July 26, 2023 • 28 mins
On this episode, Chris Coleman and Adam Jansen discuss the media coverage of the FIFA Women's World Cup, the first round of the NRLW season, the run home in the NRL and AFL, before looking at 2 very different books..
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Super Serious Sports Show with Chris Carman and Adam Jansen.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Adam Aluisius Jansen, what's caught your eye in the world
of sports in the last seven days?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Plenty happening in the world of sport. That's the first
show we've done in a few weeks. It's been a while. Yeah,
well we did the know we had. Yeah, we had
the Raiders Girls last week.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
First show show as opposed to special themed show in
about a month.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yeah. Yeah, Maddie and I did a best of one
a couple of weeks ago. Just reminding everybody that you
claimed that you looked like Ralph Marcio. But anyway, a
long time ago, a long time ago, you was a
resemblance some sort. Sure there was anyway, I didn't claim it.
Someone else said it and we'll leave it at that.
What's caught your eye in sport? Adam Jansen? The Women's
(00:44):
World Cup? How could it not? Actually I can explain
how it could. It could not in a moment. Okay,
the Australia retaining the ashes and we are very very
much getting towards the business end of the season with
the AFL and the NRL. Also can't help an you've
brought a book into the stratrought a book into the studio.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
It's a rather hefty tomes It's almost a coffee table book.
When was the last time you saw a coffee table book? Cranoniel,
coffee table book about coffee tables, that's the one. This
is not about coffee tables. It is a sporting book.
And we got to look into that. Wee bit later on.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I brought a book too, Is it that boxing one
that was? We'll find out later on this edition. That
worries me.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
We'll find out later on this edition of the Super
Serious Sports Show he J. I had the leading question
at the top of the program, the the what's caught
your eye in the world of sport? And I wanted
to lead into the Women's World Cup and you've graciously
gone there for us. So how much of your attention has.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
It caught a fair bit? But it's interesting when Australia
is featured in a World Cup, especially when it's a
very very good Australian side like this one. I tend
to focus on just how Australia is doing so pretty
easy to do that in this World Cup? Yeah, yeah,
And so the rest of the World Cup has kind
of just sat in the background for me while Australia
(02:01):
is still alive.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I am very disappointed in how hard it actually is
unless you are an active soccer fan to follow this
World Cup. I think there's been outside of Australia. I
think there's been very little coverage about. You know, which
other teams should we be looking at? Who are the
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star players from the thirty one other nations that are
in this thing? And indeed in some cases, what are
the other thirty one nations outside of Australia that are
taking part in this thing. I've found it really hard
to follow. And I am an Opti Sports subscriber. I
have Optor Sport at home. I can watch every game
of the World Cup as they tell me live or
(02:42):
on demand.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
It's still difficult. We have a sweep at work, do
you Yeah? Why did I not wind up in this sweep?
I think you're on the email. It's because I'm not
here all the time. Yeah. Yeah, I think there's two
teams left if you want to, if you want in,
who's left? I don't think they're very good. I think
Zambia is one of them. Yeah, they're never back anything
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with z yeah, I've got the Netherlands chance, yep, chance,
I've got the Republic of Ireland no chance, no chance,
and South Korea very little chance.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, wild cards, South Korea. How'd they go the other day?
Have you been following their results? No?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I know, I know the Netherlands one, and I know
Ireland lost.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
South Korea lost to Columbia to nils. So I think
I think you're in a world of a world have
hurt with two of your three teams in the sleep Well.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Again, it wasn't one of those ones where you get
to pick your team. You drew it out of a hat.
And yeah, I know one person happened to get two
of the top sides. I think they got like the
US and Germany or someone good.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Without casting nasturtiums in anyone's direction. And I deliberately said
nasturtiums without casting pretty flowers in anyone's direction. Was it
the person who was running the sweep who drew those
two teams? No?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Okay, all right, now it's someone who doesn't need the money.
Oh really, yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I'm gonna hunt you. That might be all right, we'll
just move on at this point. Women's World Cup. I
actually no I don't want to move on. I don't
want to move on. Australia's going great, great guns. They
play their second match this week this Thursday, so tomorrow
against Nigeria and should they win that they will be
through to the second round.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
What did you make of the Sam Kerr injury keeping
its secret?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Why would you tell anyone before a game that your
star players injured? Why?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Why would you say that? I am a hundred percent
with you. I know that Dean Richie among others, got
on Twitter and got in the papers and all that
sort of stuff and basically had a crack at the
Australian side. And you know the Australian organization for hiding
the injury because they were trying. They were saying something like, oh,
they're trying to boost crowd numbers. No, they're trying to
win a World Cup. Yes, do not tell the other
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team that your best player is carrying an injury. Apparently
the Irish team didn't know. So job well done to
a street exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
And the parallel for mister Richie ed al and I
don't mean someone else called al, I mean and others
that means, yeah, yeah, mister Richie at owl here's the thing.
If New South Wales, say, New South Wales had Nathan
Cleary playing for them in an Origin Decider, and the
day before the Origin Decider he went over on his
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ankle at a closed training session. Nobody outside the team
saw it happen. Nobody outside the team knew it had happened.
Would they then go out and say, oh, yeah, clear,
he's out tomorrow night. No bingo bingo. So we move
on from there. I want to revisit something and I
know that we have periodically on this program ventured into
the world of predictions. Not well, no, no, I have
(05:41):
a theory about this, and I think we're putting too
much pressure on ourselves.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Do you know why I have that theory? Aj?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Why Because it's the spontaneous ones where we just come
up with something and it happens and we never go
back to relive it.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
But today today I think we have to.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
This is from our show on or about the fourteenth
of June, just before the first Ashes Test start Australia.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
When the Ashes in how many games four four four?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
It will be live going into the fourth Test? Okay,
whether that's two in a draw or two to one.
How many tests are there five, We've went three, two,
five and six. Unless there's a stack of rain, I
don't think there'll be a draw. It's gonna be a
dry summer. Let's hope, let's beat them, grind them like salt.
I will take that. I will take that as a
prediction that it was. It's taken four tests to one
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and a draw, and you can take some of the
stuff there is that there won't be a draw unless
there's a heap of rain, because lo and behold there was.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
And how great is it that there are so.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Many people in the country that invented cricket who claim
to be cricketeas, who've got no bloody clue about the
rules of the game, about the history of the game,
about how things are played. You don't put reserve days
in test cricket if it rains. Is the draw tough?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Something tough? Something? Yeah, I was gonna say tough, and
I'm not allowed to who more to say? The English
cricket team or Piers Morgan.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Oh peers is so well the peers of tears fall
mainly in their beers or something like that. I just
got a pathetic excuse for a news and sports commentator
that man is. I still remember when he decided it
would be a great idea to face up to.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Brett lee In. I didn't know who he was before that.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
We have a brand new sporting competition, well not a
brand new sporting competition, but an expanded sporting competition that
kicked off on the weekend, Adam. It is the National
Rugby League Women's Competition, going from six to ten teams.
And I've got to say I loved it on the weekend.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I didn't just love.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Being in commentary for the Raiders first game, which didn't
go the Raiders way, but it was still a cracking game.
I just loved the whole weekend. I thought it was
fantastic stuff and eminently watchable.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Oh, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I watched the first game
of the round between the Titans and the Cowboys. Cowboys
started really strongly. Emma Mansleman scored a fantastic first ever
try for the Cowboys before the Titans came over the
top of them. But isn't it such a shame that
we don't get here from the players on game day?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
There are people who are blaming the NRL Players Association
for that. No, there are two parties in this, and
there is a party that is still waiting after twenty months.
And I think we've talked about this before for a
collective bargaining agreement that COUP should be covering men and
women twenty months. If you were sitting in your little
dark room next door where you hide at the end
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of the building, and you were waiting for an update
on your pay and work conditions, and you were waiting
twenty months.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
What would you do? What would you do?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I would take a guess that every piece of imaging
on the radio stations that you work for would sound like.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Welcome to fight UFM or something like that. Am I right?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
If you were waiting twenty months for your workplace agreement
to be resolved, you'd take some sort of an.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Action, wouldn't you. I'm a patient man. Twenty months, Yeah,
I'm a patient closer to two years than one year.
It is almost closer to three years, the words of
Robert de Niro and Meet the parents. I'm a patient man.
So you're disappointed that we don't get here from the
players on game day? Yeah, I think it's a real shame,
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especially since we're broadcasting our the first ever Raiders NRLW
home game and our intrepid sideline reporter Sammy Rose won't
be able to speak to a player on air after
the game. I think it's a real shame anyway. Switching
across to the men's competition, to the point we are
getting to the business end, I want one, actually, I
(09:42):
want three things from you, one at a time.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Who's your premiership favorite? You're gonna laugh potentially, but I reckon.
The Warriors have zoomed into premiership contention.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
No premiership favorite?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Yeah, I'm going to go with the Warriors right now.
They are on a hot streak. They are beating teams left,
right and center. I have them just ahead of Penrith
and Brisbane.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Okay, well I've got Penrith as the favorite. Still, I
still think they're the best team in the competition. And
Nathan clear he's had a bit of arrest. The best
team in the comp doesn't have to doesn't necessarily win it.
I still think they're the favorite. Okay, who's your smoky?
I was so tempted to say the Raiders. I was
I was so tempted to say the Raiders. But I can't.
I can't bring myself to do it. I just I
just think that the September pressure is going to be
(10:24):
too much. They leak too many points.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
It won't be. It won't be Coronulla. Oh no, no,
I've gone for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yeah, me too.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
From nowhere. They have come from being one of the
worst teams in the known universe about twelve weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
They are spoon contender twelve weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
And now they're in the eight and and and still
climbing in the eight with a bullet.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
So we're on the same page. Well, who's your team
that's going to fall off a cliff. That's a very
good question. There are already one foot that's gone over
the edge.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah, it's got to be the Sharks, hasn't it.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, it's the Sharks. I know.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
They came back thirty. It was thirty nil, wasn't it.
About five minutes into the second half.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
They had a boot off at halftime at Shark Park.
They were now thirty to niil to a Trevoyevitch less
Tommy Travoyevitch less manly side.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I was listening to another radio station's call of that
while I was driving home from our an Row call.
And at halftime, the word was that the Shark's coach
name has sudden break given apparently was out of the
Shark's room after less than a minute. He hardly spent
(11:31):
any time in the way, He just walked in there
and looked at him and then walked out. Reportedly, Yes,
I don't, I haven't. I keep meaning to dial it
up on the KO replay and just see. But apparently, Yeah,
that was the game of their stuff. They are absolutely cooked.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Well, it's very close for that that seventh and eighth position.
Even six through six through to about about twelve, the
Roosters and the Dolphins are on the same competition points.
Forget about the Dolphins, but I can see Manly or
Newcastle finding a way into the top eight with both
the sh and the Eels missing out. But we'll see
how that all plays out. Have the Raiders done enough
(12:05):
to hang on to a top eight spot? Yeah, I
think I'll make top four? Really? Yeah? Top four? Yeah,
I think I think they'll finish fourth. And I'm just
going into sports bit and see what that's paid for,
super serious sports show. Well, we just discussed the men's
NROL competition. Let's discuss the AFL Premiership. Favorite I think
it's still Callingwood. I think it's still Callingwood just because
(12:28):
they're still doing that amazing thing where even if they're
behind at three quarter a time, they can come out
and win games. And the game.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
I don't know whether you saw or whether you dive
back into it, the Collingwood Port game on the weekend
Game of the year. Eleven lead changes five goals in
the last quarter. Every one of them changed the lead.
I have not seen a better game of footy in forever. No.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
I was at a at a party where the NRL
was on, so I missed the prison Bar Cup. But anyway,
apparently it was a wonderful game.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Dig it up, make go to the minimatch. I might
do that, Yeah, I have a look at it. It was.
It was an absolute cracker.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Who's your smoky? You know where I'm going with this,
don't you. Is there a big, big sound.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
There is a big, big sound brewing, mate, and it's
coming from the west of the town, or coming from Canberratown.
It is the sound of the mighty Giants. I'm getting
ready to paint the town orange. It's coming. They are
coming along, just nice and quietly. They've made it into
the top eight now there's seventh. They're half a game
clear of eighth, ninth and tenth a full game clear
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of eleventh. But they are also only two games outside
the top four, and Melbourne have a horrendous draw from here.
From memory, we might have.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
The same answers for all of these. I feel that
is bitterly disappointing. Yeah, because I think the Giants are
the smokies. I agree with you. I think Colin would
certainly the premiership favorites. And Melbourne have got Richmond this week.
Richmond are playing for survival. They are. They are. Before
we get to the teams outside of the eight, who's
going to fall off a cliff?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
They're already falling. It's it's the Bombers. They're dive bombing.
They're gone.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Oh we've got a different team. Oh really? Yeah? Have
you got I see, I didn't rate the Bombers high
enough to begin with to consider it.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
I'm going to mate who for the ages In the
first half of the season, we're saying the mighty flying
Essendon machine, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
He's gone quiet of recent weeks.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Maybe that's because the Giants are now three games, three
positions clear, or four positions clearer.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
They're gonna they're gonna lose to them. They're gonna lose
the Swans this week. You got St Kilda. I wouldn't
argue with that. So currently coming six and they did
win on the weekend. But hey, Siri, show me an
unconvincing victory. Okay, I found this on the web for
show me an unconvincing victory. And look at that. It's
the St. Kilda versus North Melbourne highlights from the weekend.
(14:53):
I didn't realize my phone was still on. That's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Oh well, where were we before my phone so rudely
interrupted us?
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Umm, Saint Kilda. Yeah, yeah, they're a mess yep. West
Coast versus North Melbourne. I just thought of this. Oh
you got oh jeez, spoon bowl.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
No, I've got North West Coast, West Coast and I
know West Coast beat the Giants Perth early in the season.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I know it's in Perth.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
North North are North are still horrendous Okay, don't get
me wrong, but they're.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Getting close in yet they're close in their games. West
Coast games are over by quarter time, except except for
the one they played against Sint Kilda.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yeah, and the one they went against the Giants earlier
in the season. And it would be hilarious if the
Giants were to somehow fluke the flag this year, that
they would be the team that wins the flag while
losing to one of the worst sides in the history
of the AFL slash VFL, going all the way back
to eighteen ninety seven.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
That would be funny. West Coast might set a record
for the amount of retired players at this season.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I'd be several. I know there is a Twitter feed.
I can't remember the of it now. I know there's
someone on Twitter who regularly publishes how many games of
experience are out for each AFL team each week.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
The Eagles are missing it. Hey, they're missing plenty. But
they've also got too many older players on their roster
who were injury prime and what's happened this year? Hang on,
they all got injured. That's right.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
It is time, Adam for another super serious sports show. Serious. First,
we're actually going to go into a book. You gave
me this idea when you launched that thing you've brought
over there.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
It's a book. I'm a published author.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
You gave me the idea when you launched that thing
over there that you call the book a Feuds.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Chris Colemans Book of Feuds. You know, I leave this
sitting on my desk and people come in and some
people don't understand it's for a radio show, and they
don't know that you know about it, so they're just
expecting that. They think it's that I'm taking the out
of you.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Tell them, Tell them, I don't know anything about it. Okay, anyway,
this has arrived. As I hold it up to the camera,
Remarkable Rugby Grounds by Ryan Herman. It's from HarperCollins, and
I think, what do you call that a coffee table book?
I think it is a coffee tip. Yeah, that's a
coffee table and Remarkable Rugby a Hones and that is
what it is. I don't I don't know what you
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think of the one on the front cover, but that
rugby ground out on a peninsula out over the ocean.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Not the one I would have picked for the front cover.
I like it, you know.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
It's what it shows is the depth and the spread
of rugby around the world.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
It doesn't have to be rugby.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Some of them are more associated with rugby league. Some
of them are let's say you might say soccer there
a little bit more often. Most of them are most
of them are rugby. It includes it includes Amy Park
in Melbourne. It includes ACU Stadium in Sydney, which is
in a few years time, when it is no longer
acuas Stadium, it's something else, they'll have to move it
further down in the book. But it does also include
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the Park the Prince in Paris, the Rugby School in Warwickshire,
which is of course where it all began.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
And they're all illustrated with photographs. And could you list
every ground stadium, park that you've been to to watch
a professional So I'm talking, I'm talking elite level, so
international rugby, International Rugby League, NRL, Super Rugby AFL.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Could you list every ground you've been to, Jeezy to
take a while, I can really how long is the list?
It's not that long?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Okay, Well you do your list and I won't even
start mine. So Cambra stadiums Las Geo Stadium, Manka Oval,
so the Raiders and the Warriors at that Sea for Oval,
the old Sydney Football Stadium so not the new one,
the is it our Course Stadium Australia Stadium, Australia Course Stadium.
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It's the World Cup at the moment, so it's Stadium Australia,
sun Corps Stadium at sun Course Stadium. Some I saw
the entire first day Cogra and I recently during our
little break, I recently added whatever metri con up on
the gold coasters called these days because I went to
the Suns. What's my first AFL game? I went to
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the Suns and killed the game. Not this weekend just gone,
but the weekend before. I loved it. That that stadium's awesome.
But do you know my favorite stadium that I've been to?
Out of all those ones I've just listed, this will
blow your mind, which one of your reckons my favorite
I have? I couldn't tell you couldn't our sun Corp.
Oh no, no bad memories? Okay, yeah, okay, really I
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loved it. I loved the I know some people are
really into like the big stadiums. I love the suburban stadium.
You park on the streets, you go in there and
it's it's got character. So you know, there's the big
grand stand, then there's like this other sort of cheap seats.
There's like the old school sort of kiosk gap on
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the hill that you can see in the background when
you're when you're watching games on TV. So I went
to a Saturday afternoon game between the Gold Coast Titans
and the Saint George lawar A Dragons. Can't remember who won.
No Jared Haynes played, but yeah, that was my So
only went there once, but I loved it. I thought
it was amazing.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Back to this book, which does also have a tremendous
feed stadium that's not remarkable, not remarkable enough, but it's
part of a series remarkable football grounds, remarkable golf courses,
remarkable cricket grounds.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
I've got to get my hands on that one. I've
been to the SCG, so that's my favorite. But it
wasn't for football. I went for cricket.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
But I have and I'm going to show you a
picture here. This is a picture I made I took
when I went to Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. This
is from the top of the upper deck behind home plate.
How stunning is that view?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
That's pretty pretty.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
That is stunning. The best part about Dodger Stadium, and
this is the travelogue bit of the program, Okay, if
you are ever lucky enough to go to the Los
Angeles to the Legislative and you've not been there before.
When you go, ignore what your ticket says to enter. Okay,
you do not want to enter via any of the
outfield gates the first time you go there. You want
to walk in behind home plate, into the main grand stand,
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go up the stairs, and you go up a set
of stairs, and suddenly you walk out and there opening
up below you is the field of dreams. Because the
ground has been built into the side of a mountain.
So you walk in and suddenly there is the ground
below you. It is unbelievable. It's not like any other
ground where you might, like say, any major stating, where
you go up and up and up the stairs or
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up with the ramps or whatever, and then you go
in and you expect the ground to be there below you. Here,
you walk in, you go up one flight of stairs,
and there's the ground. I cannot recommend it enough of
And I know I'm a Dodgers fan, and you might
say I'm biased, but I've been to a lot of
sporting grounds in a lot of places, and I will
share this view on Twitter. You more than welcome too.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
That's your favorite? That is about my far.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I've got two or three shots of the same view
and I can't decurb them, decide which one is my
favorite one.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Which is the worst ground you've been to?
Speaker 2 (21:57):
The worst ground I went to is probably the old
Wimbledon foot ground at plow Lane.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
It was just, you.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Know, and this was before we would have made it
to the top flight and then plummeted to non league
and then moved to Milton Keynes.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
It just wasn't It wasn't unpleasant.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
No, maybe colored by the fact that I was nine
or ten years old and Wimbledon were playing Millwall. And look,
if you've ever heard about Millwall fans, everything you have
heard is true.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I haven't heard anything. But what's the book called?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
So it is remarkable. Rugby Grounds is one of a
series of shots of sporting grounds from around the world
by Ryan Herman, and it is recently released via HarperCollins.
As much as it disgusts me having just spoken about
a very nice book, a genuine book, a legitimate book
that is really published and something you can buy online
or in a newsagent or bookstore.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Chris Commen's book A Few's is available for purchase.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
You're using my name on it. Therefore, if you're selling
copies of that there, it needs to be a right agreement.
And I have not signed anything. So that book is
not available for purchase. I don't care what you say.
Do you want to sign it and I'll sellson signed.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Copies if there's a cuttinet I'm I don't because I've
stuck the pages in. I don't quite know how to
how to reprint it.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
That's the thing is, it is a pretty average book
in terms of how it looks.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
For new listeners of our show. About two months ago,
I wrote a book called Chris Coleman's Book.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
A few you plagiarized things that I've said on the radio,
compiled them and put them in a book and called yourself, Now, these.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Don't have the things that you said. This has information
about the people that you spoke of. All right, okay,
And so you've got some new entries, have you, Yeah? Yeah,
So so we you're going to end up in the books.
So adding adding to the state of Florida, the Carlton
Football Club, the San Francisco Giants, I deserve it, the
Arstonal Football Club and David Warner. He deserves it. The
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newest entry. I nearly put this in the first time.
Okay Nelson, a soft of Solomona from the Melbourne Storm,
he deserves it. A New Zealand professional rugby league footballer
who plays for the Men Storm in the NRL and
New Zealand at international level. A sopha Solomona won the
twenty seventeen NRL Grand Final and the twenty twenty NRL
Grand Final with Melbourne. Big Nels has been penalized or
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charged on numerous occasions for the use of elbows and
forearms during play. Is that why you're not a fan?
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Well, I'm not a fan because he hasn't been penalized
enough for it.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Because he still does it. He broke or he knocked
teeth out of Wade Egan's mouth in a game last
year and nothing happens, and that was after the one
on Joseph Sulii. I think either I think the same
season with the same move, the one where he just
drops on dooor it's not.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I will say this is actually probably not quite fair
to put nass in there, because it's more the NRL
leading with the elbow tackle officiating. But anyway, move on,
you've got another one? I assume how many have we
got here?
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Well? You notice I brought a beer in? Oh good god? Yeah,
all right. Remember the other night after the raiders came,
how I offered you a beer and then you went
to the fridge to get yourself a beer and you
had two choices. Yeah, one of them was four x one,
one was four x gold and the other one was
caple brewing summer day. Oh you did not hesitate the
slightest and you went for the summit most right, thinking
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people would do the same. Anyway, I'm going to celebrate
this entry by a by enjoying my four X goal is.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Cracked up on a four x gold in the studio?
Love it?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Can I read you the thing on the inside the cap?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Can we do the show live next week? I've got
Wednesday off work next week? Maybe we could do a
live Wednesday night edition of the Super Serious Portshow That fright?
Speaker 1 (25:38):
The question on the underneath the bottle cap? A couber
hats are made from the treated fur of which animal rabbit? Yes? Correct?
Hold done. Four X pronounced four x is a brand
of Australian beer brewed in Milton, Brisbane by Queensland Brewers
Castlemaine Perkins, now a division of the Japanese owned Lion.
It enjoys wide popularity in the state of queen Land,
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where it is commonly found on tap in pubs and bars.
Why don't you like four X I just don't like it.
It's awful stuff because it's not because you associate with
like the Queensland. Don't like the taste of it. It's awful.
It's awful. Tastell right to me. It's mid strength, it's
full flavored lager. Sure, you know there's like heaps of
four x's too. There's not just like four X gold.
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There's like four X bright Laga. There's like a summer
one and it might be the same one, but there's
a there's a whole stack of it.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
They say full flavored. Okay, what's the flavor? What flavor
is it full of?
Speaker 1 (26:31):
That's the question? Next next one, I have to go
to Twitter. This is the reason we're doing this segment
this week. Some of this is not safe to read
on the radio. Flow grating ten out of ten. Quite surprising.
Old mate Peers manages to tweet so much twaddle because
he seems to have and I can't read the rest.
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That was after you shared a tweet of Peers planning
about the Australian side, saying how there's never been a
less deserved retention of the Ashes. Piers Morgan was an
English broadcaster, journalist, writer, television personality, lover of the English
cricket team and hater of the Australian side. During the
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twenty twenty three Ashes series. Peers has blown up to
lux after the stumping dismissal of Johnny Bearsto on the
second Test and the rain effected draw in the fourth
Test which resulted in Australia retaining the Ashes. I don't
need to ask you why you don't like Peers Morgan.
I think we covered that earlier in the program ten
out of ten flog graded.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Flowed grading ten out of ten, it's right up there.
And in twenty thirteen when England retained the Ashes due
to a match being washed out when they were chasing
about three hundred and ten for victory in with three.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
STA series where Stuart broad nicked it to first slip,
good will be yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
But at the end of that twenty thirteen match where
rain came in, who was one of the happiest tweeters
of all the English millions of people one Piers Morgan.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Oh, he's in the Book of Feuds now and.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Yeah, I'm sure he'll be thrilled to hear that too,
if he hasn't blocked me on Twitter yet. Anyway, AJ,
we need to move on. No predictions anymore. We're sticking
that in the bin because we've landed enough in the
casual space without debating a segment to it anymore. So
the get rich Quick scheme has come to an end.
Adam Jance and catch up with you on the Weekend's
got some for x a Rugby League doubleheader and next
week for another edition of the Super Serious Bords Show.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
I can't wait, which we should be doing live on
Wednesday night. We should, We should just make bedtime. Amplify
CBA
The Super Serious Sports Show with Chris Carman and Adam Jansen.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Adam Aluisius Jansen, what's caught your eye in the world
of sports in the last seven days?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Plenty happening in the world of sport. That's the first
show we've done in a few weeks. It's been a while. Yeah,
well we did the know we had. Yeah, we had
the Raiders Girls last week.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
First show show as opposed to special themed show in
about a month.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yeah. Yeah, Maddie and I did a best of one
a couple of weeks ago. Just reminding everybody that you
claimed that you looked like Ralph Marcio. But anyway, a
long time ago, a long time ago, you was a
resemblance some sort. Sure there was anyway, I didn't claim it.
Someone else said it and we'll leave it at that.
What's caught your eye in sport? Adam Jansen? The Women's
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World Cup? How could it not? Actually I can explain
how it could. It could not in a moment. Okay,
the Australia retaining the ashes and we are very very
much getting towards the business end of the season with
the AFL and the NRL. Also can't help an you've
brought a book into the stratrought a book into the studio.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
It's a rather hefty tomes It's almost a coffee table book.
When was the last time you saw a coffee table book? Cranoniel,
coffee table book about coffee tables, that's the one. This
is not about coffee tables. It is a sporting book.
And we got to look into that. Wee bit later on.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I brought a book too, Is it that boxing one
that was? We'll find out later on this edition. That
worries me.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
We'll find out later on this edition of the Super
Serious Sports Show he J. I had the leading question
at the top of the program, the the what's caught
your eye in the world of sport? And I wanted
to lead into the Women's World Cup and you've graciously
gone there for us. So how much of your attention has.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
It caught a fair bit? But it's interesting when Australia
is featured in a World Cup, especially when it's a
very very good Australian side like this one. I tend
to focus on just how Australia is doing so pretty
easy to do that in this World Cup? Yeah, yeah,
And so the rest of the World Cup has kind
of just sat in the background for me while Australia
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is still alive.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I am very disappointed in how hard it actually is
unless you are an active soccer fan to follow this
World Cup. I think there's been outside of Australia. I
think there's been very little coverage about. You know, which
other teams should we be looking at? Who are the
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star players from the thirty one other nations that are
in this thing? And indeed in some cases, what are
the other thirty one nations outside of Australia that are
taking part in this thing. I've found it really hard
to follow. And I am an Opti Sports subscriber. I
have Optor Sport at home. I can watch every game
of the World Cup as they tell me live or
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on demand.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
It's still difficult. We have a sweep at work, do
you Yeah? Why did I not wind up in this sweep?
I think you're on the email. It's because I'm not
here all the time. Yeah. Yeah, I think there's two
teams left if you want to, if you want in,
who's left? I don't think they're very good. I think
Zambia is one of them. Yeah, they're never back anything
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with z yeah, I've got the Netherlands chance, yep, chance,
I've got the Republic of Ireland no chance, no chance,
and South Korea very little chance.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, wild cards, South Korea. How'd they go the other day?
Have you been following their results? No?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I know, I know the Netherlands one, and I know
Ireland lost.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
South Korea lost to Columbia to nils. So I think
I think you're in a world of a world have
hurt with two of your three teams in the sleep Well.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Again, it wasn't one of those ones where you get
to pick your team. You drew it out of a hat.
And yeah, I know one person happened to get two
of the top sides. I think they got like the
US and Germany or someone good.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Without casting nasturtiums in anyone's direction. And I deliberately said
nasturtiums without casting pretty flowers in anyone's direction. Was it
the person who was running the sweep who drew those
two teams? No?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Okay, all right, now it's someone who doesn't need the money.
Oh really, yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I'm gonna hunt you. That might be all right, we'll
just move on at this point. Women's World Cup. I
actually no I don't want to move on. I don't
want to move on. Australia's going great, great guns. They
play their second match this week this Thursday, so tomorrow
against Nigeria and should they win that they will be
through to the second round.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
What did you make of the Sam Kerr injury keeping
its secret?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Why would you tell anyone before a game that your
star players injured? Why?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Why would you say that? I am a hundred percent
with you. I know that Dean Richie among others, got
on Twitter and got in the papers and all that
sort of stuff and basically had a crack at the
Australian side. And you know the Australian organization for hiding
the injury because they were trying. They were saying something like, oh,
they're trying to boost crowd numbers. No, they're trying to
win a World Cup. Yes, do not tell the other
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team that your best player is carrying an injury. Apparently
the Irish team didn't know. So job well done to
a street exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
And the parallel for mister Richie ed al and I
don't mean someone else called al, I mean and others
that means, yeah, yeah, mister Richie at owl here's the thing.
If New South Wales, say, New South Wales had Nathan
Cleary playing for them in an Origin Decider, and the
day before the Origin Decider he went over on his
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ankle at a closed training session. Nobody outside the team
saw it happen. Nobody outside the team knew it had happened.
Would they then go out and say, oh, yeah, clear,
he's out tomorrow night. No bingo bingo. So we move
on from there. I want to revisit something and I
know that we have periodically on this program ventured into
the world of predictions. Not well, no, no, I have
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a theory about this, and I think we're putting too
much pressure on ourselves.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Do you know why I have that theory? Aj?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Why Because it's the spontaneous ones where we just come
up with something and it happens and we never go
back to relive it.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
But today today I think we have to.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
This is from our show on or about the fourteenth
of June, just before the first Ashes Test start Australia.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
When the Ashes in how many games four four four?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
It will be live going into the fourth Test? Okay,
whether that's two in a draw or two to one.
How many tests are there five, We've went three, two,
five and six. Unless there's a stack of rain, I
don't think there'll be a draw. It's gonna be a
dry summer. Let's hope, let's beat them, grind them like salt.
I will take that. I will take that as a
prediction that it was. It's taken four tests to one
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and a draw, and you can take some of the
stuff there is that there won't be a draw unless
there's a heap of rain, because lo and behold there was.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
And how great is it that there are so.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Many people in the country that invented cricket who claim
to be cricketeas, who've got no bloody clue about the
rules of the game, about the history of the game,
about how things are played. You don't put reserve days
in test cricket if it rains. Is the draw tough?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Something tough? Something? Yeah, I was gonna say tough, and
I'm not allowed to who more to say? The English
cricket team or Piers Morgan.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Oh peers is so well the peers of tears fall
mainly in their beers or something like that. I just
got a pathetic excuse for a news and sports commentator
that man is. I still remember when he decided it
would be a great idea to face up to.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Brett lee In. I didn't know who he was before that.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
We have a brand new sporting competition, well not a
brand new sporting competition, but an expanded sporting competition that
kicked off on the weekend, Adam. It is the National
Rugby League Women's Competition, going from six to ten teams.
And I've got to say I loved it on the weekend.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I didn't just love.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Being in commentary for the Raiders first game, which didn't
go the Raiders way, but it was still a cracking game.
I just loved the whole weekend. I thought it was
fantastic stuff and eminently watchable.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Oh, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I watched the first game
of the round between the Titans and the Cowboys. Cowboys
started really strongly. Emma Mansleman scored a fantastic first ever
try for the Cowboys before the Titans came over the
top of them. But isn't it such a shame that
we don't get here from the players on game day?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
There are people who are blaming the NRL Players Association
for that. No, there are two parties in this, and
there is a party that is still waiting after twenty months.
And I think we've talked about this before for a
collective bargaining agreement that COUP should be covering men and
women twenty months. If you were sitting in your little
dark room next door where you hide at the end
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of the building, and you were waiting for an update
on your pay and work conditions, and you were waiting
twenty months.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
What would you do? What would you do?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I would take a guess that every piece of imaging
on the radio stations that you work for would sound like.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Welcome to fight UFM or something like that. Am I right?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
If you were waiting twenty months for your workplace agreement
to be resolved, you'd take some sort of an.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Action, wouldn't you. I'm a patient man. Twenty months, Yeah,
I'm a patient closer to two years than one year.
It is almost closer to three years, the words of
Robert de Niro and Meet the parents. I'm a patient man.
So you're disappointed that we don't get here from the
players on game day? Yeah, I think it's a real shame,
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especially since we're broadcasting our the first ever Raiders NRLW
home game and our intrepid sideline reporter Sammy Rose won't
be able to speak to a player on air after
the game. I think it's a real shame anyway. Switching
across to the men's competition, to the point we are
getting to the business end, I want one, actually, I
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want three things from you, one at a time.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Who's your premiership favorite? You're gonna laugh potentially, but I reckon.
The Warriors have zoomed into premiership contention.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
No premiership favorite?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Yeah, I'm going to go with the Warriors right now.
They are on a hot streak. They are beating teams left,
right and center. I have them just ahead of Penrith
and Brisbane.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Okay, well I've got Penrith as the favorite. Still, I
still think they're the best team in the competition. And
Nathan clear he's had a bit of arrest. The best
team in the comp doesn't have to doesn't necessarily win it.
I still think they're the favorite. Okay, who's your smoky?
I was so tempted to say the Raiders. I was
I was so tempted to say the Raiders. But I can't.
I can't bring myself to do it. I just I
just think that the September pressure is going to be
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too much. They leak too many points.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
It won't be. It won't be Coronulla. Oh no, no,
I've gone for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yeah, me too.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
From nowhere. They have come from being one of the
worst teams in the known universe about twelve weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
They are spoon contender twelve weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
And now they're in the eight and and and still
climbing in the eight with a bullet.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
So we're on the same page. Well, who's your team
that's going to fall off a cliff. That's a very
good question. There are already one foot that's gone over
the edge.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah, it's got to be the Sharks, hasn't it.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, it's the Sharks. I know.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
They came back thirty. It was thirty nil, wasn't it.
About five minutes into the second half.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
They had a boot off at halftime at Shark Park.
They were now thirty to niil to a Trevoyevitch less
Tommy Travoyevitch less manly side.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I was listening to another radio station's call of that
while I was driving home from our an Row call.
And at halftime, the word was that the Shark's coach
name has sudden break given apparently was out of the
Shark's room after less than a minute. He hardly spent
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any time in the way, He just walked in there
and looked at him and then walked out. Reportedly, Yes,
I don't, I haven't. I keep meaning to dial it
up on the KO replay and just see. But apparently, Yeah,
that was the game of their stuff. They are absolutely cooked.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Well, it's very close for that that seventh and eighth position.
Even six through six through to about about twelve, the
Roosters and the Dolphins are on the same competition points.
Forget about the Dolphins, but I can see Manly or
Newcastle finding a way into the top eight with both
the sh and the Eels missing out. But we'll see
how that all plays out. Have the Raiders done enough
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to hang on to a top eight spot? Yeah, I
think I'll make top four? Really? Yeah? Top four? Yeah,
I think I think they'll finish fourth. And I'm just
going into sports bit and see what that's paid for,
super serious sports show. Well, we just discussed the men's
NROL competition. Let's discuss the AFL Premiership. Favorite I think
it's still Callingwood. I think it's still Callingwood just because
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they're still doing that amazing thing where even if they're
behind at three quarter a time, they can come out
and win games. And the game.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
I don't know whether you saw or whether you dive
back into it, the Collingwood Port game on the weekend
Game of the year. Eleven lead changes five goals in
the last quarter. Every one of them changed the lead.
I have not seen a better game of footy in forever. No.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
I was at a at a party where the NRL
was on, so I missed the prison Bar Cup. But anyway,
apparently it was a wonderful game.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Dig it up, make go to the minimatch. I might
do that, Yeah, I have a look at it. It was.
It was an absolute cracker.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Who's your smoky? You know where I'm going with this,
don't you. Is there a big, big sound.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
There is a big, big sound brewing, mate, and it's
coming from the west of the town, or coming from Canberratown.
It is the sound of the mighty Giants. I'm getting
ready to paint the town orange. It's coming. They are
coming along, just nice and quietly. They've made it into
the top eight now there's seventh. They're half a game
clear of eighth, ninth and tenth a full game clear
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of eleventh. But they are also only two games outside
the top four, and Melbourne have a horrendous draw from here.
From memory, we might have.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
The same answers for all of these. I feel that
is bitterly disappointing. Yeah, because I think the Giants are
the smokies. I agree with you. I think Colin would
certainly the premiership favorites. And Melbourne have got Richmond this week.
Richmond are playing for survival. They are. They are. Before
we get to the teams outside of the eight, who's
going to fall off a cliff?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
They're already falling. It's it's the Bombers. They're dive bombing.
They're gone.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Oh we've got a different team. Oh really? Yeah? Have
you got I see, I didn't rate the Bombers high
enough to begin with to consider it.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
I'm going to mate who for the ages In the
first half of the season, we're saying the mighty flying
Essendon machine, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
He's gone quiet of recent weeks.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Maybe that's because the Giants are now three games, three
positions clear, or four positions clearer.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
They're gonna they're gonna lose to them. They're gonna lose
the Swans this week. You got St Kilda. I wouldn't
argue with that. So currently coming six and they did
win on the weekend. But hey, Siri, show me an
unconvincing victory. Okay, I found this on the web for
show me an unconvincing victory. And look at that. It's
the St. Kilda versus North Melbourne highlights from the weekend.
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I didn't realize my phone was still on. That's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Oh well, where were we before my phone so rudely
interrupted us?
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Umm, Saint Kilda. Yeah, yeah, they're a mess yep. West
Coast versus North Melbourne. I just thought of this. Oh
you got oh jeez, spoon bowl.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
No, I've got North West Coast, West Coast and I
know West Coast beat the Giants Perth early in the season.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I know it's in Perth.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
North North are North are still horrendous Okay, don't get
me wrong, but they're.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Getting close in yet they're close in their games. West
Coast games are over by quarter time, except except for
the one they played against Sint Kilda.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yeah, and the one they went against the Giants earlier
in the season. And it would be hilarious if the
Giants were to somehow fluke the flag this year, that
they would be the team that wins the flag while
losing to one of the worst sides in the history
of the AFL slash VFL, going all the way back
to eighteen ninety seven.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
That would be funny. West Coast might set a record
for the amount of retired players at this season.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I'd be several. I know there is a Twitter feed.
I can't remember the of it now. I know there's
someone on Twitter who regularly publishes how many games of
experience are out for each AFL team each week.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
The Eagles are missing it. Hey, they're missing plenty. But
they've also got too many older players on their roster
who were injury prime and what's happened this year? Hang on,
they all got injured. That's right.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
It is time, Adam for another super serious sports show. Serious. First,
we're actually going to go into a book. You gave
me this idea when you launched that thing you've brought
over there.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
It's a book. I'm a published author.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
You gave me the idea when you launched that thing
over there that you call the book a Feuds.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Chris Colemans Book of Feuds. You know, I leave this
sitting on my desk and people come in and some
people don't understand it's for a radio show, and they
don't know that you know about it, so they're just
expecting that. They think it's that I'm taking the out
of you.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Tell them, Tell them, I don't know anything about it. Okay, anyway,
this has arrived. As I hold it up to the camera,
Remarkable Rugby Grounds by Ryan Herman. It's from HarperCollins, and
I think, what do you call that a coffee table book?
I think it is a coffee tip. Yeah, that's a
coffee table and Remarkable Rugby a Hones and that is
what it is. I don't I don't know what you
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think of the one on the front cover, but that
rugby ground out on a peninsula out over the ocean.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Not the one I would have picked for the front cover.
I like it, you know.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
It's what it shows is the depth and the spread
of rugby around the world.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
It doesn't have to be rugby.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Some of them are more associated with rugby league. Some
of them are let's say you might say soccer there
a little bit more often. Most of them are most
of them are rugby. It includes it includes Amy Park
in Melbourne. It includes ACU Stadium in Sydney, which is
in a few years time, when it is no longer
acuas Stadium, it's something else, they'll have to move it
further down in the book. But it does also include
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the Park the Prince in Paris, the Rugby School in Warwickshire,
which is of course where it all began.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
And they're all illustrated with photographs. And could you list
every ground stadium, park that you've been to to watch
a professional So I'm talking, I'm talking elite level, so
international rugby, International Rugby League, NRL, Super Rugby AFL.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Could you list every ground you've been to, Jeezy to
take a while, I can really how long is the list?
It's not that long?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Okay, Well you do your list and I won't even
start mine. So Cambra stadiums Las Geo Stadium, Manka Oval,
so the Raiders and the Warriors at that Sea for Oval,
the old Sydney Football Stadium so not the new one,
the is it our Course Stadium Australia Stadium, Australia Course Stadium.
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It's the World Cup at the moment, so it's Stadium Australia,
sun Corps Stadium at sun Course Stadium. Some I saw
the entire first day Cogra and I recently during our
little break, I recently added whatever metri con up on
the gold coasters called these days because I went to
the Suns. What's my first AFL game? I went to
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the Suns and killed the game. Not this weekend just gone,
but the weekend before. I loved it. That that stadium's awesome.
But do you know my favorite stadium that I've been to?
Out of all those ones I've just listed, this will
blow your mind, which one of your reckons my favorite
I have? I couldn't tell you couldn't our sun Corp.
Oh no, no bad memories? Okay, yeah, okay, really I
(19:34):
loved it. I loved the I know some people are
really into like the big stadiums. I love the suburban stadium.
You park on the streets, you go in there and
it's it's got character. So you know, there's the big
grand stand, then there's like this other sort of cheap seats.
There's like the old school sort of kiosk gap on
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the hill that you can see in the background when
you're when you're watching games on TV. So I went
to a Saturday afternoon game between the Gold Coast Titans
and the Saint George lawar A Dragons. Can't remember who won.
No Jared Haynes played, but yeah, that was my So
only went there once, but I loved it. I thought
it was amazing.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Back to this book, which does also have a tremendous
feed stadium that's not remarkable, not remarkable enough, but it's
part of a series remarkable football grounds, remarkable golf courses,
remarkable cricket grounds.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
I've got to get my hands on that one. I've
been to the SCG, so that's my favorite. But it
wasn't for football. I went for cricket.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
But I have and I'm going to show you a
picture here. This is a picture I made I took
when I went to Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. This
is from the top of the upper deck behind home plate.
How stunning is that view?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
That's pretty pretty.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
That is stunning. The best part about Dodger Stadium, and
this is the travelogue bit of the program, Okay, if
you are ever lucky enough to go to the Los
Angeles to the Legislative and you've not been there before.
When you go, ignore what your ticket says to enter. Okay,
you do not want to enter via any of the
outfield gates the first time you go there. You want
to walk in behind home plate, into the main grand stand,
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go up the stairs, and you go up a set
of stairs, and suddenly you walk out and there opening
up below you is the field of dreams. Because the
ground has been built into the side of a mountain.
So you walk in and suddenly there is the ground
below you. It is unbelievable. It's not like any other
ground where you might, like say, any major stating, where
you go up and up and up the stairs or
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up with the ramps or whatever, and then you go
in and you expect the ground to be there below you. Here,
you walk in, you go up one flight of stairs,
and there's the ground. I cannot recommend it enough of
And I know I'm a Dodgers fan, and you might
say I'm biased, but I've been to a lot of
sporting grounds in a lot of places, and I will
share this view on Twitter. You more than welcome too.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
That's your favorite? That is about my far.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I've got two or three shots of the same view
and I can't decurb them, decide which one is my
favorite one.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Which is the worst ground you've been to?
Speaker 2 (21:57):
The worst ground I went to is probably the old
Wimbledon foot ground at plow Lane.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
It was just, you.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Know, and this was before we would have made it
to the top flight and then plummeted to non league
and then moved to Milton Keynes.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
It just wasn't It wasn't unpleasant.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
No, maybe colored by the fact that I was nine
or ten years old and Wimbledon were playing Millwall. And look,
if you've ever heard about Millwall fans, everything you have
heard is true.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I haven't heard anything. But what's the book called?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
So it is remarkable. Rugby Grounds is one of a
series of shots of sporting grounds from around the world
by Ryan Herman, and it is recently released via HarperCollins.
As much as it disgusts me having just spoken about
a very nice book, a genuine book, a legitimate book
that is really published and something you can buy online
or in a newsagent or bookstore.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Chris Commen's book A Few's is available for purchase.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
You're using my name on it. Therefore, if you're selling
copies of that there, it needs to be a right agreement.
And I have not signed anything. So that book is
not available for purchase. I don't care what you say.
Do you want to sign it and I'll sellson signed.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Copies if there's a cuttinet I'm I don't because I've
stuck the pages in. I don't quite know how to
how to reprint it.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
That's the thing is, it is a pretty average book
in terms of how it looks.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
For new listeners of our show. About two months ago,
I wrote a book called Chris Coleman's Book.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
A few you plagiarized things that I've said on the radio,
compiled them and put them in a book and called yourself, Now, these.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Don't have the things that you said. This has information
about the people that you spoke of. All right, okay,
And so you've got some new entries, have you, Yeah? Yeah,
So so we you're going to end up in the books.
So adding adding to the state of Florida, the Carlton
Football Club, the San Francisco Giants, I deserve it, the
Arstonal Football Club and David Warner. He deserves it. The
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newest entry. I nearly put this in the first time.
Okay Nelson, a soft of Solomona from the Melbourne Storm,
he deserves it. A New Zealand professional rugby league footballer
who plays for the Men Storm in the NRL and
New Zealand at international level. A sopha Solomona won the
twenty seventeen NRL Grand Final and the twenty twenty NRL
Grand Final with Melbourne. Big Nels has been penalized or
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charged on numerous occasions for the use of elbows and
forearms during play. Is that why you're not a fan?
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Well, I'm not a fan because he hasn't been penalized
enough for it.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Because he still does it. He broke or he knocked
teeth out of Wade Egan's mouth in a game last
year and nothing happens, and that was after the one
on Joseph Sulii. I think either I think the same
season with the same move, the one where he just
drops on dooor it's not.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I will say this is actually probably not quite fair
to put nass in there, because it's more the NRL
leading with the elbow tackle officiating. But anyway, move on,
you've got another one? I assume how many have we
got here?
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Well? You notice I brought a beer in? Oh good god? Yeah,
all right. Remember the other night after the raiders came,
how I offered you a beer and then you went
to the fridge to get yourself a beer and you
had two choices. Yeah, one of them was four x one,
one was four x gold and the other one was
caple brewing summer day. Oh you did not hesitate the
slightest and you went for the summit most right, thinking
(25:17):
people would do the same. Anyway, I'm going to celebrate
this entry by a by enjoying my four X goal is.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Cracked up on a four x gold in the studio?
Love it?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Can I read you the thing on the inside the cap?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Can we do the show live next week? I've got
Wednesday off work next week? Maybe we could do a
live Wednesday night edition of the Super Serious Portshow That fright?
Speaker 1 (25:38):
The question on the underneath the bottle cap? A couber
hats are made from the treated fur of which animal rabbit? Yes? Correct?
Hold done. Four X pronounced four x is a brand
of Australian beer brewed in Milton, Brisbane by Queensland Brewers
Castlemaine Perkins, now a division of the Japanese owned Lion.
It enjoys wide popularity in the state of queen Land,
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where it is commonly found on tap in pubs and bars.
Why don't you like four X I just don't like it.
It's awful stuff because it's not because you associate with
like the Queensland. Don't like the taste of it. It's awful.
It's awful. Tastell right to me. It's mid strength, it's
full flavored lager. Sure, you know there's like heaps of
four x's too. There's not just like four X gold.
(26:21):
There's like four X bright Laga. There's like a summer
one and it might be the same one, but there's
a there's a whole stack of it.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
They say full flavored. Okay, what's the flavor? What flavor
is it full of?
Speaker 1 (26:31):
That's the question? Next next one, I have to go
to Twitter. This is the reason we're doing this segment
this week. Some of this is not safe to read
on the radio. Flow grating ten out of ten. Quite surprising.
Old mate Peers manages to tweet so much twaddle because
he seems to have and I can't read the rest.
(26:54):
That was after you shared a tweet of Peers planning
about the Australian side, saying how there's never been a
less deserved retention of the Ashes. Piers Morgan was an
English broadcaster, journalist, writer, television personality, lover of the English
cricket team and hater of the Australian side. During the
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twenty twenty three Ashes series. Peers has blown up to
lux after the stumping dismissal of Johnny Bearsto on the
second Test and the rain effected draw in the fourth
Test which resulted in Australia retaining the Ashes. I don't
need to ask you why you don't like Peers Morgan.
I think we covered that earlier in the program ten
out of ten flog graded.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Flowed grading ten out of ten, it's right up there.
And in twenty thirteen when England retained the Ashes due
to a match being washed out when they were chasing
about three hundred and ten for victory in with three.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
STA series where Stuart broad nicked it to first slip,
good will be yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
But at the end of that twenty thirteen match where
rain came in, who was one of the happiest tweeters
of all the English millions of people one Piers Morgan.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Oh, he's in the Book of Feuds now and.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Yeah, I'm sure he'll be thrilled to hear that too,
if he hasn't blocked me on Twitter yet. Anyway, AJ,
we need to move on. No predictions anymore. We're sticking
that in the bin because we've landed enough in the
casual space without debating a segment to it anymore. So
the get rich Quick scheme has come to an end.
Adam Jance and catch up with you on the Weekend's
got some for x a Rugby League doubleheader and next
week for another edition of the Super Serious Bords Show.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
I can't wait, which we should be doing live on
Wednesday night. We should, We should just make bedtime. Amplify
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