Chicks Talking Footy

It’s the Chicks Talking Footy AFL Grand Final Spectacular!

Bec, Bree and honorary chick Dave review all the news, nominate their tips for everything from Katy Perry bangers to the footy food spread, and pit Crows against Cats in a big grand finals quiz.

Brownlow highlights, morning tribunals, the AFL preliminaries, and AFLW Round Four and A Bit… they cover the lot.

Finally – here’s a bit of bonus night-game trivia for all you podcast listeners:

Electrically lit football goes back to at least 1879, at the MCG.

(Source: David Havyatt, ‘History of Electricity Reform in Australia’, in On the Grid, edited by Guillaume Roger, Monash University Publishing 2022).

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There has been so much going on in this week of footy!

The 2024 AFL finals are in full swing, with some thrilling matchups set for this weekend.

Fi and Sasha discuss the mid-week fixture for AFLW and what bearing this has on injuries. Injury is rife this season and we want to know why.

Everybody is talking about the exchange between Hinkley and Ginnivan, the fine and the fall out.

And we look at the winners of Round 3 in the AFLW…

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Crack open the air-beers and storm up your teacups – it’s time to unravel the mysteries of hokball!

Meanwhile, is Bailey Smith leaving the Bulldogs to start spruiking the chicks’ new cologne? Have GWS been dissing Sydney-Sydney’s baking skills? Was Isaac Heeney really robbed of flippin’ Mark of the Year?

Then hear from Patty Kinnersley – CEO of Our Watch and Vice President of the Carlton Football Club – about this weekend’s Carlton Respects game. Patty and Fi discuss online harassment and the ways Carlton strives to prevent gendered violence, by offering young people a different story.

And there have been packed out games in the AFLW! But what happened to the Doggies’ pizzazz? How have systemic issues already thwarted some of the league’s best players within only two rounds? Fi, Rachael and Sasha pick it all apart, and Chloe Molloy talks us through her extraordinary leadership in the face of some gut-wrenching news.

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The footy is so intense you can almost smell it!

Bec and Fi consider all the big questions. How do you kick goals in this wind? When should the AFLW season be? What will happen in the men’s finals? How do we get on top of concussion? Who’s resigned?! Why is that woman doing semaphore?

And don’t miss Fi’s chat with her alter ego! That’s Katherine Smith, vice captain of GWS.

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This week’s episode is packed with goodies for Hawks fans, but there’s something for everyone at the beautiful intersection of the women’s and men’s seasons.

Fi, Breeza and Rachael talk water bottle throwing, suspensions, trade requests, the horrifying aftermath of that Christian Petracca injury and more.

Plus, hear from the new AFLW boss Emma Moore and dive back to 1996 for Fi’s Footy Record find, ‘Women Speak Out – Why I love football’!

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Bec and Fi take us through a truly mint round of the AFL, look back on the season so far and catch up on all the goss from this week’s AFLW Captains Launch!

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Bec, Fi and Sash dissected draft week from a serious and not so serious perspective, talked AFLW finals (Fi is dreading the thought of an Adelaide v Brisbane grand final) and we caught up with Natalie Hutchins, Minister for Women and passionate Kangaroos supporter!

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On this week’s show Breeza, Motty and Fi discuss all the latest footy news.

We look back at some of our ‘ bold predictions on the eve of the AFLW season to see how many we got right.

We review the first week of AFLW finals and focus in on North Melbourne’s big win over the Demons hearing from North Melbourne Captain Emma Kearney.

Some big AFL news dropped this week with a bold scheduling move announced by the AFL.  The Chicks rant about the season starting a week earlier with ‘Opening Round’ games scheduled across NSW and QLD.

Give us a listen.

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Thirty-five of our lucky JOY community caught the Kinetic Pride bus to the Pride Game at Victoria Park!

We crossed to roaming Tri who gave us the latest gossip on the bus and just like roaming Brian she loved to get people to chat on the mic. One person came to their first ever AFLW game.

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