E10 | Cole Tinkler
Episode Summary | Cole Tinkler
We track Cole Tinkler's footballing journey, and uncover the many reasons why his career never quite reached the heights of his ability.
Show notes | Cole Tinkler
*1.57 How Seamus and Steven know Cole, rolling in the same circles
3.53 Seamus launches into the intro of the All Whites debut that never was, but first Cole has some praise for the Between Two Beers boys
8.17 The back story of Cole Tinkler: “Peaked at 16”
10.32 An odd bunch of characters: Grant Hastings, Bruce Street
11.12 Sam Wilkinson on Cole Tinkler
12.07 The Declan Edge effect: “The Defectors”
14.50 Steven plugs the Wim Hof method
16.06 Steven does a Seamus and claims a “famous” night out (Spoiler Alert: it wasn’t a famous night out)
16.47 The New Zealand Knights: Signing at 17 with other youth players Jeremy Brockie, Kris Bright and Jeremy Christie!? Reflecting on being a young pro and learning from the senior pros, marking Dwight Yorke, contract renewals, private team meetings, and taking the CEO’s phone call
28.46 Auckland City throw Cole a lifeline: The Wilkinson fallout, Ross McKenzie dropped, a conversation with Allan Jones on the way to the Club World Cup, and an interesting 11v11 in Japan
37.49 Back to New Zealand and then off to Singapore with Ross McKenzie
47.27 A return to New Zealand with Team Wellington and the lure of the Olympics
48.43 Seamus gets his facts wrong about the Olympic qualifiers and we visit YoungHeart Manawatu with a Stu Jacobs interlude
50.30 2008 Beijing Olympics: Steven laments his missed opportunity
51.20 A centre back or right? Neither, centre mid.
51.58 Fan boying with Ryan Nelsen about Blackburn Rovers and Cole on the Nelsen effect
55.09 The dream of being Fraser High School’s only football Olympian quashed by Marco Rojas in 2012
56.18 The 2008 Beijing Olympics: Playing China, Brazil and Belgium, and red cards with Steven Old and Daniel Ellensohn
1.00.57 The dark years: post-Olympics Cole goes missing and the rumours circulate. Did he turn gay? Did he join a religious cult? Cole gives football a proper go in the state leagues in Australia
1.04.37 Cole reflects on what could have been if he was more like Aaron Scott
1.05.01 Work, life, money balance in the state league and still wanting to make it as a pro
1.06.56 On trial in Germany
1.09.03 Does Cole’s laid back nature impact the perception of his achievements?
1.09.52 We football geek out for five minutes listening to Cole’s stories about Germany with Sami Hyypia and Michael Ballack
1.15.13 Seamus gets another fact wrong! And Cole breaks his leg against Saudi Arabia and plays on
1.17.49 Six months post leg break, Cole goes back on trial in Scotland
1.20.14 The beginning of the end: a contract at Hibernian falls through
1.21.37 The Chris Killen interlude (with a little bit of Stu Hogg)
1.22.01 The middle of the end: a contract at Dunfermline falls through
1.22.30 The end of the road: Chris James sorts out a trial in Finland, Cole gets steamed in front of the CEO
1.25.15 Cole gives up on the professional dream at 26 and reflects on his experiences
1.29.04 Stepping back from football, then rekindling football with Kiwi FC with the help of Jeremy Field and Joel Matthews
1.30.40 The Thierry Henry of NZME: Steven talks his “electric pace” for his work 5-a-side team
1.31.19 Kiwi FC: Richard Beard, Shaun Van Rooyen, Liam Kerrisk and living in London
1.31.56 Moving back to New Zealand and training to be a physio. Inspiration from Che Bunceand his career change
1.34.12 Seamus talks career change and getting out of your comfort zone and Steven shares his own journey (available on NZ Herald Premium Content in coming weeks for only $10 a month)
1.38.38 Cole Tinkler returns to football in New Zealand. Who’s he going to play for?
1.40.45 Cole turns the table on the hosts and asks a couple questions to Seamus and Steve. The Hunger Games: which guest would win and why?
1.43.09 Steven Holloway: A really, really, really poor man’s Dennis Bergkamp
1.45.45 Final thoughts from Seamus on Cole
1.47.21 Steven on trying to become a pro and eventually calling it quits
1.49.22 Cole Tinkler: “Not in the right era”
