It was an excellent Grand Final. Scores were level at half time. Through a fair part of the third quarter, things were close and tense.

And then the Lions took the game away, took the season away, and will take the premiership cup back to Brisbane for a second consecutive year.

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Family and domestic violence support:

You call, you get on. That's the Midday Madness promise.

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The Footy pod tries to talk itself into a Brisbane Grand Final tip and there is SO much W on!!!

Marnie’s been working on a really important piece this week. It’s about the increase in calls to domestic violence support services that coincides with Grand Final weekend. We discuss it on pod this week, and you can read about it here: 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-24/increased-rates-of-gender-based-violence-during-football-finals/105809996

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The impact of Wacky Willy Wednesday has spread all the way to the Midday Madness towers in South Melbourne. Alerted to the success of Wacky Willy, The Pipe himself, Dwayne Russell, stops by for a look. Pipe - we are so very sorry.

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Three. Little. Words. Grand Final Week.

We live in awe of Will Ashcroft; we live in fear of Patrick Dangerfield. Dwayne ‘Pipe’ Russell joins us for a very special edition of Around The Grounds. Tom has an idea so good it may result in him being lost at sea (either in Lorne or in Rye, gawd bless the kid he doesn’t know the difference).

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00:00 - Intro

06:45 - The 7-11 Premium 98 Moment of the week 

15:11 - Round The Grounds

16:35 - Hawks VS Cats

29:25 - Brisbane Vs Collingwood 

56:15 - W Wrap Up Round 6

66:20 - Headlines

69:30 - Malaka Of The Week

Over the course of his rugby career, David Pocock captained the Wallabies, Australia's national rugby union team. He is now an Independent Senator for the ACT.

We talk to him today about his support for a full gambling advertising ban, as recommended by the Murphy Review, and his campaign for more transparent political lobbying.

We are grateful for Senator Pocock's time.

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Everyone is back in the same room, and Marnie’s brought everyone a prezzie to celebrate. 

Our final four means the men’s season will finish as it began: with Broden Doing Something.  

Broden and Tom recorded this shortly after landing in Australia, off very little sleep. How do you reckon it goes?

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Like a sailor from the deck of a departing ocean liner, it's a tearful, impassioned farewell to the Gold Coast Suns for AFL season 2025. Unlike a sailor from the deck of a departing ocean liner, the farewell is set to Broden Kelly's rather magnificent take on Semisonic's 1998 classic, 'Closing Time'. If that doesn't seal the deal for you, quite frankly, I don't know what will.

And in excellent news ... the official team of The Footy podcast, Carlton AFLW, is absolutely. bloody. flying.

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00:00 - Intro

04:20 -  The 7-11 Premium 98 Moment of the week 

05:55 - Q Clash

19:20 - Hawks vs Crows

33:30 - Steven King

40:15 - New Zealand

42:20 - AFLW

47:24 - Prelim Finals

53:00 - Headlines

57:00 - Malaka Of The Week

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From Bathurst to Newtown and through the Monash business school, Marnie Vinall's story is a colourful one. She's told numerous stories about the game of football on this podcast over the past few years - you'll hear a little bit about her own today.