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Chapter 1: What insights did the panel share about Hawthorne's recent performance?
The award-winning Crunch Time.
Joel shovels it to Connor McDonald. On the left, 20 out. Yeah! Driving 40.
Joel!
Plays on around the body, kicks the goal. Dean Lewis, can't mark, it's loose at the front. Connor McDonald, snappy, going again. Inboard goes the kick, they bring it to ground again. Moore, kicks another one. Hawthorne had exploded and blown this game to smithereens. Hawthorne, fresh off the break. come up to Gold Coast and surge back into the top four with an outstanding win.
You know, we had some trouble with some of their players.
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Chapter 2: How did injuries impact the Gold Coast Suns in their recent game?
You know, you pick three, Jed Walter, and then Mac Andrews, who's picked five, and Noah Anderson, who's picked two. It's like, man, the amount of talent that these guys have got really curtailing them was important for us. And they just, they've got so much talent on every line that making the most of those chances I thought was really important.
The Hawks enhance their standing with their first win on the Gold Coast in more than a decade, condemning the Suns to a fourth straight loss ahead of the toughest task in footy. He wanders on and pushes the kick across the face of goal where Jackson marks in front of the behind posts. Please, man. That's what I want to know. Hand pass to Holmes. Oh, that's a wild and loose hand pass.
Swietkowski onto it. Works it around to Erasmus. He'll kick the goal and the Dockers lead. It's out across the face of goal. Amos somehow or another has taken the mark. The Dockers are sneaking up on it.
Chapter 3: What strategies are being discussed for improving centre bounce performance?
Amos snaps truly. He's got three and it's the settler the Dockers were looking for. The Dockers win their 13th straight And they take their revenge on Geelong, the only team that had taken their number. The streak continues for Fremantle, fuelled by their unique weapon in the ruck. How far can the Dockers take this rare winning sequence?
Here's an idea. Either focus on the game and get that sorted, or sit there and open up trade period right now. Because at the end of the day, we're talking about it like as if it's happening all the time. It does mind. End of rant, Gerard. We'll worry about that as the season sort of gets a bit closer to the end. I prefer him to sign today. Um... But the reality is that's not going to happen.
Chapter 4: How is Will Day's return influencing the Hawks' game plan?
He's a big boy. He can make big boy decisions.
Will Tim English be there next year? It would surprise me if he's there next year. I'll scoop Lewis. It's like he's gone up and he's given us, he's come back with a half a scoop of vanilla. Is Lockie someone you'd like to... Absolutely. I think all the free agents we've targeted, you go, OK, they'd fit a need.
Definitely, he'd be a great fit. So, Lockie, you're still listening, mate. Come on, get on down. And a volatile week on the futures markets. Heightened speculation about player movement causes plenty of angst as the ripple effect of October proves unsettling in June. This is the Round 15 edition of Crunch Time. How are we all feeling about the offside rule this morning?
Chapter 5: What are the implications of player movement speculation in the AFL?
Yeah, well, it wasn't a great day, was it?
Or selection? Yeah, it wasn't a coaching masterclass this week.
Crunch time for the all-new Ford Ranger Wolf Track V6 and Azzito brushless power tools. Built to work, Azzito, do you. Gerard Whateley with you. Cain Corns is with us from Adelaide Oval. Hello to you, Cain.
Oh, magnificent here, Gerard. Perfect football conditions, quite overcast, and the sort of day you wake up, Saturday, traditional slot, and love playing in these games. So we've got a ripper on our hands a little bit later on, but last night was interesting, wasn't it? I thought it was such a strong performance from Hawthorne.
I'm still trying to rack my brain over how Gold Coast could not score from a centre bounce when you've got the likes of those players in there. They were pretty good, but Hawthorne were better, and How much of a difference does Will Day make to that line-up?
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Chapter 6: How does the panel view the coaching landscape in the AFL?
So looking forward to getting stuck into that with you guys this morning.
Adam Simpson, hello. Good morning, Gerard. Good morning, everyone out there. Bunnings, mowing the lawns, school sports, team sports. Good to be here. 13 in a row for the Dockers.
So this is rare air. Essendon 20, St Kilda 19 in 2000, 2009. Port Adelaide's 13 straight in 2023. And now Fremantle. 13's the threshold to sort of enter the grand streaks of the century.
And what's next? Do they start resting players, managing the team, looking at their style of play? They're coming off a bye.
Chapter 7: What are the challenges facing the Gold Coast Suns this season?
They look like, and they're so healthy, Joe. So they've played 30 players this year. So the least of anyone. And it was pretty much a full book. on Thursday night. And I just thought they're just winning in different ways too. And they're not winning every quarter. Every game seems to be a challenge. So it's not just a walk in the park for them. So they're finding a way.
They're led really well on field. Their on-field leadership seems to be in really good order. Kicking wasn't straight on the weekend, but outside of that, they had another complete game. They should have won that by... 40, 50 points in the end.
Chapter 8: How do the panelists predict the outcome of upcoming matches?
So we'll talk about Geelong later, but it says a lot about their system and how it stands up at the moment.
Tom Morris rounds out our quartet. Hello, Tom. Hello, Gerard. Hello, Simo. Hello, Kane. Plenty of news to get through later on this morning, but the big news this morning, at least from an initial perspective, is Josh Weddle. He's facing a straight up and down three-week suspension from the MRO for his high bump on Daniel Rioli.
which has fractured the jaw of Daniel Rioli, who was in hospital last night. He had scans, and that's confirmed this morning as well. So you can expect that to be confirmed by the AFL later on today, that Weddle will get that three-week suspension. So this is just the classic bump, strict liability, whatever happens, you're culpable for, and that's what happened. It's really as simple as that.
So that will be confirmed later on today, and then the Hawks will have to decide whether to challenge it, but I think that would be futile in this situation. All right, let's dig into last night then.
It was a really interesting game with lots of different talking points, ebbs and flows, seven straight goals for Hawthorne across the later stages of the first quarter and the earlier the second was the decisive element.
And we can't not talk about the centre bounces or centre ball ups. Is it centre bounce or centre ball ups? We're trying to get centre ball ups in, but everyone keeps reverting Kane back to centre bounces. But when you look at the nine shots to none from that area of the ground, you can't help but look at that part of the game. And I know...
Dimmer mentioned that post-game and Sam mentioned as well how they've done a lot of work in their bite period as well. But, you know, there's a lot of numbers that go in the sun's favour, Gerard. But at the moment, if they can't get that right, they can't progress. And that's the clearance just in general. Clearances have been poor.
And then whatever's happening with that mix, and we can dig a little bit deeper around strategy at the centre bounce because it's a game of chess. It's 4v4. Sometimes it's better when you don't have a ruck because you know where it's going to go. And Kane, you can remember that back in the day when two 50-50 ruck when you said, oh, we're going to win this or we're not going to win this.
And it was a little bit of that last night. Then there's the coaching and then there's the players and then there's the new rules. And I don't think any of those things are working well for the Suns at the moment.
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