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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
I'm Gerard Waitley. Here's a snapshot of Tuesday, April 21. Luke Hodge on whether he still believes in the Bulldogs.
All teams have weeks where they don't play great football.
Chapter 2: What insights does Luke Hodge share about the Bulldogs' performance?
And unfortunately for them, Geelong got a hold of them. But the mindset, the maturity and understanding that it is a marathon, not a sprint. is the fact that you regroup and sit back and they'll be at the football club pointing at some of the positives they did on the weekend.
But it's also, as I said before, it's the who can come up, who really wants to show that they're an AFL player, they can step up when the club really needs them because we've seen players get made of getting an opportunity like this.
So there's a degree of holding the fort for some is Darcy won't be back. If we just isolated to that, what do they miss? How devastating is that not to have the talisman up front?
Well, they played without him for a number of weeks last year. So you sort of look back and you look at blokes like Aaron Norton and say, hey, mate, this is your time to shine. You've been able to play some really good football with Darcy beside him. But as we've expected, and we've seen you do it by yourself a few years ago, it's your time to step up. It's now your forward line.
The responsibility comes on you. And that's not the responsibility you've got to go and kick 10 goals to make up for Darcy and his goals. It's a responsibility of leading, making sure whoever you bring into that forward line, Norton has to be the person who can teach them and guide them and just make sure that they don't have to do anything extraordinary for the guys that come up.
But as leaders, you've got to make sure that they're comfortable playing their role and they don't get overruled. So unfortunately for the doggies, you've got blokes that are stepping up in the forwards, in the backs, in the mids. It's a lot to cover over and just make sure that they're the players that do step up aren't too overawed and it just will flow into the style of the doggies.
And Hodgie marvelled at the last quarter of Nick Dacos. The best part of Thursday night was Nick Dacos' performance in the last quarter. How have you savoured it in the days that have followed?
I... I had the discussion with Kane Corns on Locked In prior to the game. And the discussion I threw to Kane Corns was, who's had the best first 100 games? Is it Chris Judd or is it Nick Dacos? And I was always leaning towards Juddy just because he was... Back then, it wasn't about touches.
If you had 20 touches and keep a couple of goals, as a young kid, it was like, hey, that's a 30 or 35er now. So I was always kind of leaning towards Juddy because I saw it firsthand and what a freak the guy was. I've kind of lent a little bit back the other way now, Gerard. You look what he's been able to do over those games and
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Chapter 3: How can players step up in the absence of key team members?
Because the amount of turnovers, I'm sitting here going, this is hard to watch. We need something. And I'll tell you what, this young man developed. He delivered on the big stage last quarter, getting clearances out.
And even the mindset of him to get the clearance, push forward, give it off to, I think it was Cameron, who decided not to give it back to the best player on the field and decided to have a shot from 45. It's okay. We'll let him pass with that. But Nick didn't crack it. He just worked again. And all of a sudden, he's standing in the goal square by himself.
Yes, Carlton Blokes probably should be standing beside him considering how good he is. But it's that mindset, that will, that want to win a game of football or be the best he possibly can, you sort of sit back and what can you say?
Everyone's in awe of him and I loved what Fly said where he goes, we showed some highlights because sometimes you take advantage or you take for granted some of the good things around.
Matthew Wade told us about his budding footy career.
I played a half actually. My old man, he coaches Clarence, so he was down there watching. It was against their side. I played just over a half in the first game and
my hips and glutes all the things that um you know from kicking a footy that i haven't done for 20 years was certainly hard work to get through that game and then yeah i played a game the next week and yeah my body started to free up and feel a little bit better but yeah it's a completely different uh experience on your body than wicket keeping for 100 overs i can tell you that
Bharat Sundaresan with Ricky Ponting's Punjab dominating the IPL.
They've become the first team to remain unbeaten after the first six games of an IPL season and just seeing how they've gone about it, Jared, they've Looked like they were favourites going into the finals last year, but they couldn't get over the line. And it was a heartbreak for Ricky. I think that was one of three finals he lost as coach in the T20 world last year, including the MLC.
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Chapter 4: What did Nick Dacos demonstrate in the last quarter of the game?
Dave Riccio from The Telegraph in our program today, he scored them less than one out of ten. And they've got a game on Anzac Day, a traditional game against the Roosters. They're not even training today, Gerard.
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