E06 | Roland Jeffery
Episode Summary | Roland Jeffery
Roland Jeffery has been the All Whites physio for over 100 games and has an unmatched locker of dressing room stories to tell from the All Whites at the World Cup, Olympics, Wellington Phoenix and Glenfield Rovers.
He’s also an incredibly successful businessman, running a top clinic in Auckland all with a wicked sense of humour and dedication to his clients.
Show notes | Roland Jeffery
3.24 How Seamus and Steve know Roland, and how he helped rejuvenate Steve’s career
5.40 Roland and the Rovers finish a Wellington Phoenix bar tab
7.59 “It makes you stronger, more athletic, brighter, intelligent, younger, healthier”: Roland on the benefits of Jagermeister
10.03 Doing what’s best for the team: A “physio” puts in a shift for an unnamed Phoenix player
13.10 The role of the physio in the team environment and what makes the treatment room such a special place?
15.42 Glenfield Rovers 10th grade D team: The making of Roland Jeffery
18.04 Roland Jeffery Physiotherapy: A small home-based business which just grew and grew and grew
22.48 Being the All Whites physio, is it good for business?
23.31 International debut: Papua New Guinea v Solomon Islands
24.15 Jettisoned! The ransacking of consumables on the Lae Highway in PNG with the Football Ferns. Roland makes his World Cup debut with the Ferns in 2007
26.42 Roland and his journey to the All Whites. U17s, U23s and Cole Tinkler
28.10 Roland recalls when ex-Glenfield Rover Dr. Theary Thou looked for a way off the pitch in Japan
29.49 The change in culture in the All Whites over the 16 years. Steven tries to pull out of an Instagram gag
32.10 Does Roland worry about losing his role when a coach changes
33.10 Steven asks who have been the All Whites characters over the years? How strong are the relationships that Roland develops with the players?
35.57 Steven talks Chris Wood’s hamstrings and the pressure Roland feels when a player he has treated gets on the pitch
38.07 Steven probes Roland for the hardest workers over the years in the All Whites
39.17 Roland talks the realities of his FIFA World Cup experience in South Africa. What is he like on the team bench?
41.08 Cookies and Cream: Seamus and Roland talk about their working relationship: The cheeseburger challenge and the advance party during the 2012 Olympic Games campaign
47.14 Running habits, and the interests Roland has on and off tour. Is it Tobago and Trinidad or Trinidad and Tobago?
50.47 Roland opens up on the loss of his mum prior to the 2018 All Whites tour to India
52.46 Roland talks the 2019 Pacific Games and other tough tours including the Amazing Race from Venezuela
56.51 An album of tasteful photos presented to Clint Gosling and the video of Cookies and Cream dancing and letting off steam
58.12 A life member at Glenfield Rovers, lock-ins at McFetridge Park, changing times, extreme themes and the importance of team culture
1.04.35 Roland explains to Seamus his working relationship with his brother, and the use of the company credit card for All Whites excess luggage charges
1.06.10 That Night in Wellington: Roland retells the post-match celebrations after the All Whites beat Bahrain
1.08.56 Roland talks about his five Olympic campaigns including the disqualification from Rio de Janeiro 2016
1.12.40 Delayed flights, slow bus rides, fighter jets over the team hotel and other insights from the intercontinental playoff with Peru
1.15.23 All Whites tours: Mexican fans bombard the team bus in Denver and Iranian fans launch projectiles onto the pitch at the awards ceremony post-match in Tehran
1.16.40 Steven digs around for stories about the big night out at the end of tour. Roland deflects and Seamus talks cheat meals
1.18.22 101 not out, will Roland make it to 200 appearances for the All Whites?
1.19.45 A change of code: Would Roland consider taking the All Blacks physio role?
1.21.00 Roland plugs Asics, Roland Jeffery Physiotherapy, and the plans for his tell-all book on the stories that he can’t talk about on the podcast
