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Speaker 1: The Bay rounds are finally over and we're getting back to full time footy on the Code AFL Show.

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Speaker 2: I'm Josh Barnes.

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Speaker 1: I've got Glenn mcfahn and Ed Burke with me and that means we get close to the end of the year, we start talking contracts again. Let's go straight into Jordan to going backpage of the hell it's time today. He wants to play on for a long time. Now, could you follow Collingwland closely? What are you doing about John? And goes possibly in crea best form right now?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I reckon he is. He's I think fourth is the best. That he's actually finished at Copeland Trophy. He's heading towards a podium finished. We know who's going to finish.

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Speaker 4: One number one.

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Speaker 2: There's no question there.

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Speaker 3: Season again, maybe it was, but he's certainly lived up to that. It is a really interesting conundrum for Collingwood, isn't it. He's maybe thirty three next year, heading into that final year of the contract. He wants that extension wherever it is, whether it's Collingwood or not, that'd take him to If you've got a three year, which he really would like, that would take him to thirty six into that last year. It's getting a bit old thirty six, and I know Jordan has talked in the past about maybe he wasn't as diligent with his body early doors and as Scott Pendlebury was, and maybe that could hurt him at the back end. But ed they can't lose him. They've got to do it. Whether it's a two year and a trigger or a three year, they've got to do it.

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Speaker 5: I think I think we've got to view the way he's dealt with the overload issues and his rain last year that really hampered him for probably alwast eighteen months. I think he's made a bit of a breakthrough there, clearly, absolutely, and then the fact that he can play dual roles, he can be a handy deep forward means that they are sort of covered if he loses a yard of pace sover the next couple of years. I'd be more cautious about someone like Lucky Neil, who they might be bringing on a three year deal where you risk maybe the game goes past him at the end of twenty twenty seven. The way that midfields are evolving, ye, you're not playing Neil anywhere else, So to go.

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Speaker 6: With you're right, can play forward.

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Speaker 3: He's kick forty eight in the season before, so you look at that he could do that as a deep forward.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: So I think there's enough flexibility therefore him that they're protected if they give him three years.

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Speaker 4: But he's not a first choice midfielder at the end of the three years.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would be quite hesitant though. With Jordan.

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Speaker 1: I know he's getting better this year, but only twice since twenty eighteen he's played more than twenty games in a season. He's really battered with his body now, and while he's having a good patch now, he wasn't. His form wasn't that great at the start of the year anyway. So if you're asking for three years, that's a lot. I don't really see the rush to get that done right now. He may get a bit disgrunted or something, but he's heading into another year next year, and then I would be looking at maybe a one plus one.

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Speaker 2: With a trigger off one plus one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that takes him to twenty eight and twenty nine.

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Speaker 5: That's still a long Nay, it was not very sexy if you've got Kilda offering him.

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Speaker 6: The specter of Kilda has been there for a long time. With Jordan Degowie. There was a little hint last year, a couple of years ago was more than a hint.

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Speaker 3: They were right into him and he had to work out whether he was starting or going. So it does leave the door Ajart Slightlys want to come back.

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Speaker 2: We also always talk.

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Speaker 1: About how old Collingwood is and I think we're going to see a little bit of phasing out, but it's going to be hard to even phase out those older guys. This year they're all playing okay, bring them into the next year, and then you've got Jordan to go in your books for three more years. They need to start rotating this out and you can't get hung up holding on to too many old players At Colin we've talked about that endlessly and Craig McGray sick of it, but that's the issue that they've got. So if you're signing a guy who has a proven tracker good not playing every week until he's thirty six, I think you're asking for more trouble.

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Speaker 3: I'd be comfortable giving him two and a trigger. I think that's probably three is getting a little bit too strong, isn't it. Sinse You look at He's played fourteen games this year, as you said, twenty one is the most he's ever played in his career. He's heading towards that at the moment. So imagine the outcry at Collingwood if they've lost him and he went to some killeda. So I think it'll deal or get done. He loves the club. He really is enjoying that sort of style now and enjoying his role within the group.

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Speaker 2: So it'd be fascinating to see. Yeah, yeah, while we're talking player movement, there's just a log.

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Speaker 1: Jam for key Fords at the moment is as stuck up as has ever been.

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Speaker 2: There's nobody going there. It's like punt Rode at five pm.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's waiting on Ben King to make a move, either stay or go from Gold Coast.

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Speaker 2: And that means he's got Jed Walter, Mitch Lewis, Kalshader, Joe.

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Speaker 1: Omardi, had McLean, Jim Memory, all sitting there waiting what's going to happen and what happens when Benking makes a call.

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Speaker 3: You're right, it's all going to come back to what Ben King does. And we all thought this deal was already done. It has been sitting there for so long it feels like it's been ages since.

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Speaker 2: And then there's that little hint.

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Speaker 3: That come back to Melbourne, whether that's Hawthorne, that does really open a couple of really interesting stories on Mitch Lewis and Kelsha Dear, isn't it what they're going to do? Mitch Lewis has obviously got the interest from Collingwood and Kelsha well, we just go back to that final series a few years ago and at his best he can be a really serious player. So again, there's so much on Joela Marty like he would love to stay at the Swans, but the money being thrown around for him prior to his injury on the weekend was extraordinary.

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Speaker 6: I'd be taking that every day of the week if I was Joela Maardi.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely.

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Speaker 5: I think Sydney would be looking at Hayden McLean too and thinking we can get almost as much output as we're getting as a Marty for maybe half last Yeah, and if Hayden MacLean is happy to he's a South Australian, but he's been up in Sydney for a long time and if he was happy to stay, I think that's the moneyball approach the Swans could take.

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Speaker 3: Jed bolder things interesting, isn't it Like there's about a four and a half million dollar deal on the table over five years for him. He's actually playing footy now. Is a beautiful kick for goal in that sense, so he's going to be fascinating to see what happens there. He's clearly waiting on the Ben King scenario. He wants to play footy. It's remarkable think earlier in the year he was not playing senior footy and there was a big question mark on We know that he's already met with Essendon, Collin Woods interested. So it is really a domino effect for Ben for Ben King as well, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: What's interesting there is Walter is playing with King. Yeah, it's not like he's out of the time Wayne to get in. So what is the hold up there?

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Speaker 2: Money? Together?

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Speaker 3: Could there be a bit more money if Ben King does decide to go. Does does Jed say, well they want more than four point five? I'd love a little bit more, Like you think that's pretty for what he's actually produced so far.

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Speaker 6: That's a lot of coin at the moment.

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Speaker 5: So I think money also the factor with Mitch lewis delaying at Hawthorne because I think his role is pretty safe. Even if Ben King came to the Hawks, I think they're more looking at the who's the replacement for Jack Gunston. If you potentially can't go on next season, you might have one more year, but it's that deep, efficient goalkicker that Hawthorne's looking for. I think Lewis is ten and a half forward spots safe.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's to Tim Membery as well.

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Speaker 3: A couple of weeks ago in the rooms and he was the last of the colling of players of the over thirties to say I want to play on. His form is pretty good at the moment barns kick kicking goals, and probably earlier in the year he had bit of a hammy earlier in the year and I probably thought that he was in a bit of trouble. But I think he's his serious chance to play on now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's probably out performing dam next day and Jack Wawlan at the moment, so it's hard to knock him out.

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Speaker 2: You follow the Hawks pretty closely.

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Speaker 1: These are the key forwards out of contract there, so you've got Mitch Lewis, Jack Gunston, Will McCabe and Max Rams and all out of contract, so they're all waiting pretty much at the moment. I think they all know the sums that if Ben King comes, we all go back down another peg in the order.

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Speaker 2: So I think a few of them are considering what.

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Speaker 1: They're doing waiting with your Hawthorne and who are you keeping and what are your priorities.

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Speaker 5: I think Ben King makes sense just because of Jack Gunston's issues with his foot and whether he might just be able to scrape through the rest of the season, contend for this flag and then he might decide he's done. If he decides he wants to go again, they're obviously going to let him go again. But I think Ben King's an important one. I reckon that would cost some calshia to you, though I don't think he would stay behind Lewis King Charle. Maybe Gunston for one.

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Speaker 3: Would be tough because they've got a good forward line anyway, haven't they. So you can't play too many talls.

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Speaker 5: So whether Hawthorne and prioritize that the history there with the dname will have to wait and see. One I just wanted to float out there was Mitch McGovern the free agent.

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Speaker 6: If true, if glad to.

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Speaker 4: Miss out on these on these big names.

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Speaker 5: They might want to look at McGovern because he wasn't particularly happy with how things shook.

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Speaker 4: Out at Carlton.

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Speaker 6: He was definitely not happy with this management.

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Speaker 5: He's on the way to maybe a sneaky forty goal season. Funnily enough, he's scorebar output has dropped away a little in the six games under Josh Fraser, but he's kicked twenty three and fifteen games ogan Jeelong might ask the question just they're always looking for different ways to bolster their forward line, and funnily enough, Adelaide is an interesting fit. Oh yeah, what alongside Phil Forth to swing around that.

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Speaker 3: I don't know whether it's a really good point because his form earlier in the year was really good, and we know how the Cup made him white like more than wait him white. He was really unhappy with the way that sort of panned out at the back of last year. So I think that's a really good point. And he can still kick a goal, he can still take a mark.

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Speaker 6: So it'll be fascinating to see that one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it will keep you updating on all the moving andans in that Keyford motorcade, on coach spots, on commod and we were talking player movement look and Neils said to meet with some kildaut on the weekend.

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Speaker 2: This is the season for meeting with the players.

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Speaker 1: And it got us thinking back through our record books and our favorite memories of meetings.

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Speaker 2: Mack, you've seen a lot of them over the years.

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Speaker 3: What first came to mind, Well, it's funny because there's different ways you do it. There's the public meeting, there's the private meeting. There's the ones we don't hear about INTI well after the fact, and just thinking about a couple of public ones. Chris Judd was almost like a royal tour when he was coming back to Melbourne, like he was obviously his star with West Coast. We knew Browlow medalist, Norm Smith medallist, we knew how good he was. He met with every club, every big club here, including Melwyn, the team that he supported as a kid, Carlton Collingwood. But it was it was really public and the like. And the other one that was public for very different reasons was when Dustin Martin first came out of contract at Richmond that I think it was twenty thirteen, around that sort of bracket when he did the famous now famous or do we call it infamous tour of gwus Hats put him in the hard hats and that and just by chance by fluke, Oh, they happened to be a camera there. I was set up beautifully, wasn't it so? And that deal got done shortly after. So the private ones are the interesting ones, I reckon they're the ones. And one that I would throw up on the board that we all missed at the time was Buddy Franklin meeting the Swans.

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Speaker 6: It was footy's best kept secret.

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Speaker 3: We all thought he was going to the Giants and it was the early New year. Was the cricket Test in Sydney. I think Australia were playing Sri Lanka I think at the time, and so Andrew Island's house was very close to the SCG and Buddy went up there in the January of that twenty thirteen year and we all missed it, so did the crowds that were sort of heading into the SCG as Buddy snuck into Andrew Island's house for that meeting. That set up what ended up being one of the biggest moves in footy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the interesting with Chris Jaden. We know John met at conwo that Clark and that made a big kerfuffle. Why do you think we don't have those public sort of shows like Chris Judd did. That was almost twenty years ago now looking he was sort of almost we don't see that.

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Speaker 2: Everybody knows his meeting kind of situation. Why haven't we progressed just sort of that stuff.

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Speaker 3: I think as an industry, well, you know, in a footy sense, we're probably frown on that a little bit. We saw that with Sam Mitchell when he met with Oscar Allen in a relatively public place and it sort of caused a few dramas there as well, and I think it probably put a little bit people sort of started thinking, well, maybe we.

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Speaker 6: Don't do that, maybe we do it privately. So I'd love it if we're a bit more open about it.

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Speaker 5: To be honest, I think the Oscar Allen treatment is in the back of everyone's mind conference.

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Speaker 6: Where it was a hostage video, wasn't it.

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Speaker 5: And you look at players like Tom Sparrow's a free agent. You had the buy coming out of the game against the Crows away in South Australia, so he spent a bit of time at home. Would have been a logical time for him to meet with the power of We don't know anything about that because they just don't want to.

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Speaker 3: Demons are still confident that he stays. But it's an interesting way than Sam Mitchell. He hasn't missed out on too many He's been public in a few instances, but he's worked to get Barras and Battle outstanding. If you talked to either of those two guys, the power of the pitch from Mitch was outstanding. And his wife Lyndall, who's as good a recruiting person as you could ever find.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and sometimes nobody even knows about a Bally.

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Speaker 1: Humphrey's manager didn't think he was taking any meetings in tree Pood last year until that photo popped up on social media of him walking the twa.

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Speaker 2: A walk around the Tanner meeting.

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Speaker 6: Of course it is.

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Speaker 2: I think it has to be. One of my favorites.

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Speaker 1: Was ned guy jumping the back fence at Tom Lynch's parents' house all those years ago when he was trying to get him to Collingwood.

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Speaker 2: That was a classic.

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Speaker 1: Last year we saw Clayton Oller going on a river cruise. They had subway on the boat there.

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Speaker 6: That was a good one that could Colin we compete with that.

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Speaker 2: We heard a story.

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Speaker 1: Only a month ago that Adam Tomlinson actually broke the news about Tom Harley meeting Joe Danaher in Sydney twenty nineteen. I think he sent the text into the group chat and said, why is Tom Harley meeting Joe Danaher? I just saw them walking past. Nobody knew about it until it suddenly leaked out magically after that.

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Speaker 2: How good is that? And the big one was Damien Hardwick.

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Speaker 3: The recruitment of Damien Harwick I think was the one Barnesy, wasn't it in Italy where Bob East and Mark's got on a plane and took off and over a few bottles of wine, a six year deal was arranged.

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Speaker 2: Quite remarkable.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, question, without noticing what would be your go to if you're a recruiting boss or a coach you're trying to meet with an opposition player. I think here in Melbourne the Southern Stars about to get going again, the Ferris Wheel. Ferris Wheel is at the perfect place goes to those show the Melbourne and you're also just out of sight, discreetly tucked away in a cabin.

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Speaker 1: Well you're guaranteed, as make I said, nobody on Earth will ever see because there's nobody around.

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Speaker 2: So that might be the most secluded place in that might work the best. Maybe the public meetings work back.

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Speaker 1: If you can sit in the crowd almost at the seg, then maybe maybe that's.

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Speaker 2: The best place to do it.

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Speaker 6: We missed that one, didn't we.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, you're going to go out and plan on your own sort of meetings. Now, Macro, I'll kick you out. We're getting Corey Mobilio in now to chat through all the numbers in footage. So Sat Macer had to plan his own rivercous cruise and we've got Cory Mobilio in from Champion Darta to run us through all the important stuff, all the bes.

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Speaker 2: Corey, welcome back, Thanks for having me back.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of debate going on at the moment about who will win the Rising Star. The Carlton boys are really closing down at Jago Smith is in great form and Harry Dean is just rapidly climbing up the betting markets. You've got some numbers for us and you're favoring Jaggosmith in this race.

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Speaker 7: Yeah I am and it's not discrediting what Dean has done in in recent weeks, and he's been able to lock down the opposition's best key forward and had really good success in that role. So run through some numbers with Jagger. You look at him across the last six rounds, he's a top fifty rated player in the competition. When he's involved in a chain, Carlton have scored thirty two percent of the time, which puts him in the top fifteen players. So his damage with ball in hand, I don't think it's getting enough recognition. Like he's rating really well. The kind of the end game with him is improving his ball use. He's one of the lowest rated kicks in the competition this year, so if you can turn that around, I think his ratings will skyrocket even more. I don't think he's getting enough credit for the impact he's having on matches.

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Speaker 6: You look at his last.

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Speaker 7: Five games, he's averaging seven score involvement a game, so he's winning it. He's impacting inside the contest and also on the outside.

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Speaker 1: I've looked it up only twice ever, as far as we know, in the Rising Star history of two players from the same team finish in the top three. Jared Rivers and Aaron Davy were first and second two thousand and four from Melbourne and portad like Nick Stevens and One tread Ray second and third ninety ninety eight, So it's extremely rare. I'd say they're probably going to finish in the top three. But which way would you vote a.

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Speaker 5: Well, you know four, they went with the defender, with the robust Jared Rivers, I'd be leaning towards Harry Dean now after the last six week patch we've had. But just reading off your sheet that Jagg is averaging seven score involvements per game. That's pretty compelling for a young midfielder being involved in that many chains.

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Speaker 4: So I think it's really lioneball moment.

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Speaker 5: But I think if Dean keeps going the way he has over the last month, I think he got to reward that he's playing a big role.

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Speaker 2: And William Durzmo the third on your pardium as well.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so.

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Speaker 5: I reckon Ty Gallup would be in the mix, only just been nominated. He's been really consistent defenders at the moment. I think keepersition players, you've really got to respect them if they're playing early on Cooper Trembath, Job Shanahan, a couple of others to watch. They've had hot and cold patches over the season, but pretty impressive roles.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I like it.

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Speaker 1: If you read money By on codesports dot com dot Au, we had a good inside word on Harrishiel's new contract. He ripped it up and is now going to be earning well over a million dollars a year. It sounds like he may be on unders the way he's playing at the moment. Corey, what's he doing that's going so well?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and not just off the back of Sunday like he's run and leg drive. He tapped that s and n midfield into submission. So you look at him since round nine and this is over a sustained period of time. He's a top twenty rated player in the competition. So I feel like the penny has dropped with him. You know, he's been critiqued in the past and half rightfully. So like with his ball us short lateral, you know, not really impacting matches. Like I said, his last six weeks he's gone to another level. He's still winning plenty of ball. He's averaging eleven contested possessions which I feel for him is that right mix of inside outside balance. He's hitting the scoreboarder and like I mentioned on Sunday, that was his second highest rated performance of his career.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting with him.

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Speaker 1: He spoke I think a couple of weeks ago about playing slightly defensive role, playing a forward a center row. I think they've got that balance perfectly right now. You want him hitting the ball inside your fifty and king in to your forwards instead of, as you said, going sideways or to the flanks or anything like that. Big game kicks off the weekend on Thursday. Brisbane head down to Gelong there and they played six or seven weeks ago and the Cats took them to town. But Brisbane have turned things around since then. What are you seeing in them?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Look, they're an interesting case study the lines. I think they pack a punch with ball in hand and their punishment with ball in hand. So they're one of the best sides putting an intercept onto the scoreboard we've seen for the best part of ten years. You know, their ability to score going inside fifty number one in the competition. So that's going to hold him in really good stead back to that game. Last Thursday night against Sydney, they scored eighty points from turnover, which was a season high return The Asterix is and will continue to watch this in the last eight rounds of the year. Is what's happening behind the ball? They still conceded sixty five points from turnover, which is a big number. It is their third most conceited in any game this year. So they've got eight weeks to sharpen up behind the ball and improve that defensive profile.

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Speaker 5: Missed Tigall torching it off the last line to watch more closely.

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Speaker 6: How are you tipping?

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Speaker 5: I'm going with DeLong. We spoke off their earlier a bit of a rule. You don't tend to tip against the Cats that kid in your park. So I think Brisbane are on a positive trajectory, but I reckon in six or seven weeks they might not have had quite enough time to turn around yet against the Cats.

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Speaker 1: Now, Brisbane did bolt the Cats down there last year, which is interesting.

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Speaker 2: Corey, you never did tips, But I'm holding you to one here. Which way are you going Thursday?

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Speaker 6: I'm in the Cat's corner this Thursday. I like it.

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Speaker 1: That's what we like to hear. Corey, that's enough from you. I'll let you go on your own boat cruise now. I will bring Macka back in Maca is back in the room and I am dreading this ED, but I'm going to let you read out some BS calls. I know we're still a bit anxious about you. Saint Carlin's finals chances are over and by the second since you said that, it's getting better and better and they're firming for a top ten chance.

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Speaker 2: So try not to write anybody off yourself.

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Speaker 1: But we've had plenty of readers and listeners writing into us at CODE Sports. You can call BS on any time on anything you see in sport. We've got a few that have written in ED whatever.

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Speaker 5: Just to clarify, I'm currently serving a three week internal suspension from giving my obs, but happy to read out our readers. We've got Tim from Sydney here and Tim, even though we film in Victoria, we are interested in where you're from. If you're from Penrith or Paramatta, you can tell us next time.

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Speaker 2: Tell us if you see Buddy Franklin meeting anybody.

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Speaker 5: Tim from Sydney says the push in the back should not be a penalty umpires are giving away free kicks like it's free candy.

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Speaker 4: Let the game flow.

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Speaker 2: Fascinating.

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Speaker 1: I have never heard anybody say we should allow pushes in the back.

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Speaker 2: It's always seeming the other way around.

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Speaker 4: Are going to be quite funny.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, not anything against a man. They're from Sydney.

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Speaker 1: But free kicks are actually down dramatically on what they were in the eighties.

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Speaker 2: If you ever look at a game on AFL tables from that anything did go. Free kicks were way higher.

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Speaker 1: Than double So they paid a lot more in those days than they do now. Just bite us thinking that they blow the whistle.

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Speaker 3: To a pretty brutal game back then, so it was a bit happening. Yeah, do you think we should get ready push it in the Backmacker, Not at all.

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Speaker 5: Sam from Dandy Knight the score review, bloke has more influence than some midfielders.

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Speaker 2: Fens which midfielders you're talking about.

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Speaker 5: It's an ai voice, isn't it. It's not just one guy doing every single game now.

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Speaker 2: It sounds a bit like our man called him Abilla. It's going to be they borrowed his voice. He must be a very busy man.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to call bass on the hate for the Art this week actually because instantly after that mistake happened in the showdown and everyone blamed the art for not fixing it when it had actually nothing good point. The goal on Pire stuffed up and the gol Onpliyer was the one that should have paid behind and the ARC is copying flak when they've been told not to intercede anyway.

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Speaker 2: So that guy who has the voice in.

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Speaker 1: There, Corey, Yeah, Ai Corey, I think he should be given a lead off this week because I don't think the Ark was to blame.

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Speaker 6: That's a fair point, I reckon. I agree with you, there, Buns.

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Speaker 5: We had naughty from Calgouley last week and he sounds like someone we made up. But he's been hot on on the entry, so we've got to keep honoring it. He says, five weeks of buyers in the AFL mid season way to suck the life out of the season.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, I'm with him.

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Speaker 1: You've seen a lot of Marco in terms of buyers and everything in the footy, like, have we ever had.

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Speaker 2: A good solution?

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Speaker 3: No, there's not a good solution because the only solution really is to have a week off in footy, and I don't think any of us are ready for a week off in footy. We've already got rid of the week off in footy leading into the finals, thank goodness with wild card.

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Speaker 6: And I was one of the great critics of the wild card.

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Speaker 3: I'm on board now I don't. I'm not embarrassed to say I've turned in that sense.

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Speaker 2: But buyers is always difficult.

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Speaker 6: But the stretched out.

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Speaker 3: Period I find it really tough, isn't it. I'd rather do it over two weeks.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, can we not do it over two weeks? In place?

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Speaker 1: I would do three or four games and make a big bonanza of those three games one week, and then they just sort of flip it the next week.

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Speaker 2: That seems to make a lot more sense to me.

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Speaker 5: I think eventually we're mature as a nation to the point that we can have just a week off football, just a blaker, everyone has the buyer and then we just get straight back.

00:20:53
Speaker 6: You're not getting the elected on that.

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Speaker 2: I don't think just one weekend.

00:20:57
Speaker 5: One weekend, just you know, lights and candles. Watch some reality too.

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Speaker 6: First week of October.

00:21:03
Speaker 1: We'll be fascinating to see how it goes, because obviously when Tazzy comes in, there'll be a buy every week.

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Speaker 2: One team will have to be off because we'll have uneven teams, So I don't know how they're going to plan that out. It's going to be unfair for whoever has the first buy. Will they get a second buy somewhere? That's going to be very tricky.

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