Weak Men, with Alex Malcolm
The Grade Cricketer
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4.7 • 518 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 100 minutes
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England’s weather is miserable and the team is weak, according to their captain. Alex Malcolm joins the show to let us know what players from Australia are good and whether England do still have the better team?
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| 0:00.0 | What's a point of cricket? |
| 0:01.0 | Oh, why do you do it? |
| 0:02.0 | Great cricket is a present. |
| 0:03.0 | We're going to look at the perils of sweeping. |
| 0:05.0 | We're the good tricket. The grey's cricket says real brats. If you're going to do it, do it to England. He's out now. We got 40. Who's the fuck you get my laugh? England put the head in the noose after Nisa but before Nusa. Was it too loose to lose to Australia 2s? |
| 0:21.3 | Can you really try and moose something loose |
| 0:23.3 | if the Golden Goose is just McCullum trying to get you into the spruce goose? England battered and bruise. But at a week on the Jews is what they choose, despite booze from the blues as we hit snooze and wonder if Joffra has lit the fuse. The safest voice in cricket Alex Malcolm is on the show to tell us how shit this Australian |
| 0:40.0 | team truly is and how lucky we are to witness England play cricket. |
| 0:44.1 | In other news, the skeletons escaped the greatest ever test defeat thanks to a gallant |
| 0:48.0 | West Indies despite asking them to chase 531. |
| 0:51.8 | There's also balls getting rolled into the deck in the WBBL. Big runs in |
| 0:55.5 | Indyversal Africa. What's getting your hot ass? TGC. Your best setups as we slide deeper into |
| 1:00.6 | December. Two weeks till Christmas. One more test before Christmas. Zero more days before something |
| 1:06.3 | absurd is being said. Ian Higgins here, not a nice guy. Sam Perry, great guy, Pezza, I can't believe it's all happening again. |
| 1:15.7 | Shout out to Dr. Seuss here, by the way, off the top. |
| 1:18.9 | Legit. |
| 1:19.9 | Look, well, well said, it's Dreamland stuff for Australia. |
| 1:24.3 | We are a day late for the pod because we've been over preparing. |
| 1:27.7 | We're here. |
| 1:28.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:29.7 | Now, if anything. |
| 1:31.2 | It's, if anything. |
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