Speaker 1: Hello, good afternoon, and welcome back to the Mad Monday podcast,
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Speaker 1: is Tena fasuamn Iowi and Welcoming back from Nippon is
Speaker 1: been holy sun? How was it over there, mate?
Speaker 2: Oh, Hio gonzonas it was. It's amazing, isn't it. I
Speaker 2: didn't find a lot of league though, not a big
Speaker 2: league country, na, really, I mean when I was over there,
Speaker 2: we did lose both sixty points to the Titans that
Speaker 2: I was watching on a Dodgy VPN. So I decided
Speaker 2: to get heavily into Japanese baseball. I'm now a massive
Speaker 2: fan of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
Speaker 1: That's a good Tian though your cult gut health swallowing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, amazing that it's that big. Do they own a
Speaker 2: baseball team over there? And it's actually, like, I think,
Speaker 2: the second best league in the world.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think basically more or less being colonized by
Speaker 1: the USA and the fifties will probably do that to
Speaker 1: a country, won't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. No. I had a wonderful time, but
Speaker 2: I arrived back overnight on Saturday morning and was around
Speaker 2: to see a Fantesta come back when by the.
Speaker 1: Ways, yeah, well let's start right there as well. The
Speaker 1: Warriors beat the Broncos thirty two points to sixteen. Before
Speaker 1: we get into whether we're back, what to read it
Speaker 1: into this, I had a friend who was at the game,
Speaker 1: and he honestly was so nervous of ten minutes left
Speaker 1: he left. He couldn't watch it anymore. He was like,
Speaker 1: that gonna because I think the Broncos scored with about
Speaker 1: maybe fifteen to twenty minutes, ten minutes left to go.
Speaker 1: He left because he just couldn't watch it anymore. And
Speaker 1: as he was leaving the ground, he heard a massive
Speaker 1: cheeres I see, this is why I've left. I can't
Speaker 1: watch this, And it was Roger tivasishek scoring, my.
Speaker 2: Friend, are you talking about g Lane? So he left
Speaker 2: and we and we won? Is that what we're talking about?
Speaker 1: It wasn't the fuck it It could be delayed for
Speaker 1: the purposes of the story. We can play it all.
Speaker 2: And the cheer was not Roger scoring. It was Glane
Speaker 2: leaving the ground, the grim Lane leaving the ground.
Speaker 1: The Grimline curses left. Yeah, but I think more than
Speaker 1: just the fact that we won, it was how we won.
Speaker 1: We looked good. We didn't do all the dumb shit
Speaker 1: that we've done over the last few weeks. Do we
Speaker 1: Am I reading too far under this? Are the Warriors back.
Speaker 2: Ben look obviously massive caveat six players out to Origin,
Speaker 2: But the Broncos are not. They're going through a real
Speaker 2: mid season slump. And it isn't just Origin because they've
Speaker 2: had times when they've had all those players back, and
Speaker 2: I think we've lost five out of the last six,
Speaker 2: is that right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're on a massive skid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I mean so a little bit of a
Speaker 2: caveat there. We are betting a sliding team and they
Speaker 2: didn't have all their stars, but yeah, they just sort
Speaker 2: of did all the things that we did wrong in
Speaker 2: the week before and just coughed up piece of ball
Speaker 2: and missed lots of tackles.
Speaker 1: Yeah they did, but they Yeah, And I get you know,
Speaker 1: no res Welsh, no pain, hass this and that. But
Speaker 1: I do think, you know, we just got towed up
Speaker 1: by sixty points the week before. You know, we've got it.
Speaker 1: We had our own issues to deal with. We had
Speaker 1: a couple of players out to Origin as well. It
Speaker 1: was just again like I said before, it was just
Speaker 1: the way that we the way that we played, not
Speaker 1: so much the score line, the fact that we won
Speaker 1: who our position was. We didn't beat ourselves like we
Speaker 1: have done so many weeks before. We do a gambling
Speaker 1: show on Fridays on the ACC with the TB. They
Speaker 1: had all these stats around. No team that gets wasted
Speaker 1: by sixty points has ever conceded more than X amount
Speaker 1: of points, you know that always bounce back. And I
Speaker 1: was like, we would. It would be so worrious to
Speaker 1: be an exemption to that rule, like to be the
Speaker 1: first team to turn around and get smashed again after that.
Speaker 2: Wasn't that last year that the Tigers, who were absolutely
Speaker 2: woeful last year, didn't they towel up like Cranella or
Speaker 2: the Storm or someone last year by fifty points that
Speaker 2: was kind of their only win.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the year before that the Tigers as well,
Speaker 1: they beat the Panthers, And it was like yeah, and
Speaker 1: I made a lot of money off that because I
Speaker 1: was like, I just I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1: It's one of those ones that we do as the Warriors,
Speaker 1: and I was I could see it for the Tigers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I was just like, I have my fingers crossed
Speaker 1: that we weren't going to be the first team to
Speaker 1: prove those rules wrong. I don't know the no team's
Speaker 1: ever wanted after fifty points is a little bit sort
Speaker 1: of hanging over me a little bit. I thought that
Speaker 1: our halves looked excellent, didn't they? Tomati, Martin and c
Speaker 1: ht looked tremendous. They scored almost all of our points.
Speaker 2: Are we going to talk about it? Are we going
Speaker 2: to talk about the common factor here? Because you know,
Speaker 2: a certain person came out during the week and said, yeah,
Speaker 2: he reads the comments and he sees that the people
Speaker 2: have made a very lazy comparison and put three and
Speaker 2: three together. We've all done it. I I don't want
Speaker 2: to talk about it, but I feel like we need to.
Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about it either, but I
Speaker 1: agree with you. The only thing I would say is
Speaker 1: I'm always coming on this podcast saying do what your
Speaker 1: opponent doesn't want you to do. And if I'm playing
Speaker 1: against the Warriors later on the season, I'd be like, God,
Speaker 1: I have they get too carried away and don't play
Speaker 1: Seawan Johnson against us. You know he's still Seawn Johnson.
Speaker 1: He's still our best half. He is still the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three in my mind at least deliim player of
Speaker 1: the year. He was robbed by the judges. But I
Speaker 1: do kind of think if you want to sit there
Speaker 1: and say our record without him versus our record with him,
Speaker 1: I can't argue against it, you know. But by the
Speaker 1: same token, I do think he's too hearty for his
Speaker 1: own gird. He's been playing banged up and once he's
Speaker 1: healthy and ready to go again, he needs to be
Speaker 1: in there. I just, jeez, mighty, Martin look good to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think these two factor is here. If we're
Speaker 2: going to talk at purely on analytics, I think I
Speaker 2: think that that halves pairing is better defensively without Sean
Speaker 2: at the moment, who is harboring an injury. And also
Speaker 2: because of their injury, it takes the option of him
Speaker 2: running at the line almost completely out of it, so
Speaker 2: that the opposition knows he's eyre going to pass or
Speaker 2: kick and there's no, he's not going to and he's
Speaker 2: not going to do that on tackles wonder four. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's not going to kick on tackles under four. So
Speaker 2: it does make a little bit predictable. And Tomato Martin,
Speaker 2: he doesn't really break the line, but he helps others
Speaker 2: do it. And and because he runs at the line occasionally,
Speaker 2: it does leave the you know, the defense guessing. So
Speaker 2: I think those are two factors. Yeah, as long as
Speaker 2: s J can come back fully fit, yeah I absolutely
Speaker 2: have him back in there.
Speaker 1: I think the problem is it's saying this on the
Speaker 1: on A podcast last week. Is it's why they have
Speaker 1: thrown the towel in and boxing is because the boxer
Speaker 1: himself knew were going to take himself out of the fight.
Speaker 1: He'll go in there with his arm, you know, hanging
Speaker 1: on by a thread, even when he's just been rocked,
Speaker 1: he will just keep going back out there. That's why
Speaker 1: the trainers in the corner need to throw on the
Speaker 1: towel on behalf of a fighter. And I don't think
Speaker 1: Sewan Johnson ever would have taken himself out. I think
Speaker 1: he came back too early from the injury he had
Speaker 1: before the buy. And unfortunately it's in Web's DNA to
Speaker 1: keep playing the same team over and over and over again.
Speaker 1: It doesn't like change. He thinks consistency is one of
Speaker 1: our biggest strengths, and so I think that's what was
Speaker 1: going on. That's what I'm going to chalk it up
Speaker 1: to anyway. And I keep saying every time this, when
Speaker 1: this happened last time, this is a good thing. You know,
Speaker 1: he's going to slop back in to Mighty Ccht, maybe
Speaker 1: Chd's coming off the bench. They'll be a bit more empowered,
Speaker 1: you know, to take a bit more of the offensive
Speaker 1: load back. I thought that that kick from Tomighty Martin
Speaker 1: that dropped right onto Dw's court, it put it down.
Speaker 1: I thought that is what's been missing for this whole season.
Speaker 1: D Allen looked excellent again this week than't there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, I thought. And the Freddy Lussick try, which
Speaker 2: I think was Mitch Barnett hits the line and just
Speaker 2: a very simple offload LUSTI ran a good line. Those
Speaker 2: two tries were clinical and yeah, and both close to
Speaker 2: the line, which is something we've been missing.
Speaker 1: As you say, Yeah, there was a lot of that,
Speaker 1: a lot of the like sort of slot of hand
Speaker 1: from Tomighty Martin and Cht around the line as well.
Speaker 1: But it's funny you mentioned that Freddy Lussick try there
Speaker 1: because we've got a bit of audio from Dye's call
Speaker 1: from that from the weekend. It was outstanding. Have a
Speaker 1: listen to this. But you see here Mitch Barnett the
Speaker 1: wrap around, what an offload? Beautiful? How much mana? How
Speaker 1: much mana was flowing out of that Honky, I love it.
Speaker 1: So after Freddy scored the try, throws the moneywave out
Speaker 1: to the crowd and yeah, obviously Di absolutely loved it.
Speaker 1: Have we've been overlooking Freddy Lussick as a member of
Speaker 1: the Ruthless park Our Boys because obviously we've got Mitch Barnett,
Speaker 1: Jack and forward. I've been saying for years that what
Speaker 1: the Warriors were missing was the ruthless park Our Boys.
Speaker 1: I think that back and I think that Freddy Lasik
Speaker 1: has to be one of them now surely.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he had a pretty good game. I think probably
Speaker 2: what set him back a little this year was that
Speaker 2: he went to reserve grade and murdered someone. So that
Speaker 2: was a definite strike against him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he did. He snap Lochlan Elissa's shin clean in half.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about it in New South Wales Cup down
Speaker 1: the track as well, two of us as sick. He
Speaker 1: scored a try. It was a relatively pedestrian try. He
Speaker 1: wasn't like stepping anyone who just sort of ran into it.
Speaker 1: But do you reckon that's a good sign for RTS
Speaker 1: going forward, just to get one, get one on the board.
Speaker 2: Sure, absolutely, I'm still not convinced about him anywhere but
Speaker 2: fall back. But what are you going to do when
Speaker 2: you've got arguably the best, certainly top three fullbacks in
Speaker 2: the competition with John So you know, do you move him? Where?
Speaker 2: Do you put him here?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Don't I But good good that he got he got
Speaker 2: was that it wasn't his first try of the season
Speaker 2: was No, he.
Speaker 1: Scored at least one that I remember, but it might
Speaker 1: actually be a second. I'm sure some statisticianal pingus for
Speaker 1: that one. Absolutely outstanding work from both the fans at
Speaker 1: the ground with the signs and also the social media
Speaker 1: team of the Warriors. I don't know if you saw
Speaker 1: the sign that said hot two of us are share
Speaker 1: can spin on that day. But then they also remixed
Speaker 1: that video that went viral last night on the other
Speaker 1: day on social media. They obviously don't have to check
Speaker 1: anything with anyone do that social media team of the Warriors.
Speaker 2: It's pretty loose and I would say, they are still
Speaker 2: doing some heavy editing from a Warrior's crowd.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think I just feel like if you
Speaker 1: work for any other media agency and you was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm going to put this out, we just would not
Speaker 1: get past any approvals.
Speaker 2: Certainly not the All Blacks and probably not Black Caps.
Speaker 2: But yeah, Warriors, they know the offense.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Did you also where did you watch this game?
Speaker 1: You watched this back here in New Zealand.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah I did. Yeah, just I've only been in
Speaker 2: the country a few hours.
Speaker 1: There was the Chanelle Harris Devita try where he dived
Speaker 1: through just Beatkatony stags and got his hand to the
Speaker 1: ball just before he did before Katoni did. While they
Speaker 1: were showing the replay, I loved c ht's reaction to it.
Speaker 1: But even more than that, there was a girl standing
Speaker 1: there in a Warrior's jersey with her boyfriend who was
Speaker 1: in a Broncos jersey. Did you see that? And so
Speaker 1: it was so they had the Bunker review, they had
Speaker 1: c HT, and then they had that couple in one
Speaker 1: corner as well. They're on the screen for about five
Speaker 1: minutes and it was some of the best TV I've seen.
Speaker 1: He was absolutely hating it, waiting for the camera to
Speaker 1: buger off, whereas she was loving him five minutes of
Speaker 1: fame she was.
Speaker 2: She was certainly not shy with a bit of hip
Speaker 2: thrust as well when the try was confirmed.
Speaker 1: Hmmm hmmm, I wouldn't. Yeah, I think that's gonna be
Speaker 1: very interesting see how that played out for them afterwards
Speaker 1: on the ride home. I reckon he would have been like,
Speaker 1: did you have to give it like quite that much
Speaker 1: while we're on the camera or.
Speaker 2: You can just give did you have to like mind
Speaker 2: actual pegging? That's that's for our private time, because.
Speaker 1: You know, our family group chat's going to blow up
Speaker 1: after this, and Mum's going to be sending it through.
Speaker 1: I saw blah blah blah on the TV tonight, and
Speaker 1: then my NaN's going to go and see that, and
Speaker 1: she's gonna see it.
Speaker 2: Hey, you never know, Mum might go, I've been doing
Speaker 2: it to your dad for years. I'm glad it runs
Speaker 2: of the family.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Ma might go hocktol and spit on that thing.
Speaker 1: Do you think we're reading too far into it to
Speaker 1: say that the Warriors are back now? Is everyone back
Speaker 1: on board the bandwagon?
Speaker 2: I think this season not just for the Warriors, but
Speaker 2: for every team almost bar the Storm, anyone can beat anybody.
Speaker 2: And it's the most bizarre nuts season I've seen in years.
Speaker 2: There's there's no rhyme nor reason. It's impossible to pack. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm I mean, I'm bad at tipping anyway, but I'm
Speaker 2: having the worst tipping year I've ever had. And I'm fair,
Speaker 2: I'm just auto tipping now because it's the computer's doing
Speaker 2: better than me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I am. In my fantasy team. I accidentally reversed
Speaker 1: all of my trades and they forgot to update them,
Speaker 1: and my team did better than if I had have
Speaker 1: made those trades.
Speaker 2: So you're right, Yeah, there's no back. I don't think
Speaker 2: any team is back. And unfortunately, when it is this
Speaker 2: even generally Melbourne wins the competition because they just are
Speaker 2: that incredibly consistent side.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they have been despite all of the players that
Speaker 1: are out. It's absolutely disastrous stuff for us.
Speaker 2: They just get new, they just get someone new every time.
Speaker 2: You just you know, Brian Peppenhausen's out, so they get
Speaker 2: far alonger out of nowhere. Where did he come from?
Speaker 1: Nick Meane did it a couple of years ago as well.
Speaker 1: It's like yeah, kills me.
Speaker 2: I can have infinite resources.
Speaker 1: Tyrone Wishart, Monster's out. Oh here's Tyrone Wishart. Oh really,
Speaker 1: Tyrone Wishart. Okay, sure, Ali kats Off. He wasn't doing
Speaker 1: that when he was with us, Anyway, I digress. I
Speaker 1: think we'll put it to bed for that. I think
Speaker 1: we're riding a high. I think I was saying before, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we had that massive loss. One more win and I
Speaker 1: think the ship's going to be corrected a little bit.
Speaker 1: You know, you can't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Speaker 1: It's going to be tense run home. We crunched the
Speaker 1: numbers last week about how many games we have to
Speaker 1: win from here on out, and it's more or less.
Speaker 1: I think we can drop two between now and the
Speaker 1: end of the season, and that's to guarantee ourselves making
Speaker 1: the eight.
Speaker 2: But so big game against the fifth place Dogs this weekend.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. But I mean, if we were going to
Speaker 1: do it, this is how it would start. It would
Speaker 1: start with a thirty two to sixteen win over the Broncos.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to dare to believe we're going to
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Speaker 1: all right now. It is time for the Stalker of
Speaker 1: the Round and it had to be the Bulldogs versus
Speaker 1: the Sharks fifteen to fourteen. Matt Burton eventually selling this
Speaker 1: one in Golden Point over time. It had to be
Speaker 1: the Stalker of the Round. But it was quite low
Speaker 1: scoring and I've gotta be honest with you, Ben, there
Speaker 1: were eight field goal attempts in this game. And as
Speaker 1: awesome as gold Golden Point is to win, it can
Speaker 1: often devolve into just the worst shirt out you've ever
Speaker 1: seen in your life. I know that there's not a
Speaker 1: better way, and it is better than ending in a drawer,
Speaker 1: but man, they can turn into perslingers at the end
Speaker 1: of those games sometimes, do you like the golden point?
Speaker 2: Oh look, then you can get the other end of
Speaker 2: the spectrum where you don't really have a drop goal
Speaker 2: specialist in your team aka the Warriors. And then it
Speaker 2: was that game against Manly which deaden up in a
Speaker 2: drawer because neither side could slot one. And I don't
Speaker 2: know that there were that many attempts, even I think
Speaker 2: Davy Cherry Evans is good at it. Yeah, he couldn't
Speaker 2: do it, and we have we had like notoriously bad
Speaker 2: at it.
Speaker 1: We were lucky that we got penalized and then so
Speaker 1: we did it off the teeth.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's right. I don't mind it. That is too
Speaker 2: many though, Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: And I think like when you see the highlight the
Speaker 1: next morning, and if you're just scrolling through your social
Speaker 1: media and you see Matt Burtons snap off of you know,
Speaker 1: thirty meter drop it looked way bigger than it actually was,
Speaker 1: You're like, holy shit, what a game. But when you
Speaker 1: actually watched it, it was like, yeah, the end is exciting,
Speaker 1: but when you're just watching dudes potshot it. Man, there
Speaker 1: was some slop. Brandon Trendle hit one that looked like
Speaker 1: he was kicking with his wrong but he might have been,
Speaker 1: but it was so bad that it didn't it hit
Speaker 1: the ground before the goal line, you know. So it
Speaker 1: was one of those like anytime someone's doing a drop
Speaker 1: kick and it comes out in a spiral, that fucked
Speaker 1: it up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And that's exactly what happened there.
Speaker 1: So yes, it was a stonker, But I just think
Speaker 1: it was one of those ones where eight field colored
Speaker 1: tents back to back to back to back to back
Speaker 1: was a little bit growling. Do you think I reckon
Speaker 1: we should go golden try?
Speaker 2: Well, that would certainly suit the Warriors. I think we've
Speaker 2: won in Golden Point twice ever with a drop goal. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think most of the time we score a try
Speaker 2: or get a penalty. But let's talk about this game
Speaker 2: and how difficult it was to pack as well, because
Speaker 2: Cranella you can't pack week on week like they're either
Speaker 2: the best side in the world or very much not.
Speaker 2: And the Dogs, like, you know, they did that big
Speaker 2: spend up, they recruited huge last season. It didn't work
Speaker 2: for them last season, but this season it really has
Speaker 2: been working. Including stealing one of our beloved ruthless Indigenous boys,
Speaker 2: Josh Karen, who's having a huge season for them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny you mentioned Josh Curran. He has a
Speaker 1: stat that will blow you away. From that game. The
Speaker 1: Bulldogs went into that game with a six head gear advantage.
Speaker 1: They had six of their starting players were wearing head
Speaker 1: gear to zero on the other team. They were Crichton, Marney,
Speaker 1: Josh Curran, Jacob Krrez was in the head gear, Blake Wilson,
Speaker 1: who was one of their wingers, and the weak gutted
Speaker 1: Dog Jamn Salmon also donned the head gear for a
Speaker 1: part of that game as well. I just think that
Speaker 1: that's a big show of unity to show up with
Speaker 1: that many that much headgear on, and also a signal
Speaker 1: to their juniors that you know, CT is a real
Speaker 1: thing and you're really going to be careful, careful about it.
Speaker 1: But you're right. The team is built like a PlayStation team.
Speaker 1: It's like he had a fantasy draft and you just
Speaker 1: picked up all the players that you could. I mean,
Speaker 1: if we're forgetting the fox is in their team as well,
Speaker 1: it's been injured for so long, it's only a matter
Speaker 1: of time before they all start going all right, I
Speaker 1: would say though on the Cronulla, yes, they're hard to pick.
Speaker 1: They're about to play the Titans and then the Tigers,
Speaker 1: so there's a chance that they, you know, right the
Speaker 1: ship a little bit and then carry on. They then
Speaker 1: don't play another top eight team till the end of
Speaker 1: the season. So the Sharks have a ridiculous schedule going forward.
Speaker 2: Are they hard to pick? Because, dare I say it,
Speaker 2: their talisman, playmaker and best player is a little hot
Speaker 2: and cold. Mm.
Speaker 1: I think potentially he's hot for sure.
Speaker 2: But even with bad teeth, he's certainly hot. But he
Speaker 2: I think he proved in Origin that he you know,
Speaker 2: all that talent. Sometimes homes does evade him.
Speaker 1: You're right about the teeth. I think if you described
Speaker 1: Nico Hines to a police sketch artist, they would draw
Speaker 1: an ugly person.
Speaker 2: You'd be like, he is long, but not real long,
Speaker 2: but like that's dead here, bad here, bad teeth, Yet he's.
Speaker 1: Still hot, quite greasy, and yeah, they'd probably draw like
Speaker 1: a like snape or something. And then yet despite all
Speaker 1: of that, Yeah, I don't know why why is he
Speaker 1: so up and down? Is it injuries?
Speaker 2: I think it's mental surely it's just mental. It's just well, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean big game players, right, Dane gag guy, although
Speaker 2: he's pretty consistent these days in his older age. You know,
Speaker 2: we talk about Origin gags and you know it's Greg Anglis.
Speaker 2: Greg Igliss was could be average week by week for
Speaker 2: Souths and but somehow brought it to Origin every time. Right. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think maybe Nico Homes potentially does the opposite.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's just yeah. I don't know, I think that
Speaker 1: they have. I mean, I'm just thinking purely from a
Speaker 1: super coach perspective. I'm going to bring in a bunch
Speaker 1: of Sharks this week, so I think they are going
Speaker 1: to write the ship. I don't know. It could potentially
Speaker 1: be fools gold because like I said, they don't play
Speaker 1: good teams basically for the rest of the season. But
Speaker 1: I think they come the end of the season, their
Speaker 1: confidence meter will be full. But I think we have
Speaker 1: to play the Bulldogs twice between us the Warriors. We
Speaker 1: have to play the Bulldogs twice I think before the
Speaker 1: end of the year, and we need to win at
Speaker 1: least one of those. It doesn't look likely against that
Speaker 1: team that went out there on the weekend, so we're
Speaker 1: gonna have to find them somewhere else, I think.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're pretty tight. Yeah, that's the thing we you know,
Speaker 2: we're basically that's a thrashing of the Broncos. But we're
Speaker 2: gonna have to play even better than that to beat
Speaker 2: the Bulldogs this week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know how that's going to go. The
Speaker 1: new South Wales Cup, which our team, by the way,
Speaker 1: this year has looked absolutely outstanding. I was saying this
Speaker 1: morning to Martin and c Ht with their halves for
Speaker 1: like the starting part of the season, Bunty was playing
Speaker 1: for them this weekend. Jacob Laban was playing for them
Speaker 1: this weekend. Did you see his frakar with Corey Hawsbrough.
Speaker 2: Yes, I certainly did, and I think I'd still go
Speaker 2: Laban over hawesbrow in there so do I.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he just sat there like I don't know if
Speaker 1: you've seen the old Power Slap League, but they just
Speaker 1: stand there either side of each other and they just
Speaker 1: bite down on their mouthguard and then slap each other
Speaker 1: in the face. That's what Jacob Laban did, but while
Speaker 1: smiling at Corey Hawsbrough, who you know, pretty bad man
Speaker 1: in his own right, and then he got sent off
Speaker 1: for his efforts. Jacob Laban gets binned for standing there
Speaker 1: smiling at a guy trying to knock his block off.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're supposed to do in that
Speaker 1: situation if it's not that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, he played what two or three games in
Speaker 2: first grade and just got a massive cult following. I
Speaker 2: got some street Man or a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 2: and the guy all he wanted to talk about was
Speaker 2: how much he loved Jacob Laban and Mad Monday.
Speaker 1: Those are just two favorite things in order. Yeah, Jacob Laban,
Speaker 1: he seems like quite a quite a humble, young thode
Speaker 1: old Jacob Laban. His the only person I saw who
Speaker 1: when he got given his jersey he thanked himself and
Speaker 1: I didn't. It didn't make me hate him, but I
Speaker 1: made me like him more. Usually, if someone gets up
Speaker 1: and thanks themselves for all the hard work they put him,
Speaker 1: fuck this guy. Not Jacob Laban. And I think he
Speaker 1: just he just gained. I don't know. Do we extend him?
Speaker 1: Can we throw him a few more dollars from the Warriors?
Speaker 2: We have to surely, oh, certainly, we've got to hold
Speaker 2: on to him. He is I think he is a
Speaker 2: huge player for the future Tame Turpick. He was on
Speaker 2: that side as well on the weekend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there's some massive green shirts coming through for
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Speaker 1: We just found out this morning, Ben that the number
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Speaker 2: Look, that'd be interesting, wouldn't it be a handy kicker.
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Speaker 1: All right, welcome back into the podcast. Being you have
Speaker 1: I mean, this has been a long held tradition in
Speaker 1: rugby league. Rugby league, one of the bastions of rugby
Speaker 1: league is phenomenal names, and I think it owes a
Speaker 1: lot to the blue collar roots of the sport that
Speaker 1: we love so much, but man, it spits out some doozies.
Speaker 1: And you've been doing a bit of research on some
Speaker 1: of the names in our great game at the moment.
Speaker 2: Look, I don't sleep well, I'm playing. So I had
Speaker 2: a good time and a half hours to on a
Speaker 2: New Zealand Wi Fi to put together a team of
Speaker 2: what I believe are the best names of this current
Speaker 2: NRL roster. So they have to be current NRL players,
Speaker 2: which does leave a couple of really good ones out,
Speaker 2: which we'll get to in a minute. But I've done
Speaker 2: them in their positions, and I think what makes a
Speaker 2: cool name is that it can be something else. So
Speaker 2: I put them into three categories. They're obviously rugby league players,
Speaker 2: but they could also be a porn star. They could
Speaker 2: also be a singer slash rapper. Yeah, and if they are,
Speaker 2: I can tell you exactly what genre they sing. Okay, okay,
Speaker 2: And or they could be a car Those are my three.
Speaker 2: Those three categories, all three, or that could be any
Speaker 2: of the three, well some of them actually could be
Speaker 2: all three, but most of them are one in summer two.
Speaker 2: So let's start now. This is actually I mean, and
Speaker 2: by the way, just can I just say some of
Speaker 2: these names we know very well and we are slightly
Speaker 2: desensitized to how amazing these names are because we hear
Speaker 2: them all the time and they're played in the competition
Speaker 2: for ten years or whatever. But if you're a non
Speaker 2: rugby league fan and you hear some of these names,
Speaker 2: you would go, what that's a person's name. So those
Speaker 2: will become obvious when we get to them. So my number,
Speaker 2: my my fullback has just one of the best names
Speaker 2: in rugby league, and it is I've sort of BlimE
Speaker 2: alone a little early with one of the best ones,
Speaker 2: but it is your fallback. You've got to start with
Speaker 2: number one, and that is Jarrem Buller. That's now immense,
Speaker 2: it's so good. And Jarrem Buller is a reggae singer
Speaker 2: if anyone is.
Speaker 1: Yes, I mean, the first syllable of his name is
Speaker 1: jazz spelled literally ja h dream Buller.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so superb right, Jarreen Buller. He is obviously the
Speaker 2: fullback for the Titans, but just one of those beautiful
Speaker 2: names to say, so let's move on to the wing.
Speaker 2: I've had to play them at wing because there's just
Speaker 2: too much name talent in the centers. But Valentine Holmes
Speaker 2: is a porn star and happens to also be the
Speaker 2: name of a great Rugul League player, Valentine.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, it's perfect because it's such an
Speaker 1: obvious play on words, which you know the adult entertainer
Speaker 1: will go for it. It needs it needs to be
Speaker 1: just obvious enough that it's clear that they are a
Speaker 1: porn star and Valentine tick.
Speaker 2: Which you could also say about my left center number
Speaker 2: three Bronx and Cherry with an X.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the adult star would have three xes.
Speaker 2: Yes that's true. Yeah, but definitely Bronx and Cherry. That's
Speaker 2: a porn star. And we moved to the other center
Speaker 2: Brandman Best, great name. Also definitely an old.
Speaker 1: Card, yes, one hundred percent, like a helmet avenger.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, exactly, a Vauxhall Victor. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: I put an old of Breadman Best. The other day,
Speaker 1: me and my uncle had turned it up.
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly. It was owned by an old guy, only
Speaker 2: drove it once a week. Yeah. Yeah, we love, we
Speaker 2: love this guy. We love his name, but Marcelo Montoya
Speaker 2: is a lounge singer. Definitely.
Speaker 1: What's where are we talking lounge? Is that like a
Speaker 1: not like the.
Speaker 2: Vegas lounge, like like Sinatra, Like, please welcome Marcelo Montoya.
Speaker 1: When he comes at start spreading the news. That's that
Speaker 1: the talk singers, one of the talk singers. Yeah, great,
Speaker 1: so yes, definitely. Now we move into the hearts. This
Speaker 1: is harder, but I think Tyson Gamble is definitely a rapper. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a SoundCloud rapper, hasn't quite made it, but he's
Speaker 1: already got the tattoos on his face.
Speaker 2: Yep, very good. This is one of my favorite and
Speaker 2: I think this actually crosses into two genres dejan Arsi.
Speaker 2: He's a he's a reggae but also a porn star.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but would be spelled different.
Speaker 2: I think it definitely would. One of the great names,
Speaker 2: and I've had to play them at at halfback, which
Speaker 2: is a little out of position, but that'll do. We
Speaker 2: go to the front row here again. This is one
Speaker 2: of these names that we're quite used to. But Payne
Speaker 2: Haas is definitely a rapper.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's yeah, like a cypress hell type rapper. I
Speaker 1: reckon painhas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, definitely gang yeah, nineties gangster yeah yeah, one
Speaker 2: of the great names in rugby league. You know this
Speaker 2: is coming. But at Hooker we've got Tyson Smoothie the
Speaker 2: porn star.
Speaker 1: Had to be in there. Die Inwood's favorite name in
Speaker 1: rugby league.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And rounding out of the front row is as
Speaker 2: a car as Jackson Fort. Yeah straight, one of those
Speaker 2: slightly off brand Fords that you know, you don't really
Speaker 2: know about it, like it's not you know, it's not
Speaker 2: a class forward.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like like in the sixties they might have had
Speaker 1: some sort of copyright issue with Toyota and so for
Speaker 1: one year it was released as the Jackson Ford.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Great. Into the back row now and Cowboys number eleven.
Speaker 2: Helam Luky is definitely a metal singer. Like have you
Speaker 2: told me that the lead singer of Cannibal Courts is
Speaker 2: helam Luky?
Speaker 1: Yeah that makes sense, Yeah, yes it is, of course
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 2: For the other back row. Another lounge singer, Luciano Lalure
Speaker 2: is you know a double bell Marcelo Montoya and Luciano
Speaker 2: Lalure is a Vegas night out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can picture him as he is just coming
Speaker 1: up from behind the curtain and his tuxedo talk, singing
Speaker 1: whiskey on the rocks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's beautiful. And this is to round out the
Speaker 2: starting side at thirteen. I just need to get a
Speaker 2: warrant from my gi arrow.
Speaker 1: Is like a you know how China started making cars? Now, yeah,
Speaker 1: they brought it the gay arrow, They've got the Great Wall,
Speaker 1: and they got the Giant Arrow. It's got three wheels.
Speaker 2: So that's my starting side. Now. I would call this
Speaker 2: a bench, except they're all backs, and so I'm just
Speaker 2: going to call them honorable mentions instead because it's not
Speaker 2: actually a properly balanced, you know bench. Phoenix Crossland is
Speaker 2: a new medal singer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it also sounds like an actress. Oh maybe yeah,
Speaker 1: looks like that to be fair, but yeah, I could
Speaker 1: see that.
Speaker 2: But if you said that, you know, Phoenix Crossland was
Speaker 2: the guy who wraps on Lincoln Park, then I go, yeah,
Speaker 2: it makes sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's much.
Speaker 2: Yeah I knew you know that. Blaze Ta Langy definitely reggae.
Speaker 1: Yeah Blaze, that's not as that's not his first name.
Speaker 1: Either's first name, something like Ben.
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, Chevy Stewart, who's the backup fullback for
Speaker 2: the Raiders. We think he's a singer also a car
Speaker 2: Obviously he could be all three be a porn star
Speaker 2: as well. But if he is a singer, I reckon
Speaker 2: he's one of those tantood white guys who sings souls
Speaker 2: like Teddy Swims or Post Malone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Action Bronz and Maddie Matheson.
Speaker 2: Stewart.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and she's sure it's also my porn name.
Speaker 2: Oh. Tyrell Sloan is a porn star, but I think
Speaker 2: a female.
Speaker 1: One, Tyrelle Sloan.
Speaker 2: I think if you if your missus got into your
Speaker 2: computer and you had Tyrrell Sloan in your history, you'd
Speaker 2: be in some trouble.
Speaker 1: Who's Tyrrell Sloan.
Speaker 2: Yeah. There's a couple of friends n RL players with
Speaker 2: great names. I'm not sure of the category, but they're
Speaker 2: not quite regular enough to mention in the team. But
Speaker 2: Hayes Dunster.
Speaker 1: Hayes Dunster sounds like something that they discover that the
Speaker 1: CERN Hadron Collider, like they discovered the Hayes Dunster particle.
Speaker 2: Great Timill Hunt Yeah, yeah, back end of his career. Now,
Speaker 2: some good ones in the Super League and we had
Speaker 2: to leave him out, even though he's got one of
Speaker 2: the best names ever. But te Hoy in his own
Speaker 2: category of.
Speaker 1: Sauce for my my fantasy team for the last few
Speaker 1: years has been called tex Hoys Sex Toys.
Speaker 2: Oh, yes, that's right, perfect. He would be in his
Speaker 2: own category with sauce. But I mean maybe Bronx and
Speaker 2: Garlic might be in there with sauce as well.
Speaker 1: Certainly can be turned into Yeah, the.
Speaker 2: Mother great names herman ignacious, PARSI of course, X Warrior,
Speaker 2: I think, and and Caid cust powerful. That is, they're
Speaker 2: all in the Super League. And I've also put down
Speaker 2: the worst, and I think that's Maverick Guyer, I mean
Speaker 2: Mark Guy's son Maverick. He didn't even spell Maverick correctly.
Speaker 2: It's m A v R. I K. Why didn't he?
Speaker 2: Like obviously he's a top gun fan. He's gone for
Speaker 2: Maverick and he's gone out of his way. He's either
Speaker 2: dumb or he's gone out of his way to spell
Speaker 2: it wrong.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm probably gonna chalk it up to the first column,
Speaker 1: but I think he's really set himself up. His son
Speaker 1: had to play in the NRL once he named a
Speaker 1: Maverick they might as well have signed the contract then,
Speaker 1: so you got no other opportun you're not getting off
Speaker 1: as Shelbam. Sorry, Maverick, I love that list.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so those are my best name this Look, there's
Speaker 2: some really good ones that missed out, but obviously we're
Speaker 2: just better ones than those positions. And yeah, that's my
Speaker 2: good names. Teams of the NRL. We're going to make
Speaker 2: up a little graphic and chuck it up on our facey.
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