Chapter 1: What were the highlights of the Gold Coast vs. Hawthorne game?
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Nick Watson will kick from just inside 50, left half forward. He kicks his second. Jack Gunston for five and a bag. He loves playing at UTAS. He absolutely loves playing down here. The nine iron to the top of the square, fly over the top, Couchadier, down to McGuinness. He kicks a goal. Margin out, game high now, 49 points.
Quite simply, the Hawks play like the premiership contender they are, while the Suns did not. Newcombe was brilliant. Gunston kicked five. Barass kicked one, and the Suns faltered. And the unwanted labels have been named squarely at Damien Hardwick's men.
He's deep.
Chapter 2: How did Scott Pendlebury perform in the Anzac Day match?
He's gone for Pendlebury. One-on-one. Got a hand.
So he'll get a free kick.
A great sense of fever and occasion around it. Scott Pendlebury. It's the disposal that will break his career record. It's the goal that will make a certainty of his historic fourth Anzac medal. Scott Pendlebury kicks the goal. His second. Age shall not weary him. It's an astonishing addition to an extraordinary career.
92,000 people crammed into the MCG, but many with the red and black scarves left well before it ended. Pendles is a freak. His fourth Anzac Day medal.
Chapter 3: What were the key factors in Collingwood's victory?
Dacos saw off the tag really quickly and Daniel McStay found some form as Collingwood won rampant in the biggest Anzac Day win ever.
Six points in a row, Port Adelaide, ball to ground, he's winds, one to Wilhorn, Francis, round the body goes to Horn and thank you very much!
Brilliant!
Goes on after, but he's not over. Lockie Jones took him on and took him off well. Lockie Jones, massive turnover here. Here we go, Port Adelaide, great mark, Burgon, Burgon on his own, coast-to-coast football, lands in his arms, runs through the square and kicks the goal. into the board by Fink. Port Adelaide take it down.
The Cats started well, and that was it. Splitsav going down didn't help, but a superstar in butters. And two who are about to be in Jason Horn-Francis and big Mitch Georgiadis went bang. And the power under Josh Carr have had a good fortnight as they start to find their groove. Wherever you might be on this Anzac weekend, we're at Marvel Stadium as we build up to the Saints and the Eagles.
Prozito.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the Essendon team's performance?
This is Sunday Crunch Time. And a very warm welcome to you as the Anzac... Rehearsal goes on below us there at Marvel Stadium. The last post might be in your ears. Wherever you might be, right around Australia, the SEN radio network, maybe it's via the SEN app. All thanks to Ford. And don't miss the Ford Rangers by Turbo Runout. And for Ozito, we've got a big one.
Mitch Duncan's not too far away from the Eagles' room. We're going to have Lenny Hayes as well, GM of footy on a really big day. St Kilda play here. Max King to play VFL with that starting around 2 o'clock. And we have got so much to get into. Our man, Liam Pickering, who might be a little flat after the Cats were belted yesterday in Adelaide. He's an hour away.
Chapter 5: How do injuries impact team dynamics in the AFL?
But Josh Jenkins, he is here right now. Hello to you, Josh Jenkins.
Morning, Cam. Good morning. Another big weekend of footy. It was a day for those with endurance, elite endurance yesterday. We got underway at half past 12. I was able to catch a fair bit of the Saturday crunch time crew and it was always good listening. Gerard Whiteley, very, very strong on some of the Lance Collard tribunal situations. We'll probably leave that where it is.
But Gold Coast and Hawthorne, really interesting game. And, you know, utterly disappointed in Gold Coast for a lot of the first half. Then they get on a big, big run and you think, hello, this is on. We see a 50-meter penalty, which really halted and changed the momentum of that game. In the end, Hawthorne go on and dominate the last quarter and dominate the game for a big, big win.
Chapter 6: What strategies are discussed for managing young players?
Then we go to the MCG for the biggest game on the calendar before finals. and we'll talk about what happened there very, very shortly. And then a couple of games in the evening time, which were really interesting. I covered Port Adelaide in Geelong, and Geelong kicked two goals in two and a half minutes to start the game, and you thought, I actually referenced...
The fact that it felt like a banana peel game for the Cats. Then they go two goals in two minutes. You think, they're okay. Dangerfield gets one. Cameron gets one. They'll be fine. Port Adelaide completely dominated that game for the rest of that game. And then Fremantle just did what Fremantle needed to do.
They've got a funny way, that football club, of just annoying and irritating their coach because late in that game, they got to about 38, 39 points. Then all of a sudden they thought, job done, fell asleep, couple of mids, went and finished the game on the bench and Carlton kicked two or three goals to make it a respectable margin. So it was a big, long day of footy yesterday, Cameron.
Chapter 7: How does the stand rule affect gameplay in the AFL?
It most certainly was. We're going to get to Mitch Duncan in around 15 minutes' time, Liam Pickering. We're going to hold over the snap judgments until midday Eastern when Pickers joins me here in the Marvel Stadium box as we start to gear up towards the Eagles and the Saints. But let's start at the MCG. Let's park the pies for a split second. They'll get their flowers in a moment.
Let's get to Weston, who have had a rough start to the year. Their last two weeks, really good. Gather ran brilliant, and we were talking about them in the most positive way the day after, albeit... with some question marks around this particular game style.
Last week, they were really good on the Gold Coast, which maybe that form hasn't been franked, considering the Suns and their performance yesterday. But in front of 92,000 and millions around the country, JJ, the Bombers were incredibly disappointing. Hard to find a positive.
Yeah, impossible to find a positive, to be honest. About a year ago, I was trying to find an article this morning as to when the exact date was.
Chapter 8: What are the predictions for upcoming matches and team performances?
But about a year or so ago, I used the term about Essendon, they're a your turn, our turn team. So they feel like a group. It was labelled at the midfield at the time, but across the ground, they feel like... they're okay or it seems like they're okay for the opposition to have their turn with the footy and then we'll have our turn.
Whereas the best teams say, we'll make your turn and force your turn become our turn. We'll go and take the ball back off you. And Essendon just don't do that. They lose... the most contests in the game defensively in one-on-one contests they lose 38 of their one-on-one contests defensively that's a lot the next worst is only 32 it's such a gap so
17th, 16th, 15th, 14th, they're all about 1% apart. Essendon is 6% worse than the next worst team when it comes to one-on-one losses. They're second last in the competition for tackles. They're dead last in the competition for tackles inside forward 50.
So a lot of the key metrics that you look at for pressure and intensity and ferocity in a really ferocious environment on Anzac Day, they just don't stand up, and that's across the board. So if you don't stand up in those areas across the board, You're reaching for something that you don't possess on a big, big day in a big, big game, which was yesterday.
There are five... I was having a look this morning at some of their numbers defensively. Five key categories in terms of defending ball movement. Some overlap. So some you can say, well, that's almost the same stat, right? So stopping chains of ball movement that lead to scores against... Defending ball movement that starts in your forward 50 but ends up in your D50.
Chains of ball movement that start in your forward 50 and end in scores. So that's similar, of course. One ends up in your D50 and one ends up in a score. Stopping chains that start in your front half of the ground. You can't stop them getting from your D50 and stopping them from your forward half that go to scores against. So five key categories.
Essendon are 18th, aka last for every single category. So defensively, their system... And I think their desire and their intensity just simply doesn't stack up. And in the second half yesterday, we saw it not stack up.
So is this personnel? We've had this discussion before around this team. Even after they won against Melbourne, the discussion was about how does this game style and how does the personnel fit the coaching and vice versa. So when you look and when you give all those numbers, and they are bleak reading, is it a personnel situation at Essendon? We have got some injuries, as they know.
Is it a Brad Scott mindset about how the way they play? Is it a combination of both? Because we'll get to Fremantle later in the show, but we get better personnel and your game style can alter a little bit. How do you see with Essendon?
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