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Chapter 1: What highlights were discussed in the opening segment?
the award-winning Crunch Time.
He goes long to Jezza. He's up. He hits the deck. Ollie Dempsey is the everywhere man, Ollie. Chips it back to the leading player in the pocket. And almost a woodchai free, I'd reckon. Yeah, had to be. He struck it pretty well. That is magnificent. The smell of duck never got to him. Scoots it to Jezza. He got free and kicked a miracle.
Jezza, he was caught by the Dax. And with that kick, he's dacked a lot of them. Holmes lets rip. Not a bad attempt. It's going to get right there on the line. Collins, is he going to hand to it? No! It's a goal. That's jam out of the donut stuff.
It's more about mitigating the damage that they're capable of. And so I think that's sort of the most pleasing thing, that while some of their good players still do good things, I didn't think they all got away from us too much at one time. To our eye, they still look dangerous at times. It didn't look like, it looked like round zero for it that way.
The whiteout proves a big night out in G-Town as the Cats take their revenge on the Suns. Geelong captain Patrick Dangerfield is our headline guest.
I think it's a ridiculous look where the ball accidentally trickles off a guy's toe that's been hit into him. It's not as if he's deliberately trying to kick it out of bounds. Listen, it's not the reason we've won or lost. I just think they change a lot of things. Just change it. At the end of the day, it was like the Russian Coliseum. Oh, sorry, the Russian Coliseum.
The Roman Coliseum, I reckon. The crowd would do this one, and then all of a sudden, free kick. So, at the end of the day, it is what it is. Home ground advantage, we understand that. We know you're up against it from the start, but a couple of them, I thought, weren't there.
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Chapter 2: How did the Geelong Cats perform against the Suns?
Damian Hardwick irked by the umpiring and the artificial interference in the game. But his sons have now lost three in a row and risk a tailspin out of serious contention. Mark taken by Dawson.
right in the middle of the pack 35 out Dawson punches it through inside 50 and Dawson again has drifted forward to take that mark that's freakish really Dawson strolls in and they have got the fast start Adelaide so Kennedy couldn't handle it Dawson this is right in his wheelhouse 55 out captain's goal again he's got three and there's an argument that he's up there
with the best in the competition, if not the best, right now.
Like I said before, I think I've got real clarity in footy and my role within the team. And, yeah, I'm just really pumped with that win. It's good the last few weeks we've played our brand of footy and got back to the way we want to play.
And Jordan Dawson furthers his claims as the competition's most inspiring leader as the Adelaide captain turns in an all-time quarter to dismantle the Bulldogs. This is the Round 14 edition of Crunch Time. Crunch time for the all-new Ford Ranger Wolf Track V6 and Azzito brushless power tools built to work. Azzito, do you. Builders, a couple of eight-pointers to start the round.
They were convincing victories for the Crows and the Cats. What does that mean for the Vanquished? What does it mean for the shape of the ladder?
Adam Simpson is in place. Hello to you, Simmo. Morning, Gerard. Morning, all. Yeah, eight-point games. They weren't great games, though, were they? And the game last night, we doubled down on Geelong and what they do at home. They're a slightly different side. They just rely on that field position. They have 24, 35, four-and-a-half turnovers. The game gets played in the half.
They win their inside 50s, and they take apart whoever plays them down there. I feel like the story's more about the Suns, though, Gerard. I think there's some issues there we'll talk through this morning.
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Chapter 3: What insights did Patrick Dangerfield share about his team's strategy?
Ken Hinckley's in place as one of the leaders in your town. His reputation is soaring in the competition right now. Good morning, boys. And it's a nice wet morning over here in Adelaide. Unfortunately, there's rain coming down from everywhere, but there's not much rain coming down on the Crows at the moment. And Jordan Dawson, I mean, I sat back and watched him last, sorry, two nights ago.
And I thought, wow, what a person, more than a footballer. I thought, what a person, what a way he's conducted himself through this football season. with the devastation that his family's faced. You know, and then to go out and play that quarter, that first quarter, Jerd, as you said, all-time record quarter.
I think he was rated 20, I think, in the champion data ratings in the first quarter to kick three goals. Actually, I didn't, I was going to, you know, I'm going to say it. I think he could win the Brownlow. I think he's just that far their best player. And they've won, what have they won now, seven or eight games.
And I think more often than not now, Jordan's missed a couple of games, unfortunately, but that was for the reasons we talked around. But I think he can win the Brownlow. I've looked at their draw. I think the Crows are one of the sides that I've got a bit more bullish on as the season's got going.
And I feel with the players they've got out and the players they've got to come back in, they're going to make a run, I reckon, at some stage. Love it. Hot take, Ken, right from the outset. Oh, yeah, Ken, he's been doing that all year.
Come on, Simmo, lift! I'm not really a hot take type of guy, you know. You are. Ken gets slightly ahead of the situation, but it's not miles off, is it, the statement he's made? But, you know, I'm looking at the analytics behind it, and he's probably... 20th in the line of sight in terms of the analytics that Champion Data has. So it's not a massive take.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of recent umpiring decisions?
There's been a few hotter ones that Kent's thrown out there.
When Jordan Dawson wins the Brown though on Tuesday morning, that is going to look unbelievably good.
Someone else tipped Rail to win it last year. So we'll have to wind the clock back a little.
Tom Morris rounds out our quartet. Hello, Tom. Good to be with you, Kenny, Simone, and Gerard. The reality is Damien Hardwick is a repeat offender when it comes to umpire criticism, not just this year, but over his whole coaching tenure, really, over the last 10 or 15 years. He generally doesn't mince his words. He didn't mince his words last night.
We heard the Roman Colosseum jibe in the intro there. Publicly, the AFL won't be saying anything yet. They'll deal with it on Monday when the footy department meets. But privately, there are senior figures at League HQ who are not impressed by that comment last night. And I wouldn't be surprised if he, at the very least, gets a talk into it. The very most might even get something more.
Can't help himself, can he? There's good losers and there's bad losers. And I think Dimmers openly would admit he's a bad loser. And it can't help but, you know, on occasions feel like the world's against... whoever he's coaching at the time. Does it reflect poorly on the Suns or does it not really matter? I don't think it really matters.
We've sort of come to expect that a little bit from Dimmer. And I don't think he's been a massive fan on some of the interpretations or the rules. And I think he's pretty happy to talk about it as well. Felt like they had the Sunday umps on Friday night last night. Oh, I can't. This is getting too much traction, the Sunday umps. It's your thing. Yeah, that was my take.
The Sunday umps, the analogy is when you're a bad side like we were, in the last couple of years of my coaching tenure, we would be playing on Sunday on the Twilight game, and we'd get Sunday umps, which were off-Broadway a little bit, and that's just the way it is. When there's 35 umpires, Gerard, you're not going to get the best four, are you, every game?
So they've got to pick and choose who does what, but you want the good ones on Thursday and Friday when you're on show, and last night there was a few decisions there. Not the rules, just the decisions I think were... you know, cost the team's goals or prevented them from scoring.
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Chapter 5: How do players and coaches manage game day pressure?
When you're digging to the side, there's the on-field and what's happening with, in particular, the midfield. They were top four midfield last year without Petrarca. So what's changed this year? Is it the rule changes? Is it wits?
Is it they've lost the... I looked at a little bit of the data around they're good at receiving it, they're good at getting it, but they're not great at getting it back off the opposition. You know, they had... I think they had six or seven intercept possessions in the midfield and the cats have 15 or 16.
So the ability to get after the opposition when, when they've got it quite there yet with their personnel. And yeah. And so there's the on-field stuff and then there's the off-field with, you know, and Tom could talk about this later, but the, There's a little bit of unrest about who wants to stay, who wants to leave. How connected is Dimmer to his players, Ken, is interesting.
And I don't know, but it takes time. It's only been three years. How long does it take? Three is not enough? I think it depends on how much work you put into it, I suppose, and how deep a connection you really want to get. So it's a bit of a guess looking from afar.
But when you hear Dimmer talk about, you know, we're better than that, when are we going to grow up, and he drops a few swear words in his press conference, and a lot of the time it's directed towards the frustration with his players, unless it's the umpires.
So, Ken, I'm not sure your take on it, but there's a bit going on. Yeah, I went Wednesday night on Sports Day. I went with BDO for the Suns. They've got big dog overload. I reckon. And I reckon that's their issue. They've got too many big dogs in the middle. And if you look at the Geelong side they played, Mullen and Atkins will go to work and will do the hard grunt work.
They'll bring Holmes and they'll bring Bailey Smith in at the right times. But the Suns don't... They don't go with the tagger. They don't go with something to take some of the strengths away from the oppo. They try to stick in their game too much. And, you know, they're paying a little bit of a price. And maybe it is with Petrarca and Miller and Rowell and Anderson.
Maybe they've just got too many who want to win the ball. I'm not saying they're bad. They're great players. I'm not saying they're bad players.
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Chapter 6: What are the challenges facing the Gold Coast Suns this season?
But maybe they just... Simo, you said the turnovers from the midfield. Maybe they need a little bit more...
awareness around the oppo's best you know took miller was at one stage i think running there running with some of the oppo's best maybe there's a just a little slight adjustment they can do there i think you're right around wits you know he was dominant for them over the you know over the last seven or eight years probably as a ruckman but The rule changes have seemed to have hurt him.
He's been left out of the side for the first time. So I think there's some definite issues around their midfield group. And you can't accept, you know, you just can't accept and you can't expect to win if you're going to get spanked out of the midfield more often than not. You know, up home, they, you know, they play probably a bit like, I mean... I got both teams.
I go, I'm trying to figure out where at Geelong are and where Gold Coast lost three in a row. So you get a little bit more down the dumps, but Geelong had lost two, I think, before that game. So you go, where are both these teams at? Geelong were really good again, 10 in a row down at Geelong. And the Suns are just struggling. Since they've left Darwin, they're struggling to get back in rhythm.
And I think it's around the midfield as much as anywhere else. So they've got some, yeah, they've got some, certainly got some issues. I mean, when you get beat, contested possession 16, clearance 11. And what was it, inside 15s? About 15 as well, I reckon. So inside 50s are about 15.
Geelong do it to you a bit when they play down there. Yeah, they do. Plus 15 inside 50s and they have 34 turnovers in the front half. But the Suns in terms of where their deficiencies are, I mean, who was the hard worker last year that got it done? Because they were top four midfield last year. So something's happened.
Whether it is the wits, whether it's Miller is not doing his thing or they just dropped off a little bit with the connection piece. They're 18th in the competition, Ken, at clearance. Yeah, that's terrible. It's okay to be 10th, but you're not going to win a flag or be top four if you're 18th at anything, especially if it's clearances.
So a bit of work to do there, Gerard, and some of their players look like they're a little bit unhappy. Humphries doesn't look happy, does he? And what's going on with King and all these type of things, I don't know if it's now time to discuss it, but it's hard to win when you've got a little bit of unrest in the locker room.
We'll come back to that with Tom in half a tick. I was curious, do you think their issues can be solved in season? Because it's not like it hasn't been declared for weeks on end now. Can you solve the mechanical issues around this midfield in season?
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Chapter 7: How is the coaching landscape evolving in the AFL?
Where you actually get to work and you can actually train something. You can train to improve and...
yeah i'm not sure we're seeing a lot of change with the suns and i think it is fixable because that despite the fact it might be a hindrance having too much too many big dogs what do you call it ken big dog overload simmo this is where you're a bit sharper than i am i haven't got analogies for some of these things like that someone shared that with me so i'm not going to claim it but i won't i won't give them up but
But if you've got the talent there and you do have the big dogs, there is a way. Like, I'd rather that than have no one that can actually compete. Oh, yeah. So there's some hope there. And, you know, we're all writing them off at the moment. But it wouldn't surprise me, Gerard, if they did have a bit of a bounce.
Ken, I know the draw's hard. Yeah, look... You know, I thought about it coming in this morning. Too many sides are up. I'm actually, you know, I'll get off topic a little bit. I'm a little bit confused with the competition, bar the top two, or probably even just the top one. Sydney, I'm seeing them tonight live for the first time, so it'll be interesting to see how they look.
You know, the rest of the competition, there's ups and downs so often. And I think the margins as far as the, you know, from third through to 13, 14 maybe, I'm just not sure where everyone sits. And usually we're starting to get to that time of the year. We'll give it another... two or three weeks when we get through the three-month hiatus of Bice games that we've had.
So we'll get through that and then we'll make some decisions. But there's some challenges with who's actually next under Freo and Sydney. Sydney rightly deserve to be there because they've got a number of injuries too. There's some issues. I mean, the Suns, you know, power wasn't there.
Davies, a couple of players who I think maybe have just better at taking the job on and taking the task of the opposition's best players on. And maybe that's Damien's challenge is does he want to concede and go after something slightly different than he's had in his game for a long period of time now? And that is just get after our game.
Yeah, well, if you look at the Cats, and we've got to reward that too, don't we? They all lost two in a row as well. So I like the comment from Chris about we weren't looking at exposing a weakness of the Suns because sometimes you do go into a side, and we heard, we'll talk about the Bulldogs later, but they felt they could expose some of Adelaide's weaknesses.
So Chris wasn't looking at doing that. He just wanted to mitigate the damage of their talent. So the attitude to come in and take out two of their best players, and then play their way on the back of it seems to be a pretty good balance, Ken, than just going, oh, we just play our way or let's expose something that's poor from the opposition.
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Chapter 8: What are the key factors influencing player contracts and team dynamics?
I honestly do. And I think that's because of the, the work of Mullen, the way he's come on. Tommy Atkins has always done it. But even you've seen last night, they've been prepared to, you know, with Neil playing on Collins, bring him up the ground a little bit more, get him out of the way if they could, you know, and stretch the oppo.
So they're trying to take away, I think, with their best players at playing the other way too.
mullen and atkins can still hurt you i heard chris say that in his presser they can still hurt you on the offensive game too and neil athlete that he is he can get up there and he can kick it which we've seen loads of kick it from 60 you know and have you won down there before and geelong you had to bring that up didn't you um i don't know maybe well actually once i reckon we won down it was in the last two or three years we we put about 40 or 50 points on them in the first half and we had about a 35 40 point margin we won by i think a
about three points in most. Yeah.
Well, we never got close to 10 goals. Yeah. No, we, we, we tried everything. And I heard him and talk about, oh, well, Geelong played this ground the best. So they tried to mimic them a little bit by controlling the ball and changing angles. I don't think Geelong do that at the moment. I think they just get it in there and they'll kill you with supply. So they had 62 inside fifties to 47.
And then they just get the front half game going. They kicked seven goals, five, from their front half. And to do that, you've got to win the ball in the midfield. And I think that's what perhaps they might've taken their eye off, but it is so hard to win down there. So I'm not as critical as others about the Suns performance last night, because
They must be 70% side down there, Geelong, and maybe 60% everywhere else. So, yeah, difficult to win down there. I can never do it. And it looked like the Suns, whatever plans they had last night, Gerard, just did not come to fruition.
So what about the big picture of the Suns and whether there's a risk that it's infecting what's happening with the morale of the club, the unity of the locker room and the performance on the field? It's a very real risk, Gerard. And I think it's... Probably fair to say now that it's a distraction at the very least. At the very most, there could be unrest within that locker room.
There are players who are frustrated that Ben King hasn't re-signed yet, and I wouldn't be surprised if they have put the hard word in him already, and if they don't, it will be very soon, because they want him to stay, and they believed he was staying a couple of months ago.
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