SportsCastle: Recent Episodes
Chris Macpherson
Chris & Jarryd focus weekly on sport on a local Newcastle & Hunter Valley level as weel as a wider national level. Filled with plenty of drivel and varying levels of insight, it's a not too serious take on the sporting landscape, with some more sensible 1 on 1 interviews thrown in for good measure
Chris & Jarryd return covering off on all things local sport in Newcastle & the Hunter, including A-League, NNSWF, NCC Summer Bash, Newcastle District Cricket, Sevens Rugby, Newcastle Knights Junior Development squads and Kurri 9's
Chris & Jarryd start off the chase to 100 with another dose of local Newcastle & Hunter sports reviews and previews including Touch, Cricket, Soccer, Rugby League & Union plus plenty more.
Chris & Jarryd return with another dose of their Novocastrian sports chat talking Newcastle Cricket, the Jets, Rugby 7s and plenty more as well as celebrating the milestone of reaching a 50th episode!
Chris & Jarryd return just short of their half century to talk Newcastle Jets, NNSWF Heritage Cup, Newcastle Knights representative players, NDCA Action & NCC Summer Bash plus lots more!
Chris & Jarryd are back with all things Newcastle Cricket, Soccer and Sports in General!
Chris & Jarryd are joined by Michael live from No 1 Sportsground at the conclusion of Round 1 of the NCC Summer Bash talking all things NDCA, Newcastle Union & League and of course Newcastle Jets!
Chris & Jarryd return for their first show of 2019, talking cricket, A-League and even a little bit of rugby union!
Chris & Jarryd return for their final episode of 2018 talking Newcastle Jets Men's, Women's & Youth teams, the NNSW NPL draw for 2019, Maitland Cricket, Newcastle U/18 Colt's NSW Country Cricket campaign, NDCA Masters & NDCA Grade comps
Chris & Jarryd Return to cover off on all things Newcastle Jets, Newcastle Knights, Local Cricket (including the Tom Locker Cup Final), Newcastle & Hunter Rugby League being renamed and much, much more
Chris & Jarryd are back with another dose of alleged hilarity and guaranteed nonsense. Talking all things Newcastle & Hunter Cricket, Soccer & Rugby.
Chris & Jarryd dish up another dose of local sports chat and insight, covering Newcastle District Cricket, the Newcastle Knights & Jets plus the CRL Women's Central Coast Hunter 9's finals and Newcastle Steel's T20 Campaign
The boys return with coverage of CRL Women's 9s, Newcastle Cricket, Newcastle Jets Youth, Men's & Women's and Maitland Cricket plus some rants and opinion pieces in between
Chris & Jarryd return to talk Newcastle & Hunter Sports with a focus this week on Rugby League, Hyundai A-League & Newcastle cricket both locally and the Newcastle rep team on tour at the Country Championships
Chris & Jarryd return for another dose of local sports chat with Womens Rugby League, Newcastle District Cricket, Newcastle Jets, the Golden Boot win by Isabelle Kelly & the first Sheffield Shield ton by Newcastle's own Jason Sangha!
Chris & Jarryd are back to chat A-League, W-League, Rugby League and a comprehensive wrap of Newcastle & District Cricket action
The boys return with a small amount of insight to Newcastle & Hunter sport including the Jets first match of the 2018/19 season and top it off with a whole lot of drivel!
Chris & Jarryd return with plenty of local sport chat, touching on Rugby League, Cricket, Soccer and Rugby Union. All headlined by the fact NSW has another Novocastrian in its Sheffield Shield Ranks, A big congrats to Jason Sangha!
Chris caught up with Polish test player and Maitland Pickers outside back Ethan Niszczot fresh off him starring for Poland in their big win over Hong Kong. Poland have now made it 3 from 3 and will contest the Trophy Final of the Emerging Nations World Cup this weekend
Chris & Jarryd return for another (albeit much briefer) update on Newcastle & Hunter local sport
Chris & Jarryd return with another dose of Newcastle & Hunter sport. Including Newcastle Cricket weekly wrap, teams of the year for NHRU, NHRL & Real NRL and much much more!
Chris & Jarryd return with another week of Newcastle & Hunter sports chat as the winter sports wrap up and the summer starts with the first round of the launch of the Newcastle District Cricket upon us
Chris & Jarryd recap the week that was in Newcastle & Hunter sport with highlight interviews from the Newcastle & Hunter Rugby League and Newcastle & Hunter Rugby Union grand final days.
Chris & Jarryd are joined by another Chris as we look ahead to the NHRU & NHRL Grand Finals as well as lots of other Newcastle & Hunter sport action as the hunts for silverware heat right up!
Chris catches up with injured Dora Creek player coach Brad Clarke who talks all things Swampies, their thrilling Extra Time win over the Kade Snowden lead Belmont South Rabbitohs and their upcoming NHRL preliminary final against minor premiers Stockton Sharks
Chris caught up with Windale Eagles stalwart Matt Gerrick and discussed the eagles resurgent second half of the season, Matt's journey to 200 club games for the Eagles and this weekend's NHRL C Grade Prelim Final against Morisset Bulls
Chris caught up with Ben Remington of the University of Newcastle Sea Horses ahead of their NHRL preliminary final this weekend against Wallsend Maryland Tigers.
Make sure to head to Lakeside Oval this Saturday to catch all 7 matches with men's action from 12 midday
Chris & Jarryd are joined by guest co host Josh from Crossbar Capers and The Smashing Crossbar pod to look ahead to the upcoming week of Newcastle & Hunter sport with a bit of a slant to all things round ball and the New FM League 1 & NNSW NPL, including naming of their NNSW NPL team of the year.
Chris & Jarryd return (from the Michael Ennis & Jarrod Mullen Studios respectively) with another dose of Newcastle & Hunter sports action as the majority of competitions head deep into Finals including a wrap of Scone's dominance of Group 21 Grand Final day!
Chris & Jarryd are back with another dose of Newcastle & Hunter sports action as the majority of competitions heat up and head towards finals action.
Chris headed down to Newcastle Knights HQ to catch up with boom young forwards Herman Ese'ese & Daniel Saifiti ahead of the boys clash with Penrith
Chris and Jarryd return after their short hiatus to start talking finals and the last of the local comps runs home!
Chris & Jarryd return with another dose of their irreverent and nonsensical take on the sporting competitions and issues of Newcastle & the Hunter!
Chris & Jarryd are back with local sport coverage around Newcastle and the Hunter as well as some rants on a few topics including the current NRL refereeing issues/complaints
Chris & Jarryd caught up with Hamilton Olympic stalwart Rhys Cooper to chat about his career in football so far, his choice of football over cricket and his love of futsal as well as taking a look at Hamilton's late charge home in the NNSW NPL
Chris caught up with Josh from the Smashing Crossbar Podcast and they chatted about the run home for the top two tiers of Newcastle & Hunter Football as the comps approach their respective finals series. A full episode dedicated to our footballphile fans.
Chris & Jarryd are back with another dose of Newcastle & Hunter focused sport chat and drivel for your listening (dis)pleasure.
Chris & Jarryd are back and looking at the local Newcastle & Hunter sporting scenes and all its happenings or non-happenings in many cases recently.
Chris welcomes back Jarryd as they take on every thing Newcastle sports from Black Diamond to the Knights and on to NPL & NHRU
We caught up with the captain of the Shortland Devils A Grade side from the Newcastle & Hunter Rugby League, Chris Marlborough and spoke about his path to Tuxford Park including stints at the Knights and Illawarra Cutters as well as time at a couple of Newcastle Rugby League first grade clubs as well as his thoughts on the danger teams in the local A grade competition and the rising level of talent playing in the local comp
Chris and Scholesy (a better looking fill in for Jarryd) jump into all things Newcastle and Hunter sport from AFL to Rugby and onto the FFA Cup
Chris & Jarryd return for another dose of all things sporting around Newcastle & the Hunter
Chris & Jarryd return with another round up of weekly Newcastle & Hunter Valley sporting action and a good dose of nonsense thrown in for measure
Chris & Jarryd delve into all the Newcastle & Hunter sport and dish out goss on local footy, soccer, afl and more
Chris caught up with Greta Branxton Colts coach and his assistant/strength & conditioning guru Troy Lowrey to talk about the rebuild the Colts are progressing through as well as Mick's playing career from his junior days at the Newcastle Knights to Cessnock, Greta Branxton & Wests and how it has lead him to be the 1st grade coach at the Colts as well as Troy's varied career and journey which has seen him join Mick.
Chris & Jarryd return with a run down on all your local sport from the Black Diamond AFL to Newcastle & Hunter Rugby League and even a mid season wrap of the NEW FM Division 1 Soccer. The cover off on points from Origin, local football pitch invaders getting their just deserts and the regrades in the Newcastle & Hunter Rugby League comps plus much much more.
The boys are back to talk all things local Newcastle & Hunter sports from FFA Cup & NPL through to Rugby codes and AFL. This week touches on players bringing back the biff, governing bodies cracking down and crowd misbehaviour amongst plenty of other things!
Chris caught up with University of Newcastle Rugby Union club captain Dane Le Rougetel and discussed his path from a rugby league junior to a Southern Beaches Rugby colts & grade player on to Manly and now University after a stopover in Amsterdam.
They also cover off on the resurgence of University under their new coach and the future superstars within the Seahorses ranks.
Chris & Jarryd are back with their usual dose of an irreverant outlook on the Newcastle & Hunter Sporting landscape as they delve into the local Soccer, AFL, Rugby League & Rugby Union scenes
Ahead of Round 3 of Real NRL action we caught up with Ethan Cook captain of the Central Newcastle Butcher Boys as they take on the burden of expectation with a number of star recruits and balance it with what by many opinions hasn't been the best of starts to a season. We also talk to Ethan about his pathway from being a Central junior and going through rep pathways, NRL clubs and injuries before returning to where it all began to now take the reigns as skipper of his childhood club
With the Northen NSW NPL in full swing we caught up with the Walker brothers from Lake Macquarie after their loss to the Jets Youth. The Roosters are shaping as somewhat of a darkhorse in this years NPL race and the boys gave us some insight into what sort of culture the club has and their journey to being young leaders at the club
Chris & Jarryd return with another riveting dose of local sports action covering off on Red Cards, Ticketing Fiascos, Upsets, former NRL stars in pub footy and much much more
Chris & Jarryd return again with a slightly revamped format with more focus on local sports. This week covers off on topics from NHRU action, the Caldwell Cup, 4 Rugby League competitions around Newcastle & The Hunter Valley, the upcoming A-League semi final, starring none other than “The Hoff” as well as awarding of our first ever Sportscastle Newcastle & Hunter Man of The Week!
Tony Delaney is a stalwart of Newcastle Rugby League having been involved at Waratah, Souths, Lakes & North Newcastle just to name a few. He has been a coach, a player, a trainer and has even dabbled in commentary and ground announcing. He is a passionate supporter of junior Rugby League as well as an experienced coach.
We spoke with Tony about his upcoming year at the helm of North Newcastle's senior mens side and the under 16's at Lakes United, a busy man, we appreciate Tony's time and opinions on issues facing local Rugby League.
With the Real NRL Season kicking off this weekend we caught up with Kurri Bulldogs new recruit Jade Porter.
Jade has been one of the most successful players in Newcastle Rugby League over the last decade, winning 5 First grade premierships at 3 clubs as well as 2 reserve grade premierships, the Kurri faithful will be hoping that he can bring his Midas touch to their corner of the coalfields in 2018!
The boys are back with your dose of sport both Novocastrian and National, covering off on everything from the Jets drubbing of the Coasties, to feisty local soccer derbies, an upset win in Black Diamond AFL action by a newly promoted club and a run down on the Real NRL (Newcastle Rugby League) season that kicks off this weekend.
With the start to the Real NRL (Newcastle Rugby League) season only just around the corner, Chris headed to Wangi Oval to catch up with the coach of the defending premiers, Adam Bettridge and talked about the Scorpions defence of their NSW Challenge Cup & Real NRL titles as well as junior development and pathways for both players and coaches in Newcastle and further afield.
Chris caught up with Andy Fairfull ahead of the NHRU season kickoff on April 7th. Talking about the season ahead, the Newcastle Rep side, our two homegrown NSW Waratahs players and the future of the comp including the Waratahs, Easts & Lake Macquarie
Chris & Jarryd return with another look ahead to local and national sport. Including their first insights into the Newcastle & Hunter Rugby Union & Black Diamond AFL Seasons. Jarryd stars in this episode at his dour monosyllabic best!
Chris & Jarryd return with another episode covering off on local Newcastle & Hunter as well as national sport.
Touching on topics from ball tampering to salary cap scandals to the evenly poised Newcastle Cricket Grand Final and just about everything in between
Ahead of this weekend's NDCA Grand Final between Wests & Merewether at Number 1 Sportsground. Chris caught up with Wests all rounder Joe Price to talk his season so far and the Grand Final ahead.
Chris & Jarryd return and look ahead to NRL, Super Rugby, Cricket, A-League and local sport action!
Tune in for some drivel, occasional insights and Jarryd's pronunciation lessons
Chris catches up with current West Newcastle Rosellas coach Matt Lantry ahead of a promising 2018 Real NRL Season for last year's runners up with their squad recently bolstered by the signing of former QLD Origin & Australian Test centre Willie Tonga.
Chris & Jarryd return to cover off on most things sport and some things nonsense varying from Cricket to Soccer to the Rugby Codes and anywhere else that takes their fancy
Chris & Jarryd are back with a look at the last day of play of the Newcastle Cricket regular season, the Australian test series in South Africa, the NRL opening round, Super Rugby and the use or not of common sense by referees.
Chris & J Lo are back with all your national & local sport as well as a full run down on their thoughts on how the 2018 NRL Season will shape up
We spoke with Australian Under 19's Cricket Captain Jason Sangha on the back of the Aussies recent World Cup campaign about the experience as well as his whirlwind summer of being apart of the Aussie 19s squad as well as the Sydney Thunder, NSW & Randwick Petersham
Chris & Jarryd return and cover off on Cricket, Rugby League, Rugby Union & Soccer on a local and national scale