MINI: Hawthorn Players Media Frenzy
The Christian O’Connell Show
GOLD and iHeart Australia
4.7 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Christian O'Connell dives into the latest controversy surrounding two AFL stars who've been making headlines for all the wrong reasons. He shares his thoughts on the media frenzy surrounding their antics, comparing it to the infamous Ned Kelly stories of the past. Christian reflects on how things have changed, and how this kind of behavior wouldn't have even made the news back in his day. He also discusses the consequences the players are facing and how the public's reaction has been over the top.
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| 0:09.2 | Got anything good? |
| 0:11.1 | Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast. |
| 0:18.9 | I was watching news yesterday evening, right? |
| 0:21.3 | And there's been this big ongoing story this week, as if two AFL stars are the new Ned Kellys. |
| 0:30.3 | I've been horrified, horrified with the way these two young lads have done what a lot of young lads do, |
| 0:37.8 | have a couple of small bears and shenanigans happens. |
| 0:41.7 | Shenanigans are right way. |
| 0:42.5 | Shenanigans has happened. |
| 0:43.8 | They're having to do this awful kind of basically like hostage videos |
| 0:47.7 | where action-faced, where, you know, |
| 0:51.4 | and the reporter was talking about one of them going |
| 0:53.5 | and friends say that he is a shell of a human being. I'm like, so wait, they were in America. It was a pre-season thing. They had a night out, a few drinks. They got on a scissor lift, got up to two meters in the air. The police said, hey, lad, you shouldn't be up there. They agreed, |
| 1:15.0 | came down, got arrested, spent the night in the cell. They've got to do 16 hours of alcohol, education, possible community service. They've got to go back to Arizona for the |
| 1:21.6 | sentencing. And it's just like, you know, these days we moan that they're too boring, that |
| 1:27.2 | the sports stars are done. This is how they used to carry on. It wouldn't even make the news. One has been stripped to the vice co-captancy. You would have been promoted to the captain. The actual captain would have been stripped because there was another legend who's gone to America and got airborne or a scissorlift after a night out. |
| 1:45.2 | And it's hard to avoid it. |
| 1:46.1 | The way they're being hauled out on the news is if they're these terrible Ned Kelly-like serial killers. |
| 1:51.8 | You're right in those videos where they have to. |
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