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US Revolution features Mason, Shannon Gill and American broadcaster Ed Wyatt in an exploration of Australian Rules Football's US connections. The eight-part series will feature interviews with Paul Roos, Jason Holmes and former ESPN broadcaster Bob Ley


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The Final Final Frontier from 2021-03-26T06:28

As we reach the 20th anniversary of the 3rd test in Chennai of that famous 2001 series, its time to wrap up our Final Frontier series.  Our thoughts on the factors behind the slow-build of ...

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NEW SERIES: The Final Frontier - Mike Coward from 2021-03-13T02:06

For many years, the rare Australian cricket tours to India went barely noticed by Australian cricket fans.  Scoreboards and match reports were the most that could be consumed. This mix...

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NEW SERIES: The Final Frontier - Colin Miller from 2021-02-16T09:56

The amazing turnaround at Kolkata not only had a nation rejoicing, it cemented the India and Australia rivalry forever.

This series was now set for a grand finale in Chennai, a test that ...

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NEW SERIES: The Final Frontier - Michael Kasprowicz from 2021-02-03T19:00

With 16 straight wins in the bank, Australia had the chance to conquer Steve Waugh Final Frontier when they arrived in Kolkata for the 2nd test of 2001.

India had been stung by the f...

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NEW SERIES: The Final Frontier - Adam Gilchrist from 2021-01-17T21:40

The 1999-2000 season had seen a more ruthless Australia sweep India 3-0,  a group of fresh stars were added to Steve Waugh’s veterans and the team  had seamlessly gone from argua...

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NEW SERIES: The Final Frontier - Damien Fleming from 2021-01-11T19:00

1998 had been a rude shock for Australia, but when India returned to Australian in 1999-2000 for the first time in 8 years, there was a similar shock to their system.

That new captain Ste...

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NEW SERIES: The Final Frontier - Gavin Robertson from 2021-01-05T20:46

A 3 test series  in early 1998, was the first full Test series between the India and Australia for 6 years, and the first Australian test series in India since 1986. Shane Warne was fi...

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NEW SERIES: The Final Frontier - Harsha Bhogle from 2021-01-01T04:00

As 2020 ticks over to 2021, we sit in the middle of another engrossing Test series between two heavyweights of international cricket – India and Australia.

Today, an Australia v Ind...

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Bound for Glory: Gary Ayres from 2020-10-23T22:13

At the start of 1991, the family club were coming off a season where they had failed to continue in the family tradition, eliminated by Melbourne the previous September to miss their first Grand...

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Bound for Glory: Dennis Cometti from 2020-10-22T19:00

If 1991 was the year the national game came of age, it was the West Coast Eagles that drove the success. . During 1991 as the Eagles dominated the competition Victorian fans' worst fears were re...

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NEW SERIES: Bound For Glory...The 91 Grand Final from 2020-10-16T23:36

The Greatest Season That Was Presents - Bound For Glory, the story of VFL Park, the Batmobile and the 1991 Grand Final.

2020 will see the ...

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Darren Bennett: The All-Star from 2020-08-15T01:58

Through this series we’ve looked at how Australian Rules has found its way into the lives of Americans in the most unlik...

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Michelle and Ed Wyatt: The Footy Evangelists from 2020-06-27T04:54

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Dani Marshall: The First from 2020-06-11T20:28

Mason Cox and Jason Holmes are unbelievable recent stories in AFL history, elite athletes from one part of the world being hand-picked without any knowledge of the game and transformed into seni...

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John Ironmonger: The Expat from 2020-05-29T19:45

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Jason Holmes: The First from 2020-05-23T00:55

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13: THE SEMI-FINAL from 2020-05-17T19:00

At the end of our 1999 World Cup series last year, we promised a season finale that would go revisit one game, with a series of voices from those who were there that day. And here it is. After a...

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Bob Ley: The Host from 2020-05-16T01:09

When ESPN started on US television it had a studio, a name, and not much else. It also had Bob Ley. Bob and his ESPN colleagues spent hours talking a...

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Paul Roos: The Coach from 2020-05-06T02:22

Paul Roos is a legend of modern Australian Rules. 

On the field he was all class, 356 games for Fitzroy and Sydney, in the 80s he ushered in a new style of attacking play f...

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Mason Cox: The Walk On from 2020-05-04T00:00

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12: TIM LANE from 2020-05-03T09:05

In anticipation of our 99 Semi-Final special, The Greatest Season That Was Presents...Dan Brettig with Tim Lane talking about the 99 Cricket World Cu...

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The 89 Grand Final from 2020-04-05T09:29

Welcome to a special one-off episode of The Greatest Season That Was

When this podcast began, it was based on a very simple premise: that footy was never ...

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8: The Wrap Up from 2020-02-18T00:03:09

Adam Collins, Dan Brettig and Shannon Gill unpack what Australia A meant then and what it means now 25 years later. 

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7: Greg Blewett from 2020-02-03T07:32

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6: The Helmet from 2020-01-30T03:51

Your chance to get your hands on an original Australia A batter's helmet. Details in the episode. 

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5: Jimmy Hadder from 2020-01-24T09:50

Jimmy Hadder is the man in the Australia A top at Super Bowl XXX. He talks to Shannon Gill and Adam Collins on The Greatest Season That Was Presents...Australia A. 

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4: Mark Taylor from 2020-01-23T06:30

In 1994 a new Australian captain was appointed, the only reservation being that he’d never consolidated a place in the one day side. Now there was an A side team full of young tyros keen t...

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3: Greg Rowell from 2020-01-17T07:00

When the Australia A team first took the field the public looked upon expectedly as the cream of the next generation of Australian cricket stars went on show. Ponting, Hayden, Langer, Martyn, Le...

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2: Graham Halbish from 2020-01-13T07:00

The 1994-95 summer saw the ACB now have full control of the promotion of the game back from Channel 9/PBL. But a new conventional and increased TV rights deal meant that it needed to go above an...

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1: Australia A from 2020-01-12T06:00

In the mid 90s Australian cricket appeared to be in rude health. The ghosts of World Series and Rebel tours were long gone, and the national team was nearing its ascent to the top of Test cricke...

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The Greatest Season That Was Presents...Australia A from 2020-01-09T02:47

Coming soon from The Greatest Season That Was...Australia A. Episode One available Sunday 12 January 2020.  

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6: THAT'S WHAT FOOTY IS ALL ABOUT from 2019-10-27T19:55:28

Dan Brettig, Shannon Gill and Adam Collins wrap up the Fitzroy Bulldogs. What impact did the failed merger have on footy in the 90's? What impact could it have had? And what did footy fans and a...

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5: PETER GORDON from 2019-10-20T07:11:58

Hands were shaken, deals signed, the press was called in. Footscray was no more.

Or was it?

While Melbourne went into shock Dennis Galimberti made the fateful...

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4: ROD AUSTIN from 2019-10-13T08:45:25

The Greatest Season That Was presents...the Fitzroy Bulldogs. In 1989, Rod Austin had a unique position to witness the proposed merger between Fitzroy and Footscray. Austin served on Footscray's...

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3: LEON WIEGARD from 2019-10-06T08:00

Before Fitzroy’s 90s demise there was the 80s, when despite constant speculation on their survival the Lions defied the odds and prospered. Finals appearances in 1981, 1983, 1984 and 1...

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2: DENNIS GALIMBERTI from 2019-10-01T22:32:41

In 1989 the Footscray Football Club had the stench of death to it. After a promising mid-80s period, finances had dried up, and energy was sapped. On-field results followed. Debt mounted. The cl...

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1: THE FITZROY BULLDOGS from 2019-09-30T10:36:48

There’s a fuzzy feeling for footy fans the week after the Grand Final. The fever pitch that builds over the finals series, the climax of the day, the new heroes feted, the realisation that...

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11: Australia - Damien Fleming from 2019-08-01T07:20:58

Australia’s World Cup record stands above all others. After 2019 they sit on 5 titles and justifiable claims to be the World Cup kings over its 44 year history, with India and the West Ind...

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10: South Africa - Lance Klusener from 2019-06-30T07:00

South Africa announced its arrival back to world cricket at the 1992 World Cup and they were immediately a force.

Whilst results in Test cricket were strong, it was one day cricket that h...

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COMING SOON...Lance Klusener from 2019-06-29T10:06:02

South Africa's Lance Klusener dominated the 1999 Cricket World Cup. We'll share his story in the next episode of The Greatest Season That Was Presents...1999 The Cricket World Cup. ...

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9: India - Harsha Bhogle from 2019-06-22T22:45:49

Throughout the course of the 1990s, India’s standing in the global game experienced a revolution, turbocharged by a passion for one-day international cricket

By the time the 1999 Wo...

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8: New Zealand - Geoff Allott from 2019-06-19T10:27:44

There were more than a few breakout stories in 99, but few more
fascinating than that of a left-arm pace bowling spearhead from New
Zealand who used a three fingers "claw" grip on the whit...

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7: Zimbabwe - Andy Flower from 2019-06-14T20:04:17

By 1999 Zimbabwe had experienced some fleeting success at World Cups; upsetting Australia in 1983, and Eddo Brandes destroying England in 1992 being the standouts.

The era that followed t...

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6: Inaugural CEO of the English&Wales Cricket Board - Tim Lamb from 2019-06-08T21:19:05

As a follow-up to our episode with Tournament Director Terry Blake, Adam Collins talks to Tim Lamb, the CEO of the English & Wales Cricket Board during the 1999 Cricket World Cup. 

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5: Tournament Director - Terry Blake from 2019-06-07T18:44:03

After a trying decade for England cricket, their chance to host the 1999 World Cup was seen as a prized opportunity to revitalize the sport by capturing the public imagination when the carnival ...

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4: Bangladesh - Aminul Islam from 2019-06-02T09:49:03

They were called the ‘minnows’ the non-Test playing nations that won their way through to the World Cup. Pre  1999 Sri Lanka, East Africa, Canada, Zimbabwe, Kenya, the Netherlan...

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3: England - Alec Stewart from 2019-05-30T19:00

If the 1980s was English cricket’s decade of sex, drugs and rock and roll excess, the 1990s were its decidedly milder and meeker decade. An English team that for the most part had been...

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2: Why 99? from 2019-05-28T19:30

The Greatest Season That Was Presents...99 The Cricket World Cup. 

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1: The Greatest Season That Was Presents...99 The Cricket World Cup from 2019-05-27T06:00

Was 1999 The Greatest Cricket World Cup there was? Perhaps. 

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Episode 22 - The Greatest Cricket Podcast That Was...and still is. from 2019-01-20T08:21:18

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Episode 21 - The Greatest Songs from the Greatest Season That Was: 1993 from 2018-10-04T20:00

The AFL season may be over, but there’s still a few little things to keep #Ninety3 alive.

When we had our chat with Rohan Connolly about the top ten games of 1993, the conversation ...

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Episode 20 - Essendon: Victory for the Bombers from 2018-09-27T19:57:25

1993 for Essendon is a story of comebacks, debuts and tactics. Driving it all was the unique approach and attitude of AFL Legend, Kevin Sheedy. 

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Episode 19 - Footscray: Sons of the west from 2018-09-23T20:00

In 1989, Footscray Football Club was on its knees. Out of cash and nearly out of time, they survived extinction and merger - just. But three years on in 1992, the Bulldogs finished sec...

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Episode 18 - The Storyteller: Anne-Maree Sparkman from 2018-09-20T20:00

As we’ve gone through the Greatest Season That Was, it's glaring the lack of females involved in AFL football at the time.

In 199...

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Episode 17 - The AFL: Ross the Boss from 2018-09-16T20:00

In 2018 the AFL is a juggernaut, and over the last 25 years it been more a less an uninterrupted incline.

But go back to the start of 1993 and things were not as clear and rosy....

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Episode 16 - The Ashes: Sherrin in the Park from 2018-09-13T20:00

What if the greatest season of all time was played but one of the greatest footy writers the game has ever known wasn’t there to see it? This was Greg Baum’s story in 1993 he wa...

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Episode 15 - Geelong: Malcolm in the middle from 2018-09-09T20:00

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Episode 14 - The Top Ten from 2018-09-06T20:00

While off-field transformations in the game have influenced many of our discussions, it is the footy that brought us here to start with. Due to the sheer volume of heart-stopping finishes - thro...

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Episode 13 - Melbourne: The Balme Era from 2018-09-02T20:00

Melbourne in 1993 were a team in-between. On the back of their late 80’s revival the Demons led by John Northey had contested five straight finals se...

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Episode 12 - 28 Games from 2018-08-30T20:00

The 1993 AFL season witnessed extraordinary individual achievements and social breakthroughs. Every team has stories from that year that resonate with the clubs and fans 25 years later.  Listen

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Episode 11 - The Footy Show begins from 2018-08-26T20:00

On the Sunday of Round 3 of the 1993 AFL season, Channel Nine quietly slipped a new TV show into its schedule – the not so creatively titled ‘The Footy Show...

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Episode 10 - St. Kilda: Winmar Stands, Winmar Walks from 2018-08-23T20:00

As 1993 dawned the Saints were coming. After years of failure they’d made the finals in two straight years and maybe the elusive flag was now in reach. When they ...

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Episode 9 - Carlton: Sticks, Harry and Missed Opportunities from 2018-08-19T19:35:10

Seven premierships in the 20 years from 1968-1987 meant that Carlton had a deserved arrogance. But going into 1993 Carlton were in unchartered territory. They’d g...

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Episode 8 - Richard Hinds from 2018-08-16T20:00

Just as footy itself was different in 1993, so too was covering the game from the press box. As part of a talented journalistic team at the Sunday Age, Listen

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Episode 7 - Richmond: Tigers and Tragedy from 2018-08-12T20:00

In 1993 the proud Richmond Football Club was at its lowest ebb. A tenth straight year of mediocrity hit Tigerland that year. Cameron Schwab was at the helm, just 29 yea...

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Episode 6 - Adelaide: Cornes' Crows from 2018-08-05T20:00

The Adelaide Crows were one of the great stories of 1993. Three years into their AFL existence,  they put a genuine mark on the competition in front of adoring crowds at Football Park, he...

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Episode 5 - Brisbane: Buckley's Chance from 2018-07-29T20:00

Since their inception in 1987, the Brisbane Bears were an encapsulation of everything that was ham-fisted about the league’s expansion.  Despite the best efforts of those ...

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Episode 4 - Sydney: Saving the Swans from 2018-07-22T20:00

Ron Joseph shares his experience in Sydney in 1993. The Swans in 1993 experienced the lowest of lows and, to be honest, not many highs. One of those highs was luring AFL legend Ron Barassi out o...

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Episode 3 - Fitzroy: Once more with feeling from 2018-07-15T20:05

In 1993, Fitzroy were both a club teetering on the brink of extinction and a senior side entering its prime. Off-field dramas were many, but on the field the Lions were among the most watchable ...

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Episode 2 - North Melbourne: The Roos Rise from 2018-07-15T20:00

Just a month out from the 1993 season North Melbourne were in tatters, the so-called next big things had stalled...

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Episode 1 - The Greatest Season That Was: 1993 from 2018-07-15T08:19:30

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