Matty Reid from Tasracing joined Brent and Painey to talk about what's happening and coming up in Tassie racing.
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Matty Reid from Tasracing (19/07/24)
Here, that's what cooked when you ordered juicy beef sounds like. The steaming hug of two slices of melted cheese, the crunch of tangy pickles and sliced onions all topped with a toasted sesame seed bun. That's the sound of a McDonald's quarter pounder with cheese. First beef at participating U.S. McDonald's excludes Alaska Hawaiian U.S. territories. Time now to go around the stage thanks to our friends at KFC score big with KFC's footy feast order today. Tim, not sure if you caught up with the news during the week, 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 with the men and women where each region will play each other once across three separate weeks. AFL-TAS is also hoping to bolster empowering pathways to ensure more Tasmanians are officiating in AFL and AFLW. 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're at their clubs. 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, Visitor Local Banjo's Bakery today. Teams have been named for the rep games at Utah Stadium, seven changes for the women. Charlie Vandenberg and Mackey suck clear for 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 as some of the inclusions, Andrew Phillips, Jack Avent and Ollie Preshore, 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, Breno, are you commentating it or not? I'm just doing the ground and dancing, Tim. Okay. 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 do because playing four or five, playing against us in the Quaffle game, wasn't the men's? Charlie's playing back in Tazzy now. I think I'm not sure about Mackey 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, Keith, a little later in the show. In the show? Yep, definitely. What else we've got, Tim? Breno, waypoint is providing guidance on how to build the devil's high performance center, kidney and Brisbane's new high performance centers have been cited as influences, 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, Breno. I'm not sure you've been across both, I'm sure, but I'm hearing that 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 giant 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 since 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, Suckliff and Manneburg have played four games locally, and that's so they can qualify as per the rules. OK. Excellent. Good news. I'll tell you what, Brennan 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 brought me as a gift. That's actually a marshmallow for you. A whole bag of marshmallows. Excellent. Why don't you tell him you're a hot chocolate man, and you do get very upset when you don't get your marshmallows, Brennan. Let's be honest. That is outstanding. That is outstanding. Brennan, a couple of other news around the state lonsest, and your team, the Torns Coach Saraville, has stepped down after five seasons in charge due to family reasons, and the Hobart Hurricane's WVBL Captain Elise Volani has re-signed with the club for a further two years, which is great news for the Hobart Hurricane. 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 Saraville because we've heard during the week, Scott, that Saraville's standing down from her role with the tornadoes. She's been a magnificent person for basketball, which has made a really lovely person and really dedicated as well." Yeah, no, I'm actually heading up after this afternoon to the tornadoes at the end of season banquet, so I'm going up to celebrate that with the team, but also for Saraville's retirement. She's in her 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 all the way up from Bernie back down watching youth games and making another little tour for about 24 hours. Very good. She's good to see him back, isn't it, Tim? Man of the people will tell you what, he's right. He mentioned something about your tan on the news the other day, Brandon. Yeah. And right next to you, you can see a real contrast in where your tan and Scott's tan have got to in the last few months. Do you want a marshmallow? Yeah. Get into it. How good is that, Tim? Service. How about that? He needs him. He needs him. Welcome back. I'll tell you what I'm talking to. I'll tell you what I'm talking to. I didn't want to interrupt the show, but... No, no. You more than welcome to interrupt the show. We're just talking rubbish anyway, so we might as well talk to someone important. And I get excited to come in. Exactly. For Simon a long time. And my guy. Not here. Yeah. He's surfing. He just does what he wants. He does what he wants. I'm scared of sharks and I'm scared of water, so the last place from 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 say that Tim today was swimming with sharks? No, I didn't. Unbelievable. Obviously it's safe to do. Can you run us through that? It's not safe to do it. I can't say how's that safe, right? It's not safe to do. She is... This is her passion. I don't know how you're 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. We'll put that on social media later for at least not 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 University of Queensland up in Brisbane to study the Great White Sharks up at the Great Barrier Week and so she had an opportunity with some friends to go on this dive and this actually this boat that she was on and this dive has actually used this past week for Shark Week for the United States. Wow. It's just a tour. She's in about 85 feet of water and amazing photos and no, it's not safe 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. How do you go as a parent in that situation? You just got to go with it all supposed to. Well, a few years back she actually got bitten in the knee when she was feeding in the Bahamas through a 70 pound chain meal 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 that played into, I have to tell my wife that your daughter just got bit under the water into 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 hope that she does what she's doing. So, 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, "Oh, I have no idea how you're talking 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, just start my process to get over to the gym by 7. I mean, be able to game by 7-ish and so, I usually leave at 4.30 and get to the arena around 5-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, 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, I was aware with all 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. Yeah, I 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 4, I believe, in Melbourne and where she had 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 5, she wanted to come and I said, "You're going to stay at home." And you can see it on TV and I can't afford to have you over there and something happen and so she stayed at home and thank God everything worked out but it was a tense couple hours there because I just didn't know what to do. Obviously, I wish I'm before the biggest game of our season to try to win a championship at home and it was a difficult game to coach. Yeah. Yeah. What a burn. Absolutely. Having to get to a break. Great to have you here. 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