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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:00 Quick Look
05:23 Ladder Check
07:22 Best Markets
11:08 RICHMOND vs CARLTON
16:25 HAWTHORN vs ESSENDON
20:55 GEELONG vs FREMANTLE
25:33 SYDNEY vs BRISBANE
30:36 COLLINGWOOD vs PORT ADELAIDE
34:44 WESTERN BULLDOGS vs NORTH MELBOURNE
39:26 ADELAIDE vs ST KILDA
45:29 MELBOURNE vs GWS
50:20 WEST COAST vs GOLD COAST
55:39 TIPPING RESULTS
56:26 BIG CALLS RESULTS
57:59 FULL CREDIT
59:04 BEST ON GROUND
01:00:31 SUPERCOACH WASH
01:02:14 Outro
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Upsets, choke jobs, smashings, and even more pickle juice. Welcome to AFL Today's Around one wrap up. Finally, all nine games will technically eight and a half because it's the third quarter of Gold Coast and West Coast. At the moment, I'm your host, Alex Donnelly, joined by a guy who's probably not allowed back in the corporate box ever. Again it's Leo Mala Well of that, that's guy. His team was okay, your team won, His.
Team wasn't okay, but yes, probably wasn't gonna get invited back.
I don't think, but that was my aim for the night.
Yeah, okay, that's good to know. It's real good with one of the top dogs that the good stuff in fantasy did sit in the corner. I'll give you, I'll give you.
Yeah. I tried to isolate myself.
And a man whose team they had yet another another honorable loss for about the forty eighth time in the last three seasons. It's the little feller Lea mckally aka the stats that just.
Blows after blows here. Yeah, I don't want to talk. Do you have to talk about North. Yes, that's all right. I don't want to talk about honorable losses. This just keeps happening, keeps happening, filthy.
That's what happens when losing a culture. Anyway, we are brought to you by Tabs AFLs missed by one. If your disposals like missus by one, tab will still pay you out as a winner. Download the tab app today. What are you really gambling with?
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Before we get into today's show, make sure you subscribe to AFL Today on YouTube. Make sure you hit that notification's bell, so anytime we do a video, it comes up and you can go, hey, what are the boys doing? Make sure, of course you get around us on all of the social media's x, Facebook, TikTok and Instagram. AFL Today a you except for Facebook, which is ouzsie rules Today. We've been having some fun with the videos throughout the weekend. Shout out to all the geelong comments who think I'm salty. That's kind of the joke. But anyway, make sure you follow all those pages. We've got a lot of stuff coming your way now, I said, tonight, we'll wrap up all of the games from round one. Take a look at the Ladder, the Rising Star market from tab, how the boys' big calls went, and of course the Super Coach washed because a lot was going on this week in Super Coach. But as always, we start with a quick look. Stats guy take it away, all right.
The quick look today is literally just about the tribunal. So we've got Jackson Archer was the first one. He I think he deserved at least one week. He's gone three weeks. I know the people are saying he's a little bit stiff. I just think it was a bit careless. He ran in towards the player, and I don't think he had any care towards the player.
What's he meant to do?
I think he slowed down just he was flying. I know what everyone's saying, and I'm usually the bias North. I love Jackson Archer, but yeah, that I just think it was a little bit careless and that was brutal because clearly.
Looked went to the ground like I'm.
Yeah, I'm probably being a I don't know why I'm being a bit husk.
What happens if Archer breaks his leg on the ground, breaks Archer's leg by diving on the ground, that's true. Yeah, but that's a different story. But it didn't break his leg. I know what you're saying.
I know what you're saying.
I just this is one of those footy accidents, similar to when Toby Bedford got the three weeks last year and then got off when he tackled Tim Taranto. Yes, this is just one of those ones. I think.
Yeah.
Overall though, three weeks is really really hard to be appealing, really hard. I think you should get. Yeah, but you can't go Can you go from read nothing thirty seconds ago? Literally said other than the toe bed for one?
Sometimes you can if.
They throw out the suspension.
Yeah, okay, but I reckon we'll go down to one in my prediction.
But I reckon North don't even challenge it. I reckon that spineless they want to do it.
Yeah, keep stats.
Next one, we've got some more. Yeah, tribun Or, we've got mcnernie. He gets three weeks as well. I think that's also a little bit unlucky. The bump wasn't like that bad in my opinion. It's just because he wasn't going for the ball, and then the rules you should be going for them.
I haven't seen the reverse angle to be able to make a comment. But you chose to bump, you can cust the guy. So yeah, Stacevich does have like runs on the board like he has concussion issues, So that's true. Yeah, I think that's his third one this preseason. The only reason, the only reason he played in round one was he was meant to miss round zero due to concussion in a scratch match. So yeah, look, McInnerny, unlucky, but mate, just don't bump. It's the thing.
He didn't need to, did he like the ball was there to he could have got lower, but yeah, lower.
I think they look like he hardly got him.
It was a bit of a weird one. Yeah, I need to see that.
That's why I.
Think he's a little bit unlucky because it wasn't like a full impact try and drive through bump.
It was sort of don't know, but bumpstead game's gone, Yeah, game's gone exactly.
That is nonsense.
The last one in the quick look is Screamshaw gets three. He gets three as well, just three. You get three, you get three, you.
Get three, everybody gets three. This one was just a massive brain fade, but he threw.
Out.
Of all of them, this was probably the closest to a right.
This was the dumbest one of them was in the.
Brain fake because he obviously I don't think he was trying to hit him in the head, but he was just trying to hit him for no reason when he was.
Going to master a bit lower too, like he goes lower.
That's that's the dry and special. He loves the cleaning people. Wow, that's the captain of his football. I don't like it. He's a dirty player, dicing. I love him.
Said that to us before.
Is if you watchin off the ball, he loves doing like a clothes line and stuff like that. Yeah, that'sky, but I still love him more. I hater go.
That's why you're watching him off the ball because his hands. He's a sexy man. Yeah, and he's got he's got a good running pat and.
He's had like work done.
No, No, he's naturally, that's that's naturally. But you reckon like his teeth.
I reckon.
Oh maybe there's a few white chompers out there.
If I if I had the money to do that, I would too.
Hopefully the bru's calling chump or something.
All right, let's get into the ladder check now it is seven to fifty one currently here in Melbourne. Currently the score in Gold Coast and West Coast is Gold Coast sixty eight, West Coast seventeen. So this goes into what the ladder check currently is. Gold Coast are absolutely going to win this game unless the funniest thing happens, second funniest thing where it happens. So GWS currently on top of the ladder, I unbeaten with one forty three percent, both on hockball as our second one hundred and twenty eight percent. They're both two from two. Gold Gold Coast are currently on four hundred percent due to their lead. That's so it's pretty funny. But Jay Waterman is probably about to kick a goal. They'll probably be third or fourth at the end of this game. The way it's going, Geelong currently in at fourth, Crows in at fourth, Collingwood one and one in there.
How do you have a ninety one point win two games in the season and you're not even up there in la are You've got twenty six high high.
Sorry shut up, I'm just talking about I'm on the show.
But a miracle. Richmond seventh, let's go.
Or not.
Western Western Bulldogs round out the top eight. Then you've got the Brisbane lines in at ninth are one and zip. Then to the teams that are without a win, and in just ten down to last Melbourne, Sydney, North Essidence and killed a Fremantle, West Coast and Port Adelaide. West Coast could go to last if they get really whipped. So you're telling me we're better than Carlton technically speaking by one point seven percent.
I'm going to hate reading the ladder this year, just with it's gonna with CD.
Yeah do you have both?
I know you're a bit weird.
Yeah, you're a weird diagnosed you're a weird weird.
You're lovable, right, No thanks mate, that's said.
Nah, that's probably true.
And West Coast I just kicked the goal for all those playing games, so we'll be doing that throughout the next sort of forty five minutes to an hour, just be like, ay, this happened in this game. So yeah, we've been taking notes on this game as well, so when someone's not on camera, they will be just sliding in some notes there side that West Coast not good anyway, Let's get just the markets this weekend brought to you by tab of course, seeing as we've just finished Round one stats going, I thought we'd do this a little bit differently this way case stats man, Yeah.
Why not.
We've got the rising Star, so a lot of the younger guys have been killing it. We talked about the debutantes with Jess from the Desk with Jess on Thursday night, so we haven't really touched on We've touched on the other market's Colm and things like that Rising Star. There's a bit of value there and I just wanted to go through the top three favorites because I think it's out of these three so far this year, so far this.
Year, it says the stats going after one game, Yeah.
Well this is who I would be betting on because I think they're the best players in this in this draft class. So first time we want to touch on his Sammy lawl Up. He was absolutely awesome. He might need to tighten up his shorts, but other than that, he's.
Been really a parental advisory.
That one, Yeah, that was that was pretty crazy.
But he's four dollar odds with tab I think that's still pretty solid.
He was a lot better than I thought.
He had obviously a fractured drawing preseason that didn't worry him, kicked two goals the clutch finish as well. He can take a big Mark gave a fend off. He's sort of that guy that can get in the Rising Star votes just because he's flashy and like things.
Like this is going to be a very hard week for the judges to pick who gets the round one.
Yeah, I think because Richmond got the win.
Yeah, but then you need to look at body of work through some other games as well. So we got Levi Ashcroft, who second pick currently four dollars fifty was meant to be the sub. Then Charlie Cavon was laid out. Didn't notice he had twenty five touches. Obviously, I've had closer. He was still good. He was solid. He'll get he'll get noombed at some point through a body of work. By that round five. Yeah, it'll be like, oh, he's had twenty touches five weeks and all right, let's just give him a vote. Yeah, and that's fair because he will deserve it. He will just nt even go next week. He's had twenty five touches in his first game against in a Grand Final rematch against the Sidneys Ones. So yeah, and you need to tell me about Fino Salivan stats guy.
Yeah.
So in terms of the odds, I'm leaning towards more Lawler than Ashcroft so far. There's only one game in Ashcroff could build into one of the better players. But I think this is the value bet for the rising star. And I'm big bias as a North fan, But finn O'Sullivan at eight dollars, the fact that there's four dollars difference between him and law I think is really good odds eight bucks.
He looked really classy.
He only got I think about fifteen sixteen touches every single time he got the ball, just did hit a target. Very rare at North that we have a guy that can hit a target, hit the target every single time, was dodging players.
Just seemed really classy.
And I reckon if he just has one of those games kicks a goal, he's going to be in the Rising Stars for sure.
Okay, And of course we'll touch on the premiership pods. We'll do that every week. Just have a look at those markets with tab. Of course, Hawthorne now even shorter into six dollars. They beat Essendon, Yeah, they beat Essendon.
I agree they should be in probably the top four teams because they've started. They shouldn't have shortened again, but they shouldn't have shortened. And I agree they weren't amazing. They played really well, but six doc that's too short. I'd be taking some other teams. They were a bit more odd.
At the moment.
Yeah. The next one that we're going to look at is Geelong at eight dollars after absolutely dismantling Fremantle.
Yeah, they look so good.
They had like a little blip in the third that was very random, but that's cut like I will give some free offense something to cheer about, and then yeah, Bailey Smith offs. We're going to touch on that game. They look really, really, really good and their depth is just on show. So eight bucks I think is a much better bet right now because with the experience as well for the premiership than Hawthorne at six bus.
I don't know, we haven't got the graphic for it, because this is just an ad lid because I just thought of it. So you and I talked last week ye about how it was a joke that Carlton was shorter than Sydney. Yeah, the odds of even though both teams haven't won a game. Yet Sydney now shorter than Carlton. Sydney fifteen dollars Carlton eighteen dollars.
That is one hundred percent fair.
We said it last week.
You guys actually can kick it inside fifty. I don't know.
I don't know about Oh, you're better than lost by Brisbane by four points.
You will beat Richmond. Imagine what you could be buying instead.
All right, let's get into it around one. Results from the Australian Football League Thursday night, the traditional kickoff at the MCG Richmond thirteen for eighty nine. What defeating Carlton at nine fifteen sixty nine?
Yello? I'm like, oh my god.
I'm just going to say this from the start. Is this one of the biggest upsets slashed worst losses in AFL history by Carlton YEP.
One hundred percent yeap.
Like, I know, it's the first game of the season and usually you don't know what the results are going to happen. We saw Richmond preseason, we saw Richmond last year. We've seen Carlton make the finals and things like that. How the hell have they lost this game? They're up by forty one points.
That's the biggest point in this they were in. They were dollar four before the game. Oh so that means about ninety seven percent of the time they are going to win this game. Yes, of course, nothing is given in life except for death and taxes. But yes they were by forty one point. But because it's Carlton, Eon Carlton and move on. If this was Hawthorne, Sydney, Geelong, Collingwood, you'd say they got in the bag, knives out, But knives would be out of one of them. Even if one of those teams had done that up by forty one points have got run to essen in the media would laugh and just continue.
To be fair. The media have been laughing.
But what I mean is this is an indictment on Carlton and Michael Voss. Yeah, they had fifteen teenagers put pressure on them and they're like.
The foot.
Literally. And should we just touch on how good Nick Haynes was.
Inspirational performance of Nick Hanes legacy game. I thought, boiling his own teammates, dropping marks, it's a bloody hot potato.
His hair's not as long as it used to be in the big I think that's his.
Powers bring it down.
I reckon he's lost his powers. Interesting and he's also old. Great God, Yeah, I don't know. I thought he was a decent pickup, but he was horrible.
Just the defense just wasn't what was it, but it was, but it was.
It was terrible use of the footy coming out fifty. It was you were just sitting there just going, oh, are Carlton really bad?
And you know why it was bad because when they put Sylvanni forward, he was actually like looking threatening and it's.
Like, how is that? Yeah? How is that?
How's that a thing?
How's that? What's going on here?
The whole game? The whole what second half?
Forty one point?
So can we even talk about them? In the first time? They look solid, they were kicking goals, They're up.
By forty one, and everyone was like, yeah, chalk it up.
I turned it off. I was I was playing me in the PlayStation, and then I saw that coming back.
I'm like jump, I had it.
I had it on in the background. I was doing some work at home. Yeah, and then I was like, oh, yeah, they're going to win this by seventy sweet and then they come back and then I was just like Richmond kicked like two goals before halftime.
Yeah, that's when it started. I was like, yeah, nah, yeah, we got I know, we've just bag Carlton. We've got to talk were talking about Richmond. They're pressure, Yeah, insane.
It was awesome.
All the young guys were I need to have a double check at the stats, but I feel like everyone just chipped in with the tackles. Everyone chipped in with getting back and defending and things like that, because Carlton had a lot of inside fifty sixty five, sixty five inside fifties for how many goals was it in the end? Nine nine or something like nineteen?
Dad is wonderful, but Richmond just hold up really really strong there. Won I want Luke Traynor. Oh he was taken into sept marks.
Yeah, he smothers were a few smothers they've got in the way.
Seventy six tackles laid by the tags.
It was awesome and I think a lot of us here probably have question marks on Husan and Marcus isn't the big Adam movie. I don't like you, but but he was tactically very good in the second half.
I know was just pressure. It was just pressure, pressure, pressure, keep running until you've got no more And that's literally all it was.
Does he have a No, it does not.
I still think he doesn't have AURA because everyone was saying Aura as a coach, you don't need I mean because Boss has and they.
Yeah, but are we now seeing that maybe Marco Voss isn't a great coach.
Well, I don't believe that they lost the game. He probably could have changed a few things. They lost the game because reactive.
I agree with that.
But they lost the game because they were bombing it into fifty every time they couldn't hit a target.
Things like that.
So yeah, I mean, you stop Patrick Cripps who had thirty two disposals, you're probably going to win a game.
We didn't.
Just I know the ding means we need to move on. But TDK versus Nake was sick.
That was awesome. TDK was absolutely insane. I think he had a huge super coach game as well. Name kicked a couple of goals. They're just going at it. And then the other one we hardly touched on was Sammy Lawler. He was great in his first game.
Yeah, the kids were. He looked really good.
Just the backflip as well.
Yeah, we forgot about how good was that backflip? That was?
That was all the way He stood up, stared down the Cartons said I'm going to do a backflip on your on your.
But that goal as well.
After running eighty.
Eight minutes to beat Zach Woims.
To the ball kicks the gown count whoever it was, Allen was moving like a con.
Yeah, he was not moving.
Next game, bases Richmond are just like you've I have a Richmond fan. I got a reply to the message I sent to her at the end of the game at three thirty in the morning.
All respect. Yeah, well that was Richmond fans on the street the first game, you.
Know, and Carlton fans as the Carton fan who aren't a really good friend of mine text and just said welfare checks. She's just like same stuff, not stuff different years.
Yeah, yeah, not good.
Friday night, mcg we were there again. We were there. Hawthorne seventeen nine one one one defeated Essen in twelve thirteen eighty five. I just want to say this, Essen and got even more injured with Langford and Ridley, but Leo take it away.
Yeah, I actually thought Essendon played well.
You were the most nervous man I've seen when you were seven goals.
It's very nervous, threatening the comeback because of why are you worried about the Hawks on Adelaide last year? I don't think I can take any game seriously. Ever again, look, I think Essendon destroyed us in the midfield. Cardwell was insanely good he.
Especially first quarter. I was like, first half, how many touches did he have?
Like thirty six in the end.
In a quarter time fifteen I didn't think I noticed him.
He got a lot of clearance.
Yeah, now he was good. Merit was insane. The thing that lets Essendon down is their back line is.
Just not there.
It's just not there, you know what I mean. Mackay is not physical enough. His positioning is terrible. McGrath I don't think is up to it. Redmond's playing midfield like I.
Just think it was horrendous.
There's a lot of missing pieces, like a solid half back, the guy that drives them.
Can kick long.
Why was he?
I don't know.
At least the one positive I had for especially early on, got the first goal of the game.
That goal was sick.
He's kicked at mid air about thirty meters or twenty five meters.
Just straight through the middle like a socker kick. Though.
That was pretty cool, and he actually every time he got the ball, he' would have made the right decision.
I'm very excited.
And I think another thing you could see is like Hawthorne, Hawthorne's defense was just doing enough.
They weren't great, but they were doing enough.
Whereas Essenon's defense, it was almost like we couldn't couldn't.
Mackay was embarrassingly bad.
Yeah, yea, it was bad.
Yeah, he's lost it.
He didn't have But like I know, it's easy to stand in the back line, easier to stand out in the back line of North because it's coming down there.
He didn't even stand out.
He wasn't.
He used to know, he used to.
Get the ball a lot more. He used to take marks.
I'm not saying he was a great took five marks in the end.
Yeah, I don't know. He wasn't. But then on the Hawk side, your ball movement is unbelievable.
I don't play the set play where they all stay on one side because I've seen that set play about thirty times.
We saw it come up, they did it.
It'd be interesting to see our teams go and defend it.
It'll get worked out. I think it happened.
Was really bad on the counter attacks. But the Hawks ball movement.
That's guy, it's twenty twenty five of course, Essen and can't defend transitions. That's been a problem for years. Like we noticed it in the first ten minutes that as soon as Hawthorne got the ball it was down the other end in three possessions.
The efficiency in this game was the difference. Yeah, at the end of the day.
Yeah, but yeah, the ball movement just from the defense.
And then my man all Australian is how many goals that he ended up with three?
Three?
I think yeah, three or four? Yeah, yep, three goals, three goals. He popped up again. Guinea actually caught a couple as well.
The Guinea was good. The fact all your four time was clicking. Compared to last Kylan was our best player.
He was great even three and twenty one and.
He kicked him clos like.
There was a few moments where was like they come back and then a goal where you set up a goal.
Conn and Ash was really good game. I love con Ash.
I think he's on Dane you can.
I thought were quite poor by this, Yeah, so to still get that outcomes hot bowls death.
I just have a lot of issues with Essen and just a lot of the dudes are all the same. It's it's exactly what we said last year. It's just a lot of the same, like well under six five foot seven, solid and no skills like Dylan Sheer, mate, Sheer was very figure out the drive to Williamstown. That's where you're headed at the moment. Yeah, not much going on there. Food obviously reached or obviously Ridley went down with another injury and the scrim Yeah, jincushion and a broken nose. So laying fit out. So it's gonna be worried as to how this team. He's better ankle ankle ligament. And I'm also still I still don't I'm still not going to be convinced about Hawthorn with Marby or up forward.
Oh yeah, no, that's fair.
He played well, but like he yeah, we need someone else. I'll some Hawks fans. He does one really good thing at quarter at the moment. No, we'll take that, and I think you can take that.
Yeah, fan base is Leo, how are we I'm not bad.
Hawks in general, they're very h Hawks fans Yeah, we're pretty happy.
Yeah, why don't we just roll on top two? I had lunch with the Essendon fan today is like, I think we're good, but I'm not.
Sure they weren't that bad. I thought they played pretty well, that's literally what.
But it's like esident every year they're just not The midfield isn't an issue.
The midfield is awesome.
Yeah, exactly in trouble anyway, Saturday, let's get down a taxpayer park g m HbA Stadium, Geelong twenty three nine one seven A flag Mantle Fremantle Dockers ten NaNs sixty nine. First off, Yes, the ten am theory.
I thought this was a joke and then it happened and I was like, Alex is gonna be one.
Subscribing Xavier Alice ten am theories again. So Xavier Alis, who is a Perth broadcaster, played for Hawthorne and the West Coast Eagles. When this game starts at one twenty Australian Eastern time, it's still ten am in wa.
So Davier Alis are still the only people that believe in this?
Are I believe it. I was talking to one of his co hosts ons yesterday. He's a believer. He's like the rest of the game, don't know at first quarter? Yes, so five goals to one at quarter time. So when you think about it, you fly over the day before, you're still three hours behind. You wake up at probably seven am, so technically four am, so you just gonna take three hours off everything. You get to the ground at ten thirty, seven thirty. It's like oz kickouts, so your body still hasn't caught up to everything.
They look like it.
I was eating breakfast at It's just it is a lot of different things because when you think about it, we're watching Gold Coast and West Coast right now. Why aren't this Why isn't this game starting at like eight pm Australian Eastern times so five pm Local times?
No, we'll watch it, like, yes they will.
We'd be watching this quarter, yeah, because that's what I mean, Like, so the Perth doesn't get catered to the yeas from Perth. This is my thing on it.
Do you think it should have been in four thirty five games?
Probably? Yeah. I could have put it as a late game. I could have played Western Bulldogs in North Melbournet one ten. No one would have cared.
The only thing I would say to this is that like they do their main training.
In the morning.
He That's what I was thinking, Like they're probably like anyway, yeah, like they finished it.
But then so if they're doing their training at ten am, that's still seven am.
Yeah. Yeah, let's go on the game, I reckon because we're gonna to it.
Yeah's actually get into that guy. Humble pie, humble Pie, Bailey Smith. I'm actually really happy for him, I said, he's not yet.
No, I actually like him. I do.
No, I mean that's a change of two.
No, it is, it is.
But this season I've liked him. He hasn't been as much of a I don't know what not party boy. I don't know what I was trying to say, but his.
Headband looked awesome. He looked awesome.
Thirty two disposals, a goal, seven hundred meters gained. He was doing a bit of everything. He was the best on ground by my I just loved watching him play. One hundred and forty seven super coach points.
Just awesome.
I mate Tim Tim Michelle from upstairs saw the strapping on his knee and traded him out before that, and.
He brought in of Frasier, which isn't too bad, I think, but yeah, you got to have Bailey Smith in the super coach. He was absolutely awesome. I saw Alex Rodannie. Your Cats have thirteen different goal scorers in this game as well. The depth is just so good at the Cats, Like there's a lot of players, a lot of people go to tell everything. Like even like Zach Gustri for example, who dominated last year, people wouldn't realize how good he is or Grimes is.
I think he's he's a beast mate, He's going to be awesome.
I literally noticed Grimes, nah, he was good to One of those things was getting bought by Murphy reed, So let's.
Talk about Murphy four goals in seven minutes to give free O a sniff because of that at the time at half points, at halftime it was twelve four to three four, but by three quarter time they've got it back to thirteen six to nine nine. So eighty four sixty three at three quarter time, Oh, are we on for another big turnar around here?
It was the big scoring and the other end there, yeah, and then went that's cute and just whacked on ten goals in the last I think who was playing there was something I had a few Geelong mates say that whoever was playing on him is a joke.
And shouldn't be in the team. I can't remember. Was it Ocean Mullen, Yes, yes, why the hell? Yeah?
So all the lots of Gelong fans were really unhappy that a first game is kicking four goals on him, but it was a minus nine.
Super coach before his first got Yeah.
Really so Justin long Muller in after the Indigenous All Stars game said oh, we played a pretty vanilla game just so we didn't let everyone know what we're going to do. He did the same, So what are you trying to let us know? Is it that you are? Let me get this right. We weren't tough enough and that was unacceptable. So it was that what we were trying to get across. Anyway, they won the centate clearance is eighteen to fourteen, with Brayshaw, Serrongo, Driscoll having plenty of the footy. But they did to nothing and the fan base is Geelong. We're good.
Yeah, they're up and about Geelong fans because because obviously they have a few changes. You've got Bailey Smith ups. They needed an extra mid and they found him.
Danger was very good as well. I didn't mention that was very good. And Freo fans are like.
They'll get a few players back Shawn Darcy, Hi Bolton and someone and Hayden Young really good inns. But they looked they give that up.
Long meals gone, yeah, because let's remember he let's remember he's only an employee. Now he's not contracted.
He's oh, yeah, that weird contract.
I didn't want to get whatever that is anyway. SCG Saturday Twilight Grand Final rematch, Sydney Swan's twelve ten eighty two defeated by the Brisbane Lines twelve fourteen eighty six. I literally wrote before the game, Swans loose to Brisbane. Again. I saw it coming, but you pre game.
It's your fault.
Then four goals.
Yeah, But I wrote this like an hour before the game, when I was writing some Geelong notes. So the big news out of this was Chucky Cameron was a laid out pre game. His calf was a little bit tight. Friday. They gave him till an hour before the game. He's like, not good. They pulled him out. And then Kyle Lowman. I've literally just seen a video of Kyle Loman in the moon boot in a wheelchair at the end, Oh, he could be out for a while.
It was weird.
He got tackled by Maddi Roberts and he just saw, Oh, he's done.
I didn't. That's sad because I love watching Kyloe.
And just if you guys didn't watch all this, don't let anyone fool you saying this was an epically great game.
No, I don't think it was.
This was not one for the highlight reel.
No.
I agree that was terrible. It was really scrappy.
This happened at the start of the year because obviously these are two really good teams. But it does happen because Brisbane, you're going they could be flake favorite, they could be winning the play. Again, it happens at the start of the year where there's gonna be a lot of scrappy games. People are just still burning into it. A lot of cramp a lot of pickle juice, like you said, a lot of pickle juice. But there was still some decent highlights. But I agree it wasn't the best game, even though it was with four points.
Yeah, the Swan's lost this one more than Brisbane won it. There was just a lot of just calamatous mistakes by this one's with the footy that led directly to Brisbane engulging game with Maddie Roberts. Roberts is just beautiful past to Josh Dunkley.
He laced up Josh Duncan was warrant to last week.
Two weeks in the same pocket. Great to see. And then you had Nick Blakey dropper, Zach Bailey kicks a goal and then there was another two or three that led directly to Brisbane lines goal. Zach Bailey got a sniff kick four goal. I think it was we were talking about.
Zach Bailey on the Thursday night show. I think all saying it needs to step up. He's always like just that guy that's solid. But but this is the thing we're talking about him.
He'll do this, but he won't get a kicked in the next three weeks.
Yeah, he either has four or no. He kicks usually kicks one. But he needs to have that posession, more positions.
Josh Dunkley deserves five of the six Brownlow votes.
It was so good.
The other vote should go to James Jordan kept locking Neild to ten touches, locking Neil didn't touch the footy in quarters two and three. That is I've never seen a better tag job in the last five years. Now he was injured, doesn't count because.
It's pretty good. But no, I agree that was one of the best tag jobs ever.
And this is a two time Brownlow medal. It's not like a flashing.
We've got a future three time Brownlow medalist.
Yeah, but the Swans forwards did too little, like it's just the tall forward thing. Yeah, but I got a message from someone, so this is I need to I needed reminded me of this. He kicked one goal. Mccartner is working. It was his highest Champion data game in six years and he kept Harris Andrews to the bottom four in the Brisbane Lines Champion data rating wise.
Okay, that's not that's not horrible.
But it's not. No, it's not fixing the skin.
Need him get to the problem was Jola Mardy missed two sitters that he should kick. Kick one of those. We win. Warner and he Andy had almost games. I thought that Zorko stood up when it mattered the most.
It was good as well. He got a lot of the ball. Yeah, he's playing that kitty Coleman roll. Well again, he's.
Actually really good pacifically. I was talking him up now President Sean. I still wasn't sure.
He's getting a bit older, but he's still really good.
Yeah. Riley Bias when he came off as the sub Fried Bias as Oil called him. He's playing next week against friends.
He was really good.
Just lock him in, he's playing. He's Jordan Dawson two point zero. Dawson was playing for this one. That's a good call.
Yeah, he's going to get traded to Adelaide. No. Yeah.
He played at Williamstown last year. I thought where I thought Corey Warner was quite good. He kicked three goals and Braden Campbell his intensity and effort has gone.
Up, little speedy demon is.
His intensity and effort has gone up tenfold, Like he will be playing every week.
With that kind of I liked him.
He just had a bit of I've always liked I really like him because he can hit a target, you can get you yeah.
Into inside fifty and stuff. I really like to ask him out.
Yeah, and both both both Ashcrofts were pretty good as well. McCluggage didn't really do much, to be honest, like he had twenty. But he's just you honestly didn't notice him except for there was one clearance.
He got another thing on this game. My best bet got up two weeks in a row. I'm going Chad Warner two plus every single week. Yes, just get on it.
So fan bases, logical Swans fans me are just like, yeah, we probably should have won. We didn't, but we know we had a tough start the year. No Errold, no Mills, no Logan, no McLean, no cunning Ham.
Excuse me, you're never going to be when will see the ever beat Brisbane again?
Maybe never we did two years ago.
I'm saying from now, from the Grand Final, there's just scars for at least I did.
I did enjoy Dwayne Russell going. This is the first time these two teams have met since the Grand Final last year. It's round one.
Yeah.
Oh yeah, wait, no, he wasn't.
Dwayne had a weird game.
He had a one weird game.
Lions fans like, take the dub all the injuries, that's great, let's move on.
Yeah, they just just get the win exactly Saturday.
Now, let's go to the MCG First of all, Yeah, we'll go to the mcg Is this score right that doesn't know it's forty five? Is six ninety five? Port Adelaide defeated by Calling with twenty one ten thirty six. My takeaway from this weekend, and it's the biggest takeaway I've got is Porter not good?
Yep, next game.
We got to We've got to give this game.
It's due someone that throwback game. Just in terms of the stats, go back side bottom.
He's an old man.
He's thirty one.
Disposers and a goal.
He had six tackles, three clearances.
Three miles.
He did a bit of everything.
Who's letting him do that?
I know the fact that he's doing that.
He's older and a few people are saying some of the older players twenty eight.
Both get the older guys out there. Yeah, but Pendals is the sup.
Maybe that's why no one wanted to watch his game is a bunch of old dudes.
Pendaal's going to get Boomer Harvey to some game record.
Yeah was good and he's lactually kicked twenty like eight I think the twenty nine goals. Yeah, he was pretty good. Pendaal's he wasn't great last week. His legs look, I had a big argument with my brother. He goes Bendals should.
Never ever be the sub.
Was with that, Rubbie.
Agreed, if you're one of the worst players, you're the sub.
Luck like, I think he's not going to get dropped because he can still bring some class and things like that.
He's definitely not their worst player.
He's the mind doing it to protect his legs after playing his thirty six degree heat six days before.
He might even have like two or three weeks play one week's got a buyer coming up as well, So yeah, just arrest of oh Man.
Yeah, they'll manage his legs. Remember Tim membery I do now remember he's back, Like I had question marks on their forward line and then memory for my check three mixed a three, Bob Hill three, Elliott Bob Hill two. Yeah, not counting that poor must have been games gone. But that also shows like the defense. We said before the start of the season that we're worried about Port's defense.
Like a lot of injuries.
Their back line was Finn Layson, Lockie Jones, Logan Evans Bergman and Kane Fowrel. That is really smaller like that is you're not going into that with fear, no, no matter who you are. But your ford line should be able to beat them.
I don't know about that one.
I don't think we'll get into the north fall.
But it's like Connor Rose has thirty five. He's trying his guts out all night, but it just makes no effort. Like Port were insipid.
Yep, they were the ninety one all right.
A lot of people thought Collin would have bounced back and go all right, they're a good team, They've got the depth and these all these new players. No way should they win that by ninety one? Like Port have a lot of injuries, but their team isn't isn't that bad?
I don't know. Maybe they need to get.
Rid of a lot of injuries.
More butters and not Butters is the main one.
Thatcher, Yeah, someone would help.
He would have helped last night.
If Thatcher was playing, it would have been one hundred.
But it's more importantly their ford line. So Georgia already seven touches nothing power Pepper eight touches, don't give me. Jackloch is eleven and a goal, Willy really twelve and a goal. The problem is when these Port forwards play bad, they're shocking.
Is the succession plan going to come into effects plan.
Yeah, Josh needs a new job. Yeah, I think I think he does. Can go on, like if they can, it's only one week.
But you know what someone should do.
They should coach Josh Carr before he gets the or to go, Josh Carr, you're coming and you're coming.
I agree.
I've said end of financial year for Port by the way, Ken, yeah, Ken, so that's July fet I've got him till fan base is Collingwood. Yeah, cool, Like how good is that so much? For all everyone saying we were stuffed, we were gone with.
I think yeah, I thought they we always going to bounce back. Their their depth is really good. They'll start rolling from now. They didn't even need de Coos to like dominate. Yeah, that just shows how good the team performance, team performance and whoever who they have next Dogs Friday Night win.
The Dogs probably are so.
Yeah, next week would be probably a better guide as to how we're going. And Porter like, oh oh no.
Yeah, they relied too much on Rose like we said last couple of years on Rosie Barta's horn.
Francis didn't mention Dan Houston. Awesome.
Yeah, yeah, revenge, revenge back against these teams.
Yeah, it wasn't revenge. All right, let's get to it. The sweat Box aka Marvels put on the Western Bulldogs seventeen eleven, one thirteen defeated the North Melbourne almost winners fourteen thirteen and ninety seven. It was thirty five degrees in Melbourne yesterday and Marvel Stadium closed the roof.
It was about forty eight degrees Vel Stadium. Jesus walking up to your seat. I was on level three, so I walked up the ramp and yeah, yeah, I was with the clubs on level three.
Where were you level one?
Mate?
Were you in what is it? Twenty nine?
With the all the Cherry helmets? A lot of people were in the helmets for Cherry and Caleb Daniel. Now this was actually far for the players. They're going to be feeling it. I reckon whoever the Dogs and North playing next week, they could both get smashed because that was like playing in like Darwin that that stadium. Yeah, that's gonna be pretty crazy play the DS at Marvel.
Yeah, this I think was sorry, before you start this game, you want to talk about it.
Put some positive music behind this, because that's guys gone. How they were we were good, guys, I did so we were better.
You said that before the show.
You were better, But yeah, we weren't better. I agree.
We should have still won because they had a lot of crap players in uh the defensive tactics from North or Clarko, whoever, whoever's running our defense. We're not good enough to run back and play a press. We need all be back. Look McDonald running back where it.
Looks as slow as much heel spur in my foot eight and.
Care wasn't horrible, but he is too slow. Common was horrible, the worst on ground for me.
But do you actually think Commons are forward? I don't really.
I think he is. But now that you've got Darling like you can't really put in.
Was good?
Yeah, Actually, as I said, he freed up to kick.
One for Can I say one one positive for the server? Kicking five goals at least he can win the is good. He's so had eight touches and.
Played for a good team. Kick eighty a season.
That's a Hawthorne that don't take exactly what we need.
And then I thought Simpkin was really good. Was good, and Fino Sullivan he looked really enough about get to the Western Bulldogs and the Dogs obviously one the winning one, Richard Dog. Richards has really got thirty disposals, seven clearances and a goal.
Vandermere turned into prime Cody Wightman.
He has these games annoying there against the bottom four, but he was really good.
Three goals and he had even a couple of chances he set up. North led the clearances. But just obviously what Leo always talked about with North not defensive minded enough. Dogs were clearly the inside fifties as well. They just finished stronger. Sanders was really good in the second half. He finished with a.
Couple of goals. Uh, they were just much better, was good.
Yeah, Yeah, And the ability for dogs to break your tackles. You couldn't hold the tackle.
My arms.
Also, North can't defend a kicking. If you ever know, they just walked to the wing. There's no one touches them. There was one time there was a blood rule in your forward half. They had the ball and we didn't. You have time to set up and they just go coast to coast.
We play like a zone, so we got like a zone thing going.
Just maybe because you're not good, you should go Mando man I think, but then we're also not fast enough to go mander Man to keep up with our buddy of punk.
Remember in prime Hawthorne days we had Clarko's cluster.
We have Clarko's cluster. F word.
Yeah, yes, that was good in his brain, I always kicked a girl well done.
Oh take that just rubs into.
Well. Actually, speaking of Matt Kennedy, he was great as well. The Calben fans are just sitting there watching gun could use that.
Yeah.
Speaking of Dogs fans, they were like, whoa, that's a decent pick up because he looked really good.
Strong.
Yeah, but Dogs they just had that lead the whole game. I think they're up by thirty the start, North had a bit of a comeback.
I was like, oh, you're a chance. And then then two things happened in the last guy.
And as usual, a lot of their goals came from our turnovers, which needs to be sort of.
Yeah, yet another year when North Melbourne aren't great.
Yeah, how are you feeling, mate?
You're happy? No, I promise. I wasn't happy. I was on edge all of that day night. It's against my other family's team, the Dogs. I wasn't happy.
So not happy there is signs there that a lot of the younger guys were really good.
I said this for three years. I said this every year.
I'm not happy and dogs fans, yeah, your family, they were very happy because they.
Had half their team out. A lot of the young guys.
Stepped up like English was terrible.
Frazier looked unbelievable. So that's a big tick for the dog out. Oh I'm on I said that in the last year.
Yeah, get him. He said that I should have no coach.
All right, let's take a short break. The stats guy I can compose himself because nine game is going to be appy.
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All right, welcome back. Let's wrap up Sunday's action here and around one on AFL today. First game today was it the Adelaide Oval Adelaide twenty one nine one thirty five defeated Sint Kilda ten twelve seventy two. Now I said Port Adelaide are not good. Sint Kilda are in the same boat.
I loved Alex's notes on these two games. Pilate not good. Thankkilda.
I'm not good, possibly worse, And.
That's all the analysis you need to know about Kilda.
Awake.
Kit looks good. Oh I love that kid.
The hot cross bun, I tell you're gods hot cross bun, I like it. I stole that off Corbyn middle Mass on the call he said it was. I was like, yes, mate, hot cross bunket.
Yeah. Actually really that.
Someone who wasn't eating a carb today.
Yeah, I got hot cross bun, Hot cross bund normal, normal, okay.
With a bit of butter in the toaster.
H ADAMAI looked good.
Yeah, oh, I don't know.
It looked silky, but I don't know if it was because Saints couldn't really defend him on the camera. But but Adelaide looked really good. Their ball moving their pace, therefore everyone in their fold. I was kicking a bag Ducy Fogger. He had four ranking at two.
Yeah, but you just see you just see thriller, thriller and fog Et. Text is our four line now exactly.
They even rested text towards the end of the game.
Something, didn't they Yeah, Yeah, they might have, which I thought was very smart because he's an older guy anyway, so give him a rest.
The debutants were very good for Adelaide.
You've got Alex Neilborn, James Peeling and Isaac Cumming, all great babies for Adelaide. They all kicked a goal, coming had two, and they all had I think sixteen past disposed.
Did Draper looked okay when he got on as well?
Yes, well yeah, because he was the sub was they were giving him a cheer every time he touched at the Adelaide.
Yea because Adelaide fans like, oh my god, Matthew, just play him, seriously, just play him.
But this is a classic.
Had to look a few games like this last year where they looked awesome, like where their forward line all clicks. But I was against Saint Kiltos. I'm not getting my hopes.
No, yeah, I said they're going to make finals.
Top four.
No, don't, sorry, Gerald, No, I think I had him seventh, Yeah, okay, six or seventh. Someone hit me out.
But it just it worked like Rankin Dawson.
It worked. Celego did a bit. Spencer's favorite player, Rory Laird was everywhere Jordans. I love Jordan Dawson. I know he left the sack and people hate him. I love Jordan. I just like watching him play.
For he was really bad last year, couldn't find any rhythm at all, but.
Throwing him around.
He's easy on the eye, isn't.
He not in terms of looks, but how he plays, sitting, how he pays I agree, I agree.
Yeah, But then all their means, yeah, they'd ended up with I think. Yeah, I forgot about that one A big.
I can't believe Marcus tips Saint Kilda for finals.
Oh yeah, I forgot your tip sat Kilda.
Yeah, that is a joke that it was Marcus, you know it was market I think that you're so strong on your calls that Saints are going to make finals, but you don't really.
Believe it anymore.
No, I don't believe it now, Okay, good, I believe that when I woke up this morning and as the quarter ended.
Eighteen minutes and none, how are you feeling?
I checked the score a bit later, but yeah, it was.
Just I enjoy how adelaidea just like, oh, yeah, we're going to be good because stats guys office this year.
Yeah, it's one game. Flag, it's game. This is a classic.
We don't do over reaction to HeLa winning the flag.
Sam Lawler could win the Brown Low.
No, we couldn't.
It's over reaction.
Oh my god. This is yeah, which we talked something about Saints.
Jack was good. Every everyone even super coaches like, yes, mate.
Thirty four.
That's his biggest dispesal can a long time because everyone that's leaving the Dogs, they're like, just feel like new life.
Yeah, it happened. Miller was fantastic as well without.
Him and got smad and he might be playing for this.
Yeah.
I was beat you to it there. Yeah, Adelaide have thrown some serious coins and.
Essay, boy oh that he would fit into.
Oh yeah, Brad, Brad Hill, what's doing mate? You had disposals?
You need to talk to Marcus about that one. He's mates with Brad Hill.
Okay, yeah, Brad, he'll ask him for us.
Rowan Marshall just did did nothing like he's injured. I know he's injured, but you know, why are you playing him? He's had nine hit out, Ryley O Bryan had forty seven hit out, Harry Boyd. Everyone's ninety nine thousand dollars super coaching with twenty seven hit outs.
That's good.
Yeah, and many supercoa I have to read in this West Coast game.
Okay, super coach as we are currently loading sixty three.
Oh you'll take that.
Yeah, it was ninety nine k with an eighteen point very good.
Actually yeah, very good.
Fan bases. Crows fans like yes, thank god.
Yeah, they need to don't like Knicks for making draper sub Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, they're like, yes, mate, God damn it, Matthew Nicks, I swear to God.
Yeah, because drap bractor did look good. And then Saints fans are like, not again.
I think they.
Feel like we get a lad across from Mark and Tom from the office and just get their thoughts.
They knew this was coming, as I'm sorry, I've just looked have literally just kicked another goal. But they knew this was coming when all the injuries they had in the off season as well with they've had a really inter house rolland Marshall's not fit. There's a couple of others who have just my mind slips right now. So yeah, they're just like, I guess it's.
Twenty twenty six for us, maybe twenty twenty eight.
That's Tazzy, mate.
Maybe maybe they'll out Saints and North merged to make Tazzy.
No he is its own club. North and Saints merged to become.
Why both your team's good?
This is just a noise made my team zero and two?
Mate? Can we start merging Tazzy have their own team. We had a lot of support North, but that's what I mean.
Because there's nineteen teams, it's uneven. Let's just merge Securia in North Melbourne.
I don't mind that.
I'm on board with this. The North Melbourne Saints or the or do we call it? Or do we call them the North Morabin Kangaroo.
If North merge up, we will start watching footy.
You won't.
I'm tempted.
You literally get paid to watch for back, I'll quit my job nor North.
Adam, you heard him. Let's get to the MCG where it was raining cats and dogs. It was everywhere. It was wild as Melbourne eleven eight to seventy four for the third consecutive game get done by GWS by less than a goal eleven eleven seventy seven. There was a two point win at Trager Park and was three points again late last year. This was crazy because the D's kicked the goal twelve seconds into the game.
Yeah, Jefferson first first goal, and.
Then and then after halftime twelfth after halftime, twelve seconds in the D's kicking another goal. They had four center bounced goals. It was great, So what's awesome? It was just like at first happens that, oh, are they back? Are they back? Stephen May was laid out with a broken larynx or something.
Corn hand in the preseason a.
Larynx, yeah, probably was probably caught like an Aaron elbow and a content a night out o that too. This this game was actually like really great. Yeah, like not the highest equality obviously the weather impacted on that, but the intensity that everyone was, everyone was cracking in. You cannot say that no one had had an amazing like sort of held back within this game.
It was like one of those games were still high quality. Even though it rained a lot as well. I was in Melbourne, there was no one there though that was twenty the.
Rain didn't have one.
I think it was really bad scheduling from AFL to have it start at the exact same time as the F one, which is around the corner, and all the rich Melbourne fans right at the F one. Well, I don't know, that's just the same. They have the same sort of fan bases. I reckon a little bit in the boxes and things like that. That's That's what I'm going for. Not on the GA obviously, but nobody what you're I'm saying, all the mcc all the mcc fans are probably in the F one boxes and.
Things like that. I don't know. I think it was very poor scheduling.
As all.
I'm trying to say, we had this last year Port had played Richmond at the same time last year?
Could they play? Could they play that like the Melbourne game earlier? And I don't know.
I feel like you would be on board with my scheduling here, like you have the interstate game, Like do.
You want to watch Adelaide and sin Kilda at prime time?
It's too well?
I love saying that's good.
That's a good place.
Which killed her in primetime? Is my twenty twenty five New Year's resolution?
Fair enough?
Tom Green like he would field Finn Callahan absolutely everywhere, Like Finn Callahan just proving offered him seventeen million dollars. Tom Green first up from a busted calf thirty five touches, just everywhere, nine clearances, fourteen kicks, twenty one handballs. We'd field as always off half back like even in the wet conditions. He was great. The TRCA was phenomenal firstime.
But trukers. He almost died last year.
Just forget that he got he was classified medically that he got hit by truck.
He got hit by truck and almost died and he's got You get thirty odds.
It's very mean of Ben running to do that.
Twenty seven and two good one later.
Ninety people will get that.
I reckon that was good.
In a shock to know. On Max Gorn dominated he had forty six hitting.
He didn't when it mattered though, because.
Lucky Keith kicked the winner.
Lucky clutch Man Keith and you go gone just trailing off.
Got to be on him gone. I'm looking for the loose something. I'm contested.
Mark Gorne also missed a shot late in the game too.
And it was Aiden Johnson on debut, mister shot with two.
Minutes, but that was a clutch finished. He's only kicked twenty goals.
In his career, Keith nineteen before that. Yeah, that's twenty all right, I.
Meant that it doesn't matter really we need actually it's one more goal.
But he was.
That was a great finish. Gorney taed him up all day, but he got it.
I was about to say, you got to make your moments count, and he did. I thought Harry Himmelberg was all right with his marking. But we need to talk about Toby Green. He was cool last quarter. Eleven disposals, stood up when it matters. Twenty three disposals, three goals, so he probably should have kicked five goals.
To be He missed a couple of not easy ones, but he should have had a few more. Caneli had three goals as well. That that's that perfect step up because obviously Canelia was more of a midfielder.
Like we're gonna remember this, Yeah, like Jake Stringer.
A couple of and.
Cadman popped up with two. I'm big on Aaron Cadman. Jacob van Ruin. Ye, there's a player. There was absolutely a player.
He's good.
Yeah, big on him. And the debutantes for the D's were good.
Lindsay, yeah, he's a bad Henderson was pretty solid.
And Harvey Langford got subbed for all us super coaches play the kid fan bases DS like we played No that was I thought was less than DS fans are like, they're okay, they're annoyed they lost, but it's good for good pressure. The pressure they bought their debutantes like that a lot.
Better than last year. The way they played for four quarters. These mens would be like, all right, we can have pushed towards the finals. We thought they were nowhere near the finals, but they probably can defensively midfield final.
It's just going to be whether they can kick.
It seventy fours one and GWS just.
They're just here two and they're going to win the flag.
It's great.
Down, let's get off the stadium. There's still a couple of minutes left to go in this game. Can't life score as Gold Coast kick yet another goal? Is Gold Coast a lot? West Coast not many?
Because for some reason the score is not coming.
Yeah, the one time the score West Coast. Gold Coast are currently leading by eighty points. There's about eight minutes to go.
There's no I don't know if we can talk about this game until we don't know who the winner.
They could come back, so we watched all the first half on this before we started this show, and a bit of and a bit of the third quarter. Gold Coast look good, legitimately look good. Their midfield movement has been fantastic. But as Leo and I were talking about half backs, their half backs are tasty.
Aren't they.
Yeah?
The no ball and really but how is there's the intercept power. You've got Ballard and Collins as the key pillars and then Uhland is the lockdown.
It's a very balanced back.
Yeah, a lot of.
People don't talk about. Yeah, even Colins, he's one of the best full backs in the combat. Allan's really good.
Flanders too could play half back Gold Ghost.
You're about to kick another guy, by the ways. Yeah, So Ben Kings had kicked five. He's lining up for his six as we speaks four. We're going to finish up before the end of this game. Ben Longs kicked for He's been everywhere, but no kick. Anytime I've looked up nor Anderson or Matt Raw've had the footy in their hands, They've had thirty six and thirty. As we're going through this right now, it's been it has been an obliteration from Gold Coast and this is something that they actually needed to come out and prove to the competition that they could do. Because even this week people are West Coast, you're chances king kickxy sixth.
They're probably going to win this by one hundred. To be honest, they actually could.
I guess the inside fifty count eighty two to seventeen, sixty four to twenty nine, not even that far off. Sixty four to twenty nine. It was thirty seven or forty at halftime.
So the most important thing for the Suns though they're winning away from home, that's a great they're only winning Queensland above the twenty eighth paralub up.
There in the north.
The fact that they're winning because last year they lost this fixture they went over to West Coast, lost by ten pain hundred the year before though, Yeah, but last year there were two or nine away from home. Getting a win on the road, Dimmer and all all the boys up there will be like we can actually build something because they'll get a bit of confidence. They lost so much confidence until they beat Essendon. There was so much confidence on the road.
So they'll be happy with this.
I reckon, we'll know by round eight whether they make finals.
They could be six and no. We did talk about this five.
Like if they sort of get another one or two wins away by round.
Eight, well they've got the D's away. That'll be the away North away. That's a gather around, but still like it's an away trip.
If they can just sneak these then yeah, we'll know by round eight.
Yeah.
I'm big on Ethan Reid. We've been watching him like he's been a presence. He's only take in the three marks, but he's hitting contests hard. He he looks at player they.
Called him the unicorn in draft years and runs like a midfielder.
Which he's had sixty four hit outs by the way.
Sixty Oh, I love witty, but that just means Ned Moyle is not going to play.
This is a Ned Moyle fan.
He needs a rock. Can we get Ned Moyle a trade somewhere swamps in a backup rock?
No, he's already been back up. We need we need prime time. Nank's getting old next year.
We can get no more to the Times Essendon. I don't need, no, I don't want Ned Moyle at Essen.
Brian was not too bad.
Y did he talk someone from West Coast.
I'm looking at the stats and then I saw the commentators before we're.
Talking about about your favorite player, actually.
Start and fights. Go and do something, Harley, just go and get the He's actually be all right.
He hasn't He's had like eight disposal Look at the.
Stats, mates, go down all the way down there going more.
He's kicked the goal now he actually he did one amazing player off of Cene clear where he took a bounce, stepped inside someone and launched from fifty five and it just faded away. Like he's going to have those moments throughout the year where he shows that he is an absolute player. All I know is right now Chad Warner sitting at home going, oh, I don't know.
Yeah, West Coast.
I want to go, Chad.
Woar.
This has been This has been a great weekend for Sydney Swans fans and Chad Warner because it's like we're offering your one point four a year to stay in Sydney. Do you want to go to this?
Yeah?
Truly sign the contract.
Chat fan base is gold the one Gold Coast fan that we have in our comments. He is like, yes, mates, we are going to win the flag.
They look really good.
But I see it is against West Coast, but it's a very good start because it's never easy traveling over to the world.
Well, it's also that this is a team that could not win away last year, and that's I think that's the biggest thing. It's the big tick that they could do it and it's a thumping, so this is a big concern there. So next week Gold Coast have the buyer, so this is great for them to get a thumping on. Yeah, thumping win week off and then they played Melbourne at the mc durn the twenty ninth of March. It's been annoying that you played one game, yeah, but it means you can go like you can go absolutely balls to.
The wall and she percent don't even need to do they.
Get every chance of doing it. West Coast just like.
Oh well, they actually improved a lot last year because what they have five they got six in the end.
Anyway, they got a lot more than the year before and now they've gone they shouldn't lose by this much to work.
It's home, our.
Home, no way. It was away really competitive at home most most time games last year, so not good enough.
They got blown out once or twice. But yeah, it wasn't.
It wasn't Sons at home last year.
Yeah, yeah, all right, let's get to the tipping results. So Leo's written in that he's got seven but hasn't done the rest of us. I've got one, two, three, four, five six. I'm claiming the Gold Coast one is a tick.
I got six. Yeah, I got seven and a tip Saint Kilda.
I tipped North and North and I tipped North.
I got I thought I had a bad week.
Five six, Well, I'm happy with six. I'll take it.
Sipping Northern Port. That's I don't know what says the guy that tips and killed.
Yeah, that's the worst than important.
The freeo tip is probably the worst one. Thank you kill her and killed her a gold coz had just kicked another girl? Dan really I think that's his first or spearfishingly Humphrey. Anyway, your big core results. That's guy had the worst call of this season. And it's round one. What did you say, stats man?
I wrote this very rough that all games Friday onwards were below the twenty point margin.
There's been about force match in this round. I thought the first round, how.
Many games weren't I think it was two.
Let's have a look at this one was not even the night was twenty six.
Yeah, then we've got what's seventy eight or whatever that is.
We've got four one, sixteen two, ninety one, seventy two or sixty two three and.
Then no three points.
This one's not done yet, six minutes less ninety something points.
Anyway, I heard this from a lot of people. Cherry in English combined.
English.
That was the one thing I met some dogs fans over the over the game English looked horrible, like he couldn't get near. Cherry's a very good rock English. Two years ago, you'd say it would be on par with the.
Alto remember last year when I was reliable, he hadn't won a one on one here contest all year.
He just got and he gets bumped off the boys a big man.
I can't believe.
This is just such a stupid big call by me. Right, Why would I pick the two biggest.
Players in thirty five degree? He needs to do well, thought so dumb. I need to fix up.
Marcus Watson in Guinea combined for eight plus gals. He also said he changed it.
He said cocko and then ten.
Yeah, he got close.
I'll give him what they getting in three seven or two and one.
Three two and two, Yeah, and you got one one. So I'm giving Marcus a half tick there full credit. Best team of the round stats.
Boy, I know that were insipid, chance what cold, I'm giving them their wraps, but I'm never doing that chant. Collingwood were the best team in the round for me. I think they were unbelievable. Everyone's saying that they weren't going to be that good. Ninety one point winners after losing by fifty two points the week before. It is a great comeback and then it just gets the belief in the side and I think they'll roll from here. So and they did it without Dedaycos dominating, which usually they need to do.
Well.
I'm going to say Geelong because you changed yours. They were very very good against Frio. Just didn't put a foot wrong. But I just would even shout out to Richmond. Should have said Richmond, Richmond, just well done, because everyone said you're not going to win a game, and then the top eight.
Actually, I'm changing mine Collingwood to Richmond.
You can't do that.
I thought you were doing Richmond anyway.
But well, alex change changed, but Richmond deserved They somehow beat Carson and no one gave him a chance.
So my answers Geelong, but chant out Richmond.
Okay, I had Geelong, but I changed the Gold Coast because I didn't think they'd win by ninety points.
Right, take you're back.
They're gigging.
Sorry, they're only going to win by eighty. Best on ground of the week. Shout out to King because he's kicked six. He probably deserves a shout out because he's been playing on Jeremy McGovern. That's it.
That's a good actor.
Yeah, I'll go Toby Green twenty three and three with eleven disposals in the last quarter. That is the epitome of putting a team on your back and getting it done. Yeah, obviously had help, but he was great.
Yep, I'm going to go Bailey Smith, Baslanka, I am eating my work.
Doesn't hate for you to do that.
I've changed in this season. I hate him, No, I actually don't. I hate Jason Fans and I hate Harley Reid, but I do not hate Bailey Smith. Thirty two disposals, five tackles, seven clearance, has kicked a goal.
He was absolutely everywhere for the Cats.
The headband that some powers in the headband, and I think it comes down to how hard this man trains. Everyone of the Cats said he was the best in preseason by an absolute mile. He hasn't played in a couple of years or the season a bit.
Yeah.
The fact that he had a season off and he just comes back first, came back dominates. Yeah, he had had a delayed preseason as well, so good on him.
Yeah, not bad.
Shout out for Dunkley and Caldwell. Yeah, but rankin Yeah, to Dawson was also very good. But Rankings is that actually be a sparkle in the midfield? He stepped up that man until he gets injured.
And my defensive water week this week goes to Jordan from this once.
A defensive midfield.
Yeah. Like if someone does like if someone keeps will Day to ten touches next week, should we have a Tagger of the week tagger or the clamps the clamp clamper of no, absolutely not anything. Super coach will figure this out, will workshop this super coach watch Bailey Smith one four seven, Tom Deconing one four eight, Perryman what was that? Mate?
Sixty two points? But that's what you're gonna get someone.
I think, and Harvey Lang had been the sub just killed me.
Yep, I could be getting out the fifty k and super con you win the Nerd Award.
We also doesn't really realize given that you work for news, you can't win.
I was joking, what if I just put my name changed my name way? I think.
I think Callahan really good. Pick up will Day was a bit disappointing. Seventy seven seventy seven that.
Said the fade, Yeah you swapped for I swapped for Callahan.
And then who else scored?
He was great, but I think that was also because Jedo Biss had no ruck McCrae being so cheap, everyone's got him.
He was awesome all of up nine. That's pretty solid whits.
He's one hundred and forty three.
Even Maddy Flynn with the flex even though they're down by almost one hundred points, he's on seventy four.
I'm just going to there's two and a half minutes ago on this goalcast game. I'm just going to read this out. We's he won four three, Matt Rowe won three seven, Narry Anderson won three five two one twenty seven Ben King one fourteen, Babe Bailey, Humphrey won I one, Ethan Reid ninety nine, Ben Long ninety five, only eighty nine, Jeffrey eighty three, Rogers seventy four, well A seventy three, Graham seventy, the Weapon, John Noble on seventy.
Going to everything.
No, I was just going on every decent score. Yeah, so they had what most of their team above seventy.
Which is which is read fine, with a bunch of the sixties as well, Like this has been ridiculous.
Is anyone over these? Yeah?
Liam Baker and Graham X Richman both one O one, both of Richmond. Yes, and McGovern's on eighty six by the way, But anyway, that'll do us today for AFL Today. If you enjoy today's episode, make sure you subscribe to AFL Today on YouTube, follow us along on x, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok for more footy content all season long. It is AFL Today au but Ozzie Rules Today on Facebook, and make sure you subscribe and start all of our shows on your podcast apps. Cricket Today, What are we up to now?
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Yeah cool, when's the World Test champions in June.
June.
Yeah, we've got World Test Championship and then we go Australia US to the Western Newest.
That'd be pretty exciting.
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