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What were the weekend’s snap judgments about standout players like Nick Dacos and Nassar Wanganeen‑Miller?
Monday morning.
This is your town. This is your station. This is Waitley. Good morning. For all that we went through in that round of footy, nothing changed. The top 10 remain in the exact formation as when we closed the ladder predictor on Thursday. In fact, the only alteration was Carlton and the Giants swapping 11th and 12th. So, as you were. all our ladder predictors would be on pretty good terms with themselves. Almost 2,000 in our database. About 1,200 of you have St Kilda 9th or 10th. That looks about right. That's not to say we're lacking for snap judgments. The round was bookended by the brilliance of Nick Dacos and Nassar Wanganeen-Millerer. There's that old formula in horse racing. Back the same horse in the same race each year.
They have an uncanny knack of repeating the deed 12 months on. Naz did that yesterday. Same track, same distance, same outcome. The second Naz game. Not quite as iconic as the first, but equally decisive. When the game was in jeopardy, Naz took it upon himself to enact winning time. It's the defining quality of Nick Dacos and Marcus Bontempele to accept the responsibility and drive your team to victory. It was compelling viewing. And the opposition was helpless to do anything about it. Certainly not with the plan that they had at any rate. Adam Simpson had the most perfect line during the third quarter for North Melbourne. This was not a game for learning. It was a game for winning. It's not quite true that they got beaten by one man, although there's no question who was best, because the midfield of the future got slaughtered and they can't hit the side of a barn door.
These are disappointing times for the Kangaroos, who just aren't ready to graduate. So St Kilda hold 10th and Naz will surely get the three Brownlow votes this time, but the game will equally be defined for the events surrounding Max King. The second guessing is entirely appropriate. You can't gamble and lose and then expect to avoid scrutiny for gambling in the first place. The stakes were high and the strategy failed. But all I can think about is King himself. He's the one living the torture of constant injury. He's the one who has done the endless hours of work away from public view and he's the one... who will be feeling it more acutely as the debate rages on the outside. The private torment of a body that keeps failing when he returns to what he loves and desires most.
It's awful.
He's sort of tightened up in his hammy. The update I had is they'll investigate and have a scan. So you haven't spoken to him. We stand by our decision to play him. We have high-performance experts. We have Lode. We have conditioning. No, we're really quite comfortable. Of course we stand by it. Hindsight's 20-20, isn't it? Can't be timid souls sitting in the sidelines. We're in the arena making decisions. And we've got all the metrics. He was in the four-week block. He had 50% more volume of high-speed running. and 500% more very high speed running, which is above 24 kilometres. And his biggest sessions were game load sessions with 20% more. So in the context of that evidence, our conditioners thought, and game time was only 12 minutes, a quarter, two six-minute stints.
It was very considered, very worked out, and I'm happy for it to sit with me.
It was a gamble. It failed. You can't avoid the scrutiny of it. The stakes were high and the strategy didn't work, but it's a very public theatre to endure such a private torment for Max King himself. I wonder what the scans will show. Could it all be psychosomatic? It would hardly be surprising. Or is this the setback that's going to finish his season and leave him in... In more doubt for the future, your snap judgments, 1-300-736-736 and 0433-98-1116. Head of Adam Simpson with the Monday means test. So here's my list. There was no July grinding from the big four. They just went whack on ill-equipped opponents. Brisbane is going to have to plan without Ty Gallop. That's a ridiculous and dangerous action.
You can run it through the table of offences and give him one.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What were the weekend’s snap judgments about standout players like Nick Dacos and Nassar Wanganeen‑Miller?
0:01–7:34
2
Why is Max King’s return-from‑injury gamble sparking scrutiny and what might scans reveal?
7:34–15:47
3
How did the Ty Gallagher incident and calls for tribunal action dominate listener reactions?
15:47–53:54
4
How did Collingwood's on-field leadership create a late-game turnaround against Adelaide?
53:54–55:40
5
What are the Monday Means Test conclusions for Richmond, Fremantle and the Bulldogs' form?
55:40–59:32
6
How will State of Origin rollout in WA, SA and Victoria — and what issues must be fixed?
59:32–1:05:27
7
Which weekend sports moments dominated conversation — Piastri, Commonwealth Games and boxing takeaways?
1:05:27–1:54:18
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