NRL.com's Brad Walter joins Pete Fairbairn on the Best On Ground Weekday Kickoff, where we deliver five of the biggest stories happening in Australian sport in a short and sharp fashion, before 8am every weekday morning.

Today: Broadcasters respond to 33 AFL fixtures in 20 days, Brad talks through the next steps as Trent Barrett officially announced as Bulldogs Coach from 2021 onwards, separating fact from fiction in the Joseph Suaalii saga, awful abuse detailed by Australian gymnasts, and the redemption of Ben Stokes.