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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the banana, and.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm gonna start before and started roaring laughing, or should
I say this week's handle is Jack Crowley, because if
I left to go any longer, you can't help the
silence in the darkness two of us. We can only
apologize as we're recording late at night, and as after training,
I'm trying to design a poster looking at my own
(00:28):
face for the last four hours, and I just wanted
to put my head through the screen for this new
tour that I've got coming up. So the poatos are
a hinting frazle. But we were sucking on Barry's tea,
so we should be all right. And we were just
discussing Lucas said sweets. Were they even an energy sweeter?
Were they just a ball of sugar?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
War an energy sweet? Because yeah, it gives you a
massive hit of sugar. But that too looks it.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Looked like it like it just you know, it just
burns bright for like five minutes and then the pure
slump after that. You have to eat the whole packet,
like over the space of two hours and just stay
high and then die afterwards. Yes, okay, it's true. I
(01:13):
had skittles at the weekend for the first time in yolks,
and they were delicious. I have to say, and ten
minutes your views on sour jellies very strong, good, well,
I have discovered a sour jelly that will It's Willy
Wonka levels of holy fuck. Grab the side of the table.
(01:33):
Is this happening? I went, I transported him as a
fucking dimension with Colin the Caterpillar. M and S suits
out of an Apple Green. Brought a packet from home
the other day from Dublin. The young latloves phizzy sweets
or sour sweets. This gives one of them as right,
Let's let's try try one each TOAs could not speak
(01:54):
for a good two minutes, and I thought it could,
I swear to god, I thought it could take sour swee.
There was tears streaming down my cheeks from these things.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I don't want. This is Colin the Caterpillar. Where'd you
buy them?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Ms? Somins have tied it this This podcast has been
brought to you by M and S. I think I've
said at four times, and it's tightening with Apple Green
petro stations. So they sell some M and S shit shit,
They will never sell an ark. Yeah, some of them
are kind of going some of the things that are there,
like deviled eggs and scotch fucking Scotch eggs and stuff,
and you're like that, Oh, every version of a Percy
(02:32):
Peak they have Penelope Peek as well, like if they
have a girl version, they have. But these colin the
caterpillar ones, there's a rake of them, but this one
particular one, I went said, sour column the caterpillars. I went,
all right, let's give it a go. And I would
urge any of our listeners if you like a sour jelly,
get your hands on the back of these. These are
I don't think you can do much better, I other
(02:54):
than actually putting serious chemicals into anything. I don't know
how you do much better than this. I know, did
we get a defective bag? Because I mean I was
speechless for a good minute.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Way I know those I've heard those sweets. It's just
a normal snake and a little snake.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
No they are snake. Oh okay, they're snake shaped, but
they have a sour Have you had the sour ones?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah? I think so. I think very often reaching for
a sour sweet, like I'm pretty sure I've had those,
I'd say they were defective. We'll have to retry it
or get the listeners to retry.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yes, can you can anybody, because I won't be near
until No, it would be two weeks before up near
Dublin again, and we need to know inside that time,
like the Six Nations that already have started, but we
need to know. Yeah, and I will if if, if
somebody can verify, I swear to God, I'll actually know
there's a there's an eminescent Glomel, I'll go to Glammel
(03:52):
and if they're just a sour, I'll go in there.
Hopefully if the storm doesn't blow us all away. We've
got this storm yan or I don't know, it's got
a Welsh name. Now, this one that's coming on Friday,
and it's the most severe one that has ever hit Ireland.
So that's just fucking yeah, that's fucking cary.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
If you survive it, and if you're still alive when
we record next week and you you can do a
live tasting.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yes, that's a great idea. That's yeah. I hope that
maybe we got an effective bag or something. But I
swear to God, like we're talking, remember I remember that
scene from Harry mitt Sally where she starts, uh faking
an orgasm in the diner and she's she's gripping the
(04:39):
side of the table, screaming in the air. That was
kind of me, quietly, My eyes were fucking water, just
gripping the table. What the fuck is happening? It was
tremendous in the pain, well not the pain, but the
pure turn your mouth inside out kind of of a feeling.
It was class.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I don't work in a sweetshop where we had like
the those extremes Harar sweets and they were makes your
job go into a bit of a spasm. It was
great crack. We used to be giving them out for
free people just to just to enjoy it, like to
enjoy the the crack, like of yea torturing people. It
was great inside of Limerick.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
City, tremendous. Well, how was your How was your weekend?
Other than that? Was it all right? Was it good?
You were playing who are you playing? No?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
By On?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
So it was actually great. Do you know what's so funny?
So by On women's team. So we're still in Division two,
as you know, because we didn't go up to Division
one last year despite winning Division two and by on
by on Connor ran out of money or something a
couple of years ago, and we're like relegated down a
(05:45):
few what do they call leagues, and they've been like
talking this big talk of like we're going to be
the ones to go back up to Elie one. We
can't wait for Larchelle to come and we're going to
kick the ship out of them and stuff with this
in French obviously in the kind of the same term
like this. This is they've been talking about like beating
(06:05):
us for the last since the beginning of the season,
and I was like, oh, my god, like, we haven't
played by that yet, so there must be good if
they're talking this big talk. And now, to be fair,
we did play well, but my god, like that would
you would you not just win the match first and
talk shit after? Like I literally was like they hyped
us up massively and we fucking kicked the shut out
(06:28):
and we won twenty eight nail. Oh yeah, yeah, we've
got a bonus point. Another two tries in the bag,
thanks very much.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Tell us where the tries to score Talker is through
the tries now, don't be just to run away with
talker because no, almost none of us listen to It's
got the score tries at the weekend, please share.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah, one was a little tip online off the center's
shoulder in by the five meter. It was really nice
to get because I could hear them screaming for it
out the back. But I could see a fucking massive
hole in front of me. Thank god she saw as well.
So there was that. And then the next one was
I carried into the five meter and then bounced up
(07:10):
and carried again straight over the.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Line not held in the tackle.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Oh yeah, I know I was in. There was no one,
no one else. Yes. Then I released the ball, popped up, went.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Again, love it, love it, pure backgrove of the magic.
I love to see that. That's that's great. Now we
all get to share it. Kind of feel like from
your point of view that we all got to score
those tries.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yes, yeah, because yes. So we returned afterwards, and we
didn't get back to Lars untill half three in the morning.
Was shit. It was a Saturday night. I actually would
have gone out. All the girls were straight to the nightclub,
and except because I was doing my coaching course Monday
(07:54):
and Tuesday in a little place called Peragu in the
middle of France. One of the girls who I play with,
she was also going home to get her wisdom teeth out.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Would you believe Jesus?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
And I know, and she's I'm not far from there.
So we after getting home at half three in the morning,
we got up a half six to drive out to
her farm and well, they're from lim limousa maybe.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Limousine limousine the cattle and the lung cars.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I don't know about anything about the cars, but.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I'm just going with Limo. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I don't know a limousine is actually from there, but
I know that the cows are. But they live on
a farm and they've loaded the cows. So I met
loads of cows. It were so cute.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I saw your story.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Yes, yes, and then right her brother plays so she
plays with us for with Rchelle. Her brother plays for
a local team down there, so he was playing on
the Sunday. So we went like why with her mom
and her dad, like there's such like, you know, far,
such a farming family. Like when we were sitting down
(09:06):
for lunch before going away to the match, someone knocked
on the door and turned up with a big bag
of there was a deer legs sticking out of the
top of one of the bag. There was a hunter
that had been hunting on the land and dropped some
meat off to to uh say thanks like for letting
me hunt your land a big bag of deer and
a big bag of what's it called boar? So I
(09:30):
just I literally when I was saying to you, I'm
a sa have dinner there now before I jump on
the call, I literally had a boar for a wild
boar for dinner because they sent some wild boar home
with me.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
That's amazing. Cultures are the same the world over, aren't
they Like just.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Literally literally and like we went to the match and
it gave me such a sense of being in mallow
like it was with yeah and like odd do you know,
like the rugby was pure like fucking like arse cracks
hanging out and like.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Billy's yea love it.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yeah, And they're like a handful of kind of half
like you know, really handsome players who think they're the
absolute bob and shaking their head, you know, and throwing
their hands in the air, and like I was very good.
And like then this like band of supporters that were
walking up and down the sideline like abusing the ref.
(10:30):
I was class. And then they had like their homemade
punch to warm me up at halftime, and then we
went up to the clubhouse afterwards and fucking stay there
drinking pints, drinking beer for the rest of the night.
So it was a true, true, like heart of rugby experience.
I was like, I was so over the moon just
(10:51):
to be there, like in such a random little spot
that that's that's it. Like, you know, you talk about
the big professional clubs make profession, but professional rugby would
never have existed without this like grassroots heart of fucking
rugby stuff. It's actually just the best, and everyone needs
to if you've forgotten what it's like. Anyone is listening.
(11:12):
If you've forgotten what that's like, you need to fucking
turn around and go back and find some home clubs,
some small shitty match to go to and fucking go
and get amongst it. And it's just it's the best.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
There's two week deer sandwiches at the side of the pitch,
is upping punch like I love it. You never like
no way would you have been eaten with like you know,
top fourteen players, parents, you know the morning of the match,
like you know what I mean back at their farmhouse,
like I love the I love the right. That's grub
done now is it? Right away to the match with us?
(11:48):
And after you went yeah, just lovely, lovely. I love
to hear that. We we had we had the dun
Garvin Comedy Club on Friday night. It was tremendous, absolutely tremendous.
I had baby octopus for dinner. Woo I did, and
it was sensational. It was Yeah, it was kind of done.
(12:12):
This chili sauce. Oh my god, oh my god, it
was just shun't be talking now for one minute, Tom's eaton?
Do you know that kind of I just need to
be by myself in this moment for enjoying these little
baby octopai. It was absolutely glorious. The grub is outstanding.
Attached to the club, it's it's called three sixty Coukoffs
(12:33):
the name of the restaurant, and it's oh, you would
very you would very much like it, not very much
like it. Everything is just there's a cheekiness to it.
But it's like, fucking hell, you know what you're doing.
Do you know when you just sit back and you
like to let professionals take charge of the situation. And
it's that way when it comes to the Globe and
the hospitality in there. It's like nothing they can do, no,
(12:56):
like they can't do enough for you. Not because I'm
you know, running the club or whatever, but you see
with all the customers, it was just, oh Jesus Crest,
it was very, very very nice. So and I'm very
excited to announce the first couple of dates have gone
on sale for my new tour. So just like last year,
Cork is upfront as one of my favorite players in
(13:16):
the world. Colin's Comedy Club down in you know, you
know what Cockland. Some people would call it our British
listeners would call it Coughlin's people call it Collins. But
their comedy club is called the Comedy Cavern, and I
fucking love the place. It's like nine pubs in one.
There'll be an all rebel sing song down the front
of the pub, do you know, There'll be some indie
(13:38):
band playing out in the beer garden, and then I'll
have the comedy club part. So very very excited about that.
It is the I think it's now the Tent of May.
The Tent of May is the is the very first date,
and there's one or two more have come on sale
this evening, like the Glower in Ennis and a couple
of more have come on sale. So very very excited
(13:58):
to be a pletrough them next next week. And I
won't be shy about telling everybody about it because I
don't want to be playing rooms all by myself. I
would prefer people came, that would be great. Yeah yeah,
So where did you watch? Where did you watch?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
We?
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I do you know what? I didn't text you. I
didn't text you just just because I knew you're you're
enjoying it, like I just there was nothing to give
out about it, you know, but it was I knew
you would be having some of the similar thoughts to me.
Where did you watch the The Monster North hamp To
match anyway?
Speaker 1 (14:32):
First I watched it on the bus of course.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah yeah, yeah, oh jesus, yeah you're on the bus.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I didn't see the second half.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Oh my goodness, have you seen it since?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I haven't, no, because I feel it was on my
course so and on the farm. So no, I haven't
seen the second half. Happy about it just as the
results and I was like at balls to.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Be do you know what it could have gone? It
really could have gone either way. Like the fact that
we three, yes, we're through to the last sixteen is
great obviously, but do you know what, and I'm not
one of these like happy losers or whatever, like plucky losers,
that plucky way. It really could have gone either fucking way.
(15:15):
Like Munster, there was there was just a couple of
brain farts by one or two players, and I think
a bit of it was down to lack of game time,
like dermak kill Gallen who was out in the wing
because he hadn't played since like the All Blacks match,
and he was out there because Shane Daily faced his
(15:35):
or Phil's hi a the last day and he he
had one or two lapses in concentration and that led
to you know, led to try and then Gavin Coombs
got sent off or got binned and that led to
another try. And that's that was really the deciding factor
in the match. But some like there was some passages
(15:59):
to play from Munster, Farns, the control they showed through
a lot of it. Connor Murray looked like he was
twenty four. It was incredible how good he looked like,
how sprightly. He looked, yeah, like incredible rockets surpassed.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
No way I saw the first half, So I suppose
it was just kind of really disappointed then, like when
I saw the result, because I thought that they I
was expecting kind of a big I was expecting North
hamp to be better in the first half, I think,
So when I a halftime, I was like, fucking hell, like,
let's go. So I was disappointed then when I saw
(16:36):
the result. But obviously there was a lot to take
from it.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
There really there really was. I mean, and they're still
in the fight, you know, in that kind of way,
like anybody watching that would go anybody who got to
see it, if you're neutral, you'd go, fuck. That could
have gone either way. In fact, there was there was
probably maybe sixty percent where you go the monster should
have taken that. Do you know they were in like
(17:00):
talking to seventy eight and a half. Seventy ninth minute,
Jack Crowley from his own five decides, well maybe from
his own maybe his own twenty two. I suppose inside
just inside it decides fuck this, and they're down by
two points and he just fuck he just sides a
run through a rake of players, makes sixty meters by
(17:21):
himself tackled and there was a millisecond that the support
wasn't in. And this kid that they brought on Pollock
is his name, he just made this I don't know.
I suppose he made this try seven tackle with on
Paddy Patterson that really more a fellow with maybe another
half a stone or a bit more try score, Nouse
(17:44):
would have gotten it regardless. But the same kid he
was in on the under twenties last year, he went
for the poach, which is fucking cheeky enough because he
was just as like you're just inside. He was just
inside there twenty two and you'd nearly leave off going
for just just in case the ref saort has been
a bit different, you know, and a penalty was given
(18:04):
or something. But he's some in fairness to him, he
had liked that young twenty year old faxt twitch muscle
and he just got in over the ball lockdown and
actually ripped it and that was the That was the game.
But ah do you know it was it was fair enough,
you got a fuck it fair enough, But it was
some homdinger of a match like it was a fucking
(18:26):
homdinger of a match like the players that played out
of their skin, played unbelievable like Jack Crowley. I don't
want to fucking hear another thing about this debate. You cannot,
you cannot, There's no no, there is no outh half
in Ireland right now that they could have done that.
And the way he controlled the game at the weekend
(18:48):
he looked incredible, and the variation of what he could do,
do you know what I mean? Coupled with his defense
you can't. I don't know you hearing much of what
Jesus Christ all. He's double leinster based. Oh podcast. I
listened to clips of a couple of them during the weekend,
like they're like, you know, Crowley hasn't really talked himself
(19:08):
back into the situation, but you know, for me, it
has to be signing to start. But he started against
Fiji and lasted sixty minutes and did nothing. That's it.
That's it. Now you're gonna put him in against England
first up? Like coma comma.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Why I This is why I've chosen Jack Curly is
my name tonight to kind of side with him on
the debate because I'm sick of the debate as well.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
And also, look, you have to debate it like there
have to be, but like it's just funny, like the
kind of the reaction that comes online. Then afterwards, like
all it is is everyone from Leinster say, prent of
Gas and everyone from Monster Saint Crowley.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Well that's all it is, and then people shout shouting
at each other online.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
But I would I would for me. I would shout
for Frawley before I shout for Brandy. Gas proved a
lot more. He's a much bigger man. He's got a
far better defense set up, set up, do you know
what I mean? He would be a much better swap
out than Prenda Gas, Like Prendegas has the stuff, but
he showed it at the Weekend of Jesus. They got
(20:15):
away with fucking murder a couple of times with the
with the ref, it was kind of Mackenson's fucking argument,
kind of going christ. There was one point where the
ref turned to they were playing bat and he turned
the bat and he gave him an you know, give
him a warning. I said, go talk to your players.
And it was around the ten their bath chain and
(20:37):
they went into a huddle and then cheekily Gibson Parks's
can I take it? Quick. What the ref shoot said,
shut the fuck up. Of course, can't take it quick.
There's fifteen players in a huddle over there, and he
went go on so after telling them to go have
a chat and a huddle, and they took a quick
but he gave the ball to Prendergas and the young
(21:01):
flood didn't know fucking his arse from a hole in
the ground. He ran up the arse end of some
of the fucking the beast players who didn't know where
he was coming from. They were like, what what the
fuck is this fellow down? He but and he went
out the out the backs and they fucking dropped it,
do you know. But regards didn't make difference the result.
They ended up winning and winning well. But two things
(21:22):
in that one. The referee was fucking absolutely scandalss he
and he wanted a red card to prop for scrum
penalty like the guy was had had a yellow earlier
in the half because of an accidental high shot on
Now it was an accident on it was a glance
and it was a headshot. Definitely was a yellow but
(21:43):
that's all it was. And then they gave a scrumb
penalty and then he gave you a man a fuck
a red card for a scrumb penalty. He was like
the love of Jesus and that killed. But he just killed. Yeah,
But Prendegas showed me nothing in that game. Again. I
watched now, I watched the extended highlights, but I was
seeing nothing. He stands, you know, sto super deep and
(22:08):
in close to the scrumb because obviously they're going, don't
put yourself out there. You're the pay shape of a
pencil for the next year orwo. Until you put some
muscle on, you're gonna get cut in half. You can't
have that lad at the international level against England, you
just fucking can't do, you know. So I can't see
an argument for it, not yet. Anyway, I would see
Frawley in there ahead of watch call it Crowley. But
(22:31):
cutting back to the Munster, it was Calvin Nash has
to be one of the fastest players in the six nations.
Out of the six nations he has, I'd love to
see his his top speed. Did you see you obviously
saw the try for the chip through.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Jesus, and then there was nothing happening
like it was just like an unbelievable it can turn
turn if kind of the run of turn against.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
A play I love if you look if you watch
it back your man Alex Mitchell, who's right quick, there's
frum half and he's an unbelievable player, like he's the
real Marshall on there on the pitch from but there's
a moment where he just gleanses over his shoulder because
he thinks he's grand like he's tracking back to get
the ball, and just his eyes go hu, that's Calvin
n Through the two of them, there's just this ah
(23:21):
fuck moment. As shit, he wasn't expecting anybody to come
rocking back at the pace he did. And then his
second try. Did you see Nash's second.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Try in the first How did it go?
Speaker 2 (23:36):
It went through everybody. Everybody got it. If you can
see the highlights on YouTube or whatever, it's World War one.
It's one of the tries of the season for for
the the European watch mc collor Cup. It was just
glorious the way it went through Everybodyeah, it was just
really well put together try. And your man killed Gallon
(23:58):
with a small bit of game time. He's some he's
some piece of stuff. He's massive. Yeah, I was just
I just I'd seen him all around that all Blacks
game and stuff, but I'd forgotten he's fucking huge. He's
like six foot four and sixteen stone, like, he's fucking massive.
And the try in the second half that really, you know,
(24:20):
really put the name the game back on a knife edge.
Was that little inside flick from Murray. I don't know.
You didn't see it, obviously, but you have to. It's
just pure Murray to Zebo, like seven eight years ago.
It's fucking beautiful. But what it is is the new
rules kind of giving the scrum half a bit of
(24:41):
space at the back of rocks. So Murray now being
a big fellow like him too, he can take off
and he'll draw defenders away. So a gap opened up.
Kill Callen ran in the inside him, and I wouldn't mind.
He didn't give my a dirty pass. He give me
an actual spin pass back behind him, like and your
man kill Gallan had a bit of work to do,
all right, to get in a line. But still all
the same, it was fairly saucy looking at just fairly sassy.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
So you're talking about that new rule, like being able
to kind of move that that's what you fucking need
because teams are too good at fucking figuring out defense.
It's too boring, like defense is too good. That's why
more kicking has come into it. Kicking is shite, like
the Sorry not all the time, but you know that
(25:26):
if it starts through a game of kick tennis, because
basically no one can challenge the defense in front of them,
that's what you need. So that's good. That sounds goed like, uh,
that makes it positive about that rule Just basically fucking
putting being able to strip defenses apart a bit more.
Please you.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
You'd love it too, because you can't touch the the
scrum half can't come around. The opposing scrumb half can't
come around and your scrum either. He can only come
up halfway up the scrumb So now one of my
favorite things that had fallen out of the game altogether,
the number eight for a counter can do that now
because you don't have you know, some little fucker stuck
(26:06):
stuck to your face when you pull your head out
like to go for a trot. So it's it will
definitely open up the game. Like you said, defenses were
defenses were matches, Do you know what I mean? It's
what Leinster are playing At the minute, Leinster are playing
a real South African thing. They're like, here, have it,
have it to fuck. I'm sure we'll see what you
do with it. Will absolutely fucking punky off the park
(26:28):
with tackles. That being said, when you have org Snyman,
oh my god, oh my god, an the field. Did
you see that? Did you see the steel? Did you
see like he stole their ball with one hand and
in the air, transferred it into his another and plopped
(26:48):
it off like he was leaving a scorne down onto
a plate for somebody that was sitting down waiting. It was.
It's he's playing a different fucking game, like.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
It's placing the golf ball on the green, just like
he's big fucking massive tens scandalous Orgie or he the
ba we love. We were very sad. I was still
mad at him, so said something else about our little
(27:21):
a d friend. Just I was just scrolling there whatever day.
It was just looking at some videos. That video popped
up he is like that and one DuPont pass and
I was like, oh god, is he at it again?
And all it was was just a normal kind of
flick pass. And I was like, oh, do you know
I saw the.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Huh yeah, big fucking.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Literally world rugby run pass. And we were saying this
before as well, like how how much they do be
guff following over him? But actually most of the time
it's very, very merited. And then sometimes it's like when
you were like, because it's literally just a normal pass,
like why are you making.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
A video of the there was they you know there was.
Ange was on fucking fire the weekend with his side
step and down the break ankles just watching the name
my ankle is sore. But there was one passage play
where it was I can't remember a player that scored,
and they were like the two pond level, you know,
you know, a fucking litnus And again he just happened.
(28:27):
He had one or two passes in the middle of
this huge passage of play where like sixteen other players
has had their hands on it, and you're like, where
was the new pont what was he in the middle
or somewhere. He didn't make a break. He just went
to the back of the roock and ripped it out twice. Now,
in fairness, the one that followed up immediately after, I
(28:50):
was like, he's operating on another level where he took
the ball out and it looks have you seen his
crossfield kicks? They looked like a fellow playing Gaelic football
in like and a skull. Like there's he's keeping he's
keeping the ball low for fear of the wind, and
he just fucking rips a kick across the ball and
(29:10):
it's the ugliest old duck of a thing, but it
always seems to land exactly where where it does, so
I mean, I give him that one, but it's an
ignorant looking kick.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
There's no style to it, Like it's like attacked to
a string. It's like you know, you know the top
oh where if you and I were standing like an
opposite en his room, and like we had two handles
each and you pull the string and like the ball
goes over and back. Do you know the talk about
(29:42):
That's what it's like. The ball kind of like like
going through the air, like it's like an attached to
a string.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
There is there's a weirdness to it because it shouldn't
have gone in the direction he kicked it, you know
what I mean. He was like a fellow who'd been
playing in a windy pitch all his life and this
was his home turf, and he do what way to
put it, but it wasn't it wasn't even windy.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
You know, I know what you mean. He can just
but he can just do that. It's like, but that
is the nice thing about Japan as well, Like he's
not he's not doing it for the image. He doesn't
care how he looks or how the game looks or
how it looks. He doesn't do anything for like the
satisfaction of of it looking clean or good. He's literally
(30:23):
just a fucking dog mindset, just fucking get it done.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
And speaking to somebody who doesn't make it look class?
What's going on with what I said that? How does
a fellow score that many tries in a game? How
does that happen?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Sorry? This came on the coaching course right and like
there was a couple lights standing around and they were like, oh,
tell me about oh six tries? Yes, whatever they were saying,
and I literally stopped him. I was like, can you
imagine what conversation you would be having if this was
in women's rugby? And they literally all went yeah, everyone's
like oh don know, no kind of thought for like,
(31:04):
how how shit that is? And for Fox sake, the
whole thing needs to be reformed, like there's none of
that talk. But that's exactly what happens when it happens
in the women's game. So people just need to check
themselves a little bit, because, to be fair, the lads
did say they literally all just kind of stopped and
started into space, and we're like, yeah, that's true, because
that's scandless.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Do you know what I mean? No fellow should be scoring.
I'm not saying it isn't an incredible achievement, but even
he had to be going a lad's come on, now,
come on, only you fuck attacking me like Jesus Christ.
But let's get out. We've been dancing around the fucking
the drain here for I don't know how long. You
sent me a glorious, a glorious watchman call it text message,
(31:44):
and I knew, and for some reason I thought we weren't.
I thought I didn't think it was going to happen,
but you were one hundredercent right. I thought it was Glasgow,
but you were a one hundred percent right monster. Now
play Tom versus Anna, because you're one Larachelle. I'm not
allowing you into the monster camp now because you'll only
(32:06):
be stealing all our calls off the door of the
dressing room. I know, I know, to your French spies.
Now you're you're so embedded with the friends. You're going
to count three games and everything and eating bore and
fucking deer for breakfast out in the back of beyonds
out in Limousine, County, Limousine, the parish of Limousine, and
(32:26):
you're just going to So I'm just going to it's
me versus you. Now, come the weekend of April fourth,
fifth or sixth, and.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
On the fifth, it's on the Saturday, is it?
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Yeah? So I I was in the clubhouse in Pompadour,
which is the name of that club. I was in
the clubhouse when it came up on my phone and
I opened it and I was like, oh my god,
here we fucking I couldn't believe what I was reading
(33:03):
because remember last summer when I was like, I wasn't
sure if I was staying in Larchelle, and I wasn't.
I didn't I couldn't mind up and think about things.
And I was like if Munster get drawn in Larshell's pool,
And then I didn't have enough time I had to
make my decision, and I was like, okay, because of
a million different reasons. I was like, you know what, Yes,
(33:25):
I want to stay. And then who got drawn in
the pool fucking Leinster again, and I was like, for
fox sake, I was like, guaranteed it'll happen now when
I'm gone, or you know, guaranteed I'll just never get
to see it, or I won't I won't have an
apartment in town when Munster calm or whatever. I actually
couldn't believe what I was reading that they've been drawn together.
(33:48):
I'm just so happy. I'm so excited. We are playing
a match the same weekend in Claremont.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
And I'd say you have an aggravated trapped nerve again
that I'm just saying.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
I have one or two trapped nerves. I'd say, So,
it's not a it's not a big match climb after
bottom of the table so and struggling a lot, so
it could might it might be a blessing that it's
fallen on the same again. And I actually can't believe it,
Like I'm just I can't wait. I'm so happy, so excited.
(34:26):
It's hard though, Like if lowd mons people getting onto
me for tickets, like already a list of about sixteen
people who've got onto me for tickets. But I'm like,
I can't. I can't get tickets number one, like they
just I don't. I don't. I don't have a way
of buying tickets. I have my own ticket for me,
and then other than that, some might pop up every
(34:46):
now and then, like I was able to get friends
of mine tickets. But for a game like that, it
depends if the fact people giving up better or not.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
But like tickets for that like different Larch are already
really good to go to their own games anyway, do
you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (35:03):
As good for heineking Cup? But I wonder because it's
Monster will it will it be different?
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Which learage? Are you fucking joking me? It's going to be.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
They don't give as much of a funk about that
as we do.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Okay, right, so they did like they don't get it.
They were all saying to me after the Leinster game,
congrats to me, what are you talking about? Like honestly,
like and they get what you're Irish, I'm like, it
doesn't work like that in Ireland.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
We're far too miserables. The grace of God and you
fucking do you not know the phrase? For Christ's sake?
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Yeah? Where have been? Like so anyway, it's a slightly
ever so slightly different right for Champions Cup. But no,
they they would like they still fucking love it. They
still it's bigger here in large than it is in
other places because they've won or twice. So yeah, it
will be massively again like tickets.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
We're going to have to get you a fucking your
own marquee to put out in the square and just
come and hang out with Enna for a fiver like
this is we have to capitalize on this massively, like.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
Oh absolutely, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, I'm on it already.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Marked guided tours, Yeah, swimming in.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
The old Port. What else could you do? Fucking Mancheese
ofvs General Homebirds till four a m. No, No, I've
already made like a I've already made a list of
like a pub crawl. I want to bring people on
a pub crawl, like oh my god, you know what
I want to do morning? Yeah yeah, so we'll see,
(36:46):
like it depends, but like there's there's Yeah, I want
to capitalize it, not unlike making money, but just literally
making the most of the experience. So yeah, I can't
wait and I can't believe that fucking what's the six
Nations starting in two weekends time?
Speaker 2 (37:04):
I know, but not to get away from the fact
that the Monster ended up playing Larachelle as a result
of Larachelle getting beaten by fucking Bennetton, which is kind
of class in the grand scheme of things. You know,
you go, okay, but can you imagine the left fucking
rockets that Roger was shoving them up up on Monday more.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Yeah, yeah, I avoided training this week there because I
usually go like like I have a look at training
or like go up and see what they're at in
like skills or whatever. And I just was passing them
there today and I was like just like ran along
(37:42):
because I was like, oh no, they're probably getting fucking
rolls it all week. But anyway, yeah, it's all happening.
Oh yeah, I'm sorry. I have to give a shout
out to Ben who was telling me that he just
loves our podcast.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
So great and then great, great to hear from you.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we play We played for Pine Pine
Pilgrims together, so yeah, anyway, sorry if I didn't say
that there, I would have forgotten it. But we need
to go to bed soon, so yes, any more important
point now.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
We can we just make a point of saying that
they had the launch of the six Nations in the coliseum.
It looked unreal, but like, yeah, I had to tag
you in the launch. Everybody else was. Did you see?
It was like straight out of fucking like eve Cent
around fucking Milan fucking Fashion Week. The way they walked
(38:44):
in with the trophy. Did you see that the coaches,
I tell you, I don't know if you saw that,
but like the French, the two French, Yeah, go.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
On, you're you're saying the way they walked in with
the trophy, there was only one person who walked in
with the trophy.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Yeah, yeah, okay, it was okay and obviously, but the
two French lads absolutely looked perfect because everybody else kind
of awkwardly and quickly walked down the catwalk with all
the people sitting either side of it. But the two
French walked like the custom made. Do you know what
(39:18):
I mean? They look a part like it just and
of course immediately like fuck, why do I ever comment
on anything ever, But like immediately some absolute fucking tonails, like, uh,
keep your comments on the French till after four, and
like literally look at my name, look at my name,
(39:39):
and comedy is literally written into my handle. You fucking
absolute fucking vice.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Grips shit for the comment you sent to me.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Yeah, I got shiped for the comment that I tagged
your name. I was speaking to you. I wasn't actually
commenting to the group, but I was speaking to my
friend Anna. The French looked like they were ready for
fucking fashion week. And of course, like two or three
people liked it and said, you know, our wrote smiley
faces and stuff like that. A bunch of people liked it,
and then there's absolute fucking tonail jumps on and I
(40:16):
couldn't help myself. I literally, really, Jesus or something, Craig,
I couldn't help myself.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
Tom O'Mahony serious, Yes, serious all the time, Not Tom
mahoney comedy Jesus.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
Right. We will reconvene next week and we'll talk. We'll
get rightly in, we'll have ourselves ready, we'll we'll we'll
get a bit earlier. It won't be after training or
after fucking making posters and stuff like that, and we'll
have Yeah, a proper big six Nations, a big juicy
cheese dribbling out the side of it. Six Nations podcast preview,
(40:56):
and I can't fucking wait right who what? WHOA mine
the Rocks, Mine the Rocks
Speaker 1 (41:04):
The Banana Bears, Robbie Pod
It's the banana, and.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm gonna start before and started roaring laughing, or should
I say this week's handle is Jack Crowley, because if
I left to go any longer, you can't help the
silence in the darkness two of us. We can only
apologize as we're recording late at night, and as after training,
I'm trying to design a poster looking at my own
(00:28):
face for the last four hours, and I just wanted
to put my head through the screen for this new
tour that I've got coming up. So the poatos are
a hinting frazle. But we were sucking on Barry's tea,
so we should be all right. And we were just
discussing Lucas said sweets. Were they even an energy sweeter?
Were they just a ball of sugar?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
War an energy sweet? Because yeah, it gives you a
massive hit of sugar. But that too looks it.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Looked like it like it just you know, it just
burns bright for like five minutes and then the pure
slump after that. You have to eat the whole packet,
like over the space of two hours and just stay
high and then die afterwards. Yes, okay, it's true. I
(01:13):
had skittles at the weekend for the first time in yolks,
and they were delicious. I have to say, and ten
minutes your views on sour jellies very strong, good, well,
I have discovered a sour jelly that will It's Willy
Wonka levels of holy fuck. Grab the side of the table.
(01:33):
Is this happening? I went, I transported him as a
fucking dimension with Colin the Caterpillar. M and S suits
out of an Apple Green. Brought a packet from home
the other day from Dublin. The young latloves phizzy sweets
or sour sweets. This gives one of them as right,
Let's let's try try one each TOAs could not speak
(01:54):
for a good two minutes, and I thought it could,
I swear to god, I thought it could take sour swee.
There was tears streaming down my cheeks from these things.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I don't want. This is Colin the Caterpillar. Where'd you
buy them?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Ms? Somins have tied it this This podcast has been
brought to you by M and S. I think I've
said at four times, and it's tightening with Apple Green
petro stations. So they sell some M and S shit shit,
They will never sell an ark. Yeah, some of them
are kind of going some of the things that are there,
like deviled eggs and scotch fucking Scotch eggs and stuff,
and you're like that, Oh, every version of a Percy
(02:32):
Peak they have Penelope Peek as well, like if they
have a girl version, they have. But these colin the
caterpillar ones, there's a rake of them, but this one
particular one, I went said, sour column the caterpillars. I went,
all right, let's give it a go. And I would
urge any of our listeners if you like a sour jelly,
get your hands on the back of these. These are
I don't think you can do much better, I other
(02:54):
than actually putting serious chemicals into anything. I don't know
how you do much better than this. I know, did
we get a defective bag? Because I mean I was
speechless for a good minute.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Way I know those I've heard those sweets. It's just
a normal snake and a little snake.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
No they are snake. Oh okay, they're snake shaped, but
they have a sour Have you had the sour ones?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah? I think so. I think very often reaching for
a sour sweet, like I'm pretty sure I've had those,
I'd say they were defective. We'll have to retry it
or get the listeners to retry.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yes, can you can anybody, because I won't be near
until No, it would be two weeks before up near
Dublin again, and we need to know inside that time,
like the Six Nations that already have started, but we
need to know. Yeah, and I will if if, if
somebody can verify, I swear to God, I'll actually know
there's a there's an eminescent Glomel, I'll go to Glammel
(03:52):
and if they're just a sour, I'll go in there.
Hopefully if the storm doesn't blow us all away. We've
got this storm yan or I don't know, it's got
a Welsh name. Now, this one that's coming on Friday,
and it's the most severe one that has ever hit Ireland.
So that's just fucking yeah, that's fucking cary.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
If you survive it, and if you're still alive when
we record next week and you you can do a
live tasting.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yes, that's a great idea. That's yeah. I hope that
maybe we got an effective bag or something. But I
swear to God, like we're talking, remember I remember that
scene from Harry mitt Sally where she starts, uh faking
an orgasm in the diner and she's she's gripping the
(04:39):
side of the table, screaming in the air. That was
kind of me, quietly, My eyes were fucking water, just
gripping the table. What the fuck is happening? It was
tremendous in the pain, well not the pain, but the
pure turn your mouth inside out kind of of a feeling.
It was class.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I don't work in a sweetshop where we had like
the those extremes Harar sweets and they were makes your
job go into a bit of a spasm. It was
great crack. We used to be giving them out for
free people just to just to enjoy it, like to
enjoy the the crack, like of yea torturing people. It
was great inside of Limerick.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
City, tremendous. Well, how was your How was your weekend?
Other than that? Was it all right? Was it good?
You were playing who are you playing? No?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
By On?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
So it was actually great. Do you know what's so funny?
So by On women's team. So we're still in Division two,
as you know, because we didn't go up to Division
one last year despite winning Division two and by on
by on Connor ran out of money or something a
couple of years ago, and we're like relegated down a
(05:45):
few what do they call leagues, and they've been like
talking this big talk of like we're going to be
the ones to go back up to Elie one. We
can't wait for Larchelle to come and we're going to
kick the ship out of them and stuff with this
in French obviously in the kind of the same term
like this. This is they've been talking about like beating
(06:05):
us for the last since the beginning of the season,
and I was like, oh, my god, like, we haven't
played by that yet, so there must be good if
they're talking this big talk. And now, to be fair,
we did play well, but my god, like that would
you would you not just win the match first and
talk shit after? Like I literally was like they hyped
us up massively and we fucking kicked the shut out
(06:28):
and we won twenty eight nail. Oh yeah, yeah, we've
got a bonus point. Another two tries in the bag,
thanks very much.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Tell us where the tries to score Talker is through
the tries now, don't be just to run away with
talker because no, almost none of us listen to It's
got the score tries at the weekend, please share.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah, one was a little tip online off the center's
shoulder in by the five meter. It was really nice
to get because I could hear them screaming for it
out the back. But I could see a fucking massive
hole in front of me. Thank god she saw as well.
So there was that. And then the next one was
I carried into the five meter and then bounced up
(07:10):
and carried again straight over the.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Line not held in the tackle.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Oh yeah, I know I was in. There was no one,
no one else. Yes. Then I released the ball, popped up, went.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Again, love it, love it, pure backgrove of the magic.
I love to see that. That's that's great. Now we
all get to share it. Kind of feel like from
your point of view that we all got to score
those tries.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yes, yeah, because yes. So we returned afterwards, and we
didn't get back to Lars untill half three in the morning.
Was shit. It was a Saturday night. I actually would
have gone out. All the girls were straight to the nightclub,
and except because I was doing my coaching course Monday
(07:54):
and Tuesday in a little place called Peragu in the
middle of France. One of the girls who I play with,
she was also going home to get her wisdom teeth out.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Would you believe Jesus?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
And I know, and she's I'm not far from there.
So we after getting home at half three in the morning,
we got up a half six to drive out to
her farm and well, they're from lim limousa maybe.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Limousine limousine the cattle and the lung cars.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I don't know about anything about the cars, but.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I'm just going with Limo. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I don't know a limousine is actually from there, but
I know that the cows are. But they live on
a farm and they've loaded the cows. So I met
loads of cows. It were so cute.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I saw your story.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Yes, yes, and then right her brother plays so she
plays with us for with Rchelle. Her brother plays for
a local team down there, so he was playing on
the Sunday. So we went like why with her mom
and her dad, like there's such like, you know, far,
such a farming family. Like when we were sitting down
(09:06):
for lunch before going away to the match, someone knocked
on the door and turned up with a big bag
of there was a deer legs sticking out of the
top of one of the bag. There was a hunter
that had been hunting on the land and dropped some
meat off to to uh say thanks like for letting
me hunt your land a big bag of deer and
a big bag of what's it called boar? So I
(09:30):
just I literally when I was saying to you, I'm
a sa have dinner there now before I jump on
the call, I literally had a boar for a wild
boar for dinner because they sent some wild boar home
with me.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
That's amazing. Cultures are the same the world over, aren't
they Like just.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Literally literally and like we went to the match and
it gave me such a sense of being in mallow
like it was with yeah and like odd do you know,
like the rugby was pure like fucking like arse cracks
hanging out and like.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Billy's yea love it.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yeah, And they're like a handful of kind of half
like you know, really handsome players who think they're the
absolute bob and shaking their head, you know, and throwing
their hands in the air, and like I was very good.
And like then this like band of supporters that were
walking up and down the sideline like abusing the ref.
(10:30):
I was class. And then they had like their homemade
punch to warm me up at halftime, and then we
went up to the clubhouse afterwards and fucking stay there
drinking pints, drinking beer for the rest of the night.
So it was a true, true, like heart of rugby experience.
I was like, I was so over the moon just
(10:51):
to be there, like in such a random little spot
that that's that's it. Like, you know, you talk about
the big professional clubs make profession, but professional rugby would
never have existed without this like grassroots heart of fucking
rugby stuff. It's actually just the best, and everyone needs
to if you've forgotten what it's like. Anyone is listening.
(11:12):
If you've forgotten what that's like, you need to fucking
turn around and go back and find some home clubs,
some small shitty match to go to and fucking go
and get amongst it. And it's just it's the best.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
There's two week deer sandwiches at the side of the pitch,
is upping punch like I love it. You never like
no way would you have been eaten with like you know,
top fourteen players, parents, you know the morning of the match,
like you know what I mean back at their farmhouse,
like I love the I love the right. That's grub
done now is it? Right away to the match with us?
(11:48):
And after you went yeah, just lovely, lovely. I love
to hear that. We we had we had the dun
Garvin Comedy Club on Friday night. It was tremendous, absolutely tremendous.
I had baby octopus for dinner. Woo I did, and
it was sensational. It was Yeah, it was kind of done.
(12:12):
This chili sauce. Oh my god, oh my god, it
was just shun't be talking now for one minute, Tom's eaton?
Do you know that kind of I just need to
be by myself in this moment for enjoying these little
baby octopai. It was absolutely glorious. The grub is outstanding.
Attached to the club, it's it's called three sixty Coukoffs
(12:33):
the name of the restaurant, and it's oh, you would
very you would very much like it, not very much
like it. Everything is just there's a cheekiness to it.
But it's like, fucking hell, you know what you're doing.
Do you know when you just sit back and you
like to let professionals take charge of the situation. And
it's that way when it comes to the Globe and
the hospitality in there. It's like nothing they can do, no,
(12:56):
like they can't do enough for you. Not because I'm
you know, running the club or whatever, but you see
with all the customers, it was just, oh Jesus Crest,
it was very, very very nice. So and I'm very
excited to announce the first couple of dates have gone
on sale for my new tour. So just like last year,
Cork is upfront as one of my favorite players in
(13:16):
the world. Colin's Comedy Club down in you know, you
know what Cockland. Some people would call it our British
listeners would call it Coughlin's people call it Collins. But
their comedy club is called the Comedy Cavern, and I
fucking love the place. It's like nine pubs in one.
There'll be an all rebel sing song down the front
of the pub, do you know, There'll be some indie
(13:38):
band playing out in the beer garden, and then I'll
have the comedy club part. So very very excited about that.
It is the I think it's now the Tent of May.
The Tent of May is the is the very first date,
and there's one or two more have come on sale
this evening, like the Glower in Ennis and a couple
of more have come on sale. So very very excited
(13:58):
to be a pletrough them next next week. And I
won't be shy about telling everybody about it because I
don't want to be playing rooms all by myself. I
would prefer people came, that would be great. Yeah yeah,
So where did you watch? Where did you watch?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
We?
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I do you know what? I didn't text you. I
didn't text you just just because I knew you're you're
enjoying it, like I just there was nothing to give
out about it, you know, but it was I knew
you would be having some of the similar thoughts to me.
Where did you watch the The Monster North hamp To
match anyway?
Speaker 1 (14:32):
First I watched it on the bus of course.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah yeah, yeah, oh jesus, yeah you're on the bus.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I didn't see the second half.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Oh my goodness, have you seen it since?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I haven't, no, because I feel it was on my
course so and on the farm. So no, I haven't
seen the second half. Happy about it just as the
results and I was like at balls to.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Be do you know what it could have gone? It
really could have gone either way. Like the fact that
we three, yes, we're through to the last sixteen is
great obviously, but do you know what, and I'm not
one of these like happy losers or whatever, like plucky losers,
that plucky way. It really could have gone either fucking way.
(15:15):
Like Munster, there was there was just a couple of
brain farts by one or two players, and I think
a bit of it was down to lack of game time,
like dermak kill Gallen who was out in the wing
because he hadn't played since like the All Blacks match,
and he was out there because Shane Daily faced his
(15:35):
or Phil's hi a the last day and he he
had one or two lapses in concentration and that led
to you know, led to try and then Gavin Coombs
got sent off or got binned and that led to
another try. And that's that was really the deciding factor
in the match. But some like there was some passages
(15:59):
to play from Munster, Farns, the control they showed through
a lot of it. Connor Murray looked like he was
twenty four. It was incredible how good he looked like,
how sprightly. He looked, yeah, like incredible rockets surpassed.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
No way I saw the first half, So I suppose
it was just kind of really disappointed then, like when
I saw the result, because I thought that they I
was expecting kind of a big I was expecting North
hamp to be better in the first half, I think,
So when I a halftime, I was like, fucking hell, like,
let's go. So I was disappointed then when I saw
(16:36):
the result. But obviously there was a lot to take
from it.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
There really there really was. I mean, and they're still
in the fight, you know, in that kind of way,
like anybody watching that would go anybody who got to
see it, if you're neutral, you'd go, fuck. That could
have gone either way. In fact, there was there was
probably maybe sixty percent where you go the monster should
have taken that. Do you know they were in like
(17:00):
talking to seventy eight and a half. Seventy ninth minute,
Jack Crowley from his own five decides, well maybe from
his own maybe his own twenty two. I suppose inside
just inside it decides fuck this, and they're down by
two points and he just fuck he just sides a
run through a rake of players, makes sixty meters by
(17:21):
himself tackled and there was a millisecond that the support
wasn't in. And this kid that they brought on Pollock
is his name, he just made this I don't know.
I suppose he made this try seven tackle with on
Paddy Patterson that really more a fellow with maybe another
half a stone or a bit more try score, Nouse
(17:44):
would have gotten it regardless. But the same kid he
was in on the under twenties last year, he went
for the poach, which is fucking cheeky enough because he
was just as like you're just inside. He was just
inside there twenty two and you'd nearly leave off going
for just just in case the ref saort has been
a bit different, you know, and a penalty was given
(18:04):
or something. But he's some in fairness to him, he
had liked that young twenty year old faxt twitch muscle
and he just got in over the ball lockdown and
actually ripped it and that was the That was the game.
But ah do you know it was it was fair enough,
you got a fuck it fair enough, But it was
some homdinger of a match like it was a fucking
(18:26):
homdinger of a match like the players that played out
of their skin, played unbelievable like Jack Crowley. I don't
want to fucking hear another thing about this debate. You cannot,
you cannot, There's no no, there is no outh half
in Ireland right now that they could have done that.
And the way he controlled the game at the weekend
(18:48):
he looked incredible, and the variation of what he could do,
do you know what I mean? Coupled with his defense
you can't. I don't know you hearing much of what
Jesus Christ all. He's double leinster based. Oh podcast. I
listened to clips of a couple of them during the weekend,
like they're like, you know, Crowley hasn't really talked himself
(19:08):
back into the situation, but you know, for me, it
has to be signing to start. But he started against
Fiji and lasted sixty minutes and did nothing. That's it.
That's it. Now you're gonna put him in against England
first up? Like coma comma.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Why I This is why I've chosen Jack Curly is
my name tonight to kind of side with him on
the debate because I'm sick of the debate as well.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
And also, look, you have to debate it like there
have to be, but like it's just funny, like the
kind of the reaction that comes online. Then afterwards, like
all it is is everyone from Leinster say, prent of
Gas and everyone from Monster Saint Crowley.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Well that's all it is, and then people shout shouting
at each other online.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
But I would I would for me. I would shout
for Frawley before I shout for Brandy. Gas proved a
lot more. He's a much bigger man. He's got a
far better defense set up, set up, do you know
what I mean? He would be a much better swap
out than Prenda Gas, Like Prendegas has the stuff, but
he showed it at the Weekend of Jesus. They got
(20:15):
away with fucking murder a couple of times with the
with the ref, it was kind of Mackenson's fucking argument,
kind of going christ. There was one point where the
ref turned to they were playing bat and he turned
the bat and he gave him an you know, give
him a warning. I said, go talk to your players.
And it was around the ten their bath chain and
(20:37):
they went into a huddle and then cheekily Gibson Parks's
can I take it? Quick. What the ref shoot said,
shut the fuck up. Of course, can't take it quick.
There's fifteen players in a huddle over there, and he
went go on so after telling them to go have
a chat and a huddle, and they took a quick
but he gave the ball to Prendergas and the young
(21:01):
flood didn't know fucking his arse from a hole in
the ground. He ran up the arse end of some
of the fucking the beast players who didn't know where
he was coming from. They were like, what what the
fuck is this fellow down? He but and he went
out the out the backs and they fucking dropped it,
do you know. But regards didn't make difference the result.
They ended up winning and winning well. But two things
(21:22):
in that one. The referee was fucking absolutely scandalss he
and he wanted a red card to prop for scrum
penalty like the guy was had had a yellow earlier
in the half because of an accidental high shot on
Now it was an accident on it was a glance
and it was a headshot. Definitely was a yellow but
(21:43):
that's all it was. And then they gave a scrumb
penalty and then he gave you a man a fuck
a red card for a scrumb penalty. He was like
the love of Jesus and that killed. But he just killed. Yeah,
But Prendegas showed me nothing in that game. Again. I
watched now, I watched the extended highlights, but I was
seeing nothing. He stands, you know, sto super deep and
(22:08):
in close to the scrumb because obviously they're going, don't
put yourself out there. You're the pay shape of a
pencil for the next year orwo. Until you put some
muscle on, you're gonna get cut in half. You can't
have that lad at the international level against England, you
just fucking can't do, you know. So I can't see
an argument for it, not yet. Anyway, I would see
Frawley in there ahead of watch call it Crowley. But
(22:31):
cutting back to the Munster, it was Calvin Nash has
to be one of the fastest players in the six nations.
Out of the six nations he has, I'd love to
see his his top speed. Did you see you obviously
saw the try for the chip through.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Jesus, and then there was nothing happening
like it was just like an unbelievable it can turn
turn if kind of the run of turn against.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
A play I love if you look if you watch
it back your man Alex Mitchell, who's right quick, there's
frum half and he's an unbelievable player, like he's the
real Marshall on there on the pitch from but there's
a moment where he just gleanses over his shoulder because
he thinks he's grand like he's tracking back to get
the ball, and just his eyes go hu, that's Calvin
n Through the two of them, there's just this ah
(23:21):
fuck moment. As shit, he wasn't expecting anybody to come
rocking back at the pace he did. And then his
second try. Did you see Nash's second.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Try in the first How did it go?
Speaker 2 (23:36):
It went through everybody. Everybody got it. If you can
see the highlights on YouTube or whatever, it's World War one.
It's one of the tries of the season for for
the the European watch mc collor Cup. It was just
glorious the way it went through Everybodyeah, it was just
really well put together try. And your man killed Gallon
(23:58):
with a small bit of game time. He's some he's
some piece of stuff. He's massive. Yeah, I was just
I just I'd seen him all around that all Blacks
game and stuff, but I'd forgotten he's fucking huge. He's
like six foot four and sixteen stone, like, he's fucking massive.
And the try in the second half that really, you know,
(24:20):
really put the name the game back on a knife edge.
Was that little inside flick from Murray. I don't know.
You didn't see it, obviously, but you have to. It's
just pure Murray to Zebo, like seven eight years ago.
It's fucking beautiful. But what it is is the new
rules kind of giving the scrum half a bit of
(24:41):
space at the back of rocks. So Murray now being
a big fellow like him too, he can take off
and he'll draw defenders away. So a gap opened up.
Kill Callen ran in the inside him, and I wouldn't mind.
He didn't give my a dirty pass. He give me
an actual spin pass back behind him, like and your
man kill Gallan had a bit of work to do,
all right, to get in a line. But still all
the same, it was fairly saucy looking at just fairly sassy.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
So you're talking about that new rule, like being able
to kind of move that that's what you fucking need
because teams are too good at fucking figuring out defense.
It's too boring, like defense is too good. That's why
more kicking has come into it. Kicking is shite, like
the Sorry not all the time, but you know that
(25:26):
if it starts through a game of kick tennis, because
basically no one can challenge the defense in front of them,
that's what you need. So that's good. That sounds goed like, uh,
that makes it positive about that rule Just basically fucking
putting being able to strip defenses apart a bit more.
Please you.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
You'd love it too, because you can't touch the the
scrum half can't come around. The opposing scrumb half can't
come around and your scrum either. He can only come
up halfway up the scrumb So now one of my
favorite things that had fallen out of the game altogether,
the number eight for a counter can do that now
because you don't have you know, some little fucker stuck
(26:06):
stuck to your face when you pull your head out
like to go for a trot. So it's it will
definitely open up the game. Like you said, defenses were
defenses were matches, Do you know what I mean? It's
what Leinster are playing At the minute, Leinster are playing
a real South African thing. They're like, here, have it,
have it to fuck. I'm sure we'll see what you
do with it. Will absolutely fucking punky off the park
(26:28):
with tackles. That being said, when you have org Snyman,
oh my god, oh my god, an the field. Did
you see that? Did you see the steel? Did you
see like he stole their ball with one hand and
in the air, transferred it into his another and plopped
(26:48):
it off like he was leaving a scorne down onto
a plate for somebody that was sitting down waiting. It was.
It's he's playing a different fucking game, like.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
It's placing the golf ball on the green, just like
he's big fucking massive tens scandalous Orgie or he the
ba we love. We were very sad. I was still
mad at him, so said something else about our little
(27:21):
a d friend. Just I was just scrolling there whatever day.
It was just looking at some videos. That video popped
up he is like that and one DuPont pass and
I was like, oh god, is he at it again?
And all it was was just a normal kind of
flick pass. And I was like, oh, do you know
I saw the.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Huh yeah, big fucking.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Literally world rugby run pass. And we were saying this
before as well, like how how much they do be
guff following over him? But actually most of the time
it's very, very merited. And then sometimes it's like when
you were like, because it's literally just a normal pass,
like why are you making.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
A video of the there was they you know there was.
Ange was on fucking fire the weekend with his side
step and down the break ankles just watching the name
my ankle is sore. But there was one passage play
where it was I can't remember a player that scored,
and they were like the two pond level, you know,
you know, a fucking litnus And again he just happened.
(28:27):
He had one or two passes in the middle of
this huge passage of play where like sixteen other players
has had their hands on it, and you're like, where
was the new pont what was he in the middle
or somewhere. He didn't make a break. He just went
to the back of the roock and ripped it out twice. Now,
in fairness, the one that followed up immediately after, I
(28:50):
was like, he's operating on another level where he took
the ball out and it looks have you seen his
crossfield kicks? They looked like a fellow playing Gaelic football
in like and a skull. Like there's he's keeping he's
keeping the ball low for fear of the wind, and
he just fucking rips a kick across the ball and
(29:10):
it's the ugliest old duck of a thing, but it
always seems to land exactly where where it does, so
I mean, I give him that one, but it's an
ignorant looking kick.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
There's no style to it, Like it's like attacked to
a string. It's like you know, you know the top
oh where if you and I were standing like an
opposite en his room, and like we had two handles
each and you pull the string and like the ball
goes over and back. Do you know the talk about
(29:42):
That's what it's like. The ball kind of like like
going through the air, like it's like an attached to
a string.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
There is there's a weirdness to it because it shouldn't
have gone in the direction he kicked it, you know
what I mean. He was like a fellow who'd been
playing in a windy pitch all his life and this
was his home turf, and he do what way to
put it, but it wasn't it wasn't even windy.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
You know, I know what you mean. He can just
but he can just do that. It's like, but that
is the nice thing about Japan as well, Like he's
not he's not doing it for the image. He doesn't
care how he looks or how the game looks or
how it looks. He doesn't do anything for like the
satisfaction of of it looking clean or good. He's literally
(30:23):
just a fucking dog mindset, just fucking get it done.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
And speaking to somebody who doesn't make it look class?
What's going on with what I said that? How does
a fellow score that many tries in a game? How
does that happen?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Sorry? This came on the coaching course right and like
there was a couple lights standing around and they were like, oh,
tell me about oh six tries? Yes, whatever they were saying,
and I literally stopped him. I was like, can you
imagine what conversation you would be having if this was
in women's rugby? And they literally all went yeah, everyone's
like oh don know, no kind of thought for like,
(31:04):
how how shit that is? And for Fox sake, the
whole thing needs to be reformed, like there's none of
that talk. But that's exactly what happens when it happens
in the women's game. So people just need to check
themselves a little bit, because, to be fair, the lads
did say they literally all just kind of stopped and
started into space, and we're like, yeah, that's true, because
that's scandless.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Do you know what I mean? No fellow should be scoring.
I'm not saying it isn't an incredible achievement, but even
he had to be going a lad's come on, now,
come on, only you fuck attacking me like Jesus Christ.
But let's get out. We've been dancing around the fucking
the drain here for I don't know how long. You
sent me a glorious, a glorious watchman call it text message,
(31:44):
and I knew, and for some reason I thought we weren't.
I thought I didn't think it was going to happen,
but you were one hundredercent right. I thought it was Glasgow,
but you were a one hundred percent right monster. Now
play Tom versus Anna, because you're one Larachelle. I'm not
allowing you into the monster camp now because you'll only
(32:06):
be stealing all our calls off the door of the
dressing room. I know, I know, to your French spies.
Now you're you're so embedded with the friends. You're going
to count three games and everything and eating bore and
fucking deer for breakfast out in the back of beyonds
out in Limousine, County, Limousine, the parish of Limousine, and
(32:26):
you're just going to So I'm just going to it's
me versus you. Now, come the weekend of April fourth,
fifth or sixth, and.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
On the fifth, it's on the Saturday, is it?
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Yeah? So I I was in the clubhouse in Pompadour,
which is the name of that club. I was in
the clubhouse when it came up on my phone and
I opened it and I was like, oh my god,
here we fucking I couldn't believe what I was reading
(33:03):
because remember last summer when I was like, I wasn't
sure if I was staying in Larchelle, and I wasn't.
I didn't I couldn't mind up and think about things.
And I was like if Munster get drawn in Larshell's pool,
And then I didn't have enough time I had to
make my decision, and I was like, okay, because of
a million different reasons. I was like, you know what, Yes,
(33:25):
I want to stay. And then who got drawn in
the pool fucking Leinster again, and I was like, for
fox sake, I was like, guaranteed it'll happen now when
I'm gone, or you know, guaranteed I'll just never get
to see it, or I won't I won't have an
apartment in town when Munster calm or whatever. I actually
couldn't believe what I was reading that they've been drawn together.
(33:48):
I'm just so happy. I'm so excited. We are playing
a match the same weekend in Claremont.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
And I'd say you have an aggravated trapped nerve again
that I'm just saying.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
I have one or two trapped nerves. I'd say, So,
it's not a it's not a big match climb after
bottom of the table so and struggling a lot, so
it could might it might be a blessing that it's
fallen on the same again. And I actually can't believe it,
Like I'm just I can't wait. I'm so happy, so excited.
(34:26):
It's hard though, Like if lowd mons people getting onto
me for tickets, like already a list of about sixteen
people who've got onto me for tickets. But I'm like,
I can't. I can't get tickets number one, like they
just I don't. I don't. I don't have a way
of buying tickets. I have my own ticket for me,
and then other than that, some might pop up every
(34:46):
now and then, like I was able to get friends
of mine tickets. But for a game like that, it
depends if the fact people giving up better or not.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
But like tickets for that like different Larch are already
really good to go to their own games anyway, do
you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (35:03):
As good for heineking Cup? But I wonder because it's
Monster will it will it be different?
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Which learage? Are you fucking joking me? It's going to be.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
They don't give as much of a funk about that
as we do.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Okay, right, so they did like they don't get it.
They were all saying to me after the Leinster game,
congrats to me, what are you talking about? Like honestly,
like and they get what you're Irish, I'm like, it
doesn't work like that in Ireland.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
We're far too miserables. The grace of God and you
fucking do you not know the phrase? For Christ's sake?
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Yeah? Where have been? Like so anyway, it's a slightly
ever so slightly different right for Champions Cup. But no,
they they would like they still fucking love it. They
still it's bigger here in large than it is in
other places because they've won or twice. So yeah, it
will be massively again like tickets.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
We're going to have to get you a fucking your
own marquee to put out in the square and just
come and hang out with Enna for a fiver like
this is we have to capitalize on this massively, like.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
Oh absolutely, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, I'm on it already.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Marked guided tours, Yeah, swimming in.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
The old Port. What else could you do? Fucking Mancheese
ofvs General Homebirds till four a m. No, No, I've
already made like a I've already made a list of
like a pub crawl. I want to bring people on
a pub crawl, like oh my god, you know what
I want to do morning? Yeah yeah, so we'll see,
(36:46):
like it depends, but like there's there's Yeah, I want
to capitalize it, not unlike making money, but just literally
making the most of the experience. So yeah, I can't
wait and I can't believe that fucking what's the six
Nations starting in two weekends time?
Speaker 2 (37:04):
I know, but not to get away from the fact
that the Monster ended up playing Larachelle as a result
of Larachelle getting beaten by fucking Bennetton, which is kind
of class in the grand scheme of things. You know,
you go, okay, but can you imagine the left fucking
rockets that Roger was shoving them up up on Monday more.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Yeah, yeah, I avoided training this week there because I
usually go like like I have a look at training
or like go up and see what they're at in
like skills or whatever. And I just was passing them
there today and I was like just like ran along
(37:42):
because I was like, oh no, they're probably getting fucking
rolls it all week. But anyway, yeah, it's all happening.
Oh yeah, I'm sorry. I have to give a shout
out to Ben who was telling me that he just
loves our podcast.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
So great and then great, great to hear from you.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we play We played for Pine Pine
Pilgrims together, so yeah, anyway, sorry if I didn't say
that there, I would have forgotten it. But we need
to go to bed soon, so yes, any more important
point now.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
We can we just make a point of saying that
they had the launch of the six Nations in the coliseum.
It looked unreal, but like, yeah, I had to tag
you in the launch. Everybody else was. Did you see?
It was like straight out of fucking like eve Cent
around fucking Milan fucking Fashion Week. The way they walked
(38:44):
in with the trophy. Did you see that the coaches,
I tell you, I don't know if you saw that,
but like the French, the two French, Yeah, go.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
On, you're you're saying the way they walked in with
the trophy, there was only one person who walked in
with the trophy.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Yeah, yeah, okay, it was okay and obviously, but the
two French lads absolutely looked perfect because everybody else kind
of awkwardly and quickly walked down the catwalk with all
the people sitting either side of it. But the two
French walked like the custom made. Do you know what
(39:18):
I mean? They look a part like it just and
of course immediately like fuck, why do I ever comment
on anything ever, But like immediately some absolute fucking tonails, like, uh,
keep your comments on the French till after four, and
like literally look at my name, look at my name,
(39:39):
and comedy is literally written into my handle. You fucking
absolute fucking vice.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Grips shit for the comment you sent to me.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Yeah, I got shiped for the comment that I tagged
your name. I was speaking to you. I wasn't actually
commenting to the group, but I was speaking to my
friend Anna. The French looked like they were ready for
fucking fashion week. And of course, like two or three
people liked it and said, you know, our wrote smiley
faces and stuff like that. A bunch of people liked it,
and then there's absolute fucking tonail jumps on and I
(40:16):
couldn't help myself. I literally, really, Jesus or something, Craig,
I couldn't help myself.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
Tom O'Mahony serious, Yes, serious all the time, Not Tom
mahoney comedy Jesus.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
Right. We will reconvene next week and we'll talk. We'll
get rightly in, we'll have ourselves ready, we'll we'll we'll
get a bit earlier. It won't be after training or
after fucking making posters and stuff like that, and we'll
have Yeah, a proper big six Nations, a big juicy
cheese dribbling out the side of it. Six Nations podcast preview,
(40:56):
and I can't fucking wait right who what? WHOA mine
the Rocks, Mine the Rocks
Speaker 1 (41:04):
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My Favorite Murder is a true crime comedy podcast hosted by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark. Each week, Karen and Georgia share compelling true crimes and hometown stories from friends and listeners. Since MFM launched in January of 2016, Karen and Georgia have shared their lifelong interest in true crime and have covered stories of infamous serial killers like the Night Stalker, mysterious cold cases, captivating cults, incredible survivor stories and important events from history like the Tulsa race massacre of 1921. My Favorite Murder is part of the Exactly Right podcast network that provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for audiences everywhere. The Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics including historic true crime, comedic interviews and news, science, pop culture and more. Podcasts on the network include Buried Bones with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes, That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast, This Podcast Will Kill You, Bananas and more.
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.