72+ EFL Pod: Steve Evans in at Bristol Rovers

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🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Aaron Paul and Jobi McAnuff are joined by the new Bristol Rovers manager Steve Evans. They chat about his reasons for taking the job, and his sadness at it being of the expense of his friend Darrell Clarke. How did Mrs Evans react when the family’s Christmas holiday was cancelled? Steve’s old Stevenage captain Carl Piergianni is up for debate for the ‘Ultimate Hard Men Squad’, and Steve poses a tribute to former player Sol Bamba. Plus, with boxing back on BBC TV, Barnsley’s Callum Simpson pops by to chat about his upcoming fight on Saturday evening – what does he make of Barnsley’s season? And what do Aaron and Jobi make of Preston and Hull, the surprise packages at the top of the Championship?

Time Codes: 00:20 – Jobi feeling festive? 03:10 – Steve Evans in at Bristol Rovers 17:25 – ‘Ultimate Hard Men Squad’ 25:30 – Barnsley’s Callum Simpson 35:45 – Top of Championship: Preston & Hull 44:02 – 72Plus/72Minus

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
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0:38.4	72 Plus, the EFL podcast with Aaron Paul and Joby McEnough.
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0:53.6	It is Joby McEnough. Jowell, how are you? I am very, very well. Thank you very much. You feeling festive, you know, mate? I am. I really am. It's, yeah, a nice time of the year with the kids getting into everything. What does Christmas look like at Casa McEnough? I presume you're out early, you've got the decorations down,
1:10.9	the Elf and the shelf is out, you're getting ready, you're brining, your turkeys, you're planning things, what's it looking like? Yeah, you know what? We normally have a big family. Well, I say big, you know, obviously, my, I've got two sisters, my wife's mum and my mom and dad obviously so and then a few of the grandkids so it's a nice affair we're actually going to my
1:31.6	sister. She's hosted this year, which is a bit of a shift. We normally do have it at ours. So that's quite nice. It can be quite good to get up. We can have Christmas morning as we would do normally open the presies and then just swan off to somebody else is doing all the cooking and obviously help a little bit cleaning up but then you know come
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