"I thought they were both outstanding." | First Thoughts - Kane's Biggest Winners and Losers from the Grand Final (28.09.26)
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What did Kane say about the biggest winners of the Grand Final?
Chalo, chao, MCP. I'm on fire bug.
Yeah, we're on fire here this morning for Fireball. Appreciate all the ballers and your company right throughout the year and our biggest year ever, and it's all thanks to you. We'll get to some thank yous a little bit later on before we hand the show over to Jared Waitley. But I thought we might work our way through the ten winners and losers of grand final day. As Kingy's just out getting himself a coffee. Would you like me to start with the uh with the winners? Or losers or would you like me to g with the winners? Positive. Let's let's go with the w well winner Will Ashcroft, I think he's now the greatest finals player ever. You can make the case for Dustin Martin, of course, but he should have won his third Norm Smith medal.
He's gonna win his second Gary Airz. And when you factor in all the other finals, not on grand final day but preliminary finals and things like that, he is the greatest finals player ever and he's only what twenty one, twenty two years of age. Look out. Chris Fagan uh Now in the conversation is the best coach ever, that one speaks for itself. Winner number three, I thought uh Harris Andrews and Patrick Voss, both winners. As good a one-on-one finals matchup as you're gonna get. We don't get many one-on-ones anymore in footy in 2026. That was one I thought they were both outstanding. I thought they both could hold their heads up high, and I thought they walk off the MCG. Clearly, Andrew's a bigger winner than Voss, but both of them winners.
I was out in the middle as the uh as the Kylie stage was getting undone, Kingy, and I was having a real good look at how they are put into action and the pressure that they are under, the MCG ground staff to get that stage undone and off the ground, ready for the bounce. So I thought the MCG ground staff, big winners. And when you factor in the uh NFL game as well, to get the ground in that shape with the rain around the Kylie stage outstanding on that work. Lateral. Good call, but lateral. them f told me to piss off and get off the ground a couple of times. Really? But that's okay. They they were under pressure. Uh winner number five and I'm gonna have to zip it for a while, but the AFL's rule changes.
Hello m hang on, hang on. Just just just for replay sake, can you say that nice nice and clearly? The AFL's rule changes.
But there's a but. There's a but. When the best umpires adjudicate those rule changes the way that they should be adjudicated, then it works. Remember that game we had, we'll get to this in a tick. The best teams out there, best umpires.
Why is Ashcroft considered the greatest finals player ever?
No fifties for stupid stand rules, no fifties for protected areas, none of that rubbish. None of that rubbish that we have to put up with when you get the part time three hour a week umpiring. Should number six. Number six.
Should Zorko have given away a fifty for overstepping the mark for Switkiowski when he marked the ball and he charged straight over the mark? Would you have been upset if he had done that in the third quarter?
I I'm I am happy with the the the less fifties the better. So it has to be really, really obvious. Uh n winner number six, Josh Dunkley. Just just Josh Duncley. What else can you say? He's just an absolute winner um on Grand Final Day. Uh so the umpires and complaints about Brownlow Medal votes and who the votes go to on Brownlow night, the umpires are winners because when former players and The media can't get the Norm Smith medal votes right. The prospect of taking the votes off umpires for Brownlow night doesn't wash. It doesn't wash. So the umpires are a winner there. Uh putting the whistle away, 19 free kicks, that was a winner. 19 free kicks. Remember that game in Adelaide where I came on fire, I was absolutely distraught because they never played a hundred free kicks.
Seventy five. Like, pull your head in. Put the whistle away like they do in grand finals. The game is far better. Greatest grand finals. Final ever because the umpires put the whistle away. Now you can argue about the crackdown on fifteen meter kicks on grand final.
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What did Kane say about the biggest winners of the Grand Final?
0:05β2:28
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Why is Ashcroft considered the greatest finals player ever?
2:28β4:31
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How did the MCG ground staff become unexpected winners?
4:31β6:15
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What ruleβchange decisions made the umpires winners on Grand Final day?
6:15β7:29
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