Chapter 1: What were the key moments in the North Melbourne vs Gold Coast game?
the award-winning crunch time. It's all square under the lid. The double. To Wardmore. Squeezes the kick. This is good. Parker fangs it inside. Free kick! Free kick to North Melbourne! The advantage was paid, but it's coming back! It's coming back! The advantage was taken, but the other half said no, bring it back! There's going to be a free kick to Sir Hart directly in front!
Kamsa Hart will win the game for North Melbourne. As Sandy Robbins once finally said, any score will do.
Chapter 2: How did North Melbourne make a comeback from a 43-point deficit?
Zaha. Siren's gone. Scores a level. For a Kangaroos win. It's a goal! And the Roos have come from nowhere to pinch the final victory against the Suns. What a game! From 43 points down in the second term to that sweet, sweet taste of victory, Clarko's Roos claim their first big scalp of season 2026.
Despite not leading once during the entire game, Akam Zerha, after the siren shot, will have the Kangas faithful smiling today. Family in attendance, hugs are exchanged. Jackson Darcy, the two kids are with him. They've designed the boots. These banners have been known to trip up milestone men. Scott Pendlebury reaches that that has been made for him.
Through the banner and rewrites the record books.
Chapter 3: What impact did Scott Pendlebury's record-breaking game have?
Gold numbers all round. Scott Penelope, 433 AFL games. Josh Dacos had a fumble. Able to release though. Lipinski to Elliott. Check the kick low down. Schultz on the buff. Nick Dacos on the boundary. Shimmy clear. Open it up. Snap the goal. A finish the occasion deserved. Nick Dacos with his third. And that's the best record-breaking gift he could have given Scott Pendlebury.
Sheer speed and evasiveness.
Chapter 4: What challenges did Collingwood face in their recent match against West Coast?
And he slams the gate on West Coast. 15-point lead. On a monumental day at the MCG, West Coast did their best to spoil Scott Pendlebury's record-breaking game. But some Nick Dacos magic ensured the four points. But at what cost? Injuries to key players Darcy Moore and Jamie Elliott. Ainsworth lays the handball off. Young sends it inside 50 for the Blues. Pack collides out the back.
Ison, last week's debutant top in his second game. He gets another goal to his name. Now Walsh. It can turn on a dime. It might get there. It's a good kick.
Chapter 5: How did injuries affect the performance of key players?
Sam Walsh lands the fourth blow for Carlton. He puts it back into play for Port. Might be coming back in quickly. Here's Hayward from long range. It is Deadeye. Never looked like missing Will Hayward. He's kicked his second. Just a metre in for the boundary. No it won't because the final siren sounds. And Carlton have claimed back-to-back wins for the first time in 2026.
A 34-point margin over Yardapulti.
13-14-92 to 8-10-58. And where's this been? Josh Fraser's Blues go 2-0 under his reign with the skipper Paddy Cripps rediscovering his mojo against a disappointing Port Adelaide. Plenty to unpack on the Round 11 edition of Sunday Crunch Time.
Chapter 6: What strategies do teams employ to manage player injuries?
Sunday crunch time for the all-new Ford Ranger Wolf Track V6 and Azzito brushless power tools built to work. Azzito, do you. John Donahoe in for Cam Luke. Liam Pickering alongside me. Hello, Picks. We're spending a lot of time together this weekend. Far too much, Donners. Yeah, good to be and good to have you here as well. It's, you know, what's happened with Cam.
He's a little bit ill today, is he? Come down crook, off to sickbay. Off to the sickbay. Anyway, yeah, it's been a fascinating ā well, yesterday was a fascinating day of football. What a round of football. What a day of football it was yesterday.
Chapter 7: What insights were shared about the upcoming mid-season draft?
Well, we didn't see it coming with the game we were at at Marvel. It was seven-goal lead to Gold Coast late in the second quarter and thought it was just going to be one of those ho-hum performances and then it all turned around after halftime for North Melbourne. It was fantastic. It certainly did. We were there and ā
You were of the belief that they needed to make some changes at halftime, and that's exactly what they did. And fair play to Clarko. He threw Trimbath into the ruck. He took Zerha from halfback to full forward, and it worked a treat. It did. He made the changes, and they were needed too, don't worry.
And some players that were down, really down in the first half, really got rolling after halftime. No, it's a great win for North Melbourne. And Gold Coast, it's just another question mark on them when they get on a plane. Yeah.
Chapter 8: How do the hosts evaluate the performance of young players like Phoenix Gothard?
Outside of going to Darwin, there is. And the two games in Darwin, the heavy legs, they looked really good covering the ground at the start. And then they just sort of went into their shell in the second half. Yeah, they did. Well, I think they just got out. And North went to work, I guess, yeah. Powered over the North Melbourne, I thought, in the second half.
And I thought their kids really stood up in the last quarter. George Wardlaw hardly sided for the first three quarters, but his last quarter was outstanding. O'Sullivan was great. Dave Juniak. Yeah, all those sort of characters were really important when the game was on the line. They certainly were. So your Cats had a win as well. We'll talk about that. Also Collingwood in what was a massive day.
for the footy club. Look, I'm in here off about an hour's notice, so I think we go straight into Sunday snaps. What's been your biggest takeaways from the round of footy? Okay, Saturday the 23rd of May, 2026. Remember the date, because it's the day this current North Melbourne team turn the corner. Yeah. We've been waiting for them to get a scalp. Yesterday with seven goals down.
So it's this group of Davies, Uniac, Sheasel, Simpkin, O'Sullivan, Wardlaw, McKercher and Co. That's their future right there. And they're going to take enormous benefit from that win. And there's always one game that turns a footy club. I remember back in 07 with the Cats, it was a game against North Melbourne where they lost.
and some home truths were said after that game, and they come out the next week and beat Richmond by 20 goals and went on a tear and won the flag in a canter. So I think this group's got it in them. I think this group's got ā they've been sort of building and pushing.
They had a shocking setback last week against Adelaide where they were completely destroyed in a quarter, and then it didn't start so well yesterday, but ā to find the belief in the second half yesterday. We talked about it at halftime. I'll have a look at my notes. They were 38 points down at halftime, and we said if they can get it back to 20 at three-quarter time, win the quarter by three.
And what was it at three-quarter time? 20 points. So they won the second half 11 goals to four. So I think they're going to get enormous benefit out of it, and that's my snap from the week. I think this might be the turning point for the footy club. It's one of those belief wins, isn't it? We were down. It didn't work in the first half, but we were able to find something and get over the line.
And they haven't had that in the last four or five years. No, they haven't. And they've only really beaten up the teams below them this year. But that was a really, really good win. They do play Marvel well. They had that famous win against Carlton on Good Friday where they came from behind again. Yep.
So I just think this might be the turning point for the footy club with this current group that they've got. And I reckon important as well in the context of their season because they spend two weeks in Perth now against Frio. It's going to be tough. Yeah, Frio and Bunbury. So they bought a couple of home games in Perth and then West Coast. So can't drop those in the run home.
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