Bodgy Creek Roosters Podcast

A scheduling fiasco by league HQ sees the season cut short & the final four settled after only 5 rounds. Will Hudson’s Flat’s High Court Appeal see them sneak into the play offs? Will the appearance of the ‘4 Horseman Of The Apocalypse’ on the outer wing put off the rampant Clairvaux Abbey Monks? Will the Roosters new rainbow socks spook the deeply homophobic Poplarville players ? All this & more...

Despite their winning streak continuing, the Roosters are distracted by continuing schisms in the fabric of time. How did Speed Gun get 14th century Portugese naval tattoos? Why do prehistoric animals fall from the sky when Gavorg is in possession? Will Troy’s educative analogies in support of a ‘Yes’ vote in ‘Marriage Equality Survey’ ever end? Join the Roosters as they march towards the finals G...

The Roosters surge to the top of the ladder but at what cost? Speed Gun & his Mobile Library Bus go missing; Jacko’s witness relocation is compromised again & Snowball has a breakdown after a spiritual medium reveals the root cause of his hatred of people who drive ‘Fords.’ Who will Troy play on gun forward Treetops Tate, if Speed Gun doesn’t surface before Saturday. Get full access to The Complet...

It’s been a big week in The Caxton Valley, Morrow & Fisk League! Will hypnotherapy reduce the number of Mt Stuart players fronting the League Tribunal? Will Mutton Gully’s Open Ended Trivia Night ever end? How did Bozo go from delivering pizzas to repairing the external trusses on the International Space Station? All of this and more will be passingly referred to over the next 38 minutes. Get full...

How will fall out from the ‘Paris Accord’ affect the Bodgy Creek playing list? Will the other players follow Harpo’s lead & down size to a unicycle to further reduce carbon emissions? Why did Stan have to occy strap the heavily pregnant Denise to the bed back in 1967? Why did the Caxton Imperials pick all 18 players at full back? Get full access to The Complete Perks of Damian Callinan at damianca...

Will the Vatican City win the Bodgy Creek FC European Minnows Song Contest? Will Caxton Imperials field an entire side of O’Connors for Round 1. Will the Roosters team bus ever find Mutton Gully’s home ground or will it disappear like the entire Mt Stuart team in 1933? Get full access to The Complete Perks of Damian Callinan at damiancallinan.substack.com/subscribe

After their drought breaking 2016 Premiership, the Roosters season is delayed by the unexpected merger of the Caxton Valley League & the Morrow & Fisk League. Will the Roosters cope with the the loss of ‘Doormat’ to Phantom Pregnancy Syndrome? Will ‘Sleeve Tatt’ prove once & for all he’s related to Peter Brock & will ‘Frog Feet’ emotionally recover from the pre-season ‘Red Room Rebirthing Session’...

Will the Cougars get away with using cosmetic surgery to disguise AFL listed players? Will Harpo be right to play after seeing the ghost of a pig in the Rotary Park? Will Sayyid have his visa revoked? All this and more as the Roosters strive to break their 40 year premiership drought. Get full access to The Complete Perks of Damian Callinan at damiancallinan.substack.com/subscribe

With the Vernal Equinox coinciding with the eve of the Roosters First Grand Final in 37 years, Troy organises a function in the Mud Brick Dome. The half and half theme of the night leads to the creation of the ‘Shandonnay’ – half beer, half chardonnay. Will The Roosters be able overcome the Artificial Climate Control Technology at Hudson’s Flat’s home ground, to break the premiership drought? Get...

The Jindalup Cootha Saints forfeit the 1st Semi after accidentally booking their footy trip a week early. Stan Coates talks through his memories of the ’61 Grand Final when the floods inundated the ground while the scores were level. Controversially the umpire awarded the game to the Saints because they were the overall taller side. Get full access to The Complete Perks of Damian Callinan at damia...

The Roosters are into the finals for the first time in 17 years but despite the excitement Troy still expects the playing list to be good role models and makes the team participate in the Bodgy Creek Primary School Book Week Parade. (Note - Most weeks the show is loosely scripted from bullet points, from which I improvise. As an experiment, for this episode is almost entirely unscripted) Get full...

The Roosters have a win despite new recruit Finbar not knowing the rule about not tackling umpires; there’s mixed feelings about the passing of club stalwart and renowned whinging tightarse Snowy Truscott and the boys sign on to help save endangered wildlife in the ‘Edge Pledge’ project with coach Troy Carrington and back pocket Mohammed Alhesy accepting the challenge of creating an ‘illuminated’...

The Roosters are reeling after the mid-season merger of the Swampmen and the Peacocks. The League controversially add the teams points together lifting the new look Swampcocks into the final four at the expense of Bodgy Creek. Unperturbed, coach Troy Carrington calls on the boys to uphold the Olympic spirit and asks the team to move into the disused Bodgy Creek Caravan Park to recreate life in the...

The Roosters celebrate ‘Environment Round’ by wearing henna tattooed jerseys that wash off in a second quarter down pour; Troy shares a yarn about a footy trip to do the Mozart Trail from his AFL playing days and Warwick takes the weekend off to celebrate his wedding anniversary in a renovated tobacco kiln. Get full access to The Complete Perks of Damian Callinan at damiancallinan.substack.com/sub...

The boys regroup after the Forgiveness Round melee and prepare for Environment Round by trialling alternative leather, bark cloth boots at training and powering the new hyperbaric chamber from the wind turbine on the tennis club roof. Get full access to The Complete Perks of Damian Callinan at damiancallinan.substack.com/subscribe

With the St Kilda AFL Club copying their idea for a Pride Round without acknowledging that the Roosters thought of it first, they decide to move on and organise a ‘Forgiveness Round’ to mark the occasion. By way of apology, will this weeks opponents Mt Stuart accept the tapestry that the Roosters players have made from the stolen jumpers that were set on fire, pissed on and buried after the 1979 G...

It’s been a tough week for the Roosters: They had the 4 points taken off them after a mix up with the team sheet, Vinnie’s Team Portrait for the Archibald didn’t get shortlisted and they staged a mass walk out of the audience in protest at Q&A. The only thing keeping the positivity afloat is plans for this week’s inaugural Pride Round. Get full access to The Complete Perks of Damian Callinan at da...

Roosters coach Troy Carrington talks through the club's plans for celebrating the AFL multicultural round, explains how the election result will impact on the playing group and gives an update on funding to employ refugees to rebuild the clubrooms. Meanwhile historian Hugh Quigley reveals some short lived Caxton Valley League teams from the Gold Rush era and Warwick Randall’s wrap of the league re...