Before the Footy 13/06/2026

As always, award-winning journalist John Townsend is here alongside two-time Sandover medal winner Jai Bolton.

Boys, good morning.

G'day, Matt and Jai.

Looking forward to Sam Radford.

We could probably call him before the footy favourite Sam Radford.

Yes.

Third time we've had him in about eight weeks.

I'll just have a look at his stats.

So the first time you had him on.

Later that day, West Coast got beaten by 128 points by Sydney.

They didn't do him any favours.

And then the second time, which was about a month ago, they took on GWS, beat them, and that was the start of what's been a pretty productive month, I think, for West Coast.

They've won two, lost two.

Their loss last week was only by a goal.

They've turned the corner, I think, so that gives us something to talk about.

I'm putting my media hat on today, Matt and Joy.

We talk about the media occasionally, but a couple of things have come up this week that have brought it to my attention.

As I was driving down here today, I was listening to the Integrity Unit podcast.

That's Mick Warner, Sebastian Costello, two Herald Sun reporters.

Mick Warner does a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff, and he gets into the AFL a lot.

And this week they had Mark Robinson on.

Now, Mark Robbins is not my cup of tea.

I had a little bit to do with him while I was working in the daily media and not my cup of tea.

But he's a passionate football person.

And the chalk and cheese or, you know, the apples and oranges approach on 360 made that show really work.