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
It's down the wicket and she.
Speaker 11 (36:13):
Is bold is stopped. She's out, She's out. She's been
stupped by Ammatix Jeeves.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Can you believe this? Can you believe it? And she
hits it hard out again. Can you believe this?
Speaker 11 (36:26):
Can you believe it? That is ricochet off the outstretched
hand off Sarah kit.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Well, now she's hit again on the pants. She how
she's out? This is extraordinary. This is extraordinary. It's quite
Simochhan week and she hits it hard. It's up to
mid off. It's a single and a rope enough.
Speaker 11 (36:46):
But Tigers have what They've gone back to back?
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Can you believe that.
Speaker 11 (36:51):
They have gone back to back in the most dramatic circumstances.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
A great call by Peter Newlan's there. It's hard to
see something like that happening again. But the person that
was the star of all that is Sarah Coit, who's
been good enough to join us on the water Boys
this morning. Firstly, Sarah, congratulations and hearing all that back,
does it feel like a bit of a dream?
Speaker 7 (37:15):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (37:15):
It does.
Speaker 12 (37:16):
Actually, I still get goosebumps when I listen to those
commentators and when I watch it back and see the
group at the end of that last war just running
in and jumping. So that was the best feeling I
think I've had in a really long time.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Yeah, it's pretty amazing. And even speaking to someone like
Molly Strato during the week, who's played a lot of cricket.
She said she's never been involved in anything like that
before and probably the whole lot of her career.
Speaker 12 (37:41):
Would you agree with that, Yeah, I mean a lot
of us definitely haven't been involved in that, and we
probably won't for another few years or hopefully.
Speaker 8 (37:50):
A long time.
Speaker 12 (37:51):
I know, I don't even want to be involved in
that again. So to have that as Molly's career highlight
is huge. I mean, Molly was a huge part of
our success as well throughout the entire year. And Molly
took those two well two key LBWs and had an
early run out of her bowling, so she's been crucial
for us this whole year as well.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Take us back to the start of that last over.
I guess firstly to be and trusted to bowl that
final over, But did you give yourself a chance and
think in the back of your mind that you can
do this, because obviously everyone thought South Australia would probably
hit the winning runs and to be all over. But
did you just have to back yourself into that situation?
Speaker 1 (38:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (38:29):
I think you know, if you if you doubt yourself,
then you're definitely going to lose the game. And you know,
I guess I guess there were elemented doubt, but I
think I was honestly fueled by rage at that point
that had gotten to this point in the game. So
alis Lani threw me the ball, and I'm grateful for that,
but she sort of just said, what are you going
to do? I said, that's to bowl the stunts and
we're not losing this game because I just thought for
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our entire season to come down to this one over
and this Duckworth Lewis system.
Speaker 8 (38:58):
It was.
Speaker 12 (38:58):
Yeah, I was raging. So I'm a very competitive person
as well, and I knew that if I executed in
those conditions the bass skitting on, it's hard to hit
the softball as well, So if I executed, and you know,
it's not easy in a game situation like that to
actually hit four runs off the over, especially when people
want to do it in one hit. So I think
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a bit of ego or potatuary, maybe some heroics got
in the way of, say winning that game, but it
also probably comes down to a bit of big game
experience and perhaps they haven't had as much as we've
had or been under pressure like that. So yeah, we
ended up getting.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Away with it.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
Sarah, I read with interest some of the commentary that
you provided during the week to media outlets, and it
said that you'd actually bring in conversations with your coach,
Jude Coleman, now about how you would execute that last
day over. Now, was that something had happened during the
night or is that something that you'd planned. If you're
in this particular scenario, this would be what you do.
Speaker 12 (40:01):
We'd sort of chatted on and off throughout the night
about the situations, what the ball was starting to do,
and we wanted we originally want to take a lot
of pace off the ball. And I said to Jude,
I can't bowl pays off right now because I can't
grip it. The ball had actually the scene was actually trash.
So if I was going to bowl back of the head,
I said, it's probably going to hit her in the head.
So I have to go under the bat and I
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have to skip the ball on otherwise we're going to
be in some trouble. So we discussed what the fields
would look like in those last three overs, and yeah,
she just trusted me to go under the bat and
to do whatever I could to get a further the line.
Speaker 4 (40:39):
One of the well, they're all pivotal wickets in that
last over. But can I ask you about the runout
at the bowlers in Sarah, because your indoor cricket background,
and there was a suggestion that maybe that was deliberate
and obviously from the years of playing indoor cricket, that's
a skill in itself to be able to, I guess,
deflect the ball in the right way at the right moment,
at the right time. Did it Is that a bit
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of like or was it genuine planning on your behalf?
Speaker 12 (41:05):
Look, I think it was a bit of luck, a
bit of planning, Like I have done it at training
throughout the year, and normally I don't usually stop the
ball off my own bowling. Anyway, there's a running joke
that I never usually feeled off my own bowling, so
I was trying to handle it. But I think in
that particular moment it just it literally just came down
to instinct and yeah, the underlying skill of being able.
Speaker 8 (41:26):
To do that.
Speaker 12 (41:27):
So, I mean, I watched it back and I was
saying to my family, I said, oh, it looks like
I really did mean to do that. But I mean,
from what the girls have told me on the field,
that I actually hit it actually quite hard and I
didn't think she did so.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (41:41):
I think it was a bit of luck but also
a bit of underlying skill to know that I had
that in the in my arf law of weapons to
be able to do so. I think it was a
combination of both.
Speaker 4 (41:51):
Yeah, fantastic, And we also saw that the girls had
a great week of celebrations. There were some dress ups
taking place. Who got the votes off the.
Speaker 12 (41:59):
Field thay, I think Molly started always will get the vote.
The tiger theme was Molly's idea and she will always
go all out and she actually helped a lot of
the other girls as well with their costumes. So it
was a really good It was a really good celebration
for us over the couple of days that we that
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we were all together.
Speaker 2 (42:22):
Yeah, she said, self appointed chair of the celebration committee
and the only member of the committee too. I think
Molly absolutely love as a party. Hey Serah, congratulations, it
was unbelievable to watch and can't wait to see you
guys back in action again. Try and go for the
three peat next season. It will be pretty something, pretty special.
Thanks for joining us on the water Boys this morning.
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Really appreciate it. Thanks so much there she goes Sarah
Coy to a star that last day over Branny will
go down in Tasmania and sporting history is one of
our great moments.
Speaker 4 (42:51):
That was I've never seen anything like that on the
sporting field before, have you.
Speaker 7 (42:55):
No.
Speaker 4 (42:56):
I think Sarah's quite right too. Respectively, South Australia tried
to perhaps there are emotions and adrenaline got the better
of them and not looked like.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
You know, two or three of the batters.
Speaker 4 (43:07):
We're just trying to finish it in one hit in
pind So I think they would have gone about a
different way. But that's not taking anything away from Sarah
and her exploits in that final labor.
Speaker 3 (43:16):
It was stunning.
Speaker 2 (43:17):
Got a feel for the Sackers. We've beten them twice
now in two years.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
And to go to we feel for them, go one
feel for us.
Speaker 2 (43:25):
Courtney Weave in particular Tasmanian Girl a very good season
player of the year of course, so anyway we'll take
the title absolutely. Hey, we've got a big show still
to come here this morning. Lots of footy on the way.
Chad wing Guard from Hawthorne's not too far away. But
up next we're talking with the new SFL president, David O'Byrne.
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Speaker 1 (43:55):
It's in our time for the water Boys. Regional Footy
round up.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
Yeah, plenty going on in local footy and the big
news during the week is that the SFL has a
new president and a name very familiar to our listeners
out there in radio land. It is David o'byrn who's
been good enough to join us on the show this morning.
Good morning David, welcome back to the water Boys.
Speaker 13 (44:15):
Yeah morning lads, Yeah, thanks for having me back. It's
been a big week in footy, as.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
I say, yeah absolutely. Tell us the attraction for you
about becoming the sfl's new president.
Speaker 13 (44:27):
Well, I think footy has been a big part of
my life and I played it. I made some of
my best friendships and you know, you learn from your
best life lessons as a part of footy, and when
you've got something that's been so important in your life,
and you've got an opportunity to give back to the
game and help out and play a role. And I
think there are some big, big decisions and some work
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ahead of Ozzie ruled in Tazzy over the next couple
of years. I thought, when a number of people came
to me and said that, you know, they wanted me
to get involved, I thought, well, let's give it a crack.
And it's been quite humbling to get the support of
the clubs and the executive and take on the role.
It's quite exciting.
Speaker 3 (45:07):
Ab Brownie here, thanks for joining us, Maiden.
Speaker 4 (45:09):
I guess in some of the initial conversations when you
step towards the role, and obviously knowing it's only a
small sample size, but what do you see already as
some of the major challenges and also, if you can
flip that a little bit, where are the opportunities to
progress sfl moving forward.
Speaker 13 (45:26):
Yeah, it's a good question, Brownie. I think to start with,
the league's in pretty good shape. It's very financial. Three
years ago it was going through some struggling times, but
thanks to thanks to the sponsors and if I can
give them a quick plug, we've got some great sponsors
at the SFL. We've got Banjo's ID closing clean, It's
might attend l J. Hooker, Pinnacle real Estate, and also
(45:50):
we've got Human Agriculture on board. Having a good sponsors
underpinning the financials of the league has been very important
and of course the AFL tas made at AFL has
been very supporting. So that's the start. With The challenges
for the SFL are pretty clear. I think most codes
are struggling with volunteers, they're struggling with participation. There's a
whole lot of challenges out there for young kids and
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young adults, and it's really important that we can create
really good cultures, really good environments, and a fun environment
for people to come along and get involved in some
really fantastic clubs. I think, you know, the embracing the
clubs that have embraced the women's game have really leaped ahead.
It really has in some cases. It wouldn't be too
(46:33):
much of an exaggeration to say that in some cases
the women's game and the involvement of women in their
club has saved their club in terms of not only
their culture, but just in terms of numbers around the ground,
numbers in terms of volunteers and all of the things
that come with having more players and more people involving
your club. So I think that's been fantastic, But again
(46:54):
it's volunteers. It actually is about making sure that we
can get the players coming through, and particularly you know
Branny in the junior space. There's a whole lot of
competition for young athletes and the jack jumpers, and I'm
a big fan of the jack jumpers. But there's a
lot of people who are looking at playing basketball, etc.
And we think that's fantastic as long as they're active
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is I think ultimately is important. But it is important
for Ozzie Rules clubs to really create that pathway from
juniors and get the numbers up again.
Speaker 3 (47:25):
David A.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
Berne, the new SFL president, is our guest on the
water Boys this morning. You've come into a bit of
a headache, David, with the Hobart Footy Club. Obviously they're
in a bit of a situation at the moment as
far as players go, a bit like Glenorchy in the TCL.
What's the latest situation out of Highbart at the moment.
Speaker 7 (47:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (47:42):
Look, I think any club in any code that losers
a senior coach, and some players within the shadow of
the season would find that a challenging circumstance. Hobart's a
proud club, It's got an amazing history, and I know
over the last couple of weeks a number of people
have really put their hand up to help Josh and
the club out. I'm talking to Josh regularly. There's been
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a number of meetings and I'm confident that they'll be
making an announcement very soon on a senior coach and
a senior coaching panel which reflects a really professional approach
to the challenges they face, and I'm confident that they'll,
you know, they'll love start the season, probably not where
they wanted to be, but they'll be getting off to
the season in a very competitive way. So I'm very
hopeful that we can get.
Speaker 3 (48:26):
Over that hump and IBE.
Speaker 4 (48:28):
We're probably looking at a changing landscape potentially in footy
in this state, and we talk about it tas May
and AFL team, but also the TSL competition and what
that might look like going forward and if that rolls
back and potentially some clubs that might come back into
your competition. Do you look at that in some of
your strategic and future forecasting, planning and those sorts of things.
Speaker 3 (48:53):
Yeah, or do you leave that alone and naturally evolve
that as it comes to play.
Speaker 13 (48:58):
I think it's partly a combination of But in talking
to the executive and the board, they've already started to
get their head around what that may look like if
the state wide league doesn't continue on not only the
end of this year, but potentially the end.
Speaker 8 (49:12):
Of next year.
Speaker 13 (49:12):
So the SFL has had a number of discussions internally
about how that may look how we respond, because ultimately
it's not about one league versus another. This is about
football in Tasmania and the help of football, particularly in
the south of the state. I mean football, you know,
it's an ecosystem, and if one club is struggling, or
if one league is struggling, and that means everyone struggling.
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So we do need to make sure that we get
any future structure right so that those clubs that want
to play at a high level can play at a
higher level and those players can really test themselves in
that competition. But also ensure that we have a really good,
strong community league and community grass roots clubs that reflect
their community and there is a place for everyone in
our game, and I think it's crucially important that we
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find a structure that works that people can get excited about.
And look, I think with some of the work that's
been done in the media and marketing at the SFL
over the last couple of years has been fantastic. The
profile has lifted. There are some wonderful stories in those
clubs about volunteers and great players or people that just
love their club. They have been profiled and it's been
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quite exciting. So I'm actually quite excited about what that brings.
And I think there's a lot of people who are
looking for a bit of certainty in football in terms
of where they play week in, week out and which
club they're a part of and want to be a
part of. So so in answer to your question, in short, Browning,
it is something that the league has looked at, has
got some pretty clear ideas, but again who knows now,
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As they say, weeks a long time in, who knows
what happens. You know, if there's a funding changes, there's
nice all license, we've got to be prepared for everything.
But there's a lot of good will around the table
to make so football can thrive in the.
Speaker 2 (50:50):
South before I let you go, David Abern your former
Labor Caucus colleagues continue to rally against the stadium. Of course,
and you've come into this role in the SFL obviously
one to AFL team, so you've sort of got no
choice but to back the stadium. So you're for the stadium.
Can we clarify that?
Speaker 13 (51:06):
Well, let's be clear about this. I think our governments
have got a whole lot of responsibilities in health, housing,
education and taking advantage of opportunities that big opportunities in
infrastructure to create jobs, et cetera. Problem is with this government.
I think they've got to really bring people along along
with them on the journey, and I think they're struggling
to do that at the minute. But at the end
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of the day, around the table of the SFL, it's
very very clear we need a license. We need a
team that will be the shot in the arm of
the code needs in Tasmania and in some cases you
know football won't die, but with an RFL team will thrive.
The ARFL have made it clear if we want to,
if we want a team, they put on the table
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a stadium and as long as that's on the table,
we have to support it because football and Tasmania need
to need that AFL team. I think we all love
those that love footing, want to get a Tasy team,
want to see the map around. Yeah, I'm a passion
of Collingwood fan and I'll always be a member of
Collingand but I'll be a member of the Tazzy team.
And I know the next generations of Tasmanians are coming through,
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they won't have the Victorian based team that they love.
They love the Tazzy team and so I think this
is a real moment in time and it's a very
political debate at the minute. But at the end of
the day, the ifell of made it clear and I
think we just need to get the state and federal
governments to work it out, find the best solution to
deliver us a license and.
Speaker 2 (52:27):
The club just quickly. Obviously, Beck White and Josh William
Dan Winter firmly against the stadium. Do you think there
are people within the Labor Party though, that are supportive
and want to say a stadium built in Hobert.
Speaker 13 (52:40):
I think there's a diversity of views around around the
footy landscape and around the community about this. People are
strongly for it, they're strongly against it. I think at
the end of the day, it's up to governments to
try and find a way to work out what is
the best solution. The I fill of made it clear.
They put this on the table and that's that's the
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landscape at the minute. So it's just one of those
things that Taggy seems to be very good at finding
issues to divide us on. I'm hopeful that we can
find our way through and we can we can land it.
Speaker 2 (53:11):
Well mate, good luck, a big job ahead. Note out
with the presidency of the SFL. But you do a
great job on short Thanks so much for joining us
on the water Boys and have a great waken Yeah.
Speaker 13 (53:21):
Thanks, thanks Brownie, all the best guys.
Speaker 2 (53:22):
Very nice. David A. Burne, the new SFL president, joining
us on the water Boys this morning. Looking forward to
seeing how he goes in the top job. The footy
talk continues next year on the show when Hawthorne Footy
club player Chad Wingard joins us right after this on
the water Boys. Thanks to tas Mac your local Comboda dealer,
he is the water Boys. Thanks to Tasmac, your local
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Comboda dealer. It is the water Boys with brancos Elo
and Cam Brown. Our next guest this morning, has played
two hundred and four AFL games, one hundred and forty
seven of those with Port Adelaide and the rest with
his current club Hawthorne. He's kicked two hundred and thirty
two goals across his career and as one of the
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AFL's most consistent small forwards. On Thursday night, he was
here in Tasmania playing for the Hawks against Collingwood in
a preseason clash at Utaz Stadium. Chad Wingard, Welcome to
the water Boys.
Speaker 14 (54:15):
No thanks.
Speaker 2 (54:15):
Having the pleasure is ours mate, and welcome back to
Tazzy as well. It's a place you spent some time
over the last three or four years. Do you enjoy
coming down here?
Speaker 14 (54:23):
Yeah, definitely love coming down because he's probably one of
the best decks in the AFL. Obviously very pristine over
but also we have a very good record down it.
As you've heard, it's a very yeah, obviously great place
to play it.
Speaker 2 (54:37):
That's great to hear now back on Thursday night. Unfortunately
a loss to Collingwood, but you guys showed some pretty
good signs. Only a six point loss in the end.
Speaker 14 (54:45):
Yeah, obviously watching the game. We didn't start that well,
but the boys, to their credit, we came back and
for the whole game and made it a close contest.
Could have win either way, but just improve it from
a week and a few of the young guys really
stepped up. And I think the most important thing is
a lot of players brew with confidence but also with
their sense of belonging there sol So it's a good
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game for us to build up into the season for
around one.
Speaker 2 (55:11):
Yeah, definitely, And of course you're one of the senior
players of the team. Now it's no secret some of
the players you've lost over the off season. How do
you think you're going twenty twenty three.
Speaker 14 (55:20):
Yeah, it's going to be a year. We're just going
to have to keep getting better each session, each week,
and like I said, some of the young boys is
going to have to like it's going to be probably
up and down. Hopefully we can just really improve as
quick as we can. Yeah, it's going to be hard,
and I don't want to put a ceiling on it
or have any guesses of how we're going to go,
because you just really don't and each year is different.
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But we've got an exciting brand of footy that we're
going to try to play and some young kids that
have got some great talent and now they've got the
opportunity to really shine Hawthorne start.
Speaker 2 (55:50):
Chad Winguard is our guest on the water Boys this morning. Chad,
what about the new regime under Sam Mitchell. Are you
enjoying playing under him? And what about some of the
differences I guess between him and our ste Clarkson.
Speaker 14 (56:01):
Yeah, both great coaches. Obviously sam he's in his start
of his coaching career and obviously Clarko has been around
for a long time. But they both have their different
views and it's both very interesting. And Sammy's been really
great as well, obviously being a great player himself and
seeing around being around so much success. Obviously he's going
to be vital for us to try and chase that
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as well. So we're trying to learn as much from
him as we can, and having a young coach obviously
not that long out of the game, understands what it's like,
and probably that's probably one of the strongest I suppose
Chase that he has is that he's not long out
of the game and understands it very well.
Speaker 2 (56:39):
Yeah. Absolutely, how about your campaign coming up in twenty
twenty three. Made any major goals you lot to tick off?
Speaker 14 (56:44):
Personally, I've never been much one to like personal goals,
but a lot of them it's just based around availability,
just making sure that I give myself the best opportunity
to play every week. Obviously missed the second half of
last year from injury and it's not fun washing from
the sidelines and helping your team. So a lot of
my personal goals like it just based around being available
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for the team and then just trying to help help
the young young players get better as quick as possible
and just hold those standards.
Speaker 2 (57:11):
You mentioned about missing chunk of footy there last year.
How has the precesson been for you and do you
feel like your body is ready to rock and roll.
Speaker 14 (57:19):
Yeah, I've had a Yeah. I had probably one of
the bettert most case in my legs in this preseason.
Had a little bit of a hickup, but didn't miss
any running, just had a bit of a download week
for a week or two and just really built across
the preseason. So very happy with and that's thanks to
the sports science crew at Hawthorn with Peter Burch coming
on and obviously Barton Aisio group just getting me rights
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for training. So yeah, feeling any good headspace as well,
which is the main point for a lot of athletes
as well. It's the physical and mental. So feeling really
good to try and tackle on what happened this year
and just take it day by day.
Speaker 2 (57:54):
Star Hawk Chad wing Guard is our guest on the
water Boys this morning. Chad, as I mentioned off the
top of the interview, you around one hundred and fifty
games for Port Adelaide. Do you feel like you're a
real Hawthorne man now or because you've played so much
over there with the power you still got that I
guess emotional attachment to the club.
Speaker 14 (58:10):
Yeah, it's just kind of hard. It feels like a
lot of time ago when I was playing.
Speaker 3 (58:14):
At Howdon.
Speaker 14 (58:16):
Yeah, fool very much at home that Hawthorne here and
felt like I've been taken in and felt part of
the family. And although I didn't get drafted, here just
feels very home to me. And I think that's it's
probably easy to say now that I'm still here, but
probably a question enough to answer and I retire. But
I definitely feel, obviously at the moment that Hawthorne is
a place where I want to be and I think
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I've personally had a lot of personal growth being at
this club, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (58:40):
Of course, Thursday night was your last preseason hit out
before the season proper starts. That you got acedent in
round one at the MCGE. They had a lost too overnight,
So how do you think that match shapes up?
Speaker 14 (58:50):
Its pretty hard to know, so you don't get the
luxury've seen too many practice matches these days. Obviously, one
of the practice matches is very much a trial everyone
and see how you're going, and then probably only get
one real crack before Round one obviously is this week,
so it's kind of hard to know where everyone's at.
Obviously you get kind of based on what they did
last year. But we're just going to focus on what
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we can bring to the table. And it's just a
tough and attacking footy that where we put ourselves on
and just try and use our use to advantage, really
try and run teams off the ground and yeah, trying
to create that energy. So hopefully we have a good
start for the year, and I know we're traveling a bit,
but it's just exciting times. We'll just take a week while.
Speaker 2 (59:32):
We're and just finally, Chad wind not long until we
see you back here in Tasmania either, because you've got
the North Melbourne Footy Club in round three and the
Tazzy Dhabi at UTAs Stadium.
Speaker 14 (59:42):
Yeah, exactly a right, and it's always excited to play
down here. And like I said, we have a great record,
we always get a good turnout and we feel the
love and support down here a Tazi, So the boys
always can't wait to get down here and hopefully more
times than none we get the job done. So hopefully
we can get get North Melbourne done and season off
really well well.
Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
Chad, good luck mate, all the very best that we know.
You've got a young, exciting list at the club this
season that means a bright future is ahead for the Hawks.
Really appreciate your time on the water Boys this morning
and good luck for the start of the season.
Speaker 14 (01:00:13):
Thank you. Thanks me.
Speaker 2 (01:00:14):
There he goes chadwing Guard at one of the Stars
the AFL competition, joining us on the water Boys this morning.
We are almost done here on the water Boys for
another episode, but up next we announce the next winner
of our good Sport Award and also catch up with
Steve Devro from the Tasmani and Pacing Club ahead of
a big month of harness racing coming up. That's next
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Speaker 3 (01:00:36):
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Speaker 1 (01:00:44):
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Speaker 2 (01:00:51):
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Speaker 4 (01:01:07):
Best nomination from Angus mc sporen and it goes to
Nick Seiss.
Speaker 7 (01:01:11):
Now.
Speaker 4 (01:01:12):
Nick is involved in the sport of golf. He's become
an avid, avid golf fan of late, taking up the
game only in the last few years. He's reduced his
golf handicap and developed the great passion for all things
fairway and green. So congratulations to Nick Seiss this week.
Speaker 2 (01:01:28):
So this is a very famous name in Tasmania and
in footy in particular. It'd be some related that the
Great Graham has.
Speaker 3 (01:01:35):
To be somewhere along the line.
Speaker 2 (01:01:37):
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if you like to dominate someone for our Good Sport Award,
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wonderful job in the local sporting community. I too, who's
doing a wonderful job is our next guest Cam It's
Steve Devreux from the Tasmania Pacing Club. They've got a
big month ahead of big races right here in Tasmania.
Good morning, Steve, Welcome back to the water Boys, Hey mate,
how are you. We're going beautifully, thank you. As I said,
a busy time ahead for you. You've got the big one
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hundred and fifty thousand dollars tasbany A Cup coming up,
the final on Saturday, March eighteen. It should be a
beauty mate.
Speaker 8 (01:02:27):
Yeah, mate's the only Group one horse race in the state.
We've only got two Group one races, one Gray and
one and one Fannas one. So here it's a big
month and we're kicking off with a full field in
the first team this Sunday, so yeah, all good.
Speaker 2 (01:02:40):
Very nice. So what's the sort of mix of local
interstate horses look like in that one?
Speaker 8 (01:02:45):
There's a couple of inter status in the first team,
but what generally as We've got a second heat next
Friday night, so they genuinly come over for that. I've
heard on the Great Vine there's probably half a doesen't coming,
so yeah, it should be a good race.
Speaker 4 (01:02:58):
Talking to Steve Devro this morning from the Tasmanian Pacing
Club on the Water Boys, Steve not that's not the
only big race too, You've got the George Johnson coming up.
Speaker 8 (01:03:07):
Yeah, we've ran read a couple of heats for the
George Johnson this year to get sure full field and
mostly they're all locals. We've got one freemas Stewart's won
the heat last week and so it'll probably start favorite.
But that's certainly some good local mayors going around, so
that might be there to turn this year to knock
that race off.
Speaker 2 (01:03:25):
How is the sport going at the moment in Tazi State.
Speaker 8 (01:03:29):
Oh yeah, most tiken along. We've got pretty big numbers
every week, a bit of domination from one stable, but
the stake money is through the roof, to be honest.
There's plenty of money around for young horses and and
older horses too, So yeah, hopefully we get people chasing up,
getting in some syndicates and getting into a bit of
ownership and enjoy the ride.
Speaker 2 (01:03:50):
Very nice. Now, what's in store for Tasmania cap And
I know you've got a big function there with a
couple of very handsome, talented mcs. But what else sappening
that night for the family and things?
Speaker 8 (01:04:01):
Oh, face painting and all the usual stuff. Made a
few games for the kids. Yeah, just generally a bit
of a fun night. We tried to make it a
bit relaxed this year and hopefully. Well, I know I've
got mone name, so he locked in, but the other
ones will be dodgy. I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (01:04:16):
Speaking of big shaped Blair Browns, I did speak to
him yesterday and confirmed he will be taking part, so
we'll see how that goes. We've still got a couple
of weeks for a round to pull the pin, so
the ticket sales must be going through the roof for
that particular function. No, we haven't even advertised we're going
to be there yet, but they began, well won't they.
Speaker 8 (01:04:32):
Yeah, I got the two thirds of the water Boys there,
brown one.
Speaker 3 (01:04:38):
Going around one to Unfortunately I would have been there.
Speaker 2 (01:04:41):
I would have been that would have sold more tickets
if the bee Dog was coming on board.
Speaker 8 (01:04:47):
Well maybe next time, mate.
Speaker 2 (01:04:48):
May Hey, good to have you on the board this morning, Steve.
We'll catch up with your son, mate, but all the
best for a big about the head of harness racing.
Thanks for joining us on the water Boys. Thank you
Steve from the Tasmania Club. Before we wind up running,
let's have a quick look at the remaining games in
the preseason fixtures for the AFL. We've got the two
expansion clubs. I say that loosely because they've been around
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for a wall now. GWS and Gold Coast twelve ten
the Sathoon, so early start for this one that Blacktown
by look of it. What do you think about this
g Dows and Gold Coast and their chances in season
twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4 (01:05:22):
I think GWS will probably have a slight dip. I
would have thought Brent Dean and some of the players
have lost will hurt them coming out of the organization
in twenty twenty two. In Gold Coast, I think we'll
move up the ladder, not sure how far, but their
natural progression should see them being in contention.
Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
I would have thought for the finals.
Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
I can't wait for this one. Your doggies up against
North MELBM and are really interested to see how North
melmon and go under Clark Hoh and if they look
any different and just yeah, what they can to look
like in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4 (01:05:49):
Clubs even often get a bounce with a new coach,
but North Melbourne are coming from a fairway back. Would
be fair to say, I actually think the Bulldogs and
you're going to say you say this most years oping
the Bulldog's list, they're one of half a dozen clubs
that realistically, if everything goes right, could be a chance
to win the premiership.
Speaker 2 (01:06:07):
I am staggered by that from you. What happened last year?
Speaker 4 (01:06:12):
I think I think they've got a strong I think
they've recruited. Well they haven't actually, to be fair, we'll
see how we go, all right.
Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
I'll say, hang famous.
Speaker 4 (01:06:21):
One that you put out on the five hundredth episode, Brent,
when I said I named the year in advance.
Speaker 3 (01:06:27):
You actually did two years out. I might add, well,
I do.
Speaker 2 (01:06:30):
Take the p double five, Matt, but you did actually
do that. And the final game of its ten past
four to Casey Fields Melbourne and Richmond. Looking forward to
seeing these two teams shows well.
Speaker 4 (01:06:39):
Two teams that many football pundits would have in the
top four. So that should be a really interesting game should.
Speaker 2 (01:06:45):
In day that's a big show down and dust is
what's your weekend look like? Place?
Speaker 3 (01:06:49):
I don't know what's the dogs isn't and in my
mood will.
Speaker 2 (01:06:54):
Be go to bed. It's a really game. Well it's
out at four o'clock.
Speaker 3 (01:07:00):
On media van for the weekend. If we'll be out
and about spooking.
Speaker 2 (01:07:04):
That's the horn of voice for this Saturday morning. Great
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Good morning everyone, Welcome to the water Boys for another
super Saturday of sports at Brent Costelo with you and
sitting opposite me today it's a big welcome back to
cam Brown. How are you, Bronie.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Going well this morning, Brenchie.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
There's some big scores that we've got to get through
overnight as well as our show today. Brent's two hours
coming up.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
We roll in and some days we've got one or
two scores to get through, but plenty going on overnight.
Run me through what you've got, Plase.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Well, we'll start with the NBL which is Game one
in the final series. Brentan an upset in Sydney. Sydney
were defeated by New Zealand. New Zealand ninety five to
Sydney eighty seven. That's huge humssive result because Sydney would
have gone in as heavy favorites in that one. It
sets up now Game two in New Zealand on Sunday four,
o'clock our time.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Big.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
It's a huge result and not a lot of people
like the Kings, Brownie, so I think a lot of
people will be happy with that. They wake up on
this Saturday morning.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
New Zealand.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
I don't know what you saw the game. They just came
out right from the word go and they were on song.
Sydney made a charge at them, but they really steadied.
They did, and it was a very mature performance by
New Zealand. Sets them up really really well.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
It was in They had some footy last night as well.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Yeah, three matches last night. In the preseason match sin
killed at ten seven sixty seven defeated a disappointing essenon
three fourteen thirty two. I know you were personally very
disappointed with that. You might have had some personal investment
in that match.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Well, you just think Esiden might suddenly become a good
team under a new coach and you know, fresh start,
but not there worst Brownie.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Yeah, they were disappointing last night, no doubt about that.
Sydney fifteen seven ninety seven defeated Carlton seven twelve fifty four.
Errol Gordon, I don't know where they called his game
three goals and forty possessions.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
One hundred and eighty fantasy points too. That's a huge fantasy.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Of course, some want to go on the early craze
only twenty, but I reckon, you know, sort of towards
the back end of the season, we could be talking
about him being in an All.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Australian squad or something like that.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
He's a star.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
And the final game.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Disappointing result last night for West Coast Eagles seven ten
fifty two against Adelaide seventeen to nine one hundred and eleven.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
You seeing in that game, Brenn, I can't watch off
the hook there. I watched all of it.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Ordinary Brownie Ordinary talked to you on the phone earlier
in the evening. I said, I think will be better
than people think, but they haven't got off to the best.
That starts the Eagles. But anyway, we might talk about
that a little bit later in the show hockey last night.
Hockey of course in Hobart this week and the hockey
rows unfortunately went down one Niel to Argentina. Better news
for the Crooko bar is a three goals to Neil
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win over Argentina. They play their final games today against
Spain will talk to Colin Batch later in the showt
the Kooko bars coach, which is going to be really exciting.
Sheffield Shield overnight Tasmania trailing by one hundred and thirty.
He runs against way In at second innings where one
for twenty seven stops Wards the out batsman so far
five dual twenty one and Dora and one of the
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unbeaten batsman at the crease. So a lot of work
to do there for the Tigers get themselves back in
that game and must win too if you want to
be any chance of making the final. A good win
for Australia and the Cricket Brownie. I was a bit
worried about the chase yesterday, a tricky chase, but we
got there in the end by nine wickets, no problems
at all. Usmand Kahwaja and the batsman out for a
duck and head forty nine. Labashane twenty eight got the
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job done for us NRL. Last night. Brisbane a big
upset against Penrith in the opening round of the season
thirteen points to twelve, and the earlier gave New Zealand
twenty against Newcastle twelve and a big upset set in
the A League last night I say upset. It was
second place Adelaide United defeating Melbourne City four goals to two.
So that separates one and two b only by six
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points on the ladder at the moment. So plenty happening
in the A League as well. We've got a big
show ahead as you alluded to before, Brownie Runners through.
What's happening in our number one place.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
You're going to be talking to Richard Welsh, the race
director of Run the Bridge. Richard always very obliging of
his time. We're going to be talking to him shortly.
Jared bearst I now signed during the week for the
Hogbut Chargers as the jack Jumpers forward too, so that
continues the association that the jack Jumpers have now with
a lot of their players in the off season of
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the NBL playing with the Hogbut Charges.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
So that's terrific.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Now you mentioned the Hockey two and we only be
catching up with the Kooker Borroughs coach Colin Batch too today.
That's all on the first hour.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Looking forward to that to our two this morning as well.
Sarah Coit will join us. At this time last week
she was running a mark at Blunts that are owned
an incredible final over the Tasmanian Tigers in the WNZL final.
Looking forward to chatting to Sarah Coy. The new SFL president,
David Oburn will join us as well, looking forward to
chatting to Abi about what he's got in planned for
the SFL season coming up. Chad Wingard will join us
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as well from Hawthorne. They just went down to Collingwood
at Utah Stadium back on Thursday night and the wind
up the show, Steve dev We'll jump on the phone
to bring us up to speak with everything happening in
Tasmanian harness racing. That's all coming up for you this
morning here on the water Boys. So we're doing it
all thanks to tas Back, your local Kombota dealer. This
is the water Boys, thanks to taz Back, your local
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Kombota dealer. It is the water Boys with Brent cos
Elo and Cam Brown for your Saturday morning.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Reflecting on scot from the past seven days. Here's the
water Boys week and wise.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
So we look back at everything happening locally, nationally and internationally.
We're going to start nice and close to home today though,
because during the week we lost a really really important
member of the Tasmanian football community. I speak of Lance
Sporting of course, who sadly left us earlier last week.
Really touched everyone and just a wonderful man. Springer. Before
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I get your thoughts on on Lance's tragic passing, Branny,
I caught up with a few of his closest friends
during the week, Brett Gape and Scott Wade, Matthew Armstrong,
Robbie Devine and also Andy Bennett, and this is what
they had to say about the tragic loss of that Sporting.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
He's a teacher, he's a mentor of mine and a mate.
Like it is, ticked all boxes.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
It was really a contemporary thinker. He didn't mind discussions
about change in the future, but he was There's no
substitute for passion and enthusiasm, and he springer roused all
of that. You get account contact with Lance, Tim Murders
from where he is, you start smiling.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
The time you get to him, you're smiling and you're laughing.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
He's just one of those people.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
In footy and sport year people bad people all the time.
But I never heard anyone bad Lance at all.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
Say this thoughtfully, I'm the best teammate and club men
that I've ever encountered, and I've been involved in forty
in three states.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
So I say that on a shame.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
I never seen him a bad Danny's life. He always
had a smile on your face and when you walked away,
you know you felt better for being in his company.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Really sad loss for the Tasmanian football community. Shock loss.
It's fair to say you and your like I did,
Cam and must have been a real shock when you
found that in the news, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
It was. And lovely tributes as well.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Had a little bit to do with Lance too when
I was playing at sny By many years ago and
now he's actually an assistant coach for Troy Clark, who
also sadly passed away a few years ago. And one
of the things about Lance too, you could hear some
of the commentary there. Brent very into personal, very relational
in some of his football journey as a coach. Also,
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he was the perfect foil and conduit sometimes between player
and coach and player and assistant coach and massaging and
managing those relationships. But he was also able to translate
that into a senior coach as well on his own right.
And one of the things about Lance Sporting it was
the personal connection that he prioritized in his interactions with
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everyone in the football community.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
And to be sadly missed absolutely Rest in peace, Springer.
He was an absolute star, there's no doubt about that
and will be sadly sadly missed. One of Springer's old clubs,
the Hobart Footall Club, going through a tough time at
the moment. Cam looks they've got a shortage of players
and you know, canning down to the season, we're really
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close now, obviously, and speaking of the new president of
the SFL yesterday, David O'Byrne. Will talk to him a
bit later in the show as well. But they're trying
to do all they can to help Hobard obviously, Alex
Gilmore the senior coach, and a lot of players left
are not too long ago and it's left them in
a little bit of a hole, it's fair to say.
So hopefully they can get on the park because you
know what Glenorky's gone through over the last month or
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two and it looks like that's good news too. During
the week that they will take their place in the
tself still hopefully in a precreious position for me. Hopefully
they can get through the season. But two of our
famous foota club's doing it tough at the moment.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
As a kid, Bren I went along to the nineteen
eighty TfL Grand Final. It was played between Hobart and
Clonorky and looking back then in the crowd that would
have been in that game, it's staggering to think that,
you know, forty or so years later, we're talking about
two teams that are fighting for survival and existence in
their respective competitions.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Absolutely, how we had the AFL here in Tazzy on
Thursday night Hawthorne Collingwood, my dear our wife went up
there to watch the game and she sent me a
picture about three o'clock with the crowds lining up. I
thought they were going to get fifty thousand people in here, Collingwood, Yes,
she is. They're going to get fifty thousand into you
tes tonight the way the lines were. But I think
it's only about five thousand in the house in the end.
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But what do you make of that? Having Hollywood back
here for the first time since twenty fifteen.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
I didn't see a lot of the game to be fair,
only caught the Highlights brand had something on in the evening,
But yeah, I would have thought it a disappointing crab.
But it is sometimes hard to get people engaged and
excited in a preseason competition. And I think what's important
that what we want to have and we've been being
on a long time now, is in the main fixture
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outright the regular season. Having teams like Collingwood come is outstanding,
but with having him in the preseason comp probably doesn't
tick that box, does that? I mean, how many times
have they been down the pies in the journey of
I think Hawthorne and Northlan to.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Be none for a regular season, that's right.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
So that's the next step.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
And in fairness, Jeff Kenned has been someone that has
advocated really strongly for the bigger clubs to come here.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Now I don't know whether that's.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
A political position that he's trying to portray in those
situations and scenarios, and some of his commentary.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Been happening in cricket at the moment, a lot of
discussion about some of the players that could be on
the move from the Tasmanian Tigers, high about Hurricanes Matthew
Wade was announced that he might have some interest and
his interests as well might be with the Melbourne Renegades
moving forward. He's still got a year to run in
his contract with the Hurricanes.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
But that's interesting why the Melbourne Renegade's great.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I don't know what the issue would be there and
why he'd want to move away from Tasmonia after moving back.
It's interesting.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Obviously it must be some issue you think, so wouldn't
you be happy at the Hobart Hurricanes over that period
of time he's come back to the Hobart Hurricanes.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Cricket has been another family obviously invested in crit.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Has been been really good to him to this back
half of the season. Obviously not playing shield cricket at
the moment, he's off on the T twenty circuit and
maybe that's where his future lies and he doesn't play
Red Bull cricket and one day cricket for Tasmania after
this season. But we'll have to wait and see there.
Ben mcdermot's another one that's been linked to Queensland at
the moment and returning home.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
That's definitely happening. Brent lock It in yep Okay he
will go back to Queensland. We'll play with the hope
Art Hurricanes. He'll still play with the Hurricanes, but he
will go back to Queensland.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Oh, I see and Peter Sittles the other one linked back.
That's to Victoria. So that'd be a loss for us
because that was the whole idea to get him down,
I think to finish his career and then develop a
coaching career. So that'd be a big loss, I reckon
because he'd be wonderful to have around here with our
next generation of pace bulls coming through. So I watched
his space. Good news there during the week for cricket
to has Molly Strano resigning. Water Boys own Molly Straana
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resigning for a further three years, which is a great,
great get for the Tigers. Good luck to the great
cricketers this weekend too, Brown and the women's competition the
one day final tomorrow. We've got Newtown and the Greater
Northern Raiders going head to head. Do you tip there please?
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I'm going to go to the TOWNI sprint.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
He would too. That's where you heart lies, doesn't it?
And I want to give a shout out to bow
Belbin we'll try to get him on the show next week.
We've got a big fight coming up next Sunday against
Nikita Zoo, obviously the brother at Tim Zoo. Tim's fighting
later in the day against Tony Harrison. This is a
huge thing though for Bo Belbourne. It's obviously during the
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day here in Australia because that's prime time Saturday night
in America. So he wins his fight brand it opens
up a lot of doors.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Yeah, it does.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
And exciting for the boxing community because we know we
work really really hard to promote boxing in Tasmania, don't
when we've had some great associations.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
With Daniel Gel, Luke Jackson, Grant, Tazzy brown of course
Justin Crawford. Lots of people over the journey Brownie. So
absolutely Bo Belburn right up with the best of them.
And good luck to him next Sunday afternoon. As I said,
we'll try and get him on the show next week.
That is the week that was for us today though,
Lots to get through there and lots to come in.
Our number one of the show this morning, not too
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far away is Commin Batch the kook bar is also
how about charges signing Jared besta but up next we're
looking to tomorrow is a big event Run the Bridge,
which will be held in home. But Richard Welsh, the
race director, joins us after this here on the water
Boys run across Tasmania thanks to Tasmack, your local Komboda dealer.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
He's the water Boys.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Welcome back to the water Boys doing it all thanks
to our friends at Tasmack, your local kommoda dealer. Big,
big day ahead for Tasmania's capital. Tomorrow comes to a
standstill for a couple of hours when we run the Bridge,
one of our iconic events, now in its fourteenth year.
And this is the man organizing it all, the race director,
Richard Welsh. Welcome back to the water Boys Welshy House.
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Things shaping up for tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
Yeah, guys, we did three thousand entries yesterday so hopefully
to get a couple of hundred more today and I've
been on par with last year's achievements of being Tasmania's
biggest fun run. So looking forward to closing down as
roads as you say and letting it be running tracks
for so many people.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I'll ask you yesterday what's special about the event, and
it really is about the Bridge, just shutting down. As
you said, it's Tasmani's busiest piece of infrastructure. So for
you to have the power to shut it down for
a couple of hours and get people up there to
experience what it's like without any traffic on it is
a pretty surreal experience, isn't it.
Speaker 8 (14:14):
Well you know better than me.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
You're up there on the bridge whereas we're closed and
run as a walker's galore, and I'm down the finish
line making sure things happen down there, so I actually
haven't been up for me what it's all about.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Like, Yeah, it is cool, especially when I get there
nice and early because no one else is on there
at that point. You don't let anyone up there till
just before the race, So it is very surreal feeling.
Speaker 7 (14:37):
Yes, yeah, yeah, look, and you know we've got to
close it for a couple of hours and that we've
been doing it since twenty eighteen, and you get a
few NASAs out there, of course, but it's a safety
thing for the participants and for the drivers as well,
so they don't get distracted going across, and it's only
for a short period of time. So yeah, a wonderful
opportunity and if you haven't done it before and you
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want to do it well.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
You can still end to talk three o'clock today, And
while she can, we start with the women's race. Can
you give us some of your predictions. Who are the
athletes that we can expect to be right there at
the finish line.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
Yeah. So like all our fun runs, we have a
major road race component and bring down some elite athletes.
So the elite women's Fiel, we're bringing back the race
record holder, Jen Gregson. He might remember her from getting
wheelchaired off from the Olympic final in Tokyo from the
steeple chase and having double achilles surgery and she since
had a child, but she's back racing and she ran
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the cross country trials for Australia back in January, so
she's returning as a race record holder, which is great.
We got Lean Pompiani who was twenty second and the
second place ossie at the World Cross Country Championships recently
in Backhurst racing.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
The goal will.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
Both be going up against the girl who was seventh
in that race in Bathurst, Chrisca Chessaing who you met
during the week, brench from Uganda and she's only nineteen.
She was an Olympian run the five thousand at the
age of seventeen, the World Junior bronze medal of twice
over five thousand. Clearly will start the favorite and streets
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of Hobart if you're not into running, but at least
time I'll watch world class athletes. These these athletes will
be chairing through the streets of Hobart and will be
an amazing thing to watch the stride of the Africans.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Talking to Richard welsh the race director of Run the Bridge, Welshie,
can we see anybody defeating four time previous? When Liam
Adam's going for a fifth win, where do you think
the competition will come from for him?
Speaker 7 (16:32):
Yeah? Liam has been back a few times. He's actually
not won the last four times. He's dined out, so
he'd be hungry for a win. And he did run
really well. He got in that golden ticket at the
World cross Country so he is in good shape. He's
going to be up against. To be honest, we've got
Ryan Gregson coming down, who of course is the Olympic
final so fifteen hundred meters and husband of Gen. But
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we've got two agains as well in Dan Corvette and
Kenneth Kiprop. Now they ran in the junior race the
World Cross Country Champs to Uganda, which means that they're
good and they'll fourth and fixing that junior race, so
I say those two will be lining up as a favorite.
But a little dark horse, the guy who was in
the top twenty of the junior race from Great Britain
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has come down as well and sticking around Jacob Jakin,
and he's trying to break one of the British ten
k road records of twenty nine to seventeen. If he
does that, you'll be thereabout So it could have a
really nice international flavor this year.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
And just quickly and if you still want to enter,
what's the guy plays? So you got to all three
o'clock today? Is that right?
Speaker 7 (17:34):
You do at Hobart run the Bridge dot com got
a you or pop down and see us at the
Healthy Lifestyle Expo today which is at PW one. It's
pre to enter. There's forty odd exhibitors down there down
at PW one ten or three. Go and see the
market and then duck over into the shed and see
some healthy lifestyle things. We got everything from gym's and
pilates to healthcare and all sorts of stuff that's good
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for you.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Probably a place on a to be that sounds wells you.
Good luck tomorrow morning. Hopefully it all goes well. I'm
sure the five k start will be exceptional. Apart from that,
hope everything else goes well. And thanks for joining us
on the water Boys this morning.
Speaker 7 (18:11):
Beautiful, thanks bub very nice.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
There he goes Richard Welsh, the race director of Run
the Bridge, an iconic event for us here in Tasmania.
We've got lots more so to come. This out on
the water Boys. Not too far away is the Koo
Barras coach Colin Batch. But up next we're talking basketball
with JB Jared Bestow, who signed on with the Hobart
Chargers this week. That's after this on the water Boys.
Thanks to Tasmack, your local Commoda dealer.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
This here's the water Boys.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Thanks very much to Tasmack, your local Koboda dealer, for
their wonderful support of the water Boys in twenty twenty three.
You are with Brent Costello and Cam Brown.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
This morning it's time to shoot some hoops at the
water Boys talk all things basketball.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Our next guest this morning is part of the Mighty
Jack Jumpers organization, but this week he signed a fresh
new deal with the Hobart Chargers. Jared Bestow joins fellow
JJ Sam McDaniel at the club for a second straight season.
I caught up with JB during the week and asked
him if he was excited to be back.
Speaker 9 (19:06):
Yeah, very his decision. I think we built something pretty
strong last year obviously, and it's just something I want
to continue on. Obviously, A great group of guys, love
playing with Stewey last year. I love the environment down here,
so yeah, I was keen to get back into it.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
You've got Semmi Mack joining it too, So getting the
band back together in many ways. Olie's back of course,
but a bit of a younger looking squad too this season.
Speaker 9 (19:27):
Yeah, obviously something is a huge pickup for us to
keep him on board. He was great during the final
series last year in the back end of the year.
Ol He's an absolute monster, So looking forward to throwing
up some loves for him. And then the younger group.
You're bringing guys like rich O who, although he's stealingly
what twenty one so got to some experience around the league.
And then there's a lot of younger guys last year
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who played sort of in some capacity, limited minutes, but
had the potential to step up, and I think it'll
be interesting to see what they can do this year.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
What's the off season look like for you? Obviously some
guys go over seas, some don't play it or what
is it Tassy and hi Abart for you?
Speaker 9 (20:00):
Particularly for right now, It'sasy's home to me. It feels
like home. We're pretty well established here and basically I
love being amongst the community down here. So yeah, it's
awesome to be able to represent the state in another
capacity again. And I just enjoyed more time down here.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Absolutely, And you're confident you can really push for finals again.
Obviously winning the championship maybe a little bit harder with
the younger group, but finals was the goal, was it
in the first instance?
Speaker 9 (20:25):
Yeah? I mean finals one hundred percent the goal. Obviously
with Sammy coming back, Olie rich O, myself, there's still
a core group of guys that were there last year.
I know they're considering another important position that they can
add to that to help strengthen that. So obviously losing
roles or something and Aj and Jamar, But you know,
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with what we've got, I don't see why we can't
run it back and continue to build.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
This group had a bit of over a week now
to digest the NBLS season and what's your thoughts looking
back on what the JJ's are able to achieve this season.
Speaker 9 (20:57):
Yeah, obviously it was not the result we want in
the end, but a fantastic year nonetheless, and seeing the
growth of guys like Sean McDonald, Isaac Whitett, seeing Milton
come into the league and really make an impact was unbelievable.
And now it's just looking to next year and looking
to see how we can build and improve and continue
to grow.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
The coach was sort of saying at the mvpay night
that you need to really push for that championship.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Now.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I guess the fairy tale and that's been nice the
first couple of years, but championship really is the goal yet.
Speaker 9 (21:25):
I mean, yeah, I think the championships a goal every year,
but I think you turn around now and look at
it and you're not a foundation club anymore. You're not
new to this. It's sort of part of the process
and it's yeah, sort of the yearly grind that it
is now rather than new and fun and exciting. So yeah,
championship is definitely the goal.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
How do you see the Grand Final series playing at
do you lot the Kings or the Breakers?
Speaker 9 (21:48):
It'll be really interesting actually, because the very conflicting styles
of play. For me in a championship series, I think
the way New Zealand play big and strong and physical
will be interesting. But the Kings have been there before,
they know how to do it, so it'll be interesting
to see how it plays out.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
And just finally, you've got the King of Tasmania coaching
it for the Jack Jambers, you've got a bloke that
wants to be the King of Tasmania and Anthony Stewart
coaching with the Charges. Tell us about the different coaching
soles between those two men.
Speaker 9 (22:14):
Plays the very different Stewy's very fully free flowing, Rothy's
very structuring in what he wants done. So yeah, it's
always good. But I like Stewey's free flowing mentality for
the off season, especially because you're a lot of freedom
to play and have some fun with it and just
relax in the off season.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
So it's nice.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
And I said, just finally, but this is the last one.
Your injury. You went in for surgery on Monday and
that might keep you out for the tiny bit of
the start of the season, but all going well, it
won't be too far away.
Speaker 9 (22:45):
Yeah, it should just be a quick six week recovery
and sort of beer back into it by hopefully the
second or third round. So nothing major, won't rush into it,
but at the same time it shouldn't be a big
deal going into the season.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Jared Besto, good luck with the Charges and thanks for
chatting to us on the water Boys.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Easy.
Speaker 9 (23:00):
Thanks Roy.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
There he goes JB. Jared Besto joining us on the
water Boys this morning. Can't wait to see him suit
up for the Hobart Charges again for season twenty twenty three.
Lots more so to come on the water Boys this morning.
Heaps of footy coming up. In our number two, we're
going to talk to Chad wing Guard from the Hawthorn
Footy Club and also new SFL president David O Burns.
Sarah Koit will join us as well the WNCL final
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hero from this time last week. But next we're switching
our focus to hockey when Kooko Barro's coach Colin Batch,
joins us here on the program right across Tasbury doing
it all thanks to our friends at Tasmack, your local
Kombota dealer.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
This is the water Boys.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Thanks to Tasmack, your local Koboda dealer. It is the
water Boys with Brent Costello and Cam Brown for your
Saturday morning, March the fourth, twenty twenty three. We are
turning our attention to hockey now and the Kooko Barro
has got their pro league campaign back on track last
night with a big three goals to Neil win over Argentina.
And this man was at the helm of it. It's
the Kooko Barro's coach, Colin Batch, who's been good enough
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to join us nice and early on the water Boys
this morning. Thanks for your time, Colin.
Speaker 10 (24:05):
Yeah, pleasure. Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Great to talk to you mates. As I said, a
bit of a tough start to your time here in Hobart,
but a really nice bounce back win last night. You
must be really waking up this morning.
Speaker 7 (24:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (24:17):
Look, it was a good turnaround. We you know, we
didn't start so well against Argentine on that first game.
We had control of the game and this last quarter
on the Tuesday night we let it slip, so I
thought we played much better against Spain but didn't get
the win, and then to turn it around last night
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and have a win, a good performance all around.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Well, how do you hold the Pro League? I suppose
obviously you got the world chance in the Olympics and
all that sort of thing, where it's the sort of
Pro League sit in all that for you as a coach.
Speaker 10 (24:51):
Yeah, look, it's a good question. We've obviously the Olympics
from the World Cup of the two major tournaments, and
we've just finished the World Cup, so you know, once
upon a time you used to have a break after
the work one of those big events. So we're straight
into Pro League. World couple we finished a month ago,
so we do have a few players missing, a couple
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through injury and a couple that need to work, and
the hockey calendar is very demanding. So Pro League was
set up to actually give hockey a profile right through
the year, and we're getting that. But you know, you
don't always have the top seam sorry, the top players
being available right through the season. It is a long season.
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It actually started in October last year, although this is
our first matches in the Pro League for this coming season,
so it is very demanding. It does give us an
opportunity to expose a few newer players and we've seen
that on this.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Weekend talking to Cooko Bars coach Colin Batch this morning
on the water Boys, Colin, if you can indulge us
with a few Tasmanian connections we've got in the playing group,
And the first one I just wanted to ask you
was the wholly decorated Eddie Hokinen and noticed that obviously
he's moved out of that senior leadership role, but can
you can you bring us some insights into some of
(26:13):
the conversations that I guess led to that change and
what's sort of been involved in that transition and handover
that no doubt has taken place at the leadership change.
Speaker 10 (26:23):
Yeah, look, Eddie's been co captain with Aaron Zaluski for
four or five years now, and look, we all know
Eddie said such an outstanding career and he's still playing
extremely good hockey. If you just looked at yesterday's game,
he was one of our best again and his World
Cup was very very good as well. So it's not
a case of making it. We made a decision after
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the Comwealth games as a start to say, look, let's
open up the leadership after the World Cup. So it
wasn't a knee jerk reaction on us coming forth at
the World Aaron and Eddie has done a great job.
We just wanted to expand the leadership a little bit,
exposed a couple of players to see if they can
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lead the team in a different way and challenge the
team in a different way. At the moment, Jeremy Hayward's
got that job, but we're not saying in the future either.
We could go to him later on. But what I
hope to do is expose a few players this year
in pro league and then settle on a captain for
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the paras Olympic.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Team and colin a couple of other Tasmayans running around
and really making a mark in the hockey field of
Josh Beltz and Jack Welsh, and we also know Hayden
belt is a very close to the program as well.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Do some commentary on that for our listeners.
Speaker 10 (27:46):
Yeah, look, Josh of course played at Tojio omen Piff
and he's sat on the fringe of the team until
he's really established himself over the last couple of years.
A really good contributor for us. We're playing him in
the midfield at the moment, but he can play a
defensive role as well, and he may do that going forward.
(28:09):
But look, there's a number of good qualities at Josh
springs to the group and he's very team orientated. I
think that's very fair to say about all the Tasmanis.
They have that real team ethics that we love in
the Koko Barus and Jack Welsh of course he's playing
here and again he sat on the fringe for a
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little while. We believe he's got some great qualities. We
want him to want to see that in him. He's
had some disruption over the last couple of years through
illness and injury, and at the moment he's injury free
and he'll go to India when we leave on Monday
and play in the series there. And of course Josh's
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brother Hayden, he's going to India as well, So that
team does change a little bit with the group going
to India. We played Germany and in year Darren Hayden
will come in as a defensive player in that team.
So again great opportunity to Hayden. He has worked with
his last couple of years without getting an opportunity, so
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he'll be thrilled to join.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
His brother and colin if you can indulge us a
little bit on a personal level too, because we know
a highly decorated player and you own right over one
hundred and seventy matches for the coooker borroughs and medals
at World Cups and Championships trophies. But you've been coaching
for a long time now, having spent some time at
Belgium and New Zealand as well in national capacities. Was
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that something that you were looking to get involved in
even in the back end of your playing career or
did coaching come post I guess after a period of
time away from the game.
Speaker 8 (29:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (29:46):
Look, I think it's reflective on the sporting landscape. When
I was playing, I had no thought of being becoming
a professional coach. In fact, you know, it really didn't exist.
It wasn't until the nineties that you know, the AI
started to establish national coaches and programs started to be
(30:08):
well funded, so you had to trickle down effect from
the national coaching structure. Then we had the state institute
coaches that were being paid and working full time, so
I didn't really have a plan after I finished playing,
and you know that that's definitely something that we try
(30:29):
and take care of now through various work that the
institute's are doing to look after player's career once they
finished playing. So yeah, I've had an unbelievable experience. I
was assistant coach for eight years under Barry Dancer. Of
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course we won the Athens gold medal and then it
was a bit of bidding Limbaro. I had an opportunity
to go over to Belgium and coached then and that
was great experience and I was part of that young
Belgium group that now won a goal Olympic gold medal
and a World Cup gold medal unfortunately at our expense.
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And then the opportunity to come to come closer to
home and terrific experience being in New Zealand and New
Zealand just like Australia, Australia with their lover's sport. And
then fortunately in twenty seventeen I was off at the
Ozzie job, so it was pleasure to come back and
be part of this program again.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Absolutely, Colin quick On before we let you go, Eddie
Hockenhan back to ed, how long can this great man
keep playing hockey for? Do you think he's obviously earmarked
at Paris for But his longevity's quite outstanding, isn't it
in hockey?
Speaker 10 (31:47):
Yeah, it's incredible. And look, you know you don't like
saying this, but he's hardly been injured along the way.
You know, he does look after his body extremely well.
He's been blessed in.
Speaker 7 (31:57):
Some ways, but he does do a lot of work
away from the ground. Look, I remember having a conversation
to him when I took over, and it was along
this line that he said. I said, do you want
to go to Tokyo? Use at your aim? And he said, yeah,
I definitely want to go to Tokyo, but I don't
see that as a finish. So now we're heading up
to Paris. We're not fifteen months out or sixteen months
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out from Paris. Look, he's playing extremely well. He's one
who is still one of the best defenders in the world,
and he's still getting forward and creating some opportunity in
the front half of the ground. So I don't know
when he's going to finish. It could be at Paris,
it could be a bit later. But he's had tremendous
sport support from his family. He's got three young boys
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which are keeping his partner Lou very busy and she's
been a great support. But just the people that he
knows and the family around Hobart, he has a tremendous
support and that's very important for players that want to
have an international career.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Absolutely, it's been great to catch up with you this morning.
We do appreciate your time, particularly on game day and
you've got Spain later today for your final match here
in Hobart, so all the very best for that and
thanks very much for joining us on the water Boys
this morning.
Speaker 10 (33:11):
Yeah, thanks boys, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Really appreciate it. Colm Batch, the coach of the Kooka Bar,
is joining us. Really appreciate his time on game day.
That wraps up a big first out of the show
this morning. We've got plenty more for you too though.
In extra time. Sarah Cooit, the Tigers WNC ol final hero,
will join us. We'll talk footy two with New SFL
president David O'Byrne and Hawthorne footy club player chad Win
Guard and Steve Devree will join us on the Tasmani
(33:34):
at Pacing Club to wind up the show. That's all
coming up for you in our two of the water
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Speaker 3 (33:42):
This is the water Boys.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Well, really big first out of the show this morning.
We've got plenty more still to come here in extra time,
as we always do. Though before we get to that, though,
let's go through the overnight scores. Brownie Footy results.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
Please Yeah Footy results. Three matches and killed A ten
seven sixty seven defeated Essenon three fourteen thirty two. Jack
Higgins with three goals for the Saints Sydney fifteen seven
ninety seven. They were led by three goals and forty
five possessions from Errol Gordon defeated Carlton seven twelve fifty four.
T As you watch, Lucky Cown pretty solid and had
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some nice moments ten possessions in that game off half
back for the Blues West Coast seven ten fifty two
were trounced by Adelaide seventeen nine one hundred and eleven
four goals each to Fogglety and Keys, an unlikely multiple
goal scorer in that game. NBL Game one of the
finals last night and upset Brent. New Zealand ninety five
defeated Sydney, who were playing at home eighty seven. Just
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eight points for Xavier Cook, so they'll be looking for
him to bounce back in game two on Sunday, and
they were led by mcdale white nineteen points, nine rebounds,
nine assists and one of your favorites, Barry Brown Junior,
also had nineteen points for New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
I do like Barry Brown Junior as a player. He's
again a league. Last night Adelaide upset Melbourne City four
goals to two Ossie's. Of course it's a non wicket
win over in India, which was a great result. The
Tigers in a bit of strife against wa in the
Sheffield h We're resumed today one for twenty seven, still
trailing the Warriors first innings titled by one hundred and thirty.
And in the hockey last night it was Argentina won
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the hockey rus and nil and the Koka Bars three
bouncing back against Argentina zero hey big for second hour
coming up here. Lots of footy on the show. David
I Burned, the USFL president will join us as we'll
chad Win Guard from Hawthorne. But up next we're talking
to the Tasmanian Tiger's new cult hero. The WNCL final
hero Sarah Court joined us on the show. Can't wait
to talk to her. Thanks to Tasmack your local Commuta deala,
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Speaker 3 (35:40):
Here's the water Boys.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
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Saturday morning.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
It's the water Boys.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Cricket report, Well Brownie. This time last week it was
quite extraordinary what took place at Bluntson Arena, with Tasmania
pulling off a remarkable week over South Australia in the
final of the w NCL. If you've been living under
a rock and you haven't heard the highlights, here is
the closing stages of the game. She faces Sarah coit.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
It's down the wicket and she.
Speaker 11 (36:13):
Is bold is stopped. She's out, She's out. She's been
stupped by Ammatix Jeeves.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Can you believe this? Can you believe it? And she
hits it hard out again. Can you believe this?
Speaker 11 (36:26):
Can you believe it? That is ricochet off the outstretched
hand off Sarah kit.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Well, now she's hit again on the pants. She how
she's out? This is extraordinary. This is extraordinary. It's quite
Simochhan week and she hits it hard. It's up to
mid off. It's a single and a rope enough.
Speaker 11 (36:46):
But Tigers have what They've gone back to back?
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Can you believe that.
Speaker 11 (36:51):
They have gone back to back in the most dramatic circumstances.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
A great call by Peter Newlan's there. It's hard to
see something like that happening again. But the person that
was the star of all that is Sarah Coit, who's
been good enough to join us on the water Boys
this morning. Firstly, Sarah, congratulations and hearing all that back,
does it feel like a bit of a dream?
Speaker 7 (37:15):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (37:15):
It does.
Speaker 12 (37:16):
Actually, I still get goosebumps when I listen to those
commentators and when I watch it back and see the
group at the end of that last war just running
in and jumping. So that was the best feeling I
think I've had in a really long time.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Yeah, it's pretty amazing. And even speaking to someone like
Molly Strato during the week, who's played a lot of cricket.
She said she's never been involved in anything like that
before and probably the whole lot of her career.
Speaker 12 (37:41):
Would you agree with that, Yeah, I mean a lot
of us definitely haven't been involved in that, and we
probably won't for another few years or hopefully.
Speaker 8 (37:50):
A long time.
Speaker 12 (37:51):
I know, I don't even want to be involved in
that again. So to have that as Molly's career highlight
is huge. I mean, Molly was a huge part of
our success as well throughout the entire year. And Molly
took those two well two key LBWs and had an
early run out of her bowling, so she's been crucial
for us this whole year as well.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Take us back to the start of that last over.
I guess firstly to be and trusted to bowl that
final over, But did you give yourself a chance and
think in the back of your mind that you can
do this, because obviously everyone thought South Australia would probably
hit the winning runs and to be all over. But
did you just have to back yourself into that situation?
Speaker 1 (38:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (38:29):
I think you know, if you if you doubt yourself,
then you're definitely going to lose the game. And you know,
I guess I guess there were elemented doubt, but I
think I was honestly fueled by rage at that point
that had gotten to this point in the game. So
alis Lani threw me the ball, and I'm grateful for that,
but she sort of just said, what are you going
to do? I said, that's to bowl the stunts and
we're not losing this game because I just thought for
(38:53):
our entire season to come down to this one over
and this Duckworth Lewis system.
Speaker 8 (38:58):
It was.
Speaker 12 (38:58):
Yeah, I was raging. So I'm a very competitive person
as well, and I knew that if I executed in
those conditions the bass skitting on, it's hard to hit
the softball as well, So if I executed, and you know,
it's not easy in a game situation like that to
actually hit four runs off the over, especially when people
want to do it in one hit. So I think
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a bit of ego or potatuary, maybe some heroics got
in the way of, say winning that game, but it
also probably comes down to a bit of big game
experience and perhaps they haven't had as much as we've
had or been under pressure like that. So yeah, we
ended up getting.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Away with it.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
Sarah, I read with interest some of the commentary that
you provided during the week to media outlets, and it
said that you'd actually bring in conversations with your coach,
Jude Coleman, now about how you would execute that last
day over. Now, was that something had happened during the
night or is that something that you'd planned. If you're
in this particular scenario, this would be what you do.
Speaker 12 (40:01):
We'd sort of chatted on and off throughout the night
about the situations, what the ball was starting to do,
and we wanted we originally want to take a lot
of pace off the ball. And I said to Jude,
I can't bowl pays off right now because I can't
grip it. The ball had actually the scene was actually trash.
So if I was going to bowl back of the head,
I said, it's probably going to hit her in the head.
So I have to go under the bat and I
(40:22):
have to skip the ball on otherwise we're going to
be in some trouble. So we discussed what the fields
would look like in those last three overs, and yeah,
she just trusted me to go under the bat and
to do whatever I could to get a further the line.
Speaker 4 (40:39):
One of the well, they're all pivotal wickets in that
last over. But can I ask you about the runout
at the bowlers in Sarah, because your indoor cricket background,
and there was a suggestion that maybe that was deliberate
and obviously from the years of playing indoor cricket, that's
a skill in itself to be able to, I guess,
deflect the ball in the right way at the right moment,
at the right time. Did it Is that a bit
(41:01):
of like or was it genuine planning on your behalf?
Speaker 12 (41:05):
Look, I think it was a bit of luck, a
bit of planning, Like I have done it at training
throughout the year, and normally I don't usually stop the
ball off my own bowling. Anyway, there's a running joke
that I never usually feeled off my own bowling, so
I was trying to handle it. But I think in
that particular moment it just it literally just came down
to instinct and yeah, the underlying skill of being able.
Speaker 8 (41:26):
To do that.
Speaker 12 (41:27):
So, I mean, I watched it back and I was
saying to my family, I said, oh, it looks like
I really did mean to do that. But I mean,
from what the girls have told me on the field,
that I actually hit it actually quite hard and I
didn't think she did so.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (41:41):
I think it was a bit of luck but also
a bit of underlying skill to know that I had
that in the in my arf law of weapons to
be able to do so. I think it was a
combination of both.
Speaker 4 (41:51):
Yeah, fantastic, And we also saw that the girls had
a great week of celebrations. There were some dress ups
taking place. Who got the votes off the.
Speaker 12 (41:59):
Field thay, I think Molly started always will get the vote.
The tiger theme was Molly's idea and she will always
go all out and she actually helped a lot of
the other girls as well with their costumes. So it
was a really good It was a really good celebration
for us over the couple of days that we that
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we were all together.
Speaker 2 (42:22):
Yeah, she said, self appointed chair of the celebration committee
and the only member of the committee too. I think
Molly absolutely love as a party. Hey Serah, congratulations, it
was unbelievable to watch and can't wait to see you
guys back in action again. Try and go for the
three peat next season. It will be pretty something, pretty special.
Thanks for joining us on the water Boys this morning.
(42:42):
Really appreciate it. Thanks so much there she goes Sarah
Coy to a star that last day over Branny will
go down in Tasmania and sporting history is one of
our great moments.
Speaker 4 (42:51):
That was I've never seen anything like that on the
sporting field before, have you.
Speaker 7 (42:55):
No.
Speaker 4 (42:56):
I think Sarah's quite right too. Respectively, South Australia tried
to perhaps there are emotions and adrenaline got the better
of them and not looked like.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
You know, two or three of the batters.
Speaker 4 (43:07):
We're just trying to finish it in one hit in
pind So I think they would have gone about a
different way. But that's not taking anything away from Sarah
and her exploits in that final labor.
Speaker 3 (43:16):
It was stunning.
Speaker 2 (43:17):
Got a feel for the Sackers. We've beten them twice
now in two years.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
And to go to we feel for them, go one
feel for us.
Speaker 2 (43:25):
Courtney Weave in particular Tasmanian Girl a very good season
player of the year of course, so anyway we'll take
the title absolutely. Hey, we've got a big show still
to come here this morning. Lots of footy on the way.
Chad wing Guard from Hawthorne's not too far away. But
up next we're talking with the new SFL president, David O'Byrne.
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Speaker 1 (43:55):
It's in our time for the water Boys. Regional Footy
round up.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
Yeah, plenty going on in local footy and the big
news during the week is that the SFL has a
new president and a name very familiar to our listeners
out there in radio land. It is David o'byrn who's
been good enough to join us on the show this morning.
Good morning David, welcome back to the water Boys.
Speaker 13 (44:15):
Yeah morning lads, Yeah, thanks for having me back. It's
been a big week in footy, as.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
I say, yeah absolutely. Tell us the attraction for you
about becoming the sfl's new president.
Speaker 13 (44:27):
Well, I think footy has been a big part of
my life and I played it. I made some of
my best friendships and you know, you learn from your
best life lessons as a part of footy, and when
you've got something that's been so important in your life,
and you've got an opportunity to give back to the
game and help out and play a role. And I
think there are some big, big decisions and some work
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ahead of Ozzie ruled in Tazzy over the next couple
of years. I thought, when a number of people came
to me and said that, you know, they wanted me
to get involved, I thought, well, let's give it a crack.
And it's been quite humbling to get the support of
the clubs and the executive and take on the role.
It's quite exciting.
Speaker 3 (45:07):
Ab Brownie here, thanks for joining us, Maiden.
Speaker 4 (45:09):
I guess in some of the initial conversations when you
step towards the role, and obviously knowing it's only a
small sample size, but what do you see already as
some of the major challenges and also, if you can
flip that a little bit, where are the opportunities to
progress sfl moving forward.
Speaker 13 (45:26):
Yeah, it's a good question, Brownie. I think to start with,
the league's in pretty good shape. It's very financial. Three
years ago it was going through some struggling times, but
thanks to thanks to the sponsors and if I can
give them a quick plug, we've got some great sponsors
at the SFL. We've got Banjo's ID closing clean, It's
might attend l J. Hooker, Pinnacle real Estate, and also
(45:50):
we've got Human Agriculture on board. Having a good sponsors
underpinning the financials of the league has been very important
and of course the AFL tas made at AFL has
been very supporting. So that's the start. With The challenges
for the SFL are pretty clear. I think most codes
are struggling with volunteers, they're struggling with participation. There's a
whole lot of challenges out there for young kids and
(46:13):
young adults, and it's really important that we can create
really good cultures, really good environments, and a fun environment
for people to come along and get involved in some
really fantastic clubs. I think, you know, the embracing the
clubs that have embraced the women's game have really leaped ahead.
It really has in some cases. It wouldn't be too
(46:33):
much of an exaggeration to say that in some cases
the women's game and the involvement of women in their
club has saved their club in terms of not only
their culture, but just in terms of numbers around the ground,
numbers in terms of volunteers and all of the things
that come with having more players and more people involving
your club. So I think that's been fantastic, But again
(46:54):
it's volunteers. It actually is about making sure that we
can get the players coming through, and particularly you know
Branny in the junior space. There's a whole lot of
competition for young athletes and the jack jumpers, and I'm
a big fan of the jack jumpers. But there's a
lot of people who are looking at playing basketball, etc.
And we think that's fantastic as long as they're active
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is I think ultimately is important. But it is important
for Ozzie Rules clubs to really create that pathway from
juniors and get the numbers up again.
Speaker 3 (47:25):
David A.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
Berne, the new SFL president, is our guest on the
water Boys this morning. You've come into a bit of
a headache, David, with the Hobart Footy Club. Obviously they're
in a bit of a situation at the moment as
far as players go, a bit like Glenorchy in the TCL.
What's the latest situation out of Highbart at the moment.
Speaker 7 (47:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (47:42):
Look, I think any club in any code that losers
a senior coach, and some players within the shadow of
the season would find that a challenging circumstance. Hobart's a
proud club, It's got an amazing history, and I know
over the last couple of weeks a number of people
have really put their hand up to help Josh and
the club out. I'm talking to Josh regularly. There's been
(48:05):
a number of meetings and I'm confident that they'll be
making an announcement very soon on a senior coach and
a senior coaching panel which reflects a really professional approach
to the challenges they face, and I'm confident that they'll,
you know, they'll love start the season, probably not where
they wanted to be, but they'll be getting off to
the season in a very competitive way. So I'm very
hopeful that we can get.
Speaker 3 (48:26):
Over that hump and IBE.
Speaker 4 (48:28):
We're probably looking at a changing landscape potentially in footy
in this state, and we talk about it tas May
and AFL team, but also the TSL competition and what
that might look like going forward and if that rolls
back and potentially some clubs that might come back into
your competition. Do you look at that in some of
your strategic and future forecasting, planning and those sorts of things.
Speaker 3 (48:53):
Yeah, or do you leave that alone and naturally evolve
that as it comes to play.
Speaker 13 (48:58):
I think it's partly a combination of But in talking
to the executive and the board, they've already started to
get their head around what that may look like if
the state wide league doesn't continue on not only the
end of this year, but potentially the end.
Speaker 8 (49:12):
Of next year.
Speaker 13 (49:12):
So the SFL has had a number of discussions internally
about how that may look how we respond, because ultimately
it's not about one league versus another. This is about
football in Tasmania and the help of football, particularly in
the south of the state. I mean football, you know,
it's an ecosystem, and if one club is struggling, or
if one league is struggling, and that means everyone struggling.
(49:34):
So we do need to make sure that we get
any future structure right so that those clubs that want
to play at a high level can play at a
higher level and those players can really test themselves in
that competition. But also ensure that we have a really good,
strong community league and community grass roots clubs that reflect
their community and there is a place for everyone in
our game, and I think it's crucially important that we
(49:56):
find a structure that works that people can get excited about.
And look, I think with some of the work that's
been done in the media and marketing at the SFL
over the last couple of years has been fantastic. The
profile has lifted. There are some wonderful stories in those
clubs about volunteers and great players or people that just
love their club. They have been profiled and it's been
(50:17):
quite exciting. So I'm actually quite excited about what that brings.
And I think there's a lot of people who are
looking for a bit of certainty in football in terms
of where they play week in, week out and which
club they're a part of and want to be a
part of. So so in answer to your question, in short, Browning,
it is something that the league has looked at, has
got some pretty clear ideas, but again who knows now,
(50:39):
As they say, weeks a long time in, who knows
what happens. You know, if there's a funding changes, there's
nice all license, we've got to be prepared for everything.
But there's a lot of good will around the table
to make so football can thrive in the.
Speaker 2 (50:50):
South before I let you go, David Abern your former
Labor Caucus colleagues continue to rally against the stadium. Of course,
and you've come into this role in the SFL obviously
one to AFL team, so you've sort of got no
choice but to back the stadium. So you're for the stadium.
Can we clarify that?
Speaker 13 (51:06):
Well, let's be clear about this. I think our governments
have got a whole lot of responsibilities in health, housing,
education and taking advantage of opportunities that big opportunities in
infrastructure to create jobs, et cetera. Problem is with this government.
I think they've got to really bring people along along
with them on the journey, and I think they're struggling
to do that at the minute. But at the end
(51:27):
of the day, around the table of the SFL, it's
very very clear we need a license. We need a
team that will be the shot in the arm of
the code needs in Tasmania and in some cases you
know football won't die, but with an RFL team will thrive.
The ARFL have made it clear if we want to,
if we want a team, they put on the table
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a stadium and as long as that's on the table,
we have to support it because football and Tasmania need
to need that AFL team. I think we all love
those that love footing, want to get a Tasy team,
want to see the map around. Yeah, I'm a passion
of Collingwood fan and I'll always be a member of
Collingand but I'll be a member of the Tazzy team.
And I know the next generations of Tasmanians are coming through,
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they won't have the Victorian based team that they love.
They love the Tazzy team and so I think this
is a real moment in time and it's a very
political debate at the minute. But at the end of
the day, the ifell of made it clear and I
think we just need to get the state and federal
governments to work it out, find the best solution to
deliver us a license and.
Speaker 2 (52:27):
The club just quickly. Obviously, Beck White and Josh William
Dan Winter firmly against the stadium. Do you think there
are people within the Labor Party though, that are supportive
and want to say a stadium built in Hobert.
Speaker 13 (52:40):
I think there's a diversity of views around around the
footy landscape and around the community about this. People are
strongly for it, they're strongly against it. I think at
the end of the day, it's up to governments to
try and find a way to work out what is
the best solution. The I fill of made it clear.
They put this on the table and that's that's the
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landscape at the minute. So it's just one of those
things that Taggy seems to be very good at finding
issues to divide us on. I'm hopeful that we can
find our way through and we can we can land it.
Speaker 2 (53:11):
Well mate, good luck, a big job ahead. Note out
with the presidency of the SFL. But you do a
great job on short Thanks so much for joining us
on the water Boys and have a great waken Yeah.
Speaker 13 (53:21):
Thanks, thanks Brownie, all the best guys.
Speaker 2 (53:22):
Very nice. David A. Burne, the new SFL president, joining
us on the water Boys this morning. Looking forward to
seeing how he goes in the top job. The footy
talk continues next year on the show when Hawthorne Footy
club player Chad Wingard joins us right after this on
the water Boys. Thanks to tas Mac your local Comboda dealer,
he is the water Boys. Thanks to Tasmac, your local
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Comboda dealer. It is the water Boys with brancos Elo
and Cam Brown. Our next guest this morning, has played
two hundred and four AFL games, one hundred and forty
seven of those with Port Adelaide and the rest with
his current club Hawthorne. He's kicked two hundred and thirty
two goals across his career and as one of the
(54:04):
AFL's most consistent small forwards. On Thursday night, he was
here in Tasmania playing for the Hawks against Collingwood in
a preseason clash at Utaz Stadium. Chad Wingard, Welcome to
the water Boys.
Speaker 14 (54:15):
No thanks.
Speaker 2 (54:15):
Having the pleasure is ours mate, and welcome back to
Tazzy as well. It's a place you spent some time
over the last three or four years. Do you enjoy
coming down here?
Speaker 14 (54:23):
Yeah, definitely love coming down because he's probably one of
the best decks in the AFL. Obviously very pristine over
but also we have a very good record down it.
As you've heard, it's a very yeah, obviously great place
to play it.
Speaker 2 (54:37):
That's great to hear now back on Thursday night. Unfortunately
a loss to Collingwood, but you guys showed some pretty
good signs. Only a six point loss in the end.
Speaker 14 (54:45):
Yeah, obviously watching the game. We didn't start that well,
but the boys, to their credit, we came back and
for the whole game and made it a close contest.
Could have win either way, but just improve it from
a week and a few of the young guys really
stepped up. And I think the most important thing is
a lot of players brew with confidence but also with
their sense of belonging there sol So it's a good
(55:07):
game for us to build up into the season for
around one.
Speaker 2 (55:11):
Yeah, definitely, And of course you're one of the senior
players of the team. Now it's no secret some of
the players you've lost over the off season. How do
you think you're going twenty twenty three.
Speaker 14 (55:20):
Yeah, it's going to be a year. We're just going
to have to keep getting better each session, each week,
and like I said, some of the young boys is
going to have to like it's going to be probably
up and down. Hopefully we can just really improve as
quick as we can. Yeah, it's going to be hard,
and I don't want to put a ceiling on it
or have any guesses of how we're going to go,
because you just really don't and each year is different.
(55:41):
But we've got an exciting brand of footy that we're
going to try to play and some young kids that
have got some great talent and now they've got the
opportunity to really shine Hawthorne start.
Speaker 2 (55:50):
Chad Winguard is our guest on the water Boys this morning. Chad,
what about the new regime under Sam Mitchell. Are you
enjoying playing under him? And what about some of the
differences I guess between him and our ste Clarkson.
Speaker 14 (56:01):
Yeah, both great coaches. Obviously sam he's in his start
of his coaching career and obviously Clarko has been around
for a long time. But they both have their different
views and it's both very interesting. And Sammy's been really
great as well, obviously being a great player himself and
seeing around being around so much success. Obviously he's going
to be vital for us to try and chase that
(56:23):
as well. So we're trying to learn as much from
him as we can, and having a young coach obviously
not that long out of the game, understands what it's like,
and probably that's probably one of the strongest I suppose
Chase that he has is that he's not long out
of the game and understands it very well.
Speaker 2 (56:39):
Yeah. Absolutely, how about your campaign coming up in twenty
twenty three. Made any major goals you lot to tick off?
Speaker 14 (56:44):
Personally, I've never been much one to like personal goals,
but a lot of them it's just based around availability,
just making sure that I give myself the best opportunity
to play every week. Obviously missed the second half of
last year from injury and it's not fun washing from
the sidelines and helping your team. So a lot of
my personal goals like it just based around being available
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for the team and then just trying to help help
the young young players get better as quick as possible
and just hold those standards.
Speaker 2 (57:11):
You mentioned about missing chunk of footy there last year.
How has the precesson been for you and do you
feel like your body is ready to rock and roll.
Speaker 14 (57:19):
Yeah, I've had a Yeah. I had probably one of
the bettert most case in my legs in this preseason.
Had a little bit of a hickup, but didn't miss
any running, just had a bit of a download week
for a week or two and just really built across
the preseason. So very happy with and that's thanks to
the sports science crew at Hawthorn with Peter Burch coming
on and obviously Barton Aisio group just getting me rights
(57:41):
for training. So yeah, feeling any good headspace as well,
which is the main point for a lot of athletes
as well. It's the physical and mental. So feeling really
good to try and tackle on what happened this year
and just take it day by day.
Speaker 2 (57:54):
Star Hawk Chad wing Guard is our guest on the
water Boys this morning. Chad, as I mentioned off the
top of the interview, you around one hundred and fifty
games for Port Adelaide. Do you feel like you're a
real Hawthorne man now or because you've played so much
over there with the power you still got that I
guess emotional attachment to the club.
Speaker 14 (58:10):
Yeah, it's just kind of hard. It feels like a
lot of time ago when I was playing.
Speaker 3 (58:14):
At Howdon.
Speaker 14 (58:16):
Yeah, fool very much at home that Hawthorne here and
felt like I've been taken in and felt part of
the family. And although I didn't get drafted, here just
feels very home to me. And I think that's it's
probably easy to say now that I'm still here, but
probably a question enough to answer and I retire. But
I definitely feel, obviously at the moment that Hawthorne is
a place where I want to be and I think
(58:36):
I've personally had a lot of personal growth being at
this club, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (58:40):
Of course, Thursday night was your last preseason hit out
before the season proper starts. That you got acedent in
round one at the MCGE. They had a lost too overnight,
So how do you think that match shapes up?
Speaker 14 (58:50):
Its pretty hard to know, so you don't get the
luxury've seen too many practice matches these days. Obviously, one
of the practice matches is very much a trial everyone
and see how you're going, and then probably only get
one real crack before Round one obviously is this week,
so it's kind of hard to know where everyone's at.
Obviously you get kind of based on what they did
last year. But we're just going to focus on what
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we can bring to the table. And it's just a
tough and attacking footy that where we put ourselves on
and just try and use our use to advantage, really
try and run teams off the ground and yeah, trying
to create that energy. So hopefully we have a good
start for the year, and I know we're traveling a bit,
but it's just exciting times. We'll just take a week while.
Speaker 2 (59:32):
We're and just finally, Chad wind not long until we
see you back here in Tasmania either, because you've got
the North Melbourne Footy Club in round three and the
Tazzy Dhabi at UTAs Stadium.
Speaker 14 (59:42):
Yeah, exactly a right, and it's always excited to play
down here. And like I said, we have a great record,
we always get a good turnout and we feel the
love and support down here a Tazi, So the boys
always can't wait to get down here and hopefully more
times than none we get the job done. So hopefully
we can get get North Melbourne done and season off
really well well.
Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
Chad, good luck mate, all the very best that we know.
You've got a young, exciting list at the club this
season that means a bright future is ahead for the Hawks.
Really appreciate your time on the water Boys this morning
and good luck for the start of the season.
Speaker 14 (01:00:13):
Thank you. Thanks me.
Speaker 2 (01:00:14):
There he goes chadwing Guard at one of the Stars
the AFL competition, joining us on the water Boys this morning.
We are almost done here on the water Boys for
another episode, but up next we announce the next winner
of our good Sport Award and also catch up with
Steve Devro from the Tasmani and Pacing Club ahead of
a big month of harness racing coming up. That's next
on the water Boys right across Tasmania thanks to Tasmack
(01:00:35):
your local Koboda dealer.
Speaker 3 (01:00:36):
This here's the water Boys.
Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
Thanks to Tasmack your local Koboda dealer. It is the
water Boys with Brent Costello and Cam Round.
Speaker 1 (01:00:44):
Has been doing the hard guys this week thanks to McDonald's.
It's time to announce the next winner of the water
Boys Good Spider War.
Speaker 2 (01:00:51):
We love this segment where we get to look after
someone doing a wonderful job in the local sporting community.
They win one hundred dollars to spend it into sport
thanks to McDonald's and pick up forty chicken, McNuggets and
Tangy Cajun sauce that macas drive through today, Select items
available for a limited time. Brownie. Who's our winner this week?
Speaker 4 (01:01:07):
Best nomination from Angus mc sporen and it goes to
Nick Seiss.
Speaker 7 (01:01:11):
Now.
Speaker 4 (01:01:12):
Nick is involved in the sport of golf. He's become
an avid, avid golf fan of late, taking up the
game only in the last few years. He's reduced his
golf handicap and developed the great passion for all things
fairway and green. So congratulations to Nick Seiss this week.
Speaker 2 (01:01:28):
So this is a very famous name in Tasmania and
in footy in particular. It'd be some related that the
Great Graham has.
Speaker 3 (01:01:35):
To be somewhere along the line.
Speaker 2 (01:01:37):
Absolutely all right, what under you and you and one
hundred dollars suspend at into Sport, as I said, thanks
to McDonald's. Pick up the mcvalue bundle for just twenty
six to ninety five at macas drive through today. And
if you like to dominate someone for our Good Sport Award,
head to the website of the station you're listening to
us on right around Tasmania at the moment. Look up
our water Boys page and nominate someone that could be
a player, a coach, of volunteer, anyone that's doing a
(01:01:59):
wonderful job in the local sporting community. I too, who's
doing a wonderful job is our next guest Cam It's
Steve Devreux from the Tasmania Pacing Club. They've got a
big month ahead of big races right here in Tasmania.
Good morning, Steve, Welcome back to the water Boys, Hey mate,
how are you. We're going beautifully, thank you. As I said,
a busy time ahead for you. You've got the big one
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hundred and fifty thousand dollars tasbany A Cup coming up,
the final on Saturday, March eighteen. It should be a
beauty mate.
Speaker 8 (01:02:27):
Yeah, mate's the only Group one horse race in the state.
We've only got two Group one races, one Gray and
one and one Fannas one. So here it's a big
month and we're kicking off with a full field in
the first team this Sunday, so yeah, all good.
Speaker 2 (01:02:40):
Very nice. So what's the sort of mix of local
interstate horses look like in that one?
Speaker 8 (01:02:45):
There's a couple of inter status in the first team,
but what generally as We've got a second heat next
Friday night, so they genuinly come over for that. I've
heard on the Great Vine there's probably half a doesen't coming,
so yeah, it should be a good race.
Speaker 4 (01:02:58):
Talking to Steve Devro this morning from the Tasmanian Pacing
Club on the Water Boys, Steve not that's not the
only big race too, You've got the George Johnson coming up.
Speaker 8 (01:03:07):
Yeah, we've ran read a couple of heats for the
George Johnson this year to get sure full field and
mostly they're all locals. We've got one freemas Stewart's won
the heat last week and so it'll probably start favorite.
But that's certainly some good local mayors going around, so
that might be there to turn this year to knock
that race off.
Speaker 2 (01:03:25):
How is the sport going at the moment in Tazi State.
Speaker 8 (01:03:29):
Oh yeah, most tiken along. We've got pretty big numbers
every week, a bit of domination from one stable, but
the stake money is through the roof, to be honest.
There's plenty of money around for young horses and and
older horses too, So yeah, hopefully we get people chasing up,
getting in some syndicates and getting into a bit of
ownership and enjoy the ride.
Speaker 2 (01:03:50):
Very nice. Now, what's in store for Tasmania cap And
I know you've got a big function there with a
couple of very handsome, talented mcs. But what else sappening
that night for the family and things?
Speaker 8 (01:04:01):
Oh, face painting and all the usual stuff. Made a
few games for the kids. Yeah, just generally a bit
of a fun night. We tried to make it a
bit relaxed this year and hopefully. Well, I know I've
got mone name, so he locked in, but the other
ones will be dodgy. I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (01:04:16):
Speaking of big shaped Blair Browns, I did speak to
him yesterday and confirmed he will be taking part, so
we'll see how that goes. We've still got a couple
of weeks for a round to pull the pin, so
the ticket sales must be going through the roof for
that particular function. No, we haven't even advertised we're going
to be there yet, but they began, well won't they.
Speaker 8 (01:04:32):
Yeah, I got the two thirds of the water Boys there,
brown one.
Speaker 3 (01:04:38):
Going around one to Unfortunately I would have been there.
Speaker 2 (01:04:41):
I would have been that would have sold more tickets
if the bee Dog was coming on board.
Speaker 8 (01:04:47):
Well maybe next time, mate.
Speaker 2 (01:04:48):
May Hey, good to have you on the board this morning, Steve.
We'll catch up with your son, mate, but all the
best for a big about the head of harness racing.
Thanks for joining us on the water Boys. Thank you
Steve from the Tasmania Club. Before we wind up running,
let's have a quick look at the remaining games in
the preseason fixtures for the AFL. We've got the two
expansion clubs. I say that loosely because they've been around
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for a wall now. GWS and Gold Coast twelve ten
the Sathoon, so early start for this one that Blacktown
by look of it. What do you think about this
g Dows and Gold Coast and their chances in season
twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4 (01:05:22):
I think GWS will probably have a slight dip. I
would have thought Brent Dean and some of the players
have lost will hurt them coming out of the organization
in twenty twenty two. In Gold Coast, I think we'll
move up the ladder, not sure how far, but their
natural progression should see them being in contention.
Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
I would have thought for the finals.
Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
I can't wait for this one. Your doggies up against
North MELBM and are really interested to see how North
melmon and go under Clark Hoh and if they look
any different and just yeah, what they can to look
like in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4 (01:05:49):
Clubs even often get a bounce with a new coach,
but North Melbourne are coming from a fairway back. Would
be fair to say, I actually think the Bulldogs and
you're going to say you say this most years oping
the Bulldog's list, they're one of half a dozen clubs
that realistically, if everything goes right, could be a chance
to win the premiership.
Speaker 2 (01:06:07):
I am staggered by that from you. What happened last year?
Speaker 4 (01:06:12):
I think I think they've got a strong I think
they've recruited. Well they haven't actually, to be fair, we'll
see how we go, all right.
Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
I'll say, hang famous.
Speaker 4 (01:06:21):
One that you put out on the five hundredth episode, Brent,
when I said I named the year in advance.
Speaker 3 (01:06:27):
You actually did two years out. I might add, well,
I do.
Speaker 2 (01:06:30):
Take the p double five, Matt, but you did actually
do that. And the final game of its ten past
four to Casey Fields Melbourne and Richmond. Looking forward to
seeing these two teams shows well.
Speaker 4 (01:06:39):
Two teams that many football pundits would have in the
top four. So that should be a really interesting game should.
Speaker 2 (01:06:45):
In day that's a big show down and dust is
what's your weekend look like? Place?
Speaker 3 (01:06:49):
I don't know what's the dogs isn't and in my
mood will.
Speaker 2 (01:06:54):
Be go to bed. It's a really game. Well it's
out at four o'clock.
Speaker 3 (01:07:00):
On media van for the weekend. If we'll be out
and about spooking.
Speaker 2 (01:07:04):
That's the horn of voice for this Saturday morning. Great
to have your company. We'll see you again next Saturday
morning for more fun and for quality
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