Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome to the Daily Telegraph Eril Podcast. My name
Speaker 1: is Adam Mobbs. Back in the chair after a little
Speaker 1: bit of a hiatus. You have to leave me around
Speaker 1: the park for team of CADU Pam Whaley. How are
Speaker 1: you going good?
Speaker 2: How are you look?
Speaker 1: This is strange, isn't it. I've come back after a
Speaker 1: little while away and it has been a while. Our
Speaker 1: big desk has been replaced by a little desk.
Speaker 2: We've moved out of the nineteen nineties newsroom.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what about that?
Speaker 2: We're into YEA twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and not only that, we're also broadcasting into the
Speaker 1: Maddie John's feed for the next couple of weeks while
Speaker 1: Maddie's away on Olympic duty. Got to say, I'm a
Speaker 1: little concerned. I spoke to him on Thursday and he said,
Speaker 1: can't talk, cannot find my wallet on my passport.
Speaker 3: That's very brand.
Speaker 2: Do you have a minder there with him.
Speaker 1: To know the worst party? Well, he's you know, with
Speaker 1: Steve Crawley, I think over it from Fox, so he's
Speaker 1: not going over with Trish, his wife. So if you
Speaker 1: know Maddie, you know that he can't operate as a
Speaker 1: human being. Basically without Trish's help. So he is very worried,
Speaker 1: although he did pitch up. His first column idea was
Speaker 1: the top ten things that tourist shouldn't do in Paris,
Speaker 1: and then he was going to go and do them all.
Speaker 1: But I thought, when you go and see that the
Speaker 1: Eiffel Tower is guarded by people with machine guns, you
Speaker 1: think maybe you should.
Speaker 2: Maybe don't do that.
Speaker 4: Yes, especially around the Olympics where security is normally quite usened. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he might be before the Olympic seven start israels.
Speaker 2: Like it's going to be a bit of a holiday
Speaker 2: for Trish then too.
Speaker 1: Fo she'll only have the two kids rather than the three.
Speaker 1: But save travels. Mattie. We hope you're well over there
Speaker 1: because it's going to be a big couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: But speaking a big couple of weeks, run home Round
Speaker 1: twenty just got run and done. Your raid is still
Speaker 1: in the top eight Battle Big Week.
Speaker 4: Still in the top eight battle Honey, probably because of
Speaker 4: Chanelle Harris to Vida's hard training. Honestly, seeing him in
Speaker 4: the sheds afterwards, he just made a b line straight
Speaker 4: for the sheds. Couldn't even you know, didn't want to
Speaker 4: be out there for a second. But yeah, the Jamal
Speaker 4: foggerty back, I think that sort of made a bit
Speaker 4: of a difference as well, and I think it will
Speaker 4: make a bit of a difference on the run home.
Speaker 4: I think for Camera in the end, if they do
Speaker 4: end up missing the eight, they will look back on
Speaker 4: some of the games that they let slip during the
Speaker 4: year and rw those. But yeah, I didn't realize an
Speaker 4: interesting step on Canberra. I think they've won every single Basically,
Speaker 4: they are specialists at winning the tight games, six games
Speaker 4: I think with six points or less and this was
Speaker 4: another one.
Speaker 3: So they'd love that tight tussle.
Speaker 4: And that's kind of the side that Ricky Stewart has
Speaker 4: coach for years and years, that tough, pritty side that's
Speaker 4: always that's always in the contest. But yeah, I don't
Speaker 4: know there's such a scramble. Those last couple of positions
Speaker 4: in the top eight. I think won't be decided until
Speaker 4: late which is which is.
Speaker 1: Good, right, Yeah, yeah, you don't want everything.
Speaker 4: So I think the Warriors are probably getting towards the
Speaker 4: point where we start talking about them mathematically, and that's
Speaker 4: when you start.
Speaker 1: Saying, okay, you fence itter that once you get them mathematically,
Speaker 1: they can make it, put a line through them. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's still a couple of I know we're probably
Speaker 2: jumping the gun here, but there's still a couple of
Speaker 2: buyers that will come into play, I think as well,
Speaker 2: because the Cowboys have one, the Broncos have one, the
Speaker 2: Knights have one, and Manly do too, so they can
Speaker 2: get themselves a little bit further in in the next
Speaker 2: seven weeks. Yeah, which all come at really good times.
Speaker 1: What about was the stat you were telling me before
Speaker 1: the Broncos do not have to leave Queensland now for
Speaker 1: the rest of the season unless they make the finals.
Speaker 4: Was somebody from the Broncos camppointed it out to me
Speaker 4: this morning. So that's sort of the only traveling they've
Speaker 4: got to do is they get on a flight to
Speaker 4: take on the Cowboys in Townsville. Outside of that, the
Speaker 4: further the further, saygo is the Titans Ravena. So yeah,
Speaker 4: and they do you have a buy in there, like
Speaker 4: Pam said, So it's set up quite nicely.
Speaker 3: Reno's back. He got through the game on the weekend.
Speaker 2: So yeah, you know it's a game at Suncourt with
Speaker 2: the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you've got darbies, don't you. You've got Dolphins, Cowboys, Titans.
Speaker 1: They're tough games games. Yeah, you got the Eels. Tough game. Hey,
Speaker 1: two points we've got to buy. At the weekend, outstanding?
Speaker 3: You did it without Mitchell Moses ugly.
Speaker 1: Why didn't come here to get ridiculed. Well, I've got
Speaker 1: no other choice for it. Hey, what about at the
Speaker 1: weekend Nathan Cleary ice in his veins. You saw him
Speaker 1: forty five meters two point field goal. He's back baby.
Speaker 1: Although things were a little clunky early, the Dolphins got
Speaker 1: away to a good lead. Some of those passes weren't
Speaker 1: sticking him at a couple of veras Isaac Cataoa the
Speaker 1: Glenmore Park. Brumbi was back in penwithh showing his wares
Speaker 1: and basically what Penrith were upset at losing him before
Speaker 1: it actually played a first grade game. You know, the
Speaker 1: Dolphins had done their homework and looked into the nursery
Speaker 1: there at Penrith and picked him out, and he showed why.
Speaker 1: But Nathan Cleary is still just the man, isn't he
Speaker 1: He is?
Speaker 4: He is like if that that game was pretty much
Speaker 4: in the balance the whole way through, and it just
Speaker 4: sort of felt like it was inevitable that Nathan Cleary
Speaker 4: would come up with a clutch play a two point
Speaker 4: film goal.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen too many of them.
Speaker 4: I must say though, And like outside of Canberra, Penrith
Speaker 4: is sort of like, you know, my second favorite team.
Speaker 3: Have a bit of a soft spot for them.
Speaker 1: You're a grown up, you can have one, I know.
Speaker 4: But I was half cheering for the Dolphins, purely for Kutoa.
Speaker 4: I just think it would have been a beautiful story.
Speaker 4: It's such a great storyline. Cleary's understudy. It goes to
Speaker 4: Penrith sort of, you know, sinks the panther sinks Cleary
Speaker 4: on his return home he had a chance.
Speaker 3: He sort of bombed it. He'll learned from that.
Speaker 1: He didn't sort of bomb it was I think they
Speaker 1: I think they crept the bed. Sorry that I think
Speaker 1: with a couple of minutes to go ten meters out,
Speaker 1: you're not forty five meters out like Nathan clear it was, Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was no one running at you, and instead of
Speaker 1: dropping it over, you kicked for the corner for a
Speaker 1: bomb that hadn't really I know, Jack Boss Dooks eleven
Speaker 1: feet fourteen tall, but take the one point get the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, went for the glory player. I think instead of
Speaker 2: what is safe one, it's.
Speaker 4: A weird one because a field goal thinking Penrith is
Speaker 4: a glory player as well, So I just think, you know, yeah,
Speaker 4: he was a.
Speaker 2: Bit of a rush of blood probably too, which probably
Speaker 2: carried him all the way through this game. And it
Speaker 2: just kind of tipped over at the end there and
Speaker 2: then Nathan Cleary shows how it's done. It was, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was so entertaining. Well we but am I that?
Speaker 2: Am I underestimating the Dolphins? Do you guys, what do
Speaker 2: you guys think about them for the rest of this season?
Speaker 2: Do you think that they can?
Speaker 4: I think, you know what, I think ken Reth game
Speaker 4: actually showed where they are. And yeah, Penrith they're three
Speaker 4: time premierships, but they were missing their five origin stars.
Speaker 3: They were missing with Ghana.
Speaker 4: They lost paul A Lamotti during that game with a
Speaker 4: broken arm, and to me, you know, not disrespecting any
Speaker 4: of the Penrith players that came in, but that was
Speaker 4: a team of rookies and pretty much depped players, and
Speaker 4: the Dolphins sort of struggled to really, you know, get
Speaker 4: on over them. So to me, that probably says gives
Speaker 4: you an indication of where the Dolphins are and I
Speaker 4: think the fact that under coach like Wayne Bennett, they
Speaker 4: are probably punching above their weight.
Speaker 1: I'm just going to call Wayne now, let him know
Speaker 1: what you said. I'm sure really wants to hear it.
Speaker 4: I'm would love to hear that a point and like
Speaker 4: losing in Golden Point is rubbing salt in Wayne's Golden Point.
Speaker 2: Woin.
Speaker 1: Well, we've sort of said this before off air, that
Speaker 1: that top eight race is so tight. Now the slip
Speaker 1: ups for mine, the Dogs and the Dolphins both looked
Speaker 1: up this round. I think Canby should have beaten the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: I don't believe the hype around the Cowboys at the moment.
Speaker 1: I think they've got a lot still to prove. They
Speaker 1: They should have been far too good at home. I
Speaker 1: know they had a lot of players backing up from them.
Speaker 1: Didn's terrific, but they're not the same team that made
Speaker 1: the Prelium Final a couple of years ago. They're still
Speaker 1: a long way off it. And that was was a
Speaker 1: chance for the Bulldogs who were and they could struggle
Speaker 1: now a little bit. The Dogs, with their injuries, they've
Speaker 1: got a toughish run home and some injuries to come.
Speaker 1: So in that really congested bottom half of the eight
Speaker 1: I don't know you've done a run home before.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so I'm just looking at it right now.
Speaker 2: So as far as so for this is what the
Speaker 2: Dolphins for me. So they've got they had the Panthers
Speaker 2: obviously lost to the Panthers, and they've got the Titans, Roosters, Warriors, Bulldog, Storm,
Speaker 2: Broncos Nights. So I had them winning two of those games,
Speaker 2: and I don't.
Speaker 1: But if if it's not going to get in the
Speaker 1: top eighties.
Speaker 2: No, no, it's not. No, And that would have them finishing tenth.
Speaker 1: So what what about Serroaldo's men?
Speaker 4: So they've they've got a better run, I mean considering
Speaker 4: how well done.
Speaker 2: So they have Broncos and that's a game because that's
Speaker 2: that's a four point If they can take points off
Speaker 2: the chasing teams, that's that's a great result for them.
Speaker 2: So they've got Broncos, Raiders, Dragons, Dolphins, Warriors, Manly Cowboys.
Speaker 1: And they're all all in that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so a great run of it, seriously is and
Speaker 2: then four who else? Were we just talking about?
Speaker 1: The Cowboys?
Speaker 2: The Cowboys? So I had the Cowboys finishing eighth, winning
Speaker 2: four of their last seven games. They've got a buy
Speaker 2: as well, So then they have winning three of their
Speaker 2: last seven, is that right? Yeah, so three of their
Speaker 2: last six games because they're seven rounds left. Sorry, So
Speaker 2: with the Cowboys here, so they have six games left
Speaker 2: with a buy, they play the Sharks, Tigers, Broncos, Raiders,
Speaker 2: Storm and Bulldogs. So yeah, I had them winning three
Speaker 2: of those Sharks, Tigers, Raiders.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean Canby, I mean Cannbry would go confident
Speaker 4: into the Raiders game, even the Dragon's game, the Dolphins,
Speaker 4: the Warriors, even Seagulls might give them some bit of
Speaker 4: trouble Cowboys at the end, they're depending on how all
Speaker 4: the Cowboys going. So I think you know, Canterbury could
Speaker 4: potentially win four of their last.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Can I get your thoughts too, Can I
Speaker 1: get your thoughts on Manly? They trounced the Titans in
Speaker 1: the in the des Hazler Bowl fail on Sunday. They
Speaker 1: were a couple of early tries they were on the
Speaker 1: back foot, but then they put the foot on the
Speaker 1: gas and she's a horrendous injury for the eye high
Speaker 1: hop Way. But Luke Brooks's running game came to the four.
Speaker 1: Tommy Travoyevitch just getting better and better. I wonder are
Speaker 1: they a team to challenge now for the top four
Speaker 1: because they're only they're only just outside it now. There
Speaker 1: are twenty five points the Roosters now that are in
Speaker 1: fourth on twenty six. Mainly if they can take that
Speaker 1: form away from home, potentially could threaten that top four
Speaker 1: and will consider continue my long held stat that there's
Speaker 1: always a team from outside the eight finishes in top
Speaker 1: four the next year. So they're basically my last hope
Speaker 1: for that one. But I don't know, can you believe
Speaker 1: mainly or do you think am I reading too much
Speaker 1: into a win over their Gold Coast?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 4: I guess there's the home factor as well, but there's
Speaker 4: no doubt that Tom Travoi, Bitch, Dse, Loupbrooks, you know,
Speaker 4: all looked really good on the weekend, and you need
Speaker 4: those three guys to look good if they're going to
Speaker 4: really challenge the top four. I mean I almost want them, like,
Speaker 4: you know, Loopbrooks first finals.
Speaker 2: Let's see what he can do.
Speaker 3: Let him loose, Yeah, let's see what he can do.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, you want the Street to be broken for
Speaker 1: Luke Brooks Finals Finals appearance.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he deserves it. I don't know that.
Speaker 4: When they're on a roll, they look they just look
Speaker 4: so good and they can pile on so many points.
Speaker 3: But yeah, they've just been so inconsistent this year that
Speaker 3: I don't know if I trust them just yet.
Speaker 2: Okay, So they are that.
Speaker 4: Many outside of Panthers and Storm, and I'm sure we'll
Speaker 4: get it there pretty much aren't that many teams in
Speaker 4: that frame at the moment that I trust.
Speaker 2: So they have they play the Roosters this week, by
Speaker 2: then Raiders, Warriors, Tigers, Bulldogs, Sharks. So I had them
Speaker 2: winning all of those except for the Roosters game. Wow,
Speaker 2: and finishing fourth.
Speaker 1: That's that's a big result. That's that's a good draw
Speaker 1: for Manly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, although yeah, I mean and then if you look
Speaker 4: at how the Rooster's played against the Storm, it would
Speaker 4: probably say they're actually a chance of actually beating the
Speaker 4: Risters as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're one Tom Traboyvitch Hamstring away from that blowing
Speaker 1: up though.
Speaker 3: But let's not put the mock on those.
Speaker 1: Well he's big enough. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm sure. I'm
Speaker 1: sure I'm going to be deciding he w has the difference.
Speaker 1: You made a good point the Roosters. What's that record
Speaker 1: now against me against Melbourne and Penrith since twenty twenty
Speaker 1: one from twenty one from twenty I did say to
Speaker 1: Russell Jackson, our chief of staff, out there before those
Speaker 1: the Roosters mean that they are in fact flat track bullies,
Speaker 1: that they cannot beat the top end of town. But
Speaker 1: if you're a Roosters fan, you've got to be concerned
Speaker 1: that as good as our team looks on paper, they
Speaker 1: were thoroughly outplayed. You know, look at those names there,
Speaker 1: Jack Howarth, Josh King, Grant Anderson, and no disrespect to
Speaker 1: these guys, but on your reputation, the Roosters went into
Speaker 1: this match favorite.
Speaker 3: Anderson had played the game of his life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, horrific. The storm just and give themselves that little
Speaker 1: bit of a barrier at the top now and that
Speaker 1: top in that race for the minor premiership and the
Speaker 1: all important finishing top two to get a home final.
Speaker 1: I'd be really disappointed for I was a Rooster's fan
Speaker 1: and wondering whether we've got the ability to go with
Speaker 1: these teams.
Speaker 4: I did feel that that was a bit flat they
Speaker 4: were a bit flat, and I don't know how much
Speaker 4: of that had to do with all the Origin players
Speaker 4: backing up. Obviously Lindsay Collins started off the bench, Spencer
Speaker 4: was off the bench.
Speaker 3: There's no trade. Were a hard grave.
Speaker 4: Brandon Smith probably didn't, you know, in a game like that,
Speaker 4: where there's so many players backing up from Origin, especially
Speaker 4: in the forward pack, you sort of expect him to
Speaker 4: lift a little and didn't get that. He was completely
Speaker 4: outgunned by his opposite in Harry Grant. But also they
Speaker 4: had two players in the bin, so that's sixty minutes
Speaker 4: with twelve men against a storm. You know that they're
Speaker 4: going to make going to make you pay. And one
Speaker 4: sort of I think because of their position on the ladder.
Speaker 4: One thing that sort of has gone under the radiar
Speaker 4: a little bit with the Roosters this year. Is it
Speaker 4: the most penalized team And we saw.
Speaker 3: It from the.
Speaker 2: Especially when they're going, well, we're having a good season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I always think that might be a tactic,
Speaker 4: you know, Yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Wonder whether that's the case that you know, it's not
Speaker 1: not for sin bins, but if they're happy to give
Speaker 1: away an indiscretion of penalties, or something close to long,
Speaker 1: because it's much easier to defend on a set line.
Speaker 1: But the way that Robbo blows up at the referees
Speaker 1: or at certain decisions, I don't know if that's whether
Speaker 1: it is a ploy that they genuinely going with, saying, okay,
Speaker 1: we'll we'll back ourselves to defend, but against all.
Speaker 3: The timers are trying the same ploy, but it's not
Speaker 3: working for them.
Speaker 2: No where the Rusters kind of walk that line they
Speaker 2: kind of tried.
Speaker 3: And then you know.
Speaker 4: Tom Young sort of great on the on the attacking
Speaker 4: side of the ball, but has really struggled defensively and
Speaker 4: struggled defensively against the Storm like a couple of misreads
Speaker 4: caught out a couple of times. I don't know how much,
Speaker 4: you know, if Joey Manu Who's could be back this week.
Speaker 3: But probably next week, how much that helps that right edge.
Speaker 4: So yeah, there are there are things. You know, luc
Speaker 4: Key probably didn't have his best game in a while.
Speaker 4: Sam Walker wasn't as prolific as we know he can be.
Speaker 4: So there are some you know, bumps after that Storm game.
Speaker 3: For the Roosters.
Speaker 4: I would say, yeah, but apparently the one, the one
Speaker 4: from twenty games against Penrith and the Storm, according.
Speaker 3: To Robert, is not psychological. So if it's not psychological,
Speaker 3: it's got.
Speaker 1: To be they. I wonder whether do they have another
Speaker 1: gear to get to the roosters? Can they find that
Speaker 1: form in the next six weeks?
Speaker 4: Oh, that's a good question. Do they have another gear?
Speaker 3: On paper?
Speaker 1: You would have stuff on paper pay if.
Speaker 4: You saw that team, you'd go, okay, yeah, you know
Speaker 4: Tedesco Smith, Kirey Walker in the spines, Lenny were hard
Speaker 4: Graves in the pack, Victor Radley, Angus Crichton, who's been
Speaker 4: the form back grower probably up until this game. So
Speaker 4: they should they should talent wise, they should have another.
Speaker 2: Gear, but have a very good draw as well, so
Speaker 2: they play manly this week. Dolphins by Para Titans, Raiders Rabbit.
Speaker 1: O's yeah, winnable, winnable run because let's.
Speaker 2: Say whether or not, like they could you know, theoretically
Speaker 2: win through to the end of the year, and if
Speaker 2: they're serious, they should do that. But then it's whether
Speaker 2: or not they once it gets to you know, week one,
Speaker 2: week two of the finals, like what are they going
Speaker 2: to be able to actually.
Speaker 1: Do it this year? I know, history is there to
Speaker 1: be made and broken and whatever else. But if you
Speaker 1: don't finish top four, the odds say you don't win
Speaker 1: the premiership, you know, and that's so top four finishes
Speaker 1: absolutely necessary. So they've got that game against Manly is
Speaker 1: huge as a result they haven't a look at what
Speaker 1: you said about Manly's run home. That's massive for them
Speaker 1: now because and no disrespect to the Bulldogs, Dolphins, Careboys, Dragons, Raiders.
Speaker 3: All those, they're probably making up numbers.
Speaker 1: You're making up numbers when you know you've got a
Speaker 1: Panthers team that continues to win. No dealing, there was
Speaker 1: no Brian no leam martin as. They just keep finding
Speaker 1: ways to win. Yeah, they shouldn't probably shouldn't have won
Speaker 1: that game on Sunday, but they still did it. And
Speaker 1: then the Storm who they were. There was a crazy
Speaker 1: stat that the tab had earlier this year that they
Speaker 1: were four dollars to finish in the top four. This
Speaker 1: year they started the season four dollars and they haven't
Speaker 1: finished outside of the top four in years and punters
Speaker 1: and fans continue to underestimate them and go, oh, they
Speaker 1: can't keep doing can't keep doing it.
Speaker 3: But they're two points ahead of Penrith, Like it's one
Speaker 3: of those ones. I think they're going under the rain
Speaker 3: a little bit.
Speaker 4: Maybe maybe that win against the Roosters sort of put
Speaker 4: them in everybody's front of mine. But I think before then,
Speaker 4: you know, we probably look at the ladder all the time,
Speaker 4: and every time I was like, oh, surprise, Melbourne's four
Speaker 4: points ahead, six points ahead.
Speaker 2: So I think you look at the team list though,
Speaker 2: and go they shouldn't be doing this. Yeah, they still
Speaker 2: managed to do it. It's incredible, Like you've struggled for
Speaker 2: ways to keep talking about it because it's just it's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: And a team without Camera Munster for.
Speaker 2: The majority of yeah, like you would think, you know,
Speaker 2: taking Camera Monster out of that team, who's obviously, you know,
Speaker 2: one of the best players in the game, so influential,
Speaker 2: and just they just keep winning.
Speaker 3: Well, it hasn't just been Monster, right, They've been with
Speaker 3: that Pappenhausen for mines season.
Speaker 4: Some of their forwards, you know, outside back, so they
Speaker 4: haven't had coats for a few weeks. And then they
Speaker 4: bring in Sawa far Logo, who's got this ridiculous strikerate
Speaker 4: at the moment because he's been coming off the bench
Speaker 4: last couple weeks. I think he's got two tries last
Speaker 4: week from three runs and one try on the weekend
Speaker 4: from two runs.
Speaker 3: So he's a he's a freak.
Speaker 4: So and he might get a chance with Anderson going
Speaker 4: down with the knee injury. So I hold you say
Speaker 4: to talk about far logo, even though he is sort
Speaker 4: of seen as a fullback, that he could probably get
Speaker 4: the job done on the wing as well. So yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, even Jack Harworth, I remember about twelve eighteen
Speaker 4: months ago talking to people around the club about him,
Speaker 4: and I was sort of a little bit tentative about
Speaker 4: his development, sort of a little bit worried about his development,
Speaker 4: and all of a sudden, he's been given a shot,
Speaker 4: and yeah.
Speaker 1: Well let's put that into perspective. So when that conversation
Speaker 1: first happened, he was one of I think five players
Speaker 1: in the game it even been fired that had that
Speaker 1: were locked down for five year deals. He hadn't even
Speaker 1: played first grade yet, and he was one of the
Speaker 1: guys who was locked down the longest of anyone in
Speaker 1: the competition, and just they kept going next, next man up,
Speaker 1: next man up, and we didn't see Jack Howarth, and
Speaker 1: he was playing on the edge for the Sunshine Coast Falcons,
Speaker 1: whether it was back row or center, and we never
Speaker 1: quite saw him. And then he got that chance last
Speaker 1: year when the storm basically rested everyone and put him
Speaker 1: in said okay, well here he is, and sort of
Speaker 1: went okay. But it seems it was Fandy's feet this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was really interesting.
Speaker 2: Ability don't they just to have the right timing for
Speaker 2: these players and not really throw them in before they're
Speaker 2: ready or yeah, yeah, they're incredible.
Speaker 3: But not only that they didn't give up on him.
Speaker 4: Would have been other clubs who would have gone, maybe
Speaker 4: we pulled the wrong rain here signing him on like
Speaker 4: a long term like five year deal. He hasn't come
Speaker 4: through yet, but they persisted on.
Speaker 1: Good money too. Yeah. So, and but he's been a
Speaker 1: success story. Just I said, the patience of the storm
Speaker 1: and bringing these guys through making the right choices terrific.
Speaker 1: I want it.
Speaker 2: I was just going to say, so we will were
Speaker 2: we going to talk about, like Penrith, who who's the
Speaker 2: favorite now, Penrith or Melbourne?
Speaker 1: What do we think after.
Speaker 4: Seeing Nathan Cleary and knowing that he's pretty much close
Speaker 4: to being at his best again, maybe he was a
Speaker 4: little bit rusty on the weekend.
Speaker 3: They're so hard to go past. They're so hard to
Speaker 3: go past.
Speaker 1: Penrith after just having a crack at all the critics
Speaker 1: for refusing, for refusing to acknowledge Melbourne and for underestimating them,
Speaker 1: to underestimate them again, say Penrith, Because yeah, I will
Speaker 1: say this.
Speaker 4: I think if Penrith don't win the Grand Final this year,
Speaker 4: it'll be a while before they win another title.
Speaker 1: Oh god, jeez, what time is that ten thirty eight
Speaker 1: on the AIG state saying.
Speaker 4: That they won't be top four, that they won't be
Speaker 4: title contenders. I just think people will underestimate the loss
Speaker 4: of Fisher Harris, underestimate the loss of the Wis. I
Speaker 4: like the underestimated the loss of Stephen Crichton, I reckon
Speaker 4: a little bit. So I think losing those guys because
Speaker 4: when you think about it, there's been some good forwards
Speaker 4: coming through, like the Lindsay Smiths, and we've heard stuff
Speaker 4: about Jack Cole and the rest of it.
Speaker 3: In the halves, but the gap between them feels like
Speaker 3: too big to breach.
Speaker 1: So I'm like Michael Jordan the Last Dance, You're the
Speaker 1: champs until you're beaten. And that's the way I kind
Speaker 1: of look at Penrith. I think that I will not
Speaker 1: back against them winning the title until someone knocks them
Speaker 1: over because I just think they've got all the tools there.
Speaker 2: We'll find out in round twenty four when they play
Speaker 2: each other.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Melbourne.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this game of the year so far.
Speaker 1: I can't make a segue to the next topic. But
Speaker 1: you're looking at the run sheets, so that's why you're
Speaker 1: That's why you're giggling about Paramata.
Speaker 2: How's that?
Speaker 1: So we make that missile sound.
Speaker 3: I'll give you a segue. What Penrith? I don't think
Speaker 3: Paramatta will win a title in a very long time?
Speaker 1: Wow, can I get Jason Ryle's on the phone for
Speaker 1: that conversation? So Buzz Rothfield reporting that the Eels will
Speaker 1: undergo a major overhaul under Jason Roles. We knew that
Speaker 1: was going to happen. But Buzz saying that he's considering
Speaker 1: naming state of origin hero Mitchell Moses, who by the way,
Speaker 1: gave up sacrificed his body for this state, so I
Speaker 1: show a little bit more respect for paramatter everybody. As
Speaker 1: the new skipper to replaced Clint Garthason and obviously junior
Speaker 1: Barlow and Gutho were at co captains and saying that
Speaker 1: Gotho could be under pressure to retain that fullback role
Speaker 1: with talk that Blaze Telang will be offered that role
Speaker 1: and the indicating that interim coach Trent Barrett won't be
Speaker 1: offered a role under Jason. Roles and roles in Trent
Speaker 1: Barrett are actually close, you know, was his captain?
Speaker 3: Was he?
Speaker 1: Yeah? From their drag and stutus So interesting, But thoughts.
Speaker 2: On that, I think it's probably a change that needs
Speaker 2: to happen, right Like we've we've talked about, you know,
Speaker 2: the big personalities at Paramatta and the the lack of
Speaker 2: leadership within some of those senior players at the moment,
Speaker 2: Maybe just to change is exactly what they need in
Speaker 2: just shaking things up. I don't think anything the way
Speaker 2: that they've gone this year, anything could be should be
Speaker 2: guaranteed either point. So they realize that something massive needs
Speaker 2: to change because they have a lot of talent on
Speaker 2: that roster, something needs to to shift to get them
Speaker 2: going a little bit. So if it's Midge Moses as
Speaker 2: captain and the easy halfback, it kind of makes sense.
Speaker 2: To me, it's not controversial.
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he is the half back and it does make
Speaker 4: sense in that way, But how much difference is as
Speaker 4: a captain is he going to be then Clink Guthison.
Speaker 2: It's just taking I wonder if it's just taking a
Speaker 2: little bit of not heat or it's just taking a
Speaker 2: little bit of that the eyes off Clint Guthison at
Speaker 2: the back and potentially framing him for a move somewhere else.
Speaker 2: Whether or not, I don't necessarily think maybe out of
Speaker 2: the club, but just out of fullback.
Speaker 1: I think out of fullback is And I'm going to
Speaker 1: preface this by saying I love Gutho as a player.
Speaker 1: I think he's Guo.
Speaker 4: Is one of the most underrated. Yeah, Like I know,
Speaker 4: he's had his moments and he's been picked in Origin
Speaker 4: and he's played in the Grand Final, But in terms
Speaker 4: of like effort, I think he's one of the most
Speaker 4: underrated players.
Speaker 1: In a gain. Yeah, he's talking at the back, he's positioning.
Speaker 1: It's all there in saying that the Eels are still
Speaker 1: running sixteenth and I'm not that's not saying you put
Speaker 1: it down to one person, but you know, we go
Speaker 1: back twelve months when the Eels were looking for X
Speaker 1: factor and they were talking about Jayden Campbell and they
Speaker 1: were talking about where do we find this guy. You've
Speaker 1: got Blaze to Lungey there, who's who did not take
Speaker 1: up his player option for next season, so he's able
Speaker 1: to go and other clubs are clamoring for him. You,
Speaker 1: if you're Jason Rowls, you need to keep Blaze to Lungey.
Speaker 1: And because he if that, that will be a massive
Speaker 1: loss for a club that's already you know, I can
Speaker 1: handle losing Ethan Sanders to Canberra because Ethan Sanders is
Speaker 1: just a seven. I'm not saying that he's just a seventh,
Speaker 1: but he's a halfback. So you've got Mitch Moses ahead
Speaker 1: of you. You want first grade, You're not going to
Speaker 1: get it there at the moment. Enough Blaze to Lungey
Speaker 1: can play around the place.
Speaker 3: You're not the halves if they need to reshuffle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so you want to keep him at all
Speaker 1: Hoss and he's got a younger brother, Rider who just
Speaker 1: got named in the schoolboys Schoolboys Championships and playing prop.
Speaker 1: His dad coaches at Cabramatta in the area. He's as
Speaker 1: paramatter as it gets so you need to you need
Speaker 1: to keep him. And the fact that Gotho, he's twenty nine,
Speaker 1: will be thirty when next season starts. But he's a
Speaker 1: guy that had a couple of knee surgeries, and you
Speaker 1: do a lot of effort at the back at Paramatta
Speaker 1: in a lot of wars.
Speaker 4: You say, I don't think if that move does happen
Speaker 4: next year and Gutho goes into the centers and too
Speaker 4: long he goes it goes into fullback, I don't think
Speaker 4: that's necessarily like a controversial move or even like you know,
Speaker 4: not a massive call by Roles anyway. I just feel
Speaker 4: like it's probably a natural progression from Gotho considering the
Speaker 4: toll that the work rate, that the effort has taken
Speaker 4: on his body, particularly this year. And I remember speaking
Speaker 4: to Gutho maybe right before Brad Arthur was was sacked,
Speaker 4: and he was just talking about how, you know, because
Speaker 4: he does everything at a hire percent, training is always
Speaker 4: at one hundred percent, one hundred and ten percent.
Speaker 3: He never takes a backward step, never takes you.
Speaker 4: Know, an off day. He's one of the fittest guys.
Speaker 4: And this year is sort of the first time with
Speaker 4: that knee injury, he's sort of gone, Okay, where I
Speaker 4: can I need to rest my body, I need to
Speaker 4: take a step back a little bit, so and maybe
Speaker 4: moving him out of that fullback role where he is
Speaker 4: one hundred and ten percent every single week might actually
Speaker 4: help preserve and prolong his body. So I don't think
Speaker 4: it's like a moving te LUNGI there. Like you said,
Speaker 4: who's this sort of viewed as the X factor that
Speaker 4: Power have been looking for. Isn't as controversial as people
Speaker 4: might think.
Speaker 2: So I don't think yeah. I just I don't think yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't think it is. I think they need a
Speaker 2: little bit of like a spark, like some speed something
Speaker 2: in that back line. And as we said, like Gotho
Speaker 2: is a warrior. But if he's still in the team,
Speaker 2: that's great. He's still going to be working out, he's
Speaker 2: still going to be everywhere. He's still he's still going
Speaker 2: to be setting a lot of those standards.
Speaker 1: While we're sitting in the Maddie John's podcast feed for
Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks, I see this question. Maddie
Speaker 1: and his column pitched up moving Gutho to five eighth.
Speaker 1: The partner Mitch Moses and then Dylan Brown to thirteen,
Speaker 1: so he could play both sides of the ruck and attack.
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts on that one? H, I don't know,
Speaker 2: Dylan Brown, No, I think that's the halfs combination, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I feel like Dyl Brown and yeah, and Midge's that's
Speaker 2: the Halves combination.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I feel like Dyl Brown is.
Speaker 4: Only just we've seen sort of glimpses of how good
Speaker 4: he can be, and he's only just sort of scratching
Speaker 4: the surface of his potential.
Speaker 3: And I don't know if I'm an IELs fan.
Speaker 4: We've signed him long term to be, you know, Mitchell
Speaker 4: Moses Halves partner. I sort of want to see what
Speaker 4: you get for that money. So defensively, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Defensively is then the other question you have to ask
Speaker 4: is these days mostly are the glue in the defensive line.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Well, Maddie's thoughts around that were that he
Speaker 1: like he'd like to see Dylan both sides of the
Speaker 1: ruck getting the ball. He thinks he'd be really dangerous,
Speaker 1: kind of the role that we thought Calen Pongher might
Speaker 1: play in Origin three last week, which didn't really eventuate. Defensively,
Speaker 1: I raised that same question with him, and he said, well,
Speaker 1: back in the old days, the locks used to just
Speaker 1: defend three in from the sideline anyway, so you could
Speaker 1: have your winger, your center, and then you know whether
Speaker 1: you put your your five eight there and then he
Speaker 1: defends one in next to maybe a Jermaine Hopgood or
Speaker 1: someone who may be forced to an edge there, or
Speaker 1: Ryan Madison if he's still there amid this clean out,
Speaker 1: that roles will go through because you know, Madison's defended
Speaker 1: in the middle. Hopgods defended in the middle, so Dylan
Speaker 1: Brown wouldn't necessarily be out of Place'll be a switch
Speaker 1: a little bit, but.
Speaker 2: Interesting the creativity, and I think they probably do need
Speaker 2: a little bit of a switch up in how that
Speaker 2: forward pack plays as well, like some different body shapes.
Speaker 2: And it's been quite the same for a little while now, has.
Speaker 1: It, you know?
Speaker 2: They Yeah, they probably do need someone that has that
Speaker 2: real ball playing ability and can kind of roam around
Speaker 2: a little bit. Yeah, I like it from creativity. I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 1: You don't sound sold.
Speaker 2: I'm not sold. Yeah, jeez, are you sold? What you
Speaker 2: feels fair?
Speaker 1: I think there needs to be a shake up lot.
Speaker 1: You said something has to change because stale is not
Speaker 1: the right word, but it's like you said, there's been
Speaker 1: a lot of similar types and similar roles and yeah,
Speaker 1: you look at I know there everyone's saying that Paramotter's
Speaker 1: roster is you know, it's better than a Wooden spoon roster,
Speaker 1: which they're currently fighting for, but I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's as strong as some people make out at times.
Speaker 1: So even though there's guys, you know, Sean Lane was
Speaker 1: Player of the Year a couple of years ago, Jamain
Speaker 1: Hopgods had had some you know, since coming from penrith's
Speaker 1: been good. We've spoken about the Halves and Gutho, but
Speaker 1: number nine is still a big issue there for mine
Speaker 1: whether Matt Arthur continues to developing that role or they
Speaker 1: have to go out and find somebody. But there's no
Speaker 1: one on the market, is there. Where do you go
Speaker 1: and find these guys? And there's a forward pack that's
Speaker 1: getting getting old really quickly, and all of a sudden
Speaker 1: you're going to go, oh, hang on, You've got these
Speaker 1: younger guys at other clubs that are making those yards
Speaker 1: and punching holes and you're seeing what the Spencer Lenus
Speaker 1: of the world are doing in the Origin arena going, okay,
Speaker 1: well where's that at Para and Eels have these young
Speaker 1: guys of Charlie Geimer, the kid from Tomorrow is terrific. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Tovadi coming through the you know, young PreK coming through.
Speaker 1: So they've got these guys. But I think a little bit.
Speaker 4: When they're in their late teens too, it's sort of
Speaker 4: different to bloodying, like an outside back who's at eighteen.
Speaker 4: But then like, and I know that you say, are
Speaker 4: the forward pack sort of aging quickly? But I'm just
Speaker 4: thinking off the top of my headn't like Junior Paulo
Speaker 4: and Reagan Campbell guard thirty.
Speaker 1: Thirty? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Maybe even yeah like that.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you're in your late twenties, you know, thirty,
Speaker 4: that's sort of where you're supposed to be peaking.
Speaker 2: At a forward right, but not maybe aging isn't even
Speaker 2: the right word. It's like they've their ceiling. Has the
Speaker 2: reached ceiling?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Jinnia Paulo's thirty you know, Yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 4: I don't. I think you keep you keep Dylan Brown
Speaker 4: and Mitch Moses as your hearts and if you want
Speaker 4: Brown to roam both sides of the rock, why not
Speaker 4: roam both sides of the rock. You know, this idea
Speaker 4: that one half has to play one side of the
Speaker 4: field and the other on the other side of the field.
Speaker 4: I mean even Penrath sort of have a similar setup.
Speaker 4: But if either Jerome Luai or Nathan Cleary, you know,
Speaker 4: if there's a set play or they see something, you
Speaker 4: see them, you know, breaking on both sides of the field.
Speaker 4: So there's no reason why Dylan Browns a runner, right,
Speaker 4: There's no reason why he couldn't sort of take on
Speaker 4: that role.
Speaker 1: It's going to be fascinating to see what Jason Rowles
Speaker 1: does with that.
Speaker 3: What do you make a bar to being there? Sorry
Speaker 3: to interrupt, Oh, that's okay.
Speaker 2: I was just going to say. I spoke to Gotha
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago about all of this, and
Speaker 2: he was very open to everything. He realizes that there's
Speaker 2: going to be a big change, and there needs to
Speaker 2: be because he just wants to win. Whatever they're doing
Speaker 2: at the moment, he's not working. They just want to win,
Speaker 2: So come in, shake it up, do something new because
Speaker 2: it's not working.
Speaker 1: Because it's funny. Obviously, he's got a good pedigree. Jason Roles,
Speaker 1: having coached under some of the best, but we haven't
Speaker 1: seen him with his own team. He hasn't been a
Speaker 1: reserve grade coach where you've seen the system or the
Speaker 1: style that he's playing. So it's going to be interesting
Speaker 1: to see what differences he implements from where he's been previously.
Speaker 1: You know, roosters and storm and.
Speaker 4: Every really advantage for the Eels early next year because
Speaker 4: it makes it hard for opposition coaches to prepare for
Speaker 4: them because they don't know what they're going to get
Speaker 4: well to adjust them.
Speaker 3: I'm just wishful.
Speaker 1: I'm just get ready for spoon ball around twenty seven
Speaker 1: against the Tigers at Campbelltown.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's gonna be so much fun.
Speaker 1: Oh can we just staple Mitch Moses's biceps back together
Speaker 1: just for that last game? Something?
Speaker 3: Probably could.
Speaker 2: He's done his job this year exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's earned his rest, thanks so much.
Speaker 1: The other thing we're going to talk today is Buyers
Speaker 1: of the Year. Yeah, six rounds ago, we've seen everybody
Speaker 1: in their place value for money. Who's you'll pick from
Speaker 1: this season?
Speaker 2: Definitely Stephen Crichton.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think I think I probably did, along with a
Speaker 2: lot of other people, underestimate his leadership abilities. And maybe
Speaker 2: it was just because he was so there's so many
Speaker 2: you know, big leaders in big personalities over a pan
Speaker 2: refew and you know, superstars who kind of take the
Speaker 2: spotlight and maybe it took him stepping out of that
Speaker 2: to really step into his full potential. But I just
Speaker 2: think he's been amazing this year with what he's been
Speaker 2: able to do at the Bulldogs and obviously you know
Speaker 2: for New South Wales as well. He's only young, what
Speaker 2: is he twenty three or something? Yeah, like just so
Speaker 2: much potential in him, such a long, exciting future. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I think crazy good.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, not to be boring, but I think
Speaker 4: it's going to be stupid Crichton.
Speaker 2: But just in.
Speaker 4: Terms of you know that the influence that he seemed
Speaker 4: to have on that Cannaby team, you know, like Siro
Speaker 4: was looking for that leadership, is looking for.
Speaker 3: That winning culture.
Speaker 4: You know, that's what turns things around, right, winning culture,
Speaker 4: and it takes the right guy with the right winning culture.
Speaker 4: I mean we heard the stories about him straight after Origin,
Speaker 4: how he's up at five am in recovery making sure
Speaker 4: he can back up, and he's just such an the
Speaker 4: ultimate competitor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, so.
Speaker 2: He's so likable as well, just such a good guy.
Speaker 2: He's just a lovely kind of guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well what about throw it differently. He'll be
Speaker 1: farm Worth for the fact that he's been really good
Speaker 1: at the Dolphins left side, there's been tremendous, but also
Speaker 1: how much Brisbane have struggled without him. They've lacked some
Speaker 1: punch and I know Dean Marin has shown little bits
Speaker 1: of it and I think he's going to be a
Speaker 1: really good first grader. But I think they've massively missed.
Speaker 1: You know, when the Dolphins announced Toby farm Worth and
Speaker 1: Tom Flegler basically the start of last season, they were
Speaker 1: good signings. By the time we got to the Grand Final,
Speaker 1: they were great signings because of the seasons they've had
Speaker 1: and obviously Flegler's shoulder injury with that nerve, that scary
Speaker 1: nerve is concerned, but obviously good news. On the weekend,
Speaker 1: Peter Badell reporting that probably won't play again this season
Speaker 1: but could be right again for next season, that the
Speaker 1: nerve in that shoulder is not dead. But I think
Speaker 1: for what he's for, what Broncos have lacked without him
Speaker 1: shows what a signing that he's been for them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he has the other one, I would say, and
Speaker 4: this is probably more recently that we've sort of seen
Speaker 4: what he's future might be, like, it's Spencer Lanu. Yeah,
Speaker 4: because I remember when he signed with the Roosters. I
Speaker 4: was like, isn't he just going from Penrith to the
Speaker 4: Roosters to be another bench player like that sort of
Speaker 4: didn't make sense to me. And he built a reputation
Speaker 4: as one of the best impact forwards, right But now
Speaker 4: you see him and you think, okay, you know, and
Speaker 4: he's got the crazy eyes on and he's running from
Speaker 4: the back fence like this. He might be the guy
Speaker 4: who you know, Jared hands over the mantle too. And
Speaker 4: I know they've got guys like toll May and there's
Speaker 4: Ninsey Collins there, but there's just something a little bit
Speaker 4: different about Spence. He gives me the Jared hard Graves
Speaker 4: spiritual leader vibes. So he's another one who I think
Speaker 4: has in the last you know, four five, six weeks,
Speaker 4: has been incredible.
Speaker 2: Some of the other ones we got here, so Nathan
Speaker 2: Brown obviously it's been great for her Manly Tommy Tallau
Speaker 2: has been to con Tracy, Jean Blais good at the Storm,
Speaker 2: So I was really excited to see what he could
Speaker 2: do at Melbourne. Like he's just been one of the
Speaker 2: those kids who has had a really tough run of injury.
Speaker 2: He's had you know, a cl here, a cl there,
Speaker 2: and then just didn't quite get moving at the Tigers
Speaker 2: after he came from Penrith and then going down to Melbourne.
Speaker 2: You just you know, anyone who's going to go into
Speaker 2: that Melbourne system, they're going to get the best out
Speaker 2: of them.
Speaker 1: So we West Tigers, what are you doing. I know
Speaker 1: you've got I know you've got a lot of young
Speaker 1: forwards there and you've you know, you've got papaly Ian
Speaker 1: Klamor and Bateman or whatever. But number one, if the
Speaker 1: Melbourne Storm interest in one of your players, have another
Speaker 1: look at him. You remember his debut, Seawan Blall was
Speaker 1: up against Paramatta and he had a run in with
Speaker 1: Nathan Brown is on this list and they interviewed him
Speaker 1: off of the game and he basically said, how good this?
Speaker 1: I love this? That was awesome and he was so excited.
Speaker 1: I love the way he plays and he's just add
Speaker 1: him to another list of on that list of players
Speaker 1: the Tigers let go because it's basically a player swat
Speaker 1: with Justin Olam, and I don't think Olam's proved value
Speaker 1: for money as he's.
Speaker 3: Injured, he's had it.
Speaker 4: He's sort of I think he carried a knee injury
Speaker 4: to the Tigers and that's probably something that he's had
Speaker 4: to manage to be there.
Speaker 3: Ye swat but as yeah.
Speaker 1: But so if he did the Tigers know about that
Speaker 1: when they were I don't know. I just concerns. Yeah, anyway,
Speaker 1: we'll see, We'll see what they do next year because
Speaker 1: I was really I was gave a little cheer on
Speaker 1: the weekend when Lucky Galvin tallon de Silver Dream Buller
Speaker 1: and that's the future for the Tigers. Those three guys
Speaker 1: that was they linked up for that try and I thought,
Speaker 1: oh god, there's just there's something that they might have
Speaker 1: been able to do something. At the weekend, as a
Speaker 1: Paramatta fan been fearing the spoon, I was found myself
Speaker 1: cheering out of my seeking what to try. But there's
Speaker 1: some talent there. They just need to They need drum
Speaker 1: Leui there as soon as possible, and they need a
Speaker 1: full off season to find their identity and figure out
Speaker 1: to win.
Speaker 4: They still haven't figured that out. Yet, which is a
Speaker 4: fair enough assessment. As brutal as it sounds, what's.
Speaker 1: Are we up to our stint of what are you watching?
Speaker 1: Or do we have anything else? We've gone through it?
Speaker 1: You can lead this away. This is like MC's questions
Speaker 1: because it sounds like you're right in the way.
Speaker 3: I am absolutely not.
Speaker 4: I'm probably out of our normal crew. The one who
Speaker 4: isn't the movie buff. I am currently watching super Cell,
Speaker 4: which is on Netflix, and I really don't know how
Speaker 4: to describe it other than like a London based superhero.
Speaker 3: Superhero TV series.
Speaker 4: It's very bringeable, very watchable. So basically it's a bunch
Speaker 4: of Londoners who somehow start discovering that they've got superpowers.
Speaker 4: But I'm not up to the I think what I
Speaker 4: begin to figure out is there superpowers, a superpowers somehow
Speaker 4: based on sickle cell, which is a disease that mostly
Speaker 4: only effects black people. But I haven't gone that far
Speaker 4: ahead yet though. There's like a parallel storyline about that.
Speaker 4: But it's really cool, so it's like pretty much like
Speaker 4: a superhero movie. Interesting, it's a new wage superhero movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not we spoke about with ready. I just
Speaker 2: started watching. I started watching the Boys and that was
Speaker 2: the my new intro into superhero stuff. So is it good?
Speaker 3: It's enjoy Yeah, yeah, it's fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah good. I just started watching so House of Dragon,
Speaker 2: so we wanted to save it up for a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks, just so that we could binge it over
Speaker 2: a couple of days. So I think five episodes in
Speaker 2: or so yep, and loving this. I was a big
Speaker 2: Game of Thrones fan and loved the first season of
Speaker 2: House of Dragon as well. And this has been Yeah,
Speaker 2: this has been great. This is actually encouraging me to
Speaker 2: go back. We finished episode five I think last night,
Speaker 2: and then went back and started watching some more.
Speaker 1: Someone told me it's better than season one.
Speaker 2: Definitely.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they said it was almost Game of Thrones level.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's more, there's a lot more action, would you say, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: This happens two hundred years before the events of Game
Speaker 2: of Thrones, so it's kind of setting up or the
Speaker 2: kind of the battle for the for the Throne. But
Speaker 2: lots of dragons, which you know, I love. I hate
Speaker 2: when they make the dragons fight the big sky puppies. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but it's it's really good. Loving it. If you're a
Speaker 2: Game of Thrones fan, you haven't dived into it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: dive into this one. It's really good.
Speaker 1: Right. Well, I've got kids off on school holidays at
Speaker 1: the moment, so they're annoying me and wanting to watch stuff.
Speaker 1: But we're doing disaster movies at the moment. We did
Speaker 1: Agedin at the weekend, so nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was good to have a list of disaster
Speaker 2: movies that you're gonna watch.
Speaker 1: We've we just sit there and pick off it. If
Speaker 1: anyone's got any suggestions. Adam dot Mobs at news dot
Speaker 1: com that au we've gone through everything with the kids.
Speaker 1: We've gone through We went through Labyrinth and all the
Speaker 1: great goonies and eighties movies. We've done the Day after Tomorrow,
Speaker 1: we've done all the Jurassic Parks and so now disaster
Speaker 1: movies of this genre we're going back through again because
Speaker 1: I figured we're going to go and see Twisters or
Speaker 1: once it comes in onto you know, because we haven't
Speaker 1: seen the original Twister yet, so we might do Twister
Speaker 1: and the Twisters. Yeah, because I know about you, but
Speaker 1: where I'm saying with you is binging. We sort of
Speaker 1: leave things until there. But yeah, oh the yeah, and
Speaker 1: especially thinking Bruce Willis at the moment with what he's
Speaker 1: going through with his health battles. I love watching Bruce
Speaker 1: Willis movie.
Speaker 2: So have you done the Diehards? No, too hectic for
Speaker 2: the kids.
Speaker 1: Maybe it might be a little bit a bit of
Speaker 1: language in there that gets to them as well. So
Speaker 1: then I'm quite old enough for that. But yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's where we are. But any suggestions center through because
Speaker 1: I like the fact that I'm bringing the kids up
Speaker 1: as movie buffs a little bit, so they do a little.
Speaker 2: Bit of education, hope for the next gen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, although we're Wilson was in there. They said, oh
Speaker 1: that's the guy from not at the Museum. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: he was sodding crashes.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, that's not yet he was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's.
Speaker 1: That's what read his favorite quote of the I just yeah, goodness, great, well, gods,
Speaker 1: this has been terrific. It's nice to be back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the new set. Yeah, I'll be giving out schools at
Speaker 1: the end of the week.
Speaker 3: So three two one.
Speaker 2: This is just as good as a trip to Paris,
Speaker 2: isn't it.
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: I know, is anyone getting any sleep in the next
Speaker 1: couple of weeks or yes?
Speaker 2: No, no, because we have NRLW starts on Thursday as well,
Speaker 2: so huge. Yeah, gonna be a big.
Speaker 1: Couple of Make sure you go and check out PM's
Speaker 1: Top fifty Players, which is coming out in Tuesday's papers
Speaker 1: and online.
Speaker 3: Club by Club Club by Club guy if you haven't
Speaker 3: seen that yet.
Speaker 2: Yeahurday Games. Tell me what I've got wrong.
Speaker 1: Yeah, although I look at you number one, I'm happy
Speaker 1: with that.
Speaker 4: I thought it was Yeah, okay, don't real people have
Speaker 4: to go see it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get stressed about those things.
Speaker 1: There's a lack of Eels representation in there, but maybe
Speaker 1: that was probably complicit with when they went last season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well there's a couple you think of three yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Thanks for stopping by, everyone, and we'll see you for
Speaker 1: Thursday's podcast.