Ash Brown

But sometimes you just sit down over a meal, give them a pitch, and then three months later.

Get the job done.

Get it done.

Yeah, and he's a superstar of the game who's never sort of had a Victorian element to his game because he's from South Australia, went to Freo, and now applies to trade in Queensland.

So he's a superstar who hasn't played for one of the Victorian clubs.

All over that later in the year.

It's been put to me that Brisbane might be sorry to leave him go because it would help their case to keep Zach Bailey.

Well, it's a rivalry week as well.

We've got three rivalries that are covered up.

The big one Thursday night, Carlton Collingwood, and we sort of wonder where that fits into the rivalry ladder these days, Tom.

Well, I remember guys like Ray Byrne and Russell Olsen crossing from Carlton to Carlton.

Peter McKenna being the most famous, seven games for Carlton.

All I know about this rivalry, they haven't played a final since 1988.

At quarter time of the preliminary final in 2023, I had visions of a Carlton Collingwood grand final, and we had the record cover designed for that grand final.

We had several punters contact us who know how we operate after the game saying, can you send us the cover anyway of what the record would have looked like had it been Carlton Collingwood grand final, which we don't do.

We pretty much spike it.

once that's done.

We don't make those things available.

We're not getting out there.

But I had visions of what would have been the greatest grand final, just the build-up, let alone the game.