First Thoughts - Round 19 (20.07.26)
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What caused the early 'onion bag' World Cup chaos and how did it interrupt the show?
Cain and Kingy. Welcome back to Fireball. Absolutely jam-packed morning. We've got onion bag action. 16 shots at goal to zero in the World Cup final. We're into extra time. Argentina down to 10. It's all been happening at one end. And the goalkeeper for Argentina has been enormous. He just saved another one. So extra time. We'll keep you across it. JK, our man, live on the spot. When there is action, we will fade him up and he'll call the action for you. But our first thoughts... from a jam-packed weekend of footy for Signet. Life's never flat when you power every moment with the Signet Power Bank. Signet.com. Have a listen to Damien Hardwick pre-game on Fox Footy when asked about the champ, the number one rated player in the game, Marcus Bonson-Pelly, yesterday.
Yeah, well, we're probably like a lot of other sides. We manage him in certain places off the ground, if that makes sense. There's certain areas we'll allow him to control. Because a player like his, Bont, I think maybe Sydney were the only side that had relative success with him. We haven't got that type of player that is a pure lockdown mid, so we're going to go and we'll manage him as best we can. So Noah Anderson, Tuchman, all these types, they'll negate him as best they can.
Yeah, is there certain areas of the ground you want to manage him in front of goal? Would that be a good spot to manage him? He kicks two in the first quarter and not a soul. I watched this. I heard that comment. I jotted it down. I said, Hardwick pre-game on Bontempele. We don't have a player that can curtail him. Well, let's just have a look. They let him run around and do as he pleases.
Oh!
He will be denied.
Was it a foul? Hang on. He's put it in. He's put it in, Williams.
Why does Damien Hardwick say teams 'manage' Marcus Bontempelli and did that work on the day?
But what's happened here? Was it a foul on Emi Martinez, the goalkeeper? I think Marino has fouled the goalkeeper.
Oh, wow. Wowee. Slavko went in the onion bag. We had onion bag action. Yeah. We're fishing the boy out of the onion bag as we speak. And they've blocked the goalkeeper, have they?
No. They have. And there's a lot of complaints happening. Swinging arm action. A matter of moments before the floodgates absolutely open. Sorry, I interrupted. Was that more important than my hardwick spill, was it? The World Cup final. The ball was in the onion bag. No worries. No, I lost my train of thought. Get stuffed. Let's just take the onion bag action. Yeah, that facial go. But what he's got, what he's got. So that's, that's one point. If you're going to say we're going to manage him in certain areas of the game, that would be important in front of goal. He's kicked two in the first quarter alone. And then the other point to this is you've got 40 odd players on your list. Just find a James Jordan. They're not hard, I'm telling you.
They're not hard. Find an O'Sheen Mullet. Find one. You've got all this talent on the Gold Coast and every single time the best player from the opposition against Gold Coast just gets a stack of it because they don't have that player. Anyway, I reckon they do have that player. I think that player is Tooke Miller. Tooke can go and get his 39, no worries, but it doesn't win you the game. Restricting Bontempele like Geelong restricted Messiah wins you the game. Nothing annoys me more. Kingy, anyway, your first thoughts. Well...
There's a lot of chat around the state at the moment about royal commissions. I want a royal commission into what the hell has happened to Noah Anderson. Machetes? What's happened to Noah Anderson?
Machetes. Well, last week it was Matt Rau.
But Noah, I mean, he's become an inoffensive beast. Two score involvements. He'd get that in the first eight minutes last year. Look... I don't know. They've become the Scotty Muller of the AFL, haven't they? They can't bat. They can't bowl. They can't throw. They can't do anything. They can't win. They can't beat you at clearance. They can't move the ball. They can't defend. They've become Scotty Muller. Who said that? Was it the cameraman or was it Warnie?
The great man. We can say it now. He blamed the cameraman. Joe. Joe.
Oh, what a mess of a season.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What caused the early 'onion bag' World Cup chaos and how did it interrupt the show?
0:00β1:42
2
Why does Damien Hardwick say teams 'manage' Marcus Bontempelli and did that work on the day?
1:42β7:07
3
What's gone wrong for the Gold Coast Suns and is it time to change players or roles?
7:07β18:33
4
How did Essendon beat the Giants and which young players stepped up?
18:33β37:52