Chapter 1: What are Gerard's Snap Judgements from the weekend of sport?
Monday morning.
This is your town. This is your station.
This is Waitley.
Good morning. Mondays are for snap judgments. What you feel most passionately from the weekend of sports. The Hyundai open line is 1-300-736-736. Enjoy early deals on Hyundai pre-fees. On now at participating Hyundai dealers. And the 40 Wings Timber text is 0433 98 11 16. The difference is temper.
If I was playing the futures market, I think I'd like to take a little position on our men's 4x100m sprinters in LA. We need a little bit of Don Talbot here to harness Gout and Kennedy and Browning and now Fast Eddie and Kitya. The sub-10 sprinter we didn't even know we had. We only acquired in December from New Zealand. As well as chasing individual records.
Can we train them to get the baton around one lap of the Olympic track? I was playing the futures market. I'd like a little dabble there. That feels like something for the wisdom and experience of Robert Craddock. The events of round six give rise to all manner of snap judgments. Three teams topped the tonne and lost. Three players had kicks that would have changed this morning's conversations.
Taylor Byrne, Mitch Georgiades and Cam Rainer couldn't claim what was on offer. There's the deeply unsettling Elijah Hollins episode, the dual suspensions at Hawthorne, the ghastly season-ending injury to Sam Darcy. And who played the better individual game, Nick Dacos or Jeremy Cameron? Have your say before Gary Lyon awards the GVPs tonight.
Round six played out like the defining escape scene in The Dark Knight Rises. Teams lined up like the desperate prisoners of the pit, facing the impossible leap between the two ledges on the vertical wall.
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Chapter 2: How do the men's 4x100m sprinters look for the upcoming Olympics?
The gap. The chasm. The schism. in the AFL ladder. That gap taunted the underclass throughout last season and remained equally impassable through the first month this year. One by one, they came to be tested physically and spiritually to see if they could make that leap to cross the gap. Carlton went first. The maddening crowds barely broke into a chance.
No one truly believed the Blues would make it across, no matter how promising the scenario. A milestone marvel, sort of that, and the desperate final lunge was unsuccessful. Carlton couldn't escape the darkness. Essendon seemed born in the darkness.
Few would have imagined the bombers capable of such a leap a fortnight ago, but fuelled by young hope and with the tools of the pre-season finally revealed, the bombers thrust out across the gap. They gave a valiant sight before being knocked off track, ultimately swinging from the rope below the landing zone. Port Adelaide had a carefully crafted plan for their leap of faith.
They would give the Hawthorne Interceptors no chance to thwart their endeavours. Hopes were raised, but ultimately dashed by a wizard. St Kilda set forth with great confidence. Fully acclimatised to the surrounds, they took the footholds two at a time. They stumbled and recovered, only to be pushed away by the big Texan. Sunday wasn't North Melbourne's time to test the gap.
They are building strength and resilience and a promising position. They will take the trial in the weeks to come. So it fell to Melbourne as the last hope of the underclass. The second quarter suggested no. The third gave life. The fourth, Melbourne cast off the safety rope and set fearlessly to the task. The crowd jigged, more than chanted, rise.
And rise they did, largely from the unexpected source of two mighty Cade Chandler roosts. Staring down the scariest foe, the ruling force, Melbourne made it across the gap. Intimidating, yes. Impossible, no. Perhaps the demons threw the rope down into the pit as they completed their climb to the horizon so that others might follow them out in the weeks to come.
The gather by length and away to Chandler. He'll sprint to the 50. Chandler can send this home.
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Chapter 3: What were the highlights and controversies from Round Six of the AFL?
Chandler! Gone. Patrol picket sweating here. Put the afterburners on. Centering ball is beautiful. Down the throat of Van Rooyen. Kick from 35. He extends the margin again for Melbourne.
Now to Cozy Pickett. On the run from 55. Sends it to the line. Andrews is there to take some more kicks. That's going to be a second, boys. Oh, it's a free kick to Melbourne.
From in close, Langford. He has just caught it. The kick inside forward 50. Morris got up. He's plucked it. Cut the margin back to nine points.
He's drilled it. Tender clearance. Lockie Neal handballs it forward into the park of Charlie Cameron. Parries it inside 50.
Chapter 4: Who were the standout players and key moments in the AFL matches?
Beats the winds of tackle. Goes on Charlie. Charlie Cameron. Three points.
my goodness me that was electric from charlie cameron i'll go forward again here brisbane long lead mark down low from rainer 45 degree angles skips through the 50 cam rainer it's on its way it's just out to the left-hand side is there one last roll of the dice or will the siren beat them
What a thrilling Sunday afternoon that was. Melbourne have surprised almost every week that first-up shootout against St Kilda, the 14-goal second half against Carlton. They gave Gold Coast the what's-for. They learned a harsh lesson against Essendon and now defeating the Lions. They're in the wildcard zone and should be a shout of holding that position across the months ahead.