Latest / Early Breakfast with Ned McHenry & Sam Daddow / Early Breakfast with Ned & Sam - 27 October 2026
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- 0:02Speaker 1: Ned McHenry and Sam Datto, 5AA Early Breakfast.
- 0:09Speaker 2: Four after five, good morning. Welcome along to Early Breakfast
- 0:12Speaker 2: on this Tuesday morning. You high-fivers out there going still
- 0:16Speaker 2: for a cool... 20 degrees, partly cloudy across Adelaide. Tomorrow,
- 0:20Speaker 2: 20 degrees as well. Thursday, 25, mostly sunny. Bit of
- 0:25Speaker 2: rain towards the weekend. Friday, 26 with a shower or two. Saturday,
- 0:29Speaker 2: 23 with a possible shower. Sunday, 25 with a possible shower.
- 0:34Speaker 2: Currently in the city, it is 10.7 degrees. Nettie, good
- 0:38Speaker 2: morning to you.
- 0:40Speaker 3: Good morning, Sammy, and good morning to our wonderful high-fivers.
- 0:44Speaker 3: A big thank you to Peppers Truck Wash, JMS Rural
- 0:47Speaker 3: Fencing and Bickford's, of course.
- 0:50Speaker 4: Sammy, wonderful to be with you on this Tuesday.
- 0:53Speaker 2: Yes. We will just talk about it off the top.
- 0:57Speaker 2: Nettie's not with me in the studio this morning. Nettie
- 1:00Speaker 2: is out on the farm. Nettie's out at the feedlot.
- 1:03Speaker 2: So if you hear any sheep or any odd noises
- 1:06Speaker 2: in the background, that's what it is this morning. We're
- 1:09Speaker 2: trying something. We're going to see how this goes this morning, Nettie.
- 1:13Speaker 3: Well, I said with you in spirit. I didn't say physically.
- 1:16Speaker 3: And I'm trying this new modern work from home method.
- 1:20Speaker 4: It is so easy. You should see I'm in my pajamas.
- 1:24Speaker 3: I'm going to have a cup of coffee. I'm going
- 1:25Speaker 3: to be less productive. I'm going to do no office work.
- 1:28Speaker 4: This is why. the general society loves it. I totally
- 1:32Speaker 4: get it.
- 1:32Speaker 2: Well, I know this is what's a problem there, because
- 1:34Speaker 2: you've been very vocal about work from home. You think
- 1:37Speaker 2: it's an absolutely terrible idea. It doesn't make any sense.
- 1:40Speaker 2: Why should we pay people to work from home? And
- 1:42Speaker 2: now you're working from home. What the hell?
- 1:45Speaker 4: I could be turned. This is just fabulous.
- 1:47Speaker 3: Now, in all seriousness, we just have a lot of
- 1:49Speaker 3: shearing going on at the moment. So it's just today,
- 1:52Speaker 3: I'm going to broadcast from out of the shearing shed.
- 1:54Speaker 4: And what fun.
- 1:55Speaker 3: I mean, we love our high-fiving audience. I think everyone
- 1:58Speaker 3: knows that and can appreciate that. And to bring them
- 2:01Speaker 3: along to the shearing shed and the farm today, I
- 2:03Speaker 3: think it's great fun. I've got three dogs by my feet.
- 2:06Speaker 3: I've got a lamb that's probably only about five metres away.
- 2:08Speaker 3: So you will hear a bar at some stage if
- 2:10Speaker 3: you stick around, folks.
- 2:11Speaker 2: So in the shearing shed, what else do you see?
- 2:14Speaker 2: Paint a bit of a mental picture for all the
- 2:16Speaker 2: high-fivers waking up or in their cars on the way
- 2:18Speaker 2: to work. How many sheep have you got out there
- 2:19Speaker 2: as well?
- 2:21Speaker 3: Oh, well, it's not exactly a circus, Sammy. I mean,
- 2:23Speaker 3: you're not going to see clowns or, you know, I
- 2:25Speaker 3: don't know, games.
- 2:27Speaker 4: It is a shearing shed.
- 2:28Speaker 3: It has got sheets of aluminium surrounded by a steel
- 2:32Speaker 3: structure with a timber board and gates and yards and
- 2:37Speaker 3: beautiful sheep that need to be shorn to make sure
- 2:39Speaker 3: they're healthy and happy. And they certainly are. So that's
- 2:42Speaker 3: all humming along really nicely at the moment. We had
- 2:45Speaker 3: a massive rain over the weekend, which was about 40 mil,
- 2:48Speaker 3: meaning the feedlot was basically underwater, unfortunately, but that's drying
- 2:53Speaker 3: out and things are on the up.
- 2:55Speaker 2: Okay, so you can join in the program, 8223 0000
- 2:57Speaker 2: 044 808 1395.
- 2:57Speaker 5: We also.
- 3:03Speaker 2: Have a Colac Port Adelaide voucher to give away before
- 3:05Speaker 2: 6 o'clock this morning. So if you want to jump
- 3:07Speaker 2: in on that, that'll be going by 6. Colac Port Adelaide,
- 3:10Speaker 2: from the relaxed buzz of social bootleg with the share
- 3:13Speaker 2: plates and wood fire pizza to premium dining at Elliot's
- 3:16Speaker 2: or cocktails at the waterfront views upstairs, Colac has something
- 3:19Speaker 2: for everyone. You can join in on the program.
- 3:24Speaker 4: Sammy, what's the date, please?
- 3:26Speaker 2: The date is the 27th of October, 2026.
- 3:30Speaker 4: Okay. So we are nearing November.
- 3:33Speaker 7: Yes.
- 3:34Speaker 3: Can you believe it? Now, the saying goes, goodness me,
- 3:38Speaker 3: the year's flown. The year has just passed along quickly.
- 3:41Speaker 3: Has anyone listening had a long year? 8223 0000. It
- 3:47Speaker 3: seems to be the most consistent thing that everyone says. Oh,
- 3:50Speaker 3: the year, it's just flown by. Has anyone had a
- 3:52Speaker 3: long year?
- 3:54Speaker 2: I reckon this year for me has been the quickest
- 3:57Speaker 2: I can recall. It feels only like yesterday. Nine months ago,
- 4:00Speaker 2: we started this little experiment called Early Breakfast. Nine months ago,
- 4:05Speaker 2: 168 episodes we've done. It's actually flown by.
- 4:10Speaker 4: So what makes a year fly by?
- 4:12Speaker 3: 8223 0000. The saying is a goodie. We hear it
- 4:16Speaker 3: all the time. That's what I want to ask our listeners.
- 4:19Speaker 3: Has your year flown by, and what makes a year
- 4:22Speaker 3: fly by? Or alternatively, has your year gone slowly, and
- 4:26Speaker 3: why do you think that works?
- 4:28Speaker 2: 8223 0000. Jump on the phones. We'll head out to
- 4:30Speaker 2: Hectorville this morning. Max, good morning to you.
- 4:33Speaker 8: Yeah, hello, guys. Old Mac Henry had a farm. E-I-E-I-O.
- 4:41Speaker 2: Oh, keep going, Max.
- 4:43Speaker 4: Come on, Max, that was one line.
- 4:45Speaker 8: But, yeah, look, I've just got a topic, actually. Things that, like,
- 4:51Speaker 8: that you really, certain things that just, you know, disappeared, like,
- 4:57Speaker 8: you know, certain businesses or something. Like, what about, for me,
- 5:01Speaker 8: Pizza Haven? Well, I really, like, missed their pizzas, you know,
- 5:07Speaker 8: in Pizza Haven, like, like the barbecue chicken pizzas. There
- 5:14Speaker 8: was something unique about the taste of the barbecue sauce
- 5:18Speaker 8: and that. And just in general, at the supermarkets, right,
- 5:22Speaker 8: these sesame bars or whatever, for some reason they just
- 5:27Speaker 8: have disappeared the last few years. And I used to
- 5:31Speaker 8: love those sesame bars.
- 5:35Speaker 2: Okay, mate.
- 5:36Speaker 8: What was that?
- 5:39Speaker 2: Keep going.
- 5:40Speaker 8: No, that's just a suggestion for a topic or, like,
- 5:44Speaker 8: you know, things that, you know, like, what about you? Like,
- 5:47Speaker 8: can you think of anything?
- 5:50Speaker 2: Max, that's a great point. I would jump on with
- 5:52Speaker 2: you on the discussion. If we're talking about things that
- 5:55Speaker 2: you miss, things that are gone, 8223 0000, Max from
- 5:58Speaker 2: Hectorville's suggestion, the old dine-in pizza hut. When you could
- 6:02Speaker 2: dine in at Pizza Hut, get as much pizza as
- 6:04Speaker 2: you wanted for a certain amount of money, and you
- 6:06Speaker 2: could sit there all afternoon. There used to be one
- 6:08Speaker 2: on Port Road near South Road for years. It was
- 6:12Speaker 2: an excellent experience.
- 6:14Speaker 4: Well, what's Max doing?
- 6:16Speaker 9: Is he producing, is he?
- 6:17Speaker 2: We'll take all the help we can get, Ned.
- 6:19Speaker 3: No, I said that sincerely. I think it's fantastic. Thank you, Max,
- 6:24Speaker 3: for calling up and contributing in that way. Things I miss.
- 6:28Speaker 3: I miss... It's a society that walks past each other
- 6:31Speaker 3: on the footpath and says hello and nods and is
- 6:34Speaker 3: polite and normal.
- 6:36Speaker 4: That's what I miss, Sammy.
- 6:37Speaker 3: That's not necessarily a pizza topping, but I could probably
- 6:40Speaker 3: think of one of those too if you need.
- 6:42Speaker 2: Let's head out to Aldinga Beach. David, good morning.
- 6:44Speaker 10: Hi, God and all. High fivers.
- 6:46Speaker 4: How are we? Dave, this is brilliant.
- 6:49Speaker 1: Morning, mate.
- 6:51Speaker 8: Good, mate.
- 6:51Speaker 10: Now, listen, Ned, I need to ask you a few questions.
- 6:55Speaker 10: because you're at the shearing shed today. I want to know,
- 6:59Speaker 10: obviously you've shorn sheep in your life, one time in
- 7:04Speaker 10: your life. How do you stop your back from getting
- 7:07Speaker 10: hurt and how do you place the sheep between your
- 7:11Speaker 10: legs so they are comfortable and can explain all our
- 7:14Speaker 10: high-fivers what actually goes on in the shearing shed as sheep?
- 7:19Speaker 10: to do the actual job to minimise hurt to the
- 7:22Speaker 10: human and minimise hurt to the animal.
- 7:25Speaker 5: For us, please, Mehdi.
- 7:27Speaker 4: Oh, Dave, what a great question.
- 7:29Speaker 3: Now, firstly, I must confess, I'm not a good shearer.
- 7:32Speaker 4: So you can hear that in the background. Sorry, there
- 7:36Speaker 4: are a few lambs here.
- 7:36Speaker 9: This is the question.
- 7:38Speaker 2: Dave's raising the question about he wants expert tips on
- 7:41Speaker 2: keeping the body right for shearing. Do you actually shear?
- 7:44Speaker 9: No, yeah, I can shear.
- 7:45Speaker 4: I can shear. Are you talking about Dave or me, Sam?
- 7:49Speaker 5: You.
- 7:49Speaker 11: Me.
- 7:50Speaker 8: Go.
- 7:50Speaker 3: Well, I can shear. I do a lot of crutching,
- 7:52Speaker 3: but the shearers are a lot better than me. But essentially,
- 7:55Speaker 3: in terms of your body position, it's really important to
- 7:57Speaker 3: keep your legs straight, Dave.
- 7:58Speaker 4: So you don't want to hunch over and lose that
- 8:00Speaker 4: back position.
- 8:01Speaker 3: You want your pigeon toes, so your feet pointing towards
- 8:05Speaker 3: each other, so your knees can be used to try
- 8:08Speaker 3: and squeeze the sheep to make sure you've got control.
- 8:10Speaker 3: And then it's just all about doing all of your
- 8:12Speaker 3: blows with efficiency. So you don't want to do any...
- 8:14Speaker 3: short blows um small short blows you want to do
- 8:17Speaker 3: long blows and take off as much wool in the
- 8:19Speaker 3: cone as you can to make sure you're getting through
- 8:21Speaker 3: it as quickly as possible.
- 8:23Speaker 10: When you say a long blow is that a blow
- 8:25Speaker 10: is like a cut like a is that like a
- 8:28Speaker 10: shoring cut that that's the terminology you call it a
- 8:33Speaker 10: blow do you Exactly.
- 8:35Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's a blow.
- 8:36Speaker 3: So it's like a big comb and it travels through
- 8:39Speaker 3: the wool just on top of the skin and it
- 8:40Speaker 3: just takes off all of that wool beautifully.
- 8:43Speaker 4: And if you're doing it well, you'll be close to
- 8:44Speaker 4: the skin.
- 8:44Speaker 3: So that's when you'll see those nice lines through the
- 8:47Speaker 3: wool and a little bit of pink from the skin.
- 8:49Speaker 3: But you just want to maximise how much wool you're
- 8:52Speaker 3: getting in that comb because otherwise you're inefficient. And obviously
- 8:55Speaker 3: shearers make money from the amount of sheep that they shear.
- 8:58Speaker 4: It might be $ 5 or $ 6.
- 8:59Speaker 3: I mean, a good shearer might do 300 lambs in
- 9:01Speaker 3: a day.
- 9:02Speaker 4: So it's big money, but it's hard work.
- 9:05Speaker 10: Oh, 300 a day.
- 9:07Speaker 12: So what's that?
- 9:08Speaker 13: Is that about two or three a minute or what?
- 9:10Speaker 10: What's a good shearer?
- 9:13Speaker 7: What can they.
- 9:14Speaker 10: Do a sheep in?
- 9:15Speaker 7: How long?
- 9:17Speaker 10: One, two, three, four, five minutes?
- 9:19Speaker 7: What?
- 9:20Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the gun shearers might do it in
- 9:22Speaker 3: something like 90 seconds or maybe a little bit less,
- 9:24Speaker 3: 60 seconds, David. When you're cruising through, you work in runs.
- 9:28Speaker 3: So a shearer will do about two hours in a
- 9:30Speaker 3: row and they'll shear as many as they can. Then
- 9:33Speaker 3: they'll stop for 30 minutes and then they'll go again.
- 9:35Speaker 4: And the other.
- 9:37Speaker 3: Role in the shed, Dave, is a rouse about, which
- 9:40Speaker 3: I'm sure almost all Australians would have heard that name
- 9:43Speaker 3: and know what that is.
- 9:44Speaker 14: Yeah.
- 9:45Speaker 3: That's the person that obviously takes the wool, grades the wool,
- 9:48Speaker 3: puts it in the press, bails it up and does
- 9:50Speaker 3: all those jobs.
- 9:50Speaker 4: So critical jobs in Australia, no doubt.
- 9:53Speaker 2: Thank you, David, for that call. Now, if you're just
- 9:55Speaker 2: tuning in, you haven't tuned into the Country Hour, this
- 9:57Speaker 2: is early breakfast with Ned and Sam. Ned is up
- 10:00Speaker 2: at the farm in the shearing shed doing the show,
- 10:02Speaker 2: so anything could happen. We've got live sheep in the
- 10:04Speaker 2: background barring away, so it's much better than Ned trying
- 10:07Speaker 2: to do it. On the text line, 0448081395, morning high-fivers,
- 10:12Speaker 2: Rex in his pyjamas. Heck, that'll be a good look.
- 10:14Speaker 2: Happy shearing, Rex.
- 10:16Speaker 7: Oh!
- 10:16Speaker 2: Was that the other Rick, Sammy? That was from Mark
- 10:19Speaker 2: from Parahills. Rob, are we getting a live sheep shearing
- 10:22Speaker 2: demo or is Ned updating his Only Lambs website? And
- 10:26Speaker 2: tomorrow Sam can show us his website dedicated to vegetables,
- 10:30Speaker 2: Only Yams. Luke in Queenstown. Hey, guys, the last All
- 10:34Speaker 2: You Could Eat Pizza was at the Marrowing Shopping Centre. Yes,
- 10:37Speaker 2: it was, Luke. Thank you for that. So, yes, if
- 10:39Speaker 2: you want to join in, if you've got any farming questions,
- 10:41Speaker 2: David's really kicked it off this morning. He wants to
- 10:43Speaker 2: know all the intricacies around shearing sheep. 8223 0000 044808 1395. Also,
- 10:50Speaker 2: that Colac Port Adelaide voucher up for grabs.
- 10:53Speaker 3: Sammy, I had no idea how this would go, but
- 10:56Speaker 3: sitting here with our high-fivers just asking questions about farming,
- 11:00Speaker 3: I could get used to this.
- 11:01Speaker 9: This is brilliant.
- 11:03Speaker 2: So when the sheep are making noise like that, what
- 11:05Speaker 2: does it mean? They're just hungry? They're up and about?
- 11:07Speaker 2: They're sad? What's going on?
- 11:09Speaker 4: No, they're very happy.
- 11:10Speaker 3: To be completely honest, there's just a couple of lambs
- 11:12Speaker 3: in there that we treated for fire strikes. Obviously, human
- 11:17Speaker 3: intervention meant that those lambs would survive and prosper. They're
- 11:20Speaker 3: just sitting in the yards, and they sat there overnight.
- 11:22Speaker 3: So this morning, they'll go back in the paddock.
- 11:25Speaker 4: But they're very happy. They're basically saying, I love 5AA.
- 11:30Speaker 2: Anything could happen this morning. 15 after 5, 8223 0000.
- 11:33Speaker 2: Jump to the phones.
- 11:37Speaker 1: Ned mchenry and sam datto five double a early breakfast.
- 11:41Speaker 2: 19 after five on this tuesday morning going for a
- 11:49Speaker 2: top of 20 degrees today this morning over in the
- 11:53Speaker 2: city it is 10.6 might be a bit cooler where
- 11:55Speaker 2: netty is uh netty yeah did someone just arrive with it.
- 12:01Speaker 4: They did.
- 12:02Speaker 3: What about this coffee, Sammy? It's arrived, a small double
- 12:05Speaker 3: shot almond latte. People will think that's hypocritical because I
- 12:08Speaker 3: support farming and I support the dairy sector.
- 12:10Speaker 4: I certainly do.
- 12:11Speaker 3: But the almond just makes me do a less poopy poopy.
- 12:15Speaker 3: So that's why I have it.
- 12:17Speaker 4: Guess who brought it in?
- 12:19Speaker 8: Who?
- 12:19Speaker 4: Nick Murray.
- 12:20Speaker 2: Get him on the show. Is he going to come on?
- 12:23Speaker 4: Oh, he's... Yeah, I'll get him on. Where is he?
- 12:26Speaker 5: Hang on.
- 12:26Speaker 3: He's just walked in the shearing shed. Folks, Sam, you
- 12:29Speaker 3: just hold the kind of fort up and I'll see.
- 12:32Speaker 2: Sure.
- 12:33Speaker 4: Oh, he's walking over here.
- 12:36Speaker 3: Should we ask him about his failed trade attempt or
- 12:38Speaker 3: is that too much?
- 12:39Speaker 2: I'll let you take over this.
- 12:40Speaker 4: He's laughing. Come over here, Muzz.
- 12:42Speaker 3: I'm not going to quiz you properly, but just maybe
- 12:45Speaker 3: say a quick hello to everyone.
- 12:47Speaker 15: Good morning to all the 5AA listeners.
- 12:51Speaker 4: What about this?
- 12:52Speaker 3: Mate, how are you feeling about all your footy in
- 12:54Speaker 3: your pre-season? What are you doing in a shearing shed
- 12:56Speaker 3: this morning at 4.30 in the morning?
- 12:58Speaker 15: I'm about to go clean some chops, actually.
- 13:01Speaker 16: Just went and picked up a nice brew from the
- 13:03Speaker 16: Manum OTR, although I was a bit disappointed. I did
- 13:06Speaker 16: have their start time at 4, and then I was
- 13:09Speaker 16: there at 4, and, yeah, they weren't open. So if
- 13:12Speaker 16: the Manum OTR is listening, just if you wouldn't mind
- 13:15Speaker 16: fixing it.
- 13:15Speaker 15: Up on the internet, I'd be much appreciated.
- 13:17Speaker 9: Awesome.
- 13:18Speaker 4: That's just extraordinary, isn't it? An AFL player potting small business. Oh,
- 13:21Speaker 4: mind you, OTR aren't small business, but still.
- 13:23Speaker 3: In all seriousness, you do love the farm, don't you,
- 13:25Speaker 3: outside of your football commitments?
- 13:27Speaker 4: You're a big fan of South Australia.
- 13:28Speaker 3: I mean, I think it speaks volumes that you're out
- 13:30Speaker 3: in Manim and these country areas and supporting farmers and
- 13:33Speaker 3: running footy clinics and doing all that.
- 13:34Speaker 4: It's a big passion for you, isn't it? Livestock and farming.
- 13:38Speaker 15: Yeah, it is.
- 13:38Speaker 16: And being able to obviously integrate the two, as you said,
- 13:41Speaker 16: with footy has been a really special.
- 13:44Speaker 15: Part of coming over to the Crows.
- 13:46Speaker 16: And, you know, being able to have this exposure outside
- 13:48Speaker 16: of footy has been really cool. And obviously being able
- 13:51Speaker 16: to do it with you and Ryan, it's been a
- 13:53Speaker 16: very good experience.
- 13:54Speaker 15: So loving it so far.
- 13:56Speaker 1: Fantastic.
- 13:56Speaker 4: All right, I'll let you go. The interviews will stop.
- 13:59Speaker 9: How much fun is that, team?
- 14:00Speaker 4: I think that's the first interview he's done since the incident.
- 14:04Speaker 4: The thing we shall not speak of.
- 14:06Speaker 2: The exclusive. The High Fiver's got the exclusive of Nick Murray.
- 14:10Speaker 2: Well done, Neddy. Well done. Before we move on any further,
- 14:13Speaker 2: we've got Brad from One Tree Hill on the line. Morning, Brad.
- 14:17Speaker 12: Yep, morning, Sam. And, yeah, I remember when I was
- 14:21Speaker 12: a kid in school holidays, Ned, I used to be
- 14:24Speaker 12: a rouse about in a shearing shed. You know, you'd
- 14:27Speaker 12: sweep away the bellies and pick the fleeces up and
- 14:30Speaker 12: toss them onto the table there for it to be
- 14:31Speaker 12: picked and classified and that. It was good pocket money
- 14:35Speaker 12: for me, and I enjoyed it. Those shearers, they work hard, mate.
- 14:40Speaker 12: They bloody work hard. What do they get per head
- 14:44Speaker 12: now for a sheep for shearing?
- 14:47Speaker 3: Depends what style of shearing they're doing. Probably around $ 5.
- 14:49Speaker 3: It can be a lot more, though, Brad. $ 6, $ 7.
- 14:52Speaker 3: And some of the New Zealanders that are coming over
- 14:54Speaker 3: are earning big money as well. But they work their
- 14:57Speaker 3: backsides off, mate.
- 14:59Speaker 4: It's just amazing. And without them, you'd be in serious strife.
- 15:01Speaker 4: Whereabouts did you do your... Where were you in the sheds, mate?
- 15:05Speaker 12: When I was a kid, there was a place in
- 15:07Speaker 12: Virginia called Metro Mates.
- 15:08Speaker 4: I used to.
- 15:10Speaker 12: shear sheep, and they used to send them over the
- 15:12Speaker 12: Middle East because they're all old rank old buddy reams
- 15:15Speaker 12: that nobody did eat here, but the Arabs loved them.
- 15:18Speaker 12: And they used to go 12 months a year. They
- 15:20Speaker 12: had a shear and shed there. There's 12 stands down
- 15:25Speaker 12: and 12 stands above. They used to send all the
- 15:31Speaker 12: sheep away. It was good pocket money for a kid
- 15:33Speaker 12: at school. Now, the other thing too, Ned, is you're
- 15:38Speaker 12: talking about things that you missed. Now, I've got late
- 15:41Speaker 12: model vehicles, and they're basically all the same now. They're
- 15:46Speaker 12: pretty bland and boring, you know, like they say. It's
- 15:49Speaker 12: very exciting. It's dancing with your sister. I miss the
- 15:52Speaker 12: old Kingswood. It was like a chrome-plated lounge room on wheels.
- 15:57Speaker 12: It was the best car I ever had, but they
- 16:00Speaker 12: got no class, these vehicles nowadays.
- 16:04Speaker 11: Yeah. Yeah.
- 16:04Speaker 3: So what is it about the old Kingswoods, mate? And
- 16:06Speaker 3: I'm being transparent. I mean, I never had one. I
- 16:08Speaker 3: never got to experience it.
- 16:09Speaker 9: What was it like?
- 16:11Speaker 4: So great about it. Yeah, exactly.
- 16:14Speaker 12: Well, for starters, made here in South Australia. And, oh, listen,
- 16:21Speaker 12: they're beautiful bench seats, T-bar, auto. And you could open
- 16:26Speaker 12: your long necks on the door handles.
- 16:32Speaker 4: I hope that was after the commute, Brad.
- 16:35Speaker 12: Of course, yeah, drink responsibly.
- 16:37Speaker 14: Yeah.
- 16:38Speaker 2: Well done, Brad. Thank you for that. Keep the calls
- 16:40Speaker 2: coming in, 8223 0000. Shane on the text line as well.
- 16:44Speaker 2: Was going to ask this yesterday but forgot. Ned, can
- 16:47Speaker 2: you explain a sheep grazier's warning? Because I saw one
- 16:50Speaker 2: on the weather on Saturday and I'm thinking all the
- 16:53Speaker 2: sheep come inside. Shane?
- 16:56Speaker 4: Shane, good question.
- 16:59Speaker 3: A sheep grazier's warning is essentially just a mix of temperature,
- 17:03Speaker 3: wind and rain. which means that newborn lambs or sheep
- 17:07Speaker 3: may be at risk from those conditions. So it basically
- 17:10Speaker 3: just tells the farmer, hey, with the conditions that are
- 17:12Speaker 3: coming up, you might want to move your livestock into
- 17:15Speaker 3: a sheltered paddock.
- 17:16Speaker 2: There you go, Shane. Hope that helps. Keep the text
- 17:18Speaker 2: coming in as well, 0448081395. Big news yesterday in the
- 17:22Speaker 2: sporting world with Gather Round fixture announced for 2027, where
- 17:26Speaker 2: the big wig's in town. Here's Andrew Dillon on Gather Round.
- 17:30Speaker 11: Starting on the Thursday night with Adelaide playing Brisbane and
- 17:33Speaker 11: we'll follow that on Friday.
- 17:34Speaker 7: Night with Collingwood playing the Swans.
- 17:36Speaker 11: Other games at Adelaide Oval will be Fremantle playing Hawthorne
- 17:39Speaker 11: on the Saturday night, Melbourne playing Carlton Saturday afternoon. Gather
- 17:43Speaker 11: round will finish on the Sunday evening with a big
- 17:46Speaker 11: game between Port.
- 17:46Speaker 7: Adelaide and the Western Bulldogs. Pleasingly, we'll be back at.
- 17:51Speaker 11: Barossa for another two games and we will have GWS
- 17:54Speaker 11: playing the Gold Coast on Saturday and then Geelong playing
- 17:57Speaker 11: St Kilda on the Sunday at the Barossa. And also
- 18:00Speaker 11: we'll have Norwood Oval hosting Richmond and the West Coast
- 18:02Speaker 11: on Saturday and.
- 18:03Speaker 7: Essendon and North Melbourne on Sunday.
- 18:06Speaker 2: That's Andrew Dillon, the CEO of the AFL, the Premier
- 18:09Speaker 2: of South Australia, Peter Malinowskis, joined the 5AA Sports Show
- 18:12Speaker 2: last night as well.
- 18:13Speaker 14: So what we've done is I said to them last
- 18:16Speaker 14: year when we were doing this negotiation, you know, hang on,
- 18:19Speaker 14: let's go back a step. I said, Gather Round's now
- 18:21Speaker 14: the best week of footy outside of Grand Final week
- 18:24Speaker 14: in terms of the whole footy showpiece. You guys, as
- 18:29Speaker 14: in the AFL, and I put this as bluntly as
- 18:31Speaker 14: I could, but I said, you guys plug into your
- 18:32Speaker 14: fixture a whole range of matches before it goes into the,
- 18:37Speaker 14: you know, Canadian washing machine, so to speak. But they do.
- 18:42Speaker 14: They put in Anzac Day. They get locked in. They
- 18:44Speaker 14: lock in Queen's birthday with Melbourne Collingwood and so forth
- 18:50Speaker 14: and so forth. So I said, let's go back a step.
- 18:53Speaker 14: I said, if Gather Round is now the second best
- 18:56Speaker 14: week in footy outside the grand final, you should be
- 18:58Speaker 14: locking things in for that as well.
- 19:02Speaker 2: So how are we feeling about Gather Round? As you
- 19:06Speaker 2: heard Andrew Dillon there, Big, big game to start off
- 19:09Speaker 2: Gather Round for 2027. The Crows and the Brisbane Lions,
- 19:13Speaker 2: 7-10 at Adelaide Oval. Then rounding out Gather Round. And
- 19:18Speaker 2: Port Adelaide and the Bulldogs, 6-45 Sunday night. Firstly, with
- 19:22Speaker 2: the Bulldogs and Port Adelaide. We spoke about this last
- 19:25Speaker 2: week when it was mooted that this would be the match-up.
- 19:30Speaker 2: Is there really a rivalry between the Bulldogs and Port Adelaide?
- 19:35Speaker 2: Are we just really using the Zach Butters link, of course,
- 19:38Speaker 2: but at the same time, is there really a rivalry?
- 19:40Speaker 2: It's not going to turn into one.
- 19:43Speaker 17: No.
- 19:43Speaker 3: There's no rivalry whatsoever. What previous history do they have?
- 19:48Speaker 3: I would argue that the Hawthorne, Port Adelaide, rivalry became
- 19:51Speaker 3: a bit of a beauty. Now, that will probably fade
- 19:54Speaker 3: just due to Ken's link with Tasmania now.
- 19:57Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 19:58Speaker 4: And things like that.
- 20:00Speaker 3: Your biggest rivalry is the Adelaide Crows, and you're playing
- 20:02Speaker 3: a showdown, and your other rivalry is Collingwood. I can't
- 20:06Speaker 3: fit the Western Bulldogs in that category or something.
- 20:09Speaker 2: I can't. Do the Bulldogs have any rivalries at all?
- 20:11Speaker 2: I can't think. We'll have some Bulldogs listeners on the
- 20:15Speaker 2: text line, but I can't even think who their rival
- 20:16Speaker 2: would be.
- 20:19Speaker 15: Yeah.
- 20:20Speaker 2: Maybe the Kangaroos are the most, at least, I don't know,
- 20:23Speaker 2: viable club in Melbourne.
- 20:26Speaker 3: Sam, that's just rude and not true. Sammy, what did
- 20:31Speaker 3: you make of the Gather Round fixture? I thought all
- 20:33Speaker 3: in all, pretty positive. Port Adelaide fans and certainly Timmy G,
- 20:37Speaker 3: as I listened to the sports show, his gripe was
- 20:39Speaker 3: the Sunday evening fixture. Is that just to retain some
- 20:43Speaker 3: South Australian people across the weekend, just to have that
- 20:47Speaker 3: kind of sandwiched that fixture is that is that the
- 20:49Speaker 3: design sammy.
- 20:50Speaker 2: I don't i don't really know because as a port
- 20:52Speaker 2: adelaide supporter last few years we have had the sunday
- 20:55Speaker 2: night game and it's getting annoying to me i'm with
- 20:57Speaker 2: timmy g yet it's such a big week as well
- 21:00Speaker 2: because gather round really starts on the monday that's when
- 21:02Speaker 2: all the hype comes around adelaide everything gets the elder
- 21:05Speaker 2: park it's all done up the mall gets all the
- 21:07Speaker 2: decorations and then you're waiting around till sunday night Sunday?
- 21:11Speaker 16: Really?
- 21:11Speaker 2: I mean, the first Gather Round we had, it was
- 21:14Speaker 2: a Saturday night fixture at Adelaide Oval, and that pissed
- 21:16Speaker 2: down with rain. But waiting around till Sunday, I don't
- 21:19Speaker 2: know if we should be swapping the crows and Port
- 21:22Speaker 2: Adelaide around or whatever. I don't know, but it is
- 21:24Speaker 2: what it is. We'll get on with it. I don't
- 21:26Speaker 2: mind the idea of the two SA clubs starting and
- 21:29Speaker 2: finishing it, because it makes it feel more like ours.
- 21:32Speaker 2: The more controversial decision would be to play a Friday
- 21:35Speaker 2: night showdown in Gather Round.
- 21:38Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think that would be a huge waste.
- 21:41Speaker 3: I'm pleased they haven't done that. I think Gather Round
- 21:43Speaker 3: deserves its own isolated attention. I think the show is
- 21:47Speaker 3: a masterpiece in itself, which deserves a separate week.
- 21:51Speaker 4: All in all, what did you make of the fixture?
- 21:53Speaker 3: 8223 0000. Gather Round, will you go? Are you still excited?
- 21:57Speaker 3: Is the momentum still travelling along? Nicely in that sense.
- 22:01Speaker 3: The other thing that Peter Malinowskis confirmed, and this has
- 22:04Speaker 3: been on the cards for a while, is this footy festival.
- 22:07Speaker 3: I think this is going to be good family fun.
- 22:10Speaker 2: What do you think? The big parade through the city.
- 22:14Speaker 4: Every team involved.
- 22:15Speaker 3: I think this is really clever, and I think this
- 22:18Speaker 3: will be a massive hit.
- 22:19Speaker 2: Well, it's going to be. I mean, we put the
- 22:21Speaker 2: pageant on very well. The pageant's going to be in
- 22:22Speaker 2: a couple of weeks' time. We know how to put
- 22:24Speaker 2: a parade on through our city. We do it better
- 22:26Speaker 2: than what the Victorians do, trying to put the grand
- 22:28Speaker 2: final parade on the Yarra. So at least we know
- 22:30Speaker 2: what we're doing in the streets of Adelaide. But I
- 22:33Speaker 2: guess the one thing we've gathered around for 2027 was
- 22:36Speaker 2: it was well talked about that they thought they might
- 22:39Speaker 2: be able to get a game down south. We know
- 22:41Speaker 2: that the games are still staying at Barossa and Norwood Oval.
- 22:43Speaker 2: So Norwood is cashing in on that cash cow of
- 22:46Speaker 2: Gather Round, have had a game every Gather Round so far. Barossa,
- 22:50Speaker 2: we know, we took over from the Mount Barker Sports
- 22:53Speaker 2: Summit ground in the hills. So Barossa Park and Norwood
- 22:57Speaker 2: keeping their spots. I reckon it's only a matter of time.
- 23:00Speaker 2: We talk about when the Premier gets these contracts, two,
- 23:03Speaker 2: three years. We want to be able to build towards something,
- 23:06Speaker 2: build better, build bigger. So I guess in the next
- 23:09Speaker 2: few years, we might see some more games in and
- 23:11Speaker 2: around the edges of South Australia. But for now, we
- 23:14Speaker 2: can keep with Barossa and we can keep with... Norwood Oval,
- 23:18Speaker 2: so have you got any thoughts on Gather Round?
- 23:20Speaker 11: 8223 0000.
- 23:20Speaker 2: If you're happy with the picture, if you're happy with
- 23:22Speaker 2: the locations, 044808 1395. Changing tacks slightly, this, as Ned
- 23:29Speaker 2: would say, this came across my desk this morning. Prisoners
- 23:33Speaker 2: not being too happy with what they're getting dished up
- 23:35Speaker 2: for breakfast.
- 23:36Speaker 17: An unusual legal battle is unfolding in Victoria with a
- 23:39Speaker 17: high-security prisoner suing the Department of Justice, claiming he's not
- 23:43Speaker 17: been given access to Vegemite, which has stopped.
- 23:46Speaker 7: Him from, quote, enjoying his culture.
- 23:49Speaker 17: Andrew McKechnie was originally sentenced to life in prison with
- 23:52Speaker 17: a non-parole period of 15 years for a murder in
- 23:55Speaker 17: Queensland in the 1990s.
- 23:57Speaker 4: A verdict is expected today.
- 24:00Speaker 2: Prisoners not getting a Vegemite. This guy's cracked the sads
- 24:05Speaker 2: because he can't get his Vegemite in prison. What's that about?
- 24:10Speaker 4: I like it. I like it.
- 24:11Speaker 3: I think a murderer is well within their rights to
- 24:14Speaker 3: be frustrated around what spread they're having in prison. You know,
- 24:17Speaker 3: if it's not Nutella or Vegemite, they're within their rights
- 24:21Speaker 3: to carry on.
- 24:22Speaker 11: Not.
- 24:23Speaker 4: I mean, are you joking?
- 24:24Speaker 3: What kind of quality of life are these people living
- 24:26Speaker 3: in prison? It does beg the question, though, Sammy, without
- 24:30Speaker 3: going on a tirade of opinion regarding prison and regarding how.
- 24:34Speaker 4: Our judicial system works.
- 24:36Speaker 3: What's your favourite spread? If you were in prison, I mean,
- 24:43Speaker 3: what spread would you want to have? I think, what about, hey,
- 24:47Speaker 3: let me phrase that differently to our high-fives. If you're
- 24:49Speaker 3: in prison and you could only have one spread for
- 24:52Speaker 3: the rest of your sentence, what would you have? Would
- 24:53Speaker 3: you have Vegemite? Because you'd need the butter to complement it,
- 24:56Speaker 3: wouldn't you?
- 24:56Speaker 2: You would need the butter to complement it. Mine, I've
- 25:00Speaker 2: got two that I can't live without and I have regularly.
- 25:03Speaker 2: It'll either be peanut butter or it's Vegemite. I'm not
- 25:06Speaker 2: straying too far away from those two. Every now and again,
- 25:09Speaker 2: I might dabble in a bit of strawberry jam on
- 25:11Speaker 2: some toast, but it's mainly the Vegemite and it's mainly
- 25:14Speaker 2: the peanut butter.
- 25:17Speaker 3: Okay, well, 8223 0000, what's your favourite spread? If you're
- 25:22Speaker 3: in prison and unfortunately you had to live out a sentence,
- 25:25Speaker 3: of course, just for, you know, argument's sake, that's a
- 25:28Speaker 3: non-violent sentence for, you know, just for high-fiving purposes.
- 25:32Speaker 4: Let's not kind of position our listeners as murderers.
- 25:35Speaker 3: But if you were in prison and you needed a spread,
- 25:38Speaker 3: what would you have? Peanut butter's popular, Nutella, jam. I
- 25:42Speaker 3: still think butter and jam, Sammy, is just the most
- 25:47Speaker 3: idyllic combination of all time.
- 25:49Speaker 2: Okay, jump on the phones, 8223 0000. What about Rob
- 25:52Speaker 2: from Clearview on the text line? He's had a real
- 25:54Speaker 2: crack at me. Stop whining, Sam. Port have their non-negotiable
- 25:58Speaker 2: fixture slots like Anzac Day. Then the Crows get a
- 26:01Speaker 2: good slot and you suck it up wanting that. Nah, Rob,
- 26:04Speaker 2: I just... I just really don't like Sunday night games
- 26:07Speaker 2: when you've got to get up at 4 o'clock in
- 26:08Speaker 2: the morning. My prime, what I would love, my favourite
- 26:11Speaker 2: time slot, which I think is quite controversial with the
- 26:15Speaker 2: footballing fans, give me a 5 o'clock or a 4.30
- 26:17Speaker 2: at Adelaide Oval on a Saturday afternoon. Done and out
- 26:20Speaker 2: of there by 8 o'clock, nice and early night. That
- 26:22Speaker 2: makes me happy every day of the week.
- 26:26Speaker 3: Yeah, the time slots are interesting for games. What do
- 26:29Speaker 3: our listeners think about the Monday night time slot, Sammy?
- 26:32Speaker 4: It's been floated. I don't think families like it.
- 26:35Speaker 3: I think Thursday night footy has worked in terms of
- 26:37Speaker 3: attendance and viewership on television. I think Monday night might
- 26:41Speaker 3: fit the bill with viewership, but attendance, I think, would
- 26:45Speaker 3: be right down.
- 26:46Speaker 4: Your thoughts?
- 26:46Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not a Monday night fan. I know it's
- 26:48Speaker 2: big in the States, Monday night football. We've trialled it
- 26:51Speaker 2: a few times. As you're right, Thursday night footy works.
- 26:54Speaker 2: Even I got to the point during the year that
- 26:56Speaker 2: those couple of weeks when we didn't have a Thursday
- 26:58Speaker 2: night fixture, I thought, oh, there's nothing just to put
- 27:00Speaker 2: on in the background. But a Monday night just seems
- 27:02Speaker 2: like it's too far away. I'm not a fan of
- 27:04Speaker 2: Monday night football. Let's head out to Mylaw. Sue, good morning.
- 27:07Speaker 18: Morning, guys. Yeah, just talking on the gather round, but
- 27:10Speaker 18: before that, I hope this new next year we don't
- 27:15Speaker 18: get so many short turnarounds. I think the Crows really
- 27:18Speaker 18: got ribbed with that in this last season.
- 27:22Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 27:23Speaker 18: You know, going to Perth and then coming back five
- 27:25Speaker 18: days later and playing again. I thought it was, yeah.
- 27:30Speaker 18: As far as Gather Round goes, we would love to
- 27:33Speaker 18: have it back at Mount Barker. Really missed it when
- 27:38Speaker 18: they took it away from us. And it was a
- 27:42Speaker 18: great atmosphere up here and it's so accessible from the city.
- 27:45Speaker 18: It's so easy to get to Mount Barker. and all
- 27:50Speaker 18: of us surrounding it just really got stuck in and
- 27:52Speaker 18: really enjoyed the atmosphere, met lots of people from all
- 27:57Speaker 18: over Australia who loved the hills. They said, we love
- 28:00Speaker 18: coming up here and would just love to have Mount
- 28:04Speaker 18: Barker back as a fixture. I think it was really
- 28:09Speaker 18: disappointing when they took it away from us, considering we
- 28:12Speaker 18: did so well with it the first season. And, you know,
- 28:17Speaker 18: that would really, cover the regions, I think. And it's
- 28:23Speaker 18: so easy to get to by bus or car, straight
- 28:26Speaker 18: up the freeway. I know it's not as glamorous as
- 28:29Speaker 18: wine regions, but for Hills people, we missed out on
- 28:35Speaker 18: a lot. So we would love to have Mount Barker back.
- 28:39Speaker 4: Yeah, I appreciate your call, sir. I think a lot
- 28:43Speaker 4: of people in The Hills agree.
- 28:45Speaker 3: Mal, he might be listening. He was on 5AA yesterday morning,
- 28:48Speaker 3: wasn't he? What did you make of Stacey's question regarding
- 28:52Speaker 3: his love for sport and perhaps people's opinions that he
- 29:00Speaker 3: uses sport to distract South Australians from major issues?
- 29:04Speaker 4: Do you think that question was valid or not?
- 29:07Speaker 2: I think the question was valid, but also his response
- 29:09Speaker 2: was valid. Pretty spot on as well. He doesn't tell
- 29:12Speaker 2: the CEO of the AFL when to come to town.
- 29:14Speaker 2: He doesn't tell the CEO of the AFL when to
- 29:17Speaker 2: release his fixture. It's something he had to do at
- 29:18Speaker 2: 9 o'clock yesterday morning. Yes, he fronted Will and Stace
- 29:21Speaker 2: on 5AA Breakfast with all the Torrens to Darlington questions,
- 29:24Speaker 2: and he was there for quite a long time as well.
- 29:27Speaker 2: A longer chat than normally on 5AA Breakfast. Stacey asked
- 29:30Speaker 2: the question about sports washing and about his announcement at
- 29:33Speaker 2: Alberton yesterday morning, and I thought he handled it very well.
- 29:35Speaker 2: I thought they both handled the situation very well.
- 29:39Speaker 4: Yeah, I must admit.
- 29:40Speaker 3: I thought that was just a brilliant interview. I thought
- 29:42Speaker 3: Stacey was great. It was a great question to ask.
- 29:45Speaker 3: It came through on the text line. I'm sure a
- 29:46Speaker 3: lot of people had that view or or shared that sentiment.
- 29:49Speaker 3: And I thought it was a good response equally too.
- 29:51Speaker 3: So it's great to see good discussion on air like that.
- 29:54Speaker 4: I thought that was fabulous.
- 29:55Speaker 2: A couple of texters coming in now with their spreads
- 29:58Speaker 2: after the man in prison being a convicted murderer can't
- 30:01Speaker 2: get his Vegemite and he's not too happy about it.
- 30:03Speaker 2: Rob from Clearview, is it weird that I love raspberry
- 30:06Speaker 2: jam and cheese on toast? Steve and McGill, fellas. No, sorry.
- 30:11Speaker 2: Linda in Engle Farm. Morning Sam and Ned. Strawberry jam
- 30:14Speaker 2: and Vegemite, especially on hash browns. Love it. And I
- 30:17Speaker 2: love the way you're doing.
- 30:18Speaker 4: You're not having both of them, are you?
- 30:19Speaker 2: And I love the way you're doing the program today
- 30:21Speaker 2: from the farm. Linda from Engle Farm. There you go, Neddy.
- 30:24Speaker 2: You've got a supporter of you out in the shearing shed.
- 30:26Speaker 4: Thanks. Thank you, Linda.
- 30:29Speaker 3: You're not having both of those spreads together, are you?
- 30:31Speaker 3: That sounds revolting.
- 30:33Speaker 2: Strawberry jam and Vegemite on hash browns. Lindy, we need
- 30:36Speaker 2: some clarification on that. Is it one or the other? Stephen,
- 30:40Speaker 2: good to hear a bit of love for another show, lads.
- 30:42Speaker 2: Good intercollegial team here at 5AA. Thank you, Stephen. Max
- 30:47Speaker 2: in Hectorville, you want good food, don't go to prison.
- 30:50Speaker 2: Pretty simple about that. Good on you, Max.
- 30:53Speaker 4: Okay. Thank you, Max. So, a couple of texts there.
- 30:56Speaker 4: Has Mandy texted in this morning?
- 30:58Speaker 2: I was just getting to Mandy.
- 30:58Speaker 4: I haven't heard anything about Mandy.
- 31:00Speaker 2: I wanted to give Mandy a bit of space because
- 31:02Speaker 2: Mandy's done what she's done a couple of times this morning.
- 31:04Speaker 2: She's slept in. Mandy and the Blue Brothers. Good morning,
- 31:07Speaker 2: Ned and Sam. I hope you and all your listeners
- 31:09Speaker 2: are well. A late start for me. What have I missed?
- 31:13Speaker 2: Have a great show. Can I say everything is the
- 31:15Speaker 2: wrong way around. Three meals a day, pools, gym, computers, prisoners.
- 31:19Speaker 2: Have it so much better than so many people on
- 31:21Speaker 2: the outside, Mandy and the Blue Brothers. Well, Mandy, Ned's
- 31:24Speaker 2: not with me. He's at the farm.
- 31:27Speaker 4: Yeah, nice work, Mandy. The prison discussion's interesting.
- 31:30Speaker 3: I've never been to prison, so I don't know specifically
- 31:32Speaker 3: what it's like, but these kind of non-maximum security facilities
- 31:37Speaker 3: seem quite cruisy, you know, comparative to what I thought
- 31:42Speaker 3: prison would be and look sound.
- 31:44Speaker 4: And feel like.
- 31:45Speaker 3: But that's probably a question and a discussion for someone
- 31:48Speaker 3: a lot smarter than me.
- 31:49Speaker 4: Sammy, do we need to get to a break.
- 31:52Speaker 2: Or can I ask one more thing? No, we've got
- 31:53Speaker 2: to get to a break, Nettie. 21 minutes to 6, 8,
- 31:56Speaker 2: double 2, 3, double 0, double 0, 0, double 4, 8, 0, 8, 13, 95. Tommy,
- 31:59Speaker 2: you're in to talk some sport next and then Ned
- 32:02Speaker 2: can also carry on too.
- 32:03Speaker 1: Ned McHenry and Sam Datto, 5AA Early Breakfast.
- 32:08Speaker 19: 17 minutes to six on this Tuesday morning, going for
- 32:16Speaker 19: a top of 20 degrees, partly cloudy, currently in the city.
- 32:20Speaker 2: It is spot on 10 degrees.
- 32:22Speaker 7: The latest in sports with Tom Wren.
- 32:24Speaker 2: Morning, Tommy.
- 32:25Speaker 9: Morning, Sammy.
- 32:26Speaker 7: Morning, Ned.
- 32:26Speaker 6: I hope you've had a great day yesterday as we
- 32:29Speaker 6: get our week rolling. Bit of sport around, actually. I
- 32:32Speaker 6: heard you talking about the gather round fixture. And yeah, look,
- 32:35Speaker 6: I take your points. I actually really like the week.
- 32:38Speaker 6: I think it's set up really nicely with regards to
- 32:41Speaker 6: the games. Particularly, I think it's a good start with
- 32:45Speaker 6: the Crows and Brisbane. Brisbane have always had to play,
- 32:47Speaker 6: I think, at Norwood or Barossa. So I think it's
- 32:50Speaker 6: nice that they get to play on, you know, the showpiece,
- 32:52Speaker 6: Adelaide Oval. They're the triple premiership, you know, reigning champions.
- 32:56Speaker 6: So I think that's a good one. And I don't
- 32:58Speaker 6: mind that they've played.
- 32:59Speaker 9: I take your point. It's not a rivalry between Port
- 33:01Speaker 9: and the Bulldogs.
- 33:02Speaker 6: But I think there is a bit of a factor,
- 33:05Speaker 6: a bit of an inquisitive, what's going to happen?
- 33:08Speaker 9: You know, is there going to be fireworks? Or, you know,
- 33:11Speaker 9: will everyone.
- 33:13Speaker 6: Stan and applaud Zach Butters the first time he plays
- 33:15Speaker 6: against the power, all that kind of novelty. So I
- 33:18Speaker 6: think regardless, we'll get some good turnouts. And I like
- 33:21Speaker 6: a couple of the other games like Frio Hawthorne. It
- 33:23Speaker 6: seems like with the James Sisley stuff, there was some
- 33:26Speaker 6: genuine spice between those sides late in the year. So
- 33:30Speaker 6: I actually think they've, I thought this year was a
- 33:33Speaker 6: little bit tamer. I think next year on paper, it
- 33:36Speaker 6: looks like it'll be a, I think a better fixture.
- 33:39Speaker 2: And the Premier did say that after last year, well,
- 33:41Speaker 2: this year's gather round is we want to make sure
- 33:43Speaker 2: we have the best games we can possibly have for
- 33:45Speaker 2: most of the round. And I think he's done, he's
- 33:47Speaker 2: gotten his way, it seems to me, on most of those.
- 33:50Speaker 9: And they should have a pretty good bargaining power, shouldn't they?
- 33:53Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd like to think so.
- 33:54Speaker 6: We've packed them out. You boys go to a lot
- 33:56Speaker 6: of those games. So I think they've done it pretty well.
- 34:00Speaker 6: So I think it's going to be a good... sort
- 34:03Speaker 6: of block of nine games that we get. Same venues,
- 34:06Speaker 6: of course, again next time. So for those that are
- 34:09Speaker 6: waking up this morning thinking, oh, just refresh me, Adelaide, Brisbane,
- 34:12Speaker 6: Thursday night, Friday night's Collingwood, Sydney. They're always well-attended games. Collingwood,
- 34:17Speaker 6: always blockbuster. Both those games at Adelaide Oval. Then in
- 34:20Speaker 6: the Barossa, we've got Gold Coast and GWS. I think
- 34:24Speaker 6: that's probably fair enough, you know, two of the lower
- 34:26Speaker 6: drawing sides. But Barossa will still, you know, get right
- 34:29Speaker 6: around that game. Then we've got Carlton and Melbourne at
- 34:32Speaker 6: Adelaide Oval. Richmond and the Eagles at Norwood. Freo Hawthorne,
- 34:36Speaker 6: that was the one I touched on, on Saturday night.
- 34:38Speaker 6: I think that'll be a cracker at Adelaide Oval. And
- 34:40Speaker 6: then on Sunday at Norwood, Essendon and North Melbourne. Geelong
- 34:45Speaker 6: and the Saints out at Barossa Park and Port and
- 34:47Speaker 6: the Bulldogs to finish at Adelaide Oval.
- 34:48Speaker 9: So that's the way it's going there. Second.
- 34:52Speaker 6: Test was not great for Australia. Third test starts today.
- 34:55Speaker 6: Looks like Marnus Labuschagne's going to play again. What a surprise! Yeah, and,
- 35:01Speaker 6: you know, you talk about players that have had a
- 35:04Speaker 6: lot of lives. I sort of think back to Mark
- 35:06Speaker 6: Taylor back in the day when he could not make
- 35:08Speaker 6: a run. Now, he eventually got out of it, and
- 35:11Speaker 6: he's one of my favourite critics of all time, but
- 35:13Speaker 6: it does feel like the public... sort of patience for
- 35:18Speaker 6: Marnus Labuschagne is worn thin beyond anything else. Now, the
- 35:23Speaker 6: argument for playing him would be there's nobody else, but
- 35:26Speaker 6: there can't be anyone else unless you play him. However,
- 35:29Speaker 6: Nick Maddison came in and that's just been a disaster. So,
- 35:33Speaker 6: big test match. It's the venue where they played last
- 35:36Speaker 6: time in 2018 and that's where Sandpaper Gate happened.
- 35:39Speaker 2: You've been talking a lot about the what we were
- 35:41Speaker 2: expecting from South Africa. The crowds haven't actually been that good.
- 35:45Speaker 2: It hasn't been hostile. It hasn't been well attended like
- 35:49Speaker 2: we thought it could. So this last game, seeing as
- 35:51Speaker 2: it's back to where it happened... Yes... eight or so
- 35:53Speaker 2: years ago, it's going to be interesting to see if
- 35:55Speaker 2: people actually decide to rock up there.
- 35:56Speaker 6: Well, this is a great point, and I wonder, Sammy,
- 35:58Speaker 6: I think that's helped the Australians, you know, the fact
- 36:00Speaker 6: there hasn't been as much fizz in the crowd.
- 36:02Speaker 2: I don't think it helped last test much.
- 36:04Speaker 9: That's right.
- 36:05Speaker 2: No, no, poor.
- 36:06Speaker 14: But.
- 36:08Speaker 6: I do wonder how much of that is because of
- 36:09Speaker 6: political unrest over there and people not being perhaps, you know,
- 36:14Speaker 6: feeling comfortable to go to test matches. I don't know
- 36:17Speaker 6: what the political landscape is on the ground, you know,
- 36:20Speaker 6: day to day over there.
- 36:21Speaker 7: But you're right.
- 36:22Speaker 6: I think if there is going to be a bigger turnout,
- 36:24Speaker 6: it would be for this game, given the history of
- 36:27Speaker 6: what happened, albeit eight years ago.
- 36:30Speaker 9: So it should be a cracker.
- 36:31Speaker 4: 36 is Rennie.
- 36:35Speaker 6: Yes, they have got a big game coming up on
- 36:38Speaker 6: Friday that is going to be against New Zealand.
- 36:40Speaker 9: They were poor in their last game.
- 36:43Speaker 6: I just started to think they'd righted the ship, but
- 36:47Speaker 6: they were bad last weekend. A bit of a heavy loss,
- 36:51Speaker 6: but I think they're going to be on the right track.
- 36:54Speaker 6: It's really tight, Ned, between first. I think the Sixers
- 36:57Speaker 6: are eighth at the moment, or maybe seventh. But there's
- 37:00Speaker 6: two wins between first and seventh and eighth. So it's
- 37:04Speaker 6: a really tight NBL table. They've had this stretch of
- 37:07Speaker 6: away games. This is their final one, and then they
- 37:10Speaker 6: get three in a row at home. If they can
- 37:12Speaker 6: find a way to beat the Breakers, I reckon then
- 37:15Speaker 6: they'll protect their home court pretty well. So I'm quite
- 37:18Speaker 6: up and about about the Sixers. The other thing too, boys,
- 37:21Speaker 6: the sports lovers out there today is something of a
- 37:25Speaker 6: bit of an anomaly. It happens, I think it's once
- 37:28Speaker 6: a year. It's called the sport equinox, American sport equinox,
- 37:33Speaker 6: where we have the overlap, the magical overlap. So you've
- 37:36Speaker 6: got NHL, NFL. So you've got that's ice hockey. football, NBA,
- 37:44Speaker 6: and baseball. You've got the four big codes.
- 37:48Speaker 9: All on the one day.
- 37:49Speaker 6: It only happens once because the baseball's just about to finish.
- 37:54Speaker 6: World Series is on today. You've got the Tampa Bay
- 37:56Speaker 6: Rays against the Milwaukee Brewers. It's Monday night football, which
- 38:00Speaker 6: I know has been a talking point with NFL. That's
- 38:02Speaker 6: the Dallas Cowboys. They're in action a little bit later
- 38:05Speaker 6: this morning. Then you've got NBA, which has just started
- 38:07Speaker 6: their season, and NHL the same. So You just get
- 38:10Speaker 6: this perfect overlap, the sport equinox where all four codes
- 38:13Speaker 6: are in action. How good is that?
- 38:16Speaker 7: Love it.
- 38:17Speaker 4: That's extraordinary. It's like an American sports leap year, Rennie.
- 38:20Speaker 4: I'm loving that.
- 38:21Speaker 3: Just really quickly, just to pivot back to footy, I've
- 38:24Speaker 3: heard so much commentary from football fans, football players, football
- 38:29Speaker 3: experts around the Crows' inability to attract coaches. Now, for
- 38:35Speaker 3: whatever reason, it's being stated that it's hard to get
- 38:38Speaker 3: coaches to Adelaide.
- 38:39Speaker 4: I think that's true.
- 38:40Speaker 3: I think the statement's correct, but that is outdated now.
- 38:44Speaker 3: I mean, for what reason wouldn't you view Adelaide as
- 38:47Speaker 3: a potential destination? Huge footy state. Affordability is good compared
- 38:52Speaker 3: to some of the eastern states. Don't tell me that
- 38:55Speaker 3: we don't have beautiful homes, beautiful houses, beautiful areas to
- 38:58Speaker 3: live in, beautiful schools, Rennie. I just can't cop it.
- 39:03Speaker 3: I just refuse to accept that players or coaches won't
- 39:07Speaker 3: come to Adelaide with everything that's going on.
- 39:09Speaker 4: I just don't get it. What's your view?
- 39:11Speaker 6: It's a really good point. I think that one with
- 39:13Speaker 6: the coaches might be a broader issue, Ned, to be honest.
- 39:17Speaker 6: And you probably know better than me, but there's a
- 39:20Speaker 6: lot of work, and there's a lot of work at
- 39:22Speaker 6: any job. And people listening out there will be going,
- 39:24Speaker 6: you're kidding, aren't you? Like being an AFL assistant coach
- 39:26Speaker 6: would be a dream. But I'm not so sure, Ned. It's...
- 39:30Speaker 6: a lot of work, a lot of tape cutting, huge hours, probably,
- 39:34Speaker 6: I don't know, Ned, I'm guessing 60, 70, 80 hours
- 39:37Speaker 6: a week. And I would think after a game, for example,
- 39:40Speaker 6: the Crows will play on Thursday night in Gather Round.
- 39:42Speaker 6: I imagine coaches probably go home, watch the game again
- 39:46Speaker 6: and have to start cutting up edits until two, three,
- 39:49Speaker 6: four in the morning. ready to go for the next day.
- 39:51Speaker 6: You have to be that sort of, I think it's
- 39:54Speaker 6: full on. I think that's part of the problem there,
- 39:56Speaker 6: but I could be wrong. I don't think they get
- 39:58Speaker 6: paid huge money. So for someone to then, and this
- 40:02Speaker 6: is not just Adelaide, it's probably then other States. It's
- 40:04Speaker 6: really hard for them families to go, are we really
- 40:07Speaker 6: going to move for 150 grand a year?
- 40:11Speaker 4: I get it, Rennie.
- 40:12Speaker 3: That's a coaching issue. That's a salary issue in and
- 40:14Speaker 3: around the role. That's not a moving to Adelaide issue.
- 40:17Speaker 14: Yes, exactly.
- 40:17Speaker 3: Simon Goodwood goes up to Sydney to get to that
- 40:20Speaker 3: footy club. Coaches will move to the right footy club
- 40:23Speaker 3: or the right state, it seems. And I say right
- 40:25Speaker 3: in commas. Why isn't Adelaide the right state? Look at
- 40:30Speaker 3: someone like Tim Silvers, a Melburnian originally. You know, his
- 40:35Speaker 3: kids always grew up there. Moves to Adelaide, absolutely falls
- 40:38Speaker 3: in love with the space. We need to show these
- 40:41Speaker 3: people that are growing up there or living in larger
- 40:43Speaker 3: capital cities that if they come here, their quality of
- 40:46Speaker 3: life will improve, not decrease.
- 40:48Speaker 9: Yeah, it's a brilliant point.
- 40:49Speaker 6: And I have been a bit surprised at the difficulty
- 40:54Speaker 6: with which Adelaide seems to have filled its coaching. You know,
- 40:57Speaker 6: Jade Sheedy, I think we all expected him to step
- 40:59Speaker 6: in and then he kind of stepped away at the
- 41:01Speaker 6: last minute and said, you know what?
- 41:02Speaker 9: Perhaps not for me.
- 41:03Speaker 2: What did you make of the Crows approaching Campo?
- 41:07Speaker 6: Look, I think it was, it sounds like it was
- 41:09Speaker 6: quite informal, but I'm not surprised. I mean, the guy's intel.
- 41:13Speaker 6: You work with him every week. And I think perhaps
- 41:16Speaker 6: they need a bit of a fresh voice or someone
- 41:19Speaker 6: that knows the traps in the system really well. I mean,
- 41:23Speaker 6: he's just a guy that when you talk to him,
- 41:25Speaker 6: he sort of commands respect and, Just his intel, his
- 41:30Speaker 6: acumen for the game, I'm not at all surprised.
- 41:35Speaker 9: I'm glad that he's staying.
- 41:36Speaker 2: Yeah, selfishly, we're glad he's staying with us. We're glad
- 41:38Speaker 2: he's staying, yeah.
- 41:40Speaker 6: I can absolutely get, you know, there were those rumours
- 41:44Speaker 6: as well that Port Adelaide were heavily into him for
- 41:45Speaker 6: a while as well.
- 41:47Speaker 9: So not surprised as well.
- 41:48Speaker 6: You know, when you've got someone at your doorstep, Ned's
- 41:51Speaker 6: just spoken about the fact that, you know, there's this
- 41:53Speaker 6: difficulty with getting people here. When you've got one right there,
- 41:56Speaker 6: why wouldn't you ask the question? Or at least send
- 41:58Speaker 6: him out. Hey, how are things going?
- 41:59Speaker 9: You know, you happy? Okay, yeah, let's move on. But, yeah,
- 42:03Speaker 9: he's a star.
- 42:04Speaker 6: Love him.
- 42:04Speaker 9: But I'd love for him to stay as well with us.
- 42:06Speaker 2: Tommy, thank you.
- 42:07Speaker 9: Good on you.
- 42:08Speaker 2: Catch you at the same time tomorrow morning. We've got
- 42:10Speaker 2: to take a quick break. Seven minutes to six. 8223 0000.
- 42:14Speaker 2: Quick break. Back with your calls to round out the show.
- 42:16Speaker 2: Stace and Will, not far away.
- 42:18Speaker 1: Ned McHenry and Sam Datto. 5AA Early Breakfast.
- 42:26Speaker 2: Three minutes to six on this Tuesday. Plenty of text
- 42:30Speaker 2: coming through, which we'll get to in a moment, but
- 42:32Speaker 2: we love your calls. Peter in Parra Hills, morning.
- 42:35Speaker 10: Yeah, morning, boys.
- 42:37Speaker 5: Two questions. One, how much can teams use of their
- 42:40Speaker 5: soft cap to bring people interstate? And you've also got
- 42:45Speaker 5: to remember, Brett Montgomery's come from interstate to coach South Adelaide.
- 42:49Speaker 5: So there must be something coming back to South Australia.
- 42:52Speaker 5: And why is he coming to South Adelaide if he's
- 42:56Speaker 5: going to get less money?
- 42:57Speaker 2: That's a good question, Peter, and that might be one
- 42:59Speaker 2: for Tommy Wren tomorrow morning. We might have to put
- 43:01Speaker 2: to him because he knows all the ins and outs
- 43:03Speaker 2: of the soft cap, hard cap, medium cap. He'll be
- 43:06Speaker 2: able to bring us up to date. So we'll pose
- 43:08Speaker 2: that question to Rennie off the back of Rennie and
- 43:10Speaker 2: Nettie having a talk about coaches coming to South Australia
- 43:13Speaker 2: and how they can be enticed a bit more better
- 43:17Speaker 2: to come through to the Crows. Let's head out to
- 43:19Speaker 2: Ross Trevor. Michael, good morning. No, I'm good.
- 43:22Speaker 13: Ross Trevor at the top of Turingi running up Norton
- 43:24Speaker 13: Summit Road in South I thought I'd give a shout-out
- 43:27Speaker 13: to Nettie. Nettie, give us a close-out for the show
- 43:30Speaker 13: with the light of a pre-sunrise coming over the hills.
- 43:35Speaker 13: Are you facing east to the Bremer River or you're
- 43:37Speaker 13: on the other side of Mount Pleasant?
- 43:43Speaker 4: We are down on the flats towards Millindella.
- 43:45Speaker 2: Is that what you wanted to know, Michael?
- 43:53Speaker 8: Yes, I am.
- 43:54Speaker 13: I'm trying to stop moving.
- 43:55Speaker 7: Been running.
- 43:57Speaker 2: Well, okay. No worries, Michael. Thank you for that. Nettie,
- 43:59Speaker 2: we're just about out of time this morning. We've had
- 44:02Speaker 2: a couple of texts coming through as well. We were
- 44:04Speaker 2: talking about the spreads of what people are having. This
- 44:07Speaker 2: is off the back of the bloke in jail, convicted murderer,
- 44:10Speaker 2: not happy that he can't get his Vegemite. And we've
- 44:12Speaker 2: had a couple of interesting combinations come through. Dye says,' Morning, guys.
- 44:17Speaker 2: Shaved turkey and raspberry jam on toast, similar to cranberry sauce.
- 44:22Speaker 2: I know, delicious.' Rob's also having a crack at you
- 44:25Speaker 2: about OBs. Also, Ned, proof of concept, you can do
- 44:28Speaker 2: an OB of sorts. We want to hear you walking
- 44:31Speaker 2: up Norton Summit with the dogs at the fruit markets.
- 44:33Speaker 2: A lot of love coming through for the produce market
- 44:36Speaker 2: for us to be down there. Helping open the op
- 44:39Speaker 2: shop with Sue. The possibilities are endless, Neddy.
- 44:44Speaker 4: I like that.
- 44:45Speaker 3: I think there's a bit of a future in this.
- 44:47Speaker 3: A lot of people are doing it well. Look, it's
- 44:49Speaker 3: not going to be a common thing. Broadcasting from the
- 44:51Speaker 3: studio is easier.
- 44:52Speaker 4: It is better. It's fabulous to be there.
- 44:55Speaker 3: However, if we could take 5AA early breakfast on the road,
- 44:59Speaker 3: could you imagine?
- 45:01Speaker 4: Like, the possibilities are endless, Sammy.
- 45:04Speaker 12: I am keen on this.
- 45:05Speaker 4: I like it.
- 45:06Speaker 2: Yeah, you're keen on it because it's not extra work
- 45:08Speaker 2: for you. That's why.
- 45:11Speaker 5: Oh.
- 45:12Speaker 4: You just complain. This is what I deal with, Rob
- 45:14Speaker 4: and others.
- 45:16Speaker 2: Oh, it is a bit of fun. Also, Rob rounding
- 45:18Speaker 2: us out. Coaches generally have young families at this stage
- 45:21Speaker 2: in their life and their kids are settled in school, friends.
- 45:24Speaker 2: So the factor is a lot to really take to
- 45:28Speaker 2: head off to a different state, I guess. So I
- 45:31Speaker 2: reckon what we heard off the back of that though, Ned,
- 45:33Speaker 2: the Adelaide Crows need to do one thing. They need
- 45:36Speaker 2: to get you in some sort of ambassadorial role for
- 45:39Speaker 2: the Crows. You need to be on the front foot
- 45:40Speaker 2: for the Crows heading out to interstate players, interstate coaches
- 45:43Speaker 2: to try and bring them to Adelaide because no one
- 45:45Speaker 2: else speaks more passionately as a converted South Australian as
- 45:49Speaker 2: you do. And they could go a lot worse than
- 45:51Speaker 2: using you as the bloke to try and entice people
- 45:53Speaker 2: out here.
- 45:56Speaker 3: Well, look, Sam, that's very kind. I've got a good
- 45:58Speaker 3: relationship with the head recruiter and others involved. I speak
- 46:02Speaker 3: to them all the time, and I'm really passionate about
- 46:04Speaker 3: getting country people to South Australia. I don't think there's
- 46:08Speaker 3: a footy club that can support regional people as well
- 46:10Speaker 3: as this in the AFL.
- 46:12Speaker 4: It could be a huge strength of ours.
- 46:14Speaker 2: Well done, Neddy. We'll catch you tomorrow morning back into
- 46:16Speaker 2: the studio. Well done out on the farm this morning
- 46:19Speaker 2: with your backup singers, the sheep in the background. But
- 46:21Speaker 2: we've got to get out of here. Will and States
- 46:23Speaker 2: with 5AA Breakfast. Over to the newsroom, Kendall Braddock and
- 46:26Speaker 2: Tom Wren. We'll catch you tomorrow morning, same time, from 5.
- 46:29Speaker 1: Ned McHenry and Sam Datto. 5AA Early Breakfast.