(Almost) Blues Brothers

It's the Bye Round for the Blues, but there's no rest here at (A)BB. A nice, light-hearted episode before we get into the home stretch of the H&A season. Come for the mid-season review, stay for the 3rd Annual 360 Feedback at the end. The best 360 to date, absolutely brutal and some home truths hit right between the eyes for all three of us. Not to be missed. Contact us! Email:  almost...

If someone told us the Blues would beat the Suns by more points than total salami made we'd have laughed. 41 salami and 59 points later, and we're not laughing - we're breathing a sigh of relief. It's been too long since a happy, calm pod. Enjoy, 'Baggers. Contact us! Email:  almostbluesbrothers@gmail.com Instagram:  www.instagram.com/almostbluesbrothers Facebook:  www.facebook...

The Carlton Football Club is in complete free fall without a parachute at the moment, falling faster and faster into what feels like it's inevitable demise. We don't even try to make sense of it all this week. Time to start laying out the facts as they stand and face some cold, hard truths. We're a bottom four Football Club in 2023. If it hasn't sunk in yet, then maybe after this w...

Without sounding like we're on repeat at this point... we're pretty much on repeat. Another weekly dose of therapy coming right up. Can anyone solve the never-ending puzzle of the Carlton Football Club? Contact us! Email:  almostbluesbrothers@gmail.com Instagram:  www.instagram.com/almostbluesbrothers Facebook:  www.facebook.com/almostbluesbrothers Twitter:  www.twitter.com/almostbluesbros...

Another week, another disappointing performance by the football club in 2023. It's just Joe and Dan this week, with Jules on annual leave. We cover a lot in this one, from Ben Crocker to Craig Mathieson, and the Round 11 Review to what this all means going forward. The weekly dose of therapy helped us, we hope it can do the same for you... again. Contact us! Email:  almostbluesbrothers@gmail.c...

Join us in this special chat with 1987 Premiership hero and Norm Smith Medallist, David Rhys-Jones, as part of his 2023 15 For 15 Challenge raising awareness for Prader-Willi Syndrome. We cover some of the highlights and lowlights of The Hyphen's storied career, from his scintillating debut at South Melbourne to his 1987 Premiership heroics, as well as his infamy as the VFL/AFL most reported p...

As you can tell by the intro, there's not much left to say about where this Football Club is at... but we manage to find an hours worth of things to say somehow. Join us for therapy this week. This is really starting to take a toll. Contact us! Email: almostbluesbrothers@gmail.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/almostbluesbrothers Facebook: www.facebook.com/almostbluesbrothers Twitter: www.twitt...

It was a spirited Carlton comeback (finally!), but one that was ultimately too little, too late. Join us as we break-down the loss to the Dogs and preview this week's do-or-die clash against the Filth. A little podcast PSA to start: we heard your feedback, we're taking accountability, and we're resetting our standards... that's called "leading by example". Contact us! Ema...

Joe's golf game is as inconsistent as our Club's week-to-week performances at the moment. No need for pre-amble in the episode description this week. This is fiery. Contact us! Email: almostbluesbrothers@gmail.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/almostbluesbrothers Facebook: www.facebook.com/almostbluesbrothers Twitter: www.twitter.com/almostbluesbros Your ears are all that matter to us, and...

Let's get busy getting better... what's changed? Brutally honest this week, and this group needs a serious wake up call and fast. Join us as we try to make sense of it. (Congrats Jules and happy birthday!) Contact us! Email: almostbluesbrothers@gmail.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/almostbluesbrothers Facebook: www.facebook.com/almostbluesbrothers Twitter: www.twitter.com/almostbluesbros...

Saw that one coming a mile away, and we're here this week to be as blunt and brutally honest as we can - that's simply not good enough for a side with Top 4 aspirations. Joe and Jules are joined by special co-host Matt Foschini to break-down whatever that debacle was from Gather Round vs the Adelaide Crows, and preview our next challenge as the Saints await in Round 6. Things have to chang...

It was an extra Good Friday for Bluebaggers as our unbeaten start to the season in 2023 continues. Joe and Jules are on hand in this week's episode to take you through all the talking points out of our clash against North Melbourne, including Harry McKay's impending Tribunal Appeal, Carlton's fourth quarter fade outs, and what ultimately worked to get us over the line in Round 4. We al...

One of the ugliest wins you'll ever see, but we take the four points, we take the undefeated start to 2023, and we move on from that one against the Giants. We discuss the Round 3 win in our first interstate trip for the year and bring you all your favourite segments. It's a stellar start to 2023, and there's even more areas of improvement we've identified... and that's just th...

It was a special night at the MCG as we took down the Cats for the first time since 2016, and got our first win over a reigning Premier in 13 years. Join Joe, Jules and Dan as we discuss, analyse and dissect this club's biggest win in a decade. We got a full review of the Round 2 win, a preview of our upcoming clash with GWS, and the return of some of your favourite segments from years gone by...

The stress and chaos from Thursday has carried over to the pod, with Joe in all sorts because of Dan's technical issues again (shock...) Join us as we dissect where it went wrong in the rare season opening draw from Round 1, what needs improving and what impressed us from our first hitout from the season. PLUS, the return of Around the Grounds , Pov Predicts and, more importantly, Livvy's...

This is it - the 2023 AFL Season is finally upon us. It's been a long off-season and it's felt like an eternity since Jamie Elliott strolled into an open goal in Round 23, but the wait is over and the Blues are BACK, BABY! We have a huge show this week. Joe and Dan give their full season predictions for Top 8, Brownlow, Coleman Medalist and more in the first half, with Marcus and Quinn from the Pr...

The Blues are back, and even though it was just match sim, it's always good to get a W at our spiritual home against the filth. Join us as we discuss the learnings from last week's practice match and preview the final dress rehearsal against the Swans this coming Friday. Massive shout out to Willem Bouw @works_of_willem for the new intro and video package. Hit him up for all your socials video pro...

After a couple of false starts, poddy is finally BACK for 2023, baby! In the 2023 Season Premiere and our YouTube debut on the Blue Abroad YouTube channel, Joe, Jules and Dan bring you their thoughts from the off-season, expectations for the year ahead from the Carlton Football Club, and a preview of this week's practice match vs. the Filth. It's really good to be back. Contact - Email: almostblue...

It's been a big year in footy, a big year for the Blues, and a big year for this pod. There was no other way we could round out (A)BB for 2022 than by stepping inside the inner sanctum with Will Hayes. Come join us in the poddy season finale as we discuss Will's football journey that led him to the Blues in 2022, the changing culture that he witnessed and helped foster at the Club, his debut in Na...

We reckon this ep goes alright... Connor Rogers joins us for Episode 75! Two halves this week. It's Joe & Dan in the first half, discussing their recent golf hitout (Dan finally agreed to go the driving range) and answering all of your Blues Q's, including which DFAs the would best fit the Blues' list profile. Joe & Jules bring it home in the second half with Connor, as passionate a Blueba...

There is no more deserving a player of a Brownlow Medal than our skipper, Patrick Cripps. Join us for a very special episode in the aftermath of this year's Brownlow Medal count, a night many of us will never forget. We recap the Preliminary Final weekend and why it's okay to take joy in a rival's pain (07:55), Joe has a poem for Collingwood (19:17), paying tribute to Crippa's Brownlow win (20:36)...

Reckon Dan could spare Jules and Joe some homemade sauce or salami? Nope! Somehow Bazz has guaranteed himself some though! Joined by Paul Barbazza this week, join us as we get his take on the season that was (05:26), discuss the latest bargaining tool sanctioned for the upcoming Trade Period (48:05) answer all of your Blues Q's (53:50) and hypothesize on Brodie Kemp's positional value going forwar...

This one really hit hard - another Season Review without a Finals feature in September... almost hit as hard as the Kettle chips on Jules' waistline, wowee! An absolutely jam packed hour of power this week, with Livvy's First Word (08:35), a review of the VFL Elimination Final win at Filth Park (11:28), a 2022 Season Review of where it all went wrong from Round 13 onwards for the Blues (20:01), Bl...

By now as Carlton supporters you'd think we'd have seen that one coming... will it ever end? In the most difficult podcast to date, we lay it all out there. No stone left unturned in as emotional an episode as we have recorded. We review the absolute devastation from Sunday's season ending loss to the old enemy (06:40) and answer all of your Blues Q's (40:45) from the Instagram and Twittersphere....

After last week's hiatus, we're back. It's Joe, Jules and Dan (with his questionable new haircut) back on Australian soil together for the first time in over a year for some serious therapy after Saturday's heartbreaker vs. the Dees. Join us as we discuss the Patty Cripps Appeals saga (08:12), review every inch and second of the Round 22 thriller against Melbourne (16:08) (including an Al Pacino i...