{"id":135737,"date":"2025-09-11T17:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T17:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/135737\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T17:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T17:36:11","slug":"eddie-mcguire-jimmy-bartel-rory-sloane-pick-their-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/135737\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie McGuire, Jimmy Bartel, Rory Sloane pick their winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Geelong great Jimmy Bartel<\/a> is tipping both qualifying final losers to go out in straight sets this weekend. <\/p>\n

Both Adelaide and Brisbane have their concerns as they prepare to host Hawthorn and Gold Coast respectively, and Bartel is predicting both to fall short.<\/p>\n

The Crows were picked apart by Collingwood last weekend and now face a Hawks side that is arguably the in-form team of the competition outside of Geelong.<\/p>\n

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\"David<\/p>\n

David Swallow of the Suns in the rooms.\u00a0AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Brisbane meanwhile were smacked by the Cats, and lost captain Lachie Neale to a season-ending calf injury<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bartel understands the qualifying final teams usually bounce back, but sees both upsets occurring anyway. <\/p>\n

“I’m going to say something, and then I’m going to contradict myself. Every year, we overplay the elimination final winner and downplay the qualifying final loser,” Bartel told Nine’s Eddie and Jimmy.<\/p>\n

“In saying that, I’m going to pick the elimination final winner in both of these games. I’m saying Adelaide and Brisbane both go out in straight sets.”<\/p>\n

Bartel believes a combination of Brisbane’s injuries and Gold Coast’s momentum will cause the Q-Clash upset.<\/p>\n

“Gold Coast was too good for Brisbane last time they met and now you have now Lachie Neale, no Eric Hipwood. Neale is a massive out,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I just think there’s a bit of fatigue setting in with the Lions. They’ve been at the very pointy end for a long time now. Gold Coast has some serious belief.<\/p>\n

“Brisbane has proven how good of a side they are at filling gaps. It will be very difficult (to beat them).”<\/p>\n

The Suns comfortably beat the Lions in the final month of the season in rainy conditions on the Gold Coast.<\/p>\n

Bartel also believes the Magpies laid out a template for quelling the Crows. He said Hawthorn has the tools to replicate the game plan. <\/p>\n

“I think the way Collingwood played, Hawthorn can play that way. It was a really good template. The half forwards involved, they pulled Adelaide’s structures apart. They got a lot of pressure on the ball and intercepted the footy,” Bartel said.<\/p>\n

“Hawthorn has the defenders to do what Darcy Moore did. Lachie Schultz and Beau McCreery coming up from half forward onto the ball, this week that’ll be Jack Ginnivan and Dylan Moore and Connor Macdonald.<\/p>\n

“I think they have what Collingwood had to beat Adelaide. Hawthorn now has a template and they have the capability.”<\/p>\n

\"Tipping<\/p>\n

Tipping leaderboard after the first week of finals.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

Expert tips for finals week two<\/p>\n

Jimmy Bartel: Hawthorn, Gold Coast<\/p>\n

Eddie McGuire: Hawthorn, Gold Coast<\/p>\n

Rory Sloane: Adelaide, Gold Coast<\/p>\n

Nat Yoannidis: Adelaide, Brisbane<\/p>\n

Tom Morris: Adelaide, Gold Coast<\/p>\n

Clint Stanaway: Adelaide, Gold Coast<\/p>\n

Tony Jones: Hawthorn, Brisbane<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geelong great Jimmy Bartel is tipping both qualifying final losers to go out in straight sets this weekend.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-135737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}