The Footy Dictionary

I see it, but I don't believe it! Don't adjust your set! It's the greatest miracle since Brendan Fevola's 2006 Grand Final sprint triumph!

Your mainstream footy media is off on holidays. But as you well know, when the experts are away, the DicHeads come out to play.

That's right: the Footy Dictionary is back with a Danny Frawley BANG and, goodness gracious, have we got a summer treat for you.

Big-gun guests will be joining Harper and Hamish weekly to talk through their "Things About Football" - three niche loves, three niche hates.

SEN host and late-night legend Mark Fine is first up to talk:

• The weirdness of a player in their new team's jumper
• Wind-ravaged games and five-goal breezes
• The poses on retro footy cards
• Pre-game FM DJ-style HACKS
• Disrespectful naming of teams
• Gustoless song renditions

That's not to mention, of course, the return of the Journeymen and Footy Card Facts. 

And you thought Christmas was as good as it gets!

Tune in to Santa's favourite show live on Sundays from 5pm - that's on SYN 90.7 FM.

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Back and energised after a three-week suspension for failing to acknowledge Josh Walker's journeyman credentials, Harper Pestinger, Hamish O'Brien and Connor Buttigieg convene to call out football's linguistic rule breakers and headline makers.

Can a home team take home a win?

What's the most over-discussed, frenzy-sparking rule in the AFL?

And should clubs post about opposition players being sent to the tribunal?

Tune in as the panel turns every misdemeaning stone with a fine-tooth comb in their pursuit of a football linguistic utopia.

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Fresh off their best performance of the season, Harper Pestinger and Hamish O'Brien are back to tackle the footy questions you didn't know needed answering.

Why has Connor made himself unavailable for selection?

What makes certain sirens great?

Which members of the animal kingdom should list managers be considering?

And what was going through David King's head when he made the year's biggest blunder?

Chuck on your shades Mason and Dwayne, 'cause the future is bright for the Dictionary boys.

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You thought the journeymen deep dives were over. We thought the journeymen deep dives were over. Anthony Hudson, though, had different plans and has thrown us the biggest, juiciest bone that we've yet chewed on.

This week, Harper Pestinger, Hamish O'Brien and Connor Buttigieg reconvene to hear more media misconducts sent to our Tribunal. 

Why is Mason Cox so bad at describing footy to foreigners? Can bad teams have danger games? And how can losing-team social admins pick up their post-game game?

The boys are well and truly hitting their straps.

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Harper, Connor and Hamish are back again to over-analyse this week's critical talking points and shake up Greg Champion's tyrannical footy song monopoly.

Why should Josh Schache grow out his hair?

How wriggly must the score worm be for a game to be considered see-sawing?

And how exactly does one pronounce Kolodjashnij? Perhaps Dwayne Russell can give us a better idea.

The Dictionary Boys are dancing now.

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All the way back in November, journalism students and future media big dogs Jack Langdon and Joe Horrigan ventured north of the Yarra to detail their Things About Football with Harper Pestinger and Hamish O'Brien.

2:30 - Sunday afternoons at Docklands

12:13 - Post-coin toss sirens when the captain runs back to the huddle

22:38 - The futility of goal umpires

27:37 - Channel 7 and Fox Footy's scoreboards

32:03 - Adam Cooney being the only no. 1 draft pick to have won a Brownlow

38:21 - Kardinia Park's thick goalposts

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The Footy Dictionary is back, in a big, Elliott-Himmelberg-kick-into the-Torrens kind of way.

For our debut SYN Radio episode, Harper Pestinger and Hamish O’Brien are joined by Connor Buttigieg to chew the fat on the heinous linguistic misdemeanours from the week in footy.

Can teams really ‘feel each other out’? Is it possible for defenders to ‘take it up’ to small forwards? And can commentators claim that kicks that don’t clear the boundary fence have landed in a grounds neighbouring river? (Looking at you, Dwayne Russell)

Plus, Lachie Plowman steps under the now-infamous journeyman microscope, foreign correspondent Darren "Donger" Dixon joins us from Denmark with a very special guest, and Harper has a big bone to pick with his beloved Bombers cuddling up with the enemy.

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Sarah Black from AFL Media joins Harper Pestinger and Hamish O'Brien at Footy Dictionary HQ to dissect and discuss footy's niches on The Things About Football.
A quick debate on correct usage of the "saga" tag, and then we get into the serious stuff:
6:00 - The roar immediately following the national anthem
10:47 - A perfectly timed crumb and goal
15:36 - “He’s been doing it all day” in the first 30 seconds
22:39 - The walk from Richmond station to the 'G
28:17 - A goal on three-quarter time to cut the margin to 20 points
36:05 - Filing a match report for a game decided in the final 30 seconds
41:00 - The annual June state of the game chat
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The Age's Peter Ryan jumps on The Things About Football to talk through the niches of footy with Harper Pestinger and Hamish O'Brien.

Before that though, the tribunal:

0:18 - Can the 52-game "milestone" be celebrated on a banner?

2:02 - Shameful in-ad footy language misuse ft. Shaquille O'Neal

Then the main event: Peter's niche footballing loves and hates:

4:24 - The smell and feel of a new Sherrin

9:43 - Ear-wormy footy ads and openers

15:07 - Midday on a Saturday: prime footy talkback time

24:22 - Twitter firestorms

35:31 - Score review

41:58 - Clubs' use of "ruthless" to cover their inept arses

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Back from a post-finals bye, Harper Pestinger and Hamish O'Brien are joined by 7 News Perth's Ryan Daniels for The Things About Football.

The tribunal is first:

0:29 - What makes for a poorly abbreviated footy ground?

2:29 - Which animals have been shunned by football nicknamers? 

And then Ryan's niche footballing loves and hates:

7:12 - Footy songs' brass instrumentals

16:20 - Premiership medal-accepting players' names read out in number order

26:22 - Retrospectively analysing past drafts

35:35 - The obsession with becoming the first to break a story

44:58 - Over-the-top goal music

48:01 - Fans' lack of access to sufficiently deep analytics

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And while you tune in, hit us with some ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ then check out our Twitter @FootyVocab and Instagram @shackmanpods to let us know how you like the series ❤️

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