Saturday Morning At The Football Podcast

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The latest footy player to hail from Western Australia has made their home at the Melbourne Football Club and she's got a lot to offer. Krstel Petrevski is the first cousin of Sam Petrevski-Seaton and grew up in the small town of Halls Creek in WA's Kimberley region and now she's in the bustling city of Melbourne.  "I grew up playing footy with  boys up there in the Kimberley region because when I was up there, there was no girls footy around. There wasn't even a youth league for kids."So if they boys wanted to play, they had to play in the mens' league," Petrevski told 6PR. But, against all odds, Petrevski pushed through the obstacles to now make her name in the AFLW. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former Australia and Pakistan coach, Mickey Arthur, gave us his insight on how he sees the upcoming series playing out.And he told 6PR there's a chance his coaching career will continue with Sri Lanka. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After Australia's 10-wicket win over Pakistan last night, cricket coach Justin Langer is keen to keep growing the Australian team. "[My] strong philosophy from the start was to get back to how it used to be in Australian Cricket, where it's really hard to get into the side, it's very competitive."There's so much talent in Australian cricket, we're really lucky for that, but the trick is to get the right balance of players and also the talent," Langer told 6PR. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Big Bad Barry Hall is returning to his childhood sport on Friday night when he enters the boxing ring. The former AFL player is going head to head with former NRL player, Paul Gallen in a battle of the codes at Margaret Court Arena on Friday night. Hall spoke with 6PR's Brad Hardie and Kim Hagdorn about Code War. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Brad and Haggers followed up the draft chat by speaking with Luke Jackson himself about how he's feeling in the lead up to the draft. Jackson says although he plays in the ruck, he can see himself pushing forward. "I think one of the players I want to be is a ruckman that can play forward as well. That's the player I'm trying to strive to be in the future. It was good to play a bit of forward at the back end of this year," he told 6PR. The 18-year-old admitted that he will be heading to Melbourne when the AFL draft takes place. "A couple of days ago mum got an email saying we'll be flying over," Jackson told 6PR. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The AFL Draft is only a few weeks away and there's plenty of WA talent who are rumoured to be top picks. AFL Draft Specialist Callum Twomey joined Brad Hardie and Kim Hagdorn to chat about who is likely to get picked up. Twomey says Jason Taylor, Melbourne Recruiting Manager, confirmed they are looking at former Basketballer and current East Fremantle ruckman, Luke Jackson.  "The WA boy, Luke Jackson is definitely in contention.""He (Taylor) confirmed that Luke Jackson is well and truly in the mix for that selection."It'll be a big call, a brave call. We don't see too many ruckman picked in the top 10," Twomey told 6PR's Front & Centre "But I think clubs as well, look at Luke Jackson and think that he can play forward, so that's where I think he will go in the top 10," he said. Perth Demons player and Under 18s State captain Deven Robertson is also likely to be an early pick and Twomey says, he can see the youngster being a future AFL captain after he played in the State game

Australian batsman Aaron Finch is sitting out the Shield game against WA with a side strain he sustained after a back niggle in last weekend's game against South Australia, but he's hopeful he will be good to go for the T20 against Sri Lanka. Finch told 6PR's Front and Centre the Aussie team is in a really good position at the moment. "The depth of Australian cricket is great at the moment and is really healthy." The Australian T20 captain says it's unlucky Marcus Stoinis missed out on being named in the squad. "Marcus has been a player who's played really well at the top of the order for the Melbourne Stars for the last couple of years and reality is that there's just not that spot available in the top order at the moment," Finch told 6PR."He's just got to keep chipping away and keep developing his game, no doubt he didn't have the World Cup that he would've liked with the bat. He showed some real promise with the ball as well and a package as well, when you look at him and Mitch Marsh and the

The Australian Cricket coach Justin Langer is back in Perth after the tour of England, he spoke with 6PR during his short home visit. Langer sets off to Brisbane tomorrow to look at a team for the T20 competition, and says it's up to the players to push for their spots for the upcoming T20 and test series. "In Australian Cricket now we need to encourage and rebuild that real competitive instinct and competitive nature of getting back into the Australian Cricket team," Langer told 6PR. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

West Coast Eagles midfielder Luke Shuey has collected his second John Worsfold medal at the club's Best and Fairest event on Friday night. The ball magnet beat the likes of Elliot Yeo and Brad Sheppard to take home the medal, but the 2016 and 2019 winner told 6PR he wasn't expecting the accolade at all. "It's a privilege to win at such a great club. It was a great night; celebrated a good season for the most part," Shuey says. The 2018 Premiership player also added it was difficult to watch this year's Grand Final after knowing he was there only the year before. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

South Fremantle's Marlion Pickett will become the first footballer to make his AFL debut in a Grand Final since 1952. Pickett was handed his team jumper at the MCG only an hour before the 2019 AFL Grand Final and his team manager says the mature age player is more than ready for the task. "If you're going to debut someone it's better than bringing in an 18 or 19-year-old, he's been through a lot," Pickett's manager, Anthony van der Wielen, said about the 27-year-old. The player manager also looks after Geelong's Tim Kelly, who has been the talk of the trades."Won't know for a little while. He honestly hasn't made a decision," he told 6PR.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

AFL umpire Dean Margetts was our special guest on 6PR's Front and Centre with Brad Hardie and Kim Hagdorn. Margetts has umpired more than 300 senior AFL games and answered the listeners questions about our great game. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A 6PR listener sparked a debate on Saturday saying as an Eagles supporter he still thinks Geelong were ripped off by making them play at the MCG. 6PR commentator, Lee Spurr, says: "that is a disgrace that West Coast are not playing Geelong, in Geelong." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The Essendon Bombers will be targeting the Dockers dominant mids in Brad Hill and Nat Fyfe to control their run in the game when the two sides go head to head at Optus Stadium on Saturday night. "They're two key players that we've had a look at certainly and there will be some strategy around that," Mark Harvey told 6PR. Harvey coached two Fremantle players the club farewells tonight in Aaron Sandilands and Hayden Ballantyne. "Both those guys have been fantastic contributors to the football club, good characters and more importantly great guys to coach because they had the ability to be able to fight the fight," Harvey said about the pair.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Geelong CEO Brian Cook has been questioned on the Cat's post-bye slump in form.The football manager says Geelong's declining momentum is unrelated to the bye and believes club's have started to work out the Cat's playing style."They're putting a lot more players behind the ball and they're closing up our space around the stoppages."He also spoke about Tim Kelly's plans for the future."We've made an offer which has various options to it, we are hoping he stays and are confident he will stay."The football manager says the 25 year old has developed as a player significantly since joining the Cats and believes the West Australian can now cope with being tagged by opposition sides.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former CEO of AFL and NRL clubs Brian Waldron questions the importance of the Gold Coast Suns in the current AFL competition on 6PR's Front and Centre with Brad Hardie and Kim Hagdorn. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

AFL clubs met at AFL House on Friday to discuss issues in the game so far this season, what's working and what's not; Steve Hocking joined 6PR to discuss score reviews, player trades and what the clubs want. One of the big issues so far this season has been the score review with the result of a game balancing on the decision, and the AFL General Manager of Football Operations says it's something they're working on.  "There will always be human error involved in the game, what we need to do is eliminate that as best we can," Hocking says. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former successful Subiaco coach, Jarrad Schofield is making his mark in the AFL again as an assistant coach for Port Adelaide. AFL head coaching roles have already started to present themselves this season and although Schofield has only just started at AFL level, says he won't rule anything out. "To be brutally honest I think you've got to give yourself two or three years in the system to really find your feet, but it's like anything, when an opportunity presents, you've got to see if it's the right time," Schofield told 6PR. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Homestart will be awarding the Junior Summer Sports Star winner with a $5,000 cheque. 6PR has been supporting this initiative over the Summer. The Homestart Junior Supper Sports Star winner is 13-year-old Traceylee Kingi from Jetz Netball Club Langford.  Traceylee has played in top teams for all representative sides, as well as state indoor teams. She was awarded ‘Most Valuable Player’ 4 times for her division in her overall district, as well as MVP for her sports college and club.   She is driven to achieve her goal of being the youngest professional netball player…. Traceylee has won $1000 for herself, and $5000 for Jetz netball Club Langford.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.