The Wisdom & Experience of Robert Craddock (21.09.26)
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What is the opening banter and purpose of the episode with Robert “Crash” Craddock?
Let's head to Brisbane, shall we? The wisdom and experience of Robert Craddock. Hello to your Crash. G'day, Jared. How are you?
I'm well. Quite the week up here.
Yeah, so tell us what what sort of hold on the town will the Lions have?
Well, I mean, like yourself, everyone was just still buzzing about that game. It's it's still been talked about. And and there was just a feeling, Jared, too, that the Lions great challenge these days is getting to a grand final. Once they're there, everyone just expects them to win it, you know? And and and I do too. I reckon as a dollar seventy pops, have you seen a better bet, honestly? But they had to get there and uh You know, so it it just redefines so much history because as you said Three in a row, that's what the boys early this century did. They also made a grand final and lost it, which this team has done. So i i it's a lot of conversations up here, who was the better team? Who who was the greatest player?
You know? Imagine if you just said You know, fifteen years ago that Dane Zurko would be mentioned in the same sentence as Michael Voss as a great player. Like an and hey, if they win this he has to. So it's extraordinary.
How does Crash assess the Brisbane Lions’ chances of reaching a Grand Final?
Simon Black, uh to present the cup is what Tom Morris told us.
Well, this it will go down so well up here. Because there's just a feeling that of all the stars he's so underrated. Jared, I know the coffee shop where Simon uh Black goes. And uh I remember they once had a farewell function for a barista who'd been there for three years. And I went to the function and he said to me You know something I found out yesterday? Simon was a famous AFL player. And like uh what I'm trying to say is he went there for three years, Mr. Understated, asking everyone how their kids are. You know, oh how's your back garden? I noticed on the way in you got those flowers going well. Never not a word about himself. And the other thing I'll say about Simon Black Jarrett, and I'll be interested in your verdict here.
In the year two thousand and ten, our former AFL writer Andrew Hamilton, great journo, loved a bit of a blue, but he had to name his player of the decade from two thousand to two thousand and ten and defend it in a blog. And he said, My player is Simon Black. And they came at him like you wouldn't believe, about a hundred and fifty responses. And you know what he did? He just sat there and methodically Picked them all off. Like someone would say something, he said, Oh, sorry, mate, Blackie won three premierships. Someone else will be nominated. He said, Oh mate, that guy never won a Brownlow medal. Another one, oh mate, Blackie also won the Norm Smith medal. Boom. Oh Blackie won the rising star. Oh, 300 games.
And he realized that Simon Black had the perfect package to win every argument. So I don't you're a better judge to me. Need Jared to know whether Simon was the best player between two thousand and two thousand ten.
Why is Simon Black considered the ultimate argument‑winning player?
But from what what I read on the blog, he he he shot down every argument.
And inducted the Australian Football Hall of Fame uh in in that star studded team is yes, is he was such a setterpiece of it, but he was the most unassuming of them, wasn't he? And and in what's happened afterward is if you've described it, as some of them have become the biggest figures in the game in many regards and personalities of e of extreme hype, but but Simon was always more unassuming than that.
And do you know how I tell you something, Jared? Unassuming guys can get away with being no, not not they can say anything. Like I remember once at this coffee shop, Jason Ackermanus was there with Lee Matthews. And Blackie said, Oh, hey, he said to myself another guy, Hey, you should have seen these two. And they're listening to the conversation. He said, Uh, whenever uh Lee had a problem with with Acker, he would say, Let's have a coffee. And he said a and and I would know how much trouble it did because he developed the caffeine shakes mate, I'm telling you. And like he's telling this in front of Lee and Acker and Blackie can get away because he's such a nice guy, he can get away with anything.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the opening banter and purpose of the episode with Robert “Crash” Craddock?
0:00–1:09
2
How does Crash assess the Brisbane Lions’ chances of reaching a Grand Final?
1:09–2:50
3
Why is Simon Black considered the ultimate argument‑winning player?
2:50–7:27
4
What makes Chris Fagan’s coaching legacy unique in Australian sport?
7:27–11:18
5
How did Australia’s three‑match series against Zimbabwe showcase individual centuries?
11:18–12:56
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