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What are the snap‑judgments and reactions to the epic preliminary final?
It's Stuart Waitley. Thanks for listening to the podcast. In this episode, your snap judgments from an epic preliminary final. Adam Simpson with the Monday Means Test. Tom Morris with the Grand Final Week Footy 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! It's the greatest game I've seen live. In the rich catalogue of epic preliminary finals, it's the greatest of them. And if you're asked to, I reckon you could mount a case to say it's the greatest game that's ever been played. From the opening siren bump that flawed a modern-day great to the final free kick that enraged a Hawthorne nation, this was spectacle and theatre beyond compare. For its full 134 minutes. It's as if Christopher Nolan himself got hold of it. Outrageous feats of skill. How many of those goals qualified as trick shots? Individual brilliance. Personified by a small Ford who kept throwing off the invisibility cloak and popping up where he just couldn't have been? Towering marks above a mass of humanity with the game in its most frantic.
And nerveless finishing when the stakes were at their absolute highest. All week there was this inescapable sense Hawthorne and Brisbane had the elements to produce a game of epic proportions. It set about delivering on that from the very outset. 39 goals, 253 combined points, a breathtaking last quarter comeback in a frenzied environment. Four lead changes in time on, and the most volatile reaction we've seen at the MCG in living memory. It had you wondering, What did we just witness? And what hope does the grand final have of living up to that? Could you imagine if that had been for the Premiership and they rolled the Dais out at the ends amid all the turmoil? There are emails right through Saturday night and into the early hours of Sunday from those who are taking in the replay.
I haven't seen anything like this since sandpaper. There are hot takes and cold light of day reflections. Some have cooled, some have become more intense. From what I've read, there have been attempts at group therapy, grief counseling, and anger management. There are accounts of never. Never been more excited and never been more upset. A roller coaster simply too intense. There are acclamations from neutral fans of the best game they've ever seen. Typically, this Monday morning skews toward what's in store on that one day in September, but we're not ready for that. Today we remain embedded in the most unforgettable game of the modern era, and the pub debates. play that are only just beginning. Contentious umpiring calls, players haranguing umpires, a crowd shamefully throwing bottles, and a dual Brownlow medalist suspended from a grand final.
It's complicated. It breaks in all sorts of different directions. Which stage of grief are you working through this Monday morning?
I think we're in a mourning phase. I don't know, what's the first part? Is it anger? I think I'm still half in the anger. Last is acceptance and I'm I'm a long way from acceptance right now, so I'll s sit in anger for a bit longer.
I've seen plenty of denial and anger and bargaining. Not yet the depression and acceptance, I suspect, is a little way off. This is the founding principle of Snap Judgments. It's for what you feel most passionately from the events of a game like that. I suspect there's not much point putting too much logic and reason around it. There might be more listening than talking as we work our way through the next half hour. So a couple of my snap judgments to get Those out of the way. For the record, the holding the ball free kick was not only correct, but it's actually mandatory. It wasn't a technical interpretation or a randomly imposed decision. Culturally we blame the umpire and frame the debate around him.
But the mistake was Jarman Impy's. It was an error of judgment to cradle a ball for a stoppage that he had no right to. The very fact he beladedly dropped the ball to his boot was all the evidence required.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What are the snap‑judgments and reactions to the epic preliminary final?
0:00–12:59
2
Why was the holding‑the‑ball free kick deemed correct and mandatory?
12:59–57:58
3
Which player would win the Norm Smith Medal for the weekend’s game?
57:58–1:03:35
4
How did Sydney’s midfield and forward line perform in the finals and what can be learned?
1:03:35–1:14:13
5
What were the standout performances in Australia’s recent cricket series and who should be watched next?
1:14:13–1:24:47
6
Why is the Gabba pitch being moved and what are the plans for future cricket venues?
1:24:47–1:53:18
Speakers
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