The Wizards of Drivel - Stoke City Podcast

It’s another interview episode as we chat to Anthony Bunn, the editor of Duck Magazine.

In these interviews, we want to talk to people with a genuine passion for Stoke and Duck magazine is the embodiment of that. I went to the excellent Glebe pub to chat with Bunny about fanzines, Stoke, the academy, hopes for next season and much more besides.

As you might expect with the interview being recorded in a pub on a Saturday night, there’s a fair bit of background noise. If it bothers you, apologies for that, but we think its worth a listen all the same.

Just a heads up if you support us on Patreon, we’ll be putting an extra slice of this interview up there later in the week.

We’ll be back to our usual format soon, when who knows, we may even have an exciting signing to talk about.

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We're back!

The Wizards of Drivel podcast returns for another season and what better way to kick things off with an interview with a modern day Stoke City hero?

We obviously covered Higgy's Stoke career - from helping bring Ric to the Britannia (we could have had Dexter Blackstock!), to THAT Quarter final free-kick and the horrible injury that cut short his time at The Potters and the effect it had on him. Seriously, listen to the way he talks about the club and try not to smile, it's superb.

We also talk modern-day Stoke, including fans' expectations, how to get better at the back and the Darren Fletcher signing.

In addition, there's plenty of chat on playing for Gibraltar, his punditry career, the state of TV analysis and what he thinks about some of the game's big talking points like modern tactics, youth development and VAR.

He was a great guest, and we thank him for generously giving up his time!

Dave and Ben have a new podcast and they'd love it if you would listen.

It's called Who Are Ya and can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/user-251565865/blackpool-not-a-penny-more or on iTunes.

This episode of Wizards is a bit cheeky of us but it features the first few minutes of the first ever Who Are Ya? podcast and we thought you might be interested in our latest project.

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A whole season summed up in one podcast, what more could you want? As Stoke emerge victorious at Southampton, The Wizards discuss what this season has meant and where we go from here with Mark Hughes providing strong and stable leadership for at least another season...right?

But there's more than that - there's the first ever #WODPOD end of season awards, season reviews from our loyal listeners, and a chat with a man who took us to task on The Oatcake Message Board.

Thanks for everything this season, you guys have been brilliant. Keep an eye out for what we do this summer.

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***This episode contains a fair bit of swearing***

Exactly a year since their first show, The Wizards discuss Stoke shipping four goals. Things get very heated, Mark Hughes is compared to Ozymandias, and we attempt to talk through exactly what is going wrong and what needs to happen in the summer.

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As Stoke return from the Vitality Stadium with a point, it’s one of those confusing little end of season games that asks more questions then it answers. Questions like:

WHO can explain Mark Hughes’ substitutions?

WHAT was Arnie thinking about when Joe Allen’s cross came in?

WHEN will the good people of Stoke be celebrating Ramadan again?

WILL those leaked new kits turn out to be the biggest Macron failure of the weekend?

WHERE is Giannelli Imbula?

HOWE can Eddie POSSIBLY describe Arter’s lunge as an ‘Outstanding tackle’?

and

WHICH of the podcast quartet is mostly likely to break down into a tragic, Arsenal Fan TV style, ‘Hughes Out’ rant…fam?

David Cowlishaw joined by Ben Cartwright, Chris Brammer and Tom Thrower as they dissect the game which has ensured Stoke's 10th season in the Premier League. There's also chat on a potential trip to Dortmund and a shocker of a new away kit.

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An hour of not a lot of action with many shots harmlessly faling by the way side. And that's just the podcast.

A disappointing 0-0 draw meant neither side went home particularly happy. Jack was back, Muniesa was playing at left back and Hughes made some bang average subs.

Other areas of interest for the Wizards were Robbie Savage's clueless comments, Charlie Adam's Jack Butland agent duties and Dave spots a pheasant. Enjoy!

Oh Stoke.

Jack was back against the Jacks and there's delight that Butland made his long overdue return to Premier League football, but that's about as far as the positivity goes as Stoke fall to another away defeat.

We ask why we've used half a season to get a player fit, what our defenders actually do in training and when Arnie's pen will come back to earth.

Apart from discuss the game, we play "Pulis or Hughes?", talk about bet365 card payments, youth prospects, Patreon, potential Ale trails and more. Enjoy.

It's an effective double change not only at the bet365 stadium, but also at Wizards HQ as the old guard of Ben Rowley and Tom Thrower are thrown on to make a nuisance of themselves and deliver their verdicts on a much-needed Stoke win.

There's praise for a delightful trio of goals, in amongst the regular concern and criticism. Also, we decide what song will motivate the lads for the rest of the season in our listener question.

Finally, to end the show we have an international round-up, with exiled Stokies giving us their views from around the globe. This week, Potters in Sweden, Holland, Qatar and Catalonia send in their thoughts (and the best version of the Muniesa song ever recorded).

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and we've partnered up with Beer52, so if you want some money off some lovely beer (who doesn't?) go to beer52.com and get £10 off your first order by using the code 'WIZARDS'

Happy Easter people, go on Stoke.

It’s episode 50 of the Wizards of Drivel Podcast and the lads have got the bakewall tarts out.

What better way to celebrate a milestone than speculating at which manager would be best to take over from Mark Hughes? The wizards take a long hard look at who could replace the Welshman, with some sensible choices, and some that are probably rather unrealistic. Obviously we don’t want Hughes to go if he picks up results, we just want to see who could come into replace our Mark.

We also review the Liverpool game, briefly preview the Hull game and take a look at the Oatcake thread of the week.

Featuring @davidcowlishaw, @brammered and @bajcartwright.

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