AFL Round 18 Wrap - Gold Coast Claim Pies Scalp + Hawks & Dogs Pretenders? | AFL Today Show - AFL Today Show

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
AFL Today is around eighteen rap is here? What are around?
We had? Lads? What are we talking about?

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Did the Suns have their best win in their club's history?

Speaker 3 (00:08):
We talk about some of the best young tall forwards
in their games, strutting their stuff the games in Soaphians.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
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going nuts.

Speaker 4 (00:32):
All our teams lost this week. Let's get that off
the run. It is a sad weekend.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yeah. I don't to be here. At least we're not well.

Speaker 4 (00:39):
Oh yeah yeah, Leo, Yes, yes because this guy is.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Yes unfortunately, Yes, we will get into that.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
Are handsome, so it doesn't matter.

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Round eighteen results? Let's get right into it. Thursday night
footy is the first one at Marvel Stadium, Carlton taking
on Brisbane. Carlton nine goals twelve sixty six, Brisbane fifteen
goals thirteen, one hundred and three. Now something called your

(01:27):
eye Marcus. That was a bit out of the ordinary
in this one.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
It was, well, we'll get to the loans in a sec,
but we have to start with that. Mark Pittn top
Torp and Vossi at the club got on it. He
got on it was huge reckon, Like Krippa said, kick
this like you're kicking Vossi out the club.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Look, don't that's me? Is he in the last person
on Carlon's list that you would have thought would do that?

Speaker 4 (01:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:53):
I didn't have much faith when it was. When it
was good on him, I love.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
It, but we need to see more Torps just generally.
I agree he's kicking down the line, get it done.
But he was great. He finished with two goals. But yeah,
another sort of goal line eraror for the Blues two
weeks in a row where they've where they've let one go,
let one go through, where they just there were five
Carlton players in the goal square and it's frustrated and

(02:17):
not one of them touched it when they could have
easily done so. But Charlie Kerner is still concerning for
him as well. He's gone goals for his fourth consecutive game.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
Do you drop him?

Speaker 3 (02:28):
We can't drop him.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
No, Makay, you can't drop What about Lemmy?

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Just bring Lemmy one out out of the square. I
think I think it helps.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
If Lemmy was in the side, I think could probably
be in his element a little bit more.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Do you think he's injured? I know that he's missed
a few goals. He's actually had a lot of shots
on goal. I think last week had zero three. Is
he injured though, like or is he just under it
was a zero nine across the last four weeks.

Speaker 5 (02:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yeah, But another story, another storyline.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
That we don't really want to read, Like, we don't
want these storylines coming to the game is the umpire
is just getting in the way too much. And I
think up pouring in general wasn't great. We don't we
don't want to put him down, but like little stuff
like that, getting the way coughed up a goal for Brisbane,
got a goal in the end.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
The umpire that got getting in the way gets suspended.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Sure rolls reverse when Adam Cherr backs into an umpire
tribunal kill him. Which is absolute joke. And you weren't
very happy with it, were you. Yeah, you check out
the socials AFL today. I'll be fired. I'm going to
be fired out again. That is an absolute joke. It's
an absolute disgrace to the game of AFN is gone.
It's a grace to the VFL of the past. It's

(03:36):
the disgrace to every fan going around. You shouldn't be
all right, of course, we want to protect the umpires,
so I'll start with that. We want to protect the umpires.
If a guy falling bubbs at the umpire, the game
out the way, fair play. He has eyes in the
back of his head, Lads, he's walking like this just gone,
and then he's knocked the umpire over the pie hope
he's all right, but it was clearly an accident and
he shouldn't have been sent to the tribune. I'll do that.
I'll do that the shopping center all the time.

Speaker 4 (04:02):
Let them know that.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Yeah there, yeah, and then I.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
Dropped kicked the key and then anyways, we'll get So
we'll get to the Lions because they.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Were very good and they won. They were very good,
they won.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
They're comprehensive and you know, boys, I'm a big goals
from midfield guy, you are. And the Brisbane Lions had
that in plenty. Bailey had what kicked one four and
twenty one, so he's done it again.

Speaker 4 (04:25):
He could.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
Goal for killing mccaugege. Even though he was getting he
was copped a tag. He still finished with eighteen and one,
will Ashcroft twenty nine and one, leve I Ashcroft fourteen
and one, Bury twenty one and one.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Well get very nice, unreal but.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Unfortunately Noah Answorth suffered an achilles injury.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
He just couldn't put any weight on that.

Speaker 4 (04:47):
He looks like brutal underratable back line.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
He is another underrated cog of that back line and
someone who stepped up in his absence from majority of
the game was Darcy Wilmot.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
Yeah, I love watching him.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
Had thirty one disposals when eighty three percent, and I'm
pretty sure we had twenty three.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Of those were kicks.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
So he's just big meters game, dude. Yeah, he's just
topping off a great year. And Dunkley had a great game.
He won the inaugural Robert Walls Medal. We had thirteen tackles,
twenty eight disposals, fourteen of which were contested, which was
a team high.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yep. Absolutely the Lions. They just got the job done
by what was it again, forty three? So they were
forty three or not forty three, thirty seven, thirty seven.
There we go, thirty seven quick match. Anyway, let's get
into the next game. Friday night at the MCG. This
was the game of the round. I believe Gold Coast
ten goals nine to sixty nine. They defeat the Pies
at Collingwood eight goals fifteen at sixty three. What a

(05:39):
bloody game this was.

Speaker 4 (05:40):
Leon here comes this.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
I want to start by the bloody sun, by the
chump mat.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
That they held Collingwood dollars in the first half.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
There was zero eight zero eight.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
When have you ever seen that before? They were so clean,
so tough around the ground, simply just out running the Pies,
out working. It was Noah Anderson, my other beloved, Dean
Anderson's son.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
He should be playing for Hawform.

Speaker 4 (06:08):
It's another topic.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Matt Row.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
These guys Mat Rouse at the time with his tie.
They were fantastic. And I really love what Yulan was
doing on Elliot first half. And Ali kicked away a
little bit, but body Ywlan's a fantastic lockdown defender.

Speaker 4 (06:23):
But he just kind of felt that if the Pies
got one and then they could maybe get two and
a three and four, And so they did.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
That's what they did.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
That's exactly what they did. And it was all off
the back of one man. And it wasn't Nick Deacos.
It was Josh Davis his last quarter, Peter Dacobs his
last quarter. Yeah, it was fantastic, one of the best
individual performances of the season for mine. So we go
through the stats because I am the stats guy, obviously,
sixteen disposals, two goals, ten contested possessions, five intercepts, four clearances,

(06:54):
five tackles.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
Boys, is that the best.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Individual performance quarter we've ever seen from a playoff season.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
First of all, you're not the stats guy, but I
think they pgged me down there. But this is one
of the best quarters I've ever seen in my life,
let alone this season. That was unbelievable. They couldn't get
a hand on him. They were like trying to check
him in the contest locky while I was and he
runs straight through that gout there.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
When Walla was on him, you could tell how worried
he was because he gave away the holding free.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
It's just stuff like that that show how good he
was in that quarter or.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
Reckon, you get o reckon. Honestly, he could sneak up
to twenty Brown Low votes on the end of the season.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah. Yeah, but they always put the N decos instead
of Jdakos on the They did that a couple of
times last year, so they infused they do a little
bit with that quarter.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
Just a question off the cuff, do we think now
that he has to play primarily on ball.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
Nice o debate.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
I'm gonna I'm going to say no, because I think
that on the wing he's so dangerous both ways, and
I think in the midfield, possibly in the future when
the likes have soide bottom and penalby retire, but.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
At the moment, for the remainder of the year, you don't,
you don't. Pixwood isn't broken.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
So the winning games with him in his position is
it's Collinwood is very much a role play sort of team.
You play your role and you win games are footy,
whereas look you look at other teams, maybe perhaps not
so much, but if.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
He was in the midfield earlier, they would have won.

Speaker 4 (08:19):
Imagine Josh and Nick in the same mid fans would
be very I think I think I kind of lean.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
More to Josh Faye's only one game, one quarter, one quarter.

Speaker 4 (08:29):
Yeah, we'll see, we'll see.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
So yeah, the Pie started to look really dangerous towards
the back half, and Alliott got some leading space and
kicked the goal to get them in front, and you thought, okay,
this is probably Collinwood's to lose. And massive credits to
the Suns. They got back into the game and got
what a nine point lead through first Ben Long and
then the epitome of a captain's goal and Noah Anderson,

(08:51):
that is just unbelievable.

Speaker 4 (08:52):
I don't think I've seen a captain's goal in the while.
That is just your captain saying this is my time
to do it. I'm putting the team on my back
and I'm taking us home to the motherland, and he
did so.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
Question for the panel after this result, is.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
This the best win we've seen from the Gold Coast
Suns in their club's history.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
Car Michael Huns Honestly, No, honestly, that could be one
of the get them nothing exactly. This, This could lock
him in for the fire. This gets the belief that
they could win the final. So I'm going to say yes,
because the crowd was Pies fans as well, breathing down
their neck every time they got the ball. So I'm
going to say this is their best win.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
In terms of what the club represents and the change
that Gold Course is making is in terms of those
Definitely is their best ever win.

Speaker 4 (09:37):
Yeah, how bloody good.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
And just to end on, if you want to hear
more about a certain Son's midfielder who was fantastic, listen
to my best on grahnd for the week.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Given shout outs to his own segment.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
I actually I actually rate that shouting out his own
Instagram his own segment.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
Marcus underscore Pisano.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
There we go east the shout out and because I
am actually the stats guy, Leo, no side, No side
has ever lost to Gold Coasts and gone on to
win the flag. So when they lose the Gold Coasts
in the history of the AFL, you just don't win
the flag.

Speaker 4 (10:11):
So you're saying Richmond could win the flag.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
Yep, No, of course they can't. They don't think they
can mathematically make finals. But you've got the Dogs, the Hawks,
the Crows and now the Pies all have lost to
the Suns and history suggests that they can't win the flag.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
But getting a crumb flag, that's what you're saying, apparently
according to the stat but it's still possible.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
We left with who win the flags? Lines lines maybe Yeah,
there we go. So that's just an interesting one.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
There, don't like it.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Let's get into the next one. Marvel Stadium. This is
on Saturday, Western Bulldogs taking on Adelaide. Western Bulldogs fifteen
goals eight ninety eight. They lost to the Crows sixteen
goals thirteen one hundred and nine. A huge win for
the Crows. Lads. This is absolutely awesome, making it three
straight at Marvel. It was led by three absolute absolutely
thriller six goals seventeen to absolute. Yeah, great wording by

(10:59):
maybe six goals, seven indisposals, nine marks. Obviously loved my
singing there. He was just so strong. He had four
second quarter goals and he's just turned into the one
of the best falls of the competition.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
He's a beast and I think there was a certain
chain corns when he first got drafted. Phil Thipps said,
straight swot for Petty, who says no Haarison.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Pretty Atty wouldn't even get in.

Speaker 4 (11:21):
That Melbourne say no Melbourne.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Sooner they offered him more. Petty got offered look a milliated,
didn't he? Yeah? I think something like that. Do you
want to cry baby or the beast?

Speaker 4 (11:31):
Thrill four?

Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yeah? Who has a better beard? And obviously thriller obviously thing.

Speaker 4 (11:35):
To say about Patty's girlfriend.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
Where has that coming from? Jordan Dawson. He was absolutely
incredible for the Crows. He led the way the skipper
put the Crows on his back in the big moments.
You had a fine game, a fast paced game of
footy here. I think it ended up being a shootout
between him and Norton. You got Thriller one end Norn
and the other he had Norton I think he's lifted lately. Lads.
He had four goals in the first quarter, five for
the game, and he's had twelve goals past four games.

(12:01):
There's been a lot of chat. The last coup has
gone should he play back? Should he be dropped? Should
he does he even need to be in this forward line?
And he's been probably their number one forward in the
last four weeks.

Speaker 4 (12:09):
Yeah, he's been superban first four goals, first four Dogs
goals of the game.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah for him, that's crazy, absolutely crazy. The young guys.
I want to touch on the Crows again. The young
guys for the Crows were absolutely awesome. Dan Curtin talked
him up last week. I know he only had nine
ers persons in a goal, but he lifted again. Twenty
six disposals in a goal. Then Saliga. I think we
were talking about Saligo. Look at some people like to
call him silly. Yes, twenty to twenty two disposals, nine tackles.

(12:35):
Just that depth. They've got guys stepping up that I
don't think the Dogs had. I just wanted to touch
on that. The Dogs. On the other end, he had
Bond awesome as always, thirty seven disposals, twelve tackles. He
was doing a bit on both ends. He had Richard's
twenty nine s two goals. There were two main guys
sort of working hard, doing all the hard work while
the game was on the line. But it was the
dogs of all the last couple of years where you
go outside of Bond. Maybe Richards wasn't their depths wasn't

(12:58):
really stepping up there. No, it was not.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
And I think Celego the Selego points very good because
he feels like he doesn't do anything wrong when.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
He touches the ball exactly.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
And Curtain I think as well, Yeah, yeah, Celigo's kicking
was nuts, like some of his entries into the corridor
where it was like low, flat driven. No one else
could really see that on the ground. You didn't think
he was going to kick it there, and he did.
Ye turns and the girls.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
Good call. On the Thursday show, Elea, you said the
Crows defense was stronger than the Dogs, and it showed
in the end. I know that the Dogs still got
ninety eight points, but there was five late goals. The
Crows were going to win anyway, and that Crow's defense
just holds up against.

Speaker 4 (13:30):
Everyone to give him the clam Sam Darcy who even.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
Without Jordan buds as well.

Speaker 4 (13:35):
Yeah, they got Mark Keene, Oh, Marquen.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
There we go Iris the Paws.

Speaker 4 (13:40):
In between there was a bit worrying.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
I don't know about that one. And then lads, I
want to finish off with a big question. The big
question here are the Dogs frauds? All seven of their
losses have been against current finals contenders? Are they frauds?

Speaker 4 (13:55):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (13:55):
Me?

Speaker 4 (13:56):
Oh there, I'm told lean towards.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
No, really, they've had an easy fixture. I know they've
had an easy fiction.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
I know that their losses look, it's not great on paper,
but I still believe in a lot of players in
that squad or they have a lot of match winners.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
But we've seen time after time when they come up
against the contender that they just can't piss through a
really good defense. And it's happened with Adelaide, it's happened
with Collingwood, it's happened with I know Geelong game as
a shootout but the defense ultimately won it in the end,
and the Hawks game as well. We've seen it that
they just can't do it. So there's enough there for
me to say that if they can't do it now,

(14:32):
why is that going to change the finals? I can't
really argue with that.

Speaker 3 (14:35):
And look at when when Sam Darcy is his hands
a vassaline, he's not taking a mark and dropping a
lot that he's putting his hands on. You could tell
he was getting a bit frustrated. But the fact that
Norton's starting to step up a little bit, Bonce hidden
his stride with some consistent football libs a gun and
Ed Richards continued Superbia, I think they got I think

(14:55):
this is just the question mark over the back line.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
For mine, they've got the next six weeks weeks to
find the back line mix because they've got to change
it up to really like hone in on a few
finals wins. For mine is that the moment I know
they're scoring threat, but they're going out first week if
they make finals.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
Oooh that's a big cool But no, that's definitely fair.
And then the Crows they're flying. They're going to continue
to be top three in offense and defense. As Leo
said that, everyone sort of talking about the offense, but
the defense has just been been just as good. Next
one Saturday at NG Stadium, GWS taking on Geelong JWS
seven een goals nine to one hundred and eleven Geelong
thirteen goals seven eighty five. Now that's you. Two went

(15:34):
head to ahead on the Thursday show. Leo will be
fired up about this because he didn't go to well
GWS and Marcus prevail.

Speaker 4 (15:41):
Yeah, it was pretty good on the I went head
on that one. Look this Mink's really boys.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
Come on, come on, I've been big on GBS. Are
you starting to believe all year? I said I had
them in the Grand Final in my Grand Final prediction,
and I still think that they can get there. The
first team with a four plus win streak against Gelong
since Hawthorne in twenty fifteen. If that doesn't make you believe,
what doesn't? He doesn't He kind of even see it

(16:13):
doesn't have a reason.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
The thing for me is I just think back to
last year's Final Series and the year before that, biggest moments.
Even when they have the advantages, they just don't get
it done. And I know they're playing good football and
everything's coming together at once, but we've seen this before.
I'm not sold on them. I'm not I'm not sold

(16:35):
on them.

Speaker 4 (16:35):
Maybe they can make a prelim but it's I just
think it's going to end the same way for them.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
I feel like they're peaking at the right time.

Speaker 3 (16:45):
They've added, they've added a new mix of Cadman's being
superb and he wasn't this game.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
He wasn't this game.

Speaker 3 (16:51):
He kicked a career high six goals. Four of those
came in the third term, so he's.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
Just were they all in the second half, believe, which
is very rare and footy kicking six guys in the
second half.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
And he's also re signed until twenty thirty, so that's
even even better news for the g UB and he
was supported by Stringer as well.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
Kicked four goals two that's his best game in a
long time from the package and it finally delivered. And
it was helped when the balls coming straight out the
middle or pretty much all the time because they dominated
in the midfield at plus twelve. In the clearances, I
think Tom Green end up having twenty four disposals and
sixteen of those were contested and a lot of those
were clearances.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
So he's an absolute beast. But we talked about the
four line there j WS. I want to pose this
question to you guys with the likes of Toby Green,
Jake Stringer, Aaron cabin Raining called him a medalist, Jesse
Hogan and the Smalls doing their thing.

Speaker 4 (17:40):
Don't forget Callum Brown and Jake Riccard as well.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
He was great in the air as well. He's got
a good pair of hands. Do they have the best
full line in the competition? GWS?

Speaker 4 (17:51):
I can't.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
I can't say yes to that one. I think when
you've got who do you have above them? I think
Adelaide is up there. I think Bulldogs is in the conversation.
I don't think I don't think it's I think it's
arguably better than g W.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
He's a duous hater. This is what we're figuring out.

Speaker 4 (18:07):
I would also I know that they just lost to them,
but I think Geelong's forward line is better than theirs. Well, jeez,
you put a few and I also think structurally Collingwoods
is as well. Are the best team in the comp Yeah,
but they're not the best scoring team in the comp
but it's it's the way their system works offensively.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
I will have WS top three and I'd be definitely
putting Cross Crows. Yeah, Brisbane. I'm still having gener S
top three because they're awesome. They just don't know what
there was a middle patch of the competition was this
season the league this season that they just didn't turn up.
But if they can continue this form, then they're going
to be yea right up there. And me and Leo

(18:42):
we also had a little leave Hell's. Hell's is the
one who's in a relationship.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
I know, like you, you have to help the homeless
at some point. Hogan and Cameron we went at each
other as well for Hogan and Cameron goals yes in
the midweek show and fullily enough, both Hogan and Cameron
finished with one goal too. So who won, Well one
got one got sobbed out tactically and the other was
carrying an injury.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
So the I think if you get subbed out, you
had a worst game.

Speaker 4 (19:19):
Yeah, but ultimately Marcut wins because.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
That's nicely. It was just a vulnerable man, a constant loser.
That's why homeless again.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
It was actually Jeremy Cameron's first game back at Energy
stadiums leaving Jervy West.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
That's wild, yeah, which.

Speaker 3 (19:36):
Is kind of crazy to think about it because it
was one hundredth game or Cats as.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
Well, I believe. Really, Yeah, okay, cool.

Speaker 3 (19:43):
So he finished the one goal too, but couldn't quite
get over the line. But he's he's got the common
wrapped up, you'd think.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
So surely, yeah, unless he doesn't play the next couple
of weeks.

Speaker 4 (19:52):
But Benking game in hand against Essendon.

Speaker 3 (19:54):
Yes, Miss Georgiades is now second overall. But anyways, we'll
get to that. But Geelong, I just I just didn't
I think they got any good running carry with the ball.
And I think a good sworn of that is when
Gibi worse. We talk about the Orange hin Army coming
off half back. They had fifteen bounces compared to Geelong's
one bounce. And you think of the players that normally you.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
Know Home don't mind having a bit of a paddock.
He got Home.

Speaker 3 (20:16):
You've got Awston Humphries, You've got Bailey Smith and the like.
They just they just really couldn't get that going. But
they do have a relatively coln fixtioned end of the season.

Speaker 1 (20:25):
Didn't limp. Yeah, don't worry Geelong fans. I don't have
to play jws again because somehow you always lose to them.
But you've got no games for the rest of the
season against the league's top nine. So you think they're
going to probably win, but they probably win every game
out for the rest of the season. Are we confident that? Yeah?
They will, and a lot of games at Goomber as well.
So Gumba, Yes, I love Gumba. Are good thereby game done,

(20:46):
next one. I don't know if we don't want to
talk about this one, especially the Bomber's man on the
couch Saturday night at the MCG What a game. This
was a Richmond six goals ten forty six. They won
with forty six pointscident four goals thirteen twenty seven. What
the bloody are happened here? Of course they want this
is a Richmond football club. We talked about their.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
Hunger in the previous show after three big losses where
they got belted and they delivered please all right and
they don't have to and they delivered their fourth win
of the season.

Speaker 4 (21:20):
That is a great effort from Richmond. Now though it
wasn't the best game, and that's to put it nicely.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
Very nice. Yeah, there were a lot of skill areas.

Speaker 4 (21:31):
I think there are one hundred and nine clangers, which
is twenty percent more than the season average. That doesn't
seem good.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
No, but I do.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
I do want to spend some time here talking up
some Richmond players. Taranto really stood up thirty four in
a goal. I think conditions sort of suit the way
he plays.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
He's had a good last couple of months, Taranto, I
think you need he's still a good player. That's why
I want to put that out there, because he's not
often talking. We take that can corns, Yeah, yeah, exactly.
That guy's coming for your job. Definitely.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
Ben Miller was rock solid down back. You know, one
percent intercept marks, inter set possessions.

Speaker 4 (22:05):
He's shown that he's one that can really play a
role for him and alongside two hundred and fiftieth gamer
Nick Vawson, who in my eyes is criminally created. He
if he could be an all Australian back pocket for mine,
but he's not going to because it's the bottom four side.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
Just give him the jacket. He deserves one.

Speaker 4 (22:22):
So good, he's good in the air, can shut down
like even though he's not the quickest dude, he knows
that he's really good at reading the play, so he
can shut down opposition small players if need be. But
to make things worse for the bombers.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
Nick Martin suspected a cl will set Afield injured his foot.
Brad Scott said he's never seen anything like this before,
and I just wanted to give Marcus a minute here
just to grieve and just be himself.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
Why are you doing this to the platform? Both?

Speaker 3 (22:54):
But I know we're going to go for break the
record most every times in a season. I think the
records looked fourteen or something and the one was are
at twelve so currently so they.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
Might get there.

Speaker 4 (23:03):
But is that an exciting rend? It's still a finals win.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (23:07):
As an as an Essenon fan, I've never been more
flat disappointed upset at my club since the drug saga.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
I'm going to be honest, back the drug starga just
to forget about the good old days. Take them back
to the good old days. Anyway, it was the slogan,
whatever it takes, whatever it takes, whatever it takes back,
because then there's less worry about the bombers and more
about the drug taga. It takes away from me. Banks Banks, Yeah,

(23:45):
they're not condoning this. I'm just joking around, just putting
that out there. But also, how good was hot?

Speaker 4 (23:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (23:49):
Very good game I've got a goal. Yeah, yeah, it
was very good. But unfortunately my bombers make me very
very sad, and lads Richmond get another win. We didn't
think that would get another win for the rest of
the season, he said. Wild under Richmond just fighting out
this through throughout this whole season. Everyone has caunted them
out every single week. So fair play to the Tigers.
There was another game on Saturday night. If you people

(24:10):
didn't flick over to the other lord, this was a
better game Saturday night op the stadium. Freemantle Verse, Hawthorn,
Freeman Or twelve goals, five seventy seven very accurate Hawthorne
nine goals ten sixty four Forrero. They lifted to the occasion.
We haven't often said that about them the last couple
of seasons. A lot of belief I think they'll get
from this win, and they've won six of their last
seven and then they've done it against the finals contender,

(24:32):
which is really really good. But the pressure just felt
like a finals game. I think I talked to you
about that before, Leo. The tackling pressure, especially from Frero
for later season high one hundred and three tackles, Lads
one hundred and three. The AFL average is sixty in
a game. Most most quarters am for fifteen to twenty
a quarter. They've got one hundred and three tackles. I
think that was the difference in this one.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
Yeah, definitely isn't that last quarter Hawthorne could not get
any play going and it was due.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
To that pressure.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
Absolutely. Brashaw had fourteen tackles. He's just a beast. We've
always said so wrong. And Brashaw the best two run,
two way running midfielders in the competition. And Lloyd Meek.
I know his team didn't get as many tackles, but
he had thirteen tackles and he was absolutely incredible against
Darcy and Darncon and Jacksondis.

Speaker 4 (25:10):
Won the battle. He won the battle, which I didn't
think would happen.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
No, because he's been a bit up and down this year,
Big Lord Meek, but he was really good at He
did a really good job. Brashaw and Clark, now I
want to touch on them, they're the three superstars for
the Dockers. They combined for eighty nine disposals. That's absolutely incredible.
The experience in class, especially from the Sarong and Brayshaw
in the midfield is wife three. I won this one,
especially in the last quarter four goals to zero. It

(25:33):
was it was on a knife's edge. Hawks had their
chances and then the last quarter couldn't kick a goal. Now, Lea,
you're the resident Hawks man. Were talking about this on
the Thursday show. Should the Hawks have tagged? You got
eighty nine disposals there? I know that's just the stat
and the influence on the game, but should they have tagged?
Actually asked to both.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
Of you, Oh, you compare it to the week before
against Sydney, Yeah, and how Sydney limited like their impact
on the game.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
It makes no sense to me.

Speaker 4 (25:57):
Yeah, I get what you're saying.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
I don't know if it would have changed the result
though if we did tag, because I think for the
last quarter. I know for mine, it's the pressures on
the games, on the line, pressures at finals, like we're
up by two goals, we want to close the game
out and their stars step up, they take it to
another year. What we needed in that scenario is another

(26:21):
A grade midfielder. In my view, I think it's more
of the what I take out of that game, because
obviously there's no Will Day that hasn't been for ages
now true, I still think there needs to be someone
else on top of that, because you know you've got
Warpool and Nash, who I think they're fine players, but
when as I said, the games on the line, you
so wrong as you're bracials, they take it to the
next level.

Speaker 4 (26:40):
And it's only it was honestly for mine. If say
McGinnis was tagging or Nash was playing in the gating role,
it's I don't know if they would have been able
to go with what Brashaw and Sarong we're putting out.
So I just don't know if it would have changed
the results.

Speaker 3 (26:55):
Are you saying that the Hawthorne midfield is not strong
enough to go deep into finals with?

Speaker 4 (27:00):
Yeah, I think that's I think with will Day it
him fit will make it look a lot better.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
But I still think it's an area of the game
where in the highest of pressure field atmosphere, you just
need that superstar be like this is this is our
game now.

Speaker 4 (27:17):
And that's what Sarong Embrashaw did.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
No good cald So there's that the like of butt
Butters that they're trying to get or anyone else.

Speaker 4 (27:21):
I don't think Butters will come to Hawthorne as much
as I want him.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
To anyone else that you cut your eyes on as
a Hawks fan.

Speaker 4 (27:26):
Anyone don't know.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
Zach Merritt. Oh no, that's not happening. Oh his face
then nah, yeah, I don't think that's gonna happen. Yeah, yeah,
you would anyway for the guys. For the Hawks as well.
Ginny was really strong, twenty seven disposals, his second most
disposals in a game of his career. That really surprised me.
And he got a goal as well, so he was
really solid. Then you're an aim On, Carl aim On
talking to Hawks fans like Leo as well. He was

(27:50):
just running hard all game, I thought, just throughout the
four quarter's real four quarter performance at thirty disposals, and
then Kelsha did just a weird another one point for
Leo here. So Leo come up to me and said,
I think he kicked two goals. So we've looked at
through the stats and everything, and it says three goals.
The match report says three goals. The apps, all the
apps say three goals. Champion Data says three goals. Yeah,
Leo has done the research.

Speaker 4 (28:11):
What's that hoiny?

Speaker 1 (28:13):
Yep?

Speaker 4 (28:13):
Oh right, it's two goals.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
Two goals.

Speaker 4 (28:15):
I'm so confidence two goals. That is so weird though,
that they've just left it as three goals. Get better AFL.
That app is terrible, by the way, it is. I
hate that app so much.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
There we go, well, yeah, actually it's not sponsor US.
Sponsor US. Yeah, sponsors sponsorship. Maybe this is a season
defining win for Frere. As I mentioned before, lads, can
they push against the best teams this season? Obviously that's
their first win in a while against the big team,
but can they take that next step? I personally don't
believe they can.

Speaker 4 (28:42):
Yeah, I think I know.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
I just spent a lot of time about how like
the game was on the line finals, Like they step up,
they do it. It's in the biggest of occasion at
the MCG.

Speaker 4 (28:52):
Yes, they've done it. Opter MCG is the task for them.

Speaker 3 (28:57):
Yeah, A lot of stuff seems to have to go
right for them to get over the line. Like there
were there were no tags.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
You're at home.

Speaker 3 (29:04):
I know you're playing a great a great side in
Hawthorn and then but you're focusing on accuracy and joy
I missed to sort of like, you know, come from
the dark clouds and and when you were a game.
But credit to them, they step do on they need
the most. They have beaten other sides away from home. Yeah,
they're better away home.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
So you still have got so many question marks over
for Yeah, I think if they make the aight, it's
going to be the bottom end. And I just don't
know if they'll ruffle anything like the fact they kicked
twelve five. If they didn't kick accurately, they could have
easily lost this as well. So not sure if I'm
sold on them.

Speaker 4 (29:36):
They do have Collingwood at the g next week, so
that's Oh, that's a massive game.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
That's one.

Speaker 4 (29:41):
If we can we can see it.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
Surely that pies. We'll see, We'll see heleo. Quick question.
Do you know what the AX means?

Speaker 4 (29:48):
Do you mean afl X?

Speaker 1 (29:50):
No? Mate? The AX the Australian Stock Exchange.

Speaker 4 (29:53):
Oh man, I'm absolutely clueless for that stuff.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
Wow. Lucky for you. Stock It is a free website
that gives you everything you need to know about punting
stocks on the AX.

Speaker 4 (30:02):
Damn, that sounds pretty good. Where do I check them out?

Speaker 1 (30:04):
Check it out via stock are dot com dot you
And it's even easy for your little pe brain to understand.

Speaker 4 (30:09):
Damn they fun day at the MCGS.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Next Oh No Melbourne eight een goals eleven one hundred
and nineteen. My blove of North Melbourne twelve goals eleven
eighty three. We talked about the talked about the rock
battle on the Thursday show. What happened? Yeah, it would
just look like Gorne monster Jerry. It didn't look like
he did.

Speaker 5 (30:27):
He did.

Speaker 3 (30:27):
Goran finished with fifteen disposals, a goal, dominance appearances, and Jerry,
who's very much picks up a lot of disposals. He
only finished the game with seven I believe, so his
impact was out the game. You could tell he was
getting frustrated, which led onto the big talking point from
this game, the Jerry incident knocking out Tom Sparrow. He
was out cold, he had the cage Simpson fingers and

(30:48):
he's to gates and it was a careless act.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
It was a swinging arm. Was that just frustration? How
many weeks do you think he gets boys?

Speaker 4 (30:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (30:58):
I think because it was reckless, it was careless, and
the impact looked pretty high and he's obviously he can
come pretty high, I know, like like a high, not
like where it was in his body like in terms
of like severe impact, Yeah, I think two to three.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
For mine, I would say two to three. So I
think the david'sta from Fox Footy he said that it's
going to be at least three most likely, because usually
careless acts when you knock someone out. His three, Yeah,
I personally don't. I don't know if I'm being bises
the North. Obviously, I don't think he was doing it
on purpose. He just had a bit of rush of
blood and he went to I don't know, tackling more try.
He probably did try and take him out. I don't
think he was trying to get him in the.

Speaker 4 (31:34):
Here, not trying to get him not intentional, but but.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
Very careless, very similar to the Nash into the movie.

Speaker 4 (31:40):
That is one I think is worse. He had a
bit late aggressive and a bit harder, but I think
careless and pretty severe impact.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
Two to three. I think he's gonna get three, get three,
and I'm oh, that's going to kill North? Is your backup?

Speaker 4 (31:55):
Chteical He's all right, but that it's Grundy next week.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
Grundy could have already disposes forty hit outs and numbers numbers.

Speaker 3 (32:10):
Well, we're going to we're going to Clarko's tactics at
this game. He made a couple of different moves and
a couple of selection issues which we thought were pretty interesting,
where he had Phillips tagging Cozy in that first half
when Cozy broke away and kicked the goal early on.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
But I thought for the rest of the first half
Phillips actually wasn't.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
Horrible because he missed too.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
Because he did miss too. Cousey forward, yes, was dominating
in the middle. I think Phillips. Phillips actually got a
lot of clearances himself as well, So I think I
think it was sort of fifty to fifty.

Speaker 3 (32:41):
I think in the forward line his pace and strength
just comes up trumps, and you guys were just too
tall in defense. Yeah, four tools against the d smalls,
which brought up some tricky matchups on the MCG obviously
Toby Pinky, Yeah, he played fairly okay, but he had
Meltion on him, who's in great form.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
And he kicks four goals in the end. Four goals. Yeah,
I got a stat for you on him. Actually, so Malchiam.
He's had three straight games of four plus goals, the
first Demon to do so since David meets in two
thousand and six lights. So little thing to celebrate for
a Demons fan, because obviously he needs he's a legend.
So Chucker melchs him up on the mantle man and

(33:19):
then Track showed his caller. In the last quarter.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
He had at excellent last quarter eleven disposal was four
score involvements and one goal. But you're at the game,
limb and as an oath band for both sides. Who
caught your eye on the eye test at the ground, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
I said, obviously, said Malchiam. He was incredible. I can't
believe he just keeps doing it week in week out.
I thought, yeah. But Track, as you said, Oliver was
solid early but he sort of faded out a little bit.
But for a north side, just for some positive because
obviously we lost the game by fair But in the end,
Mini Boomer or whatever you want to call him, Cooper Harvey,
he was incredible. Four goals. I thought he was great
last week as well against the Dog's probably one of
our best. He finished with four goals, great smarts in

(33:53):
front of goal. Didn't realize the last couple weeks he's
had two goals from outside fifty. He's pretty small and
he's kicking him from outside fifty and I'm very excited
for that because he's not a nepo baby. He's actually
come in and gone, yeah, I'm I'm a I'm a
good player. They might baby.

Speaker 4 (34:07):
He kicked four goals on the g so after fourth
being on the list for two three years now.

Speaker 1 (34:12):
But he's a young guy.

Speaker 4 (34:12):
He'll be right.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
Well, they might list him now.

Speaker 4 (34:15):
You know Clark is going to make up next week. No, no,
he's going to drop in for common Jones.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
No, oh no, there we go. I'm routed by that.
But the Demons they got a good win because obviously
North smashed them last time. So that's a good turnaround
from the start of the season. And actually I want
to give a shout out to Marcus. That backs up
what you were saying about their last six weeks being
a lot better. They made five losses losing streak, thank you,
thank you, so the end of the losing streak, and
they've had a lot of close games against good side.

(34:42):
So they prove that by smashing North next one on Sunday.
This is not at the SEG this is at Marvel Stadium,
Saint Kildup. Thirteen goals, nine eighty seven Sydney fourteen goals
eight ninety two. What a game. They've had a lot
of good Saints games.

Speaker 4 (34:55):
So a really good ending. And I'll start on the losers.
The Saints. Okay, I thought they really played them in
that second quarter.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
It was off the back of Max Hall, who's turned
into prime Stephen Milne oh kicked three goals. And I'll
shout you out, Marcus, because you talked up his great
form last week.

Speaker 4 (35:11):
Were building his ego Watch out ladies, as well as
Callum Wilkie fourteen intercept possessions down back. He was great
for them.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
The real rolls Royce in the back line and Marcus
Windager again some stats for you. Thirty six touches, five
clearances and I love his power through stoppages.

Speaker 4 (35:30):
It is on to esque. If I do say so myself.

Speaker 1 (35:33):
He doesn't have to be a tagger. Just let him
run through it will be. He will be one of
the best midfielders of the comp. We wasting him as
a tagger. Just put him as an awesome midfielder.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
Everyone chats about Nas. Oh, here we go everybody and
rather so everyone chats about.

Speaker 4 (35:45):
Nas, but we need to be talking about Windager. Who
are you taking boys?

Speaker 1 (35:48):
This man and recency bias. You can't be putting Windeger
with Nas. That's all I'm going to say. You said
a couple of good months wind Haager, but you look
at the last couple of years.

Speaker 4 (35:57):
Gonn take Nas, I think is a bigger ceiling.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
What I genuinely think wind Haager could be an elite
midfielder of the competition Nas Nas could be as well.
But I feel like wind Hager is your your highbrid
as I said, your BoNT, your crips, your big He's.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
A big body.

Speaker 4 (36:14):
NS is a little bit more outside, which is just
his role. He's a fantastic player. But I think it's
just wonder what.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
Would Winheger be able to tag Nas? All does love escaping?

Speaker 4 (36:26):
There we go, NAS goes to Adelaide and then around
opening around next year they play each other.

Speaker 1 (36:30):
And we'll watch that is huge now talking about Nas
the taglier we brought up at that on the midweek
show as well. Jordan versus Nas, how to that go?

Speaker 2 (36:39):
I thought Nas did push through it nicely. Twenty four disposals,
but nine of them in the second half. So what
I will say is Jordan did probably's influence and I
think nas wasn't as damaging as he was in previous week.
So even though Nasi's numbers look pretty good, he was
getting the ball forward, his gut running was great and
he really worked hard like you've tried to work through
the tag. I still want to give so some points

(37:00):
to Sydney and Jordan as well in that matchup. And
then for the Swans when it mattered most, they just
found the scoreboard. They found the crucial goals. It's been
sat Kilda's issue now for not just this year, but
feels like every year. To be honest and Sidney, yeah,
as I said, they just found the crucial goals when
it matted.

Speaker 4 (37:19):
Lloyd and Hayward both got three, Hayward two. In that
last quarter. There was a great play actually with Bradon
Campbell running down the wing. Could have gone for goal.
Who's a great kick, but just hits up Hayward.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
Last year this year sort of know with the way
the game was being played that sort of Sydney were
always going to hold on and then it came down
to the moment of Errol's snap from stoppage. It was
Chef's kiss. It was a great snap on the run.
He just came up clutch in the moment it mattered
and it just shows what he gives to the side,
stepping up in the biggest moments.

Speaker 4 (37:49):
Just a quick question to finish lads.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
Brody Grundy and with twenty touches, forty six hit outs
and just a dominant display in the ruck, is he
your all Australian.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
Ruck woulting his hand on now, isn't he? I didn't
think he was until the last probably three weeks that
he's just gone on again and.

Speaker 4 (38:06):
He's probably going to dominate North next Jerry.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
I'll admit it. He's had better I said Jerry last week.
But he's had much better stat lines than Jerry and
Gorne for a solid six weeks, maybe longer seven weeks,
eight weeks. So I'm going to have to say yes,
I think, which is crazy. I know it's because he
started so bad. It's him and gone now, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
I think you'd think, well, now Jerry's out. Yeah, But
if Jerry wasn't suspended, I think he still.

Speaker 3 (38:30):
Think he's doing the conversation. But yeah, Grundy, if he
keeps up the form, it's his.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
Yeah, Grundy, it's Grundy. All right. For more on Sydney's win,
Swans fans, make sure you check out True Bloods podcast,
which is filmed actually in this studio as well. They'll
ump back everything about the awesome win against the Saints.
So make sure you check out that Show's next one
on Sunday at the Adelaide over last one of the round,
Port Adelaide versus West Coast Port Adelaide twelve goals fifteen
eighty seven. Get the job done over West Coast nine

(38:55):
goals seven sixty one. Now, Leo, this I've been called
out Leo a lot on the show, but you called
out the Eagles earlier in the week. You said a
lot of their young guys need to play well together,
and they responded. You had Reid, Houle, McCarthy and Hutchison
all at twenty plus disposals William's two goals. Are you happy?
You're finally happy that they've all stepped on? No, come on,

(39:16):
you've got to get their blads made. And they played
the way. They sort of fell away at the end.
They got bullied. They lost by what like twenty six points.

Speaker 4 (39:24):
Poor Francis was laughing at him.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
Oh come now, look I'm probably being hasty. I think
there's stuff there with a lot of their young guys.
I really like the look of a lot of them,
but it's just it's sort of like Saint Kilda. They
got some experienced players, they got the young guys. This
is nothing in between. So they're probably going to need
another couple of years waiting for those young guys to
get to fifty games, to get to sixty games, and

(39:46):
then that's when they've got up the ladder, so that's
still a bit of time away.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
Yeah, I don't know they got They were in this
for most of the game, so that's why I'm sort
of giving them theirs. Give us themlough. There was beef
galor in this one. That was fights everywhere at Harley
read Jason Francis, Harley Reid's going like this, the Jason
on Francis, then Jason O Francis doing but jumper punches.
They would just going head to head. They're just very alike,
those two, which is very funny to watch. He had
butters just first everyone anyone that came his way. He

(40:11):
was trying to throw a bit of lip, bit of
a punch, bit of it. He has so many lines
tongue as well, the tongue he was playing with actually,
and yeah, there was just a lot of yap throughout
the whole second half, and even when the game that
West Coast were losing, they just started fighting. Let's talking
about Jason or Francis and Harley Reid who will have
the better career? Because they were going really hard at

(40:31):
it and the comments. I was like, Oh, I'm gonna
see this matchup for for a long time, which we
will Who is going to have the better career?

Speaker 3 (40:37):
I'm gonna say Harley just because I hope it comes,
because he comes, because I hope, I hope it comes
to the Bombers.

Speaker 1 (40:43):
But do you think he actually will have a better career?
He could?

Speaker 4 (40:46):
He could.

Speaker 3 (40:47):
They're very similar, very similar to fifty to fifty, very
similar players. They're both very dusty like in terms of
like throughout the midfield and make an impact on the
school board. Obviously, Horn Francis got the last laugh. I
just think we yet to see Harley in a comfortable environment.

Speaker 4 (41:04):
What was he's a comfortable environment. He's not in a dungeon.

Speaker 3 (41:12):
That environment environment, He's not a dungeon or anything.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
But yeah, yeah, yeah, what do you think about Francis, Yes,
I agree with you on this one.

Speaker 4 (41:26):
The runs on the board.

Speaker 1 (41:27):
Also, it's easy to say that now because Horn France
has had a few more years under his belt. But
I think you'll have a better career and you'll just
add to adapt to the environment a bit better. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (41:36):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
The guys that got Port got the job done through
their stars. In depth. You've obviously got Butter's thirty eight disposals,
seven clearances. He was awesome, Jason or Francis, we just
touched on twenty seven disposals, three goals. He was allowed
to give as much lippy once every time he was
given lippy kick a goal, So good on him there.
Joe Richard, Joe Richards, Actually that you guys talked up
I think as well. In earlier in the week he
probably his best game for Port twenty three disposals, two goals,

(41:57):
three eight score involvements. He could add a legacy game
if he just kicked a bit straight. I had a
few running into an open goal that he missed, and lads,
they could have won by a fair bit. More More,
they were wasteful in front of goal. Yeah. Georgia Yardi's
three goals five. We want him to go for the
Coleman and he's kicking three goals five, he's still second off.

Speaker 4 (42:13):
He's still third second. If he had second seven goals
instead of he.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
Could have chased down Jess and Jess might be out.
If he's a little bit he could he still catch Jezza.

Speaker 4 (42:23):
No, I don't think, but he was. Benking's the one.
There you go.

Speaker 1 (42:26):
He still have three goals five, awesome marking presence and
just one of the best players to watch in the
comp at the moment. A bit of a sour note
to finish for port fans, Rosie injured his finger. He
was subbed out in the third quarter. Maybe a bit precautionary,
but sometimes finger issues a bit a bit annoying there
for an NFL player, And I just want to put
this out there to finish off. I think they poured
it very lucky. They got over the line here. They

(42:47):
were carrying on, they were beefing with everybody, and I
think the media and other people like ourselves might have
got into him if they lost the West Coast here,
because they shouldn't be they shouldn't have been that close
to West Coast.

Speaker 2 (42:56):
Yeah, I agree, I think, well, actually, I mean at
the end there they were carrying on because the game
was kind of done.

Speaker 1 (43:03):
Yeah, but it was a little bit before that. I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
Yeah, I feel like West Coast Richmond next week should
will be very interesting.

Speaker 4 (43:08):
West Coast Richmond him for another win, play North later
in the the game.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
With six winks. That's a big call. That's a big calls.
All right, that's the Round eighteen results, done and dusted.
Let's get into the ladder check the ladder check, lads,
the Suns back into top four contention. Obviously, they've got
a game in hand. I believe they're in fifth, But
that game in hand is ahead of everyone in the
top eight, and that game in hand is against Marcus's
beloved Bombers. So lock that in for an extra win.

(43:36):
You might as well add that win to them on
the ladder right now, I believe.

Speaker 4 (43:38):
Okay, no one's arguing with me on that one.

Speaker 1 (43:43):
Surely let me know in the comments. So, Jennews and
free season defining wins eight point swing. I think we
talked about that before, Lads, confidence boosters. I think that's
really good. If they're going to head into finals with
big wins like that, you've got the Dogs a bit
crazy that they're out of the eight, but they've got
the second best percentage in the league and only one
game out of the four, so we're still confident that
the Dogs probably at least top six.

Speaker 4 (44:03):
To the fact that they're still a game out of
top four, it just shows the evenness of the post.

Speaker 3 (44:07):
A question to you boys who misses out? Who was
the club that will miss out?

Speaker 4 (44:12):
Should we should we rank from one to three most
like one being most likely, three being least likely.

Speaker 1 (44:18):
We can maybe for a social clip we can just
do it on the spot. Yeah, I think the three
for my Frio, Dogs, fre and Hawthorne. I agree with that.
I'd say Freeo GWS Dogs.

Speaker 4 (44:31):
Not Hawthorne.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
No, I'm still going to a back Hawthorn. I reckon
they could have won that.

Speaker 4 (44:34):
We do have a very tough drawl.

Speaker 1 (44:36):
We'll see. We'll see how we go there. And it's
going to be an awesome, crazy six weeks ahead for
the top nine because it's just going to be ladder
changing every single week, which is what we love to see.
All Right, that's the ladder check. Let's get into the
tipping Rizard. No, we have to get into the tipping results.
I got four.

Speaker 4 (44:49):
This is a tough week.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
It was a really tough week. I tipped the Hawks,
so they didn't get the job done. I've tipped the
Cats and I can't remember the other one. Bad one
I missed. They run tip, but I'm trying to think
the other one. And then so all we know is
that he sucks tipping. Someone stopped me the last like
three weeks. I've been you guys do it anyway, Leo's
got five tips six because.

Speaker 4 (45:11):
The show I tipped North and then I saw the
abomination Team Clark I put out and I changed to Melbourne.

Speaker 1 (45:17):
Yeah, but what was you on the show?

Speaker 4 (45:19):
Noney business?

Speaker 1 (45:20):
Marcus finished with six. Pretty solid. I'll take it. You win,
you win the week, I'll take it. I'll take it.
Thank you, I reckon. That's pretty good. All right, lock results,
Here we go, Leo.

Speaker 4 (45:28):
But it's twenty had in the first half. Let's go
that was it's a lock. I guess that's a lock.

Speaker 1 (45:33):
Brisbane win, never doubt, never in doubt. Yeah, he's one
of our lock going to be whoever's playing? Who's Caldon
got next week?

Speaker 4 (45:39):
That's a good question.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
We'll talk about that next week. My one is grundy
fifteen plus. I think he had twenty disposers in the end. Absolutely,
Locke's form is absolutely incredible. Big call results. Now we
didn't get one, but this is probably the closest overall
we've all had together.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
Leo, your big call, ben Case twenty goal, twenty goals,
twenty disposals, three goals.

Speaker 4 (45:57):
He had nineteen and three behinds.

Speaker 3 (45:59):
Very He just kicks a bit straight off. I had
Demon's forty plus and they finished thirty six point.

Speaker 1 (46:05):
Yeah got that. We didn't know if that was a
big call or yeah. I had Grime my as my
belove of grim Mins twenty five disposals and two goals,
twenty two and a goal and one hundred and thirty
five Supercauch points if you don't mind, but still couldn't
get over the line there. We're going to get some
big calls right next next week, next week, we'll get
them right, all right, Betty on Ground of the week.
This one's always Leo and he's always tossing and turning

(46:26):
the night before a show. Who's he going to pick?
What do we got there?

Speaker 2 (46:29):
One vote a Cadman six goals, fifteen disposals, eight marks,
he's having a coming of age season and he's a
real focal point as to why GWS won that game
against Geelong.

Speaker 4 (46:40):
Two votes, t Hriller.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
Six goals, seventeen disposals, nine marks. The reason he just
gets it over Cadmen is because.

Speaker 4 (46:53):
Against the Dogs. Thank you for interrupting my segment.

Speaker 1 (46:57):
Sorry you fine? Three vote.

Speaker 2 (47:00):
I said it in my game rap to look out
for this Son's midfielder m Row thirty two touches, two goals,
thirteen tackles, eighteen contested possessions, twelve clearances. He just set
up the win for the Suns, and I think it
was the best win of the round, and I think
he was a big part of that.

Speaker 4 (47:18):
He was the main part of that for mine.

Speaker 1 (47:20):
Should we all be eating grass for superpowers? Like Matt Real?

Speaker 4 (47:22):
What do you mean? I've been doing it for the
last six years.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
Oh, that explains a lot. Best team of the Round?
This one's always our most controversial segment. Let us know
in the comments how Marcus is going to go here.
I think I've got this down pap point.

Speaker 4 (47:34):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (47:35):
He's also gone very cryptic in the runsheets, so we
don't where he's going to go here. Obviously, one vote.
It's going to be the big, big sound Chevys.

Speaker 3 (47:46):
A lot of people question him, including the people here
on the show, except for me, but they just prove
me right and they're going to pick at the right
time of the year. It's good win against a very
good alongside two.

Speaker 5 (47:59):
I'm going they Actually they're fairly unlucky not to get
the top spot because away from home against the Dogs,
thriller kicking six and they should have won by more.

Speaker 3 (48:10):
Let's be honest, except for few goals from the Doggies
and the three votes, it's going to be the goal
cost Sons best win in the club's history against the
Collingwood side that looks to no like no fault throughout
this season. Didn't know if they'll lose another game in
the regular season, and they brought it to a huge
goalless in the first half, so they were superb.

Speaker 1 (48:31):
They sneaked the three votes g Sons.

Speaker 4 (48:34):
No vote for Richmond.

Speaker 3 (48:36):
No, but they were very unlucky because a lot of
the good teams were playing good teams and a lot
of them had to prove something right and they did.

Speaker 1 (48:41):
I'll agree with him him on this week.

Speaker 4 (48:45):
I would do the exact same thing just shout out
for Freo though, because they shout out to Free and Richmond,
I reckon there was just a lot of good. I
was joking when I said Richmond.

Speaker 1 (48:51):
No, I think one vote no they lose them. We
had a vote that it should be a rule on
this show. All right, we done MUDs, they don't. That'll
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(49:12):
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Speaker 4 (49:20):
Thank you, Lere, thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (49:21):
Thank you Marcus, thank you Status and we'll see you
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