TYLER: Big week guys, always a massive week with the transition between codes at the end of the cricket and the beginning of footy.
Pick up the paper this week it’s 32 pages…
DAVE: Ah ah! 34…
TYLER: Yeah and if you are reading this you’ve already picked up the paper haven’t you. Great start, we’re on the ball today.
BUDDY FRANKLIN
TYLER: First talking point today, the great Budwa, we will start with you Dave and then on to you Lachie… where were you and what were your thoughts when he kicked the 1000?
I personally thought he did really well to not crack the sads, trying to get off the ground with so many people around him.
DAVE: I don’t know if it was just me but through the game it didn’t look like he was going to kick four goals, he didn’t have that much of an impact.
But being the champion that he is, with the pressure of his family – his sister over from the US – and I think that is a sign of who Buddy is, the bigger the stage, the bigger the pressure, some blokes just stand up.
And the goal that he kicked, people were on the ground before it even hit his boot, I don’t know what was going to happen if he missed.
I was at home having a beer on the couch and I was mesmerised by the man. I don’t think it will happen again; Bart Cummings trained 12 Melbourne Cup winners that will never happen again. I think 1000 goals in AFL football won’t happen again either.
TYLER: Well let’s think about it logistically… If you kick 50 goals you’re probably top three in the Coleman and an All-Australian, and to reach 1000 you have to do that for 20 years straight. And that’s 50 from your first season, what do you think, Lachie?
LACHIE: Mine and Tyler’s generation have really only seen 100 kicked once, and Fev kicked 99 on the same night. I doubt that will happen again. But what a moment, I was watching a lot of reactions around the world, they were all mesmerised by how big a deal it was.
What about that ladies’ head that was blocking the camera the whole time? We have 100 cameras at the ground and we pick that one.
DAVE: The producer would’ve woken up feeling sick in the guts on Saturday.
TYLER: We talk about 15 seconds or minutes of fame, credit to that lady, she has nailed it, she has generations of her melon on highlight reels.
But Buddy is my GOAT guys. He is my greatest player of all time. I can go into all the stats, but he is my greatest ever because you have never seen anyone like him before, and you will never see anything like him again. He is a 6’6, 105kg bloke that effectively plays as a small.
DAVE: Mate you know what? I think Gary Ablett senior and Wayne Carey are the greatest players I have seen, but it would be very hard to argue against what you have come up with there.
When you think about Gary Ablett, he was 6”1, athlete and best skills ever, Wayne Carey was just a leader, win games off his own boot, but Buddy is just different isn’t he!
TYLER: This is my argument, with all due respect to the greats, even Gary Ablett junior, freak, one of my favourites, Dusty, best finals player ever, but we have seen them before.
DAVE: Yeah I think midfielders are a dime a dozen, compared to great forwards that is.
LACHIE: Dave you would’ve seen Leigh Matthews play, where does he rank?
TYLER: How old do you think Dave is?
*Lachie and Tyler happy with their own work here*
DAVE: I am used to you two unintentionally hanging sh*t on me about my age.
Lethal was past his prime when I saw him, he was more a forward, but some days he would kick 11 or nine, 5”11, built like a tank.
TYLER: We get a lot of feedback with Let’s Talk Sport so I want either some verbal feedback at the footy this weekend or some social media messages about who the readers GOAT is.
But we will move on, to another GOAT, a GOAT of female sport, Ash Barty – great segue Tyler.
ASH BARTY
TYLER: The Barty Party called last drinks during the week.
Lachie, I will start with you, does your legacy improve or grow if you call it quits before slowing down, retiring at the peak of your powers?
LACHIE: She has won the Aus Open, the US Open and Wimbledon, what else can you do?
You win it multiple times you become a multiple winner, but when do you go ‘hang on a second, it’s time to start playing AFLW for Richmond’. She does play golf off scratch too.
DAVE: That is where I am going with this.
TYLER: You have said this before, Dave.
DAVE: I am tipping Ash Barty – she stopped playing tennis for a little while and started playing at her local club and won the club championship – if I am Karrie Webb I am starting to shake in my boots a little about being the GOAT Aussie golfer.
But my first thought was ‘I am not surprised’. She just seems like a young lady that is switched on; tennis doesn’t define who she is as a person. That is what sport should be, something you do but not something that determines who you are.
TYLER: Completely off the cuff here. Give me someone that will retire early, I have always felt that Nat Fyfe will disappear into the wilderness, Elysse Perry another one, I am getting bad vibes about Dusty at the moment.
DAVE: Just took the words out of my mouth.
What about a Joe Daniher?
*Lachie agrees*
TYLER: That’s a bit different!
DAVE: A couple years ago I thought he didn’t really care, but I think he has changed a bit, if he came out tomorrow and said ‘I am gone’ I wouldn’t be surprised.
LACHIE: With Dusty, he wins three flags, three Norm’s, a Brownlow… what else is there?
Soccer player’s right, they win everything and think ‘if I don’t win a World Cup I am not satisfied’, they have the hunger to go another four years, there isn’t that in AFL.
In Play Station terms…Dusty has almost clocked the game.
DAVE: You just don’t know how big of an impact his dad has had on him, how much did he play and drive himself to play for his dad? He was going through some tough times; he might not have that anymore.
He has played one game of footy without his dad, maybe it wasn’t as fulfilling as it once was.
TYLER: We better get into some local angles, cricket grand finals; I want to know where you were.
LOCAL CRICKET GRAND FINALS
TYLER: Lachie might’ve had a nice little break, Dave… DDCA finished last week and Southern not started; he might’ve had the weekend off!
Where were you Dave?
DAVE: I had the perfect weekend, I got up on Saturday morning, played golf and then went off to the cricket – it was perfect.
I went to Tooradin to watch the Premier grand final between Tooradin and Cardinia. It was an absorbing game of cricket, Tooradin batted first, were held up by Cardinia, 3/90 odd off 30 overs.
Tooradin had two young blokes – Sutton and Butler – who have come in and got them out of trouble a few times this year. Sutton failed so it was up to Butler to deliver and he did, made 46 off 29 rocks, and got them up to 160.
Tooradin bowled beautifully, Russ Lehman, we have mentioned him a couple times in Let’s Talk Sport.
TYLER: Yeah he is a regular.
DAVE: He made 50 off about 83 balls, held the innings together and then got the key wicket of Alex Nooy and then Trav Wheller, both caught in the slips by the skipper Cal O’Hare. Was tough for Cardinia to win from that moment forward, Russ was a clear man of the match.
He cuts the ball both ways, I asked him after the game how he does it… said he wouldn’t have a clue!
He just bowls seam up and lets the ball do the rest.
TYLER: Simple game cricket! Lachie, what was your weekend like?
LACHIE: I was at a bit of VSDCA, Endeavour Hills in the seconds. I caught a bit of trade wind for next season as well…
*Tyler and Dave get excited*
TYLER: Bit of a pointer to Cricket Snicks?
LACHIE: Yeah there might be a little riddle in there for the readers… what about yourself, Tyler?
TYLER: I was at Springvale South for the Turf 1 grand final. It was chaos early in the Buckley Ridges’ innings, it was three for four. And there were some fielders and bowlers up and about at a couple of wickets, absolute scenes when Mahela Udawatte snicked off.
Bloods first flag in 11 years, but there are few recruits in the door at Buckley though. Jerome Jones straight back after a year or two off and DJ Watson, top five Turf 1 players ever, made 193 not in a twenty-20 once, he is back too.
But this Saturday guys… it’s BACK!
LOCAL FOOTY
TYLER: Where are you going to go and what are you looking forward to most?
DAVE: I am just looking forward to going to the ground and smelling the pies and potato cakes. I can’t wait to experience that.
*Lachie and Tyler in stitches*
Nar Nar Goon v Bunyip during the day and then on Saturday night I have been invited to Tooradin, they have the top 25 of the last 25 years, then on Sunday to top it off we have Cora Lynn hosting Phillip Island.
TYLER: For the readers out there, we have a Friday morning meeting and your much better half always Zoom bombs it on her way to work, is that goodbye the last she will see of you this weekend?
DAVE: Yeah cya darl, I’m off to work!
TYLER: Lachie, where will you be?
LACHIE: I will be at Springvale for Springvale Districts v Cranbourne. I just hope it is raining…
*Dave and Tyler cautious about where this is going*
You know when you watch local footy and have the wipers going in the car…? I feel like that is quintessential local footy.
You hear the toots for Marc Holt’s goals and I will just give one on Dave’s behalf this week!
TYLER: I will be at the Narre v Pakenham opening game and that function, under lights, geez that will be good!
DAVE: Lachie if you’re in the car all game with the wipers on, make sure you turn your car over because I am tipping the RACV will be getting a lot of calls at 4:30 this week. Takes a while for people to remember about flat batteries.
TYLER: Good call Dave, and for us three, we all have smallish cars, don’t overestimate your cars ability to get out of the ditches.
And that goes for the readers too, if you think it’s going to battle on a wet decline… don’t do it!
DAVE: I will get bogged this year; the Toyota Camry Hybrid is in for some trouble this year I think. Nearly got bogged at Tooradin on Saturday…and it was dry!
TYLER: Lachie, if Dave calls you at 4:30 this Saturday, send it to voicemail. We are not pushing his car.
Well that is Let’s Talk Sport this week, if you are reading this you are already enjoying the 34 pages of sport, but tell your friends to grab the Gazette this week!
