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The Coathanger

2SER 107.3FM
The Coathanger is a show and podcast where we tackle women's footy with a Sydney View. Host, Fiona Lamb is a footy fan and is passionate about women’s football as a platform for empowering women and engaging the public in reducing violence against women. Coach Kiwi played her 250th match in 2017, and since then has spent more time on the coaching sidelines. She has 30 years of coaching experience and is 2020 midfield coach for the Collingwood VFLW club. Tracey Kick is a five time premiership coach in AFL Sydney, former state women’s coach and AFLW assistant coach in season 2018 at the GWS Giants. Nat Morgan’s has always believed chicks can and should play footy and the very first Best and Fairest award in the Sydney Women’s AFL “SWAFL” competition was named in her honour. Emma Phillips played 170 games for Melbourne Uni then moved to Sydney and playing for the UNSWES Bulldogs under Tracey Kick. Em is a passionate believer in football as a place for women and girls to develop confidence and self-belief.
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Episodes

Grand Final Coathanger Season 8

Fi and Lozz congratulate the Brisbane Lions on their Season 8 Grand Final win and commiserate with the North Melbourne Kangaroos. They wrap up the final Coathanger show for Season 8 with injury news, signings, delistings, coach of the year awards and acknowledge Mon Conti's Best and Fairest win.

Dec 04, 202326 minEp. 13

Season 8 Preliminary Finals

Fi and Lozz review the prelims, acknowledge Nic Livingstone on her announcement that she is stepping down from her role as Head of Women's Football, and highlight the Sydney and NSW wins in the W awards. GWS Giant Zarli Goldsworthy won Rising Star, with Swan Ally Morphett just one point behind. Kellie Nolan won community coach of the year and NSW players were well represented in the All Australian side. Finally, they give their GF predictions and for once, they agree!

Nov 27, 202328 minSeason 8Ep. 12

Season 8 Semi Finals

Fi and Lozz review the semi finals and applaud the Sydney Swans on their excellent season after bowing out in their match with the Adelaide Crows. Commiserations to the Melbourne Demons who lost to the Geelong Cats despite a 4th quarter charge. They cover coaching changes and potential player movements, and make bold predictions for next week's preliminary finals.

Nov 20, 202329 minEp. 11

Season 8 Finals Week 1

Fi and Lozz celebrate the Swans' win over the Suns, putting them through to the semi finals next week. Lions beat Crows in a fierce battle and Bombers went down in a valiant fight against the Cats. But the big surprise of the first round of finals for Season 8 was the 41 point margin in North Melbourne Kangaroos' win over Melbourne Dees. We congratulate Zali Goldsworthy for her big bag of awards at the GWS Gabrielle Trainor Medal awards night, especially the Jacinda Barclay Fearless award. And w...

Nov 13, 202329 minEp. 10

Season 8 Round 10

Swans make finals! Congratulations to the Swans who have made finals in their second season, having been winless in their first. Surely the most improved team in Season 10! They play Suns in the first week of finals, which is the first time these 2 teams meet this season! Giants went down to Port Adelaide as we say farewell to champion Erin Phillips. (Come on AFLW! Name that award after her!) Lozz and Fi cover Rising Stars and tip their hats to the tied leading goal kickers for Season 10: Eden Z...

Nov 06, 202329 minSeason 8Ep. 9

Season 8 Round 9

The Coathanger team sympathise with Zali Goldsworthy who had to pick herself up off the deck during the Giants match against the Suns and Pepa Randall plays her 50th. Swans win against Collingwood and map a pathway to finals! Lozz gets on her soapbox about accessibility at Henson Park and Kiwi adds her 2 cents about fixturing: More in Sydney please! Finally, Lozz is off the bottom of the tipping comp, Kiwi is in 4th place and Fi and Lozz's mum are neck and neck!

Oct 30, 202328 minEp. 8

Season 8 Round 8

Swans and Giants win, with a fantastic result for the Sydney team. Kiwi joins the pod and she and Fi help locate Lozz on the tipping comp ladder. Needless to say, Lozz's mum is going great guns. Lozz reminisces about her childhood spent at Vic park after a return there on the weekend. Kiwi joins the pod and urges everyone to stick around at Sydney's home of women's football, Henson Park, this Sunday, for the Community Cup which will be held directly afterwards.

Oct 24, 202330 minSeason 8Ep. 7

Season 8 Round 7

Coach Donnie Hess, host of Donnie's Disposals, joins Fi to analyse the Round 7 matches for Swans and Giants. A loss for both teams this round. Controversy Corner covers that moment when coaches say the quiet bit out loud and live to regret it. Looking forward to Round 8, Donnie and Fi don't see eye to eye on the Henson Park showdown between Giants and Carlton, but they're on the same page for Swans vs Bulldogs.

Oct 16, 202329 minSeason 8Ep. 6

Season 8 Round 6

Lozz and Fi discuss The Replacements as a possible solution to the Western Bulldogs woes. Remember: Chicks dig scars, but glory last forever! They hail the great Alyce Parker yet again, and tip the hat to Scott Gowans for taking great players to even greater heights and Lozz the Stats Queen notes that for the first time, Swans and Giants have won their respective matches in the same round. Yet again Lozz's mum beats Lozz in the tipping and Fi makes a shocking revelation about the tipping ladder.

Oct 10, 202327 minSeason 8Ep. 7

S07 E15

In our final pod for AFLW Season 7, we are joined by special guest Coach Donnie Hess to review the Grand Final, congratulate Melbourne, and weigh in on the W awards. There are some strong opinions and things get a little out of hand!

Dec 01, 20221 hr 7 min

S07 E14

Preliminary Finals Time

Nov 22, 202229 min

S07 E13

Second round of finals

Nov 14, 202230 min

S07 E12

We discuss the first round of finals and Kiwi and Lozz interview Richmond's Eilish Sheerin.

Nov 10, 20221 hr 18 min

S07 E11

We wrap up the season, marvel at the Henson Park attendance figure and we reveal the winner and runners up for our Tipping Comp!

Nov 02, 202239 min

S07 E10

Both Sydney teams went down in Round 9, but there was amazing attendance again at Henson Park! For all that and more tune in to this week’s pod!

Oct 26, 202233 min

S07 E09

We review the Round 8 Swans and Giants matches, cover injuries and tips. Fi and Kiwi joined the banner crew for the Giants. We give our take on issues with AFLW facilities and share a Swans giveaway

Oct 20, 202250 min

S07 E08

In our Pride Round pod for Season 7 we have a bumper episode for you! We are joined on the show by Darebin Falcons Women's Sports club President Jane Ryan, to explain the club's inclusion policy and the steps they took to rewrite it. And in a Coathanger - nay, an AFLW First - Fi and Loz chat to GWS Giants Katherine Smith and Sydney Swans Lisa Steane about being a footy couple, and why Pride Round is so important.

Oct 12, 20221 hr 25 min

S07 E07

We chat to AFLW S wan Maddy Collier We also review round 6, report on the GWS Giants first ever win over Carlton at Henson Park and acknowledge the jerk article. We don’t endorse punching down at the Coathanger!

Oct 06, 202245 min

Round 5: Degrees of Devastation

We talk the big results we may not have seen coming from Round 5, applaud the footy festival in Melbourne this weekend just gone and talk about the big month of football at Henson Park coming up. And we review the Giants and Swans games and in the process we will do an overview of the 7 stages of grief, and levels of pain and degrees of devastation.

Sep 29, 202229 min

Round 3 - GWS Onwards To Victory

We congratulate GWS GIANTS as the inaugural winners of the Coathanger Cup! We share highlights from the Indigenous Round & our Suggestion Box. For all that and more tune in to The Coathanger

Sep 14, 202228 minSeason 3Ep. 4

The Coathanger Cup

We preview The Coathanger Cup which will be awarded at this weekend’s derby between Sydney Swans and GWS Giants. We acknowledge Indigenous Round and Fi chats to Swans player Aliesha Newman.

Sep 08, 202238 minSeason 3Ep. 3

Round 1, Alyce Parker and the Swans have 3 captains

In our Round 1 pod Fi catches up with Giants’ Vice Captain Alyce Parker. We review the Round 1 matches in which both Sydney teams went down fighting, we talk injuries, acknowledge the debutantes and recognize Lozz’s mum as the leader of our tipping comp! We also discuss the Swans’ decision to name 3 captains: Maddy Collier, Brooke Lochland and Lauren Szigeti and the responsibility of broadcasters when it comes to injuries and aggression.

Aug 31, 202248 minSeason 3Ep. 2

Preseason Pod - Swans Are Go!

In our preseason pod for AFLW Season 7, Coach Kiwi welcomes Fi back to the driver's seat and we welcome Lauren "Loz" Hodgson to the Coathanger team. We share what we are looking forward to in this season and put in our bold predictions for the Grand Final and Best and Fairest. Loz reviews the Swans vs Collingwood practice match, Fi is a harbinger of more ACLs whilst Kiwi predicts a Henson Park lockout. The 5th Quarter interviews with newly appointed AFLW Giants Head Coach Cam Bernasconi, and Sco...

Aug 25, 20221 hr 11 minSeason 3Ep. 1

Final Siren

And that’s a wrap! This is the last episode for AFLW Season 6. We cover Adelaide’s classy win over Melbourne to capture their third premiership and why this win was particularly important to them. We take a look at the Best and Fairest - and the shenanigans from the award night! We look at the big name players switching clubs and pay tribute to the players who went through what was arguably one of the most difficult seasons in the history of sporting seasons.

Apr 19, 202227 minSeason 2Ep. 55
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