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Free amount of this is Melbourne up to stadium and of course it is the Starlight Purple Haze Games. So if you come into the game don't forget you can donate via the website, buy a wand or a beanie support starlight. The free mail lockers have always done the Starlight Purple Haze Games so well. Another big week for the footy club. Big week for Justin Longyear, the coach, chance to bounce back after their trip to Tazzy. Justin, appreciate your time. Good morning. No worries guys. Appreciate having me on. Yeah, no, thank you. Hey, did you go to the toilet at any stage on the trip back from Tazzy? To all the gate. I think I went early. Yeah, this is why I explain a few things. No, just joking. No, I didn't. I had to go as soon as we got off. So yeah, it wasn't ideal and I think Joe spoke about it yesterday. Yeah, so I feel do whatever they can to make sure it doesn't happen again. Chance to bounce back against Melbourne, of course here, which is at home. Give me the positive out of the loss to Fremantle. Yeah, so I thought I thought we competed well. I thought we pressured well. I just think in those tight games when it's low inside 50 counts for both teams, it's about who makes most opportunities. It's disappointed with the way we defended inside our D50 and I think there's some goals. We should have been able to stop and then at the other end, we didn't call our capital odds on some of their opportunities and in the end, there was a difference in the game. So I think I think over the last six weeks we've been pretty good with our scoring and I hope it's just a little blip on the radar not taking those opportunities. Lonnie, when you're a couple of goals down and you're probably looking at the clock and you think there's five minutes of game time to go, do coaches, do you roll the dice? Do you get a message out? I just don't know if it's as simple as that, but you can't really control what the opposition is doing. But can you control, boys, we're going to take this game on, we're going to change things up because we do see some teams who are behind to make charges late or it might be 10 goals down at three quarter time and try to crack in and do something a bit different. Do you have that sort of coaching box mentality at Tom's? Oh, yeah. Yeah, and we try a few things. Be good to be able to get your hands on the ball and late late in the game, they were just really good in the contest and we couldn't get our hands on as often as we'd like. They know it really good at locking the ball in and getting stoppage after stoppage. Then I think when you're down late in game, you want to be a bit of chaos and you want to keep the ball alive as much as you can and they're really good at doing the opposite and locking away and making the stoppage game and getting the ball in close. We did push toxic forward, which was given Sicily, marked it on the goal line, probably was in the right call. We were nice to have him there to get that through, but we'd put him forward to try and equalize the game and make it an even numbered contest in our front half and see if we could get a mark, but we just couldn't get it there enough and yeah, the Hawks finished off the game better than us in those situations. JL, I mean, it got set up before. It's the starlight game. I think you guys do that better than anyone in terms of the players. You watch all the social stuff that comes out, they connect with the kids, they celebrate on game day. It puts life and footy into perspective pretty quickly. Do you reckon that the players sort of, it's a good, I think it's a good week for it to come after a loss? Do you reckon it has any impact on your guys going out there that, you know, regardless of a win loss, you sort of, you spend a bit of time in this situation with these kids? I find you guys always play better after it and the players get a bit out of it. Do you talk about that throughout the week or is it just, you know, go and do your charity stuff and then get out and play going? I think the starlight stuff is really, really organic and it's hard to say whether we get a lift out of it for one week, but I think over the journey having players were really grateful and for the opportunity that they get and never really grateful for what they can do in the community. I think it's only a good thing for a footy club and good thing for developing young men to be able to, yeah, you see a real care for the kids that come down, you see a real care for this cause amongst our footy club, but really amongst the playing group. I've said it a few times this year, it's one thing that our players really get behind and they don't need any pushing for me or the club to get behind it. So yeah, it's a great thing. Very much so starlight, purple haze game on Sunday, of course, and good luck to young Imi Imogen Smith, who's going to run out with the team and toss the coin on the weekend. I'm interested by Michael Walters. I open up the show here today and, you know, we know, we had him on the show last week and he says, I love being the star, everyone else is getting tired and, you know, 30 odd years of age, I can run around and do something great. I'm concerned about lack of game time for him over the last month and a bit, won the hamstring, then two weeks out, limited field time in the last couple of weeks. I mean, are you prepared to tell our listeners today that he's going to be in the 23? It's going to be in the 23. Yeah, it's going to be in the 23. Luckily, he's going to be sub again. And, you know, that's something we're going to have to manage costs. It's a bit of a concern for us. But last week, we thought he gave us the best chance of winning. He could come on late and, yeah, bring a bit of class to the game and finish his work off, which is proven he can do his sub and do it the week before. And then this week, the decision came down, the appeal, don't have a game. And we think he's the, we think the same thing in terms of him being able to come on and add a bit of class and everyone's tired and we can get some, get the ball in his hands. He can finish off like he did against the Tigers when he came on and keep the couple of goals in the second half. So we're going to have to manage it though. And, yeah, like I said to him next week, next week. So we'll work out what we do, yeah, after this game. I'm sure you'll probably say you expected good things because you're the coach. But the, the rise that everyone has seen out of Josh Tracy this year has been massive. Did you, did you peg him for the start of the year to have this sort of impact or how have you seen his year? I mean, he's coming up against two of the better defenders in the competition. And this is going to be a really big week for him, but he's just seemed to have grown out of sites from the start of the year now. Yeah, he has. I'll probably put it down to him taking his opportunities more this year. And that's probably with his mark in contests in particular. I think last year, you know, we saw the work rate, we saw their death to get from contest to contest. And back in the last year, he had some really good games. He just probably didn't finish off his work, whether that was in front of goal or whether that was just being able to take those marks that he gets to his ends to. He did a pair of work to work on his fitness and work on that mark in craft. And he's just been able to get clunk a lot of contested marks. And he's been really accurate in front of goal, which is, which has been nice. So I mean, obviously, I've seen him build over the last four years into this top place. And I see him go to work every day. So it doesn't really come as his prize to me. But I can understand what everyone externally is seeing. And yeah, he's still got plenty of growth in him as well. Love the way he's growing his leadership on and off the field. I think he's going to be a player that's going to find himself here in the leadership group in years to come as well. Yeah, he's putting a lot of young players on his back at the moment, Josh Tracy, and he's only young himself. Alex Pierce is back huge. I mean, soon as he was available, you were going to pick him, which is not great for Josh Draper, but it's all a learning curve for him. Sean Darcy comes back in and you've got a real chance. I know Melbourne went small and didn't replace Gordon with a ruckman last week and they went with Van Roy and predominantly and he was pretty good and petty, and petty, but they have named Fullerton and he could debut. What's your vibe on their ruck stocks? And you get a chance, to be honest, with no max going to really get this combination to work in Darcy and Jackson. Yeah. Oh, yeah, it's a great advantage for us. But as you said, against this last week, they're able to win the clearances. And I think they're able to congest the clearances with extra numbers. And I think, yeah, so we've got to have some strategies in place because as you know, it's not just about yeah, he that's that doesn't necessarily transfer into field position. So we've got to be able to come up with some strategies to be able to nullify their numbers and make sure that, yeah, we can turn that rock dominance into field position. It's going to be a big part of the game. And last week, they're able to, yeah, really nullify Draper in particular in the right rock and then you nullify us in the mid zip ground level. So we've got some work to do to make sure that, yeah, we can we can get field position from our stoppage work. Yeah, I thought our mids were probably a little bit reactive last week around around clearance. So we need to make sure that when teams come with different strategies, we're still proactive and we still get a movement right and where I will ask questions in opposition. Jay, I don't want you to say anything that'll get you in trouble with the AFL. But have you had to change the way you guys approach tackle training with how you talk about it, how you discuss it, how you implement it on the game? And what's what's had to change this year on the back of what you're seeing it with the suspensions of the tribunals, if anything? Yeah, well, we've been evolving the tackle changes for a couple of years now, because I think these rules and these suspensions have been in place for a while, but we we lost the colour players through the middle of the last year when they had a bit of a crack down on it. I think Jago was one against Melbourne at the MCG got suspended for a week. I think the thing has woken everyone up a little bit is the length of the suspensions and whether the obviously they got off last night, but the length of these suspensions, they used to be used to just be a one and weaker, maybe a two week in like the serious situations. But yeah, for the NRO to classify both those tackle was a three weeks was a bit of an eye to be honest. And yeah, I understand the talk about the tackling, but also feel like at times last week, the guy winning the ball in our game in particular wasn't wasn't given the time for to be able to get rid of the ball. So we've got to make sure that yeah, it's a heavily contested game. We've got to make sure that we reward the guy trying to win the ball. And then he can understand them trying to protect the head. So we'll do everything we can to try and make sure our players don't put himself in those positions when the tackling the opposition. Last couple four, let's go. We appreciate your time, Lonnie. Lee and Baker met with Bratior and Sir Rong, a Hamish new nothing about it. Andrew Bratior, Caleb Sirong met with Lee and Baker. Why? That's a blank question. Thank you. Thank you. Just not really going to talk about opposition players, Goss. Yeah, we've clearly said that if Liam's willing to come home or wants to come home, we'll be an interested party. And that's as far as I can go in that conversation. Fair call, fair call. Expectation home tied at the top second through the 13th. Any combination, every game is just so important. Is it not? So you've got to have your focus in place for the weekend. What's your expectation of the bounce back for your freo fans on a very special day for the footy club against a good team in Melbourne? Yeah, it would be like I said before. Yeah, it starts with the contest for us, contest and the amount of pressure we can put on. No, I don't think that's where that's where we got them last time we played everyone. Talked about the school board at the end of the day, but our contest and our pressure was where it started that day. So, you know, and an illusion that we'd need to bring that again. And, yeah, like I've mentioned, we won't play the game in our front half and, you know, stop the work in our ball use and all those things would be important. But get the game played the way we want in the contest and in our front half, we'll create plenty of opportunities for ourselves. Before you walk away from the phone, we've had a number, and I mean, a number of people to say the word going around the traps, Justin, is that you have signed or about to sign a contract extension. And we, and we played the video of Simon Garlic back in March announcing that we were coaching to the end of 2025 minimum, and that will be a work in progress going forward. Can you confirm or deny that you're about to agree to a contract extension beyond 2025? Used to me, guys. Used to me. Thank you, Justin. All right, appreciate it. Have a great day. And I'll add all the best on Sunday, big day for the footy club on the field and through the Starlight Foundation, mate. Always good to chat. Thanks, guys. Thanks, Hamish. So yeah, Justin, long we are just gonna ask a question. Yeah. What's with that? I mean, yeah, what's what's with all this? Why does people need to extend? Why does everyone just play the contract out and get to the end of it? I'm not sold on why everyone needs to commit three years before their contract finishes. Yeah. You see what happened with it just happens all the time that that happens and disaster strikes in the end. Yeah. Keep you on air, Joyce. Hey, hang him out there. You do. You do us the hard hitters, don't you, guys? Gotta be asked. It has to be.
