Speaker 1: Went back Baby season three and I said it would
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Speaker 2: Please Creakings Regular Podcast, Season three, Episode twenty one. That's
Speaker 2: episode one one two. Welcome back, guys, George, welcome back. Hey,
Speaker 2: we're back, We're back. And the apologies for missing the
Speaker 2: last couple of weeks. Guys, we've been sick. Everyone's been sick.
Speaker 2: Tenure is still unwell, so she was joining us tonight.
Speaker 2: But what have we got tonight, George.
Speaker 1: We've got the Greek of mortal come back.
Speaker 4: I'm bad he's back back to the country. I was
Speaker 4: allowed back in there. Sorry, you got Andy. He was
Speaker 4: a very good replacement and fantastic.
Speaker 2: Good time the otherwise you and I would have had
Speaker 2: to border for everyone.
Speaker 1: Good to be back.
Speaker 2: Great to have you back. And I know you're listening.
Speaker 2: We know you're listening. It's the best wishes. Happy, feel
Speaker 2: better soon, Yeah, hope you feel better. Should be to
Speaker 2: be back next week. I won't be here next week
Speaker 2: because I'll be in the state. But you threaking with
Speaker 2: the ball. But yeah, George's round twenty.
Speaker 1: Four in the can in the can, nice and tide
Speaker 1: packed in the can.
Speaker 2: And I'm sorry, George, but I'm turning my back on
Speaker 2: you this week. I'm going back to Artie.
Speaker 1: He's the man. Good thing of the week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the good thing of the week in a royal standards,
Speaker 4: it's got to be the Indigenous round. Yeah, that was
Speaker 4: pretty freaking the nice jerseys, all those nice designs on
Speaker 4: the jerseys and representing all the Aboriginals Indigenous people. It
Speaker 4: was fantastic. So that's the good thing of the week.
Speaker 1: Good stuff. Can I point it was all great that
Speaker 1: that would have been one one, but the one that
Speaker 1: Auckland the war is what they did when when Yes
Speaker 1: came I was so good. Spectacular. Yeah, it was a spectacular.
Speaker 1: All of them were, all of them were actually, but
Speaker 1: that was that was really done well. So I agree,
Speaker 1: I agree. Yeah, And the next question Artie, because I'm
Speaker 1: not going to do it, next question for the Nicole.
Speaker 4: Nicole, come on, man started with controversy on Friday.
Speaker 2: What's in the bin. There's gotta be plenty of time,
Speaker 2: you know what. I'm going to keep it pretty simple
Speaker 2: and I'm going to go in with this. These penalties
Speaker 2: for for blocking blocking. Right, we saw Harry Grant. He
Speaker 2: looked like a professional wrestler, you know, August the wind
Speaker 2: took him, took him airborne, and it was funny how
Speaker 2: Nathan Cleary, as you would in the press conference, was
Speaker 2: obviously frustrated about it, and he called him out, but
Speaker 2: then within an hour they were real circuling, circulating everywhere
Speaker 2: of Nathan Cleary doing it himself earlier this year. So
Speaker 2: the bottom line is we can say what we want,
Speaker 2: but they're playing to the rules. They're playing to the rules,
Speaker 2: and and they know they can get away with it,
Speaker 2: so they are and it's it's horrible to watch. And
Speaker 2: as soccer fans, we've always we've always grown up been told,
Speaker 2: oh soccer, they dive. This is even more pathetic. Well
Speaker 2: it's getting it's getting that bad.
Speaker 4: But soccer's got simulation now where they get fine. People
Speaker 4: are actually faking and get yellow cards now.
Speaker 2: Because rugby league years exactly.
Speaker 4: So we've got to wait twenty five minutes for them
Speaker 4: to wake up.
Speaker 1: And we're definitely always say that we're definitely in the
Speaker 1: dark ages in my mind, and you know what, I
Speaker 1: know they're playing through. Also, I don't I don't blame
Speaker 1: each individual player because if it's there, you take it.
Speaker 1: They've been trying for me.
Speaker 2: For me, it's up to the referee to say no,
Speaker 2: just apply common sense. Like but I forget who the
Speaker 2: Penneth player was, was it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he didn't move, not really a little bit.
Speaker 4: He didn't.
Speaker 2: He didn't move out of his way to take someone
Speaker 2: out exactly like seriously, seriously.
Speaker 1: You know what Grant had many many lines could run
Speaker 1: even it ran straight out. Ye, yeah, it was his
Speaker 1: handed here. It wasn't you know what the referee and
Speaker 1: the bunker or the referee basically had no choice by
Speaker 1: the law. It's right, is it right? No, it's wrong.
Speaker 1: It makes me sick, but that's what that's what the
Speaker 1: League of done to us now.
Speaker 4: But the same referee was refereeing, was in the bunker
Speaker 4: the night after at six o'clock against the Dragon, and
Speaker 4: we had the same thing happened to King Toogia where
Speaker 4: the referee, that same referee said play on. So how
Speaker 4: do you explain that one? How do you explain the
Speaker 4: same referee giving a penalty for that one in the
Speaker 4: twenty four months hours later not giving the.
Speaker 2: Probably got it monished. It's just somewhere on that Saturday
Speaker 2: or whatever it was, you know, whatever it was.
Speaker 1: You know, you know what I do want to know
Speaker 1: is I want to know what the NRL wants the
Speaker 1: game to look like, because they're doing a really shitty
Speaker 1: job at the moment.
Speaker 2: It's just it's the only sport that I at least
Speaker 2: I'm aware of that every week we're not just talking
Speaker 2: about the sport. We're always talking about controversies. We're always
Speaker 2: talking about rule changes, ruling like. It's the only sport
Speaker 2: where I've ever heard about rule interpretations, like a rules
Speaker 2: of I don't give a shit how you interpret it,
Speaker 2: a rules of rule, you know. And there's just so much,
Speaker 2: so much of this kind of excess noise and baggage
Speaker 2: around what used to be such a pure game. To
Speaker 2: watch the purity of the game just it's it's disappearing.
Speaker 2: It's hard to watch, and you and and well we've
Speaker 2: all known this for ages. But you watch the game
Speaker 2: and you can see, you can almost it's almost like
Speaker 2: having a crystal ball. You can see there's a there's
Speaker 2: a set restart coming, or you can see a team's
Speaker 2: been defending their line for three or four consecutive sets,
Speaker 2: they do it successfully, they get the ball back, they're
Speaker 2: getting a penalty coming out coming. You just know it's
Speaker 2: going to happen.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
Speaker 2: And that's what makes it, that's what's frustrating about it.
Speaker 2: It's like I want to. I want to enjoy the
Speaker 2: game and not talk about anything but game.
Speaker 4: After I mentioned if the Grand Finals decided like that,
Speaker 4: like Harry Green into it will be that would be just.
Speaker 4: It will be sad, it will be terrible, it will
Speaker 4: be terrible. It will be a terrible way that season.
Speaker 4: I've always said I think it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: It's gonna happen. I've always said that in the Grand
Speaker 1: Final or in the big games, to be final a
Speaker 1: referee decision when you know cause the the result.
Speaker 2: She Well, we have one thing we have always seen
Speaker 2: I'm sure you can both agree on, is that the
Speaker 2: Origin and finals are referee differently. Yes, the way should
Speaker 2: the game should be referred. But yeah, I'd like to
Speaker 2: add one more thing because we have missed two weeks, right,
Speaker 2: so I'd like to add one more thing into that
Speaker 2: as well, and that is the trainers, because we didn't
Speaker 2: get a chance to talk about the trainers. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: some of the crap that we've seen, and and the
Speaker 2: footage that they showed of the Penrith trainer in the
Speaker 2: in the attacking line directing the players to the center
Speaker 2: of the field of where to take the field goal
Speaker 2: from it's like having a coach on the field. He's pointing.
Speaker 2: They're playing the ball on the edge and he's pointing
Speaker 2: and screaming at him over here, you know, throw it
Speaker 2: over here. You've got to take the kick from here,
Speaker 2: which they did. Yeah, under six. Why are they on
Speaker 2: the field? Get him off the field. The trainer should
Speaker 2: only run on if someone's hurt. Look, you know what
Speaker 2: they're on there from the kickoff. George Langa plays more
Speaker 2: minutes now than he did when he was playing.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. There is no need for them to be on.
Speaker 1: You know what, at the end of the year, they
Speaker 1: got to look at the video and make some sort
Speaker 1: of rule, makes some sort of rule for them to
Speaker 1: come on. Just get them on. The doctors, which I
Speaker 1: think are the orange shirts.
Speaker 4: Now they've got all different colored shirts.
Speaker 1: So the doctors, well, you know, they can come on
Speaker 1: because they need to come on, because I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm pretty sure that I direct play.
Speaker 1: But those other trainers with the bottles of water, well
Speaker 1: they playing at the.
Speaker 2: Back of the wall, and like the Penrith trainer, they
Speaker 2: were complaining that he got he got five or six
Speaker 2: weeks suspension on fifty Grande right, it was his sixth indiscretion.
Speaker 2: Well not him, but it was pen sixth indiscretion, whether
Speaker 2: it's spraying the balls with a water bottle or doing that,
Speaker 2: or get them off the field, just get them off
Speaker 2: whenever used to have them on the field.
Speaker 1: You know, this is this is this has been this
Speaker 1: has been something for a decade or more now. But
Speaker 1: now it's come to Roos.
Speaker 2: And they're right there from the kick offf they're in
Speaker 2: the line.
Speaker 1: Make no mistake. And I'm pretty confident because I know
Speaker 1: penriv everything's rehearsed, so things like that are not. It
Speaker 1: just happened. There's no way in the world that's the technician.
Speaker 1: There's no way in the world something the Pindiff does
Speaker 1: just happens. So, yes, it's wrong, frustrating for me. It's
Speaker 1: just wrong. It's wrong. And I hope they do something.
Speaker 1: I hope they do something good the NRL because that's
Speaker 1: another that's another wrong I think. And you know what
Speaker 1: what I really hate, you know, when you put bombs
Speaker 1: up now for the wingers, or you can't contest the
Speaker 1: ball in the air.
Speaker 2: Why yeah, why how are you supposed to defend your line?
Speaker 1: Well, you can't contest because you might hurt them up
Speaker 1: in yet when when they're up and if you're trying
Speaker 1: to catch it too, you can't contest.
Speaker 2: I'm with you, I'm with you. How do you defend
Speaker 2: the bomb?
Speaker 1: You can't. That's why they let the bomb get caught
Speaker 1: that comes down, they tackle Now, it's too risky.
Speaker 2: It's crazy. That's score scoring se many because it's.
Speaker 1: Going so many tries. It's crazy. And again I'm going
Speaker 1: to ask the question, what do they want the game
Speaker 1: to look like? I want to know. I like a
Speaker 1: few of Alandi to tell me what the game should
Speaker 1: look like, because I know why it does it. It
Speaker 1: doesn't because you want to sell sell the game to
Speaker 1: I don't know, to an Amazon or something.
Speaker 2: But it does all commercial.
Speaker 1: It doesn't make it right. It doesn't make it right
Speaker 1: until until the ratings go down. And I've got this
Speaker 1: funny felling. They're not going to go down until the
Speaker 1: rains go down. That's the only way he's going to
Speaker 1: learn a lesson. But as he says in his article,
Speaker 1: well we're right because all the key indicators are up.
Speaker 4: Y yeah, but are they up because the batter Women's
Speaker 4: Rugby League and they're including their stats in there as well,
Speaker 4: so I reckon they're sort of fudging the ratings to
Speaker 4: look more than the age what it is, that's got
Speaker 4: to be a lot of.
Speaker 1: Can I give you an analogy just what that's participation,
Speaker 1: but in terms of ratings, bums on seat that's the miles.
Speaker 2: Can I give you an analogy, if that's all right?
Speaker 2: Which just popped into my head and it's one that
Speaker 2: none of us will be happy about. Okay, but those
Speaker 2: of you can't see us because we don't have Tanya tonight,
Speaker 2: we've got Wrestling Mania three playing in the background, and
Speaker 2: it's very similar to what happened with wrestling. We are
Speaker 2: the rugby league purists, right. Wrestling used to be full
Speaker 2: of gas making beer drinking crowd. We love watching old
Speaker 2: school wrestling, and then it's made it more commercial. He
Speaker 2: made it more character driven, he made it more and
Speaker 2: the wrestling purists didn't like it. That's what's happening to
Speaker 2: rugby league and us being the rugby league purists, we're
Speaker 2: not liking it. That's that's that's the that's the comparison
Speaker 2: that I see, right. So, so the game that I
Speaker 2: grew up loving on them, I'm never going to see
Speaker 2: that again. No, no, and accept that and the fact
Speaker 2: that the fact that the ratings and all that stuff
Speaker 2: is up. Like, I get all that, but I'm also
Speaker 2: watching the game that only slightly resembles the game I
Speaker 2: grew up loving.
Speaker 1: I understand all that. But rugby league is a game
Speaker 1: of of of little micro contest contests. So the player
Speaker 1: the boy used to be a contest. Okay, let's say
Speaker 1: that's not a contest anymore.
Speaker 2: They ruled it out Benny Alias was the best at
Speaker 2: breaking the ball.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But what I'm saying is that they've taken every
Speaker 1: contest out of the game, and they've taken what's the game, They've.
Speaker 2: Taken the brutality out of it, right, And people argue
Speaker 2: against that point. I get that, But the shoulder charge,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? Like, I mean, it's it's
Speaker 2: by the way, going back to nineteen o eight, it's
Speaker 2: always been illegal to hit someone in the chops, absolutely right,
Speaker 2: that's never changed. You're all we're seeing now is we're
Speaker 2: seeing and we're actually seeing the referees when they're explaining
Speaker 2: to the captains. Yeah, he did hit the ball carrying arm,
Speaker 2: but it slid up and hit him in the head.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he hit the ball.
Speaker 2: Carrying arm like you know what I mean, He didn't
Speaker 2: hit him high, so it's accidental. It shouldn't be penalized
Speaker 2: or sinbin. You know, if it's a clean headshot, different
Speaker 2: story obviously.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, of course I can't. That's my analogy.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: It's like it's like when Kiss made Dynasty. You know,
Speaker 2: the hardcore fans will put off, we don't want to
Speaker 2: hear I was made for loving you. This is what's
Speaker 2: happening with rugby league. It's being sold to the broader
Speaker 2: audience now, right. It's it's more commercialized than it's ever been, right,
Speaker 2: and it's it's and it's appeal is on a wider
Speaker 2: scale to a broader audience, hence the higher ratings and
Speaker 2: all that we also have. Yeah, it's a stupid it's
Speaker 2: a stupid comment to make because we have so many
Speaker 2: more platforms now that didn't exist twenty thirty years ago.
Speaker 2: So to say, you know, that's like saying, oh, you know,
Speaker 2: justin Bieber, you know he sold out a concert in
Speaker 2: ten minutes. Well, there was no internet in the eighties.
Speaker 2: People had to line up on physically. But it's hardly
Speaker 2: a record, and that's it's non comparable, you know. So
Speaker 2: I don't think it's going to change anytime soon. We're
Speaker 2: either got to get used to it or get off it,
Speaker 2: which I certainly don't want to do. But it's hard.
Speaker 2: It's becoming harder and harder to watch. And I know
Speaker 2: that because I'm I'm not as keen to watch as
Speaker 2: many games as I used to. Like I used to
Speaker 2: love having the games on all weekend and now I'm not.
Speaker 4: Well, I don't know about unique, but I'll work in
Speaker 4: the corporate. Yeah there right now the world. And I
Speaker 4: remember in the early days, you're walking to the office
Speaker 4: and everyone's talking about rugby league. Everyone knew about rugby league.
Speaker 4: I'll go into the office. Now the amount of people
Speaker 4: that watch rugby league, there's not as many as it
Speaker 4: used to be. It's like some of them are AFL.
Speaker 4: I don't watch rugle league. I watch AFL.
Speaker 1: Some of them are intered in Nepil only.
Speaker 4: Like I don't understand how rugby league is growing when
Speaker 4: I'm talking about rugby league to less people each year, Like.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm corporate. I'm corporate myself, and people talk
Speaker 2: more about soccer than footage.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, and I will exactly.
Speaker 2: Like if I think about my team, there's a whole
Speaker 2: bunch of VPR fans. Yeah, none of them watched rugby league.
Speaker 4: I struggled to talk to anyone.
Speaker 2: Pod which is funny because yeah, but it's yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't know, it's it's like I said, for the for
Speaker 2: the purist, yeah, it's changed. And the purist is guys
Speaker 2: like us.
Speaker 1: Maybe we have done with dinosaurs. I don't know, Maybe
Speaker 1: I am a dinosaurs. I I like the technical part
Speaker 1: of the game now, but it it drives me crazy
Speaker 1: and I get sick in the stomach when I see,
Speaker 1: as Nick said, the pil coming out of dirty ball,
Speaker 1: or the sixth agains, or you can't contest a kicker.
Speaker 1: A kicker has to kick a ball, you can't put
Speaker 1: any pressure on him. Or when you kick a ball
Speaker 1: to the side, to the side or to the corner
Speaker 1: for the winger, or you can't contest in the dangerous I'm.
Speaker 4: Sure, and you know what, it's some finding as well.
Speaker 4: I'm finding that it's degrading the way the people in
Speaker 4: the high profile, the media and everyone else in the
Speaker 4: rugby league world treating the fans like we're led to
Speaker 4: believe the bullshit that comes out of Build's mouth, like
Speaker 4: he actually thinks that we believe him and the stuff
Speaker 4: that they and you can tell that a lot of
Speaker 4: the referee decisions when they came back and talk to him,
Speaker 4: they're trying to convince us that was the right call
Speaker 4: when we all know what's you know what I mean,
Speaker 4: they actually think that we're that dumb that we actually
Speaker 4: believe them. They're telling us, thank you for saying that,
Speaker 4: but it's true, like they treat us like we're so due. Man,
Speaker 4: it's I'm just getting over, especially with Golden. Now now
Speaker 4: everything all says it's just ridiculous. Now it's just a lie.
Speaker 4: And the referees, everything that comes out of them is
Speaker 4: just lies, Like and Valanda has got them handcuffed where
Speaker 4: you can't say nothing bad. Now you've got to say
Speaker 4: something good, but you can say they want to, but
Speaker 4: they can't. So what's the point of reporting on a
Speaker 4: game when you can't say the truth?
Speaker 2: Andrew raised that point when he was when he was
Speaker 2: here as well, and like in what sport can you
Speaker 2: not talk about like refereeing mistakes or performance or you know,
Speaker 2: don't start me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't star me on that. Like I said, the
Speaker 1: I mean everything part about the game, from from salaries
Speaker 1: to you can't talk about refs, on and on on
Speaker 1: we go. It's it's you know again, it's it feels.
Speaker 1: It feels like Nazi Sydney. It does.
Speaker 2: I mean, We've had this conversation before. I'm a bit
Speaker 2: funny about the salaries. I don't know if this salary
Speaker 2: should be disclosed, but I think the salary as a
Speaker 2: whole from the club should be disclosed. Maybe not necessarily
Speaker 2: the individual players.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what, look the the salaries of each
Speaker 1: individual player. Like I said, we're the only code that's
Speaker 1: for enough. I don't really care about that. I don't
Speaker 1: really care about personally, but if we if we heard
Speaker 1: some podcasts, I've switched off some pods off for a while,
Speaker 1: but now I'm back into it. Listen to Kenty's pod.
Speaker 1: I listened to Ricky Stewart talk about the salary cap
Speaker 1: is ne salary's necessary? As as Ricky said, if you
Speaker 1: if you don't know if he does it, he says
Speaker 1: he doesn't do it. But you say, if you don't cheat,
Speaker 1: you don't compete. That's what he came out of his mouth.
Speaker 4: So isn't that sado?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean you've got you've got all this governance
Speaker 2: around the salary cap, but then we have these third
Speaker 2: party deals that we don't know anything about and apparently
Speaker 2: the clubs aren't involved here. I mean that that opens
Speaker 2: the back door anything.
Speaker 1: Again, I'm not a fan of caps because he doesn't
Speaker 1: just does all because because the season on dolls and
Speaker 1: a lot of the I just picked just for it
Speaker 1: doesn't have to you know. I mean, I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: that half of Canterby players I'm not on the money
Speaker 1: the day two you see your money.
Speaker 4: They've still got Sonny, but Williams money they go.
Speaker 2: Because Gavin knocked back a quarter of a million dollars
Speaker 2: a year, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think we're dumb, Like honestly, they honestly
Speaker 4: believe the public is dumb that we believe it.
Speaker 1: Sometimes when I when I hear you say good, I say.
Speaker 4: All them, all them, Yeah, a lot of clubs, all
Speaker 4: the media for the storm. How many good players they
Speaker 4: lost the last five six years? They won a Grand
Speaker 4: Final five six years ago, and compare how many good
Speaker 4: players Melbourne have lost to Penrith.
Speaker 1: Yeah, nobody ever lost any mamely.
Speaker 4: One big player that Melbourne have lost Melbourne in five
Speaker 4: six years a big name player.
Speaker 2: Paramatta is an interesting one. In the last twelve months
Speaker 2: they've released like eleven or twelve. The latest one is
Speaker 2: Bailey Simonson. Now yeah, right, but Sean Lanez just retired.
Speaker 2: Must have so much money. Madison's been pushed out on
Speaker 2: like there's so many players gone. So they've got so
Speaker 2: much money to spend, but there's no one to spend it.
Speaker 4: Mister George the same, You've got nothing, there's no one
Speaker 4: to spend it on.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you, both both of your clubs
Speaker 1: underneath stacked. You have no idea how stack both of you.
Speaker 1: We'll see, maned, we'll see. Let's turn.
Speaker 4: It doesn't mean anything, George, because happened to Gavin.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know what, there's someone Galvin's one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but if if anyone wants to just grit them,
Speaker 4: don't worry mental health.
Speaker 2: Everyone forgets Galvin's Paramatta Jr. Before we went to the Tigers. Yeah,
Speaker 2: let's let's turn the heat notch up a little bit.
Speaker 2: Moving in a controversy corner, and this is one that
Speaker 2: touches the nerves the pain. Hears has turned his back
Speaker 2: on Australia. He's committed to Samoha. So for me personally,
Speaker 2: as far as I'm concerned, him, along with Tye Crichton,
Speaker 2: Loui and Lenny should never be picked for New South
Speaker 2: Wales again my opinion, I agree with you one hundred percent.
Speaker 4: To me, it was a trial to pick the Australian team.
Speaker 4: Now these guys aren't going to play for Australia, so
Speaker 4: play in origin used to be used to be used
Speaker 4: to be not anymore, it's not anymore. So then just
Speaker 4: make an all star game. Just make it an All
Speaker 4: star forget New South Wales goings. They just make no
Speaker 4: agree American No, I agree, I agree.
Speaker 1: I don't know about an all Star game because I
Speaker 1: don't want to see English players here.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I just don't understand how someone who wears
Speaker 2: a jersey the country he was born and raised in,
Speaker 2: can decided to play for another country. I don't care
Speaker 2: what the heritage is, you're born and raised here. It
Speaker 2: shouldn't be an option. It's because going back to what
Speaker 2: we were speaking about five minutes ago, they want the
Speaker 2: game to be stronger international. It's the commercialization of the
Speaker 2: game so the purist like myself, doesn't like it. That's
Speaker 2: what it boils down to. I don't like it, but
Speaker 2: that's it's the way of the new world. I just
Speaker 2: I don't personally like it.
Speaker 4: In terms of the international game, it is growing it
Speaker 4: and making those teams stronger, which I like. I love that,
Speaker 4: to be honest. But Origin is Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2: I barely even watch it. At the end of the season,
Speaker 2: I'm done with it.
Speaker 4: Can I tell you something. Watch Tongue of a Samoa.
Speaker 4: It's probably one of the best games you'll see. There's
Speaker 4: so much passion in that. That's old school Origin. They
Speaker 4: actually hate each other and they go hard. I'd rather
Speaker 4: watch that than Origin, honestly. Just put tomorrow Tongue of
Speaker 4: a Samoa and you'll see a better quality game than
Speaker 4: the Origin.
Speaker 1: You know what, you can most most pundits and commentators
Speaker 1: go with you. Guys use it the popular use the
Speaker 1: popular vote. But I actually want to see And I
Speaker 1: take your point in the core you're spent and you
Speaker 1: don't watch any and you know, sometimes it's halfway to
Speaker 1: get up in the mornings to watch ashes as well.
Speaker 1: But I want the international game to grow because if
Speaker 1: he doesn't grow. That really is the show piece which
Speaker 1: you're going to in years to come, in ten, fifteen,
Speaker 1: twenty years, the international game is going to grow the game,
Speaker 1: not Origin. Origin is a very domestic game, which is great.
Speaker 1: Origin has always been the show piece.
Speaker 2: I would argue that players international, I would I would
Speaker 2: argue that players.
Speaker 1: Would rather wear the Origin jersey than international jersey. Will
Speaker 1: They probably might do feel that, But I'm talking about
Speaker 1: world worldwide. And I mean when someone made the Grand
Speaker 1: the final of the last World Cup, or everybody was
Speaker 1: talking about it, Yeah, you had the Rock talking about it.
Speaker 1: I mean what I'm trying to say is that.
Speaker 2: That's that's going to make Rock is from Hawaii.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well it's not a small background. Once again, how
Speaker 1: far back do we want to you know what I mean? Yeah,
Speaker 1: in terms of in terms of his parents or something.
Speaker 1: But someone someone with his parents is Simon or tonguean whatever,
Speaker 1: like you knows what rugby league is. No idea, no
Speaker 1: no idea. But that's not the issue. I still maintain
Speaker 1: that the international game will grow the game more in
Speaker 1: the long term than.
Speaker 2: My concern is that we're talking about growing a game
Speaker 2: that is flailing right here at home.
Speaker 1: Argue.
Speaker 2: We need to fix We need to fix the foundation
Speaker 2: game first. Right, We're growing so fast that it's everything
Speaker 2: suffering for it, everything suffering for it. And this is
Speaker 2: a divisive topic. Yeah again, Now I'm going to say this.
Speaker 2: I agree with you guys. The Landis says that he's
Speaker 2: where wrong, and he's right. The game has never been
Speaker 2: any better ever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I disagree. I disagree to. I find it hard
Speaker 1: to watch, mind you mind you last what it was outstanding,
Speaker 1: even even from Harry Grant's academy, was a great game.
Speaker 1: The game was the game was unbelievable. But yeah, I agree,
Speaker 1: what a play to win it? We will talk about
Speaker 1: that later. Yeah, yeah, that was great. I'm so smart.
Speaker 1: I don't get hung up on that. What's the story
Speaker 1: of DC? Is he retiring? Is he going to the roosters?
Speaker 1: What's happenings? Always going to? Okay, I'm I'm going to
Speaker 1: all the commentators. You know what. The media pissed me off.
Speaker 1: He's a player who got low board by manly, make
Speaker 1: no mistake, four hundred K for fifty ok and he's
Speaker 1: a million dollar players. That's the issues has been getting
Speaker 1: a million dollars and we all know that DC loves
Speaker 1: his dollars and cents. Okay, so you go, well, I'm
Speaker 1: going to go all sweet. So he signed for somewhere else. Now,
Speaker 1: how that distable number number one? How that's stabilized, Manly,
Speaker 1: I've got no because players move around all the time.
Speaker 1: So if that's the case, well I suggest that you
Speaker 1: look at management. You're gonna look at the coach. If
Speaker 1: one player can stabilize, stablize the whole team, number that's
Speaker 1: number one, number two. He loves his dollars. He'll be
Speaker 1: with Robbo next year with a seven on his back.
Speaker 2: Do they still want him?
Speaker 1: It doesn't really matter.
Speaker 2: His last month has been terrible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he's around the toxic, toxic environment at the
Speaker 1: moment you put him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with that too. I saw that, and
Speaker 2: I actually agree. I think you put him in a
Speaker 2: different I agree with that. I agree with that. I
Speaker 2: think he'd be good for him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, put this way at right this moment, how wonderful
Speaker 1: Sam Sam Walker is. Okay, he's not going to get
Speaker 1: your in. I guess what will at this moment Manly decline?
Speaker 1: This year they started so well and the professor Seabolt,
Speaker 1: is he going to be there in November. I think
Speaker 1: he will be.
Speaker 4: He will be Apparently he's been given assurance. That's always
Speaker 4: that's always a bad omen.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 2: I think like you know, and it's easy to you've
Speaker 2: got to look deep into it, right. So the DC
Speaker 2: thing has been a distraction the whole season because he
Speaker 2: hasn't he said I'm leaving, but he hasn't said what
Speaker 2: he's doing. It would have been so much better if
Speaker 2: he came out up front and said, Okay, I'm going
Speaker 2: to join the roosters or whatever, and then let's just
Speaker 2: get on with this season. And they've probably been playing better,
Speaker 2: but they've had they've had some quite serious injuries as well,
Speaker 2: which have made a lot. I've got no problem with
Speaker 2: him being you know, I don't. I don't see why
Speaker 2: he should be sacked or anything. But you know, there's
Speaker 2: old boys pushing for his sack and all that, and
Speaker 2: for me, the old boys just shut up and stay
Speaker 2: where you are. You were great once upon a time,
Speaker 2: you're not anymore. You're not part of the current setup.
Speaker 2: Let's just shut up, stay out of it. I hate
Speaker 2: hearing about that.
Speaker 1: In terms of anything Sea Bold, in terms of his
Speaker 1: casionability there is no doubt, no doubt in my mind
Speaker 1: that the can coach. The coach I.
Speaker 2: Saw you just needs an interpreter.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I saw on the front page of the Fairfax
Speaker 1: Fairfax Press h some someone or buzz interviewed some mainly players,
Speaker 1: and I said, we just don't understand him. If that's
Speaker 1: true or not true, I don't know it's but it's
Speaker 1: it's a common it's a common sort of thread through
Speaker 1: his life. Maybe he needs a certain a certain type
Speaker 1: of player to coach. But if they actually listen to him,
Speaker 1: if they actually listen to him, actually actually learn a lot,
Speaker 1: because the Professon knows more more than most people, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean thinking though, So he's a good coach, but
Speaker 1: I just don't think they listened to him personally. And
Speaker 1: and the other thing is that that team mainly the two,
Speaker 1: the two Travoyviches. Jake, unfortunately, how much I love him,
Speaker 1: is holding onto a first grade position because he's probably
Speaker 1: putting on the market. No one will buy him.
Speaker 2: Well. One of the greatest captain's performances in last year's
Speaker 2: Origin what do you play sixteen minutes or something?
Speaker 1: Oh, this year he's been Yeah, beside the concussions, he's
Speaker 1: been ordinary and Turbo let's say he's not the player
Speaker 1: who he used to be.
Speaker 2: I'll make the same argument I always have, and I've
Speaker 2: been heavily criticized for this. Turbot has had one great year.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's all. That's all I've seen. You know, I've
Speaker 2: seen one great year where he won the Daddy Am
Speaker 2: and bit and pieces here and there, and ever since
Speaker 2: then he's been pretty ordinary, to be honest. You know,
Speaker 2: he'll do one great thing a month, and oh there'll
Speaker 2: be headlines everything. There's yet there's lesson name players playing
Speaker 2: better week in week out, all right at the moment,
Speaker 2: or let's not forget he gott he got moved out
Speaker 2: of fullback a month ago as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, because of our young Hoppa wirdy. But look,
Speaker 1: all I can talk about is his last performance. And
Speaker 1: on the weekend he was Yeah, they all were, they
Speaker 1: all were. He was so Sea Bottle will be there,
Speaker 1: DC will be, DC will be We're in red, white
Speaker 1: and blue.
Speaker 4: And when they when he first came out on Channel
Speaker 4: was it football? When he came out, they asked him
Speaker 4: what his next movies and he said, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Way till the end of the year becaus I might
Speaker 4: even retire, So maybe he might even retire. It might
Speaker 4: This might be just media talk because you know.
Speaker 2: It apparently apparently the deal has been done, but it
Speaker 2: could be. It could be a letter of intent. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it might not be a contract to the roosters might
Speaker 2: still be able to back you out of it.
Speaker 1: Which all registered, so they can walk away the registered.
Speaker 2: It's not registered exactly. So but I tend to agree
Speaker 2: with you, but I think different environment, completely different situation.
Speaker 1: Will you wrap him around with that young rooster's pack? God, oh, godfather,
Speaker 1: that what I saw on the weekend those last two weeks,
Speaker 1: that rooster pack at that age, and they played long
Speaker 1: minutes because they so young.
Speaker 2: This is a guy who two months ago it was
Speaker 2: captaining Queensland Origin side and then he wasn't good enough.
Speaker 4: I'd take them Saint George for one year. I reckon
Speaker 4: Saint George would need a guy like him. We're gonna
Speaker 4: have the old brigade cooking him anyway, the oldest spine
Speaker 4: in the world. But someone someone like DC's needed. St George.
Speaker 4: I don't know why they're not going in.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you now. If he was at Saint George,
Speaker 1: he's one. You've lost six games exactly under under under eight. Well,
Speaker 1: he would, he would, he would bring you home, he
Speaker 1: would bring to okay, half those games, three of them,
Speaker 1: he'll he'll go manage you through because I mean Flano
Speaker 1: is Flannery. I mean he's like, yeah, he's a first grader,
Speaker 1: but I don't know if he's a first grade half back. No, okay,
Speaker 1: but he's a first grade. Yeah. So in other words,
Speaker 1: us will be in the eighth at the moment, so
Speaker 1: he's worth everything's be good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, someone like that, or even the Titans or maybe
Speaker 4: someone on a team like that, I think, but not
Speaker 4: the russ I don't think you suit at the Roosters record. Well,
Speaker 4: they've got two good halves at the moment, Walker and
Speaker 4: and they're playing excellent.
Speaker 1: Mate.
Speaker 4: I don't think Robber will want to disrupt.
Speaker 2: I think we've got on this week too.
Speaker 1: He's smart. Look said he will hang around for a year.
Speaker 1: But that's all D's signed for. So he said he'll
Speaker 1: hang around for a year. So when you got that assurance.
Speaker 4: But didn't Russ by the Chad for that reason, and
Speaker 4: he hasn't even played a came.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he was terrible Chad. They tried play three.
Speaker 4: Games, so what would that go through?
Speaker 1: That again? You know what I mean, he's not and
Speaker 1: still he's want to camp.
Speaker 2: He's want to camp, just like I mean, d you
Speaker 2: want to comp when? Yeah, but he's been always been
Speaker 2: the top. I know, I know it's origins, but it's
Speaker 2: been almost fifteen years since you want to camp? So
Speaker 2: how much value does that carry today? You know what
Speaker 2: I mean? Fourteen years? Was a good game manager? No,
Speaker 2: I know, I know, I know, But.
Speaker 4: In those fifteen years that mainly been in the finals
Speaker 4: for quite a few of those.
Speaker 2: You know, if you look back over the last thirty
Speaker 2: forty years, mainly really missed the final. I reckon they've
Speaker 2: been the most consistent club overall. They really missed the final.
Speaker 1: I think they're the only we've had a wooden spoon. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: They're a very successful club. And this won't last this,
Speaker 1: this this is not making the won't last too long.
Speaker 1: But in terms of d C, yeah, I didn't know.
Speaker 1: In terms of terms of d C. And and undersell him,
Speaker 1: I think he's got he's got one more horang.
Speaker 2: Now I'm just I'm just asking is he is he
Speaker 2: actually going I think I think you will.
Speaker 4: Okay, I think do you think this midget that we're
Speaker 4: watching on top, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Wat King Kong Bundy. That's from one of them. At
Speaker 1: the end of the matter, I didn't even know that midget.
Speaker 1: Would a couple of watching this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Ting Kong Bundy splashes.
Speaker 1: It's really freaking out. Jeez, here we go. What's this guy?
Speaker 1: That's a little.
Speaker 2: That's Lord Littlebrook and the Haiti kid right there?
Speaker 1: God, what is this? This is a tag team? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a triple team. Triple tag team.
Speaker 2: King Kong Bundy with two midges and they with two
Speaker 2: Tell me who's commentating? Jesse the body of that joined them,
Speaker 2: and in the middle of there's mister baseball bob Ka Bobka.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I also, yeah, but that's wait to see the end
Speaker 2: of the match. King Kong Bunde drops the splash on him. Anyway, Okay,
Speaker 2: let's let's go into the round. That was round twenty four.
Speaker 2: What a pearl. One of the games of the season.
Speaker 2: Don't know if you caught it. Panthers Melbourne. Wow, we
Speaker 2: talked about the blocking and I didn't think I didn't
Speaker 2: know that clearly it was going to kick it anyway.
Speaker 2: But what a way to win the match by Harry Grant.
Speaker 2: Yeah everyone, he took a risk, but he fulled everyone.
Speaker 2: But what a game, George.
Speaker 1: I loved it. This was as as I would say,
Speaker 1: a Rumpy special.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Penriff came on straight away from the first set,
Speaker 1: Nicola got Storm into a grind, and then not only
Speaker 1: until they cycled and got them into the grind and
Speaker 1: in twenty minutes and I'm thinking, good luck getting out
Speaker 1: of this pendrift. No way, sorry the storm, no when
Speaker 1: the water are going to get out of it. But
Speaker 1: you know what they hung on. They kept on hanging in,
Speaker 1: hanging in, you know, as I go, but it's it's
Speaker 1: it's it's the system again. Yeah, the storm kept on
Speaker 1: hanging in, hanging in, hanging in, hanging in. And half
Speaker 1: time came and was the squat half time? I think
Speaker 1: you remember, I can't remember.
Speaker 4: Oh get anyway, I'll get a yeah.
Speaker 1: Anyway, they hung in. When when they came out second half,
Speaker 1: Nicola straight away pen Off gone back into the grind.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, isn't no way this I've seen this before
Speaker 1: in the ground four two four pounds. They scored that
Speaker 1: last try yeah, which kept the which kept them in
Speaker 1: the game about fifteen minutes, twenty minutes in the in
Speaker 1: the game. Somehow, with a few drop balls and from
Speaker 1: really smart kicking, the Storm got out of the grind
Speaker 1: and started making started making the game a bit of
Speaker 1: a shootout. I'm thinking, oh, penoff, but I get them
Speaker 1: back into the back pen better get them back into
Speaker 1: the grind, because they've had Melbourne's going to go, going
Speaker 1: to go for gold and Storm Maine storm they did
Speaker 1: today the field gold, which should have been a field
Speaker 1: gold but wasn't. And that try you're talking about from
Speaker 1: Harry Grant was brilliant.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, so so what happens is everyone sprinted out
Speaker 2: the kicker and he just fulled everyone.
Speaker 1: The funny thing is he picked the ball up, he
Speaker 1: just saw the two markers split and go okay, and
Speaker 1: he just went. He went. He just went straight through
Speaker 1: and and scored a try. The the Coats tries the bombing.
Speaker 1: If Coach isn't is if Coach isn't one of the
Speaker 1: best wingers in the game at the moment, far who is?
Speaker 1: And and and you know what I don't I don't
Speaker 1: like I don't like monster at fullback but he did
Speaker 1: a job.
Speaker 4: That was a brave move to move him and put
Speaker 4: Peasant at seven. That's that's that's something that Monster I
Speaker 4: think wanted play well. He played well, but Monsters one
Speaker 4: who said I'll play fullback put the yank kid in
Speaker 4: the you know.
Speaker 1: What, Peasant game managers all he had to do game
Speaker 1: manage and looked wish he isn't a game manager, but
Speaker 1: jeeg run where where these forwards? If you watch it, Katoa,
Speaker 1: Blaw and Lioda. These Melbourne forwards very very underrated, but
Speaker 1: get a job done. I'll finished this off. Melbourne one
Speaker 1: should have won. It's not often I enjoyed it because
Speaker 1: Melbourne got out of the grind and I haven't seen
Speaker 1: that too much from from Penriff, but yeah what Penriff.
Speaker 1: I still got this little heart beat. They've got the
Speaker 1: harp half but you never know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well if they win that game, it's ten in
Speaker 4: a row. So they hit nine in a row before
Speaker 4: this game, so that's an epic, epic effort. Fantastic effort
Speaker 4: by them to come from where they were exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I really enjoyed the game. It's it's a rompy
Speaker 1: special like guard he would say, I just loved it.
Speaker 1: The to and fro. You didn't know what was happening.
Speaker 1: When when? When? When they got out of the grind.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there, I'm thinking, my poor wife. Okay, they're
Speaker 1: out of the grind. How they get out of the grind?
Speaker 1: They're gonna get backd No, they're not baking. It was
Speaker 1: so funny. But I loved it. I loved it. I
Speaker 1: want more and I can't wait. I can't wait the
Speaker 1: Friday because it's going to be on again.
Speaker 4: High quality game. The completion rates were high. What about Melbourne?
Speaker 4: They scored five tries to three at the end, so
Speaker 4: they scored more, just couldn't kick him in the goals.
Speaker 4: So because of that it got to a closer game.
Speaker 4: They could have finished it earlier, but yeah, because of
Speaker 4: their kicking.
Speaker 2: Did you have a chance this three two ones or not?
Speaker 2: Not for this week?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: I didn't ask, but only who the player of the
Speaker 4: match was, And he said, mister fix Kelvin Klein was
Speaker 4: matter the match. He kicks the game perfectly. But no,
Speaker 4: he liked Coats. He thought Coats caught his eye and
Speaker 4: Cleary was special because no, yeah, he didn't have his
Speaker 4: partner in crime and yeah, to play a game like
Speaker 4: that under those circumstances, he did well.
Speaker 2: He's been he's been huge in these last nine wins.
Speaker 1: You know what, what do I hear about the pen
Speaker 1: A lot of the players are playing with injury, I mean,
Speaker 1: playing with no hamstring and and PCL and the guy
Speaker 1: keeps on doing these things, which is a big effort.
Speaker 1: But and apparently Edwards is again his hamstrings a pretty
Speaker 1: robbery as well. And I said, I said it about
Speaker 1: about a month ago, a bit more than a month
Speaker 1: to go, that Ivan is doing a wonderful job with
Speaker 1: these kids. How he's developed him so quickly. Again, I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not thinking this year much will happen. I'll
Speaker 1: make the semis and then my win just where.
Speaker 2: They are considering where there were two months ago.
Speaker 1: And that's and that's indicating. Yeah, so he is, as
Speaker 1: Addie would say, he's caching his socks off honestly, And
Speaker 1: like I said, I want more. I can't wait.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the war is fourteen points to ten out of
Speaker 2: the Dragon's pretty late.
Speaker 4: You know what, My team lost that game, but I
Speaker 4: couldn't be prouder because they lost two of their best
Speaker 4: forwards in Debellin and Stuart early in the game with
Speaker 4: head clashes that was sickening, so they both came off
Speaker 4: and then few we lost hem Sale, So they lost
Speaker 4: three big forwards and only had a hooker at the
Speaker 4: on the bench, and then the eighteenth man was Sloan,
Speaker 4: who's a winner. They had to ask a lot of
Speaker 4: work rate to come out of those big forwards in
Speaker 4: Klemor and Gooler, like they don't usually play long minutes,
Speaker 4: but they put in and to keep the Warriors who
Speaker 4: were coming forth at bay for most of the game.
Speaker 4: It took you know, the last ten minutes or twenty
Speaker 4: minutes on the gast. Yeah, playing under those conditions, it
Speaker 4: took the Warriors all that time to finally get over him.
Speaker 4: So great effort by the Dragons. Warriors a bit not
Speaker 4: very convincing. If that's I don't think they're looking very
Speaker 4: good for the finals. They're going to be cannon fodder.
Speaker 4: I think once it comes to finals.
Speaker 2: Losing their half back was a big body.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was awful. They didn't play well at all.
Speaker 4: They're depleted as well, Like you said, they've lost their
Speaker 4: half back and they've lost a few others. So but
Speaker 4: there's a few scary signs there. For the Warriors. It
Speaker 4: was a good win, but it was an ugly win,
Speaker 4: and against a full strength Dragons. I don't think they
Speaker 4: would have got that win. The only good thing to
Speaker 4: come out of our thought the halves Taverda, Harrison Boyd.
Speaker 4: They looked okay. They were probing through the defense or trying.
Speaker 4: You had to get something, and they got there in
Speaker 4: the end, but with some good little moves. But like
Speaker 4: I said, I think this game spoke more about the
Speaker 4: Dragons and the Warriors, because we've got some good young
Speaker 4: bulls in Helen Gahu and Pacific Tonga who are going
Speaker 4: to be good for next year. And Clamor the old
Speaker 4: man still got the still got the juice, say you
Speaker 4: could still work. But yeah, Warriors scary George, wad you see?
Speaker 1: I often say something I say sometimes the wrong team one, Nicola,
Speaker 1: the wrong team one. This that this week very wrong.
Speaker 1: I didn't see this coming. But when when George got
Speaker 1: depleted the head clash happened and the two back rolls
Speaker 1: came off, that means the rest of the pack of
Speaker 1: the long minutes, I actually thought, still that would I
Speaker 1: still thought, yeah, me too. I still thought win.
Speaker 4: But there was a Harry Grand incident, but the same
Speaker 4: referee said that it was play on.
Speaker 1: Harry Green, mister fix it, can fix it and Adam
Speaker 1: Pumpy love Adam Pumpy. Yeah, if he mistakes it finds. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what. The Warriors, they've got to improve a
Speaker 1: little bit. I don't think they'll make the top four, but.
Speaker 4: If they they'll make the APE, I don't I think
Speaker 4: they might go far after they play that. Honestly, any
Speaker 4: team would have beaten them. It was like it was
Speaker 4: a depleted in George side that they could just get over.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know about being disappointing, but
Speaker 1: they were disappointed. They were disappointing and I think I
Speaker 1: still think George was the better team on the Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know what, sometimes you just got to win
Speaker 1: ugly and Nico.
Speaker 2: Say, sometimes it's better to be lucky than good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they were very lucky, very very do we.
Speaker 4: Ever, no no play to call out Klemma one hundred
Speaker 4: and eighty meters eighty five post contact, thirty eight tackles.
Speaker 4: The goal was a beast on the night, so one
Speaker 4: of his best games in a long time.
Speaker 1: Jackson a few years.
Speaker 4: Actually Jackson Jackson forty was solid as well. He got injured,
Speaker 4: he's gone.
Speaker 1: Is he out? And now he's suspended three weeks? I
Speaker 1: thought he got crusher crush okay, and can I can
Speaker 1: we just the fish?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 1: No, Fish didn't play that well. It was terrible. He
Speaker 1: was a biggie and uh Rick James played well? Rick James, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Rick James play. But honestly, I can't say that anyone played. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know that. I can't say. And you know what
Speaker 1: Sloan and I know I I know what he says.
Speaker 1: I know what he says. It is. But you know
Speaker 1: when he was in the in the in the clear,
Speaker 1: and I know til Biggy would picked him up, but
Speaker 1: I would have just put my back and ran, kick
Speaker 1: and run because still Biggie was was turned something anything.
Speaker 4: He hasn't got it, mate.
Speaker 1: You know what you put him? You put him on
Speaker 1: the on the on a penitive back line and you
Speaker 1: see how good are you? Guys? Yeah? So he won't
Speaker 1: he should go? Is is he going to go? I
Speaker 1: don't know that want.
Speaker 4: I don't want him shopping him around exactly anyway.
Speaker 2: In the second Friday and Night game, the Rooster's put
Speaker 2: a clinic on George thirty two points to the doggies.
Speaker 1: Good, thank you for us, because I've got a lot
Speaker 1: to say about this.
Speaker 2: What has did Galvin's come along? The wheels have fallen
Speaker 2: off a bit.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's let's let's let's go for the bright spots.
Speaker 1: First outstands.
Speaker 4: Has he had a bad game this year? I think
Speaker 4: his best year in such good form. Yeah, it's his
Speaker 4: best year. He should have been in the Origin team.
Speaker 4: I don't know why he wasn't.
Speaker 1: He'll be. He'll be the daim he's he's been in.
Speaker 1: That's right. And this this you know what Rob based
Speaker 1: case socks office as well. This team, this team, this
Speaker 1: forward pack is scary. They're young, they play long minutes,
Speaker 1: they're aggressive, and this team can beat you multiple ways.
Speaker 1: They can. We saw him in the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: They really physical and direct. If you want to shootout,
Speaker 1: they'll shoot out with you. You know what, It's taken
Speaker 1: Robo a while this year because at the start of
Speaker 1: the year I didn't think they'll make the eighth day.
Speaker 1: Are looking sensational. Radley comes on and absolutely teachers the
Speaker 1: opposition a lesson. Billy Smith. You know what, we waited,
Speaker 1: and we waited.
Speaker 4: He gets tintured that that's the problem. But he's a
Speaker 4: good player.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've waited two shoulders to a c LS. But
Speaker 1: you know what, he's repaying Robo all the way. And
Speaker 1: Marky Mark. I'll talk about Markey market at the end,
Speaker 1: but Marky Mark, Wow, how good is he? Sam Mark Mark?
Speaker 1: Call him countess. You know what? Since Sam Walker and
Speaker 1: you don't know, Sam Walker came back about four weeks
Speaker 1: ago and all of a sudden they just clicked in.
Speaker 4: Think about it, George. Last year they had Manu and
Speaker 4: in the centers and they replaced it with Toya and
Speaker 4: Quantas and it's just a good that's mask stroke, honestly,
Speaker 4: taking you replace two gun centers with other gun centers
Speaker 4: that I've never played.
Speaker 1: Before, but they've been has been bumbling and stumbling until
Speaker 1: Sam Walker came back last three to four weeks and
Speaker 1: his short kicking game, he's outstanding. He's not a game manager,
Speaker 1: but he's an attacking his attacking weapon. So so you
Speaker 1: know what, they're going to make the eight, and in
Speaker 1: the eight they're going to be a problem for some teams.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying they're going to make a prelim. All
Speaker 1: going to say is they're going to be a problem.
Speaker 1: You know, let's go let's go to my team. Disappointing,
Speaker 1: extremely extremely disappointing. Let's let's go back for a little
Speaker 1: bit history. We know when you look at the when
Speaker 1: when you look at the list and you look at
Speaker 1: the pack, it's another size pack. It's not a star started,
Speaker 1: Star started pack. So they've got to work really, really hard.
Speaker 1: They've got to do all that. Those one percentage are
Speaker 1: what is the the star start to pack.
Speaker 4: You've got Max King of played Origin, you got Kickout,
Speaker 4: You've got Maney, you got you've got a good site.
Speaker 4: It's a good pack. It's a very very good pack.
Speaker 4: You aren't second or third for nothing.
Speaker 1: Wait, wait a minute. All I can tell you is
Speaker 1: to people problem. All I can tell you is what
Speaker 1: I've seen. Okay, any time or every time that the
Speaker 1: other team has gone physically physical on them, they've they've
Speaker 1: been they've folded roosters. Last week, we all saw it
Speaker 1: when they went to another level. Okay, four of them
Speaker 1: dropped off. They weren't even sighted. They couldn't get they
Speaker 1: couldn't go to that. You know, when I say Pendrith
Speaker 1: got to take you to a dark dee bar alley.
Speaker 1: They couldn't go there. Okay. When the Broncos twice took
Speaker 1: them down to down to the garden path physical okay,
Speaker 1: they were lost, they were gone. Okay, you weren't here.
Speaker 1: We got been a forty or fifty mil by the
Speaker 1: Fins on a cold, wet night because they went direct. Okay,
Speaker 1: so one so you can say anything you want about
Speaker 1: the names, but one result gave me a small the tigers,
Speaker 1: but you guys, they got a bit of revenge. What
Speaker 1: happened in that game therefore was get on top of
Speaker 1: them as well. Well, actually that's a little bit different,
Speaker 1: because they came with energy, they came information, and we
Speaker 1: thought were going for a for a picnic. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: they and they destroyed us and we looked like reserve graders.
Speaker 1: And yes, therefore absolutely rolled us. So you can say
Speaker 1: anything you want, we got names and that or I
Speaker 1: haven't seen it, because they did the one percentas right,
Speaker 1: and because they scramble and Sorealdo's got this interesting defensive
Speaker 1: pattern which I haven't even I've been watching and watching
Speaker 1: and then understand it. Still, that's how complex it is. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: but anytime it's yes, yes, so, but what happens there now,
Speaker 1: What happens now in the next month, when all the
Speaker 1: teams click up, click up, all the big teams click up,
Speaker 1: they can't go. I saw it last year the Semis.
Speaker 1: We saw three or four games this year.
Speaker 2: I would argue that that's what happens when you change
Speaker 2: your halves where you're leading the competition and you tell
Speaker 2: your hooker that he's not welcome there next year.
Speaker 1: Well number one, okay, if they want someone, If they
Speaker 1: want someone.
Speaker 2: I said it at the time, Nickle, it's easy.
Speaker 1: If they want someone to play on tabe Sexton, well
Speaker 1: why don't you play table Sexton, because all they've done
Speaker 1: is gave put Gallvian in running Taby Sexton's lines.
Speaker 2: They were leading the competition with Sex then.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but George, they've had a soft drawl. I heard
Speaker 4: a stat the other day that Saint George have been
Speaker 4: more Top eight teams. They're the third team against top
Speaker 4: eight sides, the third best and the teams in front
Speaker 4: of them are Melbourne and Canberra. Canterbury is won less
Speaker 4: games against the top eight teams and Saint George. It
Speaker 4: goes to show their drawers been pretty soft, and they
Speaker 4: probably and they've got what's the name, They've got Roosters,
Speaker 4: then they've got the Storm, they've got Penrith, and they've
Speaker 4: got some other top eight team. So this month is
Speaker 4: a big test for them. At least two games out
Speaker 4: of this month and they've only lost one, so well,
Speaker 4: they're going to make it. It's going to be a
Speaker 4: tough month for them. And if they don't win any
Speaker 4: of these games, they're going to get down. Yeah, that's
Speaker 4: the semi finals are going to be pretty hard.
Speaker 1: Look all until your this when when the Roosters went
Speaker 1: up to another gi Okay there was four, someone says six,
Speaker 1: I'll say four who couldn't go? So for all serroudos.
Speaker 1: I love you, I care for you, I'll die for you.
Speaker 1: Let's all do it together. Let's do the one percent. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: guess what, it's not working because when you tell, when
Speaker 1: you tell your half back, we don't want you. When
Speaker 1: I know you got us number two, I know we're
Speaker 1: top four, but we're going to pick because Gus told
Speaker 1: me that this kid is going to be going to
Speaker 1: be the best thing since sliced bread, which I haven't
Speaker 1: seen okay yet yet say okay? And then the hooker
Speaker 1: apparently doesn't get along with Soroudo. That's the reason he's
Speaker 1: been dropped. They don't get along with each other apparently.
Speaker 1: Now I suggest to you you get along with many.
Speaker 1: He gets wrong with Soroudo. He probably doesn't get along
Speaker 1: with Gus. That's what I suggest to you. Okay. Bottom line,
Speaker 1: I'm disappointed. Uh, they were disappointing.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: They need and I know what you're going to say now,
Speaker 1: they need a fullback and three three middles more players.
Speaker 1: They need a fallback and come on, have any more?
Speaker 1: We know, we know, can you buy?
Speaker 5: We know?
Speaker 4: At seriously agree you just got rid of twenty four
Speaker 4: players and in another twenty four and you want four more.
Speaker 1: I agree with you, but you know what joke? I
Speaker 1: agree with you. But you know what's never the coach?
Speaker 1: Is it? Don't you say?
Speaker 4: If it's given in him in the same mode, fit's
Speaker 4: given and him are the same. Honestly, they play ship
Speaker 4: soft draws and they get all the credit because they've
Speaker 4: beat the bottom teams and everyone praises them and we'll
Speaker 4: see how they're going the final. Now I'm going to
Speaker 4: say the same with Sorouda that I saw with.
Speaker 2: I think we get a good reading on the board
Speaker 2: of this weekend. I don't think you have to win.
Speaker 2: You're going to Melbourne. It's a tough ask. I don't
Speaker 2: think you need to win. I think you just need
Speaker 2: to win respect like from from the performance, I agree,
Speaker 2: I agree that I don't think the game.
Speaker 1: Look, can I be I'm a little bit emotional because
Speaker 1: I was guarded because everything the Serroundo has said or
Speaker 1: not sorry not or this year the last three years
Speaker 1: that has been there, uh and and all that could
Speaker 1: fussle that happened with the Pine, yeah you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. And now he's showing loyalty, no loyalty, And
Speaker 1: I think that the team is reflecting what what what's happened?
Speaker 2: I think I think you called it. They've got to
Speaker 2: be upset. It starts with leadership, right. I don't anyone
Speaker 2: for going after Galvin's signature at the time, right everyone
Speaker 2: you know, everyone would have wanted him. We did, right,
Speaker 2: But I think the smart thing would have been to
Speaker 2: bring him in and put him in cup, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. But you had a team that was
Speaker 2: humming along sand nicely exactly and the halves pery. They
Speaker 2: don't have to be superstars. Have you remember, I know
Speaker 2: we lost the Grand Final, but the Eels team of
Speaker 2: two thousand and one, their records still stand today from
Speaker 2: that season that they break every record with Michael Buttener
Speaker 2: and Jason Taylor. You know what I mean, Like, you
Speaker 2: don't have to have two superstars in the halfs. But
Speaker 2: for whatever reason, it was working and it was clicking
Speaker 2: and it was humming along nicely.
Speaker 1: Galvin came in and he.
Speaker 2: Immediately his first introduction in a dog's jersey was the
Speaker 2: half back running over to the hooker on the field
Speaker 2: in a game and saying, you're off, I'm taking your spot.
Speaker 2: It wasn't even pre planned at training. So the half
Speaker 2: back was shifted to hooker. The hooker was shifted to
Speaker 2: the bench. We all saw his reaction in the sheds.
Speaker 2: Right like a week or two later, I said, and
Speaker 2: and it's upset the apple cart, absolutely, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean? The players, Phil and many you had feel
Speaker 2: Good on his podcast, mister fucking Integrity talking about read money.
Speaker 2: If you go back you can find that this is
Speaker 2: about maybe seven eight weeks ago now, and he was
Speaker 2: saying about how he's not going anywhere. You know, he's
Speaker 2: one of the hardest working players in the camp. Is
Speaker 2: this he's that?
Speaker 1: Is this?
Speaker 5: Is that?
Speaker 2: Five minutes later he's been told to leave and he's
Speaker 2: gone to the Cowboys, Right. So it has a knock
Speaker 2: on effect because the players their mates, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. So, and and there's always this thing of well,
Speaker 2: if that can happen to you, that could happen to me.
Speaker 4: Exactly, I'll be watching my back mate.
Speaker 2: If so, there's there's got to be an element of
Speaker 2: trust that's lacking there. And I think, but I think
Speaker 2: you got the right people there. I know that Gus
Speaker 2: can be the cause of the problems, but it's also
Speaker 2: the best guy to have there. You've got Stephen Cranton
Speaker 2: and I think you got you got the right people
Speaker 2: that are steady of the ship, right, And I think
Speaker 2: I think this is it Friday Night Melbourne. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: think it's going to be telling. Like I said, in
Speaker 2: my opinion, you don't have to win the game. I
Speaker 2: think you just have to win. The players have to
Speaker 2: win their own their own self esteem back. I think
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's the right way to put it.
Speaker 1: But let's let's let's see. I'm very damning because it's
Speaker 1: what's come out of their mouths and what I'm seeing
Speaker 1: on paper too.
Speaker 4: On paper, it's a good team, don't ever, it's an
Speaker 4: excellent team. It's a great team.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 4: He's built a good squad, so there's no excuses. You
Speaker 4: should be able to beat the Melbourne's on the back.
Speaker 1: A good back line. I'm not sure about the falls.
Speaker 4: Come on, man, Max King and Preston Kicking. They'd walk
Speaker 4: into any NL team, any NRAL team would have him
Speaker 4: in the team. Salmon Locke, you know, grand final winner? Yeah,
Speaker 4: grand final finally George, grand final winner?
Speaker 1: So what else?
Speaker 4: Who else is in your weakest player? The grand final guy?
Speaker 2: Yeah? All the next?
Speaker 1: King made origin he was he made it this year,
Speaker 1: no prob. All I can tell you is every time
Speaker 1: they've been challenged, they failed.
Speaker 4: Give that pack the Flanagan, I reckon St. Georgia in
Speaker 4: the eighth. Give that pack the Flanagan and they're firing
Speaker 4: or again that's a top pack. All I can tell you, paramount.
Speaker 4: All I can tell you is what I see.
Speaker 1: Was it not challenged? The failed?
Speaker 2: Was it not? Was it not that pack that was
Speaker 2: in first place?
Speaker 4: When yeah, exactly yeah, But look, Nick, I'll go through
Speaker 4: the run right. Look, they started with Saint George, Titans, Paramatta, Sharks,
Speaker 4: Knights by Rabbits. So they've played how many teams have
Speaker 4: they played yet in the eight rubbish to go exactly right,
Speaker 4: and then they played the Broncos flogged, right, Then they
Speaker 4: played Titans, then they played the Raiders, and they played
Speaker 4: the Ruses, and then they've played what Dolphins, Eels, Rabbit,
Speaker 4: O's buy, Penrith, Broncos. They've got flogged, they've got beaten,
Speaker 4: then they've got Cowboys, they've had a really soft and Dragons.
Speaker 4: It's only this week they're playing Melbourne for the first time,
Speaker 4: which is going to be a big test, and they've
Speaker 4: got Penrith and then Sharks. So this three weeks is
Speaker 4: going to really tell you how they get a big test.
Speaker 4: That's a big, big test.
Speaker 1: Let's let's let's see and we'll talk about it every week.
Speaker 1: But I have no trust in this team. Look, if
Speaker 1: they they'll make the semis, I expect them to go
Speaker 1: out the back door. If they win a game, good.
Speaker 4: They guarantee they're guaranteed top four because the teams behind them.
Speaker 4: I think fifth, a six behind. They guarantee they'll.
Speaker 1: They'll have well, the soft draw they'll have, they'll have
Speaker 1: two games in the semi finals. And I don't look,
Speaker 1: I don't see it. I don't see it. I don't
Speaker 1: see it. But anyway, the russ were good, very good.
Speaker 1: They were. They were.
Speaker 2: Let's let's move on to Saturday Super Saturday and the
Speaker 2: Sharks fifty four points to twenty two over the hapless
Speaker 2: Gold Coast.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Gold Coast was very very ordinary. That were terrible.
Speaker 2: They started well, they they start was watching it. They
Speaker 2: started well awful.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know what, Kronulla scored fifty four.
Speaker 1: Good on them.
Speaker 4: But they led in twenty two against the Gold Coast
Speaker 4: And that's a worrying sign.
Speaker 1: Honestly.
Speaker 4: Okay, the attacks good, but to letting twenty two against
Speaker 4: that Gold Coast that played really of that.
Speaker 2: Flat track bullying, isn't it is? You flexh your muscles
Speaker 2: when you can, So that's a bit of a worry.
Speaker 2: Flex it against the good teams. It's a worry.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's a watch. It was a hard one.
Speaker 2: It's hard to criticize the team that won by scoring
Speaker 2: fifty four point is it? Is we're going to give
Speaker 2: him their dusies. Welles played really well.
Speaker 4: That's that's a good thing that came out of that.
Speaker 4: He had a cracker and hopefully that helps him with
Speaker 4: his confidence in the next three games.
Speaker 1: You don't know they're not going to sign all Kennedy. Oh,
Speaker 1: they're not signing it. Well, they've put put three hundred
Speaker 1: on the on the table, then they pulled it. That's
Speaker 1: an insult. Yeah, it's insult. They put three hundred on
Speaker 1: the table, they pulled it, and then they two hundred,
Speaker 1: two hundred and something. He'll stay for He'll stay for nothing.
Speaker 1: He'll stay for nothing.
Speaker 4: But is any other team showing interest?
Speaker 1: No, I don't think there you go.
Speaker 2: I still think it's.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll always. I don't know how the team.
Speaker 4: The coaches said, but would you take him at Para?
Speaker 2: Well, Kennedy, we got too full.
Speaker 1: If you didn't have a full you're good.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely, I think I think he's good.
Speaker 1: He's good. I will take him out.
Speaker 2: We've got to take we've got a problem that we've
Speaker 2: got two full backs. We don't know which one to
Speaker 2: use both. It's good, that's a good problem to happen.
Speaker 2: He's one for you guys. I'm going off memory here,
Speaker 2: but I'm pretty sure it was Boso in the nineties
Speaker 2: played two full backs.
Speaker 1: He tried it. He tried it, Yeah, but I think
Speaker 1: it didn't last very long.
Speaker 2: Vetoed it really or the a RL nsw RL at
Speaker 2: the time, So two full backs, I'd have to look
Speaker 2: it out at the same time. Yeah, I'm going to
Speaker 2: look it up. But I do remember something along those lines.
Speaker 2: But it went working today's day and age it didn't work.
Speaker 2: Then I could be wrong. I'm going off memory, but
Speaker 2: for some reason I'm thinking both. Yeah, let's wrap this
Speaker 2: one really quickly.
Speaker 1: You know what, Cornelis scored fifty four points against Titans
Speaker 1: and they're in the polity because I love listening to
Speaker 1: the plot because they're going to make top four pounds,
Speaker 1: that's what they're saying, and they're really really happy. They
Speaker 1: scored four points against the team came up. It's coming last.
Speaker 1: So let's move on.
Speaker 4: Okay, this game is an interesting one.
Speaker 2: Broncost thirty eight points to twenty eight of the Dolphins.
Speaker 2: What a game it was, what happened. It was a
Speaker 2: great game to watch. It was a great to watch.
Speaker 4: Everything he's got to take on it. This is the
Speaker 4: biggest mystery in the world for me. Right, I was
Speaker 4: watching the Dolphins demolished the Broncos at twenty eight to fourteen,
Speaker 4: and I thought, here we go. The Dolphins are going
Speaker 4: to cause an upset here. It's a matter of how
Speaker 4: much they're going to win by That's what I honestly thought.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins.
Speaker 4: They were playing excellent and for some reason, while she
Speaker 4: just clicked and bang, everything just worked perfectly and they
Speaker 4: scored twenty four and answered to get to thirty eight.
Speaker 4: It was amazing how the Dolphins just collapsed that quickly.
Speaker 4: They scored four tries in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: Amazing.
Speaker 4: And you know what, Catni Steaks owns that game. Every
Speaker 4: time they played that game. He absolutely plays on fire.
Speaker 4: And that's why he's an origin player.
Speaker 1: He's an player, I believe. So, Yeah, he's an but he.
Speaker 4: Won't get picked there before. He's not flashy like Lateral.
Speaker 4: That's why he won't get picked.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't you know what it's going to be flashy like.
Speaker 2: I know we're going to get to that next. But
Speaker 2: if you want, if you want Southside doing remove Joe
Speaker 2: Gray from from the number one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Now this, this Broncos Dolphins game amazing. It was
Speaker 1: so strange, wasn't it. I was loving it. It was amazing.
Speaker 2: I was texting with Tanya during this, all over the shop,
Speaker 2: up and down, and once I.
Speaker 1: Lose behind.
Speaker 2: Try full of you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, the smallest guy in the world, I reckon
Speaker 4: try Fuller was one of them, that's how.
Speaker 1: And he went through the problems.
Speaker 2: And we were at Day's place watching this. We were
Speaker 2: actually having dinner. I tired and and with about half
Speaker 2: an hour ago, three of us were standing in front
Speaker 2: of getting up, walking over and yeah, it was an
Speaker 2: unbelievable gray. It was crazy, what a great spectacle.
Speaker 1: It was great. It was great. I'm going to talk
Speaker 1: a little bit nerd now, a little bit technical. So
Speaker 1: it intrigues me because I think now watching this and
Speaker 1: I've got I'm gonna have three weeks of watching it
Speaker 1: and see if true. I now would give Reese the
Speaker 1: keys to the castle. What a minute, Let's let's look
Speaker 1: at what we saw. Okay, let's see if he can
Speaker 1: back it up in the next three weeks. No, don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong. Reynolds comes back into his team and
Speaker 1: he's number seven to the end of the year, and
Speaker 1: I don't know if he is on the next year.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure.
Speaker 5: Reynolds, I think he has okay, one one more year,
Speaker 5: I think I think he's extended and he based, so
Speaker 5: I think he's going to be a coach there at
Speaker 5: the end, which is which is great now and I'm offan, oh,
Speaker 5: that's right, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 1: So so what happened? So usually they play something called
Speaker 1: I call it, I don't know what they call it,
Speaker 1: A plus B plus. So they stand on on the oppositions,
Speaker 1: all their shoulders. Okay, So the idea is paying hits
Speaker 1: the ball up, gets up and plays the ball really quickly.
Speaker 1: Now the idea with markers are they split check check
Speaker 1: the dummy half. Then then pressure pressure Reynolds. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: have the pressure Reynolds and he passes early, the plus
Speaker 1: goes neutral. Okay. Now do you notice how a lot
Speaker 1: of the breaks happen off Israel Man? Okay, So because
Speaker 1: because they're on the shoulders, if paint Huts gets up,
Speaker 1: gets up really quickly, and then and Walter's passed the
Speaker 1: ball to Reynolds really quick, really quickly, and the markers
Speaker 1: don't check Reynolds early. They're all they're all on shoulders
Speaker 1: and you got real sweeping behind. Yeah, so that's their play.
Speaker 1: That's it. And on the other side, what's his name,
Speaker 1: contany steak? Just give him early ball? Then he never
Speaker 1: he never, he's never in a in a sweep. He
Speaker 1: just give him early ball. Yeah, okay, But this week
Speaker 1: Reese played first receiver. He got got the ball from
Speaker 1: first receiver and ran and ball played. Yeah, and hunt
Speaker 1: or he was direct. He kicked and he directed. He
Speaker 1: made sure that everybody was going square, and he fucking
Speaker 1: looked great. They're all they're all super talented youngsters. They're
Speaker 1: all super talented people. They're so quick, so big, and
Speaker 1: it works going direct work. So let's see if it
Speaker 1: happens again this week. So I don't know. I think
Speaker 1: by the time by the time they got it, which
Speaker 1: which was about into the forty fiftieth minute when they
Speaker 1: started clicking, and they got it, if they keep on
Speaker 1: doing that, and I can't wait to see him again
Speaker 1: this week. I know who they play this week.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm looking at now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're playing nights. Oh they're going to smash. They're
Speaker 1: gonna absolutely noise. But they look so good. So I
Speaker 1: would be very close, I know' savely one performance but
Speaker 1: giving rest the kick. You know what, he didn't make
Speaker 1: any many mistakes because he's he knows he's the man
Speaker 1: in this. Because when Reynolds comes back, we just does
Speaker 1: that sweep around the back and comes in off isra
Speaker 1: off the pluses, if you know what I mean. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I describe that properly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but that's after Billy Waters as well, playing five eight.
Speaker 1: That's what he did. Yeah, Bills is a runner. He's
Speaker 1: been so good for.
Speaker 4: He said he helped Walsh to achieve what he wanted
Speaker 4: to achieve because he took a bit of that pressure
Speaker 4: because he did all the grunt work and then he
Speaker 4: did what she did all the fun.
Speaker 1: I actually, you know what, I actually enjoyed the pattern
Speaker 1: of play. It's a shame that the Japanese International is
Speaker 1: gonna go. Yeah, he's going. Unfortunately, where's it going? I'm
Speaker 1: not sure they can't afford to keep it. They can't,
Speaker 1: but I look, I enjoyed it. Actually, I thought the
Speaker 1: Dolphins halftime, I thought Dolphin's going to win and know
Speaker 1: how much? Yeah, exactly after he clicked, after it all clicked.
Speaker 4: Orge sixteenth minute, the twenty eight fourteen strange and from
Speaker 4: the six second I think it was or I can't
Speaker 4: remember what it was. But they got to fifteen minutes,
Speaker 4: they got four.
Speaker 1: Because it clicked. They got it. They while she, while
Speaker 1: She and Billy and Hunt, they just got it. And
Speaker 1: you know what that middle period when Huss how important
Speaker 1: is that guy?
Speaker 2: Yeh did you see where he almost scored where he
Speaker 2: just drag fourteen players and his back heading forward.
Speaker 1: He's not human, He's not human, He's a genetic free
Speaker 1: the twenty minutes of he was off, it went neutral.
Speaker 1: Then when he came back on, that's when rees Reese
Speaker 1: off his back just came right into the game. So
Speaker 1: Payn Haass is the most important player. I do want
Speaker 1: to say this because I thought that, you know, Reynolds
Speaker 1: or or Walsh was, but I Reckon Payne is probably
Speaker 1: the most important playing this team. That's why he's going
Speaker 1: to be the highest paid player in the game. That's it.
Speaker 4: So it was fifty second second, fifty second minute to
Speaker 4: the sixty seventh when they got the fifteen minute, I
Speaker 4: love it.
Speaker 1: I loved it.
Speaker 2: I honestly more made it even more of a rollercaster
Speaker 2: for ten, but then she loves the Dolphins too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: So yeah, because I'm I'm I'm a fini. You know what,
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan as well.
Speaker 4: I'm a big fan of Jamie Jermaine Psycho is kicking.
Speaker 4: I love every courls.
Speaker 1: Beautifully.
Speaker 4: He's the best kicker in the best best goal kicker Jamaine.
Speaker 4: You know what, I don't know how he does it
Speaker 4: because every time he kicks it, it looks so beautiful.
Speaker 4: It's not going to be it's the best.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: It looks beautiful like he kicks it. Sweet. That's a
Speaker 1: soccer thing, isn't it. It looks Yeah, I reckon it'd
Speaker 1: be a good soccer player, good corners.
Speaker 2: In the next game, the Rabbit is twenty points to
Speaker 2: sixteen over the Eels. I was very disappointed with this
Speaker 2: one told me about it. Yeah, I don't want to
Speaker 2: take any away from south because that was awesome there.
Speaker 2: They had over half a team miss. That's what I'm
Speaker 2: disappointed about. Really, It's a game apparently I should have
Speaker 2: won it one but Saus just didn't let it. And
Speaker 2: they could have quite easily two or three times, but
Speaker 2: Souths just didn't let it. Happen a great probably had
Speaker 2: the best game I've seen.
Speaker 1: The great player, he's the best.
Speaker 2: But all of them were South. They just they fought
Speaker 2: so hard. They won the game on effort. Pretty much
Speaker 2: para we're a bit disjointed. I think I think Roles
Speaker 2: made a huge blunder in this game by dropping Dean Hawkins.
Speaker 2: You know, he's been so solid alongside Moses, especially played
Speaker 2: against his former club. He would have had a point
Speaker 2: to prove, so I think he might have learned something
Speaker 2: from that exactly. But I mean, hats off the South
Speaker 2: that were really good. Very disappointed as an Eels fan,
Speaker 2: but it is what it is.
Speaker 1: Can I give a shout out to Jack Williams. I
Speaker 1: thought he was out He was good. Yeah, I thought
Speaker 1: he was outstanding. And you know what, I know long
Speaker 1: he isn't probably the number six is in his position,
Speaker 1: but he was still pretty good. He was still good.
Speaker 1: I think Dylan might have been a little bit down.
Speaker 1: And I think Moses because of the because because of
Speaker 1: the Dean Hawkins usually controls or he is at first
Speaker 1: receiver and Moses plays off the seas. Yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 1: so that probably threw out so that they just they
Speaker 1: just weren't was just a little bit off the youngsters,
Speaker 1: but just through effort. I think, just through effort.
Speaker 4: Teler stunk and also was good.
Speaker 1: Charles Stunkan was very good. It was very good. It's
Speaker 1: a shame. It's a shame Johnson didn't score try because
Speaker 1: I was I was hoping we can see the the
Speaker 1: famous number being scored this year. But I think it
Speaker 1: might go too next year, can I I was talking
Speaker 1: to Nicol off off camera, off off pod before and
Speaker 1: I want to answer to the G Man. The G
Speaker 1: Man asked me when they beat beat the Broncos. He
Speaker 1: asked me, well, next week, when when they lose? Because
Speaker 1: I was explaining. I was explaining their system, Paramatter's system,
Speaker 1: and I and he said, well, what are you going
Speaker 1: to say next week when they lose? And and yep,
Speaker 1: since that conversation, they've lost, they've won and they've lost.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I say. And some some friends
Speaker 1: of mine heard G Man's comments, and of course the
Speaker 1: same they went, they went. They went at me straight away.
Speaker 1: And they're all Paramatter fans. Obviously, I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: I I'll tell you what I see from Paramatta. I
Speaker 1: see a very good young coach.
Speaker 2: That lost against Melbourne was a real close one.
Speaker 1: Absolutely it was and and and you can argue that
Speaker 1: they Melbourne wasn't the best team on the night, but
Speaker 1: they just know how to win. What do I what
Speaker 1: do I see from from round one to now? I
Speaker 1: see a young coach and Jason Rowles I have given
Speaker 1: have given Paramatta a certain pattern and they stick it.
Speaker 1: They stick to that pattern week in week out, do
Speaker 1: the same thing methodically, and if you want to know
Speaker 1: what it is, it's pretty simple. He's a young coach,
Speaker 1: so he doesn't prescribe for for for like a Flanno
Speaker 1: three forwards and kick. Jason moves the ball around. He
Speaker 1: likes to move the ball around. He puts a mitch
Speaker 1: on c say two passes out right. Because he plays
Speaker 1: triple blocks, not double blocks like Penywoold play. He plays
Speaker 1: triple blocks, and every block there's variations on it, so
Speaker 1: he might never get to the triple block. He'll get
Speaker 1: will go block block and they play in that block.
Speaker 1: So it's it's it's a little bit something you have
Speaker 1: we haven't seen. We haven't seen in an IRL. So
Speaker 1: when when they when they went to buy, Nicole told
Speaker 1: me the guy who bought from from the Warriors? Who
Speaker 1: the guy you bought from the Warriors? Uh? A position?
Speaker 2: He's a ball player. Oh sorry, I just can't Bill
Speaker 2: Dylan Brown. No, no, no, I'm drawing to play anyway.
Speaker 2: Dylan Walker.
Speaker 1: Dylan Walker. So he went and bought Dylan Walker. And
Speaker 1: I thought, what what a difference is? Difference? What a
Speaker 1: difference is mad boy? Because he fits into the Jason
Speaker 1: Rolls block play. He needed he needed someone else to
Speaker 1: be another boar handler in the block shapes. Okay, so
Speaker 1: he plays triple blocks both sides. And what I'm trying
Speaker 1: to get to is I'm not going to bore people
Speaker 1: with with the way they play. Every week, same thing,
Speaker 1: same thing, same thing. Now, they're a young team. Sometimes
Speaker 1: they play at level late, sometimes they play at level six.
Speaker 1: But guess what, every week, same thing, and guess what
Speaker 1: next year they're going to be always playing at level seven.
Speaker 1: Then by the end of the year they'll be playing
Speaker 1: at level late. Same thing. I'll talk about the Tigers, okay,
Speaker 1: because they have animational charge game and they be Canterbury. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't see I don't see a methodical
Speaker 1: way of playing. The last five they play, they have
Speaker 1: and they've got they've done well, and they've done well,
Speaker 1: and I think they've done better than the.
Speaker 4: Best player taken off them, and I think they've done
Speaker 4: to the Tigers. He was an important player to the best.
Speaker 1: All I'm trying to say is if I'll prefer to
Speaker 1: be a paramount of supporter than a Tiger supporter, Okay,
Speaker 1: because because because I think Jason Roll is a far
Speaker 1: better coach, okay, far better coach than Benji at the moment,
Speaker 1: at the moment, and I see it. I see it
Speaker 1: on on on the on the field, because you know.
Speaker 2: What coaching, it's not just the coaching he's he's got
Speaker 2: more control than Benji has.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: And when it comes to when he came in, he said,
Speaker 2: this is how I want things to be. I want
Speaker 2: to overhaul everything. And the club gave him the rain together.
Speaker 2: That came with regards to the juniors, with regards to
Speaker 2: how they do everything, training, with regards to the roster
Speaker 2: has been given four astronomy.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the roster because I mean, all the
Speaker 1: West players all they're all first graders, you know, most
Speaker 1: of them. They're not They're not they're not babies, they're
Speaker 1: not kids.
Speaker 2: One thing that I keep saying, everyone keeps overlooking is
Speaker 2: that West have five six premiership winners in that team, the.
Speaker 1: Role players, most of them the role players, but still
Speaker 1: their premiership winning the play.
Speaker 2: They're not premiership winning, they are, they didn't. Brett Nayden
Speaker 2: didn't win a premiership with the first year but the
Speaker 2: role player. But that's not issue.
Speaker 1: This this year is this. I mean, I love him,
Speaker 1: but Josha Barbliki was a reserve grader at Canby last year. Okay,
Speaker 1: Zach was Zach, Zach was a is an origin player
Speaker 1: to paramatter has got some good play. Well, they're all good.
Speaker 1: But what I'm saying is what I'm saying is the
Speaker 1: majority of young.
Speaker 4: Players, the youngster or Dylan Brown one point three million dollar.
Speaker 1: He's going off the actually had a bad game.
Speaker 2: If he's a bad player, wouldn't be worth one six
Speaker 2: or seven of Paris debut this year.
Speaker 1: So what I'm saying is that the youngster, that's all
Speaker 1: I'm saying. That's what I'm saying, the youngsters. If you
Speaker 1: want to compare him to West, because Tigers pat the brothers,
Speaker 1: three of them first year. As I made Lian break
Speaker 1: yet probably played he actually played well. I think he
Speaker 1: made a blake.
Speaker 2: Last week. No trisis and I have to say it
Speaker 2: because he did. This is the guy who this time
Speaker 2: last year when he were not this time last year
Speaker 2: in November when he joined the West Tigers. What did
Speaker 2: he saying his first press are? What wasn't I pressed
Speaker 2: up when he was being training? If I was here
Speaker 2: last year, we would have made the eight.
Speaker 4: Four points from the eight. Now they're four points away.
Speaker 4: They were in the eight until that Galvin disaster happened
Speaker 4: that threw them off. That's six weeks was disastrous for
Speaker 4: the time was gone good that were in the eight,
Speaker 4: just in the fringes and then the ship happened and
Speaker 4: now they won four or five games in the trit.
Speaker 2: So you can't take twenty five. You can't take away
Speaker 2: from the fact that the marquee signing has a line
Speaker 2: break with a trop Okay, but it could be good
Speaker 2: in addressing.
Speaker 1: It could be I don't care, you're going to go better. Oh,
Speaker 1: they're stacked underneath, They're stacked underneath Paramount Building. All I'm trying.
Speaker 1: All I'm trying to say is I'm trying to answer
Speaker 1: a g man's question. I see a pattern, and the
Speaker 1: pattern will keep on getting better and better and better,
Speaker 1: and it's it's a revolution. It's a revolution. And I
Speaker 1: know you're just watching rugby league play, but when you
Speaker 1: watch Penryth four years ago, what Ivan produced or the
Speaker 1: system you juice and it's paid the way it's therefore
Speaker 1: to see it was revolutional, it's revolutionary. Well, I honestly
Speaker 1: believe the pattern that the Jason is given them, it
Speaker 1: will evolve and it will be an extremely extremely improved
Speaker 1: improve even more. I'm trying to say Nicole and and
Speaker 1: that and that is it's it's it's a it's a
Speaker 1: pattern where they can make the eighth and be regular regular,
Speaker 1: regularly and.
Speaker 2: There's still nowhere need being consistent.
Speaker 1: You very little.
Speaker 2: Look at the names that have been let go just
Speaker 2: this year, me can rattle them off. Look at the
Speaker 2: names that have been like go and can I can
Speaker 2: during the season, Yeah, can if for Hengali, Sean Lane,
Speaker 2: Madison Simonson. Now and there's another three or four that
Speaker 2: I can't think of the top of my head. No,
Speaker 2: that was last year, but I'm talking about during the season.
Speaker 4: During this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, anyway, uh self won Yeah, it was.
Speaker 4: It was one of those games was going up and
Speaker 4: down at the start.
Speaker 1: South School.
Speaker 4: Caddie Walker came on the last Walker set up a
Speaker 4: try in the end, so he was okay.
Speaker 1: He made a difference Walks for that game.
Speaker 4: If Paramatta had Dylan Brown and Moses in the halves,
Speaker 4: I think they win that game.
Speaker 2: Brendon Hans, Ryan Madison, Bryce Carpwright, Joe Offer, HEWI, Sean Lane.
Speaker 1: This is on the last two.
Speaker 4: Months cleaning out, cleaning the house.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not to mention r c G. And they've cleaned out.
Speaker 1: He's done.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they've cleaned out, they've cleaned out.
Speaker 4: Massive, he's going putting a stamp, his own stamp on things.
Speaker 1: But anyway, it was. It was good.
Speaker 2: I don't want to take away from South. It was
Speaker 2: a great win from South. Yeah, great performance, especially seeing
Speaker 2: that lost the Troll the day before as well.
Speaker 1: Can I answer the question Jeron has a man breaker?
Speaker 1: He still just looked. I just looked, just look now,
Speaker 1: just look now, No, Trices.
Speaker 2: Is a different woman. Let me is he going to
Speaker 2: try did in two weeks ago hit a hit this
Speaker 2: out place?
Speaker 1: Trices?
Speaker 4: Should we talk about the next game then the next game?
Speaker 4: Has it got the full year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Coppy, I don't know, but I'll find it. I'll
Speaker 1: find it. Look at he's made of trices.
Speaker 2: He's definitely, definitely surely he had nothing until two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Something happened. He tripped over. They would have kicked it.
Speaker 1: Don't grabbed something, something kick something. I kind of find
Speaker 1: that does that existing? And I really, yeah, it does?
Speaker 1: Find does it does? Mainly and Tigers Nicola twenty six twelve.
Speaker 1: The Tigers won mainly were terrible.
Speaker 4: It was like, so you're not gonna give credit to
Speaker 4: the Tigers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but mainly were terrible.
Speaker 4: They cops are trying the first minute and I thought,
Speaker 4: mainly is gonna absolutely scolled fifty on the Tigers thought,
Speaker 4: and it was twenty six un answered points and then
Speaker 4: mainly scored in the end to get to the twelve.
Speaker 1: Oh they did well. Man, the Tigers did arrive. Mainly
Speaker 1: were terrible. They were. Yeah, boy, I don't know about him, man,
Speaker 1: Tommy Tommy, Tommy was had a terrible game. Yeah, for
Speaker 1: his standing at a terrible game. It's a lot going on.
Speaker 4: Do you think maybe once DCA leaves they all lift,
Speaker 4: maybe he could do the problem.
Speaker 1: I'm going to say this again, it could be I'm
Speaker 1: going to say, be that simple. I don't want to
Speaker 1: say this again. If one player an influential player, but
Speaker 1: if one player can unsettle your team that much.
Speaker 2: Sorry, it's not trisist. He scored try, he's had a
Speaker 2: couple of has had a few tricees, but he's got
Speaker 2: no loan breaks and the tries.
Speaker 1: He sets them up, mate, That's that's the job. He
Speaker 1: just sets them up for that. If if one player
Speaker 1: can make and sell team so much, id I suggest
Speaker 1: you it's not the team, it's the management, or it's
Speaker 1: the coach. The coach is supposed to sort all that.
Speaker 1: That's what the coach, because the coach doesn't coach all
Speaker 1: the trainers. Coach. Do you got a d coach? You
Speaker 1: got a taking coach? I mean and the and the
Speaker 1: coach sort of works with you.
Speaker 4: Can you can you see similar thing happening in Sea
Speaker 4: Balls last year at the Broncos, happening at Manly the
Speaker 4: Broncos last year, maybe the same things happening now Manly.
Speaker 2: Can you see they were terrible, not taking any away
Speaker 2: from the targets that was good.
Speaker 1: Were terrible.
Speaker 4: They were they were and they were playing for this
Speaker 4: season like they had to win that and was it
Speaker 4: in Brookville?
Speaker 1: It was a combank.
Speaker 4: May was outstanding, the May brothers both were outstanding. Back
Speaker 4: Line is very good, not bad. You've got that Stafford,
Speaker 4: Tower and May and then you've got to Rivera and
Speaker 4: yeah do he and you've got the fullback Buller and
Speaker 4: what's happening with him? Is he geting tapped up?
Speaker 1: Now? Is that the next one?
Speaker 2: Feeling?
Speaker 1: I got this in the crowd, A couple of.
Speaker 4: Doing well, why would you want to get rid of Connor?
Speaker 4: Tracy almost get it.
Speaker 1: I don't get it. I'm a fan. I'm a fan
Speaker 1: of Connor. What does he have to do?
Speaker 2: I don't know, but I just know Gus, I just know.
Speaker 1: You know it's going to magically happen all of a sudden.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want someone and Bullets got a blue one.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Never spoke but never don't know. But yeah,
Speaker 1: West were good. Mainly were disgraceful and let's move on
Speaker 1: because this Cowboys points to four out of the happless nights.
Speaker 2: There's really not much to say here, really, Yeah, you
Speaker 2: can't wait traffic Newcastle.
Speaker 1: Newcastle was playing in.
Speaker 4: Their trip drinking, drink out a blinder, drink.
Speaker 1: Out a blinder. On Newcastle side, the only guy who
Speaker 1: really put in was a gay guy. He actually put in.
Speaker 1: And on the other side here you talked about drinking.
Speaker 1: Drink is always good. He just can't tackle, but he's
Speaker 1: always he's always good. And you know what, Jason toml
Speaker 1: makes such a difference when he comes on.
Speaker 4: He hasn't had a good year, such a and he
Speaker 4: was having a bit of issues with Peyton. Now these
Speaker 4: two coaches, are they under pressure? Are they going to
Speaker 4: be there next year?
Speaker 1: Peyton? And they are? I think they are.
Speaker 4: I want Payton to be there. I think he deserves
Speaker 4: to be there.
Speaker 1: I think I think they're both going to be Brien
Speaker 1: to be there. I think he's going to be there.
Speaker 4: I think he whispers, man, that doesn't sound I would give.
Speaker 1: Him, if not half a season, I think I'll give
Speaker 1: him another season with the team, and then if it's
Speaker 1: if he's diabolical, they forget, they're gonna they're gonna have
Speaker 1: to pay him out and they they haven't got the
Speaker 1: money of the paymount.
Speaker 4: The thing is he's got him to finals three times
Speaker 4: and he's one finals games, not like he's won his
Speaker 4: first one. I'm telling you he's a good coach.
Speaker 1: O'Brien.
Speaker 4: He's just cattle. It's just something with the cattle there.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It ain't happening at the moment. Happened.
Speaker 1: It's a bad year. But look, compared to much reliance
Speaker 1: on Ponger, maybe you reckon. Maybe maybe look between these
Speaker 1: two teams. If you really want to know which coach
Speaker 1: should be under pressure, it's got to be Peyton because
Speaker 1: look at the look at the roster. Yeah, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are outstanding, So he should be under pressure. Like I
Speaker 1: want him to stay there because I think.
Speaker 4: He got the team into the finals his first season.
Speaker 4: But look look at Rod and now everyone's waxing lyrical
Speaker 4: about Cerros and Ryles and all that, and now you've
Speaker 4: got Webster and Peyton in their first season, got these
Speaker 4: teams who were diabolical, Warriors were nothing, and then they
Speaker 4: got him in the Grand finals the same with So
Speaker 4: those two coaches are really good and they're under the
Speaker 4: pressure already under pressure Peyton now and I'm not Webster yet,
Speaker 4: but but Peyton's under pressure and he got his team
Speaker 4: in one game from a Grand Final.
Speaker 1: That makes him last year.
Speaker 2: I can't remember it, but I mean it's it's hard
Speaker 2: to compare because both Surroundo and Riles went into a
Speaker 2: club and stripped it back.
Speaker 4: Well they did did the same thing. He didn't have
Speaker 4: a good team back then, and we did Peyton. Yeah
Speaker 4: that was a pretty ship team you in there.
Speaker 2: But they didn't Webster and Peyton didn't strip those teams back.
Speaker 4: Webster had the Warriors come on. The Warriors were never
Speaker 4: want to trip the club.
Speaker 1: Just stripping as they were all there. They're always kids
Speaker 1: were there. Yeah, they're rull there. They just brought them up.
Speaker 1: That's yeah, Yeah, that's a good thing.
Speaker 4: It didn't go and throw away bringing and it's not
Speaker 4: the pressure so feeble twenty four players would have been
Speaker 4: better for Webster what he does, but he brought.
Speaker 1: In all these kids and yeah, but it's done well.
Speaker 1: I think for me, he's under pressure. What are you
Speaker 1: talking about. I'm just saying.
Speaker 4: I don't hear about him getting spoken about the Hall
Speaker 4: of Fame coaches in the Hall of Fame already. I'm
Speaker 4: telling you now the Hall of Famous.
Speaker 2: If you.
Speaker 1: Listen, listen to the next these two teams have been
Speaker 1: disappointed all you really and these two coaches will be
Speaker 1: there next year because the real, the real disappointment.
Speaker 2: Of this round was that there was no Ricky Stuart
Speaker 2: press conference. Moving into crystal Ball, that's let's swing throughout
Speaker 2: opening Thursday night. We've got the Rabbit's hosting the Dragons
Speaker 2: at Home Bush.
Speaker 4: Both depleted apparently.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a really tough one to pick it
Speaker 2: the Rabbit, You got it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because they're getting call my tongue back, I think
Speaker 4: I remember, and Codie Walkers back. So they're starting to
Speaker 4: get sum back. We're saying he was back last week.
Speaker 1: Is not? He's on the bench. On the bench, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: the bench maybe poor Dodd. I think Bennett said I
Speaker 1: don't want you to go away? Now. Did Ben bring him? No,
Speaker 1: I didn't know. No, he didn't bring you. But what
Speaker 1: we've seen you haven't who got there with the previous coach? No, no, no,
Speaker 1: he didn't know either. No, none of the CEO. They
Speaker 1: saw some. Yeah, they saw some and they brought him over.
Speaker 1: You told me, dog dog here, what the hell? What
Speaker 1: so you tipping? Uh? I'm going I'm going south. So
Speaker 1: we're all going south.
Speaker 2: We're all going This is a great one. Panthers Raiders
Speaker 2: at glen Widow Oval. Is that that the bush?
Speaker 1: No, No, that's glen Willow Oval. That's the place they
Speaker 1: played once a year. I'll tell you know, Forbes or
Speaker 1: somewhere Batist maybe probably better they played play they play
Speaker 1: a game once a year there what is it? Where
Speaker 1: is it now?
Speaker 2: So I'm looking now, uh so the budgie.
Speaker 1: If if Raiders lose, do they drop first? Now? This
Speaker 1: will still come first? There still coming. Okay, I think
Speaker 1: I'll go this one. Yeah, I'm going back. Yeah, Well
Speaker 1: he's on the extend of the bench, so I don't think. Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know. He's on the extend of the bench.
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 4: Ricky is going to be in their ears this one.
Speaker 4: This is a Grand Final ball. I'm going to get Raiders.
Speaker 2: It's I'm not I wouldn't be surprised, but I'm going
Speaker 2: to at Penrith.
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, Ricky is in their ears. Storm Bulldogs in Melbourne,
Speaker 1: Melbourne in this one.
Speaker 4: You've got to get Melbourne this one because it's in Melbourne.
Speaker 2: Well, I just think then for me, their favorites to
Speaker 2: win it.
Speaker 4: Any troops coming back or anything. Hughes are still out.
Speaker 4: He's still as he won't be, so it'll be the
Speaker 4: same same as last week, same as last year, last week,
Speaker 4: and Doggies are not losing anyone were.
Speaker 1: No exactly the same. Someone spend.
Speaker 4: Now it's still Tuesday. They might sign three players.
Speaker 5: But.
Speaker 1: Maybe till he's on the extend of the bench.
Speaker 4: Bullet might be playing running out on number one by Friday.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe Sotilli is on the on the on the
Speaker 1: extend of the bench. I hope he's in. Myself. Montoya's
Speaker 1: on the extended bench. I hope he's in than youll
Speaker 1: salute for feeders on the extend of the bench. I
Speaker 1: hope he's in the team as well.
Speaker 4: It's the forwards, George, who's the forwards up against Melbourne?
Speaker 4: Which forwards are you got? Well, the same thing King
Speaker 4: Hay would use kick out, Preston and Salmon.
Speaker 1: That's a good that's a good one.
Speaker 2: Storm, Storm Specials, Roosters, Dolphins, Sorry, Seagulls Dolphins on Saturday
Speaker 2: at Brookville. You've gotta get Dolphins.
Speaker 1: And yeah, they're a good team.
Speaker 4: They're not a bad Christian we've been we've been on
Speaker 4: a more year. That's his first year too, so Christians
Speaker 4: having a good year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've been. We've been on a more year.
Speaker 2: Gold Coast are hosting the Warriors. I'll have to get
Speaker 2: the worries.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, this is going to be a fumbler thum.
Speaker 4: You know what, I'm going to bring it upset. I'm
Speaker 4: going to get Titans. Yeah that was terrible last week.
Speaker 4: Trust me, Warriors, weren't that terrible?
Speaker 1: Terrible? You know what it is. It is it's a
Speaker 1: sea World as well. He said sea World as well.
Speaker 1: So oh j Breen at Sea World. You know they've
Speaker 1: got to win Warriors back after they get fifty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm glad. I'm glad that I'm going out for dinner.
Speaker 2: Paris hosting the Roosters. You're going nah, No, I'm going
Speaker 2: out for dinner. Okay, So I'm a I'm a Para fan.
Speaker 2: But what Rousters showed us the last two week seven
Speaker 2: point thirty? Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, ros if you want to go, if you guys,
Speaker 1: I'd love to, man, we'll go. We're going there, take
Speaker 1: the pastors and going. So I'll go.
Speaker 2: I'm going to Chucks. Yeah, me too, to Chocks. Masaca.
Speaker 2: Newcastle are hosting Brisbane.
Speaker 1: That's that's easy. A minute, what oh man?
Speaker 4: You know what.
Speaker 1: They're not playing in Brisbane and it's the sun will
Speaker 1: be out. It's two o'clock in the afternoon. Patch me.
Speaker 1: I'm dreaming that's still flog them pretty sick.
Speaker 2: One would be an interesting one at four o'clock on
Speaker 2: Sunday afternoon. And like c over Tigers Cowboys. Wo, I
Speaker 2: think I'll go to Targers in this one.
Speaker 4: That's the grand find a replay from what you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Slick the Doctor of Style, I'll go
Speaker 2: to Tigers in this one. I'm going to go to
Speaker 2: Tigers and the Sharks have the b What I.
Speaker 4: Think if Tigers win this they cement ninth or tenth
Speaker 4: spot because I think I don't think St.
Speaker 1: George and Cowboys can catch him. No, No, that's not
Speaker 1: what I'm just say this because I think that's the latter. Listen,
Speaker 1: listen to what Nichol said. Sharks have got the by
Speaker 1: right now with three weeks ago, Sharks have.
Speaker 4: Got the boss said tenth spot, not a tenth.
Speaker 1: Sharks. What about Sharks have got the by? Yeah? Nice
Speaker 1: timing is it? Sharks have got the bike go next week?
Speaker 1: Probably a given two eyes. Bloody fucking what's his name?
Speaker 4: Did draw last year, Copparents and what's his name? Gavin Miller,
Speaker 4: both of them the next week.
Speaker 1: No, why no, why no, what you're you know what?
Speaker 1: I believe you now, I believe what you say.
Speaker 4: It is going to make it in the eighth. There
Speaker 4: go fourth, that's what it's.
Speaker 1: The threes in her own now, top.
Speaker 4: Four, they make top four, No they can't, they can.
Speaker 4: Hendris will get the fourth, won't they?
Speaker 1: If they keep on winning and I think get the Broncos.
Speaker 1: I forget the Broncos. Of course you would. That'd be
Speaker 1: surprised if Broncos come forth. That's a quick ladder watch.
Speaker 4: So the Sharks are on thirty with my letter watch
Speaker 4: and thirty two is fourth, so they're two points behind.
Speaker 4: So they've got to rely on they're gonna win the
Speaker 4: next three games. Panthers have to win every game.
Speaker 1: Yeah they won't.
Speaker 4: Big game, Okay, Panthers will beat Camber. Then I'm changing
Speaker 4: my tip.
Speaker 1: Penrith camera minute. The Broncos, the Bronco, the Broncos. They've
Speaker 1: got knights. But but we're we're saying the Broncos if
Speaker 1: they win all their games, not come forth.
Speaker 4: Isn't the top four battle going to be around Look,
Speaker 4: this is my I reckon. Fifth spot is the best
Speaker 4: spot to be in the finals anyway, do why don't
Speaker 4: we not bother with the hypotheticals. We'll just we'll just
Speaker 4: wait to see what happens a week on the way.
Speaker 4: Trust be fifth spots of one where you want to be.
Speaker 2: George, it's a ship load better than fifteen. George, What
Speaker 2: have you fourth? Because fourth you play first, whereas fifty
Speaker 2: play eighth.
Speaker 1: You got anything for us this week? Got nothing? Super League?
Speaker 1: If you want or you're doing so, let's wrap it up.
Speaker 1: Let's let's wrap it up. You've got yep, super league
Speaker 1: last week. It's interesting, very interesting. Now who left? See
Speaker 1: eighteen Lee Leopard's the Pods team, the team with the
Speaker 1: twelve They lost Wigham six, Hull KR ten. Game of
Speaker 1: this game of the season, game of the year. It
Speaker 1: was sensational. You know what, Sometimes I hate myself for
Speaker 1: getting up so early in the morning. On this occasion,
Speaker 1: it was the right decision. It was the best game.
Speaker 1: Saint Helen's fifty two, Huntersfield four, Castleford six. Brad Arthur
Speaker 1: with his Leeds team sixty four and sixty four and
Speaker 1: Nicole Brad signed for another year yeah, I read that.
Speaker 1: Actually the Mayor of Leeds went to his house offered
Speaker 1: him the key to the city. I think miss Arthur
Speaker 1: has got a cooking show on the BBC there. They've
Speaker 1: done anything to keep him because you know what and
Speaker 1: the and when Ossie coaches go there they usually bring
Speaker 1: Australians or they buy he's done nothing whatever, coach.
Speaker 2: Man, it's just ten years apart.
Speaker 1: Was time to move. But he's a damn good coach.
Speaker 1: Good coach.
Speaker 2: I reckon he'd be perfect. I said this one hundred times.
Speaker 2: No piss Benji off. I reckon he'd be perfect for
Speaker 2: the Tiger.
Speaker 1: He's good.
Speaker 4: I reckon he'll be perfect for I reckon it's going
Speaker 4: he'll get you to the eighth. Yeah times, he'll be
Speaker 4: good at the title.
Speaker 2: I said he would be great for three years then
Speaker 2: moving on four maybe yeah, but no, no, he will
Speaker 2: become twelve very good.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Warrington thirty Cutalines twenty two. Big Sam is having
Speaker 1: some issues. He won, he's out of the eighth and
Speaker 1: he won't make the semifinals. He's sacked the mad Italian,
Speaker 1: he's sacked Duffy. He's got them more in reserve. Great
Speaker 1: and told him to go and the team is arguing
Speaker 1: like he's lost, addressing him. I don't know what Sam's done.
Speaker 1: I don't know what he's done. But there's problems in Paradise.
Speaker 1: Then Nicola and we had we've got a problem. We've
Speaker 1: got a problem in English ranks Solford and Wakefield. That
Speaker 1: what happened? Then didn't they play? Yeah, no they didn't.
Speaker 1: So what happened was they had they had the fourth
Speaker 1: of the game because they didn't want Yeah, they didn't
Speaker 1: have a team to put on because what the hell. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's crazy. It's it's absolutely ludicrous. You know what
Speaker 1: what they for for it? Because the guy who aims
Speaker 1: them that doesn't pay, doesn't pay any money. So they
Speaker 1: had the all the team have gone to all the
Speaker 1: other teams. They had a bunch of nineteen year olders
Speaker 1: and he goes, we can't put nineteen year olders against Man.
Speaker 1: So they had the fourth. So it's it's it's crazy,
Speaker 1: it's crazy. What's happening in England at the moment. The
Speaker 1: top six and Nicola whole KR thirty eight and racing
Speaker 1: ahead Wigan thirty two, Saint Helen's thirty Helen's Yeah left
Speaker 1: are in the bottom of fifth. They're doing well. Now
Speaker 1: be back on the third. Brad Arthur's team thirty Lee
Speaker 1: Leppard's a team of the Auglas Jersey in the World
Speaker 1: twenty nine and Hull FC twenty five. Remember all the
Speaker 1: talk about but before you.
Speaker 4: Go, Mateka play Leeds this week so it's going to
Speaker 4: be a crack and St Helen's playf So three verse six.
Speaker 4: There are two games to watch. I'm telling you now.
Speaker 4: Next year, I'm watching super Leak.
Speaker 1: I'm watching it. I think it's more exciting. It's good,
Speaker 1: it's gonna good. Only get up early next weekend. It
Speaker 1: is good weekend. I've got some news. Remember all the
Speaker 1: hullaballoo NRL buying super League, Well, because they're absolutely stupid
Speaker 1: in England and they just look at the dollar value
Speaker 1: and not not the big picture. There's some other idiot
Speaker 1: that's come in and supposedly going to buy the Super
Speaker 1: League and this is what's going to happen next year.
Speaker 1: It's going to go from twelve teams to fourteen teams. Okay,
Speaker 1: one team that's going to be added is to lose
Speaker 1: for sure, then there'll there'll be bits for the other
Speaker 1: other spot. Looks like it looks like London Broncos might
Speaker 1: be the one from now they can have from seven
Speaker 1: overseas players, they can have ten overseas players. Oh wow, yep,
Speaker 1: the cap goes up to four point two million, but
Speaker 1: they forget the Marquee players are zero on the cap.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so if you've got ten, don't forget that's euros.
Speaker 4: How many Marquis players are they allowed?
Speaker 1: They can have ten? The cap being in Australia's yeah
Speaker 1: generally yeah, generally okay, And is count as a market.
Speaker 4: He's going to he's going to know that's why he's
Speaker 4: signedists undield Field.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of players. And by the way, you
Speaker 1: know your your back Roun who went to hundess Field.
Speaker 1: He looks like a future future mortal, which one what
Speaker 1: Madison log the Mortel look he's saying, popping go to
Speaker 1: the line.
Speaker 2: He's only on load trying. He's contracted finished year. They're
Speaker 2: trying to offload him.
Speaker 1: Is he on big dollars? I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think he's six hundred fifty to get.
Speaker 4: Him off.
Speaker 1: Landon is uh a few of Orlandis is back to
Speaker 1: his old tricks. Nicolau. He's made a new rule. Well
Speaker 1: last month he's made on your rule. Uh, it's the
Speaker 1: rookie rule. Yes, I heard it. If you've played three
Speaker 1: games at a high level in another code, union union
Speaker 1: fragments sake, you can't come to n r L and
Speaker 1: be a rookie or code n RL.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so Quantas can't get the player Rookie of the year.
Speaker 1: And and what what and poor guy?
Speaker 2: And what I'm say another coage you don't even recognize.
Speaker 1: It, thank you very much. Well, this just happened all
Speaker 1: of a sudden and I think it was a lot
Speaker 1: of talk a couple of weeks ago that Quantas was
Speaker 1: leading the rookie race. And over his dead body, he's dead.
Speaker 1: That's what I think. Changed the rule mid season. He
Speaker 1: changed not only three quarters away through the season.
Speaker 4: Union look good as if their players are so superior,
Speaker 4: they come in the league and they dominate.
Speaker 1: I think that's the way. That's what he's worried about.
Speaker 1: And just to finish it off, of course, we're having
Speaker 1: the Pacific Nation Cup at the end of the year.
Speaker 1: As we know, Australia's playing three tests for the Ashes
Speaker 1: and it's going to be I can't wait. It's going
Speaker 1: to be exciting, and we're having a World Cup qualifier
Speaker 1: as well within that Pacific nation, South Africa versus Cook
Speaker 1: Island and good on the South Africans. I still think
Speaker 1: Cook Islands are going to win, but they're in there
Speaker 1: in the hunt in Greece, isn't is this rugby league.
Speaker 4: They've got off season, so they've got off season. Now
Speaker 4: off season up there. They' getting supplements on the bottles,
Speaker 4: so getting ready for the season.
Speaker 1: That's me. And now that we've got the whole gang
Speaker 1: back together, I'll i'll biff up my bulk up my
Speaker 1: my segment with some music and this and that's the worst.
Speaker 1: Some fun from next week.
Speaker 2: Better joined us next week spot on one forty five
Speaker 2: to the minute.
Speaker 1: There you go. That wraps it up.
Speaker 2: So just a reminder game guys, I won't be here,
Speaker 2: so you guys have to drive next week my absence.
Speaker 2: I will be listening it's coming on. Yeah, ok, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll be in Melbourne. But yeah, that wraps up Episode
Speaker 2: twenty one. And I can't wait. I can't wait for
Speaker 2: this Friday's games. We've got two crackers. Yeah, I called
Speaker 2: it Friday. Yeah, it's the next good Friday. It's going
Speaker 2: to be a crack, you should be fined and suspended.
Speaker 2: That's the stick. Yeah alright, so thanks everyone, have a
Speaker 2: great week and enjoy your footy.
Speaker 1: Be right happy, jeez.