Speaker 1: Welcome to the latest edition of the West Tigers podcast,
Speaker 1: anaelw edition. We're up the episode fourteen. I'm joined once
Speaker 1: again by Kelly And despite us being a little ad
Speaker 1: hoc in our episodes over the past two seasons, Kelly,
Speaker 1: we've made it back for a show up to number fourteen.
Speaker 1: But we've made it back for a show before the
Speaker 1: start of the NRLW season. That's pretty good for us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is fourteen. That's pretty exciting that we've got
Speaker 2: this far.
Speaker 3: And I'm looking forward to a longer season this year
Speaker 3: with more consistent podcasts since we have more teams to
Speaker 3: talk about and more games to talk about.
Speaker 1: Do you think we'll actually manage to get our stuff
Speaker 1: together that we can get on every week.
Speaker 3: Well, we've just got to there's no excuses anymore, Gary,
Speaker 3: we just gotta lock it in.
Speaker 1: So it's been a disappointing first two seasons of the
Speaker 1: West Tigers on her old W side. We've picked up
Speaker 1: the wooden spoon both years, but there's been a lot
Speaker 1: of changes over the off season, a lot of players
Speaker 1: moving on and a lot of players coming into the club.
Speaker 1: Do you want to give us a little bit of
Speaker 1: a highlight of some of the players that moved on
Speaker 1: that you were disappointed to see leave the club.
Speaker 3: Kelly, Yeah, I think probably the first one that I
Speaker 3: was probably the most disappointed.
Speaker 2: To see leave was Nevada Nevada George.
Speaker 3: I thought towards the end of the back season, the
Speaker 3: end of last season, she was really starting to you know,
Speaker 3: hit those lines well. She was playing really well in
Speaker 3: that thirteen role, and then yeah, unfortunately.
Speaker 2: We lost her. Also, Pauline.
Speaker 3: We can't really go by and not say that we're
Speaker 3: disappointed about losing Bo because she was such an integral.
Speaker 2: Part of our West Tigers NRLW side from day one
Speaker 2: back in the Harvey Norman's Harvey Norman.
Speaker 3: Day's the Curtain Twins who almost felt like they were
Speaker 3: rusted on to the West Tigers logo. So I think
Speaker 3: as West Tigers supporters, it was really difficult to see.
Speaker 2: A lot of those players being moved on with I.
Speaker 3: Guess the biggest disappointment was the lack of communication from
Speaker 3: the club around a number of them moving on and
Speaker 3: just seeing posts pop up from opposition teams who were
Speaker 3: announcing that they'd been signed.
Speaker 2: As you said though, too, Wooden Spoon.
Speaker 3: So it's you know, it's hard to keep a team
Speaker 3: together that has had, you know, such has struggled so
Speaker 3: much over to consecutive seasons. So I guess we just
Speaker 3: have to wait and see now what flow and effect
Speaker 3: that massive sort of shuffle has made.
Speaker 1: The longest part of the off season, Like, we had
Speaker 1: a lot of players leaving but not much coming in.
Speaker 1: And I remember having a conversation with you back a
Speaker 1: couple of months ago, and we're thinking, like, how are
Speaker 1: we going to field a side? But over the last
Speaker 1: couple of months, there's been a lot of players brought
Speaker 1: in the West Tigers club, some with a lot of experience,
Speaker 1: some with international experience, some with state of origin experience,
Speaker 1: and some inexperienced from young players coming in as well.
Speaker 1: Do you want to tell us about a couple of
Speaker 1: those players that have come into the club over the
Speaker 1: last couple of months to add.
Speaker 4: To our squad for season twenty twenty five, Kelly, Yes, So,
Speaker 4: looking at the list today on the website, which still
Speaker 4: actually includes Natasha, who was another one that's a massive loss,
Speaker 4: but it doesn't include Jessica, who is a.
Speaker 2: New addition to the forward pack.
Speaker 3: We have eleven new players that are in our top
Speaker 3: twenty four and four new development players, which you know,
Speaker 3: eleven out of twenty four is a fifty turnover.
Speaker 2: That is huge, very much so when you look at
Speaker 2: the side.
Speaker 3: However, when I was sort of looking at the players
Speaker 3: earlier today, I was actually quite interested to note that
Speaker 3: they majority of them are sort of in their mid
Speaker 3: twenties and upwards. So there are, as you said, a
Speaker 3: few young girls that are sort of being bought through
Speaker 3: the pathways. But we're looking at players like Emily Bass,
Speaker 3: who is a veteran outside back.
Speaker 2: She played for Queensland in game three in Origin.
Speaker 3: She's played NRLW for the Titans, so she's an extremely
Speaker 3: experienced NLW player we have, so just looking at my
Speaker 3: list of other people, Tarena to MARKI if I apologize
Speaker 3: in advance if I pronounce any of these names wrong,
Speaker 3: but she.
Speaker 2: Is a twenty eight year old.
Speaker 3: She's actually a rugby sevens player from New Zealand who
Speaker 3: actually won the silver medal at the Olympics a couple
Speaker 3: of years ago with the New Zealand team. And when
Speaker 3: you read through the team announcement of when she was signed,
Speaker 3: Naddy had massive raps on her and the level of elite.
Speaker 2: Professionalism that she's brought to the club, which is really exciting.
Speaker 3: We've got Jade Fanua, who she's not super she's not
Speaker 3: exactly old, but she's got fourteen games of NROLW experience
Speaker 3: from the Eels, so she's also played for Tonga, so
Speaker 3: she'll be she actually scored, I think it was her. Nope,
Speaker 3: it wasn't her. Sorry, I'm just all over the shop
Speaker 3: at the moment. I'll get there in a second. So she,
Speaker 3: as I said, has played fourteen games for the Eels
Speaker 3: and represented Tonga in the Pacific Championship.
Speaker 1: I think she was an important addition with that loss
Speaker 1: of Nevada George as well, playing in the prop and
Speaker 1: lock positions. I think that's a crucial appointment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very much so.
Speaker 3: And then Amelia who was actually signed at the end
Speaker 3: of twenty twenty three to play last year, but she
Speaker 3: missed out on the whole season due to the birth
Speaker 3: of her first child in September.
Speaker 2: She's been in the squad this year to play.
Speaker 3: She also has ten games of NLW experience behind her
Speaker 3: as well. So those slightly older girls are going to
Speaker 3: come into the existing team of those girls that have
Speaker 3: stayed and really helped to bolster the experience and the
Speaker 3: understanding of what it means to be an NLW player.
Speaker 3: Then the clubs sort of sprinkled in a few young,
Speaker 3: sort of early twenties players. So Caitlin Turnbull, she has
Speaker 3: played os tag for Australia. She also played in the
Speaker 3: Ossie Sevens in union. Then she made the switch to
Speaker 3: league and she was playing in the Harvey Norman Women's Premiership.
Speaker 3: For went in Magpies last year and scored. I think
Speaker 3: she's scored thirteen tries in eleven games that she played
Speaker 3: last year, so she sounds like she knows how to
Speaker 3: find there the try line.
Speaker 2: And faith Minira twenty one has a union background. That
Speaker 2: was another thing.
Speaker 3: I was noticing quite a lot of girls who have
Speaker 3: made the switch union to league, but we've seen that
Speaker 3: in the past be really quite fruitful, so hopefully we're
Speaker 3: seeing the same here. So Faiths played quite a lot
Speaker 3: as she actually played in the Super Women's season with
Speaker 3: the Queensland Reds and then joined moved down to Sydney
Speaker 3: to join the girls for the pre season.
Speaker 1: And place primarily as a half Kelly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she does, but I think in the trial she
Speaker 3: played quite a bit on the wing, but she was
Speaker 3: also she's also capable of playing in the harves. Then
Speaker 3: we've got Lily Rogan who's a twenty one year old center.
Speaker 3: She actually captained the premiership winning Steelers Harvy Women's premiership
Speaker 3: side last year and she had her NLW debut for
Speaker 3: the Roosters in twenty twenty three, so she sounds like.
Speaker 2: She's a pretty awesome pickup as well.
Speaker 3: Then there's five or six other girls that we haven't
Speaker 3: mentioned who have different ranges of experience, either in the
Speaker 3: NRLW in Harvey Norman, Lisa Fiola or Tasha gail Or
Speaker 3: have experienced from other sports that have made the transition
Speaker 3: into rugby league.
Speaker 1: And I think that turnover of the squad was needed,
Speaker 1: especially I think Brett Comorley has to be under a
Speaker 1: fair bit of pressure this season heading into into the
Speaker 1: season to start to get results for the team, so
Speaker 1: I can understand why he is he has brought in
Speaker 1: so many new players.
Speaker 3: Kelly, we also did have quite a injury disrupted season
Speaker 3: last year. We lost Kezy for a big chunk, We
Speaker 3: lost Harmony, we lost we lost Tile, we lost quite
Speaker 3: a few, quite a few players of Lissana we didn't
Speaker 3: have Lisana for a large chunk.
Speaker 2: Of the year the year either.
Speaker 3: So this season was quite disrupted. And interestingly, all of
Speaker 3: those players who missed quite a lot of this season
Speaker 3: were retained for this year, so I guess not he
Speaker 3: sees something in them that he wants to keep on
Speaker 3: the squad and keep working towards. As we know, Kezi
Speaker 3: Salah Christian of all extended with the club, which is
Speaker 3: massive news. So hopefully we're starting to now see the
Speaker 3: opportunity for the NRLW side to build when we're coming
Speaker 3: into a competition that's got the likes of the Roosters
Speaker 3: and the Broncos, who just seem to have endless amounts
Speaker 3: of money and able to not only sign good players,
Speaker 3: but then retain those good players year on year. So
Speaker 3: it's making it that little bit trickier to keep and
Speaker 3: attract those those high quality players.
Speaker 1: And you mentioned the three real re signings over the
Speaker 1: off season. For me, the biggest one out of those
Speaker 1: is Kezi Apps, who was pretty much signed on for
Speaker 1: the rest of her life. Yeah, shall be at the
Speaker 1: club forever. We're lucky enough to have her at an
Speaker 1: ambush event down at the BU earlier in the year,
Speaker 1: and she is such an impressive individual, such an impressive
Speaker 1: impressive leader, Kelly.
Speaker 2: She's so inspirational.
Speaker 3: And I just hope that you know, listening to her
Speaker 3: behind the Raw podcast last year that she did as well.
Speaker 3: I just hope that young girls that have any kind
Speaker 3: of interest in potentially pursuing a career in rugby league
Speaker 3: take the opportunity to listen to Kesey's story and hear that.
Speaker 3: You know, she didn't get into the sport until she
Speaker 3: was almost in well, I think she was in her
Speaker 3: early twenties, which to have a lucrative career at such
Speaker 3: a high level starting at such a late age because
Speaker 3: she didn't have the opportunity. Young girls that are interested
Speaker 3: in playing rugby league now have the opportunity to get
Speaker 3: in and continue all the way through and build up
Speaker 3: from that really base level into an NLW career.
Speaker 1: And you said Christian and Salad Tokatuki also so extended.
Speaker 1: What do you think they continue to add to our squad.
Speaker 2: The big thing with the two of them is they
Speaker 2: just like last year, going to well almost every game
Speaker 2: and getting to know the girls off the field as well.
Speaker 3: And just seeing how they wore their heart on their
Speaker 3: sleeves every single time they took that field. I remember
Speaker 3: being like hard when the girls lost yet another game
Speaker 3: and Christian was just devastated.
Speaker 2: She was crying.
Speaker 3: She was so upset because she just wanted the rest
Speaker 3: of the team to experience that the joy of winning,
Speaker 3: and they hadn't had that opportunity to do so. When
Speaker 3: it came to the Dragon's game back at Leichhart, when
Speaker 3: it was absolutely bucketing down and the girls did get
Speaker 3: the win, it was so exciting to be able to
Speaker 3: share that with the girls and see the way that
Speaker 3: the older girls like Salah and Christian bought the rest
Speaker 3: of the team together. And then again, obviously, you know,
Speaker 3: getting that with over the Sharks in the last game
Speaker 3: of the season, who then went on to play in
Speaker 3: the Grand Final, was pretty awesome as well.
Speaker 1: Now we've got to fairly well rounded squad. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: who do you think are the key players in our
Speaker 1: squad heading into the season twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: I think it's going to be interesting to see who
Speaker 3: feels that fullback role now that Bo's gone. I think
Speaker 3: from looking at the team liston and looking at the
Speaker 3: new players that we're bought in there's a few different
Speaker 3: players who could potentially feel that role. I think Jataya,
Speaker 3: I think that's how you pronounce her name. She's come
Speaker 3: to us from the Cowboys and the Titans, and she
Speaker 3: played fullback in the trial, I believe, and you know
Speaker 3: she she had quite a good game from my understanding,
Speaker 3: and so that's a really big role that's, you know,
Speaker 3: obviously extremely important in the game of rugby league. Montana Clifford,
Speaker 3: I'm really excited to see Montana play again next year.
Speaker 3: She was a late entry into the team as a
Speaker 3: replacement for injury, and she just blew us away with
Speaker 3: her running, with her tackling. She is just a great
Speaker 3: all round player. So I'm actually really excited to see
Speaker 3: see the way that she plays. And from all reports,
Speaker 3: if her friends on socials are anything to go by,
Speaker 3: Caitlin Turnbull sounds like she is an absolute gun who
Speaker 3: just as I said earlier, those thirteen tries in eleven
Speaker 3: games in the Harvey Norman Women's Premiership. Hopefully she can
Speaker 3: get just as many for us in the NLW this year.
Speaker 1: YEA, for me, it's really easy to go past Kezzy,
Speaker 1: Sarah and Christian. We know what we're going to get
Speaker 1: from those guys, and they are all the three of
Speaker 1: them world class players, and so I'm going to ignore
Speaker 1: them for a little bit once again. Like most seasons,
Speaker 1: I can't like to see Lassana Latu play. She is
Speaker 1: probably my favorite and r LW player across the league.
Speaker 1: She's just so exciting to watch, great footwork, can bust
Speaker 1: through a tackle, and I'm hoping that she can cement
Speaker 1: a position in the halves this year. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: whether they're going to go with her in round one,
Speaker 1: but I'd like to say her name in round one.
Speaker 3: Well, she did play the trial and from all reports
Speaker 3: she played the full first half and then they did
Speaker 3: quite a bit of shuffling in the second. So I
Speaker 3: think Noddy would be you know, if she's fit and firing.
Speaker 3: I think Noddy would be a bit crazy not to
Speaker 3: name her in the halves for that first game and
Speaker 3: really get that Harves combination, because the question is who
Speaker 3: does she partner with?
Speaker 2: Who is going to wear the six?
Speaker 3: You would assume maybe it'll be Evie who's got that
Speaker 3: experience in that jersey, who played under nineteens origin, but
Speaker 3: is she may be too young to be put into
Speaker 3: that responsibility.
Speaker 2: Full time to start the season, so I think I.
Speaker 3: Think Noddy would be crazy to not put Lisagna in
Speaker 3: the seven. But then the question is then who partners
Speaker 3: her in the six?
Speaker 1: Now, as you said, West Tiger's played a troll on
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon at Atlard Oval against the Saint George Dragons.
Speaker 1: Neither you or I were able to get out to
Speaker 1: the game. Sadly, my daughter dragged me away to some
Speaker 1: basketball thing, so I'd planned to go but didn't get
Speaker 1: out to the game. Can you give us a little
Speaker 1: bit of a summary of what happened with that game?
Speaker 1: We went down twelve to four to the Dragons.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah.
Speaker 3: Without being there, it's often a little bit tricky, especially
Speaker 3: with trial matches as well, to get a really full
Speaker 3: understanding of how the game unfolded. But a few of
Speaker 3: the others from the ambush were there and said that
Speaker 3: the first half was a little bit clunky. The side
Speaker 3: let in two tries, which is a little bit of
Speaker 3: a concern, but also not a huge concern being such
Speaker 3: a new team getting used to each other, building combinations
Speaker 3: and those kinds of things. So the side was scoreless
Speaker 3: in the first half. They were playing a team that
Speaker 3: has some extremely good players, so the players that did
Speaker 3: score for the Dragons included the likes of teag and
Speaker 3: Berry and Racy McGregor, who we know are very very
Speaker 3: well capped n RELW players. So the girls managed to
Speaker 3: get over the line in the second half through I
Speaker 3: wish I could remember who it was, but one of
Speaker 3: the forwards that came off the bench in the seconds
Speaker 3: that definitely sounds right well close.
Speaker 1: I don't know the pronunciation, but I think that's what
Speaker 1: it was.
Speaker 3: We promised by the end of this season we'll have them,
Speaker 3: will have them down pat But obviously having cares you
Speaker 3: play a massive chunk of the game after missing so
Speaker 3: much of the NLW season last year. Even though she
Speaker 3: played Origin, it's not the same as running out with
Speaker 3: your team. I guess Origin was a good warm up
Speaker 3: for her for the preseason and the NLW season.
Speaker 2: A few things to sort of take away that we
Speaker 2: might need to work on.
Speaker 3: Obviously that that cohesion in defense, so letting in three
Speaker 3: tries is not awesome. But again with combinations the players
Speaker 3: getting to know each other, hopefully that's something that Knotty
Speaker 3: and the team can be working on. Over the next fortnight.
Speaker 3: There seemed to be a little bit lacking in attack
Speaker 3: in the second half. Potentially that's again because of those
Speaker 3: different halves pairings listen and mostly played the first half,
Speaker 3: so taking off those experienced players in the second half
Speaker 3: always has a bit of that impact on a trial
Speaker 3: and discipline, as we have heard tonight, So that.
Speaker 1: Doesn't sound like a West Tigers team lacking.
Speaker 3: DISI no, so we've heard tonight Earlier today, the judiciary
Speaker 3: has found Selma guilty of a grade to careless tackle
Speaker 3: and she's going to miss the first two rounds of
Speaker 3: the ERLW season. So when it's only a nine round season,
Speaker 3: that is a huge amount.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a massive panety eleven?
Speaker 2: Is it eleven? Yeah? Either way, it is huge.
Speaker 1: And it's really disappointing for me because I thought she
Speaker 1: was coming on really well last year and I would
Speaker 1: have thought she was probably the leading candidate to get
Speaker 1: some time at hooker this season, So it's really disappointing
Speaker 1: to see her missing those first two games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I definitely agree that I would have had Selma
Speaker 3: in my number nine to start round one.
Speaker 2: But now you've sort of now got.
Speaker 3: To go into those new players to start looking for
Speaker 3: a replacement.
Speaker 1: Especially as we've lost a little bit of depth in
Speaker 1: that position with any Prior going across to the Bulldogs
Speaker 1: and Emily Curtain heading over to the Warriors, So we
Speaker 1: don't really have that backup that we would have had
Speaker 1: had last season. Well, Salma was probably the backup last season,
Speaker 1: but we don't really have that depth in the position
Speaker 1: of experienced players.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. And just while we're on, a shout
Speaker 2: out to Ebony for.
Speaker 3: Scoring the Bulldog's first try in their trial, so that's
Speaker 3: something that they can't take away from her that she
Speaker 3: scored their first try.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm very disappointed to see her move on. A
Speaker 1: little pocket rocket who I really enjoyed watching play played
Speaker 1: well above her weight because her weight wasn't very much
Speaker 1: but plenty of heart.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so definitely would have been taller than this season.
Speaker 1: So we'll have a little bit of a look at
Speaker 1: the season I had and our expectations what we think
Speaker 1: we're going to see throughout the twenty twenty five season.
Speaker 1: As I said it start of the show, sadly, we
Speaker 1: started our time in the rolw with two wooden spoons,
Speaker 1: which is a bit disappointing considering we came off that
Speaker 1: Harvey Norman premiership when and and I think it would
Speaker 1: be really great for the club if we could have
Speaker 1: a successful season in the own rolw.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure would it would.
Speaker 3: I think seeing how much the men's team has improved
Speaker 3: but still falling that little bit short, this club just
Speaker 3: create is just needs that.
Speaker 2: Little ray of hope to keep everybody going.
Speaker 1: What are you expecting to see this season, Kelly do
Speaker 1: Are you expecting to see improvement? Are you expecting to
Speaker 1: see his struggle? What are your thoughts around what fans
Speaker 1: can can expect to see moving forward?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess that's a really hard question to answer.
Speaker 3: With such a massive change to the structure of the team,
Speaker 3: it is really hard to know what the one to
Speaker 3: seventeen is going to look like for round one, and
Speaker 3: you know, we don't have an easy opposition around one.
Speaker 3: Of course, we go straight in to play the team
Speaker 3: that's probably the premiership favorites after their off season signings
Speaker 3: in the Brisbane Broncos at in Brisbane as well, just
Speaker 3: to you know, make it that little bit easier. All
Speaker 3: I'm hoping is sort of the same as what we've
Speaker 3: said about the men's team is just that that improvement,
Speaker 3: that never say die attitude, that they're in every game,
Speaker 3: that you know, they don't drop their heads if things
Speaker 3: don't go their way, that they you know, don't let
Speaker 3: those you know, errors and silly penalties lead to the
Speaker 3: opposition scoring, because we've seen that in both the men's
Speaker 3: and the women's game over the last couple of years
Speaker 3: that we've had some games that are so extremely close
Speaker 3: that those little decisions and those little brain fades potentially
Speaker 3: is why the game was lost in the end.
Speaker 1: And being such a short season, injuries and depth play
Speaker 1: such an important part because if you lose a key
Speaker 1: player for three weeks, that there's a thirtyear season gone already.
Speaker 1: So it's really important that we have a little bit
Speaker 1: of luck. I'm hoping with a little bit of luck,
Speaker 1: we can start to push out of the bottom of
Speaker 1: their NMLW and hopefully up towards a semi final birth.
Speaker 3: That would be amazing, And with another two teams in,
Speaker 3: it means you get a couple of extra rounds to play,
Speaker 3: so it's a little bit longer than last year.
Speaker 2: So the club has to look at.
Speaker 3: Managing load and things like that, especially the fact that
Speaker 3: the girls aren't full time players like the men's team,
Speaker 3: so they've got a factor in a whole other range
Speaker 3: of different elements of the girls' lives into this season.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm just hoping we don't get to the
Speaker 3: second last round of the year with no wins like
Speaker 3: we did last year. And you know, winning the last
Speaker 3: two games of the year was great, but it would
Speaker 3: be nice to win a couple early on in the season.
Speaker 1: And having a look across our squad. We get to
Speaker 1: the end of the season, We've had a successful season,
Speaker 1: We've made the semmis. Who do you think is going
Speaker 1: to win the West Tigers and r LW Player of
Speaker 1: the Year?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Good question. The Shane Brooks in jured. Of course I
Speaker 3: would have lubbed Brooks to have won it. She was
Speaker 3: so closed last year. Oh, either Caitlin or Claudia for
Speaker 3: top tri scorers. So the two, the two speedy outside
Speaker 3: backs the player of the year. My actually, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Montana. Montana Clifford. She's in that
Speaker 3: back row spot who has such a big impact and
Speaker 3: if she can work a really good combination with the haves,
Speaker 3: just like we've seen Kezy do as well. Potentially, you know,
Speaker 3: she could be up there with the triscoring, but she's
Speaker 3: also a weapon when it comes to defense, so she's
Speaker 3: sort of got that the whole game, the whole package
Speaker 3: wrapped up.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm gonna go with Montana.
Speaker 1: And a player I meant to mention earlier who is
Speaker 1: out for the season. I was really disappointed when I
Speaker 1: heard that she was out for the season, and then
Speaker 1: I heard the reason why. Raquel Horn's going to be
Speaker 1: a massive out for us this season.
Speaker 3: Huge loss, a huge loss, but a massive congratulations to Riquilla.
Speaker 3: She's expecting twins twenty five weeks at the moment and
Speaker 3: still putting ninety five percent, like probably even ninety nine
Speaker 3: percent of the population to shame with her her workout.
Speaker 3: She still turns up to training, she still does the
Speaker 3: workouts with the girls. They posted a video of her
Speaker 3: running the Bronco Run a couple of weeks ago. Obviously
Speaker 3: not quite as fast as she was in the past,
Speaker 3: but she's out there.
Speaker 2: She's geeing them up.
Speaker 3: And I did notice there was some photos from her
Speaker 3: at the trial before the game having a word in
Speaker 3: not his ears, So maybe she might take on a
Speaker 3: bit of an assistant coaching role this year while she's
Speaker 3: not able to play.
Speaker 1: So we're just over a week from the start of
Speaker 1: the season. Do you have the details about the first round?
Speaker 1: I haven't looked yet, so you're actually telling me. Do
Speaker 1: you know what it is when we play?
Speaker 2: Yep, So we play on the Saturday.
Speaker 3: So we play Saturday, the fifth of July, so twelve
Speaker 3: forty five kickoff and the game is being played up
Speaker 3: in Brisbane at totally Workway Stadium. So we are playing
Speaker 3: the Broncos who, as we know, were already a stacked
Speaker 3: team and then in the off season they went and
Speaker 3: bought forty seven times Daly m winner in Tamiica Upton.
Speaker 3: That's what it feels like anyway. So yeah, it's to
Speaker 3: be an interesting one. They played their trial just before
Speaker 3: the men's game on Sunday. They played against the PNG
Speaker 3: Orchards I think it's the so the women's team from
Speaker 3: Papua New Guinea and they ran in forty eight points
Speaker 3: to none.
Speaker 1: Wow, So we've got a game to look forward to.
Speaker 2: We do, yes, we definitely do it.
Speaker 3: It's going to be you know, baptismal fire as they say,
Speaker 3: you know, don't push your.
Speaker 2: Foot around, just get straight in and.
Speaker 1: Well, who knows, you might as well measure yourself against
Speaker 1: one of the best at the start of the season.
Speaker 2: That's exactly correct.
Speaker 1: Now, once again, we'll be running our Player of the
Speaker 1: Year award. Check it out out on Facebook. Check out
Speaker 1: it will be on the Ambush page, will be on
Speaker 1: the West Tigers podcast page. Check that out. Participate in
Speaker 1: that vote for your favorite players or your best players
Speaker 1: each weekend, and we will do a little reward throughout
Speaker 1: this and then we'll add it all together and see
Speaker 1: it takes out the Player of the Year award seasons
Speaker 1: about to start. Thank you for joining me, Kelly. I
Speaker 1: promise next time I'll have a little bit more engagement
Speaker 1: when I actually have a game analyze, and I won't
Speaker 1: have to rely on you as much for all this
Speaker 1: information about all these wonderful new players we have.
Speaker 2: No it's exciting.
Speaker 3: I had a lot of fun researching the new players
Speaker 3: and finding out about them all, and I'm excited to
Speaker 3: get out there and watch them all take the field
Speaker 3: in our Tiger's jersey.
Speaker 1: And you went to the effort of research and I
Speaker 1: just chet gpeat it, gpted it.
Speaker 3: I normally would have, but I wasn't sure how good
Speaker 3: GPT would be, so I did an old school yeah as.
Speaker 1: I said, thank you for joining me, Kelly, thank you
Speaker 1: for listening everyone, and we'll get back to you with
Speaker 1: another episode after that Round one game. Hopefully we'll be
Speaker 1: a little bit more consistent this year and try and
Speaker 1: build a little bit of a listener Bason and not
Speaker 1: release a plot every once every story he wakes to go,
Speaker 1: that's right, Thanks guys.
Speaker 2: Thanks.
Speaker 1: And then and