Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Mad Monday Podcast, brought to you,
Speaker 1: as always by four and twenty piles, the perfect at
Speaker 1: home snack for watching rugby league. But Die, we're not
Speaker 1: at home, are we right now? We're out at Mount
Speaker 1: Smart Stadium, all thanks to Helen Stein's I've got the
Speaker 1: hoodie on.
Speaker 2: I've just stolen it off the rack.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you took the one with no logo on it.
Speaker 2: Well, you were sitting right there.
Speaker 1: You could have said something and sitting right in front
Speaker 1: of it as well, still sitting there as Marcellum on tour.
Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Marcela. How are you mate?
Speaker 4: Hey, team, I'm good. I'm good.
Speaker 3: Hey Die, good to see you mate.
Speaker 4: I was good to see you guys.
Speaker 1: I know you're worried about dye in particular, really holding
Speaker 1: your feet to the fire on what So I'd like
Speaker 1: to start with the first question if I could. Yes,
Speaker 1: I was talking to your wife this morning. Yes, you
Speaker 1: guys have got a pretty big announcement debate. Yes, about
Speaker 1: something coming up very very soon. We're very excited. So
Speaker 1: you've got a podcast cover it out. Yeah, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: excited to hear it as well. At the moment you
Speaker 1: were out an injury. What's the injury?
Speaker 5: Yeah, just a groin, a grade grade one kind of
Speaker 5: strained though, but I've got a scan on it.
Speaker 2: It wasn't.
Speaker 4: It was like they thought it was a strain.
Speaker 5: It was grade one low and then kind of I've
Speaker 5: been a bit more jointy, so that's why I kind
Speaker 5: of pulled me back a few more weeks. Yeah, but
Speaker 5: hopefully on track to return next week or week after.
Speaker 5: But at the moment it's feel a lot better. So yeah,
Speaker 5: positive news.
Speaker 2: What can you even do for a groin? Just a
Speaker 2: lot of message.
Speaker 5: Literally, yeah, I mean even like you can't get in
Speaker 5: there with much pressure, just I guess heaps of glute
Speaker 5: work getting those hips strong and yeah, just keeping a
Speaker 5: low key at home.
Speaker 3: Hey, how does scan work? Like I take it you
Speaker 3: don't just get a left down to Auckland Hospital and
Speaker 3: sit in the sit in the emergency room with everyone,
Speaker 3: I'm waiting for a scan. Do you have a little
Speaker 3: backdoor access or something? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Question though.
Speaker 5: We so we actually get scanned out at Saint John's
Speaker 5: and that's literally am I eye. But they book us
Speaker 5: in there as fast as they can. However, if there's
Speaker 5: someone's booked in, then we obviously have to wait a
Speaker 5: few days, but they get us in there quite fast
Speaker 5: and it's in and out pretty much, so we're pretty
Speaker 5: lucky we get that that front or service in and
Speaker 5: out straight away, and it's it's pretty it's pretty seamless
Speaker 5: way we get it done.
Speaker 4: So it's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: And yeah, because I always get interested when the commentator
Speaker 3: is halfway through a game, they go sport, We've spoken
Speaker 3: to someone that's a it's a pateler. Yeah, yeah, there,
Speaker 3: I'm going, how do they know you know, you're just
Speaker 3: looking at you hobbling off?
Speaker 4: Yeah, nah, for sure.
Speaker 5: I think on the sidelines, the physios do some testing
Speaker 5: and stuff straight away, so it's pretty much just their
Speaker 5: kind of take on. Okay, they test and it's a
Speaker 5: it's a low grade growing train or if they're testing
Speaker 5: the knee, they and and they're pretty good to be honest, like,
Speaker 5: they know straight away obviously the expertise, so they're good
Speaker 5: at what they do.
Speaker 3: And with the hi as, how does that work? Do
Speaker 3: you do you have a different set of questions to everyone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, as questions. I feel like, yeah, it's questions. But
Speaker 1: then sometimes however, then I all can just say, hang on,
Speaker 1: it's like it's a CAT one straight away, which is yeah,
Speaker 1: which is unusual sometimes because the boys might feel okay
Speaker 1: and they get up, but then they say, no cat one.
Speaker 4: You can't even do the testing.
Speaker 3: And that's just what they've taken off the vision of.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I think it looks like if Herb Dean from the
Speaker 1: UFC would to stop the fight, then that's probably a
Speaker 1: CAT one. I think the other one is when the
Speaker 1: hands go and then they start throwing up the gang signs,
Speaker 1: then that's sort of a qestions that they ask you that.
Speaker 4: So they asked you to read the months backwards.
Speaker 2: I struggle with it.
Speaker 5: That's pretty like that's the easy one for me. The
Speaker 5: hard one for me is they give you the numbers
Speaker 5: as well. So but like they give you numbers, so
Speaker 5: they'll go up to like three numbers, so one, two, three,
Speaker 5: Then then you got to repeat that backwards. But they
Speaker 5: go all the way up to like six numbers, so
Speaker 5: it might be like four, five, six, seven, eight nine,
Speaker 5: and then you got to repeat it backwards and they
Speaker 5: do that about five six times.
Speaker 4: That's the hardest one. I find hard And then I.
Speaker 3: Can do that without a hidden it's so do they
Speaker 3: make it easy maybe for some of the team that
Speaker 3: was struggling a bit on the best of days.
Speaker 5: No, it's all the same. Yeah, so's it's tough. And
Speaker 5: then what else they do? You get ten words to
Speaker 5: remember as well when you have to so like they
Speaker 5: say ten words, you got to remember those words. And
Speaker 5: then they actually like after all the testing actually for
Speaker 5: those ten words again.
Speaker 3: I could again that this could be a good fishing scam. Okay,
Speaker 3: so if you can you give me your credit card
Speaker 3: and the three c CV number.
Speaker 1: Yeah, literally the number your birthday. So they asked the
Speaker 1: same questions for a prop that they'd ask for like
Speaker 1: a half back.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh that's brutal. That is that is tough.
Speaker 1: Actually, it's just been announced that you guys are heading
Speaker 1: off the Vegas for the opening round next year. We're
Speaker 1: working on getting ourselves over there as well. How excited
Speaker 1: are you to go over to Vegas?
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it's cool.
Speaker 5: It's it's obviously something that's pretty pretty awesome for the
Speaker 5: club to be able to experience that. At the same time,
Speaker 5: it's like we don't look too far ahead. I know
Speaker 5: she's been tough, but at the same time, it's something
Speaker 5: that we don't want to look too far ahead, but
Speaker 5: it's it's also exciting for our fans, for for our
Speaker 5: team as well, and obviously to be able to go
Speaker 5: over there and play. I guess it's that's where that's
Speaker 5: where everyone wants to be playing over in America. So
Speaker 5: it's exciting times ahead.
Speaker 3: I saw that the status and Marius fans over there
Speaker 3: this year and we weren't even playing. So wait, do
Speaker 3: we imagine?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's going to be Yeah, it's going to be crazy.
Speaker 2: Who's the most concerning player to take over to Las Vegas?
Speaker 3: There?
Speaker 1: You're flying into Vegas. Yeah, you're getting off the plane.
Speaker 1: Who's the one that the coach is like, hey, watch
Speaker 1: yourself over the next week.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: No, it's a good question. Our crew is our is
Speaker 5: pretty tame, to be honest. Even even the single boys
Speaker 5: are quite quite chill. But I'll be looking forward to
Speaker 5: see rocoberry experiences of time over there. I think you
Speaker 5: will enjoy it, so for sure, for sure, So it'll
Speaker 5: be exciting to see him over there and just you're
Speaker 5: enjoying it.
Speaker 1: Just before the game against the Raiders, they you know,
Speaker 1: they blow their big traditional horn. Just behind the horn,
Speaker 1: there was a guy rapping a can cone. What's the
Speaker 1: wildest thing you've seen at Mount Smart Stadium?
Speaker 4: I've seen that. I was.
Speaker 5: I heard you guys talking about on the ACC commentary
Speaker 5: and I said, are these boys just wasted or what's
Speaker 5: going on? So like I didn't realize what was going on.
Speaker 5: Then one of the boys showed me our training on Saturday.
Speaker 5: They said, no, no, showed me a photo just ripping
Speaker 5: a big one, and I said, lee, but yeah, no,
Speaker 5: I haven't seen I mean, yeah, yeah, but like our
Speaker 5: fans are real passionate, so there's not that kind of
Speaker 5: stuff at our games, but just how passionate our fans
Speaker 5: are and how loud they are, I guess.
Speaker 3: Yeah, people like we We went along to the All
Speaker 3: Blacks England game, right, and I was amazed how quiet
Speaker 3: I'm used to going to coming to Mount Smart. And
Speaker 3: I was amazed how quiet I was. And there still
Speaker 3: would have been almost double the amount of people fitt
Speaker 3: into Mount Smart. But it just made me appreciate how
Speaker 3: awesome the Mount Smart faithful are win, lose or draw,
Speaker 3: they're here party and they're here supporting the boys.
Speaker 5: Yeah for sure, And even like on the back of
Speaker 5: last year, like this year's been a tough year for us,
Speaker 5: but they're still getting out, Like the stadiums are sold
Speaker 5: out and they're showing their support and love for us,
Speaker 5: So it means a lot to us. And then when
Speaker 5: you're running out to a packed out mount Smart, it's
Speaker 5: kind of daunting for our position, like coming here first
Speaker 5: of wall to travel in New Zealand, and then to
Speaker 5: play against us with the packed out stadium.
Speaker 4: It's a hard job to get done. And I've been
Speaker 4: on the back end of it as well.
Speaker 5: Before I came to the Worries, so I've experienced it
Speaker 5: on both fans, and I much preferred to be on
Speaker 5: this end.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: How is it with the pressure though, Like, because obviously
Speaker 3: the year is not panning out exactly how you would
Speaker 3: have thought at the beginning, it must you must feel
Speaker 3: an odd pressure though, like going the fans are all here,
Speaker 3: We've got to go hard out But then sometimes the
Speaker 3: harder you try, the worst city ends up going for it.
Speaker 5: No, for sure, I think for us it's more frustrating.
Speaker 5: I think it's more than in pressure that we expect
Speaker 5: so much from ourselves and we work so hard and
Speaker 5: we expect the best from ourselves, especially what we did
Speaker 5: last year. And you know that, and we know what
Speaker 5: we're capable of when we put our best team out
Speaker 5: there and when we're playing our best. However, at times
Speaker 5: this year just hasn't clicked, and it's it's frustrating for us,
Speaker 5: you know. And like you said about the fans, they
Speaker 5: just come out and they just turned up for us
Speaker 5: week in, week out, and that gives us a bit
Speaker 5: more drive. We don't feel the pressure more so for them,
Speaker 5: but it's more the internal pressure because we know what
Speaker 5: we're capable of as a team, as a club as well,
Speaker 5: and it's been disappointing at times this year, to be honest.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I mean for myself, I always say it.
Speaker 5: I reckon we've got the best fan base in the
Speaker 5: whole NRL and I seen that out at Magic Round
Speaker 5: as well. They turned up, bro, and it was just
Speaker 5: crazy the support we got. I think it was one
Speaker 5: side of the grands of the of the stadium was
Speaker 5: just going off and that was an awesome experience.
Speaker 2: He talks about not looking too far ahead before.
Speaker 1: Are you guys already starting to talk about the Tigers
Speaker 1: game this weekend or you just focusing on what you
Speaker 1: guys are going to do?
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2: Are you know we are?
Speaker 5: The boys came in today and then we did some
Speaker 5: review from the game against other Raiders, had to look
Speaker 5: at that and then went out and trained and today
Speaker 5: was more so about us to fix what we did
Speaker 5: on the weekend, and then I think when we're coming
Speaker 5: on Wednesday, that'll be more so prep against Tigers and
Speaker 5: and then get some get some some defensive movements down
Speaker 5: pat as well against them, because you know, seeing their
Speaker 5: game on the weekend, they can score some points, but
Speaker 5: similar to us at the moment, they can make make
Speaker 5: some errors at at times, stupid air as at time.
Speaker 5: So I think it's going to be a game that
Speaker 5: we want to win, but it's going to be a
Speaker 5: tough one as well.
Speaker 3: But we're it's looking like the way that Tigers are
Speaker 3: shaping up, and then where we are with injury. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's going to be some exciting young boys out on
Speaker 3: the park, oh.
Speaker 4: For sure, Dian. That's that's what's important for us.
Speaker 5: I mean, it puts a smile on the face knowing
Speaker 5: that some of these young boys want to come in
Speaker 5: and get a crack.
Speaker 4: Because they all deserve it. They all work really hard.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I'm excited to see those boys come out
Speaker 5: and play. It's always awesome to see them get a
Speaker 5: get a crack at that, putting that jump r. So yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm excited to see those boys.
Speaker 3: Does it boost the you know, boys like yourself who
Speaker 3: have played a lot of games, does it boost you
Speaker 3: up when you see someone like Liqua Halaesima coming out
Speaker 3: and just blowing the doors off? Does it really camp
Speaker 3: every one up?
Speaker 4: For sure?
Speaker 5: And like when you see Lequa, he's real chilled at training,
Speaker 5: Like he just goes through the gears and through the
Speaker 5: motions at training and you're like, oh, like is he
Speaker 5: even trying? And then you're like, man, And then he
Speaker 5: gets on the field, bro, and he just he gets
Speaker 5: that ball in his hands. It's like a different beast.
Speaker 5: He just you know what I mean, he just knows
Speaker 5: when it's game day. He's so ready for it. And
Speaker 5: seeing boys like that a z Ion as well. Zion's going
Speaker 5: to be like massive future of the club, Arlie as well,
Speaker 5: and plays like.
Speaker 4: Roco that's played a lot of footy as well in
Speaker 4: the last couple of years.
Speaker 5: So it's exciting times for the club in terms of
Speaker 5: our young boys coming through. And then for me to
Speaker 5: be able to be there and watch those boys do it.
Speaker 5: It's it's it's so cool.
Speaker 1: I do like the way that everyone gets cheat up
Speaker 1: for someone's debut. I guess because you can remember it.
Speaker 1: I look because you don't have Instagram, but I saw
Speaker 1: that there was a post one of the Morris brothers
Speaker 1: posted for your debut.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so they were obviously playing when new debut there
Speaker 2: for the dogs. Yeah, yea love the Morris Yeah.
Speaker 1: If they walked in here right now, Derek, and you
Speaker 1: can tell them apart, yes you could.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's the tell? How do you know?
Speaker 4: Josh is a bit more Josh is taller, I think, okay,
Speaker 4: and Bemo's kind of walks like with a bit more
Speaker 4: of a hunch.
Speaker 3: Right, but he's trying to say Josh has got a
Speaker 3: neck and bre.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Josh's more outgoing, yeah right, and then was kind
Speaker 5: of just chilled. Yeah, very like legends of the game,
Speaker 5: to be honest, I was pried to play with them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: Olympics starting and jeez, I think like later on this week, yeah,
Speaker 1: not too far away. Is there a sport that you
Speaker 1: like watching when the Olympics fire up?
Speaker 5: Obviously the one hundred meters sprint. Yeah, yeah, I've been
Speaker 5: watching that that sprint show at the minute, so I'm
Speaker 5: just seeing it's on Netflix. So watching that Marcel Jacob's run,
Speaker 5: a few of the Americans coming up too, so looking
Speaker 5: forward to it.
Speaker 1: To be honest, if you had to have a crack
Speaker 1: at making the middle and one of the sports, it
Speaker 1: would be just go one hundred meters spread.
Speaker 4: Nah, I wouldn't.
Speaker 5: Maybe if I was a bit younger, I would have,
Speaker 5: but at the minute probably not. Maybe something long distance,
Speaker 5: maybe the four hundred eight hundred.
Speaker 4: Maybe I'll give it a crack.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I reckon Jazz Stavanger would be really good at the
Speaker 3: rhythmic gymnastics, you know, like doing the flips across the
Speaker 3: thing in a little you reckon a little swimsuit and
Speaker 3: running and stuff. It just strikes me as a go
Speaker 3: because I can.
Speaker 4: More have like a shot putter say that. You know
Speaker 4: what I mean is a bit as the ball.
Speaker 5: A bit stocky, you know, a bit stocky jazzy. So
Speaker 5: I reckon, Yeah, I reckon.
Speaker 3: Valerie Adams could probably shot put jest. To be honest,
Speaker 3: we've lost that.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much for your time. Good it. Thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, welcome back into the podcast. It's a real
Speaker 1: honor and a privilege to have Jazz Tavanga join us
Speaker 1: in the Secret our Jazz are getting on that.
Speaker 2: Good mate, good story. Has the rehab gun.
Speaker 6: I'm not on reheab great.
Speaker 2: Researches.
Speaker 3: Here's a couple of beers before he sat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean yeah, Look, the commentary on Friday Night
Speaker 1: was a different thing this time Stone cult.
Speaker 2: So but no, just so, the Hammy's feeling all good.
Speaker 6: Yeah, broke Hammi's feeling good. Yeah, body's feeling all good.
Speaker 3: Actually, I've always wanted to ask you when you come
Speaker 3: on to the park. It's always exciting for me because
Speaker 3: you come on one hundred and ten percent, right, Is
Speaker 3: there ever a point where you've got to sort of
Speaker 3: mitigate it so you don't go too hard out?
Speaker 6: Because no, I think in my earlier years, I'm just
Speaker 6: talking a couple of years ago, I was guilty of,
Speaker 6: you know, going too hard, and then I'd get caught
Speaker 6: up in the emotional side of it, and I'll get angry,
Speaker 6: and then then I'll be seen red and that's when
Speaker 6: I'd if up and probably cost me ten minutes and
Speaker 6: the ben a fit too many times, but I had
Speaker 6: to turn it down a bit, so yeah, finding a
Speaker 6: good balance at the moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like do you listen to music to g yourself
Speaker 1: up or to calm yourself down before the game?
Speaker 6: But both At the start, I'm trying to trying to
Speaker 6: gem myself up, and then like just before I run out,
Speaker 6: try and listen to Uncle Bob, Yeah calming down?
Speaker 2: What do you go to to gen yourself up? At
Speaker 2: Lincoln Park fifty.
Speaker 3: Gang? But I'm not do you get given like a
Speaker 3: specific game plan just before you're going to go out
Speaker 3: or is it you vibing the game and what needs
Speaker 3: to happen.
Speaker 6: My role is pretty simple. It's just run hard, tagle hard.
Speaker 6: I feel like the bench has got to offer a
Speaker 6: lot of energy. So when I come on on my
Speaker 6: smaller body in the middle, there off a bit more
Speaker 6: leg speed, and yeah, just go hard for as long
Speaker 6: as I can and then when I'm to put my
Speaker 6: hand up and bring Adam back on. Is it different
Speaker 6: when you start, Yeah, one hundred percent. When you start,
Speaker 6: you've got to sort of like pace yourself. You obviously
Speaker 6: want to get a good start, but that first twenty minutes,
Speaker 6: that grind, it's different. It's a different beast age. I'll
Speaker 6: come on when everyone's after that twenty minutes, when everyone's left,
Speaker 6: then I can come on and I look a bit
Speaker 6: faster than everyone else. But yeah, that first twenty minutes
Speaker 6: is pretty hard.
Speaker 1: And your combination with Walker coming off the bench there,
Speaker 1: do you like getting fired up with him coming out together?
Speaker 6: Yeah, we had a good thing going the board brods. Yeah,
Speaker 6: but he's he's grown his air back, so that's gone
Speaker 6: down the drain and he's starting he's taking over toy,
Speaker 6: So yeah, no more board broads this thinkfall.
Speaker 3: What's it like when you get into a rhythm of
Speaker 3: playing then due to injuries in that thing shuffle round
Speaker 3: and you're playing a different role, he's playing a different role.
Speaker 3: Does it take a mental toll or is it just
Speaker 3: switching places around?
Speaker 6: I wouldn't say it takes a mental toll. Sometimes it does,
Speaker 6: especially when your key players are out. It's a bit deflating.
Speaker 6: But we're like a next man, not mentality. We have
Speaker 6: full confidence with whoever comes in. But it does suck
Speaker 6: when when of your goes down. But yeah, just everyone's
Speaker 6: got a job to do, so try and get it.
Speaker 3: But then it must be so awesome when you're down
Speaker 3: on troops and I think back to like that Penrith game,
Speaker 3: major ground. Then when the young boys like contained steps up.
Speaker 6: And yeah, one hundred, when the young followers come come
Speaker 6: through and shine, it's a good feeling. I'm so happy
Speaker 6: for them. And the club's in a good spot, Like
Speaker 6: we've got a lot of good young fellows coming through,
Speaker 6: and I think in a couple of years, like you'll
Speaker 6: start to see the fruits of all these young fellows.
Speaker 3: What do you reckon? The biggest step up is for
Speaker 3: those boys going from New South Wales Cup to playing
Speaker 3: first grade is the game day preparation must be different
Speaker 3: and it's just a whole other scale.
Speaker 6: Yeah, when they step up, like we try and not
Speaker 6: make them feel like it's a big jump because we
Speaker 6: want them to be confident and even though it is
Speaker 6: a big jump with the intensity and you've got to
Speaker 6: be on twenty four to seven otherwise there's too many
Speaker 6: guys that are too smart these days that will if
Speaker 6: you're not on, they'll they'll exploit you and pull your
Speaker 6: pants down. So not like that, not like that, but yeah,
Speaker 6: you've got to be on, and we just try and
Speaker 6: make them feel confident, but obviously when they start becoming
Speaker 6: a regular first grader, yeah, they're prep certainly changes and
Speaker 6: they find out for themselves, like you know, they either
Speaker 6: learn the hard way or or they don't. So yeah, there's.
Speaker 1: Get a bit competitive at training when there's because like
Speaker 1: there's so much talent on the roster at the moment
Speaker 1: and dudes competing for you know, just one or two
Speaker 1: jerseys here and there.
Speaker 2: Does it get a bit competitive?
Speaker 6: Sometimes everything is competitive every every training. When we do
Speaker 6: our G two, which is like a big day, our
Speaker 6: coupleoys replicate who are in vescing. So this week we've
Speaker 6: got the Tigers, they will look at all the Tigers
Speaker 6: shapes and run it against us. And those battles, man,
Speaker 6: they're like full on, full on. And then even in
Speaker 6: pre season when everyone's fighting, you don't know who's seminted
Speaker 6: their spots apart from you know, the stuff was like
Speaker 6: ads seaning all those guys. The battles are out there
Speaker 6: are pretty solid, like sometimes bigger than the ones you
Speaker 6: face on the weekend. So everyone's fighting for a spot.
Speaker 6: But there's no we don't take a personal we know
Speaker 6: it's a business and everyone's fighting for the same position.
Speaker 2: So yeah, gets a bit like that. At the a SEC.
Speaker 1: I feel like people are often coming from my spot,
Speaker 1: you know, and asking how the rehab was going. Is
Speaker 1: probably not helped my cast week. In my defense, I
Speaker 1: was blind drunk. We did the commentary on the weekend,
Speaker 1: so I don't remember.
Speaker 6: That sounds fun, It must be.
Speaker 3: It must be awesome though, being like part of the club,
Speaker 3: especially now when you're looking at it's not just New
Speaker 3: South Wales Cup. We've actually got a whole guys coming
Speaker 3: through from the right of the younger grades, all under
Speaker 3: the Warriors banner, and they're really turning up and performing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well keepie, can we be Robbo? They've all put
Speaker 6: in our pathways and it's only about time. It's like
Speaker 6: about time they've done that. Not saying it's their fault
Speaker 6: that we hadn't had, but you know, if you look
Speaker 6: at teams like pen and you know, they they all
Speaker 6: their junior grades and that like all their stars and
Speaker 6: they come through their junior grades.
Speaker 2: They got photos of them when they're like seven years old.
Speaker 6: And one year, one year they won like it was
Speaker 6: like the NRL the Cup, the juniors, they won't all
Speaker 6: of it. And now our club we've got all that
Speaker 6: in place and our talent can stay here in New
Speaker 6: Zealand instead of other clubs coming over and poaching us,
Speaker 6: approaching our boys, because the amount of times you see
Speaker 6: like a Warriors junior or someone going to another team
Speaker 6: and how successful they become. Now we've got pathways in
Speaker 6: place where we can keep all our talent here.
Speaker 3: It was as much as we can have those photos,
Speaker 3: like I think that that that onees Cam Murray and yeah,
Speaker 3: yeah six years old playing at the South CU was
Speaker 3: it like what was it.
Speaker 2: Like for you coming up from chrish Urly.
Speaker 6: I'm born and Crush Church, raised in Populkada right played
Speaker 6: popcor right through and I played junior Worries, so I'll
Speaker 6: come through right through the system. But there's not many
Speaker 6: of us they have like me and Bunty you are
Speaker 6: probably the only ones. And Sean, even though Sean didst Overseas,
Speaker 6: there's not many of us of us left.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and our age grade teams always do so well,
Speaker 1: like twenties and all that, like.
Speaker 6: We always made the finals. So if we keep that twenties,
Speaker 6: I won my year. Yeah, so if we keep that team,
Speaker 6: maybe do.
Speaker 3: You have a favorite Aussie ground to.
Speaker 6: Play it, uncle, Yeah, uncle, just.
Speaker 3: What is it? Is it the atmosphere or.
Speaker 2: The the thing?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 6: The thing about that ground It always gets packed and
Speaker 6: the majority of is qs in Queensland and yeah, just
Speaker 6: the history at that ground. Yeah, for some reason it's
Speaker 6: always pecked and it's a.
Speaker 3: Great place to watch New South Wales but Queensland. What
Speaker 3: was it like when you've got match playing for New
Speaker 3: South Wales and you've got playing for Queensland. Was there
Speaker 3: any ribbon between them?
Speaker 6: No, there wasn't.
Speaker 2: Actually did they not talk?
Speaker 6: Well, see, they played, we played on a Saturday here
Speaker 6: we play. We played the Broncos and then we won
Speaker 6: and then they got caught on the It was either
Speaker 6: Saturday night or Sunday morning that they met then the
Speaker 6: squad and so we didn't see them before they left.
Speaker 6: I don't think Bunnie was going to go to the
Speaker 6: camp unless he was in the team. So since he
Speaker 6: was in the team, we knew that he was playing,
Speaker 6: which was you know, Bunnie's been our best player all year.
Speaker 6: He's been a terrific leader and I'm so happy for
Speaker 6: him because he's been knocking on their door for one
Speaker 6: now and I was happy that he especially over Capes too.
Speaker 6: It would have been a hard week for Capes. Lost
Speaker 6: on the Wednesday and then went down to the Raiders
Speaker 6: just on the Sunday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, tough week.
Speaker 1: Hey, just before we were talking to Marcello and we
Speaker 1: were talking to him about what like if you.
Speaker 2: Had to go to the Olympics, what sport do you
Speaker 2: reckon you be good at? I reckon you'd be quite
Speaker 2: good at rhythm.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I reckon you'd be good at the flips and
Speaker 3: sort of stuff. I'm not flexible doing some bat cartwheels
Speaker 3: on the beam, you know, like give me sort of
Speaker 3: Simone Biles type.
Speaker 6: What are you asking? Why would be good at? Or
Speaker 6: what I want to play?
Speaker 2: What would you want to do if you had to
Speaker 2: go to the Olympics. What sport would you pack?
Speaker 4: Box?
Speaker 6: Yeah, be a boxer.
Speaker 1: But the weight divisions are funny in the Olympics. They're
Speaker 1: like lighter, so you'd probably have to fight thirds that Yeah,
Speaker 1: because David Nukan, now that he's pro, he's had to
Speaker 1: go oh down and wait up the weight division. You
Speaker 1: probably have to fight thirds who are like six foot three.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well I'm looking at the middleweight like as he
Speaker 6: is my weight yeah, and he looks yeah, Oh I
Speaker 6: might have to cut some weight on the sauna.
Speaker 1: Yeah wait, bully brilliant. I thank you very much for
Speaker 1: your time so far today Jazz, and go well on
Speaker 1: the weekend, Bro, Thanks brother, well, welcome back into the
Speaker 1: Mad Monday Podcast. Huge honor and privilege to have Luke
Speaker 1: Metcalfe on the couch opposite us. Look obviously played on
Speaker 1: the week in three tries. How did you find that experience?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was good.
Speaker 7: Obviously I didn't get the win, but the three tries
Speaker 7: obviously helps.
Speaker 2: Yeah, helps because you go.
Speaker 1: I genuinely had questions written down for you in front
Speaker 1: of me. Jesse sits down And how's rehab? You heard
Speaker 1: it from all that?
Speaker 7: Yes, yes I did heard it through the wall. But
Speaker 7: I went to the question if you just asked me
Speaker 7: that will forget it.
Speaker 2: How was the rehab going?
Speaker 7: Oh, yes, good question. Now it's it's going good. It's
Speaker 7: been seventeen weeks now it's been it's gone. It's actually
Speaker 7: gone pretty quick for me anyway. But yeah, it's obviously
Speaker 7: frustrating to hurt itself four rounds into the season. You
Speaker 7: do the whole preseason just waiting to play and then yeah,
Speaker 7: but it's going good. I'm hopefully only a few more
Speaker 7: weeks away.
Speaker 3: Where I reckon, I'll freak out with the rehabbers getting
Speaker 3: to the point we're almost better and then pushing it
Speaker 3: too hard.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's sort of it. You can be like that,
Speaker 7: but you're taking care of so good, like by the
Speaker 7: physios and stuff like that, so you trust them and
Speaker 7: you know that like when you're that close, which I'm
Speaker 7: probably in that stage right now that I'm so close.
Speaker 7: I'm back training with the team, but i just can't
Speaker 7: play just yet. So I'm at that stage now. But
Speaker 7: you just you just got to trust the physios and
Speaker 7: the doctors and all that that they've got the right
Speaker 7: plan in place, and you just follow that and just
Speaker 7: you know.
Speaker 3: So do you do like no contact like train but yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: yeah yeah smash yeah.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 7: So today was my first day of just like shackles
Speaker 7: off you just trained the whole do the whole session.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So the first couple of times it was like that,
Speaker 7: it was like always doing, but today was my first
Speaker 7: day of proper Nuh, that's all right. You can tackle,
Speaker 7: you can get tackled. Everything's fine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, all fans have just loved having it
Speaker 3: at the club. You enjoying being a warrior?
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's awesome. I've was. I actually spoke to someone
Speaker 7: the other day and was saying it's the best decision
Speaker 7: I've made in my young career so far. I'm only
Speaker 7: twenty five and other Yeah, it's been awesome, just even
Speaker 7: away from football as well. It's been awesome to live
Speaker 7: in a new country. I've got my fiance over here
Speaker 7: and where loving going next one, going to wahikol and
Speaker 7: going to Queens Sound. Just things like that. It's me
Speaker 7: and everyone's so friendly to in New Zealand. So the
Speaker 7: football has been good, but away from it couldn't be
Speaker 7: better too.
Speaker 2: Has Freddy Lass given you any tips on mon wave.
Speaker 7: If there's one person not taking tips from it? No,
Speaker 7: he actually doesn't. He was loving himself after that though,
Speaker 7: he was yeah, yeah he needs to take some lessons
Speaker 7: from the Broncos. That Xavier will listen was awesome.
Speaker 3: He is mad. But you've got two ends of the spectrum.
Speaker 3: Is Zabier Willison and we're very different people.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they've got similar games. Yeah, they're big, they're strong,
Speaker 7: powerful runners of the ball.
Speaker 3: Well, Freddy Well didn't they play in the middle of
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: Powerful stuff you're heating over the Las Vegas. I was
Speaker 1: talking to Marcelo before about who as you're getting off
Speaker 1: the plane, who's the one player that the coaches are
Speaker 1: going to pull the sidnes?
Speaker 2: But just you keep a little on it this weekend.
Speaker 2: It didn't say you you'll be relieved today? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: not me.
Speaker 7: I'm good like that.
Speaker 2: Or do you think he did say?
Speaker 7: I think he would say, did you say Mitch Barnett? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: no missus the father and now two kids, two boys,
Speaker 7: so he's all right. Yeah, I think rock o'berry because
Speaker 7: he's I don't want to comment on his status, but yeah,
Speaker 7: but yeah, he was young, he's got no responsibilities young. Yeah,
Speaker 7: I feel like he could have a good time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be.
Speaker 3: Quite hard because I imagine you'll have pretty big train tracks
Speaker 3: because it's the beginning of a season. You want to
Speaker 3: hit the ground running, so it'll be hard not to
Speaker 3: get distracted, ain't.
Speaker 7: Yeah Yeah, obviously, Yeah, it's going to be awesome, like
Speaker 7: everyone's going to go, we want to have a look
Speaker 7: around and do everything like that. But yeah, I feel
Speaker 7: like at the end of the day we know that
Speaker 7: we're there to play Round one's, but it's probably just
Speaker 7: a lot more hype and a lot more It's almost
Speaker 7: like you playing a finals game or something like that.
Speaker 7: That's the only way I can sort of think about it.
Speaker 7: But I think it's going to be good that we
Speaker 7: think the teams this year went over about ten days earlier,
Speaker 7: so they sort of got to do it and see
Speaker 7: it all. So then by the time the game comes around,
Speaker 7: you've sort of done most things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, is that what you guys done? We don't know yet.
Speaker 7: I have no idea. Yeah, we haven't even really spoke
Speaker 7: about it too much. I think they want to speak
Speaker 7: about it just too yet.
Speaker 3: I think Sam George said the view that one of
Speaker 3: the keys is just to be based in Vegas the
Speaker 3: whole time, so you're not in other teams. Did San
Speaker 3: Diego for a bit desensitized?
Speaker 7: Yeah, straight away, get there, do whatever you want.
Speaker 1: I think because we're going over all, the a SEC
Speaker 1: is sending people over, We're having massive scraps internally to
Speaker 1: see who gets to go.
Speaker 3: Imagine you're nailing it with a question.
Speaker 1: So I've just scratched myself in the last fifteen minutes
Speaker 1: but I think the plan for us is to land
Speaker 1: on the day the game is because we're horrific for
Speaker 1: first night fever. So if we can just land when
Speaker 1: the when the game is on, then that saves us
Speaker 1: from blowing out on the first night. Yeah, just having
Speaker 1: an absolute.
Speaker 7: Mother four games.
Speaker 2: Here's an issue I've.
Speaker 1: Got actually that I wouldn't mind help from both of
Speaker 1: you two. I've got a mate whose winning is on
Speaker 1: the same weekend as the Warriors playing in Las Vegas.
Speaker 7: How good of a mate is he?
Speaker 1: I'm in the bridal party. Oh but I'm not best man,
Speaker 1: but I am in the bridle party.
Speaker 7: I'm just saying if that was me and my mate
Speaker 7: went to just a normal games, it's a regular season game,
Speaker 7: I'd be a bit off it.
Speaker 2: But what if the regular season game was in Las Vegas?
Speaker 3: Though? Have you tried to get them to move their
Speaker 3: wedding to Las Vegas?
Speaker 1: Was that was the first thing I did, come over
Speaker 1: selfish of him. Get help us to do the wedding
Speaker 1: and I would have a shockgun wedding in the chapel.
Speaker 3: There. Have you thought about a stand in? Getting a
Speaker 3: stand in for it?
Speaker 2: Oh? Fake me?
Speaker 3: Just standing at the at the wedding Gee Lane with
Speaker 3: a sort of darker.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you can pay someone to what's that that movie
Speaker 7: on on Prime with John Cena and and they pay
Speaker 7: him to act like the their friend for years. Have
Speaker 7: you seen that.
Speaker 3: John Cena just standing?
Speaker 1: I was just going to say, yeah, I think I
Speaker 1: think that might work. Just chuck a beard on John
Speaker 1: Cena a bit away.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Hey, Well.
Speaker 3: The whole nations fall in love with web right as
Speaker 3: a coach's I love his press conferences because he's a
Speaker 3: cool head, he's calm, he never loses it, sort of
Speaker 3: the opposite of what you think of your Craig Bellamy's,
Speaker 3: your Ricky Stewart's and there does he ever give a
Speaker 3: spray in the shit?
Speaker 7: No, I feel like with what he sees, what you
Speaker 7: get like in the press cond like he's literally just himself.
Speaker 7: So how he his demeanor and how he talks and
Speaker 7: says what went wrong in the game is literally exactly
Speaker 7: what he's just spoke to us about in the changing rooms.
Speaker 7: But he's just talking to the media. So it's and yeah,
Speaker 7: it's literally the same years, not too like animated or
Speaker 7: spraying too much, but he gets his message across in
Speaker 7: a way. That makes sure you understand it and you've
Speaker 7: heard it and like you're respected in that way. You know,
Speaker 7: he doesn't need to shout at you and yell at
Speaker 7: you for to get the point across.
Speaker 3: He also seems like that is really good at bringing
Speaker 3: people together, like getting a real sort of family vibe
Speaker 3: amongst the team.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and I feel like as well him probably being
Speaker 7: from Australia probably creates that too, because he probably because
Speaker 7: I think he was assistant coach a few years ago,
Speaker 7: so he probably knows what the club needs and what
Speaker 7: players need because I don't think too not even half
Speaker 7: the squad would probably be from Auckland, Like I'd say,
Speaker 7: there's boys who are from down South or from Australia whatever,
Speaker 7: So I think he understands to create that sort of
Speaker 7: environment what it does for boys away from football too
Speaker 7: and make their partners feel comfortable and their kids feel comfortable.
Speaker 1: Is it almost worse that he doesn't come in and
Speaker 1: give you a spray sometimes, like when you're expecting it
Speaker 1: and then he's just like it more like the I'm
Speaker 1: not angry, I'm just disappointed it could.
Speaker 3: Be like that.
Speaker 7: But yeah, No, I've had a couple of coaches in
Speaker 7: the past. You love to give a spray. But yeah,
Speaker 7: I like where he's version. He's not nice and calm
Speaker 7: comes across good and like I said, he he says
Speaker 7: in a way that you make sure you get the
Speaker 7: point and it's like he tells you what it is
Speaker 7: and you and you understand and you know what you've
Speaker 7: got to do.
Speaker 2: So I like it.
Speaker 3: And I suppose a lot of times if something has
Speaker 3: gone really wrong on the field, you know that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you don't need someone to again, I'm well aware I
Speaker 3: dropped the ball on the try line.
Speaker 2: Bro.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, so when we walk out of here and you
Speaker 1: beerate me for asking Jas how the reheabs go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's going to rub me right into the door. But
Speaker 1: how are the preparations going for the next few weeks?
Speaker 1: You said you might be like a couple of weeks away.
Speaker 1: I suppose you can't tell too much, but like, what
Speaker 1: what does that look like as you start to approach
Speaker 1: playing again?
Speaker 7: Yeah, so it's yeah, like I said before, today, it
Speaker 7: was my first day of actually fully in everything. So
Speaker 7: I've probably got another three weeks of that, I would say,
Speaker 7: of like actually being in every drill, doing every every
Speaker 7: single thing, doing all the tackling. There's probably a three
Speaker 7: week block of that, and just like some little things
Speaker 7: in the gym that I've probably got to tick off
Speaker 7: to just around some like just minute like musical things
Speaker 7: that you'd think probably wouldn't be as big as a deal,
Speaker 7: but like it actually is. So yeah, it's probably more
Speaker 7: just that now it's a time thing, just like getting
Speaker 7: the time of my legs, doing like thirteen v. Thirteen
Speaker 7: against the Boys, actually getting tackled, tackling people. So yeah,
Speaker 7: so it's hopefully it's only only three weeks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and how are the boys sort of looking at
Speaker 1: was I suppose you've just got to take it week
Speaker 1: by a week, But how are they looking at the
Speaker 1: rest of the season now?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I feel like everyone's real positive. Obviously the result
Speaker 7: last two weeks didn't go away, and such close games
Speaker 7: that it's easy to sort of think off, we only
Speaker 7: just one of those two games. You can look at
Speaker 7: the ladder and all our stuff. But I feel everyone's
Speaker 7: real confident and knows that where it's not like we're
Speaker 7: playing horrendous and we're losing the game and getting beat
Speaker 7: every week by thirty points. It's we know that what
Speaker 7: when we're on, we're on, and we can beat any
Speaker 7: team in the comp Like you've seen this year where
Speaker 7: we have put it together and we have played good,
Speaker 7: we can beat the good team. So everyone knows what
Speaker 7: we have to know what our standard is. But it's
Speaker 7: just more or less implementing and going out there and
Speaker 7: doing it for eighty minutes.
Speaker 1: There's also such an even season. I think, like when
Speaker 1: you look at the ladder, we're only like a couple
Speaker 1: of points away from sort of nine and then yeah,
Speaker 1: under the top top eight.
Speaker 3: I reckon could even be on points differentially. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I was looking at it like this year compared to
Speaker 3: last year, it feels like it's the fifty to fifties.
Speaker 3: Last year went the Warriors way. This year they didn't,
Speaker 3: and they could be the difference. Fifty to fifties go
Speaker 3: our way. In three games we're seventh.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and we look at like the Melbourne game at
Speaker 7: sart of the year, like you can go through you
Speaker 7: can go through the year and sort of just pick
Speaker 7: out a couple of games if you win those, but
Speaker 7: it's always behind. It's always like funny go back and
Speaker 7: pick a game. Yeah, you just got to go we've
Speaker 7: got six games. Let's try and win every single take
Speaker 7: a week by week, but you're thinking we can win
Speaker 7: every game, like to give ourselves the best shot.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: We were saying before to Marcella over there in Canberra
Speaker 1: when they were blowing the horn, blowing the background, ripping
Speaker 1: a can cone, and I asked him, what's one of
Speaker 1: the weirdest things that he's seen in the stands. Is
Speaker 1: there anything you've seen in the in the stands?
Speaker 7: Nothing, nothing like that. Yeah, I feel like that just
Speaker 7: takes a cake. Like I haven't seen anything too. I
Speaker 7: haven't seen anything too, but I've heard some mad sprays
Speaker 7: on the some good sprays.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Obviously you can't repeat what I can't repeat.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I can't repeat that.
Speaker 1: Do they get up here for? Is it when you're
Speaker 1: coming off like subbed off or you can.
Speaker 7: I remember I ran on last year versus of the Titans,
Speaker 7: and I ran like ran on for second half and
Speaker 7: we're waiting for them to run out, So you were there.
Speaker 7: We're there for probably like a minute and a half
Speaker 7: waiting for them to come out, and so we're kicking
Speaker 7: our way and I was just standing on the wing
Speaker 7: because I like halves. They stand on the wing just
Speaker 7: for the kickoff and some like was just sprayingy gone,
Speaker 7: get off the wing, number six. That was a friendly version.
Speaker 7: It was obviously yeah give me sen C's and everything
Speaker 7: like that. But yeah, and I was like cracking up
Speaker 7: like I wanted to, and that was But yeah, that's funny, like.
Speaker 2: Get in there and come off the back fence off
Speaker 2: the kickoff here.
Speaker 3: I don't know what he wants in those big stadiums.
Speaker 3: So does it just become white noise?
Speaker 7: Yeah, you don't really. Yeah, you can't really hear too
Speaker 7: much like special games. I remember last year Combank when
Speaker 7: we played Paramatter and that was there was like a
Speaker 7: whole but there's a warrior's chant, like you could hear that.
Speaker 7: But yeah, it's not too you don't really hear that's
Speaker 7: this is probably that one of the only time I've
Speaker 7: heard something directly like to me like that. That was
Speaker 7: at half time because I wasn't doing anything. But yeah,
Speaker 7: you can't really especially games here at Mount Smart you're
Speaker 7: just hearing. It's just just a raw.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's different than the new South Wales cap games though,
Speaker 3: where it's a bit more of a sparse crowd and
Speaker 3: you got a couple of dudes who.
Speaker 1: Just able to hear then yeah, yeah, we've been asking
Speaker 1: each of the boys have come through today. Olympics starting up,
Speaker 1: if you had to get over to the Olympics have
Speaker 1: a crack at something, what would you pick?
Speaker 7: Like that I think I'm good at, or just that
Speaker 7: I wish I could do, or something that I actually think.
Speaker 2: Me let's go with the first one.
Speaker 1: What you think, like if you if I sent you
Speaker 1: over and like you have to win a middle here,
Speaker 1: what sport would you pick? Not saying that you would,
Speaker 1: but like if you had to pick one, you think
Speaker 1: you'd be all right out.
Speaker 7: Like it would have to be running, but I'm not
Speaker 7: going to beat them because they're so fast. I definitely
Speaker 7: wouldn't meddle.
Speaker 3: What does it would be good at?
Speaker 7: Javelin? Like upper body? I'm too small?
Speaker 6: Ye?
Speaker 7: Maybe like long jump? Oh you must get a good run.
Speaker 7: Obviously that would beat me.
Speaker 3: But yeah that do you reckon? The Warriors ared go
Speaker 3: as a team and synchronized swimming.
Speaker 7: Oh are you guys swim? So that would be good.
Speaker 3: Yeah we should come and do some water safety with them.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, come come. Not only hung A pools in
Speaker 7: the pre sat.
Speaker 1: Some boys that sink like a stone. Well, thanks very
Speaker 1: much for your time so far. Luke, go well over
Speaker 1: the next few weeks, and good luck with the rehab
Speaker 1: mate you are doing rehab mat.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, Also tell Jaz Hope that's hearing comes right and.
Speaker 1: Yeah thanks all good, well, thank you very much for
Speaker 1: tuning into this episode of Med Monday Live from Mount
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Speaker 1: I imagine I won't be back on the podcast anytime soon, so.
Speaker 2: Enjoy the now.
Speaker 3: We're going to have to put you in preserve bro.
Speaker 2: I'll be dropped down to q CAUP. I.
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