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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Breakfast with Gary and Tim.
It's great to have you with us, Dave. We can't do five mornings a week. We're just too old. We have to hand a couple off. I know you like us too, but we're not doing five a week at the moment. We're happy with the way things are going, Dave. The Sydney Swans are going nicely right now.
I'm looking at this AFL ladder whiskers, and after 14 games played, they are sitting clear in second place, 48 points with a very healthy percentage of 143. They did have a little setback with Justin McInerney, one of the stars of the season, out longer term, but hopefully... Going to welcome another star back this weekend. The coach has been good enough to join us, Dean Cox. Welcome, Coxie.
Chapter 2: What is the current status of the Sydney Swans this season?
Gary, Tim, good morning.
Good to talk to you. Oh, you feel fresh. You sound fresh already. Where have you been? What have you been up to?
I had, obviously, the bye on the weekend and got to watch school dance with my daughter for the whole weekend. So, yes, it was a long weekend.
You sound like you were totally enthralled. I was watching three dances in one day. When you have a break like this, do you actually try and reset your game in any way?
Does this give you the ā it's a great time of the year to actually probably have a look at everything and decide, okay, we've got a little bit of time maybe to put the boys through something a little bit different, teach them something a little bit different. Have you done that in any way?
Yeah, Tim, I think this is the best part about the buy is, first of all, to give the players some time off and some football department staff because after the Port Adelaide game we had four days off.
We got them back last Thursday and got a chance to really review our first 14 games and areas that we need to work on, what we're doing well, training focuses over the buy and then what we lead into the back half of the year. So It's a really good opportunity. The coaches are busy during that time trying to make sure that we can get everything in place and what we need to do.
The weekend was a chance to reflect. I had a big session yesterday. I'm looking forward to Brisbane Thursday night.
In the first half of the year, what part of your game has been the most pleasing and satisfying part?
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Chapter 3: How does Dean Cox utilize bye weeks for team improvement?
That's what we're in it for. But how you do it is important. And you've been able to win games like tight contests as well. It hasn't all been smooth sailing, has it, which holds you in great stead. I think there's improvement, or you can tell me, there's improvement still to come.
Yeah there is and yeah that's the pleasing thing is that you don't get everything your own way all the time you know so the ability to build your game around what the opposition give you the challenging times that you do have different personnel when they do come in you get a look at them so yeah I've been you know really pleased with obviously the first half of the year and what's happened but there's still a lot more improvement to come in this football team and
we'll get some players back now and hopefully towards the back end of the year, we can start to really stabilise what it looks like.
Errol's going to join us on 360 tonight. We'll ask him about it, but what's your hopes and expectations when you sit down to announce a team this weekend?
Errol will play. I think that's, you know, he's got through everything he's had to get through. Yeah, which is great for the football club and great for Errol as well because it's been a hard two-year period for him and, you know, the resilience of the young man and,
What he's gone through, but he has trained extremely hard, done everything he possibly can, and he's ready to go, which is really exciting.
And will there be a managed minute scenario or just full ball, off you go?
No, there won't be. He won't have too many restrictions on him. I think the pleasing thing after he certainly could start running, he's been running for Eight weeks or so, so he's done another pre-season run. He's got another one under his belt, and I think that's one of his biggest strengths is how he covers the ground.
So, yeah, he'll be managed a little bit, but I expect him to play near match minutes as he normally does.
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Chapter 4: What aspects of the Swans' game have been most satisfying so far?
Obviously, he had a hamstring that was about a 10-week injury a week and a half ago and just going through it his body can't withstand obviously the rigours of the AFL anymore so yeah we spoke to the players and I said to the players just the respect that he does have and he can have an impact on a playing group in multiple ways obviously what is on the field And certainly one's off it.
You know what, Taylor gave our football club off the field. He only played 23 games for us. But the standards he set, the amount of time he spent watching vision with younger players, coaching our VFL team when he was injured, helping out in that space. Yeah, he's been unbelievable for our club. If we can help him in any way possible on the way out, we'll do so.
Josh Fraser is the talk of the competition at the moment, been in the coaching position for five weeks, five wins, still maintains that maybe he's not ready to coach. If he called you today and said, how do you know when you're ready, what would you say to him?
I'd say you're never ready, but he's been given an opportunity that certainly I wasn't given, and you know, the ability now to learn on the job. And, you know, from what he's seen, what I've heard and listened to of him, he's a quality man and one that deserves an opportunity at senior level permanently.
You know, I think the way he's gone about it, he'll learn the things that he wants to add to his philosophy that become really permanent or, you know, things that he might change as well. So, yeah, it's an experience like no one else can get and he'll learn a heap from it.
You big Ruckman types have been much maligned over the years. Not from us. You dopey big blokes. Not from us. No intelligence. You don't know the game. But hang on a minute. You're having the last laugh now.
Yeah, there's a few of us coaching at the minute. So, yeah, it used to be the old back pocket and exchange a little bit. But, yeah, it's just great to see that people are taking their opportunity when it's given and they're going as far as they can.
Are you outside of the footy? Are you a World Cup follower? Mbappe, did he kick this goal? France have just scored. My man Mbappe's 1-0 up against Iraq. Are you following at all?
Not a lot. A lot of our players are certainly all over it. They're all coming from a little bit of a Turkish background, so they're going really well.
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