Tom Rogic - Thanks for the memories
20 Minute Tims
James Flynn
4.9 • 899 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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On this week's episode we're looking back at the career of a huge figure in Celtic's modern history after the announcement of The Wizard of Oz Tom Rogic's retirement from football
Originally recorded in October 2023, this episode is part of our weekly Breakfast of Champions series on Patreon. If you like this episode then you can get more at Patreon.com/20minutetims
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| 0:00.0 | The Good morning folks and welcome to the breakfast of champions a podcast from |
| 0:20.8 | your pals over here at 20 minute tims that nestles snugly in between flagship recordings. |
| 0:25.6 | I'm Stephen, that's Meli. |
| 0:27.2 | Meli, we are gathered here today for one reason and for one reason only. |
| 0:30.9 | Tom Rogich has announced his retirement so I'm just going to get your immediate |
| 0:35.8 | thoughts on that. But first of all, how are you? I'm good, Stephen, I thought when you said |
| 0:40.0 | we're gathered here today, I thought you're going to hit out with we're gathered here today to celebrate the creed of Tom Rogich. I missed |
| 0:45.8 | opportunity I might see. I suppose so. I thought you were getting right into the |
| 0:49.5 | ceremony there but all good mate all good Tom Roggett's retiring was a surprise but also not a |
| 0:56.6 | surprise at all yeah yeah the move to West Brom we said at the time that didn't look like it was going to be very fruitful for him, |
| 1:06.3 | turns out it wasn't, left and then just didn't get a contract with MD, don't know if he really |
| 1:11.8 | wanted a contract with MD, and for a guy like that to retire you think a fair enough and then you hear he's only 30 and you're like |
| 1:19.0 | I know Tom you could have been playing for another four or five years the way you play but I think a lot of the time we forget |
| 1:26.8 | that footballers are human beings and when he came out when he retired and explained these reasons, explained what's been going on over the last few years. |
| 1:35.2 | It all made perfect sense and complete nuttily fair play at the guy, man, if he wants to go and |
| 1:40.7 | raise his family and be of his family, I have no problem with that at all. |
| 1:44.4 | No absolutely life and family must come first of course but there's no getting away from it it's not the ideal |
| 1:50.0 | end to his career that said his his career is varied and colourful and it times wonderful and |
| 1:56.1 | we'll get into that of course but there's no getting away from the fact that losing a guy of that |
| 2:00.1 | talented 30 whether it's for the right reasons or not and it undoubtedly is for the |
| 2:04.8 | right reasons as detailed above with the family stuff and I think he detailed some struggles |
| 2:11.9 | with heartache with failed rounds of IVF and all that and they |
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