Speaker 1: Okay, welcome to the Daily Telegraph Ineral podcast. Adam Mobs
Speaker 1: here again with Michael Carrianas and the soon to be
Speaker 1: chairman of the Premier Regulator.
Speaker 2: To start the media header. Communications will work our way.
Speaker 2: You get your gig there if you want one. It
Speaker 2: could be an underlink.
Speaker 3: Out here. Your name was on the story, pal, I
Speaker 3: didn't even read it.
Speaker 2: Anyway, you approved.
Speaker 1: It today you started Listen, gis Well, who knows who's
Speaker 1: going to be in charge of the game at that point,
Speaker 1: Who's going.
Speaker 2: To chosen commissioner. He's just that's his job, that's his
Speaker 2: on gazillions of dollars and he's in charge of Premier room.
Speaker 3: Most people don't know what you're talking.
Speaker 2: About, No, they don't.
Speaker 1: We should probably something.
Speaker 2: He should take greater control of the show this earlier.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I just I don't like to open up
Speaker 1: a little rib. So I thought it was a good
Speaker 1: bit of levity, a little bit of levity.
Speaker 2: It's serious, man, Just for like it was a.
Speaker 1: Good story this week around how well, maybe some clubs
Speaker 1: were trying to wrangle their way into a little bit
Speaker 1: of finances on the back of expansion and leveraged some
Speaker 1: things and the good news.
Speaker 3: It was Ready's first day back from Paris and by
Speaker 3: midday managed to piss off half of it.
Speaker 4: So welcome back reading.
Speaker 1: It's a good I got called in the principals off
Speaker 1: going on Ready's back from Paris.
Speaker 2: Just a bit of argie bargie the wight around. They'll
Speaker 2: get money out of it all in the expansion, they'll
Speaker 2: get plenty of money. Great, that was Buzz, while is
Speaker 2: he good?
Speaker 4: The punters love Buzz, particularly on this pod delusion.
Speaker 2: We love them, we love the pun It's.
Speaker 1: Did a very good job on Triple M.
Speaker 2: So he kept telling me that he text from him
Speaker 2: every Sunday. I was magnificent again today, these two.
Speaker 1: Going at it on Saturday and then putting it onto me,
Speaker 1: is that who are you going to tune into? And
Speaker 1: then two minutes before his first shift on Triple M,
Speaker 1: he texts, Buzz, don't be up, Buzz.
Speaker 2: Who did you tune into? Who?
Speaker 4: I didn't?
Speaker 1: I started off with bars and they moved on to
Speaker 1: me Georgia.
Speaker 2: Yeah fair enough this week when back next to week next.
Speaker 2: I was supposed to be on last weekend, but my
Speaker 2: son's soccer games and I'm the coach and coached him
Speaker 2: for a month, so I asked if Buzz could stand
Speaker 2: in for me. He did so reluctantly. He said, apparently
Speaker 2: he did a magnificent joby of the game.
Speaker 1: I'm sure his wallet thanks you exactly.
Speaker 2: He promised to shout me at lunch. At least he
Speaker 2: should do.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't shout out for Shark bit him. We've got to
Speaker 1: get into this. Immortals have been named well the dinner
Speaker 1: was there ron Court fourteenth of Mortal emotional ceremony. She's
Speaker 1: looked on TV. I was at home working at the time.
Speaker 1: You blokes were there getting a free feed working. I
Speaker 1: had ron Coot's quotes online before someone out there threatened
Speaker 1: to file them. I was working overtime. Looked like a
Speaker 1: good celebration in the room.
Speaker 2: It was great. It was a great, great occasion. Dragged
Speaker 2: on for a bit, but I had so many people
Speaker 2: to induct, but there was a lot, but it was.
Speaker 2: It was a really good night. Great, a lot of
Speaker 2: people you don't often see right in the same room
Speaker 2: together and Ronnie Coot. Look, I thought cam Smith should
Speaker 2: have been the next to Mortal. But I'm not going
Speaker 2: to argue about ron Kot. I mean he's a legend
Speaker 2: of the game. But for me it had to be
Speaker 2: I thought cam Smith was the logical one. Can't We'll
Speaker 2: get his turn in whenever they do it again, for
Speaker 2: his time whatever. But that's good for Ron, happy for him,
Speaker 2: and obviously it was a great night.
Speaker 4: It was a nice idea. Was the first one I've
Speaker 4: ever been to.
Speaker 3: A bit different to the daily ms where Dallians probably
Speaker 3: get a lot of a party.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you normally blithering after an.
Speaker 3: Maybe back in the day, not the last get back
Speaker 3: into it.
Speaker 4: I'm due, but so it was.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was really nice. It was the way the
Speaker 4: NRL did it was good.
Speaker 3: Obviously, lots of people to celebrate. But yeah, Ron Kurt,
Speaker 3: I've said it before and with radio I would have
Speaker 3: gone for camp Smith. But the excitement levels, the proudness,
Speaker 3: the fact that you know, he said, I've turned up
Speaker 3: to these before, and so to come and still be
Speaker 3: there and still be a you know, a great statesman
Speaker 3: of the game, eighty years of age and he's still
Speaker 3: the biggest fan of the game and.
Speaker 4: So strong in his memories.
Speaker 2: Isn't funny because was there as well right now and
Speaker 2: in this era of concussion and CT ct wrong couped
Speaker 2: up there, really lucid. Yeah, Covered ninety three really locid.
Speaker 2: Great memory on the stage, slowed down, somebody helping me
Speaker 2: on the stairs, right down.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that were magical moments seeing those guys. Obviously
Speaker 3: I remember Ken Arthursen through the running the game and
Speaker 3: the like, but having him and John Clayle inducted at
Speaker 3: the same time and watching bounce off each other again
Speaker 3: was great. So there were so many great moments there.
Speaker 3: But you know, I commend ron Kot's induction.
Speaker 1: All right, So you both said that you were to
Speaker 1: went Cam Smith. Camp Smith retired what end of twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen and twenty three years ago? Yeah, twenty twenty. So
Speaker 1: Ron Coots last game nineteen to seventy eight? Are you
Speaker 1: washing out anyone in between that era? To Cam Smith?
Speaker 1: Is this where you're going with your next either?
Speaker 3: More pretty clear on that, right. I've seen two mortals
Speaker 3: against the people, can you. I've seen two mortals in
Speaker 3: my life, Andrew John's and Cameron Smith Thurston not Thurston.
Speaker 3: The only one that I think I may change in
Speaker 3: time is Billy Slater. He'd be the next, he'd be
Speaker 3: the top of the rest, and then Thurston Luckier Fitler
Speaker 3: are probably just that tied daily probably see, I find
Speaker 3: Cooper Kronk so interesting. Like Cooper kron not in a
Speaker 3: mortal for mine, right, but you look at his career
Speaker 3: and I think you know, when you hear people speak
Speaker 3: about ron kot now they speak of his record, Okay,
Speaker 3: in thirty years time, In twenty years time, I think
Speaker 3: the same could be said about Cooper Kronk because you
Speaker 3: look at his record, he has the best record of
Speaker 3: any more than day player. He has the best record
Speaker 3: with Smith and Slater and all those guys if you're
Speaker 3: looking at numbers.
Speaker 2: Alone in terms of premierships.
Speaker 3: Premierships and obviously second most games played, the amount of
Speaker 3: test matches, daily ms and all that sort of stuff. Right,
Speaker 3: He's record is the best, okay mad of all those
Speaker 3: guys you know, to do it two clubs and stuff
Speaker 3: like that. There's a lot to be said for it
Speaker 3: playability alone. He's not an immortal. He's in a walk
Speaker 3: up Hall of famer. I'm comfortable with that, but I
Speaker 3: think I'll be interested. You can't predict the future, but
Speaker 3: in twenty years time, where the people look at his
Speaker 3: career and then you know, by then Slater might have
Speaker 3: been inducted by then Smith will definitely have been inducted.
Speaker 3: And we've seen ron Court all the legends that were
Speaker 3: inducted in and around him and his ear and the
Speaker 3: amount of times he's missed out.
Speaker 2: That's my issue I reckon with was waiting too long?
Speaker 2: You know, I think there's a time frame where if
Speaker 2: you're not in within ten or your first three attempts,
Speaker 2: you're not eligible again. Yeah, because I think over time
Speaker 2: it colors your judgment a little bit. The longer it takes.
Speaker 2: You know, we have this nostalgic view view of the
Speaker 2: guys playing twenty thirty years ago, and we go, oh,
Speaker 2: you know, you forget, you forget what they're actually like,
Speaker 2: and you more lie on that record and they're sort
Speaker 2: of a reputation that grows mushrooms over time. Right. So
Speaker 2: that's why I think you need a cutoff point where
Speaker 2: if you've been nominated three times, I know Peter Bedell
Speaker 2: suggested this in the in the meeting, and you've got
Speaker 2: held down if you've been if you've been nominated three times,
Speaker 2: you haven't made it. That's it. And I think in
Speaker 2: American sport that's what they do and I think it's
Speaker 2: in baseball they do that. I think it's the same
Speaker 2: in the NFL. If you're nominated three four times and
Speaker 2: you don't make it, that's your chance has gone. It's done.
Speaker 3: We've reached the cutoff now though, we've reached the point
Speaker 3: now where any line in eighties below or sooner than
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty you will not be in a mortal players
Speaker 3: can still be inducted into I don't think there's a
Speaker 3: time lit on the Hall of Fame right, no, but
Speaker 3: for our mortals, I think now we're up to the
Speaker 3: nineteen eighties era. Whether or not they're players they get
Speaker 3: inducted or not, I'm not sure, but I think that's
Speaker 3: where we're up to. And eventually, you know, after the
Speaker 3: next lot are we're up to the two thousands.
Speaker 2: For me, the only ones can the current era is
Speaker 2: the only one you can put in. But I'm sure
Speaker 2: in twenty years time, you know, people will sit back
Speaker 2: and go, oh, you should have JT. And there you
Speaker 2: should have Cooper Kronk, and you should have BILLI sed
Speaker 2: later and then probably Lucky Ja to Freddie you know
Speaker 2: alpha your law get mentioned. Yeah, because because as I said,
Speaker 2: when you sit back when you're not living in the
Speaker 2: present present, you don't have a vivid sort of recollection
Speaker 2: of them from like Zipa was yesterday. Of course, I
Speaker 2: think it changes your view of them.
Speaker 1: So you're all out the likes Ken Irvine, all Time Graves,
Speaker 1: Triscore or.
Speaker 4: All those guys.
Speaker 3: Respectfully, we've moved past that era now for immortal Inductions
Speaker 3: Hall of Fame, it's open still and so Courdy at
Speaker 3: the time was a bees.
Speaker 1: You know what from being selected apparently in the first time,
Speaker 1: first time round. And I think there's been a bit
Speaker 1: of work to do to rectify this concept because who
Speaker 1: would have thought in rugby league that the moment to
Speaker 1: honor greatest ever came from a white promotion from a
Speaker 1: now defunct gravy league magazine. But this is where we are.
Speaker 1: We've got to this point. We look at those eighties
Speaker 1: I kind of agree. You look at those eighties guys
Speaker 1: now and go, okay, Brett Kenny Sterling, Ricky our Fie
Speaker 1: then inter Lockie and you've got to make you have
Speaker 1: to start making these decisions. I mean, Steve Rodgers, who
Speaker 1: you know. People argue that Sludge might have missed out
Speaker 1: because Boso was in and you know, sort of similar positions,
Speaker 1: playing the senters, a bit of Boso played.
Speaker 3: If you've got to win a camp, don't you. I
Speaker 3: don't know Wally like Wally, but Wally had a different career.
Speaker 3: I think that's right, that's right. So I think the
Speaker 3: only knock I never saw Steve Rodgers play. The only
Speaker 3: knock would be if we're looking at and I'm looking
Speaker 3: at numbers here, right, you don't don't want a camp, don't.
Speaker 4: I honestly don't think you can be an a mortal.
Speaker 1: So the only guy from that ear that I mean,
Speaker 1: and it might be nostalgia. I love Brett Kenny. I
Speaker 1: love watching Brett Kenny play. He was he was when
Speaker 1: he was in my team, watching him playground, anything can happen,
Speaker 1: but you've got to have that level like a Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer easily. The immortals have got to be. You've
Speaker 1: got to keep them exclusive. And now that we've wrapped
Speaker 1: to fourteen, because back to what where were we when
Speaker 1: we only had Joey was the eight back in two
Speaker 1: thousand and fourteen?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you gotta be really careful we don't lose that.
Speaker 3: What I'm saying, that's my point because you've got guys
Speaker 3: like so I find it hard. I find Cam Kim, Joey, Billy,
Speaker 3: and then I can't split Thirst and Lockier, Fitdler daily
Speaker 3: those guys, I can't split them, right, So for mine,
Speaker 3: I can't have more as mortals. That's that's my issue
Speaker 3: with And they're all legends of the game, outstanding players,
Speaker 3: but I can't split those. So if you can't split them,
Speaker 3: I don't want to add. So first I had Thirst
Speaker 3: and really high up am I.
Speaker 2: I think he's above that group you just mentioned, but
Speaker 2: I don't think he's at the Smith John's Lewis level.
Speaker 2: I think he's just a notch below that.
Speaker 3: Ye, where do you see Billy?
Speaker 2: I think Billy's with JT. Yeah, I think Billy's ad that.
Speaker 3: But if it's if those two are closed, then you
Speaker 3: can argue they're close, but I don't think they're in.
Speaker 3: Then you could argue those guys might get better with time,
Speaker 3: as we say, right like once, I probably will, but
Speaker 3: once I watch more like like once, if in twenty
Speaker 3: years time Billy Slader is the best fullback I've ever seen,
Speaker 3: I'd probably vote for it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, hope you're not in the panel. No,
Speaker 2: I love Billy. We're on these days. Hopefully he's on
Speaker 2: the panel, Billy and gets you over the line. Brother.
Speaker 4: But I would have if I was on the panel,
Speaker 4: I would have voted for Kemp Smith.
Speaker 1: Yeah, question without notice. Current generation possibilities Nathan Cleary clear, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's he's probably Nathan Cleary.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but again, I don't think right now to me,
Speaker 2: right now, Nathan's not at a point. What's Nathan twenties?
Speaker 3: Yeah, if his career ended right now, he wouldn't have been.
Speaker 2: He's got to show a bit more for me, particularly
Speaker 2: at that elite level. No, it's not enough. No, not
Speaker 2: for if that's the case, you put every player from
Speaker 2: the Dragon's team that won eleven straight would be.
Speaker 1: But if you're I'm happy with Bert.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I'm just.
Speaker 4: Saying, right like, if he if he's career ended right now,
Speaker 4: it's a Hall.
Speaker 3: Of Fame career. He's not in the mortal right now,
Speaker 3: but he's tracking towards being one you.
Speaker 2: Got for me. He's got to own origin and he
Speaker 2: hasn't known either of those arenas.
Speaker 1: No, no, not.
Speaker 4: Yet, but he's tracking.
Speaker 2: He's on the path.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he'd be.
Speaker 4: The I can't think of another player that I'd have.
Speaker 3: There's lots of Hall of famers, but I can't think
Speaker 3: of another player that i'd have in the immortal realm.
Speaker 1: If you had a guy that you needed to kick
Speaker 1: a kick from the sideline or a forty minute field
Speaker 1: goal or a clutch play to win your a game,
Speaker 1: to save your life, it's.
Speaker 3: Cleary if you're looking at all, like DC as a
Speaker 3: Hall of Famer, James d Esko.
Speaker 2: Is a Hall of Fame, Monster's a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 1: Getting what do you see guys like Tom Travoyevich No
Speaker 1: not Yeah, his injuries. Do you think he could get
Speaker 1: to get there?
Speaker 3: He could get there if he can play, If he
Speaker 3: can play three uninjured years, merely win a comp he's in.
Speaker 1: Is it amortal?
Speaker 3: No? No fame, hall of fame.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I can't see Tommy.
Speaker 3: Sorry, no, not not unless he strings three is where
Speaker 3: he wins the daily end and they win a couple.
Speaker 1: Of years, go back to the last twenty twenty twenty
Speaker 1: one season that.
Speaker 4: We've seen one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if he's at his when he's at his badble,
Speaker 3: you know, but.
Speaker 1: It's a clear run where he can dominate the comp
Speaker 1: for five or six years, Like.
Speaker 3: G I right where you saw him playing like g
Speaker 3: I Hall of Fame free but not an immortal for mine.
Speaker 4: G right, like, probably I probably can't.
Speaker 3: I'd have Tommy at that level, but g I did
Speaker 3: it for longer, more consistently.
Speaker 1: At the moment, just on g I, can I give
Speaker 1: a shout out to Vonnie Sampson and the job that
Speaker 1: she She's a pro. She's so good at hosting it.
Speaker 1: See that obviously g I. Since retiring and then coming
Speaker 1: back in the spotlight, he didn't look overly comfortable and
Speaker 1: nursed him through. She's so good.
Speaker 3: At what she did, and VOSSI was Outstanding's like that.
Speaker 3: You can see the fans right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, when he told her she forgot the autograph book,
Speaker 1: I thought it was a very good line. That was hilarious.
Speaker 1: But I thought, yeah they were both. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: good product.
Speaker 2: It was great show. They did a really good job
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, really good job. Why did they have the
Speaker 1: immortal announcement in the middle of the show.
Speaker 4: We're gonna have some exclusive content.
Speaker 1: We're going to hold that because it'll be show.
Speaker 3: So I was a little bit confisted when I sort
Speaker 3: of thought, like, and then they said we're going to
Speaker 3: announce the next to mortal, and we sort of looked
Speaker 3: at each other and going, wow, that went from zero
Speaker 3: to one hundred very very quickly. But there was a
Speaker 3: very important guest in the crowd that had to go back,
Speaker 3: go to camera and run the country apparently, so Albo
Speaker 3: with his with his schedule, needed to get out. But
Speaker 3: it was nine o'clock or whatever the case may be.
Speaker 3: So they put the immortal onnouncement in the middle of
Speaker 3: the evening so Albert could be there to make the announcement.
Speaker 3: And then after he made the announcement, he sat back
Speaker 3: down and then after Ron had finished his speech in
Speaker 3: the video tribute, he was out the door to get
Speaker 3: back to Canberra.
Speaker 1: I would have thought, because the tele prompter broke, that he.
Speaker 2: Might That was a little bit awkward, Yeah, because when
Speaker 2: I was doing at that point, but I missed that.
Speaker 1: Well, he spoke and then he sort of just looked
Speaker 1: down the barrel and then he looked off for the side,
Speaker 1: and then it was almost Ron Burger he made.
Speaker 4: I saw it because it was blank. It was blank.
Speaker 4: We were right near a great lucky he knew who
Speaker 4: won and had to remember.
Speaker 3: It, and it wasn't he just stood there and it
Speaker 3: was waiting for the announcement of wrong Crut's name. I
Speaker 3: don't know if they were waiting for wrong Cut's name
Speaker 3: to come up. He was supposed to announce Ron Curt
Speaker 3: Order the case maybe, but lucky he knew, and lucky
Speaker 3: he's a footy guy that you know, you could have
Speaker 3: had a few former pms. It would have been like
Speaker 3: who is or what is what?
Speaker 1: And political political side?
Speaker 2: Yes, but he did.
Speaker 1: You could tell Albo's a footy guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah that was South so it wasn't foreign for him.
Speaker 3: But yeah, you know, he could have been like Malcolm
Speaker 3: Turmle up there and he would have had a clue,
Speaker 3: you know what I.
Speaker 4: Mean, Like I wouldn't have had.
Speaker 2: Enemy ally for the code, isn't he Like he always
Speaker 2: shows up at footy events. He's obviously a mad Souse fan.
Speaker 2: He's got to re love of the game. It's we're
Speaker 2: very fortunate to have someone like him in office. After
Speaker 2: after he's.
Speaker 3: About to Scott Morris, about to tip six hundred millions,
Speaker 3: so you know, hopefully, you know, I'm glad they waited
Speaker 3: for him or playing their schedule around him, because he's
Speaker 3: about to kip in a lot, a lot of cash.
Speaker 1: Can we get him in a Johnny Howard Dragon's style
Speaker 1: parachute tracksuit for for his walks version?
Speaker 4: Does his own tips?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 4: Yeah, for the timming comp right? He always tips?
Speaker 3: House should ask me if he's always going to tip PGT.
Speaker 1: It's interesting because Simon McLachlin, our deputy sported on the
Speaker 1: telegraph there is in contact with the highest office in
Speaker 1: the land and he's desperate to talk about footy how
Speaker 1: all the time. So it's yeah, wow, a bit of
Speaker 1: inside loves it.
Speaker 2: So down the ship. Wow, shocking was.
Speaker 1: Just a fired firing a shot without just a drive
Speaker 1: by from you.
Speaker 2: Just just bring my condolences to the PM. The way
Speaker 2: his team's going, they've been diabolical.
Speaker 1: Oh dear, And I'll tell you what that I was on.
Speaker 1: I was cheering South last week because yeah, I need
Speaker 1: a paramatter with the spoon. She's all the disappointment have
Speaker 1: been a Souse fan, but theoun actually liking them and
Speaker 1: going this is come on, someone stand up. And what
Speaker 1: about the finish of that game? Oh my god, I
Speaker 1: was celebrating like Dave fur and saw that, well you reckon.
Speaker 1: There was a little bit of we've got him, got
Speaker 1: him here, and then that went pretty under the radar,
Speaker 1: didn't it? The celebration from the house box and then
Speaker 1: the disappointment the.
Speaker 3: Head that are pretty like they adjusted pretty well. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I would have been smashing stuff.
Speaker 2: You're you're a angry man though, You've got a bit
Speaker 2: of a.
Speaker 1: Volatile you are breaking strash plates and stuff. How volatile
Speaker 1: will you be this weekend? Sharks Dragons, big game?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Not really.
Speaker 2: Real passion?
Speaker 1: Can we get you out of your dad in here?
Speaker 1: I need a bit of passion? Have you given him
Speaker 1: the fifty back?
Speaker 4: Yeard?
Speaker 1: Have you heard this?
Speaker 2: What's telling?
Speaker 4: Did I turn this though?
Speaker 2: This is about the wooden spoons?
Speaker 3: No? No, no, So Braith and I had a bet
Speaker 3: while you're gone about Dragons v Bulldogs, like fifty dollars.
Speaker 4: On three sixty wow for charity for charity.
Speaker 3: So I paid him up, like.
Speaker 2: That'll make a real difference.
Speaker 3: So I've paid you. I've paid him on the show
Speaker 3: on Wednesday night and on Wednesdays when I do three
Speaker 3: sixty my parents come over to help Clary look after
Speaker 3: the kids. Anyway, So there's fifty dollars left on my
Speaker 3: coffee table, and I said, what's this, he goes. Dad
Speaker 3: gave me the fifty back because he felt bad for making.
Speaker 1: Myself such a bad team. It is his fault though,
Speaker 1: Oh wow, you've want to camp this century. He's got
Speaker 1: nothing to apologize for now.
Speaker 3: He doesn't.
Speaker 4: But I had lots of heartbreak as a child.
Speaker 2: So that's a big gun. I hope for the competition's sake,
Speaker 2: for the Sharks win because that at least keeps Brisbane
Speaker 2: and I think newcastles selling the race. If the wind
Speaker 2: keeps the dolphins, so it keeps a bit of interest.
Speaker 3: About last, we'll clip that around that up and so
Speaker 3: that to Flannel, that's fine hopefully.
Speaker 2: He's a big fan of the show, is Flann.
Speaker 4: But he rang in the other door. It didn't really work.
Speaker 2: For the competition's sake. But you know, I think the
Speaker 2: dragon's playing good footy, aren't They was there on the weekend.
Speaker 2: They were outstanding on the I mean the gold coaster
Speaker 2: for Diabolical has been most of the year. But dragons
Speaker 2: are really good. He's got to going good fun. It's
Speaker 2: done a great job.
Speaker 1: With them good dragons versus bad dragons. When they win,
Speaker 1: they win well. When they lose, they get pumped.
Speaker 3: So the Sharks Trucks did well considered the Makeshifts Hart
Speaker 3: pairing they had last week.
Speaker 4: They've got a few.
Speaker 1: Players, yeah, Dan Atkinson, Yeah he's so chill.
Speaker 3: Just kicked the one from the silo that was underrated
Speaker 3: to draw the scores level then kick the winning field goal.
Speaker 3: But yeah, he's they're just not the most convincing side.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're going to go out straight sets. They fure
Speaker 2: topped four. Yes, straight sets gone, like last year straight
Speaker 2: sets and the year.
Speaker 3: Before and the.
Speaker 1: Games in straight sets sets gone. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Really well coached team, actually well coach team. He's actually
Speaker 2: well coached. But they don't have the cattle. They're not.
Speaker 2: They're not. I don't think they're. They're in the class
Speaker 2: at the top three teams.
Speaker 1: But we did the drawl last year. It was a
Speaker 1: release we said South sorry, Crown will got a soft draw.
Speaker 1: You think this is contributed to where they're their lofty position.
Speaker 3: They seem to win the games they should win, which
Speaker 3: is half the battle. And in this I don't know
Speaker 3: if they'll go straight that's ready. I don't think they
Speaker 3: win Week one.
Speaker 1: Okay, then you're going to come up against maybe a
Speaker 1: mainly or a Canterbury.
Speaker 3: Yeah, straight, that's ready, that's pretty easy.
Speaker 2: They just they need Blake there with that team a
Speaker 2: bit next year.
Speaker 3: Yeah. My item cominghin eighths come into the season because
Speaker 3: I just wasn't convincing their forward park. I thought they
Speaker 3: was two the same same. The f Blake signing is
Speaker 3: huge form.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that'll be a difference maker them at eighth. You
Speaker 1: had Raiders bottom four, which probably it's not quite gonna happen.
Speaker 2: You have the Spoon again.
Speaker 1: Tigers Tigers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't remember. I think the drafts, maybe the Dogs.
Speaker 4: Maybe you would have had the dogs, that'd be worse.
Speaker 2: I didn't know the targets because you wouldn't you be trusted.
Speaker 2: I can't remember my head.
Speaker 1: I don't get back and find that.
Speaker 3: Pull that out the other week. What's that wouldn't spoon predictions?
Speaker 3: I could send to Flanna that I didn't tip the company?
Speaker 2: Didn't you bag? And on ABC Radio? Is that what
Speaker 2: he's talking about?
Speaker 1: Stations? You have a bag on the platform everywhere.
Speaker 4: Very powerful.
Speaker 2: That's why he should be on the Immortal Voting Committee. Yeah, okay, sorry, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's silly. Eventually, PVL, if you're listening, Eventually.
Speaker 3: We had a chat to him. So not the next one,
Speaker 3: the next next one for you, he won't be around?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 4: Will he still running the game?
Speaker 2: Could be?
Speaker 3: Are you pitching up for the next one?
Speaker 1: Premier League was pitching up for the next one?
Speaker 2: Said he could have help helped me out. He knew
Speaker 2: someone could help me out.
Speaker 3: I said, yeah, ready, but the next next one, I'm in.
Speaker 1: What's the what's the criteria for getting a spot on there? Next?
Speaker 1: Is it? You're in there for life and a.
Speaker 2: Couple of positive stories. Don't write about Premier Rugby League.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you might have stuffer a setback this week. Anything
Speaker 1: else you're looking forward to this weekend? Panthers without Cleary,
Speaker 1: no offense to the Raiders, but they're only playing the Raiders.
Speaker 3: I'll be intriguing to see Jerome again, just take command
Speaker 3: to that side. He was outstanding when Nathan was missing
Speaker 3: last year, earlier this year, and you know they just
Speaker 3: penrith over the last couple of years have found a
Speaker 3: way to time their injuries like as silly as that.
Speaker 3: That seems a very ridiculous statement, but a ridicular statement
Speaker 3: right then, like Jerome last year and he wasn't a
Speaker 3: hundred percent right, but still came back and played in
Speaker 3: a prelium and then got through most of the Grand
Speaker 3: Final and then like Nathan.
Speaker 2: Will be back.
Speaker 3: Wether or not he can get through the season will
Speaker 3: be you know, it'll be a ticking time on that shoulder,
Speaker 3: but you know he'll be back at some stage. So
Speaker 3: they just keep on on truck and they went great
Speaker 3: last week they were against the Storm.
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to Storm Dolphins. I love I love
Speaker 2: a Craig Bellamy Wayne Bennett clash going on for so
Speaker 2: long now. Craig's got a great record against him, actually
Speaker 2: really dominant record. He's obviously had a good team for
Speaker 2: a long time and we just saw that footage. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Cameron Munster looks back to his best.
Speaker 3: Can I say something equally as dumb as I just said,
Speaker 3: the Storm of the the.
Speaker 4: Worst most dominant side I've seen.
Speaker 2: It's fair cool.
Speaker 3: Like they're nowhere near one hundred percent, They're nowhere near
Speaker 3: what I think they could produce, and that they go
Speaker 3: to Penrith beat the premiers and walk away with the points.
Speaker 1: Yeah, three rounds ago, you've basically signed up the minor
Speaker 1: premiership and I'm sitting there going.
Speaker 2: I thought that was one of their better performances.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 2: It was in terms of convinced. They just put.
Speaker 3: In an eighty minute forwards at the top level.
Speaker 4: It's scary.
Speaker 1: Do you think he's cranky for no reason? Bellamy's the
Speaker 1: reason why.
Speaker 3: And it must be Fiveustralian from because he goes, I
Speaker 3: can see what we've got here, and I think he's
Speaker 3: worried that come September if it's not there that they could.
Speaker 4: See this is a massive wasted opportunity.
Speaker 3: I think that's probably where his ant comes from at
Speaker 3: the moment, because they're going to finish Minor Premier.
Speaker 4: It's clearly the best side this year. And I don't
Speaker 4: think they've been.
Speaker 2: Great, don't mean overly convincing, have they? They won a
Speaker 2: lot of tight games. They win type games in Melbourne.
Speaker 2: But geez, they've got some striker, everyone's available, everyone's fine.
Speaker 1: Great, Where do you fit far logo and.
Speaker 3: Like last week came on in the middle of the field,
Speaker 3: they played half, then played wing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jason Royles, can you have a little word with
Speaker 1: your club, your former club down there? You might want
Speaker 1: to get a few up here with some.
Speaker 2: Clubs trying it. Horn Wish but they won't let him
Speaker 2: go because he's so important to them. So some clubs
Speaker 2: are willing to give him a starting spot. Melbourne say no, no, no,
Speaker 2: hands off, You're staying here. And I don't think he
Speaker 2: particularly wants to leave because he enjoys it down there.
Speaker 2: It's good for his football.
Speaker 3: It's great for Yeah, so they.
Speaker 2: Look good Melbourne.
Speaker 1: Have we got a truckload of listener questions?
Speaker 2: I was on didn't There was.
Speaker 4: A few for bars I have to explain it.
Speaker 1: Wow, few ones from Twitter voice of BARSK you liked him?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, mate? Going then what do you come for
Speaker 2: a control? Sorry for.
Speaker 4: Jay says proposal. You get six points instead of four.
Speaker 3: If you score a try off a scrum promotes attacking
Speaker 3: player back line movements.
Speaker 2: Okay, oh mate, this is the silliest thing. What's this
Speaker 2: guy's name, jay Z? That's ridiculous, j Z. You should
Speaker 2: stick hanging out with Beyonce. This is just insane.
Speaker 1: The good teams now how to score off?
Speaker 2: Yeah? There were I can't give different.
Speaker 3: You should get less if a scored off a kick
Speaker 3: or whatever.
Speaker 2: It's crazy, crazy talk. Jason.
Speaker 1: This is a this is a crack I saw. This
Speaker 1: is a crack at MC. I like it.
Speaker 4: It's been said by the DT that DT.
Speaker 1: Sorry, it's by Michael Carrianas who.
Speaker 4: Was on seven hundred and fifty k next year, pendeth
Speaker 4: the pain all of it. Never said that.
Speaker 3: Can you explain how recently you said you couldn't understand
Speaker 3: the Tigers let him go. He was not on stupid
Speaker 3: money and then said Lewis thought on seven to seven
Speaker 3: fifty k was big money.
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 3: So Lewis has not played a game of NRL. He's
Speaker 3: twenty two, hasn't played a game of the NRL. They
Speaker 3: signed him without the incoming coach and there's the risk
Speaker 3: factors right as.
Speaker 2: They signed him with out the incoming coaches. Imprimature.
Speaker 4: I think, so okay, you know we don't just wondering ISLI.
Speaker 3: The Tigers will pay about fifty thousand dollars of his
Speaker 3: contract next season on about seven hundred thousand dollars, and
Speaker 3: he's gone to the team that is the best team
Speaker 3: in the competition. So how the Tigers, when they're looking
Speaker 3: to get better, let a guy that's young has a
Speaker 3: massive upside. You've just signed a half that he can
Speaker 3: play alongside, and you let him go and you're going
Speaker 3: to chip in a little bit. That's what it is.
Speaker 1: Tiger takes, yeah, man, and you're going You're going to
Speaker 1: the best team of the comp who wants you there,
Speaker 1: and you have money burning a hole in your pocket
Speaker 1: that you can't spend.
Speaker 3: I would say seven hundred for is Papa is a
Speaker 3: good is a fair deal. It's overs compared to the
Speaker 3: world who is produced so far this year. But Penrith
Speaker 3: have signed him for basically that equivalent, and seven hundred
Speaker 3: for Lewis Dodd is big, big money.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, well said good Ben to you explain that, well, cop,
Speaker 2: that tiger takes.
Speaker 1: Get that up.
Speaker 3: How does Ricky Stewart still have a job given as
Speaker 3: a similar record to Brad Arthur got punted mid season?
Speaker 3: Surely another foul season next year you have to get punted.
Speaker 3: Why doesn't the meatia get stuck into him like other coaches.
Speaker 3: You've done some homework, kid, I.
Speaker 1: Did a little bit of homework. So you look at there,
Speaker 1: You look at the last five years since they played
Speaker 1: in that Greend final. They finished the following year fifth, tenth, eighth,
Speaker 1: eighth and then twelfth this year on the slide and
Speaker 1: the Eels had that great run of fifth, sixth, fourth,
Speaker 1: that fourth place in twenty twenty two which had a
Speaker 1: Grand Final and have then crapped the bed and have
Speaker 1: missed the last two finals. Records actually similar, Yeah, similar records, So.
Speaker 2: There's more tour with Ricky though, right he's a big
Speaker 2: part of the community down there. He's a club legend
Speaker 2: who's a legend of the club. He's very close to
Speaker 2: senior figures at the club. But I think it's as
Speaker 2: I said, it's about what he brings the off the
Speaker 2: field as for that community.
Speaker 3: And he does get a run, he does get a
Speaker 3: lot of scrutiny.
Speaker 2: It's camera, I guess, the hovering around.
Speaker 1: And this is the different but the different situations of
Speaker 1: the club between Paramatta and Cambra Camebra find a lot harder.
Speaker 1: Whether it's Ricky Stewart, I don't care if it's Jesus
Speaker 1: Christ down there. I'm trying to recruit players because it's
Speaker 1: very hard to get players down to Cambra. And Ricky
Speaker 1: has done this a couple of different tacks over the years,
Speaker 1: hasn't he. When when the Raiders were great in the nineties, eighties, nineties,
Speaker 1: it was Queenslanders and Kiwi's that dried up when the
Speaker 1: Warriors and the Broncos came in and then he went Englishmen,
Speaker 1: but you kind of had to wait till they were
Speaker 1: proven before you bring them out, unless you're the West
Speaker 1: South with Lewis Dodd. But now he's going with youth, youth,
Speaker 1: the under nineteen state of Origin guys that he's now
Speaker 1: rallying down there and that could be the backbone of this.
Speaker 1: So he's got a plan. Ricky, he's thinking, he's looking
Speaker 1: couple of years ahead. And I don't think you can
Speaker 1: compare a club like Paramount with what they've got with
Speaker 1: the Raiders and say that that's equal. I mean, I
Speaker 1: know they're playing for the same prize, but very different situations.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think.
Speaker 3: I think with Ricky, if they get like they're they're
Speaker 3: they're trying to redrivenate that roster right. Their spine is
Speaker 3: not up to a great standard compared compared to others.
Speaker 3: They've done really well by signing. How many New South
Speaker 3: I was d nineteen plays with have next five in
Speaker 3: their top thirty next year.
Speaker 4: It's a very different and it's different.
Speaker 3: You know when you said mobs that they used to
Speaker 3: go to, you know they've tried England they've tried New
Speaker 3: Zealand and Queensland. Now they're trying a different strategy and
Speaker 3: getting the best still going on.
Speaker 2: They're just on the young Warrington back row as well
Speaker 2: Maddie Nicholson, so they haven't given up on.
Speaker 3: England, but the wol So it's a it's a it's
Speaker 3: almost like an NFL draft style sort of system that
Speaker 3: they've implemented. Right, So, but I can understand if I'm
Speaker 3: a Raiders fan, the frustrations where they've been and how
Speaker 3: stagnant they've been over the.
Speaker 1: Recon Yes, so you reckoners. A Raiders fan, see it's
Speaker 1: funny because some Raiders fans really love Ricky and others
Speaker 1: don't like him.
Speaker 3: There's it's I think there's like I like, we all
Speaker 3: like like Ricky.
Speaker 2: And the yeah yeah but great theater.
Speaker 3: I can understand what os Raider saying, Paigey, this is
Speaker 3: for you READI can you explain the fine system? Does
Speaker 3: the player pay it from their own pocket? There's a
Speaker 3: club deducted from payments and where does it go? The
Speaker 3: player pays it gets deducted from their pay.
Speaker 2: They doesn't get from their pay I can't remember where
Speaker 2: it goes. Actually, I think some of.
Speaker 3: It goes to welfare. If it's the judiciary, fine, so
Speaker 3: there thousand dollars or whatever the case may be.
Speaker 4: For a judiciary offense goes to education and welfare.
Speaker 2: Think, yeah, but the player pays it. They're supposed to pay.
Speaker 4: Well, it gets deducted from their weight.
Speaker 1: Not if you're Ryan Madison.
Speaker 3: Point emails right. So answer my question is around the Broncos.
Speaker 3: Media has always mentioned them as one of the powerhouses
Speaker 3: of NRL and whilst this is true financially on the field,
Speaker 3: their record is not great. Since two thousand and six
Speaker 3: they've matched the Warriors with two losing Grand finals in
Speaker 3: that time. One title in almost twenty years. Doesn't read
Speaker 3: like a successful club to me. Do you agree they
Speaker 3: are an undeforming club considering their financial base and playoutpool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's our underperforming. That record should be a lot
Speaker 2: better than that. They should have won a couple of
Speaker 2: a couple of premierships at least in that period. And yeah,
Speaker 2: I agree with your wholeheartedly. They've been disappointing, Yes, terrible
Speaker 2: this year, really disappointing. This shoe after last year with
Speaker 2: that squad and the talent they've got at their disposed
Speaker 2: or they should be playing. Well, they're not out of finals,
Speaker 2: but it's a long shot from here, but they should
Speaker 2: be playing finals football every year. The Broncos yeap.
Speaker 1: Wayne went, Wayne came back, Ben Iken was signed, Ben
Speaker 1: Ike and left. This is the club that let Tom
Speaker 1: Diedon go. You know, they let Reece Walsh go before
Speaker 1: getting him back. This the recruitment of attention hasn't been great.
Speaker 1: You know, they lost four of their Grand finals seventeen
Speaker 1: then the last season and that was always going to
Speaker 1: impact them.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Success probably come came a bit early for younger guys,
Speaker 1: but I think that, Yeah, I think they've underperformed across
Speaker 1: the board and it's not just on the field.
Speaker 2: Yeah, significantly.
Speaker 3: I agree. Boys. Now this you just mentioned Tom did
Speaker 3: and Mark wants to know they're more underrated player in
Speaker 3: the competition than Tom did in week in week out.
Speaker 3: He is the most consistent player.
Speaker 1: I hate watching Tom didn't play paramatter. He tears them
Speaker 1: a new one every time. He just he's so dangerous.
Speaker 1: I love him. He's such a good player, very good
Speaker 1: and very good footballer.
Speaker 3: Carried from the UK with Keen four and celebrated in
Speaker 3: his three hundredth game, Ready featured in his tribute video. Yeah,
Speaker 3: who are some of the players that have had the
Speaker 3: best career revivals after periods of thinking they were gone?
Speaker 3: John Johnson, Chas, Nicole Klukstad last year, Bryce cart Right,
Speaker 3: Angus Crichton.
Speaker 1: That's a good list.
Speaker 4: Work for us their care.
Speaker 3: And I think that's yeah, anybody else pretty pretty bang
Speaker 3: on in terms of eyes that are plane at the moment.
Speaker 3: I can't think of another Benji Marshall. Guys that are
Speaker 3: playing at the moment you can go, you can go.
Speaker 2: No just says who are the someone players you think
Speaker 2: about the best? Screw doesn't say our players. Benji marsh
Speaker 2: five shoulder recos went on to play. He's now in
Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: Ben I would have thought Michael Jennings was a thousand
Speaker 1: and one to play in early season.
Speaker 2: That's a good one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, crazy, but falses is ridiculous. He was after he
Speaker 1: left paramatter he was gone on undred and fifty six games.
Speaker 1: Dunsky and physically mentally broken.
Speaker 2: It's still broken, but he's a tough back physically now.
Speaker 1: So yeah, unbelieve it's as.
Speaker 2: Tough as they come here and good fellow too good,
Speaker 2: Blake Joe, here is my gripe.
Speaker 3: Yes, by the letter of the law, the Knights obstruction
Speaker 3: of Kennedy is a penalty. And as I said that, yes,
Speaker 3: there was a answer that, well, Kennedy could have been
Speaker 3: off side, but the bunker cannot rule on off side
Speaker 3: players that the referee.
Speaker 1: Misses just putting in that wasn't a question.
Speaker 3: It wasn't a question. It was probably a little bit longer.
Speaker 1: No, that's but that's the line that out of that
Speaker 1: is that video referee wasn't in a position to rule
Speaker 1: on the off side due to the halfway line position
Speaker 1: of the broadcast cameras.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, is that the answer is that
Speaker 2: part of the question that was mob research, that was what, Well,
Speaker 2: have an issue with this rule? I think it's ridiculous. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because we rule on off side from bombs and chips
Speaker 2: and all that sort of stuff, what can't we rule
Speaker 2: on it for this? If it's later, if it's touching game,
Speaker 2: you're not sure, Okay, you stay with the live decision
Speaker 2: like when you have everything else.
Speaker 3: But if it's blatantly off side and they send it upstairs,
Speaker 3: what are we doing? Are you going to tell me
Speaker 3: we're going to get to a grand final. Because sometimes
Speaker 3: the referee checks field goals. They doesn't have to be referral.
Speaker 3: Sometimes they check it and the bunker can see a
Speaker 3: guy a meter off side. They're going to let it
Speaker 3: go under side. Grand Fine, what.
Speaker 2: Can we use the Premier League use that technology where
Speaker 2: they put a line across and what can we get that?
Speaker 2: Can we not get that or.
Speaker 1: Should be able to?
Speaker 2: It's not that hard.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: I also have an issue with them blockers. Oh my god,
Speaker 3: do we have to go the big issue with the blocker?
Speaker 2: We have to go?
Speaker 1: What a mentioning that last night with Thurston.
Speaker 3: I had a big issue with the book. They were
Speaker 3: not blockers on the weekend. Okay, that's not what the
Speaker 3: rule was brought in for. The rules brought in to
Speaker 3: stop two players standing next to the stay of the ball,
Speaker 3: not in a position to get the football, to halt
Speaker 3: the markers access.
Speaker 2: I understand that, right, I understand that, But why are
Speaker 2: they standing there? They were never getting the ball.
Speaker 3: Because you know rugby league, you know, and every time
Speaker 3: they used the ball and there were a decoy, they were.
Speaker 2: Never getting the ball. Just why can they just get
Speaker 2: out the way, just get out the way you're going
Speaker 2: to kick a field goal, Get out the way and
Speaker 2: let the block kick the field goal. So look, I
Speaker 2: understand they weren't They were in a position to get
Speaker 2: the ball, but they were never getting the ball.
Speaker 3: Are you going to premp what every dummy half is
Speaker 3: going to do?
Speaker 2: You know that we're never getting the ball. You know,
Speaker 2: you know, getting the ball of.
Speaker 3: Course to do. So what happens though, sometimes once or
Speaker 3: twice a year we'll see an off the cuff field
Speaker 3: goal off the cuff right there will be decoys in
Speaker 3: front of him.
Speaker 2: Are going to rule that, Well, they'll get ruled out
Speaker 2: then by the level of the law, because that's.
Speaker 4: That's that is, doesn't matter rule.
Speaker 2: Look, I understand your frustration with the rule, and I
Speaker 2: appreciate it. But my point is, if if you're worried
Speaker 2: about I'm considering a penalty, just get out the way.
Speaker 3: You know whether they're going to change, you know where
Speaker 3: the changes off season when the guy kicking a field
Speaker 3: goal gets his legs taken out because there's a clear
Speaker 3: passage from the defender and a guy severely injured, and
Speaker 3: they're like, oh, maybe we need to protect the kick
Speaker 3: a bit more. That's all happen.
Speaker 2: Away, just get out the way. But it's just getting
Speaker 2: out the way.
Speaker 4: We all know what a blocker is, right, we all
Speaker 4: know when they're setting up a war.
Speaker 3: We thought we did know. We all know when they're
Speaker 3: setting up a war. It's a common set decision, right.
Speaker 3: If they're in a position to receive the ball and
Speaker 3: they're not impeding anyone, or they can play it. If
Speaker 3: that was just a normal tacking plan they played out
Speaker 3: the back to kaalam ponger, we'll just say nothing.
Speaker 4: You don't even think twice about it, So we all
Speaker 4: know what blocks We've just complicated.
Speaker 3: We've just complicated it for no reason and we've added
Speaker 3: an element to the game that we didn't.
Speaker 2: But again, if those blokes just get out the way,
Speaker 2: then it's not complicated, it's simple.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens in the final tun Wow, you
Speaker 1: can just disappear. So now I'll just love that old
Speaker 1: cliche Chris.
Speaker 3: With norse in your bears obviously feeding the purse site.
Speaker 3: And if it goes ahead, newtown players going to Ipswich,
Speaker 3: how will that affect the pathways of clubs like the Sharks,
Speaker 3: Rouses and Storm have had agreements with these New South
Speaker 3: Wales Cup sides and therefore should we expand our State
Speaker 3: Cup competition as a result, Well, you definitely need to
Speaker 3: expand the State Cup competition because Newtown are at.
Speaker 4: The moment with the Sharks yep, and the Bears are
Speaker 4: with Melbourne.
Speaker 3: Those arrangements will obviously cease if they have an affiliation
Speaker 3: with the other and are also the storm We've got cup.
Speaker 2: CU Cup teams, yeah, I think maybe they were.
Speaker 3: You will mean the fact that, yeah, they either put
Speaker 3: their own New South Wales Cup teams or align themselves
Speaker 3: with other potential You know, we've seen men that we
Speaker 3: Blacktown and we've seen Mountains coming and have an alignment
Speaker 3: with clubs in the past and the like, but potentially
Speaker 3: may lead itself to one day the National Reserve RAIIR
Speaker 3: competition as well, which would mean every NURL club would
Speaker 3: need something.
Speaker 1: To look ben Ik and Mix making waves, not making.
Speaker 2: Enough drama going on there. Don't stir it up my
Speaker 2: interest level.
Speaker 1: I don't really care, mister power else and you're not
Speaker 1: to stir up try you don't care.
Speaker 2: Got to show a bit more passionate and care for
Speaker 2: the game will be on the vote.
Speaker 3: Do you care the National Reserve graide or their state
Speaker 3: run reserve competition doesn't.
Speaker 1: Bother me if plus Cup works well for Queensland.
Speaker 3: One thing I don't like is the gibbering Grand final
Speaker 3: day of the New South Wales Cup premier. Just let
Speaker 3: let I rather have the Queensland Cup and the New
Speaker 3: South Wales Cup Grand Final decided on that day.
Speaker 2: We're both on the curtains. Yes, so the Queens and
Speaker 2: Cup Cup finals paid, of course if they want.
Speaker 4: I don't care.
Speaker 1: That's okay. I could be wanting.
Speaker 4: I was pretending to care about Queens.
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks Queens, the listeners, the sorry, I apologize.
Speaker 3: On behalf of that game. I've watched that.
Speaker 4: Who cares exactly?
Speaker 2: No, I mean, who cares all the way covering your
Speaker 2: beyond your above beyond that for that exactly turn back.
Speaker 1: But no, I was anyway.
Speaker 3: That's a different debate, ye.
Speaker 2: Mind the national feed the team championship, what's it called.
Speaker 1: It's probably on the drink, all drink all week. That's
Speaker 1: all right, and I don't really care.
Speaker 3: The week before I don't just have a grand phone.
Speaker 2: The Queens get a free trip to Sydney and.
Speaker 3: They can come and be created half time as the
Speaker 3: State Cup, the New Southwest couple of them a Taylor
Speaker 3: Sawn Johnson's final home game this weekend. Where does he
Speaker 3: rank for you guys in terms of the best Warriors
Speaker 3: the two part question best Warriors and then best Kiwi
Speaker 3: players of all time?
Speaker 2: I was just thinking and Stacey's an obvious one about
Speaker 2: Warriors and kiwyeh Stacy's private He was amazing, was a machine.
Speaker 2: But still he left and came back, and so did Sean. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's true.
Speaker 1: Did tell you who we didn't see enough of? And
Speaker 1: I don't for whatever reason for.
Speaker 2: T Ordan rugby.
Speaker 1: Worries everyone. He was so good that that team Clinton
Speaker 1: Torpie and.
Speaker 2: Remember Clinton Tory was against the Dogs in the finals
Speaker 2: game once the score four or five tries unbelievable. So
Speaker 2: good was so good?
Speaker 3: Everyone like practice like the Benji leak and whatever I
Speaker 3: used to trying to hold the ball like.
Speaker 4: I just have a could do it with an international ball.
Speaker 3: But what about kes boys like like Benji for me
Speaker 3: is ahead of Williams, Roger, I Roger ahead of.
Speaker 2: Johnson.
Speaker 1: Stacey in his prime was just ball on a string
Speaker 1: type stuff, wasn't he really?
Speaker 3: He may what about your man falls.
Speaker 2: That's a good point.
Speaker 3: Back to the whiz Freeman, anyone else you got Mark Graham,
Speaker 3: Mark Graham.
Speaker 4: Ruby Wicky was outstand because of a legend, was really
Speaker 4: good for the Warriors.
Speaker 2: Anyways, on the list there somewhere where's Jabuga going? You know?
Speaker 2: Yet he's looking at around.
Speaker 1: Freedom segue ever, So I'm just thinking, I'm thinking Warriors
Speaker 1: players and shopped people.
Speaker 2: But we haven't got to buy it yet. Shopped him
Speaker 2: in some clubs, but we haven't got to buy it yet.
Speaker 1: Have you got a guy with a Q cup?
Speaker 2: People?
Speaker 4: A Q cup he's got to get has his way.
Speaker 3: Play jacks.
Speaker 4: And I don't think they're asking for crazy money like did.
Speaker 2: I'm not thinking he's happen to sign a one year
Speaker 2: deal and I'd be.
Speaker 3: Sign him for one year, low risk.
Speaker 2: I'm with you.
Speaker 3: Jeff wants to know our State of Origin is a
Speaker 3: brilliant watch and fiercely competitive.
Speaker 4: Is it really the peak of our game anymore?
Speaker 3: With so many of the great players not playing in
Speaker 3: the series for Shaharis, Hughes, Phenol Blaken and the Key
Speaker 3: where he's beat Australia thirty to Neil last year, So
Speaker 3: Origin boys, is that still the pinnacle in terms, I
Speaker 3: think it is spectacle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think Origin is because it's everything
Speaker 2: that comes with it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the biggest show. It is the biggest show.
Speaker 1: It's you saw what it was this year. How big
Speaker 1: it is? So a little hint on that we should
Speaker 1: be getting a calendar announcement shortly.
Speaker 2: On the mates.
Speaker 1: Let's look Friday Friday.
Speaker 4: Okay, we're interesting because we've been writing.
Speaker 3: They've been saying it's off.
Speaker 2: We're playing New Zealand, some New Zealand tomorrow right in
Speaker 2: New Zealand, Brisbane in Sydney. Correct, Yeah, they.
Speaker 1: We're only two months out from the games and all
Speaker 1: announce them now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the teams would like to know, clubs would like
Speaker 4: to know it's on.
Speaker 2: We all know it's on. It's exact good that the
Speaker 2: final is going to be in Sydney though. I think
Speaker 2: that's right, isn't it the final in Sydney. That's what
Speaker 2: give us something to keep work? Someone for three weeks after.
Speaker 1: Someone put in some long service leave. I just saw
Speaker 1: dropping my one baby.
Speaker 2: I'll be Jeff, I'm taking a big holiday.
Speaker 1: You've just had three weeks far A shot it all
Speaker 1: in Wow, Pete Vodell did. He had to Panguin Jr.
Speaker 1: Isn't an idiot, he said, put from Paris in my
Speaker 1: blind want.
Speaker 2: To tell us and Ricky, I'm just us again. People
Speaker 2: in Paris.
Speaker 3: You did a photo of meed, Butdel did a selfie
Speaker 3: with us last night, said the expansion heroes.
Speaker 1: Here we are. Yeah, I got that. I got that fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've been since that as well. Jeez man, just relaxed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there we go. That's that's what did you call? Yes,
Speaker 1: aneral task force to select the twentieth team has been unbailed.
Speaker 1: I'm getting my Bodill the voice voice pretty good now.
Speaker 1: Happy with that.
Speaker 4: He's a learner.
Speaker 2: For dinner, I'm giving this much thought. Actually, can you
Speaker 2: go to him first.
Speaker 3: And come like heart tonight?
Speaker 1: So we've got some leftovers from mom and dad when
Speaker 1: they've come out and the kids, and you're not cooking.
Speaker 1: But I'm just being him.
Speaker 2: Dish make color form email me for recipes.
Speaker 3: I really think I've had three people right back with
Speaker 3: their finished product.
Speaker 2: You know, we might have that tonight.
Speaker 1: The rest of the made it.
Speaker 2: It was pretty good last time. We won't experiment with
Speaker 2: the cheese. I'm not convincing the cheese. It was a
Speaker 2: bit salty.
Speaker 4: Last time.
Speaker 2: It experiment and we might experiment with the past years
Speaker 2: as well. What's that past the call?
Speaker 3: You couldn't find it.
Speaker 2: Though, Yeah, we got it in the end. I got
Speaker 2: wall or somewhere what's it called. It was only when
Speaker 2: you sent me the number, because you know, it's all
Speaker 2: it's got a number now it's like realer number three.
Speaker 2: I couldn't find it, he said, number whatever. I found
Speaker 2: it said that that's very cleman. The one that.
Speaker 3: Let's go.
Speaker 1: What do you was salmon tonight? So not in there,
Speaker 1: not here at all.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, a.
Speaker 1: Little bit of lemon, you know, I told you go
Speaker 1: there for well, yeah, good are they?
Speaker 2: That's so good for chips.
Speaker 1: These two idiots back.
Speaker 2: That I wasn't bad chips And it's.
Speaker 3: See you guys.
Speaker 1: Oh he's out all right, thanks for stopping by, everybody,
Speaker 1: and waved mickerd By, who walks out the door.