Scott Cummings and Tim Gossage speak to some of the best footy journalists from Around the Country as they do every Monday for some insight interstate. They are joined by:
- Michael Whiting from AFL.com in Queensland
- Geoff Smith - Fox Sports News in NSW
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In terms and conditions apply, LinkedIn, the place to be, to be. Time to go around the country. Before we do that and head up to Brisbane, they're up and about. They're both here. State team. Both teams won from Queensland. Nutrient water, your destination for all things water. 21 and sunny today. 22 and sunny tomorrow. Beautiful. Showers increasing on Wednesday, 22 and then 17 and showers. Nutrientwaterstore.com.au. Nutrient water sponsored country week, too, so give them back to local footing country footing. Brilliant stuff. Well done, Nutrient water. Up to Queensland, he said fish. He's there waiting for us. And as I said, my great week for Queensland footy. Not bad to win, so lines are into the top four. Scarcely believable from where they were about eight weeks ago, and the sun's are hanging around. No major surprise, I guess, that they won their home deck, but a big test for them comes this weekend when they're back on the road. But yeah, good weekend for the two teams. Gosh, just ask me about the Charlie Cameron tackle, which resulted in Liam Duggan being concussed. Thoughts up there, mate, and when will we find out that today? Yeah, we'll find out later this afternoon, but my gut instinct is a little bit unlucky, Charlie, if I don't think you'll get into strife for that, it was unfortunate, and obviously the Duggan came away with concussion, but I don't think there was any twisting or driving in the tackle. It looks unlucky to me, and I'm coming across as a homer there. No, I think you're right. I think you're right. We think it's just part and parcel of the game, just some talk to your head, hits the ground. They'll look at that the second bit, halfway through the tackle where he gets control of it. We'll look at that, but I agree to football incident. A huge one for the Lions, though, this week against the Swans are true tests, but if they get a ball, especially when they're on the road and Brisbane at home, but Brisbane won yesterday, Fish, and we've had this discussion. We're going to have it more with Hamish Bracer after seven. They weren't great, Brisbane. They weren't great. They did only fall over the line against West Coast. Yeah, I think that's fair, and I felt there's been a few cracks the last couple of weeks for Brisbane. They've got over Adelaide the week before. They just got over Melbourne the week before that in the final couple of minutes, and it's been patchy-fully, whereas when they came out of the bite, it was all guns blazing. They hammered the Bulldogs. They hammered Port Adelaide, but I feel like they're getting through on three good quarters at the moment. The big area of concern for Chris Fagan and his team would be their defensive transition, which has been a question mark over the last few years, but teams are being able to take the ball from one end of the ground to the other fairly easily. I don't know whether it's a sign of fatigue or what it is, but they've got to get on top of it because, like you just said, they play the swans this week, and there's no hard of testing for you. I know they've had a couple of recent losses, but Parker back, Mills back, it feels like there. They might have got over that little struggle that they had in the middle of the season. They might be ready to go again in the swans. They're frightening swans. It'd be a great week for you up there, mate, and it'd be a great game between Brisbane and Sydney. Thanks for joining us again this week. We wish to have yourself a great week, mate. We had to Adelaide and speak to my man, Michael Angelo Rochi from Kimbo, and Roch and Roch. Well, Adelaide, they were pretty good and did what they had to do against the Simon's. Hmm. Go on, Rochi's just jumped out to go grab a coffee, maybe he's got someone on the background. Rochi there, pal. No, he's not there. All righty. No, I didn't want to talk to him anyway. Let's go to Jeff Smith at Fox Sports. Jeff, good morning. What is there to go on? Hey, Smelly. How are you going? Mate, big week up in Sydney, both. Yeah, both having a win there as well. So, happy days in Sydney for Sydney football, but the swan is, are they getting stronger with a few inclusions? Yeah, like these guys have just turned their run home absolutely perfectly. Haven't they watched six games to go? I've just got the captain back who's, you know, got enough games and he's felt to get his full fitness back. And then you throw in a guy like Luke Parker as well. Said after the game, he felt like he was making a debut again, such as the journey he's been on this year. So, I think you're right there. What are they? What? 12 points or 10 points on top of the ladder, and they've just brought in two of their biggest names for a run at a grand final or a premiership. So, I think you're right and then you've got Isaac, you see the standing ovation here. He got when he walked around the boundary line. There's been some brilliant tension guard on between the swans and giants over the weekend with Toby going, taking the Mickey out of him with that apology video. It hasn't gone down too well with swans, but it's made for good fodder anyway. Very true. And one last one before we let you go, Smith, from Foxport, Toby Bedford, a really strong tackle on Toronto, but Toronto did go off with the concussion. Yeah, I think that's going to be a bit of a tough one, but he's been a pretty important platform to the last few weeks, Spencer, getting into that tagging role. So, you know what, mate, you missed a week, but I don't know, these days are tired. You know what, we're going to get out of the tribe here or whatnot. So, we'll keep a close eye on that one here in Sydney. Good on you, mate. Yes, Smith. Always too good for his time.
