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AFL 360 - "There's a dent in that Cup!" - Chris Fagan reveals Grand Final tactics & reflects on Neale's 'spirit lifting' return | 29/09/25

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Brisbane celebrate back-to-back premierships. The show treats that as more than a final whistle moment, using it to ask how a team gets from a hard season to a flag and what a dynasty actually looks like. Chris Fagan joins live. His comments frame the season as tougher than the year before, with injuries and a brutal draw forcing Brisbane to earn many of their wins, especially against teams that spent much of the year in the top eight. That matters. The episode keeps circling back to the idea that a repeat title is rarely neat, and that this one carried extra satisfaction because the group had to work through more pressure, more variance, and more doubt along the way. The Grand Final gets a full working over. The panel starts with the early defensive grind, where scoring was scarce and both sides had to fight for territory before any rhythm could settle. Brisbane left chances out there. Fagan says the side had done a lot right at quarter time, but the missed shots still sat there as a warning, especially after the qualifying final memory that had Geelong jumping them early. Then the tone shifts. The discussion becomes a practical read on how the Lions steadied themselves, how they handled pressure, and why the game felt so tight before the premiership broke open. Geelong gets its own reckoning. The post-mortem is not soft, and the show presses on what losing on the biggest stage means for a club that still expects to be in the mix. The broader team cast sits in the background as part of the season’s emotional structure. The episode treats that kind of presence as part of the emotional structure of the campaign, the sort of thing that can steady a side when the stakes get loud. The off-field scene is just as telling. Fagan's story about the football department gathering at a Brisbane pub and watching the replay together gives the whole night a lived-in feel, less like a press line and more like a group finally getting to sit inside the result. Even the final handover carries weight. By the end, the episode reads as both a celebration of Brisbane's flag and a clear-eyed reset on what comes next for Geelong and the rest of the competition.

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A flag-night debrief that turns into dynasty talk, tactical detail, and a blunt Geelong post-mortem.

Brisbane's premiership night sits at the center of the piece, and the discussion opens out into dynasty talk, Grand Final tactics, and Geelong's post-mortem.

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Press play for the premiership debrief, the tactical chat, and Fagan on the Lions' repeat.

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