Footy's silly season is here and with it comes all manner of journalistic schemes, strategies and shenanigans from tenuous links to agent praisers. The NRL Grand Final was the centrepiece to Australian sport over the weekend, Jack Ginnivan and Nick Watson have a big lesson to learn, and have we uncovered more to the Tony Armstrong story in a Sounding Board exclusive? In this episode: 0:58 - NRL Grand Final, and Grand Final timeslots 4:00 - Ginni and Wiz let the kids down 7:36 - Uncovering more on the Tony Armstrong story 12:50 - Extraordinary Mitch Cleary promo 15:30 - Passive Aggressive Retweet: Sam Edmund 17:00 - TLTT (Tenuous Links To Trades) 19:10 - Agent Praisers 21:06 - There's a new spice in free agency compensation: smash the AFL 22:21 - Square Up Season 26:50 - Kane's bobbed up on Footy Furnace 28:43 - Eddie McGuire is heading up Channel 9's Melbourne Cup coverage 30:58 - Bruce Springsteen's video endorsing Kamala Harris 32:20 - Hutchy still attending Perth Wildcats games Hosts: Craig Hutchison: twitter.com/craighutchy Damian Barrett: twitter.com/barrettdamian Follow and contact us: Twitter: twitter.com/SoundingBoardEp Facebook: facebook.com/SoundingBoardEp Email: [email protected] The Sounding Board is proudly supported by DrinkWise - if you're choosing to drink, choose to drink wise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices