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Final Siren: Inside the AFL - Season 1 - Episode 02: Hold The Line
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00:15It doesn't matter how you feel. If you get up and do something, you're into the day. You've won already.
00:22I'm Nat Phyfe. I'm from the Dockers and I've been playing for 16 years.
00:30I've always been very focused. My greatest strength has allowed me to be the best player in Australia.
00:44Well, the big players, the big moments, the big stakes for Fremantle.
00:55Fyfe. Nat Phyfe from the pocket for an impossible goal.
01:00Nat Phyfe was the closest thing to God there was.
01:04Fyfe breaks through. Speaking of all time, how good is he?
01:09The athleticism, the size, the physicality, a one-man wrecking ball.
01:16The intensity, the ferocity, everything about him made him simply unstoppable.
01:23This is brilliant. What a show he's putting on.
01:28The Brownlow medal's the most prestigious individual award that AFL football offers up.
01:34Great players win Brownlow medals once, but Nat Phyfe is a two-time Brownlow winner.
01:39Phyfe separated himself, not just through talent, but through pure determination.
01:44I literally watched him play with a broken leg like it was nothing.
01:51If you are willing to put your body on the line and go all in, some great things can happen.
01:56With that sort of mentality, every week I would play as intensely, with as much purpose as I could.
02:04But my ultimate strength was my ultimate weakness.
02:23I haven't played a final in ten years.
02:26And what I've had to go through cost me.
02:31It cost me so much.
02:39I've had three major concussions, 27 operations, six shoulders, two broken legs,
02:46two knee operations, back operation, cracked sternum.
02:53My body shape's completely different.
02:56It just changed the whole way I moved.
03:00The backwards walking stuff is for my knees.
03:03The rope flow stuff is to try and get some connection with my upper and lower body.
03:09After every operation I had, I get heavy, heavy depression
03:12for six months until the point where it starts to ease and anxiety then reveals itself.
03:19But my body's saying, we can't go.
03:21But all I've ever known is to keep going.
03:27So finishing off 2024, I was done.
03:29My body wasn't allowing me to enjoy what I was doing.
03:33But it felt like we had the necessary ingredients to be a club
03:37and that could win a premiership.
03:45You're buckwheats.
03:47No idea where they are.
03:48Bridget likes them that.
03:50I want to win a premiership and I will do whatever it takes to get to where I want to
03:55go.
04:01Good morning.
04:03Good morning.
04:05Bit of a modern story, I guess.
04:08We met early last year.
04:11So we've been together for just under two years.
04:15How was your walk?
04:17Now he feels amazing.
04:19Good.
04:20Yeah, he messaged me, asked if I wanted to catch up.
04:23I thought we're probably not going to like him.
04:26I was wary of dating someone in the public eye or an athlete.
04:29So initially we just had one date.
04:32He told me that he'd only allotted one hour and it ended up going for about three or four hours.
04:38And I guess the rest is history.
04:42This is what I'll do at training today.
04:46Physically.
04:49I feel really, really good.
04:53He tried for so long to get to finals and win a premiership.
04:58In the past, he would do whatever he could at whatever cost, put his body through absolute hell.
05:06But maybe that's not going to work anymore.
05:22I'm dealing with a bit of an ankle injury and a few other things.
05:25I'm desperately keen to overcome these injuries.
05:33So, couldn't have expected lateral bruising.
05:36Yep.
05:37What I'm checking for is to see how much other damage you've got inside the rest of your joint.
05:43How's it jumping?
05:44Yeah.
05:49So, stand up on your toes as high as you can.
05:52That's a good range.
05:53It's not too bad.
05:54They're very forgiving ligaments.
05:57I think it's actually pulled up really, really well.
05:59Okay.
06:00Cool.
06:01You happy with that?
06:01Very happy.
06:02All right. Thanks, Jess.
06:04I just want to get out here so that I can play this week.
06:09You want to feel like you're contributing to the success.
06:15And what comes with feeling different is hope.
06:25Well, Fremantle have got their season back on track, but the last time they met it was a 61-point
06:30win to the Saints in Round 8.
06:33Fremantle Dockers are sixth on the ladder.
06:35There's nine games left.
06:38This is really where the whips get cracking.
06:40Clearly, it's been a really tough trying year for Nat Fyfe.
06:44But things are looking up for him.
06:47He's back in the 23.
06:49And there's a lot of pressure on the Fremantle Dockers.
06:51They've been in the competition for 30 years, but Fremantle Football Club have never won a premiership.
06:56They haven't featured in finals in recent years, and they're desperate to get back there.
07:03We've done the work all year.
07:05All right, and we've got the ability to go to another level.
07:09They look like they could be a real premiership threat this year.
07:12What I want you to do is just have a chat to the guy next year.
07:14What's got you excited?
07:15Or what's given you energy?
07:17The last five years of my career have been defined by injury, poor performance.
07:22I don't want my story to be defined by that.
07:26Last point.
07:27It's our way, lads.
07:29That's the stuff I can hang our hat on at the end of the day.
07:32It's my whole adult life's work feels in a way like it hinges on being in the team for finals.
07:40Let's fucking get off with you.
07:41Very good.
07:42Very good.
07:45It's round 16, Sunday afternoon, football in the west, up to stadium.
07:52And Jackson in the ruck, opposed to Marshall, as Marshall will just soccer the footy forward.
07:57So my role is sub.
07:59I can come on at any stage of the game.
08:03That five, that's the sub.
08:04He's as good as any.
08:06Marshall is clever.
08:07Away to Higgins.
08:08He snaps from the pocket.
08:10The Saints throw down the challenge.
08:12The Dockers have got ground to make up.
08:14They need to change up what they're doing right now.
08:17I just want to get out here and get my hands on this game.
08:19I want to be involved here.
08:20I want the ball in my hands.
08:21You're going to be on first rotation.
08:23Let's go.
08:25Big pack.
08:26Wading down Henry.
08:27Oh, it's the snap!
08:29The goal!
08:30There's a kick in it!
08:33I've warmed up once or twice.
08:36Then I went to run out and warm up again and I did my calf.
08:40Fuck's sake.
08:42You're kidding me.
08:44Which is just incredibly embarrassing.
08:46Free kick below the knees and they take the advantage.
08:48They draw the ball in for Jackson!
08:50I hadn't even got on the field and I was injured.
08:52And a chance to give the Dockers the lead.
08:56He'll go long instead.
08:58They want a mark.
08:59Jackson's down.
09:00There he's got out!
09:02Jackson in the fingertips.
09:06The purple haze erupts.
09:12It's a weird thing in recent seasons for Rio
09:15to come from behind at three-quarter time.
09:17But that is what they've done.
09:20I know it's a game of footing.
09:22Coming from behind.
09:25They want to be in and valuable.
09:27Helpful.
09:28But just cannot outrun injury.
09:39I got injured sitting on the bench.
09:41I didn't even come on the ground.
09:43I just felt embarrassed.
09:45Like the whole year for me has just kind of been this frustrating rollercoaster.
09:50I'm starting to feel good and did a bit of a knee.
09:52I'm starting to feel good and then did the hammy.
09:55And so now we're back in that same position again.
09:57The only certain amount of control that you have as well.
10:00I've got no doubt you've wrestled with that.
10:02That's been the hardest part for years now.
10:05Like you can do everything you possibly could to get your body right.
10:09How could this club trust me?
10:11How could I trust my own body anymore?
10:15It's so far beyond being a sad story now.
10:18That felt like the end of my career.
10:22There's no doubt that Nat Fife is running out of time chasing premiership success.
10:27Then you've got Melbourne on the other hand whose season is done.
10:30And all they're really playing for is pride in the jumper.
10:41How many rucks do you know that can do this?
10:43Just a one step barrel like that.
10:48I am the captain of Melbourne Football Club.
10:51I just don't miss them anymore.
10:52I'm honoured to be in the role.
10:54It's an incredibly special role.
10:56Max Gorn leads his side.
10:58Max the skipper.
11:00I love the role.
11:01I love relationships.
11:02I love mentoring.
11:04But it can be quite daunting being captain.
11:07I'm pretty happy to step on some toes to do what is the best for this club.
11:12Been at the club for 16, 17 years.
11:14Which is pretty uncommon when you look around the world.
11:16Loyalty is a big factor in our football club.
11:19This has been a football club that have won one premiership in 52 years.
11:24The demons are premiers.
11:26The drop off from 2021 when they won their flag to now.
11:31Oh dear.
11:33Everything going wrong for Melbourne.
11:35Is massive decline.
11:37Melbourne are going to fall short.
11:39It's just becoming a pattern now.
11:40But there's a sense of frustration around the Melbourne Football Club.
11:44And the way it will.
11:47All the worries of the world.
11:48That man Simon Goodwin.
11:49As a club.
11:51It's a little disgruntled.
11:52There's an environment.
11:53Blum.
11:54Faces.
11:55Moreland's officialdom.
11:57Speaks volumes.
11:58It's been quite a fall from grace.
12:01And nobody is really taking accountability for what is unfolding in front of our eyes.
12:22Thanks everyone.
12:24Tough day.
12:25Tough day for our football club.
12:27We as a board came to a decision.
12:29And we were parting ways with Simon Goodwin.
12:32As a senior coach of our AFL program.
12:35Oh look.
12:35I was disappointed.
12:36There's no doubt about that.
12:39You know.
12:39But I certainly respect the board's decision.
12:42The demons premiership winning coach.
12:44Simon Goodwin has been sacked.
12:47Clearly that club are taking a different approach.
12:50And as I said.
12:52I totally respect that decision.
12:53It brings a sharp end to his football coaching career at the Melbourne Footy Club.
12:56Just last Monday.
12:57He presented to the board.
12:59After that board meeting.
13:00He said he felt he had the full support of the board.
13:02That is clearly not the case.
13:05Goodie been sacked.
13:06It was a pretty major secret.
13:09It's just going to be a big day.
13:10Big week.
13:11Big year.
13:19I'm not supposed to do that regularly.
13:21Well yeah.
13:22Because you can see the bits grow up.
13:23Like filled up in there.
13:27We understand we were 6 and 14 at the time.
13:29But when Goody was sacked.
13:31We all got taken by surprise.
13:32I got a text message at 8 20 in the morning.
13:35Saying can you jump on a call.
13:36With a leadership group.
13:37To discuss something.
13:38I had no idea what it was.
13:39And so I went in totally dark.
13:41In the week before Goody being sacked the noise internally was we're backing him in
13:46it was a serious wake-up call. You had two years in a row of poor performance like it's not
13:51shocking
13:51that someone's responsible for it. When you have seasons like we have now change is inevitable
13:57but change of boss just gives you uncertainties. We have a new CEO, new president, new coach it's
14:04kind of like wow we've got a full clean slate now. Probably other roles that will change as well new
14:08players. My first thought was good he backed me in. What's the next coach going to think?
14:13And it would be irresponsible to say that the culture is absolutely perfect. We've had a player
14:17banned from the game for performance enhancing drugs. We've had some other you know controversial
14:23stories. Culturally we're not right. I've not led well on the ground, not led well off the ground.
14:29And you sit there and go well I've probably fucked up a fair bit as well hey.
14:41At the end the head coach really is relying on wins and losses and we all know we're not where
14:47we want to be and you would feel that. Yeah it's a bit of a bit of a whirlwind. I
14:54think
14:55the decision shook shocked me a little bit. I'm conscious of how much stress and adversity people
15:02are under. I'm captain and I've won Best in Ferris and I've won All Australians and I'm scared about
15:09the change. Imagine what the 44 players under me are feeling. So they're scared right now. I need to
15:17make sure I'm present. I'm going to make sure I'm noisy at training, I'm noisy game day, noisy in the
15:23WhatsApp. Just make sure I'm present. It's important that I remember first and foremost why I'm captain of
15:30the football club. In the end I'm a representative of my 45 players. The responsibility to lead and drive
15:36this club is on me.
15:46Right I know football underway. Collingwood have won 11 of their last 12 against the Demons.
15:53The final game of the home and away season for the Melbourne footy club. They just want to restore
15:57some kind of pride. It has been an arduous frustrating enduring sort of a year for Melbourne.
16:04Let's go. Welcome back. Losing their premiership coach Simon Goodwin along the way.
16:09Max Gorn is the leader of this group. He wants to galvanise everybody and go out on a high.
16:17A lot to play for. It's important that we go out and do the job proud.
16:23Friday night football underway. Gorn and Cameron. I think when crises like this happen, the players
16:29turn to their captain, Max Gorn. So he would be a player that everyone would look to for reassurance
16:36and guidance. So the half time margin at the MCG is 13 points. Remembering Collingwood needs to win
16:45and Melbourne's last half of the season. We deserve to be here on Friday night. Friday night lives. We
16:51deserve to be in blockbuster games. But we've got to show them. This is our chance to show the world
16:56we mean business. I don't care about what's happening next week. We've got to show them right in their
17:01face. High stakes. A half to go in Melbourne's season. Got to take care of business here. The magpies.
17:15Kaziah Pickett has got special skill. Some momentum building here for the demons.
17:25Just watching Max Gorn, there was something a little bit different just in the way that he was guiding
17:29everybody. The way that he was directing everybody and the emotion that he was showing out on the ground.
17:35You could just see that he was trying to build not just towards a win under Friday night lights,
17:40but build towards the future. Hold that side. Hold that side. Here they go again. They are smacking the pot.
17:47Harvey Langford slaps it from 50. Good purchase. Goal. The endeavour, the energy has risen significantly.
17:54Hey, we spoke pre-game about the pride. Okay, you've got to earn this. And it's
18:00fucking hunt them, get after them and then do your work the other way. Let's go.
18:04Here we go. Don't be scared. Don't be scared. Take the game off. Take the game off.
18:09There's some nervous Collingwood fans here now.
18:14Around the body. Bounces through. Brilliant.
18:20Let's go. Let's get it back. Let's get it back right now. It's a tense, anxious,
18:24nervous watch from every angle.
18:36Collingwood has arrested the momentum.
18:41It simply mattered too much for Collingwood.
18:51Very difficult season for Melbourne in lots of ways.
18:58They pushed Collingwood right to the line.
19:04Oh, we just lost another close game the same way. That's what caught us in this position.
19:15That's why Goody's not here anymore. Because we can't, we can't get over the line.
19:19This game was always going to tell us a message. We're either going to lose by a bit and we're
19:24going to know how far off we are. We're either going to win and that can give us some fucking
19:28hope
19:28and pride for next year. Or we're going to lose a winnable game again.
19:35And we've lost a winnable game again. So we can go away for this six months before our next game.
19:42We've got to learn how to win.
19:47We're not losing these next year.
19:51We can take the pride in the performance. We've got to learn how to win.
19:55It's a clear message. Kind of glad we got it.
20:04The Dockers are their first premiership. Well, they have to get there first.
20:08Believe it or not, they can finish top or they can also finish ninth. It's how close the year is.
20:13There's about five weeks remaining in the home and away season. There is a lot at stake for Nat Phyfe.
20:17He cannot afford any mishaps in the run home. Otherwise, it could mean season over and career over.
20:28Nat injured himself in the St Kilda game. He's now found himself out of the team.
20:34Big session tomorrow. I'll train with the team for the first time.
20:38Apart from performance and physios and what return to play looks like.
20:43But it'll be decided tomorrow.
20:46Well, depending on how tomorrow sessions goes, but this one feels like nearly there.
20:53I'm watching the calendar. As the runway gets shorter with finals just around the corner,
20:58it's critical to show still the player that could win.
21:02I want to finish this story. I want to be on the ground when we win the grand final,
21:07which at this point seems so far off.
21:17It's also not stuff you can control. So you're focusing on what's now and what you can do.
21:24When he sets his mind to something, he becomes so fixated. It is tough for him to see a different
21:31perspective. Is it the right thing to keep pushing even when, you know, it's injury after injury and
21:37hurdle after hurdle? If they said we can play you this week, would you be thinking that it's too soon?
21:43You're a different player now to what you were back then. That might result in injury again.
21:50I don't want my story to be defined by frustration and helplessness that comes with injury. I've come
21:57this far. I can't just stop here and die on the hill. If I feel like me and I can
22:01play,
22:03my body can do what my mind wants it to do. No issues.
22:12Forward. Yeah. So here. Drive. Drive. And then drive. Right.
22:19It's all right. Whoa. Has he left the run too late? Maybe. Maybe not though.
22:30Ah, I feel good. Nat sent a message through to myself and JL last night asking about whether
22:44there was potential to look at this weekend. After, unfortunately, his body let him down
22:49when he played in that sub role. And I think there's an element of the confidence that we need
22:55from Nat in understanding that his body can get through a game of AFL.
23:00Yeah! Yeah!
23:03The risk versus the reward. Because the element of risk, if he was to come back,
23:08he has another significant injury, then it almost puts an end to the year.
23:25Oh, fuck now.
23:30Are you fucking kidding?
23:34I just caulked myself.
23:38You're kidding me.
23:43I'm not going to be able to go. I've just, in that tackle with Andy, I've just caulked my left
23:48quad.
23:50Fuck's sake.
24:03I think from JL's perspective as well, like, it does feel a little bit rushed.
24:09From a selection perspective, it's a requirement that you get through a game of Waffle.
24:15Get you right and make sure I'm not taking any risks. We'll work through what that looks like.
24:21And continue to build, mate.
24:23All right.
24:23Cool.
24:24All right. Thank you, mate.
24:27Waffle is our second-tier competition. It's state-level competition.
24:34To see an absolute champion of the AFL to go back and have to earn his spot through the state
24:40league,
24:41that's like LeBron James playing in the G Leagues.
24:44Thank you so much for that.
24:46Of course. Most welcome.
24:47Thanks.
24:47Playing in the Waffle, it's embarrassing to know where my career has got to,
24:51but it keeps the pathway open to get back in the team.
24:55This is as critical as any other part in the next few weeks.
25:00In moments like this, you really see the true mental strength and character of a player.
25:06That was always my mantra of I will do whatever it takes to get to where I want to go.
25:18Work ethic was something that was ingrained really early and just became everything for me in my footy
25:24career. My dad and mum have a transport business. From as early as I can remember we'd go in the
25:31truck
25:32with dad. The most exciting thing that could happen to us was if he was doing an overnight
25:36trip somewhere and we could go with him and stay in the truck.
25:43We used to get home late at night. No matter what time it was, whether it was raining,
25:49how exhausted everyone was, he'd always go in, fuel the truck up and wash the tail lights and the
25:55windscreen and then put it away. Because we'd have to go again first thing in the morning,
26:01but he'd have to go again.
26:06And that small lesson of when you don't feel like doing it, just do it. Do the hard things,
26:12you'll thank yourself tomorrow. He just never missed on that. I just cannot think of an example
26:17where he ever missed on those small things.
26:37The Fremantle Dockers need Nat Phyfe to be able to prove to them that he can get through a game,
26:43so the next best thing is the waffle. Nat can't afford any more hiccups with his body.
26:58It feels like the dice is loaded. The weather is atrocious. It's going to be really difficult,
27:07muddy, treacherous conditions. Plus, as an AFL player, you've always got a target on your back.
27:12It felt like I was playing country footy again.
27:15It is an absolute swimming pool. I don't want him playing because I don't want him risking injury.
27:21How are you playing?
27:22Number 16.
27:2316?
27:24Yeah.
27:24Thank you, mate.
27:26This game feels like it's my last shot. One missed week could destroy any chance I have
27:31for getting back in the team.
27:32At the end of the day, we're not playing the fucking weather. We're playing Claremont. All right?
27:56I knew that it was going to be really difficult, but I didn't quite know how intense it was going
28:01to be.
28:02What's up?
28:03It's ferocious. It's combative. The approach to the game becomes survival.
28:11How's he been going out there?
28:12It can be quite confronting, like, being so close to it.
28:16It's like you want to yell out, like, get off here.
28:20It is quite an emotional experience watching someone you love risking injury.
28:28Most of my thinking is around how confident I am in my body and how I deal with contact.
28:35Do I need to hide and just do bare minimum?
28:52It's always confronting coming back.
28:56But a lot of confidence could come from a big tackle like that.
28:59Yeah, no, I think I'm good.
29:03Yeah, I'm fresh. I'm fresh.
29:04My body started to wake back up again.
29:09There we go.
29:10It's moving pretty well.
29:12Yeah. Just like, yeah, watching the way he runs, he's looking pretty comfortable.
29:16Just like going for a few overhead marks and stuff.
29:19Yeah, look at that.
29:20He's still got it.
29:21Because I wasn't sure if he could get back to playing like this.
29:25And it's not just about him, you know, getting himself ready to play.
29:28Like, he's got to get pigged.
29:29And what he's doing now, you know, he's putting his hand up.
29:38I thought he played above the level and showed that he was ready to return.
29:45Yeah, sure can.
29:50I'll come back out in a minute, guys.
29:52Cheers.
29:59This is the big finish.
30:01This is meeting with footy manager, high performance, tell us what we do in the off-season.
30:08Melbourne is a very proud club.
30:10They've got a long way to go, but ultimately they'd love to win a grand final next year.
30:16New coach coming in.
30:18Few things are changing.
30:19It's a massive time.
30:23We want a coach that can deliver us another one of these.
30:28A couple of weeks ago, I said this is the last opportunity we'll all be in the room together
30:31as a group.
30:33And I asked a bit out of the group to tip in and see if we can get some results.
30:37We didn't quite get them, but we all know how we were able to go through those three weeks.
30:41I'm incredibly proud of the group, so I just want to say thanks.
30:45Max and myself feel like this is the team that can take us to Premiership heights.
30:51I know our best is capable of beating the best, but it's about being consistent with it and
30:58bringing it out every single week.
31:00So we're all guns blazing for 26.
31:02It's going to be a pretty special time.
31:03Day one, you get a chance to start clean and you get to do a clean slate with a new
31:07coach,
31:08and you get to land a first impression and show the new boss where you want to go to in
31:12your career.
31:13That's a pretty inspiring part.
31:17To be honest, Max has been unbelievable as a leader.
31:20What he's given to each person that walks through the doors of the Melbourne Football Club
31:24and that will walk through the footy club, he's not going to have much left in the tank when he's
31:29done.
31:30And I hope for him, he gets the opportunity to lift it once more.
31:44It's so confusing right now, it's just a bit of a rollercoaster of emotion.
31:48Winning a Premiership, that's the only goal left that I really want to achieve.
31:56I'm back in the team, so the door stays open to the dream of winning a Premiership.
32:01But right now, it's weird to consider it an achievement.
32:04I don't know, hope feels foolish.
32:07It's kind of, what's the point?
32:09Yeah, it does make you want to run away.
32:13It was honestly more relief than it was excitement and pride.
32:18You have done everything that you can to work on yourself and get your body right.
32:24And then you keep going and going and it's, where is the end?
32:28Where are you finally satisfied that you've achieved all that you can
32:32and that you're happy with what you've done?
32:34Where's enough?
32:34Or does that ever happen?
32:35What?
32:38Football has been everything that he's known in his adult life.
32:42But I want him to be able to see this life outside of football.
32:47Can we not flip it? Can we not go, it's not this never-ending period of will I get back?
32:54It's I've got this finite period of time, possibly let's just go all in, let's go for it.
33:01He is struggling with where his purpose still lies.
33:05Is this something that he needs to continue doing?
33:09Or would he be better served to move past football and look at what the rest of his life is
33:15after it?
33:17I've had an amazing journey. The game has been incredibly gracious to us.
33:24No matter what happens, he's always going to be happy to see you.
33:51I'm just going to get Nat to come out the front.
33:54Thanks, Joey. I want to keep this tight because otherwise I'll get a bit emotional.
33:58After getting back on the weekend and making a successful return,
34:01this is the right time to announce that this will be my last year.
34:05It's been an amazing journey and I feel like there's still one last epic chapter to finish off.
34:13Right now on the edge of the finals with a couple of games to go,
34:17we're on the edge of doing the thing that I have dreamt of doing for 16 years.
34:23So if I can ask us all in the room to do anything from here, it's just to stay in
34:27the moment,
34:28embrace everything that comes with the challenge of the next however many weeks.
34:35And let's go fucking win that cup.
34:43Nat has one last shot now, one last roll of the dice.
34:48This is it.
34:58How are you, brother?
35:02Feeling all right?
35:02Nothing.
35:04Excited, first final.
35:08Should be a small crowd, so that'll be all right.
35:12Why don't you be?
35:15Fuck it's great to be playing this time of the year.
35:17All right, but I guarantee you the game tonight won't ask any other questions that you haven't
35:22already answered throughout the year.
35:23The Fremantle Dockers are not regularly finals participants. So for them, this is huge.
35:29Whatever the game throws at us, keep coming back to our way.
35:33If Fremantle win and they get on a roll, they have a red hot chance of winning the premiership.
35:38The game's going to be chaotic. Yeah, contest is king early.
35:42But an elimination final is exactly that. You lose, and you're out.
35:49Now, for a guy that's already announced his retirement, right here, right now,
35:55doesn't get much bigger.
36:07Fremantle, the Gold Coast Suns.
36:10There's no tomorrow, so this is all at stake. It's going to be on tonight.
36:14Oh, this is so huge.
36:17This is a full Optus Stadium here today for the Dockers, and that's for the last time
36:21they'll see Nate Fyfe here too.
36:24Here we go.
36:26Enjoy it, trust it, work work's on. Keep tuning up.
36:44Let's go.
36:45Farrar, Fiorini, end to end.
36:49No, no.
36:50Now a chance.
36:51Butterick looks over the shoulder. The easiest goal he will ever kick.
36:56Four in a row to the Suns, and they lead by 25.
36:59I mean, the Suns are dominating. Fremantle are choking on the big stage.
37:07The Gold Coast Suns, who take a 25-point lead into halftime.
37:12And I think Justin Lumiere will be disappointed with defensive application.
37:16Feels like every time the ball goes inside forward 50 for the Suns, they score.
37:21Instead of running that way, we should be fucking running that way.
37:27With that fucking pivot, what does that fucking mean?
37:35Let's go. Enjoy the challenge. Brace it.
37:40We're down by three or four goals.
37:43I just want to get out here and get my hands on this game,
37:46and I feel like I can really impact.
37:47Ready, mate?
37:49Let's go. Let's go to...
37:58Now five foot on the ground, guys. That's the rule.
38:16It does make you emotional to watch that, and you feel so excited for him, nervous,
38:24and so proud as well.
38:30Kick, kick.
38:34Paddy Voss slams it through.
38:39Let's go.
38:40Gold Coast is still coming, but Fife almost wound back the clock.
38:45You know, it was like the Fife of old.
38:48Fife! Nice!
38:52How clean was that contested mark from Nat Voth?
38:55I reached up, and it stuck, and I thought, right, we are so on here.
38:59Let's get to work.
39:00Ten minutes exactly left.
39:06Yes.
39:08That's a risk of a kick, but it's come off. Huge kick.
39:13Fremantle are turning the tide on the game and have all the momentum.
39:18And he's got it!
39:20Two shots!
39:22Toxon!
39:23And he's got it!
39:24They were down by 26 points, Fremantle, and looked out.
39:28Luke Jackson jams it through!
39:38Fremantle actually playing in the grand final, let alone winning it,
39:41has seemed so far away until now.
39:44We've been here so many times.
39:46Only three finals have been to extra time.
39:50Are we going there?
39:51Or is there a miracle for one of these two sides of the last 70 seconds?
39:55Big ball here!
40:01Big ball here!
40:02Bottom man!
40:04Swallowed, taken without the football.
40:08Pass out.
40:10Come on.
40:16Can't be like this.
40:1947 seconds.
40:21He can absorb 30 of them.
40:26I don't really want to work.
40:28I don't really want to work.
40:30Swallow is kicked.
40:39The most magnificent score!
40:42Siren sounds!
40:44History made!
40:46And they have won an almighty elimination final!
40:56Love you, mate.
40:57Love you too, mate.
41:02Focus.
41:03Have you ever heard me cook?
41:04Oh, fuck.
41:04I'm so sorry.
41:05No, don't be sorry, mate.
41:07It wasn't meant to be.
41:09You've come so far as well.
41:11I love you, mate.
41:12I love you, mate.
41:13It's our family.
41:13Come on, Julie.
41:15Just a deep love for the players that you play with.
41:20But, yeah, I was numb.
41:22Love you, mate.
41:23Love you too, mate.
41:25Oh, fuck, man.
41:27I said I was going to do this thing.
41:30We were going to get to this place.
41:32I believed it with every cell in my body.
41:34And we had it.
41:46It felt like they were holding me up to show everyone that I'd failed.
41:55I felt like they were holding me up to show everyone that I'd failed.
41:56My friend,사ias, is my friend.
41:57I'm all alone.
41:58And I'm all alone.
41:59I'm all alone.
42:00I'm all alone.
42:08I'm all alone.
42:13I'm all alone.
42:16I'm all alone.
42:19I'm all alone.
42:27it's hard to know what to say
42:31thanks for everything frothy
42:35um given your all even every last scrap
42:40every last drop that you've got you've given it
42:43so we can get done for your day
42:47yeah you'll be missed
42:52when freeman football club win their first premiership
42:55whether it's in 2025 or in the future
42:57Nat Fyfe's name will be etched in that cup
43:01I'll be telling my grandkids that I got to play with him
43:04and he's the best player I've ever played with
43:10I was kind of trying to tell him that
43:13I'm so proud of him and that I'm here for him
43:16and that he doesn't need to keep fighting
43:23couldn't be more proud of him
43:25what's next in your journey
43:27it's a great question
43:30and if I figure that out I'll let you know
43:38is there a fear in what's next
43:40no no fear
43:43just excitement
43:45yep
43:55the agony and the ecstasy
43:59100 metres away
44:00you've got the pure joy and jubilation
44:03of the Gold Coast Suns and Tuuk
44:07for someone like Tuuk Miller
44:08who's been there for all the low points
44:10and there have been many of the Gold Coast Suns
44:13it's extra special
44:14the Gold Coast Suns have made their own history
44:17who's doing what you want to ride is after us
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