Queensland gets the jump on Tassie in interstate battle | The Press Box 94 (9/7/25) - video Dailymotion

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The sports team discusses a busy weekend for rep footy in this very special episode of The Press Box. Video by Aaron Smith (9/7/25)

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00:00Welcome one all to an episode of the Press Box my name is Ben Hand and you're

00:10alongside me once again is Ryan Bentley and Josh Partridge it's a an extra

00:15special episode of the Press Box today it's certainly an end of an era won't

00:19ever be the same after this episode we have sadly got to wave goodbye to our

00:24wonderful producer cameraman editor sting producer and also a council podcast

00:31host Aaron Smith he's off to new new horizons but we will of course miss him

00:38and this Press Box will be worse off without his his presence you two I'm

00:43sure you agree and as a dedication for all the hard work he's done with all the

00:48stings and all the different camera angles and everything in between we are

00:53dedicating this week's numerology to our favorite person Aaron Smith

01:03so I tried to come up with a bit of an Aaron Smith special for episode 94 for

01:11those playing along at home all black Aaron Smith so the same name the the

01:19lesser-known Aaron Smith I would suggest than our very own became the tenth

01:24person to reach a hundred test caps for the all blacks a very prestigious effort

01:29and of course if you had a hundred and ten that equals 110 you're thinking that

01:34doesn't equal 94 what do you what are you talking about so luckily he his current

01:41club Toyota the Blitz the well-known Toyota Blitz he has played 16 games for and of

01:47course if you get a hundred and ten and minus 16 that equals 94 so one of my very

01:54best numerologies in dedication for our one of our very best producers so there

01:59you go Aaron we do have to go into what is a really busy show though rep footy was

02:04the course of the day on Saturday Josh and Ryan now I'm gonna start with you Ryan it

02:11began at Campbelltown with the women with the NTFA just give us a quick rundown I

02:16suppose how that game unfold and what are the what is the takeaways yeah so it's a

02:21tough day for the NTFA women lost 78 to 3 SFL were far too good know a few

02:28positives Meryn Dickinson OLS her first season with OLS then best on ground for

02:33NTFA I thought her and she for Clark were both really good across half back but I

02:38think the main takeaway is it's it's a learning opportunity it's a good

02:41opportunity to get a bunch of girls together around a high performance

02:46environment with coaches like Bobby Beams and Adrian Collins and hopefully learn

02:49some things and it's set a very it was a really nice opener for your men's game

02:54yeah exactly and I think we should be mentioned is that women's team was missing

02:59probably it was by by no means I think the strongest team that was possible out and

03:03that was for a number of reasons that I think the NTFA hoping to address going

03:07forwards then there was the men's game a far closer affair Lachie Dorn off the

03:11men's coach named it the best game he's been involved with in the last five years

03:16I tend to see where he's coming from it was a really really high quality game of

03:21football Josh it was a lot of swings and roundabouts obviously there's a bit of a

03:25hill at Campbelltown so a lot of the goals were kicked towards the southern end

03:27down the hill twice the NTFA had to come back from big deficits including a 36 point

03:34margin halfway through the third quarter it was a highly emotional game of footy we were

03:38sat near the south bench and they weren't through with some of the umpiring they

03:43weren't through with some things going on what a shame back and forth between the

03:47the trainers and the crowd and and what have you but when Jordan Talbot kicks a goal from

03:51the boundary rather Dom Sheed like is how I described it and then you know Matthew

03:57McKinnon goes and does the the Leo Barry act not once but twice um it was a a remarkable

04:03game of footy high in emotion and it was a great celebration um and I suppose that does

04:10bring me on to you know the landmark segment um and that is Haney's hard hitters

04:14there's been a lot of I suppose debate about these rep games and you know the the positives and the

04:25negatives you look at um the you know how it's taken away from I suppose maybe the the smoothness

04:31of the leagues but it's also been maybe a test to showcase some skills in in new environments

04:36has this year's rep games the way it's panned out been a success Josh yeah I think they have

04:44I think um like that's keeping players here I think especially with the with the Premier League

04:50ones I think that's it's keeping players um here in Tassie whereas if they weren't able to I guess

04:56test themselves at the higher level um they wouldn't be here I suppose especially against the

05:00SFL uh it kind of looked like that difference between uh the the week to week footy and the

05:06rep footy was almost too much and I think that's that shows where the NTFA as a whole competition

05:11needs to get to yeah and you're right yeah I think it's really positive the community league I think

05:16was a great idea to involve some of those players who wouldn't necessarily play rep football if they

05:21were playing division one other years so involving those guys and also for Premier League as well like

05:25North Launceston Launceston players they play one competitive game in every five so to have a couple

05:30of extra competitive games can't hurt yeah the state rep games of course adding on to that um which we'll be

05:35we'll be about to get to um as you say they're required um whether whether we like them or not

05:40I think they're required to sustain football what in between the the state league and the VFL team

05:47uh and then yeah speaking of which uh we'll go to quickly to your uh Taz and Queensland rap uh it was

05:54an unfortunate day for Tasmania but I suppose Queensland had to get one up on us at some stage

05:58yeah so I spent the day at La Trobe uh on Saturday uh the Queensland women won by 42 points

06:03against the Tassie best on ground was Libby Haynes uh one of the coastal girls a lot of the

06:08coastal girls were really good um the likes of Sarah Skinner, Olivia Smith, Shania Sayward but uh

06:13Jaslyn Freestone was really good uh in for the northern girls playing second rock and and just

06:18producing all around the ground uh then went into the men's game they went down by 38 points uh it

06:24was 35 points at quarter time so they kind of they kept within them for the next three quarters but

06:29um as we talked about then the the gap between the week to week footy and then the rep footy

06:35of the state footy is on top of that even more and that was that was evident um within the first

06:40quarter Queensland just got the jump on them um and then that was it but Brad Cox Goodger was once

06:44again or not once again it was the first time he's received that best on ground honour for Tasmania

06:49so he just keeps adding things to his list that he does and um yeah he's obvious as I said within my

06:54story the other day probably going to be a first ballot hall of famer when his career is all over

06:58yeah remarkable player and with the rep footy flavour in mind we're going to go back to a

07:03segment that has been lost in the wilderness for a little while but uh has been promised to come

07:07back bigger and better than ever and that is of course Ryan's extremely difficult sports quiz

07:12yes it has returned apparently I've never watched a segment before but it has returned so

07:24very simple question for you guys NTFA division one men's has probably been the most competitive

07:29division in the NTFA very simple average margin in NTFA division one and I say not winning margin

07:37because there has been one draw this year yes uh I'm gonna go with 22 points I'm gonna go 36

07:47well Josh you're a good man it was 34.9 wow very good from Josh congratulations Josh that's a high

07:59honour I imagine for you that's a great win speaking of high honours we will finish the show off on a high

08:04as we always like to do and that is of course with Josh's local hero of the week

08:09well a high honour too Josh now a high honour delivered by Josh uh this goes to Jordan Talbot who

08:22as we said before took the uh no you didn't take the mark he kicked the goals uh he kicked the goal

08:27at the end of the game it was Dom Sheedlike that won the NTFA uh their rep game over the weekend so

08:32congratulations Jordan and uh well done heaps of praise but that is of course the greatest honour

08:37of the lot and that is all we have time for thank you once again Aaron for your hard work

08:42and we'll see you guys for the next one

Queensland gets the jump on Tassie in interstate battle | The Press Box 94 (9/7/25)

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