Latest / Early Breakfast with Ned McHenry & Sam Daddow / Early Breakfast with Ned & Sam - 31 August 2026
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- 0:02Speaker 1: Ned McHenry and Sam Datto. 5AA Early Breakfast.
- 0:08Speaker 2: Good morning.
- 0:09Speaker 3: Welcome along to Early Breakfast as we kick off another
- 0:12Speaker 3: week here on 5AA. Going for a top of 21 degrees,
- 0:17Speaker 3: mostly sunny today. We've had some gorgeous weather over the
- 0:20Speaker 3: last few days, but the rain is set to return tomorrow.
- 0:23Speaker 3: 22 degrees with a shower or two. Wednesday, cooling off
- 0:26Speaker 3: 16 with a shower. Thursday, 18 with showers. And Friday,
- 0:31Speaker 3: 21 degrees with showers. Currently in the city, Cooler, 5.9 degrees.
- 0:36Speaker 2: Neddy, good morning. Morning, Sammy. Good morning, high-fivers. It's been
- 0:40Speaker 2: shorts weather.
- 0:41Speaker 3: It has been.
- 0:42Speaker 2: Been in the shorts the last couple of days. Been
- 0:43Speaker 2: in the shorts again this morning, and I'm feeling good
- 0:45Speaker 2: about it. You mentioned showers are on the forecast. How
- 0:50Speaker 2: much rain, please? I don't think it's much.
- 0:52Speaker 3: It's not much. So Tuesday, we've got possible rainfall 0
- 0:55Speaker 3: to 3 mil, but 70%. Wednesday, 0% to 1%, 50%. Thursday, 0%
- 1:01Speaker 3: to 4%, 80%. So not a lot kicking around, but
- 1:04Speaker 3: still won't be as nice as what we've had the
- 1:06Speaker 3: last few days.
- 1:07Speaker 4: Gotcha.
- 1:08Speaker 2: Very good. What did you get up to for the weekend, team?
- 1:10Speaker 2: We'd love to hear your calls, if you've got any
- 1:12Speaker 2: thoughts or something you want to talk about. Of course,
- 1:14Speaker 2: we'd love to engage in that.
- 1:15Speaker 3: What about you? Got the win?
- 1:17Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, we had a win.
- 1:19Speaker 3: Really important. So what does that mean for your finals campaign?
- 1:21Speaker 2: Well, now we have two games. We basically have two
- 1:24Speaker 2: shots at a grand final.
- 1:26Speaker 5: Oh.
- 1:26Speaker 2: So we've got a preliminary final this week against Henley,
- 1:30Speaker 2: and then if we lose that, we'll play another team
- 1:32Speaker 2: for another chance at a grand final. So hopefully we
- 1:35Speaker 2: should get in there.
- 1:36Speaker 3: How's the season going? Have you shaped up at the
- 1:38Speaker 3: right time of the year, really pushing for that September push?
- 1:41Speaker 2: A little bit. We started well, and then we had
- 1:42Speaker 2: a bit of a mid-year lump. which a few guys
- 1:47Speaker 2: were injured or a few guys were away.
- 1:48Speaker 3: Including yourself?
- 1:50Speaker 2: No.
- 1:50Speaker 3: Can you do a hammy?
- 1:51Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, I've been injured a bit.
- 1:53Speaker 3: Yeah, but you've been soldiering on, like, the trooper you are.
- 1:55Speaker 2: I've been there, yeah. Some of our private school kids
- 1:58Speaker 2: have been over in Europe or skiing somewhere instead of playing,
- 2:01Speaker 2: and that really gives me the you-know-whats. No, overall pretty solid.
- 2:05Speaker 2: It was a good win. So on to the next one,
- 2:07Speaker 2: as they say, Sammy. It's a good competition, the Adelaide
- 2:09Speaker 2: Hills Footy League. Sorry, not Adelaide Hills, the Adelaide Footy League.
- 2:12Speaker 2: They do a good job. How was your weekend?
- 2:14Speaker 3: Not bad, not bad. I spent the day yesterday at
- 2:16Speaker 3: the Sandville.
- 2:18Speaker 2: Oh, did you?
- 2:20Speaker 3: Yes, we were broadcasting for 5AA.
- 2:23Speaker 2: A couple of good games.
- 2:24Speaker 3: A couple of really good games. Did you see much
- 2:27Speaker 3: of it?
- 2:27Speaker 6: No.
- 2:28Speaker 3: Okay.
- 2:29Speaker 2: Well, no, I didn't, to be completely honest, because I
- 2:31Speaker 2: was engaged in all of our footy stuff. But I
- 2:33Speaker 2: did have, obviously, I was looking at the scores.
- 2:35Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 2:36Speaker 2: Good call by 5AA, the Eagles game close. And then
- 2:40Speaker 2: I can't believe that Sturt got over the line against
- 2:44Speaker 2: the Eagles.
- 2:45Speaker 3: It was a cracking last half, that Sturt game. But
- 2:50Speaker 3: we did the footy tips back on Friday, you and
- 2:52Speaker 3: Peter from Marlston.
- 2:53Speaker 7: We did.
- 2:53Speaker 2: He's already on the text line. Peter, well done.
- 2:55Speaker 1: One all.
- 2:55Speaker 3: Let's see how he went.
- 2:57Speaker 2: Can I do my sample tips with you this morning, Peter?
- 3:00Speaker 2: First game, Eagles-Westies.
- 3:02Speaker 8: West Adelaide by 18 points.
- 3:07Speaker 2: I think it'll be the Eagles, my friend, and I
- 3:09Speaker 2: think they'll win by four goals, 24 points for me.
- 3:12Speaker 8: The replay of last year's grand final when Stuart beat
- 3:17Speaker 8: Glenelg by 31 points. Stuart by nine points because we're
- 3:21Speaker 8: the better team.
- 3:22Speaker 2: Peter, I've got bad news. I actually think Glenelg are
- 3:25Speaker 2: going to win. So I've tipped against you in both games.
- 3:28Speaker 3: So 50-50 sort of. We'll make sure we'll get Peter
- 3:31Speaker 3: on on Friday to do the tips again. This is
- 3:33Speaker 3: how the matches ended up on 5AA. He's missed.
- 3:35Speaker 1: Sorry.
- 3:36Speaker 3: Eagles win the elimination final.
- 3:42Speaker 2: Five points.
- 3:45Speaker 3: And bury the dreams of the Bloods.
- 3:49Speaker 2: Umpire says, I will have it.
- 3:51Speaker 6: That game had just about everything.
- 4:00Speaker 8: Back and forth, momentum both directions.
- 4:04Speaker 3: So it should be another cracking weekend of sample footy
- 4:06Speaker 3: this Sunday as well. Plenty of footy. And you can
- 4:09Speaker 3: tell finals footy is in the air with the weather
- 4:12Speaker 3: that was put on over the weekend. It was absolutely marvellous. Gorgeous.
- 4:15Speaker 3: Tex already coming in, though. Mark from Power Hills. Well done,
- 4:17Speaker 3: Sauce and Eagles. And Fraser and Blues. Isn't footy great?
- 4:21Speaker 3: Mark from Power Hills.
- 4:22Speaker 1: Wildcard.
- 4:23Speaker 3: We'll talk about it a bit more with Rennie. I
- 4:25Speaker 3: know he is all on board with the wildcard. Have
- 4:29Speaker 3: you grown any fonder of it or were you already
- 4:32Speaker 3: on board with it?
- 4:33Speaker 2: No, I thought it was good. I thought it was
- 4:35Speaker 2: a strong weekend of footy. It's great to have more
- 4:37Speaker 2: games on than we usually would at this time of
- 4:40Speaker 2: the year. They were good games, played in good spirits.
- 4:43Speaker 2: I thought the weekend was a success. What did you think?
- 4:45Speaker 2: That's a wild card from a wild card perspective.
- 4:48Speaker 3: I still think you spend $ 24. 25 rounds of the
- 4:52Speaker 3: season trying to work out who's in the finals and
- 4:53Speaker 3: you do another game.
- 4:55Speaker 2: You don't think that this wildcard round with Carlton in
- 4:58Speaker 2: it has created a bit of theatre for the season?
- 5:01Speaker 3: It definitely has. But are we going to have that
- 5:03Speaker 3: every season?
- 5:04Speaker 2: No, but we've had it this year, so I think
- 5:06Speaker 2: it's a pretty good induction. You'd be excused of missing
- 5:09Speaker 2: your sample tips. I mean, what, five points in the
- 5:12Speaker 2: Eagles-Westies game and then two points in the Glenelg-Sturt game.
- 5:18Speaker 2: Weren't they tight margins?
- 5:19Speaker 3: I thought we were set up for some overtime. We
- 5:21Speaker 3: really made it interesting.
- 5:23Speaker 2: Well done. Well done, team. If you want to talk
- 5:25Speaker 2: through the footy, what did you like across the weekend,
- 5:27Speaker 2: we'd love to receive your calls on that.
- 5:29Speaker 3: Now, a big ticket item. Yesterday was announced the Premier
- 5:32Speaker 3: of South Australia, Peter Malinowskis, released the final design for
- 5:37Speaker 3: the MotoGP track in the Adelaide parklands we've heard a
- 5:40Speaker 3: bit there was leaked designs in the last few weeks
- 5:44Speaker 3: how many trees would be going well here's the premier
- 5:46Speaker 3: chatting over the weekend the.
- 5:47Speaker 2: Moto gp bikes are going to be traveling at 343
- 5:49Speaker 2: kilometers per hour.
- 5:53Speaker 1: They are lunatics.
- 5:54Speaker 9: A lot of engineering, a lot of simulations that have
- 5:58Speaker 9: all been invested in to make sure that those areas
- 6:01Speaker 9: can be compliant.
- 6:02Speaker 3: So the new 4.13 kilometre track has 15 corners, 377
- 6:07Speaker 3: trees to be cut down. They've decided against a permanent
- 6:12Speaker 3: grandstand in Victoria Park. The race will be staged within
- 6:15Speaker 3: a fortnight of each other, of the supercars and the MotoGP.
- 6:18Speaker 3: The Tour Down Under is also going to utilize parts
- 6:21Speaker 3: of the track in early January for their event. Now,
- 6:25Speaker 3: of the 377 trees to be removed, 42 have been
- 6:26Speaker 3: deemed significant, but 335 of those trees are viewed as
- 6:27Speaker 3: either invasive or not healthy enough. So, The Premier has
- 6:39Speaker 3: also stated an extra 3,393 trees will be planted elsewhere
- 6:44Speaker 3: within the parklands. The grassland area will be increased by
- 6:47Speaker 3: 180 square metres. Also, for those who use the O-Barn
- 6:52Speaker 3: every day, that will be shut the day before events
- 6:55Speaker 3: and reopen at 6am the Monday after the events. So
- 6:58Speaker 3: there's a lot to digest. The track has been released.
- 7:02Speaker 3: It's going to be more in the parklands than not.
- 7:06Speaker 3: That's what's strayed away from the original design. It's not
- 7:09Speaker 3: going to really utilise Wakefield Street at all. It's going
- 7:11Speaker 3: to cross over Wakefield and go into the parklands. Also
- 7:14Speaker 3: going to eat into Rymel Park as well. So Gluttony
- 7:17Speaker 3: might be a bit smaller once this all kicks off.
- 7:20Speaker 3: So I'd love your views on the Parkland circuit, 8223 0000.
- 7:23Speaker 3: We've been talking about it for a while now, but
- 7:26Speaker 3: the information's here. We know exactly how it's going to look.
- 7:30Speaker 3: The parts of the track inside Victoria Park itself haven't
- 7:34Speaker 3: really differed since the initial designs were released, but we've
- 7:37Speaker 3: found out more with what other areas of the track
- 7:41Speaker 3: and what's going to be bypassed and what's going to
- 7:43Speaker 3: be used. And notably, the supercars are also going to
- 7:46Speaker 3: be using the same track. They're going to venture away
- 7:49Speaker 3: from the traditional Adelaide 500 street circuit. So initial thoughts, Nettie,
- 7:53Speaker 3: what do you think?
- 7:54Speaker 2: Well, I think that you're an expert, and I'd love
- 7:56Speaker 2: to know a little bit more about how this track
- 8:00Speaker 2: sits with other tracks around the world. This is interesting. Politically,
- 8:04Speaker 2: and as a state member say, $ 96 million it will cost,
- 8:09Speaker 2: at least to taxpayers. But it's forecasted to inject $ 200 million, conservatively.
- 8:17Speaker 2: annually into the state.
- 8:19Speaker 3: And now that figure, I'm pretty sure, is the MotoGP alone.
- 8:22Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 8:23Speaker 3: Not the supercars as well.
- 8:24Speaker 2: So it's an extraordinary return on investment, really, if that's true.
- 8:29Speaker 2: I think the track design seems like an absolute winner.
- 8:32Speaker 2: It seems like we're continuing on a trajectory of embracing
- 8:35Speaker 2: big events and moving forward as a state. Now- That
- 8:38Speaker 2: can come with criticism. Obviously, people who are quite conservative,
- 8:43Speaker 2: environmentally conservative, might view this as further destruction to the parklands,
- 8:47Speaker 2: which is justified. Peter Malinowskis has said that the 377
- 8:51Speaker 2: trees to be removed, only 42 would be deemed significant. And,
- 8:56Speaker 2: of course, they're replanting 10 for every one.
- 8:58Speaker 6: Yep.
- 8:59Speaker 2: So how does that sit with you?
- 9:01Speaker 8: I mean.
- 9:03Speaker 2: For me, it sounds like a winner as long as
- 9:04Speaker 2: it's not at some extreme cost.
- 9:06Speaker 3: You want to know what this is? Can we just
- 9:08Speaker 3: stop sugarcoating what this is?
- 9:10Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 9:11Speaker 4: What is it?
- 9:11Speaker 3: It's a ploy to bring Formula One back to Adelaide.
- 9:14Speaker 2: Well, you've always said that.
- 9:15Speaker 3: You've said that from the start. This is what this is.
- 9:17Speaker 3: And I'm all for it.
- 9:18Speaker 2: This is the entree and we're actually aiming at the
- 9:20Speaker 2: main course. Is that what you're saying?
- 9:21Speaker 4: Yeah, 100%.
- 9:22Speaker 2: So this track has contingency to host the F1?
- 9:26Speaker 3: That track would be able to host the F1.
- 9:28Speaker 4: Yep.
- 9:28Speaker 3: 100%.
- 9:28Speaker 2: Lock it in.
- 9:30Speaker 3: Obviously, there are contractual obligations with Albert Park and Melbourne
- 9:34Speaker 3: and Victoria, and it's a long-term play. But if the
- 9:38Speaker 3: infrastructure is there, it makes it a hell of a
- 9:39Speaker 3: lot easier to say, hey, come over here, instead of
- 9:41Speaker 3: this is what we can do, but this is what
- 9:43Speaker 3: we would do.
- 9:45Speaker 2: So just give some context to our listeners who aren't
- 9:47Speaker 2: mad keen on motorsports. I mean, how popular is this event?
- 9:50Speaker 2: Will we have people flying from all over the world
- 9:53Speaker 2: to come and check out the MotoGP?
- 9:55Speaker 3: See, in those figures of 200 plus million, I don't
- 9:57Speaker 3: think they're accounting for the free publicity that the city
- 10:01Speaker 3: will get globally, on the global stage, with all our
- 10:04Speaker 3: pictures of Adelaide and South Australia beamed through Europe. And
- 10:08Speaker 3: all those eyeballs that will be on the race itself.
- 10:11Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 10:11Speaker 3: MotoGP is massive. And people want to say the crowds
- 10:15Speaker 3: weren't that great at Phillip Island or whatever. It's the
- 10:19Speaker 3: same reason why we have supercars in the city. People
- 10:23Speaker 3: don't travel to tail and bend. Yes, an hour and
- 10:25Speaker 3: a half up the road might not seem like a lot,
- 10:27Speaker 3: but if you want the average casual punter to go along,
- 10:29Speaker 3: they're not travelling up there, just like they're not travelling
- 10:31Speaker 3: to Phillip Island. But holding races in the city, people
- 10:35Speaker 3: are going to be thinking, what's going on here?
- 10:37Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 10:37Speaker 3: Might just dawdle down, catch the train into the city
- 10:40Speaker 3: and walk down to the race.
- 10:42Speaker 2: Yeah, I must admit, I'm not overly excited about this
- 10:45Speaker 2: event whatsoever, but I can appreciate that this could be,
- 10:47Speaker 2: you know, a fantastic addition to our city.
- 10:49Speaker 3: Punch for punch, though, MotoGP racing is probably some of
- 10:52Speaker 3: the most exciting racing that you'll watch.
- 10:54Speaker 1: Is it?
- 10:56Speaker 3: Multiple lead changes every single lap.
- 10:58Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 10:59Speaker 3: It is full on, and we have a lot of
- 11:00Speaker 3: MotoGP and motorbike fans out there, so we'd love to
- 11:03Speaker 3: hear your thoughts on it, too, because... Anyone who watches
- 11:06Speaker 3: the MotoGP religiously, anyone who's got thoughts around bike racing,
- 11:09Speaker 3: you've seen the track, what are your thoughts? 8223 0000.
- 11:13Speaker 3: Mark from Hybrid, good morning to you.
- 11:15Speaker 8: Good morning, hang on, Ned and Sam.
- 11:17Speaker 2: Hello, Mark.
- 11:18Speaker 10: Good, good.
- 11:19Speaker 8: I've got some breaking news about the Speedway.
- 11:23Speaker 2: Oh, brilliant. Yes, you heard it here first on Early Breakfast.
- 11:26Speaker 2: Hit us, Mark.
- 11:26Speaker 3: Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on.
- 11:29Speaker 1: Hot off the press.
- 11:32Speaker 3: Go for it, Mark.
- 11:33Speaker 8: Yeah, Australia are the new world speedway champions.
- 11:37Speaker 7: Oh, wow.
- 11:38Speaker 2: Are we?
- 11:38Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
- 11:39Speaker 8: We won yesterday morning in Warsaw in Poland. We beat Denmark,
- 11:45Speaker 8: Poland and England.
- 11:46Speaker 2: You've got to be joking.
- 11:47Speaker 6: No, no.
- 11:48Speaker 8: It was a bit of a... Australia were favourite going
- 11:50Speaker 8: into it, but they hung on and won. It's the
- 11:53Speaker 8: first time they've won since 2002.
- 11:56Speaker 2: Absolutely brilliant, Mark. That's great.
- 11:59Speaker 3: So real quickly, Mark, how do we become world champions?
- 12:03Speaker 3: What's the process? How many riders for Australia are in it?
- 12:05Speaker 3: How many heats or races do we have to win?
- 12:07Speaker 3: Is it a season-long event? What's the go?
- 12:10Speaker 8: It's a one-night event. Australia were defending, not defending champions,
- 12:15Speaker 8: but they won the Speedway of Nations last year, so
- 12:18Speaker 8: they qualified direct. But they had a qualifying round earlier
- 12:21Speaker 8: in the year that England and Denmark went through. It
- 12:26Speaker 8: was over 20 heats yesterday morning, and it was four
- 12:29Speaker 8: Australians up against four Denmark, four Poland, and four English riders.
- 12:35Speaker 8: And they had five rides each, and the most you
- 12:39Speaker 8: could get is 60 points. And they ended up winning
- 12:43Speaker 8: by 38 points to 30 against the Danes.
- 12:47Speaker 11: Wow.
- 12:48Speaker 8: And it was a big win in the end. And
- 12:50Speaker 8: it was a lot closer. And there was the four Australians,
- 12:54Speaker 8: Brady Kurtz, who's running second in the world title. He
- 12:58Speaker 8: rode well. So there was a young kid from Queensland
- 13:00Speaker 8: called Ryan Douglas, who was a surprise selection. And he
- 13:05Speaker 8: got 11 points out of his possible 15. 10 points, sorry,
- 13:10Speaker 8: out of 15. So he rode well. And former world
- 13:13Speaker 8: champion Jason Doyle from New South Wales created history. He's
- 13:17Speaker 8: the first rider to win all three FIM gold medals,
- 13:21Speaker 8: as in the World Championship, the Speedway of Nations, and
- 13:24Speaker 8: now the World Cup. So it's a feather in his cap,
- 13:27Speaker 8: and hopefully he'll be riding in Australia this season.
- 13:30Speaker 2: Love your work, Mark. Thanks for the Speedway update. You're
- 13:34Speaker 2: very good at that, which we appreciate. Robert from Marion. Morning, Robert.
- 13:38Speaker 1: Morning, lads. How are you?
- 13:39Speaker 6: I just want to have a word about the trees
- 13:42Speaker 6: that are all getting cut down.
- 13:45Speaker 12: Bit of a.
- 13:46Speaker 6: perspective type thing. I've been cutting down trees for 20 years.
- 13:49Speaker 11: That's my job.
- 13:51Speaker 6: And I'll just sit there and I think about how
- 13:53Speaker 6: many thousands of trees I've cut down. But as soon
- 13:57Speaker 6: as a politician does it, they just get absolutely hammered. Me,
- 14:02Speaker 6: no one even batters an eyelid.
- 14:05Speaker 2: Well, you're the one doing it in practice, not necessarily
- 14:09Speaker 2: instigating it through policy, though, Robert. It's a little different, right?
- 14:12Speaker 5: Yeah, it is a little different.
- 14:13Speaker 6: But when I heard about how quick he got those
- 14:17Speaker 6: hundreds of trees down within a couple of days for
- 14:19Speaker 6: the golf course, I thought to myself, wow, that would
- 14:23Speaker 6: have been something I would have liked to have seen
- 14:25Speaker 6: because I have no idea how they got that many
- 14:28Speaker 6: trees down in that amount of time. It must have
- 14:31Speaker 6: been hundreds of workers, all sorts of equipment, just a
- 14:36Speaker 6: massive undertaking that he would have just said, I want
- 14:40Speaker 6: these gone. I want them gone that quick. If someone
- 14:45Speaker 6: put a drone over, you probably would have just seen
- 14:47Speaker 6: mayhem in that place because there's no other way you
- 14:49Speaker 6: would have done it.
- 14:51Speaker 9: Goodness.
- 14:51Speaker 1: So, I mean, I love trees.
- 14:53Speaker 2: I love the parklands.
- 14:57Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I love the trees and I love
- 14:59Speaker 6: the parklands and all that, but I'm telling you, I
- 15:01Speaker 6: would have loved to have seen how he got those
- 15:03Speaker 6: ones down that quickly in the In the gold course,
- 15:05Speaker 6: that would have been one hell of a watch.
- 15:08Speaker 3: In favour of the race taking place in the City Mart, Robert?
- 15:12Speaker 6: I like the race, but I'm more interested in the concerts.
- 15:15Speaker 6: I'm a bit of a musician, so I go in
- 15:19Speaker 6: at the end of the day with my ticket, and
- 15:21Speaker 6: when the race is over, I usually watch the concerts.
- 15:26Speaker 6: Either way, I reckon it's all good. They'll grow back.
- 15:30Speaker 6: He's just got to plan a hell of a lot more.
- 15:32Speaker 2: Robert, it's got that gather round kind of feel, doesn't it?
- 15:35Speaker 2: You don't necessarily even have to go and watch a
- 15:37Speaker 2: game at the Brosser to have friends over from Melbourne
- 15:40Speaker 2: or friends over from Sydney. And, you know, you go
- 15:42Speaker 2: out for dinner, don't you? You have a beer. So
- 15:45Speaker 2: it's a stimulation in our economy. There's no doubt about it.
- 15:48Speaker 6: Exactly.
- 15:49Speaker 1: Exactly.
- 15:49Speaker 6: We are the festival state after all. And I do
- 15:53Speaker 6: remember going to a million concerts when I was growing up.
- 15:56Speaker 6: You know, we had Soundwave, The Big Day Out, all
- 15:59Speaker 6: those things. Where are they now?
- 16:01Speaker 3: They're gone.
- 16:01Speaker 6: I haven't seen them in years.
- 16:02Speaker 3: Yep.
- 16:03Speaker 6: So maybe we need to start changing our number plates
- 16:05Speaker 6: because it doesn't seem that way anymore.
- 16:08Speaker 2: What's our new number plate? It used to be the
- 16:10Speaker 2: Festival State.
- 16:10Speaker 3: We don't have one.
- 16:11Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 16:14Speaker 3: 822-300-00, what should be South Australia's tagline on our number plates?
- 16:17Speaker 3: It used to be the Festival State or the City
- 16:20Speaker 3: of Churches.
- 16:21Speaker 6: Hmm.
- 16:22Speaker 3: What was Victoria? On the move?
- 16:23Speaker 2: The education state.
- 16:25Speaker 3: But they also had on the move.
- 16:26Speaker 4: Did they?
- 16:26Speaker 3: From memory.
- 16:28Speaker 2: Now they're the broke state. They have it on there.
- 16:30Speaker 2: Raymond from Salisbury Plains. You've been fishing down at the southeast,
- 16:33Speaker 2: great man.
- 16:33Speaker 12: I certainly have, Matt. Still are, as a matter of fact.
- 16:37Speaker 12: Good morning to you both. Good morning to everybody, and
- 16:38Speaker 12: happy Monday.
- 16:40Speaker 1: Morning, legend.
- 16:41Speaker 12: Definitely pro-development here, mate.
- 16:46Speaker 11: Interesting your comments, Sammy.
- 16:47Speaker 12: You make it sound like to vie for the Formula
- 16:50Speaker 12: One is a no-no, like you're against it. Is that right,
- 16:54Speaker 12: or am I just reading that wrong?
- 16:55Speaker 3: Hang on, hang on, hang on. You think I'm against
- 16:57Speaker 3: Formula One?
- 16:59Speaker 11: Coming to Adelaide, yeah, because the way you said that.
- 17:01Speaker 1: No, no, not at all.
- 17:02Speaker 3: I'm just saying that this is what the... You can
- 17:05Speaker 3: see what the plan is. I'm definitely not against it,
- 17:09Speaker 3: but I'm just saying... Sure. To me, this is what
- 17:10Speaker 3: the long-term... Because the way you phrased it, it sounds
- 17:12Speaker 3: like you're anti. No, no, no.
- 17:14Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 17:14Speaker 3: I'm pro motorsport.
- 17:16Speaker 12: I think it's great. I think it's great what Pete's
- 17:19Speaker 12: doing for the state in terms of bringing events here.
- 17:22Speaker 12: And as you said, Ned, the return on investment just
- 17:24Speaker 12: for the MotoGP alone is fantastic, and Now, we've got
- 17:28Speaker 12: to sacrifice a few trees to make that happen, so
- 17:30Speaker 12: be it. It's the same with live golf. Nobody wanted
- 17:32Speaker 12: the golf course to be upgraded, but again, I'm all
- 17:35Speaker 12: for it, mate. If it brings money and people into
- 17:40Speaker 12: the state, and it's advertising you can't really buy, isn't it?
- 17:43Speaker 12: With the TV rights and stuff like that, I think
- 17:45Speaker 12: it's great, man. I think bring it on.
- 17:47Speaker 11: Bring it on.
- 17:48Speaker 3: Do you watch MotoGP?
- 17:50Speaker 12: No, motorbikes is not my thing. I'm more a four-wheel
- 17:53Speaker 12: type racer. So, yeah, supercars and Formula 1. I don't
- 17:56Speaker 12: watch much Formula 1, not like I used to. But,
- 17:59Speaker 12: you know, maybe if it comes back to Adelaide, the
- 18:01Speaker 12: interest might be rekindled again.
- 18:02Speaker 3: I don't know. This is the thing. Having it in Adelaide,
- 18:05Speaker 3: you might turn into a MotoGP expert one weekend of
- 18:08Speaker 3: the year.
- 18:09Speaker 1: Well, possibly.
- 18:10Speaker 12: Look, I have total respect for those guys. It's one
- 18:13Speaker 12: thing to drive around in a steel box so that
- 18:16Speaker 12: if you have an accident, you've got.
- 18:17Speaker 1: A little bit of protection.
- 18:18Speaker 11: But, man, riding a bike, even.
- 18:20Speaker 12: Like you see bike riders driving or riding their bikes
- 18:24Speaker 12: on the suburban street, there's no protection at all. You
- 18:26Speaker 12: have an accident or even the weather, man, like, you know,
- 18:28Speaker 12: if it's raining or it's windy or it's cold, I
- 18:31Speaker 12: have my respect, but no, it's always going to be
- 18:34Speaker 12: a car for me.
- 18:35Speaker 5: No worries.
- 18:36Speaker 3: Thank you, Raymond. This is Salisbury Plains. You can keep
- 18:38Speaker 3: your calls coming, 8223 0000 044808 1395. If you want
- 18:39Speaker 3: to chat about the Parkland Circuit, the design release yesterday
- 18:47Speaker 3: with the Premier of South Australia, or have you got
- 18:50Speaker 3: any ideas what we should have on our number plate?
- 18:52Speaker 6: Yes.
- 18:52Speaker 3: A couple coming in. Robert, number plate idea. SA, sign
- 18:56Speaker 3: my petition. Keep them coming.
- 18:58Speaker 1: 26 after five. Let's get back to the phones. Gary
- 19:01Speaker 1: and Collinswood, good morning. Good morning, Ned.
- 19:13Speaker 5: And, young man, you had a story earlier about how
- 19:18Speaker 5: it got the trees down so quickly.
- 19:20Speaker 8: Yes.
- 19:21Speaker 11: What it was, they started off.
- 19:22Speaker 9: Going up there, chopping them down.
- 19:25Speaker 5: A guy would go up and cut them, but.
- 19:26Speaker 11: It would take them too long. They got a big excavator.
- 19:29Speaker 9: They put the boom out with a big bucket, and
- 19:31Speaker 9: they would just knock it into the ground. And then
- 19:33Speaker 9: once you're on the ground, then it's a lot easier
- 19:36Speaker 9: to cut them up instead of going up and trying to,
- 19:39Speaker 9: do all the safety work and all that.
- 19:41Speaker 11: So that's why they got them down so quickly. They
- 19:43Speaker 11: just got a lot of the big.
- 19:45Speaker 7: Buckets and bulldozers and just knocked them to.
- 19:47Speaker 8: The ground so no one had to go up and
- 19:48Speaker 8: climb up and do it.
- 19:50Speaker 2: Is that right, Gary? Well, Tom on our text line,
- 19:53Speaker 2: who's often– I think I could describe him as a
- 19:56Speaker 2: bit of an environmentalist. Is that okay, Sammy? I think
- 19:59Speaker 2: Tom wouldn't mind me saying that. He's texted through. He said,
- 20:01Speaker 2: I have drone footage of the carnage at the golf course.
- 20:04Speaker 2: It was very depressing to look at.
- 20:05Speaker 4: Tom.
- 20:06Speaker 2: So, Tom, call in. Let us know how they did
- 20:09Speaker 2: it and what you saw and what your opinion is
- 20:11Speaker 2: because we've had a lot of people pro-track, very pro-development,
- 20:15Speaker 2: would like to hear everyone's view as well. Wendy, on
- 20:19Speaker 2: the Eyre Peninsula, God's country, Wendy. How did you get
- 20:22Speaker 2: so lucky to live there?
- 20:23Speaker 11: Yeah, well, it.
- 20:25Speaker 7: Used to be lucky. I'd just like to make a
- 20:27Speaker 7: comment on all this money that's being spent in Adelaide.
- 20:30Speaker 7: What other services are we going to lose in the
- 20:32Speaker 7: country for Adelaide to have all these things?
- 20:38Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 20:38Speaker 7: Because Adelaide just sucks money out the country. Eyre Peninsula
- 20:42Speaker 7: creates a lot of wealth, and what do we get
- 20:45Speaker 7: back for it? We're having all our services cut. A
- 20:48Speaker 7: standard of living is going backwards and it's all about Adelaide.
- 20:52Speaker 7: If Adelaide want all this stuff, that's fine, but Adelaide
- 20:55Speaker 7: give up something to have it. I just don't think
- 20:58Speaker 7: it's fair.
- 20:59Speaker 2: What's your biggest concern in terms of quality of life
- 21:02Speaker 2: on the Eyre Peninsula at the moment?
- 21:04Speaker 7: When Malinowskis was in, Labour were in last time, Malinowskis
- 21:10Speaker 7: shut down all our hospitals, our SA Health hospitals, turned
- 21:13Speaker 7: them into.
- 21:15Speaker 7: Basically old folks home. You can't get doctors. Who's going
- 21:18Speaker 7: to come to a hospital where they can't do anything?
- 21:21Speaker 11: So what happens?
- 21:22Speaker 7: All the country patients have to go to Adelaide. So
- 21:26Speaker 7: that's contributing to ramping. It's just everything.
- 21:29Speaker 1: It's our power.
- 21:31Speaker 11: It's our phones.
- 21:33Speaker 7: Everything's just going backwards. I had an elderly neighbour who
- 21:36Speaker 7: said to me one day, dear, we've gone back 50
- 21:39Speaker 7: years and it's like the people in the city don't
- 21:43Speaker 7: seem to care about And so what's the end goal?
- 21:46Speaker 7: That we'll all go and live in the city and
- 21:48Speaker 7: we won't produce any food and then we'll all just
- 21:51Speaker 7: get our food in from China?
- 21:53Speaker 11: Is that what the goal is?
- 21:54Speaker 2: Well, I'm not sure.
- 21:55Speaker 7: And it's okay to say that you're going to generate
- 21:59Speaker 7: all this $ 200 million or whatever, but that won't get
- 22:03Speaker 7: put back out here, will it?
- 22:05Speaker 2: Wendy, I am the most pro-Air Peninsula and pro-regional person
- 22:09Speaker 2: of all time. It is my favourite place in the world.
- 22:11Speaker 2: But the reality is it's 3.3% of Adelaide's population, essentially.
- 22:16Speaker 2: It's about 50,000 people live on the Air Peninsula compared
- 22:18Speaker 2: to about 1.5 million in Adelaide. That's not to say
- 22:22Speaker 2: that what you're saying isn't true. The hospitals and some
- 22:24Speaker 2: of the services in those regional areas are... and not
- 22:28Speaker 2: at the point that everyone would like them to be.
- 22:30Speaker 2: But I think criticising things like this, I'm not sure
- 22:34Speaker 2: that this in isolation is responsible for not enough funding
- 22:37Speaker 2: going to regional areas. I think you can probably have
- 22:40Speaker 2: both arguments.
- 22:40Speaker 1: Is that fair, Sam?
- 22:41Speaker 2: That's fair.
- 22:42Speaker 3: Tina in Woodville West, good morning.
- 22:44Speaker 10: Good morning to you both. I'm ringing up about bird flu.
- 22:50Speaker 10: On the weekend, we found a bird underneath a veranda
- 22:54Speaker 10: and so I rang up the hotline, and, well, that
- 22:58Speaker 10: was a useless task. I don't know if this government
- 23:02Speaker 10: is really into this bird flu, as they say they are.
- 23:06Speaker 3: I wonder, Tina, we had a few calls on mornings
- 23:09Speaker 3: last week about the hotline and the lack of response.
- 23:12Speaker 3: I wonder if they're just being overwhelmed at this point.
- 23:15Speaker 10: No, he just basically put me on to another agency,
- 23:20Speaker 10: And that RSPCA, RSPCA don't have anything to do with it.
- 23:25Speaker 10: Then they put me onto a wildlife. And in the end,
- 23:28Speaker 10: the lady said, just double bag it and put it
- 23:31Speaker 10: in the bin. Now, it's a honey.
- 23:33Speaker 7: Eater that died.
- 23:35Speaker 10: It took three hours for it to die. We didn't
- 23:38Speaker 10: touch it because we were told not to touch it. And, yeah,
- 23:43Speaker 10: I'm just very angry because they keep going on about
- 23:46Speaker 10: bird flu. But when people find birds, are they really
- 23:50Speaker 10: interested in it or not?
- 23:53Speaker 3: Thank you for that, Tina. And it's just not birds anymore.
- 23:55Speaker 3: We saw late Friday, Friday night that a dolphin had
- 24:00Speaker 3: seemed to contracted and died as a result of bird flu.
- 24:04Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very serious. I don't want to be too
- 24:07Speaker 2: informal about that issue, but I mean, how did the
- 24:09Speaker 2: dolphin interact with the bird that had the bird flu
- 24:13Speaker 2: in the first place? I mean, what kind of happened there?
- 24:15Speaker 2: Was there they're not sure if the dolphin ate the
- 24:18Speaker 2: bird or if it was a bit of hanging out
- 24:21Speaker 2: and playing or something. What does a bird and a
- 24:23Speaker 2: dolphin do together? A bit confused by that.
- 24:25Speaker 3: Let's head back out to Birkenhead. Frank, good morning.
- 24:28Speaker 2: A dolphin and a bird don't kiss each other, do they, Frank?
- 24:32Speaker 11: Sorry?
- 24:33Speaker 2: Do dolphins and birds kiss each other or not?
- 24:38Speaker 5: Very funny.
- 24:39Speaker 2: I'm actually half serious, Frank, but you want to talk
- 24:42Speaker 2: about number plates.
- 24:43Speaker 5: Yes, look, this is what I think, guys, would be
- 24:45Speaker 5: a good saying to put on SA's number plates. What
- 24:50Speaker 5: do you think of this one? SA, the great state
- 24:56Speaker 5: on the number plate.
- 24:56Speaker 2: I like it. I like it, Frank. SA, the great state.
- 25:01Speaker 5: Great state.
- 25:02Speaker 1: Well, that's what we are.
- 25:03Speaker 2: We are a great state, aren't we?
- 25:05Speaker 8: Yeah, mate.
- 25:06Speaker 1: Yes.
- 25:10Speaker 2: How do we put that forward? Well, let's write that
- 25:13Speaker 2: one down, the great state, and let's do a bit
- 25:14Speaker 2: of a poll. If anyone else has got some good
- 25:16Speaker 2: number plate ideas, let's get them cranking. So Frank's got
- 25:19Speaker 2: the great state. Would that just be spelt the great state?
- 25:22Speaker 2: There'd be no play on GR8? No.
- 25:25Speaker 3: No, we're not going down that low.
- 25:26Speaker 2: Text language with that, Frank, do we? Sorry, Gary from Salisbury,
- 25:31Speaker 2: you got an idea for a number plate?
- 25:32Speaker 11: No, I don't. I nearly agree with pretty much what
- 25:35Speaker 11: Frank said. I was going to say, SA, the place
- 25:37Speaker 11: to be.
- 25:38Speaker 2: Oh, the place to be is good. Yep, I like it.
- 25:40Speaker 3: Simple.
- 25:40Speaker 11: Simple. And with the, they ever do bring me one,
- 25:44Speaker 11: that'd be awesome. I went to the first one. It'd
- 25:47Speaker 11: be good to go to it when it comes back.
- 25:49Speaker 3: So the first one back in 1985, how many did
- 25:52Speaker 3: you end up going to back in the day?
- 25:54Speaker 11: I think about the first three and then one later
- 25:56Speaker 11: on in the 90s.
- 25:57Speaker 3: Were you a big motorsport guy or just wanted to
- 25:59Speaker 3: head along to see what all the rave was about?
- 26:01Speaker 11: Well, to be honest, I got free tickets for the
- 26:03Speaker 11: first one.
- 26:04Speaker 3: Nothing wrong with that.
- 26:05Speaker 11: And, yeah, I was going to go to the one
- 26:07Speaker 11: where it was raining, you know, the one where, if
- 26:09Speaker 11: you remember, where Ayrton refused to get out of his car.
- 26:11Speaker 3: 1991? 1991.
- 26:14Speaker 11: I think it was. Yeah, the rain came and I'm like, no,
- 26:16Speaker 11: I'm not doing that.
- 26:17Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 26:17Speaker 11: No, no, it'd be awesome to have that back.
- 26:20Speaker 2: Nice work, Gary.
- 26:21Speaker 11: It brings people, as you said before, free advertising.
- 26:25Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 26:25Speaker 11: Come buy that.
- 26:26Speaker 1: Love it.
- 26:26Speaker 2: Well said, mate. Thanks for your call. Appreciate it. Lots
- 26:29Speaker 2: to talk about this morning. Obviously, the new MotoGP track.
- 26:33Speaker 2: We've got what should be on South Australia's number plate, Sammy.
- 26:36Speaker 2: The dolphins and birds have coitus.
- 26:39Speaker 6: Pfft.
- 26:41Speaker 3: Raymond in Solstery Plains jumped on the text line, SA,
- 26:43Speaker 3: the Malinowska State.
- 26:45Speaker 5: Wow.
- 26:46Speaker 2: That would be very dictatorship almost.
- 26:49Speaker 3: Another one here, 349. We hate trees on the number plates.
- 26:53Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, not quite as warm, is it? But perhaps
- 26:57Speaker 2: some merit for some of our listeners.
- 26:59Speaker 3: Rob in Marion, SA, bring back the 90s.
- 27:02Speaker 2: Rob, you want the 90s back, do you? I think
- 27:04Speaker 2: a lot of people would like the 90s back. I
- 27:05Speaker 2: think some would like the 60s back, really.
- 27:07Speaker 3: Do we really want the 90s back here in South Australia?
- 27:09Speaker 3: The state bank collapsed. South Australia wasn't really humming along
- 27:12Speaker 3: back then.
- 27:13Speaker 2: Yeah, I think your point's valid, Sammy.
- 27:14Speaker 3: Another one, Rob, SA, where Victoria moved to.
- 27:18Speaker 2: Like it. What about there's a certain text and we
- 27:20Speaker 2: haven't read one of her texts.
- 27:21Speaker 1: Out, Sammy.
- 27:21Speaker 3: Let's go back to the start. To make me.
- 27:23Speaker 2: Feel sick, Mandy and the Blue Brothers.
- 27:26Speaker 3: Go for it. She was first off the bat as well,
- 27:29Speaker 3: two minutes after five, before we were even on air.
- 27:32Speaker 1: Love it.
- 27:32Speaker 2: Good morning, Ned and Sam. I hope you all and
- 27:35Speaker 2: your listeners had a great weekend. I had the two
- 27:37Speaker 2: youngest grandchildren here overnight. Always busy, late, and a lot
- 27:41Speaker 2: of fun. Have a great show, says Mandy, and those
- 27:43Speaker 2: Blue Brothers. We love you, Blue Brothers, and you too, Mandy.
- 27:47Speaker 2: Thanks for your text.
- 27:48Speaker 4: 822-300-00-044-808-1395.
- 27:49Speaker 3: If you want to get involved with the program, Peter
- 27:54Speaker 3: in Woodville West, Bernie Eccleston and Ron Walker were the
- 27:57Speaker 3: two who took the GP from Adelaide. Ron Walker has
- 27:59Speaker 3: since passed away. Bernie Eccleston is now 95 years of age,
- 28:02Speaker 3: and he now no longer has any ownership in Formula One.
- 28:06Speaker 3: It's all through Liberty Media, so he has nothing to
- 28:08Speaker 3: do with it. So Peter then goes on to say
- 28:10Speaker 3: it's time for Adelaide to get the race back. Carolyn,
- 28:12Speaker 3: Morning Net and Sam, Formula 1 is contracted until 2037
- 28:15Speaker 3: in Victoria. Yes, Carolyn, that's why I said it was
- 28:19Speaker 3: a long-term play because we're going to have the MotoGP
- 28:21Speaker 3: now for, I can't remember the contract length. I should
- 28:24Speaker 3: look that up. But we've got MotoGP here. We have
- 28:27Speaker 3: the supercars on it. We'll have other community events using
- 28:29Speaker 3: the track, but it's a long-term play.
- 28:31Speaker 2: Why is the F1 more popular than the MotoGP? Why
- 28:36Speaker 2: is the F1 more of a holy grail long-term play?
- 28:38Speaker 3: Formula One's always been seen as the pinnacle of motorsport.
- 28:41Speaker 4: Is it?
- 28:41Speaker 3: It's just more, it's everywhere.
- 28:42Speaker 2: There's more wealth in the racing.
- 28:44Speaker 3: Yeah, the names have always been household names. Ayrton Senna,
- 28:47Speaker 3: Alain Prost, Nicky Lout, like all the names that you know,
- 28:51Speaker 3: even up to now, Lando Norris, George Russell, people know
- 28:53Speaker 3: about it. Funnily enough, though, I won't go too long
- 28:56Speaker 3: because I'll bore everyone to sleep. But Formula One went
- 28:59Speaker 3: through a very dry patch at the end of Bernie
- 29:01Speaker 3: Eccleston's ownership. Yeah. It was really targeted to the older generations.
- 29:06Speaker 1: Okay.
- 29:07Speaker 3: Since Liberty Media, this US company, bought into it, what
- 29:13Speaker 3: the real big thing has been for Formula One's growth,
- 29:15Speaker 3: especially in the younger audiences, has been the Netflix series
- 29:18Speaker 3: Drive to Survive. It's fascinating. And now the crowds have
- 29:21Speaker 3: been unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable.
- 29:24Speaker 2: In terms of video production, I don't think anything has
- 29:27Speaker 2: changed to sport recently quite like Drive to Survive has
- 29:30Speaker 2: for the F1.
- 29:31Speaker 5: Yep.
- 29:31Speaker 2: The amount of interest from just general punters in F1
- 29:35Speaker 2: now is extraordinary.
- 29:36Speaker 4: It's funny, though.
- 29:36Speaker 2: They're not even motorsport heads, are they?
- 29:38Speaker 3: It's funny, though.
- 29:39Speaker 4: Yes.
- 29:39Speaker 3: I'm a motorsport head. I can't stand the show.
- 29:41Speaker 2: You don't like the show?
- 29:42Speaker 3: I can't stand it. It's over-dramatised.
- 29:46Speaker 2: But it's not targeted at you, at someone already obsessed
- 29:48Speaker 2: with the F1, probably.
- 29:49Speaker 3: This is the reason why, on a Monday morning, the
- 29:52Speaker 3: sales floor here at AA, a bunch of people the
- 29:54Speaker 3: age of 20 to 30-ish are all talking about what
- 29:57Speaker 3: happened on the Grand Prix overnight.
- 29:58Speaker 10: Are they?
- 29:58Speaker 3: That would never have happened 10 years ago.
- 30:00Speaker 2: Oh, well done to them.
- 30:01Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 30:02Speaker 3: Tim in Greenworth also said Wyler is on the Eyre
- 30:05Speaker 3: Peninsula and they've done okay with government handouts, hundreds of
- 30:08Speaker 3: millions of dollars over the last few years.
- 30:11Speaker 2: Yeah, Wyler needs a lot of support, Tim, a lot
- 30:13Speaker 2: of support. It's a beautiful area, Wyler, but there's lots
- 30:16Speaker 2: to do there, no doubt about it.
- 30:18Speaker 3: 12 minutes to 6, 8223 0000. Tom Wren coming up shortly.
- 30:21Speaker 3: We'll check out the weekend in sport, plus more time
- 30:24Speaker 3: for your Coles. If you want to jump on and
- 30:26Speaker 3: talk about the new track here in the city or
- 30:28Speaker 3: if you've got a suggestion for South Australian number plates, Or, Ned,
- 30:33Speaker 3: how dolphins and birds interact?
- 30:34Speaker 2: I've got a cracking yarn after the break, Curry. Just
- 30:38Speaker 2: wait for this one. This one's a ripper.
- 30:41Speaker 1: Ned McHenry and Sam Datto. 5AA Early Breakfast.
- 30:47Speaker 3: Minutes to six on this Monday, going for a top
- 30:49Speaker 3: of 21 degrees, mostly sunny. Tuesday, 22 with a shower
- 30:53Speaker 3: or two. Wednesday, 16. We're cooling off. Currently, right now,
- 30:56Speaker 3: in the city, we're at 5.7 degrees.
- 31:01Speaker 1: The latest in sports with Tom Wren.
- 31:03Speaker 8: Ready.
- 31:04Speaker 2: Morning, boys.
- 31:05Speaker 9: Wow, what a weekend.
- 31:06Speaker 2: Unbelievable.
- 31:07Speaker 9: Should we start with the footy first?
- 31:09Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 31:09Speaker 9: Wild card round. Big tick, Ned. How good was the
- 31:12Speaker 9: game on Friday night? It seems like an age ago now, but...
- 31:15Speaker 9: After the siren, Tim Membry, I mean, that's what footy
- 31:19Speaker 9: comes down to. Sport, it's all about moments. It was
- 31:22Speaker 9: a brilliant mark, and, you know, let's not forget that.
- 31:24Speaker 9: It deserved a great finish, but he missed. And in
- 31:28Speaker 9: the end, because of Carlton doing what they did, it
- 31:30Speaker 9: means Adelaide play the Western Bulldogs this Saturday night. Is
- 31:33Speaker 9: there a bigger game for Matthew Nix in his coaching career?
- 31:36Speaker 9: I don't think so.
- 31:37Speaker 3: No.
- 31:37Speaker 2: Well, I felt like we've said that a few times now, Rennie,
- 31:40Speaker 2: haven't we? But it's all kind of built up to
- 31:42Speaker 2: a point now where the Adelaide Crows have a huge
- 31:44Speaker 2: opportunity in this final series. I mean, they'd back themselves
- 31:48Speaker 2: against the Western Bulldogs, but put simply, if the Adelaide
- 31:51Speaker 2: Crows lose, it'll be a change of coach at the club.
- 31:53Speaker 2: There's no doubt about it.
- 31:55Speaker 9: That is a fact.
- 31:56Speaker 2: That is reality. It's unfortunate, but I'm really confident they'll
- 31:59Speaker 2: go and get it done.
- 32:00Speaker 9: I think they should. Yeah, they should be confident. It's...
- 32:04Speaker 9: It's Operation Marcus Bontempelli this week. Is that fair?
- 32:07Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 32:07Speaker 2: Who goes to him? Who does it?
- 32:09Speaker 9: I think it would be Peatling if James Peatling was playing.
- 32:12Speaker 9: But I don't think he'll get up, Ned.
- 32:14Speaker 2: No, he won't. James Peatling won't play.
- 32:16Speaker 9: So who gets there? Is it Sam Berry? Is he
- 32:18Speaker 9: big enough to be able to go with him?
- 32:20Speaker 2: There's one guy who could. There's one guy who could
- 32:23Speaker 2: go head-to-head with him inside.
- 32:25Speaker 1: Dawson?
- 32:26Speaker 2: Dan Curtin. If you're looking at someone who has the
- 32:30Speaker 2: body size, the strength, the length in his arms, the
- 32:33Speaker 2: frame to go with Marcus Bontempelli, now, it'd be a
- 32:36Speaker 2: huge ask. And probably, yeah, too much of an ask
- 32:39Speaker 2: for the Adelaide coaches to do it. But for the future,
- 32:42Speaker 2: someone who can play on Marcus Bontempelli and go head-to-head,
- 32:45Speaker 2: Dan Curtin's the one. He's 197 centimetres, Rennie. He's huge.
- 32:49Speaker 9: Yeah, I love it, Ned. They played twice this year.
- 32:52Speaker 9: There was one very early in the season. I called
- 32:55Speaker 9: that game. The Dogs won... Oscar Baker with a miraculous
- 32:58Speaker 9: goal towards the southern end with about two minutes to play,
- 33:02Speaker 9: won them the game. And then the Crows. I reckon
- 33:04Speaker 9: the best quarter of footy I've seen this season was
- 33:06Speaker 9: their first quarter at Marvel Stadium against the Doggies. Dawson
- 33:09Speaker 9: kicked three goals. It's the best individual and probably the
- 33:13Speaker 9: best team quarter the Crows have had this season. I
- 33:16Speaker 9: don't know who wins. I think Adelaide should, like you said, Ned.
- 33:19Speaker 9: But in terms of the games from the weekend, they're
- 33:21Speaker 9: two really good ones. The Bulldogs and Collingwood was the
- 33:23Speaker 9: better standard this But it was great to see Carlton
- 33:26Speaker 9: just win for their fans. What a story. So well done.
- 33:31Speaker 9: Now we get into the finals proper, but it was
- 33:33Speaker 9: a great weekend of footy, I thought. In terms of
- 33:37Speaker 9: other football over the weekend, got to give the Eagles
- 33:39Speaker 9: women a shout-out in the Sample W. They won the flag,
- 33:42Speaker 9: so well done to them. Sample finals yesterday. Sammy, you
- 33:46Speaker 9: were doing the boundary for both, so you did a
- 33:47Speaker 9: double shift. It was a couple of great games, two
- 33:50Speaker 9: really good games with– I think most neutrals would have
- 33:54Speaker 9: hoped that Westies got up in that first game. They didn't,
- 33:57Speaker 9: but it was a cracker. And the second game between
- 33:59Speaker 9: the Double Blues and Bays, I'm sure you've had Peter
- 34:01Speaker 9: from Milestone on the phone already. That was a cracker.
- 34:04Speaker 2: We went through our tips with Peter, didn't we?
- 34:06Speaker 3: Shout out to our very own Paddy Goldsmith. Coaling sturt.
- 34:10Speaker 3: He's a mad, mad sturt guy. Didn't let it affect
- 34:13Speaker 3: his coaling. Plenty of fist pumps are going on at
- 34:16Speaker 3: the commentary box, though.
- 34:18Speaker 9: He's a little fireball, isn't he? Gets right into it.
- 34:21Speaker 3: I love it.
- 34:21Speaker 9: Um, other sport over the weekend, boys, I'm not sure
- 34:24Speaker 9: if you caught up with it. I should mention too,
- 34:26Speaker 9: the Crows women and Port women both had wins in
- 34:28Speaker 9: the AFLW, which was great.
- 34:30Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 34:30Speaker 9: Um, but not sure if you saw it. I played
- 34:33Speaker 9: a little bit of audio, um, with KG. I think it's,
- 34:36Speaker 9: I'm a bit desensitized to sporting stuff. You know, you
- 34:40Speaker 9: watch a lot of it.
- 34:40Speaker 8: Yep.
- 34:41Speaker 9: And it's great. And you know, it's theater and it's
- 34:44Speaker 9: part of the job, but yeah, you see, see steel
- 34:47Speaker 9: side bottle retire and, If I was a mad Collingwood fan,
- 34:49Speaker 9: I'd get really emotional. But I'm like, good on him,
- 34:51Speaker 9: you know. But I'm not going to cry for it.
- 34:55Speaker 9: I did on the weekend with Jai Arrow. That was unbelievable.
- 34:59Speaker 9: That was hard to watch. But it was also uplifting,
- 35:03Speaker 9: very sad. But a man who's suffering, for those that
- 35:05Speaker 9: don't know, MND. It doesn't look like he's got long.
- 35:09Speaker 9: He's only 30 years old, Renny, isn't he? Or something
- 35:11Speaker 9: like 30 years old. So retired early this season because
- 35:13Speaker 9: he got diagnosed with MND. And they're giving him two
- 35:17Speaker 9: games to get him to 100. So they're getting him
- 35:19Speaker 9: out there. The NRL's awarded special allowances so that he
- 35:23Speaker 9: can run out with the team, start the match. And literally,
- 35:26Speaker 9: as the whistle goes, he comes off. They give the team,
- 35:28Speaker 9: South Sydney, an extra sub. And the whole NRL community's
- 35:32Speaker 9: gotten around it. This is what happened on the weekend.
- 35:34Speaker 3: So this is him walking out.
- 35:49Speaker 4: The whole stadium standing ovation.
- 36:02Speaker 9: It was goosebumps and stuff. It's going to happen again
- 36:04Speaker 9: this week. I think it'll be even bigger. It was
- 36:07Speaker 9: hard not to get emotional watching that.
- 36:09Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 36:10Speaker 2: Very sad, Benny, but that's the power of sport, isn't it?
- 36:13Speaker 1: It is, yeah.
- 36:13Speaker 9: That's where sport can be incredible. And you just hope
- 36:16Speaker 9: that his family will be well looked after, you know,
- 36:19Speaker 9: With everything that's going to be coming up, it's going
- 36:21Speaker 9: to be a pretty tough time for the next few months.
- 36:23Speaker 9: But a great gesture, I think, from everyone involved in
- 36:25Speaker 9: the NRL. And that's where sport transcends, doesn't it? You know,
- 36:29Speaker 9: it becomes something more. And that was a great example
- 36:32Speaker 9: of that. Also, look, our soccer players all around the
- 36:37Speaker 9: world over the weekend have done a great job. So
- 36:39Speaker 9: Lucas Harrington's with Hull City. Most people said they'll win
- 36:41Speaker 9: the Wooden Spoon. He's playing in the Premier League. Great experience.
- 36:44Speaker 2: They're two from two.
- 36:45Speaker 9: So they won their first two games. That's a brilliant start.
- 36:48Speaker 9: Christian Volpato, I remember he was that player that was
- 36:51Speaker 9: either going to play for Italy or Australia, scored a
- 36:54Speaker 9: cracking goal on the weekend for his club team. And
- 36:57Speaker 9: Mo Toure, who used to play Adelaide United, plays for Norwich.
- 37:00Speaker 9: So that's the... That's the league below the English Premier League.
- 37:03Speaker 9: He scored twice on the weekend. He's dominating for Norwich
- 37:06Speaker 9: early on. So our Australian footballers, I say, you know,
- 37:09Speaker 9: in inverted commas, dominating at the moment. That is really good.
- 37:14Speaker 9: The only bad, the other player too I wanted to mention.
- 37:17Speaker 1: Yes.
- 37:17Speaker 9: And get your thoughts. Jagger Smith.
- 37:19Speaker 5: Oh.
- 37:20Speaker 9: He, that was some game against Melbourne on Saturday night.
- 37:24Speaker 9: I don't know what Melbourne were doing tagging. George Hewitt,
- 37:28Speaker 9: but I don't think Chris Scott will make the same
- 37:29Speaker 9: mistake this week. I think he'd put someone and a
- 37:31Speaker 9: lot of work into Jagger Smith, surely. He can play.
- 37:34Speaker 2: Wasn't he remarkable for a young fella? And to stand
- 37:37Speaker 2: up at finals time like that, Rennie, just amazing. He
- 37:40Speaker 2: was so good to watch.
- 37:41Speaker 9: And if you want to give yourself a little bit
- 37:43Speaker 9: of a seizure, then look up the AFLW game between
- 37:47Speaker 9: North Melbourne and the Western Bulldogs. Whoever signed off on
- 37:51Speaker 9: those two wearing those jumpers, Google it while you're talking, Sammy.
- 37:54Speaker 9: I didn't see it. Jumper Clash? They were kicking it
- 37:58Speaker 9: to each other because they couldn't tell the difference.
- 38:00Speaker 2: Rennie's lost the plot.
- 38:01Speaker 1: In here, team.
- 38:02Speaker 9: They both had blue shorts on.
- 38:03Speaker 5: Oh, no.
- 38:04Speaker 9: They both had blue socks on. They both had white
- 38:06Speaker 9: jumpers on.
- 38:07Speaker 5: Oh, no.
- 38:08Speaker 6: Oh, no.
- 38:09Speaker 2: It was actually hilarious. Is there anything more irritating than
- 38:11Speaker 2: a jumper clash?
- 38:13Speaker 9: It's the worst thing I've ever seen.
- 38:15Speaker 2: It is worse than... I'm not sure.
- 38:16Speaker 5: What?
- 38:17Speaker 9: The Bulldogs and North Melbourne, it was... It was comical,
- 38:20Speaker 9: so that was it from the weekend. Oh, that's terrible.
- 38:23Speaker 2: Oh, Rennie, that's horrible. Just looking at a photo of
- 38:25Speaker 2: it now, folks, you can't even tell which team's who.
- 38:29Speaker 9: I don't know. I felt sorry for the commentators, for
- 38:31Speaker 9: the players. Oh, look, it's a simple misunderstanding, but surely fixed.
- 38:36Speaker 9: Go and get the Clash ones right now. Change them.
- 38:39Speaker 9: This isn't going to work.
- 38:40Speaker 2: Yeah, it has to be done. Go and put a
- 38:41Speaker 2: bloody bib on or something if you need to. Exactly,
- 38:42Speaker 2: put yellow bibs on it.
- 38:43Speaker 9: You have to.
- 38:44Speaker 3: It's not Richmond. It's not Collingwood. The AFL don't care.
- 38:46Speaker 9: Yeah, maybe.
- 38:50Speaker 3: Quickly, before we let you go, Rennie, track release yesterday.
- 38:52Speaker 3: We've been talking about it a bit this morning.
- 38:53Speaker 9: What are your thoughts on the MotoGP track? You're probably
- 39:00Speaker 9: better equipped than me to talk about it. I like
- 39:03Speaker 9: the street circuit. I'm all for it, but I understand
- 39:07Speaker 9: there's a big runoff there.
- 39:08Speaker 3: This is the funny thing, though. It's not really a
- 39:10Speaker 3: street circuit anymore. When you look at how much is
- 39:12Speaker 3: actually on the roads, it's only really Decaturville Terrace and
- 39:15Speaker 3: Rundle Street. Yeah. I've got great reservations for how supercars
- 39:22Speaker 3: race on it. I think that's going to really impact
- 39:24Speaker 3: the quality of the show that we've been coming to
- 39:27Speaker 3: expect now since 2000.
- 39:28Speaker 9: In terms of less overtaking area?
- 39:30Speaker 3: Again, have to see it in action. But the characteristics
- 39:34Speaker 3: of that track, the staircase section from Wakefield Street to
- 39:37Speaker 3: Bartells Road and Turn 8 onto Decaturville Terrace, that's all gone.
- 39:42Speaker 3: We all knew that the inside of Victoria Park was
- 39:44Speaker 3: going to be new with a new pitched lane and
- 39:46Speaker 3: added it to the course. But I was holding out
- 39:49Speaker 3: hope that supercars would race on the old format once
- 39:53Speaker 3: you got onto the streets.
- 39:53Speaker 4: Yes.
- 39:54Speaker 3: But if you're spending $ 96 million on a new track,
- 39:57Speaker 3: you probably want to get your money's worth on the
- 39:59Speaker 3: new track. So jury's out for me on supercars. MotoGP,
- 40:03Speaker 3: it's going to be excellent. I think it's going to
- 40:05Speaker 3: be absolutely excellent.
- 40:06Speaker 9: Yeah, that's good to hear.
- 40:07Speaker 3: But supercars... Bit worried. Bit worried. Okay.
- 40:11Speaker 9: Yeah, because there has been a bit of blowback on,
- 40:14Speaker 9: you know, the first, I think we're going to be
- 40:15Speaker 9: the only street circuit on the MotoGP calendar. That's right,
- 40:18Speaker 9: isn't it? So it's risky, but I think it's good.
- 40:20Speaker 9: I'm glad we've got it. I heard Martin Pakula on
- 40:23Speaker 9: with Stacey and Will last week basically say, well, we
- 40:26Speaker 9: only wanted to keep it at Phillip Island, and that's
- 40:29Speaker 9: fair enough. But, yeah, so hopefully it'll go well. When
- 40:34Speaker 9: it does come, I think it'll be good. I think
- 40:36Speaker 9: once we've got it and it starts, it'll be great. But, yeah,
- 40:38Speaker 9: I hope you're right. I hope it doesn't compromise the
- 40:41Speaker 9: integrity of the V8s.
- 40:42Speaker 3: I don't have much. I mean, I don't have any
- 40:44Speaker 3: informational background when Formula 1 came here. a long time
- 40:49Speaker 3: ago now, and it was a very quick turnaround for
- 40:51Speaker 3: that first Grand Prix. It didn't have a big lead
- 40:53Speaker 3: in time. But the sentiment around Adelaide back then, was
- 40:55Speaker 3: it all on board or were there the same concerns?
- 40:58Speaker 9: It's a great question. I know everyone was really annoyed
- 41:00Speaker 9: when we lost it.
- 41:01Speaker 5: Yes.
- 41:02Speaker 9: I think when we got it, probably... Jubilation? Yeah, and different, obviously,
- 41:06Speaker 9: environment back then in terms of no social media. So
- 41:10Speaker 9: it was a bit probably more understated. But I think
- 41:13Speaker 9: once we had it, we were very proud of it.
- 41:15Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 41:15Speaker 9: But definitely outraged when we lost him.
- 41:17Speaker 1: Well done, Rennie.
- 41:18Speaker 9: Good on you, boys.
- 41:18Speaker 3: We'll talk to you tomorrow. We're going to get to
- 41:19Speaker 3: a quick break. 8223 0000 044808 1395. Stacey and Will
- 41:25Speaker 3: for 5AA Breakfast after 6 o'clock. They will have the
- 41:28Speaker 3: Premier of South Australia, Peter Malinowskis, in studio. So questions
- 41:32Speaker 3: like this on the text line, 112. Heard some roads
- 41:36Speaker 3: will be closed near the track for up to 100 days.
- 41:39Speaker 3: If true, such an inconvenience. Traffic jams. How many days
- 41:42Speaker 3: are the roads going to be shut? I doubt it's
- 41:44Speaker 3: going to be 100 days. But as I said, the
- 41:47Speaker 3: Premier of South Australia will join Stacey and Will on
- 41:49Speaker 3: 5AA Breakfast and she'll get all those answers for you.
- 42:01Speaker 3: Three minutes six on the text line, Andrew. The MotoGP
- 42:04Speaker 3: track design looks fantastic. It's definitely set up to race
- 42:07Speaker 3: Formula One as well. There's been a lot more thrown
- 42:10Speaker 3: in as well as the track. Also, have a look
- 42:12Speaker 3: at the virtual lap. It gives you a good perspective
- 42:14Speaker 3: of how the track will race. Also, Peter from Woodville West,
- 42:17Speaker 3: we've been talking about number plate slogans. Adelaide, the place
- 42:21Speaker 3: to be on track.
- 42:24Speaker 9: Like it.
- 42:25Speaker 2: Like it. Some great text regarding that. Hey, there was
- 42:27Speaker 2: one quick yarn I wanted to talk about, Sammy, before
- 42:29Speaker 2: we jump off air at six and Will and Stace
- 42:32Speaker 2: join you on the airwaves. This is great. So a
- 42:35Speaker 2: gentleman named Tim Looker in the advertiser is featured this
- 42:38Speaker 2: morning for his 74th birthday. Sammy, what did he do?
- 42:42Speaker 2: He went and got a law degree. So he's had a...
- 42:45Speaker 2: fascinating life. He's done all kinds of things. He actually
- 42:48Speaker 2: left Marion High School at 15 to sweep floors. So
- 42:52Speaker 2: he left high school early. He's gone and done a
- 42:54Speaker 2: number of different things. He got a teaching degree. He
- 42:56Speaker 2: helped people in high school. But he decided he wanted
- 42:59Speaker 2: to do something a little bit more and change things up,
- 43:01Speaker 2: even at this stage of life. So on his 74th birthday,
- 43:05Speaker 2: he finished his law degree. He's now a professional lawyer,
- 43:08Speaker 2: and he's volunteering his time to help homeless people work
- 43:12Speaker 2: through legal issues and find housing at this age. So
- 43:16Speaker 2: just a great article. If you want to have a
- 43:19Speaker 2: read of that this morning, it's brilliant. Great question, I
- 43:21Speaker 2: think it leaves with our listeners. What's something later in
- 43:25Speaker 2: life that you'd love to do? You know, what's something
- 43:28Speaker 2: that you've always thought, hey, I'd love to give that
- 43:30Speaker 2: a go? Have you thought about it? Have you done it? Yeah,
- 43:34Speaker 2: off the back of Tim Looker there this morning.
- 43:36Speaker 3: We might talk about that tomorrow morning where we get
- 43:37Speaker 3: a bit more time. Great idea. Things you've picked up
- 43:39Speaker 3: later in life, it's, yeah, 74 to become a lawyer.
- 43:44Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
- 43:45Speaker 3: And it's not a quick thing to become a lawyer.
- 43:47Speaker 2: No, it's not. I just think to still have the
- 43:49Speaker 2: energy and the drive then to give something new a
- 43:52Speaker 2: go and not to be concerned about the risk, good
- 43:54Speaker 2: on him.
- 43:54Speaker 3: Well, I guess.
- 43:55Speaker 2: What an inspiring story.
- 43:56Speaker 3: The whole idea of learning something new is probably what's
- 43:59Speaker 3: getting you going, getting you up and about, instead of
- 44:01Speaker 3: just sitting down and.
- 44:03Speaker 3: Not doing much in your retirement years, you go become
- 44:05Speaker 3: a lawyer.
- 44:06Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 44:06Speaker 2: Tomorrow morning, team, 5 o'clock, we're going to kickstart with that.
- 44:09Speaker 2: What's something you've always wanted to do, something you'd be
- 44:12Speaker 2: happy to take on a little bit later in life?
- 44:15Speaker 2: I just think that is brilliant.
- 44:16Speaker 3: Tim from Greenwood on the text line, bit cheeky. With
- 44:19Speaker 3: Port getting the spoon in the sand full and Collingwood out,
- 44:21Speaker 3: the only magpies we need to worry about this September
- 44:24Speaker 3: are the real ones. It's fantastic.
- 44:26Speaker 2: Still concerned about that dolphin and bird. What happened with
- 44:30Speaker 2: the dolphin and bird team? Was it kissing or did
- 44:33Speaker 2: they play or what happened there? Like, it's just, I'm
- 44:35Speaker 2: just not sure. Sammy, is there any context with the
- 44:38Speaker 2: bird and the dolphin?
- 44:38Speaker 3: I didn't even know they were friends. I would assume
- 44:41Speaker 3: maybe the dolphin ate it, even though a bird isn't
- 44:43Speaker 3: in it. I'm just trying to keep it PG here, Ned.
- 44:46Speaker 2: Do dolphins eat birds?
- 44:48Speaker 4: Very, very concerning.
- 44:49Speaker 3: We'll do some research and report back tomorrow morning.
- 44:51Speaker 2: Someone ask the Premier that when he's on for breakfast
- 44:53Speaker 2: this morning, please.
- 44:54Speaker 3: Will and Stace coming up for 5AA Breakfast. Time for
- 44:56Speaker 3: the news. Kendall Braddock, Tom Wren. Catch you tomorrow morning
- 44:59Speaker 3: from 5.
- 44:59Speaker 1: Ned McHenry and Sam Datto. 5AA Early Breakfast.