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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
Breakfast with Gary and Tim.
Good morning, everyone. Welcome. It is Wednesday, the 17th day of June. Great to have you with us. The McCafe menu, Trimacca's new drinks range. Shane Crawford's going to join us. He's involved in the Legends game. Archie Thompson's going to wander in to talk World Cup. Tom Green, the GWS superstar, and Andrew Russell, Wellness Wednesday. That's a nice full show for you.
Your calls and text messages always most welcome on this program. As I say, good morning to the Wisps. Tim Watson, Whispers. Good morning, Gary. Good morning, everybody. I'd appreciate it if you didn't talk about that game. Well, I've got some news. I've got a lot of news.
I've got coaching news coming out my ears right now with disenchanted coaches, fallouts with players, player coups, trying to get rid of a coach. I've got all that ahead of me. Right, what else have you got then? What I've got is what's going on with this goddamn weather? What is going on with this weather in this state of ours? Well, did you see what was declared yesterday?
They're now, I think it's like 85% sure and certain that there's going to be another El Nino. What's that mean? We're heading into a hot, hot, dry, dry, dry spell again. Ah. What? I know it's been wet. It's been very wet down on the peninsula. Has it? Oh, unbelievable storm down here in the last 24 hours. A ton of rain. Really? We're actually going to go into that dry spell.
They're talking about it being one of the deepest... El Ninos that we've seen in this part of the world. You know what that means, don't you? That's hot and dry. That's a hot, hot summer. That's a disaster, Tim. It's going to be 20 degrees today in Melbourne. Beautiful. 20 degrees in the middle of June. Well, enjoy it. Enjoy it. That's shocking weather for this time of year.
This is the precursor to the weather that we're going to experience maybe for the next 12 to 18 months. Did you get rain with El Nino or not? No, not really. It's more about hot and dry. That's what it is. I'm not that impressed with that. Hey, start of origins on tonight too, by the way, MCG. New South Wales taking on Queensland, 8.05. New South Wales lead 1-0 in that one.
So that will be stacked and packed to the rafters. Tell us what you know about this coaching coup. I assume you're talking about Dimmer and what's going up there in the Gold Coast Suns, are you? I can report at three minutes past six that there has been a successful coup, a player-led coup, I believe. that has led to the departure of a coach.
And it is my not great pleasure to announce this morning that Tim Watson's been sacked, unceremoniously dropped as the coach of the Victorian Legends team after being announced as the inaugural last year. Watson, along with his captain, Luke Hodge, have been undermined and unceremoniously dumped from the leadership portfolio of the Victorian team.
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Chapter 2: What are the implications of the upcoming El Niño weather pattern?
Tim, this is your first opportunity to respond. Well, it's no surprise because you did mention it to me before we came on air this morning. What, you didn't know about it? I had no idea. To be quite frank and honest about this, I am gutted. I was given assurances at the time.
I signed a deal I thought that was a binding contract with Three Piece and other people that are behind the scenes organising this game. I thought it was a three-year deal. Just in the time since you spoke to me about this, though, my mind has just gone. Joel Selwood, has he been named the coach?
The coup has resulted in Joel Selwood being named coach and Brendan Favola replacing Luke Hodge as captain. Well, I can... This is a bloodless coup. This is for the Digi team. I can go on the record and say that last Tuesday night at the Hall of Fame dinner, I bumped into Joel. Now, he's normally very friendly. We got on particularly well when we were working together at Channel 7.
He was very offhanded with me and very sheepish. And I thought, oh, well, he's just not having a great night tonight. Now that makes complete and utter sense. He could have been upfront about it. He could have looked me in the eye. He could have shaken my hand and said, listen, sorry about this. But I was put in a predicament, a situation that I couldn't navigate my way out of.
And I'm the new coach. He could have told me what was going on. Well, the fallout's been immense and immediate. This is not only moments ago. Dave Hughes, one of your star players, had this to say.
I'm feeling distracted and erratic. Do not let them off on this. This is an absolute disgrace.
Well, I'm not surprised. Support from Husey for you. Well, I'm not surprised. And I can go on the record now also saying that had we not lost him to that serious injury last year, my coaching performance would have looked a whole lot better. There's no way known that we would have lost that game had we not lost Dave Hughes during the game.
Well, Shane Crawford's also been sacked as coach of the opposition team after winning. He's been also undermined by Korn. So Korn's dumped Crawford from coaching and now Crawford will be a playing captain, I think, which is a much better role for him. He's going to join us at 8.40 to talk about that. Well, Korn is. No, Kroff is. Oh, Kroff is. Well, I'm not surprised, really.
I thought some of the coaching moves that he made last year were a little bit amateurish, so I'm not surprised that three-piece have decided to go with somebody else. Anyway, a little bit of fun, Wispy, a little bit of fun. 20 degrees in June, I can't get my head around that. Just can't get my head around it. Well, you can't get your head around it. I can't.
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Chapter 3: What coaching news is shared regarding the Victorian Legends team?
What do you want to do with them? Get rid of them. And do what with them? Widen the roads. Or provide some more parking. Oh, yes. But we are the garden state, Gary. What's going to happen to that reputation? We're also the overpopulated car state as well. And we need parking, Tim. People have got to park somewhere. Hello. Somebody hasn't been able to find a car spot out the front of their place?
No. In Paran? We've got a garage. But I was just walking around and just having a bit of an observation. And I'm thinking... These cars, the roads these days are so skinny and you're trying to drive down a road and then there's some cars coming the other way. It just becomes this Mexican standoff and you're looking at him and he's looking at you and you're going, well, you drive into this.
And then I'm thinking, why do we, people don't use nature strips. It's not like you walk, you go out and just put a picnic on your nature strip. What's the good of a nature strip? Because of the greenery, the trees. Greenery. Greenery's inside your fence. Trees suck up the carbon in the air.
That's right.
Have one in your front yard. Don't worry about the nature strip. I find this is staggering. Well, let's throw it out there. 043 98 11 16. You won't get any support for this, will you? What purpose are nature strips serving for us? Just so you can have a nice little tiny strip of lawn. Most of it's dead anyway. Most of it's got weeds run all through them.
So people don't look after their nature strips. So dig them up and use them for parking. This is not your best suggestion. What? Just because you don't like it? I don't like it. It's because you've got acreage and you can park multiple cars. There are a lot of people there. No, we don't. We don't have that. You do. We've got a bush out the front. That's what we've got.
You can park 40 cars in your front yard. Cannot. You can. Anyway, if you've got these narrow streets, why are we running with this pretense that a single strip of lawn is going to change everything? Well, I think this is going to be an example of what you're going to receive this morning. Yeah, remove the nature strips of cars. We're driving awfully close to people on the footpath.
That'd be a great idea. What? Well, if you remove the nature strip, where are the people going to walk? On the footpath. Yeah, so you'll have no break between the car and where the people walk. See, don't trust yourself not to drive up on the footpath and knock someone over. What about all the kiddies? What about when you were growing up? We played on the nature strip when we were kids.
No, that's right. We did. And that's exactly where we learned all our skills.
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Chapter 4: How is the MCG redevelopment being approached?
Please. I know you're a man of a thousand voices, but now would not be the right time. No, I won't be doing that. I don't mind clubs exploring ways to build their supporter base. And if the Western Bulldogs think that there's a large Indian population that are growing and becoming more familiar with AFL footy and they can build on that, then good luck, I say.
One million, that's what they are saying. There are one million people that were born in India living in Australia. Now, they're not all living in the western suburbs out there near the Bulldogs, but Amit Bains is of Indian background, yes? Yes. I believe that to be the case. I know. Are you still telling the story? Well, and there's a connection.
They've been doing a lot of work multiculturally around that area. Yeah, that is all true, yeah, 100%. And they see this as a great opportunity for the Western Bulldogs to be the team. Yeah. The team. And the game in India. And the game in India. You've got to start somewhere. You've got to plant the seed and start it somewhere.
I don't know what the facilities are like and whether there's a venue and all those sorts of things. What about they play Collingwood in India and Collingwood, just for the game, change their name from Collingwood to Bollywood? Do you think that would work? Well, that would work for Collingwood, but you're saying it's the Western Bulldogs that are going to be driving this.
Right, but then Collingwood are clever. I mean, Ned is a very, very clever marketer. Ned was 60 yesterday, by the way. Happy birthday to him for yesterday. Big fella, yeah. But I think, you know, in all fairness and seriousness, I think that looking at all other ways of expanding the game globally, I think we should be doing that. Yeah, 100%.
Not that we're going to be playing, you know, home and away games regularly in India and other places, but in terms of being able to, you know, sports are global. Like, look at how many people around the world follow the NBA basketball system.
You don't have to have the NBA playing in your backyard, but for you to be familiarised with a sport and then to be able to be engaged in that sport in some way, I mean, that's how these things grow. Tommy Morris spoke about this last night.
The AFL is officially considering a mid- to long-term play to play home and away games in Mumbai in India.
Now, at the moment, there's 10,000 people playing football in India in an organised sense. They want to time this by 10 within a few years, get that to 100,000. There's 63 registered coaches, there's 43 umpires, 188 teams across 11 states. So it's becoming more and more widespread. They genuinely believe, the AFL, that there is a room or there is scope for a home and away game there within...
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Chapter 5: What insights do the hosts share about the St Kilda cheer squad?
If we had the grab, you would realise that it would not have been necessary for Sarah to ask him because he'd already found out via the St Kilda cheer squad. Oh, you've taken it well.
I'm not criticising Fox. I'm just offering... No, I'm not taking it well.
I'm telling you that Toby already knew the score because... That was the punchline of the story, but we got the wrong grab. I know. I was watching your show last night. I know what Toby said, but Sarah wouldn't have known when she was speaking to him at that time. I got a message from Sarah. Tell Tim to blow it out of his mouth. Take a break. Oh, you've had a glass chore every time I mention it.
Breakfast with Gary and Tim. In the warm-up, I sort of became friends with the St Kilda cheer squad, which is usually quite different. They usually cop a few obscenities. So we became mates, and they were watching it on the iPad, and he told me we were up 1-0.
And then once the game started, I sort of didn't even think about it again. And then one of the boys told me we won 2-0. Jake Riccardi told me at the end of the game we won 2-0.
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Chapter 6: How do the speakers feel about the recent AFL rule changes?
So that cheered me up a little bit after a bad loss.
See, he already knew because his mates in the St Kilda cheer squad told him. He did. He's going to be, when he retires from the game, and I don't know what else he has plans to do, but he could be a superstar in the media, Toby. Yeah, I agree with that. He's got it. He has got it in spades. He does some work with us at AFL Nation as well, which is great.
Hey, Jai Simpkin tweeted this out last night, okay? The AFL need to get it together. The constant rule changes and the MRO are laughable. Players don't know what they can or can't do anymore. Just hope for the best every week. Should he get a phone call from Greg Swan today?
Yeah, I think. Otherwise, it just opens the door. It's not an open slap. If I was Todd Viney, I'd be calling him in and saying, well, what is it you don't understand about this? Yeah. What part of the rule don't you understand?
Chapter 7: What are the key takeaways from the discussion on player safety in tackles?
That is more of a concern to me. I mean, the criticism, you'd probably send him a note and say, hey, hey. Just, you know, you can't open the door. We can't have open slather criticism of the AFL in these areas from the players. No, we can't. But I'd be asking, what is it you don't understand? You tackle, you take the player to ground. I know I think he's desperately unlucky.
You're a little bit different. But the guy gets knocked out. You'd hope that Joyce Hinton understands the reasons why rather than say it's a joke. I'd be telling all the current AFL players to sit down and watch Tuesday night, 360, and raise a raise explanation because he was excellent again last night. I learnt last night the...
The difference with the head high, and he articulated it beautifully with the vision last night, and that is for people that don't know, if you're going down to pick the ball up and then you receive contact around the head, any part of the head, then it's a free kick to you.
But the difference is if you already have the ball, you're not there to pick it up, but then somebody tackles you high when you have the ball, then it's a different interpretation.
If you lead with your head.
That was clear. That was clear last night. It was a beautiful way to describe it. Yeah.
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Chapter 8: What health and wellness topics are covered in the episode?
Joe's in Healesville. G'day, Joe. He just needs a bit more time.
Morning, Gary. First time calling my long-time listener.
Thanks, Joe. Good to have you.
No worries. I just want to give you the pronunciation of Turkey.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, not Turkey-yeah. What is it? Turkey-yeah. Turkey-yeah. Turkey-yeah. Yep, Turkey-yeah. Turkey-yeah. Like, hey, hey, yeah, yeah, Turkey-yeah.
I was just about to say the way you just said it, Gary. Yes, you're right.
Good on you, Joey. Appreciate you ringing up, mate. Did you watch that game?
Yes, definitely. I was supporting both teams.
Are you a Turkish descent?
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