New Tassie men's representative and Kingborough coach Trent Baumeler joined Brent to discuss his new role, the upcoming game against Sydney/Canberra and the TSL season so far.
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New Tassie men's representative and Kingborough coach Trent Baumeler (01/07/24)
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Results for you, but Tom to talk some footy now here on SEM Tazzy Breakfast. Joining me in the studio is the new coach of Tasmania's Rep Team, Trent Bormel, a nice to see you, Trent. Morning, Brent. Thanks for having me in. It's a little bit intimidating sitting in this chair. I don't know if this is the great man's chair, but we'll try and do the best we can. No, I'll jump in that as soon as he left, so you're in my chair, so you're safe for there. Hey, congratulations, you're the new coach of Tasmania and the Rep Team, and a big game coming up between Sydney and Canberra side in a couple of weeks time. How do you feel about taking on the big job? Yeah, it's a massive honour to start with. Yeah, it was a bit of an interesting day on Friday. Yeah, phones started going hot in the morning, and then speaking to Kieran Lovell a little bit later on in the day, I said to him, I think I've done my 10,000 steps today, walking up and down the hallway, either on the phone or trying to process what had happened, but massive honour and really looking forward to carrying on what Aaron's put in place as well and working with the best players in the state, which is awesome. For those who haven't caught up with the news, Aaron Cornelius stepping down for personal and family reasons, which has opened the door, for you, Trempi, you're up there, obviously in your role as an assistant against Queensland a couple of weeks ago now, what was that experience like first of all? Yeah, it was amazing, it was awesome how the group really bonded together and were able to play a really dynamic game style as well, especially with the ball in hand, but also still having that tazzy hard contested physical edge when we needed to as well, so inside and outside the contest it was a really strong performance as the final scoreboard shows, and really pleasing how the group came together, and now we've set that foundation, we've got an opportunity to go on with it into a second game now. What's it look personnel wise, because obviously a winner, it's hard to change your winning team, but you're playing in a different ground against a different opposition, do you know much about who you're coming up against and will the side change too much do you think? Yeah, we started to go to work a little bit on what New South Wales ACT look like in terms of some of their key personnel and who will be playing for them, so through some of our contacts, they're starting to get that better down, just more so what their key players look like and their strengths and capabilities, and yeah, for us as you said, it is hard to sort of change that winning lineup, but yeah, they'll certainly be opportunities for guys within the squad and potentially outside of the squad who have good form in the TSL and the other competitions to put their hand up to be involved, we'll have our first selection match committee meeting tonight, which is chaired by Nick Probert, so it's always been a really strong process which to put the team in place, so yeah, we'll pick the best team available to try and get another win for Tasmania. We'll talk more about your role with the Tigers in a minute, but to have to juggle both now, obviously TSL coaching and state rep coaching, how's that going to make your life a little bit busier? Yeah, it's going to be pretty hectic for the next three weeks, which is good though, so to have a new challenge and have something else to look at, but the great thing about the state program is so much of it in terms of our game style and all those sorts of things are already bedded down, what training looks like the way that we want to play, so it's not so much changing anything, we'll refine a couple of things, you know, we'll continue on with our themes of what it means to play for Tasmania and to wear the map, so that's a really important part of that, and yeah, time management will become pretty crucial for me over the next sort of month. Absolutely, and so much opportunity to come, isn't there? If you do a good job here and you've done that at TSL, obviously we did the premiership last year, there's so much opportunity coming up from a TASI perspective, isn't there? Yeah, absolutely, and yeah, it's fantastic to have a foot in the door and yeah, I'm very respectful and humbled by this opportunity and yeah, I'll certainly do the best job that I can with a great support, I've got around me in assisting coaches with Adrian Smith coming into the fold, Peter Ryan from Clarence, Kurt Byard up from the Northwest Coast and Mitch Hills from Launceston as well, so it'll be a real team effort, but yeah, it's opportunity, there's exciting things going on in TASI footy in the future and yeah, to have an opportunity now to coach the TASI reps side and see how that goes, yeah, I'll just do the best job that I can. What's training look like over the next few weeks? Do you have regional trainings before coming together as one, that week of the game or what's it actually look like? It'll be a mixture of both, so tomorrow night we'll be up at Utah's together and that'll be more of a sort of bit of a review of the Queensland game, bit of sort of recovery/craft stuff, so we can spend some more time in our line groups and guys get to spend time with their line coaches, then we'll come together next week at KG5, next Wednesday for a full squad session and then the following week we'll have some regional recovery and another full squad session at Campbelltown at this stage on the Wednesday, leaning into the Friday, on the Saturday game against New South Wales ACT. I'm just having these games in this room as we might have some more next year, which is exciting as well, but it's great that these players can go to another level, isn't it? Outside of the TSL? Yeah, and with the hopeful expansion of it, and I believe there are some announcements to come around that in the next couple of weeks, I think it also gives us the opportunity to keep the best players in the state, playing in the strong, Premier League competitions in whatever region they're in, with the look of the VFL team the following year, if we can keep as many of those players that are going to form that first VFL list in Tasmania for next year and playing and training together with more rep footy and strong programs at regional level, it only bodes well for our entry into the VFL. Trent Bommel of the new Tasmania footy coach is joining me in the studio on SCN, Tazzy Breakfast. He also coaches the King Brittagas in the TSL, tough weekend on the road. Trent's up there in Launceston against the bombers. Can anyone beat him? Are you a chance to beat him before? Did you play him again before finals? One more time? How do you beat North Launceston? Obviously, they've just unstoppable this season. Did it in the grand final last year? Obviously, but can you do it again? This season, do you think? Yeah, I think absolutely, in any competition, anywhere, in any sport, anyone's beatable on any given day, so they have some clearly identifiable strengths. They're explosive with the ball in hand. The week before against Clarence, their pressure was off the charts as well, and they've got really dangerous small forwards with Brandon Leary, Harvey Griffiths, those guys who were doing a lot of damage on the scoreboard. They're a complete package, and all of us will have our work cut out for us to try and beat them, but everyone will be giving it a crack, and it's still a wide open race. Once you get to finals, it's a new season, and everything starts afresh, and we're all on zero points and zero wins and losses when we get to that stage. Yeah, once you've just got to get there, don't you? Really give yourself a chance, and anything can happen, as you say. It has been a bit of a disruptive season for your team, though, hasn't it? You had players coming in and out, which doesn't help for you as a coach, I guess. Yeah, I think the strength of our group over the last two years has been a lot of consistency, and that's been our competitive advantage of similar lineups, guys having clarity in their roles, and knowing how to play them as a team. That's been a little bit disjointed this year for us, but it's also a good challenge for us and our leaders to try and work through that and integrate some of the next generation as well. We've been able to give a lot of young guys their first opportunity to play senior footy. Our aim always, as it is, is to play our best footy at the end of the year when it matters most. We're challenging ourselves, and on that journey at the moment, we're not near that yet, but we've still got plenty of time to get there. How do you feel about the TSL winding up? Obviously, it's a competition close to your heart. You've been involved with it for many, many years now. It'll wind up at the end of the season to go back to a regional footy and have those extra rep games potentially, but do you feel sad that it's coming to an end? Yeah, it's an interesting one. It's sort of bittersweet. It's been a competition that we've all invested a lot of time into, but we're going to move to the regional models with the Premier Leagues, and hopefully our programs don't look too dissimilar in terms of the environments that we are able to provide for our young men. Yeah, the extra representative football is also a carrot as well, so that we have to keep our programs at a high level. Yeah, but also as well, you like to be able to see Kieran level play against Bragg Cox good year and all those sorts of things, but unfortunately that's not going to happen now, but hopefully they get to be teammates in representative footy, and we're still able to have that connection across the state as well. Well, big few weeks ahead, mate, for you. It's exciting. It's another rep footy game for 2024, which we're all looking forward to. Utah Stadium, July 20, Tasmania, taking on a Sydney Canberra combined side, but it's all the best, mate, with a new role. And good luck with the targets for the rest of the season. Thanks for joining us on S.E. and Tazzie Brecky. Cheers. Thank you. Appreciate it, Brent. Trent Bournley in the studio. We are off to our final break of the hour. It is breakfast powered by Kubota. Take on any job with Kubota's range of tractors, mowers and utility vehicles. Harquarts open line, Harquarts results for you. Texas in 0-4-3-7. 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