What’s the truth behind the beards our players are sporting?

We thought it was time we got the real story from the captain.

“I’m growing the beard because we lost the goal kicking competition to our coaches three weeks ago, and we will continue growing the beard as we continue to win games of football,” Scott Pendlebury told Jay Clark on the Jock and Journo podcast.

“We’ve been growing them for three weeks, because it started the day after we lost to the Giants.”

It’s a badge of honour the players are happy to wear, given it indicates the Magpies have been taking home the four points ever since the competition began.

For Pendlebury, the man who is setting the best beard example is an old Gippsland Power teammate.

“The best olden day impression has to be Tyson Goldsack.

“He had the oil on the arms and while we were running a lap, he was telling gags about the meat tray raffles after training, deposits for footy trips, and things like that which you see at country clubs.

“It’s been a bit of fun.”

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Other talking points in episode nine of Jock and Journo include:

- Pendles tries Indian food for the first time (1.25)
- Beard talk: Goal kicking competition (3.15)
- Reviewing the Zac Jones-MRP decision (6.34)
- Gillon McLachlan joins the podcast to talk about (8.22)
8.47: His sporting career
12.54: The state of the game
13.45: How long does it take to build a list?
16.44: What’s Gil’s take on the MRP?
17.55: The latest on the Collective Bargaining Agreement
19.55: Will The Killers be a part of the Grand Final entertainment?
22.05: Gil turns the tables on Pendles
23.23: When Gil got cut from Carlton
24.23: Gil clarifies the Collective Bargaining Agreement
24.53: Gil’s premiership tip
- Pendles and Jay’s take on their interview with McLachlan (25.22)
- Who do you tag: Dangerfield or Selwood? (27.45)
- Does Pendles pay attention to the shot clock? (29.14)
- Can we have State of Origin in our game? (30.17)
- Hot or not? (33.34)
- What Schapelle missed (38.49)
- Pendles reflects on Alex Fasolo (41.05)
- What’s happening with our club wide review? (42.35)