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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
I'm Gerard Waitley.
Chapter 2: What is the snapshot of Thursday, June 11?
Here's a snapshot of Thursday, June 11. Adam Simpson with the North Melbourne Culture Check.
Chapter 3: How does Adam Simpson address North Melbourne's challenges?
What's the response, I suppose, and how you deal with a loss? And we spoke about this throughout the week, Gerard, but how do you deal with a loss like that? I've lived those games before, but when it doesn't marry up with expectations and talent. So when you're just not good enough and you get beaten by the 100 points, 100 plus points, you're trying to...
Chapter 4: What are the strategies for dealing with a significant loss in football?
Not to motivate, you're trying to just keep everyone together. So, you know, there's little conversations going on in corners everywhere at the football club, whether it's the players, whether it's the coaches, whether it's your standards, whether it's your style of play, all those things start to get mentioned. You know, why aren't we better? What's happened to our list management?
All those, that's not North, is it? That feels like it's North's different. North's what happened with our attitude on the weekend? What happened with our standards? What happened with potentially... Our style of play can be discussed, but you can't fix that in five days. So yeah, they got pulled apart by a really, really good side. They came off a bye.
So there's a few, um, not excuses, but reasons if that's, if there's a difference there. So Clark has got to work through what buttons to push whilst they're all together in Perth.
And Simmo ran the eye of the coach over handball metres gained.
Yep, so to describe it really briefly, if you obtain a ball, it doesn't matter how you get it, you run 50 metres and handball it, and you handball it two metres, there's 52 metres gained by hand. But if you run 50 metres and kick it, that's not counted, even if you get a handball received. So a real basic stat, and I think teams have trained it really well.
So the Sydney, the Swans did it back end of the year, Last four rounds, they tried something. They like it. This year, they averaged 700 metres gain. And at the other end at Adelaide, they can't do it. They're hopeless at it. They average 100 metres. Because you can lose metres as well when you handball backwards. So that's the stat. I don't think you live and breathe from that stat.
But it's important to be good at it when you need to be. Because when you play a North Melbourne or a Brisbane team, and you sense a vulnerability with speed and direct the direct nature of the game, and you can break a line, get out the back. You need to, you need to bring that in your repertoire. So Frio sit in the middle for that stat from a positive. They play North on the weekend.
They recognize North are a one-on-one defense. Let's get them up high and let's run at this team because they're a kicking team. They like to go down the line, all that sort of stuff. But The strategy this week is let's bring this overlap game going and we can expose them. And they did, they did a really good job. They got up around the 800 metre mark this week and they average about 250.
So distinct strategy. So there's the offensive part. Collingwood went in with that strategy against Melbourne. You know, we're going to take them on in their own game. And it's because they think they can defend better behind this play. So there's the offense. And then how do you defend it, Gerard? How do you defend a team like Sydney when they bring it at you?
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Chapter 5: How do you measure handball metres gained in football?
This is what sides can measure and give players feedback in-game, not in review. These are live stats. I reckon measurables in this game, GWS, you've got to win the turnover score by 20. So five per quarter, win turnover score by a total of 20. You've got to force the Saints into 75 plus turnovers, which is what they should be able to do that.
And Giants should be looking to score 95 points plus. So, I mean, 100's the magic number, but I reckon 95 points will get you the win in this game. St Kilda, your live numbers. Win clearances by plus eight. So it's only two per quarter. Win contested possession by 15. and keep Geliance to a score of 85 points or below.
So I just think if St Kilda can protect the ball, prevent turnover scores, get an advantage around contest and clearance, they have a genuine opportunity to win this game. But I reckon if it becomes transitional-based, the Giants' current profile suggests they are the likely winner.
Plus Shannon Gill on the origin of the idea for the Australian Football Hall of Fame.
We go back to the early 90s, Ross Oakley and Jeff Brown, latter days Collingwood president, but at the time was the AFL's lawyer. They are on a fact-finding mission in the US for all sorts of reasons. They go to Cooperstown and visit the National Baseball Hall of Fame. It has a huge effect on them.
They, they go and there's a, there's a place at Cooperstown, the double day field, which is a field. It's got a little, lot of field of dreams kind of, um, connotations to it. And.
Ross Oakley writes in his autobiography, to walk into that Hall of Fame and stand silently in the chapel-like plaque room, face-to-face with life-size sculptures of Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle, instilled in me a reverence I had never experienced in a sporting sense. It was an almost spiritual feeling. I knew we had to replicate the experience in Australia.
So this is where the idea comes for the Hall of Fame. And that sense of what he experienced at Cooperstown becomes the legacy centrepiece that this is the vision of what this is going to be.
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