Studs Up!

While Daniel McHardy was in Christchurch to call what would be an excellent match of Test cricket between the Blackcaps and West Indies, Riccardo Ball was in Auckland for the FIFA World Cup Draw as a live Studs Up! Podcast special at Full Time Sports Bar & Eatery. Here he catches up with former Socceroo Luke Casserly and former NZ U20 coach Chris Milicich to get their reactions to how the draw pla...

Studs Up is a podcast hosted by Auckland-born and bred Riccardo Ball and Wellington’s loudest son, Daniel McHardy. They go head-to-head on all the big football issues from the EPL, Champions League, the A-League, and more. On this week's episode: Ric and Daniel start the show by hearing Lachie's Stat Attack simulating the Fifa World Cup draw before turning their attention to the Kiwi Derby. Plus t...

Studs Up is a podcast hosted by Auckland-born and bred Riccardo Ball and Wellington’s loudest son, Daniel McHardy. They go head-to-head on all the big football issues from the EPL, Champions League, the A-League, and more. On this week's episode: Ric and Daniel start the show by discussing the World Cup pots and who they would like to see the All Whites draw in their pool for the 2026 World Cup. T...

Studs Up is a podcast hosted by Auckland-born and bred Riccardo Ball and Wellington’s loudest son, Daniel McHardy. They go head-to-head on all the big football issues from the EPL, Champions League, the A-League, and more. On this week’s episode: Ric and Daniel kick things off with World Cup qualifying chaos, and what a week it’s been. Scotland break their 28-year drought, Austria are heading back...

Studs Up is a podcast hosted by Auckland-born and bred Riccardo Ball and Wellington’s loudest son, Daniel McHardy. They go head-to-head on all the big football issues from the EPL, Champions League, the A-League, and more. On this week's episode: Ric and Daniel review the Kiwi Derby, then recap the Dettol National League results from round seven of the competition. The lads then deep dive into Eur...

Studs Up is a podcast hosted by Auckland-born and bred Riccardo Ball and Wellington’s loudest son, Daniel McHardy. They go head-to-head on all the big football issues from the EPL, Champions League, the A-League, and more. On this week's episode: Ric and Daniel are together in studio for Kiwi Derby week, as they both make their cases for their respective teams as the Wellington Phoenix host Auckla...

Studs Up is a podcast hosted by Auckland-born and bred Riccardo Ball and Wellington’s loudest son, Daniel McHardy. They go head-to-head on all the big football issues from the EPL, Champions League, the A-League, and more. On this week's episode: Liverpool’s horrific run of form continues, you better believe Ric has the joke book ready! On the bright side, the boys find mutual ground as both Auckl...

Studs Up is a podcast hosted by Auckland-born and bred Riccardo Ball and Wellington’s loudest son, Daniel McHardy. They go head-to-head on all the big football issues from the EPL, Champions League, the A-League, and more. On this week's episode: Riccardo couldn't wait for Daniel to return! Not to welcome him back, but to make sure he knew that his Liverpool went down to Ric's Man United... Chris...

Studs Up is a podcast hosted by Auckland-born and bred Riccardo Ball and Wellington’s loudest son, Daniel McHardy. They go head-to-head on all the big football issues from the EPL, Champions League, the A-League, and more. On this week's episode: Former All White David Chote joins Ric with Daniel away to review the All Whites' international window against Poland and Norway, as well as looking at t...

Studs Up is a podcast hosted by Auckland-born and bred Riccardo Ball and Wellington’s loudest son, Daniel McHardy. They go head-to-head on all the big football issues from the EPL, Champions League, the A-League, and more. On this week's episode: Ric and Daniel start by looking at Liverpool's form in the EPL after losing to Chelsea 2-1, before previewing the All Whites' games against Poland and No...

Studs Up is a podcast hosted by Auckland-born and bred Riccardo Ball and Wellington’s loudest son, Daniel McHardy. They go head-to-head on all the big football issues from the EPL, Champions League, the A-League, and more. On this week's episode: Ric and Daniel are joined by Auckland FC reserve midfielder Sam Lack and Wellington Phoenix reserves midfielder Hayden Thomas to look ahead to the Kiwi D...

Studs Up is a podcast hosted by Auckland-born and bred Riccardo Ball and Wellington’s loudest son, Daniel McHardy. They go head-to-head on all the big football issues from the EPL, Champions League, the A-League, and more. On this week's episode: Ric and Daniel are joined by We then take a look at how our Kiwi footballers are doing around the world, as well as discussing some of the big news stori...

Studs Up is a podcast hosted by Auckland-born and bred Riccardo Ball and Wellington’s loudest son, Daniel McHardy. They go head-to-head on all the big football issues from the EPL, Champions League, the A-League, and more. On this week's episode: Ric and Daniel are joined by new Wellington Phoenix recruit Dan Edwards to kick off the show, hearing his thoughts on signing his first professional cont...

Studs Up is a podcast hosted by Auckland-born and bred Riccardo Ball and Wellington’s loudest son, Daniel McHardy. They go head-to-head on all the big football issues from the EPL, Champions League, the A-League, and more. On this week's episode: Ric and Daniel are both in-studio together and start the show by reviewing the Soccer Ashes series, with the All Whites losing both matches against the S...

Studs Up is a podcast hosted by Auckland-born and bred Riccardo Ball and Wellington’s loudest son, Daniel McHardy. They go head-to-head on all the big football issues from the EPL, Champions League, the A-League, and more. On this week's episode: Ric and Daniel kick off the show, previewing the All Whites v Australia 'Soccer Ashes' series and also discuss the OFC Pro League omitting the Wellington...

Studs Up is a podcast hosted by Auckland-born and bred Riccardo Ball and Wellington’s loudest son, Daniel McHardy. They go head-to-head on all the big football issues from the EPL, Champions League, the A-League, and more. On this week's episode: Ric and Daniel kick off the show discussing how our Kiwis are tracking overseas, including the news of Alex Paulsen's transfer. The Premier League has ki...

Studs Up is a podcast hosted by Auckland-born and bred Riccardo Ball and Wellington’s loudest son, Daniel McHardy. They go head-to-head on all the big football issues from the EPL, Champions League, the A-League, and more. On this week's episode: Ric and Daniel celebrate Chris Wood's PFA Team of the Season achievement, as well as giving their thoughts on the All Whites team named to play against A...

Studs Up is a podcast hosted by Auckland-born and bred Riccardo Ball and Wellington’s loudest son, Daniel McHardy. They go head-to-head on all the big football issues from the EPL, Champions League, the A-League, and more. On this week's episode: Ric and Daniel look at the Kiwis in action around the world and discuss the Kiwi teams' Australia Cup action. The Premier League kicks off this weekend,...

Studs Up is a podcast hosted by Auckland-born and bred Riccardo Ball and Wellington’s loudest son, Daniel McHardy. They go head-to-head on all the big football issues from the EPL, Champions League, the A-League, and more. On this week's episode: Ric and Daniel look at some of the biggest Kiwi transfers in the off-season, Plus, new Wellington Phoenix signing and Football Fern CJ Bott joins the sho...

Studs Up is a podcast hosted by Auckland-born and bred Riccardo Ball and Wellington’s loudest son, Daniel McHardy. They go head-to-head on all the big football issues from the EPL, Champions League, the A-League, and more. On this week's episode: Ric and Daniel butt heads following Bev Priestman's appointment as Wellington Phoenix women's head coach. Plus, the lads look back at Auckland FC and Wel...

Studs Up is a podcast hosted by Auckland-born and bred Riccardo Ball and Wellington’s loudest son, Daniel McHardy. They go head-to-head on all the big football issues from the EPL, Champions League, the A-League, and more. On this week's episode: Wellington Phoenix Reserves coach Chris Greenacre joins the show to review the Phoenix's surprise 1-0 win against Wrexham in a pre-season friendly. Autho...

Studs Up is a podcast hosted by Auckland-born and bred Riccardo Ball and Wellington’s loudest son, Daniel McHardy. They go head-to-head on all the big football issues from the EPL, Champions League, the A-League, and more. On this week's episode: Riccardo is back! David Chote joins the show to wrap up the FIFA Club World Cup following Chelsea's win on the weekend. The lads dive into the latest tra...

Studs Up is a podcast hosted by Auckland-born and bred Riccardo Ball and Wellington’s loudest son, Daniel McHardy. They go head-to-head on all the big football issues from the EPL, Champions League, the A-League, and more. On this week's episode: Riccardo is still away on holiday, so Daniel has once again recruited producer Brayden to chat all things FIFA Club World Cup, transfer news and the bigg...

Studs Up is a podcast hosted by Auckland-born and bred Riccardo Ball and Wellington’s loudest son, Daniel McHardy. They go head-to-head on all the big football issues from the EPL, Champions League, the A-League, and more. On this week's episode: Riccardo is still away on holiday, so Daniel has once again recruited producer Brayden to chat all things FIFA Club World Cup, transfer news and the bigg...

Studs Up is a podcast hosted by Auckland-born and bred Riccardo Ball and Wellington’s loudest son, Daniel McHardy. They go head-to-head on all the big football issues from the EPL, Champions League, the A-League, and more. On this week's episode: Riccardo is away this week so Daniel has recruited producer Brayden to chat all things FIFA Club World Cup, including Auckland City FC's massive 1-1 draw...