The Onion Bag

This week we are treated to an in-depth chat with New Zealand All White's Goalkeeper Coach, Paul Gothard, affectionately known as “Goffy”.

Paul is originally from Jimbob’s home town of Southend-on-sea in the UK where he played as a goalkeeper for Dagenham and Redbridge among other semi-pro outfits.

After migrating to New Zealand, Goffy rediscovered his love for the game with Auckland City, representing them in the 2009 Club World Cup.

After retiring from playing, he transitioned into coaching and has since built a strong reputation in goalkeeper development, working as both Auckland City and Wellington Pheonix’s goalkeeping coach.

He joined up with the NZ national team set up, coaching at multiple FIFA U-17 and U-20 World Cups, as well as the senior team’s qualifying cycles.

Currently, Paul serves as the High Performance Goalkeeper Development Lead for New Zealand Football, where he oversees the long-term development of goalkeepers across all national teams.

He also continues to work directly with the All Whites as their goalkeeping coach, and will accompany them to the FIFA World Cup 2026 cycle.

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Catch the lads this week on the Onion Bag as they dive into:

- FIFA Club World Cup,

- Sir Gareth Southgate's knighting,

- Messi vs Ronaldo again,

- England U21s,

- Penalty change,

- Liam Paro's convincing win in Cairns,

- Recap the Marlin Coast Rangers vs Pen Power Aus Cup game, with interviews from Crios O'Hare (MCR) and Kurt McDonald (Pen Power),

- The round of 32 draw results for the Hahn Aus Cup,

- Our Airlie correspondent, J-Rod sends us a beer package,

- WAJ,

- Multi

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** Apologies for the audio this week, whilst we had some technical difficulties we werent aware of until editing**

Please join the boys this week as we touch on the FIFA Club World Cup, Jim's new Penalty rule, whilst we catch up with Crios O'Hare from Marlin Coast, and new friend of the show, Kurt McDonald from Peninsula Power. They both give us their thoughts on the Aus Cup game in Cairns as Pen Power look to the round of 32 again.

Jimbob samples a HSP for the first time whilst SMD brings in some homebrew for taste testing.

Jimbob also rattles through his frustration with the State of Origin.

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🎙️ This week on The Onion Bag Podcast, the boys sit down with NPL legend Graham Fyfe.

From Celtic's youth ranks to England with Cheltenham Town, winning the Scottish First Division with Raith Rovers, and eventually carving out a storied career in Australia’s NPL with Redlands — Graham shares it all.

He chats with Dave and Bobby about family, footballing philosophy, and life as both a player and a manager in the beautiful game. A cracking episode you won’t want to miss! ⚽️

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This week on The Onion Bag the boys review their trip down to Brisbane where they spent time with Karl Dodd and Brisbane Roar Youth.

They also discuss:

• Lions FC v GC Knights

• Roar Youth v Pen Power

• Transfer News

• Winning big at Star Casino

• HSPs

• and the worst interview of all time by Bob.

All this and more on this week's episode of The Onion Bag!

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This week on the Onion Bag, the lads chat about Wrexham and Liverpool making their way Downunder, Socceroos losing their CEO and Subway sponsorships, we touch on the Championship Playoff Final, Ancelotti and International Manager, Delap to United and we preview the Europa League Final and the road to the final for both United and Spurs.

All of this plus our regular segments:

- World According to Jim,

- Around the Grounds with special guests from Mackay Lions and Marlin Coast

- Multi, plus our new resident horse tipper, Ryan Crawford sends us in another tip,

- FLP / Tipping Update

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This week, we have another special guest on the line... Dave and Bobby catch up with Peninsula Power's Head of Mens Football, Ben Ryan.

Some great insight into his journey from playing back home in England to his unexpected lengthy holiday stay in Australia that has seen him stick around to this day. Ben tells about his transition into coaching and the various clubs he's been involved with in the Brisbane region.

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This week on The Onion Bag:

• How good was Liverpool's title win?
• What happened to Arsenal?
• The Champions League Semi Finals
• Wrexham's triple promotion
• FQ's neutral venue solution - should teams meet half way?
• Benn vs Eubank Jr
• Queenslanders

All this and more on this week's episode of The Onion Bag!

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This week on The Onion Bag the boys catch up with Liam Shipton from Liam Shipton Soccer School. They discuss the success his academy has had at the recent FNQ youth cup.

Leichhardt Lions and Corinthians join Dave this week on Around the grounds. Plus, all our usual segments

Enjoy your weekly hit of The Onion Bag!

This week on the Onion Bag, the lads dig deep into the EPL results as we near the end of the season, Man united get hammered again on their performance, Champions league results and upcoming semi-final fixtures. We go in depth about Tottenham and big Ange with a good friend of the show and true Tottenham fan, Dan Burnell. The lads analyse how robotic the game has got by playing out of the back.

All this plus some of our normal segments, the WAJ and the multi.

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