Starcast: the Billingham Stars podcast

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Our intrepid trio sail the good ship Starcast again, and boy is there a lot to talk about!  We cover Billingham’s trip to Blackburn along with a late suspension, segregated seating and 12 skaters on the biggest ice in the league.

The game talk actually melts into a positive forward look for the future of Billingham ice hockey with the next generation coming through, two of whom already ice with the Stars.  Happy 16th birthday Will Thornton - MOM in Blackburn!

We look ahead t...

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The OG crew of the good ship Starcast return to look back at double defeat for the Stars but plenty of talking points.  We look at the results & tables, preview the trip to Blackburn and at one point the host disappears!

Our AOB bits cover the latest Billingham junior to graduate to seniors, a milestone for former Billog Robert Dowd and our wonderful Teddy Toss is just around the corner! 

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No guest goalies this week so it’s the OG Starcast crew reviewing a Saturday matinee in the Steel City and look ahead to another double weekend and a quick return to Teesside of the league leaders. 

There’s some AOB bits and pieces with GB next gen, NHL and bumper Supporters Club update. 

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Widnes Wild goalie Luca Tessadri joins this week’s podcast talking about his return to playing and backstopping Widnes Wild this season.  Great to see Luca back and enjoying his hockey after missing pretty much a full year not too long ago.

The podcast crew, some might say three grumpy northerners, then review the Stars six point weekend with wins at Widnes and home to Nottingham before checking other games from the NIHL N1 and look ahead to a Saturday Sheffield lunchtime road trip. 

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Stood still on the highway….. a nightmare road trip compounded a zero point weekend for your Billingham Stars. 

Solihull goalie Graham Laverick joins to talk his side’s weekend and great start to the season before Carol, Jono and Craig review the home & home and look ahead to another big weekend, ending with a Sunday home game with Nottingham. 

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Carol, Jono and Craig review the late late (double late!) loss to Blackburn at Forum and ahead to home & home with Solihull Barons. 

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General Manager Allen Flavell makes his podcast debut with a great chat about his roles, the Stars growth off the ice as well as on and putting teams together for the NIHL in modern times.  A really great insight from the man at the top of the club.

Plus the gang talk about the loss in Telford and look ahead to Blackburn’s visit this coming weekend. 

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Two perfect 10’s for the Stars over Sheffield and Hull, and of course we talk about the Financial Times article which united the whole UK hockey world. 

Carol, Jono and Craig talk all things Stars, women in hockey and a return to Telford before making their NHL picks for the new season across the pond. 

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Stars finally join the NIHL N1 party with a win in Leeds and look ahead to a home opener.  And Billy.

Captain Michael Elder joins as first guest of the season to discuss the unusual start to the schedule and finally getting underway before the gang break down the Leeds game and look around the league’s other games. 

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No games played but we do have hockey on the horizon! It’s game week for your Billingham Stars and the podcast is here to cover pretty much everything.

And we mean everything! 

Look ahead to Stars at Elland Road on Sunday, a round up of games played across the division at the weekend.  NIHL North Updates predictions discussion (with free NHL punditry), media content ramping up, SC ready to roll, and new addition imminent if you can bear to wait.

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Our intrepid trio is back with no NIHL Stars games to discuss - which we manage to drag out to 45 minutes! 

A quick pre-season recap, the week in NIHL N1, Stars girls historic game, Buccs battle and AOB with a bumper Supporters Club update. 

Carol’s pre-season updates on all Moralee teams:
Blackburn https://www.starshockey.co.uk/news-1/season-2025-26-blackburn-hawks
Deeside https://www.starshockey.co.uk/news-1/season-2025-26-deeside-dragons
Hull https://www.starshockey.co.uk/news-1/season-2025-26-hull-jets
Leeds https://www.starshockey.co.uk/news-1/season-2025-26-leeds-knights-2
Not...

The gang is back for the last off-season pod and we catch up with the Stars’ latest signings and news like fixtures and playoffs.

A quick look around the rest of NIHL North 1 before we shine the spotlight on Billingham’s new U16 Girls team, and look back at last weekend’s Golf Day at Castle Eden (home of the brewery that sponsored a little local hockey tournament back in the day!) 

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The gang is back together and we look at the squad building for the Billingham Stars and wider around the NIHL North 1. 

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Off season catch up with the gang as news starts to feed into the NIHL North-a-sphere - nothing Billog related though.

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We catch up on the successes at Steel City Showdown and the season ending game in Coventry and a quick thought on 24/25 season for the Billingham Stars.

Carol joined from her seaside retreat between Hartlepool, Seaton Carew and Redcar and battled some wifi issues but we got all the content we needed. 

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Billingham reached the Steel City Showdown with a two-leg win over Deeside - we’ll talk about it as well as the other NIHL division semi finals. 

Stars will face a repeat of last year’s Final against Blackburn - we’ll talk about it AND the three other Finals taking place in Sheffield 

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Steel City Showdown tickets: https://eih.ticketco.events/uk/en/e/nihl_steelcity_showdown_2025 

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It’s the OG three on this week’s pod talking all things Stars in full post-season mode. 

Playoff quarter final wins over Leeds secured, lots of goals and lots of love for Luca.  We also check in with the playoff brackets elsewhere in the NIHL divisions.

The gang then look ahead to the semi final series with Deeside before the AOB segment features Coventry tickets, Steel City Merch, awards, presentation night and BOTW Parmo Review (watch on FB: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18oKV2Y2wK/)

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We are delighted to announce NIHL’s official All-Star teams for North 1 and 2 (approx 35 mins in) - thanks to NIHL for giving us this honour/responsibilty! 

We are also joined by Stars’ coach Stephen Foster and captain Michael Elder to review where we are at the end of the regular season heading into playoffs (spoiler - it’s going kind of OK thanks!) 

How was the last game of the regular season and trophy lift?  We’ll tell you what we think!

The gang look at tables and playoff fixtures for North and South 1, congratulat...

The gang are joined by Pete from Cross Check Clothing to talk about his hockey journey, how the brand was born and recently working with your Billingham Stars. 

Our 100 point men Chris Sykes and Iain Brown also drop by to talk goals, assists, points, trophies and more.  Of course Iain also talks about his league goals record.

There's the regular features reviewing Deeside double header, results & tables, South 1 watch and look ahead to the regular season finale. 

Save the date features in Any Other Business in a packed episode.  Tune in on Facebook, YouTube, Spot...

Billingham Stars did another thing! A win on Sunday in Solihull secured a second successive League title for the Big Red Machine!

Goalie Jacob Hammond joins the crew to talk about it, before Carol, Jono and Craig go through the game in more depth. 

We look at results and tables from last week, before previewing a Deeside double header which starts with the party bus to North Wales and ends with a long-awaited return to home ice on Sunday. 

In AOB we look at South 1 to see who Billingham will face at Coventry and co...

Your Starcast crew return sans guests for another packed pod talking all things of the Big Red Machine. A road double header saw two slow starts but ultimately two regulation wins. 

WIN! A pair of tickets to Steel City Showdown - answer in the social media thread on here or email starcast@march74.co.uk

Results and tables from last week, plus a look ahead to the Road to Hobs Moat and a trip to Solihull for Billingham on Sunday. 

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A story three years in the making… Billingham are Moralee Cup champions! 

Carol, Jono and Craig chat with Stars’ captain Michael Elder and scoring legend Chris Sykes about the weekend before reviewing the 120 thrilling minutes. 

We look at the results in the other Cup Finals, and NIHL 1 North league games that took place at the weekend. 

Finally we look ahead to Stars return to league play with a road double header in Leeds and *checks notes* Whitley Bay. 

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The gang return for the latest Starcast talking all things Billingham Stars.

Carol, Jono and Craig review the home & home with Nottingham before looking ahead to the Moralee Cup Final against Blackburn this coming weekend.  Podcast exclusive post game interview from Sunday with hat-trick hero Lucas Dowdle too!

We are also joined in the second segment by Patrick Smyth, host and founder of A View From The Bridge - a podcast for Belfast Giants which is approaching a milestone episode next week.  

There’s also the week’s results & tables courtesy of NIHL Stats 
Duration: 01:16:43

Carol, Jono and Craig are back for their latest Starcast. 

The gang look back at the road win over Widnes Wild complete with wardrobe malfunction before previewing Stars’ home & home with Nottingham this weekend.  

There’s last week’s results & tables, with some results of note for sure.  And we open our first ever mailbag to talk enjoyable seasons, All Time Billingham first line, under-rated Stars and players from other teams. 

Thanks to everyone who submitted a mailbag entry, will be great to see your own answers to the questions posed. 

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Carol, Jono and Craig are flying solo this week in the latest episode of your fave Stars podcast.

The gang look back at the home win over Leeds Knights before previewing the upcoming games and Stars’ trip to Widnes in particular.  

There’s last week’s results & tables, some news & notes and the usual AOB topics round things off. 

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Carol, Jono and Craig are joined by Anthony Russell from the Banners on the Wall blog/podcast/YouTube show - Anthony tells us his hockey journey from Rostock to Basingstoke and also his thoughts on NIHL National and South, with an eye on crossover playoffs and the National Final in Coventry.

The Stars gang then look back at the big home win over Sheffield as Billingham returned to league action.  We also look ahead to the visit of Leeds Knights to the Forum on Sunday.  

There’s last week’s results & tables, some bits of news and th...

Carol, Jono and Craig are have their first guest of 2025 as Ben from the NIHL South podcast Zero Pucks Given (ZPG) joins to talk about his podcast journey, NIHL South and the crossover playoffs coming up in April. 

The Stars gang then review the two legs of the Moralee Cup semi final which saw Billingham reach their third successive Cup Final.  

Last week’s results, news and the usual AOB topics round things off. 

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Carol, Jono and Craig are back to look at the home win over Hull in league play ahead of a two-game Cup semi final against the same opponent.  

We also run the rule over the other Cup ties in the NIHL North this weekend, look at results from last week’s league play and the latest league table. 

We round off with the usual AOB topics. 

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Happy New Year from Starcast! 

Carol, Jono and Craig look back on the big win in Sheffield marking the start of 2025 for the Stars, before previewing the home 2025 opener against Hull Jets. 

We catch up on results and league table (and postponements!) from the weekend, some news from GB U20, NIHL North and Cup dates v Hull. 

We round off with the usual AOB topics. 

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Carol, Jono and Craig are back from a Christmas break to look back on two weekends of games - Deeside away and the Whitley double header - which (spoiler alert!) went very well for Billingham!

We catch up on results, tables, Cup semi lineup, some breaking signing news elsewhere in the league and look ahead to the first game of 2025 in Sheffield. 

Finally the gang talk about their highlights of the year 2024. 

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🎥📺⭐️🎙🔴 STARCAST 18: One flu over the Lions’ den

A short benched Billingham Stars battled to a come-from-behind win in Nottingham where only one of our crew was present! We’ll have all the details. 

Plus the results and tables and we look ahead to the next couple of weekends for Billingham, including the Tees Tyne Winter Classic Christmas Cracker - league and Cup points on the line between now and the end of 2024. 

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Stars and Hawks split the weekend series, but Billingham make a statement in their home win on Sunday.  Carol, Jono and Craig look back at the action from Lancashire and Teeside.

There’s the results and tables from NIHL North 1 and a look ahead to next week’s early face off in Nottingham for Stars at Lions. 

GB Women face off on Thursday for their Olympic Qualifiers and love to Nottingham Panthers for the Adam Johnson shirt retirement on Saturday. 

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Back to winning ways for Billingham, the gang talk about the Solihull game. 

We also look ahead to the crunch double header with Blackburn which includes our Teddy Toss on Sunday at Forum Ice Arena. 

Our feature interview is Solway Sharks head coach Martin Grubb, who is midway through his second season in NIHL National division.  We have a fun catch up with Martin and reminisce about the ‘good old’ NIHL North 1 days.

Plus the results and tables from NIHL North too! 

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The gang are back to review Stars’ loss at Blackburn, their first reverse in two months and 11 games. 

We also look ahead to the visit of Solihull Barons to Teesside on Sunday, while Jono has a list of Supporters Club topics to bring in AOB. 

Our feature interview is GB captain Jodie Alderson-Smith who, as well as playing Women’s Elite League, has also been a part of NIHL Blaze since 2018 and guested for Deeside Dragons against the Stars last season. 

All the results and tables from NIHL North too in another packed episode. 
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Carol, Jono and Craig are back slightly later than normal but looking back on the last seven days of Stars hockey.

Two big wins, scoring milestones, player trivia and a huge, huge game coming up.

Plus great insight on player development from Trevor Hendrikx of Cardiff Canucks.

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No guests just all hockey chat from Carol, Jono and Craig as Billingham Stars pick up a road win in Leeds and look ahead to a weekend of home comforts with TWO home games this coming weekend.

We look at the results & table in the NIHL North with an eye on a hellish run of games for the Stars before the year's end.

Carol has the listeners on the naughty step for not joining in with the playlist songs - Mick Fern excepted - while we also set a challenge related to Billingham teams with multiple...

We're joined by the director and GM of NIHL - Martin Peters and Haydn Hunter - to talk all things NIHL, the season so far, working with clubs to make the league successful and announcing the venue for playoff finals!

The the gang return to scheduled programming with a look at the win over Widnes, ahead to Leeds away and go through results from across the weekend.

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On the anniversary of Adam Johnson's passing we share the pre-game ceremony from Sunday and briefly talk about the legacy of the AJ47 tragedy on players and safety equipment here and across the pond.

Carol, Jono and Craig then look at the Stars' two wins last weekend which kept them atop the NIHL North 1 - away to Hull and home to Nottingham.

There's the results and tables roundup powered by Joe Scutts and NIHL Stats and we look ahead to a single game weekend for Billingham as Widnes Wild head to Teesside on Sunday.

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Our first special guest interview in this episode with Colin Davidson, IHUK Referee In Chief, joining the gang to talk all things #TeamStripes - hopefully inform and educate about the third team on the ice.

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After that Carol, Jono and Craig look back at six points for the BTC-sponsored Billingham Stars with wins over Sheffield and league newbies Leeds.

We look at results & tables across League & Cup before a quick preview of another double header weekend - at Hull and home to Nottingham (Sunday, 5.30pm Forum...

The episodes keep coming even when Stars have no games!

Hunter, Langstaff and Simpson get together once again to review the hockey free weekend, their NHL predictions and all of last weekend's action in NIHL 1 North.

There's also news to report happening literally as recording happens, not all of it hockey related!

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Carol and Jono once again join Craig to look at a great on-ice weekend for Billingham Stars with two wins from two.

We look at results & tables from the NIHL North 1, shoutout Joe Scutts, talk about a hockey-free weekend, we let folk know our NHL teams and Stanley Cup predictions and much more.

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Starcast with added Hull Jets content!

Carol & Jono are back with Craig to talk all things Big Red Machine, this week joined by Andy Daintith and Mike Roddy from the league-leading Hull Jets - Stars' opponents on Saturday.

We also look back on the win over Sheffield and the next home game against Solihull Barons.

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Just one game for the gang to talk about, this Stars' first loss of the season as they go down in Solihull.

We talk about the game as well as the post-game chippy.  We look at the results around the NIHL North 1, another big weekend at both ends of the table.  And we look ahead to Star's return to home action on Sunday with the visit of Sheffield Scimitars.

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A six point weekend for the Billingham Stars with two wins and 17 goals scored - plenty for Carol, Jono and Craig to talk about as well as this coming weekend's trip to a 'wounded' Solihull Barons.

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The gang are back to review the home opener v Blackburn and look ahead to the first league double header of the season coming up - Deeside at the Forum and Widnes on the road.

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Episode 3 of Starcast and Carol dials in from abroad to join Craig & Jono to look back at pre-season, more signing news, the best Grigors brother and looking ahead to Hawks visit on Sunday!

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Craig Simpson is once again joined by Carol Hunter and Jono Langstaff to look at the last month in Stars-land, with news of signings and departures as well as fixtures, tickets and more.

Oh and there might be a special guest appearance too.

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Carol Hunter, Jono Langstaff and Craig Simpson bring you the first episode of Billingham Stars' new podcast.  A summer catchup looking back at 23/24 then reviewing signings to date, announcing another addition to Stars' 24/25 roster and discussing the league changes for this coming season.

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