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Chapter 1: What injury updates are crucial for the upcoming footy weekend?
Sam Edmund for Alex Scott and staff to sell your livestock or sell your home. So Cozzy and the Wizards, but will there be Jack Gunston on Saturday?
There will not. So just a quick bit of team selection news. Jack Gunston won't play against Melbourne this weekend. Just that midfoot sprain, he won't come up and really ā They play the long game with him, don't they? So he will sit it out. Josh Weddle actually incidentally scanned on both feet, which was a curiosity. That was precautionary.
Chapter 2: Who is missing from the team lineup this weekend?
He is okay. But there's no Gunston. There's no Barris. There's no Chole, no Nash, and maybe one or two others as well. So Melbourne would be a good chance. They'd fancy themselves in this game, I reckon. Might not get a better chance to roll Hawthorne in the mood they've been in this year.
It's a lot to absorb. That's one of our three feature games as well. Luke Beveridge has spoken.
Chapter 3: What is the significance of Jack Gunston's absence?
Yeah, he spoke just moments ago. The Bonte's fine. Cody Waitman, two to three away. Lob and O'Donnell working through their hamstrings. Maybe another week each for them. Liberatore, the concern's now more knee, the concussion. So they work through that. Tim English is the one. Now, they're still hoping he misses just the one week, which will be this weekend.
But you get the feeling from his comments, though, a fair bit to play out in that space. A lot of water still to go under the bridge. We know his history, Tim English, with concussions. So that's a watch going forward.
Gold Coast's second game in Darwin. What are they doing?
They're just about to start training now. Looks like Matt Rowell's going to return. He's just got to get through this session, the Brownlow medalist. His ankle is good to go, we're told, but someone's ankle is not good to go. He's the influential forward, Ben Long. He will not partake in the second of the two Darwin games.
So that's a pretty big out for Gold Coast ahead of this game against Port Adelaide.
What time are we expecting the fixture to drop?
That's an excellent question. It hasn't been teased out and out and out. I'd contend we basically know it all now, but certainly, hopefully, by lunchtime today, we'll have round 16 to 22, 23 and 24 floating. Depends what you want to discuss here.
The latest is that Carlton and Essendon, after last year sharing 10 Thursday and Friday night games, despite their struggles in the back end of the season, the AFL weren't about to make the same mistake twice. They have ostracised them from prime time for that entirety of that block.
And in fact, in the case of Carlton, they're off free to air into Melbourne and into Tassie as well from round 16 to 21, if you don't mind. So not only no Thursday Fridays, but exclusively Saturday until round 22 at a minimum. So if you're a Carlton supporter, they've just shoved the Blues off into the corner of the league at the moment to do their time.
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Chapter 4: How are Gold Coast's players preparing for their Darwin game?
We must not say that.
We must not say that. This is not the standalone showdown. Why not? It's the Saturday night game. They have played Saturday night games through time. Not standalone. On Fox footy. No, the standalone is Thursday night or Friday night on free-to-air TV.
What's the criteria and definition of standalone, do you suspect?
The primetime free-to-air slot is Thursday night and Friday night.
Isn't it just no one overlapping their game?
No, this is a complete misnomer. A total misnomer. Okay, I'll be more specific. This is still treating the show down. As a second grade product that's not to be trusted with the major audience.
Now they're doing that, but I'll be specific. It's a Saturday night standalone showdown. They haven't gone with it on the Thursday.
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Chapter 5: What time will the Round 16-22 fixtures be released?
They haven't gone with it on the Friday. They've only gone with it once to meet your criteria in its entirety. And Saturday night actually is one of the worst viewing nights of the round. The data shows that.
So we can't let the AFL off the hook here. They're pretending. It's this one. Look up here, look up here, and we'll just slide this through. This does not meet the criteria. And they can't be allowed to get away with it. They have routinely played Saturday night games on Fox footy through these phases. What they are being denied is Thursday night and Friday night.
They're going with Brisbane-Sydney on the Thursday, and on the Friday, they're going with Hawthorne-GWS. And I've got no problem with the Thursday, but I reckon it's probably got Hawthorne-GWS covered on the Friday.
Yeah.
Chapter 6: Why are Carlton and Essendon excluded from prime time games?
Let's not let them off the hook here. they have not met their obligations with the showdown. It has to be the national free-to-air game Thursday night or Friday night.
And I won't get that on the Saturday because, as we know, that's a Channel 7 freeze-out at the moment into certain markets. Okay. Is that it? You're keeping me honest. And the AFL, I like that too. Good luck, Sander.
Sam Edmonds.
Hope you've come armed.
Whether it's selling your livestock or selling your home, contact Alex Scott and staff today. I have to have a long word with Kenny about this before Saturday.
He was celebrating it.
Yeah, I heard. This is not the celebration, Ken. You've got, you've been.
I presented that data to him and he wasn't having it about the ratings on a Saturday night.
They pretended that they listened to you, Kenny, but they didn't actually listen to you.
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