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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
I'm Gerard Waitley. Here's a snapshot of Monday, June 22. Your snap judgements from Round 15 and the Socceroos' loss to the US. Dom's in Burwood.
Chapter 2: What are the snap judgments from Round 15 and the Socceroos' loss to the US?
Welcome to you, Dom.
Fraser is doing an unbelievable job. If you have a look at our numbers, I guarantee if Tony do the numbers, the way we're playing, we would be playing as a premiership team.
Jackson Chernside Park on the dogs. Hello, Jack.
You know, Naziah had 44 yesterday, but Bronson Pelley, if he doesn't get the three votes for his game, he even had three hit-outs, Gerard. And that's more to my point where if I ever see Bond in the ruck again, I will rip my own eyes out. Just don't know about it. You just don't leave the Rolls Royce out on the street, mate. You just don't.
Steve's in Brunswick. East, hello to you, Steve.
After the first game, we called Tony Popovich a genius. But now he's got a reputation for changing his starting lineups. All well and good before the World Cup to identify your best 11. But in the first game against Turkey, we had arguably our best ever win. And those players earned their right to start again against the U.S., Tony, I beg you, play your best players.
They're used to playing multiple games a week for their clubs in Europe. Don't try and be cute. Find a way to play Irungunda, Volpato, Metcalf, along with Toure, and get a second place in the group.
Billy's in Hawthorne.
Hello, Billy. G'day, G. I might be one of the rare Carlton fans that's actually happy to throw a bunch of praise on Collingwood because I think we're playing a lot like those sort of 2022-2023 pies at the minute. We're so much more democratic than we used to be as opposed to relying on Charlie and Harry to get us forward.
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Chapter 3: How is coaching evolving during the bye rounds?
We're going to get him to tag a little bit and learn how to win the ball. And eventually he's going to come through and be this shining light. That's, that's not, I can't say that with those kids, but maybe you're right. Maybe they just need a couple of. Number one, A grade players around them and hit the draft and you got to snag that draft.
You got to get in the top five to get the almost guaranteed A grader. So recruiting is going to be important, even if, you know, it's the future stuff and the pro scout, but the kid, they got to get an A grade kid, don't they?
Robert Craddock on Ben Stokes' return as England captain.
Oh, this was weird. And then when he turned up at Durham, the Durham chief executive said, no, Ben's fine. I spoke to him this morning. I'm not concerned about him at all. He's ready to go. And he duly made 95, clipped the ball around as if he was, you know, tripping the light fantastic. He looked, he was smiling in the field and everything like that.
And then apparently he said at the hearing to the disciplinary inquiry into why him and Gus Atkinson were out after midnight, he wasn't sure that the curfew applied on the night when a test was decided and the test was finished. But, I mean, he was one of the guys who put the curfew in place.
So the whole thing is very mysterious, but you can bet your life, Gerard, that the result in that test match has just put the absolute... You know, the desire to get Stokes back is just, you know... extreme after they look so poor in that test. And, you know, Nasser Hussain made the point the other night, and it is a good one.
He said if Stokes had a retired, just say he'd announced he was retiring, we would have all done tributes saying he was one of the greatest all-rounders we've ever had. And the team wasn't the same without him.
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Chapter 4: What strategic moves are teams making after the bye?
Like, they couldn't pick a spinner because they didn't have the all-rounder playing two roles. They missed him as a captain. They missed him as a batsman. So, yeah, he'll come back. I will be interested to see his first press conference, how much responsibility he takes for his own actions in missing the curfew. Or does he defend himself by saying, I wasn't aware of it?
But, you know, he has to be better. I mean, it's a horrible look for him. It really is. And... Gee, they're looking fragile, Gerard. They've got a year to go to the ashes, and this England team does not scare me one bit, even though Australia will be ageing and vulnerable by then in a year's time. We all get that.
But this team, no spinner, lacks bite with its attack, and its top order still looks very flaky. And Crash assessed Wyndham Clark's win in the US Open. On the 16th hole, he basically won the tournament when he had this magnificent 25-foot putt downhill. It was fantastic.
And in the background, you see people clapping with no more excitement as if you're at a pub and they say, the winner of the meat tray is a pink ticket E34. People go, hey. It's just the lack of emotion is staggering. So there was two groups of people that didn't rate him on course.
There was the people who downright disliked him for what he did and were calling silly obscenities, and there were other people who just didn't want him to beat Sam Burns, who'd never won a major, one shot behind him, and he's a very popular guy.
Yeah. It was an odd tournament. And the fact that he made it until today where it got a little bit close, he'd made such a one-act affair of it. It wasn't terribly interesting.
It's an extraordinary achievement to go to lead in all four rounds. I think he's only the ninth guy to do it in a tournament, which for the first time in 67 years, no Australian made the cut, which is an extraordinary statistic. But I remember when Brooks Koepka won at this same venue about seven years ago, he had one over par. No one broke par. And then to have four under is outstanding.
To lead all four rounds is outstanding. But as the saying goes, Gerard, it could have happened to a nicer guy. Yeah. I've just reshaped that saying a little bit.
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