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VAFA Podcast – Inside the Lions Cove, Red & Black Mafia make a statement

By Joe Pignataro · June 20, 2023
VAFA Podcast – Inside the Lions Cove, Red & Black Mafia make a statement

With VAFA podcast regular Josh Heriot jet-setting overseas, For the Love of the Game has a new look across the next few weeks.

Joe Pignataro is still in town, this week joined by Collegians favourite Michael Cove, and VAFA Media favourite Nick Duxson for the full agenda from the weekends action which saw plenty of highlights to go down in the VAFA history books.

  • Does Joey really have a strong dislike for Collegians?
  • How the red and black mafia caused a fuss at Brighton Beach Oval?
  • St Kevin’s return to the winners list and the top four
  • Can Old Melburnians keep the climb up the table going?

Ahead of Round 10, Tackle Your Feelings Round in the VAFA, senior coach of Old Haileybury Daniel Ward joins the team to talk through the clubs rise up from Premier B to William Buck Premier in 2023.

Also on the agenda with Wardy:

  • Using the motto ‘you’re either winning or you’re learning’ at Old Haileybury this year
  • Earning the respect of the competition
  • Brodie Steele’s breakout year, Sam Gilbert making his senior debut last weekend
  • The importance of a program like Tackle Your Feelings

Plus, we delve into the Big V squad that’s been selected by Greg Hutchison, and the world famous tips are back, as well as a whole lot more.

Subscribe to For the Love of the Game wherever you listen to podcasts, and you’ll never miss a moment of the action, and for the first time in 2023, you can also listen to VAFA Podcasts via the popular FootyLive App.

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2026 PREMIER MEN’S Old Xav’s v Old Trinity

LIVE STREAM: Tune in to watch the William Buck Premier Men’s Round 2 match between Old Xaverians and Old Trinity at Toorak Park.  

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2026 PREMIER MEN’S St Bernard’s v Old Scotch

LIVE STREAM: Tune in to watch the William Buck Premier Men’s Round 2 match between St Bernard’s and Old Scotch from St Bernard’s College.  

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AROUND THE AMMOS – April 23, 2026

Read the latest weekly headlines around the VAFA — off the field and around the boundary line. CLEARY REACHES MASSIVE MILESTONE WITH 450 GAMES Damien Cleary, 52, reached a momentous

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