NRL 2025 | I'm not panicking, you're panicking

There is some concern on this week's podcast as the boys review a disapointing performance against the bottom of the table Titans? Can the Wahs hold onto their spot in the top four with six rounds left?

The boys give their thoughts on what needs to change and if there is reason to panic.

Then they ask who would be a good fit as a star outside back for the Wahs, before looking for to this weekend's match against the Dolphins and giving their tops for Round 22.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Who after Worst Baby. Well, what a win for the
Warriors over the Titan Zone the weekend. Oh, I was
looking forward to this game.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
I knew that we were gonna just do what we
do and it gives us also that two points gives
us a six point buffet of the Bronco over the
Broncos because of their lost to Paramount on the weekend.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Well, that's what I thought I was gonna say.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Coming come to this episode, because I really had a
lot of faith that, you know, we were going to
do the job.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
But obviously not to be.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
And yeah, and this is not me just having taking
the piss out of the Warriors because I love the Warriors. Okay,
I just just know that I love the Warriors. But yeah,
it was very, very diry disappointing performance and I'm sure
many of you feel the same way because I'm and
of course I'm seeing this all over social media as well.
So but anyway, before we get into it, thanks for
joining us tonight. I'm your host, Johnerals are on and

(01:01):
I'm joined by my co host as always, good mate
Richard the band where your conductor, Letty bro How did
you find that game on the weekend? Did you were
you like me, thinking this is a game, you know,
there's a game in the bag for us, and we're
gonna we're gonna win this one, or yeah, how do
you feel about that game?

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Oh? Yeah, are you living in some alternative universe? What
if I messed out on something was a bed dream
or something like that. No, that's all good. Yeah, much
to say. Man, just was pretty I thought it was
pretty confident going to the game. Going into the game,

(01:39):
obviously we hadn't been toper convinced against the Knights, and
then you know, there was a bit of chatter about
our recordings the Titans, and I don't even know if
we'd sort of talked about it on the on the
show last week. I don't even know if i'd sort
of realized how bad it was. But I had some
some memories of you know, we did allude to those
two games last year, and I allude to a game

(01:59):
that I went to Amounts a couple of years ago.
The Titans got up. So yeah, weirdly a bit of
a bogy team for us, it seems. I think they
have won five of the last six, could even be
six to the last seven, So a little bit a
little bit concerning there. The first ten minutes was you know,
I was thinking, bang, we're on here. We could put
fifteen on them. I genuinely in my head was thinking,

(02:20):
you know, like we're playing, we're playing well. I think
Lucky crushed over about the eight of the ninth minute,
so we were up ten year after, you know, before
even ten minutes is up in the game. So I was,
I was up and about had some had some family
around watching the game, and I sped, of God, every
time they came around and watch the game, it just
goes downhill quicker. So I have to I've learned to
sort of control my emotions when the when you know,

(02:42):
when the in laws are around. But yeah, it all
went downhill from there, and and you know, the rest
is the rest is history. You watch that game as
closely as I did, John, it was yeah, pretty pretty heartbreaking,
and we just kind of never looked like getting back
into it really and and the whole sort of remaining
as soon as the Titans got a couple of tries

(03:02):
and and that whole rest of that first half and
second half, Yeah, we just just looked flat and and
worrying the fact that it's backed up from you know,
it's not really one off performance. The night's game was
was far from our best, So yeah, we're gonna need
to play a little bit better than that. We talked
last week about finals football coming up, you know, and yeah,

(03:23):
they're gonna get knocked down in two games or one
game if they lose this spot on the top four.
If they keep playing like that, it's for sure.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Well you're you're right about the whole Titans being our
bogie team, because I mean I just looked it up
now from from round round twenty not round the year
to one, we lost forty four nils to them.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
In two we played them twenty was.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
It forty four mils of the game with like met
Lodge and old what's his name Cane Evans probably remember
he hit it thing reading on his wrists and oh.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Falsome fulldep falsomeep.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
That was one of the most bizarre games of later
we've ever watched, one of the greats, and we lost
forty four.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Now, yeah, no, definitely some high scores here.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
So round round two or two twenty twenty two we
lost twenty eighteen. The same year round twenty five we
lost twenty seven to twenty six that was a close one.
Twenty twenty three only paid them once, but we won
twenty eight eighteen twenty twenty four. So last year we
played them in a round eight they won twenty seven
to twenty four. Then there was that really heartbreaking game

(04:37):
in round sixteen of last year where we lost sixty
six six. So and obviously this year the game we
just played now twenty four sixteen, we lost to them.
And look, you know, I mean, I don't want I
don't want to take anything away from the Titans because
they actually turned up, they actually played really well.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
You got to give credit to them.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
You know, Karen forren and is probably last game on
New Zealand soil.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
He was, he was a minse.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
He was you wouldn't think that he was a player
that's on the verge of retiring. You know, he's already
announced his retirement. He's finishing this year at the end
of the year. And now he was great. And yeah, Campbell,
Jen and Campbell as well, the heart staring with amazing Yep. No,
I totally agree that they were good. I mean, like
you said, the first ten minutes we were on fire.

(05:21):
We looked good. The fourwards, No, running it up. I
mean the forwards, you know, they were pretty good throughout
the whole game, you know, to an extent throughout the
whole game. Our backs didn't really fire and all on
attack all defense. Maybe you know, you give Roger a
pass because he was he was doing all he could
with what you.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Know he got.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
But yeah, no, they they after ten minutes and they
scored pretty much. You know, you two consecutive tries straight
after our two consecutive tries, and then there was all
Titans from there and all Titans from there, so you're
gonna give them credit there. But that at the same time,
it was a was a piss port performance by the Warriors.
I mean, you can't hide that fact. I mean, world

(06:04):
I had warriors, fancy you and I. You know there
are many out there. You know, they were defending the
Warriors and stuff. There was a lot of them attacking
the Warriors as well as you see on social media.
But if you want to be realistic about everything, that
was a piss poort performance by the Warriors.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Defense was not on.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
We're giving away too many six six agains, too many penalties,
et cetera.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
You can't really blame the ref for everything on on
this one.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
We were just we were just bad and not not
to the level do you expect for a top four
team to be playing right? And I mean on the
old occasion, you might drop a game or just just
have a game where you just nothing goes right. Look
at the Panthers at the start of the season, nothing
was going right for them, and then all of a sudden,
things are just what what six or seven in a row?

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Now?

Speaker 2 (06:44):
So, and by the way, I just think they're they're
their next threat because they're only three points three points
behind us on the letter. They've they've overlapped the Broncos
on the letter. But anyway, it's just another thing to say.
But yeah, it was, it was. It was a poor
performance all around. We'll get into that. We'll into that
right now. Okay, So look on the top of your head, Richard,

(07:04):
where did everything go wrong in.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
This game for the Warriors after that ten minutes? After
the first ten minutes?

Speaker 3 (07:10):
Yeah, but you can have alive a few things earlier.
I think, just how do we look through some of
the stats and it kind of you know, they speak
for themselves, and I think we see at the end
of the game, you know, we're betting by the Bear team.
And the stats certainly said that they land. They Titans
lead and runs, run meters, post contact, line breaks, tackle breaks, offloads, kicks,

(07:32):
kicking meters they had to do. They had to do
less tackles and they had less misses. I think it
was about twenty six to twenty one. So you know,
they go twenty six missed tackles doesn't hurt. It was
eleven ears to six, so we had eleven ears where
you considered, yeah, it was six. The penalty count was

(07:54):
six to four, so we were down on the pending account.
Six agains was six three. So yeah, just you know,
discipline and just yeah, just we were just sort of
played after that fifteen minutes. We were just just played
off the park. There's I mean, there's there's plenty of
questions about sort of the lack of creativity. I think, like,
I mean, one stat I found quite interesting was the

(08:17):
kicking stats. And you know, we had seven bombs and
zero grubbers. You know, like and I just think, you know,
the bombs sort of I suppose traditionally had been working
for us this season, but you know, like every now
and then, you know you've got to be sort of
mixing it up a little bit. I think the Titans were,
you know, they are about six six bombs of four grubbers,
you know, so they were they were trying a few things.

(08:38):
But we weren't. You know, we weren't. I think we
only forced one job, you know, we only forced one
drop out, so we weren't sort of putting that pressure
on the on the Titans. And then they were sort
of when that, you know, and you think about the
last sort of teen fifteen minutes, you know, we were
we were doing all right, you know, we were we
were charging our way out the field and getting us
Olf some pretty good field position. But then just of

(09:00):
the eras obviously there was the Harristav to play the ball,
which yeah, yeah, well I've watched the I've watched the
replay a few times. That's frustrated, I know. I mean,
I know it's the rule, but you know that I
can't remember the Titans player was maybe but maybe both
former he was all over him, you know, he was. Yeah,
like so you just sort of like, you know, there

(09:22):
has to be some common you wonder whether there has
to be some common sense with the bunker there, but like, yeah, Okay,
like he wasn't he plays the ball and he probably
wasn't in a position to do so, but like quite
clearly he had a Titans player who was just flopping
all over him like it should be appeally there. So
that stuff, Yeah, it doesn't help, but yeah, I just yeah, discipline,

(09:43):
it wasn't wasn't up the standard, I'm sure, you know,
and we've been pretty pretty good at that this whole season,
you know. So yeah, look like completion rate was about
we were being there, says I think it was a
little bit down, you know. I think we're normally sitting
in about eighty one eighty two percent. I think it
was at about seventy nine percent. So we're still completing
our seats, but just yet given away too many too
many pianis, too many six agains, given them too many opportunities,

(10:08):
and both on the right and the left hand side,
our sort of edge defense each wasn't you know, like
Jading Campbell sort of was making some pretty easy breaks
on the right, and then that our left and then
the year then famous right edge sort of we saw
Dell and JamMan a couple of times and led to

(10:29):
another couple of tries so I'm sure. Yeah. I mean
I'm intrigued to see what changes have made this week, man,
because I said last week I can't see it happening.
But after watching that performance, I do think, yeah, there
has to be some changes made. It wasn't that I
didn't think that was that I didn't think there would be,
but I just thought that the way the team was going,

(10:49):
they wouldn't do it. But I think they're They're at
a point now where, like, you don't see how anything
you said it last week, I don't see how you
can justify sort of, you know, starting down again after
sort of last this whole season, you know, like he
just had to come back from injury, just hasn't look
hasn't looked his best. We know what's capable of. But yeah, yeah,
those those German then and those sort of on on

(11:14):
defense and with Capewell as well, you know, like I mean,
he's a row he's not a center. I think we
don't need to get a special center and in that
position as well. So yeah, I mean that's sort of
a couple of both points. That's that's what we're wrong.
For me, John, there's anything else that sort of stood
out for you?

Speaker 2 (11:31):
Well, I mean, I like the fact that you brought
up discipline because there was a big, big thing that
stood out for me and watching this game. I mean,
I brought it up last week, and I brought up
jackson Ford being being a culprit of sort of all
those sixty games, et cetera, and giving away too many purities, And.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
Didn't someone say something about that.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
Didn't someone say something about it, like I wanted to
fight jackson Ford or something?

Speaker 1 (11:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (11:53):
Yeah, celeberty liberty boxing matches. Uh. Don mccarmack a good
free Don maccount that has has sent through message to
us just saying, is John going to be doing a
celebrity boxing match against Jackson Ford for you know, the
in the in the in the postseason. So watched the Space.

(12:14):
You know obviously you had a week god Allen last
week as well. So I'm wondering who's going to be
on your on your fire in line this week? John, Well,
the first of them.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Let me let me just say this. Let me just
say this. I don't know, We're not celebrity. I don't
know if I consider myself celebrity nowhere near nothing like that.
Don't don't want to be.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
A celebrity, don't want to be a celebrity everything like that.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
And but and you can beck me up on this
is that I have begged, I have prayed some Jackson
Ford's praises all year. I just said he was on
that specific game, he was bad with his discipline. He
did give away a lot of penal reies and six games.
That's just the fact. I under staying the fact. And
in this game as well, he did it again. Did
you notice that yourself? Did you notice that he was

(12:52):
a culprit of giving away so many six games? I've
seen that a lot of people come into a bed
as well, Jackson Ford.

Speaker 3 (12:58):
And yeah, I can't think that's agains, but yeah it was.
It was there the crasher on Jading Campbell maybe yeah,
well you know, a pretty pretty silly piony close to
the stacks which put them up twelve team from memory,
I saw the moving at what we needed out the time.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
Yeah, I saw the six agains as well. Also.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
I think what he's trying to do was there is
actually you know, like the Melbourne are really good at
this where they hold the player down for as long
as they can just to the just to the point
where before the riffree blows whistles and gives away a
six again or you know, like an appinality, And I
think he's trying to do the same thing, but he's
not getting away with it because we're not helping. Melbourne
seemed to get away with it all the time, so
I think that's what he's trying to do.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
So actually I'm not.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
I'm not.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
I love Jackson Ford.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
I think he's a great player and he's been done
well all season, but I think he in the last
couple of games, he honestly has been the corporate of
giving away a lot of penalties and six agains and
that's just that's just the fact of the metal here.
But in terms of Dylan as well, I actually feel
sorry for Dellan, to be honest, because I mean, we've
both talked about Dylan a lot lately, and we both
love Dylan. We we've stated that as well. But he

(14:01):
is not in form right now. He's in a form slump.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
Is that correct? Correct? Do you agree with me there?
He's in a form slump?

Speaker 3 (14:08):
Oh? Yeah, I mean I think we Yeah, I think
most people would agree with that.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah, I don't think. I don't think that the attack,
the attacking of Delan. So with this is something also
we've seen on the show before, is that like having
ved Cossi, is that Yes, we agree that he didn't
play a good game his last game, but the attack
that the that the attacking comments that.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
Went around that was that was just not on. I
have thought that was just pretty bad.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
I mean, we're all up for, you know, constructive criticism,
healthy criticism, fresh critics. I mean, whatever you want to
cry over, you want to call it. But I think
the attacking is going but too far. But anyway, in
regards to Delan, and let's just talk about him just
on a form point of view here, because that's all
that we're trying to do here, right, I think he's
he's definitely out of form.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
And I don't think I don't know.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
I still don't understand how he keeps being picked and
it's only it can only be in reputation because to
a pickI, for example, this is it's like we're repeating
yourselves every week here, Richard. But he's he's he got
dropped into eighteenth Man and he comes in, he steps
up and he does a great job.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
So how do you how do you justify there. I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
Again, we've we said this last week, but again hopefully
that like you said just before, hopefully this is the
game where it's like, okay, no, no, no, now something
has to change, something has to give. Now we can't
we can't play on with Webster because again, let me
talk about Andrew Ups quickly. Andrew Ups is a great coach.
I love Andrewis. I think he's the great coach of
the Warriors, and I think he's the one to take

(15:28):
us through, you know, for many more years. But I
think one little little flaws is sometimes his selection policies.
He seems to stick with a team that he thinks
is going to go really well. And then that's fine,
and it's good that you've got it's good that the
players they've got the backing of their coach. But when
they're in a genuine form slump, the coach has to
do something to ignite them to you know, to lift

(15:48):
their game up or not. And that could then that
might mean going down to reserve grade for a couple
of games, just to spark the confidence. I mean, you
look at the reserve We don't talk about the reserve
grade gun team that much, but look what they're doing.
They're one games in a row. They're they're yelling together,
they're in sync, they're doing really well. And some of
those guys must be knocking on the door first grade. Yeah, so,

(16:09):
I mean there's a winger at the reserve grade I
just lost. I'm just trying to figure his name again.
And he's doing really well, yeah said of mind blank there,
he's doing really well, and there's a lot of people
calling for him to make the step up, and I
wouldn't mind seeing that.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
Why not? Why not?

Speaker 2 (16:28):
You know, WEBS has put a lot of trust in
the youngsters like Lecqua, Balmana Laban, Tenness, Stole Smith, and
they've all stepped up and done the job to a pickie, you.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
Know, So why not? Why not?

Speaker 2 (16:39):
Why not give him a go because he's he's he's
probably mean. This is the perfect opportunity to do it,
soapp him with Dallan. Give Dyllan some confidence in reserve grade.
It's not doing him a disrespect by putting Dylan there.
You can't just say I've been playing all these up here,
so many first grade games, I deserve to be there
week in week out. You can't just say that and
I'm not saying that Dylan's saying that. I'm just saying
that Webster might't meant to might need to make that

(17:01):
hard decision and do that. And I think the time,
I mean, we've been people have been saying it for
a while, an hour, but I think now is the
time that he's got no choice because, you know, playing
we're playing another really you know, top eight team. I
think Dolphins are on the top eight, just or just
outside the top eight, but they're they're not gonna be
an easy team to play. They were great, They're a
good team at the moment. So yeah, I really think

(17:25):
that there needs to be some changes in the in
the side. But in saying that about Dallan, going back
to Dallan again, is that you know the whole the
whole jamming in thing. Yes, he did do it in
this game as well, but he had no choice. There
were a couple of moments we had no choice to
do it because the center that was on his on
his inside was unmarked, so he had no choice but
to go for the go for the center.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
So it's it's a it's a it's a there you
had to put.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
The blame on the whole team because they they allowed,
they jammed in, They all jammed in, were allow an overlap,
and he had no choice. He was just the He's
just the final product of the what you see because
they scored a try. He's the last person, he's the
last defender that you see. So that's why I think
he's just got a lot of criticism. But it's a
little bit, a little bit unfair in my opinion that
he gets all the criticism because yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
There wasn't fully his fault. You know, he's not all
to blame for that.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
But I think the whole team has had to put
their hand up in that game because no one no
one really fired. No one really fired. But yeah, it
didn't look like we were going to break their line mate.
It was just a really really support performance and they
really really got to step up. And I hope Whipster's
not going to He's already done with a readly in
this post Postmas press conference where he said I've got

(18:34):
full faith in this team. You know, he needs to
stop saying that and just say make a had decision.
And I want to ask you a quick question. Okay,
this is I didn't have this had this in the
run sheet, But like you know, I want to ask
you now, I asked you earlier on in the in
the day about you know, if you were to put
out a team for Nick Foyn for the Dolphins, who
would you put out? What changes would you make for
the side? Let let the let the viewers know what

(18:54):
you would do?

Speaker 3 (18:57):
Yees. So I just I can't see it him, but
I want to see tour booky at full back. Yeah,
you know, obviously chance chans were turned, but he didn't
look He looks to look foot far from his beast.
I thought maybe maybe still sort of losing a bit
of an injury. I don't know, but it wasn't. He's

(19:17):
still sort of ring for two hundred old meters, but
just kind of like, yeah, it didn't really offer match.
She hardly knew he was the year apart from you know,
a couple of years that he that he made and
the track tain at the back, check chans on the
wing on Dylan's one with Roger. Obviously Pompey and I
would have seen Ali Ali that tour, but it sounds

(19:39):
like he could have injured himself and in news Cup
game on the weekend. So if not him, I'll go
more mail Graham to offer. You know, obviously we saw
a bit of them a couple of years ago. I
think he said one game this year looks to be
playing some good food news Cup, so we could good
to see him get a run. I will stick with

(20:03):
Harris Taverda and Boyd, but I'm tempted to put Tomara
Madden in there, but just the fact that you know,
when we saw him play sex last year, he just
couldn't make it work. Obviously it was playing with Johnson,
who is a lot more of a sort of dominant
seven as opposed to to Boyd, so the gelling could
be different. I think Tomara Madams looked like the only
person who was sort of sparking anything on the weekend,

(20:24):
and he set up Rogers try and he had another
nice little bit where he was trying to go to
short side and Jaden Campbell kind of dive and go
under set. But if they've all gone to hand, you
know that there was something happening there. So he did
look all right. But now I'll stick with Harstaverda, go
the Fish and Healy in the in the front row
with Jackson Ford obviously Began's probably out this week imagine.

(20:47):
I haven't seen it official, but he was Yeah, he
was out for ye Yeah, and then Cape Well back
to tickn Row with Liqua and Aaron Black obviously, and
then we'll go. Yeah, I put to my mound on
the bench with far Malga, Neil Correy and Tennis Tower Smith.
So I've got Jacob Laben been an unlucky one to

(21:09):
miss out. I mean, I could swap them for Tennis
Thou Smith Smith and I'd be happy enough. I just
feel like maybe having you know, another sort of dedicated
middle there could help that that rotation and some similarly,
I'd be happy enough. I wouldn't be surprised if maybe
they started Neil Kurey and you know, the front row

(21:31):
and head head forward to come off the bench. But
that was just sort of how how I wrote it down. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
I like it, man, I like it.

Speaker 3 (21:37):
I like my team.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
I think it's there would be really really really good
change and socide they could do some do some damage.
But you know, I was thinking along the same lines,
you know.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
I had.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
Actually I was actually thinking more about the backs more
than the forwards. You know, I think that's where we're struggling,
you know, and especially outside backs, you know, So I
mean I had to, I would have too picky fall
back Roger on one wing, and I would have see
Cali on the other. I'd give him a go, you know,
if I was choosing the team. And also I had

(22:08):
a Pompey at one center and Chance and one center.
And you know, with Chance, I'm not trying to like it.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
I think I think he's you know, he's a great
player and everything, and and one of one of his
one of his one of the things he does really
well we can work out is he gains, he eats
up a lot of meters right, gets he takes, gains
a lot of meters right, the team takes a lot
of hit ups, right. But you can do that at center,
you can do that on the wing.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
You don't have to be a fullback at fallback to
be able to do what he does there. And I
just think with to a Pickie, he's got more of
a skill set that, you know, with like a playmaking
skill set where.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
It actually would work out better at fallback.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
And you know, if you really wanted to, if you know,
if you didn't really want to throw in, if Webster
didn't want to throw and see Akali on the wing.
You can actually put to a picky back on the
wing and have to Mardi Martin to Mardi Martin and
there fallback.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
You could even go that you go down that right, you.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Know that route, and I think that will still work
out well as well. You know, I think you can
still go done that path and it will still work
out really well. You've got all your stars starting, including
to Madame Mutton, who we know has got the can
play fall back and he's got the plane making ability.
And then you've got an extra spot on the bench
to bring up and Heally will start because he's he's on,
He's obviously going to start because you know, Waiting won't

(23:16):
be there. It just means you know who you put
in in that spot to be. That's sort of like
that utility. You know who's going to be that utility.
So I'm not sure who that we would use at
the moment.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
For that.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
But then you know, the forwards speak for themselves for me,
Like you know, the fish front row, Healey obviously because
of Egan hell Asima Cape Well Clark, I'm just trying
to think about the front of the starting front row.
I mean, I like the fact that von Manga comes
off the bench and brings a lot of energy and
a lot of little a lot of a lot of
intent when he comes when he comes on, I mean

(23:49):
it would it be?

Speaker 1 (23:50):
Would it be? I don't know.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
I don't know if starting him as the great is
the idea not because he can't do it.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
I don't think it's not that. It's the thing is
that is spot on the bench.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
He comes on, he he does a lot of damage
when he comes off the bench. And maybe for me
and your core, you can start a front row Jackson
fort and go back to then go back to the bench.
I'll still have Tennis Delle Smith in there. And yeah,
I just don't know who i'd fill in that role
with the playmaker role, utility role.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
I don't know who i'd fill in there yet, But
you have to find someone. Yeah, that's that's how I'll
go about it. Still.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
Yeah, that's fair. Yeah, I mean similar rash similar rash path. Yeah,
I mean said it'll be interesting to say. Yeah, I'm
intrigued about this teamless Tuesday. I really am, because you
feel like something does need to something doesn't need to change,
but loops just loyal and I mean it has sort

(24:42):
of worked well on the path path. But yeah, we're
standing to sort of, you know, coming up against the
Dolphins as a team that scored you know, forty plus
points in three of the last five games, fifty plus
and in two of those games. Yeah, so they can
pile on the points and you know, I think, you know,
they might be running that left and you know they'll

(25:04):
have herby herby fan with we could be having a
having a field day on the on that on that
left edge for the Dolphins if if we're not lucky,
if we don't sort of yeah, sure that our right edge,
Yeah defense.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
I mean, I mean to be honest, like.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
It's I remember speaking to you before if we started recording,
you're saying, you know, there's some positives we can find.

Speaker 1 (25:30):
I'm struggling to find a lot of them, and they're
just being honest with you. I just just just it
was just a it was just a just a bad
lump of play throughout this whole game. But after that
ten minutes, the team minutes was brilliant.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
It looked like, you know, the lookings of a of
a big score being put on and it wasn't to be.
I mean, we go again, we support the Warriors with
other words, and we still support the butt. You know what,
were there any positivity that you know, any positives that
you could find in that game that you want to share.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
The first ten minutes, the first ten minutes great to
see considered was starting well, uh, you know, Lick crossing
over again was always good to see. He keeps that
sort of that try try, trust God and record going strong. Yeah,
I thought the way that you know, there wasn't much happening,

(26:27):
but we've still been it's a sort of score that
you know, Roger scored that try and you know, we
looked like we were sort of getting the way back
into it then and then yeah, just unfortunately we just
couldn't quite you know, capitalize on on some of the
position territory we had on the follow team fifteen minutes. Yeah,

(26:51):
Roger was good, wasn't it? Roger was good? I thought,
James wash Hairri said, a good game. You know, he
seems to be sort of just like real, real, quietly,
just like putting up some some some big, big, big
numbers in the middle. So yeah, I thought that was
probably one of the better games we've seen him from
him in the Warriors Jersey. Yeah, I think. I mean,

(27:13):
as you said before, the Fords on the whole weren't
their bed. I think they were all sort of like
when you look through sort of like the the the
running meters of the Fords, you know, like for Shias
one hundred and fifty one, jessep Ford one hundred hundred
and twenty eight, ninety four, Aaron Clark hundred and six,
you know, Laban while Goo eighty nine or about thirty

(27:35):
five minutes. So you know that was it was cheering,
sheering the load. But there there's a couple of guys
there that sort of maybe, yeah, it will see this
week where there's any changes made. But when you look
for the debts, that's sort of this a couple of
guys there who you can sort of point out and say, oh,
maybe they didn't have their greatest game, but no, it

(27:56):
was just it was a pretty pretty rubbish sort of
seventy minute stets for sure.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
Yeah, definitely, definitely.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
Well look you said, I mean you just alluded it
to just before this team naming coming up tomorrow and
tomorrow night. I think it'll probably be one of the
most anticipated team namings for the Warriors fans. I think
a lot of them will be glued. I think they
will be glued to this to six p and they'll
be just on their phones waiting for this because I
believe that they will be hoping something's changed.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
I actually don't have the faith that.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
It's going to change because he's seems to stick to
maybe seems to tends to stick to what he wants
or what he likes. But I think a lot of
people will be their glued to their their phones anticipating
something's going to change.

Speaker 3 (28:37):
Yeah. The poor social media manager for the Warriors tomorrow
and he's, you know, everyrun's just saying where he's lost it.
And then the larger probably come out and win by twenty.
So yeah, we'll see.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
Well let's hope that happens.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
But I'm going to put you on the spot one
more time, mate, I'll I'm going to give you the
hard questions, mate, And this is just a sim poor one,
but it's an easy one.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
Is Richard.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
Is Richard concerned about the Warrior's form going into the
next few rounds before the finals?

Speaker 3 (29:09):
Oh yeah, definitely, yeah, definitely, yeah, yeah, I could take
the Knights one the Knights game, because you know, I
think we sort of did well enough to play assession
to the game. But you know, when you're playing against them,
you know, the two worst teams in the camp consecutively,
and you know you should that should be four points
that we've sort of ticked off off the list easily,

(29:30):
and we haven't. We did sort of I think I
thought about last week. We did have a similar sort
of slump in tween twenty three, you know about this
point when there was about such a seven games this
in the season, had a couple of a couple of
close games which we sort of you know, led away.
So maybe it's something to do with that. But I'm

(29:52):
a little bit concerned, especially you know, with the Dolphins
coming up. If we lose, now you know, Penriff is
going to be probably one point behind us. You know,
they're like fortunately, yeah, like the Broncos loss, so they
all did us a massive, massive one there just would
have been good to you know, it would have been
great to keep that win and just you know, exting

(30:14):
that at buffer to six points. And now, yeah, potentially
if we lose this weekend and the and the Panthers win,
Panthers will be within a point of us, So we
will likely to be losing that top four spot obviously,
the Storm of lost Groham Hughes, so you know that
they might not one as many games we were expecting,
but imagined they'll keep this spot. I was, I was

(30:35):
asking Christians about the Bulldogs last couple of weeks. So they,
you know, played pretty well we yesterday mainly by like
forty points. And also the Raiders, you know, that was
eighteen or half time against the Knights and they ended
up winning that forty four eighteen or something like that.
So yeah, the other top four teams who had been
kind of like not looking great, they all got wins.

(30:58):
The Storm game was a great game as well. And
then yeah, like the fact that mainly and mainly and
the Raiders and the and the Bulldogs are you know,
going in this direction, we're sort of going the opposite. Yeah,
I'm a little bit concerned. I'm quite concerned.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and too right, because I'm with
you on that one. It's it's it's very concerning when
you know we're playing. I know that people talk about
the NFL being like not no game is an easy game,
which is fair enough because a lot of teams are
tuning up. But you expect the top four team to
be putting away games against the likes of the Knights
in the Titans, who at the time when we played
them were sitting last in the letter who was sitting

(31:35):
in last place. And yeah, like I said before, like
I said earlier, don't want to take away from their
performance because they played really well in that game.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
You know, this has loved their coach.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
For example, he's on he's on the brink of being
sect He's almost on the brink of being sacked as well,
So that's how bad they've gone all year. But yeah,
they they decided to just pull one out of the
bag against us. That's when they decided to turn up.
So it's just unlucky for us. But yeah, I'm concerned
as well because, like you said, we missed a golden
opportunity to take out that buffer to six points over

(32:07):
the Broncos, and it would have been you know, five
points would have been five points against the Panthers. And
we need that because I think that if we're going
to do something in the finals, we.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
Need to get in the top four because we need it.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
Extra life, because you know, we need the extra life
because you know, if we lose, for example, one game
in the finals and the top four we get an
extra life about it. And I just think that, you know,
they maybe that if we if if we lost, this
is all hypothetical, they still have a chance to like
to just to pump themselves up and say, now we
can do this, we can do this. But if we
fall outside the top eight, you know, it's it's sorry,

(32:39):
if we fallow us out of the top four. Sorry, yeah,
it might be a very hower equation for us. How
to how to journey for us?

Speaker 3 (32:47):
You know?

Speaker 1 (32:47):
So the thing is, you know what the funny thing
is about the top four?

Speaker 2 (32:50):
Where is that if we end up being fourth and
we play the Raiders and who are first, just say
this hypothetically we play that play that side. I would
rather play the Raiders rather than the Bulldogs and Storm,
you know, in the top four. I mean, if there's
any if you had to choose any team in the
top four you can play for us, who would be
the team you play for me?

Speaker 1 (33:07):
It would be the Raiders.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
O Bulldogs is someone living in a row bro.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
But I think.

Speaker 3 (33:15):
Maybe or something like that. They're flying, they're scoring points
of these and and like the way that we're playing.
We've lost them twice this season. Al really the way
that we're playing, you know, we're just yeah, yeah, I
don't think it would be a good good match up
for us. I think Bulldogs would be good storm obviously,
like we've got a terrible record against them, but no,

(33:37):
Hughes might work in our favor. But I mean, I
imagine we're going to be going into that that game
it's from fourth just being like, okay, it's just not
getting the injuries this week, and then we'll be back
home and that smart next week and and we can
take down Broncos or Panthers, hopefully not the Panthers.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
Yeah, there's the team I don't want to play.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
It's actually the team I don't want to play, like actually,
especially the way they're going at the moment.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
Right all right, Look before.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
We go into the Valiumes, I think Volumes will be
a really quick thing for us, considering you know, there's
not really there's very we were limited on players to
choose from in terms of, you know, who put on
a good style of performance over the weekend. I thought
we'd go This game stirred up a lot of people,
a lot of fans as you know, across social media,
not just on our platforms, but on other platforms as well.
So I just thought we'd go into some of the
comments and read some of them out and and just

(34:27):
see what everyone's saying. And it also did got a
couple of questions for us as well. So let me
read one first and then you go to the next one.
You know, if you've got one, got something there in
front of you, some comments froun you? All right, So
this one hears from Keegan Crothers. Thanks for your question.
Thanks for your question, Kegan, how do the boys get
out of the slump? That's the first questions he's brought up.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
Yeah, change the chain, but you know, make a few
make a few changes. Nothing, I mean, I don't want
anything too radical, but yeah, I think just saying the
last sort of yeah, three or four weeks especially that
sort of ride age defense has have been good. So
whether that's down and going, whether it's just bringing the
new center and putting cape Pell back into the second row,

(35:12):
I don't know. We'll see what happens. Stay off social
media as well, probably, you know, because that's not going
to be helping their mental health at the moment. Just
seeing some of the bloody you know, the comments that
get get thrown around, and just do what you know,
back to the basics, do what they were doing. You know.

(35:32):
Obviously with ton of Boy came in, he had he
had a great sort of first game and then it's
been not as you know, not as smooth stalion since
I thought he wasn't bad, you know, he was. He
had a hand in sort of both of those, both
those tries on the weekend, having hair Sabda's they did
have a little nice, little sort of passing relationship really
earlier on that game. He still caps for about four

(35:53):
hunt and fifty odd meters. So yeah, just just back
to the basics, you know, kick that ball, d get
the chase up and give everyone on the same same
page and hopefully have you know, obviously even going out
in the weekend doesn't help. So if you run states fact,
that's gonna help them as well. But yeah, I mean
I think there probably just does need to be a

(36:13):
change to mate and the team where it is. You know,
it's not my job to say, but obviously give my opinion.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
Yeah, not fair enough. I mean, that's that's fair. I mean,
I'm with you on that one. I would say to
get out of the form slump, I would say that,
you know, you'll have to make some changes. And and
when I say changes, I just don't mean man for men.
I mean like maybe putting someone in positional changes, not
just changes to like one like for example, delln going
to reserve grad and bringing someone up. Or I would

(36:42):
say like positional changes where like for example Chance has
comes out of fallback and goes into center.

Speaker 1 (36:47):
Where to picking the four I think, I think.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
And Webster has to do this because I don't think
that with the team will with their position right now,
and then the way they're going, they're going to do
much damage going forward unless they're just missing. They're going
to make some some I know you see, nothing radical,
but then they need to make some some some changes
where it's like, you know, take it, take a risk,
figure it what I mean, they need to take a risk,
and not just risking the changes, but I think they

(37:10):
need to take some some risk on the field as well.
Do something different, do something different. Because the Warriors have
always been known for a team where they play on momentum.
You can say that all teams playing on momentum, but
they're a team though. You know, when when something's not
going right in the past, the attitudes just go down there.
You know, you can see you see the body language
go down and stuff and things just just the scores
get blown up. But I think that they should just

(37:32):
try something different, you know, little kick, little chip, chips
off the top and stuff.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
I just think they should just try something different.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
Keep so, you know, keep the teams guessing, just do
some do some radical things on the field as well.
I just reckon they need to change it up and
just to just go out flying and doing things like that.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
So that's that's my opinion. But so thanks keeping.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
I don't know it's gonna happen in the.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
No, I don't.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
I don't think so either, But I think they you know,
how like for example, you know when teams try to
do a lot of things in the last ten minutes
again when they're desperate to get a try because they
needed one, try to something. Not not along though, is
that intensely desperate, but where the actually throwing the ball
around a bit more just to just to try something.

Speaker 3 (38:11):
You know.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
It's just just like that's what I mean by that.
But yeah, so again Kegan Crothers, that's his question, there
was another question. There was another question from our post
that we mentioned about you know any questions Rizzy Michael, Yeah,
I hope he's a bit of a chump, this guy.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
This guy's a bit of a chump. And Michael, who's
John going to war with this week? Okay? Well again
I don't.

Speaker 2 (38:37):
I don't ward the players or coaches and stuff because
I love them all. I just like to shout constructive criticism,
as I'm saying, healthy criticism, which is I think it's fair.
But just to answer the question Andrew Ribster, if he
doesn't pick, who doesn't.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
Pick, who doesn't make changes? I'm going with Andrew Robster
the war with Andrew Robster. So that's my answer to the.

Speaker 3 (38:57):
Chump the next fight for life, I kim Yeah. Yeah,
like I said, exactly does speak to taine to a bookie.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
Yes, exactly? Good cool good cool Maye. Got some comments
there from some some of some of the people have
made comments.

Speaker 1 (39:13):
Over the weekend.

Speaker 3 (39:14):
Will Yeah, just I had a good one from me,
mate Tony Newan. He go out to school with his
great Tony. So if you're listening, I hope you hope
you will. Mate his response to the game was ship
is the word that comes to mind, added that TOI
needs to return to center specialists in hard running with
the ball cap well beg to beckro tained to but

(39:35):
he goes a fullback or wing really concerning with no
genuine number nine if Egan can't play any minutes. So yeah,
sort of he's preaching some of the stuff that we've
been talking on the podcast. So yeah, the Egan thinks interesting,
it's sort of. Yeah, we definitely kind of lost a
bit of direction there and the on the on the
weekend when when he went off and to the harist
of that sort of came in the air and tomorrow

(39:57):
Madam was playing such all of the game. So but yeah,
cheers Tony, it's good to good to see your name there.
And could see gett involved in the in the in
the conversation, yeah, not.

Speaker 2 (40:07):
Fair enough good good Another comment there. So we've got
quite quite a few comments over the weekend on our channels,
so obviously we can't read them all out because there's
there's too many. But here's another one from Stephanie Andrew.
Stephanie Andrew, here is do you think we're also unable
to win it home? All of a sudden. So this
he's got two parts of this comments. This one's a question.

(40:29):
So I want to ask you the question for us.
Do you think we're also unable to win it home
all of a sudden.

Speaker 3 (40:35):
Uh, not unable because we beat the Tigers last few
weeks ago. But yeah, it hasn't been great this year.
He's a you know, we had we hit the Papers game,
we hit the Titans game, we had the Raiders game.
I think maybe the Storm games are only actual loss

(40:59):
away from home. Now that can't be right fronts as well. Yeah,
so we must have lost, you know, for four four
games THEO this year, which is, yeah, very concerning for
a team that you know, the Mount Smith has sort
of been known as the Fortress and it's supposed to
be sort of one of the hardest sort of road
trip to make in a season where you know, we're

(41:22):
coming forth and we've been playing some pretty good footy. Yeah,
it's it's surprising Bishop with all the home crowds. So yeah,
hopefully they can reverse that. We've got Dolphins this weekend
who are into a Mount Smart, so long way that
that lost rate continue.

Speaker 1 (41:40):
Yeah, fair enough.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
Part of the other part of the other comments, you
made was I don't understand the sense of not having
to a picky on after how many times he saved
their asses the last few games. Big comment, good comment
from I said. I actually responded to this comment saying, yeah,
obvious things for a while now love will be, but
his selections can be mind scratching at times. That was
my sponsor to Sephan, who's actually my cousin, so I
actually know it really well. So so I actually was

(42:05):
agreeing with the with the with the comment I wrote
here that it's obviously he's picking on name or reputation,
whatever you want to call it, but not form, because
if it was formed toil pickI would still be there.
So yeah, fear comment, fear comment. Film Steffanie. She had
a lot of people like her comment as well. Women
respond to it, so a lot of people agreeing with
her as well. So yeah, good comment there. You got
an next comment.

Speaker 3 (42:25):
Mate, Yeah, as Rissie Michael guys back, he's say some
big kills to be made. We looked flatter in the
tech not sure if chance was one hundred percent as
there was a dominant South. Very concerning how Paul We've
been at the Fortress. Six likes for that comment. So
there's some wise people out some some wise people out there.
But now I had a comment from from Matt Maynard

(42:46):
complacent boys aren't having to play for their position so
much as injuries now it means we're having to roll
with the twenty first grade players. Breath comments about DWZ
need the spell get them hungry. I think we need
to learn from the Panthers and actually rotate some of
the players and resting me here the finals. I know
fans off if we get results like this, but the
boys are looking tired and we didn't fizzing for the finals.
I hope we can hang on to the top four. Yeah,

(43:09):
so I think there's some couple of a couple of
good points that we made there. What do you what
are your thoughts on on you know, the potentially risting,
risting guys with the finals you know coming up, you know,
six weeks away.

Speaker 2 (43:21):
It's a hard one because, like you know, if we
were if we hit that six point buffer, then then maybe,
but the fact that we don't hit that six point
buffer anymore, it's down to a three point buffer now
because four points of the Broncos, three points of the
Panthers and we're.

Speaker 1 (43:37):
Playing the Dolphins as well.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
I would wouldn't risk I wouldn't be risking you my
best players on this game. Would you be risting players
against the Dolphins?

Speaker 3 (43:47):
Not not for this game, this game, for this game. Yeah,
but may be interesting saying yeah, and the next couple
of weeks is there's some that isn't tired looking looking
bodies out there, that's for sure. The problem is just
even though we've got pretty good depth in the in
the squads, you know, injuries are sort of disallowing that
you know to have. Is Mett sort of pointed out,

(44:08):
you know, often we're pucking from twenty twenty one players
of the thirty squad of thirty.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, fair enough.

Speaker 2 (44:19):
I've got one more comment and then we'll live it
at that, because, like I said, there's so many that
I can't read them all out. But this was from
Clive Turner, and I actually liked this one. I thought
it was a really good summary. But so he's right here,
DWZ jamming in again. However, how much is that due
to the inside man being too far in etcetera? Which
is fair as we discussed before, pissed me off when
he jammed in and then they went around the outside.

(44:39):
But I can't blame the loss solely on his performance.
Cool that we were saying before. You can't blame fully
on dell in this good call average across the board,
frustrating as hell and doesn't give me a lot of
confidence comes finals time. Come finals time, I don't want
them to be one and done, bring back to a
pickie and do some other positional changes to fit them in.
Pretty much that summarize is what we've been just.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
Been talking about. Here's the sort of thing it's not.
I mean, Dylln. Yes, he's in a form slump. He
hasn't been playing well and he needs and you know
he needs he needs he needs a.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
Spot on you know, he needs a spot of reserve,
like a little little time in reserve grade.

Speaker 1 (45:13):
But you can't fully blame it all on him. You
can't fully blame it.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
On him also to a picky you know, makes some
positional changes to bring him in somewhere in frustration and
also a lot of confidence come finals times. So it's
a really good summary from Clive Turner. So Clive, thanks
for your for your comment there. It's a really good
summary and I actually mentioned that good summary. But look,
we're getting away with time here talking about this game,
so quickly going to the while he is made your segment.

Speaker 3 (45:38):
Yep, sure ye give you our three two one points
for for the the Warriors players on the weekend. As
you said before, not a heap of sort of excitement
to be to be found from this game. But I've
found a couple of players who I don't know more
on stats. I just got for the stats and pacted
on that, so I'll start. So I forgot its for

(46:00):
three points, judging seventy six to run meters, not only
post contacts, had a line break, scored a try, had
another post try where he had the ball so knocked
out of his hands diving in the line by A. J. Bramson,
So I thought he played pretty well to fuse four
caps as well, there were the bombs putting up for
his corner, so he was actually pretty safe under the
high ball. Did have a pretty shocking drop in the

(46:22):
middle of the field with no presure on them at all.
But yeah, basically everyone, no one had a perfect game.
So he got my three. I two went to Fisher
Harris one hundred and fifty one meters sexty two post contact,
forty six tackles, no penalties, what eras? So yeah, as
I said before, sort of leading from the front and
just quietly, you know, putting up some really good numbers

(46:43):
at the moment. And your boy Jackson Ford gets my
one one hundred and twenty eight meters, fifty four post contacts,
game higher, fifty four fifty four tackles. So obviously he
had a few few years and all that, but you
can't question as commitment to the team.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
Fair enough, nice mate, Yeah, okay, I'll just drunk through
mine quickly because like I said, I found that I
found this very difficult, and you know you said to
look like you said, look on stance, James Fisher Harris
get's my three just because yeah, like I think it
wasn't luck he did anything spectacular or anything, but he
was just he just did what he needed to do.
He did his job and stuff, but just would have

(47:22):
been great if the others around him were doing similar.
I had Val Munger for two for two points. I
just thought, you know, he was just every week he
just comes on does his job as well. Like I
don't have to stats on Val moment at the moment
but yeah, I just love the energy he brings in
defense and attack. I honestly, I every time he comes on.
That's the one thing I noticed every time, and that's

(47:43):
why I was wondering, you know, could he start. But
at the same time, you know, coming off the bench
and we got some tired bodies and there in the opposition,
it's it's just a perfect time for him to come on.
So it's just a spit of a strategic thing more
than anything. And I had one point for artists. I
just thought he had a pretty solid game as well.
He's actually having quite a good good run of form lately,

(48:07):
tries and meters everything, so you know, he's doing really good,
really well in the ear as well his catching game
in the moment.

Speaker 1 (48:12):
So yeah, he got my one point.

Speaker 3 (48:14):
Yeah, yeah, that's fair.

Speaker 1 (48:17):
Because because of because we spoke so much in the
so far.

Speaker 2 (48:20):
Really I had I had in the run sheet that
we would talk about, you know, the Dolphins preview, but
we've actually talked a lot about that in terms of
what changes we would make and stuff.

Speaker 1 (48:27):
So we'll just we'll just been a couple of minutes
on this.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
But what are you expecting from this game against the
Dolphins because you know, in terms of the Warriors and stuff,
and you think we're you know, we're up for it.

Speaker 1 (48:37):
Can we be up for this game? After you've seen
over the last couple of weeks.

Speaker 3 (48:41):
Yes, how they fun there with uh, you know confidence
just before how we've been playing, and with how the
Dolphins were playing. You know, there there the characters, and
it's the tour Apart. Well they have a buy the
way End.

Speaker 1 (49:00):
Dolphins.

Speaker 3 (49:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and then before that, you know they've
been Yeah, they tour apart the Cowboys two weeks ago,
put forty points on them, put fifty points on the Dragons,
fifty points on someone else. So yeah, they've scored, yeah,
forty plus points in three of the last five games.
So yeah, I'm a little bit worried that if we

(49:22):
can't sort of start them down. The one so positive
is that they've had a win, last win and last win.
They're that sort of team, so the last game they won.
So I'm hoping we're you know, we've got them on
last week and yeah, so hopefully we can kind of
capitalize on that. But asn't mentioned before, they've got some
amazingly you know, they've got some amazing players there. Yeah,

(49:44):
they've got you know, Hooby fan Worth playing, he'd probably
most informant center in the game. Jack Eva is playing
some amazing footy. Obviously, got Jamainasaka on the on the wing.
They've got the Isaiah Catwa whos you know the next
I think clearer they reckon. So yeah, plenty, plenty of
danger in that team. I think defensively we just need

(50:07):
to yeah, really really tieden up those edges and and
just you know, stop blending you know, such easy sort
of line breaks, line breaks through. But yeah, I imagine
you know that they'll be training hard this week. You know,
they're back at Mount Smart. They'll they'll know that, the
Warriors will know that. You know, this is this is

(50:27):
an important game. You know last week was an important game.
But because I lost that one, this one's the importance
of this has gone up even more. We don't have
a great record against the top eight teams this year,
so this is our chance to sort of, you know,
get one back. And although our form hasn't a film
of confidence, I'm keeping the faith and I believe the boys.

(50:49):
The boys can do it. As I said before the
Dolphins owing to it at mount Smart, the wise one
that he had to hear three to two on the whole,
and yeah, let's go the last fair enough.

Speaker 1 (51:04):
I mean, the Dolphins got a lot to play for,
don't they.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
They're just they're sitting on eighth position now in twenty
four points, so they'll they'll be looking to try and make,
you know, get some some security in terms of where
they where their land in the top eight. I actually
would have preferred that we were playing at Suncorp. You know,
we've actually done pretty well at Suncorp. You know previously, Yes,
we would have played if they were playing the Dolphins there.

(51:27):
But you know, Friday night game eight pm, it's the
late game. I still I'm with you, Brow. I think
the Warriors can pull something out out of the bag.

Speaker 1 (51:36):
They're gonna have to. They're gonna they've got no choice.

Speaker 2 (51:38):
They've got no choice because lose, lose this game, then
everything's on the line, you know, like you know, the
next game, you drop another game, then you know, we're
probably out of the top four because I don't see
Penrith losing any more games this season. And you know,
the Broncos are just right behind them as well, so
all the Sharks the Sharks around twenty six points.

Speaker 1 (51:56):
As well, and we're on thirty.

Speaker 2 (51:58):
So you know, we've even though we're in the top four,
we have got a lot.

Speaker 1 (52:02):
To play for here.

Speaker 2 (52:04):
We've got a lot to play for because you know,
people can say, oh, we're still going to stay in
the top pay, but that's I'm not looking at that.
I'm looking at the fact that you the reward that
you get from being in the top four is that
you get a life, and that's what you've gotta play for.

Speaker 1 (52:15):
So we've got a lot to play for.

Speaker 2 (52:17):
So they've got to go out there and be desparate
and you know, and play like, you know, like eveything
is on the line. That's how I see it at
the moment, especially the way they're playing with you know,
with their form slump as well. So yeah, that's that's
that's the way I see it, bro. But yeah, look
as we as you as you just said, we've got
the faith. Let's support the boys because you know, believing

(52:37):
that they can do it, believing they can do it.

Speaker 3 (52:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
Yeah, So look, well we're very much time to lift.

Speaker 1 (52:44):
So I just wanted to ask you one quick question and.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
Then we'll wrap it up with the tips. Obviously the
area that we've had trouble with is obviously outside backs
in terms of injuries, et cetera. If you could pick
one outside back in the inner rout it doesn't matter
who it does, doesn't matter, if it doesn't matter who
they contracted to for how many years. If you could
just say that you could pick one player to come
in there's an outside back into the Warriors team. Who

(53:08):
would you pick? It all in a row?

Speaker 1 (53:11):
Just a bit of fun.

Speaker 3 (53:12):
Uh, Well, I hadn't done that, so I was like
the last ch CPT butch GP GPT was no good
because they said Delawatst. Morgan Harbor, Moella Graham Twelfer or
Jake Jake Rick. So yeah, I don't know there. I

(53:33):
think it's there on the past, you know. Uh, if
not not not playing any there out at the moment.
But I wouldn't mind see Joe Manny if he makes
his way back to the league. You know, there's been
a bit of a bit of a bit of talk
about that. There was some April fools Day hydrinks from
from myself, you know, a bit of sun with their

(53:55):
but playing you know out at the moment, each place
with Dolphins. He'll be fine with he is he is
a yeah, exceptional, exceptional player, just so strong born, hands
so such, got such good balls, goals, and yeah, I
feel like, you know, we we haven't had a good

(54:16):
center for for you know, like a world class center
for for a long time, and somewhere we've been lacking.
So yeah, he was, he was who would go with
the probably year, keep him obviously at the center, and
then he'd be able to move move some other guys
around to sort of find another center in a couple
of wins. I like that.

Speaker 1 (54:35):
I actually liked it a lot. Yeah, that's actually a
really good answer.

Speaker 2 (54:40):
I might just copy you you have that well.

Speaker 1 (54:44):
Because honestly, I actually didn't think about that.

Speaker 2 (54:46):
I'm the one that asked the question, and I literally
didn't think about this, probably because I just keep thinking,
you know, Wi Storm because of his he's I think
he's a brilliant player, and I think he's got you know,
he's got the utility sort of about them.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
But that doesn't really solve problem. That's what I said.
I asked the question.

Speaker 2 (55:07):
But I'm literally just like I've just done myself baying
on my own Christians. So that's why I'm saying, I'm
gonna just copy your copy of your answer because thet
I think I've actually a big fan of Hey fun
with and I think he's a great player. Seems to
continue to break the line, you know, and seems to
do it with these as well. Yeah, no, I'm just
going to copy your mate. I think that's just a
good answer that you made.

Speaker 3 (55:27):
So there you you would love to see Chad playing
playing and on the way.

Speaker 2 (55:34):
That's to say, you just like he's not a center,
So what have I done? But anyway, we'll leave it
at that, mate. Look, we'll go on to tips you
want leaders into tips and then we'll finish off from there.

Speaker 3 (55:44):
Yeah, mate, just a real quick, real quick heat to
hear A came to speaking. It was a storm on
Thursday night kicking us off. Can he was repeat the
heroics last weekend? You can't see Jerome useless storms?

Speaker 1 (55:56):
Yes, but yeah, but.

Speaker 3 (56:01):
I will go the storm. But you know, potentially Peppenhuisen
was out last week. I think that we'll be back.
But yeah, it was look good with with Moses Moses Beckle,
that's for sure. And Brown. Yeah, obviously I was with
Dolphins necks that were both going both going, are.

Speaker 1 (56:18):
We of course always always.

Speaker 3 (56:22):
Broncos, Rabbits snakes, Yeah, Rabbits can't catch a break, Yeah, Broncos.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
But I don't want them to obviously, I want that
buff I want I want I want, you know, the
Rabbits to do do a paramount and you do us
a good one, us a favor.

Speaker 1 (56:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (56:39):
Yeah, I think I bet the Rabbits like five games
in a row, and and they haven't won any of
those five games. So I'll go, I'll go to jump
ship and go on the Broncos, and I hope that
that means that they will. Yeah that one. Titans, Titans Panthers.
Yet Titans can repeat the heroics and the Titans Panthers. Yeah, yeah,

(57:01):
you on the Titans are.

Speaker 1 (57:03):
No, No, I'm not, no, I'm not.

Speaker 2 (57:05):
I don't think anyone's going to beat the Panthers in
terms of the round robins and the you know so
in terms of the round robins, I mean, yeah.

Speaker 3 (57:12):
It's looking dangerous. Dragons, Raiders, my beloved raiders, who keep just.

Speaker 1 (57:20):
Somehow they're doing it.

Speaker 2 (57:21):
They're not playing I mean I haven't watched all their games,
but it doesn't love what they're playing. Fleshy forty. They're
just doing the basics right and getting eving them. They
just don't They're just doing everything right, you know. So
they're doing well.

Speaker 3 (57:31):
Good on them, Good on them, well well balanced team.
Yeah yeah, Dragons, No, I've got dragons atually right. I
think is a dual loss, and the Dragons have kind
of been pretty lucky last or three or four weeks.
So Seagules Roaster next. This is a big game, big
game for finals percussions. I think the Roosters basically need

(57:53):
to win if they want to sort of make me
charge for the eight, and the Seagulls will be hearing
from their big loss. They're currently nights for the same
time points as the Dolphins. I'm gonna go the Roasters.

Speaker 1 (58:05):
I'll go Seagulls.

Speaker 3 (58:09):
Tigers, doggies on the cards.

Speaker 1 (58:11):
I think it's I think we're both your doggies because.

Speaker 3 (58:16):
Big for yourself Tigers, Like I mean, the Dolphins, Dogs
are good the weekend, but they've been Sharks. Cowboys are
finishing off. The Sharks announced in seventh, so they I
had them not making the ape, but it's looking like
they probably will. Can the Cowboys pull off yet? Cowboys,

(58:42):
I'll stick with the with the Sharks, and that's it
for around.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
We two alight, all right, we're out of time, guys,
but thanks for tuning in. Obviously, this round has been
a big one with a lot of questions to be asked,
a lot a lot of questions to be answered. Sorry,
fans everywhere asking a lot of questions about selection, about players, forms,
et cetera. So I guess tomorrow night is going to

(59:08):
be the big one, Richard at six pm. See what happens.

Speaker 3 (59:12):
Yeah, I'll try to send you a little little video
through for my reaction if you want to. You want
to hear that?

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