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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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With Bailey, down stayed Rayner, weaves a passage, kicks a goal.
Levi Ashcroft does get the resulting free kick. Long down the line. Bit of a milling pack and Reville at the back has hold of it. Kicks it to Lowman.
Got it, one-hander, right on goal. What a spin move by Zach Bailey, who hangs the snap high and through. Oh, it is party time, all right. Look at that. Bring your best now.
I'm always pleased as a coach when a lot of blokes do their jobs really well and that was the case tonight. A lot of things we tried for tonight worked out well. They don't always but tonight was one of those nights where everything that we went after we sort of achieved.
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Just before we delve here, Tom, you've got resolution on Nick Watson? Yes, I've been... Talking about this all morning, trying to find out exactly what's wrong with his hamstring. The short answer is not much, but he's not completely out of the woods.
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Chapter 2: What were the highlights of the Lions' victory over the Swans?
So Nick Watson had a scan on his hamstring this morning. It came back all clear, but the club says he will still be a test for next weekend. He just had overload. So they'll look after him during the week.
All right. What did you make, Ken Hinkley, Adam Simpson of Thursday Night's Footy?
Yeah, well, we made that our reigning two-time Premier are still in the race. And, you know, the way they played, I think the bye was perfect for them. And the attitude was there. I mean, that's what I liked. I liked the attitude as much as anything else. I liked the physicality of the Lions. And when they're at their best, that's what you notice.
The first thing you notice about the Lions, you know, you go through their players and they were all the right players playing well, I think. You know, maybe Charlie was one that was a little bit missing. But, you know, the... Levi Ashcroft was in the middle, not just Will Ashcroft. Levi was in the middle, and there were some differences to what they were doing.
Harris Andrews was playing like Harris Andrews, and they took away from Sydney what Sydney typically play with, and that's their run and gun through the middle of the ground. They weren't able to do that, and that's been Sydney's challenge for the last... It's been not just for a week. This has been three or four weeks for the Swans, I think. So this has been real for them.
And then the Lions, like... I watched the game really closely and I watched it and I come away from thinking, you know what, two weeks ago I thought Sydney would beat them and Geelong would fix them right up.
I think they're going to go to Geelong now and be very, very close to favourites just because the intimidation factor, and I know it's Geelong at Geelong, but this Brisbane side, when they come to play like that, they still show that they are a real force in this competition. I think, Gerard, you've said it, Faggs put it on the table, top six. You need to be top six to win favourites.
It's hard to imagine them not being top six. Even hard draw, tough draw, all those things. If they play like that, what have they got? Coleman to come back. They've got McCluggage to come back. There's Link McCarthy to come back. There's one I'm missing. I'm just trying to think of the top.
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Chapter 3: What insights were shared about Nick Watson's injury status?
But, yeah, I'm not going to write Sydney off. I think Brisbane have handled the bye well. They obviously went to work with maybe a theme about finishing top six. It's a bit of a guess, but, you know, for Foggs to come out and mention, you've got to be top six to win it, then maybe he's going to his players, let's have a crack at this. I don't care if we're first or sixth, but we're going for it.
And the second piece is their defence. Their last four weeks have been solid. So they get touched up by Fremantle, and we're all a bit shocked about that game. I think they've said more about Fremantle than Brisbane. I think they're a bit, not stale, but tired.
They were looking for the bye and they got to work before the bye against the Suns and their defence the last three weeks, including the Richmond game, the Suns game and even a bit of Fremantle, they got better. And, you know, now they're getting a few players back. So the buyers come at a good time. The defence is getting better in the last month.
And when you scout teams, you don't look at the whole year, do you, Ken? You look at the last month. How are they going? And who have they played? And if you look at their numbers in the last month, it's starting to stack up again.
Yeah, recency bias is real. And we do have that because, you know, we talk about sides. Can you maintain it for the whole season? I'm yet to figure out how to actually... you know maintain your season and play slow at the start get going in the middle and dominate at the back end I think it's really hard because you've got to set up your season on the ladder but
You know, the Brisbane team will always at the moment, particularly in the last year, they will always have the runs on the board that they can call on. And they'll be talking like that internally. We know that nobody wants to play us. Nobody wants to play us. Let's go out and show them why they don't want to play us. And that game just did everything they wanted.
They said to the competition, hey, don't forget, the big dogs are still in town. You're going to have to beat us if you're going to win this.
I wonder, Gerard, if there is... We sort of mentioned Fags will go down swinging this year. Don't change anything. I think they'll change... This is a total guess, Ken. But if they want to get better defensively, sometimes you've got to look at your offence.
And if you want to make the ground, they make the ground so big, 110 uncontested marks, looks great when it works, but when it turns over, there's not a lot of stability behind that. I just wonder if to tighten up their defence might be a little bit of a tweak with their offence. It's a total guess. They had 100 marks on the weekend, average 110 odd.
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