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Chapter 1: What insights does Brenton Sanderson share about the current AFL season?
Brenton Sanderson, hello.
G'day, Gerry. You're feeling the love of sport at the moment. Yeah, I'm loving it. I'm really tired. It's hard to keep your eyes open during the day, and I'm very busy. I've got lots of things going on, but I absolutely love the World Cup. The football is sensational. I'm getting up really early to watch it, and I'm watching the mini matches when I get home and everything, and then...
And this was a great round of AFL. And I loved the game last night, New South Wales and Queensland. It was just brilliant. And I'm a bit jealous now that you went because I watched it on TV and you could tell the atmosphere was awesome. Then when the crowd popped up, 91,000 for ā for two different interstate teams.
When New South Wales plays Queensland in Melbourne and you get that many people, it shows you how obsessed we are with sport. And I agree with you, and I'm counting down the days till this NFL game comes on September 11. I haven't got tickets yet. I've got to try and find a way to get my son and myself into the game because that's going to be a hot ticket, isn't it, to get to the NFL game?
Yeah, and the AFL this week is ā is amazing. Every game has a consequence and we're getting to that. Well, it's round 15 and it feels like, oh, it must be close to finals, but we're not. We're sort of halfway, aren't we? Well, that's it. And we're right.
We're not even in the heart of winter yet. We're actually just at the onset of winter.
Well, that's another question. It's winter here in Melbourne and it was 22 degrees yesterday. So it was like shorts and t-shirt outside. Anyway. It was a bit weird.
Yeah.
So this is, I love Gary Lyons framing of this now, as I hadn't heard him say this before. So the first eight games, that's the honeymoon period. The last eight games is the run in. It's the middle eight games is if you're made of the right stuff. you're the grinders in the middle eight games.
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Chapter 2: How do Fremantle and Geelong compare in their current performance?
We've got some other parts of our game that we've got to get better at. And that's the nature of AFL sport. If it was easy, you know what? Anyone would be doing it.
But they're not. I don't think you play against any Hardwick sides and think, oh, yeah, this will be an easy one. We'll just roll over here. So he's going to have them roll it up, and rightly so. But, you know, we lost our last game. We've got a lot to play for our form line. Win-loss-wise hasn't been great either. So, you know, this is a really important phase of the year.
And to be where we want to be come the later part of the season, we have to beat teams like the Suns. And this is a massive game for us.
This is a quite excellent backdrop to Friday night footy. Gold Coast and Hawthorne. Hawthorne have been walloped the last few times they've been to Gold Coast, which is a bit of a weird one as well. All right, let's dig into the Suns as a starting point. Home wins compared to away losses. What are you finding?
Yeah, well, we're probably covering old ground here, but it's just popped up again for me when I'm looking at the profile of the Suns because... Their 2026 home record is excellent. It's six and one. So they've only lost to Brisbane at home. Their wins are Geelong, West Coast, Essendon, Giants, St Kilda, Port Adelaide. So six and one at home, but on the road, they're much less effective.
So they had the win against Richmond, but they've lost to Melbourne, Sydney, Hawthorne, North Melbourne and Geelong. So a one and five record away. It's really simple. When they play at home, they score and score big. So their offensive profile is 125, 131, 119, 83, 89, 98. So it's all up. Their offensive stuff is excellent when they play on the Gold Coast. They score from turnover.
They score from clearance. And their forward half intercepts are significantly increased at home. So they can't score on the road. That's, I guess, the biggest challenge. They had a bit of a shootout with Melbourne. They lost 109 to 89 when they played Melbourne last. here at the MCG. But Sydney held them to 68 points away. Hawthorne held them to 63 and Geelong held them to 60.
So it's pretty simple, Gerard. They're a really good scoring side when they play on the Gold Coast, but they have their challenges of scoring when they are away from home. Did the bye come at a good time for Hawthorne?
They've curiously only won two of their past six.
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