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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
I'm Gerard Waitley. Here's a snapshot of Wednesday, June 10. Ken Hinckley shared his experiences with Hall of Fame inductee Gary Ablett.
Well, there's just so many memories of Gary, so many things that he'd done.
Chapter 2: What insights does Ken Hinckley share about Gary Ablett's career?
The goals he kicked, the play that he set. I mean, we at Geelong coached at times to just give Gary the ball. That was the get out of trouble play. Basically, Gaz, come forward, give Gary the ball and let him do what Gary will do. And that's bamboozled the rest of the opposition and get us going again and get us running and get us playing attacking and aggressive football.
And he's the first to recognise all these great teammates that he had in those days at Geelong. Fantastic career. I mean, couldn't have wished for a better person to get in.
So have you... There's only a handful of players, I suspect, in the history of the game who have been able to do what he could over a prolonged period of time. So I think back to the flashpoints, 2007 preliminary final, The tap, he kicks the goal from the Otten's tap. The defining player, the 2009 grand final, the toe poke, and he's the player running it down the ground.
At Gold Coast, in those foundation years, the only player teams had to stop was Gary Ablett. And he couldn't be stopped. He would still knock up and get 35-3. And despite the fact that season teams knew the only player they needed to stop was Gary Ablett, and he was actually unstoppable.
Unstoppable. Absolutely unstoppable. You could not stop him and his ability to keep going. I mean, again, when you interviewed him last night, when he hurt his shoulder on the Gold Coast, Gold Coast would have played finals that year. They would have played finals. And it took till last year for the Gold Coast Footy Club to make it to the finals. They would have played finals.
Gary would have won a third Brownlow medal. You know, it's not a stretch to say that. He was unstoppable, Gerard. You know, and the boys who played with him, you know, the young ā there's the young ā most of them young, 18, 19, 20-year-olds. And you could just see the excitement in their eyes going out to play football with Gary. I mean, it was somewhat of a dream.
You know, I heard Woosha talk about his idol in Ross Glendening. Well ā These players got to play with him too at the Gold Coast and he was just incredibly powerful and But gifted with his ability to move and break tackles and, you know, and just get through traffic. Give him the ball. Just give him the ball. I'm telling you, give him the ball. Yeah.
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Chapter 3: How did Gary Ablett's performance impact his team dynamics?
And it didn't matter what was going on. We got out of trouble.
And Kenny explored the art of coaching for Alistair Clarkson this week.
The bonus they've got, Gerard, is they're away. They are away from Melbourne where all the noise would be and all the reviews would be going on and all the club, you know, Monday night, Tuesday night, Wednesday night. And it'll be something similar. Because if you think about what the media train is, and which I'm a part of, we review. No doubt we review. We try to look for some positive stories.
We get to Tuesday and Wednesday. And then we go into Remind. We've got to see a better performance from North Melbourne this week. That's what we've got to see. So it's a similar pattern that I'm lucky to be a part of both now. It's a similar pattern they have to go to. But Really critical week for Clarko.
I would say it's a critical week for Clarko to do his absolute best work, and there would be no one better at being able to, you know, do those things I said, review, reset, remind, and then earn respect back.
So I think, you know, I think it's a challenging week, but sometimes they can be your best weeks, and they can be the most satisfying weeks, particularly, I mean, if he can get his team to turn up and play really strong footy against the West Coast this week and come away with a nice, strong victory. We'll quickly forget it.
We won't always forget because we'll remind them if it comes up again of having another terrible performance. But we'll quickly move on to, no, they're progressing and they're going okay.
Greg Swan was in the studio for long-form chats. He flagged the immediate change to a kick that must go over the man on the mark.
The man on the mark has to have an opportunity to touch the ball as somebody's having a shot for goal. So that'll be, I suppose, the dominant rule versus you're not allowed to improve your angle. Because not around improving your angle is an interesting discussion. I mean, obviously the Watson one was the topic and he goes off his line a little bit, but he gets further away from the goal.
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