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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 17. Ken Hinckley on the opportunity opening up for Hawthorne.
If we look at, you know, talent, availability, they've got a pretty healthy list.
Chapter 2: What insights does Ken Hinkley share about Hawthorne's opportunities?
Will Day's back now and only getting better. You know, hopefully Gunston's over his issues, Barass is over his issues. They don't want for nothing, do they? As a team, they're fit, they're healthy, they're ready to go. You know, as you said, ride it. Ride the momentum of the best Victorian team and get everyone behind them. Geelong will have something to say about that.
But Hawthorne's draw gives them an opportunity to, as you said, plant their flag. And what a great opportunity. We did Horny last night on radio and he talked about the Fab Five games when the top five teams play each other, how great a games they've been.
And the defining thing about the top five games was I think seven out of the eight games that he talked about had been won by the home side, Gerard. So you get to the finals and you have the Fab Five games. That's why it's so, so difficult to win for an interstate side when they have to come to Melbourne. That's why you admire Brisbane of what they've done.
They've been in three grand finals from an interstate club, which is an amazing effort. So the Fab Five game says Hawthorne, if you want to be a part of the Fab Five, you get to play the last game of the year, if you're good enough, on your home deck. Yes. And it's stacked in your favour if you can do that.
And Kenny on the challenges facing Craig McRae.
If they lose to Port this week, they can surrender this year, can't they? I think they can almost wipe their hand for this year because their draw after that, Richmond, Suns away, North Melbourne, Carlton, Crows away, you know, Geelong. West Coast away, Hawthorne and Brisbane Lions. So they've got four or five of the top five on the ladder that they're going to have to play in the last 10 rounds.
And they need to be better than 50-50 to get there. You know, they have to be better than 50-50. So it's a big journey. But, you know, the stuff that you talked about, managing exiting players, retiring players, champion players, not just players, champion players. having a look in the you know, into the future and seeing what some of the younger players are.
I'm not sure that they've got many other younger players that they're willing to look at that they haven't already probably seen. That would be, you know, that's a question for inside calling, but we don't know the depths of their list and the development of some of their younger players. So they've got some, you know, they've got some real challenges.
Then, as you said, with Fly's conversations and comments around impatient to bring in the next look and have a look at how we contend again, well, then he's also talking to players.
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Chapter 3: How do the top five teams impact the finals in Australian football?
Clearly, this happens at this time of year. We engage and we talk and we try to recruit players. So we have to be involved in those conversations. So there's a lot going on for Fly to be doing in the next 10 weeks of football. And that alone, without trying to win enough games to qualify, I mean, the question is, do they want to qualify now?
this year because they can't they can't win the flag this year i mean people listening will think well everything's possible and anything can happen but on the on the balance of probability they're not winning the flag they're not even playing in the prelim finals they're probably not getting to semi-final stage by the way they've performed this year so there's a lot to do phil davis shared his thoughts on gold coast
I think they've got a couple of challenges. One, how Ben King plays is sort of like a very isolated forward and it feels like the other parts of the forward line haven't been able to gel in a way that connects with him, if that makes sense. I think if you compare it to Hawthorne and Jack does so well. Jack Gunston does so well as a sort of like similarly disconnected forward.
But the other five forwards know what to do and how they play and they get up the ground and they sort of connect and move the ball quickly and get to them. I just think when I watch Gold Coast and I watch them on Friday night, there's a missing piece about the other forwards connecting with the midfield and that's probably a combination of A, the midfield. They are probably missing...
a midfielder with just pure speed i think that's probably something that compared to some of the other teams out there they don't have a homes that can go through the midfield and really do that they've definitely got off the halfback you know noble and rioli but maybe they need to get some more pace around the ball and their half forwards and others need to get involved more would probably be my high level view on where i think it's breaking down but there's probably more of a psychological thing going on that
They'd probably be getting frustrated, to be fair, Gerard. And I think what can happen is you feel like you're just about to pop and get on the other side. Not that things get easy, but you start to feel like you're in control and then you're allowed to lose one, maybe two.
But when you sort of do what they've had, that can be very frustrating because it's not the story that was being told at the start of the year. I think they've just got to fight through it. And just learn to absorb a little bit of this frustration. Because I do think they'll get out the other side. I just think there's a lot of pressure on Petrarca to look and make things different in that side.
And I think there are other ways that they can score and win.
Mitch Dyer told us about Gout Gout's run in Ostrava.
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Chapter 4: What challenges does Craig McRae face with his team this season?
certainly helps us helps rugby league and helps you know people remember that the melbourne storm and rugby league is a is a big game and a big sport and a big code and uh hopefully that translates to more people coming along to watch the melbourne storm and but that's on the reason on the progress of cooper connelly he's comfortable batting in that top order and look i think it was irrelevant odi bangladesh had won the series yes australia you know uh even if they had lost i mean who how many people would have cared that oh australia got whitewashed or
cleaned up by Bangladesh. But it was a pretty irrelevant ODI. But to play the way he did, to make 149 runs after having fielded, and it was 35 degrees, Jared, I think 92% humidity. And it was extreme. And he's going to take so much from this. And I think, A, Australia might have found their number three for that 50-over World Cup next year.
So I'll be surprised if it's not headmash Cooper Connolly at the top of the order in 50-over cricket. And I think he might have already earned himself a spot on that
flight to India for the test I don't know whether as a 16th member or as a 15th member because you need that kind of fortitude to you know bat for long and I know different format and all of that but he showed so much in that one innings that you know maybe he was thrown into the deep end last year I was in Sri Lanka when he was asked to make his test debut he clearly was not ready but you know not getting the central contract and
Everything that has happened to him since seems to have really awoken something in him and he looks ready for international cricket now and that's very exciting.
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