Brent and Painey went Around The State to discuss the representative games, Tassie Senior Talent Academy and AFL High Performance Centre, before Scott Roth joined them to finish the segment.
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But we're going to have a senior talent academy here in Tasmania next year, as many as five or six REP games for senior Tasmanian men and women in 2025. It's with the focus of having players ready for when the VFL and VFLW team started 2026, of course, no TSL, so there'll be a brand new regional REP series that will take place for the men and women, where each region will play each other once across three separate weeks. AFL-TAS is also hoping to bolster unpowering pathways to ensure more Tasmanians are officiating in AFL and AFL-W. What are your thoughts? Good idea, Brent. Very good idea. I think you've got to get those players ready for VFL and VFLW, as it says. And I think the best way to do that is to have them either playing against each other in the intrastate games or to have an academy where guys are training at a higher level than what they would be if they were at their club. So I think it's a good idea and a terrific lead-in for both sets of players. Okay, very good. Now we're going to talk about tomorrow's state games. Thanks to Banjo's Hobart, Bakes Fresh On Side Everyday, visit your local Banjo's Bakery today. Teams have been named for the REP Games, Utah's stadium, seven changes for the women, Charlie Vandenberg and Mackie Sutcliffe are in after playing intrastate in the VFLW and WAFLW respectively, while Jacinto Limbrick is back after overcoming a knee injury. Seven changes for the men as well, back to Norton, Alex Lee, and Zach Adams are some of the inclusions, Andrew Phillips, Jack A. Ven and Oli, pretty sure a sum of the outs. That was thanks to Willis' painting and rendering Hobart's paint and render specialist. You're looking forward to this tomorrow, Tim. Well, I am Brenna. Are you commentating it or not? I'm just doing the ground announcing, Tim. So looking forward to that. What about in terms of Vandenberg and Sutcliffe? So they've played, we can pick them out of the other competitions. Yeah. Unlike the men's stuff we can't. I think Charlie's playing four or five playing against us in the Quaffle game, wasn't it, in the men's? Charlie's playing back in Tazzy now. I think I'm not sure about Mackie Sutcliffe, but I interviewed Charlie yesterday and she's back playing, I think at Wingard, top of my head. But now it'll be a big day of footy. You've got the devil's boys and girls playing the Western Jets earlier in the day as well. So we'll talk more about the state game with Rhino K for a little later in the show. In the show. Yep, definitely. What else we've got, Tim? Brenna, waypoint is providing guidance on how to build the devil's high performance center. Sydney and Brisbane's new high performance centers have been cited as influencers, but they're also determined to make it uniquely Tasmanian. And the club is currently doing earthworks at both Rosney and Kingbra. So plenty happening there, Brenna. I'm not sure you've been across both, I'm sure. But I'm hearing it's more likely to be Kingbra than it is Rosney at the moment. Oh, you, Tim. All right. We'll wait and see the work is being done. That's for sure on both sides to get them up to speed and see where we are at exactly. North Hobart's joined Menzia signed a new one-year deal with Essendon. He's also back in the Don Senior side for tonight's game against the crows. Bernie's Locky Weller has recovered from his second ruptured ACL and will play his first game for the Suns this weekend. It's round 17 last year. The experienced half-back is straight back into the seniors without playing VFL. Olveston and Devonport's Alex Pierce is back from his broken forearm, which is great to see. And I'll tell you what, also, Tim, just got a text in here, it says both of those players that we spoke about, Sutcliffe and Manneburg have played four games locally, and that's so they can qualify as per the rules. OK. Excellent. Good news. It's I'll tell you what, Brenna also says how highly the Gold Coast Suns regard Locky Weller. Straight back after a knee reconstruction and hasn't played since round 17 and comes back in without a senior game. I'll tell you what's just happened, Tim. The King of Tasmania has just walked into the studio. Good. And look what he's bought me as a gift. Hopefully a marshmallow for you. A whole bag of marshmallows. Excellent. Well, do you tell him you're a hot chocolate man and you do get very upset when you don't get your marshmallows, Brenna. Let's be honest. That is outstanding. That is outstanding. Couple of other news around the state. Launcest in your team, the Torns coach Sarah Ville has stepped down after five seasons in charge due to family reasons and the Hobart Hurricane's WVBL Captain Elise Bellani has re-signed with the club for a further two years, which is great news for the Hobart Hurricane's. Yes, exactly right. Scott Roth joins us in the studio. Might as well get him on the microphone saying you see you can tell us a bit about Sarah Ville because we've heard during the week, Scott, that Sarah Ville's standing down from her role with the tornadoes. She's been a magnificent person for basketball in Tasmania, really lovely person and really dedicated as well. Yeah. No, I'm actually heading up after this afternoon to the tornadoes have their end of season banquet. So I'm going up to celebrate that with the team, but also for Sarah's retirement. She's in our bloodlines group and has done wonderful things for the state. So I'm looking forward to going up and seeing her and then Saturday and Sunday I'll be out throughout all the way up from Bernie back down watching youth games and making another little tour for about 24 hours. Very good. Cheers. Good to see you back, isn't it, Tim? Man of the people. I'll tell you what, he's right. He mentioned something about your tan on the news the other day, Brent. Yeah. And now he's sitting right next to you. You can see a real contrast in where your tan and Scott's tan has got to in the last few months. Do you want a marshmallow? Yeah. Get into it. Marshmallow. How good is that, Tim? Service. Um... He needs him. He needs him. Welcome back. I'll tell you what, Scott. I didn't want to interrupt the show, but... No, you more than welcome to interrupt the show. We're just talking rubbish anyway. Yeah. So we might as well talk to someone important. And I get excited to come in for a time in a long time and my guy, not here. Yeah. He's surfing. He just does what he wants. He does what he wants. Yeah. I'm scared of sharks and I'm scared of water. So the last place for me is out in the surf, to be fair. You're not going to hang out with my daughter then because that's all she wants is to be around sharks. Did you see that, Tim? Today I was swimming with sharks. No, I didn't. Unbelievable. It is. How does that... Obviously, it's safe to do. Can you run us through that? It's not safe to do it. Can you say how's that safe, Tim? It's not safe to do, but she is, this is, you know, her passion and you can... How are you going to be able to see that? Just throw it up there. Yeah. There you go. Tim, have a look at that. It's extraordinary. Do you want a chance? No, this is about an hour from where we live and they have a shark diving thing where you go out and see them and she just hopped on board and she's been doing this all her life feeding sharks and a big advocate for sharks and she's worked in the Bahamas, Hawaii. She came to the University of Queensland up in Brisbane to study the Great White Sharks up at the Great Barrier Reef and so she had an opportunity with some friends to go on this dive and this actually is both that she was on and this dive is actually used this past week for shark week for the United States. Wow. And it's just a tour. You go out there and she was in about 85 feet of water and yeah, amazing photos and no, it's not safe and but she's been doing this for quite a while and she has her reasons why it's safer under the water than being above the water and... I see. Yeah. How do you go as a parent in that situation? You just got to... You just got to go with it, I was supposed to. Well, a few months, a few years back she actually got bitten in the knee when she was feeding in the Bahamas through a 70 pound chainmeal suit she was wearing and she called and she was so excited and I said, "Well, what's going on?" She goes, "I just got bitten in the knee and I have two bite marks. It is unbelievable. It's like a tattoo." And I was like, "Oh my God, don't tell your mother." And then, you know, that played into, you know, I have to tell my wife that your daughter just got bit out of the water in the Bahamas and she was bleeding and she's excited and my wife was like, "This is not so." And so, you got to kind of let them do their thing and, you know, hope that, you know, she does what she's doing. So, I think you've denied. I don't know if a lot of people would know this. Game four last year, she came into this very studio that then she was admitted to... I don't know if I can't talk about this. I think you've talked about it publicly. She was taking a hospital and you almost weren't going to coach Game Four. Yeah, she came home in the afternoon around 3.30. She had been doing something and I was about ready to leave at 4.30 to start my process to get over to the gym by seven, I mean, to be able to get by seven-ish. And so, I usually leave at 4.30 and get to the arena around five-ish. And she just went down for the count in our apartment and went flush and scooped her up and didn't know what was going on and rushed her to the hospital and I was in emergency up until about 5.30 to 6 o'clock. And then, you know, doctors were looking at her and the process was a little bit slow, but she came kind of back around a little bit and she said, "Go coach the game." And at that point, you know, I was aware with all my... about myself and just didn't know what to do and stayed a little longer and I didn't get to the game until about 45 minutes before tip off and yeah, coached that game and she ended up coming to the game which she wasn't supposed to at the very end, but she just wasn't feeling well for two days and kind of low sugar and blood and everything else and I think just her travel around the world to get to game four, I believe, in Melbourne and where she'd come from. She was in Rexxham doing some work for her company and exhaustion and excitement. I think she just crashed and it was really nerve-wracking and in game five, you know, she wanted to come and I said, "You're gonna stay at home." And you can see it on TV and I can't afford to have you over there and something happened. So she stayed at home and thank God, you know, everything worked out but it was a tense couple hours there because I just didn't know what to do and obviously I'm before the biggest game of our, probably our season to try to win a championship at home and it was a difficult game to coach. Yeah. Yeah. What a burn. Absolutely. Happy to get to a break. Great to have you here. We're gonna get to a break but we're gonna come back and talk all things basketball really soon here on S.E. and Tassie Breakfast with powered by Kubata, take on any job with Kubata's range of tractors, miles and utility vehicles and that was thanks to KFC, Skorby with KFC with the Colonel's famous chicken chips and irresistible burgers, there's something for everyone order today.
