First Thoughts - Round 20 (27.07.26)
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It is a very good morning to those of you who wake up to us at 7.01. You've missed any of the first hour. What were you thinking? It was busy. It was very, very busy. There was reheating a soup. There was a Four Corns investigation. There was songs. There was inductees into the Ball of Fame. There was a lot, so you can catch up on that. There was Sophie Molyneux as well, the skipper of the Aussies, winning the T20 World Cup in July, gearing up for a huge summer of cricket. Still to come, Chris Fagan, Cal Wilkie, your feedback and our first thoughts, which we will launch into right now for Signet. Life's never flat when you power every moment with the Signet Power Bank. Signet.com. I think we've got to start with last night or yesterday afternoon.
It was St Kilda getting it done against North Melbourne. Before we get into the fallout from that, certainly from an injury point of view with Max King, what's there to say about Nassir this morning? Kingy?
Well, I just think we have to thank these guys for these games. This is the reason we go to the footy. 46.
Yeah. 46, 10 score involvements and four second half goals for Naz. 39 kicks. His metres gained. Now, a lot of these are from kickouts. I get that. But it's still a good effort to get over a kilometre of metres gained. 1,060 metres scored. And if he didn't play, I'm not sure they'd win, but it was something else.
They lose by five goals. What do you mean not sure? He's had 15% of their touches. Yeah. One player. Anyway. And that was with a tag, by the way. Yeah, well, we'll get to the tag in a moment, but let's just celebrate what NASDAQ can do for the game. I just think, and we talked about Nassir and Cozzy Pickett just really becoming legends for the young Indigenous boys out there. They've got hopes and dreams of becoming an AFL player. What they are doing for that right now is just ridiculous. And then, of course, not many players, and you've been the greatest advocate for this, the big money deals. Not many live up to the big money deals. So to see him doing this as early as now, I think is terrific for both club and player.
Yeah.
Yep. And I loved the move. I loved him more forward. Whilst he had a stack of it in the first half, a lot of those were from kick it. I didn't think he was actually that great in the first half, but we discuss this a lot and we have done on Fireball Threat. What's the best way to use him? I did love him going. forward and the impact that he had there. So we'll just see whether they explore that a little bit more. Surely, surely they will. How many goals did he kick for the year? Can you actually be able to bring that up for me?
Contest winners in the forward line are just hard to stop, aren't they? They just keep winning it.
With the Stan rule, and if anyone sort of gets the ball around 55-60, the ability just for that 16 goals for the year, so 12 heading into yesterday, just to get that little wrap around handball receive, which he did in the third. I'm not sure how you stop it. Everyone's paranoid about giving away a 50 for encroaching on the protected area or the Stan rule.
How did Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera dominate St Kilda vs North Melbourne with 46 touches and four goals?
So definitely something that they can exploit there. And yesterday, second half, absolutely well deployed. We'll speak to Caelan Wilkie, the skipper, of the Saints a little bit later on. But the big fallout from that game yesterday, other than Naz and his domination, was Max King, who couldn't get through 32 minutes of football. Let's have a listen to an extended exchange with Ross Lyon. Look, for those of you that would have seen, it was about a seven-minute sort of grilling of Ross on Max King and his handling. This was some of what he had to say last night.
If we lean in and try and exert or even just check, it's misinterpreted that you're exerting and putting undue pressure. So for all of you, it's not an opaque process. It's very transparent and professional. Let the cobblers do the cobbling.
After the game, I thought as a coach, you would ask how your staff would... I did, and they said he's having a scan tomorrow.
Yep.
Do you know what I mean?
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:02β3:19
2
How did Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera dominate St Kilda vs North Melbourne with 46 touches and four goals?
3:19β11:05
3
What explains the controversy over Max Kingβs hamstring exit and Ross Lyonβs press conference responses?
11:05β26:24
4
How should clubs manage return-from-injury players: VFL build-up vs AFL risk as debated here?
26:24β35:47
Speakers
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