Shaun Sport | Is There Such A Thing As An Ugly AFL Player?

Published Apr 23, 2024, 3:00 AM

We unpack the sports players who are definitely punching above their weight.. And home games for WA teams in the AFL - is it really a level playing field?

This is Sean spot in podcast form. I got to start off with a bit of golf to talk about, actually, because the world number one golf for Scotti Scheffler. He just won another tournament over night, and in the last five times he's graced the golf course, he's won four of those events. So get a load of this. He won the Arnold Palmer Invitation, which was the first event to drink four million dollars, four.

Million dollars for Arnold Palmer.

Right, So then the next event it was a Players Championship four and a half million dollars. He won eight and a half million, yep. Then he came tired for second in the Houston Open five hundred and fifty large.

Here we go, that's nine hundred and fifty.

R Yeahredoni Okay. So then he followed up with winning the US Masters, which is huge to see. Last week that was three point six million, so he's won twelve yea, how long?

How many wiss is that?

This is? This is five weeks? Yeah, I mean overnight three points six million dollars about sixteen mil sixteen mit five US US Oh yeah, thank you, Harry.

Yeah, So what's that?

Approximately oh twenty is over twenty million.

Wow, and that was six weeks of golf. Around six weeks of golf. Taylor Swift does that in one concert. That's true, twenty five million each concert.

I know, but do you think I feel it'll be much harder like performing, oh yeah, than playing golf.

She has to train by running on a treadmill the whole concert, so unbelievable.

He doesn't have to do that, and then she's got to do a world tour like yeah, jump of planes form. He's just smashing a golf ball with people clapping, golf clapping, which is you know, not the top.

And he's not even carrying his own pack. We go.

That's just now. Also on the news last night, you might have seen a girl by the name of Nelly Carter who has won five l GP LPG yep. Very hard for me to say tournaments. So she's going particularly well. And I remember following her many years ago. Her dad was a professional tennis player, and so was her mom. Now dad ended up getting well. He got sidelined for cheating at one stage because he took some kind of diarretic. I believe he was the world's skinniest man.

Remember him looking madry quarter eighth. And but then Nelly has clearly got her looks from her mum, because she's a very attractive.

She really is. Yeah, so p E t r as well t k o r d a head quarter he was. He was a top ten player, like he was always in the top twenty in there and so he then check.

So he's got beavers and butt headhead has Unfortunately.

That's probably that's probably a good photo of him.

Talented tennis player. That's him, right, he was an amazing tennis player. Google his wife because we need to see where that jet. Gorgeous well the daughter, look at the daughter.

So they had two boys and two girls, two girls I think about Yeah, two girls are both professional golfers and one of the sons is a professional tennis player. And he we're having Sorry guys, we've got this big screen in here, which is how he can bring up all the things we're asking for straight away.

It now he.

Takes after her mum. And we know we've mentioned this the other day. We've mentioned this. If you're high level sporting, it does not matter what you look like. Correct, you are Paul and chicks left right and center.

It is it is it is sometimes criminal. Criminal the situations some of these ladies have gone into.

Not that we judge anybody on them.

You should never, but I remember, can I tell you the most confused flight I was ever on. I can't remember who was on there with, but we discussed it for quite a lot of the flight was this couple when they were a backpacking couple and the it was the opposite. The guy was dramatically way better looking than his partner and we're just going and all we wanted was got there and just ask why? And I know it's love, but how did that? How did that come to be? Because you've got a first meet, they've got to be.

Trip, you know, you have to you have to be on the same level, like five and a five go weeks one.

But Natalie, this was an This was a nine and a four.

But if you throw money into the equation, it changes it.

So she was obviously rich.

Can I also throw into this mix? Now that we brought up this thing, I saw Keanu Reeves the other day when he was out with his wife.

I don't like that. Do not question it, because Kean has gone through a lot in his life. He's the nicest man in the world, and she is apparently a saint, and he is happy to be with her.

They are happy.

Leave them alone.

She looks like a nana. Sure he under the sun age, she says.

She hasn't done the Hollywood thing. She hasn't gone and gotten bucket loads of surgery. She hasn't dyed her hair.

There did She does look gorgeous. She's age of precious age appropriate. Oh put them expected to see his wife being hot as chips?

Why hot as chips anymore?

You know what I mean?

They're on the same level. It's just that he's famous.

Why yes, I don't know. We'll be honest.

First time I saw it, it jarred me because I wasn't prepared. But I've gotten used to their love because she does look like she could have been cast in a Harry Potter movie. Like she's got the Hogwarts about her.

She looks. But I like that she is actually looks at me. She has scored big time. She has scored big time. She's hanging back.

This is a beautiful thing.

He believes, he scored.

That's what's beautifulch is what some husbands believe.

Sean, Why your voice go high A tiny.

Bit too long? I just said the check the time.

Sean's foot in podcast Fine.

I was at at lunch a couple of days ago and it was Andrew Dillon, who's the CEO of the AFL, who was speaking, and they asked him a question about the fixturing for the AFL competition in regards to West Coast Eagles and Freemantle being over here and constantly jumping on a plane. Now, last year the West Coast Eagles flew about sixty one and a half thousand k's and Freemantle were around the sixty thousand km ut. The year before was Freemantle who flew around sixty two and West Coast sixty one.

Compared to the other teams flying like.

Carlton this year fly fourteen thousand k's, so free.

West Coastwood famously very low marleage as well.

So Collingwood play seventeen games at the MCG so just they don't have to fly there, Nathan, Freemantle and West Coast if they played fifteen to seventeen home games and they would play in finals, yes, there would be no discussion about the wooden spoon for the West Coast, which it was only a week ago. How many home games do we have we have twelve, We'll probably have twelve in the end between.

Is it a case of you live, We can't change where you live. And that's the realities of you being a team in Western Australia.

That's kind of what you know.

Say, do we have to expect?

The Dockers hadn't played at home for a month until last Saturday, right.

That's correct. So I just wanted to bring this to attention because it was brought up in AFL three sixty last night. It was talked about how two teams got beaten last week other but people thought they would go well, which is Saint Kilda and the other one was Freemantle and both those teams had their scheduling really compromised over the last four weeks.

Because they didn't have three games in eleven days.

Yes they did. Munt was basically the same plus plus travel. This is the question being asked to Collingwood coach Craig McCrae first of all, and then Damien Hardwick, who's now coaching the Gold Coast, chimes in.

There's no way that you could look at the draw and say it's fair anywhere. It's just everyone understands it. It's just you know which bit is yours. You know that's that's reality, isn't it. We play more games of the MCG than anyone else. Yeah, I love that. Is that fair?

Clearly not?

And then how much West Coast and Freeman have to travel and the others. There's there's no way it is fair.

Look at it. It is what it is. We know the draw is going to be compromised, and there's some things. Look trust me, coming from Victoria up to Gold Coast, all of a sudden, I've realized where the airport is. From that point of view, there are some benefits. The frequent fly points are going up.

Draw is going to be compromised, compromise.

I was already compromised because yeah, you don't play the same nobody plays each team the same name.

But say it's dodgy, it's not right, but that's it.

But I don't like the comment of it is what it is. I know it can be changed, it can be worked out so that Freemantle and West Coast allocated. I don't know, one or two more home games.

I don't know.

They don't have to travel, I mean Sydney, they get their home games, plus they play a way you're forty five minutes you can.

I just say it's another element put into the mix that our teams have to deal with and fatiguing flights and all that sort of stuff and being away from your family and that, and compared to how many games Colin was playing at the MCG that all plays on you, and that plays on your performance. It's not right. It should be an equal playing field and I'm not watching it until they fix it.

Well said as Well said, I think the thing is now with the fact that you know, we've always got to play away and they've got to play here. And they were talking about the fixtures were really put in place back in the Victorian days and the VFL is happening because you just drive from North Melbourne to the mc Bridgington Bridgington when I know, I know. So getting back to it for a second. The one thing that's really been shocking for Saint kild which you brought up and the dock is in particular, they keep playing short turnaround, so they play on a Saturday, then they played a Friday, then they play on a Saturday early game, and then they play Friday again. It's just and the Dockers have been hit by injury in the last three weeks concussion. There's been two concussions, but there's been some injuries as well. It doesn't give you the best opportunity to perform, and same goes for the West Coast Eagles. People's jobs are on the line, and I know people get plaid a truckload of money, but you've got to be able to perform at your best and if you're not given that opportunity, and then someone's going, sorry, Adam Simpson, give the one enough games, you're out. Well, my team hasn't been able to perform because we haven't given them the best opportunity by the league who can control. It's definitely not a level playing field a lot of time. I mean this is They've got spoak to Eddie McGuire about this and he basically his attitude is it's a commercial decision because they're a business.

They're not running. It's not they have no drive to be fair. Their driver is to make money and so if that means playing Collingwood at the MCG more often because they draw a bigger crowd, they're going to do it. Whether it's fair or not. You know that when the Eagles played in the Grand Final in twenty eighteen, they'd only played like two games at the MCG for the entire year, the ground they have to play the Grand Final line and Collingwood had played their fifteen sixteen times.

You go, that's not fair, No, it's not fair, and then that will never work us. We've got that long term.

Your unfairness hits one of their teams, nothing will change.

The only thing that they can do at this point in time that I see being helpful is the fact that they need to give more days between games for our West Australian teams.

To if they keep making us fly this month, we can play once a month.

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