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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
Breakfast with Gary and Tim.
Ah, good morning, everyone. Welcome. Wednesday, the third day of June. It is McCafe Menu. Try McCafe's new drinks range. Tom Morris School, the big cricket story. He broke the stars and the renegades. Emerging, he's going to join us to tell us all about that. Scotty Boland, speaking of cricket. Australian Paceman, the summer of cricket pre-sale tickets are on. He's going to join us as well.
They're on sale this Friday. Andrew Russell for Wellness Wednesday. Footy news everywhere. Plenty to get our teeth into. And it's a joy to see the great man, The Wisp, sitting across the way from me. Hello, Wisp. Good morning, Gary. Good morning, everyone. That's a great name for a cricketer, isn't it? Scotty Bolin, don't you think? Scotty Bowl and, sorry, have been caught on the hop.
Oh, that's a bit of a pun to start the program early this morning. I like it. Normally we sit in our office and the music comes on. The radio is broadcast throughout the whole building at five minutes to six, so we know that it's time to make a move. There was no such music, and I got in here as the intro was playing. I'm flustered.
I thought old, I thought Nicky Fatfingers might have yelled out and said, boys, come on.
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Chapter 2: What are the highlights from the cricket and footy discussions?
Get in here. Get in here. He was nice and relaxed. I think he actually saw it as an opportunity that he might have been able to get himself to air this morning. As cool as the other side of the pillow he was. He's just sitting out there thinking about his Collingwood Football Club, wondering what's going to happen to them. What have you been up to? What have I been up to? You're in Melbourne.
It's a big day for you, wandering into Melbourne. Yes, it was a big day up in the big smoke yesterday. I went and visited old mate who was in... He was much better yesterday. He was a very positive day yesterday. No, he was good. He was good. He was nice and relaxed. He was a bit agitated the week before, so yesterday he was nice and calm and mellow and...
Shout out to all those people that work in aged care. Honest to goodness. True. They do an amazing, amazing job in those homes and places around Melbourne. So if you're off to work today and you do that type of work, good on you. You're doing a great job.
And you're seeing it firsthand, which is I know you appreciate everything they're doing in what is challenging and trying circumstances for everyone. So very good shout out. Hey, what about our old mate Sammy Pang on the small screen or is he on the big screen? It's a small screener, isn't it?
I just read a review of his new show called Ground Up, which is a comedy that's going to air at 8.30 on Sunday night about the formation of a new Tasmanian football side of which Pang has been cast as the CEO. And I quote... Very much like Justin Bateman in Arrested Development. That's the review that I just read about his show. Well, that's a sparkling review, if that's the case.
Sparkling review. What is this? In the watch list, I'll read out the exact line from... Siobhan Duck. It says, like Jason... Pang is predictably likeable. Like Jason Bateman in Arrested Development, he's the stressed-out straight man at the centre of the chaos. Oh, he played that role particularly well. Oh, he was perfect. He was on with the boys last night.
How come you couldn't secure him for an interview with us? He thought I was down. He thought I was... Where I've got to go in a few weeks' time. Oh, right. Okay. Having an op. Yeah, but no, he's in good form and his career continues to flourish. He walked in, he just went whack, whack, whack with the Logies. Whack, whack, whack. Yep. I'm out of there now. Left them wanting more. Yep, yep.
No, he's too smart. He's brilliant. He's too smart. He plays the game particularly well. Do you reckon if they go to a second series, obviously they've already filmed the first series.
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Chapter 3: How does the conversation shift to personal stories and shout-outs?
Do you think that we could, I would like something a bit more challenging. I wouldn't mind, I've played myself in a TV role. I wouldn't mind playing somebody else. A cameo. Yeah, but not as self. Not as a walk-on self thing, but actually a character. Like a bit of guts, maybe a bit of meanness about them.
This is argumentative life because this is about the formation of a Tasmanian team, which is being as we ā so he's effectively Brendan Gale. That's who Panger is in this show. I think you could be the corrupt player agent. Yeah, I could do that. You think you could do that? See, that's something way out of my comfort zone, playing somebody like that. So I think that would be the challenge.
I don't think it is wrong. I was thinking of that bloke. I was thinking of actually modelling myself on that bloke. So you've got the keys to a couple of big name players and you just manipulate it and
for your own good, you just might secure, you might say, listen, I can send down the flying McKenzie, the best buyer in the competition, but I might need a Mercedes in the old car park, that sort of thing. Or a weekend or two at the pump house down there in Tasmania. Or freeze the day, mate.
I think your role, your role could be, because you've always wanted to be this, the recruiter out there, the recruiter. I need something a bit, I need something a bit meatier than that. Well, is there a character out there? Maybe the Greg Swan? I could be the AFL bloke. The AFL type bloke? Or I could be the Raider from Western Australia who also want a new team in.
So they then start fighting for each other. Mm-hmm. Yeah, no, you could do that. You know what we've discovered? Yeah, you've got range. Range, yeah. We've discovered that in your time on the footy show that you can play. Well, I've acted. I've done two different soapies. I know, yeah. I've played a head of a fashion house and I've played a detective. No, I couldn't stretch.
I could not, that person there, I could not stretch my acting capabilities to be able to do that. Bernadette wants to know why your friend's name is Cooker. Cooker because, Cookaburra, because he was and still is an incessant chatterer. The Cookaburra. Yeah.
And even yesterday when I got there, he had, somebody's given him a little fluffy Cookaburra toy and he's been carrying that around wherever he goes as well. So that sort of sits on his little desk. You showed him any of my videos I've sent you over the journey? No, I haven't. Why don't you?
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Chapter 4: What are the key takeaways from the discussion on beer and drinking habits?
I'll tell you why, because he's only interested in self- If he doesn't appear in the picture or he doesn't appear in the TV or whatever it is, he's not interested.
He loses interest very quickly.
I might call this one Alec. You sent me something. You sent me a lot of stuff. I don't read much. I know you don't. Waste of my time. No, it's not. Because occasionally I do. And this is a difficult question. One in three Australians admit to gross workplace habit. Did you... Think again before touching your colleague's phone, which no one really touches their colleague's phone. No.
But the question is this. According to this report, one in three Australians are using their mobiles on the toilet at work. Disgusting. That is disgusting. 0433 98 11 16. Lasso of truth. When you go to the toilet, do you take your phone with you?
Can I just ask you, is there any difference between sort of having earbuds in and maybe leaving the phone outside the toilet but still within range so you can talk on the toilet with your earbuds in? Is that a pass or not? I've never thought about it, but I think the disgusting part is having the phone anywhere near the toilet. The germ-ridden toilet. I'm not a toilet.
I'm not a phone carrier into the toilet. I want the lasso of truth. Are you? Oh, God, no, Tim. That's disgusting. Do you know anyone that does? Yes. I'm sure Three Piece does, because he's in there. You know how valuable his time is, and he spends a lot of time in there. No. 433-9811-16. No. Name's no pack drill. Put your name to your text, because otherwise we won't read it out. Do you?
Take your toy. One in three, it says in this particular poll. Well, let's test it because I reckon there'd be, I think it's nearly one in two. Okay. Have a look at how many people are in this building right now that you can see. Four. Okay. So I don't. You don't. No. Brooke doesn't. Fat fingers. He's nodding. He's shaking his head. He does.
He reckons he doesn't, but I reckon he gets on one of those Collingwood chat forums and goes and sits down and has a read about what's going on at his free time.
And that's exactly right, Gary.
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Chapter 5: What are the consequences of poor club management in football?
Because I've got to be consistent. I've said this about other clubs. Where you find yourself is because of your own poor administration and your own poor handling of your football club. And that's what you pay the penalty for. So I'm not for clubs getting assistance under these conditions. under this guise. No, I'm not. You make your bed, you line it. That's what happens in life.
And if you finish down the bottom of the ladder where Essendon will, that's your advantage.
Chapter 6: How does drafting work for clubs finishing at the bottom?
You get the first pick of the draft. You get the look at the best young players in the competition. The second round comes around, you get first pick there again. Righto, we'll take this on. That's the way the system was designed. We keep wanting to modify things, you know, to assist clubs and then we artificially try and bulk up clubs and improve their performance, that type of thing.
I just think that whole thinking has to stop. Well, more on this on the other side of the break. Breakfast with Gary and Tim. I haven't gone to that level yet. I mean, obviously, you think about who you'd like. You've got people in the football world who you respect and who you'd like to work with, but putting a team together hasn't happened together.
I mean, it could be academic, but there's no doubt, you know, you don't get to this point now and not have been thinking about it day and day and night about how you would put it together.
Or are you thinking deeply at the moment before you actually put together what the dossier is you'll present to the Bombers?
I would think they're preparing for this interview for the last sort of 35, 40 years.
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Chapter 7: What emotional ties does James Hird have with Essendon?
That's James Heard on Footy Classified last night. Back page, back page, Herald Sun. Scotty Gullen's written the story, Heard's dream team, which includes, according to Scott, Dyson Heppel, Solomon, McVeigh, potentially Bartel, McCartney. He didn't deny that he's put it, he said you'd think about it, which of course you would. But he also, that bit at the end is what will, again,
stirred the emotions of Essendon people is that I've been preparing for this interview for 35 or 40 years. That's right. It is an emotional conversation, isn't it? It is. An emotional narrative that he's, and good on him. Yeah. That's what he's going to pull on the heartstrings. Yeah, but you've got to understand also his connection to the Essendon Football Club goes back to his grandfather.
Chapter 8: What are the implications of contacting the Essendon chairman?
His grandfather ruled the Essendon Football Club with an iron rod for a lot of years. His name was on a grandstand at Windy Hill too. There's this really strong emotional connection over a long, long period of time to the club. This is what he had to say also about whether or not he had been in contact with the chairman of the Essendon Football Club, Andrew Walsh.
Andrew Welsh is a good friend of mine. We've been friends for 20-odd years. But I've been very conscious not to reach out to him because I think that is spoiling the process and actually inserting myself in a way that I don't want to. I want Essendon to go about, as I said the other night, to go about and go through an exhaustive process. And if I'm the candidate that they choose, fantastic.
If I'm not, I'm not. But in terms of contacting Essendon, being contacted by them, that hasn't happened.
Would you hope to get a call soon and find out if you are going to be part of this shortlist that they're putting together? They expect to come through with something over the next 10 to 15 days.
I don't hope for anything. What I want is the process to be an exhaustive process.
Well, they've got an answer first, don't they?
Yeah, and I'd like to be part of that process. If that happens in two weeks, three weeks, it's their timeline, and they should set the process about the best process possible. And let's give them the air and the space to do that.
And before I ask you any questions about that, of course, Essendon players in their daily work and promotion and marketing, whatever they might be doing, they'll be asked questions about this, as was Archie Roberts yesterday. And this is what he had to say.
Spent a lot of time with Matty Lloyd. And he heard he was someone that Lloydy always spoke about and spoke about the impact he had in his career, but then also the player he was. So, yeah, if James gets the opportunity, I'm looking forward to it. And, yeah, I've only heard great things about him. Yeah, well, someone that we trust and inspires us, I think.
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