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Veteran sports writer Robert Craddock joined Gerard to talk about the trepidation in Brisbane ahead of Thursday night's final, the broken system of the BBL Draft, the emergence of Cameron Green, South Africa's mind-boggling decision against England, Rory McIlroy's nuanced stance on LIV Golf, the Wallabies' win over the Sprinboks, and more.

With the pre-finals bye now past us, David King joined Gerard in the studio for 'The Monday Means Test' where he previewed every final this weekend, and outlined what he expects will be the determining factor in all of the games. He also listed the Top 10 finals performers according to Champion Data, and touched on the "rolling spotlight" in finals footy.

Although there was no AFL footy over the weekend, Gerard still had plenty of Snap Judgements to field for Snap Fitness.

"It's not about whether we all managed to fill the gap weekend, it's about the impact that it has on the finals series, and how it has corrupted the advantages established across 23 gruelling weeks..."

Kane Cornes took us behind the scenes of Tom Hawkins' appointment as All-Australian captain, Brenton Sanderson played some strategy around the first and second choice All-Australian teams, and Daisy Pearce hours ahead of the AFLW season commencing, her Demons enter it as the runners-up. We rang the Trade Bell with Riley

Beveridge, pondering the implications of the Rankine trade for North Melbourne, and Matt Clayton told us about the split between Daniel Ricciardo and McLaren.

Kane Cornes and Riley Beveridge both joined Gerard on Thursday morning.

On Thursday morning, Gerard's editorial on 'the line' in football and Tom Hawkins' All-Australian captaincy (00:36) received the perfect follow up when Kane Cornes joined him from the Adelaide studio (6:20). After Kane fielded all the burning questions around the All-Australian team, Gerard and Brenton Sanderson named a second All-Australian and assessed how they'd go against those who were named last night (25:45). Daisy Pearce also joined him in the studio ahead of the AFLW's season opener tonight (53:49), and after Riley Beveridge rung the Trade Bell (1:11:02), he spoke to Matt Clayton about McLaren's decision to part ways with Daniel Ricciardo (1:22:18). And lastly, he was joined by Michael Hussey who previewed the BBL draft this weekend (1:31:26).

Ahead of the BBL draft this weekend, Fox Cricket expert Michael Hussey joined Gerard to talk about what he expects to happen, the quality of the players available, the draft strategy for each team, Chris Lynn's contract with the Strikers, and more.

With no men's footy this weekend, Gerard and Brenton Sanderson named a second All-Australian team from those who missed out from the squad of 44, and then assessed how they would go against the first 22. And after taking calls, Sanderson assessed the current situation Adam Kingsley finds himself in, and explains why it's the right thing to do.

AFL.com.au journalist Riley Beveridge joined Gerard to talk about the impact Izak Rankine's move to Adelaide may have on North Melbourne's draft strategy, the player movement at Fremantle, GWS' busy offseason, and to address the correspondence from our texters.