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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Kane and King. Fireball. Morning to you ballers. Public holiday. We're still here. Of course we are still here because you know what? We get up early and do the work, ballers. There's no way we're going to get beaten by what we know in a round where five of, what is it, seven games have been decided by six points or less. It's been amazing. Tom Morris live in the studio with all the news.
Plenty of that. A lot of controversy, some iffy umpiring decisions, perhaps costing some teams some games. Big, big morning coming up. We've got a whole lot of ping pong balls on the desk in front of Kingy. 600 odd ping pong balls. Balls for balls if you don't mind. So if your name gets called out, you want to be ringing us with inside 10 minutes for your chance for 10 new shiny Sherons.
All the segments you know and love as always. The Monday Agenda Fireball Feedback. Our first thoughts from an epic, epic round of football. and we will get stuck into it in the next three hours. David King's the best analyst in football. The laptop has become contagious. We'll get to that shortly. Kingy, good morning. Morning, Cornsy.
I'd love to say it's great to be here, but I don't know if it is anymore. No, it's not. No public holiday, Sean, no. Where is everyone? Where would you have them off? Where's level five? I tell you what, it was easy to get a car park downstairs and there'll be no traffic problems on the way out, I don't reckon. No complaints about pitching someone's car park this morning.
Looking forward to catching up with Sam for a coffee after the show. Maybe Jules will drop in. They won't be here. What do you mean? Hutch will be here. Looking forward to that. He hasn't had a day off since he turned 18. The means test. What time's that kick off? Not at me. We wheel him in for that. Not Sammy Edmund again. He will be. No, no. He could be. Poor old Sammy Edmund. Sammy.
Give him five minutes. Give him five minutes. Can't be Whitey, surely. Whitey's been flying everywhere. I only see Whitey at airports these days. He was in Adelaide on Thursday night. Remember the Jerry Maguire movie? He just waves at his ex-mistresses at every airport. I'm like that with Whitey. Feels like me. What a weekend, eh? How good's footy? Huge. How good's footy?
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Chapter 2: What are the highlights of the recent footy season?
They were mainly close games, except for the team I support. That was close. What happened to them? I don't know. 19 goals in a row. Really starting to shoot. 19. No, we want the, are we ever going to see finals again? That's what we want. Give me a bit of that this morning. I'm not sure we are. I thought we'd turn the corner. Got a couple of wickets, didn't it? A few people just... Here we go.
He's doing it in? Yep. Went down to Arden Street, there's murals on the wall. Nothing's there since Dennis left when his heart began to fall. Am I ever going to see the finals again? No way. Get... Am I ever going to see September again? Oh, that's my favourite one. Of all of them, that's my favourite. Yeah, we got a newie. Did we? We got a newie. We've been busy. We got in early this morning.
Even on a public holiday? Got up early. Wow. Did the work. It's not our best work, right? But it's public holiday and I thought, you know what? We just need a little wedge or two to get us through the morning.
blow it's emotional it's just sad St Kilda I'm giving up on you your season's done and you know it too just it's poor by St Kilda they'll be kicking themselves Grundy Tahini is the play every time TDK, Nas and Philippou. Jeez, you just knew what was going to happen up here. We've been saying it all night and then exactly what did happen. Sam Kildare, I'm giving up on you.
I think if you take our win-loss, we've improved. And us. Just kick the damn ball. That's far short. Kick it over, shaman's head. He's doing f*** all. I'm not one to hold it. St Kilda, I'm giving up on you.
That was you, Cor.
Join in. Too good. I don't have the range.
Your season's done and you know it too. Sammy's in, Sammy's in. Oh, of course he is.
We'll move on. T.D.K., Naz, and Philippu. Give me one big finish. Give me one. I don't know the words. St. Gilder, I'm giving up on you. That'll do us, I reckon. Too good. Oh, Sammy, well done. Saints fans. Well done, Sammy. He's on fire today. Is it your birthday today?
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Chapter 3: How does the team reflect on their performance?
No, no. Who said that? Someone said happy birthday to you, Tony. Not his birthday. No, no, no. David, I missed first crack last night. You don't get called David often.
No, no, and I didn't miss it.
It was good to have a day off. That's good stuff. You just got up early and did the work on the public hallway. You had that in the workshop, that with our man from the Pullman, Glenn, on Friday. You put a little bit of work into that and caught up with Glenn. How was that function? It was good. It was good. What, horny in good form? I love the great men.
Uh, there's, there was a lot of, a lot of good footy people. You know, you miss, there's a lot of blokes in footy that you don't ever see.
You see once every three years, guys like Paul Hopgood and David Meads, just rippers, rippers. I could spend all afternoon with, with Hoppy. I reckon he's a beauty. Haven't seen him for a while.
Last time I saw him, he was doing something for the NFL with Benny Lockwood, a mate of mine. And it was the day the Rising Star story broke. So it was a rough start to our friendship. Anyway, we move on. We move on. We move on. We move on. I'm waging war this morning. Who with? The Substackers.
What's a Substacker?
The Substackers. That's like a music thing, isn't it? Nah, someone who writes content and gets people to pay for that content, which a lot of people do it. But a lot of footy- An example of a sub stack. A lot of footy sub stackers out there where they would write a column. Right. You click on their website to read the column. You only get a little snippet of the start of it.
You've got to subscribe and then you pay and then you get to read all of their work. A lot of footy sub stackers around and I had an argument with one of them on the weekend. Who questioned my football knowledge because I had Logan Morris ahead of Dan Curtin in a redraft of the 2003 draft. When did you do this redraft? Well, it was quite handy timing for me. When did you do it? Friday.
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Chapter 4: What are the key takeaways from the latest games?
The boys at the back have been very busy this morning. But we don't have to listen to it. But Fireball Miss won again on the weekend, and it won the Queensland Oaks, which is a group one. Okay. Now, our man that promised us the walk and talk. He wouldn't be working public holidays. No, no. Gareth, they don't even turn his hand track on on public holidays.
We're going three till nine this morning, everyone. Where's the means test this morning, Gareth? Where's your pick and stick? Bounce around and join in. How are you spending your $100? They never have days off. Racing's the industry that they never, ever have days off. Well, let's find out if he has today off. We will. Let's find out. Is there racing anywhere today?
Triple agent, can you check the broadcast guide and tell us if Gareth's on today, please? He might be at Swan Hill, actually. Really? Now that I say that. Would he be at Swan Hill Carnival, isn't it? Yeah. You're looking at the triple agent like he would know. No, JK, he works the roster here. He knows everyone's shift. He knows what everyone's doing. Does he? Miles Fitzner filling in for Gareth.
I tell you, if Gareth ever goes – if he ever disappears and goes missing, suspect number one will be Miles Fitzner. Drive and thrive.
Drive and thrive. That really took off. I haven't seen another drive and thrive. Well – You're lucky to get away with it, I reckon. I don't know if he did. I don't know if he did either. You know, I was at the MND function and I just love our baller family, right? Yep. They're everywhere. And I had this beautiful woman, Sue Hawker was her name.
Sue was, Sue came up and said, look, King, I need to tell you. I need to tell you. I love me golf and with the ladies and we play a bit of golf. And when, when we get a birdie, we shot a fireball. Yeah. I said, that's good. I said, how often do you get a birdie? Right. Cause it's hard. She's, she's, I'm being respectful. She's, she's an older lady, but she was a beautiful lady.
And I'm thinking, I don't reckon she's getting too many birdies. Right. Anyway, she said, I played with a guy off plus two on Thursday. He had five birdies. He had five fireballs while playing a game of golf. I reckon that's hilarious. She couldn't drive home. So a good little shout out to Sue because I love the idea that the girls are getting involved. And you know what?
If we're ever out and about, we'd love to have a fireball with you. How come we don't have fireballs as a sponsor actually? I've never been able to work that out. You reckon level five? I would have thought level five would have been all right, if not level five and a half. There is an obvious link, isn't there? Well, yeah. I would think so. How long do you reckon it'll take him to work that out?
How long have we been doing this? Actually, he hasn't missed a dollar in 40 years. How long have we been doing this show? He hasn't missed one cracker, one red cent. I know. That's a good point, actually. Hey, we got some Dwayne. Triple agent or not? Not just yet, but he's had a bit on this. Mate, we better do a song. Oh, we did send it through days ago. No. Didn't we? Yes.
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Chapter 5: What controversial umpire contact incidents are discussed?
Well, you're doing the Harry Mackay and you're having a shot and you're milking 30. Yeah, and you might kick it and then it's your game over. You might have another one, yeah. It's a big call. This has definitely been an instruction. Like the non-15 calls, it's actually got out of hand. Like we're just – eye test tells you that's 15 metres. He's marked it. Everyone knew that he had marked it.
Probably game over. Saints fans should rightly be furious about that one because for some reason the umpires are now obsessed. We saw it last week and it changes mid-year of calling play on. Did you see mark of the year? Yes. He was so good yesterday. How good was he? What about, and he's great. He's tackling his hunt. He's great for the game. The Michael Jackson celebration was all time as well.
I loved the Windhager-Heaney celebration. Stoush all day. Heaney was unbelievable. And Windhager, to his credit, was pretty good too. That was as good a battle as you're going to see all year. And those players that just refused to be beaten despite being heavily tagged, I love. There's only a handful of those who you cannot get in their head when they are being tagged. Bontempele is one of them.
Nick Dacos is absolutely. Butters is getting to that level now.
Chapter 6: How does the concussion situation affect player contracts?
And Heaney's there. Other than that, There's a lot of players that don't love being tagged. Pick and stick, JK. Pick and stick. Best player in the competition right now, Heaney or Bontempele? Heaney, for me, is more of a forward threat. It's fireball, mate. No, I'm just giving you the reason, because there'll be some Western Bulldogs fans driving off the road right now.
I would take Bontepelli's career, clearly, but right now, Heaney. Jackson or Grundy? Jackson. Oh, that was strong. Yeah, Jackson. All right. Logan Morris or Dan Curtin? Logan Morris. Well, on Thursday, Dan Curtin. Yes.
On Saturday.
Chapter 7: What are the implications of Tom McCartan's concussion history?
Oh, man. Now, let's get to a serious topic because, and we'll have Tom Morris in to chat about it later. Yeah. Tom McCartan going off with concussion and he's had significant concussion issues over the last three years. is just a real concern for the game, for the young man. But let's just stick with sheer football at the moment. The ramifications of this for the premiership of 2026 are huge.
Yeah, it is all Australian form. And look, they've got a tough decision to make as well with the Sydney Footy Club about... his future and how much they invest in that as well. I mean, you spoke about this, I reckon, with Starcevich at Brisbane. And the club doesn't like it. And I understand it's a sensitive one.
But when these long-term deals are on offer and a player has had this history, I think the club's got to be a bit cautious. Here's Tom just with the latest on this major contract update for Tom McCartan.
Tom McCartan's out of contract due at the end of 2027, so still 18 months to go. He'll be a free agent there. What we can say on Channel 7 today is that the Swans have offered a minimum six-year extension to keep him at Sydney until he's 33 or 34 years old. They see him as potentially their most important player in defence, and that is why they are so keen to keep him.
Again, these discussions are very early.
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Chapter 8: How does the conversation shift to the future of coaching positions?
The fact they've offered that deal just gives you an indication of how much they love him.
Now, I wanted to speak about this because that was pre-game. Yeah. And I think I'm right in saying, I think it's five concussions in the last three years or something like that. Is it fair- I saved that, I think.
Is it fair for the club to now reconsider that as much as I understand this is a sensitive topic, but you couldn't be investing eight years essentially because he's contracted for another one or two and then the extension- in a player that just has those, that would be irresponsible of a club, I think, to do that now. Yeah. Off the back of Brayshaw and the issues that they had to pay out
With that, I just think these long-term deals are really dangerous now that concussion has been highlighted. Yeah. I went hard on this with Starsevich and got smashed for it. Clubs don't like you talking about this, but in the end, it is a financial decision for a business. Take the football emotion out of it. Are you taking that risk? If it were your money, would you take that risk?
I think clubs too easily sign off club money. Yeah. If it were your cash, are you making this decision with your hard earned? Um, he's a star factor player, but I'm only, I'm really concerned for the young man now. Yeah, we all are.
yeah and the family as well with everything that they've been through yeah paddy as well like i just i feel for i feel for the whole family having to deal uh with this again i hope he's all right yeah uh well tom tom tom tom will have an update i'm assuming like a lot of concussions we won't know a whole lot for for a while and they'll be they'll be extra cautious with him and we can actually we'll put a text into our man tommy chadwick who's very good
At getting back to us and he works public holidays. There's no doubt about that. You turned on him and it's really nasty. I did not turn on him. Yes, you did. I did not turn on him. You said he puffed his chest out. We go way back. You said he walked around with some sort of strut that he didn't. I've made him actually. I've made Tom Joe. He had a strut. No one has pumped him up more.
I had him in my top three media managers. I've got to redo that list. You said that his chest was too far out for the status he has in the game. There's been a few sort of snakes and ladders with the media managers at Clubland. Some have just shot up with a rocket. Has there been some movement? Oh, have you seen my hat? Oh, no way. You can't bounce around like this.
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