NRL 2025 | The Wahs are in the top 2!

The Warriors move to outright second on the NRL ladder after a one-point thriller against the Dragons! Richard and John analyze the match as well as preview this Saturday's match against the Dolphins, and give their thoughts on some of the big State of Origin questions.

Don't forget to give us a like or subscribe and find us on social media to get involved with the conversation.
Facebook
Instagram
YouTube

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Hello, Hello, Hello, and welcome to another episode of The
Cat's Warriors. Yes, you heard that right, it's the Cat's Warriors.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Here we are. My name is Richard.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
The band we can conduct to Letty and the bandwagonism
full flight because the Warriors are coming off another convincing
when you know the boys just they the head the
heart heart rates going for Warriors fans around the country,
around then the world. I'm sure there's plenty of them around.
But yep, I'm Richard. I'm joining as always by John John.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
How are you my bro?

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Good mate? Yeah, I'm convincing. I love I love. I
love the optimism there, mate, I love the you know,
the positivity there. But yeah, now you're you're spot on
in regards the old heart rates, et cetera. I think,
as I mentioned in a previous video regarding the game,
you know the Warriors, by the end of the season,
that they keep playing like that, in winning just by

(01:09):
one point, et cetera, they're going to cause a lot
of heart problems by the end of the season. But hey, yeah,
well wins a win, right, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
They'll finish the season with about a twenty to twenty
two to four win loss win loss but the points
to French will be you know, plus plus twenty or
something like that.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
That's all. That's all. Yeah, that's that's that's an interesting thing.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
Bro.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Like, we're on we're on plus one. We're second out
right on the table with a plus one points differential.
Who have you ever heard of that? This is nonsense.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
It's crazy, bro.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
It's yeah, seven or seven to two, and we haven't,
like we've lost two times big ash wins, but they
haven't been massive. You know, you look at that Storm
Warrior Storm Tigers game. You stay with sixty four points.
Now we haven't we haven't lost by sixty points to
a team, but we're winning games. So it's stress for
as it is for the fans. I'll take it. I'm

(02:02):
sure we'll dive deep into into that game, but just quickly.
I was one of the most bizarre rounds of rugby league,
one of the greatest rounds of rugby league I can remember.
I was sitting up on Saturday night after that the
penriufth Cowboys game thirty all draw, and just being like,
oh my goodness, can't believe it. I just wanted to
just give a quick, quick sort of see if you
had a favorite game of the week or this particular

(02:25):
highlight no norm Warriors related that sort of stuck out
to you.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
John, To be honest, You're right in terms of it
was a crazy round. I thought the Bulldogs Raiders game
was pretty crazy. I just thought the you know, I
started watching it and I just thought the camp the Raiders,
they had this, they had this game, they had it.
They had a big, big, big lead, and they allowed
the Bulldogs to plug their way back in and get

(02:48):
the wind. The excited watched this a lot of the
second half, and when I actually saw the result, I
was just what the heck, how did that happen? I
just saw camera dominating and then all of a sudden
and I just saw the scores. I was like, what
the heck. I don't know what just happened. But I mean,
from what I did see of that game, it was
it was. It was pretty good. It was pretty good
from Canberra. So then they looking they're looking pretty good,

(03:10):
but you know, they've got they've got a pull of
a minument performance as well, just like we do, just
like we have to do at the moment. That was
that was my crazy game, mate.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, bro, it was on the back of some Stephen
Crichton absolute magic. I don't know if you saw his
sort of basketball skills was holding the ball in one
hand and fucking offloads off like that guy's got to
be in orangin love that For me it was probably well,
it was just has to be the Broncos losing to
the rabbit Os twenty fourteen fourteen nil and then Latrell

(03:40):
just in the final ten minutes gets appealing only kicks
a field goal from about forty nine meters out and
then just to rub it and he does the old
you know, last player the game, like the last last
player of the game does the slow sort of to
the ground. No one tackles them when he dives over
to score a try. So a bit of a grub move.
But oh, because it's yourself, Welsman, I was gonna ask you.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
What are your thoughts on there. I've been seeing a
lot of mixed reactions. You know, a lot of people
saying you played at the whistle. It's fine, you played
at the whistle. But then there are a lot of
people say, there's just a just a grubby move, just
like you just said, there's a bit of a grubby move.
What are your thoughts, like actually you thought so, I
mean really asked pretty much answered the question there. But
it's a grubby move, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Oh yeah, it's a bit of a dog act.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
I'm not gonna lie, But I think context as well,
like the game, you know, like obviously head got to
the point where you know, it was the last player
of the game pretty much, and they had I mean
they were only up by two or one time or whatever.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
They must have been two, but now all all out
that time, especially because it's up.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Against the Broncos. So yeah, yeah, I'll allow that one.
But yeah, it was just a wild round. You know,
you've got three massive, massive comebacks. You had the Storm
Tigers sixty four nil. Just another example of why I
was the greatest, the greatest competition of all. So but

(05:05):
we're not here to sort of talk about the rest
of the games. We took here to talk about our
Blooded Warriors, a fifteen to fourteen win over the Saint
George Wad of Dragons. There's always you know, strong start,
a couple of early tries, got out to a fourteen
zerl League defended really well in the first half until
the final minute were they to try and and then
the floodgates sort of opened in the second half.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yeah, so, I mean, first question.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
I want to ask you is did the Warriors win
that game or did the Dragons lose the game for themselves?

Speaker 3 (05:38):
No, I think the Warriors won the game because and
the reason why I say that is because obviously they
got the points, but it wasn't And yes, you know,
there was a big momentum shift in the second half
and they kind of the Warriors kind of lost their way.
But you could see them the attack, like you know,
when they were actually down the arena was real disjointed.
Do you see that. You know, this this looks like
they didn't know what they were doing, totally contrast to

(06:01):
what they were doing the first half, where they looked
on fire. They were just everything was sticking there, executing
their plays really well. So yeah, it just looked totally
contrast to what they were doing in the first half.
But at the same time, Saint George were you know,
they was doing their points as well. But at the
same time, we had some really really strong resilient defense
as well. They could have could they could have piled

(06:21):
on some more tries on you know, when you think
about it, but the Warrior's defense was really great and
that was that was awesome. That's another great, awesome thing
to see about the side this year. It's not just
about you know, the ability to attack, but their defense
has been rock solid. And yeah, but you know, again
it was it shouldn't have got I mean, I really
RECOGNI should't have got that got to that point. A
lot of teams are coming back these days and stuff

(06:42):
like that, so you can't count any team out. Anything
can come back from behind and you know, and pull
on those points and just you know, just pip you
right at the end. But thankfully Luke Metcalf for that,
you know, that clutch drop goal, that field goal he did.
I actually thought at the time that he had actually
done it. He'd just done a bit too early. There
was still not ten nine minutes to go, and I
was just thinking what honestly, I was honestly thinking, what

(07:03):
the heck are you doing? I was like, what are
you doing? There's still ten minutes to go. Why don't
you go for the try or something? But you know,
because you know, because then they would have kicked the
ball down, then we'd have to start all over again,
you know, and then you know, you give them the
opportunity to get a penalty or something. So I just
thought at the time was the wrong move. But you know,
obviously he continue what he was doing and listening to Wibi,
you know, in his postmatch conference press conference, he said

(07:26):
that you know, yeah, they backed them. They he knew
what he was doing, so they were worried about it.
But they still had to defend for nine minutes, which
is a long time, which is a long time when
you think about it, right in those moments and those
sort of pressure pressure, high pressure games, it's a long
time nine minutes. So that's why I'm saying, like they
didn't lose the game, they won it because they still
had to defend for nine minutes when the Dragons were

(07:49):
just throwing everything at them. So yeah, that's my thoughts.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
Anyway, Yeah, I just help that.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah, in that final nine minutes that they just the
Dragons just seemed to get really goggled a to gut
a kick up, and a lot of it probably was
on the back of sort of some pretty desperate Warriors defense.
A couple of those boys must have been pretty gaessed,
especially with the andrews that had happened throughout the game
with Bunty going off. Obviously knew Correy had a spell.
He came back on, but he had been had to

(08:15):
go off for an hia, so he was off for
fifteen minutes of the rules. Jackson Ford first head up
of the second half. You know, it wasn't wasn't what
we needed. And then yeah, so tomaraw Marlin coming on
and playing, playing in the middle, playing at Locke for
a lot of the game, and I thought he was
he was brilliant. It was great to see him back
out there. So there was Yeah, it was another sort

(08:38):
of heart stopper from the boys, but but I'm glad
they could done. Yeah, they could win it. And the
Dragons could Yeah, they sort of. I didn't think they
shot themselves in the foot a bit more they had there,
you know, they obviously had a couple of opportunities, but
they were able to take it. And I think what
Metcalf had seen is what the rest of us had seen,
is that the Warriors just couldn't score a try on
the second half.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
He realized that earlier and.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
Thought, hey, look let's just take the kick with ten
minutes to go in the second half, and and and
put the pressure on the Dragons and it paid off
because they just couldn't compose, They couldn't sort of get
themselves composed enough. Yeah, I was just you know, looking
at this team at the moment, it's looking like that
spine's gonna be you know, barring injuries, we're going to
see those those four guys playing the spine. Nicol Cotsta

(09:19):
with Mickcalf and c h t and my Legan. Do
you think that's the spine that can take us, you know,
deep into the finals.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
You had to ask it, didn't you. Yeah, Like, like
I mean, I'm probably gonna get roasted by the Warriors
fans by saying this, but look, I'm just gonna be
straight up, I'm still not one hundred percent sold. Like
I know they're doing that, they're doing the job. Like
I've been praising our house for example, or the last
few weeks, especially because things are sing to gel. I

(09:47):
just I just can't help but feel that Harris to
Veda would probably be better as a utility and having
someone like town of Boyd at six you know, or
you know, because I know, I mean the reason why
say Tanda Boyd at the Sexes because we we we
both know all his fans know that Metcalfe is not
getting out of at seven juicy no matter what. No
matter what, he's not getting He's wister has gone in there,

(10:10):
and that's the way he's the way he that's the
way he does things. So I'd rather maybe see Tanner
Boyd there and not just for his good running game,
but his good kicking game as well. So that's that's
that's just my opinion. But that doesn't mean that Harris
to Be is playing bad. I'm not saying he's playing
bad he needs to get kicked out. I just think
you could probably use him in a better way. That's
that's what I'm trying to say. He's strong enough. We've

(10:33):
seen how You've seen how he can tackle, right, He's
he's got some good, strong defensive moves there, and you know,
and he would he could easily fit into you know,
ball playing Locke, you know what I mean. I know
Eric Clark's there, and if Eric, if he comes off,
which he does do at times, you know, put Harris
to be the there. I mean, that's just my opinion.
But like I said, that's not me saying he's down

(10:53):
on form or anything or you know, he needs to
go because he's he's you know, someone better. I just
think that it would work better that way. But that's
just my.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
Yeah, I thought, yeah, well yeah, at the moment, I'm
of that mentality there. But it's not broke, don't fax that.
But I know there is a lot of people and
it's it's not that it's perfect, you know, Like I mean,
we've seen that in the last two weeks. You know,
the fact that I think for two weeks in a row,
we haven't scored a try on the second half. And
you know, obviously we're doing enough in the first half,

(11:24):
but you can't rely on that against you know, a
high flying Storm team or you know, a Panther's team
when they get back into form. So we really need
to just, yeah, ensure that we are playing.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
For the eighty minutes.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
It's been a problem for the Warriors, particularly last of
a couple of seasons. We've talked about it a lot,
just you know, putting them their eighty minute performance, and
it's something we I feel like we've I don't think
we've seen.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
It this season.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
Maybe maybe the Manly game, but I still feel like
I think we started, you know, the first fifteen minutes
that Manley game, we were moved down about ten mil
you know, so now we didn't even see it in
that game.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
So be good to see a bit more of that.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
But the problems like, you know, like why do you
the second half? You know, like what, what's what's going
what's going on there?

Speaker 1 (12:08):
Like something about something about putting the Warriors Jersey on.
I think I generally think there's just a mentality there
that they're just sort of like, you know, we just
we can't. We know what it's like to be a
Warriors fan, and we can't. It's never easy. So we're
going to give the fans, you know, we're just going
to keep that consistency up for the fans and and
not and not get their hopes up too much. But yeah,

(12:29):
the defense that they've you know, been able to sort
of the last two weeks, been able to sort of yeah,
with standing some pretty hot attack from both the Cowboys
and the Dragons, like you know, like even on their
first half before they'd scored, I thought that the defense
was amazing.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
You know.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
There was that the Jacob little sort of save where
there was about four Warriors there, but they were just
they looked like you know, they were just sort of
forgathering themselves because the dragons were making their way up upfield,
but we were, we were holding them off, and it's
just they just couldn't find a gap in the defense.
So yeah, just cut us to them for defensively. But
it's definitely a problem. And you can't know they're not

(13:06):
going to keep be able to do that every week.
To just not score a try on the second half,
you know, it's just and yeah, I mean we'll take it.
I mean, you know, you look at some of the stats.
I mean, we hit a ninety three percent completion rate,
so I mean that's helping even though we weren't you know,
we weren't sort of scoring points obviously, were we were
getting the ball for far enough downfield and making it

(13:27):
hard for them to sort of bounce back. And it
was really just that you know, that tried within and
a half time and then sort of in the first
what ten fifteen minutes the second half, we just sort
of had a few defensive laps. It was once again,
I think a lot of it was down there their
left side, which was our right side.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
You know.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
So the last couple of weeks, there's been a few
few issues there. Obviously, there's been a lot of a
lot of injuries in the outside backs, and that's sort
of We probably won't get back to full strength for
another another few weeks with rock Aberry and Alilato out.
But we could see Roger this week. I think there
was some science he may have been back last week,
so I imagine he walked straight back into the team and say.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
I'd be surprised if he doesn't play this week, and
we walk straight back to the team. But like you
know that they try. They scored it on the run
of the end of halftime. I actually thought the try
was a good one. It wasn't because it was just
a bad defense from us. I just thought it was
just a good time, a good try. It was a
pretty good Well, yeah, we'll execute a try. So but
you're right, you know, we can't. We can't keep playing

(14:30):
a game of two halves every game. I honestly, you know,
I have no doubt that we're going to make it
to the top eight. And if we keep doing what
we're doing, you know, top four, but to go far.
And when I say far, I mean is that win
the competition, because that's what we're here for. Right, we're
not here just to make up numbers. We're here to
win the competition. We've got to have their consistency. And
it just shows, for example, what you just see the
state about the completion rate. So things are healthy on

(14:53):
the field. They're doing they're doing things right, you know,
they're not It's not like they're making a lot of
eras or anything like that. It's at times they're just
using their way a little bit, you know, like they're
not executing their players. Like in the first half they're
doing it like to perfection. They're doing really well and
they're scoring, you know, at a rapid pace. But in
the second half there's a big momentuship. It's not just
because the other team is obviously scoring points. It's because

(15:16):
what we're doing is not working. Now, what we're doing
is not working in terms of about plays and stuff.
So you know, we get down their end, we have
a full set of six, we do something, but it
just comes to a dead end and then they just
and then we just go again. The cowboys get oh, sorry,
the opposition gets the ball and then yeah, they just
do that, just goes round again. So it's yeah, it's
for me, it's about So what that says to me,

(15:38):
it's just they're just losing their way a bit in
the second I don't know if it's I don't know
if it's fatigue. I don't know what it is it's
causing it, but they've got to do something about it
because it's yeah, it's to go far from the competition.
You've got to put a more consistent performance. And the
thing is the Warriors know that. You know, Webster has
been vocal about it. He doesn't shy away from it.
He said, we're not playing that great. He said their

(16:00):
second half wasn't great. He admits it. So it was
much by it. In the in the conference press conference,
postmatch press conference speeches and stuff, they just keep going
on about that we know we near where we want
to be. And if that's the case, oh, I can't
wait to see what the Warriors like where they are,
where where they when they are where they want to be,
because it's going to be quite quite a hard team

(16:22):
to stop. And then they're doing the they're doing the
goods already, so imagine that when they're when they're at
the place where they're just having a complete, complete, full,
any minute game.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yeah, you'd love to say it. Yeah, I was just
thinking before, you know, like it's almost like you get
into the Warrior's mindset and the team, you know, those
Warriors teams in the past few years. I feel like
last two or three weeks would have lost these games,
but we're just we're doing enough for holding on and
so I feel like even though it's these Jeduary moments
for the fans from shorts, Jeduary moments for Andrew Webster

(16:53):
and for the players, they're able to ye hold on
and and mentally seem like a pretty really tough team,
and especially you know, even on the weekend, you know,
like losing two front rowers to your middle forwards and
then to be able to sort of you bring to
Maria Martin on who's a you know, obviously a back reserve,
but he si was playing in the middle. I thought

(17:14):
defensively he was really sound and he added a heap
on attack as well. So just they've got this mentality
that whoever comes in can step up and have a
great time. We did have We did see the return
of you know, d w Z first game for the season.
What was your sort of your take on on his
his performance?

Speaker 3 (17:34):
Yeah, fifty to fifty. You know, I saw a clip
where he said he was saying, hider the fans, you know,
on social media, saying I was a bit rusty out there.
So he admits that he probably he probably said the
same thing, I'm a bit fifty to fifty. But look,
you know it's his first game back. He needed to
go straight in there with we're low on troops, so
he needed to be you know, jump straight in there,

(17:55):
just like Roger will have to do if he if
he gets the lead of this week. Yeah, I thought, yeah,
fifty to fifty. I mean, you know, he batched a
couple of intercepts they could have had. I thought that
he normally, normally and any other day, he would have
taken those cleanling gone down the field. There was one
moment where he picked up the ball. I think it

(18:16):
wasn't an interstep, and he picked up the ball off
the ground and ran and ran. You know, no one
ahead of him, but a second roller from the Dragon
was able to catch him down. I was really surprised
by that. And no, you didn't try and side step
and he just stepped into him. Yeah, yeah, he came
in and came into I was real surprised by that.
I was just like, Okay, what's he going to do here?
I mean, I wouldn't have been upset if he did

(18:36):
his little chip kick and stuff like that, but he
decided to step inside into him. They didn't step around him.
He stepped into him and got clovered. But I was
more surprised at the second roller actually caught up to
him in the first place.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
So he's a bit of a cult hero.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
Yeah, exactly. I don't know how he caught up to
d W's. I don't know if it's because he was
just too fast or Dw's is just rusty and he
needs to work on his pace again. But because in
the other day he would have gone down the field
because we know we've seen him all before. So that
was the funny thing about that games. I remember just
looking at the screen just going, what the heck, how
did that guy catch up to him? And why did

(19:14):
he step into them? So, but you know what, that's
helped me. That's not me criticizing the dw Z because
you know he's he's a great player. You know, he
probably needs a game or two just to find his form,
and it would have been nice for him to you know,
maybe have a game in US Cup, but we don't
have the freedom to do that. We don't have the
options to do that with being so low down on
troops at the moment.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
Yeah, yeah, so I agree there.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
Yeah, I think I think if he'd been around for longer,
he maybe would have had the confidence sister round and
back himself and and as you saying, maybe put a
little chip through or something because there was no one else,
you know, like he had no one in front of him.
But and and I think he sort of He did
have a few bots under ships, but I feel like
there was at least one of them. Much he probably saved,
you know, I probably saved a try.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
From doing that.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
It was more giving them the way and stopping the
passed from going out wide. But yeah, he looked a
bit lost defensively a couple of times. And I think
they scored one try in particular out there where it
just he was halfway and from where the winger was.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
And I ran around him.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
So but doubt right, yeah, exactly first came back and
I think he would have done that. Should we should
jump into some some Walley MS.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
Points for the week, yep, want to start us off yep,
uh my three points, Luke Mitcalff. I just thought, again,
he had a great first half. I don't have any
stats in front of me, and that's that's pretty poor
on my part. But all I know is that he
just had an amazing game doing directing the team around

(20:45):
the park, and also just that the influence that he
had on our attack was just amazing. And also he
scored the first try there, scored that first try which
was awesome and got the kicks over and obviously that
clutch field goal that got us the win in the end.
To have the temperament and to do that, and just
hearing Whibs to talk about it at the end, he

(21:05):
said they had been practicing that that field goal where
it looks like he was gonna he was gonna do
something else, but then quickly goes into the field goal,
field goal, field goal mode where he's he was shaking
to do something else, shaping to do something else, and
then yeah, just kicked it over, and yeah, I'll give
him my three points. To let metcalf, I was trying

(21:28):
to figure out who I should put him the two
points here. It's between Helaesima and Aaron Clark, and I
just and the reason why I give him two points
is just because because of the workload they did, just
just the effort and stuff. I'll go with the Aeron
Clark again this week. I just think he just he
keeps week in week out, continues to impress me with

(21:50):
his workload and then the number of carries he does
and stuff. I know he's not the the traditional ball
playing lock that you tend to see some time with
some teams, but I just think that he just what
he's doing is working for the team, is helping out
with the team, and that's why we're scoring so early
because of his energy and because of that sort of
that workload he has, he just pushes through and I

(22:11):
just love it, loving it so Aeron Clark. I love
this's no nonsense to the type of players does the
job so type thing. So Eric Clark for two points
and I'm going to give Mitch Bydette one. And I
just thought he had a stellar game. And I also
think that because his leadership I could I was watching
him on the ground and how he was just directing everybody.
You know, he wasn't yelling at people, but you know

(22:31):
he was going to do this, do this. He was
just the way he was just controlling the team. I
just thought he had a really really awesome game in
that sense. So I'm not just talking about his game,
I'm talking about his overall game as being a leader,
you know, with James Fisher Harris not there at the
moment as well. So yeah, that's my one point to
Mitch Bynett.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
That's man.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
Head, same players, but in a different order, to be honest.
So I give Mitch Bynette my three points. I think
that's a bat of setting them from this season. Ye
really led from the front. One hundred and ninety running meters,
forty eight tackles, sixty six minutes in six sixty six
of those precious post content meters.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
I love, love, oh so much.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
Yea did have that little kck he did on the
fourth one play quite late in the game, which I
think he just, yeah, I don't know what was what
was happening there, Like the attention was there, but the
execution wasn't quite and.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
No one else was expected.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
So yeah, I'll forgive him because he apart from that
and stats were his stets were great. But I thought
you really led from the front and putting in near
those sixty five minutes, so put you know, a few
extra minutes and what he would probably usually be playing.
A couple of those guys hadn't been injured, so he
got my three. Looky Metcalf two. Yeah, he's just getting
better every week. And really, yeah, mat put Ginner's influence

(23:49):
throughout the game. Try a field goal and he had
four hundred and ninety four kicking meters, which I think
I'm pretty sure that's the most his head all season
by far, and kicked a lot more than when Harris
Davida in the game. I think there'sen a few games
where Harris Davida has been kicking quite quicking even more
than Metcalf. But Mitcaffe really took control there and that, yeah,

(24:10):
that field goal, it's just yeah, it's a Warriors then,
you know, like I thinking, I've talked about it before.
When Shawn Johnson's not playing, we just we can't kick
a field goal. So it was just nice to see
one one, hopefully the hopefully the first of many to
come from him and Aaron Clark my one. Yeah, I
mean I tried to keep him out. I was gonna
give it to a way Legan and then I was like, oh,

(24:32):
itchily Aaron Clark, like, he's just yeah, the bye of
the season by far for me. I think a lot
of people talking about Chill May but you know, Warrior's
acting being sixty four now, so yeah, fifty two checkers
from him, one hundred and sixty two meters, sixteen runs
and once again sixty five of those post content meters,
which you know, it just really helps make the boys

(24:55):
way up the field. So yeah, I think it looks like, yeah,
I'm pretty sure. Look, Metcalf's leading leading the way at
the moment. He and Clark's up there. Whayeagan's up there
as well. I actually needed I've got all the points
in front of me, but I need to tell them
all up into into my docks. So maybe I'll have
maybe I'll post I'll posted a sort of meta season

(25:15):
update throughout the week so the punters can can see that.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
Yep, No, I'm good, peck. So obviously we're thinking alike here,
maybe the order wasn't the same way, but still player wise,
it's been great, and yeah, I mean, look, Metcalf, I
think he's in the top five now in the Delian
for Delian points as well. He's getting up there, so
he's doing his thing, and he's in his in his
executing it well. And I like your point about the
drop goal, because no, if you don't have Sean Johnson there,

(25:44):
you don't really really have confidence in us landing a
field goal. But he did it with these got it
over there, and he's apparently he's been practicing a lot,
so he's just it's good to see. It's nice to
hear that he's going through doing his own little practice,
you know, practice setups where he's just no, you know,
practicing the field goal for these moments because these especially

(26:04):
in the Warriors, in the Warrior's side, these moments do
come up. These moments do come up. So yeah, it's
good to see. But yeah, no Haut metcalf, you know,
good on him.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
So just like one more final thing for me on that,
did you like, what did you think when when Charms
kind of went down near the trial line and it
looked like.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
He was in casts. It was bizarre.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
I was almost like quite worried for him, Like I
was like, is he going to like collapse here or something?
You know, like I think it was just cramp in
the inn, but I was certain that it was a
head knock or something.

Speaker 3 (26:34):
Oh, I mean, okay, look, I was laughing at the time,
but it wasn't a funny moment. But why I found
it just was loving because they just he just stood there,
you know, he just stood there and it looked like
he was about to play the ball. But then he
was just like delaying it, you know, something, just delaying it.
And I had no clue what was going on. So
I was like, but then I realized, oh wait, actually
there's not being more serious than I think. But I
think it was just like a yeah, I don't know,

(26:55):
cramp for something.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
I had no idea because he was fine after.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
But yeah, he looked like he was looked like he
was hlway into the pickle juice. So yeah, it must
have just been a weird, strange reaction to cramp. But
I've just I've never seen, never seen that reaction to
cramp before.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
It was que bizarre.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
Have you have you ever had pickle juice.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
I've had cramp before, but I don't know if I've
had I used to get cramp cramp a lot. Actually nah,
I don't. I don't know if I've ever drank pickle
juice as such. I do love you love pickles. I've
aways got jar pickles and the and so maybe maybe
this week i'll, you know, while I'm watching the Warriors,
I'll have a little shot of pickle juice, just just
and I saw that at one point Metcalf was looked

(27:38):
like he was almost rubbing it into his gums.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
That was that was weird.

Speaker 3 (27:45):
But all right, well next time, next time you're done,
and well i'll catch up with you. Let's get some
pickle juice and we'll just this little comparison to see
how how we handle it.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
A little session on the pickles. Yeah, we'll film and.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
See how we can endle it better. Because I've never
had people do in my life. So then for what
they do is, I don't know if there's extra substances
that I don't know, let's put out the word to use,
but extra stuff that they put in there. But yeah,
so yeah, so I was just like, be funny, just
to see we can get a couple of those things.
And yeah, listen, when you're down in Willington, we'll do that.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
That's good, bro, It'll be a funny, little funny little bit.
Anything else you want to add about that game. And
before we sort of move on and talk about the
upcoming Mechigans and Dolphins.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
No, no, I'm just just just stoked that, you know,
the boys are holding on. You know, we talked about
how Warriors ob uster year would never be able to
hold onto those games, and I think the fans as well,
we wouldn't have the faith that they would hold onto
those games. But I think you know, now at the moment,
not only are they holding out on those games and
they're you know, they're winning them right at the end,

(28:54):
the fans are believing as well, because you know, I mean,
let's be honest, if you're a true Warriors fan, and
while while you support the team for you know, thick
and thin, we all know that, you know, in the
Warriors of the past, they would have been a hold
hold out. They would have been to hold down their lead.
It will just collapse somewhere somewhere along the line. It

(29:15):
will just collapse and the game will be lost. And
the Warriors fans know that, right, they know, we know that.
But I think it's real refreshing to see that they
are holding on for the win and the fans are myself,
I'm talking about myself here, but I'm sure, I'm not
the only one. It's got this this belief that knowing
that they can do it, they can hold out, they
can hold out the teams, especially with the rock solid defense.

(29:36):
So that's what I'm sort of saying in terms of
summarizing the way they're going at the moment. It's just
the belief that they have their resilience and stuff. It's
just it's just amazing. It's brilliant.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
Yeah, it's unheard of really, the fact that you were
seeking on the table. It's still I'm pitching myself. So
so long man, long man last, and yeah, another game
this weekend, A very winnable game. I would say, well,
I'm not going to say, well, you know, we're not
going to run away with a thirteen plus I don't think.
But yeah, we're off to after Suncort play the Dolphins.

(30:06):
So it'll be the fourth game away from ounce Mad
in a row, in third game in around in Australia.
So it'll be interesting to see if that travel does
sort of come to, you know, catch up with them.
But I probably want to start here. Yeah, there's obviously
a few a few outs. Obviously Jackson Ford was Cateigary one,
so he he'll be ruled out Bunty. I haven't sort

(30:27):
of trying to figure out what the story is there.
I can't see anything. Sedd In Stone, but he sort
of went off and didn't look too well, so he
might be out too. So we're losing a bit of
a bit of a bit of muscle in the middle.
We could have Fisher Harris back, but from I think
from what I understand, he's due back sort of around

(30:49):
eleven or twelve, So yeah, we very much could have
him back. And then obviously the outside backs is still
Loud Toller and Berry and Coss. He is according to
the injury reports TBC. So basically, yeah, I mean, how
I mean, how can you see?

Speaker 2 (31:06):
What changes? Do you see?

Speaker 1 (31:07):
Obviously there'll be a force change with Jackson Ford and
probably Bunty. But if artist's first, you reckon he comes
straight back him?

Speaker 3 (31:15):
Yep, I do. I think he comes straight back. And
I did a little video earlier before the podcast and
I'll probably post it later on tonight, just in regards
to our shortage of front robers, but it all ties
into all of this. So so I reckon Roger will
come back in the side, but I think he'll he
will start at center and not wing, and I think

(31:37):
they'll keep to a picky at wing because I mean
we don't have any you know, we had Cake Well
in one center spot. So I think that, you know,
like what I would do, especially with the front rowers
having having been having a shortage of front rollers at
the moment, as I'll put near Kouri as a front rower,
So I'll take him out of the second row. I'll
put Kate Well back into the second row, take him
out a center, put him into the second row, Roger

(31:59):
into into center, Turpike he stays on the wing, and
then new Culde onto the bench. Though, because if Fisher
Harris comes back, there is if he comes back, and
that's and that's not me downplaying his form or anything
like that. It's just logical in terms of you know, positions,
et cetera. So I would have chance fullback, the two

(32:20):
wingers obviously d w Z and twur Pikey center, Pompey
one end, and the other roger, the halves Harris, Devida
Metcalf and the forward pack if Harris, If Fisher Harris
is available, I would have him starting with Bunnette. I'll

(32:40):
put him straight into the starting spot. We want to
keep him on the bench straight into sarting spot wading,
and obviously at hooker. My second rower would be Cape
Well and Halaesima and Eric Clark at Locke. And then
for my bench I would have either Tomato Martin or
Sam Healy taking one spot, Kure taking one spot and

(33:02):
taking one spot, and then you've got Valmonga and Jacob
Blakean taking the other, Jacob Blabin taking the other. So
that would be my seventeen if I was to pick,
and that's going on if Bunty is unavailable. I'm pretty certain,
one hundred percent certain that Jackson Ford won't be able
to play because of concusion protocols. So you've got that,
and then yeah, because of players coming in, other players

(33:25):
have to shift around to accommodate those players coming in,
like Roger. That's what I meant by Katewell going into
the second row and new Corey coming out and playing
as a prop as a front rower. But he'd let
to set on the bench because by the and Fisher
Harris start, and that's only if Fisher Harris Start comes in.
If he's not there, new Curre goes in there and
then we'd have to think about who we bring in
from New so far as Cup to play. Maybe Free Lusted.

(33:46):
He's been playing a few games at prop so who knows.
He's been scoring tries as well. He's got a head
trick as well.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
It's all that, Yeah, and tom tom Ala head a
huge game of the waiting actually one hundred and ninety meters. Yeah,
and as I like to talk about seventy five post contexts,
he wouldn't he wouldn't be out of place, So there's
obviously a bit of a step up. But yeah, Tom
Away has been there and done that, so I'd be Yeah,
I wouldn't be surprised to see him him slot back
in there. Like I honestly think that you too, a

(34:14):
picky at the back. It's probably the best option at
the moment as far as giving your best guys on.
I mean that probably will play Roger and the centers,
I imagine, and then have to a picky and down
on the wings and Pompy and Pompy and Roger and
the and the and the and the in the centers
with with with chance at the back. But I just

(34:35):
feel like with with the players that they've got the
best way to keep those five guys on the fields
as using Roger and Down on the wings and then
Pompy and Charms on the centers and until a Picky
at the back. But yeah, I suspect that it's probably
won't what not what would happen, But yeah, I'd love
to see that that five play, especially the way so

(34:57):
the chance is playing at the moment, like he just
he's just been so solid, you know, so I feel
like he could definitely transfer that form into into the centers,
get a bit more ball in hand. He's obviously he's
not the biggest guy on the field, but he's absolutely
feel er saye so. But yeah, I mean, apart from
the rest of the team, it'll be interest to see
how it plays out, hopefully for Sha Harris's back, but

(35:17):
I haven't really you know, there hasn't been too much
hype about it, so it probably suspects that we might
be when another week. So if that's the case, yeah,
I think you're right. I think no Core in the
front row with Bunnie makes the most sense of Egan
and then you can have sort of Halo, Seema and
Cape Well in the second row. Aaron Clark at the

(35:39):
back and then yeah, yeah, you Ben should be made
up of either Tomoro Marlin and or Sam Healy. It
was awesome to see. I was mentioned that before, but
it was awesome to see to Mary mad And get
a shot the other day, and then probably of Spring
tom Ala.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
And val Mulga. And then.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
I'm sure there's someone else there whoever missed out must
have missed someone. Maybe it's just yeah Aban, yeah, yeah,
Laban as well. Yeah, so yeah, it'll be interesting to see.
But obviously you've got the the Dolphins. They're actually playing
playing the right at the moment. You don't got a
good win against the Eels the other night, and that
wasn't the easy win. The Eels came at them, but

(36:18):
they were able to sort of put up some pretty
brave defense at the end. You look at the Dolphins team,
it's not the most exciting lineup, but they've got a
pretty solid backline.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
As like I told her, he looks like a real
young talent, so it'd be cool to see him a
Metcalf sort of face off. They seem to be the
the two the two young guys really making the most
of the opportunities that in the seven Jersey. This season,
and then you've got a couple of I mean, I'm
not sure who we're playing the centers, but they've got
a couple of pretty good centers. And when we opened

(36:49):
Herby Farm with one of the one of the best
centers in the in the game, and then some big
boys and there the forwards as well. So during Marshall
Ken sort of running and running the ship from from
dummy half. So it's not definitely not going to be
a walkover, no, But I just yeah, I think the
way that we're playing, it's a sort of game we

(37:10):
should be, you know, putting the iceing on the cake.
But I'm not confident it will be as convincing as
I'd like it to be. You're got to what's your
what's your like? Wait, who are you looking at to
step up this week for the Warriors?

Speaker 3 (37:26):
Oh? I think the whole team. And when I say that,
I mean, like on the second half, I think they're
all they're all step they've all stepped up and they're
all doing a great job. But they need to continue
that after they come back off the field from coming
bit from the sheds, from the from the from the
half time break, because they're making that they're making good starts. No,
they're making good starts and they're going to continue that on.

(37:48):
And you know, sometimes you wish it wasn't a half
time break because that's like a bit of a momentum color,
isn't it for us at the moment. But I think
in terms of I'm not going to point out individuals,
I'm going to say the whole team needs to step
up in the second half.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
You know.

Speaker 3 (38:02):
I mean, yes, they've got the defense held down, but
they're still living in some tries because their position are
coming back. But I think if they can just play
even I'm still even if they play the seventy five percent,
I'd still be happy with that because as long as
when I say seventy five percent, I mean like a
four hundred eighty minute a game. If they played a
seventy five percent eighty minute game, that's still better than

(38:23):
what they're doing at the moment because they're closing down
in the second half, and it's just that's just the fact.
And I'd love to see the whole team step up
in the second half and continue the good work that
they're doing in the first half. So that's what I'm
going to say. If that makes sense.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
Yeah, for sure, I'll put it on a player. I'll
put it on Harristaveta. I think he's been you know,
he's been solid all season. There's a few people sort
of saying like, oh, you know, he shouldn't be there,
but I think on the whole, I've been really really likeful,
I've scene from him. I think he's playing well. And
then obviously, like you know, metcalf skitting a lot of
a lot of the praise and Feeley he's playing some

(38:59):
great foot But I'd just love to see your Harristavida
kind of you know, maybe step up and if if
Met claff has take doesn't take us to put off
the guests for a little bit, if Harris Davida can
come in and sort of pick up some of that
some of the slack there and just keep the momentum
going for the team. So he's I love. I love
to see him. I love to see him play. I

(39:19):
think he's one of my one of my favorite guys
in the team. Probably the best looking gun team as well,
So that's always nice to see him. See him on
the field and you know, really bringing the hotness of
the Warriors up. And I think last time we played
the Dolphins, it was Yeah, we lost on Golden Point.
Just so hopefully if it gets there again, either Harris

(39:41):
Davida or probably Meet Cap more likely we'll be able
to sort of lead the way. But we're obviously recording
this on on Monday, so stay tuned on Tuesday, we'll
do a little video for Teamless Tuesday on a sort
of live reaction. Hopefully we'll see to a picking at
the back and chance and seeters and we can we

(40:01):
can tell that. Uh, and we've still have been listening
to the podcast.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
Do you think I want to end in that game? John?

Speaker 3 (40:10):
No, No, I think you've you've summed it up pretty well,
like in terms of what you're said before. But the Dolphins,
they're not there won't be easy beats. And you know
they play a fast game as well. When when when
when When they're on it, When they're on it, sometimes
they can slack it. They could be kind of like
Ucid the times they're they're really good at times, and
then all of a sudden they'll just switch off. So

(40:31):
nikoreemay has been I've seen glimpses of the Nikorea playing
really well as well in the halves of there, et cetera.
So I just yeah, I just think it's it's gonna
be another difficult game, but I still believe we've got it.
But I don't think it's gonna be a like a blower.
I think were it'll be more more like you know,
one to ten, you know, And I just hope, I
just hope for the sake of you know, Warriors fans

(40:51):
and they're in their heart conditions, et cetera, there won't
be another, you know, Golden Point thriller. But I mean,
if it does go down to there, as long as
we win, all right, I'll take it. So yeah, yeah, nice.

Speaker 1 (41:04):
We will go to some tips before that. I just
wanted to ask you a quick couple of questions where
origin So obviously origins onland about three weeks time, been
a bit of a lot of check going around, particularly
about the fullbacks of both teams. So have you got
any hot takes on on who the fullbacks will be
for both New South Wales and Queensland. Obviously Ponger is

(41:25):
not in the greatest form, Wlsh is probably injured, and
for New South Wales it's Teddy or or Dylan Edwards
or do you bring Turbo or do you bring Latrell
or do you bring Ryan and Peppin. I mean, the
opportunities just seamless for New South Wales. So who have
you got in the number one judy for both of
those games?

Speaker 3 (41:43):
Oh teddy mate? I actually think change, change to the
desk will take it. I think is it's been a
pretty good form when even when his team's not playing
that well, he's been in a pretty good form. I
think it's half from Dylan was. He had a really
good year last year. He's had a good last couple
of seasons, a few good seasons the need Woods and
he finally got a shot and he showed on the

(42:03):
Origin scene what he can do. But this year hasn't
hasn't worked as well. And I just don't think that
the overall how penrithive been playing has been playing hasn't
worked well for him in terms of getting a spot back.
So I mean, I don't know how Lorie Dalley's gonna
do it.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
He isn't.

Speaker 3 (42:17):
He still hasn't missed me back. He hasn't still replied
to my message yet when I asked him about made
Eagan so Clip and Laza. You know he's still check
your Instagram mate far out so yeah, just waiting for
him to respond. But yeah, no, Tesco I think will
take it. I think he would have the have it
over Turbo, Tommy Turbo and also Ryan Papenhaus and I

(42:39):
think he would have it over them. I think the trial,
if he was in contention, they'll probably keep him in
the center. But that's all, you know, That's that's what
I'm thinking anyway, So that would be my whole take.
I think Teddy will take out the number one origin
Jersey for New South Wales. But in terms of New Queensland,
I don't think Recee Walsh is in contingent at all,
just for injury, and I think the only option you

(43:01):
really got, I mean, I know you've got, you got
killing Ponger, which I think will be the full back,
but also the drink water as well, right, Scotty drink water?
Is the Scotty drink water? Yeah? Am I saying his
name wrong?

Speaker 2 (43:17):
Is it is he Queensland?

Speaker 3 (43:20):
Yeah? I'm pretty sure, but my saying is for for
some reason, I was gonna say salt water, salt water,
Scotty salt water. But I think he I think he
is he can't play for queens I think you know,
he don't quote me on there, but I still think
Ponger will get it. Is it might be listen to me,

(43:42):
don't listen. Don't listen to me, don't listen to me. Yeah, yeah,
but I think Ponger.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
Yeah, would you particulately go with the hammer over Ponger?

Speaker 3 (43:53):
Every team thing, wouldn't it? But I think pong will
get it. But the question is the Ponger wants to
play for Queensland or not? Because you know, with who's
that who's that Queensland player who found a loop and
now he can play for England?

Speaker 2 (44:07):
I just forgot his name, Bramson.

Speaker 3 (44:11):
Yes, yes, Apparently they're saying, well, he found a loop
together there, why can't Ponger do the same for New Zealand. Yeah, well,
actually kind of what the loop is? I don't know
what the loop. I don't know what Lupy took to
get out of it and play for be up with
England now, But apparently someone was saying that Ponger could
do just the same.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
It'd be pretty cool. Good do it, man, But yeah,
I think that'd be very interesting. The USF I was fun.
I kind of want to say Pep in the house,
and but yeah, I think to Disco is probably the
right call. It was the sort of it's been all right,
but he hasn't. I mean, you know, I just that
that Peoper team he hasn't been as dominated, So I

(44:51):
think for that reason, I think to Disco has got
the experience and probably playing be there on paper. But yeah,
I mean you could very happily put the trail and
there or or Turbo and then they wouldn't look out
of place. I'm sure those guys will be in the
team either and wing or in the centers. So but
with you the way Stephen Cryden's playing, I think he
has to be there as well. So I'm looking forward

(45:13):
to this selection there. Yeah, just quickly, is there is
there a smoky that you're picking for any either team?
Anyone who hasn't played Origin before. I don't think I
wrote this down, but just off the top of you here,
if you can think.

Speaker 3 (45:24):
Of anyone, well, for New South Wales, I would say
till mate, yeah, yeah, but not an expensive band net
he can piss off the expensive Byett, So.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
No, they'll both be there. I think, Yeah, I kind.

Speaker 3 (45:42):
Of a feeling that brand that bandit might start to
be honest, Yeah, with with pain has I didn't think.
I can't remember who else who was the incumbent front rower,
But I reckon he might even start. He's he's I
reckon he'll be in the score in the seventeen one
way or another. But just yeah, I don't want tell
me pushing him out because I think Bunet is still better.

(46:03):
But I think if he's a bolter, the question was
a bolt I say two on me, but it said
not the expense of a lot of the expense of
Barnett and Queensland. I can't really think of me, doesn't it. Yeah,
I don't know. I don't know who I would have
at the moment for Queensland. Have you got for Queensland?
Have you got someone for Queensland on top of your head?

Speaker 1 (46:24):
Look to be honest, if you're yeah, there's not really.
I thought I've seen some chat about Robert Tobiah, the
Roosters center, playing pretty well.

Speaker 2 (46:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (46:34):
I think apparently he's eligible, so he was probably as
far as what I can think, I think that the
depth just looks a bit more on New South Wales side.
Here I had I had Papenhouse in his mind playing
fourteen for New South Wales. I mean, they'll probably go
with kind of Watson, I imagine for good reason, but
papin House, you know, imagined, you know. I don't know
if you saw much of that game yoused today, but

(46:55):
some of the stuff he was doing, you know, four
tries he kicked ten out of eleven, So you could
do worse than having him coming off the beach there.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
So but it would be great.

Speaker 1 (47:05):
And I'm sure in the next couple of weeks we'll
dive into a bit more state of origin analysis, but
I just wanted to, yeah, sort of start off on that,
on that full back check, because it's a bit of
a it seems to be everyone's got an opinion on
at the moment.

Speaker 3 (47:16):
So well before before we before we get into tips
makes and ask you do you still think Waiting is
a shot? I mean, be straight up honest, like I
thought he shot and I still think he does. But
it's just I don't know if he just gets a
look and I just don't know if for example, Laza
will just be thinking, you know, rest Robinson, I've picked

(47:38):
him automatically, and if there's someone else in you will
he be just automatically thinking corus. I just think wading
is hard done by were just probably doesn't even get
bored about. I don't know if that's the case or not,
but yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:49):
Bro, I think he's a form I think he's a
formart hooker and the calm. I think he's playing amazing.
I think he's he heard about fifty he had fifty
two tackles on the weekend, you know, and I think
any he didn't play eighty minutes as well, you know,
and he had some really good stuff on a tech
as well, Like I think he ran for it ninety meters,
but I had some really good, really good meters sort

(48:10):
of running our dummy half and just at times and
we needed it the most. So I think, yeah, I
mean he'd been my my form hooker, and I think
inform should be there. But no, I don't think he will.
I think, you know, all the if you look at
all the sort of Aussie sort of columnists, everyone's basically
got Robson at Hocker, and he obviously did a good

(48:32):
job last year. I think even adds a lot more
on a tack than what Robson will, but that might
just be Yeah, and it might work in his favorite
because as a new coach, But I can't see it happening,
to be honest, maybe not for game one.

Speaker 3 (48:46):
Yeah, And that's the thing, and I would just repeat
myself again. I just think that. I just think that
when the egan, like you origin, I think he's good
enough to play it. And he's showing his informed as well.
I think he's above Rich Robson and I become lso
at the moment, you know, currently on form. But I
just don't think he'll get a looking. I just I
think los I won't even think about him. I think

(49:07):
he'll just think, Okay, ree Robson, I've got who I've got.
You was my incumbent. I'm bringing you back in. And
if he's not thinking Reece Robinson, I'm thinking he's thinking
of Coros. That's that's who I'm thinking. That's what he's doing.
That as mindset. I don't know what I'm not. I'm
not Laza, I don't know his brain, but I can't
help but feel that's the way it is. I just
think he's just waiting, has just been hard done by.
I think he's not getting a looking. I just think
that that's the way they treat him over the years

(49:28):
as well, when he's always thought of being in contention,
and I just think that's what they're gonna do that
to him again, which is really really sucks because he's
he deserves a shot. He deserves a shot.

Speaker 1 (49:38):
Yeah, I must fare. Yeah, but yeah, we'll see. I'd
like to be proven wrong. Okay, well we'll jump into
some some steps before we call it in for for
the week. So starting on Friday night, I'm kind of
quite figured out why there's no Thursday game in three
games on Sunday and maybe it's an Australian puppet holiday

(49:58):
or something.

Speaker 3 (49:59):
It's the State of Origin women's game Blues and the Ruins.

Speaker 1 (50:05):
Yeah, yeah, okay, it makes sense. Yeah, I didn't put
two together there nights. The Eels on Friday night just
came big game of the round. I'm sure to inform teams.
I'll tell I'll tell the Eels there me too.

Speaker 3 (50:20):
I think that they they're not looking I mean, look, yeah,
they haven't had the greatest of twenty twenty five, have they.
But they're time to look better. You know, as I
said last I've seen in the previous weeks with the well,
you know, with Mitch Moses, Dylan Walker in there, you know,
and now Dylan Dylan Brown. Can you gel with Mitch Moses.
I think they're looking at much much better side. They're

(50:42):
not great, but I think they're I think they're better.

Speaker 1 (50:45):
In the ninth Yeah, yeah, nights. Yeah, see the twenty
four straight points of Titlands last week. So keep me
out of that.

Speaker 2 (50:53):
Bulldogs and Roasters up next.

Speaker 3 (50:57):
M Yeah, that's a tricky one. The Borders are showing that,
you know, they're doing really well. Why, I don't know
how they came back from that little defficit in came
Bran Roosters. Yeah, you know what I'm gonna, I'm gonna
go with Roosters. I'm gonna I'm gonna throw that out there. Roosters.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
I don't mind that, to be honest, But it's just
the fit. The Bulldogs playing at home, but there'll be
a bit of a rivalry there, but Sydney rivalry.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
But I'll take the Dogs.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
I think they would have taken a lot of confidence
when the teken half. Next up, Dolphins against the.

Speaker 4 (51:36):
How Mighty Wires at five o'clock on a Saturday afternoon. Yep,
you know, my aunt's already yeah, both both taking the Dolphins,
Cowboys Seagulls next game.

Speaker 2 (51:55):
I have one.

Speaker 1 (51:55):
I think I'm just gonna take the Cowboys here. I
think I don't know if you watch that Seagulls games today,
but they don't look very good at the moment. They
just can't quite gel I think that the news of
you know, Cherry Evens kind of dropping that news early
in the season has not worked well for their form
at all. And I think the Cowboys two, you know
what a game they should prow games that could have

(52:17):
very much won. Last two weeks, they'll be and they're
back at home. So yeah, I'll take the Cowboys in
that one.

Speaker 3 (52:23):
Yeah, I'm with you on that one. Cowboys as well.
I think you're I think you're spot on when you
say that the news of DC moving moving on from
the Seagulls has actually played a part in their mindsets
and something isn't something somebody's not working, you know, behind
the scenes. Yeah, so yeah, I agree with you both us.

Speaker 1 (52:41):
Yeah, Sharks storm up next, give me give me the storm.
And when the storm said to be had a bit
head of mess, you know, they'll they'll either win up
by thirty or they'll lose, but I think against the
Sharks same, I'm not. They dominated the Seas yesterday, but
the school kind of didn't. Probably wasn't a favorite attention

(53:04):
in the game. I think Broncos Dragons up Negs. Broncos
looking to sort of come back from a couple of
pretty disappointing losses actually, and the Dragons they show what
they could do in the Warriors. Broncos playing at Suncorp though,
so it was going to work in their favor. I'll
take the Broncos.

Speaker 3 (53:24):
I'll take the Broncos as well as a Taiwe though,
but just just because of the home game advantage. So yeah,
I think the Broncos.

Speaker 1 (53:31):
Raiders Titans up Nets Raiders at home. They'll sticky, would
have Sticky will get them into into shape. The last
game of the round, the Tigers versus the Punies. There
you go, I'll take you. I'll take the Tigers to
be different. Bunce back from the sixty four n rubbing.

(53:54):
Last time that the Storm won by that match, it
was against the Warriors, and the Warriors I spec and
one the week after, so well, maybe they didn't win,
but there would a lot be there, so it's good enough.

Speaker 2 (54:05):
Reason for me to beat the tiresol for this week.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
Nothing you want to give them me, nothing you want
to plug before we call it him for the week.

Speaker 3 (54:13):
John, No, No, I just want to say thanks to
everyone for the support. We know we say this every week,
but it's true. It's we're getting a lot of support,
especially of late new subscribers, et cetera, and we just
we're just asking that you continue to continue to support us.
Give us a like if you have a subscribe Prince
dep button priced subscribe button, and also give us a follow.

(54:33):
We're on TikTok now putting uploading a TikTok video of
Richard doing one of his amazing TikTok dances. Which one
you going? Which one are you doing? They mate?

Speaker 1 (54:46):
Maybe the Apple by Charlie Siggs.

Speaker 2 (54:51):
I don't even know what it is.

Speaker 3 (54:53):
I've only said chicken banana. That's the one I've been
seeing lately.

Speaker 1 (54:56):
But anyway, I don't know what's happened cool with the kids, Brah.
I think the Apple probably the airple was last summer,
I think so.

Speaker 2 (55:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (55:05):
I think I'm a bit behind the behind the a
ball there.

Speaker 3 (55:09):
Yeah, we're only on TikTok for this Warriors page. Nothing
for anything else anyway. Yeah, just give us, give us
a follow on tiptok and like and yeah, just thank
you so much for with all the support.

Speaker 1 (55:19):
Absolutely thanks for listening to another week of the Cat Warriors.
I've been Richard, he's been John. Let's go the Mighty
Warriors against the Dolphins, five o'clock Saturday. See you there
at the Mighty Wars.

Speaker 3 (55:33):
At the wires

Speaker 4 (55:37):
H