SACKED: AFL

About SACKED: AFL

What really happens when the axe falls in the AFL world? Some of the biggest names in the sport reveal the remarkable true stories of how they discovered their days were numbered and when the guillotine dropped.

Publisher

Herald Sun

Category

sports

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Jul 2019

Latest episode

21 Feb 2026

Latest episodes

15 of 73 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   21 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Presenting: Essendon The Lost Years | Batting after Bradman

   Kevin Sheedy reined over Windy Hill for 27 years. After a clumsy and messy search, the Bombers found a replacement in Matthew Knights. Essendon's new coach wanted to create his own legacy, but did so by pushing out a club great. See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

2. 

   14 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Presenting: Essendon The Lost Years | The dynasty that never was

   On July 22, 2001, Essendon did the impossible from 69 points down, and were just months out from establishing a dynasty. But in reality, it was the start of the downfall of a powerhouse. See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

3. 

   4 Sept 2025

   Scott Cummings - Bordering on overqualified

   There wouldn’t be many more qualified candidates for the final SACKED AFL episode of season six than Scott Cummings. The laconic goal kicker cycled through four clubs in three states across a nine year career that promised a great deal but ended due to injury at the age of just 28. And yet Cummings could really play. He was the leading goal kicker at three of his four clubs and kicked 95 goals to win the Coleman Medal at West Coast in 1999. But it was Collingwood - where he played just five games for six goals in one final AFL season - that set him up for his post footy life. See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

Inside a recent episode

Presenting: Essendon The Lost Years | Batting after Bradman

Published 21 Feb 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] If Essendon was to sack Sheedy, could it do so with grace and respect? And more the point, could it replace him in the kind of seamless transition that Geelong would mastermind four years later when Chris Scott so perfectly succeeded Mark Bomber-Thompson? But in 2007, I was at Athletics, I was CEO of Athletics Australia at that time, and you could probably sense it was coming, you know, coming for a couple of years. I think coaching and football clubs, and Kevin was such a dominant figure in the football area that coaching and development and all, these areas had really progressed. Tactics had really progressed. […]

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