Dermott Brereton on Dwayne's World - Thursday 10th September

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1:00Dermabrens, good enough to do your job and you do him great to have you on. I like, do I know you're still banging on? I still have you on the text. I do get, well as I said, close to 500 texts some days and sometimes I don't go back over all ground but there was still a few that were from yesterday and today that I hadn't got to and there were a few sort of backing over all ground as to where I think North Melbourne could finish next year and I still think they can improve next year. So that's the reason why I kind of backed over that but it was also padding waiting for you to get ready. Did you have your hair cut or something Derm? Did you just walk out of the hairdresser? What have you been doing? You were due on and I know your hair sometimes takes a bit extra. No, I don't know, I'm really today. We finished off and just as I was about to accept your call, you wouldn't believe it. A bloke I haven't seen since I shook hands with at the end of the game came up and said he's named to me and said, how you going and his name strikes fear into every a mobile forward from the 1980s and early 90s, his name was Nick Gaffer.

2:11Yes, how's he going? He's all right, he looks good. He's good. He's the glove mate. People say to me who is the best player you played on? The best player I played on was a bloke or a rock-grang-dining that is well known all time for break just the best player. The one I hate is playing on the most. Nick Gaffer. So did he heckle you while you were on your part at all or not? No, I'm just sorry when I was walking through the club room to go outside and accept your call and I just couldn't say, I'm going to take a call rather than meet you. He deserves the respect of me. He was so difficult to play on the way. I remember Darren Crisad, I played on Crisad, God love Crisad, he was a very good player but he was exactly what I wanted to play on. He was not quite a small ball and I'd kicked about three and a quarter on him and Lee Mackey's moved Nick Gaffer on to me and I thought, oh,

3:14this will keep going. He just warming like a glove and it won't stay down Crisad ran out of the half forward line. I ran to the golf square, mixed to next to me and just kept facing me and allowed Crisad to run to 15 metres out after two bounces and bang through the golf. Never searched forward at him and I looked at Nick and I said, mate, it's called football, play the sport and he just ignored it, he ignored the slice and it just kept hammering me and I reckon I touched it at one time a quarter after he moved on to me. He was so good at flanking people. I'm glad you had a word to him. Look, there are some people more important than me so I get it but you could have said to him, hey, Nick, I'm on my drain Russell, he's padding, he's talking about his book again and his Instagram again trying to paddle for time. So we can spend a little bit more time. I can go back and tell him. One more message about 40 weeks and 10 but anyway, damn pressure on the finals, he's got to win the two finals, start with him all night, cats are free, Mattel.

4:15I know you've got the soft spot for the cats. I think free Mattel is going to win this comfortably. So do I. Yeah, they've got a tune up. I don't think the cats in the start in the middle of the ground have got an answer for Jackson. Jackson, I mean in a team which really got soundly beaten last week, he still was wonderful and I expect him to against lesser opposition in terms of rockman. I think he'll still be wonderful again and I reckon that'll get the ball rolling and Josh Tracy will never play another game like that in the next 150 he runs out. So do you think that can go the way then still free Mattel? Last week before the game, the parameters were still pretty much the same. They had to win three games to win the flag. They're still going to win three games to win the flag. They just got to win a more on the row and they've blown one of their opportunities to have one of them at home, preliminal but they still got to win three games. Can they win three? Very circumspect way of looking at a drain and I totally agree with you. Well, they won't throw it in in a row.

5:19So and that's a good opposition. So I think they can. I've narrowed it down. What do we just 16 to left off? I've got half the field can win it now. Hawthorne placed themselves in pole position by by by leapfrog in free Mattel. I think Brisbane still have to know how how to do it and free Mattel have been the best team of the year. So free Mattel, I hope they can hang on. So in terms of so the Hawks are looking pretty good. Who do you at least want to play then if you're Hawthorne the week after? Who do you at least want to play in a grand final? Even Derm do you think? Because the cats and the Hawks have got a good history. Free Mattel have been exceptional. Obviously you're going to have to get through or the Brisbane or Adelaide first. But if you do win the flag it'll be Brisbane and someone else going to have to beat back the back. So the teams that Hawthorne don't match up as well against? Yeah, it's funny that because Brisbane have the good record in recent times, like in the last days, a month to gain torque on other than that. Hawthorne had a great record against Brisbane.

6:25I view it the way that they call for winning to last week's game and that is it's the Ross line mentality anywhere anytime. There we go. And if everybody plays their best football, if that's Hawthorne's best football which it is, that's going to take some knocking over. That really was the complete game. Sydney's game was awesome, so emotionally based so that you can make a case that that's going to be tough to go another to a quarter of the football to have that emotional intensity for two full games. Yeah, Brisbane are a wonderful team. They've got known how, but they've been scored against when they're just lightly off in application and defense. Now that's not that is not the profile of a team which wins a premiership. So they are an extraordinary team that is so deep with talent, but the actual profile they have,

7:33it's not the best thing to look at at this point in the season. So I'd probably see them, I'd have free medal and Hawthorne's seeded equal and the line half a step back behind them. And just on back on tomorrow, I'll tell you when you mentioned Jackson, Jolong's got nowhere to go with Jackson. There is a chance they're bringing Sam DeKonin in that triple team him. So they use Edwards, Blitzar's and Sam DeKonin to throw three different looks at him. Do you think that's going to play in their favor if they bring in Sam DeKonin? Good luck with Edwards. Good luck with Sam DeKonin and Blitzar's is your best chance, but as good athlete as Mark Blitzar's is, he has been, Hercules, in that role and he's a proven final player. I wonder where the marks endurance is what it used to be. So he's in so triple team him, but in reality, you want Blitzar's playing against him for most of the time because he's going to

8:36destroy those other two. And the bounce back factor has been big this final series. So I mean, we've experienced a bounce back factor as well. Is there a chance that in three weeks time we're talking about the kick in the pants Brisbane goal or the kick in the pants Fremaddle got us being exactly what they near to the right time? Absolutely. That is the ringing of the bell in the rocky fight, isn't it? Where everybody takes a step back and goes, we didn't knock him out with that one. They're still coming forward at it. Yeah, if those are those two, get serious and put their game together in such short time, we'll all go, oh, this is going to be tough to jump over. So yeah, I reckon there is a big bounce back factor to both those teams. The one I think will bounce back better is Fremaddle because Brisbane, as I said, if they just get a few things wrong, which some teams can deal with, I don't know the Brisbane defence has been dealing that well with

9:39so we don't have any teams in yet, do we? No, we don't yet, but the cats are trying now. So that will be so tough. I'd be so worried about the back half of the ground. Harris Andrews Dashi Gardner has been very good at any point in the Fremaddle last year, but you've got to remember that Sweetqua was the way through the season in 2025 and I'm not trying to denigrate. I'm talking accurately as somebody who looks at football. Dashi Gardner was out of the picture with Brisbane. He was surplus. He was keeping there in case we run out of soldiers. They ran out of soldiers, and he came in and did the right job. He got completely and utterly exposed last week. I hope he does well. He seems to be a really good guy, really good footballing citizen. Well, he's got a couple of pro-wishy examples, so he's done exceptionally well. But he was in Brisbane's mind halfway through last year, as I said, they had him done, but he's hung in there.

10:42I'd be, I'm just worried about it. They might not even pick him this week. So who would they bring in, I'm trying to work out, who was, if they thought Ty Gallup can lock someone away because he came in to set mark and the loss. Yeah, trust me. Once you actually start overlowing with intercept marker, you start to have a little bit of a hole in the forward half of the ground. The other thing in the back half of the ground. The one thing I would say is most team, and the way we recruit now, most teams struggle to cover our small forwards, especially in the finals. Because we just don't recruit your Andy Collins, your Andy Hughes type folks anymore. We accidentally get small professional backman become that role over time accidentally. We don't recruit lockdown defenders on small forwards.

11:44It's just something we don't do. I think we're probably going to have to look at it in the future. If we start getting teams that destroy opposition in the big games, like finals game, because no one can mind their small forwards. Derm you caught up in NFL Fever, you go to Moro, what's your, what's your movement to the next 24 hours? I'm not going to Moro, but I absolutely love it. So yeah, I was just watching some of the the season out there on the screen. I love the sport. I hope the Americans who are on tour here get a glimpse at our sport at the most welcome to our country. We love having them here. They are wonderful. They're vibrant. They're adding something to the Melbourne landscape in a September, which is normally completely and utterly dominated by AFL. If you're an American tuning into this radio station, welcome. We love having you here. I love having you here.

12:49I love NFL. Well, I actually faced a lot of my personality in the media on a bloat from the 1980s. I thought I want to be like him when I get into the media. His name is Jim McMart. Flyover, by the way, that was that noise. There's been a big flyover here. And scared the daylight set of all of us. No, I'm loving. There was a, it was the wrestler. I thought you might have yourself with the blonde hair. What's his name that did? Who? Who was he? I know. That was your class. What do you know? I can't think of his name. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, Rick's where I love Bruce Gake and Mr. Perthick. Kurt Henning. They were my two, my two, my three-way record. And people record, I look like Diamond Dallas Page. And when I first saw him, he had sunglasses on. I thought I can't remember doing that. I thought it was me. Hey, I just got to give a shout out. One last shout out. X-Team,

13:52eight premiership team, eight team Anderson has coached the old Scotch women's footy team for eight years. He's won the last two premierships. He's in a pre-limit tomorrow doing a good luck. And he's self-coined. If he can get a third one, he's coined the phrase. He's done it himself. He's calling it a dynasty. I love it, Durham. I knew you'd put some old Scotch and football in the one sentence at some stage, but I didn't think it would be in that manner. Great to have a chat, dear. We're talking to you this week. Have a great time. A chance wonderful down there. It is. I've got a chicken wing with your name on it. Dermeter, thanks to old him, construction, lawyers, your defense in building your spirits.