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I'm jurid waitley. Here's a snapshot of Thursday March 19. Adam Simpson has his eye on

St. Kilda heading into round two. It's probably it's early. So I think they're going to start

winning some game center or later. But I haven't seen the full connected system where they can adapt.

They can adapt to a team that has 40 inside 50s and and outscores you and you've had 60. And then

you sort of work on that. And in the next week, you just have a shootout for the whole game. So I'm

I'm working through all the sides at the moment about their identity and I'm trying to figure out

what is St. Kilda's identity because everyone gets caught up in the

are the ball the speeds king and let's back half transition and scoring. That's fine. And that's

good. What's exciting. And I'm not a wet blanket on that. But what's what's the pivot point? What's the

okay, this is not working. I don't like this shootout style. Let's let's go to this third gear.

Or let's play like Brisbane did in the second half against Sydney. They control the ball a little

bit or let's do some things with players other than Wanganemio. I mean, he's we played the Saints a

few years ago and we were not a great side. We lost by 171 points to Sydney. And we played the

Saints next week and at half time we're in front and we did some strategy things. I said, I look

let's go let's go around to the Saints. They fall back a little bit and let's let's try something

a little bit different and try and mitigate a bit of the scoreboard and strategically it works.

We get to half time tick. What unboys has kept going? Ross had come out and took that away and

did something a little bit different. They played six forwards, bit of length, took away a switch

and they rolled us. They ran overs by four or five goals and from a coaching point of view,

you tip your hat. Well, you know, after the game, well, you know, we couldn't have an answer to that.

I'm just not seeing that at the moment. There hasn't been many levers pulled where it's

I needed to fix this game or we've got some education we've done in the preseason that suggests

we can do we can win differently. So I'm looking for that and a long-winded answer to it. That's

what we expect, I think, from someone with Ross's caliber. And Simmo solved the opening round

canundrum with the assistance of AI. What's the perfect round one fixture that's balanced towards

giving the Northern States maximum exposure? And it gave me a good answer but I wanted more. So I

said take away the Derbies or Derbies and put in a Wednesday night and a Monday afternoon

just to spread it a little bit. So and I know we've been banging on this. It's been the drums

are beating louder this year than last year, aren't they? Because the same thing happened last

year with all the boys and the time between breaks. Yes. The confusion with it last year is because

two games got removed for the cyclone. This was really only the second time we've had the full

impact of opening round. So it gave a pretty good fixture for round one. Do you want me to go

through? Give it to us. So round the game one would be Sydney versus Collingwood on a Wednesday night

at SCG. So Wednesday night that's the only conversation but I think that's a good game. Brisbane

versus Carlton of the Gabba on Thursday night. The Giants versus Richmond on a Friday night.

And then the Saturday night, Gold Coast versus Gelong. So there's your sort of four northern

states games. And then Saturday, West Coast would place in Kielder at Optus. Adelaide would play

Melbourne at Adelaide Oval. And then on Sunday you've got Port Adelaide worth as the Bulldogs

and then Fremont versus North at Optus. So and then Monday is that holiday that we went through

that nothing was a beautiful day that day. Bring it home strong. We got Hawthorn versus Estona.

Now we're hoping Estonans are better product than they are today but that will be a standalone

Monday afternoon MCG game. So it didn't take long. It's a 10 minute process, Jared. Bruce McEvani

on Y Gout Gout lights the fire in him as a sports fan. I think he trends since, don't you? I mean

I don't know about you, Joe, but if I'm asked questions about athletes, 90% of them surround him and

you know, we've got a lot of depth to the moment, but it's so much talent. But I think everybody's

you know, they're numbered with him. They want to follow this journey with him. It's a great back

story. He's only just, I don't I hope this is public, but they're going into a new home that Gout's

been able to help his mother and father with and he's only six sisters and brothers. Look,

he should play young for them. And I think Bruce been standing out there, sitting out there,

he's going to be 24 years of age. They are here. I mean, Browning came along in Tokyo,

he's around, but we haven't had that male alpha sprinter too often over the years. And he's

great to watch. I mean, there's a bit of, there's a bit of Carl Lewis about him. There's a bit of,

you say involved about him. So it's hard not to be drawn towards him. Look, I know him pretty well.

He's respectful. He's really got a beautiful head on his shoulders and he's a good person.

And Bruce remembered the late Dennis committee. It was a very big shock.

And it was, I felt like I'd lost a part of myself to be, you know, you know,

an absolute truism. And we were very close. And it's, you know what it's like to work with the

team. And I think of all the people I've worked with over the years. Nobody has been closer in a,

you know, a working sense that I had with Dennis. It was, you know, something that grew and,

and, and became lasting. So, yeah, it was a big shock. I, I, I, the family, a beautiful family.

He, he'd walk into a room. He didn't have to say much to say a lot. And he had that way about him

that every staff member that I certainly worked with alongside Dennis felt the same as I did

towards him. And I'm very fortunate to have had that relationship. And the work alongside him. So,

I felt an enormous loss, Jared. And, you know, it's been hard and hard to believe in him. He'll

always be around in so many ways. But, um, yeah, it was, it was, it was so chalting and, and

sell up sitting. Brinton Sanderson gave us the strategy for Hawthorne and Sydney. Yeah, they're

good. I mean, both these teams, I know Hawkes had a bit of a setback in the opening round,

but they were back to their best against the bombers. They took 157 marks against the bombers,

which you can't let Hawthorne do. You can't let, they're, they're a, they're a, they're a short

change angle, short kick and mark, but fast, like they'll, they'll catch you up with short kick

and marks, little change of angles, little lane changes. It's fast, but it's effective.

And the bombers let them mark the ball the week before. So, that took 157 marks against the

bombers. The week before the Giants kept them, I think, to 78. They kept, they kept the game

contested. Um, the swans, what we've seen in their first two games, they prefer that high

handball running carry forward, handball, uh, like cut you up through, through running carry.

So that's, I guess, the difference we'll see tonight when we say them plays, both sides trying

to do different things with their ball movement. Um, they've been both very efficient with their

ball use inside forward 50. The area that I think both sides having now seen them play twice,

and maybe this is being a bit hard on both of them, but we talked about it at length last year

with Hawthorne is they need to improve their work around stoppage. So, uh, Sydney 42 points,

um, and they're averaging minus 10 and a half clearances per game so far. Uh, Hawke's 35 points

from stoppage plus three clearances, but, but it just feels, and we, you know, the offseason was

that chase for another midfielder for Hawthorne. Um, and that while they're missing Will Day, I think

they're not that they're, they're shallow through their midfield depth, but, um, but that's an

area that I think Hawthorne and Sydney both need to, to find a way to improve. If they're going to be

a real contender and they look sharp at the moment with a lot of things that they're doing.

And Shannon Gill on the origins of VFA on channel O. In 1964, channel, uh, channel O is born,

that will become channel 10. Now they do things differently because they are the last commercial

station in. And initially they do replays of VFL games like the other stations we're doing.

But they're also trying other things like we spoke about this in our, uh, in our Melbourne

Cup episode last year that channel O start running live race meetings from regional areas to,

to bring live sport to try something different there as what we would call today that they were a

disruptor of the era. By 1967, they decide there's no point doing these VFL replays that are

on every other channel. So ABC 9 and 7 would have VFL replays as well. So that's where the VFA

and channel O come together and they change footy broadcasting and it really does change it

in a lot of ways. Now they end up in 1967. They do live games on Saturday and

Sunday. So they do a live VFA game on Saturday and Sunday, which is we've not seen, well,

I say, where I wasn't around in 1967, but the football public had never seen live games on

television up until that time. They really saw any live sport on television up until that time.

And even there's a, there's a great article in the age where, um, Mark Fidian who, who is the,

the, the great VFA writer is explaining to people what you're going to see with the VFA on

television this year. And, and of course, in that era, VFA football had 16 players on the field

as opposed to 18. So they didn't have wings. So he's, he's sort of talking about how the explaining

to what first time watches how you can, how you can enjoy the VFA and what, why this matters. And

it talks about sort of the half forward flake being a graveyard in VFL football, but in the VFA,

it's very important. And that's just a snapshot. The full program and all interviews are

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