Speaker 1: Okay there, and welcome back to the Mad Monday Podcast,
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Speaker 1: They just lost to the Windys. I say all that
Speaker 1: to say this, I do have the team listen in
Speaker 1: front of me and Adam. I feel like we need
Speaker 1: to start up the top of the Mad Monday Podcast
Speaker 1: on a Thursday with the team list biggest news of
Speaker 1: the week, worst, keep secret in New Zealand as well.
Speaker 1: Shawn Johnson's back. And the thing that's been said all
Speaker 1: week and for the last few weeks is since Demighty
Speaker 1: Martin's been going good, has been our selection headache for
Speaker 1: Andrew Webster. And I'm looking at that, like, how is
Speaker 1: it a headache that you've got another good player who's
Speaker 1: stepped up? And people were saying, well, did Shawn Johnson
Speaker 1: even come back in with Tomrty Mutton? Of course he does,
Speaker 1: so he's in a half back. This can only be
Speaker 1: a good thing for the Warriors, surely. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't see how anyone can think that is a
Speaker 2: bad thing. I saw today the odds of Shorten as well,
Speaker 2: you know, the huge hunches out of there that just
Speaker 2: hadn't been back in the team. They went from pretty
Speaker 2: far outside to be honest, to only been when I
Speaker 2: saw it about an hour ago. Is a dollar ninety
Speaker 2: to a dollar eighty, right, it's still in favor of
Speaker 2: the Storm, but that's close.
Speaker 1: It's almost even odds.
Speaker 2: And that's considering that we're ninth and they are first.
Speaker 2: And there is nothing wrong with having Esja back. If anything,
Speaker 2: it's just strength to strength and it's really nice to
Speaker 2: see after a few interesting weeks, pretty tough weeks that
Speaker 2: are just a few of the lads are getting back
Speaker 2: on the park game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well one hundred percent. There's a lot of players
Speaker 1: back in the Kirk cape Wise has been back onto
Speaker 1: the bench as well. We'll get into the forward pack
Speaker 1: in a minute. But what happens is, you know, Sean
Speaker 1: Johnson was watching all of these games as well. He
Speaker 1: didn't just bugger off and not play and not watch anything.
Speaker 1: So he's looking at that gun, beauty Tomty let's go like,
Speaker 1: I'm going to need a bit because you I'm back
Speaker 1: from injury. But none of these guys are one hundred percent,
Speaker 1: particularly this period of the season. So he's gonna look
Speaker 1: at Tomighty and be like, sweet man, this is fifty
Speaker 1: percent in your team now, like let's go. Let's And
Speaker 1: it opens everything up a little bit more for us
Speaker 1: because the right side of our attack that everyone talked
Speaker 1: so much about last year sort of haven't hasn't quite
Speaker 1: been the same this year, and so if Tomighty Martin
Speaker 1: can still play that same role but over on the
Speaker 1: left side, just opens up both sides. I think it's
Speaker 1: been great for us jagging these last few ones that
Speaker 1: we potentially probably shouldn't have, particularly the two before the bye.
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys we should have beaten, even though
Speaker 1: by the time he got to that game where we
Speaker 1: were beaten to a ball in terms of injuries. But
Speaker 1: I think the other interesting thing for me, so Rocco
Speaker 1: buries back from his hand arts is still a week away.
Speaker 1: But when he comes back, I find it quite hard.
Speaker 1: I know, we were just shitting on people saying that
Speaker 1: there's a selection headache. I'd find it hard to bench Pompy,
Speaker 1: wouldn't you. I he is kicking so well. He's the
Speaker 1: fourth highest point scorer since he started, since he started starting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and to be honest, ever since he's come back.
Speaker 2: He had that massive hit Magic Ground, Yeah, absolutely buried
Speaker 2: the man. And then after that he honestly hasn't done
Speaker 2: much wrong. Like for a lot of people, you know,
Speaker 2: especially the start of the season, there's always been a
Speaker 2: bit of a worry. He hit some ups and downs,
Speaker 2: but he has I guess maybe at the same time,
Speaker 2: like recognized his time off, he's put in the work
Speaker 2: and he's come back. And even just that side, how
Speaker 2: next to Marcelo, they look so much better together and
Speaker 2: they've had a couple of pretty good weekends out, so
Speaker 2: it is it is getting quite hard. And at the
Speaker 2: same time, last week rocc o'berry must have known, hey,
Speaker 2: you know there's a bit going on here. Pompy's playing well,
Speaker 2: artist is on the way back, and last week he
Speaker 2: was amazing.
Speaker 1: So it's like it's it's.
Speaker 2: Something that you hope would happen in good teams, is
Speaker 2: that there's so much competition that everyone has to show
Speaker 2: up every single game and that is not a bad
Speaker 2: problem to have.
Speaker 1: No, it's not.
Speaker 2: Because I think he was even speaking earlier on the
Speaker 2: week hearing it was the Pantsman and that's talk about
Speaker 2: it was this could be one of the first times
Speaker 2: which watched Hurley was after thinking, is that maybe Artis
Speaker 2: comes off the bench first week, Like I know, it
Speaker 2: seems like an outlandis thing to.
Speaker 1: Say, and he is XM winner arts.
Speaker 2: But last week, for one of the first times at
Speaker 2: a very very long time, our back line and its
Speaker 2: entire already looked amazing, great, And I feel like there's
Speaker 2: things like that where things are just going wow, where
Speaker 2: it's really just not worth rocking the boat too much.
Speaker 2: You just kind of you just you need to leave
Speaker 2: it out there for a little bit and when it
Speaker 2: needs change and you change it. So it's it's a
Speaker 2: huge positive in that.
Speaker 1: Eh yeah? Is this one? Though? It does perplex me
Speaker 1: because I kind of am leaning towards leave Pompey in there. Particularly.
Speaker 1: I know Sean Johnson's latest injury was a pick, but
Speaker 1: was he goalkicking on the weekend? Sean? I can't well't
Speaker 1: recall someone will be screaming at their iPod right now,
Speaker 1: do you do You mean when he hurt himself or
Speaker 1: that week? Oh no, he's back this week. Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: just had a blackout for a second. No, yeah, before
Speaker 1: he came back. I actually think he was goalkicking. But
Speaker 1: I just think it's one less thing for Sean Johnson
Speaker 1: to be doing, you know, the more that we can
Speaker 1: take off for him, particularly because we've still got another
Speaker 1: ten weeks of this competition left before we get to playoffs.
Speaker 1: I did a bit of deep diving. It may not
Speaker 1: sound like a I did some research. Today we have
Speaker 1: the last round of the season. Looking way too far
Speaker 1: ahead of myself, here is a bye for us the
Speaker 1: twenty seventh round, which is that's exactly when you'd want it.
Speaker 1: I mean, if we can. I think, so top four
Speaker 1: is out for us, so we can't have buy and
Speaker 1: then two bites at the cherry. That would have been
Speaker 1: the dream scenario. But a bye just before playoffs would
Speaker 1: be excellent anyway. I say all that to say this,
Speaker 1: the more that we can take off Sewan Johnson's plate,
Speaker 1: the buy at the end of the season helps. I
Speaker 1: think to Mighty Martin's run of form helps, and I
Speaker 1: honestly think that our man Adam Pompey kicking that helps
Speaker 1: quite a lot as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there also is that other part as well, where
Speaker 2: I heard we be talking this week that is quite
Speaker 2: excited that Esjay is back because of how good this
Speaker 2: kicking game is. But I think we're underestimating how good
Speaker 2: to Mighty Martin's like in goal pressure, off lake kicks
Speaker 2: and stuff as well getting us repeat sets which we
Speaker 2: just didn't have at the start of the season. And
Speaker 2: I wonder if he's still in that old ah you know,
Speaker 2: you know J's back, you know, don't worry about the
Speaker 2: other fil kind of thing, and he's just kind of
Speaker 2: pushing him to the side, and then he's just going
Speaker 2: to come out this weekend and just go berserk again.
Speaker 1: You know, like sure, nah, mighty's mighty.
Speaker 2: I feel like he's just kind of hiding him a
Speaker 2: little bit, like what they do with the youngsters, and
Speaker 2: he's just going to come out and just show them
Speaker 2: what he's all about. But he has been sublime in
Speaker 2: his kicking game, and that was a huge part for
Speaker 2: those first few weeks when we had a bit of
Speaker 2: a tough time. We couldn't get repeat sets, we weren't
Speaker 2: contesting the ball, and then all of a sudden, a
Speaker 2: little bit of a shuffle in the team and all
Speaker 2: of that's coming off. You know, it's it couldn't be
Speaker 2: better right now, mate.
Speaker 1: To be honest, when we look at the Ford pack,
Speaker 1: Adam Vanoa, Blake Waite, Egan, Jackson Ford, might it's a
Speaker 1: new court in Mitch Barnette, tare who Harris is back.
Speaker 1: I think the most exciting part of this for me
Speaker 1: or not. I don't know if it's exciting Jackson Ford
Speaker 1: being named ten and Mitch Barnett out wide. This is
Speaker 1: interesting to me. It's basically a positional swap, just a
Speaker 1: straight up swap, and it's sort of a little bit
Speaker 1: of a head scratch. I don't mind it because Jackson
Speaker 1: Ford was immense on the weekend. Like he they are
Speaker 1: both very similar body types, both members of the Ruthless
Speaker 1: park Our Boys, So I don't mind the straight swap.
Speaker 1: It was just a bit of a head scratcher, and
Speaker 1: I couldn't really figure out a reason why. I guess
Speaker 1: the only thing that would come to my mind is
Speaker 1: maybe Mitch Barnett's job of punching holes in the defensive
Speaker 1: lines a bit easier for us when he's out on
Speaker 1: an edge rather than in the middle making a million tackles.
Speaker 1: I did wonder if maybe after Origin, despite the fact
Speaker 1: that they didn't get on, I was like, maybe is
Speaker 1: it too much workload for him doing all of that?
Speaker 1: It's working for us. Mtch Barnett scored to try he
Speaker 1: looks great. What do you think Maybe's doing with that one? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think it would have surprised a lot of people
Speaker 2: last week. Yeah, especially just anyone really, And after watching
Speaker 2: the game, the only thing that I kind of got
Speaker 2: from it is that Jackson Forward just has a massive,
Speaker 2: massive motor and he was just he was doing a
Speaker 2: lot of work in the middle of the park and
Speaker 2: it actually kind of benefits us out wide because you've
Speaker 2: got Madata and Mitch that are both absolute weapons. Putting
Speaker 2: so much pressure on those outside edge last week near
Speaker 2: Corday was sublime. He was walking through players. You know,
Speaker 2: it looks quite easy. So when he's on he's electric. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and he is a huge injection back into the team
Speaker 2: and having him and then we can work out. So
Speaker 2: I think you're you're definitely on the right, you know,
Speaker 2: the right thing there. But I just have a feeling
Speaker 2: that it just makes more sense for them at the moment.
Speaker 2: Jackson Ford massive motor, is just willing to put his
Speaker 2: body on the line and it just kind of frees
Speaker 2: up a few of these more experienced guys just to
Speaker 2: do the work one on one on the outside and
Speaker 2: just spell it. And the only other thing I would
Speaker 2: say as well, So who was named at thirty last
Speaker 2: week did come off the bench and played huge When
Speaker 2: he came off, it was really noticeable knowing you know
Speaker 2: that he had a role to play and he just
Speaker 2: stormed Don and he just ran it straight as well.
Speaker 2: So I wouldn't be surprised if we see Walker back
Speaker 2: there as well, because Walker has been playing. He's rolled
Speaker 2: back the clock a little bit here and he looks Kurdwalker.
Speaker 1: He does, doesn't it. I think it's the versatility is
Speaker 1: why they like him coming off the bench, plus that
Speaker 1: little X factor on top of the combination with Jess
Speaker 1: Tavung as well. He was also named on the bench.
Speaker 1: But interestingly you mentioned toy Harris was sort of it
Speaker 1: was almost it's just in that sort of middle rotation
Speaker 1: that's starting to shape up a little bit for us.
Speaker 1: Kirk Capewell on the bench. How does Kirk Capewa get
Speaker 1: back out into the field. I know he's been injured,
Speaker 1: he's been out for quite a while, but like we
Speaker 1: are stacked. When we had the injuries, we had five
Speaker 1: second rowers out on the field. It's starting to get
Speaker 1: that way again. You look at the team. Jackson Ford's
Speaker 1: the second row, New Quarter is the second row, Mitch
Speaker 1: Barnett's the second row. Now we've got that's that's three
Speaker 1: on the starting field. Kirk capewar is on the bench.
Speaker 1: I mean Toyo Harris has played on an edge as well.
Speaker 1: It's like it's another one of these Ardeas Pomby situations
Speaker 1: where it's like you've got this guy who's excellent, well,
Speaker 1: I would even say beyond excellent.
Speaker 2: They're like Kirk Cape well, yeah, the top one percent, right.
Speaker 1: An origin player. The marquee signing of the off season
Speaker 1: arts excluded and now he can't get back on. But
Speaker 1: he to me feels like a starter. I feel like
Speaker 1: his value is he can play eighty minutes, never miss
Speaker 1: a tackle. He's reliable as whereas he's not quite that
Speaker 1: like impact player. When the Fords are starting to get tired,
Speaker 1: Kirk Cape war is not going to come on and
Speaker 1: put footwork on someone or burst through the line like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And in saying that as well, it was quite
Speaker 2: interesting because I think they came on quite close to
Speaker 2: each other. Her Mantle who So, you know, there's often
Speaker 2: been periods of the Warriors game where they made a
Speaker 2: switch off for moments and that was when they would
Speaker 2: kind of concede and would usually be they would have
Speaker 2: you know, there's been games already this year where they
Speaker 2: had an amazing fifteen to twenty minutes and they're just
Speaker 2: kind of tape it off.
Speaker 1: That's a good point.
Speaker 2: So when and watching in the weekend, they kind of
Speaker 2: came on with like fifteen and they kind of just
Speaker 2: like you know, locked it up and kind of just
Speaker 2: sorted it out.
Speaker 1: You've got two calm heads, so you don't have this
Speaker 1: problem where AFB goes off and we sort of look
Speaker 1: flat for the last ten minutes of the first half. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I wonder if it's a bit of jiggery pokery
Speaker 1: there and there's two such wise are just unfrazzled kind
Speaker 1: of kind of heads out on the field as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I could.
Speaker 2: Only imagine if you have Tahu and Kate Wak coming
Speaker 2: on off the bench and you're like, we're good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're good. Is anyone worried? No, no, no, we're good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: one hundred percent. If you look at the other side
Speaker 1: of the ledger so far, long has been electric since
Speaker 1: he's come into the into the Melbourne Storm system. Out
Speaker 1: there at the back for Little Pappy, he is going
Speaker 1: to be one that we need to shut down. Obviously
Speaker 1: Xavier Coats, but the last nail in our coffin last
Speaker 1: time we played him. That one's going to be a
Speaker 1: big match up as well. Wish Heart's been looking great lately,
Speaker 1: but Jerome Hughes I think is going to be the
Speaker 1: deciding factor in this Melbourne Storm team. Obviously, months they're
Speaker 1: out with the long term injury. Paul has grown in
Speaker 1: the shower and will and then allegedly redid it again.
Speaker 1: I thought there was a bit carry on there, but anyway,
Speaker 1: he's out for a while. Ali Cutto is the other
Speaker 1: one who looks absolutely unstoppable for that team Former Warrior.
Speaker 1: That's the it's the X with a glow up problem.
Speaker 1: Not that we need another second rower and they His
Speaker 1: combination with Jerome Hughes has been excellent. That's why they're
Speaker 1: both in my Supercoach team. Spoiler a lit for the
Speaker 1: second part of this podcast. But if we can shut
Speaker 1: down Jerome Hughes and and and keep a few eyes
Speaker 1: and a few bodies on Ali Cutto, I think that
Speaker 1: we're a good chance in this game. They're not, They're
Speaker 1: not at full strength to meltin storm spot the fact
Speaker 1: that they are at the top of the table. But
Speaker 1: I think that this could break the hood who beating
Speaker 1: them in nine years. I think I think Arts and
Speaker 1: Shawn Johnson with only two players in that team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you have the heartbreak of the start
Speaker 2: of the season, which was a real turning point.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But I guess at the same time, even the way
Speaker 2: that the game finished out and we didn't quite get there.
Speaker 1: You know that surely that gives.
Speaker 2: A pretty big, huge amount of money in the in
Speaker 2: the changing rooms, like you've gone toe to toe with.
Speaker 1: The best of the best. We're almost there.
Speaker 2: Yeah. But the crazy thing is is you see how
Speaker 2: many people are out they still keep winning, and you've
Speaker 2: got people like Grant Anderson, who seems like the most
Speaker 2: generic name, like they've just gone on to an extended
Speaker 2: bench on.
Speaker 1: Like it's like they didn't get the rights for his
Speaker 1: actual name on the PlayStation game, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: He's got away call the name. Yeah, but I like Anderson.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but even then, they are just so deep it
Speaker 2: doesn't matter a.
Speaker 1: It sounds like it might be the Australian Minister for Transport,
Speaker 1: Grand Anderson, the right honorable Grand Anderson.
Speaker 2: It makes sense. But yeah, it's it's amazing how how
Speaker 2: deep the site is. Regardless and as more credits to
Speaker 2: the I'm with you as well. Akatur has been just
Speaker 2: ridiculous this year as well. And at the same time,
Speaker 2: we just have to be careful with Harry Grant. He
Speaker 2: he always shows up for big games as well, and
Speaker 2: I feel like it was super coach wise. He's definitely
Speaker 2: rounded into form as wow. So there's still has threats
Speaker 2: to be worried about. But at the same time, I
Speaker 2: think it's really nice to see the Warriors. They they
Speaker 2: look pretty good. You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well one we shouldn't have but but then also
Speaker 1: earlier on in the season lost a couple that we
Speaker 1: that we probably should have won, this being one of them.
Speaker 1: So if we can get this one back, that would
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Speaker 1: Captain Smoky's all that supercoach in just a second. Okay,
Speaker 1: so supercoach. This week we sort of I wouldn't say
Speaker 1: we're out of the woods, but the last couple of
Speaker 1: weeks have been an absolute shit show for most people's
Speaker 1: teams in the Mad Monday Mounts League. I know it
Speaker 1: was an absolute disaster because I've got green arrows, so
Speaker 1: my team's going up in that league. We also have
Speaker 1: like there's a head to head portion of that. Who
Speaker 1: I think I had you this week? Didn't I am?
Speaker 1: And you got to witness the ferocity that is the
Speaker 1: ruthless park Our boys in full flight. I am now
Speaker 1: into the top one hundred in our league. I've timed
Speaker 1: it perfectly. I went rocketing up this week into eighty
Speaker 1: sixth so and I feel pretty powerful. I'll get into
Speaker 1: my trades very surely. But the thing that launched me
Speaker 1: into that was Latrell Mitchell. I picked him up. He
Speaker 1: rewarded me with one hundred and fifty points. I wish, wish,
Speaker 1: wish I had the balls to captain him. I did
Speaker 1: not but if you haven't got Latrell Mitchell, do you
Speaker 1: have Treill? No?
Speaker 2: And I would you get him in this week? Do
Speaker 2: you think I'm about ninety five percent right now? After
Speaker 2: watching that, I went the other way and I got
Speaker 2: his teammates. I got Cody Walker last week, and I
Speaker 2: was pretty stoked at a hundred points as well. Yeah,
Speaker 2: obviously there's that concern about him stepping into origin and
Speaker 2: that as well, But honestly, the way he is playing
Speaker 2: at the moment, I don't give a shit. I think
Speaker 2: I'm just going to jump on for the rest of
Speaker 2: the season regardless, and I'm just gonna, you know, watch
Speaker 2: this into the sunset. So I don't but I will.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's not quite a no brainer to me,
Speaker 1: But you know, there's no there's so many superstuff fullbacks
Speaker 1: who are out at the moment. You know, if you
Speaker 1: wanted to go drink water, I think he's one of
Speaker 1: the top traded out players at the moment, Teddy, but
Speaker 1: then you're running the risk of origin one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: Dylan Edwards, what's the deal with his injury? That kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. If you I mean, just just before last week,
Speaker 1: I had Teddy and Dylan Edwards, and I thought, oh great,
Speaker 1: I'm covered either way. Well, worst case scenario, Edwards injured,
Speaker 1: Teddy called up. I was like, oh so I'm super
Speaker 1: fuck yeah great as I think trell met, I don't.
Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's a safe option, and like, yeah,
Speaker 1: one fifty could be a flash in the pan. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I feel like he's going to come out
Speaker 1: and do it again.
Speaker 2: I don't One to fifty might be, but I still
Speaker 2: think weekly, yeah, week in, week out. He's got seventy yeah,
Speaker 2: and I would happily ride seventy.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, one hundred percent. Jerome Hughes has been one
Speaker 1: of the most popular buyers after one seventeen on the weekend.
Speaker 1: I got him a few weeks ago thinking I was
Speaker 1: the pod god, and I was right, but I think
Speaker 1: for the wrong reasons, and so now everybody's jumping on him.
Speaker 1: I brought him and Ellie Kutzor and who had a
Speaker 1: little bit of a quiet one. But if you didn't
Speaker 1: have Jerome Hughes, could your stomach bringing him in against
Speaker 1: the Warriors. I know it doesn't matter, but these things
Speaker 1: always suck me out.
Speaker 2: I am close to getting either him or wish hut
Speaker 2: because I have Galvin at the moment, so I'm kinda
Speaker 2: getting a head of that as well. But I am
Speaker 2: really torn do I take happiness insurance, which is which
Speaker 2: is not the greatest way to look at it.
Speaker 1: But he if he scores big, they probably beat us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And if he scores big, then all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: there's a chance that my super coach team does really well.
Speaker 2: So yeah, right, you know, you know it is it
Speaker 2: is insurance. I'm really struggling with getting that one over
Speaker 2: the line. Latrell Mitchell way more volatile, and that seems.
Speaker 1: An easier choice for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think I'm going to go for either one,
Speaker 2: and if I do, it will be Hughes. It just yeah,
Speaker 2: at the top of the table, man, it seems like
Speaker 2: crazy to argue it, right, And the way he's playing
Speaker 2: at the moment as well. Yeah, and he's dropped all
Speaker 2: the way down from like mid seven hundreds, so he's
Speaker 2: at like six seventy. I think at the moment he's
Speaker 2: six seven four, So it could be some good eating there.
Speaker 1: It could be I've got to send to confess and
Speaker 1: apology to make I dropped edin fanoa Blake when he
Speaker 1: when when Webster dropped edin Fanoa Blake, I was like,
Speaker 1: and we'll be I trust I'm going to drop him.
Speaker 1: I brought him back this week. I just had to.
Speaker 1: There's I like a lot of people out there, will
Speaker 1: will be in the same boat overstecked on Bulldogs Ros,
Speaker 1: You'll left Sam Hughes, you'll Lef Curran. Bois the fun
Speaker 1: with silly sitting on the bench having not played. I'm
Speaker 1: with you. Yeah, So I needed more dudes on the bench.
Speaker 1: And I just watching him last week hurt me, hurt
Speaker 1: me a lot, and I was like, fuck it, I'm back.
Speaker 1: And I think he's back into I think that was
Speaker 1: just a blip on the radar, and I think he
Speaker 1: cruises through. The Other part of it is that there
Speaker 1: aren't good front row. We all thought Terry Ll May
Speaker 1: was going to be the answer to our front row problems,
Speaker 1: and he's been up and down. Now he's up at
Speaker 1: the moment. But I don't there's no like lock and load,
Speaker 1: even pain hearts with the injuries and origin and all that.
Speaker 1: I think this is lock and load, Sit and forget,
Speaker 1: don't worry about front row again. He did lose money
Speaker 1: since I traded him out, so I can kind of
Speaker 1: stomach that a little bit. But I think and his
Speaker 1: break even is still one hundred and four, but he's
Speaker 1: not going to lose. I would say that's great business. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's great business. I yeah, that's right. I shorted the
Speaker 1: market on Edin varanoa Blake. I brought him back and
Speaker 1: it cost me blaze to lungey jumping ahead to my trades.
Speaker 1: But we'll get to that in a sec. Does uppy
Speaker 1: cortersal at halfback interests you in any way?
Speaker 2: Not at all, Not with that shocking team that he
Speaker 2: plays well and I have Galvin.
Speaker 1: Yeah, to be clear, he's not eligible and supercoach for halfback,
Speaker 1: but he has been named it half back. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: just yeah.
Speaker 2: I guess the only point in there as well is
Speaker 2: that Galvin has that problem with the side at the moment.
Speaker 1: Where yes, he let's get into Galvin. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I think that you correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 2: I think this week he came out and tried to
Speaker 2: request the trade, which was quickly declined by the club,
Speaker 2: which seemed interesting, and then all of a sudden they're
Speaker 2: renegotiating his contract.
Speaker 1: Have I kind of got the gist of that, right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's been a few stories sort of floating around, and
Speaker 1: granted a lot of them will have a bit of
Speaker 1: interest on the on the story, you know. But there
Speaker 1: was a buzz Rothfield tweeting saying that Galvin after the
Speaker 1: last loss was walking around the changing room and going, see,
Speaker 1: this is why I can't wait to get out of here.
Speaker 1: There's the stories about Benji Marshall. During their bye week
Speaker 1: he went over to Fiji. People aren't happy about that.
Speaker 1: One of the guy that they brought him to turn
Speaker 1: it around and I forget his name, but they brought
Speaker 1: him in basically a GM to steady the ship. He
Speaker 1: was interviewed and he said, no, Lachland Goalvin's on contract
Speaker 1: for two more years, so if he wants out, tough shit,
Speaker 1: He signed the contract. All of that stuff, None of
Speaker 1: that fills me with confidence from a like watching the
Speaker 1: game point of view, but then from a super coach
Speaker 1: point of view, Lachland govern on top of that, he's
Speaker 1: succumbed to this hand injury. He's head for a while.
Speaker 1: I think he is the clearest cell that we've had
Speaker 1: since Little Pappy Brokers League. You gotta get rid of him.
Speaker 1: And there are options out there, Like you said, you
Speaker 1: could go to wish Art. You're sort of looking at
Speaker 1: wish Art. Cody Walker is another one. They're about similar price. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, I think he's the kind of guy that you
Speaker 2: would have got on early enough that you would have
Speaker 2: made plenty of money. Yeah, and it's just the right
Speaker 2: time to go, right, So I don't I think that's
Speaker 2: quite an.
Speaker 1: Easy one, to be fair. Yeah, So I think he's
Speaker 1: a sell and a good way to make a little
Speaker 1: bit of money if you wanted to. There are some
Speaker 1: cheaper options that you can drop down to five Eighth's tough, though,
Speaker 1: you know, there's not a lot of dudes out there.
Speaker 1: I was lucky enough to jag to Mardy Martin.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which still hurts me. We spoke about this this morning.
Speaker 2: I feel like there's one of the better trades that
Speaker 2: I've seen go on.
Speaker 1: And it seemed quite ambitious at the time. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I put my oentis. I got him when everyone else
Speaker 1: got Galvin. They were the same price, and Galvin to
Speaker 1: Mighty Martin actually I think had a lower break even,
Speaker 1: but everyone was just like the Warriors we're doing, they're
Speaker 1: on like a three game skit or something like that.
Speaker 1: I was like, ah, you know what, I'll pick him.
Speaker 1: And I picked him and he scored twenty points. I
Speaker 1: think the first time I had him, I was like,
Speaker 1: fuck this, but I couldn't trade him out, so he
Speaker 1: got stuck in my team. And now he's just been
Speaker 1: scoring tons and I've been running up the letterboard on
Speaker 1: the back of Tomighty Martin. So I'm pretty happy with that.
Speaker 1: And power too, it's too late. I don't think it's
Speaker 1: worth getting on too Mighty Martin. Now Shawn Johnson's back,
Speaker 1: He's at six hundred and forty two thousand.
Speaker 2: Here's an interesting one. Yes, it's a bolt to go
Speaker 2: for Sean. There's a big part of me that just
Speaker 2: wants to watch the game this weekend. And I know
Speaker 2: it seems see I've seen your face right now as well.
Speaker 1: It's early. I think it's a week early. I think
Speaker 1: it's a week early. No, that's actually a good point actually,
Speaker 1: because what happens Also, if like Hines comes out and
Speaker 1: scores one hundred and eighty or something, you know, then
Speaker 1: you like probably then you're probably going to want to
Speaker 1: pick him up. I think it's too early to jump
Speaker 1: on Shawn Johnson. I also think we spent the first
Speaker 1: half of the podcast talking about how we want to
Speaker 1: take all this stuff off his plate, and I think
Speaker 1: that results in low I hope I'm wrong. I could
Speaker 1: be wrong, but then then that's that part as well.
Speaker 2: Like I'm just thinking as a fan, I'm just like,
Speaker 2: I just want to get on the sha and trade
Speaker 2: in general, right, But that's yeah, that's insupportant, and we
Speaker 2: need to get back to better business.
Speaker 1: So what are you looking at for captains this week? Mate?
Speaker 1: We'll get into my trades quickly just before we go
Speaker 1: to captain because they are intertwined my trades. As I
Speaker 1: mentioned before, ad Infinula Blake is back, and to do that,
Speaker 1: I've binned Blaze Talungey, who I think has peaked in
Speaker 1: price if you wanted to hold him. I can't argue
Speaker 1: against that because he just scored sixty nine, which is nice,
Speaker 1: and I think he's probably just gonna fritter away in
Speaker 1: his fifties and sixties could go bang the ills a
Speaker 1: little bit better. At the moment, I just needed the
Speaker 1: money and I wanted Adam fanoa Blake. So I've done that.
Speaker 1: Then I've gotten rid of one of the Raiders mutants
Speaker 1: who are still on my bench, Schiller or Stranger one
Speaker 1: of them, and I have brought in here's my smoky
Speaker 1: and second trade in for the week. And I may
Speaker 1: not be that smoky. You might have actually already conned
Speaker 1: onto this one, Jack Whiton. I wanted to bring in
Speaker 1: Cody Walker for the same reason that you were saying
Speaker 1: before that you wanted to bring him in. I brought
Speaker 1: it in the trail last week because I do think
Speaker 1: the Rabbits have turned around. And if I think that,
Speaker 1: then I better back that up. And so I've done
Speaker 1: that with Jack Whiton. At four hundred and forty four thousand.
Speaker 1: He is only eligible at center wing, but he's got
Speaker 1: I think, one more game and then he'll be eligible
Speaker 1: at five eight, at which point I can get rid
Speaker 1: of fucking Ko Weeks, who's actually also been playing mein
Speaker 1: but he's duel as well, right Ko Weeks, Yeah he is,
Speaker 1: he is. He's five eighth fullback, but at the moment
Speaker 1: you're probably not going to put him in for me.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so I'm bringing that in. And I say
Speaker 1: all that to say that's my captain is Littrell Mitchell.
Speaker 1: I like the boldness. I am getting read of Fuller.
Speaker 1: I've had him for some time.
Speaker 2: When I faced you last week, i was patching up
Speaker 2: the leaky boat and I'd seven hundred and twelve thousand
Speaker 2: dollars in my just just because I had to, you know,
Speaker 2: push things around.
Speaker 1: So I'm going Fuller to Trout.
Speaker 2: Easy, easy, easy, and then I'm going Galvin to wish
Speaker 2: or Walker. I'm going straight to Hughes. Then that will
Speaker 2: had me Dylan Brown. I'll still have Burden, Walker and
Speaker 2: Hughes and I'll be pretty happy with that. So that's
Speaker 2: not bad. And I think if I'm going to captain, oh,
Speaker 2: I want to follow you in, but I don't want
Speaker 2: to be that guy. I oh now thinking it out loud,
Speaker 2: I might go for Feeder.
Speaker 1: Oh I did that last week and it burned me
Speaker 1: on it's good. Oh it's goods still not bad? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm going to go for feed It only burned
Speaker 1: me because I saw Litro Mitchell score one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty and so now I'm chasing those points. If you
Speaker 1: head Heinz, would you captain him because I know you
Speaker 1: don't have him, so you're not going to bring him
Speaker 1: in for this week because he's too expensive, it's too
Speaker 1: risk it at the moment. But if you had him
Speaker 1: and you held on, would you captain him this week? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would keptain him because he's always that kind
Speaker 2: of guy where it gets to that last moment and
Speaker 2: you're like, ah, he's he's finally shed the beard. You
Speaker 2: know nothing's going to happen, and then he just goes
Speaker 2: bang and that the Shark's team is a great team
Speaker 2: this year, right, So.
Speaker 1: I'd rather be burned because I picked him and he
Speaker 1: didn't go bang, then because I didn't and he did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I spy traded him. I had him that
Speaker 2: week where he scored nothing and I was like, you
Speaker 2: can get staff pass off out of the team. I
Speaker 2: do recruit it now and now that we're talking about
Speaker 2: it out loud, but you know, sometimes you just got
Speaker 2: to do what feels right, and that.
Speaker 1: Felt right at the time one. So good luck with
Speaker 1: all of your trades. I'm sure that both of us
Speaker 1: will probably change them before the before the first game tonight,
Speaker 1: just before we go. We've got our tab game day hunch,
Speaker 1: and I've got a hunch that we talked about him before.
Speaker 1: Adam Pompy I think he is a I know he
Speaker 1: won't feel this, but he is a bit of a
Speaker 1: corner dog at the moment. And you know what happens
Speaker 1: when you back a dog into a corner, you get bit.
Speaker 1: And I think that Adam Pompey is going to cross
Speaker 1: the chalk this week for a meat pie. The tab
Speaker 1: doesn't think you will, so they'll give you twour dollors
Speaker 1: twenty five. And we debated this off here. It was
Speaker 1: either him or Rock o'berry. There's three dogs in that
Speaker 1: fight and there's only two jerseys up for grabs. One
Speaker 1: of them's got to score, so it was a coin
Speaker 1: to us. We've gone with Adam Pompey. That is our
Speaker 1: hunch for this week. Adam Pompy crosses the chalk. I
Speaker 1: reckon that'll do us for today. Adam, let's knock this
Speaker 1: thing on the head. Enjoy your weekend of football. We'll
Speaker 1: see you on Monday for another episode of the podcast
Speaker 1: seven o'clock. On Saturday, seven o'clock, I don't know, sometime
Speaker 1: on Saturday the Warriors. Our coverage will be on Skysport
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