"This is what he's missed out on..." | Tim Watson on the Giants (16.09.26)
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What did the hosts discuss in the opening banter and introduction?
Breakfast with Gary and Tim. The good oil for Cobram Estate. Australia's most awarded extra virgin olive oil. Grown, harvested and first cold pressed in Northern Victoria.
Great to have you with us this morning. Great to have the magnificent Dermot Brereton tuning in as well. What did he say to you? What message did he send?
Well, he said the only reason that you needed to involve yourself in anything physical with Eston players was that they had the jumper on at that time.
Yeah, no, he said if you've got an Essendon jumper on, there's a fair chance you're going to get punched in there.
You're just going to get punched because you had an Essendon jumper on, yeah. He didn't miss too many, did he? No. No, he got me. In that period of time. He
got me. Did he? Yep, he gave me one.
A little sharp
one on the chin? No, right on the back of the head.
Oh, no, he wouldn't hit from behind. No, no. He
wasn't that kind. We've talked about this many times. He reckons I tried to trip him, which I didn't. I actually outmarked him, a rarity, and he didn't like it and he belted me in the back of the head and then went up to the tribunal and admitted it and got three weeks.
I got him once with a very nicely timed jumper punch.
Did you?
Yeah, right. You
jumper punched Dermot Brereton, did you? Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. And then you ran. And then I ran
for the hills as quick as I could. But I am genuinely, genuinely surprised. Anything you hear about Dermot, anything you hear about him and the way that he played his football, he was a brilliant player. It is true. Every part of it is 100% true. He was a warrior.
How did Dermot Brereton’s on‑field incident illustrate the culture of the Giants?
Oh, was he? He was one of the very, very best.
Righto, you've been working diligently the phones, and I say this seriously, you speak to people who know stuff. What have you got for us today? What are you sharing with our audience today?
I'll tell you what, I went down the Toby Green rabbit hole yesterday, and I was trying to work out what I would do and what I think he might do. And this is where I ended up, okay, having spoken to a number of people. And then... pieced it all together. I think he's going. I don't see a world in which Toby Green stays at the Giants. Now, these are all the reasons why. He would be – and he's very loyal. He's been very loyal to that football club. He's established great relationships with people over a long period
of time. And he's going to
leave an almighty hole when he leaves that football club. But, like, he is a big – this is what he's missed out on. He's a big game player. He's as a big game player as we've ever seen. Now, he hasn't really experienced one of the great things about the game, and that is the atmosphere in playing in big, big – I'm talking about big, big meaningful games in AFL football week in, week out – They get up there, an average crowd of around 11,000 people to the games up there. So he hasn't experienced one of the best parts of the game. And there's no chance, given what we now know about where they're at and what they're doing, the Giants, there's no chance that he will ever play in a premiership with the GWS Giants if he stays because of the reset that they're currently conducting up there.
They have a very low footy spend. This is what I learned yesterday. They've got a very low football department spend. They've got trouble up there attracting coaches to the GW. They overpay – this is well known – they overpay players because they have to to keep them, which means that they don't necessarily then have the money to pay their mid-tier players. So a lot of those mid-tier players disappear. They start their season on the road, so they're pretty much that first period of time of every season. Because of the show. Because of the show, all the other things. They have games that get sold elsewhere, so therefore they don't end up being able to establish any momentum in the early part of the season.
And then if you look at the forward line from last year, Hogan's going to be gone. Stringer's going to be gone. Riccardi might be traded as well. Daniels, who's a very, very good player, they can't get him right because of injury.
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