Fire Up!
Fire Up!
Hosts Stephen Ferris & Kris Gale are back in 2026 with the long running Fire Up! show (formerly of FBI Radio) that dives WAY too deep into the absurdities, minutiae, atrocities and huuuuge personalities in the NRL Universe, featuring regular guests and a perfunctory, random and opinionated weekly analysis of every round’s games. Please follow these blathering idiots on Insta: https://www.instag…Social links:
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Positive Feedback
We here at Fire Up! totally respect the NRL's initiative to keep the coverage positive.So Emma Domoney joined us to talk up the game with the exception of the following:blowout scorelines; angry birds (ie. Roosters); blueing Tigers; PVL; visually challenged touchies; Reece Walsh; threatened teddy b…
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21 Seconds To Midnight
The Touchline Troubador, Denis Carnahan, paints The Bye Round Studios a shade of Raiders green as we get to grip with what more can be said about the Tigers after you’ve had 21 seconds. Answer: Nothing.Big Club Theory rears its ugly head in the NRLW. PVL may not have been on The Queen’s speed dial…
1:05:16
"Beyond The Football Field"
We are joined by Kellis Hollis from Hear Her Roar, a Wests Tigers NRLW podcast, as we look at the latest concerns around Big Club Theory as Dragons CEO, Tim Watsford, sees a problem that extends "beyond the football field."We also usher in the era of Sarah McLeod AKA Peter V'landys AKA The Supreme…
1:03:19
It's Not The Wine Footy Food Festival!
Matt Rule joins us to talk through the delight that is the 10th anniversary of the Beer Footy Food Festival taking place at Henson Park, Marrickville this Saturday.And PWA's Kai Drake says that he will send North Shore Wrestling's Jack Osborne back over the Sydney Harbour Bridge with no belt as the…
1:06:32
Beer, Footy, No Food
The Beer Footy Festival is looming large (18 July @ Henson Park, Marrickville) and we welcome independent brewer, Hawke's Brewing Co., to the mike via the agency of their digital marketing guru, Ben Hansen, to talk about their role in the festivities. Fire Up! favourite, Alby Talarico, adds the New…
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Momentum or Moments… Which One Of These?
Rugby league means pain, none more right now than is the case for followers of St. George Illawarra. We bring in the Prince of Punishment and media baron, John Gregory, to help process the particular discomfort being endured by Dragons fans. And we tackle one of the greater dilemmas in footy today …
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Cowbell Clanger???
Rugby league pundit, Stephen Rae, joins the show and adds his voice to Fire Up! in that we collectively know nothing about rugby league. Stephen also is unmoved by the return of Captain Charger up on the Gold Coast. However, alarm bells are ringing that the Storms have remixed their clanging cowbel…
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The Greatest Game of All You Can Bet On It
It's Origin II time and it is apparent that rugby league, racing and the punt have never been more intertwined.Helping us unpack it all is Duncan Fine, a renaissance man whose love for the Bunnies is a matter of great pride (of the league).Who is rugby league's Justin Hemmes before there was ever a…
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Medley Of Misery
After an inevitable moratorium owing to the goings on at the weekend at CommBank Stadium, Fire Up! returns to duty to explore the existential void associated with being a league fan, nay a sports fan.We trawl through three of the most downbeat of pressers in recent memory in Fire Up!'s Medley Of Mi…
1:03:30
Rugby League Is A Man's Game?
JR returns to Fire Up! to explain his controversial statements on a previous episode. about who's game is it. To her credit, Emma Domoney gives him the time of day.We look at the meaning of statistics , Ciraldo's clear belief that the Dogs are a big club and Denis Carnahan reminds us that PVL is bo…
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