Harf and Stevo dissect the pre-season tune-up between Collingwood and North Melbourne, with concerns arising for each club in the wake of the contest. The boys assess whether Port Adelaide or Melbourne will have the better ‘new coach bounce’ this year, while they also unveil their top 10s for the 2026 AFL season.

Six Points is streamed live at 9:00am (AEDT) weekly, with former AFL midfielder, AFLW senior coach and broadcaster Daniel Harford and senior sports reporter Mark Stevens tackling all the major AFL talking points and issues.

THE AGENDA:

00:00 Intro

03:03 Roos win, but...

06:03 Get used to L's, Pies

09:02 May Day

12:41 New coach bounce

16:07 Silent Coaches

19:35 Top 10s

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We’re back ahead of the 2026 AFL season, with our first episode of the year setting some ground rules for the season ahead. Phoenix attempts to guess the 17 stats AFL umpires now have access to for Brownlow voting, while Mitch has to explain our recent AFL experiments ratings. The team also goes through their predictions for 2026, including secret predictions we’ll uncover later into the season.

The Hitout AFL Podcast is Zero Hanger’s weekly show covering all of the latest AFL news, views and footy fun, featuring host Phoenix Trinidad and presenters Mitch Keating and Aidan Cellini.

⬇️ RUNDOWN:

00:00 Welcome to the Hitout

05:36 Umpires getting stats

12:34 Banned words

18:00 Season Predictions

24:33 Ranking AFL Experiments

30:13 The worst best players

RECORDED: 26/02/2026

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AFL journalist Mark Stevens joins the Hangin' Out podcast to discuss his legendary career covering footy. From his 20 years as a senior sports journalist at the Herald Sun and 8 years as Chief AFL Reporter at Channel 7, to now joining Zero Hanger at Zero Digital Sports, 'Stevo' shares incredible stories about doorstop journalism, the art of breaking news, and some wild moments including encountering a streaker during a live cross. He opens up about covering the 2016 Bulldogs premiership, Essendon's supplement saga, reporting from the COVID hubs, and reveals insider tricks of the trade like staking out managers' offices and playing cat-and-mouse with rival journalists.Plus: why 'Dusty' Martin is the hardest player to catch, and the competitive world of AFL journalism.

⬇️ RUNDOWN:

00:00 - Intro & Welcome to Zero Hanger

03:52 - Shepparton Cadetship to the Herald Sun

13:31 - What is sports journalism really about?

17:25 - Being first vs being right

22:00 - Leaving politics career at Parliament House

26:59 - Covering your own team

29:28 - Changes in the media box

35:00 - 2016 Grand Final: The drought-breaker

38:26 - The 2021 Grand Final heartbreak

40:25 - COVID-19 & being in the hub

41:00 - Streaker story

52:00 - The Essendon supplement saga

52:36 - The art of doorstop journalism

54:00 - Flying to Auckland to chase Dusty Martin

1:02:18 - Tricks of the trade: Decoys & positioning

1:08:21 - What's next for Zero Hanger in 2025

RECORDED: 04/12/2025

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