AFL Round 24 Wrap - Top 8 Set, Blues are IN + an awesome Finals series ahead | AFL Today

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AFL Round 24 Wrap - Finals & Top 8 set, Blues are IN & an awesome Finals series ahead | AFL Today, Sunday August 25.

The AFL Today Show breaks down a CHAOTIC Round 24 that set the 2024 AFL Finals series, with it all coming down to the wire. So the team looks at the permutations of the finals matchups, and breaks down all the games from the last round of the season, with stats, banter, funny moments, covering some blow outs and absolute classics.

The panel breaks down the major AFL stories from Round 24 and talks out an insane Sunday of footy with the Dogs locking in a spot over the Giants, the Blues falling short against the Saints, but still making the Finals as the Power triumphed over the Dockers and plenty more chaos!

Get around AFL Today's Jaymz Clements, Alex Donnelly and Leo Mullaly they talk out all things AFL Finals after Round 24!

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00:00 Intro
01:56 Quick Look
06:00 Ladder Check
18:10 Vent Sesh
21:55  Melbourne vs Collingwood
26:20 Hawthorn vs North Melbourne
26:10 Geelong vs West Coast
31:24 Richmond vs Gold Coast
35:55 Brisbane vs Essendon
40:30 Sydney vs Adelaide
43:20  Western Bulldogs vs GWS
4725 Carlton vs St Kilda
50:30 Fremantle vs Port Adelaide
54:00 Full Credit To The Boys
55:00 Best on Ground
57:00 Stat Of The Week
57:30 Old Mate No Mates
59:59 Why I Can't Stand
01:02:50 Better than Harley Reid
01:04:19 Final Fixture 
01:05:50 SuperCoach Wash

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Look out, How good was that? Footy? At least the home and away season walls back because now it's over good Ay, I'm Danny Southern. Wait no, I actually I haven't gone ball just yet. I am well on my way though, no worry about that. I am James Clevens. This is the live AFL Today's show following the culmination of the home and Away season for twenty twenty four. Round twenty four is done, and I'm joined for this live show by a couple of local dingises. Someone saw say they're footy nuffs AFL experts, some would call them, probably just their mums. Alex Donnelly Over there, it's up.

Jim trying to figure out when these finals are going to be played, because it is all over the joint at the moment.

All right, get on the Schnitz, David Zita and what about Leo in the middle, social guy, Leo, let's.

Get up at about lads. They're all in finals here, even Gerald behind the cameras teams in finals.

How good couldn't be?

Me?

Was never in doubt, always going to make it. I was cruising through that final out We live stream the entire thing as well, and I was cool as a cue gimber. They call me Jim cool, but either way, joining me for this insane show. Look, we've got statsboy calling in from Tazzy because we set it down there to cover that horrible game. But we're going to break down every single game from round twenty four. We'll probably fly through because now it's all sort of done, we sort of get to like there was some shocking. We can literally fly through the games till today, shocking games through the weekend until today's games, which are awesome. But we do have finals which are set now, which is very cool. The best part is we've all got teams in. It couldn't be us, gentlemen, could it be?

Who would have thought?

Certainly not Jim. It was never a problem and five when one and six when Jack Higgins kicked that go come on man, anyway, make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel. I get around all the social network gear for the AFL Today Show. It is Ossie Rules Today on the old Facie. The cool thing is for the final time this home and away season, footy's back. Let's do a quick look at the round that was well, our finals are set. That's what happened in the round because we went into this round gentlemen, not knowing what was going to happen, right, Yeah, we didn't know what was going to happen. We knew that the Swans are probably going to be in first unless a chaotic swing where they lost by over one hundred and Port won by more than one hundred, so that didn't happen.

But we're going to be fifth.

But if they didn't lose, if they had a lost, s and Western Bulldogs still could have skipped over them. So it was chaos from top to bottom.

Uh.

The weirdest part I think from the weekend was the embarrassing results.

As in how sort of every game until today we genuinely look like preseason.

The Essendon Brisbane game had a bit of brew haha to it at some point, but in the most part it was like Bruce.

Free Footy Adelaide in Sydney was completely Bruce free exactly.

So, which you get. But at the same time, my biggest thing in Jim Cool, that's right, we're are live, so we've got live comments rolling in, which is great. But the entire point of this was sort of you get to this moment of the season and you're like, oh, this is what it's all fords for all the bickies. Let's go. And I really regret no wagering more on it, Like what are we doing? How do we not look at this North hawf game and just go Hawthorne are going to win by a hunt? Like what are we doing? They're going to turn up. It's gonna be awesome, and just like load up on all the goal scorer. I completely missed that.

I add something on West Coast gelonged to win by sixty plus.

We both did. We both had quite a large multi floating around the first quarter man Suber really did. That didn't help North played until the second goal sets Scrubber, but other little bits in you So with the finals are set, we'll get to that in the ladder check. But because you pike, it got done again for another head high shot.

Yep. Just don't leave your feet ever again, right, or choose not to bump. Maybe stop stop trying to bump, dude.

Don't use your shoulders, causey what are you doing with me? You've got arms, use them. We had a bottle thrown at an ump by in a very very very dangerous and extremely stupid It was vile. Vile is a good word. Yeah, you throw stuff at umpires or anybody, you should just be banned. Your life sucked in. You just don't get to go to the footy if you can't. Look. I was at moments today angry, distressed, joyous, amazed, sad and like friend the gamut around the no once and I go go throwing stuff at you guys?

Did I know yet?

Well, there's till time. I was sitting there with my two small children and wife at the house just fuming. So not a great vibe. But still I didn't throw anything in anybody. And if you do, you should be banned for life. I don't get to go to foot if you can't like participate in civilized society, I reckon.

Apparently it was a sin Kilda fan, that's the latest vine.

Well, you check your sources. Who knows this is the thing. I think everybody's sort of throwing this out there, and Twitter is very very rife with oh. I heard from like Alex's brother's uncle's dog that it was like a Sekulta fan but they threw it at a Carlton fan and missed and hit the umpire. And you're like that is the worst throat Alex. Alex also saw Miss Crabapple and Principal Skinner in the cupboard making a baby and then the baby's head popped out and the baby smiling.

The baby also waved at me.

It was pretty crazy. It wasn't the don supporter. That's a good one. Outside of that, Alex wanted to say the results like this weekend show why we don't need a wild card round.

I still say we do no wild card round needed. Lame Jones probably going to get suspended as well for the sling tackle, so the.

Wrestling tackle for lucky Liam Jones. It was also missing Lucky ash today for GW last week. That was like a massive kick in the guts yep for those guys. But anyway, look a crazy, crazy end of this one. The Blues sneaky and they fall backwards into the finals, which I don't feel great about. But I believe as we do this latter check, we have an awesome final series set up. Should we do it?

Let's do it?

What is he writing?

I'm putting out on Twitter that we're live on YouTube.

Okay, good should be live on Twitter. Anyway, Let's do it. It's time for the round twenty four. This is the last run for the year.

Ladder cherk cherk check.

Hey, you might have heard. I don't know. He yelled about it all season, but there was a pretty good team up in Sydney Leo.

Best team in one hundred and forty.

Fifty years, I reckon best team. There's no way they could lose before the Grand Final.

Not to be confused with the best team ever being Essendon.

The best team we've ever seen is Essendon, but the best team in one hundred and fifty years is this Sydney Swans. To act right, so there is no way that the Sydney Swan's going to lose before the Grand Final this year.

Nope, we don't lose finals of the SCJ.

So they finished seventeen and sixty six, which is very cool, very nice. Port Adelaide sure up second spot with their win today at fifty US. I'm just updated it sixteen and seven, wasn't it ye? Stand alone? Second spot, which is very cool. Good on them, crazy obviously, Sidney. Look as we go through this ladder check Sidney an incredible year started off like absolute gang busters.

A little bit of a diversion in the team, We're first, what are we going to do for the next six weeks?

We're never losing again? And then they lost a bunch. They were fine Port, they were dead in the water. We were at gather around. That was chaos. No, they were awesome, they looked awesome, and then it completely fell out from under them. After that, they're firing Ken three weeks later. Three weeks later, Ken's gone smash cut their second and ladder Ken's just out there having to cry. He was angry as well some of the calls on the field today. But anyway, in third, the Geelong Cats having to travel to Adelaide for a qualifying final, which is very interesting. But they talk about like just years that are wildly crazy, right. The rest of the top four outside of Sydney Port, Gelong, GWS, Geelong dead and buried halfway through the season as well as like, oh they can't win it all there cooked mate, they can't win And then Gws were the exact same thing. I came out just after five or six rounds. They're the best team in front of us, booing what are we doing? And then it completely fell out. Then they turn around to beat Carlton.

It goes to show that banking wins early very important because this top four was the top four after round five or six, I believe sure.

I don't know if Carlton and Essendon and Collingwood agree with that, because they were all top four ones.

Yeah, but they didn't bank like. Collingwood went zero three to start the season. Essendon were one and two or two and one like and Carlton were a little bit shaky to start their season as well, whereas Swan's Port Geelong GWS went bang bang bang to start their season. They all had one loss by a round seven. I think Gelong with the last team to lose, getting six or seven wins straight away set you up.

And GWS like that's the other sort of thing there, right, Like they end up fourth just via like losing today cost them essentially second spot on the latter. I think their percentage ends up dropping down below both Port and the Cats, but they could have been sant Alane third. End up in fourth. They lose a bit of a tough one. You're in Bell right, they rested a couple of dudes or at least at a couple of guys out, But you get that on the big jobs. Brisbane finished fifth and will host they bow.

They blew a top four spot. They did.

Losing to Collingwood the way they did ad the g basically cost them time. JWS not great, not great Lions, Western Bulldogs in fifth, six, sixth, that's it, sixth, fourteen to nine and the Hawthorner in fourteen to nine and seventh. That is an extremely cool elimination final. So we've got Scrubbo saying statspot does not want to talk about the first five rounds. Move on, I'll pay that he.

Wants to talk about the first two rounds of twenty twenty.

Three though, sure, no one better who's got it better than us? And then of course the greatest team of all Carlton thirteen and ten, rounding out of the eighth in a ridiculous, ridiculous fashion by losing by two points to some killed it today, and then Freo not being able to get the job done against Port at home, which actually Knox Freo all the way down to tenth. Colling would finish in ninth twelve nine and two three oh in tenth, twelve, ten and one the Essendon bomb race. But they showed some fight, didn't they against Brisbane. They have a percentage of ninety three point five.

God, they're pathetic.

Eleven eleven and one, Saints eleven and twelve in twelfth, Gold Coast eleven and twelve as well, my good mate, and then Moyle.

Look most wins ever for Gold Coast.

They finished off on a high. They won the dimmer Ball. I'm very proud of your Ned and co. That's excellent, Love you Ned. Melbourne eleven and twelve. Probably the biggest disappointment.

In Malady fourteenth, they've got fourteenth five.

It's pretty crazy. Adelaide eight, fourteen and one. If you want actual disappointments. We knew that Adelaide were going to be flaky, but we sort of anticipated that Melbourne would still be just good.

I had Adelaide top four, top four.

I had Melbourn missing the finals at the start.

Of the year good and they did.

Yeah, anyway, that's all we do.

Sixteenth, West Coast five and eighteen, North three and twenty and Richmond two and twenty one. They send off likely what is it, eight remaining players from their final premiership team.

Camdon McIntosh is uncontracted as well.

That's crazy, especially, I think even more crazy as the Camden McIntosh an eighteen fifties coal miner is playing actual AFL football still, which is ridiculous. Alex, please professional love and admiration for the Saints, says Jonesy. He can blow it out his nose. We don't need any Saints fans in this.

I need Tom Clark to join the chat just to start rubbing it O.

Saints fans were very up and about and it's like, yeah, congrets on twelfth we're in the final.

Stuck that a couple.

Yeah, I'll say I was never in doubt, never in doubt, as I said, cool Jim, there you go. So with the eight obviously fleshed out and done and locked away, you're AFL finals to twenty twenty four. Week one will be there's Sydney Swans taking on the GWS Giants, the port Adelaide Powell, they've got that power to win. Come on Port out a later aggression new member you remember he has to buy it now.

God anyway, Melbourne Melbourne one like a Melbourne membership.

So Ports take on Geelong. We have Brisbane hosting Carlton. Then we have the Western Bulldogs hosting hosting the Hawthorne Hawks of the MBC. G should they play that at Marvel Alex.

Yes, no, absolutely not. Finals should be the m c G.

Yeah, absolutely.

Why build Marvel if you're not gonna have finals because.

You need another ground in Melbourne? Why you're not gonna play finals, then you're not going to have the right scheduling.

Has nothing to do with the schedule in the MCG. I don't have a second ground.

It's a FL finals. Ingo, Why are they playing at Marvel? Why are we doing it all at the MCG VFL buy.

The should gather around actually for the first week.

We should have gathered around just at the Marvel and do it in Cans. All right, So final finals first read? First read of the finals. Swans versus Giants? What are we looking at here? It's the Battle of the Bridge sydneybby Alex, you're the Swan's man.

Swans have won the last three against the Giants, but have never beaten GW WES in a final. That one of the worst Sydney performances I've ever seen was at the SCG against GWS in an elimination final twenty seventeen. I think it was might have been a semi whatever. I would still suggest the recency, how this one's played against GWS that the Swans will win in an absolute ripper. But at GWS in finals they could just turn up Jesse Oagin kick eight.

He's in that form at the moment.

How do your backline feel against that team.

Against Jesse Hip they're the third best defense in the league. I'm not that concerned.

Port v.

Katz. We were talking this one out earlier on the live stream while the Porte Frio game was happening. Yep, they do have history these two. There's no love lost, of course there isn't. They're right like, there's no love between any no.

Love between that the dumbest hang in the world.

There's plenty of the.

Last the last two finals that Geelong have played at the Adelaide Oval, Port Adelaide have belted them.

Yeah, yep.

Port Adelaide are the only team to have beaten a Geelong there in the last couple of years.

Calling it radigally to kick four.

Finally, revenge Brisbane versus the Flag.

Is by about seventy.

Yeah, it's a pre prelim repeat from last year where they just like there was a moment in the second quarter I want to say last year where it's like, hang on, wait a minute, week, are we on here? It was like a very brief, fleeting moment and they kicked our heads in. It wasn't a massive, like absolute belt down, but yeah, they just handled.

It as a quicker sight. So it's the fourth Sydney Derby final ever. There has only been one other like derby showdown ever in finals, so there's been one ever between the other two states. This is the fourth between Sydney and GWS. And how long I have been GW It's been around for like twelve years.

Interesting it wasn't kenn obamber Thompson assistant. Uh yeah. Carlton ended up losing it one by sixteen last year actually, so seventy nine to sixty. But they just sort of handled them right. It was just like ah, then they sort of came back and like I believe and then I just did Yeah, tough one. I think no team benefits more from the two weeks off than Carlton to get their dudes back.

I think this one's also benefit as well.

With really Alex got some vibes and why the Swans might benefit from a bit of time. But the thing is so they were like I think the Swans are in the driver's seat anyway, because they do. All they have to do is like they get that extra week. They could have taken a week off this week. The horse doesn't do that. We get it. They get the week off. They've got some sore bodies, but I think most teams are gonna have staw bodies. You don't have a seven eighteen player.

We don't.

We don't have eleven players.

Out, especially with those dudes who are like on those one to two injuries like as we saw Charlie, Harry McKay, et cetera. So three tools and if we get TDK back, who knows but McGovern maybe getting him another week. It's massive, So they could have some huge inns. Whatever, they're still probably gonna have their heads kicked in by Brisbane, who looked board is very very good.

They've got, they've gotten to the fars, like, okay, we're going to make finals. Just let's just get to that point good and.

Then finally a really really really awesome elimination final. It'll be the mcg's Bulldogs taking the Hawthorne Hawks. It's a big one for the Hawks.

I love this.

It's an away game at their house. How good I guess the Marvel team that has played six games of the g in three years, what that's awesome? Sucked in, that's unreal, That's what I'm saying. Why is this not at Marvel All Ballarat to be honest, Send them off, Send them up the road. Ten thousand packed into the North ballaratte Stadium, Mars Stadium, Tins on the hill. We're smashing beam guns. It'd be great. Chips, gravy, all the cheese you want, gravy spot late night we're going to doun to twenty one arms after that's not open anymore, gym shure. It really is a shame that one of the Dogs and Hawks can eliminated.

I mean, but as as fans of other teams in the competition, love.

It because they could easy easily be a gun. Finally like love it just split a little bit more.

But there you go.

So Hawks West and Bulldogs are shaping up as an awesome one. Brisbane Flagger, is this hilarious because there's a prelim from last year port Cats, plenty of history there and as Sydney Derby, this is an awesome first round.

What I'm doing most looking forward to, uh probably Dogs not Carlton.

Yeah, I'm watch Carlton just get absolutely there.

He probably I'm probably Hawks and Dogs too, just because I think it's going to be an exciting.

That game could be sick.

Yeah, this could be one of those finals.

It's like one hundred and ten to one hundred NFL marbles. Let's f and go the up the Blues. I mean, I've been singing the lads, says Marcus, who wins the Brownlow now the home in my season around Marcus. That's literally all that shows why plan stop looking at the content plan anyway, So that's the finals first read. We have four amazing, amazing games open up these finals campaign. I can't wait. It's gonna be afl exit with the most exciting thing all right before we start. So we've got two weeks to talk about those games. Let's give round twenty four. It's due before we do that. Ben ssh Hey, Alex yep. Should we play Afel been going in. I'm going to go um Buyers. Commentators open the roof. Couldn't open the roof today, that would have been Yeah, someone might have died. But anyway, the commentators this week it felt particularly loss horrib as. The French and Spanish mode. It felt like they were as bored as us watching it. And this is one of my absolute bug bears. If you're not excited to commentate a game, if you're not excited about explaining the game, why would anyone care?

It faired as Hardo was having a bunch of fun in the Hawthorne and North game, him Bucks and John O Brown were just cracking jokes, happy.

It is fun, It is great, light hearted.

Then you had was it had Kelly and Lee Montagna doing the Gold Coast Richmond game. It was awful. It was a punish It was terrible. So that who was on the I can't remember the other game yet, how he's a Geelong fan. He was having the greatest day of his life. And the watch a kid goals. I think the Brisbane Essenon game was just seven. It was like they were just willing the Bombers to get back into it and then they finally they were falling over themselves to say how they were going to beat the Lions and they the Swan.

The Swan's Adelaide game had Dwayne Russell cheerleading Adelaide so hard ha the Swans, you know, they really need to win this to guarantee themselves at home fast. No, Dwayne, we need to lose by one hundred and then port to win by one hundred to finish second. We guaranteed top two.

Didn't feel like he had that straight in his mind. Yeah, and he was kind of like trying to talk his way through it, like if I was doing it and I'm not paid to do that, like he is, what do we doing? But it felt weird this weekend for commentary because even the Carltons and Kilder game, it felt like BT just cheering on the Blues, which was weird, and I did not like that. Like usually he's just like I hate that team more than anything, So I find out that he hates and killed them more fantastic.

Who hates and killed him more than Carlos?

Was bizarre, but he was like all over it. He had a pretty good call down the end for the Higgins goal, I think, but the Ballarat call was pretty fun, but that was more because you could literally he just blokes talking in your ears from the crowd.

But even then it was still pretty bad, and it was pretty bad in the first quarter, and.

Then you had a chaotic freeo pork game which is probably the best of the lot because you had peraps, you had had on it have there, and you had Matthew not died a questioning commentator, Matthew Matthew.

There was no big gat for the eight.

No one was entirely sure he was going for so yeah, people think it was West Coast anyway. But yeah, I'll tell you what what what? Yeah Jim for Channel seven commentary, Thank you, Buzzan. I appreciate it.

I was gonna say, I can't wait for fox Foot you to take over and have all the games next year. But the commentary we got this weekend, But I'm so concerned at how bad it is and get called up.

I'm like, how will we do it? Like we've gotten to round twenty four? Understand, it's like the last round this was just barn burningly bad. I'm just going to go burn some Barnes because it's this bad. That's what that's you know, turn of phrase. Mates, But I just I'm so confused as you how how you have like just this roster and go this is the best that we've got. How did that happen? Where was matt Hill?

He's still away, He's still not back.

You think it was, was it? Jason Bennett was on the same.

Adam Olszansy called the races yesterday. So Matt Hill still is in back. He I know he's back this Wednesday because we're interviewing him for an upcoming content series.

Cool either way, it was a Barry Crocker shocker of a weekend agometry. I do like though the someone needs to give Tim Lane a TV job. They do.

Stephen Klomaine, Yes, hurt him on Hawks right now?

Just give him the one Sandy Roberts early Saturday game on Fox from now.

I fact that he struggled to be biased on that, just as long as it's not Andy Mark, All right, let's do it. Let's wrap up Round twenty four lightning style, because there was a lot of lightning around. He's light Yeah, starting on Friday, there was lighting. There was a body lighting to lie you was sick. Why didn't they just call it the game? So this was the weirdest part. At what point do we just have this written in the rules and go just captain's call?

But also given that at the end of the season, calling to that far in front, who cares?

Who cares? Melbourne fifty seven Collingwood one O three checked out eighty touches for the day guy. I think most of this game was actually spent saying trying to explain how Nick Dacos could win the Brown Low. I remained unconvinced.

Yeah, I's probably gonna get top three.

Probably, Yeah, see how we go? I watched Neil Deakos.

I went and watched Deadpool instead of watching this shreaky sninky pretty good.

Ah, what is it? It's the Star's when Madonna doesn't it?

No, bye bye bye? Is it in sync?

Oh yeah, there's but there is a Madonna.

Madonna's at the end. Yes, yeah, sure.

Love the endzinc one.

Yeah, it's good. Jennifer Garna makes an appearance. It's pretty good.

Spoiler alert's what are you doing?

It's been out for three weeks?

What I'm not gonna lie?

I did not already say I don't care. The lightning delay kicked in, and everyone, like quite literally everyone there which is likes.

Going on, didn't the Colin with Chance bring out when the delay was happening.

I think so, To be honest, it was pretty cool because like everybody sort of just pissed off home and then the people who stayed just then all rushed to the fence and so it was like a very close ring.

Wasn't the room?

Don't you have to get out of the ground when there's a lightning struck because I was there for Easter Monday with like, I don't think you get out of you but it's like get under cover.

So that's what they did. But the moment they went back out there, okay, still.

This was like cozy pick At attempted murder.

Yeah, it was just a gross game. Like even Gary Lyon is like Bailey Fridge if he could get a touch and you're like, whoa Gary going in?

But it just just shows Melbourne's like people are Melbourne have blooded a lot of young kids. You look at their list, it's there's still a lot to improve on.

Nothing.

I have been told they have a couple of father sons and n gas in the next two years that look very decent. So they've got that to hold on too. But you still need a forward.

They haven't played an AFL game yet, yeah.

But you still need another forward. Leva and May another year older. Gorn looks like he's cooked, Clari's cooked, but Traca doesn't want to be there. Like this, they're not going to be in the finals again. Next year, they're gonna be bad once again. Not that bad because West Coast, Richmond and North will still.

Be there, so one spot there.

Yeah, so he's saying there's a chance Carlton or something could drive. We could Collingwood like it was interesting, weird, want like we've already talked about this game way too much. The Raindelaer was sick. It was very cool.

That'll be bad in next year. Collingwood.

They did find a little bit of like punching their forward line, but Jake Lever didn't play like Stephen May wasn't there like whatever. So good job by the dacos from running roump. But how the two fan base is feeling after this season, we're going to break We're going to break down all of these teams later on this week, we're going to break down the ten teams who did not make the finals. But after these games, so.

Colling Wood like, if you gave a fifty to damn Star, we'd be playing finals all And that freak kick when we didn't give the ball back too.

How about you don't go zero three to start your season, losers.

Yeah, just goes zero in five instead bag he's got a point leo.

Just like.

The table.

The days are like, thank god that's over.

Demons fans are just like that was horrible. Yeah, that was the look In basketball, it happens the year from Hell, like Memphis had it last year where they just had no players, like that was the second seed two years ago. Everybody got hurt. Jahn Morant's out comes back gets hurt anyway, they lose all their dudes end up like playing. I think it was like thirty six people. There's only fifteen dudes on an entire basketball roster.

Manchester United had that last year in the APL.

But Melbourne basically kind of had that, so you kind of look at that one and go it all went wrong. Year from Hell. I agree with you, though, Alex, the idea of like what is the bounce back and how what does it look.

Like next year they're going to be They're going to be chips in again. But it's like you're still worry about the depth you need forwards. Mixed day yep, and check is my check will be back to I don't know.

Why I thought we're talking about Melbourne. They needed lockdown defender Collingwood.

Yeah, they do nice one, all right, Saturday. It was a game in lawn Sesteon, not lawn Ceston. I've heard Land lawn cestein land Cesston, Tasmania down there in Dazzy. Weird things happen in Zaszy one seventy forty six. When we say weird things, we mean one hundred and twenty four point belty.

In the wet in the west it was raining.

Sight awthorn beat the Jesus.

Okay, let's just get to the report together over.

Let's now go to our beloved little statspot Live Life to take all right.

Very depressed, that's guy here live from lawn Seston, Absolutely filthy. The Hawks get the job done. One hundred and seventy to forty six, Yes, one hundred and seventy. They did it in the wet that it was pouring, old game. They made it look like a dry game. They were unbelievable. I was more worried about the drinks and the food. The chicken burger was definitely an eight out of ten. The lights they were even on, even though the union was striking. I don't know what was going on there. Weird things do happen in Tazzi right, Jim the best player on ground. I'm going to go with Conor McDonald. I think he was unbelievable see mac nineteen disposals, three goals, seven tackles, did a bit of everything, massive mood and Brosio. He's in my Australian team thirty one disposals, two goals. The only one that can hold their head high for North has to be vintage Simpkin performance twenty five disposals, three goals. Choy was sold in the ruck against Meek. If I'm facing the Hawks in the finals, I think they're a bit of a smoky. They could do a dog's run from twenty sixteen. I think they're going to be very tough to face. They're up and about in launcessant and North fans. I'm not happy.

And that was a very sad stats boy.

Look he gave the Chuken Burger an eight out of ten.

Doked on the Burger. Horrible horrible team though, But we should have a Ruberg.

But what about the lights in this game being moved earlier in the day because of the what was it strike action?

They didn't think they'd have any lights on the ground.

No, Harry cheese or to save you, missus. I like that. The lights being off was weird. It was bizarre.

Then they were on that were fine. I don't know. He said, well he's got masimono Whi's all Australian team, so Leo should be happy.

Who does that guy?

You just put Maimonian team after that.

But also it's Harry Cheesel without North they are they averaged losses by over one hundred points.

That's a stat that's in later.

Two.

Fan base stats boy just gave us the sort of breakdown how the two fan bases filing after this. Hawthorner just flying right.

I'm just like, you can't believe you're having the best time ever.

I don't know what this might be the best like year of Leo's life. I think it might be. And I've seen four flags.

I hate you so much.

I want to throw him off a very tall building at this point. That's ridiculous. I'm so old. I've seen.

I've seen two as well.

Anyway, and the Ruse fans, I mean you just heard their.

Fan they haven't finished about seventeenth the last five years.

Not pictured there with stat's boy just crying, but he did look like a hostage. It's all right. Weird things happened, and Tazzy we might not see him again. There was another belting as well, we should be flying through this one sixty eight seventy five Gelong rap by one hundred down a gm HbA down to taxpayer time, up by one hundred and a half time.

I wanted them to win by two hundred because thought that would have been funny.

Well, there we go, Port Cats Thursday, Lions Blues Friday, Dogs, Hawks Saturday a Swan's GW Saturday Night. Interesting.

I hate that so much.

Hawks started the run, not the Dogs. Please please refer to as the Hawks two thousand and eight run. Interesting. You can refer to your cult in history book for premierships. There's a good ground. That's a good ground to stand on. Yeah. The anyway, back to tax Bay Stadium and Geelong. Jess was incredible. Do you kick nine goals?

One joined his hero Jola Mardi in kicking nine goals, the highest total for the season.

I'd Shannon Neil for five plus in my big cause he I think he got three or two.

Oly Henry So we talked on Thursday six on Thursday Show. We talked out Jesse kicking like five, Shannon Neil kicking five and Olie Henry kicking five and they almost did like that's ridiculous. I loved it. The thing is, I mean, do you read into this, No, it's just a training run. Yeah, literally, So how the two fan bases feeling after that? Geelong they're stoked, they're third. They're probably just more annoyed Letting gets sex.

So Geelong's last five games North Melbourne, Adelaide, Freemantle, sin Kilda and West Coast. They've had an easy run into the finals and the got belted by.

Sin Kilda also gives them a bit of a chance to get healthier. West Coast hasn't lost by one hundred, but Sydney have need he say more, says Emory.

You don't think so their podcast, Yeah, this one are going to smash.

It's gonna be awesome. West Coast fans they are.

They've come to the realization that they are worse than what they thought they were, whereas we've been saying, oh yeah, there's another hill to come.

And they're going to be real bad.

The two wins that they won beating freends if they won the two wins they had. It's like they had five this year. Yeah, they had five wins. It's probably a disservice to them.

Beating Melbourne and beating Frio is just like, what the hell happened both of those clubs?

And how'd we lose.

Melbourne team too, wasn't it. It's like that.

Carlton game was like the Carlton Like to cop this back to back the Carlton game where they've got like no players and then just get deleted by Geelong. It's just like that's a lot of tough medicine to take, you know what I'm saying. Hey, Richmond played Gold Coast in a dimmer bowl. That was sweet love.

Let's move on.

It was also a horrible game. Coast won again away from.

Home ninety four six. They won. They won an only game at the MCG this year.

Could you imagine they beat West Coast and North Away.

No, if they beat West Coast and Sin Kilda, they'll be playing Finals one.

North Carlton wouldn't be fantastic. That's why I love the Gold Coast all right. This was the fairworld of Dusty. It was very cool to see him. They're very teary at the end. I love this.

Where did you see the like see that from him? So like Richmond fans go, ah.

He did care and where he sort of set out piece had Dusty over the last month or so. But it's still like as I said the other day, like it's epoch defining, like it's Ira defining. He's an era defining player and it's just sad when that sort of like those players move on. We did just it just shows you how old you're getting, like you made didn't so I was just very old show drunk.

Just me.

So I went back this morning and checked out our over under this episode and we talked about Richmond, like, oh, they could bought him out badly, and we mentioned that Dusty they get smashed a couple of times early. Where's the interest levels? Yeah, we totally know.

I did say pre season Northwold finished above Richmond. I didn't think it would be seventeenth and eighteen.

I had Richmond winning as low as four games. I couldn't imagine them. Only when we can talk about in later shows. For now, super Sexy Flanders was awesome in this game. I did have him captain in Super Coach, I said on the Super Coacht Show nailed that captain because I was spewing about the decoss miss because I had gone instead of Dacos Boom.

We're massive a good, a good team, as in, anyone better than Richmond would have absolutely handled Gold Coach Chester. This game was disgustingly bad.

And then they got argie bargie towards the end, and Richmond will know now we're tough. It's like it's the end of your season.

Yeah, what are you doing?

So they've got to really attack the draft this year and this year like really, well.

They're going to clear out. They're going to have to with their players.

They're not gonna have any players.

Yeah, exactly. Gold Coast eleven wins, so like yay record, yep, but just it's sad.

Yeah, it still feels like a failure. I think they need to get a lot more out of King because a lot of the ball went into the forward line. I know there was a lot of dumb kicks and not a lot of great entries, but he's either on or he's just completely cold.

So I think a lot of same with mac Andrew.

Yeah, I mean that's they're playing away like that's it's always going to be the way right, and so I think who was it?

He?

Like I said, Ben Long popped up and like that's kind of a fun thing with Go Go sometimes where they have like that interchangeable forward line where the coach is Ben Long or Ben King will pop up and kick one of them will kick three. It usually only happens at home. The fact that Ben Long did it away was actually really cool, and that's why they won the game because every sort like they sort of solid by that in the second and third quarter and sort of run away, like just kept them in arms length for most of the game and off they went. But it's just there's still so many questions about that team and just their hardness, and I think it'll just take a year or two for them and to bash their heads in and then they'll be awesome. I really like them next year. Just saying just saying two fan bases how they're feeling. Richmond fans are just it's gonna hurt. Yeah, it's gonna hurt. The thing is they're going to just look at this and go, we know how much is going to hurt. We're going to say goodbye to Rioli, We're going to say goodbye to show Shae Bolton, Baker, Graham, Graham, It's all over. Dylan Grimes is gone, Dusty's gone. Marlin Picker playing the game of his life.

According to commentators, yes so did they not see his first game exactly? So he's the first player in the history of the AFL to win a flag with his first in a wooden spoon with his fine off. Not that that's great actually, but he's also the first play his first game.

In front of one hundred thousand people and the second game in front of zero.

That was the one I said on It's like you listen to Thursday Show anyway. For the Suns, I feel like their fans are just gonna be like, can we just get tougher? I just want to be tougher, like took Matt Row good.

Star as a Sun's fan. What are you feeling one?

Feeling just a little bit like there's a there's a bright future for this Suns. Yeah, yeah, I love this Sons.

Good friend need Moyle.

Adam Bolton, who's over at anywhere, no loss for targets overrated because he's brilliant is good and he's just worst his bottom five.

We's complimentary brilliant, Yeah right, if you've got other good players there, he adds, like Adam, he takes your ceiling from there to here. If he played for if your ceiling is only here, he's still only not helping you.

Really, So if he played for Fremantles today, do you reckon? They get the job done from two goals in fifteen and Bolton Mayeah, they definitely win with Tracy and h Bolton.

A right there you go. Brisbane Essendon eighty seven sixty seven. The Lions win this one. Oh the bomb has put up a big fight, lady, was just what this was? Because Brisbane sprayed at more than my five year old. Trying to take a lash like it to get to your five year old. He's just like this, I'm it was that the dog he's I know. I'm like, what the hell?

Yeah five year olds? Redemption now?

Yeah good, he's fine.

I'm blaming to be honest, it's probably been Jim whoops.

Anyway, this is why Brisbane won't make a deep running finals. They'll take care of Carlton, but then they'll lose the following week because they'll kick ten goals sixteen.

Flip side miss it now it doesn't matter. But Jim they've missed it now, they've been doing shots. They've been doing it for five years. Kick them all in the finals. They've missed for five years. So it's not just a one off there. So Gen points out Carlton actually has a chance. Brisbane kicks twenty four behinds a game. Not wrong, they were just shocking and it's happened time and time again. And Carlton did actually ride a bit of leap like that.

Lost when they've kicked more behind than goals. Brisbane they've lost six games this year.

Well, they did try the artist to bottle this just because of their They put the Q on the rack way too early and it's and they're like, we're still here, let's ever go. Heppel was fantastic to the point where I might just go back around, just why not just play another year I retired? Actually no, I want a real fair Well, I.

Actually think there's more value in playing Happle than Jake Kelly. For instance, the Jake Caley is putting one of the worst seasons and I don't think it's been talked about it.

Does Jake Stringer come back?

I think he should. He's kicked forty two goals this year. Yeah, very bad forward line.

But you have to look at his contract. His class contract year he kicked forty one goals. Next year was twenty nine to twenty this year.

True, true, But I think it would be dumb of Essendon to not reward him because if if you're a top two goal kicker, you've kicked over forty goals and your forward line is a problem, you can't get rid of what is actually kicking your goals. Like get rid of, honestly, Peter Wright, like he's not kicking.

I get rid of Petter right too. But the thing is he's a guy who comes back. He's fit for the first six weeks and then his form goes like this.

Well, you're not wrong, you've got a point, but I don't know. I just think he's there.

He's there talent, but it also could be a line and the same thing going.

Okay, you show glimpses, but you don't do enough consistently over the year, which is our problem. In that half of the season, they lost nine of their last twelve games, and we love that bloody hilarious.

I think the only way we're going to fix this is for you guys to punch on. Oh no, I die really rally every day of the week, says Adam.

Not bad.

Yeah, really just got me into the finals. A good game, Leo well played in a great show of force yesterday from ic CI ic C Jim Bow.

Would you do no idea?

It must be a fan Yeah, a moment mac Andrew mc andrew rules.

I love fan bases.

Brisbane Brisbane lines are just like, can we just kick straight?

That's Wind's life. We're in the finals.

They're going to be stoked that they play Carlton as well, because well, when is that being free?

I feel like they'd be like, you'd be like, especially if they got Dogs or Hawks. I think they'd be absolutely.

Car was the one team they wanted to play for, and I was like, oh, man, if I get Josh Tracy back and Alex Peerce r West.

Screwed Sean Darcy, probably play again.

Yeah, a lot of meat coming into a team. It's a lot of you, sure, Darcy, Alex Pearson, Tracy boys. How much would they all weigh? So this is off topic.

They need toy to the chart of two different planes, this time one with working dunnies and one with.

Actually why the dunes weren't working?

Josh Tracy Dross, Darcy Run.

Seven forty seven. All right, you see this double.

Fans are just like man not again, Like, honestly, this is beyond a joke.

There are a lot of Essendon fans in my life yea.

And yes, Daniel Brown Beef Bowl, Beefy Bowl.

So the Bombers fans are just looking is like, where where does this essen and edge go? Because like there was scarings of it in the back half of this game, and you'd be so so so frustrated as a Bombers fan week after week after week of just the inconsistent effort, the inconsistent footballing nouse yep a lot of the time, right, Like there's like an footballing I Q this sometimes just like completely bandons this team. Carlton does it as well, right yeah, Carlton do it shockingly where it's like, hey, we played awesome, let's do the exact opposite of that. You're like, what are you doing? The Bombers. I feel like the building blocks are there, Like I love the likes of Nick Martin Cox, I love Carl Langford, Sarah's obviously.

Carl Langford's four horrendous this.

Year, Durham's unreal, really.

I think so. Yeah, maybe one's blunt of the es and and edge.

Yeah we did anyway, bombs Fans just be like, can we get something different next year? You know? Sidney adelaid this was a bit of all laugh at one twenty one ninety. This one smashed the crom Alex take away.

Bruce free footy this game, most of Adelaide's goals just came from the Swan's being lazy in defense.

Thriller was awesome.

He's absolutely going to win a Coleman, but he's twenty seven percent less threatening now that he shaved.

The beard does not look as scary.

All numbers approximate.

Yeah, exactly. Luke Parker has shown why he's really important. This one's three goals twenty touches again. Callum Mills has found form playing behind the footy once again. It was good to see the Fords actually take some marks. Samadi McDonald MacLean or kicked a couple of gals. Chad Warner off a break was good. The Lizard had two and thirty. It's a good problem to have for John Ormy that Heeney didn't play. You've got McCart and Pappley.

He's taking this really seriously, isn't.

What about Jim? Yeah, I got to take something seriously. But what's going four dudes to come back? Good problems to have. Funnily enough, Rory Led comes out to say, Josh uh, Shelley needs to do the team thing first, and this and that, and then proceeds to drop an all time stinker. Have like twenty eight possessions and gained two hundred meters, Like, honestly do that in four twenty twenty on handballs, a couple of handballs that led to goals for the Swans. Should Matthew Nixby sacked?

Well, there was also just a bunch of like crummy Rory Lead moments. Yeah, it just like wasn't putting his body in the lake because he's.

There was one where he did ran away and looped around.

You can't be ragging on Rachelley. It happened to have that where he's just like ball watching. Should Nixby sacked?

Why did they extend him when they was zero and three?

That was weird, But I don't think they should sack him. They needed they like, they just need to change the vibe, though they don't need to change the person.

Yeah, change the vibe. So you sacked this change you sacked the coaches, No, you do. You've got to overhaul the board as well, because they just they.

Get ruined charge and to be fine.

No, but that's the thing.

They just seems got a bushes good.

You get dang curtain in charge.

He looks like he's going to be good. But the he didn't Thriller.

Probably won't play a game next year.

He and Thriller like the two dudes. You can just sort of put a circle and go, this is why we have a future.

Boys. It totally looks like I would say, yes, I think you can't look at this you and go eight and fourteen as a pass mark.

No, it's not a past.

But it's also like they haven't made finals in five years.

Like this team, they keep adding stuff to it and it just keeps underperforming. Yeah, to me, that's coaching. And here we are. How the fan base is feeling Sydney.

How good home final? Let's go Adelaide.

What are doing treading water? Another year wasted? Isaac Rankin played what third end games as well? That probably doesn't help.

And Thriller is going to be unreal.

He's so good like texts.

Another year, I would say five touches off Phil. I would honestly go, hey, anyone in Melbourne his texts for a third rounder.

Anyone just take him on as a goal king coach and away go from there. Sunday. Now, these games are actually good. The Western Bulldogs and the GWS Giants battled in my hometown. Ballaphonia knows how to part Ballafonia, Yeah, knows how to part Hey, ninety eight to sixty on the Dogs win it? How do they win this one, gentlemen by thirty seven? Was it just both kicking away in the fourth quarter? Or was it just man handling this Giants team that wouldn't really quite say die?

It was winning in the second quarter, won the game in the second quarter?

Was it the it was Jones who kicked that goal late? There was basically the sealer, wasn't it sort of put them back up more than a couple of kicks and like, okay, they've got this one now. Hogan only had the two. Jamara didn't bother the scorers because he was sort of just floating around further up, which is pretty interesting. They got Norton involved a little.

Bit more tough, a day for the key forwards exactly.

It was always going to be tough, so they just gave him the old one of these. We're tougher than you, so we're tough with it. They are tough gws. They didn't look like they're going to early, and then that second quarter they kicked six goals. It was awesome and nothing better saying the cattle sheds in the background show grounds just.

To have I think there's a few things better instead of playing this game should Bevo and Kingsley just had an arm wrestle.

That's what I said, actually to my mates when I was watching.

I said this in the group chat.

You guys should be friends either way.

That would have been cool.

How do we sort of it's weird to read into this game right because I think it's like windy as all hell. It's windier than your mom after just getting around a bit of cucumber. I think that's what the what is wrong? It's a bit farty after the cucumber.

It's cabbage just anyway.

Cucumber works.

Cabbages are very funny.

This is why we just got canceled.

I don't know about that, but you.

Look at this, it's so Windy. You can't look at this game and go, oh, well, that'll just transfer to like when the Dogs play the Hawks.

But no, it's more that the Bulldog Dogs had to win to guarantee themselves finals. GWS had top four locked up, and what we lose, we actually don't need to leave Sydney pretty good. I'll pay that.

Just when bucket it down as well.

You're just like I think, I think bevo Our coach Kingsley though in the third quarter it was like keep it on the dead wing and they just did. And then you just had in moments where they needed a bit of skill in class. You saw Bonton Pelly Richard's Norton popped up with a mark that riches goal at the start of the fourth, wasn't it was like roost, He's been fantastic. Toby Green snagged that goal at the end of the third. You're like, oh, here we go, and the tsunami never really engaged. Would have been a weird one to have a tsunami on Lake Windore fan bases. Dogs fans would be heartened, but wary.

They're happy they made the finals.

Yeah, I think they understand how tough that Hawks team is. Going to be GWS fans.

I think they're looking at.

This going don't have to leave Sydney. Fine, we'll give Sydney you crack. That's sweet. So the seg you wouldn't know was that going to be Friday?

It's Saturday now have been confirmed.

Well, a certain betting agency's gone early and has put out the dates and times, which again they could change, and Dan's actually put it in the chat here.

One cop that Gym Orange team ironically hate Rangers. I don't know about that. You've got a couple Tom Green mm hmmm, ranger, a couple of other words. Anyway, should be.

Right, I believe.

So that ends up like a pretty crazy like dogs year. They make the top Bait again, it's a successful year. If they lose in the elimination final though, oh like everyone's taking the victory the Bevau victory lab. Now. If they lose to the Hawks, it's going to get very weird and wonky very quickly GWS. If they go out in straight sets, they'd be weird. If they make a pre limk Can they make a Grand Final?

Yes?

Yes, the top four Hey Carton lost US and Kilda seventy six to seventy four didn't matter. I'll never worried. Didn't care about that game.

That game was bad, the finish was great. One of the best skills were pathetic.

You could say that about quite literally every single Kilda game this year.

I think I watched them against Geelong last week. They're pretty bloody good.

They were good for the second half. The switcher like that first up was horrible. But this game itself, I mean when they were sort of going back and forth in that third quarter, you go, oh, yes, Carleton don't have a forward like this is fantastic. Jesse Motlop kicks one goal and doesn't very little else in this game.

It's an important goal and.

It was a very important goal. It didn't eventually end up mattering, but still the Saints. The Jack Higgans goal was sick. Damn Butler's a dog. What else can we say? Roand Marshall's a weapon. He's out like he and Piddo just had a big boy fight. I reckon all day, But Roald Marshall in the clinches, it's just it's hilarious to watch. I love Piddo, but those moments of like on the ground agility and just like getting those extra disposals out of absolutely nothing. Pito just does like it's like watching just like it's the X Men meme of like Wolverine sitting there looking at the picture and I'm Wolverine. I'm looking at a picture of Tom dy Coney just like just missing him. I just miss him because pet he's serviceable, he's big death geez. So also pretty funny you see Liam Stocker and Paddy Dowell go hammering song was against the Blue that did not.

Suck at all, Nick and I thought was pretty good.

Yeah, like one million.

He touches in the second most amount of marks this season in a game, really seventeen I think.

Ollie Hollands in the last quarter. It was just seemingly everywhere.

That's like the best game of football Ollie Hollands has played, I think, probably one of the most complete. He played a really good run a couple of weeks ago too, but.

He was really really good this week.

And that's to be honest. We're going to talk about how the fan base is feeling. Carlton fans would be like Olli Hollands. He can if you can actually figure out ho to play football, that's awesome. You're really good if his brother did something else, I didn't pop up every so often on half half forward flank.

And just I enjoyed the Poos game and who was good? Missed that goal though Dow was fantastic. God was good. That's so annoying.

Anyway Carlton fans feel about Sam Walsh GYM So.

Sam Walsh is, he's an enigma.

Oh that's rude. Daniel Brown. That is just to TDK as Aaron francisis to mccarton.

Walsh is an enigma wrapped in a mystery, wrapped in just like an old box of dirty tissues or something like.

It's weird.

Was like a fusional wetering and a big slaber more than humans.

He is, he really is.

He just doesn't do it anything though. Even when they kick it down long to him on the line, it's like take a mark once, just once. When he does it, You're like, that was awesome, Just do it again. Anyway, Sam Washing continues to be a bug bear. It's just I feel like he's still carrying the crummy back injury that he had early on this season, and it might never have gotten that good, but he's powered through it but still hit a target like one lead up target. That's all last. Saints fans are gonna be like, that was awesome. We almost played spoiler sucked in blues and to that, I say, enjoy twelfth and not being in the finals. And then finally Freo lost two never tars the ba boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom the port Adelaide Powell. What was the actual final score? Eighty seven sixty seven. Weird game. Frio just never could wrestle control of it.

They pushed hard in there at the start of the last but just could not take their chances.

Not having Tracy, not having Darcy, not having Piers the hell of a spine to be missing.

They lost their last four.

That's some good analysis, and they did lose.

Pro don't lose your last four, you play finals. Win one of the games. The game he lost, as like.

The Essendon game was absolutely unforgivable losing to the West Coast in the.

C if Essendon didn't get that point, the darn point. Are they in finals?

Yes? Because of the draw.

That's crazy that Santa Clearance awfully defended them.

Outside of this, I mean, the power getting through this the way they did.

I love this.

I mean, for obvious reasons, they've got the Blues in the finals, but for them to sort of go we don't really have too much to play for it, but they're just like that angry. This happened like this just to guarantee your home final two. Well they had to make sure they didn't lose by a lot four goals, yes, but still like they came out they thought they were really good. I just really, really really like this power team. At times, they do this to you, They suck you in and then they might just go straight.

I'm not going to believe it till they lift the cup, win.

A final, and then we'll start talking.

I think.

I think Butters was everywhere, throwing himself into every contest.

But Rosie showed up a little bit in the second half too. Hornet was fantastic. I thought, as we were sitting here watching it, it's just like every time there was like a big sort of moment to be had, he grasped it.

It wasn't a good time for Calyb Sarrong Davy's worst game of the year. Calybs three behind in nineteen touches all right, two fan based out they're feeling after that power just like stoked. Yep, they fired ken halfway through the season. Frio fans are flatter than anything. They can't believe they missed the finals from this position, so like this is the team, but when they beat this one.

The best defense in the AFL this season basically right until probably today. Just statistically, they might have actually just slipped off the perch, but they were for most of this season and to have that and to not make the finals is absolutely absurd.

So port Adelaide to the best defense by three points yea to Frio and then to Kilda and Sydney.

Not Carlton, who I think might have ended up sixteenth.

Raised that two of the top four defenses aren't in finals.

That's what defense is overrated. You heard it here first on AFL today.

North ball is the future.

All right, tipping results after all this, I actually have no idea how I went.

I got eight, I got Richmond wrong? Oh no, I got seven. I've got three hour wrong?

Yeah, I got six. I think you've got six or five?

Right, looks like judging by this you got nine gym nine. I'm the greatest tip where ever lived, the funniest outcomes though, I think that we were talking about right. It was Essendon winning, which would have been hilarious because Brisbane would have absolutely cooked it. Probably the Dogs remaining the line of demarcation and losing that would have been hilarious. Carlton obviously losing was funny. If you weren't me, damn it and there you go. But full credit to the boys. Best team of the round. For me, it was the Western Bulldogs. How was it not free Port winning? I'm saying I was poor, like it was. I wrote this down before Paul one. Now it's poor the way they went out there and just took the hopes and dreams of a nation on their shoulders and did right by the universe and got Carlson into the finals. But the Dogs were fantastic. I thought the way that they just clamped out the the Giants was awesome. And uh yeah, but the power taking care of free at home very very very good, Alex.

I'm just gonna go Hawthorne.

That was awesome in those disgusting conditions to still kick one hundred and fifty points ridiculous, A very tough.

Week to give best.

Yeah, I was just like this this sucks.

Yeah, you know, Hawthorne were awesome in the wet and terrible conditions and one by one hundred and twenty, let's go Hawthorne.

Leo, Well, I was gonna say.

Hawthorne, I'm sorry, I'll go Geelong.

Nice. We're just smashing teams best on ground of the way, who's the best player we saw this week? So there were moments where Crips showed some flashes and the third quarter was massive. I enjoyed that a lot, but also there were just times where you're like Patrick when you put your hands above your head. He's got a bun shoulder and he's carrying like a yeah, he was carrying, and it's like I understand that it's going to be, but when the ball is going through you and hitting you on the head, that's weird what you're doing. I'm going to give this to Locky Neil. He was absolutely fantastic on Saturday night. He was just absolutely everywhere and dominated. Like there was a moment I think I don't know how many touches he got to because I was going to throw Dekos in here as well. But the way that Locky Neil, we literally talked this one out before right about how who would you take in terms of like their career, et cetera, and how well they've done and Locky Neil sort of sits a little bit blow, but he was so good against the Bruce Free Dawns that it was a bit ridict. Ended up with forty touches and a goal, and there was like moments in that third and fourth quarter where there's like little scarex of fight from the Bombers and he went, I'll just get in the guts again. Bang off he went, bang off he went. So that was really really impressive by I thought, and Dacos obviously forty and two. That's probably three boats Alex.

Jezza, that was awesome count honestly, Yeah, Like I know he wasn't on a good defender, but that was just awesome to watch.

Yeah, I was going to go Decas, but you already shouted him out. I'm gonna go a bit different, and I'm going to say Ali Wines in the poor game thirty one disposal six experiences, I thought he played a great game and defensively too, didn't let's wrong. Get I know Drew was also on so wrong, but Wine's too, I thought.

Played Jack Higgins it's pretty good and Jim's left the shout result. As I said in the group chatted five hour wait Jesse, yeah that thank you. Max Answer had seven goals with seven again, six.

Goals with six kicks, joining the exclusive club with John Butcher.

Yeah got shot language Yeah amazing. That so cool.

Was such a grab anyway, staut of the week via a stats boy. But this has already been said without She's in twenty twenty four North and their average losing result is over one hundred points. That is not good, not ideal, No one, dude, and you lose them by one hundred just not great, just not great. Anyway, keep it up North, you're doing fantastic, Clark, I will fix it. Oh mate, no mates, he's got no mates. This week the Lions and the Umps, there were some shocking ones this week. It felt, I mean it didn't matter like and then you saw the Umps as well in that Carltons and Kilda game where everyone was just ropable, but it was particularly agreedious. I thought in the Lions game.

It was like.

Faintly ridiculous. At times you're like, what what do we do?

We?

Oh, that's silly.

There was a.

Particular I think of Joe Dana her armschop and it's like that is beat a free kick all you. I don't get why that's sort of free kick. He probably would have missed it anyway, but still probably And then the other old mate nomades though, in the very spirit of the old mate nomads is get on the bus and go what the hell was that the Ben mckuy handball that led He handblled it to the Lions. Be more specific, he handballed it to the Lions player and they kicked the goal.

Probably did that last week as well.

What is what has been like? Does he get back on the Bombers team bus and like other bus.

Ben bus mate, Oh you guys on my teammates.

And okay, right, geez not great. Ben mckuy is also now getting to the point where commentators are feeling free to criticize him, and that's not a great spot to be in, Like when commentators are just like what's up, yeah, and you're about to get to that on Daniel so alex.

Ah, Yeah, the knob who threw the water bottle at the goal Onpire and hit him in the back of the head.

Ye, yeah, that is legitimate. Old mate nomades. You deserve to never go to the football again.

I hope you get a humongous fine as well, because that you can yell at the umpires of bad decisions and be frustrated. But without umpires, we don't have a game. Stuff like that discourages the future umpires from going through once again. Without them, we don't have a game.

Heading As I said during the live stream, we all get angry, we all get frustrated, but we don't throw things because we're not children. What are you doing when my two year old is just like, hey, you dad this and just go swamp and I'm like, what are you doing? I do that and then I ban him from life, just banning for life from the loundroom or whatever. No more TV for you, a Paramount plus, Yeah, Paramount plus is gone. No more poor patrol anyway. But yeah, don't throw things like it's just it's a very basic sort of civilized tenant. Don't throw things at people. You're not children, Leo.

I'm just gonna go with Brodie camp because you and even though you're in finals, he's probably now going to the boys. Yeah, we're in finals, and they were like, Brodie, you could have just done it for us earlier. Like, so I'm just gonna say, Brodie Camp, that's a great one.

I'll pay that.

Why I can't stand I mentioned this earlier board commentator is just brutal. Like when it's good, it's great, Like commentators can lift the game when they're just like not engaged and pretty bored and sort of just chatting amongst themselves. Sometimes that can be kind of fun. But when they're not at particularly engaging personalities, I'm looking at you, I don't know, Nick del Santo, it's just brutal. You just need to go why are you talking? Even?

What are we doing? Anyway, Hex, I'm going to go with Ah.

It'll be sad if the best team in the comp doesn't make the finals. That was being said about the Western Bulldogs potentially today if they lost, Well, if you don't make the finals, you are not the best team of the competition. Technically speaking, right now, the best team of the competition is the Sydney Swans. Why they are first on the ladder and minor premiers right now, they are the best. Come the end of the season, the Premier will be the best. Also, Ah, that freak kick and non fifty costas finals.

Collingwood fans just shut up. You weren't good enough.

You don't have to listen to it for the next month, I know, even longer now.

So oh no, they were trying to dine out on Carlton for a couple of hours. So I'm actually kind of happy that Carlton had made finals. Now, it's pretty funny.

Yeah, to be honest, it would have been it was going to be bad no matter what, and losing that one after losing to Collingwood two years ago by a point to lose just killed it by two points and miss finals again, Yes, would have been brutal.

Yeah.

Would love to see MLB style team specific comms commentators teams one day. I think that's what we're getting towards.

I think that's what I love the idea of the Hawks radio. I really enjoy that.

I mean, I don't listen to it because it's even too nuffy for me. I'm like, I don't want to live, like I don't want to live and die with the commentators the.

Same Mark McClure telling HWS you to shut up.

It's like sometimes it gets too nuffy and I'm just like, I like that's already happening in my head, like I don't need that externalized.

So if that makes sense, can I give you the alleged finals fixture?

How about we get through this bit and then you can do that. We'll finish the segment. What can't you stand?

Mine's very basic. I thought this week was heavily over over unpired. The Hawks North game, there were so many freeze. I'm not saying it favored any side. It was bad to both teams. I thought today was overly unpied too, in every game. I thought the Dogs Giants game as well. I just think they need to simplify. I think Finals coming up it will be simplified because that's just what they do and they pay less freeze. But I thought it was pretty poor this round.

Another shot to Ray as well had his final final game that was very, very cool. He also had a he was almost delighting. I think he got to pay a deliberate one more time.

Yeah, that was a shocking delivery. Did you see when he got sent off There was a Pies fan in the background giving him the middle finger, and I think Razer just had like a little smile, little work.

It's good anyway, let's do better than Harley Reid, and then we'll look at this finals fixture as it stands, so better than Harley Reid.

For this week, he wasn't that bad. I wonder who did this.

Yeah, I totally did this. No one else had done it.

Yeah, yeah, Oi Reid. They watched it. Three goals Caden Clear, he says the Swans fan.

Yeah, he was very good against I thought I watched the Saturday one, but he.

Was even better last night. Two huge mothers are led to girls. He had sixteen touches and a couple of tackles, and I think he had about four clearances as well, got midfield time in the last quarter when everyone else is off. It's like, Oh, he's going to be that dude next year. It's just like in every weekend, Caden Clear is good.

How about will Ashcroft? People forgotten bet We already knew he was better thirty disposals. He's fantastic. Already knew that though, So watching that one, it's like the first time I've seen him just go, oh, I'm like one of the best dudes on this team.

He did his first quarter against the Giants and then did nothing.

And just for a little bit of reference. So with the as we sort of hit on the Ollie Hollands stuff, he.

Was just I don't know.

All we talk about with Calen we need more speed, more speed. He's got the speed. It's like do you know to play footy though? And he's sort of slowly figuring it out. He had twenty one touches today. Sixteen That so ruby like sixteen He's on the list. Yeah, fit still to kick?

Isn't it all right?

What do these finals look like? Alex?

So this has changed a bunch of times, but allegedly as of right now, Thursday night, Port Adelaide played Gelong Friday night, Western Bullocks and Hawthorne.

Hate that on a Friday night, hate that on that.

Saturday afternoons, Swans and Giants, Saturday night Brisbane and Carlton. I would flip the Friday and the Saturday because I think the Saturday afternoon of the MCG will get the absolute biggest crowd.

Probably would Swans and Giants on a Friday night works.

But from a Hawk's perspective, we have not had a Friday night game.

Any who gives a crowd get a Friday night game if you next time.

He used to play footy with Ray as a kid. That's cool. If Caanan even develops into seventy five percent of Errol or chat Son's have another gun.

That's pretty fair.

More like Lewis Mallikan because he's like pac Man and goes not on defenders.

Good stuff, Johnny, So I don't if we can swap the Friday and the Saturday afternoon, I'm happy with that line up.

Apparently it's going to be confirmed tomorrow morning. Why why why they usually on Monday morning.

Oh, let's just flow this out and see what happens. At the moment, looks like Port and nine and a half point favorites against Gelong. The Dogs are three and a half point favorites against Hawthorne Sydney seven and a half point favorites against g WS. The Lions are twenty and a half.

Pints quick tips Port and Geelong.

I'd probably still say is a long judging from Port's record against them in finals.

Yeah, probably Geelong Dogs and Hawthorn.

Dogs, Hawks, hawkslad Swans, Giants, Swans, Swans and World Chipping.

Brisbane went in the flag Boys sucked you in anyway, super coach Wash do we know who if our man actually won?

The entire comp is the big question. The final rank for the year Kiddy's Crew was one hundred and forty four up. Doesn't look like that's updated yet for whoever won, but hopefully he won the fifty grand. It was a good chat on the Supercoat Show, which is very fun. They did have some big points of difference though this week, so it'd be interesting to see how they landed. Anyway, that'd be very very fun and very cool. I don't know where I finished with the older.

I had five donuts this week, I've got four and ninety nine.

I think I had two thousand, undred and fifty two gross.

I captain Bontampali and forgot about it last time.

All right, Well, that is it for the final Home and Away around twenty four wrap episode of AFL Today. What we will be doing though the cool We've got plenty in the can ready to go. Yeah, we've got two weeks worth of stuff before the next game, So we will have the AFL Today Awards. This week. We will have the wrap up of the ten teams who did not make it. We'll be previewing all these teams, will be talking all this other stuff as well. We have so much in the works. It's a bit ridiculous word with all Australian.

Teams naming our own out, naming our own all Australian teams. Yes, as we discussed on the live stream, it was fun.

We talked it out. It was like a work meeting.

Ah. Anyway, so we have plenty in store for you this week. Afl W starts this weekend as well. Check out the afl W Today Show.

We have We are recording Tuesday for the Round one preview. Maddie Collier from the Sydney Swans will be joining the show.

Very cool, so.

Remember to smash us, you know, across the socials and on YouTube for the afl Today Show all the way through the finals. We have actually got like I think five basically shows between now and the start of the finals, and they are going to beat chocking.

We're not going to content top five with.

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NFL Australia have the over unders and all of your picks heading into this season, all your awards and all that, all that stuff rather oh swear right at the end. Good stuff anyway, we'll catch you later this week for an absolute shockers shockers set of AFL today gear get around them like the Swan's getting around another minor premiership for being the best team we've seen one hundred.

And fifty years.

There's no possible way they could lose before this Grand final. All right, we'll catch a lad of this week for more AFL Today. We've got so much in the candids, ridiculous. Till then look after yourselves and remember forty was back. It's still back because now it's footy finals. Got the guys, whoa oh Heysten