Not likely, and there’s a very sensible explanation for that. “We can’t go out together at night,” Pickhaver (HG) tells Inside Sport. “As soon as we get together, I’ll immediately ask him: what do you think about this? And then off we go, basically just doing the show.

“In fact, that was an early lesson learnt; not to spend too much time together in social situations because we’d wear the show out.”

Pickhaver and Doyle are currently working their magic on a show with the intimidating title The Sporting Probe, which had aired on Triple M on Saturday mornings, but in 2018 will be putting listeners through their paces on the Ms on Sundays instead, between 10am and midday.

It’s not to say they’re banned from hanging out or anything. And anyway, they have a tactic for whenever they do find themselves locked in conversation off the field, as it were. “Often we have topics of conversation which we’re never going to use in the program, so that’s how we communicate socially,” says Pickhaver.

“A classic at the moment is the numerous issues the government has on its plate. Enormous fun to us, and safe because we don’t have a platform to use it.”

Inside Sport interviews Greig Pickhaver, aka HG Nelson, in its February 2018 edition.

Among the absolute plethora of their other material over the years has been This Sporting Life television off-shoot Club Buggery (1990s), and who will ever forget The Dream, a round-up show which aired on television after each day’s play during the Sydney 2000 Olympics and the Athens Games in 2004.

Pickhaver and John Doyle first met eons ago when they were both working for a television show for SBS, a kids' program. “We were playing the adults,” recalls Pickhaver. “There was a lot of hanging around. I’d already had some of the ideas we have going on now, but in another form. I thought: John would be a really interesting person to, if ever circumstances allowed, get together with and do something. As luck would have it, a little bit later circumstances did.

“To be quite honest, when we started, Triple J had no interest in sport. I’d been mucking around with these ideas with Triple R, a Melbourne station. I thought: Triple J might let us go till the end of the year, and early next year they’ll lose interest in us and we’ll have to find something else to do. Little did I know that 25 or 30 years later we’d still be doin’ it.

“That’s the real shock when you look back; that somehow we’ve always been able to find a new or different or changing audience.”

Don’t miss the four-page interview with Greig Pickhaver in the February 2018 edition of Inside Sport, on sale now.