00:00Hello, Andrew Moyer here and we're looking at the 30 most underrated players of the past 30 years
00:04and we'll catch up with Wodonga's Danny Cohen.
00:07Thanks for your time. You've rated one of the 30 most underrated players of the past 30 years.
00:12I spoke to Robbie Murray about it last week. How do you take that sort of...
00:17It's probably one of the biggest accolades I've had in my career, to be honest.
00:21That's great, mate. Yeah, so it's...
00:24Yeah, when you gave me a call, I was a bit, hmm, okay, so you're thinking about underrated players, so
00:30that's good.
00:31Yeah, well, it's a compliment, isn't it?
00:33Yeah, well, yeah, yeah.
00:34How would you describe yourself as a player, Danny?
00:37I reckon I was a player that got the most out of myself, to be honest.
00:41It was just through hard work and just, yeah, I just love playing footy at Wodonga, so...
00:47Yeah, and you played as a tagger.
00:50Yeah.
00:50I mean, you must have played on... Who were some of the better players you played on?
00:53No, you play on a stadium.
00:54Oh, look, there was all... Robbie Walker was always the hardest one.
00:58What made Robbie so hard?
01:00He just... His work rate.
01:01Yep.
01:01And he never said a word back to you.
01:03You'd try and niggle him and just never got back to you.
01:07You know, there was guys like Matt Pendergast, Jason Lappin, Tim Hargraves.
01:11Yeah.
01:12They were all good players.
01:13Tim would have been a hard man.
01:15Yeah, yeah.
01:16Tim was...
01:16Tim was...
01:17You give it to him, you gave it back to you.
01:19Did he?
01:19Yeah.
01:20Did you sort of adopt that attitude, like, if I'm going to give it, then I've got to take it?
01:24Absolutely.
01:25Yeah.
01:25Because that was the way footy was back then.
01:27Was?
01:27Yeah.
01:28Who was...
01:29So Robbie, did he...
01:31I know you said he didn't fire up at all.
01:33Did he physically do anything to you?
01:35No, he just outran you.
01:37Yeah, yeah.
01:37He just outworked you.
01:38He didn't need to do anything, did he?
01:39No, no, he was so good.
01:40No.
01:40How did you...
01:41Did you like to try and get on the opposition players' skin?
01:44Always.
01:45Yeah?
01:45What was your best method, mate?
01:48Oh, just...
01:49Oh, just...
01:51Just tackling, wrestle, just pinching.
01:55Were you a dirty player or you...
01:57Oh, back in them days, probably, yeah.
02:00If you look at today's football, you'd probably call it dirty, but there was no king hits or
02:05anything like that.
02:06No, it was just hard football.
02:07Yeah, okay.
02:09Now, you're the president here at the club?
02:10Yeah.
02:11Jeez, that's a heavy role for anybody.
02:13I mean, you've got your own building company.
02:14How do you fit it in?
02:17There's the old saying is that busy people do more work, so it's...
02:22No, it's good.
02:23I'm really enjoying it.
02:24I've got a great committee underneath me, so they're all doing a lot of work as well.
02:28Terrific.
02:29What's the hardest thing about being a footy president, a footy netball president?
02:33Just putting out the spot fires.
02:35That's the biggest one.
02:36There's always something you've got to deal with, but, you know, you just do it, get on
02:39with it, and move on.
02:41Terrific.
02:41Hey, Danny, thanks for putting one of the 30 minutes down the road.
02:43No worries.
02:44Thanks, mate.
02:45Good on you.
02:45Thanks, Danny.
02:46Love you.
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