Just when Rugby thought all hope was lost, Netball and For & Against’s team are here to reminds us all that any sports administrator can have an annus horribilis. The team’s Wing Attack breaks down the pros and considerable cons of Amazon Prime winning the rights to the next few Cricket World Cups. Our Goal Defence weighs up defragmentation (after figuring out what it is) and how Gen Z sees sport differently. Finally, Red Card Yellow Card comes in off the bench for an absolute balls up - a bit like Netball’s last twelve months! Join us for another great full contact episode of For & Against!

Produced by DM Podcasts

Just when Rugby thought all hope was lost, Netball and For &amp; Against’s team are here to reminds us all that any sports administrator can have an annus horribilis. The team’s Wing Attack breaks down the pros and considerable cons of Amazon Prime winning the rights to the next few Cricket World Cups. Our Goal Defence weighs up defragmentation (after figuring out what it is) and how Gen Z sees sport differently. Finally, Red Card Yellow Card comes in off the bench for an absolute balls up - a bit like Netball’s last twelve months! Join us for another great full contact episode of For &amp; Against!
Produced by <a href="https://diamantina.com.au">DM Podcasts</a>

Arguing the toss over the big issues in sport off the field of play, For and Against takes sport seriously....sometimes! David Gill, Simon Johnson, Stephen Reilly and Paul Roach rip apart the controversies in sport and take a look under the bonnet to see what makes the sports 'industry' tick. From the commercial to the philosophical, from the sublime to the ridiculous, For and Against is your deep dive into how and why sport matters.

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Episode 127 - Netball’s Annus Horribilis Makes Rugby Feel Better

Preaching to the converted, but science has finally confirmed what we always knew, Sport is good for the world – financially, socially and emotionally. And For & Against is here to take you through why!

Add in the Holy Grail of selling cricket to the Yanks and MotoGP to Liberty Media, plus a shake-your-head, celebrity-infused segment of Red Card Yellow Card, and you’ve got another great episode of For & Against.

Preaching to the converted, but science has finally confirmed what we always knew, Sport is good for the world – financially, socially and emotionally. And For &amp; Against is here to take you through why!
Add in the Holy Grail of selling cricket to the Yanks and MotoGP to Liberty Media, plus a shake-your-head, celebrity-infused segment of Red Card Yellow Card, and you’ve got another great episode of For &amp; Against.

Episode 135 – Sport Is Good For You

Sacre Bleu! Who you gonna call when athletes get prizemoney for winning gold and aspiring Australian Olympians get turfed for drinking a beer between qualifying rounds? For & Against, of course!

And what do you wear to the opening ceremony at the fashion capital of the world? Well, you’ll have to listen to find out. We also talk Caitlin Clark, WTA/ATP Merger and, most outrageously of all, Roachy brings up golf...voluntarily...of his own accord...to talk about the quirks of the classiest, most traditional tournaments of them all, the Masters.

Wonders never cease, Red Card Yellow Card never gets old and you’ll always have a good time listening to For & Against.

Sacre Bleu! Who you gonna call when athletes get prizemoney for winning gold and aspiring Australian Olympians get turfed for drinking a beer between qualifying rounds? For &amp; Against, of course!
And what do you wear to the opening ceremony at the fashion capital of the world? Well, you’ll have to listen to find out. We also talk Caitlin Clark, WTA/ATP Merger and, most outrageously of all, Roachy brings up golf...voluntarily...of his own accord...to talk about the quirks of the classiest, most traditional tournaments of them all, the Masters.
Wonders never cease, Red Card Yellow Card never gets old and you’ll always have a good time listening to For &amp; Against.

Episode 134 – Paris Here We Come

For & Against goes deep into the existential crises facing Tasmanian and Brisbanian sports fans as politicians hold their once-promised stadiums to ransom! But can a stadium be anything other than a white elephant? The team investigate and are pretty clear about what they find.

In the Shootout, investment banking takes on sport and brokers take on LA tee times! And then there is arguably the most ridiculous real life story ever told on F&A - where you will learn everything you ever needed to know about proper moose gutting during the dog sledding Alaskan epic, the Iditarod!

Add in racing waiters, Trumpian self promotion and another Australian cricketer falling off a moving vehicle, and you have another great episode of For & Against!

For &amp; Against goes deep into the existential crises facing Tasmanian and Brisbanian sports fans as politicians hold their once-promised stadiums to ransom! But can a stadium be anything other than a white elephant? The team investigate and are pretty clear about what they find.
In the Shootout, investment banking takes on sport and brokers take on LA tee times! And then there is arguably the most ridiculous real life story ever told on F&amp;A - where you will learn everything you ever needed to know about proper moose gutting during the dog sledding Alaskan epic, the Iditarod!
Add in racing waiters, Trumpian self promotion and another Australian cricketer falling off a moving vehicle, and you have another great episode of For &amp; Against!

Episode 127 - Netball’s Annus Horribilis Makes Rugby Feel Better

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