00:00It was in the middle of the afternoon yesterday.
00:03There's St Kilda and the Giants.
00:04There was Richmond and Brisbane down at Hobart at Bluntstone Arena
00:07or Niger Stadium, it's called.
00:08Now, should the AFL have cleared out?
00:11Should they have given the World Cup clear air
00:13so that we could all embrace the Socceroos of the World Cup campaign?
00:17I've thought about this half.
00:18It was an opportunity.
00:19At 2 p.m. Sunday, now I'm not a football expert by any regards,
00:24but I've watched a lot of World Cups.
00:25I can't recall a game smack bang, 2 o'clock on a Sunday.
00:29In our time zone, to be able to go to the pub and get behind,
00:32normally they're 5 a.m., which the next one is.
00:34So it was an opportunity for the AFL.
00:36Having said that, the AFL is the AFL.
00:38The AFL is still the king of sport here in Australia.
00:41They don't have to balk just because there's some football on.
00:44So I think it could coexist.
00:46And we saw still 17,000 people there, which was acceptable.
00:51And the Saints haven't been travelling too well.
00:53I don't think we needed to stop our football forever
00:56and start waving flags.
00:58I don't know.
00:59I reckon it would have been an opportunity.
01:00There was only two games played yesterday,
01:02and they would have – although the fixture was out,
01:03the AFL fixture was out before the World Cup fixture.
01:05Yeah, but they can –
01:06That was already set.
01:06They can change it.
01:07They've done things in the past.
01:09They would have known relatively quickly.
01:10I think the World Cup fixture was released in December.
01:12Yeah.
01:12So they would have been able to change it if they wanted to.
01:14I don't know why.
01:15It's a bit of a, you know, 61 half dozen other.
01:17I think they could have done it.
01:19They don't want to be seen to be giving soccer a leg up
01:22or a football a leg up.
01:23I don't know why that animosity is there, I must admit.
01:26But anyway, that's seemingly the way it is.
01:29Because I must admit, we were distracted at Marvel Stadium yesterday.
01:32We were distracted watching the Socceroos,
01:34particularly once you've scored the first one.
01:36You're on edge.
01:37You're on edge, and you're just trying to work out
01:38what's going to happen next in the game.
01:40And it was a great moment for the nation.
01:41And now, you mentioned Saturday at 5 a.m., the next game.
01:45AFL.
01:45The AFL, they've been lucky.
01:47Because now everyone's on board.
01:49We've got that first win.
01:50The whole sporting community will be on board the Socceroos now.
01:53So the next one's Saturday at 5 a.m.,
01:54and the week after is Friday at midday.
01:56So they're going to get away with it.
01:58They don't have any more problems until perhaps we get through
02:02to the knockout phase, and then it could be game on again.
02:05Friday at midday sounds like a long lunch for people.
02:06It's a long lunch.
02:07That's going to be a good fun.
02:08It's going to be a start, and then hopefully a celebration.
02:10I don't think they had to move it.
02:12The issue was obviously Toby Green at the Giants even said,
02:15I prefer to be watching the soccer.
02:17The AFL would have been thrilled with that, wouldn't they?
02:18But 17,000, lame crowd.
02:21Ross Lyons said, look, we haven't been going that well.
02:24And then he said, well, last time we played the Giants,
02:26they had 3,000 turn up.
02:27So he's giving them a whack.
02:28Give them a whack, yeah.
02:29But I reckon the Giants' numbers are a bit wobbly.
02:34From a crowd perspective.
02:35Crowd perspective.
02:35No doubt.
02:36No, there's no traction at all.
02:37There's no traction at all.
02:38No, but if you look at the figure, the figures are rubbery.
02:41Is that what I was trying to say?
02:42That sometimes they seem to be, you know, 16,500
02:45when it looks like about seven and a half.
02:47It's like the chicken at the Chinese restaurant.
02:49It's rubbery.
02:49Yeah, that's right.
02:50It's a nice rubbery thing very much.
02:51I like that rubbery duck on Hey Hey It's Saturday.
02:54But no, I think the AFL should have backed themselves in.
02:56It was a good day of footy.
02:57The game in Tassie went completely under the radar.
03:00Ninja Stadium.
03:01Ninja.
03:01They make the air fries.
03:02Ninja, you know that?
03:04We've got a Ninja air fryer.
03:06I don't know where that brand came from,
03:08but now they're sponsoring it.
03:09And Richmond, look, they're selling games too,
03:11which is not great.
03:12I've got my mate Pete here who's just watching today,
03:16the local dry cleaner's son.
03:17I don't think he's too thrilled about it.
03:19He'd prefer to have been at the G yesterday
03:20than his team down at Ninja Stadium, Air Fryer Park.
03:27Mate, you need ninjas in your kitchen.
03:29They're making coffee machines too now, just by the way.
03:30My daughter's got one of them.
03:35My daughter's got two sides of the sun.
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