The Rugby League Lounge: Recent Episodes
Luke Sturkenboom
I am excited to announce a brand new series coming off recent talks about the NRL looking at having a draft. This series will involve a guest and going back in time to a rookie class to make up a hypothetical draft board determining who we would have selected with the luxury of having seen these guys careers play out. First up is 2006 with the help of Blaze from BKR sport!
Honoured to have Scott Sattler on to have a chat about his finals memories and the current finals.
V'landy's has asked Joel and I to form a team to fill the final spot in the eight.. Have listen at our selection process.
Joel and I discuss the great individual feats that haven't been celebrated for a variety of reasons.
Joel from League of Inches discuss the impact of the 2021 offseason on this years competition.
Joel from League of Inches and I take on the biggest topics in the game at the moment as we decide if we are 'Thumbs up' or 'Thumbs down' on each headline.
Joel from League of Inches and I cover five players each who we believe haven't been celebrated enough this season.
The Rugby League Guru joins me for chat about positions. Everything from the ideal player type from each position, positional stigmas, players who would excel in certain positions and more.
I was lucky enough to get to interview a good mate of mine and a current member of the North Queensland Cowboys squad, Griffin Neame.
Ozza and I snake draft our best possible 20 man line up to win a hypothetical 3 match series against each other.
How the Storm produced one of the most dominant premierships winning seasons of all time.
How the team I HATED the most (but respected) growing up claimed premiership glory in 2011.
The Panthers have been red hot and the Roosters are back to back premiers for a reason BUT I do believe my boys will get the job done this year!
APOLOGIES ABOUT THE ADUDIO! It normally it’d beorigin time right about now so Alex and I discuss why it’s a such a great spectacle, our favourite moments, our overall thoughts on the rescheduling of the fixtures, my predicted teams if origin was being played right now and more!
The boys are back with a snake draft to make the best 10 man roster out of the current crop of players to win a 7 game series!
Big Al and dissect the Ponga contract along with the top ten biggest contracts in the NRL. We didn’t lose Ponga to Rugby but could we lose any other stars? We finish off with talking about what stars, veterans and young bucks we’d throw the money mate whilst discussing the Fifita situation.
My spin on one of the trending headlines in the NRL this week. I dissect the Trbojevic ‘shoulder charge’. This leads me into talking about the Billy Slater tackle in 2018, why the shoulder charge is banned but why it was great to watch along with the most iconic shoulder charges of all time! That’s just a sample of what’s covered so give her a listen team
All you kneed to know about the season restart, what to look out for, some great start bench cuts and much more!
Swinny, Lomu, Chester and I chewing the fat about the NBA. We discuss how the NBA will get back up and running, the draft prospects we are high and low on, potential Jazz trades, who would win all the individual awards, potential hall of famers and more!
Looking into the future and predicting the players who be the best in their position for the upcoming decade.
Sadly the last episode due to the postponement of games. A debrief of round 2 and one positive from each team from the little sample of the season.
How the Coronavirus will affect the playoffs, the Olympics and next season, a positive outlook on the Jazz on the Mitchell/Gobert era and what future holds for them.
Duos and international influence on success, unique perspective of the two best Canadian basketball players, what I’m keeping an eye out for during the rest of the regular season and more
I am joined by some good mates to discuss a few bold (ish) predictions for the 2020s. Side note: the podcast cut off at the hour mark which meant our last few questions did not feature on the podcast sadly :(
An hour podcast overviewing the predicted line ups of each team and their likelihood of success for this season
Looking at everything from regular season standings, NBA All Star nods, playoffs and trades.
Adam Silver wants to add in a Mid season tournament to improve the NBA but I want improvement to be done to grow International basketball
A special opening podcast inspired by the fans questions! 1. NRL 2. NBA 3. CRICKET 4. RUGBY