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Speaker 2 (00:01):
Welcome to the Inca here in podcast.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (00:25):
Welcome back to episode four of the
Incoherent Podcast.
I'm back with Hoover this week.
Zach is still away out in themiddle of the bum fuck, and
doesn't wanna go find receptionto talk to us.
We reckon.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-202 (00:39):
As he's out there doing something,
but yeah.
Really, Izzy.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (00:43):
He rang me before he's like middle of the
day.
'cause I come home from nightshift this morning and I've on
my phone going through stuff,winding down from work, trying
to go to sleep, and just laiddown.
Just started to frigging dozeoff.
And Zach rings me

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (01:00):
Yeah,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:01):
I'm like, what do you want?
And he goes, oh, you are workingthis weekend now?
I like, no, I just got home fromnight shift.
And he's like, oh, I didn't meanto.
I'm like, you do it every time,like, oh.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (01:13):
when I used to do night shift, you
guarantee it.
Like you'd tell people I'm onnight shift.
Yeah.
I'm gonna lay down boom.
Phone rings.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:20):
Yeah, no, it's freaking horrible.
So I've had two hours sleeptoday and we're doing this and,
'cause we're doing it on aWednesday and I've gotta get the
out tomorrow, I've gotta gothrough and edit it and I'll
probably be very tired by thetime I go to bed.
And then on top of that we,I've, I'd push first to do a
bonus episode for the GrandFinal on Friday, which I've
gotta do the exact same thing ofget it.

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I've gotta record it and try toedit it and get it out like ASAP
so that it's out beforeSaturday, Sunday.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (01:49):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:50):
if you're listening, there'll be a bonus
episode on either Friday night,Saturday morning for the NRL
Grand final.
so we won't cover off the grandfinal in this one.
Hopefully Zach will be back forit.
you might still be working, butwe'll work it out between now
and then anyway, so we can justdo it.
It'll be fine.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (02:09):
we'll

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (02:09):
Yeah.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (02:10):
and work something out.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (02:11):
But other than that, considering I was on,
day shift all weekend, Iactually gotta watch all the
prelim games.
I was on day shift on Friday, soI got the storm game against the
sharks.
I gotta watch all of that livethe Broncos Panthers one.
I knew the score when I gothome.
and I'll mention that before,'cause I think when I've gone

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back through and watched it,I've been a bit more aware of
what was going on and didn't getthe actual reaction of what the
game was.
So, and I also got to fit inwatching the A FL Grand final.
Did you watch any of the a FflGrand Final?

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (02:48):
no, I only, I only caught the
highlights of the A FL GrandFinal, but, yeah, it was pretty
good.
They, they were they from thehighlights and that.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (02:56):
Yeah, well lines go back to back.
which is a fair achievement for'em really.
But pretty simple., It was alllocked up at half time, bit
backwards and forwards, just aclose game.
And then the end of that thirdquarter, Brisbane just kicked
away and, got momentum and therewas just no coming back from it.

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They were just kicking goals forfun by the end of it.
And, the final score shows that,'cause I'm pretty sure it was 56
all at half time or somethingaround about there, and then
ended up 122 to 75.
So yeah, pretty convincing windby the lines and that's, that's

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exactly why I like to go andwatch these games.
It doesn't matter what sort offinal it is.
If it's a final, I'll watch it.
'cause generally they'll be thebest teams, or at least one of
them will be the best team andyou'll probably get the best
display of that sport at the endof the day, unless you're, you
know, manly in 2008 where theyjust flogged the storm, which is

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a bit different.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (04:00):
Yeah,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (04:01):
but I miss that game.
I've never watched that game.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (04:05):
man.
Storm game.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (04:07):
Yeah.
It was when I was in the Armyand we were doing exercise in
Townsville and I couldn't watchit.
And we, we drove up there andI've just never, never rewatched
it.
It was bit of a shame.
Steve Menzies last game.
He, he was one of Menzies.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (04:23):
Still one of the best.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (04:25):
Yeah, I'm surprised he's not still
playing, to be honest.
He went for ages.
I think he was about 46 when heretired from the English Super
League., He full career in theEnglish Super League after he
had a full career.
Like it's crazy.
Absolutely crazy.
And

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (04:41):
Oh, if he could strap on the boots,
I reckon he'd still go have a

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (04:44):
oh,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_1 (04:44):
somewhere.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (04:46):
probably I did, notice.
in the a FL there's a lot ofolder players that were playing
in that, in those teams too, andlooking at, still playing on, I
think Dangerfield's frigging 36,37 or something.
And they're like, oh, hopefullyyou can keep it up.
And I'm like, shouldn't he bethinking about retirement?
Like, I dunno.
Maybe it's just because wewatch.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2025 (05:06):
I don't know how they do it.
Like they run like 10 Ks a game,just constantly just running.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (05:14):
Yeah, well, I remember I played one
game of a FL at school and Ihated it.
I just kept getting blindsided.
I'd get the ball and then justget smashed from it.
I'm like, nah, I don't like itbecause I could kick a ball.
I just needed time to do it.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (05:27):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (05:28):
But,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-202 (05:29):
I, I think they'll setting you up.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (05:31):
oh, I know that they were, but, that's all
I'm game enough to talk about aFLI don't know enough about
A-F-L-I-I, I don't mind watchingthe games.
I, I do like watching'em everynow and then when they're on and
there's nothing else on, I'll,I'll flick it on every now and
then.
Doesn't really, it's good andfast paced.
Like it's not, it's not theworst sport in the world, so.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (05:52):
and some of those marks, they take,
they get

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (05:55):
it's unbelievable.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-0 (05:56):
there,, they get ax sometimes coming
down as well.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (05:59):
Yeah, I think I've seen through the week
that Fri Justin Holbrooksbrought a frigging a FL catching
coach in for the ninth.
So hopefully Greg Margio ispaying very close attention

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (06:10):
Yeah,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (06:11):
he's great when he can catch the ball.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (06:13):
Yeah,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (06:13):
When he doesn't catch the ball is not so
great.
But

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10 (06:16):
Sometimes he's got hands and feet.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (06:18):
yeah, ball handling skills of a lesbian,
oh, can we put that in here?
I think we can.
I think it'll be fine.
Sorry, lesbians.
I'm a big fan.
I used to have posters up when Iwas a kid.
Still do.
but we move on to, we'll all dothe prelim, sharks storm.
And honestly, I can't say thestorm done it easy, but they

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didn't do it difficult, unlikethe other game where it was a
little bit tighter.
They did do it easier than whatthe Broncos did over the
Panthers, but we'll get to thatgame and why that was,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-202 (06:57):
I, I only caught highlights of it
'cause I was at, one of ourmate's Grand Final Soccer Grand
Final that night.
So I was watching highlightsduring the, during the game.
they just said, monster and allthat.
Just kicked in, controlled thegame a bit.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (07:14):
Jerome Hughes, considering it was only
what, 22 days before and hebroke his arm.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (07:19):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (07:20):
went, he went ballistic.
Like he just ran the ball wasn'thiding from anything.
I think I was listening to Blokein a Bar podcast at work last
night, and, they went throughthe, the defensive stats and he
had very minimal tacklescompared to, his center, his
second row.
I think they've done very, verywell with it.

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And yeah,, it was a good game.
The Sharks goal line defense wasunbelievable, but it was just
the, I feel like it was thesecond phase play was just
better from the storm andthey'll just throwing the right
passes to get through the lineand to create those
opportunities where when theSharks did create second phase

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play, it was they were lost anddidn't know what to do.
But at the, at the same time.
As soon as Jaden Braley hadcreate a bit of, speed from the
rock and start pushing forwardand they'd gain a little bit of
momentum.
They'd get all the way up theother end of the field and
they'd give away a penalty ordrop the ball or something
stupid had happened and it'dtransfer the, the momentum back
to, to the storm.

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And I think, I think that'swhere it was pretty much won,
was just sharks mistakes.
It was a lot closer game thanwhat it seemed, than what the
final score line would have youthink?

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-202 (08:40):
it was the pressure, the pressure

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (08:42):
nah, I don't think it was pressure.
I think, I think it was justmistakes.
Like it was a lot closer thanwhat the, the score line turned
it out to be.
Like the storm were just puttingchip kicks in behind the, the
defensive line and, catchingKennedy out of position.
I think I've seen before thatthe Sharks might be actually

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looking for another fullback.
they're not gonna stick withKennedy, and I don't necessarily
know if that's the correct wayto do it, because Kennedy's a
pretty decent player.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (09:17):
Bad or

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (09:18):
No, I think it's just that, you know,
credit to fact Craig Fitzgibbonthough, he, he's got'em, he's
got the team where he wantsthem, so, you know, it's, it's
not gonna take much.
And I've said since the start ofthe podcast, doing it, when I've
been talking to you and Zach,all eight of those teams could

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have won on their day.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01 (09:40):
That's exactly right.
Any, any team can win.
It's just if you get the roll ofthe dice and

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (09:45):
Yeah,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (09:46):
goes to plan

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (09:47):
yeah,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (09:47):
doing it.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (09:48):
yeah.
But it hasn't, it hasn'tactually been.
That way for a very long time.
Like this season's just, it'sjust this season you, some teams
you just can't split.
They play a little bitdifferently.
I will say that Josh Kingabsolutely rocked Rudolph

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (10:03):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (10:03):
one of the tackles at the start of the
game.
When he went off that HIA, hewas rocked.
He was just out of it.
So yeah, I, I did notice thoughthat Harry Grant is horrible for
taking a dive.
If anyone even breaths on him ashe runs past him, he is diving
the other way to try and call apenalty and it is so, so

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noticeable.
And I just wish he'd take thatoutta his game'cause he is such
a good player.
Instead of trying to draw thosepenalties all the time in that
way,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (10:35):
Well, that's the thing.
Weren't, weren't they talkingabout like the yellow card?
Bringing in the yellow card for,for shit like that.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (10:42):
I think, I think there was talk about it a
while ago maybe.
'cause they do, they do the redand yellow card in the super
league, like yellow cards turnoff and a red card's a send off.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (10:54):
off?
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (10:55):
But I think that's just so the
English, understand the severityof it or something.
Maybe.
I, I don't think you need thecards.
I don't, I don't think you needthat.
I think you do need to stomp itout.
But, the, you can, you canfreaking tell when someone's

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died.
You just look at the replay andif they get sit there and go,
well he hasn't touched him or heis frigging, he's put it on to
make it look worse than what itis, And the one thing that did
shit me over the weekend, and ithappened a few times was strips
not getting called because therewas no stripping action.
But you could clearly see thatthe player was hanging off the

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ball.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01 (11:36):
that's right.
Hand hand on the ball

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (11:39):
Look, they didn't pull at it.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (11:41):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (11:41):
pull at it, but it came out, and I don't
know, maybe that's just a mething.
'cause I've been in thatsituation where they've stuck
the hand up under me friggingarmpit.
I've gone to play the ball, andwhen I've pulled my arm away
from theirs, the ball's come outbecause you can't, there's
nothing you can do about it.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-0 (11:59):
That's, that's

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (12:00):
Like,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-202 (12:00):
If they, if they've got the hand on
the ball and you pull the

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (12:03):
yeah.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (12:04):
hand away and lose control, they're,
they're

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (12:07):
Yeah,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (12:07):
it, I lost control,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (12:09):
yeah,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01 (12:10):
player holding onto the ball on you.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (12:12):
yeah.
And I, did you, did you see thetry with frigging, who was it
when Fri Pap come over the topwith the head high and it was
going over the line?
I, I know what I believe, but.
Do you think that was a penalty?
Try.
'cause a lot of people believethat should have been given a
penalty.

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Try

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01 (12:34):
There, there was a lot of talk about
that, being a penalty tribe, butI, I dunno really.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (12:43):
if he goes over the line and plants that
ball and pap and he hasn't hitshim around the neck.
I don't think anything happens.
But he got the penalty.
But in reality that's supposedto be a possible eight point try
because it was failed, playedduring a put down if he had
scored it.

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But they wouldn't have awardedit that way.
But do you want to give it apenalty?
Try I, I'm happy either.
Either way.
Do I think that he would'vescored if Pap didn't hit him in
the throat?
Well, that's the only reason Papwas up that high was the cover
of the ball.
But I think, I think there wastoo many variables to say that
he would've definitely scored.

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Because Munster was there.
So he would've, he could'vepositioned better.
I don't, I don't think he couldgive it as a penalty try.
I, I don't, I don't think so.
And then there was the other,there was the other, big, big
frigging one that split a lot ofpeople, the head clash with

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Trindle rushing up out of thelion and hitting Jerome Hughes.
I, when I was watching it, andit was mainly because I was
backing the Sharks'cause that'swhat our, our podcast BET slip
was, was you picked the sharks.
So we had to support the shark.
And I was sitting there, I'mthat's a head clash.

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how can you penalize that?
But then I got up the nextmorning, let it settle down, and
I was just going flick throughFacebook and someone said that
it was just like a duty of caretype thing where he, he s thrown
himself at him like that withoutany.
Sort of, respect towards him.
And I'm no, that actually, thatmakes sense.
I can understand given a penaltyfor that.
'cause he has, he's gone incarelessly, like, and it's

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caused the head clash whether hehit his shoulder or not.
Anyway, he's, he's put in, he'sgone in carelessly to cause it
to begin with.
So I kind of, I, I can cop that,I can cop that penalty from that

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (14:42):
That that's what, that's, that,
that's what most of these, thepenalties for the head knocks
and the shoulder and all that,that's what it is now.
It's, it's a duty of care that

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (14:51):
Yeah.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (14:51):
out on the play.
The, the, the players aren'tmeaning to hit it with a
shoulder, most of them you'llsee, like they'll hit shoulder
to shoulder and then theshoulder will come up.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (15:02):
Yeah,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-0 (15:02):
Nelson, which you stand above everyone,
everyone comes up to your bellybutton on him.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (15:08):
Yeah.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (15:09):
And even, even like some of the
players that are falling andhitting shoulders, yeah, they're
not really a penalty, but yeah,it's a duty of care

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (15:18):
Yeah, I think, I think the duty of care
he rushed up to try and make animpact and he's got it wrong.
I, yeah.
But, um, the other thing thatreally pissed me off, so I've
obviously was very upset by theWalsh penalty in the Canberra
game'cause he kicked him when heran across in front of him.

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He didn't attack his legs oranything like that.
Shouldn't have been a penalty OnFriday.
Jerome Hughes got taken out atleast three times and absolutely
flattened after he kicked theball with the exact same
referee, nothing called.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01 (15:55):
that's right.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (15:57):
And Ashley Klein was very quick to frigging
wave his arms and say, play on,play on, play on.
you gotta, you gotta haveconsistency.
That is the most inconsistentthing.
And then you're a Canberra tosupport us in there going,
shouldn't that be a penalty?
That should been threepenalties.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (16:12):
well, well, you look, got tackled,
kicking the ball.
What did, what did, um, Brisbanedo to Cleary on the weekend?

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (16:21):
Yeah.
The exact same thing.
The exact same thing, but

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-202 (16:25):
in it, it didn't attack the leg,
but he was in the air

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (16:28):
yeah.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-0 (16:28):
kicking it.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (16:29):
No, no, no.
But in the same thing though, itwas like so clear, that clear,
he punched him with a closedfist and he didn't get sent
either.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (16:36):
Yeah, yeah,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (16:39):
I understand that it's a finals
game.
I understand that people want itto flow, but there are rules.
You can't just ignore rules tomake it look better.
You've still gotta follow therules because then you end up in
the result of, something doesn'tgo the way of that other team.
that's how you win games.
That's, that's what, that's,that's sport.
You can't just ignore it so itlooks better, and it's a closer

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game.
It's not how sport works.
If someone makes a mistake, theyget penalized for it.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (17:05):
yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (17:05):
So

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-202 (17:06):
it interesting as well, but

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (17:07):
I know that you've gotta keep it
interesting.
I'm, I'm glad Ashley Klein's notthe frigging referee this
weekend because I, I get sick ofwatching him.
He's probably the only refereewhere I actually notice that the
referee's on the field becausehe makes it all about him.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-202 (17:20):
It

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (17:21):
I don't, the other ones, I,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (17:22):
about that.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (17:23):
okay,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (17:24):
There was big talk about that, about
him being the ref.
I heard so I heard peopleputting out a petition and
putting money and putting moneyout to, to not let him ref.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (17:36):
maybe that's what we should do.
We'll just do this podcast.
We'll get a big following andthen we'll just put our petition
so that we can pick our ownofficials for games and just
across all sport.
We'll do that.
That'll be our, that'll be ourthing.
Sign up for this petition.
Uh, who am I kidding?
I can't even get anyone tofollow a Facebook page or send
us in any questions.
I've been trying, been trying befrigging artists, so, but.

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You know, this is only gonna getbetter.
I, I've, I, I said to youbefore, I've been listening to
other stuff and getting sometips and stuff, and trying to
improve everything for all ofour listeners as well.
not just for us, but to make itall easier on us and stuff like
that.
So,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (18:16):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (18:16):
know, we've all got work and stuff me
and you only catch up on thisreally.
So me and Zach talk nearly everyday.
But, that's just what we do.
We usually sit there and watchsomething.
We'll be sitting there watchingthe footy or something, and just
talking to each other, likewe're sitting in the same room.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (18:33):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (18:33):
how we communicate.
So, yeah.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (18:36):
the thing

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (18:36):
But,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (18:37):
got, I've gone from doing normal
shifts to doing extra four hoursa day

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (18:43):
mm,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (18:43):
the, for the next week and a half
now,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (18:46):
yeah,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (18:47):
but it's

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (18:48):
it'll still work out.
We can work it around it.
So mine's, mine's back andforth.
That's why we're doing it on aWednesday.
And then next week we'll do iton a Tuesday, which, it'll be
good because it'll be a lotfresher off the grand final.
But I'm also coming home,straight home from work, so you
are probably gonna, well, we'llprobably get home about the same
time really if you got home whenyou did.

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So

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (19:09):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (19:10):
should go nice and smooth next week.
So hopefully Zach's at leastback for that one.
But, he is got his own businessand everything and he, he needs
to work, otherwise he doesn'thave money.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (19:21):
he'll be the odd one out.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (19:23):
He'd be the other one.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (19:24):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (19:26):
It's all weird.
It just sucks.
'cause he's like super keenabout doing this and stuff
before, he rang me to tell methat he might not be able to
make Friday and he's stillputting down stuff.
And we just started talking andit's just like we always do
where we sit there and we juststart analyzing shit and talking
about shit.
And I'm like, this is the shitwe need on the podcast.
And it's like, can't you justdrive a couple of hours up the
road and find somewhere withreception?
He goes, if I do that, I'llmight as well go home.

(19:47):
I'm like, let's go home for thenight.
Fuck it.
But congratulations to the stormthough.
They've, they've done prettywell to make back, back, back to
back grand finals.
It's not, I know that it seemslike they're in the grand final
all the time, but they're, youknow, they're, they're a, well,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2025 (20:03):
a reason.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (20:04):
they're a well coached team.
When you, when you go throughlike, it is crazy that Craig
Bellamy has coached for 20seasons and he's made 11 grand
finals outta those seasons.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (20:13):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (20:14):
1919 final series.
The only final series that hehas missed in his coaching
career is the one where theycouldn't gain points.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (20:23):
Yeah,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (20:23):
And I'm pretty sure when you go back and
look at that, they would'vefinished top four if they were
able to accumulate points.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (20:29):
yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (20:29):
Although at least in the eight

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (20:31):
they, they are a big side, teams know
when they're playing againstthem.
It's not gonna be just a

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (20:36):
No,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (20:36):
walk over.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (20:38):
I'd, I'd almost argue that they're like,
Penrith, Penrith have been goodfor the la they've been the, the
team to catch for the lastcouple of, the last five years,
six years.
But Melbourne are still alwaysjust there.
And that's what you judge offonce the, once the team starts
playing, well, you wait tillthey play Melbourne to see where
they're actually at.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (20:57):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (20:58):
your, that's your gauge.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (20:59):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (20:59):
I just wanted to, you know, point out
how good of a job CraigBellamy's done and.
He's done an unbelievable thingwith that team and the day that
he retires.
I'm gonna be fascinated to seehow Melbourne tried to maintain
that sort of same thing withoutfalling away, because they've
just been so consistent for solong.

(21:20):
do you even remember the, thestorm teams before Craig
Bellamy, other than the grandfinal game

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (21:26):
Nah,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (21:26):
in 99,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (21:28):
Nah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (21:28):
they could barely make the eighth and then
he just goes down there and it'sbang,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (21:33):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (21:34):
just clicks with him.
So that's that.
when, when it comes to coachesand stuff Magic McGuire, the
Tigers wanted him out'cause hewas no good.
And first season with theBroncos takes into a grand final
mine.
You, he is probably better atcoaching good teams or having a
little bit more control thanwhat the Tigers gave him.
But that's another, that'sanother whole thing.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (21:55):
He'll get Coach of the Year this year.
I reckon.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (21:57):
Yeah.
Coach of the year.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (21:59):
Yeah,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (22:00):
See, that's the weird thing.
Ivan Cleary has only got onecoach of the year and one five
premierships in a row.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01 (22:07):
that's right.
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (22:09):
it's, it's a bit of a weird thing.
And if you, if you ask me, Idon't like the whole DEM system
anyway.
I, I don't like it at allbecause they get, they used to
get their frigging three, twoones or whatever it was, but now
they get six points and stufflike that to try and even it up.
But not every single player onthat field gets points.

(22:29):
I believe.
If you want to have the bestplayer, every single player on
the team needs to get a rating.
And then, you, you divvy yourpoints up that way.
And that's how you get a trueindication from each game
because you've got the way thatit's set up now that you could
have a team full of superstars.
That steal points off each othereach week where you could be

(22:52):
coming last, the nights and ifsay PGA goes out and has a
blinder, he's the best player onthe field for the nights every
week, but they get flogged,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (23:02):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (23:03):
he can win the DA end

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (23:04):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (23:04):
because he accumulated all the points from
those games.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (23:08):
Like when he stole it off, Sean
Johnson,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (23:10):
Yeah, yeah.
No, I, I would agree with it.
I would agree with it.
Plus, that's, that's how you getlike these turbos and all that.
They come in, they play minimalgames.
They just get max points whenthey come back, they're playing
well, but you've still gottaaccount for those other players.
That have played the wholeseason and put in, more of that
effort.
Like it sounds cool on paper,but I don't like the, I don't

(23:33):
like the way the DM system's setup.
The players awards are more ofan indication.
And me and Zach had an argumentabout this the other day because
Mark Alphabet, mark,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (23:46):
Yep.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (23:47):
which everyone's calling him, it's not
just me.
I've heard other people say,that's the only reason I'm
saying it.
'cause I know I can't say hisname and I don't wanna be
disrespectful and I hope he getspicked on the, on the wing for
Australia, despite going back torugby.
Like if you're the best player,you should get picked.
I'd be happy for him to pick himFor Origin,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01 (24:04):
That's the thing you got, you gotta
pick the best players, like,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (24:07):
Yeah, it, I think he's earned it and he's
already said he's put his handup to play for Fiji if he
doesn't get selected.
But I, I'd be selecting him.
He's been the best winger byfar,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (24:18):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (24:20):
Or maybe not far.
That's probably a bit steep,but,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (24:24):
He,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (24:24):
you know.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_1 (24:25):
definitely up there.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (24:26):
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'd, i'd, I'd pick him.
That's just, that's just mythoughts anyway.
so did you watch the BroncosPanthers game live?

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2025 (24:36):
I did watch it live.
Yes.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (24:38):
Yeah.
So my, I didn't watch it live.
I watched the last five minuteslive because I went the whole
day, the whole thing went up tothe top of the thing, went me,
put my boots and everything inthe car, put me bag in there,
walked back to sign off, andsomeone standing there watching
the game and told me what thescore was.
I fuck.
So.

(24:59):
I, I hate watching games if Iknow the score,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (25:02):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (25:03):
because I already know what the outcome's
gonna be, and I don't reallyneed to.
And because of the way that Iwatch footy where I break
everything down, it just makesit worse because I'm trying to
work out how they lost or wherethey could have improved rather
than looking at the game forwhat it is.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (25:20):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (25:20):
in, in saying that, that first try, do
you reckon it was a drop ball?

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (25:26):
Look in fast play, no replay I've
seen.
The replay.
Yes.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (25:32):
Yeah.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (25:32):
it.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (25:33):
I reckon he dropped it.
Eh?

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-0 (25:34):
bounced it.
Yeah, he definitely

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (25:36):
Yeah.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (25:36):
it.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (25:37):
Yeah.
I, I, I think he dropped thatball.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (25:40):
But, but the thing is right, you,
looks different in Slowmo.
Once you slow everything down,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (25:48):
Yeah,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (25:48):
looks different.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (25:49):
Yeah, I, I actually think that shouldn't
have been awarded.
I reckon, I think that was aclear drop and shouldn't have
been awarded

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2025 (25:58):
I

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (25:58):
to be

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (25:59):
is, he is a freak.
But like

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (26:02):
Alimo.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (26:03):
yeah, weren't easy tries.
He was still

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (26:06):
No,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-0 (26:07):
meters.
He out to

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (26:08):
no.
He is an unbelievable player,man.
And it got pointed out to methat Fri Ivan Cleary relies on
him.
he must absolutely love him.
And he's a very good player,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (26:19):
Well

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (26:19):
like

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-202 (26:19):
he was out for weeks and then

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (26:22):
Yeah,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (26:22):
just comes back into the team and
then just lets loose Caught the

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (26:26):
yeah,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01 (26:27):
trick.
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (26:28):
yeah, yeah.
He, and it, he is not a badreplacement for Critter

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (26:35):
Yeah,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (26:35):
'cause he is sort of a similar sort of
player.
They've, they've just traded alike for like, I wouldn't even
go as far as saying critter'sbetter.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (26:43):
yeah.
Well,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (26:45):
I reckon, I reckon they're pretty even to
be, to be fair, I couldn't split'em.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (26:51):
Yeah.
They both got their cons.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (26:53):
Yeah,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (26:53):
sure do.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (26:55):
yeah,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-202 (26:56):
I, I reckon.
But if he scored, if he scoredthe third try.
Panthers probably would've tookthe win away, I reckon.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (27:05):
yeah.
Well, I, um, yeah, I don't knowbecause in that second half
Penrith were doing veryuncharacteristic things, and in
me notes I wrote down, as I waswatching it and 20 minutes to go
in that second half, Penrithlooked tired.
Like they just look completelygone.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (27:27):
Well,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (27:28):
And you, and, but at the same,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (27:29):
the Raiders.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (27:30):
yeah, and at the same time.
I also knew what the score was,so I was watching for these
things and Penrith looked a lot.
TWI we're 20 minutes to go.
They looked, had like, they justdidn't have the energy and the
whole two point field goal from40 meters right at the end.
That's not a Penrith thing.

(27:52):
That was, that was just astupid, that was the stupidest
decision.
I don't know why you do that.
They're 30 meters out from thetrial line.
Just play a bit of a footy,throw it around.
Anything can happen

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (28:02):
chip

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (28:02):
at that point.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10- (28:03):
Brisbane knew they were going for the two
point.
They set

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (28:06):
Yeah.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (28:07):
like when they went for that two
point you looked,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (28:09):
Yeah.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (28:10):
five players running at Cleary.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (28:12):
Yeah, but like with a Penrith team, they
get into those sort of positionsand you watch'em and they'll go,
alright, hit up here, hit uphere, hit up here.
And you see'em marching up thereand you know that they're going,
they're marching up to do it,and then clear he can get far
enough back so he can kick itnicer because he just doesn't
have pressure in those momentsthat that last set of six, they

(28:34):
weren't doing that.
They were all over the place andran too far up the field to even
set up for that.
I, they've got good enoughplayers there that they could
have just thrown the ballaround.
Someone would've found a spaceand someone would've went
through and won it for'emwithout going extra time.
'cause on that Sunday game, thelast thing you wanted was to go
to extra time and play any extrafooty to go into a grand final

(28:55):
when you know that the stormhave a, you know, an extra
couple of days turnaround.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (28:59):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (29:00):
I, I just think it was a very
uncharacteristic Penrith secondhalf

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-202 (29:05):
I,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (29:05):
like.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2025 (29:06):
I think, I think they had a bit of
pressure on him.
I think they, I think they, weretrying to live up to the, the
five Pete, but yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (29:13):
Yeah, no, it would put a lot of pressure
and I, I don't think it's gonnatake anything away from Penrith
next year.
If anything, they're gonna bebetter.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (29:21):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (29:22):
They'll be hungry next year and, and it's
really scary.
So.
Yeah.
And then did notice though,Dylan Edwards.
I would love to see the stats onhow many 40 twenties he saves by
just going and hitting themback.
He did it again on the weekendand then Tahoe dropped back and
preempted a 40 20 and stop oneas well.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (29:43):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (29:43):
Like usually when they kick 40
twenties, there's just no onethere.
Like they don't get stopped likethat.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (29:49):
was out by easily.
I thought that was going out.
Just he sits back.
Sits back then just puts theboosters on and then pulls'em
back in.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (29:59):
Yeah.
And then, and you know, likewhen people saying that Cleary
had a bad game, Cleary tackledpain has on the line and pushed
him back to save a try.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (30:08):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (30:10):
Like

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (30:11):
Look,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (30:11):
I think the last person in the NRL I'd
wanna stand in front of hispain.
Hass.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (30:16):
yeah.
No one really had a bad game inthat.
I don't reckon

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (30:20):
No,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-202 (30:20):
it

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (30:20):
it was a good

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (30:21):
that.
I think they just exhausted eachother.
Really.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (30:24):
game.
Yeah.
I I, I, it was a good game onceBrisbane started getting
possession and throwing the ballaround and stuff, Ben Hunt goes
into Hooker and they get alittle bit of direction and
stuff, it just sets him straightand then they can play off Walsh
doing what Walsh does.
Not a big fan of VULs, but he'sstill a good player.
And that's where people gettheir frigging, the tall poppy

(30:45):
syndrome and stuff like that andget upset.
As soon as the player startsbeing good, they, they just bag
him out and, they must becheating or,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (30:53):
The thing

_1_10-01-2025_19420 (30:54):
appreciate,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01 (30:55):
people have gotta admit it.
He's gonna be a superstar

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (30:58):
he already is a superstar.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (30:59):
He's gonna be well bigger than what
he is now.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (31:02):
I'm picking him over Dylan Edwards
with Ashes

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (31:05):
Yeah,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (31:07):
and Dylan Edwards is the incumbent.
Dylan Edwards hasn't necessarilydone anything wrong to lose the
position.
Just Walsh is playing better.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (31:14):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (31:14):
Like I, for a long time when they pick
the Queensland team and they'dgo, would you rather Walsh or
pga, I'd be like, ponga, becausePGA's got that ball playing
ability and doesn't do thestupid shit that Walsh should
do.
That makes mistakes and putspressure on you.
Where now it just seems likehe's got that little bit of
control when he, when he,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (31:31):
Well,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (31:31):
he can't, he's got it.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (31:32):
He's a big time player.
He will take the risk where Caand Pon are, he's more of just
to do the, the,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (31:43):
is more aware of it,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (31:44):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (31:45):
I think.
I think that's, I think that'sthe problem with Kalen Poer at
the night, is he's trying to bethat conservative player instead
of playing on reaction wherehe's more of a reaction player,
but his ball playing's good whenhe just reacts to what's in
front of him and he throws thatlong ball or that short ball and
stuff like that.
But he does, he, he's tooconcerned about trying to

(32:06):
control it, and I think that'swhere Dylan Brown might help him
out.
When he does get there,hopefully.
But I'm also hoping on thatbecause I don't know what the
nights are gonna look like nextyear until at least Oh no.
Well, the end of the seasonreally, you're not gonna really

(32:26):
know what they're gonna bebecause I think they're gonna
come out.
They might have a good gamewhere it looks really good and
everything's working, but theymight have some shockers there
too, to be honest, until theybuild what they need to, they're
gonna have new combinations,they're gonna have new forwards,
they, you know, there's probablygonna be a lot of coaching
changes and just trying tochange the entire, the way that

(32:47):
they play to suit JustinHolbrook.
So you've just gotta try andfigure out how Dylan Brown ca
Ponga Fletcher Sharp and sandSmith, how they're all gonna
work together.
'cause they're gonna be the fourin your spine.
Well, hopefully, I, I dunno whypeople want Fletch back to the

(33:10):
Wing.
I really don't.
You need him in the middle ofthe field around the ball,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-0 (33:12):
needing

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (33:13):
and he's not going back to fullback
whilst Kaylin's there and theamount of people that say put
Kalin to half back, there's theexact same people that Whinged
every time he got put to fiveeight.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (33:23):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (33:24):
And then the people that whinge that, oh,
Adam O'Brien keeps swapping andchanging the halves.
They put someone in the halvesfor two weeks and they don't
have the best game.
They don't give them time togrow in that position.
They're calling for'em tofrigging find someone else.
So it's very, oh, what's theword, hypocritical Knights fans
are hypocritical and, it hitsme.

(33:45):
They never give them enough timeor look at the positives.
It's always the negative.
And I understand we haven't beento a grand final since 2001.
We haven't been to a prelim fora very long time, and I can
understand why they'd befrustrated and kind of want
success.
But you gotta support your teamtoo.
You gotta be able to support'em.
'cause then they're gonna playoff the back of that support.

(34:07):
Like

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01 (34:08):
that's

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (34:08):
more likely, I'm more likely to do
stuff for me, misses when she'snice to me.
If she's nagging me about it,I'm more likely to just not
worry about it.
So,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (34:16):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (34:17):
you

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (34:17):
got, you

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (34:18):
know.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-0 (34:18):
players time to,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (34:19):
Yeah,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (34:19):
you put, you put'em in a position,
then they have one bad game.
Oh, righto, we're gonna pull youout.
That's it.
You're not going back to thatposition.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (34:26):
no,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (34:26):
And then

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (34:27):
no.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (34:27):
next time they get put in that
position, they're gonna be ohshit, what am I gonna do wrong?

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (34:32):
Yeah,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-202 (34:32):
do I need to do?
What do I do this, do that,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (34:34):
yeah,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (34:35):
And,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (34:35):
yeah, yeah.
Or you gotta could you imaginethe Panthers bag and Nathan
Cleary after one bag game now?
And the thing is, when Clearywas there, they wanted to get
rid of Ivan and fucking Nathanthere at one stage

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (34:47):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (34:48):
they were playing so poorly before Ivan
got sacked.
The first light got sacked.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (34:52):
Yeah,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (34:53):
They didn't want both of them there.
They'd be the same as whenFlanigan Pick and Kyle Flanigan
all the time.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (34:58):
yeah,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (34:59):
the same sort of attitude and now that
they're winning, it's like thatnever happened.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (35:03):
yeah,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (35:03):
Like, you know, support your players.
Fuck

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-0 (35:08):
another thing I did notice, but
Panther's Brisbane game.
Soon as Ezra Man, come on.
Brisbane.
I don't wanna say Brisbane didlook a lot better

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (35:20):
yeah.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-0 (35:21):
because it, it freed up Reese Welsh,
without, without Ezra on there.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (35:26):
yeah,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (35:26):
was slotting in.
As soon as Ezra come on, Reesekind of slid back and then just
popped up in the right spot whenhe had to.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (35:34):
yeah, yeah man, I'm, I'll don't wanna talk
too much on that'cause I wannaleave some stuff for Friday, but

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (35:40):
Yep.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (35:40):
Yeah.
So, but either way.
Broncos did well, probably luckyto get that pass off to score
the corner with Mariner.
But outside of that, yeah.
The other, no, I did have onenote to you.
Um, Willison the, um, back row,worst haircut I've ever seen.

(36:02):
And he is horrible.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (36:04):
Yes.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (36:05):
trying to be one of the Beatles or

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (36:06):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (36:07):
It is a horrible haircut.
that is horrendous.
I'll take Joey's red hair overwhatever the hell that is.
he looks like he wants to bewearing a suit or something, but
yeah.
Um, oh, Teddy swims has been,he's canceled his grand final
appearance.

(36:28):
Everyone's calling for JimmyBarnes to come back.
Stop asking Jimmy Barnes to comeback.
Last time he did it a couple ofyears ago, he was horrendous.
He was a lot of nails on achalkboard.
Hey.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (36:39):
might have to hit up Snoop Dogg again.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (36:42):
People have been saying that Snoop do's
still in town and Peter Valismade a dig at that too.
He,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (36:47):
Yeah,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (36:47):
he said, he said something about, oh,
Snoopy dog or something likethat.
And then he is like, I don'tknow.
Either way it's a dog of an act.
it was pretty funny what hesaid.
But yeah, that's one thing aboutValenti Landis, when he has
those little stabs at rugbyunion and AFL and stuff about
ratings and that I, it is kindof, I do enjoy it, yeah.
And I, oh, do you know the bestsports in soul I've ever seen?

(37:09):
I've seen that this week.
One of the UFC fighters, I don'tknow.
You must have been claiming tobe the goat or something, or the
greatest of all time.
And the dude that he's fightingturned around and said the
closest that he's gonna get to agoat when he is fucking it.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (37:22):
Oh, they're, they're allowed to do
what they want in the us.
Really?

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (37:27):
Yeah.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (37:27):
what they want.
Do what they

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (37:29):
Yeah.
It's worth so much money though.
Like Dana White's just It'sridiculous.
Absolutely ridiculous.
That's why when, the NRL went toVegas and Dana White's like
talking up the NRL, I'm like,that's a, that's a positive
thing.
'cause people listen to him.
Successful, you know, whenpeople whinge and want Peter vi,
Andy's gone the NR L's in aheaps better shape than it was

(37:51):
before he got there.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (37:52):
Oh,

_1_10-01-2025_1942 (37:53):
Financially, like the whole final series has
been the most watched inAustralia.
Like it was, it beat numbers ontv.
Obviously the A FL had bigger,bigger,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01 (38:07):
crowd.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (38:08):
They had bigger crowds because they were
a hundred thousand.
Like the M cg the other day,they were complaining.
Two people didn't show up.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (38:14):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (38:14):
a hundred thousand people.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (38:16):
Yeah, but see they pulled 90,000 just
a regular season game.
Anyway,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (38:20):
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, you know, our, our groundsare smaller, but like I've said
to Zach multiple times, like theNRL, they make all their money.
They, their broadcast deals wasworth a billion dollars last
time they did it.
They're about to go into anotherone with an extra game each week
with the bears coming in.
Like it's, they want peoplewatching it on TV so they can

(38:44):
throw these numbers at thenetworks and go, well, we're,
we're killing it.
How about you give us moremoney?
And that's how business works.
And whether people like it ornot, sports is business, clubs
are business, franchises arebusiness.
They need to make money to beable to stay sustainable and
have everything in place so thatyou know they've got the best of

(39:06):
the best of everything.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-202 (39:07):
If you're

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (39:08):
Like,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01 (39:08):
what's the point of being around?
Really?

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (39:11):
yeah.
And how many people do you knowthat if they'll do, if they were
offered twice the amount ofmoney to go and do the exact
same job that they're alreadygoing to every day, which
they're gonna ask, I'll staywhere I'm.
How

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (39:22):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (39:22):
many people do you know that would do
that?

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (39:24):
Yeah.
Not many.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (39:26):
No, no.
That's what's Stu who, who doyou reckon should be the
pre-game entertainment?

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-202 (39:31):
Oh look, I reckon it will probably
be someone stupid.
They'll probably throw in some,some random, random

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (39:39):
Nah.
Yeah.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-0 (39:41):
really, you think about it, they've got
four, five days.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (39:46):
Yeah.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (39:47):
four days to really try and find
someone.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (39:50):
I, I understand why they do it.
They want the whole, yourfamily's showing up, they want
to give you a day of experience.
they put all these games inplace and have the atmosphere
there and that's why they dothat sort of thing.
But I don't think pre-gameentertainment's really that
important.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (40:04):
Nah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (40:05):
Watching it from home.
if you're at the game and thatjustify your ticket prices and
stuff.
But,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (40:12):
but the

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (40:12):
forget.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (40:13):
you, you're not buying a ticket to go
there and watch the pregame.
You're

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (40:16):
Yeah.
Who,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-202 (40:17):
to go to there and

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (40:18):
who played before the grand final last
year.
Exactly.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2025 (40:22):
I dunno, I can't.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (40:23):
Neither do i.
I don't know.
I remember that there was bigcontroversy because Macklemore
was coming on there and theydidn't want him to sing this
song and fri

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (40:31):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (40:31):
it, been and done.
No one said anything about itafterwards.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (40:33):
Yeah,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (40:34):
it doesn't matter.
People still know who won thegrand final.
you know, the storm won thatyear.
I remember that because I playedthe Cowboys.
I only remember that'cause I wasat your house.
I remember it.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (40:46):
Yeah.
That was when we had the at theback.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (40:49):
Yeah.
And I can say who, I sat thereand watched the whole of
Macklemore from beginning toend.
Big fan.
Big fan.
So, um, other news with the NRLwhile we're on the NRL, is that
for the draw next year, they'regonna use an AI generated.
Draw instead of the Swiss superdraw people that they normally

(41:12):
use,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (41:13):
Yeah,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (41:14):
but it'll just be in the algorithm that
throws something out the way theNRL is set up currently and
never gonna get a fair draw,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (41:22):
no.

_1_10-01-2025_19 (41:23):
unfortunately, because not everyone can play
each other twice.
I was on Facebook the other dayand someone put on their, well,
the only way you'll make it fairis if everyone plays everyone
twice.
I'm like, so you want 38 roundsplus finals, and there's only th
there's only 52 days in a year.
It's too long.
So the only way that you cancounter that is either play each

(41:44):
other once and alternate eachyear home and away, and then
play a final series, or yousplit'em up into conferences.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (41:54):
Well, that's the thing.
Do.
Yeah.
You play everyone once.
And then do you have your, yourtwo tiers?
The top eight, bottom eight.
then you have your, just to makeup the, the extra couple games,
right?
The top eight plays each otherand then your bottom.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (42:09):
Yeah, the bottom mate's not playing for
anything.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (42:12):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (42:13):
See, the way, the way that I'd be happy
for it to do is everyone playseach other once and they're
still split up into conferences.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (42:19):
Mm.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (42:20):
But I'd like to see, do you know how
like with the Champions League,they and the FA cup and stuff
like that, to pick their draw,they just draw it out of a,
lotto thing.
Like that's how, that's how theydo it.
They make an event around it.
What if you went and you waspicking the conferences?
It was the exact same thing.
You go, all right, we'll do,this conference gets picked.

(42:42):
Yeah.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (42:42):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (42:43):
you, you split'em up into pools just like
you do with Rugby Union WorldCup and stuff like that.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10 (42:47):
something about that wasn't there?

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (42:50):
I haven't seen anybody else think of this
dumb idea.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (42:54):
No, I, I, I do, I do believe I've
seen something about that.
It

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (42:58):
Yeah, because.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (42:59):
nr, it wa it was the NRL, but

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (43:01):
because Maddy, Matty Johns, and I think
Joey Johns, Matt Johns orsomeone, they said that if they
split'em up into conferences,because usually when you do
conferences, you have regions

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (43:11):
Yeah,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (43:12):
and, and they split'em up into the
regions and then South Sydneyand the, roosters would be in
the same region, so they'd neverplay each other in a grand
final.
In that, in that sort of setup.
Right, because the idea ofconferences is that the top,
it'd be the top four

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (43:32):
yeah,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (43:33):
from each con.
Each conference would playagainst each other,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (43:39):
yeah.
Right

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (43:39):
and then you'd have, or you'd have the
top eight from each conference.
Just depends.
top six, I dunno how they'd workit to be honest, with the finals
thing.
I haven't thought that farahead, but the way that I see
it, if you just go, all right,we've got pool one, pool two.
You draw someone out, thatperson goes into this and you do
that every single year so thatit mixes it up, it's, it's fair.

(44:02):
'cause everybody has the sameopportunity to play in each
thing and that sometimes theteam might have an easier pool
and they'll top that pool andgives'em an opportunity and it
creates more excitement doing itthat way.
I, I, that's what I believeanyway, so, yeah.
yeah.
But the other thing that comingout today as well is, the Rugby

(44:23):
360 and there's 10 players thatare apparently verbally
committed to it.
I don't think the NRL needs toworry about it too much.
Like it's, they reckon it'sgonna launch October 2nd next
year.
So it'd be around about thegrand final next year and
they're gonna start with a 12event competition?

(44:46):
No, they're gonna start with sixmale teams and then they'll go
up from there like increasingit.
I don't think that they'll havethat much draw one, it's rugby
union.
It'll probably be more a superrugby, be worried about it than
what the NRL needs to be.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (45:05):
Yeah,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (45:05):
know they've already, like Lomax is
already trying to get out of hisParramatta deal to go and do it,
and the whole thing around it isthat they can get paid unlimited
money.
There is no salary cap, there'sno nothing like that.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2025 (45:19):
I heard,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (45:19):
And then,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (45:20):
radio there the other

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (45:21):
yeah.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (45:21):
threw out 2 million a season for
paying us like.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (45:25):
It's just whether or not they want to go,
I don't think, I don't thinkpaying has to be suited to Rugby
Union.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (45:30):
No, but the thing is, righto, if if
they've got money to throw 2million at him a season,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (45:36):
Yeah,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (45:36):
be, they're gonna be able to buy him
out of his contract withBrisbane, whatever it is.
Like,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (45:41):
yeah,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (45:41):
even if they throw, I don't know what
Lomax is on a season for, para,but even if they turn around and
say, righto, yeah, we'll giveyou a million dollars a season,
they're gonna be able to buy buyhim out.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (45:53):
yeah.
They'll be able to get someplayers and they probably will
pull some players away, but Ithink that a lot of players that
if they go from Rugby league totry and just join this
competition, they're not gonnado as well as what they think
they will

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (46:06):
Yeah,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (46:07):
It's a different sport and it's the
same, same argument.
I mean, me and Zach had a coupleweeks ago that, the players, the
players award frigging NICoE, hegot winger of the, he got rookie
of the year.
He's but he's already played,he's played Rugby union.
He's not really a rookie.
I'm he's a rookie in rugbyleague.
He goes, yeah, but he's alreadyhad a professional sport.
And I'm yeah, but what you find,if our players goes to Rugby

(46:28):
Union, do they win Rugby Rookieof the year or even though he
goes, no, because it'sdifferent.
And I'm

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (46:32):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (46:33):
you're contradicting yourself a little
bit.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (46:35):
Yeah, that's right.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (46:37):
Like it, it is completely different.
And I, I believe that he couldhave won it.
He could have, they could havegiven him the Rookie of the year
and it wouldn't have bothered mebecause it was his first year
playing rugby league.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (46:46):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (46:47):
So the only, the only thing with this
is that, they've got there thatthe players will be their own,
they'll be their own income.
So they're not, they're notcontracted to the team.
They're not contracted to thecompetition or anything like
that.
Like they are in super rugbywhere, rugby Australia plays,
pays for Sue Lihi to play forthe Warta.

(47:07):
They're just telling him he hasto play for the warta basically.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (47:10):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (47:11):
There's none of that and they can earn
as much off field as they wantto.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (47:15):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (47:16):
they, they put a draft in place and, it's,
I think the money's gonna beappealing.
The only other appealing thingthat I see from it, from a NRL
sort of point of view that theNRL can't offer is the teams and
the teams that they've got thatare expected to be announced.

(47:37):
'cause nothing's been announced.
And because we are a sportspodcast, we can still follow it,
put our thoughts about it.
But at the moment they've gotLondon, Miami, Tokyo, Dubai,
Boston, Cape Town, Lisbon, andMadrid.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (47:50):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (47:51):
So

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-202 (47:53):
It is a

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (47:53):
it's a global thing.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (47:55):
Yeah.
It's a

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (47:55):
You can go travel the world and play footy.
It's pretty, there's a lot ofNRL players that go over and
play in the Super League justbecause they can go and travel
to Europe for a couple of yearsand get paid for it.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (48:04):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (48:05):
So that is appealing.
And Nico said the other day thathe, he's going back to rugby
union because'cause of one ofthose reasons he doesn't want to
go play super rugby.
He wants to go and play Frenchrugby.
And because the Wallabies areallowing players to go play
wherever they want to and bring'em back to play for the
Wallabies, now they're notrestricted anymore.
A lot of players are doing that,so, yeah.

(48:28):
I, I don't think they need toworry about it too much.
We'll probably lose a fewplayers, but we've been through
this before.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01 (48:35):
That's

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (48:36):
Matt Rogers lot.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (48:38):
They

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (48:38):
Windell Sailor.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (48:39):
few.
They will lose a few, but

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (48:41):
Yeah.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2025 (48:42):
I don't

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (48:42):
But they always,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (48:43):
hurt the game that much.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (48:45):
no, but they always come back to have
asked us.
She, he came back, he's goingagain,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (48:50):
Well that's the thing.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (48:51):
but

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (48:51):
the, the big rumor is he's only got
one more season.
He's only with the

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (48:55):
yeah.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (48:55):
year he will, he will go to 360, I
reckon.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (48:59):
Yeah.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-202 (49:01):
I,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (49:01):
But he is, at the end of his career, he can
get maximum playing ability.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (49:05):
yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (49:05):
won a grand final in the NRL.
He is probably done everythingthat he's wanted to.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (49:10):
Yeah, he's done.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (49:11):
Yeah,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-202 (49:12):
it all.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (49:13):
yeah.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-202 (49:13):
I, I

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (49:14):
So,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-202 (49:14):
he only came back, is just to

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (49:18):
yeah.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-202 (49:18):
be committed back to the, like
leaving the warriors to go tothe rugby.
Then coming back

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (49:23):
Yeah.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (49:24):
to,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (49:24):
The only, the only player that I reckon
would go through ambition typething,'cause they have done it
all is Nathan Cleary.
It'd be app appealing to NathanCleary because he, dating Mary
Fowler who lives in England andplays in the women's English
Super League and obviously wantsto be with her.

(49:44):
And this would be a sort of anappealing thing to him.
He gets to travel the world.
He'll be able to make.
He'll be able to make a mint init.
And he'd probably do well fromit because he grew up in New
Zealand where rugby was morecommon.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (49:57):
yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (49:58):
And I think he said that he's thought
about it before Anyway, so, I,that's all secondhand, but I, I
think that Nathan Clear he'd besomebody that they could
probably focus on and probablyget him over the line because
he's gonna make big money hereor there.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (50:13):
Yeah,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (50:14):
So it is just up to his own ambition.
And he is already, he is alreadywon four comps.
He, he's won, he's won a fuckingorigin.
So it's just whatever he wantsto tick off,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-202 (50:27):
at

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (50:28):
you know.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (50:28):
it's still got, still gotta, there's
still gotta get it to Go ahead.
Like it, it's gonna go ahead,but

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (50:34):
Oh, it's got a peral.
That's what, that's what thewhole thing about today was.
It's been green lit that itwill, it will start next season.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (50:40):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (50:41):
So October next season they'll do a draft
in July or something.
so.
You know, it's, it's gonnahappen.
It's gonna be there.
But, you know, we had a superleague where half, like half of
the competition went to anothercompetition.
We're still here.
We've, we've recovered from it.
But

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2025 (51:01):
I bet you Dylan Brown's kicking,
kicking himself now aftersigning 10 years.
'cause he come from background

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (51:08):
no, he didn't, no, he was just a, no,
he was just a league player.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2025 (51:11):
I

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (51:12):
I, no, he, he, his story's actually
fascinating.
I think I've seen that.
I've watched him with aninterview with him.
It might've even been on blokein a bar that it, they, they
were talking to him and done athing, but no, he's, he's a
league, he's not a union player.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (51:26):
Yeah.
Right.
I thought he, I

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (51:28):
Yeah.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (51:28):
heard a rumor that I thought he'd come
from

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (51:31):
No, no.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-202 (51:32):
to

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (51:32):
So I remember, so when, when that
grand final talking about, whatyear was it?
2000 and.
17 when the storm won, or 17Storm played The Cowboys.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (51:45):
Yeah, it'd be

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (51:46):
Yeah.
So back then they still had thethe twenties in that, that
played and they had the youngerones that played before that.
And Dylan Brown was one of theplayers playing in that, one of
those grand finals forParramatta and absolutely carved
up.
'cause I remember sitting inyour plays and I was watching
him and I'd never heard of him.
And he was playing, he wasplaying halfback or something

(52:08):
and he was just tearing theother team apart.
He won them the game on his own.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (52:13):
Yeah.
Right.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (52:14):
Like it's not that he doesn't have that
sort of thing in him, it's just,you gotta set, you gotta set up
the player around him.
That Paramatta team set up forMitchell Moses.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (52:23):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (52:25):
So they run off Moses' frigging the beat
of Moses.
And if Moses isn't there,they're lost.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (52:29):
Yeah,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (52:30):
And Dylan Brown's not Mitchell Moses.
He's got his own thing.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (52:34):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (52:34):
And I know that I'm a night supporter and
I'm, I'm, I'll sit here and bagthe nights right up until the
first trial game and then I'llstart listening to stuff.
I'll start looking into stuffand I start getting optimistic.
'cause I am biased because I, Iget hopeful

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (52:49):
Yeah,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (52:49):
and, I get excited because I just love
footy and, and I am optimisticthat it is gonna work and I
really hope that it does.
'cause at the end of the day,you need to support him.
He's gonna be there for 10years.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (53:01):
yeah, yeah,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (53:02):
You don't have a choice in that.
You need to support him.
You can't bag him out every weekor he is not gonna dish it up
for you.
Plain and simple.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01 (53:09):
That's the thing.
Why,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (53:09):
So.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (53:10):
why buy'em if you, if you only got a
bag in me, I.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (53:13):
No.
Yeah.
Well, yeah.
another, an another annoyancethat I had on the weekend.
So I thought that we were infinals.
I thought blocker would be puton the back burner.
And I mentioned this to youbefore, I don't like blocker
because in a game he says stupidshit and doesn't really think

(53:33):
about what he's saying.
And it always irritates mebecause normally when I'm
listening to the com watchingthe footy, I don't really listen
to the commentators.
And Amanda gets up to me all thetime'cause it'll literally be
sitting there and I'll,something will happen on the
game and I'll say what happenedwhile it happened?
And then it'll be like freaking15 second delay.
And the commentators repeat wordfor word what I just said.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (53:55):
yeah,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (53:55):
And I mean, he goes, how the fuck do
you do that?
And I'm like, oh, I dunno.
I just know footy blocker.
I hear him every time and it'sbecause it irritates me.
But the other day when, thestorm got the penalty, in front
when the panthers were 14 sixup.
And they didn't, they opted notto go for the two.
They went for the try blocker.

(54:17):
They, I think they lost the ballor something and, and Blocker
said, oh, they didn't take thetwo to put'em eight in front.
The score was 14, six, they werealready eight in front.
They would've put him 10 infront, like,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (54:31):
Too

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (54:31):
please,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (54:32):
many head knocks in these day.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (54:34):
I love blocker.
I loved him as a player and allof that.
He is just become very, veryhard to listen to and he just
seems like that mate that youdrag along with you to things
just so he feels included.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (54:47):
Yeah,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (54:48):
Like that's what it feels like when
you're listening to him.
Like you just feel sorry forhim.
Like, oh, come on mate, you cancome like,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (54:55):
yeah,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (54:56):
but he's got no input whatsoever and it
just really annoys me and I justreally wanted to bring that up.
So.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I, I think we've got a littlebit off script today.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (55:08):
yeah.
We're just, we're

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (55:09):
So

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10- (55:09):
throwing it out there at the moment.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (55:11):
we're already, we're already in an
hour and we've only, we Oh, oh,we're not doing too bad.
We haven't got too much moretalk about really, the, oh,
there's another competition thatthey're looking at, in 2020
sevens that the NRL have,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (55:26):
Oh, sorry.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (55:27):
agreed with, um, backing a French Super
league.
So it'll compete against theEnglish Super League, and that's
a bad idea for the English SuperLeague, but it's probably a
really good thing for rugbyleague in general.
That's, another majorcompetition.
And then people can stop sayingthat, oh, only two countries

(55:49):
play it.
Not only two countries play it,there's only two professional
competitions.
I know the American one'sfrigging the semi-pro
competition, and I watched thatthe other day and I wouldn't
even call it rugby league.
It was more like touch footy.
But anyway, what do you reckon,you reckon it'd be a good thing
to have another major rugbyleague competition?

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (56:08):
Oh, how many?
How many is too much, but reallylike.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (56:13):
Oh, I don't think you can have too
much.
you watch the A PL and thefrigging LA Leaguer and French,
the French competitions andthere's heaps of competitions
out there for soccer where theypull players away and the
A-League, they're allprofessional competitions.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (56:28):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (56:29):
It's just, there's still gonna be a top
tiered one.
It's just that soccer have athing called the Champions
League where you can go and playfor any of those competitions
and get played the most.
And You can still play in thetop team in the world against
the best players.
That's where, that's where,that's where football's really,
it does excel, is that they're aglobal game and they've

(56:53):
globalized it by doing that.
And now you've got the clubworld cups that they do and, and
stuff like that.
So, it's, it's set up reallywell and if you could get to a
stage like that with rugby, withrugby league would be amazing.
And I think that's why thiswhole Rugby 360 thing is just
trying to globalize it so thatyou've got the best players

(57:15):
playing the world.
That's where I can see that theappeal to it is.
And you know, I, I don't haterugby union.
I don't watch much rugby union.
I'll probably watch more RugbyUnion now'cause I've got,
dropped the NFL pass'cause itjust wasn't.
I couldn't use it the way that Iprobably should have been for
the price of it and it wasnearly half price to get Stan

(57:37):
Sport.
And that comes with World Rally,union Cricket, EPL, you name it.
It had heaps, basically stuffthat's not on K is stand.
So the A League's on ParamountPlus, which I've already got
anyway, on Amazon Prime.
So it's not, I should be able tocover off a lot of stuff.

(58:00):
It's a lot of sport to watch,but plus there's a lot of
Australian stuff on, Australianmotocross and shit on there and
stuff as well.
So, yeah.
But.
I'm gonna try to watch morerugby union, but I don't know,
I'm interested to see how a newcompetition, it's not very often
that a new competition's builtlike this and you get to see it

(58:22):
from the beginning and see whereit goes.
I know a lot of people thinkit's gonna flop, but the thing
is that it's been it's beenbacked by, UAE money.
So it's all oil money and stuff.
And you would've seen the effectthat all that money's had on the
A PL and that buying teams andturning them around.
So maybe it will take off, maybeit will be a big thing.

(58:43):
And at the end of the day, it'sjust another sport that you can
sit down and enjoy if they do itcorrectly.
And all those players that youhave in the NRL that go and do
it, I think I'd be more on theside of the same as when Wendell
and Matty Rogers and that wentto Union.
I'm watching that to see howthey go to see if they succeed.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (59:01):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (59:02):
Like.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (59:02):
many, how many people have tuned in to
watch Joseph Salhi

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (59:08):
I wa I, I don't, I don't watch the games.
'cause the super rugby, like Isaid, it was on Stan's sport and
I didn't have Stan's Sport, so Ididn't get to watch the games.
But I definitely see there,watch the highlights and see how
he go.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (59:18):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (59:18):
I definitely check on the
Wallabies to see how he's going,whether or not he there has been
a success for him.
But at the end of the day, it'sthe players, it's the players'
decision.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (59:30):
Yeah,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (59:30):
Like

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-0 (59:31):
exactly

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (59:31):
there's gonna be, there's gonna be
players that are just throughand through Rugby league and
that's all they want to do.
And they won't take any offersfrom other things.
Like even Andrew Johns, evenAndrew Johns had an interview
with the war,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (59:42):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (59:43):
all the Queensland Reds.
He flirted with gonna rugbyunion because he thought that he
could make an impact and it, itwas appealing to him,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (59:50):
And

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (59:50):
you know.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (59:51):
what all these big sport and, and
enterprises and all that aredoing, they're getting players
that are gonna bring people into watch'em, to make the

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:00:02):
Yeah.
A hundred percent.
Yeah, a hundred percent.
So, it's, it's gonna draw acrowd.
Jared, Hayne Valentine Hayes, goto the NFL.
I can guarantee there's a fewpeople out there that they watch
the NFL now because of that,because I'm one of them,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (01:00:20):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:00:20):
I wanted to see how they went at it.
I wanted'em to be successful.
I didn't want'em to fail.
I wanted'em to be good at it.
And then that puts Rugby Leagueon the map.
it's not, it's not exactly a badthing.
I'm gonna pay attention to it.
All these players go and it'slike, yeah, you're taking some
of the, but I haven't seen,other than maybe Ppen Hausen,
but I know Lomax has kind of,he's come good, but he's not

(01:00:45):
that big a loss to rugby league.
He can, he can be, he can bereplaced.
Pape is probably getting towardsthe end of his career where he
gets lots of injuries.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (01:00:55):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:00:56):
it's, there's other players there that
will just come through and feelit like they always have.
And I can just take interest andgo, all right, I wonder how he's
going.
Like, semi Rod Roger is killingit in rugby union

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-202 (01:01:06):
Oh yeah.
Yeah, he, he's playing reallygood.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:01:09):
all around the world and stuff, and he
played in rugby league, that'swhere he got his opportunity
because Parramatta gave him one.
He was a I'm pretty sure he wasa porter in a freaking hotel.
Andrew Johns walked in there andwas just talking to him and got
him a contract with Parramatta,a trial or something like that.
And it just went from there.
it's opening up opportunitiesand there's, there's always
opportunities out there foranother player to come through.

(01:01:29):
And you don't, you don't need toworry about it as much as what
people do.
They think it's the end of theworld.
It's really not so.
Yeah, I think that's just abouteverything for, NRL and,
wallabies got beat again, so wego another year before we beat
'em at Eden Park, at least ifthey play'em next year.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (01:01:51):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:01:51):
So I know that, Australia just beat New
Zealand in the T 20 as we wererecording, so I've been keeping
an eye on that and they've gottwo more games this weekend, so
hopefully, hopefully Australiawill get up for that.
So, yeah.
well, what else have we gottoday?
I just wanted to mention that,that, French Super league thing

(01:02:13):
for the rugby league.
'cause I, I think it's gonna bea good thing anyway.
So, at the moment, at themoment, I just got a message
from Zach asking if we'reputting our bets on.
We haven't even done thepredictions yet, God.
He's stressing'cause both of hisare on tomorrow.
I'll do it after this.
Zach, calm down.

(01:02:34):
in the golf they've got the ridea cup going, which is like
Europe.
Europe versus the USA if youdon't follow much golf.
I love watching the golf.
I haven't got much in to live'cause I dunno where to watch
it.
And I don't really understandteam golf.
So even the rider cup.
Even the rider cup, I don'tactually understand how the
scoring works and all of thatand I can't get into it.

(01:02:57):
But do you reckon, do youreckon, I was thinking the other
day, do you reckon there's aplace for a writeup type format
where you get Australia versuslike Asia or something like
that?

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (01:03:08):
Yeah, yeah, for sure.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:03:11):
I think you could,'cause I said to you
before, we get that one game ofli live down in Adelaide for
now, while it's still inAdelaide.
And I'd love to go to it just toexperience it'cause that looks
awesome.
But outside of that, there's notany major golf and, golf's
pretty big sport.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (01:03:26):
Oh.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:03:27):
it is a massive sport.
I know some people can't watchit.
Some people just watchhighlights.
I'll sit down and watch it, haveit on in the background and,
and, and like watching it andfollow it over the weekends and
that I, I'll do that, but I, Ijust think there's a place, if
you bring cam Smith and all theAustralian players, Jason Day,
all that, and come and playagainst Asia one, it's probably

(01:03:48):
gonna strengthen you.
Like our golfers to be bettergolfers.
And it also, it brings some sortof major event.
we play, we play Asia in likethe Asian, champions League and
stuff like that.
It's not like it's foreign.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (01:04:04):
Yeah,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:04:06):
So

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (01:04:07):
that, that rider's cup too on the
weekend.
I think a lot of people tuned injust to watch the crowd.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:04:13):
from, did you say Rory the other day?
Did you see the interview afterthat?
So he, he's walked, he's walkingout to the T and frigging the
American crowd's carrying on andhe's like, turned around.
He goes, would you just shut thefuck up?
And then he is like, hit theball and frigging landed it
right next to the hole.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (01:04:30):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:04:30):
In the, interview afterwards, I was
sitting there doing a pressconference and journalist said
to him, he said, how did it feelto tell him to shut the fuck up
and then land it like three feetfrom the hole?
He goes pretty fucking good, tobe honest.
Like, it was just like, just arewarding thing.
Like, and I love that, like evenin footy and stuff, when you've
got like the people on thesideline, they're sitting there

(01:04:51):
like bagging the kicker beforethey take the goal and it's like
to lead the game trying to put'em off in that, and then they
just nail it.
Just the look on their face.
It must, it'd be the best.
Or I know that it's the bestfeeling when you nail it and
you've got someone standingbehind Jeffrey and yelling at,
it's just the best feeling tojust go, yeah, well fuck you.
Like I, I used to do it.
I've done it a fair bit.
Actually.

(01:05:11):
They'd be sitting there, but youknow, sitting there yelling at
you while you're trying to takethe kick and put you off and you
just nail it from the sideline.
You just like, look at, shut up.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (01:05:19):
Well that, that that rider's cup.
Yeah, that rider's cup.
That's a bit like how we playgolf when we're all together.
No, there is no adequate, We'rejust into

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:05:31):
When have you ever seen me actually play
golf?
I don't think what I do is golf.
Mind you, I'm playing golf onFriday.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (01:05:38):
Yeah, right.
You little white ball around.
Make sure it doesn't go into the

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:05:42):
Pretty much, sometimes I don't even
bother chasing it.
I just get another one.
I'm freaking horrible.
Oh, I got my new driver.
I actually really like my newdriver.
So yeah, but that's not so,that's an expensive driver for
me to buy.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (01:05:59):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:05:59):
But I'm not saying that more expensive
clubs make you better, but itdoes make a difference.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (01:06:03):
Yes, it sure does.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:06:05):
So it, it has made a difference.
mind you, I can't hit that one.
As far as what I could hit theother one because it's smaller.
It's got a smaller head on it,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (01:06:14):
Yeah.
Right.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:06:15):
but I'm still getting used to it.
And it's more for consistency.
Because I can, I can hit a threeiron, a three wood a lot better
than I can hit a driver.
So that's why I did that.
It's more of a smaller targetsort of consistency type thing.
And no, I can't hit it as far,but I can hit me three wood

(01:06:35):
reasonably enough that it kindof counted it.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (01:06:39):
Yeah,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:06:39):
So, and I know a lot of people hate
hitting their woods.
You one that hates hitting yourwood.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10 (01:06:43):
Couldn't.
Yeah.
No, no.
I used to use the three woodeninstead of me driver.
I used to hate me driver.
And then I end up buying new setof clubs and they are now, I
hate me.
Woods.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:06:53):
Know I've, I've still got golf lessons I
have at, the vintage that I'vegotta go and do.
But Amanda's working all thetime and it makes it very, very
difficult to do it.
So, but I just saw, I just sortof that as, as an idea.
I did have another couple ofideas through the week, but I'm
gonna leave that for anothertime.
So, in the gaming realm ofthings, October is usually a

(01:07:17):
really, really good time forgames'cause they, a lot of them
come out just before Christmasand stuff like that.
And there, there's a fair fewthat are, coming out at the
moment.
I've been playing assassin,screed, shadows,'cause it was on
sale the other day and just sortof having to look at it.
I, I'm a bit, either, either wayof it.
I haven't played an Assassin'sCreed game for a while, so I,

(01:07:40):
yeah, I can't say that I'm inlove with it'cause I.
Lose interest in the story andstuff, and that's why I used to
love the Assassins Creed games,did you ever play the Assassins
Creed games?

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-202 (01:07:52):
Oh look.
I to tell the truth, after lastweek when we were talking about
Assassin's Creed, I went backthrough my old PlayStation games
in

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:08:03):
Yeah,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2025 (01:08:04):
I found an Assassin Creed game.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:08:07):
he started playing it.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (01:08:08):
Now I got, I went to get a Down, but
the thing is the kids have, thePlayStation, but into their
rooms to be able to watch DVDsand stuff.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:08:18):
Yeah.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (01:08:19):
yeah.
Now I can't find any of thecords, so.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:08:22):
So bodie's got his switch that he plays on,
he's got games and all that onthere, but he just watches it
for YouTube and stuff.
I was sitting there playing mePlayStation, he's sitting there
telling me it's not fair'cause Idon't share my PlayStation and
I'm like looked at him like,'cause it's mine, like I let him
play it.
It is not that he doesn't get toplay it ghost of Yoti comes out
this weekend.
I think it's on Saturday orsomething.

(01:08:43):
And I've actually got Ghost ofShima downloading at the moment
so I can go back and have a lookat it because I've been playing
Assassin's Cre I just kindawanted to compare'em'cause I'm
pretty sure Ghost of Tashimalike was heaps better than what
I'm playing at the moment.
And.
I was thinking about getting thenew one, but I'm gonna see how I
go.
'cause that one, you know, thestandard game's 125 bucks.

(01:09:06):
So,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (01:09:06):
Yeah, that's

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:09:07):
They, that's how much, a hundred and
nine's usually the standard atthe moment.
You get some that are cheaper,if they're a bit lesser of a
game.
but you get some that are, yeah,around that 120.
I'm not as worried about thatone being 125 though, because I
do know that it's a good gameand you'll get a lot of

(01:09:29):
playability out of it andgraphically it's outstanding.
So I think that that's probablya game that I wouldn't complain
about it, but at the same time,you can wait for it to come down
in price.
So, so I've got, I've got somebonus.
Points that I spent the otherday that are sitting there, I
think we've got about 40 bucks,so it's not gonna cost me that

(01:09:51):
much to get it if I did anyway.
battlefield six is coming out ina couple of weeks as well,
hopefully back to the roots ofwhat a battlefield game is and
not what the last one was.
'cause that was just a massmultiplayer game and it wasn't
fun without friends.
I could see it being fun withfriends, without friends, not so
much, but at least this one hasa single player and stuff like

(01:10:13):
that, that I can play it bymyself.
And it's a little bit smaller.
New Call of Duty Black Op sevenout this month as well.
yeah, there's Jurassic WorldEvolution three, if you like,
that sort of, like the citybuilders or, you build your own
zoo and stuff, but withdinosaurs.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (01:10:30):
Yeah, right.
That,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:10:33):
I,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (01:10:33):
that, that wouldn't be too

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:10:34):
I don't mind it.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (01:10:35):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:10:37):
You're basically just setting up your
own Jurassic Park and then youmutate, dinosaurs and battle
each other.
It's pretty cool.
I, I played the f I've had thefirst two, I didn't even know
the third one was coming out,but it's pretty cool.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (01:10:48):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:10:48):
they escape and then you gotta
frigging try to get'em back inand fly around the helicopter
and tranquilize'em so you canput'em back in it.
It's pretty cool game, if you'reinto that sort of stuff, I
suppose.
I like those sort of strategysort of games, so.
Yeah.
But, I think Flight simulator,I'm not sure when the release

(01:11:09):
date on that is.
No, that's not until, it's nottill December, so we won't worry
about that.
We'll worry about that inDecember.
So, yeah, a fair few gamescoming out.
There's a NASCAR one coming outat the end of the month, 25
that's had a lot of wraps on it.
The last NASCAR game that Iplayed was a little bit
cartoonish for me.

(01:11:29):
It wasn't really realistic.
You'd probably like it a littlebit because they sort of, when
you go through the career in it,you start off with a speedway on
dirt type thing.
It's not straight into nascar,so you might like that, but

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-202 (01:11:46):
I, I think, I

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:11:47):
yeah.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (01:11:47):
Yeah.
I'm thinking about upgradingPlayStations and Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:11:52):
right?

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-0 (01:11:53):
getting back into the games a bit more.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:11:56):
What would you look at?
An Xbox or a PlayStation?

squadcaster-0f2h_1 (01:11:58):
PlayStation,

_1_10-01-2025_1942 (01:12:00):
PlayStation.
You get a PlayStation on tmu for$51.
I wouldn't recommend.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (01:12:07):
what a, a mini one.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:12:09):
mine, I don't know what the fuck it is.
I wouldn't worry about that.
so you got Big W$574 Mark De Annfrom 750.
It isn't too bad if it's what Ithink it is.
So I got an original one.
So mine's only got the 500 gigsystem.

(01:12:30):
the memory in it's only 500 gig.
That one should be, well, when,what was the last one you
bought?
Was a PS four or a PS three?

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (01:12:40):
Four.
Four.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:12:43):
You've got a four, so you've got all the
games and that there, so you'reprobably better off getting, oh,
I don't think you can buy discones now.
I No, maybe you can, but you canget a portable drive that you
plug into it, so you can stillplay your disc game on there

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (01:12:56):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:12:57):
from the PS four.
So you can play your PS fourgames on the PS y.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (01:13:00):
Yeah, I got, I got the PS four and I
ended up getting onto the,downloading them off the net,
the games, and I think the firstone I got was Mud Runner.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:13:10):
I like the mud running game.
SNA runner.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (01:13:11):
yeah,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:13:12):
one that come out at the beginning of the
year and you basically, it'sit's like you're going to like
storms.
There's like storm hazard areasand you rebuild roads and shit.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-0 (01:13:22):
Righto.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:13:23):
cool.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-202 (01:13:23):
be all

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:13:24):
You gotta sit there and grade it and
frigging, it's slow.
It's really slow.
But because I am the way that Iam and because of what I do, I'd
literally sit there and just gobackwards and forwards tipping
sand and building dumps likethey do at work.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (01:13:39):
Yeah.
e

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:13:40):
I'm,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (01:13:41):
farm simulator and all that, I can, I
can sit there

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:13:44):
yeah, no, I've got that.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (01:13:45):
plow

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:13:45):
get the new 1 25 sucks.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (01:13:47):
Yeah.
Righto.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:13:48):
Yeah, I don't like the, the new one was
kind of shitty.
I was very unimpressed with it.
'cause I love farming simulator,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (01:13:56):
Yeah,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:13:57):
not that one.
So, yeah.
Anyway, have a look around.
You'll be able to find.
A good price on a PS five, Ireckon

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (01:14:08):
yeah,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:14:08):
they're looking at a PS six, they've got
the PlayStation Pros.
You probably don't need a prothat's just gonna, it's more
enhanced graphics and you know,it's, it is a better system.
But if you can just get a, justa normal PS five from somewhere

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (01:14:24):
yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:14:24):
so that you have it, if that's all you
want, just look at that.
You don't have to go to the topof the line one unless you want
to.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (01:14:29):
Nah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:14:30):
me, I just go top of the line.
So,'cause I'm me,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (01:14:34):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:14:35):
I can't help myself, which is why I took
my wife with me to buy a golfclubs so that I'm oh, I need to
buy new golf clubs.
You come with me and settlementdown so that I don't spend too
much.
And then she's oh, it's only$300more.
And then I end up buying themore expensive ones anyway.
So yeah, she does that there'sheaps of, heaps of games and
stuff and I download all of minenow because it's just easier

(01:14:58):
than going in and you don't haveto get up to change the disc and
all of that stuff.
The only annoying bit is thatyou've gotta have it loaded onto
your PS five system.
You can't have the external harddrive, but there is ways around
that and stuff,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (01:15:10):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:15:10):
that I'm starting to look into.
And I think, I think Amanda isconsidering just buying because
it's just kind of, you plug in anew, I think it's the hard
drive.
You can put a new one in there.
So it's got a bigger storagesystem in it.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (01:15:23):
Yep.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:15:24):
And she was looking at buying me the one
other day because she's sick ofme complaining that I've never
got room on my PlayStation.
So.
You can upgrade it and stufflike that if you need to.
but I'm pretty sure you won'thave to worry about it too much.
But

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (01:15:40):
Yeah.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:15:40):
yeah, there's a little bit of game and
anyway, so if anyone's lookingfor a PS five and then, yeah, I
am hoping that through thispodcast though, we can set up
little competitions with FCS andall of that and just have little
competitions running on the sideand stuff as just little events
and that.
So

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (01:15:56):
Yeah.
It would be

_1_10-01-2025_19420 (01:15:57):
eventually, hopefully most things across
platform.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (01:16:00):
Yes.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:16:01):
even if you, we sat down and just played
Battlefield six multiplayer andjust had heaps of listeners from
the podcast just playing it andthen talking about it on the
podcast, it'd be pretty cool,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (01:16:10):
Yes.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:16:11):
like,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (01:16:11):
Oh, yeah,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:16:12):
their dreams and they'll come later.
So

squadcaster-0f2h_1_ (01:16:14):
Eventually.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:16:15):
well we're gonna jump into the predictions
this week.
what are your predictions?
I've got mine and Zach's andwe'll leave the grand final ones
until Friday.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (01:16:23):
yep.
I reckon Philly Eagles are gonnago Keep the unbeaten street.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:16:31):
So they're gonna continue their winning
streak streak,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-20 (01:16:34):
And Arsenal to beat Westham.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:16:38):
So I've got, for mine, I've got the Jets
to win the, Australia Cup onSaturday.
they're the only A-League teamin it, so it's probably a pretty
good bet, but I've got the billsto continue there.
I'm beat and run for the NFLseason as well.
go five from five.
Zach's got city to beat Moroccoin the Champions League
tomorrow, which is why he ispressuring me to put the bet on

(01:17:00):
as soon as possible'cause he'sgetting a little bit late.
But, he's also gone Adelaide 30sixes to beat Cairns in the NBL.
So they're our predictions forthe week.
You got anything else this week

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (01:17:13):
Nah, we've, we've thrown all our bets
all over the

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:17:16):
No.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01- (01:17:16):
time.
Instead of being all consistentwith certain ones.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:17:21):
Yeah, we're, we're doing it a little
bit different to try and keepmoney in there and, yeah, we'll
still do our multi, but we'regonna, we're gonna put five on
our, On our own bets, within itto try and, you know, keep the
money there so we can keepputting bets on without having
to put 10 bucks in each week.
But at the end of the day, it'sonly 10 bucks.

(01:17:43):
I'm not worried about it.
So just try to look out for eachother and shit, so,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (01:17:47):
Yep.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:17:48):
yeah.
All right.
Well I guess I'll see you Fridayand hopefully everybody else
'cause we'll do our, bonus grandfinal preview episode.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (01:17:59):
Yes,

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:17:59):
that one will be, just for the grand
final weekend.
So we'll go over NRLW, the SuperCup and the NRL grand final and
try to break it down on ourthoughts and yeah, have a go at
doing that anyway,

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10-01-2 (01:18:14):
Yep.
Yep.

_1_10-01-2025_194203 (01:18:14):
so see, see how close we get and
hopefully Zach will be back forit or we can plan for him to be
on the, on the podcast.
So, yeah, I think.
Till Friday, I suppose.
Let's buy from us.

squadcaster-0f2h_1_10- (01:18:29):
Goodbye.
That's it.

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