Episode 5 - "RG Y'Bollix"

Our pair get philisophical about where a team's head is at while learning how Brazil have made it (placed 47 in the rankings) into the Women's mix.
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the Banana and.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Rubbie, Well, welcome everybody to another episode of Banana Bear.
I'm so sorry. It's all my fault and and I
can point her French based finger straight at me. It's
all my fault. We missed last week. I got a
couple of messages, not nasty, but just kind of going eh,
that was somewhere.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
I got very nasty messages. Well not really, but you
know who you are. People. I want to read the podcast.
But I'm sorry. I am actually sorry because it was
been a good week after Monster Leinster and everything, and

(00:43):
you know the BRIT's going on. We would have been
a good week, but the last life gets in the
way sometimes it does.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
It does. Life got in the way. It was just
chaotic for me and anytime, anytime we like it, just
it couldn't happen. It couldn't happen last week. But look
at your sister. Probably thought we fell out for a
week anyway, but we didn't. We didn't. We stayed in contact.
We stayed in rugby contact. And what you were first

(01:10):
of foremost, and the context on that picture because we
were back and forth watching the Monster Leinster match. I
know we're going back a week and a half. There's
been a match since then, but you're you're like like
they're like an electric baker.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
I was so mad when I was in the pop
hang on, nos, this, this is Monster Leinster obviously, Oh
yes this year now. I was doing a first aid
course and they were fucking dragging the ass out of it,
and I was literally on the edge of my seat,
like putting on my jacket, rattling my keys, trying to

(01:49):
remind them that Monster Leinster was on obviously, which should
yeah the same day that that Dad Larachelle are being
really badly down and beyond. But I was like mad
for Fox. Hopped up my bike. We finished. I knew
i'd miskickoff like flow across town over to mcnaldy's, pulled
on my brakes outside, looked in the window and I

(02:10):
couldn't tell the difference between the clock and the fucking
score line. I was like, what, excuse me? How much
of this match have I missed? Like the score line
and the clock were the same. What was twenty one?

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Twenty one? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:23):
I was like, oh dear Jesus, and I was so
excited the whole way over to Yes, yes, yes, this
entered the matches over, but after MCDAD.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
It was very tough for Monthster, like like, we already said,
we're not going to get into this too much because
it's obviously last week's news and everyone else has been
talking about it to the death. But I messaged I
wanted to message you being like, Monster are stuck in
fucking second gear, first gear, And I was like, I,
oh know what gear they're stuck in. Do you know what?
They don't even have gears. They're an electric cards. You

(02:56):
know what kind of electric card there? Those small little
square ones. There's loads them around, lower loads around like
little cities, the ones that don't even have an engine
at the front. They're just a square driving in a
sugar cube. And I was like, that's the kind of
vehicle they have. And then Leinster fucking going around in
their rolls, Royce and Monster trying to keep up in

(03:17):
their little electric fucking cube and uh yeah. When I
left the pub then there was one bag outside and.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
I was amazing, amazing, it was perfectly timed. I was like,
I'd roar and laughing even though I was watching the game,
Know what the fuck is going on? Like these unforced
there now to be fair like not to take away
from Monster in that game, like they got caught with
their heads still inside school bag and they were halfway
through the leaving start when they looked up, do you

(03:46):
know what I mean? They were still and then they
gave it a right, they gave it a decent goal.
But I mean on four stars and stuff like that.
And then then of course, and I have to jump
straight in Rgie focused Diamond your best it here he
is and now it's easily ties into this game as
well then this week's game, because Leinster played conduct at
the weekend and here he was just just rampaging around

(04:10):
the place like everything Monster wanted from him. Here he
is lying it like, for the love Jesus, cool, When
when could we have gotten that you would have had
three injuries by now in two games. If if you did,
you tended to have that for us, Well it's dims
are of Debrakes. But yeah, I wasn't. I watched it back,
the extended highlights of the Monster Leinster one, and I

(04:31):
wasn't that raging. I was kind of like, oh, yeah,
you just tom up your ass for the first fifteen
minutes and you got caught rotten because Leinster always start
quickly and then they fought their way back into you know,
and this they held with him. But the weekend gone,
the weekend gone like you know, not good, not good

(04:54):
at all, because they they gave it to him like
they could have easily had that she played, you know,
played and possibly even gone and won the match. But
they just everything they seemed to do was just here
you go, here you go, here's another penalty. Did were
you missing penalties? Let's give you another penalty. It was.
It was just diabolical to watch. It was hard and

(05:15):
the best part, of course was Graham Rowntree afterwards was
like a fellow who had just come off skiing or something.
He was up to ninety without swearing. He did unbelievably,
he did unreal not by not swearing, and.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
Because I obviously again because of no telling and no channels,
I've watched this in the pub. So by the time
the match was over, no one wanted to hear any
fucking postmatch interview. Like the music Come on Eileen was
back on the radio, which everyone was much happier to
listen to, But didn't hear that interview? Uh, tell me
about it?

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, it was it was un like it was so
Graham around her. But you know the way he's normally
somber and a bit kind of like he's looking out
from underneath the table when he's kind of looking at you.
This was he was jacked up to eleven, but without
sounding irate or like he was gonna swear or couldn't understand,

(06:12):
but he was. It was like he was nearly trying
to shout over a crowd of people.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
He was what was the point of view?

Speaker 2 (06:17):
What point of view? His point of view is that
he was raging with the entire group. That again again
they they hung with him slightly in the beginning, but
complete and other unforced erers, their line out malfunctioning, like
is the wheels have completely fallen off. Their line out,
which there's there's scrum is relatively strong. You know, they

(06:40):
get you know they can hold they can hold it people.
But sure there's nothing happen onf scrumbs these days. It's
all off line out. It's where stuff is happening. And
that's what he was saying, was like, but we're not
going like rather than going, but we won't go into
our show on this, he went, We're gonna own this
we're gonna a and I mean, you would believe this guy.
It was actually unbelievably handed, like his emotions were right

(07:01):
out there for everybody to see, but without being a
bollocks like he wasn't he wasn't thrown anybody under the bus,
but quite literally he was saying, we can't do these
things that we're doing. We're supposed to be professionals. We
can't be doing this kind of stuff. This is just
no way close to being good enough. But he was like,
we you know, we won't, we won't fall apart from this.

(07:22):
If anything, this is going to bind this title together now,
I mean we all like you can have a very
sharp memory too, like like they were, I don't know,
they started brutal last season, and they started brutal the
season before, and everybody was like what the fuck? And
then all of a sudden they think they ended up
finishing top of the table last year and one of
the year before, you know, so rather than you know,

(07:45):
getting all, you know, losing the hair altogether, like.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
It's just so inconsistent though, yeah, yeah, which is just tiring.
I don't know, I'm I am just I don't know.
And then you see the sobs that are coming on.
I suppose you had Gavin Coombs coming on like, which
is like, okay, this is someone that, uh, well, we
know what he's about and we know that this is

(08:09):
a strong person coming in off the bench. But then
other than that, it's just older players, the younger players
who are not sure of we don't know yet, like
just there's so little to cling to. I don't know.
And like then like you say, they could fucking turn

(08:31):
up and win the you know, they could go over
the Sharks sound next week, you can win and win
out the bag. But that's what's the inconsistency is just
so tiring. What'st be fucking tiring for them as well?
And then you look at Orgie Simon, who's like having
a ball in a team that's consistent. You know, obviously
he as well has been consistent because he's actually being
on the pitch, so that actually helps enjoying himself, Like

(08:56):
being in a team who knows what they're about, like
monster what like what's their identity? What's the where is it?
You know when you have a performance, like you know,
you lose or you you nearly lose, or you just
kind of cling to something like you know what you're about,

(09:16):
and you're like, okay, we know that's not that's not us.
But like this game of the weekend, that is what.
That's how they're playing at the moment, how they were
complaining against answers, how they played against Zebra. So that's
what they need to find the answers. They need to
find the questions to ask to find the answers. Because
I don't know, but it's good to hear that about

(09:38):
round three that that was his response. And and that's
what things can change within a couple of weeks.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
The only and and I mean the only the only
thing I would look at, the missing factor seems to
fall apart when Peter Manney isn't around. That's that's the
I was trying to find what what is the one
constant when they do look ruthless? And I say, oh, oh,
Maney because your man brought into question. He was that

(10:06):
African guy and he said, and typ Berne, is you
see more or less that he's the right man as
the captain. You know, it's a pressure a lot And
he pulled back like he pulled him on that when
he's like, no, no, he is the right man to
be captain and everything else, you know, But I think
an Irish Irish clubs need to have somebody who they

(10:28):
almost fear somewhere. They don't need a friend at the top.
You need a boss, a boss boss that when you
walk through of whatever way you know, whether it's a
player or a coach, there needs to be a level
of fear. Fear simple as that. In such a physical sport,
there needs to be you can all be high five
in each other and stuff like that, and that's very

(10:49):
you know, possibly Southern Hemisphere vibe of the thing to
be doing like. But realistically, I think in for Irish players,
they need, they actually need, you know, the boss walking through,
do you know. I'm sure they're all friends with Andy
Farland the ir setup, but by fuck nobody would you
know give less than one hundred percent if he stares
straight at you at half time?

Speaker 1 (11:09):
Like you agree with that? I do agree with that,
And I've been in environments before ward that fear isn't there,
and it works sometimes and it doesn't work others, as
in when yeah, like your player.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Beer copy with respect if you know what I mean,
almost like letting your down, you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (11:32):
Whatever loss says that that you just don't want to
let them down. Yes, but also not just because you're
letting them down and they be disappointed, but because you
get your fucking head taken off.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
You know, Yeah, that that that's a really interesting thing
because there is the balance and the fine line between
what kind of coach you want to be how you
get the best out of players. And I've seen it
that that fear element works better than anything else coupled
with that respect you're talking about, you know, and not

(12:06):
just like some bollocks it doesn't give a fuck about
the players. But is that fear element there? But it's
like I was talking about Munster Leinster, and like you know,
people were giving Monster credit for kind of coming back
into the fold, you know, in the second half, but
like Leinster's fear was gone at that stage, Like the

(12:29):
fear of losing the game is gone.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
At that stage.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
And it's not their fault. You know. We've spoken about
this before about how you're able to relax into the game,
and it's not because you're you know, saying to yourself, Oh,
I'm gonna relax now because the job is done. That's
not what you're saying to yourself, but that fear of
losing the game is gone, so the adrenaline is still there,
but you're you're approaching the game a little bit differently.

(12:54):
So it's the same in the game, it's the same
in training. If there's a fear there, it drags a
little something else out of you. And and it's not
something that you can create. It's not something that you're like, Okay,
that's how I need to play. No, you do it
because you're afraid of an outcome or you're afraid of someone.
It's an interesting, an interesting combo. I wonder about Razor

(13:17):
down in New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Which Si kiwis are a different kettle of fish, like
they have you know what I mean, they have they're
consummate professionals from school boys, you know what I mean,
and taking rugby deadly seriously is in their DNA, you
know that kind of way. Like they're all about, you know,
imagery for the season, and this season is going to

(13:41):
be us being like Ali coming back from whatever and
this season not to say that, you know, imagery wouldn't
work with Irish players, but I think I think it's
an Irish mentality, is that maybe it's just a cow
loud place or something. I don't know, but I don't
I don't buy fully into the Yes we have okay,
Moncester have a huge injury list and that is that

(14:03):
is absolutely right. But there are certain things that if
you're getting paid to play a rugby that means you're
a professional rug player. You don't drop the fucking ball,
do you know what I mean? You don't You're not
given a loose pad like I get, it's under presser.
I don't know. This could come down to a coaching
thing that we don't know about, maybe not being put
through an absolute grinder pressure wise during the week to
learn how to deal under pressure. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
Were we talking about this already, did we? Did we
touch on this or was this in Was I talking
about this on another podcast? Because I was asking the
same thing and like, obviously mistakes can happen in any stage,
but that was my thing as well as like your
full time professional.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
I think we talked. We talked about it after they
went down to Zebra or why you know you the
likes of Lockman and Aliager not blocking the gate you
on your full time professionals lads, and I mean and
I hate to be banging it, you know, repeating ourselves.
But you're it doesn't make sense that you're doing the
basics incorrectly. Do you know you go watching ail match

(15:07):
the weekend, they're not they an't doing that, no, do
you know?

Speaker 1 (15:12):
So who the monster have this againd oh? Sorry? Going to.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
The Sharks and they better get their fucking line out
in order there because they've one or two players. They've
one or two players. Jesus Christ is like the Springboks
team literally do you know? It's yeah, they better get
their line out in order. And I mean at the moment,
I mean, yeah, okay there they have their front row
and whatnot and everything else. It's it's all gone a

(15:40):
bit sideways. But they better get something in order because
they could get a spanking. I don't know. And I
mean they you know against Leinster they got a fantastic
try one off their lineout, do you know for it
dropped down for Sean O'Brien in a lovely move. You're like, yeah,
how how people read? Is that? What it is? Is

(16:01):
our team just reading that easy? But it seems we lads,
like at the weekend, lads were miss jumping. There was
overthrows the fuck is going on? You're not training this
during the week, Like you know, I can't see what's
I can't figure out what's clicking.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
But I can't figure it out either.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
You can only imagine that there they can do all
these things, but for some reason the trigger isn't being
able to be pulled come come game time. So I
can only put that there's something in the coach and
if that's the case, you know, But yeah, and they
went then and you know, had their trousers pulled down

(16:43):
and like it's like they were put in three points
three or four points with on the seventy four fucking
minute against against the Stormers and then like intercept tries
and for the love of you, before you know, then
it's like thirty four fucking I knows that they ended
up winning thirty four nineteen or something and they were
win like twenty two or twenty one nineteen on the

(17:06):
seventy four What the fuck? Let's what the fuck? Have
some pride? Do you know what I mean? So it's
not look, I'm not calling to a question their will
or they want, but something is a dry because right
now Munster are most definitely the worst team out of
the four provinces and there's no there's no offensive butt

(17:27):
like you're watching like Ulster get at the weekend. We're
scoring class tries. Your man Stockdale seems to be back
to his best. Yeah. And then Leinster conduct was it
was a good match. It was there's actually a good
match like And it wasn't a hiding. It looked like
the thirty three twelve. It wasn't the high. It wasn't
the hiding it looked like. But do you know when
your conduct you're always up against, especially when it's Leinster,

(17:49):
like the fucking Archie s Nymond, like Jesus crissed Jesus Christ.
He scored a try. Yeah, run them up with the
ball in its eide and is hidden in his pam
he in his palm like a magician is going to
pull a coin out of your fucking ear. This fellow
could literally do that trick with a ball.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
Did you see what he was trying to get the
ball out of his hand?

Speaker 2 (18:12):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
He was like trying to shake it off and and
and kicked it out with his thought was funny. But
someone asked him about it, maybe in a post interview,
asked him like why did you do that? Did you
know that there's a short clock on? And he was like, no,
it was genuinely stuck to my hand.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
It's that Are you joking me? The ball actually stuck
inside his hand.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
No, he was talking shit, he was.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
Great, right. I was wondering. I was like, what the
because I saw him do that and it was I mean,
it's you know, it was a cool celebration to kind
of suggest, like my hands are that good that I
can't I can't even throw the ball away when I
want to.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
I know, I don't give a high five. Actually, see like.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
He's in his they're not as ginormous, Like they're not
as big as Dennis Leamy's. They probably are longer fingers,
but like I remember Leamy's it was like a hen
if you know what I mean, with some bananas stuck
to it, like whereas his is like a bit of
a tennis racket, all right, like I do. I shook
hands with him, and but it wasn't like I've shook

(19:14):
hands with farmers with more intimidating hands. He just has
very dexterous fingers. I would assume just just long out
fingers on him, like you know, but I've I've I've
shook hands with builders and stuff like that. That again,
it's like getting hit with a slab of meat. But
he h, yeah, he's I'm annoyed. He's such a nice fella,

(19:39):
but it is what it is. It's play.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
And as much as I give out, I'm like the box,
I actually mad about him. I think he's lovely fella,
and I think he's a great player, and I feel
sorry for him that he's been so played with injury,
just so typical now that you are, don't just your ballocks?

Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yeah, yeah, your ballocks. That's it. That's the name of
that's that's that's RG your ballocks. That's the title to say.
Show Yeah he did. He just did that whole He
doesn't show off too like he could jump with two hands,
but instead he throws that big long arm up and
catches the ball of one hand and then throws it down.

(20:23):
Even gives a park is like going, what the actual fuck?
Like the ball comes down with snow on it, Like
what the fuck? Do you know what I mean? But well, yeah, look,
I mean really I think that they warry at the
moment out of the four provinces has to be monster
like and what what is going on? Like also, like
it must be hard to get consistent two when you

(20:45):
are chopping and changing the team because you're getting so
many fucking injuries. I would assume that's that's definitely a
part of it. But for the third year running, why
do Monster have eighteen people on the injured list? Eighteen? Like,
what the fuck is going on at training? It's just
dial it back a bit or something. I don't know
what's going on, but like there's been a few lads

(21:08):
on that you know, that bench, that that the doctor's
bench for help the whole career with Monster so far,
Like it's fucking bizarre.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
There's been there's been a few eyebrows, reason that, a
few questions like what's actually going on? But like people
that worked there, professionals as well, like they know, Like
it's it's just I don't know. I'm just about to
say it's just bad luck, but I don't. I don't,
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
But anyway, you you text me over the weekend, we'll
get Yeah, we'll come. We'll skip back in a minute
and explain the reason why you're your handle this evening
is is a connuch player's name will get back to
that for Clutter of the Week towards the end of
the show. But you were texting me you take the
most random pictures and they're Brillian because there's always it's

(22:01):
almost like guess where I am or there's a story
in it, like there's nothing, there's your pictures.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
Never what picture did I send you? No?

Speaker 2 (22:12):
First, you sent me a picture of the most French
looking blokes, like and they're standing in front of a
bank of fucking Microwaves're like, what have we got here?

Speaker 3 (22:20):
Now?

Speaker 1 (22:21):
So I was saying to so the top fourteen is
back and I had been to I had been to
the match already this year, but this one. So they
were playing Bordo and Larachell went down to bay On
last week and actually I was reminded of rage there

(22:43):
when you were talking about Great Brown, because Roger gave it,
gave an interview after Larachelle went down to Bayon and
he was like, I'm so sorry that people travel down
to see this, like we cannot be doing that and
I'm responsible and very heart felt. It was very sad.
So I'd say they got a data fucking tough week
of training and figured it out anyway, because they played

(23:08):
brilliant at the weekend. Now this kind of went to
sleep in second half, but they were brilliant. I don't
know if any our listeners are watching Top fourteen, but
Top fourteen is just so fucking class. But I don't
usually come to the stadium until just before kickoff, but
at the weekend I find at the moment I'm not
speaking enough French. I'm working all week in English and

(23:31):
I just don't have enough opportunities to speak French. So
one of the girls put out a message saying they
were looking for volunteers to give out the programs at
the beginning of.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
The match, which taught me when you said give out
the programs, like they give them away, Like are these
proper programs? Now? These aren't on an out slip of
paper like you get underneath your door about you know,
local being companies.

Speaker 1 (23:52):
They're tainer than the ones you'd get like in the
home and park that you pay for, but there's not
as much there's as much advertising in them, like they're
actually full of news, like our picture was in it.
There was actually a picture of me in it. Last week.
I was like, Fox, sake the fucking head on me.

Speaker 2 (24:09):
That's that's cool.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
Now, that's cool. I know I don't have one ship
ship I didn't. Yeah, And it's funny because actually one
of the Paul, which is the seventh flower Shell, he's
playing unbelievable at the minute. His mom came up to
you and she's like and he was on the front
of the program and she was like, I'm his mother.

(24:33):
Can I have five? And I was like, oh yeah,
So I gave her with him because his mam was
so cute. But they give him away for free, and
what you spent an hour giving them out and then
we got a free sandwich. And then we were able
to sit in because we got a kind of a pass,
like a pass that you can get onto the into

(24:55):
special areas with and you can sit right behind the
visitors bench like with the traveling reserves. So that was great,
like right on halfway. And it was such a good
match with such a great seasons like I'll do this
more often, give out the programs before the match. But
the place was hopping from seven o'clock kickoffs not till nine.

(25:16):
The place was full, like.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
Oh wait, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
Everyone comes two hours early to have something to eat,
have some dinner, have some drinks. It's just a thing
they do, like you know, Irish people who be in
the pub, like the French get there so that they
can eat together and you can get like a set meal,
like you can order beforehand. And you'd see it on
if you follow Larachelle on Instagram, like you'd see them

(25:41):
advertising what's for dinner that weekend at the stadium. Now, yeah,
it's actually unreal and you can actually also decide to
have it after. But maybe that's for Maybe that's for
not the nine o'clock games, because the fucking the game
didn't be finished till eleven then, like it's so late.
But I this is the real random picture I sent you.

(26:02):
I was just like it's just so French, like a
load of people queuing up at a load of microwaves
to heat their food.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
Because what food were they getting that they were.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
Heating pasta boxes.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
Don't tell me to get them out for free, did they?

Speaker 1 (26:16):
No, they don't give out for free. No, they buy
them at the stall. You can get a burger. You
can get the burgers are great, and the burgers come
with a yellow bone and a black bone, so it's
like branded burger. Nice. Yeah, and there's chips and then
there's lots of different options. But one of the options
is a pasta box and you bring it over to

(26:37):
the microwaven, or you can use the microwave if you
bring your own dinner.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
I do love that.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
That's what they'd do, Like if God forbid, they wouldn't
have Like the French are so particular about their kind
of set menu. Do you know if you come and
eat in a restaurant here, you get your starter, main,
dessert and coffee, Like that's what they would have at
the stadium then as well, like God forbid, they'd have
something to eat without having a dessert or wouldn't have
a hot meal. So I was just like, this is

(27:06):
just another just like French thing. And I know, yes,
I know, I live in France, so French things happen
all the time.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
We need more of a series we were. You were
saying that, like we need a like an Instagram series
of you going and here is another French thing, and
just a bunch of French things from a match, like especially.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
Before they become normalized for me, because yeah, so just
they're just fucking.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
To be to be fair. When the last I was
at the Monster Conduct match, and I remember there was
a good shot of people milling around. There was a
lot of grub to be had, there was in fairness, now,
there was a lot of grub they had. You know
those do you know those they're kind of like a
German set up barbecue where it's a circle all the
way around and there's a grill hanging over a fire
in the middle. They were doing a lot of that,

(27:54):
and there was a lot of milling about, but there
wasn't a lot of indoor area where space where people stand.
But bard they had a bar now all right, and
we went into the into the bar pit. But it
wasn't as communal as what I thought, what the picture
you sent me, Like we're a bunch of people were
all just heard it in, which nearly does create an
atmosphere in itself where a bunch of people are kind

(28:15):
of hearded into one big area one, you know. But
like they were still making bank, Monster were still making
bank that day, like people were, you know, because every
one of those vendors that guarantee are paying top dollar
or there's a cut going to the at the very top,
like do you know.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
Yeah, but yeah, yeah, sorry, I'm talking now as if
like we don't get food a matches. I'd always get
studious food and like that's obviously a big part of it,
but it don't over just for the French.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
It's like what's the go to chips? Did it? Like
I know the French fras, but like what what's to
go with their chips? Like are we talking dacent chips?
Are they frozen? All yolks? Are are we getting? Are
they putting mankey, really gravy or something an or no?

Speaker 1 (28:56):
No, they're good, like good quality. But you know what
they don't put on the chips here and you can't
really ask for its on the tables is salt. That's
what I'm missing on my chips here. But they do
have Like so I've got a burger and chips at
the stadium before and then you can go over to
the table and all of the sauces are out on

(29:17):
the table and people would go and take like mustard,
mayonnaise or or ketchup, which I think is obviously like
that's not and the new but it's just.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
Maynais these freaks.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
Oh, you could put your own sauce in your burgers.
Was just paying the whole. But there is cheese in it.
But then the so obviously they're saying that I a
really good ticket and was sitting like right in the
middle on the halfway, which was really nice. It's just
so funny how they react. You're a same as the
same as Munster, same as Leinster. But it was just
so funny, like listening to in the French. There was

(29:55):
a moment in the match in the first half where
someone was taken out of it at a rock and
there was a bit of a corn of hey, hey,
hey from the far side of the pitch. We didn't
see it clearly enough what you could hear that from
the fans were just gruntled on the other side of
the pitch. And then a couple of phases later, right
in front of where I was sitting, one of the

(30:17):
back rows gave the most illegal shoulder charge I've ever seen,
and I was like, oh my god, that's a red card,
like and it's happened so fast, and I was like
that as a red card, and you know, you'd be like, oh,
like I want to see that again now, but I
was like, I don't even want to see that again.

(30:38):
That is red. That is the reddest red card I've
ever seen. And I just said to the woman next
to me, like, who's like, that is definitely a red card.
And then time off. Your man goes to you know, mix,
the TMO sign goes over to the corner, and they

(30:59):
start to replay what happened at the rock, and all
of lwer shell are like boo boo oh they took
him out, they took out the lower shell player. And
then I was like, oh, he's checking both incidents obviously,
and then the referee give a yellow card to Bordeaux
and went to continue with the match. I was like,
ohs And because I was sitting right behind the border,

(31:26):
and I was like, how are they not losing their minds?
I would be losing my mind. It was like a
shoulder flying forward into your man's head. He didn't dip,
he didn't whatever, and anyway, there he was about to
continue and I was looking around, how how are they
not losing their minds? And anyway, someone eventually said it.

(31:49):
The message did get to the ref and he stopped again,
and they replay the terrible shoulder charge and all of
the lower selves like, yeah, but yeah, but he's very small,
he's very small. Oh yeah, no, no, no no, and
after like losing their heads about the previous yellow card

(32:11):
and your man ended up getting a yellow. I was like,
oh my god, I cannot believe he's after getting away
with that. It was like the one of the worst
tackles er and gotty yellow. I was looking over at
the bench and they were all like and I was like,
oh my god, like that could have changed, like someone
did someone got a red card. Then later in the
second half, sucking head on head straight red into the bain.

(32:35):
I was like, there is so lucky your man didn't
get it read it was terrible. So that's what I
was saying. They we were I would have given him
Clatter of the week if it wasn't for our Bondiaki,
Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (32:51):
Oh my god. So you yeah, I saw a few
people and you you saw it as well, like people
going oh high it was this that the other it
ended up being high. Now if anybody didn't say it
was Jamie Osborne out on the wing and he's away
in his eye. He doesn't see him Common. That's the
killing thing. You can see it. He doesn't see Aki

(33:11):
Common and it's it's such a great shot. It's right
on us about like a meter from the line try
is imminent, and then out of just a from stage
left comes Bondiaki. I all probably one hundred and five
key CAGs of Bondiaki at oh hell. He hits him

(33:36):
at the top of the shoulder height, but it ends
up looking illegal because Osborne's body actually melts for about
a split second, it melts over bondiaki shoulder, so ends
up looking high because the man's sheen and everything just
his neck elongates and goes over bondiaki shoulder, so it

(33:58):
looks like it was passed beyond then, but it wasn't.
He hit him shoulder, slashed chest and he just like
it's you didn't see it before. But the ball just
just leaves, just doesn't doesn't get thrown, It just gets left.
The man goes limp for a split second in getting
cut in half of oh my god. And they showed

(34:20):
the slow motion too. It's like Jesus Christ on mighty
and to get up after it, you know that's you
just you gotta go get a tattoo after that. I
just go I survived a Bondiaki absolute folding.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
It's like he went dodging his Facebook and he marks
himself safe.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
That's amazing. That's an amazing Oh, that's very good.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
Do you know what I actually I met. I met
a lovely couple in mcdulty's last night.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
By the way, you took all I counted. You took
thirty four seconds to mention McNulty is at the top
of his podcast and it's been mentioned three more times
since then. This is brilliant.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
You know, I love it.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
This is this is.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
Something else to talk about after But I chatted to
a lovely couple in the public last night. And actually
your man played in bows. He was in uh played
New Elbows and I was like, I played in New welbowls.
We know a lot of the same people and everything else.
But we were just talking about rugby in the World

(35:35):
Cup and this and we're talking about Bondiaki and obviously
because it was a year ago, a lot of the
clips came up from last year and from Ireland getting
knocked out and the images of Bondiaki, you know, after
they got knocked out, is what we're talking about last night.
You know, he's he's usually such a humble guy and

(35:57):
and and it's always he loves the position. He has
so many friends and all the different teams and all
the New Zealand guys are coming over to him, and
he wasn't even responding to them. He wasn't even like
like did he just know? Because what we were talking
about and if we remember how good Bondiaki was and

(36:18):
if Orland admite it to Sem, he finally could have
been the player of the tournament. That's how well he
was playing. Was he just like I do not have
another World Cup in me at that level. Whether he
has it in him, you know, definitely or not, but
at that level to perform as he did last year.

(36:41):
It was just something we were talking about and just
kind of lamenting for Bondiyaki's more. But but then to
continue his form maybe not maybe not to the same extent,
and like we'll see him obviously back with Ireland, but
like to keep producing like fucking performances, Like is he
not wrecked? Like is he not fucking absolutely exhausted from

(37:02):
just from playing so well?

Speaker 2 (37:05):
I think, well, I think they're managing him correctly, like
we thought you you told you give us an insight
before into like Polynesian players or you know, lads to
the Island lads, how they how to work them properly
and by all accounts, it's kind of a you know Bundy,
not that he's left to his own own devices, like,

(37:26):
but he's rather than you know, heavy heavy heavy being
heavy handed with him. He's kind of you know, allowed
to take responsibility for his own training by all accounts,
and he's the happiest fella, especially in Ireland training. It's
just just Bundy, gob Bundy. Just you do you do you?
Because he look at the man like he's like he

(37:47):
is so built for just cutting people in hat and
then also an unbelievable like fifty meters just of pure power.
So I don't know, I mean, yeah, I don't know.
I don't know if a fellow would be that selfish
in that moment after being in such like it sounded
like the best squad ever, the best tour ever, you know,
that they were on I would say what I did?
I love that actually that he had no time for

(38:09):
these fellas. That it once you know, as you said,
you'd see him kind of high five and given a
Hogan smiling on Asher looked great game, but he was
so disgusted after that, I mean signs on he was
only on the news here or t there a couple
of weeks ago getting his Hrish citizenship. Oh yeah, so
maybe at the time he was like, fucking the fuck,

(38:32):
what did I ever? What did I ever get out
of that place? H I got nothing from it, do
you know what I mean? I'm king of Galway. They've
made me king of Galway. They've made They've named a
boot in a pub after Bundy because you know it's Bundy.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
There's definitely like children from Golway called Bundy, from Conduct called.

Speaker 2 (38:51):
I hope, so Bundy McDonough, Oh yeah, that sounds great. Capeless,
that's a great name. Bundie Capless, Bundie Capless. Bondie Capless
owns what's what does Bondye Capeless own the chipper? One

(39:13):
percent of chipper, but a right good chipper.

Speaker 1 (39:15):
Yeah, yea.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
Every time you meet Bundy, you're only too delighted. Mister
Capeless comes out, Bondye Capless himself comes out. Oh Jesus,
when he's on the on the friar, everybody loves working
for me, pays him an extra ur on hour. No
fights ever breakout in that man's chipper.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
Bondie Bondy, this is actually loosy. This is a bit
lowsy against Bundy because he's actually one of the ones
and one of the players will be very supportive of
the women's game. He's worked a lot with the Connich Girls, Corwegians.
He gives a he has given over the years a
lot of his time to the women's game. And I remember,

(39:53):
I don't know if I said this podcast before, but
a couple of years ago when Ship was in the
fan with Ireland and we were in a really bad place,
and they asked Bondi about it in an interview, you know,
have you been taking off of stock of what's going
on in the women's game, And he was like, oh,
we haven't really because because it was during November Internationals

(40:14):
and they were also playing November Internationals, so they're not
going to be worried about the women's game in that time,
even though it was in the media a lot. So
they asked Bundy about it and he was like, no,
I haven't been following you too closely, but I do
have a message for the girls good luck in their match.
This we again and we were laughing about it, right,

(40:34):
and I remember afterwards I said to them, it's like
after the game and we won, we beat Usa that
ironically USA that time, and I was like, g see
Bondy there. He was like, was he there?

Speaker 2 (40:48):
I was like, no, he just sends his luck.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
He said luck. And it was really funny because there
was an article written afterwards and it included some kind
of quote by Manhattan Gandhy and in the hashtags at
the bottom of the fucking article it was like hashtag Bandiaki,
hashtag Gandy, and I said, I said to the girl's lads,

(41:17):
did you see that Gandy was at our game? As
he was sitting next to Bundy. We actually it was
one of those like a bet laughing crime moment because
the ship was really hitting the fan around that time.
It's lousy that I've thrown Monday under the bus there
because he's always, like I said, he's always been very

(41:38):
invested in the women's game.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
But I do like that and good luck, good luck.
It's right up there with the you know, when somebody
hears of a bad hurricane coming, I go with a
bad storm, I tought. Some prayers are with the You're like, oh,
thanks thanks very much.

Speaker 1 (41:58):
But on that note, actually will will the girls? The
Irish girls obviously beat us in the last round of
WXV and since then they had the draw for the
World Cup. So that was last week which we haven't
been able to speak about since. And we have been
drawn in New Zealand's pool now Ireland. Ireland's fucking phenomenal

(42:20):
form got them a really good level to be drawn
for the World Cup. So who hang on, who's the
other teams? We have? You sent it to me?

Speaker 2 (42:30):
I haven't, Yeah, I sent it to you. And now
I'm trying to open it up here.

Speaker 1 (42:35):
But another going round with what kind of all the
random pictures in in once but's great, like it's like
twenty fourteen again the fucking like Ireland in New Zealand's
pool and after being them this year, like oh Jesus,

(42:58):
like Japan and Spain now bear in mind, well it's funny.
Japan was in our in our pool in twenty seventeen
and they've fucking nearly they nearly beat us, like they

(43:19):
came very well prepared. Spain we only fucking crawled through
against last year. But like the trajectory that Ireland is on,
they have potential to top that pool. I'm just excited
for them and and and see how the year goes.
It's funny now because I rode about it today in

(43:40):
my Rugby Pass column, like the domestic leagues and and
and players going back to their domestic leagues and back
to playing for their clubs, whether it's in their own
home or abroad. You just like you just need fucking
game time and good quality game time and just rugby rugby,
rugby rugby. It's going to be a great year. Like

(44:03):
you know what, everyone fucking nipping at each other's heels.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
I'm just looking at here. Ireland actually ranked sixth right now.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
Their their world ranking went up.

Speaker 2 (44:14):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I said, like they're listen to this.
This for a lineup. So obviously Canada are the dark
horses versus the men's team. Canada are at number two,
England number one, obviously New Zealand number three, Frans number four,
Australia five, Ireland six. Do you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (44:28):
That's yeah, it's funny. In the Australia. I have gone above
Ireland actually because I think Ireland are better than them
at the moment. We obviously beat them recently, but Australia
did well actually to win w x V two. Because
Scotland will be very disappointed. They will have the Australia
have been kind of inconsistent and seeing that Australia lost

(44:49):
to Ireland that say Scotland were kind of licking their
lips open to win w x V two bought fair
play to aus Australia.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
I don't know. Can you explain this to me? Because
they have it done in numbers and like the band
band number one and that is the four and whatever,
and then we have Ireland six, Scotland seven, Italy eight,
USA nine, Wales ten, Japan eleven, South Africa twelve, Spain
thirteen some fifteen feet seventeen, Brazil forty two? What what happened?

(45:20):
What happened to all the rankings of any teams in between?
Like why are in Brazil not eighteen? Like where there was.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
A South American qualifier? Sorry, there was an American American
America's qualifier, right, which didn't include USA and Canada because
they were already in pac four, which is another international company.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
Okay, so with that, like Hawaii, you know, Hawaii is
the part of Sorry Americas, you're right, so that South
America our Argentina not in this.

Speaker 1 (45:55):
I listen to this. Argentina have never played a men's
fifteenth game, of round.

Speaker 2 (46:02):
Sorry I beg your pardon. What the actual bloody if.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
I couldn't agree more to they've got a sevens team
who are good, but it's hilarious, Like I like, yeah,
I wouldn't even get into it, but a play here
with an Argentinian girl who plays sevens or played sevens
for Argentina and I was saying the turn. I was like,
where's fifteens and she was like there is no fifteen's team?

Speaker 2 (46:30):
Like does your guy have a because your auguy has it.
You know, they have a rugby team, you know, they
like Chile have a rugby team.

Speaker 1 (46:38):
Actually, but but it's funny that Brazil have qualified because
Colombia are Actually Colombia would have been like they're probably
ranked above Brazil and Brazil won that qualifier. Brazil is
a very good sevens team and is good has good
rugby girls rugby there. But it's kind of crazy because

(47:01):
Columbia would have Remember Columbia was in Ireland's group last Yeah,
so it's cool like having kind of different teams and it,
you know, it got a bit, it got a bit
of those portical vibes. You know, everyone was like so
excited watching Portugal in the men's World Cups. So now
you get to see like different countries represent themselves in rugby.

(47:21):
But Kazakhstan is a women's teams in and around. Oh yeah,
they were in Ireland.

Speaker 2 (47:27):
They have to be hard as nails, different kask extent.
They have to be hard because they're hard.

Speaker 1 (47:32):
People, yes, and because as a military, like a lot
of those people would have a lot of those players
would have spent time like through conscription in the conscription, Yes,
in the military as well, so they are tough as
fucking nails. But Bunny, and it's again, it's something I
wrote about recently, do you know all all the Tier one,

(47:55):
Like we think that rugby is so important here in rugby.
Rugby doesn't mean as much anywhere else, but like rugby
is everything to like people in Canada Earth people in Kazakhstan, Yes,
Canada as well, like places where you'd never you know,
because they're not one of the world ranked teams up high.

(48:16):
The grassroots game is so strong there and rugby means
so much to them, Like it's like Georgia, you know,
and like other places like that. They just adore rugby
and we're here at the top being.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
Like, oh yeah, you know, like, my god, it's I wonder,
I wonder sometimes they remember reading about the history of
Romanian rugby and being one of the oldest rugby nations
in the world. Yeah, they were completely you know, they
were completely elbowed out because you know, the they are
a few in the British, the British you know, establishment

(48:54):
of Rugby World Rugby as was in the early Doors
nineteen twenty ninety ten kind of department. They were no,
that's way too far, that's Eastern Europe. We're having nothing
to do with that. So they were never invited, you know,
for test games or anything like that. But they had,
you know, had an unbelievable great early history and does

(49:14):
a if anybody wants to search this like a twenty
minute video kind of outlining the you know, sliding doors,
a sliding doors moment for Romanian rugby that had had
back in you know, the thirties, you know, the twenties
and thirties. Had they had gotten a bit more love
from the other unions, they'd probably be a powerhouse right now.

Speaker 1 (49:38):
Definitely, definitely, and not and and Georgia as well.

Speaker 2 (49:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but they just because I mean, you
naturally very strong people, especially from Georgia and stuff like that.
You know, as Graham Brown described him, a lot of
very square people. You thought it was one of the
best descriptions of people. They're very square.

Speaker 1 (50:00):
Yeah, Jesus, fucking no fun tattling square people. No, I
have a quick question. How many minutes in the podcast
are we now?

Speaker 2 (50:09):
We're bout and I think we've done about an hour.
We've about an hour.

Speaker 1 (50:12):
Okay before we finish now, because obviously we're aiming for
about an hour. Yeah, it has taken a while. But
can we talk about Antony Punt?

Speaker 2 (50:23):
Oh Jesus Christ, I knew it.

Speaker 1 (50:25):
I knew it.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
You want to talk about that pass? It's like his
every move.

Speaker 1 (50:30):
I actually I was like, I was like, I can't
wait to do the podcast night so I can just
talk about so at least I was able to get
through all the other news first before we got him, right,
there was that pass, but we didn't speak last week.
He came on last week and scored three trialies and

(50:50):
twelve minutes or something like that.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and he's just ripping the ball off people,
and he's monster and that's out of the way, and it's.

Speaker 1 (50:57):
What is I'm trying to get over my obsession. I'm trying.
I'm like, I'm you know, I'm doing mindful nets. I'm
you know, self talk, trying to get myself out of this.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
Like I went for I went for for dry needling
and everything to get get off, to get off the Atlanta.
I'm thinking of taking ozempic to see if the doctor
will give me ozempic to just dampen my will to
love and and all the things. And again, I like,

(51:34):
I say this all the time. I can't buy the
hype on most things, but just the hype around this
guy is like what are you doing? Then? What are
you doing?

Speaker 1 (51:42):
It's not the hype because it's the hype that's making
me want to distance myself.

Speaker 2 (51:46):
Yes, yeah, yeah, me too from feeling obsessed.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
And then he comes on and plays rugby and I
I'm like drooling and and like week at the knees,
and I feel like I'm like, you know, I don't know,
just it's an outer body experience watching him as if
this was rugby heaven.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
Yeah, it's teenager Like you're like, he's.

Speaker 1 (52:11):
The angel, he is the rugby angel that.

Speaker 2 (52:13):
You're you're literally your front row. Fifteen year old self
is looking at whatever boy band all in one person,
playing the thing you love to play and talk about.
It's the most ridiculous. And he's doing things and that,
oh he has the cheat coach. There's no cheat cover
with him. He's literally playing in another fucking dimension. There's

(52:35):
no ifans. And but this guy is neo from the matrix.
He's whatever he is. He's like seven steps ahead. It's
not one too, He's seven steps ahead of everybody, you
know what I mean. And then even when he gets
into the rough and tumble, it's not like he's a
really good you know, a really evasive runner or whatever.
He's actually just lutlessly strong as well.

Speaker 1 (52:58):
Oh my god, yeah.

Speaker 2 (53:01):
I sorry, I just and something just popped into my head.
And I know he's unbelievable pastors of the of the
the But if anybody, if anybody just wants to watch
some of the maddest skills ever on Instagram, just just
look for Quaid Cooper. Right. He did a pass that
it defies everything. It just defies everything. Somebody put it

(53:24):
up some he's being in Japan at the minute. Somebody
put up He goes try this pass and he's looking
at the camera and there's maybe a guy thirty meters
behind him on a pitch and it's just a training
pitch or whatever, and he throws you know how you
throw a reverse pass, but he's watching the camera and
he throws it. Jeez, I can't even fully describe this.
He throws it over his head as a reverse pass

(53:45):
with the accuracy of a fucking bullet. Like if you
could throw it correctly, like the proper forward stands forward
and swing it and pass it with this much accuracy
and this much power, you'll be delighted with yourself. And
he did this. I'll I'll find it and send it. Yet,
I'll post it in my story. It just doesn't make
sense this, And he's got ridiculous skills. It's just funny

(54:07):
to watch. He's got the most ridiculous skills, but still
nothing touches what DuPont is that? Like, it's just do
you know what this is? The Anton DuPont? No, Anton,
it's DuPont McNulty's podcast. That's what we should name it.
Do podcasts, Yeah, the do podcast.

Speaker 1 (54:25):
Yeah, it's podcasts. Was that what I call it? Doesn't
sound as good as I said the first time.

Speaker 2 (54:31):
It was the spontaneity of the last one. I think,
to be fair, both us a roar and laugh, and
it was very good. But now it's actually become factual.
It's not it's not not a pipe dream anymore. This
is the DO podcast.

Speaker 1 (54:43):
And I and I like, I get a bit embarrassed.
Then afterwards, I'm like, maybe we were we were over reacting.
And then he turns around just and just tops it again.
So we'll see what he gets up to this week.
I can't remember who they're playing, but.

Speaker 2 (54:57):
I would. I don't urge anybody to get into the
top fourteen. I can't. I don't get to see as
much of it I can, but I can watch extended
highlights on TikTok and stuff like that, so you get
like seven or eight minutes after the you know, after
the weekend. But these props and everything are taken off
into space and stuff, and fuck, it's just the most
fun looking rugby. It's like you can see why lads

(55:18):
will go there to play it and make good money.
Now you will play thirty odd games, you know, especially
if you're you know, an international player. Somewhere else they
will be This.

Speaker 1 (55:28):
Is the other point I was gonna make you. Sorry
to cut across you, but while you're talking about the
fucking the length of the season, the seasons are so
fucking tough. But how many home games do they play
in a year? I'm not sure. I must do the
actual mats and a boss the other night when I
was sitting down just about it into the match.

Speaker 2 (55:50):
Yes, I had more questions on this for you. This
is an unbelievable fact. This is if you, if you
were a promoter, this is the dream band to have. Please.

Speaker 1 (56:02):
So anyone who studied French knows that French numbers are
very difficult to learn and to say. And I've struggled
with them forever because when you get to hang on
the okay, sixty is swassant, seventy is swassant di so sixty.

Speaker 2 (56:21):
Ten right, okay.

Speaker 1 (56:25):
So then when you say seventy five, for example, it's
swassant cans sixty fifteen okay, Christ. And I struggled because
of mathematics as well, because mathematics for me is very
And then it's eighty right, and it's gava, which is
four twenties.

Speaker 2 (56:43):
Okay, Jesus Christ.

Speaker 1 (56:45):
When you want to say ninety, it's gat and these
four twenties ten. Okay, you see where I'm going with
this here now because the answer the other night said
they look gat the attendance and she said, gih film
which is sold out all all like tickets sales, closed

(57:08):
ticket sales or solo lah gat Cover says yem what
I was like, fox like hang.

Speaker 2 (57:24):
On, like break it down for us, break it down?
What christ gat cover?

Speaker 1 (57:33):
Four twenties four twenties sixteenth time? So what.

Speaker 2 (57:42):
Friendship I've ever heard in my life?

Speaker 1 (57:44):
Like the nine next time that they have sold out
the stadium in all in a roll?

Speaker 2 (57:55):
No Gara must be king at the moment of larachelle
mm hmmm, yeah, what does go on? Sorry?

Speaker 1 (58:03):
Ninety six started a lot a long time before he
came on board. As well those games, which which is
huge credit to the club. It's also a testament to
the fact that keeping your stadium small is a good
idea because I've spoken on as well about the supply
and demand of the tickets and and the fact that
there's there are like gold dust given the number of fans,

(58:30):
the number of people who love large like there was
how many tens of thousands of people on the port
when you know when the team came back after winning
the Heineken Cup. All those people don't fit in the stadium.
Do you know it's not just one set of fans
it is. It's obviously a lot of season tickets and
people are very very lucky, a fifteen year waiting list

(58:51):
to get a season ticket, flowers or something. Yeah, it
is nuts. And I think that it's someone told me
and mcna is that I'm meeting there often. He said
that he thinks that the one hundredth match is going
to be when to lose.

Speaker 2 (59:09):
Come to town class. It's here class, how many? How many?
What's the attendance? What's the best?

Speaker 1 (59:20):
Let me google stad master of the floor, and I
love the announcer like so Franks eighty sixteen thou seven hundred.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
Okay, that's sixteen thousand, seven hundred is still fine by
ninety six because that's one point six million tickets. So
that's right. So what's an average ticket? They start probably
school school, kidd, what fifteen twelve euro up to probably

(59:59):
one hundred euro.

Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
I actually have no idea.

Speaker 2 (01:00:03):
Let's do which is, let's just let's just for the crack.
Let's say your average ticket is twenty five euro, which
is insane. But it's let's just say twenty five euro.
That's forty million in just ticket sales. Forty million in
ticket sales, before you sell a jersey, before you do

(01:00:23):
any advertising, before you do any teleywrites, Oh my god,
before you do any special deals with branding. Oh my god. Yeah.
That's that's that's a high yielding, high performing business right there.
That's for given the size of the area. As you said,
it's not a big, big place.

Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
Like, yeah, there's more. There's so much more largell than
I could get into, but I'll say it for another time,
Like just how the club and everything is so interesting,
very French obviously, but yeah, that was the story of
the French numbers of the weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:01:03):
I'm missing on. Yeah, I would refuse to actually count.
I'd start inventing my own nies. Yeah, I'd start inventing
my own numbers. That's that's just silly. Let's be honest.
Now that they've had the metric system for a long time,
they know just count. Just come up with a new word.
Don't be adding and taking off and no, no more

(01:01:25):
this eighty plus sixteen shit, Jesus Christ, why not and
where why does sixty get its own number. Why does
eighty get its own number?

Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
Like what getshone? Number? Eighty is four twenty.

Speaker 2 (01:01:36):
Ah for fox s and sixty gets its own number.

Speaker 1 (01:01:38):
Though sixty gets its own number.

Speaker 2 (01:01:40):
Yeah, I'm going to show you something that will blow
your mind. How do Samerians used to count on their fingers? After?
After this when we when we end it's something blew
my mind. The other day and this is my five
year old showed me how to count to a dozen
on one hand. Oh yeah, yeah, how to count to
a dozen on one and it was very interesting. But

(01:02:04):
this has been educational class to know that, because I
could not figure out why Brazil but forty seventh were
thrown in the bottom there just to be eaten alive
by Samoa and Vegi. But look at it looks that
makes perfect sense, other than maybe a Columbia got done
for drugs. Who knows? That's just me being terrible? Why
am I being terrible to poor Columbia? Godeotype one stereotype

(01:02:27):
Tom for fox sake?

Speaker 1 (01:02:30):
But the Brazil again, like I said, they've got good
sevens players and they wouldn't have a lot of test
games in order to up their ranking, so they're definitely
better than what the ranking suggests.

Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
Okay, okay, but still forty seven and the next one
then is seventeen, Like shit, yeah right. This has been
This has been another two podcast unfortunately, but slash with
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