Whateley - Tuesday | Full Show (28.07.26)
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What are the show highlights and how can listeners get in touch?
It's Stuart Waitley. Thanks for listening to the podcast. In this episode, the leadership portfolio with Luke Hodge, Chief Podsterer Tony Cochran in the studio, the Zach Butters scenario with Sam Edmund, Across the Divide with Andrew Voss, and Bharat Sundaresan. You can get in touch at any time. Waitley at sen.com.au. Thanks for listening.
Enjoy. Tuesday morning, this is your town. This is your station.
This is Waitley. Good morning. We're loaded today. There's a premiership up for grabs in Victoria, but that is no concern of ours. The leadership portfolio with Luke Hodge in a few moments' time. Our chief pot stirrer, Tony Cochran, is in town. He has a head full of steam up, perhaps prompted by the collapse of his sons. He'll be in the studio at 10. And having seen his briefing notes, I don't think anyone is safe. The tension across numerous clubs awaiting the decision on Zach Butters, who does not know where he's going to play next season. Sam Edmund has a temperature check, just a little temperature check, across four pretty anxious clubs. And across the divide, what traction does the Commonwealth Games have after four days of competition?
Australia's won 26 gold medals, nine overnight. What cuts through? For me, that's Rose Davies, the first Australian woman to win the 10,000 metres on the track at a Commonwealth Games. To do it, she ran away from the two best runners in Africa. What a splendid way to launch the ambitions of the athletics team. Career high points and deeds not achieved before. Victories that could never be at an Olympic Games. That's what stands out beyond dresses that are too short and anti-immigration protests in the streets and podium sweeps. There will be a lot of us watching the Commonwealth Games. It's been the highest rated program on TV through primetime since it began. But what cuts through? The 40 Wings temper text is 0433 98 11 16.
The difference is temper. We'll take your calls at various stages across the morning. 1300 736 736. Let's get to it. After all the dissection and histrionics surrounding Max King, the second guessing and scrutiny over the circumstances and the speculation and hesitancy for the future, what we have is a 26-year-old at rock bottom, a player of enormous talent who can't get through a game of footy. So distressed by the events of Sunday, he immediately left the stadium feeling he'd failed his teammates and harboured thoughts that he might no longer be of any worth to his team. Footy takes its participants to dark places at times, and Max King is living the worst of it right now.
We spoke today. He's really devastated. And this is a lot of the players we deal with. And this won't surprise you, hopefully. But his concern was he'd let the club and his team down. And shame's too strong a word, but probably embarrassed and, you know, like, have you guys had enough of me? And I said, hang on here. We're in. So we're on our knees, but we're not bowed. And he'll do a full pre-season. He's in, we're in, his family's in. And he'll come because history's littered. And life, the context in life, this is at the low end of catastrophe.
Have you guys had enough of me? That landed very heavily from Ross Lyon last night on AFL 360. Our leadership portfolio is run by Luke Hodge. Hello to you, Hodgey. Good morning, Gerard. Yeah, well, you feel for Max King. For a player who should be in the prime of his career, you've seen what his brother's been able to do, win the Coleman last year. Obviously, a lot of talk about him, but for him to not be able to get on the paddock, and when he does... It's another injury. Last played seniors over 750 days ago. Did his hamstring in the reserves. So there's a lot of questions that you've got to throw up. I was pretty strong last week saying that I don't think you should bring him back through the seniors.
More so just the conditioning point of view, more so at Marvel Stadium. Under the roof, it's a slingshot game of football. It's back and forth. I said the same about Darcy Moore in the lead-up before he did his hamstring when he came straight back in as well.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What are the show highlights and how can listeners get in touch?
0:00–10:42
2
How is Max King's injury and mental wellbeing being managed by St Kilda?
10:42–42:59
3
Why did the Petrarca–Lombard clash spark debate about leadership and club culture?
42:59–59:25
4
How did Tony Cochrane's interview spark debate about AFL vs NRL leadership?
59:25–1:02:09
5
What are the latest trade rumours and why is Zach Butters' decision so significant?
1:02:09–1:07:37
6
How might Ty Gallichan's tribunal outcome and AFL fixture changes affect finals planning?
1:07:37–1:15:03
7
What Commonwealth Games moments and cricket insights are highlighted before the midday wrap?
1:15:03–1:52:11
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