The Agenda Setters
The Agenda Setters
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Footy’s home of hard-hitting opinions, breaking news, and respected analysis. Seven’s team of trusted and respected footy voices tackle the biggest topics and take viewers behind the headlines. Monday's and Tuesday's 7pm on 7Mate & 7Plus
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Focuses on key football issues, player performances, and industry developments, with recent episodes discussing trending topics like player transfers, coaching strategies, and post-match analyses from the weekend's games.
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+ NEW – The Breakers – Go inside the stories shaping the AFL with 7NEWS journalists Tom Morris, Mitch Cleary and Xander McGuire. Footy’s news breakers take you behind the headlines, revealing how the biggest stories broke, what’s happening behind the scenes and the news you need to know. New episodes every week.
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The Breakers take you inside Trade Week, revealing how deals get broken, stories get hedged and what really happens behind the scenes in AFL newsrooms.
Billy Brownless somehow beat Mitch to breaking the Zach Merrett deal…
Tom reveals the language to listen for during Trade Week and how clubs avoid actually saying a player is staying
Xander takes us inside the awkward logistics of TV news, from triple crosses to two-shots and staged handshakes
The boys explain the art of “hedging” when you know something is happening but can’t quite report it
Plus, the mysterious “Staff Writer”, a potential twilight Grand Final and the six phrases banned in AFL newsrooms
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0:50 The role of AFL media managers
2:58 The awkward logistics of a triple cross
5:20 Should Rowan Marshall have gone to the St Kilda B&F?
7:35 Inside the very different AFL club B&Fs
10:57 Who fronts a coaching sacking vs an appointment?
12:56 The mystery of the “Staff Writer”
15:20 Zach Merrett and Andrew Welsh’s dramatic change in position
16:55 Billy Brownless breaks the Merrett deal
19:15 Butters, Chris Scott and the Cats
20:35 Jarryd Roughead’s first Trade Period as Adelaide list boss
23:05 Gubby Allen’s infamous press conference
23:25 Trade Period clichés
24:05 The language to listen for during Trade Week
25:15 Is a twilight Grand Final coming in 2028?
29:35 How the Bobby Hill exclusive came together
30:35 Two-shots, handshakes and the tricks behind TV news
36:25 How promoting an exclusive can tip off rival journalists
37:50 Charlie Curnow rewind: “We were enemies at the time”
39:00 The art of hedging a story
40:55 Mitch on “shitting himself” over the Merrett deal
42:05 What AFLW media is missing
43:40 Why Tom wasn’t invited to the Copeland Trophy?!
45:15 The six phrases banned in AFL newsrooms
46:40 Injury carnage, the big dance and the worst kept secret
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