Speaker 1: All right, we're back for the Round two finals. Interall Podcast,
Speaker 1: Buzz Rothfield, Michael carrianas. I want to get stuck in
Speaker 1: the finals things straight away. But Buzz just told such
Speaker 1: a funny story off here that we need to kick Made.
Speaker 2: He's not here. I'm filthy on reading right, taking a sickie.
Speaker 2: I've asked him for a medical certificate. Oh but what
Speaker 2: about Yes, I was on a day off and I
Speaker 2: wanted to cook a stir fryer. So I'm doing the
Speaker 2: isle in bullies, you know, Asian food. Anyway, rings Made,
Speaker 2: I spent ten minutes on the phone with him. What
Speaker 2: goes with plum sauce?
Speaker 3: What? Mate?
Speaker 2: He's he has no idea?
Speaker 3: Was there any face timing involved?
Speaker 2: And it wasn't fake? But I ha him on speaker
Speaker 2: and all these women were walking passing, And what's doing here?
Speaker 3: Is he talking to your personal chef this time?
Speaker 2: Or No? I didn't get I didn't go to the deli,
Speaker 2: but jes he fancies himself as a cook.
Speaker 3: Well did it work? Made?
Speaker 2: He wanted me to mix lemon grass with plum sauce.
Speaker 2: Can you lemon grass and plum? And what I did?
Speaker 2: I just went plum sauce. It was a beautiful stuff.
Speaker 3: Right, didn't quite hit the heights I was hoping for.
Speaker 3: They didn't go with any special sort of.
Speaker 2: Re put cheli on it. I've got some very hot
Speaker 2: cheli I put on at the end. My wife doesn't
Speaker 2: like chili, so when we serve it, we had our chili. Say.
Speaker 2: This is such a fascinating way to start people. Has
Speaker 2: anyone ever turned off a podcast after a minute?
Speaker 3: Yes? Can we get a casualty ward update on Brent Reed?
Speaker 3: Is he all right under the weather? Been under the weather?
Speaker 3: But here we are.
Speaker 2: We're all tired this time of the year. We've been
Speaker 2: answerce Vegas. You didn't go to Vegas? But Rudy was.
Speaker 4: On the no, sorry, you go next year. That's the boss.
Speaker 4: I think I'm a strong chance, self employed retired trader,
Speaker 4: got no kids on the way this time, so.
Speaker 2: Right, I'll have to stump up myself.
Speaker 1: If I leant on you for your podcast rankings last
Speaker 1: week on who would be in the Chairs? I figured
Speaker 1: that I might have to lead on you for some
Speaker 1: Vegas advice because I don't know Mick can handle Vegas.
Speaker 3: I went in.
Speaker 1: I went in December. He did the Pro Game No,
Speaker 1: that's right. You went on the fency, you went on
Speaker 1: the party tour. Any stories ordered regale from then.
Speaker 3: They made public.
Speaker 2: Because something you know what goes on tour stur.
Speaker 4: Anyway, all good land chuckees go to you good things.
Speaker 4: Are you at the AFL bars on Friday? Or because
Speaker 4: he's got form bro.
Speaker 2: And halffls been hard to get the ticket?
Speaker 3: Can we get keep back something?
Speaker 2: Shark keys? They call them boundary sideline reporters. Won't you
Speaker 2: go down?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Right, Look, the chance of me going to an AFL game,
Speaker 4: particularly why an NUR finals game is on, it.
Speaker 3: Would have to be a massive urn about to say
Speaker 3: I would never.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying I would never unless there was a
Speaker 4: significant earn involved.
Speaker 3: There you go otherwise no chance? How you feeling buzzy
Speaker 3: pit disappointed up for last weekend?
Speaker 2: A bit disappointed. I'm disappointed about the home ground and
Speaker 2: the fact that Cronulla don't have one capable of hosting
Speaker 2: a final like this, I really am, because it's not
Speaker 2: fair that other clubs you get home grounds. And if
Speaker 2: you tell me, if I'm right, if you ever run
Speaker 2: fifth or sixth, get a home ground second week, don't
Speaker 2: you no?
Speaker 3: First week? First week, I'll do you.
Speaker 1: First week you get a home final, Well Cronala, don't no,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I understand what you say.
Speaker 4: If Cronlla Cornala's homeing ame was it Combank or whatever,
Speaker 4: a decent venue, then they be playing there.
Speaker 2: I don't want to be critical Cranala because I really
Speaker 2: like Steve Mason, I really like dname as a test.
Speaker 2: But they've got to sort out the home ground and
Speaker 2: get to the government with the help of Peter the
Speaker 2: Landi's and Andrew Abdall and sort of give us a
Speaker 2: ground that's capable of comfortably holding sixteen seven and eighteen thousand.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I also want a league's club to go to and
Speaker 2: have a beer after a game, and that hasn't happened.
Speaker 2: It's not They still haven't begun work there, and I
Speaker 2: think it's an important thing for people in the shire.
Speaker 3: How long is it going to be a construction zoned for?
Speaker 2: Well, that's a very good I can't answer it. You've
Speaker 2: been written stories.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well it's been ongoing and it's becoming it's a
Speaker 4: multi minute all. Why elephant the amount of money that
Speaker 4: this has led the club because of just lack of
Speaker 4: corporate lack of gate take into lack of having a
Speaker 4: Leeds club open and the means of dollars that brings in.
Speaker 4: It's it's amazing. They're still sustainable, the Sharks, And that's
Speaker 4: not that's not an exaggeration. They're buzz a few years ago,
Speaker 4: if the NRL's grounds wasn't so high, I think they
Speaker 4: would have been in dire financial situation.
Speaker 2: Absolutely and lucky. Look, we've got sustainable success on the field,
Speaker 2: but we deserve it off the field as well. When
Speaker 2: I say that, we bounced out of the final straight
Speaker 2: So this is a massive game on the weekend, but
Speaker 2: we're always there about in top fours and top eights.
Speaker 3: And you guys, the Sharks owned your side. Ah, Like,
Speaker 3: we'll get to Jason Ryles in Roles. We trust we'll
Speaker 3: get to him shortly.
Speaker 2: Hoops on TV last night he want another players they've
Speaker 2: lost Mitchell Mases to East's what's wrong?
Speaker 3: Gone?
Speaker 2: I get in trouble for bagging.
Speaker 3: Hoops every week? Isn't there?
Speaker 2: Come on comment? They told me you tore them and
Speaker 2: you won the week before.
Speaker 3: No, last night we're on best behavior?
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, you get a warning or were just happen
Speaker 2: to agree?
Speaker 1: Does the quote if you don't understand roaming, I can't
Speaker 1: help you mean anything to you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a few weeks ago. I got a
Speaker 3: little bit cranky. I need to get a little bit cranky.
Speaker 2: It was very, very too.
Speaker 3: Yeah I was a bit cranky that long.
Speaker 1: But like a sleep oopsprings hanger Jim, stuff like that,
Speaker 1: just quickly in your shucks.
Speaker 3: So you guys own your own stadium, on your own ground.
Speaker 2: But it's worthless at the moment. The stadium can't build
Speaker 2: units on it. You can't host an our old finals there,
Speaker 2: and you really got the stage where it's almost embarrassing
Speaker 2: hosting in our old games there. You know, we need
Speaker 2: to do better. We competing against the Cowboys, look at
Speaker 2: their stadium. Were compete against the Broncos. Look at their stadium.
Speaker 2: Look at the Penrith stadium they're about to get. Look
Speaker 2: at Paramatta Stadium, look at the Roosters Stadium. It's not fair,
Speaker 2: it's not right. We've got to do something about it.
Speaker 2: I'd really like is to go through on our thread
Speaker 2: of moving the Grand Final out of Sydney unless the
Speaker 2: government look after Brookie, lest the government look after Shark
Speaker 2: Park like our belmore, you know, move the if they
Speaker 2: don't want to, you know, and these are multi purpose.
Speaker 3: Venues in the government's the fans.
Speaker 4: They have tipped in means for the s FLS new
Speaker 4: Paramatta Stadium is a new penny stadium.
Speaker 2: Getting the stadium stadium bell Weather Sea. You know, I'm
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, I'm so glad I removed him as
Speaker 2: a number one ticket holder because when he was PM,
Speaker 2: he didn't give us a penny elbow local seat, like
Speaker 2: give them forty mil or something. Hear me, I'm surprised
Speaker 2: you've opened up on the Sharks and about nick I was.
Speaker 1: About to ask that, well, you've got issues on the film.
Speaker 1: Is craigfits given going to get a finals win?
Speaker 2: I hope so. Not overly confident. Not overly confident. After
Speaker 2: the way we played in Melbourne. I don't think we
Speaker 2: put nearly enough pressure on Storm. That's why they got
Speaker 2: their completions. No forward made more than fifty five meters
Speaker 2: apart from an edge you made sixty. Really, Nicico made
Speaker 2: a couple of blunders, not finding touch. I'm worried about
Speaker 2: Niko and I'm surprised they put him up for media
Speaker 2: during the week.
Speaker 4: Well, they had to stay like it's sort of hello,
Speaker 4: they have to, well they're supposed to, and I'm not
Speaker 4: going to discourage them from putting players up because but.
Speaker 1: Nicko's that guy, right, He's happy to speak.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's such a it's going to be such an
Speaker 4: interesting match, not just for Nico but the Sharks, for
Speaker 4: Craig if it's given the Monkey, the stigma that's going
Speaker 4: to be attached to if they don't get this job
Speaker 4: monster done and the storyline that runs into next season,
Speaker 4: because we all know what people will be talking about
Speaker 4: if they don't get this one done.
Speaker 1: Is Nico not one hundred percent? Is he still coming
Speaker 1: back from that injury?
Speaker 3: What do you think?
Speaker 4: I think now he's had a few weeks back, so
Speaker 4: he should be fine. He's just doesn't look like he's free.
Speaker 4: But like it's hard for Nicko off the back of
Speaker 4: a forward packs. As Buzz mentioned, they got absolutely monsters
Speaker 4: right before. They just had no bore, They had no territory.
Speaker 4: I don't care what half you are, you're not going
Speaker 4: to be able to do anything with the lack of
Speaker 4: things that they are able to create. So I can
Speaker 4: understand that performance last week, but you know they need
Speaker 4: to be and this has been my concern about Cronola
Speaker 4: all along has been their forward pack and the fact
Speaker 4: that I just don't think they're physical enough to dominate
Speaker 4: their rivals. And they've got a lot of seven out
Speaker 4: of ten forwards. Yeah, they're like this right, Yeah, And
Speaker 4: that's why Adam Fini l Blake will be the most
Speaker 4: important sign in the club's made in a long time,
Speaker 4: because there's a dynamic forward.
Speaker 2: I think Niko's problem has been they kept winning and
Speaker 2: winning and winning when he wasn't there. Yeah, and Trendall
Speaker 2: was going game busters, So Nico has been reluctant to
Speaker 2: grab a game by the scraff and shake the living
Speaker 2: daylights out of it because he doesn't want to, you know,
Speaker 2: overplay his hand.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Has Niko been affected by not only just the forwards buzz,
Speaker 1: but your back three are so good when they're on song.
Speaker 1: I think Melbourne targeted last week and it can do
Speaker 1: was ordinary. They weren't making anywhere near the first and
Speaker 1: second play carries the number of meters that they usually make,
Speaker 1: which when it gets down then your forwards are playing
Speaker 1: off the back for a little bit there. And Nico
Speaker 1: is great on a on a retreating defense where he.
Speaker 2: Can get excuse me, can you get off your phone?
Speaker 4: It was I important messages might be breaking news for punters.
Speaker 2: What do you mean? What do you do for you
Speaker 2: on the sideline for the ABC round RL three sixty.
Speaker 3: And three six.
Speaker 4: I don't check my phone sideline. I'd definitely do. Do
Speaker 4: you ask mobs our follow the time if they's.
Speaker 2: Breaking news if you're in the middle of a live segment, Yeah, ah,
Speaker 2: right my phone.
Speaker 1: He's a very good, multi skilled multitasker.
Speaker 3: He does very much.
Speaker 2: Although I just found your boss was talking. I found
Speaker 2: it disrespectful. Make you peel, I found it very very disrespectful.
Speaker 2: That's my right to the third one in my own.
Speaker 3: Am.
Speaker 4: I'm so close to standing you down for my grandfather
Speaker 4: Grand Final edition. It's the most sought after position in
Speaker 4: Sydney journalism. Making my Grand Final side yep, and Adam's
Speaker 4: Grand Final side too. There we go, Captain.
Speaker 3: Sorry, Oh yes, no, I was just more around the
Speaker 3: shark to play.
Speaker 1: I think I think Melbourne did a very good job
Speaker 1: last week of containing your back three, which just compounded
Speaker 1: the fact that your forwards made no meters. So that's
Speaker 1: but in saying that, I don't know if this is
Speaker 1: going to bite me on the backside. I'm still not
Speaker 1: convinced about the Cowboys.
Speaker 4: No, I don't think you can be convinced about the
Speaker 4: Cowboys because if calam Ponger finds dang gag. The Knights
Speaker 4: are playing this week off the back of remarkable performance
Speaker 4: from Klaponger.
Speaker 3: So good cal pong ridiculous, ridiculous.
Speaker 4: But there's either of the four sides that are playing
Speaker 4: this weekend convincing. They all have their issues.
Speaker 3: Yeah right.
Speaker 4: You look at the Cows and the Cows threatened to
Speaker 4: be an awesome side. You've got the Kernala and the
Speaker 4: doubts around them. You've got the Roosters and their horror
Speaker 4: injury run now and whether they can lift themselves back up.
Speaker 4: And you've got mainly who are the most frustrating side remaining?
Speaker 4: Because how they won that game against the Dogs when.
Speaker 2: I still they won they were sensational, who manly sensational?
Speaker 3: How they won it that moment was yeah.
Speaker 2: Sherry Evans sweep around the back, What a beautiful play
Speaker 2: they all went for that forward. It might have been
Speaker 2: Olda coming through and the Tolu try was as good
Speaker 2: a finals try as we'll see.
Speaker 3: This year, no doubt. But I'm talking about the as
Speaker 3: a whole.
Speaker 4: I know, but this has been a theme for them
Speaker 4: because we've been laid in and I've had high aspirations
Speaker 4: for Manly all season, right, I.
Speaker 3: Think they're.
Speaker 4: Top four, right, so and then they went on. They've
Speaker 4: shown glimpses of it, but you just want you just
Speaker 4: don't know.
Speaker 3: So that's what I mean.
Speaker 4: The fourth ones that are playing this weekend, none of
Speaker 4: them are convincing.
Speaker 3: Last week just on this.
Speaker 1: Canterbury don't usually collapse defensively like that, but that moment,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if they got complacent a little
Speaker 1: bit because Tommy Trevoivitch hadn't done a lot of running
Speaker 1: and when he hit that line, when he actually rander
Speaker 1: the line, and then through the past they sort of
Speaker 1: they collapsed in a little.
Speaker 2: Bit, which destructed or Manly were right, I'll tell you
Speaker 2: how sensational they were so Roudo has the best defense
Speaker 2: system in the comp right, we know that, but they
Speaker 2: were able to bust it twice for those two. That's
Speaker 2: great football.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and before that it was one of the best
Speaker 4: defensive sets because they're in their thirty forty, whatever the
Speaker 4: case may be, and you're like, well, they're not going
Speaker 4: to get out of this, and.
Speaker 2: Then started, you know, with that great offload and surge
Speaker 2: and and that's.
Speaker 3: The strike they've got.
Speaker 4: They can be scary and if they can find a
Speaker 4: way defensively, I think they'll win.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Manly do you wow? You'll be off with Robot two?
Speaker 2: Really he's been taken off the mail list of the roosters. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you don't warranted Coach Robinson grade three?
Speaker 3: You like it?
Speaker 2: You just giggle when you do.
Speaker 3: I I find it nice how you like to air
Speaker 3: Paul Reader's dirty laundry.
Speaker 2: Well you know what I'm going to do in the office.
Speaker 2: I'm going to send you to a manager's course and
Speaker 2: make you don't giggle when the staff members undersea. Well
Speaker 2: you should say how disappointed you are.
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 1: I was working very hard with Brent last night to
Speaker 1: help mend another bridge.
Speaker 2: So that was a good man Brent.
Speaker 1: He's a good fellow read Man. We'll get to get
Speaker 1: back on next week. I think I'm going to miss him.
Speaker 5: His mate what about his mate Bridge this week? Congratulating
Speaker 5: Luke Brooks. Honestly, I thought it was a joke last night.
Speaker 2: You suggested something had been hacked, didn't you.
Speaker 4: Honestly, I thought it was a former employee and outgoing
Speaker 4: employee had posted on the website as a dead set joke.
Speaker 3: Well, you couldn't even find it on the web. It
Speaker 3: wasn't in there.
Speaker 1: It was kind of look it was published, but for
Speaker 1: those just sort of bit inside baseball things with websites,
Speaker 1: it was published, but not ranked.
Speaker 3: There was a screenshot going around.
Speaker 1: I thought to myself, well, the screenshots people are very
Speaker 1: clever at decepting, deceiving people.
Speaker 4: And I thought it was I thought it was a
Speaker 4: I got ready to check and I said, this is
Speaker 4: a great story. If this is not right and someone's
Speaker 4: just posted on the website.
Speaker 2: I'm going to give you an example, changing clubs. Christian
Speaker 2: Nickoloc who used to work here, right, very good reporter,
Speaker 2: doing well at our opposition. When he breaks a big story,
Speaker 2: do you send him anything or do you congratulating publicly?
Speaker 2: Of course you don't.
Speaker 1: He usually just sent me pri but messages as yeah,
Speaker 1: he does that a little bit.
Speaker 2: Oh that's unnecessary. That's so unnecessary.
Speaker 3: You can tell you.
Speaker 2: I'm going to tell him it's outrageous what Richard did.
Speaker 3: It was would he bagged everyone that actually went elsewhere
Speaker 3: and was successful. That was that was that will go
Speaker 3: down one of the strangers. Yeah, just thinks you don't
Speaker 3: expect to see in rugby league. Okay, who's your tip? Sharks, Cowboys, Cowboys, Sharks.
Speaker 1: I'm with you on the Sharks, I think, yeah, I
Speaker 1: just I think there's a bounce back factor.
Speaker 2: I would love Nicohin have a blinder too that we.
Speaker 4: All would buzz, unless you're a Cowboys fan, just to
Speaker 4: just to own the game, complete performance and walk off
Speaker 4: the field with a smile on his face.
Speaker 2: And you know what, he's better footballer than what he's
Speaker 2: shown us, no doubt, and maybe he needs to do
Speaker 2: something special early get his confidence up and yep. Anyway, yep, Chuck,
Speaker 2: is a.
Speaker 3: Question for you.
Speaker 1: How many minutes is jab Maria Hargrave's going to stay
Speaker 1: on the field on Saturday night?
Speaker 4: Down the field he'll play thirty or eight minutes through
Speaker 4: his choice or well, you know, Lodge is kind of
Speaker 4: baiting purely he keeps it together.
Speaker 2: Yeah. But the thing is, if you take the crap
Speaker 2: out of Jared's game and the rubbish and the sting,
Speaker 2: it's not after football, You're not. I'm ranking my top
Speaker 2: ten Kiwize ever in my column on Sunday, and this,
Speaker 2: my goodness, you should see the.
Speaker 3: Ball foot rock number one? Who wall foot rock flats?
Speaker 1: Anyone's sunny best good Seguay Sunny.
Speaker 2: Bill's not not number one, but I've got Mark Gray,
Speaker 2: but I've got we're hard grades at five mm hm. Well,
Speaker 2: three hundred games, three premierships.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm not sleedging it. Yeah, he's been enormous and Lodge.
Speaker 2: Was close enough to Manly's best player last week.
Speaker 3: He was really good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, seven tackle pass.
Speaker 4: It's like we're talking madness and we haven't mentioned Spencer.
Speaker 4: That's always a nice dynamic.
Speaker 1: What happened last week he was moved to the bench. Yeah,
Speaker 1: had very little impact for a guy who said I'm
Speaker 1: going to war before that game against his old team.
Speaker 4: Very disappointing. Yeah, they's started on the back fourd as well,
Speaker 4: and he just couldn't change. I thought that Rus's bench
Speaker 4: was pretty good last week, but not Spencer. I thought
Speaker 4: some of the other boys that came on really sort
Speaker 4: of tried to spark them.
Speaker 2: But he's been disappointing since he renewed his contract.
Speaker 3: I think he has me.
Speaker 4: It's it's post origin, first time series, and I think there's.
Speaker 3: Something to be said for it went quiet after Jack lam.
Speaker 4: Jaqu Laine Spencer a Kawa to these guys are in
Speaker 4: their first series after the back of the winning series.
Speaker 3: I think there's something in it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not a sensational that's a sensational game that one.
Speaker 2: Yeah at the fullbacks on each other and you know
Speaker 2: this is it? Great mates, TD and Turbo.
Speaker 1: Surely they can't be as rubbish as they were in
Speaker 1: that first thirty minutes against Penrith.
Speaker 3: The Roosters, Well, how good would Penrith though?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Rez like and look, I know there was a
Speaker 1: couple of tries off kicks and whatever else, but it
Speaker 1: was just that pressure me that they were trucks.
Speaker 2: Fun the second half guys, yeah great, but like, I'm
Speaker 2: not pack up and go. I just get rid of
Speaker 2: this opinion for the years experience covering finals the second
Speaker 2: half what I was halfway through my career when he
Speaker 2: was born. They played well for forty minutes, you're good.
Speaker 3: But they came out well in that second half, didn't
Speaker 3: They know?
Speaker 2: No chalks manly, it's around the halves Kiri and sand
Speaker 2: and Smith. You miss walk and Walkers a top twenty
Speaker 2: player this year.
Speaker 4: You know. Yeah, Well, I just think with the injuries
Speaker 4: that the Rusters have got, if manly get to their best.
Speaker 3: No two upsets this weekend, there you go. I just
Speaker 3: think the return of Jared may spark something.
Speaker 1: I still don't think Joey marn who's getting enough football,
Speaker 1: He's he's playing awful mobs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, with buzz on this one, I think Buzzer has
Speaker 3: been leading this and I can't.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't like not leading it as in but
Speaker 4: rightfully openly criticizing Joey Marry and I think it's been warranted.
Speaker 2: But you get Trent Robinson on the phone in private,
Speaker 2: he'll tell you that he mon't publicly bake the player.
Speaker 2: But it's not to say anything now after being shot
Speaker 2: down from making it was a pertinent point that they
Speaker 2: won the second half.
Speaker 3: Well, Dylan Edwards was terrific, isn't he just on his feet,
Speaker 3: just looked like, can we.
Speaker 2: Talk about the austral and fall back now? I know
Speaker 2: you've got done in the list. Is it Edwoods or
Speaker 2: is it Pong.
Speaker 3: Or is it Teddy? I don't put a line through
Speaker 3: Teddy yet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just long was the best player in rugby
Speaker 2: league Nellie good, good luck. Massive mistake the Australian team
Speaker 2: last year. They left pong Are out despite his charred
Speaker 2: chamber when the Dowley's and put Miko.
Speaker 3: Yeah the next time, Yeah that was a blunder. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: Nicko didn't eventually play.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I sure choice mobs. It's tough, isn't I
Speaker 2: just think it's a grand final. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Edwards is so dangerous, but pol is just next level.
Speaker 3: He's just a match winner. Mate. What do you think?
Speaker 3: Oh no, I don't know. Could you find room for
Speaker 3: both of them? You can't, And it's pretty harsh on
Speaker 3: Teddy as well. This train captain the other think you
Speaker 3: can do?
Speaker 2: If Edwards wins the Churchill Medal, you've got to pick him.
Speaker 3: But po at fourteen and ben Hunt misses out and
Speaker 3: that might be the way to go.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure ben Hunt deserves to be there.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Sorry, very loyal though, now, isn't he?
Speaker 2: Yeah? But did you get touched kind of watching it?
Speaker 2: Fad a Ben Hunt?
Speaker 3: Someone like that can't argue a buzz buzzy on fire?
Speaker 2: Do you reckon? This is my best podcast? Give me
Speaker 2: a rating?
Speaker 1: I want to wait till the end, because Michael was
Speaker 1: very critical of you before with your second what did
Speaker 1: you say care fact, it was very dismissive.
Speaker 3: Second half the finals game, right just with this rooster
Speaker 3: Seagulls Anthony Seabolt contract extension.
Speaker 4: Yeah, interesting one there the fact that for Buzz had
Speaker 4: the story in May. I think it was that those
Speaker 4: talks are dissolved and they were sitting around twelfth at
Speaker 4: that time.
Speaker 2: He left the room not happy.
Speaker 4: You know, I think mainly did the right thing because
Speaker 4: where they were sitting on the competition ladder, that was
Speaker 4: uncertainty and a little bit of speculation in around that camp.
Speaker 3: But they won a finals game.
Speaker 4: Now they're probably sitting where they should be, definitely where
Speaker 4: they should be sitting at the very least. And you know,
Speaker 4: the hierarchy of agree that they'll give him twelve months
Speaker 4: and then maybe two more years after the back of
Speaker 4: the year that he has next year.
Speaker 2: Anthony Seabolt's greatest achievement, manly was he started and pulled
Speaker 2: a fractured club back together from the Pride Jersey and
Speaker 2: you look, you watch man and how they came back
Speaker 2: and look how they're playing for that logo now and
Speaker 2: that Jersey and that fight hadn't mate three years ago
Speaker 2: seven Blakes didn't want to play in a way.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: And what he's done to rebuild it with Turbo, with Jake,
Speaker 2: with Cherry, with Josh, Ella, with ol Kuatu, with Tyler
Speaker 2: and the tries scored. Mate, that's that's great man management.
Speaker 4: And that roster aside from DCA because of his age,
Speaker 4: it's all locked in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're all locked in long term.
Speaker 4: Nucleus has got the next couple of years together, so
Speaker 4: they obviously believe that saves the guy that can.
Speaker 3: Win a competition and that is a premiership winning roster.
Speaker 2: The other wrap for Sea Bowl. His career was in
Speaker 2: ruins after the Broncos. He was a broken man. And
Speaker 2: then he did he do some rugby, yeah English rugby.
Speaker 2: But the other crucial thing he did he went and
Speaker 2: helped out of O'Brien in Newcastle. I reckon went out
Speaker 2: of O'Brien did need some help. I remember Ads used
Speaker 2: to go cooker in the box and think, remember ever
Speaker 2: will heed him into, you know, getting that.
Speaker 3: Slightly out of him what he's doing, but will.
Speaker 2: Hate me saying that.
Speaker 1: Well, did you read the great Robert Crash Cratics piece
Speaker 1: this week saying did the Broncos in with him Sea Buld?
Speaker 1: Because you've looked at the years since out of town.
Speaker 2: He's a very powerful dude, don't they?
Speaker 3: I did. You're off with my career over him. I
Speaker 3: did send him a text saying save his new deal. Yes,
Speaker 3: do you know that?
Speaker 1: Lunatic sent me a text at six thirty this morning
Speaker 1: the front page of the Post career.
Speaker 3: Do you think he got that from? Did you see it? Well?
Speaker 3: Thank you can at least wait till seven am. Easily times.
Speaker 2: He is the biggest nutcase and journalist m A d.
Speaker 3: In the best way possible.
Speaker 2: I get another text off him? Where's Chamas?
Speaker 1: What about his yarn on the Cowboys charter flight? Worried
Speaker 1: about that game being canceled? There was no flights out
Speaker 1: of Townsville due to school holidays.
Speaker 2: I'm sure they would have found a way to get
Speaker 2: at me. Oh that was Gibber.
Speaker 1: Airlines chart of the flight he saved the finals. Yes,
Speaker 1: I love Pete, one of my favorites. But yeah great,
Speaker 1: great for Sea Bowld. So mainly you say they're locked
Speaker 1: in going forward. DCE contracted the end of twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: does he kick on beyond that.
Speaker 4: I think if he wants another twelve months, I'd give
Speaker 4: him another twelve months.
Speaker 2: My favorite thing at the stadium the other day I
Speaker 2: bought those two tries and being rapen. Someone was getting
Speaker 2: bullied one of his teammates and that the lock fall
Speaker 2: with the long hair Josh current. He stepped in right,
Speaker 2: Cherry's comes up to his shoulders him under the deck.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I thought that is leadership. And a little half back
Speaker 2: has belted one of their medals, you.
Speaker 3: Know, headlocks straight to the ground.
Speaker 2: I saw that. Fantastic.
Speaker 3: This is a leadership course, you're Gon said, mob was
Speaker 3: a great Yeah. Who am I putting in a headlock?
Speaker 3: Who's my Josh Karen? I'm defending ready, I'm defending Can
Speaker 3: you put bomb in the headlock? I'm defending Pete as well.
Speaker 1: It's it's about who Who's Who's the Josh Karen that
Speaker 1: I need to take down to support my team.
Speaker 3: Don't know if I get around his big neck. Man, oh,
Speaker 3: dear me. Prediction roosters mainly.
Speaker 2: Manly.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, wow, manly roosters without any confidence.
Speaker 4: There you go, that's how it should be this time though,
Speaker 4: we should be should be a lottery, and I think
Speaker 4: both games are which makes them excited.
Speaker 1: Yeah, wide open final series. I don't know who talked
Speaker 1: it down and said it was the worst final series
Speaker 1: he's seen.
Speaker 2: Jean bull Dog very negative. Now, well that's so, that's
Speaker 2: another job you've got to do. You've got to spark
Speaker 2: up your reporters.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I hate listen.
Speaker 1: I've I've been managing, been managing buzzy eneral referee rankings
Speaker 1: speaking of the game.
Speaker 2: You know we all blew up that jer wasn't in
Speaker 2: the top four. Well, I've made a few inquiries and
Speaker 2: Jared Maxwell rates them all. You know, the horse, that's
Speaker 2: his nickname. And Jared Maxwell he ranks Adam g seventh
Speaker 2: best referee this year. And when I argue with the NRL,
Speaker 2: they say the Broncos were had the Grand Final one,
Speaker 2: but they've had a bat and they're bad inside the
Speaker 2: eighth and that these things happen. You know, we could
Speaker 2: score two tries one year and a grand finally get
Speaker 2: dropped the next. For the life of me, I can't
Speaker 2: work it out.
Speaker 3: I use a similar system.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you use verity, that's all. Unless you get clicks,
Speaker 2: we your year off.
Speaker 3: What are you reckon? About G. Where do you rank him?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I haven't sat there and ranked the referees.
Speaker 3: I haven't. Hasn't bothered me too much. I was surprised.
Speaker 4: I was surprised that he's not the top four referees
Speaker 4: in the game. Definitely surprised by it. But hasn't kept
Speaker 4: me up at night. And so who we got this
Speaker 4: weekend is our referees, Atkins and Client, Atkins and Clients.
Speaker 4: So all right, I like Atkins and Klein is a
Speaker 4: lovely bike. Had a beer weekend Vegas? Yeah absolutely, yeah yeah?
Speaker 4: And Grants good fella to.
Speaker 2: Grant Atkins. Yeah yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 3: It lives out my way. Great?
Speaker 2: Does he? There?
Speaker 1: You go?
Speaker 3: Daughters go to school? He as well on the weekend? Right?
Speaker 3: Non final stuff? Is the referee stuff? Hit a, Hi,
Speaker 3: didn't it legend your list? No?
Speaker 2: Well, I think it's an important issue. I put a
Speaker 2: pile up on the website. On Twitter last night, seventy
Speaker 2: two said, G, you should do the Grand Final. You're
Speaker 2: not going to listen to your partners A.
Speaker 3: Good list, good poll seventy two percent. How many people over.
Speaker 2: A thousand over one thousand?
Speaker 3: What if you put on Facebook? Would you get a
Speaker 3: different I'd like to do.
Speaker 2: Who do you like most on this podcast?
Speaker 3: I got that are you weird?
Speaker 4: The punters love you? They love you on this podcast.
Speaker 4: As soon as you're not on Twitter is a different environment.
Speaker 4: The comments and stuff like that. If you're not on,
Speaker 4: if I get emails and stuff, where's Buzzy?
Speaker 3: There you go? Thank you? And when mobbsy was missing
Speaker 3: for a while, do.
Speaker 2: We get any feedback there? Well, we don't need to
Speaker 2: host one.
Speaker 1: I had to get a couple of burner accounts to
Speaker 1: get it go. Hey Josh Shuster the South Sydney confirmed
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you had this move.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I d it a month ago. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 2: budget contract as it should be. And he's got Wayne
Speaker 2: Bennett to guide him. And yeah, I think it's a
Speaker 2: great move. I'd love to see Josh Schuster back, confident,
Speaker 2: fit and skillful and yeah, great signing.
Speaker 3: I agree with all that.
Speaker 4: I think it's a massive opportunity for Josh and now
Speaker 4: going and not be the main man with a big
Speaker 4: paycheck and just get an opportunity now to focus on
Speaker 4: getting the best out of his gifted natural ability. Because
Speaker 4: there was a stage there he was my favorite.
Speaker 3: Player to watch.
Speaker 4: I just loved watching him play the silky skills and
Speaker 4: I look past all the chip and chase all this
Speaker 4: sort of stuff that he could produce, you know, fitness,
Speaker 4: of course.
Speaker 2: It's attitude, it's I think he's got every skill and more,
Speaker 2: but he he's got to get fit.
Speaker 4: As brace Braith last night said, he's got the easy part.
Speaker 4: He's got so he's got the hard part of the
Speaker 4: stuff that's really hard to come by he has. He's
Speaker 4: just got to do the easy part now and dedicate himself.
Speaker 4: And if he does that, I think it's a great signing.
Speaker 2: And he's he's not a smart guy, but with the money,
Speaker 2: you know, he's got good investments and stuff, so he
Speaker 2: hasn't blown his money like you know, a lot of
Speaker 2: huge opportunity for that guy.
Speaker 3: Agreed.
Speaker 1: Kind of reminds me, you want now that Schuster's got
Speaker 1: that contract for next year, Ronald Bakman another one.
Speaker 3: He'll be manly next year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he'll be manly on a supplementary deal, the old
Speaker 4: development deal and get an opportunity there. And his obviously
Speaker 4: career took a different path for different reasons. And you
Speaker 4: know that shoulder injury has been repaired. But I think
Speaker 4: your findal bit maarly next year.
Speaker 2: Just because Wayne's got him doesn't mean Shoests is going
Speaker 2: to be automatic.
Speaker 3: Does.
Speaker 2: Wayne's had some players who hasn't named. Well, take Milford
Speaker 2: to Brisbane.
Speaker 4: Milford was good for a bit. They played a Grand
Speaker 4: Final for us, but yeah, but didn't live up. Probably
Speaker 4: he didn't the Dolphin. He didn't reach the heights that year.
Speaker 4: He we all saw him when he saw to balance.
Speaker 4: Tava was hadinger.
Speaker 3: Yeah, had a little spurt and then you know, could
Speaker 3: in a.
Speaker 2: Grand prim this week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, host plus cup. It's all up to Shulster. The world,
Speaker 4: the footy world is he's always and if he wants
Speaker 4: to capitalize.
Speaker 2: Because.
Speaker 1: Definitely want him to see how he goes, because you know,
Speaker 1: footy so much fun watching him play.
Speaker 3: It's better when you flick. It was my favorite player
Speaker 3: to White at one stage.
Speaker 2: What else do you got for sure?
Speaker 1: I've got Brent Reid's interview with Jason Ryles. You make
Speaker 1: it missed the paramatter listen.
Speaker 3: I liked it.
Speaker 1: I you know, people can say, oh, well you're an
Speaker 1: iils find You're going to say that, but no, I
Speaker 1: like I like what he's I like the excitement he's bringing.
Speaker 3: I like that he was open to the questions. I
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 1: You know, he was talking about how he wants to
Speaker 1: play a bit differently, how he'd use Gutho differently, and
Speaker 1: talking about Isaiah Jongi coming from Penrith and pointing out
Speaker 1: that he's had two and a half full years of
Speaker 1: New South Wales's Cup. So you know how many young
Speaker 1: players skip that apprenticeship and go straight from flegg to
Speaker 1: first grade and missed that really crucial part of a
Speaker 1: game where you get to play against grown man, learn
Speaker 1: your defensive structures and and at fullback you know, counting
Speaker 1: and talking to the guys and you know, learning to
Speaker 1: tackle grown man.
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we'll see how he goes because the crucial
Speaker 1: part of this is the culture of the playing group
Speaker 1: has to change people internally. Allies that buzz with talk
Speaker 1: about with Joe Marner before about not publicly saying things
Speaker 1: people apparently it won't say it publicly, but that culture
Speaker 1: does need a blood.
Speaker 3: He does need a reset.
Speaker 1: And you know, Ryle said that he doesn't see it
Speaker 1: as a massive overhauling.
Speaker 2: To embrace their fans better and that stuff they were
Speaker 2: doing and you know, walking around and you see Ruth
Speaker 2: Walsh do it every week, you know, and yeah, takes
Speaker 2: his shirt and his boots and Power got to just
Speaker 2: have a general reboot. And they've started by getting a
Speaker 2: very very good coach in there who's had enormous experience
Speaker 2: under Bellamy and Robinson. But the team still needs a reboot.
Speaker 2: Attitudes need to reboot. And we talk about how great
Speaker 2: it was to have Canterbury relaunched this year, so spectacular.
Speaker 2: We need Power, Yeah, we need Power in finals. You know,
Speaker 2: could you imagine if Power and Cannaby played out there
Speaker 2: the other day.
Speaker 3: They wouldn't be a stating big enough in Australia.
Speaker 2: But that's what I mean, And so look, I think
Speaker 2: they're in good hands. So we Rosey, Yeah, you're.
Speaker 1: Going to find out pretty soon Buzz who's brought in
Speaker 1: to him too, because they've had a lot of years
Speaker 1: with Brad Arthur and you've got to have a new
Speaker 1: voice with new ideas and new standards, and you're going
Speaker 1: to find out pretty quickly those who are on board
Speaker 1: and those and I think they're going to go get
Speaker 1: those who aren't won't be around for two much longer.
Speaker 1: There you go agree, anything, Michael, I agree with everything
Speaker 1: that you guys are saying. Wow, it was a good interview.
Speaker 1: It was impressive.
Speaker 3: It was good that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he came out and said everything, and and I
Speaker 4: think that's what Paramatta needed to happen. I think that's
Speaker 4: what Jason Royles needed to do and get on the
Speaker 4: front foot now and hit the reset button and now
Speaker 4: look forward.
Speaker 2: When I thought he was going to be an NRL coach,
Speaker 2: Robert had COVID during COVID and Rosey coached him, and
Speaker 2: his media conference afterwards was so slick, so you know,
Speaker 2: and you could tell he's ready. Yeah, part of the gig.
Speaker 3: The only two more points on this I'd like to
Speaker 3: make is one you don't know.
Speaker 1: The fascinating thing is that we don't know what type
Speaker 1: of coach is going to be because he hasn't been
Speaker 1: a head coach of a reserve grade team anything. He's
Speaker 1: been a career assistant, which isn't a bad thing, but
Speaker 1: it just means that we haven't actually seen.
Speaker 3: The royal style of play. Yeah, I think that's really exciting.
Speaker 2: One thing I want to add is Nathan Brown, who
Speaker 2: I don't think was a great NURL head coach, but
Speaker 2: people will tell you technically and forty savvy. There's no
Speaker 2: one better. Gus Girl used to say it when he
Speaker 2: used him Jew and Orange. I think Nathan brown is
Speaker 2: a massive acquisition that club to help you, I really do. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And that was it number two managed, no where he
Speaker 2: goes to manage just.
Speaker 1: For Yeah, who's the other wise mantle? And then yeah,
Speaker 1: it's got wise Mantle and then Lukan Moer, Yeah, Sem Moer.
Speaker 1: I think Nathan Kayl is still in the mix there too.
Speaker 1: I think, isn't he Yep, yep.
Speaker 3: That's the Yeah, that's the coaching staff for next year.
Speaker 4: But I'm yeah, I think Brownie is a great appointment
Speaker 4: and someone that Rosey trusts and can help bounce when
Speaker 4: he's making mistakes or whatever the case may be, to
Speaker 4: to try and rain him in a little bit as
Speaker 4: a rookie coach.
Speaker 1: What about him conceding that he regrets he regretted not
Speaker 1: taking the dragon's job.
Speaker 3: I found that really interesting. I found that whole situation interesting.
Speaker 4: Wouldn't you have just picked up the fine to Craig
Speaker 4: Bellam and say, Greg, are you certainly going to pull
Speaker 4: the pin?
Speaker 3: If not, I'm going to take his dragon's job. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know. I did find that a little bit strange.
Speaker 1: Was it just a assumption that hey, they want me
Speaker 1: down there there, that I'm the successor, I'm the guy?
Speaker 1: Yeah in two years. I mean we all sort of
Speaker 1: thought a couple of years ago, didn't we buzz that.
Speaker 2: That we thought he's going to pick it off from
Speaker 2: the Sharks.
Speaker 3: Did you why one get fifty or positive?
Speaker 1: But yeah, we sort of thought. Even belly Ake himself
Speaker 1: was very noncommittal about going. We thought he's going to
Speaker 1: pull the pin till three years ago, and here it
Speaker 1: now looks like he's going to be there until, you know,
Speaker 1: until the second Melbourne team gets put in.
Speaker 2: But it was interesting coach, he's a freak coach.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, do you think the fine?
Speaker 1: That was interesting that Jason Ryles said he regretted not
Speaker 1: taking the Dragon's job because he thought there.
Speaker 2: Was you know, I think he's got a better, more
Speaker 2: suitable gig. I think you needed Flan's experience to rebuild
Speaker 2: some George Illawarra more than Parramatto. He's walking into a
Speaker 2: massive pathway club and they've got to do better with
Speaker 2: their pathways, don't they. And you make it an appetite
Speaker 2: where kids want to stay, not like the young fellow
Speaker 2: has just gone to Penrith, you know.
Speaker 1: And he was open about that too, you know, he
Speaker 1: said that they couldn't offer him telling you want to play.
Speaker 2: That it comes to around the leadership and if Mitchell
Speaker 2: Mosis becomes captain and these guys I think have got
Speaker 2: to be more leaders, you know yeah, leaders of everything
Speaker 2: in forty clubs. Guys. You know that.
Speaker 3: Very quite over there, Michael. Leaders are everything in all
Speaker 3: walks of life. Yes, yeah, we are. We've got to
Speaker 3: hit on the list.
Speaker 2: Buzz.
Speaker 1: Andrew Johns rates Caleen Pong and the best signing Newcastle history.
Speaker 2: Well, I think it's the second best player in Newcastle
Speaker 2: history behind Andrew Johns. And they've had some great players
Speaker 2: Maddie and Paul Harrigan and Danny badier Rus and Ben
Speaker 2: Kennedy and the Gidley's and but I still think this fellow.
Speaker 3: Is up against him sign That's it.
Speaker 4: It's Andrew john said he never thought that he'd see
Speaker 4: a player a more important or a better signing than
Speaker 4: Ben Kennedy. Obviously won a competition with Ben Kennedy in
Speaker 4: two thousand and one, who was at one stage the
Speaker 4: game's premiere back rower, but he said now that he thinks,
Speaker 4: having watched Kayleen on Saturday night, that Kaylen's gone past
Speaker 4: him as the most as the best signing Newcastle has
Speaker 4: made in its history.
Speaker 2: Nathan Brown and Darren Murney got him there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, had big money for him off the back of
Speaker 4: not much at the Cowboys and then you know he's
Speaker 4: now the highest paid.
Speaker 3: Player in the game. Fascinating and his dad.
Speaker 2: Bull Dogs.
Speaker 3: Mate league man in regular league.
Speaker 2: I wonder if Andre gets his six percent.
Speaker 3: But I can't. What does it need? What does Kaylen
Speaker 3: need to do to.
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 4: Do you guys think he's the best sign and they've
Speaker 4: made or impacted Ben and Kennedy had in a time
Speaker 4: there to help him win a premiership? Does Kaylen need
Speaker 4: to get him too a Grand Final? They need to
Speaker 4: go deep into the finals? What's the vibe on.
Speaker 2: No, he's the most gifted player outside John's Andrew the
Speaker 2: impacted Definitely.
Speaker 1: The impact by the end of his career of what
Speaker 1: he's done at Newcastle I think will be decisive. But
Speaker 1: as far as I don't think there's a player of
Speaker 1: the talent of Ponger that they've recruited at.
Speaker 2: Their halves, Carger, Casland, Haystings for him to perform the
Speaker 2: way he does around those sort of directors.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just very quickly.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you caught fox footy last night
Speaker 1: the AFL show, where our esteemed herald son colleague Mark
Speaker 1: Robinson said that in his lifetime he will see AFL
Speaker 1: overtake rugby League in New South Wales.
Speaker 2: Robbo needs to give himself an upper cut. Robot is
Speaker 2: having a lend of us, Yeah, and himself. That's outrageous,
Speaker 2: it is. It's never ever going to happen.
Speaker 1: Does he been to a GWS game eighteen thousand last week?
Speaker 2: There the creative counting, you know, because.
Speaker 1: I had a couple of mates who had multiple emails
Speaker 1: with ticket offers and whatever else.
Speaker 2: For the a f L have got a niche market
Speaker 2: in Sydney with eastern suburbs and mossman types, very high
Speaker 2: income people. Well, I live with the workers, the battlers
Speaker 2: down at the Shire where you are at Penrith and
Speaker 2: meet your bit suburban sort of bloke.
Speaker 3: Can't you out in St George.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they'll never ever get that market there, never will.
Speaker 1: All forty thousand AFL fans in Sydney. You'll bit their
Speaker 1: CG on at the weekend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they saw that that game and now and a half.
Speaker 3: They'll get more. They'll get more than what's the next door.
Speaker 2: I'd love to do a debate Robo about this. We
Speaker 2: should do a podcast with him.
Speaker 3: Well, can we wait?
Speaker 1: Wait?
Speaker 3: Do we see the TV figures from the game?
Speaker 2: TV figures are terrible and.
Speaker 3: Sidney, you don't have to convince me. There's nothing for me.
Speaker 2: I think Robber.
Speaker 3: Oh, dear.
Speaker 4: Mick, you're gonna get ask some questions because there's a
Speaker 4: lot of questions, so we'll get through.
Speaker 2: Goes.
Speaker 4: Do you think Shark Park is a viable option to
Speaker 4: host NRL matches long term? We've had that conversation Simon.
Speaker 4: The Saturday Cap isn't working With just five clubs win
Speaker 4: in the last ten years. Young players smartly choose strong clubs.
Speaker 4: Is it time to have a draft system?
Speaker 2: Draft was hooked out of court? You know, I don't
Speaker 2: think it is. The bottom clubs have got to do
Speaker 2: what Canterbury did Canaba on there, they've shown you can
Speaker 2: do it without a draft.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it'll be interesting how the Raiders go with the
Speaker 4: way they've recruited were really young. Over the next couple Yes,
Speaker 4: should John Ty? Should finals games be held at Alian's
Speaker 4: Combat or a corps for Sydney teams? Is it embarrassing
Speaker 4: for the NRL at some clubs as satisfied with having
Speaker 4: fifteen thousand crowds. The club need to get over the
Speaker 4: small minded mentality.
Speaker 2: Well, we've nearly discussed this too. I just want everyone
Speaker 2: on the same page with the same rules. You know,
Speaker 2: if you're a Sydney club, it might be an idea
Speaker 2: that some you know bring them all in together. Is
Speaker 2: their big stadiums, Like if you get parent Canterburys. We
Speaker 2: spoke about our call won't fit a met Yeah, so
Speaker 2: you play that coll so you wouldn't get if you
Speaker 2: had power or we we did.
Speaker 1: We had Penweth power first week of the finals a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago when it was packed out at
Speaker 1: Penny Park. Because you would have got you would have
Speaker 1: doubled that anywhere else.
Speaker 4: I think this is from Sam any word on Jonah
Speaker 4: Peazant going to the Knights n I think he Knights
Speaker 4: would love him, but I think he's going to.
Speaker 2: Because there I think he's signed a contract with an
Speaker 2: outclause if he stays, he gets to go.
Speaker 3: Correct.
Speaker 2: I think the young fullback too, who's the brilliant fullback
Speaker 2: far logo. Yeah, I think he'll do a similar deal.
Speaker 2: He'll stay but gets to get out of here. Well,
Speaker 2: perhaps is the one, isn't he? November one?
Speaker 4: Yep, Dom wants to know any news on Milford or
Speaker 4: valanced Varde. Milford was trying to get himTo the Super League.
Speaker 4: I think that's the only option for him now.
Speaker 1: Valance Valances is unsigned and been told that he's surplus
Speaker 1: to requirements and ben Teo, who is his Host Plus
Speaker 1: Cup coach, has been well, he's telling someone to have
Speaker 1: a crack at him. He says he's his commitment. In
Speaker 1: the last sort of three to four months, he's bounced
Speaker 1: back again. But same same deal as Shust You need
Speaker 1: to be you need to figure out if you want
Speaker 1: to be a committed first.
Speaker 4: Sounds like he's a guy that at best would get
Speaker 4: a train and trial with a club and see where
Speaker 4: it goes over summer. From the West Tigers, faithful thoughts
Speaker 4: on all the Tigers new signings. Can we expect the
Speaker 4: top eight push next year? And please tell bus to
Speaker 4: stop bagging us? On three sixty.
Speaker 3: Can you please stop bagging three straight wooden spoons.
Speaker 2: I think I'm going to take Benji and Rich out
Speaker 2: of tities.
Speaker 3: And talk them through their plans. Yeah, we we have
Speaker 3: to go to yeah tradition.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we'll do that.
Speaker 3: All sounds good. Get rid of We'll get rid of organized.
Speaker 2: They jump up the ladder a little bit, but they're
Speaker 2: not going to play finals for a little while yet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with that.
Speaker 4: Emails David, Is there anything better than the Sydney Rivalry
Speaker 4: semi finals game?
Speaker 3: Is anything better?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Well, we spoke about how great power care.
Speaker 4: I think there will be some Queensland base that would
Speaker 4: love the old Cowboys and Broncos showdown for a few years.
Speaker 1: A outstanding even the Battle of the Beaches this weekend.
Speaker 1: You've had that much history of you know, Jared went
Speaker 1: from mainly the Roosters when Bozo went the other way
Speaker 1: and took all those players with him.
Speaker 3: That there's a real rivalry between these gods. I love it.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 3: I'm not a fan of either team, but I love
Speaker 3: the rivalry. This was interesting.
Speaker 4: This is an email from Keith my local league club,
Speaker 4: Magpie's Watara pays the ten dollars towards any uber to
Speaker 4: go to and from a venue up to twice a day,
Speaker 4: right so on game day. This got me thinking, imagine
Speaker 4: if the NRL and New South Wales Rugby League were
Speaker 4: able to offer something similar for junior rugby league kids
Speaker 4: for training and game days. Parents often only have one
Speaker 4: car but multiple kids, and then our Uber Pathways program
Speaker 4: could be created. So I think that firstly, great initiative
Speaker 4: from the junior rugby league club to get that off
Speaker 4: the ground of the.
Speaker 2: License club there is it.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's he's saying it's a license my
Speaker 3: local league club. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So what the Leafs clubs doing they can afford
Speaker 2: to Yeah, because they're getting people in there to drink,
Speaker 2: eat and play pokies.
Speaker 3: It's a great initiative regardless they were gragging people.
Speaker 2: I don't think it ok pask plays mate, it'd be
Speaker 2: too dear.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I like it, and other league clubs in Sydney should
Speaker 2: look at doing that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but on football days if we can, If they
Speaker 4: can pare it up with the junior regular league initiative,
Speaker 4: I think he'd be outstanding, James.
Speaker 3: This could be for you, Buzz as a Sharks fan.
Speaker 4: The seemingly the relentless fashion of them by commentators, ex
Speaker 4: players and journalists is very frustrated. Looking back at the
Speaker 4: preseason predictions, very few had the Sharks finished in the eight,
Speaker 4: let alone top four. The Sharks proceeded to finish in
Speaker 4: the top four, surpassing all expectations.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had to remember top eight. And I want
Speaker 2: to applaud Greg Brandy Alexander as it's not the sort
Speaker 2: of bloke who wants to bag players, likes bagging players,
Speaker 2: but he's highly paid fox s hen pundit, and I
Speaker 2: congratulate him on saying without fear or favor what he
Speaker 2: really thinks, and it's very important.
Speaker 3: Mick Yep agreed Matt.
Speaker 4: After the high level of fan and media interest in
Speaker 4: the spoon Bowl, can you see the nil creating a
Speaker 4: spoon Ball final series when they expand to twenty This.
Speaker 1: Would be a lot Michael's thoughts on having a card
Speaker 1: of twenty teams. I don't mind Adam get a game,
Speaker 1: but I did think I was.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I said her on here or not,
Speaker 4: but I did think that given the excitement around it,
Speaker 4: you just know Peter Landy's minds ticking over going Oh, how.
Speaker 2: Can you know what the promoters dream? You could put
Speaker 2: the bunker officials who've ever made the most they could
Speaker 2: do the game.
Speaker 3: It doesn't make it a complete worse with the worst players.
Speaker 1: But you do notice the Tigers as a club sort
Speaker 1: of leaned into it a little bit because it was
Speaker 1: their home game and they were selling out and there
Speaker 1: was a chance to avoid it and put on the power.
Speaker 1: The Eels wanted nothing with any promotion thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Daniel de Melbourne have anyone significant possibly hitting the
Speaker 4: market November one? Doesn't sound like they have a whole
Speaker 4: heap of cap pressure they are dealing with. Do they
Speaker 4: just manage their cap better? Well, you mentioned that name.
Speaker 2: I think Wi to November one.
Speaker 3: He's got a club option which the club will take up.
Speaker 2: Now it's the player option. I saw PA on the
Speaker 2: I think it's wrong.
Speaker 3: It's sure, yeah it was.
Speaker 4: It was definitely on the NRL website, but it's it's
Speaker 4: it's a club option, so they're going to take that up.
Speaker 4: Harry Grant's got an option in his way as well,
Speaker 4: but I think he'll take that up and then try
Speaker 4: and renegotiate a new deal.
Speaker 1: So the big one and you've got Nelson there, which
Speaker 1: takes the spine plus Nelson.
Speaker 3: We did the rich one hundred recently.
Speaker 1: Their top five highest paid players that are in the
Speaker 1: top thirty seven ice paid players in the game.
Speaker 2: So they have that.
Speaker 1: They are meticulous in getting the other parts of their
Speaker 1: system right. And it's I mean, it's only a couple
Speaker 1: of decisions from getting something wrong.
Speaker 3: But at the moment they've haven't. They nailed it, Buzzy.
Speaker 4: And finally, if you're selecting the Kiwi Spine, who would
Speaker 4: it be for the Pacific Championships Spine?
Speaker 2: I should have done my homework on this. So the
Speaker 2: hooker is trying, here's half jermymish King. If he's fit,
Speaker 2: it would be my hooker. Who's Dylan Brown? No, no,
Speaker 2: he's born.
Speaker 1: I don't think he'd be fit with the partial great
Speaker 1: a cl of course, of course, yes, definitely out.
Speaker 2: Potentially, Yeah, he's unavailable, So it'll have to be two of.
Speaker 3: Us with us a shrek chance, it's all us. It's
Speaker 3: going to play for some I think, yes, chance, you know.
Speaker 2: All right? That us very quickly, do you know? I'm
Speaker 2: going to go and get some nice beef from beef
Speaker 2: Kebabs Tiarchi and on the barbecue.
Speaker 3: It'll be calling ready for some advice. A no, no,
Speaker 3: simple in our house to night's take of their taking
Speaker 3: bed spuds. I don't know.
Speaker 2: It'll be letting you do these spuds in the jacket.
Speaker 4: No, I don't need to be sturdays tonight will probably
Speaker 4: corn and roccolini and carrot.
Speaker 2: Where are your carbs, mate, to have cars?
Speaker 6: I get enough calves that way. Okay, we're doing for yes? Really, yes,
Speaker 6: your lovely cast.
Speaker 3: No, she's doing them tonight. So's the killer. It's been edible.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: I'm out.
Speaker 3: What do you think?
Speaker 2: I mean, management course idea.
Speaker 3: I don't mind it with d C D the headlock.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I think we should make that our cut
Speaker 2: and social seal mob sent to management.
Speaker 3: We'll talk you later. Thanks for stopping by.