February 5, 2023 • 9 mins
Ooof, that was a final-and-a-half! The Perth Scorchers successfully defended their title when they beat the Heat by five wickets in front of a sellout crowd of 53,886 fans at Optus Stadium. On Monday, our Rhino admitted that players like Connolly and Hobson 'aren't supposed to win you the tournament, yet they did'.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ryan Daniels, Good morning, morning guys.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
How are we going good?
Speaker 3 (00:04):
The champions, the champions again, the scorches, never in doubt, it,
never in doubt.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Oh jeez, that was a final. That was a final
at half the ages five titles.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Now in twelve years, undisputed champions of the Big Bash.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Not just this year, but I.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Believe this has been going for twelve years.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Nuts, right, Yeah, that's nuts.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Back of the Whacker when the first couple of years
and you were like this is pretty cool and people
were hanging off the rafters and there was fire everywhere
they weren't.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
There was also that school of oh this isn't creepy around.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
That's true, there was introduced.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Yeah, today's you know, appinitely attention.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I reckon.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
The winning has brought the old fans around. I reckon,
like particularly here there's a real support from the Whacker.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Sure, yeah, it's that. That was incredible. Cooper Connolly.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
So this kid nineteen years old, right steps in. He's
faced eleven balls the entire tournament and he comes in
and really at that point it was.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
The heats game.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
After the captain was out.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah, one just turned.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
He'd done all the damage, he'd been fantastic. He gets
run out in ridiculous circumstances. And then you're bringing in
this kid who's nineteen faced, eleven balls, played four games.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
And then on the other side.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
You've got an accountant, full time accountant that works for
Ernst and Young.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Like, these guys are not supposed to win you the tournament, and.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Yet they did.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
They came in, they were fantastic, both of them level headed.
And it comes back to exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
What we always talk about with the scorches.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Just backing guys in, developing players, seeing it through. It's
not all about how many runs you make in that
first season or even your first game or whatever. It's
about backing them in year after year. And Cooper Connelly like,
this is a this kid's a prodigy, right, So Hobson
fantastic story accountant right, has worked his butt off. He's
a good player. Connelly could be anything. This kid, right,
(01:59):
this is not a fluke for him. I don't think
this kid is the under nineteen's Australian captain. If you
talk to anyone at the Whacker for the last four years,
they've been saying just wait, just wait and see this
Cooper Connelly kid. And they all love him too. Apparently
he's the nice kid.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
During the season, he was good.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
He's good, it's just because he was so far down
the order a quick twenty. But this is sort of
his moment where he's announced himself now right, and he's
put more pressure on himself. But from all accounts, he
can handle it. He's not an arrogant little man. He
is a very very good young kid. So this is
exciting for w a cricket. He is really the next
(02:35):
the next next big thing because Aaron Hardy is the
next big thing. Yeah, now Keeper Connelly is the next
next big thing. So what a fantastic night. It was
fifty three thousand, eight hundred and eighty six people.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
Movement speaking of Aaron Hardy and he wasn't the only
scorch You're running on the field at the end. But
they look like excited kids, didn't they They really did.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
They really did like and this club, like we talked
about it on Friday as to why, you know, we
thought that they would win. They treat it like a
genuine team. I think a lot of what happens around
the world with tournaments like you know, T twenty tournaments,
you're bringing in stars and you're just trying to put
bums in seats and you want them to hit some sixers.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
The Scorches don't act like that. They treat themselves as a.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Genuine team and they don't just chase big names and
they don't just chase like talent. The first thing that
matters is the person. Yes, then can you play cricket
and do you fit in with what we do? And
guess what it works?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Which is very much to Justin Langer thing and now
in Adam it starts.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
It starts with Justin Langer and Christina Matthews and the
infrastructure at the Whacker and Adam Voge is the perfect
man to take over and he's done himself. You know,
it's back to back fantastic. So really you just can't
speak higher of the Scorches. They do every single thing right.
And if it was these teams on the East Coast
who winge about the talent level at Scorches, maybe just
spend some more time looking in your own backyard?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Does it winge about the talent level? That doesn't make
men sense.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
There's a belief, yeah, because we have one team that
we have an advantage to Sydney teams in the two Victoria. Yeah, exactly,
get over it be better? How about that be better?
Speaker 6 (04:09):
I think one of the coolest things I'll show you
first lose this photo with aj Tye with young Cooper Conley. Yeah,
and then with his teammate. Put this on our social
Do you send this photo?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (04:18):
It's beautiful to seem as a little kid with aj
ty now as your teammate and they're hugging each other
after the win.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
And you see a Tye he dyed his hair blonde
half days round the peroxide right through. It's fantastic and
good news as well. On the morning of the game,
aj Tye signed on for another year, so keeping the
band together.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
First test starts on Thursday. What can we expect from
that one? Well, then it'll be a lot longer.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
It'll be a lot longer than the BBO games. Yes,
those traditionalists will be very happy again. Obviously it's in India,
so tough, very difficult, right. We haven't won there a lot,
and we have this sort of mix now with our
bowling where we have a really good fast bowling team.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
But you don't want to play too many fast over there.
So they're weighing up right now. How many spinners do
we play? Do we play two?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Do we play three? Now, if you had cam Green playing,
you could maybe get away with playing you know, three spinners,
and they're having cam Green as a backup quick anyway,
The big thing is Josh Hazelwood is likely not to play,
so that saves them one decision, one fast baller out.
Mitchell Stark obviously still has a finger injury, so the
question is who comes in. Lance Morris is a chance.
(05:24):
Played in the Scorches semi final or whatever they call
it last week. He's a real genuine chance to make
his depoose, So fingers cross for him will be him
or Scottie Boland. He comes in for Hazelwood. If Hazelwood does miss,
he's got some Achilles souness. Cam Green did some batting,
reaggravated that finger, nothing too serious, but they're just saying
this is why we're not rushing him to.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Come back straight away.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
The thing is if you play well in India, it's
great for your career as well. So these guys that
are going over there, they want to win the Test series,
but in the back of all their minds, this this
stuff can make you a god in cricket, right, Warny
Brett Lee, Like these guys are Gilly.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Mister Gilly, mister Gilly.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
You go if Gilly goes to India, like he's literally
a god.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
They made a Bollywood movie.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Breton leaves hit singles.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
They're absolutely massive, so it can really change your life.
So they're all going over there. They want to win,
of course, but you know you also want to perform
well individually, which is always the thing.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
We see Ashton a do well, get a game, do
well and become mister Ashton mister and they'll love him
the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
So yeah, very exciting opportunity, tough series starts I think
twelve o'clock per time, his first.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Ball, which is great timing to get used to the heat,
the humidity and not being sick.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yeah exactly, yeah, exactly, and the strange wickets over there too.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, it'll be a fascinating series.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
And we'll fly Cooper Connley over Toah.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
You get him in. There's any trouble, send Cooper.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
So the Wildcats made history last year sadly by missing
the playoffs, and this year they're in.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
They snuck in, snuck in. So we talk about the
two games. Remember they had to win at least one.
They lost Friday night, and they really should that's the
team they should have beat.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Yep, And so I think a lot of people thought done,
it's done.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
He rocked up on Sunday against the best team in basketball.
That the equation was they had to win by eleven
or more.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
They won by twelve.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
So talk about talk about just right down the wire.
But it was a fantastic atmosphere at Luke Travers, who
is the kid who he's actually best mates with Luke Jackson,
who's the Dockers big recruit. Grew up playing basketball together.
He's the guy who got drafted to the NBA last year.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
But they said, you know what.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Stay in Perth, play another season. This could have been
his last game as a Wildcat, and you could tell
that it meant something to him. He comes out and
scores twenty two points, eleven boards, six assists. If he
doesn't play that well, they don't win. So really good
performance from Luke Traviors. So what happens now is they
will play the Southeast Melbourne Phoenix on Thursday. But it's
(07:50):
only one game. Like win, you keep going lose, you
around yeah, typically there's a series, but the way the
NBL structure it now is the first couple of finals
are elimination finals essentially.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yeah, they're called players. Yeah too much, Winner take All.
There is a series later.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Don't you have a season four?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (08:09):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
You know, there's a lot at steak.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
They've got to play that game in Melbourne, which is unfortunate,
but hey, anything is possible, which I don't know if
you guys watched ted Lasso.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Great show, great show. I think it's on Apple.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
He's got the believe motto right that he sticks above
the door. Well John really wore a shirt with ted
Lasso's face, I believe to the press after the game,
so that.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
You know they believe they can pull this off.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
So I've been watching ted Lasso again.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Actually it's very season. It's coming, yeah, very soon a
couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
The fans are very exciting.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
And the Perth heat well yeah it started well, it's
all gone so well until yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
The Friday Friday was at game one they won that.
It was like, right, you just need to win either
game two or Game three both in Adelaide though they
fell short. So yeah, a bit flattening, but they will
come back. You know, Stephen Olkowski, the guy who's running
the entire show, he knows what he's doing, so.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Good luck to that he need really loyal fans.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
I think he said, don't get bitter, get better. Okay,
good advice for those Victorian and New South Wales cricket fans.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Too, un remember that cliche. Yeah, don't get better, get better?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Okay. Motivational?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
All right, thanks guys.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
See Friday, Yeah, Friday, can we just watch the end
of the game again?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Cooper Connelly, peroxide my hair.
Ryan Daniels, Good morning, morning guys.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
How are we going good?
Speaker 3 (00:04):
The champions, the champions again, the scorches, never in doubt, it,
never in doubt.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Oh jeez, that was a final. That was a final
at half the ages five titles.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Now in twelve years, undisputed champions of the Big Bash.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Not just this year, but I.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Believe this has been going for twelve years.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Nuts, right, Yeah, that's nuts.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Back of the Whacker when the first couple of years
and you were like this is pretty cool and people
were hanging off the rafters and there was fire everywhere
they weren't.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
There was also that school of oh this isn't creepy around.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
That's true, there was introduced.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Yeah, today's you know, appinitely attention.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I reckon.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
The winning has brought the old fans around. I reckon,
like particularly here there's a real support from the Whacker.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Sure, yeah, it's that. That was incredible. Cooper Connolly.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
So this kid nineteen years old, right steps in. He's
faced eleven balls the entire tournament and he comes in
and really at that point it was.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
The heats game.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
After the captain was out.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah, one just turned.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
He'd done all the damage, he'd been fantastic. He gets
run out in ridiculous circumstances. And then you're bringing in
this kid who's nineteen faced, eleven balls, played four games.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
And then on the other side.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
You've got an accountant, full time accountant that works for
Ernst and Young.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Like, these guys are not supposed to win you the tournament, and.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Yet they did.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
They came in, they were fantastic, both of them level headed.
And it comes back to exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
What we always talk about with the scorches.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Just backing guys in, developing players, seeing it through. It's
not all about how many runs you make in that
first season or even your first game or whatever. It's
about backing them in year after year. And Cooper Connelly like,
this is a this kid's a prodigy, right, So Hobson
fantastic story accountant right, has worked his butt off. He's
a good player. Connelly could be anything. This kid, right,
(01:59):
this is not a fluke for him. I don't think
this kid is the under nineteen's Australian captain. If you
talk to anyone at the Whacker for the last four years,
they've been saying just wait, just wait and see this
Cooper Connelly kid. And they all love him too. Apparently
he's the nice kid.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
During the season, he was good.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
He's good, it's just because he was so far down
the order a quick twenty. But this is sort of
his moment where he's announced himself now right, and he's
put more pressure on himself. But from all accounts, he
can handle it. He's not an arrogant little man. He
is a very very good young kid. So this is
exciting for w a cricket. He is really the next
(02:35):
the next next big thing because Aaron Hardy is the
next big thing. Yeah, now Keeper Connelly is the next
next big thing. So what a fantastic night. It was
fifty three thousand, eight hundred and eighty six people.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
Movement speaking of Aaron Hardy and he wasn't the only
scorch You're running on the field at the end. But
they look like excited kids, didn't they They really did.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
They really did like and this club, like we talked
about it on Friday as to why, you know, we
thought that they would win. They treat it like a
genuine team. I think a lot of what happens around
the world with tournaments like you know, T twenty tournaments,
you're bringing in stars and you're just trying to put
bums in seats and you want them to hit some sixers.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
The Scorches don't act like that. They treat themselves as a.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Genuine team and they don't just chase big names and
they don't just chase like talent. The first thing that
matters is the person. Yes, then can you play cricket
and do you fit in with what we do? And
guess what it works?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Which is very much to Justin Langer thing and now
in Adam it starts.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
It starts with Justin Langer and Christina Matthews and the
infrastructure at the Whacker and Adam Voge is the perfect
man to take over and he's done himself. You know,
it's back to back fantastic. So really you just can't
speak higher of the Scorches. They do every single thing right.
And if it was these teams on the East Coast
who winge about the talent level at Scorches, maybe just
spend some more time looking in your own backyard?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Does it winge about the talent level? That doesn't make
men sense.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
There's a belief, yeah, because we have one team that
we have an advantage to Sydney teams in the two Victoria. Yeah, exactly,
get over it be better? How about that be better?
Speaker 6 (04:09):
I think one of the coolest things I'll show you
first lose this photo with aj Tye with young Cooper Conley. Yeah,
and then with his teammate. Put this on our social
Do you send this photo?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (04:18):
It's beautiful to seem as a little kid with aj
ty now as your teammate and they're hugging each other
after the win.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
And you see a Tye he dyed his hair blonde
half days round the peroxide right through. It's fantastic and
good news as well. On the morning of the game,
aj Tye signed on for another year, so keeping the
band together.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
First test starts on Thursday. What can we expect from
that one? Well, then it'll be a lot longer.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
It'll be a lot longer than the BBO games. Yes,
those traditionalists will be very happy again. Obviously it's in India,
so tough, very difficult, right. We haven't won there a lot,
and we have this sort of mix now with our
bowling where we have a really good fast bowling team.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
But you don't want to play too many fast over there.
So they're weighing up right now. How many spinners do
we play? Do we play two?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Do we play three? Now, if you had cam Green playing,
you could maybe get away with playing you know, three spinners,
and they're having cam Green as a backup quick anyway,
The big thing is Josh Hazelwood is likely not to play,
so that saves them one decision, one fast baller out.
Mitchell Stark obviously still has a finger injury, so the
question is who comes in. Lance Morris is a chance.
(05:24):
Played in the Scorches semi final or whatever they call
it last week. He's a real genuine chance to make
his depoose, So fingers cross for him will be him
or Scottie Boland. He comes in for Hazelwood. If Hazelwood does miss,
he's got some Achilles souness. Cam Green did some batting,
reaggravated that finger, nothing too serious, but they're just saying
this is why we're not rushing him to.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Come back straight away.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
The thing is if you play well in India, it's
great for your career as well. So these guys that
are going over there, they want to win the Test series,
but in the back of all their minds, this this
stuff can make you a god in cricket, right, Warny
Brett Lee, Like these guys are Gilly.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Mister Gilly, mister Gilly.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
You go if Gilly goes to India, like he's literally
a god.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
They made a Bollywood movie.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Breton leaves hit singles.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
They're absolutely massive, so it can really change your life.
So they're all going over there. They want to win,
of course, but you know you also want to perform
well individually, which is always the thing.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
We see Ashton a do well, get a game, do
well and become mister Ashton mister and they'll love him
the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
So yeah, very exciting opportunity, tough series starts I think
twelve o'clock per time, his first.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Ball, which is great timing to get used to the heat,
the humidity and not being sick.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yeah exactly, yeah, exactly, and the strange wickets over there too.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, it'll be a fascinating series.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
And we'll fly Cooper Connley over Toah.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
You get him in. There's any trouble, send Cooper.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
So the Wildcats made history last year sadly by missing
the playoffs, and this year they're in.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
They snuck in, snuck in. So we talk about the
two games. Remember they had to win at least one.
They lost Friday night, and they really should that's the
team they should have beat.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Yep, And so I think a lot of people thought done,
it's done.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
He rocked up on Sunday against the best team in basketball.
That the equation was they had to win by eleven
or more.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
They won by twelve.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
So talk about talk about just right down the wire.
But it was a fantastic atmosphere at Luke Travers, who
is the kid who he's actually best mates with Luke Jackson,
who's the Dockers big recruit. Grew up playing basketball together.
He's the guy who got drafted to the NBA last year.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
But they said, you know what.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Stay in Perth, play another season. This could have been
his last game as a Wildcat, and you could tell
that it meant something to him. He comes out and
scores twenty two points, eleven boards, six assists. If he
doesn't play that well, they don't win. So really good
performance from Luke Traviors. So what happens now is they
will play the Southeast Melbourne Phoenix on Thursday. But it's
(07:50):
only one game. Like win, you keep going lose, you
around yeah, typically there's a series, but the way the
NBL structure it now is the first couple of finals
are elimination finals essentially.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yeah, they're called players. Yeah too much, Winner take All.
There is a series later.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Don't you have a season four?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (08:09):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
You know, there's a lot at steak.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
They've got to play that game in Melbourne, which is unfortunate,
but hey, anything is possible, which I don't know if
you guys watched ted Lasso.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Great show, great show. I think it's on Apple.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
He's got the believe motto right that he sticks above
the door. Well John really wore a shirt with ted
Lasso's face, I believe to the press after the game,
so that.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
You know they believe they can pull this off.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
So I've been watching ted Lasso again.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Actually it's very season. It's coming, yeah, very soon a
couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
The fans are very exciting.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
And the Perth heat well yeah it started well, it's
all gone so well until yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
The Friday Friday was at game one they won that.
It was like, right, you just need to win either
game two or Game three both in Adelaide though they
fell short. So yeah, a bit flattening, but they will
come back. You know, Stephen Olkowski, the guy who's running
the entire show, he knows what he's doing, so.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Good luck to that he need really loyal fans.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
I think he said, don't get bitter, get better. Okay,
good advice for those Victorian and New South Wales cricket fans.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Too, un remember that cliche. Yeah, don't get better, get better?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Okay. Motivational?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
All right, thanks guys.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
See Friday, Yeah, Friday, can we just watch the end
of the game again?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Cooper Connelly, peroxide my hair.
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