Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
It's Stuart Waitley. Thanks for listening to the podcast.
Chapter 2: What are the snap judgments from the weekend of sport?
In this episode, your snap judgments from an amazing round 11. The Monday means test with Adam Simpson. The latest footy news with Tom Morris. And the wisdom and experience of Robert Craddock.
Chapter 3: What insights does Adam Simpson provide in the Monday means test?
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Chapter 4: What are the key highlights from the latest AFL news?
Enjoy. Monday morning.
Chapter 5: What wisdom does Robert Craddock share about the weekend's matches?
This is your town. This is your station. This is Waitley. Good morning. What an amazing weekend of footy. The best of the season so far. Thrilling, hectic, astonishing and deeply satisfying. From the perfectly orchestrated acknowledgement of Scott Pendlebury at the 10-minute mark of the first quarter to the stunning comeback of North Melbourne in the breakthrough victory long awaited.
From the heart and mouth flurries of the Bulldogs and Demons to the jaw-dropping third quarter from the Giants. Perhaps only Essendon fans aren't feeling the waves of rapture footy conjured in the past few days. It's rife for snap judgments. What do you feel most passionately from round 11 of this AFL season? If you're in the stands for a few of these moments. 1-300-736-736.
And the 40 Wings temper text is 0433-981116. The difference is temper. And a big welcome back to the season to the Western Bulldogs and the Giants. Ripley would ask, believe it or not. P.T. Barnum would have boasted, you'll be astonished and amazed. Mulder and Scully would have concluded, some things can't be explained. And every insurance company in the world would write it off as an act of God.
The 14-goal third quarter the Giants put on the Lions is difficult to fully grasp. Any wonder Adam Kingsley has been so calm through the disappointments of recent weeks. It'll come. This is what we do. And there it was. Even the calmest, most rational eye was drawn to the idea we might have been witnessing the end of the lion's reign. Have you ever seen a team run quite so hot as the Giants did?
And the trick to what unfolded? This wasn't the tsunami. Only one goal in the relentless onslaught came from the trademark run-off half-back. This was the Giants dominating at stoppage and pressuring for forward half turnover, where previously they had looked one-dimensional, very one-dimensional. This was total football.
And amid the relentless hunt and exquisite ball use, everything, and I mean everything, went right. How else do you conjure the highest scoring third term in league history? Every audacious snap was magnetically drawn to goal. The set shots that started off course suddenly veered in. The bounce of the ball went their way from the boundary to a round goal.
The Giants got every free kick on offer and a few that weren't, and not even the arc could find an angle to help the Lions. And the momentum grew to such a degree as to render the team of the era useless. Half an hour of mesmerising footy revolved around Toby Green, Brent Daniels, Jake Stringer, Phoenix Goddard and Toby Bedford. And nary a lion was seen. Totally blown away.
The commitment of the Giants was to play fast. A bit of Lightning McQueen. I am speed. And for 37 minutes, they made the case for football perfection.
They can go for goal from 48 metres out. Another one to the Giants. Brent Daniels from downtown. Green scoops it up around the body. It'll bounce. It'll bounce. It's a goal. His second.
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Chapter 6: What challenges are facing the Bulldogs and their depth?
So there'll be more challenges for the dogs coming up. What do you think of the Bevo theme?
I used the sitting bull, Lakota Nation, crazy horse who was a Sioux Nation, defected because he wanted to live with the freedoms. that the Lakota Nation were living through difficult times.
But just that territory, you know, holding your land, holding your belief, people deserting because they're not sure whether or not you're capable, but also how you feed each other as, I suppose, warriors in this game. It's not life and death here, but there's a bit on the line. And I don't know if it had much to do with the win, but I think the players set a great example when it comes to
feeding their teammates, riding the emotions.
People deserting when they think you're no longer capable? I don't want to critique Bevo too much. He'll get into me. But the ability to storytell, that is still the art of coaching. That's right up in my list. And to do ā I drifted then. I lost connection to the story. But I'm sure the players were all in on it. And to have that ability every week ā to inspire with some sort of quirky story.
I just use my son a lot about him having his first shave, you know, buying a first car, having a 20-minute shower, all those type of things you do when you're 14. But when you get to the stories that Bevo gets to, research, more research, and worldly understood of just history.
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Chapter 7: How does Bevo's storytelling impact his coaching?
I don't know. It just comes up with things that I admire, and I think the players would acknowledge the effort that he goes to to try and inspire, and they play for him as much as they can. It doesn't work all the time, I'm sure, but come up with that on a weekly basis. You've got to tip your head. That's what makes him a good coach.
PFI, this was always going to sit in the twilight down the highway when Geelong and Sydney met. What do we take from the Cats win over the Swans? Well, this is a little bit of my between the lines as well. And he said it a few times now.
Chapter 8: What lessons can be learned from the Cats' win over the Swans?
He's actually pushed it out there a little bit about how he sees the games. Chris Scott? Yeah. If we can listen to his presser. Oh, pre-game presser. We are trying to work on our game and sometimes I think when you talk about that it can sound a bit disingenuous because I don't actually mean if we just get our game right we'll be fine.
We've been for a very long time a team that does adjust a little bit based on the opposition which I guess is probably the better way of explaining that's what we've felt. I guess, most pleased about over the last couple of weeks because really daunting opposition, but they played differently.
And we were able to adjust, we thought, to sort of have the game played a little bit more like the way we wanted it played, which is kind of the definition of the modern game, I think. I think I said pre-game. I wish it was like it was 25 years ago where the best teams just go out there and say, well, we'll just play our game and it'll be good enough.
I don't think anyone's that good anymore.
Yeah, so they don't chase anything, do they? They don't chase form. They build it. And they acknowledge there's going to be some ups and downs throughout the year. And I think at the start of the year, there's not enough knowledge that he probably gets on opposition side, so he can't work them out.
And it's almost like once he starts reading the patterns of the opposition, then he can get to work. So he builds, the club builds. They've been doing it for years. The way they manage... Danger and Cameron and these players about trying to get right at the right time of the year. Take away the other team's strengths, but they've got their own DNA sitting there as well, Gerard.
Their form at home in particular, they're a front half team at home. I don't think I've seen it as strong. as I have recently. So their ability to get the game played in the front half. So that's supply. So they've had 69 inside 50s to 45 on the weekend, for example. They had 29 forward half turnovers and kicked six goals, seven off those turnovers.
So there's definitely a DNA there, especially at home with that ground. And the way they defend behind their ball movement, that would be regardless of who they play. And then they'll take away the strengths of the opposition. It's just sad this game was off-Broadway a little bit, wasn't it? It made no sense. Yeah.
I said to this off air, just have the games at the same time every week, except for Anzac Day and King's Birthday. Give us the same time so we know what's going on and we don't miss anything if we want to watch more than one or two games over the weekend. So, yeah, this game was lost a little bit, but I thought some of the things that Chris did were pretty familiar on who they play.
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