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Speaker 1: Okay there, and welcome back to the Mad Monday Podcast,

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Speaker 1: brought to you as always by four and twenty pis

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Speaker 1: first podcast for this week, out on a Thursday.

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Speaker 2: We thought we'd save it up for the finals preview.

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Speaker 2: My name is Teno Farsu A Monday are we and

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Speaker 2: I am joined by twenty twenty four players, Player of

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Speaker 2: the Year ad and Vanua Kezy Afternoon, Keyzy Get.

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Speaker 3: I didn't realize that one. That's awesome. Congratulations man. Well,

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Speaker 3: it's been a big it's been a massive year, and

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Speaker 3: to be honest, I think I have sort of carried

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Speaker 3: us in the middle there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Oh for sure. It's noticeable when you go off the podcast.

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Speaker 2: You know, we sort of we go off the boil

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Speaker 2: for a little bit. Yeah, we tend to lead in

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Speaker 2: a lot of tries, that's right. Sort Of around halfway

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Speaker 2: through the podcast.

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Speaker 3: There's also, like, you know, rumors going around that while

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Speaker 3: I am quite good, I do bring a toxic energy

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Speaker 3: maybe to the changing room. And I just like to say,

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Speaker 3: I don't give a shit. I'm off to another podcast

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Speaker 3: next year, so I don't even care.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, there was that time where we won the game

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Speaker 2: and we came in to celebrate and sing the team song,

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Speaker 2: and you fucked off out to some other podcasts or something. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's right, Or we were all singing the team the

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Speaker 2: podcast song. Yeah, but I don't care.

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Speaker 3: I pretty much carried you guys there, So you guys

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Speaker 3: can go sing a little song if you want. But

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Speaker 3: all I care about is winning.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred percent. Speaking of winning, And look, this

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Speaker 1: could be an early crow. We're on a TV show tonight.

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Speaker 1: It's called Game of Two Halves? Heard of it the

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Speaker 1: ACC does What.

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Speaker 2: Was your first question when you when you heard Game

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Speaker 2: of two Halves is coming back?

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Speaker 1: Where is Matthew reg and Mark Ellis?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, I know the answer to this question. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: you can't afford Mark Ellis and Matthew Ridge. No one

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Speaker 3: knows where he is.

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Speaker 1: I think he was in the office there.

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Speaker 3: He was in the office the other day.

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Speaker 1: Was very weird.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because he owns obviously. I don't know if

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Speaker 3: he still does carfe in Green Lane, the car grooming

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Speaker 3: company there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was just out there yesterday.

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Speaker 3: Is he still there?

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Speaker 1: Didn't see him. It's just right next to the pork Mart.

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Speaker 3: Pork May is a weird little supermarket area around there.

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Speaker 2: Porkmart and then there's a sushi joint right next to it.

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Speaker 2: Would you buy sushi from the place next to Porkmart?

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Speaker 2: Probably not anyway, So that is debuting tonight depending on

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Speaker 2: when you're listening to this Thursday night eight thir m

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Speaker 2: on Sky Open, which is the one on Freeview. So

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Speaker 2: if you have Freeview, if you can watch any TV

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Speaker 2: on your TV, yeah you have that. Otherwise, if you've

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Speaker 2: got Sky, I think it's on Sky Sport one.

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Speaker 3: Well, if you're listening to an NRL podcast, I can

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Speaker 3: only assume you have Sky so you can watch NRL. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: so go on sky go if you're free letting off

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Speaker 3: your parents account or something like that, or skysport now,

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Speaker 3: if that's what you use eight thirty tonight. How are

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Speaker 3: you feeling about being part of your first with a

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Speaker 3: TV shirt?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Good, pretty exciting.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's pretty low stakes as well, because I already

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Speaker 2: know the feedback for the first episode is going to

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Speaker 2: be with Matthew, Richard Mark Ellis. So that's the funny

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Speaker 2: thing about it. What does it matter what we're going

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Speaker 2: to do out there?

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Speaker 3: Well, one thing, Laura came in and I know you've

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Speaker 3: been wheeled around every station, getting with Laura and doing

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Speaker 3: the car washer. Yeah, caught the car wash. You've been

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Speaker 3: right through, You've been on every station. She was on

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Speaker 3: our show on Hadarky, and I asked her. I was like,

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Speaker 3: do you feel and I want to know if you

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Speaker 3: feel this, do you feel a genuine responsibility to make

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Speaker 3: sure the show is funny? No? Why not?

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Speaker 1: I do? Oh? You do?

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Speaker 3: Because I'm so sick of all these rehashes and people

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Speaker 3: are bringing shit back nowadays. They've run out of ideas.

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Speaker 3: It's not that this is the situation. They've run out

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Speaker 3: of ideas. They're rebooting eighties sitcoms, like making sequels to

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Speaker 3: movies that should just be left alone and that all shit. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and I don't want this to be another one of those.

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Speaker 2: Well if you go, well, no, but the thing is

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Speaker 2: people are gonna and if you listen as you would

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Speaker 2: have watched probably Sports Cafe and gave it two house

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Speaker 2: back in the day, it's never going to be the same.

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Speaker 3: It's not.

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Speaker 2: The other part of it is you only remember the

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Speaker 2: good parts of it, Like you only remember that and

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Speaker 2: all of that. But if you went back and watched

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Speaker 2: an episode, you'd be like, oh, there were a few

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Speaker 2: more misses than there were hurts in this which.

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Speaker 3: And the reason we say that is because we were

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Speaker 3: sent all the old episodes and I watched about maybe

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Speaker 3: five just on in the background, and I was like,

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Speaker 3: there were very funny moments in it, but it is

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Speaker 3: very much of its time, a lot of people talking

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Speaker 3: over the top of one another and yelling and stuff.

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Speaker 3: So there's going to be a bit of that tonight

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Speaker 3: as well. Yeah, of course there is. I do feel

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Speaker 3: a responsibility to make sure it's funny because when I

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Speaker 3: Rose tinted Glasses, I remember them being five hundred percent

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Speaker 3: funnier than they actually were, And I just want to

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Speaker 3: make sure no one tunes in goes this is shit.

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Speaker 3: They should have left it alone.

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Speaker 1: Well, I reckon, you've really opened yourself up to people

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Speaker 1: that listen to this podcast giving you raw and honest

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Speaker 1: feedback about whether you were funny or not on the show.

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Speaker 2: But if you want to make your own judgments about that,

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Speaker 2: it's on tonight eight thirty pm. As we said, I'm

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Speaker 2: sure there'll be some sort of on demand thing about

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Speaker 2: it as well. And we don't have any rugby league

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Speaker 2: guests on this week. We've got Joey Wheeler, mikayeleab b

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Speaker 2: then Matt Heath is the captain of the other team.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, tune into that. But look, let's talk about

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Speaker 1: some actual national rugby league because despite the fact that

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Speaker 1: our Warriors aren't in, it still goes on. I want

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Speaker 1: to get through some of the headlines here, but before

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Speaker 1: I do, have you heard anything about the Warriors Mad Monday?

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Speaker 1: So they had their prize giving on Sunday night. No,

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Speaker 1: so they've gone full zero dark.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I presume they went into med Monday straight afterwards.

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Speaker 3: Yes, which, and we've talked about this before. We were

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Speaker 3: informed by a former Warrior that basically it's on the

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Speaker 3: I think they did it on the Sunday. So when

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Speaker 1: Sunday?

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Speaker 3: So on the Monday, they all are picked up by vans. Yep,

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Speaker 3: their phones are taken off them, they are ushered away

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Speaker 3: full lockdown situation.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: The apparently the drivers are like just idling out in

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Speaker 2: the car park, that's right. And they've got a full

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Speaker 2: team sit with their addresses on it, so they don't

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Speaker 2: even need to talk to you.

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Speaker 1: That's right. Just get in the back of the uber

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Speaker 1: and it's just like yep, sweet.

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Speaker 3: You try and tell them a different address, they say, nah,

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Speaker 3: I'm dropping you off at this. Yes, I've got right here.

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Speaker 1: That's right. I'm understrict instruction.

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Speaker 3: By the way.

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Speaker 1: The doors are locked. You can't get out. The kiddy

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Speaker 3: And I mean this was sort of a ten years

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Speaker 1: No in a long time.

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Speaker 3: That's right. So they've got it on lockdown.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is a bit sad that they can't be

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Speaker 2: on the Agenda podcast I think last week. He said

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Speaker 1: He said, Oh, and Gutenbill his pubes.

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Speaker 2: On fire, his pubes or Arwen's pubes own lit his

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: Now, have a guess if Mike Lane turned around and

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Speaker 2: then lit his own pubes on fire. Of course Jeek

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Speaker 2: Lane did. Of course you did, but and I do.

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Speaker 2: I just missed that part of it. I mean I

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Speaker 2: wish that, you know, we ruined it with all the

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Speaker 1: You know, it would be awesome if you were just like.

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Speaker 3: Did we run it? Not us? What did The NRL

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Speaker 3: players are in it? Obviously by filming one another and shit,

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Speaker 1: I feel like they should be able to do it

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Speaker 2: There's too many phones, so everyone's going to record everything

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Speaker 2: that's right. And I suppose that leads us straight seamlessly

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Speaker 2: Joshadow car pulled over submitted to a random drug test

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Speaker 2: across the state I think of Victoria. They carried out

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Speaker 2: ten thousand of these like random drug tests on the roadside.

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Speaker 2: They caught four hundred people allegedly one of them was

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Speaker 2: Josh adocat right, the news story comes out, Oh, he's

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Speaker 2: tested positive for drugs at a cocaine on a roadside

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Speaker 2: drug test. Then Phil Gold comes out and says, no,

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Speaker 2: he hasn't. There's absolutely no truth to that at all. Oh, okay,

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Speaker 2: Phil Good tied up with the club. Then another news

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Speaker 2: story comes out from the police saying no, he actually

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Speaker 2: did test positive. Now they're testing a second sample. Then

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Speaker 2: this story is saying the second sample was clean, it

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Speaker 2: was hot, it wasn't. And now in the long short

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Speaker 2: of it is he stood himself down for week one

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Speaker 2: of the finals.

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Speaker 3: Which, okay, the police isn't going to go out on

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Speaker 3: a live and say no, he did test positive for cocaine.

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Speaker 3: Why would the police be lying, you know what I mean? No,

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Speaker 3: he tested positive for cocaine. You know, Also, if he

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Speaker 3: was definitely innocent, he'd be like, what the hell, I'm

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Speaker 3: definitely playing this week and he's stood himself down. Yeah, apparently,

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Speaker 3: what was it? So that the team could concentrate and

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Speaker 3: so it wouldn't be a distraction. How much of a

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Speaker 3: huge blowout is it? You go to the Bulldogs who

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Speaker 3: haven't been in the finals in like almost a decade.

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Speaker 3: I think it's about eight years. Yeah, you're one of

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Speaker 3: the marquee signings, you're the leader in the group, You're

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Speaker 3: the guy in the backs that really chirps and gets

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Speaker 3: everyone running.

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Speaker 2: You're in charge of the boombox at practice. Oh, you're

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Speaker 2: in charge of the boom box. You know, probably lead

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Speaker 2: the team song.

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Speaker 3: I would say absolutely, let's trot boys and then do

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Speaker 3: the team song. That's his role. Yeah, he's come from

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Speaker 3: the Melbourne Storm and just as they finally make the finals,

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Speaker 3: Okay, it's just so yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I know, and so I think it's important to bring

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Speaker 2: I just wanted to know, is this news that a

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Speaker 1: I think it is.

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Speaker 3: Too because there's four games, there's four refs that they

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Speaker 3: so is he the fifth beast Rif I don't, I

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Speaker 2: Perhaps, Yeah, he's cooling down for a week. Maybe he's

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Speaker 1: We don't know. We don't know all of the facts.

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Speaker 1: Did you see that Tom Trabohovitch has put a book out?

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Speaker 1: You've printed off the run sheet here with a photo

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Speaker 2: no reference to manly so he ever leaves the club,

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Speaker 2: the National Rugby League do you think can read that? Well,

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Speaker 2: It's written with Fiona Harrison, illustrated by Shane McGee.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't written with her, it was written by her.

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Speaker 3: It'd be funny if they released anyone called the Gerbo Pup,

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Speaker 1: And then part three the Burbo Pug. Yeah, Pup, Pug,

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Speaker 3: Well, good on, Tom Traboy, bitch. I like the idea

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Speaker 2: No, in fact, never so available in all good bookstores.

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Speaker 2: On Sunday night, Stacy Pierrett took to the Mad Monday

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Speaker 2: The one thing we must do next year is get

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Speaker 2: this week. Wow, we used four kickers this season. S

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Speaker 2: Metcalf has an accuracy of seventy five percent this season,

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 2: Ccht has awesome at so many things, but perhaps better

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Speaker 2: I really appreciated this. I do agree. I think Metcalfe

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Speaker 3: Do you want to know? Do you want the answers

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Speaker 3: just such a hate him. May No, I don't hate him,

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Speaker 2: I just think if you've got Roger toy Vasishik and

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Speaker 3: Aj Bremson's there, but they use they're trying to figure

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Speaker 2: It's going to be hard to fit someone in. But

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Speaker 3: So is that what this Microsoft Excel type situation is?

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Speaker 2: So I went through and I pot all of the

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Speaker 2: So it changed. So we finished the season ten one

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Speaker 3: So two more wins and one extra draw, two.

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Speaker 1: More wins, one extra draw, which would have us finishing

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Speaker 1: on thirty two points, which was good enough for the eight.

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Speaker 1: Which is similar to what Stacy Parrott was saying in

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Speaker 1: the Mad Monday Munts group. So it is our kicking

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Speaker 3: What you're saying is that if we kicked one hundred

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Speaker 1: And our opponents did as well.

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Speaker 2: We would have made the top eight. Yeah, we'd be

440
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Speaker 2: in the finals. We finished like fourteenth or fifteenth.

441
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but you'd have to kick. I, oh, yes it is.

442
00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:02,880
Speaker 3: And we've known this too, that we got our kicking

443
00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:05,040
Speaker 3: has been woefull this season. Yes, but everyone said that's

444
00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:06,040
Speaker 3: why we're on the top eight.

445
00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:08,439
Speaker 1: I was like, is it? So I crunched the numbers

446
00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:09,640
Speaker 1: and it is. It fucking is.

447
00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:15,040
Speaker 2: But if the opponent only kicked their you know what

448
00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:16,919
Speaker 2: they actually kicked in real life, and we made all

449
00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:18,359
Speaker 2: of our kicks, we'd be like sixth.

450
00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:18,640
Speaker 3: Yeah.

451
00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:22,359
Speaker 2: Right, So the solution take the post off the field.

452
00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:24,320
Speaker 2: I've said this for a long time. Kicking is a

453
00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:26,800
Speaker 2: completely different game than rugby league. Just make it about

454
00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:27,679
Speaker 2: scoring tries.

455
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.

456
00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:32,400
Speaker 2: If we invented rugby league tomorrow, we would not put

457
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Speaker 2: posts on the field. So my solution there is I

458
00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:37,240
Speaker 2: take the post off the patch four. The Sikos that

459
00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:39,200
Speaker 2: want to know, we would have run won the round

460
00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:42,760
Speaker 2: six draw with Manly and we would have the golden

461
00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:46,480
Speaker 2: point losses against the Bulldogs. Yeah, and the Dolphins would

462
00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:48,840
Speaker 2: have been draws. Those would have been those two draws.

463
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Speaker 3: Right, Okay. I just still think it's funny that even

464
00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:55,199
Speaker 3: if we kick one hundred percent of our goals, we

465
00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:59,159
Speaker 3: still just come eighth. Like it's been quite a bad season.

466
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Speaker 3: So the terrible goal kicking certainly has not helped.

467
00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:06,520
Speaker 1: No, it's yeah, it's the only difference between us making

468
00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:07,040
Speaker 1: the eight or not.

469
00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:08,680
Speaker 3: Though I feel yeah, I feel like if you did

470
00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:10,400
Speaker 3: that to another team, it would be like we would

471
00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:12,440
Speaker 3: be third, you know what I mean. But fast, it's

472
00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:13,720
Speaker 3: just making the eighth. I don't know.

473
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Speaker 1: That's like six positions jump up the table just because

474
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Speaker 1: of one portion of the game, which I don't feel

475
00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:20,840
Speaker 1: like should be part of the game.

476
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Speaker 3: Because the try is called to try because you to

477
00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:25,959
Speaker 3: try and try and convert it. Right. So literally, when

478
00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:27,960
Speaker 3: they started this game, they built the whole thing around

479
00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:28,679
Speaker 3: kicking goals.

480
00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:30,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it was soccer and someone picked the ball

481
00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:32,359
Speaker 2: up and ran with it. Yeah, and then they were like, well,

482
00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:33,800
Speaker 2: how's this going to We'll hang on. Why don't we

483
00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:35,160
Speaker 2: extend the post blah blah blah.

484
00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:35,480
Speaker 3: I don't know.

485
00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:37,760
Speaker 2: I just think I don't know. If it didn't exist,

486
00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:40,320
Speaker 2: I don't think we would invent it. Yeah, take the post.

487
00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:42,760
Speaker 2: I'm starting the petition. Now take the post off the field.

488
00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:44,840
Speaker 3: I'm gonna started taining to a picky petition.

489
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, it'd be interesting to see who's got more

490
00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:53,960
Speaker 2: luck with that. Twenty twenty four Warriors Awards. It was

491
00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:56,720
Speaker 2: the Night of Knights on Sunday nights they dished out

492
00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:58,800
Speaker 2: all of the annual club awards. I think it's a

493
00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:01,360
Speaker 2: bit presumptive that they ski ed this before the playoffs

494
00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:03,560
Speaker 2: every year, and last year was the first time that

495
00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:05,520
Speaker 2: we saw this happen, and we're like, hang on a second.

496
00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:07,879
Speaker 2: They had their Night of Knights and then they had

497
00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:11,000
Speaker 2: to play Week one of the playoffs against the Knights.

498
00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:13,399
Speaker 2: Last year, schedule it for the end of the season,

499
00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:14,280
Speaker 2: but every team is done.

500
00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:15,080
Speaker 3: Every team does that.

501
00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:19,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think Big Dick move next year's

502
00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:22,359
Speaker 2: schedule it after the Grand Final. It's like we're going

503
00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:26,360
Speaker 2: to be busy deep into October, so well havever our

504
00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:30,359
Speaker 2: Awards night after that. Anyway, the awards read thusly, and

505
00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:32,159
Speaker 2: I'll run them past you. You tell me if you

506
00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:33,119
Speaker 2: disagree with any of them.

507
00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:38,960
Speaker 3: Simon Mannering Mitchell Barnett's that's basically Player of the Year MVP.

508
00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:40,879
Speaker 1: Basically, yeah, one hundred percent agree.

509
00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:44,520
Speaker 3: Mitch Barnett has had a career year with the Warriors,

510
00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:46,800
Speaker 3: which isn't something we thought we'd say last year when

511
00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:50,959
Speaker 3: he came in had that neck injury, potentially retiring rowing surgery,

512
00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:54,240
Speaker 3: can't kick goals anymore, like a pretty who was it

513
00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:55,919
Speaker 3: the Knights? I think before he came here, it's like

514
00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:58,640
Speaker 3: a pretty okay Backerer for the Knights, and he's come

515
00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:00,399
Speaker 3: here and he was one of the best player in

516
00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:03,480
Speaker 3: the entire game until the Warriors were no longer in

517
00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:07,440
Speaker 3: the running and they started massively limiting his minutes. He's

518
00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:08,560
Speaker 3: been excellent.

519
00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:09,880
Speaker 1: But effective in the minutes that he was out there.

520
00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:14,080
Speaker 2: I think for the Simon Matoring midle, there's Mitch Barnett, Daylight,

521
00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:16,600
Speaker 2: Shawn Johnson, and then anyone else I think to be honest,

522
00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:19,880
Speaker 2: and only because it was Shawn's last season, but I think, yeah,

523
00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:24,080
Speaker 2: Simon Mannering meddle. No one would disagree with Mitch Barnett.

524
00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:27,879
Speaker 2: And also I know it's named after Simon Mannering, but

525
00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:30,159
Speaker 2: it is just the MVP of the season. Yes, but

526
00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:34,200
Speaker 2: he embodies everything that he's very much a Simon Mannering player.

527
00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:37,160
Speaker 3: And like the one game where we got absolutely embarrassed,

528
00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:41,040
Speaker 3: that sixty six to six game against the Gold Coast Titans,

529
00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:44,080
Speaker 3: he wasn't playing. He was in the squad for New

530
00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:44,600
Speaker 3: South Wales.

531
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I can't disagree with that. Now do you

532
00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:51,720
Speaker 2: agree with this one? The NRL players player and Infanua Blake?

533
00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:53,280
Speaker 2: I do agree with it.

534
00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:56,920
Speaker 3: He was he when he was on the field ball

535
00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:59,800
Speaker 3: in hand, he was our most devastating and effective player.

536
00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:03,280
Speaker 3: He made not that many mistakes, a few drop balls

537
00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:05,480
Speaker 3: and things, but he's the most consistent.

538
00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:06,720
Speaker 1: You know.

539
00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:08,640
Speaker 3: He was one of our only ways to actually open.

540
00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:11,120
Speaker 3: Like we really struggle with attack this year, and him

541
00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:13,440
Speaker 3: charging through and getting an offload away or a quick

542
00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:16,359
Speaker 3: player of the ball was probably our most effective line

543
00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:16,840
Speaker 3: of attack.

544
00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,840
Speaker 2: I think there's one other thing at play here. Who

545
00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:22,040
Speaker 2: the fuck wants to vote against Aden faneur Blake in that.

546
00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:24,480
Speaker 3: I had a picture of him holding like the club

547
00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:26,600
Speaker 3: manager up against a wall and saying, I better get

548
00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:27,520
Speaker 3: win this prize.

549
00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:30,240
Speaker 1: Which one of you didn't vote for me. I agree.

550
00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:31,880
Speaker 3: Let's give him the middle and then he'll be leaving

551
00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:32,280
Speaker 3: next year.

552
00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:34,960
Speaker 1: Take it with you. N RL Clubman of the Year.

553
00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:37,600
Speaker 2: I don't really know exactly what this means, but Luke

554
00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:38,640
Speaker 2: Metcalf won that one.

555
00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:41,320
Speaker 3: Just a guy who spent a lot of time around

556
00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:43,760
Speaker 3: the club. He is a great guy. He's really friendly fella.

557
00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:46,840
Speaker 3: He's been on this podcast before, and he was excellent.

558
00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:49,880
Speaker 3: He was sitting out in the foil when I asked

559
00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:53,080
Speaker 3: Jess Tavanga how his rehab was going, and he wasn't

560
00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:55,080
Speaker 3: in rehab. Yeah, as soon as I came out, got

561
00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:57,040
Speaker 3: a spray from Luke Metcalf's The fuck was that, man?

562
00:22:57,080 --> 00:23:00,479
Speaker 1: If you've not done any actual Yeah? Yeah, yeah he

563
00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:02,080
Speaker 1: was joking, but it was.

564
00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:06,040
Speaker 2: Good sort of. It actually relieved my some of my nerves.

565
00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:08,560
Speaker 2: So yeah, here is the Clubman of the Year, NRL

566
00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:10,760
Speaker 2: Rookie of the Year. Now, this one could have gone

567
00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:12,560
Speaker 2: many different ways, I think, but I do think it

568
00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:13,560
Speaker 2: ended up in the right hands.

569
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Speaker 1: This is Jacob Laban.

570
00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:18,080
Speaker 3: Yep, no, his this season was certainly a season four

571
00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:21,359
Speaker 3: great debuts and promising young talent who are going to

572
00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:24,080
Speaker 3: be playing for us for the foreseeable future. A few

573
00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:26,360
Speaker 3: of those other players that were coming through your Liquahala

574
00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:30,840
Speaker 3: Seemas and Halilatawa Ali Latta of course was great, but

575
00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:34,760
Speaker 3: dimitric Cipercula, yes, and then he had Zamo who came

576
00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:37,040
Speaker 3: on and had a barn storm of a game after

577
00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:40,320
Speaker 3: we got pumped. I think Laban was the most consistent

578
00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:43,080
Speaker 3: his very first game. I still remember he came off

579
00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:45,439
Speaker 3: the bench and I was instantly like, this guy is

580
00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:47,840
Speaker 3: a beast. I love him. I still remember him having

581
00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:49,600
Speaker 3: I was thinking, this is one of the best debuts

582
00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:50,560
Speaker 3: I've seen in a long time.

583
00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:52,400
Speaker 1: Yeah. And then and he had a good run there

584
00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:53,200
Speaker 1: in the middle of the season.

585
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:55,120
Speaker 3: He had a great run, whereas a couple of those

586
00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:57,440
Speaker 3: other guys they had a real shocker one game where

587
00:23:57,480 --> 00:23:59,199
Speaker 3: they missed a crap load of tackles and dropped the

588
00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:02,560
Speaker 3: ball heaps. So Jacob Labor most consistent, and to be honest,

589
00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:05,119
Speaker 3: I think they were everyone who debuted for us. Great crop,

590
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:08,399
Speaker 3: Oh really great. Absolutely, it's going to be a bright future.

591
00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:08,760
Speaker 1: Yeah.

592
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:12,320
Speaker 2: One hundred and the final award was the one New

593
00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:14,480
Speaker 2: Zealand People's Choice. People got to vote on this one.

594
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:17,440
Speaker 2: Everyone voted for Mitch Barnett. Can't argue against that either.

595
00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:20,399
Speaker 3: Actually, I just thought of someone who could also be

596
00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:23,359
Speaker 3: in the running for the Simon Manoring Middle and the

597
00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:28,240
Speaker 3: one New Zealand People's Choice Chance Nuckled Clocksta. Every game

598
00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:32,840
Speaker 3: he runs so hard, he makes so many tackles, he

599
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:35,000
Speaker 3: plays with so much heart. He is like the Mitch

600
00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:36,200
Speaker 3: Barnett of the back line.

601
00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:38,800
Speaker 1: The back line. Yeah, and you want to replace what I.

602
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:41,680
Speaker 3: Mean at center, So do as much WORKMANI And he's

603
00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:44,800
Speaker 3: so good with his hands and being a link man.

604
00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:49,359
Speaker 3: You want a second contact, give him as little middle

605
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:52,120
Speaker 3: as people's choice middle and second, and.

606
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,800
Speaker 2: Just to whip through the new South Wales Cup team.

607
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:57,080
Speaker 2: It was Mila Grand's off for just one everything.

608
00:24:57,200 --> 00:24:59,119
Speaker 3: Oh right, best player, blah blah blah.

609
00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:01,120
Speaker 2: All right, let's take more quick back when we come back.

610
00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:03,439
Speaker 2: We're going to preview the finals as four games. We're

611
00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:05,479
Speaker 2: gonna have a quick whip through there and then blast

612
00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:07,760
Speaker 2: a hunch into the tb app off the back of

613
00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:12,640
Speaker 2: that will be right back four games in round one,

614
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:17,720
Speaker 2: and they read thusly the first game Storm versus the Sharks.

615
00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:20,199
Speaker 2: This is no in chronological order, so this will be

616
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:22,320
Speaker 2: very confusing for you at home. But this is based

617
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:25,119
Speaker 2: off ranking, So the Storm, because we're looking at the

618
00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:28,280
Speaker 2: I have to see the image of how the playoffs

619
00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:31,240
Speaker 2: work in the NRL every year to understand. Yeah, absolutely,

620
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:33,520
Speaker 2: I know it's easy and someone will be rolling their

621
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:36,400
Speaker 2: eyes listening to this, but I just mathematically in my head,

622
00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:38,479
Speaker 2: I have to look at it Storm verus Sharks. That's

623
00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:41,120
Speaker 2: one four, that's one v four. It's the minor Premiers.

624
00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:45,840
Speaker 2: I mean it has to be the Storm, doesn't it. Oh, look,

625
00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:46,720
Speaker 2: the Sharks.

626
00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:52,199
Speaker 3: The Sharks have this knack for upsetting for really, Like

627
00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:55,200
Speaker 3: I go big on the Sharks losing against a team

628
00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:56,919
Speaker 3: like a Panthers or something, and somehow they can pull

629
00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:01,439
Speaker 3: out wins against tough teams. For example, did you know

630
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 3: that they haven't lost a single game this season while

631
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:07,639
Speaker 3: playing in the daytime and this game is at daytime.

632
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:08,560
Speaker 1: I did not know that.

633
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:10,200
Speaker 3: Now, So the Sharks are really good at playing on

634
00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 3: a dry trail. It's not super that's six pm here,

635
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:17,040
Speaker 3: but it's four pm over in Australia. They Malbourne have

636
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:20,240
Speaker 3: only won one of their last five games in the finals.

637
00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:23,320
Speaker 3: So they've been knocked out of the finals three years

638
00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:25,440
Speaker 3: in a row in the first round pretty.

639
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:28,680
Speaker 1: Much, Okay, they win four years ago, yeah.

640
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 3: And then since then they've won one of their past

641
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:35,919
Speaker 3: five oh right, finals games. Yeah yeah. But it's just like,

642
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,480
Speaker 3: I don't think it's going to be as comprehensive as

643
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:40,159
Speaker 3: we think it is going to be. Even though the

644
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:43,000
Speaker 3: Storm of the Minor Premiers is my personal opinion, I.

645
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:45,960
Speaker 2: Do just think and I know we pay him a

646
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:49,320
Speaker 2: bit of lip service. I think Jerome Hughes, despite the

647
00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:51,879
Speaker 2: fact that he's probably front runner for DELM, may even

648
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:56,680
Speaker 2: still be underrated. You know, when we look at massive halves,

649
00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:59,080
Speaker 2: like game breaking halves, often will put bits on just

650
00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:01,679
Speaker 2: because they've got to do on their team. I've been

651
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:04,720
Speaker 2: spending money on the couch just because of Tommy dierdon't. Yeah, right,

652
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:08,360
Speaker 2: like teams have these gangster haves. I mean, fuck the Sharks.

653
00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 2: You know with Nico Heinz, people have been doing that

654
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 2: for a couple of years now as well well.

655
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:15,240
Speaker 3: And he's yeah, he's a shallo of his former self.

656
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 1: And Hughes is it like he's the guy?

657
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Speaker 3: He is the guy. I what the guy who had

658
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 3: a hat trick and two tryst this last week or something. Yeah,

659
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 3: exactly if they can limit Hughes, I think Melbourne's defense

660
00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 3: isn't like if you can just run through Nick Meaney

661
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,160
Speaker 3: and Will Warbricks still is still learning to play rugby league.

662
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:35,800
Speaker 3: Like I think he is a practising player, great finisher,

663
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 3: great finisher, but shit, he is still like figuring out

664
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 3: where he needs to be on defense and things like that.

665
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:42,560
Speaker 3: So I think there are gaps and also daytime the

666
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:44,680
Speaker 3: Sharks backline is electric when it gets going.

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Speaker 1: Okay, do you think Sharks?

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Speaker 3: No, I think Storm will win, but I think it's

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Speaker 3: going to be a close game.

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Speaker 2: By the way, for our TV hunch this week, let's

671
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:54,880
Speaker 2: put this together in real time. Let's pick a winner

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00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 2: from each of the games. So I'm going to add

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Speaker 2: Storm to the betslip. But I do think that it's

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Speaker 2: going to be a good game. Yeah, to watch the

675
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:02,360
Speaker 2: next one.

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Speaker 3: Fact, if I had to put a hunch on, it

677
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 3: would be whoever's going up against Warbrick, So war Bricks

678
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:12,720
Speaker 3: on the right side, which would be Mollitala m That's

679
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:14,240
Speaker 3: who I would bet on to score a try. But

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00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:16,200
Speaker 3: Melbourne to win would be a nice little one too,

681
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 3: I think. Okay, it's my spitborn here.

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Speaker 1: So the next game on our list is five plays eight.

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Speaker 1: That's the Cowboys versus the Knights section of the last

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Speaker 1: game of the round.

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Speaker 2: It's very confusing. It's not at all any Cowboys v.

686
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 2: Nights the Knights. Would it surprise you to know that

687
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 2: there are three dollars and five cents outsiders?

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00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 3: I think, like the Cowboys flip a coin. Are they

689
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 3: going to play amazing or are they going to play shit? Yeah?

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00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:44,680
Speaker 3: But I think that's starting to get a bit of

691
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 3: a roll on heading into this and I think the

692
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 3: Knights really struggle to They're not the Knights of last

693
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 3: season where Ponger would come on link up and Greek

694
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:54,160
Speaker 3: Marje would score a hat trick in the corner.

695
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 1: Every week nine games in a row.

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00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just I think that's struggling a bit the

697
00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 3: Knights to actually generate points, whereas the cow Boys are

698
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 3: coming into their own. I think the Cowboys going to

699
00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:04,719
Speaker 3: win that one.

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00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll check the Cowboys and the bit slip there.

701
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 1: Look this one.

702
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:10,800
Speaker 3: These are the ones that if the Malti is going

703
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:12,440
Speaker 3: to be blown, it's going to be these this game

704
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 3: or the Bulldogs Eagles.

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00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 1: This one is just like does Ponga go super said?

706
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 1: That's right or not?

707
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:22,719
Speaker 2: And I don't know. I mean, it's the same thing

708
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 2: I was talking about with Hughes. It's just like, are

709
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:26,520
Speaker 2: you bidding on the superstar being too good for the

710
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 2: other team.

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00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 3: I think Pongo will go super sad, but they need

712
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:32,480
Speaker 3: them to be super said like level two? Yeah, right,

713
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 3: even three with the long hair, yeah absolutely, yeah, that's three.

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00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 1: Yeah.

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00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 2: And then what's the one where they're like full red

716
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 2: here all over them is at four four.

717
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 3: Is when they go black here and then get weird

718
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 3: red sort of monkeys.

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00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, right, Oh look, I don't know.

720
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 3: Well, these are the ones they are going to bust

721
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 3: open the multi I was nights right up until I

722
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:52,640
Speaker 3: saw the three dollars and five cents. Hey, man, up,

723
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 3: be a sheep and I trust your gut. What's the

724
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 3: point of having a gut if you can't trust it.

725
00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 1: I just I don't know. Three dollars is a scary amount.

726
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 2: Anyway, Let's go to the next one, Bulldogs versus Seagles.

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00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 1: This is actually the last game of the round. We're

728
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:10,840
Speaker 1: doing it the second last. This one's the closest at

729
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 1: the tab. Canterbary banks Down Bulldogs dollar ninety five, Manly

730
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 1: Seagulls dollar eighty seven. This one genuinely for me as

731
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Speaker 1: a coin toss. But I did I did say.

732
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:21,000
Speaker 2: I'm throwing my hat in the ring with the Canterbury

733
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,840
Speaker 2: Bankstown Bulldogs as my secondary team. I want to see

734
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:27,160
Speaker 2: them go deep into the season. The Josh Hadowkarstuffski is

735
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:29,640
Speaker 2: the purse out of me going into this game.

736
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Speaker 3: What about the fact that a couple of weeks ago.

737
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 3: The Seagulls beat the Bulldogs thirty four to twenty two. Yeah,

738
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 3: on the thirtieth of August, which was two rounds ago.

739
00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 3: I know, what about the fact that Steve I don't

740
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 3: think Stephen Crichton was playing for that game. What about

741
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 3: the fact that Tom Turbo is out I am now

742
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 3: writing kids books like that. I feel like the Seagulls

743
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 3: can skill, still score a lot of points. Their backline

744
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:57,600
Speaker 3: still has these super fast guns with daily Cherry Evans

745
00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:01,680
Speaker 3: in the middle, but no Tomo. I also think the

746
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 3: Seagles through the middle have just got a stronger forward pack.

747
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 3: Like it's just this, Yeah, it's a real toss of

748
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:09,239
Speaker 3: the coin. Can the book I think with the game

749
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 3: has actually been played in Where is this one? It

750
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 3: is on Sunday Stadium, Australia, so it's in Sydney Bulldogs

751
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 3: home turf. I don't know.

752
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 1: Uh, I'm gonna say Bulldogs. I'm gonna say Bulldogs. See

753
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 1: my vibes, says Manly.

754
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 3: But go with your You're the anchor, okay, I'm anchoring

755
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 3: this bit.

756
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 1: You're the team captain and I ah.

757
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 2: And then the last game of our multi which is

758
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 2: the ghost game of the round which is the Panthers

759
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:44,240
Speaker 2: versus the Roosters.

760
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 1: I think Panthers.

761
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I just think Sam Walker and Brandon Smith

762
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 2: a CL's last week. They will be scrambling the Roosters.

763
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:57,960
Speaker 2: The Panthers have been so far off the boil lately

764
00:31:58,000 --> 00:31:58,640
Speaker 2: though as well.

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Speaker 3: The Panthers've got Yeah, Edward's injured Cleary back, but he'll

766
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 3: be rusty.

767
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 1: He will be very rusty. I wonder if they've rushed

768
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:06,520
Speaker 1: him as well.

769
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 3: The Panthers have been clunky, as you mentioned the Roosters. No,

770
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 3: Sam Walker, that's huge. That is going to massage the

771
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 3: whole way they kind of play because he's been such

772
00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 3: a massive part of it. They've still got guys like

773
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 3: Joey Marno, James Tidiesco. They also lost Brandon Smith. They

774
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 3: got Cary there as well, who like he's a pretty

775
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:27,800
Speaker 3: freaking good player. Yeah, I'm young. Don Yelm is going

776
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 3: to be there. I think Penrith will win this. I

777
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,000
Speaker 3: also think we'll get a glimpse of Penrith clicking into

778
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:35,479
Speaker 3: finals mode.

779
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 2: It's experienced, isn't it it is? They have won nine straight.

780
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 2: We always finals games For some reason. I think most

781
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:44,680
Speaker 2: people just think about the Panthers as Nathan Cleary. Yeah,

782
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 2: I know we were just talking about superstars been the

783
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 2: whole reason you play bets on, but I feel like

784
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 2: they are more than that, and I don't think that that,

785
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 2: you know, and also the experience thing they've been there

786
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 2: that many times.

787
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 3: Do you want James Fisher Harris coming to the Warriors

788
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 3: having won again, or do you want him coming to

789
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 3: the Warriors pest off that he didn't get to win

790
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 3: one last time with the Panthers having one again?

791
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 1: I think you reckon.

792
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't want him like annoyed and desperate to

793
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 3: win another one with the Warriors now.

794
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:12,760
Speaker 2: I want him to walk in and for all of

795
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 2: those young guys to be like fuck, every time he's

796
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 2: walked onto a field in the National Rugby League, he

797
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 2: has won the competition in the last four years, So

798
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, I think that's where IM going to go.

799
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 2: So if we just looking back on at Melbourne Storm, Cowboys, Bulldogs, Panthers,

800
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 2: you multi those all up, that's paying four dollars eighty

801
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:32,720
Speaker 2: nine and we put one hundred dollars bonus cash on that,

802
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 2: thank so our mates at the TIRB And that's paying

803
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:37,239
Speaker 2: four hundred and eighty nine dollars, so we'll place that

804
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 2: one on the now. And it's also just a great

805
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 2: way to keep yourself interested in the first round of

806
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:44,280
Speaker 2: the playoffs when the Warriors aren't.

807
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:47,240
Speaker 3: They well, to be honest that this week just gone.

808
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 3: I had a sort of purge week where I just

809
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 3: went full, the Warriors are done. Yeah, the finals are

810
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 3: starting soon. I don't really care who makes that last spot,

811
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 3: you know, So I just didn't watch the NR. Yeah,

812
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 3: I didn't listen to any podcasts. I went full, like

813
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 3: week are Dark thirty because I'm about to go straight

814
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 3: into finals mode, which is going to be a pretty

815
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 3: intense month. Yeah, and you're in finals mode now you're

816
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 3: looking at it, man, Yeah? Hell yeah, Finals mode? Man,

817
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:14,279
Speaker 3: It's crazy all right.

818
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 2: And if you want to see Christine Finals Mode on

819
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 2: the TV, you can tune in again to that show.

820
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 2: ACC does Game of Two Halves eight thirty pm Thursday night,

821
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:24,839
Speaker 2: Sky Open, Sky Sport one. And we'll be back next

822
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:26,760
Speaker 2: week for another episode of the Mad Monday podcast.

823
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Speaker 3: Eh cheers man, Okay,