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Chapter 1: What insights does Robert Craddock share about Carlton fans?
Monday is the wisdom and experience of Robert Craddock. Hello to you, Crash.
G'day, Gerard. I must say I'm a bit stunned today. Tell me why. Because I was listening to your text and there wasn't one from Carlton. And I thought two things have happened here. Either Gerrard's banned them or Carlton fans are just so shattered by the winter that they literally can't pick up their phones and type. I'm not sure which one it is. I've probably parked those crashes.
We were all on Twitter for the first half hour with Blues fans on a whole lot of fronts. So trying to give others a voice, I reckon. Hey, but it's a sacking morning in the NRL.
It is. Second coach of the year gone, Shane Flanagan from the Dragons. Seven losses in a row this year and 11 overall. It was the famous club, the Dragons. They're one of the most iconic clubs in the league. He wasn't at the press conference, but it was just announced about an hour ago. where they just said, you know, it was basically the club's been stuck in quicksand.
They still don't even know who's going to replace him. It's a total shambles, Gerard. Anthony Seabold from Manly, he was sacked after just three games. So there's this new culture, I think, in the NRL. They move quickly and they move decisively. It's that old saying that the committee backs you until they don't.
Like as recently as last week, they were saying, oh, you know, he's the coach of the weekend and all that. Suddenly a meeting last night, the chairman of the club went around to his place and he's gone this morning.
So round four and round seven, the two sackings in the NRL so far. So we rely on you for these things. Is that too impatient or justified?
Well, do you know what? I would say they're both very individual cases. Had I been talking about Anthony Seabold when he was sacked, I was going to say that is way too impatient after three games. But guess what? Kieran Foran, who stepped in, has won three games in a row. Seabold supporters were saying, hang on, Anthony could have done that.
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Chapter 2: What recent NRL coaching changes are discussed?
But I'm not sure that he could have, Gerard. He has lightened the mood in the camp for him, so that one has worked. And, you know, each week I'm just waiting for Manly to fall apart, but they haven't. So on face value, you've got to pay it. And I also think this one... Flanagan, like they ā sometimes you can look at a coach in a box and realise by the expression on his face that he is done.
He is absolutely cooked and almost ā Because he's so down, you wonder whether he can deliver a message to the players. I remember when John Northey had the Lions up here and they were struggling. He had that expression, that absolutely beaten man expression, Gerard. Do you know what I mean? And watching Flannery over the last month, I just thought, he's done.
Now, we haven't reached the stage in the NRL of being Tottenham Hotspur where they change their coach seemingly every month. Hello to Angevies listening. But there's certainly a feeling now that clubs will move sooner rather than later and they won't muck around.
Hmm. It's a big difference between NRL and AFL for the time being. There was an impatience for sackings in the first few weeks of the season. Now Brad Scott's position looks far better at Essendon with the footy that they've played in consecutive weeks. And Carlton still limps on. Hey, I've just said at the start today, if I was taking a position for...
for futures anywhere, it'd be on the men's 4x100 sprint relay in LA. We have suddenly stumbled into a golden age of Australian sprinting. We need Don Talbot to rally a relay team here.
Yeah, isn't this amazing, Gerard? Okay, we've got Lockie Kennedy. We've got Gout Gout. And, you know, suddenly over the weekend, guess what? Guess who just lobs? We've got a third member of the ā with Eddie and Kenya just coming up from nowhere in America with the fastest ever time run by an Australian. He beat Patrick Johnson's time. So ā
uh you've got three outstanding 100 meter runners and in kilia like he's a kiwi he broke his his father was an olympian he broke his father's 100 meter record in new zealand and only became an australian in december so Yes, his run was very much wind-assisted on the weekend, and that's all part of it, but he did fly. You know, he did fly.
So you think if these... Unfortunately, they won't be together in the relay at the Commonwealth Games, but imagine putting the three of them together in LA. Gerard, it's exciting, isn't it?
It is. It's... It's really exciting. And the competition for individual places, if they can somehow instill the idea of camaraderie. Now, we know that Gout and Kennedy are friends. Rowan Browning's been the standard bearer for a while. The relay team were excellent. excellent in Paris. And had they drawn the other heat would have made the final and Katie is the ring in.
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Chapter 3: How are coaching decisions perceived in the NRL?
The last one, when he won his 100 metre final at the Australian Underage Titles yesterday, sorry, on Saturday, he waved to his family in the grandstand over the last 30 minutes, 30 metres, the ultimate showman. I was sitting not far behind them and they were so excited and waved back. It was a beautiful moment, but it sort of ruined his time. It cost him a few tenths of a second.
But I have to say, Gerard, It appeared as if he was struggling to come down of the high of the previous week of the Australian titles when he run such a blistering under 200 metres, which was a world record for under 20s. And he just was a little bit flat. But it also makes me think, and I'm going to bounce this one off you. that maybe 200 metres just is his best distance.
And he's not fast out of the gates. He takes a little while, two or three strides to warm up, and then, of course, he takes off. But in a 200 metres, that's not as crucial. And I wonder whether it is now cemented that 200 is his best distance.
Yes, I suspect the 100 becomes a possibility once he adds the strength. So from what I'm told, he hasn't done the strength work yet. He's that elastic runner, which is so well suited to the 200 bend. And you need a bit of power out of the blocks in the 100. So, yeah, I mean, he's a watch, isn't he, for so many years as to what he's going to end up.
But what we do know is that his dream is the 100 and the 200 in Brisbane. So that's the work to be done.
Yes, and he's going to head over now to train with Noah Lyles. And the last time he went there, he was on a podcast with Noah, and Noah loved it when Gaut said, yeah, I'm coming to get you. And he thought it was quite hilarious. But then guess what? Gaut ran a time in the Australian titles that would have beaten Noah's bronze medal in the 200 metres in Paris.
So they will race in Czechoslovakia over 150 metres there. in June and that will be interesting. Yes. Because they will have been together. They're both Adidas athletes that have been together in training. Apparently Noah's terrific with him. He holds nothing back. He just says, whatever you want to know, just tell me.
And I know he's been in contact with Gout's manager and they've shared jokes like he just reckons it's so funny that people stop him in a gym saying, hey, you know Gout, don't you? You've met him. You've actually met him. And when... This is the Olympic champion. I mean, it should be the other way around.
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Chapter 4: What is the current state of Australian sprinting talent?
So secretly, I felt Miller had a very, very good point. Happy Anzac Day for everyone later this week. And just remember those old stars like Keith Miller, men by which we're all, you can compare yourself to. And of course, we're all found wanting, the true heroes of our country.
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