Never Surrender - a GWS Giants AFL podcast

FREE TOBY GREENE! So we don't talk about Tobes being sent to the big house because we done the pod on Saturday night and all we saw was Easton Wood grinding his elbow into Toby's mush, but WABOBS. The fix is in. Anyway, plug in and come back with Never Surrender by The Squinters to the chirpier AFL times of Saturday night. Indulge yourselves in the GWS Giants' glorious victory with Growler, Sparrow and Needles over whiskey and wine while Sparrow weaves his finals narrative of Giant Retribution and Growler froths about what it is like behind the glass at the Beanstalk. There is a live at the match halftime review from our Squinters at the match, Growler's Lidspiracy theory and find out Sparrow's big, BIG issue with Leon Cameron. Look, there's no doubt you'll be shocked and stunned. Winning. Footy. Finals. Giants. Love it.

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THE SQUINTERS' MEDIA STATEMENT ON COGS' RE-SIGNING.

'Look at the list

Look how they’ll grow with you

And win flags with you

Yeah they were all orange

U came along

U signed your name for us

I wrote a song for you

And it was called "Orange"

So then U took your pen

Oh what a thing to have done

And it was all orange

Your foot

Oh yeah, your foot and leg

Don’t miss going inside fifty

I know, you love to snag a goal

You know I love you so

U’d sprint across

The ground to lay a tackle

Oh what a thing to do

'Cause you were all orange

U cross the line

30 touches, 3 goals

On a weekly basis

And it was all orange

Your work

Oh yeah your community work

Turns the club into something beautiful

And I know

For us U’ll be a premiership captain

For us U’ll grow the game in Western Sydney

It's true

Look how they shine for you

Look how Jezza leads for you

Look how Mummy taps for you

Look how Zaccy kicks to you

Look how Stormy dishes off for you

Look how they shine

Look at the list

Look how they win flags for you

And all the things that you do.'

Otherwise, its Never Surrender straight from the heart. Coco names his team for the elim final, Needles decides the new club slogan until the end of recorded time, some birds chirp and the neighbour's little dog barks (a lot) to hear such fun.

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A win's a win's a win's a win! Amwerite? Specially when Jezza jags 9! The last home and away episode of Never Surrender by The Squinters' first season drops with a controversial clang! Bubs, Bartman and Needles dissect Growler's online 8chan-worthy manifesto justifying his Leon-out campaign, Bubs brings some shocking GWS Giants goal-kicking accuracy stats to the table, we listen to RoMac's clip from the game and don't discuss what its like to kick 9 goals in a game (because only Needles knows) but agree it was fun to watch. And we also proclaim an AFL fatwa against the Bont. Because someone has to!

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What can we say? Our erstwhile Orange, White and Charcoal champions, the GWS Giants, might have given-up two-goalless second halves in a row (wait till you hear RoMac's stat on that!), but The Squinters will Never Surrender! (see what we did there?). RoMac, Cheese and Needles take this pod right back to its roots with 50 fabulous minutes of unfiltered, uninformed and unauthorised AFL speculation about Cogs (probs gone), about future ruckmen, about future Squintlets, about Lid's and Big Dawso's futures, about Growler's recommendation as to Leon Cameron's future job security and about the Royal Squinting Commission into all the Giants injuries - which will happen in the future. And all of that hard-hitting, evidence-absent AFL conjecture is dished out puce and hot with fury and grim despair. Perfect Monday fare, non?

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Here it is! The Squinters have delivered Never Surrender's ground-breaking, much-promised, long-awaited real-time podcast from the Hawks game at the Golden Egg in Canberra. GASP! with Needles as snow begins to fall in the first quarter, SYMPATHISE! with Sparrow (the Squinter formerly known as Dunsy) as he slumps from chirpy but concerned at half-time to despair and disgusted by the final siren, AGREE! with Cinque as he finally, reluctantly, gives up on a Giants original. There's also a contribution or two from Junior Squinter Big H, Sparrow's revolutionary Giants billeting idea in Issues of the Week and Cinque's dad gets in an argument during Play on at All Costs. It's all live, it's all here, and it's all yours. But the Hawks won, dammit.

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Relax, Giants freaks! Like Barto, we're back! The Squinters have flown this week's pod all the way back to Canberra after pathetic pre-Brexit British wifi made uploading impossible. Recorded live with London atmos, Needles, Mal Michael and special guest Squinter wannabe The Doc deliver very vague post-curry speculation about Saturday's lovely two-point three-in-a-row win over the Swans from the front stoop of the Good Samaritan pub in the East End's mean streets. Apart from Dunsy's at-the-match updates, timezones and beer-drinking made live viewing arguably impossible, so a lot of at-the-match Ashes pontification is included as a content assist. Alright guvnor, it's LONDON baby, yeah!

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Deep within the political bowels of Parliament House, the Squinters take Chris Bowen through a second Question Time in Chat-Up's second episode. In another exclusive interview, and his first Giants-focused media appearance since the election, C-Bo (not C-Bomb!) paints a word picture of the orange merch in his office, his Road to Damascus conversion to AFL and GWS, what it's like to be pantsed by Harry Kewell in the street, how he'll cure* diabetes for Sam Reid and Needles as well as peeling off a pretty strong Tony Abbott-impression.

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*may or may not be hyperboly.

TWO IN A ROW! Guest IX (the Squinter otherwise known as Mal Michael) makes a second appearance on the back of a second GWS Giants gut-slogging, Jezza-tackling-in-the-backline one-point big W over the 'Power without 2019 Flag Glory'. Bartman returns from the Riviera via the operating table and Growler emerges from the nursery to talk up that win and our now Giant top-four chances, sadly salute Adam Goodes, gladly salute Heath Shaw, froth over an email from Jon Patton himself* and tease our exclusive chat-up with Chris "C-Bow" Bowen dropping Thursday.

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*Not guaranteed...

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***After subscribing, and getting your friends to subscribe, please take the time to rate and review us (fyi - 5 stars or bugger off) on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. It means a fair bit to the show and makes it easier for more Giants freaks to get the appetite for AFL flag glory.***

At the time just six weeks ago the only and best GWS Giants official unauthorised AFL podcast seemed like such a good idea! But the Giants Never Surrender (even if they aren't quite winning right now) and neither do the Squinters. This week Coco and Bubs go on a deep dive with Needles and foundation Squinter RoMac who brings us yet more squad freshness with a sparkling Bobby Hill debut. We throw pickles at the wall looking for reasons how the team can be losing while the players are in form, discuss the one MAMMOTH Giant issue of the week (it's exactly who you think), gird each others' loins for the Collingwood 8-pointer before Coco gives Needles a genius game-watching mechanism to trick the Universe and we play a game at the end to cheer everyone up. You're welcome.

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***After subscribing, and getting your friends to subscribe, please take the time to rate and review us (fyi - 5 stars or bugger off) on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. It means a fair bit to the show and makes it easier for more Giants freaks to get the appetite for AFL flag glory.***