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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
Breakfast with Gary and Tim. It's alright.
Good morning, everyone. Welcome. Thursday, May the 7th it is. Got a stacked McCafe menu for you. Try McCafe's drinks range. Not one, but two AFL coaches joining us this morning. Adelaide Crows coach Matty Nix is going to join us at about quarter past seven. And then Adam Uzay, the coach of the Richmond Footy Club, the victorious coach of the Richmond Footy Club, is joining us at about 20 to 8.
So there you go. That's a very stacked hour. Sam Edmond, 8 o'clock, all the news. Corey Mobilio from Champion Data.
Chapter 2: Who are the AFL coaches joining the show?
He's going to join us at 8.40 as well, just to put some numbers down and answer some questions that I know that we've got. That's his debut, too. He's nervous. He's nervous, not so much me, because I've got a good relationship with him, have had for a long time, but he doesn't know Tim. He doesn't quite know how to take him, so that'll be interesting.
George Samios, The Wonderful World of Wine, and lots of other stuff going on. Hello, Whispers. Good morning, Gary. I'm just slightly distracted at the minute. I'll be with you. You'll have my full attention in a minute. I'm just finishing Wordle, okay? I'm disappointed. I've got it in four. I normally like to get it in three. Do you think people out there want a clue for today's Wordle?
No, I don't think. I don't know if people still do Wordle. You'd be one of the only ones.
No. No.
It was a trendy thing to do at one stage and everyone was into it. Still. Everyone was in these wordle groups and they could talk to each other. You're a stick. I think we've all moved on since then. Hey, big night tonight. Freo take on Hawthorne, Perth Stadium, 8-10 over here on the east and the seaboard. That is a big game.
These are two top four teams that you think are going to finish top four at the end of the year and be very much in contention. So that's going to be a belter tonight. Yeah, it doesn't mean anything, though, apparently, according to the coach over there and Simo last night. He's a blanket, isn't he? I love Simo. What about you? You're fiery. You two last night. You've had a fiery encounter.
You've had two fiery encounters this week. And coincidentally, both of them are Eagles coaches. What's going on there? Have you got something against the West Coast Eagles? I've been embedded in the Frio camp. I know you have. No. It's becoming obvious now. I got up this morning. Just on that, there's a lot of Freo people out there think that you've got a bias against Freo. Against Freo?
No, they don't. Yes, they do. Do they? Yeah. I get fed this stuff all the time on my socials. I think if you wanted to throw it out there, every team could suggest that a commentator's got a bias against them because, Tim, you hear what you want to hear. That's the bottom line. You do? It was 7 degrees this morning when we got up here in Melbourne. It was hosing down, whispers.
They're saying snow, maybe 5 to 10 centimetres at the Alpine Ski Resorts. This is the best day of the year so far. It is the greatest day of the year. No one loves the cold more than you. And the rain. And then I just overheard our man Nims, who keeps us on air, the number one tech in radio in Australia, if not the world, and he was pitching about the weather and whether he needs an umbrella.
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Chapter 3: What are the highlights of the upcoming AFL matches?
I thought, what the hell's there on the floor? Susie had put him on the floor during the middle of the night, right in my walking path, if you don't mind. Yeah, well, I would like people's weather tech. An umbrella is a very awkward piece of equipment, the umbrella.
Like it is, when you think about it, I'm going to go into the weather, I'm going to stick this thing up in the air with a big pointy point on the end of it and try and cover myself. It doesn't. It never covers you. Your legs get soaking wet. And then whenever I get inside, I'm going to drag all that water inside. I'm going to give it a good splash of water everywhere.
Chapter 4: How do personal anecdotes about teachers influence the conversation?
It is a horrible piece of equipment, the umbrella.
What are you going to mind? Who's using the umbrella?
What are you going to mind? A full... Sort of condom-like bodysuit where you can just chuck it over you and then away, like a poncho that goes right to your feet. I've got a walking one of those. That's what I'll have to put on this morning when I go for my brisk walk after the program. They're making some very, very handy rain jackets these days.
I've got a three-quarter length type one that's got a nice little zip and bits and pieces. You go for fashion, not practicality. You need to wear one today, though. That's far more practical than an umbrella. Nathan says it's snowing in Ballarat right now. That wouldn't surprise me. Yeah, umbrellas. Nathan, you can't say that, by the way, what you just texted. No, you can't. No, you can't.
I hope that's Nathan, not somebody impersonating Nathan. Oh, well, we've got an announcement to make right now. Let's do it right now and clear it up, and we'll do it again through the course of the day. So we had a very heated discourse with a text message a couple of days ago. It was surrounding the Whiteboard saga. Everyone's having their opinion. We're respectful. You have yours. We have ours.
You don't agree. That's okay, except for this person who went nuts. And we didn't read it all out, but it was a back and forth. It was unhinged in the end, and it was signed off Kelsey Brown. And I don't know Kelsey, but I know she's part of our afternoon program, and she's sports bet ambassador and all this sort of stuff. And it got increasingly hostile and increasingly abusive.
And in the end, we just said, oh, well, each to your own. And then it came back, don't take the P155 out of us. And I thought, wow, that's a fiery Kelsey. Turns out it wasn't Kelsey. It was someone impersonating. And she is absolutely horrified, horrified about the way that that played out, Whisper. Yeah, no, that's true. But I just wonder, I reckon there's some burner accounts out there, Gary.
I've been thinking this for a while about some regular text messages that we receive in the morning. And I don't know that, I think there's people out there impersonating other people with their thoughts out there. And maybe, yeah, maybe we need to
What do you mean impersonating people?
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Chapter 5: What are the challenges faced by the coaching staff after a win?
And our fans and even my mum will every week call and say, like, this is just ridiculous, I'm going to have a heart attack if we keep going down this path. I think as a coach it's similar. You know, you've done your work during the week to try and get them prepared and really it's over to them in those moments to run sort of modes and go to the right play and
We didn't get it right and then we got it right. In the end, we got it right when you had to with 10 seconds to go. So we're really pleased to get the result.
What was the thing that you got most right then? So for everyone else who's just riding the roller coaster and not looking at it in the most nuanced fashion, what was the thing that got most right and pleased the coaching staff? Well, we find it a lot easier at the moment. We're trying to improve on this, but we find it a lot easier to...
Chapter 6: What aspects of their game do the coaches feel need improvement?
to in that that sort of moment come from behind we you know our group love to use the footy they love to run they love to get outside and and play you know free-flowing open footy uh and we do that really well we've proven that over history we can beat out a couple of points and we'll have a real crack at it and um occasionally knock one over our work on and i think a lot most teams this would be most teams would say the same our work on is to be able to
When a team's coming at you and they're taking risks, they've got nothing to lose, it's our ability to get it done.
And we had a moment, I think it's been well documented by most of the media and the former players, and they can see it clearly, is we just didn't get it done well enough.
So it was a good review. It was nice to have a review off a win, but still be able to pick it apart as a group and say, hey, we've got to be better in this space. This is popping up too often. It was a great review for us. Our players drove it. They let it straight away in the change rooms an hour or so after the game.
Chapter 7: How does player availability impact team strategy?
So, A good result, but a really big one for us. We feel like we're so close at the moment.
We've got a few phases of our game going well, but maybe one that's not quite where we want it. But we felt like that'll give us a little bit of momentum off the back of a good showdown win.
You are close. What piece of your game right now is the most concerning for you?
The word concerning is not the one. It's not what we're... It's actually... We're optimistic about it. We feel really... We're confident we know we're going to find it.
Chapter 8: What insights are shared about managing player expectations and performance?
And it's really our ball use, just the ability to... Now, the ability to use the ball, challenge our opposition at the moment where... We're grinding and we're fighting for 120 minutes. So four quarters of footy, we're working hard and it's taxing. And we're playing in close games because of that reason. We're not able to get a lead and hold it and then put a side away.
Now, in saying that, we have huge respect for our oppo that we've come up against. We've had what we believe is a really tough draw. We've played some great sides who have been right up near the top for the last... five to ten years. So they're not games where you're going to be able to easily move the footy and play free-flowing offense. So we're confident. We're not concerned.
We're confident that we've still got some upside, especially with ball in hand. And that ball movement piece, would it improve any... If Rochelle and Rankin are playing more midfield time, is that a piece of that as well? Or do you think you've got the right combination time-wise with those two players right now? I think we're getting to the right combination.
I think we're getting to the right amount of time in different areas. And there's also different parts of the game where you don't want to completely lose your... your defence or you want to have a good balance in around the footy of inside and outside players. But there's no doubt when Josh gets the ball in his hands and when Isaac gets it, that's their weapon. They're creators.
They're players that can see the field and they make really good decisions with the ball.
you'd love to have 18 of them on the ground at once, but then what we may start talking about, and this is not taking anything away from the guys, is you may drop away a little bit with your contest and your defence. You know, we'd love to have guys, 18 guys that just defend ruthlessly and the ball never leaves you forward 50, but then you've still got to be able to score.
So we need guys that hit the scoreboard. So it's an interesting one that we work through a lot is the balance of our team and Who complements who and how do we get the ultimate cohesion amongst our group?
There's so many challenges for coaches now, but long seasons are another one and how you manage your playing group and the expectation that your stars are going to get through 24 games is naive probably. You've got Riley Thilthorpe that's up and down with the back, we're told. We've got Tex who now has got a hammy. You've got the Fog who's been out with the back as well.
How's all that coming together? How do you weigh up the needs, your immediate needs, that a player might be available straight away, but then you're going long term. Is that the right thing to do? Is one of the bigger challenges you've got these days? Yeah, it is. And again, it's a good challenge. You try and find the positive.
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