Speaker 1: Hey, legends, welcome back to the Mason cock Show. A
Speaker 1: lot of juice seeks talk today. We got Braiden absolute
Speaker 1: tease off with acid in this week.
Speaker 2: Oh that is gonna be fun.
Speaker 1: We also go Ken Henckley's back port, Adelaide gets the
Speaker 1: w over the weekend love Ken Henckley.
Speaker 2: And lastly, are we back on flag Battle? Is that
Speaker 2: a thing?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: They got the big win over Sydney by a point.
Speaker 1: We're gonna break that down much much more on this
Speaker 1: episode starting now. All right, legends, let's get straight into it.
Speaker 1: Big episode. But to start off as always, welcome Brandon.
Speaker 3: What do you think I reckon? We had a pretty
Speaker 3: good weekend of footy. I mean pretty disappointed coming in
Speaker 3: here post buyers and all that.
Speaker 2: Last week you were on fire. You're furious.
Speaker 3: I just hate the big blowouts. There was a couple
Speaker 3: of you know, big scores this week. A lot of
Speaker 3: tight stuff. The rain starts coming down in winter and
Speaker 3: teams just tighten up a bit. But there's some pretty
Speaker 3: free flowing footy across the weekend, so I'm looking forward
Speaker 3: to diving into it. I want to get over to
Speaker 3: you for your clanger and I want you to start
Speaker 3: us off this way.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's a rough week for Melbourne fans, lost up
Speaker 1: in Brisbane. We're gonna get into that. But also there
Speaker 1: was something else that happened. Max Gone loved the man.
Speaker 1: Big fan of Max Gone on the podcast. He loves
Speaker 1: a bit of biking, right, loves to get out there,
Speaker 1: loves a tour to France, very very out there about
Speaker 1: his love for the bicycle. And he had his kid
Speaker 1: in this video and the kids safely with the helmet
Speaker 1: on in front of him, you know, and he's filming
Speaker 1: and unfortunately from Melbourne fans, his kids singing the wrong song,
Speaker 1: his kids singing.
Speaker 2: The Mighty Blue songs.
Speaker 1: I know they're red and Blue as a team Melbourne,
Speaker 1: but he was singing Carlton's theme song and it was rough.
Speaker 1: I think you look at Max Gone and as we've
Speaker 1: mentioned a lot of people, you play a hundred games, like, hey,
Speaker 1: your kid's playing for our team, that's for sure, it's
Speaker 1: a guarantee. Well maybe not for his kid. He might
Speaker 1: be a Carlton Blue supporter.
Speaker 3: That's shocking, especially if he learnt that song. Because Carlton
Speaker 3: b your team. That's an extra bit of salt in
Speaker 3: the wounds. But yeah, i'd be banning Carton games in
Speaker 3: the house now.
Speaker 2: Patrick Cripps names and dropped anywhere.
Speaker 3: I was talking about it. Tom Hawkins, I'm pretty sure,
Speaker 3: Tom Hawkins, little girl has a Bonton Pally little soft
Speaker 3: style that she loves and carries around everywhere.
Speaker 1: And he's got thing weird whenever you see the person
Speaker 1: who probably knows that your child's a fan of them
Speaker 1: and you're playing against her and being like hates in
Speaker 1: your face around my house.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I don't know. Is it a big ask
Speaker 3: to have Dad's number on your back and you got
Speaker 3: a little soft toy Dad, I guess you got the
Speaker 3: real thing. So I don't know. And who doesn't have
Speaker 3: a soft toy of Marcus Bonton Pali laying around the house.
Speaker 3: I know you.
Speaker 2: My question is do you.
Speaker 3: I'm not one on trial here. Let's get into my
Speaker 3: clanger because we talked about this last week and I'm
Speaker 3: bloody that's sick of it. So now I'm naming names.
Speaker 3: We got Matthew Richardson rich Oman, he put an all
Speaker 3: time MOZ and he knew that he was doing it.
Speaker 3: See that was the biggest problem because Oscar Macinernie we
Speaker 3: love the big O. And he was going back for
Speaker 3: his first shot of goal, and Richo says, I'm going
Speaker 3: to do it. I'm going to say he's a reliable
Speaker 3: shot of goal. And he goes back and well, he's
Speaker 3: not a relarmed shot of goal because he misses his
Speaker 3: first goal for the year. Because Richo puts the MOS
Speaker 3: on it, this is we need to stop this. We
Speaker 3: need to put it out there, send a memo out
Speaker 3: to all the broadcasters, all the radio people out there
Speaker 3: watching you, no more Moses.
Speaker 2: Do we reverse jinks? Then do we say he's a
Speaker 2: terrible search shot of goal.
Speaker 3: I don't mind putting the cheeky multi on it. I can't, Mason.
Speaker 3: So when I sit at home with my house man,
Speaker 3: got a cold tin in hand, and I know I've
Speaker 3: got someone in my multi, I say, oh, he won't
Speaker 3: kick this. This like sucks. I don't even know why
Speaker 3: I put it in there. And then when he slots
Speaker 3: it through, say, I knew what I was doing. I
Speaker 3: knew what I was doing the whole time. Now that's
Speaker 3: we need a bit of that from the You know,
Speaker 3: you've got the stat sheet in front of you. It
Speaker 3: says he's a dead eyed dick, do not say that
Speaker 3: until he kicks it. And I know it's not as
Speaker 3: cool doing it after the fact, but I don't care
Speaker 3: because he won't kick it if you say it before
Speaker 3: it happens. So let's just shut up a little bit.
Speaker 3: So I'm looking at all the all the special commentary
Speaker 3: tarry people out there because they're the idiots that have
Speaker 3: to say all this stuff. Oh, he's looking he's a
Speaker 3: normal And the other thing is, most of the time
Speaker 3: they're like, oh, this bloke's a reliable kick a goal mate.
Speaker 3: When was the last time you look at the stats?
Speaker 3: He's like ten and fifteen this year. He might have
Speaker 3: been reliable six years ago when that bloody thing started
Speaker 3: when people started saying that, they say that shit all
Speaker 3: the time. They'll be like, oh, Luke Bruce doesn't miss ever,
Speaker 3: this bloke, what are you talking about? I see him
Speaker 3: miss all the bloody time. Oh, Georgi yardis, Oh he's
Speaker 3: a dead eyed dick. All the port Adelaide players, I
Speaker 3: swear what's fired Adelaide forward on the list port Adelaide.
Speaker 3: If you've seen one of their games this year, you
Speaker 3: know they're the least accurate team probably an AFL history.
Speaker 3: So let's not call them dead eye dicks because they
Speaker 3: can't kick straight. So let's give them a break. Let
Speaker 3: them kick straight, and then we'll get back on the
Speaker 3: kick straight bandwagon down the track. But I'm sick of
Speaker 3: that and I've got to put some fire behind it
Speaker 3: because they won't bloody listen because we talked about it
Speaker 3: last week.
Speaker 2: We gave love to BT last week, and now you
Speaker 2: want everyone to shut up.
Speaker 3: I'm putting Richel in the gun watch come ons. The
Speaker 3: problem is they know they're doing it because they say
Speaker 3: stuff on the lead up, like oh, I know it
Speaker 3: wasn't him, but I'm going to give him the month.
Speaker 1: He was like thirty hours. It was a very good goal.
Speaker 1: It was just oh man, I saw it and I
Speaker 1: was like, I was a big man. You just hate
Speaker 1: every people say that.
Speaker 3: Yeah you do?
Speaker 2: You do?
Speaker 1: You look at your film, after you look at the clips,
Speaker 1: you go, son of a bitch?
Speaker 2: Rich how you bother?
Speaker 3: Big guys just want to hit the boot, So like, don't.
Speaker 2: Just want to get close. I just want to get
Speaker 2: somewhere close that you can actually manage anyway.
Speaker 1: Now from now, you just if someone goes for a
Speaker 1: set shot, just complete silence for the thirty seconds until
Speaker 1: they kick it.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, okay, yes, unless the blokes kicked six straight
Speaker 3: on the night, then he's filled his boots and then
Speaker 3: you let him have a miss. Let's jump through the
Speaker 3: results because we've got a fair few. Brisbane just scraped
Speaker 3: over the line against Melbourne, so that was my lock.
Speaker 3: So I was pretty happy when that got over the line.
Speaker 3: We talk about North Melbourne. They're back. They were down
Speaker 3: a bit early and they clawed their way back. So
Speaker 3: the best part about that is they're not out of games.
Speaker 3: And boy does the North Melbourne crowd show up. They
Speaker 3: got some little glimmer of hope to cheer too, and
Speaker 3: they're back. So that's awesome to see. Sydney lost second
Speaker 3: one for the year against Freo Flagman. We'll talk about
Speaker 3: them a bit later, but they got the job done
Speaker 3: and they just kept answering. But it was a very
Speaker 3: close one right down to the sign your boys the
Speaker 3: Gold Coast Son's got it done over your boys the
Speaker 3: Collingwood magwise in the Mason Cox Cup. So that was
Speaker 3: a very interesting one. We'll talk about that. Adelaide GWS.
Speaker 3: I don't know where g W at the moment, I'm
Speaker 3: putting a bit of distance between me and my boys.
Speaker 3: We go to Geelong, Essendon, go see this is what
Speaker 3: you have.
Speaker 2: Fire off a little bit of beef today.
Speaker 3: That was five percent of my fire because I'm standing
Speaker 3: up for the Essendon Football Club later on in the show,
Speaker 3: and I had to slide it back to later in
Speaker 3: the show because we don't want to be demonetized and
Speaker 3: you can't say the F word in the first seven minutes,
Speaker 3: so I've slid that back later in the show because
Speaker 3: the effort to make sure there's no kids in the car.
Speaker 3: If you're listening to this one, Saint Kilda, Port Adelaide,
Speaker 3: it was good to see Kenny Hinckley boys get up. Richmond,
Speaker 3: Carlton rich my god, you feel for Richmond, but Carlton
Speaker 3: on and they're looking dangerous. Is it a bit too
Speaker 3: early for their run for finals? Don't spend all your
Speaker 3: field tickets now, Carlton and West Coast back to West
Speaker 3: Coast Ways and Hawthorne just keep hawking. So let's jump
Speaker 3: into the big talking points because I want to ask you.
Speaker 3: We talked about it a little bit last week. We
Speaker 3: said the Brisbane we're back. Have you changed your mind?
Speaker 3: Over that close game or are they they kicking go.
Speaker 1: I Brisbane's back. Brisbane's back. We can officially say it.
Speaker 1: I even might even call their home ground the Fortress. Again,
Speaker 1: We're back.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I feel like they've they've got a bit of that
Speaker 1: energy back at home. You know, they were down at
Speaker 1: halftime by like twenty something points like that, a little
Speaker 1: bit claw back, and they did. And don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: there was some help you could say from the umpiring
Speaker 1: Yes that got him the last gold and maybe get
Speaker 1: them over the line. But it is something. We're looking
Speaker 1: at Brisbane as a thread in the top eight, and
Speaker 1: I think they you know they actually I think they're
Speaker 1: eighth on the ladder right now. They got four wins
Speaker 1: in a row. They're on a bit of a hot streak.
Speaker 1: So and good since a bye, Yes they have been.
Speaker 1: Maybe they sat down a few beers in a circle,
Speaker 1: really hashed out all their differences and now we're figuring
Speaker 1: it out.
Speaker 3: I think Fagan was like, mate, come on, they got
Speaker 3: the blow torch on me one hundred years old. Give
Speaker 3: me a break. But it was good to see. I
Speaker 3: will stop you. You keep saying the Fortress, which isn't
Speaker 3: the is the Gabatur has portress, so they go up
Speaker 3: to the Gabatur and it's definitely back to the Gabata
Speaker 3: because it was a bit shaky there early days. People
Speaker 3: were you know, breaking in there and doing whatever they
Speaker 3: wanted to do. We will talk about the Alex Neil
Speaker 3: Bullen try that he scored on the wall because origin
Speaker 3: is on. He scored an absolute ripper, but unfortunately it
Speaker 3: was called deliberate out of bounds that led to the
Speaker 3: last goal of the game that you know, may or
Speaker 3: may not have been costly. That might that's probably fair
Speaker 3: to say, I would suggest looking at it, Neil Bullen,
Speaker 3: if he had done six or seven different things, it
Speaker 3: probably would have just been a ball in. But the
Speaker 3: way that he, you know, got around a couple of
Speaker 3: defenders and dive over the line and touched the ball
Speaker 3: down probably hurt him in the end. It was more
Speaker 3: just a look. It was a bad look, and then
Speaker 3: he got stung with a deliberate deliberate, deliberate it's not
Speaker 3: deliberate because I get annoyed with the commentators saying deliberate
Speaker 3: it's insufficient intent. What do you think it was there?
Speaker 1: I would say yes, I mean if I am him, like,
Speaker 1: if that situation right, you have to kind of like
Speaker 1: run into contact to get out of bounds. You can't
Speaker 1: just like jump over the line. I think that was
Speaker 1: kind of the way it looked. I mean like whenever
Speaker 1: you put it on the ground like a try, right,
Speaker 1: that's pretty obvious that you have the ability to handle
Speaker 1: the ball out. Yes, So I think that was the
Speaker 1: reasoning behind it. So I do agree with the umpiring.
Speaker 1: Usually in those kind of dire moments of the game,
Speaker 1: they don't get cold, right, But on this occasion they
Speaker 1: did and allowed for your man McCluggage. The big seven
Speaker 1: year deal fell out to seal the win for the
Speaker 1: Brisbane lines up there at the Gabatoire.
Speaker 3: How do you feel about seven year deals? There's been
Speaker 3: a lot made about long ass player deals. Do they
Speaker 3: I want to how do you feel about them? But
Speaker 3: who do you think they serve? Because it always feels
Speaker 3: like if a player wants to get out of it,
Speaker 3: they can if a club wants to, who gives who?
Speaker 3: Does it give the power to the player of the
Speaker 3: club or are they worth it and contracts valuable? Or
Speaker 3: can anyone just do whatever they want?
Speaker 1: The power is always with the AFL. That's we're very
Speaker 1: well aware of that. They're monopoly. That power has power
Speaker 1: over everything in everyone that is in the AFL. Now,
Speaker 1: seven year deals, like as a player, I think it
Speaker 1: benefits play because it's guaranteed, right, You're guaranteed to them
Speaker 1: out on my money for seven years, and that's like
Speaker 1: one of the biggest things I think with the contracts
Speaker 1: here in Australia compared to like the US and stuff like,
Speaker 1: you don't always guaranteed all that money. So with contracts here,
Speaker 1: since you're guaranteed, I'm always going to take the side
Speaker 1: of the player and if you get a seven year deal,
Speaker 1: I'm like, hell yeah, I'm all for that because I
Speaker 1: know you can financially set up your life for whatever
Speaker 1: it is to come in the future. It's consistent, yes,
Speaker 1: But whenever it comes to the power of staying at
Speaker 1: a place, I think that comes down to the actual clubs.
Speaker 2: They have the power to.
Speaker 1: Say essentially, you know, I don't really see you in
Speaker 1: our future, or we're going to move you on to
Speaker 1: whatever club. So it's kind of like a benefit for
Speaker 1: the player financially, but not for he still doesn't have
Speaker 1: the power to really stay there if he wants, Like, yes,
Speaker 1: technically you do with the contract, but I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't think there's many players that sign a seven year
Speaker 1: deal and go, Okay, I'm going to play in the
Speaker 1: VFL for the rest of my career. Like that's just
Speaker 1: not like for someone who's signing a seven year deal,
Speaker 1: you're obviously a good player. Therefore you probably have high
Speaker 1: standards and you're not gonna want to play in the
Speaker 1: Like the twos, it can.
Speaker 3: Get pretty toxic there because you're right, it kind of
Speaker 3: can turn into that. It's like, oh, yeah, you can
Speaker 3: diggy heels in and choose to stay if you are
Speaker 3: the player, but you know, clubs can make life pretty
Speaker 3: miserable for you if you want to stick around for
Speaker 3: another six five years waiting out your contract length.
Speaker 1: We all know who we're thinking of whenever we think
Speaker 1: of the seven year deal. I mean, I don't know,
Speaker 1: and I love the man who's all off evorit people
Speaker 1: in the world, Brody Grundy. But you can see kind
Speaker 1: of how that kind of panned out over the three
Speaker 1: clubs that he's played out in the last three or
Speaker 1: four years.
Speaker 3: Hey Melbourne and Clayton Oliver had a pretty rocky relationship
Speaker 3: over the off season, and that he just was fresh
Speaker 3: off signing a massive deal. So I think that's where
Speaker 3: the AFL is looking at it, like maybe we need
Speaker 3: to do something to rain in some of these like
Speaker 3: massive contract deals. They're already looking at Harley Reid that
Speaker 3: was ten years for one point eight million a year
Speaker 3: for ten years. What Yeah, so like.
Speaker 2: One point eight who who else is playing?
Speaker 3: But like, if you look at that and the direction
Speaker 3: of contracts, it's probably going to be a steal in
Speaker 3: ten years time. They looked at Buddy's contract.
Speaker 2: That makes sense inflation nowadays.
Speaker 3: Buddy's signed a ten million, nine year contract or whatever,
Speaker 3: and then by the end of that it was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: it'd easily earn it back.
Speaker 2: So, I mean, I don't know how much is going
Speaker 2: to be left in the rest of the CAFF.
Speaker 1: You take one point out of it, I can guarantee
Speaker 1: you probably not making finals. If you're going to take
Speaker 1: that much money, you're gonna need some people around you.
Speaker 2: True.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just backing it's it's the gamble of clubs that
Speaker 3: hope that the cap increases year on year, and we've
Speaker 3: seen it backfight on a number of clubs. Let's keep
Speaker 3: moving along because I want to say another big talking
Speaker 3: point out of this weekend was Port Adelaide's big win
Speaker 3: after a year out power, after a week of just
Speaker 3: being dragged through the mud the Port Adelaide football club
Speaker 3: when they at the time still sat in the eighth position,
Speaker 3: which is wild. We did throw out some question marks
Speaker 3: after last week's loss at home to Brisbane, but we
Speaker 3: just said Brisbane's back. So what did you feel coming
Speaker 3: out of that Port Adelaide team, because imagine being inside
Speaker 3: the four walls, because externally I felt relief for Kenny
Speaker 3: and I'm not even in the joint.
Speaker 2: I think we all we.
Speaker 1: All know the pressure was on kN and the team
Speaker 1: and all had to try to get a win over
Speaker 1: this next period and try to make finals. And I
Speaker 1: don't know, we talked about all the times, like I
Speaker 1: feel like it's just a it's a cyclical thing. Like
Speaker 1: around this time of year, Port Adelaid maybe is like
Speaker 1: either their top four or like if they're around the eight,
Speaker 1: like people just pounce on them for some reason. I'm
Speaker 1: looking at like Adelaide not the same situation. Yeah, Adelaide's
Speaker 1: further down the ladder and for some reason, like it's
Speaker 1: just because it's Kin Hinkley. I feel like it's like
Speaker 1: a you know, a story that's been told, they're telling
Speaker 1: it again every single year. It's frustrating Kin's been successful
Speaker 1: in getting into finals. Like do you take a team
Speaker 1: where the coach that's been successful and so, look, we're
Speaker 1: gonna keep trying with that knowing that we're probably gonna
Speaker 1: make finals every year, or do you try to essentially
Speaker 1: start afresh and then take the punt on whether or
Speaker 1: not even going to make finals.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm always probably of the side of Ken Hinkley of
Speaker 1: like he's going to be able to get them to
Speaker 1: the top eight at the end of the year, and
Speaker 1: then from there it's, you know, it's a crapshoot. Really
Speaker 1: who can kind of be in form at that time.
Speaker 1: So it was good for them to be able to
Speaker 1: get to win there at home.
Speaker 2: Ken.
Speaker 1: Obviously Adelaide Port Adelaide fans are pretty ruthless, Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I think that's part of this whole storyline is like
Speaker 1: they are they have a very high standard as to
Speaker 1: wanting to win every week, and that's fine, Like I
Speaker 1: think Ken would understand that and everyone else, but I
Speaker 1: feel like they very much can turn very quickly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's like who's the first person that hits in
Speaker 1: the crosshairs. It's like usually the head coach or like
Speaker 1: the CEO or something like that, Right, they need someone
Speaker 1: to blame if they haven't won the game, and that's
Speaker 1: I think port Adelaid fans can be pretty ruthless in that.
Speaker 1: And it's credit to Kanks. He's been able to handle
Speaker 1: it for a long time and he's been in their
Speaker 1: sights a few times and being able to get through it.
Speaker 1: So you can see in his interview after you know
Speaker 1: how much that went meant to him and kind of
Speaker 1: you know, it's like mental health with the whole thing.
Speaker 1: I think like it'd be quite frustrating to see all
Speaker 1: the criticism coming at him and to be able at
Speaker 1: that win at home in front of the crowd, you know,
Speaker 1: brings a bit of positivity to the group.
Speaker 3: It's very interesting one as well, because you look at
Speaker 3: someone like Chris Fagan, who only you know a month
Speaker 3: ago was in the gun and how quick it can
Speaker 3: turn around. And yeah, I look back at some of
Speaker 3: Ken Hinckley's coaching stats. He's one of the got one
Speaker 3: of the best coaching percentages, it's around sixty odd percent.
Speaker 3: He's lost in a couple of prelims, but if you
Speaker 3: look at the teams that he's lost to, they've been
Speaker 3: some of the best teams we've ever seen have a
Speaker 3: run at it. They lost the final when Luke Shuey
Speaker 3: took a dive got the free kick after the siren kick.
Speaker 3: So they've had a couple of heartbreakers in finals. And yeah,
Speaker 3: he's coached a long time without a flag, which is
Speaker 3: I guess what a lot of people look at. But
Speaker 3: at the same time, over the course, I don't like
Speaker 3: that they've boot him, And it was something I heard
Speaker 3: on ADS and Dunk's podcast, But I don't like that
Speaker 3: they've boot him because even if you did think that
Speaker 3: it was time for change, the amount that he's done
Speaker 3: for that football cold over his like ten plus year journey.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking back to when I first started in the AFL,
Speaker 3: like they were the tops on the seats, no one
Speaker 3: was going to their games, Like it was a terrible,
Speaker 3: terrible place.
Speaker 1: Like it's a vibe now, like I want to go
Speaker 1: to port Ala games and be able to sing like
Speaker 1: the solid before.
Speaker 2: So it's like it's like they created like a cool culture.
Speaker 3: There, absolute resurgence that they had back to finals. You know,
Speaker 3: the never tearist apart, which is now being used against
Speaker 3: him and like stuff like that. It's it's pretty wild,
Speaker 3: but you know, it's always a coach's time at some
Speaker 3: point in time. But like, I wish that it could
Speaker 3: be done better. We saw it with Bucks as well,
Speaker 3: like when that was all coming to an end and
Speaker 3: it splits the fan base and stuff like that. But
Speaker 3: I hope for Kenny's sake and for the club that
Speaker 3: they can turn it around now and go on a
Speaker 3: bit of a run, because you know, we've seen it
Speaker 3: with Brisbane. They've been able to turn it around and
Speaker 3: now everyone's back on the wagon and everyone.
Speaker 1: Forgets about the conversations like some of the stories that
Speaker 1: came out earlier in the years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like we never even talked about it. There
Speaker 3: was a couple of jets from their team because Rosie
Speaker 3: was also put in the gun a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 3: saying that he was down on numbers. But Zach Butters
Speaker 3: has not been one of those players, and he kicked
Speaker 3: a goal from center stuffage that was perfect, insane, just
Speaker 3: hit it at pace. I couldn't run that quick, let
Speaker 3: alone run that quick and try to catch a ball
Speaker 3: and then kick it from fifty was nuts. So yeah,
Speaker 3: it's cool to see that. Our boy Horny Frank he
Speaker 3: was racking it up, kicking a couple of goals. I
Speaker 3: was actually surprised they didn't win by more when you
Speaker 3: start looking at the player stats. But similar again. One
Speaker 3: last thing that I'll do in comparison to Brisbane Lions.
Speaker 3: Brisbane statistically were very strong across the board compared to
Speaker 3: last year. It was just that they couldn't put the
Speaker 3: finish on the board. And you look at that, I
Speaker 3: wonder what position Port would be in if their fords
Speaker 3: had been kicking straight, and it'd take a whole lot
Speaker 3: more strain off the whole team and Ken Inkley. It's
Speaker 3: just something that small.
Speaker 2: It makes such a big difference.
Speaker 3: It makes such a big difference. There was one moment
Speaker 3: in the game Sweet the big ruckman gave the ball
Speaker 3: back to teammate Ollie Wance and Marshall got a free
Speaker 3: kick and shot at goal and it was very reminiscent
Speaker 3: of the Collingwood game that led to the free kicking goal.
Speaker 3: It's good to see that there's some consistency.
Speaker 1: I don't know agree with the coronart as far as
Speaker 1: the reasoning for it or like the necessity to have that.
Speaker 3: I think I just needed one more paid for the
Speaker 3: year to go, like, all right.
Speaker 2: All right, there's some consistency rule whatsoever. It's a rule.
Speaker 3: We can say it's a rule doing it like it's
Speaker 3: a bit more gray area and like umpires discretion. But
Speaker 3: at least one umpire was out there watching the tape.
Speaker 2: That's probably the same. I'm part to be honest with you.
Speaker 3: But it was very interesting and I just thought a
Speaker 3: good one to you know, circle back on. Let's have
Speaker 3: a look at some of the big winners. And you've
Speaker 3: gone with an individual in this one.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Patrick Cripps is absolutely killing it at the moment. He
Speaker 1: had forty possessions over the weekend. Thirteen clearance isn't a
Speaker 1: goal and you just he's just racking it up, just
Speaker 1: an absolute ball inside and he's he's a push for.
Speaker 2: The Brown Low.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's already got one now obviously it's a
Speaker 1: Midfielders Awards, so he's definitely take that box being there.
Speaker 1: He's just consistently Crafton's going so well at the moment.
Speaker 1: He's consistently up there. The truckers out. You know, you've
Speaker 1: got Nick who's probably you know, putting a bit of
Speaker 1: a pushbumt and probably just putting a bit of a
Speaker 1: push on. But you know, Patrick Crips is up there,
Speaker 1: and it's going to be an interesting little race to
Speaker 1: see who ends up winning that tiny metal. I don't
Speaker 1: know who it is, but it's going to be I think,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't want to say who it is,
Speaker 1: but Patrick Crips, if he continues on the way he's playing,
Speaker 1: there's a fair chance he's going to win it.
Speaker 3: It's going to be an interesting count because obviously Carlton
Speaker 3: are right up there. You obviously get the wins, you
Speaker 3: get more votes. He's a pretty stock standard rule to follow,
Speaker 3: doesn't have too many guys that would take votes off him.
Speaker 3: He's got Sam Walsh in there and abouts. He's a
Speaker 3: bit more of like an accumulated type guy.
Speaker 2: The kids don't get the praise that.
Speaker 3: Yeah when Crips gets out there, because he's just a
Speaker 3: big brute. It's impressive when he when he goes on
Speaker 3: a run or kicks a goal or whatever. He's one
Speaker 3: of those that carries the team across the line. Kind
Speaker 3: of the same Adam tallaw Not doesn't really get the
Speaker 3: he deserves. Then they've got a couple of inside balls
Speaker 3: that normally don't get the plaudas they deserve. Sot does
Speaker 3: a lot of flash things that carries his team across
Speaker 3: the lines. So that's interesting. I think Sydney they got
Speaker 3: Heini obviously, but then they got Warner, and they got
Speaker 3: like a million other guys in there that will just
Speaker 3: take votes off each other. So it's going to be
Speaker 3: a very interesting count if we still care about it.
Speaker 3: I'm so, it's so.
Speaker 2: Do you care about the Brown Do you think are down?
Speaker 3: I think it's massively bullshit, Like I think easily if
Speaker 3: we all just said, let's cut the bullshit. It's got
Speaker 3: prestige around it and all of that stuff. I feel
Speaker 3: like the coach's votes for me are number one. Because
Speaker 3: players votes as you can kind of they can stuff
Speaker 3: around with them votes and whoever they like and all
Speaker 3: of that stuff. But the coach's votes on the day
Speaker 3: of the game, and you're like, I'm given ten to
Speaker 3: this oppo player because he tore us up, and we
Speaker 3: couldn't stop him, and we had no answers. That's the biggest, Like,
Speaker 3: that's the biggest, most positive push you can get from
Speaker 3: a coach.
Speaker 1: Okay, what if you've got Nick Dakoss and Patrick Cripps
Speaker 1: almost tied for the Brownlow. You go into the last
Speaker 1: game of the season, both of them have an absolute
Speaker 1: kill game, but each coach goes, I don't want the
Speaker 1: opposition person to win the brown US.
Speaker 2: They go zero votes for Patrick Cripson's zero votes.
Speaker 3: The only difference is the secret keeping. So if you're
Speaker 3: an umpire, there's no accountability for who you picked because
Speaker 3: it's all like it's a pretty big secret up until
Speaker 3: the day. Whereas like on if you know, if you
Speaker 3: had Nick Dacos get forty and kick six in the
Speaker 3: last game and he gets no votes, your coach's name's
Speaker 3: right there. It's like the yeah, I gave him no
Speaker 3: votes because I'm salty as far and it's so public,
Speaker 3: So like, I still feel like that's the best one.
Speaker 3: Gary Ablett rocked up knocked up a heap of them.
Speaker 3: I think it's just the guy that tore us apart.
Speaker 3: And the best part about that is that it's not
Speaker 3: a Midfielders Award. Midfielders do get it a lot, but
Speaker 3: it's like this Ford kicked ten on us give him
Speaker 3: the votes for this Ford tour ust apart this defender,
Speaker 3: we couldn't it past the bloke, So it like opens
Speaker 3: it up a bit more.
Speaker 1: I mean, like I looked at the Brandon Maynard and
Speaker 1: I think they said it on the broadcasts. I got
Speaker 1: a Brownlow vote. Yeah, and I'm like, I'm sorry, what.
Speaker 3: Yeah, ship like that they don't they don't win the
Speaker 3: game because most people think winning the game is like
Speaker 3: kicking the goal, getting the getting it to the forwards,
Speaker 3: whereas like defenders can shut down a game and don't
Speaker 3: get any praise for it. But yeah, I just think,
Speaker 3: I don't know why the hell we the umpires are
Speaker 3: so busy doing their thing. They're looking for something completely
Speaker 3: different than who's playing.
Speaker 2: Well, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's like that should be focused on adjudicating the game,
Speaker 1: not but that's whose coaches.
Speaker 3: The coaches are only looking at how can we win
Speaker 3: this game? And they go that players stopping us or
Speaker 3: that players doing it for us. So I think that's
Speaker 3: the best one in my Have you got many coaches votes.
Speaker 1: I have no idea. I don't really count that stuff.
Speaker 1: I have got brownlow votes before.
Speaker 3: Interesting, we know which one you rank higher than, obviously
Speaker 3: the Brown midfielder time. So have you ever on to
Speaker 3: the Brown law ever?
Speaker 1: No, I've never got an invite. I think they're probably
Speaker 1: too afraid of what I'd wear to it.
Speaker 3: It makes sense, It makes sense that you haven't got
Speaker 3: an invite, but I thought you would have got a
Speaker 3: token one once.
Speaker 2: Token invite. Yeah, it's like I've gone for a few
Speaker 2: of them.
Speaker 3: Or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I never given me on. So happy to take one, AFL.
Speaker 1: Happy to take a Brown though invite if you want.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure why they would ever do.
Speaker 2: I probably annoyed with me. Give any platform.
Speaker 3: Let's jump into the other side of things because one
Speaker 3: other big winner this weekend Freemantle football flag and I'm
Speaker 3: so happy to say because we got Longie over there.
Speaker 3: Just you know, he was in the he was in
Speaker 3: the thicker things early in the season when they were
Speaker 3: grinding stuff out, signed the new deal early when they
Speaker 3: already had pressure on him. Then they were saying he
Speaker 3: was playing boring as ship football. So he's been and
Speaker 3: through it all and now they're coming out the other side,
Speaker 3: and they're looking good because they've got that defensive structure strong,
Speaker 3: and they won a game against the best team in.
Speaker 2: The league and at their home ground, at their.
Speaker 3: Home ground without their key defenders in which is wild
Speaker 3: and it's scary. I do want to see them, you know,
Speaker 3: go back home and just win it, win a solidifier,
Speaker 3: just to sure things up.
Speaker 2: But hopefully they can fix the field.
Speaker 3: And I was talking about it last week that I
Speaker 3: think that these Western based teams have the hardest run
Speaker 3: year on year on year with the travel schedule every
Speaker 3: second week. People saying, oh, you get used to it,
Speaker 3: but you're never sleeping in your own bed, You're missing
Speaker 3: your family. You can't get used to that. So whenever
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 1: First recruited to come play AFL, like Freemantle was one
Speaker 1: of the teams that came to the table and was
Speaker 1: like we were interested in.
Speaker 3: You, and you're like, where's that?
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, that was the first thing I asked, and
Speaker 1: they said sim Perth and I said, yeah, not helping.
Speaker 1: But I think like one of the reasons I didn't
Speaker 1: go there. I mean, like this is obviously my first
Speaker 1: experience of AFL was the fact that you'd have to
Speaker 1: travel over the other week, and like I was just thinking, like, oh,
Speaker 1: that sounds like a lot, Like I could got two
Speaker 1: options staying in Melbourne where you played. You know, seventy
Speaker 1: five percent of games at Hell in the same like
Speaker 1: city or year century travel fifty percent of the time.
Speaker 1: So it is a detriment to Freemantle.
Speaker 2: But I don't know. I look at this game.
Speaker 1: This is a statement game for them winning by one
Speaker 1: point at Sydney, like five. We'll talk about he stopped.
Speaker 1: Heeney had six disposals at half he he did, and
Speaker 1: then had twenty for the match. It's a season low
Speaker 1: for him, which is and then five on top of
Speaker 1: that picked up twenty three of his own.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: So he's copped a bit of criticism and like hate
Speaker 1: for the last little bit. But you can't deny that
Speaker 1: his role in helping them win that game was impeccable.
Speaker 3: Fair to say he needed it and try to move
Speaker 3: him around the ground a fair bit. He was known
Speaker 3: primarily early as a midfielder that could that was amazing
Speaker 3: and overhead marking. They moved him forward. Not a great
Speaker 3: kick it goal very fair to say, I think, and
Speaker 3: that's coming from me also not a very good set shot,
Speaker 3: kick a goal. Haven't had the reps. But yeah, he
Speaker 3: just lost that aerial contest when he was up forward
Speaker 3: as well, So it was great to put him back
Speaker 3: in the midfield, give him a job and he dominated
Speaker 3: at it. I hope for everyone's sake, everyone wants to
Speaker 3: see Nat five play footy, so I.
Speaker 2: Hope everyone loves the best.
Speaker 3: So hopefully, you know, that's his whether that's his new
Speaker 3: role week in week out, or whether that just helps him,
Speaker 3: you know, find a bit of form and like start
Speaker 3: accumulating some of the footy. You know, a good Nat
Speaker 3: five is only good for Freo. So it's good to
Speaker 3: have him back in there. It wasn't without you know,
Speaker 3: every game this weekend had a bit of something, a
Speaker 3: bit of spice to it and Logan McDonald. Firstly, the
Speaker 3: lead up to this play was brilliantly called I think
Speaker 3: it was, was it Jack Ree? Well, it was someone
Speaker 3: was saying, you need to watch Nick Blakey off the
Speaker 3: back of this stoppage, He's going to run through to
Speaker 3: get the ball, and he just did exactly what he
Speaker 3: said and he found Logan McDonald around forty eight and
Speaker 3: was standing on the mark so we had to kick
Speaker 3: it from about fifty three. Now. He was talking to
Speaker 3: the umpire the whole time because we know after the
Speaker 3: siren you're allowed.
Speaker 2: To move off your line to Jeremy Cameron.
Speaker 3: And then kick onto your line. So we learned that
Speaker 3: last week where Jess was allowed to do whatever the
Speaker 3: hell I wanted, But this was a bit more important.
Speaker 3: It was to win the game, or draw the game,
Speaker 3: or evidently lose the game. All he had to do
Speaker 3: was score. Unfortunately, trying to get that extra bit of
Speaker 3: juice seemed to spray out to the right and didn't
Speaker 3: score Freeman or win away from home. Amazing result for Freer,
Speaker 3: but you pulled out something pretty special in this game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a few kind of little I love the
Speaker 1: good Field moments of the AFL. Right, you talk about
Speaker 1: some of the the impacked AFL clubs have in the
Speaker 1: community and Bareley Banfield went to Perth Hospital and want
Speaker 1: to say it was with a Starylight foundation and made
Speaker 1: a promise to Nicholas was this kid that was in there,
Speaker 1: right and said, you know, if I score goal, do
Speaker 1: the celebration. It was kind of like the Spider Man
Speaker 1: celebration with the hand and there's a great photo of
Speaker 1: him doing it on the ground, and then they also
Speaker 1: had the video of him promising it to the kid
Speaker 1: at the same time, and I don't know, I just
Speaker 1: kind of look at that. I'm like, obviously a family,
Speaker 1: a child who is going through a tough scenario and
Speaker 1: tough situation and time in their life. To have something
Speaker 1: like that bring such positivity by doing something as small
Speaker 1: as an action like that on a field like it
Speaker 1: kind of gives you that feel good moment of just
Speaker 1: knowing like you can make such an impact with such
Speaker 1: a little amount of effort by being on such a
Speaker 1: big platform that is the AFL. So I just want
Speaker 1: to give a little shout out to Bailey. Awesome to
Speaker 1: do that in a game. I'm sure it would have,
Speaker 1: you know, made their week or their year or whatever
Speaker 1: it is. And you know, credit to you and hopefully
Speaker 1: you know you get the I guess the credit that
Speaker 1: you know you deserve whenever it comes to looking after
Speaker 1: these kids and doing those kind of things in the community.
Speaker 3: It was awesome. We saw Gwelfie do it earlier in
Speaker 3: the year with his painted nails and obviously former teammate
Speaker 3: of yours, Chris Maine, MAINEI one of the all time
Speaker 3: legends and nicest guys on the planet Earth, big starlight
Speaker 3: guy over there in Perth. So awesome to see love
Speaker 3: good news story and speaking of good news stories, jeez,
Speaker 3: bulldogs needed one of them and they got there, all
Speaker 3: their tolls back all at once. Was the big timber,
Speaker 3: and we like to pump up the big boys. It
Speaker 3: is a tall guy podcast. Obviously, two tall kings here,
Speaker 3: Aaron Norton, he's back. Sam Darcy doesn't get much taller?
Speaker 3: Are you taller than Sam Darcys in the AFL who's
Speaker 3: counting Jamara? And Rory Lobb And they move Rory around
Speaker 3: a bit.
Speaker 2: A surprise with Lobby.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I would I've said it a million times before,
Speaker 3: like to see Aaron Norton back, but I don't think
Speaker 3: we're ever going to see it. But we did see
Speaker 3: Rory Lob back.
Speaker 1: Yes, well, Alex Keith and Ryan Going are out right
Speaker 1: now with injury, so all of guys Liam Jones are
Speaker 1: the back line, so it was good to see. They
Speaker 1: kind of needed that second toll back there and Lob
Speaker 1: you know, with the other tolls on the forward line,
Speaker 1: like you can't four tolls in the tall in the
Speaker 1: Ford line seems like entirely too much, so he surprisingly
Speaker 1: essentially went back and he had it was what five
Speaker 1: intercept marks and twelve intercept possessions. So as a tall
Speaker 1: fellow down back, it's a pretty good statute for a game.
Speaker 1: So we might see him there for the next few
Speaker 1: weeks and kind of have a reinvention of who we
Speaker 1: think Royal Lob is as far as the player and
Speaker 1: where he plays on the field. But you know, according
Speaker 1: to the weekend, you know, I think you're going to
Speaker 1: see Beva putting him back there for the next little
Speaker 1: chunk of time in the in the Bulldog's lineup.
Speaker 3: So wow, he's been in a fair few different positions
Speaker 3: over his time up in GWS up Ford.
Speaker 2: But you have to be versus you've got nothing.
Speaker 1: You've got Darcy, You've got Jamara, who are legit key forwards.
Speaker 1: And I mean it kind of brings me back to me,
Speaker 1: like I remember when I first came to the club,
Speaker 1: people are like, oh, he's going to be a ruckman.
Speaker 1: He's the tallest person to ever play. And now I
Speaker 1: looked ahead of me and it was Jared whitzen Brodie Grundy, yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm going those two people are AFL level and
Speaker 1: they're going to play AFL every week. So I was like, well,
Speaker 1: what's the what's my way of being able to get
Speaker 1: into the team. I had to learn forward craft, So
Speaker 1: essentially my first year said you know, I'm going to
Speaker 1: learn some rock stuff. I must have been a decent
Speaker 1: amount of time trying to figure out how to play
Speaker 1: forward and that's kind of what I think Lob's doing now.
Speaker 1: He's going, well, you know, it's it's stacked heavily up
Speaker 1: top with with tall forwards that they're going to see
Speaker 1: the future of. He's kind of maybe a bit older
Speaker 1: than them. He's going, Okay, where do I fit in
Speaker 1: this team to be able to play AFL every week?
Speaker 1: And at the moment, I think it is in that
Speaker 1: back line. So we're going to be interested see kind
Speaker 1: of how he goes.
Speaker 3: That's weird. I would have thought you would have picked
Speaker 3: running up and down the wing all day with that
Speaker 3: tank and speed and.
Speaker 2: A lot better take. Not so much anymore.
Speaker 3: Let's talk through the big losers for the week.
Speaker 2: Let's get into it, brighton, Let's get into it.
Speaker 3: Come on, I actually don't even know what's happened. What
Speaker 3: they call him? There was an orange ripple.
Speaker 2: It's not mine.
Speaker 3: We don't like. We don't like that. We don't like
Speaker 3: the ripples.
Speaker 2: Let's break it down. What's going on? What's going on?
Speaker 3: Well one, where's the tsunami? Where's the wave, where's the push,
Speaker 3: where's the pressure? Where's what are we doing? But you know,
Speaker 3: they started the season on fire, and I thought it
Speaker 3: was going to be a continuation of last year because
Speaker 3: what's changed, not a lot. They've still got all the
Speaker 3: guys out there on the park.
Speaker 1: Great start to the year, five.
Speaker 3: Wins and then six losses from the past eight. That's
Speaker 3: not a great record. That's that's a losing record from that.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I don't like where they've gone and the
Speaker 3: opponents that they're versing. I don't want to disrespect them,
Speaker 3: but they're not really like they should be winning some
Speaker 3: of these games. So yeah, I actually don't know where
Speaker 3: they're at at the moment. We saw some you see
Speaker 3: some magic from them each week because they're a team
Speaker 3: full of stars. So are you.
Speaker 2: Going to stay on it? Are they still your team?
Speaker 3: It's pretty hard to stay on them. They're not given change.
Speaker 3: They're not really like humping through any decent scores or anything.
Speaker 3: They're just getting like start, They've got some of the
Speaker 3: most exciting forwards and I love what Jesse Hogan's been
Speaker 3: doing this year.
Speaker 2: He's a store.
Speaker 3: To be fair, Toby Green's probably been pretty down on
Speaker 3: previous year's performances. He did kick a massive goal from
Speaker 3: outside fifty that was definitely something that only Toby Green
Speaker 3: could do. But you know, he's string together a fair
Speaker 3: few weeks of no goals and like, yeah, I don't
Speaker 3: know what is happening at the moment. They've still got
Speaker 3: all the pieces to the puzzle, so it should be
Speaker 3: able to click back into place. So I don't know
Speaker 3: if it's just a big reset, but they've come through
Speaker 3: there by period. So that's normally when the you sit
Speaker 3: down and circle the wagons up. But it's yeah, it's
Speaker 3: not great. They're still there, still pushing out some memes.
Speaker 3: So I'm waiting.
Speaker 2: That's the media team still going out.
Speaker 3: That's the that's the last cog. If that falls down
Speaker 3: and we stop stop seeing memes, you know we're in
Speaker 3: trouble because that's that's all they've got at the moment,
Speaker 3: is the memes. So let's hold fire to see how
Speaker 3: that goes. We do like seeing Adelaide back up in
Speaker 3: about because they're an exciting team and we were just
Speaker 3: waiting for the return of Isaac Rank.
Speaker 1: He's one of our favorite players in the league at
Speaker 1: the moment, and over the weekend you just had some
Speaker 1: of those just iconic moments from him of just being
Speaker 1: able to slip tackles and kick goals from like angles,
Speaker 1: and he's just exciting to watch those players like him
Speaker 1: and pick It and Bobby Hill and like all these
Speaker 1: guys who are those small forwards that you just see
Speaker 1: them with the ball and you go, there's an infinite
Speaker 1: amount of possibilities of what's actually going to happen once
Speaker 1: he gets it, and he might juke three people, he
Speaker 1: might sell candy, he might just sit there and just
Speaker 1: take a set shot. You just don't know, and that
Speaker 1: unknowniker just just having no knowledge of what's going to
Speaker 1: happen next is exciting for I think the fan to
Speaker 1: watch and they just do things that you just know
Speaker 1: that other people aren't capable of, and it was good
Speaker 1: to see him return to that over the weekend.
Speaker 3: Like it just was.
Speaker 2: I just loved it. It's so much fun to watch him.
Speaker 3: I think it's yeah, well, I've been told it's one
Speaker 3: of the hardest positions to play on the ground. And
Speaker 3: then I feel like once you see a small forward,
Speaker 3: there's a moment where it clicks. The confidence, Yeah, confidence
Speaker 3: to take it on, have the shots, like not be
Speaker 3: worried about. You know, they set up more goals than most,
Speaker 3: but it's yeah, when they get on a chair. See
Speaker 3: with Cody Waitman, he's got complete confidence of what he's
Speaker 3: doing and he flies for everything and he can kick
Speaker 3: him from anywhere. Love that position on the field, and
Speaker 3: there's none better than Isaac Rankin who's kind of getting
Speaker 3: up into the midfield and doing whatever he wants. West
Speaker 3: Coast Eagles rough week for them. They kind of resorted
Speaker 3: back to a bit of the West Coast of old
Speaker 3: at home. People are saying that they're very competitive at
Speaker 3: home in previous weeks, which they have been. Oscar Allen
Speaker 3: coming back into that forward line mix and he's been
Speaker 3: pretty good early to get his hands on the ball.
Speaker 3: Accuracy is another thing. You know, you got to anticipate
Speaker 3: that he's going to be rusty limited precs.
Speaker 1: I just think that him and Waterman obviously Wanderman's been
Speaker 1: killing it. Like you look at those two players in
Speaker 1: the same forard line, You're going, oh, we're going to
Speaker 1: get at least probably six goals out of them every game,
Speaker 1: but unfortunately they only had one over the weekend between them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's a bit of.
Speaker 1: A you know, how do we have this cohesion kind
Speaker 1: of come together in the forward line and where do
Speaker 1: we kind of see it kind of going because you
Speaker 1: can sometimes whenever you have a big players kicking a
Speaker 1: lot of goals, like Warriman, then you bring another player in,
Speaker 1: like you know, your decision of who you're kicking into
Speaker 1: in the forward line becomes a bit unknown. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you go, okay, wait do we constantly go to this
Speaker 1: person and we look for other options? And then is
Speaker 1: everyone else set up around it? So it's going to
Speaker 1: take a little bit of time for them to kind
Speaker 1: of understand to think what the look inside fifty is
Speaker 1: going to be. But it definitely doesn't help whenever you
Speaker 1: only take one mark inside fifty in the first three quarters.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not a good size that's you've got.
Speaker 1: Maybe you've got Jack, Jack Darling and Bay the Williams
Speaker 1: also playing, say flying Ryan, it's yeah, it's a lot
Speaker 1: of tolls in one team. I mean you looked at
Speaker 1: the Bulldogs we just talked about and like they had
Speaker 1: to move one of them to the back line just
Speaker 1: to be able to fit them all in. So it's
Speaker 1: going to be interesting the decisions at West Coast make
Speaker 1: as far as who's going to be playing in their
Speaker 1: fore line and how it kind of all comes together.
Speaker 2: But it's a bit of watch the space.
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, because it's obviously not just the ford
Speaker 3: line problem, Like you need to get the mid forward
Speaker 3: connection working pretty well, and when last year they were
Speaker 3: demolished by injuries, so there hasn't been that continuity between
Speaker 3: any of the players really out there except for training
Speaker 3: when they've all been together. So give it time. They've
Speaker 3: definitely got the pieces there. That forward line is pretty
Speaker 3: dangerous and then if you get the mids cracking, see
Speaker 3: what they can do over the off season Harlee Reid
Speaker 3: and Cali it's going to be exciting. We'll move on
Speaker 3: to Melbourne because very disappointing. They're on a pretty disappointing
Speaker 3: run at the moment. Harrow's Brisbane just got over the line.
Speaker 3: Like fortunately for Harrison, he only watched the parts where
Speaker 3: Brisbane were good, because in the middle Melbourne was actually
Speaker 3: pretty competitive up in Brisbane, which I didn't anticipate coming
Speaker 3: off the last couple of weeks. Melbourne have had a
Speaker 3: couple of terrible performances, to be frank, but going up there,
Speaker 3: they were very competitive and leading for a sizable chunk
Speaker 3: of the game and they just kind of pretty much
Speaker 3: gave it away at the end.
Speaker 1: O lead by twenty three at half, and I think
Speaker 1: it was like in the teens, I want to say,
Speaker 1: three quarter time. So Melbourne had the game in their
Speaker 1: hands for most of the night and then it wasn't
Speaker 1: til the very end where Brisbane took over and kind
Speaker 1: of came. I think it was like seventy five seconds
Speaker 1: left in the game where Hugh kind of ended up
Speaker 1: kicking that goal that sealed it. But yeah, it's been
Speaker 1: an interesting one ever since that kind of Queen's Birthday
Speaker 1: game or King's Birthday sorry apologies, and Petroka going down.
Speaker 1: There's been a few things with Melbourne that just haven't
Speaker 1: really been clicking. So I don't know at this point
Speaker 1: what's happening. I think they're sitting like twelfth on the ladder,
Speaker 1: I want to say right now, and obviously it's a
Speaker 1: very close ladder, but they're gonna need to get some
Speaker 1: ones on the board to make this top eight and
Speaker 1: it's going to be an interesting little run home for him.
Speaker 1: And I will say a little bit of positivity out
Speaker 1: of the Melbourne camp though, your boy, your boy pick
Speaker 1: it kicked five over the weekend, so bags, so dangerous
Speaker 1: bag for picket kicking five and he just I think
Speaker 1: he kicked like three in a quarter and just looked unstoppable.
Speaker 1: He's just sitting there and going left right. We talked
Speaker 1: about these people being so exciting him and Rochelle and
Speaker 1: everyone else, and he definitely proved it on the weekend.
Speaker 1: I think he snapped on from like forty just casually,
Speaker 1: just why not, you know, you just get the confidence
Speaker 1: to do it, just snapped from anywhere. And a big fan,
Speaker 1: big fan of picket and kicking your bag.
Speaker 3: The ground ball pickups just so clean. And I love
Speaker 3: a snap from distance that travels really quick. It's not
Speaker 3: one of the ones that floats through the air. It's
Speaker 3: like a dart snap. And yeah, when he gets on
Speaker 3: a roll, he gets on one hell of a roll.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I'm interested to see how defiant Melbourne's going
Speaker 3: to because as soon as Petrarca went out, they said,
Speaker 3: let's just see this is a bit of a build year.
Speaker 3: We'll see what we learn. Be interesting to see if
Speaker 3: Melbourne kind of step up and say no, we're not
Speaker 3: just going to go quietly, because they did move Rivers
Speaker 3: into the midfield and he's been really great. He's been
Speaker 3: great through there. Unfortunately ran a bit too far when
Speaker 3: he was having a shot kicked. The goal didn't count
Speaker 3: because you can't just keep running. Although you said we
Speaker 3: should scrap the bounce, we just put ideas out there.
Speaker 1: We put ideas how Australian is an American telling them
Speaker 1: about their sports.
Speaker 3: Now, this is the one that I want to get
Speaker 3: into because I'm not sure if you saw this Essendon
Speaker 3: Geelong game, and people have been waiting for them to
Speaker 3: kind of prove their credentials. They're still sitting up the
Speaker 3: very high end of the ladder, the.
Speaker 2: Top four last week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's what when teams they come up against
Speaker 3: it of the ilk of you know, Geelong, like Collingwood, Brisbane.
Speaker 3: The teams that are up there, they just sit back
Speaker 3: and wait to see what Essendon can produce. Now, I
Speaker 3: was already to give whoever lost this one a bit
Speaker 3: of a mulligan because the weather was shocking. When you
Speaker 3: have a couple of those games and it might be
Speaker 3: a blowout, but it's it's as simple as like a
Speaker 3: long ball dribbles through or it goes over the back,
Speaker 3: or like mistakes happened.
Speaker 2: So one kicked over one hundred points. That I mean, like,
Speaker 2: that's pretty good, I'd say.
Speaker 3: Which is very it is, it is very good. Most
Speaker 3: of theirs they got on a roll. Now, this is
Speaker 3: where I want to start to get into this one
Speaker 3: because break it out. Essendon and Geelong. They were very close.
Speaker 3: Essendon were leading chunks of the first half. Then it
Speaker 3: all got to a point, a tipping point of the
Speaker 3: game where they I think it's fair to say i've
Speaker 3: ever seen in recent time a team get fucked that bad. Look.
Speaker 3: I don't have skin in the game when it comes
Speaker 3: to s and then hey, all the best, good luck
Speaker 3: try Winter Final. When it comes to this game, I
Speaker 3: think I got skin in it because I can't just
Speaker 3: stand by and watch someone get that brutally just screwed
Speaker 3: over repeatedly and not say something, see something, say something,
Speaker 3: Mace and I saw something in this game, because we'll
Speaker 3: break it down. Incident on incidents, third quarter comes around.
Speaker 3: Games still very much well and truly on Draper standing
Speaker 3: by himself in the forward line. Beauty gonna have a
Speaker 3: big mark Zach two. He comes through front on contact
Speaker 3: every day of the week. Nah, all, ballly reckons. Let's
Speaker 3: not call that a free kick. What always happens in
Speaker 3: those circumstances, balls spit, fire down the other end. Gelong goal.
Speaker 3: All right, we can cop that. That's a two goal swing.
Speaker 3: Don't even stress about it. There more deliberate rush behind
Speaker 3: What is that? You can feel his breath hit in
Speaker 3: the back of his neck. I would say that that's pressure. Ah,
Speaker 3: let's give that a deliberate Okay, that's that's another goal.
Speaker 3: That's fine. Then immediately after that, Ridley gets the ball,
Speaker 3: is wrapped up in a tackle, does a three sixty.
Speaker 3: We saw that forty times last week. Not paid holding
Speaker 3: the ball, bang goal. Okay, that's that's three goals back
Speaker 3: to back to back.
Speaker 1: See.
Speaker 3: Oh well, and we're seeing them. We're paying them. Are
Speaker 3: we goes up the other end? Bowie dropping the ball?
Speaker 3: What do we call nothing? Didn't see anything. What are
Speaker 3: you out in the back having a late sir, Because
Speaker 3: that's holding the ball every day of the week. Okay,
Speaker 3: let's not call that. Let's pump it back in there again.
Speaker 3: Oh Stewart, No no, no, no, hold no, not holding
Speaker 3: the ball? Okay, spits out to Atkins. Atkins holding it,
Speaker 3: tackled nothing, dives on it. What are we going to do?
Speaker 3: Let's call that nothing. What are we doing?
Speaker 2: What are we doing?
Speaker 3: It's like one umpire up one end was calling everything
Speaker 3: and the bloke up the other end knocked off early
Speaker 3: and went with Harrow down to Sorrento for the weekend
Speaker 3: because he was calling nothing. And you know what it
Speaker 3: bloody did. It destroyed the game. I thought. You look
Speaker 3: on the app, you look at the stats and you're like,
Speaker 3: oh jeez, Essendon rough they just didn't show up, got
Speaker 3: flogged by forty odd points. Well, I'm telling you who
Speaker 3: did the flog, and it was the bloody umpires and
Speaker 3: they flugged this shit out of them. Now I can
Speaker 3: say that, I can say that with confidence. That's not
Speaker 3: what this man said.
Speaker 2: Let's make that clear. We haven't talked about this rant.
Speaker 3: We haven't talked about this rant. And I don't like
Speaker 3: to put it on the umpires, but come on, essenon, fans,
Speaker 3: I just want to look you down the barrel because
Speaker 3: someone's got to apologize to here, and I just want
Speaker 3: to say sorry, I'm so sorry for the way that
Speaker 3: you were treated, and we'll try our best to not
Speaker 3: let that happen again. And the thing that is happening
Speaker 3: every week, the AFL doesn't have to come out and
Speaker 3: justify every bad call or whatever, but they come out
Speaker 3: and they justify the absolute stinkers. And it seems like
Speaker 3: they're coming out and justifying absolute stinkers every bloody week.
Speaker 3: So let's just pull it back on the stinkers. Let's
Speaker 3: just play some bloody footy, would we.
Speaker 2: Do you think more umpires than that Brandon?
Speaker 3: It's helping the game. I'm not even talking about that
Speaker 3: because we talked about it last week. Anyway, that's the
Speaker 3: end around. I hardly even said the F word in
Speaker 3: that you're you're.
Speaker 2: One of those fans. I definitely don't want to sit
Speaker 2: next to it a game.
Speaker 1: That guy, that guy scream at the umpire the whole day,
Speaker 1: the seventies in the first quarter. Just get me away
Speaker 1: from this man. There are children are out braided.
Speaker 3: I am like the most low key football supporter ever,
Speaker 3: but when you see a couple rack up back to
Speaker 3: back to back, it's like if I was an Essendon fanatic. Yeah,
Speaker 3: oh my god, I'm so glad they got security to
Speaker 3: get those guys off the field because we talk about
Speaker 3: looking after them. Get them out of there because that
Speaker 3: was rough. Anyway, that's my round, So I'm giving a
Speaker 3: mulligan for that one. We'll blame it on the weather.
Speaker 2: That's what it sounded like.
Speaker 3: But that's it. Let's jump into the Collingwood Footy Club
Speaker 3: because talking about mulligans they go up there. Now, I
Speaker 3: feel this is unfair because I still think people aren't
Speaker 3: giving Gold Coast the credit where credits due. Gold Coast
Speaker 3: at home is a very difficult team to undefeated up there.
Speaker 3: What's the gold Coast? Yeah, but what's like a you know,
Speaker 3: we got the gabatoire, We've got the portress. Like, we
Speaker 3: need a pun name for you probably can't work people's
Speaker 3: first into there, but we need to someone chuck that
Speaker 3: in the comments section. We need a name for the
Speaker 3: Gold Coast Son's home stadium that's puney with gold Coast
Speaker 3: something anyway, we'll talk about this game, because where did
Speaker 3: you watch it? For starters, I was a help, didn't
Speaker 3: get the free ticket up to the Gold Coast.
Speaker 2: I mean there was a question that was asked.
Speaker 1: Asking, look, you know, I just if maybe there's an
Speaker 1: extra spot on the plane, you know, don't do my
Speaker 1: rehab up there. You know, I help out the rockman,
Speaker 1: you know, help them get over get over there and
Speaker 1: play against big Witzy.
Speaker 2: And they go looked at me and said, you have
Speaker 2: no chance.
Speaker 3: So how did you see it rolling out?
Speaker 2: Though?
Speaker 3: Because one thing I noticed very quickly. Collin was obviously
Speaker 3: known for their pressure and they run up to the
Speaker 3: ball carrier carrier frontel pressure get right up in their
Speaker 3: face cause the turnover Gold Coast hands with that sleep
Speaker 3: and there was always an extra person over the top.
Speaker 3: They were always well supported, and it it just kind
Speaker 3: of picks its way through that pressure game. Like how
Speaker 3: did you see?
Speaker 2: I think it was?
Speaker 1: I mean, like I wasn't there, but like whenever I
Speaker 1: was watching the game on television, it seemed as every
Speaker 1: time there was this pressure situation, the Gold Coast Suns
Speaker 1: were able to handle the way out of it. And
Speaker 1: then from there they can get through that kind of
Speaker 1: midfield line and then were able to access people like Kingy.
Speaker 2: Over the weekend you kicked four goals.
Speaker 1: So I think that was one of the things I
Speaker 1: still out to me the most is their ability to
Speaker 1: handle the pressure and be able to work their way through.
Speaker 1: It was just super impressive, and it was something that
Speaker 1: just seemed like every time, you know, we usually get
Speaker 1: that you know, holding the ball call or something like that,
Speaker 1: to be able to get us to keep it in
Speaker 1: our half, it just seemed like they were able to
Speaker 1: get out and be able to continue on going forward
Speaker 1: and gaining you know, territory on us.
Speaker 2: And yeah, it was tough to see.
Speaker 1: It's always tough watching like the boys that you play
Speaker 1: with and then you're not there and you're like they're
Speaker 1: away at Gold Coast and you're sitting there and you know,
Speaker 1: whenever you lose the game, you just kind of like
Speaker 1: you have this like feeling of like just you can't
Speaker 1: do anything. You're so far away and you're like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm still in rehab, still hanging like try to be supportive.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like it's a really empty feeling. I
Speaker 1: feel like being on the sideline and not being able
Speaker 1: to be a part of.
Speaker 3: It, especially when you're the first in back of the
Speaker 3: club and they're all coming back into town and you're like, ah,
Speaker 3: you'll get them next week, first after our bus. Come on, lads,
Speaker 3: chet up, lads. But yeah, no, it was a very
Speaker 3: frustrating game, but it is all you know, credits a
Speaker 3: gold coast like the game that they played amazing. Noah Anderson,
Speaker 3: Oh my god, please calm down.
Speaker 1: Thirty nine disposals, eight marks, five tackles. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: And yeah, the talent that they've got coming through Dimmer
Speaker 3: must be licking his lips.
Speaker 1: Flanders was very good on the day too. He played
Speaker 1: very well. All I can picture is Ned Flanders from
Speaker 1: The Simpsons, but he was a good player of the
Speaker 1: week hed but Nick Nick Dekos, obviously we all know
Speaker 1: he's a very good player. Scored two goals, thirty two disposals,
Speaker 1: had that one out of the center that just went bang,
Speaker 1: bang bang.
Speaker 2: You know, Sol Candy kicks a goal like he'sld around,
Speaker 2: still does his thing.
Speaker 3: Some of the most elite commentary as well, when he's
Speaker 3: like they're gonna get nicked, He's gonna get it back.
Speaker 3: They've been de cossed some of the most elite commentary
Speaker 3: and he he he was already a great player. We
Speaker 3: already know that he's ahead of his time given how
Speaker 3: young he is, but he's finding a knack of when
Speaker 3: all your senior leaders have been out, most of the
Speaker 3: thirty plus gang have been out, he's been finding a
Speaker 3: way to carry the team close to the line and
Speaker 3: sometimes over the line, week in week out, and it's
Speaker 3: been really impressive. He's got off the chain a couple
Speaker 3: of last quarters. He's trying to. He's still a young player,
Speaker 3: and he's navigating breaking a tag and things like that.
Speaker 3: Week in week out. He's learning new stuff. It's very
Speaker 3: it's hard to fathom how he's still going to have
Speaker 3: a lot of growth in his game for a player
Speaker 3: that's already that bloody good.
Speaker 1: If you look at demo over the weekend. After the game,
Speaker 1: he had his interview as personally in press conference and
Speaker 1: essentially said, yeah, if the game's on the line's the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, obviously Colin was going to make a bit
Speaker 1: of a push, and he talked about essentially tagging Dikes
Speaker 1: and Degoie because they're big game players and think.
Speaker 3: That go he got too oh unreal.
Speaker 1: But I think it's like it's it's I think it's
Speaker 1: him hearing another coach say that, like that's a confidence
Speaker 1: booster for you, right, saying like, Hey, I'm a game changer,
Speaker 1: I'm a game changer player. I'm a big game player
Speaker 1: in that sense, and and teams are definitely worried about
Speaker 1: it whenever it comes down to the porty ends.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's was. It was a frustrating watch.
Speaker 1: Ben King played really well, I will say, for them,
Speaker 1: like I said, kicked four goals on the night, and
Speaker 1: we just couldn't couldn't get past and couldn't a player
Speaker 1: pressure enough to be able to, you know, I guess
Speaker 1: get the win over the weekend.
Speaker 3: Ben King is like oddly underrated, and it's only because
Speaker 3: he plays for the Gold Coast Suns. But like up
Speaker 3: there in the Coleman, he might be leading the Coleman,
Speaker 3: he's tearing the comp apart, but everyone's kind of quiet
Speaker 3: up there, which I am sure Dimmer must be absolutely
Speaker 3: loving a bit of praise. Now that you mentioned it
Speaker 3: that Nick Dakos got imagine hearing Gary Ablett say that
Speaker 3: he reminds me of a young me. That's pretty wild
Speaker 3: and yeah, last week, and I was just pretty crazy
Speaker 3: to hear.
Speaker 2: I just want to double chuck.
Speaker 1: He's coming for senior doing wrong, but I think he's
Speaker 1: in a concussion lawsuit.
Speaker 2: Happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And Isaac Smith said throughout the week that they
Speaker 3: had a double tag on Gary Ablett Junior once in
Speaker 3: a game, so they were both rotating on and off
Speaker 3: the bench because they would just run until they blew
Speaker 3: up and swamped and Gary Ablett still had forty and
Speaker 3: kicked four on them casually. That's wild. So imagine hearing
Speaker 3: that from the Little Master. That's absolute praise.
Speaker 1: It's one of the nicest humans you ever met, too. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: he actually is like one of the nicest people.
Speaker 3: And one of the quietest, which is like we talked
Speaker 3: about it the other week that it just builds the
Speaker 3: folklore around the around the person.
Speaker 1: Over like, so maybe the story for another podcast running
Speaker 1: into him and the off season. And yeah, he's essentially
Speaker 1: coming off a super yich. It's a it's a whole thing.
Speaker 1: It was wild, but that's absolute legend.
Speaker 3: Let's jump out of this week because we'll move on
Speaker 3: with the That week is in the rear view mirror
Speaker 3: the past. We moved ahead into this week's games and none.
Speaker 3: I was going to say none bigger, but Collingwood Carton's
Speaker 3: coming up in a month and that's that's going to
Speaker 3: do numbers. Actually, we should get some tickets because that's
Speaker 3: going to be worth some money. So I don't know
Speaker 3: if we just on sell those, not that you can,
Speaker 3: so let's just not say that. On the podcast Collingwood
Speaker 3: essenon this week Friday Night Underlies Jeepers. Both teams doing well,
Speaker 3: both teams in the eight. You guys are still in
Speaker 3: the a yeah, just checking but not the NXACT day game,
Speaker 3: but still.
Speaker 1: Be I assume it's going to be a sellout Friday
Speaker 1: night thriller. Two teams obviously big supporter bases on a
Speaker 1: big night and kind of big implications for both teams.
Speaker 1: You know that the top eight's very tight and calling
Speaker 1: with both last last week, so they're looking for a
Speaker 1: win there at the mcg. It is our home game,
Speaker 1: want to believe, so hopefully a lot more calling with
Speaker 1: supporters and Essendon, but yeah, it's going to be a
Speaker 1: massive one. They're very good team accident. I think everyone's
Speaker 1: definitely seen their capability this year and they're definitely performing
Speaker 1: very well. So it's going to be one of the
Speaker 1: biggest games of the weekend. I'd say the biggest game
Speaker 1: of this weekend. I would comfortably say that, I think.
Speaker 3: Biggest game in terms of numbers. There's some interesting games
Speaker 3: this weekend. I will say there will be some pressure
Speaker 3: in that game. Both teams are going to crank it
Speaker 3: up to eleven. It'll be a great game to watch.
Speaker 3: I will tip Collingwood in the Obviously we're going to
Speaker 3: North via the Suns. Scene were talking about interesting games.
Speaker 3: It would not surprise me if North turn around and
Speaker 3: win this game at home after the impressive performance from
Speaker 3: the Suns. That's how tight this competition.
Speaker 2: Is at the moment.
Speaker 1: Mason, I think I don't want to now. I can't
Speaker 1: go against my Signs. I can't go against the Signs.
Speaker 2: It is at Marble.
Speaker 1: Stadium with North Melbourne being their home ground, and I
Speaker 1: think I don't know this. If the Signs get this
Speaker 1: W I think they probably are making the eight. I
Speaker 1: want to say they might be in the eight at
Speaker 1: the moment, they're.
Speaker 3: Right on the the A. I just want to want.
Speaker 2: To see the Signs make their first finals.
Speaker 1: Yeah, series, I think that's just like over the whole league,
Speaker 1: whoever you support. I think everyone's kind of like, look,
Speaker 1: we want the McDonald's look people like to show up
Speaker 1: in the final.
Speaker 3: Imagine if the Suns make finals and Essendon wins, one
Speaker 3: would be interesting, big little final series that one.
Speaker 1: Ah man, I think the AFL would be absolutely stoked.
Speaker 1: But I've got I've got the Suns winning this. But
Speaker 1: I think it'd be a close game. Yeah, I would.
Speaker 1: You think it's going to be down to the wire.
Speaker 1: North by no means it gonn get blown out the
Speaker 1: way they're playing the plane and keeping in the games
Speaker 1: and being able to take people to the line. But
Speaker 1: I think the Suns, yeah, they'll get the w. But
Speaker 1: I'll go it's gonna be like a ten point difference.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm going to give it to North.
Speaker 3: And it's because North's fans are really getting up and about.
Speaker 3: That's given some you know, some adrenaline to their team.
Speaker 3: And I don't know about the Gold Coast Sons on
Speaker 3: the road at home, absolutely on the road, struggling a bit,
Speaker 3: struggling a bit. Let's move over to Port Bulldogs because
Speaker 3: oh my god, we're talking about storylines. Here's your bloody storyline.
Speaker 3: One coach was on the ropes at the start of
Speaker 3: the season, and then one coach is on the ropes now.
Speaker 3: So we've got Port v. Bulldogs. Don't know what we're
Speaker 3: to get from either team, but hopefully it's an interesting game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got I love I just want I love
Speaker 1: Ken Hinkley. I just want Ken to get some love.
Speaker 1: We're gonna I'm gonna Port Adelaide at Adelaide, so that
Speaker 1: definitely helps. I've got I think the winner of this
Speaker 1: makes finals of a statement, but I think they're both
Speaker 1: around that eight and the winner of this game might
Speaker 1: be the decider as to who makes finals.
Speaker 3: I can I can get around that if Bulldogs win,
Speaker 3: because that to me shows that they've turned a corner. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they've you know, they're having a bit of a run.
Speaker 3: They're having some good games, they're kicking some good scores.
Speaker 3: So I'm going to go to the Bulldogs in this
Speaker 3: one huge.
Speaker 1: I just think it Port wins at home in front
Speaker 1: of a crowd, They're all going to love Ken again,
Speaker 1: and then that momentum kind of continues on the make.
Speaker 3: The latter is that bloody close. It's all one team's
Speaker 3: doom and gloom. The next week they win, They're like.
Speaker 2: Four, we love you, Let's sign them again.
Speaker 3: Let's get into Geelong v. Hawthorne the Kennet Curse. I've
Speaker 3: been dead and buried for a while, but this one
Speaker 3: is so bloody interesting because Geelong obviously good win last
Speaker 3: week before that bit of a stinky form patch. But Hawthorne,
Speaker 3: probably the most informed team in the camp outside of
Speaker 3: Sydney obviously just went and lost on the weekend. So
Speaker 3: very very interesting game this one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to be. It's a danger game for Geelong.
Speaker 1: Geelong at home that definitely helps them to Hawthorne. Like
Speaker 1: you said, it has been on an absolute tear at the moment.
Speaker 3: So danger game.
Speaker 1: Oh it is a pun to even mean it, but
Speaker 1: I definitely got it. Oh man, that is punny. Now Geelong,
Speaker 1: I have to go, We'll win this one.
Speaker 3: This is interesting. I'm going now.
Speaker 2: I want to like part of it.
Speaker 1: I just want to say Hawthorne if I'm like far out,
Speaker 1: like Geelong, big win last weekend against US, and like
Speaker 1: and Hawthorne. You know you just kind of Hawthorne is
Speaker 1: the underdog. You just want to see the underdog win
Speaker 1: all the time, don't you. So I wanted to go Geelong,
Speaker 1: close game, but I can't look past the experience I have.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right and Hawthorn, let's just keep going with
Speaker 3: form GWS, Carlton, this one hurts.
Speaker 2: So Sydney, give you a little bit of help.
Speaker 3: It doesn't seem to be helping them stadium. Come on, well,
Speaker 3: Carton's just turning up. They're turning up and they're getting
Speaker 3: big scores on the board. They're full of confidence. Their
Speaker 3: forwards are turning it on. This year they get all
Speaker 3: the momentum. They can put scores on the board really quickly.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, IFS loses this game, do
Speaker 1: you think they'll make finals.
Speaker 3: It's a hard one because they're, like Carlton's pretty much
Speaker 3: as good as it gets in terms of what the
Speaker 3: competition's doing now. But I will say, oh, back in
Speaker 3: GWS this week and that's my last week if they
Speaker 3: If they.
Speaker 2: Lose this week, you're off. Yeah, we're gonna remember that.
Speaker 3: Free Richmond for me, this is my luck I got
Speaker 3: in there. Three Oh is my luck over in Perth.
Speaker 3: They'll get this one. Uneasy, poor Richmond. But Freo on fire.
Speaker 3: They've had a good run and now they're primed for
Speaker 3: a massive scalp at home just to lock things away.
Speaker 2: I thank you.
Speaker 1: I've got to go Freemantle on this one too. Richmond
Speaker 1: toughle of trot at the moment, but Freemantle's on fire.
Speaker 1: Been sitting near home. That's a big scalp, big scalp.
Speaker 1: So got to go for hout.
Speaker 3: Not a lot from you to pick your luck. I've
Speaker 3: got Melbourne v West Coast in Melbourne.
Speaker 2: Could it be No, it's not.
Speaker 3: All wow, Nope, keeping it going. I'm going to back
Speaker 3: in Melbourne though. Melbourne. They you look at that game
Speaker 3: on the weekend and that's a really good performance. That's
Speaker 3: a really good performance. They didn't get the win, but
Speaker 3: it's still a strong performance. Come home, beat West Coast,
Speaker 3: Happy days. Move on.
Speaker 1: West Coast only scoring thirty something points this week definitely
Speaker 1: hurting them. They're going to figure out some synergy between
Speaker 1: their forwards and mids and I don't see them being
Speaker 1: able to do that with the bigs of a lot
Speaker 1: of the may and lever in the back line. That's
Speaker 1: going to be pretty tough. I've got Melbourne beaaten West
Speaker 1: Coast on this one at the MCG.
Speaker 3: Good to have the duo back now Saint Kilda, poor
Speaker 3: old Saint Kilda, I reckon the most boring ticket in town.
Speaker 3: We can't We've got to be getting scores above your
Speaker 3: forties fifty sixties. And it's not just them, they can't score.
Speaker 3: Everyone they verse gets dragged down to their low score level.
Speaker 1: So we're just saying every game they play, both teams
Speaker 1: just look a bit lack.
Speaker 3: Last year, yeah, it's boring, it's a grind. Dimmer brought
Speaker 3: it up the other week when they had the soul
Speaker 3: sucked out of them for a game. But then they
Speaker 3: come out the next week and they just put a
Speaker 3: massive score and it's like, you can do it, you
Speaker 3: can do it, and you choosing not to do it.
Speaker 3: So let's turn up the heat. Because when you play
Speaker 3: fast footy and you're kicking goals, your team looks exciting
Speaker 3: and you're winning games of footy, what's the alternative You're
Speaker 3: playing this sole sucking, low scorer and affair and you're
Speaker 3: losing and you're down the bottom of the ladder and
Speaker 3: you're probably one of the most disappointing teams this year.
Speaker 3: So that being said, I'm going to say Sydney wins
Speaker 3: this one pretty comfortably. Against Saint Kilda Home.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, I'm gonna yeah, I've all locked this one in.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna lock this one in as the cock clock
Speaker 1: of the week, Sydney versus Saint Kilda. Yeah, like you said,
Speaker 1: Sant Kill's been struggling. Sidney's gonna be pretty furious the
Speaker 1: fact that they lost a free mail at home.
Speaker 2: By point.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna come out a bit of fire
Speaker 1: in the belly and just absolutely smack Saint Kilda. Just
Speaker 1: get their confidence back and be the Sydney that we've
Speaker 1: we've been seeing all year and get that confidence rolling again.
Speaker 1: So got to go Sydney over Saint Kilda here, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say big win.
Speaker 3: Well, I hope Sydney can breaks the voodoo and get
Speaker 3: some score on the board against the soul suckers. We
Speaker 3: go to Brisbane via Adelaide. Now I thought you would
Speaker 3: have locked this one in. I reckon Brisbane gets this
Speaker 3: one easily up there at the Gabbatoire and Adelaide has
Speaker 3: been okay, but I think they've been inflated. People have
Speaker 3: been saying how good Adelaide is, but they actually haven't
Speaker 3: been that great. They've been losing games at home. They
Speaker 3: have a good performance here, there and everywhere. That makes
Speaker 3: people it's fresh in their mind that oh this team
Speaker 3: is good, can be good. They've got an exciting forward
Speaker 3: line mix. But yeah, I just don't think they're up
Speaker 3: to Brisbane standard, because I think Brisbane are well and
Speaker 3: truly back.
Speaker 2: I think there's a little gap.
Speaker 1: We're talking about like the top twelve teams being very close,
Speaker 1: and there's a gap of like ten points from like
Speaker 1: thirty two points to like twenty two points, and Adelaide
Speaker 1: is at that twenty two So they're kind of the
Speaker 1: two games off from the rest of that kind of
Speaker 1: group that's in between each other trying to make that
Speaker 1: top eight. So yeah, I mean it's half Brisbane at home.
Speaker 1: Obviously they want to think last four straight, I want
Speaker 1: to say, and they're on a bit of a tear.
Speaker 1: So you gotta go Brisbane on this one up at
Speaker 1: the Gabatoire, as you say, and Adelaide, Yeah, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be it's gonna be a struggle, but for a time
Speaker 1: I think, you know, hopefully they can get some wins
Speaker 1: on the board at the end of the season, but
Speaker 1: they definitely have a tough schedule going forward.
Speaker 2: I've got Brisbane winning this one.
Speaker 3: Good weekend of games with plenty of storylines in there.
Speaker 1: I'm excited it's gonna be a big game Friday Night
Speaker 1: for Collingwood versus Esten and I'm excited to get to
Speaker 1: that one and be able to see that that's going
Speaker 1: to be a story within itself. Yeah, but it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a big game for footy. But that is it
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