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Speaker 1: Oh, good day and welcome to the Mad Monday podcast,

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Speaker 1: normally out on that day, Monday, but today is Thursday

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Speaker 1: because we're coming in hot off after Origin Game one

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Speaker 1: from Sydney's a Course Stadium where New South Wales got

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Speaker 1: absolutely murdered by Queensland. But just to let you know that,

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Speaker 1: joined today by our producer and rugby league savant, Adam Boumanner.

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Speaker 2: How's it going man? How are you going this morning?

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Speaker 2: It was was a bit of a late one for

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Speaker 2: both of us last night.

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Speaker 3: Wasn't it. Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Backing up Off after you know it never starts on

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Speaker 1: time Origin, there's always a lot of build up. I

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Speaker 1: actually missed some of it because I was sitting task

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Speaker 1: master this week, so I missed the start. So I

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Speaker 1: don't know if gus guild did his infield in ground

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Speaker 1: in gold poetry like he normally does.

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Speaker 2: No, there was none of that. It just kind of

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Speaker 2: definitely lacked a little bit at the start. It was

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Speaker 2: really weird watching. Obviously, we get here about you know,

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Speaker 2: like an hourish beforehand, just to make sure everything works,

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Speaker 2: and I was sitting here watching the build up. There

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Speaker 2: was bugger all people in the stadium and it was

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Speaker 2: a really weird thing because most game ones of Origin

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Speaker 2: absolutely heaving and it been a Wednesday night, had been

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Speaker 2: a first head out as well. It was just it

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Speaker 2: was just a little bit odd to start the game

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Speaker 2: on both points.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it was a sellout and it did

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Speaker 1: look good once the game was going.

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Speaker 3: But I have.

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Speaker 1: Heard that because of the one sided nature of Origin

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Speaker 1: over the last well fifteen years, apparently numbers viewing numbers

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Speaker 1: are dropping a little bit. So it might actually pay

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Speaker 1: for New South Wales to put a decent side on

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Speaker 1: the park because they didn't last night. They got absolutely

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Speaker 1: destroyed thirty eight points to ten.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it it wasn't very favorable. Another thing that

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Speaker 2: New South Wales could do is have a coach that

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Speaker 2: you had to coach and possibly run some plays you know,

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Speaker 2: I know, the two you and I were talking about

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Speaker 2: on the commentary. It was just a little bit weird,

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Speaker 2: you know, even just how different. I guess it's not

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Speaker 2: really I'm on your side of the fence. I'm a

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Speaker 2: Queen's lander as well, yes, but it was a very

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Speaker 2: odd scene how they just had nothing going on. And

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Speaker 2: then when you compare to the other side, you know,

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Speaker 2: it's quite easy to forget too that on their sideline

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Speaker 2: as Jonathan Thurston, which I reckon would just be pulling

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Speaker 2: strings from there. But they just New South Wales just

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Speaker 2: kind of looked like they were missing something or they

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Speaker 2: just didn't know what each other were doing, or it

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Speaker 2: just wasn't It wasn't smooth or cohesive at all.

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Speaker 3: Was it? No into?

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Speaker 1: I mean to quote ourselves from the commentary last night,

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Speaker 1: it did look like the Warriors from about four years ago,

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Speaker 1: where on the fifth tackle they clearly had no plays

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Speaker 1: and it was just a bit of improvisational football. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Jerome Leui, that's kind of where he lives best in

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Speaker 1: well created one of the only two tries in New

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Speaker 1: South Wales were able to get over the line. But

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Speaker 1: it looked very clunky, It looked very sloppy, It looked

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Speaker 1: very messy, and it was ineffective.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, massively. And I think it was quite hard as well.

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Speaker 2: It must have been really hard actually for Nico Hines.

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Speaker 2: He finally gets a chance, he's finally stepping up, and

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Speaker 2: just nothing like, you know, the forward pack wasn't really

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Speaker 2: rolling forward. You could just see after what you know,

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Speaker 2: quite early on. Obviously they go one down, and we'll

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Speaker 2: get to that in a moment, but they just looked

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Speaker 2: a little bit like, you know, a lot was taken

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Speaker 2: and then you just have these two halves laughing about

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Speaker 2: and then when you look at their tries, they were

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Speaker 2: just it was just odd. I reckon odd is kind

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Speaker 2: of like a good way to put their performance.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so let's talk about that going one down. Reese

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Speaker 1: Walsh was or he was murdered. He was murdered, I think,

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Speaker 1: is what's on the thing they've prepared for me here, Adam.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: High shot by Joseph Sali and I don't think there

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Speaker 1: You just can't in the modern game not look where

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Speaker 1: with your shoulder. His head rocketed back and amazingly passes Hia,

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Speaker 1: but on the field it was a Category one head

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Speaker 1: Joseph Suli was us to leave.

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Speaker 2: Never, that's confusing. You know, there's rugby is more confusing

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Speaker 2: than the league at the best of times. But the

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Speaker 2: that you can, you know, you can Pastorgia and then

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Speaker 2: still fail the category one, which kind of makes sense

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Speaker 2: because early on in the game, when he was getting

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Speaker 2: he looked up and he had no idea who his

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Speaker 2: into a whole other world. But yeah, I've seen a

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Speaker 2: few stories today and I think they're a bit off

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Speaker 2: and saying that it was you know that they were

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Speaker 2: don't think anyone's out to do that to someone, especially

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Speaker 2: a young professional sports player. And it is just really unfortunate,

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Speaker 2: Like we've watched the clip this morning in the office

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Speaker 2: far too many times, and his feet to slip out

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Speaker 2: underneath them and he was just sitting there, just ready

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Speaker 2: to be ripped in a half right, like there's nothing

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Speaker 2: else about it. But it's not the best way to

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Speaker 2: start seven minutes into a game, is that?

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Speaker 3: No, it's not.

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Speaker 1: And you know, if you bleed blue, if you've got

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Speaker 1: you know, the go of. I'm trying to think of

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Speaker 1: an old Blues player of Laurie Day in your soul,

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Speaker 1: then you will say that it did ruin the game. However,

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Speaker 1: I would like a counterpoint there in that New South

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Speaker 1: Wales did lift people like Leah Martin Payne. Heass they

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Speaker 1: It looked like they were making a comeback. They did

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Speaker 1: and it looked all Blues either side of the break.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and a big surprise to myself even just watching

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Speaker 2: one of their talentsmen. It seemed like in that as

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Speaker 2: well was Spencer Lingu. Seemed like a bit of an

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Speaker 2: odd choice, considering he does some bad things at the

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Speaker 2: stay of the air. We don't have to rehash that,

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Speaker 2: but he seemed like a bit of a bolter. But

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Speaker 2: he was kind of the difference for the Blues last night.

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Speaker 2: He was he played a bit more of the enforcer

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Speaker 2: wasn't too much house going on. And a massive second

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Speaker 2: they finally brought Isaiah yah on really really late into

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Speaker 2: think Jake Darowitch only played like less than thirty minutes.

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Speaker 2: So I'm kind of feeling now that I'm actually saying

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Speaker 2: the end of my thought, Madge had a shaka.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Matche did have a shaka For those not in

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Speaker 1: the know, Man'ge McGuire of course, the new new South

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Speaker 1: Wales coach. They've gone through a few coaches in the

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Speaker 1: last few years. Freddy Fittler was let go. I think

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Speaker 1: one of his biggest weaknesses was the selection and manage.

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Speaker 1: McGuire made wholesale changes at five debutantes last night. It

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Speaker 1: didn't help. I don't think it was a well selected team.

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Speaker 1: I didn't think Joseph Soley should have been in there

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Speaker 1: Latrell Mitchell left out yep, okay, so he said patchy

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Speaker 1: form this year. But asd made the point last night,

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Speaker 1: who would you rather tackle? I know who I'd rather tackle?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? What? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: And it was kind of odd as well, right because

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Speaker 2: he came out after he was injured, and he came

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Speaker 2: out for injury and he kind of put himself out

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Speaker 2: of contention. But surely if you get that phone call

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Speaker 2: so great, we need you start in that fallback, you've

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Speaker 2: got to pick up that call a Surely he just

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Speaker 2: walked straight back in.

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Speaker 1: Surely you just throw everything at a dominant Queensland side.

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Speaker 1: First time I've ever seen them in my life. Favorites ever,

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Speaker 1: it's been a bit of a bonus contention for New

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Speaker 1: South Wales fans over the years that they always are

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Speaker 1: favorites in Queensland, always the underdogs. That's the first time

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Speaker 1: I've ever seen them as favorites. I just think as

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Speaker 1: a coach, you would pick your most attacking side, you

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Speaker 1: would pick a side that's going to throw everything at them,

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Speaker 1: particularly in Game one.

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Speaker 3: But Manage maguire, a.

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Speaker 1: Defensive coach, just tried to grind them into the ground,

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Speaker 1: thinking it was going to be a you know, eight

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw a lot of the money was in

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Speaker 2: the odd of any team to win by one to twelve.

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Speaker 2: There was a lot of multis floating around, and even

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Speaker 2: But it seemed a bit odd, especially a part that

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Speaker 2: made me smile on the game was they cut to

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Speaker 2: him in the box and I have never seen a

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Speaker 2: swittier man and a more stressed out man then managed there.

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Speaker 2: And it's really unfortunate because I read this week as

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Speaker 2: well that they had the mental skills coach skills coach

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Speaker 2: Gilbert and Oke got brought into their camp as well

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Speaker 2: from the All Blacks and he was there to try

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Speaker 2: and you know, ge them up and sort out the

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Speaker 2: team and that as well. So it's not like they're

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Speaker 2: not doing things to try and better themselves, especially you know,

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Speaker 2: getting someone so specific in there as well. But you know,

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Speaker 2: I guess we've spent all this time talking about how

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Speaker 2: average they were. Queensland weren't bad, Queensland weren't bad.

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Speaker 3: All Queen's there weren't bad.

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Speaker 1: And you know, just even on paper they just they

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Speaker 1: said stairs stars all across it, and and not only

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Speaker 1: experienced stars like Daddy Cherry Evans thirty five years of age,

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Speaker 1: played it out of a game, but also young stars

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Speaker 1: Hamiso tab you I feedo. Three tries just blew that

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Speaker 1: first half open and a third one in the second

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Speaker 1: half after the scoreline had kind of blown out. But

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Speaker 1: what an exciting player and could be one of the greats.

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Speaker 3: Of our game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, massively. I saw a good stat this morning that

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Speaker 2: daily Cherry Evans was the oldest player in Origin to

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Speaker 2: get an intercept that led to a try. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's that's not a bad stat. But he the try

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Speaker 2: that he set up for Coreots.

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Speaker 3: That was their home game.

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Speaker 1: They got trounced at home thirty eight ten and now

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Speaker 3: Wars game versus the Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: Now this weekend, of course, on Saturday, it's the big game.

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Speaker 1: It's seven point thirty on Skysport nine. We will be

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Speaker 1: covering it. It's the Warriors versus the Cowboys from right

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Speaker 3: Isn't it home game?

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Speaker 2: It is away it's away.

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Speaker 1: Okay, don't listen to me. That is a way in Townsville.

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Speaker 1: I would imagine. Now the Cowboys, we remarked about it

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Speaker 3: So we I think we're having very similar seasons.

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Speaker 2: Massively, and I it is. I think they've surprised so

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, I guess you're right. And it is

437
00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:17,320
Speaker 2: a bit of a worry, right because it's literally every game. Yeah,

438
00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:20,080
Speaker 2: and It's crazy because you think about how many tackles

439
00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:22,760
Speaker 2: in the career that someone like Cam Smith made. He

440
00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:25,320
Speaker 2: would make fifty plus a game kind of thing. And

441
00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:27,560
Speaker 2: he was quite a slight guy as well, Right, he's

442
00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:29,080
Speaker 2: quite a rangy range.

443
00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:31,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I guess a little probably a little gerthier

444
00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:35,480
Speaker 1: than Wade Egan, waged Wade Egan, probably a little skinny,

445
00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:38,440
Speaker 1: way a little less than Cam Smith, I would think.

446
00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:41,919
Speaker 2: Yeah, just he just gets his head yeah right on

447
00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:44,400
Speaker 2: people's hips a hell of a lot. Ad. It's really

448
00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:46,520
Speaker 2: rough to see because there's been a few of this.

449
00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:48,560
Speaker 2: There's been like maybe two or three already this year

450
00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:49,480
Speaker 2: that's had him out right.

451
00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:51,600
Speaker 3: Yeah. Look, no shade on Wagan.

452
00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:54,199
Speaker 1: We love Wagan and when he's playing his best, he

453
00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:56,400
Speaker 1: can really blow a game apart. He's kind of been

454
00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:59,760
Speaker 1: one of the differences in the turnaround of this Warrior's side.

455
00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,920
Speaker 1: It's not a good ahead of ourselves though it is

456
00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:05,879
Speaker 1: a good looking side. I like seeing Shanell Harris Tavita

457
00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:10,360
Speaker 1: back in the halves, back in a Warriors jumper back starting,

458
00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:15,080
Speaker 1: and he adds a little bit of starch in defense

459
00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:18,840
Speaker 1: as well. Seven point thirty on Sky Sport nine I

460
00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:21,639
Speaker 1: believe it's Die Henwood and somebody else.

461
00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:22,840
Speaker 2: The pants Man.

462
00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:23,720
Speaker 3: It's the Pantsman.

463
00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:27,439
Speaker 2: The Pantsman gets the call up. He was sidelined for

464
00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:31,800
Speaker 2: the Oranging game last night, and he's gonna full debut

465
00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:34,240
Speaker 2: this season. I love it and I'm sure he'll be

466
00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:38,040
Speaker 2: absolutely first. And you we don't even have to talk

467
00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:38,959
Speaker 2: about fis Dialby.

468
00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:41,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, go the Wars and we're just going to

469
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Speaker 1: have another quick ad here and we'll come back and

470
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Speaker 1: talk a little bit of super Coach. We welcome back

471
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Speaker 1: to Mad Monday out on a Thursday. Because of Origin

472
00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:55,119
Speaker 1: last night, We're just gonna have a little chat about

473
00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:58,960
Speaker 1: super Coach slash Fantasy. If you're not a massive rugby

474
00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:03,160
Speaker 1: league like Adam and me and dian Keesyam and I

475
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:05,440
Speaker 1: and all the rest of them, then you can probably

476
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:09,040
Speaker 1: switch off now. Now Adam trying to take us through

477
00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:11,840
Speaker 1: who you believe the big buys and the big holds.

478
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:16,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think buyers this week. There is a

479
00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:18,480
Speaker 2: lot going on, especially because of Origin, but there is

480
00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:21,600
Speaker 2: a few safer options. One of the big buys this

481
00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:24,360
Speaker 2: week definitely would be Jerome Hughes, just because the storm.

482
00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:27,439
Speaker 2: I think after last week, it's not too bad for

483
00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:28,919
Speaker 2: them moving forward for by rounds.

484
00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:31,600
Speaker 1: I managed to hold him last week while he was

485
00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:34,719
Speaker 1: on the buy and still got the win against Maniah.

486
00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:37,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I can't wait to talk to him about

487
00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:40,000
Speaker 2: that when he returns next week. He would be loving that.

488
00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:44,400
Speaker 2: But yeah, no, I think Jerome Hughes as a bye.

489
00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:47,119
Speaker 2: I also think as well, on the back of watching

490
00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:50,359
Speaker 2: that game last night, I think Latrell Metchell huge bye.

491
00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,840
Speaker 2: I think you know they finally sorted out the coaching

492
00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:57,400
Speaker 2: situation at the Bunnies. I just think it's time that

493
00:23:57,960 --> 00:23:59,359
Speaker 2: I could just see him looking at him being like,

494
00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:01,520
Speaker 2: you know what, I'm going to tone up and I'm

495
00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:04,119
Speaker 2: just going to go berserk. So I think Latreal's one

496
00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:04,440
Speaker 2: as well.

497
00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:07,160
Speaker 3: I will be buying him for the third time this season.

498
00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:10,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's bold, that's bold. Is there any Is there

499
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:13,520
Speaker 2: a cutoff for the amount of times you would player?

500
00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:15,880
Speaker 3: Yeah? Drop and by its the only way I could

501
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:16,000
Speaker 3: do it.

502
00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:18,399
Speaker 1: Last week to get thirteen players on the park, I

503
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:20,960
Speaker 1: had to sell him because he had heard the buye

504
00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:24,960
Speaker 1: last week. So I actually bought in Jordan Rappana, who

505
00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:26,560
Speaker 1: did fine.

506
00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:29,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, and yeah, no that makes sense. And

507
00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:32,880
Speaker 2: then so another one here, I've got is the main

508
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:34,320
Speaker 2: one I think you should buy if you don't and

509
00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:36,840
Speaker 2: you can afford it, is to get for Feeder from

510
00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:40,680
Speaker 2: the Gold Coast Titans. There is a chance he gets

511
00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,119
Speaker 2: picked up for origin, but I could just imagine he

512
00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:44,399
Speaker 2: looks like a guy that would have a chip on

513
00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:44,840
Speaker 2: his shoulder.

514
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Speaker 1: In general, are all your boys just based on origin revenge?

515
00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:51,960
Speaker 1: Like non selection revenge?

516
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,760
Speaker 2: I've realized on the back of this, Yes, but not intentionally.

517
00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:59,200
Speaker 2: And not intentionally I have for Feeder because I brought

518
00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:01,400
Speaker 2: him a couple of weeks and he's just a fun

519
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:03,879
Speaker 2: player to watch because he's a big human that just

520
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:07,480
Speaker 2: likes to bowl through people. And there's not much house

521
00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:10,479
Speaker 2: in that Gold Coast Titans team with Tino out, to

522
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,120
Speaker 2: be honest. Apart from him, the only other one would

523
00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:15,880
Speaker 2: be Cataut from the Storm as well. He has been

524
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 2: snagging quite a few tries at the moment. I think

525
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:21,639
Speaker 2: he's quite expensive now as well. But those would be

526
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:23,680
Speaker 2: the main buys. I would believe that.

527
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Speaker 1: My little one is Jacob Preston from the Bulldogs in

528
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:29,919
Speaker 1: the back row there. He turned up last week and

529
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,480
Speaker 1: it's pretty unusual that a back row will turn up.

530
00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:36,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I saw he was playing bloody good at

531
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:38,480
Speaker 2: the tab as well. He's playing like thirteen or forteen

532
00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:40,159
Speaker 2: bucks just any time try scorer.

533
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:43,879
Speaker 1: And by the way, as a steal Chanel Harris de

534
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:48,640
Speaker 1: Vitas across two hundred and forty much, that's pretty cheap.

535
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Speaker 1: Somebody's a starting half this week.

536
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:53,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that's not a bad shout because I would

537
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:55,680
Speaker 2: imagine he would be right on the cusp. This must

538
00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:57,560
Speaker 2: be his fourth game. Yeah, he'd only played a couple

539
00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:00,520
Speaker 2: of games, so he could be right on the if

540
00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:02,320
Speaker 2: he goes off this weekend as well. I earn the

541
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,640
Speaker 2: money in the bank and around this time of year,

542
00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 2: with a lot of origin, that is quite needed. So

543
00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 2: if we go into holds, I think a big hold

544
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 2: which I had onto last week is Talangey from the Eels.

545
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:17,720
Speaker 2: So he was playing fullback, lost his position last week

546
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:23,720
Speaker 2: to starting fallback and due to an unlucky ACL injury

547
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:25,880
Speaker 2: in the centers, he's been called up into the centers.

548
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:30,159
Speaker 2: So he was a base basement kind of dwelling rookie

549
00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:33,119
Speaker 2: and if you did manage to hold on to him,

550
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:35,639
Speaker 2: a great hold at this point, because you know it

551
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:37,000
Speaker 2: could be three points on off.

552
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:39,160
Speaker 3: Of their and sorry, which Telong.

553
00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,600
Speaker 2: Are we talking about telling who plays for the Eels?

554
00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:43,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, Blaze Blade Telling, Yes, No.

555
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:47,719
Speaker 1: I actually weirdly had him just in my kind of

556
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:49,800
Speaker 1: you know, you know the players that you pack at

557
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:52,159
Speaker 1: the start of the season so for no money so

558
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:53,240
Speaker 1: you can get the good players.

559
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 2: Did you pick him up mainly because his name was Blaze?

560
00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:56,360
Speaker 3: Yeah?

561
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Speaker 1: I think so, Like because a lot of those players

562
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Speaker 1: that you picked because they're the base salary, Yeah, you

563
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 1: just you don't know a lot of them, so I

564
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:08,200
Speaker 1: just pick it on name. But yeah, Blaze Tailang, he's

565
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:08,880
Speaker 1: a pretty cool name.

566
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:12,159
Speaker 2: Yeah. And he did look at fallback as well, so

567
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 2: it is pretty good. My other thing I've just realized

568
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:16,439
Speaker 2: I've gone straight back into origin is I feel like

569
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 2: a lot of people are quite hasty to make big

570
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:21,440
Speaker 2: decisions and just kind of like clear your one out

571
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:23,920
Speaker 2: and all that as well. A big thing that people

572
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 2: don't realize is that everyone's in the same boat. I'm

573
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,159
Speaker 2: gonna put it out there. I think the majority of

574
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 2: people aren't playing in their by rounds. They aren't looking

575
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:34,359
Speaker 2: at the teams. They're literally picking who they want to pack,

576
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 2: so there may not be a need to clear house.

577
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:39,800
Speaker 2: Because I feel like you know, surprisingly a lot of

578
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 2: people be in exactly the same boat as you are.

579
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:46,200
Speaker 1: And just to reiterate something that Menia Stuart couldn't get

580
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,480
Speaker 1: his head around, it is just your best thirteen players.

581
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:51,440
Speaker 1: So it doesn't matter if you say you can't put

582
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:54,679
Speaker 1: out a fullback. As long as you have thirteen players

583
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:58,959
Speaker 1: in your squad, including reserves that are scoring, then you

584
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,480
Speaker 1: will have the full compliment. So I don't think I'll

585
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:05,160
Speaker 1: have a fallback this week, but that's okay.

586
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 2: I thought you were getting Backlatrol for the thing.

587
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:10,600
Speaker 3: I might get him back for the THEA and reflection and.

588
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 2: Then and then if we get to the sales, I

589
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:15,440
Speaker 2: think the big sale this week I think me personally

590
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:18,680
Speaker 2: I had on to him would be Hines. After watching

591
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 2: last night, he is already not named this weekend in

592
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:24,000
Speaker 2: the Shark Side, and I think that was just a

593
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,240
Speaker 2: bit of safety, considering he had a bit of trouble

594
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:28,159
Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks with the calf, and it

595
00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:32,960
Speaker 2: looked like he either had really bad cramps or he

596
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:34,680
Speaker 2: did his calf again at the end of the game

597
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,560
Speaker 2: last night. So I would say a big sale in

598
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:40,960
Speaker 2: general for many would be Hines. Is there anyone else

599
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:42,600
Speaker 2: that you're looking to really been out of your team

600
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 2: this week.

601
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 3: He's no.

602
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 1: See, I've never been a Heines purchaser. I'm a fan

603
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 1: of his as a player, but he was just I

604
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,239
Speaker 1: think I didn't get him at the start of the year,

605
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 1: and then he got too expensive, so I fought against

606
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 1: I think everyone else in the in our little private

607
00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:59,480
Speaker 1: league that we have with the Mad Monday team has

608
00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 1: him to resent me.

609
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're doing going great, guys, I'm going okay, Yeah,

610
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 2: so maybe there's this some week in there. I have

611
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 2: had him and Cleary. I had Cleary.

612
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 3: I had Cleary though, to be fair, but I sold him. Yeah.

613
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 2: I didn't sell him until he hurt himself the second time.

614
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 3: You and I think that's where I toppled from first

615
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 3: to fourth.

616
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 2: We will make mistakes, right, It's just as long as

617
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 2: we learn and we don't go back there a third time.

618
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 1: I think so smug when you've held on to a

619
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 1: play like that and he come back and then I

620
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 1: think he did and he got like twenty five points.

621
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, he hurt himself in the first like fifteen minutes,

622
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 2: and to be honest, he looked great while he was

623
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 2: on the pinch. Until that hamshury went bang. We could

624
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 2: have been absolute geniuses, but unfortunately not the case. And

625
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 2: every week we have a tab good hunch and this

626
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 2: week our hunch, I am going to throw it out

627
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 2: to you, Ben, let's go look for an anytime try scorer.

628
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 2: Who are you feeling this week?

629
00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 3: Mate?

630
00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 1: I'm going to go Mitch Barnett, starting back in the

631
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:06,160
Speaker 1: Warriors after not quite making the bench for Origin. He's

632
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 1: going to be hungry, he's going to be pumped up,

633
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:12,120
Speaker 1: he's going to be full of adrenaline. And to be honest,

634
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:14,960
Speaker 1: they've been using him for that crash play instead of

635
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,240
Speaker 1: AFB lately, so he's my pick.

636
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:19,440
Speaker 2: Yes, that sounds good. So if we put one hundred

637
00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:22,040
Speaker 2: dollars a bonus cash on there, he's paying four dollars ten,

638
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 2: that'll get us back three hundred and ten dollars in

639
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 2: the kiddy. So it's pretty good eating.

640
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:28,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's eating. It's pretty good.

641
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's quite short odds for a front row, but anyway,

642
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:33,040
Speaker 1: that's okay.

643
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:35,720
Speaker 2: We'll take the omen punt and we'll go from there.

644
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 1: Those are all your tips and that is the end

645
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:41,400
Speaker 1: of Mad Monday for another week. Thanks for sticking with us.

646
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 1: Throughout the week, probably wondering whether the hell we were

647
00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 1: on Monday. Of course, no Warriors game last weekend as well,

648
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 1: so there wasn't much to talk about.

649
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 3: We will be back on Monday like normal, right, Yeah.

650
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:57,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I think that makes sense. You know, we'll

651
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 2: have a few people back next week. I'm sure sure

652
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 2: the boys will be furzed after a good game this weekend,

653
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 2: and we will see you back on Monday.

654
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 3: Take care out there, and I go the Wars