The Dragon Cricket Podcast - A Park Cricket Odyssey
Journey with the Barkly Street 'Dragons' Uniting Cricket Club in Melbourne's West as they seek to pull off one of life's greatest journeys... getting 33 blokes on the field to play park cricket each week while attempting to reclaim the true spirit of Australian cricket
Episodes
27 episodes
Special Episode - Local Cricket Legend Jeffrey Law!
600 games, more than 1000 Saturday afternoons! It’s an unprecendented milestone moment for a club and western suburbs cricket legend. The Real Rev. sits down for an extended interview with Jeffrey Law in the lead up to his 600th game, dis...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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41:14
2019 GABBA Test Roadtrip
It’s almost a whole year since bushfires and COVID changed our world. So on the eve of an AFL Grand Final at the GABBA (of all places!) we take you back before it all went awry and release some of the highlights of last years Odyssey to t...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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59:20
The Duggan Testimonial
Back in November 2019, The Dragon 'Occasional' 3rd XI was taken over by a reunion of Duggan's in a testimonial tribute to the local cricket career of Kev, who came out of retirement to Captain the family. Follow the highlights from the se...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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1:01:46
Special Edition: Dragon Juniors Under 13's Pandemic Podcast Presentation
Something a bit different! Covid has clean bowled our traditional Barkly Street Dragon Junior Presentation Gathering, so we deliver posters and trophies to doorsteps and interview kids, parents and coaches at 'social distance'. Coach Sean and R...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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1:15:13
Special Edition: Dragon Juniors Under 11 Pandemic Podcast Presentation
Something a little different... Covid has clean bowled the Barkly Street Dragons traditional Junior Presentation Gathering, so we deliver posters and trophies to doorsteps and interview kids and coaches at 'social distance'. Coach Nigel and Rev...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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59:40
Hope is Where Your A**e is!
As the Melbourne October cricket weather apocalypse continues the 'Occasional's' Park cricket Odyssey miraculously gets XI bodies on a blood soaked cricket field as Western Suburbs local cricket icon Jeff Law returns at 60 to unleash his ...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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57:39
The Extinction Rebellion meets the Punisher
Listen in and bear witness to the resurrection of the Barkly St. 3rd XI. Dubbed 'The Occasional's' for people who want to play irregularly and make an 'occasion' of it when they do. Rev gets his preach on in the pre-game for the occasion that i...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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48:43
Bonus Episode - An Ashes Retrospective
The Rev and Grizzly spent the Ashes on the couch like most of Australia... listen in as they talk Bancroft, Archer, the DRS, the end to the Dragons Winter Season and look ahead to the upcoming summer cricket
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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53:18
The Change of Seasons
In Melbourne traditionally there's two seasons footy and cricket. Listen as Grizz and Rev take you to the liminal moment that is watching the AFL grand final whilst cleaning our park cricket club rooms with a very Western suburbs key hand...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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53:04
Winter is Ending: Ashes 2019 Preview
Grizzly and the Rev preview the upcoming Ashes Series and the new World Test Championship. Grizz proposes a new World Cup format as decision time dawns at the Dragons AGM on their preferred summer park cricket make up just as Winter cricket com...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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1:00:50
World Cup Finale - Part 2 (Or, WTF Just Happened?)
Grizzly arises from his sick bed to the aftermath of the World Cup Final, ‘greatest tie of all time’, and asks WTF just happened?!? Rev. attempts to get philosophical about what it all means whilst Grizzly gets… we’ll… grizzly! Tryi...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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35:25
World Cup finale - Part 1
A sick Grizzly and a sore and sorry post-op Real Rev. sit down to watch the start of the World Cup final. Listen carefully to their faint, prophetic hint of an idea about what is about to eventuate as they reflect on a Dragons winter seas...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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41:06
A World Cup opener and a Winter Win
Grizzly and Real Rev. are cock a hoot on a Saturday night watching Australia's World Cup opener after a big Dragons winter cricket win. Warner and Smith are back after a year, but for Grizzly it's been a decade! The conversation mea...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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1:00:18
May The 4th Be With You!
The Rev. gets his preach on with a pre-game rant for the Dragon's Winter Season opener for Star Wars Round. We package up some live highlights Game 2, including a triple 'King pair', the shortest possible spell ever from AK and the appealing pr...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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58:36
The Best a Man Can Get?
We interview this year's Jack Law Medalists 'Peggy Su'-(resh) the Sri Lankan Pirate and Sam 'Strawberry' Field who's Great x4 Grandfather played with Jack! We review a cricketing summer of Gillette ad's; Real Rev gets stuck in a pub on Ha...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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52:38
Winter (season) is coming...
We return to the airwaves after a catastrophic Day 3 Boxing Day Test audio data loss which matched the Aussie's batting performance. We interview Dasher and Dazzler William's as they are appointed life members at Barkly Street, recap on the pos...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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52:33
A Day at the Cricket - Boxing Day Test - Day 3
In this episode take a trip down memory lane to a more optimistic time for Australian cricket (slightly more!?) when the Australia-India Test series was 1-1 and we were looking forward to a ripping game at the MCG Boxing Day Test. W...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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52:08
Boxing Day 2018
Highlights from Day 1 of India vs. Australia, Kohli verse Paine from the MCG. Recording from the couch at Captain Grizzly's place in Sunshine.
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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32:16
Xmas Special
Its the Christmas Special! We recap the return journey from our Adelaide Test Odyssey, the Perth Test and look forward to Boxing Day. Who's fixturing park cricket matches 3 days before Xmas? Is Steve Smith's "Gutsy is Calling"...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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37:49
A Park Cricket Odyssey... Odyssey. Adelaide Test Day Three Recap
Adelaide Test Day 3 Recap. We struggle from the hotel to the Adelaide Oval on the Day 3 to see if the Aussie tail can wag with the hometown Head... during the first session we are inundated by rain, Victorians and Reverends who help us consider...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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21:55
A Park Cricket Odyssey... Odyssey. Adelaide Test Day Two Recap
Day 2 from the Adelaide Oval. We meet Brownie from the Barossa who shares stories of playing park cricket with ex-SANFL legends whilst driving us past old Travis Head haunts en-route to Day 2 at the Adelaide Oval. Experience Captain Grizz...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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31:30
A Park Cricket Odyssey... Odyssey. Adelaide Test Day One Recap
Day One of the Adelaide Test match.... and we are enroute to the ground! Picking up our mate Dave in Bendigo, we review the whole days play, from the first over, then session by session, from the car, via the radio... it's a fairdinkum Dragon C...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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27:04
A Big Summer of Cricket Continues - Adelaide Test Preview
The Dragons firsts are winning (mostly), the twos are losing (badly), and the thirds are a nonexistent theory. Stewie Broussard gives special live comments on Josh McCabes fighting 50 and tells us how to become a club legend in only 12 ga...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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48:30
BONUS EPISODE: Special Interview Edition with Stephen Lawrence
A special bonus episode with an extended interview with Hawthorn Premiership player Stephen Lawrence conducted by The Rev at a Grand Final breakfast at back in September. Enjoy!
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Season 1
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30:21
Jack Crapp played for England!
The Dragon Cricket Podcast is back for episode 3, seeking to rediscover the true spirit of Australian cricket one match and podcast at a time. This week we get an update on how the Barkly Street Uniting Cricket Club is fairing heading in to the...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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48:35