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Chapter 1: What predictions can you make for the World Cup round of 32?
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The award-winning Crunch Time. Crunch Time. There you go at it. Spills to McDonald on a dime. Snap and a goal. Connor McDonald. C-Mac. One down to Mackenzie Watson for a miraculous snap around the corner.
Chapter 2: What are the highlights from the latest games in Round 16?
If one man can do it, the wizard can. Almost goes out the bag and then Watson. Somehow. He was running hard, he actually threw his boot at it and kicked the goal. Found a wedge off Marbier. Scholl has put out one paw and dragged down the kick in. In he comes, just to settle things down for the Hawks here, Marbier. It's a slow walk in, oh he loves it.
With the head wrapped up, after a tough night, he's kicking on the siren. Hawks win, they've won four of their past five and it's their tenth win of the season. and solidify their position towards the top of the ladder.
We got some of our game right, we didn't get other parts of our game right, so it all contributes, but we didn't handle that adversity as well as what we could have, and they were good enough to capitalise.
If you look at our season 2025, we didn't play many bad games, but we couldn't quite beat the best, and when you watch us against the best sides, we just looked... just like a second tier team. We're closer than we were.
Chapter 3: How are injuries affecting team performance this season?
Yeah, I feel like we're more competitive against the best this season than we have been in the past. And we've given ourself a chance for that to matter.
Hawthorne moves clear in third position and picks up the chase of the runaway leaders. While the Giants are on the edge of oblivion, obliterated at stoppage and in the grip of injury. Logan Morris bends it. So he started off his line, but he kicked it on his line, according to... No, it's not allowed. It has been disallowed. The umpire stood behind. He ran off his line, according...
To the umpire.
Wow.
We have just tied ourselves in knots over something that used to be straightforward.
It'd be good to get some clarity on it. Because the learning for Logan might be, well, if you ever get another shot on goal... And the siren's gone.
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Chapter 4: What strategies are teams using to improve their standings?
Maybe you've just got to go straight back and kick over the hands on the mark so there's no doubt that you've done the right thing.
As I said, I haven't got a definitive call on whether Andrew made the right decision in terms of whether he made it to the mark or not. But I think the rule's relatively clear.
The disastrous sequence of events surrounding shots after the siren plays out at the Gabba as the AFL plunges one of the game's most thrilling scenarios into chaos.
Personally, that is something I haven't considered purely because my mandate right now is to help this football club grow and I haven't lifted my eyes to consider that.
Yeah, I still haven't thought about it. My position hasn't sort of changed in that space. While I'm focused on the role I'm in at the moment, the interim role, I've got to sort of keep my eyes down in that space. But there's a lot of reports going on and a lot of conversation around myself. But right here, right now, inside my bubble, I'm just sort of focused on what I need to focus on.
You know, the rubber hits the road now. And, you know, as I said before, I've been on record as saying we've had a number of, you know, exploratory discussions over the last 12, 18 months.
And the vacant coaching landscape progresses as Essendon appoint an in-house panel to run its appointments, which will include James Heard. This is the Round 16 edition of Crunch Time. Hawthorne and Brisbane are our winners so far in round 16.
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Chapter 5: How do coaching changes impact team dynamics?
Crunch time for the all-new Ford Ranger Wolf Track V6 and Azito brushless power tools built to work. Azito, do you? Gerard Whateley with you. Adam Simpson is with me. Hello to you, Simmo.
Morning, all. Yeah, looking forward to today's game. But last night, looking at Hawthorne, they're still not putting teams away, Gerard. They're not quite in that level where they have a convincing win. But I think hearing Sam in his press conference, I think he's right. I think they've just improved just that little bit this year.
Probably not top of the ladder sort of status, but they've got a bit of separation from the teams like the Giants last night, who have now lost three in a row since their bye. So interesting game last night, particularly from stoppages. We'll get into the numbers a little bit later. But it wasn't really a statement game from the Hawks, but it was just a game we thought they'd win, and they did.
Chapter 6: What are the implications of rule changes on gameplay?
Kenny Hinkley is by your side today.
Kenny, you're bound for the showdown tonight. I just want to give you a bit of advice. It's hard to get the AFL record this weekend. I got to the G last night. It was a 90-minute search. I can't call without a record. It's just one of my tics. I had to send Donnie out on an all-point bulletin search to find me an AFL record because these are collector's items with Simmo on the cover.
I've got to get two of them signed today and there's a third one to come. Can you get a fourth one signed? I want one, Gerard. Please get me one too.
What are you doing on the front of the record, Simmo? I don't know, mate.
Chapter 7: How does the upcoming coaching landscape look for clubs?
You do an article, you do a favour for a few people, and then next thing you know, you get exploited. Oh, come on, Simmo. Another cashie. Another cashie? No, it's a love job. That's the hardest part too, Ken. And, you know, we don't do love jobs, do we? So, no, it's a good read, I suppose. It's an excellent read. But, yeah, my slow news week is what I'm calling it.
Gerard, tell me what the article's about.
I've not been to the football yet, so I haven't seen it.
It's between two boxes. So it's the coach who comes into the media. The history of these things is Malcolm Blight toggled between coaching and media successfully.
Chapter 8: What insights can we gain from the current season's trends?
Lee Matthews did it. So it's really around Simmo and you and John Longmire at the moment, the coaches who it's either a refresh or rehab or it's the next career that But, yeah, it's your brethren crossing into our media, enriching what we do and then forecasting what comes next.
I do need some insight, though, Gerard. I need some more insight. Did he say he's going back into coaching? That's the question I've got for you.
No, he's so uncomfortable being at the centre of attention that that's why he knows he's not going back into coaching.
Well, he's had his lights turned out today. He can't get out of his own house.
Are we on air? What's going on here? He's all over the place. This is crunch time, boys. Let's get into it.
He's all over the place, Gerard. Keep him calm there today.
Tom Morris rounds out our quartet. Hello to you, Tommy. Hello, Kenny. Hello, Simo. I look forward to buying the record this week and reading that piece. Morning, T-Bone. Morning, Kenny. The Giants just have an injury list, which is a complete disaster at the moment, and more injuries last night. Max Krasetsky, a patella tendon. This was an issue from his draft year.
He had surgery, scans this weekend, but he's every chance to miss the rest of the season. Brett Daniels with a high calf strain. He's a strong chance to miss a large period of the rest of the home and away season. And the news pregame last night that Jesse Hogan is every chance to be out for the rest of the season as well with a badly broken finger. They've got just such a long injury list.
Compare that to Freo Gerrard, who with Sam Sturt playing this weekend, have zero players on their casualty ward. It's just, it's bad luck. I don't think the Giants is necessarily bad management because not a lot of them are program injuries, as they call them. But it still just makes their season go from bad to worse at 6-9.
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