In The Ball Park

The Sir Doug Nicholls Round is a true spectacle every year on the AFL Calendar where the footy public celebrates the great indigenous players who have ever put on a footy jumper and captivated us with their extraordinary skills and leadership in the community. This year the epic Dreamtime clash between Essendon and Richmond will be fittingly played in the Northern Territory in a truly wonderful mo...

We saw the best game of the year against the Tigers and Power and an after the siren goal by Jack Newnes that will be replayed for years to come ... hopefully just once in the Fremantle Review. There were plenty of magical moments during the Festival of Footy, we discuss some of our favourites. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The famous Hayden Ballantyne punch got Maxy thinking about a round dedicated to the most obscure rivalries in the modern AFL game. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ever since the Western Bulldogs got their best team on the park for their INCREDIBLE 2016 Premiership the AFL have liked the bye before finals but does that mean the days of a Round 23 Ross Lyon style rest up are over for the competitions top teams. We ask in such a unpredictable season like 2020 whether the bye is actually needed. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Michael's tales of playing on Sheep in this week's edition of 'My Footy Memory' reminded Maxy of the woolen jumpers that his team use to wear that had the reversible stripe to play home and away but were they the best choice of jumper in the contest and in the rain? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A 3-hour bus ride isn't easy at the best of times but especially at the crack of dawn travelling to a freezing rural destination. This week on 'My Footy Memory' Michael recounts the time he played on a frozen oval that had various barn yard animals running at will whilst a game of footy was being played. Michael lined up against a large peruvian, comfortably rotund, ragged, rocky an...

The struggling Essendon will face three flag contenders in 11 days & Melbourne Round 18 and the high flying WEST COAST EAGLES will play 5 games in 18 days and will have to return to their hapless hub in Queensland, With the Eagles destined to play finals and Essendon at the crossroads, will these hard matches change the trajectory of these two sides?      See omnystudio.com/listener for privac...

The gap between the Doggies best and worst is stark and if they want to be considered a contender they needed to have beaten at least one of those top 6 sides they played but we say if you beat a top 4 side, you can solidify your credentials. After winning a very tight game against the Gold Coast Suns at Metricon, the Doggies had a tough draw playing the Tigers, Power and Lions in consecutive week...

The Saints are flying and they have beaten some finals bound teams and with remaining games against Melbourne, Hawthorn, GWS, West Coast and this weekend Brisbane we pose the question can St. Kilda fans dare to dream of a top four finish in 2020? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's edition of 'Give It The Sack' the boys agree enough is enough, no more staging, the show's favourite smartass Tom Papley was handed a $500 fine for his staging free against Sydney and Giants hard man Callan Ward didn’t receive a fine but did receive an Oscar Nomination for his acting effort. Brownlows, Golden Fists and Colemans YES Academy Awards in AFL NO! See o...

It's been one of the good news stories of the 2020 Season, players returning to footy who have missed several seasons due to debilitating injuries that threatened to end their careers. On the weekend cult hero and all round 'mulleted' journeyman Lynden Dunn ran around on an AFL footy field for the first time in 773 days. What a moment, what a goal, what a team celebration, 'not...

The Geelong Cats have their season together in an emphatic way. They banked a bit of an arm wrestle win to the Kangaroos and then destroy the final contending Saints, it's looking like they have their team balance right and their fringe players firing. Hawkins is the in-form forward of the competition and they took plenty of positives away from their top echelon clash loss to the Eagles. The...

Full 7 Day Breaks, 2 Games in Adelaide, a bye in future weeks and Prime Time Games have been given for Port Adelaide in a dream fixture for their run into finals but will their woes up forward with an inaccurate big man and a struggling backline that had no answers for the games in form forward be the difference come finals time. We discuss if Port Adelaide's fixture will challenge their weak...

When did the Footy get so frantic? It's on every night of the week and the competition has a NEW premiership favourite every second game! It's why we love footy and why you're going to love this week's edition of 'In The Ball Park'. Before we condense the fixture and our episodes enjoy one round of crazy entertaining games and bizarre results on and off the field. It...

Matty Nicks and the Adelaide Crows are struggling and Nicks' coaching has be simplified to such a point his put away the whiteboard, magnets, pens and paper and focused on two clear bottle sitting on the floor. Michael sings us his best parody of "10 green bottles hanging on the wall" that the boys want to submit to 'The Voice'. Under 10’s or the AFL? You be the judge. See...

The Sky High Clash is the thrilling Thursday Night Clash we're all looking forward to, the Saints and Suns will meet for the first time in 2020 and the anticipation around the two King brothers playing at either ends of ground will be a sight to behold. The King that wins ... may determine the result of the result of this clash or will the tray table be stowed in an upright position for the m...

The Bombers don't have a tall, hard bodied midfielder, the Demons don't have clean by foot elite possession midfielder. The Bombers have Zach Merrett the Demons have Clayton Oliver, would both Essendon and Melbourne be brave enough to make the trade and is it wise? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Richmond made a Considerable Statement to the rest of the competition on Wednesday night stating that they are the reigning premiers and if you want to be considered a premiership favourite, you gottta beat us at the Gabba, Metricom, Adelaide Oval and the Moon. The Doggies were viciously mauled by the hungry big cats who piled on the pain at Metricon Stadium with Dusty back to his best form with s...

There was an average losing margin over the weekend of 39 points - that's a 6 goal difference on the final siren with four matches spilling out to over a 50 point margin. Frightening in matches that only have 15 minute quarters. There are teams that have sore bodies of 4 or 5 day breaks, is the condensed fixture taking it's toll or are teams rolling over far too easily in the final quart...

Ouch, the Demon President has slammed the clubs performance against the ladder leaders and says they're as soft as butter, of course we thought that some butter can be rather hard but when your team loses by 50 points he's referring to the softer, cloudy kind. The Demons kicked their first goal of the game with a minute left in the first half and got back to their inside 50 woes with all...

Talk about Bombing out of the eight with no grace whatsoever, the boys love their Bombers but not the last fortnight, another dismal pressure-less performance predicted by Frisey, see them out of the eight and the percentage in struggletown. Sam Draper the tall forward who rejected a sizzling long term contract from the Saints flew higher than a bloated angel to take a mark that has shown the AFL...

Richmond made a Considerable Statement to the rest of the competition on Wednesday night stating that they are the reigning premiers and if you want to be considered a premiership favourite, you gottta beat us at the Gabba, Metricom, Adelaide Oval and the Moon. The Doggies were viciously mauled by the hungry big cats who piled on the pain at Metricon Stadium with Dusty back to his best form with s...

This week on 'Have A Crack' the gentlemen have found a mask from Japan known as the 'smart mask' that can translate speech to 8 different languages but we ask can the mask be used in the AFL to translate dodgy umpiring decisions, it may also be handy for all high-school students learning a foreign language or if someone's talking trash behind your back in a different langu...

A very costly tennis match mid-week for the Pies coaches has cost them a win against the out of the eight Dockers but here's the thing, they played like a team storming into the top 4, with their young guns and superstar chilling up forward the Dockers were rocking. Plus it always helps if you have some valuable intel from the Pies coaching box. After the Dockers had a scoreless first term th...

In the biggest event of 2013, the sweet sixteen for a local footy team landed on a Friday night on the eve of a MASSIVE early morning footy match with a hostile rival. The hungover footy team rocked up to a wild reception and when the team spotted a gorgeous, ravishing, exquisite, dazzling, pulchritudinous blonde doctor on the bench at the end of the first quarter, the players had one objective .....