Speaker 1: Went back baby season three and I said it would
Speaker 1: have last. Hi. I'm George Athas and I'm Nick.
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Speaker 4: In needs tip.
Speaker 3: It's just to be complete. I'm off the bench when
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Speaker 4: Getting tries every day.
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Speaker 4: A Welcome to the Quick Hands Rugby League. Podcast that
Speaker 4: tells her like it is, Hey, our fearless leader. Nick
Speaker 4: isn't here today, but we've got George and Tanya, the
Speaker 4: three Stooges are here. We're gonna be running a month
Speaker 4: tonight without later here. But I hope what is Nick doing?
Speaker 1: The ruble count?
Speaker 4: What's doing?
Speaker 1: But is he going for business a pleasure?
Speaker 5: It is in Melbourne for pleasure?
Speaker 4: Pleasure?
Speaker 1: You go.
Speaker 5: He needs a bit of a break, get away.
Speaker 4: From the race, trying to recruit some for paramounters and
Speaker 4: play some paramouter on a mission there. That's it. Well,
Speaker 4: I hope he has a good time and enjoy your break, Nickel.
Speaker 4: We need you for the remaining four or five pods
Speaker 4: to goa for the rest of the season. I made
Speaker 4: an appoint for you, George, So in six weeks time,
Speaker 4: doctor bombay the so Vitress. When you're going to the
Speaker 4: season's finishing seasons, so I know you're going to.
Speaker 1: Hit your then the men that I see semi final
Speaker 1: depression that starts kicking in that it starts kicking.
Speaker 6: I have to watch soccer.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I can't do it.
Speaker 4: I love it. I can't do it. It's the best thing, mate.
Speaker 1: So does it take away the pain ting? Does it
Speaker 1: take away the pain a little bit?
Speaker 5: Well, I used to watch it. I'm talking like fifteen
Speaker 5: twenty years ago and I played in high school. But yeah,
Speaker 5: it's nice, Like it's just familiar. Because before we jumped
Speaker 5: on this, I was having a chat Witherardi about Liverpool
Speaker 5: and it is it's exciting. You know what I like
Speaker 5: about it is the fans get so get up and
Speaker 5: it's just it's it's just brilliant.
Speaker 1: Does it come to the screen.
Speaker 4: It's it's the best. And it's even better when your
Speaker 4: team's doing well, like I'm not used to my team
Speaker 4: doing will in rugby league. When your teams are well,
Speaker 4: you can actually get more into it. It's great though. No,
Speaker 4: the atmosphere everything, you can ear the singing and you
Speaker 4: can need the atmosphere and players are going and harder,
Speaker 4: and it's it's brilliant, It really is.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll maybe you've got to watch. We'll get there
Speaker 1: is some romances, so I mean some stand maybe we'll
Speaker 1: get to stand.
Speaker 4: Yeah there it's good. Okay, So good Thing of the week, George,
Speaker 4: did you want to take it a well, did you
Speaker 4: want me to do the good Thing of the Week?
Speaker 4: You can do the good thing of the week, one
Speaker 4: good thing of the week. Well, how many awesome highlighted
Speaker 4: we say? This weekend? Try after try, There was a
Speaker 4: lot of brilliant tries this week. What happened?
Speaker 1: What happened was Christmas came early for me, especially Friday.
Speaker 1: You know what we expected it? Sometimes it's a phiz.
Speaker 1: How many times have we said we expect good games
Speaker 1: to and they fizz out?
Speaker 5: I literally text you because so when you're away.
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 5: I made the mistake of texting Nick and George sometimes
Speaker 5: during the games and don't tell me because I watch
Speaker 5: it later on.
Speaker 4: I did the same thing, I'll watch later to the Raiders.
Speaker 5: Game, which was unreally if you didn't see it, you
Speaker 5: would see it on the news boards everywhere. I did
Speaker 5: text you You're just like are you watching? Because I'm
Speaker 5: not sure watching?
Speaker 7: I was.
Speaker 1: I wasn't watching. I watched it. I watched it on Saturday.
Speaker 5: Unreal?
Speaker 1: What okay?
Speaker 4: Pick which was the best highloight for you? Tenure this weekend?
Speaker 4: This weekend'shighlights? Which was the best one?
Speaker 5: Raiders?
Speaker 1: The Raiders?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: That last try?
Speaker 5: It strange weeks and then afterwards weeks was like I
Speaker 5: didn't even see him throw the ball to.
Speaker 1: And you know what, they could have tackled him the
Speaker 1: they backed off. They backed off the ball bounce, so
Speaker 1: they could have they could have in the air, they
Speaker 1: could have gotten him, but they did it all might
Speaker 1: have been a penalty because Danger just tagled and I
Speaker 1: don't know, but that was that was That was a
Speaker 1: great finish to I really really really special rugby league game.
Speaker 4: Is that your highlight?
Speaker 1: Two?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, the whole game because it was too opposite forces
Speaker 1: bashing together. So when Canary, when the Bulldogs play Penriff,
Speaker 1: it's exactly the two teams go through exactly the same processes.
Speaker 1: So you just see your sort of a ping pong game.
Speaker 1: When you saw Canberra and you see Penriff, they do
Speaker 1: they go about things completely different. So you two so
Speaker 1: you've seen two opposite forces trying to get on top
Speaker 1: of each other and it was just amazing. And and
Speaker 1: the best thing is that every time Penriff had them
Speaker 1: in the grind, they would attack Penriff in the grind. Okay,
Speaker 1: they wouldn't get out of the grind, but they're attacking
Speaker 1: Penriff instead of most team try to survive. Even Melbourne
Speaker 1: last week just tried to survive, and they survived enough
Speaker 1: they broke the grind. I can I can't honestly say
Speaker 1: that Camber actually broke the grind. But what they did
Speaker 1: do is they attacked that they attacked when they were
Speaker 1: in the grind, and they attacked enough to make to
Speaker 1: either parafunder fatigue or to put made to make pif
Speaker 1: make mistakes so they can come back into the game
Speaker 1: to get opportunity. So it was just two opposing games,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about it later. I'd be more specific,
Speaker 1: but it was just amazing. I'm sitting there, my mouth
Speaker 1: was like and I was talking to me and like
Speaker 1: I wouldn't answer. I'm thinking, I can't believe this is happening.
Speaker 1: And I'm and I'm going deeper into technical stuff. I'm
Speaker 1: looking at every little The game was so close and
Speaker 1: so tight, and I'm trying to find some little, some
Speaker 1: little advantage for someone to get to go to go over,
Speaker 1: and I'm looking everything. I'm looking time on the ground,
Speaker 1: I'm looking how they stand up, I'm looking how the
Speaker 1: the markers split and how they work from the inside.
Speaker 1: I was looking at everything already. I was, I was,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: the camera forwards got on top. That's the only difference
Speaker 1: between the two teams for the last five minutes, and
Speaker 1: that I've never seen it happen for the last six years.
Speaker 1: The ham before gone on top, so sort of alarm
Speaker 1: was a little bit. But besides that, I mean, that
Speaker 1: was the best game of.
Speaker 4: It was the best about my highlight. You know they
Speaker 4: say history never repeats, Well, history repeated. But unfortunately for
Speaker 4: the Tigers, they didn't win the game, but they scored
Speaker 4: a try that was similar to the Grand Final one,
Speaker 4: which was nearly at the same close to the same
Speaker 4: minute that the try was scored in the Grand Finals,
Speaker 4: with that flick pass from behind that was sensational length
Speaker 4: of the field. It was brilliant. That camera trill was fantastic,
Speaker 4: but that Tiger's one was also just as good. Unfortunately
Speaker 4: they didn't win because of it, but it was a
Speaker 4: special try because it was similar to a very special
Speaker 4: try that was done back in when they won the premiership.
Speaker 4: Was that against the same team. Was that the one
Speaker 4: hundred try? Yes, where he flicked it that was awesome.
Speaker 5: Throw behind?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, yes, Mikey mark is an issue and
Speaker 1: you know what I've got this gun feeling they'll take
Speaker 1: him away to the kangaroo too. Yeah, they should. Who's
Speaker 1: the who's the better, who's a better winger than him?
Speaker 4: And this she? Yeah, they can't take to tell me
Speaker 4: about it. Well, we haven't got Nikko today in person,
Speaker 4: but I'm sure he might have something in the bin.
Speaker 4: Do you know if he's left anything behind me?
Speaker 1: He's he's left a message for us guys, and I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure he's got the who's in his bin? So
Speaker 1: let's see what Nicole Nicol says. So Nicole take it away.
Speaker 2: Hello to all our quick hands listeners out there. Sorry
Speaker 2: I can't make the show this week, sending an audio
Speaker 2: clip from Interstate. I have a highlight, a low light
Speaker 2: and a highlight from the weekend. So my first highlight
Speaker 2: obviously for me, the Eels beating the Roosters, really really
Speaker 2: good performance.
Speaker 1: The Roosters were.
Speaker 2: Well below part and lost their half back you know,
Speaker 2: in the eighth minute, and I made some pretty diabotical
Speaker 2: areas in the second half, but I think credit to
Speaker 2: Paramatter for putting a lot of pressure on their line.
Speaker 2: Speed was great all night and they just played really
Speaker 2: well all round. So very happy with that. Low light
Speaker 2: has to be the Tigers Sunday afternoon, likehard Oval, Full
Speaker 2: House two thousand and five, retro Jersey on Well were
Speaker 2: they winning twenty eight points to twelve fourteen whatever it
Speaker 2: was with thirteen fourteen minutes to go? And what do
Speaker 2: they do? What they always do? They shit the bed
Speaker 2: and what is it fourteen fifteen years now they won't
Speaker 2: be in the semis. That's pretty diabotic called in itself.
Speaker 2: But the other highlight is Jerome Lewai, the marquee signing
Speaker 2: one point five million of the man scored his first
Speaker 2: try the season, and I think that's a good return
Speaker 2: on investment when you have your marquee signing scoring one
Speaker 2: try a year. Got to be happy with that. I'm
Speaker 2: out see you all next week.
Speaker 4: Ah, yes, nick I said to him.
Speaker 5: I was like, no worries because he was like, I'll
Speaker 5: send it to justin case whatever reason.
Speaker 2: Can you hear it?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, And but he sends it to me and
Speaker 5: I was like, that's fine. I'll just say how much
Speaker 5: he loves Jerome.
Speaker 4: He loves he loves you and he must have stolen
Speaker 4: his life.
Speaker 1: It was he must have.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's very it's good. I like the Holight Paramount
Speaker 4: were good, fantastic, outstanding. I was thinking a Nico when
Speaker 4: they did that. It was a great performance. Can you
Speaker 4: play what's in front of you? And they played it? Man,
Speaker 4: that was just awesome.
Speaker 1: I just, I just, and can I can I reply?
Speaker 1: Can I reply to you? Actually? Because you say that
Speaker 1: come in fifth or sixth is the best the best fifth,
Speaker 1: fifth is the best position on the table in the
Speaker 1: semi final.
Speaker 4: You can't play all.
Speaker 1: High quality, high tempo, physical games against the green finer.
Speaker 1: When you can't do it hasn't been done. It will
Speaker 1: be done one day, and it might be done this year.
Speaker 1: But what we've seen and how good were how good
Speaker 1: were the races in the last couple of weeks. Now
Speaker 1: on a different planet physic physicality, I can't do.
Speaker 4: Yeah, But George, this is my point. Right, if you
Speaker 4: finish fourth, you play the team coming first at their ground,
Speaker 4: which possibly ends up in the loss. So gag and losing,
Speaker 4: right isn't a good thing. With fifth, you play eighth,
Speaker 4: which is a good chance of winning. So you're a momentum.
Speaker 4: It's all about momentum. Semifinals is momentum. Okay, So once
Speaker 4: you start losing, mate, it gets in your head and
Speaker 4: then more pressure and then yeah, that's my theory. My
Speaker 4: view is this, if you come I don't know, fourth
Speaker 4: and you win, you're in the prem Yeah, I know,
Speaker 4: it's harder. It's much harder because you're playing a way
Speaker 4: to like Canterbury. Now if they finished fourth, who's going
Speaker 4: to finish fourth?
Speaker 1: Warriors?
Speaker 4: Can you see worries but in camera in camp?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: Well okay, that was about what about if if it
Speaker 4: was Candid? What about Candiver is Melbourne? Can you see
Speaker 4: Kenna be having a better chance against Melbourne or a
Speaker 4: better chance against Coronuller. But then they've got to play again.
Speaker 1: They've got to play again instead of having a week
Speaker 1: off if they want to play again, Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 4: It would be injuries, could be anything, man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Look, all I can say is this history tells
Speaker 1: us it will be done. It might be done issue
Speaker 1: because Broncast might be just outside the four or Panthers
Speaker 1: it might be it might be done issue. But history
Speaker 1: tells us it's very hard.
Speaker 4: It is absolutely I agree with and Rooster has.
Speaker 1: Showed us that because they played not only two good games,
Speaker 1: they played about four good games to get up into
Speaker 1: a position. Okay, that physicality and I know they're young,
Speaker 1: but it's hard to it's hard to back up week
Speaker 1: in week out. But anyway, that was the question.
Speaker 4: Sorry, I'm going off again. Well that leads me into
Speaker 4: controversy corners. So there's a couple of things we can
Speaker 4: need to discuss here. The first one you would love this.
Speaker 4: It's up in Coinsland there. Daisy got heated in the
Speaker 4: press run after his game, and then two days later
Speaker 4: he's gone, He's been sacked and replaced by Josh Hannay
Speaker 4: for twenty twenty six. What's your thoughts on that one?
Speaker 5: We knew that was going to happen. It was funny
Speaker 5: because I got the emails for some reason, I get
Speaker 5: Titan's fan mail still and it was like news update
Speaker 5: as coach update, and then probably twenty minutes later.
Speaker 6: New coach Josh Hannay. Yeah, like, and we know it's
Speaker 6: not before because what was he saying.
Speaker 5: He's like, he's home for twenty six and I think
Speaker 5: he was good in that press conference, Like that reporter
Speaker 5: that was like a bit of a cop out, mate.
Speaker 5: How many times do you all need to be told
Speaker 5: by you know, coaches to just stop, you know, staring shit.
Speaker 5: But des was We said it for ages like he
Speaker 5: was out and he should be out, like he needs
Speaker 5: to go and have a holiday for a year because
Speaker 5: he's a good coach. It's just a bad club. You
Speaker 5: know that another coach isn't going to fix that, Josh.
Speaker 5: I love Josh, but you know they need to fix other.
Speaker 6: Things in there.
Speaker 1: You've alluded, you've aluded that it's a cultural thing, and
Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a management thing. Your gut feel
Speaker 1: your gut, your gut feel and and and look, at
Speaker 1: the end of the days, an inexperienced coach in the
Speaker 1: first grade situation, like a first team situation, do you
Speaker 1: think he'll crash and burnle? Do you think he'll go well? Now,
Speaker 1: remembering that there's been about half a dozen who have
Speaker 1: gone through that place, but it experience, be it inexperience
Speaker 1: being the new hot thing, and they've all failed. And
Speaker 1: I still can't believe now the DESI has failed. Two
Speaker 1: rings on his on his finger and he's got Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that team on paper is the top eight team.
Speaker 1: Your thoughts, I think I would.
Speaker 5: Hope in the recruitment process, Josh made it really clear
Speaker 5: to them that you know, this is essentially the last
Speaker 5: chance they have to sort their shit out. I think that.
Speaker 5: I think if it was me, I would have a
Speaker 5: chat with the board or whoever's on the board to go,
Speaker 5: here are the stats of the last ten years of
Speaker 5: what's worked, what hasn't worked. The only thing that's been
Speaker 5: consistent is a leadership that's in there. And I'm not
Speaker 5: saying consistent leadership. I'm saying the people that are in
Speaker 5: the roles and who are making the decisions above the coach.
Speaker 5: That's the only thing that's been consistent. I think Desh
Speaker 5: tried to manage up and have that I guess battle
Speaker 5: that a lot of coaches have when they don't have
Speaker 5: the alignment with their board or the leadership team. But
Speaker 5: they could possibly like if I would put them in
Speaker 5: the bin, like and I would go to jets or
Speaker 5: create a Logan club if I was the NRL. But
Speaker 5: I would hope that Josh has a really good team
Speaker 5: that he's building around him, and that he just has
Speaker 5: a really frank conversation with them to go appreciate that
Speaker 5: you guys invest in his club. But I'm the coach
Speaker 5: that's the only thing that will change it.
Speaker 4: Well, apparently Scott Sadler's been appointed to in some role
Speaker 4: now at the Titans to sort of help him out.
Speaker 4: And there's another guy, the Frankie or someone another guy
Speaker 4: that's been appointed. It's going to be part of Josh's team. Basically,
Speaker 4: they're going there for twenty twenty six. It's not the
Speaker 4: coaching stuff that's that's more goes behind behind the scenes
Speaker 4: and do the He's going to be Scotty Sadler and
Speaker 4: another guy that are going to be part of it.
Speaker 1: Do you think do you think these names t you
Speaker 1: can can handle the board and keep a buffer bit
Speaker 1: between Josh and the board, because that's what Josh needs.
Speaker 1: He needs He needs a buffer, doesn't he Yeah, And I.
Speaker 5: Think he needs someone that's you know, he's but someone
Speaker 5: that plays a bit of bad cop, someone that has
Speaker 5: maybe played at that club before, someone that is familiar
Speaker 5: with the club, who's local. Don't bring someone just flying in.
Speaker 6: He needs he needs.
Speaker 5: So what we do with companies is we might place
Speaker 5: a general manager or a CEO or a COO, and
Speaker 5: there's always owners or a board above and we kind
Speaker 5: of say to them, what do you want and what
Speaker 5: we then do is we build the team around the
Speaker 5: CEO or the CEO that aligned and that it's good
Speaker 5: for the team and the company. That's basically what needs
Speaker 5: to happen. He needs to recruit his own team, get
Speaker 5: as much support as possible, because I think someone today,
Speaker 5: if I was in some sort of position, you know,
Speaker 5: like Frizzell's position or whatever, I wouldn't pretend to know everything.
Speaker 5: I would call in people to help me because I
Speaker 5: haven't played.
Speaker 6: Footy so, you know.
Speaker 5: So I feel like it's not a bad thing that
Speaker 5: he isn't as experienced, but I would hope that he
Speaker 5: would be a touch smarter than Benji, like Benji is trying.
Speaker 5: I would even reach out to Benji if I was him,
Speaker 5: to go, hey, what would you do differently if you
Speaker 5: could start again and get the right people around him as.
Speaker 1: Interesting and I think he's got it. I think he's
Speaker 1: got to put the right people or number one first
Speaker 1: of all, when he went in for the interview, I
Speaker 1: hope he made it very clear to the board what
Speaker 1: he wants, what he needs, and what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: Will stop, this is going to happen. And if you
Speaker 1: don't like what's going to happen. We'll go elsewhere. Because
Speaker 1: I personally would have waited for the Cowboys job. I
Speaker 1: personally no doubt on paper and upstairs in the boardroom,
Speaker 1: I would have I would have waited another season for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys job. But that's me. But he found and
Speaker 1: it was Josh.
Speaker 4: Did Josh play for the Dolphins Cowboys?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 1: He played for the Cowboys?
Speaker 4: Would club man?
Speaker 1: Look, there's no doubt that that Josh can coach. There's
Speaker 1: no doubt in my mind. He's a Jason Roles, he's
Speaker 1: a surrounder, he's he's done his time, he's a he's
Speaker 1: a coach in waiting, a high quality coach.
Speaker 4: But that's not the issue. The issue here is.
Speaker 1: The the Titans board let him do and give him
Speaker 1: the support. Now I'm thinking that they're not, and then
Speaker 1: the reason is from the history. But he's saying to
Speaker 1: me that that if he puts the right people around him,
Speaker 1: and he's got to have that, they will succeed.
Speaker 4: Is that is that?
Speaker 1: Is that basically what you're saying?
Speaker 5: It's like anything right, like like, yes, he's part of
Speaker 5: our team that's above him, but he can't have someone
Speaker 5: the board can't elect his assistant.
Speaker 6: Coach for him. He needs to build his own team
Speaker 6: like that.
Speaker 5: He needs to and and I feel that he will.
Speaker 5: I feel like given that he's played and he's played,
Speaker 5: you know, across a few different clubs, coached and everything else,
Speaker 5: I feel like he would have a really good network
Speaker 5: around him to support him. Even if he gets someone
Speaker 5: or a couple of people as mentors or something like that,
Speaker 5: you know, and even people that are closer to the
Speaker 5: ground like that can give him a bit of insight
Speaker 5: because I imagine being in a club like there would
Speaker 5: be because everyone kind of goes, what's the coach doing?
Speaker 5: It's not the coach's fault. They have so much to handle.
Speaker 5: They've got players that have issues with their misses. They've
Speaker 5: got players that you know, think HI about leaving them.
Speaker 5: They've got them, you know, they it would be really
Speaker 5: hard for the coaches. So if he can have almost
Speaker 5: like that bubble around him, that would be great. And
Speaker 5: I think it's him being younger and not as experienced
Speaker 5: he might be more appealing because the Titans are traditionally
Speaker 5: quite a young babyface team and we have really good
Speaker 5: feeder clubs around as well.
Speaker 1: Oh, the team is set up the team is set up,
Speaker 1: the pathways are set up, the team on paper is
Speaker 1: set up. Again. I can't believe DESI can't drive them
Speaker 1: into the eight. They've come in last, they're coming last.
Speaker 4: I look at I just looked up Josh Hanna. He's
Speaker 4: played one hundred and fifty games for the Cowboys. He
Speaker 4: actually played three games with the Sharks in two thousand
Speaker 4: and seven, but then he played forty four games for
Speaker 4: the Celtic Crusaders. I don't know whether that's rugby league
Speaker 4: or rugby is okay there second division. But I look
Speaker 4: at the Titans to be a bit like the Warriors,
Speaker 4: and before Webster got there, I thought they were a
Speaker 4: bit of a They always had good cattle, good strong team,
Speaker 4: and after Cleary left they went back to their old
Speaker 4: ways again. They got New Zealand coaches in there and
Speaker 4: they went I think they tried with DESI. It didn't work.
Speaker 4: I'm hoping that Josh Hannah has the same effect as
Speaker 4: Webster has with the Warriors, because the Warriors weren't they
Speaker 4: could before Webster got there. He's made them what they are,
Speaker 4: so hopefully Hannah has that same effect. He's coached North
Speaker 4: Queensland nine times when what's his name, what's his name green?
Speaker 4: I think Green. When Greene left, I think it was
Speaker 4: caretaker for a bit, and then he coached the Sharks
Speaker 4: for nineteen games. So he's had a bit of an
Speaker 4: RL experience. He's been in the Queensland set up for
Speaker 4: so long. Yeah, he's got some good connections.
Speaker 1: The pedigree, the pedigree is there. The issue is all
Speaker 1: of Frazil family. Let him be exactly, that's the only
Speaker 1: question here. And we're saying that if Josh is smart
Speaker 1: enough to put the people around him and keep a
Speaker 1: buffer between the Forzels, basically, let's get real and him
Speaker 1: and let him coach, it'll go okay.
Speaker 5: Well, so I'm looking at his starts too. So when
Speaker 5: he coached Logan, which is a really decent team and busy,
Speaker 5: he coached seventy games, winning twenty eight, so it was
Speaker 5: a forty winning percentage. But because we obviously get people
Speaker 5: from interstate to play it. You've got Burly Bears, you know,
Speaker 5: You've got people from South coming to play for Titans.
Speaker 5: It's just it's kind of like that Queenslander kind of
Speaker 5: mentality I think with the players, and he's like he's
Speaker 5: from more and bar like I don't know if you
Speaker 5: guys know, Moron bar is like proper well known mining town,
Speaker 5: like just Adam Kaye.
Speaker 6: So he's like Salt of Verse, you know.
Speaker 5: And and he's coached. I think he's coached enough teams
Speaker 5: or assistant coached enough teams. He's done Qucup, you know,
Speaker 5: he's he's done like Sharks. Even if he was in
Speaker 5: caretaker for Cowboys, caretaker would be quite intense too, because
Speaker 5: you're kind of there trying to build this, you know,
Speaker 5: loyalty or whatever, knowing that you're going to leave. I
Speaker 5: feel like he's got I think he's got a really nice,
Speaker 5: well rounded career to date. And it's pretty simple, you know.
Speaker 5: All you need to do is talk to the players
Speaker 5: and go, how do you feel like? One on one?
Speaker 5: Where are you at?
Speaker 6: Where do you want to be? These are my ideas.
Speaker 5: I'd love to get your thoughts, and hey, you know, bored,
Speaker 5: if you want it to be successful, you stay out
Speaker 5: of it. Let me do my thing, and then if
Speaker 5: you're not happy in six months, we can readjust that's
Speaker 5: how it should be. But not every coach will have
Speaker 5: that confidence to do that. But he also doesn't want
Speaker 5: to tarnish his name. I don't think des is tarnished,
Speaker 5: but I would hope that that was part of his
Speaker 5: onboarding or his interview process to go. If I'm going
Speaker 5: to do this, you need to give me the reins
Speaker 5: I did.
Speaker 4: The good thing is we just solved all the problems
Speaker 4: with the Titans.
Speaker 1: Now we have you solved all the problems and to
Speaker 1: finish off the DESI, well, look, I'm going to suggest
Speaker 1: to you that he's going to be really hard to
Speaker 1: be employed now maybe super League. I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: he even wants to go to Super League, but I
Speaker 1: think the new coach, the coach is coming in now.
Speaker 1: I'm more of a younger breed, as is the last
Speaker 1: of the Mohicans in terms of our old school, old schoolways.
Speaker 1: He's a very well is a strange character and a
Speaker 1: very inwards sort of person, not a very outward sort
Speaker 1: of human being. So maybe we last time we've seen dessiuh.
Speaker 1: And maybe some club will be desperate and need an
Speaker 1: experienced coach. Well, I don't know, but I think that
Speaker 1: he's had a sensational career, fantastic career, not emly plane,
Speaker 1: not amy coaching plane as well, because he's an international
Speaker 1: make no mistake. I like DESI I'm a fan of Dessy.
Speaker 1: I like what he is brought into the team. Now,
Speaker 1: the bloody short drop dropouts. He fucking started all that ship,
Speaker 1: little idiot. You know why, So when I put cays
Speaker 1: in in our forwards, legs have to run all that
Speaker 1: that way. Neither of the bulldogs back in the day,
Speaker 1: you know. So he's brought in a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of innovative things. So look, I'm a fan. It
Speaker 1: didn't work out. I say, Daisy, run, you don't need
Speaker 1: the stress, because he looked pretty stress in that interview.
Speaker 4: He didn't look happy, didn't look happy.
Speaker 1: So you know what, go back to the peninsula. It's
Speaker 1: a beautiful part of the world. I think he's in
Speaker 1: his mid sixties.
Speaker 4: You know, they should do the er rule, should get
Speaker 4: him involved in the rule to look after the referees.
Speaker 4: He should be there. He should be the head of referees. Honestly,
Speaker 4: he would be ideal.
Speaker 1: I agree.
Speaker 4: He gave him just to look after over the rules
Speaker 4: and stuff and just be the man where all the
Speaker 4: rules get done. They need someone like him. You don't
Speaker 4: to be there to to just get things in order,
Speaker 4: because at the moment, whoever's running the referees or whatever,
Speaker 4: it's a mess and it's run by and I don't
Speaker 4: think it's run by rugby league player, it's run by
Speaker 4: an next ref. I think they need an next coach
Speaker 4: ex player and coach to do look after the referees
Speaker 4: because they understand the rules a lot better and the
Speaker 4: feelings and everything else. So anything that would be the
Speaker 4: best thing for the eneral if they did that.
Speaker 1: I agree, And anything is better than what we've gone
Speaker 1: now because what I saw over the weekend and one
Speaker 1: one for sure too, but one particularly young woman on
Speaker 1: a sideline pretty disgraceful. But anyway, your thoughts on that one.
Speaker 5: There's your refs, Yeah, yeah, I think you know, and
Speaker 5: having definitely more at the community club side, but the refs,
Speaker 5: it's so disjointed all of it. Get investors to give
Speaker 5: money and provide input around what they.
Speaker 6: Want it to be.
Speaker 5: Get coaches to have free reign, definitely dees or someone
Speaker 5: else to know, really work with the refs, because at
Speaker 5: least the refs would be protected too because the refs,
Speaker 5: I'm sure that they've played or that whatever, but they
Speaker 5: have no idea like it has been as shambles this
Speaker 5: year in terms of the reffing, and at least for me,
Speaker 5: that be clever. Get someone like Daz to head them up.
Speaker 5: He needs to be involved somehow. He needs to be
Speaker 5: involved in QRL something. I don't care what it is,
Speaker 5: because that is such a I would feel shit if
Speaker 5: I was him, that he has had such a decent
Speaker 5: career and to end it there with that club and then,
Speaker 5: you know, not discarded like everyone loves deirs, but that talent,
Speaker 5: you can't replace that talent that is that is forty
Speaker 5: years in the making, that experience. I hope, I hope
Speaker 5: that they do something with him or some club and
Speaker 5: you never know, right, you know, you don't know what
Speaker 5: clubs might turn over their coaches.
Speaker 6: My god, I would love it if he had like.
Speaker 5: Two years break. We bring like, you know, another Queensland
Speaker 5: team in he starts that up, does a Christian wolf
Speaker 5: with that team. Beautiful. He seems to have a holiday though,
Speaker 5: because he didn't deserve.
Speaker 1: Definitely holiday, there's a low mainly beaches.
Speaker 4: Absolutely absolutely. Let's get on to the second point of
Speaker 4: our controversy corner, and that's around Brandon Smith, who was
Speaker 4: charged with drug supply and inside knowledge of TI betting,
Speaker 4: which is really bizarre. What's your thoughts on that one
Speaker 4: with Brandon Smith.
Speaker 5: He's been a year ago, isn't that the report.
Speaker 4: That it was from, No, it was from this year.
Speaker 4: Wasn't April this year?
Speaker 1: Earlier this year. The Queens and Police have been investigating
Speaker 1: him now for about six months, or the situation for
Speaker 1: six months. That's why I find it hard to believe
Speaker 1: that it's there's no substance there that everybody is saying,
Speaker 1: the NRL, the South Sydney, they're all saying there's no substances.
Speaker 1: They're going to let him play. My fear is that
Speaker 1: it's going to be in is romance situation. He's going
Speaker 1: to get on scott free.
Speaker 4: Yes, my my fear. But did you see what the
Speaker 4: charge for the inside knowledge to betting. All he did
Speaker 4: is tell some guy that he's been he's going to
Speaker 4: play or something. So he got picked on the reserves.
Speaker 4: But he basically told him I'm picked to play. That
Speaker 4: was It wasn't nothing big. I think they're making a
Speaker 4: storm in a teeth cup in regards to the inside
Speaker 4: knowledge on betting. That's a bit of a harsh thing.
Speaker 4: The drug thing, I don't know too much about that
Speaker 4: betting thing. I think is a bit of a well,
Speaker 4: the betting thing is the big ticket item. The drug
Speaker 4: thing is something that you can get over rehab this that. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he can you know, he can cry. He can cry
Speaker 4: mental health, you can can cry anything. But the betting
Speaker 4: thing is. The betting thing is the big he's bringing in.
Speaker 5: So I read and maybe I got the year wrong,
Speaker 5: but I read that he was somewhere Sunny Coast or somewhere,
Speaker 5: and he was with some of the Roosters players.
Speaker 4: Yeah, four Roosters players have been mentioned.
Speaker 5: He helped get Victor Radley coke whilst on a golf trip,
Speaker 5: so he's Smith is considered a dealer. And it's funny
Speaker 5: if you get into the technicalities of it, like like
Speaker 5: now they say a dealer is it could be a
Speaker 5: small amount, could be a really large amount. There's actually
Speaker 5: no in between. So when you say you're blowing it out,
Speaker 5: it's massively blowing it out. It's like what you said
Speaker 5: George with Ado last year, like we know that they
Speaker 5: do that, do we care? And the inside of knowledge
Speaker 5: stuff like it would be pretty hard, I think to
Speaker 5: do any sort of tip offs for NRL, Like, because
Speaker 5: but if he ran out and broke his leg, like,
Speaker 5: we don't, you know, that's not a big deal. I think.
Speaker 5: I think what's shocking is this is something that or
Speaker 5: man or whatever. These are the things that maybe get
Speaker 5: miss judged or aren't harshly you know, you know, held
Speaker 5: by versus someone like Moses just ripping people out of
Speaker 5: the times and pushing Galvin into bulldogs. Like how can
Speaker 5: the NRL be on one side with this stuff but
Speaker 5: then allow complete political crap to happen on the other side,
Speaker 5: which is pretty you know obvious. They need to be
Speaker 5: super consistent. It's been a while since we've had a scandal.
Speaker 1: Though, Yeah, like a real scandal. You know what at
Speaker 1: the moment before the finals for the final as well,
Speaker 1: look at that at the moment, we don't know all
Speaker 1: the all the story, we know all the all the facts.
Speaker 1: But what we're hearing is the storm in the tea cup.
Speaker 1: In a way, I hope it is a storm in
Speaker 1: the tea cup. Well, you know, I really don't want
Speaker 1: any I don't really care about these things. I want
Speaker 1: to talk about rugby league. I don't want to talk
Speaker 1: about Brandon Smith or I don't want to talk about
Speaker 1: Israel man. But yeah, I hope it just goes away.
Speaker 1: I hope there's not no substance, substance to it sometimes
Speaker 1: where this make there his fire.
Speaker 4: But wait and see days yet. Third point, mate, we've
Speaker 4: got Buzzes on the attack again. I think you might
Speaker 4: have a valid point. It's Stephen Crichton. He's a protected species.
Speaker 4: Maybe he had a few indiscretions throughout the year and
Speaker 4: they've all been swept under the carpet. It's just a
Speaker 4: little thousand of the fine. But I'm not sure if
Speaker 4: you guys saw the incident on Friday night against the storm,
Speaker 4: the rake over the eyes, Yeah, nothing to report to
Speaker 4: let it go through to the keeper. Then buzz reported
Speaker 4: it and then all of a sudden, oops, yep, yep,
Speaker 4: we've charged him now and they've just give him another
Speaker 4: slap on the wrist for one thousand dollars. So he's
Speaker 4: crighton the new Teflon man as Solomona lost his luster
Speaker 4: now and.
Speaker 5: Then Grant got suspended for two games for a.
Speaker 4: Shoulder shoulder charge.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But Crichton, what did you think of the incident? Firstly,
Speaker 4: did you think it was it was reportable in this
Speaker 4: day and age. Yeah, this day and age.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, in this ten years ago no, five years ago, no,
Speaker 6: but now yes it was.
Speaker 1: And look, I'm not sure if it was sinbinable. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if it was that far, but definitely reportable
Speaker 1: and a penalty. Now if he if he's, as you say,
Speaker 1: a repeat offender, well that's a separate, separate.
Speaker 4: In knees in the back, I think for and dragons.
Speaker 4: There was one early in the year.
Speaker 1: I remember the news.
Speaker 4: He's just like slide these There was another couple others
Speaker 4: I mentioned nothink buzz rattled them off, and it was
Speaker 4: last year there was one as well.
Speaker 5: So, okay has been sidelined more than like do you know,
Speaker 5: if we just look purely as an example, is a
Speaker 5: massive I wouldn't say that he's grubby. Maybe I have
Speaker 5: my dolphins from the Dolphins.
Speaker 8: Yea, the role model, the role model, calling the role model, No,
Speaker 8: the role model, we call him the role model. Him
Speaker 8: and Nelson, him and Nelson mate, those guys like that.
Speaker 4: It's a guy the I and the referen will say
Speaker 4: play on, and then I'll go to the reference the
Speaker 4: matter review Committee, and I'll say, okay, let's give him.
Speaker 1: Especially when they're playing for the storm.
Speaker 4: When with the Storm it was like a shield of armor,
Speaker 4: like forget.
Speaker 5: But at least this year, Jared Warrior Hargraves, he literally
Speaker 5: never in when it comes back, at least we know
Speaker 5: he's actually been punished.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, okay, punishment hasn't been.
Speaker 1: Fair enough this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Look, in terms of Crichton, I'm going to say, because
Speaker 1: he's one of those glamor boys and he's as a player,
Speaker 1: he's majestic, not it's like a thug. He's not a thug.
Speaker 1: He's not he's not Jared Hardgrave. He's not a Kafusie
Speaker 1: that type of style of player. And he does he does.
Speaker 1: He's a grub. I'll say he's a grub. Okay, but
Speaker 1: so was Billy. Billy was a slater and so all
Speaker 1: the good plays I was.
Speaker 5: But he's slater.
Speaker 1: He was a grub. He's an outstanding player, but he
Speaker 1: was a grub. But it was was Smith, Cameron Smith.
Speaker 1: He was a grub, standy player. But you've got to
Speaker 1: be an outside player to be a grub. You can't
Speaker 1: be you can't be a normal player and be a
Speaker 1: grub because you get penalized to buggery. You know what,
Speaker 1: I think everybody's unnoticed now. I think four times the
Speaker 1: minute buzz came out and he's going to be on
Speaker 1: teap sheets now from from for all the referees. So
Speaker 1: what's the betty stops? Well said man's stops.
Speaker 5: Well, if we look at if we look at the
Speaker 5: the top, you know outstanding players, and we know one
Speaker 5: of them is my favorite.
Speaker 6: Buyers up.
Speaker 5: But he isn't good.
Speaker 6: He's not grubby to the point where it's that's the
Speaker 6: first thing you think of grub.
Speaker 1: He's outstanding.
Speaker 5: But that's what I mean. And then you've got you know,
Speaker 5: Isaiah Gato, You've got coats as well. They're all decent players. Now,
Speaker 5: why is Crichton been protected? Like he's a he's a
Speaker 5: good player, and and you know, I I have certain feelings.
Speaker 5: I actually prefer to versus angus, even though they're not
Speaker 5: related or cousins or something. But he's a good player.
Speaker 5: He just doesn't deserve to be protected.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he doesn't need that rubbish in his game.
Speaker 4: He doesn't need to do that. Yeah, he's a he's
Speaker 4: a decent bestier in the camp.
Speaker 1: Is that suggest that he was a grub or he
Speaker 1: was protected at Henry feels more encountered.
Speaker 4: You know this in the last year, that's what he's saying.
Speaker 4: Last year. He's done for his indiscretions this year alone,
Speaker 4: and he's been off every time. I didn't so many
Speaker 4: is getting the Cafusi Salamona treatment. Apparently that's what buzzers are.
Speaker 5: You know what is his manager?
Speaker 6: Sorry, who's his manager?
Speaker 1: Probably?
Speaker 9: You know what.
Speaker 1: I think he's smart enough to change his ways. If
Speaker 1: he is, watch him change, Watch him change.
Speaker 4: He's a good man.
Speaker 1: The funny thing is he's only twenty three. He is
Speaker 1: the young tween three with four rings.
Speaker 4: Amazing, how amazing.
Speaker 1: He was the youngest one from the Pender team. He
Speaker 1: was the youngest one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the last one I want to talk with you
Speaker 4: guys is and this has really got me frustrated. Actually, now,
Speaker 4: what's happened is we just saw this man at the
Speaker 4: roosters no quantas here produce an outstanding pass. He's been
Speaker 4: outstanding all year, and the man with feathers, mister Velandi's,
Speaker 4: decides to put a rule where poor no quantas are
Speaker 4: here can get Rookie of the Year because he came
Speaker 4: from another code. Like it was like it's if it
Speaker 4: was targeted towards not giving this young man who's that
Speaker 4: an outstanding first year in NRL the opportunity to get
Speaker 4: Rookie of the Year when he clearly deserves it. What's
Speaker 4: your thoughts on changing the rule of them?
Speaker 1: You know my food not include you know my friends.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to throw the tea because.
Speaker 4: So the new rule is if you play for another
Speaker 4: code and you come into the NRL, you're not considered
Speaker 4: a rookie the four games.
Speaker 1: If you play four games in another code, t you
Speaker 1: can play their board doesn't matter, and you come into
Speaker 1: the NRL and it's gotta it's gonna it's gotta be
Speaker 1: for the girls as well. You can't be Rookie of
Speaker 1: the Year. So the land has changed changed about a
Speaker 1: month ago.
Speaker 5: The lands is to fix way more in his exactly.
Speaker 4: I know, right, we've got so many more issues are
Speaker 4: on he's going to.
Speaker 5: Young man like and that's brutal. It's like, you know,
Speaker 5: and I love Giagram. Whenever he's on, he is on,
Speaker 5: and for him to kind of get sideline Kissler Trell's back.
Speaker 5: He was he was lined up for Daily m in
Speaker 5: the first and I know that's that's decisions and everything else.
Speaker 6: But that code rule is a load of crap.
Speaker 5: That is so unfair.
Speaker 1: It was Ji eligible for Rookie of the Year. Did
Speaker 1: he play last year team? Did he play three games?
Speaker 5: But I'm also saying the way that the game moves
Speaker 5: and all these different rules, like it's just a bit
Speaker 5: of a ship show.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think Joey Gray wouldn't have got daily. He
Speaker 4: would have got daily m with the not not rookie daily.
Speaker 4: He was leading, he would have got he was getting
Speaker 4: makes some points.
Speaker 1: He would have got it, you know, unreal the last
Speaker 1: the last well, I think three games he was in
Speaker 1: or four games has been.
Speaker 4: He would have kept that form up all year.
Speaker 5: The young needs to go somewhere else if he's not
Speaker 5: going to get used.
Speaker 4: He's following Josh apparently to Titans next year.
Speaker 1: They've got about seven full backs there, just Jacob. I
Speaker 1: think I think super coaches worked that out. I think
Speaker 1: he's going to leave him at full back. He's got
Speaker 1: to leave him at full back because the team is
Speaker 1: better with him at fullback. Yeah no, no, Nick, No, no,
Speaker 1: next year, no, next year. I think he's worked that out.
Speaker 1: I know Lattrell was his favorite toy, a super coach.
Speaker 1: But I think he's worked that out now. I think
Speaker 1: he's worked it out and he's mad enough to do it,
Speaker 1: because no one else would be mad enough to stand
Speaker 1: up to Latrell.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, everyone needs to do a Billy Slater what
Speaker 5: he did for Origin, right, every coach needs to switch
Speaker 5: it up. And what we saw in Ji Gray, this
Speaker 5: is what I was saying before. Josh Hannah needs people
Speaker 5: that are a bit closer to the ground because if
Speaker 5: where would have been at season Ben, if he kept
Speaker 5: Giant a bit more?
Speaker 1: You know, No, I agree, I agree. I have no idea,
Speaker 1: no idea why he would put him in the reggies.
Speaker 1: He was leading the daly m. Who's leading the daly M?
Speaker 5: How does Hartling know though? That rookie code rule?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's crazy, you know what it's it's it's Valandi's
Speaker 1: and Valandi's has got this narrow minded wanting. He's very
Speaker 1: vindictive and he wants the Code Rugby League to be
Speaker 1: the number one game game in this country. Now he's
Speaker 1: doing everything he can to get the biggest biggest dual
Speaker 1: television duel in history. He knows that the AFIL has
Speaker 1: got the biggest deal. The last time they went, they
Speaker 1: went together and the a fol got the bigger deal
Speaker 1: than the n L Okay, Uh, he can't. He can't
Speaker 1: handle that. He can't handle it. So he's doing everything
Speaker 1: he can, everything he can, everything is doing for the game.
Speaker 1: He's trying to go to Amazon, like I said.
Speaker 5: Go to.
Speaker 1: Netflix, Netflix anywhere and sell and sell this game for
Speaker 1: the highest amount and for him to be a superhero.
Speaker 1: He might even retire after that. He just wants to
Speaker 1: be a superhero super League. Ah, thank god, thank god
Speaker 1: he didn't. No, he hasn't, and I will tell him,
Speaker 1: and I know why he wants to do it, but
Speaker 1: I say run because what he wants to do, they won't.
Speaker 1: They won't let him do it. I'll tell you now
Speaker 1: that they think Valandi's is going to come in and
Speaker 1: everything will change, but they're going to have to toe
Speaker 1: the line. If you're you're selling your soul to the
Speaker 1: man of feathers, Okay, all the velandis you're generally selling
Speaker 1: your soul. So if you want to say no, say
Speaker 1: you do what I say. So that's what I mean.
Speaker 1: I don't think they will do that. So that's why
Speaker 1: they Anyway, the guy who Insultford, who doesn't, who doesn't
Speaker 1: pay his way for the poor club, and all the
Speaker 1: players are gone because he doesn't pay him. I think
Speaker 1: he's going to buy sybolic. I don't know how that's
Speaker 1: going to work out for him.
Speaker 5: With good luck to him, it's going to be hard
Speaker 5: for Orlandi's to sell anything. If he screws the rules
Speaker 5: up so much that fans stopped.
Speaker 1: Turning up, well, that's the issue. They are turning up.
Speaker 1: The issue is that they are turning up. As he says,
Speaker 1: and we spoke about this last week. He looks at
Speaker 1: all the key indicators and they're all up. They're all
Speaker 1: up double double digits. So there's you know, you can
Speaker 1: sit there and tell him that you're wrong. He he'll say,
Speaker 1: what a minute. Crowds up four percent, viewers up, you know,
Speaker 1: thirty two percent. And it's those numbers that we're talking
Speaker 1: about Origin, which was absolute a train wreck. This year
Speaker 1: was the highest rating Origin of all time. The girls
Speaker 1: really yeah, and it was a train wreck. It was
Speaker 1: a train wreckord Oranger two and three. Games two and
Speaker 1: three were absolutely terrible. There weren't in a real standard.
Speaker 5: But the thing is, if he's going to Netflix, and
Speaker 5: he's going to you know, he can't go to the
Speaker 5: Bay now. But if he's going anywhere, does he understand
Speaker 5: that the people on the other side will ask for
Speaker 5: a return on investment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he'll give it all.
Speaker 5: He can't and well he can be like, these are
Speaker 5: all the stats, and they're gonna look in the underwear
Speaker 5: drawer and be like, well what about this? What about this?
Speaker 5: You guys haven't sorted this out. Why do you have
Speaker 5: so many guys that have all these issues? Why is
Speaker 5: there so much turnover in this club? Why have you
Speaker 5: got player managers that basically that is not a good investment.
Speaker 1: That's not I mean intrigued, I mean trigued to see
Speaker 1: what what what he does? Because his track group tells
Speaker 1: us and if I like his his management sold that
Speaker 1: like he has management, so it's it's null and void.
Speaker 1: His track greekor tells us that he gets the job done,
Speaker 1: even the Emirates the races, so he got he he
Speaker 1: got let's say, relieved from his job in Melbourne rt
Speaker 1: in racing, So that's why he he uh made that
Speaker 1: horse race in Sydney. The Emirates. I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: you're aware of any Yeah, we know about the Emirates.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, yeah, like the Melbourne Cup is not the
Speaker 1: biggest race in the country, the Emirates is the biggest
Speaker 1: race in money turnover in the world, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. So just to spite Melbourne, just to spite Melbourne,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So anyway, look, he's wrong
Speaker 1: what he's done, just despite the rugby union and over
Speaker 1: his dead body, that a rugby union player is going
Speaker 1: to get Rookie of the Year. It just shows you
Speaker 1: the type of human being he is. But as long
Speaker 1: as long as he's getting results, which in every job
Speaker 1: he does, we can't talk. We can't talk bad about
Speaker 1: him because, as he says, look at the key indicators,
Speaker 1: you can't you key indicators, and even Tea would know that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it.
Speaker 4: All right. I think that's it for the controversy corner.
Speaker 4: Let's get into round twenty five.
Speaker 1: We're agreed too much.
Speaker 4: So what's around twenty five? George.
Speaker 1: It's in the can. It's in the can, nice tightly
Speaker 1: squeezed in the can.
Speaker 4: That's it. And we started the round in Round twenty
Speaker 4: five on Friday night, Friday night against the Raiders and
Speaker 4: the Panthers no one's saying anything here. It's Thursday night. Actually, yeah, Thursday,
Speaker 4: but we're going to ignore that game. It was South
Speaker 4: versus the Dragons. We actually started Thursday, but that was
Speaker 4: a by round by day. I think it was a
Speaker 4: forty nail whitewash to the South Sydney rabbit Oze absolutely
Speaker 4: destroyed the Dragons depleted team. Both teams were not just
Speaker 4: the Dragons, but South Sydney just played the conditions better
Speaker 4: and they were the better side. I think they had
Speaker 4: ninety something percent completion rate. They were phenomenal and your
Speaker 4: man Joe Gray was outstanding and a few others.
Speaker 5: So I was that kid Ashton Ward that I was like,
Speaker 5: Maney George Manny was on them on the pre potty. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I feel like him and Money could almost wait to say.
Speaker 5: And the poor kid like he is brilliant and every
Speaker 5: time he plays the comment tastes like check a bit
Speaker 5: of weight on him, my life, shut up.
Speaker 6: I think he knows.
Speaker 5: But he was brilliant, not just in this game, in
Speaker 5: previous games. But I think he only came about or
Speaker 5: came to my attention probably a few rounds ago. But yeah,
Speaker 5: I actually tipped the Dragons like I was.
Speaker 6: In complete shock.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, you had Bennett who didn't even have
Speaker 5: an eighteenth man, like three rounds ago, and then all
Speaker 5: of a sudden, this is happening.
Speaker 4: He told me, you know what was funny about that game?
Speaker 4: And I'm glad you mentioned ashton Ward because ashton Ward
Speaker 4: right is played in the Saint George Lowell grades and
Speaker 4: was killing it. But you know we had another guy
Speaker 4: that he was playing against that was me, and which
Speaker 4: one looked better, kle Flannigan or ashton Ward. But we
Speaker 4: won't go there were we we got rid of ashton
Speaker 4: Ward and look and look what he did to us.
Speaker 4: He absolutely destroyed us. He wasn't good enough for the
Speaker 4: Dragons and look what we've got. So watching that is
Speaker 4: a bit. It's frustrated. He's a jerringong boy, so he's
Speaker 4: up from the Ollawara, wasn't good enough for the Dragons,
Speaker 4: got a spot at the Souse and absolutely tourist the Shreds.
Speaker 4: So it was it was disheartening. So I'm glad. I'm glad.
Speaker 4: I'm glad for the kid because his name always popped
Speaker 4: up every time they talked about lower grade. You'd see
Speaker 4: ashton Ward had another good game, Ashton Warner. Oh well
Speaker 4: that's something kid to look forward to. And then he's
Speaker 4: at South something of what happened there, and yeah, anyway,
Speaker 4: it was a great game by the Rabbit. O's well done.
Speaker 4: That's got them up higher on the ladder. They can
Speaker 4: avoid the spoon now. The game after that was the
Speaker 4: probably the game of the round Rader. Sorry, Georgie, I
Speaker 4: just wanted to get rid of that game.
Speaker 1: Really quickly because it's not much. There's not much here
Speaker 1: tracious conditions.
Speaker 4: Wasn't it raining? It was raining?
Speaker 1: It wasn't It wasn't very good to you. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if it was raining in Queensland, but it was
Speaker 1: definitely pouring down here, like record amount of rain. So
Speaker 1: it wasn't very good conditions. But South seen, he did
Speaker 1: complete it three quarters of the game. But the issue
Speaker 1: was that Saint George had no.
Speaker 4: No, no, they just we're missing a lot Jade and
Speaker 4: Jack the Bell and so all the guys that give
Speaker 4: them Stewart's let's forget who was missing because both to
Speaker 4: both both tims were missing lots of lots of cattle,
Speaker 4: but there was just no urgency.
Speaker 1: There was there was there was no drive in Saint George.
Speaker 1: Look at times they looked pretty ordinary, very very ordinary.
Speaker 1: The good thing is Alex Alex Johnston has come closer
Speaker 1: to the to the all time try wreck try scoring
Speaker 1: record to away with a beautiful try which came off
Speaker 1: a forward pass. I like to tip my hat off
Speaker 1: to the best sideline sideline person in the in the game,
Speaker 1: young woman called what's her name? Again? But in the
Speaker 1: was she was about four meters behind the play because
Speaker 1: you can't keep up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, quality Quale, you said, everyone saw except for two people,
Speaker 4: the referend, the lines.
Speaker 1: The linesman. Yeah, and it wasn't. I think it's the
Speaker 1: more lines and call linesman, call there, And yeah, we
Speaker 1: talked about Ashton Ward. Look in general south side the
Speaker 1: building for next year. They're showing some resilience, some fight
Speaker 1: and Saint George coming off an extremely hard game last
Speaker 1: week extremely went to New Zealand and really lost the
Speaker 1: game which they probably should have won, and just emotionally
Speaker 1: they weren't there body to nil probably says it all already,
Speaker 1: Terrible man, Terrible probably says it all.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's get rid of that game and get to
Speaker 4: the next one, because the next one's a cracker. We've
Speaker 4: got the Raiders twenty. The Panthers sixteen went to golden point.
Speaker 4: That's the second time in a row the poor Panthers
Speaker 4: had to play a golden point and it was only
Speaker 4: against the team coming first. Last week was against the
Speaker 4: team coming second. So it was a tough game, a
Speaker 4: brilliant game, and the raid is coming off. A boy
Speaker 4: showed that they're going to definitely be a force to
Speaker 4: be reckoned with you.
Speaker 5: Proud of them, and I'm so glad we can talk
Speaker 5: about the Raiders.
Speaker 4: Ricky sure love, I love Ricky name.
Speaker 5: I was talking to Greg Bird today and I was like,
Speaker 5: did you catch that game? He's like yes, and he's like,
Speaker 5: carry the Raiders because that's like his secret team. And
Speaker 5: I was like, it's kind of being like, you know,
Speaker 5: the Dolphins would get up. He's like, no, no Queensland teams.
Speaker 5: He's like, I'm the Raiders that like that try. And
Speaker 5: we spoke about before, but that has been everywhere Instagram,
Speaker 5: LinkedIn Google, like, I saw this, I'll send it to
Speaker 5: you guys on the inside. I saw this real And
Speaker 5: they obviously report from overseas and the French commentators are
Speaker 5: reporting on that try and they're like week see and
Speaker 5: they're like and they're just so, it's gone, It's viral, unreal.
Speaker 4: Woll it's it was, yeah, mate, George, you know what.
Speaker 4: I was just talking to off of.
Speaker 1: A and we said, sometimes big games are built up
Speaker 1: and there are physics that we don't get what we want.
Speaker 1: These this game and the one after absolutely lived up
Speaker 1: to it's to its billing. It was a very very
Speaker 1: very very special night and a very very special game.
Speaker 1: I was. I didn't watch the I didn't watch it
Speaker 1: live because I wasn't well, but I watched it the
Speaker 1: other day and I on purpose didn't. I didn't try
Speaker 1: to get the score. And from the from the kickoff
Speaker 1: to the end, my my mouth was open, and I
Speaker 1: was watching this game in all and then I was
Speaker 1: talking to me and I did not answer because I
Speaker 1: was looking and trying to break it down technically. And
Speaker 1: let's let's let's let's talk. Let's talk about the actual
Speaker 1: game and and what actually happened. Pendriff came in and
Speaker 1: do what Pendriff done straight away from the first tackle
Speaker 1: got him into a grind. How this team can get
Speaker 1: another team from the first set into a grind, into
Speaker 1: a dog fight I've never seen it in my life.
Speaker 1: Cannony back in the eighties, you can say, in a
Speaker 1: way invented grind rugby league. Probably Saint George actually did
Speaker 1: back in the fifties, but can I say perfected it.
Speaker 1: But it took him a while to get a team
Speaker 1: into a grind. Penriff do it from set one, Get
Speaker 1: him into a grind, get him into get him into
Speaker 1: a washing machine I call it. Or get him into cycle,
Speaker 1: get him into cycle. And Nathan kicks so well. The
Speaker 1: opposition or Canberra this this stage, this time comes out
Speaker 1: of dirty ball, gets out about twenty five meters and
Speaker 1: has to kick and then all of a sudden, Dylan
Speaker 1: Brown's running the back of these first tackle is on halfway.
Speaker 1: So they've got you in the They've got you in
Speaker 1: the grind. But what what Camber does in a grind?
Speaker 1: They attack, So in their quarter they attack you. They're
Speaker 1: the only team that have actually attacked that I've seen
Speaker 1: that I've seen in the last five six years, actually
Speaker 1: attacking a grind. So they got enough leverage from attacking
Speaker 1: to get into good ball and put put moves on.
Speaker 1: Now Canberra are a very very very simple pattern team.
Speaker 1: You know, what I mean, because Ricky is a player
Speaker 1: from back of the back of the nineties. This is
Speaker 1: really simple.
Speaker 4: Three up the guts and give it to Waksi.
Speaker 1: That's as simple as that.
Speaker 4: Three up the guts.
Speaker 1: Let's let's go forward and give it to Weaksi and
Speaker 1: he'll find something on there on the edges. As simple
Speaker 1: as that. Compared to penis very complex structure and very
Speaker 1: complex systems. So it went to and fro to and
Speaker 1: fro to and fro every time perf we'll do something,
Speaker 1: Canberra will counteract it, We'll flip it around. Okay, Penrith
Speaker 1: had him in their quarter. But I think thirty two
Speaker 1: tackles was the thirty two tackles Tea in the first
Speaker 1: half it was about four sets, okay, And if it
Speaker 1: wasn't for a sort of drop ball McClean getting the
Speaker 1: ball and sort of like rolling over and scoring a try.
Speaker 1: They didn't actually break the line. They scored a try
Speaker 1: and what is what does camera do? Flip it straight away,
Speaker 1: get out of a grind for a second or counter
Speaker 1: punch and they scored a try too. So it was
Speaker 1: on I'm thinking, how good is this? And here I
Speaker 1: am trying to break it down play the ball, you know,
Speaker 1: Marcus pressuring him from inside. Both teams and they're just
Speaker 1: going to and fro punching, punching each other different ways
Speaker 1: but doing exactly the same way. It was intriguing. It
Speaker 1: had me on my edge, think someone's going to break,
Speaker 1: someone's going to who's going to break first.
Speaker 5: The Raiders are simple if you think about Ricky, it's
Speaker 5: just grinding it out, you know, like penrith Is are
Speaker 5: great when they've got that technical thing, but that technical
Speaker 5: thing like the Doggies too. It's almost predictable.
Speaker 1: Right, It's predictable. It's meant to be predictable.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if you if you have a team like the
Speaker 5: Raiders that just grind it out, like like, look at
Speaker 5: the new top teams this year, Warriors grind out. They
Speaker 5: just Dolphins. I know, Dolphins of late haven't been awesome,
Speaker 5: but it's just the same. They just keep going. Eels
Speaker 5: are getting like that too. But I was so impressed
Speaker 5: with Jed Stewart, so impressed and strange he was, really.
Speaker 4: He's been an amazing all year. He's I've always loved
Speaker 4: from last year.
Speaker 1: Stranger, strange, strange, strange for such a young man. Now
Speaker 1: Ricky said, he's going on a kangaroo toore. He's not
Speaker 1: going on a can grootore. But but he will be
Speaker 1: going on a kangaroo tour and in the he'll be
Speaker 1: wearing you There's no doubt in my mind. In the
Speaker 1: future he'll be wearing blue. Look, he might be five
Speaker 1: years away, it might be one year away, but he'll
Speaker 1: be wearing blue.
Speaker 4: At some stage.
Speaker 6: I feel Young was better at the beginning of the year.
Speaker 4: That's how Young was a dog.
Speaker 1: That night. He was push, pushing, pushing the to the
Speaker 1: limit he was he was niggling, he was doing he
Speaker 1: was just being hats and Young unsettle things.
Speaker 5: He was really good for the Raiders Origin happened, and
Speaker 5: it's just I don't know, he's just not been really
Speaker 5: much of a favorite since then.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you if you look, he's got a certain
Speaker 1: style and he does a certain thing. That's why Ricky
Speaker 1: Ricky likes him. And you know what, I won't lie
Speaker 1: to you. He does look fush. He does he goes
Speaker 1: to ruffle feathers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and does George do you think it's a concern?
Speaker 4: And Tanya do you think it's a concern that Penrith
Speaker 4: two weeks in a row have led by ten or
Speaker 4: twelve points and and lost games. Because Kenrith has been
Speaker 4: good leaders for the last four or five years, I've
Speaker 4: never seen them lose twice in a row when they've
Speaker 4: had leads of ten or twelve point Is that a
Speaker 4: concern for clearing?
Speaker 5: I think it's like the Russ thing. I forget who
Speaker 5: I was talking to. It was probably Cory, but I
Speaker 5: feel like someone else was there when they I don't
Speaker 5: find Panthers cocky, but they're very confident. So if they
Speaker 5: if they allow that to overshadow technique or the hard work,
Speaker 5: it'll always fall like it's not done until it's done,
Speaker 5: do you know what I mean? And I think watching
Speaker 5: the last couple of games, there's always been a point
Speaker 5: where you almost see them relax.
Speaker 6: A little bit.
Speaker 5: It's not as obvious as the Roosters, like the Roosters
Speaker 5: kind of roll out and that they play with a
Speaker 5: lot of, you know, over confidence.
Speaker 6: I think for the Panthers that there's still.
Speaker 5: A really good team, like considering where they were at
Speaker 5: getting of.
Speaker 4: The year, absolutely for them to come back, But I don't.
Speaker 5: Think it's a concern. I think they're just I can't
Speaker 5: put it to anything. I think it's just playing better teams,
Speaker 5: because they have been playing better teams recently. But you
Speaker 5: can see that there's gaps in the Panthers, like total
Speaker 5: used to be top try scorer, Like I find it
Speaker 5: confusing this time this year, a lot of predicted tri
Speaker 5: scorers aren't necessarily the ones to I don't know it's
Speaker 5: in every team as well. I'm not concerned. I feel
Speaker 5: like they're going to do well, but I feel sorry
Speaker 5: for Cleary Nathan. Like one minute he's amazing and within
Speaker 5: the next breath he's shit. It's like, leave him alone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, last year, when Panthers had you in the grind,
Speaker 1: good luck. Now good luck when they complete at ninety
Speaker 1: and make form mistakes off of the game, good luck. Okay,
Speaker 1: I guess what. This year, it's a little bit different.
Speaker 1: They've got some young some young kids, and you know,
Speaker 1: they're they're they're good. They're not great. They're a great
Speaker 1: They're a good team. They're a great team. Okay, are
Speaker 1: they good enough to win the cop? Maybe maybe they
Speaker 1: might be. They might be good enough to win. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure. I'm not sure yet. What happened? What's happened?
Speaker 1: Is is a big name player on this occasion, but
Speaker 1: on the last two weeks made some crucial errors, some
Speaker 1: crucial handling errors and let them let let Canberra back
Speaker 1: into the game. Edwards, Yeah, I didn't want to say
Speaker 1: his name, Edwards. And obviously maybe he's not injured, and
Speaker 1: I think he's injured, but maybe he's not injured, but
Speaker 1: he's definitely tired. Okay, and this this week off and
Speaker 1: I'll give him another week off it well, but anyway,
Speaker 1: so so when they when he made the first error,
Speaker 1: they defended the errors. So it's okay if you make
Speaker 1: an error as long as you defend it. When you
Speaker 1: made another era, they defended that era. But he made
Speaker 1: four in a row and once you opened the door
Speaker 1: for Canberra, uh four times, there's a price to pay
Speaker 1: and they paid that.
Speaker 5: I love Dane Laurry as a fullback sitting here.
Speaker 1: He's a good player, a good place.
Speaker 5: We actually got money to do the round tipping and
Speaker 5: he looked at it and he's like, bulldogs are going
Speaker 5: to win because we're explaining getting.
Speaker 6: The regies in. But I really liked Dan Laury.
Speaker 4: It's great.
Speaker 5: We want Corey calls Edwards deadwoods. He's just too rattled
Speaker 5: at the moment.
Speaker 1: He is ti definitely tired, and and and and and
Speaker 1: if we go and talking by the way, of course,
Speaker 1: we had that spectacular finish in Golden Point. Now they
Speaker 1: think that these two teams went to Golden Point, so
Speaker 1: make the mistake. I think we'll see them, these two
Speaker 1: teams in the back end of the year, if not
Speaker 1: the last week, definitely the second last week. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: that's my that's my opinion. But we obviously went to
Speaker 1: Golden Point and we had that that spectacular finish, which
Speaker 1: we talked about it the phil gold the and the
Speaker 1: one hundred meter try and what a try. And as
Speaker 1: Tanya said, it's been plastered over the whole world, not
Speaker 1: only Australia, the whole world. So great. Dylan was below part,
Speaker 1: But what I liked is the youngsters in his team.
Speaker 1: You're blazed to Lungey's your your Jenkins, your Nathan. Let's
Speaker 1: say it wasn't wasn't bad, but wasn't it wasn't great.
Speaker 1: When Yo came on, things did change. The middle did change,
Speaker 1: the direction did change. And Moses is playing pretty well
Speaker 1: at the start that he didn't play well, but Moses
Speaker 1: young so I'm not young Mases, but Masda is doing
Speaker 1: well now. On the other side, Eastern Strangers is a
Speaker 1: bloody star. Uh Xavia Case is a bloody star. Judge
Speaker 1: Stewart and you know what, he's going to go back
Speaker 1: to reserve. What's the regular fullback, what's the normal full bank? Anyway,
Speaker 1: he'll go back to the Reggies and say Ko Ko
Speaker 1: Weeks is an absolute star. This pack, this pack with
Speaker 1: Tarpani leading them, got on top of the of the
Speaker 1: of the Penrith pack. It's the first time I saw
Speaker 1: that in six years. I haven't seen.
Speaker 10: A dog a dog because you saw you got a
Speaker 10: little taste for the Raiders and you know what, like
Speaker 10: Panthers have done a massive comeback.
Speaker 5: Like everyone was giving them ship at the end of
Speaker 5: the year, like probably we did too that they wouldn't.
Speaker 5: They wouldn't you know, Survive have done so well? What
Speaker 5: did What did you think are they?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: It was a top game. It was a really good
Speaker 4: game and it was a test for Canberra. I just
Speaker 4: want to see how they're going to perform against this
Speaker 4: Penrith team. And when they're ten or twelve behind, I thought,
Speaker 4: here we go. This is their true test. Of character
Speaker 4: and they responded as better than anyone could's. It was fantastic.
Speaker 4: They just gave it back and they were just unbelievable.
Speaker 4: They matched it with him, and in the end it
Speaker 4: was a game of interest. If that field goal didn't
Speaker 4: hit the post, Pendrith win. If not camera win, you know,
Speaker 4: I mean, it came down to that that post in
Speaker 4: the end didn't.
Speaker 1: Let me explain how how I look at Canberra. Have
Speaker 1: we all watched Rocky. See if you watched Rocky, remember
Speaker 1: when when he when Apollo wanted the rematch? Yeah, and
Speaker 1: he goes, I want the rematch and the coach goes,
Speaker 1: I saw, I saw you beat a guy like you
Speaker 1: never beat up a guy before. And he kept on
Speaker 1: coming back. That's the Raiders. I saw Pandra beat Canberra
Speaker 1: up in in so many ways, and they just kept
Speaker 1: on fighting and fighting, and they kept on attacking back,
Speaker 1: and they kept on attacking in places where or areas
Speaker 1: in the on the ground where they shouldn't attack them.
Speaker 1: You go into sort of get out of jail mode.
Speaker 1: They attacked them, They take them in their quarter, they
Speaker 1: take them in on their twenty you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: coming out of dirty ball, you sho want to get
Speaker 1: out of out of your out of dirty ball. You
Speaker 1: want to get out out of your twenty. They attacked
Speaker 1: and that's why this team is if not this she
Speaker 1: is scary, Yeah, scary radio absolutely not. He's got a
Speaker 1: ring and and and and and in terms of personality style,
Speaker 1: you can argue and and and and and our fearless
Speaker 1: leader says he's not I don't know a questionable coaches.
Speaker 1: You know, he hasn't done I don't know, but it's
Speaker 1: like he's right in front of us. But he's got
Speaker 1: something because he's got a bunch of kids and he's
Speaker 1: and he's and he's molded him together. Well they're not
Speaker 1: all kids, but largely kids, and he's molded him together.
Speaker 5: But I've got to I've got a mate that I
Speaker 5: want to bring him on. He does a bit of commentating.
Speaker 5: I think I mentioned he's out in Newcastle. It has
Speaker 5: a bit of commentating. He's very in the NRL scene.
Speaker 5: Knows like I want to bring him on the pointy.
Speaker 5: He's got his own but brilliant guy and he I
Speaker 5: think I told you guys, but he he played for
Speaker 5: so one of his mates, I forget who it was,
Speaker 5: plays for the Raiders and they came to I think
Speaker 5: Nolan Territory or something, and he's like, I'm going to
Speaker 5: come up because I'm going to be there to see you.
Speaker 6: He's like, do you think I can train like with
Speaker 6: you guys?
Speaker 5: Rick He's like, yeah, bring him down. And they absolutely
Speaker 5: obviously ragged, but he was his mate. He was like
Speaker 5: the way that Ricky's got it set up, like obviously
Speaker 5: it's harsh and but fair. But he's like what I
Speaker 5: hear about Ricky's shut from him, you know, and what
Speaker 5: his meet says, He's got a genuine family in that team,
Speaker 5: and that is That's that's what I always talk about,
Speaker 5: Like with the Dolphins like that, that family. You can
Speaker 5: tell when they're close, even Panthers, you can tell when
Speaker 5: they're close. Right, And I've seen him since since. That's
Speaker 5: all I remember. If you ask me a coach, and
Speaker 5: I remember from when I started watching footing or any player.
Speaker 6: He's in my top ten all day, you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think good on them.
Speaker 6: I want them to win.
Speaker 1: They'll be close, They'll be very close. If not win,
Speaker 1: they'll be very close.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I've taken too much time that I
Speaker 1: celebrate a bad about this game.
Speaker 4: Before we go to the next one, We've got a
Speaker 4: letter from one of the fans out of nowhere, especially
Speaker 4: straight after this game. It was from Coylin Shane from Cogra.
Speaker 4: They want to know because Saints but the Storm and
Speaker 4: camera does that mean they're better than Penrith Colin Colin
Speaker 4: Shane are just trying to get some points from time.
Speaker 4: But next game after that was Storm versus the Bulldogs
Speaker 4: twenty points to fourteen in the end. Now this is
Speaker 4: my two cents. I thought the Storm twelve and their
Speaker 4: up at halftime looked like they were going to sort
Speaker 4: of get away with a good score here. But the
Speaker 4: Bulldogs showed a lot of grunt and in the end
Speaker 4: three tries each they won the second half. Great second
Speaker 4: half by the Bulldogs. Could have easily won it with
Speaker 4: a couple of tries that were disallowed. Oh they knocked
Speaker 4: them on they were they were not they weren't try
Speaker 4: as they dropped the ball. But then in the end
Speaker 4: you had Crichton who nearly scored one, which was very controversial.
Speaker 4: I still think it should have been a try. I
Speaker 4: don't know. I thought he actually grounded it. But it
Speaker 4: was a good performance by the bulldog, especially after the
Speaker 4: last few weeks and they showed that they can mix
Speaker 4: it with the big guns. What are your thoughts on
Speaker 4: that too?
Speaker 5: I thought that was a try?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I thought so.
Speaker 1: The rule the rule is this was it was a
Speaker 1: try in terms of grounding, but it wasn't a try
Speaker 1: because he knocked it forward.
Speaker 4: But did it hit the Melbourne God?
Speaker 1: Doesn't matter. He knocked it forward. So say, in other words,
Speaker 1: you can't like that. You can't run to someone and
Speaker 1: you can't sort of throw it over him go through.
Speaker 4: But it did. Yeah, I know, I know, I know,
Speaker 4: but except will accept the forward.
Speaker 1: So it's again, yeah, exactly to it's it's some of
Speaker 1: the rules in this game is ludicrous at best. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I look, it's a try for me to try, but
Speaker 1: by law fortunately not.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I think it was.
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 5: This is when you're away, Ardie, you may have seen it,
Speaker 5: you know, when the storm like Nick mean, he was
Speaker 5: doing a stupid dance after they.
Speaker 6: Saw that, and I was like, if I.
Speaker 5: Had my coach who was up there blowing up, even
Speaker 5: if we were winning, I would not be doing that.
Speaker 5: And I feel like the storm of I don't know,
Speaker 5: taking the piss a little bit this year, Like they're
Speaker 5: a really good team, but I feel like they've just
Speaker 5: been a little bit lazy.
Speaker 6: I love the Storm players, like.
Speaker 5: Grant Coats, Katoa like I love the players, but I
Speaker 5: didn't know how I felt about this game, like I
Speaker 5: was fairly I don't know, like I didn't mind either.
Speaker 5: I think when something like that, I thought that was
Speaker 5: a try all day long. But I went that when
Speaker 5: things like that happened, you see the guys get rattled,
Speaker 5: which affects, you know, how they play. We would have
Speaker 5: a different season. I think if so many ridiculous calls
Speaker 5: weren't made, like guarantee, because then they're thinking, wait, what's
Speaker 5: the new rule? They're thinking in their head has something changed,
Speaker 5: like it it's crazy now. And I did preface the
Speaker 5: money prior to because I was like, you know, I'm
Speaker 5: glad he goes for Dragons. He's like, oh, that's good.
Speaker 5: I was like, remember uncle johgh for the Bulldogs, And
Speaker 5: he did say his favorite player in Bulldogs, Jerry. They're
Speaker 5: a good, decent team. I don't want Galvin to get
Speaker 5: get the flag, but I feel like he was very
Speaker 5: overinflated and it's not his fault, you know, like Maney's
Speaker 5: nine and he's like that. That was a ridiculous, you
Speaker 5: know decision. And you know Sextons, Well, we're hoping Sextans
Speaker 5: in this week.
Speaker 6: But I don't know.
Speaker 5: I thought it would be real. I couldn't pick this game,
Speaker 5: couldn't pick it. I thought it would be And I
Speaker 5: said to Korea, I feel like the points should be
Speaker 5: higher because I feel like I've been watching this like
Speaker 5: it's so intense.
Speaker 1: You know, but it was, but it was so coming
Speaker 1: away from this game gave me great, not pleasure, but
Speaker 1: gave me hope we can match it. Yeah, absolutely not
Speaker 1: only we can match it. Our forwards still need a
Speaker 1: bit of size to them because.
Speaker 4: Thompson next year, yeah, he's going to add some size
Speaker 4: of an animal. He looked junior fish they call him. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he looked pretty ordinary. Don't worry about that.
Speaker 1: That's next year.
Speaker 4: He's going to season with the Bulldogs.
Speaker 1: Anyway.
Speaker 4: We looks up.
Speaker 1: They're up to twelve now and they look like they're
Speaker 1: going to sail away and we'll actually still fighting, fighting
Speaker 1: fighting there, we'll fighting fighting, We're in the game. Kick
Speaker 1: Out was outstanding. Kickou was outstanding on the day. You
Speaker 1: know what, A few decisions go the other way and
Speaker 1: one of mere we're in the we're in the pitcher.
Speaker 1: We might we might have been coming away with two points.
Speaker 1: I was happy with the performance. It was a great game.
Speaker 1: It was a very high it was it was both
Speaker 1: games on Friday were exactly the same in standard, and
Speaker 1: these two games were the highest standard games of all
Speaker 1: year by far, by far. I thought there was a game.
Speaker 1: Were you here when the Pan played Bulldogs early in
Speaker 1: the game, What a game? It was a Thursday night,
Speaker 1: Oh my godfather. But these two eclipse eclipse, those games
Speaker 1: I went a lot. I talked a lot about the
Speaker 1: last game. I'm not going to go on too much
Speaker 1: about this one. We're very close the Dogs. Now, I
Speaker 1: don't know, like I said, if it's this year, and
Speaker 1: I don't know the moves we've got to do in
Speaker 1: terms of players. Ultimately, now I'm going to stick my
Speaker 1: head out. They got it wrong with Galvin number one.
Speaker 1: Undoubtedly in my mind at the moment, Haywood, Well, if
Speaker 1: I want to if I want to go to a
Speaker 1: street fight with a suit and tie on and not
Speaker 1: with a baseball bat, that's who I pick the young
Speaker 1: Bailey Haywood because personally, personally, I would have read money
Speaker 1: in any day when I'm going to semifinal, semifinal Rugby league.
Speaker 1: Harry Hayes was actually off the bench and outstanding. Not
Speaker 1: a big man for six weeks.
Speaker 4: Man he's injured.
Speaker 1: Man, well there goes more of our pack depth. We
Speaker 1: haven't got a very big pack. And regardless, at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, the the Think Pack, the Melbourne
Speaker 1: stamp Pack were above us all game. We we they were.
Speaker 1: It wasn't for kicking and general play we were. We
Speaker 1: were doing the tough coming coming out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it wasn't for your backlong was fantastic. I think
Speaker 4: it's about Sherry and Crichton were just they're making so
Speaker 4: many meters outright and Sherry having a great day.
Speaker 1: Yeah. They they save us the carrying the ball out
Speaker 1: of dirty ears. They're they're the guys who But you know,
Speaker 1: you know what, three tries all twenty to fourteen, both teams,
Speaker 1: both teams are in a window and I have no idea.
Speaker 1: I have no idea who's going to be in the
Speaker 1: grand follow the show. I have no We'll see them
Speaker 1: play each other and maybe may I think that those
Speaker 1: those two games, that's the prelims.
Speaker 4: I think they are the prelims. Yeah, I think that's
Speaker 4: going to be the prelims. Tenny more to add or
Speaker 4: do me to go to the next one? No, no good.
Speaker 5: I'm like, I'm looking at the next couple of games.
Speaker 4: They're going to be quick quick Warriors. The next game
Speaker 4: after that, Saturday, Super Saturday, we had Titans eighteen the
Speaker 4: Warriors thirty two. I actually tipped the Titans. I thought
Speaker 4: they're going to spring an upset here because the Warriors.
Speaker 4: I wasn't impressed with the week before against the Dragons
Speaker 4: because they beat a very weak Dragons with three guys headmind,
Speaker 4: but the Titans were very disappointed. They started the first
Speaker 4: minute scoring seagulls and the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: You skipped them?
Speaker 4: Oh sorry, man, got their order wrong. I'll go to
Speaker 4: that one next. Okay, So Titans eighteen thirty two. Yeah,
Speaker 4: Titans started with the try early on, but then terrible Warriors.
Speaker 4: What's your thoughts on the Warriors? Are they back or
Speaker 4: they just playing two week teams of injuries?
Speaker 5: Don't they.
Speaker 1: The best players are gone for season? Basically?
Speaker 6: Well, they're doing all right.
Speaker 5: Titans always do well in the first half and if
Speaker 5: they do one the first half, they should have been
Speaker 5: always happened. I like the Warriors, you know, unless they're
Speaker 5: playing us, but like I think they're really good, like
Speaker 5: Tivshek Unreal. I don't know. I just hope they've got
Speaker 5: a chance, but I don't think they're going to be
Speaker 5: in there Grand final.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Metcalf is a huge loss. He was he was
Speaker 4: everything for that team soon as I lost him. But
Speaker 4: they're getting them back. Egan came back last week, so
Speaker 4: he's starting to get in. They've got the Fish back.
Speaker 4: They're missing the other big forward, Barnett. But yeah, what
Speaker 4: what's your thoughts George on that one? On the Warriors?
Speaker 4: Webster who?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Webster who? You know what Titans they're planning for
Speaker 1: the overseas trip. They must have knew that the the
Speaker 1: announcement was coming and that they feel they feel that
Speaker 1: they're not They didn't want to support Desi and they
Speaker 1: weren't very good at all. Really. There might have been
Speaker 1: some players, some players that they went well, the players
Speaker 1: that we know that go well every week, like Campbell
Speaker 1: and you know, but in general, Paul, the Warriors went
Speaker 1: up and got the two points. Yeah, they there are
Speaker 1: two points. They got the two points. Were they outstanding?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Were they good? Good enough? Good enough?
Speaker 4: Exactly?
Speaker 1: So that's all I can say about. They said they
Speaker 1: went to they went to the coast, they went to
Speaker 1: Sea Willed and they got two points. And I wasn't
Speaker 1: over impressed. I wasn't over impressed that to me, they
Speaker 1: didn't look like a top four team. That doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: They got the two points.
Speaker 5: And the reporter that had to go at des is like,
Speaker 5: you know, like, look at the crowd. There's anything you said,
Speaker 5: like Warriors fans. We have a very live arge Polynesia
Speaker 5: like demographic, Yeah, of New Zealand. It's like, it's not
Speaker 5: that people don't turn up for the Titans because you
Speaker 5: see them wooly Is wearing their jersey every day of
Speaker 5: the week. I thought that was a pretty unfair call.
Speaker 5: One hundred and we obviously spoke about Titan.
Speaker 1: I think that the journalist either doesn't like Desi all
Speaker 1: doesn't like the club either.
Speaker 4: All he was I thought he was like his job.
Speaker 1: I don't know about his job, but yeah, maybe I
Speaker 1: think I thought he was out of out of place,
Speaker 1: out of yeah, out of place. And Desi has earned
Speaker 1: enough for people to show him some little bit of respect,
Speaker 1: a little bit.
Speaker 4: Do you think the fact that Josh Hannah's appointment is
Speaker 4: going to be able to sway guys like Famous Alami whatever,
Speaker 4: that guy, Yeah and all those guys and yes to
Speaker 4: stay with the Titans, but not because there was talks
Speaker 4: about him looking to go elsewhere. But I do maybe
Speaker 4: with him there for feed and might change his act.
Speaker 4: I I Jayden Campbell and all those guys will just go,
Speaker 4: you know what, let's stick with Josh Man. I do.
Speaker 1: Don't forget. They know that they know each other from
Speaker 1: the origin camp. So I think the Tema will stay.
Speaker 1: I think Dave will stay. I think they're all staying.
Speaker 1: I think they'll be. I hope, I sincerely hope the
Speaker 1: Titans will be.
Speaker 5: What did they try and was the rabbits that tried
Speaker 5: to get for feeder a couple of years ago? Yeah,
Speaker 5: and he was like I'm staying, you know with the family.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they bake flipped.
Speaker 4: Yeah that was Yeah. He backup to the roosters. But
Speaker 4: the rabbit as are talking to him now, so he's
Speaker 4: apparently Bennett's been in his ear, so there's chance of
Speaker 4: that happening but now with an A might go away.
Speaker 1: I hope, so, I hope so, but let's move on
Speaker 1: because this game was a was a was a hard watch.
Speaker 6: Dolphins was also rough and happy and lightly skinner.
Speaker 1: Dolphins against Man I'm going to lightly go I'm going
Speaker 1: to lightly go through.
Speaker 4: You want to skip that one?
Speaker 1: No, it was Dolphins. Dolphins were unfortunately. I hate to
Speaker 1: say this because I love the Fins. Dolphins were very ordinary.
Speaker 1: Mainly weren't any better, but they were, but they were
Speaker 1: better than the Dolphins. And long and behold what's happening?
Speaker 1: Because if Dolphins actually turned up, because I believe Dolphins
Speaker 1: thought that there was no chance in the world that
Speaker 1: they can make the eight, well guess what if they won,
Speaker 1: that would have been in the eight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, That's that's what surprised me, I thought.
Speaker 1: And so I hope they. I hope they lift that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I hope they turn up this week and show something because,
Speaker 1: let me tell you, ORE very poor.
Speaker 4: And DC manly has been very poor as well. That's
Speaker 4: why I thought the Dolphins have got this because you know,
Speaker 4: mainly I'm playing, but I think I forgot DC's three
Speaker 4: fiftieth and because of that, there was a lot of
Speaker 4: emotion and they all lifted for DC. So he's still
Speaker 4: much he loved there by by the looks of things,
Speaker 4: he's not behaved. Man should so he should be.
Speaker 1: The guys given how many years, fifteen years of his
Speaker 1: life to this club. He's got a ring. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's leaving. He's given fifteen years of his life to
Speaker 1: this team, and he's played well. So you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know the cafussle that's been going on about DC,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And and surely maybe maybe
Speaker 1: he hasn't handled it too well in the media. But regardless,
Speaker 1: it's not to talk about them. It's not what everybody's
Speaker 1: talking about. It's about him destabilizing the team. Now, if
Speaker 1: he has destabilized that that team, because players move all
Speaker 1: the time, if he's destabilized the team, let me suggest
Speaker 1: to you that it's not his problem, it's not his fault.
Speaker 1: Let me suggest to you the coaching staff and the
Speaker 1: management up what Tanya says talks about all the time,
Speaker 1: that's the issue, not not the DC. And so you
Speaker 1: can talk about that please, I'll let you in here,
Speaker 1: because you know that's that that one decision from a
Speaker 1: player shouldn't destabilize the whole tame.
Speaker 5: Well, it's all surprised, like you know, we've DC is
Speaker 5: like the days. He deserves a lot of respect, you know,
Speaker 5: if that's his choice, if it's his choice to leave
Speaker 5: or whatever. I just it's the whole leading from the
Speaker 5: top thing. Again, if we look at all the I
Speaker 5: think the dragons are okay, Like I haven't heard anything
Speaker 5: about dragons, But if we look at all the teams
Speaker 5: that are struggling, but usually there's just that misalignment between
Speaker 5: leadership and the coaches, right, But I think just leave
Speaker 5: leave him alone, like he's not It's like when they go,
Speaker 5: oh clear, he's not in. So panthers are going to go,
Speaker 5: you know, to shit or whatever. Like even looking at
Speaker 5: the Dolphins, who have you got Nick riema Fum with
Speaker 5: Flagg lauboss dot, Gilbert Plath, so many people out and
Speaker 5: you still have a you still have like a decent team.
Speaker 5: So if you have a team that one player or
Speaker 5: two players impacted that badly, you're right, it's not the
Speaker 5: players felt it's not perhaps even the coaches fault because
Speaker 5: we don't know what goes on, you know, when they're
Speaker 5: doing selections and things like that. I love d C.
Speaker 5: I think I think it's I think even going back
Speaker 5: to origin, like you guys did it with Teddy last year,
Speaker 5: it really did the best call for the state and
Speaker 5: the team, and I feel like it was done respectfully,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. It's just it just gets
Speaker 5: it gets blown out, and these guys take that home.
Speaker 5: I think it's something that you know, people forget feel
Speaker 5: sorry for. It's hard to hold your head up. It
Speaker 5: would have been hard for DC to hold his head
Speaker 5: up this year for so many reasons.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but look the Seagulls got the victory and they
Speaker 1: think they were there.
Speaker 4: I was in this week, Ardie, Yeah exactly, and and.
Speaker 1: You know, good look good. Yeah, he looked good. But
Speaker 1: let me tell you he should stay in. He should
Speaker 1: stay in the Center's number one, number two.
Speaker 4: What is he on?
Speaker 1: A million? He should he should give?
Speaker 4: He should give he should give half of it back?
Speaker 4: He wants to didn't he say he wants to give
Speaker 4: some money? And they said and said you can't do it?
Speaker 4: Good about that last year? Well now he's a new
Speaker 4: contract and and can I and this is gonna kill me.
Speaker 4: Can I just talk about Jake? Because I love Jake.
Speaker 4: You know what super League wants him? Do they go
Speaker 4: to whole f C go how okay, I go to
Speaker 4: go to Castle for it.
Speaker 1: You will be a legend. He will be a legend.
Speaker 1: So please, please, please, Jake, you don't need to bash
Speaker 1: yourself up what you're doing now. He's getting concussions every
Speaker 1: second week. He tries, he's trying so hard, but he
Speaker 1: just can't keep up to the game already. He can't
Speaker 1: keep up. He's he's just his leg speed. He's not
Speaker 1: there and he's so all those concussions is getting because
Speaker 1: he's just half a second, not like half a second,
Speaker 1: not at that spot. He's got to be you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's why he's getting concussions because usually it's
Speaker 1: it's indeed when he gets the concussion, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: so you know what, you're a legend here. Don't keep
Speaker 1: on doing the same actions and let's Chinese your reputation
Speaker 1: just cutting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, be a legend in England.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he will be.
Speaker 4: He will be eighty eight points in that game. That's
Speaker 4: more than a point a minute.
Speaker 1: Defense was yeah, defense wasn't a thought. And you know
Speaker 1: what I think about those sort of games.
Speaker 4: That's terrible. Finally, the game on Saturday night, we had
Speaker 4: the Eels thirty smashing the Rooster's ten. Great performance by
Speaker 4: the Eels. They looked very very good. Moses had a blinder.
Speaker 4: Roosters not so good. Sam Walker got injured early, came
Speaker 4: off with a head. Noock, he's out for this week.
Speaker 4: But the Rooster's mate got to give it to him.
Speaker 4: They played some fantastic Eels Eels.
Speaker 6: That's happy.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 5: You can't just watch it. Did you watch it lives either?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: They were two minutes in. I was like, wow, they
Speaker 6: were quick.
Speaker 5: They were dialed in, to use George's term, that was unreal.
Speaker 5: And they didn't stop either. I think I think Walker
Speaker 5: going off really shook shook the Roosters. And there was
Speaker 5: a comment halfway through that you know they can't like
Speaker 5: they're kind of struggling without him. What we were talking
Speaker 5: about before, you should be able to readjust like the
Speaker 5: whole game shouldn't hinge on one player as well, or
Speaker 5: that's why we have the reserves.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 5: I thought it was good, you know, I was saying
Speaker 5: to to Corey's we're talking about players leaving and stuff,
Speaker 5: and at Oka leaving the Dogs and obviously all that
Speaker 5: stuff that happened last year and everything, it's really nice
Speaker 5: to see him now this year for the Eels. I
Speaker 5: think he's like Jerome after last year going to the
Speaker 5: Tigers this year, you know. And I take what Nick
Speaker 5: says with the grain of salt and love him and
Speaker 5: everything else. But I've seen the improvement in him too.
Speaker 6: But it was nice.
Speaker 5: It was nice to see like Attaka, like I love YOUNGI.
Speaker 5: He's probably one of my favorite Eels players. But I
Speaker 5: was really happy for the Eels. They just they just
Speaker 5: killed it. Bruce has just rattled like and tired.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good game, I think, I think to
Speaker 1: God in one yet they did. They did lose their
Speaker 1: halfback earlier. But I don't think Sam. I don't think
Speaker 1: Sam will have made the difference here. They looked they
Speaker 1: looked tired, they looked behind the pace. And what I
Speaker 1: like about Paramount, about paramount and what I say about
Speaker 1: every week, I see consistency. I see in defense a
Speaker 1: consistent pattern, and I see in attack a consistent pattern.
Speaker 1: We saw it together and and I pointed out to
Speaker 1: you the triple blocks with the leads. Okay, no team
Speaker 1: does triple blocks and leads and they do it left
Speaker 1: and right, so they to go forward. They move the
Speaker 1: ball like Jason's a new school coach. Yeah, so there's
Speaker 1: no need to get your forwards. You've got them, and
Speaker 1: just bashed through three like like what's the what's a
Speaker 1: voithy like like a mule or like like a mule,
Speaker 1: bash three up and if you can do that, Camera
Speaker 1: does that and it works for Ricky and he works
Speaker 1: for them and it softens the middle. But in theory,
Speaker 1: it's the hard way of doing that going three up
Speaker 1: the middle and then giving it to your half back.
Speaker 1: But when you're moving the ball, you're changing the defense.
Speaker 1: You're you're either making the spaces wider or you're making
Speaker 1: them come in. So in the in structure, you're doing
Speaker 1: what you need to do in the defense. So because
Speaker 1: remember the the thing is tackle four, so the shot
Speaker 1: is on four or on three or on five, So
Speaker 1: all the tackles build up to one shot. Now, when
Speaker 1: you get like Pendriff, you have you can build up
Speaker 1: to two shots. But most teams, your whole set builds
Speaker 1: up to one shot, so they move the ball around
Speaker 1: for that shot. If you notice Moses stands on C's
Speaker 1: so Moses is not the first receiver. Moses is the
Speaker 1: third receiver because the shots, the shots are there. So
Speaker 1: I'm getting too technical, but I like what I'm seeing.
Speaker 1: I'm saying I'm seeing consistency. And Nick pointed it out
Speaker 1: when in his message, I saw he saw, I saw
Speaker 1: light speed, I saw up and in oven up and
Speaker 1: in sorry I got it wrong. I saw rush defense
Speaker 1: going back and just rushing up, and only half the
Speaker 1: comp does that. So I like what I'm seeing. I'm
Speaker 1: really enjoying the future. Greek immortal, the Longing, he's looking good.
Speaker 1: Pally two when when Adie went to Cyprus, his pictures
Speaker 1: are all up on the main main drag there.
Speaker 4: He's the hero. He's the hero hero because.
Speaker 1: George.
Speaker 5: I love how he's Greek, like when They'repriot. Yeah, I
Speaker 5: don't know, I actually said. I was like, I was like,
Speaker 5: I can't put myself in the mindset of a Roosters fan,
Speaker 5: but I do love TWEA obviously amazing.
Speaker 6: There's a lot of hype.
Speaker 5: Around Junior too.
Speaker 6: I think they really missed the big guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Well that's that's that's that's their go
Speaker 1: to when nothing else works, we put the ball up
Speaker 1: for Zach or we put the ball up for two.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So so that is in this modern day, this modern day,
Speaker 1: that's an option. So when a half bag takes a
Speaker 1: ball to the line, or a fly bay takes the
Speaker 1: board to the line, he's got X amount of options
Speaker 1: and it might be his first option, he might be
Speaker 1: his last option. But that's what's one thing he's got
Speaker 1: up his sleeve, you know what I mean? So are
Speaker 1: we going short? Now? We're going to go a longer,
Speaker 1: go out the back to Reeson and I guess what
Speaker 1: I'm going to go. I'm going to tip it to
Speaker 1: So you know, he's got to have options when you
Speaker 1: look for that shot, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: So Eels next year, which Dylan Sorry, which Dylan is
Speaker 5: leaving the Eels?
Speaker 1: Dylan Brown? Brown?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Is he going to the Eagles?
Speaker 1: No? No, He's going to the Knights Nights for ten
Speaker 1: years on twenty million dollars this season. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I like Dylan Brown, I know I like it.
Speaker 1: Everyone likes him. No, No, No, This issue is on
Speaker 1: is he Is he a good player? Yes? Not? Do
Speaker 1: we like him as a human yes, We're we're saying
Speaker 1: is he a marquee for how much one point four
Speaker 1: point three one point three yeah. Yeah, so that's that's
Speaker 1: what we could well, that's what we're questioning. And then
Speaker 1: and then and then the other caveat is the ten years.
Speaker 10: Seven six or seven ten years, Yeah, because he'll be
Speaker 10: one of the oldest players.
Speaker 5: By that end.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's too old now, but you probably
Speaker 1: would be. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think it's twenty four, so probably thirty four, I.
Speaker 1: Think I think Kaylen, Yeah, I think Kaylen is asking
Speaker 1: for more because he's got to be the highest paid
Speaker 1: player on the team. So there's something going on background.
Speaker 1: But it's going to be next year, and I hope,
Speaker 1: I hope, I hope that he comes back and these
Speaker 1: two work together because Kaylan on the sideline, I don't
Speaker 1: like I want to I want to watch Kaylene tear
Speaker 1: up teams. And I have the rumor that I'm hearing
Speaker 1: about the three sixty isn't true about him signing letters
Speaker 1: of letters.
Speaker 4: Of sent already?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Joi Gray apparently him Ponga and what's the wing
Speaker 1: of you had and went to Paramatta Lomax the Max
Speaker 1: apparently signed the letters of content. He came out and
Speaker 1: said that he didn't. Yeah, but apparently he still signed it.
Speaker 1: He signed, he can't go anywhere. He has to go
Speaker 1: back to the club and ask for a release. So
Speaker 1: really they all can't go anywhere. But when you go up,
Speaker 1: when you go to to the CEO and say, well,
Speaker 1: I'm getting two million dollars, well, the CEO can be
Speaker 1: an ass and say no, you're not going anywhere. But
Speaker 1: the chances are he'll say okay, well, okay, chances are,
Speaker 1: I don't know, chances are. But anyway, this game, Paramatta
Speaker 1: were really good and Rusters just couldn't keep up, keep
Speaker 1: the rage up. And they've put themselves in a bit
Speaker 1: of bother in terms of the eight because they've got
Speaker 1: other teams breathing down their necks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. And Sunday to kick off Sunday we had
Speaker 4: the Night twelve the Broncos forty six Broncos still playing
Speaker 4: for a top four position. The only issue the Broncos
Speaker 4: faced in that game was it was a daylight game,
Speaker 4: and it's usually the time they had their afternoon naps.
Speaker 4: Was playing at nights. They managed to stay up and
Speaker 4: play the game and.
Speaker 1: Say they also actually had they were jet legged as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I never lived Queensland because what they still at the
Speaker 1: job done.
Speaker 6: They talk to me, you know, the team, the opposition
Speaker 6: team is bad.
Speaker 5: If Ricky scored, I love, he's a great player. I
Speaker 5: love he just put Jensen and every now and again,
Speaker 5: I think, I love like this. This is a good team.
Speaker 5: If Mariners scored KARAPANI scored like I Shibasaki, Oh my god, amazing.
Speaker 1: I just it.
Speaker 5: It was a really good team.
Speaker 6: I have a soft spot for the Nights because of
Speaker 6: Dan Game.
Speaker 1: Guy they played. He actually the only one probably played
Speaker 1: actually half decentish.
Speaker 6: Yeah, like, you know, I like best.
Speaker 5: I just I thought, you know, I thought they'd probably
Speaker 5: have a bit more of a go the Nights because
Speaker 5: now and again they kind of pop up with a
Speaker 5: bit of a fight.
Speaker 6: But it kind of gets boring when it's.
Speaker 4: A bit of a spanking, you know, in the fourteen
Speaker 4: sixth at half time. Not bad for a half.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, but no, it was. It was a nice team.
Speaker 5: It was probably because obviously I wasn't on last week.
Speaker 5: I actually wanted Meg will kill me when I wanted
Speaker 5: the Dolphins to win last last week when they played
Speaker 5: the Broncos, I knew Broncos run home, like you know,
Speaker 5: they were going to play the Knights like they depending
Speaker 5: on how they go with Melbourne, they're playing cowboys. But yeah, like,
Speaker 5: I think that was very stressful watching the Broncos Dolphins
Speaker 5: game for multiple reasons, but this one was it was
Speaker 5: nice and and cruisy and while she you know, scrammed
Speaker 5: two meters and everyone screamed for him like there is
Speaker 5: a whole other team around him. I think that needs
Speaker 5: a bit of credit. Yeah, I'm missing Reynolds and man
Speaker 5: and and Corbo. So yeah, but and I want Delawise
Speaker 5: to like how to to get out? That's just got
Speaker 5: too many good.
Speaker 1: Players, got too many good players, that's the that's the
Speaker 1: problemly got too many toys in their clud I'm going
Speaker 1: to be really quickly Newcastle Knights or disgraceful and and
Speaker 1: that's and that's saying that nicely all that bad. Uh
Speaker 1: And then yeah I would sack O'Brien now uh And
Speaker 1: now let me let me say this. He's going to
Speaker 1: coach on next year and I hope he gets he
Speaker 1: clicks it. But on that performance, Okay, if you want
Speaker 1: to say, Daisy.
Speaker 4: George, I's got twelve points dragons in him score zero.
Speaker 4: So he did say that different scenario doesn't matter. It's
Speaker 4: a different scenario because we've seen glimpses.
Speaker 1: We're saying it's okay because I beat all they nearly
Speaker 1: all the top four teams. Okay, now Broncos they had
Speaker 1: a training run basically, but I still do like Rewash
Speaker 1: being first receiver, shooting blinds and and and people sweeping
Speaker 1: with him like uh Stags or Shivasaki.
Speaker 4: Or paint hast.
Speaker 1: Running.
Speaker 4: I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: From all these stars they've They've got the most important
Speaker 1: player by far is pain Hunts because what what he
Speaker 1: does to the line before or the run, and then
Speaker 1: after the run, the line is in keep on saying
Speaker 1: the line is in shock. And then Rees walks up
Speaker 1: and he sees holes everywhere, and it's like you know
Speaker 1: a kid with with when you give him a loll
Speaker 1: LOLLI bag his eyes like because which hole show I punch?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? And just because of paint
Speaker 1: HUSS's run, it's it's amazing. They were very, very very good,
Speaker 1: but they basically beat a reserve great team. They did.
Speaker 1: They did forty forty six. Let's have a look. You
Speaker 1: know what worries me? I think it worries me about
Speaker 1: the Broncos. I think what worries about the Broncos. They're
Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna win this week again. They're going to
Speaker 1: flog the Dolphins, and they're going to go who they're
Speaker 1: playing the last week some level, and they're going to
Speaker 1: flog them. Okay, they're going to go they're going to
Speaker 1: make top four and they're going to go and play
Speaker 1: Canberra in Canberra and they're gonna have to cycle and
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to grind. When's the last time when
Speaker 1: they cycled? When they signed they happened whenever they grinded,
Speaker 1: they haven't grinded. So what happens when they're when they're
Speaker 1: in a washing machine for forty five minutes and reads thinks, ship,
Speaker 1: I better do something now because you know what it's
Speaker 1: for for Neil okay, and I better be a super start.
Speaker 1: And he loses the ball in his twenty on his
Speaker 1: twenty and Canberra gets the ball or kind of get
Speaker 1: the ball, or can get the ball and put them away.
Speaker 1: That's what worries me. So all these all these easy
Speaker 1: games are not doing them a favor in my opinion.
Speaker 1: Mind you, they've got one of the best coaches and
Speaker 1: I've seen. I've seen improvement and I've seen development, min Am.
Speaker 1: The issue is that they haven't. They haven't got into cycle.
Speaker 6: Well she well, she needs to.
Speaker 5: Like when he's just in his state of flow and
Speaker 5: he is not thinking and he is just doing brilliant,
Speaker 5: absolutely brilliant. The minute he starts to overthink, yes, yes,
Speaker 5: it's his failure. Like they've got really good players in
Speaker 5: that team that have the decent experience, right, you know
Speaker 5: who someone I haven't really seen much of, Like obviously
Speaker 5: I've seen him, but Karakeen hasn't really been doing much.
Speaker 1: He's he's been off this year yet he's just he's not.
Speaker 5: Very But I think team this is a good good
Speaker 5: team if obviously Reynolds is going this week, but there's
Speaker 5: nothing wrong with the team that played like we could
Speaker 5: just keep them and we could just run it to
Speaker 5: the end.
Speaker 1: Okay, So this is this is, this is and I've
Speaker 1: told I this is fifteen minutes of Bronco football in
Speaker 1: a game or every game enough to win a comp. Yes,
Speaker 1: if they play fifteen minutes of Bronco style football and
Speaker 1: the other team lets them play fifteen minutes. In other words,
Speaker 1: if they break a grind for fifteen minutes. It's enough
Speaker 1: to put a team away by gone, but they're going
Speaker 1: to have to play Bronco football. The other words are
Speaker 1: going to have to break a grind.
Speaker 5: I think it's good that they've you know, the best
Speaker 5: thing about Broncos is they've really learned to adapt this year,
Speaker 5: Like they've they've had key players out pretty much every
Speaker 5: round and they've adapted. You know, like we're missing Reynold's face,
Speaker 5: but looking at that team, I don't miss Reynolds.
Speaker 4: There actually better.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is one of the best you know, you
Speaker 5: would they haven't even skipped a beat, right, that's probably
Speaker 5: the best thing that they've learned.
Speaker 6: Whatever Max's doing up there, he's doing very well.
Speaker 5: But I did feel for the Nights like that's that's
Speaker 5: rough going.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well they chug along, idea, they flogged the Knights.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to talk too much about Nights because
Speaker 1: I see what I thought about Knights, and they're gonna
Speaker 1: they're gonna make the I just got this gut feeling
Speaker 1: probably going.
Speaker 4: To be in before Warriors have got a good run,
Speaker 4: so they could they have to drop points. They've got
Speaker 4: to rely on the Warriors to lose.
Speaker 1: So they've got two easy games.
Speaker 4: All the Warriors have got PARAMOUNTA this week and next
Speaker 4: week I think they've got another easy games.
Speaker 1: Won't be easy.
Speaker 4: I'm actually tipping the Heels. But anyway, Following that, the
Speaker 4: final game of the round was the Tigers twenty eight
Speaker 4: the Cowboys thirty four made against mate Peyton verse Benji.
Speaker 4: These two guys won a Grand final against Peyton's team
Speaker 4: two and five twenty years ago, and now they're coaching
Speaker 4: against each other in a packed out like hard crowd.
Speaker 4: It was a little fantastic on TV. The crowd looked amazing.
Speaker 4: But Dewey getting Dewey injured early in the game, that
Speaker 4: was terrific. A practiced skull or something. It was a
Speaker 4: pretty bad injury, isn't it. He's out for the rest
Speaker 4: of the season now. But yeah, losing him was a
Speaker 4: bit of a loss for the Tigers. But yeah, they
Speaker 4: Cowboys just kept coming on. Mate. They've got a bit
Speaker 4: of life in May. The last couple of games, the
Speaker 4: Cowboys have sprung the life before.
Speaker 1: Before we get into this game, team, did you see
Speaker 1: the pictures of low Cardoval?
Speaker 4: Like Cardoval the crowd? Did you see the game?
Speaker 6: I saw the first half.
Speaker 1: So you saw, you saw the pictures, you saw the stadium.
Speaker 1: You've never gone to low Cardoval.
Speaker 4: I've never gone like, no, no, I know, I've got
Speaker 4: to be serious. I've never gone to like card Oble.
Speaker 1: Kidding, table town and like Campbelltown is, but like, you've
Speaker 1: got to come down. Okay. It's one thing going to
Speaker 1: suncor and it's great going to Paramatter, But when you
Speaker 1: go to an old fashioned like hard Over, which is
Speaker 1: in a city, okay, I'm sure you know it's in
Speaker 1: the city, okay, and you go into the hill, don't
Speaker 1: go into the stands, go onto the hill with the pundits, okay,
Speaker 1: and you you you he noises and you smell smells
Speaker 1: and it's just very very very Rugby league.
Speaker 4: Huh.
Speaker 1: Tigers Tigers, Tigers. Yeah, You've got to come over. And
Speaker 1: that's an experience. It's an experience that one. And I
Speaker 1: can't believe you haven't gone to. I'm gonna sorry, I'm
Speaker 1: taking you to like next year, next year, first game
Speaker 1: they're playing. I'm taking you to like card Oble. I
Speaker 1: didn't realize I've never been sorry to I.
Speaker 5: Would have been to like her like because when we
Speaker 5: were younger, we lived in Newcastle and Dad used to
Speaker 5: contract because he worked in the raft, but he'd also
Speaker 5: either cook for the offit the corporals and stuff when
Speaker 5: they'd go to the games in the boxes. And I
Speaker 5: because it was in Newcastle, we traveled as Sydney and Canberra.
Speaker 5: So from the ages of what Panos's age to the
Speaker 5: ages of like, you know, Manny's age, I would have
Speaker 5: been to all those because that's my first memory of,
Speaker 5: you know, watching footing in New South Wales. I probably
Speaker 5: have been, but I remember, but.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I think I watched.
Speaker 5: I think I watched yeah, half of this because I
Speaker 5: was actually watching the girls play too. I was trying
Speaker 5: to watch it in tandem because the Tigers girls and
Speaker 5: Cowboys girls played at the same time.
Speaker 6: Good game, but I kind of wanted the Tigers still.
Speaker 1: Win, did you Yeah, okay, yeah, I didn't care. I
Speaker 1: just it was just great. It was just a great
Speaker 1: a sensational game. Was it was look, defense was not
Speaker 1: the first thought and it was an extremely, extremely exciting game.
Speaker 1: Jerome his best game in a in Black and Orange
Speaker 1: Jersey by far by far. Tell you what terror mate
Speaker 1: is going to be a good bye for him in
Speaker 1: long term he's a good bye this year. He's been
Speaker 1: their best good bye this year. Yeah, Buller just keeps
Speaker 1: on improving. He's good in blue and white.
Speaker 5: One.
Speaker 4: Which did you say? Romeo? Thailand? Which one the center
Speaker 4: of Sorry Thailand? Sorry Tailan the center? Sorry sorry sorry
Speaker 4: do a big, big loss, but you know what, massive loss.
Speaker 4: But he's been playing so well.
Speaker 1: But they brought a fan what's your name? And he
Speaker 1: looked pretty good good. It was pretty good. I really,
Speaker 1: really really he had me on the edge of my seat.
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed the game. I thought Tigers when they
Speaker 1: was twelve twelve, I thought I was going to win
Speaker 1: this game. But Scottie drink Water just all out of
Speaker 1: his side.
Speaker 4: Those last three tries and kicks from the sideline, from
Speaker 4: the sideline, he didn't kick any of those.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm gonna I'm going to say the win.
Speaker 1: Canby's got a young nineteen year old player. He's supposed
Speaker 1: to be the best things. He sliced bread. So Jackson
Speaker 1: Perdue must be a future.
Speaker 4: He was strange.
Speaker 1: Even strangers we get strange. Perdue must be.
Speaker 4: In a mortal well. Gall Galvin's apparently better than Cleary
Speaker 4: because it wasn't good the Panthers. When was that's that's right,
Speaker 4: So he was he was, he was outstanding, very good.
Speaker 4: And you know what, I'm want to ask one question,
Speaker 4: where the fund was this all him from the Cowboys?
Speaker 4: If they played like this, half you, not fully half
Speaker 4: like half of you like this, they might actually be
Speaker 4: near the eight or in the eight now. But so
Speaker 4: so if I if I was a Cowboy supporter, I'll
Speaker 4: be bitterly disappointed, you know what I mean. Playing But
Speaker 4: there's a lot of promise, a lot of young kids,
Speaker 4: like you said, and if you others got the list,
Speaker 4: you think, why are they?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I wonder if they're so there. Well, the CEO
Speaker 5: stepping down Cowboys this year, and I wonder if they've
Speaker 5: started integrating the new one, because there was a noticeable
Speaker 5: shift in the Cowboys right usually usually with I don't
Speaker 5: know how it works in the narrel, but usually quite
Speaker 5: senior roles like that. Because he announced, I think six
Speaker 5: months or three months ago that he was stepping down
Speaker 5: this year, it's smart to bring the next one through
Speaker 5: to start doing a bit of that crossover.
Speaker 6: I had that thought. I wondered if the new one maybe.
Speaker 4: Might be cracking around, Maybe maybe read money's going to
Speaker 4: make a difference section.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely is going to if they've.
Speaker 4: Integrated now you can see that's probably why they're one
Speaker 4: or one reason.
Speaker 5: Everyone's like, you're going to apply for that role?
Speaker 1: Why not Jason Jason Tamalolo has made such a difference him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's great. He has two stints because he's he's older
Speaker 1: now he has he does fifteen twenty minutes at the start,
Speaker 1: absolutely rips it apart. They hold him off and being
Speaker 1: hi in the last twenty minutes and you see a
Speaker 1: shift and and and the comeback came when he came
Speaker 1: back on because they're going forward, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: He really carries that team forward and all the backs
Speaker 1: and the backs can do their their thing. You know,
Speaker 1: did and did and my god, didn't you know what
Speaker 1: if there was if there was a if there was
Speaker 1: a fight, he might not win. But tell you what,
Speaker 1: didn't will never ever ever give up. I love Tommy,
Speaker 1: didn't I love Tommy Diddon And you know what, it
Speaker 1: was just a really taining game. I thought that I
Speaker 1: thought the try of the year was Quants when he
Speaker 1: kicked it and regained the half out.
Speaker 4: But Tiger scored the Tigers tried and it was like Benji.
Speaker 1: Which I think is the tribe of the year so far,
Speaker 1: and here here how the crowd responded to every every
Speaker 1: thing that these Tigers are did. It was it was
Speaker 1: like I said, the pictures came through the TV and
Speaker 1: it just I just couldn't leave it. And it was
Speaker 1: like blow blow for blow. Different different to the Camberg
Speaker 1: Camberra Penriff game because it was more physical, but this
Speaker 1: as an attacking game, as an entertaining game, was extremely entertaining.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to end, and how it ended was amazing.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, you know, if I was, if I was
Speaker 1: a player, I would have thought walking off, if I
Speaker 1: was sorry, the Tigers player would have been walking off.
Speaker 4: What just happened seconds ago?
Speaker 1: What just happened. So yeah, look, good victory, great game.
Speaker 1: I want more of these games to finish the season off.
Speaker 1: This is exactly what I want from the teament I
Speaker 1: have this. These are the games I want to see.
Speaker 1: The teams are outside the eight, these are the topic
Speaker 1: games I want to see. Just just tax City attack City.
Speaker 4: It's a shame because if they won that game, the
Speaker 4: Tigers they finished on twenty, they would have been on
Speaker 4: twenty sixth, they're still mathematic had a chance playing top eight.
Speaker 4: So to be two weeks out from the end of
Speaker 4: the season and to be in the fringes of the
Speaker 4: top eight to last year winning three wooden spoons, big improvements.
Speaker 4: So hopefully next year they get the one step closer
Speaker 4: and make the eighth.
Speaker 2: They're on the.
Speaker 4: Fringes of the eight, so it's it's a tick. They've improved,
Speaker 4: the improved, they've improved, and they've had a lot of
Speaker 4: shit happened this year with government stuff, so they've had a.
Speaker 1: Lot of shit. So they they're getting a few extra,
Speaker 1: few extra players next year, color Peace Paul, which will
Speaker 1: make a difference. I'm a fan of Cold Piece Paul.
Speaker 1: And it's another year, another off season for the youngsters.
Speaker 1: And I want to say it again, underneath stacked. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's ridiculously, ridiculously how stacked they are. Yeah, ridiculously how
Speaker 1: stacked they are. And Saint George and the world is
Speaker 1: even more stacked. And Parameters it's stacked even more apparently,
Speaker 1: So just give it time and and the gerone thing. Look,
Speaker 1: we don't know what happens off the field. He must
Speaker 1: he must be some sort of you know, guide some
Speaker 1: sort of yachts for the youngsters coming through in terms
Speaker 1: of professionalism. Yeah, on field, Nick's right, he hasn't. He hasn't.
Speaker 1: You know, the one point two million probably hasn't lived
Speaker 1: to his paid paycheck check. But we don't know what
Speaker 1: what's happened off the field.
Speaker 4: We have no idea.
Speaker 5: But could you say that everyone is living to their
Speaker 5: paycheck completely?
Speaker 4: No, no, no, a lot of them. Look at Ponger,
Speaker 4: well no, Ponger hasn't for the last three four years
Speaker 4: more than he hasn't made played more than fifteen games
Speaker 4: and he and.
Speaker 1: He's the highest paid player in the game.
Speaker 4: So no, Look at Turbo. Look at a lot of players.
Speaker 4: I mean the last three years.
Speaker 1: Had Tampa no, so no, a lot of players. So
Speaker 1: when you get to that top of money, it's a
Speaker 1: very fine line. And you know only that you're putting,
Speaker 1: as peopleould say, you're putting a target on your back.
Speaker 1: Everybody's expecting you to deliver every week. Now, if you
Speaker 1: go home and there's an issue at home and you
Speaker 1: come to training and your brain's not there, well that's
Speaker 1: how you perform. So it's more than just I'm playing
Speaker 1: or I'm playing with injury because all of them playing
Speaker 1: with injury. Every player is playing with injury. You know
Speaker 1: what I love At the start of the year, I
Speaker 1: can't remember who was maybe DC. He goes, Yeah, we
Speaker 1: have a preseason. We play the first troll match and
Speaker 1: you're really you feel strong. Then your body starts thirty
Speaker 1: after the first troll match. You think you're going to
Speaker 1: get better. Then you start getting better in the off
Speaker 1: season again, so you hurt or yeah, you hurt all yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Yeah, so you know you're
Speaker 1: paying you're getting paid that much. But again, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of little there's not one thing, one stop shop.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of things involved in getting a player
Speaker 1: to play at his best every week, you know, I
Speaker 1: mean it's not easy. Yeah, sorry, And I know.
Speaker 6: Adie you've got it.
Speaker 5: Who's definitely out mathematically obviously Titans.
Speaker 4: Anyone. Let's have a look. We're going to I was
Speaker 4: going to go through that. Actually I was going to
Speaker 4: finish off now sharks. Sharks have the buy and that
Speaker 4: finishes off the round Sharks the soft runs. But we'll
Speaker 4: go through actually the ladder now so we can see
Speaker 4: who's actually got in and no one used to make
Speaker 4: some predictions. So let's look at the top four. That's
Speaker 4: I don't think that's going to change much because you've
Speaker 4: got the Raiders on forty two. Then you've got the
Speaker 4: Storm on forty So if the Raiders win this week,
Speaker 4: it's done deal. They finish first unless they lose two
Speaker 4: games in a row and in the Storm. Okay, so
Speaker 4: the Raiders are on first, Storm second. Now there's a
Speaker 4: four point gap between the Storm and the Bulldogs, so
Speaker 4: that top two is sorted right. Then you've got the
Speaker 4: Bulldogs on thirty six and you've got the Warriors on
Speaker 4: thirty four. Okay, Bulldogs are playing a week Penrith, so
Speaker 4: if they win this they've sewn up third spot. That's
Speaker 4: the top three. So that's your top three. So that's
Speaker 4: don't sealed unless Penrith beat them. I doubt then it
Speaker 4: opens up at the door because then you've got the
Speaker 4: Warriors on thirty four and if the Broncos win on
Speaker 4: thirty four, so there's going to be three teams. There
Speaker 4: are two teams on thirty four and the Dogs thirty six.
Speaker 4: So the Dogs, if they lose again, I think they're
Speaker 4: fouring against two good So I don't think the Warriors
Speaker 4: can overtake them, but the Broncos have They've got a chance.
Speaker 4: The Bronco has overtaken them in the third. But do
Speaker 4: you think fourth spot is a given at the Warriors
Speaker 4: now on thirty four, or do you think the Sharks
Speaker 4: all the all the Broncos will take that spot. They're
Speaker 4: only to be honest, both teams are shot.
Speaker 1: I would favor the Broncos. They're playing the Cowboys. They're
Speaker 1: playing the Cowboys in the in the in the peak
Speaker 1: and the pig in the pig pen up there and
Speaker 1: I'll probably win. And I'm not sure who they're playing
Speaker 1: the last the last game.
Speaker 4: The Warriors have got Eels and manly they're not playing
Speaker 4: top eight. That's why they just have to win those
Speaker 4: two games and they've sewn up fourth.
Speaker 5: But the Els, the Eels, I don't know.
Speaker 6: I know they're playing at home, but.
Speaker 4: Big game, this one.
Speaker 5: Is just to be pure Devil's advocate. If I went Panthers, Eels,
Speaker 5: Storm Raiders, Eagles, Broncos, just procurely what I think. Sharks, Dolphins,
Speaker 5: You've got doggies is fine. Broncos fourth and Warriors down
Speaker 5: to six.
Speaker 6: Now, Warriors are.
Speaker 5: A very injured team right, and this time of year
Speaker 5: is very interesting because even though we look at the
Speaker 5: Panthers teamless, because George and Manny and I were looking
Speaker 5: at it before, obviously he's resting, resting his guys. But
Speaker 5: I don't know, Like Cleary's clear, not ivan. He is
Speaker 5: not a silly man. He's been in premierships before and
Speaker 5: that's what it says now. But yeah, it's only Tuesday, right,
Speaker 5: you don't know. I don't know. I couldn't predict it.
Speaker 5: I feel I feel like I feel like Broncos will
Speaker 5: get into the foe. Not from an emotional perspective. I
Speaker 5: just think looking at their run, they will. But it's
Speaker 5: an interesting It's going to be quite interesting because if
Speaker 5: that plays out that way, there'll be a couple Dolphins races,
Speaker 5: Eagles all beyond twenty eight if it plays.
Speaker 6: Out the way that I said.
Speaker 1: Can I suggest to you, if the Broncos do come forth,
Speaker 1: and the chances are that they will come forth, okay,
Speaker 1: then doing themselves this service service and I'll tell you
Speaker 1: why They're going to go to Canberra, Okay on probably
Speaker 1: Friday night or a Sunday. I think I think the
Speaker 1: big games on a Sunday, the games on a Sunday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but George, if what what what what?
Speaker 1: And the the camera forwards are going to roll, they're
Speaker 1: going to be busted up. They're not going to be
Speaker 1: they're not gonna sorry, they're not going to be camera
Speaker 1: in camera.
Speaker 4: They're not gonna If they don't be camera, they either
Speaker 4: play the Roosters possibly or the Panthers. Panthers can play
Speaker 4: the Broncos, or the Roosters can play the Broncos. So
Speaker 4: you've got Robbo and Cleary team led teams playing against
Speaker 4: the Broncos. So it's not easy, it's not. Their best
Speaker 4: position is to come maybe third if they can get
Speaker 4: the third, which they won't because they've got to rely
Speaker 4: on canterb.
Speaker 1: They can't come to I just think that the number
Speaker 1: the fourth position is probably this year probably, you know,
Speaker 1: like anyway you've got a second chance. Anyway you get
Speaker 1: a second chance. Yeah, I think that's probably the worst
Speaker 1: position the rest of them. Yeah, look, sharks, they think
Speaker 1: they're going to make the top four. I listen to
Speaker 1: some shark pods because I just like having a giggle.
Speaker 1: But they won't make them. They won't make the top four. No,
Speaker 1: they won't make the top four because cannib will beat
Speaker 1: them the last round. The Roosters will just scrape in, just.
Speaker 5: Scrape if we can be storm because we're playing them
Speaker 5: at home next week, not this round. And I imagine
Speaker 5: Bellamy will rests. Yeah, he'll rest the more and the
Speaker 5: rest of the round goes the way that I read
Speaker 5: it before, we'll be we'll be that, we'll stand fourth,
Speaker 5: but if we lose.
Speaker 6: We'll go to sixth.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well either way, this is this is the year that
Speaker 1: someone might when from outside the Yeah, but go ahead,
Speaker 1: So I say Warriors fourth.
Speaker 4: Yep, so so and then you've got okay, so.
Speaker 1: Sorry, Broncos fourth. So Warriors will come.
Speaker 4: Fifth, okay, and then you've got Sharks will probably get
Speaker 4: the sixth, right probably.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Now Panther are a lock, right because they're on thirty
Speaker 4: one points and there's two more rounds to go. Now,
Speaker 4: ninth position is the Dolphins and the Eagles. So the
Speaker 4: maximum they get his thirty if they win the next two.
Speaker 4: So they can't catch Penrith. The only team they can
Speaker 4: overtake is with the Roosters. Now the Roosters have got
Speaker 4: Melbourne and then South's oh the local derby, the local derby.
Speaker 4: That's the only one, right, So Dolphins and Manly they
Speaker 4: lose one game, Roosters are in Who's Who's whose? Dolphins
Speaker 4: playing this week? The Dolphins have got the Titans Titans.
Speaker 4: Tell you what if they see that Manly game? What
Speaker 4: how what an impact that had if they beat.
Speaker 1: That's what I said. Yeah, that Manley game is massive.
Speaker 1: If they beat the Titans this week, oh man, they're
Speaker 1: in for a they're in for a shower.
Speaker 4: Well, they're in. They're in eighth. If Roosters lose to Melbourne,
Speaker 4: which everyone's going to predict, Dolphins will overtake them because
Speaker 4: everyone against is better than the Roosters, but only justs.
Speaker 5: Dolphins are playing at sun Court, which is their heart,
Speaker 5: their home too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it will be a great story for
Speaker 1: Dolphins to make the eight for the first time. It
Speaker 1: would be great for Christian Wolf to do what he's
Speaker 1: done with twelve players out or something like something like
Speaker 1: the eight players out.
Speaker 4: Their last game is no Raiders.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, well, at least at least at least.
Speaker 4: They might be the Titans, but they're playing the team
Speaker 4: come on last and then the team coming first. Ko Stadium, Redcliffe.
Speaker 4: They're playing, they're playing the Sea World.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe maybe maybe they might you know maybe.
Speaker 5: If I'm sure, rest some of these guys.
Speaker 1: He's gonna he's gonna have to rest some. No, he's
Speaker 1: not gonna play everybody. He's gonna have to rest.
Speaker 5: Some might come in and you know, some people up.
Speaker 1: You know what when this Dolphins, if this Dolphin team
Speaker 1: starts screwing, you can't shut them off.
Speaker 5: Mm hm.
Speaker 4: So if the Storm, if the Raiders win this week
Speaker 4: and the Storm win, Uh, the Raiders still have to
Speaker 4: win their last game to get for minor premiership because
Speaker 4: they're only two in front and the Storms fore and
Speaker 4: against is better than the Raiders. All they have. All
Speaker 4: the Storm have to do is catch the same points
Speaker 4: as the Raiders. Wow, So the Raiders still have to win.
Speaker 4: If the Storm news this week and the Raiders win,
Speaker 4: and Ricky probably will rest, You'll say we've got the
Speaker 4: minor premiership wrapped up. But if they've got one one
Speaker 4: game to go to wrap up minor premiership, what would
Speaker 4: he rest when you didn't get the minor premiership.
Speaker 1: It's still intriguing, isn't it?
Speaker 3: It is?
Speaker 1: It's still intriguing.
Speaker 5: Hands down to get the spoon.
Speaker 6: There is no way.
Speaker 4: It's a shame.
Speaker 5: It is such a shame because.
Speaker 1: They Don't's far far worse than the Titans in my view,
Speaker 1: in my view, but anyway, damn shame. And you know,
Speaker 1: not only the Titans. They deserve it. That he doesn't
Speaker 1: deserve it.
Speaker 4: I don't think the club deserves it.
Speaker 1: But anyway, Yeah, anyway, you know, I've got a for
Speaker 1: the Fins and anyway, so.
Speaker 4: Next week we should have a very closer idea on
Speaker 4: who next week. Next week and we can handlsee it
Speaker 4: a bit first sure, next week we'll know that's for sure.
Speaker 4: Let's go to crystal ball. Now for the next round.
Speaker 4: We start off the round on Thursday night. We've got
Speaker 4: the Bulldogs up against the Panthers. The Panthers reserve grade
Speaker 4: team taking on the Panthers triple reserve grade Teason Bulldogs
Speaker 4: now the reserve Panthers now they're taking the reserve reserve
Speaker 4: Panthers now. So we've got Hayes and kickout are both
Speaker 4: out for the Dogs and for Panthers. We've only got
Speaker 4: a couple of out. We've got Tallagi or McLean Edwards
Speaker 4: y Henry Martin Smith, Kenny, Leota, Cleary, Sorenson and Jenkins
Speaker 4: just a few players out. He has gone absolutely crazy,
Speaker 4: like everyone is literally off the field. So I dare
Speaker 4: say we're all tipping the Bulldogs.
Speaker 1: I know I'm actually enjoying. Actually can't wait to see
Speaker 1: Paul Lamy play. I think he's I think he should
Speaker 1: be in the first team. Personally, Dan Lorrie, you mentioned fallback.
Speaker 1: He's always he's always good value. Now McLean's brother Jesse
Speaker 1: is playing on the wing. This kid is just as
Speaker 1: good as just as good. He's just a bit younger
Speaker 1: than his than his brother. So have a have a
Speaker 1: look at McLean and you know what, you know when
Speaker 1: it's you know, when they can't find pictures to put
Speaker 1: up on the side, you know that you know that
Speaker 1: they're in trouble or I don't know who these players are,
Speaker 1: but Mark Guy will have a good look at Mark
Speaker 1: Guy's young.
Speaker 4: Man guy who signed for the Tigers. Yeah, which he's
Speaker 4: going over to the Tigers. Man Guy, George is only
Speaker 4: Luke going to Castleford next year. He's a great player,
Speaker 4: don't George can ask your question what happened? Just say, hypothetically,
Speaker 4: if the book Dogs lose this game. Mentally, how do
Speaker 4: you reckon that would go going into the finals losing
Speaker 4: to a reserve grade penalty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be number one, will be a shock. It'll
Speaker 1: be devastating mentally if they lose. If they lose, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if they win by one point or one
Speaker 1: hundred points. If they actually lose, put a red line
Speaker 1: through them. Put them because mentally everything that serto does.
Speaker 4: That mean there's pressure on them now because they're facing
Speaker 4: this team, you reckon, that adds a bit of pressure.
Speaker 1: We've got to win this because if they play even
Speaker 1: close to their best, they.
Speaker 4: Should they should plus absolutely.
Speaker 1: Okay, if they lose, that means they've done roosters from
Speaker 1: last week. Okay, now we can excuse them cause they're
Speaker 1: all young. They're all young kids. Okay, but Serroudo has
Speaker 1: built this team apparently on blood and guts. And you've
Speaker 1: got the Hall of Fame, Wogs of the Dogs of
Speaker 1: War whatever, sorry, the Warks, dogs of War. And yeah,
Speaker 1: Gallan probably won't because he's injured. I hope, I hope
Speaker 1: he doesn't blame if he's injured.
Speaker 5: Injured.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got his hands, he's broken some bay, I
Speaker 1: don't know I'm with you. I'm with you all the
Speaker 1: way and with you know. You know what, let's not
Speaker 1: blame the kid. Let's blame some.
Speaker 4: Maybe maybe it's good to put him in this game
Speaker 4: to give him confidence. Let him have a blinder against
Speaker 4: the reserve Henry so he can get.
Speaker 5: His hopes up and he's you can remember these guys,
Speaker 5: these guys are playing, they're they're hungry and they want
Speaker 5: to make an impression.
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely absolutely, that's.
Speaker 5: Why I don't know.
Speaker 6: I just clear is very clever.
Speaker 1: Cole a Schneider Cole in the halfs No youngsters young
Speaker 1: the first grader in other clubs on the wing, not
Speaker 1: a youngster. What do you see young McLean Justine McClain.
Speaker 1: He's a good he's a good player like his brother.
Speaker 1: His brothers got to jump on him. That's all there
Speaker 1: savely one year difference in age, Laurie. Isn't no charmp
Speaker 1: okay in these in these four these forwards have been
Speaker 1: killed in reserve grade. So look, in theory they should
Speaker 1: get beaten. How much they're going to get beaten. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's all.
Speaker 4: But give me the give me the dogs dogs, yeah,
Speaker 4: tenure panthers.
Speaker 5: I think because we did sixteen year old score goal
Speaker 5: world stage.
Speaker 1: On on on sports bit they're eight dollars. I know. Okay,
Speaker 1: there you go.
Speaker 4: Friday night we kick off with the Warriors up against
Speaker 4: the Eels. Both teams same, seventeen Warriors of one, only
Speaker 4: two of the last six at go Media Stadium. It's
Speaker 4: a bad stadium for them. And the Eels have won
Speaker 4: five of the last six against Warriors. The Eels have
Speaker 4: got the wood on the Warriors. Warriors playing for four
Speaker 4: top four Eels.
Speaker 1: I think it'll be a boilover, I think will.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what, we're all leading towards Eels. We
Speaker 4: haven't got much faith in the Warriors, have we, And
Speaker 4: this is the top four playing against the bottom and whatever.
Speaker 1: Look I think they're they're on. They're empty, on the
Speaker 1: on the in the tank, in the petrol tank, they're empty.
Speaker 1: I think they're empty. It's been a big gift from Yeah.
Speaker 1: The number one front roller is gone, the number one
Speaker 1: half back is gone, and I know the fish is
Speaker 1: there and he's got a lift because he hasn't really
Speaker 1: talking about making his pay packet. He is number one,
Speaker 1: hasn't met his pay packet. But uh, you know what
Speaker 1: this Paramatta team.
Speaker 4: I love the structures, all right, So what happens now?
Speaker 4: I'm going to do the hypothetically again, what happens if
Speaker 4: the Warriors wiped Paramattic? Does that all of a sudden, say,
Speaker 4: I hang on a second, Warriors might actually do something
Speaker 4: in the finals.
Speaker 1: No, because we don't know what what the Paramat team
Speaker 1: is coming because he is there, one work in, one worker.
Speaker 1: If he if they wipe them, they're staying the floor.
Speaker 1: And that's that's good, that's great, that's fantastic.
Speaker 5: John russells in for the Els.
Speaker 1: They put him back in.
Speaker 4: M Okay, well that I think it's a good player.
Speaker 7: Sure?
Speaker 4: Really is he listed on the starting line up or
Speaker 4: is it just a reserve? I think she thought it
Speaker 4: was the same seventeen Yeah. I think Sean Russell is
Speaker 4: a good player. And I haven't got him here too.
Speaker 4: Maybe he's just I think he's back in, but he's
Speaker 4: not listed in there, you know what, he's on the
Speaker 4: extended extended. Yeah, I don't think he's starting.
Speaker 1: He's extended.
Speaker 5: The Eels have just gotten a bit of a cheeky
Speaker 5: teaste recently, maybe probably gets a bit addictive, right, and
Speaker 5: that the Warriors love them, and I know they're playing
Speaker 5: at home even if it's not raining, But I just
Speaker 5: I think the Eels are just.
Speaker 6: They're in a bit of a run.
Speaker 4: Warriors are playing a harder team than the depleted Dragons
Speaker 4: and a weakened Titans team. You know they're playing. This
Speaker 4: is a tougher team than those two teams brief previously,
Speaker 4: which they beat before they beat those two week teams
Speaker 4: are struggling hard. So yeah, I agree with you guys.
Speaker 4: I think we're all going to earls. We're all agreeing
Speaker 4: with agreeing, except for Penrith. A kickoff Saturday, cracker of
Speaker 4: a game is a kickoff Saturday. No, it's Friday night.
Speaker 4: We've got the Storm up against the Roosters. Craig Bellamy's fourth,
Speaker 4: the fourth coach to reach six hundred NRL games. Storm
Speaker 4: won the last seven against the Roosters and Roosters have
Speaker 4: lost five of the last six at double am, I
Speaker 4: listen to this. Katoa Elis katoa, Grant King, Meanie Kimikameka
Speaker 4: and Coats are out. Sean Bloer, Bronson Garlic plus a
Speaker 4: few other youngsters are in Warbrick's been named on reserves
Speaker 4: for the roosters. We've got Sam Walker and Junior Tupo
Speaker 4: out put poo out, but their replacements are pretty handy
Speaker 4: in Sandon Smith and Daniel Tupo with all the with
Speaker 4: that lineup now with Melbourne, it's got me thinking roosters
Speaker 4: might be able to get an upset here, what's your thoughts?
Speaker 4: But it's six hundred bloody game for Bellamy, so the
Speaker 4: storm will lift for that.
Speaker 1: So boilover.
Speaker 4: Sorry still storm. Yeah, I got a boil over. I got.
Speaker 1: When Robot wants something, he gets.
Speaker 5: You got.
Speaker 6: You got pat back in. He was back in last week.
Speaker 1: He was outstanding, actually.
Speaker 5: Amazing and Chance something but is it sev sev?
Speaker 4: Yeah, goggles with the goggles, you know that's that story.
Speaker 5: No Chance is playing but the like yeah, as in.
Speaker 4: Solomons in t can you can you because people some
Speaker 4: people want not know?
Speaker 1: Can you? Can you tell everybody the story? Because not
Speaker 1: only the goggles, he being cancer as well. So oh wow,
Speaker 1: so the full story for.
Speaker 5: He got injured at the beginning of what was that?
Speaker 5: George wasn't years ago?
Speaker 4: Oh wow?
Speaker 1: Did that?
Speaker 4: Jeeze?
Speaker 5: That's why he's got that and he and the probably
Speaker 5: it's been a while since he's like, actually, no, it
Speaker 5: was this year he suffered the other year probably three
Speaker 5: months ago. Yeah, he's playing for the Feeder Club. What's
Speaker 5: it called the Sydney Bears.
Speaker 4: Shine.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so he like and that was the first time
Speaker 5: he was back what two weeks ago, and he scored
Speaker 5: a try.
Speaker 6: I just that's I just think that's so great. That
Speaker 6: is so scary for that to happen, and he's just
Speaker 6: back in and getting on with it.
Speaker 1: He was totally couldn't play.
Speaker 4: Wow man.
Speaker 1: And and before that he had had cancer as well.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: So yeah, but hasn't re signed resigned the mixture, so
Speaker 1: I don't know who's going to pick him up. But well,
Speaker 1: he had.
Speaker 5: Testicular cancer and he did a c L then did
Speaker 5: his I.
Speaker 4: Anyway, boylover, give me the give me the riddles, the trucks.
Speaker 4: Oh man, I'm tossing a coin here. This six hundred
Speaker 4: milestone game, Monster. I think Robber is going to break
Speaker 4: the duck. He's going to finally get a winner over
Speaker 4: the Storm. And that's only because of the lineup, because
Speaker 4: of missing. The big loss for me is Katowa Alsa
Speaker 4: is a gun back rower. I love that guy. He
Speaker 4: brings them alive. Like, if anyone does a hit to
Speaker 4: bring them back in, it's always him and you're going
Speaker 4: to miss him a lot. And Coats the winger.
Speaker 5: You don't have to kick low for Coats.
Speaker 4: MENI Max King whatever, whatever, Josh King whatever, he's pretty
Speaker 4: good too. Yeah. I'm taking the Roosters. They need to
Speaker 4: play for top four. If they win this more secures them.
Speaker 4: I think Raiders up against the Tigers another Grand Final
Speaker 4: replay for the Tiger last year. That last week they
Speaker 4: played the Cowboys. This week they're playing the Raiders. Remember
Speaker 4: that Grand Final Raiders was the Tigers. That was an
Speaker 4: absolute cracker game of the century. Raiders won nine of
Speaker 4: the last ten. Josh Papa Will plays one hundred and
Speaker 4: fiftieth game at Gio Stadium. Savage has gone for the
Speaker 4: season shoulder injury, but they bring in to Malay Sevilio
Speaker 4: and Dewey is out. Stafford Towery's back.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Thirteen plus thirteen plus.
Speaker 4: Camp Raiders, Raiders Rads seven. Okay. After that, we've got
Speaker 4: the Dragons versus the Seagules at Cogra Oval. Jack Debellen's
Speaker 4: last game as a Dragon at Cogra. Dragons won through
Speaker 4: the last four at Jubilee Seagulls have not won at
Speaker 4: Congres since twenty fourteen. That's a stat that's weird because
Speaker 4: they probably haven't played since two thousand. I don't know.
Speaker 4: You know that stupid stat that they was put in
Speaker 4: same seventeen for the Eagles as last week when they
Speaker 4: scored their fifth the eight. This week we've got for
Speaker 4: Tala Marina out for the Dragons, but they brought in him,
Speaker 4: Jack de bell and Jaden Sewer and Sloan, so four
Speaker 4: of their troops are back and important ones too.
Speaker 6: Dragons.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't trust. I don't trust merely they did that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they did what they did last week. Let's say Cherry Evans. Yeah,
Speaker 1: after the performance last week St. Georgia gave, I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure they went or Flannagan will not let them give
Speaker 1: another performance like that. Did you say the Cogra or Cobra.
Speaker 1: It's at their home. I see S.
Speaker 4: George victory George to wrap up the year. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 4: hoping I can get to see another St. George victory
Speaker 4: this year, but I can't. You know what Jack de
Speaker 4: Bellin's last game. Maybe they left for Jack. I hope
Speaker 4: they do. But I remember Jason nightingerm my favorite player
Speaker 4: his last year at Cogra. That was an absolute debarkle.
Speaker 4: They got flogged thirty eight nil by the Dogs who
Speaker 4: were coming like second last. It was terrible. So I
Speaker 4: hope they don't have the same thing for Jack. Cowboys
Speaker 4: are next up against the bull the Broncos, another Grand
Speaker 4: final reoplay. These two teams met in a Grand Final.
Speaker 4: Cowboys are won two against I've only won two against
Speaker 4: eleven top eight oppositions eleven games against top eight sides
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty five, so their record against the top
Speaker 4: eight teams are shit. Broncos are one of the last
Speaker 4: five games against the Cowboys and Ruben Cotra one hundred
Speaker 4: in a real game. Ruben love Ruben hair cut the best.
Speaker 1: We love Ruben. We're really big fans of Ruber.
Speaker 4: Same seventeen for the Cows. Adam Reynolds listed in reserves,
Speaker 4: Pikus on the bench.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, obviously Broncos not emotionally, just it'll be wild
Speaker 5: like town towns will chopped. Apparently all their correations done.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, Unfortunately this week the Broncos will win, and
Speaker 1: win handsomely. They had, they had their win for the year.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys they played well and yeah, Broncos will keep
Speaker 1: chugging along.
Speaker 4: Unlock the grand final. Unlock the Grand Final. The Cowboys
Speaker 4: haven't got thirst and to kick them a field goal,
Speaker 4: but Ben Hunt's still there to drop a ball from
Speaker 4: a kick. They might win.
Speaker 1: They might.
Speaker 4: That's poor poor Benny, Poor Ben Hunt. Okay, Sharks up
Speaker 4: against the Knights. I'm going for the Broncos for the one.
Speaker 4: Sharks playing for top four, Knights are playing for the
Speaker 4: bottom four.
Speaker 1: Then to get out of.
Speaker 4: Sharks have won five of the last six against the Knights.
Speaker 4: The Knights have not won at Shark Park since twenty
Speaker 4: and fourteen. What is it with twy cam mckinness out
Speaker 4: for the Sharks, but they welcome back Carl Irah Big
Speaker 4: Big in Peru massive massive and Hamelin Yueli starting same
Speaker 4: seventeen for the Knights. The only thing is they've got
Speaker 4: Heatherington and Marju but they're not listed. They're in the reserves.
Speaker 1: So really quickly any any as as Nicola would say,
Speaker 1: any team that's got Jake Arthur in it, I will
Speaker 1: lose number one and number two. The Knights have been
Speaker 1: absolutely awful and uh Carnola apparently they're going to make
Speaker 1: the top four apparently go to I think who are
Speaker 1: you going to? It's at Shark Parks, is at the prison,
Speaker 1: at the prison. That's at the prison.
Speaker 4: And to finish off the round, the Dolphins the two
Speaker 4: Queenslanders Dolphins up against the Titans. Dolphins have won four
Speaker 4: of the last five against the Titans and Jeremy Marshall
Speaker 4: King one hundred and fiftieth NURL appearance Titans same seventeen.
Speaker 4: Codie Nikorema is back and Kenny Bromwich is listed but
Speaker 4: in the reserves. Bromwich is on the in the reserves.
Speaker 5: Tips Dolphins for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, look, Trey Trey Fuller has had to run absolutely
Speaker 1: outstanding full back thirteen plus actually thirty plus Dolphins, thirteen plus.
Speaker 5: Plus their coach. They probably knew a month ago, but
Speaker 5: you know it would it would rock them a bit.
Speaker 1: Right probably, Yeah, they knew, but they rock them a bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure.
Speaker 4: Imagine how the Dolphins will feel if if the Melbourne
Speaker 4: get up and the Dolphins know they just have to
Speaker 4: beat Titans and then in the eight, that's going to
Speaker 4: add that extra pressure on the may of the game.
Speaker 4: You know, we beat the Titans, we're eight, we take
Speaker 4: over the Roosters, So.
Speaker 1: I can't wait. I want the Finns to make the AIP.
Speaker 4: But if the mental reason, yeah, but if the Roosters
Speaker 4: beat Melbourne, then the Dolphins are thinking, well we're not lose,
Speaker 4: we're not going to make the eights. Their mindset might
Speaker 4: change that little bit, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: That might go there. And did I say Rusters is
Speaker 1: going to I want to think that we go to
Speaker 1: the Titans, go to the Fins.
Speaker 4: Okay, so we're all going Dolphins, Yeah, Dregon, they'll send this.
Speaker 4: He hasardaf on a win anyway, we'll see HOPEFU think
Speaker 4: it's a win before he goes Sow's get to buy
Speaker 4: And we finished that finish off the round. Now did
Speaker 4: you want me to go through the Super League? Interested
Speaker 4: in the Super League? What did you want to go through? George?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're two and a half thousand to.
Speaker 4: Go quickly, scoolse Yeah, okay, Leeds twenty eight, Hulkingston Rovers six,
Speaker 4: Saint Helen's sixteen FC ten.
Speaker 1: But please somebody bring back Tristan Sailor. Please. I beg
Speaker 1: you when you see him in reserve or on the wing,
Speaker 1: it's an absolute disgrace, absolute disgrace. And the other game
Speaker 1: you said Leeds beat the team coming for flogged the
Speaker 1: team coming first. Brad Arthur, come home. Please, you're not
Speaker 1: You're not a coach for England. You're an no real
Speaker 1: coach on.
Speaker 4: Sorry, Lee Leopard's thirty eight South Devils six, Catalan Dragons
Speaker 4: thirty eight. Oh Lee Leopards, ugliest jers in the world. Yeah,
Speaker 4: Catalan Dragons thirty exactly what POD's team? Catalan Dragons thirty
Speaker 4: eight Castleford Tigers four Hardersfield Giants twenty three Warrington Wolves,
Speaker 4: Big Sam's team. We always have to say that too. Wolves.
Speaker 4: Just a reminder, run ten, Wigan Warriors, forty four Wakefield
Speaker 4: Trinity two and the latter is whole. K are On
Speaker 4: thirty eight, thirty four Wigan Saint Helen's thirty two with
Speaker 4: Leeds Rhinos. So the top four was rounding out brilliantly.
Speaker 1: Sam. Sam is learning the lesson. He's obviously lost the
Speaker 1: dressing room. He's sacking players. It's good for him. It's
Speaker 1: good for him because let him learn over there what
Speaker 1: to do and what not to do, and when he
Speaker 1: comes here he'll be he'll be a finished product. But
Speaker 1: he's getting rid of the mad Italian. He's getting rid
Speaker 1: of Dufty Dufty, He's getting rid of a whole hoop
Speaker 1: of them. I don't know why. I'm not sure what's
Speaker 1: happening over there, but how they're playing. He's lost the
Speaker 1: dressing room. Not sure.
Speaker 4: Question, George, yea. If someone said to you he is
Speaker 4: a twenty four year old Sam Burgers and he's a
Speaker 4: twenty four year old payehss, who would you take? Who'd
Speaker 4: you rather? His two favorite players?
Speaker 1: Who would you?
Speaker 4: Who would you take?
Speaker 1: Dan?
Speaker 4: You, Sam Burgers or huss.
Speaker 1: Of course, yeah, I'll take Sam, I'll take I'll take
Speaker 1: I'll take the wrecking machine. We forget what Sam did.
Speaker 4: Man, if you got both be in heaven there you go.
Speaker 1: You couldn't get him in the cap, but you for
Speaker 1: we forgot what Sammy did. Yeah, let's not forget the
Speaker 1: first tackle you o prop front roller from Canterbury caved,
Speaker 1: his caved, he facing and he kept on playing. Now
Speaker 1: this is this day and age, he would he'll be
Speaker 1: taken straight off. Yeah, he would have been. He wouldn't
Speaker 1: be He wouldn't play any any any any got Man
Speaker 1: of the match or the club Churchill mid or whatever
Speaker 1: with a cave the guys, the guys that maniac.
Speaker 4: So yeah, and that's anything else you want to add
Speaker 4: to George Town very quickly.
Speaker 1: And r l W Tenu and me are following basically
Speaker 1: two teams. We're following the Broncos, which they beat Newcastle
Speaker 1: Knights forty six sixteen.
Speaker 4: Did you watch a team?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is good.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know it's like.
Speaker 5: The first half for every n r l W team,
Speaker 5: the loser is just smashing them. And you're not sure.
Speaker 5: I actually really enjoy watching and getting into it and
Speaker 5: watching the women's team, and it's all it's fairly predictable,
Speaker 5: right like with women's you know, like in terms of
Speaker 5: who's scoring, like you know, you know the women that
Speaker 5: are going to score like every game, but they have
Speaker 5: a good crack. But god, it's brutal, right, Doggies, Doggy's
Speaker 5: played a right Broncos.
Speaker 1: We don't follow the Doggies. But let me tell you
Speaker 1: in terms of that game, to Meka up to god, brilliant,
Speaker 1: what do I say? I can't I can't express how
Speaker 1: how good Tamika up in these And it's not like
Speaker 1: girls are learning now to catch and pass. They still
Speaker 1: don't know how to catch pass and draw, and they
Speaker 1: don't understand the the situation of the game. Tamika does
Speaker 1: all those things and more.
Speaker 5: She's just yeah, you know, just but they have a
Speaker 5: very consistent team like Johnson Robinson upon Melee.
Speaker 6: They all score.
Speaker 4: Roosters Julia Robinson.
Speaker 5: Yeah, bet Surgeres like they are. It's literally the same.
Speaker 5: They've got a great, great team. It's gonna be even.
Speaker 1: And talking about the Broncos even title, I mean, I
Speaker 1: mean outrageous, outrageous, how good they are. So they have
Speaker 1: won and there and there, and they're chugging long. And
Speaker 1: let me tell you, Newcastle, they played well. I didn't
Speaker 1: play bad Newcastle. I didn't. They weren't terrible. And and
Speaker 1: we've heard stories about Jesse South or wanting to go
Speaker 1: to to the Broncos. And if that happens, because I think,
Speaker 1: did you do you know why she wants to go?
Speaker 1: Rumors are that Ali Brigganshaw, they're either she's either going
Speaker 1: to retire or they're going to move along. If they
Speaker 1: can get Jesse South for now, if they get Jesse
Speaker 1: South on this team, my godfather, my god, my godfather,
Speaker 1: we don't.
Speaker 5: Need to have a like a run for the girls
Speaker 5: at all. I think it'd be interesting when we see
Speaker 5: the Grand final between those two.
Speaker 6: I hope Broncos.
Speaker 1: But we're talking about the Rooster. Sorry tell you the
Speaker 1: Roosters are and our second our second team with following
Speaker 1: really is the paramount of Eels. And the Ruster has
Speaker 1: just absolutely done a hat your job on them, just
Speaker 1: kept on. They just kept on twelve fifty six hour
Speaker 1: twelve and look we spoke about this off air. NRL
Speaker 1: has got to do something. It's not fair. There's there's
Speaker 1: no cap in the I think in the r W.
Speaker 1: Oh really, no cap, not really, I think. And when
Speaker 1: they become professional and two they will, but just stop
Speaker 1: poiling stock oil in girls or stooiling players. It's just
Speaker 1: not fair. Everybody wants to everybody wants to play. I
Speaker 1: want to I'd want to play for Roosters or I'd
Speaker 1: want to play for for the Broncos as well. Now
Speaker 1: the rumors that we're hearing about Abby Church or Roosters
Speaker 1: asking or let's say, inquiring about Abby Church to come
Speaker 1: over to the Roosters, it's wrong. I'm not saying it's
Speaker 1: Abby Church wants to go over. All I'm saying is
Speaker 1: that apparently the Roosters are inquiring if Abby Church wants
Speaker 1: to come to the Roosters, now, how much more how
Speaker 1: much more talent do you want? How good do you
Speaker 1: want to be? Won't you?
Speaker 4: They've got so much underneath, stacked underneath.
Speaker 1: Kids. They can just take somebody, you know, they can
Speaker 1: they can get take someone out and and and and
Speaker 1: replace them with an equally good enough player from the Regies.
Speaker 1: But no, let's go and get Aby Church one of
Speaker 1: the best fullbacks in the other game. You know what
Speaker 1: I mean?
Speaker 6: Match if we get so twelve oh man, you know.
Speaker 1: When they make this fire tea and that that that's
Speaker 1: a true that's the true thing. And the thing is
Speaker 1: that roosters are asking for Abby. So Abby doesn't say
Speaker 1: she wants to go to the Roosters, but southwell, she
Speaker 1: said she wants to go to the Well. She's told
Speaker 1: her manager she wants to go to the Broncos. Okay,
Speaker 1: and they forget when when what's her name was playing
Speaker 1: for the Knights, Tamika Upton double roommates, but she lived
Speaker 1: Tamika lived in Jesse's house like with her parents and everything.
Speaker 1: So it's not it's not a passing comment. There's more
Speaker 1: substance to it. There's very much subs's there's a lot
Speaker 1: of substance to this one.
Speaker 6: And the thing is too And I can say this
Speaker 6: because I'm a girl.
Speaker 5: Girls chat more than guys.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, but they'd be on the line every week absolutely,
Speaker 1: So yeah, and that and that's the I'm not going
Speaker 1: to get into it because we've been nearly three hours on,
Speaker 1: which is very strange.
Speaker 4: For us longer in the world.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so one of but it was good.
Speaker 1: It was very good. So that that's that, and I've
Speaker 1: got to I've got I'll wrap up with I've got
Speaker 1: to do a song. The second time I went to Greece,
Speaker 1: we know you just came back and came back from Greece.
Speaker 1: My cousin took me to an island called Kurkfud.
Speaker 2: Is that the right?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I was an eighteen year old, nine year old
Speaker 1: youngster there, had no idea what was happening anyway. So
Speaker 1: he goes, we'll go and see a gig. Now, at
Speaker 1: that time, there was a band in Europe working and
Speaker 1: being popular. Hadn't hit Australia yet, okay, And when I
Speaker 1: walked in, the gig had already started. I walked into
Speaker 1: this you know, thousand year old castle with no no no,
Speaker 1: no roof, for it was just an old castle. It's
Speaker 1: all standing. Yeah, and the acoustics were great, and I
Speaker 1: heard a band, a little band called rock Set and
Speaker 1: a little song called Listen to My Heart.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So the gig had been going on for a while
Speaker 1: and we actually went to see the greet singer after
Speaker 1: after some CAZI. I think his name was Anyway two Am, yeah, probably,
Speaker 1: but that were a support act for this guy, okay,
Speaker 1: and I was here in English Let's go. And when
Speaker 1: I when I'm walking into this castle, I heard the
Speaker 1: start of the song on the keyboard. I'm thinking, this
Speaker 1: is a great song. And when when when I came
Speaker 1: back to Australia, they had liwn up the look. She's
Speaker 1: got the look. So that's when every time I hear
Speaker 1: that song too, it just brings back memories of again
Speaker 1: a hot summer.
Speaker 4: They German. They're Swedish Swedish Swedish, so great.
Speaker 1: I'll tack on and make it a four hour part.
Speaker 4: I'll take on.
Speaker 1: At the end of this pod. And that's me because
Speaker 1: I'm going to be in the bin because I was
Speaker 1: supposed to make it a one and a half hour
Speaker 1: party and half.
Speaker 4: Nick's going to put you in the put all of
Speaker 4: us in the bin. We're in the bin next week from.
Speaker 1: Nick is going to kill us.
Speaker 4: We need your back, Nick, You've got to join us.
Speaker 4: They're going to get some control here, kill us if
Speaker 4: it's away. Next week might six hours when we might
Speaker 4: start mid day to finish. Just nasty man, musty it's
Speaker 4: mufty week. Run Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what That's what
Speaker 4: I call it. Running the finals, running the finals, running
Speaker 4: the finals. Well, all right, thanks for listening everyone, and
Speaker 4: I hope you all enjoy this week's rugby lake. I
Speaker 4: mean no, I'm not because dragons are playing, but anyone
Speaker 4: to enjoy hopey rugby. Let's say, I know.
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Speaker 4: I get a notion from.
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Speaker 4: Chance to.
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Speaker 5: Listen to your a that's nothing, ask him can.
Speaker 9: I don't know where you're going, and I don't know
Speaker 9: why listen to you all.
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Speaker 7: nothing that sad swept to wait, nothing and what speech, SI,
Speaker 7: I'll belonging him?
Speaker 9: Do your dream? Listen to you when he's fallen for you.
Speaker 9: Listen you.
Speaker 7: There's nothing answer you can't.
Speaker 1: I don't know why.
Speaker 2: I don't know why.
Speaker 5: The peaceful you tell he's good.
Speaker 9: Stand that's not a big some messing, but dam that's
Speaker 9: that's somatic that the day came w This is when
Speaker 9: you've got that by this guy. And I think.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 9: And I don't know. Mister. It's a girl I get
Speaker 9: when I can this as I think, I don't know
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