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Between the Lines - Justin Longmuir | The Means Test with Adam Simpson! (04.05.26)
04 May 2026
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Chapter 1: What insights does Justin Longmuir provide about team performance?
between the lines on Justin Longmuir, a couple of things that piqued your interest. Yeah, well, let's have a listen to the first one and see what we can take out of it.
We're struggling at the moment to, when we get in front, you know, I think we've got it out at 22 points. We're just struggling to find a, to handle those moments. We handle the tight moments and I suppose, yeah, I mean, there's a goal in it. We handle those moments really well, but We need to be able to do better than that. We shouldn't have let them back into the game.
There's a couple of things we can be a bit more mature with and not allow that to happen.
The second Brayshaw whacked Tracy after a celebration, I was watching and laughing and giggling. It was funny. And he went off and it was a poke in the eye and he got a couple of stitches and whatever. And I'm sure that wasn't the reason. That's not the only thing. But the second that happened, the Bulldogs responded.
Chapter 2: How does the team handle tight moments in games?
And I think, I mean, they're going really well for a medal. And their ability to deal with small leads was an issue in previous years, like the 10-point lead halfway through the last. They just couldn't manage to hold on.
So they're holding on better, but they're conceding this 24 points, five minutes to go feeling should finish off at 24 points, you know, and they're, they're conceding three or four late ones or, you know, the game gets hot again. So it got within five points this game. So you never, you never stop learning. You never stop evolving as a team.
I think they're in a space now where they manage the moments really well. I think Pierce is one of the best moment leaders in the competition with what he does, whether it's a spoil, whether it's leave your man to get it done, whether it's kicking a goal off the side like he did last year.
So I think their on-field leadership is exceptional, but dealing with just a little momentum swing when, okay, you just slightly pull back a little bit once you're three or four goals up. So how they deal with that, how they stay predictable in those type of moments, I think that's the next phase I'll work on, but they're in a good space.
And then the second, Justin Longmuir? Said all along that you want to have multiple strings to your bow as a footy team. Like you don't want to have, good teams will just take away an aspect of your game if you've only got one string.
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Chapter 3: What strategies do teams use to maintain leads during matches?
So we want to be able to, yeah, be flexible the way we play and then win in multiple ways. And I think, yeah, we probably did that again tonight. Yeah, sometimes we've scored from the back half, sometimes we've relied on clearance and sometimes we've been able to do it from our front half a bit more. So I think the good teams are able to do that.
And that's why they're a good side. You know, that's the evolution. And it was a bit of, you know, Bayshore, Sorong or Buss there for a little while. And their evolution with their maturity, I think they're well-rounded in all aspects of personnel. Feels like they're mids, forwards and backs. There's no massive flaw there, is there?
And now the way they're playing, they're, you know, they kick three goals, one from D50 turnovers on the weekend. And then next week they might kick, you know, 10 goals from the front half, or they might beat you at clearances and score some stoppages or, you know, and then there's always a day when talent just takes over as well. So it's not strategy.
So I feel like when you can win in multiple ways and that top four we spoke about at the start of the show, those four sides, the Hawthorne, Sydney, Fremantle and obviously Brisbane, can beat you in, you take that away, we'll beat you this other way.
Chapter 4: How important is flexibility in a team's game strategy?
And that's the ultimate game plan. When you're not number one at one thing, as we've spoken, you're sort of top four at everything. And they're living in that world at the moment.