Troillprat

Troillprat is a Norwegian-language podcast made by Rosenborg supporters for Rosenborg supporters. The format is simple and has clearly not changed much in years. A short jingle, a date, an episode number, then straight into whatever the club has just done. Wins get enjoyed. A 3-0 at Haugesund after an international break is treated as a genuine relief, worth savouring. Losses get processed rather than raged about, with one of them noting after a home defeat to Vaalerenga that the sourness is milder than last time. The football talk is unusually granular for a fan show. Conversations linger on the mechanics of a single goal, the timing of a run into the box, the value of a player willing to deliver with his weaker foot, what it means tactically when a second creator on the right stops opponents loading their defence onto one side. There is patience for the slow arguments too, like why a forward without goals starts looking less dangerous the longer the drought runs. Refereeing is a standing preoccupation, up to and including a night on Lerkendal where the officiating seemed to change character between halves. So is club governance. One episode is built entirely around the coming annual meeting, and the VAR discussion turns into something more principled: who pays for it, what it means for a league to be financially entangled with a broadcaster, and whether football is supposed to be fair at all. The cast shifts. Some weeks it is a full table with a guest, other weeks a stripped-down edition with two people because the regulars are unavailable. Oeyvind appears often. Erik turns up having watched neither of the matches under discussion and cheerfully says so. That candour is part of the appeal. Nobody is performing expertise. The show is closing on eleven years and has passed episode 270, with live recordings, a Twitch and Facebook presence, and the accumulated in-jokes of a group that has been meeting weekly for a very long time. Every episode ends the same way: a countdown, a shouted cheer for Rosenborg, and then a frank assessment of how well the shout went. Sometimes it is the best in ages. Sometimes it is a step backwards. Either way, they will try again next week.