With the news that Brock Lesnar has become the latest of high profile fighters in the UFC to test positive for a banned substance, our main focus on this week’s podcast is whether or not the decision by the UFC to install USADA as doping testers has helped or hindered the UFC as a company. … Continue reading The Contrasting Worlds of Lesnar and Stenson →

Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the One More Round podcast. This week, we look back at the entire 2016 tournament, the good, the bad, the ugly and the English. We analyse the switch to twenty-four teams for this tournament and whether this was was successful tournament or not. We also look over out … Continue reading Euro 2016 Roundup →

Hello and welcome to our second show of the week! With all the pre-tournament excitement in the air, we had to burn off that nervous energy, so we return with our post-season prediction roundup! Recorded as our very first episode, the three original members review their early (naive) predictions, joined by a special guest as … Continue reading One Week, Two Episodes, Three Hosts Become Four! →

First up, apologies to all of you who got in touch during our hiatus, requesting that your favourite podcast be recorded on a weekly basis (You know who you are!). We at 1MR HQ humbly ask your forgiveness and to redeem ourselves, have recorded, not one, but TWO shows this week! We start this week … Continue reading We’re back and just in time for Euro 2016! →

Has he or hasn’t he? The one question dominating the Irish and MMA sports scene in the last 24 hours. Has Conor McGregor retired an undisputed UFC featherweight champion at the tender age of 27? Or has he just flown too close to the sun and been brought back down to earth by Dana White … Continue reading So long and thanks for all the cheese! →

For 63 holes, Jordan Speith had no equal as it looked like he would tame the Augusta National for the second year running. But the Georgian golf course punishes any golfer who takes their eye off the ball, even for a second, and three holes later, following a bogey, bogey, quadruple bogey run, Amen Corner’s … Continue reading Amen Corner’s Latest Victim… →

It’s Masters week and all of us at One More Round HQ are more than a little excited at this year’s edition, which has the potential to be a memorable one. With Speith, Day, McIlroy, Fowler and Scott all looking decent going into Augusta, we discuss who will be wearing bright orange come Sunday evening and … Continue reading The Race for the Green Jacket… →

With a loss for Connacht last night, today’s derby day clash between Leinster and Munster takes on even bigger importance. A win will send Leinster to the top of the Pro 12, whereas a loss for Munster will see their top 4 playoff hopes dangling by a thread following Ulster’s performance last night. The international … Continue reading Derby Day Nerves →

Not quite a Joe show, but welcome to this week’s One More Round podcast. We’ve strayed from the tried and tested formula and are bringing you a new (and hopefully improved) show! We start off this week with a round-up of the 2016 Six Nations Championship. Following England’s Grand Slam, we discuss were they streets … Continue reading Say it Ain’t, Joe… →

A slightly shorter episode than usual, but I hope you’ll all understand that we had an 8:05 deadline on Thursday for the first ever meeting of Manchester United and Liverpool in Europe. You’ll all know how that went by now, so no need to cover here, you’ll all hear our view on next week’s episode. … Continue reading Episode 28 →

So while the world watched what Conor McGregor was like on steaks, we found out that maybe, just maybe, there is more to winning MMA welterweight contests than just eating meatier foods. With both Miesha Tate and Nate Diaz winning their co-main event fights at UFC 196 by rear naked choke holds, the one true … Continue reading 5th March – Steaks and BJJ Day →

*All being a quarter final place in the UEFA Europa League Welcome to this week’s episode of the One More Round podcast, which for one has fully embraced the Europa League in all its glory! What once was a second-rate, bloated waste of a Thursday, now is a thriving, exciting European cup competition, on par … Continue reading The Winner Takes It All*! →

After overcoming some early innings nerves and gotten ourselves in, we’re now building our solid foundation and aiming for that test hundred. Hello and welcome to this weeks’ podcast! Though limited in breadth, not in breaths, we march on, as we cover football, rugby and the goings-on in the MMA world. In football, we look … Continue reading The Quarter Century! →

On this week’s rugby-laden podcast, we take a look back at the first set of 6 Nations fixtures, still trying to figure out if a draw was a good or bad result for Ireland and Wales. We debate the 12/13/15 selection of the Irish team and what the future holds for the make-up of the … Continue reading Test, This is a Test…Test, Test, This is a Test →

Welcome everyone, to what might just be the best sporting weekend of the year. We’ve got *deep breath* the start of the Super League season in rugby league, Pro 12 action from Ulster, the start of the 6 Nations tournament, Premier League fixtures (including Chelsea v Man. United), UFC 196 UFC Fight Night 82 and … Continue reading It’s the most wonderful time of the year… →

Was he fouled? Did he dive? Was it a foul? Was it a red card? Is Mertersacker unlucky? Is Costa a little ****? We reveal all in this week’s One More Round Podcast… This week, we look back over the week’s football starting with the Norwich v Liverpool epic encounnter from last weekend and taking … Continue reading The Costa Conumdrum… →

Hello and welcome to another episode of One More Round Podcast. This week we have been mostly gloating at Chris who still can’t quite figure out how Liverpool can create 19 chances and not take at least one of them! We take a quick look back over an exhilirating / pulsating decent / tedious derby … Continue reading Derby Day Discussions… →

This week on the One More Round Podcast, we have almost too much sport to cover, but we endeavoured to get through as much of it as we could in under 90 minutes for your aural pleasure! In football, we cover the F.A. Cup third round fixtures and preview the potential 4th round games, we … Continue reading Too Much Sport… →

Happy New Year to all our listeners! After a longer than expected Christmas break, we are back with the latest episode of the One More Round podcast. Unfortunately, though, we are only three, as Gary has had to relieve himself from the podcast, due to work commitments, but we soldier on… On this week’s show, … Continue reading Three is the Magic Number →

Our campaign to get Richie Towell onto the Euro 2016 plane was clearly heard by our fans in Brighton, as the LOI Player of the Year is snapped up by Chris Hughton’s Brighton and Hove Albion for the second half of their Championship title push. He’s halfway to France now where, hopefully, he’ll be joined … Continue reading Towell Packed and Ready To Go! →