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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Now, back to Waitley. Adam White filling in for Gerard on this Monday. Gerard back tomorrow. Gerard's actually on this afternoon with Dwayne Russell calling all the action from the MCG as Melbourne take on Collingwood. Mark Bickley joins us, part of our AFL Nation team across in South Australia. We were with Bix on Thursday night.
And as you join us, Mark, I was keen to talk to you about a number of things, but... Particularly just Jordan Dawson and what he's gone through this year, but what he continues to deliver time and time again for Adelaide under pressure. Welcome.
Yes, welcome to you. Thanks for what it's been. It's been quite phenomenal, hasn't it? I think we've all admired Jordan. It's really interesting because he played at Sydney for seven years and his highest finish in their best and fairest was the last year before he left, he finished third.
He's come over and I think he might have won three best and fairest at athlete in a very short space of time. So his ascension has been quite remarkable, really. And then when faced with this challenge this year with the passing of his brother and the courage that he's shown, I guess at times the vulnerability after games, you see how emotional he's been and he keeps funning up.
And at the same time through all of that, it's just kept, performing and delivering, which is, yeah, just a testament to his, you know, mental capacity to be able to deal with all of that at the same time. It's just been phenomenal.
I'm trying to think of a player that's like him because he's, he's not an unusual player necessarily, but I kind of always saw him as a more of an outside halfback flanker because that's what he kind of was at Sydney. Always a beautiful kick, but he has this ability to be clearly more than just that, but someone that does tend to be at his best in the, in the big moments.
Yeah, look, I think Marcus Bontempele is the closest one. Bont seems to just bob up whenever you need him. And look, I'm not saying Jordan's quite at the level of Marcus, but he's moving towards it, which is, you know, such a compliment because I think Marcus Bontempele is just,
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Chapter 2: What insights does Mark Bickley share about Jordan Dawson's performance?
And that's the type of the realms he's sort of moving in now. Those guys have just been you know, at the top of this game for, you know, probably half a decade. And now we're talking about Jordan Dawson in the same breath. So that sort of speaks volumes of what he's been able to do over the last couple of years and in more recent times.
Yep, I agree. And you think of all those big moments he's had at the Adelaide Oval, kicking goals, clutch goals, and he did it again on Thursday night. Now, we were talking about Adelaide on Thursday night before the game, just as to where they sat individually. in the competition.
But after that win against the Cats, I think it's interesting kind of looking at them this year compared to last year where they were the minor premiers. But they clearly had a much easier draw last year than what they had this year. But as it stands at the moment, since round eight,
They've only lost to Hawthorne, which was by nine points at Tassie, in a really dour, but closer fair where they nearly pinched it. That's their only loss since round eight. And when you look at their losses across the course of the year, they've been to Brisbane, Hawthorne, Geelong, the Bulldogs and Freo.
So you could argue that they're five of the best, probably six teams in the competition when you include Sydney as well. So maybe their season's not going as badly as we thought, considering Matthew Nix is a coach that's under a bit of pressure.
Yeah, well, firstly, I thought Dixie had a great game in terms of the coach's box. Archie on Tom Stewart was a good move. Peatling, I thought, put Bailey Smith under a fair bit of pressure and tried to get under his skin. And he did a few things that, you know, Max Michelinie at times on Jeremy Cameron when he went forward. All those things work.
So that's always a... And to get a win against, you know, a team that's above them, they hadn't done that up until this point of the season. But the big thing, I think, from last year that's different as well, you mentioned the draw. But Adelaide hardly had an injury last year. They had Joshua Shelley who had a posterior cruise ship and he missed, I think, about 12 or 14 games.
Other than that, pretty much the whole year they went through with this consistency. Now, I actually think that cost them in the end because...
towards the end of the season in those two finals and maybe a game or two before that they really looked tired they looked puffed out most of their guys had played about you know 22 games straight almost so and because initially they were trying to get in the top eight so they weren't managing players and then they had an opportunity to finish in the top four so they kept sort of pushing and not managing players and then they had an opportunity to finish in the top two so they kept playing their good players to get those opportunities but at the end they ran out of steam so
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Chapter 3: How has Jordan Dawson's journey impacted his mental resilience?
Yeah, no, do. I heard Dane Zorko talking during the week and, um, I could just tell there was some buoyancy in his voice and he talked about the review and how they looked a lot at the last quarter and said, we started to see some stuff in the last quarter and we identified some things that we hadn't seen for a while. So I'm really looking forward to this week.
Sometimes you can just tell, particularly someone like Zorka who's super experienced and that was enough for me to suggest that the talent within that team is immense and And sometimes you just get pricked. And I was super surprised that they hadn't responded perhaps a little bit earlier.
But, yeah, you know, coming up against good opposition, you know, the Q clash or whatever they call it these days was just enough to stimulate their best players and say, hey, hang on a minute, we're not done. And I think Lachie Neal led from the front. Logan Morris was outstanding as well. So, yeah, there's enough there.
And they're a bit ā well, they're actually worse than Adelaide in terms of the continuity for their season, you know, It started with Harris Andrews being suspended early on and then they've had Zorko and then they've just had a litany of injuries across the whole season. So I think, you know, you'd hate to run in, you know, can they get into the top six?
I'm not sure, but I'll tell you what, you'd hate to run into them in September if they get all their players back. So it's going to be an interesting watch.
Yeah, definitely. Lockie Neal's first quarter was amazing and clearly set the tone. No doubt about that. Hey, thank you very much for joining us. Enjoy the rest of your Monday. Thanks, Whitey. Mark Bickley joining us, AFL Nation commentator. We are off to the latest in the newsroom. Thanks to McCafe and their new drinks range with Nathan Gardner.
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