Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
I'm Gerard Waitley. Here's a snapshot of Monday, May 25. Your snap judgments from a remarkable weekend of footy. Connor's in Castlemaine.
Chapter 2: What snap judgments were made about the weekend's footy?
Welcome to you, Connor.
I went to the MCG for Pendle's Record Breaker. Certainly a game I'm not going to forget anytime soon. And it's probably the biggest game I've been to outside of King's Birthday Finals and many Anzac Day games. And Pendle's
Chapter 3: What insights did Connor share about Pendlebury's record-breaking game?
is the legend of our club. And, you know, he can play for as long as he wants as far as I'm concerned. Dom's in Burwood. Welcome, Dom. Carlton, it's all due to Fraser. It's not a sugar hit. It's a change in system and structural change. We have courageous ball movement. I mean, we went at 77% efficiency and we're meant to be a team of butchers. We're keeping our width.
Uncontested ball was plus 80%. We're finely structured players in their position of strengths. Walsh, Cowan, Wilson, Terror, Jagger, Hewitt and Hayward. We've seen the result. Short kicks to start up chains. Overlap run and forward handball. We're launching attacks from half back. Players aren't scared to take the angle kicks. Taking on the corridor.
Chapter 4: How has Carlton's game plan changed under Fraser?
Same thing, angles inside 50. And it's pretty easy to hit targets inside 50 where they're leading at the ball. And I think people question our youth, but you look at Dean, Jagger, Ice and Wilson, Cowan, Byrne, and of course the terrible injury to Carroll. And this is all due to the coaching and the change in the game plan. Bruno's in Burwood. Bruno, what have you got?
Essendon's results are a distraction. The real question that needs to be asked is that four years into his coaching tenure, what is it that Brad Scott actually brings to Essendon? that suggests that he's in any way the most appropriate person to be coaching this rebuild.
Because Simpson and Hinckley, I thought, were extremely illuminating on Saturday during crunch time, making the observations that, again, four seasons into this, Eston has no identifiable system and plays with no spirit.
Brendan's in Viewbank. Brendan, what have you got as a snap judgment?
My snap judgment? Bont is the boss. Like, I'm a Dees fan, but me and my old man were in the nosebleeds just marvelling. This bloke's playing on one leg, and every time he touched the ball in the first half, they got a goal. And then he just snuck forward in the second and kicked the couple himself for fun. I mean, that guy is just a genius. Kai is in Canberra. Welcome, Kai.
Big Lions fan, went to the game. I think the writing was on the wall, even in the first quarter. The Lions were slipping over, fumbling the ball, missing targets. They weren't backing each other up. The Giants were hungry at first for the ball. The Lions just looked cooked. They looked tired. They looked like they'd hit the wall during the halftime break. They didn't chase.
I think, like you've said, the last few seasons have finally caught up with them, and I think off-field distractions might also be playing a part. I just want to see them buy back in and be competitive against Freo. They don't have to win, but I just want to see them be the Lions of old. History says they can bounce back, but the improvement in the contenders this year is also a factor that
that I think is going to count against the Lions because teams just aren't going to roll over.
Adam Simpson assessed the stunning third quarter between the Giants and the Lions.
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Chapter 5: What are the challenges faced by Essendon under Brad Scott's coaching?
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 games, 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.
And Simo had Collingwood on the pressure index post the milestone and with the injury. So Jamie Elliott, uh, It's just a shocker for him and for the team. And Darcy Moore, that becomes a huge question for him and for the management of him.
Yeah, the ruck stuff. Yeah, is that twice now that something happened in the Giants game at Marvel several weeks ago where he'd come back on when he perhaps shouldn't have? And then I heard Floyd talk about, oh, we've been thinking about playing ruck for a while. Yeah, that mechanism, that was purely a ruck. There was a short boundary throw when anyone didn't see it.
Oh, I've got to rush to get in. You're too into your hamstring. You just probably don't have that mechanism as a key defender. So... Coulda, woulda, shoulda, but playing ruck at that age, we had that opportunity. McGovern's best position back in the day was ruck. Just ask him.
And we couldn't do it because it was too, I think we might've done it once and then the next quarter he came back and he had a tight hamstring. Anyway, so that... Yeah, to change your body positioning and body type, all those type of things at that age, I think you're running a big risk. Maybe they had no choice.
Maybe they prepped him for it really well with training and the match sims and, hey, we can do this because you don't just do it without training it. So perhaps that's the out for fly. It just looked a bit weird, didn't it?
Tom Morris detailed precious lost seconds at the climax of the Bulldogs-Melbourne game.
You know that you and I and Sam Edmund have our eyes on timekeeping issues and timekeeping errors, and so far there's been, I think, three significant ones this season. So what happened was the ball was on the opposite wing and... Paddy Cross tackled Riley Sanders below the knees.
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Chapter 6: What were Brendan's thoughts on Bontempelli's performance?
A free kick was given to Riley Sanders, and I think it must have been Riley Sanders' boot that inadvertently collected the nose of Paddy Cross, who then started bleeding from the nose. The clock was a minute 27 when this took place, and then the clock kept ticking, and the kick wasn't taken until exactly a minute remaining. So 27 seconds elapsed. Now...
You might think this is a timekeeping error. It's not. I've gone back through the behind the goals vision, courtesy of the agenda setters. I've listened to the umpire audio away from the commentary and time on wasn't called. So the timekeeper's got a right to let the game progress.
I think pretty clearly that time on should have been called while they were assessing the blood nose of the player and all the players were dispersing away from the contest.
Yeah. So standard practice.
Yeah.
As we would understand it was that umpire would typically blow time on until everybody was set and we wouldn't have 25 seconds elapse of dead time. Yeah, that's right. Robert Craddock on the developing story of CEO Andrew Abdo's defection from the NRL to Tennis Australia.
It came as a bit of a surprise, not a total shock this morning to see he had resigned after six years. The challenge for Andrew Abto, Gerard, was that because he was working basically beneath the very domineering Peter Volandes, who's seen as very much the head man, anything good that rugby league did, Volandes got credit for.
And any areas which they struggle, people say, oh, Abdo's got to get onto this. It's about time he did something, you know what I mean? So it was that sort of situation.
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Chapter 7: What did Kai observe from the Lions' game against the Giants?
And, you know, like Craig Tolley, he's a South African. He's hardworking. He will find, I imagine, the tennis job a lot easier. Rugby league is a breathless beast, which a bushfire that burns 20 hours a day, and His phone would crackle from virtually sunup to sundown and beyond. So he did a pretty good job. He steered the game to a pretty solid place after taking over from Todd Greenberg.
And Crash watched James Magnusson swim in the enhanced games.
There's an element of sadness about it, Gerard, because, look, it's been pushed by, and James Magson, $50,000, by the way, for US for running last, but it's been pushed by a lot of pharmaceutical companies. And the message of it is how much the world has changed.
Like 20 years ago when there wasn't so many facelifts, nose jobs, lip jobs, you know, and whereas all these companies, you know, are rallying behind the enhanced games and peptide companies, they hope that this will be, it'll be a massive stimulant to them. And I don't think it will at all, you know.
In fact, so far what it's shown is that drugged up ex-athletes can't keep pace with genuine ones, like with the 100 metre record set at the 24 Paris Olympics. So, hey, there's been no glamour boy emerge yet. So, if anything, it has diminished the cause they're trying to promote. That's right.
It's proven the opposite of what they were trying to set out. And just having ā we just had it on in the background out of pure curiosity is part of what they're putting up is actually what are they taking? Testosterone, esters, 90.5, and human growth hormones, 78.6, stimulants, 61. I mean, what are we ā What are they doing?
The idea of... Yeah, I just... Do you know what, Gerard? It's funny you mention that because I shook my head at the same graphic. Like, when you see the words human growth hormone and then parading it, I mean, that is a dangerous, dangerous substance. It should not be flirted with under any circumstances. And it's part of this, you know, sideshow that is the enhanced games. I mean...
Honestly, there aren't too many things in life that you just shake your head at. But this, you know, live golf had its pluses and its minuses. As you said, Mike, we see it in boxing every day, don't we? These sort of things. But this one, you know, what does it prove?
What is it there for? It's rubbish. And that's just a snapshot. The full program and all interviews are available through the Waitley podcast. Subscribe at sen.com.au.
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