It's another week of no sport across the southern hemisphere (Apparently Belarus has soccer but we don't have the rights...) and we continue our journey around the Hornsby Ku-Ring-Gai to see how our local sports, and athletes, are coping with a lack of competition... and sometimes training options too!

This week we touch base with Chris Yard, the head coach of the Pennant Hills Demons Aussie Rules Club (Which is more correct than AFL, because AFL is the league rather than the sport, and apparently there are rules in AFL too, or so we're told by the Lord Mayor, who has spent way too much time in South Australia!) and Joe Heywood of the North Shore Mariners in the round ball code, to see how the lockdown is affecting them and their teams.

Well, sport as we know it seems to be done and dusted for... well, when we know, you'll know!
Normally, we like to put up our interviews as bonus content, but with the lack of sporting content around, we're going to be readjusting our schedules for the next little while.

To begin, we're going back to last Friday's Bench, when we had some interesting discussions with Asquith Magpies Ron Massey Cup coach Pat Weisner, Hornsby Lions coach Chips Carroll and our own Zoe Benjamin about the way the disappearance of sport is impacting what's happening with players, coaches and, well, everyone really!

So settle in and enjoy reliving last Friday night! And that's not a euphemism!!

Yep, it's been a cluster of a week, and sport has completely gone off the rails!

The spicy chorizo, however, still found a way to discuss all things sport, and he called up the Wise Man to sit down alongside him, to cast an eye over all that's happened (and may happen for some time...) across the opening stages of 2020, from cricket, to darts, to things non-sporting as well.

As the world goes in several different directions, take a moment to relax with a rather random Splinters!

Tony "The Sultan" Dosen is joined by eminent Ron Massey Cup expert Bryden Sharp to look at an exciting year of Ron Massey Cup Rugby League on the eve of the 2020 season kickoff - in the ONLY Preview show on Radio or Podcast dedicated to the Ron Massey Cup.

With the new international team from Fiji - the SilkTails - making their historic first appearance alongside the established local Clubs, "The Sultan" and big Bryden tackle all the 11 starting teams head on.  

And they make their own fearless season predictions to give the dedicated League diehard the best guide to the 2020 Massey Cup Season ahead.

Tony "The Sultan" Dosen is joined by Keith "The Lord Mayor" Topolski to raise the curtain on the upcoming grass roots footy season - starting by 'celebrating' the belated release by the NSW Rugby League of the Official Season Draw for the Sydney Shield competition just 11 days out from the season kickoff on March 14, 2020 (when some like Keith thought it would come out AFTER Round 1!!).  

"The Sultan" and "The Lord Mayor" then run the rule over all 14 teams in this season's expanded competition, while taking a sneak peek at the opening round of fixtures in the ONLY dedicated Sydney Shield preview on Radio or podcast out there.

"The Sultan" and "The Lord Mayor' then finish by dusting off the crystal ball to make bold predictions on who out of the big field will be there when 'the whips are cracking' when the Finals Series starts in September.

Once again, "The Bench" team cover grass roots footy in Sydney like no one else in this special Splinters episode to 'whet the appetite" of REAL footy fans for another monster season ahead on HHH-FM!!!

With the end of February fast approaching, Splinters

 Tonight, the Spicy Choirzo, Dom Rizzuto will be pulling the

We have all your old favourite clubs, including APIA

We have got football covered from the Illawarra, out to

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The Raging Bull and Wise Man dive right back into the cricket with the ladies this week as they preview the T20 World Cup with Zoe Benjamin and Georgia Lomis-Futeran and run their eyes over each of the contenders aiming to be the biggest story on March 8, maybe just ahead of the Katy Perry concert!

With the smell of Rugby League's 2020 kickoff in the air and around the corner, Tony "The Sultan" Dosen has once again joined up with Alby Talarico - director of the 2019 Canterbury Cup Champion Newtown Jets and 'el supremo' of Steele Sports.com.au - to preview another massive year of the NSW Rugby League's flagship Canterbury Cup competition in 2020.

After a replay of the closing stages of the thrilling Newtown win in the 2019 Grand Final kicks things off, ALL the main events in the year ahead - the Magic Round, Frank Hyde Shield, Tommy Raudonikis Cup, Newtown's 'Beer, Food and Footy' Festival Day, 'Back to Lidcombe' Day - get a mention.  Plus, there is some exclusive news around a possible Pratten Park game AND the usual forthright views on the year ahead..

The 'crystal ball' is then dusted off in closing with some finals predictions for the month of September to get the Canterbury Cup fan right up to date four weeks out from kickoff.

Splinters marks an important milestone in the history of Sydney First Grade Cricket's Belvidere Cup when the "The Sultan" Tony Dosen catches up shoot the breeze' and talk all things cricket with Rob Aitken as the UTS North Sydney Bears stalwart plays his 473rd game of Sydney First Grade cricket - breaking the all time record for for most matches played in one of the oldest Club competitions in world cricket. 

This special Splinters episode is a mix of funny stories, reflections of cricket's recent history from the coalface of battle, and thoughts on the game now and into the future from Sydney First Grade Cricket's newest and most humble record breaker.

It's finals time in the Australian Women's Hockey League, and the Lord Mayor is ready to drop the puck on the latest instalment of Splinters as we gear up for a checking good time this weekend as the league reaches its' conclusion.

With the Perth Inferno finding their way, through much controversy, into the playoffs, and the Melbourne Ice upsetting the Adelaide Rush in the last round, the ultimate prize is there for the taking as last year's runners up, the Sydney Sirens, look to take one more step this season and lift the Cup.

Don't miss this preview of all things on the ice as Keith chats with the key personnel from each club before this weekend's games at the O'Brien Ice House in Melbourne.