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Speaker 1: I love it too. Have you ever seen someone eat
Speaker 1: it with a knife and fork before? Now?
Speaker 2: I look, I have seen someone need a pie with
Speaker 2: a knife and fork. The only pie I'll give you
Speaker 2: to eat with a knife and fork is if you're
Speaker 2: actually in a pub having a proper pub.
Speaker 1: Pie and you get a slice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, or it comes in a sort of big rammikan
Speaker 2: with a lid on it, so you have to pot pie.
Speaker 2: But if you're getting a pie that you'd either get
Speaker 2: at the footy a servo or it's an on the
Speaker 2: go pie. And the Traveler is one literally made to
Speaker 2: hold in your hand in one head. Don't tell me
Speaker 2: someone we know has been eating a pie a knife
Speaker 2: and for.
Speaker 1: Casey on Saturday night was tucking into one with a
Speaker 1: knife and fork. He said it was a little too
Speaker 1: hot for him and so he had to roll the
Speaker 1: knife and fork. He was appropriately torn to shreds on
Speaker 1: the text machine for his efforts as well.
Speaker 2: Look, I mean Keysy someone who loves the banter.
Speaker 1: We all know that. But oh it was just he
Speaker 1: loves the burgers too. Down there, down there at the mount.
Speaker 2: I thought I thought, I thought he was just a
Speaker 2: key we guy. He's into cars. Yeah, he's into the
Speaker 2: Red Fox Steven. He better not be caught dead in
Speaker 2: the Red Fox Steven eating him four and twenty with
Speaker 2: a fork and a knife and fork. He was cutting out,
Speaker 2: giving it a.
Speaker 1: Bit, yeah, and there was a there's a video of
Speaker 1: him trying to do it on the thing, but because
Speaker 1: it was ear fried to within an inch of its life,
Speaker 1: he couldn't cut through because it was quite crusty. But
Speaker 1: again it's designed to hold together in your hand. So
Speaker 1: he's trying to cut it in the and he goes
Speaker 1: to pick it up, it just drops off the end
Speaker 1: of his fork. The videos on Instagram.
Speaker 2: So the answer, keasy is if your pie's too hot.
Speaker 1: This is what we use.
Speaker 2: When I was at primary school, once a week you
Speaker 2: could order a pie, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, write your name on the envelope.
Speaker 2: It always came so hot, so you'd take the top off,
Speaker 2: put the sauce inside, put the lid back on and
Speaker 2: the source cooled it. Yeah, that's that's there's a lot
Speaker 2: of option. You don't have to go straight for the
Speaker 2: knife and for if it's too hot your hand, you
Speaker 2: can put bread on either side. That's where the pie
Speaker 2: sandwich came from. You can blow on it, of course,
Speaker 2: like the famous ad, you know that's say for communities together.
Speaker 1: Say for communities together. That pie has been in the
Speaker 1: pie warmers since eight o'clock this morning. It's thermonuclet. You
Speaker 1: must always blow on the pie. You could just wait.
Speaker 2: I reckon that that police officer did more for the
Speaker 2: reputation of the police in New Zealand than any police
Speaker 2: officer in the street.
Speaker 1: Is one hundred per I couldn't think of maybe the
Speaker 1: good aftable constinent officer. Although he was just there when
Speaker 1: it happened. He did next year. He didn't have a
Speaker 1: great line, No, he was just there. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: he would. But yeah, there's no threat. We're dancing.
Speaker 2: We're dancing around the sadness here in the n Yeah, and.
Speaker 1: The sadness is thirty eight to twenty four. The Warriors
Speaker 1: lose again. That is sixteen straight against the storm fifteen years.
Speaker 1: That we haven't beaten them. I think it was yeah,
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine. Last time we beat the Storm,
Speaker 1: they are top of the table. And before we get
Speaker 1: too deep into the chat, I would say before this game,
Speaker 1: if you told me the score was going to be
Speaker 1: thirty eight twenty four, I would have said, that probably
Speaker 1: sounds about right, don't you think. But it's probably the
Speaker 1: way that it happened that was alertle bit disappointing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like thirty eight.
Speaker 2: So if I just saw the score thirty eight twenty four,
Speaker 2: I'd think Storm got out to a lead and then
Speaker 2: we hunted them down, but we didn't have enough time
Speaker 2: to get it back. So this morning I did like,
Speaker 2: I've done my watch, I've done my watch, and I
Speaker 2: just watched.
Speaker 1: The game through stats.
Speaker 2: The stats don't tell the don't tell a thirty eight
Speaker 2: twenty four store. No, we had fifty four percent of
Speaker 2: the possession, Yeah, an eighty two percent completion rate to
Speaker 2: their seventy six percent. We had more completed sets, we
Speaker 2: had more total sets, We had three hundred more run.
Speaker 1: Meters three hundred. We had eleven to six off loads.
Speaker 1: So the only stat they beat us in it was
Speaker 1: this was try points. Yeah, and I have to say.
Speaker 2: As a Warriors fan who has a heavy amount of PTSD,
Speaker 2: I was so stressed out when we got out to
Speaker 2: that early lead. You know that twenty we had twenty
Speaker 2: beautiful minutes of play. Granted we probably should have scored
Speaker 2: another try in that in that time where you know,
Speaker 2: after twelve minutes, the Storm hadn't touched them, had a
Speaker 2: full set. After twenty minutes we had been they hadn't
Speaker 2: been into our half, and then they just do what
Speaker 2: the bloody Storm do.
Speaker 1: Couple of opportunistsic trys. I thought that, like you said,
Speaker 1: the start was excellent. Adam Pombi scoring that try, the
Speaker 1: chance back door flick outrageous.
Speaker 2: So that seals the deal right on chance. Before you
Speaker 2: know the game, Chance had in the hearts. Everyone was saying,
Speaker 2: is he a ballplayer? He doesn't really, you know, he's
Speaker 2: another silky hands ballplayer. He showed he as a great
Speaker 2: passer in that that back door flip pass was on
Speaker 2: the money, It was under pressure, it was amazing, it
Speaker 2: was sick. I mean, I'd give him a pass because
Speaker 2: he's a key.
Speaker 1: We Jerom Hughes owned that game. He destroyed us, and
Speaker 1: I was saying that my Keysy to success before the
Speaker 1: aim was Jerome Hughes and Elikator. We need to shut
Speaker 1: both of them down. They play so well together. You're right.
Speaker 1: Jerome Hughes killed us his combination with Ali Kata, who
Speaker 1: just took out in Pompy's lollies for that try where
Speaker 1: they kicked Pompy went up, caught it and then kut
Speaker 1: went main catch bro give us that book and then
Speaker 1: scored a try. He is a player who.
Speaker 2: Would still be munting around the middle unless you've gone
Speaker 2: to Melbourne. Yeah, Craig Bellamy has honed him and is
Speaker 2: getting you know, he manages to get all of the.
Speaker 1: Juice out of the berry. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Like if you look at that, someone like Nick Minie, right,
Speaker 2: Nick Manna. He he was pretty average, but he's like
Speaker 2: did sit sweet as he was a sweet Airs replacement
Speaker 2: for Pappenhausen and until far long or yeah, oh god,
Speaker 2: I want to punch the mon awave out of his face.
Speaker 2: Oh you know when the thing not because I dislike him, Yeah,
Speaker 2: because he's just one of those players that's on the
Speaker 2: team we're playing and he is so good.
Speaker 1: It's like when Reee Walsh plays against us. Yeah, when
Speaker 1: he was playing for us, we're like, yeah, mean suck that.
Speaker 1: But then when he's playing against you. I took so
Speaker 1: much like shudden freuder from him doing the big Swan
Speaker 1: dive and then injuring.
Speaker 2: Himself massively winding himself and cracking a rib sucker.
Speaker 1: But he is electric. He car'd us the bits a
Speaker 1: little bit there. I think the biggest thing that the
Speaker 1: elphant in the room for this game was the two
Speaker 1: yellow cards. The first one was quick tap and go
Speaker 1: from Jerome Hughes. He ran straight into Marcelo Montour to
Speaker 1: try and milk a penalty. Marcelo obliged, grabbed him, threw
Speaker 1: him over the sideline. The rifts like the fuck, you
Speaker 1: can't do that.
Speaker 2: So I wouldn't be surprised that Marcello should have thrown
Speaker 2: him over the sideline and just walked to the dressing Yeah,
Speaker 2: because that play is one of the few guaranteed end
Speaker 2: up binnings, Like there's no question no. And Girard Sutton right,
Speaker 2: he has a bad history with the Warriors in terms
Speaker 2: of calls.
Speaker 1: At one point in the tackle other penalty count was
Speaker 1: six to one against us.
Speaker 2: But then having said that, he gave us every call
Speaker 2: in that first twenty minutes. The call I found weird
Speaker 2: was when they went back to plays.
Speaker 1: Tommarti Martin's head.
Speaker 2: High and Wade was going, what about my head high?
Speaker 2: And he goes, you didn't get head high tech on?
Speaker 2: While am I bleeding from the face.
Speaker 1: Yeah. That that one absolutely killed me when it happened,
Speaker 1: because I think, didn't we score so we were going
Speaker 1: to have the ball? Yeah, because we that's right. It
Speaker 1: was a double knock on and we're like, right, it's
Speaker 1: our ball. But then they're like, hang.
Speaker 2: On, yeah, we scored, but it was a double knock
Speaker 2: on Melbourne knock on first.
Speaker 1: And then they went back to plays like, that's not
Speaker 1: what you were checking. That isn't what we were talking about.
Speaker 1: Such a rugby union movement. It was a massive rugby
Speaker 1: union move And just before that game, I was talking
Speaker 1: to mcconey, who commentated the rugby union game before us,
Speaker 1: and he's like, League does a good job of this
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. You know, they don't go back that far.
Speaker 1: They just go back to the last place. Sure enough,
Speaker 1: we're gonna absolutely slick. But again that's not why we lost.
Speaker 2: I do think I just just still on that to
Speaker 2: Marty Martin thing I thought the way League meant to
Speaker 2: deal with it is they play the knock on, but
Speaker 2: they go we checked that there was foul play.
Speaker 1: To Marty Martin's on report.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so then it gets dealt with after the game
Speaker 2: because they missed the penalty in the run and play.
Speaker 1: Yes, but no, they decided we're actually going to bring
Speaker 1: that one back and Wade got smoked. Yeah, well again,
Speaker 1: like you said, he said to the reef, how can
Speaker 1: I have blood coming out of my lip if I
Speaker 1: didn't get hid in the head. I don't know. It's
Speaker 1: just such a squirrely one. And I know it's like
Speaker 1: a sore topic because anytime it goes against your team,
Speaker 1: you're like, what the rules?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I'm not one to blame the refs, because look,
Speaker 2: the refs didn't lose us that game.
Speaker 1: No, we our age defense lost us that game. I
Speaker 1: felt well, particularly when we lost the edges of our
Speaker 1: edges from those two Yellow Caps. When we had no edges,
Speaker 1: we had no edges, We were just a middle because
Speaker 1: there was one. There was one. Try to I forget
Speaker 1: his name, their winger, Grant Atkinson.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just where that sounds like a referee, Grant where
Speaker 2: Montoya just stumbled to get on the out to turn around.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he just got done on the outside. Ye
Speaker 1: where we compressed a bit too much, just got the
Speaker 1: numbers a little bit wrong on that one. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a bit disappointing. But also we had a lot of
Speaker 1: injuries in this game. Yeah, we did. Rocc o'berry. I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know exactly what happened to him,
Speaker 1: but it looked like he heard his hand again. It
Speaker 1: was some sort of issuing. It was on the same
Speaker 1: So it.
Speaker 2: Is down his shoulder on the NRL injuries, Yeah, right,
Speaker 2: which is what he had before, wasn't it.
Speaker 1: Well, he broke his hand and so he was out
Speaker 1: for a little bit and then yeah, he was down
Speaker 1: in the goal getting attended to, which is no good
Speaker 1: because if you notice towards the end of the game,
Speaker 1: I think was Shanelle Harris Devita was kicking and Pompy
Speaker 1: came off with an ankle injury as well.
Speaker 2: And respect to Pompey, he was kicking epic, Yeah he was.
Speaker 2: These conversions were great. What was your take on Chanell
Speaker 2: getting like nine minutes.
Speaker 1: I'm not entirely sure what his role is at the
Speaker 1: moment and the Warriors like, yeah, he's in there to
Speaker 1: spell Wade Egan. But I just think it's been a
Speaker 1: little bit all over the shop at the moment, and
Speaker 1: so I don't know, there's been a few players that
Speaker 1: we've been carrying on our bench that didn't get too
Speaker 1: many minutes. Kirk cape Wire probably only good about the
Speaker 1: same amount. Yeah, it just felt like we didn't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean it's more more intelligent people and myself,
Speaker 2: but I'm just looking at it now. Rocoberry's shoulder and
Speaker 2: Adam Pompey is to they're both TBC.
Speaker 1: Yeah, looked like some sort of ankle lower leg injury.
Speaker 1: It was very late on in the piece.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I felt like he came off with the two
Speaker 2: or three minutes to go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it sort of sailed under the radar and then Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's just so upside.
Speaker 2: Two of us are check back next week. Ed Cossi
Speaker 2: played awesome in New South Wales Cup and he did
Speaker 2: well when he for the he's played one or two.
Speaker 1: Games, he yes, he and he does do well. He
Speaker 1: did score a try against the Roosters. Unfortunately, when they
Speaker 1: put that like fifty point drubbing on us in the
Speaker 1: first half. It was all down his side, so there
Speaker 1: is a little bit of a little bit of concern there.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you're right. I think Cossy comes in for Dallan,
Speaker 1: who's going to get one or two two weeks for
Speaker 1: his head high on a man that did not have
Speaker 1: the ball, and then that was a brain fart. It
Speaker 1: was so Cossio, we have to come in for him.
Speaker 1: Artis back into the center, and then I think Ali
Speaker 1: La Tower, who I think has been.
Speaker 2: He is injury my friend, Oh yeah, he is round
Speaker 2: eighteen ankle. Oh man, So maybe there'd be that Moilo
Speaker 2: Graham tofa yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh man. Or do we put too Picky back in
Speaker 1: at full back and then Charms in the centers.
Speaker 2: This is going to be also a thing that I
Speaker 2: thought I'd never be saying.
Speaker 1: The slowest. I just felt that Tahu and es Day
Speaker 1: were a bit slower.
Speaker 2: I mean, granted they're coming back, but God Heaven didn't
Speaker 2: walk for it. Lock change plays so fast, changes the
Speaker 2: complexion of teammate yeah and not, and like to who
Speaker 2: to who est didn't do anything wrong? But to who's
Speaker 2: that more controlling lumbering ball playing sort of Isao type,
Speaker 2: whereas Walker just blitzes it.
Speaker 1: He does. I kind of seetaur who becoming more of
Speaker 1: a prop same.
Speaker 2: I'd love to see him in the prop rotation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just because of exactly what you just said then,
Speaker 1: and and if we can get him into that prop rotation,
Speaker 1: that may, you know, bring his minutes down a little bit,
Speaker 1: because he'll play every minute of a game. If you're
Speaker 1: asking how good's Jackson Ford and prop why we were
Speaker 1: trying to figure this out last week, why have they
Speaker 1: swapped Mitch Barnett and Jackson Ford around? I think because.
Speaker 2: Mitch Barnette and Neil Cord I think are really steady
Speaker 2: with the ball. Nil Cord is what so j and
Speaker 2: Ford runs mean lines, but you know he drops about
Speaker 2: two out of five on that short ball.
Speaker 1: It's got a good knock on them.
Speaker 2: And I think, I mean, Mitch Barnette's shining, as he
Speaker 2: showed with that try.
Speaker 1: He can play anywhere.
Speaker 2: But it's I think from a coach's point of view,
Speaker 2: it's really enjoyable having interchangeable back row and props because
Speaker 2: then you don't get caught in the sort of having
Speaker 2: to play the same people. However, I haven't seen much
Speaker 2: of tom Ahler, there'll be dementrics if a cooler coming
Speaker 2: back into the Pictureion And that's with Bunty out as well,
Speaker 2: and Bunty's playing New South Wales Cup.
Speaker 1: We've got our resources are there.
Speaker 2: But what I think we're gonna struggle with is there's
Speaker 2: this log jam, right and teams are really starting to
Speaker 2: step up, like manly, you know, the Cowboys got that
Speaker 2: big win.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I don't trust the Cowboys but yet.
Speaker 2: No, But I mean just in terms of like I
Speaker 2: think it's going to be a big fight for us
Speaker 2: to get to the bottom of the eight. Yes, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm with you because you know, it's not like it's
Speaker 2: not like we're just going against a couple of teams.
Speaker 1: No, the Bulldogs are and it's sixth. The Broncos I
Speaker 1: think might even be eight. Yeah, I think the Broncos
Speaker 1: are on the slide. Eh. Yeah. So it's like these
Speaker 1: are the guys that we're trying to compete with to
Speaker 1: get in there, Dolphins, Sharks, storm, Panthers all right up
Speaker 1: at the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So Bronco's fallen out of the eighth, they're at nine.
Speaker 2: The roosters of fifth Bulldog sixth Raiders seventh, Manly eighth,
Speaker 2: who however, Manly the Manly's on seventeen points. They're in eight,
Speaker 2: and we're on fifteen points and we're twelve.
Speaker 1: Oh right, okay, so we could easily be yeah, back
Speaker 1: in there, but.
Speaker 2: We basically stay where we are next week if we
Speaker 2: beat the Titans, because all the teams above us have buyers,
Speaker 2: so they're all guaranteed.
Speaker 1: Massive bye week, which in another years would have benefited
Speaker 1: us because of the origin thing, but we'll talk about
Speaker 1: it later on in the podcast. It's probably not going
Speaker 1: to benefit us this time. Just quickly in the older
Speaker 1: med Monday Mondays group on Facebook, go and look it up.
Speaker 1: Logan Mudge got on there straight after the game and said,
Speaker 1: tough watch tonight after a magnificent start, some dumb stuff
Speaker 1: from our wingers when we were right in it. Also,
Speaker 1: I love him, but I think Sj's days are nearly done.
Speaker 1: Offered very little fifteen to go. I hope I eat
Speaker 1: my words. Do you think he will eat his words?
Speaker 2: You know I'm putting Sj's ESJ just feels a beat slower,
Speaker 2: but you know he's had leg injury coming back from
Speaker 2: a peck injury. Also we seem to have changed our
Speaker 2: style a little of play a bit while he's been out,
Speaker 2: so he's slotting back into it. I mean, I hate
Speaker 2: to say it, you know, I mean, I mean, obviously
Speaker 2: he's coming to the end of his career, but I
Speaker 2: think he's sort of the same age as DCE, right,
Speaker 2: And you look at how DCE just worked the manly
Speaker 2: around the park this week and it basically brought them
Speaker 2: to a win when they had no bench. Yeah, Jerome
Speaker 2: Hughes just kicked them around the park. I mean it's
Speaker 2: awesome to MARTI still had a good game. I mean,
Speaker 2: there's there's definitely there's still a place for Sean on
Speaker 2: the side, and I think I just hope that he
Speaker 2: can find his straps for the rest of the year.
Speaker 1: I think I know what it is, and I sort
Speaker 1: of talked about it last week, and I don't think
Speaker 1: it's a positional swap, but it's a role change where
Speaker 1: to Mighty Martin becomes our first receiver and dictates a
Speaker 1: bit more of the play and freeze Sean Johnson up
Speaker 1: to play a little bit more of the sixth role,
Speaker 1: if you know what I mean. Yeah, a bit more
Speaker 1: floating and yeah, a bit more instinctive, just eyes up.
Speaker 1: It seems.
Speaker 2: It seems that, I think because also he's a victim
Speaker 2: of hiving, been a successful player for so long that
Speaker 2: people know how he steps, they know his go tos.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think he obviously one part of why
Speaker 1: our right side attacks not as powerful this year is
Speaker 1: because teams know about it. They've locked and keyed in
Speaker 1: on it, and by default, teams lock in on Sean
Speaker 1: Johnson because he is Sean Johnson. So if you've got
Speaker 1: some Mighty Martin out there and one of his passing
Speaker 1: options is Sean Johnson, I feel like that puts another
Speaker 1: level of doubt. It's another decision for a defender to make.
Speaker 1: And I think that you pair that with you know, Marta,
Speaker 1: who looked excellent, he's out on an edge. You pair
Speaker 1: that with Mitch Barnett out on another edge. Arts comes
Speaker 1: back and now all of a sudden, you look up,
Speaker 1: You're looking at RTS, Mitch Barnett, Shawn Johnson, and you're like, shit,
Speaker 1: I don't know what they're gonna do here. Yeah, all
Speaker 1: running down one side, all running down one side. So
Speaker 1: I think that I think that we put a bit
Speaker 1: more into Tomighty Martin. We found out over the last
Speaker 1: few weeks he's up to it. But I still think
Speaker 1: there's a little bit of difference, particularly from him being like, look,
Speaker 1: that's Seawn Johnson. He can do whatever he wants. And
Speaker 1: also from the team's perspective, we're paying Seawan Johnson all
Speaker 1: this money. Here you go, you're in charge of everything.
Speaker 1: I think it'll do us a lot to just take
Speaker 1: a bit off his plate. Just say, look, mate, we're
Speaker 1: gonna give you a bit more license to rome and
Speaker 1: tonight's going to take you know, take charge a little
Speaker 1: bit more. Yeah, I'll be into that.
Speaker 2: I feel our kicking options need something, something, because we
Speaker 2: don't have that kicker like Matt Burton. What did you
Speaker 2: watch the South's game, Bonny Chilnes, No, not live, Jack Whiton.
Speaker 1: Yeah, has he did?
Speaker 2: He kicked at seventy five on the.
Speaker 1: Sixth fifth tackle. It did could get dead?
Speaker 2: No, No, he kicked it from his twenty five down.
Speaker 1: To their five meter line. Jesus Chriss.
Speaker 2: So like they like just massive punts, Yeah, we don't.
Speaker 2: And that changed again, Like that changed it from you
Speaker 2: guys struggling to get out of your own end all
Speaker 2: of a sudden that guy runs off ten meters and
Speaker 2: he's caught on his fifteen meter line.
Speaker 1: You know you're right with having said that. I think
Speaker 1: Sean Johnson, at least up until his injury, was leading
Speaker 1: the league in kicked meters. But you're right, it's not
Speaker 1: so much that it's just the we don't have attacking kicks.
Speaker 1: We haven't had a forty twenty in about a decade.
Speaker 2: And also those you know, those bombs that are just wobbling,
Speaker 2: towering messes.
Speaker 1: Yes, someone put one up on the weekend that wasn't
Speaker 1: Sean Johnson, and it's scared the piss out of old
Speaker 1: so far long almost dropped it. I'm forgetting who it was.
Speaker 2: Oh it wasn't Chance put up a bomb.
Speaker 1: It was Chance and he lined up like he was
Speaker 1: going for a torpedo box. Yeah, I was like, go
Speaker 1: on Chance. I just kind of wonder if the Warriors
Speaker 1: at the moment, our identity last year, well before that,
Speaker 1: even our identity at the Warriors has always been schoolyard, bullshit, razzle, dazzle.
Speaker 1: We might blow off the park, you might blow us
Speaker 1: off the park, but we're going to try shit. Where
Speaker 1: we turned around was I think even before Web came
Speaker 1: in and it was like right through Nathan Brown was
Speaker 1: like no.
Speaker 2: And it was especially actually when Nathan Brown left and
Speaker 2: Todd Peyton came and the second half of that season.
Speaker 1: And it was like, we're going to complete at ninety
Speaker 1: nine percent. We're not going to try any dumb shit,
Speaker 1: and if you beat us, you beat us. We only
Speaker 1: beat us by two or four points, but we're not
Speaker 1: going to give you the game. And I think that's
Speaker 1: taken a little bit of the natural footy away from
Speaker 1: some of the players. And I think that's why I think,
Speaker 1: like you said, Chance has got so much more than
Speaker 1: he's been showing, and I think maybe we just need
Speaker 1: to loosen the reins a little bit and look, fellas,
Speaker 1: we've got some ballplayers, let them play ball. We still
Speaker 1: need to stick with the you know, the high completion rates,
Speaker 1: that the defense, solid defense, But I just feel like
Speaker 1: we've got a bit more razzle dazzle in us. We
Speaker 1: need to unleash it. All.
Speaker 2: Teams aren't going through the middle of us. Our defense
Speaker 2: in the middle is really good, it's just the edges,
Speaker 2: like we get caught sucking in, jamming in. Don't want
Speaker 2: to get caught sucking in oh, never get caught sucking in.
Speaker 2: But you know, we seem to our wingers seem to
Speaker 2: be turned in a lot of the time, so when
Speaker 2: the ball goes around the outside of them, they have
Speaker 2: to turn out and then chase.
Speaker 1: And they are not going to chase.
Speaker 2: And we were chatting a bit about this before when
Speaker 2: Nick Meeney got that runaway try. Well, we everything has
Speaker 2: a trade off. Our backs run hard out like in
Speaker 2: the first three tackles when we get the ball, but
Speaker 2: they're not nimble sort of Jason sab carn Perira type.
Speaker 1: We don't speedst it. No, we don't have any out
Speaker 1: and out speeds. So I think we talked about this
Speaker 1: on the podcast a couple of weeks ago. If I
Speaker 1: asked you who how fastest player was and you couldn't
Speaker 1: say Luke Metcalfe, I don't know who it is. I
Speaker 1: think it's Dylan once he gets going.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sometimes I'm eternally going, oh, would it be Jazz
Speaker 2: maybe or Dylan?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean over ten meters, it's definitely Dylan. And
Speaker 1: also we.
Speaker 2: I think no one's that sprint like from zero to
Speaker 2: one hundred really fast like Dylan once he gets like
Speaker 2: the flap up. Well, he's away, but for him to
Speaker 2: get to the velocity to have the flap up, it
Speaker 2: takes a little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Marcello is.
Speaker 2: More's hard work orse gran run.
Speaker 1: Well, he's an origin winger as well as my Cello is.
Speaker 1: He's a he's a you know, hard nose straight up
Speaker 1: the garts kick returned sort of winger.
Speaker 2: And Rockerberry had a good break. Actually, yeah, but he's
Speaker 2: not out and outspeed stead.
Speaker 1: No, you can tell he's a rugby union player, or
Speaker 1: was at least. But look, I think thirty eight is
Speaker 1: probably a little higher than I would like it to be.
Speaker 1: A couple of brain farts, I think if you take
Speaker 1: those away, they scored two tries of the year, so
Speaker 1: in my mind, I can shave twelve points off this
Speaker 1: and that makes it twenty six twenty four wins.
Speaker 2: So do we have both There was a few minutes
Speaker 2: when both of them were off at the same time, Yes,
Speaker 2: there was. Yeah, so we were playing eleven. We had
Speaker 2: a soccer team eleven verse thirteen of the storm, Yeah,
Speaker 2: plus the reef plus the reef. At one point but no,
Speaker 2: I mean Andrew web still looked really bummed out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he didn't have press conference. Mitch Monty was scathing
Speaker 1: in his postmatch conference as well. They like, what do
Speaker 1: you think is that a couple of individual performances really
Speaker 1: let us down in that second half? He just stopped
Speaker 1: short of been like Dallan Macello fucked us?
Speaker 2: Well, they did, they did, They did because you can't
Speaker 2: lose two players, especially not on your edge, because you
Speaker 2: can't hide that.
Speaker 1: No, I mean, isn't. Yeah, So anyway, we move on,
Speaker 1: We will talk about we'll probably give a bigger preview
Speaker 1: of the game when we get closer to it. But
Speaker 1: we've got the Tits this weekend Saturday, five pm. The
Speaker 1: Titans have not been going very well, but I think
Speaker 1: that from memory and I should have checked this. They
Speaker 1: beat us last time. Yes, they beat us at home,
Speaker 1: so that's but we're going to be going over there.
Speaker 1: I believe Seabar Stadium.
Speaker 2: The Tits head are pretty bad outing. Yes, without their
Speaker 2: star David ffeeda.
Speaker 1: Yep like scratching. Hopefully still out this week. Not the hard.
Speaker 2: The hard thing's going to be seeing how we line up.
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, how that back line lines up. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm confident that there's enough young talent.
Speaker 1: Yes, but well, but what we really need from this?
Speaker 1: What is it a round sixteen this weekend? There are
Speaker 1: twenty five twenty seven rounds. What we need from here
Speaker 1: on out is we need and the best teams will
Speaker 1: have this a bit of consistency and continuity through throughout.
Speaker 1: That's why we did so well last year. We've had
Speaker 1: so much chopping and changing it's hard to get that
Speaker 1: continuity going.
Speaker 2: So we need to win. We need to win. What
Speaker 2: do we have eight games left?
Speaker 1: No, I'm on that. It's well, we've got two buyers left.
Speaker 1: One of our buyers is around twenty seven, which is handy.
Speaker 2: So our upcoming games are Titans, Broncos, Dogs, Raiders, Tigers, Eels, Dolphins,
Speaker 2: Manly Dog Sharks.
Speaker 1: I'm hearing some dog shit teams in there. That fills
Speaker 1: me with confidence. We need we I think the cutoff's going.
Speaker 2: To be around thirty two points and we're on fifteen
Speaker 2: at the moment. We get four more points from buyers
Speaker 2: to nineteen, then we'll need to find thirteen fourteen. We
Speaker 2: need to find seven wins.
Speaker 1: I don't mind it one.
Speaker 2: Two, three, four, seven ninety So basically seven we need
Speaker 2: to win seven out of our next ten games if we.
Speaker 1: Played the Tigers yet, I don't think we have.
Speaker 2: We play the Tigers in there, So I reckon we
Speaker 2: beat the Titans. I reckon we beat the Broncos at home. Yep,
Speaker 2: we play the Dogs away. That's a tough game. Fifty
Speaker 2: to fifty Raiders away.
Speaker 1: I reckon we beat the Raiders. Okay, we beat the Raiders.
Speaker 2: We beat the Tigers, the Eels at home.
Speaker 1: I reckon we can beats.
Speaker 2: Then we have the Dolphins away, no Manly away, no
Speaker 2: Dogs at home our home. Yeah, I'm probably still gonna
Speaker 2: say no, and Sharks away. So we need to given
Speaker 2: us five. So we need two more out of that.
Speaker 2: So we're going to need Yeah, but there are two.
Speaker 2: There are two games in there. I could see us jagging.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Bulldogs once.
Speaker 2: I just had to see us see the Bulldogs feel
Speaker 2: to me like those games that we could either get
Speaker 2: touched up or we could put a score on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So it's gonna be.
Speaker 2: And bear in mind, this is to just get us
Speaker 2: into the eight.
Speaker 1: But we fired once we get in there.
Speaker 2: Oh hell yeah, we're book your tickets. Yeah, it's going
Speaker 2: to be literally all right, we're going to actually, yeah,
Speaker 2: I got my accommodation. When the tickets come out of
Speaker 2: either I'll blind you. Charlie and I when we went
Speaker 2: to the Grand Phone last year were actually we got
Speaker 2: there and we went.
Speaker 1: It's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: The Warriors aren't here because this is a stressfully experience. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, it was just like fully enjoy the day.
Speaker 2: There was no worry.
Speaker 1: Rather than just like shitting yourself. James mcconey on the
Speaker 1: Super Rugby commentary of the Chiefs was so nervous here
Speaker 1: to go make a cup te mid commentary walked off,
Speaker 1: Oh I know, I'm a Canes fan and that was depression.
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Speaker 1: all right, now it is time for the stoker of
Speaker 1: the realm. This game was built by I think it
Speaker 1: was dan Ganaine that was commentating it as will it
Speaker 1: be Jaws or flipper dolphins for his Sharks tonight, jewels
Speaker 1: or flipper?
Speaker 2: I mean dan Gan Aine's got a great turn of phrase,
Speaker 2: but that's not really the Yeah.
Speaker 1: Also was flipper of dolphin.
Speaker 2: Yeah okay, but also sharks still have flippers, don't they.
Speaker 1: Well, this is the thing. Both teams were doing the
Speaker 1: fins up thing on their head when they were scoring,
Speaker 1: both the Sharks and the Dolphins.
Speaker 2: That there was because I think it was five years
Speaker 2: ago the Sharks almost went with fins up as their slogan,
Speaker 2: their slogan catchphrase. Then they were really pissed off when
Speaker 2: the Dolphins went with it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so a bit of a feeling there, But in
Speaker 1: the end was a good game. Yeah. The Dolphins as
Speaker 1: they want to do. They nibbled around and ate the
Speaker 1: liver out of the sharks. That is how dolphins quite
Speaker 1: often kill sharks. Thirty points to twenty eight. But it
Speaker 1: just it was the ending of this game, genuinely, was
Speaker 1: anyone's game right up until the final hurdle, wasn't it?
Speaker 2: Yeah? What was what? He went in and felt like
Speaker 2: with a minute to go or two minutes ago?
Speaker 1: I know, And then they left the clock running to
Speaker 1: where it was expired by the time Nico Hines took
Speaker 1: his kick, he missed it and in the end thirty points.
Speaker 1: Pawn Neck goes a bit out of form? Did he
Speaker 1: because I saw this meme doing the rounds this morning.
Speaker 1: Did he kick himself out of Origin with that kick?
Speaker 1: I think?
Speaker 2: I think it was a bit of a full gone conclusion.
Speaker 2: Before that, he didn't really offer a lot in Origin.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't.
Speaker 2: You can't really judge his Origin stats because he you know,
Speaker 2: he played that weird ten minutes at center last year.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: He Ever since he went into that Origin camp, he
Speaker 2: seemed a bit out of sorts. He was out and
Speaker 2: out the best half back in the comp until a
Speaker 2: week before Origin, and.
Speaker 1: Sudden he's come off the boil. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And even in that Dolphins game, he didn't seem to
Speaker 2: be fully leading them around the park. She was. The
Speaker 2: Dolphins played hard out in that opening twenty minutes. I
Speaker 2: thought this is going to be a blowout to the Dolphins.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, because what that scored four times in twenty
Speaker 2: five minutes.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins look incredible and only their second year. You know,
Speaker 1: usually when a new team comes in, you look at
Speaker 1: them and go, oh yeah, well, it takes ages to
Speaker 1: get a team up and running. Well, not for these guys.
Speaker 2: I'll be intrigued to see what happens when Christian Wolf
Speaker 2: takes over next year.
Speaker 1: Yes, although I don't know, I feel like there's enough
Speaker 1: momentum that the players have been given opportunities, none more
Speaker 1: so than Hammer, who had a Try of the year
Speaker 1: kind of candle when he caught the ball five meters
Speaker 1: out from his own line and just it was like
Speaker 1: John Coowin against Italy. It was like Jared Haynes in
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine. Can't find any footage of that
Speaker 1: online anymore, but he just carved everyone up out of
Speaker 1: nowhere and scored a try down.
Speaker 2: I felt like I was watching a heavily sun tan
Speaker 2: Christian Callen yea there for a second, you know that
Speaker 2: sort of Jen King run, bouncing around out of your
Speaker 2: own twenty two No one quite knows where they're going.
Speaker 1: Then boom, he's off into the backfield. He has Wheels. Oh,
Speaker 1: he's incredible. I think there's some ridiculous stat around how
Speaker 1: many tries he's scored. Basically, if he walks onto a
Speaker 1: rugby league field, he scores at least one try the
Speaker 1: hem and it doesn't matter whether that's an origin could
Speaker 1: be for anyone, he's going to score a try. He
Speaker 1: has been absolutely outstanding the way that we do the
Speaker 1: DELI him. He's not going to win it, but I
Speaker 1: think he's probably been arguably the best player in the
Speaker 1: league this year.
Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, he and that that's try of the year
Speaker 2: is so far.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The the Sharks, I mean they're falling off, have had
Speaker 2: a rough few weeks.
Speaker 1: They are still hovering around the top four Sharks. Fact,
Speaker 1: I think they're still in there. I think they've had
Speaker 1: a red still.
Speaker 2: And the Dolphins are oh yeah, So Penrith Cranala are
Speaker 2: on twenty two points and the Dolphins are.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think that they have had a topsy turvy one.
Speaker 1: But I think that it's because of the expectations on
Speaker 1: them that people think that they're not going to well,
Speaker 1: whereas when you actually watch them, they are going well.
Speaker 1: They came off the boil for a little bit Trendle's back.
Speaker 1: Now moly Tullo is starting to look good. So if
Speaker 1: it tallic I has been coming off the beach out.
Speaker 2: They've got the buy this week because they mechanical with mckennison,
Speaker 2: Heinz not making orange and they have their full strength side.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it would be a bit of an advantage.
Speaker 2: I just think even Will Tallo does look like he's
Speaker 2: back and formert.
Speaker 1: Yes he is, because for the longest time he was
Speaker 1: like one of those super coach guns where he was
Speaker 1: putting up these massive scores. Then Trendle went out and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the ball's not coming down his side.
Speaker 1: He starts coming off the boil a little bit. Now
Speaker 1: he looks excellent again. And I just think that the
Speaker 1: like I said, they've been up and down, when it
Speaker 1: comes to the end of the season, I still think
Speaker 1: they're going to be there or thereabouts, and it will
Speaker 1: only take two or three good performances from Nico Hines
Speaker 1: for everyone to say he's back to being one hundred
Speaker 1: top of the supercoach by Yeah, how's this for a step.
Speaker 1: This is the first Dolphins win in Sydney ever, the
Speaker 1: Dolphins ever won, and I think that's by virtue of
Speaker 1: the fact that ninety percent of the games are at home.
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean, I've been on a rant about this before.
Speaker 2: Queensland teams seem to have an awful amount of games
Speaker 2: in Queensland.
Speaker 1: Yeah, pisses me off that they play all the games
Speaker 1: at sun Corp. That's not their home. They've got Redford.
Speaker 2: I heard one of the on Triple M one of
Speaker 2: the Queensland pundits was saying he feels sorry for the
Speaker 2: Broncos and they may have taken a loss because they're
Speaker 2: a bit travel weary because they had to go to
Speaker 2: Sydney this week to play the.
Speaker 1: Play the Bunnies.
Speaker 2: When it's like, bro, you've just played like thirteen out
Speaker 2: of fourteen games at home. No second court, don't talk
Speaker 2: about that to us. I was literally looking at flights
Speaker 2: to Sydney just last night. It's a four hour flight
Speaker 2: to Sydney. And that's not the dick around time on
Speaker 2: either side of a flight either. No, for some reason
Speaker 2: it's three hours back and four hours over trade wind.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know. I think that's what they want
Speaker 1: you to believe, but I reckon if you look at.
Speaker 2: It, they just fling a bit faster or as the
Speaker 2: spinning that way, It's.
Speaker 1: Not spinning at all. Open your eyes, mate, it's flat.
Speaker 2: I was like a saucer. Yeah, that's right, And were
Speaker 2: the teacups.
Speaker 1: And they just go a little bit faster on the
Speaker 1: way back so that you think that it's actually around.
Speaker 1: This is how they keep us down.
Speaker 2: Oh man, Like I feel that we've got a whole
Speaker 2: podcast about this. I wonder what the Venn diagram of
Speaker 2: flat earth is in Rugby League podcast.
Speaker 1: Listen. It would look like the Japanese flag. It's just one.
Speaker 1: It would look like the one in Zied logo. Because
Speaker 1: every time someone just got into hit about it about
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, and he was just like, look,
Speaker 1: I don't know, just do your own research. All I'm saying,
Speaker 1: I love to do your own research. Guys like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not a research guy. There are people that do
Speaker 1: the research. Yeah, you know, I'm the talk dumb shit
Speaker 1: about sports guys.
Speaker 2: Multiple people have done the research.
Speaker 1: Also, your tube is not research. Anyway, we digress. That
Speaker 1: was an absolute stonker that game. I thought that there
Speaker 1: were great games across the weekend as well. It was
Speaker 1: a good weekend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have to say I'd like while we were
Speaker 2: talking about the sending off for the Warriors players, I've.
Speaker 1: My heart is with j w H.
Speaker 2: Yeah, did you see his send off for his tackle
Speaker 2: on Sean Lane.
Speaker 1: No, that game was a blow up very early doors
Speaker 1: and I stopped watching it. He yeah, I thought he
Speaker 1: was rough.
Speaker 2: He was definitely sending you know, they're sending him off
Speaker 2: before the tackle happened.
Speaker 1: Basically, who did it? Yeah, yeah, you're out mate, out
Speaker 1: of here.
Speaker 2: But no, my team's are roosters had when and the
Speaker 2: Bunnies look like they're back and forth.
Speaker 1: Bunnies are back. I saw this boat turning around a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago. I brought every Bunny I could
Speaker 1: afford into my super coach team. I just think they
Speaker 1: are a good team. We've forgotten about it because they
Speaker 1: had a shitt to start the season. The second coach,
Speaker 1: the whole thing. I think. I think they're going to
Speaker 1: be very good for this because.
Speaker 2: They do have like a top four roster once they
Speaker 2: get their side.
Speaker 1: But absolutely, Clauna Toungy has been excellent.
Speaker 2: Colaonma Tungy the last couple of weeks has been on fire.
Speaker 2: Latrelle is back to actually doing effort plays where he's
Speaker 2: doing hard RUMs.
Speaker 1: He's pissed off and he needs that, but he's.
Speaker 2: Not You know how Cody and Latrell can do pissed
Speaker 2: off but they end up just doing brain farts and
Speaker 2: getting sent off. Yeah, he's pissed off but focused. And
Speaker 2: to be honest, Cody Walker's got to be putting his
Speaker 2: hand up for Origin.
Speaker 1: He is so good close to the line. Well, they've
Speaker 1: just announced their team. We'll go through it in a minute,
Speaker 1: but he has missed out, which is a little bit
Speaker 1: disappointing for poor Cody. So you're right though they he
Speaker 1: should be in contention, particularly with the harves crisis that
Speaker 1: they've got going on.
Speaker 2: So it wouldn't surprise me. It feels like, looking at
Speaker 2: the outside kind of pretty much. I reckon Paramatta Even then,
Speaker 2: ty So Tigers and Gold Coast, the other sort of
Speaker 2: nine to fifteen could all go on a run and
Speaker 2: make the eight.
Speaker 1: Tigers Titans eels. Yeah. Yeah, there's a bit of parody
Speaker 1: in the league this year. It's quite good. Oh, this
Speaker 1: is why you've got to love your rugby league.
Speaker 2: Yeah, is that any team can beat any team on
Speaker 2: their day. Look what the Tigers beat the Panthers.
Speaker 1: Remember, yeah, yeah, it was a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: I actually won a lot of money off that one.
Speaker 1: It was just like Battle of the Big Big Cats.
Speaker 1: I can see it going one way. Look, we talked
Speaker 1: about the state of origon just before they have announced
Speaker 1: the Blues team. The new South Wales team is out.
Speaker 1: We've also received a little bit of mail on the
Speaker 1: Queensland team. Now this is take it with the grain
Speaker 1: of salt. Probably by the time you listen to this podcast,
Speaker 1: you might actually know who is in that Maroon's team.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna we're gonna take it as gospel and
Speaker 1: so we're gonna we're gonna dive. It's from a very
Speaker 1: rebutable source, the notorious Pantsman Joel Harrison. So we're going
Speaker 1: to take a quick break. We'll come back and whip
Speaker 1: through those teams.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: We've just had a quick break for Dye to make
Speaker 1: a few phone calls. He's talked to some of the
Speaker 1: people he's connected with over there in the Queensland set
Speaker 1: up and he's got the team list for the Morons.
Speaker 1: I think we'll go. Do you want to go Blues first? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Blues first, babe? All right, let's go Blues first. So
Speaker 1: the squad list for game two reads thusly, Dylan Edwards
Speaker 1: back in at the number one.
Speaker 2: Jersey, So Teddy falls out.
Speaker 1: Teddy falls out, and I think that's Madge saying, look,
Speaker 1: I was right in picking Dylan Edwards. He's still the
Speaker 1: best player. He was just injured.
Speaker 2: Imagine if he gets a quid injury in training again
Speaker 2: and Teddy comes back and Brian Tore retains his number
Speaker 2: two jerseys, no controversy there. He's an absolute weapon. Stephen
Speaker 2: Crichton man and a match for the Blues losing. So
Speaker 2: Stephen Crochton has been one of the best players this season.
Speaker 2: He is absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1: This is big.
Speaker 2: Latrell Mitchell has been called in it sent it had
Speaker 2: to happen, It had to had to happen. The talk was,
Speaker 2: it's like how I think. I mean, I'll use a
Speaker 2: black Caps, which is a poor example. At the moment
Speaker 2: when you pick a side, you pick who don't you
Speaker 2: want bowling at you. I don't want like Lockie Ferguson
Speaker 2: bowling at me, you know, I do not want Latrell
Speaker 2: in big games running at me. And Latrell's the one
Speaker 2: who Latrell's the one who mate will actually win a
Speaker 2: game single handedly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he will. I think their coach whose name
Speaker 1: escapes me now because the second manage McGuire, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: the Rabbits Ben Hornby being Hornby. Yeah, career interim head coach.
Speaker 2: He's up for delim interim coach of the year every year.
Speaker 1: He was saying, Look, I don't know who they're going
Speaker 1: to pick. All I know is I would hate to
Speaker 1: have Latrell lining up opposite me. And I was like,
Speaker 1: that's exactly.
Speaker 2: Don't ever think so Latrell's going to be up against
Speaker 2: Vale Holmes. It's a juicy match out. Oh and that's
Speaker 2: the last thing that bel Holmes wants to see. Zach
Speaker 2: Lomax retains his jursey. I mean, he's having a year.
Speaker 2: He's having an absolute bumper year. Is someone whom I
Speaker 2: never really liked as a player. I'm coming around to.
Speaker 1: Him same here and I'm like, what is going on
Speaker 1: with the Dragons that he wants out? Hunt wants out?
Speaker 1: Hunt's just resigned. Lomax is playing the season of his
Speaker 1: life as Lomax.
Speaker 2: Gonna do you think he'll agitate to backflip and stay
Speaker 2: at the Dragons.
Speaker 1: The Dragons are doing a hell.
Speaker 2: Of a lot better than Power are at the moment
Speaker 2: they are. I just just a sideline this with I
Speaker 2: was thinking of Power Isia Papalei. You go into Penrith.
Speaker 2: He's going to be a weapon at Penrith.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he will be. And again he's the same
Speaker 1: Alkato theory if he wouldn't have done that if he
Speaker 1: stayed with us. But we digress. Jerome Lewite and at
Speaker 1: number six Mitchell Moses is in now.
Speaker 2: So interesting here Jerome Leway and Moses in the halves
Speaker 2: and it goes out. I would have been tempted to
Speaker 2: put Jerome Lewie at the halfback.
Speaker 1: Spot and put Cody Walker in yes one, because.
Speaker 2: Cody and Latrelle have that like telepathic yes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, play together vulcan mind meld. Yeah.
Speaker 2: However, Moses has an epic kicking game and that's what
Speaker 2: the Blues.
Speaker 1: Lack, yes in game one. And I just feel like,
Speaker 1: if I'm a new South Welshman, I don't want Jerome
Speaker 1: Lewi as my halfback in state of origin, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? I don't know. I can't put my
Speaker 1: finger on exactly what it is, but that doesn't fill
Speaker 1: me with comforce.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's a great half's parent.
Speaker 1: It is. Jake Travoyevitch will wear the captain's armband again.
Speaker 2: Reese Robson, John Bereenthal, Reee Robinson looks a lot like
Speaker 2: John Breenthal who played the Punisher.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know the guy you're talking about.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's and Reese Robson. He made like forty five
Speaker 2: tackles or something in that first Origin.
Speaker 1: He's been excellent. Pain hears will be on the other
Speaker 1: side of the scrum. Liam Martin, Angus Crichton, Cameron Murray's. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's been out with injury for quite a while. He's
Speaker 1: just straight back into the team there, Isaiah, you will
Speaker 1: come off the bench, so will Homali Alakuwatu, Spencer Lenu
Speaker 1: and at eighteenth man this week, meaning he will not
Speaker 1: play for the Warriors this weekend. Mitchell Barnett, No, great
Speaker 1: for him, disappointed for us. Great for him.
Speaker 2: It sort of means you might have a freshen up
Speaker 2: week if he doesn't play.
Speaker 1: He played amazing for us.
Speaker 2: As if you haven't heard the news, he's re signed
Speaker 2: for two more years at the Warriors. He's loved his
Speaker 2: time over here. He doesn't think he's done all he
Speaker 2: wants to do at the Warriors match. Yes, win us
Speaker 2: a comp he is, he's I mean, he deserves its
Speaker 2: spot now. I hope he actually gets some game time.
Speaker 2: Looking at this side though, that's a weapon of a
Speaker 2: forward pack and a bench.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Ken mckinness isn't even in there. He's nineteenth man.
Speaker 2: I'm glad to see Connor Watson in there. I think
Speaker 2: he's had a really good year for the Roosters.
Speaker 1: Yes, oh sorry, it's skipped over him. I thought Connor
Speaker 1: Watson was great. How about this that he missed all
Speaker 1: of last year with an injury. He started this year
Speaker 1: in New South Wales Cup and now he's playing State
Speaker 1: of Origin in game two. He has been excellent. If
Speaker 1: you haven't been watching the Roosters, he's been coming off
Speaker 1: the bench for them and he has been incredible.
Speaker 2: He plays with so much energy. I think if they
Speaker 2: can string it together. Granted it's very hard to tell
Speaker 2: exactly where the Blues.
Speaker 1: Are at as that game was lost with this sending off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so now it's going to be a cracker of
Speaker 2: a game. So here is the Queensland team for State
Speaker 2: of Origin Game two. Reese Walsh has been cleared of concussion.
Speaker 2: He'll be starting at fullback. Xavier Coats on the wing
Speaker 2: with Murray Tar Lungey, Valentine Holmes and the Hammer Hammersodabi
Speaker 2: Fido in the centers, Tom Dead and Daily, Cherry Evans
Speaker 2: and Halves. Reuben Cotter at prop with Lindsay Collins, Ben
Speaker 2: Hunt playing nine, Jaden Sewer, Jeremiah nan I, Pat Carrigan.
Speaker 2: The bench is Harry Grant, Mofotwaca for Less, kou Fusi
Speaker 2: and Kirk cape Wise.
Speaker 1: Is that right?
Speaker 2: Kurt cap wells in it's seventeen.
Speaker 1: Well, he's been out for about six weeks, it seems
Speaker 1: for the Warriors. He comes back in plays about seven
Speaker 1: minutes on the weekend and now he's straight into Origin.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not saying not saying he was ever bad at
Speaker 2: the Warriors, but it's not like he blew the doors off. No.
Speaker 1: But I think this is what the Maroons do so well,
Speaker 1: is that they pick Origin players and they feel like
Speaker 1: they are building a Maroons team. Does the Blues to
Speaker 1: me feel like they're picking an all star team every year?
Speaker 2: Seek Cate Well at seventeen, what the Smack's of is
Speaker 2: like Maroons get out to a bit of a lead
Speaker 2: and then they bring on players like Cape Warre who
Speaker 2: will just tackle everything. He'll just shut the middle down.
Speaker 2: The Extended Squad eighteen is Origin Gags, Dane Gago nineteen
Speaker 2: is the Helium Balloon, Halem Luky Haleem Luky Well and
Speaker 2: Trent Loro Lero Well. I would that's a surprise.
Speaker 1: Helen Luky is a surprise. He was excellent to start
Speaker 1: the season, had some sort of horrific injury and then
Speaker 1: came back just a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 2: Again, but he had a pretty middling game against US.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but again, I just I just feel like they
Speaker 1: are building. They play like they are the Australian team,
Speaker 1: and they're building for the future, and they're bringing dudes through.
Speaker 1: And if you had the jersey last year, that means
Speaker 1: a lot. We want to bring you back in because
Speaker 1: of that. And I think that DCE at the Helm,
Speaker 1: you know, brings a lot of money to that.
Speaker 2: TCE is dripping mana like he seems to just get
Speaker 2: better and better and better. But he's thirty three, thirty four.
Speaker 2: He looks like he's comfortably got a couple of years
Speaker 2: left in it.
Speaker 1: That Yeah, it is epic.
Speaker 2: I mean the Blues they're playing in Melbourne must win
Speaker 2: game or we go to a dead rubber. So Madge
Speaker 2: is just throwing everything at the wall to win this.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't think he has I don't
Speaker 1: think he has. No. I still can't see why Spencer
Speaker 1: lien You deserves a spot over Mitch Barnette. That's insane
Speaker 1: to me. Yeah, I mean Spencer en You.
Speaker 2: I think he definitely changed the vibe in that game
Speaker 2: won when he came on. You know how, He's got
Speaker 2: the big flaring eyes. He freaks the shit out of people. Well,
Speaker 2: Mitch Burnette, these people of suiting. Yeah, I feel Mitch
Speaker 2: Barnett is more of an origin place.
Speaker 1: So do I. That's exactly what I was gonna say. Yes,
Speaker 1: I think he is too. Like he's just sturdy drop
Speaker 1: on a dairy farm in New South Wales. What are
Speaker 1: we talking about?
Speaker 2: He just get the adder between the fingers, yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: and just get.
Speaker 1: Out base to tip, base to tip exactly.
Speaker 2: Just fully unpasteurized, unpasteurized.
Speaker 1: Try scoring do your own research on unpasturized milk as well.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying this is the kind of God.
Speaker 2: Literally, only eight out of ten people die from it, Like,
Speaker 2: so what's wrong with it?
Speaker 1: Drink it?
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: When they passed it, they take out all the nutrients
Speaker 1: that make your bones grow strong. So they it's what
Speaker 1: they don't want you to know. That's what Big Dairy
Speaker 1: doesn't want you to know.
Speaker 2: I feel the Internet has just caused more controversy than
Speaker 2: actually ironing facts out.
Speaker 1: But I do think that he is a new South Welsh.
Speaker 1: You know, Madge was talking about all the stuff that
Speaker 1: they're going to go up in the Blue Mountains and
Speaker 1: take it back, get it away from the city, get
Speaker 1: it away from lattes and Bondai. If that's what you're
Speaker 1: gonna do, then Mitch Barnett is the man you need
Speaker 1: in your team. Yeah. But having said that, I don't
Speaker 1: think the Blues are going to win this. I think
Speaker 1: this could even best.
Speaker 2: No, you're never going to lose money betting on Queensland consistently,
Speaker 2: No you're not.
Speaker 1: And so that's how I think that one's going to
Speaker 1: play out. That is next Wednesday at the god awful
Speaker 1: time of ten o'clock. But we'll be commentating one.
Speaker 2: Which also ends up to really actually be quarter past ten,
Speaker 2: but ten past ten, quarter past ten by the time.
Speaker 1: Easily it is a week ruin of Origin because buddy
Speaker 1: and you just bugged for the rest of the week.
Speaker 1: I'd had a long.
Speaker 2: Day before the Origin call last time, and.
Speaker 1: Then I got home and you're all.
Speaker 2: You're still a bit fizzing, yes, just from calling a game.
Speaker 1: Get home.
Speaker 2: It's like twenty past twelve, and it's like it's Thursday
Speaker 2: tomorrow and I have stuff at like eight point thirty
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then you just you're in bed at one
Speaker 1: o'clock watching Origin berths on YouTube, Like I'm not getting
Speaker 1: to sleep right off the night. So yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll be commentating that. We'll be commentating the Warriors Saturday
Speaker 1: five o'clock against the Tests. We'll be back on Thursday
Speaker 1: for another episode of the Mad Monday podcast. Thank you
Speaker 1: very much, Die very much.
Speaker 2: Enjoy Enjoy your week Australia with
Speaker 1: Australia with It.