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Speaker 1: and Adam and with you for your Thursday episode of

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Speaker 1: They just lost to the Windys. I say all that

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Speaker 1: to say this, I do have the team listen in

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Speaker 1: front of me and Adam. I feel like we need

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Speaker 1: to start up the top of the Mad Monday Podcast

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Speaker 1: on a Thursday with the team list biggest news of

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Speaker 1: the week, worst, keep secret in New Zealand as well.

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Speaker 1: Shawn Johnson's back. And the thing that's been said all

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Speaker 1: week and for the last few weeks is since Demighty

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Speaker 1: Martin's been going good, has been our selection headache for

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Speaker 1: Andrew Webster. And I'm looking at that, like, how is

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Speaker 1: it a headache that you've got another good player who's

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Speaker 1: stepped up? And people were saying, well, did Shawn Johnson

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Speaker 1: even come back in with Tomrty Mutton? Of course he does,

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Speaker 1: so he's in a half back. This can only be

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Speaker 1: a good thing for the Warriors, surely. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I don't see how anyone can think that is a

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Speaker 2: bad thing. I saw today the odds of Shorten as well,

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Speaker 2: you know, the huge hunches out of there that just

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Speaker 2: hadn't been back in the team. They went from pretty

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Speaker 2: far outside to be honest, to only been when I

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Speaker 2: saw it about an hour ago. Is a dollar ninety

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Speaker 2: to a dollar eighty, right, it's still in favor of

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Speaker 2: the Storm, but that's close.

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Speaker 1: It's almost even odds.

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Speaker 2: And that's considering that we're ninth and they are first.

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Speaker 2: And there is nothing wrong with having Esja back. If anything,

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Speaker 2: it's just strength to strength and it's really nice to

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Speaker 2: see after a few interesting weeks, pretty tough weeks that

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Speaker 2: are just a few of the lads are getting back

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Speaker 2: on the park game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well one hundred percent. There's a lot of players

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Speaker 1: back in the Kirk cape Wise has been back onto

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Speaker 1: the bench as well. We'll get into the forward pack

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Speaker 1: in a minute. But what happens is, you know, Sean

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Speaker 1: Johnson was watching all of these games as well. He

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Speaker 1: didn't just bugger off and not play and not watch anything.

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Speaker 1: So he's looking at that gun, beauty Tomty let's go like,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to need a bit because you I'm back

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Speaker 1: from injury. But none of these guys are one hundred percent,

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Speaker 1: particularly this period of the season. So he's gonna look

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Speaker 1: at Tomighty and be like, sweet man, this is fifty

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Speaker 1: percent in your team now, like let's go. Let's And

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Speaker 1: it opens everything up a little bit more for us

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Speaker 1: because the right side of our attack that everyone talked

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Speaker 1: so much about last year sort of haven't hasn't quite

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Speaker 1: been the same this year, and so if Tomighty Martin

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Speaker 1: left side, just opens up both sides. I think it's

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Speaker 1: been great for us jagging these last few ones that

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Speaker 1: we potentially probably shouldn't have, particularly the two before the bye.

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Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys we should have beaten, even though

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Speaker 1: were beaten to a ball in terms of injuries. But

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Speaker 1: I think the other interesting thing for me, so Rocco

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Speaker 1: buries back from his hand arts is still a week away.

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Speaker 1: But when he comes back, I find it quite hard.

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Speaker 1: I know, we were just shitting on people saying that

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Speaker 1: there's a selection headache. I'd find it hard to bench Pompy,

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Speaker 1: wouldn't you. I he is kicking so well. He's the

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Speaker 1: fourth highest point scorer since he started, since he started starting.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and to be honest, ever since he's come back.

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Speaker 2: He had that massive hit Magic Ground, Yeah, absolutely buried

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Speaker 2: the man. And then after that he honestly hasn't done

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Speaker 2: and he's come back. And even just that side, how

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Speaker 2: next to Marcelo, they look so much better together and

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Speaker 2: you know there's a bit going on here. Pompy's playing well,

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Speaker 2: artist is on the way back, and last week he

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Speaker 1: So it's like it's it's.

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Speaker 2: Something that you hope would happen in good teams, is

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Speaker 2: that there's so much competition that everyone has to show

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Speaker 2: up every single game and that is not a bad

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Speaker 1: No, it's not.

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Speaker 2: Because I think he was even speaking earlier on the

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Speaker 2: week hearing it was the Pantsman and that's talk about

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Speaker 2: it was this could be one of the first times

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Speaker 2: seems like an outlandis thing to.

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Speaker 1: Say, and he is XM winner arts.

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Speaker 2: But last week, for one of the first times at

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Speaker 2: entire already looked amazing, great, And I feel like there's

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Speaker 2: it's really just not worth rocking the boat too much.

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Speaker 2: You just kind of you just you need to leave

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Speaker 2: it out there for a little bit and when it

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Speaker 2: needs change and you change it. So it's it's a

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Speaker 2: huge positive in that.

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Speaker 1: Eh yeah? Is this one? Though? It does perplex me

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Speaker 1: because I kind of am leaning towards leave Pompey in there. Particularly.

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Speaker 1: I know Sean Johnson's latest injury was a pick, but

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Speaker 1: was he goalkicking on the weekend? Sean? I can't well't

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Speaker 1: recall someone will be screaming at their iPod right now,

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Speaker 1: do you do You mean when he hurt himself or

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Speaker 1: that week? Oh no, he's back this week. Yeah, I've

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Speaker 1: just had a blackout for a second. No, yeah, before

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Speaker 1: I just think it's one less thing for Sean Johnson

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Speaker 1: to be doing, you know, the more that we can

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Speaker 1: take off for him, particularly because we've still got another

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Speaker 1: ten weeks of this competition left before we get to playoffs.

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Speaker 1: I did a bit of deep diving. It may not

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Speaker 1: sound like a I did some research. Today we have

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Speaker 1: the last round of the season. Looking way too far

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Speaker 1: twenty seventh round, which is that's exactly when you'd want it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if we can. I think, so top four

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Speaker 1: then two bites at the cherry. That would have been

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Speaker 1: the dream scenario. But a bye just before playoffs would

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Speaker 1: be excellent anyway. I say all that to say this,

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Speaker 1: the more that we can take off Sewan Johnson's plate,

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Speaker 1: the buy at the end of the season helps. I

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Speaker 1: think to Mighty Martin's run of form helps, and I

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Speaker 1: honestly think that our man Adam Pompey kicking that helps

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Speaker 1: quite a lot as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there also is that other part as well, where

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Speaker 2: I heard we be talking this week that is quite

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Speaker 2: excited that Esjay is back because of how good this

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Speaker 2: kicking game is. But I think we're underestimating how good

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Speaker 2: to Mighty Martin's like in goal pressure, off lake kicks

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Speaker 2: I wonder if he's still in that old ah you know,

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Speaker 2: other fil kind of thing, and he's just kind of

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Speaker 2: to come out this weekend and just go berserk again.

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Speaker 1: You know, like sure, nah, mighty's mighty.

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Speaker 2: I feel like he's just kind of hiding him a

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Speaker 2: little bit, like what they do with the youngsters, and

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Speaker 2: he's just going to come out and just show them

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Speaker 2: what he's all about. But he has been sublime in

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Speaker 2: his kicking game, and that was a huge part for

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Speaker 2: those first few weeks when we had a bit of

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Speaker 2: a tough time. We couldn't get repeat sets, we weren't

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Speaker 2: contesting the ball, and then all of a sudden, a

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Speaker 2: of that's coming off. You know, it's it couldn't be

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Speaker 2: better right now, mate.

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Speaker 1: To be honest, when we look at the Ford pack,

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Speaker 1: Adam Vanoa, Blake Waite, Egan, Jackson Ford, might it's a

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Speaker 1: new court in Mitch Barnette, tare who Harris is back.

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Speaker 1: I think the most exciting part of this for me

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Speaker 1: being named ten and Mitch Barnett out wide. This is

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Speaker 1: interesting to me. It's basically a positional swap, just a

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Speaker 1: straight up swap, and it's sort of a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a head scratch. I don't mind it because Jackson

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Speaker 1: Ford was immense on the weekend. Like he they are

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Speaker 1: both very similar body types, both members of the Ruthless

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Speaker 1: It was just a bit of a head scratcher, and

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Speaker 1: I couldn't really figure out a reason why. I guess

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Speaker 1: the only thing that would come to my mind is

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Speaker 1: maybe Mitch Barnett's job of punching holes in the defensive

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Speaker 1: an edge rather than in the middle making a million tackles.

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Speaker 1: I did wonder if maybe after Origin, despite the fact

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Speaker 1: that they didn't get on, I was like, maybe is

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Speaker 1: it too much workload for him doing all of that?

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Speaker 1: It's working for us. Mtch Barnett scored to try he

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Speaker 1: looks great. What do you think Maybe's doing with that one? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I think it would have surprised a lot of people

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Speaker 2: last week. Yeah, especially just anyone really, And after watching

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Speaker 2: the game, the only thing that I kind of got

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Speaker 2: from it is that Jackson Forward just has a massive,

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Speaker 2: massive motor and he was just he was doing a

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Speaker 2: lot of work in the middle of the park and

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Speaker 2: it actually kind of benefits us out wide because you've

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Speaker 2: got Madata and Mitch that are both absolute weapons. Putting

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Speaker 2: so much pressure on those outside edge last week near

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Speaker 2: Corday was sublime. He was walking through players. You know,

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Speaker 2: it looks quite easy. So when he's on he's electric. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and he is a huge injection back into the team

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Speaker 2: and having him and then we can work out. So

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Speaker 2: I think you're you're definitely on the right, you know,

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Speaker 2: the right thing there. But I just have a feeling

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Speaker 2: that it just makes more sense for them at the moment.

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Speaker 2: Jackson Ford massive motor, is just willing to put his

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Speaker 2: body on the line and it just kind of frees

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Speaker 2: up a few of these more experienced guys just to

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Speaker 2: do the work one on one on the outside and

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Speaker 2: just spell it. And the only other thing I would

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Speaker 1: Like it's like they didn't get the rights for his

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Speaker 1: Captain Smoky's all that supercoach in just a second. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so supercoach. This week we sort of I wouldn't say

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Speaker 1: I think I had you this week? Didn't I am?

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Speaker 1: And you got to witness the ferocity that is the

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Speaker 2: And I would you get him in this week? Do

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Speaker 1: It could be I've got to send to confess and

433
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Speaker 1: apology to make I dropped edin fanoa Blake when he

434
00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:48,240
Speaker 1: when when Webster dropped edin Fanoa Blake, I was like,

435
00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:50,240
Speaker 1: and we'll be I trust I'm going to drop him.

436
00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:52,800
Speaker 1: I brought him back this week. I just had to.

437
00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:56,080
Speaker 1: There's I like a lot of people out there, will

438
00:19:56,440 --> 00:20:00,400
Speaker 1: will be in the same boat overstecked on Bulldogs Ros,

439
00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:02,880
Speaker 1: You'll left Sam Hughes, you'll Lef Curran. Bois the fun

440
00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:05,320
Speaker 1: with silly sitting on the bench having not played. I'm

441
00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:08,040
Speaker 1: with you. Yeah, So I needed more dudes on the bench.

442
00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:13,640
Speaker 1: And I just watching him last week hurt me, hurt

443
00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:15,240
Speaker 1: me a lot, and I was like, fuck it, I'm back.

444
00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:17,560
Speaker 1: And I think he's back into I think that was

445
00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:19,320
Speaker 1: just a blip on the radar, and I think he

446
00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:23,000
Speaker 1: cruises through. The Other part of it is that there

447
00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:26,840
Speaker 1: aren't good front row. We all thought Terry Ll May

448
00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:28,800
Speaker 1: was going to be the answer to our front row problems,

449
00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:30,199
Speaker 1: and he's been up and down. Now he's up at

450
00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:33,440
Speaker 1: the moment. But I don't there's no like lock and load,

451
00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:35,719
Speaker 1: even pain hearts with the injuries and origin and all that.

452
00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:37,960
Speaker 1: I think this is lock and load, Sit and forget,

453
00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:41,520
Speaker 1: don't worry about front row again. He did lose money

454
00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:43,159
Speaker 1: since I traded him out, so I can kind of

455
00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:45,159
Speaker 1: stomach that a little bit. But I think and his

456
00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:46,760
Speaker 1: break even is still one hundred and four, but he's

457
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Speaker 1: not going to lose. I would say that's great business. Yeah,

458
00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:51,280
Speaker 1: it's great business. I yeah, that's right. I shorted the

459
00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:53,520
Speaker 1: market on Edin varanoa Blake. I brought him back and

460
00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:57,080
Speaker 1: it cost me blaze to lungey jumping ahead to my trades.

461
00:20:57,119 --> 00:21:00,359
Speaker 1: But we'll get to that in a sec. Does uppy

462
00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:03,080
Speaker 1: cortersal at halfback interests you in any way?

463
00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:06,960
Speaker 2: Not at all, Not with that shocking team that he

464
00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:08,600
Speaker 2: plays well and I have Galvin.

465
00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:11,919
Speaker 1: Yeah, to be clear, he's not eligible and supercoach for halfback,

466
00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:14,240
Speaker 1: but he has been named it half back. Yeah, I

467
00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:15,080
Speaker 1: just yeah.

468
00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:16,679
Speaker 2: I guess the only point in there as well is

469
00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:19,480
Speaker 2: that Galvin has that problem with the side at the moment.

470
00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:21,560
Speaker 1: Where yes, he let's get into Galvin. Yeah.

471
00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:23,920
Speaker 2: So I think that you correct me if I'm wrong.

472
00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:26,480
Speaker 2: I think this week he came out and tried to

473
00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:29,800
Speaker 2: request the trade, which was quickly declined by the club,

474
00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:33,200
Speaker 2: which seemed interesting, and then all of a sudden they're

475
00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:34,600
Speaker 2: renegotiating his contract.

476
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Speaker 1: Have I kind of got the gist of that, right. Yeah,

477
00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:39,080
Speaker 1: there's been a few stories sort of floating around, and

478
00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:40,600
Speaker 1: granted a lot of them will have a bit of

479
00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:43,880
Speaker 1: interest on the on the story, you know. But there

480
00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:47,600
Speaker 1: was a buzz Rothfield tweeting saying that Galvin after the

481
00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:50,080
Speaker 1: last loss was walking around the changing room and going, see,

482
00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:51,560
Speaker 1: this is why I can't wait to get out of here.

483
00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:54,720
Speaker 1: There's the stories about Benji Marshall. During their bye week

484
00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:57,880
Speaker 1: he went over to Fiji. People aren't happy about that.

485
00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:00,880
Speaker 1: One of the guy that they brought him to turn

486
00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:02,640
Speaker 1: it around and I forget his name, but they brought

487
00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:05,320
Speaker 1: him in basically a GM to steady the ship. He

488
00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:08,159
Speaker 1: was interviewed and he said, no, Lachland Goalvin's on contract

489
00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:10,160
Speaker 1: for two more years, so if he wants out, tough shit,

490
00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:13,520
Speaker 1: He signed the contract. All of that stuff, None of

491
00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:16,280
Speaker 1: that fills me with confidence from a like watching the

492
00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:18,720
Speaker 1: game point of view, but then from a super coach

493
00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:20,480
Speaker 1: point of view, Lachland govern on top of that, he's

494
00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:22,480
Speaker 1: succumbed to this hand injury. He's head for a while.

495
00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:25,840
Speaker 1: I think he is the clearest cell that we've had

496
00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:29,320
Speaker 1: since Little Pappy Brokers League. You gotta get rid of him.

497
00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:31,119
Speaker 1: And there are options out there, Like you said, you

498
00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:32,800
Speaker 1: could go to wish Art. You're sort of looking at

499
00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:36,359
Speaker 1: wish Art. Cody Walker is another one. They're about similar price. Yeah.

500
00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:39,280
Speaker 2: Well, I think he's the kind of guy that you

501
00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:40,960
Speaker 2: would have got on early enough that you would have

502
00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:44,400
Speaker 2: made plenty of money. Yeah, and it's just the right

503
00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:46,280
Speaker 2: time to go, right, So I don't I think that's

504
00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:46,680
Speaker 2: quite an.

505
00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:48,840
Speaker 1: Easy one, to be fair. Yeah, So I think he's

506
00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:50,400
Speaker 1: a sell and a good way to make a little

507
00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:52,399
Speaker 1: bit of money if you wanted to. There are some

508
00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:55,960
Speaker 1: cheaper options that you can drop down to five Eighth's tough, though,

509
00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:57,960
Speaker 1: you know, there's not a lot of dudes out there.

510
00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:00,240
Speaker 1: I was lucky enough to jag to Mardy Martin.

511
00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:02,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, which still hurts me. We spoke about this this morning.

512
00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:04,040
Speaker 2: I feel like there's one of the better trades that

513
00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:05,560
Speaker 2: I've seen go on.

514
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:07,960
Speaker 1: And it seemed quite ambitious at the time. Yeah, but

515
00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:10,680
Speaker 1: I put my oentis. I got him when everyone else

516
00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:15,520
Speaker 1: got Galvin. They were the same price, and Galvin to

517
00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:17,879
Speaker 1: Mighty Martin actually I think had a lower break even,

518
00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:21,200
Speaker 1: but everyone was just like the Warriors we're doing, they're

519
00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:23,000
Speaker 1: on like a three game skit or something like that.

520
00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:25,120
Speaker 1: I was like, ah, you know what, I'll pick him.

521
00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:26,680
Speaker 1: And I picked him and he scored twenty points. I

522
00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:27,760
Speaker 1: think the first time I had him, I was like,

523
00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:29,920
Speaker 1: fuck this, but I couldn't trade him out, so he

524
00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:31,840
Speaker 1: got stuck in my team. And now he's just been

525
00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:34,760
Speaker 1: scoring tons and I've been running up the letterboard on

526
00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:37,600
Speaker 1: the back of Tomighty Martin. So I'm pretty happy with that.

527
00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:41,040
Speaker 1: And power too, it's too late. I don't think it's

528
00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:44,120
Speaker 1: worth getting on too Mighty Martin. Now Shawn Johnson's back,

529
00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:47,119
Speaker 1: He's at six hundred and forty two thousand.

530
00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:50,520
Speaker 2: Here's an interesting one. Yes, it's a bolt to go

531
00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:52,879
Speaker 2: for Sean. There's a big part of me that just

532
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:55,040
Speaker 2: wants to watch the game this weekend. And I know

533
00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:57,240
Speaker 2: it seems see I've seen your face right now as well.

534
00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:00,200
Speaker 1: It's early. I think it's a week early. I think

535
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,080
Speaker 1: it's a week early. No, that's actually a good point actually,

536
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,639
Speaker 1: because what happens Also, if like Hines comes out and

537
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:06,960
Speaker 1: scores one hundred and eighty or something, you know, then

538
00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:09,200
Speaker 1: you like probably then you're probably going to want to

539
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:12,920
Speaker 1: pick him up. I think it's too early to jump

540
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,640
Speaker 1: on Shawn Johnson. I also think we spent the first

541
00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:17,920
Speaker 1: half of the podcast talking about how we want to

542
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:20,960
Speaker 1: take all this stuff off his plate, and I think

543
00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:23,520
Speaker 1: that results in low I hope I'm wrong. I could

544
00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:25,320
Speaker 1: be wrong, but then then that's that part as well.

545
00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:26,800
Speaker 2: Like I'm just thinking as a fan, I'm just like,

546
00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:28,480
Speaker 2: I just want to get on the sha and trade

547
00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:32,760
Speaker 2: in general, right, But that's yeah, that's insupportant, and we

548
00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:34,400
Speaker 2: need to get back to better business.

549
00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:37,160
Speaker 1: So what are you looking at for captains this week? Mate?

550
00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:39,040
Speaker 1: We'll get into my trades quickly just before we go

551
00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:42,520
Speaker 1: to captain because they are intertwined my trades. As I

552
00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:45,080
Speaker 1: mentioned before, ad Infinula Blake is back, and to do that,

553
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,760
Speaker 1: I've binned Blaze Talungey, who I think has peaked in

554
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,080
Speaker 1: price if you wanted to hold him. I can't argue

555
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:54,119
Speaker 1: against that because he just scored sixty nine, which is nice,

556
00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:57,359
Speaker 1: and I think he's probably just gonna fritter away in

557
00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:00,040
Speaker 1: his fifties and sixties could go bang the ills a

558
00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:02,560
Speaker 1: little bit better. At the moment, I just needed the

559
00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:04,720
Speaker 1: money and I wanted Adam fanoa Blake. So I've done that.

560
00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:08,440
Speaker 1: Then I've gotten rid of one of the Raiders mutants

561
00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:12,080
Speaker 1: who are still on my bench, Schiller or Stranger one

562
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:15,960
Speaker 1: of them, and I have brought in here's my smoky

563
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:18,400
Speaker 1: and second trade in for the week. And I may

564
00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:20,440
Speaker 1: not be that smoky. You might have actually already conned

565
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:23,800
Speaker 1: onto this one, Jack Whiton. I wanted to bring in

566
00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:26,160
Speaker 1: Cody Walker for the same reason that you were saying

567
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 1: before that you wanted to bring him in. I brought

568
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:30,080
Speaker 1: it in the trail last week because I do think

569
00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:32,280
Speaker 1: the Rabbits have turned around. And if I think that,

570
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,360
Speaker 1: then I better back that up. And so I've done

571
00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 1: that with Jack Whiton. At four hundred and forty four thousand.

572
00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:43,600
Speaker 1: He is only eligible at center wing, but he's got

573
00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:45,640
Speaker 1: I think, one more game and then he'll be eligible

574
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:48,080
Speaker 1: at five eight, at which point I can get rid

575
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:51,080
Speaker 1: of fucking Ko Weeks, who's actually also been playing mein

576
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:55,199
Speaker 1: but he's duel as well, right Ko Weeks, Yeah he is,

577
00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:58,880
Speaker 1: he is. He's five eighth fullback, but at the moment

578
00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:00,320
Speaker 1: you're probably not going to put him in for me.

579
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:03,680
Speaker 1: So yeah, so I'm bringing that in. And I say

580
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 1: all that to say that's my captain is Littrell Mitchell.

581
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:10,680
Speaker 1: I like the boldness. I am getting read of Fuller.

582
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:11,680
Speaker 1: I've had him for some time.

583
00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:14,720
Speaker 2: When I faced you last week, i was patching up

584
00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:17,479
Speaker 2: the leaky boat and I'd seven hundred and twelve thousand

585
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 2: dollars in my just just because I had to, you know,

586
00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:22,560
Speaker 2: push things around.

587
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:25,680
Speaker 1: So I'm going Fuller to Trout.

588
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:31,320
Speaker 2: Easy, easy, easy, and then I'm going Galvin to wish

589
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:35,680
Speaker 2: or Walker. I'm going straight to Hughes. Then that will

590
00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:39,320
Speaker 2: had me Dylan Brown. I'll still have Burden, Walker and

591
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:41,320
Speaker 2: Hughes and I'll be pretty happy with that. So that's

592
00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:45,520
Speaker 2: not bad. And I think if I'm going to captain, oh,

593
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:47,120
Speaker 2: I want to follow you in, but I don't want

594
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:54,359
Speaker 2: to be that guy. I oh now thinking it out loud,

595
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:56,119
Speaker 2: I might go for Feeder.

596
00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:58,679
Speaker 1: Oh I did that last week and it burned me

597
00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:03,600
Speaker 1: on it's good. Oh it's goods still not bad? Yeah, yeah, yeah,

598
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 1: I'm I'm going to go for feed It only burned

599
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,119
Speaker 1: me because I saw Litro Mitchell score one hundred and

600
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 1: fifty and so now I'm chasing those points. If you

601
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:12,919
Speaker 1: head Heinz, would you captain him because I know you

602
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:14,679
Speaker 1: don't have him, so you're not going to bring him

603
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:16,679
Speaker 1: in for this week because he's too expensive, it's too

604
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:18,880
Speaker 1: risk it at the moment. But if you had him

605
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:22,120
Speaker 1: and you held on, would you captain him this week? Yeah?

606
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would keptain him because he's always that kind

607
00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 2: of guy where it gets to that last moment and

608
00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 2: you're like, ah, he's he's finally shed the beard. You

609
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:31,200
Speaker 2: know nothing's going to happen, and then he just goes

610
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:33,680
Speaker 2: bang and that the Shark's team is a great team

611
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:34,600
Speaker 2: this year, right, So.

612
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 1: I'd rather be burned because I picked him and he

613
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:39,320
Speaker 1: didn't go bang, then because I didn't and he did.

614
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:41,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I spy traded him. I had him that

615
00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:44,359
Speaker 2: week where he scored nothing and I was like, you

616
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:46,679
Speaker 2: can get staff pass off out of the team. I

617
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:48,440
Speaker 2: do recruit it now and now that we're talking about

618
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:50,920
Speaker 2: it out loud, but you know, sometimes you just got

619
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:52,080
Speaker 2: to do what feels right, and that.

620
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:54,199
Speaker 1: Felt right at the time one. So good luck with

621
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:56,199
Speaker 1: all of your trades. I'm sure that both of us

622
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 1: will probably change them before the before the first game tonight,

623
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 1: just before we go. We've got our tab game day hunch,

624
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:05,760
Speaker 1: and I've got a hunch that we talked about him before.

625
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 1: Adam Pompy I think he is a I know he

626
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:12,919
Speaker 1: won't feel this, but he is a bit of a

627
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:14,800
Speaker 1: corner dog at the moment. And you know what happens

628
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:16,920
Speaker 1: when you back a dog into a corner, you get bit.

629
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 1: And I think that Adam Pompey is going to cross

630
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 1: the chalk this week for a meat pie. The tab

631
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:24,480
Speaker 1: doesn't think you will, so they'll give you twour dollors

632
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 1: twenty five. And we debated this off here. It was

633
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,400
Speaker 1: either him or Rock o'berry. There's three dogs in that

634
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 1: fight and there's only two jerseys up for grabs. One

635
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:36,560
Speaker 1: of them's got to score, so it was a coin

636
00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 1: to us. We've gone with Adam Pompey. That is our

637
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 1: hunch for this week. Adam Pompy crosses the chalk. I

638
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 1: reckon that'll do us for today. Adam, let's knock this

639
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 1: thing on the head. Enjoy your weekend of football. We'll

640
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:50,400
Speaker 1: see you on Monday for another episode of the podcast

641
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:54,240
Speaker 1: seven o'clock. On Saturday, seven o'clock, I don't know, sometime

642
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:56,600
Speaker 1: on Saturday the Warriors. Our coverage will be on Skysport

643
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 1: Night myself and Keezy fresh from BALI will see

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Speaker 2: Now the league and Australia without rugby league is not

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Speaker 2: Australia right