Welcome to The Bye Round Podcast with James Graham. Today’s episode features one of Australia’s most influential sports journalists and a man who have been covering the game of rugby league for nearly 50 years, Phil ‘Buzz’ Rothfield’! From his days sleeping outside the SCG the night before the Grand Final to his verbal stoushes at the NRL 360 desk with Paul Kent, Jimmy and Buzz cover so much in this episode, it’s a doozy!
Season 2 promises to be bigger and better than ever! We will continue to start your week with our Interview show dropping every Sunday night at 7pm. Charlie White will re-join Jimmy for the weekly NRL preview show every Thursday. And we’ve got a third weekly podcast dropping in-season with one of the biggest NRL stars joining Jimmy, The one and only Hectic Cheese Brandon Smith will make up our third weekly podcast called ‘Jam & Cheese’ – dropping every Tuesday!
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0:00 Is Buzz About To Retire?
7:15 Who Is Phil Rothfield?
11:55 Mitchell Pearce Story On Christmas Day
17:10 How Buzz Started In The Media
23:08 Buzz’s Influence In Rugby League
29:30 Rugby League Media Then v Now
31:05 The 1986 Grand Final Story
38:44 Worrying About The Future Of Rugby League
53:06 Buzz’s 2016 Grand Final Story
56:49 Rugby League Touring
1:00:02 Gus Gould Feud/Super League War
1:13:02 Does Buzz Follow Any Other Sports?
1:18:58 Feud With Peter Sterling
1:26:02 Getting Stories Wrong
1:34:01 Relationship With Paul Kent
1:37:23 Ray Hadley “Fight”
1:43:02 Three Questions With Jimmy
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The mayo man himself.
Cheers for this one, great to see him on the show. On ya buzz 👌🏾
Love buz an actually like Kenty
Great interview one of your best
Buzz!
Legend bloke legend journalist knows how to order a Thai dinner
Jimmy knows how’s to run a interview
Jungle chicken man
Kentys episode on the bye round is the second most viewed episode
I love Buzz. Monday 360 the best episode of the week
I just don't get why you guys revere football (soccer) so much. It just goes to show that media hype and propaganda gets in the psyche of everyone – be it football, covid jabs, Ukraine China conflicts, and general globalist agendas.
Another great episode Jimmy
The back stories can be as intriguing as most headlines..thoroughly enjoyed this episode.
Great chat, get buzz back!
This was a brilliant listen and really refreshing. See a side of Buzz we’ve never seen before. Great work Jimmy.
Great interview, spewing you didnt discuss Super league war in more detail and Buzz wanted to talk all abiut it
Really enjoyed this one mate, cheers.
2 top men very good watch
can't believe jimmy thinks the rfu decision on tackle height was the right thing to do…
How do you defend in League if you lower the tackle? It works in Union because most of the tackles are chops anyway, but you can't realistically expect in league to lower the height and still manage to control the ruck when the bloke has come at you from 10–15 metres, you'd have to resort to a trip/chop where the attacker always finds his front and then we have a situation where no one is ever getting back in the defensive line in time.
Awesome Jimmy. I’ve always liked Buzz, cracks me up when he pushes Kenny’s buttons on NRL 360 in his calm fashion
Might be your best since Wayne Bennett. Loved this one Jammer & Co.
Great episode. Love the buzz 👍 great show Jimmy
Graham is good at sucking up to his guests
Talk about the dry snitch of doom. Todd Carney straight away
Now you gotta get vossy and Warren Smith lol such a good episode
Need Dan Ginnane, the best RL caller, on the show.