Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Breakfast with Gary and Tim. Well, it's all right.
Great of you to join us. Tommy Green's going to join us in just a while. He'll be listening. I want to read a message out on the back of what Andrew Russell's just talking about, Connection Tim. We get moved from time to time, but I want to read this message. It'll take a minute or so.
Chapter 2: What is the importance of connection within a footy club?
Do you mind whispers?
No, I know the one you're going to read, yeah.
Yeah. So we're talking about connection. And Tommy, we haven't introduced you yet, but I know you can hear us. So we've been talking about connection and the importance of going outside of yourself and maybe taking time. So this is a message that's come through. I'm living proof of what Andrew's saying. Seven years ago, after raising a family with my wife, my marriage fell apart.
Our three kids were adults and had their own lives, and I found myself with nobody. I felt...
uh with nobody i felt close to after 27 years um this is of living predominantly for my family before i knew it i'd withdrawn from life to the extent i can see considered ending my own life this is where my oldest friend who now lived in a different state then decided he would travel to see me once a month so we could play golf go see a band or just hang out for a weekend
This one weekend a month morphed into doing two-week road trips and even doing a cruise together as I slowly regained my lust for life. And about 12 months ago on one of our nights out I met a woman and we hit it off immediately. This weekend we move into a house together with the two young boys and I'm the happiest I've ever been in a decade.
Four years on from thinking I had no reason to live again.
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Chapter 3: How did Tom Green's experience shape his perspective on team dynamics?
I love my life and this is only the case because of one good friend who was there when I needed to reconnect with life. Connection with people is something we all need. That's from Rob. So how powerful is that? If you've been listening and we don't preach, we just share stories and Andrew gives us some insight.
But if you've listened to Andrew and then you read that story, that might give you the impetus to pick the phone up today at some stage.
That's a great positive message to be sending out to everybody listening this morning. A great positive message.
Tommy Green joins us as he does every Wednesday. Lean, clean Tom Green from the GWS Giants who's rehabbing an ACL. He'll be back bigger and better than ever next year. He joins us. G'day, Tommy.
G'day, guys. Thank you very much for having me. That was an incredible message you wrote out, Gary. That was amazing.
Yeah, it is, isn't it? This gives you pause. Well, it does. Hopefully people would listen to it. It might motivate us to reach out to someone that might be needing us more than we even know. But, yeah, it was a really interesting topic that Andrew spoke about this morning. What about the last time we spoke to you, you were about to embark on a major emceeing role on Anzac Day up in Canberra.
How did that all unfold?
It ended up going pretty well. I mean, that's the feedback that I've gotten. Who knows if people are being honest with you guys, but I think it went pretty well. I took all of, Tim, your little tips and tricks. They really helped me. I started fractionally rusty, but I got better as the event went on. So I enjoyed it, and maybe we'll wait and see if I get another go.
Well, that will be the test. That will be the test. Did you go with an opening gag? Did you have a little bit of a funny line at the top?
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Chapter 4: What role does connection play in overcoming personal challenges?
But we do enjoy playing home games there.
brilliantly diplomatic uh that is a magnificent answer hey we talked about connection within footy clubs as well and not just day-to-day living and the coming together of a you know players from all around the country for for a new footy club is the greatest challenge of all what is what is some of the ways that you are you stay connected as a giants team and who are the people or who are the players particularly that drive that really hard within the giants
Yeah, it is really important. I think because there's not many, and even through our academy, we don't have that many guys who are from Sydney. So one of the reasons the connection was able to develop really well early at the Giants is because we didn't really have a support network outside of the club. And so you sort of rely on each other.
And while you are training hard and everything together, we're also hanging out outside of the club. So that's how the connection was able to develop really, really strongly. I think some of the main drivers we've currently got in the group, Connor Iden's really, really good at that sort of thing. He's always been massive on that.
Isaac Cumming was massive for that too, actually, even though he's gone now. He was a Giants Academy boy from Broken Hill, and when he came here, he was really great at driving that. Jake Riccardi's very, very good at it too, but it also mainly stems from the older guys. I mean, you look at the example set by Toby, by Cogs, by Witters, the guys who have been around here for a while, Josh Kelly,
Those guys really drive and set the standard of what it looks like and how frequently we catch up. It's a combination of both. The younger guys coming through see what the standard is and take that up themselves.
It's a really interesting point, isn't it? Like, so, you know, I don't, I never met Connor Iden in my life.
I'm an admirer of the way he plays footy, but now I have a different appreciation because to be that connector within a club is not necessarily an easy thing to do because you've got to be on and you've got to be up and you've got to be, you know, if you're having a bad day, but you're the one that's relied upon to be the upbeat guy who generally brings some levity and light.
To a footy club, I think that's a responsibility. So I admire those blokes enormously that are able to play that role within footy clubs.
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Chapter 5: How did Tom Green perform during his recent emceeing role?
Um, if you look at the relationship that Ross has with his players, they all sort of jumped to his defense and said that there was, when I say, you know, nothing there, maybe they were upset in the moment, whatever, but the relationships that they have, and I suppose his owning of what he thought may have been out of line seemed like it was able to sort of meant that everyone could get past it really quickly.
I think that's the most important thing, you know? Not everyone's going to be perfect 100% of the time, and it doesn't mean that those things are necessarily acceptable. But when there is a mistake, if you're a big enough person to be able to acknowledge it and ask for forgiveness, I guess, and want to be better, you can see that those relationships still flourish.
And I think that was probably my biggest takeaway out of that. I thought that part was really good.
Do you think football clubs are... I think they've changed a lot over time, but do you think they are open forums now? Do you believe that any player that came into your organisation there at the Giants would be comfortable enough to speak up about any issue that was concerning you?
I'd like to think so. I mean, it's probably a marker of a good club if they are able to do that. And so I'd like to think so. We haven't, I suppose, had to deal with it necessarily... in this similar sort of space.
But I feel like, you know, thanks to guys like Connor Arden and the standards being set by the older guys, there's a really clear understanding of, I suppose, what's acceptable and what I'd like to think is a good culture where if people aren't comfortable with something, they feel comfortable enough to talk about it and let everyone know what is appropriate and what's not appropriate.
Hey, Tom, we've all been lauding the performance of Scott Penelbury at the weekend, but not just that. The performances, the high level of consistency that he's displayed over a long period of time. You've been out there on the field alongside him, against him from time to time. You're a great observer of players out there.
What is it that's impressed you most about the way that he plays out on the ground?
I suppose my thing in this is probably a credit to just how good of a player he is, but he's able to play in, like, many different, let's say, ways. He's, like, started his career as a bit more of an inside mid, you know, winning inside footy for them and then being smart with his hands, getting it out.
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Chapter 6: What are the differences between the Canberra crowd and Sydney crowd?
I'll be honest. My thing about the fixture is that it should be based on merit, I think. So, you know, my other part is I'd love to see the Giants' marquee games, of course, but we've got to make sure we're upholding our end of the bargain by playing exciting football and by, you know, getting positive results.
That's why I think when you can see in the back end of the year when you get good match-ups, it's even more salivating for everyone. So, yeah. I'd love to see the Giants in more marquee games, but I think we need to hold up our end of the bargain by winning. But that goes for every team. I think every team should be held to that standard.
If you're not playing exciting football or winning football that people want to watch, then it might be time to make way for some other games.
Great chat. Always fantastic talking to you. The maturity, eloquence with which you speak and how you articulate your conversations. In quite a contrast to our next guest, it's going to be Shane Crawford who's wandering into the studio. So it's gone from the very sensible to the ridiculous, but that's what you get on our show. Hey, enjoy the week.
Great to talk to you and we'll do it again next week.
Thanks so much, guys. Always appreciate it. Have a good one.
Lean, clean. There he is, leany, cleany, cleany, Tommy Greeny. We'll take a break. He's out there. Is he? How's he looking? How's he looking? Yeah. Like he normally looks. He's got a stupid look on his face, and he's going to wander into the studio and join us. Well, let's get him in now. We'll get him in after the break, and he can stay with us until 9 o'clock. How's that sound?
He can join us for questions without notice. He'll have a couple. He'll have a couple. Shane Crawford's up. He's up next.
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