Brad Green Joins Robbo and Davo - On Demand

well oh I went away I went to Hamilton Island and then I went to Apollo Bay and holiday much yeah to the kids away and um well Melbourne was away last week weren't they holiday everyone was at the G but Melbourne weren't there so well I might as well have been away as well it's the classic let's put that one be H us fellas yeah move on move on quick it's our fault they lost cuz we didn't do an episode exactly so they win this week I know wa it's a buy it threw them from their their normal routine yeah they normally would watch us listen to us get inspired get on the ground and yeah let's do this hey I enjoyed doing the podcast from David n's Rooftop Bar fantastic it is so good there so much so that we're going to do it again um we're looking at the Richmond Anzac Eve game so that's a Wednesday night next week next Wednesday so if you're in the area and you should be cuz it's going to be a huge night hopefully we get some really good weather but it doesn't matter cuz need's put some new new uh retractable RS into his Rooftop Bar BR manity um get down there he's just ordered in these fire pits or the heers as well so David your rainard is going to be fine oh yeah I've got problems with that well we're going to have greeny on tonight and need looks after fire and things so if we've got fires going on he can come down too he would have done all of that for Nita's Pub made sure it's fire so Wednesday okay so Wednesday next week the night before and that game it's Melbourne Richmond Richmond home game at the G so it's an away game for us so hopefully we can get you all down to Dave's David NS Pub it's really great there we'll have some music as well after our podcast and we'll do a little bit of a bit of a chat from there before the game and maybe maybe halim as well so we're putting last week's game behind us it wasn't anything wonderful to talk about there wasn't I don't think there was any highlight any highlights really there was one goal at the start of the game that I thought was pretty impressive to level the scores at 13 all he went downhill from there Colton Colton was uh I think if it was a different opposition and Brisbane were playing like they did before North Melbourne played him into form the week before he would have been really really good yeah brisman looked pretty good yeah well hey Mel Melbourne and Brisbane Brisbane have got the wood on Melbourne I'm telling you each time apart from that the year they won the Grand Final 2021 yes they went up to the gab and won that game and that one was we beat them remember famously mam kicks that goal at the end of the game at the MCG so I was on my way home I thought they'd lost we've had some decent hits against them one of my great Mates is Brad green um came out of Tasmania U the north not the Northwest the north of Tasmania neon in Georgetown that way um as a really talented Sportsman um spent some time in England just like your goodself but he was there not for a work uh he was there for Manchester United as one of those did you watch the Beckham um documentary you know how he was there as a very young man and they groomed them through greeny told us that was him he did that as a probably a 14 15 year old he was cleaning the boots for all the super stars of the team back then how do you go from Tasmania he was that good jeez Manchester United got him over and he deed he decided didn't like it and came back tried Cricket on the weather was crap then you're from Tasmania no it was pretty much bang on the same yeah uh cricket he was very good at that as well probably could have done that as his sporting pathway but chose football cuz he was really really talented and we saw those talents in the red and the blue and weren't we lucky to have him he was absolutely F good great guy great leader and we've got him on the show in fact he's here now should we get him on we probably should let's do it all right did well to Milani to syvia 55 M out giving it a floats towards the opposite pocket in Green in freem manal I don't know here's Scully getting back to Melbourne they've got some winable games coming up green running in the same direction ah look at that that's Carriage that's what you want from your captain you got Sten Martin you got Brad green both eyes on the ball that's fantastic he wants it in long and high I think Morton's going to go and kick to Jara big fly and green yes he's kicked four the great man Brad Green joins us on a very M podcast uh it doesn't get much better D does it I don't think so you know well if you weren't here it might be better or maybe not to for for a Melbourne supporter that'd be loving this H thank you thanks uh thanks for having me we've got the added bonus of having you because you're not not only are you an ex player and champ and and everything to the midd football club you're also a board member now current board member it's a uh it's four years Rob do you ever think when you f for should be on the board little kid from Georgetown in Tasmania coming over and uh hopefully was just hoping to play a game let alone uh you know play the uh play 12 13 years what I did and then yeah currently on the board so have to put a series cap on all of a sudden sit on the board so mate that's it's bit happening but um it's been a busy time but no I enjoy it it's what a great Club to be a part of at the moment it's say uh I I was having a conversation with someone the other day about our train training complex that we have that they call to the standards that we used to have and I said just the difference that we we had compared to what the players have got now you know we've got Casey um we're doing the feasibility study at corfield um and what they that's going to be like but I was literally saying that we didn't have enough our ice machine broke down one day and 40 our high performance coach literally goes to us boys text message you got to bring a kilo of ice cuz our ice machine had broken down and we had to fill out literally bars just to get in all all the bins you know the Big Green bins that household bin that we have 40 BLS brought a bag of ice to the club stop past 7-Eleven and pick up a bag of ice what are we playing here we're not coming from Georgetown in Tessy we're playing highi footy did you claim that on tax I did that's like a good mck mold housee story four Buck for an ice a bag of ice but you know someone like Nathan Brown doggy Brown who play our Nathan Brown he would do he did that every night anyway didn't he he would drive home literally and buy couple of bags of ice fill up his bath at home he had to CU he had one of those bodies but he was so regimented like that now and it's so coincidental that you say that because I was just at The Foundry which is around the corner from here in Morin sheltonham it's one of those uh and it is so professional and it's the opportunity for any person to do what an AFL player does and it's phenomenal I went out to casy Fields the other day to have a look at what they got out there mate it is oh it's look it's a uh it's first class and and we're probably going to be the first AFL Club to have two two separate sites one one because you need it now because you're looking at you got aflw you got you got the men's program you got the vfl program you got vflw need all these grounds so in the end there two complexes are going to sort of mirror each other and and be be helpful uh in the long run I reckon we what what do you mean to obviously we we know we've got um gosh's Paddock and and everyone that lives in the CD which is the melbour Heartland a lot of Melbourne supporters in around you know uh yo around the yo and turak and where are we going to have this place talked about it for 20 years yeah and it's and it's still it's still not over the line yet and I'm probably speaking a little bit out of school here but it's um we are doing a feasibility study at the corfield race course at the moment to basically um prel our whole program and and ever since I've been Al line with the Melbourne football club and what's that 25 years we've never had our ad admin staff if you're looking at you know your Mark um your CEOs your exec team your Finance Finance the sales all those guys the membership Department have never been in the one one building as as our football Department no one every other club is all it's all one club and sometimes that's why we're so separate with a lot of things what's going on and hopefully um it's been a long time coming that we can get this over the line so that we're doing a feasibility study and really tick this off it's not over the line yet but we're getting there and and hopefully we can have that um look in the next sort of 6 to 12 months done not finished done but feasibility and all all the uh all the ticks and Crosses that you need to to go ahead and make it happen DAV it's not like the West Coast Eagles who have for a long time been in the one place where it's so easy so if somebody from marketing or membership wants to I don't know talk to someone in the football Administration they do have to walk a little way across the road I mean you can send an email but it's not that touchy Fey sort of place like it's probably bad bad saying it's you're not close enough to actually just yell out and have that conversation and it's it's important look when when you're walking into and I've done it at a few other clubs you can just walk basically the football Department's got the hoer downstairs Caron and North Melbourne yeah North Melbourne is once I finished and finished playing at at Melbourne I was assistant coach at carton for 3 years and did two at North Melbourne now what was that like tell me about Caron uh look I used to be uh a Caron supporter growing up as a kid and U barck for the blue is pretty pretty heavily ni coming on in the 80s and 90s and they going well back then um but but yeah it was um you know one working with Mick mouse in their coaching Department um Crossing basically 20 2012 I retired straight into 2013 straight into um the coaching World um what a what a fantastic football club and an organization they are they got powerful supporter base um powerful members and sponsors and um you know they're they're in a sanctum I think they're konian or whatever they they call themselves very powerful people of the organization so yep fantastic but but the the question really I should ask is having it all in one place the training facility is Elite we can see it it gets better is is the administration right there with yeah so they had the administration and the football Department all in one but I think it's even better now because since I've left they've done the the whole indoor kicking Center the uh I think the aflw program is next door so it's basically all in the one integrated big big big Warehouse big uh you know that takes up half of izy park I think so that's what we're looking at um and it has taken too long um to find but where do you find 15 20 acres in Melbourne it's you know we want to be Melbourne we are Melbourne we have got the name are the Melbourne Football Club home of the MCG and it's hard to find that space of land anywhere in Melbourne because people take it up they want to buy it so kwood out we had the opportunity way back when I think it was Joe goodnik was at the time and B said we couldn't afford it um so we had the chance to get that we the first ones offered it um but we didn't do it so granny we got money there we got money in the bank now don't we we sold the Bentley club we got cash yeah I mean no no the clubs we're not in debt which is fantastic I remember back in when I was playing you know you're looking at 12 $15 million of debt that's all been wiped off um you know you're looking at our financials where we're we're hitting 2 or 3 million um you know in profit most years um it helps when you're winning games of 40 and and playing finals and different things but you know we got a membership of you know 70 75,000 members huge number I remember when we were lucky to play in front of 7,000 people at the MCG when it's cold and wet on a Sunday but members now turn up and watch us it's it's fantastic interesting I did go to a Freo game and watched you guys play and I reckon there was 500 people might have been hailing that day you had a win though which was good we were uh pretty ordinary if you look at what we've got now and what other clubs have got now you do look back a little bit and go wow we were so far behind and look not all clubs were as good you know back then as well North Melbourne were you know famously a really ordinary uh organization out of Arden Street until Collingwood was Collingwood wasn't a big Club you know I think it all changed when Eddie came along and they really you know they they weren't profit profitable all as an organization and he really grew their brand and um the organization the football club grew with with numbers with him and we've been a little bit the same with our success we're growing and we're only getting better and it's been a it's been a long road but we do have a supporter base that is a little bit older in demographic you would say um and we've got the younger generation coming through with with the success that we're we're hopefully having and we we need to bring generation of of supporters through and it's hard because you look at the cartons the Richmonds the Hawthorns the tinin they've got generation of flags and if Mom and Dad go for them and they're seeing success that's how you um that's how you get the kids along as well they all want to they all want to back winners you go to the school grounds they all want to be Associated their mates don't want to be with any losers but also I think Granny it's like we have always had good players in Melbourne and guys that you could Gary Ling to Steven Tingo and the Jim Stein they players that were really really good even neita when we played Jeff farmer the superstars there without the success then you get now your max Gorn types and Christian petrer and Jack vanie and guys that are really elite players in the AFL winning close to winning Brown Low's um you know all Australians they'll be you know they'll be Hall of Famers in years to come of our football club no doubt you know you know Clayton Oliver W four might go down as winning five or six by the time he finishes be close to the goat uh at the Mel football club there's there's well there isn't any what is it there's only couple of them that won for BFS if he wins another one he's on the pedestal by himself yeah unbelievable and still plenty of time to go yeah so it's look it's a it's a good thing being a Melbourne supporter we love the MCG being our home ground and it's a uh we're a big club now um and that's probably why the media coming for us how does it take how long would it take for you to do the feasibility study and like if you're a member now and you're thinking okay new training facility and having the club all together in the one facility how long does that take to bring to fruition oh it takes years but you you're looking at a generation of um you need sustained success and and that doesn't come overnight and you need to be a a club that either you you're winning games you come through with your family and or you you come you're new to Melbourne and you want to pick a team we're hoping that people choose Melbourne because we we are the city we are the name and our colors are pretty good you know red and blue is not too bad to choose you're not picking brown or yellow I got some Danish friends and my wife's a big Melbourne supporter so she was just straight away there you go there's your Melbourne scarf come to the game with us so makes it an easy s and it's not bad seeing MCC if you want to with our supporters and you know even the ones on the outer the you know the demon Army behind the goals they great people they're great I've met so many different supporters in all spectrums of life um coming from Tasmania to Darwin to W way and um our supporter base is now not what you think it's it's totally changed and it's great to see um people that are passionate Melbourne supporters which is fantastic tell me about your first year when you came to me we want to hurry this along because I think you've got a few meetings to get to as well tonight uh yourself uh you come to Melbourne in 2000 2000 was first year first year I'd already had a couple of years at the club 97 I arrived and we had like three or four young kids that came through that year and you knew straight away these guys are going to be good we and I reckon we all lift it we're like wow we got some real young talent coming in it's important and you're feeling that at the moment with Harley Reed over there in the west coast Eagles and on the back of him players are starting to lift aren't they I mean let's be honest it's one game it's one game but it's one game but it's confence big difference is a huge thing you got older guys like OT all of a sudden going actually I better stand in the right position in the um Center bound setup and actually give myself a chance whereas weeks before he was just getting it completely wrong so and the thing with kids is there's there's no expectation they can go out there and just play yeah where um senior players have been around for a long time they got expectation they have to stand in the right spot you know there's game plans now that you need a University degree to understand yeah and some of they're not very smart some of them was that wasn't it was like back when we first started Greening I told just go ahead and play son didn't you guys do that there was a period where you won a whole heap of games in a row by playing a real unorthodox Style with I remember uh in 2000 um I made my debut round to 2000 and I think it was about round 10 we got beaten by Caron by about 110 points and Neil came into the change rooms after the game absolutely give it to us like no tomorrow and from that point we didn't lose a game until Grand final day we went on this big run so it was about it it was the cats and then carton two massive losses then we went away down down I think it was down the coast one of those places and and we had a night or two together and we had meetings and we talked about it and we just lightened the load a little bit and we came back and we were just on five from it was unbelievable I reckon a few times probably three or four times went in at 3/4 time and we're down by 15 20 points but we had this belief that in the last quarter no matter what position we were in that we would always run over him I don't know what 40 did with that jungle juice or whatever used to the potion it was but we had this Fitness um I investigate it was it was it's but what it is um it whatever it is it's it's either a mindset we we probably weren't fitter than anyone but we believed in each other no matter what position that we're in that we're going to keep coming we had um the mental toughness or the the capability or the legs or the belief that we're going to keep coming and we did we won games by coming from behind and and we always would win them and the highlight of that davo was against Carlton in the semifinal the one of the most I think it's probably one of the most if not the most famous victory for the mid football club I showed you the footage of that Bradley's kicked four goals in a half in that game along with his mate Cameron Bruce they just tore it up but they you just see young fresh face kids just like how good's this round on the MCG against the blue bag L and I still believe it was was my favorite game to play in the loudest I've ever heard um a crowd you know we had 75 80,000 there and literally that second half we're getting pumped in the first half like we'll know well and uh and Neil literally threw the magnets around and we changed it up and but he said just take the game on I still remember the speech at 34 time he said wheel and go used to love say you get a forward to Center just wheel and go someone will create something in the forward line because if you play Slow stagnant footy um your ball movement is uh is not flowing all I remember he just said uh keep it flowing keep it flowing and and move the ball I'm fascinated by how you lost by 110 and then you didn't lose a game for the rest of the year was it the coaching influence was the team or just going we we got to give it a shot yeah he lose by 110 points you know 12 weeks ago and then in the final you're down by 30 and you get up over the line it's a yeah the the answer or the question is I actually don't know what what was the change you can only speculate um it it's it like I said to you before the weight and the heaviness of expectancy to do well cuz 98 we were fantastic and then in 99 I think we're pretty ordinary we want getting better in 2000 and it got to the middle part of the year when it gets pretty heavy it's cold and you you know you're getting a little bit tired there's no breakes like there is sort of now and the recovery wasn't like it is now and you you feel something small becomes big and for us it just became huge and two big clubs at the time to North Melbourne and carton gave us a good spanking and I think that meeting that we had down let's just say it was sento or something like that the shackles are off now you you know that was no good you're no good you know might as well just go out and play and then we did we came out and played like absolute crazy idiots until the end of the year but we we played with a hopeful abandoned it's interesting you say he threw the magnets around he threw 21 magnets around he didn't throw he left one magnet in one place that day me on the bench I did something in I reckon the first quarter I was playing on Simon Bowmont who you got I think after that and I think I may have let Simon just get the ball and get past me and I'm didn't really sort of wake up to what was going on quick enough then you didn't take my papers were stamped and that ass is not going back on the field today and I didn't it's amazing though when you back in the day cuz I I reckon I spent a lot of time on the pine in that first year or two because rotations weren't a thing if you're sitting on the pine at the start of the day you know you're not getting on until about halfway through the second and you might come on for Wizard for giv him five or 10 minutes break that's literally what it was like you play your first 20 40 games literally playing 20 minutes to 40 minutes of football rotations now you're doing 160 rotations you're on and off you're doing five to 10 minute spurts back then you're on the pine you are on the pine and you putting you know the big gowns you put on and then you go I'm running past the the coach's box so can you throw me on I'm ready to get out of play he did it with a smile on his face I would have given the big stink eyes I'm going past sh was it even back then the trainer telling you to go for a run or were you just going for running the I'm ready I'm ready you knew you know seven to 10 minutes you better go up and have a bit of a joke in case you need to go go on and we're like we're we're not going on you know we're not going on you got Jeff arber and Schwarz and N out there we're doing star jumps just notice us I'm warming up it literally was it was so weird like you think now and you go oh my God did we we acting like that was like the old socker soccer sub you know you were subbed number 14 on change on for number 18 or what a lot of ways though now it's really good because if you if you play Bad in the first six minutes and say your first rotation is six minutes and most midfielders would rotate after 6 minutes before it's probably a little bit longer I don't know but you you knew that if you going you're going to go off you know now you're going to go off but you're going to go back on because it it the way the game's played now and the science of energy and you know keeping the energy up here and not fluu you have to go back on back then you were stressed he didn't get a kick I didn't get a kick I'm get no did I don't want to miss and you know invariably when you think like that pink elephants you don't do well and you miss so they say oh Ro's a confidence player yeah I'm a confidence player cuz I'm freaking coming off but get a kick back remember our first sort of first four years I reckon are the time where you don't feel comfortable being a senior player I re was every Wednesday or Thursday that on our day off that come 4:00 if you get past 4:00 and Neil hasn't given you a phone call you knew you were in the S so it was on the day off you go I just got to get past 4:00 and you were like this all day is he going to call me watch clock the longest Days of Our Lives so the call is you're out not the call is you're in three times it would be you're staying on WE we' we've had a you probably getting an inkling of what's Happening either way but you know we'll give you call and let you know that that type of conversation we'll call you after we've done selection blah blah blah but you get through that 4:00 time frame on the day off or whatever it was I've got through another one and you and he and he'd say like something like this I wanted you in but the rest of the coaches had you out so I G had to go with a [ __ ] NE didn't that much didn't that much in my career I know that's you a couple of times I got called yeah once or twice but I was with people sometimes out on the golf course and they would get the phone call CU you know we're playing golf on our day off or something and we're all seeing around who's going to get the call who's going to get this call this four o00 yeah it was look it's great memories so you know being part I think one thing you do miss when you retire is you know being with 40 45 players every day and people really don't understand a change room banter and being around with 40 to 45 mates you know being I'm as I am now being in the in the workplace it's totally different the real world the office you know an office environment vers being around a footy club and the banter and the the fun you can have it's a fun environment and it's hard no doubt there's a lot of hard work and a lot of grind um when it's losing it sucks there nothing worse but it really is people take it for granted and nearly got to treat it like it's it's gold once you're in that environment you don't want to let go of it oh it was in my nightmare was the day I get delisted I literally feared it like death that call I would have nightmares about it and go oh my God I dreamed last night I got delisted that's the honest truth up until probably 3 4 years left to go and then I didn't really mind you know sort of go well that's pretty good you know I love this and I don't want to go and I'd love to be like you know what Scott pendlebury is now and going into my 20th year but that's not the reality for even that that's you gave my God I look back and and you played 254 and I'd hate to do it again you look you know playing do you get that people say do you wish you could do it all again I'm like no not well I do but I don't cuz I I don't know how I do it you get you get on the train track and you just go to the next station you just keep moving and you keep making your way forward and you keep getting better but you think back and you go I don't know how I'd do it or what I would do or where I'd start now people say you know but you didn't get the premier ship would you do you wish you could go back and do it well of course you want premierships of course I wanted to win 13 years 13 premierships that would have been amazing but you've got to be really lucky cuz there's some guys and those Hawthorne dudes they all got like oh you're a superstar you got premierships he was also really lucky he got drafted into a group at the right time in the Premiership clock we it wasn't the right time for us you know it just didn't happen to us I want to move on from that I want to talk to you about your post football tell us a little bit about what you're doing now work-wise other than being a director of the M football club yeah so I'm managing director of a a company called gmh fire and safety Australia so we're a service rectification um installation business in the fire safety game so what what is that people who still say um every commercial residential property from a shopping center down to a coffee shop to warehouses to pubs need um esm reports so Essential Safety maintenance um compliance Insurance checks all those so I'm in that space so let's say you've got a a coffee shop or let's say dresser um you might have a a fire extinguisher and a a fire blanket and some emergency exit lighting so what what we do uh we're compliance Checkers we come in and check those things there if you haven't got any sprinkler systems fire panels anything like that they're they're monthlies but these things are every six months so we've got a property probably a property portfolio of about 2 and a half 3,000 properties that we look after um and yeah every literally everything from a shopping center down to a coffee shop um and now we're we're in uh the installation so we we're working with um developers in um and building tow houses and put putting sprinkler system tanks um hydrants hoses um all in brand new warehouses and Tow houses now so I I MD that I've got uh sort of seven or eight full-time cars on the road um we contract in another six or seven that come in depending on our work um and how much we got going so yeah it's um bit of fun I've been doing it sort of five or six years um looking after staff is challenging it's a bit like looking after your own kids um and managing those because when you were the captain of the midd you talk you talk to them literally as your staff um and you sit there and listen and there and everyone's not perfect I'm not perfect we' all got issues going on in our lives and you know there some stories out there that you've got to sit down and listen and work with your people that you've got um yeah it's rewarding and I enjoy it I've really enjoyed my transition into the real world as people want to say it um and yeah it's sort of it's been great because I had a couple of challenging news it's a good message that you say uh you know looking after your people and listening to them that's that's really good everyone like it yeah and everyone has their their [ __ ] in their life now DAV what do you reckon the the the we spend the most money in terms of medically in terms of um looking after our people in Australia all around the world what do you reckon we spend the most money on as in like what does the Medicare system spend what you know all of that what are you saying how we look or well is it you know we're spending is it is it breast cancer research is it is it you know cancer research is it you know what what do we spend the most money the biggest killer in Australia is heart disease heart disease is the biggest killer but and second and actually one of the highest in the world is um toena I nearly couldn't remember what I was talking about was like second what's that you don't really remember what happened oh yeah the forgetfulness yes that's like calling you know you have got learning disabilities let's call it dyslexia you know something really really hard imped instead of just talking a speech BL still a whole show on that what what's your point my point is the the the the thing that I think is the biggest going somewhere with this it's Mental Health right the biggest issue especially it's getting wor now I want to social media does this is why I've got you on greeny I want to because you've never met d a more positive happy person and and I reckon it's probably why you were such a good athlete with not just football with all you were always so positive about what you were doing and post your career you've had some challenges and we're probably the ones that struggled more through those challenges of yours than you did and not to say that you weren't obviously really hurt by those things and and really destroyed by those things how did you work through the death of your wife and your father with this beautiful face still on on your dial it's tough It's not look it's not easy it's um you don't know until you you thrown into the deep end with it but I had a lot of good people I had a lot of friends and family um and connections but in the end you got to look Inward and say the sun comes up tomorrow I got an 8-year-old and I got a 6-year-old boy that has just lost their mom and you go they've they've got to keep moving on with life and you've got to wake up the sun comes up tomorrow and they are waiting for you and looking for answers and hoping that you're going to be positive moving forward and yeah there's some dark days that you got to go but you've got to wake up you've got to be positive life does change and and it did I now I'm fortunate after to have found a partner in in Katie Price um and we've got a 16 week old old boy in Tommy so it's been you know it's been a a quick sort of turnaround in in in certainly heartbreaking um in the grieving process and I'll always grieve I think that will always be with me um you know anyone that's dealt with with a death in the family um never really gets over it I don't think and there's always moments and look i' I'm always mindful of my own children that they're okay cuz I you know it's hard to I think for them it's hard to communicate how they're feeling being so young and now they're maturing into teenagers that's the hardest for them to know that they don't have their real mom cuz cuz we all got I've still got my mom in in my life and my world but majority of their life is they've going to be brought up without their real mom and hopefully Katie has been that motherly figure that they found in their in their world now but you have to be positive otherwise she's a dark old sad world out there that hurts and I didn't do any pyes or any didn't go and see anyone don't take any motion pills or or anything it's just you've got to basically I looked inward where can I change my life and what can I do to help and stay positive and be upbeat and and sometimes it's hard but you just got to get on with it so that's beautiful wonderful and I'm so U blessed to be able to hear it spoken so eloquently in in someone that's gone through it your old man as well you so close to your old man do you lean on your friends at all or have your friends been uh the problem is everyone I don't really know because everyone else has got so much going on we're all busy um and we're all got so much going on in in our lives and um you know I don't I lost well I'm coming up 14 months since dad passed away he had uh leukemia and and died um after 3 years and you know was probably too two to three years post anner um so yeah I I don't you know I miss him every day you know I'm an only child um Dad was a big part of my life and my jyo journey and football career and I think the thing that you miss with with death and losing a close relative is that you just want them to pick up the phone and and hear their voice behind it I think that's the hardest thing you're always waiting um for that phone call or them to walk through the door or the next moment that you might see them um I think it's not going to yeah so that that's always challenging but um you got to keep moving forward there's nothing to look back on that's what I say I love that one D and you can comment uh next because you're sitting there I know you've got stuff you want to say about all of this but with me I have not had anything anywhere near that and my mother she lost her mom and dad when she was in the teenage years which is really important years for a young girl she used to always say to me I well you know when something bad would happen to me I well you know you'll be right nothing's nothing's as bad as G said come on mate get on with it you'll be right and and it taught me well you know that yeah okay right I have to do this myself I have a friend we've got a um a teammate that's um very close friend of ours who sat me down after I went through a divorce which was you know it's not the greatest thing it's not what you want and you move out and your life gets thrown into you're living by yourself in a small little flat for a few years and you go how I fallen so far you know I used to be you know and I I thought I was going in this direction which is what you just said I thought I was going in this Direction all of a sudden I'm doing this and this is not what I want to be doing and this is awful I'm miss my son I don't know how this is all going to work and you go through dark days but you you don't want to lean on your friends cuz you don't want to bring them down you don't want to you don't throw on else you know it's hard for their lives as well and your mates would say Noah talk to me please I know that but us BLS and me I was like no I I'm get out there you know hey what's going on man and everything's good and then be back home like this is terrible and literally one of that my teammates sat me down after I sort of came through the other side and in with tears in his eyes tears running down his face he said he apologized for not asking how I was and helping because he was going through his own struggles and and and and he just felt really bad that he knew what I was going through but he didn't do anything about it and he was apologized I like it's all good mate I love you it's all good I you know if anything feel really empowered and strong now that I was able to come through that and and be better but mate I've never met a stronger character than this one because I didn't know it when our playing days I saw you know it's just greny you know just greny from tazzy which is tazzy boys but this is shown me the whole other you know way I mean just of strength and I think IM mature too you know sometimes you're still like a little kid playing your footy club and going through adversity I think you grow up a bit too and you mature on your life and and I think you find out a little bit more about yourself that life's life's tough but it's not that bad it's okay we still here you know we still got your life we still got things that we can do and and move forward to that no matter what what troubles or what problems we're in we can like I say to say to my boys is that the biggest thing that I always say to them is show respect but never lie to me cuz no matter what you do in life murder to the end degree to have I stole a pencil off my m at school and you don't own up to it there's nothing worse than a liar in this world and even if you murder someone at least we can find a lawyer that can help you you know what I'm saying is tell the kid and we can help you and and deal with it let's deal with these things head on rather than be back room chat and manifestor and and sit there behind the behind the Behind the Walls where we can't do anything about did you learn that through the footy club like I was just wondering like is this the hard things that you've been through as a result of having to do hard things for a long period of your life yeah I reckon I did I reckon AFL footy and being in Elite Sport and Elite programs teach you resilience and I think that doesn't that comes over sustain years I don't think that comes in one or two it comes over a long period of time because you to do what Robo and I did to play at AFL footy there's always someone coming to try and get your spot or there's a new kid on the block or there's the training that I got to get up to I'm sore and I can't tell anyone I'm sore but I got to get up and do it or I'm playing with a broken finger and my fingers are busted and you just got to get out there and play all that over time I think actually teaches you resilience you are going through adversity but you'll be right you you can get out there and play and you can get through things that are you know you might have have a bit of a sniffle or a broken bone here or there to a to a degree that you will get through it and you can do it so yeah I reckon I did learn resilience through through playing A40 no doubt I learned something really quick in at football clubs it's instant feedback usually isn't it like I think anywhere else in life you don't usually get instant feedback back to when Tingo pinned you down and pulled your pubes out in your mouth that was instant feedback literally most most men most men doesn't have pubes anymore it's all we actually have pubes then uh no instant feedback you know where you stand um know out in the real world we keep saying the real world you can probably you know cuz you're not living your dream you're just living doing your job and you've got options you know with us there was no other options but to fight every single day and you do live through pain or whatever I don't know where I was going with that because you absolutely thrown me but uh we've got to get you out of here because you've got an event to get to uh but granny that's been absolutely phenomenal and I'd love to talk more about it come back again I want to say so with the passing of your wife I was overseas but um and I'm sorry about it but but it was funny what you said about your kids because when we went to the football my wife's a big Melbourne supporter and used to drag me to see you guys play even though I was a West Coast Eagle supporter but it was really easy to get a drink at the bar and um we get access to a lot of the facilities and um Turned out with our young girls we would stand with her actually and our kids would used to play together and um and your little boys would' be there and kicking the ball around and you know my wife would get talking and you know he goes oh who's that on your jump on he goes oh that's my dad and then you know you're out on the ground and so yeah I just think as you think through how you deal with those things for you to be thinking I immediately when I heard I went oh my God the kids and for you to be able to be selfless enough to be able to go I need to raise my kids is brilliant Brant it's it's a little bit foreign that you're not divorced from your wife my my kids I haven't got them week on week off or five days on fire it's literally their fulltime with me as a single parent and that's a little bit different to um so yeah you you are their world they don't know anything else and um but Anna would want me to to bring them up like we we were spoken about um and that's what we're doing we're giving him hopefully a good life and um and a happy one yeah awesome brilliant there's so much so much more we can talk about' got a short show and we're going to get you back on but let's go through the bang on uh game for this week which is uh tonight uh the game is tonight it's isn't it Friday game what's the Friday there a Thursday night Thursday night game we got Fridays bang on so it's okay but anyway we have got a game tonight Secura Bulldogs who you going for uh I hope be gets it done and gets it gets a win for the doggies I think the Saints are probably win I just oh that's good you ugle Hagen's out yeah it's a big out it's a big out they're under a bit of pressure the boogs AR they they are very yeah I think sink kilder yeah okay bang on his Adelaide big game over in the over in Adelaide I think coming off the win last week I think the crows can get it done again I think they have to win yeah we'll move through quickly Collingwood coming back after a break P had a heavy heavy campaign they're going really well on they are the mcgs I'm assuming I actually might go with Port actually yeah me too me too I have to go calling with do you I just can't see how they I just can't see it lot of tips this going for Colwood yeah I think they have to rebound a Premiership team has to rebound they were nearly beaten by hor on last game I'm going for Port thank [Laughter] you he's not not easy it's not easy to change whis you how many n had Caron gws another great at Marvel yeah look I'll just I think the Giants just you know they're super form their efficiency at the moment is abil their ball movement and some of the the style of play that they're playing I think the Giants get it done yeah I'm going to go Giants too too they just I think they learned something last week you got to play four quarters against the Saints they didn't they got a little B Saturday's a cracker as wellu yeah it's up there so just got off the my friend cam Bruce just on the way here mate Chris [ __ ] he said how' we go last week I said you flogged us didn't you yeah shut up yesy you guys didn't mention that actually it was a really flat game by mour it was I think we were still on that L we spent the yeah look it was great effort by us to win those two games over there and uh we we stayed over there after five days and got bashed about a bit three games in 13 days is tough um and they had they've got they've been on a break and um they need it they look like they needed it little bit of reality I think you know this should be completely out of it the so I I think I just I think the lines get it done at home me too but cats were in good form oh should be CRA game they are in good form but it's up there I well if it wasn't for brisban beating Melbourne I would have said jalong for sure but they be but they didn't so I'm going for a draw okay draw West Coast the Eagles mate we are coming into the E there that's uh mck they're foo's been I reckon the surprise packet this season their defense is Rock solid you know they they're the number one defense in the league at the moment they're averaging I think only 60 odd points a game so they're you know the other way they're struggling to score but they're not they're not getting scores kicked against so just by those numbers I think the Dockers get it done well done I agree I completely agree actually I don't think I mean fro should have beaten Caron in that game that was a pretty it per Boy originally yeah I grew up in Perth what a great City my partner Katie's a Perth and I love it absolutely the beach is that's why I've got no shoes on Mozzy her parents are in Mozzy Park so that's oh yeah I us still grow up there good part of the world with the river and the cot Beach over the back I bet you I know her um going I'm going over to per this year for a while City Beach I can't I'm in I'm on the way back from New York but if we can I go yeah yeah do it instead of me let's get through this uh Sydney Suns I think this is a a good game uh I think both teams are very similar at the moment syy started well Co it is what's in Sydney small ground i' go to swans yeah I i' picked the swans you D I'm going Gold Coast okay we're going to record all this and the last game Who We Are Who point of doing a podcast the who cares cup North versus Hawthorne Hawks for meate Hawthorne has to win the Hawks have to wouldn't surprise me clco get them up being against the old side that North win the game but you would hope Hawks I've got a mid-season bet that the Eagles don't finish with a wooden spoon so I really need Hawthorn to win this one okay go the Hawks I think if anything today we've talked a lot about mental strength and how mental uh Your Capacity to uh you know overcome podcasts right I've come a long way since I labored on this house since the CD you know dealing with thanks for coming on the show granny we've got a signed Russell Robinson higher CD for you look at that the only coffee nice and airbrush isn't it Beau no that's natural why don't you have it here in front of the whiskey yeah I don't want it there get rid of it though you can have that Spotify if anyone wants to listen you can stream it right done that might once I got jump in the car you want to have a good laugh you know it's over overcoming adversity and we talked about those games in the middle of the game in in the middle of the year 2000 we were able to come back and you know anything's possible you just that mental strength and and just forge on every single day just like you have through your adversity gr you're an inspiration to all of us and you're a demon hero Superstar Legend we love you thanks Legend thanks for coming on a very cheers buddy and that's the end of it see you later see you later yeah let's get the hell out of here it's a short episode tonight it was and that we need to say before you go granny that's yours that's uh the bottle of um I don't know what it is triple grain is it triple grain to be mix with Coke oh you got to drink that straight mate not on the way home be Tasmanian too tasan Tasmanian for two tazzy boys thank you m we'll taste that cool all right [Music] a [Music] [Music]