NRL 2025 | What the Heka did we witness?

Apologies for the funny audio!!! These millenials can't catch  a break!

The Wahs play their get out of jail free card and escape with the two points thanks to one of the great solo efforts in recent history by Leka.

John and Richard give Leka his praise, before diving into what was a far from polished performance. Then they ask the big questions about what to do with Dallin, and whether that performance is convincing enough with finals footy just around the corner.

Then it's time to preview this weekend's match against the bottom of the table Titans? Will the Wahs find some form? Let's hope so.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:15):
A welcome every ready to another episode of the Couch

(00:36):
Warriors that you just listen to. Me and Richard just
have found attempt to do a hall Sea song.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
But we are still fizzing from.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Last weekend's game where the Warriors defeated defeated the Knights
literally in the last second. Juda some lecqua brilliance. I'm
your host, johnas a Ron and I'm joined by my
co host Richard the band wag Lady. Are you still
fizzy from their game?

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yeah? Man, watch the watch the replay about fifty times.
I reckon of their try one of the one of
the great wist tries of all time. I reckon Yeah, yeah,
just at the moment of brilliance. He's a boy that
we've been We've been seeing as the praises all season John,
and in every week. He just doesn't fail with surprise,
does he? But that was that was something special and
they'll be talked about for a very long time.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Oh mate, I mean, out of all people and of
all players, if you wanted the ball, did he charge
down and ricocheted someone they could possibly get the ball,
break the line or you know, cut through the line
and do what he did you wanted to be liquor.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Hell, am I right?

Speaker 1 (01:34):
I don't know if any other player in the side
right now I would be able to do that what he
just did.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Nah. I think we talked about about the Warriors and
how they they sort of like, you know, they're consistent.
They're a lot of good players, but they don't really
have the game breaking you know, like I mean Rogers
probably onely can do it to a book he wins
on form. But yeah, like halla Seem has just shown
this season, he said, a couple of couple of game
winning tries and then just some some some other big
plays throughout this nineteen years old man. That the future's

(02:02):
future is bright in that one. That's for sure.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yeah, for sure, for sure.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
And honestly, at that moment, let's let's talk about that moment,
because honestly, I was just throughout the whole game, I
was just sitting there on the couch, just a lump
of disappointment. I was just that person just sitting there
like I was not excited. I was thinking to myself,
what the heck is going on here? We just with
stuff with you.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Know, we weren't we weren't fluent in our attack et cetera.
You know, and things like that. Things weren't just going
things weren't going right.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
We were led off, to be honest, you know, with
new Castle, you know, they got they watched some try
some simple tries that they should have scored, and you know,
til Picky was really brilliant as defense, you know, defensive efforts.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
There as well.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
But that moment, that moment, honestly, I didn't, I'll be
honest with you, I wasn't really one.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Hundred percent confident that Tannel Boyd.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Would do it after that, you know that after the
first attempt they did, it went along, they sort of
went didn't going higher than five meters off the ground.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
But as soon as I saw lick A grab.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
It and bring that, I just I knew something was
gonna happen right there, and I was off off the couch.
The whole time I was on the couch, there was
the one moment that was off the couch. Were really
mated without yourself?

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yeah, pretty similar, pretty similar feeling. In my house, I
was watching the Year Game by myself. Kids are in Beard.
I was actually watching it out about an hour delayed
as well, just because of the kids were being naughty,
so he had to put them do it. We had
to sort them all way out, so I had to
to to my phone to do not disturb. There's been
a couple of times I've done that, and I've accidentally
you know, I had a look on Facebook and had

(03:35):
it ruined for me. So I was very relieved that
I didn't didn't ruin that for myself. But yeah, I
mean I was sitting there yelling exploitedves to myself before
before it, because you know, I boarded a header. He'd
had a couple of couple of shots, I think, you know,
he'd had that first shot from about you know, twenty
five thirty meters out right in front where he should
have naiwed it. He spread it to the right, and

(03:57):
then he had that you know, thinking one much, he
he just spread along the ground. We were fortunate to
get the pimalty from there, and then he missed the pimley.
So it was a real rollercoaster of emotions. But yeah,
so I was sort of similar like as soon as
the ball sort of went that way, you're just sort
of flashed back to that that Storm game last year.
You know, we're Xavier coach scording in net in the

(04:19):
corner against us, and it was after I don't know
if it was the same players the charge down, but
it was after a chargedown from the Warriors or of
the Warriors cap. So yeah, it was just crazy. But
I mean even the work he had to do, man, Like,
you know, he got the ball forty about forty two
forty three meters out the speed he showed, and then

(04:41):
you know, like dang Kirk guy was flying over and
he didn't love a little lovely little bit of footwork
to sort of just sort of easy his way around there.
And then he had three techlers, you know, like Breadman
Best is hardly like the worst defender in the game
and the least scary person to have sort of chasing
after you, and he just he had the strength to

(05:01):
sort of take these guys out of the line. He
hit the momentum, rolled over, and yeah, the rest is,
as I say, is history. So the boys got the
two points, yeah, and a very lucky two points. I
don't know where you'd say it was deserved as such,
but it just shows you've got to play for eighty minutes.
League's a game of momentum, and fortunately it's it's gone

(05:24):
in our favor this time.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah, no, I mean it was it was.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
It was, you know, like a really thrilling moment that
it last tried, that last second tried from like a brilliant,
brilliant from half from Healaesima. And again, as I said
just before, of all people you'd want to be, you know,
catching the ricochet to try and make an attempt of
the line, it would be him because he's, as I've said,
as we've both said many times before, not only as
he's a powerful runner, but he's got pace as well

(05:51):
his athleticism, and he's actually got a good, good, good
cool head on him as well. He knew what to do.
He didn't like panic or anything. He got through like
you said that they will step on Dan Gay. Guys
were at the end and you're slimming early.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
Just to make sure you got the ball grounded and stuff.
So well, it was yeah, it was brilliant. It was brilliant.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
And I was, I mean, what what would have what
would have been the Richdor scale? What the what would
the Richdor scale would have shown at that time because
in New Zealand end in Australia, because obviously a lot
of supporters in New Zealand. I'm sorry in Australia, but
also Knights fans. They probably thought they had in the
bag right there after after.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
The charge down.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
He hardly hardly blame thinking they headed and and the bag.
You know, I do wonder whether with the chargedown with
the old mate was on side again, to be honest,
from from I've watched the repay a couple of times,
I'm pretty sure he wasn't square from a marker and
it was I think it was Jackson Haysen's again, which
is which would have been funny to be pulled up
again and then have another have another penalty if it

(06:51):
was was locked at. But yeah, no, I mean you
see all the all the videos on on on social media,
Like my personal opinions, those kids should not be filming it,
you know, like it's a special moment, a special moment
for people. You should be watching the game, you should begin,
you should be not on your phone. So I was
kind of a little bit disappointed in a few the
Warriors fans for that and everyone kind of bragging about

(07:12):
their fun, fun sort of reaction videos. But like, yeah, yeah,
it was just I was, yeah, there was some explicitives
coming out of my mouth, John, you would have been
you would be disappointed in me. I was jumping around
around my cat my living room. I was punching the
couch and excitement, and then I was sort of like,
did you get it? Because the angle was sort of

(07:32):
from behind, You're like, oh, was he held up? But
it was there was none of that happening, So yeah,
it would have been. It would have been interesting to
sort of I just imagine like yigging the Richter scale
outside the stadium and just seeing what the noise was
because there's a fear few Warriors fans there, but look
at it. Look at the Warriors Nation. You know, they
had a good group there. There was some good Warriors

(07:53):
chance going on throughout the game. So it's great to see.
I mean, there's such a massive, massive following the Warriors
even across the Dutch at the moment, so it's so
good to see.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
No, definitely, as we said, one moment of liquor brilliance
that brought the Warriors the two points and to keep
them in four fourth spot on the on the ladder
and to keep their four point buffer ahead of the
Broncos as well, which which is good because Broncos had
they had a buy, so they had an easy two
points there, so keeping their four point buffer to me,

(08:23):
was really really important. But look, before we go into
further use, let's just this is actually no talk about
the game itself, because we've talked about liquor that you know,
the moment brilliance that he he pulled out of the
bag right there in the last seconds. But the game
as a wholes, let's just just just be honest and
you know, analyze the game.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
As a whole.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
I mean, one of you actually think about the game
as a whole, because you know, personally, I was very
very I wasn't really impressed, you know, to be honest,
let's just be honest with you.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
Yeah, it was. It was a real mix, big guy,
because there was some I thought there was some some
pretty really some good performances from about five or six
of the team. And then and then yeah, you think
of that first twenty minutes, we absolutely dominated, you know,
we're all over them. We scored that scored that first try,
a beautiful look tick from ton of Boyd. Pompey was
chasing through a well yeah, I said on the on

(09:15):
our post, you know, and on Pompey first try scorer,
but unfortunately didn't back at myself and I would it
would have been pain but it would have been at
least twenty five thirty bucks, I imagine, So I'm the
loser there. But yeah, I mean, and then you know,
like we had all that momentum waiting and went over
but this allowed. I mean, I don't mind that being disallowed,

(09:36):
but if that's disallowed, I feel like the danger guys
try but later in the game probably probably should have
been disallowed as well, or at least, you know, like
call back. I think that, you know, like he was tackled,
was absolutely checked, and so stuff like that's frustrating, you
know when you think about that, that's a you know,

(09:56):
a teen point a team point play there, you know,
because we didn't and then they did score and we
probably would have converted our thing. But yeah, then after
that we just sort of we just took the foot
off the gas on attack made them. We weren't completing sets,
I think at one point, you know, like Worries of
obviously had a really good completion throughout the season, complaining
partistently at about eighty percent, but that went down messively.

(10:18):
H can't remember the stand in the first half. But
I feel like there was about you know, like four
or five where we only just were only sort of like, yeah,
complaining about four sets of every like sex or something that, so, yeah,
like just really uncharacteristic from them. And then obviously their
their left side attack lit up, and our right side

(10:39):
of defense couldn't, couldn't, couldn't match it. Obviously Cape well
playing the centers there with with Dallen, they haven't played
paid a lot together, and it showed the Allen was
making it making some really bizarre sort of I mean,
he's he's known to do that. You know, he comes
off the wing and sometimes it works, sometimes they've put
the big head on the center or sometimes we then

(11:00):
decept but the way that the Knights are sort of
throwing the ball around, it just he just looks in
sort of no man's land there as well, I am.
So it just got them into the game. Unfortunately, they
missed all three of their conversions. Second half was a
lot better, Like we came out, we scored that try quickly,
and then it was still it was a pretty good

(11:21):
sort of like you know, take a war almost battle
for you know, twenty five minutes of that of that
second half and then the last ten minutes we sort
of we were doing everything to get the ball up
on the right side of the field, you know, like
the kudos to the middle forwards. You know, they were
charging their way up, got us in you know, position
to take three three drop three field goals, and we

(11:44):
weren't able to sort of capitalize on them. But it
sort of ended up all right in the end. So yeah,
it was It was a real match bag for me.
I think a lot of people, like, you know, like
the lekor try is going to be the talk of
the town, and a lot of people were saying, you
know this and that people were bagging town of Boyd. Obviously,
like he should have got one of those field goals

(12:05):
or the peal that. You know, he had four shots
to to sort of send the game to the golden
poort or win it and wasn't able to take them.
But he had I thought he'd had a pretty good
He had a really good game the rest of the game.
You know, his kicking game a suburb. You know, he
was putting the ball, he had the ball on the string,
was kicking it deep and wasn't allowing sort of the

(12:26):
the big boys at the back for the for the
Knights to run it up. But obviously people are going
to talk about that. But I thought, well, where the
Eagan had had a really good game here and Clark
was his consistent best for Sha Harris just she was
let him from the front of the middle and until
a picky was was great at the back. He had
a couple of huge, huge, huge dry savers. You know,

(12:47):
you said before, you know, the Night should have scored
those tries, but I mean, I think they would have
scored the tries against the Warriors in previous years and
against a lot of other teams. So it was it
was sort of some some desperate defense. I think Leka
put a big hat on someone just yea, So I'm
sure there was that.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
Was just stupid play for this because he had a
guy outside him free and he decided to take it them.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
So I'm sure that's a that's a coach killer right there.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
And yeah, but like, well they were lucky to probably
only be down twelve sucks at half time. But yeah,
I mean it's there's a lot of questions still. Yeah, no, I.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
Agree, And before I give you my thoughts, I just
want to ask you about that in waiting and try,
I mean, did you think it wasn't trying, because I
mean you said, you know, you know, you're you're accepted.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
For what it is.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
But like I at the time, I thought he got
it down, like you know, and I know that the
bunker watches those replays in slow motion to see whether he.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
Actually touched the line or not. Then the thing is
you're watching real you're watching a real time.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
The momentum takes them over and I don't understand how
that's not to try and then you give that try
to get a guys, try where the guy was because
in real time and then when he scored that try
in real time, I thought he was ten.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
I didn't think. I didn't watch the repair to think.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
Oh no, no, no, he's you know, he's been tackled.
I saw that in real time. I think most people
will have seen it in real time. It was that
obvious that I know, people talking about his arms and
touch the ground, But come on, that was a tackle.
That was a tackle, and it was it was it
was tackled. It was tackled. Whether his arm was on
off off the ground or not, it was tackled. And
you could see you could see that he had stopped.

(14:23):
There was no one meant to be had stopped, and
then he just passed the ball after he had stopped,
which is which is for me. It's just ridiculous how
they can give that, but they can't they know they
don't give away the Deanstrolers this.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
Year, the bunk, I mean to be honest.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
The officiating on the night, including the bunk, was pretty
poor as well, and I'm talking for both. So there
are a lot of causes winnings the Warriors, but a
lot of causes wingings the Knights as well, so it
was keeping an eye on that. So officiating four round
was pretty poor. But going going back to the game itself,
like the reason why I say.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
I thought, I was just I was just disappointed.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
It is just because we're a top fourteen, we're a
top four team. We're gonna play finals this year. I'm
pretty confident we're gonna play finals this year. We can't
go into the finals now, seven seven rounds to go.
We can't go playing like that. You know, we would,
We know we get booted out if we keep playing
like that. I mean the Knights, I know, no, no
disrespect to the Knights, but they're thirteenth or thirteen the

(15:15):
letter at the time, I don't know if they've gone
further up and we're gone down, so fifther down. But
you need we need to be pointing better performances against
these sides because we need to. We need to in
the finals, we'll be playing top eight sides, and I think,
you know, a performance like that top eight side would
have would have beaten us. To be honest, I'm prevn
us in my opinion, so a lot of I mean,

(15:37):
while I'm stoked and we've got the two points, I
just think that, you know, like we're going to be
better because we ain't gonna make a dat.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
We're not't gonna make any dents in the finals if
we're going to play like that. So there are a
lot of things to look at in that game.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
One one area of concern, and I think it's not
just a concern with us, but also just the Warriors
community in general, is that right edge. We've talked about
it before as people up before many times, and again
in this match it was exposed quite heavily. It was
really very exposed. Dylan didn't had the greatest of games.

(16:11):
He didn't have the greatest of games. If you drop balls.
He dropped this just in the first seat as well.
I think it was the first set where he got
the boys to drop the clan dropped the.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
Cold right there. There was no there was no there
was no.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
Pressure, nothing, He just dropped the cold and they sort
of set up the night to be like that. You
know where he was just he was just fundling the
ball in the air as well, and his defensive raids
went on point, and yeah, feel sorry for the guy
because we all know what he can do when he's
when he's informed. But he's going for a really really
going for a bit of a form slump at the moment.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
No you reckon, Yeah, yeah, definitely. And yeah, like I mean,
there was about three balls that boy kicked over to
him as bombs in the corner, and he was getting
up like he was doing all the hard work, and
then he was getting getting up big in the right position,
and then yeah, one of them I think just sort
of went through his hands and hit his head. He
got lucky on one of them, and it turned out

(17:00):
that it was actually a night to knock on. Yeah,
but and then yeah, different I sort of mentioned before,
but yeah, defensively, he was just really he was really
out of sorts. He just was Yeah, he was jamming in,
but he was just being caughting and no man's landing
happened for at least two of the tries, maybe even
all three of them. The truck the other one was

(17:21):
on the other side, Yeah, for two of those tries,
but just every time they were throwing it left it
just who I was just you know, biting my nails
and you know, putting my head on my hands because
I just couldn't watch it because it just looks it
looks so dangerous and I think, yeah, I mean, I mean,
Kate Kate Well probably didn't have a great game defensively.
I think he hit about five miss tackles himself as well.
So they were they were. It wasn't just on on Dellan,

(17:44):
but it was. It's obviously a lot more clear when
when he's on the wing and he's here, he's trying
to sprint and then you know mars Us sort of
running running over untouched and it sort of happened with that. Yeah,
the other try as well, it sort of happened because
he jammed then and then main managed to get that pass. Away.
I think it was till Picky and maybe that channel board.

(18:06):
You know, they were the ones that were technically them
out and they managed to which was it was a
great offload. But yeah, I think it was it stopped. Yeah, yeah,
it's a hard one. That's just to see what they'll
do because I obviously they've packed them in this week.
It was a bit of talk about whether they you know,
whether there's anyone else you can step up. I think
like he's on he's on too big of a contract

(18:27):
to be playing New South Wales, you know, like that.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
That's not how I should That's not how I should
be though, like I'm agreeing with you, like you know,
like I mean, it just shows. It just goes to
show that the side is not being picked on current
form was being picked on names on your reputation. That's
just this, that's that's obvious because you've dropped to a
piggy to eighteenth man for the next game.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
Who had who had a great game?

Speaker 3 (18:51):
Right?

Speaker 1 (18:51):
He had a great game on the weekend ye defense
defensively he was awesome, he did.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
He had a great game, then had a rubbish game.
Let's just be on. He had a rubbish game.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
But he's still, you know, retains his spot on the
side where until Pickie goes. So I would rather see
and I'm thinking, I think this is this is just
a general point of view here, but that wouldn't you
rather see the team picked on the form because they're
picking that, they're picking players, they're picking players just on
the reputation. So I don't see how how that how

(19:23):
that works. I don't understand why, how what with the
strategy is there because.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
Maybe he's maybe maybe he's picking down and giving a
one more shot.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
He's the Titans because it's another team that you know,
we should we should put the bed, but you know
we should have done it easily of the Knights as well,
but they didn't happen that way.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
But I feel sorry for til Pickie.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
He deserves to be there, he deserves to be somewhere
in their side, and he's every time he gets caught up,
he always proves himself time and time again. And then
every time someone's you know, someone else comes back, he's
the one that gets dropped down. It just doesn't make
sense to me, It doesn't make sense.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
I'd almost rather see year like Chance go. Either just
seem to all wing and keep the bet. But I
think he is he's not a wing to, and I
mean he's filled in the air. He's been all good,
But I just worried about has his size, especially you
know somebody somebody you know, like if he played one
on the weekend, it would have been tough, you know,
playing against dom Yang or something like that. You know,

(20:22):
but you know, Chance has got like and there's no
knock on Chance as a fallback. I just feel like
you're going to get the same effort from Chance if
he's playing, if he's playing wing, and then you know
he's still got he's got a little bit of a
height of valage as well. And then obviously we've didn't
play center for the Kiwis he was a wee beer
and like he's, yeah, sound defensively, he'll he'll once again,

(20:43):
he'll give it as all. But yeah, if there was
going to be anything like that, that's probably what I
what I want to see, Like I think, Kate Kate, well, yeah,
that's mean yeah, Like I think, yeah, cape To a
pecky like, yeah, I don't know what the playing for
him as if Chance and around for another couple of years,
Dalln's around for another couple of years. Roger might be going,

(21:05):
but that's not gonna It's only gonna put to a
pookie on the wing, you know. So yeah, yeah, it's
just it's a real predicament and it's a real effect
that he's signed over for a couple of years as Yeah,
like I don't know where the next year, maybe they'll
they'll give him the full back and then they'll they'll
they'll move Charms around some in some some way, shape
or form. But until that happens, it's just interesting to

(21:27):
see how Webster plays that.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah, but you can't do this in the Premiership. You
can't just just go okay, well we'll give them. We
can't just say I'll give you one more shot. I'll
give you more shot. You're going to play your best team,
especially when you're coming into the finals and we're not.
We're only seven weeks away, seven rounds away, and then
that's it. That's for the said for the season. Then
we go to the finals. How how how long will

(21:51):
wester keep picking Dollan on his form?

Speaker 2 (21:56):
How long will you continue to do that?

Speaker 3 (21:58):
I think he'll keep doing that. It's just what it's
how he is, you know, And that's worked pretty well
for the last two years. As far as just picking on, Yeah, like,
this is the team and you're going to work your way,
And I mean, I don't know what to bo. He
needs to work his way and to be honest, but
the way that we have surres the way that his

(22:18):
coaches team like I would, I'd like to see some
changes being made, but I can't see the change has
been made.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
Yeah, I mean, I mean, we'll talk about the team
naming more deeply later on when we preview the game,
But I mean, I'm a bit stumped with Kate well
being between being put back at the center as well,
because I know he's been here to fill roles, but
he doesn't need to fill that role right now. He
can go back to the second row and you're making
the second row and Leo tollas you know, he's back.

(22:46):
He's been on the next thing, the bench for the
last couple of games now. And why aren't you bringing
someone giving one of the young guns more of a shot,
because I don't think Kate was gonna want to say
it's center for the whole next seven rounds in the finals,
you know what I mean. So so I'm saying is why
why are you doing this?

Speaker 2 (23:02):
Where is this? Where's the common where's the common seeds?

Speaker 1 (23:04):
What's what's the value of having these guys play out
of out of a position? And what is the deal
You're playing in out of form players as well? You know,
where could they could form players that potentially could cost
you the game, which is nearly it's just nearly been.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
Done with Delhan you know what I mean? No, not
on Delan here.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
We love the guy now, I love the guy that
you love the guy. He's done some amazing things before,
you know, for the Warriors as well. It's just he's
in a form slump, That's what I'm saying. And I
don't think his form justifies him being in the team.
I don't sorry, I don't think his name justifies him
being in the team. That's what I'm trying to say.
And I think to a picky, his form justifies him
to be in the team, to be in the team

(23:44):
right now.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
So that's that's those are my.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
Thoughts, those are my pre converter. I'm with you said
before that there's options. You know, you can put chance
and seeing taken a chance and wing and move them
around to make it work, but it's just I can't
see it ending in a way that weps coaching this team.
And then yeah, I mean, maybe it will take a
loss to the Titans at home for us to really,

(24:09):
you know, give our a enterg and think, hey, actually,
like the finals are in six weeks, we need to
do what we do to keep the top four spot.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
I mean.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
One thing I will say though, is a lot of
people are going at Delan at the moment and like
it's weirded. Oh well, no I'm not. I'm not. I'm
what I'm talking about. I'm I'm more for healthy criticism.
But I'm going I'm saying I'm talking about his form here.
But there are people, you know, going you know, as
Warriors fans continue to do, they sort of attack the person.

(24:41):
You know how they did that with Cossi for example.
Maybe not as bad as Cossi, but you know there
are some people out there and go it Delan, I don't.
I mean, I don't like that. I don't like that part.
But I'm talking about the fear healthy criticism of his
game right now, and I'm saying that he shouldn't. I
don't think his form end name justifies him being side.
That's what I'm trying to say, because he's in a

(25:03):
form slump. We all know, we all can see it.
No one can deny that. You know, he probably would
he probably wouldn't deny that himself. But yeah, so I
just don't I just don't understand. I just don't understand,
you know, the reasoning for keeping him keeping in there,
when you've got someone else that's actually showed week in
week out, when they're in there in the first grade
side that they can do it and they're performing. I

(25:25):
don't understand. I don't understand. It doesn't make sense to me.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Doesn't you know? It doesn't make sense to me. But anyway,
I was gonna ask you this question, but you've kind
of sort.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
Of answered it anyway about because you you've sort of
said that Dylan.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
Went, you know, he'll still be there. I was gonna
ask you, what what does it actually Dell need to
do it? Does he need a stint in new Cephal's
cup just the brutish.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
Confidence, But you already said that you know that you
don't think that's gonna happen, so, you know, but could
could they help him though a stint in the new
so FLS Cup.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, I don't think it's gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
Could it help? It could?

Speaker 3 (25:59):
It couldn't played like you know, there is options, but
we are still really low on the outside backs, and
as like the real problem we have for the Warriors
at the moment and in you know, like yeah we could,
we could put them on yourself, I was cut, but
then you know he's going to do that for a
week and until Picky's back at eighteenth man or you know, Yeah,

(26:26):
it's a funny one. I can't see it happening, like,
I mean, it might, it might help, but as a
it's a pretty like I think it as a step
down that pretty mus have stepped down from first grade,
you know, like it's you know, I mean it's good
to see and also like that team's doing well, why
why why sort of try changer something that's that's working

(26:47):
for you know, like it's pretty tough on the likes
of Cai and some of those other guys who are
you know, playing the outside backs there if they if
they're getting to drop to the bench or the eighteenth
man because because YEAHS is gonna walk on there, and
I know that's sort of how it works with that system,
but no, just he'll stay there. Yeah, I mean he's

(27:09):
been picked this week. You know, he's probably had one
good game of the season. I feel like, you know,
he's been out and gentle a few as well. But
I mean it's not a new thing, really is that,
Like he hasn't hasn't he's been far from his best
And yeah, that that that was just sort of like
the icing on the on the cake really for for
season so far. And and yeah, it's I mean it's

(27:33):
sad to see everyone sort of get up in arms,
you know, and you get taken personally, but that's just
the world that we were living with with social media
these days. Aim.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
So you're saying the ridings are on the water down
and you think, you know, no matter how bad he plays,
he's still going to be walking into the side week
in week out, Which.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
Is that's that's that's that's how you know you think
of last year, the lights of a new a Kora
and all that. You know, like they just keep picking them,
keep picking them. Johnson would come back and be but
useless for three four weeks in a row. That just
keep picking them, keep picking them. I don't mind it.
It's it's sort of it's good, good for the morale
of the club, and the club's in a good place.

(28:11):
It's obviously working having that sort of mindset. But yeah,
I can't see them doing dropped.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
Yeah, I mean, if I'm gonna be realistic, if I'm
gonna be realistic, I don't I don't see them being
dropped either. But it's just for me, it's it's more like,
you know, that doesn't that doesn't sit well with me.
It doesn't sit well with me. If someone is really
out of form and you're you and you're dropping someone
in form for someone that's out of form, it doesn't.
It doesn't doesn't. It doesn't make sense. It just doesn't

(28:39):
make sense, you know. The whole point of it's like
it's like I know that you know, taking their professional players,
so these are their jobs, but their jobs that are
based on form.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
You know, any other.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
Players you know trying to fight for spots, you know,
it makes it harder to fight for a spot to
you know, to make a spot your own when you
know other people that are ahead of you because of them,
because of their name, will just automatically all will be
an automatic selection. That doesn't That doesn't sit well with me.
And I mean Wester may say that's not the case,
but that's what it looks like, you know, That's what
it looks like at the moment, doesn't it that he
keeps getting picked no matter what, and the and the

(29:12):
form player gets dropped. So yeah, that doesn't make any
sense to me. But again, you know the Atolla just
brought it up, bring it up again the tour. You know,
he's shown what he can do, and you know he's
a he's a genuine outside back, he's a center, So
why not bringing back in in pro cap water where
he belongs, which is the second row. So but anyway, look,

(29:34):
one more questions want to ask you, and again we've
already aluded to it already in a way, and that
and the answers that you've already given in the talk
we've had so far. As Look, we've got the two
points right, Stoke, we're stoke, We're getting there, we're still.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
Staying where we are on the ladder.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
But is that performance good enough going into the finals?
That kind of is that kind of performance good enough
going into the finals?

Speaker 3 (29:57):
Nah? No, absolutely not, And that'll be that'll be they'll
be aware of that. I don't know if you recall,
I think you know, but I feel like, you know,
in the twenty twenty three when we had a good season,
we finished fourth, I feel like it sort of we've
hit a couple of games around this time they just
post Origin where you know, we sort of came out
of Origin we're looking all right, and then we just

(30:18):
had a couple of games where we didn't look our best.
We think we still were winning the games for memory,
but we were just looking real clunky. It's kind of
a similar thing. But if a hangover, like I mean,
obviously a ton of Boyd's coming there, you know, to
lose your half back, you know, two thirds of the way
through the seasons never never easy. And he obviously started
really really brilliantly last week. But his yeah, this his

(30:42):
performance this week especially well, particularly in the last ten minutes, basically,
like you know that that would have sort of made
a dint on it on his his confidence. I'm sure.
So they're probably just working working working out a few things,
looking at some combinations. There's still you know, we're just
talking about this gall and thing gate Bolster playing the centers.
So they're not playing that, you know, the seventeen that

(31:04):
they'd probably want to be. But yeah, I mean that beware. Yeah,
that performance was well below par, but hey they got
the got the win against all odds. As I said before,
Like what I did like was was, particularly in that
last ten minutes, the way the middle were just they
were carding their way up the field and making easy meters,

(31:28):
you know, Like I think I'm pretty sure we were
about five from five completion rates in that final ten minutes,
you know, so we were holding onto the ball, we
were smashing it away up there. So there was there
was plenty to sort of like about that game, and
I mean it was it was It was an enjoyable,
enjoyable game to watch, and it's the one which previously

(31:48):
we would have lost. You know, if we've seen so
many of those games John that you know, the Warriors
sort of come out firing and then you just you know,
we could we could have lost it, you know, thirty points.
You know, like I feel like we've seen we've seen
games the last couple of years when that's happened. So
the fact that they were sort of able to regroup
and sick in half came out strong it was. It

(32:10):
was a really really good, tough battle, but yeah it was.
It was a very understrength Nights Knights team. No Pong
and no no Fletcher.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
Sharp themselves as well.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
Literally, so yeah, yeah, exactly. So now I mean yeah, no, no, no,
not not good enough, but yeah, there was still enough.
There was still enough beer to sort of think, hey,
look they still managed to win. I mean, this is
a competition where any team can be any team, and
we know that, you know, like the Raiders, the Raiders
could lose the Titlands or whoever. I think Times wouldn't

(32:41):
been at the moment, and yeah, you wouldn't be surprised. Yeah,
it's just it's just the way that this this combos
that anyone can be anyone. And we've we've lost what
five games in a row in Newcastle as well, which
is a stat I wasn't aware of until watching the
game the other day. So you know, it's obviously like
not a happy underground for us. Of the fact that
we went there got two points. I'm happy about that,

(33:03):
but I would yea be happy to see a bit
more of a polished performance this week.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
Yeah, I mean the reason fair enough, I mean the
reason why I asked this question is because also on
our on our social pages, you know, we get there's
been a few, quite a few comments talking about, you know,
our wins a win in the year, like I understand
that to an extent, but not in the situation like, yeah,
our win's a win. But you know what, Warriors fans

(33:28):
need to look at the bigger picture here. They need
to look at the the grand scheme of things here
where we are now, you know.

Speaker 3 (33:36):
We're don't get paying still four points ahead.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Yeah I know, I know, but you're gonna look at
the bigger picture.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
What I what I mean when what I mean, what
I'm trying to say here the bigger picture meaning is
that the kind of performance won't go well in the finals.
And you just you know, you see there as well,
won't they won't go well in the finals against you know,
against a team in the finals. And that's that's what
I mean by yes, we were the two points and
I'm happy, I'm stoked, But I'm saying is that.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
It's for me. For me, it's the performance because that
that that kind of performance.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
Is not going to go well in the finals if
they if they keep if they keep it up, I
mean that's what I'm going to say.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
They keep it up. So that's what I mean.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
That's what I mean by looking at the bigger pictures,
like they need to improve some things going into the finals.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
We're gonna play finals, right, We're gonna be in the
top eight at least. I'm confident.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
And you know, we've already gone through our run home
in terms of what you know.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
What games the Warriors win or lose, et cetera.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
We believe, we both believe the Warriors will finish in
the fourth and and so I still so I'm still
saying I believe the worlds will be it, but they
just need to improve their performances because again like that
against the Broncos, against the Storm, against your mighty Raiders
won't go down well. So that's that's what I'm saying
by looking at the bigger picture. And I think defensively

(34:47):
we're quite well, you know, we're sold as always in defense.
I thought, like you said before, attack was quite clunky.
I thought we were we were just trying to bear
our way through their defensive line and it wasn't working.
It was really not wired too much as you know,
as we should have. It just wasn't working on the night,
you know, hopefully the gaming is the Knights was just just.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
A bad night. Just it was just a bad night.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
And then and then next week, you know, we refreshed
and we start and go ahead against the Times.

Speaker 3 (35:14):
But yeah, that just the Knights too mad, Like the
Knights were good. They played really I thought that particularly
there for half, you know, like I mean, they were
just here trying to throw it to their lifts. They
were just they were making the ball move so easily.
They obviously had head out of defense to six and
sevens and yeah, so like I was just happy that

(35:36):
we were able to regroup. Yeah that downt I.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
Did say in the you know, in the post game video,
I did say the Knights played at night.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
So the Knights played well. I did say that. I
didn't say that, and they probably were unlucky to lose. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
so I did say that.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
I did say it, and I did say in the
video that you know, you know, your souls for the
Knights because they thought they had the game, you know,
and I saw I did. I think every Warriors fans
thought they had the game, and they especially when you
saw the charge down right. But the thing is what
I'm trying to say is that you know, the Warriors
should be should in terms of just the individual performance,
the teams are a team performance. It just wasn't It

(36:15):
wasn't right the tech. For me, it was the attack.
The tech wasn't working. And their right edge, their right
age needs to be needs to be fixed up. You know,
there there big gate out there on the right of
their needs to be shut.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
It needs to be closed.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
So yeah, I'm sure they'll be working on the train
this week. Well you hope they would be.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
Yeah, you would think that they were. I mean, I'm
pretty sure every other team.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
And then I was figured out that that's where the
weakness lies when it comes to in their defense, and
they needed needed.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
To clean that up. I watched a couple of replays
off just just keeping.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
An eagle eye on Dellan and he does I mean,
I know Sean Johnson talked about this one time about
why he does this and stuff, but he does jam
in too much.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
He does jam in.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
He does jam in too much to the point where
he's taking out the center. He's taking out the center.
And then I saw one one the one where the
one the one played that you were talking about earlier
than the Newcastle wing where he got the ball over space.
Kate war had to run because Dellan made the tackle

(37:20):
on the center, so he ran over and stopped them
and that's when he passed the ball.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
So like, yeah, I think Dellan needs to just to
learn to stop.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
Jamming in because he is Jamie In. He is moving
off his he is going too far in in my opinion.
So just you know, everyone's been saying that. I just
wanted to see it for myself, just to have a
look at in the replays, and he is Jamian quite
a bit.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
But look, he's on the team this week.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
Let's just hope he does really well because he's still
a placed with the Warriors and we wanted to go well.
So let's just hope, you know, he proves everybody wrong
and then he's coming back. He comes back to his
best against the Tilands, So that's all we.

Speaker 3 (37:54):
Can hopeful, right and trust and with trust.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
Anyway, All good, All right, Well we'll move on to
your segment, mate, Williams.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
Yeah yeah, Williams will give you our three to one
for the week in WAM styles for our Warriors players.
I can start us off this week. I gave my
three to Lika, to be honest with you, the player
that got two points. I was close to it. She's
still giving it to him. But I just thought, yeah, Liqua,
with that that try, that try you had to But

(38:27):
apart from that, she still had a really great game
here that their big heads on Fletcher the other Fletcher
plays the Knights Igston and with a big mallet. But yeah,
Ai run meter, six tackle breaks, thirty three tackles played
about sixty five minutes, so pretty big minutes for him.
I'm sort of talked in the past about, you know,
whether he's a starter where there he's a off the

(38:47):
off the bench, But his last couple of two or
three games starting, you know, he's been playing big minutes
and he's been he's been exceptional, so he can keep
it up. Bobby, I've been more than happy. But yeah,
that try that will go down. And WID's history is
is one of, if not the greatest worst tribal all time.
I reckon, Actually he's got my two. I thought he was.

(39:08):
He's so good and he has been so good this
this whole season. Really, you know, like he's just he's
back to his beast like you know, he hid it
Stinton Cents last year. Just wasn't didn't look right, you know,
But he just gets a lot more room to sort
of run it out. Every time he gets the ball,
he's bouncing off the hills. Two hundred and sixty six

(39:30):
running meters, so the most of the game by far.
The next beast for the Warriors was one hundred and
fifty five from Aaron Clark, So yeah, I mean, he's
just doing so much work from the beckleyar twenty four runs,
top the top of the tackle breaks with sex. He
had a line break as well, So just yeah, more
of the same from him. I'm episode love and I
couldn't score a try from my same game multi but

(39:53):
but yeah, he did did basically everything else, and then
val Marga gets my one off the bench. He's been brilliant, brilliant.
It's got to try a thirty six minutes only three
six minutes, seventy three meters, twenty three tackles. And I
sort of talked before about how we how we crashed
our way out the field lad in the game, and
he was a big, big part of that. I thought,

(40:13):
you know, he was he was making making heap of meters.
Just yeah, the future is bright between him and Lika
Men and Antennas Townsmouth Jack of Laban, they're both great
as well. But did want to shout out here. I
thought Aaron Clark once again brilliant, while Eagan was great,
Busha Harris loved what he was doing in the middle
into a picky. With my other sort of shoutouts, then

(40:36):
I would have loved to give you half a point
or something.

Speaker 1 (40:39):
Well, it's sunny you say that because you've got exactly
the same Williams points as me three to one. And
the person that I was fighting over for the for
number one until the one point was while I'm going
to a picky, Yeah, yeah, for exacce same reason. So
three points, Licka need I say more brilliant on the night,

(40:59):
and just because of that last second, you know, that
last second try, but also because just throughout the game
just doing what he does best, and also that that
that try saving tackle where we talked about it earlier.
With again, I thought the name of the of the
Knights player Mallett boy. You know he decided to take
on Liquor. You know he still passing on to his
right wing and Liquor got him then smiled him there

(41:22):
and yeah, I thought liquor. Liquor was great, brilliant, brilliant
and oh all right, I remember, no, I just I
just remember, like we were talking about him at the
start of the season, how we thought this guy is
the future, and look, you know he is.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
He's not disappointed, is he not?

Speaker 1 (41:41):
That.

Speaker 3 (41:42):
I still remember the debut against the Bulldogs man and try.
It was just like, is this guy that he was?
I think it must have only been eighteen at the time,
and it was just like, Wow, this guy's good. Here,
he'll go far, and one season he has gone very fast.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
Yeah, I'm glad again we've talked about a lot, but
glad that the Warriors of something long too, definitely, And
but yeah, so like he got my three two Roger.
I thought Roger had had a stellar game. He may
have not maybe you know, scored, he didn't scored any
he didn't score any tries. But he kept on, you know,
constantly making tackle breaks, breaking the line and stuff and

(42:17):
just just running some hard meters, you know, just doing
what he does best. I thought I thought Roger was brilliant.
I thought Roger was brilliant, and you know, helped us
in getting away from our line because you know, our
attack was pretty poor and trying to get off our line.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
So he was he was a big big factor there.
My run was by Manga. Like you know how we're
talking about Lequa and val Manga.

Speaker 1 (42:37):
I actually had a thought, you know, like it could
be the new breat the bash Bros two point zero.
But not because not because they're big, big front row forwards,
because I mean, roll Manga can play there. But you
know Leger plays well, you can play anywhere, really do
if you wanted to, but he plays in the second row.
But you know, the bash Bros Is not just about

(42:57):
two front rollers. It was the fact that was just
about their combination, how they joled together. It was there
was it was more to just it wasn't just a
couple of front rollers they can just pass their way through.

Speaker 2 (43:07):
It was about their how they do it, how and
true mail with each other, how the cohesion you.

Speaker 1 (43:11):
Know between the two and the the and the and
and how they're good mates as well just to help
just all everything a combo of all those sort of things.
I think it's the same. It's the same with Lequa Inna.
I think that they both got the same sort of cohesion,
you know what I mean. You see them a lot
in in in defense where they're attacking, where they're defending,
they're both tackling.

Speaker 2 (43:30):
You see them a lot together tackling and there, and
they're and they're really getting into it.

Speaker 1 (43:34):
And von Manger, I mean, look, I know he's not
Gearys and like all the praises that Leka gets, but
he's he's he's scoring, you know, he tries consistently as
well and defensively and on attack.

Speaker 2 (43:48):
He's just he's just he's just amazing.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
I mean, I see him one time and another video
where I said that he's just a breath of fresh
air where you know, he just he lists the intensity.
Someone that comes off the bench that can bring that
into this in the game to you know, to hit
tied forwards from the opposition.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
It's just awesome. I think he's he's awesome, and I honestly,
I'm I'm gonna say it now.

Speaker 1 (44:08):
Even though Liquor is not a front or forward, Liqua
and dimetric near Barmanga bash Bros. Two point, unless you
want to give him a new name, Breshbury's two point.

Speaker 3 (44:17):
Oh, but I can see a little social media video
coming they.

Speaker 2 (44:23):
Fresh brows to hear theirs that catch warriors.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
But yeah, so I was gonna, you know, I was,
like I said, I was juggling between two Picky and Valma.
Two Picky, brilliant game defensively stop those tries as well.

Speaker 2 (44:40):
I mean it was.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
It was a bit of a mixture of nights watching
the try but also till Picky being able to be
doing and stop those tries as well.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
Because when when Brandon.

Speaker 1 (44:49):
Best passed them on his inside, I can't remember who
had the ball. But then till Pikey was able to
I looked at I watched the replay.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
Of it again, the way he angled, how he how.

Speaker 1 (44:57):
He susted all up and then as soon as breadman
As passed the ball, he totally turned.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
I was able to catch up to.

Speaker 1 (45:03):
The player and he tackled him with enough for instead
the player, which is you know, when you tried to
pass it back inside, just win everywhere the boys went
and went flying everywhere, so to a Pickie and honestly
where honestly, I just yeah, I love the guy. I
think he's amazing, and I just I feel every time
I see him being dropped to the extend the bitch.

Speaker 2 (45:21):
I just I'm like, what the heck is going on here?
We need the guy, you, we need the guy. So yeah, yeah,
but you know there's my three. It's my three two
one day. Mate.

Speaker 3 (45:32):
There doesn't even every week that we both both got
the same so.

Speaker 2 (45:38):
Best bros. Troop anyway.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
Anyway, I mean, if if you had to give him
a new name or would what name would you give them?

Speaker 3 (45:45):
Yeah? Oh the Mallet Boys maybe.

Speaker 1 (45:49):
Or nice there's okay, well we'll give him a two
bess whatever.

Speaker 2 (45:58):
But look, mate, let's quickly go into have you got
the team of honey?

Speaker 3 (46:04):
I got it up here somewhere, I think, Yeah, do you.

Speaker 1 (46:07):
Want to quickly just go through the team and we'll
just do a quick five minute preview of the game
before we get into tips in we'll call him up.

Speaker 3 (46:13):
Yeah, sure thing, yeah, Chance at fullback, Dylan and Roger
on the wings, Pompy cape Bell centers, c h T
and Boyd in the halves, Fisher, Harris Egan Ford front row,
the Cahala Sema Neil Corey and second row and Aaron
Clark at the back, Tomorray Madden for Dane, Jacob Laban

(46:34):
dimetric fild margat and tennis mouse Dennis Douris Smith at
seventeen with ten to a Picky eighteenth man with Sam
Hilly Bunt fo Alta and Eddie of the Murty over
and the other so unchanged one up from from it's
not chance to respect. Yeah, that's the talking point. Yep,

(46:57):
we've already we've already talked about our on that. I think.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
Yeah, Yeah, that's that's That's what I mean, Like, that's
that's what I'm saying. To give a few minutes, we'll
talk about the team. Maybe because we have talked about.

Speaker 2 (47:07):
It, we will.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
We've we've shared our thoughts about you know, what we
think about it.

Speaker 2 (47:10):
I mean, I mean, I have no issues with Chance
coming back.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
It's just more I think that maybe, you know, he
may need to.

Speaker 2 (47:17):
Solve an issue.

Speaker 1 (47:18):
He might be the solution to an issue that we
have on the roddage, whether it's a center or a wing.

Speaker 2 (47:24):
You know, I think he is part of the solution
and to a Picky can play.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
Fullback or I mean, you could even I mean I
know this is not probably the way most people would go,
but you could even I know you've said that you
wouldn't you don't prefer to a picky on the.

Speaker 2 (47:36):
Wing even though he's done not that bad there.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
Put him on the wing, and then you maybe like
Chance at fullback or to my demands at fullback, you know,
something along those lines. But yeah, so Chance is coming back,
he's didn't stay there. But I would have still kept
to a picky on the wing. I would have I
would have put Cake Well back in the second room.

Speaker 3 (47:55):
Yeah. Yeah, so you put Kate back on sick putting
the center, I.

Speaker 2 (48:02):
Would put that's how yeah. Or or I would put Chance.

Speaker 1 (48:10):
And put to Tomato Martin Tomatoe Martin and fall back
into a picky on the wing.

Speaker 3 (48:16):
Oh it's a big, big switch around.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
Yeah, it doesn't make such mentioned that those guys in there.
One one line up looks pretty good.

Speaker 3 (48:24):
Yeah, yeah, I mean other talking points. Is Tanner Boyd
playing against his old team, you know, so hopefully they'll
be a bit of a bit of rivalry there. Hopefully
that brings out the best of them. Yeah. I just
head and capitals no to a picky. So I'm obviously
I'm fuming fuman about that.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (48:43):
The Ara team that we've got a pretty good record against,
we've played thirty four played, was one twenty to fourteen
they hit to hit battle. Yea, these are teen h
five versa Titans at home. But we've lost four for
the last five for them. And do you remember the
score last time we played the Titans, John, Yeah, sixty

(49:04):
six six?

Speaker 2 (49:07):
Did you have to bring it up?

Speaker 3 (49:08):
One of that one of the d hacker stays and
in WID's history, So that was over there, and from memory,
I think we had a few players out too many excuses.
So yeah, I mean I think, yeah, as you said before,
like I felt, this is a game that they would
have packed. Were playing the Titans twice in the last
seven rounds, which has worked very well in our favor hopefully,

(49:29):
But you can't sleep on it. You know, they should
have beat the Tigers last week. They'll be they'll be
pissed off about that. And I mean there's still plenty
plenty of talent and and and that team. You've got
a J. Brimson at the back, yeah, Phillips Mmy on
the on the wing, yeah, big ten that was out. Yeah,

(49:53):
but Karen four and Jade and Cambon on the half.
So plenty of plenty of talent there. Karen for and
I returned to Smart for his his last trip there,
and you know Jaden Campbell's he's one of those players who, yeah,
when he gets his his his his mind in the
in the in the zone. But and then yeah, like
to sort of both form on Chris Randall, my photoworker

(50:14):
on the beach. I mean, there's some talent, but on
paper we definitely look like I'm the bit of team,
and I suspect we should be more as well, right yeah, yeah, yeah,
exafinitely yeah so, but it's just the heat records a
little bit, a little bit concerning. I'm sure that it
might be in the head too match, but after last week, Yeah,

(50:37):
I don't I don't want us to just I don't
want us dismiss him, you know, I'm not worried about that,
But I just want to see, you know, like a
solid performance where we can we can we can sort
of just like a bit of consistency and not be
a bit so over the places we have been the
last couple of weeks. Yeah, I mean last a month
or so.

Speaker 1 (50:54):
Really, Yeah, And I agree, like as much as I'd
love to see that our points differential, you know, rocket up,
I would take a solid performance over that, like, you know,
one where you know, just that we can build on
going into the finals. And that's what I meant before
earlier on about your performances, like their performance wasn't good enough.

Speaker 2 (51:13):
We won the game, but it just wouldn't. That kind
of performance won't go well in the finals.

Speaker 1 (51:17):
So I solid performance, just to keep improving week in
and week out until the finals comes along. That will
be that I would I would say it for that,
you know, like in the like you said, no there's
have to be a big, big blowout of the score.

Speaker 2 (51:29):
As long as we put the you know, a good
performance in that we all could see that.

Speaker 1 (51:31):
You know, this is promising. And like you were saying
before about Town of Boyd, he actually had a good game.
He actually had a good game. I thought he had
a good game. I think a lot of people were
just looking a lot of people looking at the last
ten minutes that you were saying, they that they're they're
analyzing his whole game. They' summarizing his whole game from
their last ten minutes, which was a little bit unfair
because I either pretty well throughout the.

Speaker 2 (51:51):
Night, so you can't really bag ton of Boyd.

Speaker 1 (51:53):
But anyway, I yeah, I think we should we should
win this hopefully comfortably. But again we should have won
the nine to uncomfortably, and ye that didn't happen.

Speaker 3 (52:03):
So how are you certainly as you you know, you
player to watch who's gonna who's gonna step up? Or
you know, Likedlan as a town of boys? Is it
who's bouncing back? Is it? Someone? Just keep up the consistency.
Broder to doing another twoudred and fifteen meters? How is
your eyes on this week? John?

Speaker 1 (52:23):
Honestly, I think everyone's eyes are on Delan. I mean,
you can't tell me that I'm the only person asking
the question, how is he still getting picked?

Speaker 3 (52:34):
Well, no, we know that because we've both been on
social media in the last few days.

Speaker 1 (52:38):
Yeah, so exactly, so, I'm exactly so I'm not the
only person asking that question, especially when you see the
team naming.

Speaker 2 (52:44):
So I think a lot of eyes will be on Delan.

Speaker 1 (52:46):
So again, as much as I think you know his
his form doesn't justify him the beat, you know, just
buy him.

Speaker 2 (52:52):
The spot on the side. Right now.

Speaker 1 (52:54):
He is there, so let's support him and let's just
hope that he he pulls out, you know, something out
of the bay and that that sort of sparks the
whole form to go up in the confidence to go
up where he'll start doing what he did, like especially
in twenty twenty three where he'll sc tries glare.

Speaker 2 (53:11):
So yeah, there's that's that's I think a lot of
people have their eyes on Dylan to see what he's doing.

Speaker 1 (53:15):
You see, and when he doesn't attack, it will be
on defense. There'll be what there will be, There'll be
a lot of evil eyes out there watching to see
what he does when when he's on defense, to see
what he does defensively.

Speaker 3 (53:24):
So can't I can't wait from the score like three
heat trick tries mate, mate, I'd love it. Three three exactly, yeah,
head trick of interslips.

Speaker 2 (53:37):
Yeah, I'd love it. I'd love to see it.

Speaker 1 (53:39):
But they're playing the Titans at home as where we
Warriors are playing at home.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
Just not a sold out crowd.

Speaker 1 (53:44):
I read I read a step earlier on that this
is the twenty six sold out crowd in twenty nine games.

Speaker 2 (53:51):
Twenty six out of twenty nine games have sold out
the Warriors. How amazing other Warriors fans. Yes, sometimes you
know you look at the Warriors fans.

Speaker 1 (53:58):
And they're like, why are you saying this, why saying
there's all the deadlists they give. But at the same time,
there are a lot of passionate worriors of fans out there.
They're just stick it out for the team, which is
awesome to see.

Speaker 3 (54:08):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (54:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (54:10):
Well look, look when we're running out of time here,
so we haven't we haven't got a deep, deep preview
of the game. It doesn't matter that well we will up,
we'll view the game once once the game is played.
So so we're just going to tips and we'll call them. Right.

Speaker 3 (54:26):
Yeah, it sounds good, man, sounds good. A right, still
quick ground heat the heat, no explanations needed if you want,
but no roaster Storm standing us.

Speaker 2 (54:36):
Off are still storm.

Speaker 1 (54:39):
I mean they lost, they lost to mainly and the
week I saw the game, I thought it was quite
I mean, I know you're not talking about big explanations here.

Speaker 2 (54:47):
If I was quickly do this one with Harry Grunt
so it clips the leg of.

Speaker 3 (54:52):
It?

Speaker 2 (54:52):
Was it? Luke Brooks?

Speaker 1 (54:53):
Yeah, Luke Brooks, I think it was. There was attempt
in the field goal and your penalized for it and
he wasn't even looking. I mean, if you try to,
if you're charging, if you're trying to If you're tempting
the chars down a player trying to kick, there's a
good chance that you're in to clip them on the
way because you're trying to you're following through, your momentum
taking you through. So I don't I don't understand it.
But anyway, I still think the storm will take it out.

Speaker 3 (55:15):
Yeah, same here, just after the Roosters lost to the Sharks.
The Sharks, it might be big, so it's interesting to
speak prospect. I'd rudden them off. Cowboys Dragons up next.
I like the dragons.

Speaker 2 (55:28):
There me too. I love the dragons as well.

Speaker 3 (55:32):
Cowboys are not great, and I think Tom Payden will
be gone pretty soon. Kim Bronco's eels hes just. I
think most is back, but he's out. They can't catch
a break. I'll go I'll go the cows at home.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
I'm gonna go heels mate, nice.

Speaker 3 (55:52):
I don't mind that. I would love to say it
great for the Wires, Warriors, Thailands. I think we're both
gonna be going. Yeah, well, as I presume Panthers Tigers
up nets can look like get went up against his
old team.

Speaker 2 (56:06):
Panthers on the you know one six in a row.
Now there standing the I.

Speaker 3 (56:11):
Mean, you know, they just another one.

Speaker 2 (56:16):
I've never mentioned this before.

Speaker 1 (56:18):
Like, you know, if the Warriors finishing fourth in the
Raiders finished in the first place because because of the Storm.

Speaker 2 (56:22):
Lost, so now camber out right first, you.

Speaker 1 (56:26):
Know how the first place fourth, I'd actually rather play.
I'd rather play the Radios other than the Storm. To
be honest, it was it was Comppinals free time. But yeah,
but I think the other team that would be weary of,
not just the Storm. The other team that I'm weary of.

Speaker 2 (56:39):
Would be the Panthers.

Speaker 3 (56:41):
Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (56:41):
Yeah, so yeah, Panthers, definitely Panthers.

Speaker 3 (56:44):
If Kevin right and and the likes of I mean
they did they didn't just spendled. I mean I was rebetis,
but they had no clearing, no ye, and still won
by twenty points.

Speaker 2 (56:54):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 (56:55):
Yeah, still be able to say the good game. Speaking
of Rebbitos Sharks, I keep shipping the Rabbits and they
keep letting me down. I'm going to go one more time.
I'll give them one more chance, all.

Speaker 1 (57:04):
Right, one more sharks. Usually you know me, I don't know.
I don't like the Sharks at all. There's something about
the Shacks. I just don't like them.

Speaker 2 (57:09):
But until the tips, I think they will beat the revenues.

Speaker 3 (57:12):
It's probably the best I think. Logan Dodds coming and
seeing I'm speaking the big game. Yeah, Raiders, Raiders, knights By,
I'm going to Knights in camera.

Speaker 1 (57:24):
Yeah, I'm going to say that this, the game that
they just played, is going to inspire them to lift
up again. You know, they won't hit the craps anymore,
and well hopefully they wanted the creps anymore. But I've
I've been through their guests Roy Bug before and if
it is horrible, trust me, it is horrible.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
No one wants that guest, very Bug.

Speaker 1 (57:41):
And hopefully they'll recovered from there and then they yeah,
they put on I'm hoping that the game again Warriors
inspires them to go up, you lift up a level
because I don't think they can play finals at the moment.
I don't think they can, but they can still put
out a good performance, you know, to round off the season.

Speaker 3 (57:58):
Yeah, and then Bulldogs. See this final game of the
round could be probably game of the round. I reckon,
I think I tipped when we did that thing. I
think I tipped the Seedals doin this one. So I'm
gonna go see.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
Yeah, me too. I just want to see the lose. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (58:18):
Great, that's it's another round tips for for the week.

Speaker 1 (58:22):
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