Never Surrender - a GWS Giants AFL podcast

A few days/weeks/months/years/whatevers ago, over a brekky of multiple coffees, spinach and mushrooms, The Squinters' Needles, the Renaissance Man chatted-up GWS Giants hero and AFL footballer with diabetes Sam Reid about life (with diabetes), the (footy) universe (with diabetes) and everything (mostly diabetes). They discuss the effectiveness of dartboard gut tattoos as a way of deflecting stigma, what it is like to lose 16 kilos in two weeks, the utility of tumeric on everything and break a story that Dayne Zorko is a bit of a sook. You heard it here first.

If anyone has any thoughts or questions or their own insights (or Paddy McCartin's or Brandon Jack's contact details please), get in touch at [email protected].

PROJECT 20K. We're at 15, 230! Less than 5000 more and surely sponsors will be knocking down The Squinters' door!

***REVIEW & RATE US. Pretty please. After subscribing, and getting your friends to subscribe, and their friends as well, rate and review us (fyi - 5 stars or bugger off) on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. It means a helluva lot to the show and makes it easier for more Giants freaks to feed their appetite for AFL flag glory (in 2020).***

The Squinters (well A Squinter) rings up Nathan "Bassy" Bassett - ex-Norwood Redleg (1994-1996), ex-Melbourne Demon (1997), ex-Adelaide Crow (1998-2008), ex-Norwood Senior Coach (2010-2013, flags '12 & '13) , ex-Essendon Assistant Coach (2014-2015), current Port Adelaide Assistant Coach (2016-Present), All-Australian (2006) and Type 1 Diabetic (1997-present) - for a chat about what it's like for an elite AFL footy player to play footy and train footy while managing an auto-immune "eating disorder" like Type 1 Diabetes, and what insights about what he's learned he can share with Average Joes who have diabetes or a chronic condition so they can get the best out of themselves and look after themselves in the best way possible. And of course, if it's good for a diabetic, it's good for someone with a working pancreas.

This is hopefully the first of a couple of conversations with elite footy players living and playing with Type 1 Diabetes that we'll be able to post this summer. If anyone has any thoughts or questions or their own insights, get in touch at [email protected].

PROJECT 20K. We're at 14, 900-and something. 6000 and a bit more downloads and we might be able to get a sponsor to help us.

***REVIEW & RATE US. Go on then. Do it. After subscribing, and getting your friends to subscribe, please rate and review us (fyi - 5 stars or bugger off) on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. It means a helluva lot to the show and makes it easier for more Giants freaks to feed their appetite for AFL flag glory (in 2020).***

(RECORDED BEFORE WHITFIELD DELIGHT DAY...just sayin')

The Spadge suggests a date to discuss the GWS Giants AFL draft haul, and only Needles, the Renaissance Man makes himself available. So the Spadge suggests another date - same again ... BUT the footy gods smile upon the delightful duo and lob in the content of the week that Cogs is now Captain. A bit of grist for the podcast mill that our heroes spend sometime thoughtfully chewing over, before coming up with an excellent theory as to why (it was probs us) as well some unauthorised, unevidenced and unreliable draft week insights. And then a few words about Sparrow's footy debut with the Narrabeen Pigeons. This is PEAK Never Surrender by the Squinters.

If anyone has any thoughts or questions or unfounded opinions or outright libel on draft week, Christmas or pre-season or anything at all, correspond with us at [email protected].

PROJECT 20K. We went past 13,900 and something. Just over 7000 to go and it is sponsors galore - surely.

***REVIEW & RATE US. Go on then. Do it. After subscribing, and getting your friends to subscribe, please rate and review us (fyi - 5 stars or bugger off) on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. It means a helluva lot to the show and makes it easier for more Giants freaks to feed their appetite for AFL flag glory (in 2020).***

This it it! This is the final coughed syllable on all she wrote on AFL in 2019. In what what might be the year's final episode of Never Surrender by the SquintersCoco and Bartman cast, with Needles, a few critical eyes across the GWS Giants' 2019. The most comprehensive set of post-season footy awards ever awarded are awarded via Coco's grand spreadsheet, the lads play Needle's game 'Play the Game', podcast stats are pondered and no actual review of the year good and the year bad is undertaken in any remotely structured way. It's basically the perfect podcast. Welcome.

***Never Surrender by The Squinters #20 is for Cinque***

If anyone has any thoughts or questions or unfounded opinions or outright libel on draft week, Christmas or pre-season or anything at all, correspond with us at [email protected].

PROJECT 20K. We went past 12,000 downloads on last week. Only 8000 to go! We are waiting for the sponsors (how many listeners does Dyl Buckly get?) to bang down our email we are now driving for 20,000 because we Never Surrender.

***REVIEW & RATE US. Go on then. Do it. 100 more than the 15 reviews to date would be GREAT!. After subscribing, and getting your friends to subscribe, please rate and review us (fyi - 5 stars or bugger off) on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. It means a helluva lot to the show and makes it easier for more Giants freaks to feed their appetite for AFL flag glory (in 2020).***

The Squinters take Never Surrender inside the club's inner sanctum with on-the-spot reportage and eyewitness testimony from the AFL's Giant Night of Orange Nights - the Kevin Sheedy Medal knees-up. Listening to this pod with Growler, Sparrow, Bubs and Needles gets you there - walking the Orange Carpet, sipping the Orange Gin and as a result dancing on the Orange Tablecloths. Ready? Go.

Our Grand 2019 Wrap Spectacular is this week! Get in touch with us quicksmart so we can speculate on your speculations at [email protected].

PROJECT 20K. We went past 10,000 downloads on Grand Final day, so you know, every cloud...while we wait for the sponsors to bang down our email we are now driving for 20,00o because we Never Surrender.

***REVIEW & RATE US. Go on then. Do it. 100 more than the 15 reviews to date would be GREAT!. After subscribing, and getting your friends to subscribe, please rate and review us (fyi - 5 stars or bugger off) on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. It means a helluva lot to the show and makes it easier for more Giants freaks to feed their appetite for AFL flag glory (in 2020).***

It's been too long, and yet, not long enough. Regardless, saddle-up and ride-again with your Orange Punditry Heroes as they bring you Never Surrender by the Squinters' AFL Trade Week explainer (tm). Bubs, Needles, Growler and Sparrow tell you what was good for the GWS Giants, what was bad, why and what might happen next. There is slander, libel, brash opinion and fascinating (no jokes) explanations of the machinations of trade week and draft week, points and all. Again, it's our pleasure.

Our Grand 2019 Wrap Spectacular is this week! Get in touch with us quicksmart so we can speculate on your speculations at [email protected].

PROJECT 20K. We went past 10,000 downloads on Grand Final day, so you know, every cloud...while we wait for the sponsors to bang down our email we are now driving for 20,00o because we Never Surrender.

***REVIEW & RATE US. Go on. 100 more than the 15 reviews to date would be GREAT!. After subscribing, and getting your friends to subscribe, please rate and review us (fyi - 5 stars or bugger off) on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. It means a helluva lot to the show and makes it easier for more Giants freaks to feed their appetite for AFL flag glory (in 2020).***

It's the reluctant Grand Final edition of Never Surrender by the Squinters, a GWS Giants AFL Podcast. Sparrow went to the game and gets up off the canvas to review it with Needles. Live reports from Dallas, Copenhagen, Friday night at the Coopers Inn and Coco's astonishing post match hot take - you'll never guess (like, literally) who's head he's calling for now. Unfiltered, unauthorised, uninformed and unvictorious (this time), the Giant appetite for flag glory in 2020 starts here and starts now.

Speculate with us or against us here: [email protected].

PROJECT 20K. We went past 10,000 downloads on Grand Final day, so you know, every cloud...while we wait for the sponsors to bang down our email we are now driving for 20,00o because we Never Surrender.

***REVIEW & RATE US. Yeah, tah. After subscribing, and getting your friends to subscribe, please rate and review us (fyi - 5 stars or bugger off) on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. It means a helluva lot to the show and makes it easier for more Giants freaks to feed their appetite for AFL flag glory.***

Giant Appetite for Flag Glory! Assemble! This is not a drill! It's Grand Final week! It's party time!

If you are on a bus in the Orange Convoy rolling down to the MCG, this pod is for you. Make a recording on your phone of the Giant Banter on the bus and email it to us at [email protected]. We'll stick it in the Grand Final review - win, lose or draw.

Recorded on a Tuesday night because it was the only night Needles (who'll be in Canberra), Coco (who'll be in Dallas), Cheese (who'll be in San Francisco), Sparrow (who'll be at the MCG) and Bubs (who'll be at the MCG but calls in from Invercargill) could get together to get excited and prognosticate, dropped on a Thursday morning to add some orange, charcoal and white bounce and sizzle to this Giant Grand Final week, we do spend time chatting about who to drop for Cogs who'll play. He won't, so that bit is a bit moot (Bubs) but the rest is classic Squinters - speculation, punting recommendations (Stormin' Norman or Tommo* both $81...easy money), tangents, literature, babies howling and dogs growling - there's something for everyone.

WE ALL are the Big, Big Sound.

And ain't it lovely?

Speculate with us or against us about how good the Giants are here: [email protected].

PROJECT TEN THOUSAND. We are at 9200+ downloads. 10,000 must mean a sponsor, surely. Just one sponsor would make this so much easier, so -

***REVIEW & RATE US. Yeah, tah. After subscribing, and getting your friends to subscribe, please rate and review us (fyi - 5 stars or bugger off) on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. It means a helluva lot to the show and makes it easier for more Giants freaks to feed their appetite for AFL flag glory.***

Oh. My. God. (in a secular way, which is more meaningful we think). Your Giant Appetite for 2019 Flag Glory is one weekend afternoon from satiation. Needles, Bartman and Growler drag themselves away from booking flights and bumming Grand Final tickets off mates to present Never Surrender by The Squinters, the GWS Giants AFL podcast about one of the teams playing in the 2019 AFL Grand Final(!) after the boys went to the well again and again and again on Saturday Night and stuffed Collingwood in the Preliminary Final to create something remarkable. But as yet unfinished. The injustice, the injuries, the feelz, the goals, the terror, the joy, the glory. Who plays on Saturday? Who misses? Raw, unauthorized, unfiltered, uninformed and happy as bastards - if you only listen to one Giants fancast this week it'll have to be this one, because it's the only one. Have a great week y'all. Make the most of it. Never Surrender.

Speculate with us or against us about how good the Giants were here: [email protected].

PROJECT TEN THOUSAND. We are at 8240 downloads. 10,000 must mean a sponsor, surely. Just one sponsor would make this so much easier, so -

***REVIEW & RATE US. Yeah, tah. After subscribing, and getting your friends to subscribe, please rate and review us (fyi - 5 stars or bugger off) on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. It means a helluva lot to the show and makes it easier for more Giants freaks to feed their appetite for AFL flag glory.***

AFL Tribunal who art in Melbourne, forgive Toby his trespasses, as he forgives those who trespass against him. Apart from that self-inflicted black cloud we in our GWS Giants guernseys are still in a stormzy of joy as the boot and glutes of the Little Giant Man checkside us one step closer to 2019 Flag Glory. Hard, gutsy, against the odds, season-defining victories like what was won on the weekend don't come around every year, especially not clad in the perfection of Sparrow's multiple narratives. Needles evocatively summarises the three minutes he watched peeking from behind the laundry door, Lawso takes a break from painting Copenhagen orange to go controversial, Sparrow drinks whiskey and weaves dreams, RoMac was at the match, the Doc was at the Ashes and Bartman was blind. Tommo is going, Sauce is coming, the Magpies are waiting. It's time to get serious. Our season starts NOW.

Speculate with us or against us here: [email protected].

***REVIEW & RATE US. Yeah, tah. After subscribing, and getting your friends to subscribe, please rate and review us (fyi - 5 stars or bugger off) on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. It means a helluva lot to the show and makes it easier for more Giants freaks to feed their appetite for AFL flag glory.***