AFL 360 - All eyes on Swans after form slump, can they turn it around? - 07/08/24

Published Aug 7, 2024, 11:08 AM

Catch up on all the footy news from AFL 360, Wednesday the 7th of August with Kath Loughnan and Jack Riewoldt.

Kath and Jack preview a very important round of footy before being joined by Jeremy Howe, who says the Pies are prepared for a formidable Sydney Swans, despite their worrying form.

For more of the show tune in on Fox Footy & KAYO.

Of summer, Pado's best work, another milestone man to celebrate amongst a critical round or Puddy.

Nowhere to hide?

All eyes on the City Swans in Friday night footy against Collingwood. Can the latter leaders find a solution to their worrying form slum a month out from finals?

Tie stakes for the Pies.

Too lucky They've got their high flying Jeremy Howe, who joins us ahead of Game two fifty, and Luke the NRK, the seventeen year old Englishman who is taking the darts world by storm, joins us Tonight's.

Live from Woollugong.

Welcome on this Wednesday Nights Putty from all angles.

Hello Jack. You feel in city tonight, isn't it? I'm Jared your robot.

Where are we going with that? Are we?

Yeah? We are going from that? Well that's where right?

That's all right? Lay stood to get the late call up as well.

Yeah, and insuring lessons all right.

I started learning swim, so I got the call from the producer said get in here a bit earlier than what we usually do.

Is she showing much promise.

Very early on?

I know you're a very good swimmer, but certainly is a hurry on titmus fan big.

Time who isn't Yes, he's a star.

Great show coming up tonight thanks to and Ib So Jeremy how one of your good mates. So you've gotten to know over the three sixty journey. We're going to celebrate him ahead of this crucial Friday night game. And he's two hundred and fiftieth plus all the regulars, Jordan Lewis, Daisy Thomas, David Kingley, Montagna and Luke Littler.

Who have you heard much about Luke's story?

Well, I know that he's seventeen, so the first question is going to be is how did you get into the pub? Good question, But he's but he's here.

He's here with the rest of the darts world. Yeah, be very exciting.

It's going to be a big nine eighty. You've got to give it more gusts than that eighty. We'll try at the end of the day.

Give me the only come tell me what are you looking forward to most, sat.

Ib, Well, we've had an amazing round of footy, but thanks I am looking forward to Carlton versus Hawthorne on Sunday and I'll have a front row seat CAF two because I'm working this game for Fox Footy and it is just going to be a fascinating game. So Carlton look one and four. They were right up there premiership favorites only a mere month ago and then have hit this form slump and not a great time leading into obviously the run into September, and Hawthorne have been the hottest team in town bar the quarter they played on the weekend, the last quarter against the Suns, which is the most important one, and lost that one in a very close game in Canberra. So I just think that at the moment these two sides are probably battling for that last spot in the eight they said eighth and tenth. At the moment the Hawks have a chance to go equal points with Carlton, but obviously percentage of separating them, but a really good challenge for both of them.

What are you looking for on what's your early gut feel?

Hawks?

Hawks?

Yeah? I think the Hawks are playing awesome footy.

Live and exclusive on Fox Footy. The only place to watch it is on Fox.

What about yourself footy?

I've gone Jeremy Cameron's two hundred and fiftieth game, So this is a huge game in itself when you look at the top eight and the ramifications. This game will have Fremantle Beach a long in Perth, and we know Jeremy Cameron loves the big stage and I think we were reminded of what his best looks like last week, particularly his work rate and his speed on top of everything else.

Kicked six, as we are all well aware of.

Now, and I'm feeling another bag this week. I think he's going to back it up in Perth and it's going to be a huge job for whoever plays on him, and a huge job just for three ohs back six because it's pretty lethal forward mix they've got at the Cats.

Yeah, it is obviously that half forwards a pretty important but two hundred and fifty games for one of the best modern greats in terms of goalkicking, and you're right last week he nearly we single handly got them of the one and what is an important game?

There is so many important games.

But even if you look forward to that and look at the CV there of Jeremy Cameron, his goal per game ratio is right up there with some of the great So you think Tom Hawkins is probably around two point three goals again, I think Cameron's around sort of two point seven, so his ability to hit the big sticks and they just.

Give it to him.

What did yours end up?

Are probably around the same as Tunnlhawks.

But look in terms of dangerous players in the competition, there is none more dangerous than Jeremy cavnwhen he's firing.

So that's a big game, but probably num bigger than Friday Night at the SCG.

Should we get into the agenda.

The footy gods while they work in mysterious ways, and well, it's all set. The team most under the pump is going to feature in primetime Friday night footy against Collingwood at the SCG. And the question on everyone's lips is what kind of response we're going to see from these Sydney Swans.

Obviously any losses are disappointing one, but particularly the way it lost the weekend was extremely disappointing. But you need to get that out of your system pretty quickly.

The dignity of it all to the Sydney Swans water blow here is a fatal one. You'd have to ask can Sydney emotionally recover from this?

This is going to leave scars are they.

I'm fascinated the response. I'm fascinated by.

What Sydney duke in the next hour of footing.

We've shown this year, time and time again, a week after week that we can do it, and now our players know that, and we know that as coaches, and we need to go and do it.

They're a high pressure team and because they're still sitting from on top of the ladder.

For a reason, they've got a lot of quality.

And we're going to be hard to bet at home, and we'll go in confidence.

We'll have a plan to bet them.

Our best is very good. I think that's been improven.

So you go back to what.

You know, and we're confident now playing group.

And our staff to go to every turn to.

Thank we respect those guys, and we go up there with that purpose.

This is going to be a huge game and there's a lot of stake.

Tune in Friday night should be a big one.

Should be a math Watch Friday night fully on Fox with Gary and the team. Tune in from six thirty It to Milestone. A game bra a man We've got to know well. At three sixty Jeremy Howell plays this two hundred and fiftieth game, and.

He joins us.

Now, Jeremy, thanks for coming on three sixty and congratulations and early congratulations on the milestone.

No much appreciated. Thanks for having me.

We'll get to your career and revisit all the hangers shortly, but just in terms of this game and how the team's tracking at the moment, I mean, it felt like Collingwood with a Collingwood of last year last week in that classic against Carlton.

How do you think the group's poised?

Yeah, I think for us, Yeah, we obviously had a real challenging month before the last Fortnite. We probably had an opportunity to really strip it back and work on our fundamentals of the game. We felt like, you know, we built that up a couple of weeks ago against Richmond, but then really had to step it up again against.

A quality opposition in.

Carlton again, and we felt like we took another step forward.

And yeah, we've had.

Another really good week of prep and what greater challenging to go up and take on the top of the ladder in Sydney this week.

How we congratulations on two hundred and fifty games. Made a long way from Dodger's ferry mate where you grew up. But I want to know off the back of last week's game. Obviously the three quarters, the first three quarter is dominated by you and Collingwood and the last quarter dominated by Carlton, which one do you read more into in terms of the learning.

I know Craig McCrae is big on learns.

Yeah, it's a good question.

I feel like, you know, we we do live in a space that we want to encourage what we're doing really well. But understand, the learnings did really come from that last quarter, and we knew that Carlton were going to come, but we felt like there was some you know, some couple of errors that we probably shot ourselves in the foot a little bit and they were able to capitalize on the back of that as well.

So yeah, I think there's a bit of both. We take a lot of really good things out of that game.

But also probably the way that we want to finish, you know, we're thirty two points are how can we probably manage that game a little bit better so that the margin doesn't come so close. But credit to Carleton. They threw some things at us and they got on top.

And some critical parts of the game, which.

Allowed him to probably score pretty efficiently at the back end of that. But yeah, like you said, a lot of positives, but got to probably finish the game out a bit stronger.

Another negative from the game mate Jordan Degowie, who we won't see again this season. How do you replace him and can you replace him?

Yeah, that's a tough one.

I'm not sure if replacings are right where we're going to have another guy to.

Step up and play a role for us.

We can see how important Jordy is for us, especially his fort half ball uses.

Unreally, he's got a lot of score involvements for us, which is really important for us. But yeah, it was unfortunate to see him get down.

With another injury this year. It's unfortunately hasn't gone his way. But yeah, we'll look to get a guy someone in to come in and try to play a role for us. But we don't heavily rely just on Jaws, but he is pretty influential player for us.

Take us into the preparation this week, I mean, how on earth do you prepare for a team that's been the benchmark for so much of the season, but it's coming off a one hundred and twelve point loss.

Yeah, I'm not sure we're going to prepare for the Sydney that played last week. God, I know, and I'm sure Jack in bouch for how hard the game is and week to week there's potentially someone getting rundown or someone an underdog's beaten a favorite, and anyone who's doing good in footy thieving this.

Year's probably doesn't know much about the game.

But yeah, look, we're going to prepare for the best of them. That's as simple as it's going to be. They've got quality all over the ground, and we expect them to come out and really emphasis emphasize on starting well and we plan on doing the same. So the contest would be hot early, no doubt, and then we're looking.

To settle into the game as quickly as possible.

Game to fifty mate. Congratulations.

Is it something that you started going through your mind a couple of years ago and you had that wretched arm injury that you I might not get.

To Yeah, that one for me, like on injuries and have some adversity along the way, but that one for me was probably the one where I thought it might have been it. Yeah, physically it was taxing. Mentally, it was probably the most challenged I'd.

Been in terms of my footy career.

But yeah, a lot of credit where credits due a lot. My wife and my family were amazing through the process, and so I was the footy club. They gave me the time that I required to be able to heal, and I.

Wasn't sure where I was going to get through.

To be fair, I thought, you know, maybe I won't be able to get back.

And function like I used to.

But over time I managed to manage to rehabit and recover well, build the strength back up, and then yeah, the way that last year managed to cap off, it was a pretty special year.

And then look to try and build on the summer for this year and go again.

What exactly was so mentally tough about it?

Because we had Christophertraka on last night and he was really open and honest in saying, how much of a mental struggle he's going through at the moment working his way through rehab.

Can you let us in on that time for you?

Yeah, I think for me.

Yeah, obviously with the break, I got that prepared pretty quickly and that was that was probably the simple part. But then I had the infection and that really kind of rattled me around for a good two weeks. So I had four surgeries in eleven days and then yeah, I just I just didn't feel great.

I wasn't able.

Yes I'm a football of it, when I wasn't able to feel the role of being a husband and a father to my son Xander, I wasn't capable of doing the things that I was previous. I was like, well, if something's got to give, then unfortunately my footy careers.

There's something that I'm going to have to give give up. And like I said before, my family that was super supportive. They gave me all the time that I need. But I really struggled with that. I wrestled with the idea of yeah, not being able to function. Probably I had no feeling in my hand, which scared me. With nerve damage, you're never really.

Sure where the ending is going to come back or where the feeling's going to come back for that.

So I just went to a space that I had never really been to before.

And again credit where credits due to the family and the club were amazing and I can't thank them enough and I wouldn't have got back without both parties, that's for sure.

Well, people love to go along to the footy and watch the superstars do the superstars thing, and you've been the superstar of the.

Hangar of the modern decade.

Is it something that you've always done. Is it something that you did at Dodgers or is it something I know you played a bit footy at the Hobart Footy Club. Has that always been in your arsenal or is this something that's evolved since coming onto the AFL scene.

I guess for me, I probably started realizing I could maybe take a few up there when I was about about seventeen sixteen sevent een playing senior footy for Dodgas Ferry. Although you know, I wasn't playing against the most high end of talent, but I was playing against grown.

Men that were pretty physical. But they are able to let me jump at the ball.

And I suppose once you start bunking a feuds, it becomes.

A bit of a bit of a habit.

I guess it's becomes a strength over time. I felt like I don't feel like I can jump any higher than most, but timing and trying to be clean if something that I've probably worked on a lot over the time, and yeah, it's something that's just happened.

A bit more often than others. You'd probably know what it feels like a bit jack as well. So were you one of those kids?

Were you one of those kids at lunchtime that used to just always sneak around the back because it's markers up in tazzy and there's always the push to try and get the kids at the front that you want to jump on. Were you one of those kids that just dagged out the back, always looking to take the spec or did you do your time at the front.

Well, I raided myself as a kick as well, so I always wanted to make sure I'll get feel those in.

But no, it was probably every third marth I'd sacrifice.

And go up and have a few kicks.

But generally I was one of the dirty ones that you used to just camp out the back and get the perfect hit more often than well.

We wanted to revisit one of your monks in particular and just take a listen to Paul Ruth's commentary during it.

It's just having to deal with that and it'll take twelve months.

Or so on.

You don't play on after Mark like that you do not play on After mark like that, you go back John I, so the replay can be you gotta go back and take your kick and hold the ball in the air and pull your socks up.

You do not play on Son.

You do not play on.

Some That's definitely not the first time Roosey's had a crack at me, that's for sure.

Yeah, yeah, look at honsl. It's a great thing. But I don't know if you jump up that high and you feel like you're up there for that long, adrenaline does.

Weird things to Morton.

We'll Caro Morton after the ball.

So you are an absolute star.

Congratulations on two hundred and fifty guys, and good luck on Friday night.

Much appreciate it. Thanks.

How good to have Jeremie Howe join us. So ala luja as well. Took a while to get that out tonight. Yeah, around twenty four.

Picture times are finally confirmed, so everyone's getting book and see you know sus out there plans for around twenty four. Here was the AFL CEO Andrew Dillon on the last round of the home and away season.

Today, fixture is really complex and I want to mention a shout out to Josh Bowler, who does the fixture for us. He's been trying to forecast how the AP's going to look, and you wouldn't want follow his tips because he hasn't been very good so far on a week to week.

So look what we try and do.

We've got to work with venues, We've got to work with our broadcasters. So when we can get games city in their own spots, it's great, but there are other requirements.

But where we can do it, we will do that going forward.

So the Sunday triple header looks an absolute beauty. I'm excited for these bulldogs of the GWS in Balor at first game, Carton into the Saints. Don't know what that will mean for the Blues and then finally freemantlev Port in Perts, so that game's bound to have implications, maybe a home final, who knows.

So that's how it looks.

Round even Brisbane, Essen and at the Gabba like Reston and still in contention. It's that it is a good way to finish up and it's the reason why they hold it back to this sort of late We're all sitting there going tell us what to do, but tell us where we're going to play, but it gives us this bit of theater.

Towards the end before we get into the real theater.

So now all fans can make their plans and book their tickets for around twenty four. Lastly, retirement season that continued today and this time it was West Coast Andrew Gaff announcing he'll hang up the boots, so he's going to play West Coast next two games. I've got one in Tazzy against North and then it's their last home game at Carlton at Optus. That'll get him to the three hundred game mark if you take into consideration his preseason and represented and Mill qualified for APEL fantastic, so the West Coast panel as well.

They have and you think about Andrew Gaff's career has been one of the he's sort of owned that win over West for a long time. For the West Coast Eagle was an amazing high work rate and I'm glad that they're getting him to three hundred games because that does mean a lot, getting to AFL life membership and he's got an amazing CV that you see the All Australian Awards Best and Fairest. Unfortunately, I think you missed out on the Grand final they suspended through that period. There, but a CV that everyone should be proud of.

Yeah, he was so pivotal in the twenty fifteen year when they made the Grand Final and then the twenty eighteen where yes he missed the premiership, but he was so pivotal in their run to get to that premiership shot. So his CV there, Thanks to host plus and congratulations to Andrew gaff as he hangs out the boots where up to a break, we'll go inside the four walls. Next the Sydney Swans and Cancers on the agenda.

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Closer to September, Jordan Lewis to join us next