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Chapter 1: What insights does Robert Craddock provide on the World Cup?
This is your town. This is your station. This is Waitley.
Your thoughts at the end of the means test. Never seen a team go four and nine yet still maintain a percentage over 100 before. Pythagorean winds be damned. This is James on Port Adelaide. So nine and four on expected score. Blimey. A win's a win, I suppose, but Gia's ruse was centimetres away from another absolute disgraceful performance.
Surprise the competition and win the next four winnable games? Big George from Seaholm. My snap judgement is the same as last week. The Junt Yard Dogs are their best version. What we saw on Thursday was insipid. What a miserable Thursday night watching the Western Bulldogs take two massive steps back on the hard work of the past month. Absolutely horrific showing. That's from Jack.
Credit where it's due, I thought Uzay coached a young, undermanned side on the weekend and coached well. The team definitely came to play and if it wasn't for a few errant set shots at goal, they were right in the game. And Jasper Elgar continued with his form with seven goals in successive games.
And something that really stands out when you watch both Essendon's VFL side and AFL side and something that Solly has outlined repeatedly in his first couple of press conferences is how poor our ball protection has been and how little we seem to value our disposals. That is from Pat Essendon. And what a weekend on a long-suffering Knicks and Arsenal tragic.
I'm hoping for Carlton to make the top 10. That will complete my trifecta. And Cote d'Ivor has just beaten Ecuador in the World Cup 1-0. It was scored late in the piece and caused quite the celebration. The wisdom and experience of Robert Craddock we rely on every Monday and how rich. He told us last week, don't tell an Australian team they have no chance.
Yesterday was absolutely thrilling with the Socceroos. And I feel to harness the best of it, this is where you need Andy Harper, who's part of our SEN call team with Simon Hill.
My first reaction was to look at Artur Guler, the Turkish champion. As the ref blew full-time, he spat his dummy completely. It's going to take something for Turkey to regroup after this because they weren't expecting it. They talked down the Socceroos the whole week. Their fans thought it was going to be a 3-0 cakewalk.
And now it's men at work beaming through the stadium speakers, as it should be because Australia were magnificent. Guler just made a complete beeline for the dressing room. Didn't congratulate anyone, didn't say anything to anyone. except to turn back to his bench and say something. God knows what, but he wasn't a happy camper. For the Socceroos, it's all smiles. An amazing, amazing result.
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Chapter 2: How does Cooper Connolly's performance impact Australian cricket?
And now look at us.
Now look at us indeed. Andy Harper, just perfect after the final whistle. Wisdom and experience of Robert Craddock. Hello to you, Crash.
G'day, Gerard. Wasn't it a beautiful summation by Andy, wasn't it? And wasn't it a classical Australian ambush? I tell you, it took me back to cricket, the 1987 World Cup, which Australia won from nowhere in India with an unfancy team. And Bob Simpson got them together at the start and said, we are in a beautiful position here. No one expects us to win.
We are the fittest team in the World Cup and we're filthy rotten hungry. We're ready to go. And that's an Aussie ambush then. And the narrative is so rich again. That sort of feeling is, boys, be free. No one expects you to do anything. You don't have to carry the burdens of France and Brazil. You know, it's wonderful.
It's everything we love about Australian teams, isn't it?
Oh, it is. And, you know, I looked at the ā when the team's running out, I looked at where the Turkish players had come from, Real Madrid, Juventus, Inter Milan, superstars of the game. I was at a function yesterday, Gerard, with a lot of real diehard soccer fans, and they were the ones who were really giving credit.
They were saying, hey, this is the biggest moment in Australian soccer history. This is outstanding. You know, I think Australia were $4.50 to win, but once again ā If you get them fit and you just release them and he's gone, Tony Popovich, with youth, it's a great gamble.
You know, if you're going to gamble on anyone, gamble on youth who have a fearlessness about them, that, you know, they can just jump in and do things that you don't think they can do. And the one, two, three punch was just too much. And I love Roy Keane's commentary. You know, the old former man, you know, and a captain hard nut, you know what I mean, seen a million games.
And he said, I've seen this before. He said one team turned up and by the time they got there, they'd convinced themselves this was going to be a walk in the park, an easy game. And the other team turned up just expecting nothing. We're just going to fight like dogs here. And he said, you could just see it from the first five, ten minutes.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of Kane Williamson's retirement?
Like, they can't wait for the next two games. Those fans now, they'll be out still celebrating and talking and talking about opponents, watching their game. I mean, imagine if Australia had lost 2-0 yesterday. But so it's on. It's quite a wonderful thing, I must admit. And Gerard, doesn't it hit you between the eyes? how big World Cup soccer is.
I mean, when that match ended yesterday, it was a Melbourne Cup style vibe, wasn't it? As in nothing else seemed to matter in the world for about an hour, did it?
I love the back page of the career mail is pop stars, which I feel we'll catch on as the coach is going to be a big figure out of this, having made the bold calls and got his dividends straight away. So, yeah, it was just the most perfect way to start. And I'm a bit with you.
Salute to the 10,000 fans who are there because part of the colour and atmosphere of what we watch relies on fans for each nation and for Australia to be so well-supported. And we've seen this from World Cup to World Cup. And we've heard from so many already this morning, Crash, who are in Germany for that, who are at Qatar last time around. It's a rite of passage for a lot of sports fans.
And to see them march through the streets and to be there in that bay with the team posing in front of them, that's everything that we know about World Cup. So salute to all.
It is. And Gerard, I wish Australia owned that great song, It's Coming Home, that is the anthem for the England World Cup. Because If ever I've got a day where I'm feeling a bit down, I put that on my phone on my way to work and it's a real pump the table song. And I urge people do the same.
If you have a day and you're struggling, Google this, it's coming home and the old, the England World Cup anthem and it's full of, it just gets you going and you'll be, I swear you'll be right for the day.
Alright, so the Socceroos are off on the right foot. On a cricket front crashes a meeting today of the chairs of the State Cricket Associations with Cricket Australia. It was going to formalise what plans are for BBL privatisation, but it feels like the Players Association has stepped in and gazumped the whole thing.
Exactly. And it's become very embarrassing for Victoria. Let's be honest about it, Gerard, because here's the thing. The players wanted privatisation. Like, they were really eager to make progress. And for them to say, sorry, Victoria, this won't work, that is an absolute gobsmack for it.
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Chapter 4: How does the Australian cricket team handle pressure in tournaments?
The wisdom and experience of Robert Craddock. There's a bit more to talk about on a cricket front. Australia's one day has finished against Bangladesh. There's a really significant century overnight and a little bit of face saving, but only a little bit. England's, well, the captain is still Ben Stokes, although he won't play the next test match.
Plus State of Origin is bound for the MCG on Wednesday night. For City Power, Melbourne's weather partly cloudy at top of 18. City Power, working in all conditions to keep your power connected, essential as.
Now, back to Whiteley. There it is, maiden ODI 100 for Cooper Connolly. The man from Perth, Western Australia, registered his first ever ODI 100.
Goes downtown, hat-trick of sixes, too good is Connolly. Outside the off, not quite, but moment for Zampa as he hits the winning runs and the Aussies get their win on Bangladesh soil. They deny the Bangladeshis of a clean sweep.
It was nice to sort of play a role in a win for Australia. It always is to, I guess, play a game for Australia, let alone help win a game for Australia. But yeah, the enjoyment of playing for Australia and batting out in the middle is always something that's exciting and to spend a bit of time out there today was nice.
Robert Craddock on a Monday assessing what's going on in cricket at the moment. Cooper Connolly, 149 from 134 balls. There hadn't been much for Australia in this Bangladesh series until that moment. They escaped the embarrassment of a 3-0. Sweep did it in as nervy style as you could imagine. What was it? Nine to win from 30 balls with five wickets in hand.
They managed to win by one wicket with three balls left, so could have made a complete hash of it all. Crash, what are we to make of what's transpired in Bangladesh?
Well, you can't get away from the fact that Australia lost the series. You can't get away from the fact that our second XI almost is not a patch on the first. I mean, you know, this is a real snapshot into the future for Australia, these sort of tournaments. A lot of cricket's played in Asia, and our backup troops at the moment are pretty average. Let's just say that because that's the truth.
Connolly's good, though. Like, he's a former Australian under-19 captain. He very quickly played in all three forms of the game for Australia. The selectors love him. And this was a good innings, a real breakthrough innings, 149 of 134. And there was this little half an hour of the game, Gerard, when he came together with Ollie Peake, Geelong's very own, and who made 27 of 32.
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