Matthew Elliott joins me on the podcast. Matt is a former professional rugby league coach and player. His playing career included 62 games for St George Dragons, while his coaching career included 404 games across Bradford, Canberra, Penrith and New Zealand and he is the youngest to coach a grand final win in the English Super League. For full episode guides and show notes please visit www.talkingwithtk.com and get in contact with me at [email protected]

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Chad Townsend joins me on the podcast. Chad is a professional rugby league player for the Cronulla Sharks. He has played 132 first grade games for Cronulla & the NZ Warriors, winning a premiership in 2016 while he recently earned representative honours with the Australian Prime Ministers 13 and 2 caps for City Origin.

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My special guest is Nick Phipps. Nick is a scrum half for both the NSW Waratahs and Australian Wallabies which includes 97 Super Rugby Games and 68 tests for his country. He won a Super Rugby Tittle in 2014 for the Waratahs, a silver medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and has been to two World Cups in 2011 and 2015. Nick probably has the most intriguing back story of them all with both his Grand Fathers being together as prisoners of war in World War 2 and years later his parents meet randomly and marry. In the podcast we chat about Cheikas half time blow up in Argentina, living in the Kings School, Winning Silver at the Comm Games, Grass roots & Shute Shield, Super rugby title in 2014 to living with the boys in the Pentagon.

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My special guest is Eric Grothe Snr. Eric is legend of the NRL having played 152 first grade games for the Parramatta Eels where he won 4 premierships. His representative career includes 8 tests for Australia and 9 State of Origins for NSW. Eric has been named into the NRL Hall of Fame.

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My special guest is Jamie Lyon. Jamie is legend of the NRL having played 359 first grade games for Parramatta Eels, St Helens and Manly Sea-Eagles. He won a Super League Man of Steel, Challenge Cup and Grand Final for St Helens, while back home in Australia he featured in 5 grand finals winning two for Manly in 2008 and 2011.

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My special guest is Jamie Dwyer. Jamie is a legend of World Hockey with his stellar career including being the most capped Kookaburra of all time with 365 appearances. He won 3 Olympic medals including a Gold in 2004, 2 World Cup Golds, 3 Commonwealth Golds, 6 Champion Trophy Golds and was remarkably World Hockey Player of the Year on 5 occasions.

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My special guest is Martin Offiah. Martin is a legend of Rugby League and widely regarded as one of the fastest players ever to grace the field. His stellar career includes scoring over 500 trys in a career which took him to 5 League Premierships, 4 Challenge Cups and 2 World Club Challenge wins across his career at Wigan and Widnes. He played in Australia at the Roosters and Dragons and is capped 33 times for Great Britain.

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My special guest is Barrie McDermott. Barrie is a legend of English Rugby League with his 16 year professional career including 367 first grade games for Leeds, Widnes, Wigan and Oldham. He was known as an enforcer on the field and he is capped 15 times for Great Britain while post sport he is a noted commentator with Sky Sports and supports a number of foundations in the community including the Steve Prescott Foundation and the Jane Tomlinson Appeal.

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My special guest is Ben Darwin. Ben is a former professional rugby union player for the Wallabies and ACT Brumbies. His career was cut short by injury in 2003 World Cup semi-final against New Zealand. Post footy, Ben transitioned into coaching around the world then became co-founder and general manager of corporate for Gain Line Analytics.

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