Saturday Morning At The Football Podcast

Former cricketer and footballer, Ken "Noddy" McAullay, says his only regret is not having another shot at cricket. The right-handed-batsman and fullback took a trip down memory lane and shared his experiences in the two sports with 6PR's Brad Hardie and Kim Hagdorn. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A former Swan Districts and Essendon player was involved with back-to-back Premierships with the Swans then back-to-back Premierships with Essendon. Premiership maker Leon Baker took a trip down memory lane with Brad Hardie and Kim Hagdorn on 6PR. Baker spoke about traveling to WA in a Combi Van and ending up playing for South Bunbury before finding his way to Swan Districts and his first meeting with the great Kevin Sheedy. But he said he related to John Todd the most, and he had simple advice "Three things: keep you're eye on the ball... don't panic... and get out and express yourself, people have paid money to come out and watch you, go out and show them what you've got." Baker reminisced. "Kevin the plumber, certainly a different approach," he added. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

AFL Hall Of Famer, dual Sandover Medalist and South Fremantle Premiership player Stephen Michael joined Brad Hardie and Kim Hagdorn to reminisce about the good ol' days of footy. Footy, favourite teammates and food.... we took a trip down memory lane with 243-gamer Stephen Michael.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you're missing your weekend WAFL fix, a local footy historian has found an alternative to bring the WAFL community together, an online watch party for classic matches. This Saturday at 2:20pm footy fans can watch the opening 1984 match between South Fremantle and Claremont at Fremantle Oval. A game where 6PR's very own Brad Hardie played his first game as captain of his club. "I did the '78 Grand Final last night and I got a lot of good feedback from people who don't have any live sport to watch on a Friday night so it's nice to put a few smiles on people's faces," Sean Cowan told 6PR. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Geelong Football Club has stood down around 100 staff members with the AFL season put on hold until further notice. An emotional Brian Cook says the staff have been given compassionate leave and their owed leave, but after that it will have to be leave without pay if there's no competition. "It's been a tough time, mate, loyal people."The Geelong CEO says their coach, Chris Scott, had sacrificed his pay for the club: "What's become obvious is right through this is, and I think every club's the same, there's a lot of wonderful people out there. They ask about the health of the club."  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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In one year he took the Brisbane Lions from five wins to 16 wins, but the coach says last year's performance won't be good enough for 2020.Chris Fagan turned his team around to finish second on the AFL ladder in 2019 and won the Coach of the Year award, but understands there's a lot to do ahead of this season. "From the day we started working together we've just been on this thing about improvement and that's really all that we can control," Fagan told Brad Hardie and Kim Hagdorn. "We've got to try and be a better team than we were last year because last year what we did, wouldn't be good enough this year. We all know that."The Lions do have a lot of young talent coming through, but they lose the experienced talents of Premiership player Luke Hodge. "His job was to try and leave a legacy and he's very much done that over the last couple of years," Fagan said. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The BBL Final is all but cancelled with heavy rain forecast in Sydney during the decider between the Sydney Sixers and Melbourne Stars on Saturday. Cricket great and BBL commentator Adam Gilchrist arrived in Sydney on Saturday and although he's hopeful the clouds will part for a few hours, but it's not likely. Gilchrist told 6PR he thinks the BBL Final should have moved location.  "I feel a bit frustrated like everyone. "They're big decisions, I know, but sometime's you've got to make the hard decisions," he told Brad Hardie and Kim Hagdorn. "I just feel that the right thing is to try and get the game of cricket, the final, after 60 games. Get it somewhere where you can play it."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Perth Scorchers are heading to a must-win match against the Sydney Thunder to secure their spot in the Big Bash finals. Perth all-rounder Ashton Agar says the pressure is on and they must start well.“Early wickets over at Spotless is really crucial because you can squeeze through the middle there; often it’s not the easiest wicket to start on there, often it’s a little bit slower and a bit lower.“So if you can get some early wickets you can generally restrict them to a really low score,” Agar told 6PR. You can hear all the action between the Sydney Thunder and Perth Scorchers from 11:30am on Sunday with Tony Leonard and Michael Beer LIVE on 6PSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fremantle skipper and dual Brownlow medalist Nat Fyfe is finding some relaxation ahead of season 2020 in some strange ways, he caught up with 6PR at Crown Sports Bar for a one-on-one interview. Fremantle have the second youngest list in the competition in the Gold Coast and a new coach in Justin Longmuir at the helm, but Fyfe is expecting more wins on the board for 2020. "We should be looking to win more games at home and a few games on the road, so I think, realistically between eight to 14 wins, in that range then that's where we should be aiming, that gives us an opportunity to play Finals,""I'm always ambitious, but realistic and I think we've got an advantage playing over here at Optus Stadium, it is hard for teams to travel and we should be looking capitalise on that."Fyfe's name has been thrown about to represent WA in the AFL's State of Origin Bushfire Relief match in February. "I'm interested and if my body allows me to play and for a great cause with some of the best players in Austra

Suspended West Coast Eagle Willie Rioli was back on the training track with his Eagles teammates yesterday and their coach says Rioli was nervous ahead of his first appearance since his suspension. Adam Simpson says Rioli was brought in to the club last week and spoke with his teammates about his actions. "We did have to move on and address those issues from a player perspective and there's no other way to do it than to get him back at the right time and he spoke with the players last week and they had some conversations they needed to have with Willie," Simpson told 6PR. But Simpson says the bigger issue is, how to they replace someone like Rioli on the field.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Perth Scorchers are still fighting for a spot in the BBL finals and tonight's match against the Brisbane Heat will be a big test for the side says their Skipper. Mitch Marsh says they'll be aiming to come in strong against the Heat's top order. "We know how good Chris Lynn is, but hopefully we can put some pressure on him early," Marsh told 6PR. Marsh says bowler Jhye Richardson is hitting his straps after suffering a shoulder injury last season and will be good for them in their campaign. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Australian cricket coach Justin Langer says they have a challenge ahead of them as they head into the Boxing Day test at the MCG on Thursday. Speaking exclusively to 6PR Langer says he's not getting ahead of himself with calling his team one of the best test sides.  "When we play New Zealand it's an absolute arm wrestle, whilst we played great cricket in the first test we're going to have to be really on top of it to beat the second best team in the world."If we can do that, we're certainly moving in the right direction," he says.   Langer has been at the helm of the Aussie cricket team since last year, but he's starting to reap the rewards after taking over a troubling side and shared a heartwarming story of a stranger who approached him in the streets of Fremantle. "It looked like a farmer was just walking past me and grabbed hold of me and he goes 'thank you so much for bringing the Australian cricket team back... we really like them again', to see that progress is really heartenin

Perth Scorcher, AJ Tye, will have a delayed start to the BBL season after he sustained an elbow injuring during a training session. Tye told 6PR he's hopeful to be playing in the back end of the season, but there's still some unknowns when it comes to his recovery. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The Sheffield Shield game between Victoria and WA at the MCG has been suspended due to the condition of the pitch. "A couple balls have just played a little bit up and down," Shaun Graf from Cricket Victoria told 6PR. "[Marcus] Stoinis got hit in the ribs with one that jumped a little bit."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

An incredible 20 West Australian young football players have been picked up by AFL clubs in the draft this week and the WA Talent Pathways Manager says some of those teens are ready to go at the top level. Fremantle's Hayden Young and Melbourne's Luke Jackson are likely to make in impact early according to Michael Ablett.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ian Chappell stepped aside from commentating the test between Australia and Pakistan to speak with 6PR about how the Aussies are looking and what he thinks of today's game. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Western Australia's Under 18s coach, Peter Sumich, played golf with some of WA's best young footballers only a few days out from the AFL Draft; he spoke with 6PR about who is likely to go where. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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