NRL 2025 | The good, the bad, and the ugly

The boys talk about the NZ Warriors golden point thriller over the Brisbane Broncos. Despite the win, Richard and John discuss where they believe there is room from improvement.

With Team List Tuesday coming up, the boys also predict the Warriors Round 8 lineup against the Knights on Anzac Day, before giving their tips for Round 8.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Hello, everyone, Welcome to another episode of Couch Coaches. I'm
John Larron. I'm joining as always by my co host
Richard the Bamwaga conductor Leddy, and tonight we have got
some good stuff to talk about with the Warriors game
and that golden point thriller winning twenty points to eighteen
over the Broncos. Well, we've got a lot to talk about.
We're gonna talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly.

(00:38):
But first things first, Richard, how are you going?

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Mate?

Speaker 1 (00:40):
How do you find that game? On the weekend?

Speaker 2 (00:43):
There's an episode title of Everhard Won? John, I'm good
birth Yeah, no, it was a good weekend. I'm just
happy that the Warriors o the two points have been
I've been looking at you know, skyscanner all day to
see where there, you know, I can finally check flights
to sid dicause.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
I'm I'm feeling it. You know, it's it's it's our year, baby.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
After a performance like that, you know, it was just clinical, nothing, nothing, nothing,
no questions to as about their performance, but app to
get the two points obviously could have gone could have
gone either way. But I feel like maybe last year
we would have wouldn't have won that game, wouldn't have
been able to And you've got to take your chances,
and we've got we had a few of them go
our way and then and that game in particular always

(01:24):
helped to win the opposition kick a kick the dead off,
the off the kicker golden point.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
But we'll take it. The Warriors in the top four
and we're going all the way to the top.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Baby. Yeah. Nice. I mean it's always good to you know,
finish a round when you see the Warriors there, you know,
in the top four. And yeah, it was. It was.
It was a good game, like I enjoyed. And I
mean the conditions didn't help either side, did they. You know,
it's weird conditions, windy conditions. Prior to the game to
you're honest, someone was wondering, honestly, had thoughts about whether

(01:53):
you then around might cancel the game, just just due
to the fact that hearing all the noise. All the
noise is about how the storms were heading Auckland or
the thunderstorms, et cetera. I don't know what the state
of the ground was going to be like, but look,
don't look that bad. I was watching Reserve Grade before
that game and it doesn't look that bad. So yeah,
and I'm glad when when ahead And to me, I mean,

(02:15):
you've talked about how it was an amazing game, caling
the coartcetera. I've got a different view on the game. Like,
don't get me wrong, I'm really really happy that we
got the two points. And like you said, previous Warriors
size probably wouldn't have put the game away, you know what,
wouldn't have happened. And that's one thing that this Warriors
sided managed to do this year is they've been managed
the managing to win ugly. And sometimes you have to

(02:36):
win ugly when it comes to the NRL, but you
can't rely on it. You can't rely on winning ugly
every week. So for me, some things have changed in
the Warriors. But look, we're talking about more about that,
but let's talk about some positive stuff about the what
what are the what are the great takes you've got
to take from the game on on the weekend, I.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Think you have to, you know, take your head off
to the middle forwards. I think the combination of Jackson Ford,
Aaron Clark, which Bunnett, they all I thought they all
had really good games. They were sort of trying to
use Jackson Ford as a veteran rammer but match close
to the line, and it sort of forced a few
of those handling eraors that were seen from in the past.

(03:17):
But apart from that, they all had some some really
really good stats that sort of backed them up.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
Heaps of heaps of post contact meters in there.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
We know how we feel about the post content meters,
especially with Eden for who are black no one playing
for the Warriors, and it hasn't seemed to have sort
of had an effect on that, So I honestly thought, yeah,
between sort of the three of them in particular, Lookahala
Sema again had had a huge game.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
He's just yeah, like you know, I know, you know,
three from three scoring.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
Tries, and he's just the future of the club and
you know, he's become a full on cult hero. But
he's gonna, you know, he'll be up for all sorts
of awards by the by the end of the year,
a recon so cord to see him get it gets art.
And then La obviously coming off the bench as well.
So between those two the future of the club looks
pretty looks pretty good.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
There.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
You know, we've sort of talked about Booky playing fullback,
you know, but I know you've sent his praises all
the time, but every time he gets a chance, he
always seems to make it, make it worth with with
with the while. And I think he did that again
and and and what would have been tough conditions for
for a fullback. He he had zero areas in the game,

(04:32):
so that you know, like to have zero his ears
in the game for a fullback playing conditions like that
with balls coming to you, I thought would be great.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah, it's just amazing. He had a try Cisco his way.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
For cost his try for that cap, so he suld
show he's got a bit of hostility there as well.
And also yeah, he actually got a pretty good run
up the middle and the lead ups to sort of
how a Seema's try as well, So he's just showing
he can he can do.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
It all both sides of the ball.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
But yeah, it was those those middle forwards which I
was really really sort of like I think, and and
those conditions they were the ones that sort of kept us,
kept us sort of in the game, especially Painter, you know,
coming up against the likes of you know, two of
the best in the in the in the camp and
pay Hass and Pettie Garrigan and the fact that they
shut them down Has. I mean it wasn't really offload

(05:24):
whether but you know, Has wasn't able to sort of
his his usual dominance on the ground because of how
how hard those those boys were working in the middle.
So yeah, it was, Yeah, I think it was.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
It was.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
We all talk about this sort of some of the downsides,
I'm sure, but I think there was still a lot
of a lot of positives to take from the game
and from where this team is sort of probably as
opposed last year.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
What was it for you? They really stood out.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
John, Well, I'm on with you on on on the
forward and the middle forwards in the way they did things.
I think one thing that's really really really liking about
this Warriors side is that their their their carry throughs.
You know, they're getting they're making good meters up the field.
You know, it's not it's not you know, a last
tackle on the forty meter market. They're getting, they're getting
close to the line. And like you said, the likes

(06:16):
of Jackson Ford, Mitch Barnett, Aaron Clark, they they were
they were brilliant Aaron Clark had another brilliant game. Mitch Barnett,
you know for bit of machine there isn't he And
also Jackson Ford, no, not the biggest, not the bigger
of the of the men, but still making those post
contact meters, making those head ups, you know it when
you know when he needs to, he's there. So and

(06:37):
I didn't think he because he came. He came on
pretty early, and he stayed on for quite a long time.
Actually don't I can't recall what time he came off,
but he was. I don't even even if he did
come off actually when I think about it, but he was.
He was. You know, Jackson Ford, you know he can
stay on. He can last the game quite quite easily,
which is which is which is pretty handy. And and

(06:58):
and to keep the keep the work rate going while
staying on is you know, it's quite you know, quite
amazing in my eye, to be honest. So I think,
you know, he played.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
Sixty six minutes. Sixty six minutes, so it's a lot
of lower minutes for nearly for a front rolf.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yeah, exactly. So that's that's my point. You know, not
only did he play such a longevity of a game.
He was able to keep the work rate and the
momentum going like he didn't. He didn't you know, it
didn't seem like he was phased by the length of
time he was out there. He just kept going and
going and going. So, you know, good big work engine
on him. So he's just a yeah. Now, I thought
that that's that's the big positive for me, is that

(07:33):
they can be doing that. I guess. The bad thing
for me about all that is that when they do
actually make the forwards, when they say when they do
make the meters up up front and they get towards
the opposition in and they got to the opposition opposition
in quite a few times, is that they can't convert
those that all that work into points. I mean, they

(07:53):
really do, you know. I mean, like Halasimus trade was awesome.
Is they did it there, But how many other times
were they up there and they just couldn't do nothing?
And it just looked for me the reason why I
say it's bad because maybe it's just good defense, you say,
but really, if you watch the game properly, and if
you watch the other get previous games with the Warriors,
the attack is quite disjointed, you know, it's quite disjointed,

(08:15):
and it looks like sometimes they just don't know what
to do on the final play, you know, what to
do or you know, the lack of grab a kicks
as well, especially in those conditions. So for me, that
was that's the that's the negative thing to take out
of it. I don't like using the word negative, but
you know, I'm just being honest here. I'm trying to
I'm trying to look at it from a balanced point
of view, where where yes, I'm a hard out Warriors fan,

(08:38):
I'm loving what I'm saying, but also there are some
things that I just thought think aren't jelling, aren't clicking,
and I'm not fully convinced that this is the right side,
like the you know, the right side, and yeah, that
fresh frustrates me every time we get up there into
the opposition the end zone and they can't seem to
convert the points or they can't seem to make something happen.
That the players are all disjointed. That's the more frustrat

(09:00):
things I can. I can understand if they try something
and it doesn't come off because of good defense or
just a mistake, but when the attack is disjointed, that's
what frustrates me. That's what's frustrating me. And I have
my theories on it. For example, you know, you look
at Luke Metcalfe. I think he's an amazing talent. I
don't I don't, you know, question his talent at all.
I think he's awesome. I think he's great. But I'm

(09:21):
wondering if stepping into the big shoes of Sean Johnson
and having the number seven on his back is sort
of is making him and making make and the fact
that he's got the responsibilities now to steer the team
around the park, I wonder if that's sort of neglecting
his ability to attack as well, because his full focus

(09:42):
is on that, you know, like they know they're they're
sort of colliding with each other, the two different things,
the attack and the steering of the team. I don't
know if he's doing it because you know, good player,
good sevens Adam Reynolds, Nathan Cleary, Jerome Hughes, for example,
they can all do both. They can attack and they
can direct the team the park. I think he's trying
to direct the team because he lets his new role.

(10:04):
But in the in in the process of that, he's
actually not doing his natural attacking game. He's not you know,
he's not He's not executing that natural attacking game. So
I'm not saying that it means he can't do it.
I'm just saying that that's not what's happening at the moment.
He's and he's going to have to learn to be
able to do both to be an attacking seven because
he's an attacking player. He's a natural, a natural attacking player.

(10:24):
So yeah, so that that's my take. For example, you know,
let's just talk about his kick, the one that got
over there, the one that got us over the line,
the fifty meters kick. Awesome kick. Prior to that though,
he had missed four conversions, but there were there were
heavy conditions. What what were your reactionally when he saw
that kick go over and in Golden Point?

Speaker 2 (10:45):
To be honestly, but I was, I was then in
a franchise Noike, and they weren't there, you know, I was.
I couldn't forget. I had to get it on the TV.
So I was watching it on the phone and then
when it got to Golden Point, he just sent me
his WiFi passed with so I was like, okay, I
should be able to past it, and then I passed it,
I cast it, and then the kick was going over

(11:07):
and I was like.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
What what what what?

Speaker 1 (11:09):
What?

Speaker 3 (11:10):
What's happened to here? Like are they trying to replay
of something like?

Speaker 1 (11:13):
And then yeah?

Speaker 2 (11:15):
And then so then I thought I must have missed
a penalty right at the end of the half, and
I had to message the group check because the replay
wasn't coming on the Commentarge was just going, oh, what
a great cat missus a few of the boys and
just said, can someone tell me what just happened? And
likes frocks kicked that did so, yeah, I was. I
was releasantly surprised I didn't have to sit through a

(11:38):
warrior's golden point, especially what I'd seen from his his
attempted to drop goal from what was it about twenty
hours right in front and he must have, which is
which ranked some alarm bells for me massively. I think,
you know, like that was he'd already missed one from
through the back, but you know a bit of sevens
in the comp would have got them. He's and we

(12:01):
were just we were we were just lucky that I
don't know what ben help was thinking, but he threw
it the wrong way or he ran it the wrong
way or something, and they just tended to get the
ball of Reynolds.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
And you know, Reynolds are so good.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
They know that he would have he would have knocked
over knocked over a field goal easily. So I was
just relieved to be honest, and I was happy for
him that he was able to do that. But yeah,
similar had the similar thoughts about the previous Cups, you
know that, Yeah, I mean you should they were easy,
but I think there was definitely one or two there
which he definitely felt like he should have got. He

(12:33):
think back to that ratest game last year with Harristab obviously,
like that has kept Harris to be his Capstans that
he mustered in that game would probably be easier than
a few of those metcalf ones. But you know, think
about how much he got, you know, like pulled apart
for that, and then for Metcalf to sort of obviously
have the opportunity to to win out with that fifty

(12:57):
meter you when you don't say it very much, you know,
I was thinking, you know, and it's super rugby, you
wouldn't be that surprised by that. You know, you just
be like, Okay, it's just another Yeah, you know, I
kicked it's gone over there from from halfway.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
But he's done too that much in there. Ow, so
great kick. He's obviously got a bit of distance in them.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
But I mean, he'll be I imagine he would have
been very rely because I feel like, yeah, the headlines
would have been a lot different if he had missed.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
Yes, and you've just nailed it right there, mate, You've
nailed it right there, because that's the thing. If he
had not made that kick, the headlines would have been different.
And we know that not only would the headlines have
been different, he would have been roasted by fans. And
we both know this is the sister case and this
and this is the funny thing about you know, you know,

(13:44):
he missed those four kicks, and that's eight points. I
know some of them weren't easy, but like you said,
some of them could have should have swallowed over. But
that's eight points. So when you think about it, it shouldn't
have gone to golden point when you know, just with
one of those kicks. But so that's why it's really
important to slot those kicks over. Yeah, you know, I
think you've nailed it when you say if he didn't,
if he hadn't honestly got those, if he hadn't got

(14:06):
that Gordon point cack here, it would have made a
different story. And and now you know, I'm looking at
social I always like to look at social media and
see everyone's thoughts and stuff, and it's it's quite interesting
when you see people praising and giving more the praise.
And yes, he deserves the praise for that kick. I
thought it was an amazing kick too. I mean he
did it from fifty meters out and it went over
with these I mean cleared the posts easily, So good

(14:30):
on I'm awesome. It's good to know that he can
do that in those clutch moments. He can do that.
But you know, take that take just take that play
away for a sick just for a moment, just take
that play away. What would you know? What would you
rate him on this? On the rest of the game though,
I mean, he scored a try, He's scored a try
when Kate Well did that awesome you know sort of
that passed to him right there on the line there

(14:51):
and he got the manage to carry the ball, catch
the ball and those slipper conditions, which was awesome. But
that's what a normal halfback or hooker or five a
we should be well, you know, fullback should be doing anyway,
all the people on the spy should be following up
when there's an attack that someone's making it made a break,
there's always something there that should be there, you know,
to support them. So he was just doing his job,
which is awesome. But he sounds like I'm trying to

(15:13):
roast look Metcalf here, but I'm not. I'm just saying that.
I'm just saying that I don't know if I was
really impressed with his overall game, and he probably admitted himself,
but because he got their kick, he's been he's been applauded,
he's been telling you know, he's been, he's poorted there's
the next big thing. And I just think that it's
a hard one for me. It's a hard one for me.
It's hard. I'm not convinced, to put it that way.

(15:34):
I'm not convinced yet yet. I'm saying I'm not convinced yet.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
Rather seeing him, I would have rather seen him that,
you know, I had a field goal because you know,
since Shawan Johnson's gone, you know, and there was even
games last year to marry Marlin and hairs to their
headshots to that, and we just haven't seen the Warriors
have anyone who can have a field goal and Golden Point,
you know, and it just that was why I was
treating watching the Warriors and Golden Point at the moment,

(15:59):
because we just you need to have someone who can
had a field goal, and we just don't. I know,
there's someone playing yourself Well's cup who's it's pretty handy,
and there's actually on less one occasion down the Warriors
and they I said, a game and out smart. Yeah,
two or three years ago, turn of Boyd. He you know,
Warriors were were cruising, having a great time. They're up

(16:21):
by about fourteen with ten to go and unless it
Warriors fashion last game of the season, poor in rain,
they let in three tries and then turn.

Speaker 3 (16:29):
Of Boyd, you had a had a field goal to
win the game. I don't even know, I forgot to
go on point.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
I think it may have been on the seventy Nights
wind or something, so I would have rather seen him
do that. Yeah, I mean, I mean, but a metcalf
got has got a forty twenty the other day. I
think it's his first for forty twenty of the season.
So and that that, you know, sort of showed what
the Warriors can do. From that, heaven had advantage. But yeah,
I mean, for I was to give him a raid

(16:54):
now ten, I think he'd probably be about a six maybe,
So obviously there were moments there, five or sexs moments there,
and I mean, he's he'll.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
Get he got all the glory.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
He was the one on the camera, you know, doing
the the pace camera at end of the game on
the Warriors social media media's account. People He's the one
that people wanted to hear from. But yeah, there was
there's still a few questions there. He's not I don't
think that that that jersey can't be you know, there's
any Warriors fans would say that that you know, that's
that's his jersey for good now, you know, like yeah,

(17:26):
still yeah, and he's still you know, he's only had
six games now there, you know, so but it is
skin to that point. I mean, it's such the season's
only twenty five, twenty six games, so it's you know,
that's quarter of the season gone and he still hasn't
really there's still a few few Christian marks there.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yeah, exactly. And that's why I said you nailed it
before when you said if you know that, the headlines would
be different if he didn't get that kick, because I
don't think he hit the greatest game. I didn't think.
I'm not saying he had the worst game, but I
don't think he had a great game by the standards,
because of one stands of a seven who steers this
team around the park. That's what a seven is supposed
to do, and it's supposed to attack as well. And

(18:05):
I just think I just think there's a bit of
an overload or you know, a bit of an overwhelmingness
where he's just trying. I think he's got the responsibility
and you know, and could be a lot of it,
could be even you know the fans faults, you know
where we were just hyped them up. You know, we
just he's got all this pressure around him to fulfill,
you know, sorry, look to fulfill, to fill Seawn Johnson's

(18:27):
boots and you know, do do what he could do.
But Sewan Johnson obviously could attack, and he could steer
the team around the park. And I think that he's
just because of that pressure, he's just focusing on one
element and not in neglecting another, and that's why it's
not working out the way he wants to, especially and
you can see it on you can see it on
the fourth and fifth tackle plays where the attack is
so just disjointed, not just him as well as it's

(18:49):
just it's just, you know, there's these other halves there
as well, they do the job as well, but I
just don't. I'm just not sold on our on our
hearts peering. And that just leads me to my hot
take for tonight, because I watched the second half of
the New Salt Old's Cup. Only only got to watch
the second half, but I saw enough of town of

(19:09):
Boyd there to make the think that he needs to
be in the side somewhere, even if it's coming off
the bench. I know they had Tomadoy Martin coming from
the bench on this game, but for me, Tomriday Martin's
just wasted on the bench. I think you are, well,
Tomadow Martin. You got to start him rather than start
them on the you know, rather than have on the bench,
like for example, Harris Tavida is someone that you could
have as at fourteen He's the more utility person that

(19:30):
you could have on the bench for me, Tomadow Martin,
if he's going to be in the side, he's probably
better than studying rather than coming off coming off the bench.
But anyway, going back to my tot tach Tanner Boyd,
he was amazing. He was fluent, he was clinical. His
kicking game was on point, whether it was a grubber,
whether it was up and unders, and his last tack

(19:51):
of everything, it was just on point. And his ability
to actually attack and steer the team around the park
was just Also I was watching it closely because I
was just thinking, this is what we need. I was
watching it closely because it was easier to see, but
also at the same time, I was thinking, this is
what the Warrior's first grade side needs. And surely, and
I mean you might have seen it on social on
our social media page, I said, surely he's knocking on

(20:12):
the door. Surely he's knocking on the door. And honestly,
and later on later in this episode, we'll do a
sort of our predictions for the for the team. Team
naming is on Tuesday, which is it's currently Monday night,
just for you want to know, but you know we're
doing at predictions of our team. I would have tann
of Boyd in there and I would have Metcalf at six.
That was that would be my team prediction. I think
that there's something's going to change, somebody's going to change there.

(20:35):
So for me, my whole take is put Tanna Boyd
into the halves. I think the team will be a
lot better, will benefit with tal of Boyd being there
from not only from a team from not from it
from a team direction in terms of setting up the players,
et cetera, but also from the kicking game. I just
think he's he's he's the person to do that. And yeah,
that's my whole take. I don't know what your thoughts

(20:56):
were about that, because you said you didn't watch yourself
Ice Cup, but you've probably seen a few games of
sound a Boid or seeing some clips of him playing.
He's doing amazing.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
He's doing amazing, as I said before, But I know
they can figure a field goal and you know that's
that's one of the main things.

Speaker 3 (21:12):
And we'll see from my from my from my half back.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
So yeah, I mean, I imagine they didn't just sign
him over. They didn't sign him just to plan your
sup Well's cap, you know, like it was obviously I
imagine if he was fit at the start of this season,
I wonder if things would have played out a bit differently.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
And I don't mind.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
We've just kind of giving this paid a few weeks
to see whether they can, you know, what they can do,
and whether they can jail. But yeah, I probably had
my my questions over whether it's say they're yelling, but hey,
the boys have won four games, four and two. You know,
one of those games was against the Storm where he
won the second half, and the other one was in

(21:52):
Vegas where the boys would just they had their minds,
their minds just elsewhere in that game. You know, you
think about how far the teams come since then. You know,
I'd love to hear some of our hot takes you know,
rehear some of our hot takes posts. Yeah, game, because
I'm sure we were, you know, we were calling them
for a few people's heads and questioning a few selections.
But you can keep being if we keep in the

(22:15):
top four, be happy. You know, how good is the
top eight at the moment. It's the Dark Storm, Raiders, Warriors, Broncos, Sharks, Dragons, Rabbits.
I mean, who had that is there? Top eight seven?
Seven weeks into.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
Into the round.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
It's just really I'm good to see a bit of
a change in the guard the Dogs, Sex and O
now and yeah, they were really good against the Bunnies
the other day. And it's yeah, a few of the
few other teams. So the fact that we've yeah, i
mean obviously lost the Raiders, but being the Broncos and
we've got yeah, a few a few games, we should

(22:51):
should be to have a good chance of winning the
next couple of weeks.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
Huragon.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yeah, but that's totally agree man, And that's why I'm
saying that was my hot take time. Boyd. I just
think that, like you said, if he wasn't injured at
the start of the season things, you know, who knows
if he would have been injected as a number six
or you know, seven, who knows. I think Luke Metcalf
was given that given that, you know, first first opportunity,
So if he was going to be in there, probably

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would have been at six. But I just think that
he would have been there if he wasn't injured. And
maybe they're going like you said that because they because
they're winning you know, they're saying, you know, they old saying,
you know, don't you know, need to fix something that
it's not broken sort of type thing. But I mean,
let's just be honest with you. Let's just be honest.
The games that we've won that they've been there haven't
been one on clinical performances. They really haven't been one
on clinical performances. They've been. The game against the for example,

(23:39):
of the Broncos, it could have been a very different
story that. I mean at halftime when we missed it,
we missed the penalty, and then they got the ball
and ran pretty much one hundred meters because they were
caught on their line. They really much ran one hundred
meters to score, except that it was a forward pass.
So if that wasn't a forward pass, I mean, I
know that you know that you can, you can you
can take you can look at a game and take
all these different pieces out and say well s. But

(24:01):
I'm just saying it could have been a very different game.
So we scored the try with Kirk cake Well he
picked up the ball. Awesome effort from Cirk Katewell at
center when we we haven't even mentioned him yet. There
was a lot a lot of people calling for what
the heck is keep Kirk cake Well playing at center.
I think I thought he did a pretty good job.
You know, I know that that's not going to We
all know that that's not going to be his position
going forward, which is it makes you think, right because

(24:25):
you know the head of seam is definitely going to
be starting to continue to start. But with players coming
back now from suspension, where does cook Katewell go? Does
he get the bench or does his start? Or do
they put the hell of cement back to the bench.
You know what's going to happen. I don't know what's
going to happen there.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
But oh yeah, imagine he'll just go back to the beck, right, Yeah,
And that's what we know about this team.

Speaker 3 (24:46):
That's whether it's probably I don't know, it's what I
would do.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
I think the way Leakers playing him keep him on
the field, and he proved that. You know, yeah, a
lot of people will like, you know, keeps un pet player,
but he proved he can go by just as my
pat starting.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
He deserves a spot, right, He deserves the spot big time.
Like he's he's not an impact player, he's just he
makes a big impact when he's on the field, whether
he's stargning or not. So he deserves to be there.
You need him on there. You need your big time
game players on there, and he's one of them. Now
he may be young, you know, more the rookie side
of things, but he's showing up every day, every game. Sorry,

(25:23):
and he's you know, he's showing that he's got the goods,
and yeah, keep him on there, keep him on there.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
I reckon at the end of the day, Bro, at
the end of the day, I just didn't say if
you tell me the star of the season that we're
gonna win against the Broncos without d w Z, Roger,
Misha Harris and Chance and Robberia as well, you know,
like I mean, but those those four in particular, are
they're four absolute yeah, you know, starters every day of

(25:51):
the week. So the fact that we got a win
against the Broncos team who were I'm just trying to
think that. I'm pretty sure they're fully fat. There's no one,
you know, no one who would usually start who had
missed that game. So yeah, they take a win against
against the Broncos, especially the Broncos, I mean, I know
they're one of my least favorite teams, and I'm pretty

(26:11):
sure for memory there they're up there for you as well.
So yeah, yeah, I mean I'll take that every day
of the week. And if they can just yeah, keep
keep just not ugly, but they're definitely gained. These are
games which in previous seasons the Warriors were lost, and
maybe there's just been a little mental mental switch the year,

(26:32):
you know, having some of these Ausie guys there, like
some sort of Banning and Ford and way Legan, Kip Cake,
well just they just bring the boys back down to earth.
But yeah, there's a few few questions we should specially
out some some whalleyames, John we.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
Shall, we shall you go for mate, I've got still
thinking about my last one, but yeah you go, mate, you'll.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
Yeah, so three points. I hope we're both giving them
a few shout outs so far. But I gave it
to out of the capa.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yeah, they scored for the third week.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
In the right brow a try out of what basically nothing,
you know, you think of the three trays he scored,
the ball being different, you know, I run away one
from a sort of cap about four storm players around him,
and then the other way He just took the ball
from about fifteen minutes out and sort of ran through
about three or.

Speaker 3 (27:20):
Four Broncos defenders.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
He had four tackle breaks, played, played sixty nine minutes
at big minutes. We talked before about, you know, like him,
come off the bench and back player, but he proves
that he can.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
He can put the minutes in as well. So I loved,
love what I saw.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
From him, And yeah, I hope that he will start again,
but I suspect once Severn's fat, he'll probably come back
to the bench. But there's no way they can't not
have them off the bench at least. I just still
remember that Broncos game he played. Bulldolf's played last year's
debut game, and he came on, you know that sixty
minutes into the game and he was just doing these
ridiculous runs and bought such energy. So it's cool that

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he's power to sort of just keep that up. And
I just hope that he doesn't get so into the
storm twenty three years and then becomes the next the
other cat.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
Yeah two points to Aaron Clark.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
Yeah, I think we've both shouted him out hate hate,
but played, yeah, sixty minutes, so a few extra minutes
and he has been the last few weeks, but twenty
runs one hundred and sixty.

Speaker 3 (28:17):
Minutes topped the top the run meads for.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
The Fords, twenty nine tackles, and he was just a
very important.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
Part of that.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
That's those boys in the middle really doing the doing
the hadyards and one point to a pickie.

Speaker 4 (28:30):
I thought, yeah I did, I didn't probably would have
rather still seeing tomorrow Martin would go at the back
and keep to a picky on the wing just while
we've got Roger and and.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
Downing out for so long, because it's just he just's
still learning.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
How to play in that position.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
But yeah, every time he gets the shot on that
number one jersey, he takes it up. As a mentioned before,
he had a Tria assist.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
He sort of for Coss.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
His try out was a pretty unconventional cack but which
word well and to cost you to be able to
just have the composure to get it down hundred similar
to made us the top the run run made us
for the team and each before zero eras what I thought,
fall back on a night like that was sensational.

Speaker 3 (29:14):
So it's my my three two one fair enough?

Speaker 1 (29:19):
Yeah, very similar meaning normally I would, you know, go
with my boy talk a pickie, but I actually don't
have him, so it's a bit of a surprise there
for one. But no, hell a Sema three and just
like everything you said pretty much just just echoing everything
that you said. You know, you know, for someone you
know so young to make us, you know, to stamp
his foot, I'm not now I'm not in on the

(29:39):
Warriors out but now on the starting side, and he's
making an impact every time he's on the field, and
and and his carriers are awesome, and it's just just
so athletic, so big but athletic as well. And I
just think that, you know, like you said, he's just
a it's something we have to keep. We have to
lock him in for a long time, I think, because
I'm confident that if he was available, I don't thinking

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there will be there will be a lot of clubs
that would would won him that one. That's that's for sure.
So he's definitely someone that, like you said, he's the future.
He's the future, and I think there's a few players
there that are the future of the club. So he's
definitely one win you to lock him. But yeah, three
points for Helasma. For me, I hate Eric Clark at
two points as well. I just thought, every I'm love
I'm loving that every game, no matter how good or

(30:23):
bad the Warriors are playing, he's still doing his job,
you know, to perfection pretty much. I mean he's not
he's not the he's not the big ball playing lock,
you know what I mean. He's more of a one
that just takes the hits up. He more and more
takes the hits and then rather than actually getting in
the line and you know, passing on to the next
the next player. But you know, he's he's he seems

(30:44):
to be quite He's quite a slippery character, isn't he.
Like you know, he's breaking tackles and players, you know,
they're slipping off them, myles, you know, obviously slopped on
some k way on and on his legs or something
because he's slipping through those tackles. So yeah, no, Eric Clark,
I think he's amazing. And when we bought him at
the start of the season, I was just like, you know, okay, cool,

(31:04):
but I wasn't like so excited. But now I realized, well,
what a well by. You know, he's awesome, he's great,
So yeah, Leon Clark two points and my one point
was so much Burnett. I just thought he left from
the front. It's not just not just for what he
did and his carries. The post contact me is just
all those media that you mentioned, all the all the
stats that you mentioned as well. But his leadership on

(31:26):
the field was awesome. I just think he's having a big,
big influence on the side, and I think that's an
awesome thing, you know, in Australian coming over, having a
big influence on his othern side. It's it's awesome to see,
you know that he's loving it and he's and I
saw in his post match I and this has got
nothing to do with game obviously, but in his post
match conference where he spoke, he spoke about you know,
like representing well, you know, the cultural Week, the Jersey

(31:49):
and would have represented, et cetera. I just thought it
was awesome to hear him say that sort of stuff,
you know. And yeah, that's why I'm just thinking, like
his leadership and it's just ability to just to rally
everyone and you know, keep going forward. I think it's awesome.
So yeah, Mitch Blandy gets one point from me.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
Just too quick, right, and they we're watching the game,
and I was watching it with my brother and sister.

Speaker 3 (32:10):
In law and my wife, and yeah, everyone was like,
what's the store of the jersey?

Speaker 2 (32:14):
There was a few few questions being asked about the jersey,
and I was like, a culture around and we was
trying to figure and figure it out.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
I quite liked that.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
But yeah, I had another friend saying, I look like
a laundry misshead. What did you What were your thoughts
on the on the jersey they were in.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
And it's funny that you say that because so Gina
was next to me, my wife was next to me
at the time, and she goes, what are they wearing?
I said the same thing, like, I see what you said. Oh,
it's culture around. So they're just wearing a jusey of
mixture of you know, different patterns from different cultures that
you know, they're a bit in the club. And she
was like, it looks like it looks like money. It
looks like like a dollar note, you know, like like

(32:49):
you know, like the faded dollar notes and the type thing.
So yeah, that's why she she was like, she didn't
you know, it's culture around or anything, but she said,
what are they wearing. She was like that, So I
was just like, yeah, I just thought it not a
bad jersey. I've seen better. But yeah, I wasn't thinking
too much of it. It was just funny hearing my wife
thinking it was it looked like a dollar note.

Speaker 3 (33:09):
Yeah, yeah, I wasn't too offended by it.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
But I think I've seen send them had been a
better culture around jerseys, but yeah, probably send them head
words as well. So I just I just thought because
it was funny because everyone was asking me, and then
I was.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
Sort of like, oh, this is why.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
I mean, yeah, the few the boys were asking about
and the boys chat as well, So.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
Let me ask you. Let me ask you this thing
about the chats, because you know, when never there's a
game that the Warriors play, whether they want or lose,
I mean, I'm pretty sure both of us, we all
get all of a sudden, my folks, that's pinging, you know, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping,
messages from different people asking me my thoughts and want
to talk about the game and stuff. And I'm sure
that happens to you as well. What what were the

(33:52):
reactions with you when it come to this game, because
I'm sure a lot of people would have been talking
to you. You said you had people around you so
after the game because for me, for me, a lot
of people were like saying, awesome to see the Warriors winning,
but you know, I'm still not convinced they're saying the
same things. So pretty much I've been saying in this
in this episode, a lot of people that I was
talking to were actually they were loving that the fact

(34:12):
that the Warriors and the top four that they won,
that they got they managed to win the game an
addly situation type thing, but they were still thinking, like,
I still don't see the side, you know, making it
unless they make some changes. So that was that. That
was the main topic of the conversations I went through
from many people over the weekend. What about yourself?

Speaker 3 (34:32):
Yeah, so yeah, I was watching the first half of
other people.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
Then we went home and watched the second half just out,
but I was watching the second half on my phone.
But yeah, I'm just sort of heavy. Look further through
the chat and it was just everyone's saying, Wow, we'll forgive,
We'll forgive Metcalf for the other three. They should take
Harve his conversions and fifty meters back. Oh my efing god,

(34:57):
for Ice cold. So yeah, it was just the and
been like wow, someone seemed to screenshot throw off some
flights to Sydney on Friday, October the third, so uh yeah, yeah,
it was just everyone said it's been like wow, that's wild.
We'll take it because absolutely yeah said before we'll take tattoo.

Speaker 3 (35:23):
What's from that? And it's race Welsh. You know, maybe
he feels a bit.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
Bad for dobbing the Warriors all those years ago, so
I thought he'd give your fun back to the it's
not faithful. So he seems to just not be quite
as electric as he is he has been the last
couple of seasons. He he really seems to have I know,
like Friday Nights said, it wasn't the greatest conditions from
but just this whole season is it just seems to
be I mean, maybe there's been an injury nearing them

(35:46):
and which is now sort of actually caught up with them,
and it looks like he's out for origin. So I'm
grateful all as you said, was fans out there.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
Now Kevin Pom would have got it anyway. But no,
you're right, he hasn't been isn't hasn't had the greatest
start of the season. And you know, I mean, I
don't know that kick we kicked it, you know, obviously
got a big boot on him over that got over
the line to give us a penalty. But I don't know,
maybe maybe maybe the the water from the rain got
into his eye and the eyeliner and I don't know

(36:17):
if it just judged his you know, just sort of
just blewed his eye vision. I don't know, I don't know.
But he didn't have the greatest game. But you know,
kudos to him for staying on the whole field because
he got the injury pretty early in the game. I
think it was in within the first five minutes he
got that injury and stayed on. Yeah, it was in
the first five minutes he got the injury, and I
think when cook Ate Wells hit him, you know, hit
him hard and he got up limping. I think that's

(36:38):
where it still started. So for him to stay on
the field for eighty minutes, you know, after all that,
you know, got to give him show a mat of
respect for that. So but hopefully he recovers well, because
you know, we're not we're not dogs here, so we know,
hopefully recovers well from that game. But going, you know,
like on the comments as well, I saw that or
another another common comment was you know, I think even

(36:58):
you said this as well, was like, ah, the Warriors
don't make this easy on themselves. That was the reason
why I'm pointing out that line is because there was
It was quite common between many people. You know, they
don't make that. They made that. They made that half themselves.
And this is what I mean by yes, they're winning
in the ugly, but they doesn't have to be that
way if they if they just tidy up a few things,

(37:18):
I would rather see the Warriors instead of doing some
reds with dazzl right, I'd rather see the Warriors do
a bit more clinical, you know what I mean, if
the play on the last tackle, for example, if the
play doesn't come off fair enough, and it doesn't always,
not every play is going to come off. But as
long as they do something clinical and something really good.
And but I'm not saying that though. That's the thing.

(37:39):
On the last tackle, I have really really minimal hope
that something's going to come out of it because it
just looks so disjointed. And I know that a lot.
That's another thing that a lot of people were saying
to me that tack just looks looks rubbish and it's
I mean people wmight you know who are listening to this,
go ahead roast me. Don't agree with me, It doesn't
bother me. I'm just saying to you that I just
it just looks so disjointed to me, and there's something

(38:01):
they're going to tie up, which is why I'm hoping
my hot take will come into place where trying the
void makes the side, because I think they just need
a bit of a They need to injig someone that's
got a bit of a it's got a bit of
a brain that can actually steer the team around the
park with these that doesn't phase them, you know, that
doesn't It doesn't phase them. So yeah, anyway, that's what

(38:23):
I wanted to ask you, mate about that. So should
we just move on?

Speaker 2 (38:27):
So?

Speaker 1 (38:27):
What else have we got on here today? Mate? Did
you hear anything for chet? GBT asked?

Speaker 3 (38:32):
I just asked who the Great? I had a feeling
I know who the answer was, but who the Great?

Speaker 2 (38:38):
Well, you know, the field goals are really kind of
playing with my head and I wanted to know who
the best field goal? You know, Warrior's player who's who's
as far as field goals sort of go, and you'll
be surprised to say, yeah that this was Chechipe's answer. Yeah,
Georg Johnson is why do they regarded as the best
field gold concurrent New Zealand Warrior's history. Over his career

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with the Warriors, he successfully kicked seventeen field goals, the
most in the club's history. Johnson's field goals were often
pivotal in secure invective victories. Noticle instances include twenty twenty two,
he kept game winning field goals and golden point extra
time against both for North Queensland Cowboys and the Camber Raiders.
Twenty eighteen Johnson's loss of two field goals and the

(39:22):
die in minutes to clinch of twenty nineteen victory over
the Canber Raiders. These classic performances highlight Johnson's exceptional ability
to deliver under pressure, solidifying his reputations the premiere field
goalkicker for the New Zealand Warriors. So yeah, shout out
sual Sja for his prolific field goals and hopefully we
can see some more of that action, some of that

(39:43):
action from whoever was playing seven in the next few weeks.
I imagine that Metcalfe will will stick around despite John's
hot take.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
Yeah, well, I mean despite the fact they didn't have
the greatest season last year. Seawan Johnson, you could always
allow on him when those like, you know, in a
touch moment and that he when he could slop the job,
you always were like you could always could do it.
You had confidence and then that he was going to
do he was going to do the job. There was
always something good. So yeah, awesome chet GBT for that.

(40:14):
There's a g BT or GPT and we were just
said saying, okay, so there's been a move on from
the game because you know, like well sorry, one more
one more question, just on a quick quick things. How
do you analyze the Broncos. Do you think they were good?
We were just too good or were they just really bad?

Speaker 2 (40:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (40:35):
I mean I think they.

Speaker 2 (40:39):
I mean what we were doing to him being and
bring on to play, you know, like when you know
just when he's playing that that team just keeps on
such a role. So I'd be a little bit considered
as a Bronkers fan just after the loss to the
Brewsters and then they lost what's the squad difficult?

Speaker 3 (40:54):
They should be don't be there.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
But it's you know, I think I think we defended
Hassen Carrigan very well. You know, those two obviously can
be so so just devastating. But the traditions Peru didn't
play too well to in their favor. But yeah, oh yeah,

(41:16):
I'm happy that I'm taking that is a good win
for the Worris because yeah, it's a good Broncos.

Speaker 3 (41:22):
Team and and I'm sure that they'll.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
Have got the bulldops this week, so I wouldn't be
surprised to see it upset there.

Speaker 1 (41:29):
You're right, they were pretty much at full strength, weren't they.
And also we were depleted in terms of our bodies
on the field, so you know, yeah, I mean, despite
the fact that you know, I have a lot of
a lot of I need I need to be convinced
by some of the stuff that's happening on there, the
effort they put in store with what they've got, it
was awesome and you know, to win those games, and

(41:49):
as many people have said, and we have said as well,
they in the previous years, know the Warriors team wouldn't
have won that, they would have just lost. They were
just something would have happened to make them lose. You know,
like the game you mentioned with the Titans where you
know he always tries and town to boy slaughtered it
over to win the game sort of thing.

Speaker 3 (42:04):
It nearly happened, broke. It was to last ten minutes,
That's what That's what I mean.

Speaker 1 (42:10):
So good on them for holding the nerve and and
doing it. But I would rather than not be put
in that position where they you know, they they just
guess they play some really slipped football. Start the conversions
over the penalties over as well. You know that a
point buffer would have been awesome on the game, but
you know it happens that way. So yeah, and.

Speaker 2 (42:28):
Also also just yeah to con I think that they
can say that first try within that three or four minutes,
you know, like the indus llery together and and and
is that when that trial was scored, was like it
could be one of those games. But yeah, they managed
to they managed to put it, which I was pretty
happy about.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
You do you worry about defense? I mean that that
that try that I think it was Billy Waters, I
can't remember who scored it was. Yeah, such with such ease,
you know, I mean, such ease, does it work? Are
you sometimes our defense.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
Oh, absolutely, But I think it's more, you know, it
just it comes in waves. We're just unable to sort
of just like put that polished eighty minute performance to
get it, which I mean very few teams are. But yeah,
when we switched off defensively, I mean we showed in
that for that try, and then in the last ten
minutes when the Broncos kept crashed over for another couple

(43:24):
of tries as.

Speaker 3 (43:25):
Well, which it was a put of Christian Mark over
that Bridgewels drive.

Speaker 2 (43:29):
But I think it was all right, Like I'm pretty
sure it went back off Arthurs or cobbokt. But yeah,
I mean we're just sort of like and there was
just players standing around and.

Speaker 3 (43:39):
Just sort of no one quite knew what to do.
So yeah, there's a little thick concerns there. But I
think on the whole, like as I said before, like the.

Speaker 2 (43:48):
Fact that we were able to really in the middle
keep it tight against yeah, like the likes of Pass
and Carrigan, I think it's a good test for them
and the fact that you know, they were able to
sort of keep those guys and there's still ye, still
a few.

Speaker 3 (44:02):
Yeah, I still think we should Marks.

Speaker 1 (44:03):
But yeah, it's not my Yeah, yep, fair enough. All good.
Well look mate, let's uh, let's move on to the
night's game. Look, as I mentioned earlier, everyone's listening to this.
It's Monday night here, we're recording on Monday night, so
team naming is not until tomorrow. The episode will be
out tomorrow, So I guess right now, So if you
if you're if you're listening to this and this Tuesday,

(44:24):
and it's Tuesday evening, for example, you're running why we're
trying to predict this because we're recording on Monday night.
I was hoping to go over the team and see
because at the moment, we have Chance coming back right
this week, chance coming back. I think Ruckory Berry's coming
back as well from suspension because any had a one
game suspension, I believe. So that means the juggling will

(44:46):
have to start up again within the side. You know,
the day to move they had to shift there a
few players around this game, and that will happen again
now that some players are coming back into the side.
So I wanted to ask you, mate, for the night's game,
what do we do? What what is the line up? What
is your what is your predicted line up. You know
you can you can tell us your preferred lineup, which
it makes it, which makes it easy, or what do

(45:07):
you think is actually gonna happen? You know, you know,
what do you think is going to do? Put yourself
in webs of shoes, what would you do?

Speaker 3 (45:15):
Well?

Speaker 2 (45:17):
Yeah, I mean Rockaberry comes bick and and yeah it
was just one week, so I speak, he'll come into
center and then you'll have him and Ali Lata from
the centers with at the wing.

Speaker 3 (45:34):
Chance Chance comes back.

Speaker 2 (45:35):
And I think Charles has been great this season, and
we do so to praises but Chance, yeah, I mean
says he lose and I think he's been one of
the one of the best for the Worries this year.
So yeah, him have been the other winning spot. Would
Pumpy imagine he didn't there his greatest game the other day.

(45:56):
I think he's still I still would prefer to see
him and sent him, but I think he's stard On
the picking lesson, there's more value in starting those two
young guys, and Pomp probably offers a bit more hosatility
of being able to play that by the one yea yeah,
and then I mean the halfs will be Hamster be
there in midcalf about ninety ninety five percent sure of that.

(46:21):
I leave a little, I live a few percent just
for your for the sake of your wishes and the Yeah,
I mean obviously Jackson Ford started last week and he
was great and he put on the big minutes. We
talked about last week about the opportunity. You know, potentially

(46:42):
nor Corry is starting in the front so I'd like
to see that with Wheat obviously he and that popular and.

Speaker 3 (46:49):
Barnie and the other.

Speaker 2 (46:51):
The other front row spot with being so that mentality him,
I can can start with the cape well, and then
you Clark obviously at few day and then the bench
will be sort of.

Speaker 3 (47:06):
Forgot we are here.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
But I mentioned, yeah we have Malga will have I
mean who playing on the bench in the weekend so
tomorrow madam was that it wasn't as well? Yeah, and
then to the Jackson Ford jackson board on the bench
val Malga will put Sam Helly there for a bit
of the versatility and I'd like to say it and then.

Speaker 1 (47:32):
Not tom Ae Yeah nice mate. Well look I like
I like that, especially Sam Heley. I think he's I
think he's doing a great job, and he's shown, he's
shown that he's got the goods and he's you know,
he's he's plays hooker. But he's a bit he's a
bit of a bigger body, so he's not lucky, you know,
like the the traditional sort of hockey that's one of
us on the shoulder side. He's actually quite quite tall

(47:53):
and big. And I just think he's I think he's
got the goods and I think, you know, it wouldn't
be too long before you see him, because I mean,
I read I read. I don't know if this is
true or not, but I read that Webster was talking
about waiting and won't be playing any minutes becase they
need to rest them. And sometimes they took him off
and then they put Harris to beat into hooker and
Tomaro Martin into five eight or I think that's what

(48:16):
they did. Yeah, anyway, But so I think then they'll
I think Webster will be looking along those sides, who's
the best to be utility Because on my side, I'm
going to predict. Now it's not based on what I
want because if I if I had my way, it
would be very different. But you know, sort of thing
I'll be I'll be like you, I'd be having your curre,
you know, playing in the front row for example, some

(48:37):
of that. So this is what I think Webster will do.
I think Chance will come back at fall back. I'd
rather see t a pickie than have Chance maybe playing
the wing or center. I'd rather that, but I don't
see that happening, So change it fall back to a
pickie on wing, a little toe on one one one
center position, Rocky Berry taking the other. I think cost

(48:58):
will come out and pump people be pushed him to
the wing. So that's what that's that's the back the
back road from me. So the back line for me.
I think Town of Boyd is going to come into
the game. This is not because I wanted to happen.
I believe he's going to come into the game. I
believe that he'll come in at six and Luke Metcalf
will seven. I'd rather be reversed. I'd rather Luke Mtcalf

(49:21):
play at six and Town of boy played at seven.
I think that's the better option. But I still think
that Webster will still have a bit of loyalty towards
Luke Metcalf staying and trying to trying to prove himself
in that jersey. So that's what I reckon it's going
to happen. So seven and Town of boy And the
reason why I say Town of Boyd being there is
because of those thought, those words I heard from heard
of Webster saying about Waiting and about you know, managing

(49:41):
his his his game management because of injuries et cetera,
you know, concussions, et cetera. So and I think the
best person to be coming off the bench is that
you tell he would be Harris to better. That's why
I say that. So that's that I have six Ton
of Boys, seven, Luke Metcalf, mtch Bunny and a Waiting
in nine Jackson forty ten. Again I think he was
with that. I think new Cord will stay at eleven

(50:03):
Hell as seen at twelve, Aaron Clark, thirteen, Harris de Vita, fourteen,
fifteen Bunty sixteen, Kate Well and seventeen by Mulga. So
those are that's my seventeen. And that's that's what I
reckon Webster will do. It's still a bit of a
tricky one with the cake Well situation, because he still
might you know, you might keep cake Well starting you know, yeah, I'm.

Speaker 2 (50:25):
Okay, Well, so he should be an eighty minute player,
you know, like he find as an eighty minute player.
And yeah, yeah, I'd be very surprised to see him
come off the bench. He obviously has that utility. Sat
played center in the weekend, and he often goes out
and plays center. But yeah, i'd be very surprised to
see him have him came him off the bench.

Speaker 1 (50:43):
Yeah, that's that's my that's my That's the one I'm
a bit like, you know, fifty fifty on because I
still think that may be Webster will still stick with
him playing in his normal position, you know what I mean.
So that's the one I'm sort of fifty to fifty on.
But the one I'm really adamant about is the the
house pairing change. I think it's going to be a change,
and I think it's based on because it needs to
be done, but also because I think also that you know,

(51:04):
if they're going to manage waiting a bit better than
need someone else come off the bench. And actually, to
be honest with you, I don't say Sam herely theah
that's my preference, but I think he still might stick
with Harris to be there in the side. So that's
my seventeen mate. So just quickly before we before we
wrap everything up, we're playing the Newcastle Knights, who are
not looking the greatest at the moment. What's your thoughts

(51:26):
on the game? You know, before going to the game,
we should we this should be should this be an
opportunity that we take as Warriors to to know to
try some new things and you know, try and execute
things but better and just blowing them off the park,
you know, because you know they're a team that's a
bit vulnerable at the moment because you know they're not
they're not giving the results that they want and they're
not playing the kind of footy they want.

Speaker 2 (51:46):
Nah nah, never never on the any team in there
to just try something. And yeah, I mean they haven't
been playing great with the exception of when against Dolphins
where they scored twenty six points, they've only scored seven.

Speaker 3 (52:04):
Tries and the other five games this season so.

Speaker 2 (52:08):
Considered thirty four six and other games they had metas
hit one one another of them.

Speaker 3 (52:16):
So yeah, they're a bit of a bit of strife.
This this night's team and I play and the sact
day played down in christ Church. I think the Warriors.

Speaker 2 (52:27):
For me, we have got a pretty mixed recording christ
Church the last few times. I feel like they've gone there.
I mean I think they went there last year and
got win against the Tigers. That may be pre season,
but yeah, it'll be great, great atmosphere. I'm sure they
know I'll do in the day so well, so I'm
very jealousy front going. I bought my bought my old
man tickets for his birthday, so he's he's heading along

(52:49):
with either my mum or or his mates. So I'm
happy happy there.

Speaker 3 (52:54):
They'll be. Yeah, like I.

Speaker 1 (52:55):
Should have gone down myself, but unless he unless the
game I wanted to go to as well. I was
actually hoping, Yeah, but I've got to work all of
the ant all day. Would have worked throughout all the
services in my room. So yeah.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
Yeah. But the Nights have got a pretty record against us.
They've won six and the last teen so and we
we met last year twice. I think it was one
of one all from those games. So they've got a
pretty good recent recording that they'll be looking at that
like with how they'll be playing, they'll be looking at
it because I mean, we're we've heard of some good ones,

(53:30):
but we're not really blind teams off the park. We're
not scoring a lot of points, and that's what's been
happening till the Night. So they've been coming up against
teams that they're just blowing them off the pipe. The
Sharks last week, which I remember the Tigers a week before,
you know, it was twenty to four or something like that.
So it'll be whether we can Yeah, I mean, I
can't imagine them scoring a heap of tries against us, but.

Speaker 3 (53:52):
We just hope that we can. We can get enough
points to get us over the line.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
But I don't want to be seeing too many mess
changes just becau because we're paying to Night's team.

Speaker 3 (54:01):
That ain't great because we know that the players are
the in their team.

Speaker 2 (54:04):
But something's just not something's just not right, something's not yelling,
and Callum Pong has been very miss miss coached, I think.

Speaker 3 (54:12):
So it'd be interesting to see if the end of
my Brian dups around for the season.

Speaker 1 (54:15):
I reckon, Yeah, fair enough, fair call yep, awesome mate.
So let's let's wrap things up. Let's go through the tips.
I take us through tips for this week and then
one will have it up from there.

Speaker 3 (54:28):
Sure, thing Bard, so fift up. We've got yeah, Broncos
Bulldogs on Thursday night.

Speaker 1 (54:37):
It is in.

Speaker 3 (54:39):
Guess where they're playing. It's Uncle. You'll be shocked. Are
here beck at Uncle? After they're here? One of the
three games away? This isn't.

Speaker 2 (54:53):
Yeah, I think I'm gonna go to the Broncos. I
think they'll they'll bounce back. I think the Bulldogs it'll
lock good, but the Broncos will when they're getting that mode,
they can score a lot of points and people to
showed off.

Speaker 1 (55:06):
But yeah, I'm with you. I think so too, And
I mean to be honest with you, I've actually watched
the last couple of Borders games. I haven't watched them,
so I know that they've been that they took the
Bunnies apart apparently, so so I didn't see how they
did it. So it'd be interesting to see if the
Bunnies were just really bad or that they were just

(55:27):
two clinical. The Bulders were do clinical. But I'm really
hoping that the Broncos do bounce back, you know, for
the sake of the competition. So yeah, so I'm going
to go with Broncos as well. Mate.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
Yeah, So they just it was a defense that Bronco
Rebelas just couldn't couldn't get anything through them.

Speaker 3 (55:45):
They're probably here. I thought they had a few refree calls.

Speaker 2 (55:47):
Maybe yeah, fifty to fifty calls go against them, But
they also Rebelis weren't doing them to absolutely favors. They
would just keep you here a few years here and
the air and yeah, so I think, yeah, I mean
the six six six wins in the Roads, that's good.
You beheap with that, and that sort of record has
to has to drop somewhere, so I reckon it might be.

Speaker 1 (56:10):
Mixed up.

Speaker 3 (56:10):
So we've got three games on Friday for a good
Roasters and Dragons are first up. It's a hard one,
isn't it, No one, Yeah, it's real hard.

Speaker 1 (56:21):
Well mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
Obviously the Roasters sort of saying what they're capable of,
but then they pitchlated and seeking half. It's the Panthers
on the weekend. The Dragons seem to be playing themselves
in some form. Got a good winn against mainly last week.
So yeah, exactly, So it's a hard one. So I'm
going to give it to the Dragons my part.

Speaker 3 (56:44):
Yeah, same here, same here. Whileas nights up next you
can the Knights can pull something out of the bed,
or we're decking up a love Knights our Warriors.

Speaker 1 (56:56):
No, no, I'm picking the Warriors, but also picking the
see I'm I'm predicting that they're going to it's going
to be a bit of polished performance. That's all I think.
That's pretty much the summary about all I've been trying
to say this whole episode is I just want to
see a polish performance. That's what I want to see
from the Warriors. Yeah, polish performance doesn't have to be
everything goes one hundred percent or perfectly. I just want

(57:17):
to see a polished performance. That's what I'm trying to
say for yeah Warriors.

Speaker 2 (57:21):
For me, yeah, yeah storm that means that next storm.
And they considered forty forty points to the Dolphins.

Speaker 3 (57:33):
Yeah I'm sixteen now when they yeah.

Speaker 2 (57:35):
We end up being forty or sixteen, which is just
I haven't heard of. So I feel sorry for those
poor boys in the changing rooms afterwards. Bellow at me
would have given them an absolute.

Speaker 1 (57:44):
That was my first thought. That was my first thought
as well.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
Yeah, yeah, so I got yeah, it's revels where I said,
they've got a few calls against them, but they just
did them absolutely favors the other day. And I think
the Storm wall we saw they can do on that
first stuff against us when they're and when they're on
in the mode.

Speaker 1 (58:01):
So people of the Storm here, Yeah, no, no, you're right,
I mean I was I was thinking exactly the same thing.
I mean, I was like, oh, far, I wonder what
how Bellamy is gonna respond to that. I mean, he's
probably probably the Melbourne Storm has been said the bill
from the Dolphins at some corps you know, for you know,
destroying the changing room. So they've probably lost a bit
of money there. But yeah, no, I'll definitely go for

(58:24):
Storm to bounce back, and quite easily, to be honest.

Speaker 2 (58:28):
We've got the one of the one of the Queensland
battles up next, the Cowboys and the Titans. Yeah, both
teams are pretty hard to get a raid on. The
Thailands came out hot against the Raiders yesterday, but then similarly,
I can said that about thirty thirty straight points or
something like that, and the Cowboys just seemed to be

(58:51):
hanging around. I think they've come up for by Yeah,
they'll come back fresh. They've had about three or four
wins this season, but none of them have been bit convincing.
I'm gonna go the Titans here. I just not convinced
on the on the Cowboys. Yeah, I'm not convinced either side. Yeah,

(59:15):
I'm not convinced by either side. So this is more
like flipping a coin. Yeah, I'll give it to the
Titans for this one. They were out of you you know,
they were down a few players as well, so well
Campbell wasn't playing as well. He was out, so he
was a late scratching from so I think. So, yeah,
I think I'll give it the Titans times as well.

Speaker 3 (59:36):
Three more games fist up Painters, Seedles Panthers. Yeah, big
fist tack and a half against the Roasters, had a big.

Speaker 2 (59:42):
Win the year Seedles lost and what was quite an
exciting game itchuallys Jagans on Thursday Night, the twenty eighteen
in the end, but they sort of we're just.

Speaker 3 (59:55):
Playing catch up the whole game and couldn't quite catch
up in the end.

Speaker 2 (59:59):
But yeah, I mean, Panthers still hard to delibrate it
exactly where they are, but I think I saw enough
that they might be sort of back. Yeah, I think, Well,
let's see it was quite full stream.

Speaker 3 (01:00:14):
I say the Panthers here.

Speaker 1 (01:00:16):
Well, yeah, I'll go Panthers as well. And I mean
I think Nathan, you know, Nathan Claire was sort of
can you say something to get back to his best again,
And I think that's what that's what makes a big
difference in the side as well. I mean, like the
paramedeal for example, they have a buye this weekend, but
they they pulled off a big win against the Tigers tonight,
you know, earlier on And is it a surprise that

(01:00:38):
the injection of Mitchell Moses has helped with that, you
know sort of thing after coming back from injury. So
I'm just saying that you need when you're when you're
half back has got a bit of form, you know,
that does one does you know, benefit the team immensely.
So I think they were Nathan Claire sort of coming
back into a bit of form. I think that's just
going to help them a lot, get them over the line.
So yeah, so I'll go Panthers again.

Speaker 2 (01:01:00):
M hm. Games Raiders, Raders, Dolphins next, my beloved Raiders,
another big woman on the weekend hits the Titans and Dolphins.
Obviously coming off one of the great probably the greatest
one in their club's history, and the three you know,
probably half years probably be hard to look past that.
A big women of the Storm. I think they've now
beaten fifteen of the other sixteen teams in the comp.

(01:01:23):
It's just the bull Dogs to go, which is pretty
impressive for a team.

Speaker 3 (01:01:27):
In their third year.

Speaker 2 (01:01:28):
Who you look at them on paper and you know
they've got no right to be beat in the Storm.
But it's something something there, you know, so it lives
in Camber.

Speaker 3 (01:01:37):
So I can't I can't look past.

Speaker 1 (01:01:38):
My beloved Raiders. Yeah, I'm going to go with the Raiders.
I mean, no one's talking too much about them a
bit because but they're just going about their business and
they're they're they're doing well well I think they're sick
and and they third on the table. Yeah yeah, third,
So you know they're doing that. They're just going about
their business and coming up with the wins, so you know,

(01:01:59):
go on them. Yeah, I think, well I'll go to
the Dolphins just I mean it's a bit interesting. Dolphins
a little interesting. I think we've picked every team so
far as it's been the same side.

Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
So yeah, yeah, I tried to sort of you know,
make a few calls in the last couple of the
years you followed me. So they were got one one
upsets finished off Tigers, Tigers and.

Speaker 3 (01:02:21):
Your your your beloved Sharks mate, despite.

Speaker 1 (01:02:25):
The fact they can't stand the Sharks. Yeah, well, I'll
pick them to beat the Tigers, especially when you know
they just lost pretty convincingly. Oh well, I didn't watch
the game, but looking on the score it looks like
they lost convincingly to the Tigers.

Speaker 2 (01:02:39):
Sorry, they were by sixteen, and then the Tiger scored
a couple of tries to get it down to about four,
I think, and then he'll scored two tries in the
last that four minutes, so the score, the score doesn't
probably represent Actually, you know, it looked like the Tigers.

Speaker 3 (01:02:56):
Were gonna win.

Speaker 1 (01:02:57):
Yeah, they were.

Speaker 3 (01:02:58):
They had all the momentum and then and then they
just they they.

Speaker 1 (01:03:02):
Share fair cool.

Speaker 2 (01:03:06):
It looks on the score boards different on the Yeah,
I'll go to Tigers because I think also I want
to make it a bit different. But I think that
probably you know, but less drama happen this week. Hopefully
they can just get over all this lucky album stuff.
Will be interesting to see what happens. Yeah, situation, but yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:03:25):
We played, he played for he played first grade, reserve grade. Yeah,
so you know, let's let's let's wrap it up there.
Basically just just funnel final final thoughts. Fun thoughts from
me is that you know Warriors, yeah, awesome, they're they're
on a run. You know, they're they're they're in the
top four, and you know, long way it continue to

(01:03:45):
be that way, that their Warriors will stay around that area,
you know, for the for the rest of the season.
But I'm just really hoping to see a polish performance.
That's what I'm looking for the Warriors team, and because
I don't think we've seen one so far. And it's
just my honest opinion, I don't think we've had a
polished Warrior's performance in any of the games we've had.
It's only we're only seven rounds in, but I don't

(01:04:07):
think i've seen one, despite the fact they were won
four games. I don't think the ones that we've won
has been a polished performance by any means. So that's
why I'm looking forward to hoping to see this this
coming coming out a game against the Nights, It's just
a polished performance. Let's win the game obviously, but a
polished performance is what I want to see from the Warriors,
where you know their set plays are you know, they're

(01:04:29):
actually attempting to set players rather than they take be disjointed,
et cetera. So that's what I want to say. That's
just my my last my closing, my closing note there
for the for the episode. Yeah, closing note there.

Speaker 3 (01:04:41):
My closing note is just yeah, book those flights.

Speaker 2 (01:04:44):
You know before they the whole country gets on board
and they in zeal And, you know, boost surprises.

Speaker 3 (01:04:52):
Book those flights the laws and make it to the
Grand Final.

Speaker 1 (01:04:55):
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Speaker 3 (01:05:26):
That's the worst baby Jeep, your theface