Having displayed his ability to cut it on the MCG turf on Tuesday by slotting a couple of goals from the boundary line, Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr – indisputably better known as Snoop Dogg – turned it on upstairs on Thursday morning for the benefit of a room full of hacks.

“This sport, man, I’m just kind of loving this sport,” he said of the game that had drawn him here (well, that and the massive pay cheque – almost certainly around the $2 million mark that was reportedly shelled out for Robbie Williams and Katy Perry in recent years).

“I always would watch it and never really understood – it reminded me of American football, rugby and a couple other things – but now I understand it I really want to know more about it, to see the grand finale.”

Despite his laidback demeanour, West Coas

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