Fremantle Dockers Wingman, Jaeger O'Meara, joined Scott Cummings and Tim Gossage in preparation for the team's Saturday game against this season's benchmark team in the Sydney Swans.
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Jaeger O'Meara - "My Dad did his hamstring" (26/06/2024)
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The game for free medal this weekend they take on the Sydney Swans and the SCG three games clear of the Swans. But in fifth place, the Fremantle Football Club, Jaguar Mira, has been kind enough to join us. Hey, Jaguar, you're breaking new ground with us and we appreciate you. Coming on the show, breaking new ground, we get no footballers before seven o'clock. You're a different mate. We're not allowed to ring anyone before seven, are you, because it's too early? It's still pitch black outside, 6.40 in the morning, but just pulled into the club car park and we've got a main training session today. So up and out of nice and early and we're off on a flight to Sydney tomorrow. Yeah, very, very busy, very focused. Can I make comment and I thought it was almost your best game for the year on the weekend? Yeah. Yeah, close to, yeah, I wanted to respond after the Western Mortals game, obviously, because of faith here, we've lowered our colours. And I've been in and out of formal all year, haven't really been able to play consistent for you. So, hopefully I can do that in the back end of the year. I want to know, can I just offer you for a second, who's at the club right now at 6.40? Are you waiting for someone to open the gate? Or do they give you a special key? No, we've all got our wristbands that get us in, but make it a fair crew that get in nice and early. There's a crew that go in and do an ice bath to start their day. Any brochures got a little crew that do that and then there's a big bunch of us that like to get some touched on at 7 a.m. So, heaps of guys are in nice and early. Great stuff. It never be accused of not being diligent and doing your work. Can we ask you about the skipper straight away, obviously, Adam, it was a horrible four. It looked really bad and we now know that he's got a factured arm. You're going to miss him. He's been an absolute, you know, he's been a good life down back this season and last season. Yeah, absolutely. His leadership as well has been extremely strongly here. He's grown into that role, you know, 12 months last year and then the second year have been the skipper this year and the big thing for him has just been his performances on the weekend. Like he's been leading extremely well during the week, but he's been lifting the boisiest of these actions on the weekend. So, he's going to be missed, hopefully he's not able to, I think they're saying around three to four weeks. So, fingers crossed that recovery goes as smoothly as possible and he's back before we know it. I saw a sneaky shot from the change rooms. Did I not see you also had a nice pack on your arm? Yeah. You might have. You don't miss much far out. I just got a little corky in my arm from the Western Bulldogs game that led a fair bit. So, had that compressed and just iced it up for a precaution, but that's no worries at all. Just part of 40. All right, let's move it forward to Sydney. What a huge game. A team that has so many weapons, like two weeks ago, a Marty kicked nine on the weekend. He didn't kick any and they had 11 goal kickers. They have got so many weapons. You don't need to be at your best. It's a true test. You're in the top five at the moment, chance to get into the top four. You know you're capable of beating them. You beat them there last year. It's going to be a huge challenge, but I'm sure everyone's looking forward to it. Yeah, there's a lot of excitement around for this one. I always see the peak of their powers at the moment and have been pretty much unstoppable. The one thing about them is they've been scoring really quickly in patches of games. Like they've had 15-minute patches or 30-minute patches of games where they're just putting teams away by kicking five to ten goals in those periods. Yeah, we need to be at our absolute best. It's going to take a team effort that we had on my weekend and we're going to have to play four quarters of footy, so yeah, what an excitement around the group at the moment to try and get it down. The tag is back. Jago has no doubt about that. It's not something that free of necessarily deployed. Is it something that you have a look at this weekend? Which one of them do you go to? I mean, we talk about Haney, Gordon and Warner, but Robotham is stepping up and being just as dangerous. Do you bother with it? Or is it a matter of you can't stop them or we've got to back the whole team to do it? I think we'll soon have a look at it. We've got our preview today for four main training to go through those sort of scenarios, but yeah, there's a plethora of those guys that you could tag, whether or not we do a team job on them or not, we'll see, but yeah, they've got golden on the outside and we can go and play as an inside mid as well, and then Robotham tends to have a bit of a role on someone, but can win his own footy as we saw on the weekend against the Giants as well, so I'm sure that we'll have some sort of plans in place, but we'll wait and see to find out this morning. Is it something you put your hand up for? That sort of role, maybe you've fit enough, you are as professional as they become. You're always in the best possible condition you can be in. Is that sort of role that you would say I'm up for that, if required? Yeah, absolutely. I'm happy to play anywhere, mate. I'm just wanting to be a part of this team, I think that's something really special about this team. We've got a number of guys who are at an age where they're going to be around for a long time and they're extremely invested and we've got enough talent on all this to do, something special with the added extra of the guys wanting to get the work done, so I'm just keen to be a part of this team for as long as possible and hopefully play my role. If that's tagging someone, then absolutely, I'll put my hand up for that. Can I take you back 12 months then, when you did play in that win against Sydney at 27, eight tackles, you were busy? I understand. What can you recall that sort of role that was 12 months ago? What role you played in that game and has things changed for you personally as a player in that 12 months in regards to your role inside that three-metal turn? Yeah, I would have been playing as an inside mid in that game and now I'm playing as a winger. I can play a different role playing as an outside player, which I haven't done much over my career, but I've really enjoyed it this year. It's been a big challenge for me because I've always been a natural ball hunter, playing as an inside mid and as a wingman, you have to hold outside balance and all those kind of different decisions you have to make in terms of when to go on, when the 40-year-old lay a tackle and when to hold that outside balance, so the guys on the inside can provide that pressure. That's been a challenge for me this year, but I'm really enjoying it. Lots more running up and down that wing compared to as an inside mid. So yeah, completely different roles, but I've been playing in different positions across the season as well. I played a little bit forward, had to help out in the back line a little bit, so just playing a little bit of everywhere, but that's my role in the team and as an experienced head, I can provide that, so I'm happy to do that for the team. Just going to ask you about the surface of Optus Stadium in a moment, because there's been a lot of criticism in the last few days and there's more criticism on Melbourne radio this morning. Jeremy Sharp plays the far wing, so he plays the southern side of the ground and stays out wide in the sunshine, it's good for his tan, you seem to play this side all the time, you don't trade spots. Is there a reason for that? Is that because you more rotate a lot, but you get more rotations and you've got to be closer to the bench and he seems to be on the ground almost 100% of the time. Is that how that plays out? Is that how you pick wings? Yeah, I couldn't work it out at the start of the year, well I shall be one of the staff on that side, but I think it's the reason, he's an amazing runner and he could probably play a full game if required, but he generally gets maybe one or two rotations a half, whereas I'm first and second quarter generally get two rotations and then one in the second and fourth. I'm rotated a lot more and it's just easier to get to the bench, but that's on the side of the stadium in the moment, it's the wing that you want to be on because it's in much better condition than the bench side wing. OK, so tell us a bit about it, what's it like underfoot because we see it, it's not a bit patchy. It doesn't look great, it looks like it's a couple of bad weather and things haven't grown. You're out there, you're running on it, we did see a couple of players slip. Is it not in great nick as a player and do you have to, are you mindful of what you're aware and you're footing the whole time? We're not allowed to wear the old traditional screw-ins anymore, so with the metal studs you can get some plastic ones, but not all boots have those options, so I just generally wear the molded ones and if I do need to wear the screw-ins then I'll wear the plastic ones, but it's just a bit inconsistent to be honest, like some parts of the ground are in really good condition and others not so much, but we aren't using that as an excuse like both teams have to play on the same ground, so there's no advantage to either side. So yeah, that's all, that's all I've said about it. Hey Jacob, there's a guy that played his first game on the weekend and I really like him and I'm on the firm belief that every team, to win a premiership you need to wrangle in your team, it's as simple as that, they just had to go about their footy, but here he looks like a bit, he didn't get a mount of the footy himself, but he didn't get beaten and he did his job extremely well. Got a standing ovation for a spoiler, I think for his spoil the game has changed a little you should have to kick a hundred and go there was some excitement around that on that wing, yeah he's, I think he'll probably end up being a fan favourite, like he's always, he's already sorry a favourite of the locker room, he does the hard stuff and his growth over the last 12 to 18 months as a player and the team has just been outstanding, he's in every morning nice and early, always working on his game and most teams, I know most teams in the AFL have a trademark which the players generally run and some of his trademark efforts on the weekend in the AFL game, we've seen all year in Peel and that's part of the reason why he got the selection, so hopefully he can use this game as a bit of a springboard for the rest of his season and the rest of his career. Looking forward to it, big game for him and the rest of the boys on the weekend against the Sydney Swans and you talk about the trademark, maybe his little brother needs to toughen up a little bit because there was a moment during the game that his little brother, who's a mini me, Dave, he's, don't worry about that, he was receiving a neck massage from his mum, I assume, who was standing behind him during the game, yeah, flashed up on the screen, flashed up on the screen, oh no, geez, was that all that mum, just a couple of minutes on the neck and shoulder thing, that's like you, such a good player. That's funny, well we actually had a, last week we had a father son training day and a few of our old boys came in, I think there was about 24 of them that made it to training and my old man actually did his hammy, but we had a meeting, we had a meeting which the dad set up the back of the meeting room for and I think you, Dave, his my dad was sitting next to you, Dave, he's an old man and he's a, I think he's a lawyer and he works some US hours, so I must have had a late night and he actually fell asleep during the meeting and my old man had like fantastic, nice work, hey mate, appreciate your time, have a good one, enjoy training, get through it unscathed and we'll look forward to the weekend, got to be a huge test for everybody. Thanks, Kelsey, thanks you guys, have a good day, boy. He's a ripper, J Gro, Mira, he's a ripper and I think it's fair to say it was his best game on the weekend, he's had some good