Whateley - Monday | Full Show (03.08.26)
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What were the weekend’s big snap judgments and Carlton’s breakout performance?
It's Stuart Waitley. Thanks for listening to the podcast. In this episode, your snap judgments from the events of Round 21, the Monday Means Test with Adam Simpson, and the wisdom and experience of Robert Craddock. You can get in touch at any time. Waitley at sen.com.au. Thanks for listening. Enjoy.
Monday morning. This is your town. This is your station. This is Waitley.
Good morning. Special shout out off the top to the Richmond supporter in the bucket hat with the miss it sign at the punt road end yesterday. You, sir, might be the fan of the year. I'm not sure whether you're a conjuring jinx or voodoo voodoo, but we have rarely seen a team miss it quite like West Coast did on your watch. You could have given up on that game. There were periods I swear we were getting dumber watching what was taking place, but you'd have missed the signature moment of Sam Lawler to seal the game, and that made everything that had gone before worth the pain. So now Vlosten from full back, time the Eagles enemy, that's a great kick up the middle, Ralph Smith takes the mark and he can just stop and prop, he plays on, he's put it into the path of Lawler, this can ice it, a foot race back towards goal, Lawler gets it, runs around, he shrugs the tackle, Sammy Lawler, ices the game!
The young star in the mould of Dustin Martin kicks his third. And the Tigers are going to win a game of footy.
Winning is good for the soul. Your young star winning it like that is good for the imagination. You can tell me whether it settles some of the unrest as we work our way through Monday. Snap judgments. What you feel most passionately from the weekend of sport that you simply have to put into the universe. 1-300-736-736 is the open line and the 40 Winks temper text is 0-4-3-3-98-11-16. The difference is temper. I have two snap judgments that paid off on the weekend. The finals will frankly be poorer without the Blues and And the best futures prospect in Australian sport is the men's 4x100m relay team. Gold at the Commonwealth Games is the launch pad for all manner of possibilities. Has a team ever given more to a season than Carlton in 2026?
Bust, boom, beyond compare. I said this at the end of June. This is better footy than Carlton played in the rise of 2023. You can go see the Odyssey and Spider-Man as much as you like. There was nothing more popcorn worthy than the way the Blues routed Brisbane on Saturday night. It was the footy of a good team. One of the features of this round was talking about the future, developing young players for the planned ascents. The most powerful personification of this is Jagger Smith and Harry Dean. Draft your superstars. Carlton has done that. In the rush to anoint the Blues' next coach, time was always the club's best ally. Among the din to install Josh Fraser into the job or exclude him under the interim clause, the answer had time to answer itself.
And it has. Fraser has a lot going on in his life right now, including the passing of his father. He's held his line on this job expertly. It reminds me actually of Lee Friedman when he wouldn't commit to running Maccabi Diva in that third Melbourne Cup. She'd won the Cox Plate, but the trainer resisted the external demands to tip his hand and take the tilts at history. It was all anyone wanted. It made so much sense. It assumed a few things, but it felt both desirable and inevitable. And it came to fruition. It just required a little bit of patience to run its course. That's the Fraser scenario right now. Desirable and inevitable once the commitment comes. And it comes with a kicker that feels all the more possible.
What if Fraser is leading this team on semifinal night?
a previously preposterous notion that is far more tangible after the events of Saturday night. First goal in AFL footy and they've got to find him. Because he's in amongst the Blues crowd. McGovern found it first.
Slipped through the Will Ashcroft tackle.
Fought it, went to Cottrell.
Hewitt can finish. Back to 36 points. Throwing a shoe at it. McGovern's kicked a miracle goal.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What were the weekend’s big snap judgments and Carlton’s breakout performance?
0:00–18:44
2
How did callers react to Josh Fraser’s interim coaching impact and Carlton’s transformation?
18:44–53:49
3
How did Sydney vs St Kilda coaching changes affect the contest and second-half comeback?
53:49–59:13
4
What does North Melbourne's performance reveal about their improvements and weak areas?
59:13–1:06:56
5
Why is the AFL debating mass resting of players before finals and who benefits?
1:06:56–1:17:03
6
What were the key takeaways from Robert Craddock on the Commonwealth Games and cricket selections?
1:17:03–1:47:29
Speakers
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