AFL Round 2 Wrap - Crows monster Bombers, North stun & are Saints back? | AFL Today Show

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AFL Round 2 Wrap - Crows monster Bombers, North stun & are Saints back? | AFL Today Show, Sunday March 23.

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Tad where on you win some, you lose more. The Pride of South Australia handout our lesson at the g the Hawks continue to look in pierious and the lid is off at Marvel. Welcome to AFL today around two rap. I'm your host, Alex Donnelly. I am very distracted because it is the middle of the third quarter between the Swan's and Fremantle. Right now to my right, also to your left if you're watching on screen, it's a man. He's mellow, he's happy, his team is three and no it's Leah Malali.

Hey you doing. I don't know what imperious means, but I think it's good.

Yeah, it's good. It's good. It's good and a man. We had it begged for him on the show and on social media. On Thursday night, North Melbourne have finally won a game they dominated. They won by near on ten goals. It's the stats, go go.

Come on North. The Rubo's got it done and we got thirty minutes to talk about.

North, do we no? Also, his name is his name is Lee mccalliyan aka the stats Guy's about to have a shot. We are, of course brought to you by a tab here at AFL today and the 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? That helped me out the other night because I had one disposal missing in the Hawthorne game. I got paid out so they got nineteen disposed. Can't remember what it was, but I got paid out.

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Hadda McLain's kicked to go off. For all those playing at home, make sure you subscribe to AFL Today on YouTube, follow us on x, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok for more footy content all season long. So make sure on the YouTube you do hit that notifications bell subscribe to what we're doing so anytime we do a video, it comes up on your feed, and just get around all the social media's AFL today are you everywhere? Except for Facebook, which is Ozzie Rules Today. All right, tonight it is the Round two wrap up. As said, we'll be wrapping up pretty much every game from around to take a look at the Ladder, the Coleman Medal, and the Premiership market from a tab and of course the big cause of Super Coach wash and a bit of everything else along the way. We will try and time this so the time the Swan's game ends we can wrap that up as well, because if it's close, my heart may not handle it. I'm currently wearing the not an A graded T shirt brought to you by True Bloods because Sam McClure is a dunce. Anyway, let's get into a quick look stuts guy.

Quick look first one the man with the blue hair, the blue lobster, I would call on him. I just want to touch on that. Yes, Leo is re enacting exactly what happened. I wasn't expected that, but he punched Mason Cox in the face.

That was like, if you just saw it and you weren't.

A big fan of the game, you would think he just got up to Mason Cox and punched him. He was obviously going for the ball, and he gets off suspension. When we think about that, lads.

I think he should get a week because yes, I know he's going for the ball, but he's literally punched the guy in the head.

I should like that Archer has gotten three weeks, and we give this zero.

If Archers is three weeks, because Lob should be four weeks. Okay, so we can if we're doing a base off that yea yeah, But.

Then can we also talk about so we'll roll this into Patrick dangers elbow on Saturday Night, which he's thrown out an elbow. It's brushed the shoulder and gone up into the face and jaw.

Who do you collect burns?

Let me recreate that one this side.

That should be a week because you're throwing an elbow with someone.

I care that the shoulder, but it's a dog out one hundred percent. I think the dangerfield one. I don't mind Lob getting off, but according to the rules. Again, we say this every single season. We'll sit here last year doing the show as well. They're just so inconsistent protected species.

They're all for protecting their head when it comes to tackles and footy accidents. But Dangerville can elbow someone and Lob can miss a spoil and I don't mind just said, oh it's Rory, Lobby's not very good at spoiling.

We'll let him off.

It was definitely been uncordinate a bit there was a bit of a bit of everything cleaner punch that didn't hit a footy ever, could you can that go on?

I don't think it was intentional. I just think it was reckless and you should have got it least a week enough.

Let's have a look at Sam Draper shushing fans.

So the Essendon fans had every right they were booing at the mcg.

It wasn't booing. It was like, oh it was grown. So Sam Draper takes a mark and gets a free kick. He did it twice, so he first goal of the game. First goal of the game. I mean he got a free kick about fifty minutes out directly in front and this is just you just kick a drop punt. Yet he just like I've got a footy here. He decides to grab it like it was like stand sideways and every Melbourne Oh my god god.

And by the way, his ball drop was harresdled. He dropped it from the moon. It's the moon.

He honestly scraped in by about half a centimeter. And anyway, he then decided to shush his own fans in the most thing ever.

They just clanning their own fans in their club.

Now strange.

Man.

It was really weird. And then he did it again when he kicked his second He kicked three for the day, but he lost by sixty Shush bas Smith Leo saw him in the out last night.

Yes, he's looking good. How's update. He's not he's injured my way though.

I would.

I think you look better with shorter hair. Yeah, but that's probably an unpopular opinion.

But then he wouldn't have to wear the head band, and that's pretty.

Cool because to wear a headband little Canda McIntosh, he's bald and he's got a head band. Anyway. I didn't ask him about the calf. I didn't get a chance to. It was a bit intimidated. He had aura. Okay, I reckon.

You're tall of him.

Oh no, I don't think.

Tom Stewart's apparently done his PCL, which could be brutal.

That's the story of Tom's like he always misses like the chunks of the season, like and it costs you along a few games because a lot of people think their most important player.

Josh Tracey has just kicked one off the side of the boot or.

That you'll be happy, Yeah, very happy happy. But Tom saw that's a big out. You obviously want Jazz and Tom short Fit because they're the.

Best, exactly, and Jack Lakosis continuing to collect a lot of money for doing not much. Unfortunately, he's broken his knee.

CAUs the game.

Yeah, he went back out for a couple of means is like, no, this is this is cooked. So yeah, that's very unfortunate. So really sucks because I'm a fan of jacklications all the talent in the world, but just nothing seems to go his way. And who's that that's taking him up? I have no idea handey, God bless him the little kid. All right, is there anything else that's coming out of today's early games? So we had we had a lot of sweating and cramping up in Brisbane. Earlier, Jason Akamanus made a dumb comment, we'll probably talk about.

Reid flip off the crowd, Harley.

Read flipped off the crowd? What do we think he.

Needs to just cat? I know I always give a bit.

He was copping abuse all day for just existing, but like.

That rules him out of going into Brisbane.

Yeah, I don't think he got a free kick. And then everyone's abusing him, so he decided to flip everyone off. That's why it's the crime. He's talking, going to apologist to everyone watching out there. I'm actually going to try my best to stay professional. But yeah, so he got a free kick. It was a downfield in a fifty and some blokes over the fence, leaning over like abusing him with it. I look like a set of tissues.

Yes, I read that.

So my lovely fiance Steph was watching, not really paying attention because she doesn't care, and she's like the fans that are the most feral ones are the ones who look least likely to pay play footy.

That is a vesta. Let's go that's why Gerald, he's actually the feralst.

Like I reckon Joe big small forward Yeah small, yeah, says the small guy back pocket.

Anyway, that's about enough to take. Do we miss anything out of the North and Melbourne game that we smoked?

Actually maybe one thing. Petraco looks very like tired, injured. They played him at full get to it.

Yeah, let's get into the ladder check after a round two. So currently I got this hit on live. There is about three minutes left to go on the third quarter of Sydney and Fremantle. The Swans are in front. So this is what the current live lader that I'm reading out is producer gerld and the magic of television will give you what the actual ladder is after round two, so the result could flip. So currently Hawthorne on top, unbeaten one hundred and thirty percent, the Adelaide crom second one hundred and seventy two percent. They've kicked nearly three hundred points in two games. Our Flying Giants SITS sit in third, with Collingwood and Brisbane both there as well. Gold Coast sixth, Geelong are seventh. North Melbourne are in the eighth.

Go up, get end of the season.

We're gonna make the finals.

He had to do going in next Footscray and ninth. I'm going to leave out the Swes and Fremancile as of reading this, because we don't know who's going to win this game. One team is going to have one win, the other team's going to be winless. The team that wins this game is probably going to go either tenth or about thirteenth. I think so at the moment, Port Adelaide next and Kilda Richmond with their one. When Carlton Melbourne Essendon West Coast make up the bottom four currently. Obviously Fremantle and Sydney, whoever loses, will be in the bottom four right now. So it is Essendon being sixteenth is the biggest story at the moment. I think that's it have been.

Ah yeah, it's the biggest story and it's also the best it is. We'd love to see it.

All right, stat's going We need to take a look at some of the best markets, brought to you by tab Ba of course the sponsor here on AFL today. Let's have a look at the Coleman Medal. What do you want to start?

We'll start We'll just go on those favorite sort of order and then someone that's a bit of value that you're keen on. So first couple will start on both at eight dollars. First one is Charlie Kerno.

Obviously he didn't do that much.

I'm trying to have. His price is missing a zero, so he's eight dollars with tab at the moment, which I'm not that keen on because I think there's a bit more value and a bit of other guys kicking more goals.

At the moment, I don't want to have anything to do with Charlie Kerano in the common medal.

Yeah, so same price. Which I think is the better bet right now is Nick Larky SUBERLARKI you kick five last week, three this week, so he's already got eight goals in two weeks him at the start of the season. You tipped him at the start of the season. He's already droppedhim price a fair bit. But so the next couple weeks he's going to keep kicking goals. So I jump on him now at eight bucks because I reckon he could get down to seven or six. And then the other sort of in the favorites is Jeremy Cameron is at nine ers.

I don't want anything to do with him.

I was pushing up the ground a little bit more, but I think because the Cats.

Are going to be good still, I know they lost to the Saints, I think he's really good value with Thriller.

This is the value pick, big Thrill.

I saw him strutting us up close yesterday at the mcg God, he's a just scary looking man. He's got the beard back, yes jacked. He was playing on a part time footballer Ben McKay, I know, but he looked excellently. Only problem is Darcy Foggety looks really good too and may take some goals off him, So that's the problem. But if Thriller can get on a run, which I think he can, he's going to win a Coleman one day. But he's seventeen bucks right now. I think that could be worth a bet.

Yeah, I reckon even just to get like a bit of a cash flow because it's going to be dropping down the next couple of weeks. Especially Adelaide have got North next week, and even if North can put up a fight, he's gonna kick a lot of goals.

Well, this could be This could be a shootout between Thriller and Super. Yeah, we can see a really high scoring game next weekend.

I'm very worried ready, but we can talk about that like.

You've won your game. Yeah, and the Premiership Hawthorne still your favorites at six dollars and you and I have mentioned this for the first three weeks of the Sea, isn't the market is overreacting every week to a win or a loss. We saw who was it in round one? We said who was it? That was shorter than the Swans. All of a sudden after one win.

Oh, I can't remember now, it would have been Hawks definitely were there. And then there was another team I can't.

I can't know it was it Giants. Probably there was something silly. Yeah, anyway, Adelaide and now thirteen dollars like fifties to start, they.

See, no way should add Okay, they can make the finals because a lot of peoples them for the finals at LA sixth. But in terms of it tab thirteen bucks people jumping on, I'd stay away from that.

Yeah, yeah, that's a bit too short. If yeah, okay, if they get to like four or five and oh and yeah, you might have to take you know, eleven dollars or something. Just wait because they've played with they played some Kilda and Essen in the start.

And then they played Norse.

They're gonna get another win and they'll probably drop even more. But then in a few more weeks you could probably get them at a better problem.

Yeah, like wait, wait till out around six or seven before you start, you know, chopping, unless you've got like good prices about a few other teams like wait and see by Adelaide and GWS in on the week after gather around. That's sort of the litmus test, I think, But yeah, I reckon. That's about it from our friends at TAB. Before we get in into the round two results, imagine what you could be buying instead. All right, let's get into it. The results from around two Thursday night. The mcg colts in eight twelve sixty defeated by Hawthorne twelve eight to eighty in a game that won't be one for the highlights packages. But hey Hawthorne three and zip they are doing what they need to do, which is when when when Leo taken away?

Bit harsh I.

Thought it was a very high intensity game, lost office. The skills are a little bit left to like being a z ey Yeah, the conditions didn't help. Always going to come out and be like, yeah we were embarrassed. We're going to show some fight and some pride for the club.

And they got knacked.

Yeah, leaning a halftime, as you said, they got knacked. The big thing about this is when Vossi said they can't sorry, they do run out games. After the the reporter said, do you have a struggle running out of games? No, I think we're pretty good. We had hips the inside fifty. Did you see you didn't kick a.

Goal in the last quarter.

The stat Carton of lost second halfs this season sixteen six one two to four fifteen thirty nine. If that's running out games, well, I'm one hundred meters sprinter.

Oh. All you have to see is Nick Watson run past Chris the final goal. Crips. He looked cool, knack at it. He feels sorry for him.

He's trying his guts out. He was really he was still solid.

And I'm actually more concerned the comment Boss he made. He said Courno actually did what we wanted him to want.

Nothing, nothing at all dominated him and Curno he was awful. He was genuinely awful. I thought.

So. The thing about Carlton is it's all well and good to have the best ruckman, the best midfielder, the best forward and the best defender in the game. That's good if you're playing under fourteen's. Unfortunately the AFL level, your next fourteen players need to be somewhat decent.

That is a very good plat they looked that. They genuinely look good in the first half, when the conditions are a bit tougher. They adapted to the conditions. I had standing around a lot of Carlton fans are like, oh, this is the Carson we want to see, and then they just dropped off the cliff because even like Cripser was really good, specially he was really good in the first half.

A lot of the sort of guys, but the depth the film.

We've tried to keep a good relationship with all the clubs hit, but we also need to call a spade a spade. You look at the bottom ten players of Carlton's list. They're not walking into every team in the AFL when you think about it. But I'll give Lucas Campri an aside because see.

He puked coming out for after halftime. From the huddle he stopped like three times and then when he got to the wing next to the ambrosio he forced himself to pack. They put everything in that first half.

Wow, But it's like cow and Hayes foggedy camp Lord just the depths. They're not getting games in any other teams. And then you see and you see what always always was quite good Today for West Coast Kennedy was good for the Western Bulldogs' you've thrown everything at five dudes.

Yeah, legit, I just was saying that hawks are the best things. I know we were said last year hofball and all that. I love watching off. I know you said you want it your best when you start, when you start flowing forward, though it is so fast. The Wizard was like atting up a lot of goals. He proved that he could get a lot of the ball without just goroing goals. I think our midfield needs a bit of work. Tom Da Coning was serious.

He destroyed me.

I think yeah, like their mid sort of fed off to Coning's energy a bit better. I think our mids did work into the game a bit, but overall a bit of a bit of work needed. I think warples are huge out underrated out and I.

Also think we were a bit too cute with the with the with the future now we were. I think in for the conditions we're just a little bit taking the first option.

Sometimes we're going into tackles and running ourselves into trouble.

But if we three and nine, you're the only way is up, hopefully improvement.

It feels like you're looking for the buyer already, though.

We've got a nine day break against walls and then the buy so I'm happy with You're not even playing at your best and still gett dubbed, So you'll take that every day. Troll as well, got three goals. He's just he's building Legacy season. He does one good thing I've heard from Legacy Legacy. He just jo the streets will never forget this season. From Marvio Child maybe Watson. What's he favor for the Coleman a lot?

Uh?

Do we want anything else touch on this game with? That's enough.

I just josh battle was awesome, but I can touch on it later.

Yeah, okay, And no, Harry McKay, he was laid out, so that actually did her. Calton anyway fan Bass. Carlton fans like hello, darkness, maled bri I did nothing that was good. And Hawthorne they're just like this sick.

Yeah yeah, pretty happy.

Unfortunately, our boss, Adam massive Hawthorne fan loves it. I've just casually warned him how good this one started. Last season. Premierships are one in September. Powell relaxed about February though not even.

Season.

Friday Night at the mcg Footscray change it to Footscray forever. It's great. Ten ten to seventy defeated by Collingwood ten sixteen seventy six in front of seventy eight fALS and at the MCG doll well and good for footscrade want to play this game at the MCG and everything. Played it against Collingwood, which makes it a Collingwood home game because there's more Collingwood fans that show up. We're going to talk about it straight away. The umpiring in this game was not up to stand.

The very first goal was Sam DUSI shouldn't have got a free kick. Oh was it a free kick? Yeah, I'm trying to remember what it was. But I just remember watching the very first goal and you're like, oh, this is not it favored heavily then heavy.

Thirty three free kicks to fourteen and I love Collingwood fans going ah, sucked in Western Boo. Remember when you won the twenty sixteen Grand Funnel. I'll tell you what I remember. But this umpiring, we're not going to make a song and dance about umpiring all year.

No, that's not our job.

Get it out of the way right now. The umpiring in this game, no, no for this. This this game was not up to stand.

It.

It wasn't good enough. People were saying it's rigged and everything else. No, stop being stupid. Professionals can have a bad day, but these professionals had a shocking day five days a week. I've worked with you. The umpiring was enough to stand it. The depth perception of umpires this season is gone. They don't know what fifteen meters is.

It's just they did that in the North game too. I think there was a thing in rounds, you know, like they have a thing week for all the week. They need to stop doing that.

So that's enough about that. Let's get into the game. Sam Dark, He's gonna be worth two million dollars a year.

He was so How many posters were in this game, by the way, was crazy.

He was.

I know he was amazing, but it kind of feel like if he kicked the ones.

He should have kicked, they wouldn't have even been He's by the way, he's now the Bulldog's most important player, even with Bond William Jones.

He is them. If he goes out and they have bring back Bond Jones Jamara, I still think they did get the same output.

To be honest, he is so crucial to Stephen in the game. Is I'm in trouble he didn't say that, but he's basically the defenders playing on him, it's going to suck, which is.

Like, think you can't do anything. He's so tall, you're just like they're fighting, grappling for an inch and he's just like, yep, there's a lot of players that are that tall.

It's just his head athletic, his hands are made. There was a few times I think it was Richard's and Bailey Dale sends it into fifty. It was like a helicopter and he went back like just stuck. And you just need that as a top four. So that was awesome.

So yeah, and then you talk about it. So Dale and Richards were fantastic. Liber was everywhere like it was. It was a legacy footscray game for the Dogs with liber and Darcy like popads in the crowd and needed Riley West to kick the winner or something just to top it all off.

It was.

It was a good game of footy like it was.

I really enjoyed it.

I enjoyed it too.

Probably the game one of the games of the year so far.

I would say it might.

For me.

Steel Sidebottom had a moment that he'd want to forget.

He made up for it.

He absolutely crapped his decks when the foot he heard some footsteps. That was a great goal by phrasing the dogs then go in and kick a goal. But then what young some younger players would do is they'd go into their hole. They'd give up, and they'd be like, oh no, no, He's like, no, brush it off, move on, kicks the match winner.

Yeah, he was awesome. Twenty two disposals, two goals, and you're right he had the redemption moment there.

He was awesome.

I saw a few tweets about it, but they did the red, white and blue haircut.

Did you see that?

So Richards is the obviously the red head bandon me has the white hair and Love has the blue hair.

So yeah, that was standing on next to each other. Looked like a bulldogs that in their fifth chapter. That's coming, yeah, with a fifth chapter.

But we've hardly talked about the Pies like da did well to just keep kicking away.

Well they were down twenty two zero exactly. The way to work back into it was really good. Decos I thought was very glucky.

Shut it.

That's one of his best games.

It's his best game as a pie.

I thought, damn Mix had one of the worst games. It was so I think it cost them about four goals, so it was one.

It was three on one.

I think if people didn't see it, and he's literally had to just either pass it to his teammate or have a shot on goal.

He ended up with one goal three.

I talked him up he was going to kick four goals or at least two plus, and he kicked one goal three to go.

He looked unfit to he did, and sad news about Rif mckinn doing his yes, duck yes and dekos.

You can say what you want that some of his supposes one is affected.

It was awesome.

I don't kill you say thirty disposals. He looked back and they looked very fit. So you'd love to say that Bob.

He'll also scary when he gets near the forty. Our fans the dogs are just like, can we be called foot screen every week? And what the hell?

Man?

I don't think they'd be too upset though, the dogs.

He still lost.

I think that if they beat Carlton next week with all theirs and they're two and one.

And they lost by kick, we were saying they could be one and.

Five yeah, so if they're two and one, because I think they'll beat Carlton. Yeah, I don't think it's.

The end of the world.

Does this mean North have a chance against Colin.

And Collingwood. They're just like sweet, another win that first round just anomaly.

Let's move on, absolutely, and they're very lucky they get another game of g.

Saturday mcg I was there in the Flashes send in fifteen ten, one hundred. You think before the game if you said Essenon will kick fifteen goals, Zach Merrit will have thirty six and kick for you sick. Essendon have won Now at twenty five eleven one sixty one.

What sixty one?

Leo called this on our season previous The year is in the year that I get off Adelaide.

Oh yeah, I said this is last year.

Was the year Adelaide And they're like, no, Stu's going stuff you. We're going to be good the year after all, Alex nos ball, No, I don't know about that one. Col let us know in the comments, cool.

That this this was so watching this, We'll talk about Adelaide first before getting into Essendon. This was quite simply a large talent gap with an even larger work rate gap yep Adelaide were working and running so hard and it was so obvious that the Essendon players were not up for it except for two blocks. It was insane.

I used those two blocks obviously merrit r coolball, I think.

Yeah, but it's like wow, they take a mark on their defensive fifty and then all of a sudden they would find an outlet. Oh no, there's no space. Someone had sprint into space. Chip mark, chip mark, chip mark. That's how Rankin ended up kicking like one of the goals of the year so far, just by doing that.

That was sick.

Jordan Dawson was everywhere. He's at thirty three disposals, crowded back thirty two. Celiga had twenty seven and two. You actually don't really notice Jake Sliga too much when watching at the ground in an under. Yeah, you notice Jordan Dawson. You noticed Ben Keys. He just loves playing against.

The last two games he had nine goals and forty four disposals against Essendon.

Ye, he loves.

He gave Jackson prior a bit of a bath.

It was.

It was good then. Obviously the Ford lines it worked. You had Rochelley popping up with four keys for Thriller and Fog three each, Sligo too, rank and two. They were forty points up with forty minutes to go, and Matthew Nicks like Isaac wouldn't yeah, sit down power that was like.

Yeah, just putting, putting, like foot on the throat, you know what I like? Oh No, thething out there's just like arrogance at its fine.

So very annoying for super Coach, though very annoying for held like one.

Very annoying for someone who took a multi with him to have twenty anyway. Uh but this this game was all about Adelaide obviously, I know you say, oh, but they let him fifteen goals. They were going they were going to kick forty if they wanted to. So they were fantastic. There was no sort of bad anything bad out of this for Adelaide anywhere on the ground. I've I thought everyone did their job, Like even players like Coming and mar Ken you didn't get much of the footy were good. Sid Draper has to be in the eighteen like he's got a start. The other one that was his attack on the foot. He is insane, do you guys rate Josh warrel I went to school with him. Really Frank Frank there you go.

Yeah, but no one talks him up. I think people talking about him on the radio they're going, yeah, we need to talking about him WM and I was like, yes, he was really good again and I think he's very very underrated.

Yah, all right, we got to get to Essenon because we got no. If you didn't have Zach Merritt, you would finish second or third last.

I think they might. I'm actually even with that.

I've had Essendon fans in my comments. I put up a video this morning saying, yeah, we're probably going to finish bottom four anyway. Zach Merritt could have kicked seven. He was He gave a couple off, he passed one that he should have had a shot for and kicked. Yes, he's had thirty six. There was one point where he's running about eighty odd meters and there's six crows around him and no one else and he's just like it. You would not just like if he just goes nap stuff it, I'm done.

Esenden fans wouldn't even be mad. It's like one of those players who was the other player you were saying, cri crips, like those sort of players that are just heartened all of your club going to get like two or three votes most.

They desert, they deserve both leave.

Yeah. I had to be with some Essendon fans after the game and they're like, we should trade him, get three.

First rounds for him for because because Cola they've drafted so well, it's like completely brought him out.

It's like we're doing no good anyway, and he deserves better than this. So how old is he? Jai Cardwall was also fantastic start, as if he learns how to kick, will be a very good footballer.

Yeah. He got twenty five disposals. Obviously still young and raw. He had a few turnovers, but he'll be really good because he can he can find the footy so easily.

Tom Edwards also throws himself at the footy with reckless abandon. He's got a bit of the Zach Butters about him. But he kicked three and was pretty good.

Yeah. He was a teacher last year. Yeah, and now he's on the big stage.

He needs he needs a protein check. He's a skinny man.

That's ideal build up.

Yeah, it looks like he hasn't seen the sun.

Yeah, fan bases and are like, yeah, this sucks, we suck. This is great. Fine, It's totally fine. Cool.

Maybe they're doing the opposite to last year. Yeah, bad finish strong. I like it. I don't know why.

I said some positive first and Adelaide is just like, this is great.

Where is this been?

Nick In?

Yeah no, I'm still on sign.

Who do they play? Saints and Escidon?

Come on, guys, Chad Warner bombs it the Saints massage, Saints are back and all win next year.

Saturday Twilight Adelaide Oval Port Adelaide twenty one fourteen one forty destroyed Richmond nine fourteen sixty eight. Quick come a bit of come to Jesus meeting there for Richmond after last week?

Come to Jesus. What does that mean? Saw the light?

Well, it's like no about lids if all this and that was crashing back down to Earth boys. Uh that was a funny reference. Tim Taranto was terrible.

Yeah.

So Cane Collins was having a field day on Twitter. I don't know if you're going I'm still on the fence with that man.

But he was saying, oh you guys think he's top one fifty rich Oh cat bye back, bit bit back, Why can't I say bit bit back at him on Twitter?

Going, oh did or?

Even the best players can have bad weeks, Caano, but he spot on Kane CON's it's just not been good.

It doesn't help that he's in one of the worst teams, but.

You've still got to stand up. And Jacob Popper cracks in all day six clearances and like you look at super Coach points that sometimes it's not that it's like you've got no one to kick it too, but you're crashing in all day doing your best. He didn't lay a tackle, which was a worry for me. But Rosie thirty nine and two, Wine's thirty three, Jace bergoing breakout season, Hallo thirty two on a goal, Caane Farrell the new Dan Houston thirty one, Bogue twenty eight, Joey Richards twenty five, like Logan Evans twenty four.

Joe Richard's legacy game.

He was they have like nearly five hundred disposals, Yeah, something like that.

Yeah, it was ridiculous. What about your seventy eight to two seventy nine, like it was a straight up paddling.

Did you get rid of power? Pepper and kept him. Oh the good he kicked three goals and added fifty touch. I don't want to talk about super good.

Yeah he's broken, man, but he did kick a couple of nice goals. Sam Power the boundary, Yeah, that was awesome. Georgia Ardi's kick four bopped up with three. This this was just a good confidence booster that the Power needed. But they got belted. We knew they're not that bad, but they needed to show something to push in the back.

Stop comment day, Richmond will win.

More than two games this year. Yeah, they'll win three games.

You can finish strong like sometimes you can. They could have lost that by like two hundred.

They could have They could have been blown off the park and they kicked six to eight points, but it could have been so much worse. Like watching the game, they did not stop trying all day. They'll when a team comes in off of buy, they're a bit sort of how you going and if it's like a person that's called cartoner bye.

Yeah.

But if a team coming off for buy later in the season plays Richmond at the MCG, Richmond will give them a scare.

I agree with that.

Yeah, I agree with fan bases like sick back on track. We needed that.

Yeah, that Power fans would be very happy because they're like, oh crap, we are we really that bad? At least they've smashed Richmond. They can go, oh, we didn't lose to Richmond like Carlton, and they'll be back on track hopefully now. But leukosis is a big I've already got a lot of injuries.

Their their Ford lines are worrying. If Georgia Artis doesn't fire that Marvel on Thursday, Port Adelaide and Port had that have.

A great record of Marvel.

Jump on the Power and Richmond like, at least we beat Carlton.

Yeah, and they can hold on. Theyre going to say that that's at least.

We bet Carton to the Sorry I'm watching it.

It's actually entertaining.

Saturday night Marvel study. As we continue on there since killed her fifteen eight ninety eight, defeat you Long thirteen thirteen ninety one, Leo, you were all love it same.

They're making the finals. Baby in the count say yeah true, actually no, mate, I just what I tell you, Just what I do. I just called I call mystic of your mates called your mystic can be wisdom or wisdom. That's what I think mystic was my mystic Malali. Yeah, there we go. But what I'm just right, Well, for two games inte I said they could beat Gelong, you did, and then I tipped long.

So that's four games in a row that, yeah, I was, I was trying to get my start out. There's four games in a row at Marvel that they've been Geelong. So Geelong don't obviously like going to Marvel. That's their sort of boat game away game as well. Yeah, of course, but they were awesome the start they had to this game you were earlier. They looked like prime Saint Kilda, like when they were like Primes Kilda. When they made the Granny, they like, we're talking twenty tens again, they looked unbeliever.

Higgins looks like Steamy. Millers was great. They had four goals, Jack.

Mccra This also shows that footy tipping makes a full of us. All. Gelong win by eighty points last week, Sin Kilda lost by sixty three, had to travel, had a six day break.

What would have been your lock of the round if you.

Adelaide. They were my big cause team of the round fest Brisbane.

Yeah, but outside that I probably would have gone third Gelong because Geelong looked so good last week and they go to Marvel and absolutely cook it.

But sink sin Kilda were just tougher at the footing at the contest. But also Zaia wanganeen Malia deciding to have one of the greatest football games ever is so good.

It's just so classic. Yeah, elk just everything you wanted a football cool.

But win, Tager, Sinclair, McCray, Jack Higgins kicking four like it's all the players that you want. If you're a sink Kilda fan, you want to see them do this week after week after week. They do it one in three, that's the problem.

Caminiti down back.

Yeah, he did have a couple of almost howers in the last quarter though.

He did. They were hanging on at the end. Oh yeah, but they deserved.

They did win. Tager gave it to Max Homes. He absolutely destroyed him in the first half there and he kicked a couple of goals to go with himself. But when Jesse got up the field, he's playing wing. Yeah, that's when they got into the game though.

Yeah, because they need to get his hands on the ball because he can just set up goals. He can get kick goals, you can do a bit of everything. They were down by what forty on something like forty I'm pretty sure, and then they came back to get it back within seven. So the Cats are really strong. I think they just had a bit of a brain fade talking to lots of Cats fans. All the Cats fans aren't happy with the Irish plays, sheine mall ocean, Oh, Shish citizens men over here, that's clearly watching the Swan's game at the moment walk start our camera.

One's not very No one has had a stinker this start this year.

Just the kicking, the defending. Just I don't know if they need to trained the position or need to be dropped because sent home. No, we're not going to banish them.

I'm just meant to their house.

Thinking who also wanted Aubrey on Thursday?

Oh yes, there shout out to But yeah, I think the Irish guys and a few other was just they weren't really stepping up even never was ever was pretty solid again.

Along with that, Bailey Smiths is their midfield bottom four No no, I said, no, this is coming from one of my mates, they said, he said, Bailey smith have.

A bottom for midfield times was really good in the second half. I disagreed.

Is this including I was in the question are we saying without Dangerfield and Tom Steel being injured?

It was just without Bailey Smith.

It's not bottom four feeling last year without Bailey Smith.

Yeah, I don't think so. I think on paper it's not very good at all, but they get the job done. So do you think it's bottom four? Maybe like bottom I don't know.

I'll think about it during the week.

Okay, get back to me. Throw Marshall had a great game. He needed to bounce back as well after a poor performance the week before against the Crows. I thought he was fantastic.

Was probably a bit underdone from injury and things like that.

Had a hippy shoe going to the start of the season. But anyway, sin Kilda just denied Jong the ball and they were just simply too good. Well done.

And the Saints.

You've gotta you gotta talk about the Saints. We were talking a lot of crap about the Saints last coek me not this guy, not this guy.

This guy fan basis can we do that every week?

Where's that famous that goes?

She did she did? She did it? Saints fans low key, very feral. I don't want to put off I don't want to put off the Saints fans watching this, but I went last night. I love I love your club. I'm going for them to make finals, but your some of your fans were very, very feral for a club that my dad was born last time. You guys want to fly got frustraighted, like like, I don't. I don't mean that in a bad way, but it's just kind of like.

Calm there, the calm down a bit, win a final, build some momentum, build your arrogance.

It's round two. Come on, like you just got smashed by Adelaide Fair you know what I mean? Yeah, I know you. I still love your Saints, but just this market, Tom, I'm not going to be happy with me on that.

No they're not. And Geelong fans on the hell man, what's going on here?

Geelong? Daddy?

Geelong do that during the year though they've losen, they've losto the Saints last couple of years and then they always have a random at Homelands. Yeah, so they'll be fine though. I think Gelong they just had a bit of a blip and they'll be good.

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Welcome back viewers.

Jason Akerman of saying dumb stuff caught my attention today.

I'm sorry that guy came down to my club. I don't know if I've talked.

He's big on bitcoin or zook coin, on whatever it's called. Yeah, anyway, we nearly had one of the great upsets here. Nearly Brisbane fourteen ten ninety four defeated West Coast eleven nine seventy five.

Want to come back by West Coast from last week?

If you watch this game in the first quarter, you would have thought that the Brisbane lines were the ten goal underdog.

Yeah.

West Coast were all over them. They came out, they had in like intensity ferocity at the ball and they were using it correctly. Brisbane was sort of just like, ah, yeah, this would be fine, we'll work it out.

But they just took it a bit easy.

I did.

They did the locking Neil was he was like, oh, I don't have someone following the area. This is great.

Even if you don't have a like specific Tiger West Coast. I know that they were up a lot of the game. Wouldn't you wouldn't you rather just put someone locking it a like even if I have though, it doesn't matter.

You could have James Matter, could have had Jamie Cribs run with him.

And the engine.

But they need someone to run with him. Yeah. With the physical presence the.

Eagles pressure was awesome. I think you brought that.

They were just up for it.

You can just see that there's a bit of confidence in him. Mat Maybe it was the fact that Liam Ryan was back in the team. I think he got three goals.

Yeah, he was.

He was really good. He's one of my favorite players ever to watch, and I'm glad he ever is. I think he's just excit. I'm not saying he's the best player, but in terms of my players, I want to watch Liam Flynn. Ryan is in there because he can just take a big mark and kick some goals. He was He looked like Primes moll forward.

He ran out, He ran out of game.

Liam Ryan, he ran.

Out of gas terribly late in the game. He was cooked. But in the first half he was like electric. He was unbelievable. So he's a player like if you're a West Coasting like, yeah, him, he's out. He's our future. That guy. God Peter Adams didn't go. Peter Adams has just kicked in to a I don't know what Peterladdams are doing anyway, back to this, Harris Andrews was phenomenal beasts anytime the ball was in his vicinity, just like, yeah, I'll take that bang, you know, golden fish straight out of bounds. He had a phenomenal game. He probably won't get Brownlow votes for it, been like the best and fairest of the club. He'll definitely get twenty.

Dispose of twelve marks and yeah, a lot of spoilers, Like I was about at least seven spoils.

It was awesome. So the thing is with West Coast, and this is we said last week, how we didn't think much of West Coast, like just in general. They were up eight goals to four at halftime, so they kicked three more goals for the rest of the game to ten. You're playing the defending Premier. So yeah, they've got some injuries. But as a West Coast like fan base and media in general, I'm if West Coast showed this effort every week, you're like, Okay, if you go to in twenty, which you shouldn't, Yeah, they'll win some games like off this effort alone, because they just they were just cooked, Like it's early in the season. It's a better team, fitted team, Like if this was a i don't know, maybe like an Essendon and killed like that sort of level, then they knocked them off. Yeah, but they just they didn't have enough, Like Bailey Willie went down and he got subbed off and they had to play Reuben Gibney in the right.

Oh yeah, did they really bringing in Flynn after I traded him out.

I've kept him in.

Oh wait, I forgot about that.

He didn't play.

That's all right. But the other one that was really good I thought was Ryan Marrit. He got I think he ended up with twenty Marrick or Marrek.

I don't know. I think it is Mark actually, but twenty six disposers for a young guy.

At least we have a few young guys that are coming through showing a bit for the Eagles. We felt fantasy.

I'm fantasy everything I say.

Everything I say.

Everything I say is what are you talking about? Mate?

What am I talking about? I don't know.

They were at least we've got some young guys coming through for the Eagles as.

What I'm trying to.

Yeah, I just get.

Cam Rayner and Sam Day were bismal. They weren't know where to be seen. But so Calum Dick. Obviously we had him on the show during the week. He wrote a very good piece after the game for Code and the Coury Mal. He said it was very telling that some of these players maybe don't trust dayers have yet because they they had a chance to hit Day early in the in the first quarter, but they decided to kick it a calamarchie into two on one. It's like, Okay, maybe you know you're still not all there. You're new to the club. It's one of those things. Logan Morris, he can.

For those playing along at homes alex Is put in. I like Logan Morris as a guy, him so much.

He's a very good lie. There are four dudes cramping in the middle of the field right now. They're just throwing out there is the Swans are just charging for Oh my god, they're going to manage.

To we're going to live stream at the end of this game. To the Swans on the we nearly are.

Find a target target but no, So Logan Morris, I think he's the one that should be the key for the key focused out of the goalscaper.

Seeing like a third forward. It's not at the hype.

But Eric Hipple can't be the main forward a big He didn't do enough in the game there.

I'm sorry give him them b Brenda.

Done there the raiding premier is that for a reason even though they didn't play well, let's go job done.

Yeah yeah, Brisbane, they're just like, thank god you got to bank those wins. That was that was scary. Uh and West Coast fans like, as long as we can bring that effort every week, we should be fine, Now we move on to Sunday Marvel Stadium. Stats Guy, This is all about you.

Of the Stats Guy podcast minutes.

North Melbourne nineteen eleven one twenty five demolished the Melbourne Demons nine twelve sixty six.

Joel and Nady has put us once in front.

Who cares?

I was the Sorry, apologies to North fans and Melbourne fans. There's two minutes to go.

But stats Guy, oh my god, we I finally get to talk us up on this show. Le Sorry. Marcus on the Pheasan and Night show was willing us for a win. He said, North, just do it.

Do it for this show.

We wanted a bit of positive for North. First half though, it's one of the scrappiest games we've ever watched. Why did I text you at quarter time and you said the same thing, scrappy, poor game kicking like.

North Melbourne were just like killing themselves or shooting themselves in the with terrible Ford entries. They were four goals ten at one point, yeah, four goals ten. They kicked fifteen to one. Yeah.

After that it was unbelievable. The accuracy was crazy, just you could just kick it over our heads and everything was going right. A few people text me North on steroids. No, we're just we're just good. We're back.

I'm just joking, just good.

The counterpoint for the DS is and we'll let starts guys talk about this game a bit more generally.

So.

First of all, Cherry Monster's gone Melbourne looked like that were Flatters attacker on the seven day backup after playing in the pouring rain in a slog against GWSS.

We played in the hot box of Marvele Statee Hop Box.

Yeah, but also extra day off. You've got a long younger list I thought you did, Like, yeah, everything that could have gone right if you did go right. But talk about some of these kids, like because you did a lot of it without.

Play that while you've obviously got PC. Paul Curtis, that's his game of his career. Three goals, I think about twenty disposals. That's easily his best game of his career. Is very animated with the Sydney game, and I'm trying to conversate it. Cherry was Cherry. As Alex mentioned, that's probably Cherry's best game of his career, just because it's against Max Gorn. I know, I heard Max Gorne had a really tough week personally, but Cherry was just absoluteesome. Was he was pushing him off the ball, going at Mark in the square, Mark and the square got a goal.

Best thing about Cherry's goals his song goal song forgot CHERRYB I was loving.

Paul Curtis's goal song was I Like to Move. We got to hear that three times.

So that was really Tom Power's goal song on the SME, I do a live stream in a Yeah, that's very.

True, That's very true.

The other young guy for North that I was really happy with again is Foss. I know he's not going to get that man, he's probably going to get twelve to eighteen touches most games, but every touch he got, all the North fends.

Like canid get back to Foss.

He's a target. Caleb Daniel was missing targets for the other guys, Cheeser wasn't at his best. Uh suverer kick three and just everything was going well on the D side.

I got to talk about it.

Can we also just say that Jack Darling, Luke Parker great pickups.

I was about to say Luke Parker got his first goal for North Konstanty from yours Swans as well got his first goal idal and Jack Darling's three hundredth, which Suva in the week said, oh, it's been a great ride.

Mate. At one game we had.

Together, he's a North legend with two games in his career at North, he was really how sad you are, yeah, legend of two games.

He was really good.

I'm I was really against getting Jack Darling.

I think a lot of us were.

And he's been really good, lookter, really fit and just taking clunks, big marks. I'm very happy with that. On the Melbourne side though, Cay Chandler. We always get torn up by the little guys. Chandler was unbelievable. He kicked a couple of goals, he reckon, he had over twenty plus touches. He was probably Melbourne's best player ever to say. And then Petraco is a big worry.

He looks unfit to me, he looked really he played full four my untrained eye. He looks untrained.

The fact that Aiden Kor was keeping up with him. He's a big worry. And then the other part of the back line for North eighty Corps okay, but chom Charlie Combent, chom As he as he mates like to call him. He was just unbelievable. I think after the first two he dropped. He just took a few marks and was just really good. So he had about fifteen marks I think overall in the game.

Just so, the Swans have literally held on as the siren's gone about a second before give missus. The Swans have held on.

We're all winners, we're best.

Let's go.

Let's go, mate. I'm just excited for North, but you might not see me for the rest of the week. We were literally singing the song with ten minutes to go, which probably the first time we've done that in about ten years.

So get around North. Happy days done. I saw you on the train. I was just buzzing. I wasn't happy to see you.

Off the stadium.

This this is going to be a long one. At the time, we've already given him off. It was not good.

Did Sydney playoffs.

The Sydney Swans have won afl Apps just died. The Swans have won sixty eight to sixty five after trailing basically all day. They didn't kick a goal in the first quarter. The one sixty five to sixty eight. I need some statue of stats man, because this is just have absolutely gone down on me because the AFL app has decided to have an absolute knight.

I want some stats. I can give you some stats. Yeah, Sydney won by three points.

Thank you.

The stadium we speak in shy shy Bolton played okay.

I think I don't think you played very well.

I Mardy kicked the match winner. That is not a stat that's a fact. There we go. Patrick Voss missed the chance of making go fifteen points. That is a fact.

Not Actually Patrick Voss did miss two sitters, well not sitters, but like missed two very gettable shots in that at the end of the third start of the fourth. I'm positive that's on mute right now. I'm positive that Matthew Pavlich is saying that gay I mistook the mark before the siren went, because Matthew Pavlich's commentation.

Is that how the game ended, there was a mark on the side.

The ball was in the air when the siren went.

That's cool.

Balls in the air. It's not a mark because it's got to be completed.

You want it's all gooding it.

It's not siren gator.

But that is a huge win in Perth because I think a lot of people would have backed for both teams were desperate for a wine.

The Swans have actually like come from the clouds to win that. They were down five goals to Zip at one point you had Chad Warner have twenty six and one. I thought Riley Bias was quite good. Tom mccartton went down back and like without having some stats in front of me, that was so noticeable all day. But oh my god, Josh Tracy is a phenomenal footballer. He is such a good forward.

Mark.

He is a really accurate kick, which I'd say Tim Suber, possibly Jazz who else would be up there? And the accurate kick to think of accurately Sam Frost Sam because he has one goal year. I don't know how'd you get to Sam Frost.

In absolutely cacket here. I'm just going to do this.

What are your emotions right now? Your best into this result?

Shy Bolton was talking crap all game. He hardly got near it, so like good stuff, shy.

Bot shine on his debut.

Ah, there we go.

Let me give you some stats up.

I know jago Emir had thirty and he's seemingly got a new lease on life this year.

And twenty fourteen again he had half's.

Blood injected into his legs. He's flying.

I'll give you some statsug, So you did say Joss Tracy had a great game. He had four goals, thirteen disposals. McLean said with two goals and Marty had the match went it with two as well. Oh, Chad one did hit his two.

That's brutal.

And then in terms of like the big numbers, Jagomer thirty two disposals, five clearances, Chad one of twenty six, Maddie Roberts. It's the year of Maddy Roberts, especially in Super Coach twenty five disposals.

The biggest one is that is Jordan having what did have here? I had at twenty four disposals, didn't kick a goal, but was integral everywhere and clearances kept Caleb so wrong to nineteen touches and ten clearances himself.

He absolutely demolished Dark Caps wrong because you're tagging works, didn't it. I know you didn't win the first two rounds, but that's keeping you in games. You're tagging the best player and absolutely dominating him.

It's as good as a fifteen year old on Facebook get it Facebook tags.

I don't remember when you remember back in the day when you become friends with with like a female and get into town.

That's what James Jordan does, just gets in the comments, just hits it up the whole time.

But Luke Jackson was really good in the ruck. They've subbed out Broke the Swan subbed out Brody Grundy late. But this as someone who was very big on the Swan's being zero and three to start the year. Realistically they probably should be two and one. Yeah, they should have been the one.

You've played a lot better than I thought because you've had a lot of close games and then the fact you've got this win.

You can catapult. Now we've got the buy this one. Are into the bar now, Carlton.

But did you already talk about fried Bus as well?

Yeah? Goal it came off the long run. Came off the long run with the goal there. I was yelling at the at the screen, just kicked the goal Son, get yeah it.

Maybe it makes you want to get some Chinese takeaway.

Fan Basis Freo will be wondering how.

It's another Justin long Mure special. That one I can't believe you've got that tip as well. Just mate, this is what I do. Damn it. Also tip Essendon and Geelong.

Yeah yeah that's right, and the Swans fans were just like hell yeah, how good noise, Alex. Is that a roller coaster of a Yeah, I had to bet the Hong Kong Derby got beaten that far.

It was.

It's been a day for me anyway. Tipping results Leo five from nine to six from nine, five from eight, five from eight, yes, okay, I also got five from I also went five for as I did three big core results that guy, you have been so wrong this year was three. Yeah, you've got zip for three.

I genuinely thought the posot smash them so while unto the Dogs, they were a lot better than I thought.

Leo. I didn't say it on the show, but I put it on a graphic.

Yeah you went because you were sick on Thursday, foggeting thrill to kick eight got six half Marcus one hundred point margin if.

Little close the game yeah yeah but Port Richmond.

Yeah, so he doesn't get a point for that stuff. Yeah anyway, and I think mine was Brisbon to win by eighty points.

So yeah, like I said, to my mate.

We don't get paid to be right. We get the entertaining that it's all good anyway.

Let's get to it. Gerald full credit. Who was the best team of the round? Come on, stat's guy, Oh where's my scarf?

Got it so hot? In it? Let's go North hard.

We've got the longest song in the leg. When I'm gonna sing that, Eve and I want to just awesome, just all good, all around play. The fact that we dominated him in the last quarter. It was only eighteen points and then we've ended up it was it sixty seven in the end. I think it was just a just combardment in that last last quarter. The fact that we're hitting targets. I think we only had one or two turnovers when we usually have about six. So North, absolutely we're back on the winner's table and we're in the eighth.

So let's go. Miracles happen. My best team of the round, Adelaide Croz. I saw it up close and personal. They are very very good.

My best team, my second favorite teams ain't killed up. They just do it. That's what they do. That's what they do. You know, it's not they usually look okay, they do it.

One out of three.

Last quarter they ran out of gas. They didn't have many on the interchange. I think down two rotations. But they were the best team for three quarters.

They should have won by more in my opinion, and I'm telling you they could make finals.

Sixty percent of the time. It works all of the time. Yes, best on ground of the week Leo.

Okay, there was only one man here. This man the all Australian fullback, a key defender that goes under the raidar. I'm of course talking about Ben McKay. What no, no, no, no, no, Zach Reid, the most overpaid man. No, they're actually the worst center back pair center back. It's not suck. This is This isn't vander Vennen, Ramiro, you know it is not. It is Josh Battle is my best. I'm being a bit biased here, but the job he did on Kerno. You said twenty one disposal, I think nine intercept possession. Yeah, correct, He just bodied him like and his highlight he hawform posted a highlight package. Just give it a little like you can help me slep sleep at night. We slept at night. Oh my god, You're just loved, Josh. And it came from Saint Kilda. That's the best thing about him, my beloved Yeah.

Yeah, he did so your two favorite teams combine. I like it my best time ground of the week. There's actually a few North buyers could have given it to Cherry. Was awesome against Gone you got chom taken about fifteen marks.

But I'm getting it to Tom Power.

I reckon that was the best game, the most influential game was he was our best midfielder. Buy a mile today and you've got the likes of cheese. Oh you Tom Powered. Thirty one dispose of a goal, ten scoring one at half time, one a half time and eight clearance as well. He was doing everything.

It was the Cherry and Tom Power, the honor of Tom Power. Can you give us a parody of thick of It?

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Yeah, the Hydrationsrend's got the pre workouts good. Need it all. Best on ground of the week. I saw it. Zach Merritt four goals, four goals won, thirty six disposals. Probably could have kicked seven.

He should have kicked seven and then to one. He payed ten goals, but he was He was unbelievable.

This is like when Gary Abbot was having forty and they were losing by eighty.

Yeah.

Yeah, he is getting better. Zach Mery. I don't know how because their team's gone backwards, but he's getting better.

Supercoach wash Legos given up.

Ridden, don't care. I don't care. You should care because I have not looked at my score. I'm scared to look.

Jack McCrae won six two. Everyone's got Jack McCrae. Caleb Daniel, everyone's also got him one one six, Maddie Roberts won one four. That's huge. Fried Bis for all those owners who swapped Ben Payton for the Bys eighty nine, Yes, his break even was negative.

Is going to get a Bys this week because he's not going to go up. Is there any one after the buyer? I don't only you want to get in your team or Hawthorne players I've got.

I've got to mess around because Flynn and Boyd got dropped. Yeah, might be back if Bailey was Nathan O. Driskoll just got a ninety four with his negative eighteen break even. So can I just say something about fried Bush ninety six?

It's going up?

Oh has it?

There's a bit of a galing and uh, the rights of this is going out.

I'm always Clary got one thirty, Cherry got one three six. Horn Francis was probably the big disappointment.

Sixty had it off a few goals pretty my vice captain. I wasn't happy. But Captain Dawson one to four by Captain Cherry. Sorry she's only got eighty. So yeah, that's okay, that's not okay.

Don't accept Marry Perriman. If you've got him, get rid of him.

Yeah, agreed.

I think he said, hold no, I'm off him. Now get what did he get? Fifty seven?

Rookies can get reverse from the TV.

We better wrap this. Yeah, I think I think that'll just about do us this week here on AFL Today. Of course, make sure you get around us on all the social media's. I tried my best to keep my composers without the game. Unfortunately, this one's decided to give me a cardiac arrhythmic. It was all well and good anyway, I joyed today's episode. Make sure he subscribed to AFL Today on YouTube. Make sure you hit that subscribe and notifications bell as well, so anytime we do a video it comes up. I'm gonna do the Power Ranking straight after this as well. Follow us on X Facebook Instagram TikTok for more footy content all season long. AFL Today AU on x Instagram TikTok, Ozzie Rules Today on your facebooks. Of course, subscribe and start like all of our shows across their youtubes and podcast apps. Cricket Today a f l W Today hold all tickets found the Golden Slipper with us and True Bloods. The boys will be up and about on Tuesday night here in the studio and of course Honest Beers with Walley and Leggy. They will both be up and about Hawthorne and s and kill doot one this week. Thank you to Leo for being here. Of course, where else would I be You weren't here on Thursday.

I was sick, right, yeah, he was anyway, Thank you much, thank you, We're back.

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I'm actually shocked that you came here.

Well, I was very tent to go out. But we can go now.

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