November 8, 2023 • 27 mins
On this episode, Chris Coleman and Adam Jansen discuss Glenn Maxwell's incredible innings in the ICC World Cup, the NBA's new in-season tournament, Tottenham, the latest from the NFL, and the future of some Canberra Raiders veterans.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Sports Show with Chris Coleman.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
At Adam Janssen Adam Jansen? What's caught your eye in
the world of sports in the last seven days.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Something's caught my eye in the last five minutes. And
I didn't notice this when we were prepping before. You
have something that resembles a mustache.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Well, it's a it's a it's an eight day mustache.
It's not quite fully formed as yet. Yes, I am
doing November.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
That's three hours for me. What you've got right there?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Well, there you go. Are you doing November?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
No, I should have you go.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Apparently I'm going the favorite to win the best mustache
in my day job.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
In my area and today at the seven so I
was seven days in, eight days, eight days in yeah,
give it, yeah, yeah, I can see where you're going
with it.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I'm not the only one on whom it's visible, which
is kind of frightening. I did have some people who
sponsored me and feel free look me up. Chris Coleman
on November I don't know how else you'd do it,
but go to the site and punch my name and
it'll come up with something. I have had people who
wants to be and they said they want either the
Fullmerve Hughes or the full Mitch Johnson. So I have
both options available at the moment you do.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Oh yeah, the Mitch Johnson one there.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
With the little tickler on the bottom lip.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
That was good. Anyway. A bunch of things in the
world of sport have caught my eye.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
There were out time to talk about them now, but anyway, yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah, the NBA in season tournament, some stuff from the NFL,
Tottenham losing games of football, a game a game of
football singular and cricket. How can we go past cricket?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Right now? I want to talk about the biggest story
in cricket in the world. New South Wales is one
its first Sheffield she had match in six hundred and
twenty five days today and that finally means they fulfilled
their delusions of adequacy. I couldn't even tell you who
they beat. I don't care, but well done them.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
So all of their bat players got to the crease
on time.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Apparently, yes, all right, cool moving right along, and let's
get into sport. I just want to give you some
numbers here, aj and I know what's boring as helld
A his stats. But Glenn Maxwell last night the first
Australian ever to score a double century in a One
day International.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
That caught me by surprise. I thought in Australian had
done that before.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Mashane Watson's one eighty five against creating powerhouse Bangladesh was
the previous best, and now Maxwell was to surpassed that against
another cricketing power though. I shouldn't really talk down in Anglade.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
You know what, Afghanistan are really good these days. They've
got Rashid Kahan in their bowling line up.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Place in England.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
They're not to be trifled.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, everyone Beatland exactly. Maxwell two hundred and one runs
not out off one hundred and twenty eight balls, twenty
one four's ten sixers. We could talk about it all day.
We could talk about how for the last ninety odd
of that when he was going completely bad to doze
he couldn't move because he'd had a backspasm and had
footwork somewhere between Brad Hodge and Chris Martin and still
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just stood and delivered. It was It was phenomenal. Where
do you rate that as a performance? And he has
saved Australia in that game, booked their spot into the
World Cup semifinals. Where do you rate it?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I'm just disappointed. I was a sleep. I would have
loved to have watched that. But oh look it's right
up there. You look at the you look at numbers,
you look at the highlights. It's just absolutely incredible. It
reminded me of something he did on a smaller scale
in a big Bash game for the Melbourne Stars only
two or three years ago, where the rest of the
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team got skittled and it was Glenn Maxwell and someone
up up the other end. It was like Adam Zamper
or someone and Maxwell just dominated in very similar circumstances,
got like one hundred and forty OD What it did
remind me of though I've only ever been to one
day of Test cricket my entire life, and I think
I've told this story on the show before, but I
went to an ASHES game back in the very late nineties,
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was Mark Taylor's last Test Australia. On the day I
went got bowled out in two sessions for one hundred
and eighty four runs. Michael Slater made one hundred and
twenty three of that one hundred and eighty four.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I think that is still in the history of Test
crick at the highest percentage, second highest percentage of runs
by a batsman in a completed innings. Yes, yeah, do
you know where the highest one is?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
It's like something wacky for like it's like one, it's
like one hundred percent of runs where he guy got
one or.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Some Chris Charles Bannerman and the very first test is
that what it was called one hundred and sixty five. Oh,
that's right for Australia out of two hundred and forty
five record that has never been beaten. The highest percentage
of runs by single batsman anyway. Another thing, that eighth
week of partnership. That the highest eight week of partnership
in one day international history, of which Glen Maxwell contributed
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one hundred and seventy nine runs and pack Comon's contributed twelve.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Can you tell listen is how many balls did pack
come in space?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Sixty eight from memory?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
So that's good guy. So was it twelve from sixty eight?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Well from sixty eight out of a team total of
two hundred and ninety three at better than a runner ball.
It's just weird. I haven't watched all the highlights. Fox
Sports Online have done a montage of all the boundaries
and you can see Maxwell as it goes on progressively
in more and more pain and less able to move.
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It is pure comedy. Got where do you put it though?
Is it mckaybe diva three Melbourne Cups in a row?
Is it Saint Georgia Lawara winning eleven Premierships in a row?
Does it deserve to be talked about as that kind
of a performance?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
You know what it is? It's Nathan Cleary in the
last twenty minutes of a Grand Final against the Brisbane Broncos.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
It's up there, isn't it that it is?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
It's that and I'm not trying to be funny here,
but Nathan Cleary in that game. We talked about it
last week. Match winning try was the goalkicker, got a
forty twenty, I got a caught a kick off, a
dropout that got Penrith the ball back and two triasists
all in the last twenty minutes. Glenn Maxwell has just
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not quite single handedly, but it may as well have
been won that game for Australia.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I think you can say, single handedly Pat Cummins two
hundred and one out of two hundred and ninety three.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah, but someone's got to hang around with him at
the other end. And Pat Cummins did that job.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
It's more than two thirds of the runs.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
That about what three overs? Three or four overs too?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, forty six point five nineteen deliveries left.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Glenn Maxwell is always in a hurry to get somewhere.
I find whenever he bats, he bats like he's got
dinner plans.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Do we thank him for taking the discussions about being
timed out at international cricket off the table because no
one's talking about angel. Look, I was amazed. It was
the first time it had happened international cricket. The whuh
about it? Look, in the end, he walked out there,
didn't face a ball, wasn't ever ready to face a ball,
didn't ask for time when he walked away. That's the mistake.
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If he said, hey, sorry, my helmet's broken, I need time. No,
he's just turned around and walked off and he's over
here there're getting a new helmet. And the Bangleadership peal
was the most kind of test cricket history kind it.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
He went to face up and realized there was an
issue with.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
His helmet, but he never asked for time.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
You've got Is it against crickets always built itself on sportsmanship?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Is it against the laws of the game? Did he
stuff up? Was it against the laws? Yes? It was
too bad. You're out? Tell your story walking?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yeah, I guess we can't really as Australian supporters, we
can't make I'm in Austli went playing of that game.
But if Johnny Bearstow was out then unfortunately Angelia Matthews
was out too.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
That was the only disappointing part about it. That was
onto the world of hoops and aj There's plenty going on.
Can we start with the local stuff? Because I know
you get along to the WNBL in the absence of
the Canberra Cannons.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
In the NBL, we go to capitals anyway, I'd go
to both.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I'd go to both capitals.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Games are great. We need to get you to a game.
We get VIP tickets here at the radio station. Well
yet spring rolls and beer. It's awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
So so am I that hard to get hold of?
Is it that difficult to reach me and say, hey,
would you like to come and have free beer and
some food and watch a game of sport?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Leave it with me. I'll get it. I'll get it organized.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Don't do it. If it's to night, I'm busy.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
No.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
No, Well, tonight's tickets have been used and I'm one
of them. So the Capitals tonight are playing the south
Side Flyers. Lauren Jackson.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Now that's what I'd want to go and see too.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Lauren Jackson expected to play for the for the Flyers
to night the Capitol.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Wh when Laura Jackson's playing, do you sit there and go, hey,
do you remember me from the school?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Now? Because I've already asked that she doesn't remember me.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Okay, did you ever play like schoolyard basketball against her?
And she just came up and went straight around you
like you didn't know.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
But it's it's funny actually that I only went to
year twelve with her, or year eleven or twelve. I
think I was in year eleven and she was in
year twelve, but there was crossover of classes. She was
in my sports studies class, and it was funny. She
used to argue with the teacher all the time. More
often than not. Lauren was right, and you just don't
because at the time she was. She was our best
basketballer in the country, one of the best in the
world at the time. But anyway, I'm off to the
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Capitol tonight. I am super excited they lost their opener
after a big comeback. But also in the world of basketball,
Chris Coleman, the NBA in season Tournament has commenced.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Now, you know, I don't follow the NBA closely. I
sort of catch the headlines here and there. But is
this something new? Yes?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Oh, so I can explain it to you. I actually
think you really enjoy it because you you don't like
things that go forever. No, I don't like you like
things to be compact. They start and they and they
finish and and what what you also like too is
mediocrity not being rewarded. Yeah, which is a big thing
in US sports.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yes, oh god, yeah, and it's getting bigger. AnyWho, and
move on.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
So, all thirty teams participate in the end season tournament.
They get split into six pools of five based on
last year's standings, so three three pools from each the
East and the West. The games are played on a
Tuesday and a Friday, but the games also count to
their regular season record. Okay, good, So there's double movement.
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And when you put the TV on those nights, you
know that you were watching an in season tournament game
because the courts are different, now, benow different. It's the
colors and there's like this big strip, so depending on
which team it is as to what the color the
court is, so the court reflects the home team. So
it's the Celtics. The court's green, right, And so when
you put on the TV, you instantly look at it, go, oh,
(09:53):
it's one of these games. They wear the city edition
uniforms and that's smart.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I like that. Idea is so are they saving the
city edition uniforms largely for these.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Yes, that's what they're doing, this idea, which is great.
Now this is the bit you will love. So thirty teams,
six pools of five. As I mentioned, the top team,
Chris Coleman, goes through the quarter finals, and then the
two best wild card teams because you need to go
into an elimination bracket. So you've got eight teams. So
only eight out of the thirty teams progressed to.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
The way I like it already. Yeah, I like it already, which.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Is considerably less than in their regular season playoffs.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
There showing these on ESPN, Yep, they are, oh, I'm
down for this, yep. So it's just going to catch
a coup couple of days off we yep.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
So Tuesdays and Friday's US time, so Wednesdays and Saturdays,
so there you go.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Hello, So Saturday, okay, right, those elimination bracket games later
in the year, are they one and done type.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
One and done.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
So they'll be in the first first week of December.
Will those games count towards the regular seasons?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
They will so, so the quarter finals will count. So
the quarter finals, the home the highest ranked team, we'll
get home advantage.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
So the other teams will off, will play other games and.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
They yeah, So the twenty two teams that miss out,
they go and make up those other two teams those
other two games against each other, so they all end
up playing eighty two games. The semi finals are both
played in Las Vegas, where of course there is no
NBA team at the T Mobile Arena, and then the final.
The final is the only game that does not count
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towards regular season steam where Vegas. Ok So, the final
will be in Vegas on be a neutral venue, and
this is something else to.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Compete with the NRL Spectacular that's going to draw out
twenty thousands.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
So the final is December nine. I'm not sure if
that's US time or our time.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I didn't, I didn't.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I should have checked that, but this is what I'll
really get the players going. Every player on the winning
team will receive half a million dollars.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Each, So that's motivation.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
That is motivation, not for a Lebron James who's getting
sixty million dollars a year, but if you're on a
veteran minimum or you're a rookie like, that's potentially life change.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I don't know sixty Even if you're on sixty mil,
that's still, you know, another more than one percent of
your wage.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
So the tournament began this Saturday, just gone, and it'll
conclude on December nine, So of course there are other
games in between, but it is very much something to follow.
I'm not going to go into who's winning and all
that sort of stuff because I've only played one round.
The second round is would have been today, but there's
no NBA games today because it's an election day and
there was an initiative from the NBA to not distract
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people from an election. Blah blah blah. Anyway, I think
it's very exciting.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
The super serious sports show.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Now I made a mental note to myself, Aj Wenspurs
managed to lose for one to Chelsea, giving up three
goals in injury time and only playing with nine men
that if you dared to suggest that we did softer
than Tottenham today that I would neck you. So just
putting that out there right now as we move on
to talk about ange Ball and ange Postercoggley, because I
don't want talk about anything else in the world of football.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
They were done the moment I got offered a power price.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
And it was a lousy power price too from the
betting agent. Now it wasn't great.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
That was it wasn't great. The offer was not great
and it looked even worse when full time rolled around.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
They were in more trouble than right you are was
in the Melbourne Cup when I went on that because
any who Ange Postergoglu has I think managed to win
more fans than with what he said after the game,
than any he might have lost because of the team losing.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Now, it was a Premier League game. It wasn't part
of the Champions or f A Cup that stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Spurs aren't playing in Europe this year, so they've only
got They've got the Premier League. They have FA Cup
games coming. I think they've already added that. I think
they lost their League Cup game to Fulham. They did
rather amusing week. I have no idea of Fulham's still
in that. It was Andrew's first loss as a manager
in the Premier League. There were some controversial refereeing decisions
in there, and he was asked about them after the game.
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He's just a little bit of what he said.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Decisions a decision, you know, you either accepted or you don't.
I've always been in the camp. You accept it. I've
had trust me in twenty six years. I've had plenty
of bad ones. I've had plenty that have fall in
my favor. It is what it is.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
How refreshing is it to hear a manager in a
major sporting competition who, with some justification over a couple
of those decisions, could have come out gone full tilt,
up ended the bucket, thrown the toys out of the cotton,
stormed off to come out and say well, it is
what it is.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
We move on, honestly. Yeah, it's his first loss. Yeah,
let's say there was a bit of pressure around his job.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
They've lost top spot in the on the Premier League
because of that result. They're in our second. But the
game they should have won it.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Was let's say they were coming. Let's say they were
coming sixteenth or seventeenth with Luton Town and Burnley and
Sheffield all those guys.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Liverpool to one Ord drawer the other day, did they Well,
doneder them sucked in Liverpool.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
But that's a coach that's not under pressure. Do you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I know what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Job security over there in English football.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Not great a job. Job security is as a Spurs
manager is not great. The world or the club will
turn on him pretty quickly if he loses three or
four in a row here and he's now going to
be without a couple of players on three game suspensions.
He's got a couple more players who got injured in there.
But I just think it was fabulous what he said.
I thought it was great how he came out and
just said, well, it is what it is. Having said that,
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I'm pretty sure that if you were to dig back
in time. And I haven't done this yet, but I'm
pretty sure that he said some pretty instinc things about
referees when Celtic lost a game when in the Scottish
Premier League. So was he under pressure? Then? No, no Celtic.
There are two teams in Scottish football. There's Celtic, There's Rangers,
and there's there's no one else who's won anything of note.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Forever Celtic jacket do you?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yep? Why?
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Like the colors green and so I kind of go
for them and that. Okay, yeah, it's actually it's a
green and it's a green and black one. I'd wear
it to work, but it's too nice. Their next game
is against the team with the identity crisis Wolves, Yes, yeah,
they got Wolves on yeah this Saturday. Wolverhampton, Wolvering, Wanderers,
wolver I don't know Ted Lasso. Yeah, he's as confused
(16:07):
as I am. I need to watch that show.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
You need to watch Ted Lasso, you really do.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
It keeps popping up in like my feed, like reels
on Instagram and stuff. Roy Kent looks like someone I
would connect with.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
You would, yeah, you would, You would enjoy Ted on
Apple TV. It is on Apple TV.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Now I need to get that.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Okay, come in place, watch watch couple epis episodes with
the Sherbert. It'd be fun because I could. I could
quite easily sit down and watch it again and again.
Let me just put this up. I think I mentioned
this when when it finished. There are people who said
the last series of ted Lasso only there's only three
series of it, and the last series is more and
more about stuff away from football. And there are people saying, oh,
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but it's a show about football. It was never a
show about football. It was a show about people. It's
a show about human nature using football as a setting,
and it needed to expand in the last series, and
I think the ending was just about perfect.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
It's a fish out of water comedy exactly.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
That's what it is. It's not a football show. It's
a great show and if you haven't watched it, five
stars Ted Lasser. We haven't talked much about the NFL
on The Super Serious Sports Show in the past few months,
mainly because we were off air for about a month
and during that time, some teams proved to be good,
some teams proved to be not so good, and some
teams have proved to be surprisingly different from how we
expected them to go. Where are you at with the
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with the NFL these days? Aj Well?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
I predicted the Raiders to suck and you predicted them
to be good. They've sacked their coach yep, they benched
their quarterback. Weirdly, they've won some games. It's ware. It's
very very strange. Now, one person we didn't talk about,
Joshua Dobbs. Are you aware of who that is?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
He's having a good year.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
He got traded a week ago.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
He's having a very good year.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
He was one and seven at Arizona, filling in for
an injured Kylo Murray.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
So how can I say he's having a good year,
aj Well?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
He got traded to the Vikings after Kirk Cousins Tory's
achilles on five days. Notice, bearing in mind you were
playing as a quarterback and you have an entire playbook
of plays to learn. You've also got fifty two other
men on your roster whose names you have to learn,
which apparently he had not done yet. So the first
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game for Minnesota, they started their rookie Jarren Hall at quarterback.
Jaron got a concussion. Yep, so Joshua Dobbs had to
come into the game having lived in Arizona five days earlier,
which is one of the hottest states in the US,
and moved to one of the coldest in Minnesota. Nothing
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to do with his stats, just a fun fact for you.
Let his team to victory thirty one to twenty eight
over the Atlanta Falcons, had twenty completions. Yep, he had
two touchdown passes and a rushing touchdown and a couple
of good scrambles as well. He became the first quarterback
in NFL history with consecutive three touchdown games for different teams.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Well done him.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Well, do you want to know what's even more impressive?
He has a degree in aerospace engineering. Oh that's nice.
He's a smart man, a smart man, so he's got that.
But he hadn't learned his teammates. He actually said that.
The thing he said, he was talking to him and
I was.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Like, who's that.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
I don't know who that because they'll got helmets on.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
So so let me throw this out to you. Now.
Have you had a look at the NFL lineup for
this weekend, particularly the standalone games that we get to
watch easily here in Australia. Have you seen what my
standalone games are?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
No, my fantasy teams lost for in a row, so
I should pay attention.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Standalone game Thursday Night Football is the Panthers versus the Bears.
Then you've got the early game from London, which is
the Colts versus the Patriots. Then we go to Sunday
Night Football, which is, unless I am very much mistaken,
the Commanders and the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Wow, the Seahawks are good.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Yeah. Oh that's sorry, that's a late game. Then we
go to Sunday Night Football, the New York Jets against
the Las Vegas Raiders.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Any of the good teams playing in standalone game.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Wait, wait till you hear about how it all finishes
up with the showpiece Marquee game on Monday Night Football.
The Denver Broncos. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Ah, they're Denver Broncos.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
It doesn't matter who they're playing. They are going to
get slaughtered.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Who they playing. Buffalo, it's the cold Weather cold Weather Battle.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Yeah at Buffalo, They're gonna get absolutely slaughtered. So the
NFL really happy about Dobbs. Not so happy about the
scheduling this week.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
By the way, on Buffalo and I mentioned this on
a guest appearance on camber rappt yesterday. Leonard Fournette, who
formerly played for the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers,
also grew up in Louisiana played for the LSU Tigers. Predominantly,
not predominantly exclusively have lived in warm weather climate. Let's
just say that Leonard Bournette, after he signed with Buffalo,
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described the weather as being as cold as a penguin's backside.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Accurate, accurate.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Not use that language. He used something a little bit more. Yeah, yeah,
a little bit more earmuffs.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Nearing the end of the edition of the Super Serious
Sports Show AJ last week, you were bouncing around like
a three year old on the Red Cordial because it
was what you referred to as the start of the
new NRL season on the first of November.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Yeah, you start getting footage of the new players at training.
Ko Weeks has joined the Raiders.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I'm excited about that.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Yeah, he's been down there at training. Few new faces.
I wasn't sure who a few of them were in
the photos, but I'm sure we'll find out in time.
A few few of the other boys and a few
of the other girls actually are partying it up in
balley at the moment.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
But Australia losing thirty Milton, New Zealand. What on earth
in a game that it seemed nobody knew about or
really cared about, least of all the people of New Zealand.
I found out after the result. I didn't know it
was I was home. I would have watched it. It was
twelve thousand people or something at the ground they played
it at Hamilton. That's the rugby ground where I got
hit with a doughnut once when I was working on
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the sideline. Oh sorry, what I did the sideline for
another network for the Super Rugby Grand Final and the
Brumbies played a Super Rugby Grand Final there and this
is not what we were going to talk about. But
we're here now better than what I was. Let's go
with this. So what I didn't know was that now
you've done sideline and you you know that generally you
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do the sideline reporting from the same side as the
commentary team is on. Yes, not at Hamilton. At Hamilton,
you're on the other side of the ground. Now, nobody
told me this. It was my first time at the ground,
first time covering rugby in New Zealand. I've wandered out
to the ground with the Macromas.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
That a New Zealand thing because at Mount Smart Stadium,
the team's come out from opposite sides of the stadium.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Zander.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Yeah, so it's like the change rooms are on different
do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Anyway, so I'm out very gladiatorial.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
I'm out there. I've walked out and I'm doing my
sideline crosses and I'm looking around trying to find where's
the Sky Sports New Zealand guy, where's the radio n
Z guy? Where's anyone else? And like I'm the only
sideline reporter here. About fifteen minutes into the game, a
security guard comes up to me. You're familiar with this
kind of a oh I know that. Yeah, Security, I'll
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start to quiver in my boots. I'll put it nicely.
He says, what are you doing? Said, I'm doing sideline.
He said, you got to get over that side, mate.
So you want me to get to the other side
of the ground, yes, mate, while the game's on. Yes, mate.
So I've had to go right down to the southern
end wait for play to get right to the northern end. Hope,
like hell, I don't get crossed to bolt across through
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the dead ball area, because the distance between the line
and the fence was to my memory, about eighteen inch.
It was only about that I'm running. I'm three quarters
away across, and of course they crossed to me, and
I've had to spill the beans and say sorry, can't talk.
I've been told to relocate to the other side of
the ground. And because I'd stopped at that point, someone
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in the crowd threw a donut at me, a jam donut.
It hit me fair in the back of the head.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
It did not.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Burst, thank god, but I yeah, I copped it fear
in the back of the head.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
That is a waste of a perfectly good donort.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
It was, it was he used to have a photo
of the donut. Anyway, Oh wow, what are you going
to talk about? So I guarantee it won't I.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Did want to hear the story. So, of course, the
Raiders have returned to training. Been a little bit of
talk already about which players are going to wrap it
up at the end of this season coming and which
ones are going to prolong their career. So I think
Elliott Whitehead has pretty much said that this will be
his last season. Of course, he announced his retirement officially
from him international football. I think this will be his
last year in the NRL, but Elliott Whitehead, Josh papal
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Lee and Jordan Rappener Josh papale Is indicated that he
wants to go around again in twenty twenty five. Now
he has a I think there's a club option, or
a player option, or a mutual option. As a Raiders,
there's an option. Do you see a future for any
of those three at the Raiders beyond twenty twenty four
in a playing capacity?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
If I was going to give any of the three
of them a chance to play on a twenty twenty five,
the one who I would say would be able to
do it would be Jordan Rapana. But I'm not saying
I don't know where you'd put him, is the question,
because there is a massive young brigade coming through and
I just don't know if he's got the pace to
play on the wing. He did well at fullback, but
could you displace Savage or sab Chris? I mean Seb Chris.
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I still think Seb Chris is wasted at full back.
He needs to be playing in the centers.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
I think he will be. I think he'll be the
left center. I think I think we'll see the I
think we'll see a resurg in Servixavier Savage this year.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
I would love to see Jordan Rapiner go on and
play another couple of seasons. I just but I just
don't know where they can fit him. That's the question.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
All right, other question I've got for you. So the
Canterbury Bulldogs have done a lot of off season recruiting.
Do you know when you throw a what's the all saying?
When you throw a bunch of things at a wall
and you see what it speaks? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
These are some of their recruitment or some of their
recruitment for season twenty twenty four. Kurtman, Drew Hutchison, Jame
and Salmon, Blake Taff. They are all all utility players.
They're all guys that come off the bench generally. What
are they are? They just doing the old Oh look
let's just sign some players and says, see what sticks.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Sirealdo ball, mate, Seraldo Cireldo ball. It's going to be
you don't know who's going to be out there, you
don't know what position they're going to play in.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
All four of those guys have played first grade in
the halves. All of them have played first grade I
think except for Blake taff In. The setters like, what
are they positionless football?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
So what you're saying is they're all backs, yes.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Or hookers, all lock forwards or edge back rowers except
for Blake taff See, I was going to come in
with do you know how.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
The New Zealand rugby side got the nickname the All Blacks?
Well this is this ties in like jerseys. So they
played one hundred and something years ago against opposition I
can't remember. They were wearing black jerseys and they played
as though there were no forwards in the side. They
were all fast running, smaller players. The newspaper copywriter said
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they are all backs. But when the copy got to
the paper and they saw the photo, they thought, oh no,
he must have been black and they were all blacks.
And that's the name the All Blacks were born. So
Canterbury Banks down next year? Have they got plenty Kiwis
on board? They used to have. I don't they got that, yeah,
but they used to have. But yeah, so Canterbury Banks
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down next year? They will be the new All Backs.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Right there, you go anyway, you've got anything else or
can I get ready for the basketball?
Speaker 2 (27:33):
You can go and get ready for the basketball. I'm
going to move right along and hopefully do some research
for next week's show. But you know, hey, we got
some stories in so it's all good.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Yeah, it'll be good.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Catch you next week.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
At Adam Janssen Adam Jansen? What's caught your eye in
the world of sports in the last seven days.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Something's caught my eye in the last five minutes. And
I didn't notice this when we were prepping before. You
have something that resembles a mustache.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Well, it's a it's a it's an eight day mustache.
It's not quite fully formed as yet. Yes, I am
doing November.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
That's three hours for me. What you've got right there?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Well, there you go. Are you doing November?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
No, I should have you go.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Apparently I'm going the favorite to win the best mustache
in my day job.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
In my area and today at the seven so I
was seven days in, eight days, eight days in yeah,
give it, yeah, yeah, I can see where you're going
with it.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I'm not the only one on whom it's visible, which
is kind of frightening. I did have some people who
sponsored me and feel free look me up. Chris Coleman
on November I don't know how else you'd do it,
but go to the site and punch my name and
it'll come up with something. I have had people who
wants to be and they said they want either the
Fullmerve Hughes or the full Mitch Johnson. So I have
both options available at the moment you do.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Oh yeah, the Mitch Johnson one there.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
With the little tickler on the bottom lip.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
That was good. Anyway. A bunch of things in the
world of sport have caught my eye.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
There were out time to talk about them now, but anyway, yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah, the NBA in season tournament, some stuff from the NFL,
Tottenham losing games of football, a game a game of
football singular and cricket. How can we go past cricket?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Right now? I want to talk about the biggest story
in cricket in the world. New South Wales is one
its first Sheffield she had match in six hundred and
twenty five days today and that finally means they fulfilled
their delusions of adequacy. I couldn't even tell you who
they beat. I don't care, but well done them.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
So all of their bat players got to the crease
on time.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Apparently, yes, all right, cool moving right along, and let's
get into sport. I just want to give you some
numbers here, aj and I know what's boring as helld
A his stats. But Glenn Maxwell last night the first
Australian ever to score a double century in a One
day International.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
That caught me by surprise. I thought in Australian had
done that before.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Mashane Watson's one eighty five against creating powerhouse Bangladesh was
the previous best, and now Maxwell was to surpassed that against
another cricketing power though. I shouldn't really talk down in Anglade.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
You know what, Afghanistan are really good these days. They've
got Rashid Kahan in their bowling line up.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Place in England.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
They're not to be trifled.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, everyone Beatland exactly. Maxwell two hundred and one runs
not out off one hundred and twenty eight balls, twenty
one four's ten sixers. We could talk about it all day.
We could talk about how for the last ninety odd
of that when he was going completely bad to doze
he couldn't move because he'd had a backspasm and had
footwork somewhere between Brad Hodge and Chris Martin and still
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just stood and delivered. It was It was phenomenal. Where
do you rate that as a performance? And he has
saved Australia in that game, booked their spot into the
World Cup semifinals. Where do you rate it?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I'm just disappointed. I was a sleep. I would have
loved to have watched that. But oh look it's right
up there. You look at the you look at numbers,
you look at the highlights. It's just absolutely incredible. It
reminded me of something he did on a smaller scale
in a big Bash game for the Melbourne Stars only
two or three years ago, where the rest of the
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team got skittled and it was Glenn Maxwell and someone
up up the other end. It was like Adam Zamper
or someone and Maxwell just dominated in very similar circumstances,
got like one hundred and forty OD What it did
remind me of though I've only ever been to one
day of Test cricket my entire life, and I think
I've told this story on the show before, but I
went to an ASHES game back in the very late nineties,
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was Mark Taylor's last Test Australia. On the day I
went got bowled out in two sessions for one hundred
and eighty four runs. Michael Slater made one hundred and
twenty three of that one hundred and eighty four.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I think that is still in the history of Test
crick at the highest percentage, second highest percentage of runs
by a batsman in a completed innings. Yes, yeah, do
you know where the highest one is?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
It's like something wacky for like it's like one, it's
like one hundred percent of runs where he guy got
one or.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Some Chris Charles Bannerman and the very first test is
that what it was called one hundred and sixty five. Oh,
that's right for Australia out of two hundred and forty
five record that has never been beaten. The highest percentage
of runs by single batsman anyway. Another thing, that eighth
week of partnership. That the highest eight week of partnership
in one day international history, of which Glen Maxwell contributed
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one hundred and seventy nine runs and pack Comon's contributed twelve.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Can you tell listen is how many balls did pack
come in space?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Sixty eight from memory?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
So that's good guy. So was it twelve from sixty eight?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Well from sixty eight out of a team total of
two hundred and ninety three at better than a runner ball.
It's just weird. I haven't watched all the highlights. Fox
Sports Online have done a montage of all the boundaries
and you can see Maxwell as it goes on progressively
in more and more pain and less able to move.
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It is pure comedy. Got where do you put it though?
Is it mckaybe diva three Melbourne Cups in a row?
Is it Saint Georgia Lawara winning eleven Premierships in a row?
Does it deserve to be talked about as that kind
of a performance?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
You know what it is? It's Nathan Cleary in the
last twenty minutes of a Grand Final against the Brisbane Broncos.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
It's up there, isn't it that it is?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
It's that and I'm not trying to be funny here,
but Nathan Cleary in that game. We talked about it
last week. Match winning try was the goalkicker, got a
forty twenty, I got a caught a kick off, a
dropout that got Penrith the ball back and two triasists
all in the last twenty minutes. Glenn Maxwell has just
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not quite single handedly, but it may as well have
been won that game for Australia.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I think you can say, single handedly Pat Cummins two
hundred and one out of two hundred and ninety three.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah, but someone's got to hang around with him at
the other end. And Pat Cummins did that job.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
It's more than two thirds of the runs.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
That about what three overs? Three or four overs too?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, forty six point five nineteen deliveries left.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Glenn Maxwell is always in a hurry to get somewhere.
I find whenever he bats, he bats like he's got
dinner plans.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Do we thank him for taking the discussions about being
timed out at international cricket off the table because no
one's talking about angel. Look, I was amazed. It was
the first time it had happened international cricket. The whuh
about it? Look, in the end, he walked out there,
didn't face a ball, wasn't ever ready to face a ball,
didn't ask for time when he walked away. That's the mistake.
(06:28):
If he said, hey, sorry, my helmet's broken, I need time. No,
he's just turned around and walked off and he's over
here there're getting a new helmet. And the Bangleadership peal
was the most kind of test cricket history kind it.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
He went to face up and realized there was an
issue with.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
His helmet, but he never asked for time.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
You've got Is it against crickets always built itself on sportsmanship?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Is it against the laws of the game? Did he
stuff up? Was it against the laws? Yes? It was
too bad. You're out? Tell your story walking?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yeah, I guess we can't really as Australian supporters, we
can't make I'm in Austli went playing of that game.
But if Johnny Bearstow was out then unfortunately Angelia Matthews
was out too.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
That was the only disappointing part about it. That was
onto the world of hoops and aj There's plenty going on.
Can we start with the local stuff? Because I know
you get along to the WNBL in the absence of
the Canberra Cannons.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
In the NBL, we go to capitals anyway, I'd go
to both.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I'd go to both capitals.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Games are great. We need to get you to a game.
We get VIP tickets here at the radio station. Well
yet spring rolls and beer. It's awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
So so am I that hard to get hold of?
Is it that difficult to reach me and say, hey,
would you like to come and have free beer and
some food and watch a game of sport?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Leave it with me. I'll get it. I'll get it organized.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Don't do it. If it's to night, I'm busy.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
No.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
No, Well, tonight's tickets have been used and I'm one
of them. So the Capitals tonight are playing the south
Side Flyers. Lauren Jackson.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Now that's what I'd want to go and see too.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Lauren Jackson expected to play for the for the Flyers
to night the Capitol.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Wh when Laura Jackson's playing, do you sit there and go, hey,
do you remember me from the school?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Now? Because I've already asked that she doesn't remember me.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Okay, did you ever play like schoolyard basketball against her?
And she just came up and went straight around you
like you didn't know.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
But it's it's funny actually that I only went to
year twelve with her, or year eleven or twelve. I
think I was in year eleven and she was in
year twelve, but there was crossover of classes. She was
in my sports studies class, and it was funny. She
used to argue with the teacher all the time. More
often than not. Lauren was right, and you just don't
because at the time she was. She was our best
basketballer in the country, one of the best in the
world at the time. But anyway, I'm off to the
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Capitol tonight. I am super excited they lost their opener
after a big comeback. But also in the world of basketball,
Chris Coleman, the NBA in season Tournament has commenced.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Now, you know, I don't follow the NBA closely. I
sort of catch the headlines here and there. But is
this something new? Yes?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Oh, so I can explain it to you. I actually
think you really enjoy it because you you don't like
things that go forever. No, I don't like you like
things to be compact. They start and they and they
finish and and what what you also like too is
mediocrity not being rewarded. Yeah, which is a big thing
in US sports.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yes, oh god, yeah, and it's getting bigger. AnyWho, and
move on.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
So, all thirty teams participate in the end season tournament.
They get split into six pools of five based on
last year's standings, so three three pools from each the
East and the West. The games are played on a
Tuesday and a Friday, but the games also count to
their regular season record. Okay, good, So there's double movement.
(09:32):
And when you put the TV on those nights, you
know that you were watching an in season tournament game
because the courts are different, now, benow different. It's the
colors and there's like this big strip, so depending on
which team it is as to what the color the
court is, so the court reflects the home team. So
it's the Celtics. The court's green, right, And so when
you put on the TV, you instantly look at it, go, oh,
(09:53):
it's one of these games. They wear the city edition
uniforms and that's smart.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I like that. Idea is so are they saving the
city edition uniforms largely for these.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Yes, that's what they're doing, this idea, which is great.
Now this is the bit you will love. So thirty teams,
six pools of five. As I mentioned, the top team,
Chris Coleman, goes through the quarter finals, and then the
two best wild card teams because you need to go
into an elimination bracket. So you've got eight teams. So
only eight out of the thirty teams progressed to.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
The way I like it already. Yeah, I like it already, which.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Is considerably less than in their regular season playoffs.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
There showing these on ESPN, Yep, they are, oh, I'm
down for this, yep. So it's just going to catch
a coup couple of days off we yep.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
So Tuesdays and Friday's US time, so Wednesdays and Saturdays,
so there you go.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Hello, So Saturday, okay, right, those elimination bracket games later
in the year, are they one and done type.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
One and done.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
So they'll be in the first first week of December.
Will those games count towards the regular seasons?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
They will so, so the quarter finals will count. So
the quarter finals, the home the highest ranked team, we'll
get home advantage.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
So the other teams will off, will play other games and.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
They yeah, So the twenty two teams that miss out,
they go and make up those other two teams those
other two games against each other, so they all end
up playing eighty two games. The semi finals are both
played in Las Vegas, where of course there is no
NBA team at the T Mobile Arena, and then the final.
The final is the only game that does not count
(11:23):
towards regular season steam where Vegas. Ok So, the final
will be in Vegas on be a neutral venue, and
this is something else to.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Compete with the NRL Spectacular that's going to draw out
twenty thousands.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
So the final is December nine. I'm not sure if
that's US time or our time.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I didn't, I didn't.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I should have checked that, but this is what I'll
really get the players going. Every player on the winning
team will receive half a million dollars.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Each, So that's motivation.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
That is motivation, not for a Lebron James who's getting
sixty million dollars a year, but if you're on a
veteran minimum or you're a rookie like, that's potentially life change.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I don't know sixty Even if you're on sixty mil,
that's still, you know, another more than one percent of
your wage.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
So the tournament began this Saturday, just gone, and it'll
conclude on December nine, So of course there are other
games in between, but it is very much something to follow.
I'm not going to go into who's winning and all
that sort of stuff because I've only played one round.
The second round is would have been today, but there's
no NBA games today because it's an election day and
there was an initiative from the NBA to not distract
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people from an election. Blah blah blah. Anyway, I think
it's very exciting.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
The super serious sports show.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Now I made a mental note to myself, Aj Wenspurs
managed to lose for one to Chelsea, giving up three
goals in injury time and only playing with nine men
that if you dared to suggest that we did softer
than Tottenham today that I would neck you. So just
putting that out there right now as we move on
to talk about ange Ball and ange Postercoggley, because I
don't want talk about anything else in the world of football.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
They were done the moment I got offered a power price.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
And it was a lousy power price too from the
betting agent. Now it wasn't great.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
That was it wasn't great. The offer was not great
and it looked even worse when full time rolled around.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
They were in more trouble than right you are was
in the Melbourne Cup when I went on that because
any who Ange Postergoglu has I think managed to win
more fans than with what he said after the game,
than any he might have lost because of the team losing.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Now, it was a Premier League game. It wasn't part
of the Champions or f A Cup that stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Spurs aren't playing in Europe this year, so they've only
got They've got the Premier League. They have FA Cup
games coming. I think they've already added that. I think
they lost their League Cup game to Fulham. They did
rather amusing week. I have no idea of Fulham's still
in that. It was Andrew's first loss as a manager
in the Premier League. There were some controversial refereeing decisions
in there, and he was asked about them after the game.
(13:48):
He's just a little bit of what he said.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Decisions a decision, you know, you either accepted or you don't.
I've always been in the camp. You accept it. I've
had trust me in twenty six years. I've had plenty
of bad ones. I've had plenty that have fall in
my favor. It is what it is.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
How refreshing is it to hear a manager in a
major sporting competition who, with some justification over a couple
of those decisions, could have come out gone full tilt,
up ended the bucket, thrown the toys out of the cotton,
stormed off to come out and say well, it is
what it is.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
We move on, honestly. Yeah, it's his first loss. Yeah,
let's say there was a bit of pressure around his job.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
They've lost top spot in the on the Premier League
because of that result. They're in our second. But the
game they should have won it.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Was let's say they were coming. Let's say they were
coming sixteenth or seventeenth with Luton Town and Burnley and
Sheffield all those guys.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Liverpool to one Ord drawer the other day, did they Well,
doneder them sucked in Liverpool.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
But that's a coach that's not under pressure. Do you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I know what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Job security over there in English football.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Not great a job. Job security is as a Spurs
manager is not great. The world or the club will
turn on him pretty quickly if he loses three or
four in a row here and he's now going to
be without a couple of players on three game suspensions.
He's got a couple more players who got injured in there.
But I just think it was fabulous what he said.
I thought it was great how he came out and
just said, well, it is what it is. Having said that,
(15:21):
I'm pretty sure that if you were to dig back
in time. And I haven't done this yet, but I'm
pretty sure that he said some pretty instinc things about
referees when Celtic lost a game when in the Scottish
Premier League. So was he under pressure? Then? No, no Celtic.
There are two teams in Scottish football. There's Celtic, There's Rangers,
and there's there's no one else who's won anything of note.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Forever Celtic jacket do you?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yep? Why?
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Like the colors green and so I kind of go
for them and that. Okay, yeah, it's actually it's a
green and it's a green and black one. I'd wear
it to work, but it's too nice. Their next game
is against the team with the identity crisis Wolves, Yes, yeah,
they got Wolves on yeah this Saturday. Wolverhampton, Wolvering, Wanderers,
wolver I don't know Ted Lasso. Yeah, he's as confused
(16:07):
as I am. I need to watch that show.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
You need to watch Ted Lasso, you really do.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
It keeps popping up in like my feed, like reels
on Instagram and stuff. Roy Kent looks like someone I
would connect with.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
You would, yeah, you would, You would enjoy Ted on
Apple TV. It is on Apple TV.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Now I need to get that.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Okay, come in place, watch watch couple epis episodes with
the Sherbert. It'd be fun because I could. I could
quite easily sit down and watch it again and again.
Let me just put this up. I think I mentioned
this when when it finished. There are people who said
the last series of ted Lasso only there's only three
series of it, and the last series is more and
more about stuff away from football. And there are people saying, oh,
(16:43):
but it's a show about football. It was never a
show about football. It was a show about people. It's
a show about human nature using football as a setting,
and it needed to expand in the last series, and
I think the ending was just about perfect.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
It's a fish out of water comedy exactly.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
That's what it is. It's not a football show. It's
a great show and if you haven't watched it, five
stars Ted Lasser. We haven't talked much about the NFL
on The Super Serious Sports Show in the past few months,
mainly because we were off air for about a month
and during that time, some teams proved to be good,
some teams proved to be not so good, and some
teams have proved to be surprisingly different from how we
expected them to go. Where are you at with the
(17:18):
with the NFL these days? Aj Well?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
I predicted the Raiders to suck and you predicted them
to be good. They've sacked their coach yep, they benched
their quarterback. Weirdly, they've won some games. It's ware. It's
very very strange. Now, one person we didn't talk about,
Joshua Dobbs. Are you aware of who that is?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
He's having a good year.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
He got traded a week ago.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
He's having a very good year.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
He was one and seven at Arizona, filling in for
an injured Kylo Murray.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
So how can I say he's having a good year,
aj Well?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
He got traded to the Vikings after Kirk Cousins Tory's
achilles on five days. Notice, bearing in mind you were
playing as a quarterback and you have an entire playbook
of plays to learn. You've also got fifty two other
men on your roster whose names you have to learn,
which apparently he had not done yet. So the first
(18:15):
game for Minnesota, they started their rookie Jarren Hall at quarterback.
Jaron got a concussion. Yep, so Joshua Dobbs had to
come into the game having lived in Arizona five days earlier,
which is one of the hottest states in the US,
and moved to one of the coldest in Minnesota. Nothing
(18:36):
to do with his stats, just a fun fact for you.
Let his team to victory thirty one to twenty eight
over the Atlanta Falcons, had twenty completions. Yep, he had
two touchdown passes and a rushing touchdown and a couple
of good scrambles as well. He became the first quarterback
in NFL history with consecutive three touchdown games for different teams.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Well done him.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Well, do you want to know what's even more impressive?
He has a degree in aerospace engineering. Oh that's nice.
He's a smart man, a smart man, so he's got that.
But he hadn't learned his teammates. He actually said that.
The thing he said, he was talking to him and
I was.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Like, who's that.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
I don't know who that because they'll got helmets on.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
So so let me throw this out to you. Now.
Have you had a look at the NFL lineup for
this weekend, particularly the standalone games that we get to
watch easily here in Australia. Have you seen what my
standalone games are?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
No, my fantasy teams lost for in a row, so
I should pay attention.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Standalone game Thursday Night Football is the Panthers versus the Bears.
Then you've got the early game from London, which is
the Colts versus the Patriots. Then we go to Sunday
Night Football, which is, unless I am very much mistaken,
the Commanders and the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Wow, the Seahawks are good.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Yeah. Oh that's sorry, that's a late game. Then we
go to Sunday Night Football, the New York Jets against
the Las Vegas Raiders.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Any of the good teams playing in standalone game.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Wait, wait till you hear about how it all finishes
up with the showpiece Marquee game on Monday Night Football.
The Denver Broncos. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Ah, they're Denver Broncos.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
It doesn't matter who they're playing. They are going to
get slaughtered.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Who they playing. Buffalo, it's the cold Weather cold Weather Battle.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Yeah at Buffalo, They're gonna get absolutely slaughtered. So the
NFL really happy about Dobbs. Not so happy about the
scheduling this week.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
By the way, on Buffalo and I mentioned this on
a guest appearance on camber rappt yesterday. Leonard Fournette, who
formerly played for the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers,
also grew up in Louisiana played for the LSU Tigers. Predominantly,
not predominantly exclusively have lived in warm weather climate. Let's
just say that Leonard Bournette, after he signed with Buffalo,
(20:52):
described the weather as being as cold as a penguin's backside.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Accurate, accurate.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Not use that language. He used something a little bit more. Yeah, yeah,
a little bit more earmuffs.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Nearing the end of the edition of the Super Serious
Sports Show AJ last week, you were bouncing around like
a three year old on the Red Cordial because it
was what you referred to as the start of the
new NRL season on the first of November.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Yeah, you start getting footage of the new players at training.
Ko Weeks has joined the Raiders.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I'm excited about that.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Yeah, he's been down there at training. Few new faces.
I wasn't sure who a few of them were in
the photos, but I'm sure we'll find out in time.
A few few of the other boys and a few
of the other girls actually are partying it up in
balley at the moment.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
But Australia losing thirty Milton, New Zealand. What on earth
in a game that it seemed nobody knew about or
really cared about, least of all the people of New Zealand.
I found out after the result. I didn't know it
was I was home. I would have watched it. It was
twelve thousand people or something at the ground they played
it at Hamilton. That's the rugby ground where I got
hit with a doughnut once when I was working on
(21:55):
the sideline. Oh sorry, what I did the sideline for
another network for the Super Rugby Grand Final and the
Brumbies played a Super Rugby Grand Final there and this
is not what we were going to talk about. But
we're here now better than what I was. Let's go
with this. So what I didn't know was that now
you've done sideline and you you know that generally you
(22:17):
do the sideline reporting from the same side as the
commentary team is on. Yes, not at Hamilton. At Hamilton,
you're on the other side of the ground. Now, nobody
told me this. It was my first time at the ground,
first time covering rugby in New Zealand. I've wandered out
to the ground with the Macromas.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
That a New Zealand thing because at Mount Smart Stadium,
the team's come out from opposite sides of the stadium.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Zander.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Yeah, so it's like the change rooms are on different
do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Anyway, so I'm out very gladiatorial.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
I'm out there. I've walked out and I'm doing my
sideline crosses and I'm looking around trying to find where's
the Sky Sports New Zealand guy, where's the radio n
Z guy? Where's anyone else? And like I'm the only
sideline reporter here. About fifteen minutes into the game, a
security guard comes up to me. You're familiar with this
kind of a oh I know that. Yeah, Security, I'll
(23:06):
start to quiver in my boots. I'll put it nicely.
He says, what are you doing? Said, I'm doing sideline.
He said, you got to get over that side, mate.
So you want me to get to the other side
of the ground, yes, mate, while the game's on. Yes, mate.
So I've had to go right down to the southern
end wait for play to get right to the northern end. Hope,
like hell, I don't get crossed to bolt across through
(23:29):
the dead ball area, because the distance between the line
and the fence was to my memory, about eighteen inch.
It was only about that I'm running. I'm three quarters
away across, and of course they crossed to me, and
I've had to spill the beans and say sorry, can't talk.
I've been told to relocate to the other side of
the ground. And because I'd stopped at that point, someone
(23:52):
in the crowd threw a donut at me, a jam donut.
It hit me fair in the back of the head.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
It did not.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Burst, thank god, but I yeah, I copped it fear
in the back of the head.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
That is a waste of a perfectly good donort.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
It was, it was he used to have a photo
of the donut. Anyway, Oh wow, what are you going
to talk about? So I guarantee it won't I.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Did want to hear the story. So, of course, the
Raiders have returned to training. Been a little bit of
talk already about which players are going to wrap it
up at the end of this season coming and which
ones are going to prolong their career. So I think
Elliott Whitehead has pretty much said that this will be
his last season. Of course, he announced his retirement officially
from him international football. I think this will be his
last year in the NRL, but Elliott Whitehead, Josh papal
(24:40):
Lee and Jordan Rappener Josh papale Is indicated that he
wants to go around again in twenty twenty five. Now
he has a I think there's a club option, or
a player option, or a mutual option. As a Raiders,
there's an option. Do you see a future for any
of those three at the Raiders beyond twenty twenty four
in a playing capacity?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
If I was going to give any of the three
of them a chance to play on a twenty twenty five,
the one who I would say would be able to
do it would be Jordan Rapana. But I'm not saying
I don't know where you'd put him, is the question,
because there is a massive young brigade coming through and
I just don't know if he's got the pace to
play on the wing. He did well at fullback, but
could you displace Savage or sab Chris? I mean Seb Chris.
(25:21):
I still think Seb Chris is wasted at full back.
He needs to be playing in the centers.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
I think he will be. I think he'll be the
left center. I think I think we'll see the I
think we'll see a resurg in Servixavier Savage this year.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
I would love to see Jordan Rapiner go on and
play another couple of seasons. I just but I just
don't know where they can fit him. That's the question.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
All right, other question I've got for you. So the
Canterbury Bulldogs have done a lot of off season recruiting.
Do you know when you throw a what's the all saying?
When you throw a bunch of things at a wall
and you see what it speaks? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
These are some of their recruitment or some of their
recruitment for season twenty twenty four. Kurtman, Drew Hutchison, Jame
and Salmon, Blake Taff. They are all all utility players.
They're all guys that come off the bench generally. What
are they are? They just doing the old Oh look
let's just sign some players and says, see what sticks.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Sirealdo ball, mate, Seraldo Cireldo ball. It's going to be
you don't know who's going to be out there, you
don't know what position they're going to play in.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
All four of those guys have played first grade in
the halves. All of them have played first grade I
think except for Blake taff In. The setters like, what
are they positionless football?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
So what you're saying is they're all backs, yes.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Or hookers, all lock forwards or edge back rowers except
for Blake taff See, I was going to come in
with do you know how.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
The New Zealand rugby side got the nickname the All Blacks?
Well this is this ties in like jerseys. So they
played one hundred and something years ago against opposition I
can't remember. They were wearing black jerseys and they played
as though there were no forwards in the side. They
were all fast running, smaller players. The newspaper copywriter said
(27:05):
they are all backs. But when the copy got to
the paper and they saw the photo, they thought, oh no,
he must have been black and they were all blacks.
And that's the name the All Blacks were born. So
Canterbury Banks down next year? Have they got plenty Kiwis
on board? They used to have. I don't they got that, yeah,
but they used to have. But yeah, so Canterbury Banks
(27:26):
down next year? They will be the new All Backs.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Right there, you go anyway, you've got anything else or
can I get ready for the basketball?
Speaker 2 (27:33):
You can go and get ready for the basketball. I'm
going to move right along and hopefully do some research
for next week's show. But you know, hey, we got
some stories in so it's all good.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Yeah, it'll be good.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Catch you next week.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
So everyone next week. Bye Amplify CBA
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