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DID you miss last night's AFL television shows? Rewind and catch up on all the hot topics and big issues discussed.
AFL 360
* Gerard Whateley says he's never seen a bloke grow into his career in one night the way Port Adelaide recruit Jared Polec did against Carlton. "From what he showed (on Sunday night), he's a potential top-liner." Whateley says fellow ex-Lion Elliot Yeo could have a similar impact at the Eagles.
POLEC MAKES PORT PACE SCARY
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* Vision of Giants coach Leon Cameron's post-game speech to his young side is shown. The new coach told his troops to look after themselves and enjoy the night and embrace the club and the atmosphere.
* Whateley says " By the time you went to bed on Saturday night you knew how hard it was going to be for any team to win on the Gold Coast this year," following Richmond's surprise loss to the Suns.
EX-BOMBER'S HEALTH FEARS
* Mark Robinson says Collingwood was trounced by the Dockers on Friday night. "By a harder, bigger, professional football club. Collingwood are small, Collingwood are slow. They're a mid-table side, they don't have the weapons to be top-four." Read more from Robbo HERE
* GW: "It was a humbling experience for the Sydney Swans. It doesn't mean everything, but it has to mean something. What were they doing with Ryan O'Keefe? It's not the Sydney way," he says, reflecting on how the Norm Smith Medallist was dumped before winning a late reprieve and starting as the substitute.
ANALYSIS: THREE HEARTLAND CLUBS FAILING
* Robbo reiterates his line from The Tackle, that Richmond took a knife to a gun fight. "Put (Jack Riewoldt) in the square, because Tyrone Vickery isn't doing it. They went to Jack three times!"
* Robbo questions whether Vickery is enjoying AFL footy. "Does he really want to play?" he asks. Robbo says he's the second most interesting person at Richmond, behind Riewoldt.
Vickery is tackled in the Round 1 loss. Source: Getty Images
* Whateley says there are the same old questions around Carlton. Robbo says the Blues had momentum for periods of the game but couldn't convert against the Power.
POWERBROKER: BLUES RECRUITING EMBARRASSING
* Whateley says he's "totally cool" with Andrew Walker's one-week suspension. "It's a good ruling."
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* New Melbourne coach Paul Roos confirms Mitch Clark is likely to be placed on the long-term injury list on Tuesday.
* Roos says: "Footy's irrelevant at the moment, it's about getting him healthy, getting him in a good place and hopefully he's back at the footy club as soon as he can. But we haven't really got a time frame on that."
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* Roos says you've got to have a big tank and be a natural runner to play modern footy. "Teams are a lot fitter this year,' he says. "What you will find, there's going to be players that won't be able to play the game anymore because they haven't got the natural tank. And that's the reality."
* Essendon coach Mark Thompson agrees, saying: "A lot of the elite decision makers are slow blokes, and now you can't be slow."
* Bomber Thompson says Marty Gleeson, Zach Merrett and Jason Ashby are in the mix to debut on Friday night. Roos says Jay Kennedy-Harris and Alexis Georgiou are in the frame to play their first game for the Dees. (From a SuperCoach perspective, Bomber didn't mention popular ruck choice Fraser Thurlow.)
Jay Kennedy-Harris is in the Round 1 frame. Source: News Limited
ON THE COUCH
* Asked which expansion club he'd rather coach, Mike Sheahan says: "I wouldn't be unhappy with either but if I had to pick one, I'd take GWS."
* Jason Dunstall says the Giants have better key-position strength, which is harder to come by.
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* Sheahan says the Giants should be thinking about a 3-0 start with St Kilda and Melbourne to come.
* Gerard Healy says an element of success for GWS will be how many people in the stands there are with orange shirts on. Dunstall reveals the Giants only need a home crowd of 7000 to break even. "If they can start pulling 17,000 they'll be financially viable."
The Giants celebrate their win. Source: Getty Images
* Sheahan says Aaron Sandilands is almost the most important player in the competition. Dunstall says Fremantle is "scary good".
* Healy says Ballantyne produced good footy in his first chance under the microscope. He says Ballantyne's poor Grand Final wasn't through a lack of effort, he just missed some shots at goal.
* Healy says a senior assistant coach told him the low rotation numbers from Round 1 were on the back of clubs banking a few early and getting their arithmetic a bit wrong. A cap of 120 was introduced this season.
SURPRISE AMOUNT OF ROUND 1 ROTATIONS
* Western Bulldogs superstar Rob Murphy says he feels as fit as he ever has and will play game No. 250 against West Coast on Sunday.
* Murphy says he's enjoyed his footy since the Dogs' upwards spiral began halfway through last year. "As a playing group we embraced Brendan (McCartney's) vision right from the start, so I was always confident (the wins would come)."
* Griffen says he's keen to see how young stars Luke Dahlhaus and Tom Liberatore develop. He says No. 6 pick's Jack Macrae always had the ability to win the ball and evasive skills, but he's added tackling to his game. "He's an impressive young man."
* Sheahan says Ryan O'Keefe has to play himself out of the Swans side, despite Sydney dropping the star due to concerns over his pace. He won a late reprieve and started as the sub, but Sheahan was "amazed" at that decision.
OPEN MIKE
* Disgraced former AFL player agent Ricky Nixon tells Mike he was addicted to cocaine. He also revealed he was still haunted by the death of star commentator Clinton Grybas.
Read the full report HERE
Ricky Nixon on Open Mike. Source: Supplied
TALKING FOOTY
* Wayne Carey reiterated his belief Jeremy Cameron was more valuable than Gary Ablett and said the GWS goalkicker would become the "best forward of all time".
* "We'll have a look at his stats later, and I reckon you'll see he's a long way ahead of everybody," Carey said. Cameron has kicked 95 goals in his first 38 games, a long way ahead of greats such as Dermott Brereton (64 goals), Carey (64) and Jonathan Brown (43).
* Tim Watson wondered why Carlton chased Dale Thomas, asking if the Blues needed a Thomas-type midfielder. "Did they need a key forward or key defender more?" he said.
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* Carey and Watson questioned Tiger coach Damien Hardwick's use of Jack Riewoldt after the loss to the Gold Coast Suns. "He wears his heart on his sleeve, Jack. We saw some of the strangest kicks from him when he should have been going back and taking shots for goal," Watson said.
* Carey said: "Jack Riewoldt hasn't handled criticism well in the media, so for Hardwick to come out and say that is a big statement."
* Carey called for the return of the Carlton-Richmond blockbuster to commence the season. "The start of the season has fallen flat," he said. "We expected a bigger crowd on Friday night. I was a big fan of the Richmond-Carlton opener. I thought that kicked the season off with a big bang."
FOOTY CLASSIFIED
* Matthew Lloyd says the Blues are in no man's land. He says their list is in the same bracket as Hawthorn, Sydney and Geelong but they are years off success.
* Lloyd says Matthew Watson needs to stand up and take on the big forwards. He says they poached Dale Thomas to aid captain Marc Murphy, adding the ex-Pie will be a good player for Carlton.
POWERBROKER: BLUES RECRUITING EMBARRASSING
* Lloyd says he "100 per cent" believes Buddy Franklin's best footy is behind him. "Especially as a key forward, you're past your best at 28. I don't think he's played his best footy since 2008."
* Garry Lyon says if Power spearhead John Butcher can't correct his shonky kicking style he'll jeapordise his place in the side. Lloyd says as a teammate you lose confidence in a player when they continually butcher easy shots.
* Lyon says Fremantle goliath Aaron Sandilands can win the Brownlow Medal if he stays fit, following the ruckman's best-afield effort against the Magpies.
Brodie Grundy was beaten by Aaron Sandilands. Source: News Corp Australia
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