Each episode, like each season, stands on its own. You can start at the beginning in 1897 and follow the story year by year, episode by episode to see how clubs and players emerge, some achieve glory and others fall at the final hurdle. Or find the years where your team competed or won and listen to those episodes. It is up to you.
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Each episode, like each season, stands on its own. You can start at the beginning in 1897 and follow the story year by year, episode by episode to see how clubs and players emerge, some achieve glory and others fall at the final hurdle. Or find the years where your team competed or won and listen to those episodes. It is up to you.
Eleven teams started the 1943 season but only ten made it to the final round. To ensure only one bye per team, the club on the bottom of the ladder after round eleven was eliminated! The earliest Wooden Spoon ever! The war meant everything was different, US Marines were at the MCG, they even played a gridiron game, the American football code as a rare game on the G once it was occupied for the war. The Americans even took on the Australians in a hybrid football game described as ‘aerial bombardment”. All the while the VFL season unfolded, with challenges of player availability and news of loss at the front line. Still plans were being prepared for peace time, would the VFL be expanding?
Grand Final History
Each episode, like each season, stands on its own. You can start at the beginning in 1897 and follow the story year by year, episode by episode to see how clubs and players emerge, some achieve glory and others fall at the final hurdle. Or find the years where your team competed or won and listen to those episodes. It is up to you.
