On this week's episode, Bailey and Sam share their predictions for the 2026 season ranging from our premiers, wooden spoon and the wildcard spots as well as other accolades individually from the coleman medal, rising star and the brownlow and then as well as a huge prediction that may truly backfire however stay tuned for that...

We also talk pre season length and the odd short turnaround between this off season leading up to now.. .

Were putting it all on the line here and now...

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Unofficial Insiders podcast is the top tier spot for Football (AFL FANS, targeting pre and post match day breakdowns, absurd takes as well as fresh insights into key headline and news Internal and External. Join Sam and Bailey who provide and passionate, unique and youthful lens into the footy scene.

Unofficial Insiders podcast is the top tier spot for Football (AFL) FAN, targeting pre and post match day breakdowns, absurd takes as well as fresh insights into key headlines and news Internal and External. Join Sam and Bailey who provide a passionate, unique and youthful lens into the footy scene.

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WERE BACK EVERYONE!!! Welcome back for the 2026 season (well not just yet) but Sam and Bailey are still here to cover it all from now until it comes.

The boys catch up on there off season and what they did while being away on the mics transitioning from 2025 to 2026 thinking about making the podcast better then ever.

We caught up with some takeaways from State of Origan as well as some news coming from the game leading into the Practice matches.

We also cover some unfortunate injury news and who becomes important going into the season

Stay tuned for our season preview...

Unofficial Insiders podcast is the top tier spot for Football (AFL FANS, targeting pre and post match day breakdowns, absurd takes as well as fresh insights into key headline and news Internal and External. Join Sam and Bailey who provide and passionate, unique and youthful lens into the footy scene. (Ensure this gets onto the description each episode on acast)

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Unofficial Insiders podcast is the top tier spot for Football (AFL) FAN, targeting pre and post match day breakdowns, absurd takes as well as fresh insights into key headlines and news Internal and External. Join Sam and Bailey who provide a passionate, unique and youthful lens into the footy scene.

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On this special episode bit of an emergency podcast vibe. Bailey and Sam react to the fixture being released last week. We go over some of the games we are already looking forward to, who has the hardest draw and why isn't it fair for the bottom half teams and going over our respective teams matchups. Debunk some of the table headers and improvise ways to make the fixture even better and mention some of the weird games at the unusual times.

Stay tuned for 2026...

Unofficial Insiders podcast is the top tier spot for Football (AFL FANS, targeting pre and post match day breakdowns, absurd takes as well as fresh insights into key headline and news Internal and External. Join Sam and Bailey who provide and passionate, unique and youthful lens into the footy scene.

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Unofficial Insiders podcast is the top tier spot for Football (AFL) FAN, targeting pre and post match day breakdowns, absurd takes as well as fresh insights into key headlines and news Internal and External. Join Sam and Bailey who provide a passionate, unique and youthful lens into the footy scene.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this off season edition of the unofficial insiders, Sam and Bailey run back straight to the mics as honestly there has been a big void over the last month that had consumed our life's since March of this year, We already can't wait for next year.

The boys discuss what there is to come from this years draft and with the game moving ever so fast we discuss how the evolution of the draft will look like in the years to come from the unpredictability of picks, compromisations, what clubs are looking for in positioning and attributes and the missing pieces to the puzzle to fast track rebuilds.

We also talk about our respective clubs in Collingwood and Essendon for what they need and talk the missed opportunities across to competition.

In other news the 2026 fixture the AFL want a blockbuster post the Grand prix leading into the Labour day public holiday and the new rules implemented to cut out game time.

Stay tuned for next year... (WE THINK)

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Unofficial Insiders podcast is the top tier spot for Football (AFL) FAN, targeting pre and post match day breakdowns, absurd takes as well as fresh insights into key headlines and news Internal and External. Join Sam and Bailey who provide a passionate, unique and youthful lens into the footy scene.

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On this final episode of 2025 Bailey and Sam recap all the fallout from the trade period shortly after the gates have shut of negotiations, big deals, players left in the dark over their futures and look at some burning questions of the trade period that has gone.

Petracca, Curnow, Steele, all the big names were thrown to the table some of them ended with per elation however there was some fall outs and deals that fell through with failed negotiations and no budges over holding firm, No hold backs and double downs to say the least with Zach Merrett

Sam gives his take on Essendon's handling of Merrett and Bailey goes in on Jack Buller and Collingwood non pursuit of acquisitions.

We end off with the winners and losers, chatting loyalty, why the trade period is long? being aggressive and the game is becoming a business. Is this trade period a sign of things to come where we see big names turn there heads.

Stay tuned on the socials for off season content. See you on the mics for 2026

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Unofficial Insiders podcast is the top tier spot for Football (AFL) FAN, targeting pre and post match day breakdowns, absurd takes as well as fresh insights into key headlines and news Internal and External. Join Sam and Bailey who provide a passionate, unique and youthful lens into the footy scene.

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On this second last episode of the season Bailey and Sam review the grand final in all its glory and we gloss over the collective performances of Brisbane that got them the crown on Saturday and what it means now that they will only get better from here as they enter a new window. We Also look over what this means for Geelong's chances in 2026 to beat history of poor grand final performances that carry on and what went wrong for them in the game.

We also ask how each player that contributes to a team in a premiership side whether if they should earn a medal for certain games played and contributes to finals, It's an interesting debate? We then wrap up with a brief trade period preview and look at the big names that are available and open to deals as there are multiple factors involves and there could be a mega trade brewing... But we shall wait and see, Join us after the trade period to wrap up the season..

Stay tuned...

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Unofficial Insiders podcast is the top tier spot for Football (AFL) FAN, targeting pre and post match day breakdowns, absurd takes as well as fresh insights into key headlines and news Internal and External. Join Sam and Bailey who provide a passionate, unique and youthful lens into the footy scene.

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On this weeks episode Not alot didn't go right on a technical front for us but didn't stop us it seemed.

We briefly review the prelims and hand out the reports over Hawthorn and Collingwood and what they can do going into 2026 and moving forward, We believe Hawthorn are entering there window of premiership contention and how they got there drafting and recruitment spot on to be followed by other clubs. (Ok but no copy cats please) Do Collingwood remain in contention with there aging list and there's some unknowns surrounding that too.

We then review the brownlow medal as much to Baileys disgust of Nick Daicos missing out once again and we congratulate Matt Rowell our friend on a great season and earned the award convincingly from the start and then the moment we've craved the most previewing the big game on Saturday and looking back at past grand finals.

Stay tuned for more...

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Unofficial Insiders podcast is the top tier spot for Football (AFL) FAN, targeting pre and post match day breakdowns, absurd takes as well as fresh insights into key headlines and news Internal and External. Join Sam and Bailey who provide a passionate, unique and youthful lens into the footy scene.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's episode, Bailey and Sam delve deep into what went wrong at the crows and suns camp in what halted there final run and as we go on we identify the issues there, Watch this space on this investigation how this unfolded for the 2 clubs.

Reviewing the previous matches from the weekend is always the highlight of the podcast and this week was no different with an in depth breakdown of the occurrences and then finish off with the previewing those preliminary finals in a special preview of the 2 games in the 2nd last week of season 2025. We truly believe these remaining 4 are the best 4 teams in it anything is possible!!

We end of with some of the best Preliminary finals we've watched and a sneaky brownlow preview unfortunately this somewhat was boring but still hear us out.

Stay Tuned!!

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Unofficial Insiders podcast is the top tier spot for Football (AFL) FAN, targeting pre and post match day breakdowns, absurd takes as well as fresh insights into key headlines and news Internal and External. Join Sam and Bailey who provide a passionate, unique and youthful lens into the footy scene.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.