Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Breakfast with Gary and Tim.
Chapter 2: What personal story does Terry Daniher share about his brother?
I want to tell you a story. I like telling stories. I'm a new grandfather with my grandson Cooper. I can't protect Cooper forever. As much as I love him, my wish for him is for him to understand a few things. Life's good, but life doesn't promise to be fair.
Chapter 3: How does Terry reflect on his role as a grandfather?
I'd like to tell Cooper, look mate, there'll be good times, but there'll be hard times. There'll be mundane times. Life can be tough. And my wish for Cooper is that he can conduct himself in the face of hardship. Life is difficult. Life is tough. And I wish for Cooper like I wish for you people. And you'll wish for people you love.
You can conduct yourself in the right manner when things get tough. Because in life... It's not if it would be tough, it's just when and how often. It's too late for me. The disease I've got will kill me. I apologise for the way I talk, but it's part of the disease. It's a beast of a disease because there's no treatment and there's no cure. It doesn't kill you quick, it kills you slowly.
It kills you out by slowly paralysing you. It'll get to a stage where I can't swallow, I can't speak, and I can't breathe. In the football context, it's the same.
Chapter 4: What challenges does Terry acknowledge about life and hardship?
Okay, lost a few games, you're not going to die, but you don't lie down. It might get me, but I'm a fighter. Live with hope. Have a strong vision where you're going. My vision, close off the world without MND. I'll get there. I might be six foot under, but we'll get there.
Remembering the life of Neil Danaher this morning, who passed away yesterday aged 65, he said amongst those words to his grandson Cooper, conduct yourself in the right manner when things get tough. And he did all of that. Better than anyone we know in recent times. And we are going to continue to celebrate his life, David Neitz and Paul Hopgood and Cameron Schwab to join us.
But right now, we are joined by the brother of Neil, Terry Danaher. And TD, as we say, welcome to you. Our heartfelt condolences to the whole Danaher family. And I'm sure you're feeling the love for Neil this morning.
Good morning, Gaz and Tim. Yeah, well, it's... It was a tough, hard battle he fought, and, yeah, and he's another statistic now, unfortunately. Yeah, but we've just got to find a cure to this bloody thing and get rid of it.
Yeah, we do, TD. What an inspiration he's been to so many people right across the country, and I know your family will be gathering together and your mum, Edna, as well. Is she holding up okay?
Ah, yeah, she's holding up pretty well, Tim. She got down here the other day and caught up with Neil and spent some quiet time with him and then rushed back to the farm. So, no, no, she's going very well, handling it well.
And I know that in the family, the discussion around Neil has always been that he was the chosen one. Edna chose him to be the one.
Yeah, well, yes, yes, she always had jobs for us all and And Neil was certainly on a radar, perhaps going on to do something special, become a reverend, but Neil had other plans.
there was a genuine chance. It was a TD at some stage. He studied, I think from members and discussions with him, theology, uh, at Assumption College and maybe beyond that at, at, at, um, university. Was there a chance that he might've joined the, the, the, uh, priesthood? Yeah.
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Chapter 5: How does Terry describe his brother Neil's battle with disease?
You know, it was hard enough running out behind him. All the older blokes. But that was just the way he was, mate. He was just pretty focused and pretty driven.
Yeah, it was a tough time, though. Yeah, it was a tough time for him, though, wasn't it?
Yeah, well, I think that, you know, it's just the way he was brought up and and how we, I think that getting away to school and standing on your own two feet really paid big dividends for Neil like it did for a lot of other young fellas that went away to boarding school and that there you've got to learn to stand on your own two feet pretty quickly.
I was sitting at home and Mum was making me breakfast and she made sure I was tucked in the bed at night and made sure I was warm and as long as I was getting out there and having a bit of a go and doing my job, cutting the wood and milking the cows and so forth, you know.
How did you ā that deal, like there's a lot of people listening to this probably that don't understand how you got to Essendon and then Neil ā Neil wasn't the steak knives, was he? Like he didn't just get thrown in as part of the deal at that time. Did you and Jim, your dad, have to talk Essendon into that whole scenario?
Dad was pretty much the forefront of it all, really. He knew what type of bloke I was and as far as I could be a bit erratic and loved a pretty good time and that sort of thing. But he wanted the best for his boys. I think he missed out on a lot back in his time, but he gave us every opportunity. So, you know, when it came to Neil... He was finishing off.
He finished his school at Assumption College. And then, of course, Dad was on the front foot early and got Assumption to support Neil's schooling. So they thought they had the right to... You know, give Neil a crack. He played with South Melbourne at the time, the Sydney Swans, but Dad wasn't going to have any go.
But he was pretty quick to... He made sure that he wrote a little note down and got Abraham Purack, the secretary of the club, to sign it. And he published it up and put it in his pocket because he probably thought he might need it later on. And when I got the flick, I got sacked at the club.
Neil was sort of in his last school at that time and then the next year it was a real battle to get him across and I think eventually they'd pulled out that little bit of paper and slapped it down on the desk in front of everyone. You've still got that left. I said, my oath I have. You take it up there to the board or whoever and get it sorted. And I think that in the end was the...
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