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Speaker 1: Oh you know, and welcome back to the Mad Monday Podcast.

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Speaker 1: There's always brought to you by four and twenty pis

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Speaker 1: the perfect at home snack for watching the rugby League.

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Speaker 1: My name is Minia Stewart. I'm joining the studio this

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Speaker 1: fine Monday afternoon by Die Henwood. Good morning, Die, Good afternoon.

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Speaker 1: I've I did a rewatcher the game. I thought I

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Speaker 1: wasn't going to, but I did. I did my Monday

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Speaker 1: morning catch up on the bits and bobs I've missed

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Speaker 1: and then sort of start just put that game on

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Speaker 1: and got transfixed and it wasn't better. That it wasn't

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Speaker 1: better the second time. I was just going to say this,

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Speaker 1: I did the exact same thing this morning. I was

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Speaker 1: at the game and about twenty minutes into it, whenever

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Speaker 1: they scored their second try the Eels, I was like,

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Speaker 1: I can't do this and I turned my back on

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Speaker 1: the On the game, I was treated to some corporate hospitality,

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Speaker 1: so I hit the buffet pretty hard.

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Speaker 2: I have to say it was we were commentating looking

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Speaker 2: directly at I suppose the oldest school fans just under

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Speaker 2: the coach's box. Yeah, and that's the first time in

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Speaker 2: a while I've seen a straight up walk out from

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Speaker 2: that section. Yeah, it was just tough viewing because we

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Speaker 2: I was getting nervous when we had about ten to

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Speaker 2: fifteen minutes on their line and just couldn't score. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: then they scored three times the next three times they

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Speaker 2: got the ball, Yes, yeah they did.

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Speaker 1: And it was for me it was the way they

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Speaker 1: scored those tries as well. There was just it just

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Speaker 1: looked like they just ghosted straight through gaps out on

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Speaker 1: our each defense. And when you're at the game, I

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Speaker 1: was saying this, I think on the Agenda podcast this morning.

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Speaker 1: When you're at the game, you know, the crowd rules

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Speaker 1: for our tries, but there's no reaction when they score,

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Speaker 1: and so it's just dead silent and you're all sort

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Speaker 1: of sitting there with your own thoughts, like, damn, what happened.

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Speaker 2: There that Jake Tungold try. I think the first one

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Speaker 2: that was a beautiful play, oh yeah, but then the

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Speaker 2: next two were just straight through one on one missus.

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Speaker 2: This is where we really miss Rock o'berry, who is

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Speaker 2: the best one on one tackler in the comp. Yeah. Oh,

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Speaker 2: for sure.

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Speaker 1: We talk about like the best defenders in the comp.

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Speaker 1: He's been one of them. And you know, I know,

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Speaker 1: we go on about the injuries, but it is real.

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Speaker 1: We are the most injured squad in the competition. But

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Speaker 1: even then, it's like it's just the way they were

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Speaker 1: coming through. If you didn't watch the game and you

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Speaker 1: only saw the score line at the end, you could

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Speaker 1: be tricked into thinking that it was a much closer

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Speaker 1: game than it was. We laid on I think about

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Speaker 1: sixteen points in the last ten minutes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like it was looking very grim. Then they got

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Speaker 2: sinburn and then we just ran the numbers on that side. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: And it's weird. We we played with so much urgency

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Speaker 2: towards the end. I know, but it seems so casual in.

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Speaker 1: The first seventy four minutes.

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Speaker 2: Seventy four minutes, and when I watched other games, our

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Speaker 2: kicking game just doesn't seem on point.

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Speaker 1: Often for no one, you know what I mean. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: a little bit shapeless, like you're not packing out a

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Speaker 1: guy and just been not right, we're gonna bomb Dws's corner,

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Speaker 1: or you know, we're dribbling it into the golf of

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Speaker 1: this or that. You're right, it's like we're just kicking

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Speaker 1: because you have to kick on the last and I

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Speaker 1: think we've had that for the entire season, haven't we. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I was running some numbers again to try and get

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Speaker 2: a mathematical prediction of if we can make the eight,

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Speaker 2: and we sort of technically could. But what's hurting us

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Speaker 2: is all those teams that were around us last year

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Speaker 2: have suddenly got a lot better dogs, manly even Dragons, Titans,

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Speaker 2: Dragons beating Melbourne and shout out to Melbourne making the

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Speaker 2: eight fourteen times and fourteen years, that's ridiculous, and the

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Speaker 2: Warriors making the eight nine times in thirty years.

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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's not a fun stant No, it's not

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Speaker 2: you watching how because you know I was doing all

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Speaker 2: the math as well before this game came in.

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Speaker 1: You know, we got the buyer in the last round,

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Speaker 1: so it's like to add that to our telling. Now,

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Speaker 1: then if we win this one, you could conceivably convince

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Speaker 1: yourself where in the top eight it gets dire. Now,

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Speaker 1: we can still make it if we if we rattled

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Speaker 1: off four, But after watching that game, like you said

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Speaker 1: the replay, it felt even worse. That is not a

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Speaker 1: team that's about to rattle off four games in a

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Speaker 2: Is it no, and we've got heavyweight games Dolphins, Bulldogs,

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Speaker 2: Sharks and Seagulls. Is it segs?

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Speaker 1: I think it might be.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah it is. And they're all form teams. I

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Speaker 2: mean that Bulldogs team. They're having a year we had. Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 2: you're right. And it's interesting because I look at the Bulldogs.

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Speaker 2: We're very similar right where we came in to take

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Speaker 2: over from us the same time Cam Serraldo took over there.

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Speaker 2: He had a shocker last year, but it's because they

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Speaker 2: completely rejuvenated their squad.

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Speaker 1: Well, we got them all mont.

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Speaker 2: And so they sacked a lot of players and they've

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Speaker 2: now got an exact squad they want. We bought thinking

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Speaker 2: this year was the year we're going to win the

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Speaker 2: premiership big time. We've got Ryan Hoffman. I was listening

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Speaker 2: to the Wars Up TV guy. He made a good point.

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Speaker 2: Sorry not Ryan Hoffman, Kirk Capewell. He made a good point.

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Speaker 2: He said, Kirk cap Well is a real Ryan Hoffman

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Speaker 2: type purchase. He's not doing anything wrong, but he's not

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Speaker 2: going to break the game open.

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Speaker 1: And I just think it was like the Kirk kpe

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Speaker 1: bar thing was like anytime you got an opportunity to

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Speaker 1: sign Kirk Cape, well to your rugby league franchise. You

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Speaker 1: do it. Also, on top of that, there was the

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Speaker 1: Penrith sort of Wavy Cape situation. But I just you're right.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if it was what

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Speaker 1: we needed, although I don't really know how the salary

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Speaker 1: cap works in.

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Speaker 2: The NFL, whether we miss Justin Morgan, yeah, coaching like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: just I can't nothing. There's nothing I can put my

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Speaker 2: for sure.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he and I were going to become

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Speaker 2: But it was like he had just got the errors

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Speaker 2: out of his game, he had just got a lot

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Speaker 2: of the penalties out of his game. Then he's been

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Speaker 2: let go. We're obviously banking on a lot of these

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Speaker 2: young guys, but they need game time. I think I

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Speaker 2: think you're right.

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Speaker 1: Seraldo's got the club that he wants over at the Bulldogs.

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Speaker 1: I think we need to give Wibe time to get

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Speaker 1: him time to get them. And God knock on wood,

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Speaker 1: we can keep them on the park. We're going to

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Speaker 1: talk very shortly about how.

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Speaker 2: Have yeah, have we signed anyone for next year? Aside

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Speaker 2: from James Fish.

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Speaker 1: We have signed James Fisher, Harris none that I've no

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Speaker 1: big names or no big names, but I do think

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Speaker 1: I reckon there's another couple of couple of shots to

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Speaker 1: can't get past the fact that they're sicking from the table.

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Speaker 1: And I know that on paper the Eels are actually

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Speaker 1: better than how this season has gone, but they're missing

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Speaker 1: some big players as well. You know, Mike Sivo, Mitch Moses.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they didn't have this starting half. Why am I

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Speaker 2: forgetting the props name Junior Polo?

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Speaker 1: So like, there's all these guys out for them, but

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Speaker 1: still just to lose to the second last place team

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Speaker 1: on the latter as a real heartbreaker for me, and

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Speaker 1: I don't think that it builds the kind of confidence

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Speaker 1: And if I had to put it, like put that

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Speaker 1: lost down to one thing, probably the spot.

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Speaker 2: I obviously want to reach for injuries straight away, but I'm.

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Speaker 1: Like, I just feel like when we when we let

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Speaker 1: a couple of tries in, it opens the flood gates

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Speaker 1: a little bit. I don't know what it is or

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Speaker 1: who's fault it is, you know, I just wonder, like

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Speaker 1: they get behind the sticks, Are they having a yarn?

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Speaker 1: Are they pointing fingers?

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Speaker 2: What worries me is the stat that we have won

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Speaker 2: four out of nine at Mount Smart this year. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: one was a drawing it yeah, it's well yeah one

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Speaker 2: of the so one was a draw. But so, yeah

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Speaker 2: we've won.

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Speaker 1: I suppose you could call that fifty to fifty, but you.

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Speaker 2: Know that that should be our fortress. Yeah. I also

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Speaker 2: I worried about this at the beginning of the season.

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Speaker 2: We don't maybe look quite as fit as some of

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Speaker 2: the other teams, so maybe we need one hell of

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Speaker 2: an off season. There's the elephant in the room of

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Speaker 2: are we going to resign Sewan Johnson?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he's yeah. Asked about that ad nauseum.

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Speaker 2: He was what's going to happen to to Harris.

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Speaker 1: Out for the rest of the season.

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Speaker 1: I I really don't know with Sewan Johnson. One, if

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Speaker 1: I had to guess, I would say yes he re

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Speaker 1: signs because he has been offered contracts from other clubs

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Speaker 1: and I don't think that no matter where you're out

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Speaker 1: in your career, you ever turned down guaranteed money when

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Speaker 1: it's in six figures, you know, even if you get

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Speaker 3: Oh, because then the tigers throw I think the roosters

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Speaker 3: as well. The roosters, yeah, both of them. So you know,

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Speaker 3: I don't think it doesn't matter how much money you

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Speaker 3: got someone offers you three, four or five six hundred

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Speaker 2: And I think what hurts is like You've got Dallen

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Speaker 2: who is daily and winner, winner of the year. You've

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Speaker 2: got Sean who what's the daisy? To be honest, you

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Speaker 2: know he got pipped at the post. They both dipped

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Speaker 2: in form. Well, our attacking structure is different. I'd have

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Speaker 2: to say Wade is maybe dipped in form, but he

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Speaker 2: takes so much traffic in the middle. It's an interesting

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Speaker 2: one and it's a very rude awakening for Webee because

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Speaker 2: he sort of started had the golden start.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think because I was talking to my dad

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Speaker 1: about it yesterday and I was like, if I had

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Speaker 1: to put my finger on one thing, there was the

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Speaker 1: difference between last year and this year. It is as

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Speaker 1: simple as we essentially lost the Dali M Player of

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Speaker 1: the Year. Shawn Johnson should have won it last year.

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Speaker 1: It was like a clerical era that he didn't. And

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Speaker 1: then he's just been injured all year. So it's through

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Speaker 1: no fold of his own. But he has been playing

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Speaker 1: with injury or been out with injury for this entire year.

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Speaker 1: And I think if you take the best player in

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Speaker 1: the competition off a team, I don't think it's that

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Speaker 1: ridiculous to think that'd fall out of the top four

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Speaker 1: down to fourteenth.

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Speaker 2: You know, you have a look at the Broncos and

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Speaker 2: Adam Reynolds exactly because last year I think everyone thought

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Speaker 2: that where he's just Willy went with Will, where he

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Speaker 2: was Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory. You know that

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Speaker 2: he was just this mythical guy. But now it's like

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Speaker 2: always at the Grindstone.

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Speaker 1: If you're king to join the ACC team from Massive

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Speaker 1: Rugby League weekend in March of twenty twenty five in

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Speaker 1: Las Vegas, you can do that. Just takes Vegas to

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Speaker 2: Yes, I'm over there with the ha ha hurly the man.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to be looking after a planeload of people.

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Speaker 1: It's a long flight.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've never done a thirteen hour stand up. G're

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Speaker 2: It's the type thirty. Now. I don't think they want

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Speaker 1: And what they call Round zero now over there in

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Speaker 2: You don't much with Fisher Harris no word is he's

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Speaker 1: Well, who would you say has been our best player

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Speaker 2: I was at a arcade right with my kids and

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Speaker 1: don't quite think we've had that this year. And I

437
00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:55,480
Speaker 1: think it's about bringing in those guys like James Fisher

438
00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:57,320
Speaker 1: Harris and what he can do for because, like you say,

439
00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:00,000
Speaker 1: we've got this awesome crop of young fellas coming through,

440
00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:02,080
Speaker 1: and so we just need to make sure that we

441
00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:05,920
Speaker 1: have a team with a solid identity because then even

442
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:09,320
Speaker 1: if we lose or you know, we finished next season

443
00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:11,760
Speaker 1: in fourteenth place, if we can put our hand up

444
00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:13,720
Speaker 1: so look, we had a team that had a clear

445
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:17,200
Speaker 1: identity that didn't go our way, then we can feel

446
00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:20,399
Speaker 1: good about the team. And I think that that's maybe

447
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:22,399
Speaker 1: what we're feeling right now. Coming off the high of

448
00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:25,000
Speaker 1: last year. We come into this year lost our identity

449
00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:27,600
Speaker 1: a little bit and we're like, fuck, at least if

450
00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:28,960
Speaker 1: we had to fired some shots, you know.

451
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Speaker 2: Oh, I know, Like the identity thing I think is

452
00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:38,679
Speaker 2: so crucial because where we succeeded so much in twenty

453
00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:44,600
Speaker 2: twenty three was grind. Yeah, we just every man played

454
00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:49,360
Speaker 2: for their other man. We tackled our asses off our

455
00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:54,240
Speaker 2: goal line defense was insane. Now I notice, I think

456
00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:58,720
Speaker 2: we need to HARKing back to another thing old Wars

457
00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:03,280
Speaker 2: up TV said a good analysis. Dude, he just made

458
00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:07,280
Speaker 2: a good point around. We do probably need some sort

459
00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:13,080
Speaker 2: of attacking coaching flair put in because last year we

460
00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:16,520
Speaker 2: had which I think was justin Morgan, we had this

461
00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:23,200
Speaker 2: big sweeping plays, so many dummy runners, shortball, long ball.

462
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,520
Speaker 2: Now I noticed we just have a sweeping back line.

463
00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:32,000
Speaker 2: We don't have such an intricate flow in the offense,

464
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Speaker 2: and a lot of that is probably because we were

465
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Speaker 2: fresh last year and teams to video on us. So

466
00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:44,000
Speaker 2: I think we we need a lot of reinvigoration. But

467
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Speaker 2: why I'm excited about next year is it's not like, right,

468
00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:55,320
Speaker 2: let's burn the club down and start again there. We

469
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:59,960
Speaker 2: just need That's what I was saying before this Eels game.

470
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:02,600
Speaker 2: I was hoping the Eels game would be the game

471
00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:08,200
Speaker 2: where we clicked and we just got into form. Yeah.

472
00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:13,440
Speaker 2: So if we if Sean stays on, I just hope

473
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:18,920
Speaker 2: he goes works on his body, does what he needs

474
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:22,800
Speaker 2: to be to be at one hundred percent and can

475
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:27,040
Speaker 2: somehow add a couple of tricks to his game or

476
00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:29,600
Speaker 2: just dust a couple off. He has got them.

477
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Speaker 1: You know. Even when he went to Cronulla, he was

478
00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:34,919
Speaker 1: the leading triasis player in the competition. When he was

479
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:36,760
Speaker 1: over there in last year, he still had them. He

480
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:38,679
Speaker 1: was throwing no look, well not no look passes. He

481
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:41,240
Speaker 1: was throwing passes to where he couldn't even see charms,

482
00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:43,639
Speaker 1: and he was throwing pinpoint passes to him as they

483
00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:45,719
Speaker 1: were sweeping around that they had that right side clicking,

484
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,119
Speaker 1: and for whatever reason, they haven't this year, but we

485
00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:48,960
Speaker 1: know that they can.

486
00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:53,840
Speaker 2: No, it's right there. We're slightly relying on the short

487
00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:59,040
Speaker 2: ball in the acordo a lot, so I think just

488
00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:03,120
Speaker 2: a couple of tweets, yeah, and just a little bit

489
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:06,480
Speaker 2: of tweakage and we're going to be good to fly.

490
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:12,400
Speaker 2: We've got Tine Turpigi, who I think is almost at

491
00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:16,160
Speaker 2: full first grade level, Real Ali, Leia Tower's coming right,

492
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:21,000
Speaker 2: a lot of green shoots around Lecajalasimo Dimitrix of a

493
00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:22,040
Speaker 2: cooler even Tom Ali.

494
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Speaker 1: We forget how young he is because he's been a

495
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:25,480
Speaker 1: you know, rotation player this year.

496
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Speaker 2: Next year I think we'll probably see a bit maybe

497
00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:35,640
Speaker 2: of Pasacala or Settu too coming in around the wing.

498
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Speaker 1: I like the guys that we've re signed and Wade

499
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:47,879
Speaker 1: Egan you talk about obviously Minett, Yeah I believe. Oh no,

500
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:49,840
Speaker 1: I've lost it, but yeah, just some of the guys

501
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:52,639
Speaker 1: that we're that we're keeping on. You plug all of

502
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:56,320
Speaker 1: those dudes in and the key with Mitch baronets and

503
00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:57,200
Speaker 1: this is no Luke.

504
00:26:57,119 --> 00:27:00,359
Speaker 2: Metcalf look at you exactly because we were he's been

505
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:03,119
Speaker 2: gone all. He's cool when I saw him with his

506
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:05,879
Speaker 2: glasses on when we interviewed him. Yeah, he's got a

507
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:08,479
Speaker 2: Clark kent Via a little bit, yeah, a little bit,

508
00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 2: great talker too. Yeah, he's just like a buff Excel

509
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 2: spreadsheet that scores strikes. It's exactly. He's a scouting report

510
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:20,880
Speaker 2: on look. He had a cracking game in the New

511
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:25,199
Speaker 2: South Wales Cup to Marty Martin did. Yeah, God, just

512
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 2: as you think he can't get hotter like a herd

513
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,360
Speaker 2: out fisherman hunter dude as well.

514
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,159
Speaker 1: I know I've been saying the longest time he is

515
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,440
Speaker 1: whoever in New Zealand man thinks he is. When your

516
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:36,880
Speaker 1: confidence is at its highest, we all think that we're

517
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,119
Speaker 1: look metcaff You're like, you know what, if I wanted to,

518
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:42,920
Speaker 1: I could just go out drag ah a pope, take

519
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:45,040
Speaker 1: three a peg out of the bush, and then go

520
00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:46,600
Speaker 1: play half back for the Warriors on the weekend.

521
00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 2: Exactly.

522
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:48,159
Speaker 1: That's what he does.

523
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 2: And that thing of not It's not like he's posing

524
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:55,640
Speaker 2: in front of a ford if I'm fifty with aar

525
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 2: fifteen like some American punisher. He's just on like a

526
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:05,359
Speaker 2: eu stallion, Yeah, with an old school rifle and like

527
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:07,440
Speaker 2: a peg over the saddle.

528
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:10,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's tremendous so home around as well. I just

529
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:13,040
Speaker 1: feel like we're definitely starting to build a character of

530
00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:15,360
Speaker 1: high mono players that I think once we can put

531
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:17,920
Speaker 1: that together next year and have a bit of pride

532
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,720
Speaker 1: in the in the country. You know, we're a one

533
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:24,600
Speaker 1: club country, and I think that once we put more

534
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 1: of that money in the g.

535
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:29,200
Speaker 2: GY, I reckon, if we can get the manna between

536
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:33,359
Speaker 2: ninety and one, yeah, then we drizzle a bit of

537
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:35,520
Speaker 2: moldy order, a bit of spirit and a bit of

538
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 2: life force on that. Unstoppable.

539
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 1: I think we are unstoppable. So look, that's that's how

540
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 1: I think. I think if we were to tie a

541
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 1: bow on that it's the monna next year. It's about

542
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 1: the mana, restoring the mona to the club, to the jersey.

543
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:51,880
Speaker 1: And also it's there at the ground by the way. Sorry.

544
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, and look, I mean look what a little bit

545
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 2: of mona and beliefs done for the Titans.

546
00:28:58,080 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 1: Yeah.

547
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:02,160
Speaker 2: Also, why was Dan Carter and Tim Morrison in the

548
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 2: changing rooms yesterday?

549
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 1: Could you come to Mount Smart? No, it's like Tim,

550
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 1: come on, come on, Tim, what do we doing? Could

551
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 1: have done with it?

552
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 2: Yeah? Putting the money back in the jersey. I think

553
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 2: he's a bold man looking at Tino for cook me

554
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 2: some eggs. He's given him the full side eye.

555
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 1: You were that even if you get that frying.

556
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean we're there. I don't think we

557
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 2: actually need to sign a huge amount of players. We

558
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:40,920
Speaker 2: just need to get all of our players back onto

559
00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 2: that twenty twenty three. I think this is we might

560
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 2: just have to go. Let's forget about four, move into

561
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 2: the preseason, you know.

562
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,400
Speaker 1: And it wasn't a bad year by Warriors standards. If

563
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 1: we hadn't had the year that we had last year,

564
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 1: this Warriors year, but good one, I would say we're twelve.

565
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've got a mathematical chance.

566
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, mathematical chance. All right, let's draw a line under it.

567
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,240
Speaker 1: We'll take one more break. Hopefully that failed you at

568
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 1: the bit of confidence with twenty twenty five. When we

569
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 1: come back, we are going to go through the Stonker

570
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 1: of the Round. All right, Welcome back to the Mad

571
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Speaker 1: Monday Podcast. The four and twenty four pack prize pack

572
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573
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 1: They're giving away four tickets to Warriors and four and

574
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Speaker 1: twenty five ouches to enter. Just text the monthly keyword

575
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Speaker 1: to three two three six. Listen the podcast steps to

576
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Speaker 1: find out the new keyword each month. This month, because

577
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Speaker 1: it is August, the keyword is game, So text game

578
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:45,280
Speaker 1: two three two three six to be in to win.

579
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Speaker 1: But now it is time to talk about the best

580
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:47,960
Speaker 1: game of the weekend.

581
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Speaker 2: It is the.

582
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Speaker 1: Stonker of the Round and this weekend, die the Stonker

583
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 1: had to be the Dogs verse the Raiders twenty two

584
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:00,880
Speaker 1: points to eighteen. I feel like the Dogs have found

585
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 1: something in the last couple of weeks. I feel like

586
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:04,960
Speaker 1: they have clicked the way we've been waiting for the

587
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,840
Speaker 1: Warriors to click. They are playing. I described it this

588
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 1: morning as they are playing like the Fijian drawer of

589
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:15,160
Speaker 1: the NRL. They will attack you from fucking anywhere. They

590
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 1: will spin it wide on the first in their own twenty.

591
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 1: They will just have a crack at anything. They're very

592
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 1: exciting to watch out a car back on the weekend.

593
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:24,720
Speaker 1: They're going from strength to strength the dogs, aren't they.

594
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:27,880
Speaker 2: If you'd told me the Dogs will be involved in

595
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 2: a Stonker of the Round last year, no way. They

596
00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 2: are back to back Stonker of the Round. I think

597
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 2: Stephen Crichton is the best center in the competition. His

598
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 2: try where he fended then sort of bumped off Jordan

599
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 2: Rappana and then got over the line. He makes really

600
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 2: hard plays seem very easy.

601
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 1: He gave them both the business Chris and rap on

602
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 1: it in the same play.

603
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 2: Rappin is a bit of a punisher.

604
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,959
Speaker 1: I don't know what you've had a see.

605
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 2: I sort of love him and hate him at the

606
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:13,960
Speaker 2: same time as he's hardcore grubby.

607
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:15,440
Speaker 1: He looks like I think we talked about it on

608
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 1: the podcast last year. He looks like Waluigi, you know,

609
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 1: the evil Luigi.

610
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:23,320
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, if Waluigi sort of mixed up with one

611
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:25,560
Speaker 2: of those more eastra Island stagues.

612
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:27,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he's got a bit of that going on.

613
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 1: But this game, like I said that, they've they've found

614
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:31,560
Speaker 1: something in the Bulldogs.

615
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 2: And when I was talking about the Warriors kicking game,

616
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 2: then you see the opposite Matt Burton when you're kicking

617
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 2: off your own thirty and he just lobs it down

618
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:46,719
Speaker 2: to their ten meter. Yeah he's kicking. And also he

619
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 2: can kick the ball so high all the chasers have

620
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:51,600
Speaker 2: time to get down there.

621
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you can contest from anywhere. The other thing

622
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 1: that they were talking about in the commentary was he

623
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 1: kicks it higher than the lights. So the lights at

624
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 1: the ground they were playing it last night. When he

625
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 1: kicked it, it went above them. So for one mad

626
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 1: moment you lose track of the ball. It's just a shit.

627
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 1: I've seen one in the flesh and it is terrifying.

628
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 1: It's just pure chaos.

629
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Speaker 2: And it also has that weird wobble to it.

630
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 1: It can shift about ten meters on its way down

631
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:18,719
Speaker 1: to you trying to catch it, and they know that.

632
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:21,040
Speaker 1: So as soon as that goes up, like every player

633
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 1: on the field is like fucking here we go.

634
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 2: And I where I've got a lot of re speak

635
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:28,400
Speaker 2: for the Dogs beginning of the season. They built themselves

636
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 2: on defense. Now they're just playing entertaining football, and they

637
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:35,240
Speaker 2: forced you to play the way that they play.

638
00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:36,960
Speaker 1: When they were the stonker of the round last week

639
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 1: against the Broncos, the Broncos were having to do chip

640
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 1: and chases out of their own end because they just

641
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:43,880
Speaker 1: to try and compete with them, and so they drag

642
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 1: you into a ship fight. I think what they've figured

643
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 1: out they seem to me like a PlayStation team. They

644
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 1: traded all of the players in that they needed. You know,

645
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 1: they got the Fox, they got Burton, they got Kriton,

646
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 1: they went and got Kickout, they brought Red Mary. They

647
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,400
Speaker 1: brought all these dudes in over the last two years.

648
00:33:58,600 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 1: And it was always going to be a little bit.

649
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 1: But you could see Carez come out of nowhere. Now

650
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 1: they got Bronze and Sherry back from four years of

651
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 1: rampant steroid abuse. And they allegedly and but.

652
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 2: You're not alleged that he actually was.

653
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:21,239
Speaker 1: Reported reportedly alleged. But you could see on paper all

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Speaker 1: of the players, you know, they had.

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Speaker 2: Well it's hard out PlayStation where they recruited all the people.

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Speaker 2: Then they used all their stats points on.

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Speaker 1: The average ones like Carrez bring him up, yes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and then they maxed out certain things, like they took

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Speaker 1: the Fox and they're like, we'll max out his speed rating,

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Speaker 1: Matt Burton, We're just going to max out his whole

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Speaker 1: running and spiral punt and then like that's it, and

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Speaker 1: then we're going to max out Reed Marney's pissing people

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Speaker 1: off ability.

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Speaker 2: And also how they everyone was mocking them as they

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00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:55,960
Speaker 2: bought like ten utility players. Yeah, but it's worked out perfectly.

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Speaker 2: And ship the Liamy kick ou put a shot on, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: could can plain footy, yeah, but he does exactly what

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Speaker 2: you need and enforce her to do. He scares the

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Speaker 2: Beejesus out of playmakers, yeah, exactly, and not illegally, just

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Speaker 2: hits them hard on.

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Speaker 1: Offense and on defense on both sides of the ball.

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Speaker 1: And he had a really quiet year last year, but

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Speaker 1: he is still really only kicked out And there is

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Speaker 1: no substitute for just having a dude that big with

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Speaker 1: magie noodles for here. Yeah, it's just terrifying. It's frightening.

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Speaker 2: A sheepskin vibe as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like an old sheepskin, yeah, graggedy sheepskin, yeah, like

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Speaker 1: a yeah.

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Speaker 2: But I mean even it was the first time in

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Speaker 2: a press conference I've seen Ricky Stewart actually just be

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Speaker 2: that was a pretty cool game, yeah, because the vibe

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Speaker 2: was so hostile.

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Speaker 1: So yes, at the ground, it was a massive crowd.

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Speaker 1: What is going on out there at Belmore?

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Speaker 2: They so they have a traditionally very passionate They've always

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Speaker 2: had a heavy Lebanese fan base. You've had your hairs

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Speaker 2: and male masaries, those sort of players, Anthony Mundane. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: passionate fans. Yeah, you know, and outside of any country

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Speaker 2: that people are from, all those dogs fans are so passionate.

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Speaker 2: And it felt like I got heavy European football sort

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Speaker 2: of vibes with that crowd. And then they're shaking a

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Speaker 2: van after the after the scenes afterwards, I thought, so

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00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:34,399
Speaker 2: they started doing the rounds of social media. The pants

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Speaker 2: Man's putting them in our group chat. I was looking

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Speaker 2: at the videos and I was like, I thought that

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Speaker 2: they were I thought that they were videos from back

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00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 2: when Willie Mason and them were winning cops. No, no, no,

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Speaker 2: this was from the weekend.

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Speaker 1: It's going on. They're trying to flip a van over.

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Speaker 1: They just going ape.

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Speaker 2: Apparently I expected Seal Team six to come in. At

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Speaker 2: one point it had a real downtown Gander sort of

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Speaker 2: vibe about it, that anything could happen at any time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It was out of control and it

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Speaker 1: was just like our game in round twenty two, Round

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Speaker 1: twenty three.

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Speaker 2: I was like, this is out of out of control?

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Speaker 1: How are you going on there?

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Speaker 2: I would never say this before. I think the Dogs

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Speaker 2: could be you know how you pick a team you

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Speaker 2: like in the finals, The Dogs could be that team

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Speaker 2: for me.

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Speaker 1: They are for me last week. I've seen enough. They're

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Speaker 1: my team. I'm following them.

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Speaker 2: They just play a really enjoyable brand of football.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they have a crack. And you know, we're talking

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Speaker 1: about what we want the Warriors to look like. This

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Speaker 1: has always been it for me. Just a team that

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Speaker 1: has a crack, win or lose heart out, Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: then play loose football, have a.

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Speaker 2: White hot crack.

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Speaker 1: You got Bronson Sherry, chip and chasing and Durrell Skelton

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Speaker 1: coming out of absolutely nowhere.

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Speaker 2: That's technically how you think the Broncos would play. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: but they sort of have been in a similar state

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Speaker 2: to us. Yeah, they've just picked the bunch the Bulldogs.

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Speaker 1: They've just picked the bunch of like footy players and

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Speaker 1: this year they finally got to the point where there

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Speaker 1: just like we trust you to go for it.

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Speaker 2: And if anyone wants to knock Gus Gould, I was

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Speaker 2: a bit of a knocker.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: He they said, he rebuild the club. He did a

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Speaker 2: phenomenal job. Knows a bit about rugby league football, he does.

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Speaker 2: He can he can analyze that kid, yeah he can.

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Speaker 1: I reckon.

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Speaker 2: He's got a big future in the game, that guy. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know, I reckon. Even if he wasn't at the Dogs.

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Speaker 2: I reckon another club would hire I reckon. They might,

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Speaker 2: I reckon, they might remember he was it the Warriors

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Speaker 2: for two months well just before lockdown. Yeah, and then

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Speaker 2: he got the gig at the Dog Yeah, well could

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Speaker 2: have done with them.

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Speaker 1: So that's our stoker of the round. Just before we go,

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Speaker 1: before knock this one on the head, I've got a

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Speaker 1: random NRL.

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Speaker 2: Stat to throw at you if I could.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations to Isaiah Yongie on his winning debut, more importantly,

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Speaker 1: becoming a first ever NRL player with the initials I I.

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Speaker 1: There's never been a player in the NRL with those

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Speaker 1: and he becomes the first new initials of the year

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Speaker 1: and as noted by NRL odd Stats on Instagram, it's

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Speaker 1: an alliterative name. So I I he making it the

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Speaker 1: twenty first letter to be completed in the NRL. Wow,

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Speaker 1: the only letter is yet to be done. Unsurprisingly, Q, Yeah, U, X,

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Speaker 1: Y and Z. He is the sixth illiterative name to

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Speaker 1: debut this year, joining Samuel stone Street, Trent Toylou, Liam LeBlanc,

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Speaker 1: Luke Lowell, Lily and Harry Hayes this year.

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Speaker 2: So Street stone Street, it's a real honest name. Good

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Speaker 2: God's honest rugby league name. So I just wanted to

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Speaker 2: share that one with you. That is a phenomenal stat

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Speaker 2: isn't it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we need a QQ to get in there. I

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Speaker 1: can't see it happening anytime soon, all right? That it

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Speaker 1: does for this week on the Mad Monday podcast will

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Speaker 1: be back again on Thursday. Myself and Chris Key, who

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Speaker 1: have not commentated a one together, We are commentating the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins game this week in Sunday Sunday four pm.

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Speaker 2: We broke the curse. We break the curse. We'll see

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Speaker 2: you then. And Australia without rugby league is not Australia, right,

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Speaker 2: Astralia right,