WEBVTT 1 00:00:08.599 --> 00:00:12.679 Way back Baby season three, and I said it would 2 00:00:12.720 --> 00:00:21.960 have last. Hi, I'm George Athas and I'm Nick and 3 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:25.239 welcome to the Quick Hands Regulating Podcast. This is the 4 00:00:25.320 --> 00:00:26.879 part tell us what it is. 5 00:00:27.280 --> 00:00:30.160 It's the Quick Hans Podcast. The bull does used to 6 00:00:30.160 --> 00:00:32.200 be good, but that did not last. That's why I, 7 00:00:32.280 --> 00:00:34.960 George watched off the pet season now cast and country 8 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:37.600 first year is a corner. We don't walk past Nicks. 9 00:00:37.640 --> 00:00:40.679 It have been in shambles since sety six. Dragons haven't 10 00:00:40.679 --> 00:00:43.280 done no better. Twenty takes a clinch. Only team that's 11 00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:45.880 see success. This path is getting rich. The Broncos keep 12 00:00:45.880 --> 00:00:48.119 on taking lots of Tiny's head and this I call 13 00:00:48.200 --> 00:00:50.840 up and I'm asking NAUGHTI for some movies. They said 14 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:53.560 that has to sit there for water his defeat Friday 15 00:00:53.640 --> 00:00:55.600 night food in these tip it's just to be complete. 16 00:00:55.799 --> 00:00:57.600 I'm off the bench when I see walls you running 17 00:00:57.640 --> 00:01:00.240 for the team. I ain't playing the NFL. We really 18 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:02.960 makes the league getting tries every day time we're killing 19 00:01:03.039 --> 00:01:05.239 never team. I'm super quicking with all these hands, I 20 00:01:05.280 --> 00:01:08.560 cast them montd George, Nick TONI after to the stage. 21 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:12.200 Please welcome back to the Quick Has Regularague podcast. This 22 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:14.400 is the pod that tools are like. It is season three, 23 00:01:14.519 --> 00:01:20.000 episode twenty five. That's one hundred and fifteen episodes. Welcome back, 24 00:01:20.159 --> 00:01:21.239 Artie ten. How are you guys? 25 00:01:21.400 --> 00:01:24.599 Good, good afternoon, good evening everybody. How was your week? 26 00:01:24.879 --> 00:01:26.040 What weekend of football? 27 00:01:26.359 --> 00:01:28.319 It was great? It was great. How are you ten? 28 00:01:28.760 --> 00:01:32.159 Yeah? Really good, really good. You know I had to, 29 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:34.200 I know, talking about it before you jumped on. But 30 00:01:34.239 --> 00:01:38.280 I've really been getting back into football because I'm going 31 00:01:38.359 --> 00:01:39.239 to finish scene. 32 00:01:39.359 --> 00:01:43.439 So that's it for AFL. But yeah, it was. 33 00:01:43.719 --> 00:01:47.120 It's been a pretty good week. The weekend of footy. 34 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:50.079 I felt like I laughed, like waited so long to 35 00:01:50.159 --> 00:01:50.840 watch games. 36 00:01:51.760 --> 00:01:55.760 Yeah, it'll be the same this weekend too. Unfortunately, no 37 00:01:55.879 --> 00:01:57.840 George tonight because he's not feeling well. So that's the 38 00:01:57.920 --> 00:01:58.840 three of us carrying it. 39 00:02:00.280 --> 00:02:04.200 Yeah, he's looking he's already depressed. Mat he hasn't finished it, George. 40 00:02:04.239 --> 00:02:05.519 I've still got another two more weeks. 41 00:02:05.599 --> 00:02:08.120 Man, Do you reckon? That's it? Do you reckon? It's 42 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:11.960 because the dogs lost? I doubt it, doubt I'm really kidding. 43 00:02:13.439 --> 00:02:16.000 But anyway, so week two of the finals is down 44 00:02:16.080 --> 00:02:20.280 and we're down to the nuts and bolts. Ardie, I 45 00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:23.919 can't ask George, where's Finals Week two? So I'm gonna 46 00:02:23.960 --> 00:02:24.199 ask you. 47 00:02:24.439 --> 00:02:25.199 It's in the can. 48 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:28.400 In the can, it's in the can. Can. Have you 49 00:02:28.439 --> 00:02:29.840 got the good thing of the week for us? You 50 00:02:29.919 --> 00:02:30.080 know what? 51 00:02:30.319 --> 00:02:36.000 My good thing of the week was Ala now one performance. 52 00:02:36.280 --> 00:02:38.919 I'm wanted it the dogs. His first year he wins 53 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:41.439 the Grand Four, and his second year he knocks his 54 00:02:41.560 --> 00:02:44.039 team out that didn't want him. So yeah, and with 55 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:47.919 in style, with three tries. But he just looks like 56 00:02:48.039 --> 00:02:50.759 a really happy man and a good footballer. He's a 57 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:51.400 really good player. 58 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:54.000 And some sessions of the media were criticizing him for 59 00:02:54.080 --> 00:02:56.639 carrying on and it's like the guys just had a 60 00:02:56.800 --> 00:02:59.439 killer performance against the club that didn't want him exactly. 61 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:02.960 You know, he's got every right to do that, exactly. 62 00:03:03.240 --> 00:03:03.960 He's brilliant. 63 00:03:04.759 --> 00:03:07.319 He was amazing, he was amazing. He's so good. 64 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:10.360 I think that that's the great good good thing at 65 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:10.680 the week. 66 00:03:11.039 --> 00:03:12.120 And the other good thing of the week just the 67 00:03:12.360 --> 00:03:14.800 daytime forty just saving all the people. I love daytime footy. 68 00:03:15.400 --> 00:03:17.400 Every final series would be just Daytime. 69 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:19.599 I missed the three o'clock Grand Final. I miss it. 70 00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:21.879 The year two thousand, we haven't had. 71 00:03:21.759 --> 00:03:23.520 It It just looks so good, doesn't it. 72 00:03:23.639 --> 00:03:28.919 Yeah, there's nothing like that, that sunny afternoon grand final thing. 73 00:03:29.280 --> 00:03:32.199 You know, the night games is a less different. It is, 74 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:34.560 it is, and that's a good thing. But what's in 75 00:03:34.639 --> 00:03:37.120 Niko has been this week. Well, your good thing leads 76 00:03:37.159 --> 00:03:40.039 into my bad things. So my bid thing is Cameron Surrealdo. 77 00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:45.159 I feel good, geez. I mean, what a car crash 78 00:03:45.240 --> 00:03:50.039 that was from they. This is the team that halfway 79 00:03:50.080 --> 00:03:51.639 through the season was coming first out of the best 80 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:54.479 defense in the league. They can send forty two tackles 81 00:03:54.520 --> 00:03:57.719 in the first half, sorry, forty two missed tackles in 82 00:03:57.800 --> 00:04:01.199 the first half. And and the reason, the reason that 83 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:05.719 it might bin is because apparently they're the only arms 84 00:04:05.800 --> 00:04:08.319 that don't realize it. You know, talking about how good 85 00:04:08.639 --> 00:04:12.319 Ala money was you had And I brought this up 86 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:16.759 last week. Bat Burton playing in the centers for the 87 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:21.040 first time this year. A new halves combination, A brand 88 00:04:21.079 --> 00:04:23.639 new halves combination. It's never been tested before in a 89 00:04:23.920 --> 00:04:27.360 sudden death match. But when Phil Good was asked about it, 90 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:32.959 this is his response, verbatim. It suits the media narrative 91 00:04:33.040 --> 00:04:34.800 to describe it the way you did. Just then, None, 92 00:04:34.959 --> 00:04:37.000 none of that was in our four walls. None of 93 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:39.199 it was anywhere from our players or coaches. This is, 94 00:04:39.680 --> 00:04:42.319 by the way Paul Gallan asking him about about this, 95 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:46.120 you know, collapse. We're delighted to have Gavin on our books. 96 00:04:47.399 --> 00:04:49.879 We didn't know it was going to happen at the time, 97 00:04:49.920 --> 00:04:51.360 but we made a decision that we wanted him in 98 00:04:51.399 --> 00:04:54.360 the club. Now it's led to this media barrage, and 99 00:04:54.480 --> 00:04:56.879 a lot of it has been childish and extremely unfair. 100 00:04:57.399 --> 00:04:59.600 But as I say to the boys, welcome to the Bulldogs. 101 00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:02.240 We get that stuff all the time. That's part of 102 00:05:02.319 --> 00:05:06.720 being in our jersey, playing the victim again, right, This 103 00:05:06.920 --> 00:05:10.439 boy was outstanding yesterday in a badly beaten side. I 104 00:05:10.519 --> 00:05:13.560 thought he really shared his class and he's a real 105 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:15.639 player of the future. He set up and scored one try. 106 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:18.639 I didn't see much else. He was heavily targeted in defense. 107 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:23.199 So so yeah, I don't know. I mean, I mean, 108 00:05:23.720 --> 00:05:25.519 we'll get into when we cover the game anyway. But 109 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:28.680 we'll talk more about that when we cover the game. 110 00:05:28.759 --> 00:05:31.600 But in terms of controversy corner, there's not that much 111 00:05:31.639 --> 00:05:34.360 to talk about. The roosters. You know whose name I 112 00:05:34.399 --> 00:05:39.360 can't pronounce, Mark apparently has informed the club that after 113 00:05:39.439 --> 00:05:43.879 next season he's going back to rugby union. So that's 114 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:44.680 a loss for the game. 115 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:49.279 That's a huge loss. After the season he's had, oh 116 00:05:49.319 --> 00:05:51.600 coeol gutted with the Roosters, you know, like they've brought 117 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:54.439 this guy on, he's had an outstanding year. They can 118 00:05:54.519 --> 00:05:56.480 build a team around him, like he's part of their future, 119 00:05:56.519 --> 00:05:58.079 and then a year later he's going to go. 120 00:05:59.480 --> 00:06:02.560 I'd go little bit further. I'm a little angry at 121 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:07.199 lenders in the NRL who've probably made him feel I wanted, 122 00:06:08.360 --> 00:06:10.639 you know, true, they've had they've. 123 00:06:10.439 --> 00:06:14.399 Had a bit of disruption, I guess with their oh 124 00:06:14.519 --> 00:06:17.839 and I guess controversy corner. You can talk about how 125 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:22.680 what's his name the guy that's got done for texting 126 00:06:22.920 --> 00:06:27.959 Brandon Smith about yeah, like he because everyone's blowing up 127 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:30.040 about it that he got, you know, fine, and then 128 00:06:30.079 --> 00:06:33.360 he's gotten he's suspended for ten games. And because people 129 00:06:33.439 --> 00:06:38.600 don't read be on the headline. Obviously the NRL suspended ma'am. 130 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:41.639 His club has suspended him. But I feel like the 131 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:45.680 Roosters might be a little bit disturbed next year, like 132 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:47.639 the first part of the season, because if he's out 133 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:51.279 for ten games Mirkey muck Stain next year obviously, but 134 00:06:51.720 --> 00:06:55.040 they've got a few kind of different different movements in 135 00:06:55.120 --> 00:06:59.839 that team. Something that we talked about more probably earlier Lush, 136 00:07:00.519 --> 00:07:03.279 which we can talk about next time. But the signings 137 00:07:03.920 --> 00:07:06.319 and how the clubs of you know, who's coming to 138 00:07:06.399 --> 00:07:10.600 which club? I think last year it was pretty while 139 00:07:10.759 --> 00:07:13.439 because you had so many people leaving Penrith as well. 140 00:07:13.600 --> 00:07:15.680 Yeah, maybe we can do that any of our season 141 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:19.680 wrap in the last yeah for sure. I mean some 142 00:07:19.839 --> 00:07:22.120 of them, yes, some of them turned out really good, 143 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:23.160 some of them not so good. 144 00:07:23.639 --> 00:07:25.560 What are your thoughts on that? What happened to Radley? 145 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:32.879 They're just idiots, you know. I mean, like George says, 146 00:07:33.240 --> 00:07:35.240 whatever you want to do in your spare time, do it. 147 00:07:35.920 --> 00:07:38.360 You know, as a professional first grader, I wouldn't risk 148 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:41.519 being drug tested randomly, you know. I wouldn't risk I 149 00:07:41.560 --> 00:07:44.800 wouldn't risk doing it certainly during the season. And there's 150 00:07:44.879 --> 00:07:47.120 nothing to well, they say, there's nothing to suggest that 151 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:50.160 it was even for him. But I've been around long 152 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:52.519 enough to know what it looks like when someone orders 153 00:07:52.519 --> 00:07:55.040 an eight ball. I can tell you that, So say 154 00:07:55.079 --> 00:07:59.839 cut the bullshit, seriously, you know when when when Brandon Smith, 155 00:08:00.279 --> 00:08:02.160 he's a repeat offender. You know, he did this back 156 00:08:02.199 --> 00:08:05.639 at Melbourne when when he was caught with Cameron Munster 157 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:08.519 and a couple other guys in the hotel room, and 158 00:08:08.639 --> 00:08:12.040 the NRL's point of view at that point was we 159 00:08:12.199 --> 00:08:14.839 can't test them because it's the off season now, because 160 00:08:14.879 --> 00:08:17.279 it happened like two days after they got eliminated or whatever. 161 00:08:18.480 --> 00:08:21.920 Whatever it is, just it just proves not so much 162 00:08:22.040 --> 00:08:26.279 Victor Rady, but Brandon Smith is an absolute moron and 163 00:08:27.480 --> 00:08:31.480 these guys, honestly, I mean, I wouldn't sign them. I wouldn't. 164 00:08:31.480 --> 00:08:34.159 I wouldn't have him. And Wayne Bennett took him and 165 00:08:34.200 --> 00:08:35.799 then this blew up in his lap so he's forced 166 00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:38.960 to defend him. But I'm sure, I'm sure he's having 167 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:40.559 second thoughts about it, but there's not much he can 168 00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:46.279 do now. Last year, Yeah, they're just but I don't 169 00:08:46.279 --> 00:08:49.320 I'm not criticizing any of them for doing it. Just 170 00:08:49.480 --> 00:08:52.039 be smarter. It's like when people get filmed doing something 171 00:08:52.159 --> 00:08:55.919 like they're idiots. You know, if you're going to do something, 172 00:08:56.039 --> 00:08:57.799 you know, phones in the bedroom, if you're in a 173 00:08:57.879 --> 00:09:00.440 hotel or whatever, like they're just they're just idiots. 174 00:09:00.559 --> 00:09:04.759 So I find it funny that people hold people to 175 00:09:04.840 --> 00:09:07.039 such a high step, like, you know, obviously they're players, 176 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:09.799 are professional players. Like even Corey was like, look, obviously 177 00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:12.879 at the professional level and you know the players that 178 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:15.960 they really need to set this example. But if you 179 00:09:16.159 --> 00:09:20.679 go to any stadium where my kids are sitting, the 180 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:23.519 fans are feral, and I know they're not on them, 181 00:09:23.559 --> 00:09:25.279 but it's kind of like, don't sit there and be. 182 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:30.120 My take on that is I don't necessarily agree that 183 00:09:30.200 --> 00:09:33.440 players need to be like role models in they do 184 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:35.919 when they're on stage, but what they do in their 185 00:09:35.960 --> 00:09:38.919 spare time is no one's business, and like this is 186 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:41.840 no one's business. It's become public news. All I'm saying 187 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:44.840 is the guy's an idiot because he's been caught out 188 00:09:44.919 --> 00:09:49.559 before and he's and he's dumb enough to use a 189 00:09:49.679 --> 00:09:56.120 work issued device to do drug deals. It's just stupidity. 190 00:09:56.759 --> 00:10:00.120 Is there anything around where Radily will go because. 191 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:04.360 Apparently his manager I'd take him, Yeah, well. 192 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:08.240 Like the phoners ringing off the hook. 193 00:10:08.600 --> 00:10:12.039 Yeah, I'd take him. I'd take him, but yeah, I 194 00:10:12.080 --> 00:10:13.919 don't know. I mean, see there, there, there you go again. 195 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:17.519 So it's this goes back to you guys may remember 196 00:10:17.799 --> 00:10:21.039 Canberra a few years back, ten years or whatever. I 197 00:10:21.159 --> 00:10:23.720 had some had some awesome players on their books, like 198 00:10:23.960 --> 00:10:27.960 Blake Ferguson and Odd Carney, and there's one or two 199 00:10:27.960 --> 00:10:33.159 others that actually can't remember Josh Dugan if I remember correctly, 200 00:10:33.639 --> 00:10:35.480 all of these guys wanted out of their contract. Now 201 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:37.679 I know this is not the same, but all you 202 00:10:37.799 --> 00:10:39.720 had to do was go out and do something stupid, 203 00:10:40.159 --> 00:10:42.720 you'd get you'd get fired, and another club would sign you. 204 00:10:42.879 --> 00:10:46.000 So this is out of victor around his hands because 205 00:10:46.039 --> 00:10:49.039 he didn't instigate this or whatever. But if the club, 206 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:51.480 if the club moves to terminate him because they feel 207 00:10:51.519 --> 00:10:54.840 that's the right thing to do, they're just gifting another club. 208 00:10:55.120 --> 00:10:56.720 He's just getting it. So it's not it's not a 209 00:10:56.799 --> 00:11:00.279 situation with the NRL. You know, terminates the con for 210 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:02.840 a two year period or whatever. He's going to be 211 00:11:02.879 --> 00:11:06.039 free to go somewhere else. So do do everyone else 212 00:11:06.080 --> 00:11:08.120 a favorite sack him? You're just strengthen someone else. 213 00:11:08.559 --> 00:11:08.759 Yeah. 214 00:11:09.639 --> 00:11:11.639 What obsessed me about this whole thing is I feel 215 00:11:12.159 --> 00:11:15.480 it's been he's been unfairly treated. This only came out 216 00:11:15.519 --> 00:11:17.759 because Brandon Smith went to court and they released his 217 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:20.080 text messages. He really didn't do anything. He was only 218 00:11:20.120 --> 00:11:22.919 part of a text message. Just anything that he's guilty of. 219 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:25.679 You know, we've had guys like Ryce Walsh got caught 220 00:11:25.720 --> 00:11:28.399 with a bay, we had the Monster. We had Brandon 221 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:29.360 Ages ago. 222 00:11:29.600 --> 00:11:32.039 He asked he asked Brandon Smith to get him at April. 223 00:11:32.120 --> 00:11:34.960 Yeah, I know he did, but that text message came out. 224 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:38.039 But all these other guys, we had Braidon Trindle, Braiden 225 00:11:38.080 --> 00:11:41.919 Trindle last year got caught with cocaine and alcohol in 226 00:11:41.960 --> 00:11:44.600 his system. We had what's his name, the other guy 227 00:11:44.720 --> 00:11:48.000 that you guys car Yeah, they got one or two weeks. 228 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:51.799 See, it's the same situation that I just described. Canterbury's 229 00:11:51.799 --> 00:11:55.159 hand was forced. Yeah, they had to sack him. Some 230 00:11:55.320 --> 00:11:57.519 people in some sessions of the media saying he's had 231 00:11:57.559 --> 00:12:00.720 his best season ever this year. Yeah, so they they 232 00:12:00.799 --> 00:12:03.320 weakened themselves, they strengthened out. I'll tell you what. They 233 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:04.600 could have used him on Sunday. 234 00:12:05.720 --> 00:12:08.559 They could have the Bulldogs, but those Soky was still 235 00:12:08.600 --> 00:12:09.919 get to get rid of him anyway. They needed to 236 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:11.679 through the money so they can buy others. So it 237 00:12:11.840 --> 00:12:14.039 was sort of worked in their favor. They get rid 238 00:12:14.039 --> 00:12:15.960 of it because it was not like eight seven hundred 239 00:12:16.080 --> 00:12:17.559 or eight hundred or something. It was on good money. 240 00:12:17.679 --> 00:12:20.600 So they did it work out in their favor. Well, 241 00:12:20.639 --> 00:12:22.120 they brought in some play on it. 242 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:23.600 They brought in Galvin Theger, but. 243 00:12:23.960 --> 00:12:28.600 They had that workout. But yeah, just yea, yeah, I know, 244 00:12:28.840 --> 00:12:30.720 I know, I know. It's something that none of us 245 00:12:30.720 --> 00:12:34.240 should know about to be fair and and and if 246 00:12:34.279 --> 00:12:36.679 this stuff is released in court, then it shouldn't be 247 00:12:36.759 --> 00:12:37.440 released publicly. 248 00:12:37.759 --> 00:12:38.720 Exactly, did it? 249 00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:41.559 Yeah? 250 00:12:42.200 --> 00:12:42.600 Exactly? 251 00:12:42.879 --> 00:12:45.240 My only my only point is that Brandon Smith is 252 00:12:45.240 --> 00:12:50.879 an absolutely more on Yeah, and yeah I wouldn't I 253 00:12:50.919 --> 00:12:52.600 wouldn't go anywhere near him, but that's just me and 254 00:12:52.799 --> 00:12:56.559 his performances are unwarranted anyway. So yeah, it's just looked 255 00:12:56.600 --> 00:12:56.960 that good. 256 00:12:57.399 --> 00:12:59.799 And they said, Nick Polatus, you know he's not going hard, 257 00:12:59.840 --> 00:13:03.399 but well were interested why he wanted to get rid 258 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:05.080 of Brandon Smith like he was a big signing for 259 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:07.519 Snick Polite. It's like they were chasing him harder that 260 00:13:07.639 --> 00:13:09.480 only got him and to get rid of him after 261 00:13:09.559 --> 00:13:12.000 he thinks something's going funny around. 262 00:13:12.039 --> 00:13:15.039 He performed and was injury ridden as well, but there 263 00:13:15.120 --> 00:13:15.399 must have. 264 00:13:15.399 --> 00:13:16.840 Been he must have knew about that as well, so 265 00:13:17.120 --> 00:13:19.480 maybe let's get rid of this guy. He's a bad influence. 266 00:13:19.759 --> 00:13:22.600 Obviously he was exactly That's what I mean. 267 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:24.960 Like he's like he likes to play himself up as 268 00:13:24.960 --> 00:13:29.039 Alaric and he's not Alarican. He's an idiot. Yeah, big difference, 269 00:13:29.159 --> 00:13:29.320 you know. 270 00:13:29.919 --> 00:13:30.120 Yeah. 271 00:13:30.720 --> 00:13:33.039 Funny like if you even if you are on the 272 00:13:33.200 --> 00:13:37.480 outskirts of footy players, whether they're footy players, plays or 273 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:42.399 players whatever, for all of them to just be completely shocked, 274 00:13:42.759 --> 00:13:46.519 like every again it's not about business. But also don't 275 00:13:46.519 --> 00:13:47.960 sit there in your laurels. 276 00:13:47.600 --> 00:13:50.799 And pretend you know that you know how many rugby 277 00:13:50.840 --> 00:13:55.279 league players are doing it exactly right usually with the 278 00:13:55.360 --> 00:13:59.519 randing testing that they're informed on the day, Yeah, and 279 00:13:59.639 --> 00:14:02.879 they just they'll be sent to the weight room or something. 280 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:05.799 They won't they won't be in the change room around 281 00:14:05.879 --> 00:14:09.039 on the paddic when this is all handled internally by 282 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:13.120 every club by the way, right, So so a player 283 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:17.399 at training will say, you know what, today you're doing 284 00:14:17.480 --> 00:14:20.519 gym work or something. They won't be there on site 285 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:24.080 when the test is. It's more common than you think. 286 00:14:25.080 --> 00:14:29.679 And it all started with Andrew Johns as well. It's true, right, 287 00:14:29.759 --> 00:14:32.159 It's true because he was never because when he came 288 00:14:32.240 --> 00:14:35.120 out and publicly admitted that he was he was doing 289 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:39.120 recreational drugs throughout his whole career, then the league was 290 00:14:39.159 --> 00:14:41.720 made to look foolish. You do random testing, How was 291 00:14:41.799 --> 00:14:44.799 this never picked up? You know, it's because he was 292 00:14:44.799 --> 00:14:50.000 always informed when someone was coming. It's funny and sorry no, 293 00:14:51.000 --> 00:14:54.159 it's also one of my arguments against why he's an immortal. 294 00:14:55.320 --> 00:14:57.600 Not because he was doing drugs. I don't hold that 295 00:14:57.679 --> 00:15:00.440 against him, but because the guy admitted to taking a 296 00:15:00.519 --> 00:15:03.120 value on game day to came his nerves. Well, if 297 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:04.519 you have to do that, maybe you're not as good 298 00:15:04.519 --> 00:15:07.639 as you think, because the best players then they had 299 00:15:07.639 --> 00:15:10.320 to handle the pressure without taking tablets. You know. So 300 00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:11.919 just my take on it. 301 00:15:12.840 --> 00:15:15.080 Funny years ago, and I don't know if you know, 302 00:15:15.320 --> 00:15:18.639 Da r in a field mining service business with my 303 00:15:18.759 --> 00:15:21.320 ex and we had it for like seven years. So 304 00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:24.600 it's basically although like his's diesel fitters, supervisors in utes 305 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:27.600 working for the mines. So they had our utes. We 306 00:15:27.720 --> 00:15:31.279 bought fleet and stuff, and we do random like drug 307 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:34.960 testing of course, and we were pretty strict to our guys, 308 00:15:35.279 --> 00:15:39.039 but the guys actually worked for the client. Like the 309 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:41.399 stories that you heard like they you know, would buy 310 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:45.120 fake penises, fake because they watched them. So you've got 311 00:15:45.159 --> 00:15:46.799 to watch them as they do it, and then like 312 00:15:46.919 --> 00:15:47.360 fake we. 313 00:15:47.600 --> 00:15:50.559 As well, or like yeah, you've got to go into 314 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:55.720 you've got to go to a toilet cubicle. And so 315 00:15:55.840 --> 00:16:00.600 they were just like have this. You know, it used 316 00:16:00.600 --> 00:16:03.480 to work. So me and Andy when we used to 317 00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:06.000 do form work, we did it for a couple of 318 00:16:06.080 --> 00:16:09.879 our colleagues on site who were testing. Once we'd go 319 00:16:09.960 --> 00:16:12.360 and pissing into a jar for them into into a 320 00:16:12.440 --> 00:16:15.399 bottle and they'd hand it in and be clean because 321 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:17.840 they weren't clean while they're on But this is our 322 00:16:17.879 --> 00:16:21.320 construction sites, right while we're on probation and stuff. You know, 323 00:16:21.399 --> 00:16:25.399 they have weekly Back then in the nineties, they would 324 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:28.200 have to just bring the bottle to the to the 325 00:16:28.279 --> 00:16:31.480 probation to the probation officer, whereas nowadays, if you get 326 00:16:31.559 --> 00:16:35.039 drug tested for a job, someone literally stands outside the cubicle. Yeah, 327 00:16:35.879 --> 00:16:39.519 but there's ways of you know, it gets measured by 328 00:16:39.559 --> 00:16:41.600 its warmth and all that to make sure it's yea. 329 00:16:41.919 --> 00:16:44.600 And so they would have these bladders and then there's 330 00:16:44.600 --> 00:16:45.000 a bladder. 331 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:46.759 Yeah, you can actually you can actually get someone to 332 00:16:46.799 --> 00:16:49.600 do it for you, and five minutes later into a bladder, 333 00:16:49.799 --> 00:16:51.759 and five minutes later, just carry that bladder in your 334 00:16:51.759 --> 00:16:54.200 pocket into the cubicle and then and then pull that 335 00:16:54.240 --> 00:16:56.639 into the bottle. There's a million ways. 336 00:16:58.480 --> 00:17:01.279 These guys are not operating eight million dollar machinery that 337 00:17:01.360 --> 00:17:04.200 can potentially kill people in the mindset. But also just 338 00:17:04.279 --> 00:17:07.519 wait until like the end of the season or when 339 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:08.519 you don't meet Oh. 340 00:17:08.640 --> 00:17:10.119 Yeah, I mean, like I said, I don't hold it 341 00:17:10.160 --> 00:17:12.640 against them. I just think you'd have to be done 342 00:17:12.680 --> 00:17:15.400 to get caught in this day and age, with everything 343 00:17:15.559 --> 00:17:18.720 everything so under the microscope, you'd have to be an 344 00:17:18.759 --> 00:17:21.359 idiot to get caught more than once. And obviously Brandon 345 00:17:21.400 --> 00:17:24.319 Smith has any is you know, I keep going back 346 00:17:24.359 --> 00:17:27.839 to it, but it's it's never going to leave. It's 347 00:17:27.880 --> 00:17:30.240 part of it. You know, Well, what's real? 348 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:32.279 Are they going to suspend Brandon Smith? Really like that? 349 00:17:32.440 --> 00:17:33.279 What's the story there? 350 00:17:33.359 --> 00:17:34.880 Are they just waiting for the court case to go 351 00:17:35.359 --> 00:17:37.640 They're waiting for the court they said, they said that 352 00:17:37.720 --> 00:17:40.240 they're waiting for the court case to conclude before they 353 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:43.759 before they decide whether or they'll take any action. At 354 00:17:43.799 --> 00:17:47.200 the moment, there's nothing they can really suspend him for like, 355 00:17:47.359 --> 00:17:49.480 no one's been at the end of the day, no 356 00:17:49.559 --> 00:17:52.079 one's been tested for anything. It's it comes down to 357 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:55.599 a joking text. Really everyone knows what it was, but 358 00:17:56.160 --> 00:17:59.680 there's no physical evidence to prove that anything actually happened exactly, 359 00:17:59.839 --> 00:18:02.519 So it just smeths his name. Other than that, I 360 00:18:02.519 --> 00:18:05.839 don't think anything will come of it. You know, the 361 00:18:05.920 --> 00:18:09.000 actions of Victor Radley. You know, it's like, if I 362 00:18:09.079 --> 00:18:11.079 was Victor Radley, I'd actually hire a lawyer and go 363 00:18:11.279 --> 00:18:13.960 against my club and say, where is the evidence that 364 00:18:13.960 --> 00:18:17.160 I've done anything wrong? Why am I being fined fifty 365 00:18:17.240 --> 00:18:19.839 zerosand dollars or whatever? It is, suspended for ten matches 366 00:18:19.880 --> 00:18:22.319 based on what have I done wrong? What can you 367 00:18:22.440 --> 00:18:24.079 prove it I've done wrong? In a court of law, 368 00:18:24.160 --> 00:18:26.920 you can't prove shit. So rather than you suspending me, 369 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:30.480 I'm finding a lawsuit against you. That's how I rote. Yeah, 370 00:18:30.559 --> 00:18:32.519 and I'd end up leaving them, not the other way around. 371 00:18:33.880 --> 00:18:36.079 Yeah though, even though we all know what he did, 372 00:18:36.519 --> 00:18:40.039 but you know it was like twelve months ago. 373 00:18:40.839 --> 00:18:43.599 Oh no, it's just I didn't realize Brandon Smith was 374 00:18:43.680 --> 00:18:46.119 at the Southport So Nicko, it's like literally, I think 375 00:18:46.160 --> 00:18:49.039 we took you near there. It's like twenty minutes from 376 00:18:49.039 --> 00:18:52.519 my place to Southport. I don't realize who right. Apparently 377 00:18:52.559 --> 00:18:54.759 all these rap fans were outside the court. 378 00:18:57.160 --> 00:18:59.599 The last I heard about with Victor Radley is that 379 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:01.480 he's going to state the Roosters. He's going to serve 380 00:19:01.519 --> 00:19:04.799 out the ten works and continue any other option will 381 00:19:04.799 --> 00:19:06.000 have his super League. I don't think he wants to 382 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:07.000 play against the Roosters. 383 00:19:07.279 --> 00:19:10.680 I read yesterday that I read yesterday the club has 384 00:19:10.759 --> 00:19:12.880 informed his management his freedom negotiate with. 385 00:19:13.039 --> 00:19:15.839 Yes, they're not pushing him out, but no they're not. Yeah, 386 00:19:16.039 --> 00:19:17.839 they've told him that, but yeah, he doesn't want to leave. 387 00:19:18.079 --> 00:19:22.519 He prefer to stay there if not super League. 388 00:19:23.960 --> 00:19:26.880 So silly, he's like twenty seven. 389 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:33.319 The only other thing is and tenuously laugh when I 390 00:19:33.400 --> 00:19:36.720 say this, and we'll go through the games obviously. Next 391 00:19:37.359 --> 00:19:41.119 Ricky Stewart's press conference one minute forty four seconds. One 392 00:19:41.200 --> 00:19:46.440 minute forty four seconds. Yeah, you know, it's part of 393 00:19:46.519 --> 00:19:48.640 the gig. You know, you're a professional. Do it, do 394 00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:51.559 it right, go out the right way. But I can 395 00:19:51.720 --> 00:19:55.400 understand he was understandably hurting. But I don't know. Let's 396 00:19:55.440 --> 00:19:56.880 come into the games. What do you guys, reckon? 397 00:19:57.480 --> 00:19:59.279 Yeah, just one other bit of interesting news. I just 398 00:19:59.359 --> 00:20:02.200 remember that came out last week. Jack Debillin, you know 399 00:20:02.279 --> 00:20:04.519 the guy that the police officer that I put in 400 00:20:04.599 --> 00:20:07.599 the fake claim the fake evidence wasn't he wasn't he charged. 401 00:20:08.279 --> 00:20:12.119