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Speaker 1: Pantsman Joel Harrison and I'm joined with Ben Hurley.
Speaker 2: Welcome Ben.
Speaker 3: How's it going great mate?
Speaker 4: What a round of rugby league? You can definitely tell
Speaker 4: it was post Origin. There was some big margins, but
Speaker 4: none more so than the It was beating the Cows.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it was a great time.
Speaker 1: I was lucky enough to join Die in the Export
Speaker 1: B studio to commentate the game on Saturday night.
Speaker 2: It was fun.
Speaker 1: I feel like it was probably the most the most
Speaker 1: well rounded Warriors performance of the yesfr.
Speaker 4: Yeah, incredible. We talked about it. I commentated that Origin
Speaker 4: game one and the Cowboys had more players involved in
Speaker 4: Origin than any other single club. So I think we
Speaker 4: counted seven because it was as a couple and obviously
Speaker 4: there's most of them for the Maroons, but a couple
Speaker 4: for the Blues as well. So most of those players
Speaker 4: backed up, some of them coming off the bench. But
Speaker 4: the Cows, even though they look great on paper, they
Speaker 4: haven't had the best season so far anyway, and with
Speaker 4: half their team, more than half their team playing having
Speaker 4: played a very physical game of rugby league four days before.
Speaker 4: They definitely showed signs of fatigue. And you don't see
Speaker 4: a team like that, you know, lose by thirty points
Speaker 4: very often.
Speaker 1: Yeah, especially at home in North Queensland, which is normally
Speaker 1: a pretty tough trip. I feel like Ruben Cotter, he's
Speaker 1: normally one of the biggest impact of their team as well.
Speaker 1: He made thirty two tackles in the first half and
Speaker 1: after playing a grueling Origin game as well.
Speaker 2: It would be pretty tough for that.
Speaker 1: And then your likes of Val Holmes dead and they
Speaker 1: didn't really fire to the Warriors. We were lucky for
Speaker 1: that one. What did you reckon of, like Dylan Walker
Speaker 1: moving into the Star lineup instead of Toho Harris.
Speaker 4: Yeah, really interesting. I feel like I love to who Harris.
Speaker 4: He is the mighty taught to and I won't have
Speaker 4: a bad word said about him, but he's definitely slower
Speaker 4: off the mark than he used to be. He gets
Speaker 4: big post contact meters, but I yeah, I guess they're
Speaker 4: just easing him back in right after his injury. And
Speaker 4: Dylan Walker is he's just the fix it man. He
Speaker 4: just goes wherever you need him.
Speaker 1: He was so good and I think it was for
Speaker 1: Mitch Barnett's try. We're talking about it off here as well.
Speaker 1: That was your your punt of the week last week
Speaker 1: and it brought home about three hundred bucks to the
Speaker 1: ACC kiddy. But yeah, just the way he straightens up
Speaker 1: the ball in the middle, fed it to Marty Martin.
Speaker 1: Then yeah, Martin just put Bunnett over it. It was
Speaker 1: good to see Walker plane like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was beautiful. And let's talk about Tomati Martin too,
Speaker 4: because I think we saw the best of him finally
Speaker 4: in the Warriors Jersey. He's just such a solid half.
Speaker 4: He's not flashy, but he you don't what he's going
Speaker 4: to do. And I think sometimes with SJ, you kind
Speaker 4: of know he's not going to run at the line
Speaker 4: this year. He did last year. This year he's had
Speaker 4: that niggling injury. He's currently out with that injury. So
Speaker 4: it does become a little bit predictable that he is
Speaker 4: just gonna boot downfield or distribute. But with Tomighty, he
Speaker 4: runs at the line, and so it just gives it
Speaker 4: that little bit of extra jeopardy every time he's got the.
Speaker 3: Ball in his hand.
Speaker 1: It's crazy because when Tomighty Martin has come to the
Speaker 1: Warriors for the last two years, he's sort of been
Speaker 1: a bit injury prone and kind of been behind Metcalf.
Speaker 1: He was good at started last year and he hasn't
Speaker 1: really shown them in his last three weeks. He's almost
Speaker 1: been like the standout seven and the competition and then Johnson,
Speaker 1: I think it's supposed to be back this week after
Speaker 1: his peck injury. So would you bring him back into
Speaker 1: the LINEU would you leave him the bench?
Speaker 4: No? I think you bring him back in and put
Speaker 4: Tomighty back to Sex because unfortunately, and I'm a massive
Speaker 4: fan of the man, but Chanel Harris Devita did not
Speaker 4: have the best game obviously. He was ten in the
Speaker 4: bin for arguably the most a schoolboy kind of childish
Speaker 4: ball throw that Chad Townsend didn't even notice and he
Speaker 4: got ten in the bin for it. The ball literally
Speaker 4: hit him in the back of the head and he
Speaker 4: didn't turn around, didn't say anything, and he gets ten
Speaker 4: in the bin for it. But yeah, I mean, looking
Speaker 4: at his super coach points, he played most of that
Speaker 4: game and scored I think twenty six at super coach points,
Speaker 4: So not a not a great full start for his
Speaker 4: first start in a Warriors jersey in a couple of years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was probably one of the only Warriors who
Speaker 1: didn't almost perform to their best ability in the weekend
Speaker 1: as well. It was so good to see across the
Speaker 1: park everyone was doing it. I feel like we're be
Speaker 1: needs to find a way that he can get to
Speaker 1: mighty in there at Sex, but also still give him
Speaker 1: a bit.
Speaker 2: More management as well. D you can, that's a doable thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think.
Speaker 4: I think probably what I hope is that given that
Speaker 4: he's in some really good form, that Sean and him
Speaker 4: will share that management bit better and it's not just
Speaker 4: down to s J on the last play, you know,
Speaker 4: on the fifth tackle every time that it could go
Speaker 4: to either one because Tomoighty's kicking game pretty great as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Die was having a field day on the commentary on
Speaker 1: the weekend with Chad Towns and he's saying he's the
Speaker 1: Chris Lily of the NRL. Well, it seems like there's
Speaker 1: a bit of bad blood between him and the Warriors.
Speaker 4: It really does, doesn't it.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 4: I mean, he is an ex Warrior for those he
Speaker 4: even caught up, but you know, I always vote Chadtowns
Speaker 4: in at the Warriors. I thought he gave it his best,
Speaker 4: and then he moved away and he became I think
Speaker 4: one year he was the most penalized player in the
Speaker 4: competition when he went to the Did he go straight
Speaker 4: to the Cows or did he go somewhere else?
Speaker 3: First?
Speaker 2: Did you go to the Sharks?
Speaker 1: And then he came back to the Warriors and then
Speaker 1: he went to the Cowboys?
Speaker 3: I think?
Speaker 4: All right, so well, yeah, you know, he's probably just
Speaker 4: getting a little bit older now. He definitely looks reader
Speaker 4: in the face and angrier than he used to be.
Speaker 4: He has at his discipline a little bit. But yeah,
Speaker 4: it did seem a little bit of niggle there between them,
Speaker 4: and I wonder if in particularly some of the older
Speaker 4: Warrior players that would have been there while he was there,
Speaker 4: like Marcelo Montoya.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Montoya was fired up. I know he has.
Speaker 1: He had an incident a few years ago against the
Speaker 1: Cowboys as well that led to a bit of a
Speaker 1: band so I think there's a bit of bad blood
Speaker 1: between him and the Cowboys as well. So yeah, he
Speaker 1: was fired up, and when you put he could have
Speaker 1: got sent off for that push on Chad Townsend as
Speaker 1: well a Montoya.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right. Look, I'm a Cowboys fan that they
Speaker 4: are my other team. I love watching them play. They
Speaker 4: are a little bit like the Warriors, and that they
Speaker 4: are massively up and down, and you know, particularly this year,
Speaker 4: they're almost heavy identical season. So yeah, I'm not sure
Speaker 4: what the what the water under the bridge is there,
Speaker 4: but look, forty two points to twelve, what a performance.
Speaker 4: Just tries galore and we should probably talk about the
Speaker 4: back back.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, that was vintage DWZ there. When I was commentating,
Speaker 1: I said it was Ben barber ESQ. But it was
Speaker 1: actually like Greg Anglis in two thousand and eight heading
Speaker 1: it back to Gasnia. Probably one of the best tries
Speaker 1: I've seen in a long time, especially from the Warriors.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it was I love just the bare back
Speaker 4: was so casual, like he just thought he'd roll the dice.
Speaker 4: I might as we have a little swipe at this
Speaker 4: and willow and behold.
Speaker 1: And his foot was like centimeters away from the white line.
Speaker 1: I know they train, especially as a winger, he trains
Speaker 1: to stay in the field of playing stuff, but surely
Speaker 1: there was some element of a fluke there as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 4: I mean, you're gonna have a little bit of luck
Speaker 4: the way the baldest yet popped up at the end
Speaker 4: on that last bounce. But you know what, you're going
Speaker 4: to take the opportunities. And the Warriors certainly have had
Speaker 4: this year of bad luck over the years, so let's
Speaker 4: take them. So currently the Warriors six wins, six losses
Speaker 4: and a drawer. You can't have more of an even
Speaker 4: split of a season than that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and especially after was it four or five losses
Speaker 1: in a row and now we've turned it into three
Speaker 1: wins in a bye. So we're sitting at ninth on
Speaker 1: the table, one point outside of that eight. The eight
Speaker 1: is pretty it's pretty even though at the moment it
Speaker 1: goes up to sixteen points with the Ruses and six
Speaker 1: and then storm at the top with the Sharks on
Speaker 1: twenty two points.
Speaker 2: So the Warriors a.
Speaker 1: Few more wins away, we could easily cement ourself in
Speaker 1: the top eight for the season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, and you just kind of you kind of
Speaker 4: don't want to be seventh or eighth. I mean, I'm
Speaker 4: not sure if we can get higher than that. I
Speaker 4: think we'd have to go on a hell of a
Speaker 4: run now, but you know seventh and eighth. If you're
Speaker 4: losing that, you know you've got to play. It will
Speaker 4: be Cranala or Brisbane or something in the Storm in
Speaker 4: that first round of the finals and you're basically gone.
Speaker 4: Like I don't think anyone. I mean, the Warriors made
Speaker 4: the Grand Final from eighth once, but that was a
Speaker 4: long time ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a different the setup this year. It
Speaker 1: really favors the top four teams. We we do have
Speaker 1: kind of an interesting draw coming up. We gave the Storm, Titans,
Speaker 1: Broncos and Builder. Obviously Storm and Broncos at home, probably
Speaker 1: two of the hardest teams of the competition.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Absolutely, And but just remember we almost beat the
Speaker 4: Storm earlier this year and that was my sliding doors moment.
Speaker 4: But since since I mentioned that sliding doors moment, we've
Speaker 4: won every game. So hope, let's hope we just can
Speaker 4: you know, contain Zavier Coats pulling off America in the
Speaker 4: last minute and and and bag two points against the Storm, who,
Speaker 4: by the way, looked very good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was it was a good game yesterday. They
Speaker 1: they kind of loot the Nights back in there at
Speaker 1: the end. I think without Cameron Munster. They're definitely, definitely beatable,
Speaker 1: but they're still the classic Storm.
Speaker 2: Craig Bellamy, he.
Speaker 1: Looked depressed after a win after the game yesterday. It
Speaker 1: was as a vintage Craig Bellamy moved there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they just look like they can score from anywhere
Speaker 4: and and it's massively dangerous.
Speaker 1: There's one key point that's been talked about quite a
Speaker 1: lot in all the Warriors fan pages, that moment when
Speaker 1: Artis come back, comes back, where do you reckon?
Speaker 3: He's in a.
Speaker 4: Gus interesting, isn't it. I mean, do you put him?
Speaker 4: I mean, when we had our hearts problems and charms
Speaker 4: went to sex like there was Actually he did pretty
Speaker 4: well there and immediately I thought, well, you know, if
Speaker 4: we're so bad injuries, when Artis comes back, then he
Speaker 4: goes straight into fallback.
Speaker 2: Right Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, otherwise he just a Rocko Berry played so well
Speaker 4: on the weekend, like such a good defensive center now,
Speaker 4: so I don't know. And Adam Pompey's playing well and
Speaker 4: kicking really well as well. So yeah, it's I mean,
Speaker 4: do you have a back on the bench, like it
Speaker 4: almost never happens anymore, but Artie is coming off the
Speaker 4: bench as an impact player is a pretty awesome luxury
Speaker 4: to have.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like probably over the weekend it was
Speaker 1: the best bench rotation that Webi's done all season as well,
Speaker 1: because you had toahu coming on played about sixty minutes.
Speaker 1: Cape well played forty I think, but it was probably
Speaker 1: some of his best minutes of the season. To Vanga
Speaker 1: only played twenty eight minutes, but he was he was
Speaker 1: clinical and then lassic for the last twenty three. So
Speaker 1: I don't know, it feels like it's a good problem
Speaker 1: for Weaby to have.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean Montoya had a couple of rough games. He
Speaker 4: even dropped out of the side for a game, but
Speaker 4: I think he's played pretty well since then. So for
Speaker 4: a little while there, I was thinking maybe maybe just
Speaker 4: put Antis on the wing and and dropped Montoya, but
Speaker 4: I don't think you can at the moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And like he was safe under the high ball
Speaker 1: kind of cut their era out of the game.
Speaker 2: Which was sort of hindering him at the start of
Speaker 2: the season.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, it's yeah, i'd be disappointed Montoya
Speaker 1: got dropped as well.
Speaker 4: Are the Blues still in beck and like are they
Speaker 4: still in Super Rugby? Like Yeah, just put him on loan,
Speaker 4: so back to rugby union for a week.
Speaker 1: It seems weird because the Blues are kind of thriving
Speaker 1: at the moment as well when he's he's dropped out
Speaker 1: of the system.
Speaker 3: I just I hate this.
Speaker 4: I hate talking anything but wonderful things about Roger two
Speaker 4: Vas this year.
Speaker 2: He's such a good player.
Speaker 1: Pretty much every game this season when he's played, he's
Speaker 1: made a massive impact as well. It's just been he's
Speaker 1: been unlucky.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he's kind of forgotten how to pass.
Speaker 4: He's obviously got the best feet in the game, but
Speaker 4: I'd like to see him pass a little bit more.
Speaker 4: And yeah, he's very very solid defender, but yeah, a
Speaker 4: little bit more distribution from him. If if I'm going
Speaker 4: to you know, if I have to have a critical
Speaker 4: eye on it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Oh well, these are problems that Andrew WIBs
Speaker 1: is going to run into in the next few weeks.
Speaker 2: Anything else from you and the Warriors over the weekend.
Speaker 4: No, that's that's me just it just gives you great confidence.
Speaker 4: And I know they were a tired side, but you know,
Speaker 4: you're still you're still gonna win. And it wasn't close
Speaker 4: and as you say it was up in Townsville where
Speaker 4: it was, I know, probably early thirty degrees and you know,
Speaker 4: place like towns will winter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and it was full of Bogans in the
Speaker 1: crowd as well. There's a couple of times one of
Speaker 1: the guys was standing real close to the studio, sorry,
Speaker 1: the stadium, Mike, so we get to hear a lot
Speaker 1: of his calls and he was not a big gene
Speaker 1: pulled up in Townsville.
Speaker 3: This're saying, no, no, Yeah. I love the Cowboys.
Speaker 4: I'd like to see them play one day at home,
Speaker 4: but hopefully it's one of those games where it's not
Speaker 4: in Townsville. Although that stadium looks pretty cold, I got
Speaker 4: to say it does.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of sort of like an Amy Park
Speaker 1: or Kombank Stadium in Sydney. We need one of those
Speaker 1: over here in New Zealand. But that's a discussion for
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Speaker 1: This week we're going with the Penrith Panthers playing at home.
Speaker 1: They took down the Seagulls thirty two to twenty two,
Speaker 1: and it was a weird game. I've never seen a
Speaker 1: game with his two first half hat tricks. Did you
Speaker 1: catch much of a ben?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I did, actually tries galore and and what was amazing
Speaker 4: about it? I think every single try was scored by
Speaker 4: a winger. So Tommy Telo got four, Brian Or got three,
Speaker 4: Sania Taruba got two. He also had a shocka defensively
Speaker 4: in the first half of hints why Tommy Telo got four?
Speaker 4: But yeah, unbelievable. Every single every single try was scored
Speaker 4: was scored out wide, so they've obviously got some very
Speaker 4: good wingers that are good at attack and not defense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, even sub He scored a consolation try there for
Speaker 1: Manly and it was an awesome try, like twinkled Tod
Speaker 1: down the sideline somehow found a bit of space. But yeah,
Speaker 1: Tommy Tallao, he was kind of an average player last
Speaker 1: year at best at the Tigers. Now he's sort of
Speaker 1: made a revival.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think everyone becomes an average player when they
Speaker 4: go to the Tigers. I fell for Benji just to
Speaker 4: get off check a little bit, because man, every week
Speaker 4: he's going to go and defend his team at that
Speaker 4: press conference, and I think he's a naturally quite an
Speaker 4: optimistic guy, and it's difficult when every single week you're
Speaker 4: having a lost pretty much.
Speaker 1: There's all these rumors about Lachlan Galvin as well, like
Speaker 1: the one sort of shining light coming out of the
Speaker 1: Tigers this season. Apparently he's saying he wanted an early
Speaker 1: release in the changing rooms and they've denied it. Now
Speaker 1: they've got a meeting the hit of the Tigers, who's
Speaker 1: a meeting with his mum and dad this week because
Speaker 1: he's only eighteen of course.
Speaker 4: Oh right, Yeah, look what I've learned about at the
Speaker 4: NRL is generally the rumors are true. Yeah, but no,
Speaker 4: this is a great a great game of rugby league
Speaker 4: on a Sunday afternoon, a real Sydney derby. People who
Speaker 4: don't know the kind of history of the NRL may
Speaker 4: not know that Manly was sort of like the Melbourne
Speaker 4: Storm when they first came into the competition. They came,
Speaker 4: you know, they come from the wealthy part of Sydney
Speaker 4: in the Northern Beaches, and they just came in with
Speaker 4: a lot of money and poached players from all sorts
Speaker 4: of other clubs. And that was when the competition was
Speaker 4: only semi professional. So and Penrith very much West Sydney,
Speaker 4: you know, very much a working class, you know, sort
Speaker 4: of traditional rugby league place, and so there's some real
Speaker 4: feeling in this game. They got out to a lead.
Speaker 4: It probably looks closer than it was on the score
Speaker 4: on the scoreboard because many sort of came back at them.
Speaker 4: They never went away. But I don't think Penrith was
Speaker 4: ever all that worried.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a clinical Penrith performance as well. I
Speaker 1: saw thirty seven out of thirty eight sets completed from
Speaker 1: the game, and the second half they didn't drop a
Speaker 1: ball but you could tell there was feeling in there
Speaker 1: because Jerome Lay there was one time where he shoved
Speaker 1: down the young Travoyevitch as well Berbo. He didn't have
Speaker 1: his brothers to back him up, but he was just
Speaker 1: like it was a massive grub move face into the dirt.
Speaker 1: And then Luke Brooks kind of cost Manly a try
Speaker 1: as well by backing him up, coloring Leuey. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a great game and Penrith they seemed to
Speaker 1: be once again proving to be the team to beat
Speaker 1: in the competition.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean there's a pretty clear top four, isn't there.
Speaker 4: But I wanted to give a shout out though to
Speaker 4: Daily Cherry Evans, who played a really good game despite
Speaker 4: the loss, after having a mammoth game for Queensland in
Speaker 4: the first staut of Origin.
Speaker 3: So you know, I know it's.
Speaker 4: He's a half and it's not quite as physical as
Speaker 4: being a front railer or even a fullback, you know,
Speaker 4: but the guy's thirty five years old and has played
Speaker 4: two fantastic games in a week.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: There was a classic moment as well when he didn't
Speaker 1: kick the ball off the mark, so the referee gave
Speaker 1: Tom the Mark, he kicked it out and then three
Speaker 1: times he moved about eight meters forward while kicking the ball.
Speaker 1: It was I saw it up in the n Our
Speaker 1: Instagram as well. It's a good moment. But Reuben Garrick's
Speaker 1: kicking there was a couple of clips as well up there.
Speaker 1: They were obviously tough kicks because they were all from
Speaker 1: the wing and you could just hear the Penrith Bogans
Speaker 1: giving him a massive spray and then it kind of
Speaker 1: won them the game.
Speaker 4: Penrith, Yeah, I guess it did, actually didn't it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, I love the beautiful scar faced reubend Garrett,
Speaker 4: but he was I think they got in his head,
Speaker 4: the crowd.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And another good player from the game as well was
Speaker 1: Dane Lourie, who has come over from the Tigers. It
Speaker 1: was one of the best players for the Tigers last
Speaker 1: year and I think he bet Dylan Edwards record for
Speaker 1: running meters this year at fullback. Took twenty five carries
Speaker 1: for like two hundred and seventy meters, had a Mammoth
Speaker 1: supercoach game as well of anyone's following along with that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, he looks like definitely a first grade prayer there,
Speaker 1: Dan Lowry.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but with that mustache, she's not anywhere near a school.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred percent. And besides that game, there was
Speaker 1: pretty much blowouts for the rest of the weekend.
Speaker 2: Did you catch much of the much of the action?
Speaker 4: Yeah, bits and pieces. I think the Bunnies will be
Speaker 4: very happy with their blowout because they're not obviously. Was
Speaker 4: that their first win?
Speaker 2: I think that's his second win in a row.
Speaker 4: Yeah, right right, Yes, Well Latrell is well and truly
Speaker 4: bad so that you know, talk about a single player team,
Speaker 4: but you know, the Bunnies without Latrell is well, it's
Speaker 4: not worth talking about really. But yeah, he had a
Speaker 4: huge game, one hundred and fifty super coach points, so yeah,
Speaker 4: big meters and big presence.
Speaker 2: You'd have to assume that he will be back in
Speaker 2: Origin for game two as well, probably replacing Sole.
Speaker 3: Oh mate.
Speaker 4: If Mage knows anything about the game of rugby league,
Speaker 4: he needs to make wholesale changes and put back in
Speaker 4: his game breakers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, who else do you reckon the game breakers to
Speaker 2: bring in?
Speaker 4: Do you know what I've said this before, I'll say
Speaker 4: it again, Scott Drinkwater. I I don't know where, but
Speaker 4: I bring him into the side.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he is. He's a good player. He's sure and
Speaker 1: pockets against the Warriors.
Speaker 2: He was lethal.
Speaker 4: Well, he ran well, he ran eighty meters like he's
Speaker 4: got expector. And I just think that that Origin game
Speaker 4: by the Blues, that's what it lacked. It lacked any
Speaker 4: kind of you know, spark.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And if there were any doubts of Zach Lomac's getting
Speaker 1: dropped as well, he's probably he had a great game,
Speaker 1: to be fair, in his Origin debut. But he scored
Speaker 1: thirty two points two nights after playing his first of
Speaker 1: a game of Origin. I think it was a Dragon's
Speaker 1: record as well for the most points ever scored in
Speaker 1: a game.
Speaker 4: Look, I don't know what it is about him, but
Speaker 4: he rubs everybody up the wrong way. No, I don't
Speaker 4: think he's anyone's favorite player, but the effect remains he's
Speaker 4: actually pretty good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: And then probably the last point of the round for
Speaker 1: me was the Sharks going over to the Broncos and
Speaker 1: what was pretty much like a top of the table
Speaker 1: clash game. No Nico Hines trindle back from his drink
Speaker 1: driving allegedly cocaine abuse allegation. I don't know what it was,
Speaker 1: but he looked like he was a great player, and
Speaker 1: the Sharks looked like they're definitely still a team to
Speaker 1: beat this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, And obviously Broncos with a lot of players backing
Speaker 4: up from Origin.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, well, yeah, it was a good round.
Speaker 1: Anything else to add from you for the rest of
Speaker 1: the round.
Speaker 4: No, I this round generally happens at some point, this
Speaker 4: type of round where it's just basically all blowouts, and
Speaker 4: it is during this weird time. My only concern is
Speaker 4: as a long term Warriors fan, this used to be
Speaker 4: what happened every single season, was that we'd win through
Speaker 4: the Origin period and then when you know that was over,
Speaker 4: then things would go back to normal, being a bit
Speaker 4: up and down. I just hope we can take confidence
Speaker 4: from this time. And obviously we you know, fitness and
Speaker 4: stuff looked great after the buye the week before.
Speaker 3: We just really looked we would look like a great team.
Speaker 4: So yeah, that's my only concern is I'm hoping this
Speaker 4: isn't just a history repeating itself. Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, that is a's a good point and it will
Speaker 1: be huge if we can take these good wins over
Speaker 1: the last few weeks, take it back to Mount Smart
Speaker 1: this weekend. It's Saturday, seven thirty. Keezy and Andni they're
Speaker 1: going to be back from there. Feels like a two
Speaker 1: week bender in Bali, and they'll be back commentating the
Speaker 1: game on sky Sport nine, Skyports nine or sky Sports seven,
Speaker 1: one of the two. And yeah, fingers cross the Warriors
Speaker 1: can get up and make a good round.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going to Japan tomorrow. Oh, no, a week
Speaker 4: so I'm gonna I don't know that how big the
Speaker 4: NRL is in Japan, so I'll just be on a
Speaker 4: dodgy VPN bouncing off a satellite via North Korea or
Speaker 4: something to get the game.
Speaker 3: But I'll get it.
Speaker 2: You'll get it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, make sure you can probably even find a way
Speaker 1: to get Keyesy and Mania calling calling the game over
Speaker 1: there and join a few asas over there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, well I think Keasy and I look they
Speaker 4: have an e pray love tattoo mentioning lower back tattoos,
Speaker 4: So looking forward to seeing that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll enjoy your trip over to Japan. I'm sure
Speaker 1: we'll see you back after that. And that was all
Speaker 1: for us today and the Mad Monday have a good week. Upperwise,
Speaker 1: he's not Australia,