After The Whistle

The ATW team returns after a week's break! We share where to find past ATW episodes (0:08) , our social media links and recap Ep.10. We start the show reviewing the 2nd round playoff games in the NBA; GSW vs. Jazz (1:08) , Spurs vs. Rockets (1:45) , Cavs vs. Raptors (4:05) & Celtics vs. Wizards (:) . We talked about the unstoppable juggernauts that are Warriors and the Lebron-led Cavs, IT's as...

The show begins with the team getting into it about what constitutes success for a sports team in a season (2:00) and players' reasons for leaving to other teams (6:00) as well as the Chinese football transfer frenzy (8:00) . The gear then shifts to short reviews of the ongoing NBA Playoffs, starting with the Cavs vs. Pacers (17:00) , Rockets vs. Thunder (20:00) , Clippers vs. Jazz (28:00) , Rapto...

This week's episode is all about to the recently announced PFA Player Of The Year nominees. The show begins with Donald giving us his two picks from the list of nominees (1:00) . Cyril then adds his thoughts on his nominees (10:00) with Moos (19:00) rounding off the show with his picks. If you enjoyed the show, we would love to hear from you on Twitter @GCRATW. All feedback— suggestions and/ or co...

We start the show with a recap of the current situation in the NBA (1:00) coming into playoff time. Cyril throws a challenge to Isaiah Thomas of the Celtics (4:00) . Moos and Cyril argue about the Celtics rebuild (7:00) . Cyril gives conditions on how the Celtics could win the title (9:00) and we discuss the Western Conference (11:00) as well as the madness of the Lakers end-of-season run (12:00)...

We start off the show by sharing their thoughts on long range shots (1:01) who their favourite dead-ball specialists are (6:30) , which turns into a discussion on whether a deal-ball specialist footballers should be accommodated in teams (10:10) . We touch on a recent ATW favourite, Romelu Lukaku (15:10) and the stories that have come out in the papers about him in light of his contract impasse at...

Today's show is a mailbag episode where the team returns from their one week break to answer questions that have been sent in over the course of the last few weeks (1:14) . The guys share the shows and music they've been watching and listening to (1:45) . The first few questions have the guys telling us who their picks for PFA Player of the year is outside Kante (6:15) Moos shares a hot take on wh...

We start the show with a quick recap of the last episode (0:18) and lunge right into this week's main topic, should individual awards in team sports be scrapped (0:29) ? We give our individual reasons for why we voted for individual awards to either stay or go (1:53) and begin our discussion. There is a clash of ideologies in the studio as a line is drawn between the self-proclaimed pragmatists an...

The ATW team catches up (0:12) before launching this week's major discussion — the perception of the African athlete. We widen our scope to include athletes of African descent and Black athletes as well (1:02) . Moos answers the question; should some of the positive descriptors used be embraced (2:58) ? And Donald reminds us that sports is a reflection of society (11:56) . We discuss how these gen...

We discuss a forgotten striker's performance in the return of Champions League football (1:25) and review one of the more exciting knock-out ties in recent history. Donald questions if the Lakers got the best value for Lou Williams (6:18) , launching the ATW's review of the trade deadline — where the team looks at which teams have added pieces to improve their playoff chances. Moos laments at the...

The ATW team reacts to the intro stats of the week (0:57) What exactly is a fan and who determines where you fall along the spectrum where at one extreme end one is referred to as a true/super fan and at the other end, you are regarded as a lowly casual (5:57) . We get some relationship advice from Moos (11:22) and discuss how we treat others with a different relationship status to us. As foreign...

Episode Notes Welcome to our maiden episode!! We jump right in and discuss the just ended AFCON tournament (0:44) and follow that up by discussing players with dual nationalities who decide to play for African nations (4:26) *. Is it fair to question their patriotism? Should Africans be fussing over being treated as a plan B for players who want to have an international career seeing as they can i...

Episode Notes A short introduction to After The Whistle by the ATW team.