After an extended break brought to you by #2020 - we're back, baby! Watching footy this year has felt a little bit like sitting in an empty stand at the MCG singing Dave Dobbyn to yourself, but there have been some surprisingly enjoyable parts to the season. In this special eppy we talk about things we missed and loved during the 2020 season. Brodie and Amy also drop a huge surprise on Sarah that seals the fate of her future daughter. Thanks to Friend Of The Pod Gemma who helped us concoct the perfect footy origin story.Audio note: The audio quality on this eppy isn't as clear as usual as it was recorded using the magic of the internet, rather than in a radio studio.Our artwork was designed by Steph Hughes, and our theme song is 'Here if You Need' by Wet Lips.Follow us on socials:Twitter @fangrrrlspodInstagram @fangrrrlspodFacebook @ fangrrrlsOr get in touch:Email fangrrrlspodcast@gmail.com

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WE'RE BACK, BABY!

*This episode contains discussion and mention of a homophobic slur in the context of hostile crowd environments. The specific mention comes at around 10min 05sec if you feel like skipping past it.*Mindy Mapp, the bass player in iconic punk bands Fur and Little Ugly Girls, joins us this week to chat about finding community in footy, how AFLW only enhanced her love of the game, and the ways in which Brisbane's music scene in the '90s compares to rowdy crowds at the MCG.We also launch a new campaign: get Richo to a Little Ugly Girls show!!Our artwork was designed by Steph Hughes, and our theme song is 'Here if You Need' by Wet Lips.Follow us on socials:Twitter @fangrrrlspodInstagram @fangrrrlspodFacebook @ fangrrrlsOr get in touch:Email fangrrrlspodcast@gmail.com

"If there was anything that could get the band back together, it would be Matthew Richardson."

On this week's episode, we've got a recap of the first couple of weeks of the 2020 AFLW season, including a story of the time Sarah heckled Neil Balme.We give our thoughts on the ticketed vs free game conversation and discuss Bec Godard's fighting words about the Tiges. Then it's time for this show's inevitable move into intense discussions of menstruation. Specifically: how AFLW teams are tracking players' periods to improve performance, and the links between ACL injuries and menstrual cycles. Our artwork was designed by Steph Hughes, and our theme song is 'Here if You Need' by Wet Lips.Follow us on socials:Twitter @fangrrrlspodInstagram @fangrrrlspodFacebook @ fangrrrlsOr get in touch:Email fangrrrlspodcast@gmail.com

LET IT BLEED

A quick catch-up with your favourite fan girls ahead of the 2020 AFLW season, wherein Richmond will debut their women's team. We share some reader mail and Sarah launches a new footy jokes segment. PS - Brodie referred to Richmond's Women's coach as "Tommy White". His name is Tom Hunter. She's sorry.

Watching history be made.

In our 2019 finale episode, the number of Fan Grrrls in the room rises to four, when muso and lifelong Hawks fan Liz Stringer stops by. Liz talks early footy memories and finding common ground with anyone she spots watching the footy in venue green rooms. We also dig into the sticky cultural stuff that we bristle against when it comes to the game.Watch Dyson Stringer Cloher's video for 'Believer', directed by Annelise Hickey and starring Lulu Beatty and the Northcote Junior Football Club Under 16 Girls Team. Here's Liz and Lulu chatting on Joy FM.This is the profile of Gil McLachlan we mention.Dyson Stringer Cloher's debut self-titled album is out on October 4. Listen, buy and go to a show in support of it! Info here.PS if you're the Geelong fan from the donut van, you can find Brodie at @brodielancaster lolOur artwork was designed by Steph Hughes, and our theme song is 'Here if You Need' by Wet Lips.Follow us on socials:Twitter @fangrrrlspodInstagram @fangrrrlspodFacebook @ fangrrrlsOr get in touch:Email fangrrrlspodcast@gmail.com

BONUS EPISODE: Liz Stringer becomes the fourth Fan Grrrl

Richmond are premiers and Brodie, Amy and Sarah have a lot of feelings about it.We farewell the 2019 season with a discussion of the tiges, funny footy moment and the kids who made us cry.Follow us on socials:Twitter @fangrrrlspodInstagram @fangrrrlspodFacebook @ fangrrrlsSend us your voice memos! Keep it to >1minute, intro it with your name and where you're from, and tell us what you're keen to see in footy in 2020. Email it – along with words about what you'd like to hear more of from us next season – to fangrrrlspodcast@gmail.com

The Insufferable Bitches™️ Have Logged On

Who better to talk about all our big Grand Final week feelings with than Paul Kelly? The patron saint of music and spiritual totem of footy fans all over Melbourne is performing the pre-game entertainment at Saturday's game, and he tells us about his lifelong love of the game, the special guest who came to his weekly local footy training, and the feeling of doing a perfect drop-kick.He lays out the criteria for any great footy "character", tells us which team has the best song, offers a preview of the fan-specific socks he'll be wearing on Grand Final say and gives us the lowdown on the Kelly family Grand Final sweeps."It's not the despair that kills you, it's the hope," he says of being attached to a team. Paul has a special way of capturing the emotion inside every footy fan, a sensation typified when listening to the opening strains of Leaps and Bounds or reading his poetry. Hear him read Sonnet to a New Sherrin here.Paul's going on the road for the rest of the year, touring in support of his new poetry collection, Love is Strong as Death; his recently released record, Thirteen Ways to Look at Birds; and his annual Making Gravy Christmas shows. Find out when he's coming to your town over on his website.Our artwork was designed by Steph Hughes, and our theme song is 'Here if You Need' by Wet Lips.Follow us on socials:Twitter @fangrrrlspodInstagram @fangrrrlspodFacebook @ fangrrrlsOr get in touch:Email fangrrrlspodcast@gmail.com

THE ONE WITH PAUL KELLY

On this week's episode, AFL field umpire Eleni Glouftsis tells us about her zen approach to handling the heckles as she does her job – the aim of which is to be "unobtrusive and un-spoken about".Eleni made history in round 9, 2017 when she became the AFL's first female field umpire during a home and away season. She gives insight on that game and Brendan Goddard's words of comfort for her, talks us through the way umpires handle rule changes, shares her favourite footy moments (hint: it's the same as ours), and clues us in on on learning players' names. (If in doubt, call them Jack.)ICYMI, here's the moment Eleni's partner, boundary umpire Dillon Tee, popped the question at the 'G after the Round 19 clash between Adelaide and Carlton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGooudyOvuUOur artwork was designed by Steph Hughes, and our theme song is 'Here if You Need' by Wet Lips.Follow us on socials:Twitter @fangrrrlspodInstagram @fangrrrlspodFacebook @ fangrrrlsOr get in touch:Email fangrrrlspodcast@gmail.com

The calm behind the whistle

This week, Sarah and Brodie chat to Bec Goring, who sits in the dead-centre of our ideal venn diagram, being a regular gigging musician and the vice captain of Geelong's AFLW team.We chat to Bec about balancing her double life, stepping into the captaincy, and what she hopes for the future in the league. Plus, Sarah makes her answer the definitive question once and for all: does Geelong produce better musicians or footballers?Amy's on vaycay! We miss her.Our artwork was designed by Steph Hughes, and our theme song is 'Here if You Need' by Wet Lips.Follow us on socials:Twitter @fangrrrlspodInstagram @fangrrrlspodFacebook @ fangrrrlsOr get in touch:Email fangrrrlspodcast@gmail.com

Does Geelong produce better musicians or footballers?

Matthew Richardson is an integral part of Sarah, Amy and Brodie's separate and combined footy origin stories, so you can imagine our delight (and very chill and normal reactions) when we heard he was keen to stop by Fan Grrrls for a chat.We did it, we hooked our white whale.And we got to ask him about 2017, we found out what he's got on his Discman and heard the horrifying story of a true footy curse. And, of course, we asked him the very special question we ask all our guests.It's Richo, bitches.Our artwork was designed by Steph Hughes, and our theme song is 'Here if You Need' by Wet Lips.See special, behind the scenes content from Richo's visit by following us on socials:Twitter @fangrrrlspodInstagram @fangrrrlspodFacebook @ fangrrrlsOr get in touch:Email fangrrrlspodcast@gmail.com

THE ONE WITH RICHO

Dan Fisher was a property steward for the Western Bulldogs before moving into scouting for the Doggies. We talk to Dan about the time he forgot to pack enough socks for the whole team during an inter-state trip, and the secrets behind being a footy recruiter in 2019.Missed Dan's tweet thread about the incident? Catch up here.Our artwork was designed by Steph Hughes, and our theme song is 'Here if You Need' by Wet Lips.Get in touch with us:Twitter @fangrrrlspodInstagram @fangrrrlspodFacebook @ fangrrrlsEmail fangrrrlspodcast@gmail.com

The dark art of recruiting (and packing socks)

It's finally happened. It's time for us to tamp down on our damage, push our feelings aside and dedicate an episode to discussing the Pies. Specifically, we chat to directors Josh Cable and Marcus Cobbledick about their new documentary, 'Collingwood from the Inside Out'. If you're in Melbourne, you can catch the film's world premiere at MIFF, followed by a panel hosted by FOTP (Friend of the Pod) Kasey Symons. Info here.Our artwork was designed by Steph Hughes, and our theme song is 'Here if You Need' by Wet Lips.Get in touch with us:Twitter @fangrrrlspodInstagram @fangrrrlspodFacebook @ fangrrrlsEmail fangrrrlspodcast@gmail.com

Maybe it's more than just black and white

Jack and Seamus O'Connel from the Melbourne band Picket Palace dropped by to chat to Brodie and Sarah about their surprise viral song named for and dedicated to Essendon's own Anthony McDonald Tipungwuti. Watch it here.These two diehard Bluebaggers chat about the lifetime of what they've only known as "Carlton humility", what it's like for them to be back at Princes Park for Carlton AFLW games, the saddest AFL record Jack's realised Kade Simpson might soon break, and Seamus's incredible promise to his former schoolmate Jack Silvagni.We also get to discuss some of our favourite topics, including the marriage of footy and music that abounds in Melbourne, and Richo, who the guys have written a song about! Hear it this weekend in Melbourne when they launch their Tippa single at the Curtin on Saturday July 13 (the Friday show is already sold out!) and play from their upcoming album, The Footy Record. Tickets here!Read the pieces discussed in this episode, and related to our chat:Tom Cowie's piece in The Age about the songPicket Palace on The Front BarThe video for their song Pull Your Head In, featuring a famous footy sprayOur artwork was designed by Steph Hughes, and our theme song is 'Here if You Need' by Wet Lips.Get in touch with us:Twitter @fangrrrlspodInstagram @fangrrrlspodFacebook @ fangrrrlsEmail fangrrrlspodcast@gmail.com

Punk shows and the footy: the two places it's okay to spit in public.

It's a topic that's been on the minds of fans and officials in footy – and sports more widely – for decades, but only in recent years has become front-page news. Joining Sarah, Amy and Brodie to discuss concussion complexities is Stephanie Convery, who as well as being Deputy Culture Editor at the Guardian Australia, is the author of the forthcoming book, Who Killed Davey Browne? Following the inquest into the avoidable death of 29-year-old Australian professional boxer Davey Browne, Steph's book will be published by Penguin Random House in March 2020. Our chat covers footy (obvi) and why boxers – like Steph herself – keep chasing the adrenalin of the sport, despite the risks. We also ask what is concussion, how does it manifest, how do we identify it, and what are the long-term repercussions of head injuries, like concussion?Read the pieces discussed in this episode, and related to our chat:Stephanie's story on Davey from 2017The case of 17-year-old Canadian rugby player Rowan Stringer, and the law that her concussion-related death influencedWendy Carlisle on the AFL's concussion problemSt Kilda's Paddy McCartin opens up about the affects of multiple concussionsAnnie Nolan writes about her children's responses to their dad, Liam Picken's, on-field concussionsFOTD (Friend of the Pod) Konrad Marshall on the concussion class actionOur artwork was designed by Steph Hughes, and our theme song is 'Here if You Need' by Wet Lips.Get in touch with us:Twitter @fangrrrlspodInstagram @fangrrrlspodFacebook @ fangrrrlsEmail fangrrrlspodcast@gmail.com

Sport's never going to hurt you: Stephanie Convery talks concussion in athletes

It's been a while between drinks for the Fan Grrrls, and today Sarah, Amy and Brodie are back with a chat about how we're feeling about this weird footy season for the tiges. We also talk through what the current conversations about footy crowd behaviour conjure up in us and how it feels lacking, what we agree to by being in these spaces, and how the behaviours of individuals and crowds differ (and compare).NB this conversation was recorded before AFL CEO Gil MacLachlan's press conference. The article we discuss is 'AFL barracking: Was I guilty of antisocial behaviour?' by Melinda Houston in The Age. Read it here.Our artwork was designed by Steph Hughes, and our theme song is 'Here if You Need' by Wet Lips.Get in touch with us:Twitter @fangrrrlspodInstagram @fangrrrlspodFacebook @ fangrrrlsEmail fangrrrlspodcast@gmail.com

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