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Bears Beyond The GateAuthor: Bears Beyond The Gate
A Bristol Bears podcast made by fans for fans. Each week your hosts Pete, Lee and Miles will take a light-hearted look at developments from Ashton Gate and beyond. Language: en-gb Genres: News, Rugby, Sports, Sports News Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Ep 191- Bears Women special - interview with Dave Ward and Tom Luke plus preview of the semi-final play off at Queensholm
Sunday, 23 February, 2025
This week we focus on the Bears Women's upcoming semi-final play off with Gloucester-Hartpury on Sunday 2nd March at 3pm.Not only do we invite a proper dual season ticket holder onto the pod as a special guest but we also have an exclusive and in-depth interview with Dave Ward and Tom Luke. They give us a behind-the scenes deep dive into the season so far as well as their thoughts on how they will plan and prep for the play-off. It's a fairly lengthy and interesting chat after which we discuss a few of the issues that it throws up before previewing the game itself and offering our score predictions.We finish off by discussing Dave's excellent punditry performance on TNT Sports on Friday night having been warmed up nicely by our interview the day before and then finally sign off for the night.It is a bit of a long one again but to help you navigate your way through it here is the running order:Introduction:Start - 9:10: Pre-amble and a brief chat about the England A game at Ashton GateDave and Tom interview:9:10 - 12:04: Motivations for this season after last year's final defeat12:04 - 13:41: How the Women fit into the HPC set-up alongside the Men13:41 - 15:26: How Dave and Tom work together15:26 - 17: 10: Coaching on match days 17:10 - 18:55: Shaftesbury Park vs Ashton Gate as home venues18: 55 - 20: 28: How they plan and prep for games20:28 - 23:00: Managing squad rotation and selection issues23:00 - 26:50: New player recruitment pathways26:50 - 29:39: Tracking and signing established players29:39 - 34:23: How Tom signed Ilona Maher34:23 - 37: 36: Dave's thoughts after the Loughborough Lightening defeat37: 36 - 39:49: How they will prep for the semi final39:49 - 42:14: Messages to the traveling fans42: 14 - 45:41: Tom's failed attempt to sign Fury the Gladiator and a vote of thanksPost interview:45:41 - 55:15: Our thoughts on the chat55:15 - 65: 53: Semi-final preview65: 53 - 70:15: Score predictions70:15 - the end: Dave's punditry trousersLet us know what you think!
