This is probably the best Open Mike interview I've seen, wish it was longer. The public may have a mixed opinion on Derm but he was well-spoken and very open in this interview. Clearly been through some heartbreaking times in his life.
As a 45+ yrs Hawks fan who believes many were hard done by at Bombers in the Dank controversy! Thank you, there's numerous Dons players I admire for their on & off feild contributions through the decades. The toughness of "Line in the sand" & other incidents aside, it's a comp that cannot survive without other teams. We all have amazing players & snipers, but it simply comes down to the toughness on the day.. Cheers for your kind words Azza 👍
I love the bombers……. And I love dermott! He hates us but he respects us. He helped to keep us alive in the ASADA controversy!!! My favourite hawthorn player of all time
Jesus, that was brutal. I dont follow football anymore, it's all MMA now, but when i was a teenager, men like Dermott were my idols, hard men, real men.
I don't know if he was really under rated was certainly rated highly by many and still is.No doubt part of such a legendary era of both the HFC and AFL/VFL History :)
I saw this when it was aired about a decade ago. Still Marvel at the toughness of Dermie, KID.. Moreso the mental toughness of his personal life. Always was & always will be an outstanding person in his brutal honesty of his errors & greatness on the field. Absolute champ, FOREVER & ALWAYS HAWTHORN, THE MIGHTY FIGHTING HAWKS 👍💛
I admire how Dermott speaks so reverently about Allan Jeans and the love & respect he had and still has for him to this day , says so much about how that man reached inside his players and turned them on.
Enjoyed this interview a lot. Dermott played only six games in 1992 and retired at the end of that season, presumably after the failed pay negotiations for 1993 (which did only have 20 regular season games rather than 22, for the only time in history). He came back to football in 1994 for the Swans.
One of footys great characters and one of the best players of his era. I loved Dermie as a footballer and he seems like a decent human being considering his family turmoil
a bloody legend say no more. in the top 30 best ever,,good bloke love brereton what he did in the 89 gf was unbeiveble and im a geelong fan/.old school tough nut..a superstar champion of the game..5 time day and 5 time night premiership player say no more,,,
My youngest brother met dermott on a overseas trip and a female fan who was too shy to introduce herself asked my brother to ask if it was alright to ask dermott for a chat and autograph and he said dermott was a accommodating gentleman about it
Good interview he had some tough shit to handle and he dealt with it on the football field and he was tough and flash and he defined the Centre half Forward ( Royce Hart created ) but Dermott defined it.
@HungryMan TV Dinner When I was 11 I met Royce Hart the man who has been credited for making the position being noticed . Dermott took it further and today he is still my favourite Hawks player (not best ) favourite The best is Leigh Mathews .
@HungryMan TV Dinner A Yankee ? I am a Southerner ( Sydney Australia ) Carey comes from my home town ( family of dick heads ) he has changed though . I was a Buffalo Bills Fan but since kneeling too place I refuse to watch any NFL at all and now they did here in AFL games I no longer will watch nor renew my membership . Politics has no place in Sports and thanks to Colin Kaper Idiot the SJW Nutters have ruined it all for everyone .
that day Dermit got cleaned up will always stay in our minds so dramatic ch7 played it well he got back in the game and they Beat essedon best game ever
i remember watching the 1989 Grand Final against Essendon when the highlights were shown on Channel 4 TV in he UK, When I saw the number 23 he stood out from the crowd there was no doubt he could play but he had a short fuse, I honestly thought he was a right big - head, But seeing this interview he is completely different off the field , and did not know he had personal family troubles as well he has suffered a lot in life and to end on a lighter note he looks like a ringer for Gordon Ramsey
He did nothing in the 1987 grand final, was kept goalless and Hawthorn lost. Surely you mean the brutal epic 1989 grand final when he copped a vicious payback hip & shoulder which cracked his ribs but staggered down to the forward line spitting blood then courageously marked and goaled almost immediately. Finished with 3 goals and they won by 6 points .. "The thing that really struck me was how bad he was when I got there. He'd lost all the colour in his face and was vomiting. He'd dragged himself back on his feet by this stage. But he was doubled over, dry-retching and his colour was grey... There was no way he could stay out there. I remember looking up at Jeansy in the box and starting to try to get him off. Dermott said, 'No, no. Just get me down to the pocket'. Terry Gay (Hawthorn's team doctor) came out. He was more worried than me. He recognised the gravity of it." - Hawks physio
And he does and it has had a profound affect on his life. He brought the VFL/AFL into another stratosphere with his flair and toughness and I laved to watch him play.
I am not an AFL supporter. I know who Dermott is and haven't had a good opinion of him. I am sorry. WOW what a decent man, great interview. And my compliments to the interviewer, says very little listens very much.
As a Cat fan, of course I hated Derm as a player. All opposition fans did. However, as Derm did with Yates, once it's over you respect the bloke. Had Derm played for Geelong he'd be one of my gods. An absolute legend. An honest interview.
credit where credit is due, the game was played differently in those days and i think dermy’s morals are on point. must just be something about the irish blood, coming from someone who bleeds blue and white
He looked shocking in the Swans and Collingwood jumpers. And I'm not a Hawthorn supporter. It's just that some players look wrong wearing other teams' guernseys. I'm thinking Nicky Winmar (Western Bulldogs), Tony Modra (Fremantle), Peter McKenna (Carlton), Wayne Carey (Adelaide). Even Paul Salmon (Hawthorn). And Paul Salmon was a great player for Hawthorn, he just looked wrong in their jumper. It's hard to explain.
why do they call all these thugs "greats" of the game, it is people like this and most of his brethren who stopped the careers of so many players because of their thuggery. the game is tough enough without these thugs
He was a thug. If he thought he needed to start bashing opposition players to win a game he'd do it. Unfortunately that tarnished what would otherwise have been an outstanding career.
I'm a massively empathetic guy but I've never felt so little as when Dermott talked about his father and brother committing suicide. In fact, I took a wry smile.
Jarrod Clough - hopefully your family hasn’t gone through & or doesn’t have to go through such harrowing life circumstances. pull your fucking head in.
Scraping the bottom of the barrel. Met him down in Hobart in 2015 at the Salamanca markets at a local cafe. Tried to cut the line in front of me. Total flog.
Scrotum Guts Dermott Brereton never played for Carlton. Retired in 1995 after a short stint at Collingwood preceded by another short stint at then battlers Sydney.