Chapter 1: What topics are covered in the Monday edition of Whateley?
It's Stuart Waitley. Thanks for listening to the podcast. In this episode, your snap judgments from round nine of the AFL season, the Monday means test with Adam Simpson, Tom Morris with the latest news, 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. There's snap judgements far and wide from that weekend of football. Collingwood is right in the crosshairs. Paddy's text through early. When will Pies Radio get a run? Time to Park Blues Radio. Feels about now. And broader still...
After what was instantly dubbed the biggest moment in VAR history, saw West Ham's equaliser ruled out protecting Arsenal's lead in the Premier League. The technological encroachment in sport might have just decided the premiership and relegation battle. It's the peak moment for technology's encroachment into sport. For better or for worse, it will be debated at great length internationally.
Snap judgments, 1-300-736-736 and the 40 Wings temper text is 0433 981116. The difference is temper. teenager Ollie Peake is going to be named in an Australian squad for the first time later this morning. That's exciting. Melbourne Storm overcame so much turmoil to snap a seven-game losing streak after Craig Bellamy gave the first public hint about the uncertainty of his future.
That's hugely admirable given all that has engulfed the club in the past couple of weeks. I can't see how Cozzy Pickett would be suspended for his glancing high contact on Jake Waterman yesterday.
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Chapter 2: What are the snap judgments from the weekend of AFL?
To my eye, he slackened his arm rather than bracing in any way. He approached the contest at speed, as he always does, and lowered near the fall of the ball. The contact made was inevitable. and unavoidable. It was a free kick for high contact. Waterman wasn't injured. It's not a reportable offence. Zach Butters did far more wrong on Friday night than Cozzy Pickett did yesterday.
Butters' action was high risk. He elected to bump, having run past the ball, but any high contact made was deemed negligible. And that was either good judgment or extremely good luck. But the judgment was a true reflection of what happened. Pickett's action was nothing like what he's been suspended for in the past.
He was the first to watch the replay in the stadium and the anxiety he felt seemed to infiltrate his game from there. But judged on what actually transpired, he should be cleared and free to play against Hawthorne next Saturday. As promised, the best game came first. Fremantle and Hawthorne gave us plenty to digest and analyse. Carlton showed the requisite fight.
You wonder if that might be the start of something, just as everyone had given up. Patrick Cripps played in a manner that suggested he was far too easily dismissed and derided last week. Essendon played well, but showed how hard it's going to be to win games. The Bombers bosses preach stability. We watch to see if their word is oak.
Marcus Spontanpelli has enhanced his place as the best player in the competition through three weeks playing hurt. Three weeks battling multiple ailments and polling votes in all three games, I'd say. The 10 makes much more sense to me this week than it did last with the Bulldogs and Adelaide inside. And there's five into four up top.
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of technology in sports decisions?
Geelong is in that mix until it takes the tests over the next two weeks of Brisbane and Sydney. But it's Collingwood who are the biggest query out of round nine, now living on the breadline in 10th place. They're a 50-50 team, even Stephen. Four wins and a draw from nine with a percentage of 99.9. 734 points for, 735 points against. Average. Bog average.
I've had a tendency to over-index the magpies, despite numerous warnings from Simmo. I'm on the brink of having to concede that I'm wrong here. They certainly don't belong with the contenders. Saturday night was a pretty graphic illustration of that. But are they in the second tier? Or are they just scrapping for the newfangled wildcard places?
There's a pattern in the deficiencies of their clearance game. There's an event in the breakdown of their defensive structure. So they have both pattern and event. They thought they'd resolved the forward connection piece, but that reared again on Saturday night. And it leaves Craig McRae with an awful lot to work on.
They were broadly expected to be the slider given the age profile and the lack of young talent. I suspect that might have been true on their internal forecasting as well, but it looks like the most accurate of economic forecasting.
They are absolutely doing the right thing with Scott Pendlebury, holding him back from an MCG record breaker, but inevitably that is going to create awkwardness this week. Shane Crawford cast this as a tribute year at Collingwoods when we were together for the Holy Thursday game in Brisbane. It's starting to feel like such a canny observation. They're even, Stephen. They're 50-50.
They're bog average and they're certainly not in any meaningful contention.
Yeah, we've got work to do on that game. We played those two teams from last year and
I know that it's a different season this year, but it's just parts of their game is just challenging us a bit more than some of the other teams in the competition.
And we'll get to work on it. What is it, round nine? It's nice to find out this stuff now, isn't it? And we can get to work on it. We'll do that yoga six days to prepare ourselves against the Swans and get to work on the centre bounces in our defensive system. Some will be reminders, others will be like, okay, what are we going to do with this face? It's not quite working.
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Chapter 4: What challenges does Collingwood face this season?
I think that's the biggest moment in VAR history in the Premier League. Tonight, it could have just made Arsenal champions. And West Ham relegated. It might be the biggest moment for technology in sport, full stop. Travis, VAR a disgrace, and I'm an Arsenal supporter. This win tarnishes a brilliant season. Shane... Seems that video refs around the world are having problems.
I've sat up to watch my team Arsenal beat West Ham last night and the VAR is being criticised like the AFL is about how long it took to verify. and overturn a goal. Was the decision correct? Yes, but it took too long, sparking outrage amongst the Pommie fans and media. Go Arsenal.
Whether you like VAR or not, you can't deny that the correct decision was made in this instance in the West Ham-Arsenal game. So a few of your thoughts on technology in sport there. We are taking your snap judgments as a stack on the text. I'll share those with you in a tick. Richard is in Camberwell. Hello, Richard.
Good morning, Gerard. I've got on a scheme that thinks it's a fairly small one. My frustration with the fixtures listing of the AFL is like everybody else's, but it reached boarding port on Saturday. How on earth can the AFL justify equality when you had two Melbourne teams who last year finished 14th and 17th have a match on Mother's Day? You had Richmond, I think, for the second time in a row.
And Melbourne copped the absolute zinger of Mother's Day at 1.15. Both teams against interstate teams. It's just laughable. The AFL, the solution to this is to have 17 matches played before the double matches are played. So in Melbourne's case, they played Essendon on the gather round. They play Essendon again another three weeks' time. This is laughable.
The AFL have seriously got to have a look at this because this whole fixture becomes a rort.
That is a familiar snap judgment. They under fixture on Mother's Day because I think they find it hard to get crowds there historically. Having the second game on a Friday night affects the rest of the flow of the weekend. It does leave it a game short. Richard, thank you. Joel's in Bannockburn. Hello, Joel. Good morning, Geraldo.
For the first time, I know we lost on the weekend with the Blues, but that's the first game this year where I've actually, I was very, very happy at the end of the match.
Now, Gerard, Harry Mackay, I've been banging on this drum and I spoke to Mari and Gazi again on the weekend and Mari didn't back me up. Mari actually said, Andy Ma actually told me that he thinks Harry Mackay should be playing at St. Arf back.
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Chapter 5: What insights does Adam Simpson provide in the Monday Means Test?
We'll work through our categories with Adam Simpson on the Monday Means Test. For City Power, Melbourne's weather, mostly sunny, a top of 18. For City Power, working in all conditions to keep your power connected, essential as.
Waitley on SEN. No, I don't agree with you. Yeah, it's very, very difficult to keep sides beneath you know, 14, 15 goals now.
Chapter 6: How has the game changed in terms of scoring and defense?
That's the rules of the game. That's what the game wants. So get used to high scores. And so, yeah, we want to try and restrict up our scores.
We're defending so much better than what we were last year. We're coming up against pretty good sides that are trying to kick a score to win the game. You know, Sydney are top of the ladder and they're conceding 100 points a game.
Chapter 7: What are the implications of coaching strategies discussed?
So that's the way the game is right now. And it's changed significantly since five years ago and the rules have assisted with that, but also coaching has assisted with that.
Alistair Clarkson, the North Melbourne coach. Got his edge back. Yeah.
Yeah.
Dardaland, in Dardaland North 1. Yes, they did in Dardaland. And... For the people, I'm actually not a massive believer in Darlene.
Chapter 8: What are the key takeaways from the injury updates in this segment?
It is here every week, though, and I've discovered it since coaching. But what is interesting, the inside 50s, Gerard, they're plus 16. So 67 inside 50s to 51 against top of the ladder Sydney. So, wow, that's a great stat if you're north. And they had 29 turnovers in the front half and kicked five goals, four. So that's a massive tick. But Sydney kicked five goals in one from their D50.
So for all that good work, you can't concede five goals from your D50. There's a massive breakdown when you think about five goals from our forward pocket. But they average 700 metres gained by handball and they try and go through the corridor. Last year, they averaged 175 metres gained. So talk about coaching and what Dean Cox has done round 15 onwards last year.
Because they trialled it last year. And now the risk is you are who you are and that's your DNA. Can you break that down? Because I think they worked on some other avenues, but they haven't needed to use them. A little bit against Melbourne. They went around Melbourne, but they're still in the 800 mark of handball metres gain. So
You know, do you play Sydney and say, take away this part of the game, protect the corridor and we're right in this game? Because that's what North tried to do. It didn't quite get it right, but they weren't far off, you know, a bit more efficiency and, um, some of their key forwards didn't really, Larky wasn't really there, was he? Um, it looked a bit off.
I mean, you can't rely on Darling having five shots and so they were just a Larky short really on the weekend of converting. If you had said we're going to get 67 inside 50s against Sydney, um, Because Standy tried to go to Blakey a little bit. It sort of worked, but they had such an emphasis on taking away the overlap handball. They just couldn't stop it. They couldn't stop.
And that midfield group, Gerda, I reckon, and I'm not a big hot take guy, but I reckon within two years, this could be the best midfield in the competition. I think it's on its way with Sherry in the ruck. You've got Wardlaw, who's the toughest man on the ground and does things no one even acknowledges. When you're playing against him, I'm sure there's players going, where did he come from?
So he's doing that type of stuff, and anyone who watches North knows what I'm talking about. So Wardlaw's that type of player. O'Sullivan's a star. You've got Sheasel. And Kirchhoff's got a watch on. There's some things in his game he's got to get out a little bit. And then LDU, he cannot be tackled. He's got the step. You know he's going to step here and you still can't stop it.
So I think that build is done. It's now just starting to percolate. Get these guys to 50, 60, 100 games. So you compare North in two years to Collingwood in two years and tell me who's going to be. Or three years. Who would you rather be? It's interesting, isn't it, where the next two or three is from a list management point of view, which a lot of supporters don't care about just now.
But there is some futures that we should be looking at and north should be part of success in the future. So are these the losses that you have when you're just on the cusp and you're not quite ready? And so they've had three of these in a row from a certain point of view. Yeah. Well, they've had some pretty good players, teams. So they lose to the Giants. They lost on the weekend.
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