Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
Breakfast with Gary and Tim.
Good morning, everyone. Great to have you with us. Thursday, April the 30th, it is. AFL Round 8 underway tonight. Collingwood taking on Hawthorne at the MCG. And, oh, have we got a show. It's Collingwood Membership Day today. Dyson Heppel. Doesn't sound right, does it? Dyson Heppel's going to join us for Collingwood Membership Day, but he's played a big part at the Collingwood Footy Club.
Sammy Edmond. He's going to join us, 8 o'clock, news always, plenty of news going around. Billy Gower is one of the great success stories. He was in here in the studio just before he headed off to punt for the University of Hawaii, I think it was initially, and he's now punting with the mighty Indiana. George Samios, the wonderful world of wine.
John from Epping, God knows what we're going to get there. And your calls and text messages. That's the Thursday morning offering for you, Whisker. Good morning to you, Gary. Yes, we're going to give Billy Gowes his flowers this morning. What a 12 months he's had. What a 12 months he's had.
Chapter 2: What is the significance of Collingwood Membership Day?
Yeah, he's a story, isn't he? He is. And he's a lovely fella, so it'll be great to have him in, find out what life was like as a punter in the system. Yeah. Yeah, great. And great work from you and Gerard on G60 last night with Swanee. He went in there with a full, he was fully feathered. He left like a bird with alopecia last night, he did, after your show. No, he didn't.
You gave him a short back and sides, you did. He fronted up and he's got a thankless job. No one's American for AFL House. No one's American for Swanee. We got issues, the footy public, of which we are representative of. So we took the opportunity to challenge him. And yeah, we'll see what happens.
Chapter 3: What are the highlights of Billy Gower's journey?
How'd you score it, everybody out there that watched G60 last night? It wasn't about scoring it. Well, yes, it is. It's about how well somebody presents. I love Swanee. But there were some things that were just indefensible last night. Yeah, and that's the game, isn't it? That's hard. That's hard. He fronted up, though. Good on him. Yeah, he did indeed. What about you? How did you get up to?
I had an interesting day yesterday. Do you have a sad meal? Do you have like a food that you go to when you're feeling a little bit sad and a little bit off? Yeah. What do you go to? The Three Shank Vegetable Soup, homemade by me. It's hearty, it's healthy, it tastes magnificent and just gives you a lift. A flourless chocolate torte is for me.
That's what I like when I'm feeling down and a little bit sad, a little bit melancholy. A what? A flourless chocolate torte, like a chocolate cake that hasn't been made with flour, like oatmeal or something like that. Actually, what is it? That's the first thing I want to get into my guts, a flourless cake. There's nothing like it.
I had to go and park near the Royal Melbourne Hospital yesterday, and I was trying to find a parking spot. And then I came across these parking spots that weren't metered. But then I thought, hang on a minute. Have I been had here? Am I supposed to try and find the meter? And there were no numbers on the parking spots. That's right. There are no numbers on them.
So can you still be detected if you're in those? Yeah, you'll find on the road there'll be these little disks. I couldn't see a disk. Couldn't see anything. And no one had a ticket on their dashboard. Right, so you got the only place in the free world with free parking. Yeah, right out the front. Right at the front of the hospital. I thought, what about my luck?
They normally charge you about, well, last time was three and a half grand for 15 minutes when I went to visit someone at a hospital. And you reckon you've just lucked on one out the front. I lucked on one. I lucked on one. And you know the other thing I lucked on? I've never been to the Royal, I don't think I've ever been to the Royal Melbourne Hospital before. Where's that?
Up in sort of Parkville. Yeah, North Melbourne, Parkville. Yeah, where the big roundabout is there. Near the children's and that. Yeah, up that way. And I was about to go in. I had to go to the southeast ward. I had no idea where I was going. And I saw this young man who had a stethoscope around his neck. And I immediately thought, hang on, he's a doctor. He must know his way around.
And he was such a lovely bloke because I entered on the wrong side of the street. He took me all the way. I said to him, mate, how did you ever work out where you could go in this building? He said, oh, it took me a long time. And he took me all the way to where I needed to go. So I don't know his name. I don't know his background. I don't know nothing about him.
But what a lovely, kind man he was yesterday. Yeah, beautiful. Young bloke he was, too. He's an extraordinary inside. I tried a couple of funny lines on him, but nothing came back the other way. So I thought, OK, I'm just going to play straight from now on. extraordinary insight into the argumentative nature of our audience. Shank soup? Healthy? Do you know how fatty shanks are?
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Chapter 4: What food do the hosts turn to when feeling sad?
I think you're responsible for ramping outside the Royal Melbourne Hospital you were yesterday. That's made my morning, Kim. Thank you for sending that in. Brad's got up early. Brad, this is the ramble here on SEN Breakfast. We tend not to get stuck into the footy too early, but the fact that you've got yourself out of bed early in Western Australia, we're taking a call. How are you?
Yeah, good, thank you, mate. How are you? Good, mate. Good, mate. What's going on? Mate, I want to talk about what I feel is matching around this weekend between the mighty West Coast Eagles and Richmond. You got up early. You're excited about it, Bradley? Absolutely, I've got my tickets and I'll be rocking down there with the blue and gold.
What I want to talk about is, I think this game could be a, let's see how the rebuilds are going because obviously Richmond are struggling at the moment. and they're going through. They had a heap of picks a couple of years ago. West Coast obviously had the Harley Factor, got Dersmar, CBT, going all right and looking okay, and got a couple in. Obviously, Stasevich hasn't had a run yet.
I just wanted to see your opinion on how... This is going, because I think Richmond are in a world of trouble at the moment. Who's going to play on Duff Titler, do you think? Who's going to go on CDT? Yeah. I don't know. Who have they got to go back on him? What about Joby Shanahan? Yeah. He's a gun. He's going to be a gun. I love the way he's developed. Are you going to tag?
Do you think they'll go to Harley Reid or they'll just let him run, do you think? I think they'll let him run because who have they got to run with him? I think this could be the game where the Eagles come out and, look, we're going to go and bash a battler, but it might be the game where we can establish ourselves again as being the best club in the league.
And we're going to come back bigger and stronger. And then we're going to make you Victorians just sit there and go, Jesus Christ. Yeah, he's not playing. Oh, yes. Well, I'll tell you what he is. His name is Harley Reid. Gotcha. And I think, you know what? What? Hopefully in five years' time, it is Richmond and West Coast. Yeah, swings and roundabouts, Bradley. It'll come in time.
You on your way to work, Brad? Yes, I am, mate. What do you do for a crust? I'm a driller. In the mines? A what? Yes, I'm in the mines, mate, yep. You're FIFO or not? FIFO.
Hey, Brad, give us a ring on Monday, or Tuesday, actually, and let us know after the game, because it's not until Saturday twilight, so I haven't quite got my head around it as you have, but it is a big game for you West Coast Eagles, and we appreciate you. We gave you a good run on the ramble, so ring us on Tuesday, okay? Beautiful. Thank you very much for your time. Go on, Brad. Thank you.
Very sensible call at this stage of the morning. Do they live in ā are they dongers? Do they live on those ā at the mines? Are they dongers? You've got what? Dongers. I'm not sure. Why are you looking at me like that? I don't know what you're talking about. They're dongers, aren't they? I don't know. Aren't they mobile, sort of like a home? I don't know what you're talking about.
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Chapter 5: What is the experience of transitioning from one football club to another?
How have you found it, the transition, when you spent such a long time at one football club and you've embedded yourself there, you've done all your growing up in the one place, and now you find yourself in a different work environment? What's it like?
Yeah, no, it's a good shout, you know, and even growing up as a kid, barracking for the Bombers, mate, so it's sort of, she's been a long journey in the footy world with Essendon, but look, I've really enjoyed the roll down at Pies, and they've created a fantastic culture, great bunch of boys, and
It's been interesting experiencing a different culture and having knowing Essendon my entire career. It's a different cape of learning the craft of coaching and I've enjoyed my time so far.
What do you do apart from moving the witch's hats around? Oh, yes. Yeah, that's about it, mate. He's bitter. He's very salty.
Chapter 6: What does a coaching role involve at a new club?
What is your role? Primarily working with the first-to-four-year boys, so running craft and touch sessions in the mornings, helping out at training, running some meetings, mate. I'm a bit of a jack-of-all-trades. Whatever needs to be done, I'm there for it. You're one of the great people, person. I've ever met in the game, Hep.
And I'm just interested as to, you know, the setup of the football club, is it a lot different than what you experienced at Essendon in terms of the way they sort of structure themselves around training and things? A similar vibe in terms of the way and the flow of the weeks. The difference is drills and game plan specific type of educating and things like that.
Even the way they educate in terms of not using a big auditorium, they're on a flat floor in the And, yeah, just being able to create an environment where everyone feels really comfortable and safe to be themselves and feeling a real sense of belonging, mate. So it's been good to see. I think that sense of change would never have been felt more strongly for you than Anzac Day. What was that like?
What was that experience like?
Chapter 7: How do modern coaching strategies impact player management?
Yeah, that was an odd one, I'll tell you what. I was bouncing around to a couple of functions, putting the Don's polo on and then rolling out onto the deck with the Clive's polo on. Yeah, a bit of a strange one, but look, you know, obviously a very special day to be a part of either way. Explain to our audience and educate us in the process about modern day footy and how you've got to manage.
I'm not sure how involved you are in this. I'm sure you would be, but you've got to manage your year. So it would appear that Jeremy Howe and certainly Pendles have been earmarked to miss this game probably weeks out. You've got to try and... Look at the draw, see where the five days and the six-day breaks are and then manage your group.
I mean, that's something that is foreign to Tim and I. It was always you get your best group on the park as best you can. But in this long season, this arduous season, you've just got to make some tough calls.
Yeah, well, this is the thing. There's a real art in sports science and high-performance environments now. And these things can tend to be mapped out from early in the pre-season in terms of looking at the draw and managing training loads. And every player is highly tracked with GPS in terms of the... the amount of work they're doing week in, week out.
So, yeah, there'll be certain periods throughout the year where the team are in a high training phase and certain individuals will need to be managed. And if they've had a higher output on game day than what expected, then they might need to taper off throughout the next couple of weeks.
So, yeah, it's sort of been around a while now, but they're certainly so dialed in in trying to get everyone at their absolute peak week in, week out. So... Yeah, with a couple being managed and rested throughout the year, that's just part of the caper now.
We're talking to former Essendon captain Dyson Heppel, one of the best blokes in footy, by the way, for those people that have never met him, a pious development coach. Now that you've had a little bit of a taste of this, has it whet your appetite a little bit more? Are you starting to think, oh, maybe I wouldn't mind going into this coaching caper?
No, look, it's been a really enjoyable start and something that I honestly didn't think I'd roll down this path. But look, yeah, enjoying my time at the moment. And I think it is something that I could pursue down the track. And if there's avenues and doors that can open to pursue it, then I might have a look at it, mate.
But at the moment, we'll keep cracking on at the pies in this capacity and see how we go, mate.
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Chapter 8: What is Billy Gowers' journey in college football?
How would you describe the way that he acted?
Yeah, well, look, I was expecting a little more, but he gave us a little bit on the day, and we got rave reviews from it in the end, but I can't see him rolling down the acting path from here on in.
Now, how's all the merch selling? Yeah, going really well.
No, look, honestly, incredible support from, you know, the Essendon community and NH supporters in general. So very, very grateful, mate, for the, you know, the footy community and the Essendon fans for showing up and supporting the H-man and the collaboration.
That was fantastic.
Yeah, it's one of the most inspiring things to see, the relationship that you and H and the family have developed over time. Where can people go if they want to get involved and purchase some of the merchandise? It's H-A-Y-T-C-H, is that right? Just H-A-Y-C-H, yeah, that's... That's it, a little play on H-Man's name.
Yeah, but no, just H-The-Label.com. Jump on, have a squiz, as we said, proceed to sell. Go towards helping H-Man tick off his bucket list items and giving a good nudge.
So it's been good fun. Giving it a good nudge. You have. And just getting back to tonight's game too, what's your expectation from the Magpies tonight coming off a short break? Obviously not too banged up after that physical bruising that they caught from the Bombers last weekend, but what's your expectation?
No, I think this will be a really good one, boys. A five-day break's obviously hard to manage, but highly focused on recovery. And the team, they're coming in in good nick. So, no, I feel like we have everything we need to give it a good crack against Hawks. They've obviously got a lot of, you know, speed and exuberance in the way they play.
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