Chapter 1: What tribute is paid to Neale Daniher in this episode?
Thank you.
This is The Sounding Board Podcast with Hutchie and Damo. Thanks to Drinkwise. If you're choosing to have a drink, choose to Drinkwise.
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Chapter 2: What are the reasons behind Brad Scott's sacking as Essendon coach?
If you're choosing to drink, choose to Drinkwise. It's Tuesday morning. Our phones are going nuts. We're going to push through. They're going nuts for a reason. We'll get to in a moment. But it's less than a day after the passing of the great Neil Denneher.
Chapter 3: Could James Hird potentially return to the Essendon Football Club?
As I say hello to you, Craig Hutchison, on The Sounding Board, episode 17 of this 11th series. And... There's a lot going on as we speak right at this very moment in time.
Chapter 4: What impact does Andrew Abdo's departure have on the NRL?
Yeah. Hi, Damo. What a day yesterday. Very sad. It was a day you knew sadly was coming for 13 years, but it didn't make it any easier for anyone, did it? No. It made it in many respects harder because he was just such a transcending figure in sports history. He leaves an extraordinary legacy.
Chapter 5: What are the implications of the TAB's negotiations with Racing NSW?
You'll know who we're talking about. Not just in AFL, but in all sport, $115 million raised, a beautiful human being, and You know, you and us and like everyone have played plenty of tribute last night, but there's not really much you can say or do that makes anyone feel better about what we've just been through.
Chapter 6: Why is Peter Stone leaving the Bureau of Meteorology significant?
And just hearing Tim Watson and Gary Lyon before we came on this morning, pretty powerful. And I think we're going to see this incredible groundswell of love and care, aren't we? Yeah. And humanity at the King's birthday game upcoming.
And the fact that that's about two weeks away, is that right? It's four months away. And the power, I think, that will be at play in that moment, arguably more than the 11 big freezes before it. And as you said, Hutch, he was a 2013 diagnosis.
Chapter 7: What is the context behind the Herald Sun's criticism of The Sounding Board?
The fight MND caused, which came off the back of it. The accolades that he's personally received along the way, inclusive of the 2025 Australian of the Year, meant nothing to him because all he... cared for, was working toward getting a cure for, as he called it, the beast.
Chapter 8: What does the term 'Two-Station Warrior' refer to in this episode?
And the industry is not anywhere near that yet, but it's a lot further progressed than it would have been without Neil Dennehy.
And long may we take and draw inspiration from his courage to realise what's important in life and to try and live a life where we don't stress too much about our own woes because we saw the ultimate woe in Neil and the way he behaved and The courage he showed for a long time. And I think Tim Watson had a line this morning that just connected with me. He was a gift.
He was a gift because he lived long enough to put a public face to MND. So often those that have it are tragically taken from us so quickly. We don't get to understand. The, the, uh, the fact that it, it kills you top down or bottom up, and you don't understand the human trauma and journey that they go through.
And he lived long enough, thankfully to inspire a nation to want to go and continue the fight on his behalf. And that is an extraordinary gift. So our thoughts. As a sounding boarder with the Danaher family and all of his friends.
Just one more on to Hutchie too. The amazing person that he was and the amazing football career that he was meant to have and had taken away from him because of injury and the fact that he was a debutante at 18, a captain of the Eston Footy Club appointed at the age of 20, basically, 21, a best and fairest winner at 20, but never got to...
live out the best years of his potential as a player because of injury with knees and the unavailability of him in those grand finals of 83, 84, 85, and then to become a highly successful coach and then to have senior roles at two other footy clubs on top of being a senior coach and then to have the most impactful part of his life in the latest part of it as he was dying.
It's as extraordinary a story as we've seen in football With a connection to sport, I think, in the AFL and arguably Australian sports full stop.
Force of nature post-footy. When he set his mind to something, the whole idea of the big freeze and what that became, it went from being a sideshow or something that people went, this will never work, or a bit of a laugh, to being the biggest honour in Australian sport. People who...
In champions of our, of sport who would rank it among their highest life achievements to be invited and asked to slide down the freeze. It was an entire invention of his imagination. And it just shows you the power of what people coming together can do with good, with the Australian sense of humor and with good spirit and good grace.
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