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Did you know that Nick Larkey's nickname is Souvlaki? Sue Larky? Souvlaki. That's hilarious. And so far it's the best one we've come across this year.
Hello and welcome to AFL from LA. I'm your host, Cindye, and we're here in beautiful Beverly Hills on this 72 degree, not windy for a change. How about that, folks? I'm standing in front of the Beverly Hills Hotel and I'm also in Will Rogers Memorial Park, which became infamous 25 years ago when George Michael got caught trying to do the nasty in the public bathroom.
The first thing I need to get to is we had a comment this week from Simon in Canberra. Simon happens to be my best friend, Michael's, brother. Now Simon is a Collingwood fanatic. And Simon felt I didn't say enough nice things about Collingwood last week, so I asked Michael, you know how I should handle this, and he basically told me to tell him to get stuffed.
First game of the round, Brisbane versus Collingwood. It was the first game not at the MCG for Collingwood and one of seven that they'll play outside Victoria. Now the Eagles, they're gonna play 12 and the Dockers are gonna play 13 outside of Perth. Seems pretty fair, right? Despite the game being over four days ago, BT still thinks Collingwood has a chance to win this one. Collingwood started off great, but they have no plan B for when their handball receive game goes down the toilet. As promised for Simon in Canberra, I wanted to say a couple nice things about Collingwood. Nick Daicos, he's still a champion, and those black and white vertical stripes are quite slimming.
North Melbourne versus Carlton. North Melbourne, soon to be known as the Tottenham Hot Spurs of Australia. Happy Passover, boys. I was really cheering them on. I thought they had a chance in the first half. Unfortunately, things didn't work out that way for them. The umpires are clearly not making friends. The Cunnington holding the ball, the Ziebell push [00:02:00] in the back 50 meter penalty. The Stephenson running too far, and the Zurhaar too high. There was no consistency. Or it was just consistently bad. This week though, we were finally able to put to rest the Barry conspiracy. Ben and Harry Mackay were both spotted in the same location at the same time. Or were they?
Crows versus Fremantle. Is anyone still saying Flagmantle? Sadmantle, or Slowmantle. Memo to Freo, if you wanna win, you have to move the ball quickly. 17 other teams in the comp have worked this out, boys. You might find it easier to make a connection in the forward 50 if you don't let the entire Adelaide team get there first. And by the way, Gerard, it's not Swiskowski, it's Switkowski. And why are the commentators still talking about what Taberner needs to do to take the next step? He's 30. The only next step this guy's gonna be taking is sideways out the door.
What the hell is the pressure gauge and how do they determine it? It might be me being a naive American, I don't know, but I need, somebody needs to explain this lunacy to me.
Richmond Tigers against the Western Bulldogs, or as Mark Summers prefers to call them the Dish Lickers, who loved lapping up the wet conditions. This is so funny. The Dish Lickers. Ugh. So apparently Richmond's game plan is to kick 10 goals in 10 minutes and then hope to God no one else can kick 11. And Prestia, Hopper, and Taranto combining for as many clearances as Bontempelli, it's not gonna hold up. Richmond can blame the umps all they want, but kicking to Western Bulldog players and overusing hand passes is what lost them the game.
And if Tim English is not a lock for All Australian ruck, I don't know who is. 20 plus touches, 11 contested. Eight tackles two goals, and 23 hit outs. Amazeballs.
St. Kilda versus Gold Coast. Ross-Ball seems to be continuing, with the Saints maintaining their undefeated run even without Eric Bana there today. Hi, Eric. Stewy Dew's 2-year contract extension from last year. It's looking a little shaky.
