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why is he so good in the rck the big fell what makes him so good oh 6' 10 helps uh no I'm going to say best hands in the comp that's why great Mark and that's what's made the difference for him as your season being big fellow six time all Australia and it's rarified a how have you thought you've gone personally in a team game what a great opening question to Tom by the way there you go thank you thank you let's talk about I worked on that for a while uh no look I um I do love coming to these nights because get to celebrate some great and I'm my tip is bond for MVP and um potentially Australian captain Iron he's an absolute star so I love coming here and um I've been lucky enough to be able to come to a few how great to see you mate I saw you wandering around with your father all Australia night what are your thoughts congratulations on the you've had personally yeah thank you uh yeah pretty special night and be here with a few of the swans boys as well and uh yeah brought me dad as my date so yeah good night are you comfortable in the the suit so you don't look that comfortable in it no it's definitely not me I'd rather be uh wearing board shorts in on bond mate good on you mate good luck tonight he's had an unbelievable side this man uh nominated in the backline we'll just continue to wander our way round through oh now look the the crowd just Parts like they've left him on his own Marcus bondell great to see here Scotty Nom mates over here R off um you've been to this night many times before um you got multiple Australians under your belt what does it mean for the footy community and yourself to come to a night like this and celebrate some some wonderful how good to be to actually play in this team oh I mean that's the the hypo hypothetical always of of what it would drum up it be something I think pretty special but um my sense is that year and year I think it's important continues to grow I think um players definitely value the nights um now that it's obviously become more of a combined one and it it brings probably the Players Association and the AFL together so I think that's been a great move um and you really get to see guys outside of playing with against them on the on the weekend so it's a nice way to just naturally sort of cross PA for a little bit of all the BLS that are nominated like most of the 44 nominees are here tonight so we don't know who gets a gig there's one bloke that's been nominated that you'd love to play with who would you go with uh oh I mean it's hard to narrow it down to one I just I'll just scan the room um I saw Jeremy MC gav in the room before um he's someone I've always really rated highly um from a from a different team um love the way he plays very courageous player too um and obviously continues to be a star of the competition good on you mate have a great night tonight best of luck enjoy the ser thanks all righty time to get stuck in welcome to the 2024 AFL Awards and the winner of the 2024 Telstra AFL rising star is olle Dempsey from the dong cats J told me earlier today he said I make sure I go up here and thank the uh tribunal as well for ruling out Harley Reed and Sam Dary but um so I might throw that one in there but um no it's a true blessing to uh be up here and uh give my thanks to God and then also my parents at the back um for all they've done for me and you still yet to miss a game whether it's in Perth or Melbourne or Adelaide so just thank you guys for all the support you show me I wouldn't be here without you and um yeah just the AFL Telstra Phoenix management and Winston Rous um and then yeah last but not least just the jalong footy club and all the support they show me and Scotty and um and all my teammates and I wouldn't uh be able to have so much fun if it wasn't for that club and the environment so yep [Applause] what about some stars there and we are joined by Mig Maxi Gordon the cripper ladies and gentlemen extraordinary footballers uh Maxi we'll get to the seven time in a moment but I was just asking both you guys as the package was going to air how do you like watching your highlights packages uh well as a rman your highlights package obviously isn't as good as the rest of them so um I always think it's better than what it is and you go back and you have a little watch and you're like yeah that's not actually that good is it what about yourself Pat yeah it's I'm a beit same as Maxi sometimes you're in the moment you think they're better than what they are and then it's just a set shot 30 out directly in front but um n sometimes pregame I watch a bit highlights to get myself pumped up but um yeah in these moments it's uh can be a bit awkward you watch highlights yourself pregame well a bit of motivation um yeah sometimes when you're down on form you might flick through but um yeah not all the time but sometimes um incredible moments at the end of the season obviously the Higgins goal and then you you sat there and watched um I think quite as a group what what was the emotional role roller coaster crippy because at one point freem Manel in front you're probably having a a quiet beer on Monday next Port comes strong and you've got two more weeks to prepare for a final yeah it was a terrible 3 hours hoe um absolutely hated every minute of it um there's something about when you're playing you're in some sort of control but when that gets taken out of your hands um and the way it did it sort of felt a bit like deja vu of 2022 for us so we're just lucky enough there was another game that could dictate our sort of Our Fate so um going back to the club rooms was was great from a connection point of view and everyone's sort of sitting around I couldn't watch the last quarter I went downstairs with Georgie hu we uh just watched the score I couldn't write every every emotion you were just watching what the app oh we sort of had in the background just having a having a quite one and um yeah it was sort of just sitting there and just hoping for the best and then um we said we wouldn't go there unless there was a minute to go and they up but I cut the goals which happened to be so then we carried on like we'd won and Monday morning mate I've never been more happy after a loss in my life so it felt like we generally won so it's been a it was a crazy crazy sort of 5 six hours but um the best thing was even we did win would be in the exact same position so hopefully we carry a bit of that momentum throw yeah hopefully um we watch you play and you obviously went to the West Coast Eagles and they had so many injuries Carton and it was like well this could be the end of carton season and the first five minutes of that game it was I watched it a couple times it was like you right we're not losing this game where do you put yourself mentally and physically at at that point when the season is on the line you've got injuries you've traveled to Western Australia you're in the middle and you're the skipper cripper yeah I I just I love those challenges it's um probably didn't treated it two differently but one thing I reckon in in games when really started to matter later in the year that um you know there's fear can sometimes creep into guys mind so um I just wanted to really go out there and say I'm going to fail i' rather fail having a crack so um really trying you know give as much effort um know we had a younger team uh in that week so just try to give those younger boys a lot of confidence and Clarity in their role but um as a lady you sort of want to go out and set the example so tried to do that and um yeah that was one of the my most enjoyable wins as a as a as a player and also as a captain and see some of these young fellas smile off the game and carry on a bit and just get the taste of what AFL foot is like um he's rewarding when you you you've been captain of the club for a little bit Maxi I know you're all about the team and you your evidence of that every time I hear you speak but as I said some have eight have you got eight and nine and maybe 10 in you um well I just con goody and made him sign me for three more years so could be 11 yeah so I've got to um I've got to perform over this next little bit um look I'm relishing the rock roll I love it um we got a young couple of rocks that um I'm excited to give it to um but I learned from Mark Jamma when I walked into the club Mark Jamma was an Australian Ruck and he didn't let me win a hit out of training for seven years so um I'm going to go a similar approach and make these boys earn it but hopefully they come out the better end seven time all Australian four time all Australian uh enjoy your offseason Maxi you'll be back bigger and better the next year and Patrick good luck to you and the Caron football club moving forward thanks from the backline the talents of Lakey weering and Ry just try getting past the halfbacks Zoro mcgaven and Houston the Midfield is star studed with Gordon Bonton p and Nick deos an electric half forward line of Warner Cameron and Heeney and gos Galore in the forward line Waterman Hogan and Dylan Moore congratulations to the followers Gorn Crips and ceron and rounding out this exceptional team Whitfield Neil tror and Butters please put your hands together for your all Australian team of [Music] 2024 now to announce the Vice Captain and captain of the 2024 all Australian team please welcome back to the stage AFL CEO Andrew Dylan thank you Sarah it is my pleasure to announce that the vice captain of the 2024 AFL all Australian team is Patrick [Applause] Crips and the captain of the 2024 IFL all Australian team is Marcus Bonton Pell twice Vice Captain and for the first time captain of the all Australian team ladies and gentlemen warm Round of Applause from The Champ for the Western Bulldogs Marcus Bonton Pell M congratulations um firstly what do you think the key to captaincy is well the thing I've probably learned more and more um as I've been in the position is is probably how well you're able to listen I think uh you probably got no doubts um most guys who who are sitting up here especially know how to play the game and talk about it but I think what you're hearing coming back the other way is probably the most important so uh definitely something I've I've tried to do as as well as I can you're a fire and brimstone man pregame what what's your at the last moment we we see you huddled around what are you rolling with uh whatever comes to mind most of the time um it becomes something I think as you definitely grow older and grow more comfortable with it is you don't try to reinvent the wheel too much I think you you learn from others who've tried and failed maybe before you and and try to sort of roll with maybe some stuff that that just lands and and you probably realize it in the end most guys aren't probably listening um and you just try and swear a lot um and get through and look a few BLS in the eyes and typically that seems to do the trick so it's no different in the country but we'll just have a bit of a look at this team how would you Captain some of this team you've got Crips you've got deos they want to be in the middle you've got song You've Got Loy Neil back there your sort of Whitfield F chalor wants to be in the middle so me as heene he look at me he wants to be in the middle so how you going about sorting that lot out it it's hard looking at them at the same time try yeah no I think it just be get out of their way I think that's been the the answer I've heard the best over the last few years is uh like I said you got a lot of good footballers sitting before us um I think most of them will know what to do um and just follow the lead of some others and then I'm looking at the forward line big Jesse Hogan he's got the common around his neck Jess is coming off nine and Jakie Waterman he's a genuinely tough looking man so like he's smiling now but I'm not going actually anywhere near him so who who gets full forward in your mind it might be maybe just the the olden days Style just roll the ball out and see who uh see who wants it the most um but I think you'll be do pretty well with with any one of them um and especially at the fielders midfielders um just kick it and see what happens and watch probably like like everyone else would how do you think it'll go actually playing a game with this team there'd be some Sizzle wouldn't there yeah I think it'd be hard to stop I think that's probably the key thing um good luck trying to find probably enough that can compete against it but as you know that the squad was pretty packed and pretty deep this year um once once again it's always the hypothetical um I think it'd be a pretty good show mate congratulations uh good luck to you and everyone here and particularly for you on the western Bulldogs W I'm being named captain of the Australian team now thank you very much huge honor cheers Sarah what a brilliant and extraordinary team we have in 2024 well that concludes our 2024 AFL Awards congrat congratulations again to all of our winners this evening we look forward to a massive final series ahead and don't forget the aflw season kicks off tomorrow good night