July 7, 2024 • 32 mins
Ben Hurley joins Dai Henwood for another episode of Mad Monday!
In this episode, the fellas go over the Wahs' Golden Point nailbiter against the Dogs (0:00), before heading to the 'Stonka Of The Round' between the Eagles & Cowboys (21:47) then Dai comes flying 'Off The Back Fence' (29:07)!
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Cura and welcome back to the Mad Monday Podcast are
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Watching the rugby League.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
You're with Die Henward and joining me this week have
I've had the pleasure of commentating with him on the weekend,
the wonderful Ben Early, How are you mate?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Look, I'm a bit gutted if I'm honest. There was
some hard loss to take in the weekend. I'm sure
we'll get into it. But not only do we did
that result happen, but then my other team lost in
Golden Points straight after it.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I know it was I suppose for impartial rugby league
fans it was actually a great super Saturday of sport
because it's always wonderful when the go down to Golden Point,
but they fell on the wrong side of it for
the fans. And we'll kick off with what was the
Warriors losing in Golden Point to the Dogs thirteen to twelve.
(01:15):
To be honest, Ben, I thought by at a half
time that we were going to get the chocolates there
and it felt like everything that could go against us
did go against us, starting with our back three Dwz,
Marcelo Montoya and Charns Nickel Klockstad Or ruling themselves out
(01:36):
of the game with injury.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen an injury ward
quite that bad before in a Warriors team. We were
allowed to get the eighteenth man, and usually there's some
sort of, you know, a situation where you were allowed
to have at least two players on the bench. But
going into an extended time game with only one player
on the bench is pre brutal. And I know, look,
(02:02):
it's it's it's sort of cold comfort. But at least
we showed a lot of heart in that loss.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Oh you can't, you can't. You can't knock the Warriors.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
And to add to your point, it's even more bizarre
when you lose three players and they're all sort of
effectively in the same position, if you know what I mean,
Like you lose the entire back. It's not like you'd
lose a forward, you lose a center, and you lose
a winger where you can start plugging holes. They were
there our whole like get out of the half, and
(02:36):
then it meant that webe I was listening to the
press conference, he said he actually missed a lot of
the game because he spent the whole time not watching
the ball, watching where players were standing so he could
figure out who he's actually trying to juggle to there
and move to there. And I've got it. I'll tell
you who. I'll give big raps to Freddie Lussek. He
(02:58):
came out and played in the middle. He was taking
hit ups, his tackling was amazing. He had that awesome
steal of the ball where Reed Marney was facing the
wrong way on the play.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
And as you.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Said, the Warriors have got to hold their heads up high.
It's going to be a game that comes back to
haunt us. I think when we look at the standings
at the back of the year and let's look at
some positives in this game. How good was Lek a
halo seema seeing these young boys have good debuts.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yeah, yeah, I'd put him in the same category as
as Jacob Laban is having a really strong debut. I
mean he almost scored like a halo seema. One of
the great steps of the game to go over the line,
unfortunately was held up. That would have been a dream
start and we really needed those points at that point.
But yeah, you've got to look at the positives, you know.
(03:53):
I saw that press conference as well, and Webby was
basically going, we've got our resilience back. Unfortunately it's taken
till this point, well maybe the last I don't know,
probably four or five games. We've got our resilience back. Yeah,
of course you're sorry. It's at the time that was
(04:13):
a blit. But yeah, I don't know what was going
on at the start of the season, but we definitely
didn't have it. I still go back to that Melbourne
game that we lost in the last second and Xavier
Coats stumping down in the corner, and I think that
really dented our confidence for you know, a good sort
(04:34):
of half a dozen rounds.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
You're so right.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Also, I looked to the game before that, that Sharks
game at home that we should have won, where we
were ahead and we just let them creep back in.
And I was looking back at last year, and it
actually turns out every sort of fifty to fifty momentum
thing last year went in our favor. We won those
(04:59):
two to four point games, we got the call, and
so forth it would go for us, whereas this year
it's the complete opposite. If the perfect storm can happen
against us, it seems to happen against us, and the
perfect storm seems to always actually be the Melbourne storm.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
We just can't can't beat.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Them at all, and it's looking a bit rugged now
because even though we can effectively make the eight, we've
got our two buys, We've got seven games.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
We need to win six of them.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
What's really hurting us is all the teams around us
are actually starting to fire now. Souths are actually on
a run. It feels like it's just us. We're at fourteenth.
It's us, the Titans, the Tigers and Paramatta are sort
of languishing around the bottom, and we're going to have
(05:55):
to really step up because I do think that eight
and nine, potentially eight, nine, ten could be on the
same points at the end of the season, and it's
going to be points differential.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yeah. Absolutely. I wanted to go back to the Freddy
Lussick point because I watched rewatch the game and was
listening to the mainstream commentary and they started calling him
blocker Lussk, which I think they thought that they were
giving him a compliment because it was taking hit ups.
But of course we think of blockers a whole different thing.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Oh yeah, as this sort of weird lean and drunkne
calor a wedding.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Yeah, I too.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I couldn't actually bring myself to do a full rewatch
of that game, as it was so heartbreaking, but I
did the highlights, and it's so tough when you see
a game like that, and I was trying to look
for points where we could have won that because I'm
(06:58):
not one to blame the refs, but we have to
talk about it. This weak, gutted dog, Jamen Salmon and
that shot to add insult to injury. The judiciary cited
him and he's getting a two to three week band,
so that a two to three week ban says that that's.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
A simmenable offense.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
It was in front of the sticks with what a
few minutes to go in Golden Point.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yeah, I mean that was the game. That was the game.
I don't know why the bunker couldn't have stepped in, like.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Because also he was spitting out teeth in a broken
jaw to Marty Martin, I was worried his jaw was
broken the way the trainer was wobbling it.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Oh, if you, if you do anything to Mighty Martin's face.
I will literally I will find out who you are,
where you live. I will hunt you down, and I
will kill you.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Because there is two there's two issues on this one.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
His shoulder made high contact as well, even if his
shoulder didn't make high contact, it was a reckless head clash.
He ran out of the line with reckless intent and
hit him late.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
So that annoyed me.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Also, what I only spied on the highlights when you
know when Reed Marney got his hand up and touched
the ball to stop it going over, he was a
meter and a half off side.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Oh, at least three meters off side, And.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I mean the referee puts the whistle away at that point.
But it's just so frustrating that the two moments basically
won the drop goal would have won us to a
penalty would have won it for us, and they.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Were both on illegal plays.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
And three Matt Burton, who now has won the game
two weeks in a row with a drop goal.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
He's a flat earther.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
What so last year Matt Burton came out very bizarrely
in a press conference and said, and I'm not a
lot of what this matter is busy earth flat So anyway,
people thought he was joking. Then in an interview last
week they hit him up about it and he actually
started citing sources about why the Earth's flat, and weirdly,
(09:27):
the source he cited as a scientific experiment.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Where the conclusion actually proves the Earth is round.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Okay, this is a whole other dimension that I had
not affected him. So, I mean, I don't reckon that.
You know, like a Doggies fan traditionally not a New
Zealand Doggies fan, but a Sydney, Australia Canterbury fan is
generally not, you know, the most smart person on Earth.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
No, the traditionally, traditionally.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Bulldogs fans are often immigrants from Europe.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
All right, this doesn't make me sound good.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
No, No, like just hardcore, working class.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yeah, they just I just find all I think of
when I think of the Bulldogs, like their nineties fans
that were just rabid and when they got a female
CEO just basically you know, did everything to try and
get her ousted, and she's a legend for sticking with
the job, to be honest, But I didn't think that
they were quite down to flat Earth believers.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
There should be an episode of the ex files about
Matt Burton.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Scullery Scalar of Moldy.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Molder not Moldy Scollar.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Do you say Scalar and Moldy Scalar.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
And Maory.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Sculler and Murray are there's a real different files.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
That is a rural New Zealand X files Sculler and Murray.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
We said before, We've said before that game, we said
it might be the actual real test of the season
because the Dogs were six. I think they put someone
to eat, like something like fourth now in the table.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
The Dogs are flying at the moment, and to be honest,
full credit to what Cameron Sireldo has done in that
side because they defended their asses off. Like the point
I was getting to before is outside of the reed
money off side and that high shot.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
By Jamon Salmon.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
We got over the line twice and were held up.
We had some very sloppy end of sets when we
were on attack there. Granted, it becomes very hard to
run your shape when your wingers and your fullback are
both off.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Also, Roger two of us a sheeck.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Had that he dropped a bomb that was a bit
of a momentum shift that thankfully didn't come back to
hurt us because I believe with Sam Hughes and knocked
it on very soon afterwards. But we did have our
opportunities to ice that game.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yes, But then so did Canterbury. I suppose, like we're
talking about the old flat earther, he hit the post
what twice before it actually went over?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yeah, he was in front a couple of times. And
our credit to us, our defense was pretty epic. We
only let in what a try off, a kick and
an intercept, Like it wasn't that we had weak defense,
Like they just read that beautifully on that short ball
(13:02):
to Marty Martin was trying to throw.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
So do we have to die? Do we have to
face facts? Is that the season?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I mean, I'm reticent to say it, but I think
it is. I mean I have sort of been I've
been secretly girding my loins for this moment that the
season was falling away. And I think it's just a
(13:33):
bit too far to try and win six from seven.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Well, to win the competition now, they literally have to
win every single game except one, well now and the
first weekend in October.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yes, and no, and none of those that loss cannot
happen in the finals, is there we even because we can't.
We can't make the top four, so we'd have to
sneak into the bottom of it. No team has won
the competition from the bottom of the eight before, so
(14:06):
I think it's a bridge too far. I think we
need to go on a run though, like to keep
some positivity around the side. I think it's now. Now
is the time.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
To give.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Boys like Lecqua Hala Sima Graham, Mola Tulfa Ali, Leahtawer
all these boys some game time to be honest.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Yeah, absolutely, I mean, who do we know who we're
losing next season? Are we losing anyone major?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
So I think it's more young guys they haven't given
contracts to where the biggest loss obviously is AFB, but
that's nullified because James Fisher Harris is coming.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
What I worry about is I think that.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
We thought this year was our chance to win the
comp hence buying Roger two of arsus K.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
And Kirk Capewell.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
And the worry is I think both of them are
on three year deals and whether in that third.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Year of the deal whether they'll be worth their.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Sult because I mean they're both amazing behind the scenes
in terms of old heads for the young guys, showing
them how to train, how to be a professional athlete,
how to be a professional league player. Two of us
are Sheck's amazing at that. But then I will worry
whether they're holding out these young guys from their positions,
(15:38):
and then the young guys look elsewhere. I also hear
that there's six clubs trying assigned to Martin Martin at
the moment.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Really because how old is he? He would be thirty with.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Me, yeah, but bear in mind he had four years
three years out with that, so his body hasn't taken
the toll of those three year Oh yeah, good, and
halves go a bit longer, and we've got this worry
of of Sean Johnson's there next year and he's fit,
(16:10):
and to Marty's not getting game time because we've got
these four halves now, ht metcalf to Marty Martin and
Sean Johnson. Just yeah, and just looked to Marty Martin
up on tender he's twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Yeah, so he's thirty eight in real life.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Then okay, so he's still got quite a few years
left to them. But let's let's we should move on
but let's talk quickly about c HT. Like he is
a little bit of rocks and diamonds at the moment.
He had some lovely moments, particularly on defense in that game,
but there was he basically butchered a try with the
(16:49):
I thought there was no real like butcher you know
tries or whatever, and now, but there was really because
he did that terrible no lock pass. Oh yeah, basically
clear and threw the ball over the sideline. But you know,
having said that, I still I still rate a massively
as a player.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
This is a bit of the I think that this
was a great example of neither HT or to Marty
Martin had a thoroughly good game, Like they didn't connect
like they had in the previous sort of outings together.
And it's an and I mean that I think that's
also because the Dogs were a better defensive side, and
(17:33):
I mean, we were sort of raking it over the coals.
But that was a game we should have won. I
think if we're at home, we win that game.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Yeah. I think if the ref was looking at the
right goddamn direction, we won that game. But yeah, I
mean they actually said it on the other commentary as well.
In that golden point. They said the refs put his
whistle in his sock.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah, and I mean Corey Parker was pretty adamant that
that was a penalty.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Yeah, well, obviously was a penalty.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
And today later this afternoon, no doubt, Graham and Isley
will give it the we'll give it the okay, guys,
sorry about that.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
That should have been a penalty.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Yeah, we've got two points, duck.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I mean, it's absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
But we have a bye this week, guaranteed two points,
and then we will be back next Monday to discuss
the Raiders game, which will be a very interesting game
because the Raiders are very much Rocks and Diamond side
(18:41):
and we're playing that at Goo Stadium. It feels like
our home games are very few and far between.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Hey, they all seem to be three or four weeks apart.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Oh, I thought we were doing the whole playing over
there buzz like we did during COVID.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Now yeah, no, there.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
The NRL is reward barding us with less than half
of the games at home. For some reason, were the
only side that won't get half of our games at
home because and there's.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Something I heard something like the six of the last
seven of the Cowboys games are all at home. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
And so in round seventeen we had only had six
games at Mount Smart.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Yeah, and had we had one in christ yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
And one in christ Children. But still half of seventeen
is not seven.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
No, you're right, But and what Brisbane.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Brisbane didn't leave no Queensland for four months. They've only
left Queensland once so far. I think it's I mean.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I think they've been on the road now and they're losing.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Yeah, I mean Brisbane are having a bit of a
bit of a shambles.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I think they'll fall out.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
It's anyone's competition that this except ours left ourse.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Well, that's what Manaia and I were about last week
is that it's such a weird random year, more so
than usual that when it happens like that, generally the
Melbourne Storm win because they're the most consistent side.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yes, And I was looking at the looking at the
table and I was like, huh, Melbourne at top of
the table four points clear. Yeah, that's one thirteen games.
And also they haven't actually looked very good. There's a
lot of these games they just sneak over the line.
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They're leading Penrith, who were on twenty six points Roosters
twenty four. To be honest, Melbourne Penrith and the Roosters
look so far ahead of any of the other teams
at the moment. They just seem to be, you know,
if the games are close at halftime, they seem to
be those sides that look like they're just playing with
(20:56):
their food a bit and then when they actually knuckle down,
they just put the points on.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
But we'll put that Warriors side game to bed.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
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with the Stonker of the Round. Welcome back to the
(21:51):
Mad Monday Podcast with Die Henwood and Ben Hurley.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
It is now time for the Stonker of the round.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
This is the Manly Seagles twenty one beating the Reverse
Cowgirls twenty absolutely chaos. How good was this game? Especially
when Scotty drinkboard. It's that huge two point field goal
to take it a golden point.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Yeah, look, this is a great game. Don't get me wrong,
but it was. The Golden Point wasn't quite as frantic
as the game before it, the Warriors game. It was.
It was, It was real good, but it actually kind
of got overshadowed by a better Stonker, which was the
Warriors game.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Yeah, completely, the Warriors was the Stonker.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
And also watching this game, it felt like it went
to Golden Point in actual time because they sort of
got into a drop goal off with about five minutes
to go, and then so this is I I might
be off by one or two games. This is the
(23:07):
ninth time Daily Chair Evans has won it in Golden
Point for Manly.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
He just knows how to ice those big games.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Now, the Warriors don't really have a great iss year
when it comes to drop goals. I think every I think,
I think every time we've won in Golden Point it's
been with a try or not completely but almost every
time right. But the Cowboys had almost too many people
going for drop goals. I loved the idea. They had
the decoy and it went to Vale Holmes who marked
(23:39):
it up. It was a great looking play, but the
execution wasn't there. But they had so many people lining up.
Manly only really had one. And that's all you need
when you've got the greatest golden point drop goal specialist.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Yeah that mad, That was the thing is I felt.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
I felt the Cowboys actually overplayed their hand a little
bit in that when they should have just muscled up
and nailed it.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
But there we go.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Manly takes it and unfortunately Manly was one of those
teams that was mucking around with us on the ladder
and they were next to us on the ladder. Now
there's seventh and we are fourteenth. So that shows just
how quickly things can change in this game of rugby league.
But the big game, not part of the NRL, but
(24:30):
the game that a lot of us love. The State
of Origin. The teams have been announced. They look pretty interesting.
The Maroons are bought in Dane gag Guy, a man
who almost won New Super Coach on the weekend. He
had a blinder for Newcastle.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
He did. He was on my side almost all of
last season and I don't know why hasn't been in,
but I literally bought him in this week and that's
one of my highest scores in Supercoach and I still
lost to you by four points.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
It was a very close one and looking at other changes,
you've got to feel for Dave for Feeder, he has
not been put into the side. Kirk Capewell is ahead
of him. Kirk Capwell, who's not really even probably the
best back rower at our club.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
He somehow gets in ahead of for Feeder.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
How he can he's a utility now he can play wing.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yeah, I know, but he's actually he's in the run
on starting side in the back row.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
So there's been a few changes.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Kaylen Ponger makes us return to the side.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
He's in the seventeen Jersey.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
There's chance that he will be playing more in the
fourteen Jersey and in the Blues side. The happiness is
Mitch Barnett's gonna play.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Yeap, huge for him. He had a massive game on
the weekend. They keep calling him the work horse, but
I think he's better than that, because sometimes work horses
are a little bit kind of you know, journeyman or whatever.
But I think he's got such a great offload and
he's really you know, being part of a warrior's side's
really pumped up his manner this year.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Yeah, well what I think he did over two hundred
meters and fifty five tackles.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
That's not a workhourse. That's just having a blinder of
a game.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Like he stoked for him.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
So stoked for him.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Bradman Best is into the centers, the beast, the routed
up beast, although there's rumors that he's injured now as well,
so he'll come out and maybe the flat earther Matt
Burton might slot in.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
So yes, Leui and Moses. It's a combination that New
South Wales have tried a lot over the last few years.
I think it worked for the first time ever in
game two work really well. Mitchell Moses. You know, he's
like the greatest half on paper that you could ever have.
Like if he was in a video game, he'd have
(27:00):
like all the things that you know, all the graphs
at full you know, one under, but he just doesn't
quite have expected for me.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
No completely and also he he either fully fires or doesn't,
so it'll be intriguing to see what happens because the
odds are against him.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
They barely.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
I think I've only ever won two deciders up at
sun Court Stadium and it'll be interesting seeing Selwyn Cobbo
and Vale Holmes on the wing because Murray tal Lunge
is out. So it's gonna be one hell of a game.
We'll be bringing you the coverage not this Wednesday but
next Wednesday. And it's actually it's how bloody awesome is
(27:47):
it to see.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
State of Origin going down to a decider?
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Yeah, I mean, you know, it's just nice for New
South Wales to keep the series alive for another game,
you know, because you know that third game being a
dead rubber every single year. It's just, you know, it's
a little bit well, it's just you know, it gets
a bit boring, doesn't it. So you're not nice that
we threw your bone and game two.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
The New South Wales team definitely underdogs here and I
maintain I personally think they should have the two home
games first New South Wales then sun Court, then have
the third games the neutral.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Yeah, that makes sense. But I guess, so then when
not do it that way?
Speaker 1 (28:35):
So then when it goes to a decider, it's the
neutral ground.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Yeah, so why don't they do it that way?
Speaker 2 (28:42):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Just see, it just just seems to make a hell
of a lot more sense to me.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Yeah, me too, I guess I don't know. They all
sell out anyway, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Yeah, Well, it's going to be exciting origin and with
no Warriors game this weekend, that's the one we're going
to be looking forward to.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
But right now it's time for die. Heenwins off the
back fence.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
A long kicker, the offloadsher Heyon and he's got some
back fence boof time. Look look out there, sports fans.
This isn't just to Warriors fans. This is to your
sports fans. Pull up your pants and put your fingers away.
When it comes to Instagram, you need to stop paying
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out on players. When Sean Johnson was playing, everyone was, oh, bloody,
Sean Johnson doesn't know what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
He doesn't know. He's got to be out of the team.
He's bloody, gotta have to marry Martin and HD and
the halfs.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Why do we sign Sean Johnson, then after this week
everyone's oh, we can't have bloody Cht in the side.
The only person who knows how to kick a drop
goal is Sean Johnson.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
You need to sort yourselves out.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Just quietly talk to yourself about why you don't like players.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
You don't need to publicly pay out on players.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
It demoralizes them, It makes them stay off social media
and makes them not want to engage. Okay, look, look fans,
we are part of the club. I believe we're part
of the club. If you're a paying member, you're part
of the club. You have your right to an opinion.
I'm not saying that. But before you get on and
you just want to fully blow one of these dudes,
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not blow one of.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Them, like yes, sorry, you want to yell at them.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
You want to do the opposite of blowing one of
these dudes. You want to unblow them. You're trying to
you're trying to just pay out on them. I don't
understand it. We're meant to be bringing up our boys.
You know, a high tide brings all boats slightly higher
up in buoyancy, or as some similar phrase, you know,
(30:52):
a rising tide lie lowers or bridges. I don't know
what the phrase is. All I'm saying is you're back
the boys. You think your negativity privately, you don't put
it out there on social media. We want a positive society,
we want a positive team and if we're going to
get to the top eight, we need to win six
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or seven and it's not gonna happen by paying out
our boys on Insta.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Yeah here, amen to that.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I'm glad I got that off my chest. Sounded a
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Speaker 2 (32:05):
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Speaker 3 (32:10):
Mate, you too, enjoy the enjoy the with the split
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Watching the rugby League.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
You're with Die Henward and joining me this week have
I've had the pleasure of commentating with him on the weekend,
the wonderful Ben Early, How are you mate?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Look, I'm a bit gutted if I'm honest. There was
some hard loss to take in the weekend. I'm sure
we'll get into it. But not only do we did
that result happen, but then my other team lost in
Golden Points straight after it.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I know it was I suppose for impartial rugby league
fans it was actually a great super Saturday of sport
because it's always wonderful when the go down to Golden Point,
but they fell on the wrong side of it for
the fans. And we'll kick off with what was the
Warriors losing in Golden Point to the Dogs thirteen to twelve.
(01:15):
To be honest, Ben, I thought by at a half
time that we were going to get the chocolates there
and it felt like everything that could go against us
did go against us, starting with our back three Dwz,
Marcelo Montoya and Charns Nickel Klockstad Or ruling themselves out
(01:36):
of the game with injury.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen an injury ward
quite that bad before in a Warriors team. We were
allowed to get the eighteenth man, and usually there's some
sort of, you know, a situation where you were allowed
to have at least two players on the bench. But
going into an extended time game with only one player
on the bench is pre brutal. And I know, look,
(02:02):
it's it's it's sort of cold comfort. But at least
we showed a lot of heart in that loss.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Oh you can't, you can't. You can't knock the Warriors.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
And to add to your point, it's even more bizarre
when you lose three players and they're all sort of
effectively in the same position, if you know what I mean,
Like you lose the entire back. It's not like you'd
lose a forward, you lose a center, and you lose
a winger where you can start plugging holes. They were
there our whole like get out of the half, and
(02:36):
then it meant that webe I was listening to the
press conference, he said he actually missed a lot of
the game because he spent the whole time not watching
the ball, watching where players were standing so he could
figure out who he's actually trying to juggle to there
and move to there. And I've got it. I'll tell
you who. I'll give big raps to Freddie Lussek. He
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came out and played in the middle. He was taking
hit ups, his tackling was amazing. He had that awesome
steal of the ball where Reed Marney was facing the
wrong way on the play.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
And as you.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Said, the Warriors have got to hold their heads up high.
It's going to be a game that comes back to
haunt us. I think when we look at the standings
at the back of the year and let's look at
some positives in this game. How good was Lek a
halo seema seeing these young boys have good debuts.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yeah, yeah, I'd put him in the same category as
as Jacob Laban is having a really strong debut. I
mean he almost scored like a halo seema. One of
the great steps of the game to go over the line,
unfortunately was held up. That would have been a dream
start and we really needed those points at that point.
But yeah, you've got to look at the positives, you know.
(03:53):
I saw that press conference as well, and Webby was
basically going, we've got our resilience back. Unfortunately it's taken
till this point, well maybe the last I don't know,
probably four or five games. We've got our resilience back. Yeah,
of course you're sorry. It's at the time that was
(04:13):
a blit. But yeah, I don't know what was going
on at the start of the season, but we definitely
didn't have it. I still go back to that Melbourne
game that we lost in the last second and Xavier
Coats stumping down in the corner, and I think that
really dented our confidence for you know, a good sort
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of half a dozen rounds.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
You're so right.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Also, I looked to the game before that, that Sharks
game at home that we should have won, where we
were ahead and we just let them creep back in.
And I was looking back at last year, and it
actually turns out every sort of fifty to fifty momentum
thing last year went in our favor. We won those
(04:59):
two to four point games, we got the call, and
so forth it would go for us, whereas this year
it's the complete opposite. If the perfect storm can happen
against us, it seems to happen against us, and the
perfect storm seems to always actually be the Melbourne storm.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
We just can't can't beat.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Them at all, and it's looking a bit rugged now
because even though we can effectively make the eight, we've
got our two buys, We've got seven games.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
We need to win six of them.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
What's really hurting us is all the teams around us
are actually starting to fire now. Souths are actually on
a run. It feels like it's just us. We're at fourteenth.
It's us, the Titans, the Tigers and Paramatta are sort
of languishing around the bottom, and we're going to have
(05:55):
to really step up because I do think that eight
and nine, potentially eight, nine, ten could be on the
same points at the end of the season, and it's
going to be points differential.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yeah. Absolutely. I wanted to go back to the Freddy
Lussick point because I watched rewatch the game and was
listening to the mainstream commentary and they started calling him
blocker Lussk, which I think they thought that they were
giving him a compliment because it was taking hit ups.
But of course we think of blockers a whole different thing.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Oh yeah, as this sort of weird lean and drunkne
calor a wedding.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Yeah, I too.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I couldn't actually bring myself to do a full rewatch
of that game, as it was so heartbreaking, but I
did the highlights, and it's so tough when you see
a game like that, and I was trying to look
for points where we could have won that because I'm
(06:58):
not one to blame the refs, but we have to
talk about it. This weak, gutted dog, Jamen Salmon and
that shot to add insult to injury. The judiciary cited
him and he's getting a two to three week band,
so that a two to three week ban says that that's.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
A simmenable offense.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
It was in front of the sticks with what a
few minutes to go in Golden Point.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yeah, I mean that was the game. That was the game.
I don't know why the bunker couldn't have stepped in, like.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Because also he was spitting out teeth in a broken
jaw to Marty Martin, I was worried his jaw was
broken the way the trainer was wobbling it.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Oh, if you, if you do anything to Mighty Martin's face.
I will literally I will find out who you are,
where you live. I will hunt you down, and I
will kill you.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Because there is two there's two issues on this one.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
His shoulder made high contact as well, even if his
shoulder didn't make high contact, it was a reckless head clash.
He ran out of the line with reckless intent and
hit him late.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
So that annoyed me.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Also, what I only spied on the highlights when you
know when Reed Marney got his hand up and touched
the ball to stop it going over, he was a
meter and a half off side.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Oh, at least three meters off side, And.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I mean the referee puts the whistle away at that point.
But it's just so frustrating that the two moments basically
won the drop goal would have won us to a
penalty would have won it for us, and they.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Were both on illegal plays.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
And three Matt Burton, who now has won the game
two weeks in a row with a drop goal.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
He's a flat earther.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
What so last year Matt Burton came out very bizarrely
in a press conference and said, and I'm not a
lot of what this matter is busy earth flat So anyway,
people thought he was joking. Then in an interview last
week they hit him up about it and he actually
started citing sources about why the Earth's flat, and weirdly,
(09:27):
the source he cited as a scientific experiment.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Where the conclusion actually proves the Earth is round.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Okay, this is a whole other dimension that I had
not affected him. So, I mean, I don't reckon that.
You know, like a Doggies fan traditionally not a New
Zealand Doggies fan, but a Sydney, Australia Canterbury fan is
generally not, you know, the most smart person on Earth.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
No, the traditionally, traditionally.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Bulldogs fans are often immigrants from Europe.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
All right, this doesn't make me sound good.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
No, No, like just hardcore, working class.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yeah, they just I just find all I think of
when I think of the Bulldogs, like their nineties fans
that were just rabid and when they got a female
CEO just basically you know, did everything to try and
get her ousted, and she's a legend for sticking with
the job, to be honest, But I didn't think that
they were quite down to flat Earth believers.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
There should be an episode of the ex files about
Matt Burton.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Scullery Scalar of Moldy.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Molder not Moldy Scollar.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Do you say Scalar and Moldy Scalar.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
And Maory.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Sculler and Murray are there's a real different files.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
That is a rural New Zealand X files Sculler and Murray.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
We said before, We've said before that game, we said
it might be the actual real test of the season
because the Dogs were six. I think they put someone
to eat, like something like fourth now in the table.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
The Dogs are flying at the moment, and to be honest,
full credit to what Cameron Sireldo has done in that
side because they defended their asses off. Like the point
I was getting to before is outside of the reed
money off side and that high shot.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
By Jamon Salmon.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
We got over the line twice and were held up.
We had some very sloppy end of sets when we
were on attack there. Granted, it becomes very hard to
run your shape when your wingers and your fullback are
both off.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Also, Roger two of us a sheeck.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Had that he dropped a bomb that was a bit
of a momentum shift that thankfully didn't come back to
hurt us because I believe with Sam Hughes and knocked
it on very soon afterwards. But we did have our
opportunities to ice that game.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yes, But then so did Canterbury. I suppose, like we're
talking about the old flat earther, he hit the post
what twice before it actually went over?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yeah, he was in front a couple of times. And
our credit to us, our defense was pretty epic. We
only let in what a try off, a kick and
an intercept, Like it wasn't that we had weak defense,
Like they just read that beautifully on that short ball
(13:02):
to Marty Martin was trying to throw.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
So do we have to die? Do we have to
face facts? Is that the season?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I mean, I'm reticent to say it, but I think
it is. I mean I have sort of been I've
been secretly girding my loins for this moment that the
season was falling away. And I think it's just a
(13:33):
bit too far to try and win six from seven.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Well, to win the competition now, they literally have to
win every single game except one, well now and the
first weekend in October.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yes, and no, and none of those that loss cannot
happen in the finals, is there we even because we can't.
We can't make the top four, so we'd have to
sneak into the bottom of it. No team has won
the competition from the bottom of the eight before, so
(14:06):
I think it's a bridge too far. I think we
need to go on a run though, like to keep
some positivity around the side. I think it's now. Now
is the time.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
To give.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Boys like Lecqua Hala Sima Graham, Mola Tulfa Ali, Leahtawer
all these boys some game time to be honest.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Yeah, absolutely, I mean, who do we know who we're
losing next season? Are we losing anyone major?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
So I think it's more young guys they haven't given
contracts to where the biggest loss obviously is AFB, but
that's nullified because James Fisher Harris is coming.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
What I worry about is I think that.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
We thought this year was our chance to win the
comp hence buying Roger two of arsus K.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
And Kirk Capewell.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
And the worry is I think both of them are
on three year deals and whether in that third.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Year of the deal whether they'll be worth their.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Sult because I mean they're both amazing behind the scenes
in terms of old heads for the young guys, showing
them how to train, how to be a professional athlete,
how to be a professional league player. Two of us
are Sheck's amazing at that. But then I will worry
whether they're holding out these young guys from their positions,
(15:38):
and then the young guys look elsewhere. I also hear
that there's six clubs trying assigned to Martin Martin at
the moment.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Really because how old is he? He would be thirty with.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Me, yeah, but bear in mind he had four years
three years out with that, so his body hasn't taken
the toll of those three year Oh yeah, good, and
halves go a bit longer, and we've got this worry
of of Sean Johnson's there next year and he's fit,
(16:10):
and to Marty's not getting game time because we've got
these four halves now, ht metcalf to Marty Martin and
Sean Johnson. Just yeah, and just looked to Marty Martin
up on tender he's twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Yeah, so he's thirty eight in real life.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Then okay, so he's still got quite a few years
left to them. But let's let's we should move on
but let's talk quickly about c HT. Like he is
a little bit of rocks and diamonds at the moment.
He had some lovely moments, particularly on defense in that game,
but there was he basically butchered a try with the
(16:49):
I thought there was no real like butcher you know
tries or whatever, and now, but there was really because
he did that terrible no lock pass. Oh yeah, basically
clear and threw the ball over the sideline. But you know,
having said that, I still I still rate a massively
as a player.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
This is a bit of the I think that this
was a great example of neither HT or to Marty
Martin had a thoroughly good game, Like they didn't connect
like they had in the previous sort of outings together.
And it's an and I mean that I think that's
also because the Dogs were a better defensive side, and
(17:33):
I mean, we were sort of raking it over the coals.
But that was a game we should have won. I
think if we're at home, we win that game.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Yeah. I think if the ref was looking at the
right goddamn direction, we won that game. But yeah, I
mean they actually said it on the other commentary as well.
In that golden point. They said the refs put his
whistle in his sock.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah, and I mean Corey Parker was pretty adamant that
that was a penalty.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Yeah, well, obviously was a penalty.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
And today later this afternoon, no doubt, Graham and Isley
will give it the we'll give it the okay, guys,
sorry about that.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
That should have been a penalty.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Yeah, we've got two points, duck.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I mean, it's absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
But we have a bye this week, guaranteed two points,
and then we will be back next Monday to discuss
the Raiders game, which will be a very interesting game
because the Raiders are very much Rocks and Diamond side
(18:41):
and we're playing that at Goo Stadium. It feels like
our home games are very few and far between.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Hey, they all seem to be three or four weeks apart.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Oh, I thought we were doing the whole playing over
there buzz like we did during COVID.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Now yeah, no, there.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
The NRL is reward barding us with less than half
of the games at home. For some reason, were the
only side that won't get half of our games at
home because and there's.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Something I heard something like the six of the last
seven of the Cowboys games are all at home. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
And so in round seventeen we had only had six
games at Mount Smart.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Yeah, and had we had one in christ yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
And one in christ Children. But still half of seventeen
is not seven.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
No, you're right, But and what Brisbane.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Brisbane didn't leave no Queensland for four months. They've only
left Queensland once so far. I think it's I mean.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I think they've been on the road now and they're losing.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Yeah, I mean Brisbane are having a bit of a
bit of a shambles.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I think they'll fall out.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
It's anyone's competition that this except ours left ourse.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Well, that's what Manaia and I were about last week
is that it's such a weird random year, more so
than usual that when it happens like that, generally the
Melbourne Storm win because they're the most consistent side.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yes, And I was looking at the looking at the
table and I was like, huh, Melbourne at top of
the table four points clear. Yeah, that's one thirteen games.
And also they haven't actually looked very good. There's a
lot of these games they just sneak over the line.
(20:34):
They're leading Penrith, who were on twenty six points Roosters
twenty four. To be honest, Melbourne Penrith and the Roosters
look so far ahead of any of the other teams
at the moment. They just seem to be, you know,
if the games are close at halftime, they seem to
be those sides that look like they're just playing with
(20:56):
their food a bit and then when they actually knuckle down,
they just put the points on.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
But we'll put that Warriors side game to bed.
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(21:51):
Mad Monday Podcast with Die Henwood and Ben Hurley.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
It is now time for the Stonker of the round.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
This is the Manly Seagles twenty one beating the Reverse
Cowgirls twenty absolutely chaos. How good was this game? Especially
when Scotty drinkboard. It's that huge two point field goal
to take it a golden point.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Yeah, look, this is a great game. Don't get me wrong,
but it was. The Golden Point wasn't quite as frantic
as the game before it, the Warriors game. It was.
It was, It was real good, but it actually kind
of got overshadowed by a better Stonker, which was the
Warriors game.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Yeah, completely, the Warriors was the Stonker.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
And also watching this game, it felt like it went
to Golden Point in actual time because they sort of
got into a drop goal off with about five minutes
to go, and then so this is I I might
be off by one or two games. This is the
(23:07):
ninth time Daily Chair Evans has won it in Golden
Point for Manly.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
He just knows how to ice those big games.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Now, the Warriors don't really have a great iss year
when it comes to drop goals. I think every I think,
I think every time we've won in Golden Point it's
been with a try or not completely but almost every
time right. But the Cowboys had almost too many people
going for drop goals. I loved the idea. They had
the decoy and it went to Vale Holmes who marked
(23:39):
it up. It was a great looking play, but the
execution wasn't there. But they had so many people lining up.
Manly only really had one. And that's all you need
when you've got the greatest golden point drop goal specialist.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Yeah that mad, That was the thing is I felt.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
I felt the Cowboys actually overplayed their hand a little
bit in that when they should have just muscled up
and nailed it.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
But there we go.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Manly takes it and unfortunately Manly was one of those
teams that was mucking around with us on the ladder
and they were next to us on the ladder. Now
there's seventh and we are fourteenth. So that shows just
how quickly things can change in this game of rugby league.
But the big game, not part of the NRL, but
(24:30):
the game that a lot of us love. The State
of Origin. The teams have been announced. They look pretty interesting.
The Maroons are bought in Dane gag Guy, a man
who almost won New Super Coach on the weekend. He
had a blinder for Newcastle.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
He did. He was on my side almost all of
last season and I don't know why hasn't been in,
but I literally bought him in this week and that's
one of my highest scores in Supercoach and I still
lost to you by four points.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
It was a very close one and looking at other changes,
you've got to feel for Dave for Feeder, he has
not been put into the side. Kirk Capewell is ahead
of him. Kirk Capwell, who's not really even probably the
best back rower at our club.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
He somehow gets in ahead of for Feeder.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
How he can he's a utility now he can play wing.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yeah, I know, but he's actually he's in the run
on starting side in the back row.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
So there's been a few changes.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Kaylen Ponger makes us return to the side.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
He's in the seventeen Jersey.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
There's chance that he will be playing more in the
fourteen Jersey and in the Blues side. The happiness is
Mitch Barnett's gonna play.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Yeap, huge for him. He had a massive game on
the weekend. They keep calling him the work horse, but
I think he's better than that, because sometimes work horses
are a little bit kind of you know, journeyman or whatever.
But I think he's got such a great offload and
he's really you know, being part of a warrior's side's
really pumped up his manner this year.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Yeah, well what I think he did over two hundred
meters and fifty five tackles.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
That's not a workhourse. That's just having a blinder of
a game.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Like he stoked for him.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
So stoked for him.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Bradman Best is into the centers, the beast, the routed
up beast, although there's rumors that he's injured now as well,
so he'll come out and maybe the flat earther Matt
Burton might slot in.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
So yes, Leui and Moses. It's a combination that New
South Wales have tried a lot over the last few years.
I think it worked for the first time ever in
game two work really well. Mitchell Moses. You know, he's
like the greatest half on paper that you could ever have.
Like if he was in a video game, he'd have
(27:00):
like all the things that you know, all the graphs
at full you know, one under, but he just doesn't
quite have expected for me.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
No completely and also he he either fully fires or doesn't,
so it'll be intriguing to see what happens because the
odds are against him.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
They barely.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
I think I've only ever won two deciders up at
sun Court Stadium and it'll be interesting seeing Selwyn Cobbo
and Vale Holmes on the wing because Murray tal Lunge
is out. So it's gonna be one hell of a game.
We'll be bringing you the coverage not this Wednesday but
next Wednesday. And it's actually it's how bloody awesome is
(27:47):
it to see.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
State of Origin going down to a decider?
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Yeah, I mean, you know, it's just nice for New
South Wales to keep the series alive for another game,
you know, because you know that third game being a
dead rubber every single year. It's just, you know, it's
a little bit well, it's just you know, it gets
a bit boring, doesn't it. So you're not nice that
we threw your bone and game two.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
The New South Wales team definitely underdogs here and I
maintain I personally think they should have the two home
games first New South Wales then sun Court, then have
the third games the neutral.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Yeah, that makes sense. But I guess, so then when
not do it that way?
Speaker 1 (28:35):
So then when it goes to a decider, it's the
neutral ground.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Yeah, so why don't they do it that way?
Speaker 2 (28:42):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Just see, it just just seems to make a hell
of a lot more sense to me.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Yeah, me too, I guess I don't know. They all
sell out anyway, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Yeah, Well, it's going to be exciting origin and with
no Warriors game this weekend, that's the one we're going
to be looking forward to.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
But right now it's time for die. Heenwins off the
back fence.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
A long kicker, the offloadsher Heyon and he's got some
back fence boof time. Look look out there, sports fans.
This isn't just to Warriors fans. This is to your
sports fans. Pull up your pants and put your fingers away.
When it comes to Instagram, you need to stop paying
(29:32):
out on players. When Sean Johnson was playing, everyone was, oh, bloody,
Sean Johnson doesn't know what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
He doesn't know. He's got to be out of the team.
He's bloody, gotta have to marry Martin and HD and
the halfs.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Why do we sign Sean Johnson, then after this week
everyone's oh, we can't have bloody Cht in the side.
The only person who knows how to kick a drop
goal is Sean Johnson.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
You need to sort yourselves out.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Just quietly talk to yourself about why you don't like players.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
You don't need to publicly pay out on players.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
It demoralizes them, It makes them stay off social media
and makes them not want to engage. Okay, look, look fans,
we are part of the club. I believe we're part
of the club. If you're a paying member, you're part
of the club. You have your right to an opinion.
I'm not saying that. But before you get on and
you just want to fully blow one of these dudes,
(30:26):
not blow one of.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Them, like yes, sorry, you want to yell at them.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
You want to do the opposite of blowing one of
these dudes. You want to unblow them. You're trying to
you're trying to just pay out on them. I don't
understand it. We're meant to be bringing up our boys.
You know, a high tide brings all boats slightly higher
up in buoyancy, or as some similar phrase, you know,
(30:52):
a rising tide lie lowers or bridges. I don't know
what the phrase is. All I'm saying is you're back
the boys. You think your negativity privately, you don't put
it out there on social media. We want a positive society,
we want a positive team and if we're going to
get to the top eight, we need to win six
(31:15):
or seven and it's not gonna happen by paying out
our boys on Insta.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Yeah here, amen to that.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I'm glad I got that off my chest. Sounded a
bit like a mad Traveler. And while I'm talking about
the Mad Traveler, four and twenty is giving you the
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(31:47):
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towards a bit relaxing when there's not a Warriors game.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
We can just enjoy a small round and I have
a beautiful week.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Mate, you too, enjoy the enjoy the with the split
and we'll see you at Origin. I think it's you
and me. Is it you Australia without it
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