Speaker 1: I'm good afternoon, and welcome back to the Mad Monday Podcast,
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Speaker 1: My name is Tin Monnayawi. I'm joined by Edin Fanua
Speaker 1: Kezy this afternoon afternoon crsshagging on Matte really good, really
Speaker 1: good man. I I mean I have just looked down
Speaker 1: at our schedule and seen that you and I are
Speaker 1: commentating this Sunday, Yeah, the Dolphins. I've also looked at
Speaker 1: our record and that we've never commentated a loss all season.
Speaker 1: We've never commentated a work. Sorry there was another loss
Speaker 1: right there. And I've also looked at hundreds of comments
Speaker 1: and texts over the last couple of months saying ban
Speaker 1: those two from doing commentaries together. Yes, completely, Yeah, unfortunately
Speaker 1: been and Diana available. He's stuck with us. If anyone's
Speaker 1: did the illusions how this works? If they aren't available,
Speaker 1: we come on. That's one hundred see how it We're Yeah,
Speaker 1: and did you hear that people were saying talking about
Speaker 1: the axis of Evil at the game on Friday night?
Speaker 1: So when we took on the Eels, Yeah, you were
Speaker 1: commentating that's right, which was a massive commentator's curse. Yes.
Speaker 1: Plus Matt Heath was in attendance and drinking red wine. Yes,
Speaker 1: and he did a post about the penon WI did
Speaker 1: a post about the Pens from the ground. Yes, and
Speaker 1: G Lane was an atendant. So the g Lane curse.
Speaker 1: The Warriors never had a chance. Why Why Like I
Speaker 1: am fully prepared to just be like I am a curse. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But however, last season we commentated allmost a shitload of
Speaker 1: games and we will win it. Yeah. But do I
Speaker 1: just stand down from the commentary and just you just
Speaker 1: do them all? No? Because I also have commentated eight games,
Speaker 1: seven losses, one win, so there's no win there either.
Speaker 1: It was extra deflating driving out to Mount Smart, walking
Speaker 1: in there, going up to the thing, seeing Trent Barrett
Speaker 1: going in a photo on the field. But join us
Speaker 1: for tonight's game and then just boom, another huge commentator's curse.
Speaker 1: Game lost massively. Yeah. I just I know that it's
Speaker 1: a fan base that's hurting, and so they're looking for
Speaker 1: anything to blame it on. The Other thing is I
Speaker 1: hate when the Warriors, like up until last year, they
Speaker 1: would always be like, oh, Warriors have a dismal record,
Speaker 1: against this team. It's like, yeah, we have a dismal
Speaker 1: record against most teams, every single team, Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 1: So it's not like a massive particularly during that COVID
Speaker 1: era that we've already digested the Friday game. I just
Speaker 1: wanted to bring up the old the curse thing there.
Speaker 1: We're here to break down the team list that is
Speaker 1: going to get us back on track, because not even
Speaker 1: just not even just mathematically, I think I've been too
Speaker 1: down on the team, thinking we cannot make the eight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that's because people are be doing in correct maths. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because we can't. We have the buy at the end,
Speaker 1: your bloody tack those points on. Now. The long and
Speaker 1: short of it is, we do need to win every
Speaker 1: single game from here on out. Four games so far
Speaker 1: plus to buy. If you look at the table which
Speaker 1: I'm bringing up right now, we're thirteenth on twenty one points.
Speaker 1: So you tack the buy onto this. I know we
Speaker 1: do this every week. We're up to twenty three, which
Speaker 1: puts us in eleventh place. We win, we are on
Speaker 1: twenty five and that is good enough for ninth. Yeah, right, okay,
Speaker 1: so we're just knocking on the door there. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: that's after this week, mind you. So I don't think
Speaker 1: it's ridiculous. And I have already seen a few Ossie
Speaker 1: pundits who actually know rugby league say not only could
Speaker 1: they make the eight, I think the Warriors will still
Speaker 1: make the eighth. Wow, which I think could be clickbait
Speaker 1: absolutely because they know that Kiwis will click on that. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: But these are the same like do you remember the
Speaker 1: start of the season, Aussie pundits were all about the Warriors. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they were predicting massive things for them. So and I
Speaker 1: think we are all still predicting. But until we are
Speaker 1: running out of back line that isn't I don't know. Well,
Speaker 1: this is the back line that has been run out
Speaker 1: against Wayne Bennett's Dolphins, which I would like to remind
Speaker 1: you are ninth so and they're on a downward slide.
Speaker 1: But they scored thirty whatever points against the Roosters at
Speaker 1: the weekend. They are just so hard to be on
Speaker 1: any given day they could score so many points against us.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, And so the Warriors teamless reads Dusty Shanes,
Speaker 1: Nicol Klushta, He's going to be in number one, Dell
Speaker 1: and Wa Tennis Lesnia will be and the number two
Speaker 1: Jersey ali Leta attains his center spot, but Moeler Graham
Speaker 1: Toolfer has been dropped, so Roger's in there, and then
Speaker 1: the Kazi club comes back on the other wing, Roger
Speaker 1: back to center. This is obviously I wouldn't say a
Speaker 1: vote of no confidence in Mayler Graham Toolf for but
Speaker 1: I just think, I mean, he's he's been dropped in there. Well,
Speaker 1: he's had two games for the what maybe three, and
Speaker 1: from what I remember, his debut was excellent, as a
Speaker 1: lot of those players who have come on for us
Speaker 1: this year has been been excellent. And his next game
Speaker 1: against the Eels was one of the worst games I've
Speaker 1: seen a Warrior playing a long time. He just missed
Speaker 1: so many tackles, dropped the ball so much, and it
Speaker 1: was just a clear example of a young Fewler not
Speaker 1: quite being ready yet pas needed and like all of
Speaker 1: a sudden he's playing center in a game where it's
Speaker 1: must win and it's a pack stadium, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Like he just wasn't quite ready so and
Speaker 1: leaked a couple I feel like one of those tries,
Speaker 1: uh just comes straight through his channel and they were
Speaker 1: just through. I was saying on the Monday podcast. When
Speaker 1: we went down by like two three tries very quickly,
Speaker 1: I basically tourn my back on the game and hit
Speaker 1: the buffet. We were in the corporate box. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was gonna come with you guys in the corporate box
Speaker 1: as well, but I was just too down, like with
Speaker 1: the realization with thirty minutes to go that we weren't
Speaker 1: coming back. And then all of a sudden, you've got
Speaker 1: thirty minutes of trying to like simultaneously make the audience
Speaker 1: laugh and also make because Die is gutted. Die his
Speaker 1: emotions are one hundred percent reliant on how the Warriors go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying he drops the lip when you two
Speaker 1: commentate that. He's very proficional obviously, but I know how
Speaker 1: much it means to him, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And so thirty minutes of trying to like, you know,
Speaker 1: read out deck jokes on three two three sects or whatever,
Speaker 1: and yeah, you know, have some fun. You did get
Speaker 1: like an eight minute street right at the end. Yes,
Speaker 1: but it was sort of like, it's so hard to
Speaker 1: get excited for that when you know, well I got angry.
Speaker 1: It was like, oh, so now we're scoring points. Oh,
Speaker 1: just quickly while we were on here as well. I
Speaker 1: didn't talk about it Die. What was the light situation
Speaker 1: going on in in the box? I've never seen Die
Speaker 1: that worried before what was happening. So I showed up
Speaker 1: to that little commentary cupboard and the lights were off
Speaker 1: and I was like why and I turned the lights on.
Speaker 1: Oh that's bitter. And then two minutes later, a guy
Speaker 1: in full eels uniform comes down and goes, hey, can
Speaker 1: we turn those lights off? And I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: no worries because your light switch controls our coaches box
Speaker 1: and Trent Barrett doesn't want the lights on because when
Speaker 1: the camera cuts to them, they want the lights off
Speaker 1: so you can't see them because they've been hounding him
Speaker 1: obviously because hes given the sack and they're playing like shit.
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, it was just like
Speaker 1: this amazing opportunity to if they and we've got the
Speaker 1: live feed, if they cut to the coach's box, I
Speaker 1: could flick the lights on and off a few times
Speaker 1: and it would be hilarious. Die was not for it
Speaker 1: at all, yeah, because I think he was picturing all
Speaker 1: this hard work we've gone through to finally been commentating
Speaker 1: a Warriors game at Mount Smart and then me ruining
Speaker 1: it with a light gag. So were the lights? The
Speaker 1: lights were off for your commentary? Off the commentary because
Speaker 1: they want when they cut to the coach's box, they
Speaker 1: wanted it to be dark in this he couldn't really
Speaker 1: see them to like to not encourage the cameras to
Speaker 1: keep cutting back and then but imagine they cut to
Speaker 1: Trent Barrett and just one light on light off. That
Speaker 1: would have been hilarious. I reckon on off, then just
Speaker 1: when he loses the plot, back on again. As soon
Speaker 1: as he goes the fuckers going hold of these lights,
Speaker 1: that's when you flick them back on. But the good
Speaker 1: thing about this light switches, it's gonna be like that
Speaker 1: for every game. Yeah, So at some point, Craig Belly,
Speaker 1: we flecked the lights. If he comes back next season,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what he's doing, but or we just
Speaker 1: peck a moment, recky Stuart. He sits on the sideline,
Speaker 1: he does see because he's had the lights. He's had
Speaker 1: the lights before and he's not about that. But next
Speaker 1: time there's a coach and maybe we're pumping them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: little light switch with have sandstorm ready to go on
Speaker 1: our commentary or if we know that we're about to
Speaker 1: get kicked out of there again. Wow, exactly, and for
Speaker 1: some reason the relationship between us and then gets really bad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Chanelle Harris to will be in the number six jersey.
Speaker 1: And actually, because the news came out after we recorded
Speaker 1: the podcast on Monday, we haven't talked about this. Sean
Speaker 1: the fourth last game for the Warriors, fourth last game
Speaker 1: for Sean Johnson. How instant reaction from you? Well, were
Speaker 1: you surprised that? My first gut reaction was absolutely heartbroken
Speaker 1: for myself because I'd just spent forty minutes on the
Speaker 1: podcast and I don't think he's going to retire because
Speaker 1: because I was on Mad Monday straight afterwards, Oh, right
Speaker 1: straight after, I was like, he's been he's had contracts
Speaker 1: thrown at him from other teams, so presumably he's been
Speaker 1: given a contract and we've found out since that yea
Speaker 1: he had from the Warriors. Yeah, And I was like,
Speaker 1: when someone puts a contract with hundreds of thousands of
Speaker 1: dollars in front of you, you don't turn it down.
Speaker 1: Wells walked out of that podca, boy was it? We
Speaker 1: don't turn it down. Yeah, that's right. Sean Johnson doesn't care.
Speaker 1: I said this the lane on the Gender podcast. I
Speaker 1: was like, it's a ordering amount of money. He's like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's not that much. I said, if I walked in
Speaker 1: here and asked you for they just paid Seawan Johnson,
Speaker 1: your eyes would water. It's not that much. What kind
Speaker 1: of a bullshit? Commented, that's a huge amount of money. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a huge amount of money. And then what I
Speaker 1: realized actually was there's something I've known for a long time.
Speaker 1: How rich you are isn't how much money you have,
Speaker 1: it's how much money you can say no to. That's
Speaker 1: a really good point. And he can say no to
Speaker 1: a lot of money. Evidently there's such a good point.
Speaker 1: Has done. He's also got other options as well, so
Speaker 1: God bliss him. I think athletes don't often get a
Speaker 1: chance to decide when they want to retire, So if
Speaker 1: you do, then you should. Yeah. And also all time
Speaker 1: great Hall of Fame warrior. He's one of those like
Speaker 1: Benji Marshall types of saying this. I think I was
Speaker 1: on Hadaki I was saying he's one of those guys like, yeah,
Speaker 1: Benji Marshall, I can't even think of Stacey or but
Speaker 1: you type in Skucks into YouTube and a half an
Speaker 1: hour highlights package is going to come up. Or sunny Bill.
Speaker 1: You're at a party and someone doesn't know about league,
Speaker 1: and you go, have you seen Shaw Johnson? Go? Nah,
Speaker 1: you fire up a twenty minute highlights but he have
Speaker 1: Sewan Johnson. Yeah, he's one of those guys that you
Speaker 1: show highlights of to really showcase how fucking amazing the game,
Speaker 1: the game campaign awesome it can be. So he's one
Speaker 1: of the coolest players that's ever but he also hasn't really,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, lived up to that potential yet, which
Speaker 1: last season was awesome. Yeah, and I think it's his injury.
Speaker 1: He must be injured this year. Yeah, he must be.
Speaker 1: And knowing that next year it'll be similar to this year,
Speaker 1: you do. This is how every athlete's career ends, that
Speaker 1: all of a sudden start getting injuries that they used
Speaker 1: to bounce back from and that don't anymore. But you're right,
Speaker 1: he's been involved in every incredible Warriors moment for the
Speaker 1: last decade, and you know, all of the highlights have
Speaker 1: been played around you know, him steping dudes and scoring
Speaker 1: tries for the Kiwis for the Warriors. I think was
Speaker 1: it him that put the kick in for a man
Speaker 1: that caught it and did a backflip and then through
Speaker 1: the I think it probably was, Yeah, I think it
Speaker 1: was so. Yeah. He has left a massive mark on
Speaker 1: on the Warriors organization, the Warriors club. It's it's a
Speaker 1: weird one because Tomodie Martin's now been dropped. But you
Speaker 1: would presume that he's going to be the halfback for
Speaker 1: the Warriors next year. How no, no, how early? It
Speaker 1: is too early to just give a teenage of the
Speaker 1: keys to the entire franchise. Oh, Jet Cleary, weel then
Speaker 1: and say you see this, this is yours now fucking
Speaker 1: save us? Or do we give it to Luke Metcalf
Speaker 1: and say yeah he's that. Yeah, definitely. He said he's
Speaker 1: always wanted to play half back. Oh really yeah. So
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think there's a few options. It's
Speaker 1: not like we're short on anything. Well, no, we're not
Speaker 1: short on options. What we're short on is having a
Speaker 1: chance to play these options together for an extended period
Speaker 1: of time. There's so many interruptions with injuries. How do
Speaker 1: you think it plays out for the next four weeks.
Speaker 1: Do you think that him announcing his retirement at Bolsters
Speaker 1: the Boys? Do you think it's a distraction. I like
Speaker 1: to think I just called him the boys by the way.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's a good Yeah, you know, I'm part of
Speaker 1: the Boys as West Sweet. We can do it. How
Speaker 1: do you think we go for the next four weeks?
Speaker 1: I reckon, Well, certainly, the impact it had on me
Speaker 1: and I think I can speak on behalf of the
Speaker 1: rest of the team was I was like, Fuck, we're
Speaker 1: gonna start winning. I feel like, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: Shawn Johnson's stepping down four games left a chance to
Speaker 1: really end his career and like with a high, not
Speaker 1: that he hasn't finished on a high last I mean
Speaker 1: last year was amazing. He's and to go from pretty
Speaker 1: much the Delian when and Kadam pong Is stealing it
Speaker 1: and retiring a year later is pretty crazy. Well yeah,
Speaker 1: but people were calling for him to retire the year
Speaker 1: before that. Oh and I was probably part of for
Speaker 1: a wee bit there when we were going horrifically. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's just the stuff you do when you're emotional after
Speaker 1: another Warriors lost. But I feel like, hopefully it does
Speaker 1: make our players stand up and at least just play
Speaker 1: with some heart and like make those tackles that we've
Speaker 1: been sort of half aass on and yeah, just things
Speaker 1: like that. It makes us play a bit better. And yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a theme for the rest of the seasons. Send
Speaker 1: Sja off in style, absolutely, because you want to be
Speaker 1: part of those highlights in that last game and those
Speaker 1: last few games, you know, they are all I mean,
Speaker 1: there's only one more home game left, but that's a sellout,
Speaker 1: I reckon. The other ones are going to draw massive
Speaker 1: crowds because we travel well. But yeah, I think that
Speaker 1: Shawn Johnson is going to go well over these next
Speaker 1: four weeks. I hope he stays healthy for these four weeks.
Speaker 1: You're saying you're gonna bring him into your Super Coach
Speaker 1: Team final send off. I wouldn't. I would think about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've thought about it, but that would mean dropping Nathan Cleary.
Speaker 1: Ah nah, you know so anyway, we're still naming the teamless. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Ford Packs unchanged Adam Wadegan Barnett MA to Kurt
Speaker 1: Dylan Walker at thirteen and then the bench fretty lastic,
Speaker 1: Tom Aley, Jess Tevanga. Good to see him back. From
Speaker 1: that hamstring injury and Liquor Hala Sema is going to
Speaker 1: be on the bench as well, which I think is great.
Speaker 1: He's had a great season so far. Liquor, Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: been great. They're just the three games that he's played, well,
Speaker 1: the three games for eight minutes that he's played, Like,
Speaker 1: just use them. We've got these fellows. Just freaking use them,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, for sure still does my head. But anyway,
Speaker 1: he won't get on the field, soorry about it. Eighteenth
Speaker 1: man is not on your sheet, but eighteenth man is
Speaker 1: to mighty Mutton. Interesting, do again, what does that tell you? Well,
Speaker 1: to be on nothing? Yeah, there's absolutely nothing to be
Speaker 1: read to that. He's just a utility player, isn't He
Speaker 1: can play a cover a lot of cars. Ever tells
Speaker 1: me anything? Is that? Maybe? Is it a way of
Speaker 1: being like, hey, you're still one of the most important
Speaker 1: players to us, and light of the news that Shawan
Speaker 1: Johnson's retiring is with he's just like keeping him on
Speaker 1: the hook. Yeah, keeping him as we say, you know, like, hey,
Speaker 1: you're so important to us that when me and the
Speaker 1: missus on the rocks, right, I have a feeling next
Speaker 1: year she's not going to be around, all right, trust me,
Speaker 1: trust me. Now, I can't have you in the changing kids.
Speaker 1: Obviously you understand that it's going to be too political,
Speaker 1: but I still want you on the team. So just
Speaker 1: hang around, stay in the corner, and all it's going
Speaker 1: to take is two hit injuries and then boom you're back.
Speaker 1: That's right. You could be back this week. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but you could be, if you know, depending on how
Speaker 1: things go. So yeah, I think to Mighty Martin, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you're gonna have a side piece. You
Speaker 1: could do worse than oh, absolutely, And both on the
Speaker 1: field and in the sheets. The thing that worries me is, sorry,
Speaker 1: that was disrespectful the Dolphins. Sorry, it was really disable
Speaker 1: to carry on. Is the Dolphins team? Just I know
Speaker 1: they've been on a bit of a slide. I'll be honest.
Speaker 1: I was surprised to see them outside of the top
Speaker 1: eight when I check the standings just then. But they,
Speaker 1: like the Sharks, real hot start and then they've just
Speaker 1: slowly tapering, but not fully tapering off. They are still
Speaker 1: putting up a massive fight against these sides. No, in
Speaker 1: this team that I'm about to read you, it's not
Speaker 1: missing any massive players, so the hammer at full wack.
Speaker 1: Who when I look at that, I have visions already
Speaker 1: of him tearing us to bits and him just doing
Speaker 1: the scoring and then doing the arm thing that he does,
Speaker 1: which is so cool. By the way, Jemina Suckle is
Speaker 1: going to be on the wing if he plays. If
Speaker 1: he plays, he what did he ankle? Really nasty ankle.
Speaker 1: But I think he has to get through training literally
Speaker 1: today and then should know by tonight whether or not
Speaker 1: he's playing. Jake Evarillo, who's been going well, he's probably
Speaker 1: our weak point to run through. He lets in a
Speaker 1: lot of tries. Herbsley Farnslington Worth the third he will
Speaker 1: be in the fourth Jersey. And Jack Bostock, who's been
Speaker 1: going very well this year. A little whipp it that dude,
Speaker 1: that whole left side. Isaiah Katara, who's still very young,
Speaker 1: is such a gun. He's got that left side clicking man. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And Jack Bostock has been scoring so many tries things
Speaker 1: to that. I reckon he's gonna be a gun next year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so too. Cody Niicarrima is in at the
Speaker 1: sixth Jersey. The forward pack is Jesse Brominch, Max Plath,
Speaker 1: who's starting at hooker. He started the season when he
Speaker 1: first came in at five eighth. He's been playing in
Speaker 1: the second row. He's been playing lock. He played a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and this is for a Wayne Bennett coach team. I
Speaker 1: love that. So that tells you Max Plath is a
Speaker 1: rugby league player one hundred percent. I don't care what
Speaker 1: Jersey's got on. Just get him out there. And the
Speaker 1: funny thing, he played in the halves his entire like
Speaker 1: junior age group and everything. He's a half back in
Speaker 1: five eight. He's just a big bastards as the thing,
Speaker 1: he's a rectangle, but he's also really skilled and he
Speaker 1: can tackle really well, so he's just the full package.
Speaker 1: Shawn rugby league player retired professional boxer Tavita punk I
Speaker 1: Junior will be starting in the number ten Jersey and
Speaker 1: like I'm going to take another victory lap. He had
Speaker 1: brought him in as soon as he came back out
Speaker 1: of retirement and he's gone great guns for me. He's
Speaker 1: injured now, isn't he, Tavenda? Yeah? Is he not playing
Speaker 1: this week? Did he play last week? I don't think
Speaker 1: he did. I think he had an injury. We'll double
Speaker 1: check this after the ad break, we'll fact check, fact
Speaker 1: check right now. Fell Connelly, Limouelu and Kenny Bromich is
Speaker 1: going to be in the thirteen Jersey. I've got a
Speaker 1: hell of a bench. Aaron Keeley, Mark Nichols, Ray Stone
Speaker 1: who I don't think I could tell a part if
Speaker 1: they're standing next to each other. And then Shaan O'Sullivan,
Speaker 1: the teacher's bet is going to be in there as well. Manaia.
Speaker 1: Who the hell is Aarn Keeley? I don't know. I
Speaker 1: bet he's a gun though? What if Old Bennett likes him.
Speaker 1: Tavita punk I Jr. Did not play last week. He
Speaker 1: has been named to start this week. I think he
Speaker 1: just had a one week off situation. So yeah, that
Speaker 1: is the teamless as I look at it. I am
Speaker 1: gonna be one hundred percent honest with you and you
Speaker 1: at home. I think we're gonna lose this week. I
Speaker 1: think we I think we're going to as well. And
Speaker 1: can I just say I really and we both do
Speaker 1: we really hope that we're proven wrong, but just based
Speaker 1: on how the Warriors played against the Eels, based on
Speaker 1: like Cossi coming in on the wing and Roger's shifting
Speaker 1: back to center. Like, I don't feel super positive, but
Speaker 1: if the boys can step up and really, you know,
Speaker 1: step up to the streets, step up to the streets,
Speaker 1: and honor of Seann Johnson in his final four games,
Speaker 1: yeah shit, it would really just get And also honor
Speaker 1: the on the treaty. But honor the treaty first of
Speaker 1: all on the jersey, yeah. Second of all, honor your
Speaker 1: fucking put it. And then finally after that, honor the
Speaker 1: fans who have broken the record for the first time
Speaker 1: an entire season has been sold out like that is incredible,
Speaker 1: is incredible. It also means that you can't buy tickets anymore.
Speaker 1: That's how sell outs work. But thankfully, thanks to four
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Speaker 1: So text game to three two three six and you
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Speaker 1: We need to take a quick break and we come back.
Speaker 1: We're going to try and make heads and tales of
Speaker 1: what to do in the waning stages of Supercoach season. Chris,
Speaker 1: I know you're keen to join the ACC team for
Speaker 1: a massive rugby league weekend in March of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: And it's the first weekend of March and twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five as well in Nevada. Yeah, in Nevada. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: there's a massive, yeah, massive weekend of league going on
Speaker 1: in Nevada, first weekend of March. Not the big city
Speaker 1: there with all the neons of the yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: is it there? That's the one. Yeah. I don't know
Speaker 1: if New Zealand rugby league teams ever played there. Oh look,
Speaker 1: I don't think so. No, not in recent memory. No,
Speaker 1: not certainly, not last year. But they are next year.
Speaker 1: You joke it and if you can be, if you
Speaker 1: want to be there, you can takes Vegas to three
Speaker 1: two three six to book your spot. There's a spear
Speaker 1: spot going because I'm not going who's so to be
Speaker 1: Healley and Dy are already going out they yeah, right,
Speaker 1: sounds like, oh, Kizy's going to Vegas. I meant Nevada.
Speaker 1: Wait are we potentially avoiding the words Las Vegas? Is
Speaker 1: it one of those situations where we can't say, yeah,
Speaker 1: the thing like the Olympics. Is it like that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: although I just said Olympics. So Warriors in Las Vegas? Anyway,
Speaker 1: Vegas three two three six. So we got this week, Chris.
Speaker 1: If you're playing in a hit the Head league, you
Speaker 1: will most likely be into your finals now. And I
Speaker 1: know that's true for us. I think most people at
Speaker 1: this sort of time of the season, probably even a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, switch their attention from overall to
Speaker 1: head to head when they realize they cannot win the overall. Well,
Speaker 1: that's exactly where I am, yeah, one hundred percent. The
Speaker 1: funny thing about overall, like, if I look at overall,
Speaker 1: I'm ten thousand, three hundredth of the world, you know,
Speaker 1: which isn't too bad out of one hundred and something
Speaker 1: thousand people, But I almost I want to finish higher
Speaker 1: in the Mad Monday Monters group. Yeah, because you see
Speaker 1: these people every day no, I never do. Oh the
Speaker 1: mad Monday Month mounts the open group that all the
Speaker 1: listeners can join and we'll fire it up again next year.
Speaker 1: I just want to be like top ten in that
Speaker 1: for some reason. But I think I'm thirty fourth. But
Speaker 1: the issue is thirty fifth. Sorry. The issue is you
Speaker 1: can't play overall and head to head and do a
Speaker 1: good job of both. I found I've been half passing
Speaker 1: either all season. Yeah, and like doing things due to matchups,
Speaker 1: like I'll be watching playing you, for example, and I'll
Speaker 1: make a stupid captain decision because you're captaining the same
Speaker 1: guy and I need to win and just like take
Speaker 1: a chance. Was overall that Rexia? Yeah, and so I've
Speaker 1: and that out in the office. Who was on the
Speaker 1: coverage pulling the fingers in an Eels jersey. He was
Speaker 1: because I'm playing him this week. He was giving me shits.
Speaker 1: And also he was saying he might have an overall
Speaker 1: team next year and a head to head team, which
Speaker 1: is way too much number management for me, although great
Speaker 1: news for his girlfriend, because that's right. Yeah. My theory
Speaker 1: is any man who has more than one fantasy team
Speaker 1: is not cheating on his misses because it's just too
Speaker 1: much to manage. I should get another one, Missus, just
Speaker 1: another messas. Yeah, because nobody doing one fantasy team. You're
Speaker 1: only doing one missus. Head to hear missus. I needed
Speaker 1: overall Missus. I've already got the overall. But actually, so anyway,
Speaker 1: each week we generally try to go through your buys sells,
Speaker 1: your drops in your buyers, et cetera. I think the
Speaker 1: drops are clear this week that this the buys of
Speaker 1: the hard ones. Well, this is where it's sort of
Speaker 1: going to be the difference maker, isn't it Because a
Speaker 1: lot of people have a lot of the players, like
Speaker 1: a lot of people had pain hearts. Did you have them?
Speaker 1: I literally brought him in last week? Yeah, and like
Speaker 1: shit literally literally yeah. I think fifty percent of all
Speaker 1: super coaches had pain hearts. Yeah, and so he's now gone.
Speaker 1: How are you going to replace him? Because this is
Speaker 1: the biggest thing people are toying with here. Are you
Speaker 1: thinking Adam fanoa blake or are you thinking go safe
Speaker 1: Joey Tarpini? Yeah, well I think Jay Taps is the
Speaker 1: most broadened just plug a mid man. I know the
Speaker 1: thing is, I, as I said, I've switched to head
Speaker 1: to hit. I'm facing up against our producer Adam Pulmono,
Speaker 1: who's not in here right now. And is this like
Speaker 1: a low key super Coach gun without really meaning to
Speaker 1: be Yeah, he his pendulum swinging up and I'd say
Speaker 1: mind swinging down. But I so I have edin fanoa
Speaker 1: blake and I need to fire a shot this week
Speaker 1: or this could be my last week if he had
Speaker 1: to hit super Coach And do you have where do
Speaker 1: you have like a if you lose this week, you've
Speaker 1: got another chance? Don't think so? Right? So it's all nothing,
Speaker 1: So what are you thinking? Well, I have so I
Speaker 1: have six trades, great position to be and i'ven't got
Speaker 1: three and I have two hundred and sixty nine thousand
Speaker 1: dollars up my sleep because I was aiming to get
Speaker 1: Christen in next week. I'm gonna predict you're gonna get
Speaker 1: Okay Mitch Barnett, Yes, because he's expensive. He's eight hundred
Speaker 1: and some that he is eight hundred and twenty six.
Speaker 1: But I just was looking at them and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: Joey Tappane, he scored ninety eight last week. This week
Speaker 1: just been I think he scored well the week before
Speaker 1: that too, but I need guaranteed high numbers, and that's
Speaker 1: Mitch Barnett. Yes, it doesn't matter what who you're playing against,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, you know, Mitch Barnett just shows up and
Speaker 1: does a job. So his like three or five round
Speaker 1: average is about ninety or something. He's playing out of
Speaker 1: his skill. Oh yeah, might even been more than that.
Speaker 1: It's it is ridiculous. So yeah, I'm gonna bring Mitch Barnett.
Speaker 1: And but I do think if you've got haus nine
Speaker 1: times out of ten, just brings up in. That's that's
Speaker 1: a clear difference between overall and head to head right there,
Speaker 1: because if you're going overall, don't bring Mitch Barney. I've
Speaker 1: already got him, which is great, but don't bring him
Speaker 1: in because they don't play around twenty seven. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: you're getting a guy for four out of what it
Speaker 1: might be five four games, whereas any play four. Whereas
Speaker 1: you could get Joey Tarpini for five. Yeah, or if
Speaker 1: you didn't have him, to be honest, like you could
Speaker 1: get Ponger, you could get to disco like you could
Speaker 1: get Yeah, well this is this is the next this
Speaker 1: is the next thing. So everyone's got pain hearts. So
Speaker 1: you're going your throat, going all in with Mitch Barnett. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The next thing that's happened is Dom Young's gone down,
Speaker 1: but the roosters are on a by Yeah, so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna leave Dom Young because he could be back next week.
Speaker 1: Anything could happen. And the amount of times I fucked
Speaker 1: myself this year by being like I'm gonna get ahead
Speaker 1: of the curve, yeah, because my team was doing well
Speaker 1: and I tried to snowball that win the winning into
Speaker 1: like getting even further ahead, and he turned a winner
Speaker 1: to a loss. I was doing things like jumping on
Speaker 1: Cleary that first time when he came back from the hammer,
Speaker 1: then he was out again. I jumped on Nico Hines
Speaker 1: when he came back Beauty broke his leak. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: So I've been doing shit like that and it has
Speaker 1: really come back to bite me in these last few weeks.
Speaker 1: So you go full conservative. So I'm going conservative. Having
Speaker 1: said that, I'm gonna follow my own advice from last week,
Speaker 1: where I said, if you want to fire a shot
Speaker 1: this week, try bringing cam Munster and see how he goes.
Speaker 1: Now he went sixty three him in last week. Yeah, fine,
Speaker 1: sixty three is about part of the course for a
Speaker 1: five eighth. Yeah, I was hoping he would really fire
Speaker 1: a proper shot, and then I wouldn't because what I
Speaker 1: did is brought him in when he was sixty grand
Speaker 1: more expensive than he is now, because he had a
Speaker 1: huge break even. I reckon he can get over one
Speaker 1: hundred against the dragons, and then they lost to the dragon. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so I'm going to bring him in now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I reckon. I saw some he looked good. I saw
Speaker 1: some stats about liftedges, the rabbit os and blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: It's all hard. Who cares? I still think that's firing
Speaker 1: a shot to bring munster And what's upside, guys, isn't it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Dylan Brown's my other half, so I'm not too worried
Speaker 1: about that. Ali Cartore's are the worrying news. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: he's out. So he's out. Obviously a lot of people
Speaker 1: have Angus Crichton, so he's on the by the good
Speaker 1: news is people that had all a kwaisu that he's
Speaker 1: now playing again. He was suspended. However, a lot of
Speaker 1: people also had both Firmore, who's now injured. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: a lot of people are probably gonna have to bring
Speaker 1: in a back row this week. I would say, though,
Speaker 1: that most teams have an abundance of back rowers because
Speaker 1: there have been some great back rows the second half
Speaker 1: of the season. So there is a chance that you've
Speaker 1: been absolutely ravaged. But you know, like for me, I've
Speaker 1: got forfeeda Burbo. You've still got Burber, I've got Colin
Speaker 1: the tonguey. Yeah, but yeah, that's good. I do have
Speaker 1: Josh Curran, who has been named but apparently injured. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that he was. He went down holding his shoulder right,
Speaker 1: So he seems like the kind of guy that would
Speaker 1: just strap himself up, take a couple of panadole and
Speaker 1: get out there. Though. Yeah, that's right, and that's sort
Speaker 1: of what I'm banking on because if he doesn't time
Speaker 1: and deep shit, well, the good thing about Josh Curran is,
Speaker 1: and this is something people should consider, is for the
Speaker 1: run home, I think the Cowboys might have one more buy,
Speaker 1: which is a bit of a risk. But someone like
Speaker 1: Ruben Cotter, who can play front row and back row,
Speaker 1: he's injured as well. Is he not playing this week?
Speaker 1: I don't. I think he's back this week. Oh okay,
Speaker 1: I mean Fortunately, we've had plenty of times to prepare.
Speaker 1: He's in at thirteen. So and the reason I suggest
Speaker 1: Ruben Cotter is because there's no origin or anything. He
Speaker 1: has to play that play for like where they're going
Speaker 1: to stop in the eight, where where they're going to set,
Speaker 1: and he can be front row or second row. So
Speaker 1: if any injuries happened and you're low on trades and
Speaker 1: you need to bring someone in, bringing in a dual
Speaker 1: position to play it safe can be a good option.
Speaker 1: Or fire a shot and bring in a big gun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they go Cowboys play Broncos Raiders who suck at the moment.
Speaker 1: The Broncos they do suck at the moment, and then
Speaker 1: they've got the buy, then they've got the storm, and
Speaker 1: then they round out the season with the Bulldogs. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I was The other option I had
Speaker 1: was Tommy Dirden as well. But yeah, I don't think
Speaker 1: there are any clear buyers. I think if you can't
Speaker 1: be asked thinking about front row of wood and you
Speaker 1: got hars, just goes happen there and then other than that,
Speaker 1: patch it up where you can Ali Caarto. I if
Speaker 1: you I thought about just going cart or to Crichton
Speaker 1: because I need Crichton as well, but I don't know
Speaker 1: if I will get him because who knows what's going
Speaker 1: to happen over the next week. You know, Crichton could
Speaker 1: break his neck and training. You just don't know. But
Speaker 1: also we might also find out that Ali Carto it
Speaker 1: is just the saying he's been rested because of his knee. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't know if it is arresting, or it could
Speaker 1: come out that actually he's out for six weeks, you know,
Speaker 1: like we don't know what the story is yet. No,
Speaker 1: we don't. So any other clear buys for you, KAYLM
Speaker 1: pong Oh, Yes, So here's my strategy for the rest
Speaker 1: of the season. I have Kalyn Ponger. I am all in.
Speaker 1: Oh when did you bring him in last week against
Speaker 1: It was a few weeks ago now, right, Okay? So
Speaker 1: I am officially all in on the Knights from here
Speaker 1: on out. So if the Knights go well, they're playing
Speaker 1: the Tigers this week. By the way, they have got
Speaker 1: the best stretch of games They've got. Three of those
Speaker 1: games are at home, and they're all pretty easy with
Speaker 1: teams to play against that allow a lot of points.
Speaker 1: Knights Sharks. They then play the rabbit Os. They then
Speaker 1: turn around and play the Tits, and they finished this
Speaker 1: season against the Dolphins. That's right. So these are teams
Speaker 1: that all are allowing like quite high scoring games. I
Speaker 1: am all in on them. I am all in on
Speaker 1: Ponger hopefully having another tier like at the end of
Speaker 1: last season. I've got I've got Origin Gags who's definitely
Speaker 1: not Origin Gags at the moment. Have you got Ma,
Speaker 1: I've got Greg, Marju and I' It was even toying
Speaker 1: up bringing in like another night just to go really
Speaker 1: all in on them. But those are my three boys
Speaker 1: and I need them. I've also got Jaden Brayley as
Speaker 1: my rezeve hooker. But if the nights go well, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go well, and I should be able to get
Speaker 1: through this hit to head finals stage, hitching your wag
Speaker 1: into the night. But also I had I had Pappenhausen,
Speaker 1: who scored eleven against the Dragons. Yeah, has been tough
Speaker 1: this season. Like when you watch him, when you watch
Speaker 1: a game of rugby league and you see a player
Speaker 1: and you go far out he looks great. I have
Speaker 1: to have him in my team. The opposite of that,
Speaker 1: is what's happening with Pappenhausen. I watch him and I
Speaker 1: go he's not getting involved. He's passing the ball a lot.
Speaker 1: When he does get the ball in space, he tries
Speaker 1: to run but isn't as fast anymore because of his injuries. Granted,
Speaker 1: and he gets five injections on his foot before every game.
Speaker 1: I think, if you've got Pappy, even though they've got
Speaker 1: a good run home, get off them to Pomo. It's
Speaker 1: not it's only one hundred thousand more. I think pong
Speaker 1: is cheap. Yeah, and chances they're going to need someone
Speaker 1: to cover the like you probably have to disco as well,
Speaker 1: so Teddy and Pommer. Yeah, captain c Now. All seasons
Speaker 1: I've been saying, look, if you've got clear and he's going,
Speaker 1: captain him, but you may need to try and win
Speaker 1: your league. Well, this is the thing. Week he's playing
Speaker 1: like the third game of the round, maybe Friday night
Speaker 1: or something, So chuck a v on him and just
Speaker 1: sit a reminder or something to double check and make
Speaker 1: sure you do the loop properly because he's playing so
Speaker 1: early and everyone's going to captain Cleary, right, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Here's my other shot that I'm prepared to fire, right,
Speaker 1: I think you, I think you might agree with me.
Speaker 1: Pong is playing the Tigers. Oh yeah, he's my captain
Speaker 1: and Clari's my vice captain. Yeah. I think that's probably
Speaker 1: the way I'm going to do it, and I will
Speaker 1: fuck up the VC loop. What okay, what does clearly
Speaker 1: have to score for you to not captain Ponger? Because
Speaker 1: I saw I had this last week. I like to
Speaker 1: think over one hundred and twenty, I'd be like, oh, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I had this exact problem last week with vale Home
Speaker 1: scored one hundred and thirty six and he was my
Speaker 1: vice kept That was on Thursday night game. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you stuck with Cleary though who got ninety? Who got ninety?
Speaker 1: But then whoever you brought in, if you'd done the
Speaker 1: VC loop probably would have scored. Your lowest scoring player
Speaker 1: would have got hardly anything. So it comes kind of
Speaker 1: comes out in the wash. I think about one thirty
Speaker 1: is sort of the Yeah, if it's over one thirty,
Speaker 1: you should do it. So you vice captain Cleary and
Speaker 1: if he goes for one of those like one fifty
Speaker 1: one eighty games, that's right. Yeah, Okay, that's the way.
Speaker 1: That's the way I think everyone should play it. And
Speaker 1: if you don't have either of those dudes, you probably
Speaker 1: not listen to this podcast. And also if you don't
Speaker 1: know how to do it, just bring one of your
Speaker 1: roosters and it's on the by, yeah, after Cleary's game,
Speaker 1: and captain him, and then your lowest scoring person on
Speaker 1: the bench who isn't reserved, their points will count instead
Speaker 1: of the guy on the by, which last week for
Speaker 1: me would have been I think for me it was
Speaker 1: David Moaly for the rabbit Os. He's scored forty three
Speaker 1: or something. Oh, none of my other dudes scored. Sweet,
Speaker 1: so you've got a free VC loop potentially, yeah, because
Speaker 1: your lowest scoring would have been the guy that you
Speaker 1: took out, oh which would have stayed, which would have
Speaker 1: been Dom Young just thirty. So yeah, yeah, so it
Speaker 1: is anyway. Yeah, so that's how I'm going to play it.
Speaker 1: I think Vice Captain Cleary kept in punger or if
Speaker 1: you're feeling a bit nervous, just kept in clear and
Speaker 1: don't worry about it. The issue you've got with VC
Speaker 1: loops is that your VC is always on a Saturday night. Yep,
Speaker 1: And like traditionally looking back at the calendar Saturday nights,
Speaker 1: and I fit into this mold as well. You're usually
Speaker 1: quite steamed, and so you're in a position where you
Speaker 1: all of a sudden have to do some advanced mathematics
Speaker 1: and do a VC loop hungover, all hung over the
Speaker 1: next day, you can't even be bothered looking at the
Speaker 1: app until the game started, and then you realize, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's a real dangerous thing to play with. That
Speaker 1: genuinely had it where I've been out for dinner and
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh fuck, I don't I didn't VC loop.
Speaker 1: Actually you and I was somewhere it might have even
Speaker 1: been in Bali. We're in Balley on a boat, almost dying,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh fuck. And you go, you
Speaker 1: forgot to do the VCS because you're on your phone
Speaker 1: looking at something. You went, oh fuck, I did. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I did the same thing. Yeah. That's why it's so risky.
Speaker 1: It's not because it's hard to do. You just forget.
Speaker 1: It's because it's hard to hear you get a factor
Speaker 1: in real life anyway. Okay, that's how we're going to
Speaker 1: play it this week. Good luck to all of you
Speaker 1: who are competing in the Supercoach. This weekend, we are
Speaker 1: going to take one last break and when we come back,
Speaker 1: we're going to put our hunch together. Well, welcome back
Speaker 1: into the podcast. I'm just scrolling back through the the
Speaker 1: bet slip on the tab account because I think that
Speaker 1: we were you put together one of the all time hunches,
Speaker 1: one of the all time five parts last week. I
Speaker 1: loved it and it's something I think we need to
Speaker 1: do more of. Last week, Chris's hunch was every player
Speaker 1: who had been linked to leaving their club at the
Speaker 1: end of the season to score in the game. So
Speaker 1: it was Blade the Lungy, Dylan Walker, and Jessavanger. Now
Speaker 1: two of those players will come off the bench or
Speaker 1: at least play reduced minutes. Yeah, and Dylan Walker got
Speaker 1: injured pretty early doors. Yeah, and Jesseevunger did not score.
Speaker 1: Blaster Lungion did he scored? Yeah. I was a big
Speaker 1: fan of that. Fifteen thousand dollars. So if that had
Speaker 1: come in with one hundred dollars bonus bet, that would
Speaker 1: have been all time. But it didn't happen. It didn't
Speaker 1: even look like happening. No, is there anything Jeez is
Speaker 1: sewn Johnson The Vibe this week, Seawan Johnson retiring. I
Speaker 1: think Sean Johnson two or more tries, Shawn Johnson two
Speaker 1: or more. I love it to score two or more tries.
Speaker 1: But I've just pulled that out of my ass right now.
Speaker 1: I want you to know. Everyone pulls all of their
Speaker 1: beds right out of their ass. Sewan Johnson, they have
Speaker 1: two or more tries at fourteen dollars. Yeah, he'll be
Speaker 1: brimming Fuck it, we're on. He'll be AJ Brimson, He'll
Speaker 1: be AJ Brimming's son. And I am gonna place this
Speaker 1: bit before we even walk out of the studio. That's
Speaker 1: going on right now. That is our heart, Sewan Johnson.
Speaker 1: To score two or more tries that is fourteen dollars
Speaker 1: if you want them at any time, that will knit
Speaker 1: you three dollars forty five, which I don't mind either.
Speaker 1: I see it when I close my eyes, I can
Speaker 1: see it. I can see him right foot step dotting
Speaker 1: down under the post and like doing the big arm,
Speaker 1: the Tiger Woods arms and all of the boys jumping
Speaker 1: all over him as the Warriors go down forty two
Speaker 1: to sixteen against the Dolphins. I'm just joking. I can't
Speaker 1: see it happening. I can picture it now. It has
Speaker 1: to happen twice. So that's our thank you very much
Speaker 1: for joining us for the Mad Monday podcast. Myself and
Speaker 1: CAZy the Cursed commentary crew will be on four pm
Speaker 1: to watch Shawn Johnson score those two tries against the
Speaker 1: Dolphins on Sunday. Yeah, Sunday game on Sunday. We'll see
Speaker 1: you there. By Australia without rugby league. He's not Australia, right,