Speaker 1: But we're back for another edition of the Daily Telegraph
Speaker 1: Eneral podcast. Pem Wyley, I'll go to you first because
Speaker 1: the team has been upsetting me this morning for here.
Speaker 2: So why Yeah, Wata.
Speaker 3: I just suggested that Penris missing Dylan Edwards and James
Speaker 3: Fisher Harris is the equivalent of Paramatta missing eight players
Speaker 3: on the weekend. I called it roster math.
Speaker 1: Please, can you everyone just an email Fatima and let
Speaker 1: her know what you think about that, because.
Speaker 2: I'm just going to run lot some names.
Speaker 1: Mitchell, Moses, Junior Barlow, Mike Acivo, Jermaine Hopgood, Charlie Geimer,
Speaker 1: Hayes Dunster, Luca Moretti.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll let you include Luca Baretti and Charlie Geimer.
Speaker 4: How many games combined they played?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: Charlie Gomer had two really good games and then got injured.
Speaker 1: So have you an issue with Charlie? Al Right, Okay,
Speaker 1: if I asked for backup one thing and you turned
Speaker 1: on me, foxle with you.
Speaker 2: Let's let's get how was your weekend?
Speaker 3: It was good? Yeah, it was full on a lot
Speaker 3: of footy, a lot of good games to watch.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there was lots of good NURL action and RLW action.
Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, they've gone great guns.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So yeah, it was long. It was a long weekend.
Speaker 3: I was up in Newcastle yesterday so yeah, long day.
Speaker 2: Long.
Speaker 3: It was a long day. Yeah, but good day.
Speaker 1: What about now that we're putting you know what on
Speaker 1: people's teams about your Raiders.
Speaker 3: Listen, if you read the tackle, you know that I
Speaker 3: was very well at least skating of one person, Joe
Speaker 3: Tarping in that performance.
Speaker 1: But yeah, fifty thirty eight tackles. Jeez, how could you
Speaker 1: pick on him? What did you go wrong?
Speaker 3: Come on, you cannot be the guy who's going to
Speaker 3: be the spiritual leader of this club moving forward once
Speaker 3: Big Papa's gone and then be sent SimBin for descent
Speaker 3: of a referee. That's like rookie areas. And they were
Speaker 3: still in the match at that point. Manley scored three
Speaker 3: tries while he was simbind and it was, you know,
Speaker 3: the start of the game almost that they were up
Speaker 3: for it. Obviously it was a big game because even
Speaker 3: though it was Josh properly his three hundred and first game,
Speaker 3: it was Canberra celebration of that. You know, the old
Speaker 3: boys were there, his family was there. He's got a
Speaker 3: try in his mind. I guess it wasn't wasn't his
Speaker 3: milestone match, but his milestone celebration. And they were in
Speaker 3: it until Tarpani got simbind in the second half and
Speaker 3: then at just that point crumbled. So and they had
Speaker 3: a lot to play for. I still, you know, it's
Speaker 3: two games now where they had a lot to play
Speaker 3: for and haven't really shown up. But yeah, Manly just
Speaker 3: keeps sort of going under the raider a little bit.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you who didn't go under the radar after
Speaker 1: the weekend, Tom Travoyevich.
Speaker 2: It's been coming back.
Speaker 1: He's been You've seen little fits and spurts of the
Speaker 1: old Tommy. I just hope for the rest of the
Speaker 1: competition that your raiders haven't played him back in the
Speaker 1: form because he was.
Speaker 2: He's running game, he's passing, he was just everywhere. Look
Speaker 2: at the look at just backing up position will play.
Speaker 1: He is just and it's you know, I'm not a
Speaker 1: Manly fan, being a Paramatter supporter, but it is so
Speaker 1: good to see him back playing good footing because I
Speaker 1: hate seeing our stars out of the game, and that
Speaker 1: was what a performance. Ask your question here, I'm just
Speaker 1: looking at this is very Seinfeld here is I don't
Speaker 1: like the position of this button.
Speaker 2: Look at that. I'm just a gap.
Speaker 1: This isn't a bad this is usually buzz Rothfield fashion
Speaker 1: advice here.
Speaker 2: But about that, I'm sorry, I digress. Yeah, I'm happy
Speaker 2: with it. Just the button position has got me anyway.
Speaker 4: A safety that's a modesty you don't want to you.
Speaker 3: Might need a modesty shirt.
Speaker 1: There is a hairshirt in underneath it covered up. Sorry
Speaker 1: three D But yeah, mainly keep winning. But I would
Speaker 1: have thought mainly were smokies for maybe a top four finish.
Speaker 1: But after what Kronulla did on Friday night up on
Speaker 1: the Gold Coast, Wow, that, let's say, the favorable run
Speaker 1: home just might see them coasting in that top four finish.
Speaker 2: But they were tremendous the other night.
Speaker 3: They really were. It's always hard to judge in a
Speaker 3: game like that when you have an opposition that just
Speaker 3: sort of didn't show up show up, which doesn't really
Speaker 3: make sense for the kind of form that the Titans
Speaker 3: had played themselves into in the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it was probably one of their more clinical
Speaker 3: games of the season. Everyone thought, you know, when the
Speaker 3: team list came out, they saw Blake Brailey at number seven.
Speaker 3: I saw some of Kranella fans on social media was
Speaker 3: sort of scratching their heads, calling it, you know, a
Speaker 3: dumb decision essentially, but it proved to be a smart
Speaker 3: one because we spoke about this yesterday, Mumsy that you know,
Speaker 3: while he was named at seven, he defended at seven
Speaker 3: but attacked from dummy half and so they gave them
Speaker 3: effectively an extra forward with Cam mckinness on the field,
Speaker 3: and yeah, they just completely blewe the Titans off the
Speaker 3: park are still there's still a site for me that
Speaker 3: you know, they've given their run. They probably do finish
Speaker 3: top four. Of the teams that are likely to finish
Speaker 3: in the top four, they're probably, for me, the least
Speaker 3: likely to be a genuine contender.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think.
Speaker 3: Said that just just so to interrupt, FITZI said that
Speaker 3: Niko Hines is a head of schedule, so there's a
Speaker 3: good chance that they get him back before the finals,
Speaker 3: which you know is an added boost.
Speaker 2: Do you reckon?
Speaker 1: Fitzi and the Sharks are loving people like Fatima writing
Speaker 1: them off like that because they're just that performance of
Speaker 1: the weekend and for team a little bit there, they
Speaker 1: haven't been convincing the last couple of weeks, and obviously
Speaker 1: injuries and whatever else, and even Buzz last week said
Speaker 1: we just were lacking X factor in areas.
Speaker 2: But that what a performance.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, I mean, to be fair, I've been writing
Speaker 4: them off in the run home every.
Speaker 3: Week as well, just like so, I've.
Speaker 4: Been entirely unconvinced by them, I think, for yeah, for
Speaker 4: a little while now, and I think they've had really
Speaker 4: good games this season, and but then they've had really
Speaker 4: terrible ones too. So to see a performance like that
Speaker 4: I think was really kind of encouraging coming into the
Speaker 4: last month now. So yeah, So but yeah, that moving
Speaker 4: Blake Brayley to half back, that was.
Speaker 1: Well the flow on effect for that by having the
Speaker 1: extra forward there by moving mckinness while having him named
Speaker 1: in the nine jersey, because I mean he's done that
Speaker 1: before plenty of times. But Jack Williams thirty odd tackles
Speaker 1: two hundred meters. He was tremendous. He had probably the
Speaker 1: best game I've ever seen him play. The there's a
Speaker 1: lot of footing nows in that Shark coaching box. Fitz Gibbon, Price,
Speaker 1: Hannah and for what they did to say, okay, well,
Speaker 1: we're just going to go We're going to load up
Speaker 1: our middle, going to go straight through and build our
Speaker 1: platform off that to take our game forward.
Speaker 2: And we know the Gold Coast have been asleep.
Speaker 1: For the most of the first half this season and
Speaker 1: they come home with a wet sale in the second.
Speaker 2: But they were just blown off the park.
Speaker 1: And it's funny because on Thursday's Pot last week, Buzz
Speaker 1: revealed that every time the Sharks, when he usually gets
Speaker 1: a call from Des Hasler which he sends through the
Speaker 1: message bank where he chants up up, Cranala wouldn't have
Speaker 1: been doing it after last weekend, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: But oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: If you're a Titans fan, I don't know if there's
Speaker 1: many of you out there, How do you a Titans fan?
Speaker 3: My brother's are Titans?
Speaker 2: Really? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Randomly?
Speaker 2: Just you go, how.
Speaker 1: Disappointed would you be with your season on the line
Speaker 1: and out of now the Broncos are still claiming or
Speaker 1: not Broncos fans are claiming that we're mathematically we're still
Speaker 1: a chance, and mathematically they are. Who would have thought
Speaker 1: the Titans were the first team to you would have
Speaker 1: ruled out of top eight contention?
Speaker 2: For those Queensland sides.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, considering what they've been doing these last couple
Speaker 4: of weeks, they've actually put themselves in a position where
Speaker 4: they could be, you know, a mathematical chance. They just
Speaker 4: had to keep winning. Their draw is pretty tough to
Speaker 4: finish the season, but they had given themselves a chance,
Speaker 4: so considering everything that had happened to start the season,
Speaker 4: So yeah, it was mind boggling that that's what they
Speaker 4: kind of came up with with a season on the line.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah for Tima, what did you think Bulldogs Dragons Saturday
Speaker 1: night will get to the We'll get to the incident shortly,
Speaker 1: but again, everything to play for and the Bulldogs they
Speaker 1: look comfortable.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah they did. It was a strange one because
Speaker 3: the Dragons really bought into the build up of this
Speaker 3: game as well. Like obviously they were at home at Congroa.
Speaker 3: They're spiritual home ground, set out, crowd eighty thousand people.
Speaker 3: It is you know, maybe it's a traditional rivory the
Speaker 3: same way that Dragons and Sharks are, but this is
Speaker 3: a genuine rivalry, like they see it as a genuine
Speaker 3: local debbe these two sides.
Speaker 2: It's not a long trip down to literally.
Speaker 3: Like geographically neighbors, and there are a lot of Canterbury
Speaker 3: fans at Cogra, all the more reason for the Dragons
Speaker 3: to you know, assert that, you know, this is sort
Speaker 3: of still their home, even though you know the fans
Speaker 3: were sort of fifty to fifty split. But yeah, they
Speaker 3: were just off the they were just off the pace
Speaker 3: a little bit. And again it's one of those it's
Speaker 3: it's just been the story of their season, the Dragons,
Speaker 3: and I think we spoke about it on the pud
Speaker 3: last week that you know, do they can they back
Speaker 3: up one good performance with another good performance and they
Speaker 3: just they just weren't able to like they had their moments.
Speaker 3: But again, Ben Hunt, you know, a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 3: had I think it was against Penreth was off his
Speaker 3: game a little bit. He was nowhere near his best
Speaker 3: in this clash. Obviously the news that Harme Sele had
Speaker 3: gone to hospital in an ambulance. I don't know whether
Speaker 3: that that played a mental role, but just mentally they
Speaker 3: just weren't up for that game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think they were just outplayed.
Speaker 1: I think Canabury, you know, that left edge combination of
Speaker 1: Toby Sexton and Bronze and Cherry, who's really come to life.
Speaker 1: And the short kicking game from Sexton has been amazing.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, who would have thought? Who would have thought?
Speaker 4: Here saying that, you know, Toby Sexton, Look what his
Speaker 4: Look what he's done at the Bulldogs.
Speaker 3: It's pretty incredible.
Speaker 4: And even Bronze and Cherry, you know his story and
Speaker 4: to be able to come back this season, he's got
Speaker 4: to be by the year, right, he didn't just do
Speaker 4: aside from Stephen Crichton, I guess, but he's one of them.
Speaker 3: Just on Sexton, I don't think we had him in
Speaker 3: our most Improved list last week, did we?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: No, Yeah, I thought about that when I was writing
Speaker 3: the tackle. I was like, you could be you know,
Speaker 3: fairly in that in that conversation, and it's just and
Speaker 3: I think what is most pleasing about Sexton is the
Speaker 3: fact that he had to sit back for pretty much
Speaker 3: the first eleven or ten weeks of the season, and
Speaker 3: you just process the fact that even though he was
Speaker 3: there before Drew Hutchinson, that Zio felt like Hutchinson was
Speaker 3: the guy. But he comes into the side, he gives
Speaker 3: them a bit of I guess he straightens their attack
Speaker 3: a little bit. But he also gives them another dimension
Speaker 3: in attack, which I felt like they're probably missed with
Speaker 3: Drew Hutchinson. But it's also his kicking game. So like
Speaker 3: in the second part of that in the second half
Speaker 3: when they decided to defend their lead, just the way
Speaker 3: that he's long kicking game, Just the way he sort
Speaker 3: of kept the Dragons on their goal line coming out
Speaker 3: of their half, kicking to the corners, and that's sort
Speaker 3: of the kind of game management that Canterbury had missed
Speaker 3: for so long.
Speaker 1: I wonder how much impact Jason Taylor has had on
Speaker 1: Sexton's game this season, because obviously he's on the coaching
Speaker 1: staff there and pretty good halfback and game measure in
Speaker 1: his own right, so maybe that influences as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 4: I think he might be a little bit of an
Speaker 4: underrated figure behind the scenes. They're pulling some strings tactically
Speaker 4: for sure, I think in their attack. But yeah, Toby
Speaker 4: Sexton just totally just totally underrated him this year, haven't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's again a lot to see players come through
Speaker 2: and perform like that. It's nice to see.
Speaker 1: All Right, we're going to get into this the bulldog
Speaker 1: bite from Kyle Flanagan what are your thoughts on it?
Speaker 2: For Tim and I've spoken Adnas about this last couple
Speaker 2: of days.
Speaker 3: I think we're on the same page, but maybe not.
Speaker 3: You know, look, see we've seen replays of this slowed
Speaker 3: down all weekend, right, but when you actually watch it
Speaker 3: in real time, the whole thing happened very quickly.
Speaker 2: Whole thing's about the second and half.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know if that so, I wonder how much
Speaker 3: of I don't know. So all I know is that
Speaker 3: is not okay. And it's like Kyle Fanagan has said
Speaker 3: he didn't bite him. You know, the judiciary, the NROL
Speaker 3: is going to have to prove that he did bite
Speaker 3: him way his nose yeah, rubber, Yeah, to suggest you
Speaker 3: know there's some pressure there, Yeah, that there was pressure there.
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 3: The interesting part for me is did Stephen Crichton contribute
Speaker 3: to that incident?
Speaker 2: He went ninety Flanagan went ten.
Speaker 3: No, you can't say he went from his chest.
Speaker 2: He went from his chest and shoved his nose in
Speaker 2: his mouth.
Speaker 4: He went ninety percent of the way to getting his
Speaker 4: nose bitten.
Speaker 3: No, that's as bad as my If.
Speaker 1: You go and watch that tackle from the Starlight, you
Speaker 1: said you have he's when Flannagan gets put to the ground,
Speaker 1: Jacob Preston's around the waist, Crichton's around the stomach, around
Speaker 1: the chest.
Speaker 2: Crichton moves up to the face and then rubs his
Speaker 2: face and there this.
Speaker 3: How often do we see that niggle, that face rubbing,
Speaker 3: whether it's with a hand or another face. And yet
Speaker 3: i'd have bitten him too, yes, no, no, no, you
Speaker 3: wouldn't have because so many players have not bitten anybody.
Speaker 3: And it happens all the time, every week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if it happens, it happens all the time. I
Speaker 4: don't love the rubbing of the like hands in the
Speaker 4: face or it is grubby, but you know it's also
Speaker 4: grubbier biting, biting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you say it's it's it's you said it's
Speaker 1: less than a second. So how much reaction time is
Speaker 1: kap flanning not to think I'm going to buy this
Speaker 1: guy's ladies.
Speaker 3: I think it's like a rush of blood. I think
Speaker 3: he was just like something in my mouth. I'm going
Speaker 3: to like I said, which is if.
Speaker 1: He's even just going because he's getting pushed back and
Speaker 1: he's it's an automatic response. That's that's not anything like
Speaker 1: James Graham did to Billy Slater a few years ago
Speaker 1: when he went and launched into him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I was comparing it to that though there
Speaker 3: was We spoke about the cartoon like boy coming out
Speaker 3: of the out of the mouth, so at some point
Speaker 3: he does press down. So maybe part of his argument
Speaker 3: is that, like you said, it was a split second,
Speaker 3: and it was at malice. He wasn't going, oh, I'm
Speaker 3: going to wipe this guy's nose off because he's rubbing
Speaker 3: his face on my face. But that sort of niggle
Speaker 3: happens all the time. And because it happens in a
Speaker 3: split second, and it happens all the time, and it's
Speaker 3: just part of the physicality of the game. I get
Speaker 3: hammed all the time when I say, you know, talk
Speaker 3: about you know, certain foul acts and you know the
Speaker 3: rest of it. But the game's physical. Okay, Well, this
Speaker 3: is proof that the game is physical. And we see
Speaker 3: that happen in every single game, and we'll see it
Speaker 3: happen again unless all of a sudden the NRL decides
Speaker 3: that it's an area it has to look at. But
Speaker 3: the niggle is part of the game.
Speaker 4: What's wrong with just a couple of blokes, okay, rubbing
Speaker 4: faces together.
Speaker 2: I think it's crap.
Speaker 3: I think it's a the So what So are you
Speaker 3: suggesting that Carl Flannigan has no case to answer.
Speaker 2: No, I don't say that, but I think Stephen Crichton
Speaker 2: definitely is a case to answer.
Speaker 3: For what's his his case that he ni country conduct.
Speaker 1: White, the tackle is complete, and then he decides to
Speaker 1: move up to his face and rub his and hold
Speaker 1: on and a certain pressure on Stephen Crichton's face for
Speaker 1: no reason, on Kyle Flanagan's face for no reason, for
Speaker 1: no reason.
Speaker 3: So now we're saying, any kind of niggle is country conduct.
Speaker 2: Well, I think that was country conduct.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't necessarily agree with that. It just happened
Speaker 3: so quickly for it to be the kind of niggle
Speaker 3: that we and I think.
Speaker 1: Kyle Flanagan has been a target for the Bulldogs and
Speaker 1: certain players for the last few years. I think you
Speaker 1: go back to the Penrith days when Kyle Flanagan was
Speaker 1: at the Roosters, and I think I remember quite clearly
Speaker 1: Kyle Flanagan being targeted by some of the Panthers players there,
Speaker 1: and I got a feeling that this might have been.
Speaker 2: Part of the carry on that he's a target. He
Speaker 2: becomes a target for these guys.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure there's some bad blood with him leaving
Speaker 1: Canterbury and his dad coaching him.
Speaker 2: Now, but I just yeah, I didn't like what I saw.
Speaker 4: I think, unfortunately, what happens is in this game, once
Speaker 4: you have a reputation as a player who retaliates or
Speaker 4: you can get under their skin easily, you can be
Speaker 4: easily knocked off your game, then that's just going to
Speaker 4: keep happening. Then you do become a target, right Like
Speaker 4: if an opposition has a way to rattle you or
Speaker 4: to then they're just going to do that because that's
Speaker 4: the game.
Speaker 1: But the game's tough enough where they're having to push
Speaker 1: blokes faces into the dirt like they do and niggle
Speaker 1: like that. That's just that's that stuff annoys me when
Speaker 1: I see it. And you know, Cretor bought the ticket,
Speaker 1: bought the ticket and he got the ride. If you're
Speaker 1: going to stick your face, if it happened to me,
Speaker 1: i'd be biting down as well, whether it was reactionary
Speaker 1: or what.
Speaker 2: But I just yeah, I don't know. I might be
Speaker 2: in the minority here, but I just know I didn't
Speaker 2: think you are.
Speaker 3: I think this is one of those ones that's split people.
Speaker 3: So people are talking about this. You know, how much
Speaker 3: did Critter contribute to And I'm not saying he didn't
Speaker 3: like obviously, if he doesn't put his face there, that
Speaker 3: low was the chances of him not being bit. But
Speaker 3: the point is he was bit, and I think from
Speaker 3: the way I see it is up to now the
Speaker 3: NRL to decide whether, like you said, because it does
Speaker 3: happen so quickly, whether it's a reflex action where Flunny
Speaker 3: is just like what the F is in my mouth?
Speaker 3: Or you know, whether he deliberately thought, no, I'm going
Speaker 3: to have a chumpet. He knows here.
Speaker 2: So is Stephen Crichton going to be at the judiciary
Speaker 2: on Tuesday night?
Speaker 3: At this stage I am hearing no. But there has
Speaker 3: been like mixed reports as to how this whole thing unfolded.
Speaker 3: So from what I understand from talking to Cannaby this
Speaker 3: morning is when it initially happened. During the game, Crichton
Speaker 3: sort of motions to the referee pointing out his face,
Speaker 3: but doesn't actually make an official complaint. At the time,
Speaker 3: the game hasn't stopped. It isn't reviewed at the time,
Speaker 3: and it isn't until after the game when the officials
Speaker 3: have had a chance to look at the incident during
Speaker 3: the game that they have sought Canterbury's advice on it.
Speaker 3: I guess as to what they've seen and what Canary
Speaker 3: want to do, And from what I understand from talking
Speaker 3: to Canterbury officials this morning is at no point did
Speaker 3: Stephen Crichton or the Bulldogs make an official complaint. So
Speaker 3: from a Bulldog's point of view, they just sort of
Speaker 3: because he.
Speaker 2: Knows he was in the wrong, he's subscribing.
Speaker 3: To my theory maybe maybe maybe, and maybe that works
Speaker 3: into Kyle Flanagan's favorite the judiciary.
Speaker 4: It would just be the kind of guy who just
Speaker 4: be like, whatever happens out there, just stays out there
Speaker 4: and that's fine. I think, Yeah, that's probably yeah, why
Speaker 4: he didn't make a complaint.
Speaker 3: Yes, And I think and I think because of that,
Speaker 3: it is very unlikely that he will volunteer to be
Speaker 3: at the diutry tomorrow. What I didn't get a chance
Speaker 3: to this morning is check with the NRL the rules
Speaker 3: around that whether he's expected to be there.
Speaker 2: They can't compel them, can they.
Speaker 3: I don't think. No, I don't think we saw with
Speaker 3: Tyson Gamble that he said, you know, he had to
Speaker 3: focus on his game, so it was in the finals,
Speaker 3: so he didn't show up for Jack Whiten's Jack Whiten's hearing,
Speaker 3: So I think it might be the same.
Speaker 1: Again, let's put a number on it. How many weeks
Speaker 1: if Flagon is found guilty.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's hard to say.
Speaker 2: It not it's hard to say. But give us a
Speaker 2: number three, anyone?
Speaker 3: I reckon the most recent case in Jack Whiton's sort
Speaker 3: of a bit of a press at three, it was three.
Speaker 3: Three is really week three?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I reckon it's about three weeks.
Speaker 2: I think it's a little less than Whitens.
Speaker 1: But I think anything less than three probably sends a
Speaker 1: bad message, even though it probably goes against what I've
Speaker 1: just been saying. But yeah, two weeks and people will
Speaker 1: be up in arms. But I'd be happy with two
Speaker 1: or three.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Would you be happy if the NRL then gave a
Speaker 4: bit of a warning to Stephen Crichton and just then
Speaker 4: look one of the if they write him an email
Speaker 4: or something and just say, look.
Speaker 2: We're just disappointed, disappointed when that happens with that sad. Yeah,
Speaker 2: be a little happier then we'll.
Speaker 3: Just yeah, we'll make some coose today. We'll see what
Speaker 3: we can do.
Speaker 1: Isn't that funny that that's what we're talking about. On
Speaker 1: the back of that, the Dogs just keep marching on.
Speaker 1: Who they got this week?
Speaker 3: They've got they Dolphins this year they're going to Bundenberg.
Speaker 3: Who do that make this?
Speaker 1: I think Salter Salter, Yeah, Dolphins, which, again, after what
Speaker 1: the Dolphins did in Golden Point at the weekend against
Speaker 1: the Warriors, makes that a huge game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well it's it's a huge game because it has
Speaker 3: for the lower half of that top eight. It has
Speaker 3: massive ramifications and which is why, you know, the Dragons,
Speaker 3: the performance they put in was so disappointing because now
Speaker 3: they've sort of slipped out of the eight. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I know we probably should be we should be talking
Speaker 3: about how the fact that the Bulldogs just somehow keep
Speaker 3: defying the odds. This game the Dolphins and the Warriors
Speaker 3: was just such a weird, topsy turvy game. It was
Speaker 3: always sort of felt like it was always destined for
Speaker 3: a Golden Point finish, and then Sean O'Sullivan stands up
Speaker 3: for the two point field goal. I love Wayne Bennett
Speaker 3: after the match, still banging on about how much he
Speaker 3: hates Golden Point and how they should have should have
Speaker 3: been a drawer. I never pictured Wayne Bennett as the
Speaker 3: kind of coach to be wanting to hand out participation awards, but.
Speaker 2: Nearly a cloud on that one, isn't he doesn't like it?
Speaker 3: Maybe? I don't know. I know, I'm not going to
Speaker 3: say anything age just but yeah, the Dolphins got home
Speaker 3: and they needed to win to keep their finals chances alive,
Speaker 3: and they have a massive I know they're probably a
Speaker 3: run below the Bulldogs to be honest, so I don't
Speaker 3: know how well they'll go. But the Bulldogs are flying.
Speaker 3: They kept the Dragons again to ten points. Defensively, they're
Speaker 3: just on another level.
Speaker 1: What do you think of the Cody Nikarima sorry penalty.
Speaker 3: Try, Mitch Barnett?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was fair, Yeah, justified?
Speaker 3: He thinks he was fair? Yeah, yep, which I mean
Speaker 3: it was.
Speaker 1: A Barney's playing good foot, isn't He just is just
Speaker 1: doing everything, doing that, you know, doing.
Speaker 2: All the hard work that he always does, and then
Speaker 2: just this.
Speaker 1: Attacking side of things where he's getting himself in these
Speaker 1: positions and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, big year.
Speaker 1: And the disappointing thing for the Warriors is seven games
Speaker 1: this season they have lost by six or four points.
Speaker 1: They turn half of those three of those into wins.
Speaker 1: They're on twenty seven points, they're in the top eight,
Speaker 1: yep so, and they came agonizing a close. But that
Speaker 1: field goal from Shawn O'Sullivan was just you tell me
Speaker 1: you've been training with Nathan Cleary in years past without
Speaker 1: telling it.
Speaker 2: It just calm as you're like knocked it over.
Speaker 4: It was, Yeah, he's been in and out of first
Speaker 4: grade obviously this year too. So Yeah, to come in
Speaker 4: and have a moment like that, that feel pretty.
Speaker 1: Cool, Which was good because I think there was a
Speaker 1: couple of moments in that game where I don't think
Speaker 1: Isaiah Otowa really managed the game that well.
Speaker 2: There's a couple. There was a two forward passes through.
Speaker 1: One was on a fifth tackle when he should have kicked,
Speaker 1: and they just they'd had a set where the Warriors
Speaker 1: were really just hammering them to keep them pegged in
Speaker 1: their own in their own half, and they'd made a
Speaker 1: sort of fourth and fifth tackle, they'd managed to get
Speaker 1: those extra yards. Made it a decent set and all
Speaker 1: you needed was a good kick on the back to
Speaker 1: corner to get up there in a line and just
Speaker 1: put the onus back on the Warriors, and instead he ran,
Speaker 1: he got tackled as he was throwing at the ball,
Speaker 1: went forward, put your side under all this sorts of
Speaker 1: pressure again. So good young half with plenty of uppy sleeve,
Speaker 1: but just needs to know that sometimes the simple play
Speaker 1: is just the one.
Speaker 2: You need to go for.
Speaker 4: So yeah, he's had a big year this year too,
Speaker 4: hasn't he? And that's just something the learning the game
Speaker 4: is ya is something he'll learn over time.
Speaker 1: So Dragons have slid out of the eight with this,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins are in where does the where did the
Speaker 1: top eight go from here?
Speaker 4: So that the Dolphins have a tough run. So they
Speaker 4: play who do we say? Bulldogs and I think they
Speaker 4: have Storm broncoos and then Knights in Newcastle on that
Speaker 4: last round to finish off.
Speaker 3: So I had them missing the A.
Speaker 4: But that little block as were you know, if you're
Speaker 4: watching this on YouTube, you'll be able to see. But
Speaker 4: the block of I think it's about what is it
Speaker 4: four or five teams there that is just all kind
Speaker 4: of jammed but trying to find I think it's just
Speaker 4: one spot in the eight What do you guys think?
Speaker 3: Do you see the Cowboys slippery?
Speaker 1: I just think the courtesy of having those I mean,
Speaker 1: they threw that away the other night eighteen six up
Speaker 1: and then you go down in the fashion they did.
Speaker 2: But I think courtesy of being on twenty eight points there.
Speaker 1: I think helps give them a Yeah, boys, but do
Speaker 1: you Fatima, do you see I kind of see that
Speaker 1: eight spot changing a little bit over the next few
Speaker 1: weeks because they're all sort of playing each other, aren't they.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's the Dragons run. You know isn't easy either,
Speaker 3: Like they've got the Titans, so that can be a
Speaker 3: banana pill. You just don't know what outfit you're going
Speaker 3: to get. We saw how well the Sharks are building
Speaker 3: towards the finals. You know, the Eels, even though they
Speaker 3: were pipped right at the end, I've been playing some
Speaker 3: good footy and Canberra are another jeckull and high team,
Speaker 3: so their run isn't necessarily they could. You look at
Speaker 3: that run and you think, you know, there's a chance
Speaker 3: maybe they come out with two competition points if they're not,
Speaker 3: you know, yeah, so yeah, I think that final spot
Speaker 3: will probably see you know, the Dolphins, the Dragons, maybe
Speaker 3: the Knights, you know, if they can get over the
Speaker 3: rabbit o's and the Titans sort of change. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know. I still think that maybe the Dragons
Speaker 3: can get over the line.
Speaker 1: The way you said that is exactly how I'm thinking
Speaker 1: looking at it. Just don't know you need to make it.
Speaker 1: But I love the fact that it's not locked in.
Speaker 3: It's so good.
Speaker 4: Key for the Knights is so they play the Sharks.
Speaker 4: They play the Sharks this weekend, so they have to
Speaker 4: win that. If they don't, then ye, potentially they're done.
Speaker 4: So they then have the Titans. I think they play
Speaker 4: they play the Dolphins. I can't remember who else they
Speaker 4: play in the meantime.
Speaker 1: But what about and pen We spoke about this yesterday
Speaker 1: the top of the table clash on Thursday night Melbourne
Speaker 1: v Penrith. Melbourne win, they will all but locked in
Speaker 1: Minor Premiership. Penrith win, then it gets game on, but
Speaker 1: massive ramifications for the bottom half of the eight as well,
Speaker 1: because you know, then we go into resting season as
Speaker 1: to whether there'll be players who were given breaks and
Speaker 1: so the sort of thought is that Melbourne are definitely
Speaker 1: looking at resting. You know, I don't think Months will
Speaker 1: be one of those because he's just getting back. He's
Speaker 1: sort of in the Nathan Cleary boat. But yeah, some guys,
Speaker 1: and they've shown a lot they did last year against
Speaker 1: the Broncos in the final round. They can rest players
Speaker 1: still get a job done. But yeah, yeah, where do
Speaker 1: you see where do you see that happening Thursday night?
Speaker 3: I don't I'm not sure they'll rest anybody. The Storm.
Speaker 2: A big loss for the Panthers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well only because, like you said, they if
Speaker 3: they win this game, they're all but assured the Minor Premiership.
Speaker 3: And I get the feeling though, even though we don't
Speaker 3: talk about the Minor Premiership as much in terms of
Speaker 3: the title race itself, that clubs like the Storm and
Speaker 3: Penraths actually internally value it quite well with and when
Speaker 3: you think about it, there's season's twenty seven rounds long.
Speaker 3: It's a long season, like it's for you to finish
Speaker 3: at the top of the ladder after twenty seven rounds,
Speaker 3: it is a massive achievement. So I don't think. I
Speaker 3: don't know if the Storm will rest anyone. Obviously, penrath
Speaker 3: Lea Martin's taken the one week Scott Sorenson. They don't
Speaker 3: have an exact figure of how long he's going to
Speaker 3: be out for, but I got to yesterday by Penrith
Speaker 3: at least a couple of weeks. So for that game
Speaker 3: in particular, it's a massive blow. That's their starting back
Speaker 3: row line.
Speaker 1: If it's a Great one, it's one to two weeks.
Speaker 1: And if it's a Grade two, yeah you're talking finals time.
Speaker 1: So you're hoping that it's only a Grade one for Sorenson.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so, and I guess because of that Fisher, Harris,
Speaker 3: Dylan Edwards, Ivan Cleary said they're a fifty to fifty
Speaker 3: chance of making a return. But again it's the same
Speaker 3: breadth was you know, if you're resting people, you're also
Speaker 3: not going to rush people back. So and they've done
Speaker 3: okay with those guys being out, So yeah, I see
Speaker 3: even you know, even without Fisher Harris, even without Dylan Edwards,
Speaker 3: Slammard and the rest of I still think it's going
Speaker 3: to be a pretty tight contest. Neither side are necessarily
Speaker 3: playing football at you know, at their peak.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, penful great the week before and they just
Speaker 1: obviously Darby's are tough to judge for former because Paramatta
Speaker 1: always you know, and I've run it off those players before,
Speaker 1: but Paramatta always get up for Penrith games, and so
Speaker 1: I think your form goes out the window a little
Speaker 1: bit there. But yeah, it's funny, going to be interesting
Speaker 1: to see. I mean, do you want to be cooking
Speaker 1: this far with a month ago in the season? How
Speaker 1: do you want to tie me run Paw?
Speaker 4: I think if you're kind of coasting along and doing enough,
Speaker 4: I think that's okay now because then they, you know,
Speaker 4: it gets to the finals, that's when you've kind of
Speaker 4: got to be all on. And if they've just been
Speaker 4: able to kind of scrap some wins together and still
Speaker 4: be top two, I mean that's pretty impressive. And then
Speaker 4: just the way that they I will never get over this.
Speaker 4: Just mobsy, How talk us through? Okay, we're in the
Speaker 4: mobsy household. You're at the game? Okay, what was what
Speaker 4: was going on? Was this three minutes? Or was it
Speaker 4: it was three or four minutes?
Speaker 2: Lso?
Speaker 3: Were they scored three tries? It was?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: How did you explain the obstruction rule to your Japanese change? Well?
Speaker 3: What did you think of that? Either way? It was
Speaker 3: kind of a light ball like I sort of get
Speaker 3: it at the same time too, like he does knock
Speaker 3: him over and he does stop him from being able
Speaker 3: to slide in defense, which should be his right. But
Speaker 3: at the same it's not necessarily as clear cut as.
Speaker 2: No, it's not clear cut.
Speaker 1: That's that's not what cost him the game, you know
Speaker 1: that the and this cost of the game Gutho, who
Speaker 1: was absolutely brilliant. He shanked that so badly, which was
Speaker 1: reminiscent of Easter Monday. But that's the only bad word
Speaker 1: I'll say about Gutha. He was amazing, his talk on
Speaker 1: the field, the work that he did, he was everywhere
Speaker 1: and up for it.
Speaker 2: So you know, he's still king guth out of us.
Speaker 1: But no, we're on the twenty medle line there where
Speaker 1: Paramounta were attacking that second half. So it was good
Speaker 1: because all the kickoffs the players bring the ball back
Speaker 1: sort of reaching the defensive line there. So our Japanese
Speaker 1: exchange student were looking after for those who hadn't heard
Speaker 1: of at home, was hearing the collision of and that's
Speaker 1: obviously the busy collisions and he's oh, very big, yes, yes, mate,
Speaker 1: yes it was but got.
Speaker 2: Him, He's got him.
Speaker 1: His ill scarf and it was it was a good
Speaker 1: It sounds crazy to say as an Eels fan, but
Speaker 1: it was actually a really good game to be at
Speaker 1: because it was so it was so good, and you know,
Speaker 1: we talked about well we didn't talk about last week,
Speaker 1: but it came up last week about the Raiders and
Speaker 1: the and the Bulldogs with that Raiders fan and you
Speaker 1: know the small minority of fans and every club's got them,
Speaker 1: you know, but the banter between Panthers and Eels on
Speaker 1: the front. There was great atmosphere, no dramas that I saw,
Speaker 1: and but yeah, it was just watching watching the way.
Speaker 1: You know, Pendeuth weren't at their best by any streets.
Speaker 1: You know, Paramatta held them really well and for a
Speaker 1: team missing who they were too. But then Penuth had
Speaker 1: just never.
Speaker 2: Gone, are they?
Speaker 1: You know when they went when leam Martin and I
Speaker 1: love Marto and I have to apologize to him because
Speaker 1: I was maybe giving the little indication of the referee
Speaker 1: of what I thought should happen. Just give him, give
Speaker 1: him a little I was just instructing the referee. Look,
Speaker 1: he could have killed him. Someone think of the children
Speaker 1: and lot we do when you're fans. If the referee
Speaker 1: hadn't seen it. We made him know that he had.
Speaker 1: But you know, but then Pendrith clicked in the gear,
Speaker 1: didn't They They just that killer instinct that they show
Speaker 1: all that, you know when the game's on the line,
Speaker 1: like the Grand Final last year and go oh wow.
Speaker 1: So then you just think to what's going to go
Speaker 1: ahead this Thursday against the Storm. It's going to be
Speaker 1: tremendous because you kind of want to see how Kem
Speaker 1: Monster goes in his comeback now get more and more
Speaker 1: like his old self. And they were great last weekend,
Speaker 1: but they've got the job done against against South Sydney,
Speaker 1: I thought it would have been close to a cricket score,
Speaker 1: but South hung in really well.
Speaker 3: It's hard to sometimes judge positional battles, but Hughes for Cleary,
Speaker 3: that in itself is going to be just really fascinating
Speaker 3: to watch, you know, because obviously clearly he missed a
Speaker 3: whole bunch of games with his hamstring injuries. You sort
Speaker 3: of think if he didn't he's probably the dally M
Speaker 3: leader or close to. But this time it might be,
Speaker 3: you know, Jerome Hughes might be the one who gets
Speaker 3: him in the end. So but yeah, you know, Jerome
Speaker 3: Hughes gets nowhere near enough credit for how important he
Speaker 3: has been for them this year.
Speaker 1: I reckon he might at the end of the year
Speaker 1: a little gong, you reckon he's yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1: I know he's a long way behind when we're behind
Speaker 1: closed doors. But with six points now you can have
Speaker 1: three good, three maximum games and gets.
Speaker 3: Really definitely had that since around twelve.
Speaker 2: What about the quirk of the drawer with the storm, Pam.
Speaker 3: Yes, we were talking about this yesterday.
Speaker 4: So Melbourne, So in the last three weeks they play
Speaker 4: the Dolphins, Cowboys and Broncos. So it a lot depends
Speaker 4: on how Craig Bellamy wants to attack those last three
Speaker 4: weeks and then what will help him form that opinion
Speaker 4: is Thursday night's game, right, so whether or not they've
Speaker 4: potentially wrapped up the minor premiership, whether they're still on
Speaker 4: the hunt for it, and then what he wants to
Speaker 4: do with resting players. So essentially, so they play the
Speaker 4: after Penrith, then they then play the Dolphins in Melbourne,
Speaker 4: and then they spend two weeks in Queensland, so against
Speaker 4: the Cowboys and then the Broncos. So all three of
Speaker 4: those if the Broncos get to that final round and
Speaker 4: they're still a mathematical chance depending on you know, what
Speaker 4: happens with the Dragons or the Dolphins.
Speaker 3: But Melbourne has.
Speaker 4: Really the potential just to go bang bang bang and
Speaker 4: really wipe out.
Speaker 2: Finals hopes.
Speaker 3: But also it brings that resting conversation back to it
Speaker 3: because if you look at that, you think, if they
Speaker 3: beat the Panthers, maybe they rest some players against the Dolphins.
Speaker 3: You probably don't rest anyone against the Cowboys because they're
Speaker 3: going to be a good sort of litmus test for
Speaker 3: the finals. And then if everything's done and stealed against
Speaker 3: the Broncos. I mean we've saw Penrith have sort of
Speaker 3: done it in the last couple of years in that
Speaker 3: last round where they've rested all their players in preparation
Speaker 3: for Week one of the finals. So it also has
Speaker 3: potentially ramifications for those teams fighting for that bottom eight spot.
Speaker 3: Does it almost if Bellamy decides to rest guys for
Speaker 3: that Dolphins game, does it give the Dolphins a leg
Speaker 3: up in sort of their race for the finals as
Speaker 3: we spoke about just before. So they still they did this.
Speaker 4: Melbourne did this last year when they played the Broncos,
Speaker 4: And to be fair, the Broncos rested a lot of
Speaker 4: their players too and Melbourne still won. Yea, so they've
Speaker 4: done it before, and sometimes he's done it in a
Speaker 4: different way where he'll rest you know, two players this
Speaker 4: week and then to the next or whatever it is
Speaker 4: and just kind of space it out. But yeah, it'll
Speaker 4: be interesting to see. But it does bring that conversation up, right,
Speaker 4: like whether or not that's there or does that is
Speaker 4: there an impact on the integrity of the competition if
Speaker 4: you just rest a bunch of stars, especially when they're
Speaker 4: are finals calculations.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think this John would say, yeah,
Speaker 3: like I said, it's an interesting discussion. But I think
Speaker 3: someone like the Storm would say, well, we've sort of
Speaker 3: earned the right to we've been the best team a year.
Speaker 3: We've sort of the right to manage, you know, the
Speaker 3: next couple of weeks. How we see fit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the NBA that now are starting to put.
Speaker 1: Framework in place to make sure that the integrity of
Speaker 1: the comps maintain, But on sort of if we've won
Speaker 1: this many games, we can even if it's rolling, they
Speaker 1: might rolling rest a few players over a number of weeks.
Speaker 1: I think Peneth in a bit of a different case
Speaker 1: because of the injuries to Sorenson now plus Fisher, Harris
Speaker 1: and Dylan Edwards coming back and Nathan just starting to
Speaker 1: get some games in under his belt. I don't think
Speaker 1: you really need.
Speaker 2: To rest him.
Speaker 1: And they kind of rested on mass didn't they after Origin.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's gonna be interesting to see. But just
Speaker 1: the fact that it gives so much, it points so
Speaker 1: much to the bottom half of that ladder, is terrific.
Speaker 1: So yeah, now before we finish up, we need to
Speaker 1: discuss some enerial w because I need something happy to
Speaker 1: talk about.
Speaker 2: But my Eel's another good win.
Speaker 3: Another good win they have.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they've really improved so much this year. So Steve
Speaker 4: George Arlis has taken over there as coach and he's
Speaker 4: just they're fitter. They they don't have as many injuries
Speaker 4: obviously as they did last year. So Elsie Albert is
Speaker 4: out there who is so important for them, and Reach
Speaker 4: pierced it as well.
Speaker 3: But yeah, they they are looking the goods.
Speaker 2: What do you reckon?
Speaker 1: What is seeing with how the Titans and Broncos are
Speaker 1: both outside the form at this point, I mean I
Speaker 1: don't know where only sort of midway through the season
Speaker 1: this year, but I thought though them and I thought
Speaker 1: the Dragons would be going a little bit than they had.
Speaker 2: But although they had a nice one of the.
Speaker 4: Weekend, Yeah so the Dragons. So yesterday it was actually
Speaker 4: a huge day for upset. So the Broncos were not expected.
Speaker 4: So the Titans are probably top two favorite teams. Obviously
Speaker 4: they were in the Grand Final last year. They are
Speaker 4: absolutely stacked full of superstars that team, and the Broncos
Speaker 4: were not expected to beat them and they put a
Speaker 4: really big score on them. So it ended up being
Speaker 4: a terrible weekend for the Titans injured. Both the men
Speaker 4: and the women's teams got forty four points put on them.
Speaker 4: So are the Tigers winless as the Tigers are yep,
Speaker 4: and yeah, so I think from memory, I think they're
Speaker 4: the only team that are winless so far. The Dragons
Speaker 4: had their first win last night, so then yeah, it
Speaker 4: was just a big day. So the Broncos beat the Titans,
Speaker 4: which was totally unexpected, and then the Dragons went to
Speaker 4: Newcastle who were obviously the two time premiers and then
Speaker 4: it was absolute boilover yeap, just totally unexpected, but it
Speaker 4: was very tense it was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was an amazing win. So it opens it.
Speaker 4: It just makes the competition a bit more exciting and
Speaker 4: probably kick some of those top sides into gear a
Speaker 4: little bit. The thing is is there's only so we're
Speaker 4: in round three now, so there's only six rounds to
Speaker 4: go and then there's like a final final, so two
Speaker 4: finals games and the grand Final.
Speaker 2: So it's a shocker that we keep losing Yeah, players
Speaker 2: to injury too.
Speaker 4: I know there's been so many. So Caitlin Johnston Green,
Speaker 4: so she is out for the season for the nights
Speaker 4: she's got. But the thing is it's an MCL injury.
Speaker 4: So with only six weeks, I think she could potentially play.
Speaker 4: I think they were trying to figure out if she
Speaker 4: could potentially play in the finals. But she's going to
Speaker 4: Kronulla next year too, So if she's spent you know,
Speaker 4: five or six weeks on the sidelines with a knee injury,
Speaker 4: do you bring her in? And yeah, it's things like yeah,
Speaker 4: it's things like that that really cruel the the women's
Speaker 4: game when it's such a short season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, do you may well, yeah, let's just give
Speaker 1: my something chief and even buzzes loving he loves Kennedy
Speaker 1: Chennington's does how you Yeah, she's having.
Speaker 4: A great season, so much she she missed selection for
Speaker 4: New South Wales stated Orange was dropped and that's obviously
Speaker 4: giving her a bit of a kick in the bum
Speaker 4: because she Yeah, she's been really good for you guys
Speaker 4: so far this year.
Speaker 2: Speaking which I've got him, call it just I'm going
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Speaker 3: No?
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Speaker 1: He says to me, he says to me es Horang
Speaker 1: Flanner Saturday night after the incident, got some quotes off,
Speaker 1: and yeah, you guess I don't think you appreciated me
Speaker 1: Cole calling him on the pod last week and.
Speaker 2: Bigger issues than that. If that's what he's he was good.
Speaker 3: A strange creature. Sometimes they've got to be.
Speaker 2: They have to be. I have to team your favorite
Speaker 2: part of the show.
Speaker 3: Yes, what we are all watching up to me first? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: because I had an idea what this one is.
Speaker 1: Well, I haven't watched much because of picks On, but
Speaker 1: one we mased to sneak in was Geo Storm again
Speaker 1: disasters and a great advice from a from a listener
Speaker 1: here because it's Gerard Butler World on the Edge again.
Speaker 2: It's it's sort of a.
Speaker 1: Climate control thing where they put up all these satellites
Speaker 1: to help control the weather and as humans do, they
Speaker 1: use it, they weaponize it, and it's it's got Abby
Speaker 1: Cornish in Who's who's tremendous obviously Ossie actress and she
Speaker 1: was in that film with.
Speaker 2: Heath Ledger. What's that called Kennedy? Was it Keny?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And she was she's a hunter Valley girl yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 1: and yeah right up my alley just terrific.
Speaker 3: So I'm getting a little bit worrown here because your
Speaker 3: doomsday movies were supposed to end like two weeks ago.
Speaker 2: Now Olympics.
Speaker 3: Are you like down a Gym's day rabbit hole?
Speaker 1: Because everyone sent me suggestions I'm going to stack to
Speaker 1: get through and now I get I've got to start
Speaker 1: jack reach of the show as well. But yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what if something goes down, you first call you, guys.
Speaker 1: I want to make before the communication lines are cut
Speaker 1: is to me because I'm going to have to get
Speaker 1: out of all these situations.
Speaker 3: Disasters got them more ticked off.
Speaker 4: That's called it be to you anyway, mob, just to
Speaker 4: be like, hey, I'm just going to quickly file this story.
Speaker 3: I love that it's fun. Do you say that? Because
Speaker 3: since you've been talking about Jim's Day movies for months
Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago, I did have that thought that
Speaker 3: anything I've learned in terms of what is a response
Speaker 3: to a natural disaster, I think I might have learned
Speaker 3: through a movie. Other then stop, drop and roll for
Speaker 3: when your house is on fire, I think you also
Speaker 3: learned through it.
Speaker 2: Go. Yeah, yeah, that was the old one that was
Speaker 2: when when we were kids. So I'll move on.
Speaker 3: Goodness, what are you watching for? Speaking of kids, I've
Speaker 3: been watching Ferdinand, which is a kid movie. I don't
Speaker 3: know who makes it one of them, I'm not sure
Speaker 3: that My niece absolutely loves it, and I babysit her
Speaker 3: sometimes at least once a week, and as soon as
Speaker 3: she's in the front door, she's like Furdi dead the ball,
Speaker 3: the ball. She wants to watch the ball, and so
Speaker 3: she's at a point where she just provides sits there
Speaker 3: providing commentary because she knows every frame by heart. But
Speaker 3: it's actually quite enjoyable. The bull, the adult ball is
Speaker 3: John Cena.
Speaker 2: I think there you go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's actually quite a fun
Speaker 3: It's actually quite a fun movie. It's you know, it's
Speaker 3: a nice one to just sort of chill out and relax.
Speaker 1: See, this is the beauty of having kids. You can
Speaker 1: force them to watch these and pretend it's for them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't complain because it's quite fun. So, yeah,
Speaker 3: I've been watching lately. So we've got a disaster movie.
Speaker 4: So when you want to be really tense and then
Speaker 4: when you want to unwind, that's the one I'm actually
Speaker 4: rewatching Game of Thrones at the moment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really unwinding.
Speaker 4: So yeah, because we finished House of the Dragon, which
Speaker 4: no spoilers having no fair enough, but I really loved it.
Speaker 4: There was a little bit of like criticism about it,
Speaker 4: but I absolutely loved it. And then so it just
Speaker 4: kind of made me miss watching Game of Thrones. So
Speaker 4: we actually started rewatching it again from about seas I
Speaker 4: think we started again from about season three and we're
Speaker 4: up to season five.
Speaker 2: Now, are you seeing things that you missed first time around?
Speaker 3: Definitely, because the because I've.
Speaker 4: Only watched it through once and then it was some
Speaker 4: of those early seasons was just like a binge just
Speaker 4: to kind of get through it until like it was
Speaker 4: coming out, I caught up and was watching it weekly.
Speaker 4: But yeah, but picking up so much more stuff until
Speaker 4: we get to that final couple of episodes, which are
Speaker 4: terribly disappointing.
Speaker 1: But the one criticism I love Game of Thrones. One
Speaker 1: criticism I had was it took an entire season to
Speaker 1: travel across West Ros in the in the first seasons.
Speaker 1: You get to season seven and eight, we need to go.
Speaker 1: We need to go to Bravos, we need to go
Speaker 1: here the next episode or the next scene they're there,
Speaker 1: Go come on, that's not true to what we've just
Speaker 1: been watching.
Speaker 4: So you have to suspend belief, don't you. Yeah, obviously
Speaker 4: with so much goes on in it.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's just a yeah, it's just fun to watch.
Speaker 2: I might tear in Lanister's speech.
Speaker 1: And do you remember that speech when he was sentenced
Speaker 1: to death and by his father and for when he
Speaker 1: didn't kill Josh. You only just threw that, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you remember that soliloquy he gave where he said I
Speaker 1: didn't kill him, but I wish I had, and I
Speaker 1: saved all your workless lives.
Speaker 2: I ever get punted, Well, when I get punted from here,
Speaker 2: it's going to happen.
Speaker 1: When I win lotto, and then I'm going to rattle
Speaker 1: off that speech to these people and walk out of
Speaker 1: the building. And then I'll get home and figure out
Speaker 1: I don't have the supplementary or something off him back
Speaker 1: and pretend I didn't quit.
Speaker 4: My favorite was Elena Tyrrell when she she was poisoned
Speaker 4: and then.
Speaker 3: She said, oh, I want tell Serse it was me.
Speaker 2: I wanted to know.
Speaker 3: That's the yeah, we're almost up to that end.
Speaker 2: I've not watched it. We're going to do a segment
Speaker 2: one day of all the things you haven't seen.
Speaker 3: I do have a question how many episodes are in
Speaker 3: each season? I think, yeah, it's about twelve or thirteen seas,
Speaker 3: isn't I guess that's still they're long, but a long episodes.
Speaker 3: You get to a point where there's so many seasons
Speaker 3: in it's so many episodes. What are you doing if
Speaker 3: you want to free launching stuff anyway?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think so well, she's turning three next year.
Speaker 2: Plenty old enough for game system. Yeah, yeah, yeah, first
Speaker 2: episode will be fine.
Speaker 3: And then you just send her home and they deal
Speaker 3: with the questions. Yeah, that's not about idea. Actually not
Speaker 3: your problem.
Speaker 2: Oh that's very funny. But we're going to go chase
Speaker 2: up some blighting stuff and see where we go. But
Speaker 2: we'll catch you on the Thursday show.
Speaker 3: OK, all right, thanks guys,