TGC x The Final Word
The Grade Cricketer
RARE
4.7 • 518 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Collo and Geoff drop in to TGC HQ to talk Bazball, India, Saudi Arabia, Franchise Cricket and their book 'Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics'.
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| 0:00.0 | Podcast Nonses assemble. |
| 0:05.0 | So, for nearly... |
| 0:07.0 | That's a broad category. |
| 0:10.0 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:10.8 | That's stories. |
| 0:11.7 | We're definitely not all here. |
| 0:12.7 | More and more. |
| 0:15.7 | Apologies have been submitted. |
| 0:19.3 | All right. |
| 0:19.9 | So for nearly a decade, we've occupied the same orbit as the men joining us at TGCHQ |
| 0:25.4 | today. |
| 0:26.7 | We are just a humble podcast of white, now middle-aged men who put a compelling core |
| 0:33.0 | proposition to market about a decade ago. |
| 0:35.2 | That proposition was, do people want the views of blokes with |
| 0:38.7 | zero test matches to their name? And it turns out the answer was sort of. And that's been good |
| 0:44.2 | enough for all of us to pay rent, particularly when VPNs and male grooming products flicks some |
| 0:48.9 | coins at our feet in return. So it's our pleasure to cross over, John Edward style, with guys who've played a very |
| 0:55.8 | big role in rising the tide of talking into microphones without 50 to 100 test caps. It's the |
| 1:02.0 | knowledgeable, it's the prolific, Adam Collins and Jeff Lemon from the final word. Gentlemen, |
| 1:06.2 | on behalf of all podcast, noncers, welcome to the crossover. Welcome to TGCHQ. What a nice thing to be able to do. I used to come on your show all the time in the early days when we were just, you know, when we were all just finding our way, doing it on Zoom or some equivalent of that, trying to work out whether this was going to work, doing it very amateuristically. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, of course. |
| 1:28.5 | But now seeing what you've done here and what you've put together, it's remarkable. So it's a pleasure to be on your sofa. What I'm really enjoying is that we've, you know, for a long time, say, in the YouTube comments and so on, there are people who just assume that we must have beef. Yeah. You're like, your rivals. Correctly. Yes. You must hate those pricks. |
| 1:44.3 | And I'm like, yeah, well, let's, can we start some beef today? |
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