Brighton Rock Podcast

Another League Cup game, another 0-6 win! Bloody hell!!! Well that won’t be happening next time as Albion ended up with a trip to The Emirates to contend with in the draw on Wednesday. However it was a great trip and well worth it, for what turned out to be The Diego Gomez Show, with our Paraguayan midfield maestro netting a, what would you call it?, double brace aka 4 goal haul, with some spectacular strikes too. In the Pod Squad this time were Russ, David T, Chris, Sam, Ahmed, Alison, Dom, Alastair and Nick…the latter of whom was on a two match attending streak - an unbeaten one at that! - easy there, lad!!! We were also delighted to chat with Tykes fans Sam and his father Simon, who were great company. It was great to be back in Barnsley. Good town but it’s also changed somewhat since our last visit, good beers, good club and good fans. Best of luck for the season lads! Stand or fall!   UTA!  @BrightonRockPod on BlueSky (and Twatter) brightonrockpodcast@gmail.com Part of the Sport Social Podcast Network that can be found in all their glory at this rather suitable address: www.sport-social.co.uk  Please follow us for automatic downloads of new episodes and if you want to make us really happy please rate us five stars on Apple and any other platforms that provide the opportunity to do so! Why not write a review while you are at it?! ;0).  All this helps our rankings and improves our chances of getting exciting guests onto the show. Humble thanks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After a two week break we are back, with Thomas The Frank Engine’s Spurs in town for a cheeky Desmond. Usual suspects, plenty of chat and co host Pete (and his Dad) on board the train home to review a game that seems to have split opinions down the middle. Stand or fall! UTA! RIP Dad xxxxx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the pod squad this week: Russ, Andy Bass, Alan, Andy Knott and making a welcome and overdue return Tom Hylands. On the agenda, the City review including Millie’s penalty prowess, Gruda’s sit down and Fabian’s apparel, then transfer summary and the latest offerings from Clown Town P*lace’s Festival of Tinpottery Stand or fall! UTA! Long Live Clown Town Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Russ & Pete welcomed back FAB member, broadcaster and fanalyst Gerry Brown to tell us what’’s occurring with his various football-related commitments, to briefly mull over our defeat at The Hill Dickinson and to marvel at the boys’ imperious display in Oxfordshire in The League Cup 2nd Round. Then to finish there was a flying visit guest appearance by U.S based Seagull Johnny Gresty recorded down the pub pre match from Wednesday plus Alan at the game. Stand or fall! UTA! It’s all Greek to me!!! The BRP is proud to be part of The Sports Social Network Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Well it was mainly a lot of good chat on the train up and back on yet another good day out spoilt by 90+ minutes of football, but us Seagulls enjoyed the trip, the new stadium and the beers of course. Pre match chat leaned towards us looking a bit light up front at the moment and with a rare disasterclass from Wel, the point was emphasised as loudly as Everton’s PA system! Stand or fall! UTA! Salt of the earth is good ole Tommy, in the trenches! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Post match opinion from the WSU and Evening Star as Albion get Fulhamed once again. Featuring on this episode, apart from your intrepid hosts, are Chris and John, Loz and Jacqui, Jeroen and Rik, plus Tom Hylands. Stand or fall! UTA! Where did they get 6 bloody minutes from?! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Russ and Pete were joined by Rich Tipple and Fulham fans Paul and Emilio to preview the PL season and the big kick off this weekend when Albion welcome Fulham to Falmer. There’s title, top 4 and relegation predictions and a general summary of the transfer window and thoughts on the other teams’ general prospects, including Crippled Phallus. Stand or fall! UTA! The BRP is part of The Sports Social Network @BrightonRockPod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Russ and Pete were delighted to welcome Worthing FC chairman Barry Hunter onto the pod to discuss all things Rebels, including summer preps, prospects for the season and plans for the future. Barry is also a lifelong Albion fan so in part two he gave us his Albion backstory and thoughts on the ups and downs through the years and The Seagulls’ fantastic progress in recent times. Stand or fall! UTA! Up The Rebels!!! The BRP is proud to be a part of The Sports Social Network @BrightonRockPod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In The Pod Squad this week: Pete, Russ and Andy K, discussing the latest friendlies, news and rumours from Albion, the fans’ forum, exciting news about the new Shegulls stadium and a prestigious nomination for one of the new WSL recruits. Pete and Russ also regale us with tales of their FA Cup trip to Haywards Heath Town and there’s also a review of the League One / Two openers and a preview of The Championship, which gets underway this weekend. . Stand or fall! UTA! Bugger off, ManUre!!! Contact us at brightonrockpodcast@gmail.com @BrightonRockPod We are proudly a part of The Sports Social Network Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Russ and Pete were joined once again by their favourite friend of the show, Phil Annets, to whet their tastebuds ahead of the Extra Preliminary Round of The FA Cup this weekend….yes it’s back ALREADY! Russ and Pete will be at Haywards Heath Town’s game vs Ashford United down in Sussex, but what else is on the menu up and down the country? Then in part 2, discussions moves to all things Albion for another update on transfers in and out, plus there’s the England Women’s glorious triumph at The Euros and the far from glorious news eminating from Morecambe and Sheff Wednesday in recent weeks. And the latest Clown Town update! Stand or fall! UTA! Up The Bluebells!!! We are part of The Sports Social Network Check out Phil’s socials for more FA Cup stats and facts @FACupFactfile on X Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Plenty of transfer news to discuss, there’s the new kits, P*lace’s new home top (*snigger), the women’s Euros, the tragic Diogo Jota news, the FIFA Vanity Project Cup, spelling mistakes by chavlettes, the P*lace Europa demotion, sour grapes, more sour grapes and a mysteriously unloved email address. Stand or fall! UTA! Greatest injustice ever! ;) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Russ, The Gent, Gerry and Tony Brown all returned, this time joined by Will and Kirsty, to conclude our big summer review of the Albion squad and where we think there could and / or should be changes. There were low alcohol stouts with tap water chasers, power cuts and more besides, as the pod squad also discussed the latest from Albion and beyond, revelled in England’s progression in the Euro U21s, had another rant about the Club World Cup and announced the BRP Award winners. Stand or fall! UTA! Pass me a tap water chaser! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Russ welcomed back to the pod this week The Gent, Tony Brown and Berlin based Tony Boden, as well as welcoming onto the show for the first time radio presenter and FAB board member Gerry Brown for his BRP debut. In this, the first of a two-part mini series taking a detailed look at the current status of the squad as a whole, following the conclusion of the recent season, we look at goalkeepers, centre backs and full backs and debate where we need to strengthen and on who might leave. All this after analysing the changing on-pitch culture of the Premier League and Albion’s place within it Part 2 will focus on the more attacking parts of the team as well as looking at the latest news this close season. Stand or fall! UTA! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Andy Bass and Alan popped up to town for their first pubcast at the famous ‘home pub’ of the pod, The Gladstone Arms. Along with Glad veterans Pete and Russ, they talked through a packed agenda encompassing such topics as signings / potential signings, new contracts, stats and facts, managerial mayhem, FIFA-bashing, sell on clauses and the latest on the P*lace Europa fiasco. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

BBC Sussex’s finest Johnny Cantor joined a pod squad comprising Russ, Pete, Andy K and Richard to review Fabian H’s first season at Albion, where a second best placing in their history and a second best points total in the top flight were achieved, as well as some spectacular goals and some decent cup runs. Stand or fall! UTA! Onwards and upwards! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Well Europe didn’t happen thanks to ManUre somehow beating Villa, with help from an appalling reffing cock-up and Forest bottling Champions League qualification…feats matching Man City’s pathetic showing in the FA Cup, but Albion themselves stood, not fell, securing 8th place and coming to within a point of their record PL points total to round off what most will consider a rather good season all things considered. Experiencing the utter roasting of the Spuds was the usual suspects, who imbibed pre and post to good effect and had a bloody good knees up regardless of missing the place they deserved in The Conference League. So Albion signed off in style, as did the MDS part of this season’s podding. Can’t wait to see what next season brings with new signings, returning players and another season leaving our upstart little brothers trailing in our wake no doubt. Stand or fall!!! UTA!!! Should have had the salad! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the pod squad this week were Russ, Pete, Alan and our latest debutant Lincoln Pigman, a self-described Johnny come lately who has timed his choosing of a football club with uncanny aplomb! The quartet discuss the felling of confirmed champs Liverpool in style on Monday night, thanks in (final) part due to one half of a cousin combo of subs: Jack Hinshelwood. The other half of that combo was (even) young(er) Harry Howell from Albion’s academy. What a time to make your debut in the stripes! Also under the spotlight was the rest of the PL action, the play offs, P*lace’s Europa ‘complication’, Albion transfer news (Boscagli on his way to us!!!), Sky Sports’ ever increasing saturation coverage of the PL and a look ahead to Albion’s final game of the season at The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, where the club seek the point or more needed to fulfil their part in a four-pronged set of required outcomes to get them that second bite at European football for next season. Stand or fall! UTA! And come on Villa, Forest and then next week, er, Chelsea *cringe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the pod squad this week: Russ, Pete, Al and Andy K, to revel in another winning visit to Molineux. Also under discussion are Greek ‘gangsters’, owner-encroachment, booing legends, elbowing opponents, the player awards, a new set piece coach needed, the EFL playoffs so far and the chance to beat two different current champions in one season! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Poor Pawson, penalty chaos, a (probably deserved) 1-1 score line, Minteh centre stage and a JPVH / Dunky double-chest down to the keeps!!! Yes it was an eventful afternoon down Falmer Way. Albion avoided conceding 2+ goals which was a pleasant novelty but saw themselves slip to 10th in the table, an unwanted side effect to the medicine Dr Brighton administered to Brentford a couple of weeks ago, with The Bees now buzzing towards that coveted Europa Conference spot. The run in is into its tense and tight final stages. Come on Albion! Stand or fall! UTA! Pawson, you are a disgrace! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Russ, Andy Knott and The Gent, analysing how Albion managed to get back to winning ways, courtesy of better performances from the likes of Lewis, a welcome and very long-awaited first start in aeons for Solly, some good substitutions at (just!) the right time and three goals that included two absolute thunderbastards from messrs Yasin and Carlos. Stand or fall!   UTA!  Thunderbastards are go! @BrightonRockPod on BlueSky (and Twatter) brightonrockpodcast@gmail.com Part of the Sport Social Podcast Network that can be found in all their glory at this rather suitable address: www.sport-social.co.uk  Please follow us for automatic downloads of new episodes and if you want to make us really happy please rate us five stars on Apple and any other platforms that provide the opportunity to do so! Why not write a review while you are at it?! ;0).  All this helps our rankings and improves our chances of getting exciting guests onto the show. Also we are now on Patreon, so if you happen to be inclined to extreme acts of generosity we’d greatly appreciate any monthly donations, great or small, to help us run the pod as well as we can. Go to www.patreon.com/BrightonRockPod for details and to sign up. NB Our content will remain freely accessible to all listeners regardless. Humble thanks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices