The Mug Punters Podcast

This is a very special 100th edition of the MugPunters.com.au podcast for Thursday 3rd May 2018 and in our breaking news headlines this week: - Former two time VFL premiership player, one time AFL premiership player and two time AFL premiership coach Mark “Bomber” Thompson is in a massive deep pile of hot, steamy, stinky, sloppy poo this week after appearing in court Tuesday, faced with seven charges. Charges include trafficking ice and ecstasy and possession of LSD and ecstasy, following...

This is the MugPunters.com.au podcast for Thursday 26th April 2018 and in our breaking news headlines this week: - In the NRL and games have been marred in recent weeks with a string of controversial decisions from the bunker in video reviews, with real head scratchers coming in the Melbourne Storm victory over the Brisbane Broncos and the Dragons ANZAC day win over the Sydney Roosters. Referees boss Bernard Sutton has laughed off suggestions that Nene Macdonald simply dropped the ball...

This is the MugPunters.com.au podcast for Thursday 19th April 2017 and in our breaking news headlines this week: - Australian Rugby League chairman Peter Beattie has once again hit the headlines this week, mistaking a child wearing a Barcelona jersey as a Knights supporter. Here at Mug Punters, we think the backlash is unwarranted as surely anyone can make such a simple error. And to my wife who is a huge fan of the show, I swear I thought that shop down the side alley in Cronulla was a...

This is the MugPunters.com.au podcast for Thursday 12th April 2018 and in our breaking news headlines this week: - Eight Cameroon athletes have gone missing from the athletes village at the Commonwealth Games with officials dumbfounded as to what could possibly be going on. Given dozens of athletes and officials from Cameroon overstayed their visas or applied for asylum following the Melbourne 2006 Com Games and Sydney 2000 Olympics, I’d say this was more like the surprise you get when...

This is the MugPunters.com.au podcast for Friday 6th April 2018 and in our breaking news headlines this week: - Bancroft, Smith and Warner handed 12 month bans for their parts in the South African ball tampering scandal whilst George Pell just tampers with balls - The Commonwealth Games have kicked off on the Gold Coast with Prince Charles back in town for the first time since he joined mates as a toolie in 2012 - And Masters hopeful Tony Finau has dislocated his ankle on the eve of the...

This is episode 95 the MugPunters.com.au podcast for Thursday 29th March 2018 and in our breaking news headlines this week: F you Cameron Bancroft. F you Steve Smith. F you leadership team. F you Australian cricket Last Sunday was like finding out Santa, the Easter bunny and the tooth fairy aren’t real all in one go and here at Mug Punters, we want answers So this week, we’re joined by a very special panel of experts to discuss ethics in sport: - Marion Jones - Lance Armstrong - Horse racing...

This is the MugPunters.com.au podcast for Thursday 22nd March 2018 and in our breaking news headlines this week: - The F1 roars into life this week in Melbourne as Lewis Hamilton was asked whether his rivalry with Sebastian Vettel would become psychological to which Hamilton replied, "I don't play psychological war. Never, ever, ever have. My psychological war is I arrive fit and ready and I'm there to kill, and others know I'm good at what I do.” Well Lewis, they also know you are a wanker,...

This is the Mug Punters dot com dot au podcast for this Thursday the 15th March 2018, and coming up in news headlines this week: Winx’s jockey Hugh Bowman will undergo cognitive testing before he returns to race riding after sustaining concussion in a heavy fall last weekend. The aim of the tests are to ensure poor Hugh is aware of his actions. Pete wants to know if the same cognitive testing should be applied to the jockey that cost him the final leg of the Melbourne quaddie recently, and...

This is a special round one NRL preview show for the MugPunters.com.au podcast this Friday 9th March 2018 and in our breaking news headlines this week: - Controversy following the first cricket test where Australia dispatched the South Africans, after Quinton de Kock allegedly made an inappropriate remark about David Warner’s wife Candice. Here at Mug Punters we took these allegations seriously and wanted to get to the bottom of things, so we headed to facebook (where everything said is...

This is the MugPunters.com.au podcast for Thursday 1st March 2018 and in our breaking news headlines this week: - The Winter Olympics draw to a close and what spectacular games they were. But following the final curtain of the closing ceremony, punters everywhere are left wondering what to watch on television now they can’t tune in to the figure skating to check out the double toe, triple toe and even the camel toe on the super slow mo replays - The NRL is set to get underway next week and...

This is the final special MugPunters.com.au Winter Olympics podcast for Thursday 22nd February 2018 and in our breaking news headlines this week: - Shenanigans in Pyeongchang as a female snowboarder wins a ski race on borrowed skis, an Aussie who successfully lands a jump in freestyle aerials is beaten by another bloke who fell trying to land the exact same jump and the world is in shock with a Russian athlete failing a drug test... in curling??? - Former world champion turned channel 7...

This is yet another Winter Olympics special for the MugPunters.com.au podcast for Thursday 15th February 2018 and in our breaking news headlines this week: - Winds in Korea play havoc with Olympic Games fans as some were blown off the course. Back home Barnaby Joyce addressed the venue issues saying he could relate, as he was being constantly blown off in his job too. - Fresh off the back of American Football title winners claiming they were world champions, state of origin administrators...

This is a very special Winter Olympics episode of the MugPunters.com.au podcast for Thursday 8th February 2018 and in our breaking news headlines this week: - In a bizarre incident in the Women’s AFL, Collingwood forward Sarah D'Arcy has been rubbed out for two weeks after she kicked Blues defender Sarah Hosking in the groin during their match last weekend. And this is where the women’s game is so different from the men’s. If it happened in the men’s game, the player who was kicked in the...

This is the MugPunters.com.au podcast for Thursday 1st February 2018 and in our breaking news headlines this week: - With just one week to go before the Winter Olympics kick off in South Korea, Aussie athletes head to Pyeongchang with just one thing on their mind. And that of course is coming home with the single most important thing to an Olympic athlete. And all of us at Mug Punters wish them the best to come home with their lives in tact and that our good buddy Kim Jong Un keeps his...

This is the very special MugPunters.com.au podcast just in time for Australia Day 2018 and in our breaking news headlines this week: - The most exciting thing to come out of South Korea since Gangnam Style and M.A.S.H. has emerged in the form of Hyeon Chung. No folks, it’s not a new dance craze, it’s the 21 year old Korean wonderkid who looks like he’s more suited to the squash court than the tennis court and he’s taking the Aussie Open by storm. - A-League powerhouse club Sydney FC has...

This is the MugPunters.com.au podcast for Thursday 18th Jan 2018 and in our breaking news headlines this week: - Up and coming Belarusian tennis ace Aryna Sabalenka has been mocked by Australian fans at the Aussie Open after her grunting and screeching made Maria Sharapova sound like a disinterested tennis fan watching Bernard Tomic. Meanwhile, Aussie blokes were glued to the coverage as Shane from the Gold Coast suggested, “it was just great to hear a woman screeching and grunting even...

This is the MugPunters.com.au podcast for Thursday 11th January 2018 and in our breaking news headlines this week: - Joe Root finally lived up to the hype in his ashes campaign getting more runs than every other Aussie player combined during the Sydney test. Unfortunately for Root, it wasn’t out in the middle, but instead crouched on the Thomas Crapper after an alleged case of gastro. But Root was humble in defeat and showed true class during his post match speech where he… oh wait… he...

This is the Mug Punters podcast for Thursday 28th December 2017 and in our breaking news headlines this week: We were too lazy to bother with a brand new episode, so dug up a bunch of old news headlines and put them together in this very special episode! From Wayne Carey and Chris Brown to Justin Gatlin and the Manly rugby league team, no one is safe when PK delivers the news headlines like no other sports punting podcast and here is a sampler of the best of the best. So to be fair, if you...

Ho Ho Ho… This is a very special Christmas MugPunters.com.au podcast for Thursday 21st December 2017 and in our breaking news headlines this week: - Australian cricketing coach Darren Lehmann has taken a deep satisfaction in what he has described as “gut feel” player selections that have seen the coveted urn return to Australian hands. Following this news breaking, Sri Lanka has rushed to secure the coaching services of Arjuna Ranatunga, suggesting his gut would not only be able to make...

This is the MugPunters.com.au podcast for Thursday 14th December 2017 and in our breaking news headlines this week: - Chris Gayle has made headlines scoring 18 sixes on his way to an unbeaten 146 off 69 balls in the Bangladesh Premier League cricket final. Interviewed after the match, Gayle proclaimed himself to be the “greatest batsman of all time”, no doubt before asking the journalist out on a date and flashing his member to the team physio. All those involved have been sent for...