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It's been a tough few days in the AFL with fixture changes and favourites being smashed and others doing a bit of smashing of their own. We take a look back on the nine matches of round 11, before we dive into the Talking Point of the week, which discusses just what the Victorian Lockdown may do to the current AFL draw for the next one to three weeks. Then listen as I completely muck up my tips ag...

Welcome to another edition of my NRL podcast, where we check out the latest round of footy and try to decipher who is at the top of the tree and who is diving quickly down the ravine. Today's Talking Point is all about the upcoming State of Origin series, and just how much it may be impacted if the current interpretation of the laws continues in this series. I'll also offer my tips for next weeken...

Welcome back for another week of AFL highlights. Following a run down on the results from last weekend, today's Talking Point discusses the lack of consistency in the ruling of such laws as the ball being pushed out deliberately, whether players are off or not after taking a mark, and just plain old holding the ball. Then I offer you some wisdom in who not to tip for next weekend's matches.

In two weeks rugby league has gone from an exciting game filled with everything that makes it one of the best sports to watch, into a havoc-ridden, stop start, penalty sin bin send off game that is starting to wear thin on long time watchers of the NRL. On today's episode I speak to Steve Holz for some clarification as to how and why we have reached this position. Beyond that, as always we run dow...

Week 9 proved to be a shocker for some of the big teams from the 70's and 80's, but impressive from the resurgent clubs at the top of the ladder. After a look back on round 9 I once again turn my attention to that basket case known as the Collingwood Football Club, before showing off my non-existent tipping skills for round 10.

In my newly reshaped and retitled cricket sub-podcast titled "The Casual Mankadder", today we will discuss the same thing the rest of the cricket media has dredged up this week, with more discussion about the sandpaper incident of 2018. So let's get it all out there again, and discuss why this keeps being brought up all the time, when every other incident of ball tampering in the history of cricke...

Welcome to today’s episode of Thoughts from the Metal Cavern, and in particular this week’s instalment of In League with the NRL. Magic Round has been and gone, and there was plenty of action on the field that we’ll have a short discussion on. Then we’ll move along into week’s Talking Point, which today has a look at the onset of players being chased and signed for next season when we are barely a...

More AFL talk for you diehards who like AFL and like listening to some bozo talking about it. After having a quick look at last week's matches, today's Talking Point delves into the debate over playing strips, both the ones that some restrict one club from wearing, and a discussion on the need for 'clash' jerseys to come into play for all clubs. Finally my tips for next weekend are made available...

Round 9 of the NRL competition has been run and won, and I have a look back on the matches played and give a short analysis of what went right and wrong. And in today's Talking Point I look back on the end of the first half of the Eels vs Roosters match, and discuss the ins and outs of refereeing decisions and the worth of the Bunker and what can be done to avoid it happening again.

The world of rugby league lost its collective mind again for a few days when those words "Conference System" were mentioned in passing in the circles of the media. And while it has been summarily dismissed by most, is it something worth pursuing? My opinions have been noted here before, but I'm willing to outline them again just for the sake of another podcast episode.

Haven't seen the reboot of Mortal Kombat yet? Well, not only are you missing out on an entertaining film with lots of enjoyable death sequences, you haven't seen what should be the first role nominated for next year's Academy Awards - Josh Lawson's portrayal of Kano. So today's podcast is the start of my efforts to have this come to fruition, to publicise the excellence of this performance. F*%kin...

The ins and outs of the 7th round of the AFL gets the microscope placed over it... well, the broken pair of binoculars anyway - and we discuss who the winners and losers of the round were. Today's Talking Point sadly focuses on the continuing disaster that is Collingwood's 2021 season, and what may happen going forward as we look at the coaching and recruiting situation the Club faces.

We've reached round 8 of the NRL, and we look back on the round as it took place and see how the teams are travelling. Then on this week's Talking Point, I discuss the overkill of utilising the broadcast of what is occurring inside the dressing sheds, and the outcry of emotion over Brett Morris not being able to end his career 'the way he deserves to'.

Anzac Day is done and dusted, and there have been some surprising results over recent weeks that has thrown the whole competition into mass confusion - or perhaps that's just me. Today I have a look at where we stand after six rounds of the 2021 premiership. And in today's talking point, I discuss what has happened to Collingwood and GWS, less than two years after they played one of the best preli...

We've made it almost a third of the way through the season, and the big guns are starting to flex their muscles. We discuss how a few of the teams are travelling and what may be their strengths and weaknesses after round seven. And on today's Talking Point, I rave on about the amount of wasted time that carries on in the modern game, and how some of these aspects are slowly starting to destroy the...

This week, Trevor Hohns announced the 17 players who have been offered Australian contracts for the next 12 months. And it has raised some questions not only about how Australia's players look going into that 12 months period, but what the selectors see as to our prospects in that time period. None of it appears positive, as we ramble on about in this episode.

It's that time of year again when we wake up before dawn, bow our heads silently, knock back an early beer, and settle in for the Anzac Day traditions of footy. But every year we already know who is going to be playing each other. Has that become a tiresome tradition? Is there a need to change this up and see other matches take centre stage on the day? Or should we be happy with what we have and j...

Week 2 of of the AFL is done and dusted, so we look back on the results of the weekend and discuss the highs and lows of what occurred. On this week's Talking Point we get well ahead of ourselves, and discuss the possibility that we can already lock in the first two places and last two places on the ladder for the 2021 season.

Time to take a look at round three of the NRL, where we examine the latest round of matches and discuss how some teams seem to have enough luck to continue on their winning way, and others are just plain terrible and have a long way to go. This week's Talking Point focuses on the injury toll that continues to increase across the competition, and whether it is time to discuss making adjustments to...

Another start for a podcast within a podcast, this one looking back at the week in the AFL, talking about the games, some of the weekend's talking points, and looking forward to next weekend. I know there are hundreds of programs with more enlightened people than me involved, but why not give it a go and see what it's like?

We're back! And the seasons have changed! So it's time for a new podcast within a podcast, In League With the NRL (pretty catchy, eh?). We take a look at the first two rounds of the NRL and see how the teams have fared, and then check out this week's Talking Points, with goalkicking and points tallies in the focus. Come in and see if it is worth it!

I think it would be an obvious thing to say that the way Australia's summer is currently organised is just not working, and it doesn't give Australia its best chance of winning international cricket matches. So today I throw my hat into the ring and discuss the way I would change things up, and look to give cricketers their best chance at domestic and international level to showcase their talents...

In many ways it is hard to believe that it is 40 years since Trevor Chappell bowled the underarm to Brian McKechnie at the MCG, resulting in one of the most recalled and perhaps reviled incidents in the history of cricket, certainly between Australia and New Zealand. So I look back with my own memories of that day, and what an eleven year old cricket nut thought about as he watched it all unfold.

In continuing to find ways to not only shoot themselves in the foot but actively deflect blame from themselves for doing it, the Collingwood Football Club again finds itself in the news for all the wrong reasons. With my family's long history of support for the Magpies, it has never been more difficult to admit to anyone that I support Collingwood. After today's schemozzle of a leaked report that...

The T20 Australian squad has been selected for the tour to New Zealand, and with the Test players unavailable it gives a new bunch of heroes a chance to stake their claim on a World Cup spot. But just how much has current form gone into choosing this squad? And if you are in the team that has dominated the recent seasons of the Big Bash League, shouldn't those individuals be getting a fair run at...