Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Now on Fireball, the Friday Agenda. The Friday agenda is for Imar, protecting tradies and builders for over 35 years. Call 13 Imar to get yourself covered today. You were just showing me the Damien Hardwick media conference yesterday. I had read the exchange with the journalist, a non-football journalist, I think.
Danny Saeed from, I think he's from the ABC.
You know you're in trouble when the non-footy journos rock up.
Well, and credit to him. He was pretty strong. Like, if you're going to go with a purpose, keep firing those. I wonder if we've got the audio there. I'm not sure the boys have got it. If you have, just press play. I think they do.
No.
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Chapter 2: What happened in Damien Hardwick's media conference?
How's the communication?
As it said on my run sheet, in my audio, I've seen that look from Damien Harbeck before. Yeah, strong, wasn't he? It was a really strong look. We'll play that in a minute. Intimidating. I thought he handled it well. I thought Damien handled it pretty well. He got a little bit testy. You think he got too testy, did you?
Yeah, I liked the stoush. It was a good toe-to-toe. Yeah, I thought they...
I thought he handled himself well.
Yeah, I liked how courageous he was. We'll get back to that because I think we need to hear it. Hey, there's an interesting story, a very interesting story up here because we're in Rugby League country, right? So an NRL coach has been caught running a secret Instagram account, a burner account, just tracking the players. Really?
Seeing what they're up to over the weekend and what they're doing at hours. It was in news.com. It's quite a good read. Okay. Do you think AFL coaches or welfare staff... would be doing the same with AFL players? Just seeing where they're at, what they're up to. Yeah. Who they're mixing with.
I think most AFL clubs have their spies on the street as well. So they have those that would be at similar nightclubs and things like that that would then report back to the club. So I think they would almost have like... hidden policemen, so undercover cops, not literally, but on the street reporting back to the clubs on what the players are up to.
So it's caused a bit of unrest. Has it?
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Chapter 3: How does the media's approach affect sports journalism?
Yes, because he's been using that information against some players. So I've been told, what's this space? Right. I don't want to cause any trouble up here because they're an aggressive lot up here. I'm scared. And hungover NRL fans are worse than drunk NRL fans.
Hey, Luke Beveridge on the concerning story around Tim English and another concussion. Here's the latest update from my man.
I don't know, Josh. We haven't gotten an update for you today, so we'll wait and see how he goes over the next week and what his availability will be.
Do you expect this to be the usual protocols or you just don't know yet?
Don't know. I think because of his history, he's been out of action at different times. He spent a whole pre-season a couple of years ago non-contact, so we'll tread warily.
So a couple of issues. You spoke strongly and passionately about Liber a few weeks ago. Slightly different just because of Liber's age and he's pretty much done everything there is and maximised what he's got. Do you have the same thought on Tim hearing that?
I'd like to know Tim's history.
I know that he had an issue during the pre-season two years ago. There has been multiple concussions. We'll get Sammy Edmund to follow up exactly the time frame of it. And I think the latest one in... Preseason, they said, wasn't concussion related. It was something slightly different. But when you start to get the concussions, it happens so easily. And it happened late in the Port Adelaide game.
It wasn't a hard knock. And that can happen. You become more sensitive the more you get. I think this is a bigger story than perhaps has been reported on to this point.
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Chapter 4: What updates are there on Tim English's concussion situation?
Damien Hart was very respectful for the first probably three questions. And then it got to a point where he's had enough. So I think that bluntness and being that strong was warranted considering in the first stages he'd been quite respectful. Yeah. You thought he went too far.
Well, I just think you're entitled to ask what you want to ask at those press conferences. And he's putting up questions that are quite reasonable questions.
That were answered reasonably the first three times. If you're going to continually push and prod and push, at some point you're going to have to shut it down.
Did he get a reasonable answer? Yeah, I think he... I don't think he did. He's asking, is it valid that you have a guy that's under investigation that's effectively a bookmaker on your bench? Did he get an answer from Damien Harper?
So I don't think Damien's the one to give him the answer, which is what he was trying to say. He was saying, Mark Evans is the person you need to be asking this question to, not me. He's a footy coach. He's in Darwin. He's here to talk about the game, promote the game. not an off-field issue that is better directed to the CEO.
All right. I'll let you have a victory there again. You've been in very good form lately. And Nasaya, you were in very good form with Nasaya. Well, we disagreed on that, didn't we? Well, I thought it was a great marketing exercise to have him up there, and I still think it is.
I don't disagree with that.
But are we about marketing or are we about winning games of footy? No, I think with the Indigenous community, you've got to assess both factors, given the numbers, as we said, on Monday that had fallen away. But that's a big blow, three weeks.
Big blow, and they knew about it, and clearly they thought it was a knock. These things happen from time to time. I didn't think it was the smartest thing to have him in doubt on a plane for eight hours. I thought the promotional side of things can be done at a different time, not when you're in the cut and thrust of the season and it's so important to win games of footy.
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Chapter 5: How are AFL clubs managing player welfare and injuries?
Like types playing like types. Yep. Can't get any more like type than that. You can't get any more like type than that. You've got a bit of news from Goss, which you've asked Sammy Edmund to follow up as well. I have. Hopefully, Sammy's busy. Is he busy? Well, he's got the captain's run after this.
Oh, come on, man. He does three shows a day.
We've got him coming up in the gun as well as your feedback.
Well, he's asking whether Hawthorne in fact complained about the... They couldn't have complained. I wouldn't have thought that would be right.
No, we should have probably asked the genius. But I doubt that. I heard Dylan Moore speak about Wharfie Time and how it rattled the group a little bit. And Sam referenced it briefly with the psychologist.
Do you think you'll be able to find a way to cover Wharfie Time and still show the centre bounce next time?
I'd rather see Wharfie Time than the centre bounce. But we were having a discussion with Sammy Evans. Should the coach have the nuclear codes to Wharfie Time and not the marketing department?
No.
Who was the lady in charge again? I can't remember her name. Jenny someone? The triple agent will find out for us. He yelled something out, but I missed it. In the kitchen, it's a bit hard to hear up here. Kelly Black.
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