If you thought for a second we’re not above a little cross-sport coattail-riding, you can bloody FORGET IT.

This week THE PRESSURE COOKER explores the concept of State of Origin and AFL.com.au’s insane hypothetical state team selections. We also give The Ox a tongue lashing for suggesting Dusty Martin will be paid $1.6million a year, and weep gently as the harsh embrace of the first Bye Week engulfs an otherwise enthralling season.

Tell your friends, folks!

Drama makes the world go around! Does anybody got a problem with that?

THE PRESSURE COOKER takes a deep dive into the hot button issues of the football week: Should the jumperpunch be banned? Who is in danger of moving clubs come Free Agency 2017? Has James Sherry recovered from someone hitting the Koopa Troopa Beach shortcut in that one episode of ‘A*Mazing’?

ALL THIS AND MORE. TUNE IN OR BE A SQUARE.

Have you ever seen two teams from the same (non-Victorian) state get out of jail so spectacularly in the same round as West Coast and Fremantle?

This week CT & THE CHEF talk the great Crows/Cats/Tigers slide, discuss some of history’s most outrageously awful trades, draw a line in the sand on sledging, and generally bemoan their spiralling tipping seasons.

It’s hot. It’s fresh. It’s THE PRESSURE COOKER, baby!

CHINA. As the AFL makes its first-ever trip to the People’s Republic of China, so too does THE PRESSURE COOKER’s heat rating get turned up Shanghai.

We tackle replacement players, getting suspended while in the magoos, and dish out an ultra-rare, triple-headed, three-pronged, maximum sebeago of a Spud of the Week. Get fired up!

One of the worst kicking displays in AFL history gets a thorough going over as a dejected CT tries in vain to recover from attending that Dons vs Dees game. Meanwhile, Chef gloats about the Pies, we introduce Prospecting Pete, and drag the general brattery that’s been plaguing the young fools of the league.

A hot serving of fresh footy talk, straight to your face. It’s the PRESSURE COOKER, baby!

With only two days off in between rounds, CT & THE CHEF gather their jumbled, footy-stuffed brains together in time to crack wise about the ANZAC round, as well as do a little long-overdue teeing off on a couple of choice dickheads inexplicably being paid by the footy media.

TIME FOR FOOTY.

If you thought you were mad about the deliberate out-of-bounds rulings, wait until you hear what CT & THE CHEF have to say on the matter.

Another red hot week featuring a brand new Chef’s Select, this time around with a hot exclusive tip from the myth simply known as ‘The Adonis.’ And we ponder the great question: Are Richmond the real deal?

It’s a good time to tune into the Pressure Cooker. Because footy is the best.

CT & The Chef discuss the unfortunate instances of shocking racism that plagued an otherwise stellar round three. Chef introduces the greatest new segment in podcast history: CHEF’S SELECT™. And the gang addresses the most pressing question posed this season: Is Hawthorn cooked?

Please to enjoy the latest helping of THE PRESSURE COOKER. It’s a particularly good one. Trust us.

CT & The Chef return this week to discuss one of the all-time worst Thursday Night Football clashes you’re ever likely to see, the concept of both loving and loathing the umpires and why you should do both simultaneously, and putting CT’s name forward to be the Bombers’ new banner writer.

Footy chat. Poopy slagging. Good, honest banter. Get into it!

This is not a fluke, we are back for round two and beyond. Chef and CT pick apart what exactly went wrong for Carlton in round one, while musing on whether or not the AFL should move the time of the Grand Final and coming up with no definitive answers. When you’re leading 3 tipping comps all at once, this is the kind of thing you can just get away with.

This is The PRESSURE COOKER. And all our meat is tender AF.