[MUSIC] It's Scotty O'Goss for breakfast. [MUSIC] What are you everyone, 4x6? Took in Depo Studio till 8 o'clock. Thanks to Sonos, multi-room listening, wireless home theater, and a whole lot more experience game changing sound this season with Sonos. It is a very, very jam-packed show. Jared Whiteley from Paris, another golden night for Australia in the pool. Some of our teams are a little disappointing. Jared Whiteley will also talk about the rain, the river rain and what's happened there. It's a very, very ugly situation. Sean Grig from the Gold Coast, sun's after 7 o'clock. Of course, the sun's arrive in town. We don't. Tomorrow? I think they come in tomorrow, head of the Friday night fixture. Tom Cole, what do you pay his best game for the West Coast Eagles? I know he's a premiership player, but during the game I was, he was out of this world against the Dockers and Kane Corns just to finish with us some light-hearted humour. [LAUGHTER] They will join us before 8 o'clock. Give me a good mood, morning, mate, how are ya? Yeah, really good yourself. Yeah, good, good, good. Are you getting into the games? Er, yeah, I'm glad they're on. I haven't watched a lot of it. It's not. Glad they're on. Well, yeah, it's the Olympic Games. It's the Olympic Games, Scott. But it's not, yeah. It's not, it's the Games. It's the Games. I'm not sitting down and yeah, but Jared's over at the Olympics apparently. We're allowed to say when Jared's airing inside the Olympics, but, but, erm, I'm not sitting down watching a lot. No, we were busy. It's a horrible time from some sort of issues, but, erm, trying to catch as much as I can. Mm. I'm enjoying it. I'm enjoying it. I watched a lot of swimming last night. Did you really? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I watched the basketball. Oh, yeah? We played Canadian, didn't we? Yes, we did. But they're pretty good. And Canadian are very good. But look at our team. I'm like, oh, we'll win because we've got all these NBA players, but Canadian players. So do they. [LAUGHTER] So do they, they have lots. And then we've got to play Greece. Yeah. Oh, we're with them. Yeah. We've got to, well, they're zipping too. Yeah, they're not. So we've got to beat them and go too. One of them. We've progressed. But we'll talk to Jared all about it. We're very slippery to Greece. One of the NBA's biggest stars is in hot water on the eve of the playoffs. Giannis and Takatoma II. [LAUGHTER] But it's not even close. Yeah, but it's hard. I don't know. I still don't know how to say it properly. Oh, no. You were looking at me right there saying that. Have a go. No. I don't know. Those ones that I needed written in front of me right there to have a crayon. I couldn't tell you. Gianni. Gianni. They're right. Gianni. No, that's his mates call him Gianni. Do they? Look at him, G. G. Well, yeah. But anyway, so we're going to have to be good there. I tell you though, Josh Giddy is just, he's a freak. He's just allowed to do stuff to make it. It's too early to compare him to Scott Pendellbury. But when he plays basketball, he just looks like it's easier for him. Than everyone else. And Tiddoo toa cono poo. And I wanted to top it up for me. We're going to just buy it. Chris will come in and nail that journey. Oh, he can come in now. Why don't you come in now? Yeah, okay. I'm going to hit the door over here. Come on. Ah! On the spot. Hey, we're going to play Greece. Who's their best player? That would be Gianni's. That's all you have to say. Gianni. Gianni's Anthony Conpo. I don't know if you'd drop. Okay. Interesting that, let's talk straight away about the issue that has really surfaced with the fact is that Mitch Cleary from Channel 7 revealed that Sam Mitchell coached Hawthorne to win. And then flew to Perth and met face-to-face with Tom Barris. Let's just play this out, okay? Let's just play this out. This was Tom Barris during 27. It happens every year. And it's hardly a story. AFL clubs chasing established key position player. It's just the currency of football. And so I wouldn't be reading it into it too much. Mate, I'm a West Coast Eagles player. And unless the rug gets pulled out from under my feet, I'll stay that way. And I'm really excited about what we're doing here. Okay, so that was June 27 at a press conference, an all-in press conference. Kane had this to say yesterday in regards to Tom Barris with all the talk around that Sam Mitchell. In fact, let's go back to Sam Mitchell. Sam Mitchell said this on breakfast last week about chatting to players. I think that it's not fair for coaches to talk about what players are doing in their positions that they're in. But I think every head coach, and I've said this before, every head coach would love to be able to improve their list for the next year. And whether that's through the draft, free agency or trades, they're all ways to do it. So any talented players we think will help us will obviously be talking to. And if Texas has just come through from 8-3-6, thoughts on old mate, Corns, exploding at Tom Barris are not being honest with the media. Can you ask him before why he nearly blew a gasket over something so ridiculous, Phil of Como? Well, this is exactly what Kane Corns said yesterday. Oh, yeah, you're that excited, Tom, that you're meeting with another coach and there's still four weeks to go on this. He's blaming the media. It's a good ugly. Tom Barris is the player whose management sort of trade to, or certainly the interest from Sydney. They put that on the agenda last year. I think Sydney believed they had him. They did, because Barris was pushing it as far as I'm, as far as has been reported. It's just a word to Sydney. Exactly right. And then he's asked about and he says, "I'm a west coast player until the rug is pulled beneath me." And essentially, he's blaming the media for the story about it. And with four weeks to go in the season, with three years after this to go on a contract, he's meeting with a rival coach and he's trying to blame the media. It's one of the more disgraceful comments in the media I've heard from Barris. And if he wants us to grow up and if we all want to grow up with where the industry is heading, stop treating us like fools, which is exactly what he's done there. Thoughts? Thoughts across the whole... Yeah, well, there's no way that this could be true, right? Because Tom Barris looked me in the eye at that function before, just before that presser, said, "I'm not going anywhere. You can set your clock to it, Scotty." They'd do it every year that I'm going somewhere, but I'm not going anywhere. Look me in the eye, guys. There's no way it would have lied. And then the Hawthorne game happened here. He was the first person to go over and embrace San Mitchell post-game. First person. And we mentioned it on him. Oh, the boys just catch up with Sam. The thing that you could jump on a kite, Sammy's left Adelaide and come over here to come and see a play. And thinking you're not going to get found out or... I don't think he cares. And we talk about clubs being brutal. And that's San Mitchell just came. I've already said I'm going to try and do the best to get my list as good as I can possibly get it. So he's doing his job. So you sit there one hand and go, "Well, hang on. You might have told us some fibs." But if he had actually said at the time, "I'd entertain a conversation with some other clubs." You imagine what that would have done. So we'll talk to Cain later on about it. But there's no way he could have... The truth is that he is seriously considering leaving West Coast and going somewhere else if a deal can be done. There's no way he could have told that truth without a complete meltdown from all angles, including us, every meteor in Australia. So how do they tell the truth? Change of management at West Coast. Change of list manager. Change of CEO. Change of coach. Change of word. So speculation is that he was promised certain improvements on his contract. Right. They haven't been delivered. So he's now coming back saying, "Now you want to deliver those?" Or the bottom line is he can get them for breach of contract, but it's only going to be verbal because the contract is in paper, on paper. He's got three years to run. West Coast could put their stakes in the ground and just say, "Tough tiddie's mate. This is what we're doing." Yeah. I'm warming to the idea of trading him out. I seriously am. As much as I think he's an outstanding player and he's a really good person, I like Tom a lot. Yeah, he's a beauty. He's a beauty. Yeah. But I just think there's so much currency and he's not going to be at the club for the next premiership here. Harry Edwards, I think, is a very capable player. He's going to be. Yep. They can probably go and find another defender somewhere where in the system. I mean, have they not entertained the thought of Josh Battle? Josh Battle is one of those players. He's extremely lucky to be a free agent when he's a free agent. Josh Battle is no world beater. All of a sudden, he's a million dollar a year player just because he's one of the very few that's left on the table. Timing-wise for Josh Battle is brilliant, but if you think Josh Battle is going to fill any serious holes in your list, I think you'd be a little disappointed now if you had a choice between Tom Barris and Josh Battle, which way are you going? Oh, you take Tom Barris every day of the week. All day, every day, so. But I'm just thinking if all of a sudden West Coast need to posture a better position and we talk about, you've talked about their top end and keeping premiership players. He's a genuine star right now. There's no doubt, Tom Barris. Yep. He's key with him and McGovern when they're both there. They're arguably the two pillars, like a lever and made-down back. Sure. Like Luke Ryan and probably Brennan Cox or Luke Ryan and Alex Piers, whatever that combination is. I can see some merit in West Coast saying, "Okay, we might be able to absolutely get something out of this, whether it be a player or a hardcore draft hand from Hawthorne." But they're in position A, because they don't have to move. It'd be very interesting to see what Hawthorne would table up and what they're going to offer, because there's some players in that Hawthorne team that all of a sudden you'd be going, "We'll have him, we'll have him, but Hawthorne would be absolutely reluctant to get rid of." Or not reluctant, refusing to get rid of. A day's one. Yeah, so. And more is another. Eagles, correct. Exactly right. 04877367360 is the text number. Carlos has two second rounders now. It's the first rounder in there for sure, Carlos. 131255, you wish to call the talkie-dep, I won't put mine. And 336 says, "Can this rent free on your head, also?" I would think, "No, I don't think it's exactly the opposite." And one tosses in real estate, no one's free. And I also think that if you have a look at social media, I posted twice in the first responder as been came quick. What weird. He was a first responder once, but he gave that up. He didn't get it. He didn't get it. It declined a ladder. Yeah, he didn't like it. Bazzo is a decent defender. Yeah, I'm not sold, sorry. I'm just not sold. He's had a lot going on for a rip. Yeah, I'd love to see Rick get a clear run at it. And he's had some injuries, obviously, a lot of off-field tragedy as well. But I'd love to see young man get a run at it. I reckon he showed a bit in his first year at Bazzo. Interesting enough that Tom Barris, I made a comment during the commentary. I said it to Hayes that he looked completely short at one state. He was walking around and the game was later on. And now it's been revealed he had concussion. He was missing this way. He was a man on his own. Tom Barris lost. Well, not really, but a big man on his own, I guess. And he was absolutely dragging his backside along the ground at the stage. He was exhausted. It's only 150 games. It goes through the banner with his children. Lorded. We love him. The fans. We love him. And then all of a sudden it's revealed that he met with Sam Mitchell on the same weekend. Yeah. It sort of just takes it a little bit, don't you think? A little bit. A little bit. A little bit. And I just don't think there's any need for a face-to-face meeting. We're in a world of Zoom and teams meetings and that sort of thing. I just don't think there's any need to make it so blatantly obvious. The coach, the coach of Hawthorne, his team goes home. His team goes right. He goes left. And as a face-to-face sit down, where was that hound? You know? Somewhere in the Golden Triangle where that was left. Yeah. What did you find? I would have thought they've got a relationship, obviously. The phone call would have been something. No. I see. I did see your face-to-face Zoom. No. I see. You're a bit new age. You're a bit old school. I think you'd get a better indication and more commitment when you meet someone face-to-face. And you're a business development. I agree with that with the business here. I absolutely agree with the business. The phone calls emails that don't have any... Staff who pick up phones and emails don't actually speak to anyone. They don't have anywhere near the impact of a face-to-face. Correct. Okay. I absolutely agree with that. And that is the way people should communicate as probably number one. But I think in this instance where it hasn't held anybody, it hasn't held anyone that this has come out and is now public. I think it helps West Coast. I really do. I don't think it paints a great light on Tom Barris. Sam Mitchell wouldn't care. West Coast are in position, eh? I would be trading him. Unless they give him a two-year extension and say, "Well, five years." He's 29. He's got back issues. He's out with concussion now. Timing's not great for him. The thing is though, he's got a contract. Unless it's written in your contract, and trust me, I'm absolutely aware of this, right? And with West Coast, we can't just renegotiate it because you're playing well or some club, other club wants you. If you hit your targets and you hit the markers that are in your contract, then yes, you should be able to do that if it's written in there. But if it's a handshake agreement, trust me, I know exactly what's going on there. It's bad luck in that way. Well, if he's got a handshake agreement or an agreement with previous management, previously as manager, previous CEO, those people, those are their men of their word. So I would think that he's got to come out. Yeah, but we're not going back to '99 and '99. I'm talking about it at the end of the day, history is history. It is absolutely if it's happened, it's happened. And if it's on your record, it's on your record. So not necessarily as men of the word as you say they are. Well, I believe they are, but you're speaking from firsthand experience. So I respect that as well. One's from 2003 saying maybe the catch-up with Tom Mitchell didn't go as well because Barris has got him. He's an angry little man, Sammy. And Harlem, yes, we purchased all the tickets because Harlem was close to the pin for the Derby and we are having to check. I have not checked any of the results, Harlem, but we have got the tickets. In fact, I've got them in me wallet as we speak. That's what it's a depressing start to the morning talking about West Coast Eagles woes. How about talking about Freo and their run? Oh, my God, they're such a fanic and free-bound supporters. We're praising Freo. I've had them in the top four chances for a premiership for the last six weeks. When we're talking about Freo matter where it's full of nothing but praise. There is such a massive chip. This is an issue. One of the key players of one of your two teams is meeting with an opposition coach. It's a really important thing. A really important thing. Les of Wembley Downs. Is the text from Sarong Bratio Young? Yeah, yeah. We've done all that. The best midfield in the AFL, Tracy. Yep, we've done all that. Hang on, hang on. Sarong Bratio Young. Okay. All right. So this is the thing. Sarong Bratio Young. And I had a function I did the last week before the Derby. I asked the Freo crowd because they were talking about Warner. I said, "All right. Who, if you want Chad Warner?" "Absolutely we do." "All right. You have to give up Sarong. Would you do it?" And they went, "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no." They said, "I'm going to do it." Sarong Bratio Young. Right. Elite. Absolutely elite. Would you have them over? You've got to pick three players. Gordon. Warner. Heaney. Where are you from all three? Yeah, I'm just saying, which is a better midfield out of those six players? The Sydney midfield is better. Yeah. Yeah. More damaging on the school board. Yeah. Bratio was doing his best. All three of those have been superb. All three of those have been superb. Keep the text coming. We do not walk in here thinking we're not going to talk about Fremantle. We talk about Fremantle a lot. And it's driven by the messaging. Now, I have been really surprised by the tone of Fremantle fans since the Derby. They seem to be hell-bent on spending time attacking Harley Reid. And his behaviours, rather than talking about their own players. And I've got proof. I've got some hardcore social media messaging to me saying that it's the media fault. Harley Reid, this Harley Reid, that. I just want to clarify. I did it on social on responding to someone on Facebook. I just wanted to say this to you. It's got you. I know our listeners. You know, several weeks ago I said that when they lost that I think it would be good for Harley Reid's development to do a media, he should do a presser on the Monday of the Tuesday. Yeah. Just so he can, it's not just all about roses and chocolates. There is, you know, it's come tough times as well. West Coast Eagles have never since, since Harley Reid arrived, picked one. Yes, he did his obligatory arrival press conference. Two, Rising Star nomination has to do, has to do that. And three, talking footy have an obligation because of the seven rights holder. So he's done three, he's done those three. He has not done a single in-house interview with West Coast on camera or with any other station or radio station ever. So for people to think that somehow it's the media's fault, or sorry, Harley Reid's fault through West Coast Eagles pumping it up and trying to bait and fuel Fremantle fans and get them really angry and, and why they booed him and carried on. It got nothing to do with Harley Reid and West Coast. Certainly got nothing to do with Harley Reid. As I said on Monday, he has. Oh, West Coast. Absolutely done nothing to put the focus on himself, other than play some pretty exciting footy. No. Not a single message. The, you know, the vitriol that's aimed at this young bloke. Wow. As I said, I don't think I've seen a player carry more stuff out onto the ground as this young man has. But I don't think he's handed himself pretty well. He's got some growing up to do out in the field, but that'll come. We're going to do on this day right now, because it is the 31st day of July, and it's the last day of July, the first day tomorrow. It's the horse's birthday tomorrow, but let's do this. Birthdays, events, and some of the great moments in history. It's on this day. Daniel Boone was born on this day, 1942. It's a beautiful day. A beautiful Sunday. 9/7/12. He died in January and last year. 76 today. Aussie singer. He had an absolute banger in 1969. Happy birthday, Russell Morris. [Music] Real thing. Ernie Dingo, 67 today. Peter Senior, the Aussie golfer is 65 today. Dian is 63. [Music] Fat boy swimmer 61 today. [Music] J.K. Rowling. Call himself that a nine. [Music] I've not read or watched one Harry Potter thing in my life. I went to the first movie, and I've told you about what I have possessed, because I launched it in WA. And I think it's worth thousands upon thousands upon thousands of dollars. If anyone wants to buy it, I've got the original cast signed famed photo of the Harry Potter group. And that is a fact. Jack and it's pride and play some of my bed with a bottle of wine from Gilly. Grange. [Laughter] Richard had this banger in 1959. [Music] He did that with the young ones as well. That was really cool. Find that one. And on this day, Ricky Pudding became Australia's greatest run score of all time. In 1974 runs, he passed the record, held by Alan Border. That's on this day. Thanks to Baron O'Dade. Don't miss out on little moments, because the little things are everything. What about what Brilliant was this morning was Joe Root, and how he just owned the game. He ran the game, he was pure quality, and he just owned that space. And just had all of this slow. We're just scratching the heads, going, "What do we do?" Well, sort of. He's out now. We've got 40. [Laughter] Let's move on. [Music] Well, we know of Gerard Dippard. We've got Gerard Wegli. He's over there in Paris for the games. Gerard, another golden morning for Australia in the pool. Goss, Scotty. Fantastic win in the backstroke. I feel like Kayleigh McEwen probably has lived in the shadow of a couple of our either more glamorous or decorated, but she gets her moment here. Thrilling win in the backstroke, where she's been the dominant force since the pandemic. The trick was that Regan Smith, the American rival, had broken her world record a month ago and had been faster than Kayleigh in the semifinals and the heats. So, she was up against it and she's a champion racer. I do think the turn at half way where she went through in fourth, she absolutely nailed the turn and I reckon five strokes later. I think she was in front with 25 to go and the sheer quality of what she was able to achieve was magnificent. I want to give you the historic context of what's been achieved by her and actually a little more broadly because these are storied times. Individual gold medals, Australians through history that have won three. Betty Cuthbert, Murray Rose, Dawn Fraser, Shane Gould and Thorpe in the past four days. Murray Armtitmus and Kayleigh McEwen have joined the absolute royalty of Australian sport and Jess Fox has that opportunity tomorrow. It's phenomenal isn't we are so blessed, we've got absolute superstars. Carl Charmons, can he win the 100 freestyle tomorrow, Jared? I so hope he can. Third straight final in the 100m freestyle, the blue rebound event. He's a 13-ager silver in Tokyo. He won his semi-final in trademark style. He looks in really good shape up over the top in the last four, five metres or so. He sagely said in the aftermath there's now three men in the field who have faster PBs than him. So that gives you the context is he's not the dominant force as he might once have been and he'll do it against the odds if he's able to do it. This is a pool where it's not about times, it's about racing and Kayleigh's got so much in common with Carl Charmons. So I hope he can and I reckon all certainly all of South Australia but really all of the country that's followed his career since that breakthrough in Rio will ride with him tomorrow. Yeah, come on the king. I'll tell you what, Zach's double to be cool. I know he's in the final but he gave us a little bit of a heart attack in the heats where he was just going for a legally swim in the breaststroke. I'm in the breaststroke and then decided halfway, oh I better put my finger out here but he's up against the French favourite in León Marchand who's going to try and do something pretty amazing. Oh this is going to be an incredible night of swimming. Marchand is going to attempt the butterfly breaststroke double on the same night. So they're two hours apart, only one swim around history has had a go at this double but not over the same distances, mind you. That was in 1956. Mary Sees was bronze in one and seventh in the other. Marchand commands that crowd and you'd be able to feel that through the telly. So what a race stubble to cook is going to be a part of. It'll be one of the historic markers of Paris and stubble to cook gets him second so that the order works for the Australian but I just wonder if the Frenchman might be unstoppable forced by then. What that was funny the heat though. As if he got the message, hey mate, what are you doing here? There's a race on them. It's the Olympics. It's the Olympics. And he figured it out just in time. It sort of makes you love him even more doesn't it? Just came home like a train. It certainly does. Interesting love too. And just a lesson for anyone who's listening to the show today. You know how I'm a grammar police right? Did you know, sir, Jared, about 90 seconds ago, threw out the word, words, blue ribbon. I'd just like to clarify. It's like the champing of the beard. It's like one fell swoop. It's blue ribbon. It's not blue ribbon. No, it's blue ribbon. No, that's an ice cream. Just so we know when the wordsmith gets it right, I just rejoice and say we're slowly winning the battle. You just sit back when you listen to Jared. You sit back just with a nice smile on your face because he's not going to get one. He's the best. He gets stuff wrong, but not often. I'd like you to list those things. I'll scoop you so cold. And let me know. Geez. Great comeback. I will, Jared. I'll get back to you. One, twice, mate. Mate, take some time. Hey, I expect you're getting it wrong. They've got it wrong for the triathlon. So what's the alternative? What's happening here? What's happening here with the sun, the sun, the river? So it's leading the news services here, where I'm just a fraction behind us. I don't understand what they're saying, but I get the visual. The visual's no good. So there's one more chance on Friday. And they are rather horrifyingly talking about the triathlon becoming a duathlon. Oh, no. That is just not acceptable. And there's so much that Paris is doing right. But this stands as a black mark because it was foreseeable. And so they were hoping and they had spent the money, but you cannot reduce a triathlon to a duathlon and think that that's OK. So I feel desperately for all of the athletes who are caught up in this. This is the culmination of usually four, but three years' work for what should have been today for the men and the women tomorrow. And now they go to bed tonight wondering whether they're going to get a bastardized version of their event, which is terrible. So no good. And I can't understand how the water quality would sufficiently improve from Tuesday to Friday to make it possible. And I worry that they're going to say, well, we're going to stage this and you can pull out if you want to. And that wouldn't be OK. Yeah. I don't know if that's a little black mark. More like a skid mark with what all the pictures are going to say. Maybe you get half the French to stop booping in it will be OK. And Jerry, if you had a choice, you had a choice right now. Would you prefer to swim in the River Sen or the Yarra? Oh, see, this is a phrase I never imagined that I would say out loud, but you can swim in the Yarra for sure. Oh, wow. That is bad. In fact, you drink out of the Yarra. My own water inspection today and thought, no, you're not getting in that. Actually, it led to the omen bed of the year was tonight, given all that's going on when Daniel Wiffen won the gold medal for the Irish. A couple of quick ones. You went to the footy at Princess Park last night, the rugby sevens. What was that like? No, it was the soccer. Soccer. It was the home ground of Paris Saint-Germain and it's called Park the Princess. I thought, oh, we have to go to Princess Park and watch the footy. I saw Dominican Republic and Uzbekistan, but it was really just more being there. I reckon there were 45,000 people there. It was a terrific atmosphere and you could actually, you could sit there and go OK. So when it's a full house for the local team, that would be really an intimidating atmosphere in which to play. But the strength to think it was, it's a bit like the suburban grounds of the 80s. It's a little bit run down for all the money that they spend on the players. I don't worry about a liquor paint in about 20 years, I reckon. 400 part home. Just to finish off two, boomers went down in Canada. It was even up and down sort of game. They've got to play Greece next night. They've got to win that go to one and progress through. Yeah, I worry about that a little bit. They didn't lose any admirers today. The boomers, they are heavy underdogs in that game. Actually Canada declared war on us and we sort of didn't know until it was all over. As they ruined the rugby sevens, that was a stunner of a result. And Australia ended up going medalist there and dominated the first two days. The boomers were competitive but lost. And then the three by three women's basketball got beaten by Canada as well. So it was a nasty little set of events. But they've been gazumped by Belgium at the end of the night because Belgium gave the cooker bar as a hiding six, two. So it's been a sour day for our teams other than our men's water polo team who beat Serbia. Eight, three in one of the most unexpected results of the games. They'd lost 17 in a rota Serbia who are the white hot favourites. They've been to make three, so a salute to the shark. Yeah, no doubt about that. It's just a salt in water. It's pretty brutal. Hey, Jared, appreciate it. We lost our key set of order just through his head back and just smacked the opponent in the face. But she's a bit rough out there. Certainly. Certainly. Jared, appreciate your time, mate, and get some rest. Terrific, guys. Thanks. Good on you, Scotty. Jared Whiteley over there in Patti for the game. So just repeating. It's Haley McEwen, the 100 Backstroke Final, a unbelievable event in a new Olympic record. Scotty and Goss, breakfast on S-E-N-W-A. [MUSIC] 21 degrees. We're heading for the top rain, possible storm, 11.6. Nature in water, four-day forecast, your destination for all things water, 16 tomorrow rain. That's a bit chilly. 16 cloudy Friday, an 18-partly cloudy Saturday Friday night. It's going to be a bit damp underfoot. They might be good for West Coast. Gold Coast are a high, ball-used team, aren't they? They're also used to playing in very wet and humid conditions. Your irrigation pump and filtration product specialist is nutrientwater. Visit nutrientwaterstore.com.au. [MUSIC] Good morning. You heard it in the news there that now five full missed Sunday's clash against Essendon. Here you go, Doc. His fans were talking about it. One match, 10. The strike was upheld by the tribunal. Fair enough, too, because he's a thug. He hit the blokes off the ball. No, no, no, he's jacking it. It was worth a throw at the Stumps, and I thought we said that yesterday. Yeah. Earlier in the night, Gold Coast youngster Bodhi Yuland successfully overturned his one-match ban for rough conduct, demanding he will play here on Friday night against the Eagles. Oh, wow. Chance and hill, then. He's a good player. I like him. The Atlantic West Coast is sitting with the maggots going off. Wow, where's Yuland going? So we've got to lock down on Yuland. [LAUGHTER] Matthew Martin has stepped down as the England men's ball head coach. The decision follows England's recent World Cup campaign where they were knocked out in the semi-finals by India. Marcus Treskovic has been appointed on an interim basis. No word as to why, if there's any specific reason, just potentially there are poor results, a bit of pressure building. It's a high pressure job over in England, of course. They have achieved good series victories against Australia, Bangladesh, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand and Pakistan. Yeah, a job for life in the woods in Australia, didn't they? So moral victories don't guarantee you a contract extension. No, they get their moral victories and test cricket. No, obviously. I think they get them everywhere. That's all over the place. And more cricket news, the Wacker have announced the appointment of their new chief executive officer, Stephenson, which will commence later this year. He's got a strong background in cricket, both a player and administrator. I heard Brad Hardy say, his name is Brad Hardy, he said, "Admail, you've got to draw a very good male." Yes, I know, I heard him say, and he's saying, "Name two players, two people, one of these two." Well, it wasn't him. [LAUGHTER] He was a father of them. He was a father of them. So close. You're winging the miss. [LAUGHTER] It happens, Varnie. It happens, we all get things wrong. Well, I haven't forgotten. [LAUGHTER] Pretty good form. Time to talk Greyhounds, of course. With, of course, Brad Hardy, the man Sticky is online. It's a great night out of the Greyhounds every Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday down in Mandra. Sticky, appreciate your time. We've got the WA Sprint Championship Heats. Yeah, good morning, guys. Good morning, Scotty. Yeah, it's huge. We can hear, well, Thursday night anyway, where Northern takes centre stage with two heats up the WA Sprint Championship with that final to be inducted next Thursday along with the State distance final. The winner of each of those theories will represent Western Australia over at Angle Park in South Australia where the winner of each of those championships from around the different states there can test the Nationals and it's the race that they've had a lot of success with in recent times with three winners in the last six or seven years. So looking forward to that on Thursday night. All right, I'll give you a tip of the week, please. How long did you get here? Well, hang on every word you say on the tip of the week time. Well, good to be here. So because of the, all the action on Thursday, I'll quickly put one out there for Friday, race six, number six, Sam Patch. This Greyhound sets up to 400 meters. That distance has been no problem. She's a real lit thing. I should find the front here. It should be too good for trainer Darrell Smith. He does a tremendous job with his small team. But I'll just quickly put out one in each of the heats for the Delway sprints as well. So eight one, which is race 10 tomorrow night. Uncle Tommy returns is third favorite. And that has to be because this Greyhound hasn't seen the track that Steve with is a very good record with his dogs. First up and fresh and he's going for three group ones, which would equal his dad, Tommy Shelby. So that would be a significant feat there. So in the first eight, we'll go Uncle Tommy. And in heat two, we're going to go with number one, Daddy's Girl for when I got these there, Cody Charles. Yeah. This Greyhound's drawing at the inside and his drawing inside for a lot of who the water I'm in talking was a little bit disappointing last week. So Daddy's Girl will be around that seven eight dollar mark there. It's another one that can run a really good race each way, but they are two cracking heats tomorrow night at Northern. I like when you guys heat two, number one, Daddy's Girl. You're a girl, Dad? Yep. I'm in bed all over it. Yep. I don't want to say a door. They adore you. They need something. Worship the grand you walk on. Very good. All righty. Steve, appreciate it. Greyhound's WA. It's a great night out at the Greyhound's every Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday in Mandra. Mike's texted in, and he's a bit flat today being a free man or man, you know. Oh, he's flat because his team's flying. Yeah. Absolutely on fire. I would like a dad joke, and it's actually probably down the line as we speak. If laziness was an Olympic sport, I would finish fourth. Just so I don't have to walk up to the podium. You like that? Yeah, and you're Mike. Yeah, be with yourself. [laughter] You were in that while Steve was talking. Did I miss something? No, no, no, no, no. I'm just rickin' it. He was doing it at the tips of re-gonna hurt, you go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We've got a plan. It's called production. Let's get a breakaway and come back, 'cause Jerry Waitley's not too far away from a journey. It's now after seven o'clock, Sean Green, Gold Coast, Sons there in town, Friday night football. Now, the Friday night football team, for those who want to know, they've been a line-up change in the Friday night football team. Oh, hang on a second. What do you mean there's a line-up change? Yeah, hey, he's just hanging Friday night off. What? He's, hey, come on, mess. He had the pre-game off on the weekend. He's, what for? Boy! Oh, man, he's good. So, you're calling on your own and doing special comments. Myself, Jimmy and Pete will be doing our call in the next box. It's your dreams. This is your dreams, isn't it? It's myself. Peter? Yeah, you can't take mine, man. Yourself? Now, you're coming into the feature box. Oh, I'm coming in with you. You're coming into the main box. What do you mean, Jimmy? And then Chris on the boundary. Jimmy's surplus to requirements. I know, you've abandoned him. Yeah, last week or two. Well, this is ridiculous. I know I can have a look. Can I just clarify something? I just want to clarify something with the football media. And the young talent of sports media who I've noticed in Perth at the moment. How are you taking holidays during the football season? At what stage where the features sport that you're paid to cover, you continually have days off or holidays in the middle of the year? It's the new world. I did have a weekend off two weekends ago. Just needed a circuit breaker. But, you know, other than that, no. I just find it staggering. That's a new world mate. It's a new world. If they could call from home, they would. It's as simple as that. You've got October, November, December, January and February. Five months. And they take holidays. Now, unless it is a wedding and it's required to attend or a funeral or something, a feature event. But if you're just going on holidays in the middle of the AFL season, I find that mind-numbingly staggering. You sort of need to work around it. That's your job. Anyway, that's just fun. Tom Cole's going to join us after 7.15 and Kane Coors. Do we have to? Kane, yes, we do. Great pleasure, Cole. Thank you. Sports day, Vic Host and Jack-A-Wole Trades Master. You can't roll a few up. He certainly will. He's on a roll. We're going to take a break. Jared Whiteley joins us next. Friday Night Footy is back in the West. Actually, it's sort of a co-double header on Friday Night because the Bulldogs take on Melbourne and the West Coast Eagles, the game we care about. Host to Gold Coast, sun's on the road and the Gold Coast, sun's assistant coaches, Sean O'Grigge, who has played at this venue. He's one of his last games he played. No, he hasn't played. No, exactly right. He's done everything he achieved at all and he's one of the great plates costing. You know what, don't throw that around, willy-nilly. That's your second language. Don't throw it. We only have good lakes on this show. He joins us now. Morning, Griggy. Good morning, Dawson. Scotty, thanks for having me on. Oh, no, it's a pleasure to have you, mate. How's things now? Is life on the Gold Coast for you? No, I really enjoy it. It moved up late last year to reunite with Game in Hardwick after spending so much time with him. It has been really exciting. So, you know, the part of my coaching journey, which is a real challenge. This is it, Sean. This is the on-the-road win that the boys have been pining for. It's this week, Friday Night against the West Coast Eagles. Surely, surely, we can tick that off this weekend. Yeah, well, we certainly hope so. You know, we're really excited about playing on Friday night. It's our first Friday night going for the year. So, you know, watching the Eagles over the last couple of weeks, they're going to be tough to handle. The Derby there was fiery and they're certainly out for the contest. How much is dimmer change, mate, from a coach? That you had to being the guy who walked away from footy because he was burnt out and exhausted and then coming back. He looked pretty calm for the first part of the season. Then the loss in Melbourne, where he got a little bit cranky, I said there's the old dimmer. He's back again. Yeah, he certainly hasn't lost any passion for the game and winning. He's a competitor and hates losing. So, yeah, it's been really good, like I mentioned before, to come up here and be a part of this new challenge with him. But the best part about dimmer that I'll sound over many years is he's a great motivator. And, you know, his greatest strength is to get the players to buy him to what we're doing. And, you know, some of their specific roles within that. So, yeah, he's certainly full of passion and full of energy and he's coaching well. At the same time, Sean, Sean, Greg is our guest assistant coach for the Gold Coast Suns. It must be frustrating because I think, you know, that home record 9-1, the away record of 0-9, there's just, there's just no balance there. It's a complete imbalance. I mean, that must be frustrating for everybody. Players, coaches, staff, management fans. Yeah, absolutely, because we've seen our best footies really, really good and stacks up against, you know, sort of the best teams. We've been able to knock off a few, you know, really strong teams up at home with some quality footy that we know is going to stack up long term. But, you know, on the flip side of that, yeah, we are impatient. Everyone is, you know, dimmer, all the coaches, the players, you know, we want to produce that football all the time. So, that's the challenge for us is to keep educating that, keep teaching that, keep rewarding that and, you know, give the players a great understanding of what that looks like, but what it feels like for them to play that sort of footy. So, that's the challenge for us as a footy club. But, you know, some of the positive things we've been able to provide is, you know, I think we've got four sellouts up on the Gold Coast, so the most sort of in the history. It's a bit for us, you know, build it and they will come. We need to hold up our land of the bargain and play really strong footy and, you know, provide the Gold Coast supporters and people up here. A good spectacle to come and watch. The Gold Coast is one of those curious ones for me, not your side, but any sporting side on the Gold Coast degree, I'm not sure the Gold Coast has had a successful franchise in any sport. What are the challenges that you see out there? How different it is as a player in Melbourne, as an assistant coach in Geelong. What are the challenges you see on the Gold Coast that probably make it a little harder than anything else? Or are there any differences that make it harder? Yeah, there are some differences being obviously a rugby predominant town. But what I've seen and been really impressed with is the work that everyone up here at IFL Queensland have done with the Academy. I was really surprised coming out how many people and young kids that come through those academies and my own children at primary school up here. The AFL is starting to turn. You know, you see kids with Gold Coast, some footies at school and hats and those sorts of things. So it definitely is turning. And the Gold Coast have done a great job with the Academy. As we saw, we had some four first round picks last year with some homegrown talent. So it's definitely starting to turn and we're leaping the benefits of that. And then probably what we want to achieve is a free club. We don't want to be everyone's second favourite team. You know, we have a sort of hopes the Gold Coast goes OK. But I'll sort of experience that at Richmond when we started winning. You sort of want to be hated by everyone because it's so hard to play against. So for us, we want to capture all the Gold Coast supporters and bring them along for the journey, but also want to be sort of, yeah, we want to be sort of hated amongst other teams because they're a good pretty team. You'd be hated on Friday night. The West Coast Eagles are hosting at Optus Stadium and they were OK for... Oh, they're OK for most. Seven tenths of the game, I think, against a free mantle. Seven tenths. Matt Rowell has last two visits to town, excluding the game earlier in the year because the votes haven't been handed in. He's picked up the brown low votes on both occasions that you had two wins here. This venue. You were here earlier in the year against Fremen. I put up a pretty good effort, too. I think you only lost both three and a bit goals. What was the vibe out of that performance? And if you could bottle things that you did right, and maybe you didn't do right on that last visit, what would you do? Yeah, I think it's just playing out best for you for longer. That sort of has been a trend in state trips and away trips. We've sort of just had those lapses within a game, whether it be 10, 15 minutes where we've allowed the opposition to put on a few goals. And, ultimately, that's been the difference in the game. So, for us, that consistency of performance, and you're probably right with Rowell and most of the midfield group, if we can get the job done in there and get the ball forward and keep it in our forward half, it's going to go a long way to winning, getting the game on our terms, especially away. Couple of questions about the UI. And I don't, you've probably been sick to death as a football club, being answering these questions. But have you had any outside influence whether they be prominent people or potions where people have said, "I've got a good idea how you can get turned this around." You know, whether it's sleeping upside down in your bed, whether it's drinking some magic potion, whether it's flying in seven days ahead of the game, whether it's flying in and landing one minute before the venue. Have you been inundated? And have you tried stuff? And are you continuing to try stuff? You're always inundated in this industry with everyone's opinion. But, you know, for us, it's even dominating yourself. He's played, obviously, a poor Adelaide and been successful with an interstate team. And, you know, some experience we've had at Richmond, playing well, away, and also jalong. So, you know, we're still trying to find out the best balance and the best mix for our team. But, you know, certainly it comes down to, you know, being able to play your best footy anywhere in no matter the conditions or how you're feeling. So, we'll continue to educate the players through that. We'll continue to try some different things and find the right mix for us. What about flying in and flying out? Because it is a fairly long trip, of course. The Gold Coast Perth, it's a lot of people who just do it for holidays, find it difficult, you know, going to Brisbane, or going to Sydney and then getting into Cool and Gatter and then driving to the Gold. And all that sort of stuff. Are you going to plan to do anything different, being a Perth trip and being a longer one? No, so we're going to fly over the day before the game and then just fly straight back. So, we don't have to go to Brisbane this trip. There are some trips. We have to drive to Brisbane just due to the flights not being available from Cool and Gatter. Cool and Gatter is not a huge airport. So, we're fortunate. We've got a flight in and out of Cool and Gatter, which has been easy for us. It disappoints me. You'll be flying straight out. My dad penciled out. My friday night and Saturday morning. We'll find another time. Hey, you must be happy. You've probably got the better of the King twins. Ben's been going pretty well. Gold kicking is a little bit of a concern. How much work has he been doing on that? He's had a great year. He's competitiveness for us. It has been really, really good. Whether he's been mocking them or bringing them to ground. The improvement he's showing this has been huge. He's goal-kicking all year's been great. He's been a sharpshooter and he's kicked them well. He is going through the last two weeks. He's getting a lot of shots and he hasn't taken those opportunities. He's been working really hard all year on his goal-kicking and takes great pride in it. We're expecting him to put him through starting this week. Particularly away, it's a hostile crowd to get some scoreboard pressure on the opposition early is going to be vital for us. Yeah, how important is that? Fast start when you are away and in a hostile environment is so important. But also the Eagles coming off the Derby, it can drain you. They threw everything they had at Fremantle on the weekend. It was physical, it was tough. And like I said, it was draining. How important is that first 25-minute screen? Yeah, absolutely. It is. We want to really start well. The last couple of weeks we have started well. We just haven't converted, I think, on the weekend. We were two goals six at quarter time and the week before was something similar. So if we can, you know, sit that around and kick a couple of goals early and put some pressure on the opposition and get our boys up and about, it's going to go a long way fast. Benning in the game and ultimately coming on with a full point. Sean, have you heard of Harley Reid? Absolutely. I've watched him play this year. He's a fascinating player. Do people, coaches, when you see that the opposition get in his grill and it gets a little bit off track and it still produced a great performance on the weekend, don't get me wrong, it was outstanding. Do you put that mark down as we've got to get in his face? Because if we don't, he can probably get off the chain and be the superstar that everyone is expecting him to be. Or can you also lose process if you all go after one player in particular? I'm not interested to know about the thoughts of the coaching staff preparing for a guy like Harley Reid at the moment. Yeah, we obviously have to be wary and respect what he's been doing because we're saying throughout games he's just torn in the parts through that middle, he's so combative and explosive throughout that part of the ground. So for us, we'll have a few plans in place to nullify him and look to exploit him and it's going to take a whole team effort for us. It's not going to be one or two players. I think to your first point, I think we can get distracted or taken away from our game if we focus too much just on the one player. You know, roughly he's fed as if the ball's not there for us. We want to be hard at the ball and win the ball and get that forward first and foremost, so we'll be going after that. I agree. Lucky Weller, well known over here. He returned a couple of weeks ago after a year out of the game. It's a great thing to see him back out there. Have you found him or has he traveling in his couple of weeks back? Yeah, absolutely. He's been an absolute pro with his rehab. Unfortunately, it's the second ACL he's done in sort of two years. So for luck to get back in this latter part of the year, it's been a real credit to the work he's done. And you know, we're really craving his sort of bounce and ball use off off back. So for him to come back and pretty much he comes straight back into the team and didn't plan either. So for him to perform how he has after pretty much two years out, been, you know, great sort of, we're not really surprised by it. He's a quality player, but the way he's going about it's been terrific. Simple terms is you've got to win every game. You've got to win every game and results have got to go your way. You've still got a chance to make it. It is that type of season for the Gold Coast Suns and it starts here on Friday night. In simple terms for the listeners, do you come here with confidence? Oh, we do. Yeah, we think our best foot is good enough. And the challenge for us is can we do it for long enough? If we can do that, we feel like, yeah, we can get the four points and get on a bit of a run. And like you said, it's on us to win the last four games and you never know what can happen. Mate, just before we let you go, we're trying to get our heads around a premiership favourite here. If it's not the Gold Coast, you play Brisbane on the weekend. Short terms, are they genuine contender? I think so. Brisbane were really good on the weekend and they've shown their body of form over a long period of time now stacks up. So they'll be one of the favourites, I'm sure, going in, especially if they can finish in that top two, top four and get a couple of home finals. Sean Green, fantastic player, terrific assistant coach all around. Good bloke as well. If you change your travel plans, you let me know, mate. But thank you very much for joining us here this morning on Scotty and Goss. Thanks, Adam. Let's tell us. Thank you. Scotty and Goss came, Korn's coming up after 7.30, heading for a top of 21 degrees. Thanks to Sonos, multi-room listening, wireless home theatre, and a whole lot more brand analysis and analysis retirement. Soon as Greedy hung up the phone, bang! Brand analysis and analysis retirement. Two premierships, 251 games. So you get a fair well game? He won't be getting a fair well. Why not? Unless he's picked. 250 game, or is he not just going to give him one? He's injured. Don't. Mate. Well, let's ask our next guest. Okay. Tom Cole is our next guest. Tom is one of five West Coast Eagles who have played every game this year, 19 games. He comes off a career best proposal 26 game. You declared possibly his best game at the club. During the game, I said this is as good as Tom Cole. You were trying to influence my voting and knocking on windows. Well, he got it. I did. I wrote Tom Cole's name down. I know it is. It is. It was fourth in mine. He got a coach's vote. I know. I'm going to ask him, has he ever had a coach's vote before? Tom? What's it's talking about? Why you wait there, mate, if you don't mind? You always go. I mean, I stand corrected. You probably have, Tom. Have you kept an eye on the coach's votes over the journey? Mate, I tend not to look at him because I'm not usually there. So, I'm not usually in him. So, you could be right. Yeah, you could be right. It was very good. Very good. And congratulations on your performance. I genuinely felt that was the best all-round performance from you, Tom. I think there was a lot of strong defense. Fierce in the footy. I think you used the ball well. Got plenty of it. And when you walk off and you don't win, I know you're going to give us the team line. But at the end of the day, did you walk off thinking, "Ah, that's the bar. That's the level I'd like to play every week." Yeah, my luck was obviously out of it more of the footy, which starts to look at a lot at the end of the game. I feel like I can influence games otherwise without the footy in my hand. That's why I've always been picked to play. But it's always nice to get a bit more of the ball. I know we had a few players out in our back line who usually get a bit more of the footy, and Garvin, Duggo, and with those. So, I suppose I just had to step into that role, which I'm comfortable with. And yeah, I thought I went OK. I hope I had had moments that I'd like back, lucky with any game. But yeah, that was alright mate. Hey, Kelly. I thought it was one of the best derbies we've had for a while. I loved it. I love the passion in it. I love the pressure on the body and the ball carry that the Eagles put on. What was the catalyst in that? Is it because it was a derby or is it more of a response to the week before? Yeah, I think it was more of a response to how we performed the week before. And probably just a response to our lack of consistency throughout the whole year. We know when we bring pressure like that, or if any team brings pressure like that really, you can be competitive. So, I think we proved that to ourselves that if we bring that week in, week out, we can be in games. So, I think it was more a response from the week before. But in saying that they're always a bit extra sauce in a derby. So, it was a bit in that game. OK, these are going to be a little bit difficult for you to answer, Tom Cole. But we're going to rattle these off. Should Andrew Gaff in the next four weeks? And we could only assume that this will be his last year at the West Coast Eagles. He only played the three games this year, I think. Should the West Coast Eagles find a game, at least, for a send-off game for Andrew Gaff? And will he be chaired off? And should he receive a guard of honor from the opposition? Lots of questions. There's a lot of questions in some of that. Yeah, there's a lot of questions there. Well, look, he's played his whole career here. He's a very decorated player for our club. He's done a lot for our club. So, yeah, I probably think he deserves a fair while game, or at least to be acknowledged and chaired off whether he's playing or not. There needs to be acknowledgement there. He's done so much for the free club. It was unlikely to not be in permission choir in 2018. So, the service he's done for an hour long, he's been playing for a while in a whole year, 15 years or something. Yeah, I think he deserves some recognition for sure. Now, Tom Barris' name is in the news that he's met with Sam Mitchell. That's the big story that's breaking everywhere around the country. He's got three years to run of a contract. Does anyone, anyone who plays with Tom Barris walk around and chat to him and find out, or do you just sit there and think, "Oh, well, he'll be decided by Tom and his management and another football club." Because that, for me, he's a catalyst and a key component of that football club. Do you talk about it amongst to him or amongst the group? Honestly, I don't talk about it with Tom. With TV all the boys, myself personally, I feel like that's, I feel like TV is a loyal man and why he can make his own decision, you know? So, it's not something we speak about with each other. I'm seriously saying that we had too much going on through it a week, you know? Like, I was only, I only just heard about that last night. We've got a game to play in three days and it's seriously like that. That's just the industry. It's not too much time to speculate and have those conversations when it's in the industry room. Kelly, a serious question. Do you think players at the moment are playing for their lives? Because there's obviously going to be a fair amount of change on the list at the end of this season. Do you get a feeling that some of your teammates know that they might be in the gun and it is time, it's probably too late for time, but it is time that they are playing for careers in their football and futures. Yeah, 100% mate. And probably an air club more than others, but this plays like that at every club every year, you know? I think everyone kind has a fair gauge of where they're at. Going by selection and whatnot and form and their contracts, status and whatnot. So there is a lot more pressure on players on our list at the moment. Due to our team's performance and I think the club wanting to change the way we've been going. We want to start winning and I think change is obviously coming. So yeah, I feel like there's definitely pressure there. Not just for the players who are out of contract, but for everyone mate, we all understand you don't play footy forever and yeah, change is coming. Hey, Tom, you started all the spot fires the other day. All those fights were you and Switkowski and you confronted him. Has Lily had a crack at you, your beautiful wife. I shared a crack at you, you cost serious money for the household budget. What did you get fined? No, I didn't cover fine. What? I wasn't really angry about it too. Yeah, I didn't cover fine. You and Harley reach started at all. He started it before you. Well played. He gave the free kick to Switkowski. Switkowski came to you, then there was fires and fighting everywhere. And you and Harley reached him and got touched a bit. Yeah, I thought I was pretty lucky. I did start it, but I didn't really get involved out there. I just started to let everyone go to work after that. Yeah, I actually feel bad because there's a few boys that I'm pretty stiff and I started the whole thing. So anyway, I've already cut it from the boys. I've already cut it from the boys. I'm saying I own money. I have to pay their fines that I won't be doing that. Scott is going to ask you just quickly about Friday nights. Go on, ask you. We want to ask you one collective question about Harley Reid. How does he cope with that focus? Because the booing started long before he'd even done anything physical with, you know, brayshore and all the others. First possession. First possession. Just tell us how a young man is coping with that. And does he talk about it? Do you get around him? We saw that Joey took him away from that, all those spot fires. I'd just be interested to know, does he engage with you guys about being the target of vitriol from either players or fans? No, I haven't spoken to him about it. But it's hard to relate. I, you know, when I was his age, my experiences of playing football were a lot different. So it's hard to relate to him. I don't know what he's going through. But in saying that, I think he, I think sometimes he half-reliches off it. And he plays footy in the right way at the end of the day. He's tough around the contest. And he really helps us get in the ball going our way. And he was bloody good on a Saturday night. And so he loved the way he's going about it. And it was, it was good by Joey to stick up for him and help him out throughout the game. I thought that was a really good touch looking out for our, for our younger players. He's coming out looking good. And one, he's looked after the young bloke. And two, he saved himself money as well. So it's a real genius move by Joey. He does love money. I think that's just based. He's taken, he's taken hardly away, mainly because he's a tight-ass. He loves money more than anyone we know. Yeah, well, I think you need to look into that a little bit more. Gold Coast Friday night, mate. It's Friday night footy. There's nothing better. And as you know, they're very goodable on the road. Yeah, mate. I don't think we played Friday night this year now. It's our first one. So, yeah, boys are excited. And yeah, hopefully we can get, go back playing as well as we get go back. There you go, wins. They obviously, their road form, away form hasn't been good this year. They're a good, honest team. And we know we're going to have to come out playing the right way we want to win. All right, mate. We know you've got to get to the footy club and have a big meeting there. So we appreciate your time. Thanks for joining us on the show. Good luck on Friday night. No, excuse me. Thanks, man. There he is. Tom Cole. Can you believe he didn't before? It's been, I love the, you know what? I started it. I put my hand up. I started. Good on you, Tommy. 21 degrees. We're heading for a top. Let's get some use away. Kane Korns is champing at the bit to come on our show. He has requested to come on. We have not chased him down. He's chomping, isn't he? Champing at the bit. He is. Yep. And it's a blue rebound show. Let's get a break away. Scotty and Gus, Kane Korns. After the break, my duff was after eight o'clock. Duff, what have you got coming up? Good morning. Hello. We're going to have Lisa Fernandez in from Hammond Legal. Hmm. I'm going to talk about Collingwood and the latest racial scandal that's going on there, involving behaviors of Craig Kelly. Now, clearly these are allegations at this stage. They are not proven and tested in a court of law yet. They have been tested by two investigations. By Collingwood, by suspect Collingwood is going to face judgment by three bodies. One is the court, one is the court of public opinion, and the other one is going to be the court of indigenous opinion. And I'm not sure they can get past all three of them. So it may be that the court finds there has been no breach of workplace law. But it also indicates, because they don't appear to be disputing some of the behaviors, just what the behaviors mean and the context of those behaviors, it looks more like more of the same sort of behaviors from a Collingwood senior official. Tom Barris, trade or not to trade? Two first rounders, it gets done if one is in the top ten, because it's opportunity for West Coast. No doubt. You do it. You do it, Duff. I'll do it tomorrow. Yeah. There it is. Mark Duffield, can't wait for his show, 13-12-55-0-4-8-7-7-3-6-7-3-6. We're clearing the decks because the annoying one. Hey, hey, hey. I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about Cain Kourt. Oh, here's next. Essentially, he's blaming the media for the story about it, and with four weeks to go in the season, with three years after these to go on a contract, he's meeting with a rival coach, and he's trying to blame the media. It's one of the more disgraceful comments in the media I've heard from Barris, and if he wants us to grow up, and if we all want to grow up with where the industry is heading, stop treating us like fools, which is exactly what he's done there. Bang, Cain Kourt's. Speaking like he normally speaks. Now, I'm going to push myself aside. I'm going to, because at the moment, when I compare you to, you like Ariana Titmus and Mario Callahan. Like, you train in the same pool, you practice all the time together, but then there's just this healthy rivalry, and it can sometimes turn ugly. No, it's dislike, actually. It's dislike. I'm just not sure that if Kourt was on top of the podium, I'm not sure he's looking at you guys and saying, "Come and join me up here." Good morning, Cain. Thanks for having me. Thanks for joining us, mate. We appreciate it. No way. I'm sharing the dice with Gostardama. Who's going to stay off Twitter? And then he's back in three weeks. Then he's off. He's the eighth time. Gost, you've been back on X now, I call you. What is going on? Cain, I've posted two posts because I didn't have a platform for the first one. That was the Adam Simpson not coaching, so I just used Twitter. And the other one was the Harley Reid didn't get fined. It's got massive traction. I've not responded. I haven't liked. I haven't retweeted. I haven't read any of your tripe. I have not gone down that. And you know what? It is actually my profile and my social media. So I can actually do what I want. You can 100% you can. Then stop telling us on the advice of Gary Lyon that you're going to go off it. Just stay on there. You're the first bloke to react every time I post. Oh, he's back. It's almost like you've got it in your drafts. I can read you like a book. I can read you like a book. Hey, he's speaking of reading like a book. Did you? Your mate, Sam Mitchell. Now, I know he's a regular on your show with Kingie. We love him. And he's obviously had a small sample size over here in WA as an assistant and played that one year at West Coast. Doing great things with Hawthorne and use through that Connor Nash has just signed a five-year deal with the Hawks, which is great news for the footy club. Now, you've attacked Barris in regards to, you know, all of his carry on, but Sam Mitchell meeting with a player that has a three-year deal still to run out of the football club, surely Sam must take some ownership on all of this playing out. So it's a good topic, I reckon, off, because I reckon at the moment it's just a free-for-all. So I think the AFL needs to set some guidelines around what he's allowed and what he's not allowed. I'm with you to some extent that I don't think it's a great look that he's finished playing in Adelaide. He's jumped on a play into Perth while the rest of the team's gone home and he's meeting with the player that's still got four weeks gone in the season and, more importantly, three years to go on a contract. But if you want to get ahead, if you want to improve your list, this is what the best are doing. And we saw that. We've seen that from other clubs. I'd too long have done it better than anyone. I personally don't think it's a great look. And maybe there should be a two-week window in the middle of the season where it is more of a free-for-all and you have some guidelines around it. But my criticism was with Baras and his comments a month ago where he said essentially, "I'm an Eagles player until they pull the rug from underneath me and essentially it's immediate beat up." The biggest piece of rubbish I've heard this year, when it was his management that sought the trade to Sydney last year and then he's sitting back trying to blame the media. And in the meantime, he's meeting with a rival club with four weeks gone. He's got three years left on a deal. If I was West Coast, if I was a West Coast fan, I'd be furious with the way that he is, as I said, trying to treat us like a fool. Mark Duff, who had just had him in before the break, he believes it's two first rounders and one inside the top 10. He's got three years to run on a deal. So therefore, you're going to get healthy compensation. What's your vibe on whether Tom Baras will be at Hawthorne? And you are linked with Sam, have you asked Sam whether this is a genuine or is this trying to just boost up the price and make West Coast payovers? Well, West Coast don't need to do anything. I think West Coast are in a great position. This is the best as I read it, right? Baras just signed the contract extension with West Coast. Since then, his management has put the feelers out and another club has said, "Look, where do you think you're worth this?" They may think he's worth $950 at Hawthorne. He's probably getting $700 at West Coast and this club is going to come and give you a seven-year contract. And he's saying, "I'm under paid here. I'm going to go and use this to either extend my deal at West Coast and redo it and walk out." The West Coast don't need to do anything. As you said, they're in a perfect position. They've got him under contract. Unless it is something extraordinary that he's offered their way, two first round draft picks. I wouldn't be doing a whole lot. If two first round draft hits came my way for West Coast in the position that they're at, absolutely, you would look at it. But I just think they just sit back and see how this played out and then play really hard ball if he decides that he is threatening to leave. All right. Ken, again, someone else you have a great respect for. Mate, what's he... You've declared him. I haven't declared. You've got on absolutely gone. Okay. All right. So Hinckley's name has been mentioned with a contact of mine saying that his name's been mentioned about being at least interviewed, being asked whether he's interested because, you know, we don't know what his future looks like at Port Adelaide. I know he loves the club and I hear all that stuff rolled out by Ken and all that sort of passionate stuff. But be honest, he won't coach there next year if they don't make at least the prelims. Well, you've been one of his biggest critics, guys. Do you think he suits West Coast? It's a very good question you ask, Kane. I think he probably does because I'm not 100% sold on the rebuild right now. But I do think the next coach probably has got a three-year tenure. And I think that would see Ken out. And I think Ken came in at Port Adelaide at a good time. I think he's done remarkably well for Port Adelaide, but they haven't got the big prize. And when you are in a two-team town, which you are well aware of, there is expectation for success and he hasn't achieved that yet. I think he'd be a good fit at West Coast. Yeah, so I mean, so this we agree on. I don't know whether it's going to happen. I don't think the phone call has been made yet to Ken. Not saying that that's not going to happen and not suggesting that he's not high on their wish list, but he's got other business at the moment. So West Coast may be respectful of that. So I'm with you. I don't think the next coach at West Coast is going to be the long-term coach. Can you get an experienced coach to come in who is highly regarded, highly respected, and really increase the standards and the expectations upon the players and set some really good habits for the youngsters and any senior players that hang around at West Coast, which is, as you said, exactly what he did at Port Adelaide. He focused on the little things, the disciplines that make you a great player. But they only make you a great player if you do it week after week, day after day. That's what he could do at West Coast. He can, as you've seen at Port Adelaide, he handles it pretty well. He's a good media performer. He's raw. He's not polished, but he's a good performer. So it makes sense to me, is it going to happen? I'm not sure, but maybe someone who has that experience to take it now until the next younger coach is ready to go, mightn't be a bad thing. I'd give it some time, Jane, because my mate hasn't missed for some time now. It's been ridiculous. I'll stop it, Kate. One thing that's upset me a little bit is Jonesy has just texted you. Jonesy, who's an avid listener of air show, a contributor, says lots of nice things. Kane is the best thing Essyan has got going, great stuff, can I? That's just rude. Well, then Tom O, Tom O said it's the biggest piece of rubbish he's heard this year. Maybe Kane could play back some of his highlights from the last six months. Well, I hope I had to do that, say it back. Come on, I want to ask you, you did have some comments. I know you were talking with Gus earlier in the week about Harley Reid. Now, I try to avoid much talk about Harley Reid as I can, but he's absolutely been in the news this week. And why rightly so? Thoughts? Well, I just don't know if he needs to be seeking out the off-the-ball stuff. We all love how competitive he is. And when the putty's there, like he's as good as winning it as anyone. So I do love the healthy bit of arrogance that he's got and taking on tackles and all that. But the off-the-ball stuff, I don't know if he needs it. And let's be honest, West Coast are going to lose a whole lot of football games in the next three years until they become a very good side again. And he's going to have that target on his head from the opposition that they're going to go ask him every week. And that's just a taxing way to play. I reckon when you are the number one target as a 19-year-old from the opposition, that's hard enough as it is, let alone seeking the extra stuff, which increases the target even more. And it's taxing, right? Wrestling off-the-ball is a waste of energy. As I said, I don't think he's fully conditioned yet anyway to be able to afford to spend those petrol tickets doing that. So I'll just be advising him, yep, right, when the foot is there, you win it like you've always done. When it's outside of that, it's a little bit like the Zack Butter's Jason Hall of Front, this conversation. Don't waste your time doing it. There's nothing to gain by doing what he did to Bradshaw on the weekend and the other scuffles that he was involved in. Because they're going to lose and he's going to come out second best. Yeah, I think Bradshaw might have started it. But anyway, that's another round. Tom Colestarly told us. Yeah, Tom Colestarly restarted all those fights and neither of them got fined. Oh, that was amazing. That's a mystery how that happens. And we've also uncovered two coins. He don't be praised an L.E.O. for leadership when he's taken Harley Reid away from the fights. We know that L.E.O. is just a massive tight-ass and didn't want to be fined. So he's masquerading his leadership. He's got his first dollar. Last one before we let you go, are the Bulldogs a serious contender? And could they be leading the group of pinching a flag from under the noses of some of the other contenders? Well, they've done it before. Look, they're going to have to finish top four. I don't think anyone's winning it from outside the top four. I know they've done it. It's a rare occurrence that that would happen. I just think they're absolutely stacked with their list. And that's why they're so critical of look. Their reach has been unable to maximise a talent on this list. It's extraordinary on every line. They've got all strains everywhere. So they've underperformed to this point. They're sitting in eight. Their last three weeks has been great. But I've still got the performances earlier on in the year or the rubbish that they served up in Adelaide against Port Adelaide a month ago in my mind to the point where I can't fully trust the Western Bulldogs. Now, your next question might be, "Who can you trust?" Not a whole lot at the moment. That's the season that we're having. So I would still think Brisbane are the best team in it right now. The Western Bulldogs aren't far behind, but I don't have full trust in them yet. Can't stick with coming on our show with the little cameos every now. I will make you famous, eventually. I will lever you into stars. I have increased your profile like you wouldn't believe you. I listen to you to have your own podcast and bugger off both of you. Thanks mate, get on your cake. Of course, if you're going to get him on a whole range of platforms we appreciate his time. Hey, tomorrow, James Sully Sullivan in the studio. We've got a couple of doubles to give away to the NRL on Friday night. Beauty. Our seven at seven. Make sure you listen for that for blind rankings. Waitly from Paris. I love it. I'm loving the cheer. Waitly up. Yeah, me too. Plenty of text coming in. And, of course, your calls. Mark Duffield in after eight o'clock. He's going to touch on Collingwood, of course, and also, I'm sure, Tom Barris. Have a good day today, Scott. Oh, you too. Everyone has a great day. Hey, Scott. Yes, dear. Thanks for having me. We're really enjoying it. Thanks to Chris. Thanks to Griff and thank you for being a part of our show. You can catch it all on the podcast. Angles was really almost too nice today, was it? I didn't like it. It was uncomfortable. [MUSIC]
