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AFL with Jono: Last-Second Draws & Thrilling Finishes · WCBH

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  Joining us on the line from Geelong, Jono, last week was round eight in the AFL.
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  There was a drawn match on the Thursday, 93 apiece between the Pies and the Hawks.
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  Yeah, g'day Cam, great to speak to you once again.
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  Yeah, 93 apiece, the Pies, well the Hawks had all the scoring opportunities
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  throughout the night and probably should have had the gang done and dusted,
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  but Collingwood gave away a free kick and they, you know, they kicked accurately
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  and they were in front, but gave away a free kick on the siren.
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  Dylan Morky's goal after the siren, we have a draw.
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  The Dockers, 12-point winners over the Dogs? Yeah, they just did enough, the Dockers.
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  The poor old Doggies, they've just got too many injuries to key players at present,
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  which is threatening to derail their season at the moment.
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  But, yeah, the Dockers look strong.
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  And in the local derby, one-point the margin, the Crows, one-point winners over
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  the power? Yeah, another cracking show-in game between these two sides.
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  The only downside, Cam, is it wasn't the standalone game on the Friday night
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  last week and the Crows key goal with, I think, 11 seconds to go.
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  Braden Cook slotted one and they get up by a point in another cracker.
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  As expected, the Lions' big winners over the Bombers, 143-79.
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  Yeah, the Lions are just purring along nicely, aren't they?
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  They are, and we tipped the Eagles in this one, but the Tigers 99,
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  Eagles 88, 11 points to margin.
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  And I was watching the score closely towards the end, Cam, and the Tigers kicked
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  the last couple of goals of the game to snatch that one off the Eagles.
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  But well done to the cellar dwellers, and the Tigers get their first win of the year.
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  I think your question to me last week was, will Richmond actually win a game
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  this season? And yes, yes, they have, Jono. I did, yes, correct. Correct.
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  Your Cats 135, North Melbourne 86, 49 points to margin.
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  Yeah, 49 points sort of flattered the Cats at the end. They took two and a half
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  quarters to get going to actually look like Geelong, but credit to North.
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  They really threw it up to the Cats for the best part of three quarters and
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  Geelong just too strong in the end.
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  And at Marvel Stadium, the Blues, they went down to the Saints 108 to 69.
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  Yeah, and I'm still kicking myself on this one, Cam. I changed my tip to Carlton
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  prior to the game, which I've done three times for Carlton this year,
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  thinking they're going to win, and they keep throwing it back in my face, so never again.
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  Don't you hate when you do that? You've locked your tips in,
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  and then you might get a bit of information, or you think about it,
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  or you look at the team list, then you go back and you make the change,
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  and then you lose the tip, and you think, ah, if I had just left it. What was I thinking?
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  And I never changed the tip for good. It always ends up evil. Yeah.
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  Yeah, more times than not, when I change the tip, I end up getting it wrong.
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  Swans 131, the Demons 114. Yeah, this was a great game.
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  There wasn't a whole lot of defensive mechanisms about this one.
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  It was very high scoring.
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  And the Dees, they threw it up to the Swans.
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  Swans got out to about five goal lead at one point, and the Dees kicked a couple
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  late to bring it back. But they were never really out of it.
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  And they're looking good, Melbourne, even though the Swans are looking better.
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  All right. And the Suns, 20-point winners over GWS.
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  Yeah, your sons getting themselves back on track, Cam. A nice victory there over the Giants.
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  Still missing a few players, the Giants. They'll be better at the back end of the year, I suspect.
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  Now, this will go to air on Saturday morning, but let's start with the Dockers
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  versus the Hawks in round nine.
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  Well, I'll already predict that this might be the match of the round on Thursday
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  night. So the Dockers are sitting in second. The Hawks are third.
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  As I'm hearing at the moment, there's a couple of question marks over some key players for the Hawks.
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  So they might be down a couple, but it'll be a big task to beat the Dockers over there.
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  And if they can do that, the Hawks, they're the real deal. But I'm going to
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  have to stick with the Dockers at home.
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  Yeah, I'm going to tip the Dockers at home. Lions, short-priced favourites against the Blues.
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  Extremely short-priced favourites, and that's for a reason. I think the Lions
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  will mop the floor with Carlton. Poor old Carlton, they can't take a trick.
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  Yeah, so to put us down for the Lions there, power up against the dogs this
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  one will be fairly evenly matched it's in adelaide yeah i agree cam you could
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  just be a toss the coin on this one if the doggies had all their clientele available,
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  you'd think they'd get over the top but the port adelaide side have beaten the
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  cats they went down to adelaide by a point in the last couple of weeks and they're
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  looking all right i think i might stick with them at home.
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  Yeah, I'm going to go the dogs away there. Saturday, we see North up against
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  the Swans, just put the Swans top of the table.
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  Swans are top of the table, and top of the table for a reason.
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  They are playing some sensational, fast, easy-watching footy at present.
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  And even with their key recruit, Charlie Curnow, not kicking bags of goals,
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  he's doing enough to unsettle the defensive lines of the opposition and allowing
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  his teammates to come in and get the job done.
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  North, they're improving, we know that, but they're just going to be no match
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  for the Swans, not over four quarters, and I suspect a similar result to what
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  happened to the Cats against the Cats last week.
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  Yeah, put me down for the red and the white. Okay, GWS take on the Bombers,
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  and that's happening in Sydney?
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  Yeah, and hopefully the Giants start getting a few of these players back and
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  they show the form that we know they're capable of playing.
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  The Bombers, again, they can't take a trick, and yeah, I suspect the Giants
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  should get this one done comfortably at home. Yeah, I'm going to tip GWS your
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  tip for the Premiership for last season.
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  And Gold Coast Suns up against St Kilda. Now, we might spend a little bit of time on this one.
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  This is the game taking place at TIO Stadium. This is the fifth year of the
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  deal for the Suns to play two games in the Territory a season.
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  So, they've played eight so far.
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  They're eight from eight. This will be their ninth game.
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  Can the Suns make it nine from nine, Jono?
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  They will be nine for nine for sure, Cam. Your sons, they love it up at Darwin at TIO.
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  And I don't think the Saints can match them. Well, we should call TIO their home grand now.
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  And I think all sons supporters would love,
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  the Gold Coast Suns to play more games at the home because it almost guarantees the four points.
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  Yes, if it's the fifth and final year of the deal,
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  let's hope the NT government and the Gold Coast Suns management can get together
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  on the same page and extend that deal because it's been a great thing for the
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  Suns and it's been a great thing for football in the top end.
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  Your cat's up against the Magpies?
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  Yes, I'm going along to this one Saturday night at the GCAM and I'm a little
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  bit concerned about this one. The Pies, if they're at full strength,
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  I think there's a few injury clouds.
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  I know Scott Pendlebury will play and he'll equal the record this weekend.
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  But I don't know. I think Darcy Cameron, the Ruckman's in doubt.
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  Cats are missing a couple. I'm a bit concerned, but I'm going to have to tip my case.
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  I'll be tipping you, Cats, but let's just unpack this Pendlebury record.
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  This is for the most number of games ever. Is that right?
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  Yes, correct. So he'll play. He didn't play against Hawthorne last week.
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  He played Anzac Day and won the Anzac Day medal and had, excuse me,
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  Cam, for the noise in the background. That's the garbage truck just going past.
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  So he brained Essence on the MCG Anzac Day, won the medal, had a five-day break.
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  He didn't play last week against Hawthorne.
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  He'll play this week against the Cats.
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  Then he'll have the following week off against Sydney, and the plan is then
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  to break the record back at the MCG against West Coast, which is a Collingwood
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  home game. So what's the record at the moment?
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  Oh, now you're getting me. It's 430-something. And how old is he? Thirty-eight.
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  Earth-gilt on ticking, doesn't he? Thirty-eight. I know I was having a conversation
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  with a couple of my mates on Anzac Day and we were saying that,
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  you know, you draft him now as a 38-year-old.
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  That's how good he's going and he has been his whole career.
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  Yeah, it's quite remarkable how well he's been able to go for so long and to
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  have the body in such good nick.
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  Okay, Demon's up against West Coast. This one's at Marvel?
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  Yeah, Demons comfortable here, Cam. They're playing great footy,
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  the Demons, which credit to Stephen King and the game style that he's adopted
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  with them this year in a new role as the Melbourne coach.
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  But they're playing a quick and exciting brand of footy. And when those two
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  pickets get their hands on the ball, it's a game you want to watch.
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  Certainly is. Cozzy is getting a lot of highlights on the reel at the moment.
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  And so I'll be chipping the Ds in that one.
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  And Tigers up against the Crows. Richmond, back-to-back winners?
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  Richmond back-to-back winners and poor old Richmond. I feel sorry for them because
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  they have got an extensive injury list this year and a lot of them too are to their young guns.
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  So that's just pulling the handbrake up on their rebuild a fraction,
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  missing out on all these players not being available.
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  So if they were all available, they wouldn't be sitting 18th on the ladder, I wouldn't suspect.
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  But in saying that can, the Crows should be too strong and get over them at the MCG.
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  And the Tigers, they might be still patting each other on the back after last
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  week's victory over West Coast.
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  I'm going to back them in for two in a row. Look out. Yes, I like that.
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  Jono, thanks for joining us and enjoy your Triumph at the G with the Cats and the Pies.
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  Will do. The weather's totally changed here in the last week,
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  Cam, so I'll be rugging up at the MCG Saturday night.
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  Go Cats. Go Cats. It's game time.