Pointless

Send us Fan Mail    Despite all advice to the contrary, we are back!  Gemma, Martin and Dom even have new equipment so there is some hope that you will be able to hear us!  We talk opening round and whether you'd kick with the cyclone if you won the toss... We also have some "structure", including a new history segment (this week the notorious season of 1910), a bespoke theme song a...

Send us Fan Mail Hello there.  By popular demand we tried one more episode but nobody showed up and so Alex and Dom decided to show how little they know about pretty much anything, but especially the draft, new team logos and next year's draw.  But after stumbling around the world of Patrick Cripps's left nipple they do still hold onto that last semblance of hope for the Blues in 2025...

Send us Fan Mail Well we're all depressed, but none more so than our Gemma after her beloved Giants had their hearts broken yet again.  In a fit of rage straight after the game, Gemma made a list of seven things she HATES about AFL, adding one more in for good measure during the podcast.  Dom gets closure on the completion of Carlton's disgrace, and Martin gets excited about the Brownlow...

Send us Fan Mail Late change:  Gemma OUT; Alex IN. We discuss the important question of whether it is better to be in the Eight disgracefully or out of the Eight respectedly, review what we learnt from the ladders and how we did on our Finals predictions from our first episode.  Go Blues and Giants

Send us Fan Mail We're excited to be on a different recording platform (Squadcast) today and beside ourselves with receiving listener feedback AND with the permutations and perambulations through the final three rounds of the season.  I received zero comments on the preamble I wrote last week so I now have had it confirmed that NO-ONE reads this.  I like writing it though, so, you know, I&apo...

Send us Fan Mail The team keeps one eye on the Seine tonight watching for anything unsavoury to pop up in the triathlon while we talk up the Giants and try to ignore the Blues and Pies.  Does anybody read this?  I don't think so.  I've never had a comment on it.  Not even from Martin or Gemma. Or Anth, Sime, Jess, Kate or Alex.  Neither from Ness, Rach, Sam or Charlie.  Oh well.  Not the...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode, we have a guest!  One of Martin's sons, Tim joins us again to report back on the worm population of the MCG and questions whether in fact a worm has ever been burned.  Dom tries to avoid talking about last week's match and we explore the fascinating world of Collingwood's "aura" and manage to use the word "synesthete"...

Send us Fan Mail This week we again have our microphones, so you can actually understand, well hear us.  Gemma is very sad, Martin is less sad but very unhappy with the umpires, but Dom loves football and can't see anything wrong with any of it (da da da da daaa).  We talk Wimbledon, US politics, sloths, New Zealand and AI.  Oh and there's a bit on footy - like whether a dishonourable wi...

Send us Fan Mail Wimbledon Special:  nothing to do with tennis but in June Dom caught up with a couple of English mates (who he used to play tennis with in Wimbledon - there you go) to talk jargon from the "other" football.  Thanks to Paddy and Mark for coming out on a Monday night!

Send us Fan Mail After a three (four?) week break we are back and getting over-excited about the range of thuds and contextual featherings from round 14 (or was it 15?)  Gemma is trying to make sense of the low smileometer readings coming from the West and Martin tells endless pathetic anecdotes about Collingwood.  Thank goodness Dom is there to talk sense about not one but THREE alternative ladde...

Send us Fan Mail Great news - no late changes and in fact we are all in person for only the second time!  The sound is still sh-t despite all our best efforts but you would expect nothing less.  We go deep into featherings and trolling flaps, with another live cross to the fishing boat and examine the Collingwood-Freo draw, deciding whether Collingwood plucked defeat from the jaws of victory or Fr...

Send us Fan Mail Ever wondered whether umpires like feedback?  Get the 5-minute answer from three blokes in a boat

Send us Fan Mail Another late change.  Out: Martin.  In: Gemma. Which was great news as neither of us felt like talking footy at all after last week, and especially not with a gloating Collingwood fan.  So we talked fishing.  Sadly the discussion did weave its way back to footy, with some great insights into the Tennis Ladder, lots of thuds, the concept of GWS having an Underhang and importantly -...

Send us Fan Mail Late change this week with Gemma unwell forcing us to use the Medical Sub early and we were pretty pleased with ourselves we have to admit...  Martin and I are joined by  David Rowell, father of the Gold Coast Suns superstar Matt, live from Darwin.  We get the inside word on what's happening in Darwin including playing in basically 100% humidity and rumours of new guernseys f...

Send us Fan Mail To celebrate double-digit podcasting, this week the three of us are reunited and hitting the big topics in the AFL - not just whether Luke Beveridge will last past the weekend (everyone is covering that), but the important things like are there actually any worms living in the MCG turf?  Who has a Yip Predisposition?  Are Thuds contextual?  And if you don't come to earth with...

Send us Fan Mail Without Gemma this week, who was subbed out for birthday celebrations (happy birthday Gemma!) Martin and Dom discuss who doesn't really have a proper rival and should therefore have to sit it out on Rivalry Round, whether Carlton thudded, having a sook and having a ping, all while eating and analysing the ingredients of Chicken Crimpy biscuits.

Send us Fan Mail A different one this week!  Alex and Dom find themselves at Marvel Stadium for Pointless Cup II, Carlton vs GWS.  Insightful commentary on glow-in-the-dark jumpers, how many seconds in a year and lots of gratuitous da da da da daaaas as the Blues notch up a famous victory.  We even managed to accidentally record our favourite line from someone in the crowd shouting at the umpire -...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode, we explore the weird and wonderful world of worm burning (singeing?), where the chewy might actually be on your boot, how to find your car at VFL Park and other equally pointless stuff.  We also check in on the moral premiership, the Pointless Brownlow and Tennis Ladder and round off with the usual Smileometer and Thud Review.  Over to you!

Send us Fan Mail After the FOOTY FEAST of "Gather Round", the three of us are back together and actually talk quite a bit about football (apologies).  We identify who thudded and who is still languishing, touch on the Smileometer and update the moral premiership and two VERY EXCITING developments on the Tennis Ladder...  

Send us Fan Mail In a bonus this week, with Gemma away and Martin unable to join, Dom sits down with his son Alex to talk about inter-generational Carlton (and other) supporters, what team's mascots can and can't be eaten and other key topics, like... redemption

Send us Fan Mail Our fifth episode and we think we have finally got the SOUND right!  We talk about ridiculous byes in round 3 and 4, say hello to the rising Saints, talk about languishing, the smile-ometer and introduce the Thud Radar - is your team on it ...???

Send us Fan Mail For the first time ever in the same room, Gemma, Martin and Dom debrief the first two rounds of the AFL season, discuss premiership hangovers and start to form opinions on our idiosyncratic (is that how you spell that?) performance measures 

Send us Fan Mail Join Gemma and Dom to warm up for the first bounce of the 2024 AFL season.  Martin's away enjoying himself but we talk about gameday outfits, women's sport, poshy posh people and our tips for the first four matches (notice how we didn't say "Opening Round"...?)

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Martin joins Gemma and Dom and we talk pre-season dreams, alternative Brownlow counts and premiership ladders before we're joined by Jon talking St Kilda until the lights go out and we have to go home.

Send us Fan Mail IN this, our first ever podcast attempt, Gemma and Dom attempt to understand why the 2024 AFL season opener is not in fact round one, why we support the teams we do, and in general ramble on about nothing much.  Oh, we do a few predictions also.  Enjoy!