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Chapter 1: What did the events of Round 11 mean for the teams?
What did it all mean, the events of Round 11?
Adam Simpson is here. Hello, Simmo. Morning, Gerard. Traffic was good this morning at 5 o'clock when I left. Get in front of it. Yeah, get in front of it. Get in front of it. That's normally a media messaging thing. But what a great weekend of football. Just the theatre of sport. The theatre of AFL this week, it was just entertaining. The comebacks, the massive quarters, the dramas.
There's four games decided by less than 10 points. North won without being in front during... The whole game had a blowout quarter. There's nothing better than a 14 goals to none quarter as well. And even what's getting entertaining is the last game of the round. When it's a good game, that's fun too when you're just sitting on the couch and just debriefing your weekend, whatever you were doing.
Chapter 2: How did Adam Simpson view the weekend of AFL football?
But there's a game on in the background that's on. The last five, 10 minutes of that Melbourne Bulldogs game was so good to watch.
Every now and then a game just becomes a complete frenzy. And that did from a long way out.
I think the coaches, either they couldn't get a message out and they just sat back and, all right, let's just see how we go. Let's just go. And whether we're in front, behind, or the score's level, we're going to play the same way. So well done to everyone who contributed from an AFL point of view.
There was probably three or four clubs not happy with the weekend, but there's a lot of losers that were winners this week.
So the season now has full momentum out of round 11. Yep. Welcome back buys. Five rounds of buys coming up. Just whack the handbrake on.
We're going too well now. Let's do the first five rounds with buys and then let's have, I don't know, four good rounds and then let's put five rounds of buys coming up. Yep. Yep. We don't want everyone to be too excited. No, no, let's not let, you know, let's not get too far in front of rugby league. All right. The big issue, that third quarter, Giants versus Lions. Yeah, yeah.
Act of God, not quite sure. Gerard, I know I've just... I've got four pages of detailed notes. I've seen your detail there, mate. I've got data here that sort of suggests that there's a bit more than just God that's getting in the way of Brisbane just yet. I think the... Yeah, there's a few.
You know, no one knows how to really correct what's happening at Brisbane except for maybe Clarkson, who's had a three-peat.
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Chapter 3: What were the standout moments from the games discussed?
Lee Matthews. Like, for us to critique what Brisbane need to do right now, they're in rare air. You know, when you're going for a three-peat, there's not many people you can lean on if you're Chris Fagan in terms of how to deal with a mid-season slump that's probably...
bigger than the last couple of years when they've slumped a little and have that quarter, regardless of whether it's just an aberration or not. There's a bit going on there, isn't there? So if you dig in on that third quarter, it was 14 goals to three points. Inside 50s, 25 to 10. But they lost the tackle count 27 to 11. The pressure factor from the Giants was 230. So the heat was on.
Um, they kicked 11 goals from the front half. So this wasn't really the tsunami. There was a couple of, this is a front half domination, which is not the Giants go, but they do struggle against the Giants. There's no doubt about that. So yeah, there's a, there's a, there's a bit there to worry about if you're Brisbane.
I wonder, we speak a lot about system and strategy and the strategy now is, seems to be the modern Geelong. We can touch on them later. And that's not really Brisbane, is it? They just play their way. We do our thing. Good luck beating us. Yeah. So I just wonder what's next for Brisbane. Do they just continue to talk about attitude, effort, where are we at?
This is why it's so hard to talk about because we've never been there. Um, you know, is it our personnel or is it, geez, the game's moved a little bit. Do we need to, how do we get back to being the hunters? That would be a question. And to do that, do we need to strategize a little bit more than normal? Do we look at our offense? Because their front half game's not as good as it used to be.
So it's spring lighting out of their forward half too easy. So there's lots of stuff there they're going to work on. Where do you reckon he'll start? What's number one priority?
I was going to ask you the open question from his press conferences, whether he would put it in front of them or not. Is it just too destructive? Is it too random to put in front of them? Or do you want to choose the two or three things? So that was the first coaching challenge that Faggs identified. And he said, I don't know how I feel about it yet.
Yeah.
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Chapter 4: What changes are coming with the upcoming bye rounds?
There's a fair chance they won't even look at it. They'll just go, right, the season starts today. Who's in? Let's go. And there's a fair chance you'll do that. There's too much to look at that third quarter. You'll demoralize. It'll be the old Essendon demoralized feeling if you go too hard. Yep, and then do you put it on senior players? Do you drop senior players?
All these things would be in his mind. I think in the end, he'll just lean in on what's worked in the past, won't he? I don't think there's a time for a radical change for Brisbane. I still think there's another kick in them. And, you know, personnel's been a bit of an issue this year and then form's been a bit of an issue.
But the underlining bit is maybe there's a bit of system there that they need to look at. But I don't really know. It's going to be fascinating to see what's next.
So that makes Saturday... It's the, what do they have it left in them to answer the call? Or is this the time they don't answer the eight count? That's the open question.
Yeah.
And it's for them to answer. Yep.
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Chapter 5: What issues are the Brisbane Lions facing this season?
And we'll get it. It's almost perfect. They play the ladder leader. at the Gabba on Saturday.
Chapter 6: How did the Giants perform against the Lions?
So there's no excuses around motivation or energies that hopefully they get a couple of players back and you go, okay, so show us.
Yeah.
Prove. So the week will be spent theorizing and you can guess right or wrong. You can guess that that was the end of the rain. Or this is the moment that might get them going, and then we'll just all look and see on Saturday what the answer is.
You've got to dial in on a couple of things, though. There's the attitude and all those availability and form, but then there's let's get better at this. I think you've spoken about scores against. It's just an issue for them against good sides in particular this year. But how? What are you going to do? Is it our board member we need to adjust? Let's get deeper entries.
There's some little things you can coach throughout the week. And then there's, how are we going to beat Freo? Are we just going to play and see how we go? I wonder if there's a bit more strategy as well. But this is a guess because I've never been. It's rare to be in this position. End of an era? I'm not quite sure. Even if they fall this year, there's so much talent coming through.
It might be end of a... ball control here or style of play and then it'll be, oh, we're going to change things up, you know, reinvent our system a little bit and then they'll go again. I just don't know if it's, that doesn't need to happen this week, does it?
No.
You might as well go down the way you want to go down.
I don't think anyone believes that when they, if they dip this year, that that will be the last we see of the Lions. Yeah. Um, Yeah, so it's so interesting. And then on the giant side of things, is this why Adam Kingsley was- It's so casual. It'll come. This is what we do.
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of the coaching strategies discussed?
He looked exhausted, didn't he? Yes. Halfway through the second quarter, he was exhausted. So, but... It was just a perfect storm. So did the umpire say, listen, let's just stop. Let's kick in.
The ball was in the goal square and full credit just to let it go. Just told the player kick in and just hold it for a tick. Wow. And just let that 30 seconds unfold. So my view was always whatever felt right to the Collingwood people was going to be right on the day. It was their celebration. 90,000 of them came for it. And it was perfect from start to finish the way that they staged it.
Now, what happened within the game was that's separate. The way they staged it, the running out with all the significant people through his footy journey, plus the 400 club, there to greet him, banner, giant oversized banner, which fits in with the tradition of what happened with Kevin Bartlett and Michael Tuck. The moment the Collingwood fans had, which looked spectacular around the ground.
It was just so heartfelt. And then the carry off at the end. It was beautifully, the pageantry of it was perfect.
This is what I can't separate. The staging it, saying that's separate to the game. I can't compute in my brain about how does it not connect to performance. And, I mean, they won. Yeah. So, yeah, the competitor in you thinks, well, how do we do both? And they did. So mission accomplished. Well done. Tip your hat. Couldn't have done it any better.
But the game itself and the ripple post this game about some of the carnage, unfortunately, that happened late.
We'll come to that.
We'll get to that. And then West Coast turned up. I did text my old mate, Tim Gossett, saying this could be a hundred pointer. Looking at the magnitude of the game and thinking, geez, these guys aren't ready for that. And then I deleted the text. I did, I deleted it.
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Chapter 8: What does the future hold for the teams as the season progresses?
After the first two minutes, I've realized, hang on, no, no, there's some go in this. And they tagged Penelbury, which that's, how good's that? I mean, as much as you'd... Even Collingwood supporters would tip your hat to some of the strategy from West Coast. They were there to win and disrupt things. And then the Harley Reid, the first fend off, which Pennery got his own back late.
So just the theatre of that whole day, it just doesn't happen very often. So well done to everyone, including West Coast. That was the best bit.
Yeah.
Right, we've got a lot to work our way through. North Melbourne's comeback, you're on the call for that, so we'll go deep there on some of the boxcraft that was involved, the hectic finish between the Bulldogs and Melbourne and all that was at stake there, and a bit of PFI that was always going to come from the Geelong-Sydney game.
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They got that right. You're on duty here, Adam Simpson, and the second half was what we've all been waiting for.
Well, it was halftime, and I've heard this a bit over the weekend, so I'll back over a little bit. So Ben Dix interviews Clarko, and he goes, oh, the game's on a knife's edge. And I looked at Jay Montana in the box, and I half rolled my eyes. They were 35 points down, and... The Suns kicked five goals, one out of the middle in the first half. It was world record pace.
So I'm thinking, okay, you've got to fix that. Talent, it was just too much talent. And North couldn't take a mark in the forward line. They couldn't penetrate the backs. Collins was doing a great job. So at halftime, he goes, all right, we're going to ruck Trenbath. Dawson was the second ruck. No, he's done. Well, Trenbath will ruck.
Cherry will start at centre-half forward and ruck around the ground. And that'll correct or that'll look different anyway. I'm going to put Zerha back as a forward where he truly belongs and, um, a Kircher will go back. And so that, that coaching, he hasn't been able to do that in years gone by. So that's what I saw when I was at Hawthorne back in the day.
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