Damo's Recovery | Bailey Smith, Carlton's Selection, Pressure On Port | Rush Hour with JB & Billy

M welcome in purple thank you Jim and B Daman well complete opposite to this time last year my memory of this time last year was we had three unbelievable finals and one pretty ordinary one Yep this year we've had three very ordinary ones and one unbelievable one and sucks you called the three all three don't say that what going Dro that word on this I'm sorry about that why is everyone saying that word I with you sounded like um it was underwhelming Triple M Jim then wearing on um on radio sorry I don't think I've ever sworn on radio so sorry about that I can only wear that cuz it's true all three of the rubbish ones I coped well they're not rubbish for the sides that win no that's also true we'll deal with the the winners soon Jim in the positives but uh this has been the best part of nine maybe even 15 months in the making Bailey Smith officially telling the Western Bulldogs today he wants out and just giving the the reasons for all of that uh he will be um Bill expecting to go to the jalong football club now he hasn't made that part of it public yet and that's because I believe the cats is still well and truly alive and up to their eyeballs in a Premiership to be won this year no distractions needed for the cats what would the cats have to give up well their first pick in the draft will be a starting point for it it won't be enough in the eyes of the western Bulldogs they'll be hoping that's 21 or something well it's already about 15 16 given where they are going to finish top four or potentially and should they go all the way through with with the father Sons The Academy Kids the the the way that the national draft is compromised it could be you know early mid 20s even you know the way it goes so or thereabouts so that will be the starting point he's out of contract there's no free agency attached to this one so that's will be a negotiation that plays out as we talk today we still don't know what will happen to Jason McCartney who is a gws Giants football manager got himself involved in a fracker with Tom happle at quarter time at theg he shouldn't have been anywhere near there what about paps doesn't he love it doesn't he love it he does I'm really Keen to see what the AFL releases on this uh in 2021 we know that Jason McCartney went into the umpires area gym of a game at halim at manica and questioned why there were so few free kicks at that stage of a particular game paid against or paid for the Giants he has found himself clearly before once in a in a situation like this so there is a PRI attached to it he got $20,000 or the club got $20,000 last time I expect there to be a fine and and and a very strong statement at the very least to to be accompanying that outcome what else you got you touched on the Melbourne review bill I did oh no well I didn't max G did on the breakfast show this morning saying Bring It On yeah I like the way Max he does approach that and Jim you've always been big on that I remember when you were in charge of the north melv footy Club you just said it's just it's a given it's got to be standard practice I mean how do you get better if you don't review You've got to do it so the the demons are bringing outside Consultants into where is he from the all black from the All Blacks yeah which is celebrated internationally aren't they as Benchmark and oh no oh rabs there's no need for that you're better than that come on R you should be shearing that bit cheapish now I bet you won't play it again and uh Christian Peta as we knew two Saturdays ago has certainly committed for 2025 and it's no surprise in my eyes that these undertakings that were arrived at privately Jim are now starting to play out publicly Kate Ry standing down this review being commissioned I think there's a major amount of pressure now on Gary per for for what that looks like and as we we touched on the Saturday rub Bill Steven Smith former MCC chair uh believed to be going overseas next year but I feel when he does return he'll take over from that's what a lot of people now highly connected with that football club do hope to have happy hey track's back on track too by the way I'm hearing that he's all good he why you hearing that you hearing that I'm just hearing it and he's right to you hear it with your own ears yes yeah yeah you don't have to point is it's radio we know what they are bucking ears guess where they are where are they on your bucking head so but he's all good he's back with the side he loves with all his teammates BR back he was posting photos with Mel people at a Brands back and running good on you a ordinary R by here too no no he actually good actually it was good JayZ the Caesar just no JayZ you know what he gave long open was too long too long but he give us he gave us a chance to speak and he really did which is not a good idea with you so and I brought this up on Saturday the goal of the year because we saw Jeremy Cameron that you so beautifully called think's got this Ona well now we can throw in Mark of the year cuz I reckon that's Mark of the year and I reckon jez's is isn't far behind but no no you can't have that it's closed off after the Home and Away season we can't do that we've missed no but we can change the rules change the rules so it's Mark of the year or Mark and goal of the Home and Away season it's just that did Bobby he'll take potentially one of the marks of the year last year in the Grand Final itself and also Zack Bailey kicking what I felt was going the Year too in the Grand Final itself just been highlighted over the weekend so it's just a funny old the win is announced on brand night though which is still before the grand finals and bill has never had an original thought in his life so someone else has said that F what about the mosquito Fleet that's the that's my other thought this is mine this might be his actually he did come in with content on Saturday and he thinks he's on to something with theal great Caron mosquito Fleet right so we go back to Kenny Shelton Rod Ashman Al Jimmy Buckley Vinnie Kio Wayne Johnson the Dom well the sides that are going well at the minute have got the mosquito Fleet when you look at the cats stingle close M mana and Hawthorne of course so you've got to have good forwards and guess who hasn't got for C were more mids than Fords no no was C they were called the mosit just I'm pinching the turn and guessed which sides didn't have good small forwards the ones that got bundled out oh thank you Dam I rested my Cas very good small forward he didn't do much on the weekend was not good on the weekend uh positives that yeah the swans were with a big winner there that was the one game to which you referred Jim off the top that was the exciting game and it was a it was an epic wasn't it the way the the Giants did everything but win the game of 40 they five goals up or 28 points up on two separate occasions were regularly in the low 20s and then then uh Isaac Keeny Chad war in the last quarter particularly um Jake Lloyd had one of his great games I know he's a two-time best and F win at that footy Club but I would argue that might have been his best game best game I tell you I was listening to this and the Juke the last I Reon two minutes Marty's goal in that well done Juke he called the SP I agree with that he was magnificent the other thing purple with that game but there was a few others as well you cannot miss in finals the Giants in that first quarter missed three sodas you kick all of them pretty much 20 me out what's going on with to understandi but anyway you kick all of them you you don't have any problems you just win the game and Isaac how good good looking good mover reminds me of myself goodl looking and tough purple are we going the other way or you got more positive positives we discussed this you and I did on the Saturday R the just for the Monday audience the jalong performance was was brilliant way back on Thursday night sets up their season obviously all the way through now to a uh preliminary final and and just the the work of Patty Dangerfield at 34 years of age obviously Maxi Holmes he got the 10 votes maximum from the coach man yeah he was great wasn't he he's just a player that's been in the system for eight years knows how to play footy yep how was danger that far down in those votes by the way yeah I was surprised if he wasn't the best player for them he was certainly their second best I thought so too yeah and that second quarter when you know the game was set up I thought some of the explosiveness which Weplay there was a brutality about that performance wasn't it which he which I know he's done for basically 15 years no harder player going at the ball nearly yeah I would agree yeah and I reckon that that particular quarter may have been the the peak what about Max Holmes when he took kicked out from fullback had three bounces the pl there yeah and he just he got to the wing he got to the wing unbelievable yeah Brisbane Lions we again you touched on them from the the the the nastiness of the Calton loss but to to get to 60 points n goal six 60 and have the opposition it doesn't matter how low you are as a team whether it was West Coast brisb H sorry North Melbourne Richmond this year it was a final and they had the opponent at zero it was close to Perfection when it's all said and done now they had a few nervous moments after that it got down to 31 points when Calton finally together and they will have some I think backs of mind um problems with how they missed some goals that they should have kicked in those more tense moments than there had been but ultimately all you can do is destroy the the opponent like they did in the first half so well done to them bad selection yeah it was from the C from No Doubt yep and then again enough I just cannot get enough of the Hawthorne football club story with how again I don't know who was best on ground the coaches gave it to Nim I thought that was the right call but equally Kia de's Performance first year player Nick Watson stepping up in the in the big stage Meek was unbelievable he's nearly their most important player Meek Yeah well yeah he might be bu and and if he's not maybe James Sicily still is and he's going to have to play an even bigger role now that Sam frost is is out for the remainder of the series with a a really bad foot problem that was sustained in the last four minutes of the game on uh do Charlie Dixon I don't know how much of it he had it would have only been one or two so Marshall's got to come in surely yeah but Marshall hasn't been playing well either this year and he has been saw himself he's going to be better surely got Lord they could maybe bring him in they got to bring someone in who's going to bring the ball to ground you think so especially against Sicily in Dixon's defense I mean and I'm a massive fan of Mitch George Aris but he missed in by 10 meters on two separate occasions where he had made the the break on the opponent and would have been having shots at goal it may not have been enough to keep him in the team he got them but but the the kicks missed by a long way and that was indicative of what port was about so what they do now um I've still got the view that the losing qualifying finalist we we immediately rule them out don't we in our minds we get close to the game and and they've got a a game of footy against Hawthorne on Friday I feel it's going to be closer than than people feel you see the odds $160 Hawthorn $230 Port ad L at home that's um that's good value what they're going to need though is a lot more from their their leaders and and Conor Rosie has not had a good season of footy I feel it'll be one of those Seasons where it's completed and then the club filters out that he has been carrying something of significance that's my take on it I don't know that because he's he's denying that but he hasn't been having impact and equally buts was subbed out as we know at half time with rib injury which was later cleared totally of any damage and he is right to play on on Friday night well the criticism of that group purple for a long time has been they are very One Way y so they're unbelievably offensive uh their mids um but when it comes to actually defending that part of the ground they they're constantly criticized as being not able to do that if and they bristle at that I know but if you watch the replay of that game you can't argue no they did not defend the middle of the ground at all no and and they're already set back by Dan Houston not being in that part of the the ground and Farrell equally bill I re look at this stat 11 times since 2000 the year 2000 a qualifying team has lost by 50 or more points 11 times 11 times 11 times they have won the semi-final wow there you go Y is that right Joey good boy I wouldn't question Joey no noon to question Joe reports now the 12th if they go on well they got to win yeah yeah yeah right uh and then we did touch on the on the carton situation but just from a big picture perspective so mavos now coach 2022 where they lost the last four games to just miss finals last year five goals up in a prelim final lost it and then finished 2024 with a a harrowing loss in an elimination final go he's got the contract Beyond next year but going the next year there's going to need to be a sharpening up of outcome there as there will need to be for Luke beverage who also goes into next year with a contract but to have now lost his past three finals in the manner of which he he has though there was a streak of goals that were kicked by Hawthorne on Friday night that was six goals to nothing in the second and third quarter period the previous final they lost they conceded or let go of a 42-point lead against freemantle in 2022 in elimination final and then the the previous final gym was the 2021 Grand Final where they considered the sixth end of the last 17 goals so that's the last three finals that they've played lost all of them and have all lost them on the back of goals in a massively strect sense by opponents what do you make of their list because they got some very very good players this the dogs very very good players but there are some you'd say average players in that side too they very average on Friday night weren't they a lot of people say they got the best list I don't know got the best list well I don't ever pay attention to Champion data and I'd like to my own opinions but they were ranking them as the team to win the flag and so their numbers were suggesting to the people who crunched the numbers that uh they were there this year now they weren't clearly and they're out and they're out again so it's a problem uh gws just on them if Toby Bedford plays you'd think that would have been enough to change that result I mean they lost by Kick so they should have won anyway they still should have arguably won yeah so they'll get him back and you'd expect them to stay alive I still like do I do you I'd like um now purple are we yeah yeah uh I I don't care if it's jamus Winston I don't care if it's Bernie kosa what's heing we got to find a quarterback for Cleveland I've had enough Watson guaranteed 15 mil a year he couldn't hit you standing 15 me away we went to the dog pound when was that football ever play the Prof two field goals to one in the middle of Cleveland the mistake by the lake exactly still follow him I can't believe you still follow him you got to stay well you can't leave your Club don't matter who it is well they um that's sadly true Jack Payne yes cleared of serious damage to the MCL but was subbed out of the game with it it's again if they're going to roll the dice on a on a player who's a little bit sore which he will be regardless and they've got dared Joyce in the wings but a problem because they just cannot get football into Jack P no all right purple well done love it recover shortly and he him on Wednesday as part of the midweek Rob as well oh I 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