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5 Lessons Learned – AFL Round 7

(1) Collingwood Doom and Gloom

The Monday doom-scroll continues for Magpie fans and we’re here to validate your fear.

It’s nothing doom and gloom for the Magpies this week.

Saturday’s loss to the Suns was grim, the blow torch/pressure cooker/hot takes will be relentless on all of the talkback radio and Monday night footy shows.

Leigh Matthews has delivered a brutal assessment of Collingwood's playing stocks: https://t.co/SfUyLu98qv pic.twitter.com/hCI2C25kmB

— SuperFooty (AFL) (@superfooty) May 2, 2021

For those who barrack for Collingwood and want to look after your own mental health, avoiding 1116 on the AM dial, channel 504 and the back page of the paper is probably for the best right now. 

Tune in @FOXFOOTY 7:35pm this Monday#AFL360 #AFLPiesSuns pic.twitter.com/1CIDB0Ho86

— Australian Football Video Film Festival (@AFVFilmFestival) May 1, 2021

The 1-6 Magpies go in as $1.33 favorites against the winless North Melbourne ($3.30) this Saturday twilight at Marvel Stadium.

If the game goes as expected, a win will be a nice sugar hit for Bucks and his men. 

Should North beat the Maggies, the doom and gloom will get so dark that not even the most hardcore of emo kid with their My Chemical Romance album turned up could comprehend. 

(2) Richmond – Still good.

You just know that midway in the second quarter, fellow weekend dot point columnists with a substantially higher profile were drafting their “Tigers are done. Dynasty is over” hot take.

Yeah, nah.

Let the backtracking begin!

Richmond came back from 25-points down, ending the Western Bulldogs unbeaten start to the year.

The Dogs put up the fight from the start, but after half-time the wave of Tigers pressure and momentum that we’ve come to admire in recent years resulted in a 21-point victory for Richmond, reminding the football world that they are still indeed the champions.

Tom Lynch who had also been the subject of ordinary hot-takes during the week did have the kicking jitters, missing his first five shots on goal ended up becoming the hero. 

Lynch kicked three goals in the third quarter (the premiership quarter as they say in the classics) along with his 12 marks and 11 score involvements. 

His performance was best summed up by Matthew Richardson and the Richmond FC social team on Friday night.

#AFL180

— Richmond FC

(@Richmond_FC) April 30, 2021

The Tigers go in as the $1.60 favorites against Geelong ($2.30) this Friday night in a meeting between last year’s Grand Finalists at the MCG.

Richmond is yet to win a return Grand Final bout, however, unlike boxing they’ll still keep the premiership cup at the end of it. 

(3) Geelong was robbed, but karma is a b…

We all know Geelong was robbed on Saturday night.

It clearly was 15 meters and a free kick should have been paid towards the end there. 

Chris Scott on whether the ball travelled 15 metres: "It's clear it did." pic.twitter.com/cbkN6Kw0Dv

— 7AFL (@7AFL) May 1, 2021

However, while reporting a robbery it’s also worth noting the Cats scored 12.16 against the Swans proving the old saying that bad kicking is bad football. 

But it turns out that footy fans are incredibly spiritual and that the football gods do indeed exist.

Who knew #AFL footy fans were such spiritual beings. The amount of people pointing to karma over the ‘not 15m’ call by umpire Nicholls last night being for in game decisions and the win over the Lions is incredible. #Karma #AFLSwansCats

— Travis Fitzgibbon (@travfitz) May 1, 2021

Everyone knows that Geelong managed to be the beneficiary of a wrong umpiring decision back in Round 2 against the Lions and the process that is karma managed to get the Cats on Saturday night.

Geelong are the $2.30 underdog against Richmond this Friday night, but as mentioned in lesson 2, the Tigers are yet to win a return Grand Final ‘bout.

(4) Flat Track Bullies

Footy tipping is proving an incredibly unreliable and frustrating process so far in season 2021, but one thing is for certain, especially in the case of Port Adelaide and the West Coast Eagles.

When playing at home: Back West Coast / Port Adelaide 

W. pic.twitter.com/JpOOEKEqe9

— West Coast Eagles (@WestCoastEagles) May 2, 2021

When playing away: Back against West Coast / Port Adelaide

FT | Disappointing night, Lions too good. #AFLLionsPower pic.twitter.com/L4olaEMpPj

— Port Adelaide FC (@PAFC) May 1, 2021

Results on the weekend have proven this theory to be correct.

West Coast heads to the MCG this Sunday to face Hawthorn where they will be the $1.40 favorites, despite a poor showing against the Saints on the weekend its almost tempting to take the Hawks at $2.90 

Port ($1.20) faces the Crows ($4.50) in the Showdown as clear favorites, but they might want to focus on getting back to playing some decent footy rather than spend the whole week up in arms about a prison bar jumper. 

(5) Dons v Blues was great. 

Anyone who backed the over on Sunday would have been happy with the Dons v Blues clash.

Carlton fans would be especially happy, after trailing the Bombers by 21 points in the second quarter, before Adam Sadd played a vital role in getting the Blues home against his old club.

Adam Saad from a looooong way out for his first goal as a Blue!#AFLDonsBlues pic.twitter.com/0MdJu8kcyZ

— AFL (@AFL) May 2, 2021

A free-flowing, attacking, high-scoring contest which resulted in two teams scoring over a century with Carlton 19-9 (123) def. Essendon 16-11 (107) – a rare occurrence in the modern game.

"Today's game is the way Australian football should be played." – KB #AFLDonsBlues

— 3AW Football (@3AWisfootball) May 2, 2021

The game was easy on the eye for neutral observers, but for Carlton fans, it was the type of game they’ve been crying out for with the likes of Adam Sadd, Jacob Weitering, Patrick Cripps, Ed Curnow, and big Harry McKay all starring.

Essendon didn’t lose any admirers either after that performance. 

The Bombers ($2.65) head to Homebush to face the Giants ($1.48) in what should be one of the more fascinating encounters of Round 8. 

It’s a huge test for Carlton ($3.35) next Sunday as they face the Western Bulldogs ($1.32) on the rebound from their first loss of the season next Sunday at Marvel Stadium.

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Slater case proves NRL justice is indeed blind – and just plain stupid

Handshake deal

The ESPN Sports Business reporter Darren Rovell put out an interesting tweet this week noting that Thursday was the 20th anniversary of the day that the St Louis Cardinals baseball slugger Mark McGwire – powered by steroids as it later turned out – broke the single season home-run record by belting his 70th.

The ball bounced out of one fan’s hands, bounced out of another’s and was finally caught by a 17-year old fan, Phil Ozersky, who at the time was earning chump change stacking shelves.

The Cardinals asked him for the ball and offered in return a signed bat, ball and jersey. But Ozersky wanted one more thing. Yup, he told the Cardinals he wanted to meet McGwire, shake his hand.

McGwire was too much of a big shot, busy hitting more big shots over fences, and said no. So three months later, Ozersky sold the ball for $US3.05 million, bought a house for his handicapped father, gave six-figure sums to charity, married his high-school sweetheart and went on to live happily ever after – while still driving now the car he had back then.

Ain’t sport grand?

Teaming up

Now you can call me an old “romantic” if you like, but I don’t care. See, by definition, every day that passes, big-time sports gets more “modern”, which usually means more technical, more driven by statistics, and more littered with incomprehensible jargon like “corrugated iron” and “marmalade jam”.

It means that, when you come across stories of big-time teams prospering because of embracing the old-time values, it is heart-warming. A prime case in point is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers NFL side, who’ve come from nowhere to open their account this season by beating two of the top-ranked teams in the league, including last year’s Superbowl winners, the Philadelphia Eagles.

United: Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston looks for a receiver.

Photo: AP

Part of it is credited to coach Dirk Koetter doing something different in the off-season.

As reported in The New York Times:  “He broke his team into groups of eight, mixing coaches with players, and had the groups hold meetings during which people took turns talking about their backgrounds or upbringing. The goal was team unity.”

Yes, I know. Players actually getting to know each other, and care about each other, beyond football!

“You play with guys but you don’t know personal details of their lives,” tight end Cameron Brate said. “It was really eye-opening. A football team is built on communication and trust and truly being able to understand where someone is coming from and being able to open up to them. It created new pathways of communication and enhanced our trust in each other.”

Everything is so old it’s new again. Next thing you know, you’ll get players truly caring about the jerseys they play for, and speaking about the clubs they’ve played for, for over a decade, in the first person, not the third person, as in: “They’ve been a great club, and really good to me.”

Just Google it

As I have said many times before, if they were holding a group 1 horse race – whatever that is – around my house, I would pull the curtains shut and call the police. I just don’t care. Still, occasionally stories arise from the racing world that pique the interest, and a case in point comes from reader Paul Foster this week. He advises that all owners of new racehorses get to name their steed, often by seeking inspiration from their parents’ names.

“So this fella has a horse by Benfica out of Loose ‘n’ Lovely. He called it Andiamo Fica, which is Italian for Let’s Go C—.”

For this effort, he’s just been disqualified from owning horses for 18 months.

My thoughts . . .

1. It’s great to get one over the authorities.

2. Don’t Racing NSW have Google?

Knock it off

TFF had a rant mid-week on the ludicrousness of SCG Trust Chair Tony Shepherd following Alan Jones’ lead by asserting that if the Sydney Football Stadium is knocked down, we risk a Hillsborough disaster – where 96 lives were lost – in Sydney.

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My central point was this: “If you do insist that the SFS actually risks being a Hillsborough, how on earth did you or the government let last Saturday night’s final go ahead? You dinkum thought there was a risk of 100 people dying, and somehow – ignoring your duty of care, to preserve the safety of spectators – the match was allowed to proceed?”

Precisely what happened that terrible day at Hillsborough thirty years ago remains a deeply sensitive topic but, as several readers pointed out, it’s a whole lot more complex than just assigning blame to the design of the stadium itself. Just two weeks ago, the man who was in control of police operations that day, former South Yorkshire Police chief superintendent David Duckenfield pleaded not guilty to manslaughter by gross negligence. The date for his trial is set for January. We will let their legal system get on with it.

What They Said

Mick Malthouse at a Ballarat sports lunch on Thursday, on women’s football: “I don’t like it . . . I don’t say you shouldn’t play it, I say I don’t like it . . . I don’t like the women’s game the way it is. I would rather see them with a smaller ball, I would rather see it without any tackling, I would rather see it without any heavy bumping.”

AFLW player Moana Hope on Malthouse’s comments: “He said that AFL was a man’s game and not a woman’s game and he’s said that on stage in front of 50 kids who had just played a boys and girls game of football. I left after that. I was so disgusted and drove back to Melbourne. He can have an opinion but then there’s just degrading and disrespectful comments. We’re in 2018, not in 1942 . . . I will never be in the same room as him again.”

Drought over: Tiger Woods celebrates with caddie Joe LaCava after the Tour Championship golf tournament and the FedEx Cup final at Eastlake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia.

Photo: EPA

Tiger Woods on his 80th tour win: “I was having a hard time not crying on the last hole. I just can’t believe I pulled this off. It hasn’t been so easy the last couple of years. It’s hard to believe I was able to do it again . . . [lightly sobs]”

Cooper Cronk on whether he’ll be 100% for this weekend’s grand final: “Obviously there’s a point where you can’t get things right in a certain amount of time . . . at some stage God or science will say no, but until then I’ll do everything I possibly can.”

Shane Watson on the support for Steve Smith: “To be able to see so many people come along to a grade game is incredible. We see the crowds that come along to a Sheffield Shield game or a JLT Cup as well, it’s nothing compared to this. It’s very impressive.”

New Zealand great Brendon McCullum tweets his view that David Warner celebrated a grade century a bit too much: “Geez Davey! This celebration is the equivalent of Sir Ed Hillary giving it large climbing his front steps, post Everest! Hahaha.”

Over the top: Dave Warner was in a particularly devastating mood against St George during his knock of 155 not out.

Photo: AAP

Richmond young gun Jack Higgins on winning goal of the year: “Firstly, my heart is at about a thousand minutes per second, so if I screw it up, don’t hate on me.”

Wallaby Ned Hanigan with a fine mixed metaphor: “We can’t be sitting there kicking stones and letting it just get worse, we’ve got to grab it by the balls and try and turn it around.”

Melbourne Storm’s Will Chambers knows how the media rolls: “It’s pretty easy to be a keyboard warrior, people don’t really say stuff to your face. It’s easy to print it in a newspaper, but they won’t come and say it to you. But everyone wants a story, it’s pretty funny don’t you think? I’m from a small town in the Northern Territory. You don’t get much media up there, it’s pretty cruisy, it’s not the Sydney press.”

Michael Cheika aware of how quickly things can change: “They wanted to cut Nathan Buckley’s head off last year didn’t they, and he’s in a grand final this week. That’s the way it goes.”

Richmond coach Damien Hardwick after their elimination: “It was an un-Richmond-like performance.”

Jose Mourinho can’t explain why Manchester United players can’t fire up: “I can’t explain the difference of attitude because I never had a difference of attitude. For me it is difficult to explain that.”

Team of the Week

Magpies/Eagles, Roosters/Storm. Play in this weekend’s grand finals.

Tiger Woods. After his extraordinary finish to the season – including his first victory in five years – his world ranking has soared to 13, a nice improvement from where he finished in 2017, at 1193.

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Central Coast Heart. This regional elite team just won the Netball NSW Premier League grand final last night, a big achievement for the only non-metropolitan team in the Premier League competition.

Tom Mitchell. As TFF predicted, winner of the 2018 Brownlow medal.

Nathan Buckley. One of the most storied figures in Australian sport is about to add the one thing his glittering career  has lacked – a premiership. After his Collingwood side finished 13th last year, they are today in the grand final against the Eagles.

Eddie McGuire. There is a very good reason they don’t call him “Eddie the Eagle”.  The Collingwood president is a Magpie to the marrow of his bones, and his decision not to sack Buckley last year now looks a like a master-stroke.

Mozzie Legends. Beat the young pups of the Weigall Wanderers in the Cook and Philip Park indoor soccer grand final. The significance is that the Mozzies have played in every single season held since this ex-Olympic venue was handed over to the public in 2001 – meaning that the team, who now has an average age of 45, have compensated their loss of speed with an injection of guile and determination.

Peter FitzSimons is a Herald journalist, columnist and author, based in Sydney. He is also a former Wallabies player.

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