E17 | Mark Fulcher
Episode Summary | Mark Fulcher
Dr. Mark Fulcher is a former national league goalkeeper who incredibly traveled to the Club World Cup with Auckland City as a player / doctor.
Outside of football Fulch is a major player in sports medicine in New Zealand having held roles across every major code and sits on the FIFA Medical Committee. He debunks the theory that he was the shortest goalkeeper to play at a FIFA tournament, we talk about what Covid-19 means for domestic football in New Zealand and many memorable tour stories.
Show notes | Mark Fulcher
2.35 How Seamus and Steve know Fulch
6.07 Fact or Fiction: Fulch’s claim to fame in the football world?
7.19 Player / Doctor at the FIFA Club World Cup with Auckland City
12.50 The start of a National League career at North Shore and life as a 5’10” goalkeeper
15.41 Two stints at Waikato FC under Declan Edge and taking goal kicks backwards
21.50 Strengths as a goalkeeper? Steve sets the scene for Fulch to replay a couple of forgettable moments in between the sticks
23.20 2008 Chatham Cup semi-final Glenfield Rovers v Dunedin Tech away: The Aaron Burgess goal
25.55 2004/05 NZFC semi-final Waikato FC v Waitakere United away: The Che Bunce duck
27.14 2007 Chatham Cup fourth round Glenfield Rovers v Papakura City away: The Dean Dodds boots incident
29.45 A brief summary of Fulch’s playing career: “I largely played for grafting teams”
31.02 Juggling football while becoming a doctor
34.51 Fulch empathizes with Joe Edwards about the sacrifices required to make training when you are a working professional
37.50 We delve into Fulch’s background including his medical school experience and spending time in the cadaver lab
41.56 Fulch and his teammates compare their tough days in the office on the drive to Waikato FC training
43.55 Technology delays and interrupts the “great Michael Mayne story”, but we get there in the end combined with an amazing dad joke from Fulch
47.22 Fulch saves Steve’s embarrassment by sharing a great tour anecdote from Samoa featuring Sarah Gregorius, after we’re fed false information on long football socks up on his inaugural NZ football tour to Samoa
49.53 Highlights from the many international tours Fulch has been on with various New Zealand teams
52.23 The journey to becoming a Sports Physician and Team Doctor
54.45 Who has been to more FIFA events: Gordon Glen Watson or Fulch?
55.38 Fulch on the role of a FIFA Medical Officer: We dip into the beach soccer world cup in the Bahamas and some of the issues encountered on other tournaments
57.44 What does Fulch do on the FIFA Medical Committee?
59.13 Steve and Seamus tackle each other, before we find out Fulch’s position on concussion and heading in football
1.02.25 The change in role of the Team Doctor and the differences between sports in terms of injury and treatment
1.06.15 Fulch on netball and the Silver Ferns
1.07.17 Fulch on the ASB Classic and tennis players
1.09.23 Reflections on not being a little bit better at football
1.10.58 That time Fulch may have inadvertently helped a prominent kiwi footballer get a club transfer
1.12.56 We go Covid19 with the doctor
1.17.52 Fulch’s views on Covid19 and football in New Zealand
1.23.09 Working from a Home & Garden featured house and the fall of Radio Sport in this Covid19 era
1.26.45 Steve gets the opportunity to ask Fulch about Anthony Hudson
1.30.14 Dream come true for Steve as Fulch backs up the Hudson answer with Andreas Heraf observations
1.31.07 Moving forward with New Zealand Football
1.32.05 Reflections on the under 17 world cup in Nigeria
1.35.52 Steve goes Wim Hof and the doctor gives his views
1.40.45 Island-hopping with Fulch: A stint in the Cook Islands national league
1.43.01 Medical innovations at the club world cup in Qatar
1.44.44 We start talking haircuts and bald heads and realise it’s time to call it quits
