Speaker 1: I can know the regular league fans and welcome back
Speaker 1: into the Mad Monday Podcast, brought to you as always
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Speaker 1: for watching rugby league until midnight on a Wednesday. My
Speaker 1: name is Tino. I saw a Monday AOI. I'm joined
Speaker 1: by Adam Vanua Kezy this morning, Kezy? How you How
Speaker 1: did you pull up this morning after Wednesday?
Speaker 2: Origin? Yeah, I was all good.
Speaker 1: I actually on the way home stopped at Wendy's Oh
Speaker 1: and got some nuggies and a little chicken Berger there.
Speaker 1: Even after all those Mad Traveler pies that we had. Yeah, yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: I was still hungry. Yeah, and so I ate that
Speaker 1: watched something, went to sleep at like one am. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then because I do afternoon radio, I just set
Speaker 1: my arm for eight thirty. Oh goodness, goal luxurious. Yeah yeah, sleeper.
Speaker 1: How did you pull up? I did the same thing.
Speaker 1: Oh really yeah, one hundred percent. But yeah, no, it
Speaker 1: was like it was a hell of a game last night.
Speaker 2: Origin three.
Speaker 1: The when I was saying this this morning on the
Speaker 1: Agenda podcast, we were watching it last night right on
Speaker 1: my place and the bottom right hand corner because it
Speaker 1: was nine not fox no, no, no, yeah, And they had
Speaker 1: the clock but it just said one h for the
Speaker 1: start of the game. It was funny. Ages were like,
Speaker 1: what the hell has scored? Then eventually it flicked over
Speaker 1: and it was counting down. Then they switched it and
Speaker 1: it was counting back up. Anyway, long short of that
Speaker 1: was when I finally found out how long the game
Speaker 1: had been going for. It only said eight minutes, and
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, I've been watching this since I
Speaker 1: was about ten years old. This game has gone on
Speaker 1: forever in a good way. It wasn't dragging, no, it
Speaker 1: was just frantic.
Speaker 2: It was so much action. Man, it was hictic from
Speaker 2: the get go, and.
Speaker 1: It was obviously that origin intensity that everyone talks about.
Speaker 1: And then the dudes that were leading the charge like
Speaker 1: Pat Carrigan, I've never seen him that rived up before.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I reckon.
Speaker 1: There are about six high shots in the first sort
Speaker 1: of ten minutes that the Rift did not give a
Speaker 1: shit about. Whereas when your regular season NRL a slight
Speaker 1: slap to the face, these days they're sitting you off
Speaker 1: for an HIA and it's just because that's the rules.
Speaker 2: Hi A.
Speaker 1: Speaking of hs Angus Crichton past and Hi A, it
Speaker 1: wasn't as it wasn't his head that got knocked. He
Speaker 1: had a horizontal scorpion where he bend his head backwards.
Speaker 1: It was a neckershoe. I don't think it was that
Speaker 1: is it was a head knock.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean I saw that it was with Reese
Speaker 2: Walsh's hip. I believe it was. It was a spinal injury.
Speaker 1: But they showed it, and they showed like, let's get
Speaker 1: one thing straight. Yes, that was terrible for his spine
Speaker 1: and his neck, and he will be in a wheelchair
Speaker 1: at some stage, that's right. But also watching that in
Speaker 1: slow motion, his eyes rolled back into his head. He
Speaker 1: was con cast. But because it's origin, there was an
Speaker 1: origin style, hi A, And then just let him come back.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've seen have you ever seen
Speaker 1: the picture of the human nervous system and it's been
Speaker 1: pulled out of the body and you can see where
Speaker 1: all the nerves go. No, the eyes are connected to
Speaker 1: the to the brain are looking at That sounds real
Speaker 1: messed up because I'm a Rugby League fan and I
Speaker 1: need to understand the machinations of the human body.
Speaker 2: Chris right, So the eyes, yes.
Speaker 1: Are connected to the brain connected to the theme of
Speaker 1: the spinal cord, which is what he hit. And it's
Speaker 1: basically like remember those toys we pull a little string
Speaker 1: and the arms come up and the leagues come out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: basically he did that with his spinal cord. As I reckon,
Speaker 1: his spinal cord got pulled so hard that it rolled
Speaker 1: his eyes into the back of his head right, making
Speaker 1: it look like he was concussed. But actually it was
Speaker 1: just that his spinal cord had been ripped out, which
Speaker 1: is fine, yea. And it came right and he played on.
Speaker 2: Rust not only play on, but then get the Man
Speaker 2: of the series. He was excellent.
Speaker 1: He was excellent, And I can't believe at the start
Speaker 1: of the season there were all these like whispers around
Speaker 1: the roosters, you know, wanting to sign David Forfeeda to
Speaker 1: replace him and blah blah blah. Meanwhile, towards the end
Speaker 1: of the season, Dave Forafete is not even in the
Speaker 1: Queensland side and Angus Crichton is Man of the Series.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know. I wouldn't. I can't believe it
Speaker 2: because at the time he wasn't playing that well.
Speaker 1: He was playing terrible and all those rumors going around
Speaker 1: at him and Amsterdam taking mushies, and I.
Speaker 2: Saw a good interview with him. Actually, it's worth going
Speaker 2: and listen to. I haven't seen that one, you know,
Speaker 2: the one you're talking about.
Speaker 1: It because I thought when I tuned into it, I
Speaker 1: was like, Oh, here we go. This is going to
Speaker 1: be the straight bat. He's going to bullshit his way
Speaker 1: through all this stuff. He didn't, didn't he hasn't he
Speaker 1: got bipolar or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he does.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think that means he didn't go with
Speaker 1: the rails at episode right, so he yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I don't think that one
Speaker 1: excludes the other. Yeah, but anyway, that's all slander.
Speaker 2: You're on it.
Speaker 1: He had an absolutely outstanding season, series, season and season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but a biff.
Speaker 1: I was saying before the game, we were placing our bets,
Speaker 1: and I was like, if there was a way that
Speaker 1: I could get on a sin bedding, I would I
Speaker 1: couldn't find the market for it. Sure enough, it happened.
Speaker 1: Both teams a bit of a brew haha between Daily
Speaker 1: Cheer Evans and Jerome Lewe aka both team's most annoying players. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: Daily Cheery Evans was into everything last night. He's like,
Speaker 1: I have so much respect and rightly so for Daily
Speaker 1: Cheer Evans. He's a phenomenal player who's like his career
Speaker 1: is insane. I'd just still be playing Origin at forty
Speaker 1: three years old exactly. He's actually forty four. And he's
Speaker 1: such a shit stirer though, but not to the extent
Speaker 1: that Jerome Luay is. No, he's smart about it, whereas
Speaker 1: Jerome Lewie, who's and by the way, I'm a New
Speaker 1: South Wales fan, he's just a cock.
Speaker 2: Well he is. I love New south Wales. I like
Speaker 2: it if Jerome Lewis as a play.
Speaker 1: He's such a good player. He literally sit up there
Speaker 1: try for Bradman Beers. Yeah, he just blew the game
Speaker 1: wide open, little wide open. That he's the main reason
Speaker 1: that New South Wales won that game. You know, I
Speaker 1: would argue that he was almost man of the match.
Speaker 1: By the way, Dylan Eddwood's got that I got paid
Speaker 1: out sweet. Oh yes, But I just don't like him.
Speaker 2: No, he is intensely unlikable.
Speaker 1: I know, I like and you don't have to be loved,
Speaker 1: but he almost goes out of his way to make
Speaker 1: people hate his guards. Some people need it. I think
Speaker 1: he could be one of those people who needs to
Speaker 1: be racked up.
Speaker 2: That's just yeah, okaya vibe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's like, look maybe if I grow my
Speaker 1: hero out real long, it'll make people hate me and
Speaker 1: I need that fuel. Yeah right, okay to carry on.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that sparked a bit of an all in
Speaker 1: brew haha. No punches thrown, but it was a real
Speaker 1: chippy game and I've just seen this afternoon that there's
Speaker 1: been two suspensions handed out for that. One was for
Speaker 1: Cam Murray because he comes streaking down the sideline to
Speaker 1: get involved, and the other one was for Hamali Lakwasu,
Speaker 1: who was in a suit on the weekend on the
Speaker 1: bench by the way.
Speaker 2: Ola quit. It's a great game from him.
Speaker 1: We were cracking up twice because first of all, they
Speaker 1: are in the Harddle New South Wales and Hudle like
Speaker 1: geeting themselves up. He's just in the background eating a
Speaker 1: bray burd yeah in a suit, yeah, with a big
Speaker 1: grit on his face. If you're not playing, I'd probably
Speaker 1: cut the snacks out, you know, someone else might need that.
Speaker 2: Just hands in his pockets eating it at apple. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So funny and Mitch Barnett a tremendous game. We'll get
Speaker 2: into his.
Speaker 1: Stats and that later on. In fact, we won't. I
Speaker 1: haven't pulled any stats, but he played really well.
Speaker 2: Just gonna say, shit, it was was I supposed to
Speaker 2: bring no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: Oh, you didn't know, but he was. And we've been
Speaker 1: saying this for the longest time. He's a State of
Speaker 1: Origin player. He was going around the lock geeing everyone up.
Speaker 1: He made a point of going over to Homoliolokuatu and
Speaker 1: geing him up while he was standing in a suit
Speaker 1: with one hand in his pocket and the other one
Speaker 1: eating a free burn. Shout out to all onus, Morris
Speaker 1: set and I think that that just showed the mana
Speaker 1: of Mitch. But that Mitch Monner. And this is remember
Speaker 1: when he was away and we got do you remember
Speaker 1: this an historic l chucked on us by the Titans? Yes,
Speaker 1: sixty sixty six. He wasn't there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we were saying the man, yeah he is, so
Speaker 2: the guy that fires us all up.
Speaker 1: Yes, so he is crucial and will he turn it
Speaker 1: around tomorrow night against the Raiders, that's the big question. Well,
Speaker 1: he's named, we were saying, we were just saying this
Speaker 1: before the podcast. We're like I said, will neither him
Speaker 1: nor Capeal have been named, despite the fact that I
Speaker 1: copied and pasted the team listening to our rundown and
Speaker 1: they're both on there. They're both on there. They've both
Speaker 1: been named, But I mean, do you think that they'll start.
Speaker 1: They've both been named to start, but they both played
Speaker 1: massive minutes and I don't know if you saw Mitch
Speaker 1: Barnett out there, he was holding back. No, no, he
Speaker 1: was being a psycho, which I absolutely loved. My theor
Speaker 1: in we'll get into the Warriors shortly is that this
Speaker 1: is do or die for the Warriors.
Speaker 2: We have to win this game. It's the Raiders. Like.
Speaker 1: If he doesn't play this game, yeah, I think he'll
Speaker 1: just play. He'll play fifty minutes in the front row.
Speaker 1: He's named it PROP, but usually he goes from Prop
Speaker 1: to back row and then Ford like they do some
Speaker 1: weird stuff there. I think he'll just play the prop
Speaker 1: rotation minutes hopefully and hopefully a few lighter a bit
Speaker 1: of a lighter load. Yeah, you're right, we'll get to it.
Speaker 1: He's not a guy though that can do a lighter load.
Speaker 1: He'll say, yeah, yeah, I'll do a lighter load.
Speaker 2: Then he won't. Yeah, he'll go helpful with it.
Speaker 1: Ridiculous pace we mentioned the final score line was actually
Speaker 1: fourteen to four, and at halftime it was two all,
Speaker 1: which I don't think.
Speaker 2: Anyone had in their in their malties.
Speaker 1: You tell me that it's going to be two all
Speaker 1: at halftime, then I'll say, oh, that sounds boring. It
Speaker 1: wasn't boring, No, it was so great. It was just
Speaker 1: high intensity. The scuffles that were breaking out were ridiculous.
Speaker 1: It was like eight in the first half. The ref
Speaker 1: was in the middle of one. As we said, one
Speaker 1: was on the sideline. But by the way, just on
Speaker 1: that sideline one. Both Cam Murray and all the quiet
Speaker 1: too are facing two games on the sideline bass they
Speaker 1: can challenge it, and then got three and they probably
Speaker 1: would end up being three. So yeah, i'd reckon it
Speaker 1: will be two games. But anytime you're facing a charge
Speaker 1: and you weren't playing, just copy it, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: Getting sent from the field with a suit on that
Speaker 2: you weren't on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But to be honest and daily, Cherry Errands was
Speaker 1: all fired up about some shit, you know, towards the
Speaker 1: end there about how he came off the field. That
Speaker 1: should have been a penal about KM Murray, I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I don't think that would have made much of
Speaker 1: a difference. I mean, if Bradman Best's first two breaks
Speaker 1: even into it in one try, and if Stephen Crichton
Speaker 1: didn't drop the ball over the trail and it would
Speaker 1: have been an absolute hiding, it.
Speaker 2: Could have been worse. And then fourteen points to four
Speaker 2: to the Blues.
Speaker 1: And I think basically what happened was it was so
Speaker 1: hectic for an hour of that match that in the
Speaker 1: last twenty minutes it was going to blow open one
Speaker 1: way or the other. Yeah, And unfortunately for the Maroons
Speaker 1: it was all one way traffic. For the Blues, it
Speaker 1: happened to coincide with Kaylee and Ponger coming onto the field. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was wasn't his fault. I don't think it's Kaylen
Speaker 1: pong as well. I think if you're gonna have him
Speaker 1: the hammer and Reese Walsh out there, like those guys
Speaker 1: all are attacking phenomenons. Yeah, defensively the okay, you know,
Speaker 1: like it said, three small bodies that you're bringing on
Speaker 1: and you're anticipating out offensing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but to be honest, and the first half showed
Speaker 2: it. It was all about Deet.
Speaker 1: There was no offense that gave me. Reese Welsh just
Speaker 1: showed why he wasn't the fullback that we needed at
Speaker 1: the Warriors.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: It was because, yeah, he's mean. He's a flat track bully.
Speaker 1: When you're up by forty points, he carving dudes up.
Speaker 1: He's throwing skucky harbor Bridge passes. He's slicing dudes up
Speaker 1: out of nowhere. That's right when you're down in the shit.
Speaker 1: In game three Origin Sun Gorp made against mate, State
Speaker 1: against State, He's probably not what you needed back there
Speaker 1: because that much that last Mitch Moses try, he sort
Speaker 1: of jagged back on the inside and then it was
Speaker 1: just a little swerve past Reese Walsh who's just.
Speaker 2: Clutching his shadow.
Speaker 1: It was a ship try, Like, yeah, it was cool
Speaker 1: because and Mitch Moses's running game is awesome, but that's cool.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a State of Origin decider at Suncrp. No.
Speaker 1: The Bradman best one was that was sick and he
Speaker 1: watching him and he's been playing excellent for the Knights,
Speaker 1: but watching him, I was like, this guy's going to
Speaker 1: be I reckon next year. He's going to be like
Speaker 1: one of those guys in Super Coach you have to have.
Speaker 1: He is running so fast and he is so big
Speaker 1: and strong.
Speaker 2: Yeah, massive meat.
Speaker 1: He had tremendous got legged at it, amazing cut on
Speaker 1: his lip that reminded me of I don't know if
Speaker 1: you're familiar with Robbie Lawler from the UFC, but he
Speaker 1: had a similar thing where he won a fight but
Speaker 1: had a split in his lip and when he celebrated
Speaker 1: and like let out a row, it's split all the
Speaker 1: way out to his nose. That's basically what was happening
Speaker 1: to Bradman Best last night. And I think he liked it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think he was like, these photos are going to
Speaker 1: live forever. I'll have these printed, you know, Yeah, They'll
Speaker 1: be on posters on my wall. And I think that
Speaker 1: he's bought himself another three years of origin. But just
Speaker 1: by not only scoring that try, but even if he hadn't,
Speaker 1: just bullocking runs and a ripped lip for the state
Speaker 1: that I think that locks him in. So I agree,
Speaker 1: or Who's who's the other center for Chrichton shit? Because
Speaker 1: I'm like, but you've gotta have a trail in there.
Speaker 1: I think you figure it out with Bredman mess. Maybe
Speaker 1: he hadn't, And like you're right about that photo, Like
Speaker 1: his photo of him with the split lip is the
Speaker 1: same as Trump with the cut here with the shot ere. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's going to be on his poster for years and
Speaker 1: that yeah, because he just looked insane.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was badass.
Speaker 1: It also is going to massively shift the power dynamics
Speaker 1: in the changing rooms at Newcastle because the two defenders
Speaker 1: that he beat with Kayln Ponger and also Origin Gags,
Speaker 1: Origin Gags who got skinned a couple of times. And
Speaker 1: just let him let him just play for Newcastle, That's
Speaker 1: to be honest.
Speaker 2: I reckon other way, let him just play.
Speaker 1: For He's like, he's not Origin Gags anymore. He's he's
Speaker 1: getting older, you know what I mean? See this and
Speaker 1: this is the thing. Looking back at the game now,
Speaker 1: I'm like, of course they lost Harry Grant's got a
Speaker 1: sternam injury. There was no months even like Xavier Coats
Speaker 1: wasn't there. Felice Caafusi started, They had a platoon swap
Speaker 1: at their front row.
Speaker 2: That was weird.
Speaker 1: All of the Beach players came on to start and
Speaker 1: I I read that at the time as I think
Speaker 1: this is Billy Slater trying to play mind games where
Speaker 1: he's named a different front row to try and fuck with. Yeah,
Speaker 1: New South Wales, I reckon, that's what he was doing.
Speaker 1: And I think anytime you're resorting to that kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: that's some New South Wales shit. Yeah, you're already on
Speaker 1: the you're already on the back foot.
Speaker 2: Queensland are just like usually like, oh, we don't care
Speaker 2: what you're doing. We're just going to do about what
Speaker 2: we're doing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, whereas Billy quite Yeah, it was so weird by
Speaker 1: the way, and CAFUSI had a mean game and he's
Speaker 1: definitely an origin player, oh for sure. But yeah, that
Speaker 1: was it was really random.
Speaker 2: Are we watching the descent of a man into madness?
Speaker 2: After one game? A game?
Speaker 1: The first game he came in and he was so calm,
Speaker 1: coockture of himself. He's like, yeah, no, we're gonna work.
Speaker 1: Second game, he starts argue with the media. No, I
Speaker 1: didn't say that. I didn't say this, that this should
Speaker 1: have been a head eye, this shouldn't have been a
Speaker 1: send off. Blah blah blah blah blah. Game three, he's
Speaker 1: fucking mad manning at mad Max and with all the
Speaker 1: different players and switching dudes around as he's like that
Speaker 1: always sunny Philadelphia meme. Yeah of Pepper silver or whatever
Speaker 1: it's called, with all the strings and things in the corkboard.
Speaker 1: Well he's lost it. What I think he has lost
Speaker 1: is well, just the state of origin. State of origin
Speaker 1: by a massive margin. And that's only the thirdy of
Speaker 1: a decider in sun Corp. The New South Wales is
Speaker 1: once so that's bloody excellent. But I think that whole hoodoo,
Speaker 1: at least for a week while of winning a decider
Speaker 1: in sun Corp and going to sun Corp New South
Speaker 1: Wales with the team that they've put together and the
Speaker 1: way they've been playing and the points they left out there,
Speaker 1: I think it's unpredicting and I'm a New South Wales
Speaker 1: fan that for the next few years it's.
Speaker 2: New South Wales.
Speaker 1: Oh shit, yeah, like the next three years three.
Speaker 2: Years, get on the futures markets on the TV. I'm
Speaker 2: going to.
Speaker 1: But other other than it was it was well worth
Speaker 1: staying up on a Wednesday night to watch that. There
Speaker 1: was a tremendous game of State of Origin fortball. It
Speaker 1: was tight right up until about the last ten to
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. It was frantic, like you said, two all
Speaker 1: at halftime, but at entertaining, Yeah, entertaining to all.
Speaker 2: Most all of my bits. But it was well worth it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so mine I put I think I put ten
Speaker 1: bucks on New South Wales to when, which they did,
Speaker 1: and then I put three bucks or something on Dylan
Speaker 1: Edwards to get mad of the match. And because it
Speaker 1: was a tight game. This is a good thing to
Speaker 1: keep in mind going forward. Whenever you can think there's
Speaker 1: going to be a tight game, whoever gets the most
Speaker 1: meters is just gonna get mad of the match.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it was Dylan Edwards. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I didn't even realize he got mad of the
Speaker 1: match until this morning. I woke up and checked it.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh shit, he got mad at the match. Yeah,
Speaker 1: two hundred and eighty three meters or something. It would
Speaker 1: have been Bradman best if he didn't drop those two
Speaker 1: balls because he was insane.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so that's the f and doubt just the
Speaker 1: guy with the most meters man of the match. That's
Speaker 1: a great fitting strategy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I quite like that. All right. We talked about
Speaker 2: whether Cape I was gonna play.
Speaker 1: We talked about whether Mitch Barnett is going to play,
Speaker 1: where we're going to take a quick break, come back
Speaker 1: and digest an interesting Warriors teamless or I will get
Speaker 1: to the Mitch Barnett and the Kirk cape well of
Speaker 1: it all in just a sec.
Speaker 2: But I wanted to start with tor Who Harris.
Speaker 1: It came out earlier this week that he's out for
Speaker 1: the rest of the season after electing to take risk surgery.
Speaker 2: He's got a bug risk. I think it's been plaguing
Speaker 2: him for a while.
Speaker 1: He's been out and out and now he's going to
Speaker 1: be out for the rest of the season. He is
Speaker 1: our captain. How big a blow is it losing tor
Speaker 1: Who Harris for the rest of the season. Well, it's
Speaker 1: a huge blow, isn't it. I mean, tour Who's been
Speaker 1: that one constant throughout years of turmoil at the Warriors.
Speaker 1: You can always rely on him. I don't think it's
Speaker 1: as much of a loss as it was at the beginning.
Speaker 1: It would have been at the beginning of the season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I almost feel like Mitch Barnett's the captain now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, he's Whether they name him as the captain
Speaker 1: or not Yeah.
Speaker 2: He's like, look at me, look at me. I'm the
Speaker 2: captain now.
Speaker 1: So I still I loved the way we had Mitch
Speaker 1: Barnett and add for Noil Blake and then or even
Speaker 1: Jackson Ford and then Toyho would come on after twenty
Speaker 1: minutes and just play like a solid forty five in
Speaker 1: the middle there.
Speaker 2: I loved that.
Speaker 1: I think his sort of his play at first receiver there,
Speaker 1: in his distribution and stuff is earliant. So that's going
Speaker 1: to be a huge loss, and to be honest, at
Speaker 1: this point in the season where it's must win footy
Speaker 1: for us, it is a bit of a loss. But
Speaker 1: I'm not as depressed as I would have been if
Speaker 1: it happened at the start of the season. If I'm
Speaker 1: thinking silver Linings, I think we've all really enjoyed the
Speaker 1: impact that Dylan Walker's had around being much quicker off
Speaker 1: the line, Like he's a very different player. He's high
Speaker 1: energies and absolutely everything. So now all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you go from Sean Johnson to mighty Martin Tory who Harris,
Speaker 1: So now you've got Chanell Harris Tavita there and they've
Speaker 1: got Dylan Walker in there. I think it could potentially
Speaker 1: speed our team up quite a bit. The other big
Speaker 1: change that we've made obviously, Charms is still out, so
Speaker 1: that means Tane Tupick he comes in at fallback. And
Speaker 1: then also Marcelo Montoya has a groin complaint, so he's out.
Speaker 1: He's sort of week to week, which brings Ali Laa
Speaker 1: Taua and to center and Roger two of us a
Speaker 1: check onto the wing. We've been calling for him to
Speaker 1: be swapped out of center for.
Speaker 2: Quite a while. We all wanted him to go back
Speaker 2: to fullback. I love this. He's now on the wing.
Speaker 2: Yet I love Leer Tower. He's a beast, you know,
Speaker 2: just on layer towel quickly.
Speaker 1: They love him too because every piece of media that
Speaker 1: came out before the season, he was in it. So
Speaker 1: I think they thought he was going to be a
Speaker 1: bigger part of the season than he has been. And
Speaker 1: then yeah, and because he was injured, I think, but
Speaker 1: also like they need the goal kicking of Adam Pompey
Speaker 1: and stuff as well, So there's been these things like
Speaker 1: that that has like forced their hands. But I'm just
Speaker 1: going I think the club really like him. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: he's the goods. He's one of those dudes we don't
Speaker 1: want to let go because he'll go to the Cowboys
Speaker 1: or the Panthers or something and become great. I love
Speaker 1: Roger on the left side and to Mighty Martin at seven.
Speaker 2: Lock it in the rest of the season. You don't
Speaker 2: think Sean will come back? Nah, he will.
Speaker 1: And if we're going to do some real damage in
Speaker 1: the postseason, we need Sean Johnson. But I just love
Speaker 1: the way to Mighty Martin's playing.
Speaker 2: I just yeah.
Speaker 1: And his whole storyline of having to retire because of
Speaker 1: a brain bleed, playing back home and Tao Mutsu or
Speaker 1: wherever from the White Cut he's from.
Speaker 2: Something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And then now he's back at the Warriors replacing
Speaker 1: Sean Johnson and just having an absolute barnstorming season. And
Speaker 1: the photo that he posted on his Instagram last week
Speaker 1: of even on the back of a horse that he's
Speaker 1: bringing a peg out of the bush. And I've been
Speaker 1: saying this all week, and I assume I don't think
Speaker 1: I've ever believed in something as strongly as I believe
Speaker 1: in this. So Mighty Martin is the man every key
Speaker 1: he bloke thinks he is. He's who I think I am.
Speaker 1: I don't even think i'm him. I wish I thought
Speaker 1: I was him. You know, when your confidence meter is full,
Speaker 1: and you're like, you know what, I'll make sure all
Speaker 1: right that he is who you think you are when
Speaker 1: your confidence meter is full, because the annoying thing about
Speaker 1: that is like he can ride a horse, which is just
Speaker 1: taps into like, yeah, rear, something deep within every human. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's that freedom, mastery of beasts, the mastery of a beast.
Speaker 1: He did right, and he uses it to claim the
Speaker 1: lives of other beasts.
Speaker 2: That's right. He killed the boar.
Speaker 1: He's now put that on the horse, his mastery over
Speaker 1: that beast. He's getting food for his family.
Speaker 2: And on Saturday he's going to go play half back
Speaker 2: for the Warriors, and Maniah, he's a fucking smoke show,
Speaker 2: and he's a smoke show. It's bad running. It's bad running. Shit.
Speaker 1: But there was a movie character, yeah, and it lived
Speaker 1: the life that to Mighty Martin lives.
Speaker 2: You'd be like, that's bullshit. Yeah, no one has all
Speaker 2: of that.
Speaker 1: It's like everyone looks normal and everyone's just like peasants.
Speaker 1: And then this one main character walks down and he
Speaker 1: looks like Jason mamore. Yeah, they spent the casting budget
Speaker 1: on one dude. Everyone else is just from the town
Speaker 1: and they're getting paid in sandwiches or whatever, and they
Speaker 1: spent they splashed out on bread pet for the starring
Speaker 1: role in this movie.
Speaker 2: That's why everyone else just looks like way Digger and Lass.
Speaker 2: And then he comes through and you're like, oh, fuck off, you.
Speaker 1: Killed that massive airs bore and then rode it out
Speaker 1: on the back of your horse.
Speaker 2: You're a you're a huge omen bit guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great omen He went out over the
Speaker 1: weekend over the by.
Speaker 2: Did that took that photo? Yeah? Where is that in place? Okay,
Speaker 2: I don't mind. It's Mighty Martin anytime? Is that what you? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm thinking that were running into that.
Speaker 1: He's going to go in and get a going to
Speaker 1: bring a pig back for the family. Anything else on
Speaker 1: the team list obviously Cape War and Mitch Barnett named
Speaker 1: I think you have to name them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm questionable about Cape War.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's been kind of not shit, but he's
Speaker 1: just been middle of the road all season. He was
Speaker 1: middle of the road for Queensland and now two days
Speaker 1: later he has to come and start in the back row.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I feel like he might go to the bench or
Speaker 1: something like. Yeah, this is initially what I thought as well.
Speaker 1: It's actually short and it's the worst time for a turnaround.
Speaker 1: I've talked to White A corporate about this, about backing
Speaker 1: up from Origin's you'd rather do it the day after
Speaker 1: straight away or like five days later. But that second day, yeah,
Speaker 1: is the toughest, like getting out of bed, Like getting
Speaker 1: out of bed in the morning on tomorrow morning for
Speaker 1: these warriors, for Cape and Barnet, they're gonna wake up.
Speaker 2: Oh fuck it out.
Speaker 1: What am I going to do now between now and
Speaker 1: the first whistle? Crying well, putting on his warriors? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, look, don't get up for it, because this
Speaker 1: is what they do. This is who they are. They
Speaker 1: are State of Origin players. But like, but you'd still
Speaker 1: be like as shit. It was hard getting up out
Speaker 1: of bed after Game three for me, just purely based
Speaker 1: on how frantic it was to watch. But you backed
Speaker 1: up because you're a State of Origin broadcast that's right.
Speaker 1: And I'm here doing a pod for the backbones out
Speaker 1: there like that the turn backbone, my wife. Look, that's
Speaker 1: my only sort of issue with the teams. Great that
Speaker 1: to see matat start as well, also having Liqua Hala
Speaker 1: Siema on the bench again, I just love this and
Speaker 1: tag into a picky static feelback. I just love these
Speaker 1: young fellas. When they're given opportunities, they shine. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: I want to see more of that. Look at Halo
Speaker 1: seem a dear friend of the podcast. He's been on
Speaker 1: the Mad Monday podcast before.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah.
Speaker 1: Turning down to Helenstein's with us him and Tennis Stoles
Speaker 1: Smith and Chance Nickel clock Stead, I've got a flaming
Speaker 1: hot take about our matchup this weekend.
Speaker 2: It is against the Raiders.
Speaker 1: Look at the teamless fogey back which is huge for them, huge, huge, huge,
Speaker 1: And for the Raiders that's huge, huge, just properly Starling
Speaker 1: he's huge, that's the who. Jenny Levo, he's huge. Rapunner,
Speaker 1: Zach Asking huge, k Weeks, Jordan up on a team more. Anyway,
Speaker 1: my flaming hot take is last week last year, rather
Speaker 1: when the Warriors the turning point in their season from
Speaker 1: when it was just like, oh, they've won a couple
Speaker 1: of games, So I hang on, the Warriors are legit here,
Speaker 1: I can pinpoint it. I can as well I'm not
Speaker 1: what you gonna say. It is when Ricky Stewart rested
Speaker 1: Jared Kroker ahead of his three hundredth game so that
Speaker 1: he could play him at home against the Warriors to
Speaker 1: win the three hundredth game, and we humped them into
Speaker 1: the core of the earth. We smashed the Raiders at home,
Speaker 1: happy three hundredth game, Jared Krokers.
Speaker 2: They took on, they drawn the extra zero on the
Speaker 2: thirty meter line.
Speaker 1: Fuck off. We wasted them. We wasted them. I think
Speaker 1: we then wasted the Sharks after that. Only a few
Speaker 1: weeks later we wasted the Raiders again and that was
Speaker 1: the start of our run home into the finals. It
Speaker 1: was when the turning point in our season when people
Speaker 1: are like, oh shit, these Warriors are for real. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it happens again. Yeah, I think it'll be closer.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's going to be Jared Croker's three
Speaker 1: hundred pumping. No, I think it'll be a close game.
Speaker 1: But I and historically watching Raiders v. Warriors the last
Speaker 1: few years, I've always been such great matchups, you know,
Speaker 1: like Sewann Johnson dropped goals to win, or like them
Speaker 1: with a Ford part try to win that shouldn't have
Speaker 1: been allowed. Yeah, it's been great, and we beat I
Speaker 1: think in christ Church earlier this year.
Speaker 2: I think I was gonna get it done.
Speaker 1: But I know that both teams are in a very
Speaker 1: similar situation where they've had kind of middle of the
Speaker 1: road seasons. Yeah, and they are now fighting for that
Speaker 1: sort of number eight spot on the ladder. Yeah, whoever
Speaker 1: loses this game's done for the season.
Speaker 2: Wow. I mean that's actually not that mathematically. Mathematically sure,
Speaker 2: that's the case.
Speaker 1: I generally like in the NBA, I always say bet
Speaker 1: on the team that's facing elimination if the other team isn't.
Speaker 1: I'm just going to try and bring up the NRL
Speaker 1: table right now to see how screwed they are, because
Speaker 1: I'm well aware of our screwed we are.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're directly above us on twenty points. We're on nineteen. Yeah,
Speaker 2: see they have a worse point differential.
Speaker 1: So whoever wins this we can leap frog then, but
Speaker 1: only into like tenth spot. See how annoying is it
Speaker 1: that draw against Manly that we're on nineteen.
Speaker 2: We should be on Twitter.
Speaker 1: That is so annoying, Yeah, which would put us in
Speaker 1: tenth with a chance to crack the eight with this weekend.
Speaker 1: That's right, a little bit, nigli. It has come back
Speaker 1: to bite us and the ass. I think we win
Speaker 1: this one. I think Mitch and Kpe well play, and
Speaker 1: I think that Arts on.
Speaker 2: The wing will be an absolute revelation.
Speaker 1: That I agree he's gonna I reckon like Arts because
Speaker 1: every set we start our sets with the wingers and
Speaker 1: the outside backs hitting it up.
Speaker 2: He's going to get twice as much ball as he
Speaker 2: was at center. Well, Webster said that.
Speaker 1: I think someone asked him about it and he goes, well,
Speaker 1: the wingers get their hands on the ball more than
Speaker 1: the centers do these.
Speaker 2: Days, so that correct, That's what I mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so he's going to have like twenty something head
Speaker 1: ups over two hundred meters.
Speaker 2: We're kicking for him.
Speaker 1: He's going to have the end of the season that
Speaker 1: Zach Lomax has had to start the season huge switching
Speaker 1: from center to.
Speaker 2: Wing to wing. And also we give him the goal kicking.
Speaker 2: I'm really excited. I'm really excited for it. By the way,
Speaker 2: shout out to Zach Lomax's goal kicking instead of origin.
Speaker 2: It was great. He was excellence. All Right, We're gonna
Speaker 2: take one more quick break.
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Speaker 1: a super coach Chris for your Thursday afternoon.
Speaker 2: Were your ass? For your ass?
Speaker 1: There's only get a couple of hours before I inevitably
Speaker 1: forget that I've undone my changes and then leave my
Speaker 1: team screwed for the week, which I've done a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. We all sort of fell off for me
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago by bringing Hines in a
Speaker 1: week early. I use my last boost to doctor my
Speaker 1: books to bring him in, so of course he immediately
Speaker 1: broke his league. The buys the holds the sales this week?
Speaker 1: Is it too early to buy? Nathan Cleary. I think
Speaker 1: it depends on your trades and how many warm bodies you've.
Speaker 2: Got this week. Decent big thing, decent warm bodies. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Just finding out today that Homoloola Kuatu's out, that's changed
Speaker 1: my plans completely. I now have Yeah, I've got like
Speaker 1: I have Luke Brook. Still, I didn't want to play them,
Speaker 1: but now I'm going to have to. And so if
Speaker 1: I don't bring in Nathan Cleary this week for me,
Speaker 1: then I'm going to have a pretty shocking team this week.
Speaker 2: You mean this week? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Right, because the big thing about Nathan Cleary obviously has
Speaker 1: just come back from a second injury spell this year
Speaker 1: with a hamstring injury.
Speaker 2: I'm sure they've been very cautious about it.
Speaker 1: They have.
Speaker 2: They've given him an extra I think three weeks they
Speaker 2: were saying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's every chance that he could get an
Speaker 1: early shower this this weekend. You know, they mainly play
Speaker 1: in fifty sixty minutes if the Panthers are up big.
Speaker 1: Oh it's the Dolphins too. I think it's the Dolphins. Oh,
Speaker 1: the internet here is so shit. Internet, it is shit.
Speaker 1: I can tell you that it is the Dolphins on Sunday.
Speaker 1: So I mean they could get up, although defensively at
Speaker 1: the moment the Dolphins, I can see the Panthers really
Speaker 1: doing a number on them. It depends also how many
Speaker 1: origin players are named for Panthers.
Speaker 2: Well, and also for Dolphins. Yeah, Pelice Cafusi's name for
Speaker 2: the Dolphins, it's all on Hammer as well. Yeah. True.
Speaker 1: I mean not that Trey follow hasn't got the job
Speaker 1: done for them so far, but yeah, I just think
Speaker 1: the other part of it, for clear is his break
Speaker 1: even is at one hundred and eighty one. He's not
Speaker 1: going to get that. So even if he scores one hundred,
Speaker 1: I think I heard someone who knows more about Supercoach
Speaker 1: to me say that he's still going to lose one
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. So you're better off if you can
Speaker 2: afford it to wait till next week.
Speaker 1: It depends though, because he might not get one hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty, right, but he might score a hundred, that's right,
Speaker 1: And then that's one hundred points. Well, let's say you've
Speaker 1: got your current halfback scores fifty. That's fifty points you've
Speaker 1: missed out on with what's seven weeks ago in the
Speaker 1: Super Coach or sex if you're doing a head.
Speaker 2: To head league.
Speaker 1: So there's one clear cut situation I think that you
Speaker 1: bring clearly in, and it's if you're low on trade,
Speaker 1: so you don't have any boots, which I think is
Speaker 1: most people around this. I'm low on trades, but I
Speaker 1: had a boost. Do you have Nico Hines? Yes, I
Speaker 1: had him.
Speaker 2: It had him.
Speaker 1: I had him this week and I have already made
Speaker 1: my trades. I've gone straight from him to Nathan Cleary
Speaker 1: because I don't have the trades all the time to
Speaker 1: miss around here and wait for people to drop cash. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And so what I was gonna do was like I
Speaker 1: was thinking about, do I try to do like a
Speaker 1: Jaden Campbell thing and then swap Dylan Brown to him
Speaker 1: next week? Blah blah blah. I don't have the trades
Speaker 1: for that shit. I need to be bringing in dudes.
Speaker 1: I was staying in my team for the rest of
Speaker 1: the season.
Speaker 2: It's rocks and diamonds time. It's yeah, knough out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, middle of the road guys drop them down to
Speaker 1: bottom dollar or not even playing failers, bring in your
Speaker 1: Nathan Cleary's. Like I was at your place last night
Speaker 1: when I actually made I used my last boost a
Speaker 1: sneaky because when I was giving you all those tips
Speaker 1: about supercoach, yeah you did actually mention Reid Marni and
Speaker 1: then I looked at him. I was like, actually, he's
Speaker 1: super cheap, super cheap water. And so I had the
Speaker 1: last two weeks, I've had Jeremy Marshall King injured, Dune
Speaker 1: Heines injured, done for the season, so it's almost yeah
Speaker 1: and a half a metal sitting on your bench exactly.
Speaker 1: So I had to get a hooker, and I had
Speaker 1: to get a halfback. So I've gone Nathan Cleary, He's
Speaker 1: locked in for the rest of the season and Read
Speaker 1: Money as my hooker because Harry Grant, who's about the
Speaker 1: same price as he's got the Stirnam injury. He didn't
Speaker 1: look that great in Origin. I'm just like Nap, so
Speaker 1: Read Money. I brought in Nathan Cleary, and I had
Speaker 1: enough money left over to finally upgrade my stupid Newcastle
Speaker 1: fullback Flitcher sharp if if Sharp minor, and I didn't
Speaker 1: have enough money to go to Turbo. I didn't have
Speaker 1: enough money or time to wait for pomer till probably
Speaker 1: probably next week. But next week he plays the Panthers
Speaker 1: and then there's a buy or something like the Knights
Speaker 1: have got a kind of a shit yeah that is
Speaker 1: next few games. So I was like, I could wait
Speaker 1: for pomer in a few games and just sort of
Speaker 1: like set it out, but I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 2: I'm going to with the money I had available.
Speaker 1: Ryan Pappenhausen, Yeah, was the guy I could afford to
Speaker 1: bring in. He's kind of a pod at the stage
Speaker 1: as well a point of difference. I don't think too
Speaker 1: many people have got him, so I just locked him
Speaker 1: and for the rest of the season. He's the fullback
Speaker 1: for one of the best teams in the NRL. You know,
Speaker 1: I'll do you one better. He's the fullback for the
Speaker 1: best team in the NRL, brus Storm Pebby. Oh that
Speaker 1: top of the table, top of the table. Yeah, yeah, true,
Speaker 1: So I like it. I think Peppy's a great pod play.
Speaker 1: At worst, he's about ninety percent of what you were
Speaker 1: going to get from Kaylen Ponger or yeah, and I
Speaker 1: don't have to trade and muck around and wait, you know,
Speaker 1: it's the time to just get the guns now. And yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'm some of that. I still had Trel and
Speaker 1: I had Nico Hines. It's a lot of cash. It's
Speaker 1: a lot of cash. So I've been Nico Heines to
Speaker 1: Nathan Cleary. I don't care that he's going to lose
Speaker 1: one hundred K this weekend because I'm not trading him out.
Speaker 1: You have traded in Nathan Cleary. I don't care what
Speaker 1: numbers next to him. You've got the best player in
Speaker 1: the NRL on the best team. Yeah, it's not like
Speaker 1: I'm going to trade them for Joey John's in a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: No, exactly. Yeah. And then at fullback, it's basically fullback roulette.
Speaker 2: Who do you want to go with? I looked that Treboyevitch,
Speaker 2: I looked at Ponger. I looked at Ponger.
Speaker 1: I looked at Trabovich, stared them both in the eye,
Speaker 1: and I said, I can't trust your hammies.
Speaker 2: Tom. I'm sorry. I'm going Ponger. So you you've brought
Speaker 2: in Ponger. I've brought in Ponger.
Speaker 1: He's playing the Broncos, who I just saw Pat Gerrigan
Speaker 1: in a moonboot by the way after Origin three, So
Speaker 1: they that's real trouble for them.
Speaker 2: So then he's got the buy. Then the Panther.
Speaker 1: Sorry I got that wrong, but KP last season was
Speaker 1: the best player in Super Coach when he was healthy.
Speaker 1: Like Necho overall was, KP was a freak. I would
Speaker 1: have gone Ponger if I could somehow how have swung it,
Speaker 1: but I couldn't, so like it's just forced my hand
Speaker 1: to go Pappenhausen. But I think Ponger is the best option.
Speaker 2: So then the other.
Speaker 1: Question that I have for you is, since homoi Olikwatz
Speaker 1: is out for two weeks.
Speaker 2: Is that enough for you to drop him? Nah? You
Speaker 2: have Crichton. No, you don't consider that. Do you know
Speaker 2: who I've got? I've got for.
Speaker 1: Feeder cuts O and Coloma Tungi, who's my guy from
Speaker 1: the Rabbit O's and a front row slash to our
Speaker 1: if God named Mitch Barnett sitting up at front row.
Speaker 2: Yeah right.
Speaker 1: So, to be honest, the only guy I would bring
Speaker 1: in because I've got two nuffs and two r ref
Speaker 1: and I need to make one of them a player.
Speaker 1: The only guy I would bring in, And I can't
Speaker 1: believe I'm saying his name to beat a Punky Jr.
Speaker 2: I was just gonna say that.
Speaker 1: Allow me a few would just a couple of moments
Speaker 1: to blow my own horn. But I brought him in
Speaker 1: about a month ago when he was first named. That
Speaker 1: is such a mania play. That is such a mania play.
Speaker 1: He is the exact kind of player on one of
Speaker 1: my fantasy team. Yeah, he skipped out on this team
Speaker 1: last year to go and fight Trad's and the boxing ring. Yeah,
Speaker 1: got dusted up and then came back to the NRLs.
Speaker 1: I'll have him, thinks, But mate, Wayne Bennett, he gets
Speaker 1: the bess out of it.
Speaker 2: He does get the best out of there.
Speaker 1: And he looked great and the week ninety he scored
Speaker 1: a try, but he was offloading, he was busting tackles.
Speaker 1: He looks like someone's turned the size fader up while
Speaker 1: creating a character. He's way bigger than all the other characters.
Speaker 1: Looks like a guy I used to play in the
Speaker 1: NRL by the name of Tavita Pugay Junior. True, and
Speaker 1: he is absolutely tremendous. Yeah, I'm the same my halves.
Speaker 1: I think halves everyone's but it's just been so squarely
Speaker 1: because for the last like four or five years, it's
Speaker 1: just been God Niko Hines and very clear and never
Speaker 1: think about it again, you go Munster in the halves.
Speaker 1: Have you got on five eight Brown and Galvin? Oh,
Speaker 1: you've got to Mighty I've got Tomurdy Martin.
Speaker 2: That was it.
Speaker 1: Allow me to take another five minutes here just to
Speaker 1: blow my own horn. But I brought to Mighty Martin
Speaker 1: and months ago when he was like three hundred, or
Speaker 1: he was about three hundred, when everyone was getting Galvin. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I've got Galvin. When they take the low road,
Speaker 1: we go high.
Speaker 2: And I went to Mighty Martin.
Speaker 1: I see him riding around town with the girl I love,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, fuck, you get him my super coach day.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: But if back then someone had said Dereck and to
Speaker 1: Mighty Martin or average like ninety every time he plays
Speaker 1: halfback for the Wars, only one person on God's Green Earth,
Speaker 1: he would have said, yes, you're sitting across from him.
Speaker 1: I thought he would have said yes man. He wouldn't
Speaker 1: have even thought there that No, probably not bro. So
Speaker 1: that is a huge plan. I wish i'd done it
Speaker 1: as well, because I've just got Dylan Brown, who's just
Speaker 1: tuning out fifties and sixties.
Speaker 2: I got him that he's boring. The's a mighty Martin thing.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest, I tried to trade him out
Speaker 1: that three weeks, like, surely he can't keep this up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like this is going to be the top. This
Speaker 1: is going to be the top. This is going to
Speaker 1: be the top. I'm like a crypto trader in the halves.
Speaker 1: They're so funny. But yeah, so, I think at this
Speaker 1: point in the season, I so, I've made my trades
Speaker 1: for this week.
Speaker 2: I now have eight remaining no boosts. Where are you at?
Speaker 1: I used my last boost read Marney, Nathan Cleary and Pappenhausen.
Speaker 1: I have got six remaining.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, I think at this point of the season, basically
Speaker 1: you kind of have to make your picks for the
Speaker 1: rest of the season. You are shaping your team into
Speaker 1: what it's going to look like for the rest of
Speaker 1: the season. Now, I think you don't have any unless
Speaker 1: you've got like sixteen trades left. You don't have time
Speaker 1: to be chopping and changing dudes to try and make
Speaker 1: cash anymore. That's right, those days are over. I also
Speaker 1: with six trades, if you like me, with six trades,
Speaker 1: can I actually justify bringing in ta Vita pun I
Speaker 1: Junior With one of my last six trades, because what's
Speaker 1: going to happen is if you get into the finals
Speaker 1: of your head to head, which I still can't wrap
Speaker 1: my head around how this works.
Speaker 2: Someone's going to get injured.
Speaker 1: You're going to be fucked and Taveta punk I Junior
Speaker 1: is going to be sitting on your beit.
Speaker 2: Why did I use that trade? That's right, so I
Speaker 2: wouldn't know. The time to get on TPJA was month
Speaker 2: about a month ago, which is just so stupid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I think with the six and with the
Speaker 1: what's seven weeks of the Narl left, I am not
Speaker 1: making any trades unless I'm forced too.
Speaker 2: From here on out. This is my team.
Speaker 1: You don't really have a choice, so I am The
Speaker 1: one other thing that I had jotted down here is
Speaker 1: Moses came out this morning. Mitch Moses did his bicep
Speaker 1: last night. Oh yes, so he will be done. So
Speaker 1: I don't know how many people got on Mitch Moses.
Speaker 1: I'm sure a few did when he came back. He
Speaker 1: looked insane. When he came back did he looked excellent?
Speaker 1: So he's a clear drop. Yeah, that might be how
Speaker 1: you get to cleary. What impact that hairs on Dylan Brown.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but they've got to buy this week,
Speaker 1: so and that done for the season, so who gives
Speaker 1: a shit? Also huge one Dylan Edwards pc allen jury
Speaker 1: after Origin, so he could have also been a pod
Speaker 1: fallback to have for the run home best fullback, one
Speaker 1: of the pretty has been the best fullback in one
Speaker 1: of the best.
Speaker 2: Players this season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so he could be out for two to four
Speaker 1: weeks if it's a moderate sprain. That's according to the
Speaker 1: nar ol physio. All right, Yeah, I think the my
Speaker 1: key takeaway from this week is you've just got to
Speaker 1: get your team sussed for the rest of it and
Speaker 1: then keep five or six trades up your sleeve just
Speaker 1: for injuries. Don't touch them, don't jump on someone with
Speaker 1: a low brake, even there's no point at this point
Speaker 1: in the season. Just you know, you're just got to
Speaker 1: cover your own ass. Yeah, and oh notugh, he's just quickly.
Speaker 1: I don't want to go too long in this podcast,
Speaker 1: but to explain how enough he works, because I know
Speaker 1: there's a lot of first season on here. How it
Speaker 1: works is when people say Nafi and enough he is
Speaker 1: a player that doesn't play and bottom dollar, bottom dollar
Speaker 1: and Basically, what you're doing is you are trading. Say
Speaker 1: you've got a dude who's worth like four hundred or
Speaker 1: three hundred K, and he's going to get you like
Speaker 1: twenty points. Trade him out to a player that doesn't play.
Speaker 1: Save that one hundred k for to upgrade one of
Speaker 1: your other dudes into a into a good player.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: And just so you're aware, I've got three enoughs on
Speaker 1: my team right now, I.
Speaker 2: Have one two, I've got two, yeah, so two three nups.
Speaker 2: That's about right.
Speaker 1: And later in the season, if you like, if someone
Speaker 1: gets injured, you need to free up some cash to upgrade.
Speaker 2: Just knoff someone out, someone else out. But you don't
Speaker 2: want too many because you'll get screwed over at the end.
Speaker 1: And the one trick that I have for you for
Speaker 1: enough is look for dual position. There's not a whole
Speaker 1: lot of them. You've probably got them in your team.
Speaker 1: Villiami Fafita is one of the most owned players in Super.
Speaker 2: Coach hasn't touched the fucking park this year. I've got
Speaker 2: him in my team. Everyone does.
Speaker 1: It's because he's second front row eligible, so you can
Speaker 1: use him to swap your players around and the other
Speaker 1: one is Jid Cartwright, who everyone else has got from
Speaker 1: the Nights because he's second row cinder. Yes, Miles Martin
Speaker 1: another one from the Knights front row, second row as well.
Speaker 2: It's quite a popular one.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so I'll probably end up having Jim cart
Speaker 1: right at some stage though, Just quickly, captains, are you
Speaker 1: just gonna lock in Titty?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: So the Roosters are great matchup. By the way, Saturday night,
Speaker 1: the Roosters are playing the Melbourne Storm. Where is the
Speaker 1: oh there, it is there nine point thirty Amy Parks.
Speaker 1: So that's Saturday night, and then the Panthers are playing
Speaker 1: Sunday four in the afternoon. So I'm going to vice
Speaker 1: Captain Teddy and then Captain Nathan Cleary fully intending. Because
Speaker 1: it's like a small buy around and there are few
Speaker 1: teams out, I've got pretty much a free shot at
Speaker 1: the loop anyway. Yeah, which you probably won't is which
Speaker 1: I'll probably won't use and we'll forget about.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so Titty and Clear, even though it's his
Speaker 2: first game.
Speaker 1: Back, I'm stilling Clear Loop, sit and forget with Titty
Speaker 1: go well this weekend. Make sure sure if you're listening
Speaker 1: to this podcast on the Thursday. Make sure you sit
Speaker 1: your team, because the amount of times people sit their
Speaker 1: team then reverse their trades and blah blah blah, you
Speaker 1: could fuck yourself. Just before we go, we need to
Speaker 1: put together the Mad Monday hunch. Now, as someone who
Speaker 1: had a couple of bits last night, I've handed the
Speaker 1: reins over to you for the hunch this weekend.
Speaker 2: Chris, what have you come up with?
Speaker 1: One thing I've read and I was even saying to
Speaker 1: you last night, I've never had a three game multi before,
Speaker 1: three league multi before. I always hit the two leagues
Speaker 1: and end up with the bonus cash. Yeah, because when
Speaker 1: you're betting on the n RL, if you do a
Speaker 1: three league same game multi, you can get it back,
Speaker 1: get your money back of two of them come in.
Speaker 1: I have put some serious research into this. Firstly, anytime
Speaker 1: try score Roger to a vasask on the left wing, Chanell,
Speaker 1: sorry not Chanew. Tomighty Martin has opened up that left side.
Speaker 1: They send more down that way. Now it's not right
Speaker 1: side dominant anymore. Roger out there getting his hands on
Speaker 1: the ball. I can see him scoring a try. I think,
Speaker 1: I think the Warriors. So that's the first league, Second League,
Speaker 1: New Zealand Warriors to win the first half.
Speaker 2: Oh okay.
Speaker 1: The Raiders struggle to generate points in the first half. Okay,
Speaker 1: and I think they've scored one try in the last
Speaker 1: four games in the first half.
Speaker 2: Oh, huge, huge insight.
Speaker 1: It's just like, okay, they suck Aten bor though Fogg
Speaker 1: and his back but still yeah, you know, and the
Speaker 1: Warriors quite often come out firing. Adam Fanula Blake scores
Speaker 1: under the post and then does the foldser's arms and
Speaker 1: then we ship the bit and then.
Speaker 2: We sub him off and just go real quiet for
Speaker 2: ten minutes. That's right.
Speaker 1: So I reckon the Warriors will get out to an
Speaker 1: early lead. Yeap, okay, so Roger to score. We're our
Speaker 1: New Zealand Warriors to win the first half, and I
Speaker 1: think it'll be under forty seven point five points.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I usually hate going unders. Yeah, you're bidding against excitement,
Speaker 2: but I.
Speaker 1: Can just see this one being a real close, low
Speaker 1: scoring like slug Fast.
Speaker 2: There's just so much on the line for both teams.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: That's paying seven dollars, So you put one hundred dollars
Speaker 1: on that, you'll get six hundred back with the old
Speaker 1: bonus bit there Yeah, beautiful, I like it. Follow that
Speaker 1: one along responsibily. It'll be up on our social media's
Speaker 1: later on. Thank you very much for joining us for
Speaker 1: another episode of the Med Monday Podcast. Do join us
Speaker 1: on Friday to ten pm the two of us commentating
Speaker 1: the Warriors Verse the Raiders enjoy weekend.
Speaker 2: Bye Skysport nine. By the way,