Ruck Rules 🦵 Ump Abuse 🤬 Brisbane Breakdown 🤯

Hey, legends, Welcome back to the Mason Cock Show. Now plenty happening this week in Sport. We've got the rock rules. I'm gonna explain what the heck they are because I think it's a bit of confusion around that. Richmond's got a bit of injury trouble at the moment. There's celebrations all over Sport a bit too early, maybe a bit too much. And what happened in Brisbane over the weekend. It's all covered starting now, all right, without further ado, we will get into it.

Welcome Brandon.

I'm fresh this morning. We got a morning record. We don't normally do morning records, but I'm up and about if my voice is a bit Raspberry Queen was on the radio on the drive in, so I was belting that one out. Now let's jump straight into our clanger of the week.

Yes, one of the favorite segments.

Now Warren tread ray mate export captain. You think he would be all for Port supporting them get around him, But no, it came out during the weeks Ken Hinckley, surely in an untenable position as coach of the Port Adelaide Football Club. Well, Kenny just shoved it right up him because he came out and got the win. It doesn't matter that it was right on the death. He got the win against Sydney in Sydney, that's a massive win. And Kenny's always just fighting for his life, Like I

I'm a big fan of Ken.

Now Ken he seems to just always fight back whenever people kind of try to put him down. He's the face of the port Allelloided Football Club. He's been there for years. He's he's helped that team reach very much a successful era. I guess some why they haven't won the premiership obviously, but I think they've been a team that's always looked at the calendar as someone you're not going to take lightly, that's for sure.

Yeah, I always feel it's weird, like externals are like, come on, Kenny, you can do it, and internals are like come on, you gotta win the flag otherwise get out of here. It's so bizarre, but normally it's the other way around. But what's your clanger of the week.

I've got I've actually got a little voice recording, Brandon

Bit of a recording, Philly, you would have the.

Ship.

Now that was literally a very small snippet of a long time of hearing that in my ear, and it wasn't just me, it was everyone around me too. And this man, oh my gosh, would not He was after the umpires, absolutely after it. He had smoked I think three packs of cigarettes during the game. It was just he almost spilt a beer on me at one point because he was like just upset at some calling umpire had.

I would have loved to have seen you just matched the energy, just what the hell umpire that has got him around the neck can get along up the guts.

Top the guts.

I don't think I'll ever be that kind of supporter, but that man, I've had that many tattoos, that much missing teeth, and plenty of beers. He drained through the whole game, and he probably enjoyed it. He probably had a great time. Everyone around him did not have such a great time with him there.

I'll say that it doesn't sound like he knew much, like he knows the basics about what he's angry at. But like Billy Frampton, what's he doing in the ruck?

This guy's standing next to you actually is injured also, and that's why he's in the rock like.

That's the guy, he's the rockman. He's sitting in the stands.

Well. Speaking of ruckman, we'll go to the next one. We had the Geelong Hawthorne game of the weekend and there was some controversy that came out of this one.

This was big and I want to get your comments on it, because you are a ruckman, but not only that, I've seen you do this exact thing so many times. So obviously Chris Scott comes out defends his man because this has happened twice to Geelong ruckman's but this time it was Blitzers going up to contest the ruck and gets need in I guess like the stomach the rib area, and goes down injured and he gets a free kick

I respect Chris, I respect his opinion, but that nothing comes good after that. I think that's good. If you're in the center bounce, you get a knee to the rim and you still get your hands to the ball play on. That's the way I've always been told a lot of times as ruckman. It's almost what can I get away with more than rather oh I'm gonna, you know, do this and get the ball. It's like, okay, well, find maybe just get a little bit earlier contact, right.

I don't think I've ever heard about my career.

But there's things like even in center bounces where ruckman step outside of the center circle before they go. Almost every single ruckman does it, but I've never seen a free kick from it, and there's little things like that. The umpires just like oh, because they want the game to play on. That's the way the AFL rules. But this whole knee into someone like you have to be able to find a way around it, right, So if you look at the vision, Mark actually just tries to look at him.

He doesn't even look at the ball. He doesn't even look at the ball.

He looks at the Hawthorn player and tries to go body him, and the Hawthorne player, probably thinking he's going to go and jump into him, puts his knee up, probably to protect him, but also try to match his energy coming towards him to offset it. And Mark's just coughed one in the ribs. He didn't put his knee up to protect himself. Mark's not a he's not a rockman. I love the guy, but he's not a ruckman. He's not tol with you, rockman. He's a great player, don't

Yeah, And I feel like, yeah, there's a few things around that as well, like if both if Mark was looking up like going to the cups and knee like, maybe that's something different. But what when you are in the ruck, what's what's your order that you go in? So you look at the player first, then the ball, you go the ball first, always over the player.

It depends on who you're playing.

So if Mark's coming across early like that, like I'm probably realizing that he's trying to take my space. So either I'm going to make him learn a lesson by sticking knee into him, He's gonna essentially be blocking me from being able to get to the ball, and I look like I'm jumping or you try to essentially swim move him, try to get around him, get to the ball draft because Mark's not looking at where the ball's falling.

And there's a coach shedding light on it. Do you think it should have been a free kick in that instance? To Blitzers, because he got one.

I don't think it should have been because he got his hands to the ball. He actually got the hit out, like it was. I think it was Meek. I want to say it was in there with him. I want to say it was he actually got the hit out. So Mark came across too early trying to make contact. Meek said, Okay, well, I'm just gonna stick my knee up, protecting himself because you got to think the ball falls

We might as well just have a ball up in the.

Middle of it, like a jump ball in basketball.

Essentially, that's what's going to turn into.

Yeah, it'll be interesting to see what the reaction is out of this if we see more free kicks paid, because you do see a lot of ruckmen running in with their knee up and.

What's jumping with your knee. That's how it is. Protect yourself.

And that's why, like, that's why they wear shinguards, like because you know that someone's going to be trying to literally injure you, which is what he was doing to Mark Bissives. And then if they're still going for the ball and getting up like you might break a rib, like I've broken ribs And I actually whenever I had my spleen do like whenever that happened, and went in and got a scan. The guy goes, oh, do you

Well, it was a crazy game.

You can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen.

That's that's good. I would clip that one up.

Thank you. I appreciate it.

But it was a crazy game. And another crazy game from Jeremy Cameron, who I think you twenty two touches, kicked seven goals, one killed an umpire. He did it all out there. It was nuts. Like it's gonna be a weird one because I feel like he should be leading the brown Low, but there is some merit in if your team's losing games, you probably shouldn't get the three. Like I feel like you should be in the maybe

If you're kicking seven in a game, you best be getting three.

Oh yeah, seven goals in the game, and you're not getting three votes. Like, I don't know who's getting better, Like who's doing better than that? Maybe you've won by one hundred points and whoever's in the midfield just dominating giving it to you. But Jeremy Cameron plays all over the ground, Like this guy is the most multipurpose athlete. I feel like that's out there at the moment in the AFL, And if he's not leading the Brownlow race right now, is one of the most valuable players in

Yeah, but that's what I like, one hundred percent winning probably the MVP players vote, coaches Award, like everything. It's just the yeah, the brown line is just different. But there's no way he didn't get the votes yesterday because he's getting more goals than any forward and more touches in their midfields. Like, it's just nuts. And they would have been up shit Creek in the first half if he had not been playing. Were you about to push the panic button at about half time?

Half to I looked at it.

That was like, Sherily gin Along is just gonna thump hawthorn here, right, but halfway cort too them there they were up at halftime. I was like, oh my gosh, this might be panic stations for Geelong. And then of course two quarters later Gelong comes back and kicks about one hundred and twenty points.

So Geelong, you know.

We've talked about it and a lot of people who are kind of in this situation of winning panic buttons for Geelong, and I've always been a fan of them, so I've always kind of said, don't push panic buttons. They've had a few injuries, all this kind of stuff, right, I think now this might be the one spark that gives them the momentum to keep going forward.

Yeah, I mean maybe they were a little delayed preseason everyone's talking about it, which I don't really get because the one guy that said that he was having a pretty chill preseasons coming out and having twenty two touches kicking seven.

Ft maybe the keys just a smash beers left, right and center and knackers.

It's ridiculous. I don't The thing that I hate about this is you get players to have a podcast, to have a voice, to have personality. All the media, all the fans are like, we want to have a voice, we want personality out of the players, and then they say they give you a little fucking breadcrumb, and then you jump on them, Oh what's that you were relaxing over the off season. You gotta do three six five

Yeah, it's like, I mean, we're all on it together, you know, so whenever he cops it, like we all want to back him up and for a long time because of I think not only that.

He was obviously head coach.

He's got that huge, you know, history with the club, and everyone expects greatness from him because he was such a great player, and it would probably put extra pressure on him just from the fan standpoint of what they expected. And as players, it's just it's tough because you know, like he's having to sit there and face up to the media every single week because he has media commitments as a coach, so he's having to face those questions

So it's tough.

To see that, and like, I think, more than anything, whenever you do see a coach under pressure like that, it just makes you want to win that much more so then you can see him be able to talk about something positive and not have to answer the questions about someone saying something negative or trying to to like, you know, try to catch them off in some way and try to get some kind of the quote out of them.

Yeah, it was tough.

I've obviously been through the kind of Bucks era and stuff now into the Craig era, and it's interesting how different they probably treat the two people. Like Craig's not he's not probably a media personality before he came into the Callingwood job and obviously being a Collingwood coach, it's a massive, massive responsibility and you know a lot of criticism comes with it. But it was weird how different

Just jumping in, did you see or feel, like physically feel that the pressure difference, because like Bucks coming in had pressure. The changeover from like the Mick into Bucks was like messy, and then obviously Bucks being like this, like the son of Collingwood, like this massive figure, had all this pressure on him from the jump, and then I felt like that just carried the whole way through.

Yeah, well Fly kind of started fresh because we had

That also added pressure to the whole situation.

So yeah, I think that was probably tough to deal with, I imagine from his standpoint. I mean, like he has been such a successful player, and you know, I think about, you know, the things I've been able to experience them all lifetime, my footy career and stuff, and you always look back to other players that probably have never been able to experience that, and you have to be happy with the experiences you have had, but also be motivated

I'm not really sure.

But Nathan's one of those people always kind of, you know, wish the best for He's a he's a person that's done so much for the sport, so much for the league, and he's one of those special talents that are kind and once in a generation but yeah, he's now moved on to the meter side of things and that answer, sorry, that question will probably only be answered by him whether he wants to come back.

And Ken Hinckley would have signed a massive sireh relief when he saw the ball dipping on the line, because geez, everyone was celebrating that, all the Sydney fans in the crowd, the Sydney players, the Port players dropped their head and then there was an Eastern miracle and so it felt like the ball just hit a brick wall because it was flying. It was like post high and then all of a sudden they just dipped on the line and alier Ala.

Who you know so good his name twice.

Ken Hinkley owes him a slot because he was just he was stopping every ball coming in. He's playing on buddy, the best goalkicker in the history since you know, way way back, Like, yeah, he was just stopping everything. And of course he was the one that stopped the last ball on the line. So yeah, he would have been breathing a big sireh relief.

It was. It was a big care. It was forty five meters so it was a massive kick. I don't think people realize how far it actually was out. So he marked it about forty five, which means he's kicking at least fifty. It was straight, like you look at the because of the camera shot was perfect. It was right behind him like the ball was going straight through

Because he was laying on the ground with someone on top of him and he had no idea. So when he sat up and he said what happened and he mouthed it so clearly, like you'd be so confused, and then yeah, I don't people like, you know, analyzing it to the death of like oh, well, like this person celebrated too early, and like like Buddy could have done this, and then that it's like, come on, it was dropping a meter short and there's twenty blokes on the line.

The pressures bullshit though, I mean we're in round four, going into round five, like there is still so much footy to play, and people are already gone, oh, these are the favorites to win the flag and oh this and that, you know, and it's just there's so much to play out. I think about whenever we were at round five last year, right, people would have gone not

Yeah, And I feel like competition lends itself to that now, like the competition is so wild, Like no one would have had Saints on top of the ladder. Yeah, plus not only that.

A long literally at the end of this like round on the bottom.

Yeah, and they're like Saints of injury depleted, like you know, backs against the wall, like it would have been good if they were you know, clipping the bottom of the eighth or something pre season, but you know, everything changes crazy. It's yeah, it's I think foot is in such a good spot. Something sad out of the game though. Patty

It's a duty of character the player more than anything. I know.

I'm sure Patty would say, you know, he's one of those players. I'll be right, I'll be right, you know, like and everything else. But it is a serious topic obviously, like the AFL is you know, now starting to take a bit of a hotter stance on it, which thank god it took long enough, but yeah, it's one of those things now, like that the tackle just looked.

You know, I wouldn't even known that would have happened.

And he'll you got that vision of him walking out or walking off the ground being quite dazed, and that's scary. That's scary to watch, like as as someone that's you know, a colleague somewhat you know, someone from a different team, but Yeah, to have that many cussions, you know, you just have to wish the best for him. And really the hands are in the doctors, like sorry, his hands

Yeah, and I think there's going to be a process of this. Obviously talking to Patty, seeing where he's like head and heart is at whether he wants to continue on,

It's one of the hardest things I think as a player whenever you're told by doctor can't play, and you have to have full trust in the doctor. Obviously they're qualified and a lot more intelligent in the area than

People look at it and go like, well, obviously he's done. Like obviously, just call it for your own good. But like some of these guys, it's foot is all they've ever known, what is their identity? Like it it's different for every player obviously, but like it's not an easy call to be just saying like, oh, yeah, I'll just wrap up my career and my life right here right now and.

Trying to find something else to do. Yeah, it's not easy.

We'll move into an on the Adelaid versus freole game now something happened in this and we're going to talk about a few of these situations now, and numpire got a little bit of love, got a little bit of love for all the wrong ones.

I was surprised. Have you ever been in trouble for touching an umpire?

I've had an umpire touch me and I I remember he grab me, I touched me on the arm.

I was like, hey, hey, hey, hey, this goes both ways. Now.

It was.

Yeah, so Jake's oligo kicks a goal, but it's it's one of those real contentious like it's on the line, like was it touched?

Did it go through?

Kind of sucker, kind of weird goals, and he celebrates because he knows that he's kicked it. And it was almost just a reflex of like touching the umpire's arm and going like you saw that right, Like I kicked the goal. And then as soon as he did it, he was like, I didn't mean to touch, like.

You know, he as soon as he did, it goes there's fifteen hundred dollars just flushed down the drain.

Yeah, and I reckon you start. Have you had any fines?

Yeah, not for touching an umpire. But I've had plenty of finds in my career. I feel like maybe a tribe in order to hear there.

For me when I got if I got a fine, I would instantly be thinking like I could have bought like a TV, or I could have bought this, or I could have bought that.

Like a lot of people will sit there on that.

Like if you do something in a game that's a bit questionable, you know, like players are coming to you and be.

Like, oh, that's a fine, You're going to get fine.

Here you get suspension for like a week, and they try to play into your head of like you're going to get suspended or something like that. You know, but yeah, you yet, I mean it was quite yeah, Like it wasn't like it wasn't malicious by any means, don't get me wrong, but like the rules are the rules. If you touch an umpire, you get a fine. He would have kicked that goal, touched it and gone ship.

At least it's a goal, Like you got the goal.

It's yeah, it was they got the wain on that other we again.

If it was a fifteen hundred dollars point, that would suck.

Well, how much is a goal worth? Nowadays. I don't know.

Hey, I would pay fifteen hundred dollars for a goal because I've never kicked one.

Another another one that we have to talk about Tomy Cameron hit sticks and umpire this weekend.

We haven't we haven't brushed on up yet.

Big weekend absolutely demolished and umpire just swallowed him all in celebration.

And this is a bit different because he didn't really see him coming. And I think, honestly it's on the umpire because he was turned around out looking at him, celebrating to the fans of where it was, and the umpire had all the vision of him coming out in full steam and just didn't get out of the way.

Yeah, I think the umpire had less awareness because you know, you can't you can see Jazz coming.

He's excited, just kicked a big goal.

I reckon maybe the umpire just had all eyes on ball. He's like, I got to get this back to the center, like that's where his job starts. When jesus So, I don't know, but it was kind of like a weird one, like he just engulfed this bloke because Jess would be one hundred kegs, so just engulfs him and then this long, like drawn out hugs from like.

I think of Joey Cameron's body goes fifteen hundred dollars. How can I play this off? I want my money back. Cash converter.

Yeah, he's just like softly picking him up like like a delicate flower. You're all good, buddy, you're right.

I didn't hurt you, did I that's gonna be even worse. That might be five if I actually hurt you.

Now that you said that, I want to touch like just.

I would have loved to see the umpires just go and just get into Jesse Cameron. After that, I.

Tweeted out, I would love to see there.

That's good.

Still still just good. But yeah, like come over the guy after bench runs off the bench in his tracksuit and just starts jump a function jets or something. But I want to talk about cash converters. Yeah, and all these A grade players getting on these cash converter ads. What's that that's old for? Traka, Oh, come, you've got money, You're not going to cash converters to get a second hand PlayStation? Get off it.

Cash converters where they get all the stuff they get gifted. They go straight to cash convertse just get the money straight in their hand.

Yeah, exactly smart by that, you get some free crap over your time, you could cash.

I've been to a cash converters yet that Yeah.

They've giving you ideas. Now I want to talk about this one because I couldn't imagine any world that we exist in any you know, different space and time continuum on another planet or in a different vortex that you kick a torpedo on the run from fifty five out like Jake Stringer did on the weekend, because that's ridiculous.

We'd have to be up by one hundred and forty and I would have kicked four looking for the fifth.

Maybe, so a Stringer cops a ton of heat this week obviously, you know, coming back in pre season, not in the best nick as he'd probably admit, gets injured, starts late, pretty much the same story. I'm putting that out there on Jake Stringer. And then as Jake Stringer does, he kicked like six ' ten or six whatever he kicked. He kicked the hell of a lot of points too. But he was just shooting from everywhere, and one of them included a top on the run from fifty five.

If it was me, yes, I definitely would be dropped.

Like aren't there guys in Collingwood that you give a license to? Like I feel like if a Braidon Maynard or something was doing it, maybe yeah.

I mean, like, braid Maynard's not going to get dropped for kicking a torp pond fifty. He might get a stone talking too, but that's about it.

I would hate to give Braidon Maynard a stern talk. That would be scary in itself.

I'm happy to no, I would ud be braid Maynard's the handball received from fifty. He kicks a judge drop punt. That's his go to.

Yeah, he could kick a drop punt from there. I guess that's the that's the difference.

On the rune, like he asks for it. Between him and the daycast boys, you get plenty of plenty of lip. Whenever you get like a ball of mIRC right on fifty.

That's you because you're always like I'm making the distance so super confident. There was for a lot of years there, You're like going back slowly from fifty it's like, oh, he kicked it to the top of the square, yeah, not having a shut Yeah.

But now I think there's maybe one or two players that can maybe. I don't really think anyone our team would do that because we hope to be an unfish team.

That's kind of part of our ethics.

But if there was someone to do it and get away with it, and they would have to kick it though if they miss it, for you're coughing that much.

But maybe Jordan de Goy.

He's a freak, and I feel like he could just maybe he was like getting tackled at the same time, just torped on from sixty and just goes through the sticks. And if it goes through, it's tough to really criticize him because they actually, you know, it worked.

Is it probably what we're asking for now?

Like I look back to the Jade and Stevenson tort from like forty five, so it would have been fifty five sixty. I remember sitting on the line thinking, fuck you, you're.

Gonna just like look us off in the forward line.

Everyone sprinted to the goal line and try to you know, to try to like lead up back to get this ball, you've waved us off and try to torp one from sixty and it went through to his credit. But in my mind, I'll be honest, big fuck off mate.

So he's looked ahead, looking at his options, and he's gone.

He thought a tor from sixty was a better option than the three forwards leading up at him. Then is there anything more disrespectful than that?

I don't know.

That's good. I think I think Jordi probably in the same mold as a Jake Stringer, like one of those guys that can just break a game open. I think, I don't know, I could be wrong, but looking at him, Jeremy How, I reckon has a real good talk in him, though probably a talk technique. I reckon Jeremy How has a great talk in him.

He does probably not at the moment.

Love you, Jemy, all the best of the recovery legend, But yeah, I think Jeordie's probably the one that gets license over anyone else at the club. I'd say maybe Pedals can't make.

Forty Pendals needs a talk, a talk from.

About forty forty five. He's like me, we both struggle to make the distance. But now I think Jordan's the one maybe Nick Decass in the year, maybe him.

I don't know.

I just wanted to check in on this one round four sub rule, like we are we happy with where that sits at the moment. It seems a bit it's weird. It is cool that you can like influence a game, and it's way more tactical now as opposed to like just if it's an injury, you can hold it off until the last quarter and pull the trigger on on a player. But yeah, how do you see it or would you just go like a five man bench or is it working?

I don't think it really matters five man bench or sub because almost every game, right, you're gonna have one player that's playing out one hundred percent or injured or whatever maybe and you're probably going to pull them off. Or maybe it's like a person that's played their first game or like doesn't have the you know, the tank to be able to go through a full game, and you'll have to sub them anyway. So I don't really

Halftime. It's pretty similar.

Have you ever talked to the sub about it, because I can't imagine you'd be the sub.

Probably might have once.

I was a sub last year for Pendles and a very did his finger. I want to say its ether year or two year or two ago against Adelaide to put autolad Marvel. They played dog Ship after that, I played for a half. I don't even think I got a touch. The sub interesting a great tactical idea that was two years ago, two years ago.

But as a sub there's a lot that you have to do that like people don't realize, and it's like you gotta if you come on and then you've got to like make sure you get like the running in your legs and a lot of times you see players out there doing laps after the game and and things like that, and it would be hard to get consistency in your game as well. If you like pull the trigger, you don't know when you're coming on. You might come on for a quarter, you might come on for three quarters.

Mentally, it's a bit of like a screw around like as you Yeah, like you said, you never know whenever you're on, So you're constantly trying to stay warm, ready to go. So if someone does, like I think a couple of weeks ago, Brodie march I had done something to his finger and came off, we had to deploy the sub right away. And that's not something that like you have time. He scently just comes off there go yep, you're on banks see you later, like go, So you

But you got to look at glass at four.

Either not part of the team and you're playing in the VFL that week and you're probably not getting your match bonus and stuff, or you're the sub for the week and the coach still has trust in you that you're at AFL level to be able to play, and you're the sub, you know, hopefully getting a chance to come on and make a difference. So the chances are you're probably going to come on as a sub. Yeah, Like, I don't think there's many games have been played with the sub hasn't been activated.

So do you you still get match payments and it still goes to your game telling.

Yeah, I think so.

Yeah, nice don't because ol Egg was a sub for his first game.

Oh are true? Now another couple of subs coming out of the Richmond team, Lynch and the NAC now two obvious big presences physically and you know in the team lineup, would you sigh a bit of a breath of relief if you were coming up against Richmond without those two in the team.

Yes, they're really good players and I had to find a way to be able to replace the I think right now that they're kind of a similar position with us, Like obviously Nanke is the ruckman, forum their second rockers out, their third Rock is injured, like they're now looking to play Sampson Ryan probably in the middle, like a young kid who doesn't have a lot of experience play at that level playing Rock now, I'm going to have to

That's for sure.

A lot of second ruckman's coming in not knowing the rules, getting maid in the guts. But we'll touch on that now to the Collingwood game, No Rock got these seconds coming in. It looked a bit messy now, like what happened up there? Because first quarter? Good, third quarter? Good, fourth quarter? Good second quarter? Dog shit they kick nine? You kick nne Yeah, and it kind of looked really disjoint like balls were getting out the back. A lot

Yeah, it's I think it's tough as a player who

So it's a credit to him.

But with anything, whenever you first try it, it's it's not going to be perfect. And I think over the weekend we realized that there was some confusion around setups and stuff and center bounces. There was a few free kicks and whatnot, and we tried to play billion into the ruck at times and try to move other people out, and there was a bit of confusion around that. And yeah, it cost us probably a few goals and definitely territory

And it is weird because obviously, so the ruck doesn't just affect the ruck because then you've got to start cherry picking from the ford and the defense, and those two are at the other end of the ground. So I don't know if you know that forwards are one in, but so it's really hard to communicate. I can imagine between those guys and be like you need to be in there, you need to be in there. It would throw the whole team structure into a bit of chaos.

Yeah, it's I think whenever you're a rock and whenever Doris and I play, like we've both played rock for a while and like we're pretty interchangeable in that role. Like it's not like I think whenever Brodie was playing, we tried to play Brody a.

High percentage in the ruck and we would get less percentage in there.

But with Darcy myself, it's really more kind of towards that fifty to fifty raw And like if I you know, like whenever I had the spleen thing happened, I remember that happened, was like Darcy, come fill my role just for a chunk, because I'm nowhere near it or at the moment, I'm bleeding internally. So there's kind of those opportunities where you're just like it just flows and you

Like it's it's tough to get that perfect you.

Know, connection straight off the bat, and I think that's probably maybe something we struggled with on the weekend. But yeah, it's it's it's tough, Like it's tough to watch it and you want to it's just like you just want to be out there just like fixing it, you know, like you just want to be out there fixing it.

Are you confident that you'll be able to fix those like communication issues or have they been addressed? I guess more importantly.

Yeah, I think we'll sort it out this week. I think we'll have a lot better understanding of what works inside, and we'll get another week of kind of experiencing on the training track, being able to kind of really lock down what that person's going to do in that role and how we're going to I guess shift players around you. I think whenever you put someone into that rock position,

Not used to.

So you got to think like that's that's just kind of the flow on effect of this happening, and over the weekend, I think that was definitely real or sorry, prevalent that you could see in the game.

And correct me if I'm wrong. It's probably a lot easier to fill a gap in the forward line than it is in the back line. So when Frampton comes up to fill the rock, is that why we were seeing so many kind of goals out the back and like spare Brisbane players. Is that where it fell down or was it a separate issue.

Oh, I think a lot of times when we get scored on, it's out the back, and that's because we're a high pressure team. We come forward, we pressure the ball, we back in our heat on the ball, and then if they are able to get through that, and it's it's very rarely I think actually as a team teams can do that because it's such a high pressure game.

Song, take Me Home, cut Your Road to Please Off.

That's Virginia, like seriously, six times of the game, John Denver, Don't get me wrong, but shit, I was sick of that song by the time I left that joint.

The bloke sitting next to you singing alone, oh no, he was pissed.

Fume and Collingwood fan.

But that's enough of you sitting in the stand singing country Road. We need a bit of an injury update because I heard some whispers that you're ahead of time and you're ahead of schedule.

There's some wild rumors out there at the moment, Braden, stupid rumors. But people somehow know more about my internal organs than I do.

Yeah, so you wouldn't have even you've been up on the Gold Coast lounging it around by the pool side, love it just getting some.

Sunch spa treatment out of the beach.

Do you pay for anything? All right? That was a free view. Surely you're on the Instagram, Braiden.

I don't released the information of the Okay.

So you're out there lounging around, So injury update, we better, we worse? Can we rush it along or.

I feel better?

I think for a long time I was in this like because I had this essentially like two plus leaders of blood in me that was pushing things around really weird, and the body just somehow absorbs this thing. I don't know, And I felt quite nauseous for a week and just was like really kind of like all over the place in that sense. But I feel normal now and talking to the doc, the blood counts back to normal, which

Got a chemist Warehouse, get some vitamins.

Vitamins.

Your TikTok was actually like the TikTok walking through chemist Warehouse hitting your head on the science. That was actually good gear.

I thought it was pretty funny. Also, does anyone else know this? Chemists Warehouse is just like a huge clearance cell. Everything is on sale. It is just lime green, just neon pink. Everything looks like I get a headache walking through the joint. I mean, like, how do you actually know what's on sale in that place?

Love Chemist Warehouse?

I saw me wrong. But like their marketing is just like everything must go.

Well, it's all relative because if their prices are cheap to everywhere everywhere else everything's on sale. Now. I will say that there's one bloke on Twitter that's putting out there miracles and he's got the inside scoop on Mason's injury. I don't know how you could bloody know because he hasn't got his scans. He's laying on a fucking banana lounge up in the Gold Coast, so he's got the inside inside word. He must be your proctologist or something.

He's up there.

But we'll look ahead to the Saint Kilda game, Chris. They are fly harmon top of the ladder, big game coming up. Gather around over in Adelaide. Now are you going to be there? You're not going to be there. I don't think i'll be there, right, So watch this space. We'll see what we can do with that. We'll get we'll get some we'll get some coverage going. But yeah, that I don't know how. They're kind of playing a similar game to you, like that you both running gun. So it should be exciting footage.

It would be a really good game. I'm excited to see how this pans out.

I think it'll be a high scoring games, would be a lot, a lot of risky kicks, you say, to try to get some of the like a go on the other end. So it's going to be a very pressure game, very fast flowing game. A game that I think might be the best game to watch of the round. I might even say, and yeah, it's gonna be exciting. I mean, like, obviously Saint Kilda is just choo choo train, just rolling through teams at the moment, and we've had the loss in Brisbane last week, so we'll be having

It's going to be challenging for ross Lyons to get his gatorade bottle through security at the airport to get over to the Adelaide. So I don't know, I don't know if you'll be as jovial as cheery as he's been in past weeks. But it should be a bloody good game. And I'm right, I'm right there with your defense is dead. Who needs defenders? Defense sucks. We want goals, we want attacking footy, we want fast, fast, footy and we're getting it this year, so it should be a

I must say there's a reason we've only got one pod coming out this week, and it is massive because we've got some of I will say, we have just recorded one of the biggest, biggest names in Australian athletics.

It's actually huge. That's a nice, little, nice little mind game. I reckon you put in there.

It was skin the Gold Coast. A little teaser there. I'll let you try to sort out who it might be.

I think if you think of the biggest name that you could possibly think in Australia in your head, it's bigger than that.

Ain't that a teaser?

Anthony ELBANIZI alban.

Easy, he's taking it easy. Oh it's not Anthony Albanezi. I will let you know that one.

So we didn't do just one episode because you were in the Gold Coast on the Banana Ledge.

Well, you know, we want to give everyone a happy Easter with the family. Didn't want to be in there here too much, you know, just family time is important, so we'll let him have that. You know, it's one podcast this week, massive interview coming up, and we've also got some other interviews coming through. I will give a little teaser here. Some NHL boys coming on. Yeah, HiT's big fights. That's gonna be good fun, that's gonna be real good. Fine, We've got a really random one coming

We're getting them from everywhere.

We're getting them every single direction. Mason Cox is not taking tame on im off at the moment. He's just hamming like Saint Kilda, pomping the pod. Get around it, ladies and gentlemen. But that is it for this sports podcast. Look, look, subscribes, you don't want to miss this upcoming little month and a half. It's going to be absolutely Insaye, you don't want to miss the rest of the season, to be honest. Sorry, subscribing on the platform's legends. It is an absolute pleasure.