Slogging It

Johnno is back from the Caribbean to finish his analysis of the recent series. Eugene plays the host to keep a lid on Robbo’s rants. And we don’t at all mention the fact that Bangladesh beat South Africa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What a player Ben Stokes is ! Is the pitch really that flat or are the English batsmen just that good, the lads talk about West Indies tourism, we meet some of the Woodstock family and Johnno does some commentary .. tune is for this special as we record live after lunch on day 2 of the West Indies v England test match ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Shit shirt day, rum punch, beans on bread and Roots hundred, the trio are back together this week with Johnno reporting from day 1 of the England Test in the West Indies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Johnno takes a well earned break while Robbo and Eug talk through freezing pre seasons, the sunny English test series, the flattest pitch where we think Pakistan might still be batting and should South Africa now be rated as the best test team in the world ? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Eugene is in Reading so the other two take on the selection policy around the West Indies Tour and the fact that the young lads taken are unlikely to play considering the side picked for the warm up game! A new era? Or just the same old bollocks? Enjoy 🙌🤙 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Robbo has a well deserved week off as Johnno and Eug take on tonight’s episode as a gruesome twosome! Joined by Iain Cockbain, the heavy hitting Gloucestershire batsman who has enjoyed a brilliant BBL for the Adelaide Strikers we talk why Gloucestershire players don’t get the credit, or the call ups they deserve, Covid bubbles in Australia and Pakistan and many other bits and pieces! A brilliant m...

Join the three stooges to witness the most dreadful podcast opening they’ve ever recorded (surprisingly), before they chat more on the Broad and Anderson non selection. They’re then joined by Liam Thomas, or as you will probably know him as the bloke who’s leg fell off while fielding whilst playing for the England Physical Disability XI. An amazing insight into the mind of someone who has faced ad...

An hour after the England test squad was announced the lads got together to discuss the outgoings, the incomings, and what we expect the line up to be. All that plus Giles, Silverwood, Thorpe and Collingwood plus much much more! Enjoy!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week the lads have the pleasure of spending an hour in the company of Gordon Kennedy, a man who you’ll have seen and heard many many times but maybe without realising it. Hear amazing anecdotal stories of life on set, auditions with Danny Boyle and his love of all things cricket and the Lord’s Taverners Charity. Enjoy!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Join the lads as they discuss everything from Brendan Taylors recent corruption scandal, whether King Kohli is a positive influence now he's no longer skipper, the two faces of the England T20 side, and another dismal showing in front of the DCMS select committee by another stand up member of crickets top brass. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Join the boys as they try to pick through the absolute debacle of The Ashes, trying to figure out where we go from here as we press on towards the tour of The West Indies in March. Who goes? Who stays at home? Also covered off are SA vs India, Kohli’s resignation, the U-19 World Cup and Ganguly’s run at becoming Prime Minister. Enjoy!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adc...

The lads are back and you’ve guessed it, we’re bemoaning Englands poor performance in Australia, but more than that we take on the ECB hierarchy, who stays and who goes, and everything in between. More positively we discuss Bangladesh and their great test win against NZ, and what will no doubt be a thrilling decider between South Africa and India in Cape Town next week! Enjoy! Learn more about you...

Bozzy joins Johnno and Eug to discuss his career post playing days, the Ashes (which has been cancelled right? 😉) and the ways in which a different approach to coaching can breed great amounts of success. Plus hear what Johnno and Eug have been up to this week, how the Lords Taverners have been continuing to make a huge difference to youngsters and the future of umpiring in the amateur game Learn...

Tonight we bring you a slightly different pod, an ashes preview of sorts, but also a focus on Eugene’s club Twickenham CC. Recorded on location at the offices of TCC’s headline sponsor the Hedson Group, listen as Johnno and Eug are joined by Martin and Geoff to talk the Ashes, why sponsoring community clubs is important, and plenty more in between Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastcho...

This week Johnno and Robbo talk to Sam Ogrizivic about his life in cricket and what it takes to be a fantastic captain. A brilliant insight into what it takes to become a successful leader both on and off the field from someone who has offered a huge amount to all clubs that he’s been involved with. A great one to record and an even better listen for anyone in the club cricket scene Learn more abo...

So good it’s going to have to be split into two recordings, this week Johnno and Robbo spoke to Scott Boswell. Yes that’s right, the guy who bowled the 14 ball over in a Lords Final. His love of the game is infectious and in the first of two parts he talks us through the challenges of that day and the early part of his career as well as his love for it. With a second episode to follow next week we...

Join them for the start of another winter of brilliant interviews, Robbo and Johnno bickering and Eug having to play referee! The lads discuss their summers, the World T20 so far, The absolute mess that is Yorkshire CCC and how scared of Ben Stokes the Aussies are! It’s great to be back, and even better to have you with us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With the rock of the podcast Eugene away, Johnno and Robbo are left to their own devices whilst interviewing the gentle giant that is Nottinghamshire’s Luke Fletcher. Talking about the most fantastic start to a season he’s ever enjoyed, Alex Hales, calls for him to be on the plane to Oz for the Ashes, the disappointment of not retaining his Hundred spot and his plans after cricket. A very frank an...

As we take our seats around a table for the very first in person recording of Slogging It we interview Brent Williams, overseas player for Papplewick & Linby in the Notts Premier League on everything from sandpaper gate to trying to get home during Covid-19 and everything in between. Filmed at The Forest Of Arden Hotel & Country Club, the glorious venue of our golf day on July 1st, it’s one to wat...

An incredibly open and honest interview from the Gloucestershire CCC all rounder and T20 captain. Opening up about tough times both on and off the field, from illegal bowing actions and losing matches, to an incredibly open chat about losing two pregnancies, we talk about things that many people will face but struggle to openly discuss in order to shed light and show people they’re not alone. A mu...

This week we talk to ex-pro cricketer Adam Rouse who enjoyed a good, but by his own admissions disjointed career. We dive into the mental challenges brought about by leaving Zimbabwe in the Mugabe era, and how lessons learnt at that young age enabled him to have such a level view of the world when things weren’t going his way. A brilliant interview and one we all thoroughly enjoyed! Learn more abo...

The county season has started with snow, batsmen take control in April ?!? and we talk about that stumping !! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week we are joined by the most wonderful man, commentator and lover of the most beautiful game, TMS commentator and the owner of a one in a million vocabulary, Dan Norcross. Listen as we talk through how his love of the game came about and the amazing journey that’s taken him to commentating in the stands at The Oval for a blind man to being a regular on Test Match Special. We also hear Danie...

This week we talk preseason, England India, South Africa Pakistan, Babar Azam and is there a big 5 now ? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The funniest interview we have done by far… This week we are joined by Middlesex wicket keeper batsman John Simpson as we talk through his incredibly quick rise into the first class game, an England Under 19’s tour to India at 16, his well rounded upbringing in Lancashire and some of the characters that he encountered on the way. Hear how his rapid rise caused its own problems, and how he overcame...