Nine Podcasts. That doesn't mean North doesn't play in Melbourne. They can play eleven home games in Melbourne. But I don't know why we're playing in Bunbury. Yeah, I know they getting paid the money, but they get paid the money if they played up in the Northern Territory and Far North Queensland. Hello. Everyone, this is the Eddie and Jimmy podcast, just the well, the way I like it, and that is Jimmy Bartel can't be with us and Jimmy Hurd has had to go, so it's just me. There you go. Finally I've got what I've always wanted. All right, let's go through the questions that we've got on an email and welcome and thanks to tab of course, and you can join us on Eddie and Jimmy at nine dot com dot You send through your emails and we'll try and go through them as many as possible. We've got a few here today, so let me go through. Brett says, read the Wet Weather. I was watching the ordinary wet weather footy on the weekend with some mates from Sydney and they made the point of the df I was unwatched in wet conditions, all right, I'll go again on the shine on the ball, which makes it impossible to pick it up. Complaints include the balls like soap. There it is and gets fumbled too much, make it a scrappy mess tick, as well as the quarters go too long because of all the time stopped for ball ups and throw ins tick. I couldn't disagree on these points, and neither can I, and we've been saying it now for the best part of well the ball I reckon. I've been going on about it for about ten years now. And the quarters and the ball ups, et cetera, et cetera very much. So do you think Greeks one might address these issues? I saw Greeks one at the foot yesterday and at one stage when it was a bad free kick, I abused him in the crowd just to warm him up. And Adrian Anderson was actually sitting next to him, who nearly fell off his chair laughing because I used to turn my head and give it to him in the old days. So it was a good fun. But yeah, Swanny has received a phone book already size dossier from people saying fixes fixties, fix this, So there are things that he will go through as the competition for eyeballs is higher than it's ever been. I don't think we can afford to have these low quality games every year when trying to attract new viewers and shorten the attention spans at games. Totally agree with here, the game goes too long. I would put in a countdown clock and I would get the umpires to throw the ball up and do it far quicker. I'd pay in the back so that that way there'd be a free kick which would clear the area as opposed to having another ball up. And at one stage I remember I was looking at the West Coast Eagles North Melbourne game and the entire game was around the ball. Having said that, if ever there was a game that suggested that we shouldn't bring a nineteenth team into the competition, it was West Coast to North Melbourne because the standard of play. Wow. I had a chat with a boat called Dermot Brereton over the weekend and we're actually working it through that. When he played, there were twelve teams and the best twenty and that maybe got out to twenty one, maybe even twenty two. At the end of his career played on the Wiikend, so twelve times twenty two. Now we have eighteen times twenty. We have twenty three, twenty three players and an emergency. And yeah, it's and less players coming into the system. You know, back in the day, James Urda would have been here. I think was picked ninety something in a draft. Now they've shut the doors after about pick forty. So that's where it's at at the moment. So all those things, Brett, I totally agree with you. The ball is too slippery, particularly in the wet conditions. They have probably too many balls out there these days. Part of the reason is that the AFI want to keep them looking pristine for the television and for the sponsorship on the ball. I disagree with them on that. We have been able to get them to kick the ball in, but I think in recent times, I don't know that's been happening. I think that might have happened for a couple of weeks, but I need to check it. But certainly the quarters are going too long, and the multiple ball ups and forty seconds we counted at times forty five seconds for the bound round pire to come in. Comy's heir composing look around for ten minutes to see if to ruckman in a position and then throw it in short. There you go, come in five minutes and get the ball going is what we need to do. Another answer to that is give a free kick if your last touch between the arcs and it all goes away in one fell swoop. Thank you, Brett, Charlotte says reviews. Why is the AFL broadcaster so cheap and they can't put eight cameras onto the top of the posts facing upwards to prevent the contentious issue with our cheese kick last Friday or wheeler chip and the ball solve the problem? Well, Charlotte, I'm a bit involved in orders. We set up the arc, but we actually went and found sponsors to do so outside of the AFL. So we brought the concept to the AFL and hand it to them. And yeah, I agree with you. I think getting the scores right in the game is pretty important. There are ways of doing it. Again, a simple solution would be that if punts through, it's a behind. If it's rush through, it should be either a free kick or or the goal, And if it's touched off the boot and you're not good enough to smother it, then it goes through. Lucky you, it's a goal that would get rid of a lot of these things. And as far as the chip's concerned, the last I heard about this, and again I'm involved in the introduction of the chip, have been pushing it through. It's been trialed at VFL level and we'll probably get tried, I think, through the women's game. But the indications are it is working now. Is it fool proof? Well, there's your phone ever, not buffer, that's the problem. Okay, So you have to take these things into a plus or minus, and naturally enough it'll be the minus when it's a crucial goal. But that's why you keep having a goal umpire and people in position. Again, I'll say this, the easiest solution to all of this is to have two goal umpires, one between the behind post and one between the goal post, and then they can cover the full twenty one yards without even moving as opposed to running back and forth, and it makes it a lot easier. I thought our cheese from the angle on the TV, if I was calling off a screen, I thought it was going through for a goal. From experience, I keep saying that the goal umpire is not in the right position, standing between the goals with everybody coming back on you is actually the wrong position. If you're standing in those positions, I said, it makes it a lot easier. Brent says, Final Queensland and all then territory untapped supply of young, average and all talent. But I can't see a standalone club surviving in the NT without being a financial burden on the AFL, like about half of them at the moment, Brent, But we need to play somebody. I think it would make more sense to have a Northern Australian team that covers Final Queensland and Northern Territory huge growth corridors instead of another team. Maybe a team could adopt this area and make it their own, maybe one of the teams that already survives off the AFL purse. Maybe they could put a sun on the front of their jumper to represent the Aboriginal influence in the area. Actually, hang on a second, everyone needs to cook dinner tonight, exactly. Think, thank you very much, Thank you, Brent. I was reading that you got to the tag at the end there and I thought, I thought, I wrote this question again. I mean vigorous agreement with everything that said the Gold Coast Sons should play more games in Northern Territory or dare I say it, North should be the North Kangaroos. Wouldn't that be a perfect emblem for a team. Now that doesn't mean North doesn't play in Melbourne. They can play eleven home games in Melbourne. But I don't know why we're playing in Bunbury. Yeah, I know they getting paid the money, but they get paid the money. If they played up in the Northern Territory and Far North Queensland, play it in not the wet seasons and work it through, I think it would work beautifully, just as I still believe that gw wes instead of fighting about the showgrounds and all that sort of stuff, playing Canberra, then play in Greater Western Sydney. Get the two for one deal. If we could get it so that we have a team in Tasma. You know, once upon a time could have been say Hawthorne. Now, if we have the Tasmanian team, great, But if we have Tasmania Canberra service properly Sydney, Swan's in Sydney, GWS playing more games out in that region. Gold Coast is just going to grow exponentially. Brisbane is now a mainstay in the competition. We've got that top end. We've got the central coast of New South Wales and got the Northern Territory that we need to do something with. Now, can Port Adelaide maybe do something as well there? Possibly Adelaide Crows do a great job there. So both those teams done a fantastic job in South Australia, with Port Adelaide doing a lot of good things up in the Northern territory. And you've got the West Coast Eagles and also Fremantle so there's opportunities for them maybe to play some games as well. So yeah, I agree with you. We need to get into these areas. We need to get development of footballer's really happy in those spots and if we can make it so they can play at home as much as possible, that would be fantastic. All right, let's move on. We've got this is us getting in Jimmy, so you've just got me again. So we're changing tactics here and changing Are we doing that, Richard? We are. It's going to sound very much the same day here we go. Don't forget you can get involved on YouTube with us as well. Neil says, final round idea. I've been thinking I reckon I've come up with a great idea for footy, especially for the fans. What if all games in the final round were played and broadcast simultaneously. All the answers, No, because you've got to know, because we want people watching all the games. I know where you're going with this, and I love it from a excitement idea. But no, it doesn't work. So I'm going to put a line straight through that we're running out of time. Ko foxdel could sell it as a pay per view main event here they are already paying on Foxdell. Footy fans could access the full experience, while Frederwer could get the rights of the game with the highest stakes. Yeah. Well, I think Stakes likes the idea of having their rights to all the games available that he can get broadcasts. Could also run a red Zone style show, jumping between the match, exciting moments across each match. Yep, well, like the Premier League, we could have a live ladder on screen throughout the night. No. I love the ideas. Yes, I'm not going to knock if your ideas. They would be great in an ideal world that doesn't exist and it goes on. It'd be a night for fans to get their mates together for a footy bonanza. Local footy clubs could even hold their pine nights around it, beyond the drama and suspense of watching each result shape the live ladder, but also prime everyone to enjoy a set that night Grand Final with friends and family. I love a lot of you thinking there, Neil, and it makes a lot of sense until it makes no sense. And that's sort of where it is, and that's not having a crackatchare That's just it doesn't work that way. The commercial reality of the last round of football in particular is that it's got to be the way it is at the moment. But I like your thinking and I think that we should do that on the Saturday night games. That the idea of having social functions at local grounds, having the game on and watching it and maybe getting induction for local football clubs for the experience, not the k as that deer anyway. I think you know what is it's seven bucks a week or something. I reckon you get that with one meat trade at one night if you raffle it off. So there's ways around this if people want to do it. Brett Refinancial reports researching the AFL and nur OL financial reports across the past few years. One of the biggest issues I see with the AFL, other than invisible leadership, not promoting the game. Okay, Brett, we know where this is going is the cost to run the AFL and its club's being close to double the NRL's costs. Right, That's why it annoys me. Always talk of extra staff to cover for people that can't do their role properly. Bit harsh, Brett. We have twice as many players, is one quick solution. We have far better facilities is a second. And also a lot of the NRL teams have a second balance it which is their leads clubs as well, where a lot of the money comes in. So yeah, I'd argue that one. And it says here he moves on a number one job, hopefully a new chairman to audit and cut the significant fat at the AFL, to reduce the cost base of the AFL and none of its clubs. Well, they did that with the clubs. The clubs are running on the small of an early rag and they're trying to fight back to get some money. Actually put some coaches out there. And going back to the earlier question with the standard of development. We need more coaches to coach the players. I do agree that the AFL is bloated at the moment and needs to be trimmed. It says the AFIL its club should be a lot more wealthy. With over two billing coming in the game annually, they barely make a profit. Especially competit in error hatsquarter and their clubs. Well. If the AFL makes money, everyone says they should be taxed. The AFL spends significantly more money on its junior programs and its Pathway programs and the women's football as well. But I get what you're saying, and yes, you's got to be conscious of costs. Last one is Alan reviewing experience watching the State of Origin last week on nine now app. They had different views to watch it from, for example normal broadcasting views. Spider Can plays for you. I thought it was amazing. Do you think Fox will do that? On KO? The Grand Final could be a good test case except Fox don't do the Grand Final. But your point is well made. Yes, I think that that is something down the track that if you're going to continue to want to pay, you need to get other aspects of it, and certainly watching it from behind the goals at various stages is significant and be nice to be able to flick around and do those sorts of things. But yeah, I agree with you Ellen on that situation. Certainly. What nine does is it really ramps up for State of Origin because it is such a big, big, big game for them. You know, they had three and they're the three biggest games of the year, and four if you had in their Grand Finals. So they've been able to do a great job and nine have done a fantastic job on that. Maybe seven do it four Grand Final day and put it on seven or one of their digital channels. But that's something that they should look at. But a very very good point. All right, that's your questions for this week. Thanks everybody. We'll be back tomorrow. I'll be back tomorrow sitting on my loansome again doing a preview of the weekend's random matches. And next week I'll be chiming in from overseas giving an update. I'm going over to have a good look at Lords and Australia on Friday to see Australia hopefully beat South Africa. Have a great weekend to the footy for all the Collingwood fans just sit back and enjoy being two games clear on top of the ladder going into the by ah yes, smoking nut cigar.

Nine Podcasts. That doesn't mean North doesn't play in Melbourne. They can play eleven home games in Melbourne. But I don't know why we're playing in Bunbury. Yeah, I know they getting paid the money, but they get paid the money if they played up in the Northern Territory and Far North Queensland. Hello. Everyone, this is the Eddie and Jimmy podcast, just the well, the way I like it, and that is Jimmy Bartel can't be with us and Jimmy Hurd has had to go, so it's just me. There you go. Finally I've got what I've always wanted. All right, let's go through the questions that we've got on an email and welcome and thanks to tab of course, and you can join us on Eddie and Jimmy at nine dot com dot You send through your emails and we'll try and go through them as many as possible. We've got a few here today, so let me go through. Brett says, read the Wet Weather. I was watching the ordinary wet weather footy on the weekend with some mates from Sydney and they made the point of the df I was unwatched in wet conditions, all right, I'll go again on the shine on the ball, which makes it impossible to pick it up. Complaints include the balls like soap. There it is and gets fumbled too much, make it a scrappy mess tick, as well as the quarters go too long because of all the time stopped for ball ups and throw ins tick. I couldn't disagree on these points, and neither can I, and we've been saying it now for the best part of well the ball I reckon. I've been going on about it for about ten years now. And the quarters and the ball ups, et cetera, et cetera very much. So do you think Greeks one might address these issues? I saw Greeks one at the foot yesterday and at one stage when it was a bad free kick, I abused him in the crowd just to warm him up. And Adrian Anderson was actually sitting next to him, who nearly fell off his chair laughing because I used to turn my head and give it to him in the old days. So it was a good fun. But yeah, Swanny has received a phone book already size dossier from people saying fixes fixties, fix this, So there are things that he will go through as the competition for eyeballs is higher than it's ever been. I don't think we can afford to have these low quality games every year when trying to attract new viewers and shorten the attention spans at games. Totally agree with here, the game goes too long. I would put in a countdown clock and I would get the umpires to throw the ball up and do it far quicker. I'd pay in the back so that that way there'd be a free kick which would clear the area as opposed to having another ball up. And at one stage I remember I was looking at the West Coast Eagles North Melbourne game and the entire game was around the ball. Having said that, if ever there was a game that suggested that we shouldn't bring a nineteenth team into the competition, it was West Coast to North Melbourne because the standard of play. Wow. I had a chat with a boat called Dermot Brereton over the weekend and we're actually working it through that. When he played, there were twelve teams and the best twenty and that maybe got out to twenty one, maybe even twenty two. At the end of his career played on the Wiikend, so twelve times twenty two. Now we have eighteen times twenty. We have twenty three, twenty three players and an emergency. And yeah, it's and less players coming into the system. You know, back in the day, James Urda would have been here. I think was picked ninety something in a draft. Now they've shut the doors after about pick forty. So that's where it's at at the moment. So all those things, Brett, I totally agree with you. The ball is too slippery, particularly in the wet conditions. They have probably too many balls out there these days. Part of the reason is that the AFI want to keep them looking pristine for the television and for the sponsorship on the ball. I disagree with them on that. We have been able to get them to kick the ball in, but I think in recent times, I don't know that's been happening. I think that might have happened for a couple of weeks, but I need to check it. But certainly the quarters are going too long, and the multiple ball ups and forty seconds we counted at times forty five seconds for the bound round pire to come in. Comy's heir composing look around for ten minutes to see if to ruckman in a position and then throw it in short. There you go, come in five minutes and get the ball going is what we need to do. Another answer to that is give a free kick if your last touch between the arcs and it all goes away in one fell swoop. Thank you, Brett, Charlotte says reviews. Why is the AFL broadcaster so cheap and they can't put eight cameras onto the top of the posts facing upwards to prevent the contentious issue with our cheese kick last Friday or wheeler chip and the ball solve the problem? Well, Charlotte, I'm a bit involved in orders. We set up the arc, but we actually went and found sponsors to do so outside of the AFL. So we brought the concept to the AFL and hand it to them. And yeah, I agree with you. I think getting the scores right in the game is pretty important. There are ways of doing it. Again, a simple solution would be that if punts through, it's a behind. If it's rush through, it should be either a free kick or or the goal, And if it's touched off the boot and you're not good enough to smother it, then it goes through. Lucky you, it's a goal that would get rid of a lot of these things. And as far as the chip's concerned, the last I heard about this, and again I'm involved in the introduction of the chip, have been pushing it through. It's been trialed at VFL level and we'll probably get tried, I think, through the women's game. But the indications are it is working now. Is it fool proof? Well, there's your phone ever, not buffer, that's the problem. Okay, So you have to take these things into a plus or minus, and naturally enough it'll be the minus when it's a crucial goal. But that's why you keep having a goal umpire and people in position. Again, I'll say this, the easiest solution to all of this is to have two goal umpires, one between the behind post and one between the goal post, and then they can cover the full twenty one yards without even moving as opposed to running back and forth, and it makes it a lot easier. I thought our cheese from the angle on the TV, if I was calling off a screen, I thought it was going through for a goal. From experience, I keep saying that the goal umpire is not in the right position, standing between the goals with everybody coming back on you is actually the wrong position. If you're standing in those positions, I said, it makes it a lot easier. Brent says, Final Queensland and all then territory untapped supply of young, average and all talent. But I can't see a standalone club surviving in the NT without being a financial burden on the AFL, like about half of them at the moment, Brent, But we need to play somebody. I think it would make more sense to have a Northern Australian team that covers Final Queensland and Northern Territory huge growth corridors instead of another team. Maybe a team could adopt this area and make it their own, maybe one of the teams that already survives off the AFL purse. Maybe they could put a sun on the front of their jumper to represent the Aboriginal influence in the area. Actually, hang on a second, everyone needs to cook dinner tonight, exactly. Think, thank you very much, Thank you, Brent. I was reading that you got to the tag at the end there and I thought, I thought, I wrote this question again. I mean vigorous agreement with everything that said the Gold Coast Sons should play more games in Northern Territory or dare I say it, North should be the North Kangaroos. Wouldn't that be a perfect emblem for a team. Now that doesn't mean North doesn't play in Melbourne. They can play eleven home games in Melbourne. But I don't know why we're playing in Bunbury. Yeah, I know they getting paid the money, but they get paid the money. If they played up in the Northern Territory and Far North Queensland, play it in not the wet seasons and work it through, I think it would work beautifully, just as I still believe that gw wes instead of fighting about the showgrounds and all that sort of stuff, playing Canberra, then play in Greater Western Sydney. Get the two for one deal. If we could get it so that we have a team in Tasma. You know, once upon a time could have been say Hawthorne. Now, if we have the Tasmanian team, great, But if we have Tasmania Canberra service properly Sydney, Swan's in Sydney, GWS playing more games out in that region. Gold Coast is just going to grow exponentially. Brisbane is now a mainstay in the competition. We've got that top end. We've got the central coast of New South Wales and got the Northern Territory that we need to do something with. Now, can Port Adelaide maybe do something as well there? Possibly Adelaide Crows do a great job there. So both those teams done a fantastic job in South Australia, with Port Adelaide doing a lot of good things up in the Northern territory. And you've got the West Coast Eagles and also Fremantle so there's opportunities for them maybe to play some games as well. So yeah, I agree with you. We need to get into these areas. We need to get development of footballer's really happy in those spots and if we can make it so they can play at home as much as possible, that would be fantastic. All right, let's move on. We've got this is us getting in Jimmy, so you've just got me again. So we're changing tactics here and changing Are we doing that, Richard? We are. It's going to sound very much the same day here we go. Don't forget you can get involved on YouTube with us as well. Neil says, final round idea. I've been thinking I reckon I've come up with a great idea for footy, especially for the fans. What if all games in the final round were played and broadcast simultaneously. All the answers, No, because you've got to know, because we want people watching all the games. I know where you're going with this, and I love it from a excitement idea. But no, it doesn't work. So I'm going to put a line straight through that we're running out of time. Ko foxdel could sell it as a pay per view main event here they are already paying on Foxdell. Footy fans could access the full experience, while Frederwer could get the rights of the game with the highest stakes. Yeah. Well, I think Stakes likes the idea of having their rights to all the games available that he can get broadcasts. Could also run a red Zone style show, jumping between the match, exciting moments across each match. Yep, well, like the Premier League, we could have a live ladder on screen throughout the night. No. I love the ideas. Yes, I'm not going to knock if your ideas. They would be great in an ideal world that doesn't exist and it goes on. It'd be a night for fans to get their mates together for a footy bonanza. Local footy clubs could even hold their pine nights around it, beyond the drama and suspense of watching each result shape the live ladder, but also prime everyone to enjoy a set that night Grand Final with friends and family. I love a lot of you thinking there, Neil, and it makes a lot of sense until it makes no sense. And that's sort of where it is, and that's not having a crackatchare That's just it doesn't work that way. The commercial reality of the last round of football in particular is that it's got to be the way it is at the moment. But I like your thinking and I think that we should do that on the Saturday night games. That the idea of having social functions at local grounds, having the game on and watching it and maybe getting induction for local football clubs for the experience, not the k as that deer anyway. I think you know what is it's seven bucks a week or something. I reckon you get that with one meat trade at one night if you raffle it off. So there's ways around this if people want to do it. Brett Refinancial reports researching the AFL and nur OL financial reports across the past few years. One of the biggest issues I see with the AFL, other than invisible leadership, not promoting the game. Okay, Brett, we know where this is going is the cost to run the AFL and its club's being close to double the NRL's costs. Right, That's why it annoys me. Always talk of extra staff to cover for people that can't do their role properly. Bit harsh, Brett. We have twice as many players, is one quick solution. We have far better facilities is a second. And also a lot of the NRL teams have a second balance it which is their leads clubs as well, where a lot of the money comes in. So yeah, I'd argue that one. And it says here he moves on a number one job, hopefully a new chairman to audit and cut the significant fat at the AFL, to reduce the cost base of the AFL and none of its clubs. Well, they did that with the clubs. The clubs are running on the small of an early rag and they're trying to fight back to get some money. Actually put some coaches out there. And going back to the earlier question with the standard of development. We need more coaches to coach the players. I do agree that the AFL is bloated at the moment and needs to be trimmed. It says the AFIL its club should be a lot more wealthy. With over two billing coming in the game annually, they barely make a profit. Especially competit in error hatsquarter and their clubs. Well. If the AFL makes money, everyone says they should be taxed. The AFL spends significantly more money on its junior programs and its Pathway programs and the women's football as well. But I get what you're saying, and yes, you's got to be conscious of costs. Last one is Alan reviewing experience watching the State of Origin last week on nine now app. They had different views to watch it from, for example normal broadcasting views. Spider Can plays for you. I thought it was amazing. Do you think Fox will do that? On KO? The Grand Final could be a good test case except Fox don't do the Grand Final. But your point is well made. Yes, I think that that is something down the track that if you're going to continue to want to pay, you need to get other aspects of it, and certainly watching it from behind the goals at various stages is significant and be nice to be able to flick around and do those sorts of things. But yeah, I agree with you Ellen on that situation. Certainly. What nine does is it really ramps up for State of Origin because it is such a big, big, big game for them. You know, they had three and they're the three biggest games of the year, and four if you had in their Grand Finals. So they've been able to do a great job and nine have done a fantastic job on that. Maybe seven do it four Grand Final day and put it on seven or one of their digital channels. But that's something that they should look at. But a very very good point. All right, that's your questions for this week. Thanks everybody. We'll be back tomorrow. I'll be back tomorrow sitting on my loansome again doing a preview of the weekend's random matches. And next week I'll be chiming in from overseas giving an update. I'm going over to have a good look at Lords and Australia on Friday to see Australia hopefully beat South Africa. Have a great weekend to the footy for all the Collingwood fans just sit back and enjoy being two games clear on top of the ladder going into the by ah yes, smoking nut cigar.