Not Like This

T-Bone's coaching odyssey tackles a man who was his own man, a maverick who encouraged his side to play 'kamikaze' football that ended up being the sexiest of sexy football, and brought life - and glory!' - back to Sleepy Hollow; a man with sad, rubbery, clown-like features who is an award-winning painting in waiting: Mark 'Bomber' Thompson.

Amped from the Pies' victory over the ladder-leading Demons in Nathan Buckley's last game in charge, Richie Buckets takes over the entire podcast, proclaiming the resurgence of Bam Bam, unleashing on 'Teflon' Kenny, his beloved Petracca and the 'rock bottom' Saints, and resolving the key question from round 13: was the Kangaroos' draw with GWS a choke or a bed shit?

After Nathan Buckley's resignation as coach of Collingwood, T-Bone and Richie Buckets share their reaction, remembering the decade and a bit since Eddie McGuire's 2009 succession plan, as it sinks in that their childhood hero will never raise the premiership cup. A raw, punchy, uncharacteristically serious episode of 'Not Like This' - not dissimilar to the day James Gandolfini died - but one well worth listening to.

After some early-episode Zoom hiccups, Rich, Muzz and T-Bone try to salvage their round 12 recap, but the 'pressure gauge' gets too high and they spill coffee everywhere, stumbling over each other's punchlines, turning on each other's segments and revealing their proclivity for alt-right fruit loops, thus destroying the show's joke efficiency, and any credibility they may have had left. Divorce imminent!

T-Bone's coaching odyssey takes a violent turn as he leads Rich and Muzz through the career of the moustachioed man who finally shed the Collywobbles, a 'pants' man who sat at the helm of one of the most brilliant - and terrifying - sides ever to grace a football field, the most legendary legend in the game: 'Lethal' Leigh Matthews.

With Melbourne in Lockdown 4.0, Muzz and Richie become 'bubble buddies' to heap praise on the Bombers and sling excrement at two of the worst games of all time. In the spirit of lockdown, Richie closes the few remaining businesses that 'Dictator Dan' hasn't closed yet. And look out for a special guest appearance from T-Bone...or is it Mark Maclure?

T-Bone's coaching odyssey finally threatens to gain momentum as Rich, Muzz and the Bone sink their teeth into three of the great minds of the modern game - John Longmire, Damien Hardwick and Chris Scott - before it gets bogged down all over again by T-Bone launching into an impromptu audit of every Geelong finals exit from 2012-2020, continuing the panel's fixation with the supreme Hell's Angel of the AFL era. 

After another round of heartache for their teams, Rich, Muzz and the Bone debate whether Rhys Mathieson has the right to anoint himself the 'barometer' of the Brisbane Lions, why angry short men always seem to make the best AFL coaches and who is more dead inside: a fan whose team loses by 1 point or a fan whose team loses by 111 points?

T-Bone's coaching odyssey takes a turn for the spiritual, as he guides Rich and Muzz through a retrospective on the man Kevin Sheedy once dubbed 'The Sundance Kid'; the yin to Malcolm Blight's yang, an inductee into the AFL's Hair Hall of Fame, a coach who in four years turned the Sydney Swans from ugly ducklings into (ugly) premiers, with a sprinkling of mindfulness, spirit animals and activated almonds: Paul Roooooooooooos!

A third of the way through the season, Rich, Muzz and the Bone answer some of the game's - no, life's - biggest questions: 1) Do the Mighty Dees have enough snipers? 2) Is there anything wrong with fan forum fury? 3) Who sits at the high table in Valhalla? 4) What are the worst modern commentary cliches? 5) Should Geelong call on Frankenstein's monster? 6) Was Richie Buckets right to dish out some vigilante justice on a Melbourne tram? (correct answers are: 1) yes 2) yes 3) still not sure 4) 'brand'/'coalface'/'chiseller'/'three-headed-monster' 5) god no 6) answer pending CCTV footage).