breakfast with Tim Payne and Brent Costello. Welcome to the show for a Friday morning, nice to have you come here and after a couple of weeks off, actually a couple of shows off, I might be too hard on the great man, I looked down the screen and all the way from London town, I see the great man smiling back at me, Timothy, David Payne, good morning Tim, how are you? Good morning, Brent Oak, could not be better to be honest, although I thought you were going to be straight into me this morning, so we might as well get it out of the way. Hit me with it, come on. All right, well I am a little tired this morning because I did spend my night. I'm gone for a globe! Oh, he's gone with the good stuff really, just hold the best stuff like this, so we want to build this up. You did not sit up and watch that, if you sit up and watch that, there is something seriously wrong with you. Well I did and I wanted to show my full support for my teammate and I thought no, I will stay up to an ungodly hour, which I think was about 3 or 4 a.m. just to see my man do his best work, and for those that haven't heard what happened over in the legends, Champions League or whatever it's called, this is what happened, here's the full commentary for you. Team Pin, new man in and the googly wax this time for Shiloh Fridi, playing the wrong line, beating in flight, Team Pin in and out. I'll tell you what, Nikhil Chopra, it's a long way from Hobart to get a first ball duck. He's had about 35 hours on numerous planes to get to Birmingham, and he gets out first ball, brilliant from a Fridi. As always, entertainment personified, pain gone for a globe, 47 for 6. Well if the vision wasn't good enough, the commentary was even better, how the cricket gods were smiling the enemy after all, the crap I've had to have from you over the years, Tim, that's what they dished up for me and I couldn't have been happier. Cheer and Riffy, I'm glad you got something out of it but I don't know where I've flown if I've gone 35 hours, I must have gone there about twice. I'm not sure Maths was his strong sleep there but I loved it too. It was for me, I think I was on the plane for about 16 hours, to be honest, so you just got a laugh there. Well you did, you walked off with that smart house, bring the ear, you like to bring to the table every now and then, that's all I saw, this was all I was doing. All I was doing literally was sitting up there for 45 minutes to an hour just thinking, I really do not want to bat and things got off to such a good start. I don't know if you've noticed Brent but the wicket, the wicket's not very good. Oh here we go, and we're going to play every game on that wicket, the next 8 games were on that wicket. Didn't bother anyone else my friend, would Finchy get 67 or something like that? Oh Brent, are you really going to show your lack of cricket knowledge mate? You don't reckon it's a little bit easier opening the batting or batting in the top 3 or 4 of a T20 game, facing like 110km or facing the bit of spin, that can still actually bowl a little bit and you're about out of yourself, you can't play spin like me, so it was hard work. Lincoln have you got a violin sound effect please that we can just run under this, this sob story that I'm listening to right now, this is extraordinary, what I did notice to me speaking fact spread out, it's much easier to bat at the top of the order than it is in the middle. It's forever, not just about me, but I tell you what, it's probably the first time in a game of cricket, I probably just don't want the owner to walk in here when I say this. I was wrapped, absolutely wrapped, the least amount of work you can possibly do over here the better. It didn't get into my golf game, I was in stiff this morning, so there were some positives to be taken out of a first ball duck, although it did take me down memory lane because I'm not sure if you've seen my first test that if you can go back to that at some stage but I'll look at the dismissal in my first test at Lord's, I was bold by Shahidah Friedi, it was nearly a carbon copy, it was nearly a carbon copy, I played over the top of it, I think they sent the country there beat me by wrong in it, I don't think he beat me with the wrong in it, I just clean missed it, a dead straight one. We'll get that side by side at some point today, that would be good to see. Well what I did notice Tim, I did take some notes as I watched this broadcast, so first of all I didn't like this, the National Anthem was on, which is a proud moment if you're in Australia standing there enjoying that, you're talking through it to someone, I can't remember who it was now, but you're talking through the National Anthem. No you weren't, no you weren't, I thought it was disrespectful, so that was the first thing I noticed. You know it's like at grounds, at big sporting events and test matches, World Series cricket thing, when there's big crowds and there's big speakers, you've been out there at the south at the national, oh no you haven't, when there's National Anthem on, it's a little bit distorted from what's on telly and what's actually on the ground, you know what I mean, the sound doesn't always matter, all that well. Yeah, you still talk through it Tim, I didn't like it. And then I went, I was gonna go to the second verse too, you were ready for that, were you? It was Dirk, it was Dirk Nannas and we were talking about how loud we should sing, but because it was out of tune, it was a little bit hard. Well nice to see you're getting on with Dirk anyway after he ruined your career, so that's good to see, well he's on the thin ice with me at the moment though, because we, few of us went and played golf this morning, as a recovery session obviously, Brent, to flush the legs out from a big day and a huge workload that I had in game one, we thought it'd be a good idea to go and have a game of golf and Dirk's dropped up to the first tee with no clubs, so I just wanted to share clubs, which I had to call up with, you know what I'm like, if things aren't exactly as I like them, I can get a bit choppy and wouldn't you know it, the first few holes I sprayed them a bit, though after nine I said, "You're up, mate, take my clubs, I'm going home." Through the toys out the cot? I was, I was playing terribly, I got a golden duck the day before, I turned up and Blake wants to share your clubs, and we're spraying balls everywhere, and then you think, "Oh, I'll probably hit the five line in from here, go in my back, oh it's not there, Dirk's got it 70 metres down the fairway," and you're, "Oh my god." Now the next thing you want to say, Tim, during the game, you were, I think you were scheduled to come in at three or four, and you just kept getting, well that's what was on the batting card. Next to coming in. No, I'll be coming in at seven in that team more often than not, unless I can talk to you too. No, I'll be batting down at seven. It's not a bad batting order for a retired team, to be fair, to feel about a top order can still seriously play, so I'm pretty happy to take the batting overs off and have a little bit of a wicked keep, and I'd be more than happy to leave it at that. And then I noticed you're keeping in the floppy hat, too, is that something that's done? I don't think I've seen that too often in a cricket game, a wicked keeper in a flop. No, I, again, probably wouldn't do it in a test match, Bredo, but I wanted to keep the sun off my face, and thought, "Well why not?" It's something, I also had no pads on, and I was untucked, so very unlike what you would normally see from your Bredo, but I'm trying to embrace the legend's retired leg spirit, which is a little bit loose and a little bit fast, so it was an enjoyable day, though. But I don't know, if you did stop and watch it, what's staggering is, the batting doesn't look like it's dropped off a hell of a lot, and the bowling's got really slow. The other thing is here, so we've had a good go at you on Excel last few days, which I've enjoyed the feedback from a lot of people. But this morning you've gone easy eublokes or the Wi-Fi might not work here. How do you think we've gone the last two shows without you? Like we can get by without you, you don't hold this together as much as you think you do. Oh, yeah, well I've given you 15, 10 minutes of preamble again this morning, so that's untrue. But, yeah, no, last, why don't you, look, it is a legend's league, and it is a bit hidden giggle, but I'll tell you what, when I read that first tweet from you, I did have the shit, so I'm not going to lie. Oh, he did. Oh, good. I just, when I walked out, I thought I'll just get 15 or 20, and that'll do. And then you missed the first one, he hit me stumps, and it was almost identical, first it was like really funny, and then I thought, oh no, Jamie, you should bring it to me all over this. Did you take him out straight away? He thought him a straight away, he's just got in, literally straight away, so here we go. And then I logged into my ex on the bus in my home, and I thought, I know exactly what's going to happen to you. So now, I'm so nervous for tomorrow, it's not, it's my first night, because I'm a horrible player of spin, and I always have been. I can't back down the order and never can, never caught in white ball cricket, and these wickets are wearing every day, the spinners over here aren't too bad, and I can't hit the ball off the square, which is why I needed the new ball in T20 cricket and opening bowlers. That is what I need, so I can actually generate some force, so anyway, we'll see what happens, but yeah, not a great start. Who have you got next? I think we've got the West Indies tomorrow. Okay. Same sort of total. No, I know we'll be actually earlier, much earlier, if you want to roll in the wheelhouse tomorrow. Excellent. So I think yesterday we started at four, four 30, which must have been about one 30, your time. Yeah, it was. Yep. Tomorrow we start at lunchtime, so 12 o'clock start, so it'll be about seven at a call. Fantastic. We'll get that exact time for our listeners, because we don't want you to miss our man's next dig out in the middle, if we can call it again. I reckon, I reckon I can get myself down to eight though, this game, because no thing could have known about it at eight and smacked them, so I've been saying, I reckon culture go up as well. There's a few of us who've got no interest in that. So what about the selection of the team as well, because as a few people pointed out, there's a few keepers in this side, Tim. Why did you get the gloves straight up? No, no, we've only got myself and my self and dunky heads isn't here. Oh, he's not there. Yeah. Yeah. So it's only myself and dunky. And yesterday's team was what it was, because that's all we had. It's all we had. The hands-on deck yesterday. So Pete Sittle has arrived from County, Judy, so he comes into our team tomorrow. And we've sent out a bit of an SOS, Brano, because the wicked is starting low and turning, and we've only got one spin in the turning, which is Xavier. Don't you believe? He did. He did. So we need to get him a little bit of a helping hand if, and it's a big if, Brano, if we want to go any further in this tournament. Oh, I like it. So that'll be about nine o'clock tonight, roughly. We'll get, as I said, the exact time for you, looking forward to it. It is nice to see you, Tim. We've missed the last couple of shows, but, yeah, it's been, I think the ratings have just, Tim, peaked a little with your end-year-olds, some big-name guests who've had, well, you've been away. How was your drive to Noosa, too, by the way? Oh, Brent, that was, it was a bit of an experience, so it's that it was, some parts of it were extremely painful. When you're sitting in a car for that long every day, I was, I was hitting the road for the two days at like 6 a.m., and I was getting to my destination at about 7 p.m., with maybe two or three stops of 15, 20 minutes. Oh, that's tough. Yeah, yeah, it was tough. But then, as well, driving through, you don't realise driving through the middle, not the middle of Australia, but I went the, the more scenic routes, because I didn't want to just be sitting on a freeway and potentially dozing off. I wanted to be a little bit more aware, and I thought if I went a bit more turning and a bit more sightseeing stuff that it would keep me awake, which worked, we've got some beautiful country towns in Australia. Thank you, Tim. It's a beautiful country towns, very, very well manicured, very, people out there in country Australia, Brent, are very, very proud of their towns. That's what I took from it. The streets, the nature strips, the main, the main drags, beautifully manicured. A lot of them, I really enjoy driving through a lot of the towns. So that's what I took from it, but I had a dead leg most of the time, which I think actually played into my dismissal yesterday. Oh dear. Oh dear. Well, that is. That's it. That's it. What kept note Brian, the commentator didn't realise, he said, I've had 35 hours on the plane. He left off the 22 in the car, the two days before that. So I've had 50 odd hours of travel, Brent. That's what he made. He played over the top of one. Hey, Link, just give us a play on number five, please, just quickly. Hey, I'm gone for a globe. Yeah, like that was my favourite part, playing gone for a globe. Hey, it's been a very fun time, but we've got a big show coming up for you this morning. We've got Olympian Josh Belts going to join us. He's off to Paris very, very soon. Also, new Jack Jumper's DP Brody None, Andrew Jenkins is back from Taz Racing looking forward to seeing AJ questions without notice as well. Boomers are on last night, we'll talk all about that, and plenty more to get through this morning. I'm firing here on a Friday morning. The Harcourt's open line, Tex are already starting to roll in. Get us as well. 0437 5552535, or call us 1342 1533, breakfast powered by Kubota. Take on any job with Kubota's range of tractors, mowers, and utility vehicles. Welcome back to the show, Jia, Tex are flooding him this morning on the Harcourt's open line. First one here, does painting have any Michael Bevan stories from when he was playing in Tazzy? I was here, didn't hear Painty being interviewed about it on the recently released Bevan Sent podcast. I did hear the Saturdays in Tazzy, boys, talk about this last week, and Freddy Jeeves on there being interviewed. Tim, have you got a Bevos story for us? He sounds like a unique character. What was he saying? I haven't seen that. What was he talking about? It was time in Tasmania and pre-seasons, and it must be over his whole career. I've only heard the Tazzy part, a bit of the Tazzy part, but yeah. I haven't heard it, but yeah, I have got a few Bevos stories. He was an interesting dude. He was actually a really good day for us young batters, obviously he was a fantastic player, but yeah, the way he went about it, he was very, very intense as a player, but I mean, the year he played in Tazzy, he scored 1,500 runs, and I reckon the team scored another 20. He was at times a bit punchy, a bit angry, and a bit frustrated, but give me a little while to think about. I'll come up with a few Bevos stories. Well, yeah, we'll come back to that Monday, so have a think about it over the weekends. You'll probably have 20. I'll listen to my podcast as well, because it might re-jig a few for me. Yes. Do that. Do that. What is Brent Smail as to when detail plans of the Mac Point Study and Precinct will be released, David of Launceston. David is imminent. Imminent. I'm talking days, I believe. So keep going that potentially over the weekend. Tim, you missed this on Friday. Hamish was on the preamble, very, very good too, but he bought a article to the team. No, no. Well, first with the definition. There he is, about a journey that was embarrassed when he went out and his friend or colleague ordered a hot chocolate instead of a coffee. Anyway, we had a reply to that. It says, "Coffee is discussing the anti-hot chocolate brigade, a toxic bully is trying to feel better by belittling others. Is it them who need to acknowledge they have a problem?" That's from Durk in Heuenville. Thank you, Durk, for your feedback there. I'd be very, very concerned if my five-year-old Charlie started ordering coffees as well. Not bad, Tim. Now we've got Catherine here that's messaging too, Tim. It says, "Miss you, Tim, not being in the studio. You and Brenda are always great to listen to and taking the PI double-five out of each other. She's used the reward there, though, Catherine. And having both of you together in the studio is much better than listening to you both, not in the same place. You are so funny. It's a lovely bromance. Love you, boys. That's from Catherine this morning, Tim. I think you've got to be a bit like the commentator over here, Catherine, with the bromance. I think you've gone a little bit too far. I don't know. And last one here is from David of Kingston, "Brent, can you let us know which five players you'd cut from the 17 man boomers squad to take to Paris?" Not an easy exercise. No, it's not David. No, I haven't. I probably don't need to sit down and actually try and do that just for my own brain to say what I would do. Well, it's better than that to be next. Monday, I think. Yeah, the last game was last night. And I think they said on the broadcast it was Monday and they fly out Wednesday to their next lot of games. So what I would say, though, David, is I'll be getting Jack McVarn that plane as quick as you can, because he is going beautifully. What do you think? Do you think it's going to happen, though, Brent? I mean, he's put his best foot forward. Yeah, he did. No doubt. Could. Are they going to pick you? This is the question, Tim. It's so hard. I don't know. I mean, he did so much. He did so well the other night as you say, 24 points in 13 minutes or 14 minutes, whatever it was on the court. A little quieter last night, obviously, but didn't have as much court time. So yeah, I don't know. It'll be really fascinating to see what they end up with. It's a difficult task. I've only got snippets of it over here, Brent. But reading between the lines, it looks like someone that he was in the extended squad, but probably wasn't given a real chance at making it. He's been fantastic from what I've read and listened to from day one of that camp, all the time the boomers came together, and he's continually got better and better and better and better, culminating in the game a couple of nights ago. But is the camp and the game enough to override two, three years of building, which they probably have done with other players? I think that's a decision, but he's made it incredibly difficult for them. But I think from the start, he probably wasn't someone they had in. That's right. That's why the decision so hard. I think, you know, not only can he shoot the basketball so well, imagine just taking him as a culture guy, he's going to be unbelievable for that group, I think. Well, I don't think they have issues there, though. I think they have a strong culture. Yeah, absolutely. I'm sure they do. But gee, if you can add someone like him to your group as well as his basketball when he's off field, that on looks bad as well. He's going against Chris Golding. Is that what I'm reading? Is it coming down to that? Yeah. I guess so. He's going was good last night, too. He was not missing any shots last night. So he had a game similar to Jack that the night, couple of nights earlier, so I do need to sit. I'm going to do that today. I'm going to sit down and try and do my 12, and we'll be on air before Monday, Tim, before they announce a squad. So I'll bring it to the table. So what I come up with? Thank you. Thanks to KFC. Biggest cross. Score big with KFC's footy feast order today. Hamish has written we need to move this to late. I'll come at 7.30 already, Tim. This shows flooring. So Hamish is telling us to wind this up and go to the news headlines, I think. But we'll do it around the state a little bit later, thanks to KFC because there's just so much to talk about. I haven't seen you for two shots. We've got a lot to catch up on. Still trying to find out exactly what time your cricket game is going to be on Fox Sports tonight for our listeners out there. Did you watch Tim now? Let us know in the hardcore. It's open line. If you saw Tim, bat, the Alenite or field, whatever, keep 047, 52535, or get us on the hardcore, it's open line by calling us as well, 1342, 1533. It is S.E.N. Tazzy breakfast. We are powered by Kubota, take on any job with Kubota's range of practice mowers and utility vehicles. We're off to the news headlines and coming back the talk racing with Andrew Jenkins from Taz Racing right after this here on S.E.N. Tazzy Brecky. Welcome back to the show for a Friday morning S.E.N. Tazzy breakfast, Andrew Jenkins, not too far away from Taz Racing from joining us in the studio. If you think your game is on TV tonight here in Australia, looking at Fox Sports, I've gone through every channel and it looks like they've overlooked you from broadcast. You can't hear Tim, we've lost him, you've muted yourself, he's shaking his head, technical difficulties all the way from the United Kingdom, there you go. He's staring down the screen looking at me and shaking his head. So Hamish, I'm not sure what's going on there, but Andrew Jenkins isn't too far away from Taz Racing Racing. He's the way of life. Of course, visit it's wilderace.com.au. Plenty to come on the show this morning. We're going to go around the state 4K. So plenty happening in footy, Jack Roval back this weekend, of course. Taz maning football Hall of Famer, unfortunately, Brian Lowe has passed away as well. We're going to have a look at Brian and his unbelievable career in around the state. Obviously more Taz maning to book their tickets to Paris as well. Some hurricane signings have taken place the last week or so. Jack Jumpers have announced a few changes to their list and one of those superstars is going to join us a little later in the show as well. We'll go through the AFL, which is coming up this weekend. Of course, some big games ahead. And later on in the show, questions without notice as well. And Josh Belts will join us too from an Olympic perspective. We might go to a break. We're waiting for Andrew Jenkins to join us here from Taz Racing in the studio. We're back with more Essie and Tazzy breakfast right after this for a Friday morning. From the back to the show, we are right on 7.40 on this Friday morning. Tim, have we got you back here there? I hope so. I hope so. Thank goodness. I know. Just don't touch anything. You just got to keep your hands to yourself. What annoys me, Brian. We went to an ad. I came back. I haven't moved. Didn't touch anything. Right. Just... Oh. Even when he does, even when he does, nothing is unhelpful. Exactly. This is what's happening. That's the voice of Andrew Jenkins, who's the CEO of Taz Racing, who's here. In the studio, Racing is a way of life. Is it it's while we race.com.au. AJ, nice to see you. Hello, Brendan. Good morning. And good morning. Painy. Welcome to your listeners. Good to see both of you boys as well. Yeah. Good to see you. It's been a little while. It's been a few weeks. So always good to see your face. Now, the inevitable this weekend starts favourite in Queensland tomorrow. This is exciting. It is absolutely exciting, Bruno. So, the little champ, the inevitable, is now equal favourite in the Glass House Handicap, which is a group two at the Sunshine Coast over 1,400 tomorrow. Good Tazimann, Craig, Froggy, knew it. We'll take the ride again. Look, Nev's got the top weight of 60 and a half kilos, which is four more than any other runner. Going through the field, you would hope he's just too good. And I'm sure John Keyes and the team will have him tip-top. So, yeah. Have a look tomorrow. Really get behind the little Tazzy champ and let's try and cheer him home in another group race. I like it, Tim. Absolutely. Jay, what sort of prize money are we talking firstly if he does get up and then secondly talks to us about the gallops in Hobart on Sunday? Well, good question, Painy. Let me have a look. I'm going to jump on my Ladbroke's account and check out the prize money, #redgoesfaster. And then, yeah, gallops on Sunday out at Elwick, which will be exciting. Headline, actually, we've got a good race ourselves locally out there, $45,000. Open Handicap is the main race. We've got Turk Warrior and Alpine Wolf coming into that by a similar $45,000 sprint race up on God's carpet at Devanport a few weeks ago. And also, hell of a night was actually a surprise winner here in Hobart a fortnight ago and a couple of other smart types in Dorostar and Justin needs resuming from a spell. So, for a winter handicap on probably a chilly but hopefully sunny Sunday presents a good betting proposition, I reckon. Absolutely. Hey, Lonnie Harness on Sunday night. We've got things happening up to the bow tie, which is signing as well. Yeah, look, it really is. So, for people who aren't aware, the bow tie is the qualifying race for the world's richest harness race, the Eureka, which is held up at club and angle outside of Sydney. So, it's a slot race, same concept as the Everest in the gallops. And Tazzy's bought a slot for three years and last year, the magician, when, ran, I'm sorry, the one, rather, the bow tied and ran fourth in the Eureka. So, really looking forward to seeing how the Bowie shapes up this year. We've got the Raiders Steaks and the Granny Smith Prelude, actually, on Sunday night. And you would think that Niac and DiGoea, the two main acts up there, particularly DiGoey who was probably unlucky in the bow tied last year. So, all things harness really shaping up. And I'll tell you a few listeners, if you don't have any plans on Saturday, the 3rd of August, get out to the bow tied at Elwick on Saturday night. It is a terrific night, the place is packed, entertainment, great food and terrific harness racing. So, jump on Taz Trotting Club in Google, have a look and come and see us race. AJ, a bit of footage has come across our desk the last week or so. Are you having a bit of a crack on the mechanical horses? How did you find it? And is the one that Brent used, has that been repaired or was that a different one? Well, I've got to say, Penny, it wasn't my first go on the mechanical horse, but I have very limited talent and very limited capability, as was advised to me, by Stephen Masculair apprentice, Jockey, coach, I think he quite was something like there's a lot of work to do here. So, I was absolutely tailed up by the apprentices, that's for sure, but I think that the horse was okay, Brento's horse is okay, Penny, it's come through the run recently, reasonably well, I mean, you know, winning sort of covers, winning masks a lot doesn't it really, Brent, as you know. Come on, AJ. You were there. You were there. It's one of the greatest sporting travesties in Australian history that Brent was awarded that victory. Oh, I don't know about the plate link, please, this is one of the great sporting travesties here to hear this the other night, AJ. I am coming for a globe. It's just there, AJ. There you go, see. How did you feel like Tim represents Taz Racing as well being part of this show, to see him travel across the world to a famous cricketing nation and come back with a duck, how did you feel? It's hard to put into words, Brento, it really is because you're partly devastated and embarrassed to be Tasmanian. True. And the other part of you is just going, "Ah, suffer, Penny, this is great." That was my, that was my initial reaction, this is brilliant. Yeah. I think what it showed, Brent, and AJ, was that I put in so much work to the rest point that come play challenge and I stopped focusing on my core skill, which was brilliant. And it's come back and bit me, but you hit the nail on there there, embarrassment. Absolutely. Great. Oh, that cracked into the stumps. We probably should mention the snapper who's not with us today, he's over on a boys trip in Melbourne. Another one. Yeah, no, no, he's going all right, isn't he? He's going all right. He must be very understanding. Absolutely. What about his boss? What about his boss? No. Hang on. But look, he's a Hawthorne supporter, so imagine what, what is a boys trip when you're a Hawthorne supporter? It's probably what high tea at Regis and a couple of shandies is probably topped maxes you out, doesn't it? Probably. Probably. Over 110,000 people attend Tasmanian race meetings. Every year, racing is a way of life visit, it's why werace.com.au. You win some, but you lose more for friend confidential support visit gamblinghelponline.org.au. Thanks for coming in, AJ. Good to see you. Always a pleasure, boys. Thank you so much. AJ joins us for Taz Racing, where he is the CEO. We're off to another break here on SCN Tazzy Breakfast. Right after this, we go around the state to see exactly what's happening in the world of sport here on SCN Tazzy Breakfast. Welcome back to the show before we go around the state, so I'm just watching you during the break. Tim, who are you talking to over there? Who's in the room with you? No one. No, I was chatting to our team manager. No one. No team manager. Well, no, I think you were asking if those players about no, they're not there. Tucked up in bed, Brent. We've got a big, big game tomorrow, one we need to win so good. Yeah. Who are you playing against again? The windies. I told you this. Well, I think you're wrong, Tim. I think you're playing South Africa, mate, so how's your research going? We're playing South Africa in the morning. We are. Yeah. Are you taking this seriously or not? Like, no, why do you get any ducks, mate? No, I'm not. I'm clearly not. I'll tell you why. I'm playing beautiful golf, though. Geez, unbelievable. What a life you lead. Now, Julian O'Brien's text in, and he alerted me to the fact that you weren't playing the Westerns. You are playing South Africa. So, thank you, Julian. No, that is a great test tonight. I don't think it's broadcast this game. He's telling me the next time we'll get to see you is tomorrow night at our time versus England. So, I think the pressure's slightly off you. We'll try and find a legal feed just trying to see how you go. Yes. I'll have a look. I can't see why every game wouldn't be telecast. It certainly has been over here, and I believe Kayla had picked it up. Well, they have. If it isn't, fantastic. Mate, will you know what, I mean, these guys are all professional cricketers, but it was actually what, sorry, former professional cricketers, but it was actually the talk of the change room before the game. We were trying to do the time difference to figure out. We should be okay because it's sort of one o'clock and Sean Marsh, it's like, oh, some of my friends will still be up because Perth's two hours, three hours, I won't say. But literally what we were talking about before we went out, because you just don't want anyone to see what's going on. All right, thanks to KFC, score big with KFC's footy feast order today. It's time to go around the state. The Clarence City Council's elected poll over the AFL High Performance Center is happening soon. Ballots will be sent out to Clarence residents by post from July 10, and a due back by 2pm on August the 8th results will then progressively be counted from the next day. The two questions residents will be asked, are one, do you support building the AFL High Performance Center entirely within the Rosney Parklands? And question two, do you support building the AFL High Performance Center across both Rosney Parklands and Charles Hand Park? How do you think this is going to go Tim? Question three, do you think a thousand signatures is enough to get a $200,000 waste of money underway? A lot of people would tick that, I reckon. I'm hearing Brent that it's going to be a landslide. Well, yes, I wouldn't be surprised. The one side of Rosney Parklands is what I'm hearing. But when capital insights have been awarded the project management contract for the Macquarie Point Stadium, they have worked on projects in the past like the Royal Hobart Hospital redevelopment and the Sydney Olympic Park capital renewal program, so hopefully that continues to move in the right direction. Jack Revolt is back in action for Clarence tomorrow. The roof is hosting the demons at Blunston Arena from 1.30, how's that for the poor old days? They've come off their first win of the season last weekend, now they've got a cop Jack Revolt tomorrow. So that'll be good. It's great, Jack's back isn't it? And only one game after tomorrow, finals qualification as well. So he could play finals. So does he come back for the third? Absolutely he will. Absolutely he will. I'll tell you what though, Brenna, it's not easy coming out of retirement. So sometimes they might have an opportunity here at the North Hobart Demons, because it's not always smooth sailing, I can tell you that much. Well, he kicked three last game, Tim, I think he's in Good Nick, Jackie Boy. Elsewhere, Launceston's playing Glunocki at Windsor Park, Kingborough is heading to Skybuster take on Lauderdale in the first nation celebration game. The match could determine who the third best team in the league is. Mitch Robinson's also announced that he'll be back playing for Lord out now, the local footy transfer cut off is in effect. The former line in blue has made one appearance for the Southern Bombers this season between playing for local footy clubs all over the country, Tim. Well so Mitch Robinson will play second game? No, he's not playing this weekend, but he, I think he left his announced he will play. Well, yeah, it sounds like he wants to come back because he's committed to Lord out for the rest of the season. He can't go anywhere else now after the transfer. He'll also qualify for finals. The finals are speeding up. Well, it could be good. It could be good. Yes. Brent rest in Peace Tasmanian Hall of Famer Brian Lowe, who passed away. An incredible fact has come through to us from Tasmanian Hall of Famer David Ingram who said that Lowe played in – this is a great stat, Brent. I played in all coached premierships with all seven clubs that he represented across his 25-year career. He had a brief 36-game VFL career with Jelong where he played in night series and reserves premierships. Unfortunately, he was dropped for the 1963 VFL premierships side despite playing in the winning semi-final. And after returning to Tasmania, he was captain coach of Cooey and East Launceston after retiring. He then relocated to Queensland but was convinced to come out and play one more season as South Port's captain coach. So rest in Peace – what a story that is, Brent. I'm hosting a friendship with every one of these seven clubs in the 25-year career. Yeah, rest in Peace – Brian Lowe, what a star. Absolutely. Hey, more Tasmanians have secured their tickets to Paris. Timmy, Eddie Ockenden will become the first Australian hockey player to appear at five Olympics. If you don't mind, he'll be joined by one of our guests coming up for the next-hour Josh Belts in the Kookaburra's 16-man side. Maddie Brooks didn't make the Hockey Roo's main team but was selected as a travelling reserve. Sarah Horr is heading to her second Olympics after the role was named in the Women's Eight this week. She helped lock in her sport after being part of the winning crew in the eighth final at the World Rowing Cup two weeks ago. Alex Vaini is heading to her second straight Paralympics after being named as part of the PR3 mixed Cox 4, the role is now based out of Melbourne and has worked with Hawthorne's AFLW program as a training parlor. Nice work. Plenty of Tasmanian Olympians, Renault, that is for sure. Cricket News and the big sexy Carlisle is re-signed for the Hobart Hurricanes on a two-year deal. The 24-year-old is yet to make his BBL debut but played a key role in the Tigers run to the Sheffield Shield last season and I expect he'll get a bit more of a look in and make a bit more of an impact in Whiteball, Cricket for the Tigers and the BBL over the next two years. Yeah, absolutely. Speaking of BBL, any update on the striker's head coaching role, Tim? Not that I'm aware of, Brenna, not that I'm aware of. You've got your application in, is that done? Possibly, yeah. Possibly. Why am I going to stick to the rundown? My friend. I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't ask you that, Tim. Congratulations, too. Okay, congratulations to Tasmanian basketball, Aidan Gibson, who was committed to Fort Lewis College in Colorado. The 19-year-old leaves for the U.S. in August. And the Jack Jumpers have announced that local product and development player Jacob Richards won't be offered a new contract for next season. It came the same week that the club announced that our guest today, Brenna, Brody, none will be joining the team as a development player this year and with the team option to extend it into 25, 26. The 21-year-old played college basketball at the Seattle University and has been playing with the Knox Raiders in the NBA or one where he's been averaging 15 points and four assists. So not great news for our local products, but the spot's been filled with someone who sounds like a very, very promising young player. Nat Atkinson. Nathaniel Atkinson looks like he's on the move from the Scottish Premier competition. Heart coach Stephen Naismith said it is likely they, and that's in reference to Nat, and another player will move on at some point. Natty, it was a tough conversation toward the end of last season. His minutes weren't where he wanted them to be, and I think that shows in the international set up that he doesn't get caught up, which wasn't happy with them, which wasn't happy with them. It's just a footballing decision. That's what I said to them. So it'll be interesting to see where Nat plans. So again, if they moved him on, or is he leaving? Well, might be a bit of both. In reading that, would you think, or more of them? Amical. Amical. Amicable. Yes. Good call, Tim. Good call. Brendan, no. It's the TNL Open Finals this week, the Northern Hawks versus the Cavaliers in a semi-final. The winner goes through to the Grand Final and Warrata Crips versus Kingston in an elimination final for the Under-19s. It's the same semi-final matchup between the Hawks and the Cavaliers, and in the elimination final, it's Crips, Warrata versus Karana. So good luck to everyone involved in the TNL this weekend. Yeah, previewed all that yesterday, Tim. Northern Hawks will be very hard to beat. Despite only beating Cavs by one goal a couple of weeks ago, I think they're in the box seat to win yet another TNL Grand Final. That was thanks to KFC. Score big with KFC with the Colonel's famous chicken chips and irresistible burgers. There's something for everyone ordered today. I've had some good feedback about our KFC segments that have gone up on social media, Tim. They are very humorous. We haven't got the best one yet, have we? I haven't seen the one where you're trying to eat popcorn chicken and I'm throwing it. You look like you're blindfolded. I look at one of those clowns at the show where you've got to try and put the balls in, but that's worth a look at. Absolutely. Hey, we spoke about a bit of boomers before, just quickly though. I just mentioned Jackie boy McVay because he was outstanding the other night. 24 points shot six from eight from the three-point line. Will Magna as well has had three points, two bounds, two assists. In last night's game, Australia won by 33. A bit of a quieter night for Jack with three points and three assists. Mags had three points as well to go along with his five rebounds. Did you watch it? Did you watch it? Did you watch it? Yeah, watch most of it. Last one. Yep. Talk to me about it then because I obviously didn't watch it. Why did he only have three points, Jack, in the second? Is that lack of opportunity? Well, he was. I'm not sure how many minutes he would have played in the end. It felt like less than the other night, but I think they're just trying to work out the best rotations of how the players geall together and some players didn't suit up last night, like DJ Vasilivitch, but I'm just going to re-water all these people. Yeah, so they've been ready into that, but they're out. Yeah. Yeah, he could do. ESPN's Algonulech reported last night's game would be closer to a preview of the Boomer's team and potentially the rotation we'll see in Paris at the end of July. But 13 players did end up having caught time last night, so on McVay, Algon says he's been trending toward making this final team since the completion of the first day of camp. Magnaise chances of making the team seem to depend on whether Gorgon wants the security of having three bigs as Langdale and Reth at both locks, so that's interesting. Yeah, so we're going from 17 to 12, Jack White and DJ didn't suit up last night, as we said, meaning they're likely out of the running. But if you would think if they've used 13 players last night, we're going, we're not going from 17 to 12, we're going to 13 to 12. Yeah, you could look at it that way. Yep. Yep. I think one of our guys could make it if he decides to go with three bigs. Magnaise makes it, if he doesn't decide to go with three bigs, is that a spot that opens up for Jack? Yeah, I guess it could. In different positions, but maybe they're actually, it's going to be one or the other potentially. Yeah, I'll need to sit down and do it, Tim, and see where more headlands or the, hey, we've got a $100 KFC match to give away to our contributor of the day today, so make sure you hit us up on the Harcourt's Open Line. Some techs are rolling in here as well. Tim, we'll get to those right after this because we are late for the news. It's Essie and Tassie Breakfast. We are powered by Kubota. Take on any job with Kubota's range of tractors, mowers and utility vehicles. Harcourt's Open Line. Harcourt's results for you. 0437, 5552535. Plenty of coming in on the Harcourt's Open Line. Harcourt's more than just real estate professionals, Julian is text in. He says expect Magnaise and McVay to be in your eye. I agree. I think, and he thinks we'll have a new Aussie skipper as well. He thinks we'll have a new captain. I think Patty's been, well, I don't know, I would have thought Patty would have been it, but he's saying a new captain, maybe, Jock, I don't know. I'm not sure. And a few other techs in here, Tim, as well, one here from Matt and Luna Valley, who's a regular text to hear on Essie and Tassie Breakfast. Hi, Brent, for those that missed at the WCL game. Aussie, Pakistan is on replay in five minutes on Fox 501, cold morning. So settle in to watch Tim Bat, cheers from Matt. And he's also come back with, Aussie, South Africa is on live. I don't think it's live, but it's on at 355 tomorrow afternoon. So that must be a replay, because what's that? That's more than, oh, maybe, yeah, I don't know, we'll have to check that. Will that add up, Thomas? You've got to even know what Tom have to be at the ground, mate. No, all I know is I got a message about half an hour ago in the Aussie champions, saying this is from one of our many team managers, Armadeep, Armadeep Essreen, who said hi team, we would like to have a team meeting tomorrow at 9.30am in the meeting room, request that you all be there, please, thank you, Armadeep. What time is it in trouble? It's 10 past 11 at night. Oh, no wonder you're rubbing your eyes, he must be absolutely fine. 9.30 tomorrow morning, I think we'll be getting a bit of a rinsing from the ownership. I'm happy with this. Now that text in here, morning lads, I've set my foxtail to record the SAV, Oz Game Talk and watch Tim wait for a team, wait for it. In the first game, I went to get a drink from my fridge while he was walking out to bat by the time I got back to my couch, he was already on his way back to the pavilion. Cheers. Flash from La Trobe. We had some live flash because he didn't walk out to bat. I ran out, absolutely sprinted out, maybe that was my problem, I was tired. Now have you been to vote to, by the way, to the elections on over there, isn't it? It's been happening now, it was very busy outside today, obviously, with the election on and the voting opened from 8.30 this morning, so there's people everywhere, Brenna, I always thought it was, they were just here to see the World Championship of Legends, but it turns out that they vote over here on Thursday. First day, I think that was Brenna. We're going to get to our guest Brody Nunn, who's waiting patiently on the line, but before we do, who's had the better week do you think, you or Joe Biden? Yeah, probably even at this stage, but do you know what though, I look at it like this, I was saying to the boys who were teasing me a little bit yesterday about my dark Brenna. I feel like I'm on the younger age bracket that's over here. I think my tournament's going to go like this. That's up with you, I can't see you right now. And I think Big Joey's is sort of slowly trending down, so I like to think that I'm going to trend up, but who knows tomorrow morning, I'll probably get knocked over by Vernon Philander or some of that, he's knocked over a few times in my career, so yeah, I can't see too many wins coming at this stage. Pressure's on how we're going to get to our guest, he's the latest and the last retired players. His next guest is our latest Jack Jamber, Timmy's come on as a development player, it is Brody Nunn, who's been good enough to join us here on SCN. Tassie breakfast, nice to talk to you Brody. Hey guys, how are you going? Yeah, good. Thank you, mate. Thanks for waiting patiently there. But how exciting is this year? You're on an NBA roster and a member of the Jack Jambers, how excited about you to receive this opportunity? Yeah, I'm super excited to join the NBA champions, and heading down there soon. Brody, how did this come about, mate, who from the Jack Jambers reached out, and Wendy did all start, when did they get in touch with you? It was probably three weeks ago, I had a good weekend in the MBL1, and Mikka Makona contacted me, just called me saying that they're interested in, offered me a development spot, and I had a Zoom call with the coaches the next day, and that's it. Mate, these DP spots, they're quite lucrative now, and we've seen with Sean Mcdonald, I guess, coming on as a DP here in our first season, and the path he's gone on the trajectory, I suppose, he must be hoping to follow a similar path to Sean, and try and really cement some minutes over the next few years. Yeah, definitely. The Jack Jambers development program is one of the best. You can see that with Sean Mcdonald, so I'm excited to hopefully follow his footsteps and get some minutes. You talk us through the call with the Jack Jambers coaching staff, who sort of ran that, was that Scott, and what did they share with you about the program and their plans for you? Yeah, that was Scott. He basically went over the daily routine for the Jack Jambers, and then my role on the team. I had to earn minutes and things of that nature. Well, that's a good thing about Scott, mate, is that he treats everyone at the same level, no matter if you're DP, or whatever you are, if you're Milton Doyle, or you're Jordan Crawford, everyone starts from the same base, so if you do the work, you can get the time on court, so that must be really exciting for you as well to have that in the back of your mind. Yeah, exactly. He mentioned that everyone has to do the right thing. He doesn't have favourite, whether it's Milton Doyle or me, you just have to do the right thing and put the work in. Yeah, well, that is a lie. Brent's one of his favourites. Don't worry about that. He loves Brent. Made it for Jack Jambers fans, who may not have seen you. How would you describe yourself as a player, and what can we look forward to seeing from you? A three-point shooter, point guard, good on-ball screen, good passer, good ball, hang on. Brody Nuns, our guest, Johan Essi, and Tezi Breakfast. He's our latest Jack Jamper coming on as a development player. Do you know many of the guys in the team personally, Brody, or are they going to be all sort of new to you when you're off here for pre-season? Yeah, they're all going to be newer, I don't know any of them, so big sign to meet a new group of guys. And what about the Jack Jambers organisation, mate of you, have you heard much about it or have players around the NBA or one that they talk about the culture and speak glowingly about the Jack Jambers and what they've been able to do down here? Yeah, definitely. One thing that's always mentioned is that they're for number one defensive team over the last few years, so that would be good for me to help without my defensive game. A little bit about Tezi as a placement, I'm sure you've been down here to play some NBA or one before, but are you excited about the prospect of moving here as a place? Because we hear about AFL players, and maybe they won't want to move here, et cetera, but are you excited about the prospect of moving to Tezi? Yeah, definitely. I've never actually been to Tezi because of my first BL1 season and we didn't head down there this year. But yeah, I'm super excited to move to Hobo as a new city point. Mate, one of the cities you've spent a bit of time in is Seattle playing for the Seattle University. What was your experience like playing college basketball and how's it helped you grow your game? Yeah, it was good. The game style was a lot different acts. They're a lot quicker than what I was used to coming from high school. And yeah, I didn't play much there, so for the first two and a half years and then I decided to come back and saw an opportunity to play in the NBA one and try to earn a development spot. Before that, you go, mate, what's it look like? When do you move down here to Tasmania and how soon we'll be able to see you here in person? I think I moved down early August or late July. And yeah, we're going back and forth this way, still in the final third, NBA one. Brilliant. Well, we can't wait to see you here later on this month, hopefully, and we'll get you in the studio from another chat, but I appreciate your time here on SCN Tassie Breakfast this morning and good luck as you become a jack jumper. Thanks, guys. Appreciate it. Brody Nunn joining us here on SCN Tassie Breakfast. Brody, yeah, well, because we'll get a bit of a wind up there, but when you went on the next question, when we get these guys on that have been to the university, the college set up in America, I want to talk about that. I love that something is an Australian sportsman. You would love to do. I imagine in the sports in the AFL cricket, our main sports, you don't get the opportunity to do that. And I wonder what it's like, like, take us inside a day of a university student who's over there on a scholarship playing sport at that age and how well those teams are followed and supported. I just, it just looks like an amazing experience. Absolutely. Maybe we'll see it in cricket one day, Tim, when cricket going game busters. You're right. It's taking off. It's taking off. So you never know. You never know. That's great. Isn't it? The MLC. Yeah, it wouldn't be far away. Yeah. No, no, no, no. Oh, look. Oh, I don't know. He's punged back over there. I'll go over his time. Yeah. Well, actually, yeah. He's going to Washington freedom and they've got, well, Steve Smiths, their captain, Glen Maxwell's there, Travis heads there and Ricky Pawnings there. So I think they'll be most Australian supported team, but you may be right, Brendan. I may be one day. There'll be a cricketer out of Tazzie who goes on the scholarship to the Seattle University. You never know. You never know. It's breakfast powered by a Kubota. Take on any job with Kubota's range of tractors, males and utility vehicles. Make sure you get us on the Harcourt's open line. Harcourt's more than just real estate professionals. You love your Texo 437, 52535 or you can even call us 1342-1533. We're off to a break though, coming back with questions without notice right after this here on SCN Tazzie Brecky Friday morning. On SCN Tazzie breakfast, questions without notice. I'm going to start with a new bowl today for you, Timbo. What did you make of Ben Stokes comments in an ECB documentary on last year's ashes? Let's hear the audio from Ben Stokes. The reward we get for our work is in what we get, it's what we come and what we have managed to do is we've managed to become a team and a sports team that will live forever in memory or people who are looking up to look at us as they can. We're tethered onto the next game, that's what we keep remembering, right? And I was going to be a bit flat and I was going to hurt that we got into the next game, not being able to get the end back. But what we have done is there's something a lot bigger than any ashes trophy we've never seen in the finals team. We're going to team that everybody will follow you. That, Hammer, did you recall that that is the worst audio quality I've ever heard. Is that your word? Goodness, that was how it was recorded in the toilet. Well, first with the definition. So after the fourth test was reined out, he said, what have we, what we have done is something a lot bigger than any ashes trophy could ever signify for this team. Be the team that everybody will always remember. After the comments were criticized, he said on X, said this to the team who had watched it rain for two days when we had our foot on your throats. Just try to cheer up the disappointment to be honest, but always rent free and all that. Thoughts, Tim? Give us something. Oh, mate. Well, I don't know. I think it was taken slightly out of context because he was talking in a change in dreams and was a bigger speech, so I will say that. However, it's just this continued belief that they're completely changing the game and they're doing this amazing stuff and everyone's going to remember it, they're not. You're coming dead last in the World Test Championship. So you're not going to be a team that everyone remembers watching and you're not doing anything outrageously good that we haven't seen before, you're an average cricket team. At the moment, you're a below average cricket team and I think they need to get their head around that a little bit. Firstly, then secondly, when he replies back on X, I'm not sure who he thinks he's actually talking to. He says, "We had our foot on your throats for two days. Rent free and all that." Well, you're talking to Fox Cricket production. You're not talking, that's not the Australian cricket team that you're talking to. You didn't have your foot on the throats of the Fox Cricket production, I don't think. I don't think you're living rent-free in any of the Australian cricketers' minds. You're talking to a TV production. They've found it quite strange that he won, he went back at them because it would be like me going back at Sky Sports. It's just strange. They're living in a bit of a weird, strange world over here at the moment, Brenna, but anyway, each to their own, as they say. Hammer was after he was after something this morning, an average cricket team. There you go. How much cut that one out, please? At best. Well, are they not? They're coming last, Brenna, on the World Test Championship. So, that would suggest they're actually below average. That's what it would suggest. Brenna, do you agree with Jack Riewald's comments on Fox Footy about his former teammate and fellow Tasmanian Ryan Mansill, that he was being victim-blamed as part of the fallout of Jordan Boyd's initial suspension. We've got some audio from Jack here. I started to think that Ryan Mansill was up for a possible suspension the way it was panning out. So, the victim-blaming, I didn't like that. I didn't like that last night. I'm a bit protected because obviously he's a tiger and a Tazzy boy as well, but I don't think I was on my own. I think there was a few out there. Hang on a second. Who's on trial here? Yeah. I agree. I didn't get the turns a little bit, didn't it? He was sort of copying a bit of blame there, old Rhino. So, yeah, it couldn't agree more. We're going to whip through these to me because we've got a few to get through here. What do you think of your uncle's suggestion that the devil's first coach should be an emerging coach rather than an experienced one? He threw up Zane Littlejohn, for example, on the devil's advocate on Monday. Yeah, I'm not sure. I'd be leaning to an experienced one, leaning, but as I said, if the right person is an emerging coach and we think he is ready to go, then I'm all for it, Bruno. I'm obviously all four first-time coaches and people taking a little bit of risk. And if they have to, if the experienced coaches there, when you are setting up a franchise, I can see the pull to that, but at some stage, Bruno, every great coach was an emerging and first-time coach. So, I'd be happy with either, as long as they are the best person for the job. Bruno, I want your, what's this, first, your first blush reaction to Sam McClure's comments about the devils on the tradies podcast. Here's some audio from Sam McClure. How long can Tazzy, this new Tazzy team, not play in their new studies have already committed to 12 months? I've talked about this. Why are you getting me angry? My fear is it's going to push beyond 12 months. The AFL is... Mitch, happy with me. It's going to be a minimum to you. How do you attract Nick Dakos or Harley Reid? Right. Yep. Right? Yep. What are they doing? Why are they rushing this thing? Don't come at me about this Tasmania. I was born there. I understand the weather. I understand the culture down there and I also understand the weather. It's grim. Hang on. How long did you live down there? You say you know the culture? It's not relevant. It's really not relevant. The culture. I'd describe myself as a Victorian, okay? Which I am. But they're not going to be able to keep the star players if you're getting belted for two years playing in five degrees and it's pissing down. I love the fact that they're putting a team in Tasmania. They're rushing this thing. The first game that the Tasmanian Devils should play should be against one of the big Victorian clubs on a Friday night in front of a packed house of a roof stadium that is brand spanking new. Instead, they're going to play their first game at Bell Reef where it'll be three degrees and that straight will be spilling over the edge of the stadium. No one's going to want to go there and they're probably going to get well beaten. Maybe you should answer this instead of my team. You are disgusting. Obviously, I haven't been in any discussions with you this way. I didn't know that was coming. I haven't heard of it. But if I had a mute button, I would have pressed it 15 times. What's he talking about? Sam, you don't live in Barbados, mate. You live in Melbourne. This absolute carry-on about the weather difference is staggering. People are, it's more ironic to suggest that it is that much colder in Tasmania than it is in Melbourne and it's pouring with rain all the time and the best rate is splashing over. Just stop it. Other stuff was correct. Maybe we are rushing it. Yeah, it's not going to be a great drawcard to get superstar players down here to play at Bell Reef and York Park. We all get that. But stop with the rubbish about the weather. It makes you something like a moron. I agree. But I'm a big fan of Sam McClure because he does get out there and have a crack, a lot listening to him, and like I said, a lot of that was really spot on the money. But come on, really? My say, Tim, I completely agree, big Sam McClure fan. I agree with that, too, that I think, my opinion is we should start in the new stadium. But not for the reasons why, Sam suggested with the weather. The weather thing is a joke. You are absolutely right. Yeah. Melbourne is not the Bahamas. It is not. No. I think Link just told me zero degrees this morning in my headphones. Why are we with the second-price capital in Australia? Yeah. But I think I'm not sure it's being rushed, Brent. I just think the whole stadium delay is the issue. That's right. That's right. Like you said, we want to play our team in the brand new stadium with a roof. It would be awesome to have a roof. It's not required, but it would be awesome. But it's not being rushed. The fact that this stadium is being drawn out and he's spot on the money, no one's going to want to come down and play for 12 months out of Belrie or York Park. That's just the facts. It's going to be really tricky to sell that. So we've waited 40 years for our team, Tim. Would it hurt us to wait one to two years longer so we can go bang in the new stadium and not play at Belrie for one year, just so we can get in a year earlier? Oh, I think I'm on board with that. As much as I'd love to see us in as soon as possible, I'd be happy to wait that little bit longer, I think, to go bang in the new stadium. That's just my opinion. No. No. You get to see me right here. You've got to get in where you can. Don't delay it. Let's get the thing built, first and foremost, but let's not worry about when we're coming in. Let's worry about when that thing's going to get built, when it's going to get started. That's the thing. We know when we're coming in, it's 2028. That's what's happening. We know that. Yep. That's the only thing we know. So let's sort out the politics and get the stadium built. Fair enough. We have some great points mixed amongst some rubbish. All right. We're going to get to the news, we're running late for the news headlines, so it's about six or seven questions. We didn't even get to there because this is what questions without notice is all about. We find things we're passionate about. Let's get him on. Let's chat to him about it. All right. Well, he's contracted to another station to see how we go. Get on the weather apps and I'll give him some facts, so I'll give him some fact check. A breakfast power block evader take on any job with Kubota's range of tractors, mowers and utility vehicles, still time to get your text in on the Harkorps Open Line Harkorps results for you because we've got a $100 KFC voucher to give away to our contributor of the day. Here's the news headlines for you now. Welcome back to the show Friday morning. Painty's fired up from the other side of the world after hearing scoot McClure's comments. And he gets out first, darling. Yeah, I'm a bit more fired up about that actually getting out first ball, but anyway. It just does my mind, Brent. It does my mind. And like I said, I'm a big fan of his work and I really like listening to him most of the time because he's someone who's actually really prepared to give an opinion. You don't get that too much and he's not always right and me and you who certainly aren't. But the whole weather thing is just, I'd imagine, for all our listeners, it's just it's just ridiculous to have to continually hear it from people who live in Melbourne. If you're living in Perth or Queensland or I can cop it, but come on, it's just it's actually ridiculous. I've been on this for ages, Tim, all the time. Even people that moved to Tassie from Melbourne say how cold it is compared to where they've come from. No, it's not. It's not. Well, I think at one stage when we're in the real debate of the stadium and the roof and the people, the main people who were pushing for it were people from the mainland, the AFL House. Remember, someone got that graph up at one stage and it was like 0.9 of a degree with the difference between average, between Melbourne and Hobart and it was done over like 50 years of winters. Yeah. The data. And we had less rainfall. It's the second draws capital in Australia, that is fact. SCN stadiums arrived in Tasmania and is available at Blunston, Orona and Utah Stadium for all AFL matches. Listen to the SCN call with zero delay for the ultimate game day experience. Just go to the SCN app, breakfast powered by Kubota, take on any job with Kubota's range of tractors, mails, utility vehicles, we've got $100 giveaway to KFC for our contributor of the day. Thanks coming in on the hardcore, it's open line, 0437 535, off to a break, coming back with our latest Olympian right after this. It's Josh Belts star, Kookaburra here on SCN, Tassie Breckett. Welcome back to the show, our Olympic team building nicely and a few Tasmanians starting to join it as well. Good week for us with Eddie Ochudin off to his fifth Olympics, Manny Brooks has been named as a traveling reserve as well. And this man is also part of the Kookaburra's heading off to Paris. It's Josh Belts. Hey, Beltsy. Welcome back to the show, mate. Good day, boys. Thanks for having me. Good to talk to you, mate. How are you feeling? Big wake. You're named off to your second Olympics, of course. You must be absolutely over the moon. Yeah. It's obviously really, really exciting and, yeah, I'm looking forward to the opportunity. It's been, what, three years since we went away to Tokyo and the team's in a really good position. We're looking forward to getting out there in Paris. Josh, what did you learn from your last Olympic experience in Japan that you can use for this one, albeit the first one was unusual circumstances during COVID, but there must be some things you can take from that into Paris. Yeah, for sure. I think, apart from obviously the final hurdle, the campaign in Tokyo was really successful for our team. And, yeah, I think there's a lot of stuff that we can take out of there just in terms of our preparation and, yeah, even the way we played. So there's definitely been some things we've taken out of Tokyo, but, like you said, there's going to be a whole lot of different elements now with crowds, families over in Paris and that sort of thing. So a few different things to contend with, but at the same time, we're really looking forward to it. Exciting week for you, mate. Tough week from a family perspective, I guess, though, with your brother Hayden missing out. He's been around the Kookaburra set up a lot in recent times. How much would you have loved to play with him at the Olympics, and what have you said to him since Monday's announcement? Is he a little disappointed? Yeah, yeah, he's disappointed, and I think that probably shows just how close he was to making the team. Yeah, it would obviously be an absolute dream for myself to play alongside him at the Olympics, but this year we've got to play quite a few games for the Kookaburra's together, which has been incredibly special for me, but also, I guess, my family as well. Yeah, I think, I guess, I've been in a similar position to him in Olympia, it's gone past where maybe the section hasn't quite gone the right way, and he's responded really well to that. He's a bit younger than I am, and still running around pretty well, so I'm sure he'll have his opportunity. Yeah, in a few years, hopefully. Mate, what about your fellow Aussie teammate and Tasmania in Eddy Ocken, and we'll make history by becoming the first Australian hockey player to appear at five Olympics. It's an extraordinary effort, what's he like to be around both on and off the field? Yeah, it's incredible, isn't it? Oh, he's just, I think he's just a true professional, the way he goes about it, both on and off the field is, yeah, second and on, and I think really no surprise when you look at, yeah, the way he trains and the way he prepares that he's able to achieve something like this. Yeah, I guess, from here, it's pretty exciting that I get a pretty good seat to watch the Eddy Ocken in the show, and yeah, I think for him and for Tasmania and, you know, his family as well, it's quite a proud achievement. How much longer do you reckon he's got in him, and have you seen any dip in his performance? Yeah, I get asked that a bit, and, like, honestly, no, I don't think there's been any decline or whatever you want to call it, yeah, I think he always talks about how much he loves it, and I think that's probably a consistent across the board within the team, we all love playing, I think as long as he's loving it, and obviously performing to the standard at the instant. Yeah, I guess I'm sure he could keep going. Josh Belts is our guest here on SCN, Tazzy breakfast, our latest Olympian out of Tasmania, I listened to Ed the other day at the press conference, he certainly didn't rule out LA, I didn't think, he's, Steve said if he's playing well, he wouldn't know what could happen. Brent, who would rule out LA if you had a chance, let's be honest. Absolutely. It's where you want to be. Hey, heartbreak in Japan a few years ago, Beltsi, when you lost to Belgium in that penalty shootout, do you think the group has what it takes to take that extra step this year? Yeah, I believe so, like, obviously, lots of learnings out of that outcome, and, yeah, obviously, heartbreak at the end, but there was a lot of positive stuff, like I was saying before, out of that campaign, so, yeah, we've definitely learned from that, I guess, the shooter component of it, and, yeah, we'd love to get back to that stage to have another opportunity again, but there's a lot of games, obviously, between our first one and hopefully some sort of final, so, yeah, we've got to do the right things throughout the pool stage, which, yeah, it's going to be no easy feat, but we're really looking forward to it. Josh, we have plenty of hockey people on over the last sort of 12 months since this show started, I asked them all the same question, why is it that Tazzy continually punch above their weight in hockey and Australian representation, do you think? Yeah, there's probably a few elements, and maybe I won't hit them all on the head, but I think one, just like the Tazzy hockey community's obviously, and a really sort of encouraging and supportive environment, and, yeah, I grew up in that system and had great coaches and great people around me, which obviously helped, and I think particularly on the men's side that we've had role models to look up to as we've progressed through the genius, like I've had posters of Eddie on my wall and still do, and there's guys like Steve and Matt Wells, those sort of guys who have come before me who, in essence, I would aspire to be like, and you mentioned Maddie Brooks there in the women as well, and that's great that she's got that opportunity, and hopefully there's young girls in Tazzy who want to be the next Maddie Brooks, so yeah, I think there's definitely some role models that help inspire the Tazzy community. Hang on, Belte, you just said you've still got a poster of Eddie on your wall, is that correct? It's done with y'all. I love it. How much pride do you get from representing not only a country, but Tazzy on the World Stage, mate? Oh, yeah, it's incredible. It's, like I was just saying before, the Tazzy Hockey community is so unique, and they really get behind everyone that comes from that environment, so yeah, the amount of messages that I get that my wife, my family get, they, yeah, they love supporting me and the other Tazmanias, and I think that's really special, and obviously whenever I get to get home and play a game or see people from that community, they work with me with open arms, which is quite special. Thank you, just take you back, sorry, to the heartbreak in Japan a few years ago, and how the group, I know it's four years on, but how do you deal with that? Is that something that you spoke about before you sort of pressed on and set goals for the next four years? Yeah, like it was spoken about, and shootouts in any sport can sometimes, you know, in it, one team performs on the day, and one doesn't, and there's such sort of, I guess, micro influences in why that goes one way or the other, so I think it was important to acknowledge it, and obviously there's a bit of disappointment, but then also sort of park that and look forward and just that when we get the opportunity, again, we'll be better for that experience and the guys who take the shootouts are definitely keen to step up the opportunity if it arises this time. Before we let you go, I'd be able to see more of the next couple of weeks, look like mate, before you head off to Paris. Yeah, it's an exciting couple of weeks, we've obviously got lots of training, and that's sort of really sudden around pop, and lots of meetings around that, but there's also a couple of cool little, like Olympic functions, and they just advanced outside it, where you get to catch up with people who have supported, I guess, hockey, but also the Australian Olympic team in some way into the lead-up, so lots of little events like that which are exciting and just spending a few more weeks with the group and, yeah, getting ready to head over to Paris. Very nice mate, I wish you all the very best, we love your work and can't wait to see how you and the Kookaburras go over there at the Olympic Games, thanks so much for taking our call, you're a couple of hours behind over there in Perth, so appreciate you getting up early, and thanks for chatting to us on SCN Tassie Brecky. No, my pleasure, Brent and Tim, thanks guys. Josh Belts, one star, he is off to the Paris Olympics, he's second as an Olympian, can't wait to see how he goes, oh, I was just, oh, yes Tim. One of the names you mentioned there, Mattie Wells, what's he up to these days? Well, I think he was coaching, yeah, I think he was coaching Queensland, I'm pretty sure, yeah. He was a star, certainly, hockey player, and a great bloke as well, Wellsie. Certainly. Tim, you know how we got the T-Bays in the studio here, in our country? Well, it's just gone on ad break, but the Aussies were flying, one for 80 odd, Dunkies going well, he's on 20 off, about eight, I think it was, maybe you can have a chat to Dunkie, he good mates with Dunkie, get some tips. We can certainly tell, you can certainly tell the guys that have been training, Brent, I think that's fair to say. Now, I've actually got a personal text message that's come through from Tim Call on behalf of the Weekkeeper's Guild, and he said, "You are on your first warning, wearing a floppy calling knot." Yeah, he was coyly, he was, I was meant to get a photo of it, actually, I'm off to go back and do that. Hey, we've got to go to our last break. If it's not that tomorrow, I'll have it on again against South Africa. Yeah, that's for you, you take on Tim. See what time to get us quickly on the Harkorps Open line this morning, Harkorps results for you 0437 52535, it's breakfast powered by Kubota, take on any job with Kubota's range of tractors, mowers, and utility vehicles, we're back to line up the show next. Well, I've said a time Harkorps Open line, still open, no Harkorps results for you 0437 52535, Tim, I think Tim. Our contributor of the day is an easy one, $100 to spend at KFC, and it was flash in the tribe who, if you missed it, said morning lads, I set my foxtail to record the SAV Oz Game so I can watch Tim. In the first game, I went to get a drink for my fridge while he was walking out to bat, but by the time I got back to my couch, he was already on his way back to the pavilion, so flash, what would I do, $100 to spend at KFC coming your way? I would have given it to Sammy McLuhan today. I'm not sure he text in, but we'll see. What's on then, so you're off to bed now. Well, yeah, absolutely straight to bed, Bennett, I was just laughing then because the door opened, a few guys came in, and the WhatsApp group's very busy for midnight night before a game. Yeah, what's going on after this? Well, I think I'll probably just have to wander out to the hotel bar, show some leadership, and just wrap things up, get them to bed, we've obviously got a big game tomorrow that we use a must win for us, so if it doesn't work well, no, the door opened and then shot a lot of chatter, and the WhatsApp group's going is busy. Well, what's happening in the WhatsApp group? Just take us inside the tent. Well, they might be a few guys that have just arrived back, and I think they're going to the bar rather than their route, so they've just sent me one of you still on air, wrap it up. Oh, good to see the Aussie team taking it very seriously over there in the UK. So you look at South Africa, a bonding session in the bar. Sometimes you have a beer or two, and you have a few home truths told, and I'll probably get told my batting wasn't good enough, and my other guys need to lift some air. Any play one, any play one shot can't really judge off that, can you? Yeah. Well, yeah. Because the funding was... Anyway, I got out thinking as soon as it came out of Shahid's hand, and I saw the length of it, I thought, "Oh, thank God for that. I'll just get off the mark with a little one in the mid-week hit." And then bang. On your way. Dude, we're going to go. See you Monday morning for more fun and frivolity here on SC and Tezi Breaky. Hey, I'm gone for a globe!
