Melbourne Mavericks coach Tracey Neville joined Brent and Painey to talk about the team's impressive debut season and their first game in Hobart next week.
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Melbourne Mavericks coach Tracey Neville (21/06/24)
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Speed slower above 40 gigabytes of city tails. >> Texting here from Mike on the Heart Chords. Open line, Heart Chords results for you. Hi guys, quick shout out to the six Tazzy-based TSL umpires traveling to the Gold Coast today to officiate with their Queensland counterparts in their two state games. Tomorrow, an awesome reward for hard work and good form. Great show. Cheers, Ike. Thanks, Ike. And well said too. >> Very important, Tim. >> Part, they play. >> They certainly do, Brenner. >> Yes, certainly do. You strike me as an umpire, actually. >> I say that I'd always want to be a go-on point. >> I thought, well, with your hamstring issue, I don't think we could put you in the field. >> No, couldn't we? >> Another one here, high lads. Could Brenner's injury be caused due to ongoing stress and anxiety for fear of taking on John Sitka and asking Tim Gossack to hard questions, perhaps? Rob from Hobart. Thanks Rob. And Catherine, as text in as well as phoning us, Tim. It was great to speak to your team, Brent. Your team, Brent. >> You are the skipper. >> I hope you both have a lovely morning. And there's always looking forward to hearing Brent on the devil's advocate, the South of England. Well, you won't hear it, the South of England. Catherine, that'd be Monday afternoon. But thank you. Always does an awesome job. Can't wait for the Tasmania AFL, and especially AFLW team to come in. Bring it on. Thanks, Catherine. Well said as well. All right, we've got to go to our next guest because this is exciting. Tim, the Melbourne Mavericks are coming to town next Saturday. It's going to be awesome. Big work of Netball right across the state. Joining us from the Mavs is Tracy. Never welcome to SCN, Tassie Breakfast, Tracy. >> Hi. Thank you for having me. >> Yeah, setting up a franchise from the start and how quickly you had to do that. What were the key focuses for you when you got the job? >> And the key focus was to recruit a team and obviously a contract to 10 players. So that was one of the things that we went all steam ahead. And when the recruitment window opened in July, last year. And we did an excellent job, the players that was recruited and have been such a people part of the franchise and that was really important in our first year. And then obviously then it was the staff and it seems weird that you set a business up with the players before you set the staff up, but because of the tight turn around that essential and yeah, and it was just a challenging process, but a very exciting process. And like I say, when you see the team that come together on Sunday, you like with SCN have done an absolute amazing job in only a short period of time and eight months to put a whole business and franchise together. >> And finals are a real possibility still for you, Tracy, as well, if results go your way over the last four rounds. So are you and the players sort of talking about that behind the scenes or are you just going to let the results do the talking? >> Yeah, I think at the start of the year, we've always talked about what our goal was as a squad and a team. We've obviously had some really bad luck. We've had two major injuries and a key members have been out on a weekly basis at the moment. That's what we're fighting. But for us winning last Sunday was really important for us and the last four games will just be an instal part. And when we come to Taze, that's probably one of our most important games because that's what we were tied on points with at the moment. >> Yeah, and obviously setting up the season, was it a goal to make finals? What's a pass mark for a franchise in its first year? >> I think from our point of view, it was looking at where we wanted to go, looking at the level of players as we cruted, and the key thing for us was about setting the standard. And we did some massive work, the coaching team and the PEPA team behind. By looking at what do we need, would we need to reach to get to finals? And there was a lot of statistical stuff around that, there was a lot of playing stuff. How do we want to play, developing our identity? What do we want to be known as? And also we have to do a lot of work off the court as well. So I think for our point of view, we've moved absolute mountains in a short period of time. Like the coaching team is a rebuild, and we're constantly challenging ourselves around that. But this is our inaugural year, and it's about building on that every single game and every single year as we go forward. >> Tracey Neville from the Melbourne Mavericks is out, guest here on SCN Tassie breakfast. Are you looking forward to coming down to Tassie? Tracey have you personally spent a lot of time here before or not? >> Yeah, no, I haven't actually. I remember being a local cricket clubwoman, but as you used to play back home, and we actually got an overseas player playing for us, and I was like, that's one place I've always wanted to go. And I've got a soft spot for Tasmanian Devils as well, so I'm hoping I'll see a few of them when I'm there. >> I can't remember that cricket his name, isn't it? >> Oh, God, do you know, I was actually trying to think about it, and I think it was Randall. >> Randall. >> Oh, look at that. What was the club? >> And it was Green Mountain Cricket Club. >> Well, Hamish, Google that, overseas professionals, please, we want to find that out. >> Yeah, yeah. >> But you obviously -- >> It was one of about eight. >> Right. That's a while ago. Obviously, expecting a lot of support though, Tasmanian itself hasn't got a team in the league as yet, maybe we will one day, but we're expecting nearly a full house out at my state Bank Arena on the 29th. >> Yeah, Tasmanian government has been unbelievable inside and up a partnership. They're also -- they've been playing part of our SSM Reserve skills as well, so we're bringing some of their netball players into our environment and playing a game with them beforehand as well, so they've been amazing, and the fans over there, like when I've -- last year, obviously, I was at Adelaide, but when you saw Collinwood play there, the amount of support that comes from Tasmania and the passion around netball is huge, and hopefully this is a partnership that we can develop going forward, and it is new for me, so I'm really excited to meet everyone involved. >> Yeah, and you're obviously new to the league as well, but do you think there is enough talent and support around the country for another team in the coming years? >> Yeah, definitely. I think they're actually talking about that, or whether they go back to the model -- the old model of the A and Z, where they start to bring in the New Zealand team. I think netball is growing and growing every day, and as it does that, you can't stand still, particularly with other sports that we're competing against, so from our point of view, extending the league longer, bringing more teams in, obviously, enhances the sport of netball, and hopefully the governing bodies will be challenged to do that. >> And what about the partnership with Tasmania Traces, and more than just you guys coming down and playing a game, can you tell us what's happening behind the scenes as well? >> Yeah, we're really maximizing this opportunity, and we're bringing all of our training partners and players, we're bringing all of our staff. I think this is a real important piece of the jigsaw for us to have a link with Tasmania. I know our management has been doing some excellent work with the Tasmanian Government, and the people behind the scenes on how we can start to grow their sport, and netball will get them more involved in the on-land netball associations, and hopefully we can be that feeling for them. And I think that's that at the grassroots community, we've got players going over early to do some community work with Tasmania, and also we've got girls that are staying on later as well, so I think that is a really important piece that we're not just a fly-in fly-out team, that we're there to build relationships as well. >> Yeah, I did some promotional work yesterday, actually, Brent, went out and was taken from a paces out of the Tasmanian netball centre by some of the Tasmanian staff, and I can tell you, if you're ever going to play netball, we need to get the correct footwear, because my big toes are killing me this morning, absolutely killing me, but Tracy, before we let you go, I wanted to ask you've obviously been working very closely with Hutchie since you've arrived in Australia, and my co-host here, Brent, is out of contract. Have you got any tips for him on how to negotiate a good deal when you're going with Hutchie? >> That's not true. >> Well, Hutchie's started playing netball, so have you still done your hamstring now? Yeah, well, to be honest, what you need to do is get him into the pull-baptor. >> Right. >> I'm buying a good lag, or a good lag. >> Getting to sign on the coaster in the pub, you reckon? >> Yeah, exactly, don't let him out, lock the door. >> It's exciting, Tracy, we can't wait to have you down here next Saturday, big game against the lightning at my state banker, Reena, we'd love for you guys to get up and get a win in front of the Tasmanian fans, and we can't wait to see you down here. Thanks for joining us on SCN Tassie Breakfast. >> Thank you. >> What Tim wants to say some, do you? >> Thanks, Tracy. Cheers. >> Thank you, bye. >> What are you pointing at, Tim? You just ruined that hell outro. What? I can't even see it. >> Oh, good. >> Continue. >> Can I read it? >> Short story. >> You just alluded to it. >> What are you doing? >> What are you doing? >> What are you doing? >> I don't know. I'm going to do it, but I'm going to make it work, not make it work properly when I go there, Tim, so I want to just take my time and get things right. What was all that about? Are you just pointing and carrying on, just focus on something else? All right, we're going to go to a break. Catch the Melbourne Mavericks as they take on Sunshine Coast Lightning at my state banker, Reena. Sunshine tickets are available from ticket tech, make sure you get along and support the netball. It's going to be big at my state banker, Reena, next Saturday night. To get us on the hard call, it's open line, Texas, 0437-552535, or call us 1342-1533, SCN Tassie Breakfast. [MUSIC PLAYING]