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I don't know, and I haven't been watching north as close until recently, obviously.

And I'm still excited about the future there. I still think they're tracking the right direction.

Now it's a little slow, long-burned, but there's enough. I don't know.

This feels different this year, Jared than last year, north. I feel like they're in order,

but they're still going to have these types of games where, and maybe that's not acceptable.

Maybe we can still critique that, but I just, there's still a lot to like this.

I'm not giving up on north. And West Coast, I can't tell you how much

adversity and whatever you want to call it, the whole club's gone through since you mentioned,

the 2020 season onwards, although we did play finals at you, Jared.

But it's been a long journey, and to get through it, and this is one game, and it's all about

McWalter and what he's bringing, and the new, the energy, but it was a senior players for me.

And just to see Elliot Yo, he's the West Coast equivalent to Bontanpelli.

Now, of course, there's a difference there, but if Yo had played every week for the last four

years, five years, I think there would be even more appreciation of what type of player he is.

And we saw him last night. We saw Kelly, Doug and Baker, Waterman, Cripps, Graham, Flynn,

all these guys. I thought they really held up their end. And then the thing that you don't see

at the bombers, perhaps, is the youth, and not just either young, so we can say we're young,

it's the young and talented. And that, like you said earlier, you need top 10 draft picks to have

that. Or you've got to be really shrewd with the way you're draft. And I think they've got a

couple of ticks there, haven't they, with some of those younger players. Yeah, yeah. And

well, they should with their early picks that they've got, but it was a powerful image, wasn't it?

Is Harley Reads, and Willem Durstner standing side-by-side at the end of that game? That's the

future. And then the compensation pick for Oscar Allen. Duff Tyler, I was there with

Prudence in that name. Yeah, but he looked good. And they normally take years to develop. So those

three in particular. And then you throw in an Allen and Rubin Jimby, and these are all top 10

picks. So yeah, I'm so happy for the club. And I don't know, I'm a cold of very well, but for what,

what he went through last year on one game, just to see the smiles. And then you go to Monday,

because you got to talk, this is what Brad's doing probably today. You're talking to your staff,

you got the staff meeting he'd go to. Or maybe I was the only coach you did, I don't know.

Well, you actually could take the weekend or we had a good win or bad loss or whatever.

And you really, you're trying to motivate as much as in form about what's going on in the football

department. And it's just tough sell when you lose every week. So they have win like that.

They're first win at home for ages as well. And the crowd, they've turned up,

they have turned up every year forever. So yeah, I'm really happy for West Coast. North,

I'm not going to lose total faith on the contested ball was the issue, wasn't it? Well,

it was minus 35 North Melbourne at post clearance contested possession. That's huge. And that was

the big issue for West Coast. And we talk about what's a good style of play for every building side.

Quite often you get beaten up around the ball. So for them to be plus 35 West Coast at ground balls,

plus 17 at crumps. So there's some contest method there that's a big tick. That's a

highest for five years. Is Halle read going to spend his whole career at the centre of melodrama?

I hope so. I thought he found the balance well yesterday. And who did he run into head first?

So he got clocked by Parker, yes? Yeah. Yeah. He clocked Parker.

Right.

Sherry ran right through him. Sherry ran right through him. And that was Halle's fault.

That's Halle should get fined for that. Not the other way. He didn't. There's no way common

she'd get anything for that. He ran at him. I thought he found the line. He didn't give

any free kicks from that. And he didn't seem playing for free kicks. He just saw a good young player

in his third year get 30 positions, kick a goal, and he had help. So it's amazing what a bit of help

can do. When you go to LEO next to him, it's not all up to him. So yeah. And so forgotten team

over here, West Coast, but I wonder what they're going to be like in two or three years. How long

is there real bull going to take? Will they pass a few clubs? They should pass a few this year

now. So I think yesterday sort of lifts the floor for them. Yeah. And how many games are they going

to win? Well, if they're doing that at home now, is this should be a six win season? Maybe. Yeah.

I don't think that ever matters. The wins. I think it's your style and your method and your talent

and the growth around all that. And the wins are important. Don't get me wrong. But you know,

they, you know, I want to have they're going to jump anyone like a North, I like it,

Estonan, that have been a like a St. Kilda, because they've done it three times before.

So they've got history just on you. So 10 games, 2020, 12 games, 2021, five in 2022, 10 in 23,

has run out of it in 24 when he plays 20 games. None last year. Yeah. And and he starts the season.

Bad luck, bad management, bad, what, what, what, what has been the, the inside story of L.A.D.O.

A bit of everything, but Cinder's Moses, osteitis, stress fractures, broken ankle last year,

like just, just collision injuries at the wrong time. And then the desperation to get him back.

And that's, that's on, probably on me as much as anyone about, okay, well, he's there.

He's had two weeks of training. Can we just play him as a half back? And then suddenly he's,

he's on ball, because you just want to get, be a bit more competitive. So and, and then physically

doesn't, he can't handle the, the rigors of the game. So for him to be in that, that shape, he's

the way the game's getting played at the moment. I'm sure they've managed him well. And he looks

healthy and fresh. Hopefully he gets, you know, to get 15 games is he would be so good for,

for him and for the club. So just the, the final bit on the, the misread for North. So you build

it as the most important game in a decade. And they, they, they get beaten. They've got these two

against Essendon and Carlton. So I feel, I feel like it just rolls on to these next two games.

What's expectations in North, from North supporters this year? What is it? Is it 10th? Is it their wild card?

You know, you know, what, what is their expectations? And, and their expectations this week are big.

So this is a Saturday night. Essendon. So this is, and for me, it's not about the coach. It's just

about when, when, when you're going to put your big boy pants on. Yeah. And, and, and they've

declared it a little bit. And at a quarter time, I thought, okay, well, now it's, this is real.

And, and to take a step back was disappointing, but I'm not losing hope. I still think there's an

opportunity to, to take a step forward this week. But it was a, if they had been two in Zip going

into Essendon this week, I just think it would have just set up the whole year. So they missed

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