Liam Pickering

Essendon pushed the Gold Coast.

North have won three out of five.

Melbourne have got three wins.

Port Adelaide yesterday pushed Hawthorne when they were five goals down basically a quarter time.

The only outlier at this stage is Richmond, but they could upset North today.

You know what I mean?

That's the sort of competition.

that we're running at the moment.

So my advice is to the top-tier teams, don't just look at the opposition, look at where they are on the ladder, because if you drop your guard, which I think Hawthorne did in the second quarter yesterday, you just don't turn up and win.

You can get your pants pulled down.

And they scrapped their way to a win yesterday, the Hawks, and they are a very, very good team.

That's my first snap.

No hope before the game.

No hope.

You've got to hope, yeah.

And the other one was Ross Lyon, which you mentioned.

Well, I watched his press conference last night.

I didn't like it at all.

He's condescending to the reporters, belittles them.

It just doesn't cut it for mine.