Mike Lane

The Thursday game, Freo Geelong, Gold Coast, Hawthorne Friday night, I thought was also good.

Yep.

I thought the Adelaide-Melbourne game, and back to your point, Bill, about Mark Keane, the fact that he missed the entire season to that point, and he just could come back in seamlessly, and talk about people having licence, as we did with Jordan Ngoi, he's clearly got licence to take that hard kick, that 45-degree kick from the back line, and it's the one that exposes you if you don't get it right, but it set him up.

Because they are flying Adelaide, but I thought Melbourne, they hung in there.

They did.

It was 17 points at the end.

I thought Melbourne were really good the whole day.

They're going all right, aren't they?

They are.

The Crows are now 9-5, and they're on a nice little roll, and they've got a showdown match coming up this week.

Again, I know showdowns can historically go against what the bookmakers will suggest leading into it, but...

Let's, for the purpose of this conversation, give them that game.

They're going to finish the round in round 16 in the top four, which is all they need to be.

And then they've got a nice little remainder of home and away season just to get themselves right for the finals because that's going to be a weight, isn't it, Jim, on what happened to them last year when they were embarrassed in those two finals they played.

Home matches, out in straight sets, and did not fire a shot in any of the quarters, let alone the games they played.

Well, I put Sydney in that same bucket too.

So for me, Adelaide and Sydney, you've just got to wait until September hits and then they've got to activate something because they're both poor.

Well, even Sydney gym has to wait, I feel, until grand final day.

That's the dilemma they've got.

And that's 3-0 too then.