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Finals have arrived, heated young gun debate and Pendlebury Bombshell

Season 2, Ep. 27
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On this week's episode Bailey and Sam dissect the inaugural wildcard weekend that was and wow what a thrilling round it was with large crowds and tv audiences and even a kick after the siren, Finals footy is well and truly here with high intensity and pressure erupting. We also wonder what goes through the mind when kicking for goals after the siren? Has it been a good season for Melbourne and Collingwood? Are they just content or is it underwhelming? On the other hand Carlton continue there breakthrough season and the bulldogs advance amidst the turn of events


We also dissect the mass exodus at GWS and what that does for future years to come as well as we go over a debate of some of the young guns in the competition without any bias being involved


Unfortunately there was no whiteboard this week with not much being on the agenda to go through but your still not going to want to miss this episode.


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