Speaker 1: There and welcome into the Mad Monday Podcast, brought to
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Speaker 1: is saw Monnayowe and joined by the injured Torhu Hurley.
Speaker 1: Get a ben here you getting on, mate.
Speaker 2: Boneur Monsieur Stewart. I'm very French. I'm very Olympics focused
Speaker 2: at the moment, also obviously the rugby league focus, but
Speaker 2: I actually wanted to start out with the Olympic focused
Speaker 2: trivia question. See if you can get it. Who's the
Speaker 2: only current NRL player who is a former Olympian?
Speaker 1: Oh, a former Olympian. I was going to say, Mark
Speaker 1: Nawanga need to is over there with the Ossie seventh
Speaker 1: Steam and then he's going to play for the Roosters.
Speaker 1: Who is Oh well warbrockh.
Speaker 2: Well dan it out? Yes, I thought I thought I
Speaker 2: was gonna trick you there, but yes, well wall break
Speaker 2: Now that's the I was in the rugby union sevens
Speaker 2: team New Zealand last last time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's got the Olympic rings on the forearm
Speaker 1: there so you can see it whenever he's playing. I've
Speaker 1: always wanted to get the Olympic ring tattoo, just to
Speaker 1: show people that went to the Olympics, like, you know,
Speaker 1: you could just get that tattoo at any point out you.
Speaker 2: Know, anyone can get it. Yeah. Absolutely, Imagine how annoyed
Speaker 2: annoyed they would be that you just went in and
Speaker 2: got a cheap tattoo at the back of a bloody
Speaker 2: bus stop or whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I've got to mate. This is his
Speaker 1: second Olympics. Now. I imagine he would be absolutely for
Speaker 1: years if he saw me rock up to the pub
Speaker 1: with an Olympic tattoo. That's kind of why I want
Speaker 1: to do it. But anyway, we're not here to talk
Speaker 1: about Olympic tatoos. Were here to talk about the wires
Speaker 1: and they got up twenty eight sixteen over the Tigers.
Speaker 1: You and I commentated this one being are we the
Speaker 1: headlines this week? Of all the comments on social media
Speaker 1: and that have been like, oh jeez, relaxive R and
Speaker 1: you beat the wooden Spooners. But I actually I don't
Speaker 1: see it that way. I'm more excited about it than
Speaker 1: I think those commenters are.
Speaker 2: Well, look, you know we went down by sixty points
Speaker 2: to the Titans. Who are I think second to last.
Speaker 2: So you know, you've got to take the wins. You've
Speaker 2: got to enjoy the wins. And yeah, as you say,
Speaker 2: we commentated it, and it was a pretty scrappy game
Speaker 2: and not necessarily the prettiest win that the Warriors have
Speaker 2: ever had, but we'll take the two all day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I've got to be honest, despite how scrappy
Speaker 1: it was, twenty eight to sixteen is sort of the
Speaker 1: score line that you would have predicted for this game.
Speaker 1: And I think it was just that there were massive
Speaker 1: stretches where it looked really messy. Then we let in
Speaker 1: a few sort of soft tries. But like I was
Speaker 1: saying heading into the game, all I wanted was for
Speaker 1: the Warriors to win this one and then just for
Speaker 1: us to have a week of a Warrior's win, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like just because let's be real,
Speaker 1: we've got to win every game now from here on
Speaker 1: out to the end of the season to make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: So let's just enjoy this week and knock it to
Speaker 1: ahead of ourselves because the dark times are coming.
Speaker 2: Oh. Look, I've had lots of great street manner in
Speaker 2: the last couple of days from people who listen to
Speaker 2: our commentary, and you know, people just saying, you know,
Speaker 2: all it is is knowing more in a row, and
Speaker 2: that's you know, let's live in hope for a week.
Speaker 2: You're absolutely right. This is a very specific bubble of
Speaker 2: hope that we're in for the next five or so days.
Speaker 2: So just enjoy it. We're standing at the bottom of Everest.
Speaker 2: We've taken about half a dozen steps up and there's
Speaker 2: and there's a lot more to do, but yeah, let's
Speaker 2: just enjoy it while it's here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's we're talking about it in the commentary. If
Speaker 1: you didn't listen, you know that we are standing at
Speaker 1: the bottom of Everest. As you said earlier, we need
Speaker 1: to climb it. Ten games in a row, we need
Speaker 1: to win, and look, that does seem unlikely, but if
Speaker 1: it's going to happen, it has to start with a win.
Speaker 1: And that's exactly what happened on the weekend. So we
Speaker 1: need to really just take that one, don't we as
Speaker 1: a country, and just really really basking it. And you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure away from the fact that yet we're
Speaker 1: going to need the oxygen tank very very shortly. But
Speaker 1: as it stands right now, we're full of hope and optimism.
Speaker 2: Yeah, can we get any Nepalese players into the side.
Speaker 2: You know that seemed to help ed Hillary is he had, like,
Speaker 2: you know, probably the most famous Nipalese person ever with him.
Speaker 2: And yeah, maybe maybe that's an untapped market. The Catman
Speaker 2: do rugby league scene. I'm not sure how healthy it is.
Speaker 1: Well, if they came down to sea level, you know,
Speaker 1: their voto capacity would just be through the roof. If
Speaker 1: I ever told you my Edmund Hillary.
Speaker 2: Story, No, but let's let's do that right now.
Speaker 1: Okay, my stepmother is a chef and back in the
Speaker 1: day she worked in restaurants in christ Church and one
Speaker 1: day Edmund Hillary came through and she got to cook
Speaker 1: for him. And so when she was finished cooking the meal,
Speaker 1: she said to the you know whoever, the waiter or whatever,
Speaker 1: I'd like to take this one out to eat if
Speaker 1: I could. So she takes it out to him, this meal,
Speaker 1: and she takes a five dollar note with her and
Speaker 1: a pin and she gets Edmund Hillary to sign a
Speaker 1: five dollar note. And her mother was staying with her
Speaker 1: this weekend, so she took the five dollar note home,
Speaker 1: showed everyone, put it on the table. She goes back
Speaker 1: to work. Day. After she comes back, it must have
Speaker 1: been like a Sunday or something. The five dollar note's
Speaker 1: gone and she goes, mom, have you seen that five
Speaker 1: dollar note that I left on the table. She goes, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I put that into the pokes last night.
Speaker 2: Oh wow.
Speaker 1: So somewhere in circulation there is a probably at the
Speaker 1: christ Church Casino, there is a five dollars signed Edmund
Speaker 1: Hillary note.
Speaker 2: I guess. Yeah, there's not too many other people that
Speaker 2: can sign the notes. I mean, obviously Queen Elizabeth could
Speaker 2: have at the time, but everyone else is dead. So yeah,
Speaker 2: that's pretty rare. That is pretty rare.
Speaker 1: With doesn't even win either, don't even have to feature, you.
Speaker 2: Know, look, just to slightly get back into rugby league,
Speaker 2: no excuses. But there was a late try there to
Speaker 2: the Tigers, which probably made the score line slightly flattering.
Speaker 2: And the other the other thing I would say is
Speaker 2: that back line had only two players in it that
Speaker 2: are probably first choice players of position.
Speaker 1: Were ours our Yeah, oh, speaking of that one player
Speaker 1: that was playing at a position though, hey, Roger looks phenomenal,
Speaker 1: didn't he did?
Speaker 2: He really? Did? You know? We've got two first class
Speaker 2: fullbacks and whatever. You do with them. You can't have
Speaker 2: two fullbacks, so someone's going to be playing out a position,
Speaker 2: and weirdly, the combination that seemed to work best was
Speaker 2: when Chance went into number six.
Speaker 1: I know it's just, but it's been so weaby to
Speaker 1: just stick with the players that he's got. He said
Speaker 1: from the start, you know, Chance is our fullback and
Speaker 1: he's not going to waiver from that. He doesn't waver
Speaker 1: from any of the decisions that he makes. You know,
Speaker 1: he sticks with them, even right down to the to
Speaker 1: the reserves, which we'll get into it in a second.
Speaker 1: But there's been a lot of talk this week, as
Speaker 1: it has all season, Roger has to be our starting fullback.
Speaker 1: And I've got to be honest, I'm in that camp.
Speaker 1: I think Roger has to be our starting fullback. And
Speaker 1: I know everyone says old than what about Chance. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I think we need to figure that part out,
Speaker 1: but I think Roger has to be our fullback both
Speaker 1: defensively and offensively. He was excellent.
Speaker 2: So here's what you do. You put Chance back into
Speaker 2: six and Chanel Harris Devita into the fourteen. Jersy coming
Speaker 2: off the bench. He had a vastly improved game, by
Speaker 2: the way. Yeah, ninety eight points on super Coach, of
Speaker 2: which he has certainly not achieved any other time this season.
Speaker 1: No, absolutely not. Yeah, Roger had a few great runs. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the two try saving I don't know if they tackles
Speaker 1: or got to the ball first sort of situation. I
Speaker 1: just think, I don't know, particularly if we drop one
Speaker 1: of these next few games and then our season is over,
Speaker 1: we can't make the eight anymore. Just give us something
Speaker 1: to cheer for, you know. And I think Roger at
Speaker 1: fallback is that. But like I said, he sticks with
Speaker 1: his decisions and he doesn't play. How many games this
Speaker 1: season have we seen where we've only played like three
Speaker 1: subs and one dude's just sat on the bench entire game.
Speaker 1: Diver was in the group chat straight after the game
Speaker 1: on Saturday morning morning, pouring over stats, and he said
Speaker 1: that Liquor Halasima only played eight minutes and Jazz only
Speaker 1: played seventeen.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I know Jazz is coming off a hamstring injury, which
Speaker 1: I asked him about last week, But why, why, why
Speaker 1: does where we stick with these They seem bizarre, don't they?
Speaker 2: The rotations, I mean, I think the most damaging injury
Speaker 2: in all of sort of Warriors law. Is your broken
Speaker 2: heart that that Jazz caused you when you asked him
Speaker 2: about that fake injury.
Speaker 1: The thing is, and I've addressed it. I've addressed it
Speaker 1: since then. I think I'll come to terms with it.
Speaker 1: The thing is that I commentated all those fucking games
Speaker 1: that he played like this. What it was was I
Speaker 1: over prepared. They swapped the guests at the last minute,
Speaker 1: and I did. I did bump into the girl that
Speaker 1: looks after the partnerships with the Warriors, so she's our
Speaker 1: contact there, and she goes, I said, oh, did you
Speaker 1: see that video? She goes, yeah, I approved it. I said,
Speaker 1: I sort of wish you didn't. I said, if it
Speaker 1: makes fee any better, I've lost a lot of sleep
Speaker 1: this week, she said, so have I.
Speaker 2: So look, I know we're getting on very off track.
Speaker 2: But a few years ago I interviewed members of the
Speaker 2: rock band Weezer, including the leitza at Rivers Como and
Speaker 2: the keyboardist in bass player Scott someone I can't remember
Speaker 2: his last name anyway. I said to him, so, Scott,
Speaker 2: you've only been in the band for the last three
Speaker 2: albums and he went no, And I went, oh, sorry,
Speaker 2: four albums. He went no, and I went the other
Speaker 2: way and went two albums and he went five albums. Oh.
Speaker 1: Look, while we're off in the weeds, I had celebrity
Speaker 1: shift Josh Emmitt come into the studio one day when
Speaker 1: I was on Hodak. You had no idea who he was,
Speaker 1: and he'd made a yogurt for skin cancer and that
Speaker 1: was all the information I had. And he walked there
Speaker 1: and he said and I was like, so, like, do
Speaker 1: you put it on your skin or do you eat it?
Speaker 1: Like what's the go And he goes, well, no, you
Speaker 1: eat it. And I said, so have you what's your
Speaker 1: experience of skincareer He's like, no, I don't. I haven't
Speaker 1: had any. I was like, I could not figure out
Speaker 1: in real time who this guy was or why he
Speaker 1: had a yogurt. And it wasn't until he walked out
Speaker 1: in someone went is a celebrity chef and it's a fundraisers.
Speaker 2: Like, oh, okay, look, you can tell that this was
Speaker 2: not necessarily the most exciting game in rugby league that
Speaker 2: we've ever witnessed. Because we've covered Edmund, Hillary Weezer, and
Speaker 2: Josh Emmont so far on this podcast. But look, just
Speaker 2: to slightly wrap things up, Yeah, it is weird that
Speaker 2: Web's use of the bench. He has been weird all season.
Speaker 2: And look, I'm not sure who's coming back from injuries
Speaker 2: next week, but it seems to be just an ever
Speaker 2: increasingly difficult puzzle to solve.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is. It's out of control. Our injury waters
Speaker 1: is ridiculous. So the team that they named tomorrow tomorrow
Speaker 1: will be very interesting to check out. Just quickly before
Speaker 1: we do go to a break, how do you think
Speaker 1: we'll go against the Eels this weekend? It's Friday night
Speaker 1: game again.
Speaker 2: Well, the Eels have had a very similar season to us. Like,
Speaker 2: you know, if you look at the Eels team on paper,
Speaker 2: it looks incredible, and you know, at times they've played
Speaker 2: some great football, and you know, two seasons ago they
Speaker 2: were in the Grand Final, so they've kind of been
Speaker 2: relatively unlucky a little bit like there are. So I
Speaker 2: actually think it's a really good matchup. I'd love to
Speaker 2: take those two points, but unfortunately I see a close
Speaker 2: loss in our future.
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Speaker 1: Stonker of the ram and the Stalker of the round
Speaker 1: ended up being a bit of a blow up, but
Speaker 1: we're decided by halftime in this game that this was
Speaker 1: already going to be the stonker and it was the
Speaker 1: Broncos the Bulldogs. Over the weekend, that game was out
Speaker 1: of control basically from the outset and throughout that game
Speaker 1: forty one points to sixteen in the end in favor
Speaker 1: of the Bulldogs, basically putting a line through the Broncos.
Speaker 1: But being that game was just end to end, from
Speaker 1: whistle to whistle, was it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So the commentary kept talking about the fact that
Speaker 2: it was a real strategic move to move the ball
Speaker 2: wide by the Dogs because apparently the Broncos bunch up
Speaker 2: on defense early in the early in the tackle count
Speaker 2: and I just love that. I love that there's that
Speaker 2: level of strategy going into these games and it really worked.
Speaker 2: And there were times there was comparisons to late nineties
Speaker 2: canber Raiders sides and things like that, like the Dogs
Speaker 2: were just playing fantastic looking football and yeah, they look
Speaker 2: are there? Are they a real chance this year? That's
Speaker 2: what we're gonna ask us about the Dogs.
Speaker 1: Well, we do, because if you look at the table
Speaker 1: so far, the Dogs of War, they are on twenty
Speaker 1: six points. They are in fifth, so they're just a
Speaker 1: shade outside of the top eight. Broncos all the way
Speaker 1: down in thirteenth. I still thought that the Broncos were
Speaker 1: going to win this. I think partly because of you know,
Speaker 1: recency bias from watching them last year, partly because the
Speaker 1: TB had them as favorites, partly because I didn't believe
Speaker 1: in this Bulldogs team. But then what I watched on
Speaker 1: the weekend was the team that was just like, fuck it,
Speaker 1: we're going to have a crack. They sort of played
Speaker 1: like the Fiji and Drew and Rugby Union with it.
Speaker 1: It's like we're going to run this from everywhere, whether
Speaker 1: it's a coach killer or not. And obviously it wasn't
Speaker 1: because Sereraldo was, you know, saying at halftime that's exactly
Speaker 1: what they wanted to do. And what it did was
Speaker 1: it forced the Broncos into trying that shit as well.
Speaker 1: They had to because all of the stuff was being
Speaker 1: thrown at them. Bronson Sherry was doing chip and chases
Speaker 1: that fell a skeleton out on the and on the
Speaker 1: right wing was causing absolute mayhem. And then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, the Broncos got sucked into a game that
Speaker 1: that wasn't really their game. They had that chip and
Speaker 1: chase with Catoni Stags that was incredible where he ran
Speaker 1: the link basically the length of the field off like
Speaker 1: the third or fourth kick. Reece Walsh kicked the forty
Speaker 1: twenty from about thirty meters out. It was just incredible.
Speaker 1: But I think it just I think they hurried the
Speaker 1: Broncos up a little bit, and I think that teams
Speaker 1: sort of take on the personality of their best player,
Speaker 1: and the Broncos' best player is Reece Walsh, and he
Speaker 1: is prone to doing his nut every now and then.
Speaker 1: You know, he'll lose his head from time to time,
Speaker 1: and I think hurrying them up, they sort of showed
Speaker 1: the blueprint there. Not that the team in thirteenth needs
Speaker 1: a blueprint to beat them, but I just think that
Speaker 1: it really dictated the way that they're going to play.
Speaker 1: I would love to see the Warriors player a bit
Speaker 1: more like that. Just have a crack.
Speaker 2: Well, that's what the That's what they used to be
Speaker 2: known for, right, the Warriors. But you know, like moving
Speaker 2: the ball and big physical presence and yeah, I certainly
Speaker 2: haven't seen much of that this yet. But what has
Speaker 2: happened to the Broncos? Like, I know there's very little
Speaker 2: sympathy amongst our mad Monday Crow for the Broncos, but
Speaker 2: it's just something to be said that they're like slightly
Speaker 2: unfairly disadvantage because of the origin period, Like it's not
Speaker 2: only the weeks that the games are and yes they
Speaker 2: do get by rounds because of the split rounds during
Speaker 2: those weeks, but it's the week before and it's the
Speaker 2: week after as well. So I don't know, is that
Speaker 2: that they lose you know, six seven players.
Speaker 1: Yeah, potentially you could argue that because the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: been in the worst position of being not that great
Speaker 1: despite being in the top eight, but also losing a
Speaker 1: lot of players to Origin, so they've had a bit
Speaker 1: of a dip to But then what would you do,
Speaker 1: like not not let their players play in Origin.
Speaker 2: I honestly don't have the solution, but it is, yeah,
Speaker 2: it does. It's sort of it started with Origin, didn't it.
Speaker 2: The Bronco slide and also you know, and some key
Speaker 2: injuries as well, but they've never recovered and I think
Speaker 2: their season's over there.
Speaker 1: Well, I would say that they've had again a similar
Speaker 1: season to the Warriors, who were great last year, and
Speaker 1: then for just various minor little reasons, haven't fulfilled their
Speaker 1: potential this year. I won't make you guess I was
Speaker 1: going to, but I won't. Their points differential the Broncos
Speaker 1: is exactly zero, so that, yeah, they're the only team
Speaker 1: in the camp with exactly zero's the points stuff, So
Speaker 1: it's obviously they're not actually that bad. They just haven't
Speaker 1: been able to finish those games, very similar to the Warriors.
Speaker 2: Ours is only negative twenty two, isn't it? It is just
Speaker 2: which is bagger all across you know, nineteen games or whatever.
Speaker 1: No, exactly the teams above us, the Knights minus ninety seven,
Speaker 1: the Dragons minus ninety two, the Raiders minus seventy one.
Speaker 1: But unfortunately it's very tough for the Warriors because of
Speaker 1: the draw and obviously the ten losses. But we're on
Speaker 1: twenty one competition points so far. You've got to be
Speaker 1: on twenty four this round to be in the top eight,
Speaker 1: and so the best we can do if we win
Speaker 1: this weekend, the best we can do is leap frog
Speaker 1: the Knights, which puts us into eleventh position. So it
Speaker 1: is a very very steep climb to base camp for
Speaker 1: the Wires going forward. Not really too many surprises in
Speaker 1: the top eight as we look at it. I think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are probably the only one that surprises me
Speaker 1: in there at the moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they've had a couple of close wins in the
Speaker 2: last two weeks which have kept them in there. I
Speaker 2: mean they were I think they were unbeaten up to
Speaker 2: four rounds and then had a massive dip and yeah,
Speaker 2: but there were a couple of blowouts on Sunday, Whilch
Speaker 2: just show how good Penrith is by the.
Speaker 1: Way, Oh my god. Yeah, absolutely, the Storm still on first,
Speaker 1: Panthers and second, but arguably the best team in the
Speaker 1: comp at the moment. Rooster's Shark's still in top four,
Speaker 1: which I find just because Nico has been out a
Speaker 1: little bit. Surprising Dogs, Cowboys, Seagulls, Dolphins and a long
Speaker 1: way back the Warriors in twelfth. All right, we're gonna
Speaker 1: take one more quick break. When we come back, it's
Speaker 1: time for another episode of Hurley's Heroes. Right now, It's
Speaker 1: time for Hurley's Heroes.
Speaker 2: Okay, welcome to Hurley's Heroes. And I've gone with a
Speaker 2: French theme this week because, of course the Paris Olympics
Speaker 2: going on at the moment. Rugby league not featured in
Speaker 2: the Olympics. But of course France is a proud rugby
Speaker 2: league nation. I think they've been at every single Rugby
Speaker 2: League World Cup. They don't necessarily do that well, but
Speaker 2: they do have a professional team, the Catalan Dragons, that
Speaker 2: play in the Super League, so you know, arguably a
Speaker 2: little similar to New Zealand, and they've got one professional team.
Speaker 2: So what I thought i'd do today is talk about
Speaker 2: a French player who's played in the NRL. I was
Speaker 2: born in Nabon, France. I played over three hundred games
Speaker 2: for the Catalan Dragons and twenty five tests for France,
Speaker 2: many as captain, but also twelve games for the Sydney
Speaker 2: Roosters in the twenty fourteen season, and I scored two tries.
Speaker 2: I play front row or edge ford and I am
Speaker 2: the current assistant coach for the Toulouse Olympic team. Am
Speaker 2: I number one? Dimitri Pello, two Bevan French? Three Remi
Speaker 2: Casti for Jerome Gasse or number five Lee where we
Speaker 2: didn't Raian.
Speaker 1: Ah three hundred games for the Catalan Dragons, that's incredible
Speaker 1: and twenty five tests for France. It's funny when NRL
Speaker 1: players just pop up over there there in that French competition.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm all at sea. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's Leeui We than Ryan Bevan French seems too obvious.
Speaker 1: So now I'm down to Dimitri, Remy and Jerome. I'm
Speaker 1: going to I cannot remember a man playing for the
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen Roosters that fits that description. I will go.
Speaker 2: Remy Gusty, Well, you've got a bang on the on
Speaker 2: the head there, well done. Yes, there's actually a bit
Speaker 2: of a tradition between France and the Roosters. I think
Speaker 2: the only connection I can see is that they have
Speaker 2: the same logo, A Rooster. But there's been a couple
Speaker 2: of players that have played for France and for Sydney City.
Speaker 2: But of those other ones on the Dmitriy Pillow played
Speaker 2: five games I think for the Dragons and Jerome. See,
Speaker 2: he played a handful of games for Canberra Bevan French.
Speaker 2: I just threw that at one in there for a laugh.
Speaker 2: He's indigenous Australian, so he's got nothing to do with
Speaker 2: France whatsoever. But yeah, no, Remy Castein's one of the
Speaker 2: greats of French rugby league.
Speaker 1: Actually yeah, it was just an absolute out now, I
Speaker 1: guess from me, But yeah, three hundred games of Calin
Speaker 1: and Dragon's powerful, powerful stuff in.
Speaker 2: Two stints, so he played like one hundred and forty games,
Speaker 2: then came and did that one season at the Roosters
Speaker 2: and obviously didn't play the whole season because he only
Speaker 2: played twelve games, and then went back and played another
Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty odd games for Catlan.
Speaker 1: Rugby league legend in France. I guess if you were
Speaker 1: going to come over from France, the only place you'd
Speaker 1: want to players in BONDI to be fair, only place
Speaker 1: you'd want to love at least just before we go.
Speaker 1: There was a post that went out this morning that
Speaker 1: really caught my eye that I wanted to discuss, and
Speaker 1: that was from the Warrior's actual Instagram page, and it's
Speaker 1: a photo of Narni Mappy with the quote I came
Speaker 1: back and watched Captain's run and it definitely lit a
Speaker 1: little fire to finish off what I started. So we'll
Speaker 1: never know what will happen. Hopefully my agent can get
Speaker 1: some stuff sorted. I'd like to come back now. Usually
Speaker 1: where there's smoke this fire, but if the club itself
Speaker 1: is posting.
Speaker 2: This, yeah, that's I think that's a pretty good indication
Speaker 2: that he's on his way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, obviously could always do with some more players. But
Speaker 1: Narne lo MAPI, what are the all time hard done
Speaker 1: by by the All Blacks sort of players? You know?
Speaker 1: I think he was basically basically told you're probably not
Speaker 1: going to be you know, you'll be in and out
Speaker 1: of the team for the rest of your career. So
Speaker 1: he's like, bugger, I'm going to go over to France
Speaker 1: and make millions And now, I don't know. Do you
Speaker 1: think that players are still coming back because of the
Speaker 1: success from last year, like James Fisher Harris and the
Speaker 1: players that we've been able to get.
Speaker 2: I think there's something to be said for that. But
Speaker 2: I also just think, you know, we play in front
Speaker 2: of sold out crowds every single week, and you know what,
Speaker 2: are we fourteenth on the table? You know? I just think,
Speaker 2: no matter what the results are this year, we are
Speaker 2: still riding high on that very good season, and I think, yeah,
Speaker 2: the Warriors brand is still on the app despite you know,
Speaker 2: this less than successful season so far.
Speaker 1: And just finally before we knocked this thing on the head,
Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon, I went down and watched our very own
Speaker 1: notorious pants band, Joel Harrison playing for the Mount Albert
Speaker 1: mad Dogs. They played against the Seattle two Roosters and
Speaker 1: they won. Did you see the video of the Pantsman
Speaker 1: getting up to score a try?
Speaker 2: No? But I have talked to Pantsman quite a lot
Speaker 2: about that competition, and let's just say, there's no bunker
Speaker 2: and so there's there's a lot of a lot of
Speaker 2: physical stuff that goes unseen by the reef in that
Speaker 2: comp So he's a proper hard man. Is the is
Speaker 2: the pants Man?
Speaker 1: Yeah? No, he well he's about six foot seven. He
Speaker 1: latched onto a bomb and just dotted down for a
Speaker 1: try there ended up blowing out the Chatter two roosters
Speaker 1: and then they're into the final next week. Pants Man's
Speaker 1: buggering off to Europe with the family, though for a
Speaker 1: holiday for like six weeks. He won't be there for
Speaker 1: the game.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, leave your team in the latch, pants Man.
Speaker 1: I know what a lovely leads. But anyway, shout out
Speaker 1: to the Mad Dogs, shout out to the Pantsman, and
Speaker 1: shout out to you being early for joining us again
Speaker 1: on the Mad Monday Podcast. Enjoy the rest of your week, mate.
Speaker 2: Yeah you too, and yeah, look forward to you guys
Speaker 2: calling on Friday night.
Speaker 1: I believe I think it's Die and Chris and I
Speaker 1: think they may even be out there at the game
Speaker 1: as well, so yeah, keep an eye out for that one.
Speaker 1: We'll put the coms out later on this week. Thank
Speaker 1: you very much, and we'll see you on Thursday for
Speaker 1: another episode of the Mad Monday Podcast.
Speaker 3: And Australia without Rugby League, He's not Australia.
Speaker 2: That a struck