Macquarie Sports Radio Breakfast With John Stanley & Beau Ryan

Do real men eat quiche and have toy poodles? AFL great Jarryd Roughhead calls time on his amazing career but what's it really like to retire from elite sport? We talk the good ol'days of footy with Danny Buderus - the latest inductee into the NRL Hall of Fame. And yet another off field NRL scandal. 

The NRL sin bin was busier than Centrelink on a Thursday, but did the refs overdo it? NRL wrap up with Jamie Soward. We review the Wallabies Bledisloe win in Perth and can we win at Eden Park. Aussie NBA star Ben Simmons' recent trip home has been plagued with controversy. Jimmy Bartel has just about thawed out after that historic snowy Canberra game over the weekend but it was memorable for the GWS Giants for all the wrong reasons, it was also a round to forget for the Bombers. 

Jon Ralph joins us as Gold Coast’s Brayden Crossley facing four-year ban after testing positive for cocaine on a game-day. Hawthorn's Kurt Heatherley leaves AFL for NZ rugby in rare code switch. GWS Giants welcome back Jeremy Cameron for Hawthorn clash. Sydney co-captain Josh Kennedy says Lance Franklin is eyeing a Round 23 return for his 300th. Brett Finch joins us for a look at the weekends NRL action and we sing another round of Sing the Next Line..

Mark “Spudd” Carroll joins us for look at the NRL news with the Cronulla Sharks slamming a decision to let Sam Burgess escape suspension. Paul Kent fumes at the ‘incompetent’ NRL judiciary decision over Sam Burgess farce. Tony Shaw is on to discuss a possible Joe Daniher switch to the Swans. Adelaide star Josh Jenkins puts rumours of a rift with coach Don Pyke to bed and an earlier finish is slated for this year's Brownlow. In the cricket, Steve Smith rises in the ICC Test batting rankings after Edgbaston heroics.. and the boys have been getting emoji’s from odd places and don’t want them!

 Piggy and Levy have some strong opinions on Rabbitohs' Sam Burgess after he escapes suspension at NRL Judiciary. We celebrate as one of our own Rugby League media identities is nominated for Hall of Fame induction. Peter Siddle joins us as England's Ashes crisis deepens with veteran seamer Jimmy Anderson ruled out of the second test and Piggy takes on Phil "Buzz" Rothfield to defend one of his good mates.