VAFA Podcast

VAFA Podcast

Host Joe Pignataro and Brian Waldron take an in-depth look each week at the VAFA. Victorian Amateur Football Association, the countries premier local football code. Interviews, analysis, humor, tips for the weekend's game and so much more each and every week.

Episodes

November 17, 2022 48 mins

After 2 years of interruptions, a complete season of VAFA football was played. Joe Pignataro and Josh Heriot recap season 2022, and all the moments that stood out from a memorable year across the Men's competition, the Women's competition, the Masters and the Under 19's. The countdown is on for 2023, but before we look forward. We look back on the moments that made 2022. 

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The new coach of Old Brighton Dan Donati was once the senior assistant coach at Old Xaverians. In 2019 he joined Joe Pignataro and Nick Armistead on the Saturday warm-up to talk through his football and coaching journey. 

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On September 19, 2022 confirmation came through that the Yarra Old Grammarians and Manningham Cobras in Division 2 had agreed to a merger thus becoming the Old Yarra Cobras. A week out from pre-season beginning for the new club, President Nick Paton, Men's coach Nathan Monaco and Women's coach Michael James join Joe Pignataro to discuss the process to become a new entity, and the path being forged forward for 2023 and beyond.

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Joe Pignataro heads down amongst the celebrations with St Kevin's after claiming their third William Buck Premier Premiership in four seasons. 

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The Swans are in the AFL Grand Final, John Heriot is not only the grandfather of our commentator Josh Heriot, he's also the full back in the Sydney Swans Team of the Century. A very special guest talking us through the Bloods advancing to another Grand Final.

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Joe Pignataro and Brian Waldron take a look in-depth at the William Buck Premier Grand Final, the Premier B Grand Final, and recap the Premierships won by the Divisions over the weekend just gone. Tom Jok, 2018 Premiership player with St Kevin's is our headline guest ahead of a massive weekend for the VAFA. 

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A massive evening on RSN Carnival with Joe Pignataro, Eliza Wright, Josh Heriot and Mitch Dyer going through the VAFA's 2022 best and fairest players across Premier B to Division 3 Women's, Premier B to Division 4 Men's. The Under 19's, Under 23's and the Mecwacare Masters. A congratulations to all our award recipients on producing a terrific season. 

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September 12, 2022 18 mins

Old Brighton have made their way into the William Buck Premier Grand Final, straight after the game we sent Joe Pignataro down into the Old Brighton rooms to have a chat with the team that's taken them into their first A-Grade Grand Final since 2007.

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Joe Pignataro, and Brian Waldron look ahead to a terrific weekend of footy coming up - Can Old Brighton keep the wins going as they battle Collegians for a spot in the William Buck Premier Grand Final? Or will Collegians get back to their winning ways? Dale Bower has taken Uni Blacks to the Premier B Grand Final and will play in A-Grade in 2023, he is our headline guest plus it's Grand Final weekend in the Divisions! 

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Lucy Watkin and Eliza Wright bring you the William Buck Premier Women's Grand Final preview episode, we go into the camps of St Kevins and Kew ahead of the big dance. Bree Doyle was a member of the 2019 Premiership SKOB outfit, can they go back to back? While Jess Burger is hoping to coach the Bears to the promised land.
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Bumper edition of For the Love of the Game. The home and away season for William Buck Premier and Premier B is done, we now move into the finals series. The Divisional finals series is up to the Preliminary Final weekend while De La have gone down in the Mecwacare Masters.
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It's all about Caulfield Grammarians and St Kevin's this week as Lucy Watkin and Eliza Wright take you Inside the Boundary with both coaches ahead of the knockout final. Which side will advance to the William Buck Premier Grand Final and face Kew?
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Heading into the final round of William Buck Premier, Old Melburnians will head to Old Brighton in an Elimination Final. The winner will play in September while for the loser, it's curtains on 2022, captain of OM's Josh Freezer is our headline guest.. For the Divisions, the finals start this weekend on Saturday and right through Sunday.
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Eliza Wright and Lucy Watkin recap all the Women's Grand Final action from the weekend with Premiers being awarded from Premier B to Division 3, for the first time since 2019.
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Joe Pignataro and Brian Waldron wrap up the third last round of the home and away season for Premier A, and Premier B. Plus look ahead to the final home and away round for the Divisions before moving into finals. Marcus Stavrou, captain of Old Xaverians is our special guest as the red and black army try to push their way into the top 4 with 2 games remaining.
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Lucy Watkin and Eliza Wright take you Inside the Boundary, as we preview every Grand Final from Premier B through to Division 3 Women's. In William Buck Premier Women's, we have moved into the first weekend of the finals series. Eloise Defina, a star of the Old Camberwell side, joins us. As the Wellers go for an unlikely Premiership in Division 1, finishing 3rd to Beaumaris.
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Joe Pignataro and Brian Waldron are back to talk through the great divide in William Buck Premier between the top 5 and the bottom 5, in Division 2 Men's, Brunswick and MHSOB have fought out a magnificent draw, while for the Women's competition, from Premier B to Division 3, they're on the doorstep of Grand Finals this weekend!
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Lucy Watkin & Eliza Wright dissect Semi-Final weekend in the Women's competition, take a look ahead to what's in store this Preliminary Final weekend plus delve into the four walls of the Hampton Rovers with playing assistant coach Alana Gadsby.
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We've moved into the final month of the home and away season for 2022. Brian Waldron has selected a team from outside the top four who can still win this years Premiership. Collegians have made it six wins in a row, while Anthony 'Plugger' Lynch joins us to talk about St Kevin's strategy under his coaching guidance and the use of drones at training through the pre-season.
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Lucy Watkin and Eliza Wright preview Premier B - Division 3 finals series that kicks off this weekend. It's nearly 12-months to the day where the 2020 finals series was cancelled due to COVID-19, this year we will have a fresh set of Premiers to announce.
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