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Chapter 1: What insights do the hosts share about Round 15 results?
The award-winning Crunch Time. Miller gets the handball received. Runs to 55. Drives it home.
Good kick. Found the chest of Van Roy and feeds it off to Chandler. Goal front is unguarded. Chandler onto the left. Sends it. Through for a major. Gathered by Tex. Pumps the hand pass. Hoping for Richelli. Tags in front of himself. Spins and goals.
Chapter 2: How did the players perform in the recent matches?
A little bit of inspiration from Joshua Shelley. So they've come home hard, the Crows. Nothing pretty, but they've got the job done, and they win by 17.
And they're starting to build as we head towards September. The Ds left the MCG and played really good footy, gave themselves a chance, but Joshua Shelley, Jordan Dawson, Isaac Rankin, and Big Mark Keane were too much as we see the Crows head towards the top four.
He's able to gather. Down Highwood. 55.
Highwood gets his second. Blues back out to a 12-point lead. Hayward from fifth. Hooks it in towards the corridor. Ainsworth gathers. Feeds it off to Cottrell. Vacant goal square.
Chapter 3: What challenges do the Tigers face this season?
It goes to... Kicked 17 goals, 21 this season, Harry. So he's not the most reliable kick, but this will just about finish the Giants if he kicks this. Yet to impact the scoreboard.
Harry comes in. Splits the middle.
I tell you what, I don't know about the Giants and I don't think anyone does, including their coach. But what I do know is the most unlikely of wildcard runs are happening before our eyes. Five straight for the Blue Baggers under Josh Fraser with two winnable games to come. Not only is it about Fraser actually holding on to the job full time, they are now September Dreaming.
The pies have been in control this second half. They've done what they had to do.
They get their sixth win of the season with a 28-point win over Port Adelaide.
The power rolled into the MCG and had a real dip. But in the end, they just ran out of players as Dacos had 40 again. Jordan Dugowie was brilliant and a win they needed for the black and white army.
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Chapter 4: How is the North Melbourne team evolving under new leadership?
All thanks to Osito on a beautiful Melbourne morning. This is Sunday Crunch Time. And a very warm welcome to you from the MCG, wherever you might be, right across the SEN radio network, via the SEN app, somewhere right across the world. It is a very nice morning as we gear up for the first of the games today. The Tigers and the Roos to go at it in around two hours' time.
Liam Pickering about an hour away. Judson Clark, who spent way too much time on the sideline, which has become... unfortunately somewhat indicative of these young guns at the Tigers. He will join us in the Crunch Time Box, as will Mon Conte, who this morning was named as one of the first players in the historic and eagerly anticipated AFLW Australia v Ireland game later in the year.
But as always, this man's ready to go. Josh Jenkins in the house. Well, kind of. He's in his own house, but we're going to talk plenty of footy. Hello to you, JJ.
Good morning, Cam.
Chapter 5: What are the implications of player injuries on team performance?
I'm not even in my own house. Well, it is my house. I just don't get to live in it at the moment. Myself and my eldest had to just dance through some mud and some puddles and some construction and some nails to get here, but we made it here only just. I was at the MCG last night to see what happens when you choose not to run with superstar midfielders.
And Josh Carr and the power decided not to send extra attention the way of Nick Dacos and Jordan Degoe and paid the ultimate price.
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All right, let's have a look at the Greater Western Sydney Giants. Where are they? They are certainly at a crossroads in terms of their immediate future and maybe the bigger picture about where they fit into the grand scheme of things. A lot of chatter around lack of crowds, lack of buy-in from the region. I'm talking more about...
Chapter 6: How do the hosts analyze the upcoming matches?
their immediate future on field. They had no answers for the resurgent Carlton yesterday. Every time they got close and once they did get in front, every time they just closed that gap, Carlton had an answer. Now that might speak to Carlton more so than GWS, but let's focus on the Giants because they were supposed to be better than what they are.
I've been unable to get a handle on them all year. Sometimes they've looked like one of the best teams in the comp. Others, they've looked like the worst team in the comp. They went to Perth, they got beaten by West Coast. Then they went bananas and kicked a thousand goals in a quarter against Brisbane.
But at this stage of the season, I believe firmly in, and I always have, you are what your record says you are. And their record says they are mediocre, maybe even worse than. Jesse Hogan looks a shell of the Coleman medal winner that we've seen in the past. And now the industry seemingly believes Toby Green will be elsewhere in 2027. Let's not forget he is their current standing captain.
So six wins, eight losses.
Chapter 7: What strategies do teams use to improve their gameplay?
The Hawks up next. I really don't know where this club is at for the immediate future. They've got guys locked into long-term contracts who are very good players, but we know they mean next to nothing. What are we, 40% of players were traded in contract last year? We know that contracts don't mean a lot. So the Giants...
are a massive watch for the end of the season and maybe the next 12 to 24 months.
You touched on it, JJ. One week they can be a legitimate with the way they play their footy, and the Orange Tsunami can lend itself to this. When they've got it all fluent, it looks like the way that they play their footy is perfectly suited to not just 2026, but to actually legitimately contend and take on the best teams in the league.
They're the only team in the league that can be, and I'll say the same month, But the same week, while it's maybe stretching it a little bit, is not out of the terms of possibility with this team.
They can actually be in a premiership deep finals conversation one week and the next week be talking about draft picks and what September actually looks like and how they're going to get currency out of their list. It is remarkable. And I touched on it in the opener.
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Chapter 8: How do the hosts assess the potential for wildcard games this season?
We don't have any type of hold and idea of them, JJ. I don't think anyone within the football club, and it would lead to a great deal of frustration, can really sit there today and say, you know what, we're going to be good today. They were really good a couple of weeks, back to back, as you touched on, that third quarter against the Lions was extraordinary.
They had their chances against the Saints who were playing better footy. So it's not a, I hate the word honorable loss, but they didn't play disgusting in that game. But yesterday they just felt on the back foot for so most of it. And then, and you touch on it, the conversations about what happens going forward.
The Jesse Hogan conundrum is interesting because Cadman's played some good footy, but I think he definitely right now probably benefits from when Jesse Hogan is the Coleman medalist we've seen in previous years. The Toby Green, like who's their next captain?
Well, I'm not sure. I don't know what Callaghan's credentials are like as a leader. There'd be some lucky ash, potentially. I don't know enough about some of their individuals. Tom Green certainly jumps off the page to me, but he's been more than open about his contractual status as well.
Just on the Hogan situation now, he and the club, I believe, I don't really get too involved in this sort of stuff, but I have read that he and the club are a little ways apart on what a new deal would look like. I just let that roll out. I let that play right out. And if I lose him, I lose him. Because at the moment, Max Grzyzewski doesn't get a game because Hogan's back in that team.
Now, every time we see Grzyzewski get a game, he plays good footy, kicks a couple, he looks lively, he looks like he's developing, but he's not going to play. If the Giants, and this is why you need to know where you're at, importantly, And accurately, if the Giants finish 13th next year, they should be looking to go into next season with Grosewski and Cadman as the key focal points.
And let's build on that because they're both young players. They're both emerging key forwards who you can build the forward line around. going to build your forward line around Jesse Hogan, whose body is failing him more than his actual abilities. He still takes his contested marks, he still gets and generates his shots at goal, but his body fails him more so than anything else.
So you can't afford to lose a young emerging key forward because you're still trying to cater for one whose body is starting to really let him down.
Would they have an All-Australian right now?
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