A long enough interview - even with 3 minutes of blah blah blah from a sponsor. We all love Gawn but I get the feeling he's as well-trained as a politician to stay on message and never blurt anything out.

3 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Without listening to it, what’s the general context?

Don’t really want to listen if it’s politician talk where there’s nothing really said even though something is said.

3 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Yep, Exhibit A 🙂

2 minutes ago, GawnOfTheDead said:

Without listening to it, what’s the general context?

Don’t really want to listen if it’s politician talk where there’s nothing really said even though something is said.

He won some BS award for most valuable tall sponsored by a company that sells tall timber. Everything's new at the club so hes excited about next year. We probably havent developed enough of our youth - if Geelong won the recent GF maybe 14 of their participants would be new premiership players. The league has talented ruckmen and ruckwork evolves. Gawn loves sports, especially cycling - all he can gain from it is improving fitness techniques. He's doing a lot of running at home. Wnen he retires he'll probably run a marathon. My final memory is that Trac and Oliver were such a big part of the club. He's still cloae with them, especially Oliver, but concedes they needed a new start. Hw hopes Oliver regains his form and wins a Brownlow. (So nice enough stuff but hardly "must-listen")

5 hours ago, Go Ds said:

He won some BS award for most valuable tall sponsored by a company that sells tall timber. Everything's new at the club so hes excited about next year. We probably havent developed enough of our youth - if Geelong won the recent GF maybe 14 of their participants would be new premiership players. The league has talented ruckmen and ruckwork evolves. Gawn loves sports, especially cycling - all he can gain from it is improving fitness techniques. He's doing a lot of running at home. Wnen he retires he'll probably run a marathon. My final memory is that Trac and Oliver were such a big part of the club. He's still cloae with them, especially Oliver, but concedes they needed a new start. Hw hopes Oliver regains his form and wins a Brownlow. (So nice enough stuff but hardly "must-listen")

thanks mate.

Funny how no one mentions Trac. Tbh I love it. He must have loved himself so much that everyone else resented him.

38 minutes ago, GawnOfTheDead said:

thanks mate.

Funny how no one mentions Trac. Tbh I love it. He must have loved himself so much that everyone else resented him.

Was it a case of.... 🤔🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

44 minutes ago, GawnOfTheDead said:

thanks mate.

Funny how no one mentions Trac. Tbh I love it. He must have loved himself so much that everyone else resented him.

He mentions Trac in the interview..

6 hours ago, Go Ds said:

He won some BS award for most valuable tall sponsored by a company that sells tall timber. Everything's new at the club so hes excited about next year. We probably havent developed enough of our youth - if Geelong won the recent GF maybe 14 of their participants would be new premiership players. The league has talented ruckmen and ruckwork evolves. Gawn loves sports, especially cycling - all he can gain from it is improving fitness techniques. He's doing a lot of running at home. Wnen he retires he'll probably run a marathon. My final memory is that Trac and Oliver were such a big part of the club. He's still cloae with them, especially Oliver, but concedes they needed a new start. Hw hopes Oliver regains his form and wins a Brownlow. (So nice enough stuff but hardly "must-listen")

Sounds a lot like every interview max has done since trade week...

I think that you hear what you want to hear, he said that he is excited by the changes at the club he enjoys being in the conversation each year as to who is the best big man in the league and hope he can remain in the conversation for the next couple of years. He said that everyone who knows Kingy say’s that he is a ripping bloke. He mentioned seeing Goody at the races and as mentioned he loves Claz and Tracc they will always be premiership heroes, etc but now understands that they need a change. He met the sponsor of the Best Big Man in the AFL competition and was very complimentary about all the Rucks that featured heavily in the competition ( Max was the clear winner racking up 60 votes next best 36). He mentioned that he is now in a heavy running program running around 50 km/week and breaks it up a bit doing some 10k runs and as DS mentioned he wants to run a marathon once he retires.

53 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

He mentions Trac in the interview..

Yep! I did mention that he mentioned Tracc. It wasnt like an acceptance speech at the Brownlow where you mention anyone and everyone. Gawn said he's close with both guys BUT Oliver lived with his family for months making that friendship just a little stronger. Maybe he's furious with Tracc. Maybe he's furious with Green & co for sacking Goody. But who knows. As annoying as it is hearing vetted stuff if he admitted the above about Tracc or Goody and we're 1-5 next year as always the media would tuck into Gawn and the team's morale/culture.

1 hour ago, dazzledavey36 said:

He mentions Trac in the interview..

Ah roger. I’ll have a listen tonight.