Brighton Grammar School

Riley Stratford, I'm a big fan of.

Watched him play a lot this year for the San Diego Dragons and also Brighton Grammar.

He's a taller midfielder who steps up in big moments.

He runs and looks a bit like Will Day sometimes, so that's the model there.

So Jake Miller...

It's probably Walsh and Miller were the top two, I think, in this group.

Miller as a key forward for the Western Jets and also with Brighton Grammar and also Vic Metro.

Kicked a lot of goals this year, left footer, just knows his way around the forward 50 and steps up.

Weren't you the

school captain of Brighton Grammar? Star of the Sea.

Star of the

Sea.

Back to the running order of the show.

Interesting that Will Pucovski's filed a lawsuit, not against Cricket Australia, not against Cricket Victoria, but against his high school, Brighton Grammar.

Mm.

For the, the first concussion that he had that kicked off his, his-

Mm

... horrible run of concussions was in football training at Brighton Grammar.

He had a heavy concussion and then was told to keep training on that day, and then had really bad effects in, in coming days.

Uh, it'll be interesting to see how this plays out as a lawsuit, because you would think medically there's absolutely no way to know whether the initial blow would have done the damage, the same amount of damage, if he hadn't continued training.

He's played really well for Vic Metro this year, nine contested marks in three games.

And then for Brighton Grammar and the Western Jets as well, he's a goal-kicking machine.

So he's the player they'll look to build their forward line around.

And then Axel Walsh, the Western Australian talent, who makes his Waffle Senior debut in a semi-final.

Was impressed with him on the weekend watching for the Sandringham Dragons through the midfield.

So he's a strong contested ball winning midfielder, likened to Will Day.

And he's at Brighton Grammar and the Sandringham Dragons as well.

Baxter Shruck's form has been immense in the Talent League Finals in particular to lift the Eastern Rangers to the A couple of upset wins so far, and they're into the preliminary finals off the back of his power and class around stoppage and finishing in front of goal.

But this is after...

Pekowski launched legal action against Melbourne private school Brighton Grammar, alleging a breach of duty of care following a concussion during an Australian Reels football training session in 2014.

So back then, and that's 12 years ago, 16 years old at the time, got kneed in the head, and he alleges he never felt the same after that incident.

Yeah.

He's spoken about it previously, about the fatigue, the headaches, the nausea, and the vision loss that, uh, he has experienced.

He's also launch- launched legal action, by the way, against, uh, Melbourne private school Brighton Grammar, alleging a, a breach of duty of care following, uh, a concussion at training back in 2014.

Uh, how significant is this for the game, a, a settlement between CA, s- Cricket Victoria, and Pucovski?

Don't really have the details.

You sound very mature.

You obviously captained your Brighton Grammar team.

Is leadership, is that something you aspire for in the future? Obviously, I'm sure you just want to get on an AFL list first and foremost, but do you think about, you know, captaincy and leadership in the future?

To be completely honest, no, I probably... hasn't been something that i've sort of thought about it i don't know if i love obviously it was a it was it was pretty cool and an honor to sort of lead

Oh, yeah.

He's taking legal action against Brighton Grammar.

A school team or something? Yeah.

28-year-old's lawyers have filed a statement and claim allegedly a duty of care was breached.

Every week you say what more can happen, but there always is.

And one of the bombshell stories that was revealed during the week was former cricketer, Will Bukowski, who is suing not his former employer, Cricket Australia, or his former club, but his former school, Brighton Grammar School, over alleged concussion.

What did you think about this story?

Yeah, quite an interesting one, actually.