Nick Watson & Will Ashcroft love the big stage - Drive for Show, Putt for Dough | The Means Test with Adam Simpson! (21.09.26)
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What is the opening hook and who are the guests on this episode?
Drive for show, putt for dough for golf clearance outlet. We beat everyone's prices. The Nick Watson game. Six goals from a small forward in his third season. Run his trajectory as to what he's going to be. He's going to be the best small forward since Kevin Bartlett. What does he need to get better at? Nothing. He just needs to play another 13 years and amass
his career. I think he might get better in the middle. That's the only thing I can see because he gets put in the middle. He actually gave a free kick away in the centre bounce late in the last quarter and they got him out of there pretty quickly. But I think he'll get better as a centre bounce. Cyril Rioli had this gift. Back at my days at Hawthorne where he was in a rotation in the middle with rough head of all people as an on-baller and Piopolo.
How do Adam and Gerard evaluate Nick Watson’s strengths and areas for improvement?
And that was the speed element of the midfield group. I think Watson's the only spot he can get better at is probably his on-ball. And, you know, who tags a Watson? We spoke about the IT department, an Irish tagger.
That's
probably where you got to get them. You got to get them from overseas. You got to get them deliberately. Don't draft... a small forward that ends up playing as a tagging defender. You're going to have to, because Sam said this before, the small forwards do the damage in finals time. I'm not sure about grand finals, but definitely finals time. Quick question for you. If there was a Norm Smith to be given on the weekend, who would have got it?
From
that
game? I couldn't work it out.
Why do the hosts think Will Ashcroft would win the Norm Smith Medal for the game?
I think Will Ashcroft would have got it in the end. Really? Because they won and it had Hawthorne won. It would have been Nick Watson. Ward was pretty good. Yeah. Ward was excellent. I thought McCluggage is- McCluggage and Harris Andrews. Lowman's kicked five. Anyway. I thought the best player from either side was Will Ashcroft and Nick Watson. Yeah. Okay. So the winner would have got the Norm Smith.
Yeah.
What key statistics highlight Watson and Ashcroft’s impact in the match?
Yeah.
But I heard you give McCluggage the votes and you go, yeah, three clutch goals plus everything else that he did. I thought Ashcroft's craft in the box is the best that I've seen. Just the little angle. When he got the ball moving a few times, he would do it one handed down to his boot. He would get the right angle on the ball going forward. So instead of just hacking it forward and take territory, he put the right angle on it. He was phenomenal in the box. Um, just that what you're talking about is it's man on man. Yeah. It's 4v4, beat your own guy and get it moving. He did have- In the right way, not just hack it forward.
No. Well, he had 10 scoring involvements. The next best was, I mean, Nick Watson's had 11, but he's had six goals too.
How might Watson’s performance influence his future chances of winning another award?
So- Yeah, and when he took it on and kicked that goal, I thought, come on, it's time to pass. It's time. Yeah. It's time. No, he's going for his shot, which, and then it's like, oh, that's a little bit, oh, no, that was a good goal. And his little def kick to his brother, that sort of stuff. So maybe you're right. It maybe took him for granted. 28 touches, 10 inside 50s, 10 contested, 600 metres gained and 10 scoring involvements. That's not a bad game. Is he going to win another
one? If he plays like that, he will, because there'll be such momentum for the idea that He only has to be equal with anyone to get it, I reckon, on Saturday.
I voted last year, and it was getting quite tense at once.
What historical parallels do the hosts draw between this game and past Hawthorn finals?
I was like, who's going to win? But last night would have been, Saturday night would have been a difficult one to do.
Yes. It could have been anyone. In
real time.
Yeah,
imagine that. Oh,
thank
God I'm not doing this year.
Watson's game was just phenomenal. It was good. Drive for show, putt for dough for Golf Clearance Outlet. We beat everyone's prices, golfclearanceoutlet.com.au. And just to finish off this game, PFI, they both had loads of
it. Yes. loads from from off-field coaching organization to on-field leadership and execution Outstanding.
How do the hosts wrap up the discussion and what are the take‑away messages for Hawthorn’s upcoming season?
What they'd built throughout the year to be fully tested in this moment stood up.
The one question is going to be now for Hawthorne and Sam Mitchell. There's two prelims now and they make it three.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the opening hook and who are the guests on this episode?
0:00–0:42
2
How do Adam and Gerard evaluate Nick Watson’s strengths and areas for improvement?
0:42–1:23
3
Why do the hosts think Will Ashcroft would win the Norm Smith Medal for the game?
1:23–1:44
4
What key statistics highlight Watson and Ashcroft’s impact in the match?
1:44–2:33
5
How might Watson’s performance influence his future chances of winning another award?
2:33–3:10
6
What historical parallels do the hosts draw between this game and past Hawthorn finals?
3:10–3:40
7
How do the hosts wrap up the discussion and what are the take‑away messages for Hawthorn’s upcoming season?
3:40–4:54
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