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Dockers Dominate, Suns Slide: Round 15 AFL Wrap · WCBH

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  As always, we catch up with Jono to talk AFL. Jono, good to talk again.
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  Cam, great to hear your voice. How are you? Very well, thanks.
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  Now, last weekend, Frio remained top of the table with a good win over your Cats.
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  Yeah, it was a great win by the Dockers and their inaccuracy in front of goal,
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  particularly in the first and second quarters, probably flattered the Cats and
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  kept Geelong in the game, Cam.
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  They missed shots that normally they would kick and they went from boundary
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  line either. They were mostly in front of goal where they should have kicked
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  them and then the Cats would run down the other end and kick one themselves.
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  And the Cats at one point kicked six on the trot cam and they were looking pretty
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  good, but it was purely just on the back of Freo missing at the other end.
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  And the Gold Coast Suns once again slumped to another loss and they're in danger
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  of falling out the bottom of the wildcard round.
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  Yeah, they certainly are. And that's four on the trot losses post-Darwin this year, Cam.
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  So that's their worst record of any of their returns from the Darwin venture.
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  But yeah, the Hawks are too strong in the end. And they were thereabouts of
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  Gold Coast Suns, but just lacked polish and class in the end.
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  Well, they've got a tough ass this weekend. They're up against the Dockers,
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  but we'll get to that in a few moments. Crows, another win, this time over Melbourne.
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  Yeah, the Crows have finally got their season going, Cam. As you will remember,
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  I did pick them for the flag at the start of the year, so they've got a bit of work to do.
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  But they're starting to string some wins on the board, and they're looking pretty
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  impressive. And the Ds, as we know, they're no easy beats.
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  Certainly not. Now, the Blues 88, GWS 65. Help me understand what's going on
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  with the GWS Giants this season.
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  I don't know, Cam. They're probably now turning into, which was,
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  we could say Carlton had been the most disappointing side thus far,
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  but they've gone on to win five on the trot under Josh Fraser.
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  But I think the Giants have now taken over the mantle as being the most disappointing return thus far.
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  And Collingwood, 78, 26-point winners over Port Adelaide. Port Adelaide struggling
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  in their first season without Ken Hinckley?
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  Yeah, they are. But I actually thought they would have been a little bit closer.
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  And at one point, they were probably three or four goals up on Collingwood in this game.
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  It didn't help big fella Asafa Radigalia going down with an ACL injury during
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  the game. is a key to their defense.
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  But as we said last week, they have lost five games caught by under three points
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  this year, so they haven't been too far away.
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  And with the Pies, Darcy Moore, are we likely to see him back this season?
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  Oh, you just don't know with Darcy. He's in and out, in and out.
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  And if they can get him back up and running, hopefully we see him again because
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  he's a key for their defence. But the way he goes, he's likely to do a calf
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  or a hamstring on his return, which has generally been the norm for him this year, the poor fella.
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  Yeah, that's no good. Now, we spoke about the Suns in danger of dropping out
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  of the wildcard contention, but the North Melbourne Kangaroos,
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  with their win over the Tigers, are now in wildcard contention. They are.
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  I'm not sure how much damage they can do if they sneak into that spot.
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  I did watch the first half of this game, Cam, before I had to turn it off.
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  It was the most deplorable skill level I've ever seen by both sides.
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  And I think there's been quite a bit of discussion in relation to the first
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  half of this game this week through the media. It just did not look like AFL standard.
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  Yeah, I suppose I'm talking about the Roos picking up the four points,
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  but if you can't beat Richmond the way they're going at the moment,
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  it wouldn't have been good signs. And Bulldogs in the last game of the round.
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  Bulldogs had a 22-point win over Saints.
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  Yeah, the Doggies got it done. They weren't overly impressive.
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  They jumped the Saints and kicked the first three.
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  The Saints are staring down the barrel at some tough few weeks ahead.
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  Captain Jeff Sinclair has done a calf and will miss the rest of the season.
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  Their multi-million dollar recruit, Tom DeConing, who broke two ribs and punched
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  a lung, so he'll be out for a couple of weeks at least.
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  And their other ruckman, Roel Marshall, who's key to their side,
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  also went down with a shoulder injury and he'll most likely miss this week as
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  well. So there's some concerns there at the Saints.
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  What did he say? He broke two ribs and punched his lung.
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  Yeah, which is the, I wasn't aware
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  of this, but it's the second time he's punched a lung in three years.
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  So he'll be quite painful. It's very painful. And it sort of takes us back to
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  the Christian Petrarca situation the year before. He actually went back on the
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  ground after halftime, but obviously couldn't cope and off he came. So...
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  Yeah, interesting. I thought you were going to say it took us back to Rick Disnick.
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  Yeah, I can. Well, Daryl.
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  Buys for the round, Lions, Bombers, Swans and West Coast.
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  Having a look at the ladder, Frio's still up top. Anything else that you think's
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  worthy of highlighting?
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  I think that my cats need to be careful from here. It's a bit of a log jam between.
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  The Hawks sit on 38 and from fourth down to seventh, all sitting on 36 points.
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  So, yeah, it's starting to get tight and the Pies are now putting themselves back into contention.
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  You'd think they'd get another win, which we'll talk about shortly.
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  So, they might jump into the top 10 if North miss out.
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  Well, let's talk about round 16. Thursday night, Lions and Swans.
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  It's been played at the Gabba.
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  Yeah, this is massive. This is a toss of the coin for the round cam, this one.
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  I'm going to tip the Lions. There's not a great deal of confidence,
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  but I just, purely the fact they've won the last two flags, and they're at home.
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  The Swans have got Tom McCartan back, key defender who suffered concussion a couple of weeks ago.
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  And they also welcome back their absolute gun, Errol Goulden,
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  who did his shoulder, might have been the second or third game of the year and
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  has missed the last three months.
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  And he was actually my tip for the Brownlow this year. So they've got some quality
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  coming back this weekend, the Swans.
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  But I'm just going to favour the Lions and hope they get their season back on track this week.
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  Well, you've just convinced me to back the Swans there. so I'll go the red and the white.
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  Hawthorne, GWS, it's in Melbourne. Hawks, they should win this one given the
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  inconsistency of GWS? Yeah, they should, Cam.
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  Hawthorne at their best can beat anyone and they've got the firepower to do so.
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  As you said, the Giants, they've been battling and they're in consistent form throughout the season.
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  You know, they really haven't had a settled side throughout the year,
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  which doesn't help either. But, yeah, the Hawks will be too strong here.
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  14 v. 16th place on the ladder, but the Blues are going to go into their match
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  against the Eagles as raging hot favourites.
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  Raging hot favourites, Cam. I think they're about $1.14 at present.
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  So purely the fact they've won their last five and they're starting to play
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  the footy that probably the footy world thought they should be doing in the
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  first place, it should be enough to get over the Eagles at Marvel.
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  And our weekly comment, once again, is poor old Michael Voss.
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  Poor old Michael Voss. It's unbelievable, isn't it?
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  And Josh Fraser's actually, you know, has said all along that he's not interested
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  in taking over the job, but with five wins on the trot, it's hard to at least
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  not interview him and say, are you interested?
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  So, on will tell.
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  The G will host Collingwood up against Richmond. Traditional rivals?
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  Most definitely traditional rivals, but neither of these two sides.
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  You know, it was only 2017, 2019, these two sides played off in a preliminary final.
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  So it's not that long ago, but they've obviously both fallen from grace of a
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  fraction, more so the Tigers obviously went to the draft and tried to rebuild their team that way.
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  But the Pies, when they're going, they look pretty good, Collingwood,
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  and they shouldn't have any trouble accounting for Richmond on Saturday night.
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  Yeah, if they would get the win there, that pushes them to 30 points and they're
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  right in contention for wildcard. Most definitely.
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  Battle of Adelaide, Port Adelaide up against the Crows. It's 5v15,
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  but I suppose you just forget where they are on the ladder when these two teams meet in Adelaide.
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  Yeah, the showdown is massive, and it's one of my more favoured games to watch
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  throughout the year because it always dishes up some quality.
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  I have a feeling that the Crows are going to get this one done a little bit
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  more comfortably than they usually would, purely on the back of key injuries to Port.
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  But saying that it is a showdown and Port generally like to get up for these
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  games. So, yeah, time will tell, Cam, but I think the Crows should be too strong.
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  And the Kangaroos should pick themselves up another victory this time against the Bombers?
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  Well, you'd think so, but this could go either way. I was looking at this one
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  earlier, Cam, and I just feel at some point the Bombers are going to win a game
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  and here's an opportunity for them to do so.
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  Whether it eventuates or not, we'll find out on Sunday but I'm going to go out
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  on a limb here and pick the Bombers in.
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  I can't believe it. We're saying we'll be an upset to defeat the Roos.
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  Yeah, well, I'll be backing the Roos in that one. And then Gold Coast Suns,
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  their task just gets harder. They're up against the top of the table, Dockers.
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  Yeah, it does. And I feel as though the Suns can push the Dockers for part of
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  this game, but the Dockers will be too strong, too powerful.
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  And, yeah, they're premiership favourites now, which I never ever thought I'd
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  hear it say that the Fremantle, of the flag favourites but the headlines over
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  in the Western Australian press are flag mantle they're being called so.
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  Yeah, they're going nicely, the Dockers. They don't seem to have too many weaknesses
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  on that selection table.
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  They haven't won a flag yet, have they? No, they lost to Hawthorne in 2013.
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  Yeah, okay. That's when they had the Sandalands playing, wasn't it? Is that the big ruckman?
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  Sandalands and Fife and Pavlich. Yeah, they had some quality out there,
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  and that was their opportunity. They were right in that game,
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  but the Hawks got them in the end.
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  So they haven't had a sniff since. So this is their chance.
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  Round 16, boys, Geelong Cats, Melbourne Demons, St Kilda and the Western Bulldogs.
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  And we can finally say goodbye to the boys after this round, Cam.
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  Goodbye, goodbye. Goodbye and hopefully there is change in the wings.
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  Jono, good to chat as always. Thank you, Cam. Lovely.