NRL 2025 | Bye bye top 4?

That one hurt!!!

The boys review a heartbreaking loss to the Dolphins and give their thoughts on some of the contentious moments. Then they share their Wahly M points for the week and discuss whether the top 4 dream is over.

The it's looking forward to this weekend's match against the Bulldogs - a fellow top four team. John shares his 'Dream Team' of Warriors and Bulldogs players this weekend and the boys give their thoughts whether the Wahs can get their season back on track with a win.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, and welcome to another episode of
The Catch Warriors. Here we are again. I'm one of
your hosts, Richard the Bend, Where can conductor Letty. I'm
joined us always by my good mate John le Ron. John.
We're going to here to to talk about our beloved
Warriors and their heartbreaking, heartbreaking loss on the weekend. So

(00:38):
dolphins firstly, John, how I mate, looks like you got
a bit of a change of scenery and a secretly
somewhere somewhere el.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah, mate, I'm good mate. I'm somewhere in New Zealand
in a hotel room.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
So that's what.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
There's no there's no Warriors ben in the background, but no,
I'm good.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Hopefully that the internet here, you know, if she lasts,
so that.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Everyone can hear me, hear me probably with some technical
issues of late, but there's some there might be some
internet issues, so hopefully I'm apologizing in advance, put it
that way.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
But I'm good, mate.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Just a way for work, but yeah, I'm still going
to be here and I'm ready to get into this because,
like you said, that was a big heartbreaking loss and
the way I mean the way it happened as well,
kind of kind of give you kind of gives you
little bits of memories of what happened with the Knights,
what we did to the Knights.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah. Yeah, you know, you only got so many gear
our jail free cards you can play this season, and
unfortunately one got kind of played against us on the
weekend against the Dolphins as we went down twenty to
eighteen uh eight, and then yeah, on Friday night at
Mount Smart. So we sort of touched on last week

(01:47):
about Mount Smart and you know that the Warriors formed
there and how that was struggling. I think they've lost
about four games of this season, so it's real, real
different different territory for us as Warriors fans. You know,
we used to calling that the Fortress and that's the
place to go. But yeah, I mean it's pretty plenty
of breakdown about the game. Obviously started off pretty well

(02:08):
for the Dolphins. They went over early. He'll be fun
with was having an absolute field day. I think I
saw he'd run for about one hundred and thirty meters
before he went off with her really yeah, and twenty
and twenty minutes before he went off with his saw hamstrung.
So and we talked about him last week, you know
about how he was. You know, the Warriors could do
it with him, so it wouldn't have been wouldn't have
been a bad thing, bad thing at all. But yeah, no,

(02:32):
I mean what what what what? What went wrong for
you on the night? John?

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:39):
The thing is, I don't know, if I'll say a
lot went wrong. I just think that they you know,
they struggled to put a team out there. You know,
he had pretty lussick, you know, and Tomato Martin on
the bench, you know, I mean not to Mado Martins
on the been sorry because he ended up starting, but
originally I think real lussick, and they had that they

(02:59):
had to bring a lot of you know, reserve reserve
graders and and I remember they made it one last
change I can't remember. It was was Eddie Era Maya, Right,
he's the one that came in the gain, yes, to
make his debut.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
So like I think that considering you know what the
Warriors you know, were up against in terms of you know,
all the injuries, I think they did actually did a
pretty good job. And you know, to the point where
they're playing a team that's in the top eight, whether
they ate or not they're still in the top eight,
and also the fact that they ustually nearly beat them,
and I thought they were gonna be and I thought

(03:31):
we had the game in the bag.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
I honestly thought we had the game in the bag.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Even though they were attacking, you know, doing that last
minute and the last minute attack, I honestly thought we
still had the game in the bag. And I was
really like surprised when they just spread the ball out.
I didn't realize that an overlap. I just thought we
had them more covered because it looked like an attack
where they were just throwing the ball and Hope it wasn't,
you know, it was just like in Hope, I thought
we had them more covered. But looking back at the replay,

(03:55):
you know, we're obviously a man down with liquor. He
was lying on the ground injured, and they didn't stop
the play, but they keep going. And I just when
I when he Osaka went over with that try, I
was just like, what the heck?

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Why?

Speaker 3 (04:09):
No, this was the game.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
This was supposed to be the game to bring our
campaign back on track, to keep us three points ahead
of the Panthers, to keep us four points ahead of
the Broncos, and you know, and keep our top four
hopes really really, you know, you know, not well strong,
keep them, keep them strong. But now our top four
hopes are hanging by a thread. And honestly we're going

(04:37):
up against the Bulldogs, which is no easy easy task,
no easy feet there. And if we slipped this one,
you know, our top four hopes, you know, I don't.
We had to get back in, We had to get
back up there.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
What are you reckon?

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah, right, much the same, you know, And the way
we're playing, we're just sort of we're missing, we're missing
some of the each we had. You're in the state
in Obviously the Indrews haven helped, you know, two pretty
key players and Mitch Bunny. I kept in and looked
met half in particular halfback, but you know, we Yeah,
this was a real sort of chopping change team. And

(05:14):
considering you know, I think when you looked around the
park one of seventeen, you couldn't really say anyone had
a big game as such. You know, I thought there
was some really good performances. So we've touched on throughout,
I'm sure, but once again, I think Roger ran for
the second most meters of a winger and the inner
our era I think like three hundred and twenty meters
or something like that, So I mean his form. He's

(05:36):
he's now run for two hundred and fifty plus meters
four games in a row, which is pretty unheard of
for a winger. So he is just he's in some
absolute incredible form. Every time he touched the ball, he
was breaking tack. It was just looking slippery. So it's
cool to see him him playing so well, especially after
sort of the last season when he was in the
centers and not as dominant, and then we obviously had years.

(05:59):
I like the sort of two he he came in
in the end, he started and in the in the
full beat Jersey and did a more than admirable job. God,
he was getting smeshed around a little bit, like every
time he got the ball, he was some big pets
put on him, but he'd get back up chance went
to the centers. I thought he had he had a
really good game, was really solid on defense. He was

(06:19):
on leftage and Pompey had put out to the right edge.
Mary Marden came in at six for Harris to Vida,
and you know, he looked more than come from the position.
Every time he sort of he's a really good good
to see him running the ball a lot, you know,
I thought he I think he ran for one hundred
meters and every time he touched the ball he was
looking like he was going to break the line. I

(06:41):
think he had one or two line breaks as well.
And then Sam Healy as well at number nine. So
it was it was a completely new spine pretty much
from what we'd start the season of that. You know,
I saw someone joking around about thanks New South Wales
Cup for his spine, because it generally was, you know,
the New South Wales Cup spying for the first probably
teen games of the season. I mean that seem herely gosh,

(07:01):
he's he's he's excited to watch and and I know
you've you've been singing his praises and talking a lot
about whether we can find a spot for him. Obviously
he's not on the team. He isn't the team again
this week, yep, because wait, Egan still out. So that's
good to see. But we still have a few a
few a few Christian marks. But back to the game,

(07:22):
there was there was a lot happening in that sort
of final final ten minutes in particular. You know, it
was great to see you know, a few players or
play them back and perform down in particular. But I
did want to talk about Yeah, first, that last sort
of five minutes, we had a chance to shot a
goal which would have put us up by four points.

(07:42):
We didn't take it, kicked to the corner, and then
we just got a little bit complacent. We ran it
and got tackled on the last on the with about
three minutes to go, and it's just can't do that
in the n RL, the way the game is. And
then unfortunately we said we gave away a penalty. They
pick their way through and as you said, they meant
to get over. But were you surprised to say they're

(08:05):
not taking the two considering how sort of conservative we
have seen this Warrior's team under Andrew Webster.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yes, yes, and no.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
I mean first, I mean I when Sam Healy took
that hit you know, before the penalty, after when he
took that head you know, and the fifth tech and
didn't kick or anything. I mean, most teams when there's
only a few minutes to go, they didn't do that
because they they're worried they're going to kick the ball dead,
you know, and stuff like that, and then like the
team will have a seven seven set start from the

(08:34):
twenty midle lines. So I think that's just quite common,
and then they try to keep them down there. But
in terms of your question of the penalty, I was
quite surprised he didn't take it. I just thought that,
you know, having that sort of four point buffer, I
know it's not a converted try sort of buffer, but
the fact is that if we for some reason, if
they got a penalty down now end, they know that

(08:54):
they would need more than just a penalty, so the
would need to go for the try.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
So I just thought that that would have been the
better option. And plus, you know, waste a bit of
time as well.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
I know, I'm sure they were you know, called the
stop the clock, you know, while he was taking the
taking that kick. But the thing is is that you know,
get the ball back from the team. I'm sure I'm
sure the Titans would have you know, sorry, not the Titans,
the Dolphins would have done a short kickoff, et cetera. However,
I still think that, yeah, we should have taken the
two points. So I was surprised. I just thought in

(09:24):
the scheme of things, four points, you know, which means
four points means they have to go for the try,
that they've got no choice but to go for the try,
And I thought that would have been the better option,
if you know, even if we gave away appenalty down
our end where they don't have a chance to tie
it up.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
So I thought that would have been the better option.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
I mean, I know, in the end of the day
they didn't score a try, but in terms of right
there at that moment, I thought that the thinking was, like,
you know, they should have gone for the four point buffer.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
What about yourself?

Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yeah, I thought it's a hard one day because if
I mean, obviously, if it's six points, you're gonna you're
definitely gonna take that. But when it is only four points,
you know, and there's still the rest of you take there,
and then they go and score a computer try, which
you know could have very easily happened as well, so
you sort of understand. But yeah, I think there was
more of the fact they didn't take the two points

(10:11):
there and then and then they kind of just played
a bit complacent in the in the final few minutes,
and as you said, they weren't looking like that. You know,
they were just sort of taking the tackle on the
last and and you know, like you could have put
a little grubb through through and and and force forced
forced to try you know, if it's forced to line
drop out or you know, obviously could have been a

(10:32):
try to us. So it was just yeah, when I
saw when I saw that, I was like, oh, I
don't want to don't want to come back and have that. Yeah,
And I mean, who knows, you know, they could have
scored the try and converted that. You know, maybe if
the if if it was a bit different, if the
pressure wasn't was on, maybe they would have you kid
a little bit more about the kick. But yeah, just

(10:53):
just a frustrating one and really has put the Warriors
finals chances sort of a question mark for them, that's
for sure. I did mentioned before about about Dallen sort
of playing himself into form. You know, I sort a
couple of tries. Had had one very memorable try saber
when he was sort of down on his knees and
and and and managed to sneak a little and to
sit there. You've obviously been sort of you know, throwing

(11:16):
throwing your your boxing gloves down in the last few.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
Weeks, coming on, what is this crap?

Speaker 2 (11:22):
I mean, I have not, I have not what what
is what is why of people thinking that I'm actually
throwing hated I'm not. I'm not at all. I'm just
giving genuine feedback. Come on throwing the boxing gloves.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
This is this is your chance to give some feedback.
Were you happy to see him looking like he was
sort of, you know, getting back to his best.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
I don't know if he was back to his best.
He was, he had a good game.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
I'm not gonna go back to his best, but yeah,
I think it was a lot It was a decent
game from he played. He was a lot better a
few and a few you know, still some defensive issues there,
but it was a lot better. Don't get me wrong.
He was a lot better thought, and I'm happy for him.
So yeah, I'm happy for him. And you know, he's
got a couple of tries as well, and yeah, like

(12:04):
that that that that intercept where you know he's on
his knees when he caught that. I thought it was
Also it was amazing because when it actually happened live,
I thought that they actually got the poor and they
were going to score I actually thought that's what happened.
You know, I just didn't even see him do that.
So he's but sneaky there and he got it. So
good on him, and I mean, well it may not
have been like, you know, a big superb performance, I'm
sure that it would give him a big boost for

(12:26):
you know, confident boot confidence boosts for him, because that's
what he needs right now.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
He needs that.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
And yeah, so good good for him. And definitely not
and again I was not throwing I've not never thrown
boxing gloves at him. I just think that I just
you know, he's he hasn't He's been out of form,
and and that's all I've been saying is that he's
been out of form and that I think that there
are players there that should be ahead of him, you know,
in terms of in terms of form. That's what I've

(12:51):
been saying. So and plus I think a lot of
other people were saying the same thing. So we're all
throwing boxing gloves at him.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
I guess.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
I don't know what people on this on this channel think.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
On this channel, even the even the followers and stuff
they put communis think I'm the ones that I'm the
one that's getting angry at the players.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
I'm not.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
I don't know where this is coming from.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
It's just because you love a hot take and people, Yeah,
you're not afraid to you're not afraid to share. You
share your opinion and we get there. People like that
in the world yep, because everyone, everyone teficitally has an
opinion on the wide stuff, so ourselves included.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
I mean, what do you think of what do you
think of Dylan? I mean, like, did you think that
you know, like you know, it was just what he needed.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
That performance was just what he needed to just to
maybe you know, give him that sort of glimpse of
hope to think that he can get back to his best.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
Yeah. Absolutely, yeah, I think you know, he's caored a
couple of tries and and you know, like the first
one in particular, it was a sort of classic classic
Dellan finished, you know from what we saw in twenty
twenty three with him doing the big the big dive
and you know, like slamming the ball down while the
while the rest was bodies out. So yeah, that was
really good, I think. Yeah. I mean the right Edge

(13:59):
was a little bit I think as soon as Herbie
went off, it kind of saved a few of the
troubles that it could have been a long night for
the Warriors fans if Whobid sat on because you know
that break that he'd made, he just he just palmed
pompy off and and and you know he ran fifty
meters and then to his hemmy and if he passes
to the hammer outside him, he would have the ham

(14:23):
would have scored. But obviously he wasn't thinking about that
at the time. And the try that Hubi scored it
was Delan did come in. But you know I put
pomp yeah, yeah, I mean, yeah, he was just following,
following what, you know, like what the men inside him
had done. So and if he had made a tech
it would have been you know, a tice savor.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
But and this is just like being real about it again,
like you know, going with Delan and going and going
about fair criticism like in that instance. You know, there
are a lot of people when they actually happened, a
lot of people on social media. I remember happening live
at the time saying oh deln this, Dellan this, They're going, yeah,
going at him. But the thing is, you know, you know, honestly,
it wasn't his fault. He had no choice but to
go for the inside man because he was unmarked, so

(15:03):
he had no choice. So you can't blame Dellan for that.
So that's what happened at the time. So that's what
happened sometimes, but people don't see that. People choose not
to see it. They remember how we spoke about this
that sometimes people just see the last the last play
of the last the last element of that play, and
then it's always in the up Dellen there because he's

(15:23):
the winger. So that's what that's all people see sometimes
and they just they just blame him. But that was
that was unfair. He the center was unmarked, so he
had no choice but to go in. But I was
gonna ask you because yeah, because you know he'll be
fine with I mean, do you honestly, I know you
sort of alluded to it already, But do you think
if he had stayed on it could have been a much, much,
much harder night.

Speaker 3 (15:44):
For that right age?

Speaker 1 (15:46):
Yeah? I do, I do, man, Yeah, Yeah. So he
ran for one hundred and twenty nine meters and I
think it was eighteen minutes, eighteen post content meters, three
line breaks. He had five breaks in eighteen minutes. Yeah,
around an offload in a try. So yeah, that was yeah,

(16:12):
just the way he was playing. You know, he was
in there, he was in that mode, and we just
didn't look like we had much too much answer to
in Yeah, so it could have been. Yeah, I mean,
we may have just figured it out, but you know,
the fact you're looking at figgers like that. He was
on track to run for one hundred and one hundred

(16:33):
and no sorry about five hundred meters.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yeah, every kid playing one hundred, one hundred and twenty
nine meters in eighteen minutes is crazy. But just for
everyone who's listening or watching right now, last week, we
did we we we we asked the question, you know, like,
if you could choose any NRL back in the any
beck in the NRL outside back, who.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
Would you choose? And Richard XU said, who'll be fun with?

Speaker 2 (16:58):
This is before the game started, he said herb be
Fumor And for the reasons he gave was because of
the fact that he can break the line really easily,
got a strong fend on him and it's just a
triy screen machine. And I mean I guess that that
eighteen minutes the was on just proved your point about
how he would be awesome, you know, the worries. I mean,
I know sometimes people don't always fit at student clubs,

(17:20):
but I can see why, now, you know, I mean
always I agreed with you, but that just proves more
your point is why he would be a good addition
to any club center.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yeah, oh yeah, I mean he's one of one of us,
not the best censors in the game.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
Yeah, I think.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
Sorry, from the comments we got, you know, a few
people sitting in some love sort of the likes of
you know, I fit the trail's way, Stephen Cridon's name
came up. De Clomax. You know, I mean, you're taking
any of those players on their day. But yeah, Herby
was my choice, so I'll stick.

Speaker 3 (17:56):
But nice.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
There was obviously a debutante coming off the being shitty?
Am I toever? Did you like what you saw from him? Gouse?
He's a He's as a specimen, isn't he. He's a big,
big boy. I'm looking forward to seeing a bit more
from him playing than that any of our next few years.
But yeah, do you like what you saw from him? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (18:14):
From from the from this, you know it was it
wasn't a big amount, you know, of tiny spent on
the field. But I mean the time I did this
a year and you know, he's been they've been brewing
him for this moment. They've been brewing him for this moment.
And I guess, well, I guess, you know, just to
comment on his performance, because it wasn't he was. I mean,
I don't know how long he spent on exactly, but
I didn't see a lot there in first grade. But

(18:37):
just the whole fact that we're just bringing all these
young guys and you know, these guys are our future.
And I know we talk about that a lot about
the future because the future kids that keep on coming
into first grade, they keep on showing us they've got
the goods and you know, and that's why I'm loving
the fact that we've got the death Imagine imagine even
last year or the you know, seasons before, if we

(18:58):
had this much injury.

Speaker 3 (18:59):
So and look how many injuries we've got.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
We lost our star half back, we lost our star
front where you know, New South Wales started state of Origin,
starting starting front rower and captain, and you know, we
keep losing players. I mean, even Jacob Laban, he's gone
up from that game we lost them for a broken league.

Speaker 3 (19:17):
It was announced today that he.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
He's out for what six weeks, and caffis he only
got a two week suspension, which is stupid and crazy.
I mean, he's out for six weeks, but you know,
only gets two weeks from it. Look, look, it looked
it looked really bad at the time when he did it.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
So yeah, it was it was one of those ones
where it was on his SII like I mean, it
was just yeah, diving at leagues late, like Laban was
going nowhere CONFUSI has got a record, So yeah, I'm
surprised he only got two weeks and I actually quite
quite few expects. And it sounds like the clubs as well,
so hopefully they they do sort of ask some questions

(19:53):
and try to hold someone into account for that, because
you know, you got you got that sort of thing happening,
and yeah, someone only get in two weeks for it,
and then well.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
They should they should put the pressure on him because
I mean, look look at what happened with the Panthers trainer.
I mean, you know that was that was pretty pretty bad.
I mean, I don't know if he did it on
purpose or not, but it looked pretty bad. And when
you watch it over and over again, you see him
do a little side step when he gets closer to
Jaden Campbell. But he puts his hand up as his
apology and apologizes. And I know that Ivan Cleary apologized

(20:26):
in his press conference, but still it was really bad.
And the Panthers have a really big history of their
trainers doing something. You know, some some mishaps there, but
they got they got fined fifty dollars for it, and
he's got suspended for five week five rounds, the trainer.
But anyway, the point I'm trying to make is that
Phil Gould has has come out saying that the reason

(20:46):
that he reckons the n RAL came out and gave
that harsh penalty due to social media pressure because everyone's
going at you know, all the all the reporters are
going at them, all the all the fans are going
at them. And what do you, I mean, do you
reckon that's the case or do you reckon that you know,
he it was just because he's just genuinely he should
have been suspended five weeks.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
Ah, Yeah, I don't know. I mean, you think about
stuff that's happened in the past, and you know there
was that the water bottles in the Cowboys game. I
think the two trainers, the two trainer has only got
a game each or something like that, you know, but
I mean, yeah, he like surely, like it's this muscle
memory when you're when you're a trainer, you know, like

(21:31):
you just know not to run on the field in
that situation, like you're always running down the sideline. Yeah,
so I think it's it's it's just a precedent thing.
You know that there obviously made it quite an extreme
thing to be like this is this has happened, and
like is this something in the rules where like the
reef could have been like actually, now we're going to

(21:52):
give you appeal, you know, like appealing in front of
the post for it or something like that. I think
I don't think there's a rotten rule, but like, surely
it's here's the power to do it, right, Yeah, surely it's.
I mean it's obviously like a legal to do it.
So the fact that the rests like okay, well like yeah,
I don't know, Like I mean it probably would have
been someone would have kicked up a fuss if that
had happened, But yeah, you know, just from yeah, I

(22:13):
mean the reaction to it's pretty been pretty funny, and
then I wouldn't. I mean, the funny thing about it
is that it's sort of taken away the shine off
probably one of the greatest game winning plays all, you know,
like clear that that field goal. Honestly, like what can
you do right to take the pass from like twenty

(22:34):
meters away? He had to step back, he actually step
back into the forty and being kept out like it
must be so hard to do, like not having the momentum,
and he nailed it, you know, like it went over
by ten ten meters, like he's just yeah, so yeah,
you know.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
I felt so gutted for the Titans because obviously I
wanted them to win for us, you know, worries, Yeah, yeah,
would been greatful Warriors. But anyway, the whole the whole
reasons that we got away from this a bit. But
the whole reason I was bringing that up is because
maybe the Warriors, you know, should be putting pressure on
the NRL to get a harsher penalty on CONFUSI That's
that's the whole reason why I brought that up. But

(23:14):
obviously that's a whole other conversation as well, because it
was just a big interesting topic for this this week.
And yeah, so I mean I hope the Warriors do
put pressure on and then something gets changed, because that's
just rubbish. He's gonna be up for six weeks when
you know, like you said, it was unnecessary, it looked dangerous,
and well it was dangerous. It was dangerous, and he's
broken his leg. But you know, while he's while he's

(23:36):
the victim out for six weeks, the guy that did
it he'll be back in two. So yeah, it just
looks a bit stupid to me.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
This. Yeah, I agree, I agree once again, the Warriors
can bloody you know, stretched out by the n L
surprisers there, just I suppose on on that game on
on a few I sort of mentioned before some of
these guys who you know came and came into the
team late or you know, like came in through injuries.

(24:07):
We do have a team this week, and I think
three of the three of the four back, but we
never runs foot. Yeah, what are your thoughts? Obviously, like
I know you love the other a bit of tour pecky,
did you see enough from chance to be comfortable that
you know, if we never run as fat and we
still need a center. You want to see Chance there
with a picky at the back, yep.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
I mean I thought Chance had a decent game, but
I don't know there's there was something that I don't know. Okay,
I don't know if you'll agree with me here, but
is he carrying a niggel or anythink because like this,
he didn't he doesn't seem a hundred percent. He didn't
seem one hundred percent to me, you know, just just
from body language, et cetera. I don't know if he
was one hundred percent. And I'm not saying that he

(24:50):
had a bad game or anything. I'm saying that is
he carrying something because he just didn't look one hundred
percent to me. But going forward, I mean, obviously they've
picked to a picky to stay at the back. I
think that's the way to go because even though he
did get you know, you get hit a few times,
like you mentioned before, he gets straight back up and
the difference between him and Chance and then this is no,

(25:11):
this is no. You know, I'm not having not having
a go at Chance here or anything, and not saying
that he's bad or anything like that, but in terms
of X factor. I think to a Picky has that
over Chance in terms of the ex factor, And that's
just being honest. And I think that with to a
Picky X factor and you know, he's got more of
a playmaker's ability, He's got the skills to do that,
and I think you need that in the spine and

(25:32):
your spine in terms of your fullback, and I think
he's the X factor and you need to expect a
full back, don't you. Chance did a good job. Don't
get me wrong, He did a good job. Always got
the ball, carry the ball well, made a lot of
meters as he did, you know, as he does every week.
But I don't even think he has the X factor
as there's two Picky does. And I think that's why
too Picky should be there. And I hope this remains

(25:53):
a permanent change now and you know, Chance, I still
have him in the team definitely. Just where is the
question whether it's on wing center.

Speaker 3 (26:03):
He wants to be the.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
Fallback, but I just think Webster is going to have
to just really just is let go, let go of
what he's been holding on for all the season, where
he's been just picking charms on because that's that's the
spot and maybe realize that. Okay, I've got to realize
that he needs to be there, because we've been saying
this all season. If he's not going to be at fallback,

(26:24):
you need to put him somewhere. You can't just put
someone there with that much X factor, that much you know,
play making ability, who does who does a great job
every week and put him back into reserve grade just
because you can't find a spot for him. You need
He's a kind of play you need to find a
spot for. So I'm hoping that this remains a permanent change.
Just I just don't know where Chance fits in terms

(26:47):
of center or winger. What are you reckon? Is he
still a center or winger? Where would you have him?

Speaker 1 (26:52):
Oh? Like I mean if if Allan's playing God thing
and him and Roger A Fat, I think it makes
small sense to Heaven center yep. And yeah, I think
on your thing, whether he like he was, I think
it was just you know, yeah, he's obviously he's not
going to have as much room just sort of you know,
you're not going to see him as much when he's

(27:12):
playing center as opposed to fallback. I think that may
have been more than more than anything, Like, he still
had some pretty good, pretty good sort of numbers. He
ran for ninety one meters, which is pretty good for
a center generally. As long as you're not he'll be
fun with. Defensively, it was sound. He had like four
tackle breaks, so it was still like, yeah, it was

(27:32):
still effort, you know, like he's always going to give
a hundred percent or one hundred and one hundred and
twenty percent, you know, and then he did so. But yeah,
to a picky was great. There was a few Christians
under the high ball, but he sort of managed to
sort of bounce back him, you know, like he made
I think he made two years under the high ball,
but just bounce back sort of really quickly. Afterwards. He

(27:54):
had a touch and I think both the tries, you know,
he was he was looking on the right there and
I think past the you know, like Dilid and past
to Pompey who then got the sort of crisis to
d w Z. So you're happy, I'm happy with him,
happy with them playing center. The other question is, yeah,
this is the Sam Heay thing when once where Egan's back,

(28:17):
do you think he needs to be on interchange because
ye god, I'm I'm leading that way and I don't
know how they do it, whether they have to marry
mother and him both on the interchange, because I think
it is still important to have a back. But he
just brings so much, so much expector, like he's he's
just such a joy to watch. He had, yeah, a
couple offloads, four tackle breaks, he ran for ninety eight

(28:40):
meters off eleven runs, video tackles as well, so he
was doing yeah, busy both sides of the ball. So yeah,
you'll you'll see you're on team Heay somewhere.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
I've always been on Sam sort of team Healey, and
I think that.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
It's I I'm not saying he's above wait Egan, I'm
just saying that again, he's some player that you should
need to get in the mix more often than not.
And I think, you know, having a spot from on
the bench would be the best way to go about it.
I mean last year we did the same thing. You know,
usually we with Wady and we usually we had Lussic.
You know, Yeah, we had Lustic on the bench quite
a lot and it kind of worked. I mean last

(29:17):
year wouldn't do with that well, but you know, like
then it did work in terms of the interchange, but
I think he needs to be there.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
I wouldn't.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
I'm not sure how you'd go about it, But you
know what do you go Sam Helly, Tomato Martin and
then have two forwards? You know, Yeah, I'm not sure
how you go about it, because eventually James Fisher Harris
is going to come back, and he's been named on
the extended bench. So if he comes on, you know
what happens then you know does because Marat has been new,

(29:47):
Cordier has been he's going to be starting it in
the front row of Jackson Ford. So obviously, if James
Fisher Harris comes back in, which could happen because he's
named on the extended bench and you know how weeps
that like to do things last minute, wait to the
last minute to do this, he might be injected in there,
then one of those two will have to come out
and that might mean that might mean your curit A

(30:11):
goes into the second roary Healsiamaca to the beach. You know,
so I don't know how how how we going to
fit everyone in And that's a good thing to have,
be like, you know, when you're trying to find places
for everybody, but I do think he needs to be there.
I think you need definitely permanent people. I think you
need to need to be there as Volmonga. He needs
to be there, whether he's starting or on the bench.

(30:31):
He needs to be there to Picky, which we've mentioned.
And I think, you know, maybe Tomato Martin and Sam Healey,
those are those guys I would have there. I know
Tennis Dolla Smith, I think he's great as well and
stuff like that, but personally, just just right now and
where we are at the season, I think having Sam

(30:51):
Healey on there what would be will be beneficial.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
And because he's a he's a bit of a big
body as well.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
SOFA pay a lot. He is in Aaron Clark's coming
off for us, go on lot.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
That's exactly my point.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
You've got the extra extra ballplayer.

Speaker 3 (31:07):
Yeah, exactly my point. So that's what I mean.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
So because he's a bit of a bigger body, he
could fit into that number thirteen role. Like Veri Clark
has a stint which he does do he comes off,
So why not do go go that go down that path,
you know, I mean that's I mean, we're not the
coaches obviously, but with couch Warriors, so.

Speaker 3 (31:25):
That that's how I would go about it. But it
doesn't sound like a bad way to go, right.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
Yeah, No, I don't mind at all. I was just
taking that, Yeah, I mean I had a note there
just saying he could differently cover you know, some of
the some of the beck Row Yeah, exactly, definitely be
or you know we've seen free Lass sort of covering
playing in the middle player as a prop from your
Wells Cup, you know, so anything's possible. Yeah, winning, I

(31:52):
think the whole it was it was just a great
performance from from some of those some of those those guys,
and they all definitely were playing like they know, they
were saying, hey, look we're here and we're keen to
you know, play some more for you know, opportunity. So
they the likes a sort of hit Sam Healy and
to a Pecky Tomorrow amount and they just they haven't
really let down, they haven't really seen down when they've

(32:13):
been given a chance, you know, and they've all proven
their sort of hostility and that sort of thing. So
it'd be cool to see them all getting getting the
regular go and then yeah, the chances are more than
capable of playing center, and and the more if they
if they keep going with that, the more he plays,
they are more comfortable help here as.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
Well, which is which is why I go back to
my point, is that like you just said, like you
just said, they don't let you down.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
Every time they need the opportunity, they don't let you down.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
So why are they getting thrown back into the reserve
grade or you know, news cup when they're doing the
goods in first grade and the people that come in
come in that push them back into news Cup are
the ones that aren't performing. So that's that's that that
That's been my That's been my question all season because
that's how it's been going. But yeah, but I think

(33:02):
you know, I mean, obviously Web had no choice but
to make those changes last week due to injury.

Speaker 3 (33:07):
There are injury and forced.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
Changes, but hopefully he's seen enough to see that, Okay,
I've got to keep it this There's no I've got
no choice. I've got to keep it this way. Now,
I've got to keep these changes this way, just even
if everyone came back. I've got to keep to a
pikey at the back for example. You mean, I've got
to keep him at the back somewhere. I can't just
just sacrifice his position just because you know, just say,

(33:29):
for example, just say Rocker Berry came back and he
gets put in the center to start, we're just transferred in.
Does he go straight back to fall back and then
you know, so, I mean that's what That's what I mean.
I think he's going to keep to a picky there.
I think he's just going to have to just let
go and just say, Okay, look, this is this is
the way it's going to be from now on. You
can't pick a team just just based on on reputation

(33:51):
and name. I know it's easy to do that, but
form is what we need right now, especially going into
the finals and two Picky deserves the spot and I
think I think most people agree with that there. And again,
there's no diggit chance at all. There's no diggt chance.
He puts on a biggerfit every week. It's just that
I'm thinking it's a pig. He's more suited in the
full back role because of his X factor.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
Yeah yeah, yep. Indeed, should we use some some waliums,
give the give the people what they want.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
So for those who don't know. The Williams are our gullyams.
But for for Warriors games, Warriors players, we give our
three to one points for the week I can set
us off. My three points goes to my main man,
Roger two of us a check as I mentioned before,
three hundred and thirty one running meters, one hundred and
two post contact, twenty seven runs, eight tackle breaks, So

(34:45):
just every time he got the ball he was bouncing
off people. Look brings so much energy obviously the ball
so that wasn't going his way close to the Lions.
He didn't score a try, but the work that he's
doing bringing it back, he's, he's, he's I think he's
a form he's a form winger in the and that
respect hands down at the moment. Yeah, for four four
games in a row that he's running for two hundred
and fiftys so yeah, I mean, just for that, doing that,

(35:08):
doing that dirty work out the out the back. Yeah,
I'm loving one saying from him, So keep it up, Brodge,
love what you're doing. My two points goes to our
main man, our other main man to a pickie. Nineteen runs,
one hundred and eighty four meters, six tackle breaks. He
was yeah, sort of had had had a hand and

(35:29):
both Dellon's tries down down the right there, so and
I said before, like he was getting this messed around
a bit, but he just keep back up. Obviously a
few little, few little errors to work on, but I
just yeah, similar to Roger, like every time we caught
the ball, he was just looking dangerous, looking like he
was hungry, looking like he was ready to break some tackles.
So love what I saw from him. And someone who

(35:51):
I don't know if we've ever't talked about him yet,
but I thought he was everywhere. Aaron Clark as usual,
you know, he's just been sort of the picture of
consistency for the Warrior is this year. Eighteen runs two
hundred and run two hundred and one run meters, four
tackle breaks, doing five tackles and two offloads. And he
actually had a nice little kind of shimmy and go

(36:11):
to a Dallen's first try as well, So he's sort
of showing a bit of ball playing ability there as well.
So yeah, just love, love everything I've seen from from
here and Clark and yeah, hands down the buyer the
season for the for the whole whole comp in my eyes,
So he gets my my one.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
How about you, bro Well, I was similar to you
and to the Roger three points. I just think Roger
is doing so well. I love I love the fact
that you know, he's pushing, pushing through a lot and
making getting a lot of meters and stuff, and he's
doing doing a lot of the hard work. I think,
isn't He's back to form, you know, I mean, he's
back to what we can we know he can do,
and yeah, I'm loving it. I mean, if he was

(36:49):
at full back, you know, I mean, I know we
just talked about fallback and stuff, but obviously he would
he would get to do a lot more. But on
the wing, you know, I think he's doing a great
job and I'm loving seeing him there. So yeah, three
points for Roger to a pookie gets my two just
because he's come back in and does and I just
thought that just a brave effort. Like you said, he
got hit around a bit, you know, hit around a

(37:10):
bit and stuff like that, gets back up, does a job.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
Well.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
I know you said his a couple of hit a
couple of eerrors and I saw that as well.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
But you know, sometimes you know that happens, you know
under the high ball, it can happen to anybody, but yeah,
he picks himself up well when he just does a
great job and I love it. I just think he's
just the X factor in terms of the back line
for for the for the Warriors. And you know, I'm
gonna give one to Delan. I'm gonna give one to
w dw Z. Sorry, I'm gonna give him one point
because not just because I mean I didn't think he

(37:38):
had the most spectacular game, but it was a it
was a decent game, and again that he needed to
elevate himself again because I think he just I think
he needed that and personally he needed that performance, you know,
from the Dolphins game to just give him a glimpse
of in a more of hope and confidence that he
can go into the next game and do a good
job as well. And I think that, you know that

(37:59):
that's what he needed, and I think going into the
Bolldogs game, that's definitely what he needed. In two tries, again,
he defended pretty well a couple of couple of a
couple of incidents where you know he got caught, you know,
caught offline, but go off guard. But yeah, I thought overall,
he had a pretty good game, and I love the
fact that it was it was a you know, a
confidence boosting game for him. So I'm I'm gonna give

(38:21):
him one point.

Speaker 1 (38:23):
That's fair. Good to see taking the taking the boxing
gloves off, and you know, praise, praisey. Did you said
you give them the praise he deserves?

Speaker 2 (38:36):
Yeah, I was just laughing, maybe cough, but I wanted
to ask you a serious question quickly, something that was
on my mind. But I thought, you know, I'm gonna
put you in the hot seat here. I'm gonna put
my journalism gloves on. So town of Boyd, the half
Beck that everyone's been calling to come in, you know,

(38:57):
after Luke at caavlen Gin, some people even calling him
into you know, calling his name into the side before
met carfwood Gin. But he's had a few games now
for the Warriors, and what would you rate him out
of ten at the moment at a performances out of ten?
Because I mean, he doesn't mean bad. I'm not I'm
not trying to say he's been hit, he's had a bad,

(39:18):
bad run of games.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
He hasn't.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
But you know, like I still think he can be
a lot better personally. So what do you think at
a team, what would you give hand a boyd at
the moment for his three games that he's.

Speaker 3 (39:28):
Started so far, he's played four games, isn't he three
or four years? Three or four games he's.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
Played started off the Tigers camp, didn't he? Yeah, two wins,
two losses. I think you know, you look at kind
of these games we've lost, and I think anyone's putting
it on him, although like you know, your half beck
probably if you're not scoring enough points, you can put

(39:55):
it on your half back maybe like a out a teen,
I'd probably say a six and a half. There's definitely
around for improvement, not not not Yeah, Like I think
you sort of said it right there, Like especially you
know that Tiger's game, he was brilliant, you know, like
and everyone thought he was the sick in coming of
Cecy Jones and Seawan Johnson. But we sort of found

(40:17):
out pretty quickly after that that there's still a few
parts of his gaming is to need to work on.
But I mean off the tea, he's cooking really well
and watching something that we've we've lost games on the
last couple of years on his bad gold cooking so
you know, if we had won that game eighteen sixteen,

(40:39):
it would have been on the back of the fact
that he kicked to to two convisions from the sideline
as well. So yeah, I mean his player cooking games
was pretty on point, you know, like he's consistent, he
kicks it two good areas. Sort of. There's been a
few times where like you're just like, oh, why is

(40:59):
no one chasing? You know, like it's been a bit
frustrating almost because you feel like actually has been a
good cat, but hasn't looked as good as it probably
was because the chase. The chase hasn't sort of all
been up there. But that's just what happens when the
team's a bit guests and all that. But yeah, I'm
happy to give him probably about six and a half there.

Speaker 2 (41:16):
That's fair. That's that's totally fair. I was thinking around
the same more like a seven. Definitely not saying that
the losses have been on him, but because he's had
some pretty good games and his kicking game has been
pretty good. The kicking game has pretty much.

Speaker 3 (41:33):
Been on point.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
It's but you know, there have been I mean, again,
Dolphins game, he looked a little bit flat at times
he'st the Titans as well, so again room for improvement.
But you know, he's only just come back into first grade.
Like you said, three or four games he's played now
and it's given it a time. But I mean, we
don't have a lot of time. That's the problem. We

(41:55):
don't have a lot of time. There's not many games,
are there. I think there's only five games left in
the for the season, and that's where everything gets tricky
because we need to start winning if we're going to
keep the top four spot. And I think, you know,
if you go into you know, if you if you
want to calculate, then go do all that. The Warriors
are even you know, they could even they could even
drop out of the eight. I don't think they will.
I don't think they will, but there is that possibility

(42:19):
in the way the teams are saying to teams below
them are saying to rise up.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
Yeah, yeah, for sure. Well it's good that you So
it's a good little seguel into what I wanted to
ask you about an extent of John, because there's a
lot of talk about the Warriors top four spot and
Penrith are obviously now also we're around thirty points where
Peenmuth are on twenty nine and the Broncos and Sharks
are on both on twenty eight, and then the Dolphins

(42:44):
are on twenty sax along with the Roosters. I think,
so yeah, it's looking pretty tight from fourth to fourth
to eighth. The Warriors have got five games. If if
you said you've got Bulldogs this weekend, they've got Dragons
at Mount Smart, got Titans in the Gold Coast. It
was at Mount Smart and the Seagulls are way. I

(43:08):
think it started. You know, three weeks ago we sat
here and we had the Warriors winning both of the
last two games, so that would have put us on
thirty four points. I supposed and and and would have
been quite comfortable to keep our top four spot. But
that's not the case anymore. I was just looking, say,
the Penrith forgot the Knights, Storm Raiders, Bulldogs, Dragons, so
it's actually quite a hard run home. They've got three

(43:30):
games that they could could easily lose there and the
Storm Raiders and Bulldogs. Even the Dragons are playing pretty good.
The Broncos have got the Storm, Dolphins, Knights, Cowboys and Storms,
so we've got three easy games in the middle of there,
but two games it's a storm either side. And then
the Sharks have got the Dragons. Titans are by Knights
and Bulldogs, so they've probably got the softest run home

(43:51):
with with with that, with that buy in the middle
there as well. So basically, yeah, I mean, of the
five games left Bulldogs, Dragons, El Seagulls, we probably needed
one at least three to make to keep best spot
on there in the top four, maybe even for them.
Can you can you how many of those games you
got us wanting?

Speaker 3 (44:11):
That's a hard one.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
I mean, I mean originally when we when we did
our you know, our run home predictions, I picked us
to lose to the Bulldogs. They just lost to the
Tigers over the weekend, and it was it wasn't a heavy.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
Loss, but it was. It was a decent It was
a heavy loss.

Speaker 3 (44:30):
Well it wasn't like, you know, like a big blow
twenty point blowouts it should have been.

Speaker 1 (44:34):
Yeah, it was until the final minute I went up
by twenty. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:39):
Do you think do you think that the rain had
a big fact that impacted the Bulldogs a lot? The
weather because it was pretty bad the weather.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
Well, I would have thought it would have played into
their hands because the best defensive team in the camp.
So we would have thought that it sort of you know,
I would I would have I would have played into
the hands in that respect. But their texts just just
not quite being where they where they wanted to. I mean,
they're obviously still saying third and the third on the
competition table, so they're doing all right. I think they're
on thirty four points. Four points, yeah, yeah, so they're

(45:08):
still yeah, I mean, we're not chasing them down if
you mentionined, but it could, yeah, it could could work
in our favor if if we're able to score some
points this weekend, you know, just try to outscore score
the Bulldogs. But I think we both had the Bulldogs
losing that game. And for a memory, you had the
Warriors winning the rating the raining four and I had

(45:30):
them losing the Seagulls as well.

Speaker 3 (45:32):
Well, let me let me say this, Okay, let me
say this. Let's just hope.

Speaker 1 (45:37):
I mean I think.

Speaker 2 (45:41):
That I think the Night Sorry the Panthers, will overtake
us this weekend. I don't see them losing to the Nights.
And if we lose to the Bulldogs, which I thought
we know at first the first then we will drop
out of the top four. The Panthers will be ahead
of us by one point, but that doesn't mean we

(46:02):
can't go back in, you know, because then that's when
the Panthers have their harder games against the Storm Raiders bulldogs.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
You know.

Speaker 3 (46:08):
But the Storm haven't been playing that well.

Speaker 2 (46:11):
They've been winning, but they haven't been they haven't been
out of form ever since Jerome Hughes got injured.

Speaker 3 (46:16):
They haven't. They haven't looked like the team that they
normally are. So who knows.

Speaker 2 (46:20):
And I think the Panthers are the team to watch
out for because they look very scary. At the moment,
they were very scary. I thought they were going to
smash the Titans. But when I saw the second half
in the Titans comeback, I was loving the fact that
they were ahead. I thought they'd done us a favor.
That's why I was aboit annoyed with their whole you know,
their whole trainer thing. But it's a hard one. It's

(46:41):
a hard one, bro because also, at the same time,
you've got you've got the Bulldog. Sorry the Broncos, who
have got who they got next? They've got the Storm,
don't they.

Speaker 1 (46:51):
Yeah, Storm Dolphins starts Cowboy Storm.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
Yeah, so I mean the Storm could do us a
favor by beating them, which keeps them at bay. But obviously,
and if we do lose, just say we do hypothetically lose.
I hope I'm wrong. I hope I'm wrong. You know
that we do win, but just say hypothetically we do lose.
It just means that, you know, we just have to
recover that one point, you know, against the Panthers where

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if they lose, if the Panthers lose to the Storm
or you know, the Raiders or the Bulldogs, we can
recover the points to catch up and get back in
the top four. So let's hope that. But honestly, it's
not looking too good. I mean, yeah, it's not looking
too good. I mean, we just see it. I just
said the Storm weren't looking that great either. But if
you put the Storm against the Warriors right now, I'm
pretty I out back the Storm to beat us. And

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that's not me not backing my team, that's just being realistic.
I mean, would you agree if you hear the Storm playing,
even though then there are been out of forma at
the moment.

Speaker 1 (47:44):
You still think they would probably beat the Warriors. I mean,
we haven't beat them for like, yeah, seventeen games, isn't
that Yeah, yeah, yeah, So it's just yeah, it'd be
nice if we do it the finals. It'll been nice
for you just to avoid the Storm because that's it. Obviously,
they're guaranteed uhted loss for us. I think, yeah, if
we were to play one of the top four teams
that you know that the Bulldogs or the Raiders, I

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think we definitely could beat them. But I couldn't see
us beating the Storm with and if the Panthers are
the teaming up four, I mean, I'm with you, but
I can't see us keeping the top four spot. Obviously,
we do have to. Like just the way we've been playing,
I just and with injuries we've got, it's just hard
to see us winning three of these remaining games. So

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Dragons are sort of playing themself into some form. It
also have been on fire last couple of weeks with
Moses Moses playing unfortunately the Seagulls oft into mad, so
that might be I think I had us losing that game,
but that might be a win Titans away. We've got
a really bad recligs. The Titans but I mean, I'm
sure we will win at least two of them. But yeah,
to say like at least three and to bank on

(48:51):
the fact that Pemriuth don't win four is bit hard.
So yeah, I think we'll be in fifth, fifth or sixth.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
Yeah, it is hard because they are doing so well.
Even though the Titans should have won their game, you know,
take take that away. They still look pretty good, don't they.

Speaker 3 (49:08):
The Panthers.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
And there's when when they're in form, they are a
team that knows how to win. The Panthers are a
team that knows how to win. There's like the they're
like the all Blocks of old where they're a team
they just know, like you know, there the twenty fifteen
or blocks for example, but they just they just knew
how to win. Even if they were up against it.
They just knew how to turn it around and win
the games. That's the that's the scary thing about the Panthers.

Speaker 3 (49:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (49:30):
So, I mean, I think every every fan is going
to be glued to their their their TV screens or
their phones this weekend because not just for the Warriors game,
but for others games, because they know that other games
helps in the results from other games plays a big
factor in where we end up. So I think, you
know a lot of people are gonna be watching a
lot of games this weekend. And like I said, I mean,

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and I know that you and Meir both just said,
you know, we feel like we might we might be
dropping out of top four this weekend. It's got nothing
to do with us not having our love for the Warriors.
I know a lot of people tend to see that
is that way. They'll say, oh, how are you not
loyal fans. There's got nothing to do with it. We
are loyal fans. It is just the fact that the
reality of it, right, and it's just the reality of

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it in terms of form, et cetera.

Speaker 1 (50:16):
Yeah, yeah, for sure. And I mean one of competents.
You know, three of the top four teams lost last week.
The Storm beat the Eels, but hardly convincingly. So yeah,
I feel like all the top four, you know, the
Broncos Bottle has been a bit of a slamp. We're
obviously in the slamp. The Storm sort of are winning,
but have have been looking far from the far from
their best.

Speaker 3 (50:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (50:37):
And then the Raiders, Yeah, I mean they've been playing
pretty good, but even then they're sort of they'll often
have a half a fully where they don't look great
and then they'll run away for the second half. So yeah,
I mean, yeah, maybe the Panther's the other one to watch.
But we do obviously have a have a game to
look forward to this weekend against against the Bulldogs at
of Course Stadium, which is going to be Saturday after

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and I think game I should have checked out night.
Yeah game. So yeah, I mean, as I said before,
both terms have slump. The Bulldogs have lost the Tigers,
they had a big win against Manly, and then they
had sort of close ones against the Dragons and Cowboys
and lost the Broncos in their last five or six games.
So been a bit of over the show with you

(51:26):
have a team, we're we're seeing we are recording on
the Choosa this week, which exciting, but I just wanted
to try something a little bit different this week. And
as I announced the team, I don't know, if you're
seen on Fox Sports and a few of the other
people that do it, they'll you know, they'll announce the
team of people in the positions and you can choose
who you'd have and you yeah, so yeah, you're on board,
I'm on board. So there's man.

Speaker 3 (51:46):
So I haven't seen the Bulldogs team, so I'm on
the spot here.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
So yeah, I think it's about as you expected to be.
So so fullback Warriors have got tamed to a biggie
back up against Jacob Careers. Who you got.

Speaker 3 (52:02):
I've always begged my boy to a picky, so to
a picky.

Speaker 1 (52:04):
Yeah, it would be disappointed if you if you that
one on the number two in the wing. Dylan Matine's
Lesniak with us Jeth Throw Renny Karma. I've never.

Speaker 2 (52:18):
I don't know who that guy is.

Speaker 3 (52:20):
I don't know who that guy is. This is pretty honestly.

Speaker 1 (52:22):
I never heard the name.

Speaker 3 (52:24):
And I watched a lot of Foody and I don't
know the name. So maybe that's just me having not
watched a lot of Foody over the last few weeks
or something. I don't know. I've never heard the name.
But I'll go, I'll go, I'll go the w Z
just just for that for that reason.

Speaker 1 (52:37):
Yeah, they've obviously got Montoya, and they've got kind of
Tracy as well. Yeah, so that's the reasons. Sort of
like a he's very much like a second or third string.
So the Warriors, and the center's got Adam Pompey play
number three up against Bronston's Aerie Jerry Sire. How did

(52:59):
you say that? Yeah, I should know.

Speaker 2 (53:02):
I'm gonna go Pumpy because he's been He's been doing
pretty well the season.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
So I got three three nil at the moment.

Speaker 2 (53:08):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (53:09):
And then we've got Chans up against Stephen Crichton and
number four Crichighton. Sorry, yeah, I would have been asking questions.
As much as I love chances, I would have been
asking yeah exactly is just a yeah, he's a beast.

Speaker 3 (53:22):
So yeah.

Speaker 1 (53:23):
So on the wing we've got for the Warriors, We've
got Roger back hopefully for another three engimeters up against
Inari Tuala Roger yeah, yeah, yeah. And at number six
Matt Burdon comes up against Sanell Harris Tavida who makes
us return from a week off.

Speaker 3 (53:41):
Matt Burton fair enough.

Speaker 1 (53:44):
And then half back Locky Galvin in for the Warriors
one and only town of Boyd.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
Yeah, I mean, I'll go Town of boy just because
I mean, I think Lucky Galvin is a good player,
but I don't know I understand the big hype around
him at the moment.

Speaker 3 (53:58):
He sort of thing.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
I know, a lot of the hype is is negative
hype because of things have happened in the you know,
in the background, you know, behind the scenes stuff. So
but like I said, I'm not saying he's a bad
player anything, but I just think that, you know, he's
still got a lot of a lot of growing up
to do.

Speaker 3 (54:13):
So, yeah, it was good town of Boyd.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
Okay, it's five two to the Warriors so far. So
and the forwards got mex King and Marta Cory returned
to the front row mex King. He's an origin all.

Speaker 3 (54:32):
It's about how your new cords out a position as
well when when you think about it, yeah, read money
and same same here Sam Healey stuff read money flipping
annoys me. A just look just when I see his face,
it just flipping pizzes me off. You know, it's just
just he's just that.

Speaker 2 (54:49):
They grabbed their annoying, you know, Graub, that just he's
a pisted. He's a pisted and most people see him
that weigh as well.

Speaker 1 (54:56):
So yeah, Sam Helly one of the great grubs and
the and number twen those other prop I've got Jackson
Ford for the Warriors up against Sam Hughes, Jackson Ford,
Oh lovely lovely bettle of the second row. Actually, so
we've got like a at number of eleven versus Williami Kika.

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All right, serious, that is a hard one man, season players.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
You got a season pro like you know, kickl who's
done it in been there before, and you've got probably
the rookie of the year, you know, you know.

Speaker 3 (55:33):
Hell Sema.

Speaker 2 (55:35):
I'm gonna give to hell Sea because I just I
love Hello Sema, So I'm just doing it out of
pure bias.

Speaker 3 (55:40):
But at the same time I think he deserves it
as well, So we all love a bit of hell
Seem in our laves.

Speaker 1 (55:46):
Number twelve, Cook Cape retains the captain C and he
comes up against Jacob Priston, who's been in great for him.

Speaker 3 (55:53):
It's a hard one as well. I'll go JACKIEB.

Speaker 1 (55:56):
Priston mhm, and it locked you're in Clark in James Salmon.

Speaker 3 (56:02):
Year o'clark.

Speaker 1 (56:06):
There's nine four to the wars. We'll go through the
inter change and then mccordon there. So number fourteen tomorrow
Martin and kurk.

Speaker 3 (56:13):
Man tomorrow Martin.

Speaker 1 (56:18):
And I'm fifteen in my makes his return up against
Harry Hayes.

Speaker 2 (56:26):
I'm not do you know much about Harry Hayes, To
be honest, I don't not really, no, really is so
the thing is, the reason there's a lot of Warriors
being picked is because some of the other players I
don't know too much about, Like, yeah, some of these
names I do at the winger, well this guy here,
So no, I'll just go Warriors because I just don't
know percent don't do much know much about Harry Hayes.

Speaker 1 (56:45):
Keeping the faith and number sixteen Dimitrick of Almaga up
against former Warrior Josh Karen.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
I was hoping it will be the other way around.
I was hoping you'll be Josh Curen versus a debut
from last week for them.

Speaker 3 (57:00):
I'm going I like Josh Current.

Speaker 2 (57:01):
I think he's a great player as well, and you know,
I'm surprised he's not studying at the Bulldogs. But I'm
going Bomonger because I'm I Thinkmonger is awesome, and I
think it's this is not a biased thing. I just
think he's just intensity. He brings you know, on you know,
on the field in defense and attacks. So I think Vomonger, yeah, nice.

Speaker 1 (57:18):
And then Tennis Dalla Smith and Bailey, Bailly Hayward, and
number seventeenth rounded off Tennis Dela Smith. So the Warriors
won that third eight to four, So that means that
the Warriors are gonna win the game.

Speaker 2 (57:31):
But it sounds it sounds, I mean it's so lopsided, right,
but it sound I would have been by.

Speaker 1 (57:38):
I would have been I would have been disappointed if
it wasn't John.

Speaker 2 (57:41):
Would Yeah, But I mean, like I was trying to
be fair at the same time, but there are there
are players like that I would have picked over, you know,
the Bulldogs players, but like there were hard ones like
kick Out and Hellesima. That was a genuine biased one,
but at the same time genuine because I think he's
actually worthy of being picked as well. So yeah, the
bias sort of overruled, you know, overall that and something. Yeah, yeah,

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that was really lopsided.

Speaker 3 (58:07):
A lot of people are gonna send to me, whatever
one that's just been biased, fair enough, just call it,
just just say it, just say it.

Speaker 1 (58:14):
Yeah, so we've got Yeah, how we looked through the
head head stats this game forty five played on the whole.
Bulldogs won twenty three, We won twenty two draws. The
wires have won have one seven in Sydney over the
years and at cour Stadium or as as it formerly was,
they actually have won four of the teen games, so

(58:37):
it's got a good record there against the Bulldogs. The
last met last year in August, Bulldogs king the thirty
four eighteen one. Earlier in that season there was that
real heartbreaking thirteen to twelve lost, so we just couldn't
take a field goal. I'm sure, Yeah, you remember it
as vividly as I do. So yeah, I think going
by that, you know, I think we've got a pretty

(58:57):
good record over there. The Warriors of one six I
think a bunch of chucks in the row and Sydney
as well. So it's important to remember that we haven't
been great at home, but we've actually been really good
on the road, particularly in Sydney. So we look at
those stats. It gives me a little bit of a
little bit of hope that we can we can pull
off a little bit of a bit of an upset.
Who Yeah, I often ask you this, is there a

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player you're looking at to really step up this week?

Speaker 2 (59:22):
John, to get the one who gets the Boulldogs ton
of Boyd nice just just because like I think he's
got it at him and I just think the last
couple of games he hasn't been at his best. That
that doesn't mean he played bad games, It just I
just don't think he's been at his best. I think
he could do a lot better. And the first game
we saw, you know, we went against the Tigers, and

(59:44):
second game against the Knights, I love the fact that
he was he was doing a lot of attacking where
he was going into the line doing that you know
that late that late drawing pass and stuff, and really
hadn't seen a lot of that in the last couple
of games. So if he gets back into that and
his kicking game is pretty you know on points, So yeah,
avoid that's fair.

Speaker 1 (01:00:02):
Yeah. I actually had him had him bringing down as well,
just as someone especially after that sort of just scussion
we had before, is that he's been sold without being
spectacular or what you might need for your for your
half back. So yeah, it'd be awesome to see him
him really step up and and and uh yeah drive
lead the boys home. Do you think do you think

(01:00:24):
that he back in the boys to get the win?

Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
Yep, not because I think because they're in their inform
or anything like that just because it's it's this is
due will die.

Speaker 3 (01:00:33):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:00:35):
You know, people might say, oh, there's five games there,
but this is the will die. You're playing against a
team above you in the top four, and they've really
got to they've really got to show. And I don't
think it's gonna be good enough to say we just say,
for example, we put up a good show and we lose.
People gonna say, oh, it was it was. It was
a good performance though, but that's not gonna keep you
into the top four. That's not gonna keep you in there.
And we want to play finals and we want to win, right,

(01:00:57):
So this is due to die and they they've really
gonna they're really gonna to pull up, pull out a
performance out from the ages, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:01:03):
To do this.

Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
So yeah, I'm begging the Warriors to step up big
time this weekend and pull out upset win against the boardogs.
I reckon it will be. I'm fear to say it's calling.
I'm calling it an upset win. If they do it,
then I'm begging them to do it and get their
campaign back on track because and hopefully they won't get
complacent after that.

Speaker 3 (01:01:23):
Hope. I'm begging them to win and to keep soaring forward.

Speaker 1 (01:01:26):
Yeah. Nice, nice. Can you give me a prediction for
the weekend. I'm gonna say Roger's going to run for
over three hundred meters. Again, if you've got a prediction
for for me and the punters for the for the
game of the weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:01:45):
Pompey to score fish try.

Speaker 1 (01:01:46):
Oh I love that one. Yeah, it's come through a
couple of times recently as well.

Speaker 3 (01:01:49):
So that's the reason why, that's the reason why I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:01:52):
That right there, right there. We don't want to do chaps,
but I'm Marid of the time, I probably don't need to,
don't need to sort of spare said that we can
fuck through a little graphic if people really want it.
But anything to say before we sort of call it in, call.

Speaker 2 (01:02:06):
In for the week job, No, no, just everyone, I
just keep backing, backing the Warriors. Look, yeah, it's do die,
it's do a dye. We need we need the Warriors
to win, So back them, back them, back them to win.
And thanks for all your support. The channels growing. Have
you noticed the channel is going to grow or a
lot a lot more on all the platforms, a lot
of the players, So thanks Thanks for everyone support.

Speaker 1 (01:02:27):
Loving all the comments. Give John some more slack for
coming in hot and wanting to fight doll on. That's
all I want to see.

Speaker 2 (01:02:34):
Yeah, I can imagine an image coming up on me
soon with the boxing levels on who am I fighting next?

Speaker 3 (01:02:39):
Who am I fighting next?

Speaker 1 (01:02:41):
So yeah, well love that. Yeah, awesome, Matte, thanks for that.
It was good. It was good to sort of get
some of those those demons off your off your chests
after a Warrior's loss. So I'm feeling a bit more,
a bit more calm, and I'm excited for the for
a win this weekend against the Balldogs. So thanks everyone
for listening. We have been the Catch Warriors and we'll

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be back next week to hopefully review a big win
from the Wars with what Roger having a big game
and Adam Pompey scoring the first try. Thank you and
see you next week after wards, babe,