Speaker 1: Here at two Good Sports, we would like to acknowledge
Speaker 1: the traditional owners of the land on which we record
Speaker 1: this podcast. There were innerie people. This land was never seated,
Speaker 1: always was always will be hello and welcome to do
Speaker 1: good sports and sports news told differently as always.
Speaker 2: I'm Georgie Tunny and it's.
Speaker 3: A miracle she rocked up today because she rarely, rarely
Speaker 3: wants to chat sport after a Queen's Land loss, and
Speaker 3: Georgie tows bleak twas.
Speaker 1: Bleak, twas bleak. I'm still rapping my little beanie. So
Speaker 1: I'm wearing a Queen's Land.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's going back to first season. He barely took
Speaker 4: it off. Yeah, yep, yep.
Speaker 1: So look, I've got to remain optimistic, which is really
Speaker 1: hard to do this morning, really hard to do.
Speaker 3: Well, We've got the wonderful Ryan Hoffman joining us later
Speaker 3: in the app to break it all down for you.
Speaker 3: And if you are just a casual observer of origin,
Speaker 3: we'll catch you up. That's what Georgie does with me
Speaker 3: all the time. Lets me know what I need to know.
Speaker 3: And there might be a few expletives, but we'll see
Speaker 3: what happens. But George, my goodness, do I have a
Speaker 3: good sport because this three minute clip made me cry. Okay,
Speaker 3: that's that's right. It's a reflection of my emotional stability. Sure,
Speaker 3: but have you seen the footage of Leo Lombard when
Speaker 3: he's told that he will be getting a debut for
Speaker 3: the Gold Coast song. So what they've done, God bless him,
Speaker 3: is they've brought in his mum and he's there.
Speaker 4: It is so we don't have tissues. Mom, I kin'd of.
Speaker 4: I still can't look at it.
Speaker 5: Mom.
Speaker 3: Mom is sitting in the boardroom and she basically is saying,
Speaker 3: I remember from preschool he was like footy footy, and
Speaker 3: I went, nah, I'm not sitting in the side of
Speaker 3: a paddock. I'm not having a bar of it. And
Speaker 3: she just says it's worth it all, It's worth all
Speaker 3: of it. And then he comes into the room and
Speaker 3: she hands over the number thirty jumper and says you
Speaker 3: deserve it. And then Dimmer says, you know what, I'll
Speaker 3: just let him say it because this, I mean, appreciate what.
Speaker 2: She's Yeah, so it's a journey.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a reason.
Speaker 5: The Academy's part of it.
Speaker 6: But the fact matter is, this is what people give her,
Speaker 6: but that's it should be incredibly prayers Hudan, and.
Speaker 1: We are so honored that you're gonna play the first
Speaker 1: game for the girl. Couldn't heard it.
Speaker 3: We love it. Why why do you think we wanted
Speaker 3: mum here? A grown man, knowing he's being filmed in
Speaker 3: a football club, says, because she's literally my everything.
Speaker 2: Just for context, deal, isn't it?
Speaker 4: Those five words.
Speaker 2: Have set Jelmy off. She Esus is crying.
Speaker 4: He's in front of his senior coach.
Speaker 3: He's a young man, he's ripped to the nines because
Speaker 3: he's an athlete, and he's cuddling his mum's sobbing, and
Speaker 3: they say, why do you want mom here?
Speaker 4: And he goes, she's literally my everything.
Speaker 3: Now, well, good luck to your few, your wife, because she's.
Speaker 4: Not getting a look in. Mum's gonna be the number
Speaker 4: one forever.
Speaker 1: Sorry, there is a reality in my mind where Mamma Lombard,
Speaker 1: bless you, is there with Leo significant other and.
Speaker 2: She just they have an argument.
Speaker 1: She just leaves that, just leaves that on the table
Speaker 1: and says good luck, babe.
Speaker 4: But Dimmer then cries. He cries, cries, everyone cries. It's
Speaker 4: just so the.
Speaker 3: AFL shared that as well as a Gold Coast And
Speaker 3: sometimes we get caught up in some peanut.
Speaker 4: Behavior that we see by AFL players.
Speaker 3: So it's so nice sometimes to see just a good
Speaker 3: emotional hug with mum and how much it means I
Speaker 3: loved it.
Speaker 1: This is like one of those videos where dogs welcome
Speaker 1: military people. This is in your feet immediately and then
Speaker 1: you just start bawling and then you're down a rabbit
Speaker 1: hole and.
Speaker 2: It's a great time. It's a tearful time, but a great.
Speaker 4: Time, just just the sob in.
Speaker 2: But you can hear that, all right, I thought that
Speaker 2: was you you were watching.
Speaker 4: Love it, Love it, Love it.
Speaker 1: Speaking of potentially peanut behavior, I'm a bad sport peanut
Speaker 1: the best non offensive offensive work. It's really good. Also, bulb,
Speaker 1: like where do you go from that? You know someone
Speaker 1: calls you a bulb? I'd be like, what of a tulip.
Speaker 4: Or a light? How not described?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 2: I digress, So peanut behavior.
Speaker 1: One of our favorite topics on this podcast, dear listeners
Speaker 1: you would know is the Tazzy Devils and this will
Speaker 1: they won't they? Will they won't they relationship. It's practically
Speaker 1: the coalition, Will they or won't they build this bloody
Speaker 1: stadium for the new team. And there was a news
Speaker 1: article that came out this week on the ABC with
Speaker 1: the headline.
Speaker 2: I'm a phrasing and maybe making it up.
Speaker 1: Oh no, how could we have foreseen that the cost
Speaker 1: of this stadium with roof may blow out.
Speaker 2: To more than a billion dollars?
Speaker 4: I'm trying not to swear. Trying not to.
Speaker 1: Swear, obviously obviously, so concerns while who could have predicted it?
Speaker 1: Are us here at two good sports multiple times that
Speaker 1: potentially the building costs are going to cripple the.
Speaker 3: Team before they even begin. Is it the team or
Speaker 3: the government that's going to be crippled?
Speaker 1: Well, and this is the thing, it's both of them,
Speaker 1: right because we, as we've discussed on this podcast before,
Speaker 1: they're going hand in hand in this joint venture. And
Speaker 1: Brendan Gale, who you know personally, who's a genius really
Speaker 1: in the game, but even he's had to admit, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not it's not great.
Speaker 2: It's not a great thing to happen.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, there's debate this week being like, you know, Nathan
Speaker 3: Buckley has been approached. Yes, I've had the conversation. I'm like,
Speaker 3: bro needs a stadium to play.
Speaker 4: This is going to be a senior coming. What are
Speaker 4: we doing anyone have.
Speaker 1: Gigantic backyards in Hobart because we might need.
Speaker 3: Also, just the amount of trades they're going to have
Speaker 3: to fly to jazz because there's actually exactly not that
Speaker 3: many people.
Speaker 4: There's not enough worker ants to put it together.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Like, I'm not saying that I am a mass savant,
Speaker 1: but even me with my abacus could be like, now,
Speaker 1: hold on a second, might be slightly more than the
Speaker 1: hundreds of millions you already thought.
Speaker 3: I'm so confident with the only sports podcast that casually
Speaker 3: uses the word abacus vant.
Speaker 4: For that matter, I promise we're about to speak opringing
Speaker 4: welcome back.
Speaker 3: No, but in all seriousness, we desperately hope that Tazzy
Speaker 3: get a team.
Speaker 4: Yes, we really hope that.
Speaker 3: And I am the biggest advocate for the fact it
Speaker 3: does need a roof. Petty about the fact they're like
Speaker 3: stadium caveat with a roof.
Speaker 4: It needs a roof. It's bloody, freezing, it's freezing and windy, and.
Speaker 3: Peopleians hate it when you say that because they're like,
Speaker 3: it's beautiful sorry, have done boundary during the cricket season,
Speaker 3: which is summer, and have wore four jackets.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, and probably you're meaning at this.
Speaker 1: Well, you're welcome to it, maybe if it's a whitewash.
Speaker 3: But tazzy fans deserve it. We know that startups i e.
Speaker 3: The jack Jumpers, startups, startups.
Speaker 2: Silicon Valley down there on Valley. Yeah yeah, it's actually
Speaker 2: the Silicon.
Speaker 4: Same salomecon Markets. What is it.
Speaker 3: We know that new teams do so well and embraced
Speaker 3: by the tazzy public.
Speaker 4: They deserve it, they do give it to them.
Speaker 3: And we're just seeing across the board the building stadiums
Speaker 3: isn't viable at the moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I know, So watch this space. It's
Speaker 1: to watch this space. I will stay here with the
Speaker 1: calculator and we will keep totaling.
Speaker 2: But it's not looking good.
Speaker 3: Not lease, don't google the ABC article that starts with.
Speaker 4: Oh no, because it doesn't exist. Ryan Hoffman coming up next.
Speaker 1: Now, tell me it is absolutely no secret that my
Speaker 1: favorite time of year, nay, in any time of any
Speaker 1: ear in any world isn't Christmas.
Speaker 2: It's not my birthday.
Speaker 1: It is state of origin, namely game one, namely Game
Speaker 1: one in Queensland.
Speaker 2: Over the years, I've had a lot of success.
Speaker 1: And I say I because I have been a part
Speaker 1: of many Queensland victories, many series wins. The only times
Speaker 1: that I wasn't really there would always be a new
Speaker 1: South Welshman that would haunt my Dad and I as
Speaker 1: we sat around the television trying to hold back our.
Speaker 2: Tears because we've got so used to winning. And that
Speaker 2: man is called Ryan Hoffland.
Speaker 1: We always cheered him at the Melbourne Storm, our second team,
Speaker 1: you know, you know everyone, you know that everyone.
Speaker 4: Was second and we thought, my god, he's good.
Speaker 1: Then whenever we watched Origin and whenever the Blues were
Speaker 1: doing annoying things for me, but magical things on the field,
Speaker 1: this man was a part of it, so much so
Speaker 1: that Dad and I would say to ourselves, you cannot
Speaker 1: give this man any space.
Speaker 4: He's too good. Do good.
Speaker 1: And I even as a one eyed Queenslander with a
Speaker 1: sad little beanie on my head today just licking my wounds.
Speaker 1: After the game opening game in twenty twenty five, I
Speaker 1: am thrilled to welcome the Ryan Hoffman to two Good.
Speaker 5: Spots, Riot.
Speaker 6: Ladies.
Speaker 5: That was a hell of it intot thank you.
Speaker 4: She has a reputation for those.
Speaker 7: Ryan.
Speaker 4: Firstly, how are you?
Speaker 3: We'll start with that, but we also just want to
Speaker 3: get into you're one of the very few people that
Speaker 3: know what it's like to run out to Suncorp as
Speaker 3: a Blue and what that feeling is and whether it
Speaker 3: verberates through your chest.
Speaker 4: So what is it like and how are you after
Speaker 4: watching last night's game?
Speaker 5: Thank you? Well, yeah, I'm good.
Speaker 6: I'm certainly great after after a fantastic performance by the
Speaker 6: Blues last night.
Speaker 5: There is nothing like running out of some uncle.
Speaker 6: Whether you're in a Maroon's jersey or a Blues jersey,
Speaker 6: there is no feeling like it. Because when you play
Speaker 6: there for the Blues, you're the first team that runs out,
Speaker 6: So you're the first team that the crowd sees and they.
Speaker 5: Give you a hell of a serve. But you like it.
Speaker 5: You want that.
Speaker 6: You want that energy. You want the energy that the
Speaker 6: Queensland crowd brings. You've been copying abuse walking down the street,
Speaker 6: going for your team walk that morning around Queen Street
Speaker 6: Mall and everything like that. You're walking around there a
Speaker 6: copy of abuse, so it just builds up that bit
Speaker 6: of emotion.
Speaker 5: Inn't you.
Speaker 6: And then whilst you're out there, then the Queensland team
Speaker 6: comes out, see but all the booze and then all
Speaker 6: that she is and then it just sort of brings
Speaker 6: it to it. And it's great that you run out
Speaker 6: first because you actually get to look around. You actually
Speaker 6: get that an opportunity to look around, soaking the crowd,
Speaker 6: see your family, give them, give them a bit of
Speaker 6: a wave and then get ready to play probably the
Speaker 6: toughest game at rugby league you'll ever play in your life.
Speaker 6: And there's not too many times I misplaying rugby league,
Speaker 6: but State of Origin night is one night that I
Speaker 6: certainly miss it.
Speaker 3: Well, it is just special for one of a better word,
Speaker 3: and you would have seen a young Georgie throwing something
Speaker 3: at you at some.
Speaker 4: Station going out there is love with love with love.
Speaker 3: But we talk about general sport, you and I on
Speaker 3: off siders, and we're lucky to be commentators where we
Speaker 3: talk about all sport. Just how far is the gaping
Speaker 3: chasm between Origin and everything else that we do sport
Speaker 3: wise in this country in terms of the rivalry, because
Speaker 3: there is no comparison in any other league.
Speaker 4: It simply is the biggest.
Speaker 6: You're going to camp and you're brainwashed. You are brain
Speaker 6: washed into hating these people. Yes, you don't hate the person,
Speaker 6: you hate the jersey.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 5: So guys like Billy.
Speaker 6: Slader, Cameron Smith that there were groomsmen at my wedding,
Speaker 6: a very very good friend of mine. I've playing against
Speaker 6: all these guys. I hated them for three games, but
Speaker 6: I hated the jersey.
Speaker 5: They were wearing. And the greatest thing about Origin is.
Speaker 6: That you will belt this not out of these blokes
Speaker 6: because you've never got another opportunity, because you've played with
Speaker 6: them in the same team, You've never got another opportunity
Speaker 6: hit them. Say they do it in Origin. But as
Speaker 6: soon as the game is done, you shake hands, you
Speaker 6: move on. I mean, you cats in a plane home
Speaker 6: with these guys the next day and nothing's really mentioned
Speaker 6: about Origin.
Speaker 5: You're just back to bend your regular teammates.
Speaker 6: And it's that concept that a lot of people find
Speaker 6: it hard to understand that you could go from trying
Speaker 6: to kill the opposition because you hate the jersey they're
Speaker 6: wearing into just being best mates the next day.
Speaker 5: But that's what makes Origin so special.
Speaker 6: And I think what's great about it too, is that
Speaker 6: the clubs buy it.
Speaker 5: It's the best thirty four players in the country. Remove
Speaker 5: them from your competition, give them.
Speaker 6: The hardest build up in the toughest game that you
Speaker 6: could do in the clubs and say no worries, take them.
Speaker 6: And I think that's that's why it's so special. And
Speaker 6: unfortunately for the AFL. Why have the state of origin
Speaker 6: dropped the ways because the clubs wanted to protect their players.
Speaker 6: It's not then in rugby league, Hey, you want your
Speaker 6: players playing standard origin.
Speaker 3: I just can't fathom the level of propaganda needed to
Speaker 3: make anyone hate Billy Slater. Oh that's gotta be I mean,
Speaker 3: the man can ride horseback.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I grew up loathing and I mean loathing Joey John's
Speaker 1: you know how good he was as a player, And
Speaker 1: I grew up hating the man.
Speaker 2: Like no, it was like when I didn't like because.
Speaker 4: You were in camp. Georgie speaks like she played for
Speaker 4: the Maroons there, right, I did.
Speaker 5: I have no idea the brainwashing that goes on this stuff.
Speaker 6: Then little incidents they find in the game just to
Speaker 6: highlight say look at this flake, look what he did
Speaker 6: in this game.
Speaker 5: And like, as I said, they're talking about your best mates?
Speaker 5: Are you akay? Because if we're in our own Jersey.
Speaker 5: But that's that's what Origin is about.
Speaker 1: This is a perfect tie in Ryan because I think,
Speaker 1: and I will, I'm so interested to get your thoughts.
Speaker 1: But my overall review from the Queenslanders was that they
Speaker 1: were incredibly uninspiring and really could use a wee bit
Speaker 1: more piss, a lot, a bit more mongrel. So I
Speaker 1: want those video sessions. I want that Billy to be like.
Speaker 2: Look at that there he looked at you sideways and.
Speaker 1: Then for that to really build that I think that
Speaker 1: we're missing, We're missing a little bit of that edge.
Speaker 6: Yeah, look that there was a bit of a missing
Speaker 6: from a hard edge from Queensland. But to be honest,
Speaker 6: Queensland didn't help themselves, and I think Bill was first
Speaker 6: to admit their discipline was horrific. They just picked up
Speaker 6: New south Wales and held their hand and walked them
Speaker 6: down the field through penalties and you can't do that,
Speaker 6: and I think that's the most disappointed. I think that's
Speaker 6: what Bill would have been most disappointed about last night's game,
Speaker 6: is that they just invited New South Wales into their
Speaker 6: art and look, I thought I still think New South
Speaker 6: Wales have a superior team on paper, but I've seen
Speaker 6: it too many times that the best team doesn't always
Speaker 6: it doesn't necessarily get the best get the win. But
Speaker 6: Queensland certainly didn't help themselves last night, and that's going
Speaker 6: to be the major focus for Bill going into game too.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 3: Run, we'll get on to the fact that you're an
Speaker 3: oracle because you've made some amazing and also been on
Speaker 3: air and said there should be these decisions that made
Speaker 3: that weren't. But I'm going to give you an idea
Speaker 3: to the sort of text messages I was receiving in
Speaker 3: one sentence passe from Georgie last night. We're a disaster.
Speaker 3: This is killing me. I mean, I agree, he's one
Speaker 3: hundred and four. I won't tell you what player we're
Speaker 3: referring to his age there. We're so shit, our attack
Speaker 3: is terrible. The ref is also killing us. This is
Speaker 3: absolutely grim. They're all individual texts, sents sporadically at me.
Speaker 4: Oh, she's at a pub screaming so this Ryan? Do
Speaker 4: you do you agree?
Speaker 3: But I've alluded, I've alluded to a particular selection there
Speaker 3: which you're on air saying that Tommy Diardan should get
Speaker 3: an opportunity, and they went with DC. They went with
Speaker 3: the incumbent. Do you think there needs to be a
Speaker 3: change before game two?
Speaker 5: I think Bill will make a change in the spine
Speaker 5: where it is.
Speaker 6: I'm not sure would full back half five eight, I'm
Speaker 6: really not sure.
Speaker 5: But two their attack last night it was uninspired.
Speaker 6: It really was that they didn't really ask him many
Speaker 6: questions on this South Wales, even the score, even the
Speaker 6: try they did get came off for New south Wales
Speaker 6: era which went through two quick EANs and got out
Speaker 6: to the wings, so they didn't really break apart the
Speaker 6: New south Wales defense. So they need a change there.
Speaker 6: And I think Tommy diden is a great competitor for
Speaker 6: me personally, I'm not a selector or anything like I
Speaker 6: would have put.
Speaker 5: Tom didn't over Dally Cherry Evans.
Speaker 4: And said that publicly, so he looks it looks good.
Speaker 5: Now and as nothing is.
Speaker 6: Dally Daly has been a fantastic player for Queensland, but
Speaker 6: no one beats father time.
Speaker 5: No one beats father time.
Speaker 6: And I just think he looked his age last night.
Speaker 6: But it would be a very tough call for Bill
Speaker 6: to make, seeing as he is captain. Dropping your captain
Speaker 6: midway through a series would be a huge call.
Speaker 3: So you've just said foreseeing that Bill might make a change.
Speaker 3: This is him after the game, addressing whether or not
Speaker 3: he thinks he has the right squad.
Speaker 5: He's a listen.
Speaker 7: I definitely don't think it's a personal thing, Like I
Speaker 7: know what this team's capable of, and that's why I'm
Speaker 7: you can probably see I'm disappointed because they haven't played
Speaker 7: their best footing and I feel responsible to try and
Speaker 7: help them get there. So yeah, it's definitely not a
Speaker 7: personnel thing, to be honest. They've had a great attitude
Speaker 7: as well, but to the discipline side of the game,
Speaker 7: the attitude wasn't.
Speaker 5: As good it was.
Speaker 1: I'm i, as a Queenslander, Ryan am concerned because I
Speaker 1: think that that may have been their best footing, do
Speaker 1: you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: And if that doesn't sound like a man who's going
Speaker 4: to make that much, no not.
Speaker 2: I said, like, we don't have any game breakers in
Speaker 2: that team.
Speaker 1: In that team, that was my thought before heading into
Speaker 1: last night, and last night it was proven. I'm with
Speaker 1: you in that. I mean, I said to Jellmy that
Speaker 1: he was one hundred and four daily Cherry Evans. You know,
Speaker 1: love you love your work. You got older as the
Speaker 1: game progressed, I.
Speaker 4: Was like, he's four thousand, why.
Speaker 2: Is he on the field?
Speaker 4: Like you know?
Speaker 2: So I just think that how hard is it?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 1: And when you are a player and you've got all
Speaker 1: this outside noise from and it's never loud, but it's
Speaker 1: never louder than state of origin, it is it is
Speaker 1: and they're calling for like your head.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, look it's it's especially after a loss.
Speaker 5: I mean, no one's jobs secure. Bill is a very
Speaker 5: loyal person.
Speaker 6: He is very very loyal and sometimes that loyalty can
Speaker 6: come through and we'll get the best out of players
Speaker 6: knowing that they have the trust from the coach. I
Speaker 6: think the problem for Queensland is a lot of that
Speaker 6: players aren't in a good club form either.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: The club that he draws most of his players from
Speaker 6: is normally the North Queensland Cowboys, and they are only
Speaker 6: in great form.
Speaker 5: They're really up, up and down team.
Speaker 6: I think Tom Diden's been the standout for them head
Speaker 6: and shoulders above any other player that they've had on
Speaker 6: the paddock. So he may be forced to make changes Bill,
Speaker 6: I'm not sure, but look, as I said, he is
Speaker 6: a loyal person. He won't make changes for the sake
Speaker 6: of changes, but for the individuals. And I've been there,
Speaker 6: you know. You lose the first game, you think Jesus
Speaker 6: my head on the chopping and it is quite a
Speaker 6: stressful situation. But all those players can do is go
Speaker 6: back to clubland and put their best foot forward. And
Speaker 6: I think a lot of those Queens lads have gone
Speaker 6: to back up and play this weekend because they want
Speaker 6: to prove to build the our orige and quality players
Speaker 6: and they want to go back and play well for
Speaker 6: their club side.
Speaker 1: Let's turn to New South Wales because as the oracle,
Speaker 1: I have a big question for you, Ryan, did someone
Speaker 1: put a hex on Nathan Cleary?
Speaker 2: Because why couldn't he kick anything?
Speaker 5: He couldn't kick as well himself out of a wet
Speaker 5: paper ban last night? Right?
Speaker 6: He even gave Zach Lomac's a chance too and he
Speaker 6: shaped a big time And they are probably two of
Speaker 6: the best goalkickers in the competition.
Speaker 4: I don't know what was and they still smacked him,
Speaker 4: I know, I.
Speaker 5: Know, And that's the scary part. It could have been
Speaker 5: twenty four nil.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, really could if we've kicked those goals and
Speaker 6: there was a mistake from you.
Speaker 5: I was coming out of their own end. It could
Speaker 5: have been twenty four nil.
Speaker 6: So I don't think the school one actually show just
Speaker 6: how dominant New South Wales was. But one thing I
Speaker 6: always said, you're never blaming goalkickers because they'll win your game,
Speaker 6: but they'll never lose your game because you shouldn't put
Speaker 6: yourself in a position where the goalkicker's got to kick
Speaker 6: a goal to wiz.
Speaker 4: Yeah, did you ever play in Perth?
Speaker 5: Right? I did?
Speaker 6: I actually played in the first first game at off
Speaker 6: the stadium, first game one has ever used. It was
Speaker 6: a double header in twenty eighteen, the NRL open that
Speaker 6: season over there and Melbourne Storm played the Bulldogs and
Speaker 6: the Warriors played the Bunnies.
Speaker 5: I think the double header that was the first game
Speaker 5: I've ever played.
Speaker 3: Well, you can give us some insight into what it's
Speaker 3: like taking NRL over to the West because that's where
Speaker 3: we're seeing State of Origin next and I think there'll
Speaker 3: be some Bears, some fresh bears, guernsies going around.
Speaker 6: Surely I actually played it. I would have played in
Speaker 6: Perth at least half a dozen times. A lot of
Speaker 6: times Sydney teams took the Melbourne Storm and when I
Speaker 6: was at the Warriors, I mean merely would take us
Speaker 6: to Perth for a home game every single year. So
Speaker 6: can you imagine that flight from Auckland to Perth. That's
Speaker 6: eight hours. But they looked after us. They put us
Speaker 6: up the pointing end, so we all looked after there.
Speaker 4: You take the points too, you take.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh yeah, you worry. I got I've got to
Speaker 5: goal with a new zilla very quickly. But look, that's
Speaker 5: it's a funny stadium because when when I used.
Speaker 6: To play club football before of the stadium was built,
Speaker 6: we played at HATESBF Stadium where the Force played, and
Speaker 6: that's that's a purpose built rectangular stadium. This is obviously
Speaker 6: an oval so massive. It is a huge grand I
Speaker 6: never forget. It was the first time I've seen those
Speaker 6: digital lights. So we scored a try and it was
Speaker 6: a night game and all of a sudden, all the
Speaker 6: lights went out.
Speaker 5: With what's going on here?
Speaker 6: And there's been a power series and then they flicked
Speaker 6: on and they're flicking on and off of We're in
Speaker 6: the middlefield, go, what the hell's going on here?
Speaker 5: So they've got these fancy digital.
Speaker 3: Lights, especially if you were the first to play like
Speaker 3: the exhibition sort of match there. Do you know, Ryan,
Speaker 3: they actually made them pull that back for broadcast because
Speaker 3: it was setting people off at home that might have
Speaker 3: epilepsy really because of just how much it was flash.
Speaker 4: And going off.
Speaker 3: Wow, because at the Freo game it used to be
Speaker 3: like you were at Diplo. It was it was like
Speaker 3: I remember thinking like, if I'm a player, I'm wondering,
Speaker 3: like is this going to end?
Speaker 2: Like scrilex here?
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, An Harris, so like it was. It was
Speaker 4: just like this.
Speaker 3: It's like they had a rave in between every score,
Speaker 3: like they wanted to show off what it could do,
Speaker 3: and the broadcasters have been like, you need to calm down.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 6: It was really bizarre, as I said, but sort of
Speaker 6: in the adultal Great try boys, blah blah and then the
Speaker 6: lights start flashing off.
Speaker 3: Great try Boys, blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: That's a peep behind the curtain if you've ever heard it.
Speaker 1: Well on that on that now, Ryan, this is something
Speaker 1: that you, I'm going to say, may have never done
Speaker 1: in your life, certainly your playing career. If you were
Speaker 1: to give a pep talk to the Queensland Morones ahead of.
Speaker 3: Its given a pep talk to the Morons. I'm guessing
Speaker 3: he's never given a pep.
Speaker 1: Talk famously listens to this podcast. So mate, what would
Speaker 1: you tell them?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 4: What what?
Speaker 2: What do they need to do? You are currently like
Speaker 2: one hundred percent in all predictions.
Speaker 6: Okay, so peptal the turning up it Starnes, New South
Speaker 6: Files are better than you. Guys you've had You've had
Speaker 6: a good chance. But I wouldn't bother showing up tomorrow.
Speaker 1: And you know what, Georgie, you had a good run.
Speaker 4: You've had a good time.
Speaker 3: I mean not recently, but in general, in general terms,
Speaker 3: I feel like you've enjoyed the joy.
Speaker 5: Actually no, I will do it.
Speaker 6: Serious, okay, serious, serious marid On, Okay, right, stop giving
Speaker 6: my penalties. You're literally taking the twelve guys to your
Speaker 6: foot pulling the trigger.
Speaker 5: So that's the first thing they need to sort out.
Speaker 6: Number two. They need to ask more questions. They're way
Speaker 6: too pedestrian. And you know they need to ask a
Speaker 6: questions of the New South Files defense. They didn't do
Speaker 6: it and New South Wales defense was too good.
Speaker 5: So I need to be.
Speaker 6: Disciplined and they need to ask more questions.
Speaker 4: Very good. I could run through a brick wall. I
Speaker 4: could run.
Speaker 1: We're ready, we are ready, We're ready. I'm going to
Speaker 1: print that on posters and be like, C see.
Speaker 3: Everyone and you have predicted on ABC saying that you
Speaker 3: might see a whitewashing this series. And to be fair,
Speaker 3: if they hit the Blues kick straight.
Speaker 1: Oh god, it's if there's no personnel changes. Honestly, after
Speaker 1: what we saw in game one, I can't see us scoring.
Speaker 1: We only scored because it was thirteen v twelve.
Speaker 2: I kept yelling at the screen.
Speaker 3: It was another message finally we might do something.
Speaker 4: I lost a man.
Speaker 6: That's only they've scored one trying two games against New
Speaker 6: South Wales.
Speaker 5: That's some call.
Speaker 4: Wow at Suncl's.
Speaker 1: Scary like that is Honestly, as a Queensland I'm like,
Speaker 1: what are we doing?
Speaker 2: Like there has to be some changes.
Speaker 1: I understand it sounds on Queensland alike of me because
Speaker 1: you know we're all about loyalty.
Speaker 2: But it's come on, that's the start.
Speaker 3: It talks of it for itself, well right, and we
Speaker 3: do fun facts on this podcast and you let us
Speaker 3: know a little fun fact before we started recording and
Speaker 3: you talk about personnel changes, you could have been a
Speaker 3: Marone and Georgie nearly fell off her chair. Can you
Speaker 3: tell us a little bit about the fact that you
Speaker 3: could have been playing for Queensland.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I am the son of two Queenslanders. My mum and
Speaker 6: dad were Queenslanders. Grew up in Queensland, grew up on
Speaker 6: the Gold Coast. My dad actually played for Queensland. He
Speaker 6: played played three games for Queensland for the Maroons. And
Speaker 6: when I was playing, I played low grade, so I
Speaker 6: played in New South Wales Under seventeen so I played
Speaker 6: New South Wales under nineties. But back then when I
Speaker 6: was at the Melbourne Storm, the feeder club was Brisbane North,
Speaker 6: so I was playing some games in Brisbane more So
Speaker 6: whilst there was for Queensland nineteens Ross Livermore. The boss
Speaker 6: of the q r L actually went to put in
Speaker 6: a dispensation for me to be eligible for Queensland under
Speaker 6: a father son rule.
Speaker 5: The GI rule, and I actually knocked it back. I
Speaker 5: had never lived in English, would never never lived in Queensland.
Speaker 5: I didn't consider myself a Queenslander. I'd always lived in
Speaker 5: New South Wales. I was a blues man.
Speaker 6: I appreciated that to what he wanted to do, and
Speaker 6: like all kids all, I just wanted to follow her
Speaker 6: dad did.
Speaker 5: But he was a moron. I'm a blue.
Speaker 3: This will be the ultimate test. Can you say the
Speaker 3: word p double o l Pool? There he's a Queensland.
Speaker 4: Queenslander.
Speaker 3: We had Harry grant On. He was talking about recovery.
Speaker 3: He's like, so I went to the peal Queenslander.
Speaker 5: Did he finish off at a at the end of it?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Fun fact from now One of mine.
Speaker 1: Fun fact Ryan that when I started in media and
Speaker 1: I had to get voice coaching because everyone at that
Speaker 1: time did. They wanted me to sound more authoritative. And
Speaker 1: I was like, I can read. Don't you worry about this.
Speaker 1: I'm going to freaking nail it. And I was like,
Speaker 1: read the lines and then I was like waiting for
Speaker 1: all of the praise to just fall upon me, and
Speaker 1: my voice coach goes, oh, you've got a really annoying
Speaker 1: sing song pattern in your voice, like it sounds like
Speaker 1: you're from Brisbane.
Speaker 4: I was like, I am a prisman.
Speaker 3: Hey, but love to both your parents, Ryan, love, We
Speaker 3: love Queenslanders.
Speaker 4: But Georgia, who did they go for?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 1: Hold on hold on, hold on, are your parents still
Speaker 1: Maroons or do they go for the Blue.
Speaker 4: That's a wonderful question.
Speaker 5: All about the Blues when I was playing for the Blues.
Speaker 6: But the problem is my mum actually sent me a
Speaker 6: text last night and she's gone, I don't know who
Speaker 6: to go for.
Speaker 5: There's just too many people I love on both teams.
Speaker 6: They love Course, and we've obviously been friends with Bill
Speaker 6: a long time. Bill actually when they were starting to
Speaker 6: so and so and Coach bobbed around to to see
Speaker 6: my dad to say goody.
Speaker 5: So they're very close friends there.
Speaker 6: But we also love Craig and obviously Matt King and
Speaker 6: Brett White. We know Laura Dale, so that will Coach on.
Speaker 6: So it was quite strong for them. But their Queenslanders.
Speaker 6: Unless I'm playing, I just.
Speaker 3: Love the idea of mum sitting at home being like,
Speaker 3: I just hope no one gets hurt, like it's such
Speaker 3: a mum thing, being like, oh, I just hope everyone's happy,
Speaker 3: and I hope that'll get hurt.
Speaker 4: Meanwhile, Georgie is like, call em kill everyone, kill everyone.
Speaker 4: The propaganda made its way through.
Speaker 3: But honestly, Ryan, that you've so perfectly encapsulated what origin
Speaker 3: means the passion, the propaganda, the hatred, but also the love.
Speaker 3: And we can't wait to see your prophecy come true
Speaker 3: with a whitewash.
Speaker 5: How dare you a moment if I can?
Speaker 4: I was about to say Trophies in their second season.
Speaker 3: He's given himself a KPI on national television and you
Speaker 3: look like a genius.
Speaker 4: Don't worry, we will be highlighting that forever. Ryan. Thank
Speaker 4: you so much for your time.
Speaker 3: In what is, as Georgie puts it, the most wonderful time,
Speaker 3: really a free shiate it.
Speaker 2: Thank you Ryan.
Speaker 3: How delightful does a man need to be that Georgie
Speaker 3: now loves a blue I know, I mean that is
Speaker 3: a high high bar and I do full disclosure.
Speaker 2: I love RONFM, love him, love him all right.
Speaker 1: That has been another episode of two Good Sports. I've
Speaker 1: got some crying to do.
Speaker 4: Ye check on George's welfare, particularly after the weekend. We
Speaker 4: will circle back, but until next week Good Sport