Speaker 1: I go there and welcome back into the Mad Monday
Speaker 1: podcast of a Thursday, but always brought to you by
Speaker 1: four and twenty pis and perfectly at home snack for
Speaker 1: watching State of Origin. It's stupid o'clock on a Wednesday,
Speaker 1: thankfully a shortened week.
Speaker 2: My name is saw A Manayowi joining me.
Speaker 1: Fresh off the back of State of Origin commentary is
Speaker 1: adding Vanua Kezy Good afternoon, although to be honest, feels
Speaker 1: a little bit more like morning, doesn't it?
Speaker 3: Is it not eight am right now commentating a game
Speaker 3: at ten on a Wednesday that finishes at midnight. And man,
Speaker 3: I the last few games that we've done together, it
Speaker 3: just they just blowout.
Speaker 2: We're the jinks.
Speaker 3: We are the Jinks And like I'm a new South
Speaker 3: Wales fan. But and that was great to begin with, Yeah,
Speaker 3: but there's no point watching the second half.
Speaker 2: It really fizzled out, didn't it.
Speaker 1: It was just such a blowout and it was such
Speaker 1: a comprehensive one I felt like, and I said it
Speaker 1: throughout the commentary. The new South Wales defense was just smothering.
Speaker 1: That was shutting down Queensland. Yeah, Queensland's options every single time, anytime.
Speaker 1: DCE felt like he just had hit on a plate
Speaker 1: the entire night, like he was just getting cut down
Speaker 1: and her Man Reese Wald, we're just gonna waste these
Speaker 1: two and then what else are they really going to do?
Speaker 2: And it worked.
Speaker 3: It does work because DCE is pretty much the puppet
Speaker 3: master of Queensland.
Speaker 1: It has been for a while now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And to be honest, that smothering defense is not
Speaker 3: something you really associate with New South Wales.
Speaker 1: It's usually the other way around. So I maage Maguire's
Speaker 1: taking them up into the Blue Mountains. Yeah, and he's
Speaker 1: done something that's really and we mentioned that a lot
Speaker 1: last night as well. I was just the dudes that
Speaker 1: stood up with the dudes with.
Speaker 3: The question marks around them, Latrell Mitchell, Yeah, you know, Trail,
Speaker 3: we don't know. He's overrated, he's he's a piece of
Speaker 3: shit whatever. All the all the news around him is
Speaker 3: always that yeah, comes and instantly makes everything so much better. Defensively,
Speaker 3: was just shutting down Valentine Holmes the whole night.
Speaker 2: It was a menace.
Speaker 1: And Zach Lomax, who I hate, played great, kicked really well.
Speaker 1: No dumb shit, Yeah, Flick passes. No, I think there
Speaker 1: might have been one. There was one later in the game.
Speaker 1: It was like, okay, fine, you can have that.
Speaker 3: Mitch Moses came in and had four triasists, equal Freddy
Speaker 3: Fitler for the most in Origin history in one game.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So it was just, yeah, the narrative of just those
Speaker 3: three guys standing up massively. Angus Crichton as well, who
Speaker 3: like question marks around him after he went to Amsterdam
Speaker 3: and lost his mind.
Speaker 2: Or whatever it was.
Speaker 1: Yep, Liam Martin played well, see Selene, you played like
Speaker 1: you'd heard me talking so much shit about him for
Speaker 1: the last few months. Yeah, it's only because I want
Speaker 1: Mitch Bunnett to be on there, and I felt like
Speaker 1: Mitch Burnie should have had his spot.
Speaker 3: Well, Mitch Bunnette is more of a like crighton, you know,
Speaker 3: He's not a come off the bench guy. He is
Speaker 3: a play the fulady and be solid, whereas you need
Speaker 3: a little psycho like Spencer Lin you.
Speaker 2: Off the bench. And he was excellent last night.
Speaker 3: He was Yeah, I mean he was stupid, oh yeah,
Speaker 3: like running in starting fights, doing all sorts of stupid shit.
Speaker 3: But the energy, the intensity, It's like when Zion Mo
Speaker 3: who came on for us that one game, and yeah
Speaker 3: got us back and form.
Speaker 2: He's a bit of that. Yeah, and the.
Speaker 1: Best part about it is that we don't have a
Speaker 1: dead rubber. There are all these stats coming into that
Speaker 1: game about New South Wales play well at a neutral venue,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah, games two and all this.
Speaker 2: Sort of stuff. This happens every year with State of Origin.
Speaker 1: If there's a big win in the first game, everyone's like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's the end of the series.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, this is why we play three games, and
Speaker 3: statistically doesn't this always happen? Queensland win, Yeah, neutral venue,
Speaker 3: New South Wales put on a decent game. We didn't
Speaker 3: want fight up and then we go back to Suncorp
Speaker 3: and then you get your eyes handed to it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Literally, the blueprint is there. I think that's what's
Speaker 1: going to happen. I don't think the next game is
Speaker 1: for quite a while. It's towards the end of July,
Speaker 1: I believe. Yeah, but I'm very much looking forward to that.
Speaker 1: I don't think though.
Speaker 3: I still think New South Wales will win, but I
Speaker 3: think I'm hoping that Game three will be an absolute barnstorm.
Speaker 1: Yes, same here, Yeah, I think, yeah, I think that
Speaker 1: New South Wales really found something in that second game,
Speaker 1: and there'll be a lot of adjustments going into the
Speaker 1: next game. I don't think the Rids will change their
Speaker 1: team too much, but that's what they do, right, They
Speaker 1: just stick and hold. Yeah, that's right. Maybe bringing a
Speaker 1: fore feeder. They got a hiding.
Speaker 2: They did get a hiding. I don't think the feeda
Speaker 2: stops that hiding.
Speaker 1: They got to do something, they do, got to do
Speaker 1: something that doesn't seem like a very Queen's Land move. No,
Speaker 1: I mean that's what I would be doing. But I
Speaker 1: feel they'll bring in some battlers like struggling. They'll bring
Speaker 1: in like Jake Grenville or something, you know, and then
Speaker 1: it will prove to be like a master stroke that
Speaker 1: is what they do.
Speaker 3: Like Cape Well, I mean Colbo would have I still
Speaker 3: think Colbo should be there rather than Cape Wire.
Speaker 1: Like just you know, Hammer goes down, Key's injured, Cobo's
Speaker 1: time away. That's right, that's what it was. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's righties where it's like he probably could play, but
Speaker 1: he's buggered.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and now he's just like, look, I'm just gonna
Speaker 2: take you time off.
Speaker 1: Do you reckon?
Speaker 2: SI?
Speaker 1: He's ever gonna play Origin again? Well? Do you mean,
Speaker 1: do you reckon he's going to play next week, our
Speaker 1: next game. He'll be back in the NRAL after like
Speaker 1: three years or something. After he'd be back in the
Speaker 1: NRAL in twenty twenty eight, I reckon, yeah, I see
Speaker 1: what I say. Four years yes, yeah, yeah. Oh look
Speaker 1: if he comes back, I think he plays Origin again.
Speaker 2: He's very young. He'll still only be like twenty five
Speaker 2: by then.
Speaker 3: That fucks me off that it's ridiculous. It passes me
Speaker 3: off how young he is, specifically because he's so massive. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and he's played for the Roosters for a couple of
Speaker 3: years now he signed rugby, you know, like it's just
Speaker 3: and you go, I'm twenty or whatever.
Speaker 2: It is stupid, he's getting younger.
Speaker 1: Well, he started when he was seventeen, you know, and
Speaker 1: changed the rules so that they could bring him in
Speaker 1: the rabbit.
Speaker 2: O is that?
Speaker 1: And I was saying, well, look, bagger, and if he's
Speaker 1: good enough then he should be able to play, And
Speaker 1: then Diehindould said well what if he was sixteen? I
Speaker 1: was like, again, if he's good enough, he is, what
Speaker 1: if he is fifteen? So if he's good enough, so
Speaker 1: you think a fifteen year old should be in there
Speaker 1: deck out with the other players and the change changing years.
Speaker 1: I was like, well, not specifically that part. So if
Speaker 1: he's good enough, if there's an eight year old who
Speaker 1: can play NRAL level footy, yeah, get him out there.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
Speaker 3: You can be reading the Hungry Catipullar during the week
Speaker 3: and then at the weekend he can be putting in
Speaker 3: massive heads if he's good enough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: On a completely unrelated note, and I asked us yesterday
Speaker 1: on the Agenda podcast, what's the oldest age you could
Speaker 1: have beaten Lebron James yet?
Speaker 2: So you right now?
Speaker 1: Like, so obviously you could beat two year old Lebron
Speaker 1: James at a game of basketball. Could you beat ten
Speaker 1: year old Lebron James?
Speaker 2: I he is six foot ball then.
Speaker 1: I don't think so.
Speaker 3: I said eight, because he strikes me as a Now,
Speaker 3: this is gonna be a hot take. Lebron strikes me
Speaker 3: as a guy who picked up a basketball from a
Speaker 3: very young age.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I picked up a basketball two years ago or
Speaker 1: three years ago, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: I was like twenty nine. Yeah, No, he definitely would
Speaker 3: beat me. What about what's the oldest he needs to
Speaker 3: be before you could beat him again. Oh so it
Speaker 3: stops at about eight years old?
Speaker 1: Yeah, when does it pick up again? Like Kareem right
Speaker 1: right now, Kareem would still smoke you, yes, because he's
Speaker 1: seven feet tall. And he also will still be able
Speaker 1: to shoot. Yeah, they'll be able to shoot till the
Speaker 1: day they almost got day they died. He's got their
Speaker 1: hook shots still. Ah do what so Lebron ages in
Speaker 1: the situation and I don't. Yeah, I think it's sort
Speaker 1: of just before his bed ridden and yeah, like the
Speaker 1: day before yeah okay, yeah, like deathbit if he's like, look,
Speaker 1: I've got one more game and me I want to
Speaker 1: go out doing what I love, I'll be like, I'll
Speaker 1: play you.
Speaker 2: Even mean, I don't know even then is still six
Speaker 2: foot nine? This buggery? You can do about it? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 2: so that's you suck as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's the other day as do I that's
Speaker 1: the part we're not really accounting for. I know, because
Speaker 1: that's what I was saying, is like, God, you only
Speaker 1: get one shot at this, So what if you go right,
Speaker 1: I think I could beat him at ninety four years old,
Speaker 1: and then you go out there and he beats you, Like,
Speaker 1: well that was my one shot. I just lost the
Speaker 1: ninet four year old Labron. I don't know, I don'd agree,
Speaker 1: but I did want to run that one past you.
Speaker 1: It's been State of Origin. It was a very entertaining
Speaker 1: first like twenty five minutes, but now it's set up
Speaker 1: a very entertaining third game. We now turn our attention
Speaker 1: to around seventeen Saturday, twenty ninth of June, the Warriors
Speaker 1: take on the bron Goes at five pm. The teamless
Speaker 1: throughout for that and it is looking very different. The
Speaker 1: biggest thing Seawan Johnson out for four weeks. That means
Speaker 1: to Mighty Martin's back into seven Chanelle Harris Taveta and
Speaker 1: at six Freddy Lussik finds his way back.
Speaker 2: Onto the bench.
Speaker 1: He would join Dylan Walker, Ja Sevanga cape Wire backing
Speaker 1: up from Origin. How do you feel about Sean Johnson
Speaker 1: man out.
Speaker 3: I feel happy, Really, I'm pleased because Shawnee Jay and
Speaker 3: I don't think it's an age like he just has
Speaker 3: been clearly dealing with something for most of the season
Speaker 3: and after last year's clear deallyan performance of a season
Speaker 3: from Seawan Johnson. Yes, he came back. He reached that peak.
Speaker 3: From the Warriors with hissing. He's like, yeah, how yea
Speaker 3: another year. Boys, it's still it and it just hasn't
Speaker 3: unfolded that way. And I feel like because of that,
Speaker 3: he has just been trying to get through it and
Speaker 3: trying to get things going whilst his ankle is falling apart.
Speaker 2: Yeah, ankle, peck buddy, the whole shit exactly.
Speaker 3: And we're talking to Charlie Gubb about this at the
Speaker 3: beginning of the week and he was saying, look to
Speaker 3: Mighty Martin in the Halves suite, whether it's chance at
Speaker 3: five eight or two, Picky or CHT and they've gone
Speaker 3: with HT which is a safe option. That's fine, and
Speaker 3: the Wires can do well. They can beat the Panthers
Speaker 3: the magic round. Yeah, However, they ain't going to do
Speaker 3: shit in the postseason unless you've got a healthy Sean
Speaker 3: Johnson and half back for the Warriors.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I think for.
Speaker 3: The next four or five six weeks, I wouldn't be
Speaker 3: surprised if it drags out a bit more. We just
Speaker 3: get things clicking, get things clicking, get things clicking. Sean
Speaker 3: Johnson comes back, but don't put him as the guy
Speaker 3: like let to MIDI Martin. If he's doing a good job,
Speaker 3: just stay like that and just go Sean, you're the
Speaker 3: second fellow now, like the Lakers with Lebron being like
Speaker 3: Anthion Davis, you're the main guy. Lebron's the second guy
Speaker 3: now because he's slightly older. A situation like that would
Speaker 3: be great.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I feel like the Warriors. In fact, I put twenty
Speaker 3: bucks on them to win. Oh yeah, yeah. We were
Speaker 3: talking to Carl Tyler from the TB.
Speaker 1: Everyone's on the Warriors despite the fact that they're outsiders
Speaker 1: at the time of recording this. If you wait until
Speaker 1: game day, they may be favorites by the time we start.
Speaker 3: It's it's all going to come down to whether or not.
Speaker 3: And they've been named in the reserves Reese Walsh, Payinhass
Speaker 3: or Pat Kerrigan backup Saturday, three days after State of
Speaker 3: Origin and Melbourne, you would have to think not a
Speaker 3: flight to Auckland an early three pm game Australian time.
Speaker 2: It's a recipe for a head cold. It's exactly.
Speaker 3: And I think the Broncos have been Are they still
Speaker 3: inside the eight They're like barely clinging in there. So yeah,
Speaker 3: because they're not doing like amazingly since Reese went down,
Speaker 3: and also Adam Reynolds obviously, But I think if this
Speaker 3: team runs out how it is here on paper, and
Speaker 3: they have Jack Gazevski at twelve and like all these
Speaker 3: follows like Xavier Willison, who's a beast, but he's a
Speaker 3: young fella. Like, if it's like that, I can see
Speaker 3: us running a lot of points, and I can see
Speaker 3: Adam fanol Blake scoring a try, Mitch Barnett's scoring a
Speaker 3: try through the middle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we can do a job on them.
Speaker 1: I think so too. I'm feeling pretty optimistic about this.
Speaker 1: This isn't that amazing after last weekend, I know, and
Speaker 1: you would think, I don't know what it is about.
Speaker 1: We just got our asses handed to us. Our best
Speaker 1: player from last year is now out for a month.
Speaker 1: We've got a few other injuries floating around as well.
Speaker 1: Now we're playing against the team that knocked us out
Speaker 1: against the and the playoffs last year, and here I
Speaker 1: am putting twenty bucks on it. Yeah, I'm going to
Speaker 1: follow you in on that too. I think that there's
Speaker 1: I don't note well. Again, on the ACC Sports book
Speaker 1: with the TAIRB, we do a segment that we've done
Speaker 1: before called stats to and pristol ladies. They actually have
Speaker 1: some stats and there's a bunch of them. I won't
Speaker 1: try and butcher them now, but they're all around. Anytime
Speaker 1: a team gets pants by like sixty something points, they
Speaker 1: generally bounce back the knicks, right, Yeah, they generally cover
Speaker 1: the line, which is only three and a half points,
Speaker 1: which basically means they're gonna work. So, man, you do
Speaker 1: the mouth on that. You crunch those numbers, do your
Speaker 1: own research. It wasn't just a big loss. It was
Speaker 1: the worst loss in the history of the club. That's
Speaker 1: embarrassing it is that is a huge pride and injury,
Speaker 1: and I think that's why teams after they get spank
Speaker 1: they turn around and go go right.
Speaker 3: It's almost it's also like when they sack the coach
Speaker 3: and then the next game, yeah yeah, the guy interim
Speaker 3: coach gets a win.
Speaker 2: Yeah, at his first game.
Speaker 1: You can't fake that kind of desperation exactly, humiliation, embarrassment.
Speaker 2: Because what what we saw.
Speaker 1: In that game last week that I don't really want
Speaker 1: to think about too, as they just gave up basically absolutely,
Speaker 1: and once you're getting a hiding, like I don't think
Speaker 1: that carries over into the next game.
Speaker 3: Absolutely not the fucking hope not better fucking not what
Speaker 3: I saw from that game, though we discussed it at
Speaker 3: length in the second half while we were dying on
Speaker 3: our ass commentating the worst game in history is I
Speaker 3: think adamfill Blake is an all time great talent, Like
Speaker 3: he's amazing. He also isn't the right person. He's obviously sulking. Still,
Speaker 3: he'll be pissed off about that loss. Yeah, he obviously
Speaker 3: wants out. Yeah, you know, like there's there's stuff behind
Speaker 3: the scenes happening with him. We're trying to I think
Speaker 3: the Warriors are currently trying to offload him, but they
Speaker 3: have to pay money the Sharks to get him early
Speaker 3: and shit. Yeah, So I think he is a negative
Speaker 3: influence in the changing rooms.
Speaker 2: Yeah and not. But I don't think actively.
Speaker 1: I think just by virtue of the fact that you know,
Speaker 1: if he's if we suck.
Speaker 2: He's gonna be like he's a bit sulky about it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but it's not like rallying the boys together, no.
Speaker 3: Exactly, which is And then it was almost like that's
Speaker 3: what we saw. The lack of guys like Mitch Barnett
Speaker 3: and Kirk kape Wa. Yeah, it was almost like you
Speaker 3: need fellas like that, and to who's been doing it
Speaker 3: for ages, but he's old now, Yeah, let him play
Speaker 3: forty off the bench man. Whereas James Fisher Harris is
Speaker 3: coming next year. He would stay with that shit. Absolutely not.
Speaker 3: We would have lost sixty to Sex if James Fisher
Speaker 3: Harris was there. They know he would have at least
Speaker 3: got rid of one try, maybe even more. But he's
Speaker 3: the kind of guy that would rack the boys up
Speaker 3: and get them to actually, I hope yeah stand up,
Speaker 3: whereas I don't see Adam Fanuel Blake doing that.
Speaker 2: No, And I don't really know who it is.
Speaker 1: I think it could be tol who he seems like
Speaker 1: quite a softly spoken dude.
Speaker 2: He absolutely is, he's so chill.
Speaker 1: I think generally it's Sean Johnson, but I think he
Speaker 1: was just too injured in that game, and I think
Speaker 1: he knew it would be a little bit eat us
Speaker 1: to try and give everyone else a g up when
Speaker 1: he knew himself he wasn't at full Street.
Speaker 2: You know who else it could be. It's Mitch Barnett, well.
Speaker 3: Mitch Barnett, but also it could also be Dylan Wantenzi Lisnier,
Speaker 3: who wasn't there because he's he was captain of the
Speaker 3: Dogs for ages, wasn't Hell the Panthers or something when
Speaker 3: they both teams were when they were shit, he kept
Speaker 3: in the kiwis and the keywis is yeah, Keywi's that's right.
Speaker 3: And so I think Dylan could almost be a guy
Speaker 3: that geez them up a wee bit from out on
Speaker 3: the wing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and because you can tell by the way he
Speaker 1: runs the ball.
Speaker 3: But something was missing there that was the key to
Speaker 3: unlocking our like not I'd like the real cheesy like
Speaker 3: you know, doing it for the jersey or whatever.
Speaker 2: No, you're right.
Speaker 1: I think Mitch Barnett is that guy. I think I
Speaker 1: think Kirk cape Well's that guy as well. Well.
Speaker 2: He's a leader, isn't he. It's a great point that
Speaker 2: you raised it.
Speaker 1: Neither of those guys were there, and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden we sort of let go of the rope
Speaker 1: in that game. So yeah, you need someone in there,
Speaker 1: g and everyone up. Yeah, with both those guys back
Speaker 1: and and named to start as well.
Speaker 2: With Mitch Barnett's case, and then Kirk Capey are.
Speaker 1: Coming off the bench, I don't think they're going to
Speaker 1: change this teamless too.
Speaker 2: Much, I hope not.
Speaker 1: I love the look of this teamless.
Speaker 2: So do I. But that's the new Corny's looking great,
Speaker 2: Jackson Ford.
Speaker 1: Can we just get some sort of like sticky spray
Speaker 1: on his hand, on his chest whatever they used to
Speaker 1: have in the NFL that they banned because it was
Speaker 1: way too easy to catch the ball. If we could
Speaker 1: just get some of that stuff in there and yeah,
Speaker 1: and just coat him in it, yeah, powder coat the
Speaker 1: X sex forward. Yeah, get him a couple of fucking
Speaker 1: baseball mets. I don't know something. The knock ons are
Speaker 1: out of control at the moment. Outside that, he's excellent.
Speaker 3: That's the thing is when we're all clicking with plenty
Speaker 3: of go forward and he's got time to just like
Speaker 3: catch the ball and run without having all this pressure
Speaker 3: and shit, he's been going great in the front row
Speaker 3: and I think that's his spot.
Speaker 1: Yeah. You've got to do is a shitload of work,
Speaker 1: run and tackle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's great for that.
Speaker 1: And every now and then someone will throw you a
Speaker 1: no look past, it will bounce off your I don't
Speaker 1: think it's all his fail No, absolutely not.
Speaker 3: He's just here's the circle on his chest, please put
Speaker 3: the ball there otherwise who knows what's going to happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: So that is the team list as they line up
Speaker 1: Selwyn Coma and Tony Staggs back and I'm Jesse Arthur's
Speaker 1: beck in for the Broncos as well. I really don't
Speaker 1: think we're going to see any of the Origin dudes
Speaker 1: who were named on the extended bench, Reese Welsh, Patrick Harrigan.
Speaker 2: I just don't think so, certainly not Reese Welsh.
Speaker 3: It's such like we're only at round seventeen this week. Yeah,
Speaker 3: still what ten more rounds to go and then the
Speaker 3: postseason and state of Origin. Payneharts will be the only
Speaker 3: one I think who would well because he actually missed
Speaker 3: a few games at the beginning of the year, so
Speaker 3: he's had more time off than the others. I think
Speaker 3: he would want to play. But anyway, I agree with you.
Speaker 1: At the time recording this podcast, War is a two
Speaker 1: dollars twenty five outsiders, so I'm probably going to get
Speaker 1: on that tonight. Yeah, to lock that price in before
Speaker 1: it shortens up. We will be die and the Pantsman
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Speaker 1: all right, supercoach Chris. It's sort of a weird period
Speaker 1: at the moment where most people's cash generation has sort
Speaker 1: of been done and your team's starting to firm up.
Speaker 2: Is how you want it to be. We're through the
Speaker 2: worst of the origin by round Shenanigans.
Speaker 1: Yeap, only got one more.
Speaker 2: I only got one more.
Speaker 1: It is still tricky. I'm sure of a player. I
Speaker 1: think I've only got I've got sixteen for around nineteen
Speaker 1: that I can field, yep, for around nineteen. The problem
Speaker 1: I have is I've got like two or three nuffies
Speaker 1: in there that don't play, and I've only got them
Speaker 1: because they are position eligible.
Speaker 2: Right, I'm just Jed cart right and for feeder.
Speaker 1: Is that Vito who is like one of the top
Speaker 1: ten most owned players and super coach.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got them. Yeah, everyone does.
Speaker 1: I haven't started nothing yet.
Speaker 3: And if you don'tant nothing, it's when you just choose
Speaker 3: guys that don't play, but you make sure that dual
Speaker 3: position so you can switch your team around.
Speaker 2: I've just checked.
Speaker 1: I've got eighteen Oh great, which is a total fluke.
Speaker 2: How many trades do you have left?
Speaker 1: Twelve?
Speaker 2: Yeah, see, I have thirteen and I've got one boost
Speaker 2: and so I'm.
Speaker 1: A little twelve and one boost. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a little confused as to what to do.
Speaker 1: So let's go through the buys, cells, captains, different options.
Speaker 1: So Nico Hines is back this week for the Sharks.
Speaker 1: The Sharks have a tremendous run home. They potentially, depending
Speaker 1: on how the other teams like whether they win or lose,
Speaker 1: the Sharks may not face another top eight team after
Speaker 1: the beat of Joke for the rest of the season.
Speaker 2: That's right, Yeah, it's a joke.
Speaker 3: So they've got the cushiest and even at the start
Speaker 3: of the season, before we even got underway, everyone was like, wow,
Speaker 3: the Sharks have got an easy draw.
Speaker 2: This year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so now is potentially the time to get on
Speaker 1: the Sharks. The only think about Nico Hines is his
Speaker 1: break even is two hundred and twelve. Shout out. I've
Speaker 1: never seen a break even that high. No, so don't
Speaker 1: get him this week. So when he plays the Bulldogs.
Speaker 1: I saw a good breakdown of this online. He basically
Speaker 1: can score seventy points tomorrow this weekend, sorry, and still
Speaker 1: lose one hundred thousand dollars in value, which is outrage
Speaker 1: as outrageous. So I don't think it's worth getting Necho
Speaker 1: this week. But next week, I reckon, you need to
Speaker 1: set your team up in such a way that you
Speaker 1: can bring him in. Okay, yes, because he is going
Speaker 1: to drop money. Now, I've had Niko the entire season.
Speaker 1: I don't care how much he costs. I want him
Speaker 1: in my team. You still have them, I still have him,
Speaker 1: all right.
Speaker 3: So it's last few weeks I've been shit house, but
Speaker 3: I've still got him, and so he's just in for
Speaker 3: the rest of the seas because I'm running low on
Speaker 3: trades now on anyone I bring in from this point
Speaker 3: is going to be in my team at the end
Speaker 3: of the year.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The reason why he so wait a week he might
Speaker 3: score seventy, he might even score one hundred and something.
Speaker 3: You go, damn it, he's still going to drop one
Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars. Then bring him in instantly because he
Speaker 3: goes Titans in round eighteen. Yeah, Tiger's nineteen by But
Speaker 3: then the Cowboys who have been struggling, the Bunnies who
Speaker 3: have been struggling, the Titans again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Knights who are sort.
Speaker 3: Of in the middle, the Dragons us, and then manly,
Speaker 3: what an outrageous run home. So get Nico Hines and
Speaker 3: the other two guys who the entire world are bringing in.
Speaker 1: I'm one of them. I already have Ronaldo.
Speaker 3: Mully Talo, he stuck with him. I got him maybe
Speaker 3: three weeks ago. Oh okay, because Brad went whenever Braidon
Speaker 3: Trendall came back. Yeah, he was in the four hundreds.
Speaker 3: He's four hundred and eighty, and I was like, I'll
Speaker 3: just get Molly tallor because they're right home is ridiculous,
Speaker 3: and when they start clicking, he'll start scoring again. And
Speaker 3: the other guy's Brittain Nickulder. Yeah, one hundred and twenty
Speaker 3: over the weekend, who scored one hundred and twenty. He's
Speaker 3: five hundred and seventy thousand. This is a guy who
Speaker 3: consistently last year for about eight weeks, was pumping out nineties. Yeah,
Speaker 3: because he was scoring so many tries running off Necho's hip. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and so I don't know. I like to think Neko,
Speaker 3: now that there's no origin worries, all he's going to
Speaker 3: do is worry about getting the sharks and actually showing
Speaker 3: that they're not just a mirage like they were last year. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and just get that side clicking again running off as her.
Speaker 3: Surely Brittain Nikolder.
Speaker 2: Is going to go up.
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I'm going to try and bring
Speaker 1: it in Mollly Talor this week because I've got a
Speaker 1: couple of terrible sinder Wings that I need to get
Speaker 1: rid of.
Speaker 2: Took a real potshot at Jack White in a few
Speaker 2: weeks ago.
Speaker 1: So random, by the way, has not so random was
Speaker 1: that when he switched into the halves. It was when
Speaker 1: it was when they turned around and started winning game,
Speaker 1: because they've been looking great now, and I was like,
Speaker 1: Jack one, here we go.
Speaker 2: I also thought he was going to get Jill position
Speaker 2: eligibility hasn't yet.
Speaker 1: That would have been handy.
Speaker 3: The other one I've brought in, and the whole world
Speaker 3: is looking at it as Fletcher Sharp.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if Sharp the only issue with him. He's fullback.
Speaker 3: Yes, he's two hundred four thousand dollars, but most people
Speaker 3: will have to disc well. I like to think most
Speaker 3: people have Todeskco locked and as their starting fall back.
Speaker 3: The other two big guns you want are probably Turbo
Speaker 3: or Pongo, and they're not back yet. So just go
Speaker 3: for Sharp until one of them comes back, and then
Speaker 3: you'll make a two three hundred thousand on them.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So here's my scenario that I talked about last week.
Speaker 1: I was gonna bend Latrell because I got titty in Latrell.
Speaker 1: I was like, I can't because I'm probably gonna want
Speaker 1: Latreil back. But I'm now looking at it. They got
Speaker 1: the buy this week. Yeah, I can't have a million
Speaker 1: dollars sitting on my bench doing nothing. No, and then
Speaker 1: in stead of Origin comes around.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: So he's gonna miss quite a few games, that's right.
Speaker 1: So I should have got rid of him last week.
Speaker 1: I'm going to do it this week.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's going to clear the path for a lot of
Speaker 1: salary next week, which is when I bring Nico Hines in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think give Sharp's a no brainer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you need to bring Nico Hines and you
Speaker 3: also are going to I assume at some point, need
Speaker 3: to bring Nathan Cleary in around round twenty.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So there's a lot of cat and if you want
Speaker 3: to do stuff like if you got rid of cricht
Speaker 3: Angus Crichton over State of O and you want to
Speaker 3: bring him back, there's a lot of these guys that
Speaker 3: you're gonna need money for. Yeah, Sharp, I reckon as
Speaker 3: a guarantee four three hundred four hundy K over the
Speaker 3: next few weeks. Plus chances are you're downgrading from someone,
Speaker 3: So yes, that's right. So that freeze up cash. Not
Speaker 3: that at this point of the season you need to
Speaker 3: be making heaps of cash. But I also don't think
Speaker 3: it's ever a bad thing. Making money is the only
Speaker 3: way you can improve your team. If Turbo was flying,
Speaker 3: Ponger was flying right now, I wouldn't even look twice
Speaker 3: at Sharp.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: Pappenhausen's struggling. It's been a shit show. Everyone's in Jeddler
Speaker 3: Treu's been called out. It's like for the first time
Speaker 3: ever fullback. Isn't the amazing spot it has always been. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it will be at the end of the season. Yes,
Speaker 3: So in the meantime, just makes the care take advantage
Speaker 3: of it. Yeah, and he's also a good player. He's
Speaker 3: played two games against the Panthers and the Storm, who
Speaker 3: are the best teams of the Calm and average is
Speaker 3: sixty seven.
Speaker 2: And he's the man.
Speaker 3: So imagine when he plays. I don't even who they're
Speaker 3: playing this week, but whoever they are, he's you know,
Speaker 3: he's going to do a job and get you maybe
Speaker 3: seventy eighty.
Speaker 2: Points they're playing the Eels, ah ninety or one hundred points. Yeah, exact, exactly.
Speaker 2: Cells I think so far along as a cell.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he came off the bench at the last minute
Speaker 3: last week, which meant he only got thirty three points.
Speaker 3: Pretty impressive considering it's off the bench.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, And he's an impressive player.
Speaker 1: He's great.
Speaker 3: However, there has been whispers nurl Physio tweeted out earlier
Speaker 3: today or maybe it was last night, that Poppenhausen is
Speaker 3: a chance to maybe miss out this round.
Speaker 1: Oh really dealing with just a little niggle. However, I
Speaker 1: think let me, just double check this. This is just
Speaker 1: the problem with that is why not trade him to Sharp,
Speaker 1: make money and then increase one hundred percent?
Speaker 3: So if you've still got far a long more wait
Speaker 3: and see. So they are playing. The issue is that
Speaker 3: they are playing I think Sunday night Melbourne. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: so if they roll him out at last minute, you've
Speaker 3: got to wait right until the Saturday night actually, so
Speaker 3: it's not too far off, just after the Warriors game,
Speaker 3: third game of the night. So if you've got far
Speaker 3: along more. The good thing about him is he is
Speaker 3: sent to wing eligible. Yeah, so what you could do
Speaker 3: is bring Sharpen and just bump him up to one
Speaker 3: of your shitty center wings and just keep an eye
Speaker 3: and then if Pappenhausen is out, you could get one
Speaker 3: more game of him at fallback for the Melbourne Storm
Speaker 3: against the Raiders who had an absolute score put on
Speaker 3: them by the Tigers.
Speaker 2: It's a luxury though, to be able to do that,
Speaker 2: it's very specific. You have to be in a good situation.
Speaker 3: Yes, otherwise dump on because what one week left? He's
Speaker 3: been great?
Speaker 2: But yeah, do you really want to be playing? Is
Speaker 2: that the game you want to be playing? Yeah? Fuck?
Speaker 1: I hope Sowis starts and then goes gang buses. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, blay Stelong. If he's still on your roster,
Speaker 1: I reckon, now's the time to get rid of him.
Speaker 1: He's been playing well, the scores haven't been bad, but
Speaker 1: he's six hundred and five thousand dollars and the Eels suck.
Speaker 1: The Eels a bottom of the table, and I know
Speaker 1: they're getting players back, and Mitch Moses just broke whatever
Speaker 1: record in Origin.
Speaker 2: I just still look at that Eels team and think
Speaker 2: they suck.
Speaker 1: I think if if Gatho goes down again, Untilo, he
Speaker 1: goes to fall back sweet Yeah. Outside of that, I'm like, but.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't hold on to him on the off jut
Speaker 2: absolutely not.
Speaker 3: In fact, what I'd probably do is i'd enough him out, Yeah,
Speaker 3: because it's just getting to the point of the season
Speaker 3: where you kind of need to just like one of
Speaker 3: your two rfs, enough of them out, one of your
Speaker 3: center wings, nothing out, which is bringing in a non
Speaker 3: playing bottom dollar player and just bankle that cash man. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden you can go ham
Speaker 3: on like a val Homes or someone that you know
Speaker 3: that yeah, haven't got or whatever, dude.
Speaker 1: You've been watching all season, Ben, like I wish I
Speaker 1: had that though, exactly enough, one of your boys out
Speaker 1: and then just splash out, treat yourself captains for this week?
Speaker 1: Is anybody not captaining to Disco. I'm captaining to Disco.
Speaker 1: The only issue with him is, well, actually it's good
Speaker 1: he plays the last game of the round against his
Speaker 1: old team, the Tigers.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm not gonna again.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to get into the dark art so
Speaker 1: the vice captain, lope, I'm gonna stuff that one up.
Speaker 1: So I'm just sitting and forgetting him as captain. The
Speaker 1: good thing about this is my vice captain is Necho Hines.
Speaker 1: I've got him still. He's playing the first game of
Speaker 1: the round, which means I have the entire weekend to
Speaker 1: make your decision to hopefully if he scores one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty plus, hopefully remember to do the switch. Because
Speaker 1: that's the issue is I always forget, and it always
Speaker 1: so Yeah, I'm like you, I try to avoid it,
Speaker 1: but you know, Nico, first game of the round, Teddy,
Speaker 1: last game of the round, you can't really go wrong. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I don't think anyone would be
Speaker 1: captaining not captaining Teddy, And I would say that there's
Speaker 1: a couple of different ways you can look at it,
Speaker 1: Like do you want to go point a difference captain
Speaker 1: to try and beat other people because everyone else is
Speaker 1: going to be captaining him?
Speaker 2: I kind of think no.
Speaker 1: I would just be like, look, I'm going to captain
Speaker 1: him because everyone else is, so if he fails to fire,
Speaker 1: at least he didn't fire for anyone else. That was
Speaker 1: a piece of advice.
Speaker 3: I was listening to a podcast a few weeks back
Speaker 3: of a guy who won it, and he was just like,
Speaker 3: just captain who everyone else is captaining, and then use
Speaker 3: your other positions to make up the difference, to make
Speaker 3: up the difference, because the last thing you want to
Speaker 3: do is miss out on a guy like and also,
Speaker 3: it's Teddy against the Tigers. Who else are you going
Speaker 3: to captain that's possibly going to score more than he is?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: This is a ridiculous situation. And if you captain him
Speaker 1: and you were wrong, at least you were wrong for
Speaker 1: the right reasons.
Speaker 3: Yes, And if he gets high shotted and gets five points,
Speaker 3: everyone is in the same bar.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's right.
Speaker 3: All good, So yeah, lock in titty captain, titty captain,
Speaker 3: and then who cares about vice captain because it's dangerous.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, you could win your match up that week,
Speaker 1: but you could definitely fuck yourself.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely all right, I think we'll knock that on
Speaker 2: the head for this week.
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