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Only YOU can help prevent dangerous tackles
Well, that's it. Wrap it up folks, the tackle is dead, and so is the game. You can't even lay a good hard tackle anymore without being...
Jack Turner
Jul 19, 20243 min read
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AFL Rivalries - Who your team loves to hate
Which teams love to hate each other?
Learn more about the recent popular Twitter poll from @thebackpocketau
Jack Turner
Jun 21, 20243 min read
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Pariah Carey - AFL Round Two 2024
We're back - with Covid - for the votes and news out of Round 2 of the 2024 AFL season, with a couple of new segments, all your votes,...
Jack Turner
Mar 28, 20241 min read
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Warner Brothers Presents - AFL Round One 2024
The Tasmania Devils have arrived! And along with them have the weird sort-of-bye-rounds to make up for Round Zero. Will Tasmania get a...
Jack Turner
Mar 20, 20241 min read
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Kane Cornes' Favourite Podcast - AFL Round Zero 2024
Welcome back to The Back Pocket for another year, as we claim the crown as Kane Cornes favourite podcast (heavy sacrcasm implied). We're...
Jack Turner
Mar 20, 20241 min read
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Tanking to the Top - AFL Round 21 2023
This week we discuss tanking on the highest difficulty, online nuffery, form slumps and accidentally manifesting one of the greatest...
Jack Turner
Aug 9, 20231 min read
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The Best Defender in the Competition - AFL Round 20 2023
This week we talk squirrel tackles, concussion drama and subsequent punishments, and a return to a discussion about the best defender in...
Jack Turner
Aug 2, 20231 min read
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First They Came for Stuart Dew, And I Did Not Speak Out - AFL Round 19 2023
This week on The Back Pocket, two players share nine votes as the best defender from round 19, Jack gets outed for having a secret least...
Jack Turner
Jul 27, 20231 min read
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(Reluctantly) In Defence of the St Kilda Football Club - AFL Round 18 2023
This week we talk conditions for the next Ashes test, the state of the St Kilda Football Club, what makes the GWS Giants feel like a real...
Jack Turner
Jul 19, 20231 min read
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Lots of Troublesome Boats - AFL Round 17 2023
Round Seventeen of the AFL Mens season is over and a few more teams have been ruled out of the running for finals, and some of the best...
Jack Turner
Jul 13, 20231 min read
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Brought to you by Mate Colina - AFL Round 16 2023
Welcome back to the real AFL season, with a full nine games being played in Round Sixteen, and we still have no idea what the ladder is...
Jack Turner
Jul 5, 20231 min read
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AFL Round Sixteen | Episode Forty One - A Win off the Bye
Welcome back to the real AFL season, with a full nine games being played in Round Sixteen, and we still have no idea what the ladder is...
Jack Turner
Jul 5, 20231 min read
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AFL Round Fifteen | Episode Forty - A Win off the Bye
The bye rounds are over and thank goodness for that. Collingwood are good and free kicks are funny, Joel Selwood is at the cricket and...
Jack Turner
Jun 29, 20231 min read
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AFL Round Fourteen | Episode Thirty Nine - A Sicilian Holiday
On the Round Fourteen edition of The Back Pocket, Jack and Alastair talk Tribunal news, is the bye round curse real, and which teams had...
Jack Turner
Jun 21, 20231 min read
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AFL Round Thirteen | Episode Thirty Eight - Remember When Football Was Fun?
This week on The Back Pocket Alastair reminisces on enjoying football (he never did) and Jack has no idea who he is giving votes to. We...
Jack Turner
Jun 14, 20231 min read
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AFL Round Twelve | Episode Thirty Seven - Girls Go Crazy for a Little Nugget Man
On this week's round twelve episode of The Back Pocket, Jack and Alastair agree on almost everything brought up from MRO to votes to...
Jack Turner
Jun 7, 20231 min read
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AFL Round Eleven | Episode Thirty Six - No More Mr Woke Koch
Welcome back to The Back Pocket after Round Eleven as we discuss our deep and dark sadness at the state of our football teams. Can you be...
Jack Turner
May 31, 20231 min read
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AFL Round Ten | Episode Thirty Five - The Damien Drum Method
The Back Pocket returns for Round Ten of the AFL Season. This week we talk coach sackings, losing streaks, club culture and as always the...
Jack Turner
May 25, 20231 min read
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AFL Round Nine | Episode Thirty Four - The AFL's Lamb Bastard
Another week, another episode of The Back Pocket. A surprise ten-voter in the Scarlett-Silvagni Medal, and a few new faces in the votes....
Jack Turner
May 18, 20231 min read
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AFL Round Eight | Episode Thirty Three - Rossball Ugly, Vossball Bad
This week we talk about how Collingwood are becoming annoyingly likeable, St Kilda are awful to watch, and where to now for West Coast?...
Jack Turner
May 10, 20231 min read
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