Russ, The Gent, Gerry and Tony Brown all returned, this time joined by Will and Kirsty, to conclude our big summer review of the Albion squad and where we think there could and / or should be changes. There were low alcohol stouts with tap water chasers, power cuts and more besides, as the pod squad also discussed the latest from Albion and beyond, revelled in England’s progression in the Euro U21s, had another rant about the Club World Cup and announced the BRP Award winners. Stand or fall! UTA...
Jun 26, 2025•2 hr 22 min
Russ welcomed back to the pod this week The Gent, Tony Brown and Berlin based Tony Boden, as well as welcoming onto the show for the first time radio presenter and FAB board member Gerry Brown for his BRP debut. In this, the first of a two-part mini series taking a detailed look at the current status of the squad as a whole, following the conclusion of the recent season, we look at goalkeepers, centre backs and full backs and debate where we need to strengthen and on who might leave. All this af...
Jun 22, 2025•1 hr 59 min
Andy Bass and Alan popped up to town for their first pubcast at the famous ‘home pub’ of the pod, The Gladstone Arms. Along with Glad veterans Pete and Russ, they talked through a packed agenda encompassing such topics as signings / potential signings, new contracts, stats and facts, managerial mayhem, FIFA-bashing, sell on clauses and the latest on the P*lace Europa fiasco. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 13, 2025•2 hr 18 min
BBC Sussex’s finest Johnny Cantor joined a pod squad comprising Russ, Pete, Andy K and Richard to review Fabian H’s first season at Albion, where a second best placing in their history and a second best points total in the top flight were achieved, as well as some spectacular goals and some decent cup runs. Stand or fall! UTA! Onwards and upwards! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 06, 2025•1 hr 49 min
Well Europe didn’t happen thanks to ManUre somehow beating Villa, with help from an appalling reffing cock-up and Forest bottling Champions League qualification…feats matching Man City’s pathetic showing in the FA Cup, but Albion themselves stood, not fell, securing 8th place and coming to within a point of their record PL points total to round off what most will consider a rather good season all things considered. Experiencing the utter roasting of the Spuds was the usual suspects, who imbibed ...
May 29, 2025•1 hr 28 min
In the pod squad this week were Russ, Pete, Alan and our latest debutant Lincoln Pigman, a self-described Johnny come lately who has timed his choosing of a football club with uncanny aplomb! The quartet discuss the felling of confirmed champs Liverpool in style on Monday night, thanks in (final) part due to one half of a cousin combo of subs: Jack Hinshelwood. The other half of that combo was (even) young(er) Harry Howell from Albion’s academy. What a time to make your debut in the stripes! Als...
May 23, 2025•1 hr 28 min
In the pod squad this week: Russ, Pete, Al and Andy K, to revel in another winning visit to Molineux. Also under discussion are Greek ‘gangsters’, owner-encroachment, booing legends, elbowing opponents, the player awards, a new set piece coach needed, the EFL playoffs so far and the chance to beat two different current champions in one season! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 15, 2025•1 hr 43 min
Poor Pawson, penalty chaos, a (probably deserved) 1-1 score line, Minteh centre stage and a JPVH / Dunky double-chest down to the keeps!!! Yes it was an eventful afternoon down Falmer Way. Albion avoided conceding 2+ goals which was a pleasant novelty but saw themselves slip to 10th in the table, an unwanted side effect to the medicine Dr Brighton administered to Brentford a couple of weeks ago, with The Bees now buzzing towards that coveted Europa Conference spot. The run in is into its tense a...
May 09, 2025•1 hr 7 min
Russ, Andy Knott and The Gent, analysing how Albion managed to get back to winning ways, courtesy of better performances from the likes of Lewis, a welcome and very long-awaited first start in aeons for Solly, some good substitutions at (just!) the right time and three goals that included two absolute thunderbastards from messrs Yasin and Carlos. Stand or fall! UTA! Thunderbastards are go! @BrightonRockPod on BlueSky (and Twatter) [email protected] Part of the Sport Social Podcast Ne...
May 02, 2025•1 hr 30 min
Pete and Russ, plus Laurence, Ed, The Rebel Yell boys and some random fans featured, as the events on the final day of The National League South season unfolded. The Rebels needed a win plus three other results to go their way, while Enfield MIGHT have needed a point depending on whether their relegation rivals St Albans managed to get a win against one of Worthing’s promotion rivals Truro City. Stand or fall! UTA! UTR! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 29, 2025•48 min
Russ, Pete, Andy Bass, Chris and David T amongst those contributing as we covered a double bill of Worthing fixtures over the Easter bank holiday weekend from their visit to Eastbourne on the Friday and at home to Dorking on the Monday. Beers were had, draws were obtained and the chat was, as always, plentiful ! Stand or fall! UTA! UTR! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 23, 2025•1 hr 37 min
Haven’t won at home all calendar year, you say? Not to worry, Dr.Brighton is here to remedy your ailments. They’ve recently cured Crystal P*lace’s century-long inability to do the double over The Albion AND found a miracle cure to Leicester City’s frankly pathetic scoring record these past 3/4 months. To talk you through Dr.Brighton’s marvellous medicinal methods is Russ, Pete, Duncan Lees, Jim Frank, debutants Marshy and Ben and more besides. Stand or fall…and it’s really the latter at the mome...
Apr 22, 2025•1 hr 8 min
Shambles. Not good enough. That is all! Stand or fall! UTA! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 14, 2025•1 hr 38 min
The Pod Squad donned their Hazmats and endured the festering swamp that is Smellworst, helped to out sing the chavlettes and cronies in the home end (with Andy K starting a new song for good measure) until their luckily-deflected winner settled matters and then again for most of the rest of the half until it finally became apparent that the good guys weren’t going to be able to break down their low block - story of our lives against the lesser footballing sides! ;) Post match a handful of us sho...
Apr 10, 2025•1 hr 14 min
Pete and Russ welcomed P*lace-supporting friend of the show Toby Kinder onto the pod to talk (as little as possible) about the mutually awful midweek disasters, to chat about the season as a whole and to look ahead to some obscure meaningless fixture we are hardly thinking about whatsoever taking place this weekend in a dreadful backwater of England’s bloated capital. Stand or fall! UTA! Get your hazmat suits ready! @BrightonRockPod on BlueSky (and Twatter) [email protected] Part of ...
Apr 04, 2025•1 hr 34 min
The pre-, during and post-match chat is all here from the brewery, bus, stadium and car ride home as Albion and Forest cancelled each other out, culminating in a shoot-out victory for the visitors. Featuring many of the usual suspects and a Forest fan too! Stand or fall! UTA! #concentrateontheleague @BrightonRockPod on BlueSky (and Twatter) [email protected] Part of the Sport Social Podcast Network that can be found in all their glory at this rather suitable address: www.sport-social...
Mar 31, 2025•1 hr 47 min
Russ and Pete, chatting all things FA Cup with the doyen of cup facts, stats and trivia, Mr.Phil Annets of @FACupFactfile fame, as we look forward with anticipation to Albion’s latest Quarter Final appearance against Nottingham Forest this weekend. Stand or fall! UTA! Come on Fulham ;) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 27, 2025•55 min
Russ & Pete welcomed Craig Clayton to the pod to tell us about his beloved Barnet FC’s plans to return to the local borough from relative exile in Edgware. Craig is part of the campaign group hoping to raise awareness and support for their bid to return home, with a site very close to their cherished ancestral home (now a school!) at Underhill being the location identified. As well as telling us his Bees backstory and about how well things are going on the pitch, there’s wistful reminiscence...
Mar 20, 2025•1 hr 25 min
A stellar array of Albion friends were up in force on the occasion of the team’s first ever point at The Etihad (means The Union, apparently) and busily contributing to this bumper MDS episode. Debuts for Irish Seagull Jack, for Vicky Lees, Johnny Gresty (over from The States) and possibly also his nephew George (over from Oz) and also Rod from Hailsham and Marian from Eastbourne. Your insatiable host Russ imbibed with these and other reprobates to an excessive degree around the merry streets of...
Mar 18, 2025•1 hr 47 min
This week we were delighted to welcome back to The BRP once again, football finance guru and spreadsheet devil Kieran Maguire to give us his assessment of Albion’s very favourable looking latest published accounts, showing another handsome profit. And it was a full ‘studio’ with Russ, Pete, Richards Holberton and Tipple AND our regular Fulham correspondent Emilio all in to also discuss the weekend’s Albion hoodoo-busting win! Stand or fall! UTA! 6 in a row!!! @BrightonRockPod on BlueSky (and Twa...
Mar 12, 2025•1 hr 9 min
Some of the usual suspects plus some of the more UNusual, taking in the atmosphere of the day, for a pod available on some of the usual platforms plus (maybe?!) some of the more UNusual. There was a glorious comeback win complete with last minute penalty alert, breaking a ridiculously long hoodoo, loads of singing on the usual (train) platform and some weird beer. Business as usual (and UNusual), in other words! Stand or fall! UTA! At last!!! @BrightonRockPod on BlueSky (and Twatter) brightonroc...
Mar 11, 2025•1 hr 8 min
Just like the midweek game before it, another highly entertaining and more importantly impressive winning performance from The Albion at happy hunting ground St James’ Park, to progress to the quarter finals and a potential revenge exercise at home to Forest. Discussing the match and the rest of the weekend’s key action, including a highly impressive draw for the women against the Chelsea machine, were Russ, Pete, Andy Bass and Andy Knott. Stand or fall! UTA! Up for the cup! @BrightonRockPod on ...
Mar 07, 2025•2 hr 6 min
So Albion made it four wins in a row (and three in the league) as they completed a seemingly unlikely double over AFC Bournemouth on Tuesday night. Russ and members of the Pod Squad were there to see what proved to be a highly entertaining and closely contested game. Stand or fall! UTA! Anyone for ice cream?! ;) @BrightonRockPod on BlueSky (and Twatter) [email protected] Part of the Sport Social Podcast Network that can be found in all their glory at this rather suitable address: www...
Feb 28, 2025•37 min
Another fine and dandy day out watching the football as Albion romped to a resounding 0-4 win at St Mary’s. Russ and the pod squad were there to soak it all up but the day was also indelibly marked with tragedy as we heard the awful news that morning of the passing of our great friend and sometime contributor to this podcast Andy Gresty aka Wedge / Wedgee who took himself away from pain to hopefully be in a better place somewhere. We all loved you, Wedgee and already miss you more than we can sa...
Feb 25, 2025•1 hr 9 min
With Chelsea safely despatched from the FA Cup last weekend, attentions turned six days later to ridiculous 8pm kickoff part two and a Brighton breezy 3-0 ‘sweep aside’ of our dearly beloved London visitors! Winning that game meant one double was achieved for the Albion in the shape of back-to-back home wins against Chelsea, but it wasn’t the only double for Brighton at the weekend. That’s because the other club of note within the city of Brighton and Hove, Whitehawk, were in action the followin...
Feb 17, 2025•47 min
It was just the reaction the boys in the stripes needed to provide and they did so, thanks to an accomplished headed finish from Smiler and a delicious low chipped winner by Mito, leaving an array of objectionable ex-Seagulls in his wake, sprawled pitifully upon the hallowed turf of Albion. Evenings (far too late evenings, thanks a lot ITV you selfish bastards!) don’t get much better than this and my oh my did we all enjoy it, even though many had to stay at home to watch on the tellybox (thanks...
Feb 13, 2025•1 hr 20 min
This week’s Pod Squad comprised a trio of Andys including the lesser spotted Andy Bravery and making his (Zoom pod) debut, Wedge aka Andy Gresty, plus Andy Bass and of course the only 100% man over these 407 pods, Russell G. We wanted to just talk about the weather and the price of fish but felt obligated to discuss something of an aberration by The Trent as Forest, spearheaded by the most nominatively deterministically named player in history, Chris Wood, felled Albion’s severely depleted charg...
Feb 05, 2025•1 hr 52 min
Russ and Pete popped down The Glad (been too long again!) and were delighted to be joined by Dogma’s finest James and Parker, to reflect on the Everton game and to big up the latest edition of the ‘zine (the world’s finest, don’t you know!) the upcoming charity game at Woodside Road, the fresco and mural culture around the town and their magnificent selection of merch’. There’s also an engrossing chat about Albion head coach philosophies and why ‘Supermarket Trolley’ should return! Stand or fall...
Jan 31, 2025•1 hr 48 min
Russ and Pete saw Everton were heading for the coast and thought “sod that!”, electing to follow The Mighty Rebels’ fixture over in Kent, in an important promotion six-pointer. Surprise, surprise, the Everton game turned out to be a typically turgid, anti-footballing affair while The Stones v Rebels clash was entertaining and fun. R&P obviously took the opportunity to sample some of the local quaffables pre and post match and had the pleasure to sit down for a chat with some local fans, incl...
Jan 27, 2025•1 hr 32 min
Yes it’s all about the threes! Another three points as we complete three successive wins at Old Trafford, under three different managers, completing three wins in a row, which happen to all be away wins within the space of one week! Happy days! Albion made their superiority count as they came away with all three points yet again from the Theatre of Leaks. In this episode Russ and Pete were zooming, with plenty of reflections on the game, but only after we heard from our northern correspondence A...
Jan 22, 2025•1 hr 13 min
