Phil Davis
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Podcast Appearances
And when you're incredibly smart in how you play the game, you buy yourself more time.
You take off your physical tools.
Secondly, he clearly looks after his body.
He's in great shape.
He's had some luck with injuries along the way, but he looks after himself very, very well.
And then the third one is he's clearly kept mentally fresh.
He hasn't been bogged down in what can be a very mentally exhausting job every week getting up.
And he's managed it incredibly well.
And I think you bundle those three together and he just does what he does.
Well, we both love cricket, don't we, Jordan?
And I think if we go all the way back to the DRS, the evolution of DRS was to stop howlers, to stop the ones that were so far wrong when you smashed it inside your pad or it's pitched half a foot outside.
If it was glancing the top of off or if it was just missing, I don't really care because that's not what we're doing because we don't mind a little bit of judgment.
And if we think we come across to the AFL and we go, what are we trying to stop?
Well, we're trying to stop Tom Hawkins kicking into the post in a grand final and counting six points.
That's what we're trying to stop.
And I think for me, when we review little instances that aren't significant, like a lasso on the wing, out of bounds on the full versus one point, like what to me are relatively trivial.
If you can't make the decision from footage within 10 seconds less, there's not a howler, then we just move on.
But what we do is we... Like, I saw the Griffin-Logue one and I thought it was touched.
But does it matter?
Yeah, it does in the situation of the game.