On this episode Campbell reveals Finn Callaghan had an even bigger offer on the table from a rival club than first reported, the end is near for Collingwood and one of the boys made international headlines…
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Welcome to Brownie's podcast. Welcome to Brownie's podcast, and what a pleasure is to be back. It's week two and Campbell hasn't shown up.
Dog.
It's unblabeled. Tuesday is after a public holiday. Like you said, I'm here one side of the brown Dog. He's here the other Brown Dog day?
Where is he? Where is he?
He's saying he's got a mac a shoot, he's going to come rushing in in two seconds time. But I've got to get a flying home. I'm going to go and clean up cyclone Alfred or ex cyclone Alfred. Tell you what Brown Dog's got to be the cyclone Alfred?
About him? He's running late, mate, he's two days late. So anyway, but we're all safe in town. We're all safe in town.
We are.
I think Brown Dog will be here in moments to chat about the round of footy Brod's house.
Was your hour? Was your weekend? Mate? Yeah?
Mate?
Pretty uneventful. God, it was good to have footy back. I know it was two games anybody complained about it, but Jesus it was good to have footy back. There's a bit to talk about. Yeah, teams were seriously average, particularly Collingwood.
It was kind of surprise.
Oh yeah, yeah, well the fact that they played Richmond nunder sixteen time a team we probably got to be carried away with that and they did it. One stage kick nineteen goals one I think in the practice match a couple of weeks ago. So the kicking was amazing. It was pretty ordinary on the weekend. But great dat footy back all being a limited form. As we said, Oh here he is the door.
We've got him cyclone Alfred or cyclone brown dog.
I appreciate the run. Now out of bread.
Now what's going on here?
Do we need to do? We need to put you on the day fIF you're right to run. We're away. How was the weekend? Mate?
It's busy.
Do you got your fly downe up? Yeah? You're a sort of looks like disheveled mess. The poor baskets.
Oh well, long weekend.
Macas shoots getting pushed back. I've been waiting one year for my appointment for my shoulder. Had to cancel it this morning. I can't get into May. What elect you find traffic from boxing here?
What else? What's wrong with your shoulder? They're a replacement from all.
The heavy lifting you did. The Gold Coast Suns more than just talking about the games on the weekend and the Hawks are good.
What do we think about opening around though? Before we started? And I don't like it? You don't like it?
Well, I get why they did it last.
Year, even with the cyclone.
It doesn't feel like an opening round when there's only a handful of games and then with a couple missing due to the natural disaster, it's a bit of a non event. Like you know, I don't know anyone that was overly excited about footy starting like on the weekend.
They just weren't.
Noah, I think that what I would like to say, because it's a bit dicey as we know, brand Dog you've played up there, Whether this time needs a bit dicey up north? Yeah, especially in Queensland. The time to celebrate northern footy is in the middle of the ear. Yeah, whenever one wants to scape the color weather.
Isn't a score out there for ten days to two weeks.
I have a Northern round day you reckon to have a Northern round. It's a perfect time during the split round. I think, you know, you might play five games one weekend and then you play the four Northern club games another weekend, and everyone can descend upon those Northern states. The weather's going to be a lot better, you can get up to the warms. I think it's you can still celebrate Northern footy off the top early. You can still have Sydney, GWS, Brisbane and gold Cast can play home games against big clubs in Round one cover, you know, and still celebrated there and people will travel.
Up of course.
So yeah, I just think that might be a better way of doing it, because if you compare it to the NRL Round zero when they all go to Vaight, not all go to Vegas, but it's a big start in Vegas. You feel like that's pretty unifying for the carde. It's celebration for the code day you Whereas I feel like opening round it's become a bit divisive, a bit of a device.
I was having a couple of beers with the guy that manages Finn Callahan and I said to Gez, sixteen million dollar, nine year offer from the Saints was outrageous.
He said, na, no, that wasn't accurate. I said, oh, I didn't think it would have been that much, And it was more a couple of million dollars more. He was close to nineteen mil.
How many years? Was it a ten year deal?
Yeah? It was going to work out about one point eight plus a year. So I was scobsmacked, like what was reported.
You know it was not even accurate because it was way more.
Secondly, Clay Smith is about to sign on the dotted line to fight in Perth against Hayden Ballentine.
For a Bulldogs party who.
Had seven fights, three amateurs, for professionals for.
And I should know that a boxing commentator.
And he's so he's going to fight Hayden Valentine and I think he's going to get the job done pretty comfort.
Ye.
Valentine's not a big boy. We wouldn't take much to get him out the way to break breaking, you.
Brought some big stuff. This is what I was.
I was driving in thinking and then I was rushed.
You know that's okay, But Callahan, he looked like Marcus BoNT the best game I've seen him playing.
Announce the footy world that he's started because I think people would have been gay in Calleen one point seven st Kilder offering that or North as you said, brand Well, he told the footy world.
Now that's why they are for me that much. He's an absolute start. He's got all facets. He's a big boy as well.
Just for a second, think about the midfield of Green Callahan, Kelly, fantastic field. Who else you're doing that?
I'll a forward.
You throw Stringer and Hogan into that mix already, and Green neither side to beat this year, as I said last week, but and they can run do Toby Greenie he was. He got pipped at the end of last year by Zach Butters for the most fine player in the game, right, he very quickly runs the re established himself as a number one fine player with that six grand now, I think excluding the five thousand dollars fine for the dress up debarcle. That's right, So we don't count that because it's off field, but yeah, it's it's forty thousand.
Was famous couples that dress up and obviously the d Django situation occurred and it blew up with GW this last year. I found out on a very good authority behind the scenes. What some of the other couples were A couple of the boys when as one when as Steve Irwin the other black dresses a sting, right, Really, you know that's not that's original? Yeah, clever obviously Steve of course the crocodile hunter. But althought that was clever.
Yeah.
I think the AFL were really upset about the Josh Giddy dress up, which he got cleaned.
I had a very good authority. There's some very clever our couples that turned up for that.
But what about You're right, gws a fantastic Hawthorn were fantastic your old club broand I love no doubt Sam Mitchell and the benefit of playing in a premiership hangover team but also then playing in a three pet team. He would have learned from that. He would have been all over the Hawthorn Boys in the preseason first day preseason, much like Lee Matthews was with us about not getting ahead of himself to know the footy world. He's ready for you boys to fall off the perch. Yeah, the young brash up starts that. You know, we love that at first, don't we, But then we love saying as a tall, poppy country. We love seeing that get knocked off.
Sam would have been all over and he wants him to be the most versatile club in the competition in terms of play. So he's got hard wik that can play back or forward. They had they had that up their sleeve. If Papley was getting away from a bang hard we could go back sicily just alternated back forward. Last quarter kicks a goal sets one up to Finn McGinnis as well. They've got on McDonald that can go through the midfield. They got weel that can play half back and wing.
So yeah, he's got all these levers that he can pull throughout the course of the game.
If things aren't working, which a lot of clubs don't have, you can throw a gin of it on the ball for a bit. So I think that's that's going to be their point of difference.
There's a lot of similarities.
As an ex Hawthorn play a lot of similarities to those Premiership teams, probably without Franklin rough Head ahead of the ball, but Barras and Battle come in sort of almost like you're Lake and Gibson or Frawley. I think they've got a tough midfield to the classy midfield you can kick the ball well.
Yeah, and that's I think he's a little bit more. He wants them to be a bit more inventive with their ball movement. They just try and come back through the on every occasion, which which is exciting.
It's high risk, high reward footy.
But if every single week we see a Karlaimon style goal he takes off off half back handball, they make it up a bit through the corridor.
In the middle like that is exciting for and he was so good.
Absolutely, I've got some Mahodia rather brown dogs and brides you can be in this as well.
But Finn Callahan or Will Day.
Oh, it's a great question. I'm going to say with will Day just because he's got a few more runs on the board. He's one of the best and fairest.
Two years ago he did too. Yeah, I like that. Sam Taylor or James Cicily.
Sam Taylor is my favorite player in the comp Sicily doesn't win it though with a flexibility. No, I just I love a good lockdown defender who's brave and he just never gets beaten one on one.
Yeah. Absolutely.
Anyway, short sleeves shirt which you know, yeah, got to take a mark off sis for the long.
Sleeve the brides.
You might have to answer this one Channel seven or Ko's performance on the weekend Fox footy.
Oh, I wouldn't say that either of them did themselves any favors.
The school because either weekend off it was too big, too big, it.
Was half the shot. Can you explain to me what's going on? Have there been crisis talks at Fox forty as to how are we getting rid of that stupid school?
Bigger, bigger, doing y double down brown dog?
I said, mate, seven's got a little piss and version in the middle down the bottom of the screen Fox Ko big, bigger and.
Better on this occasion because seven played more ads and I missed a part of the foot because they were playing stupid ad?
Is that right?
I talked to your mate there at seven and have things fixed up immediately.
I will give an insight. It could have been worse.
That scoreboard down the bottom there was initially there was some in favor of an inverted.
Scoreboard, so it goes on the ground.
No no, no, no, so the bottom you think our score the way we've been conditioned to read for the last one hundred and fifty years to read a score, you know, five ten fifty, you know, and then obviously the team beside it, Well, it was going to go, say Hawthorne five ten fifty, and then the other team total was going to be beside the other team. Then it would have gone five to ten fifty for that team. So it would have just would have would have stuffed up.
In five goals ten behind. That's forty. That would have been awkward.
Stop. I don't have to do it from right. I did it, Hey, all star mile or the everest.
Uh our everest any does a little bit. I shouldn't have Group one status. It's the first year that it's had it and it's the worst field.
Just about last one.
The Rise of the Suns or the twenty twenty five AFL Season Guide for your near book collection.
So so Campbell's memoir from his time at the Gold Coast Sons, which was an absolute absolute.
I prefer the twenty twenty five AFL time, it's much more informative.
Ads back in a second. Welcome back to Brownie's podcast. Now we're talking about Channel seven and Fox Footy, Foxhoodie of Embarrassing.
Yeah, there's there's something happened that had a great pre season.
The graphics are good.
We just spoke about the you know, the scorecard being a little bit better maybe, but where they did miss the mark like Fox is not edgy. I'm not going to say anyone on that Fox lineup is cool.
You know what I mean? So who's the cool kids minds? I reckon. There's a few.
Called Daisy's pretty cool, but so so the last thing I would try and do for my talent had new teeth for a while.
Yeah, but the amount of people said he's got new teeth, and he's got new teeth. JB is cool.
Yeah, there's a few.
There's a few that.
But but what I wouldn't do is try and build an environment where you're trying to make them a little bit cooler.
And and I reckon.
We briefly saw.
That this week and then they quickly took it down. It was the it was the Fox footy rap. Now you're a part of it, we.
Want to hear it.
And then I want to know what was going through your head.
Fox on the big Joel.
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That's off the stone. That's the air.
There.
It is so so that's KAO.
Wasn't he wasn't totally. It was a bit off. So what's happened?
I don't know, Like I was just waiting for like a two chains type beat from some when it never came and we heard your voice chieve Yeah, there wasn't enough of me.
Who suggested this absolute abomination.
It was Ko Social Team. I think they're trying to keep up with the youngsters out there on the GRAMD.
TikTok. That ain't it.
I'll give you a strong tip that ain't it.
Back me up. Did I make a phone call try and find out why it was? Pulled.
Yeah, do we have an answer.
No, we don't know.
We don't know what someone someone has identified that it missed the mark and quickly removed it.
You reckon, It wasn't one of the talent. You reckon, there's cracked up and gone. Now I'm misrepresented here.
Look cool.
I think that can be your homework for the next couple week.
Asking the bosses.
I'm asking everyone that's connected in at work and I'm not getting a straight answer. I'm not getting a straight answer. So I'm going to get to the bottom of this and we're going to hang them out to dry, don't you.
I'm not surprised that got pulled, but but I'd love to know the reasons. Why.
Just stay on your lane Fox Footy, just stick to Footy Analytics and just don't do come.
On with what about your show? Last night? Did a launch?
We had a soft launch. It was Sunday night and the big Fast. It's called the Sunday Footy Feast.
Please Sunday Footy face.
And so Kate McCarthy got married on the weekend, so she wasn't able.
To do it, So she missed that one.
Marriage to marriage mate.
Everything should be sacrificed for the launch of a show, mate, Are you were sitting there waiting?
It was timing with the cyclone to just have a rehearsal new studios as well at seven.
We just needed to get the little grand ones out of the system so.
Good that it didn't go ahead, especially because I had a wedding Friday in Sydney.
Yes, and then Tommy.
Little's fortieth a warming of Warburton, which how did you perform at that? Not great because because when he sent the theme saying, Hey guys, I'm going to have a Tally Tubbies party, I naturally assumed that that was a joke, all right, but I quickly worked out.
The turned up the only one.
Well, yeah, everyone had the purple.
So I stole the guy's head and Carries very politely put me in her daughter's.
Like a little frilly what would you call that ballet dress?
And so I improvised, are you sure would you prefer at the end of the night. On a reflection, would you rather start in the plane class.
Car?
It was hard to see who was who in Tally Tummy's kid. I'll give you the good.
Tip mate, Funny you actually mentioned Tommy Little. I was listening to their show the other day and I heard one of our favorite degenerates gave them a buzz and started talking about you. This is on national radio.
By the way.
Here it is Roy how dumb jamakee good?
Carry good Tommy?
How are we going?
Happy birthday for last week?
Thank you Edgin, appreciate it.
One of our one of our friends, one of our friends, Campbell Brown. I don't know if you heard this story being probably told. So he's had a flat tire on last week. He's called up the roadside assistance. The ladies said, have you got a spared tire? He's looked all over the car. He's looked underneath the seat, underneath the back seat, the back of his car, underneath and he couldn't find it. So the guy comes from road assistance and finds it stuck to the back of the car. Go not only not only that when he went to change the tire, the guy wants to put it back at the back of around his car, and he goes, I don't want to.
What do I need it for?
Dog looked for private school boy, haven't changed too. We pay the insurance for a reason. Roadside assistance.
I don't need to be, you know, pulling out one of the leavers and jacking out then goes on out of that horse farm you're on acreag. Yeah, there, you got to see the horses. You got look after him.
It wasn't my finest moment there, because I mean, on a defender, the wheel is on the back and I see it every day.
When I opened the boot, yeah, I just looked. I looked underneath and I couldn't find it. I was a bit rad on. Yeah, and so that, Yeah, that's good stuff for is up.
The one thing I just got to bring up before we do the water World. He's been on fire with what a world so far this season. The Top fifty most influential people in the game was released today. In There all time, okay, brown Dog, going through it. I couldn't find you in there with your new shower. Obviously it doesn't launched it because Kate's got her wedding.
A few interesting ones. Where was the dog? Where was Ricky Nixon?
I think chickens ostracized out of the top fifty.
It's been a while. Yeah, he might have. He might have lost a little bit of his shire, Yeah, lost a bit of his shine.
A bigger off season Warwick, Kappa, Chicken Nixon or Sam Newman.
I'll say the Wiz only because his horse is just flying at the moment.
I'm glad something's flying.
Kapa thirty nine.
Nice, nice guys came in in about twenty eight. What about this for a clip from Michael Warner who wrote the article? Were you in there getting more airtime than Jordan and more political than you think? Oh Jesus, that's a fair old dust up, isn't it. So it might be guys writing an article for there or some time. Well, well, that's right, Brand Dog. Where was it write a complaint? Craig Kelly ol manager at fort Aye. How's Craig Kelly still at Fortane? He's not our manager anymore?
No, he's not sell one.
He took some time off too, didn't He recently took.
A little bit of time off. So there you go. So I expect you to be there next year, Brand Dog with the near show.
Now do you have a what a world?
For?
What a world?
That will blow your mind? Because I had to check that this wasn't a parody.
Right legendary Sydney Club Club seventy seven, right in the heart of Sydney's Darlinghurst Party Strip has overhauled its safety and harassment policies to make sure that the venue is a safe place that promotes strong culture of consent.
I mean to crack down on harassment. Now that sounds fantastic, right, we.
All agree every time you go out, you want to feel safe at a bar and nightclub. The venue stresses interactions with strangers is encouraged, but says engagement must now start with prior verbal consent right or otherwise will be considered harassment and will result in the eviction from the club. Hence why they have brought in steering police high viz staring police officers. Right that will stand at the venue and if you are making contact with someone across the bar, across the dance floor for a number of seconds and they deem it too long, you'll be evicted from the cards you are our patrons will be kicked out if they stare for too long without verbal consent from a stranger. This is really happening in our world. And I can't believe what was this place called Club seventy seven? Club seventy seven Taking things?
That's how you go and pick up You look at.
Someone Yeah, and then you get a bit closer and you're offered to buy them a drink.
Your beautiful eyes brand dog.
These always remember the crowd controls that came in at Marvel and the MCG for a while and they would just patrol the lanes up and down. It's got to smell that about it, to be sure.
So what did The ironic thing about this is that the hive z steering police need to stare at you to see if they play out what in the world.
Bright a degenerates. Make sure you're right into the questions. Get a few hout later in the way. Can you are questions for brown Dog? Or maybe you've got some answers about how to change your tire?
I will you'll be joined by a colingplay very soon about them.
I think so Thursday the Grinder They started ordinary Sunday, so they might be just bunkering down for a couple of days. But hopefully you get a PILs player on Thursday.
A dog sounds good plenty for you to come listen to Browne's podcast, Tell You Mates,