March 27, 2024 • 35 mins
Welcome to the Women of Influence Podcast and it is with great pleasure I introduce you to my friend Danielle (or Danza to her friends).
Actually she has already been featured on the Women of Influence so this is really a re-introduction!
Everyone needs a friend like Danza in their life. And if you don't, well I'm going to share her with you every Thursday.
In this episode we get straight into it!
The Blunt Text
Gifts from your ex.
Collingwood
Netball.... and then I accidentally zone out a bit!
We are in desperate need of a fact checker!
This episode was recorded in Danza's caravan which doubles as her hair dressing salon. You can check it out at on instagram @paristhecaravanbar or @parishairandbeauty_by_daneel
We will also continue to feature incredible women but..... just once a week you get just Kate & Danza living our best lives! Talking crap, solving the problems of the world, laughing and crying.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now I've just said I don't want you to change
now that we're recording, because we're officially recording. So you ready. Oh,
I'm good, so good as you laugh you don't laugh normally,
but that don't smile, that's right. I can't sit my
coffee anyway. So I'm Kate and you're Deniel, one of
my best mates in the whole world. And I sent
(00:22):
you a text message and I said, I want to
do something once a week with you, right now. And
actually it stems from a text message that I sent
a couple of weeks ago, which was like, oh, I
was getting up at three thirty in the morning, and
I was working all day and I was so busy
and I'm so tired now and I'm wondering how I
possibly did it all. And you said, I'm what you said,
(00:46):
something along the lines of I signed it from your blunt,
blunt mate. Yeah, something else, I'm kind of you did.
Were you aware that everyone has twenty four hours in
the day. Yes, that's right, four hours. We all have
the same amount of time in a day. You choose
you're busy. Did I say stop playing? No? Oh? Maybe no?
(01:08):
You said make better choices, make better choice and do
you know what that's probably a blunt friend, yes, which
was your way of saying I'm sorry for being an asshole. No,
I don't say sorry, but I was really tired at
the time. But that that little mantra make better choices
has been something that I've been like, oh, I need
(01:30):
to make better choices. Yes, okay, how I am I
spending with the day. I did have a little nap
before I come here. If I'm honest, I've it's really
good anyway. So what I thought we'd do is we're
doing a few things with the podcast with this dropping
two full episodes every week that are interview style. But
(01:51):
because you are my blunt friend, I thought we could
tell once a week and I could pick your brain
on either something that's going on in the world or
something that's happening locally, or oh my god, this thing
happened and what do you think, and you could sign
off my blunt friend my friend Kate. Well, here's a thing.
(02:14):
This was only in the news today, right, So I'm
conscious of not doing things that are completely in the news.
But a woman come home and she's broken up with
her boyfriend, say about six months or whatever, and I
don't know if this is an act of revenge or
but you know, in the state of divvying up what's
mine and what's yours, he ripped the toilet out and
(02:34):
took what I only took the toilet. I don't know.
Maybe they were always fighting over the toilet. Maybe he
never put the toilet seed down. Took the toilet had
me wondering, have you got anything of an ex's still?
And I know you've been married, how long have you
been married? For twenty two years? And previous to Luke
(03:01):
really didn't have any long term boyfriends. No, not even
probably like them enough to keep anything, not even a present,
like did they give you any or any of them
a present? Because I didn't like them that much. I
don't know. But something they gave you, Yes, I do what.
I have a Lockett then I was given from my
(03:24):
first boyfriend when I was sixteen, selling silver locket that's
engraved in They wouldn't give that back, No, didn't give
it back. It's weird that I've kept it. Sweet sixteenth
Kate Love. Did you love it? I did not? It
was cute. It was a Lockett thing back in the day.
(03:46):
You know, you've got ring or locket. Yeah. Yeah, but anyway,
it did have me think about it, and then I thought,
should I still have it? Nah?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I had a guy once slightly big, massive teddy bears
on my windscreen, like of my car, like parked at
my mom and dad lived at my mom and dad's.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Obviously I was young, and he would like leave every
weekend a massive teddy bear like not just like I'm talking,
like a life sized teddy bear under the wind screen.
I'm like, that was a little bit creepy. I didn't
keep them, no, I mean, what do you do after
you get the first one? And the We didn't have
(04:27):
mobile phones obviously, so in the end, the next time
I seen him like go no more, no more teddy bears?
I think were these He wasn't going to the local
carnival and winning something. No, no, no teddy bears. No.
So stuff like that. It's stuff like weird stories that
(04:47):
I see. Okay, I still don't know where he took
the toilet. It's fascinating though, of all the things, has
he taken the toilet because he they're expensive to replace.
I'll look again. I don't know. I don't know the
psychology of it, but it's a toilet because she loved
sitting on it. I maype she had edited to about
(05:11):
syndrome and like, that's a pretty horrendous thing. Ben, that's cool.
That's that's bad. That is bad anyway, so we'll move along.
But yeah, so that's kind of the idea, right, So
I'll give you something that's been going on, give me
a bit of So I'll tell you what I watched
(05:33):
last night, which I went and watched some football training
training last night, women's football. And I was talking to
one of the footballers and they said, oh, have you
watched the Collingwood documentary. It's like their road to Steps
to the Grand Final or something like that, it's called
or whatever. I was like, nah, I'm a Carton supporter, Like,
(05:54):
why would I watch that anyway? She said, look, I
am a Collingwood supporter, but it it actually is really good.
And I was like, oh, but I'm a sucker. I
love the sport. Yeah, I love a docco because I
love a story that Richie McCaw is it that was
the New Zealand All Blacks. I'm gonna have to fact
check this out, all right, No, I haven't. Anyway, one
(06:17):
of his great stories was. His uncle sat him down
in a cafe one day and said, all right, so
you want to play you know, professional rugby or whatever
it is? Shit? Is it rugby? They playing? Who? Right?
A NFL? What are the All Blacks rugby and the
Union All League? Yeah? Right, let's just go with rugby
(06:38):
for the moment. Someone can be angry at me later anyway,
said all right, you're currently fourteen years old. Now let's
write down the steps. What are the steps need to
be that you need to get to to be able
to play professionally for the All Blacks? And he said,
all right, well, first I have to make the state team.
Then I have to make the under eighteen's team, and
then the States team, and then I need to you know,
(06:58):
you get into the system, and I need to play
and you know, win a Grand Final or whatever it is.
And he said, he is that enough? Is that all
you want? Just to get there? And they ended up
he ended up saying, no, I want to be one
of the greatest of all time players. I want to
then be able to give back to what the game
has given me. And so they wrote goat and so
(07:19):
he kind of they worked through the steps that he
needed to get there. But doc goes it's their own narrative.
One a good story here.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Of the person who sat in their lund room and
when I don't want to go to training tonight and
they became the best of all time.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I'm telling you, unless he is a YouTuber, he hasn't, Like.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Does every great have a story like a you know,
there's the story of I think it was Ben Cousins
where his dad used to make him do heell sprints,
or it could have been Christard don't quote me again,
check that, but that made him do hill sprints and whatever.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
But I want to hear about the IFL footballer that went,
you know what, I don't know if I really want
to play and they just became amazing, like that would
be that would be a doco to watch, not because
did they really actually I didn't listen to Andre Agasi's book, Yes,
and he spoke about how much he just didn't love
at times the game, you know, like how to But
(08:22):
Ash Barty's book again, same thing. They had to really
push her into it. She wanted just to live and
enjoy playing and it wasn't until she started working with
Ben Crow that really talked about playing tennis is not
who you are. It's what you do, but it's not
who you are, and so you've got to connect with
(08:42):
what has made you most happy.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I feel like there would be more greats that have
a similar story to that.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Then there would be the doco story life. Well, there'd
be people that hated it anyway. Anyway, I wanted to
bring this up with you because Collingwood at the beginning
of the twenty twenty three season and the coach said
to them pre season, they're at the MCG and had
them running up and down the stairs at the MCG,
and at the end of the session sat them at
the top of the MCG and look down at the
(09:10):
ground and he said, right, oh, lads, I'm paraphrasing, right o, lads,
come September, do you want to be sitting up here
watching the Grand Final? What do you want to be
down there playing in it? Because we have a commitment
to make to take one step at a time, to
make it to you know, the end of September or whatever.
(09:30):
What do you choose basically, And so then this whole
documentary is that, you know, one step at a time,
one rung on the ladder every time, and what are
we going to do? And do you think every AFL
foody coach at the about October goes, Okay, I've got
to come up with a really good analogy this year
for us to get do you think they What can
(09:53):
I say that could inspire this time? Well, funnily enough,
that point that you're talking about calling, we'd started losing.
They lost like four games in a row. They were
playing shitouse and like Nick de kossh, god, I really
shouldn't quote the names. You know, it was really badly injured,
and you know, things weren't going well and if they
(10:14):
wanted to keep these finals hopes alive, they had to
change it. And he started talking about missions, you know,
like here's your mission, if you choose to accept it,
like it's carb ADM. We've got to, you know, seize
the day and we need to you know, we're taking
on we're taking on South Warnable this weekend. What are
we going to do. Here's what we know about them?
(10:35):
What are you going to bring to the table when
you're down and out? Is this a question? Yeah, well
it kind of is. But yeah, so anyway, it did.
That's why I just thought, well, it's a nice little
tie in right because season kicks off for you as
a do I say open, coach open? I don't. Yes,
we've been doing about this. I didn't know if it
(10:56):
was Division one or you know, like no, well back
in all my day years, some reserves. My husband and
I had this conversation the other day because he said, why
do they keep changing the nose? It's a grade? Yes,
thank you open, open, open Hampton. Yeah, yep. You feeling
about it? And have you given them the big talk?
(11:16):
I mean, have you taken them to the kreuz Hill
Tower Hill? Nor them up? I'm just thinking where's a
set of stairs at Caroit that I could potentially make
them run to then sit the well. You'd probably take
them to the Winnable Football Club, wouldn't you, and have
them just stare at the courts there. Yeah. Do you
want to be standing on the sideline? Girls? Or do
you want to be on the court in September? Now,
(11:38):
I feel like we train to inspired you. I feel
like I need a really good analogy going in sur'sday
night now going Okay, I do love a good like.
I love a good speech. The girls will definitely. I
said to them the other day that there's scientists scientific
evidence that the more time teams touch each other, the
(11:58):
more sick ess for they are.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
So as in like when we know touch releases in doorphins.
So the more time a team physically touches each other
during a game day, the better our perform.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
It's scientifically proven. I don't know what you mean or
on the back or you know, even putting arms around
each other during disign that fact. My husband actually gave
it to Okay, go with it. Yeah, that's doesn't matter
where you okay. Yeah, So I do love telling the
girls because there's nothing I don't believe.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Winning a premiership is amazing, but there's nothing better than
winning a premiership with your friends. So if you have
no because we're not going to win one a friend
of individuals and if we're not individuals, we have to
like each other and there's nothing better than.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
You are. It's like you're doing it for my mate,
Like for my mate over there, I'm going to work harder,
so that makes her game easier. Like I think it's
it's very almost like a war, you know, like a
man behind Yeah, I don't. I don't think it makes
you think winning.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I don't know if too many teams could say, oh,
we want a premiership, but I didn't really know her
that well, that girl, or I didn't really like her
that much. Like the premierships that say I've won have
been they've been my friends.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I've wanted to do it, or my sister. I played
with my sister for many, many years, but like I don't,
I don't think there's anything greater. So for the girls
to start, you know, physically, I guess go like rewarding
each other. Physically rewarding each other. Then I just think
that in itself it means you're going to have a
closer bond anyway. So your focus at the moment has
(13:50):
been culture, yes, as in it so friendship, have kids.
I have my team rangers from my youngest.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Player will be fourteen and my oldest player will be
about twenty five.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
But in between that sounds like a big range.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
But from apart from that twenty five year old, everyone
is under the age of twenty, so I've got twenty.
So for those girls, I guess it's like a learning
curve anyway, in that they're not adults. They haven't been
through it before, they don't haven't played a gazillion games.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
In that ball and know what it takes. So and
they're insecure and they're shy, and they're not you know,
they're kids. So that's so for me to be able
to go to them, you know, just to get around
each other and encourage each other and touch each other
and be mates and get to know each other is
I think that's really important. So maybe always the stupid
(14:46):
question that's sometimes a little bit off track from the
actual coaching. But then if you're talking about a fourteen
year old through to early twenties and we're a regional
Victoria right now, how do you handle them the drinking culture.
Half the team gets to go out and bond and
have a party and go out on the Saturday night
together and the other potentially just having their first kiss
(15:08):
and talking about you know, whatever assignments to you on
Monday morning. Yeah, I guess they what they I haven't been.
There hasn't been an issue about that. I guess in
that because you're bonding I guess over beating other sides.
So it's not necessarily like what's going on in there
(15:30):
after activities. So whether you're at school still or whether
you're at union, or whether you've got a job. I
think it's more like you're bonding over we place the
house laudable this weekend. How are we're going to beat them?
You're really good at that, you know, telling the other
play you're really good at that. That sort of like.
So you're getting to know each other as netballers. I
(15:51):
guess maybe more so than off the field. So I
think in the past, if you think about old culture
of sporting things would be that, yes, we go out
and have a drink after the game.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
I don't think that necessarily that's I guess Australias maybe
evolved from that culture anyway, where it's not about drinking.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Sorry. I only played at Simpson and really I was
just a bench warmer for the reserve. How to just
go to that's what? Well, yeah they did, but again
I sat on the bench and you know, didn't get on.
Someone's got to I have never recovered. Did you play
again the next season? Nah? Joined the social committee. Really
found my lane, We find we find what we're good. Yeah.
(16:31):
Also put on probably Tien Gilho because I was suddenly
not playing. There wasn't enough teams back then, there were
two teams. Yeah, so yeah, Yeahnah, the girl I'm not
a wat of these scourges I have got. I don't
think that they necessarily have to be hanging out together
to actually respect each other and former friendship a friendship.
(16:52):
Obviously they still do, like you know, how you're going
a couple of the girls at boarding school, how's it going?
And of course we're asking them those things to get
to know them. But we don't actually have to have
anything in common to win again, because what we've got
in common is nettle and common is we want to
be whoever we're playing. That's our common ground and we
(17:13):
all want to achieve that same goal, So that's our bond.
I guess like, is that? So are you nuts? Coaching
with your daughter this year? I'm going to That was
never in the game plan. And when the club said
to me, you know, because Paris who's number one coach
(17:34):
and who's number two? Or is it a joint thing?
Like how is tell me the mechanics of it, because
you're thinking right now, Paris is not so not going
to be in control here? No I'm not, actually, but
I am thinking about how me and my daughter would work,
and we would have to do a lot of work
on our communication together. And who publicly or to the
(17:54):
team is making the call, and that when the other
person has to buy the time, I think, quite, you're
done now. Paris did coach last year with gay Bat
and really enjoyed it, and so in my head I
was coming in and going my job so with the under
seventeens is to teach Paris how to coach, not necessarily
(18:17):
coach the team. So in my head I was like, no,
I'm gonna let Paris. I'm going to be behind the
scenes showing her like this is what you know. If
that little girls can't be a player, this is how
she needs to be a player. Or if that the
attack and needs work, this is how you need what
or even at quarter times, in my head I was thinking,
or I'd go to Paris like care, what can you see?
(18:38):
What needs to change? Where do you think we're getting beaten?
But Paris actually before all that happened, a she can't
because of her work commitments, can't be at training for
the whole time. So that is a disadvantage for Paris
in that she's not there all the time hearing what
I'm teaching them at training or whatever. But she said
(19:00):
to me, Mum, I'm just happy to learn off you.
I want you to take the lead, and i'ldest learn
off you that way. But the exciting thing for Paris
is game round one, which is game two for us.
I won't be there, so Paris will get those opportunities
where she'll get to do that herself. And she knows.
(19:24):
Paris is really smart in that she can you know,
a lot of the ring her. When I was in
Queensland to ask how our open netble team win, her
analysis of the game is really good. She knows I
still just think she's as a kid, so she questions,
so she'll go to mum. A girl might ask for
a question. The other day, a girl's about holding and
she went, Mum, that's right, isn't it. And I was like, yeah,
(19:46):
that's right. It's just that confidence. Yeah, so she knows
what she has to do. Yeah, So I suppose I
will definitely take that lead because I guess my knowledge
is greater than that of hers. But I hope that
come closer to the end.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Of the season that you know, she might take a
girl aside herself and go, you know, this is what
I see and this is what you need to do.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Improved so we've talked about it before, obviously not recording though,
but it's probably more important for the development of the
entire club. This is something like you light up, like
this isn't actually just about Parrot, Like I was kind
of curious about how you're going to work as a
mother and daughter, But really what I'm hearing about is
just how important it is to be developing local people
(20:30):
in the club already to be really good at what
they do. Yeah, I think Carrot too.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
We have a long time ago we decided that to
develop our open netball team and have more juniors playing
in the open network team, we needed our best coaches
in the lowest grades, so our elite coaches need to
be coaching our thirteenes and fifteens and seventeens. So that
so then we were just automatically getting open players straight away.
(20:59):
We did that, and that's been quite evident. I guess
in our open sides for the last three years. How
young who have had fourteen year olds playing open netball.
That didn't happen previous to that, But now as a club,
where do we go to next?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
That's happening. We're getting players and we are very fortunate
because we've had. We have got so many good coaches
at Koroi. You learn off each other. You only learn
to be a good coach from other coaches. You don't
necessarily learn to be a good coach from being a
good player. You learn being a good coach from other
good coaches. So we're really fortunate. But we're all of
(21:36):
a similar age. So like we're all forty five plus,
so we're going to now have to start developing coaches
so that then we can still keep putting because we've
all done it. Like I've coached at Koroit for eight
years and I've coached two teams sometimes like right from.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
And I still love it. But a couple of my
girlfriends who were in the same position, they've started to
you know, they've got children living in other towns, so
they're going and watching their son play in Wodonga, or
their son play in Melbourne, or their daughter play at
a high level netball in Melbourne or whatever.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
And so we're going to need coaches to basically so
we can keep developing our plays. So yeah, so for Paris,
my daughter, and then Layla Monk, one of our open
netballs is doing our fifteen reserves and ash Evans is
in our A one is but they still need support
and they still need because coaching isn't just about netball
(22:33):
anymore either. It's about management of personalities and confidence and parents.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to upset all the parents,
but pull your head in. Please pull your head in.
The management of the parents is probably the hardest gig
and for a kid. Yeah, because I said to Leila
(22:57):
the other day, you know, at the end of the season,
I don't want my team to go. Danille was really nice.
I want them to go. Danille is a really good coach.
And you know what, two of those families won't think that. Yeah, yeah,
because their child won't have got as much court time
or didn't start on the court, or didn't get as
many quarters. So and that's okay, Yeah, that is okay.
(23:24):
So that was one of my mentoring sayings, is like,
you need to be honest because kids aren't stupid. So
I'm not telling someone they're doing something well when they're not.
But I'm not telling them doing something bad. I'm encouraging
the ones who are doing it well. So Kate great pass, great, Kate,
(23:44):
great use of change of direction, because then everyone else
will want the same feedback, and so they'll copy Kate
and they'll do what Kate's doing so that they get
the same to come and play tennis with me. I've
only just taken up the tennant. I've told you this before.
I don't I do. I can balls in my hand perfect? Yeah,
(24:12):
got it? Can it be the childitle of the poodcast
the wall? Why I am being down? I can't do
apparatus ball so sticky backed in hand, hit a ball.
Daniel can do balls in hands efect. For those that
(24:33):
aren't aware, I moved over to Adelaide and I don't
know if I've had some type of midlife crisis. The
water was it's a great excuse for because she can't
play another sport. Don't pretend. Don't attend it. Because I
really loved this game and it's such a lady and
I don't wear a skirt. It's some of those reasons.
(24:57):
But she can't outfit. Thing was you know, good Jackie
O is obviously playing a bit of tennis. That maybe
where it started. I found a twenty eight year old
coach in Adelaide to take me for them private lessons.
He pulled up in his car I was in my outfit.
I can't play, but I was dressed perfectly. Of course. Okay, yeah,
(25:22):
who is this forty year old woman in her car
getting out right? Because the last time I say, you
played tennis was at the lawn bar year and I
was drunk that day, and I was I was drunk
to not drunk enough to notice that you aren't talented
in there. But it wasn't terrible that But anyway, long
(25:44):
story short, after the first session, he was like, Okay,
we're going to catch up again next week, and you know,
try and we'll cut you. Anyway, what we did on
the second session was he put a blindfold on me, right,
and then still tennis, he hit balls at me, tennis
(26:13):
balls as hard as he could, like right then he
took them off and he said, your problem is you
keep closing You keep closing your eyes every time the
ball's coming at you. So you're running to hit the ball,
but you worried that it's going to hit you or
(26:33):
you're going to get hurt or whatever else, and so
you shut your eyes. And he couldn't just tell you that.
Well anyway, no, Well, sometimes the doing is in the
you know. Anyway, I've come along in leaps and bounds.
I have to say, eyes open, eyes open, eyes open.
That's a game changer. It's been a game changer. I
(26:54):
mean well because it was more like the focus and
becoming on following folly fullying up nice and clothes and
being really quick could handle that quick feet, dancing, quick feet,
hands eyes open. If you can quick feet, I wouldn't
have thought, no, I can't catch again. Maybe this was
the problem. Balls coming at me? What do I do?
Shut your eyes, shut my eyes, A fender, a goalie
(27:17):
wing defense. I thought that was a nothing role.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Old Atheen Simpson probably put the old netball like you know,
fifteen years ago. Definitely is where, you know, if we
wanted to maybe hide a little bit by it, But
not anymore, not anymore.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
I'm not even going to be offended or try to
returnd Like yeah, owing defense is really important now and
if you've got a good one. I didn't even learn
how to run until I was twenty eight, like actually
run run with run, and then I went and did
the half marathons like it just was not a you know,
it was just rubbish. I think I got put in
the whole. I put it in the category. Oh you're
(27:56):
a dancer, so you know answers run. I love how
you just said dance. Yeah, well over twelve months and
we say dance and chance glass stage quite elgantly. Yeah yeah,
but put them on a network call. I wasn't too
many of them. No transfer, you're other one or the
(28:16):
other age? Yeah? Could. It wasn't bad at the goal
keeper thing because I could really thought you might have,
but I wasn't physical enough. I don't want to be
bumped to it. Anyway. This isn't netbull chat. This is
not what this podcast is going to be. But I
could we could make an others. Yeah, but anyway, get
back to the callingwood thing. So why don't you give
me the pep talk? Then give me the thing for
(28:38):
this season? You know, give me the maybe not for
your netball girls, but maybe just give us all, Like
like you have twenty four hours in a day, we
all do you get to choose your busy. I nearly
know this text word for word. Make better choices. Send
(29:00):
me something stupid like oh my god, I'm so tired
and I'm That's not what I was saying. We're saying,
how did I do it? I was getting up at
three thirty. I was running flat out. I was doing
it a little little and you know now I'm tired
and I'm wondering how I did that at that pace. Yeah,
I loved it and thrived. Yeah, make better choices, got it?
(29:22):
Give me the new pet talk? Will you give me
something silly that you're gonna just the tend of sending
me a text? And I'll give you a respont. Oh,
and I'm feeling sorry for myself again. It one of
(29:45):
those days a week that's only for a morning. And
then I go for a walk with my new puppy.
Oh I can I give you a pet? A puppy?
How honestly, it's too late, I'm not the puppy is
too much. Yes, you struggle looking after yourself. Let a
puppy yourself. When I was in out light let alone.
(30:11):
Oh my gosh. And I've only had eggs today. But
I met a woman this morning. It's Allan. Allan is
my groodle's name, just for context. And it was his
first dreaming day today, Good day, grooming day, because he's
got to be groomed. I my advice was, don't don't
worry about registration. Don't worry about vascination anyway, you much
don't worry about grooming. No, don't. I don't want to
(30:33):
edit this podcast. You can't say things like that. By
the way, that's very irresponsible. Anyway. So but I met
this woman who is sixty five years old, and it
was her dog's first screaming day, and she told me
all about where she lives and where they walk, and
you know, all the problems with the dog. And I thought,
I got in the car and I rang, I rang.
(30:55):
I was reminded of that. But I also got in
the car rang Chris and said, oh, I just don't
want to be one of those people. Hang on. On
the first social function, we had Alan about fresh fresh
from the pickup, and he comes out to our little
social function. She's following him around like is it okay?
(31:17):
And then Alan hurts his leg and gets blown to
the very clinic and it's like, Alan's a dog and
he's hurt his leg and helicopter helicopter dogging dog, You
are helicopter perating, yeah, and I have I do you
(31:37):
know what it is? So I actually finally understand. I
understand the love of the dog. You know, I used
to work with someone and the dog passed and then
they had a few days off and and I never
really understood it. And I say that because we got
(32:00):
up on a farm and there was always a dog,
and then something would happen to the dog, you know,
on the farm, then something would have happened, and so
we just never got attached. We never a dog's always
had a purpose. And now I understand Alan is my
fourth job. This is the text message I'm going to
send you in fourteen years when you send me the
text mess says Alan passed away today and you can't. Well,
(32:21):
the lady I met today her dog lived until he
was eighteen. Yeah eighteen yeah, best case noar okay happen.
Alan probably won't be vaccinated after year eight and then
he's going to dive some like disease. Anyway, He's not
going to live as long as you. Okay, Alan is
not going to live as long as you. So when
you do the whole old Alan's pass And I can't
(32:42):
possibly do that because I'm too sad and whatever. It's
just like dogs do not live as long as humans.
So when humans break down, and it's like the worst
thing that do you realize he has a life spun
about fifteen years. Okay, he's going to die before you. Yeah, Okay,
that's going to get you. This is this is if
you know, something doesn't happen to me. I don't want
(33:04):
to be dramatic or anything. Yeah, so he is going
to die. This is not your part. I'm still I'm
waiting for the pep talk, just giving your reality because
what's going to happen is Alan's going to die and
you're going to go to me. Oh my god, I
do and I'm just it's like, no, ship Sharlock. Alan
is going to die before you. This is the world.
(33:24):
I don't know if I can get you back on
the podcast. I think I'm going to cry. No, that's
why I'll have to get Steve in about five years.
Oh no. I took him to football training last night
with the senior women's and let him let him off
the lasia a little bit and he had to run
a little bit and then they were like Alan, Alan Allen.
(33:46):
I was like, oh, I've got it, Alan, and then
one of them goes, that's not Alan, Steve st I'm like,
thank god, ma get it. Everyone has Yeah, they have
a laugh because they understand the joke that you know,
if I'm running around after a dog, I'm not a
dog person. I'm not really no, but I am. Now.
(34:06):
You do love a good fad, so let's see what
happens in a about bad usually is fashion. I still
love Charles Winston the cat. It's not a fad, that's though.
Oh yeah, you've got a cat, Lady Libe, because the
cat you sort of like a human cat. I didn't
like animals. I'm telling you much. You're a bit prickly
(34:28):
every now and again. You love your people that you love.
You know I love the people that I love. Yeah,
I love you. We're going to wrap this up. You
know this is not I didn't get a pep talk.
I've actually come out. I'm going to feel dressed that
my dog is going to die before you. It's likely
shocked to humans. It's like hello, and we're basically provided
bull chat. Family life comes sponsorous. Yes, Yes, let's get
(34:54):
someone from the Hampton leg live. Let's not all out.
Let's do a whole podcast on netball. Could I just
hit record and then drink in the corner. You would
be funny because you don't really know anything about it,
So like, are you listening. Do you think someone would
(35:14):
listen to a they do it already, don't know, had
only live do a netball show? Yeah, but it's not
a podcast. It wouldn't sound like you giving people pep talks. No,
you couldn't have me because I would need you need
to be able to I don't want to talk about anyway.
Should we wrap this up and then we'll discuss whether
(35:35):
it already I'm going to wrap this up now thanks
to the pep talk. Thanks talk the sweets out
Now I've just said I don't want you to change
now that we're recording, because we're officially recording. So you ready. Oh,
I'm good, so good as you laugh you don't laugh normally,
but that don't smile, that's right. I can't sit my
coffee anyway. So I'm Kate and you're Deniel, one of
my best mates in the whole world. And I sent
(00:22):
you a text message and I said, I want to
do something once a week with you, right now. And
actually it stems from a text message that I sent
a couple of weeks ago, which was like, oh, I
was getting up at three thirty in the morning, and
I was working all day and I was so busy
and I'm so tired now and I'm wondering how I
possibly did it all. And you said, I'm what you said,
(00:46):
something along the lines of I signed it from your blunt,
blunt mate. Yeah, something else, I'm kind of you did.
Were you aware that everyone has twenty four hours in
the day. Yes, that's right, four hours. We all have
the same amount of time in a day. You choose
you're busy. Did I say stop playing? No? Oh? Maybe no?
(01:08):
You said make better choices, make better choice and do
you know what that's probably a blunt friend, yes, which
was your way of saying I'm sorry for being an asshole. No,
I don't say sorry, but I was really tired at
the time. But that that little mantra make better choices
has been something that I've been like, oh, I need
(01:30):
to make better choices. Yes, okay, how I am I
spending with the day. I did have a little nap
before I come here. If I'm honest, I've it's really
good anyway. So what I thought we'd do is we're
doing a few things with the podcast with this dropping
two full episodes every week that are interview style. But
(01:51):
because you are my blunt friend, I thought we could
tell once a week and I could pick your brain
on either something that's going on in the world or
something that's happening locally, or oh my god, this thing
happened and what do you think, and you could sign
off my blunt friend my friend Kate. Well, here's a thing.
(02:14):
This was only in the news today, right, So I'm
conscious of not doing things that are completely in the news.
But a woman come home and she's broken up with
her boyfriend, say about six months or whatever, and I
don't know if this is an act of revenge or
but you know, in the state of divvying up what's
mine and what's yours, he ripped the toilet out and
(02:34):
took what I only took the toilet. I don't know.
Maybe they were always fighting over the toilet. Maybe he
never put the toilet seed down. Took the toilet had
me wondering, have you got anything of an ex's still?
And I know you've been married, how long have you
been married? For twenty two years? And previous to Luke
(03:01):
really didn't have any long term boyfriends. No, not even
probably like them enough to keep anything, not even a present,
like did they give you any or any of them
a present? Because I didn't like them that much. I
don't know. But something they gave you, Yes, I do what.
I have a Lockett then I was given from my
(03:24):
first boyfriend when I was sixteen, selling silver locket that's
engraved in They wouldn't give that back, No, didn't give
it back. It's weird that I've kept it. Sweet sixteenth
Kate Love. Did you love it? I did not? It
was cute. It was a Lockett thing back in the day.
(03:46):
You know, you've got ring or locket. Yeah. Yeah, but anyway,
it did have me think about it, and then I thought,
should I still have it? Nah?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I had a guy once slightly big, massive teddy bears
on my windscreen, like of my car, like parked at
my mom and dad lived at my mom and dad's.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Obviously I was young, and he would like leave every
weekend a massive teddy bear like not just like I'm talking,
like a life sized teddy bear under the wind screen.
I'm like, that was a little bit creepy. I didn't
keep them, no, I mean, what do you do after
you get the first one? And the We didn't have
(04:27):
mobile phones obviously, so in the end, the next time
I seen him like go no more, no more teddy bears?
I think were these He wasn't going to the local
carnival and winning something. No, no, no teddy bears. No.
So stuff like that. It's stuff like weird stories that
(04:47):
I see. Okay, I still don't know where he took
the toilet. It's fascinating though, of all the things, has
he taken the toilet because he they're expensive to replace.
I'll look again. I don't know. I don't know the
psychology of it, but it's a toilet because she loved
sitting on it. I maype she had edited to about
(05:11):
syndrome and like, that's a pretty horrendous thing. Ben, that's cool.
That's that's bad. That is bad anyway, so we'll move along.
But yeah, so that's kind of the idea, right, So
I'll give you something that's been going on, give me
a bit of So I'll tell you what I watched
(05:33):
last night, which I went and watched some football training
training last night, women's football. And I was talking to
one of the footballers and they said, oh, have you
watched the Collingwood documentary. It's like their road to Steps
to the Grand Final or something like that, it's called
or whatever. I was like, nah, I'm a Carton supporter, Like,
(05:54):
why would I watch that anyway? She said, look, I
am a Collingwood supporter, but it it actually is really good.
And I was like, oh, but I'm a sucker. I
love the sport. Yeah, I love a docco because I
love a story that Richie McCaw is it that was
the New Zealand All Blacks. I'm gonna have to fact
check this out, all right, No, I haven't. Anyway, one
(06:17):
of his great stories was. His uncle sat him down
in a cafe one day and said, all right, so
you want to play you know, professional rugby or whatever
it is? Shit? Is it rugby? They playing? Who? Right?
A NFL? What are the All Blacks rugby and the
Union All League? Yeah? Right, let's just go with rugby
(06:38):
for the moment. Someone can be angry at me later anyway,
said all right, you're currently fourteen years old. Now let's
write down the steps. What are the steps need to
be that you need to get to to be able
to play professionally for the All Blacks? And he said,
all right, well, first I have to make the state team.
Then I have to make the under eighteen's team, and
then the States team, and then I need to you know,
(06:58):
you get into the system, and I need to play
and you know, win a Grand Final or whatever it is.
And he said, he is that enough? Is that all
you want? Just to get there? And they ended up
he ended up saying, no, I want to be one
of the greatest of all time players. I want to
then be able to give back to what the game
has given me. And so they wrote goat and so
(07:19):
he kind of they worked through the steps that he
needed to get there. But doc goes it's their own narrative.
One a good story here.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Of the person who sat in their lund room and
when I don't want to go to training tonight and
they became the best of all time.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I'm telling you, unless he is a YouTuber, he hasn't, Like.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Does every great have a story like a you know,
there's the story of I think it was Ben Cousins
where his dad used to make him do heell sprints,
or it could have been Christard don't quote me again,
check that, but that made him do hill sprints and whatever.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
But I want to hear about the IFL footballer that went,
you know what, I don't know if I really want
to play and they just became amazing, like that would
be that would be a doco to watch, not because
did they really actually I didn't listen to Andre Agasi's book, Yes,
and he spoke about how much he just didn't love
at times the game, you know, like how to But
(08:22):
Ash Barty's book again, same thing. They had to really
push her into it. She wanted just to live and
enjoy playing and it wasn't until she started working with
Ben Crow that really talked about playing tennis is not
who you are. It's what you do, but it's not
who you are, and so you've got to connect with
(08:42):
what has made you most happy.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I feel like there would be more greats that have
a similar story to that.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Then there would be the doco story life. Well, there'd
be people that hated it anyway. Anyway, I wanted to
bring this up with you because Collingwood at the beginning
of the twenty twenty three season and the coach said
to them pre season, they're at the MCG and had
them running up and down the stairs at the MCG,
and at the end of the session sat them at
the top of the MCG and look down at the
(09:10):
ground and he said, right, oh, lads, I'm paraphrasing, right o, lads,
come September, do you want to be sitting up here
watching the Grand Final? What do you want to be
down there playing in it? Because we have a commitment
to make to take one step at a time, to
make it to you know, the end of September or whatever.
(09:30):
What do you choose basically, And so then this whole
documentary is that, you know, one step at a time,
one rung on the ladder every time, and what are
we going to do? And do you think every AFL
foody coach at the about October goes, Okay, I've got
to come up with a really good analogy this year
for us to get do you think they What can
(09:53):
I say that could inspire this time? Well, funnily enough,
that point that you're talking about calling, we'd started losing.
They lost like four games in a row. They were
playing shitouse and like Nick de kossh, god, I really
shouldn't quote the names. You know, it was really badly injured,
and you know, things weren't going well and if they
(10:14):
wanted to keep these finals hopes alive, they had to
change it. And he started talking about missions, you know,
like here's your mission, if you choose to accept it,
like it's carb ADM. We've got to, you know, seize
the day and we need to you know, we're taking
on we're taking on South Warnable this weekend. What are
we going to do. Here's what we know about them?
(10:35):
What are you going to bring to the table when
you're down and out? Is this a question? Yeah, well
it kind of is. But yeah, so anyway, it did.
That's why I just thought, well, it's a nice little
tie in right because season kicks off for you as
a do I say open, coach open? I don't. Yes,
we've been doing about this. I didn't know if it
(10:56):
was Division one or you know, like no, well back
in all my day years, some reserves. My husband and
I had this conversation the other day because he said, why
do they keep changing the nose? It's a grade? Yes,
thank you open, open, open Hampton. Yeah, yep. You feeling
about it? And have you given them the big talk?
(11:16):
I mean, have you taken them to the kreuz Hill
Tower Hill? Nor them up? I'm just thinking where's a
set of stairs at Caroit that I could potentially make
them run to then sit the well. You'd probably take
them to the Winnable Football Club, wouldn't you, and have
them just stare at the courts there. Yeah. Do you
want to be standing on the sideline? Girls? Or do
you want to be on the court in September? Now,
(11:38):
I feel like we train to inspired you. I feel
like I need a really good analogy going in sur'sday
night now going Okay, I do love a good like.
I love a good speech. The girls will definitely. I
said to them the other day that there's scientists scientific
evidence that the more time teams touch each other, the
(11:58):
more sick ess for they are.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
So as in like when we know touch releases in doorphins.
So the more time a team physically touches each other
during a game day, the better our perform.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
It's scientifically proven. I don't know what you mean or
on the back or you know, even putting arms around
each other during disign that fact. My husband actually gave
it to Okay, go with it. Yeah, that's doesn't matter
where you okay. Yeah, So I do love telling the
girls because there's nothing I don't believe.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Winning a premiership is amazing, but there's nothing better than
winning a premiership with your friends. So if you have
no because we're not going to win one a friend
of individuals and if we're not individuals, we have to
like each other and there's nothing better than.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
You are. It's like you're doing it for my mate,
Like for my mate over there, I'm going to work harder,
so that makes her game easier. Like I think it's
it's very almost like a war, you know, like a
man behind Yeah, I don't. I don't think it makes
you think winning.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I don't know if too many teams could say, oh,
we want a premiership, but I didn't really know her
that well, that girl, or I didn't really like her
that much. Like the premierships that say I've won have
been they've been my friends.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I've wanted to do it, or my sister. I played
with my sister for many, many years, but like I don't,
I don't think there's anything greater. So for the girls
to start, you know, physically, I guess go like rewarding
each other. Physically rewarding each other. Then I just think
that in itself it means you're going to have a
closer bond anyway. So your focus at the moment has
(13:50):
been culture, yes, as in it so friendship, have kids.
I have my team rangers from my youngest.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Player will be fourteen and my oldest player will be
about twenty five.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
But in between that sounds like a big range.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
But from apart from that twenty five year old, everyone
is under the age of twenty, so I've got twenty.
So for those girls, I guess it's like a learning
curve anyway, in that they're not adults. They haven't been
through it before, they don't haven't played a gazillion games.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
In that ball and know what it takes. So and
they're insecure and they're shy, and they're not you know,
they're kids. So that's so for me to be able
to go to them, you know, just to get around
each other and encourage each other and touch each other
and be mates and get to know each other is
I think that's really important. So maybe always the stupid
(14:46):
question that's sometimes a little bit off track from the
actual coaching. But then if you're talking about a fourteen
year old through to early twenties and we're a regional
Victoria right now, how do you handle them the drinking culture.
Half the team gets to go out and bond and
have a party and go out on the Saturday night
together and the other potentially just having their first kiss
(15:08):
and talking about you know, whatever assignments to you on
Monday morning. Yeah, I guess they what they I haven't been.
There hasn't been an issue about that. I guess in
that because you're bonding I guess over beating other sides.
So it's not necessarily like what's going on in there
(15:30):
after activities. So whether you're at school still or whether
you're at union, or whether you've got a job. I
think it's more like you're bonding over we place the
house laudable this weekend. How are we're going to beat them?
You're really good at that, you know, telling the other
play you're really good at that. That sort of like.
So you're getting to know each other as netballers. I
(15:51):
guess maybe more so than off the field. So I
think in the past, if you think about old culture
of sporting things would be that, yes, we go out
and have a drink after the game.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
I don't think that necessarily that's I guess Australias maybe
evolved from that culture anyway, where it's not about drinking.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Sorry. I only played at Simpson and really I was
just a bench warmer for the reserve. How to just
go to that's what? Well, yeah they did, but again
I sat on the bench and you know, didn't get on.
Someone's got to I have never recovered. Did you play
again the next season? Nah? Joined the social committee. Really
found my lane, We find we find what we're good. Yeah.
(16:31):
Also put on probably Tien Gilho because I was suddenly
not playing. There wasn't enough teams back then, there were
two teams. Yeah, so yeah, Yeahnah, the girl I'm not
a wat of these scourges I have got. I don't
think that they necessarily have to be hanging out together
to actually respect each other and former friendship a friendship.
(16:52):
Obviously they still do, like you know, how you're going
a couple of the girls at boarding school, how's it going?
And of course we're asking them those things to get
to know them. But we don't actually have to have
anything in common to win again, because what we've got
in common is nettle and common is we want to
be whoever we're playing. That's our common ground and we
(17:13):
all want to achieve that same goal, So that's our bond.
I guess like, is that? So are you nuts? Coaching
with your daughter this year? I'm going to That was
never in the game plan. And when the club said
to me, you know, because Paris who's number one coach
(17:34):
and who's number two? Or is it a joint thing?
Like how is tell me the mechanics of it, because
you're thinking right now, Paris is not so not going
to be in control here? No I'm not, actually, but
I am thinking about how me and my daughter would work,
and we would have to do a lot of work
on our communication together. And who publicly or to the
(17:54):
team is making the call, and that when the other
person has to buy the time, I think, quite, you're
done now. Paris did coach last year with gay Bat
and really enjoyed it, and so in my head I
was coming in and going my job so with the under
seventeens is to teach Paris how to coach, not necessarily
(18:17):
coach the team. So in my head I was like, no,
I'm gonna let Paris. I'm going to be behind the
scenes showing her like this is what you know. If
that little girls can't be a player, this is how
she needs to be a player. Or if that the
attack and needs work, this is how you need what
or even at quarter times, in my head I was thinking,
or I'd go to Paris like care, what can you see?
(18:38):
What needs to change? Where do you think we're getting beaten?
But Paris actually before all that happened, a she can't
because of her work commitments, can't be at training for
the whole time. So that is a disadvantage for Paris
in that she's not there all the time hearing what
I'm teaching them at training or whatever. But she said
(19:00):
to me, Mum, I'm just happy to learn off you.
I want you to take the lead, and i'ldest learn
off you that way. But the exciting thing for Paris
is game round one, which is game two for us.
I won't be there, so Paris will get those opportunities
where she'll get to do that herself. And she knows.
(19:24):
Paris is really smart in that she can you know,
a lot of the ring her. When I was in
Queensland to ask how our open netble team win, her
analysis of the game is really good. She knows I
still just think she's as a kid, so she questions,
so she'll go to mum. A girl might ask for
a question. The other day, a girl's about holding and
she went, Mum, that's right, isn't it. And I was like, yeah,
(19:46):
that's right. It's just that confidence. Yeah, so she knows
what she has to do. Yeah, So I suppose I
will definitely take that lead because I guess my knowledge
is greater than that of hers. But I hope that
come closer to the end.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Of the season that you know, she might take a
girl aside herself and go, you know, this is what
I see and this is what you need to do.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Improved so we've talked about it before, obviously not recording though,
but it's probably more important for the development of the
entire club. This is something like you light up, like
this isn't actually just about Parrot, Like I was kind
of curious about how you're going to work as a
mother and daughter, But really what I'm hearing about is
just how important it is to be developing local people
(20:30):
in the club already to be really good at what
they do. Yeah, I think Carrot too.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
We have a long time ago we decided that to
develop our open netball team and have more juniors playing
in the open network team, we needed our best coaches
in the lowest grades, so our elite coaches need to
be coaching our thirteenes and fifteens and seventeens. So that
so then we were just automatically getting open players straight away.
(20:59):
We did that, and that's been quite evident. I guess
in our open sides for the last three years. How
young who have had fourteen year olds playing open netball.
That didn't happen previous to that, But now as a club,
where do we go to next?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
That's happening. We're getting players and we are very fortunate
because we've had. We have got so many good coaches
at Koroi. You learn off each other. You only learn
to be a good coach from other coaches. You don't
necessarily learn to be a good coach from being a
good player. You learn being a good coach from other
good coaches. So we're really fortunate. But we're all of
(21:36):
a similar age. So like we're all forty five plus,
so we're going to now have to start developing coaches
so that then we can still keep putting because we've
all done it. Like I've coached at Koroit for eight
years and I've coached two teams sometimes like right from.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
And I still love it. But a couple of my
girlfriends who were in the same position, they've started to
you know, they've got children living in other towns, so
they're going and watching their son play in Wodonga, or
their son play in Melbourne, or their daughter play at
a high level netball in Melbourne or whatever.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
And so we're going to need coaches to basically so
we can keep developing our plays. So yeah, so for Paris,
my daughter, and then Layla Monk, one of our open
netballs is doing our fifteen reserves and ash Evans is
in our A one is but they still need support
and they still need because coaching isn't just about netball
(22:33):
anymore either. It's about management of personalities and confidence and parents.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to upset all the parents,
but pull your head in. Please pull your head in.
The management of the parents is probably the hardest gig
and for a kid. Yeah, because I said to Leila
(22:57):
the other day, you know, at the end of the season,
I don't want my team to go. Danille was really nice.
I want them to go. Danille is a really good coach.
And you know what, two of those families won't think that. Yeah, yeah,
because their child won't have got as much court time
or didn't start on the court, or didn't get as
many quarters. So and that's okay, Yeah, that is okay.
(23:24):
So that was one of my mentoring sayings, is like,
you need to be honest because kids aren't stupid. So
I'm not telling someone they're doing something well when they're not.
But I'm not telling them doing something bad. I'm encouraging
the ones who are doing it well. So Kate great pass, great, Kate,
(23:44):
great use of change of direction, because then everyone else
will want the same feedback, and so they'll copy Kate
and they'll do what Kate's doing so that they get
the same to come and play tennis with me. I've
only just taken up the tennant. I've told you this before.
I don't I do. I can balls in my hand perfect? Yeah,
(24:12):
got it? Can it be the childitle of the poodcast
the wall? Why I am being down? I can't do
apparatus ball so sticky backed in hand, hit a ball.
Daniel can do balls in hands efect. For those that
(24:33):
aren't aware, I moved over to Adelaide and I don't
know if I've had some type of midlife crisis. The
water was it's a great excuse for because she can't
play another sport. Don't pretend. Don't attend it. Because I
really loved this game and it's such a lady and
I don't wear a skirt. It's some of those reasons.
(24:57):
But she can't outfit. Thing was you know, good Jackie
O is obviously playing a bit of tennis. That maybe
where it started. I found a twenty eight year old
coach in Adelaide to take me for them private lessons.
He pulled up in his car I was in my outfit.
I can't play, but I was dressed perfectly. Of course. Okay, yeah,
(25:22):
who is this forty year old woman in her car
getting out right? Because the last time I say, you
played tennis was at the lawn bar year and I
was drunk that day, and I was I was drunk
to not drunk enough to notice that you aren't talented
in there. But it wasn't terrible that But anyway, long
(25:44):
story short, after the first session, he was like, Okay,
we're going to catch up again next week, and you know,
try and we'll cut you. Anyway, what we did on
the second session was he put a blindfold on me, right,
and then still tennis, he hit balls at me, tennis
(26:13):
balls as hard as he could, like right then he
took them off and he said, your problem is you
keep closing You keep closing your eyes every time the
ball's coming at you. So you're running to hit the ball,
but you worried that it's going to hit you or
(26:33):
you're going to get hurt or whatever else, and so
you shut your eyes. And he couldn't just tell you that.
Well anyway, no, Well, sometimes the doing is in the
you know. Anyway, I've come along in leaps and bounds.
I have to say, eyes open, eyes open, eyes open.
That's a game changer. It's been a game changer. I
(26:54):
mean well because it was more like the focus and
becoming on following folly fullying up nice and clothes and
being really quick could handle that quick feet, dancing, quick feet,
hands eyes open. If you can quick feet, I wouldn't
have thought, no, I can't catch again. Maybe this was
the problem. Balls coming at me? What do I do?
Shut your eyes, shut my eyes, A fender, a goalie
(27:17):
wing defense. I thought that was a nothing role.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Old Atheen Simpson probably put the old netball like you know,
fifteen years ago. Definitely is where, you know, if we
wanted to maybe hide a little bit by it, But
not anymore, not anymore.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
I'm not even going to be offended or try to
returnd Like yeah, owing defense is really important now and
if you've got a good one. I didn't even learn
how to run until I was twenty eight, like actually
run run with run, and then I went and did
the half marathons like it just was not a you know,
it was just rubbish. I think I got put in
the whole. I put it in the category. Oh you're
(27:56):
a dancer, so you know answers run. I love how
you just said dance. Yeah, well over twelve months and
we say dance and chance glass stage quite elgantly. Yeah yeah,
but put them on a network call. I wasn't too
many of them. No transfer, you're other one or the
(28:16):
other age? Yeah? Could. It wasn't bad at the goal
keeper thing because I could really thought you might have,
but I wasn't physical enough. I don't want to be
bumped to it. Anyway. This isn't netbull chat. This is
not what this podcast is going to be. But I
could we could make an others. Yeah, but anyway, get
back to the callingwood thing. So why don't you give
me the pep talk? Then give me the thing for
(28:38):
this season? You know, give me the maybe not for
your netball girls, but maybe just give us all, Like
like you have twenty four hours in a day, we
all do you get to choose your busy. I nearly
know this text word for word. Make better choices. Send
(29:00):
me something stupid like oh my god, I'm so tired
and I'm That's not what I was saying. We're saying,
how did I do it? I was getting up at
three thirty. I was running flat out. I was doing
it a little little and you know now I'm tired
and I'm wondering how I did that at that pace. Yeah,
I loved it and thrived. Yeah, make better choices, got it?
(29:22):
Give me the new pet talk? Will you give me
something silly that you're gonna just the tend of sending
me a text? And I'll give you a respont. Oh,
and I'm feeling sorry for myself again. It one of
(29:45):
those days a week that's only for a morning. And
then I go for a walk with my new puppy.
Oh I can I give you a pet? A puppy?
How honestly, it's too late, I'm not the puppy is
too much. Yes, you struggle looking after yourself. Let a
puppy yourself. When I was in out light let alone.
(30:11):
Oh my gosh. And I've only had eggs today. But
I met a woman this morning. It's Allan. Allan is
my groodle's name, just for context. And it was his
first dreaming day today, Good day, grooming day, because he's
got to be groomed. I my advice was, don't don't
worry about registration. Don't worry about vascination anyway, you much
don't worry about grooming. No, don't. I don't want to
(30:33):
edit this podcast. You can't say things like that. By
the way, that's very irresponsible. Anyway. So but I met
this woman who is sixty five years old, and it
was her dog's first screaming day, and she told me
all about where she lives and where they walk, and
you know, all the problems with the dog. And I thought,
I got in the car and I rang, I rang.
(30:55):
I was reminded of that. But I also got in
the car rang Chris and said, oh, I just don't
want to be one of those people. Hang on. On
the first social function, we had Alan about fresh fresh
from the pickup, and he comes out to our little
social function. She's following him around like is it okay?
(31:17):
And then Alan hurts his leg and gets blown to
the very clinic and it's like, Alan's a dog and
he's hurt his leg and helicopter helicopter dogging dog, You
are helicopter perating, yeah, and I have I do you
(31:37):
know what it is? So I actually finally understand. I
understand the love of the dog. You know, I used
to work with someone and the dog passed and then
they had a few days off and and I never
really understood it. And I say that because we got
(32:00):
up on a farm and there was always a dog,
and then something would happen to the dog, you know,
on the farm, then something would have happened, and so
we just never got attached. We never a dog's always
had a purpose. And now I understand Alan is my
fourth job. This is the text message I'm going to
send you in fourteen years when you send me the
text mess says Alan passed away today and you can't. Well,
(32:21):
the lady I met today her dog lived until he
was eighteen. Yeah eighteen yeah, best case noar okay happen.
Alan probably won't be vaccinated after year eight and then
he's going to dive some like disease. Anyway, He's not
going to live as long as you. Okay, Alan is
not going to live as long as you. So when
you do the whole old Alan's pass And I can't
(32:42):
possibly do that because I'm too sad and whatever. It's
just like dogs do not live as long as humans.
So when humans break down, and it's like the worst
thing that do you realize he has a life spun
about fifteen years. Okay, he's going to die before you. Yeah, Okay,
that's going to get you. This is this is if
you know, something doesn't happen to me. I don't want
(33:04):
to be dramatic or anything. Yeah, so he is going
to die. This is not your part. I'm still I'm
waiting for the pep talk, just giving your reality because
what's going to happen is Alan's going to die and
you're going to go to me. Oh my god, I
do and I'm just it's like, no, ship Sharlock. Alan
is going to die before you. This is the world.
(33:24):
I don't know if I can get you back on
the podcast. I think I'm going to cry. No, that's
why I'll have to get Steve in about five years.
Oh no. I took him to football training last night
with the senior women's and let him let him off
the lasia a little bit and he had to run
a little bit and then they were like Alan, Alan Allen.
(33:46):
I was like, oh, I've got it, Alan, and then
one of them goes, that's not Alan, Steve st I'm like,
thank god, ma get it. Everyone has Yeah, they have
a laugh because they understand the joke that you know,
if I'm running around after a dog, I'm not a
dog person. I'm not really no, but I am. Now.
(34:06):
You do love a good fad, so let's see what
happens in a about bad usually is fashion. I still
love Charles Winston the cat. It's not a fad, that's though.
Oh yeah, you've got a cat, Lady Libe, because the
cat you sort of like a human cat. I didn't
like animals. I'm telling you much. You're a bit prickly
(34:28):
every now and again. You love your people that you love.
You know I love the people that I love. Yeah,
I love you. We're going to wrap this up. You
know this is not I didn't get a pep talk.
I've actually come out. I'm going to feel dressed that
my dog is going to die before you. It's likely
shocked to humans. It's like hello, and we're basically provided
bull chat. Family life comes sponsorous. Yes, Yes, let's get
(34:54):
someone from the Hampton leg live. Let's not all out.
Let's do a whole podcast on netball. Could I just
hit record and then drink in the corner. You would
be funny because you don't really know anything about it,
So like, are you listening. Do you think someone would
(35:14):
listen to a they do it already, don't know, had
only live do a netball show? Yeah, but it's not
a podcast. It wouldn't sound like you giving people pep talks. No,
you couldn't have me because I would need you need
to be able to I don't want to talk about anyway.
Should we wrap this up and then we'll discuss whether
(35:35):
it already I'm going to wrap this up now thanks
to the pep talk. Thanks talk the sweets out
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