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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
I'm Gerard Waitley. Here's a snapshot of Tuesday, June 23. Luke Hodge chose his preferred model for a future AFL season structure.
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.
Chapter 2: What AFL season structure does Luke Hodge prefer?
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.
Chapter 3: How does Hodge view the impact of change in AFL?
I'd like a little bit more explanation or a bit more understanding on option three, when it gets into your four different groups, top 14, sorry, top 16 gets split. 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 bad... 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? So 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 and 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, that's the big focus because ultimately that's what we get rated on.
And Hodgie put it on Hawthorne skipper James Cicely. Ever since Voss did it and got into his face and then he had it, Kalachi did it to him and then we had against the Doggies and they went and spent some time and physically got into him. Long wasn't physically getting stuck into him. He was just getting the ball. So he ended up kicking four for the game. Early on, James was that frustrated.
I think he might have swore three or four times because the umpire, as he blew 50 and come back and said, James, that's three times. So clearly either warn him a couple of times or he let him go, but his frustration went too much.
I think James has to set to himself that he's got to commit that there's no more undisciplined free kicks or there's no more undisciplined swearing at umpires or 50-meter penalties that he can control. Sometimes in his act of nature where he plays on the line and... If there's a contest he may cross the line, no problems at all because that's what you want from a leader in the halfback line.
But he's almost got to commit to himself and say, look, I'm not going to be undisciplined because I've got to set the tone for everyone else around me. Because if you let this go and think you're just going to stop it in finals, it won't. Because trust me, I've been there, I've crossed the line multiple times and I've said things to umpires which penalised us as a group.
you've got to start now because once it gets to September and the umpires are on edge and the pressure's on and you cross the line two or three times, you can't just pull it back because that's how your mind works and that's how you build it up and you've taught it to be out in the footy field. So I think that's just a little commitment.
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