DOCKERS NATION - PRELIM FINAL VS SWANS PREVIEW - KRIS KLIFUNIS & PAUL HEATH (18.09.2026)

Paul Heath (0:03)

Here's Isaiah Baby! You beauty!

Kris Klifunis (0:07)

Murphy Reed, he could and could he? Of course he can!

Oh, baby, it is prelim, final day. You can feel it, you can feel it, deep down in your plums.

Paul Heath (0:45)

Deep blueish hue.

Kris Klifunis (0:47)

Oh, boy.

Paul Heath (0:48)

Purple hue.

Kris Klifunis (0:48)

It is time, exactly right. Time to take on the Sydney Swans, prelim final night tonight.

Paul Heath (0:53)

Quack.

Kris Klifunis (0:54)

In Sydney, Heata is here. This is Dockers Nation. I'm Kris Klifunis and Paul Heath alongside me, ready to dissect what's going to happen tonight, get into the vibe.

Paul Heath (1:06)

Can you dissect something that hasn't happened yet?

Kris Klifunis (1:08)

No. Well, you can dissect the week that's been the lead up to the things that have happened and brought up to this one's game.

Paul Heath (1:16)

I'm happy because I've got my scalpel, I've got my little white coat on and I'm ready to dissect.

Kris Klifunis (1:19)

See that? You're looking very dashing in it. Yeah, absolutely.

Paul Heath (1:22)

Doctor.

Kris Klifunis (1:23)

Where do you want to start? Do you want to start talking about the fact, because this is a big rapid fire pod, we want to get it out for the people. We say that every week, but this time we actually are on the clock. Normally, I'd say that.

And then, an hour and a half later, we're wrapped up.

Paul Heath (1:39)

But this time, we're on the clock.

Kris Klifunis (1:40)

We've literally got 45 minutes tops to chat about it. So, where do you want to start? Do you want to start the last time we played the Swans? Do you want to start the win over the Cats last week? Do you want to start on how the week has been on SENWA?

Paul Heath (1:56)

All three at once.

Kris Klifunis (1:57)

Okay. We're goalless at half time.

Paul Heath (2:02)

We figured out everyone's forgotten how to kick. So, we got to 11 behinds in that one. I was watching that last night. But something that I did notice is that no one was ever panicked about it. They were upset that they couldn't kick a goal. They couldn't get one away.

Kris Klifunis (2:15)

Which game are we talking about? Sydney games.

Paul Heath (2:16)

Sydney games.

I know you were crying last week during the long game. Yeah. But they just kept chipping away at it and sort of had that feeling that it was going to turn for them. And sure enough, it did.

Kris Klifunis (2:27)

Yeah.

Paul Heath (2:28)

100 points in a half is certainly the game turning for you.

Kris Klifunis (2:30)

Yeah. Well, we called it anyway.

Paul Heath (2:32)

100 points, obviously. Say it every week. Yeah.

But I would hope maybe tonight isn't going to rely on 100 points second half.

Kris Klifunis (2:39)

I'd really like it if they didn't do that to us.

Paul Heath (2:42)

It'd be good.

Kris Klifunis (2:43)

If they could kick a couple of goals in the first quarter, at least. If they get out to a hot start like they did against Geelong, that is the dream.

Paul Heath (2:51)

That's the dream.

Kris Klifunis (2:52)

Shane Bolton coming out and just, bang, kicking a couple of goals last week. That really set the tone. And it's something we haven't really seen from Freeman at all this season, is a hot start in the first quarter. They did that last week and we really hope it's a sign of things to come. They didn't do it, of course, against the Swans last time. That was at Optus Stadium.

Highly unlikely on the smaller procedure that that will come to pass, but you never know what type of game the Swans are going to play. And will the NERS get to Freeman? We'll find out tonight, of course. But I'm pretty confident that we'll maybe be somewhere in between, because last week it wasn't too hot, but it was hotter than I've seen from Freeman for a long time.

Paul Heath (3:30)

Well, it was so helpful to Freeman as well that a couple of the Geelong midfielders decided not to play any defense in the middle. That was very helpful, especially to Bolts, to get those couple of goals away early. So hopefully we can have a bit of an old switch off from the Sydney Swans in the center square, and we can get away on a couple of easy ones.

Kris Klifunis (3:48)

How are you feeling about Sydney? Because they've been up against it for the last few weeks.