Speaker 1: Hello, team, great to have you wear us for your
Speaker 1: season regular season wrap on between two posts. It is
Speaker 1: final sign baby, and we've got two, yes, two eusy
Speaker 1: sides in the running in the playoff picture and to
Speaker 1: help have a look at how that's all going to
Speaker 1: play out in the week to come and what happened
Speaker 1: on the weekend gone. It is a very warm welcome
Speaker 1: to Morgan and hearing you Matt Burke, were welcome to
Speaker 1: both of you.
Speaker 2: I'm good to go, yeah, very happy to be the
Speaker 2: six we probably would have predicted, predicted.
Speaker 3: Maybe one more Aussie side.
Speaker 4: You're cool blues, your cold blues about six weeks ago
Speaker 4: I reckon and they came to fruition.
Speaker 3: Very good.
Speaker 1: We've had a real fun morning Berkey. Just as a
Speaker 1: quick segue, we were out at Toronto Zoo this morning
Speaker 1: catching up with some little wallabies. We've got to handfeed
Speaker 1: some wallabies which is cool. And lions coming up as
Speaker 1: well in the weeks to come as well as awesome tronozoo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the reminder how lucky we are to have a
Speaker 2: zoo like that as impressive as as a zoo in
Speaker 2: the location that it was a.
Speaker 1: Spot we had an epic epic game Friday Night, Man
Speaker 1: a Joe starting between the Brumbies and the Crusaders. So
Speaker 1: after it's all said and done, after it's all run
Speaker 1: and won, the Brumbies finished third after a controversial calling
Speaker 1: Crusaders camber victory. Where do we want to start? Do
Speaker 1: we go straight to the postgame? What do you want
Speaker 1: to do straight to the postgame?
Speaker 3: Because you're both in the postgame straight.
Speaker 5: At the postgame.
Speaker 4: The score should have been the scoreline should have been different, absolutely,
Speaker 4: and I touched on it, Morgs. You took a one
Speaker 4: word to it, and which is which is exactly what
Speaker 4: should have happened. And the reasoning that your game afterwards
Speaker 4: about why where they finished in the ladder games going forward,
Speaker 4: that was a genuine knock on.
Speaker 5: It's going to pass the pub test.
Speaker 4: And we had the crew behind us, we had the judge,
Speaker 4: jury and executioner behind us. That that very vocal Brumbies
Speaker 4: crowd and they and they saw it straight away. Have
Speaker 4: you got the ar he's just there. I don't know
Speaker 4: what he's watching at that point there. We're all set
Speaker 4: on the sideline as well, in what world?
Speaker 5: In what world?
Speaker 4: And that's world that's just you know, that's like one
Speaker 4: of those books when you read when you were in
Speaker 4: year five, like you know, turned the page fifty four
Speaker 4: for this outcome one.
Speaker 5: Hundred and seventy.
Speaker 3: Choose your adventure, that good stuff.
Speaker 5: She's your an adventure. It's going to try.
Speaker 2: I reckon I went that hard. I actually got a
Speaker 2: lot harder.
Speaker 4: What would you said? What needed to be said? Well,
Speaker 4: how would you have gone harder?
Speaker 2: No? No, I just could have if you didn't want
Speaker 2: to be objective, Like this is the professional game. Let's
Speaker 2: be just not talking about an under third ends game
Speaker 2: on a Sunday with a volunteer referee and dad's the referee. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I refereed a couple of weeks ago. I was a
Speaker 2: Marsfield Park. Yes, there as an assistant referee, and so
Speaker 2: you were. You were doing your assistant referee the state
Speaker 2: championships the other day. That's all we're talking about. We're
Speaker 2: talking about a multi million dollar professional competition. The players
Speaker 2: are professional, Everyone working around the game is professional, and
Speaker 2: some are the referees that are playing around the world
Speaker 2: that are held accountable, that are ranked and awarded games
Speaker 2: on their performance. And part of our job is to
Speaker 2: hold accountability through there.
Speaker 1: What I'm struggling to understand is obviously there was a
Speaker 1: lot of criticism of you in the postgame online. I'd
Speaker 1: suggest ninety five percent of it was from offshore. That
Speaker 1: would be a fairly accurate summation. And there's this I
Speaker 1: think misguided I guess lens that's put on it that
Speaker 1: you're moaning that as Aussie commentators, we're moaning in the
Speaker 1: postgame because the result.
Speaker 3: Hasn't gone our way.
Speaker 1: In no world ever, if that same thing happens at
Speaker 1: Eton Park and it's an Aussie side who had a beneficiary,
Speaker 1: other sky Sport New Zealand commentators not going to do
Speaker 1: and say the same thing. So I just don't understand
Speaker 1: where we've lost this. Maybe it's some broader thing societally,
Speaker 1: but to go, you know what, they got it wrong
Speaker 1: and they're being held to account and that's okay and
Speaker 1: we move on to the next one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: But the one good thing I took out of it
Speaker 2: is keep people still care, because there were there would
Speaker 2: have been more comments that I got from Australian fans
Speaker 2: in support, Happy, thankful, relieve that Wes actually starting to
Speaker 2: just not cop it all the time. There's a real
Speaker 2: undercurrent of perception that Australian teams losing fifty to fifty
Speaker 2: decisions a lot, whether you're just referring the table, human nature,
Speaker 2: whatever it is. And so there was a heap from
Speaker 2: Australian fans defending, and there's a heap obviously from New
Speaker 2: Zealand fans that don't want their team to win. I
Speaker 2: think it was just pretty much down wherever your allegiances
Speaker 2: allegiances lay, that's the way it went on the weekend.
Speaker 5: For me. You've got to take away the bias.
Speaker 4: I mean, you calling, and we do get excited when
Speaker 4: if an icy team scores a tribe to get excited
Speaker 4: if you know there's a spectacular Key Week team or
Speaker 4: a Fiji sim or whatever. So I think that's that's
Speaker 4: what we have to tell everyone out there as well.
Speaker 4: But when it's blatant like that, you've got to pick
Speaker 4: it and you've got to be we've got to have
Speaker 4: the courage to pick it for both sides. Now, we've
Speaker 4: got to have the courage to pick it for both
Speaker 4: teams to say that was robbed going out the way
Speaker 4: if it was.
Speaker 2: If you if you think we wouldn't and watch the
Speaker 2: last years of coverage, we've done correct what we did.
Speaker 2: The feedback we receive it stand from New Zealand players,
Speaker 2: New Zealand officials, from the Druer, the team themselves, is
Speaker 2: that they love the way we cover the game for them.
Speaker 2: We love the way that we celebrate the positives in
Speaker 2: our game.
Speaker 3: Who's responsible ultimately for that decision?
Speaker 1: I think James Dilmond, who, as you know, mores I
Speaker 1: get on really well with and enjoys company and the
Speaker 1: rest of it.
Speaker 3: He looked a touch on side of it.
Speaker 1: The assistant ref near side had a perfect twenty twenty
Speaker 1: shot on it. So is he the one who will
Speaker 1: get held to account for that or is it the
Speaker 1: whole referee team cops it.
Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't think much will happen. There's
Speaker 2: lots of little bits and pieces in that action. There's
Speaker 2: a counter up from the Brumbies which hits a player
Speaker 2: back and there's arms around, there's an obvious knock on.
Speaker 2: Of course, there's bits and pieces everywhere. So as I
Speaker 2: said straight after the game, it's not it's not a
Speaker 2: Dolmond call. He's unsited. He thought it was off a
Speaker 2: foot and he was blocked by a player. That happens
Speaker 2: all the time. Then the assistant referee has of you
Speaker 2: doesn't see it. Our issue is these protocols around TMO.
Speaker 2: So earlier in the match there's a bit of a
Speaker 2: howl where one of the assistant referees thought the ball
Speaker 2: had been touched when it got kicked out and the
Speaker 2: Brumbi's hand was a meter away something like that.
Speaker 5: He shanked it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when he shanked it right. They fixed that. So
Speaker 2: in the downtime between the line out and there, they
Speaker 2: fixed that and changed the call. No try resulted in
Speaker 2: that there was no foul play, but they could fix
Speaker 2: that because it was logical. So it's a referring team thing. Look,
Speaker 2: it's not a huge I would just think that when
Speaker 2: I wouldn't mind if in the last ten minutes of
Speaker 2: a game, when the game's on the line, if there's
Speaker 2: a howler we can avoid, let's let the TMO come
Speaker 2: in and fix it.
Speaker 3: Okay the dramas.
Speaker 2: The dramas are in the twenty twenty three World Cup
Speaker 2: Final about the knock on that called back the All
Speaker 2: Blacks try. The New Zealand fans, you don't like it
Speaker 2: because it costs you a try. And it's outside protocol.
Speaker 2: So African fans, you love it because the right call,
Speaker 2: but they went out of system to get it. That's
Speaker 2: the medium we're in.
Speaker 4: So that's the that's the pubtest. I'm talking about. What's
Speaker 4: the protocol then in saying where, how, where and how
Speaker 4: far can you go back from adjudicating that in discretion?
Speaker 2: If a try scored, you go through that phase of play.
Speaker 2: But that wasn't a try, right, so then they just
Speaker 2: leave it. It was not for our player. They just leave it.
Speaker 4: So that's the how we're trying to get rid of it, right,
Speaker 4: That's that's the one we're winning.
Speaker 2: Some yeare's and that's also sport. And we said it
Speaker 2: after the game. Crusaders got their opportunity, were good enough
Speaker 2: to take it when Drummy's got a chance. They weren't
Speaker 2: good enough to take a drop goal or keep it
Speaker 2: tight enough to draw a penalty. There's all that, but
Speaker 2: the context of that decision means it was a Brumbie scram.
Speaker 2: It's another sixty seconds time off the clock they kicked
Speaker 2: down the other end. You'd expect a very different result
Speaker 2: from that game.
Speaker 4: But I did it because you said before it's a
Speaker 4: multimillion dollar game and it's just sport. I played when
Speaker 4: it was just sport, when you got the fat la
Speaker 4: Laura referees down halfway and Campe's he scores a try,
Speaker 4: he's halfway out and he gives it because there were
Speaker 4: no cameras.
Speaker 5: And what have you.
Speaker 4: And how many times hello, I've scored a trial where
Speaker 4: I've knocked it on and I've been given, I've been
Speaker 4: taken away one when.
Speaker 5: You get it down.
Speaker 4: So I don't reckon, we say it's not sporting more.
Speaker 4: I think we've got to be able to have that
Speaker 4: real definition of the people upstairs. If they're not sighted,
Speaker 4: just pick it up to it mate. That was a
Speaker 4: knock on, pull it back.
Speaker 2: And when we saw that with the Noel Obasia knock
Speaker 2: on for a Brumbies Triversua Tars in Sydney, I think
Speaker 2: Okief on the run was like, oh, I might have
Speaker 2: got that wrong. Can you check? And as they're playing
Speaker 2: on he does. So there's enough downtime for a teammate
Speaker 2: to help. So look it is, how long is a
Speaker 2: piece of string around? TMO help? And we're always looking
Speaker 2: for the right medium between speed of game and really
Speaker 2: fatas of results I.
Speaker 1: Do want to touch on this before we sort of
Speaker 1: go back into who played well for both teams and
Speaker 1: what it looks like in terms of Brumbies hopes this year.
Speaker 1: Why did no body from the Brumbies step into the
Speaker 1: pocket and take a shot at drop goal with a
Speaker 1: minute to go? And this isn't on any one person.
Speaker 1: This is a team. Aren't you preparing for the said eventuality?
Speaker 1: This isn't essentially this is a knockout game a week
Speaker 1: early because if you don't finish second, your odds of
Speaker 1: winning are so rapidly diminished the title, right, So why there.
Speaker 3: Was so many chances?
Speaker 5: There was no plan, so there was nothing doing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was played for the penalty. Played for the penalty.
Speaker 3: If you take the shot with a minute to go,
Speaker 3: you're still going to get the ball back. Yeah, you're
Speaker 3: still getting the ball back.
Speaker 4: So we got you lose the territory if you yeah,
Speaker 4: you lose.
Speaker 3: It, you're going to get it back towards the twenty
Speaker 3: two correct.
Speaker 5: Yeah, correct. It's really interesting.
Speaker 4: We spoke about on the sideline when it was all
Speaker 4: playing out, and I remember saying to Nick that there's
Speaker 4: no plan at the moment, that sort of it's a
Speaker 4: bit headless. They're trying to go for that try and
Speaker 4: they're trying to and then we sort of said, well
Speaker 4: they're trying to get that penalty. They're trying to ink
Speaker 4: that pedaly out. I go back to my time when
Speaker 4: I played, we never had a plan. Bernie Luck and
Speaker 4: when he hit that field goal against South Africa, he
Speaker 4: was hoping to hit it dead and he just flushed
Speaker 4: it down the middle. I then went to England and
Speaker 4: played with Johnny Wilkinson and that was just his go to.
Speaker 5: That was his play.
Speaker 4: If we got until the twenty two and we're fluffing about,
Speaker 4: he'll just ping a field goal and come away with
Speaker 4: three points. We just don't have that. I don't know
Speaker 4: where we've got the skill to do it either. Remember
Speaker 4: Harrison's field goal against Crusaders last year and he hit
Speaker 4: it flush. I don't think we have the technical nouse
Speaker 4: to be able to set ourselves up and do it.
Speaker 4: I challenged him, if they do have it, come and
Speaker 4: tell me they do have it. But I don't reckon
Speaker 4: we've got it because we're always trying to score tries
Speaker 4: and not come.
Speaker 5: Away with points.
Speaker 3: It's a last resort, it's a last risk.
Speaker 2: So they're they're thinking, we're going to attack until we
Speaker 2: get penalty advantage or someone makes a great carry, we
Speaker 2: get within five meters, then we're going to whack away,
Speaker 2: wake away, try and borrow one over. Eventually they thought
Speaker 2: there was that space on the edge and look like
Speaker 2: Tool holds this ball, but there wasn't much happening out there.
Speaker 2: You'd say, with it's tactically smart to get there. But
Speaker 2: he holds that ball five meters out with a foard
Speaker 2: pack on the front foot, so pretty confident they're going
Speaker 2: to score.
Speaker 3: Oh man, just take the three. They snap a shot.
Speaker 1: There are guys throughout that I'm saying could easily rip
Speaker 1: one off. Yeah, mate, they couldn't have had a better
Speaker 1: field position.
Speaker 4: You remember, do you remember I'm going back a few
Speaker 4: years now, probably eight years now, nine years Carter was playing.
Speaker 4: Was that it was at in Brisbane and they were
Speaker 4: down by a couple of points and they end up
Speaker 4: getting this is the all Black said. And they ended
Speaker 4: up getting the ball and they just marched their way
Speaker 4: up the field and Carter had a shot and it
Speaker 4: slid by left hand side and they could have won thing.
Speaker 4: I think it was a draw that game. Could like
Speaker 4: twenty fourteen could have been. But I just thought that's
Speaker 4: what people need to do. You've got to understand where
Speaker 4: you want to go to and you had to conduct
Speaker 4: it rather than perhaps the Noah hit and hope we'll
Speaker 4: give it to a bloke who's sort of got some
Speaker 4: fast feet on the edge.
Speaker 2: So how many times in his whole life as a
Speaker 2: footy player would Nola I have had to do that? Yeah,
Speaker 2: get in a position to kick a field goal? Does
Speaker 2: that semi in Auckland a few years ago where they
Speaker 2: had a long range shot less than five and he's
Speaker 2: in his twenty something, he's playing rugby as a junior.
Speaker 2: You're never doing it never. Yeah, I get all that,
Speaker 2: but I'm just saying that we just don't do it.
Speaker 2: We don't do it.
Speaker 1: If you want to win and we're agreeing with you,
Speaker 1: it may come down to that. I just don't understand
Speaker 1: why that wasn't in the kit bag going in.
Speaker 2: Anyway, What you end up doing is you just go
Speaker 2: hit one side, hit the other side, come back. You
Speaker 2: just go and then you put two guys in the
Speaker 2: pocket and if you get some sort of quick ball
Speaker 2: carry with a block, then you have the lash but
Speaker 2: it's an all in.
Speaker 3: It's an all but it wasn't an all because they
Speaker 3: still had time.
Speaker 2: You figure that it takes forty five seconds to kick
Speaker 2: that drop goal. One you can jam it into touch
Speaker 2: two you jam it long like it's a different situation
Speaker 2: of being fifteen minutes home.
Speaker 3: I'm having a pop. I'm having a pop all day
Speaker 3: every day, I tell you what.
Speaker 1: Ahead of that, though, they played some great for you
Speaker 1: coming back from that halftime. The depisite that Brumbies played
Speaker 1: beautiful rubby, which gives me great hope for the back
Speaker 1: end of the season, fell as this try the pool
Speaker 1: pass I think it was from Bobby v.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was just great to see. It's a little
Speaker 2: bit of a change up three men forward shape. Instead
Speaker 2: of one going out the back, they shift along one
Speaker 2: more pat to Valentini, who has the most perfect bloat
Speaker 2: you could ever want appearing there. So normally it would
Speaker 2: be Frost behind Valentine. So it's a change up on
Speaker 2: their shape and it's great to see that it was
Speaker 2: with a try.
Speaker 4: But that holding that depth from the outside as well,
Speaker 4: there was there were still four players attracting someone and
Speaker 4: ikeitel around that great that little line Joe Roff used
Speaker 4: to run a line very similar, just appear in a
Speaker 4: gap and then he gassed it and was it was
Speaker 4: a spectacular try.
Speaker 3: Bobby V important in the lead up there.
Speaker 1: Bobby V was just massive in the second half in general,
Speaker 1: Fellers who else jumped out at you from a Brumby's perspective,
Speaker 1: that makes you think, you know what, it's going to
Speaker 1: be okay this week against the Canes. He loves the camera.
Speaker 1: He would get him every time, every time with it.
Speaker 4: I thought, right, Lonigan was good again, you know, just
Speaker 4: trying to control around that that base and trying to
Speaker 4: control that.
Speaker 5: The play Valentini was was outstanding.
Speaker 4: That two hits in about a minute and a half
Speaker 4: and they were just rocking hits and you just know
Speaker 4: that you're just going to get all of him when
Speaker 4: you're taking the ball.
Speaker 5: Up, and I think that was a good shot.
Speaker 2: I think they were all pretty good, truthful, especially the
Speaker 2: last forty minutes. Brumbies will if they can bottle that
Speaker 2: and take that and put that into eighty, they'll be okay.
Speaker 2: Don't know about that. That was excellent. The second forty,
Speaker 2: first forty they just got beat into the punch. A
Speaker 2: couple of times didn't play like themselves. You know, they
Speaker 2: scored that early try then it was almost like that
Speaker 2: took them down a peg in terms of an enthusiasm,
Speaker 2: but just being right on the edge physically what they
Speaker 2: needed to be. And then Crusaders of course were good
Speaker 2: as well. So it's just a really good game of
Speaker 2: footy that went all the way down to the wire
Speaker 2: and Crusaders were able to take there.
Speaker 3: So they've got the Canes this week.
Speaker 1: This is a rematch earlier this year where the Canes
Speaker 1: came to town and were as good as we've seen
Speaker 1: them in recent times, beating the Brumbies on that occasion. Well,
Speaker 1: the gameplay out the same way.
Speaker 3: Do you think.
Speaker 1: I know it's Monday, but I'm already so pumped this
Speaker 1: coming Saturday.
Speaker 2: It's not just the one through the year. Remember Ardisa
Speaker 2: there it was ruled to be held up. Yes, was
Speaker 2: that two years back? Ye, Like, there's been some big
Speaker 2: games this team Hurricanes Brumbies matchup. It's been a few
Speaker 2: of them. Brumbies beat the Canes, so they only want
Speaker 2: to beat them in the regular season. Last year there
Speaker 2: was those bits and pieces, so there's a bit of
Speaker 2: history there. The Brumbies. Being at home is always an
Speaker 2: edge and the little lessons from last week will help them.
Speaker 2: But any team with cam Royguard playing the way he
Speaker 2: is at the moment, they could win the whole thing.
Speaker 2: The Canes, they could win this and win the whole thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't wait. It's going to be good. We're
Speaker 3: going to build it up all week long. The other
Speaker 3: Australian team men who will be competing for the title.
Speaker 1: The last of the two sides left, the Queen zam Reids,
Speaker 1: who were ruthless in their absolute hammering of the drewer
Speaker 1: on a wet night in Brison Lokie Ands and the
Speaker 1: man with four tries in that absolute smash up of the.
Speaker 3: Drewer fell at Burkie. You can't believe how wet it was.
Speaker 1: It was bucketing down on the way to the ground
Speaker 1: all day, all night, wasn't it didn't stop?
Speaker 2: Calling it up, called the racers off down the road.
Speaker 5: What did you do beforehand?
Speaker 2: I got a lot of study done.
Speaker 3: It's all in the wall.
Speaker 1: He had a quiet afternoon, but you know it didn't
Speaker 1: have a quiet afternoon. Locky Anderson, who's just come out
Speaker 1: right place, right time. I'm going to get some thoughts
Speaker 1: on Locky Andison from one of these team mates later
Speaker 1: in the show. But guys, he's just coming on and
Speaker 1: on and on. This young man.
Speaker 4: I got that chance to score that try against the
Speaker 4: war Tars on the bounce a little Night's little titless
Speaker 4: prob one sat up for him nicely and he scored
Speaker 4: the try.
Speaker 5: We spoke to him after the game.
Speaker 4: He's a massive human like he would be six three
Speaker 4: six four, And you just think, like when you're out
Speaker 4: there and when we're at the pitch there and Mores,
Speaker 4: you know, I mean, you're not you're what are you
Speaker 4: six two? And you look at these blokes and outside
Speaker 4: you're thinking you should be playing background. But he's got speed,
Speaker 4: he's got size, he's got strength, and he knows how
Speaker 4: to find a tryaline And it's amazing when you just get,
Speaker 4: when you just get an opportunity, how much you thrive
Speaker 4: and how much you grow. And then obviously with the
Speaker 4: guys that are inside in there being able to shift
Speaker 4: him the ball and give him to a ball in space,
Speaker 4: you know, well done.
Speaker 5: It means tick the box every time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a truth and it's a halfh run. He's
Speaker 2: in a better team. He's got better players around him
Speaker 2: now that he's come from Melbourne. You know, he did
Speaker 2: well down there and obviously took him some time to
Speaker 2: just sneak across to the fifteen game again and just
Speaker 2: be aware of all the intricacies of his positional play.
Speaker 2: But you know, you've got John Campbell that you're working
Speaker 2: with in the back line, you're sharing some roles with
Speaker 2: Doungoun and you've got Piss Army there in the middle
Speaker 2: line is playing. We've got all these great back rollers
Speaker 2: playing around you. Quality a player around you really helps that.
Speaker 2: I think he was the pick of them on the weekend.
Speaker 2: And you forget like Joe Roff, Drew Mitchell and now
Speaker 2: Luckie Anderson. They're the most try scored by Australian superb
Speaker 2: before just those three, Like it's rare Rolf, Mitchell, Anderson.
Speaker 3: That's a great trivia question.
Speaker 1: And I reckon Drew's were against the lines in Sydney
Speaker 1: with here four Roth was maybe against the Sharks at
Speaker 1: Marnarka Oval.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly That's pretty good for me. He's good
Speaker 2: intributed to yeah, Macus Spring and Seanjuaane Nui. Of course,
Speaker 2: it's called five. That's so one of the five best
Speaker 2: individual tryscoring performances in the history of Super rugby is huge.
Speaker 2: Think about the finishes we've had in that five years.
Speaker 1: How Josh Flicko returning from injury. We haven't seen him
Speaker 1: since round three. He has resigned with Aussie Ruby, which
Speaker 1: is a massive, massive result for Queenslan and the broader
Speaker 1: game here in Australia.
Speaker 3: How do you play again?
Speaker 4: You just talk about, Yeah, it's difficult to come back
Speaker 4: after so many weeks off and actually make an impact.
Speaker 4: I think for him for this game of the weekend
Speaker 4: was more about just doing his role, you know, to
Speaker 4: support play, give space to the guys on the outside,
Speaker 4: make his tackle. So look, you could say it was
Speaker 4: a I think a welcome return for him in that space.
Speaker 4: And then obviously when you're looking at when he's talking
Speaker 4: about Australian rugby, it's a it's going to be a
Speaker 4: beneficial role for having him in amongst it. So look
Speaker 4: tick the box they get through. He gets another chance
Speaker 4: to impress this weekend as well.
Speaker 2: Big minutes. Considering it was a hamstring injury, he put
Speaker 2: the foot down for the try one that was probably
Speaker 2: the great sign loomed down the right hand, so I
Speaker 2: looked for support, said no, okay, Bang, I'm going to
Speaker 2: go and reaccelerated hamstring stood up. And what he does
Speaker 2: he does the basics well, makes his tackles, communicates well.
Speaker 2: Is a good foil at center. They're better for having
Speaker 2: him back in the turn.
Speaker 1: Speaking of guys in the team doing well, Joe Brile
Speaker 1: scores the final try. Now I need I need a kid,
Speaker 1: I Eda gen X, a millennial, someone younger than we are,
Speaker 1: to explain the pole celebration. So you can't tell me.
Speaker 1: Is it Henry Polly? It's both getting and giving it
Speaker 1: to him? Is poly the man who started this whole thing?
Speaker 1: Was there someone else who started the pole celebration?
Speaker 3: Someone explained it to me?
Speaker 4: Please, I'm the oldest person on this panel, so morgs,
Speaker 4: here we go.
Speaker 2: I'm the youngest person on this panel. I know it's Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think it's a pretty old It's not Henry Pott
Speaker 2: didn't create it? Well, who created it? It's just a
Speaker 2: bit of seppo, you know what.
Speaker 3: He should have gone out from game.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, it would have come out of America like
Speaker 2: it was like, I'm is it like I'm still at
Speaker 2: my resting heart rate because I'm so.
Speaker 5: Cool, I'm so good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he got reverse polls from WW and he
Speaker 1: took it for him. It was a good finish for Brill,
Speaker 1: who was increasive again. So the Reds take on the
Speaker 1: Crusaders this week. I don't even I don't even know
Speaker 1: where to start with the draw I don't even think
Speaker 1: we need to touch on the drawer.
Speaker 3: They didn't win.
Speaker 1: That's twenty three, twenty three and out on the road
Speaker 1: across the last few years. I just they were close
Speaker 1: early on, then they give away an almost an attacking
Speaker 1: other card penalty and then that's cooked cooked.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Just discipline is the end point. It covers too
Speaker 2: much that word. But they just they cannot maintain concentration
Speaker 2: on their call roles for the eighty minutes. At the moment,
Speaker 2: we thought the Glenn Jackson a lot throughout the year.
Speaker 2: He's been upbeat. They trained hard. They're a great group.
Speaker 2: They have, you know, issue like like the force, they
Speaker 2: travel a lot, those sorts of things. They seem to
Speaker 2: deal with it very well. They just get on with
Speaker 2: the job. It's a great group of kids and experienced players.
Speaker 2: Now first two players to play fifty games for Super
Speaker 2: for the draw on the weekend, so they're starting to
Speaker 2: find players with experience, but they're just they're just behind
Speaker 2: inaccuracy the other teams and it just adds up overseas.
Speaker 3: And then the other night it just didn't. It just didn't.
Speaker 1: I mean, this was the perfect summation of their night,
Speaker 1: almost their season. They got so many times they got
Speaker 1: inside the posing sides red zone. It kind of vary
Speaker 1: almost from fifty try to shove his way past line
Speaker 1: out in a touch.
Speaker 3: That was kind of the wrap up of the year
Speaker 3: for them.
Speaker 1: So back to the Red So Crusaders this week Friday night,
Speaker 1: Horn's going over to fly the flag for the Sands
Speaker 1: Sport team.
Speaker 3: It's going to be a beauty. It's going to be
Speaker 3: an absolute beauty.
Speaker 4: What do you I mean the speed of play, which
Speaker 4: when we spoke to James I a couple of weeks
Speaker 4: ago and now after that Tars game, he was talking
Speaker 4: about the training methods that they have and and look,
Speaker 4: I know I understand all the teams.
Speaker 5: Everything's faster and more. Friend Egg.
Speaker 4: We spake on the weekend about that recycle play. The
Speaker 4: Crusaders team have this recycled play that is just express
Speaker 4: and if you're not ready for it, sort of get
Speaker 4: out of the way because someone else is coming to
Speaker 4: take your play. So I think the Reds can combat that,
Speaker 4: but it's going to be a tough ass for them.
Speaker 4: Breakdown is going to be so important for them to
Speaker 4: slow it down.
Speaker 3: Well the other way you said they're going to be
Speaker 3: drifted into an out of games. The Reds in twenty five.
Speaker 2: Some of their twenty minute blocks are irrepressible, just brilliant
Speaker 2: rugby to watch, focus, great execution, but they have some
Speaker 2: downtimes there. They're probably one of the best teams I've seen.
Speaker 2: When they get a line break against them, they are
Speaker 2: desperate to get back. They get great numbers behind the ball.
Speaker 2: If you see an opposition we are going for the corner,
Speaker 2: there's invariably five Reds players scrambling to get back there.
Speaker 2: But what they aren't always good at is, you know,
Speaker 2: doing it the easy way, which is not allowing the
Speaker 2: line break to begin with. They just do have those issues.
Speaker 2: It's just where they are at as a team. It's
Speaker 2: what's holding them back. And if you have a five
Speaker 2: to ten minute period like that in christ Church, it's
Speaker 2: lights out.
Speaker 3: It's going to be gone and.
Speaker 2: You met the collision.
Speaker 3: Collision.
Speaker 2: You got to win collisions and you've got to fix
Speaker 2: that breakdown. Watch the Brumbies game and watch what the
Speaker 2: Crusaders did in the defensive breakdown. If they're able to
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 3: They no way that's allowed to happen this week.
Speaker 1: Well, there can be no way the broader refereeing group
Speaker 1: cannot watch that game from last week and allow that
Speaker 1: to happen again.
Speaker 3: But if you're in a semi.
Speaker 2: If you're the Reds, do you know what, let's kiss
Speaker 2: there saying right now. No, we don't wait for the
Speaker 2: referee to do it. We do it ourselves. If you're
Speaker 2: gonna wait for a referee to do that, you're in
Speaker 2: the wrong. You get their first, get their lower, get
Speaker 2: their first, be lower, work hard on the ground, win collisions.
Speaker 2: Like he's got to say, Reds, we do our job.
Speaker 2: Mavroline a referee to clean up our quick ball forward.
Speaker 2: It's your job to give us quick.
Speaker 3: Ball fast, bring back rucking.
Speaker 5: That's it.
Speaker 2: That's one for the other show.
Speaker 1: Fellas Blues, the war Retars, the war Tars organization in
Speaker 1: South Wales Wroight. We had one one game at Eton
Speaker 1: Park in ninety seven years of trying, so the going
Speaker 1: in and at ten six you thought maybe the a
Speaker 1: rhythm's got this wrong, maybe the tars are going through
Speaker 1: and then it just old baby.
Speaker 3: One Dame or ninety seven years.
Speaker 2: It should have been too.
Speaker 3: You guys got close.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if Matt Burke wasn't on the piece in an
Speaker 2: Ice bas if you read Burkey's.
Speaker 1: Autoboger was in Newcastle, listen, it's ten six through thirty
Speaker 1: seven minutes of action.
Speaker 3: What were you thinking?
Speaker 1: We were watching, obviously from our hotel room in Brizzy Burkey,
Speaker 1: what were you thinking at that score line?
Speaker 3: Did you think okay?
Speaker 5: There was a bit of okay about it, but there
Speaker 5: was a bit of what you take? What did you take?
Speaker 5: Three points twice?
Speaker 4: You know, you had to you had to score, try
Speaker 4: to beat to beat the Blues. You're gonna have to
Speaker 4: score tries.
Speaker 3: You're gonna get to twenty at least twenty five.
Speaker 4: You've got to have something in the bank, you know.
Speaker 4: And when they did that just before halftime, I think
Speaker 4: it was and about the twenty half minute, I think
Speaker 4: they got I think they got their direction wrong. I
Speaker 4: don't know who made the decision to go.
Speaker 5: Go for the goal.
Speaker 4: I know that, you know when you're talking about it,
Speaker 4: and we spoke about it briefly on the sideline of
Speaker 4: the Brumbies game. You've got to keep the pressure on
Speaker 4: if you if you let that pressure valve go, you
Speaker 4: just the opposition team goes beautiful, we're out of here.
Speaker 5: We can go territory, we can go pace.
Speaker 4: And then they end up scoring two tries in about
Speaker 4: seven minutes, and so I thought that's where they got
Speaker 4: a few of the things wrong at.
Speaker 5: Ten to seven. Was their hope.
Speaker 4: There was hope, but I don't think they were ever
Speaker 4: going to actually overcome this outfit.
Speaker 1: Did you think that Teala's try should have stood because
Speaker 1: that was rather.
Speaker 3: Crucial in the end.
Speaker 4: No, because there was the world's biggest forward pass here whereabouts?
Speaker 5: Right now?
Speaker 3: Where there?
Speaker 4: What mate, Jordi Barrett is in front of the player
Speaker 4: who's passing the ball.
Speaker 5: So how do you do that? Okay, they messed that
Speaker 5: up there.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter where he stands.
Speaker 5: The hand mate.
Speaker 2: That is so forward, so typical Aussie commentator, that.
Speaker 4: Many forward passes in this environment, It is ridiculous.
Speaker 2: That's pretty flat. That's okay, is I record?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Could you.
Speaker 5: Let's you cannot be in front.
Speaker 2: I can be in front of the I forget about
Speaker 2: where bar it is. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: Backwards out of the hat, it's nothing, It's.
Speaker 2: Only it comes out of the hand.
Speaker 4: Be quiet, Be quiet, Not that I had anything with
Speaker 4: the game. The war won't go win that game.
Speaker 5: But all I'm seeing each week forward passes. Each week.
Speaker 5: We've got to get back to that pub test.
Speaker 1: Don't take I tell you what when you tell you
Speaker 1: examples to the pub, don't run in with that one
Speaker 1: because people say you can we go back.
Speaker 3: To outside you're the crowd.
Speaker 5: What about what about line tackle? Just then? From the
Speaker 5: throwing the ball throw at one.
Speaker 2: Throat, that was forward, that was for you. Didn't mention
Speaker 2: it then, did you? When you're right, you liked it is.
Speaker 4: So what do we want now? The shoulder pad, the
Speaker 4: shoulder charge on from let's a penalty try.
Speaker 1: He wants to get a high five for trying to
Speaker 1: try one of the hardest running hooking.
Speaker 2: Of course, of course the hint of a rap with
Speaker 2: the right army may yeah, actually.
Speaker 3: Tommy just saw Timmy get drilled. He's like, oh, tom, who.
Speaker 4: Was I got to go back to who was who
Speaker 4: was the who was the winger for Auckland and the
Speaker 4: Blues around my time.
Speaker 5: I've got his name now. Was Dougie No, no, no.
Speaker 3: Who was then?
Speaker 4: No no no, no.
Speaker 5: Winger Joe dear Joel even Deary. There we go.
Speaker 4: So we're playing Auckland in Auckland and Matt Dowling was
Speaker 4: the winger. I said to he, mate, you got him?
Speaker 4: I said, mate, just rush up, and he just had
Speaker 4: some have some, had some time. I don't give him time.
Speaker 4: Make sure you take his space away and he goes
Speaker 4: my record.
Speaker 5: I've got him.
Speaker 4: I've got to speak. I just worked the sideline. I said,
Speaker 4: please don't and the first play that were double cut,
Speaker 4: and it got to him and his shadows shadow shadow,
Speaker 4: and just went like what and then.
Speaker 5: And I hit him. I tackle him, I reckon. I
Speaker 5: knocked myself out.
Speaker 4: I got up. I went, don't even do that. And
Speaker 4: there's a few other words in there.
Speaker 1: Rico Yuani, speaking of finishes, he grabs three on the weekend,
Speaker 1: equal the Great Man Doggie Howard's fifty five tries.
Speaker 3: With the Blues.
Speaker 1: I do love watching Rico when he's in form. He's
Speaker 1: a good watch. Still, there's still a lot of chat
Speaker 1: that goes on. He was into Joe Walton after going
Speaker 1: over one of those as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah you're allowed to though, when when you're scoring allowed
Speaker 4: to run for as he looks a bit of gas.
Speaker 4: When Calloway chasing down, I thought he was I thought
Speaker 4: he was a shoeing for that one there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, came over. Yeah, well he's getting a little bit older.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but you're allowed your lad to have chat.
Speaker 2: We all lose all those of you that had it.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, yes he might have lost.
Speaker 2: Half a yard, but he's probably gained it up here.
Speaker 2: You will you look at.
Speaker 4: That that that short try he did was outstanding. Just understand,
Speaker 4: just giving the forwards a bit of a rest and say,
Speaker 4: I'll take it up crash over the line.
Speaker 1: Did you throw a lip when you were up big
Speaker 1: with tars and wallabies?
Speaker 5: I don't think we're up big with tars or wallabies.
Speaker 2: So there's a few times a couple of people copped
Speaker 2: it from him from him.
Speaker 4: Yeah fullback, No one heard me, no lip, no lip.
Speaker 3: I was nil by lip.
Speaker 5: I was in the Lippy Blake group.
Speaker 2: Every mother in law's favorite neil By Lip, never by lip.
Speaker 2: I'll bring him home for dinner. Never no lippy Burkie
Speaker 2: che steel he was always he was just shut.
Speaker 1: Cheese fee Highlighters forty one, twenty four. I'll keep this
Speaker 1: short and sharp because it's the Chiefs who ran away
Speaker 1: with you in the Highlanders, as they have done all
Speaker 1: season long, put together some terrific moments, really really good moments.
Speaker 1: It wasn't enough to get them across the line against Highlanders.
Speaker 1: Chiefs take top spot, Highland taped bottom spot. They get
Speaker 1: wooden spoon. This was the other big game from the weekend.
Speaker 1: Hurricanes Viat Mawana Pacifica everyone's second favorite team, Mawana hah.
Speaker 3: CIFKA got close.
Speaker 1: Early and then the Canes just on another year and
Speaker 1: this sets us up for the weekend in CARMARTI leads
Speaker 1: him out the huge performance again from Anisi scores a
Speaker 1: try in that game.
Speaker 3: Up against He's our club.
Speaker 5: Yeah, heck, this is rockstar, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Well when it comes to just.
Speaker 4: Owning the cake tin, I mean his season has been outstanding,
Speaker 4: hasn't He's since coming back from Japan, where he dominated.
Speaker 4: He was show and Go, Chip and Chase. He was
Speaker 4: doing everything over there, and he sort of brought that
Speaker 4: bit of flare back again. Ye know, but that that
Speaker 4: that seven or old that he does is so on
Speaker 4: the ball still and there I mean, there you go.
Speaker 4: Welcome home Arty. So you know he not as he
Speaker 4: got support from Mowanam. He's got the support from the
Speaker 4: Hurricanes as well, and you know, again dominates in a
Speaker 4: team that that struggled that night.
Speaker 5: But he's just you get thrilled, County.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine just thinking back to his time in Japan.
Speaker 1: Imagine you're the line worker at suntorys Hungle Life and
Speaker 1: your job is putting labels on fancy bottles of whiskey
Speaker 1: during the day, and then on the weekend you got
Speaker 1: to play. And he said, I just throw yourself at
Speaker 1: his feet.
Speaker 5: Have you done Japan? Have you done? Have you done
Speaker 5: coaching in Japan at all? Mondy coaching in Japan for
Speaker 5: a while. Then I'm out there and.
Speaker 2: Coacher, Yeah, I think anything you want to week cash.
Speaker 4: Week, kicking week, scotty wife, whiskey bottle, that's right. I'm
Speaker 4: still waiting for the classics to come through.
Speaker 5: But that's all right.
Speaker 4: And and we did the session with the team and
Speaker 4: I went, let's wrap it up, and goes like, no,
Speaker 4: we don't go home yet.
Speaker 5: He said that was the professional players. Now the company
Speaker 5: players come along and I went, what's going on?
Speaker 4: Then he goes, well, said this guy over here, this
Speaker 4: guy here is systems analyst. He's come in and he's
Speaker 4: working his way up. He's going really well. And then
Speaker 4: he want it to a tight end proper and he
Speaker 4: goes he works the boomgate and he will for the
Speaker 4: next twenty years. I went, well, up, But he's got
Speaker 4: a job. He's in the company and that's what that's
Speaker 4: his role. So by the end of the week I
Speaker 4: couldn't speak, and because you're yelling out all the instructions,
Speaker 4: then it gets interpreted.
Speaker 5: And I just said the interpreter, so make can you?
Speaker 5: And he's looked at me.
Speaker 1: Nup.
Speaker 4: I said, you have to do the voice. I could
Speaker 4: be saying anything, but you have to be the voice
Speaker 4: of reason.
Speaker 1: It was good fun, though, I say, what he's good fun.
Speaker 1: Getting Monster's macrom absolutely this week it is from this
Speaker 1: game the Devon Flanders.
Speaker 2: Try say Flanders first, because I'm going to call him
Speaker 2: Flanders afterwards. This is my lovely billet, little ball across sorry,
Speaker 2: and look at this the little chip and chase out
Speaker 2: of the top of the laughter fender from the back roller.
Speaker 2: So the Narsenal stript from Reyguard a lovely ball on
Speaker 2: the edge. There's a heap of good tries in this one,
Speaker 2: but I love a back roller chip and.
Speaker 3: Chase Hagard was the passing before the chip, Chase the.
Speaker 4: One that was forward, start yelling cloudy and that was
Speaker 4: a forward pass. It's not it's so far forward that
Speaker 4: last pass of the inside has to be forward pretty
Speaker 4: which that's a gratical Now forward, it's out of the hand,
Speaker 4: but he's look backwards out of the hand that he's
Speaker 4: so far forward.
Speaker 5: Players.
Speaker 1: I'm taking him to roll Ring a golf club on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: After that, I'm taking straight over the road to the mall.
Speaker 1: We're going to open a sam and we're going to
Speaker 1: get those classes looked back.
Speaker 4: Film you film, you've got to pass it back, which
Speaker 4: you can't pass it there.
Speaker 2: If you know what physics is.
Speaker 5: I know exactly what physics is.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter what he's standing. Only matters with the
Speaker 2: ball guy.
Speaker 5: Of course, and then went forward.
Speaker 3: Fantasy has come to a close, and you're.
Speaker 2: Going to be a good referee.
Speaker 3: I don't know how you got your aar ticket.
Speaker 5: Do you know what how to do?
Speaker 4: I took a picture, I sent it to you guys,
Speaker 4: and then I end up sending and this gardener what's
Speaker 4: the and even he got it wrong?
Speaker 2: I right, I did? Was right?
Speaker 3: Right? Yeah? There was one more forty.
Speaker 1: Fully credited as now and.
Speaker 2: You'll see me running down the sideline at Stayed Champs
Speaker 2: next week in Concord and tweeters.
Speaker 1: That's awesome, Fellows, fantasyes Cape will clothes this. We've just
Speaker 1: captured so many people this year. There was over seventy
Speaker 1: thousand players and the winner at the end of it
Speaker 1: Callum Brown out of Melbourney. He takes home a ten
Speaker 1: grand collect So I just I just want to recap
Speaker 1: the numbers to make sure that we're doing this again
Speaker 1: next year. Now, there are going to be some tweaks
Speaker 1: required for twenty twenty six going forward, and I'm sure.
Speaker 3: The crew spl will take it on.
Speaker 1: But such a good job that bringing in We had
Speaker 1: seventy thousand players, twelve thousand different leagues, four point five
Speaker 1: million players ins and outs. The most selective players across
Speaker 1: the year was Artist Saville. The most captain player, which
Speaker 1: we bring you double points, was the d Mac.
Speaker 3: It was just awesome. And a special shout out.
Speaker 1: To my wife Marissa, who took out our little league
Speaker 1: as well, all on our own and if this is
Speaker 1: the idea behind it, and the reason I use her
Speaker 1: as an example is because she watched every minute of
Speaker 1: every game that had one of her players in it.
Speaker 1: Woman who's in her mid forties, who has not who
Speaker 1: doesn't you know, who's not fully hardcore in it, became
Speaker 1: hardcore into it because of Fantasy.
Speaker 2: That's why so well done was already the highest point
Speaker 2: score across the season.
Speaker 3: Will Jordan was on a run there. I think already
Speaker 3: made Carlo Carlo was up there.
Speaker 1: Good if you've nailed me with that one. But well
Speaker 1: done to everyone who is part of fantasy. And also
Speaker 1: for our lunch at co and shep I'm hungry.
Speaker 2: God, no boo, no boo.
Speaker 3: Have you heard what he's going to try and do?
Speaker 2: Also, I want us to go? Can we go?
Speaker 1: It's worse than that, can drop him, can stop him in.
Speaker 1: So he wants to try and auction off for lunch.
Speaker 1: This is at car for a punner. So the punner
Speaker 1: gets to come to our lunch, which would be great,
Speaker 1: but he's trying to use the puner's money to pay
Speaker 1: for the money he'd have to.
Speaker 3: Pay to shout the lunch. Is that play on?
Speaker 2: No, it's not.
Speaker 4: That's maybe we could send it to our managers and
Speaker 4: invoice him to offset that.
Speaker 3: That's not bad.
Speaker 2: Some of it's unimportant enough.
Speaker 3: Fantasy's done. Time for our post is right?
Speaker 1: Oh yes, we've got to before we can finish with
Speaker 1: the fizz and the fireworks and the fun times that
Speaker 1: goes with the Golden Post, the award. We need to
Speaker 1: recap the weekend gone because this might have a big
Speaker 1: impact in terms of two takes our top spot one
Speaker 1: points from the weekend gone.
Speaker 3: Please, men, what have you got books?
Speaker 2: No longer, so I thought, in trying circumstance, especially in
Speaker 2: the first half, he was the pick of the Brumbies.
Speaker 2: One clean line break, four or five tackle bus controlled
Speaker 2: things as well as he could. It wasn't an easy
Speaker 2: night of the office for a ten against that crusader's
Speaker 2: rush defense and they went perfect the Brumbies, but no
Speaker 2: one was good.
Speaker 5: I've gone the other ten from the Reds.
Speaker 4: I've gone Tom Liner and again just controlling and when
Speaker 4: you talk about who's.
Speaker 5: Scoring the tries, it was on the width there.
Speaker 4: And I think that's one of the one of the
Speaker 4: positive things the Reds have been able to do this
Speaker 4: year is find some space out on the width there,
Speaker 4: and he's been obviously the catalysts being able to do that.
Speaker 1: Tami Germot one triggy conditions perfect having enabled Liner to
Speaker 1: play well.
Speaker 3: Number two points two points.
Speaker 2: Tom Hooper tackles and carries huge breakdown entry is huge,
Speaker 2: had an excellent season in a tough part of the
Speaker 2: field where he lives all the time. Another two points
Speaker 2: from me for Tom Hooper.
Speaker 4: I like Ryan Lonigan on the weekend you know again
Speaker 4: you talk about the middle that the Crusaders had. He
Speaker 4: was busy around that that rock area, was trying his
Speaker 4: best to clear the ball and create some space.
Speaker 5: He got a couple of runs. I just like the
Speaker 5: way he works at nine.
Speaker 1: Lockiy Anderson four tries two points. I thought he was
Speaker 1: great and has been great for the large chunks of
Speaker 1: the year.
Speaker 2: Lock Anderson four tries three points.
Speaker 4: Whoa when nearly went the jackpot Then Locky Anderson four
Speaker 4: tries three.
Speaker 1: WHOA fellas feature Rolf Mitchell Anderson. Yeah, I can't really
Speaker 1: can test you, guys, but I had Bobby v's my three.
Speaker 1: He's almost got his side home after just hitting the
Speaker 1: nitro in that second half. Okay, all right, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what Lockie has put in a late season charge.
Speaker 1: I'm going to count him down from fourth through the
Speaker 1: top spot.
Speaker 3: You're ready for this.
Speaker 1: In fourth place, equal on fifteen votes, it's the Toms
Speaker 1: right in Hooper from the Brummy's work. Knowing that Hooper
Speaker 1: was right up there in the MVP voting from our
Speaker 1: Broader Super Rugby competition as well.
Speaker 3: Third place with sixteen votes a man from the.
Speaker 1: West Carlo Tazano with sixteen ahead of him on twenty
Speaker 1: two votes.
Speaker 3: In second place, I missed the.
Speaker 1: Tom linerd season yep, Liner all right on twenty nine votes,
Speaker 1: clear of Tommy by seven and bringing in the most
Speaker 1: votes ever in a season in the long distinguished history of.
Speaker 3: The Golden Post is Fellas.
Speaker 1: It is my great pleasure to announce it our Golden
Speaker 1: Posting win it for twenty twenty five is Tape McDermott
Speaker 1: from the Queen's Amory, How good he got a year
Speaker 1: he's had? Just to show you how good the year
Speaker 1: he's had. Check these highlights, the German find sub room
Speaker 1: and he goes run.
Speaker 6: On Drue the German getting behind and Flood gets the score.
Speaker 6: He's fence, Campbell and field, MacDermott for two. MacDermot taps
Speaker 6: and guys himself MacDermot with brilliant feet, MacDermott, Jonson all himself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he has been next level through twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: and he joins us now all the way from Britain.
Speaker 6: A little boy player, Hello boy, please.
Speaker 3: Tape.
Speaker 1: You've represented the country, play World Cups, all the rest
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 3: Where does this accolade sit for you? Now?
Speaker 7: The personal thanks fellas really appreciate it. A little bit
Speaker 7: shocked when I got the message from Jimmy, our media manager.
Speaker 7: But yeah, Hugh Johnny, look at the two other blocks
Speaker 7: that I want to perform me. Yeah, so thank you.
Speaker 4: There's no music then we're we're not going to wrap
Speaker 4: you up, so if you want to keep going. And
Speaker 4: by the way, I've heard this is like guaranteed selection
Speaker 4: for Wallaby is our crew for the other two. We'll
Speaker 4: work for the other two exactly right. Taylor's going to
Speaker 4: say to you, how this year it's been incredible for
Speaker 4: you, You've played incredibly well. Hopefully more to come, obviously, with
Speaker 4: the finals happening. Now, what's been the secret of the
Speaker 4: Red success this year?
Speaker 7: Yeah, a lot of it's been down for less team
Speaker 7: and just how they've brought through our next kind of
Speaker 7: tier of depth. You know, we've been tested a little
Speaker 7: bit this year with injuries, but the way we recruited
Speaker 7: in the off season and the way that key guys
Speaker 7: have played. You look at how much Tommy Line has
Speaker 7: grown in that jersey and you know, tanza and accrusion
Speaker 7: a really important part of the part of our system.
Speaker 7: You know, the way we want to play, We've play
Speaker 7: with a lot with and you know, it tends to
Speaker 7: take control. And the way Tommy's developed as a player's
Speaker 7: been a huge catalyst for the way we've kind of
Speaker 7: developed as a team. And not only Tommy.
Speaker 5: You see guys like Dre Pacio has had a great.
Speaker 7: Season, you know in the center's both at twelve and thirteen,
Speaker 7: Joe Browle just just to name a couple. So just
Speaker 7: how quickly those guys have developed in the hot seat
Speaker 7: has been really impressive and you know, has helped us massively.
Speaker 5: Throughout the year.
Speaker 2: Technically. Turn our attention, of course to this weekend. You
Speaker 2: go to christ Church your Friday Night James O'Connor on
Speaker 2: the side, you've got history of doing some good things
Speaker 2: in Cross Church recently. What's the approach.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we got to we've got to do the basics
Speaker 7: for mate. Obviously, we know the Cross The Crusaders are
Speaker 7: a fantastic side, all blocks right across the park, so
Speaker 7: we've got to have our focus on the ball. We've
Speaker 7: got to make sure last time we played them, we
Speaker 7: gave up possession way too easy. Big ranks of us
Speaker 7: of our game the last couple of weeks has been
Speaker 7: just how well we've competed in the air for our kicks.
Speaker 7: And with the weather prediction coming that's that's going to
Speaker 7: be important as well. So when we choose to give
Speaker 7: them the ball, we're going to make it hopefully contest
Speaker 7: and yeah, put them under pressure. So yeah, we've go
Speaker 7: to we just got to make sure we do the
Speaker 7: fundamentals well, we've got to make our tackles. I thought
Speaker 7: our defense on the weekend was it was a great
Speaker 7: starting point for where we need to go this weekend
Speaker 7: of this Friday, and yeah, we're excited for the challenge.
Speaker 4: Maybe he's had a word to the referee, but the
Speaker 4: ruling of knock ons, mate, you might you might want
Speaker 4: to give me all the tip if that goes forward.
Speaker 5: It's a it's a knock on.
Speaker 4: No com no come ahead, good boy.
Speaker 3: Question for you Lockie and listen.
Speaker 1: Right, So we've been obviously finding this guy really closely.
Speaker 1: Was he sevens level then at the Rebels and he
Speaker 1: has just come on massive in twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: Five with your blokes.
Speaker 1: What's been the key to Locke hitting that next level
Speaker 1: and then looking like maybe go a little bit further
Speaker 1: as well?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I hope.
Speaker 7: So, like you said, of lucky enough to play sevens
Speaker 7: with Endo and the plaary was then to the player
Speaker 7: is today's you know, his journey has been unreal and
Speaker 7: you even look at how far he'd come in twelve months,
Speaker 7: he's been absolutely you know, he's touch and go whether
Speaker 7: he was in now starting twenty three at the start
Speaker 7: of the year and he's absolutely cemenity spot and he's
Speaker 7: been one of our best weekend week out and four
Speaker 7: trials on the weekend you know something no other corns
Speaker 7: and read in the rugby ere anyways, that's done.
Speaker 3: So it's yeah, really.
Speaker 7: Happy for him. He's worked hard, he's come into a
Speaker 7: system where he's had to work hard and his rugby
Speaker 7: IQ's improved as well, and that's health his game massively.
Speaker 7: He suits the way we want to play. He's taugh,
Speaker 7: he's abrasive and it's quick and they're all things that
Speaker 7: we needed from our backs. And you know, he's come
Speaker 7: in and been probably our best back to the honest
Speaker 7: week and week.
Speaker 2: Out, we could agree, well, that's a sure bump. Some
Speaker 2: bruises from the weekend. The most worrying post much seemed
Speaker 2: to be Harry Wilson. How's he tracking?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think he's I haven't actually seen him where.
Speaker 7: We're all kind of coming in at different times today,
Speaker 7: but all the reports there is that he's good. So
Speaker 7: might a little little bruise in a similar era, but nothing,
Speaker 7: nothing to sweat on, so we're expecting he'll be.
Speaker 1: All the Bruce Bruce, Bruce Bruce, He'll be good to go.
Speaker 1: Hey Tady, well done again mate on your golden Posty Award.
Speaker 1: Burkie is currently working through the Team move Back catalog
Speaker 1: for a couple of key rings for you and Fraser,
Speaker 1: so that you can open up certain doors that others
Speaker 1: might not be able to do. Us a favor, get
Speaker 1: us a result against the Crusaders.
Speaker 2: Friday please come party too hard.
Speaker 7: Yeah, jeers Guye, thank you very much. Tally appreciate him.
Speaker 1: Yes, I could get some time there with Tate McDermott. Fellas.
Speaker 1: That's a wrap on our show. We're back tomorrow with
Speaker 1: the Big Guy both extra. He is just desk him
Speaker 1: out to handle the four of us.
Speaker 5: Man, he's got a few stories.
Speaker 3: He's a good man. He's a good man.
Speaker 1: It'll be a great show as well, so we will
Speaker 1: see you all again for between two posts extra with
Speaker 1: the great One Owen Finnigan