Bree, Motty, Rachael and special guest contributor Adelaide discuss all the stories of the week. We chatted about the prelim finals, W Awards and previewed the AFLW Grand Final between North and Brisbane. We also looked back on the year and picked out a couple of the biggest stories in football. Thank you to all the players, coaches, administrators and the AFL for putting on this game every week that we so love. See you at a game some time soon.

  Bec, Fi and Sash dissected draft week from a serious and not so serious perspective, talked AFLW finals (Fi is dreading the thought of an Adelaide v Brisbane grand final) and we caught up with Natalie Hutchins, Minister for Women and passionate Kangaroos supporter!  

On this week’s show Breeza, Motty and Fi discuss all the latest footy news. We look back at some of our ‘ bold predictions on the eve of the AFLW season to see how many we got right. We review the first week of AFLW finals and focus in on North Melbourne’s big win over the Demons hearing from North Melbourne Captain Emma Kearney. Some big AFL news dropped this week with a bold scheduling move announced by the AFL.  The Chicks rant about the season starting a week earlier with ‘Opening...

Thirty-five of our lucky JOY community caught the Kinetic Pride bus to the Pride Game at Victoria Park! We crossed to roaming Tri who gave us the latest gossip on the bus and just like roaming Brian she loved to get people to chat on the mic. One person came to their first ever AFLW game.  

Nicole Livingstone the head of AFLW and friend of the Chicks Talking Footy show joined us to debrief the whole season and discuss the significance of Pride Games and Pride Round to women’s footy. We’ve created something special!      

The Chicks chatted to one of favourite police officers Dylan Miles LLO (LGBTIQA+ Liaison Officer). Dylan chatted about the role LLO’s play at events like Pride Game, how the LLO’s want to build a bridge with our community and they even caught the Kinetic Pride Bus to the game.

Bec and Fi chatted to the Mayor of Yarra – Claudia Nguyen during the Pride Game at Victoria Park. We talked about the significance of the game being played in Yarra which has the highest population of LGBTIQA+ people in Victoria, their strategy with Rainbow Yarra for the area and what the game meant to her personally as a member of our community. Claudia tipped a draw to be diplomatic.  

Motty and Fi caught up with the lovely Sarah Rowe from Collingwood FC  in the lead up to the AFLW Pride game at Victoria Park. She was a delight to catch up with. The chat was played at our broadcast at Victoria Park on Sunday November 5th.  

Bec Miller did not miss a game for Richmond across the first three AFLW seasons, racing to 25 games. Bec is a key defender who was selected in the All-Australian squad of 40 and finished runner-up in the Tiger’ 2022 best and fairest had an injury interrupted Season 7. At 27, she still has a long future ahead of her in the competition. The jumper, which is Richmond’s third AFLW Pride guernsey, was developed by Bec and Libby Graham, in conjunction with artist Matthew Chan. Featuring on the...

The Chicks are ramping up for the AFLW Pride Round by chatting to Sarah Rowe from Collingwood about the work the Pies are doing to celebrate Pride at Vic Park. We also chatted to Dee Berry from the Bulldogs about what is happening across the highway at Whitten Oval for Pride. There’s lots of fan activation at both grounds! The Carlton AFLW teams also did a tour of the Victorian Pride Centre and we caught up with them about their experience at Rainbow HQ. Oh and big retirement news with Erin...

Bec, Motty and Sasha with special guest panellist Dave caught up with ABC radio host Bobby Macumber and Emma Race, CEO of Making The Call – two women doing wonderful things in the footy world. They worked out how they would run the AFL if they were put in charge – anyone for a supporter getting a lucky ticket to swap places with a player for 5 minutes or maybe even a double denim round?

Fi was joined by guest host Kel Rowe. Together they watched the trade news drop within minutes of going on air, reviewed AFLW season 7, hashed through the new professional standards of AFLW – take your ice bath and get some sleep is the new standard apparently and celebrated the indigenous guernsey.      

Fi, Sasha and Bec decided that we’re in the Boxing Day part of the AFL season – where we’ve all caught up with our tribe for the biggest day of the year and now come back together to exchange stories. We talked all about KISS, baby Maggie being born on grand final day and Peter and Darcy Moore’s moment post GF. We caught up with super Pies fan James Shuter about being part of the Pies victory at the G.   Off the field news – Callum Mills Mad Monday injury. Clayton Oliver becoming...

Fi and Motty celebrated footy Christmas – the AFL Grand Final week! We caught up with Chloe McMillan VFLW coach and Player Development coach from the Collingwood Football Club. We got some goss from the inside walls of Collingwood FC from her and talked about her journey in to leadership at the Club via her role at Champion data. We caught up with the fans from Brisbane Lions and the Pies and dissected the Brownlow – should umpires decide on points?  

It was a jam packed show with snakes on the footy oval, the chicks making it on to some billboards, the heat of the AFL Finals, AFLW high scoring and we chatted to Cartlon co-vice captain Jess Del Pos about the Carlton Respects game coming up in round 4 of the AFLW season. We also did a fitting tribute to Ron Barassi and played a clip from the ABC.  

The Chicks welcomed another guest host, Kel Rowe (fresh off a premiership win). Sash and Kel talked about that Maynard case – so many opinions, the finals games of the weekend and all things AFLW Round 2. Plus, we played an interview with Tanya Hosch, General Manager of Social Inclusion AFL, from the archives.

Fi, Bec and Breeza were in their sweet spot of the footy cycle – first week of AFLW round 1 and AFL Finals beginning this week. We chatted to our dear friend Sarina Jackson, president of the Rainbow Swans LGBTIQA+ supporter group about Buddy retiring, the future of the Pride game and the petition to end homophobia in the AFL. Link...

Motty and Fi caught up with the CEO of Women’s Football (and Olympic medallist), Nicole Livingstone on the eve of Season 8 of the AFLW. We chatted about the new higher scoring strategies, rule changes, the growth of the league, the investment in women’s footy, prize money announcements, the Friday 5 pm timeslot and most importantly whether she’s a pie, chip or hot dog person. It’s going to be a ripper season.  

Joining us on the show this week was Head of Women’s Footy Nicole Livingstone who answered all of our questions on the AFLW Season ahead. Fi and Breeza also welcomed guest host Sarah Burt into our Chicks Talking Footy family. Sarah is a Digital Sports Reporter online for Channel 7 and you can also catch Sarah on 3AW doing boundary line special comments and stats during the AFLW season.  We review all the footy news of the week and the final Home and Away Round of the AFL season.  Give us...

The Chicks caught up with Louise Milligan about her report on 4 Corners this week – ‘The Silence: AFL’s Last Taboo. The AFL is the only major sporting code in the world that hasn’t had a single elite male player publicly identify as gay. Louise Milligan investigated the AFL’s culture and asks what has created this silence? The league’s governing body signed a pledge to tackle persistent homophobia a decade ago. But Milligan speaks with players, advocates and supporters who all say the code’s...

Motty and Fi welcomed our guest host Tara Murray to join us in our footy chats this week – she prefers chips over pies or hot dogs. We had a chat with Louise Milligan, the journalist behind the Four Corners story that aired last Monday night The Silence – AFL’s Last Taboo.It was illuminating, challenging and shed light on the homophobic attitudes that exist within the AFL. We had all the news of the AFL round plus player retirements, coach appointments, last gasp wins (and losses) and also...

This week, AFL takes a back seat as Breeza, Bec and Fi, kick off the show talking all things Matilda’s. We, like the Nation are a buzz with excitement after that thrilling quarter final victory versus France. We discuss all of our feelings watching that intense Penalty shootout. We also catch up with Kerry Harris from Women’s onside. We dissect the AFL Round 22 matches and Bec’s Retirement rap is not to be missed.

The Chicks welcomed Danielle Croci to join us on the crazy CTF panel. We have a few fabulous guest co-hosts over the season which is a bit of fun. Danielle chatted to Georgia Nanscawen ex Hockyroo and now Bomber AFLW player. Nanscawen led the club to claim the 2022 VFLW Premiership and claimed the back-to back Lambert-Pearce Medal, the VFLW’s highest individual honour. Bec is looking for words that rhyme with Cunnington for her next retirement wrap and Sasha had a new segment called the...

LAURA KANE One of the great things about our show is that we get to meet people involved in the game from  administrators, coaches and players through to grass roots footy. Even better we get to meet influential women in our game. And our guest on the first show for 2023 is no exception. We were super excited to welcome to Chicks Talking Footy, Laura Kane the Acting General Manager of Football Operations.