Speaker 1: O there and welcome back to the Mad Monday podcast,
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Speaker 1: name is Tina saw on Monday. OWI I am joined
Speaker 1: by We're going to go with to Henward HEMI HENDUCKSMI
Speaker 1: henducks in the seat opposite me. Hey you going mate?
Speaker 2: Still recovering what was a tough a tough night in
Speaker 2: the commentary booth, the tough night as a fan. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I've been drowning myself in the sweet, delicious gravy of
Speaker 2: a four and twenty PI since then. Basically it was
Speaker 2: what I suppose the depression that it gives you as
Speaker 2: it was such a Warriors lass. If you've been a
Speaker 2: fan of the club for what the thirty odd last years,
Speaker 2: it's such a Warrior's loss all up, all to play
Speaker 2: for at halftime. Technically we won the first half.
Speaker 1: We had the obstruction train, oh my god.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but we just capitulated in the second half. Every
Speaker 2: time we were on there with a full set of six,
Speaker 2: we dropped the ball on the second or first tackle.
Speaker 2: Have felt like half a dozen times.
Speaker 1: It's just like you say, it's so Warriors and it's
Speaker 1: so frustrating, and it's so good to have all of
Speaker 1: the people that jumped on the bandwagon last year. I'm
Speaker 1: actually in a roundabout way and this could be just copium.
Speaker 1: I'm quite glad that we've had the season that we have. Fourteenth.
Speaker 1: I think on the latter is our spiritual home. It's
Speaker 1: outsod on Wawei sitting in fourteenth. And for all of
Speaker 1: the people who got on up the wires last year,
Speaker 1: this is what it's actually about. It's about turning up weekend,
Speaker 1: week out in the sideways, pissing rain to watch your
Speaker 1: team just fuck it up on the first tackle every.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and don't worry for those who want to stick
Speaker 2: with a potty I've gotten off the back fence. That
Speaker 2: will have some tips and tricks for being a Warriors fan.
Speaker 1: Oh, brilliant, a real Warriors.
Speaker 2: Fan, because this the thing is, to be honest, I'm
Speaker 2: happy fourteenth. There's no more mathematical chance, there's no more
Speaker 2: over ninth. If only we'd won that game. Not we've
Speaker 2: faded out now with that obstruction call. What is pissing
Speaker 2: me off so much is just run.
Speaker 1: Through the line, don't stop in it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like Cape, Well, just trotted up and slowly stopped
Speaker 2: and DC could have run round him. Yeah, but he
Speaker 2: gamesmanship played for it. The lead runners just sprint through
Speaker 2: the line. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But even then, I've I saw maybe on the Thursday
Speaker 1: night game, I seem to remember the refs being like, oh, look, yes,
Speaker 1: there wasn't a you know, what do they call it
Speaker 1: an impeding or whatever? Earlier on in the player that
Speaker 1: player wasn't going to make the tackle. They weren't going
Speaker 1: to stop the try. So there was a little bit
Speaker 1: of like referees discretion, But then then they went straight
Speaker 1: back to litter of the law with our one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they had that was it Nathan Cleary maybe? Who? Yeah,
Speaker 1: someone like that.
Speaker 2: A well, no, Isaac Tunguell made a defensive reed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it was like, yes, they might have been
Speaker 1: stopped there, but they were never going to stop that try.
Speaker 1: But then our one is like as if DC was
Speaker 1: going to get over there and make a tryce over it.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: Now I'm wearing a Warrior's top and a black Caps
Speaker 2: supporter's cap.
Speaker 1: Right, you're steady as ship.
Speaker 2: How close are the black Caps and the Warriors do
Speaker 2: you reckon?
Speaker 1: Oh? So close?
Speaker 2: Glimmers of hope and joy. Granted, I'll give the black
Speaker 2: Caps they've won a World Teess championship, right, so they
Speaker 2: had actually won a big calm.
Speaker 1: But we feel so similar.
Speaker 2: Right, We'll take out Ozzie in a T twenty, then
Speaker 2: we'll get beaten by Bangladesh at home.
Speaker 1: Anistan will light us up at the Cricket World Cup.
Speaker 2: We just we we've got no form guide. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: can't pick okay and just settle and there's gonna be
Speaker 2: a good season because we came off last year. Ideally,
Speaker 2: i'd like, is it this could be our year Now.
Speaker 2: I worry that we've got James Fisher Harris coming, but
Speaker 2: we've also lost SJ. We're a bit little bit raddle
Speaker 2: us in the Halfshokie met.
Speaker 1: Calf, Yes, yes, it was great to have him back,
Speaker 1: and you're right, but I would also you know, there's
Speaker 1: been a lot made of the ones that we've had
Speaker 1: without Shawn Johnson this year. I wouldn't be shocked if
Speaker 1: we had a half signing in the off season or
Speaker 1: like World Card maybe teen tour pickiars a half yeah
Speaker 1: eight yeah, like a and then be I know Metcalf's
Speaker 1: been talking about he wants to play halfback. I don't
Speaker 1: think you know one would be too opposed to that
Speaker 1: with the no well, I mean Tomty's been doing a
Speaker 1: good job though.
Speaker 2: Yeah, TOMARTI feels like you're more bogs standard organizing half yea. However,
Speaker 2: no one's really lighting it up with the kicking a
Speaker 2: and I think that got shown up on the weekend
Speaker 2: with DCE. Oh my god, we had one of his
Speaker 2: best games.
Speaker 1: This was the first note that I wrote down. We
Speaker 1: I picked our game to a good punt for Friday
Speaker 1: night and it was a forty twenty because I love
Speaker 1: getting on forty twenty whenever DC is playing.
Speaker 2: Look for those who aren't fay with Mania's punting. Normally,
Speaker 2: he put one hundred bucks on an elephant to come
Speaker 2: on the pitch during the twenty second minute of the
Speaker 2: game at Brookwell. But no, he went like straight up
Speaker 2: forty it was paying good odds.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think it was actually paying for dollars twenty
Speaker 1: DCE drools those pinpoint.
Speaker 2: And shit is a momentum shifter.
Speaker 1: I don't understand why we don't see more forty twenties
Speaker 1: in the NRL. It is such a massive play. The
Speaker 1: amount of people that actually go for it is so low.
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you just have someone Because if the forty
Speaker 1: twenty didn't exist, and then we brought it in tomorrow,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden everyone to be trying it ever on,
Speaker 1: to be having a crack for a forty twenty. I
Speaker 1: don't understand why it doesn't happen more often. I was
Speaker 1: thinking about it yesterday.
Speaker 2: Why don't teams set up for it like they do
Speaker 2: with a drop goal? Yeah, you know where you play
Speaker 2: to the You know you're not gonna.
Speaker 1: Score a try or get out of your own half,
Speaker 1: so you play.
Speaker 2: You're having one of those tough sets, so you play
Speaker 2: to the middle of the park, You set your kicker
Speaker 2: up on whatever his angle.
Speaker 1: Is, yeah, and run the forty twenty. You're telling me
Speaker 1: that Matt Burton couldn't snap off a forty twenty.
Speaker 2: It will Oh, Matt Burton, he could kick a twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I mean christ Welsh did like two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: even more so.
Speaker 2: And you where it's only a fifty to twenty five.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fifty twenty two. That's what if. It's one of
Speaker 1: the more ridiculous rules in rugby union, but that's they've
Speaker 1: generally got wingers back there, so that one's harder to do.
Speaker 2: Well you've got and your your fullback stays a lot deeper,
Speaker 2: whereas in league you don't. That's why they're able to
Speaker 2: get them. And there's no more master than Dcen. I
Speaker 2: think he was the difference in this and sadly he
Speaker 2: has had the wood on Sean Johnson.
Speaker 1: And to make it even worse, they.
Speaker 2: Played the Grand Final in twenty eleven is two bright,
Speaker 2: sparkly eyed young halfbacks and it was exactly the same
Speaker 2: score as the twenty eleven.
Speaker 1: Really yeah far up.
Speaker 2: So what away for Shawn Johnson to go out against DCE. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the same score that we got pumped GF.
Speaker 1: As he's walking off the field, they start booing him.
Speaker 1: What was that about? Got to say love it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's that's manly for you, right, that's brook Vale
Speaker 2: either had they it's a respectful.
Speaker 1: Boot right because you don't bullshit. And if I was j.
Speaker 2: Actually soak it up because that's the last time he'll
Speaker 2: get booed.
Speaker 1: I reckon. I think he did soak it up.
Speaker 2: It looked like because he looked like he's in quite
Speaker 2: a good mood. He gave a good halftime interview. Obviously,
Speaker 2: the game didn't go the way he wanted. He took
Speaker 2: a pretty heavy shot from Olokua tu yep at one point,
Speaker 2: which I'm sure he will not be missing.
Speaker 1: That was I reckon. That was when he was just
Speaker 1: like yet right decision.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and soak up the booze because he's not going
Speaker 2: to get it again. No, it's respectful. He's got Bulldogs
Speaker 2: at home. Regardless of how that game goes. This is
Speaker 2: a send off game, yeah for shawnee J. Then he's
Speaker 2: got the Sharks. Granted, when he was at the Sharks,
Speaker 2: it wouldn't have been the peak of his football.
Speaker 1: However, he's still got play of the year at the Sharks.
Speaker 1: Won't yet. He led the league in tricists while he.
Speaker 2: Was and Britain Nakora. Yeah, they teamed up beautifully. So
Speaker 2: I think he'll get a nice rousing send off at
Speaker 2: the Sharks.
Speaker 1: So no, I mean.
Speaker 2: It's just very manly bowing him off, and damn manly.
Speaker 2: Got a likable.
Speaker 1: Team this year. Awesome team a lot.
Speaker 2: They've got two hard games they play the Sharks, then
Speaker 2: the Bulldogs. No, they've got three more games someone Sharks, Bulldogs.
Speaker 2: They've got a tough run home, but they could be
Speaker 2: playing for the top four as long as Turbat is healthy.
Speaker 2: They are a completely different team. And then, like you say,
Speaker 2: they've got players across the park, they can't even fit
Speaker 2: Tolu Cola.
Speaker 1: I think it was I don't even think he was
Speaker 1: on the bench. Was he No?
Speaker 2: I heard broke a roach call him to a low
Speaker 2: koala there.
Speaker 1: The other night.
Speaker 2: Shout to blocker, Shout out to blocker, nailing the pronunciation
Speaker 2: twenty four to seven. But it's I was looking back
Speaker 2: through Warriors' seasons. No one, no one can get on
Speaker 2: an end of season losing streak.
Speaker 1: But the Warriors'll tell you that it's It was a
Speaker 1: tough one, particularly when you look at like so, yes,
Speaker 1: mathematically we can't make the eight, and we were just
Speaker 1: crunching the numbers out of the office. The Dragons are
Speaker 1: on twenty eight points, we're on twenty one, three games
Speaker 1: left high as we can get to his twenty seven.
Speaker 1: So we cannot make the eight. Don't let anyone tell
Speaker 1: you we can. For a guy like edin Fanua Blake,
Speaker 1: why wouldn't you just chuck it into neutral? You know,
Speaker 1: all you have to play for is a massive career
Speaker 1: ending injury, Like there's nothing.
Speaker 2: But then if you chuck it into neutral, do you
Speaker 2: have more chance of the injury?
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I don't know, because there was that weird
Speaker 1: blip earlier on in the season where he didn't show
Speaker 1: up or he didn't celebrate after that Panthers game, then
Speaker 1: he got bin for the next game. It was all
Speaker 1: just a little bit weird.
Speaker 2: He actually, I thought played the best game he's played
Speaker 2: in a long time against the Seeds. He played seventy
Speaker 2: one minutes.
Speaker 1: I know. And but like I've been saying, he's not
Speaker 1: going to check out once he's on the field, because
Speaker 1: you still have perseca running at You still have to
Speaker 1: make that tackle. Once you get the ball, they're coming
Speaker 1: to tackle you. You have to make that play. But
Speaker 1: I just think, you know the vibe, he doesn't really
Speaker 1: seem to celebrate with the rest of the team. If
Speaker 1: you ever watched the game, if you go down to
Speaker 1: Mount Smart this weekend, you can kind of tell the
Speaker 1: body language as.
Speaker 2: Well, how he doesn't really stand in the huddles.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I just feel like I don't I know,
Speaker 1: none of the players will have a problem with him.
Speaker 1: They'll be made. He made you with him, but it
Speaker 1: just that kind of thing does weigh on a team.
Speaker 1: I think I.
Speaker 2: Actually wonder if there is anything brewing behind the scenes
Speaker 2: this year. That's that's meant the playing group have been
Speaker 2: slightly out of step with each.
Speaker 1: Other because they're the same team that had that season
Speaker 1: last year, you know that where everyone was on the bandwagon.
Speaker 1: You know, people were screaming up the wires from the rooftops.
Speaker 2: Yeah, except like arguably RTS came back and granted, look,
Speaker 2: we I'm not an excuses based person, but we're being
Speaker 2: hammered by injury man like the losses we've had where
Speaker 2: Rockerberry hasn't been there. Granted, Graham, Telfa and Tower have
Speaker 2: been great, but they still need a lot more time.
Speaker 2: They're not one on one tacklers like rockerberriers.
Speaker 1: Who's out to who's out.
Speaker 2: I just hope Mecca, who gets on the city mission,
Speaker 2: lollies over there over the summer and just gets some
Speaker 2: energy back in this game supported. Look, he looked a
Speaker 2: bit naked, So I'm hoping that this time off has
Speaker 2: been a good thing.
Speaker 1: I think I think we bring them off the bench
Speaker 1: as a middle rotation player. Yeah, of course, and Dylan
Speaker 1: Walker can stay in that thirteen jersey. It means we're
Speaker 1: going to have to take the captain's arm band off.
Speaker 1: But I've got to be honest with you. It feels
Speaker 1: like Mitch Bonnett's our captain anyway, doesn't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then it seems like it was all smoke
Speaker 2: no fire around Deli Walks leaving.
Speaker 1: Eh. Let's see how it plays out over the next
Speaker 1: few weeks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe that's that's something that just subtly happens in
Speaker 2: the off season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no press release or anything, or they wait
Speaker 1: until another big signing and then they release their press
Speaker 1: release as well. Yeah, because we'll need you.
Speaker 2: We can't just release Deli Walks because he plays with
Speaker 2: great pace. Oh yeah, he's been great for our team.
Speaker 2: I'd love to just mention in the commentary. I'd love
Speaker 2: to announce Jerome Hughes coming.
Speaker 1: I don't think we get Jerome Hughes, but like Dylan Brown.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, how weird is it?
Speaker 2: I was looking at the comp there's suddenly going to
Speaker 2: be a dearth of like halfbacks are going to start
Speaker 2: with DCE will Go Born SJ Chad Townsend or Chad
Speaker 2: Townsend's signed at the Roosters.
Speaker 1: He's playing at the Roosters. Yeah, there is going to
Speaker 1: be a death, so I don't know. Hopefully we can
Speaker 1: pick up some sort of half just this weekend. I've
Speaker 1: just picked up one step that I'd like to run
Speaker 1: past you. Somebody's put together the tries scored versus tries conceded.
Speaker 1: The team that concedes the fewest tries in the National
Speaker 1: Rugby League this season is the Canterbury banks Down Bulldogs.
Speaker 1: They can see two point sixty seven tries. We only
Speaker 1: score apparently we score three point seven tries. So I
Speaker 1: can't see Sean's farewell going too well this weekend.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: I watched their Bulldogs game.
Speaker 2: They look like a clinical team that's getting ready for
Speaker 2: finals and so I So one of my criticisms has
Speaker 2: always been that I feel the Warriors struggle to get
Speaker 2: it up for big games. I'm looking at ANZAC games,
Speaker 2: the game against Brisbane and the prelim Grand final. However,
Speaker 2: we got up for Mannering three hundred and we had
Speaker 2: a real gutsy win against Canberra that day.
Speaker 1: Right, so let's get up for s J.
Speaker 2: Let's get up for SJ. And if he can just
Speaker 2: I do notice he hasn't been stepping much, dude. I
Speaker 2: think he's dealing when you're dealing with Achilles business. And
Speaker 2: he had a bit of a limp towards the game,
Speaker 2: so I mean, surely he plays right now.
Speaker 1: What we're doing is fluctuating between being like, this is
Speaker 1: gonna be awesome short, but then he's also but it's
Speaker 1: gonna be but they don't allow many tries. But it's
Speaker 1: gonna be the last game. We don't get up for
Speaker 1: these guys, and it's just that.
Speaker 2: The tough thing I think is this is a must
Speaker 2: win game for the Bulldogs because they want top four spot,
Speaker 2: so it's going to be between them and the Sharks,
Speaker 2: and manly, I think for the top four they're.
Speaker 1: My second team as well. I think now that we're out,
Speaker 1: I've never been a big fan of the Bulldogs, but.
Speaker 2: There's something about the way they play.
Speaker 1: Only in the last month or so, I reckon. I
Speaker 1: really like Jacob Preston. Yep, like I like Sherry, I
Speaker 1: like Carres, everyone loves the Fox, everyone loves Critter. Kick
Speaker 1: out the replaced them? How was that? How was that
Speaker 1: Edoka getting run down by the Hammer? Yeah?
Speaker 2: And did you see Fox? How they put up the
Speaker 2: speedometers on them.
Speaker 1: Yes, really, really they thee because they then they put
Speaker 1: up a side by side and the hammer was clocked
Speaker 1: at forty points something k is an hour. And then
Speaker 1: you saying bolts top speed was forty four k's and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, get out of here. It's right
Speaker 1: up there with the VB Hard Earned Index.
Speaker 2: Like that's a cross because surely you've got to have
Speaker 2: two exact points. Yeah, you've got to have tracking software. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they just get But I love it how it was
Speaker 2: fluctuating that he's going thirty six, he's going five point four.
Speaker 1: Like there's a cop down there in a bush of
Speaker 1: the radar gun, but he.
Speaker 2: Ran him down beautifully. Yeah, and then the fox have
Speaker 2: got one back.
Speaker 1: Ah. I don't read too far into either of those.
Speaker 1: All I read into it is that I just have
Speaker 1: a sinking feeling that the dogs are going to get
Speaker 1: us on Friday night. But anyway, I'll be commentating that
Speaker 1: one at the stage by myself, but we Live from
Speaker 1: the Ground will have a special guest commentator. I think
Speaker 1: we're going to take a quick break and come back
Speaker 1: and talk about the Stalker of the Round. But just
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Speaker 1: I think there's only a couple left. But right now
Speaker 1: at his time for the Stalker of the round, and
Speaker 1: it had to be the Knights versus the Sharks. Was
Speaker 1: it nineteen to eighteen?
Speaker 2: Yes? In fact the game that four minutes into this
Speaker 2: I thought it was going to be a forty point blowout. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because the Shark he's got two very early tries to Atkinson.
Speaker 2: Who I'm loving this, Daniel Atkinson.
Speaker 1: Yeah, where did he come from? He's just your young
Speaker 1: little half. He played a blinder of a game.
Speaker 2: Then Britain Acora crossed over in the seventh and it
Speaker 2: was all Sharks.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Then the Knights sort of pulled right back into this
Speaker 2: game and led it almost to the end.
Speaker 1: How are the penalties at the end? It was ridiculous.
Speaker 1: It was out of controls. That was the note I
Speaker 1: put the was this thing was a penalty fest, and
Speaker 1: particularly towards the end, I have never seen it called
Speaker 1: the blocking penalty for the drop goal of tense. They
Speaker 1: were putting blockers in the way which every team does, which.
Speaker 2: I thought I sort of understood on the Night's one,
Speaker 2: but then on the Sharks one, it just looked like, well,
Speaker 2: where are those players meant to stand.
Speaker 1: And what are they supposed to do? Are they not
Speaker 1: allowed to just like.
Speaker 2: Stand because they're just standing there? Yeah, and the kickers
Speaker 2: is set so far back.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think it was just a case of the
Speaker 1: referees blown one against these guys. He's going to have
Speaker 1: to blow on against the other guys as well. But
Speaker 1: I've never seen that. It's ridiculous because.
Speaker 2: That was such a bold move because I think that
Speaker 2: Night's drop goal went over. Yeah, then he called the
Speaker 2: penalty back.
Speaker 1: On them, so then he had to give the other one,
Speaker 1: and then in the end they made it. They made
Speaker 1: a real point of not having anyone standing there and
Speaker 1: our man just stood as far back as he possibly could.
Speaker 1: Atkinson just bombed one, hit it as high as he
Speaker 1: possibly could, give it every chance to go over, and
Speaker 1: it did, and that puts the Sharks right up the ladder.
Speaker 1: Now with that balling, without Nikohines at the moment, what's
Speaker 1: going on? So I think he'll be back for he'll
Speaker 1: be back for finals.
Speaker 2: The Roosters are on exactly the same points as Cranella
Speaker 2: on thirty four, so that puts them at Roosters at third,
Speaker 2: Cranella at fourth.
Speaker 1: How crazy was that Roosters game and the slop feed?
Speaker 1: I turned it off because I couldn't well, I couldn't
Speaker 1: see the field, to be honest, it was raining that
Speaker 1: hard and then it just it's like the drains were blocked.
Speaker 2: And so they spent eight hundred and twenty eight million
Speaker 2: on that stadium two years ago and they donate drainage.
Speaker 1: They couldn't.
Speaker 2: Just Brookvale in the game beforehand had the same rain,
Speaker 2: but that drained out fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah they were still pretty wet, but yeah, there was
Speaker 1: one where.
Speaker 2: Old hectic gees jumped out of dummy half ran and
Speaker 2: then somehow turtled it on his back about fifteen meters slide.
Speaker 1: It was, it was, It was ridiculous. It was actually
Speaker 1: quite tough to watch. And then despite all of that,
Speaker 1: all of these supercoach players for the Roosters went bang.
Speaker 1: But yeah, this Stonker of the round Knights for Sharks.
Speaker 1: I don't really know what to read too far into
Speaker 1: that one, other than the fact that despite losing Neko Hinz,
Speaker 1: the Sharks are I mean, the Sharks are so.
Speaker 2: I still don't have a hell of a lot of
Speaker 2: confidence in them because even though they went buckwhild forty
Speaker 2: four neil against the Titans last week, they have been losing.
Speaker 1: They have been looking a little bit shabby. I couldn't
Speaker 1: put my finger on what it is it's so good
Speaker 1: about the Sharks.
Speaker 2: I think, is it Mula Talo, Raimian Catur back five,
Speaker 2: the plus the back five of you, Chuck, Adam Van
Speaker 2: Noah Blake and there.
Speaker 1: Don't bring it up. They look pretty good. Man breaks
Speaker 1: my heart? Yeah, I know, But then, like if you
Speaker 1: go play with a player, I don't think they're that
Speaker 1: much better than us. Yeah, I suppose what worries me?
Speaker 2: What worries me jumping slightly back to the Warriors again,
Speaker 2: as all the teams around us seem to have stepped up,
Speaker 2: like the Dogs, the Ragons, Manly. A few weeks ago
Speaker 2: I would have said the Titans, although the Titans are back.
Speaker 1: Into a slump.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I can't see the Sharks winning the comp no,
Speaker 2: no can I. I think it's definitely between Penrith, Melbourne
Speaker 2: Roosters and my smoke two Smokies are Bulldogs and Manly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's storm Urst Panthers in the final.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the Roosters could be right there or thereabouts. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I shot the gun and bought tickets a couple of
Speaker 2: weeks ago to the Grand Final.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll be.
Speaker 2: As as always at Home Bush in Sydney on October sixth,
Speaker 2: I believe so. I'll be there in my Warriors jumper
Speaker 2: with the family. We've got the whole Farno going over
Speaker 2: for a week and Manly beautiful.
Speaker 1: And then I have to confess I enjoy going to
Speaker 1: a non Warriors Grand Final because I've got no stress.
Speaker 2: You're just going along to watch possibly the worst Teina
Speaker 2: Turner impersonator you've seen. You might get a glimpse of
Speaker 2: the legend Jimmy Barnes.
Speaker 1: You know, then the.
Speaker 2: Choir Boys played last time I was there, they went
Speaker 2: alout on the field though they played in the stand
Speaker 2: Run to Paradise, then faded out through a couple of
Speaker 2: other tunes that no one knew.
Speaker 1: And it's a real it's a real occasion. It's a
Speaker 1: bit like a magic ground because everyone's there in their
Speaker 1: different jerseys. Yeah right, people love a Warriors fan. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well they say they do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think because we're a lot of people's second teams.
Speaker 2: I mean, there won't be as much fizz as last year. No,
Speaker 2: last year was up the Wars all day mate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd love to get over to a NROL Grand Final.
Speaker 1: Hopefully we can do that next year. But yeah, it
Speaker 1: is your My one last takeaway on the stogger of
Speaker 1: the round. This is a note to the mainstream commentators.
Speaker 1: They've been doing a great job of pronouncing a lot
Speaker 1: of the harder to pronounce names. I'm just gonna need
Speaker 1: you to hit the k and ni kura a bit harder,
Speaker 1: just a little bit harder. It's coming out as a
Speaker 1: g at the moment. Oh yeah, And I was playing
Speaker 1: it out of the office and a couple of people.
Speaker 1: It's like, what did he just say? Yeah, I just
Speaker 1: need you to hit that k a little bit harder,
Speaker 1: Nick Kara. Also, they and a few people are doing it.
Speaker 2: There no checking the you know, like an Isaac Tangle,
Speaker 2: Blake Tangle, just putting a bit of an inn before
Speaker 2: the g Yeah, you know Tago you often go to takeout.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. If you're a Polynesian player, you've
Speaker 1: got two years before anyone actually figures out how to play,
Speaker 1: how to pronounce you know all.
Speaker 2: You've got two years and then they've just really bettered
Speaker 2: in the wrong one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in your Propali for the rest of your life.
Speaker 1: But yeah, at that case, Hey, it's worth also looking
Speaker 1: up the Hall of Fame inductees inductees.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got your your legends like Sam Burgess and
Speaker 2: jt in there Anglis.
Speaker 1: Look up Lez Boyd. Well, I saw a blocker going
Speaker 1: off about Liz Boyd. I was reading a little bit
Speaker 1: about it because it was before my time. Oh before
Speaker 1: my time is nineteen eighty three. I would have been
Speaker 1: five he he.
Speaker 2: If you look up Lez Boyd broken jaw, Yeah, he
Speaker 2: can't flying in with just a straight pointed elbow to
Speaker 2: the draw of Blocker Roach and got of Darryl Bowman.
Speaker 2: I think it was oh sorry, you know big Man,
Speaker 2: and he got twelve month suspension. Then he came back
Speaker 2: three games later he I gouged a dude and got
Speaker 2: a nine month suspension.
Speaker 1: So you're saying Jared Haynes might be in the NRL
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame yet I've just just chuck it out there.
Speaker 1: Bungees in there. They're going to announce another immortal. I
Speaker 1: think later on this week. If you had to guess,
Speaker 1: probably by the time this podcast comes out, people will
Speaker 1: know who it is.
Speaker 2: To guess, I'd say Bunty A four or Cam Smith.
Speaker 1: It's got to be Cam'kim Smith for sure, isn't it.
Speaker 1: He's he's getting inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: It's got to be Cam Smith, the guy as much
Speaker 2: as he grinds my gears as a player.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was bloody Okay, So even it's between until
Speaker 1: four and Camp Smith for the inductees. One last thing
Speaker 1: before we take quick break. Latrovitch, have you seen this story?
Speaker 1: He has now been asked to front the Rabbit O's board,
Speaker 1: so obviously they put him on leave for the rest
Speaker 1: of the season after photos allegedly came out of him
Speaker 1: with some sort of white powder. We think he could
Speaker 1: have been writing down his Kenot numbers or something like that.
Speaker 1: You don't know what that white powder was. Who knows.
Speaker 2: He could have been doing very specific baking.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you really need to cut the flower up.
Speaker 1: You know, could have spelled his well. Also, I see
Speaker 1: they're changing his contract, so this is the thing. He
Speaker 1: has to now go and face the I don't know
Speaker 1: board whatever, and they're going to say, why shouldn't we
Speaker 1: because he's breached his contract presumably, why shouldn't we should
Speaker 1: a few times? Yeah, why shouldn't we downgrade you and
Speaker 1: pay you lest next year? And he's gonna have to
Speaker 1: fight for his contract there, And I dare say he'll
Speaker 1: just turn around and be like, because you guys need me. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I I love Latrelle And he was in such awesome
Speaker 2: form before he got this. Liz frank in Yeah, list Frank,
Speaker 2: I don't know, Shout out to Liz.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Liz.
Speaker 2: You've really heard a lot of players over the years.
Speaker 1: She needs to be stopped.
Speaker 2: But he was him in a great season. He had
Speaker 2: the blinder in the Origin two game that really brought
Speaker 2: New South Wales back into it. But I think people
Speaker 2: struggle with him because if he makes a mistake, he's
Speaker 2: not one to just wear it and apologize. He goes
Speaker 2: into shutdown mode. Granted when it's around something like only
Speaker 2: he can't you don't want to dub yourself in No,
Speaker 2: maybe wait till the statute of limitations goes like fifteen
Speaker 2: years was like, remember when Pong was in the toilet with.
Speaker 1: Kirk Man with kurk Man and they were talking about
Speaker 1: real estate.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, just because there's nowhere else to really chat
Speaker 2: about being a landlord.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. So yeah, I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: think anything will come with that. I think they because
Speaker 1: if I was Hime, I'd be like, okay, well then
Speaker 1: in my contract and I'll go back to the Roosters
Speaker 1: for you know, bazillion dollars a year. Well we'll go
Speaker 1: to the Warriors as half which in blind eyes, all right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and when we come back,
Speaker 1: guy is going to come off the back fence.
Speaker 2: A long kicker the offload to head on and he
Speaker 2: got the back fence food time.
Speaker 1: Here we have it.
Speaker 2: We've got some tips for your bandwagon fans. We've got
Speaker 2: your tips for your fans who have just slid onto
Speaker 2: this Warriors bus after an amazing twenty twenty three season.
Speaker 2: If you're one of those fans that you were tuning
Speaker 2: into the Warriors back in ninety ninety five year John
Speaker 2: Kirwin's you've just been watching Fanella Barfield on three point
Speaker 2: forty five Live, then you stay up for the Warriors.
Speaker 2: These tips might not be for you, because you know
Speaker 2: how you roll as a Warriors fan. You know that
Speaker 2: we've made the finals nine times out of third two years.
Speaker 2: You know it's few and far between where we taste glory,
Speaker 2: where we taste victory. But all these new ones, all
Speaker 2: you jumped on last year, You think that every game
Speaker 2: it's like going down to Studio fifty four and giving
Speaker 2: Ryan Reynolds a blowy.
Speaker 1: Well, it's not like that. Sometimes you're the Empire, give
Speaker 1: Gobin off g Lane. You see. Sometimes it's not exactly
Speaker 1: how you think it's gonna pan out.
Speaker 2: It's not all superstars with a beautiful downstairs. Sometimes it's
Speaker 2: a horrendous human being that you've just bumped into.
Speaker 1: But you're giving it a goat because you love it.
Speaker 1: I don't quite know how to start, said to the Warriors,
Speaker 1: but the point is. The point is it's not about winning.
Speaker 2: We join the club to support the club, and if
Speaker 2: you can't handle winning, if you can't handle losing, you
Speaker 2: should just leave.
Speaker 1: When we win, I'm a happy man. But if we lose,
Speaker 1: who cares. It's just a game.
Speaker 2: I can't change it. I can't change how the players
Speaker 2: do it. I show up because I love the club.
Speaker 2: I show up because my kids were raised out at
Speaker 2: Mount Smart, go into the game since they were young,
Speaker 2: and they feel part of the community. The Warriors are
Speaker 2: a community. One day we'll get there. Will it be tomorrow? No?
Speaker 1: Will it be next year? Probably not.
Speaker 2: We might not even make the top eight next year.
Speaker 2: But I'll be watching every game. Why because our bloody
Speaker 2: love the club. All I'm saying is you gotta careless.
Speaker 2: You got to careless, and don't give Glayne a gobby.
Speaker 1: Beautiful words, true words have never been spoken. Thank you
Speaker 1: very much, Diet, and thank you very much everyone for
Speaker 1: tuning into this week's episode of the Mad Monday Podcast.
Speaker 1: We'll be back on Thursday to breakdown the teamless Jelayne
Speaker 1: has actually been stood down this week, thankfull Lisa will
Speaker 1: SJB in the team Less well tune and on Thursday
Speaker 1: you left it. Yeah, you'll have to work till Thursday,
Speaker 1: even though you'll see it on the Tuesday, but anyway,
Speaker 1: we'll see you then, enjoy the rest of your week,
Speaker 1: and Australia without rugby league is not Australia