2022-07-13
The Great Men
Simply the greatest cricket podcast going around. Even better when England are good and Australia are bad
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Description
Cricket is great if you're into things like wasted youth, failed relationships, sun damage and broken dreams. A weekly show featuring news, views and interviews with major names from across the cricket scene.
Apple Podcasts: Customer Reviews
2022-03-06
“Good gear”
Incredible podcast and Pez and Higgo are brilliant. They're relentless with their content and have nailed the balance between comedy and insightful cricket journalism. I have been a Patreon for over a year and would recommend it to anyone that listens to the Pod, not only for the content but just to support what they're doing. Thanks Pez and Higgo for providing great content in such a strange few years.
2021-09-10
Guilty pleasure
Don’t know why I like this, but I do!
Good listening while in the bath.
5-0 England win this upcoming ashes
Bring Woakes ECB!
Can tell these guys are worried.
2021-08-15
A Pom writes
This is a difficult review to write. I’m not used to finding anything remotely amusing from Australia apart from that chap Mick Lewis who went for 113 against the Jaapies in THAT ODI game back in the day. That WAS funny. Since then, not so much. Sadly as I go about my business in public, AirPods in etc, I find myself sniggering and spluttering, coughing (not Covid) and outright laughing along whilst cursing myself for giving the very amusing hosts access to my eardrums. I couldn’t possibly explain why I was laughing to non-cricketers. I’d have to shake my head and mime being out of breath after a quickly taken three to wide long on rather than try. But I’d urge anyone who’s ever dreamt of raising themselves above mediocrity and failed in this beautiful game to give it a listen. It’s our church - in a podcast.
2021-07-05
Bit Going On
Best pod I’ve ever had the pleasure of listening to. Thanks boys and keep going you COATs
2021-05-24
Everything’s perfect but one small thing - 1 star
Higgos and Pez are fantastic not only when interviewing guests as they use a comedic, light hearted approach to interviewing people but the parts where they speak to one another as well. They’re both hilarious and inspiring in the way they go about their podcast so authentically.
It’s a shame that Higgos is such a good looking rooster whilst still being 10 times funnier than me on my best day and Pez is both intellectually superior to myself whilst also being hilarious. 1 star.
2021-05-23
Boys without coats
A great one for all those who identify as BOYS and those who don’t identify as BOYS.
Informative, self deprecating and philosophical; it’s fundamentally a cricket podcast but dabbles in all fields of life.
The BOYS don’t take kindly to the coats of life and rightly so.
Keep up the great work!
2021-02-19
A must if you love cricket
Likeable Aussies? I didn’t think I’d ever find some. Great to listen to an Aussie perspective that doesn’t totally preclude other countries.
I also like the very informal tone.
2021-02-16
BOIYS!
Very amusing
2020-11-27
Greg Chappell Podcast
Absolute gold
2020-11-25
Wow
Better than pumping one into an old sock
2020-10-12
Tailenders
Take more shots at Tailenders. Cheers
2020-10-12
Brilliant!
Love this podcast - hilarious and very relatable
2020-09-16
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Love the pods chaps thanks for your hard work ☺️
2020-09-14
Good fun, great interviews, amazing guests
Good fun, great interviews, amazing guests.
...but boys, get rid of the politics and woke crap please. Can’t we just enjoy cricket and a laugh without having politics / woke crap shoved down our throats.
2020-09-14
Get around the boys
Ye
2020-09-09
Still ok
Not as good without Dave Edwards.
Terribly woke and horrendously progressive on occasion but still funny enough.
2020-08-19
A good little podcast.
Great podcast where you can get your weekly fix on cricket, circuits, centuries, chops, salads, rigs, pipes, chests, levers, big boys and more.
Awesome.
2020-03-09
The 1 essential cricket pod
A reliably excellent round up of the cricketing world.
One thing, fix the volume champs.
2020-02-17
Good little podcast
Good little podcast. Bit niche though.
2019-11-26
Great podcast
Best cricket podcast out there bar none, even if you’re nowhere near good enough to play anything above village.
2019-09-13
Quality chat
Haters gunna hate. Keep it up fellas.
2019-06-10
Great content, rubbish sound quality
First listen. Loved the content but had to keep turning the volume up and down between exchanges. Stick the final mix of the pod cast through a limiter guys!
2018-10-29
Episode 44
Bugger me, that was a good episode!
My cricketing history couldn’t be more dissimilar to that characterised by this podcast; deeply average school team bowling, a year in the under-13s of a North London cricket club (primarily a ruse to avoid joining the scouts and to learn how to smoke), a stint as scorer at my dad’s club in order to procure a weekly pint of shandy and a bag or two of crisps, and a mortifying innings and one humbling over for a pub team in my mid-thirties.
No experience related to rigs, pipes, salads, circuits, or any other Grade Archetype, and yet somehow this podcast remains strangely compelling.
2018-04-02
An introduction to the Aussie life
Great cricket podcast, especially when Australia is losing. Best sports interviews around - genuinely hilarious.
An introduction into life as an Aussie through the eyes of average cricketers
2018-03-28
A ripper podcast for these troubled cricket times
Great podcast, has me chuckling constantly.
2017-11-13
Outstanding
Brilliant listen- sums up Grade Cricket hilariously. Enjoy the presenters and would recommend to anyone. Stay off the pheromones champs
2017-11-09
An earnest review
It's funny, insightful and most of all, rare. Good stuff.
2017-11-09
Changed my life
Special special podcast. Great insight into understanding personal concerns are shared by others in the game. 5/5 must listen
2017-11-09
Top podcast
I love this channel guys, Top work and so so relatable. I’m based in the U.K. and have never even heard of grade cricket until this podcast but the similarities to amateur cricket here in UK are scary.
You could definitely make improvements on the sound levels and quality, the sound of phone in interviews wears thin after a while.
Throw downs and ask TGC always has me in stitches. Stay whitty gents.
Can I have some gloves?
2017-10-26
Top drawer podcast!
Really enjoyable podcast! Great presenters, great guests. Constantly laughing throughout! Keep it up boys! Experience
2017-01-18
The BEST podcast out there
Absolute top class. I have literally never laughed out loud so much...ever. I'm in hysterics on the tube every morning and keep getting looks. I am from London and have absolutely no idea who these guys are but they are brilliant. Genuinely can't say thanks enough. Waiting excitedly for my 'the grade cricketer' book to arrive now. Please keep up the great work. Thank you
2017-01-18
It's a tough, mean, dirty dirty business
First rate podcast
2017-01-12
Top class
A very funny take on the wonderful world of cricket, well worth a listen even if you're a Brit who's never played Grade in his life. Slightly darker and more clever than you may initially think which is Jon as thing at all.
1 minor criticism, sound is a bit quiet, turn the mics up a touch.
2016-11-10
Great pod, way too quiet though
Really enjoy the podcast but it's waaay too quiet. Can't hear it on public transport. Boost the volume a bit please!