WEBVTT - "In Te Maire Martin We Trust" 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:11.119 Welcome along to the Mad Monday Podcast, brought to you 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:13.680 by four and twenty pis. It's the perfect at home 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:16.239 snack for watching rugby league. You got me here the 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:19.160 Pantsman Joel Harrison and I'm joined with Ben Hurley. 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:19.759 Welcome Ben. 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:21.560 How's it going great mate? 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:25.320 What a round of rugby league? You can definitely tell 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:29.040 it was post Origin. There was some big margins, but 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:33.680 none more so than the It was beating the Cows. 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:35.120 Yeah, no, it was a great time. 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:37.920 I was lucky enough to join Die in the Export 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:40.440 B studio to commentate the game on Saturday night. 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:41.320 It was fun. 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:43.160 I feel like it was probably the most the most 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:45.879 well rounded Warriors performance of the yesfr. 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:50.400 Yeah, incredible. We talked about it. I commentated that Origin 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:55.560 game one and the Cowboys had more players involved in 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:58.200 Origin than any other single club. So I think we 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:01.400 counted seven because it was as a couple and obviously 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:04.880 there's most of them for the Maroons, but a couple 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:08.760 for the Blues as well. So most of those players 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:11.520 backed up, some of them coming off the bench. But 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:14.880 the Cows, even though they look great on paper, they 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:18.440 haven't had the best season so far anyway, and with 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:23.319 half their team, more than half their team playing having 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:26.520 played a very physical game of rugby league four days before. 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:31.479 They definitely showed signs of fatigue. And you don't see 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.759 a team like that, you know, lose by thirty points 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:35.240 very often. 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:39.200 Yeah, especially at home in North Queensland, which is normally 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:42.360 a pretty tough trip. I feel like Ruben Cotter, he's 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:44.720 normally one of the biggest impact of their team as well. 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:47.120 He made thirty two tackles in the first half and 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:49.520 after playing a grueling Origin game as well. 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:51.000 It would be pretty tough for that. 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:52.960 And then your likes of Val Holmes dead and they 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:55.880 didn't really fire to the Warriors. We were lucky for 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:59.320 that one. What did you reckon of, like Dylan Walker 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:01.960 moving into the Star lineup instead of Toho Harris. 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:06.360 Yeah, really interesting. I feel like I love to who Harris. 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:08.600 He is the mighty taught to and I won't have 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:12.360 a bad word said about him, but he's definitely slower 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:14.400 off the mark than he used to be. He gets 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:18.840 big post contact meters, but I yeah, I guess they're 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.720 just easing him back in right after his injury. And 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:25.239 Dylan Walker is he's just the fix it man. He 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:26.799 just goes wherever you need him. 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:29.280 He was so good and I think it was for 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:32.120 Mitch Barnett's try. We're talking about it off here as well. 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:34.280 That was your your punt of the week last week 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:36.160 and it brought home about three hundred bucks to the 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:39.120 ACC kiddy. But yeah, just the way he straightens up 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:41.359 the ball in the middle, fed it to Marty Martin. 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:43.519 Then yeah, Martin just put Bunnett over it. It was 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:44.800 good to see Walker plane like that. 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:48.320 Yeah, it was beautiful. And let's talk about Tomati Martin too, 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:51.200 because I think we saw the best of him finally 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:56.520 in the Warriors Jersey. He's just such a solid half. 0:02:56.880 --> 0:03:00.480 He's not flashy, but he you don't what he's going 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:04.040 to do. And I think sometimes with SJ, you kind 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:05.360 of know he's not going to run at the line 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.440 this year. He did last year. This year he's had 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:11.040 that niggling injury. He's currently out with that injury. So 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:13.120 it does become a little bit predictable that he is 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:17.520 just gonna boot downfield or distribute. But with Tomighty, he 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:19.760 runs at the line, and so it just gives it 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:21.840 that little bit of extra jeopardy every time he's got the. 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:22.480 Ball in his hand. 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:25.320 It's crazy because when Tomighty Martin has come to the 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:27.480 Warriors for the last two years, he's sort of been 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:30.480 a bit injury prone and kind of been behind Metcalf. 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:32.600 He was good at started last year and he hasn't 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:34.840 really shown them in his last three weeks. He's almost 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:38.240 been like the standout seven and the competition and then Johnson, 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:40.360 I think it's supposed to be back this week after 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:43.000 his peck injury. So would you bring him back into 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:44.320 the LINEU would you leave him the bench? 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:46.480 No? I think you bring him back in and put 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:49.560 Tomighty back to Sex because unfortunately, and I'm a massive 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:52.040 fan of the man, but Chanel Harris Devita did not 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:56.560 have the best game obviously. He was ten in the 0:03:56.600 --> 0:04:03.840 bin for arguably the most a schoolboy kind of childish 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:08.000 ball throw that Chad Townsend didn't even notice and he 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:10.240 got ten in the bin for it. The ball literally 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:12.960 hit him in the back of the head and he 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:16.040 didn't turn around, didn't say anything, and he gets ten 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:18.159 in the bin for it. But yeah, I mean, looking 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:20.520 at his super coach points, he played most of that 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:23.880 game and scored I think twenty six at super coach points, 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:27.880 So not a not a great full start for his 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:30.400 first start in a Warriors jersey in a couple of years. 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:32.880 Yeah, he was probably one of the only Warriors who 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:35.400 didn't almost perform to their best ability in the weekend 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:37.200 as well. It was so good to see across the 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.880 park everyone was doing it. I feel like we're be 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.279 needs to find a way that he can get to 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:44.839 mighty in there at Sex, but also still give him 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:45.520 a bit. 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:48.240 More management as well. D you can, that's a doable thing. 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:49.640 Yeah, I think. 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:53.080 I think probably what I hope is that given that 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:58.039 he's in some really good form, that Sean and him 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.400 will share that management bit better and it's not just 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:04.640 down to s J on the last play, you know, 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:06.719 on the fifth tackle every time that it could go 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:10.279 to either one because Tomoighty's kicking game pretty great as well. 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:10.720 Yeah. 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:13.440 Die was having a field day on the commentary on 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:16.120 the weekend with Chad Towns and he's saying he's the 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:20.400 Chris Lily of the NRL. Well, it seems like there's 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:22.440 a bit of bad blood between him and the Warriors. 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:24.360 It really does, doesn't it. 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:24.799 There. 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:27.000 I mean, he is an ex Warrior for those he 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:31.000 even caught up, but you know, I always vote Chadtowns 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:33.799 in at the Warriors. I thought he gave it his best, 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:36.360 and then he moved away and he became I think 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:38.800 one year he was the most penalized player in the 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:42.279 competition when he went to the Did he go straight 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:43.800 to the Cows or did he go somewhere else? 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:44.039 First? 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:45.600 Did you go to the Sharks? 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:47.800 And then he came back to the Warriors and then 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:48.840 he went to the Cowboys? 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:49.239 I think? 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:53.280 All right, so well, yeah, you know, he's probably just 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:55.840 getting a little bit older now. He definitely looks reader 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:58.000 in the face and angrier than he used to be. 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:02.560 He has at his discipline a little bit. But yeah, 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:05.040 it did seem a little bit of niggle there between them, 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.200 and I wonder if in particularly some of the older 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:10.040 Warrior players that would have been there while he was there, 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:11.200 like Marcelo Montoya. 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:15.279 Yeah, Montoya was fired up. I know he has. 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:17.320 He had an incident a few years ago against the 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:19.760 Cowboys as well that led to a bit of a 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:23.279 band so I think there's a bit of bad blood 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.960 between him and the Cowboys as well. So yeah, he 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:27.520 was fired up, and when you put he could have 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:30.160 got sent off for that push on Chad Townsend as 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:31.000 well a Montoya. 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.760 Yeah, that's right. Look, I'm a Cowboys fan that they 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:38.880 are my other team. I love watching them play. They 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:40.520 are a little bit like the Warriors, and that they 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:45.000 are massively up and down, and you know, particularly this year, 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:48.880 they're almost heavy identical season. So yeah, I'm not sure 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:52.279 what the what the water under the bridge is there, 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:57.240 but look, forty two points to twelve, what a performance. 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:01.080 Just tries galore and we should probably talk about the 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:01.680 back back. 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:08.040 Oh yes, that was vintage DWZ there. When I was commentating, 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:09.680 I said it was Ben barber ESQ. But it was 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.520 actually like Greg Anglis in two thousand and eight heading 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:14.840 it back to Gasnia. Probably one of the best tries 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:17.440 I've seen in a long time, especially from the Warriors. 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:19.880 Yeah, and it was I love just the bare back 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.119 was so casual, like he just thought he'd roll the dice. 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:24.240 I might as we have a little swipe at this 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:26.640 and willow and behold. 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:29.640 And his foot was like centimeters away from the white line. 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:32.240 I know they train, especially as a winger, he trains 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:34.760 to stay in the field of playing stuff, but surely 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:37.560 there was some element of a fluke there as well. 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:38.640 Yeah, no doubt. 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:39.960 I mean, you're gonna have a little bit of luck 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:42.560 the way the baldest yet popped up at the end 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:44.880 on that last bounce. But you know what, you're going 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:48.200 to take the opportunities. And the Warriors certainly have had 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:50.680 this year of bad luck over the years, so let's 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:55.560 take them. So currently the Warriors six wins, six losses 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:58.200 and a drawer. You can't have more of an even 0:07:58.240 --> 0:07:59.640 split of a season than that. 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:03.120 Yeah, and especially after was it four or five losses 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:04.800 in a row and now we've turned it into three 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:07.880 wins in a bye. So we're sitting at ninth on 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:10.920 the table, one point outside of that eight. The eight 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.800 is pretty it's pretty even though at the moment it 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:16.000 goes up to sixteen points with the Ruses and six 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:18.280 and then storm at the top with the Sharks on 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:19.160 twenty two points. 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:21.240 So the Warriors a. 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:23.320 Few more wins away, we could easily cement ourself in 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:24.320 the top eight for the season. 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:28.720 Yeah, absolutely, and you just kind of you kind of 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:30.720 don't want to be seventh or eighth. I mean, I'm 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:32.240 not sure if we can get higher than that. I 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:33.400 think we'd have to go on a hell of a 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:36.480 run now, but you know seventh and eighth. If you're 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:39.280 losing that, you know you've got to play. It will 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:42.640 be Cranala or Brisbane or something in the Storm in 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:45.040 that first round of the finals and you're basically gone. 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:47.120 Like I don't think anyone. I mean, the Warriors made 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:49.079 the Grand Final from eighth once, but that was a 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:49.720 long time ago. 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:51.920 Yeah, there was a different the setup this year. It 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:55.400 really favors the top four teams. We we do have 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:58.720 kind of an interesting draw coming up. We gave the Storm, Titans, 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:04.199 Broncos and Builder. Obviously Storm and Broncos at home, probably 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:05.920 two of the hardest teams of the competition. 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:11.800 Yeah. Absolutely, And but just remember we almost beat the 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:14.600 Storm earlier this year and that was my sliding doors moment. 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:18.040 But since since I mentioned that sliding doors moment, we've 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:22.240 won every game. So hope, let's hope we just can 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:25.719 you know, contain Zavier Coats pulling off America in the 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:30.200 last minute and and and bag two points against the Storm, who, 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:31.760 by the way, looked very good. 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.520 Yeah, that was it was a good game yesterday. They 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:36.600 they kind of loot the Nights back in there at 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:41.120 the end. I think without Cameron Munster. They're definitely, definitely beatable, 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:43.120 but they're still the classic Storm. 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:44.719 Craig Bellamy, he. 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:47.960 Looked depressed after a win after the game yesterday. It 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:50.160 was as a vintage Craig Bellamy moved there. 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:53.080 Yeah, they just look like they can score from anywhere 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:55.880 and and it's massively dangerous. 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:58.599 There's one key point that's been talked about quite a 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:00.880 lot in all the Warriors fan pages, that moment when 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:02.960 Artis come back, comes back, where do you reckon? 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:03.360 He's in a. 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:06.400 Gus interesting, isn't it. I mean, do you put him? 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:12.320 I mean, when we had our hearts problems and charms 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.640 went to sex like there was Actually he did pretty 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:19.000 well there and immediately I thought, well, you know, if 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.640 we're so bad injuries, when Artis comes back, then he 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:23.160 goes straight into fallback. 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:23.559 Right Yeah. 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:26.640 Yeah, otherwise he just a Rocko Berry played so well 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.800 on the weekend, like such a good defensive center now, 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:35.360 so I don't know. And Adam Pompey's playing well and 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:39.280 kicking really well as well. So yeah, it's I mean, 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:42.720 do you have a back on the bench, like it 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.800 almost never happens anymore, but Artie is coming off the 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:48.360 bench as an impact player is a pretty awesome luxury 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:48.679 to have. 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:49.440 Yeah. 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.200 Yeah, I feel like probably over the weekend it was 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:55.440 the best bench rotation that Webi's done all season as well, 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:58.360 because you had toahu coming on played about sixty minutes. 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.079 Cape well played forty I think, but it was probably 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:03.240 some of his best minutes of the season. To Vanga 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.520 only played twenty eight minutes, but he was he was 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:07.920 clinical and then lassic for the last twenty three. So 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:10.120 I don't know, it feels like it's a good problem 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:10.800 for Weaby to have. 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:11.800 Yeah. 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:16.000 I mean Montoya had a couple of rough games. He 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:18.040 even dropped out of the side for a game, but 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.480 I think he's played pretty well since then. So for 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:22.640 a little while there, I was thinking maybe maybe just 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:26.000 put Antis on the wing and and dropped Montoya, but 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:27.400 I don't think you can at the moment. 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.040 Yeah, And like he was safe under the high ball 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:32.560 kind of cut their era out of the game. 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.400 Which was sort of hindering him at the start of 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:34.880 the season. 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:38.120 So I don't know, it's yeah, i'd be disappointed Montoya 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:38.960 got dropped as well. 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:42.200 Are the Blues still in beck and like are they 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:44.679 still in Super Rugby? Like Yeah, just put him on loan, 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:46.400 so back to rugby union for a week. 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:48.520 It seems weird because the Blues are kind of thriving 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:50.880 at the moment as well when he's he's dropped out 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:51.480 of the system. 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:53.760 I just I hate this. 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:57.439 I hate talking anything but wonderful things about Roger two 0:11:57.559 --> 0:11:58.160 Vas this year. 0:11:58.200 --> 0:11:59.120 He's such a good player. 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:01.640 Pretty much every game this season when he's played, he's 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:04.079 made a massive impact as well. It's just been he's 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:04.720 been unlucky. 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:08.360 Yeah, I think he's kind of forgotten how to pass. 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:11.440 He's obviously got the best feet in the game, but 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:14.040 I'd like to see him pass a little bit more. 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:18.400 And yeah, he's very very solid defender, but yeah, a 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:21.120 little bit more distribution from him. If if I'm going 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:23.480 to you know, if I have to have a critical 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:24.000 eye on it. 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:26.880 Yeah, yeah, Oh well, these are problems that Andrew WIBs 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:28.880 is going to run into in the next few weeks. 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.439 Anything else from you and the Warriors over the weekend. 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:37.080 No, that's that's me just it just gives you great confidence. 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:40.520 And I know they were a tired side, but you know, 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:43.280 you're still you're still gonna win. And it wasn't close 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:46.040 and as you say it was up in Townsville where 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:49.800 it was, I know, probably early thirty degrees and you know, 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:51.360 place like towns will winter. 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:54.520 Yeah, yeah, and it was full of Bogans in the 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:57.120 crowd as well. There's a couple of times one of 0:12:57.120 --> 0:13:00.760 the guys was standing real close to the studio, sorry, 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:02.640 the stadium, Mike, so we get to hear a lot 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:05.320 of his calls and he was not a big gene 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:06.200 pulled up in Townsville. 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:11.360 This're saying, no, no, Yeah. I love the Cowboys. 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:14.080 I'd like to see them play one day at home, 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:17.040 but hopefully it's one of those games where it's not 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:19.520 in Townsville. Although that stadium looks pretty cold, I got 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:20.160 to say it does. 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:22.520 It reminds me of sort of like an Amy Park 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:25.400 or Kombank Stadium in Sydney. We need one of those 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:27.920 over here in New Zealand. But that's a discussion for 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:31.560 another time. 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Let's 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:02.480 go and move on to the stalker of the round. 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:07.199 This week we're going with the Penrith Panthers playing at home. 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:09.520 They took down the Seagulls thirty two to twenty two, 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.360 and it was a weird game. I've never seen a 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:14.760 game with his two first half hat tricks. Did you 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:15.640 catch much of a ben? 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:16.400 Yeah? 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:20.920 I did, actually tries galore and and what was amazing 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:23.960 about it? I think every single try was scored by 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:28.280 a winger. So Tommy Telo got four, Brian Or got three, 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:32.280 Sania Taruba got two. He also had a shocka defensively 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:35.640 in the first half of hints why Tommy Telo got four? 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:41.760 But yeah, unbelievable. Every single every single try was scored 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:45.840 was scored out wide, so they've obviously got some very 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:48.200 good wingers that are good at attack and not defense. 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:51.560 Yeah, even sub He scored a consolation try there for 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:55.440 Manly and it was an awesome try, like twinkled Tod 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:58.360 down the sideline somehow found a bit of space. But yeah, 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:01.720 Tommy Tallao, he was kind of an average player last 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.000 year at best at the Tigers. Now he's sort of 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:04.800 made a revival. 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:09.160 Yeah, I think everyone becomes an average player when they 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:13.280 go to the Tigers. I fell for Benji just to 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:16.120 get off check a little bit, because man, every week 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:19.280 he's going to go and defend his team at that 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:22.040 press conference, and I think he's a naturally quite an 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:27.440 optimistic guy, and it's difficult when every single week you're 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:28.560 having a lost pretty much. 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:31.280 There's all these rumors about Lachlan Galvin as well, like 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:33.440 the one sort of shining light coming out of the 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:36.000 Tigers this season. Apparently he's saying he wanted an early 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:38.760 release in the changing rooms and they've denied it. Now 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:40.440 they've got a meeting the hit of the Tigers, who's 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:42.000 a meeting with his mum and dad this week because 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:43.200 he's only eighteen of course. 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:47.200 Oh right, Yeah, look what I've learned about at the 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:53.120 NRL is generally the rumors are true. Yeah, but no, 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:55.320 this is a great a great game of rugby league 0:15:55.320 --> 0:16:00.440 on a Sunday afternoon, a real Sydney derby. People who 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:02.800 don't know the kind of history of the NRL may 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:05.000 not know that Manly was sort of like the Melbourne 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:08.440 Storm when they first came into the competition. They came, 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:12.040 you know, they come from the wealthy part of Sydney 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:15.760 in the Northern Beaches, and they just came in with 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:17.880 a lot of money and poached players from all sorts 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:20.800 of other clubs. And that was when the competition was 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:25.080 only semi professional. So and Penrith very much West Sydney, 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:27.920 you know, very much a working class, you know, sort 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:31.920 of traditional rugby league place, and so there's some real 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:34.480 feeling in this game. They got out to a lead. 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:39.000 It probably looks closer than it was on the score 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.960 on the scoreboard because many sort of came back at them. 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:44.720 They never went away. But I don't think Penrith was 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:46.480 ever all that worried. 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:49.360 Yeah, it was a clinical Penrith performance as well. I 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:51.800 saw thirty seven out of thirty eight sets completed from 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:53.640 the game, and the second half they didn't drop a 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:56.200 ball but you could tell there was feeling in there 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:59.080 because Jerome Lay there was one time where he shoved 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:02.520 down the young Travoyevitch as well Berbo. He didn't have 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:04.199 his brothers to back him up, but he was just 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:06.960 like it was a massive grub move face into the dirt. 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:10.240 And then Luke Brooks kind of cost Manly a try 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:14.080 as well by backing him up, coloring Leuey. But yeah, 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:16.479 it was a great game and Penrith they seemed to 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:19.240 be once again proving to be the team to beat 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:19.920 in the competition. 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:21.200 Yeah. 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:23.760 Yeah, I mean there's a pretty clear top four, isn't there. 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:25.639 But I wanted to give a shout out though to 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:28.120 Daily Cherry Evans, who played a really good game despite 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:33.000 the loss, after having a mammoth game for Queensland in 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:34.000 the first staut of Origin. 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:36.200 So you know, I know it's. 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:37.840 He's a half and it's not quite as physical as 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:40.399 being a front railer or even a fullback, you know, 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:44.760 but the guy's thirty five years old and has played 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:47.600 two fantastic games in a week. 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:47.880 Yeah. 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:50.320 There was a classic moment as well when he didn't 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:53.399 kick the ball off the mark, so the referee gave 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:55.040 Tom the Mark, he kicked it out and then three 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:58.520 times he moved about eight meters forward while kicking the ball. 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:00.119 It was I saw it up in the n Our 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:04.760 Instagram as well. It's a good moment. But Reuben Garrick's 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:07.160 kicking there was a couple of clips as well up there. 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:09.600 They were obviously tough kicks because they were all from 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:12.000 the wing and you could just hear the Penrith Bogans 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:15.119