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Chapter 1: What snap judgments were made about the weekend's sport?
1-300-736-736 to cast your snap judgments from that weekend of sport. The 40 Wings temper text is 0-4-3-3-98-11-16. The difference is temper. Let's head to Cronulla for our first snap judgment. Hello to you, Mark.
Good morning, Gerard, from Cronulla here in Sydney. I'm opening the batting. Thank you very much. I read with interest and listened with interest. Greater Western Sydney are trying to remove reference to GWF in their sporting news.
name i just find that i don't know they're really struggling for relevance and and cut through in western sydney already but i don't know the difference between them and the penrith panthers on how they represent that region and the pen for panthers of course have gone on a golden run six grand finals and four of them that won and they're leading this year the difference how they represent that community you could not have a greater divide so
I suppose my question, Gerard, to you, as I suppose as more of a YFL expert, is it a good idea or not a good idea here?
I've been thinking about this because I was in Sydney the day, I just can't remember whether it was Andrew Demetrio or Gil McLaughlin. So the team was always going to be Western Sydney.
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Chapter 2: How do Greater Western Sydney and Penrith Panthers differ in community representation?
And then at this press conference one day, whichever of them it was, started referring to it as Greater Western Sydney. So they decided, I presume, to create a grander idea around the Giants that they were going to go with it. And it was odd in the moment and it doesn't really designate a particular area. So the idea of being the giants or.
Yeah, it's interesting, Mark, because they haven't really claimed a geographic place in Sydney. You couldn't say that GWS has been a success geographically. The Giants have been an excellent commodity within football, but the geography and the penetration rates, which were a discussion with the chairman on the weekend I saw, and Gerard Healy said,
has a really close eye on that and shares it with us pretty regularly. So I'm not sure what they should do to boost their relevance in the heart of Sydney or in the heart of Western Sydney, wherever they want to be. Thanks, Mark. Dom's in Burwood. Dom, welcome.
Yeah, exactly. OK, two quick ones. My snap judgment is our biggest issue is Pitternet gets absolutely obliterated by jumping Ruckman. Hit-outs to advantage was 17-3, and we definitely needed... And the other one, very quickly, anyone thinks we should trade Wietering and Cripps is mad, because when you're going to get... You've got Harry Dean, Harry O'Farrell, Jagger and Cody Walker...
they are going to be much better players playing alongside those two for the next three years.
Yeah, there was so much silliness that went on last week, Dom, around jettisoning every player who could play. I'm glad Cripps played like that on Friday night. There's clearly a place for him in the league in the long term and we shouldn't be so dismissive and we shouldn't treat our champions so lightly as we did last week. Thanks, Dom.
Gerard, so we drew against the Hawks and we had one bad night and you write us off. Sat there Saturday night and thought, cats aren't even that good. We had a bad night. It happens. We regroup and go again. Pete on the road. Pies were never a contender this year. Hopefully managed to get into a wildcard final. Need to show enough to attract a king or butters. Errol's in Aspendale.
Errol, lovely to hear from you.
Hi. First of all, pleasing to see Gerard running around on the park again. My snap judgment is the Western Bulldogs back six. They just lack the talent to take the Bulldogs even into the final, let alone deep. And I keep hearing about a sack by the trade, take first round trade picks and two million, and the Bulldogs are in the mix to get those.
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Chapter 3: What are the concerns regarding player trades and team performance?
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. Art back. And I said, that was nonsense. You need to get him involved, Gerard. And anyone that played football in their life and they're not getting a kick, put them on the ball, give them a few touches. Now, the bloke had 21 touches and three goals, Gerard.
You were there at the game, and in that second half, he actually looked magnificent, and it was so good to see. But, Gerard, there's something I need to talk to you about, which you've spoken about on numerous occasions, and I can't let it go anymore, and I really want you to kick up a stink about it. And in this game, it was the worst I've nearly ever seen. Gerard, holding the ball...
What's going on? I've watched the game my whole life and now I don't actually know what holding the ball is anymore. There were at least 12 or 13 holding the balls in that game for both teams that didn't get paid. Now, Gerard, are you allowed to do a 360, get tackled by someone, drop the ball and then is it called play on?
And then there's another one where a bloke has a ball for two seconds and you get pinged for holding the ball. The AFL need to do an actual AFL Royal Commission into this because it's ruining games for supporters, and we don't actually know what the bloody rule is, and I'm so sick of it. I really want you to give me an answer on what's going on.
No, it's lost holding the ball. It needs a serious piece of work, not just the it's difficult. Lots of things in life are difficult. This is worthy of some time. There were two in Darwin. One... A player went 360 degrees holding the ball, and the next player went 720 degrees, no holding the ball.
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Chapter 4: What is the impact of umpiring decisions on game outcomes?
And I thought, as a result, probably cost us four points.
Yeah, it was hard not to sympathise with the North fans during that game on Saturday. You got the rough end of the stick there, for sure and certain. Brent Roos are coming. Oh, boy, are they coming. Kurt, my snap judgment, my kangaroos still have one foot in the sandpit. I was disappointed over the past four years with the lack of performance.
Now I'm disappointed due to the fact that we can't get over the line in games. We should by now win. Need to go hard or go home. And Rudemption takes through as a lifelong North member and someone that's been going to the footy for 40 years. How can I no longer understand the rules? Time to hit control, alt, delete and reset. It's farcical and disheartening. Your snap judgments.
Thanks for sending them through. Thanks for having your say. Try McCafe's drinks range. Let's join Nathan in the newsroom.