On Scotty and Goss, it's hammer time with Hamish Bracial, West Coast Poly complete tank solutions, tanks for agriculture, residential and industry, westcoastpoly.com.au Had all the time in the world to cough and he decides to cough when the microphones go on. Ah, I thought it was off while that hammer time was going on. You know that really? Blue light, mate. No, where is it? Why don't I click? There he goes again. Let me give it again. There you go. I'm back. Good to have you here for West Coast Poly complete tank solutions. Of course Scotty is in our Melbourne studio and you are now in his seat where you sat so proudly on Friday before we touch on all things AFL and double down on some of the stuff we've heard this morning. The East Perth fadeouts, albeit you had a win, albeit you're on top of the ladder. But I am concerned about what's going on in the last quarter. If I did some sums, I think it would be alarming. Oh yeah. So I'm alarmed. You are correct though. We are on top of the ladder and we won game clear. So it's, you know, not all doom and gloom, but no, we've got to address some things going into the last. I think the mindset needs to shift from panic defense to, hey guys, we're 40 points up. Have we just played 40 and win? That's been four weeks in a row now and we've got Claremont home this week. Claremont away. Sorry. So if we do that there, they'll run over. So we've got to make sure that we address that. But look, it's a good 10 and three and top of the ladder is a good spot to be addressing it from. You'd rather be there than six and, you know, six and seven. It's exciting that Scottie Swan districts spoke to Tony Nod on the weekend with inspiring sports stories. He just said, it's just a great place to be and you can imagine now and we open up the discussion. Let's have this discussion, Scottie. And Patrick and Ham is not in the room, right? Yeah. Right. So it's going to be Swan district versus East Perth Grand Final. Yeah. Now do we go and play it? Clearly it is. At Medibank. Well, no. That's cool. Sullivan Logistics Stadium, okay, West Perth, Leadville Oval, call it what you like, or do we come to Optus because it will be 40,000 but if those two teams get through, we expect them to now. I think it's done. No, no, no. Swan is just going one week at a time. You know that. And we're just a just a blue collar battler just trying to hang on for grim death. We're really not even in contention. I wouldn't even give us any time. But let's say we do make it. And I'm going to get shot in a training tonight, this week. You know my stance on the Waffle Grand Final at Optus Stadium. I think it drains it of any type of atmosphere, but if you've got the two biggest supporter bases in East Perth and Swan District, I think it works. But I would say straight away no, but I don't think it needs to be played at East Perth's home ground either. Let's go to a neutral ground. Oh, OK. I'm a bit like the MCG colleagues in Basindame. Brilliant stuff. But genuinely, genuinely wouldn't it be good for the WFL competition to have two of those two battling teams who have really been embarrassing for the last 20 years? You couldn't do it. You couldn't just be so if a nice thing is going, it would be good because they do obviously they do pull the biggest crowds. And the loudest crowds and it would be great to stand anywhere and just abuse Hammer all day relentlessly with just a 100% full on attack. Couldn't hear you over 40,000. Oh, you'll make you leave me. I'm going to be one of those people that switch in. I'm going to get out of the middle of the ground like it would be hard doing it. So let's just cover off on a couple of things that we spoke about at the opening of the show. And you've got to give me who's what's left in the tank. And I've been pretty harsh this morning on West Coast. Yep. I think they're empty. Yeah. What they saw, what we saw against the kill of their empty. And I named one player, I did it yesterday and I'll name it again, that I felt who basically sums up what their list looks like and where they have to make some tough decisions. And that's Jamie Cripps. Jamie had just a day to forget. He has been good this year. Really good. But I reckon eventually it wears you down. The bounce of the ball doesn't go your way. You don't chase. You don't tackle. But I just watched him with the open eyes and thinking, you know, he will set the standard. No tackles inside forward 50, 21 new tackles inside 50 against St Kilda and St Kilda 17 goals. Yeah. And I'll just look at Crippa. And I think I love him. And we've loved him. We've premiership player. It's been good this year. But I think the cliff came very quickly for a lot of players on the weekend. Yeah. It's as to what's left in the tank, it is bare and dry and starting to rust. Because there is not a lot to give. I think you saw against Brisbane, the dropped or the sacked coach response, which is often the way with a lot of teams. When a new coach comes in, they came out and they had all this youth that was just free to do whatever they want. And they got close to a premiership favourite. And that doesn't last very long. And I think now they're going to really struggle. They would have thought North Melbourne was a winnable game, but they've got North Melbourne sort of taken it up to Carlton and they're in reasonably good form. Gold Coast here. Gold Coast here. That's the one that they're thinking, "Oh, can Gold Coast to be looking at that game?" I'm thinking, "We've broken the curse this week. No question about it." Fremantle, I just can't see them happening. I can't see the same thing happening in the first Erby. They've got a run home that would have on paper appeared good. And now I think it's just going to be a real tough slog to the finish line for the West Coast Eagles. From your point of view, haven't we? We've been starting for a long time. They haven't made hard calls over the years, and that's what they're in this mess. Now, they have to make some, what could possibly be savage calls at the end of this season. As a player, if you're on that list, as a player, is it detrimental to see your mates but players get maybe torched by the club to say, "No, we have to go in another direction. Sorry, you're gone. Do you look at it as a player and go, "Geez, that's harsh and they're going to do that for me next year." Or do you go, "No, boys, it's a reset and we've have to make these hard calls if we're going to go anywhere. Can it deflate you?" I think it can deflate you, but I think after three years of real pain and hurt, I don't think it'll be a surprise and I think guys will be expecting that to happen. I think just with the brutal and the savage cuts at the end of the year, they can't cut everyone. So they've got to be able to have 15 go and 15 drafted because the talent isn't going to be there. I think they've got to have a good balance and it'll be the guys like Crippa who is going to be, that'll be the tough calls. Whether or not he adds a level of experience that these younger guys can learn off for another year or if it's just, "I know you've still got something to offer. If you can offer it somewhere else, go for it, but otherwise we need someone new." They'll be the really hard ones and can't cut everyone, but it's going to have to be pretty tough back into the year. And then that opens up the question we spoke about. I mentioned this yesterday on the broadcast that I have, I'm not saying he's going to get the job, but I'm hearing the jungle drums have been beating over the weekend, the Ken Hinckley's starting to emerge as a contender, as on the wanted list. What are your thoughts on that? I'm still confused as to and you guys are the experts, but just tell us which, what do they need? And I know they need to decide as a football club, do they need a development coach, Hanson Stroke Graham, or do they need Henckley, Chris Scott, John Longwell. We know they've all got some credentials, the senior blokes, but is that what the club needs if they're bottomed out? The thing is, too, and the decision to make is the next person they coach, who they appoint coach, is he going to be a premiership coach, or is he going to be a three to five year get us to the rebuild and then we bring someone else in to take us that next step. So there's decisions they make. We asked it before, do they go an untried coach? Do they go a senior coach who's done it and he's just saying Ken Hinckley? And do you want the job, if you think that you're not going to be the premiership coach, you're going to be there to do a role for the club for a short period of time? I think you should look at Hawthorne and think there's your mold. We've got Sam Michelin, who is not necessarily a developing coach. He's had a long time, he was in the system for a long time, but he was still four or five years into being a coach. And the way that he has approached that list is, hey guys, you're all young, I'm young, let's just have fun and do what we want. They are cool on the field, they've got a bit of swagger about them. And all their flares and their personalities are allowed to show on the field, whereas you get an old school, Ken Hinckley, I use as an example, you get a senior coach who's been around the system for 20 years, he's not letting Jack Ginnovin turn to the crowd and put them to sleep. He's saying, oh mate, let's just play with it. But Sam Michelin says, boys, let's do it, let's play on that edge, let's play with Flair. I think it's a risk to go and get a young coach and say, do that, but I think there's the mold. Hawthorne, we're a poxeless two years ago and everyone would have looked at them and think they're going to have a really strong four or five year rebuild, but they've turned it around in a year and a half. And I think that's, if you're the West Coast Eagles, it's going to be a tough mold to shake for the staunch West Coast supporters who are, you know, diving the wool and very, very traditional. But I think you've got to go down that route. Today, you might be the one to answer this, so today almost getting, it's been putting a sense, silly as psychologists, we're talking about different people now. So, Goss and I obviously from an old school, and you're in the system now and you see young guys and how they act and then we're on the prime example of that, today almost going to get a psychologist to analyze their entire list of who they've got left and what they like and what they don't like and what they can handle and what they can't handle before they go on a point of coach. All right, look, it's not the worst idea. I don't think you should let the animals run the zoo and there's got to be a level of someone coming in to sort of set their standard. But I think if you can have a good blend of, we're setting an example, but we're letting you guys do your thing, which I think San Mitchell has done perfectly, that'll really work for them because they've got talented young kids, but at the moment, they're all playing with the exception of Harley Reid, they're all playing inside themselves and they've got a shell around them because they're scared to do anything. Whereas I think if you give someone that job, like one of these young guys who are going to take their first senior job, I think you can let them just break free of that and really show talent. And I think that's what Hawthorne's done and here's your strength, boys, go and play to it and it's shown that it works. West Coast Poly complete tank solutions, give us Hamish pressure on a Monday, tanks for agriculture, residential and industry, West Coast Poly.com.au, you keep the text coming at 0487736736, let's get a break, I won't come back and focus on Fremantle, saw them live yesterday, love what I saw, 50 points, probably should have been 80 to be really honest with you. They gave up some cheap goals late, but they were simply awesome and is the Derby next week? Yeah, ow, ow, ow, ow, because I will be fed income, if it's not 15 goals on what we saw on the weekend, then they will be very disappointed with themselves because they will put them to the sword. Let's get a break away and come back. Hamish pressure is in the studio, Scottie's in Melbourne and Mr Reliable's just where he belongs, this is Scottie Gus. Stop. Have a time. West Coast Poly complete tank solutions, tanks for agriculture, residential and industry, West Coast Poly.com.au. He's in the studio every Monday at this time, 13 degrees today at the moment, heading for that wonderful top of 20. Now, career high 41, Andrew. He was good. He was really good. Yeah, the debate goes. So this morning, the top six players with Kane and Bucks from the round, they gave Sir Rong one of the top six across the competition. I think Hayes had three votes, Andrew, two votes Sir Rong. I thought Sir Rong was very good. No question about it. I thought Andrew was better. Yeah, no doubt. He's covering the ground really well again. Oh, is he ever? He's running down. I think the hallmark of his game is when he's running defensively and those chase down tackles because he's so quick. For someone who doesn't look at it, he is lightning quick. He was a national 400 metre runner. He was a very good runner growing up. Because he's got chunky legs. He does look good. He's got an extra slayers muscle in his calf. So, yeah. He's got an extra slayers muscle. Chinkles. Yeah. So he's, I think it's 5% of the population or something have got it. He's got an extra calf muscle in his leg. That's why his legs are big. That's why his legs are chunky. Have you got an extra femur? No. I've got four extra quad muscles. Oh, you've got a couple of legs with glutes. Yeah. I thought this was kind of a white. It's kind of. There it is. Here it is, Jack. No, that's why. You can be born with extra cheeks either. Yeah. So, that's why his calf muscles are so chunky because he's got an extra slayers muscle in each. So, but no. He's coming on the ground well. We'll throw that up on the socials. Cover in the ground well. Chasing tackles. Strong with the ball. And Stanley used it a lot better, which is good. So, yeah. I think he's playing in, he's back to his best form, which is good. He just knows where to go, man. He's a such an intelligent football. He knows where, if he can't impact the contest, he generally gets to where it's going to be. Yeah. The next kick or in a position he's playing so good at the moment. Yeah. It was a hard one to gauge yesterday. That was so brutal. And as I said, 50 points could have easily been 80. Melbourne got some cheap ones late. Oh, I want to give Melbourne a couple of credits. Then Roy and I think he's a very good player. Oh, yeah. He's a star. He's a star. I mean, he was flying solo in the big man, right? Harrison Petty has been slaughtered being tried as a forward. Yep. He's got no fear. He went down back and he stood in the way several times late. And I know he wasn't great at House of Pit. I'm not talking he was a big great player, but the speculation is he's agreed to and due to you deal with Melbourne. It's done. Yeah. So there's a bit of like about Melbourne, but I want to ask you this question. So there was the Josh Tracy running walk over the line, kick a goal. And Stephen may arrive three steps late and slams into his back. Yep. A lot of conversations going on apparently about ball coming back to the middle. My view was in the old days, I'm sure that's an extra free kick. Yeah, free kick there and then go back to number one. The outside said free kick. I thought on the ground. That's what I heard. Yeah, that's what I'm hearing about. I think it definitely should be. Hey, mate, you've pushed him four seconds late. Yeah. Have another one. Cop that. Yeah. Josh Tracy goes back and kicks another one from the top of the goal squad. And I don't want to be alarmist, but almost reportable. That's what the old-fashioned charge is. Yeah. Charging a guy who's not expecting that and you know you've got time. So they've they've they've they're brutal on the whole range of other body clash rules. And you see that cheap shot, that's just a that's just an absolute cheap shot. Well, I think it's not cowardly stuff, seriously. You hit someone from behind in any way, type of form, but it's just but it's but it's be honest with, it's weak. It's pissed. Like they're not expecting it. And you just hit someone from on. Yeah. Seriously. It's more about you than anything else can. Yeah. He and then he was going and pushing and showing afterwards and then he took that into set mark and sort of screamed at him like, come on, Steven, mate, seriously, mate. You've flopped over and hurt your head on the ground and you've crying that it's bloody sore. Go off and do a concussion test. You're pushing someone in the back. You punch your own teammate in the face. Come on. Seriously. There was this, the old stock standard cliched point of the scoreboard by Josh Tracey. That was good. That's a hard line. I like that. That was good. That was two big boys going on it. You did, I did like to say it, but not the, not the push in the back. Yes, Scott. Back in. I'll tell you. Oh, yeah. Back to it. Didn't, um, didn't the Eagles have a pick before Jacob and Roy? I think they might have. Oh. Anyway, continue. You're not going to get it right all the time. No, it was hard. Oh, you're very hard to get it right when he was just down the road at Claremont. Ah, ah. Babe, if, if, if West Coast took all West Australians, no, I'm just joking. I'm just having a little laugh. Yeah. Don't defend them. Seriously. Yeah. Sometimes I get things wrong. Sometimes you get it wrong all the time. Oh, we're dancing on the grave today, are we? He's got, he's, he's in Melbourne. Yeah. Can I hear me? No. If I could say stuff over here, no one hears it. No, he was very good. What about that? I want to be serious about this. Sure. Scottie and I have, have come to blows almost this morning, but he's sort of, just out siding with me. Colling with four has been, and forget about player availability. Yes. They talk up next man up, next man up, and we've got the best young talent coming through and all these, you know, Harrison and all these guys. Oh, say it again. It's very important. Play availability. Keep going. Keep going. Scottie. Don't start again. Therefore, yep, is alarming. Alarming. Yeah. They were horrendous on the weekend. They were really bad. Oh, yeah. I think, so a couple of things, I think their fall has been bad. Yes. I thought, I think Hawthorne are very good. So that's, don't take anything away from them. I agree. I think if you look back over the last three years at Collingwood, two years ago, I said that they were a tent that's going to drop out of the eight and then they went on to win a grand final. I didn't think anyone could sustain the level of tight game wins that they had, and then they just did it another year. So I think, while they've been a very, very good team, they haven't been poles apart from the competition. They've only been winning five, six, seven, eight games a year by a goal, and you lose them, you're out of the eight. You lose a few of them, you know, bottom of the eight. So they've been good, and they are still, I think, a good team, but they've just had a lot of games in the, you know, over the last couple of years, they've only just one. And so that sort of skews people's perception of them. They're not dominant. They're just a winning team. And so I think that the drop can come reasonably quick when you stop having those momentum swings late in games where you can come over the line. And I think, yeah, that's what's, that's what you're looking at at the moment, a team who was winning, but not dominant, and now they're not winning. Interesting because we go back to the game here against Fremantle, where Darcy got the free kick when the Collingwood player didn't give the ball back and threw it to Daikos and then... Yep. And that exposed Collingwood's close win strategy of delaying the stoppage so they can set up proft and they mastered the arts, they mastered the art of setting up around the footy and winning a lot of close games. Well, they tend to a little bit frantically, and that happened. And I think from that day, they now feel like if they get close, they're no longer able to execute that star because the rest of the competition has been alerted to this. And the umpires as well. And the umpires. Listen, I know what you're trying to do here, and you know what? And I'm upset at myself, but I'm tipping right in, you've been good the last couple of weeks, you've broken stories across this country, you've declared that well, you've demanded Cox make a statement, he made a statement, but that's just poop, just exposed by anything. That was just a cramp umpire's call and that's doing a game playing your tool. Look, they just play a band, they're getting scored on far too easily, they're defensive pressures, junk, Nathan Murphy has been the biggest hole they've seen in a long, long time that's exposed to captain, and they need to find some hunger and some, and they really need to sort of say, you know what, I'm pulling the reins in a little here, boys, yeah, I don't have the freedom that you have had in the past, we need to get back to a bit closer, checking footy, and actually show that you want it a little bit more. They would pull another one. Yeah, they were. It's almost like if Nick Daikos doesn't have his 35 and kick two or three, they just don't get near it. Hasn't a cliff come for him. Yeah. It's not him. Seriously. I'm walking in. Wow. Emms. Emms shut this down. Yeah, our idea. Scotty's over in Melbourne. Hammers in the studio for West Coast, probably complete tank solutions, tanks for agriculture residents, industrywestcoastpolly.com.au. We're going to do our tips, our Monday tips, very good at. I'm excellent at them. I do it in a lot of passion and a lot of emotion just from the weekends, guys. It's not fairly every club in the competition. Not every club, a couple. OK. May I just ask, if we're going to save the Derby, OK, they give that Derby predictions right now. Margin. Margin. Mm-hmm. And Glendy and Alan Metalist on a Monday before the Derby. Yep. In the headline, we will read Post Derby. Well, I think Fremantle, they've got to make up two points, something percent on Brisbane now. So it's close. And they got within 1.0. They should have won the game by 100 points, they'll make it easily. I think Fremantle will win this game by 92 points. And I think Andrew will have 38 and a goal and be Rosalind Denning Alan Metalist. He's not going to be happy with you saying that. Yeah, he won't listen. You'll read it on the socials. He will. So Fremantle by 92, Andrew 38 and the goal Rosalind Denning Alan Metalist and the headline on Monday will be home final for Freya, because they'll be second, because Karl and Melose don't know who they're playing. We're about to give you the tear, that'll hurt. They're actually playing. They'll put that late on Friday night and it's going to start the round. There you go. Oh, no good. They're pretty good, I think. Yeah, that's right. They're all those. Yeah, he's just fell over the line against North Melbourne. Yeah, they did. All righty. So let's get the hammer tips on a Monday morning for Friday's fixtures, thanks to West Coast Poly, complete tank solutions. Karl, you're going to predict? Before you know that, you're going to predict early costs, score and middle? Yeah, 75, Josh Tracy, and Denning out, because I've been on the camp, I've been on the bandwagon from day one, and headline, read all about it, REID, all about it. No, I know. I've got a sneaky suspicion he'll blow off for fun. I reckon he's on the cusp of blowing up over the valley. He's really going to say, this is stinkin'. Yeah. Righty. Righty. Keeps down if you like. What are we tipping? Carlton Port Adelaide. It's right. Where is it at? It is at Maville. Maville Stadium. I think Carlton will win this game. I thought they were dead average on the weekend and it took Charlie Carnot to bob up and kick four and Cripper to nearly drag him over the line, but they'll be back. They'll be better. Why don't Ken Hinckley's farewell appearances for Port Adelaide? Oh my god. Crossing coaches. West Coast. My man Charlie. Yeah. How many do you keep? Four. Just a four. Yeah. It's not easy. Matt's running. Yeah, but the fact is that you've got him in your junk. What do you call those things? Power rankings. And you don't have Jesse Hogan, who's seriously ahead of him as a talent this year. Jesse Hogan is the all Australian forward. Matt North Melbourne, Geelong, in Tassie. Geelong. Ooh. Ooh. You know what? In Tassie. It is in Tassie. I'm going the mighty rose. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I lost one. I'm on the shin banners. Yeah, they were good yesterday, weren't they? Yep. Gold Coast. What about this? This is the Gold Coast under back at home. Gold Coast win. Brisbane. Don't care. Gold Coast win. Yes, they will. Gold Coast at home. Unbeaten all year. Gold Coast at home. Oh, that's nice. Oh, that's nice. Oh, that's disappointing. That's not the worst team in the comp. Besides West Coast, I think. So, Essenan will bail out of the eight. Essenan won't win a game for the rest of the year. Essenan will lose and kill to win. Saturday night, Melbourne are favourites early markets against the Giants. Well, they shouldn't be. They certainly shouldn't be unless Max is going to come back, which he might do. I saw him after the game. I said, "How are you feeling?" He said, "Well, this is still a break in it, but I'm feeling pretty good." He was here, was he? He was here. I think the Giants will win that. I don't know why they've gone otherwise. Saturday night, Fremantle hosting West Coast. It's a free-o derby. I'd like to amend my, not the tip, but I'd like to amend the margin. I think Fremantle win by 111. I was about to say, "Oh, you feel bad, do you?" No, no, 111. No, no, 111. I think it'll just be Sharp. Essen. It'll be just, yep. It'll be just shy of 20 goals. Wow. Well, that's going to be fun to call across. We could lose our way completely and send our night. Colling would take on Richmond. Oh. And maybe two of the big four. Yeah. Big four to me. This will be all of 6,000 at the MCG. I think Collingwood will win this, but it will be the worst match of the round. Who would have thunked eighth, 13th versus 18th? Sydney still on top. Cup against clear host of Bulldog Sydney on Sunday. Sydney are slipping, watch the dogs come. The dogs are going to be hard at the contest. The dogs will make the eight and the dogs will beat Sydney and Sydney. Injury toll too, Sydney. They've got a few. They got a few... The dogs will beat. The dogs were excellent down at GMHBA. They were incredible. Don't try and sell me that, man. I'm not going to fall for that. See? Talk about your goal coast at home. Sydney are certainties. Well, Sydney wouldn't know certainties when they played forever a couple of years ago. It's a day game too, which they don't like. And the last one is Adelaide host Hawthorne. Oh, wow. See, I don't mind the crows, but I love the hawks and the hawks will get over the top and just steamroll them home. We're the next race, Perth. What do you got? We've got Claremont and Claremont's tough game. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, all right. Good luck with that. Rally Rogers 150th. We'll go and spoil the party as the plan. Oh, nice work by you. Speaking of extra glute muscles. He's got a couple. Yeah, he does. He's hard at it. He's got a few everywhere. He's tough. He must be quick off the mark. Yeah, very. West Coast Polycomplete tank solutions. Tanks for agriculture, residential industry, West Coast Poly.com.au. Thanks for coming in. Always a pleasure. Let's take some news. This is Scotty and Gus off the cuff mark. Duffield previewing his show. All that and more still to come.
