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Nick Roberts

@Stickolas

Physiotherapist based in the Steel City. Rugby League and Wigan Athletic nut. Enjoy getting my pasty white legs out for a run too sometimes. PCD.

Sheffield, England Katılım Şubat 2009
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Nick Roberts
Nick Roberts@Stickolas·
@NTT20Pod Relatively late to the show, discovered you through guardian FW and became a regular listener 18 months ago. Excellent unbiased critiquing and Ali's pun work is unrivalled. Apologies for Latics letting the Eggman down a few weeks back. Looking forward to the next 10 years 👍
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Not The Top 20 Pod
Not The Top 20 Pod@NTT20Pod·
NTT20 at 10. On May 11th 2016, we sat down in Ali’s kitchen to record our first podcast. How would Sean Dyche’s Burnley and Aitor Karanka’s Boro - plus strikers Andre Gray and Jordan Rhodes - do in the Premier League? And how will Carlos Carvalhal and Barry Bannan’s Sheff Wed fare in the Play-Offs? Then we had to work out a name for this show. We ended with something a bit weird and a bit of a mouthful - Not The Top 20 ffs - but it wouldn’t matter much would it because who would actually listen? At first, a few hundred of you. Now, tens of thousands more. And now this is our full-time job and we absolutely love it. So much has happened in that time - too much to remember on this 30 minute tube journey. The landscape of media, podcasting and football itself is completely different. Specifically, how about the EFL content landscape? Bloody hell. We started with a mission to provide Football League podcast chat to fans of Football League clubs, because it literally didn’t exist. Now, EFL fans have everything they could possibly want at their fingertips. We’re so pleased to be a part of a thriving landscape, so pleased at how many people spend their own time making amazing content around these amazing leagues. Our personal and professional lives certainly look very, very different! We’re lucky to have incredible family and friends, and pleasingly we are still incredibly close friends. There is no doubt that none of this could have happened without the friendship that we already had before we began, and the determination and single-mindedness that we’ve shown as a partnership. Better than the sum of our parts? Absolutely. High floor over high ceiling? No doubt. Our consistency is perhaps what we’re proudest of - we’ve not missing a show during the season for about half a decade now, even when we both had babies within 4 weeks of each other! The content hamster wheel can be relentless but we always spur each other on. What stands out is the sheer number of amount of amazing opportunities we have had because of NTT20. People we’ve met. Friends we’ve made. Work we’ve done. Places we’ve been. Laughs we’ve had. Hot rain, win-to-nil winter, John Seymour, get your Rushian Hepburn-Murphy name etc. It’s honestly beyond anything we could possibly have dreamed, mainly because none of this existed until the last ten years of this history of the world! Thank you to those who have listened to - or watched - the show, and to all of you who have done much more than that. NTT20 Squad. NTT20.COM subscribers. Live show and meet-up attendees. Friendly commenters. Thank you to everyone who has lent us their talents and their time to work for NTT20, to help us do things we can’t do ourselves and make the content so much better and the business so much more viable. Thank you to anyone that has ever paid us, either as sponsor or subscriber or merch-buyer or a TV/radio producer. Building out the business has been exciting & challenging, particularly over the last few years. The exciting highs of a few years of TV work were followed by some scary lows when it all vanished 😬 Anyone that has decided that we’re worthy of some £££ is responsible for the fact that we’re still going, doing more and more and more than ever and owning it all ourselves. We’ve added The England Pod with DCW into the mix and, while that’s one for another day, good God that really has been wild - today we had our Visas approved to go and cover England at a World Cup. What is going on?! Who knows, but let’s not stop to wonder. We’re gonna keep growing and growing and see what happens. This year, NTT20 Pod’s audience has increased by 44%. How on earth that happens ten years in, we’re not sure. We thought people would get bored of us. Maybe they will, but the growth is incredibly encouraging for the next ten… NTT20 at 20? God, that’s going to be a long post. Thank you for reading. Thank you for everything. We march on, EFL till the earth explodes. Beers tonight with 50+ NTT20 ultras. Wow. Go well.
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Nick Roberts@Stickolas·
@WeahsCousin Should have been stopped at least 2 rounds earlier. Wardley very brave and an unreal chin but that was tough to watch towards the end.
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GeorgeWeahsCousin@WeahsCousin·
Fabio Wardley looks like he’s gone 12 rounds with Robert Sanchez
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Nick Roberts@Stickolas·
@footballhq From memory, £5 entry and £3.50 a pint. Cheap day out is Staveley
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Football HQ@FootballHQ·
Chicken curry and chips at Staveley MWFC 🔥 Only £5 💷 proper value for that, looks unreal 😍
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Paul Kendrick@PKendrickWIG·
Final question: "Will we sign Joe Taylor?" Lucas Danson: "I think he'll go very well in the Championship next year." #wafc
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John Davidson
John Davidson@johnnyddavidson·
My 13 of Super League’s best of the last 30 years: 1 Jamie Lyon 2 Jamie Lyon 3 Jamie Lyon 4 Jamie Lyon 5 Jamie Lyon 6 Jamie Lyon 7 Jamie Lyon 8 Jamie Lyon 9 Jamie Lyon 10 Jamie Lyon 11 Jamie Lyon 12 Jamie Lyon 13 Jamie Lyon
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Nick Roberts@Stickolas·
@hjluks I did the marathon there last year and running through the Prater was fantastic (and very flat)
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Howard Luks MD
Howard Luks MD@hjluks·
Anyone from Vienna ?? From this position, where would you walk or run in the early morning?
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MLB Europe@MLBEurope·
Ever seen a cricketer hit a home run? 🏏 x ⚾️ England captain @Harry_Brook_88 gave it a go at Spring Training with the @Phillies. See how he got on...
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Nick Roberts@Stickolas·
@AliMaxwell_ Fair enough, on a club level at least he will run away with EOS awards, we were dead certainties for relegation till he (and GC) arrived. Biggest impact loan at Latics since Reece James.
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Ali Maxwell
Ali Maxwell@AliMaxwell_·
Here's something I wrestle with, keen to know anyone's thoughts: Should there be a minimum threshold for minutes played, or starts, for someone to be eligible for a league-wide Player of the Season award or a place in Team of Season? If not, why? If so, what's the threshold?
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blakey@blakeykeenan·
@CamDonDuncan I’d say this is the only really bad call in all his selections. Some debeateable ones and some 50/50 but this is a bad one
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Cameron Don-Duncan
Cameron Don-Duncan@CamDonDuncan·
My head has completely fallen off at this video of Kyle Amor picking Ade Gardner ahead of Tevita Vaikona. Wondering if I’m alone in this? Gardner very lucky to have spent a good chunk of his career outside Lyon and Gidley while Saints also had an incredible team.
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Nick Roberts@Stickolas·
@PKendrickWIG Their commentators were furious with how little they threw at us after going behind. They did hit the woodwork twice and have 2 shots off the line in fairness
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Paul Kendrick@PKendrickWIG·
Huddersfield team getting absolute pelters from the away end as they go over after the game. #wafc
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Mudhutter@mudhutter·
Final drop is @RealCraftyWigan and your dogsbody went for Deya, Something Different IPA, plus a little something for when I get home later 🔵⚪️ #wafc
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Nick Roberts@Stickolas·
@PKendrickWIG Happy to sell my kids if that will help the transfer kitty out for this bloke?
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Nick Roberts@Stickolas·
@terrythomas1 @PKendrickWIG I noticed on Sunday how he made a point of coming over to the hoardings and applauding every single fan, felt quite pointed after all hes been through with Lowe
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Terry Thomas@terrythomas1·
@PKendrickWIG I like Sess big personality and very witty. Not been treated very well IMO
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Paul Kendrick@PKendrickWIG·
Not just the bodies on the line defending...but the reactions after...look at Sessegnon, barely seen all year, as pumped as Aimson at the last block...contrast to the no contesting of penalty claims last month. Totally different group overnight. #wafc
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Mudhutter@mudhutter·
Think we've over ordered lads
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Nick Roberts@Stickolas·
@JoshBuckley90 Was on the bus back to King Cross, convince myself it couldn't have been him, but it definitely was seeing this pic now.
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Josh Buckley
Josh Buckley@JoshBuckley90·
Sean Clare in away end today #wafc
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