Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Kane and Kingy. Little SEN fireball question, Kane or Kingy? It's like the worst of a bad bunch almost, isn't it? None particularly better nor worse than the other.
That's why we like him. That's why we like him. That man moved into 13th all-time on the most career games. It was all about Scott Penderbury on the weekend, but Dangerfield, 3-6-6, chasing down Adam Goodes, Craig Bradley, David Mundy, and Simon Madden to head towards the top 10 all-time. There's nothing in the game he hasn't done. He joins us. Danger, thanks for your time. Morning, boys.
Thanks for having me. Well, you're feeling fresh yourself. You're looking sharp. You're looking explosive. Just take us through your individual management plan this year because it seems to be working touchwood.
Well, touchwood, Cain, yeah. I think... It was probably I was at fault early for trying to push through a calf injury that I shouldn't have. So I'm still not learning after 19 seasons of AFL footy. But yeah, I think our approach from a physical performance side of things is really well set up for our older players.
Obviously, our staff have a lot of experience with older players and how to manage them. And sort of regardless of who you are or how long you've played, we're always mindful of you know, the best way to, you know, work through a season that takes six months to, you know, to finish. So it's one of the longest in world sport and you really want to be peaking at the right time that's September.
But you want to be able to also accrue the wins along the way, which is important to give yourself the best chance. So I feel like, you know, we're well placed and we've got a really professional staff that understands sort of the requirements of AFL footy.
If you had your time again, would you have played Origin? I said at the time, a silly decision. And maybe if Chris wasn't coached another team, if Xavier were playing for another team that wasn't coached by your coach in the State of Origin team, they would have said, no way, are we letting Dangerfield play? Would you have done that again?
Definitely Origin, definitely not Carlton. You know, I nicked my calf in the last two minutes of that Origin game and it went... I can't remember how long it was at the time, but it went so much longer than any normal game.
I think the thing to probably look back on as a league is just the reduction of how long that game is, particularly with how intense it was obviously going to be with the quality of players that were playing. I didn't think it needed to be sort of 25 minute calls. I think it was. We could just keep it at 20. So I think if it was that, then that would have helped. Certainly would have helped me.
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Chapter 2: What is Patrick Dangerfield's individual management plan for the season?
Rounds 10 and 11. You haven't played a round 11 for six years. You're normally a bit banged up by this stage.
Yeah, I haven't played in a Sir Doug Nicholls round for years. I've had boots done every year and I didn't get them done this year because, and I'm not a superstitious person, but I haven't played. So I'm like, I'm leaving it, I'm out of it this year just to see if that plays into anything to do with constantly missing this Dom of the Year. So it's nice to be out there.
It's nice to have a red hot crack against a, a ladder leading all close to Sydney team and to play some pretty good footy. We were really happy with how we went.
Now, I want to get your thoughts on having a point of difference because I love what teams do. At the point at the end of the year, you get to the stage where you have to really home in on what, say, Sydney are doing or what Brisbane have been doing historically and try and disarm them. Now, you guys were able to do that beautifully on the weekend down at the Cattery.
Are you a subscriber to the point of difference thing? Theory, it being the reason you win or otherwise grand finals or prelim finals?
Definitely to the element that my view on it is... September is different from rounds one to 22. I mean, at the moment we'll talk at length, I think, as a footballing media around the importance of youth and the exuberance that brings. And then it gets to September and all of a sudden the experience piece becomes really important.
My time in the game, and this is absolutely stolen from Chris, but he'll often talk in the lead up to September, there are going to be times where we just really struggle to get the game on our terms and you need to find a way to win and you need to grind a way to win. And it's going to come down to moments. So that was a big one that we've spoken about. And then I think the other one that...
It probably doesn't get spoken about a huge amount now, but the missing players, it will happen at some point. It's a conversation that often our senior players will have with those that have been on the periphery throughout the year to keep your nose in the trough because there will be opportunities that come up because every single year, regardless of which team...
There are injuries, there are suspensions, and there are opportunities. So I think it's the team that can manage the game where they're not playing perfectly and still execute. And it's the team that can manage the... the misses where, you know, really important players all of a sudden come out of the team and they're able to cover that.
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