Broken Trophy podcast

This week, to close of the series, we're joined by coaching couple Georgie and Ben Gulliver. They talk us through their journey in rugby leading to coaching Ivybridge Ladies RFC and the challenges and the enjoyment of coaching together. They also talk about the similarities between women's rugby and the championship and what the championship needs to be more successful ! Finally, Tom has to talk about Poppy Cleall and Stefan has to talk about open water swimming!

In this week’s episode we catch up with Liam Cook, coach of the Cricket Brasil Women’s team, following their ICC Women's T20 World Cup Americas Region campaign.

Liam tells us about the team’s performance in that tournament, what he was pleased about and what the team need to work on, how they continue to develop their players in the future and find out which Brazil Cricket player Liam is tipping to become the first Brazilian cricketer to play outside Brazil.

Plus the usual silliness including Liam’s two week holiday in Spain to get around COVID protocols, who is playing Liam in the Disney remake of the Brazil Cricket story, who is Danny DeVito cast as, and how many times can the guys say ‘amazing’ and ‘brilliant’ between them? Stef keeps count…

Oh, and Afghan Hound racing at Crayford Dogs…trust us, just listen…

This week the boys welcome back cricketer, TMS commentator and paediatric physio tech, Emily Windsor.

What a year Emily has had; hitting the winning runs to secure the Southern Vipers' second Rachel Heyhoe Flint Trophy in a row, appearing for the Trent Rockets in the inaugural Hundred tournament, and commentating on England women's matches for BBC's Test Match Special.

Emily tells us all about her incredible year, how she almost failed her physiotherapy exam, what her car singalong song of choice is, and reveals a shocking revelation about her GCSE Art...

After a six month break (well, there's not been much sport on, has there) Tom and Stef are back to reveal the healing process they've embarked on to get back in the studio together, what their top three sporting moments have been since we last spoke, and look ahead to some brilliant new episodes in the weeks ahead! 

The boys are joined by Rocky Clark, Georgina Gulliver and Kim Oliver to run through the Finals Day weekend in the 6 Nations. We go all 'match of the day' with each of our guests covering a specific game:

England 10 v 6 France - Rocky 

Ireland 25 v 5 Italy - Georgie

Scotland 25 v 5 Wales - Kim

As well as discussing all the key moments from all three games, we chat England's scrum issues v France, how good is Poppy Cleall, how media coverage of the 6Nations has been good but could be better, and what Rugby boards of the 6 Nations countries need to do to help their teams improve. If you're interested in women's rugby, this is a must-listen.

With the Women's County t20 competition starting on Sunday 25 April, Tom and Stef meet Raf Nicholson and Syd Egan of women's cricket website, CricketHer, to find out about this year's tournament, the format and the teams to watch.

We then get into the overall format of women's domestic cricket in the UK, discussing regional cricket, the Hundred, whether multi-day cricket should come back into the domestic calendar and how do young girls pick a team to support? We also get a history lesson on the women's game from Raf, a PHD-holding historian! 

It's a fascinating discussion with two people who are clearly extremely passionate and knowledgable about the women's game. 

This week we talk to former footballer and current sports multi-media journalist, Emma Coolen. We talk about how she went from the eight tier in Dutch football to the top within five years, thanks to a chance meeting with American footballer, Christen Press. 

We talk about the Netherlands winning Euro 2017 and how it changed the coverage of women's football in that country as a result, and how it's still growing now. Emma tells us why she left football, and how she intends to work in sports journalism after her multi-media degree is completed. 

Finally we discuss women's sport in general, drawing parallels between England women's rugby and cricket, what can still be done to put men's and women's sport on an equal playing field, including potentially having separate twitter channels for country's men's and women's team. 

This is really good chat about women's sport in general, with someone who has been involved both as a participant, and as a media representative. 

The boys discuss this week's Women's Six Nations action with former England rugby player, Kim Oliver. 

This week's results were: 

Italy 3 - 67 England

Wales 0 - 45 Ireland. 

#WomensSixNations 

The second part of our county cricket season 2021 preview is here, as we talk to Sussex quick bowler Stuart Meaker, and Hampshire captain James Vince, about their side's chances of success this year.