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Nuts and Bolts, Million dollar questions and it's a wonderful time.

Season 1, Ep. 29

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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