Dads on the fence.
Daughters on the park.
A Melbourne-made show for fathers whose daughters play sport — the practical, unfiltered conversations that don't happen on the boundary line.
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A Melbourne-made show for fathers whose daughters play sport — the practical, unfiltered conversations that don't happen on the boundary line.
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Pick your state, pick her age, and see the next rung — cricket, AFL footy, or umpiring. Every step comes with the thing nobody tells you, including the one age where more girls quit than any other.
Open the pathway mapShe got dropped, or played a blinder, or won't say a word. Pick what happened and get three things worth saying — and one to leave alone.
Open the car ride toolNo account, no email, nothing to install. Open them on your phone and add them to your home screen if you want them in one tap at the ground.
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Women's cricket, AFLW and umpiring, gathered from Australian news feeds and refreshed through the day. Headlines link back to the publisher.
What this is
Between us we've done the 5am drives, the selection heartbreak, the first senior game, and the season that nearly broke her. Every episode comes from something we've actually navigated.
Pathways, drop-off rates, coaching culture, body image, umpire abuse. Australian girls' sport has its own problems and its own opportunities, and they deserve their own conversation.
If you leave an episode without one thing you can do differently this weekend, we've wasted your time.
On the run sheet
Rep sides, academies and what happens at each age. See the full map →
Spotting a good one, surviving a bad one, and when to say something.
Performance anxiety, perfectionism, and the pressure she puts on herself. Try the car ride tool →
Growth, injury load, and eating enough for the sport she plays.
A genuine pathway most families never consider — and the abuse that comes with it.
Knowing when to coach, when to drive, and when to shut up and watch.
Get involved
Every episode starts with something a dad sent us. Pick whichever one fits — a story you want to tell, a situation you're stuck in, or a club that could use a night with us.
Read what other dads have sent in →
Every dad watching his daughter play has a story worth hearing — the coach who changed everything, the day you got it badly wrong and knew it. Rough is fine. We're not marking it.
We read every one. We'll always ask before we read anything out, and you can stay anonymous — plenty do.
Send the thing you're sitting in right now and we'll work through it on the show. No names, no club, unless you want them there.
If it's urgent or it's about her safety, don't wait for an episode — talk to someone at the club or your GP.
We'll speak at a presentation night, a parents' evening or a coaches' session — on sideline behaviour, umpire abuse, and keeping girls in the game past fourteen.
Melbourne metro is easy. Regional Victoria we'll do, we just need a bit more notice.
Membership
The episodes stay free for everyone, always. Membership runs through YouTube, so it's two taps on the card you already have there — and it's what keeps us making the show without anyone telling us what we can't say.
Foundation member · first 50 only
A one-off $250. Full merch pack, everything in Clubroom for a full season, and your name in the credits of every episode we ever make. Fifty of these, then they're gone.
The Squad cap, hoodies and the 5am flask — open to everyone, no membership needed. Members get a discount code. Every order puts a bit back into making the show.
Shop the merchWatch the episodes, send us a story, tell one other dad about it. That's worth as much to us as the seven dollars.
Send us somethingThe team list
Join the list and we'll send you our one-page guide: five questions to ask her after a game that aren't "how'd you go?" — plus one email a fortnight when a new episode lands. Nothing else.
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