What you missed on Monday night’s AFL TV shows

There was plenty of talk about Melbourne’s woes on Monday night’s footy shows. Plus more on another Toby Greene indiscretion and an on-air blow up between two colleagues.

It is Tuesday, so that means you missed out on all those footy shows last night.

Don’t fret, we have you covered.

From Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera’s comparisons to Michael Jordan, Melbourne’s latest woes, new footage of a Toby Greene indiscretion and a blow up between Caroline Wilson and Nick Riewoldt, this is everything that happened on Monday night.

SAINTS DEES WASHUP

No surprise, the blowtorch was on Melbourne after its diabolic loss to St Kilda.

Involved in a famously awful finish at Richmond once labelled by Paul Roos the worst “47 seconds” in football, Jack Riewoldt happily handed the baton to the Dees.

“This would have to go close to nearly the worst quarter in football,” he told Fox Footy’s On The Couch.

Every show broke down those final seconds and the mistakes made, or brilliance pulled off, within it.

Nathan Buckley said “It was a one in 10,000 and they (St Kilda) were able to execute it and Melbourne weren’t”.

On Footy Classified, Jimmy Bartel called for change.

“They (Melbourne) have got to make some ruthless decisions around their list and even people in their football department … you can still be delicate around your premiership players and stars,” he said.

“We tried the schtick of having the same crew rollout to centre bounce, well the same crew was in that last centre bounce against St Kilda.”

Kane Cornes told the Agenda Setters that Melbourne “needs a fresh start”, with Simon Goodwin part of the change required.

“This club needs a clean out and a reset with everything that has been going on,” he said.

Nick Riewoldt answered that he would “be more aggressive with the list than I would be with the coaching department”.

Dees legend Garry Lyon pinned the blame on the players.

“I’m looking at the playing group, these are senior footballers … they fundamentally panicked,” he said.

“There is no question in the world at three quarter-time they checked out. We have done enough, (46) points is more than enough. The sin is there. The complacency’s put them in a position at the end where they panic themselves into an embarrassment. But it starts at three quarter time, that’s where I am going back to.”

On the other side of the coin, Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera is absolutely flying, so much so that he could soon be football’s Michael Jordan.

On the Agenda Setters, Nick Riewoldt said Wanganeen-Milera was like the basketball great when he took over a break in the game after the final 6-6-6 infringement that cost Melbourne.

Riewoldt gushed that ‘Nas’ took over the little break like a basketball time-out then demanded the ball.

Lions great Jonathan Brown also compared Wanganeen-Milera to Jordan in the way he took charge the final term in Fox Footy’s On The Couch.

Air Nas.

AFL 360

No surprise Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera took out the prestigious GVP votes to start Monday’s 360 agenda.

After Garry Lyon blew out some frustrations about the Dees (see above), he aimed a narrow focus on Brody Mihocek.

The Pie was fined for pushing Nick Vlastuin into a marking contest against Richmond, an action Lyon thought should be worth a one-game suspension.

It came a week after Pies skipper Darcy Moore was not suspended for dropping his knees into Fremantle’s Josh Treacy.

“Football is calling on footballers to change their behaviour. Brody Mihocek just can’t do that, it is too dangerous to push players into a contest in that manner,” Lyon said.

Coaches around the round desk on Monday were Matthew Nicks and Craig McRae.

The master of the close finish, McRae revealed he didn’t know the specific ins and outs of the 6-6-6 rule.

Craig McRae. (Photo by Michael Willson/AFL Photos via Getty Images)

“It’s something that it’s good to not be involved in,” Nicks said.

McRae said Dan Houston being out injured recently had opened the door to shifting Nick Daicos back to spend a little more time off half-back, with the wunderkind a little sore in the middle of the season.

He used that slight change in role to destroy Richmond on Sunday.

“It just allowed him to play a little bit freer if you like and pinch hit through the midfield when needed,” McRae said.

The coach said “I still don’t know” whether to parachute Jordan De Goey and Bobby Hill into the senior team after a VFL hitout on Saturday night.

“It’s how they pull up, we will talk about it early tomorrow (Tuesday),” he said.

When asked about how they would treat Toby Greene labelling Tom Papley as “overweight” both coaches winced.

McRae said he would take Greene into his office for an honest chat during the week, while Nicks said the Giants skipper should have been mindful of the mental health of his opponents.

McRae’s best quip came when asked how Nicks’ Crows were tracking.

“I reckon they are playing too well too early,” he joked.

THE AGENDA SETTERS

A furore took over the Agenda Setters desk before the first ad break, with Caroline Wilson and Nick Riewoldt firing “sycophant” and “sexist” barbs back and forth.

The heated exchange began when Riewoldt labelled North Melbourne president Sonja Hood as “sycophantic” in her praise and celebration after signing Alastair Clarkson as coach.

Wilson took umbrage at that, questioning whether Riewoldt would have said similar if Hood were a male president.

“That is bordering on sexism, if a male president had lauded getting a premiership coach … you wouldn’t call is sycophantic. I bet you wouldn’t,” she said.

The St Kilda great didn’t like that and quickly pointed fingers and a pen towards Wilson.

“What are you talking about … I resent the face you think that’s a sexist comment, that is a ridiculous thing to say,” he said.

“How is someone being sycophantic got anything to do with their gender?

“That’s ridiculous and you should apologise.”

The ad break came not long after and that’s where the real sparks would have flown.

Riewoldt and Wilson seemingly patched up whatever issue there was, because there were few pointers sent back-and-forth after that first segment.

Nick Riewoldt. (Photo by Morgan Hancock/AFL Photos/via Getty Images)

Last week, host Craig Hutchison led what felt like a less serious exchange with Wilson when she jokingly asked ‘Hutchy’ not to fire her on air after he let presenters go from radio station RSN when his company, SEN, purchased the racing network.

Earlier in that first segment, Hutchison raised an issue Port Adelaide is facing in how it would trade for Saints superstar Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera, given it doesn’t have a first-round pick this year or proper trade capital.

Hutchison said that not only would Zak Butters be their only option, he wouldn’t be enough to get ‘Nas’ through the door at Alberton.

That was quickly shut down by Kane Cornes.

Speaking of trades, Riewoldt is happy to ship Harry McKay out of Carlton, to anywhere really.

McKay has fought through injuries this year and Riewoldt thought it might be “good for Harry” to go after a fresh start.

“Has he got the capacity to really dig in and grind through (at Carlton)? … Would they be better off and would Harry be better off if they had a fresh start?,” Riewoldt said.

Luckily for you, we didn’t miss a ‘Hutchy’ brainwave late in the program.

He has decided the QClash is “ho-hum” and the Sydney Derby doesn’t cut it.

So he has decided the Brisbane-Gold Coast clash should be the ‘Scorcher’ and the Sydney battle the ‘Grudge’, because you can “harbour a grudge”.

I guess those names aren’t ho-hum.

ON THE COUCH

No relaxing on the couches on Monday night, as Jordan Lewis raised an awkward question for the boys.

Is Dan Houston on the edge of being dropped at Collingwood?

“How hard is it as a coach knowing what you have given up (in a trade) to leave him out of a finals campaign?,” Lewis suggested before listing six Pies who need to return from injury.

“There are going to be some tough decisions, I genuinely think he is playing for his spot in a finals team.”

Football’s living room was divided, not just between the two couches in the Fox Footy studio, but by Harley Reid.

After Herald Sun ace Jon Ralph reported the West Coast star was looking at an 11-year, $24m contract, Collingwood great Nathan Buckley was shaking his head.

Buckley suggested the Eagles would be better trading Reid for two or three good draft picks than forking out the cost of a large apartment block on him.

“If you’re being held to ransom by this player for that amount of money … maybe you are better with 2-3 players,” he said.

“In terms of culture and character, is Harley Reid the character you want to build this club around? Because if he is, absolutely go for it.”

Jonathan Brown is more Team Harley, and compared the ex-No.1 pick to another knockabout No.1 pick in Luke Hodge.

“I wouldn’t be letting a player of this quality leave because he would come back to hurt you,” Brown said.

Lewis added: “I’d be staggered if they lost him”.

Brown has a new sort of premiership favourite, declaring GWS’s “best is the best”.

He reckons he said that last year about the Lions, too.

FOOTY CLASSIFIED

The sturdy desk at Footy Class was fired up with unseen vision ready to roll.

The producers at Channel 9 found behind-the-goals footage of Toby Greene kicking a leg back at Dane Rampe early in the Sydney Derby, with his leg appearing to collect Rampe between his own legs.

Greene was handed a one-game ban for a nasty elbow on Swan Isaac Heeney later in the game, with the AFL sure to look over the fresh vision on Tuesday.

The Giants skipper also labelled Tom Papley as “overweight” at quarter-time.

Sydney didn’t raise the issue itself.

Former GWS board member Jimmy Bartel said “kicking is a no-go” in football and pointed to Greene’s poor discipline in important matches, with seven incidents cited from finals or so called ‘big’ games.

“This is the issue with Toby Greene, especially in big games he sees the red mist worse than most,” Bartel said.

The Class crew next looked at Collingwood’s offer to Carlton defender Jack Silvagni, nearly matching the four-year offer the Blues had tabled.

As this masthead reported last week, the Blues were holding firm and had

Things descended into sportsman’s night territory quickly in the first segment, when Matthew Lloyd’s microphone died, so a floor staffer had to hand him a hand-held mic.

The technicians quickly fixed the issue in the first ad break.

In one of the best segments on the multitude of shows, Sam McClure managed a quick fire back to Lloyd over the Closing Cook displaying Lloyd’s powerful insertion into Essendon antics during a premiership reunion.

The cook closed off with a replay of that microphone mishap.

Time to cut our mic too.