Like the NZ Warriors, we’re finally back
We break our long offseason, and well, season silence to find out if James has indeed become a Queenslander! Also this week: are Wests the league equivalent of the girl…
Raise the bat
We begin our 100th episode with a look back at the pod’s origins (2:53), which explains why we have a siren open each instalment. Also: we talk Roy Masters’ piece…
Of retail ghosts, reverse funerals and long tombstones
James reports back from Penrith’s victory parade (2:36) and says this is the way of the future for all premiership winners, which leads to a question: which club would have…
A laugh riot
James descends from the highlands to talk the Panthers’ upcoming victory parade (13:33), and why it shouldn’t involve mass chaos. Our Honesty Session asks our listeners for their best rugby…
Are league players worth what they are paid? At least they don’t dive …
To begin this week, James reiterates his disdain for the peculiar theatricality of soccer (1:46). We then get into our main topic: are NRL players properly compensated, which we discuss…
How equal should the NRL be?
We start with James’ continuing series looking back to 1986 through the pages of Big League (3:05). With the rookie draft hitting the league agenda once again, we get into…
This just in (from 1986!)
As the offseason takes hold, Dead in Goal begins a new segment which takes us back in time through the pages of James’ Big League magazine collection (11:49). Also this…
The rugby league menagerie
This week, we hail the arrival of the dolphin among the NRL’s mascots, and talk why the new Brisbane franchise’s symbol is a winner (8:06). As long-time club logo connoisseurs,…
That premiership afterglow
James revels in his Panthers’ victory in 2021, and no broken trophy is going to ruin it. Our Honesty Session delves into broken things (19:55), as well as revisit Jeff’s…
We don’t rate Christmas …
… but we do love grand final day. Dead in Goal waits nervously with the rest of rugby league fandom to see if the 2021 decider goes off without a…
Newsflash: old man is not useless
We get right into this weekend’s prelim finals (6:56), with James expressing backhanded admiration for Wayne Bennett’s longevity and guarded optimism for his Panthers. And like a couple of old…
The colour of the finals: beige!
Week two of the NRL Finals looms, and James didn’t expect his Panthers to have to play this weekend. We talk the postseason format present and past (3:15), James explains…
We interrupt all the Wests Tigers chatter to bring you a finals series …
The NRL season reaches its decisive phase, and James is beginning to feel nervous. Dead in Goal goes final by final (8:28), and we ask you in our Honesty Session…
Barking mad at season’s end
Jeff’s dog sets the tone for this episode, as we woof about what can be done about resting players in the penultimate round (2:38) and restoring esteem to the minor…
Expanding our horizons
With the bids for the NRL’s 17th team going before League HQ again this week, we’re talking about the expansion of the comp (8:27) and how James once found himself…
Tackling salary cap numbers … and sheep
After the NRL’s average salary figures were made public this week, Jeff gets a step closer to information he’s long been dying to know. The pod gets into a way-too-involved…
Damn lies and statistics
In honour of the great national head count this week, we talk stats and whether we should trust them at all in rugby league (4:25). We nominate our most useless…
A deadset trial match in Albury
The NRL season is headed down the stretch, but we’re still in preseason form. This week, we talk about whether Tom Trbojevic could swing a finals campaign by himself (6:45),…
Time for an honesty session
Our first regular episode of Dead in Goal arrives just in time for the big Storm-Panthers contest this weekend, and Penrith devotee James tells us why he feels no pressure…
Welcome (back) to Dead in Goal!
For listeners old and new, we get up to speed since we last cast a pod in mid-2019. So nothing too big has happened in rugby league – and the…