Welcome everyone. It's Braddy Haran here again on a very special Tommyball

podcast. Now as you know the Tommyball season has been suspended on legal and

medical advice. There was a lot of talk of continuing with the season, perhaps

playing behind closed doors with just robot spectators, but on the advice of the

World Health Organization which advised that the licking of opponents' faces was not recommended

and really you can't play Tommyball without that, so the authorities really had the was not I am joined by Tommy Bowl legend Tim Hine.

Great to have you here even under these circumstances.

Oh, well it's a pleasure to be here.

You were one of the few people who thought the season should continue anyway. A lot of people thought maybe that was linked to your

lucrative commentary contract and your well publicized financial situation. Was that the case or why did you want play to continue?

Well there's two thoughts on this

that were in forefront of my mind.

The first one, of course, is the fact that I didn't

see why the commentating couldn't go ahead without the game. I mean these days people go to the game

really for the commentating. They want to hear Tim Hines speaking and commentating as to what's going on, even indeed if there's nothing going on.

But I have to say I at the end of the day I can see now given how soft the players are these days

it was just going to be too dangerous for them

to be out there given given how soft they are these days. A lot of people thought

having two people in the commentary box might not even be safe but you were willing

to just commentate solo on no game. That's right I mean it's it's very old school to have

two commentators I can't see why I couldn't be the main commentator and be able to do

self-interviews all the way through.

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