March 7, 2025 • 59 mins
On this week's episode Banana takes us on a boozy tour of France (while baking her trademarked bread), makes enemies with the leader of an infamous goose-gang and somewhere inbetween, Bear and Banana do discuss Ireland's game against France this weekend in the penultimate round of the 6 Nations.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the Banana and Rubbie Pod.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Welcome everybody to Banana Bear's rugby podcast. I'm Tom of
Mahoney and over there it is Anna Gables. Do you
hear that? That's a start to a podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
That's a start a very good.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I can the only way is down, you know, after
setting the bar, So I Jesus Mary Joseph, as I
sit here, and because we're moving, I'm moving around the
house as we get bits finished. And now the dishwasher
may be going off in the background with people's heads,
so I can only apologize to that. I'll stay really
close in microphone to try and not annoy the ship
(00:39):
out of everybody with the.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Dish washer, because I'm I check in the oven. I'm
keeping a nye my banana bread here.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
So people, not that it's of any use whatsoever, but
set the clocks in your mind. Have a look at
the clock right now and tell us if we you'll
know if we've made a bollocks of ourselves. So how
long do we have and it we have ten minutes
for the ban bread, I'd say less.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I'd say about six minutes would do it.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, okay, So it's right here right now, it's twenty
thirty six, so at twenty forty two, okay, well we go, yeah,
let's not get into that in two.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Well it's twenty one. It's twenty one forty two, so
as long as it don't living in another hour.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Banana bread, get you with your coviding bread. Like everybody
was making vanana bread during COVID. For some reason, it
became no thing, would you like to try my vanana bread? No, no,
I don't. I just made something I know the exactly.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Do you know what is I'll beat because I'm because
I can't train. I haven't been training, but I've had
like a craving for some some dessert like something fecking
some sort of treat. Yeah, and I three kind of
black looking bananas, so I was like, fuck, I'm doing
up with banana bread there now quick, so we'll see
how it turns out. But also, what do I say?
(02:00):
Students this morning came in with a big box of
crossants and I was like, oh, would you like a crossants?
And he was making fun of the way like other
people say cross ONTs, like non French people, and I
was like, oh, no, thanks. I was like I'm saving
myself for Rome. Because I am genuinely like saving all
my calories for Rome next week because I want to
(02:22):
eat my way through the city. And they were like,
what where are you going? So I turned on the
crosshups because I'm saving all my calories. But I do
have a banana bread cooking net because I just can't resist.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Do you know it's Laier's earlier over the weekend, I
was said, I corrected somebody, but I quoted you, and
they were like crossants and like, if you want to
listen to the podcast back, I think you'll find that
Anna has described exactly how to say it properly, and
you're not an anchor. You're just saying it right. If
you say croissant and then alon and behold, they're probably
(02:56):
listening to the podcast right now and it's it's you
just opened in the first time going This lead brought
in about the cross hands, and I said, I won't
have a crosshand because I'm saving myself for Rome. Jesus
and I would have murdered across hand.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I'm like, do you know, do you know what a
cross on the cross on the seat? I changed the
way I say cross ONTs depending on the company I
have do you.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Know, because I'm some knuckle dragon culchi. You're like, I'll
say cross hands for this fella.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah, absolutely, because have I said it any other way,
you'd be like this one again. Yeah, we get as
you live in the friends. Yes. Do you know what
a cross cross cross ants is called in Italian?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Croissante?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
No corn leto.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Shut the freaking front door. Yeah, so we've been eating
cross on ice creams for millennia.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah pretty much, yes, cross?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
And what cornado? So what's a cornado in Italy? Gilato? Cornetti?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
What?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Because I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
It's just called corneto. Jesus, I love cornettle.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I love cornetto. And do you know what? Every so
often I'll be.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
On, what a funny word now that I realize what
it means cornetdo? What a great word?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I tell you something. If you beat the top off
of an actual cross ond and stuffed to a cornetto
style ice cream, I e. Vanilla and chocolate now.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Now I tell you now? And do you know what what?
People aren't going to be able to wait till the
next installment of this, or at least the installments when
to come back from Italy. But I've been looking on
like I've been looking up on TikTok and instagrams of
the best places to eat and there are pistachio fills,
Cornetto's cross Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Do you know there are moments in your life where
you will remember like odd moments, do you know what
I mean? Like when somebody I remember somebody once said
that we're trying to describe a guitar to me, and
they kept on a guitar until the day I die.
I will take the fury and side that I had
at the moment that moment inside my head because I
couldn't correct them. It was out of place to correct them.
But that that will stay in my head forever, rent
(05:34):
free for no reason whatsoever. But there's a moment we
were in Milan and we it was like breakfast time
from walking down the street and it was a little
hatch that sold gelatto and like put in like a
rolled like you know, honeycomb style, you know, the honey
a proper cone that like crispy cone. But they were
(05:56):
selling them and only espressos and we had double espressos
and pistachio gelatto on real Jesus, do you know you
can't talk when you take a bite to something. It's
like no, no, no, no, no, don't don't fuck, don't don't
run it, don't ruin it. Just had to sit down,
(06:16):
have to find something to go and sit down and
just appreciate that moment we were like, I mean, miland
itself was a shit that the time we were there.
Were only there for three days, but it was Juran
fashion Week, so the first few first, the first day
was hilarious, like you're looking at these absolute yolks walking
around the place. Fancy like half them if there were
(06:37):
bears of chocolate to date themselves. Do you know what
I mean? Just in like three ridiculously for you were.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Were you wearing like wellies and stuff?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
What did we know? We didn't. I'm not that country yet.
I am country, but I'm not that country.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Sure, sure even know what a corner was. I tell
you a funny story about Milan.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I'll just let the listeners know. Anybody knew this is
definitely there'll be Rugby arrived at some stage, but we're
definitely this is a rugby story.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
This is a rugby story. Yes, So followers of the
women's game will know that Ireland won the Grand Slam
in twenty thirteen in Milan. The final game was against
Italy in Milan, and we a lot of us went over.
(07:31):
I was, I was, I've been.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I'm gonna I'm gonna pause you there it's bread time.
So we haven't started the story fully yet. I'm going
to keep people interested by the whole notion of it.
But I needed to check in that bread because there's people,
okay posthumously stressing out right now as to the results
of the bread, because if we were over the oh
my god, the amount of golf we get over this now.
(07:58):
If you didn't start up the bread.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
It's perfect.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
No, never mind your gelettos banana.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
And beer bread.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
You're so unbranded with you. I know, remember banana and
the cartoon and everything was banana shaped, like the banana phone,
the banana This is literally you like, I only eat
banana bread. I eat banana banana toilet roll, banana televishaped television.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
But I would love a banana phone. Come here, sorry,
hang on, let me guess the end of this Milan story,
because because it's a it's a great story. A load
of us went over. We were having we found some
like shitty little village bar. It was brilliant and when
I say bart, that's exactly the type of bar we
(08:55):
want to be. And we were having great crackers, a
load of balls, girls, girls from G's all over like
it was a brilliant, brilliant weekend. But two of the
girls won't mention who you know who are and many
people know who they are. There was a little tattoo
parlor next door to the little shitty pub Jesus, and
(09:17):
they went in and they wanted to get something to
do with Milan and they were like, why don't we
just get hashtag Milan on our cheek And this is
a joke, but it turned into something real and then
your man of the tattoo pol like, no, no, no, it
has to be Milleno. So they got hashtag Milleno on
(09:40):
their art cheeks. Amazing that yeah, that the girls won
the Grand Slam.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I did they have? They shown it to the restaurant
chain Millano in Ireland because I guarantee the w a
free gee's za of some sort. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
If you're gonna the flash of their arts.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
It's going to dropped dropped trout and you've tattooed your
your the name of a company on your arts. I
think there's a few pounds or something in it for you.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Yeah, I don't know. I haven't asked them if they've
tried that, but yeah, has it's a it's a famous saying.
Now I think there are two be quite.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Class now before we before we plow ahead with banana
bread stories and where you're heading to Rome and everything else,
and even the rugby we need to check back in.
How is the coundo one.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Better? Still not out of the woods yet. I went
into the gym this evening and did a small bit
of movement, but I wasn't right. So I came away, No,
not very seriously, but I knew I wasn't right, So
we came away so little by little. But it was
a tough all week. I must say, I kind of
(10:55):
I remember how much of this I got into last week,
but basically just kind of getting worried. I just don't
know when the symptoms will end, and if the symptoms
go on for much longer than it means that my
rugby career is already over, which is you know, very
very very sad thought. But it's not you know, that's
just a worry I have. It's not that it's materialized yet,
(11:16):
so crossing everything need everyone's good vibes to to you know,
so that that's not the case.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I mean, you're able to keep an eye on banana bit.
For Christ's sake, you're practically if a race horse would
just stop.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I know, I did cycle two hundred and fifty clongers
this weekend.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
That was going to be my next question was like
only because of my blocks and we're friends. I was
about to go, does the lady protest too much because
of two hundred and fifty? Yeah? That the head is
the hidden right at all. Anyway, I'm way off my bike, okay, Yeah,
the only cycle from Cork to Dublin, Like, yeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
The only thing that doesn't make me daisy.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
And you know with you destabilizers on obviously.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
What Yeah, yeah, I stabilized. Well, I tell you now,
you wouldn't go very far with stabilizers because it's a
it was a it's a bike path like it goes
along the Charon's River. Fuck, it was full of potholes.
I'd be there like, oh, look at the lovely view,
and then I need to like focus my eyes in
the front of reeks. Pobles everywhere so it wasn't wasn't
(12:29):
my favorite like BikeE trick that I did, but it
was definitely good for the soul and that I definitely
needed it.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
And you went, did you? And I'm going to say
this wrong, and I've probably been saying it wrong for years,
rock Fort, rush for rush for Okay? Okay, and yet
one thing that's not where.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Rock for Cheese comes from?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
What where does that come from?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Rock four?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Okay? I was in rush for Okay, So I won't
sound like just just to clarify, I won't sound like
too big of a dechead if I say it correct,
because I can't continue with this quassan business. But I
do like a bit of rush for or is it
rock for?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Rock for Cheese?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I know, yeah, I can't. I can get by with
that right rock for even though somebody will eye bought
me and go, don't you mean rock Ford like a
If you're saying it right and it says you have
to call it rock for, I won't sound like like
if it's a rush for, I'll sound like a ball bike.
So I'm happy enough to go rock for rock because
I do. I do like a bit of rock for
(13:35):
cheese In all fairness now they do. So where which
direction did you go from Narrochelle did you go? Yeah,
Wish north I took.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I took the train Wished to a little town called
on Len, and then I cycled back to towards. I
stayed the first night in Kangnac, and my followers will
have seen my story where I was just educating people
on well Kgnac in general, it's a specific type of
(14:08):
brandy that comes from this town, this area of Cognac.
And I don't know if you saw it, but a
man called Richard Tennessee left Mallow County, Cork kill of
Valland to be exact, in seventeen or seventeen ninety or
something like that and go into a business in Cognac
(14:29):
and he started Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Is that how it came about?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
That's it. The house is still there in Cork and everything,
like the actual original house that he came from. But
he was a Jacobite, so he was forced out of
Ireland and he went to France and started a flipping
Congnac business.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Tennessee jsauce, Yeah, that's unreal. So he was a Jacobite,
got chucked out because they what sure had the produce.
Did they heave it at that time? Protestants that they've
taken over that time and we're giving up.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I don't remember the Jacobite history of story. I just
remember them being forced out and being made very difficult
for them.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Here they wore hats with buckles on them. I remember correctly.
I say remember correctly, like I was around back then.
That's I tell you one thing. I never promised, or
we never promised that this will be a learning podcast.
But look at like sometimes just amazing. So he's from
kill Olan.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Come from kill So Hennessy like world renowned Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
That's like all the rappers, all the rappers love it.
All rappers they love Hennessy, they love Hennessy.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yeah, he's from all Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Actually shout out to you have your your your name
this week because people will ask your his title. Pete
and Kahn and Key and the only other con I
know is a man called Cornelius. He's a comedian from
Cork and he's from Killer Olan. Good god, You're never
it's like this this seven stages from Kevin Bacon around here,
isn't it? You just end up finding this is we
(16:05):
could be we could do a genealogy Rugby podcast and
just find people.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Oh yeah, do you know what else comes from Kangyac
while we're still on it and because it's it's just
blew me away. But Gray Goose vodka is made in
kannak hold On.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
One tiny place is the birth birthplace of all rappers,
American rappers favorite drinks. Yeah yeah, the other day, was
there any gray geese?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Well, I fucking tell you something I bought. I bought
some fruit in the market and I was like daddling
along head about maybe Curtic Claunders. I was like, well,
I'll stop and eat my apple in this lovely picnic
area and started to reach for my apple. I turned
(16:58):
around and there was a talking heard of geese head down,
charging at me. I'm sad, screaming and literally so fucking
ron So I don't know. I like, theese are fucking bastards.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
So they're absolute tramps. They don't care about anything to
do with you, like they're oh, they're absolute bastards.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yeah, So that was the only gray goose I had,
just getting chased down by an evil, evil goose.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
There's times when you're describing your life and that I
wish your Instagram wasn't in your phone. I wish it
was on like a headcamp. Do you know what I mean?
You were able to just live stream that madness where
it just happened that you were like, well, this is
a delicious apple. Come join me as I enjoyed. Oh no,
oh no, oh god, no oh no, no, no no,
(17:58):
and it's all hell has broken. Oh my god. Anybody
and a story. You're great at the photographs. You're just
great at it. You make me want to watch it.
I have no ability or patience to you know, to
put I can't forward think, you know what I mean.
(18:19):
I would never think to take a video of myself
back in a bag, you do know what I mean?
I put a nice music, I would never I think
of it three days in and got alf of.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Oh that happens to me all the time.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Do you have to recreate? Do you have to recreate
some of these packaging moments like this?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
No, I just I'd be on my bike and like
A should have taken a video of that? Well, and
then I'm like, I'll do it tomorrow. So when you're
on your own like that, So spend a lot of
time on my own. Obviously it's easier to remember when
you're on your own. But I actually don't like doing
things like that when other people are around, because I
don't like you're interfering with my life.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
You see, this is the thing you at least you
know you're not a gen x, you know, or whatever
it is like where you're fourteen and you just like
I genuinely. The other day my job hit the ground.
It was very funny because from a five year old
but kind of worrying that we're gonna have to cut
back on this carry on because we're outside and we're
rebuilding a stone wall that was not years ago, and
(19:23):
lots of trees have grown through and stuff like that,
and there's a lot of it is our castle stones,
because there's a castle right next door to us that
was obviously pitiful back in the day. So some of
these stones are beautifully square. You're kind of going with
this didn't come out to the ground like this, And
my five five year old was root and away it
rocks flying it. Is this a good one? Is this
a good one? I'm like, that's a great one. Good lad,
that's a great one. He picked up one and he went,
(19:46):
this one's square. Do you think it's a brick or stone.
I went, it was dephanely a stone. I know this
this is a stone? He went, yeah, but it's super
square like a brick. Hey, would you video of me
looking at this stone? I'm like, no, what I w
just go on? I went, all right, not really knowing,
and I swear to god. Two camera goes, oh, hey, guys,
so today we're we're talking about my dad. See if
(20:07):
this is actually a brick or a stone and he
holds it up. He goes, look at the square edges
on it. That's not like a normal stone, is it?
I swear to god? He went, so you just put
your comments in the right what you think it is?
Down the comments and I'll catch you next week. Bye, guys.
I went, who was that too? He goes, I don't know,
Oh my god, oh I need to describe.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Oh what a little legend.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
No, just reeled it off like it was like no autoque, No,
let's go for a second take. Nailed it, like if
you're looking for a wonder, if you're if you're looking
for a a like a performer on the spot. Incredible,
and I think it's it's boundless confidence is what that is,
because that's all the ties any of us up, we
overthink it and we end up jumbling our words. And
(20:53):
but he be at five, you're a legend. Do you
know what I mean? You're absolute legend. And I'm going,
do you know what? Because I see the rubbish that's
on and I'm going that would actually make that would
get views and people would interact with it, even though
I'm looking on there's no question here at all. Let's
it's a fucking stone, do you know what I mean?
There is no there's no question like what what are
(21:16):
you talking about? You? I genuinely I literally studied geology.
This is not no, that's just And now I'm walking
around question myself going well Jesus Christ, what is But yes,
I I had have one weekend. I was gigging in
the town that you would love, Don Garvin, that's the
right town for you. They're building they have a cycle
(21:37):
path from I think from clan Mel nearly to Waterford
now and they're now building one which is holding up
a fair bit of traffic from care to clan Mill.
So I'm guessing they're going to try and get one
all the way from Limerick to Waterford, yes, which will
make an unbelievable one.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Yeah, I think there's one coming through mallow as well
at some stage, like going to Don Garvine.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
They should name it the Ana Cases gets chased by
a goose. They should actually have a statue of you
trying to eat your apple, mouth open, teeth just locked on,
and a big mad goose come and flying at you.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I don't want to immortalize that.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
That's what they'd call it. And the bastards. Yeah, the
odd and the food that I'm going to give a
shout out to where I have the comedy club. It's
at a venue called the three sixty Cookhouse. It's very good.
Everything they do is outrageously good. They do a really
(22:40):
good baby octopus. So yeah, they've got little baby faces
on him. No they don't, No, they don't. They're doing
in like a chili sauce. They're told, oh my god,
it's you very quickly forget that they're the fact that
they put baby in there makes it makes you feel
like a monster for the first one. No, or they
(23:02):
do they put baby in it because that's what they are.
But there's some name on it, you know, like like
snails that are called is cargo. But they you know,
they give it a name, but then in brackets they
go it's baby, it's quid or baby octopus. So you know,
get on board. Don't be a nicker's command now. Yeah,
doing Garvin Comedy Goverment Friday night and then Saturday night
(23:24):
was back in the beloved Hill and it is gone stratospheric.
It's insane how into comedy people are. You can literally
say anything. You can say anything now so as long
as it's funny Pete, there's no oh jeesus moments anymore.
They're like, yeah, turn it up. It's it's so therapeutic
(23:45):
and very very cathartic to step into a room where
you're like the basis of this whole thing is I
was having a good time and having fun. Let's go.
It's a lot of fun, a lot of fun. Yeah.
And we did some tree cutting at the weekend, so
I feel extra manly, So that's great. Although we hit
we've passed. For anybody wondering and this is the last
(24:06):
learning thing you're gonna learn, We're gonna jump into rugby.
You can only we had cut these trees prior to
March first, because you're not allowed to cut down trees
unless they're danger dying erch As and I would say
you can't cut down trees between March first and I
think August twenty ninth or something like that, because the
birds to be yeah, to be nesting in it. But
if it's on the ground, which it is, you can
(24:29):
chop it up no problem. So getting into what so
we are, it's actually working out quite well. We used
to record earlier the week, but the way it's kind
of worked over the last few weeks, we've ended up
on Thursday nights, which is kind of ideal for the
Six Nations because we've been landing right on because there's
not more so listening to I went to listen to
a podcast today and they were going, so, who do
(24:50):
you think they're going to pick them? Like I already
know off with this podcast. This podcast is so stale
already and it's only a day old, so we are
fresh as Anna's bread right now. Had you any surprises?
Did you see the selection?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I'm a surprised that to replace an injured Mackanson that
didn't go with Calvan Nash.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Yeah, yeah, I I was yes, because I suppose most
like the Swiss army knife that comparative to an absolute
Rambo knife. Rambo knife will only cut one thing where
the Swiss Army knife is like, well, I gotta yok
for cleaning out horse hooves as well and open bottles.
And that's I suppose what they're looking for with Osborne.
(25:35):
That's the only way I could think about it, because
there's no way he's a better winger than Calvanash. Winger
for winger, he Calvnash is a better winger. But yeah,
I was kind of because a lot of people online
were going tough, fuck, like Osborne is barely making an answer, team,
what are you talking about? Like put all things being said,
(25:56):
you know, it's a shoot It was a shootout between
as wing. You're the wing. I suppose calvan Ash for
Macknson both mac dropping out completely. Yeah, you could say
I was kind of raging, but I was. You know,
these days you're kind of gone, I don't I'm not
leinster bash here, but you're kind of going, oh, you
found a second string leinser player that would okay, okay,
(26:19):
fair enough. Yeah you put him in there, fair enough,
do you know? But it's it is. I can kind
of see what they're doing, all.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Right, Well, especially with the bench split.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Yes, yes, how are you in favor? And why did
they go for six two? Do you think.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Because the rumors where the France were going with a
seven to.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
One, and the rumors were right, it would seem.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Yeah, but you know, ah, yeah, I don't. I suppose
that's the work thing to do, but it is. I
do feel like they played the rumors or what they
thought Frands would do, whether the rumors, you know, whether
they were like we definitely know that friends are going
(27:08):
to do this because because it's going to be such
a close game, they just want to like have every
advantage whenever, whenever there's a scrum, like to flipping to
to not have that become an area of weakness later
in the game, which could basically turn to a three pointer.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Look, what do you do other than just going six
to two and go we will try and match you
as best we can with almost as many forwards. Sure,
I like, I mean they in recent times, you'd imagine
that the Irish lads are fitter? Are they fitter? I
suppose if you can throw on a full seven, it
doesn't really matter how fit they're they're forwards are taking.
They can last forty five fifty minutes then you're.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Like if you're if you're like sucking diesel, you could
go eighty minutes plus, you know, you could keep going.
I suppose that's a bit rich when when when you're
coming up against a team like France that you know
is gonna but you know someone has to stay on,
So why not to when on an extra person stay on?
(28:11):
You know, like it's not like it's not like it's
going to be a massive fitness difference. I think I
don't know. Does it doesn't make a massive difference in
the end or is it just a mentality squad mentality.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
I think it's a bomb squad mentality. And I think
more so it was the drama of it, like but
like Ireland go toe to toe, no problem with the
hardest bastards in the world, like you know, the South
Africans and go to an I mean, smash him, do
you know what I mean? There's that that first game,
in that game in the World Cup, it was one
of the most physical games, violent games that you know,
while being clean, that I've ever seen. Like, so Ireland
(28:44):
do have it. So there's notion that they're going to
just be overpowered because everybody keeps on talking about whinn Antonio, Like, Okay,
I get you, I get you, but he's not out
crippling people like do you.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
He's just a huge man in the front row, Like
he's not gonna absolutely out you and havelf like you know,
like the Tonguels back in the day like this, you know,
but you know what I mean, the.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Players around him have to work very hard as well,
because he can't keep up with it with a full pace.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Line, not a not a fit.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
So that's that's a story with with you know a
lot of big physical, scrumming, scrummaging front rows like that
as well. But like you know, you have to work
really hard around players like that. Yeah, you're wearing the
fitness of other players anyway, and the backs especially who
have no replacements coming up or fewer.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Yeah, that's that's interesting because you never really hear anybody
talking about that. It's how hard everybody else has to
work around. They're just talking talking up. Oh that's all
I've heard all week is talking up the likes of
Whin they Antonio, And you're kind of going, yeah, that's
that makes loads of sense. But of course this is
coming from a current player who's gone, yeah, okay, it's
all well and good have and you know, a scanny
(30:02):
sized human in the front row, but they're going to
turn like you know, an iceberg and whatnot in around
the rest all the rest of the time on the
field ain't hunting down you know, wingers, you know what
I mean. Like, so that's a really valid point. So
I wonder if that's the thing, if you can, I suppose,
(30:22):
if you can keep seriously seriously fast paced on it,
moving it over and back and whatnot to block those
gaps around him and helping him out, are they going
to tire their players out? Now? I mean it's it's
a hind or bed stuff. But people have been kind
of dancing dancing and I want Europe. I know you
kind of said it last week, did you be licking
(30:43):
your lips like, but everybody's kind of been going yeah, yeah. Well,
I mean, we knew san Brenda was going to be
picked based on the Whales match. We knew he was
going to be picked or whatever. But it's like that,
it has to be a case where they're going, let me,
I want to go first. I want to go at
him first. No, I want to go at him first,
because I look like it's not just those bashing and
(31:05):
the kid is some special talent. But he's got the
worst tackle tackle rate in all of the players one
hundred plus players in the six nations. He's at the
worst tackle record, the most, the most mistackles, Like you're
all right out have can't have that, Like you just
(31:30):
can't have that, whatever way you butt through your bread,
we can't. I know they're building the lad up, but
Jesus Christ, this could build, this could be this could
crouch him, like and I don't just mean that physically, like,
but if he gets run over four times and maybe
a couple of tries come off the back of that, Like, Jesus,
this might do more harm than good. And this is
(31:51):
genuine like I'm not you know, guess people here, like
I'm genuinely thinking because the amount of people now that
are going this has to be a big game for him,
Like they're being soft on him. They're kind of going, yeah,
you know, there's a bit a bit of pressure on him.
There a bit of pressure, Like, yeah, of course there is.
He's been cat in a lot of you know, which
(32:12):
is okay if you're at club level or whatnot. You know,
but or if you're coming on for a fellow in
like the Italy match or you know whatever. But he's
the starting out have and he has the worst tackle
rate in one hundred let's say the twenty three players
per squad, which there's not there's more has been rotated
and stuff. But that's over one hundred fucking players. You're
(32:34):
at number one for being the worst.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
But yeah, that's actually trying to think of the last
few matches. Have have teams been deliberately targeting him in attack?
I haven't. I don't feel like I've noticed it that much.
But is he is he is his tackle count then
higher than others? Is he now? Not to dispute, he's
definitely made errors. He has to be like Ireland is
(33:03):
still winning, you know, so it's not like it's it's
completely fucking us over yet because if it was that bad,
then then we wouldn't be able to, you know, cling
on like we are. We're cleaning on.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Well, we are cleaning on and we shouldn't be clinging
on like we do, you know what I mean. The
England match, we were losing until Jack Crowley came on.
That's that's the reality. That's the cold light to day
when anybody the Scotland match was an absolute cluster fick
when both their two best players ended up clattering heads
off each other. Do you know that that game fell
apart Wales cat I don't care what people can say,
(33:41):
Oh well, it's another great competition with For the love
of fuck, I don't care. I'm sorry. We should have
buried them thirty points plus buried them like Ireland looked
absolutely toothless in certain parts of that game and clueless
in certain parts of that game. And people want to
keep convincing us that, well we had a game plan
and there was a you know, Whales are the purple
patch for the love of Christ almighty, do you know
(34:04):
we do with the talent pool, the talent that we have,
and coming off our bench, like there isn't fucking one
Welsh fellow. Sorry for Efan and Jeffin over here, but
there isn't one Welsh fellow. We'll even get a look
around the door of the Lion's office, let alone getting
on the plane, like they might bring a token Garth
aanskim or something like that. I can't see it, but
(34:24):
do you know what I mean? They might bring a token,
but that's all it will be is a token just
for the hell of it. But they should have buried
them and now we're looking down as a sour No
Frances say, who are under fair pressure like Gualty, like
they're they're under they're underperforming too, like they should have
beat England by thirty points without if they did, you know,
(34:45):
and Penno got a kick in the hole and got
dropped the following week because of and they put seventy
plus on Borough Italy as a result, you know, I.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Know, yeah, yeah, I just it's funny kind of jumping
the gun through at all about it and then going
to itne and stuff. But like the France game, this
is actually huge for both sides. Like good few people
here have mentioned it to me, and like they don't
always they'll always talk about rugby, but they don't. I
(35:12):
just have heard them kind of go on about this
game now a little bit extra, maybe because of the
weekend off as well. Kind of people, uh have it
more in their minds. But it's they were predicting scores
in class there, the students were, and I well, I
won't share what prediction I gave, but they were its
(35:35):
price and what I said, They're like, why would you
say that? And I was like, look, I was like,
losing in the World Cups. I don't, I don't, I
don't care. I think of winning in six Nations and
losing in the World Cups. And they were like, what
probably if she said that? Right?
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Right? Oh god? And I wish I was a lift
like and low all in that classroom, but obviously we're not.
I don't. I'm not going to ask you because I
have a funny feeling we've kind of divulged, We've kind
of we've kind of.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
I said, I said, I said nineteen eighteen to friends.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I can see it. I mean
it's kind of but is that more of a wonder
what you see happening is like, do you want an
overall kick up the whole? I mean, I don't want
to ever lose, nor do I want Peter Roman's last
game in Ireland to be a losing game. But I
(36:41):
kind of get you in the broader scheme of things.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Yeah, And I'm also kind of protecting myself by saying
that as well, because I just I'm kind of just
tired of this people saying Irish friends are such assholes.
They think they're they're all this, and I'm like, well,
look all whatever happens in the next few years, if
I would, I would sacrifice every six nations from now
(37:06):
until the World Cup. If we got to a World
Cup final, I would sacrifice every result to make the
same to something to get us to a World Cup final.
I'm not talking about winning a World Cup, but to
get they're good enough to get to a World Cup
final and we can't figure it out. And if we
keep winning six nations, we're going back to the same
(37:28):
old method method, which doesn't fucking work. It's not working.
Like we're good enough to be one of the best
teams in the world, like Ireland, like with a population
of so little, like to be in a World Cup
final of like one of like the greatest sports. How
amazing would that be? And they can fucking figure it out.
(37:50):
So I actually don't care what like this whole time
Perndergast thing. I'm like, it's it's frustrating me and I'm
trying to get my head around here. But at the
same time, I'm like, Okay, if this is the way
of changing how we go about things, then I'm glad
that you're you're doing it kind of like this. The
conversation we had last week about like for Ireland and
the r few is are they just going to keep
(38:13):
making their money off winning six Nations? Is that how
the industry keeps functioning in Ireland? But you know it can't.
It can't continue like this, like the ship we've caught
since the last World Cup. I just I can't take
it anymore.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Yeah, I mean the you know, if you're looking at
it from business point of view and only on paper,
you say, well, couldn't you won both the fuckers? But
you're right. I do think there's they're saving their hunger
enough by getting silverware, you know, in March, And then
(38:50):
I think it is and it might be an Irish
mentality where you were like, we're six Nations champions? What
more do you want to us? And you're like, sorry,
but we kind don't World Cup? Is that all right?
Can we can? We have that? And there's no doubt
that the players want a World Cup too, like but
there seems to be that doesn't seem to be the
same if if you know, people watch the Chasing the Sun,
(39:14):
there's a want to die for your country, area pride
and need like a fervor need a fucking like the
way Rassie spoke to him. I will never forget you
sent me on that clip with a big roar, laffy
smiley face kind of going, can you believe you said
this to you? I was like, I didn't see enough
fucking hurt on your pie. You said you die for
(39:36):
South Africa, you won't die for South Africa.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
And I'm just say, you won't die for South Africa,
but you won't, you won't dive for South Africa. And
they're all looking at the floor like fire year olds, like.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
Yeah, but I don't. Maybe maybe we're not as corny
in Ireland that we can. Actually somebody wouldn't put their
hand up and go, I hear what you're saying there, Andy,
but that's some load of shit, you know what I mean?
Like you know, I don't.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
I don't know if you can. You can not not
in not with the same message, but you can't touch
on similar kinds of what's the word. It's not instinct,
but there's a word I'm looking for that's along the
(40:21):
line of instinct. Sorry, you're blamed, blame the concussion of
that one.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
No, you can, you can, but for some reason, I
know what you're saying, what you're trying to say, but
tis ours tom over here can't find it in his
brain either. For whatever reason.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
The next word that's coming to me is inbread, but
it's not in bridge.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
You're just thinking of mellow again. That's all right, that's okay,
that's that's sorry. Can't if you're listening, you absolutely aren't listening.
He's not an argument at all. So for anybody who knows, can't,
that's listening. Yeah, I get what we were talking. I do.
(41:05):
I do absolutely get it, but I see I see
it on Paople that they are just going like, how
can you not say we're you know, I know they
go match for match and put the long term and
I'm if I'm in, I'm willing to support it to
a point. The the Sam and I'm gonna get get
(41:26):
off the Sam Prindergast and Jack Crowley think now in
a second. But I'm willing to support it to a point.
But I fear for this young flow this weekend because
when you look at those stats, like he's a young lad,
but he's old enough to be pulled aside and go
listen that your kicking has me in great you're tacklings, mean, cat,
(41:50):
what are we doing here? Because do you know what
I mean? You could go four or five six lads
down there down the ladder, you go as far as
ben Heay back over in Edinburgh and go. He would
be putting up better stats than you are right now.
So what are we doing? Are you getting it together?
Or yeah, I can get it together, coach? Okay, because
I tell you what, I'll take you off at halftime,
(42:10):
because it nearly has to be said at this stage,
like to him, I'm taking you off at halftime if
you're going the same fucking way, do you know what
I mean? And we're going to have to, you know,
having another look at this, because yes, all well and
good building for the future, but it hasn't been working.
We've scraped by because we are an unbelievable team, but
(42:32):
we're fucking scraping by. But our playmaker, I believe, is
too early. He's too he's too young. They have him
in there about a year and a half, two years
too young by by what he's by his performances. But
I could learn to eat my words. He might be
amazing at the weekend and I kind of I hope
(42:54):
for his sake he is. But I'd say France are
absolutely gun at first because i'd say Galty is getting
the boot, I'd say he's getting he'll get the boot
out of this, although I'm saying that he didn't get
the boot after the World Cup. Did you hear the
interview by any chance? With it was so refreshing with
James Colin.
Speaker 1 (43:11):
Oh, it's all bits of that. I No, I didn't
hear the full thing.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
No, it was so refreshing. It's funny too. It's always
funny to hear carfuls with French accents now have like
a hinter French accent of it, like it's always funny.
Like but he didn't give a shit who Gualty was
or what business. It just goes to show the divide
between the clubs because you know, you'd never get a
club manager or coach talking shit about the the international
(43:38):
coach here because they're all they're all in one. You know,
they're all paid, you know, they're all drinking out of
the one draw flag, whereas in France obviously there's owners.
So you can be as mad for her as you
want like so, but James Cole was just gone what
the fuck, Like, I mean, Galtia didn't win the World
Cup at home with the team that he had, you
caughting me, he got knocked out of the World Cup.
(43:58):
How did he get the chopped in? It was just
there was no dancing around it. There was no you know,
you know, he didn't you know he's things went again
him and stuff like no he didn't care, and he
goes he's all the stats in the world, this is,
but he's not a great coach at all. Right, okay,
and they were going and what sort of fellow is Well,
I'll put it this way. I would be going for
(44:18):
a point with him, if you know what I mean.
It's just straight out. But he has to be surely,
but the Jesus he has to be under pressure at
this stage.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
Like a good point. It's a good point about the
you know what what friends weren't able to because I
was saying to someone today about like, oh, Ireland, you know,
qush the quarterfinal. It's actually worse for Frands because they
were in the whole quarterfinal.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
Way worse and they arguably and I think we can
all well not even much of an argument anymore, but
they have the greatest player in the top five of
all time currently playing for them, and who went and won,
went off on one like an Olympic gold medal with
technically a different sport and came back and they're still
(45:08):
now you know so I I yeah, I don't know.
It'll be interesting to see the mentality they come with
at the weekend because they have the monsters. Our frailty
is going to be a ten.
Speaker 1 (45:24):
I always say, what do I always say?
Speaker 2 (45:29):
Banana bread is class.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
I'm looking at my banana bread and I've been lying
for a slice here. But the one thing that you
can't change about the French is that they are French.
Speaker 2 (45:43):
Yeah, pure French thee. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:48):
They could turn up like a fucking bag of its
cargo like you said, or or a fucking flock of
rage and Reggie goes the rest cargo. Who who knows?
(46:09):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (46:09):
You're so right? It was like that in England. Sure,
they absolutely were wandering around the place with their bellies
full of patty, do you know what I mean? A
few kangyacts down at halftime and they fait like a
baggi shit when they could have won it ten times
over like an England just kind of stood there going
did we win? Did we win? Like if if friends
win at the weekend, England are back in the running
(46:30):
because England have Italy next, like they're back in the
run and win the Six Nations like wtf?
Speaker 1 (46:40):
Yeah, oh Barland do win though, because then I'll be
there for I'll be there for uh the week the
Super Saturday in Italy.
Speaker 2 (46:51):
Oh god, yeah, oh god, It'll be tremendous. Yeah, I mean,
you'd hope it's home and hosed by that stage, you
know what I mean. But still you still need to
put the you know, no, you never know, you never know.
But yeah, I don't see Italy playing as bad as
you know, getting as a hiden against like they did
against France in the second half. I don't see them
ever getting that, getting that and then it remain in
(47:13):
two games anyway. But yeah, Jesus, I digress a little bit.
I think we've talked, we're excited about the game and
everything else, and I don't I do think there's massive
pressure on France, more than there is on Ireland, because
Ireland does not really that much pressure in Ireland, it's
nearly I'm not going to say it's a gimme because
they go Deady's away. But they've won the last two.
(47:36):
They're flying it even playing shite in parts because of
some incredible players and an incredible team to pull together.
So that's not massive massive pressure, do you know, it's
three three in a row and whatnot. But I think
Frands are the ones that are kind of they'll have
to come with barbarare up their whole, like they'll have
that they can't turn up like you know, as you said,
(47:56):
like a bag of escargo rolling around the field, you know,
with their little tentacle eyes sticking out of their head
like just going no, go back in, thank you very much,
and just rolling back into their shell. They can't like
they have to come to play like.
Speaker 1 (48:10):
Who knows.
Speaker 2 (48:11):
But I don't know if the contract is going to happen,
but you may have. Did you see this about that
kid in Australia that Roger tried to sign. Yes he's here,
Oh he's here, they got him.
Speaker 1 (48:25):
I think so, yeah, I think he's just right right,
he's arriving or maybe I thought he was coming for
the end of this season.
Speaker 2 (48:34):
Well that was the they were going to give him
a multi year deal. I take a pount on him
because he's the size of Will Skelton already and waiting
to hear the people. He's sixteen years of age. His
surname is Kite. I can't remember his first name. Is
he Viso or Versa Kite? But he's the size of
Will skelt I. Listen, you're more travel than I am.
(48:57):
I'm Isai cross hands, do you know what I mean?
So tip of the cap to you the multi linguists
we have here. But and also you're you know, a
member of Larachelle, so that kind of you know, the
word may have gone around it.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
I'll keep my eye out for him, but I mightn't
spot him.
Speaker 2 (49:16):
You mightn't. You mightn't, Yeah, yeah, yeah, you mightn't spot
him with the crosshands in your eyes. Because if you
can't spot this young fuly, he's literally Godzilla walking around
the place. He's one hundred and forty seven clicks and
over two meters. He's two point zero four. I'll repeat
this at sixty. So he's got still grown to do.
And what had happened was Australia that the dirty fakers
(49:41):
forgot to basically left it too late to sign his
release for him to be left out of Australia to
play abroad. Yet no team had offered him any kind
of contract in Australia at all, and they've given him
no tip, like they'd put him on the under sixteenth.
But there was no kind of heads up as to
what was happening with you know, academies or undertwn tease nothing.
They just kind of went, yeah, no, you're YouTube away
(50:03):
with the lads at home there while you're at it,
and look at you're not going anywhere. So Roger must
have pulled off some moves so to get him over.
This kid, My god, my god, to be the size
of Skelton already, do you know, imagine the two of
them in the second row.
Speaker 1 (50:22):
Yeah, he won't be able to play for a few years,
and I.
Speaker 2 (50:26):
Mean I doubt it. Maybe you can, Maybe you can
play at the top by you joke me, the top fourteen.
You could play with one leg, do you know what
I mean? You could literally in France. In France they
don't care. Like at that young flet surgically had a
rhino horn attached to his forehead. They'd still let you
(50:47):
play in France, Prody too, at least at worst, Like
do you know what I mean, they don't care. It's
the wild West and I love it. I absolutely love it.
They're like, yeah, yeah, you go coaches round with each
other and stuff like that. It's exactly the start of sauce.
We need like a bit more of that, bit more
that in between the Ireland and the UK and stuff
(51:09):
like that. It'd be great just coaches just fucking blasting
off at each other and that prick. Oh no, I know.
So where are you going to watch watch the match?
You have to mind your calories, as you said, because
you're minding yourself before you go and eat all the
past agelatto in Rome. So what's the plan? Are you
(51:31):
gonna watch it through the window of McNulty's.
Speaker 1 (51:34):
I can't have a point anyway, so because I'm still
watching my head.
Speaker 2 (51:40):
So, oh, I thought you were rougher for lent or something.
Speaker 1 (51:44):
Jesus No, you literally that.
Speaker 2 (51:48):
Sounded like you told Jesus that for his You were like,
Jesus no, I'm not literally for Jesus forty days forty
days in the desert Kina and forty days and you
just told him Jesus no.
Speaker 1 (52:04):
Well, uh, first of all, I keep losing my train
of thought.
Speaker 2 (52:14):
To be fair. That's my getting.
Speaker 1 (52:16):
I keep getting notifications about the Pope having a good
night's rest. I know, like if the Pope dies before
next week, like forget your cornetto even be able to
fart in row. It'll be so busy, so you better
not pick the bucket now before before the Six Nations
has finished, we'll surely hang.
Speaker 2 (52:37):
On the last. I heard of a few pounds on
Italy since the beginning anyway to score the first try,
so I'd say you're good for the first half anyway.
So that's just what I heard. I'm not one hundred
percent sure. Can't verify it, not on air anyway. Cardinals
know what I'm talking about. But apparently you're going to
be safe. You're going to be fine. Padre will pull.
Speaker 1 (52:59):
Through, okay, well well getting you know, sending him all
his all his good health wishes as well. But I
the girls are playing in Das, so I will either
join them on the bus. I'll have to see how
I feel. But they're having a party on the bus
(53:19):
back and I can't. I don't want to put myself
in be trapped in that kind of position if my
head is fuzzy, So I'm not sure. I might watch,
might curl up on the couch at home, seeing how
I feel and just wary watch it, watch it with
some French old French men.
Speaker 2 (53:41):
Up in the club.
Speaker 1 (53:43):
No, in like a little kind of bar around town.
Speaker 2 (53:47):
Do you know what, that'd be an interesting one. That
would be an interesting one and you just give it loads. Actually, yeah,
that'd be you, your pure traitor move. Actually, because you
did say at the beginning of the podcast you were
kind of hoping arn would lose. But I'm just sorry.
I'm building I'm making you the baddy this week because
I often end up being the best.
Speaker 1 (54:05):
That's not what I want.
Speaker 2 (54:06):
I know, I want because I want.
Speaker 1 (54:07):
Us to win the Grand Slam because I'll be there.
Speaker 2 (54:10):
Well, look, I think, I think, and I'm not put
more than them out. I think in case anybody's gone,
I think what I was saying is that if we
did lose, then we should definitely use the hurt of that,
you know, and to go and win the World Cup.
Do you know that's stockpiled because we've had an awful
lot of good stuff, which is great, but like I said,
(54:32):
it's lent at the minute. Now, no harm to have
skinny up a small bit like, because we're gone fat
on success, I think to a degree. But we've gone
fat on success in our own hometown. We have to
go to the big city, now, do you know what
I mean? And see can we do it up there?
That's and I eat the World Cup. My metaphors and
are absolute and then analogies are absolutely shite. This even
(54:54):
I can only apologize I'm lacking. I'm lacking biscuits and sugar.
I decided for lent because I use it. I use
in this excuse every year to stop sugar, and have
stopped sugar for three days now, two days, one day
Christ one day and zero biscuits and nothing.
Speaker 1 (55:13):
I was going to say, you never gave people the
fright of their lives by telling them it was the
pancake Tuesday too early this year?
Speaker 2 (55:21):
I know, I do you know what? And he nearly did.
I nearly did. I had it in my head that
it was earlier, and it was again the boy went
he knew exactly what day it was. It was like, no,
it's next Wednesday or next Tuesday. Swear to God. I
was like, are you sure it's not this one? Ement?
We can have pancakes today if you want them. We can,
but it's not technically today He's like, no, that day,
(55:42):
I've had pancakes for every meal. It was like, okay, okay,
Jesus would want it. Well, if Jesus would want it,
then that's what we'll do. We'll have pancakes for every meal.
Fair enough?
Speaker 1 (55:54):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (55:57):
And if nothing else take it. I I when there
was talking to me actually doing a gig for it
up in Dublin, but it was sold to me as
a notion that I was going to be kind of
India Aviva and stuff like that, and it was like, oh,
class great. And then as it transpired, a few things
(56:17):
and I won't get into it here on here, but
a few things. I'm like, I know, you're grand, You're grand,
You're grand, you're grant. It's it wasn't for me. For
somebody else if they want it more than more than welcome,
but it isn't for me, Not at this stage in
my career. I can't be doing that, do you know
what I mean? So we left it where it was
and yeah, I'll I'll watch it. I'll watch it home.
(56:40):
There's lots of timber to be caught here, and I'm
very excited. Fine, big tell you now and quietness, and
I will watch it by myself with copies, amounts of tea,
no biscuits, but it'll be yeah, it'll actually be a
cam camp place to watch it, So I of course
I swear all by myself. Be great. Tip of the
cap too. Of course to through the three lads who
(57:02):
have like a million caps between the three of them,
and double tip of the cap, you've got to say,
like if there wasn't you know you there's argument for
replacing Connor Murray on the bench, there's argument for replacing
Keen Heey on the bench and whatnot. But Peter Omani
is straight up still starting in the Ireland team. That's
(57:23):
some going and still going right and tapping out while
at the top. Now that's not to say the two
the two other lads aren't at the top, but you
know what I mean, they're just on the shoulder of
the top. He's starting for Land when Jack Conan his fait,
do you know what I mean? So tip of the
copying to him. I hope they win for his case,
you know, he's blne is going to look spectacular as
(57:45):
a result. I still can't get the picture of it
a goose. I now have combo with the idea of
a goose busting through your window or just staring through
your window with a knife, but a bread knife. He
wants to slice that in any cake.
Speaker 1 (58:00):
Yeah, the bollocks. I have the nightmares about them.
Speaker 2 (58:02):
That Hey, I look forward to saying where will I
meet you next tour? If we record next week? Where
will you be? Will you be in Rome? Already?
Speaker 1 (58:13):
No? Next hers and I'll be in Bordeaux.
Speaker 2 (58:16):
Are you just going to all the drinks capitals of
the world? Yes, okay, so you might tell us when
you want to champagne or is there a prosecco in
nearby anywhere?
Speaker 1 (58:33):
I don't know? Is no, I don't think.
Speaker 2 (58:38):
So making that ship up now, I'm just gonna come on,
Come on God's sake, I am okay. So we'll try
and record before then if that's the case, because Lord
knows what animal will be attacking you in Bordeaux, so
we can't risk it.
Speaker 1 (58:58):
Yeah, true, all right?
Speaker 2 (59:00):
Mind the Rox.
Speaker 1 (59:01):
Mind the Rox s a banana and bears rugby pod
It's the Banana and Rubbie Pod.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Welcome everybody to Banana Bear's rugby podcast. I'm Tom of
Mahoney and over there it is Anna Gables. Do you
hear that? That's a start to a podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
That's a start a very good.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I can the only way is down, you know, after
setting the bar, So I Jesus Mary Joseph, as I
sit here, and because we're moving, I'm moving around the
house as we get bits finished. And now the dishwasher
may be going off in the background with people's heads,
so I can only apologize to that. I'll stay really
close in microphone to try and not annoy the ship
(00:39):
out of everybody with the.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Dish washer, because I'm I check in the oven. I'm
keeping a nye my banana bread here.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
So people, not that it's of any use whatsoever, but
set the clocks in your mind. Have a look at
the clock right now and tell us if we you'll
know if we've made a bollocks of ourselves. So how
long do we have and it we have ten minutes
for the ban bread, I'd say less.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I'd say about six minutes would do it.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, okay, So it's right here right now, it's twenty
thirty six, so at twenty forty two, okay, well we go, yeah,
let's not get into that in two.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Well it's twenty one. It's twenty one forty two, so
as long as it don't living in another hour.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Banana bread, get you with your coviding bread. Like everybody
was making vanana bread during COVID. For some reason, it
became no thing, would you like to try my vanana bread? No, no,
I don't. I just made something I know the exactly.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Do you know what is I'll beat because I'm because
I can't train. I haven't been training, but I've had
like a craving for some some dessert like something fecking
some sort of treat. Yeah, and I three kind of
black looking bananas, so I was like, fuck, I'm doing
up with banana bread there now quick, so we'll see
how it turns out. But also, what do I say?
(02:00):
Students this morning came in with a big box of
crossants and I was like, oh, would you like a crossants?
And he was making fun of the way like other
people say cross ONTs, like non French people, and I
was like, oh, no, thanks. I was like I'm saving
myself for Rome. Because I am genuinely like saving all
my calories for Rome next week because I want to
(02:22):
eat my way through the city. And they were like,
what where are you going? So I turned on the
crosshups because I'm saving all my calories. But I do
have a banana bread cooking net because I just can't resist.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Do you know it's Laier's earlier over the weekend, I
was said, I corrected somebody, but I quoted you, and
they were like crossants and like, if you want to
listen to the podcast back, I think you'll find that
Anna has described exactly how to say it properly, and
you're not an anchor. You're just saying it right. If
you say croissant and then alon and behold, they're probably
(02:56):
listening to the podcast right now and it's it's you
just opened in the first time going This lead brought
in about the cross hands, and I said, I won't
have a crosshand because I'm saving myself for Rome. Jesus
and I would have murdered across hand.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I'm like, do you know, do you know what a
cross on the cross on the seat? I changed the
way I say cross ONTs depending on the company I
have do you.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Know, because I'm some knuckle dragon culchi. You're like, I'll
say cross hands for this fella.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah, absolutely, because have I said it any other way,
you'd be like this one again. Yeah, we get as
you live in the friends. Yes. Do you know what
a cross cross cross ants is called in Italian?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Croissante?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
No corn leto.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Shut the freaking front door. Yeah, so we've been eating
cross on ice creams for millennia.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah pretty much, yes, cross?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
And what cornado? So what's a cornado in Italy? Gilato? Cornetti?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
What?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Because I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
It's just called corneto. Jesus, I love cornettle.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I love cornetto. And do you know what? Every so
often I'll be.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
On, what a funny word now that I realize what
it means cornetdo? What a great word?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I tell you something. If you beat the top off
of an actual cross ond and stuffed to a cornetto
style ice cream, I e. Vanilla and chocolate now.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Now I tell you now? And do you know what what?
People aren't going to be able to wait till the
next installment of this, or at least the installments when
to come back from Italy. But I've been looking on
like I've been looking up on TikTok and instagrams of
the best places to eat and there are pistachio fills,
Cornetto's cross Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Do you know there are moments in your life where
you will remember like odd moments, do you know what
I mean? Like when somebody I remember somebody once said
that we're trying to describe a guitar to me, and
they kept on a guitar until the day I die.
I will take the fury and side that I had
at the moment that moment inside my head because I
couldn't correct them. It was out of place to correct them.
But that that will stay in my head forever, rent
(05:34):
free for no reason whatsoever. But there's a moment we
were in Milan and we it was like breakfast time
from walking down the street and it was a little
hatch that sold gelatto and like put in like a
rolled like you know, honeycomb style, you know, the honey
a proper cone that like crispy cone. But they were
(05:56):
selling them and only espressos and we had double espressos
and pistachio gelatto on real Jesus, do you know you
can't talk when you take a bite to something. It's
like no, no, no, no, no, don't don't fuck, don't don't
run it, don't ruin it. Just had to sit down,
(06:16):
have to find something to go and sit down and
just appreciate that moment we were like, I mean, miland
itself was a shit that the time we were there.
Were only there for three days, but it was Juran
fashion Week, so the first few first, the first day
was hilarious, like you're looking at these absolute yolks walking
around the place. Fancy like half them if there were
(06:37):
bears of chocolate to date themselves. Do you know what
I mean? Just in like three ridiculously for you were.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Were you wearing like wellies and stuff?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
What did we know? We didn't. I'm not that country yet.
I am country, but I'm not that country.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Sure, sure even know what a corner was. I tell
you a funny story about Milan.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I'll just let the listeners know. Anybody knew this is
definitely there'll be Rugby arrived at some stage, but we're
definitely this is a rugby story.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
This is a rugby story. Yes, So followers of the
women's game will know that Ireland won the Grand Slam
in twenty thirteen in Milan. The final game was against
Italy in Milan, and we a lot of us went over.
(07:31):
I was, I was, I've been.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I'm gonna I'm gonna pause you there it's bread time.
So we haven't started the story fully yet. I'm going
to keep people interested by the whole notion of it.
But I needed to check in that bread because there's people,
okay posthumously stressing out right now as to the results
of the bread, because if we were over the oh
my god, the amount of golf we get over this now.
(07:58):
If you didn't start up the bread.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
It's perfect.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
No, never mind your gelettos banana.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
And beer bread.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
You're so unbranded with you. I know, remember banana and
the cartoon and everything was banana shaped, like the banana phone,
the banana This is literally you like, I only eat
banana bread. I eat banana banana toilet roll, banana televishaped television.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
But I would love a banana phone. Come here, sorry,
hang on, let me guess the end of this Milan story,
because because it's a it's a great story. A load
of us went over. We were having we found some
like shitty little village bar. It was brilliant and when
I say bart, that's exactly the type of bar we
(08:55):
want to be. And we were having great crackers, a
load of balls, girls, girls from G's all over like
it was a brilliant, brilliant weekend. But two of the
girls won't mention who you know who are and many
people know who they are. There was a little tattoo
parlor next door to the little shitty pub Jesus, and
(09:17):
they went in and they wanted to get something to
do with Milan and they were like, why don't we
just get hashtag Milan on our cheek And this is
a joke, but it turned into something real and then
your man of the tattoo pol like, no, no, no, it
has to be Milleno. So they got hashtag Milleno on
(09:40):
their art cheeks. Amazing that yeah, that the girls won
the Grand Slam.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I did they have? They shown it to the restaurant
chain Millano in Ireland because I guarantee the w a
free gee's za of some sort. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
If you're gonna the flash of their arts.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
It's going to dropped dropped trout and you've tattooed your
your the name of a company on your arts. I
think there's a few pounds or something in it for you.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Yeah, I don't know. I haven't asked them if they've
tried that, but yeah, has it's a it's a famous saying.
Now I think there are two be quite.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Class now before we before we plow ahead with banana
bread stories and where you're heading to Rome and everything else,
and even the rugby we need to check back in.
How is the coundo one.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Better? Still not out of the woods yet. I went
into the gym this evening and did a small bit
of movement, but I wasn't right. So I came away, No,
not very seriously, but I knew I wasn't right, So
we came away so little by little. But it was
a tough all week. I must say, I kind of
(10:55):
I remember how much of this I got into last week,
but basically just kind of getting worried. I just don't
know when the symptoms will end, and if the symptoms
go on for much longer than it means that my
rugby career is already over, which is you know, very
very very sad thought. But it's not you know, that's
just a worry I have. It's not that it's materialized yet,
(11:16):
so crossing everything need everyone's good vibes to to you know,
so that that's not the case.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I mean, you're able to keep an eye on banana bit.
For Christ's sake, you're practically if a race horse would
just stop.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I know, I did cycle two hundred and fifty clongers
this weekend.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
That was going to be my next question was like
only because of my blocks and we're friends. I was
about to go, does the lady protest too much because
of two hundred and fifty? Yeah? That the head is
the hidden right at all. Anyway, I'm way off my bike, okay, Yeah,
the only cycle from Cork to Dublin, Like, yeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
The only thing that doesn't make me daisy.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
And you know with you destabilizers on obviously.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
What Yeah, yeah, I stabilized. Well, I tell you now,
you wouldn't go very far with stabilizers because it's a
it was a it's a bike path like it goes
along the Charon's River. Fuck, it was full of potholes.
I'd be there like, oh, look at the lovely view,
and then I need to like focus my eyes in
the front of reeks. Pobles everywhere so it wasn't wasn't
(12:29):
my favorite like BikeE trick that I did, but it
was definitely good for the soul and that I definitely
needed it.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
And you went, did you? And I'm going to say
this wrong, and I've probably been saying it wrong for years,
rock Fort, rush for rush for Okay? Okay, and yet
one thing that's not where.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Rock for Cheese comes from?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
What where does that come from?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Rock four?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Okay? I was in rush for Okay, So I won't
sound like just just to clarify, I won't sound like
too big of a dechead if I say it correct,
because I can't continue with this quassan business. But I
do like a bit of rush for or is it
rock for?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Rock for Cheese?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I know, yeah, I can't. I can get by with
that right rock for even though somebody will eye bought
me and go, don't you mean rock Ford like a
If you're saying it right and it says you have
to call it rock for, I won't sound like like
if it's a rush for, I'll sound like a ball bike.
So I'm happy enough to go rock for rock because
I do. I do like a bit of rock for
(13:35):
cheese In all fairness now they do. So where which
direction did you go from Narrochelle did you go? Yeah,
Wish north I took.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I took the train Wished to a little town called
on Len, and then I cycled back to towards. I
stayed the first night in Kangnac, and my followers will
have seen my story where I was just educating people
on well Kgnac in general, it's a specific type of
(14:08):
brandy that comes from this town, this area of Cognac.
And I don't know if you saw it, but a
man called Richard Tennessee left Mallow County, Cork kill of
Valland to be exact, in seventeen or seventeen ninety or
something like that and go into a business in Cognac
(14:29):
and he started Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Is that how it came about?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
That's it. The house is still there in Cork and everything,
like the actual original house that he came from. But
he was a Jacobite, so he was forced out of
Ireland and he went to France and started a flipping
Congnac business.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Tennessee jsauce, Yeah, that's unreal. So he was a Jacobite,
got chucked out because they what sure had the produce.
Did they heave it at that time? Protestants that they've
taken over that time and we're giving up.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I don't remember the Jacobite history of story. I just
remember them being forced out and being made very difficult
for them.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Here they wore hats with buckles on them. I remember correctly.
I say remember correctly, like I was around back then.
That's I tell you one thing. I never promised, or
we never promised that this will be a learning podcast.
But look at like sometimes just amazing. So he's from
kill Olan.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Come from kill So Hennessy like world renowned Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
That's like all the rappers, all the rappers love it.
All rappers they love Hennessy, they love Hennessy.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yeah, he's from all Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Actually shout out to you have your your your name
this week because people will ask your his title. Pete
and Kahn and Key and the only other con I
know is a man called Cornelius. He's a comedian from
Cork and he's from Killer Olan. Good god, You're never
it's like this this seven stages from Kevin Bacon around here,
isn't it? You just end up finding this is we
(16:05):
could be we could do a genealogy Rugby podcast and
just find people.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Oh yeah, do you know what else comes from Kangyac
while we're still on it and because it's it's just
blew me away. But Gray Goose vodka is made in
kannak hold On.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
One tiny place is the birth birthplace of all rappers,
American rappers favorite drinks. Yeah yeah, the other day, was
there any gray geese?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Well, I fucking tell you something I bought. I bought
some fruit in the market and I was like daddling
along head about maybe Curtic Claunders. I was like, well,
I'll stop and eat my apple in this lovely picnic
area and started to reach for my apple. I turned
(16:58):
around and there was a talking heard of geese head down,
charging at me. I'm sad, screaming and literally so fucking
ron So I don't know. I like, theese are fucking bastards.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
So they're absolute tramps. They don't care about anything to
do with you, like they're oh, they're absolute bastards.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yeah, So that was the only gray goose I had,
just getting chased down by an evil, evil goose.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
There's times when you're describing your life and that I
wish your Instagram wasn't in your phone. I wish it
was on like a headcamp. Do you know what I mean?
You were able to just live stream that madness where
it just happened that you were like, well, this is
a delicious apple. Come join me as I enjoyed. Oh no,
oh no, oh god, no oh no, no, no no,
(17:58):
and it's all hell has broken. Oh my god. Anybody
and a story. You're great at the photographs. You're just
great at it. You make me want to watch it.
I have no ability or patience to you know, to
put I can't forward think, you know what I mean.
(18:19):
I would never think to take a video of myself
back in a bag, you do know what I mean?
I put a nice music, I would never I think
of it three days in and got alf of.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Oh that happens to me all the time.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Do you have to recreate? Do you have to recreate
some of these packaging moments like this?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
No, I just I'd be on my bike and like
A should have taken a video of that? Well, and
then I'm like, I'll do it tomorrow. So when you're
on your own like that, So spend a lot of
time on my own. Obviously it's easier to remember when
you're on your own. But I actually don't like doing
things like that when other people are around, because I
don't like you're interfering with my life.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
You see, this is the thing you at least you
know you're not a gen x, you know, or whatever
it is like where you're fourteen and you just like
I genuinely. The other day my job hit the ground.
It was very funny because from a five year old
but kind of worrying that we're gonna have to cut
back on this carry on because we're outside and we're
rebuilding a stone wall that was not years ago, and
(19:23):
lots of trees have grown through and stuff like that,
and there's a lot of it is our castle stones,
because there's a castle right next door to us that
was obviously pitiful back in the day. So some of
these stones are beautifully square. You're kind of going with
this didn't come out to the ground like this, And
my five five year old was root and away it
rocks flying it. Is this a good one? Is this
a good one? I'm like, that's a great one. Good lad,
that's a great one. He picked up one and he went,
(19:46):
this one's square. Do you think it's a brick or stone.
I went, it was dephanely a stone. I know this
this is a stone? He went, yeah, but it's super
square like a brick. Hey, would you video of me
looking at this stone? I'm like, no, what I w
just go on? I went, all right, not really knowing,
and I swear to god. Two camera goes, oh, hey, guys,
so today we're we're talking about my dad. See if
(20:07):
this is actually a brick or a stone and he
holds it up. He goes, look at the square edges
on it. That's not like a normal stone, is it?
I swear to god? He went, so you just put
your comments in the right what you think it is?
Down the comments and I'll catch you next week. Bye, guys.
I went, who was that too? He goes, I don't know,
Oh my god, oh I need to describe.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Oh what a little legend.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
No, just reeled it off like it was like no autoque, No,
let's go for a second take. Nailed it, like if
you're looking for a wonder, if you're if you're looking
for a a like a performer on the spot. Incredible,
and I think it's it's boundless confidence is what that is,
because that's all the ties any of us up, we
overthink it and we end up jumbling our words. And
(20:53):
but he be at five, you're a legend. Do you
know what I mean? You're absolute legend. And I'm going,
do you know what? Because I see the rubbish that's
on and I'm going that would actually make that would
get views and people would interact with it, even though
I'm looking on there's no question here at all. Let's
it's a fucking stone, do you know what I mean?
There is no there's no question like what what are
(21:16):
you talking about? You? I genuinely I literally studied geology.
This is not no, that's just And now I'm walking
around question myself going well Jesus Christ, what is But yes,
I I had have one weekend. I was gigging in
the town that you would love, Don Garvin, that's the
right town for you. They're building they have a cycle
(21:37):
path from I think from clan Mel nearly to Waterford
now and they're now building one which is holding up
a fair bit of traffic from care to clan Mill.
So I'm guessing they're going to try and get one
all the way from Limerick to Waterford, yes, which will
make an unbelievable one.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Yeah, I think there's one coming through mallow as well
at some stage, like going to Don Garvine.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
They should name it the Ana Cases gets chased by
a goose. They should actually have a statue of you
trying to eat your apple, mouth open, teeth just locked on,
and a big mad goose come and flying at you.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I don't want to immortalize that.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
That's what they'd call it. And the bastards. Yeah, the
odd and the food that I'm going to give a
shout out to where I have the comedy club. It's
at a venue called the three sixty Cookhouse. It's very good.
Everything they do is outrageously good. They do a really
(22:40):
good baby octopus. So yeah, they've got little baby faces
on him. No they don't, No, they don't. They're doing
in like a chili sauce. They're told, oh my god,
it's you very quickly forget that they're the fact that
they put baby in there makes it makes you feel
like a monster for the first one. No, or they
(23:02):
do they put baby in it because that's what they are.
But there's some name on it, you know, like like
snails that are called is cargo. But they you know,
they give it a name, but then in brackets they
go it's baby, it's quid or baby octopus. So you know,
get on board. Don't be a nicker's command now. Yeah,
doing Garvin Comedy Goverment Friday night and then Saturday night
(23:24):
was back in the beloved Hill and it is gone stratospheric.
It's insane how into comedy people are. You can literally
say anything. You can say anything now so as long
as it's funny Pete, there's no oh jeesus moments anymore.
They're like, yeah, turn it up. It's it's so therapeutic
(23:45):
and very very cathartic to step into a room where
you're like the basis of this whole thing is I
was having a good time and having fun. Let's go.
It's a lot of fun, a lot of fun. Yeah.
And we did some tree cutting at the weekend, so
I feel extra manly, So that's great. Although we hit
we've passed. For anybody wondering and this is the last
(24:06):
learning thing you're gonna learn, We're gonna jump into rugby.
You can only we had cut these trees prior to
March first, because you're not allowed to cut down trees
unless they're danger dying erch As and I would say
you can't cut down trees between March first and I
think August twenty ninth or something like that, because the
birds to be yeah, to be nesting in it. But
if it's on the ground, which it is, you can
(24:29):
chop it up no problem. So getting into what so
we are, it's actually working out quite well. We used
to record earlier the week, but the way it's kind
of worked over the last few weeks, we've ended up
on Thursday nights, which is kind of ideal for the
Six Nations because we've been landing right on because there's
not more so listening to I went to listen to
a podcast today and they were going, so, who do
(24:50):
you think they're going to pick them? Like I already
know off with this podcast. This podcast is so stale
already and it's only a day old, so we are
fresh as Anna's bread right now. Had you any surprises?
Did you see the selection?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I'm a surprised that to replace an injured Mackanson that
didn't go with Calvan Nash.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Yeah, yeah, I I was yes, because I suppose most
like the Swiss army knife that comparative to an absolute
Rambo knife. Rambo knife will only cut one thing where
the Swiss Army knife is like, well, I gotta yok
for cleaning out horse hooves as well and open bottles.
And that's I suppose what they're looking for with Osborne.
(25:35):
That's the only way I could think about it, because
there's no way he's a better winger than Calvanash. Winger
for winger, he Calvnash is a better winger. But yeah,
I was kind of because a lot of people online
were going tough, fuck, like Osborne is barely making an answer, team,
what are you talking about? Like put all things being said,
(25:56):
you know, it's a shoot It was a shootout between
as wing. You're the wing. I suppose calvan Ash for
Macknson both mac dropping out completely. Yeah, you could say
I was kind of raging, but I was. You know,
these days you're kind of gone, I don't I'm not
leinster bash here, but you're kind of going, oh, you
found a second string leinser player that would okay, okay,
(26:19):
fair enough. Yeah you put him in there, fair enough,
do you know? But it's it is. I can kind
of see what they're doing, all.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Right, Well, especially with the bench split.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Yes, yes, how are you in favor? And why did
they go for six two? Do you think.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Because the rumors where the France were going with a
seven to.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
One, and the rumors were right, it would seem.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Yeah, but you know, ah, yeah, I don't. I suppose
that's the work thing to do, but it is. I
do feel like they played the rumors or what they
thought Frands would do, whether the rumors, you know, whether
they were like we definitely know that friends are going
(27:08):
to do this because because it's going to be such
a close game, they just want to like have every
advantage whenever, whenever there's a scrum, like to flipping to
to not have that become an area of weakness later
in the game, which could basically turn to a three pointer.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Look, what do you do other than just going six
to two and go we will try and match you
as best we can with almost as many forwards. Sure,
I like, I mean they in recent times, you'd imagine
that the Irish lads are fitter? Are they fitter? I
suppose if you can throw on a full seven, it
doesn't really matter how fit they're they're forwards are taking.
They can last forty five fifty minutes then you're.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Like if you're if you're like sucking diesel, you could
go eighty minutes plus, you know, you could keep going.
I suppose that's a bit rich when when when you're
coming up against a team like France that you know
is gonna but you know someone has to stay on,
So why not to when on an extra person stay on?
(28:11):
You know, like it's not like it's not like it's
going to be a massive fitness difference. I think I
don't know. Does it doesn't make a massive difference in
the end or is it just a mentality squad mentality.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
I think it's a bomb squad mentality. And I think
more so it was the drama of it, like but
like Ireland go toe to toe, no problem with the
hardest bastards in the world, like you know, the South
Africans and go to an I mean, smash him, do
you know what I mean? There's that that first game,
in that game in the World Cup, it was one
of the most physical games, violent games that you know,
while being clean, that I've ever seen. Like, so Ireland
(28:44):
do have it. So there's notion that they're going to
just be overpowered because everybody keeps on talking about whinn Antonio, Like, Okay,
I get you, I get you, but he's not out
crippling people like do you.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
He's just a huge man in the front row, Like
he's not gonna absolutely out you and havelf like you know,
like the Tonguels back in the day like this, you know,
but you know what I mean, the.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Players around him have to work very hard as well,
because he can't keep up with it with a full pace.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Line, not a not a fit.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
So that's that's a story with with you know a
lot of big physical, scrumming, scrummaging front rows like that
as well. But like you know, you have to work
really hard around players like that. Yeah, you're wearing the
fitness of other players anyway, and the backs especially who
have no replacements coming up or fewer.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Yeah, that's that's interesting because you never really hear anybody
talking about that. It's how hard everybody else has to
work around. They're just talking talking up. Oh that's all
I've heard all week is talking up the likes of
Whin they Antonio, And you're kind of going, yeah, that's
that makes loads of sense. But of course this is
coming from a current player who's gone, yeah, okay, it's
all well and good have and you know, a scanny
(30:02):
sized human in the front row, but they're going to
turn like you know, an iceberg and whatnot in around
the rest all the rest of the time on the
field ain't hunting down you know, wingers, you know what
I mean. Like, so that's a really valid point. So
I wonder if that's the thing, if you can, I suppose,
(30:22):
if you can keep seriously seriously fast paced on it,
moving it over and back and whatnot to block those
gaps around him and helping him out, are they going
to tire their players out? Now? I mean it's it's
a hind or bed stuff. But people have been kind
of dancing dancing and I want Europe. I know you
kind of said it last week, did you be licking
(30:43):
your lips like, but everybody's kind of been going yeah, yeah. Well,
I mean, we knew san Brenda was going to be
picked based on the Whales match. We knew he was
going to be picked or whatever. But it's like that,
it has to be a case where they're going, let me,
I want to go first. I want to go at
him first. No, I want to go at him first,
because I look like it's not just those bashing and
(31:05):
the kid is some special talent. But he's got the
worst tackle tackle rate in all of the players one
hundred plus players in the six nations. He's at the
worst tackle record, the most, the most mistackles, Like you're
all right out have can't have that, Like you just
(31:30):
can't have that, whatever way you butt through your bread,
we can't. I know they're building the lad up, but
Jesus Christ, this could build, this could be this could
crouch him, like and I don't just mean that physically, like,
but if he gets run over four times and maybe
a couple of tries come off the back of that, Like, Jesus,
this might do more harm than good. And this is
(31:51):
genuine like I'm not you know, guess people here, like
I'm genuinely thinking because the amount of people now that
are going this has to be a big game for him,
Like they're being soft on him. They're kind of going, yeah,
you know, there's a bit a bit of pressure on him.
There a bit of pressure, Like, yeah, of course there is.
He's been cat in a lot of you know, which
(32:12):
is okay if you're at club level or whatnot. You know,
but or if you're coming on for a fellow in
like the Italy match or you know whatever. But he's
the starting out have and he has the worst tackle
rate in one hundred let's say the twenty three players
per squad, which there's not there's more has been rotated
and stuff. But that's over one hundred fucking players. You're
(32:34):
at number one for being the worst.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
But yeah, that's actually trying to think of the last
few matches. Have have teams been deliberately targeting him in attack?
I haven't. I don't feel like I've noticed it that much.
But is he is he is his tackle count then
higher than others? Is he now? Not to dispute, he's
definitely made errors. He has to be like Ireland is
(33:03):
still winning, you know, so it's not like it's it's
completely fucking us over yet because if it was that bad,
then then we wouldn't be able to, you know, cling
on like we are. We're cleaning on.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Well, we are cleaning on and we shouldn't be clinging
on like we do, you know what I mean. The
England match, we were losing until Jack Crowley came on.
That's that's the reality. That's the cold light to day
when anybody the Scotland match was an absolute cluster fick
when both their two best players ended up clattering heads
off each other. Do you know that that game fell
apart Wales cat I don't care what people can say,
(33:41):
Oh well, it's another great competition with For the love
of fuck, I don't care. I'm sorry. We should have
buried them thirty points plus buried them like Ireland looked
absolutely toothless in certain parts of that game and clueless
in certain parts of that game. And people want to
keep convincing us that, well we had a game plan
and there was a you know, Whales are the purple
patch for the love of Christ almighty, do you know
(34:04):
we do with the talent pool, the talent that we have,
and coming off our bench, like there isn't fucking one
Welsh fellow. Sorry for Efan and Jeffin over here, but
there isn't one Welsh fellow. We'll even get a look
around the door of the Lion's office, let alone getting
on the plane, like they might bring a token Garth
aanskim or something like that. I can't see it, but
(34:24):
do you know what I mean? They might bring a token,
but that's all it will be is a token just
for the hell of it. But they should have buried
them and now we're looking down as a sour No
Frances say, who are under fair pressure like Gualty, like
they're they're under they're underperforming too, like they should have
beat England by thirty points without if they did, you know,
(34:45):
and Penno got a kick in the hole and got
dropped the following week because of and they put seventy
plus on Borough Italy as a result, you know, I.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Know, yeah, yeah, I just it's funny kind of jumping
the gun through at all about it and then going
to itne and stuff. But like the France game, this
is actually huge for both sides. Like good few people
here have mentioned it to me, and like they don't
always they'll always talk about rugby, but they don't. I
(35:12):
just have heard them kind of go on about this
game now a little bit extra, maybe because of the
weekend off as well. Kind of people, uh have it
more in their minds. But it's they were predicting scores
in class there, the students were, and I well, I
won't share what prediction I gave, but they were its
(35:35):
price and what I said, They're like, why would you
say that? And I was like, look, I was like,
losing in the World Cups. I don't, I don't, I
don't care. I think of winning in six Nations and
losing in the World Cups. And they were like, what
probably if she said that? Right?
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Right? Oh god? And I wish I was a lift
like and low all in that classroom, but obviously we're not.
I don't. I'm not going to ask you because I
have a funny feeling we've kind of divulged, We've kind
of we've kind of.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
I said, I said, I said nineteen eighteen to friends.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I can see it. I mean
it's kind of but is that more of a wonder
what you see happening is like, do you want an
overall kick up the whole? I mean, I don't want
to ever lose, nor do I want Peter Roman's last
game in Ireland to be a losing game. But I
(36:41):
kind of get you in the broader scheme of things.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Yeah, And I'm also kind of protecting myself by saying
that as well, because I just I'm kind of just
tired of this people saying Irish friends are such assholes.
They think they're they're all this, and I'm like, well,
look all whatever happens in the next few years, if
I would, I would sacrifice every six nations from now
(37:06):
until the World Cup. If we got to a World
Cup final, I would sacrifice every result to make the
same to something to get us to a World Cup final.
I'm not talking about winning a World Cup, but to
get they're good enough to get to a World Cup
final and we can't figure it out. And if we
keep winning six nations, we're going back to the same
(37:28):
old method method, which doesn't fucking work. It's not working.
Like we're good enough to be one of the best
teams in the world, like Ireland, like with a population
of so little, like to be in a World Cup
final of like one of like the greatest sports. How
amazing would that be? And they can fucking figure it out.
(37:50):
So I actually don't care what like this whole time
Perndergast thing. I'm like, it's it's frustrating me and I'm
trying to get my head around here. But at the
same time, I'm like, Okay, if this is the way
of changing how we go about things, then I'm glad
that you're you're doing it kind of like this. The
conversation we had last week about like for Ireland and
the r few is are they just going to keep
(38:13):
making their money off winning six Nations? Is that how
the industry keeps functioning in Ireland? But you know it can't.
It can't continue like this, like the ship we've caught
since the last World Cup. I just I can't take
it anymore.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Yeah, I mean the you know, if you're looking at
it from business point of view and only on paper,
you say, well, couldn't you won both the fuckers? But
you're right. I do think there's they're saving their hunger
enough by getting silverware, you know, in March, And then
(38:50):
I think it is and it might be an Irish
mentality where you were like, we're six Nations champions? What
more do you want to us? And you're like, sorry,
but we kind don't World Cup? Is that all right?
Can we can? We have that? And there's no doubt
that the players want a World Cup too, like but
there seems to be that doesn't seem to be the
same if if you know, people watch the Chasing the Sun,
(39:14):
there's a want to die for your country, area pride
and need like a fervor need a fucking like the
way Rassie spoke to him. I will never forget you
sent me on that clip with a big roar, laffy
smiley face kind of going, can you believe you said
this to you? I was like, I didn't see enough
fucking hurt on your pie. You said you die for
(39:36):
South Africa, you won't die for South Africa.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
And I'm just say, you won't die for South Africa,
but you won't, you won't dive for South Africa. And
they're all looking at the floor like fire year olds, like.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
Yeah, but I don't. Maybe maybe we're not as corny
in Ireland that we can. Actually somebody wouldn't put their
hand up and go, I hear what you're saying there, Andy,
but that's some load of shit, you know what I mean?
Like you know, I don't.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
I don't know if you can. You can not not
in not with the same message, but you can't touch
on similar kinds of what's the word. It's not instinct,
but there's a word I'm looking for that's along the
(40:21):
line of instinct. Sorry, you're blamed, blame the concussion of
that one.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
No, you can, you can, but for some reason, I
know what you're saying, what you're trying to say, but
tis ours tom over here can't find it in his
brain either. For whatever reason.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
The next word that's coming to me is inbread, but
it's not in bridge.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
You're just thinking of mellow again. That's all right, that's okay,
that's that's sorry. Can't if you're listening, you absolutely aren't listening.
He's not an argument at all. So for anybody who knows, can't,
that's listening. Yeah, I get what we were talking. I do.
(41:05):
I do absolutely get it, but I see I see
it on Paople that they are just going like, how
can you not say we're you know, I know they
go match for match and put the long term and
I'm if I'm in, I'm willing to support it to
a point. The the Sam and I'm gonna get get
(41:26):
off the Sam Prindergast and Jack Crowley think now in
a second. But I'm willing to support it to a point.
But I fear for this young flow this weekend because
when you look at those stats, like he's a young lad,
but he's old enough to be pulled aside and go
listen that your kicking has me in great you're tacklings, mean, cat,
(41:50):
what are we doing here? Because do you know what
I mean? You could go four or five six lads
down there down the ladder, you go as far as
ben Heay back over in Edinburgh and go. He would
be putting up better stats than you are right now.
So what are we doing? Are you getting it together?
Or yeah, I can get it together, coach? Okay, because
I tell you what, I'll take you off at halftime,
(42:10):
because it nearly has to be said at this stage,
like to him, I'm taking you off at halftime if
you're going the same fucking way, do you know what
I mean? And we're going to have to, you know,
having another look at this, because yes, all well and
good building for the future, but it hasn't been working.
We've scraped by because we are an unbelievable team, but
(42:32):
we're fucking scraping by. But our playmaker, I believe, is
too early. He's too he's too young. They have him
in there about a year and a half, two years
too young by by what he's by his performances. But
I could learn to eat my words. He might be
amazing at the weekend and I kind of I hope
(42:54):
for his sake he is. But I'd say France are
absolutely gun at first because i'd say Galty is getting
the boot, I'd say he's getting he'll get the boot
out of this, although I'm saying that he didn't get
the boot after the World Cup. Did you hear the
interview by any chance? With it was so refreshing with
James Colin.
Speaker 1 (43:11):
Oh, it's all bits of that. I No, I didn't
hear the full thing.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
No, it was so refreshing. It's funny too. It's always
funny to hear carfuls with French accents now have like
a hinter French accent of it, like it's always funny.
Like but he didn't give a shit who Gualty was
or what business. It just goes to show the divide
between the clubs because you know, you'd never get a
club manager or coach talking shit about the the international
(43:38):
coach here because they're all they're all in one. You know,
they're all paid, you know, they're all drinking out of
the one draw flag, whereas in France obviously there's owners.
So you can be as mad for her as you
want like so, but James Cole was just gone what
the fuck, Like, I mean, Galtia didn't win the World
Cup at home with the team that he had, you
caughting me, he got knocked out of the World Cup.
(43:58):
How did he get the chopped in? It was just
there was no dancing around it. There was no you know,
you know, he didn't you know he's things went again
him and stuff like no he didn't care, and he
goes he's all the stats in the world, this is,
but he's not a great coach at all. Right, okay,
and they were going and what sort of fellow is Well,
I'll put it this way. I would be going for
(44:18):
a point with him, if you know what I mean.
It's just straight out. But he has to be surely,
but the Jesus he has to be under pressure at
this stage.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
Like a good point. It's a good point about the
you know what what friends weren't able to because I
was saying to someone today about like, oh, Ireland, you know,
qush the quarterfinal. It's actually worse for Frands because they
were in the whole quarterfinal.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
Way worse and they arguably and I think we can
all well not even much of an argument anymore, but
they have the greatest player in the top five of
all time currently playing for them, and who went and won,
went off on one like an Olympic gold medal with
technically a different sport and came back and they're still
(45:08):
now you know so I I yeah, I don't know.
It'll be interesting to see the mentality they come with
at the weekend because they have the monsters. Our frailty
is going to be a ten.
Speaker 1 (45:24):
I always say, what do I always say?
Speaker 2 (45:29):
Banana bread is class.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
I'm looking at my banana bread and I've been lying
for a slice here. But the one thing that you
can't change about the French is that they are French.
Speaker 2 (45:43):
Yeah, pure French thee. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:48):
They could turn up like a fucking bag of its
cargo like you said, or or a fucking flock of
rage and Reggie goes the rest cargo. Who who knows?
(46:09):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (46:09):
You're so right? It was like that in England. Sure,
they absolutely were wandering around the place with their bellies
full of patty, do you know what I mean? A
few kangyacts down at halftime and they fait like a
baggi shit when they could have won it ten times
over like an England just kind of stood there going
did we win? Did we win? Like if if friends
win at the weekend, England are back in the running
(46:30):
because England have Italy next, like they're back in the
run and win the Six Nations like wtf?
Speaker 1 (46:40):
Yeah, oh Barland do win though, because then I'll be
there for I'll be there for uh the week the
Super Saturday in Italy.
Speaker 2 (46:51):
Oh god, yeah, oh god, It'll be tremendous. Yeah, I mean,
you'd hope it's home and hosed by that stage, you
know what I mean. But still you still need to
put the you know, no, you never know, you never know.
But yeah, I don't see Italy playing as bad as
you know, getting as a hiden against like they did
against France in the second half. I don't see them
ever getting that, getting that and then it remain in
(47:13):
two games anyway. But yeah, Jesus, I digress a little bit.
I think we've talked, we're excited about the game and
everything else, and I don't I do think there's massive
pressure on France, more than there is on Ireland, because
Ireland does not really that much pressure in Ireland, it's
nearly I'm not going to say it's a gimme because
they go Deady's away. But they've won the last two.
(47:36):
They're flying it even playing shite in parts because of
some incredible players and an incredible team to pull together.
So that's not massive massive pressure, do you know, it's
three three in a row and whatnot. But I think
Frands are the ones that are kind of they'll have
to come with barbarare up their whole, like they'll have
that they can't turn up like you know, as you said,
(47:56):
like a bag of escargo rolling around the field, you know,
with their little tentacle eyes sticking out of their head
like just going no, go back in, thank you very much,
and just rolling back into their shell. They can't like
they have to come to play like.
Speaker 1 (48:10):
Who knows.
Speaker 2 (48:11):
But I don't know if the contract is going to happen,
but you may have. Did you see this about that
kid in Australia that Roger tried to sign. Yes he's here,
Oh he's here, they got him.
Speaker 1 (48:25):
I think so, yeah, I think he's just right right,
he's arriving or maybe I thought he was coming for
the end of this season.
Speaker 2 (48:34):
Well that was the they were going to give him
a multi year deal. I take a pount on him
because he's the size of Will Skelton already and waiting
to hear the people. He's sixteen years of age. His
surname is Kite. I can't remember his first name. Is
he Viso or Versa Kite? But he's the size of
Will skelt I. Listen, you're more travel than I am.
(48:57):
I'm Isai cross hands, do you know what I mean?
So tip of the cap to you the multi linguists
we have here. But and also you're you know, a
member of Larachelle, so that kind of you know, the
word may have gone around it.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
I'll keep my eye out for him, but I mightn't
spot him.
Speaker 2 (49:16):
You mightn't. You mightn't, Yeah, yeah, yeah, you mightn't spot
him with the crosshands in your eyes. Because if you
can't spot this young fuly, he's literally Godzilla walking around
the place. He's one hundred and forty seven clicks and
over two meters. He's two point zero four. I'll repeat
this at sixty. So he's got still grown to do.
And what had happened was Australia that the dirty fakers
(49:41):
forgot to basically left it too late to sign his
release for him to be left out of Australia to
play abroad. Yet no team had offered him any kind
of contract in Australia at all, and they've given him
no tip, like they'd put him on the under sixteenth.
But there was no kind of heads up as to
what was happening with you know, academies or undertwn tease nothing.
They just kind of went, yeah, no, you're YouTube away
(50:03):
with the lads at home there while you're at it,
and look at you're not going anywhere. So Roger must
have pulled off some moves so to get him over.
This kid, My god, my god, to be the size
of Skelton already, do you know, imagine the two of
them in the second row.
Speaker 1 (50:22):
Yeah, he won't be able to play for a few years,
and I.
Speaker 2 (50:26):
Mean I doubt it. Maybe you can, Maybe you can
play at the top by you joke me, the top fourteen.
You could play with one leg, do you know what
I mean? You could literally in France. In France they
don't care. Like at that young flet surgically had a
rhino horn attached to his forehead. They'd still let you
(50:47):
play in France, Prody too, at least at worst, Like
do you know what I mean, they don't care. It's
the wild West and I love it. I absolutely love it.
They're like, yeah, yeah, you go coaches round with each
other and stuff like that. It's exactly the start of sauce.
We need like a bit more of that, bit more
that in between the Ireland and the UK and stuff
(51:09):
like that. It'd be great just coaches just fucking blasting
off at each other and that prick. Oh no, I know.
So where are you going to watch watch the match?
You have to mind your calories, as you said, because
you're minding yourself before you go and eat all the
past agelatto in Rome. So what's the plan? Are you
(51:31):
gonna watch it through the window of McNulty's.
Speaker 1 (51:34):
I can't have a point anyway, so because I'm still
watching my head.
Speaker 2 (51:40):
So, oh, I thought you were rougher for lent or something.
Speaker 1 (51:44):
Jesus No, you literally that.
Speaker 2 (51:48):
Sounded like you told Jesus that for his You were like,
Jesus no, I'm not literally for Jesus forty days forty
days in the desert Kina and forty days and you
just told him Jesus no.
Speaker 1 (52:04):
Well, uh, first of all, I keep losing my train
of thought.
Speaker 2 (52:14):
To be fair. That's my getting.
Speaker 1 (52:16):
I keep getting notifications about the Pope having a good
night's rest. I know, like if the Pope dies before
next week, like forget your cornetto even be able to
fart in row. It'll be so busy, so you better
not pick the bucket now before before the Six Nations
has finished, we'll surely hang.
Speaker 2 (52:37):
On the last. I heard of a few pounds on
Italy since the beginning anyway to score the first try,
so I'd say you're good for the first half anyway.
So that's just what I heard. I'm not one hundred
percent sure. Can't verify it, not on air anyway. Cardinals
know what I'm talking about. But apparently you're going to
be safe. You're going to be fine. Padre will pull.
Speaker 1 (52:59):
Through, okay, well well getting you know, sending him all
his all his good health wishes as well. But I
the girls are playing in Das, so I will either
join them on the bus. I'll have to see how
I feel. But they're having a party on the bus
(53:19):
back and I can't. I don't want to put myself
in be trapped in that kind of position if my
head is fuzzy, So I'm not sure. I might watch,
might curl up on the couch at home, seeing how
I feel and just wary watch it, watch it with
some French old French men.
Speaker 2 (53:41):
Up in the club.
Speaker 1 (53:43):
No, in like a little kind of bar around town.
Speaker 2 (53:47):
Do you know what, that'd be an interesting one. That
would be an interesting one and you just give it loads. Actually, yeah,
that'd be you, your pure traitor move. Actually, because you
did say at the beginning of the podcast you were
kind of hoping arn would lose. But I'm just sorry.
I'm building I'm making you the baddy this week because
I often end up being the best.
Speaker 1 (54:05):
That's not what I want.
Speaker 2 (54:06):
I know, I want because I want.
Speaker 1 (54:07):
Us to win the Grand Slam because I'll be there.
Speaker 2 (54:10):
Well, look, I think, I think, and I'm not put
more than them out. I think in case anybody's gone,
I think what I was saying is that if we
did lose, then we should definitely use the hurt of that,
you know, and to go and win the World Cup.
Do you know that's stockpiled because we've had an awful
lot of good stuff, which is great, but like I said,
(54:32):
it's lent at the minute. Now, no harm to have
skinny up a small bit like, because we're gone fat
on success, I think to a degree. But we've gone
fat on success in our own hometown. We have to
go to the big city, now, do you know what
I mean? And see can we do it up there?
That's and I eat the World Cup. My metaphors and
are absolute and then analogies are absolutely shite. This even
(54:54):
I can only apologize I'm lacking. I'm lacking biscuits and sugar.
I decided for lent because I use it. I use
in this excuse every year to stop sugar, and have
stopped sugar for three days now, two days, one day
Christ one day and zero biscuits and nothing.
Speaker 1 (55:13):
I was going to say, you never gave people the
fright of their lives by telling them it was the
pancake Tuesday too early this year?
Speaker 2 (55:21):
I know, I do you know what? And he nearly did.
I nearly did. I had it in my head that
it was earlier, and it was again the boy went
he knew exactly what day it was. It was like, no,
it's next Wednesday or next Tuesday. Swear to God. I
was like, are you sure it's not this one? Ement?
We can have pancakes today if you want them. We can,
but it's not technically today He's like, no, that day,
(55:42):
I've had pancakes for every meal. It was like, okay, okay,
Jesus would want it. Well, if Jesus would want it,
then that's what we'll do. We'll have pancakes for every meal.
Fair enough?
Speaker 1 (55:54):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (55:57):
And if nothing else take it. I I when there
was talking to me actually doing a gig for it
up in Dublin, but it was sold to me as
a notion that I was going to be kind of
India Aviva and stuff like that, and it was like, oh,
class great. And then as it transpired, a few things
(56:17):
and I won't get into it here on here, but
a few things. I'm like, I know, you're grand, You're grand,
You're grand, you're grant. It's it wasn't for me. For
somebody else if they want it more than more than welcome,
but it isn't for me, Not at this stage in
my career. I can't be doing that, do you know
what I mean? So we left it where it was
and yeah, I'll I'll watch it. I'll watch it home.
(56:40):
There's lots of timber to be caught here, and I'm
very excited. Fine, big tell you now and quietness, and
I will watch it by myself with copies, amounts of tea,
no biscuits, but it'll be yeah, it'll actually be a
cam camp place to watch it, So I of course
I swear all by myself. Be great. Tip of the
cap too. Of course to through the three lads who
(57:02):
have like a million caps between the three of them,
and double tip of the cap, you've got to say,
like if there wasn't you know you there's argument for
replacing Connor Murray on the bench, there's argument for replacing
Keen Heey on the bench and whatnot. But Peter Omani
is straight up still starting in the Ireland team. That's
(57:23):
some going and still going right and tapping out while
at the top. Now that's not to say the two
the two other lads aren't at the top, but you
know what I mean, they're just on the shoulder of
the top. He's starting for Land when Jack Conan his fait,
do you know what I mean? So tip of the
copying to him. I hope they win for his case,
you know, he's blne is going to look spectacular as
(57:45):
a result. I still can't get the picture of it
a goose. I now have combo with the idea of
a goose busting through your window or just staring through
your window with a knife, but a bread knife. He
wants to slice that in any cake.
Speaker 1 (58:00):
Yeah, the bollocks. I have the nightmares about them.
Speaker 2 (58:02):
That Hey, I look forward to saying where will I
meet you next tour? If we record next week? Where
will you be? Will you be in Rome? Already?
Speaker 1 (58:13):
No? Next hers and I'll be in Bordeaux.
Speaker 2 (58:16):
Are you just going to all the drinks capitals of
the world? Yes, okay, so you might tell us when
you want to champagne or is there a prosecco in
nearby anywhere?
Speaker 1 (58:33):
I don't know? Is no, I don't think.
Speaker 2 (58:38):
So making that ship up now, I'm just gonna come on,
Come on God's sake, I am okay. So we'll try
and record before then if that's the case, because Lord
knows what animal will be attacking you in Bordeaux, so
we can't risk it.
Speaker 1 (58:58):
Yeah, true, all right?
Speaker 2 (59:00):
Mind the Rox.
Speaker 1 (59:01):
Mind the Rox s a banana and bears rugby pod
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