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Chapter 1: What is the leadership portfolio discussed by Luke Hodge?
Our leadership portfolio is our starting point every Tuesday, and then we'll get to your thoughts. This is probably the best way to summarize what I knew would come. Anthony started with mid-season tournament, F off. Good on you, Anthony. Thanks for leading us all. Hello to you, Hodgie.
Morning, Gerard. Whenever something new gets thrown up, I think that's the mindset of a lot of people because it's the fear of the unknown and they want change, but they don't want to change it too much. I think that's the common mindset for anyone out there until they actually get it explained to them very clearly and I guess for me, I scrapped option one straight away.
As soon as I saw there was no Gather Round, I was like, no, it's out for me because I love Gather Round. I think we're taking the kids over there again next year. So that was the clear out for myself. I would like a little bit more explanation or a bit more understanding on option three. When it gets into your four different groups, top 16 gets split individually.
I'd like to look at that a little bit more because that sort of raises, that's sort of you push into your overseas markets and you sort of say you have different categories and I'd want to know more about who could jump up if someone's had that. So you look at Sydney last year and they had a big run towards the end. They had a lot of injuries early on.
Are they blanketed just to the wildcard options if they're in the bottom part of those 16?
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Chapter 2: What are the implications of the proposed mid-season tournament?
That's something that intrigues me. My natural instinct would be go to option two. And then the play-in one, I think I was a little bit... I was a little bit the same kind. How is that going to work? And we all know players in the clubs will manipulate to what they want. So if the play-in tournament comes and they're looking pretty cherry-ripe... for the AFL season?
Are they going to put out their best plays during this in-season tournament? These are the natural things that will come to my head when we throw in something different because, as we know, if we don't know much about it, the main fact for us is there's a Premiership Cup on the last Saturday in September, but that's a little bit later next year, but the last game for our season is...
that's the big focus because ultimately that's what we get rated on. We get rated on who is going to hold that Premiership Cup on on the last game of our season. It will take a big change or better explanation of what this in-season tournament will do, just like the NBA one.
That didn't seem much until you see LeBron James holding it up maybe because it was a $500,000 check to every player who won that and every staff member. But yeah, I'd have to have a bit more of an understanding and I think our natural...
as sports lovers who loves the game would be, that's just like the ANZAC Cup pre-season stuff because we won't rate it because it's not the big premiership title that we're looking at.
Yes. So do you think it's possible culturally to establish a second trophy? So this is not unique as the FA Cup most readily comes to mind. Um, and it used to be in a time before your career that there was a second trophy, which did have cachet.
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Chapter 3: How does Luke Hodge feel about the absence of Gather Round?
Do you think it's possible or I think it's highly unlikely we'll go with option four. So I just want to, do you think it's possible to create a second trophy that has any pull in our competition?
I think anything's possible. But I think with the culture that we've set, I go back and look at Grant Thomas and Lenny Hayes when they won the pre-season cup. How many times have you heard Dermy being introduced as five-day, five-night? That was a big thing. The night premiership, the pre-season premiership, was something you used to hold to.
And Dermy gets introduced that way, five-day, five-night. It was just as important as the... is the end of season one. And then you look at Grant Thomas and Lenny Hayes standing there with the pre-season cup going, this is nothing because, do you know what, we get remembered for the one in the last Saturday in September.
I think that's the culture that people have brainwashed into the younger guys coming through. And I think that's how my generation definitely think at the moment. Like, the pre-season games... when I was coming through the back end of my career was, okay, you do enough minutes to make sure that you're cherry ripe for round one. So that's the main, that's the starting line for us.
So there's got to be a big cultural change and a mindset change if anything is going to be introduced in regards to another sport. Another trophy that means something to the players, the club, all the supporters. So your leaning is option two? Option two, I'd love to get a more understanding of option three because that intrigues me.
Yeah, I have a slight leaning to option three in what we've seen so far. Jake from Mill Park, if they want to play less games and shorten the game time, no, maybe I didn't explain it properly, Jake. That's not it.
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Chapter 4: What are the potential impacts of fixture changes on the AFL?
You'll get more games. and a nip and tuck on the game time. Otherwise, the game time will be untouched. So you're not going to get less and less. You'll get more, and the trade-off will be a little bit less.
And I think that's what the AFL and the PA have been asking for, less game time, because you see these longer quarters, and you talk about the injury lists. People want to see their best players playing. And if they can shorten a quarter by five minutes, 20 minutes total for a game, it's going to make a massive difference to the workload of the players.
And hopefully we see more of the champions out in the field because you go through every list and we've got so many players out there that have got soft tissue injuries because of the fatigue with the shorter preseason and the longer game time and the longer seasons.
Andrew, it's impossible to have a second trophy. You can't compare it to the FA Cup because we don't have a second league like they do. You can have a second trophy if you choose to. And one of these teams is in fact exactly what you're saying we don't have. It would be a best of the state league teams, which is a bit of a throwback to what Shannon Gill told us about from Know Your History.
We've done a lot of this before. It was how would you harness it for a new generation and whether you can land it or not. Um, what do you see in Josh Fraser, Hodgie?
I see five and zero, Gerard. And to be honest, every other Carlton supporter sees five and zero and they see the wild card, even though the players aren't aiming for it. I can tell you what the supporters are. Um, What I do see is I see a lot of smiles on Carlton supporters' faces, which is great to see.
I think our competition is better when Carlton are going well, when Collingwood are going well, as much as people out there are right now saying, I hate you, Luke Hodge, for saying this. When Richmond, when the big clubs are going really well, it's a good vibe because we have more people at the games.
to see Carlton supporters say I'm going to go this weekend because guess what we could be going for six in a row like they haven't said that apart from the run in 2023 the confidence in that supporter base has been down and you've got to look back and go why is that is it just the freedom of the expectation and the pressure of not playing finals because we've seen that over the last couple of years that the players have failed whenever the
the big expectation of playing finals has been put onto him? Or is it the fact that Josh has come in and said, let's just play with freedom, boys. Let's just go and put pressure on, take the game on. If we make mistakes, it doesn't matter because we've got a free run at it. Whatever his mindset is and whatever the player's mindset is, it's working.
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