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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
Monday morning. This is your town. This is your station. This is Waitly. G'day, everybody, and welcome to Waitley for Hyundai on this Monday morning, a public holiday Monday morning, with, of course, the footy store to continue this afternoon with Melbourne and Collingwood. Adam White filling in for Gerard.
Today, Gerard will be back tomorrow with all his normal sort of end-of-weekend activities. So the Monday means test will be a Tuesday means test tomorrow, all those sorts of things. But we'll still talk plenty of footy in the first hour, particularly today. Don't forget with Hyundai, enjoy early deals at Hyundai with, well, they're on now, all the deals, participating Hyundai dealers.
And also pay.com.au, businessownerspay.com.au and start earning rewards today. And also Radius Telematics. A big show coming up. We'll go through all the weekend's footy. We'll start with some snap judgments. So jump on the phone now, 1-300-736-736. We'll take your calls and texts as well. But on the McCafe menu, Tom Morris will join us with all the latest news.
Cooper Woods, who is one of the big freeze sliders, also a winter Olympian. They'll both join me in the first hour. And then we're going to do plenty of different sports in the second hour. with Tim Hodges to talk some motor racing. We've got NBA finals. We've got golf. We've got tennis with the French Open finals overnight. Mark Bickley will reflect back on the footy.
And also a little bit later on as well, Ollie Peake will join us live from Bangladesh. Ollie Peake now an Australian one-day international cricketer. So looking forward to catching up with Ollie before the end of the program. But snap judgments, there's plenty of them across the course of the weekend in the world of footy. So I'm going to categorize them into a few different categories.
I'll go first and then stretch your calls. 1-300-736-736. So for me, the big winners of the weekend, I've got two of them. Definitely Brisbane fall into this category. The Lions currently in eighth position, seven and six, but their season was absolutely at the crossroads on the weekend against Gold Coast.
They're midfield vulnerable, out of form and missing a couple of key players, namely Huma Cluggage. And I really felt they were vulnerable against the Suns at Carrara, but they were brilliant. You knew after 30 seconds that they were a different team than what we saw, particularly against Fremantle and the Giants over the last couple of weeks.
Now, all of a sudden, at seven and six, they can go eight and six because they've got Richmond coming up this weekend and then the bye. And then all of a sudden they can reset, hopefully start to get some players back. And things aren't too bad if you're a Brisbane Lions supporter or player. But it did look a bit of a worry on the weekend. So it was such a big game, such a big win for the Lions.
And the other team I'm putting in the big winners category, the Bulldogs. They are having an amazing season. So it's now three wins in a row. So they had that great start to the year, and now they've won three in a row. But it's how they've done it. So against Melbourne, it was a three-point win. Against Collingwood, it was a four-point win. And then the Hawks, a six-point win.
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Chapter 2: What are the key footy highlights from the weekend?
And now when you look at their season, six wins have come with the result six points or less. So they are really becoming the kings of the close finish, the Western Bulldogs. And of course, it goes without saying, to get a win over a top four team, to go eight and five, huge win for the Bulldogs. The big losers for the weekend, definitely North Melbourne.
I'm really interested in North Melbourne football. Fans, how are you feeling today after that sort of performance against the Fremantle Dockers? It goes without saying, it was horrible. It was embarrassing. 19 goals in a row they gave up after giving all those goals up in a row against Adelaide not that long ago as well. All that good work against the Suns now feels like a lifetime ago.
Where do they go from here? And the Gold Coast Suns are now an interesting one as well. Definitely one of the big losers of the weekend. I talked about Brisbane. The Suns now 7-5, but when you look ahead at what they've got to come, Geelong this week away, then they've got Hawthorne, then they've got Fremantle away, Collingwood at home, and then Adelaide away.
Now, outside that Collingwood game, they'll stay to outsiders in all of those matches. They're not a premiership contender. And to sort of back that up, if you look at what the Suns have done this year... The game against Geelong, so the win against Geelong in the opening round, is the only team that the Suns have beaten in the top nine this year. So they are not a premiership contender.
St Kilda, they're not a big loser of the weekend. Can you lose but win? I was up there at the SCG for this game. It was, I think, the best game I've seen all year. Certainly the best game I've been to all year. It had absolutely everything. And St Kilda led all afternoon into the evening without actually winning. But to me, it's the improvement. And this is what Ross Lyon has been talking about.
It's about building this next generation. It's the improvement of the players like Garcia, Hall, Wilson. Don't slip on hasty. I reckon he's a really good player. Silvani's like a brand new player at St Kilda. They are definitely improving. And they really took it up to one of the best teams in the competition, even though they didn't get the win.
And the team you can't underestimate for me is Adelaide. They've only lost once since round eight, and that was to Hawthorne in Tassie by nine points. And when you see who they've lost to for the year, they've lost to Brisbane, Hawthorne, Geelong, the Western Bulldogs and Fremantle, but they've won all their other games.
So they're not a team that's sort of, in my view, fighting for a spot as a sort of a wildcard team. I think they're a bit better than that. And they've proven that over the first half of the year. And then there's the Blues, the wildcard Blues with Josh Fraser. Four from four for Josh.
And they did it the hard way last night against Essendon, but sometimes that's more satisfying when you don't play particularly well. There's the pressure to win because it was against Essendon, a team they should be beating. And while they were behind, they certainly came back and got the job done when they needed to. So that's my snap judgments from the weekend. I want yours now, 1-300-736-736.
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Chapter 3: Who are the big winners and losers in footy this week?
So they're 48 points, Sydney 44 points. And you're right, Hawthorne 10 points, which is now two and a half games behind Sydney at the moment. And then it's a further game back to Geelong in four. So they're three games behind Sydney now. But the other thing with the Swans is they've got a percentage of 147, whereas you look at Geelong, it's 120.
And even the Bulldogs, who are equal points to Geelong, their percentage is 94. So it's almost, well, it is three games in percentage, which is almost four games. That's how much Fremantle and Sydney have kind of separated themselves from everybody else. I think last night's game was really gutsy from them for the players that they lost.
And I know that one of them came on in the last quarter, but I'm not sure he was fully fit. Isaac Heaney, he amazes me, that guy. When you can win games like that, you know that you're a good team. Yes, and I think, Mark, and I was up there for the game, and as I said earlier, I think it's the best game I've been to, and it just had absolutely everything.
I mean, it had a lot of goals, the ball went from one end to the other, but it was still tough, and obviously there was some amazing individual performances from Liam Ryan's mark to Jai Sarong's goal at the end. But the one thing, and I've been up to Sydney a lot in the last few years to call the Swans,
And when they're under pressure and when they're behind in the last quarter, it is amazing how often their best players rise to the occasion. And we saw it again with, you know, Isaac Heaney kicked two goals, but he set up the last goal, but he lifted in the last quarter. He had all that pressure from Windhager. Chad Warner had an amazing game. And they're the guys that just do it all the time.
When Goulden's out there and they're behind, he's often the one that sparks them. It is quite special what they do. They've still got to do it in finals to be, I think ā bona fide superstars. They're almost there, but I think that's the one thing that's not quite on their resume at the moment. But, yes, I agree. They find a way, the Sydney Swans. We'll take Neil for a break.
Thank you for your call, Mark. Neil from Port Melbourne. G'day, Neil. Hiya, mate. Good, thank you.
Good. Very quickly, I think, you know, maybe I might be a little bit biased, but I think it's time everybody sort of got off the Ross line, off his back a little bit, because... When you look at how well our side has played this year, admittedly, we haven't won a lot of games, but we've been in every single game bar one.
And I just think we're incredibly well coached considering we're still playing the whole year. We've had a key forward. Higgins is our number one forward and he's a small forward. Whereas teams like Brisbane and Geelong and Fremantle, I mean, if you watch Fremantle, they've got about four or five guys over six foot three that are all in the forward line kicking goals. And we've got
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Chapter 4: What updates are there on coaching changes and player performances?
I mean, even yesterday... Putting Hewitt on Redmond, who was absolutely brilliant in the first half, changed the game. And Sam Docherty on the radio, he basically said yesterday how we've changed from contested ball stoppage, contested ball stoppage. And these stats just prove it.
The last three weeks, time in possession, we've gone from 14th to 1st, controlling possession, 4th to 2nd, uncontested possessions, 14th to top 3rd, Total disposals marks, disposal retention, bottom six to top four, and defensive change, bottom four to top four. And that's not a sugar hit, and that's not freeing the players up. That's all coaching.
And the other thing I think, remember that Prager's actually, his coach, I know they're reserves, but his coach Collingwood... Carlton and Carlton again. And, you know, he's doing a great job. But I think what will determine, you know, if he gets the job or if he's even offered by the club, the last five games we played Collingwood, Collingwood, Brisbane, Fremantle, St Kilda and the Bulldogs.
And I think that'll probably decide it. But most couldn't be more happy with the way we're going. And as bad as it was yesterday, at least we won.
Yes, absolutely. Thanks for that, Dom. Appreciate your call. Obviously very proud Carlton man. Let's get to Rob from Tassie before we go to the news. G'day, Rob.
Hi, g'day, Adam. How are you?
Good, thank you.
Yeah, I'm a Carlton man, but I thought Eston played their heart out last night. I don't think it's all doom and gloom.
I think they'll be okay. But what I was ringing about was the Suns. When Hardwick went up there a couple of years ago, he said they had 80% of a championship. I tell him he's dreaming because they've got about 20%.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of the Knicks' 2-0 lead in the NBA Finals?
I definitely agree with that. And even Melbourne, even of all the good things they've done this year, if they were to lose two in a row going to their bye, yep, it changes a lot depending on what happens tonight. Tim Hodges joining us, talking. Now, I did say Monaco Grand Prix. It's the Monaco Grand Prix.
Chapter 6: What challenges do the Knicks face going into their home games?
I get so fixated with the Monaco bar, one of the great ice confectionery items you can find. And I do tend to Struggle a bit saying Monaco and not Monaco. Anyway, we'll take a break. That was Tim Hodges talking motor racing.
Chapter 7: What factors have contributed to the Knicks' success this season?
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Chapter 8: How significant is the pressure on young players like Wembanyama in the finals?
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13 straight victories and they lead 2-0 here in these NBA Finals. It is amazing. 13 straight playoff victories. And to start the NBA Finals, which is the grand final, best of seven, the Knicks win their first two away to San Antonio. It really sets things up.
They were the outsiders going into this final series, but they've now got three consecutive games at home at Madison Square Gardens with a 2-0 lead. Now, We need to go to an expert, not me. We need to go to an expert to explain exactly what's going on. So we thought we'd catch up with Benyam Kadhani, who is the senior editor of NBA Australia, and he joins us now. Welcome to SEN.
Good to be with you, mate. Well, New York, they've got two in the bank already, and now they go to Madison Square Gardens. This dream run, they're not far away from winning their first title in a very long time.
Yeah, no doubt.
I mean, you're very happy if you come back from a road trip, you know, one-on-one, but now going home up to a great spot for the Knicks to be in, and San Antonio's got some work to do.
Absolutely. So as I mentioned, it's a long time, 53 years since they've won the title. And for a long time, particularly in recent times, they've just been a very bad team. And it's been slowly building. The pressure now that the Knicks are under, how significant is that?
Because it's one thing to be 2-0 up, but it's now another thing to get in front of your home crowds that just expect it's just going to happen now, I guess.
Yeah, it's a tough one because you don't want to get too high on the high side. of being up 2-0 and coming home, because as I've seen through this postseason, anything can happen. But history is on their side. No team's ever come back from 2-0 down after losing the first two at home in San Antonio. So the logic is that the Knicks should get this done.
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