WEBVTT - "Basecamp" 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:11.840 There and welcome into the Mad Monday Podcast, brought to 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:13.840 you as always by four and twenty PI. Is a 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:18.599 perfect at home snack for watching rugby league. My name 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:23.800 is saw Monnayowe and joined by the injured Torhu Hurley. 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:26.360 Get a ben here you getting on, mate. 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:32.240 Boneur Monsieur Stewart. I'm very French. I'm very Olympics focused 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:34.440 at the moment, also obviously the rugby league focus, but 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:38.000 I actually wanted to start out with the Olympic focused 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:40.879 trivia question. See if you can get it. Who's the 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:46.160 only current NRL player who is a former Olympian? 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:50.680 Oh, a former Olympian. I was going to say, Mark 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:53.920 Nawanga need to is over there with the Ossie seventh 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:56.360 Steam and then he's going to play for the Roosters. 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:59.800 Who is Oh well warbrockh. 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:02.080 Well dan it out? Yes, I thought I thought I 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:04.520 was gonna trick you there, but yes, well wall break 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:07.240 Now that's the I was in the rugby union sevens 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:09.039 team New Zealand last last time. 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:12.160 Yeah, and he's got the Olympic rings on the forearm 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:15.000 there so you can see it whenever he's playing. I've 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:17.640 always wanted to get the Olympic ring tattoo, just to 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:19.880 show people that went to the Olympics, like, you know, 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.440 you could just get that tattoo at any point out you. 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:25.400 Know, anyone can get it. Yeah. Absolutely, Imagine how annoyed 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:29.640 annoyed they would be that you just went in and 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:32.640 got a cheap tattoo at the back of a bloody 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:33.560 bus stop or whatever. 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:35.880 Yeah, I know, I've got to mate. This is his 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:38.399 second Olympics. Now. I imagine he would be absolutely for 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:40.720 years if he saw me rock up to the pub 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:42.640 with an Olympic tattoo. That's kind of why I want 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:45.319 to do it. But anyway, we're not here to talk 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:47.199 about Olympic tatoos. Were here to talk about the wires 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:50.960 and they got up twenty eight sixteen over the Tigers. 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:55.640 You and I commentated this one being are we the 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:58.080 headlines this week? Of all the comments on social media 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:00.040 and that have been like, oh jeez, relaxive R and 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:03.440 you beat the wooden Spooners. But I actually I don't 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:05.520 see it that way. I'm more excited about it than 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:07.080 I think those commenters are. 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:10.600 Well, look, you know we went down by sixty points 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.280 to the Titans. Who are I think second to last. 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:16.280 So you know, you've got to take the wins. You've 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:19.440 got to enjoy the wins. And yeah, as you say, 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:23.639 we commentated it, and it was a pretty scrappy game 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:28.720 and not necessarily the prettiest win that the Warriors have 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:31.160 ever had, but we'll take the two all day. 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:34.480 Yeah, And I've got to be honest, despite how scrappy 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:37.240 it was, twenty eight to sixteen is sort of the 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:39.800 score line that you would have predicted for this game. 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:41.480 And I think it was just that there were massive 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:44.400 stretches where it looked really messy. Then we let in 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:47.880 a few sort of soft tries. But like I was 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:50.920 saying heading into the game, all I wanted was for 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:53.640 the Warriors to win this one and then just for 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:56.440 us to have a week of a Warrior's win, you 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:59.960 know what I mean, Like just because let's be real, 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:03.160 we've got to win every game now from here on 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:05.680 out to the end of the season to make the playoffs. 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:08.919 So let's just enjoy this week and knock it to 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:11.640 ahead of ourselves because the dark times are coming. 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:16.000 Oh. Look, I've had lots of great street manner in 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:18.760 the last couple of days from people who listen to 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:22.000 our commentary, and you know, people just saying, you know, 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:24.760 all it is is knowing more in a row, and 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:29.360 that's you know, let's live in hope for a week. 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:33.560 You're absolutely right. This is a very specific bubble of 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:36.760 hope that we're in for the next five or so days. 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:40.360 So just enjoy it. We're standing at the bottom of Everest. 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:45.400 We've taken about half a dozen steps up and there's 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:47.280 and there's a lot more to do, but yeah, let's 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:48.480 just enjoy it while it's here. 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:51.000 Yeah, it's we're talking about it in the commentary. If 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:53.600 you didn't listen, you know that we are standing at 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:56.040 the bottom of Everest. As you said earlier, we need 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:59.160 to climb it. Ten games in a row, we need 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:02.440 to win, and look, that does seem unlikely, but if 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:04.560 it's going to happen, it has to start with a win. 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:06.760 And that's exactly what happened on the weekend. So we 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:09.280 need to really just take that one, don't we as 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:12.640 a country, and just really really basking it. And you know, 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:15.240 I'm not sure away from the fact that yet we're 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:18.080 going to need the oxygen tank very very shortly. But 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:21.520 as it stands right now, we're full of hope and optimism. 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:25.760 Yeah, can we get any Nepalese players into the side. 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:29.240 You know that seemed to help ed Hillary is he had, like, 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:33.880 you know, probably the most famous Nipalese person ever with him. 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:38.200 And yeah, maybe maybe that's an untapped market. The Catman 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:41.960 do rugby league scene. I'm not sure how healthy it is. 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:45.640 Well, if they came down to sea level, you know, 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:48.640 their voto capacity would just be through the roof. If 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:50.520 I ever told you my Edmund Hillary. 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:53.760 Story, No, but let's let's do that right now. 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:58.640 Okay, my stepmother is a chef and back in the 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.440 day she worked in restaurants in christ Church and one 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:05.120 day Edmund Hillary came through and she got to cook 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:07.520 for him. And so when she was finished cooking the meal, 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:09.960 she said to the you know whoever, the waiter or whatever, 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:12.120 I'd like to take this one out to eat if 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:14.480 I could. So she takes it out to him, this meal, 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:17.320 and she takes a five dollar note with her and 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.920 a pin and she gets Edmund Hillary to sign a 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:24.560 five dollar note. And her mother was staying with her 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:27.039 this weekend, so she took the five dollar note home, 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:30.160 showed everyone, put it on the table. She goes back 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:32.520 to work. Day. After she comes back, it must have 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:34.919 been like a Sunday or something. The five dollar note's 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:37.760 gone and she goes, mom, have you seen that five 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:42.120 dollar note that I left on the table. She goes, oh, yeah, 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:43.880 I put that into the pokes last night. 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:47.040 Oh wow. 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:53.560 So somewhere in circulation there is a probably at the 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:57.440 christ Church Casino, there is a five dollars signed Edmund 0:05:57.480 --> 0:05:58.720 Hillary note. 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.080 I guess. Yeah, there's not too many other people that 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:08.279 can sign the notes. I mean, obviously Queen Elizabeth could 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:11.960 have at the time, but everyone else is dead. So yeah, 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:14.000 that's pretty rare. That is pretty rare. 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:17.280 With doesn't even win either, don't even have to feature, you. 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:22.719 Know, look, just to slightly get back into rugby league, 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:28.480 no excuses. But there was a late try there to 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:31.919 the Tigers, which probably made the score line slightly flattering. 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:34.039 And the other the other thing I would say is 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:38.640 that back line had only two players in it that 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:43.200 are probably first choice players of position. 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:47.480 Were ours our Yeah, oh, speaking of that one player 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:50.640 that was playing at a position though, hey, Roger looks phenomenal, 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:51.800 didn't he did? 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:55.920 He really? Did? You know? We've got two first class 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:59.800 fullbacks and whatever. You do with them. You can't have 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:03.880 two fullbacks, so someone's going to be playing out a position, 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:08.000 and weirdly, the combination that seemed to work best was 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:09.800 when Chance went into number six. 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:15.280 I know it's just, but it's been so weaby to 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:18.040 just stick with the players that he's got. He said 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:20.520 from the start, you know, Chance is our fullback and 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:22.320 he's not going to waiver from that. He doesn't waver 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:25.000 from any of the decisions that he makes. You know, 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:28.200 he sticks with them, even right down to the to 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:30.240 the reserves, which we'll get into it in a second. 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:32.800 But there's been a lot of talk this week, as 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:35.560 it has all season, Roger has to be our starting fullback. 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:38.040 And I've got to be honest, I'm in that camp. 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:40.160 I think Roger has to be our starting fullback. And 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:42.160 I know everyone says old than what about Chance. I 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:44.120 don't know. I think we need to figure that part out, 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.480 but I think Roger has to be our fullback both 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:48.800 defensively and offensively. He was excellent. 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.720 So here's what you do. You put Chance back into 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:56.200 six and Chanel Harris Devita into the fourteen. Jersy coming 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:59.680 off the bench. He had a vastly improved game, by 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:03.640 the way. Yeah, ninety eight points on super Coach, of 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:08.480 which he has certainly not achieved any other time this season. 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:12.320 No, absolutely not. Yeah, Roger had a few great runs. Obviously, 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:14.840 the two try saving I don't know if they tackles 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:17.200 or got to the ball first sort of situation. I 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:20.240 just think, I don't know, particularly if we drop one 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:22.800 of these next few games and then our season is over, 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:25.160 we can't make the eight anymore. Just give us something 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:27.760 to cheer for, you know. And I think Roger at 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:30.840 fallback is that. But like I said, he sticks with 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:33.840 his decisions and he doesn't play. How many games this 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.640 season have we seen where we've only played like three 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.960 subs and one dude's just sat on the bench entire game. 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:42.600 Diver was in the group chat straight after the game 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:47.000 on Saturday morning morning, pouring over stats, and he said 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.880 that Liquor Halasima only played eight minutes and Jazz only 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:50.760 played seventeen. 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:51.800 Now. 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:53.880 I know Jazz is coming off a hamstring injury, which 0:08:53.880 --> 0:09:01.439 I asked him about last week, But why, why, why 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:05.000 does where we stick with these They seem bizarre, don't they? 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:11.319 The rotations, I mean, I think the most damaging injury 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:15.720 in all of sort of Warriors law. Is your broken 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:19.280 heart that that Jazz caused you when you asked him 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:20.440 about that fake injury. 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:24.000 The thing is, and I've addressed it. I've addressed it 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:26.360 since then. I think I'll come to terms with it. 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:30.120 The thing is that I commentated all those fucking games 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:33.520 that he played like this. What it was was I 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:35.840 over prepared. They swapped the guests at the last minute, 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:40.560 and I did. I did bump into the girl that 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:43.520 looks after the partnerships with the Warriors, so she's our 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:46.040 contact there, and she goes, I said, oh, did you 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:47.960 see that video? She goes, yeah, I approved it. I said, 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:49.880 I sort of wish you didn't. I said, if it 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:51.400 makes fee any better, I've lost a lot of sleep 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:53.559 this week, she said, so have I. 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:57.480 So look, I know we're getting on very off track. 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:00.920 But a few years ago I interviewed members of the 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:05.840 rock band Weezer, including the leitza at Rivers Como and 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:11.440 the keyboardist in bass player Scott someone I can't remember 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:14.280 his last name anyway. I said to him, so, Scott, 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:16.280 you've only been in the band for the last three 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:19.960 albums and he went no, And I went, oh, sorry, 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:22.600 four albums. He went no, and I went the other 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:29.280 way and went two albums and he went five albums. Oh. 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:32.480 Look, while we're off in the weeds, I had celebrity 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:34.760 shift Josh Emmitt come into the studio one day when 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:36.760 I was on Hodak. You had no idea who he was, 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:40.079 and he'd made a yogurt for skin cancer and that 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:42.160 was all the information I had. And he walked there 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:45.160 and he said and I was like, so, like, do 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:47.320 you put it on your skin or do you eat it? 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:50.520 Like what's the go And he goes, well, no, you 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:52.880 eat it. And I said, so have you what's your 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:55.000 experience of skincareer He's like, no, I don't. I haven't 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:57.600 had any. I was like, I could not figure out 0:10:57.679 --> 0:10:59.800 in real time who this guy was or why he 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:01.840 had a yogurt. And it wasn't until he walked out 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:05.240 in someone went is a celebrity chef and it's a fundraisers. 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:10.240 Like, oh, okay, look, you can tell that this was 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:13.640 not necessarily the most exciting game in rugby league that 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:17.040 we've ever witnessed. Because we've covered Edmund, Hillary Weezer, and 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:20.240 Josh Emmont so far on this podcast. But look, just 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:23.840 to slightly wrap things up, Yeah, it is weird that 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:27.480 Web's use of the bench. He has been weird all season. 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:32.679 And look, I'm not sure who's coming back from injuries 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.120 next week, but it seems to be just an ever 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:37.560 increasingly difficult puzzle to solve. 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:40.600 Yeah, it is. It's out of control. Our injury waters 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:43.400 is ridiculous. So the team that they named tomorrow tomorrow 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:46.000 will be very interesting to check out. Just quickly before 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:47.360 we do go to a break, how do you think 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:50.360 we'll go against the Eels this weekend? It's Friday night 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:50.880 game again. 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:54.360 Well, the Eels have had a very similar season to us. Like, 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:56.720 you know, if you look at the Eels team on paper, 0:11:56.760 --> 0:12:00.560 it looks incredible, and you know, at times they've played 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:03.880 some great football, and you know, two seasons ago they 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:07.080 were in the Grand Final, so they've kind of been 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:09.960 relatively unlucky a little bit like there are. So I 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:12.520 actually think it's a really good matchup. I'd love to 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:17.840 take those two points, but unfortunately I see a close 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:19.000 loss in our future. 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.600 Sad And so all right, we're going to take one 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:24.520 quick break just before we do the four and twenty 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:26.760 four pack price pack each month the Mad Monday team 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:29.720 of giving away four tickets to Warriors games and four 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:31.600 and twenty five vouches. If you want to enter that, 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:34.520 just text the monthly keyword to three two three six. 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:37.000 Just a couple of days left in this month, and 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:41.760 the text keyword is spit, So text spit to three 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:44.199 two three six to be in to win. We'll be 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:47.719 right back all right now it is time for the 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:52.000 Stonker of the ram and the Stalker of the round 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:53.960 ended up being a bit of a blow up, but 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:56.280 we're decided by halftime in this game that this was 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:58.920 already going to be the stonker and it was the 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:04.120 Broncos the Bulldogs. Over the weekend, that game was out 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:07.600 of control basically from the outset and throughout that game 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:10.920 forty one points to sixteen in the end in favor 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:14.400 of the Bulldogs, basically putting a line through the Broncos. 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:17.200 But being that game was just end to end, from 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:18.720 whistle to whistle, was it. 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:21.920 Yeah, So the commentary kept talking about the fact that 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:25.439 it was a real strategic move to move the ball 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:30.520 wide by the Dogs because apparently the Broncos bunch up 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:33.439 on defense early in the early in the tackle count 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:36.280 and I just love that. I love that there's that 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:40.280 level of strategy going into these games and it really worked. 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:44.679 And there were times there was comparisons to late nineties 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.440 canber Raiders sides and things like that, like the Dogs 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:54.560 were just playing fantastic looking football and yeah, they look 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:59.080 are there? Are they a real chance this year? That's 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:00.800 what we're gonna ask us about the Dogs. 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:03.120 Well, we do, because if you look at the table 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:07.040 so far, the Dogs of War, they are on twenty 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.160 six points. They are in fifth, so they're just a 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:13.400 shade outside of the top eight. Broncos all the way 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:15.880 down in thirteenth. I still thought that the Broncos were 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:19.920 going to win this. I think partly because of you know, 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:25.080 recency bias from watching them last year, partly because the 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:28.320 TB had them as favorites, partly because I didn't believe 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:30.200 in this Bulldogs team. But then what I watched on 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:32.000 the weekend was the team that was just like, fuck it, 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:33.760 we're going to have a crack. They sort of played 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:36.720 like the Fiji and Drew and Rugby Union with it. 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.720 It's like we're going to run this from everywhere, whether 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:42.440 it's a coach killer or not. And obviously it wasn't 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:45.600 because Sereraldo was, you know, saying at halftime that's exactly 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:47.960 what they wanted to do. And what it did was 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:52.200 it forced the Broncos into trying that shit as well. 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:54.560 They had to because all of the stuff was being 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:57.680 thrown at them. Bronson Sherry was doing chip and chases 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:00.320 that fell a skeleton out on the and on the 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:04.800 right wing was causing absolute mayhem. And then all of 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:07.280 a sudden, the Broncos got sucked into a game that 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:10.040 that wasn't really their game. They had that chip and 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:14.040 chase with Catoni Stags that was incredible where he ran 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:16.360 the link basically the length of the field off like 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:21.240 the third or fourth kick. Reece Walsh kicked the forty 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:25.320 twenty from about thirty meters out. It was just incredible. 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:27.480 But I think it just I think they hurried the 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:30.520 Broncos up a little bit, and I think that teams 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:33.280 sort of take on the personality of their best player, 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:36.360 and the Broncos' best player is Reece Walsh, and he 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:38.400 is prone to doing his nut every now and then. 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:40.600 You know, he'll lose his head from time to time, 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:42.840 and I think hurrying them up, they sort of showed 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:46.360 the blueprint there. Not that the team in thirteenth needs 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:48.680 a blueprint to beat them, but I just think that 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:50.760 it really dictated the way that they're going to play. 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:52.360 I would love to see the Warriors player a bit 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:54.440 more like that. Just have a crack. 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:57.040 Well, that's what the That's what they used to be 0:15:57.120 --> 0:16:00.520 known for, right, the Warriors. But you know, like moving 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:05.120 the ball and big physical presence and yeah, I certainly 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:07.520 haven't seen much of that this yet. But what has 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:10.680 happened to the Broncos? Like, I know there's very little 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:16.440 sympathy amongst our mad Monday Crow for the Broncos, but 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:19.240 it's just something to be said that they're like slightly 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:23.640 unfairly disadvantage because of the origin period, Like it's not 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:25.800 only the weeks that the games are and yes they 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:28.200 do get by rounds because of the split rounds during 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:31.040 those weeks, but it's the week before and it's the 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:34.880 week after as well. So I don't know, is that 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:37.280 that they lose you know, six seven players. 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:43.240 Yeah, potentially you could argue that because the Cowboys have 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:46.480 been in the worst position of being not that great 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:48.720 despite being in the top eight, but also losing a 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:51.520 lot of players to Origin, so they've had a bit 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:52.840 of a dip to But then what would you do, 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:56.160 like not not let their players play in Origin. 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:02.040 I honestly don't have the solution, but it is, yeah, 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:06.199 it does. It's sort of it started with Origin, didn't it. 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:11.120 The Bronco slide and also you know, and some key 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:14.600 injuries as well, but they've never recovered and I think 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:15.640 their season's over there. 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:19.000 Well, I would say that they've had again a similar 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:22.080 season to the Warriors, who were great last year, and 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:27.360 then for just various minor little reasons, haven't fulfilled their 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:30.679 potential this year. I won't make you guess I was 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:33.399 going to, but I won't. Their points differential the Broncos 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:38.320 is exactly zero, so that, yeah, they're the only team 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:41.000 in the camp with exactly zero's the points stuff, So 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:44.440 it's obviously they're not actually that bad. They just haven't 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:47.760 been able to finish those games, very similar to the Warriors. 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:52.160 Ours is only negative twenty two, isn't it? It is just 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:55.400 which is bagger all across you know, nineteen games or whatever. 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:59.000 No, exactly the teams above us, the Knights minus ninety seven, 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:03.240 the Dragons minus ninety two, the Raiders minus seventy one. 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:06.119 But unfortunately it's very tough for the Warriors because of 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:11.080 the draw and obviously the ten losses. But we're on 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:14.919 twenty one competition points so far. You've got to be 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:17.200 on twenty four this round to be in the top eight, 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:20.040 and so the best we can do if we win 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:22.280 this weekend, the best we can do is leap frog 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:26.040 the Knights, which puts us into eleventh position. So it 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:30.560 is a very very steep climb to base camp for 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.560 the Wires going forward. Not really too many surprises in 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:34.840 the top eight as we look at it. I think 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:36.919 the Cowboys are probably the only one that surprises me 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:38.000 in there at the moment. 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:42.040 Yeah, they've had a couple of close wins in the 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:44.440 last two weeks which have kept them in there. I 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:46.520 mean they were I think they were unbeaten up to 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:50.600 four rounds and then had a massive dip and yeah, 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:53.480 but there were a couple of blowouts on Sunday, Whilch 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:55.160 just show how good Penrith is by the. 0:18:55.080 --> 0:19:00.440 Way, Oh my god. Yeah, absolutely, the Storm still on first, 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:03.520 Panthers and second, but arguably the best team in the 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:06.120 comp at the moment. Rooster's Shark's still in top four, 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:09.879 which I find just because Nico has been out a 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:15.880 little bit. Surprising Dogs, Cowboys, Seagulls, Dolphins and a long 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:18.920 way back the Warriors in twelfth. All right, we're gonna 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:21.560 take one more quick break. When we come back, it's 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:25.920 time for another episode of Hurley's Heroes. Right now, It's 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:27.960 time for Hurley's Heroes. 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:41.359 Okay, welcome to Hurley's Heroes. And I've gone with a 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:46.080 French theme this week because, of course the Paris Olympics 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:49.080 going on at the moment. Rugby league not featured in 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:53.240 the Olympics. But of course France is a proud rugby 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:56.080 league nation. I think they've been at every single Rugby 0:19:56.160 --> 0:19:59.080 League World Cup. They don't necessarily do that well, but 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:03.439 they do have a professional team, the Catalan Dragons, that 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:07.800 play in the Super League, so you know, arguably a 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:12.200 little similar to New Zealand, and they've got one professional team. 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:15.080 So what I thought i'd do today is talk about 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:18.439 a French player who's played in the NRL. I was 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:22.280 born in Nabon, France. I played over three hundred games 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:25.600 for the Catalan Dragons and twenty five tests for France, 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:30.160 many as captain, but also twelve games for the Sydney 0:20:30.240 --> 0:20:34.560 Roosters in the twenty fourteen season, and I scored two tries. 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:37.920 I play front row or edge ford and I am 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:42.560 the current assistant coach for the Toulouse Olympic team. Am 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:50.560 I number one? Dimitri Pello, two Bevan French? Three Remi 0:20:50.680 --> 0:20:57.080 Casti for Jerome Gasse or number five Lee where we 0:20:57.480 --> 0:20:58.359 didn't Raian. 0:21:01.119 --> 0:21:06.320 Ah three hundred games for the Catalan Dragons, that's incredible 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:08.399 and twenty five tests for France. It's funny when NRL 0:21:08.440 --> 0:21:11.959 players just pop up over there there in that French competition. 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:14.280 I don't know. I'm all at sea. I don't think 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:18.440 it's Leeui We than Ryan Bevan French seems too obvious. 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:23.480 So now I'm down to Dimitri, Remy and Jerome. I'm 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:25.800 going to I cannot remember a man playing for the 0:21:25.840 --> 0:21:28.640 twenty fourteen Roosters that fits that description. I will go. 0:21:30.000 --> 0:21:33.520 Remy Gusty, Well, you've got a bang on the on 0:21:33.600 --> 0:21:36.680 the head there, well done. Yes, there's actually a bit 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:41.359 of a tradition between France and the Roosters. I think 0:21:41.400 --> 0:21:43.080