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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Breakfast with Gary and Tim. The good oil for Cobra mistake. Australia's most awarded extra virgin olive oil. Grown, harvested and first cold pressed in Northern Victoria.
Welcome back. I apologise. It's the fourth day of June. I apologise, everyone. Unprofessional. How do I turn that off? I've just been watching something on the phone, which Tim put me onto, and it's distracted me. I'm sorry about that. Cobber, Mercedes-Benz, most awarded extra virgin olive oil. This is the good oil.
We're about to talk to Tommy Green, lean, clean Tom Green, and then get stuck into the footy issues of the day.
Let's clear this up, though, before we do get to lean, clean Tom Green. This got sent through, and I'll ask you the question, is it true? And Steve from Croydon said they used to race monkeys on the back of greyhounds. And I said to you, they're smart, those chimps. And you said, no. They weren't chimps.
They're not chimpanzees. They're like little macaws or something that...
Like a Balinese type monkey.
A Capuchin monkey. Right. I Googled it and had a look at it. Extraordinary. It's extraordinary.
When did that die out?
How long ago was that? I'm not sure, but I think... I don't know. They used to get in the sauna and they had to make the way. Tim, we've lost the plot here. Straighten right up, Tim. Tom Green's on the line. They did not have to put the monkey in the sauna to make the way. Tom, help us out. Welcome, young man. How are you?
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Chapter 2: What insights does Tom Green share about the GWS trip to Alice Springs?
I think a few things about it. So I think AFL, I mean, as we know, is a really complex game and I think it's really hard to rate, to put it all into one number. So I understand that like the desire to, you know, for like the player ratings or whatever, can we just try and rate a player's game and get one easy number pumped out? But I think our game is just too complex for that. You know,
For instance, one thing I think that makes it really hard to quantify someone's game is because the game spends so much time in dispute and in a contest. Our game spends more, like the ball spends more time in dispute than in any other code really, I think. That can make it really hard to quantify, I suppose, like the effectiveness of people's disposals or whatever.
So like one that I always, I think, feel passionately about because it probably equates to me a little bit more, but like for inside mids, inside mids always rate really highly in claimers, which is a kick or a disposal that goes directly to an opposition player. Now, if you're at a stoppage, get your hands on the ball, and sometimes you've just got to take care of it.
If you want to get the ball going your way, get it towards your forwards. And a back wins the ball or whatever. That ends up, I suppose, rating really poorly in some of the player rating stuff when I think of the times that I don't really think that a player can do anything else.
And so I think it can just be really ā I know I'm ranting on a little bit here, but I just think the player rating sometimes can be ā When I say a little bit too simplistic, like there are elements where it's really good. And I think, for instance, someone like Harvey Thomas, he goes really well in the player ratings.
And that's a great indicator because otherwise maybe fans don't get to really understand or see how good he goes. I just don't think that... There could be a lean to going to the player ratings and just that's sort of the be-all and end-all of how a player's going, how their year's been, how their game was.
I think our game is still a little bit too complex to simplify it into one number, if that makes sense.
Yeah, no, I think that's a really interesting conversation. We've got Corey Mobilio coming in from Champion Data, joins us on a Thursday at 8.30 each week, and we'll get him to just explain. I think there's a bit more nuance to it these days than there was once, and in the end, you work out you know, as a supporter, whether you take notice of them or not. But they're just a guy.
But sometimes the ratings and the rankings are different. Did he touch on this with us last week? We'll go over it again. So you can be rated against the players in your position. You know, a kick in the back half where you just square it up to another uncontested man that goes 15 metres compared to a
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Chapter 3: How does Tom Green evaluate the performance of his teammates?
We'd look forward to that.
Have a good, boys. Thank you very much for having me. I'll go check on those dry ants and monkeys now.
Tom Green joining us there. We talked about Joe Weston before, but isn't it a joy when you're well-considered, answer questions with some depth? And, you know, I love the way he doesn't back away from anything that you ask him. We never want to try and get him into trouble, but he's saying he needs to know that the team that he commits to has got a plan for success.
Chapter 4: Who are the contenders for All-Australian selection from the Giants?
Not for him personally, but the whole group. And I think that puts clubs on notice a bit too.
It's sensible, isn't it? If you're going to commit yourself to a football club for a longer period of time, and some clubs are out there talking about seven-year deals, maybe the Giants are talking about a seven-year deal, you want to be informed, don't you?
If you get to a point in your football career, you want to think that, okay, I've got a chance of being successful down the track, and these questions I need to ask the club about where they're going, what their future is, what they think they're doing, what their strategy is going forward. Before you commit. It's going to be a huge part of his life.
And this next deal that he signs is probably going to be the biggest deal of his football career. And it'll cement his position in AFL football. So he needs to know stuff.
I love it when players take accountability and ownership of their own careers. It's good to have managers and all those sorts of stuff, but you ultimately are the one that make the decision. And as Tom said, he's not going to die wondering. You ask the questions that need to be asked. We'll throw the lines open, 043-90-1116. Got a little window here. Questions without notice.
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