Zac Dawson joins us to chat Grand Final heartbreak, Ross Lyon’s inner circle & more! | Finals Week 3 Preview
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What do the hosts talk about at the very beginning of the episode?
Lobby sport.
The next day I said, hello. And then he didn't reply. Did you have your eyes open or closed
on your first kiss, Brett?
And don't put your hand up at me, mate, because I'll fucking break your arm. This is not getting cut out, this is too good. Yes, welcome back to Footy and Friends. This episode is brought to you by your friends at BWS. Do you like game day bevies, Mike? I like pod day bevies, but I got here
today and
they're all warm. We put some pod uh pod days in the freezer. So we'll just we'll start dry. And then we'll lubricate pod. And we got 'em, we got them from BWS. We did. Which is fantastic. Absolutely. Where's Brett? For all your game day bevies this season, head into your nearest BWS, the official liquor retailer of the AFL. Now, Mike, Brett's away. Yep. When Brett's away, the boys play. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just a good vibe in here, isn't it? Yeah. Good to be alive. Like, you know, it's just like life's not that bad. It can't be. It can't be. It can't be.
How does Zac Dawson recount his early AFL journey and the clubs he played for?
Sometimes I walk out in a I go, you know, there's war and there's famine and there's all these petrol prices. Petrol prices. Brett's Brett's angry. But then I realise I walk outside and the sun's up and I realise Zach Dawson's on the pod today. He's here. He's here. Well done. Well done. Well done, Jackie. Well done, Jackie. Good to see you, mate. Good to see you, mate.
Good to be back.
Hey, we haven't caught up for a while. Back in two thousand and You tell you tell the the year? Twenty It's twenty twenty. Twenty twenty. Twenty twenty. Yeah. And I I say this uh publicly a lot when people ask me, probably never actually passed on the gratitude to you. But when people say to me on a serious note, they say, When did you know you had a future in the game? I said When I had Zach Dawson on the podcast the podcast game. It's quite the opposite of that story. When I had Zach on the pod and Dylan Friends, episode 53, if you want to go back and listen, all-time favorite episode. And he set me up for absolute success. I reckon it was the first pod you've ever done, and this is probably the
second. That was the first and only pod I've ever done and indulged myself in letting everyone know about the history of um Zach Dawson. Yeah. Yeah. It's a great story. Today's the next. Yeah, and we'll we'll
we'll delve in a little bit um deeper as we go. Not too bad. Yeah, yeah. No, we're going to get it. I I got asked for some dirt. We didn't even scratch the surface. Oh yeah. Um Z Zach messaged me today though. Um again, we've got to be better here at look how many people are in the room, Zach. What a production. We've got Ruby who comes once a once a month. Yeah. Um Liam's here a lot. Never see him. He's in the corner. Don't ever hear him. Mac, early in the week's bad after a big weekend. Bit bit slow, bit sluggish. Link always on.
Yep.
Dylan figured out in twenty twenty he's got a future in the podcast gap. Anyway, I've done a long winded way of saying there's a lot of people in the room, there's a lot of people with the production. Zach had to come to me, the full time coach, to be like, What time are we in?
Yeah.
What's going on? What are we talking about? So
maybe we'll see. We've got to just work it out when we get here, mate. But we have um got a lot to to go through today with you. Don't worry about that because we want to chat all things dorso, then we wanna chat about the games ahead. But I thought I'd just take us back down memory lane because there's three times that stick out to me that I've had really good times with Zach. I don't actually Link did you ever see if we played against each other?
Yep.
I don't think we did. You definitely would you would remember. No, I think I wouldn't have probably been in the team. So for those who don't know and are playing at home, Zach and I's sisters used to dance together. Right. Yeah. Like as kids. Yeah. Dancing lessons.
Mm-hmm.
And I would always have to go to the dancing lessons. You're a little bit older than that, so you could sort of maybe go at home and just play Xbox or something. Yeah. But you're at the dancing lessons. I had to go to the lessons, so I was always there one hour.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What do the hosts talk about at the very beginning of the episode?
0:00–0:56
2
How does Zac Dawson recount his early AFL journey and the clubs he played for?
0:56–3:47
3
What was the story behind Zac’s connection with Ross Lyon and how did it affect his career?
3:47–8:39
4
How does Zac describe the pressure and key moments of the Grand Finals he played in?
8:39–46:31
5
What’s the story behind the “Ten Thirty Boys” and the Domino’s ad?
46:31–55:39
6
How are the recent trade rumours – especially Todd Marshall and the draft picks – affecting the finals outlook?
55:39–1:17:15
7
Which players does Zac Dawson rank in his top‑five finals teammates and why?
1:17:15–1:28:32
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