Episode 20 - "Quantum Creme Eggs"

Our duo discuss the Irish women's Italian job, Munster heading to La "ROG-elle" and creme-egg selling wizard woman.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the Banana and Robbie. I don't know if you
could hear that, but I timed that to a flipping tea.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
I won't deny it.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
I did hear it, and it was almost like I
couldn't I could, I don't. I can't decide for who
was who between Ai woman and Ifa Dalton over there
with Efa Dalton the house.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Everybody, welcome to the podcast, ban Ana Bear's Rugby Podcast.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Ifan Dalton has taken over from hermanna to this evening
and I'm just me, but of course Anna has picked
Dalton as he and we'll get around. We'll get around
to Ethan Dalton and the rest. Hey, by the way,
we're just talking about Anna's up to our eyes. She's
flat out can't find a minute in a minute in
the day. I'm the very same. I will list out

(00:51):
in front of me that I fit to puke. And
we both agreed that we need pas what you reckon?

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah, so if anyone's interested, we need pace, so we'll
open applications for that very soon.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
Also, I can't find my rugby boots for coaching, Like
obviously you can't play a train boss.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
I can't find them anywhere. So if anyone's come to
our shadow wants to bring me a pair of boots
this weekend, size you, I don't know what am I
thirty nine forty in.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Like Ora speak speak imperial. We're still out school over here.
You're all gone off French with her thirty nine ers
seven signed seven. Yeah, I've no I've extraordinary big feat
for some reason, just big flat flippers. I've sized eleven,
so they're no good to you. We could take a
couple of pairs of tick socks maybe, so Yeah, anybody
who wants to bring do you know what? Because I

(01:50):
forget it every week and we do have I'm gonna
just get this out out of the way, not out
of the way, but at the top. I'm gonna say
it because I forget it. We have been having comments,
which we've been asking for. Now this one, this is
an intriguing one because I threw this at you and
you you think you know who it is because they
didn't sign it, but it was on Spotify, So please

(02:13):
keep commenting on Spotify. You have at least one listener
in Iceland, and and I were on the same UL
group that I assume UL group wasn't just like a
flower picking group. It was like a ul rugby group
that went to Argentina back in the day.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
And that is DS Wendy Go.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
And I'm just thinking a Wendy Goo is actually like
a mythical beast, Like they've got a deer's head and
a skeleton. They're kind of a scary thing going on,
but it could be a very cool version of the
monster logo.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Can you think who Wendy Go is?

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Hang? Sorry, did we not talk about this last week?
Or was this after?

Speaker 3 (02:55):
And I wanted to give him a shout out because
I forgot to do it on the show.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Oh yeah, Oh that's right, I reckon. Yeah, it must
be dear or Stack. We went to Argentina years ago.
Yeah she was. We did applied languages. Oh no, I
don't think she was in applied languages, but she did
go to Argentina with me, and yeah, legend Now she's
living in Iceland. I presume that's her the DS. But
I don't know about the windy Goo thing. I've never

(03:21):
heard of it, nor can can furtherer than I.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
It was my five year old told me about the
wind to go, So either she's knowledgeable when it comes
to cryptid stick all these things now class, and then
we had somebody called hen Benna. Class just love this
pod so much, love the crak crack spell c r

(03:47):
a K A c K. So I'm hoping she's not
about the arts crak.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
You need just that's a lesson in Irish culture and history. Now, Ben,
when I see you next, So me and Ben both
for pine pints Pilgrims, which is how I know him.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
So he's Ben Henna. So he's written his name hen Bennet.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Right when I say his name, I'm actually not sure
I'm saying it inverted back ways or r sways or whatever.
But he's yeah, big hairy bear, Ben Hennah, Yeah, Ben Hannah,
Ben Hannah, Ben.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, Well maybe he does love the crack actual c
R A c K. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
But well, to be fair to him, last.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
Week's episode was all about our your hypoths is about
the lower leagues, the lower the league to hire the
crack content. So to be fair to him, you know, yeah, the.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
So yeah, hey Jesus Christ and you.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
I would forget it, and it would be remiss of
me asking people to comment and send in their love
and all the rest of it. And here they are
writing to us into the ether and I'm not reading
these things out so great, brilliant. We have people on board,
we do with people from all over the world. You
have quite a nice following.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
I know.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
We'd lads from Trinidad and Tobago on an oil tanker listened.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
To us a couple of weeks ago.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
So of all things to be listened to, I mean
this Rugby adjacent podcast?

Speaker 2 (05:14):
How you keep it anyway? Update on Na?

Speaker 3 (05:16):
Please? You look you look smart, You look you look
sparky when we were chatting just there a second ago. No, yes,
you had a wild wind sweat look about you like
a woman who was flat out all day, which we're
all a woman who's flat out all day. But you
look sparky more so than you have done the last
few weeks.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Do you feel it?

Speaker 1 (05:34):
That's good because maybe I feel a bit better this evening.
But it's been a rough week and a couple of
days now, I won't lie seeing specialists and stuff and
kind of coming closer and closer to the realization and
losing hope kind of with every meeting and every every

(05:55):
appointment to have losing more hope about getting back to
playing Rugby to be honest, which is really sad, but
again it's it's funny, like you can you can get
on with things and then it can kind of come
out of nowhere and you like I'd be crying and
feeling very upset and then I feel like I can
get on with it. Today I was I was almost

(06:15):
in tears going out to the under engines. I was
coaching the under age girls today and I was almost
in tears, and like, you can use this now, listeners
can use this if you need. But I was like,
if I can be a player, I'm going to be
a coach. And I know that anyway. So I was
literally saying to myself, you can't be sad when you're coaching.
So I picture a big red balloon. Right, I'm holding

(06:38):
a red balloon, but it's not filled up yet, right, okay,
And I picture the problem in my head and then
I blowed out, like through my mouth into the balloon.
And then I tie the balloon and I put a
string onto it, and then I take way deep breath
and I let the balloon go, and the my worry

(06:59):
go flies away with the loon, and I actually, do
you know, sometimes these visual things can help, like it
actually put that to the side, how sad I was
feeling and just be there for the girls and we
had a good session. Right, But Joe happened me today then,
so it was a friend of mine birthday yesterday. So
I go into the Irish shop. There's an Irish shop here.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
You know what, how cool is this fucking town?

Speaker 1 (07:22):
Like I know, yeah, so Finman's lashall this weegain. You
need tea bags, don't bring it from home, you can
get them here. And when did the other shop to
buy her a a bar of dairy milk for her birthday?
And they had cream eggs and I was like, flipping, hell,
I'm going to get myself a cream egg. And I

(07:43):
actually ate the cream egg while I was cycling to training.
It's on my bike light because I was like, well, look,
if I'm to deal with the world falling down around me,
I might as well lead a creame egg on my bike.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
So do you know what you just described?

Speaker 3 (07:59):
Probably like in that moment, I know, like you're you're
you know, it's not on your terms, how your career
might be ending and stuff like that, but you kind
of just described a best life moment. You're cycling through
Larachelle after getting your friend the bar chuckey, and you
got yourself a cream eg and you're off to train

(08:20):
some super eager girls. That's kind of best lifelf in
a way. And I like the idea of the balloon
blown away and stuff like that, but that is just
a class image because it's LaRochelle too. It's not like
you're cycling through borrowing Aflee. No offense to be borrowing afy,
but you know what I mean, like.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
You're you're, you're right, And the cream ag story gets better,
right because right then there's a there's a small group
of four of us that go to that go to dinner.
We try out different restaurants in Larachelle, and I said
I'd buy I was trying to explain to what a
creameg is and I was like, girls, I'll get you one.

(08:57):
So I went back to the Irish shop today right
to buy three cream eggs for the three girls, and
was chatting away to the woman there. I go in
there often and off like i'd be buying chocolate for
people people like for their birthday things, and I, uh,
she don't know how I got onto it, but I
told her, like, oh, I. I was wearing my gear

(09:18):
because I was coaching, and she was like, oh, you're
at the stele Busherley and I was like, yeah, but
eve an injury. I actually have a concus And she
was like all right, and she was asking me all
these questions about it, and she was like, right, put
down your bag. I was like, okay, put down my
bag and she was like, right, close your eyes and
just stand there.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
Hold on. This is the woman in the iris shop.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Selling me the cream eggs.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
Yeah, okay, right, I'm I'm in having the m seat here.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
She starts like doing this healing thing.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
Oh yeah, yeah, I think what did I call it?
A finct?

Speaker 2 (09:55):
Is the furniture?

Speaker 3 (09:56):
No, it's a.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
You know what, a Japanese phrase, Japanese word.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
She had a term for it, which she actually hadn't
heard before, but I presume it's along the same lines
something touch. She actually sent me a message. But she
starts healing me essentially. Right. It was funny because I
hadn't locked my bike. I was trying to shop, so
in my eye kind of half hope and just make
putting round off of the bike. But I was still

(10:24):
able to relax, like I was you know, I was
all right, had one eye on the bike. Her hands
are going all around me, and there's other people, like
shopping for a whiskey and I'm there with three cream
eggs inside of my pocket and like she's drawn energy
out of me here and there. I actually like could
feel something happening, like what's going on? And her hands

(10:45):
were like floating in front of my eyes and everything.
And then she was like OKAYI, which means okay, I
am done. I turned around and I was like right,
and she was like did you feel it? And I
said I did, and she was like yeah, you were
very receptive to her. Was like, well that's good because
I had one eye on my bike, and uh. She

(11:09):
sent me on my way, right, So I who knows,
Maybe this is the healing I've been waiting for. Maybe
maybe I'm better now. Who knows. But the worst thing
you have the story is that the three I had
the three cream eggs then like sitting next to me,
and when I went home and when I was so busy,

(11:30):
I ate one of the cream eggs and I wanted
cream eggs left. So when I just eat the two
of them and pretend they never existed, or do I
just pick my favorite two out of the group of
three and just hang on to them and give them away.
Or do I just eat the last two cream eggs?

Speaker 2 (11:46):
I tell you what have you?

Speaker 3 (11:47):
You don't have any muffins in the house or any
buns in the house, do you You don't?

Speaker 2 (11:53):
Yeah, you could.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
You could put them in the fridge, get him rock
hard and take the bread knight to him, slice them
in half and bought her you know what I mean?
But like you could you could make a little design
on top with even just a blob of calves like
squirty cream from the can, do you know what I mean?
And it looks like a right effect, and then you
look like a ledge but you've only actually used up
two cream eggs. Or let's put it to the listeners,

(12:15):
actually this well this will be out on Friday.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
You'll probably have eaten them by then.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
I think we all know which way is would But
that is a good.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Idea, do you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (12:29):
I have had to improvise in these scenarios before I
put you can even if even if it's a cheap
hol muffin, you get but you're like looking at me
age and you of technically kind of did make, but
you look at you have to go back for more
cream eggs in it because now you're you're fengchu or
what did they call it, fucking shiats. A woman is
working in behind the counter of the shop, so you
have to go back to her for treatment. I'm more

(12:50):
and more getting into the woo woo stuff, to be honest,
I told you about the treatment I went for you,
and next thing they had mean with these crystals and
all the rest, and I was like, but I a
lot of the stuff as pure outshite. But I can
see the engineering behind actual magnetic force that are actually
passing through I don't know if people are born with

(13:11):
it or they can train with it, but there definitely
is magnet's doing an awful lot for your brain. And
people with magnetic fields that they kind of manipulated through
their hands.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
You'd see it. It does work.

Speaker 3 (13:23):
Peter Class's Peter Clauss's wife. I think is she or
could be wrong. I know I could be wrong, but
I don't know she. I think she's a healer of
some sort like, but she does that she had to
like and it really does help.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
Whatever manipulation they can do.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
Sorry, it's called quantum touch. Your woman practices.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
Well, that's fancy sounded quantum touch.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
Okay, so maybe this is the chirpiness who're referring to.

Speaker 3 (13:50):
Maybe definitely see there's a shininess in your eyes, there's
a there's a sparkiness to you. You're zippy, do you
know what I mean? Yeah, I know it could be
the cream egg talking. I'm I'm just sayingg talking. You
do seem like you're first time in five or six
weeks now you do seem kind of on top of it,

(14:10):
do you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Fiery?

Speaker 3 (14:12):
I like it and it brings me excitement to think
about that.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
You'd never know backed more cream eggs.

Speaker 3 (14:19):
She's a smart fucker, doesn't she. She knows full well
to be back in for more cream eggs and kit
cats and tea baggs. Come here and I will quantum.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
From more quantum touches. She is like, this one's a
socker for our cream eggs.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
That's what I mean.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
This this sort of thing. She could be fucking rubbing
the heads off everybody that comes in there, but they're
addicted now to her touch. She's selling cream eggs.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
In the first time I saw anyone getting healed inside
the shop, So watch this space. But I am waiting
on a pair of glasses. I have to get glasses,
and I have to take medication for one month, and
and the test of the glasses and the medication will
go on for a month. And a month's time is
is May, and my next appointments are kind of middle

(15:04):
of May, and then the end of the season is
end of May. So it doesn't look good. Obviously, recovering
is the most important thing, but it does like just
seem more and more likely that that I've played my
last game of rugby, which I'm not going to get
sad about now because, like we already said, I feel good.
So how are you good?

Speaker 2 (15:26):
Very good.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
We had a ridiculous weekend that was Cork Thursday night,
Friday night, I was in go Away and then two
shows at the Hill in Tibrairiy. It was a while
weekend with people there the Hello Ben and I think Kitty.
There were a couple they're big fans of the podcast.

(15:47):
They came to the early show, so it was great.
It was great, And yeah, tickets.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
Are selling nicely.

Speaker 3 (15:54):
There's a couple of the months of rug players are
coming to the new show, so yeah, I think I
think they're coming to Corcorone on May tenth, So thankfully
tickets are selling. I won't be by myself inside of
these places. So if anybody wants to get tickets, Toumber
Mandy Dot comments where you'll go for them, and I
might even.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
Get to show up at one of them.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
It runs right into until August September, so well, get
you to one of them anyway, At the very least
you can take along.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
If you're home.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
But yeah, it's good, good, it's the weather is bushed
in here Jesus Christ with hact glorious weather the last
couple of days.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
It's unreal.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
Now it's cold.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
As soon as the sun goes in, it is. I
won't say it's exactly what you'd hope. Spring is springing
this land. Lipping that grasses happened. It smells fresh outside,
do you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (16:39):
When you walk around, it's.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
Like, oh Jesus, a smell of groat in the air,
like it's lovely. So yeah, it's it's good. It's good.
I was kind of this our business. I don't know
what's happened. A few people have talked to you.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
Did your hour go forward on Saturday night.

Speaker 1 (16:55):
Did I hate it?

Speaker 3 (16:58):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (16:59):
I absolutely now.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
I did have a ridiculous schedule Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
I won't lie a ridiculous but I was feeling it
was Mother's Day on Sunday. We took my mother out
to breakfast in Cashle and I was feeling kind of
JEsum some men and I've done all this marriage and
I've done told all them jokes, and I'm so tired.

(17:20):
And then I ran into I ran into Dermy Berne,
who could barely turn around to wave over the family.
He was posted up from the from the day before.
I was like, okay, yeah, you've had a bit of
a rough go over it all right, in fairness to you. Yeah,
you in front row from Unster there yesterday, which look
at the same time, I was telling a lot of jokes,

(17:41):
you know, So there's.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
That I was thinking when you said derm with Byrne,
I was thinking of your man who does the interiors, Dear.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
Do you know what, he will not be a fan
of mine when he sees my new show. He features
in it, and he features not great.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
The rubb fella or the interior.

Speaker 3 (18:02):
The interiors guy, the interiors guy. He features quite badly
because I dermid dermout Dermot Dermott, he's got the Dermot
dermot Bannon, him and his ego show up in my
new show, and it seems to be I was tempted
with do I because I mean, I don't pull any
punches at all, And maybe that's maybe that's maybe my
downfall is that I don't actually sugar got anything like

(18:23):
if it's funny, it's funny. I don't even care if
you're sitting in the audience. But people seem to like
the new stuff, so I'm happy with way of shaping up.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
I did do you know what?

Speaker 3 (18:33):
And I did a gig on Thursday night down at Cork.
I slipped down to a comedy club down at Cork
because I'm got to build a new show.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
It's training, like you gotta go training.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
Like, but you can't really tell anybody because typically have
be a headliner or and stuff like that, so you can't.
You just want to pop in to do like fifteen
minutes if they'll give you even ten five minutes, just
to get these words out.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
But I've forgotten.

Speaker 3 (18:52):
I haven't done, you know, I don't I do comedy clubs,
like kind of pro comedy clubs, and you're kind of
only seeing other people that are kind of there thereabouts,
or you know, I up and come, but like you
rarely get to see the Bureau of micers, like the wildfuckers.
That's the wildfuckers that are in that that realm And
there was a whole plethorabu and like they'd been the
three or four ax On before me before I closed

(19:13):
the first half of the show, and there was I
got some collection of mad bastards who are just a
lot of them are just venting in a way, you know,
dissatisfied parenting had probably caused them.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
That's It's a sorry, you fucker.

Speaker 3 (19:39):
You couldn't even get to the end of the podcast.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
I'm hungry Jesus.

Speaker 3 (19:46):
A cream make right now, but I'm off to chucking
for Lynt.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
Sure look, sure, that's the best time to get cream
makes sure.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
I know, so naughty, so bold, But yeah, you're you're
right if that's what you think. Goes on. And I'd forgotten,
you see, I'd forgotten because I hadn't done kind of
open mics since last year, you know, early last year,
when I was building a new show. Then and but
I just forget every time, like, oh Jesus, wow right,
you don't like their mother, and I think there's a

(20:15):
guy on before.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
I loved it. It was actually a real I was enthralled,
like I was going only have to I do have
to go away now. I would hang around and see
what other phone is going to show up, like it's
some of it is utterly cringey, but you're kind of going.
And then, in all fairness to him, all of them
have something, you know what I mean? They all have
can be coached in some way to get at least sharpen.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
Up what they're saying.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
And in fairness to me, what I appreciated was almost
like three or four and came over to me and
we were like, what did you think of that? And
I'm like, well, yeah, yeah, there's more to be done.
They're like what And I just gave him what's called tags,
So you know what I mean when you leave too
much meat. There's so much meat left on the bone
from the premise that they've tried. And then I go, well,
what I would walk away from this at this point,

(21:01):
this is what I would say, and this is what
I would do, and you put that totally in the
wrong place, and your cadence need to be faster here
and stuff.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
But they're all taking notes.

Speaker 3 (21:07):
I was like, okay, steady on, steady on, steady on.
But it was great. There was a guy juggling on
before me, so that's where we're at. It was fucking brilliant.
You would have actually, I was thinking, Anna would fucking
love the obscurity of this moment right now. This guy's
and he's given it socks. This dude doing his juggling act.
I mean socks.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
I think he's he's juggling like jobs, or he's uggling objects.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
Objects.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
He's got of this multicolored onesie on. He's up on stage,
he has crowd interaction. He brings a guy on stage
with him, and he's he's very interferen You could see
he's definitely a performer of something like he's performed somewhere,
maybe in clowning or something, because clowning is actually a
trade invented in France, by the way. And and what

(21:55):
was actually funnier was the guy he brought in stage
was the least athletic human that has ever walked the
fucking face of it. Was this German led, and he
gave him a basket to catch the three balls as
he's as he's commentating on him and how brilliant of
a juggler he is. And the guy used to catch
the three balls from a meter awayenna and it was
I thought the guy was drunk because they were hitting

(22:15):
him in the face and they were like, and he
was making it really easy, like you just moved the
basket as you would. I mean, it's not looking for
an NBA star here. You're just moved the basket around
until the ball drops into it.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
Nah.

Speaker 3 (22:26):
They were fucking bouncing off his head and off his shoulder,
and then he was moving like two seconds later.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
Turns out he wasn't drunk at all.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
And I spoke to him with you have to be
as You've got great hair, that's all I can tell you.
But you were the least athletic human. He goes, yeah, no,
it's through your one hundred percent right. I'd bang into
shit all the time, and I'm just fecking terrible in
life physically. Okay.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
It's honestly, if the hordest man in the world was
on stage, and I was like, oh my god, he's
the hardest man in the world and someone threw three
balls and him was catching a basket. I'd be like,
you like instant turn off.

Speaker 3 (23:07):
Like which which the throwing of the throwing or the
catching would be a turn off, which I don't.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
As it like as in not athletic.

Speaker 3 (23:16):
Oh yeah, like it stood out. It actually stood out,
like like to the point that this this mine was
like mid mid twenties, and I couldn't grasp how he'd
gotten this far through life without ever having to catch ship.
And I spoke to him a little bit. I was like,
did did stuff get thrown? Did you play any sports
at all of the child?

Speaker 5 (23:36):
And he was like no, no, no one.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
Ever threw any balls in your face.

Speaker 3 (23:40):
Man, nothing And that was not definitely the issues there
with with his woman and stuff. And I'm like, wow,
this is your unicorn, Like how do you get by
without some sort of activities, like you know, I'm like, no,
I don't, because my five year old would fucking beat
the living shit.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
I don't get this, but we need to.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
Bring this fellow on the podcast. Our first guest like
what doing?

Speaker 3 (24:03):
How have you just grown under a under a lamp?
But yeah, great weekend filled with other bits of working
on the house and what now. But the weather was glorious,
so we can't can't complain, can't complain. Manage to sneak
in the women's match as well on Sunday, Jesus, I
could have gone away and come back three four times.

(24:24):
It was just a hiden It was a hiding interesting
that like how the tables have turned and stuff, and
it just looks like ridiculously dominant, didn't they.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
Yeah, And like going on what we were talking about
from the week before, do you know Dan O'Brien And
we were saying that, and I was saying, like I
just find her so unshakable, like nothing fazes her, and
then she turns around she plays, you know, like super well.
Obviously it's a different kind of caliber of opposition. Itally
haven't progressed as a trace that they maybe should have

(25:01):
because the thought we're very strong like in the last
couple of years and then just Ireland are just scooted ahead.
I just thought Ireland were brilliant. If you just look
across the team, do you know what it is now?
There's a lot of factors, and definitely the coaching has
made a massive difference. Definitely, you know that the beginning

(25:22):
of professionalization has made a difference. But you know, every
so often with teams, and this just happens with teams
when they're successful, like a good group of players all
managed to collaborate on their arrival into the game or
their window is all open at the same time. That's

(25:42):
what's happening with this team. Like you look across the
team and like I know, back in our day, like
we were giving new caps every weekend. Someone was getting
a new cap every weekend.

Speaker 3 (25:56):
And it's very clunky, that's very like you you can't
get it.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
So to look at this squad now and like there
were there were a couple of caps and new caps
in the last you know, recently, but now everybody is known.
Everyone is known. Like the only the only one that's
not so well known as Anam again and she's been
in sevens so she's very well seasoned anyway, so and
she'd be well known with the other girls, et cetera.

(26:23):
So you know, she's sees one of the newest ones
into the squad and she's already quite known, and she
play score the flip and hat trick at the weekend,
like you know, So I just it's just such a
pleasure to know so much about the the players from
watching them play and know how they play. It makes
such a difference when you sit down to watch them

(26:45):
every weekend. Even we were talking about that last week
where we were picking out some names, and we're like,
when you get to know them more and more, you
just enjoy it more and more. So I feel like
that's what's happening now and as well with the kind
of ramp up in just rugby coverage in general and
sports coverage in general. But the way women do online stuff,

(27:08):
Like the women are so much better than the men
at online content because the men don't have to The
men aren't relying on it. Like, if you're a male
pro player, you don't even need an Instagram account. You
will get paid to play a rugby. There is not
that much money in the women's game. You won't get
sponsors and things like that unless you put the effort

(27:29):
in with your social media. So all of the female players,
if you want to, you know, to get sponsorships and
things like that, you have to have an online presence.
That's not the case for the male players. So at
least the ones at the top, maybe the ones kind
of middle and down with the more arts crackout, they
need to kind of ramp up their own social medias.

(27:50):
But it's the thing that exists in the women's game,
and it's only doing better things to the women's game.
So that's kind of sorry, the more global picture. But
on the field, it's going flipping well, I must.

Speaker 3 (28:02):
Say, do you know what, that's very interesting point you make,
because not that I'd say that the men's game isn't
going to fall apart in the morning, but when when
the women's game really takes hold, you know what I mean,
when it takes hold and gets some sort of parody
the backlog of or not the backlog, but the the

(28:26):
I suppose the fucking storeroom of content slash fans slash
everything that they will have to bring them when the
spotlight is on them. Fully, at that stage, they're all
going to be way up in the numbers, and now
it's going to be coming in from like now you
just get really content from the Irish Rugby page pre
games and stuff like that. Now you're with the women's game,

(28:48):
you're going to be getting content pre you know. Craig
Casey is one of the few I've seen that doesn't
you know, he does the you know, the the reels
cut together of his say, his recovery and stuff like that,
and you're like, this is super interesting, like and he
keeps it light hearted, you know, And this is where
I'm at this And that's exactly what they're saying.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
Maybe it's a youth thing.

Speaker 3 (29:07):
I don't know, but like you said, the men don't
really have to do But you say that, but shortly enough,
I'd say they will because it will, sorry, go on.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
I see this.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
In the acting world, not that I'm in it, but
I'm friends who are like West End actors and stuff
like that.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
They are all required.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
To do it, even though it could be a vita
and it's going to sell out for six months anyway,
doesn't matter. They all have to try and make stars
of themselves inside that thing because tickets is tickets, and
it's the most cutthroat world. And like literally it's coming
down to now not even not just the level of talent,
which is wrong, but you could have two people that
are really good, say dancers and singers and actors, but

(29:46):
if one has forty thousand followers and one has eleven hundred,
you can be guaranteed the twenty three because they're looking
at that now they're going, this is what's selling tickets.
And I know it's unfortunate slash fortunate. It is a
way in, you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (30:00):
It is a way in.

Speaker 3 (30:00):
There's if there's hype behind the person, like say, you
look at this now, he's good. But like there's players
have done stuff like this Henry Pollock that's in the
UK magically they're all talking about him.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Oh god, he could be a voter for the Lions.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
What the fuck are you talking about? Like he's played
two games, like he's twenty he's class. Yeah, but it's
because of the hype. So if you can build hype
around the name, like then all of a sudden, people's
heads do get turned, coaches heads do get turned and go.
But you know what, this is a We can say
it's for pride, we can say it's for this, that
and the other, but the bottom line is whether it's

(30:34):
dense and to you know, to Chitty Chitty Bank banding
on stage in the you know in New York, or
playing rugby for Ireland.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
It's all just entertainment. It's all that's all it is.

Speaker 3 (30:44):
And entertainment is purely for putting narcises in seats, whether
people like to hear that or not. Maybe somebody like
Peter Romandi doesn't think of it that way. You know,
it's war as but it's fucking not. It's not.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
It's a money making racket.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
That's all it has ever been since the color the
days of the Colisseum, that's all. It is money making racket.
So you look at Joan Maher there you go, case
and point, case and point.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
He is the one that has changed this, Like we
will be able to pinpoint it to her, because the
thing is, hype has always existed, Like hype existed around
you know, that monster team like Paul O'Connell, like please
your stringer, the kind of like real like hype definitely
brought in the crowd around certain players as well. So

(31:28):
that has always been there, but the platform for it, Like, yeah,
she the one who will have changed this. Like I
was laughing for Marcus Smith, and you know how much
of a fan of Marcus Smith I am. Like he
made some video. Obviously his agents were on him like
you need to engage more because no, the men are
doing it and he's obviously like so they say hot property,

(31:48):
but he has never had to invest in himself outside
of the rugby pitch. All you have to be is
good enough rugby wise, and then everything will fall into place. Whereas, yeah,
I come agree with you. Like Lona manher like she
she might not have got a contract with with the
UK team, especially not mid season, Like there are American

(32:13):
players that come into play in the Premiership. But there's
a good bit of negotiating going on. But it was
basically teams were fighting for her to come. Now she
backs up and I'll always say this, she backs it
up on the rugby pitch. But like it's because of
her profile that they wanted.

Speaker 5 (32:29):
Her one hundred. They wouldn't have more if she hadn't
done Dancing with the Stars, you know what I mean?
And you know had five point five million followers. Do
you think they would have bent over backwards for No,
they wouldn't.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
They wouldn't they they they will have you know, invited
her in the same as there they invite other good
American players, like good American players like and you don't
get into the prem unless you're good, you know what.
Marcus Smith was like made a video kind of this
whole Lona matter. Hype was going on often. He made
some video about like come with me to spend the

(33:04):
day and shine and it's funny because it's changing, and
like the it's not it's not great, Like I wish
that women could just do that. You know, you play
the rugby, you're good enough so you can become professional.

Speaker 3 (33:22):
Yeah no, no, no, that's not the way the world, unfortunately,
is not.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
The way of the world, and sport is.

Speaker 1 (33:27):
Following Danny is how it's been for men for years.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
Oh yeah, I guarantee you. I guarantee you.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
Women will be better equipped in five, six, seven years time.
The women's game would be better equipped because the men's game,
if they don't watch themselves, they're going to start falling
away and numbers. People are already complaining that the wrong
people are going to the Aviva.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
You know what I mean. It's the wrong people that
are going.

Speaker 3 (33:48):
It's people who with PwC, it's people with large groups,
you know, KPMG's and that Red Trousers Brigade. If that's
who they're relying on, If that's who they're relying on, like,
it will crash and burn and you'll find the women's
game might overtake it because it'll be full of young,
sprightly kids that are going, oh no, I don't know
who's on the men's team. I only watch my phone,

(34:09):
and my phone tells me, you know, Eve Higgins is
playing the center today, you know what I mean? Like
it's I don't know no because kids, like I say, kids,
but let's say up to twenty five, that's all they
believe now is their phone. So they're not picking up
a fucking newspaper. They're not watching the news. They're not
getting looking at Twitter either for things. They're just going,

(34:32):
what is TikTok telling me? What is Instagram telling me?
And that's in snapchat or whatever. That's all they're going
to see. So if it will be it is right now,
remiss And if the men's game, don't see it coming
because the popularity is there for every everything that to NASCAR.
Watch what the America's is doing Nascar, Like you see
that and I see this thing that it's funny you

(34:53):
talk about the English Marcus Smith, they're trying to do
this thing.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
Oh Jesus Christ, have you seen like.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
The first stay the season in American football? All the
lads walk in, they actually see what lads are getting
out of and walking into training on the first day season.
Have you seen that shit? And lads they're on multi millionaires,
not fucking fifty million, one hundred million dollar contracts, and
they're getting out of you know, tricked out ge wagons,
they're getting out of lambos and stuff, and they're walking

(35:20):
into like full leather suits, you know what I mean,
Like the most outland of shit that only an American
get away with. And then I see they're trying to
do this now with England Rugby. They were doing it
the other day. Oh look who's in the house and
they're like, what are we doing here? Like and one
look more fucking awkward than the next kid walking in along.
It was like, oh Jesus Christ, this is this is.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
Not right, Like dealing ideas from other puls is like,
it's not going to work. Bristol Bears actually did it,
but it was almost like a parody. And somewhere else
came there aie smugglers like and then others were dressed
up and then ollthers are like it was actually gas
pract like but I love it from an American side,

(36:03):
Oh yeah, yeah, see it on the imagine imagine them
doing it in Ireland, like imagine them doing it in
like like nav An r f C.

Speaker 3 (36:16):
Yeah, but even if a higher level like you're just
going to get lets go what like Tiger Furlong, imagine
him and actually getting out of it like a toytal
end crews like you know, kicking the shit off as
well as first before throwing him in the back and
then putting on the gear like.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
I actually would like to see that now that I
think about from nav An r C is listening. We
love to see everyone arriving to training, ars cracks and
all like rocking up, what what car are you driving?
What you wear? And love to see it.

Speaker 3 (36:48):
I'd love to see that. Yeah, that's you know what
that would be hilarious. One. It's like a bunch of
people did parodies of that guy. Did you see the
guy that went viral there last speak of the week
before for what his morning.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
Routine looks like you've seen did you see that guy?
He gets up at like.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
Three fifty seven am, you know, writes in his journal.
Then isis his face does a handful of push ups
some must and this is and it gives you time
by time by time, like how he's at no point
does he tell the truth and go and at this
stage I take a couple of shots, you know, fifty
milligrams a trend because the guy's jacked out through the roof.

(37:23):
It's absolutely and people were just taking Actually Maxley Heath
did they did a did a parody of it, but
at the same time he probably it is probably close
enough to reality what he did, like you know, but
it was. Yeah, I would love to see a parody
from like an everyday club, do you know, like like
that mellow mellow RFC. Let's see it even kif veicl

(37:46):
or Clem william let's see it of the walking here, Yes,
typical captain women. I can't really, I can't really tell
what's after happened to Italy.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
I don't know how bad they were.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
Did they fall off a cliff, they didn't lose all
their players or they just did they take.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
A fucking hot I mean fair al donkey.

Speaker 3 (38:05):
And now from that kick off to get a yellow
card in the first fifty seconds, you nob.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
Do you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (38:12):
It was a shitty kick along the ground, did you
see that? And then didn't attempt to go low at all.
Got very lucky that the steady yellow card. In fact,
i'd they only because it was the beginning of the
match kind of went I'll go on, you can come
back on.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
Nob But I don't.

Speaker 3 (38:27):
Think that was the downfall of Italy. I think I
just think Arden were they just seemed to glide through
the centers. When they decided to make them make a go,
they just got they just burst them wide open in
the centers. It just seemed to glide through with no
and as you said, like everybody is absolutely in flow state.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
Aren't they.

Speaker 3 (38:46):
They're all tuned into the one radio station, like there's
always somebody there.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
They know exactly where the ball is going.

Speaker 3 (38:53):
A couple of times like you're going, oh, maybe she's
taken out.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
No, no, no, no, she knows that there's two people
just hiding outside her.

Speaker 3 (38:59):
There we go, love, we go for another try or
three tries in the case of who got the three tries?

Speaker 2 (39:06):
Yeah, and again.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
But you you could like you could argue as well
that that wasn't Ireland's starting team a little bit with
some younger players, like the young second Road, they're like,
you want to choose and Ruth Campbell like and then
you know they're starting to make changes and darthy wall
is ready to come in, you know, like things like

(39:28):
that where it's got it's got a strong bench as well,
So it's not just like you're I just think it's
it's so great and it's about time that this this
is because we have enough players and enough talent in Ireland.
And this isn't a new thing. We've had it for
a long time. It's just been so poorly managed. And

(39:50):
I just think the window of players, like all of
their windows of opportunity are open at the same time,
and it's uh. I think they're onto something flipping special now,
like as long as they can bottle it and keep it.
But I think like Scott Beiamond went through kind of
a rough patch with England, like when they were losing

(40:10):
back in the days when England were still losing matches.
Scott Scott Beamond was in that management with England, so
he's got a lot of experience. He just seems to
have like wounded up. And also he did, like I
spoke about this last year probably but he brought in
his own staff just being like and not like pandering

(40:30):
to the ir few of them saying like okay, well
we'll give you your support staff. He was like, no,
I want the best, I want this, this, this and this.
Now it's it's telling that like he hasn't brought in
any women. But it's because like the women that are
in coaching, they're like I know so many women who've
just been like catapulted right to the top and then

(40:50):
like they're missing like a support network around. I'm not
talking about necessarily in Ireland now, like this is happening
like the world over. People are like, oh, diversity, thinking
a woman will put her straight in like where she
hasn't had the support to get to and things fall
down around. It's happened in the premiership, it's happened in France,

(41:11):
so like there's a long way to go, and like
if you look at the premiership, like there's a lot
of male coaches there. What's being done to like, you know,
accelerate like women getting into coaching, Like it's very very slow.
And I don't mean get into coaching as in open
the gates at the top, I mean how many are
coming in through the gates at the bottom, like to

(41:32):
get like women into those roles as well, not like
not like I'm saying any of those men don't deserve
to be there the right people you know, should need
to be in the jobs, which is clearly the hat
for this. So like it's just interesting, like is there's
the women that are ready to challenge that are really
far away. But it's just a good, a good flipping,

(41:55):
a good a good place to be for this Irish squad.
And I hope they've hoped they were able to have
an out the wine after. Did you read my Independent column?
I did?

Speaker 3 (42:03):
I did, although it only got part of red because
then it cut me off and I'm not signed up
to Independent.

Speaker 5 (42:09):
Yeah, well I'll send.

Speaker 3 (42:12):
You the Lincoln Future even Oh, I'll find some way
somewhere to I'd read your link, all.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
Right, Sorry, not like you. Sorry, I should be saying
you sign up to the Independent because you're my cool
right inside, right.

Speaker 3 (42:28):
But you're writing for the Independent. Yes I will, but
there's a couple others I can go. I used to
be I was signed up to, but then all of
a sudden you're going off for the I'm not saying
we got to all live in the neck chain, but
sometimes it's like it's nice to read something you do
agree with, like so.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
Well there it was about basically the postmatch meal in Parma,
the greatest post match meal I ever had, like the
food and the serve, and like the Italian girls who
we just lost to were up and down and in
and out, smoking fags and drinking whine and we were
there all drinking water like so and then you get

(43:12):
to bond with them because you're like, how are you
getting on? Like are you any closer to getting contracts?
Or what are they doing? Free? This and that. That's
the kind of stuff you talk about the other nations
and it's important to talk about that stuff as well.
So like I'd love to have heard what the conversations
were now on on on Sunday night in Paramau. Were
they able to kind of share drink together or have

(43:33):
a fag or whatever. So yeah, I'm I'm just wasn't
for this Irish team that's.

Speaker 3 (43:38):
All brilliant class well, I mean something else you're and
they play England at the weekend. No, the only problem
is to get to see the first part of that
match and then the Munster match with l kicks off.
It's a week have we Why is my I have
my schedule yo, I don't know and it's in my
calendar now it's it's it dropped it and I I

(44:00):
don't know that downloaded from Independent that I need to
be honest with you because I downloaded and it's the
most to a line inside of my watch with it,
and he yeah, because it's supposed to be the twelfth
of April, doesn't it not the seventh of April. For
the love of jes I'd say, my yokas on twenty
twenty four, so I must. Anyway, they have England next,
so we have a we have a rest week. So

(44:20):
anyway that you are our woman in Larachelle, you are
a spy behind enemy lines or are you a double agent?
Who knows?

Speaker 2 (44:27):
But either way, if you want to.

Speaker 3 (44:30):
Reguide and get pumped up about just what you're going
to do for the weekend, I would advise anybody to
go to even my story or Anna's story and watch
Anna's story and her real because she has a brilliant
guide to what you're to do.

Speaker 2 (44:43):
Just simple as that.

Speaker 3 (44:43):
Just do just follow anna essays for the weekend in Larachelle.
You must be fair hyped for it.

Speaker 1 (44:52):
Yeah, I am. I'm looking forward to it now.

Speaker 3 (44:56):
Jesus, are you genuine and you kind of like I
thought you were going to come out of the gate
like a bull.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
They're going Wait, I tell you, Tom, you actually sound
like ah.

Speaker 3 (45:04):
For fox sake, this is this pressure is getting to me. Now,
this is too much time.

Speaker 1 (45:08):
No, do you know what it is? I was I'm
I'm mad. I was mad for a drink and I
can't have a drink Eggs cream eggs. But also last
Saturday I spent a bit of time in the bar
with my friends that had loud music, and on Sunday

(45:31):
I felt absolutely awful. So I'm actually just kind of
nervous about not getting carried away and and and and
doing any more damage to my cown. So I'm a
little bit apprehensive about that. About Lie, I think that's
I don't feel like, you know, it's I've been looking
forward to for so long. It's just not how I

(45:52):
anticipated feeling the week that that they were coming. So
but but it'll be all right, I like, it'll be class.

Speaker 2 (46:01):
I have no doctor. But if you were a scrumb
cap in would it make.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
A scrumb cap and a Kogi tell us.

Speaker 3 (46:13):
Air and a scirt. But yeah, I mean it's it's
poised up in a great story like they're going mad
here about it, because of course Munster had Did you
get did you watch the Monster Magic as Conduct at
the weekend?

Speaker 1 (46:29):
I didn't.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
It was they were good.

Speaker 3 (46:31):
They were good. I mean they were down to thirteen
men for a while, but they still managed to keep
They looked slick when they were you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
They look like they managed it.

Speaker 3 (46:39):
Do you know, like I late watching Monster sometimes Ireland
to you're go Jesus Christ is a very naive looking
stuff like how what is this?

Speaker 2 (46:48):
Where's your intelligence?

Speaker 3 (46:49):
But they looked Munster looked very smart at the weekend. Now,
to be fair, some of the Monster players, some of
the Conduct players just weren't up to the task. They
Battle of the out halves like Jack Crowley was utterly
and I'm not just saying this anybody who watched it,
I don't care who you are.

Speaker 2 (47:06):
He was unplayable, like.

Speaker 3 (47:09):
Outrageous, outrageous, like a man who had nineteen points to prove.
It was unbelievable. There wasn't every trick in the book
was coming out. Everything was coming out. It was Finn
Russell esque, only with on Farrel style tackles, just going
out million people and then chipping it over chipping balls

(47:30):
over the head, putting these two persons skip passes out
scores a try.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
Now.

Speaker 3 (47:37):
It was helped by the fact that Craig Casey is RoboCop.
He is a machine to come back from that injured
did I'm sure you've seen the clip put many many
different backing tracks of him jumping out and then landed
back in on the injured leg one day and then
cranking it up the field for fifty meters. I mean,

(48:01):
there was a couple of points during the match like
we're going, oh god, you can get behind it, Like
showstopping moments like Calen Blake got absolutely melted receiving the
ball off the top of the lineup because Tiger Burn
just came through and I mean perhaps the youngers come
half with a side step that I don't know, but
he caught him in half. And it's it's those moments
you watch rugbly for You're like, oh, yeah, that's the

(48:23):
juicy stuff, you know, there was it was it was.
It was box office. That's the phrase. And I hate
using other people's phrases and stuff, but I'd like to
come up with my own with box office was the
perfect phrase of what monster were the weekend. They were
They were good and they're only all back together. The
band is only back, not even fully back together. But
they who was there looked very very good.

Speaker 1 (48:46):
Very good. Yeah, I know, I saw the clips and stuff,
and I was I was surprised because all of the
hype was kind of around conduct and you know the
game in my own how like people gearing up and everything.
I was like, well, Jesus, that could be do you
know a tough one for Monster kind of into the
lionstain a little bit? Would would it be that kind
of an atmosphere? Because I know that they prepared well.

(49:07):
It didn't. They have like j coaches into Connachts talking
to them about the history and things like that, and
usually with weeks like that, it goes well for the
home team. But so it was a little bit surprised
that Monster actually did when that comes from me obviously
not having watched it at all. I only saw the clips,
So go bodes well for Monster coming into this weekend.

Speaker 2 (49:27):
That's what I mean.

Speaker 3 (49:28):
It was. It was kind of stacked against Munster in
a way. I mean I couldn't see a full lot
like it was, and you know, Connacht did come back,
but they had to try struck off because of a
Crocker roll just at the very end, you know.

Speaker 2 (49:42):
But no, it was one hundred tent right. But to
be fair, they didn't.

Speaker 3 (49:46):
You wouldn't a Conduck fan would have looked at and said, oh,
you didn't deserve to win anyway, Like Munster were just
out on their feet because for ten minutes it was
a ten minutes they were down to thirteen and they hell,
they you know, that's a tricky, tricky test, but they
you know, alex Nankevell got sent off very strangely in
the I mean sent off fine, but what the ref

(50:08):
said was completely inaccurate. What was like, it wasn't what happened,
It's all though he said he came flying in, he didn't.
He came in from give into the ruck from like
a meter out and Keane Brandegast. I think what it
was is they were they were acting on the outcome
rather than the actual the actual action of his his
his clear up, clear up was actually all right. He

(50:29):
said he didn't try to wrap sure, Just what rapping
is there when you're just the two are actually down
on your honkers, driving against each other. Their heads clashed,
That's what it was and keen Brandegast got sparked sparked
out and that was the outcome. So it made it
for a bit of an uphill struggle for Monster. But they,
like I said, they kept it very smart. But Casey
and Crowley, I'm not catting yet like across the now,

(50:54):
no doubt Finn Ross led a great game over the
weekend for Bat. But then again, you know that the
two of them wouldn't have looked out of place being
I mean, you can call it boulders, but going on
the Lion storeline, like case Casey looked looked far superior. Now, yes,

(51:16):
he's thirties anyway, and like, yeah, he's he's got the
craft and Everton book. Casey's speed and energy, he definitely
had a bit of quantum touching, I'd say, because his
speed just his speed two rock, do you know what
I mean? His speed, it's catlike how fast he gets there.

(51:39):
And I think there was I just want to give
it an honorable shout out. And he's never mentioned on
any podcasts or any radio shows around him.

Speaker 2 (51:46):
But and nobody even in commentary was really mentioning. But
Finnine literally is after eating a cow or something, he
has he is South African size now, and he was
fucking mowing lads down like I mean two and three
lads was taken taken out of it like the perfect
second row behavior.

Speaker 3 (52:07):
Two three lads to get him down at a time,
constantly getting beyond the tackle, and the headline seemed to
be John klein get coming on for him. But no,
I haven't heard one mention read nothing about Whichally's contribution. Now,
clearly monster can see it because they started him. But
he looks massive, he looks super strong and super fit

(52:27):
and absolutely blasting through tackles. He just he looked great
at the weekend. So I just wanted if anybody's out
there going I totally agree or fucking like, yeah, you're right,
actually he was.

Speaker 2 (52:39):
I thought he was sensational.

Speaker 3 (52:40):
John Kleine of course came on, got of stealing the
line out right at the end. You know it's exactly
what you want. But yeah, it's going to pull poise
very interestingly going up against a bage or rog who
it's been going going then, it's been going been a

(53:01):
rockie on road the last couple of months for for
Raj and the gang.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
Rod coming here. Sorry, before before we move on this
is a tour I had and we're not going to
discuss it today. But I just wandered this season about
Jack Croly there and let's not discuss it today. Let's
just put in the box. But I just wanted to
bring it up now because it was the thought I
had when I saw that he had one Player of
the Match and I was just thinking about him and
his bad luck with Ireland or locker or whatever you
want to call it. But remember back in that Leinster

(53:29):
Monster game when he wasn't allowed to play in the
IRQ management it wasn't allowed to play. Yeah, that's okay.
That just came across the mind as well, and I
was like, yeah, marginally forgotten about that, but it's kind
of almost made more sense then. But we don't need
to talk about that today. That's something else we can
talk about. Let's talk about.

Speaker 3 (53:49):
Larragell Larajelle brilliant actually, by the way, that's that.

Speaker 2 (53:55):
Yeah, okay, I.

Speaker 1 (53:57):
Think quantum watch now gel.

Speaker 3 (54:01):
A Quantum quantum Rodge, perhaps quantum quantum quantum cream eggs.

Speaker 1 (54:08):
Cream eggs rog quantum cream roge.

Speaker 3 (54:13):
Oh, Jesus Roger Sewers for carry on? Yes, what's the
vibe what's the vibe in the camp? I mean literally,
you are behind enemy lines now at the minute. You
you're in your black and gold. What's the what's the vibe?
They've got some players back that they made a good
account of themselves against Claremont by all accounts of the weekend,

(54:36):
but they obviously can get the win. How are things
How are people feeling good?

Speaker 2 (54:44):
Of course, of course they are the bestards. They're French.

Speaker 3 (54:46):
They just in their class all the time, don't they.

Speaker 1 (54:48):
Well, it's a it's quite an international teamer, you know
it's and it's a wouldn't be classified as one of
the frenchest teams in the top fourteen.

Speaker 3 (55:00):
Okay, all right, no thanks at halftime?

Speaker 2 (55:03):
Fair enough?

Speaker 1 (55:05):
No, no, sadly no, but good Yeah, like the flipping
the Larachelle, French players did so well in the six Nations,
like there were some of France's best players, like.

Speaker 2 (55:23):
I'll and whatnot.

Speaker 1 (55:25):
I'll was on Real, Jegu was on Real when he
did really well, like Boodeon did well, but he's injured,
so he's not there this weekend. So that's one one
fellow that's missing. But uh Will's they're like, do you
know when it comes to when it comes to European Cup.
For for this team, they were able to like you know,

(55:45):
put in massive performances, so like will be great, Like
it'll be a great game of rugby. Well I hope
that that's the case, like that it's not just so
and tight that like you can't the teams aren't going
for it or such massive defense that you can't really
get around or score and he tries. I just hope

(56:07):
that there's some good like cheering moments for for for
both sides.

Speaker 2 (56:12):
So, yeah, who's out half? Who's starting out half? For largell.

Speaker 1 (56:19):
Uh antona toy Oh.

Speaker 3 (56:21):
Yeah, okay, right, tidy enough, I think so uh yep, yeah,
it's going to be it's going to be a humdinger.
Everybody's pumped now. It's this is one of the one
of the ones that seems to be I don't it's
I won't say it has the feel of the early
two thousands, but it kind of does for whatever reason.

Speaker 2 (56:42):
I don't know why.

Speaker 3 (56:43):
I mean, there's been nothing to get I mean months
or now fifth in the u RC, like there's has
been a run of I'd say we can beat everybody
kind of a vibe like but I don't know there's.

Speaker 1 (56:54):
I do have that feeling as well. Yeah, because of
the amount of people coming over.

Speaker 3 (57:01):
Yeah, that's what I mean, Like there's there's there's I
don't know why, Like I don't know what evidence is there,
but Jesus Christ, I thought they looked tasty the weekend.

Speaker 1 (57:11):
My evidence that's there in terms of the people coming
over is I've received so many messages from people I know,
and like I go to you know away Monster matches
and things like that, and I'd only bump into maybe
one or two people I know whereas this is like,
you know, ten people that I know that I know

(57:32):
have message to me, do you know where? And there
must be way more people that I know that they're coming,
so like this is multiples. Do you remember in six
and eight everyone's like how did the Monster fans get
all the tickets? And how could there have been so
many Monster people there. I think that's the question that
people will be asking here on Saturday, like how did
they get too many tickets and how did they all
get there? Like my cousin is like flying to Berge,

(57:56):
Iraq and then flying home from some other random, weird
like airport. Like people like I met I was wondering
when would I see the first monster head. I wasn't
I on my bike today and I heard Anna.

Speaker 3 (58:12):
Is that a cream egg?

Speaker 1 (58:14):
Three? Three creame meggs in my pocket? Oh? I was.
I actually was cream meg at the time. But a
fellow I know from Bows and like, I was like, geez,
you're the first monster runs I've I've met here now,
and he was. They were traveling, they'd been in Vietnam,
so they Jesus Christ, they actually came like they flew

(58:35):
to Leon and came across friends and I was like, well,
you took the shortcuts. So because everyone else is going
around the world as well, so there's fans, So you know,
someone that's come in from Vietnam and is not being
counted amongst the two thousand because two thousand is the
figure that keeps getting thrown around. I reckon it's more.

Speaker 2 (58:53):
Oh, sure, of course is going to be more.

Speaker 3 (58:55):
Yeah, I like, yeah, much more there going on what
you're saying and the vibe. I mean, it's the rag
factor too, you know what I mean. It's it's Champions
Cup rugby and it's not not that I've say people,
but there seems to be a vibe. There seems to
be a feeling that Monster could win, do you know
what I mean? There's a confidence and air of confidence

(59:17):
like we're going fuck it. And if if you can
beat Larichel, sure Jesus Christ, you could beat anybody on
their day, you know what I mean? If you're if again,
much like the Ireland team, if you all gets singing
and humming up there on one cheet, then they could
they could.

Speaker 2 (59:32):
Look, I haven't heard an update on the team around.

Speaker 3 (59:35):
I don't know what the Peter Manning scenario is, that
he'll be left off the weekend, Tom Iarn was on
a reel again out knowing the bastards.

Speaker 2 (59:42):
He's just been just he can do it all.

Speaker 1 (59:44):
Like you know what I mean with his short shorts.

Speaker 2 (59:47):
He does have short shorts.

Speaker 3 (59:49):
I've noticed that is that to make his legs look
even longer, like you think he'd get shorts that were
beat on the longuage side.

Speaker 1 (59:56):
Oh I I remember, and you remind me. I want to
say something else about tickets actually from Monster which came
to me ashure. But Tom Ahearn just he hikes up
his shorts and then Peter Manney, where's his long And
I took a photo of the two of them on
the picture and I was down in too long. The
two of them were just happened to be standing near

(01:00:16):
so I took four of them and I was like,
this is exactly like me and Junior. I'd be well,
I'd be hiking up my shorts because the lining of
my shorts doesn't go around my tie. My TI is
so big, Like I don't think Tom I Heartan has
that problem. But I'd be hiking up my shorts. But
then Junior, which is secure Griffin, the former captain, like

(01:00:36):
Junior would wear big, massive shorts. And I was like,
there's the Spade image of me and Junior and Peter Maney,
the big baggy shorts and the ones that like sit.

Speaker 3 (01:00:45):
Above your your thie Duke. Yeah, the the short shorts
whatever works, and whatever works.

Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
But I must go to bed then. But the thing
about the tickets, what was the ten of this? The
what they call season ticket holders and lurll That's what
I was thinking about. Yeah, all of the all of
your top fourteen are included and all Champions Cup are
included in your ab on, which is your subscription until

(01:01:20):
the week TM finale, which is the knockout rounds. So
for knockout rounds you get first refusal. So the season
ticket holders who never have to pay, were now presented
with the option to buy their tickets as opposed to
here are your tickets. So I think I think a
lot of and like I heard a French person say,

(01:01:42):
oh my god, the tickets for the match are so expensive,
They're like twenty eight euro and I was like, oh
my god, that's such a French thing to say, especially
if you're an abb on a like, if you're a
season ticket holder, sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:01:56):
Main bastard, but now.

Speaker 1 (01:02:00):
Do you reckon? Because Larachelle hasn't been doing so well
now they've a very very loyal fan base, but they're
also French. They're they're.

Speaker 3 (01:02:14):
Tick with them, could they as well? Could we tick
with the team at this stage? Now?

Speaker 1 (01:02:18):
Yeah it could be and like, well I'm not buying
my tickets flap. Also, they're also they're closer to Top
fourteen than they are to Champions Cup Larachelle. You could
argue that that Champions Cup is more important for them,
but at the end of the day, top fourteen is
there is their bread and butter. Yeah, so I reckon

(01:02:38):
a lot of French fans refused these tickets, and I
sent out the link. Someone said it to me, now
semi links in another tickets for sale on this and
I sent around to loads of people actually has made
the mistake and actually bought basketball tickets. So and she
said me, do backtballiticals and here you want to use.

(01:03:02):
But loads of Monster fans had access to that link.
So there the Larachelle tickets. So I think that it's
going to be a red sea and people are going
to be kind of shocked, maybe even.

Speaker 2 (01:03:20):
That's my my French word of the day.

Speaker 1 (01:03:21):
Rouge.

Speaker 2 (01:03:22):
Am I right, a great.

Speaker 1 (01:03:27):
Rouge. But let's see, I's going to say and the assfriget,
but sorry because we need to go to bed.

Speaker 3 (01:03:39):
Well, do you know what it's going to be a
spicy one? Actually I'm gonna, I said, just as you're
you're giving me a cheat code here, Yeah, it's Simon
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Speaker 3 (01:03:51):
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Speaker 1 (01:03:56):
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Speaker 2 (01:03:59):
Yeah, I got that much.

Speaker 3 (01:04:00):
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Speaker 1 (01:04:03):
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Speaker 3 (01:04:09):
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convinced me. I'm just gonna put it. I'm just gonna
put a little deer logo in there. L L a
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Simon z. That will happen your fucking coughin to you

(01:04:31):
know what's up when when I'm when I'm tweeting.

Speaker 1 (01:04:34):
Do you know Wayne Burns would be like speaking French
to like the French players like ju Jula and you
know Russell Carol Kelly like has a Twitter like funck
off Wayne Barnes with your junior sir French.

Speaker 3 (01:04:53):
H Yeah, brilliant.

Speaker 2 (01:05:00):
None of that ship.

Speaker 1 (01:05:01):
Must hold a bit because by any other crack Now.

Speaker 3 (01:05:05):
No, let's do let's park it. This has been a
great podcast. I'm I'm all I want now is cream eggs.
I don't even care about the game again, right, I'll
tell you what great to have you back back, Mind
the Rocks, mind

Speaker 1 (01:05:20):
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