Quick Hands Podcast - Final's Fever EP.55

This week the boy's sit down only 3 week before the finals to talk about the Bulldogs, Souths, Latrel and Buzz talking about the Dogs

Episode Transcript

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Hi, I'm George and I'm Nick, and welcome to the Quick Hands Rugby
League Podcast. This is the podthat tells it luck it is. They
don't know what to do, Theydon't what to do, they don't want,
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years ago, creates cats like Lancyfull Sty Episode fifty five. Welcome back
to the Quick Hands Rugby League Podcast. This is the pod that tells it
like it is rugby league from allthe wrong angles. Welcome boys. Also,

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welcome to the club, Nick,you join our club this week.
Which club is the club where wedon't get to watch a team play in
the finals? Yeah, welcome toour George. We're going covered, We're
going. I grew up with alifetime membership to that club. You've been
good. They have back man wellthe world. Well it's not to be

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back. I'm used to. Georgeis the president. Now you know what
you know on the president because Ican see a long stretch of it as
well. Technically my club was thefirst team that didn't make the Semis because
I already knew before the last round. Yeah, officially because we didn't play.

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Me and George knew from round tenwe didn't even have the last the
pleasure of the last round. Canyou believe the regular season is over?
Stunning dusted dust? Well, Iwas just like, it's gone so quick.
It's the season's in there in thewaste the season, you know what.

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I'm excited, but I've also gotthat little bit of depression city.
Yeah, one month ago, fourmore, it's only four games now and
then after this week too, aweek they say that, they say that,
But it's so exciting, isn't it. The semis Oh, it's it
is September. Man, I loveSeptember. It's the best month. Yeah,

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warm wins, beautiful today, theleague's fantastic. This is better than
an Origin Series. Man. Itell the other finals games and shipped all
over the Origin series. The intensity, everything is just for me. The
Origin is gone. It's gone.But that's another topic. But this is

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this is where we get this stuff. Yeah, definitely, definitely. Let's
have a look at what the topeight looks like. Uh So the Panthers
finished first Minor Premiers, No surprisethere, Bronco second, Storm third,
and the Warriors rounded out the topfour. What a wonderful story of the
Warriors finishing top four. Absolutely,that's fantastic. Is that the second or

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third year in a row Penrith gotthe minor premiering is the second second?
Yeah? Okay, that's that's agreat effort from them. Fifth was the
Newcastle Knights now yeah, yeah,and the coach was on the pipe,
was on the outer it was gettingsacked halfway through the year anyway. Sixth
were the Sharks, seventh the Roosters, and eighth the Raiders. Yep.

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That's fantastic And I think I've readsomewhere that this is the best finished the
Knights have had for a long time. Fifth, I have any one like
nine in a row or something.Yeah, and that's another one since two
thousand and six or something. Theyhaven't done that. So another great record.
So Nights, whoa what a runthey've They've had the momentum. They've
got the best momentum coming in,haven't they. Yeah. Also worth notating

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three of last year's four preliminary finalistsdidn't make yaide, Yeah, exactly,
Paras House and the Cowboys. Wow, I'm pretty sad talking about the final
four and they just missed out.I think they finished ninth, tenth and
eleventh. Yeah, yeah, that'sright, and by two points. It's

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by two points in the end,they didn't make the aids. Well,
you know what they say, areclose and he counts in horseshoes and hand
grenades exactly, exactly, you knowwhat the sealth Sydney things. It's probably
the biggest comp compiculation. Compiculation.Yeah, we'll get that. We'll get
to that. There's there's a fewwhen we hit controversy corner. There's a
few points this week. But italso goes to show though, how it's

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important how you start the season,because the Cowboys and the Eels had really
poor starts, and in the endit just bit him in the ass because
you know, so, yeah,a parent had something like eight or nine
losses under ten points and they alljust one of those would have made a
difference exactly. So that's that's that'sthe nature of the game. Yeah,
absolutely, that's the nature of thegame. So why don't we kick off

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with old mate Ricky Stewart done?Now? So the Raiders they finished eighth,
they I think they dropped. They'relike five or six out of their
last seven or eight games, thatone two out of eight. Okay,
there you go. And when hehad his press he has his team that
he always does, where he triesto make it us against the world,

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you know, like when a reporterasked him something or what do you think
mate? You know, And soin the press conference he uses the same
kind of deflective tactics that that hethinks no one can see, but everyone
can see straight through him. Sowhen the journal asked him, yeah,
happy about making the semis he said, he said, and I quote,

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I don't know if anyone knows we'rein the finals. We weren't meant to
be. I'm so proud of thesebrokes. They've exceeded everyone's expectations. And
I'm like, well, you weresitting fourth a month ago. Why does
he have to do that. Whycan't you just say, yeah, I'm
glad we're in the stranger guy.Yeah, if you look, if you
look at the early between predictions froma lot of the journalists, and that

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I think a lot of them didhave roots to be in the top eight
from memory. So they were inthe top eight last year, they'll be
the top eight last year. SoI don't know what. Yeah, I
don't know. I don't know whyhe does that. He goes, I'm
so proud of these players. He'salways again he's doing that reflective thing.
It's us against the world. Yeah, what are you proud of winning two
games out of your last ten?Yeah, looks it's also a tactic to,

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you know, give some motivation tohis players. Maybe he probably uses
that when he goes into the dressingsheds. So because it's just something for
Ricky to do, can I suggestsomething? With a minus one hundred and
thirty seven winning two out of thelast eight games, They're a very lucky
rugby league team to be even inthe eight, you know, I mean,
I would prefer to seeing eels,you know what I mean, or

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even the Seagulls in the eight.I'll give a better showing than what these
guys are are going to do.But you know what, as we know
the rugby, their team reflects theircoach. And you know, Ricky he's
been catching twenty one years, right, it's really that long. Two He
won the premiership in his first seasonthe Roosters, and let's be honest,

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on a team that Graham Murray builtWorth Worth noting that Grand Final went against
the Warriors. That was the yearthe Bulldogs were ousted, that were leading
the comp but obviously they were cheatingthe cap. But you know what,
it's been crickets ever since the GrandFinal against the Roosters. Yeah, but
I think I think back then twothousand and three four, I think he

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lost a couple of Grand finals,but the latest one was a few years
ago, one of the twenty nineteenwhich it was a pretty controversial one to
remember. Yeah, yeah, ye, a couple of ye. They played
really well that game. That wasa great game. But but what really
made me laugh was anyone who watchesa Ricky Stewart press conference would know whenever

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there's something he's unhappy about and thejourneys ask him about it, his first
reaction is what do you think?Mate said, well, no, but
I'm going to get to that pointin the moment. So he's always whenever
he's complaining about something, he's alwayslike, well everyone saw it. He
has the referee saw everyone saw it. You know why why Bubba whatever.
This time he was asked about SebastianChris being sent off for a speed tackle

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speed table and it was the classiccoach's response, I didn't see it.
I have to have an had alook at it. And this is not
This is not a dig at Rickybecause every coach does it and it really
irritates me. Right whenever whenever somethinghappens against their team, where everyone saw
what happened? What were the refereeslooking at it? Whenever it's one of
their players who do something wrong.Oh, I didn't get to see it

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because they haven't got fourteen screens inthe coach's box with replays, right,
you know, I have to takeanother look at it. They all do
it, by the way, theyall do it. Ricard until you was
a classic speed tackle mate speed tablebro se tackle. It's not something you
can argue about. Yeah, thatone one thing I don't understand about this

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what Ricky has done the last fewweeks. How can we stop the White
in the center? And whatever fivemade it? Was there a reason behind
that didn't make any Probably the lossesis probably trying something. Yeah, all
they've won a lot of games withWhite and ness. That's bizarre. White
hasn't been setting the world on fire, but has you know, Yeah,
but what would they put him inthe center? So I don't know.
It's just maybe he's getting ready forsales. I don't know. It was

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bizarre. It was a bazare.He's got Frawley and me personally, i'd
want Jack to have the ball inhis hands. Yeah, exactly as much
as possible, so I would havehim at six. But look, if
he's going to get he think he'sgoing to get something out of Frawley and
and Foggingy, good luck to him. Guess what, I don't think it's
working. I think Jack's looking prettytired and thinking about Barley or thinking about

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yeah, a rabbit. So Idon't know, but I don't know what
he's doing it. But no,you always doing it. But guess what
he's proven. It's proven wrong sofar, and you could you could shock
us on Sunday they're going to Newcastle. Will prov the games after it?
Yeah, yeah, that'd be.That'd be a tough, tough task.
It will be. It will be. Actually, Ricky Stewart's said a couple

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of nice things in a press conferencewhen he was asked about that. I
said, you know, how doyou feel about traveling up to Newcastle?
And he said, well, theybuilt it us a few weeks ago he
said, and props to Newcastle andthe coach, as the coach was on
the verge of getting the sack,and they've done really well and they're a
passionate club. It was nice tohear some complimentary comments. You know,
what's he gonna say. We're gonnago and build them, build them,

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give them more fuel. Who knows, who knows but termoil at Redfin boys.
Oh, I'm sorry, but thisis the part where I said,
I told you so, I've waitedall year for this. Well, what
a minute if he gets if hegets them out of it, and it
does a little next to you.They didn't even make the eight. Come
on, right, this was nowI don't know what it's worse than what

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I suspected. I mean, Inever thought they wouldn't make the eight.
But to me, the coach haslost the dressing room. There's so much.
It's almost bulldogs like, what's goingon there? There's so much with
all the travel and Cody special treatmentother players get I mean, and of
course everyone's denies it, but what'shappening there? Well, Cameron Murray just
resigned for four years, so yeah, yeah, over his part, he's

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a pretty special player. And Idon't know, man, I think maybe
they halfway through the season though inthe party it's the worst capitulation. It's
a bad capitulation. But the halfback misfired. He's had a horrible season.
He's under a lot of oppressure now, he's had a horrible season.
The Greek future, he's had ahorrible season. There's talk about White and

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partnering Cody and the half next year. So I don't know. I don't
know what they so, you knowwhat they showed enough. I know they
lost, but I saw enough passionin the game last Friday against the Roosters
to tell me that the problems arenot as deep as we think it is.

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Now what the truth is, wedon't know. I mean, you
know they got rid of Sam.What was it Sam? Be partially?
Was it was a week? Partiallythat was a week? There was That's
something. These are issues that havebeen brewing for months. It's not it
happened today and you got tomorrow.So is it a little bit Demitri not

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or not not holding the troops together? Absolutely? You know what I mean?
I hope he learned from it.I sincerely hope he learned from from
it, and we move on,you know what, they it hurts I
saw the presses. It hurts them. It hurts some more. So I
hope they learned because on paper theyshould be in the Grand Final or top
two. They've been in four orfive prediams in our own so I think

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they've missed Cody Latrell a lot too. He's missed a lot of games,
you know what. But they wereperforming when he was there. He looked
at the last month. It's true. And I'm not buddy bashing my my
simple point that I was trying tomake it earlier in the season. But
I don't see what everyone's raving onabout with Demetri as a coach, and
I still don't. And now we'veseen for far worse than what any of

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us expected. First of all,you know what, how how old's latroll
now? So I'm not sure.Let's say, let's say he's twenty six,
twenty seven. You know what,when he was a young man,
he could have a month off,come back one game and just light it
up. Guess what. Now likehe's you know, like a normal NRL

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player, in the normal football player, he needs a few weeks to get
back, say in terms of themand their play on field. Now,
what was going on behind closed doors? We don't. I don't know,
we don't, we don't know,and I just want to find It's twenty
six. I'm going to call youout on that because I'm tired of people

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making excuses for I'm not right,and so I think he puts it on
himself. Oh yeah, no,No, he comes back. He comes
back after a layoff against the teamcoming last, the Tigers. He has
a good game because let's face it, who doesn't against the Tigers and his
show bathing and doing all these bullshit, and then in the next few weeks

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he's having choker after choker after shocker. Why I put pressure on your soft
for yeah? Just yeah. Whycan't the coach pull his head in and
say, listen, don't worry aboutthe show bading, just focus on playing.
Yeah that's true. Maybe he's notas good as we all thought he
was. Maybe he's a better centerthan he's a fullback because he has he

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has. Maybe maybe he hasn't reallydone anything as a fullback. You know
what? Something really funny someone todayasked me, would you prefer Latroll or
Reese? Okay, take when Yeah, and you'll probably take ruce washer.
Why did I say Latroll? Idon't know. Maybe maybe you want to

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invite trouble into your locker. Maybe, But you know what, Lat's the
best. Latrol's best not only isa game win, it's more than that.
Latrill's best is probably the best playerin the com But we're not seeing
it, no, I know.So you know what, who takes the
blame for that is the players,the coach or both. Lat's going to

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take some of that owners too.He's the player, yeah, but the
Metri because when when when Superkach hadhim, he had him met his best
more toms than not. When you'rehaving that kind of game that he had
a few weeks ago against the Tigers, When you're doing that against when you're
doing that against the big teams,make go for it, show about do
whatever you want, you know,like do what you're playing up to the
crowd. That's fine, do allthat stuff, you know, but when

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you're not playing well, it's nota good look and it doesn't help you,
you know what. I really sincerelyhope that they sorted the backroom stuff
out. I really hope that dudetaking that on one side the Metro is
in massive pressure. He's coming comingup for sure. He really is the

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good thing or the bad thing orthe good thing is that the Reggist team
in the Grand final. Okay,and there's a young half back there absolutely
carving it up, and they toldhim I should to drop Lucky to put
the youngster in. But he didn'tdo it. He's stubborn, didn't do
it. Okay, end a particularteam pushing through. They've got a stack

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team anyway. But apparently Mamazulus hashad three AM out of the match performances
in the last the last three weeks. Well he was cut from that week.
That team is stacked. That teamhe stay all. He's not going
to take He's not going to geta quickies job. Can I give you
an example of what I'm talking about? Everyone knows how much of a jam
LUI found. I am right Jake'saside, we saw him get dropped from

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the Origin. Now for a guywith an ego that size, he acts
like a dickhead week in week out. That's a huge blow to the ego.
Solute was did we all see whathe did in the four or five
weeks after that? Responded man,he played awesome. He kept his head
down, No bullshit, That's whatLatrill needs to do. That's the point
that I'm trying to make. Hecut probably because clearly told him, well,

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yeah, cut the shit out ofyour game to focus on playing.
And he played really, really welland was playing well enough. If there
was an origin a month later,he would have been the first one pick.
And it comes back to what yousaid in terms of you know,
controlling your players. I mean youknow it and I know it. Ivan.
There's a lot there's a lot ofIvan there. Dmitri couldn't do it.

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He couldn't keep these superstars because they'vestar started self star started with the
roster like that. Come on,if you look at player by player,
they're they're probably on paper better thanPenrith player by player. Well, I
had him to win the comp okay, so obviously Demitri fifty games in.

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Yeah, look he's got a bigtest in front of him. He's a
great opportunity to turn around. Buthe will start the season under a last
massive shouldn't be a case that whenyou look at SOUS, they didn't bring
any new players in, so hekept the same squad, so he didn't
change anything and teams just worked himout. That that was I was really
surprised that. I was really surprisedthis time last year when I was looking

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at the signings track when I sawthe South signed no one. It's rare
that you see a team signed noone. But he actually stated, and
I only saw this the other dayreading up about that. At the time,
he stated, I've got the squadthat I need to go one better
this year. Obviously that wasn't thecase and looked they had a lot of

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distractions through the year with you CampbellGraham never came back the same after his
injury. He was the sam playerof comp Latruelle. You don't know what
you're going to get with that guy. But anyway, he's just got a
big job ahead of him. Butthat's that's that's the key. Like it
or not, Latrell affects the wholeteam. And you know what, see

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players can affect the whole team exactly, but it's it's mostly a positive.
So when when you get a wayloose in the team, like he affects
the all the team. But ifhe's out of the team, the effect
isn't that that much. But butLatrell either I can lift lift the whole
team up or drop the whole teamdown him being on the field or not.

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So Cameron Smith had the same effectthat Melbourne when he didn't play,
Not that he didn't miss many games, very rarely didn't play. Yes,
but only without Smith they can loseforty Nielder mainly in the Grand Final.
With Kemern Smith on the field isa different kind of fish, yes,
but that that's that's purely skill.With Latrell its attitude. So if they
see lots of you know, highhigh intensity and energy from a Latrell,

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they've all got it. Let's notforget he missed that game because of a
stupid thing that he did a weekbefore, exactly a dumb brain snap,
useless, unneeded elbow which just didn'tneed to happen. You know, we
can all agree that it was afailure, a big failure. This year,
they're hurting because I saw I don'tknow the whole team, but I

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saw Jay Dean. He's hurting.So you're right. Next year is the
year nothing more than than a victorywill suffice. I'm pretty sure. Basically,
do you think maybe a robot becauseRobert had Latrill first right. Do
you think Robert maybe knew he wouldn'twin a comp with Latroll got rid of

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him. We wanted he wanted,we want two because in a sense,
but maybe he could see that thereare something I'd rather a more steady fullback.
That's why, well he didn't playfullback at the Wrists. He was
the center, but probably the center, you know. But Robot really didn't
seem bothered at letting him go exactly. He said that Latrell joining Sydney is

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kind of something that you can't standin the way of anyway. It's like,
I'm not going to try and changehis mind. Let him go.
So I don't know whether Robo Idon't know, but he just didn't seem
to buy it about that. BecauseRuss don't usually let go of start players.
I think that Robo is like thewolf frog. The ones they want

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they keep. So you saw enoughfrom Latrell to understand, you know what
he wanted exactly, But there's stillthat that doesn't make Latrell a liability all
the wrong play. You just gottahave the right coach to control. It's
just like if I was his coach, it'd just be a case of pull
your head in. You can't talkto like that. I am going to

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talk to like that because I'm theyou know what, you can go and
play reggies right, pull your headin, cut out the crab, put
your teammates first, and let's seesome focused effort. That's all I want.
If the conversation between Sam and Latrollit's true or half true, and
how it all sparked off. Okay, you know about you know, Sam

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saying that you're carrying you know,a few, a few kegs over,
you know what I mean? AndLatro is saying, well, I've got
two rings. Whatever. If that, if that's the thing that really kicked
off this this war, whatever,you've gotta be, you gotta you gotta
control. Would have said if Iwas Sam Burgess, yeah, but you
don't have a ring at Souths mate, and I do, well, he

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has right And the other thing isagain that to me shows the deficiency with
the coach in fact, just hasto have that conversation with the means the
coach didn't. Yeah, that's themetrics. It's he falls on Dmitri doesn't
fall on anyone else. Mind you. I'll say it again, if we're
super coach Okay, he would knowexactly what it's going to be out of

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Sam's mouth. Yeah, well theMetri didn't and he was running it.
He was running. Well, he'strying to be apparently he's trying to be
like super coach hands off. Wellthat's who he learned from. Okay,
you know, and and let's behonest, it's still his sport was his
second season when because yeah, yeah, he's a valuable lesson. I'm not

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saying he's not going to be agood coach. My whole point that I
made was I don't think it's atthe level of everyone's putting him out this
year, not yet, right,I'm not saying he won't become a better
coach. Just the way everyone wasraving on about him, I didn't see
it. That's just me. Buthe'll learn from this year. He will.
He will, he will. He'sgot anyone who works with Wayne Bennett,
who Wayne Bennett rates, they've gotto be good. Yeah, but

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we've been itt rated Steve Price anyway, and where have they going. I
don't want to I don't want abulldog bash, but we're going to touch
on a couple of times. Bullboardbash, Old bashed more than all of
you. One thing that raised afew eyebrows after Cannaby came close going down
by four points in their last games. Some good dries in there. Yeah,

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it was thirty four to thirty.Some eyebrows were raised them. They
said he was happy with the team'sdefense and happy how the defense has improved
this year. It's gone backwards.Yeah, real good. Yeah, So
I don't know. Yeah, Ithink maybe he was trying to make a
point didn't come out the right way. Maybe at least that's what I'm hoping.

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But the real, the real talkis the whole James Graham Andrew Davy
scenario. So you guys want toelaborate a little bit on that with James
Graham coming out and bashing Andrew Davey. Yeah, well, James Graham was
on last night on in RULL threesixty and it was him versus Buzz because
Buzz wrote wrote an article about itbecause he reckons and Graham was a bit

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harsh. Graham basically said that Daveyexpected to be first grade, but then
because he saw this young Preston guytake his spot, he stalked and wanted
to get out of there, sohe sort of threw it on the player.
He blamed the player. And thenwhat's his name, buzz got on
on yesterday and he thought it wasa bit harsh Graham, what Graham said

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because phil Rothfield, he didn't appachphil Rothfield. Rothfield approached him and he
was just giving him version like hewasn't doing being bashing there, he was
just giving him his version of eventsat the Bulldog camp. Because Bozz also
said that there's a few other playersthat he approached, but they're all there's
some of them that are scared tosay anything because of Gus, And there
was all these other allegations and it'sjust gone on from there. And then

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it's funny that because after I watchedthe bashing there of the rival of the
thing there between Graham versus buzz I, then saw one hundred percent footy and
they raised the item with Gus andhe's just th inside the meet. He's
just out there to get me.It's an agenda driven. This is an
idiot. But yeah, this Davything, it was a bit harsh harsh,
wasn't it. This guy saw thecomments on triple him. That's where

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he made the statement first, andhe said he goes Andrew Davy came expecting
to play first grade. Then hegot pissed off because the twenty one year
old upstage him, and then hekicked his toys out of the room and
pissed off to paramatter right, andno doubt about the part about the twenty
one year old up stage and thetwenty one year olds. Jacob Preston,

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he's a standout seasons and props tohim. He's a great fine for the
Bulldogs. But I think, addinga little bit of context, Andrew Davis,
he's a fringe first grader. Hedebuted at twenty eight for Parret.
He went to Manly, went tothe Bulldogs. His back apparent. I
don't think he's ever expected a startingspot anywhere he's been. He's just not
that good a player. When hewas asked about his opinion, he just

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said what he felt. And here'sthe thing, like, if he was
the only one who said it,then maybe you could call it sell grapes.
But we all know there's an issueat that club amongst the plane group,
and all he said was I didn'tfit into the culture there, just
didn't click with me, right,I suppose the most damning thing he said

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was that after I had made adecision to leave, the coach stopped talking
to me. For the last threeweeks, he didn't speak to me.
So did Buzz say that others spoke, Yes, but they won't they'll remain
nameless. So what did they sayabout He spoke to seven or eight players
who don't want to be named becauseand he stated clearly they're afraid of feel

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Good so that you and they allsaid a lot of them said they're unhappy.
Here's the thing, five or sixplayers categorically stated they're unhappy with the
way things are and the way thecoach is training, his methods and all
that. James Grahams sorry. Theargument was, yeah, but that's the
five or six players who aren't goingto be there next year. But we
can try again, we can turnit on and twim me over now well,

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I mean, and maybe there's sometrith to that as well. Maybe
it's see our grapes on the wayout type of thing. But we all
know there's issues there, like youcan't you can't get the ship back into
the horse with what's coming out inthe last few weeks. Feel goold can
say the media's out to get mein all that at the end of the
day, feel good. You're amoron. Is Everyone can see what's going
on. So the best thing youguys can do is just fix it.

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You know what when we his storieslike this, so they've come to a
crescendo basically because we get him onthe back end the stories, because they've
been they've been brewiant. So it'sobvious. It's obvious that you know,
after the first few rounds where theylooked half decent, it's all gone to
ship as we say. Okay,so so let's let's get real. Okay,

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guys's methods are prehistoric. The Serroundocame with a big reputation. Is
not that person that we think hewas, because again, what has he
done? Okay, he's lost thedressing room. Obviously when you're talking five
six players, he's lost the dressingSo we can we can get rid of

(28:49):
them. But who says he doesn'tlose the new ones coming in. Maybe
you don't lose read money, Maybeyou don't lose his players have come from
Penrith. We're gonna get all HenryFover. I don't know when's it going
to stop. So this is avicious circle. This is not going to
get any better at all. Nicolanot getting any better at all where they

(29:10):
smoke the risk fire. And letme tell you this club, this management
is under the massive pressure next year. And I suggested you nothing's going to
change. Yeah. You know what'sfunny too, the remember we saw the
video footage a few weeks ago wherethe guys were just weren't chasing the kick,
high profile players, they weren't fringeguys, Marty. These are the

(29:32):
guys that are coming out and defendingAldo, but they were the one bludging
that footage. So we're assuming thatthese guys aren't happy there are the guys
are fringe? Well, you hadfive first grade of your best not not
chasing a ball. Look at lookat it and it's missed a lot of
footage this year. But even goingback to Sunday, look at kick ours
defense? Yeah, dropped off.It's been horrible. Yeah. And what

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was the thing about a revolving door? Did you see foreign cut through?
Yeah? That? What did doyou say about for Tyler Marina as well?
Wasn't so raybn for Taylor Marina?So buzz Rothfield said last nine,
three sixty that he's the club captain, right or one off one. He's
the club captain. Club captain,Burton and many are the co captains.
He's the club captain. So whenall this stuff started, I don't know,

(30:19):
seven eight weeks ago, a fewof the players approached again, this
is buzz Rothfield. A few ofthe players approached Raymond for Taylor Mariner and
said, we got some concerns,you know, And as the club captain,
he said, oh, go andspeak to the coach. So he
did. Apparently he did in private. He went and spake to Cameron Toaldo.

(30:40):
He said, look, a fewof the boys who got some concerns.
Blah blah blah. We don't knowwhat came out of that, but
what we do know is that wehaven't seen that player since. Just told
you the story was something about thePolynesian to the footy point. Yeah,
there was something to do with that. We haven't seen for Taylor Marina since
then. So god forbid, theclub captain approaches coach with a concern.

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It just shows you. It justshows you what's happening there, mate.
It just shows you the character ofthe two men running in the club.
It's gonna it's not gonna end.It's not going to be pretty anyway.
Let's move on. But yeah,we'll see. I mean we haven't obviously.
It's it's what we haven't seen.We haven't seen tonight's episode of three

(31:25):
sixty because we're sitting in here dothis. So who knows what comes out
of that? Who knows? We'reboth boys. We've got the semifinals this
week, and we've got clubs thathave got home semifinals, and the Kronala
Sharks have been denied that opportunity denyed. Well they're not. They can't play
any semifinals at Shark Park, right, they can? They can? I
thought they couldn't know they can they'replaying at I get wrong? Then,

(31:48):
No, this shoe is that theycan. They can only feed twelve thousand
thousand in the ground. Now obviouslyI thought they I thought they made them
move it. No, no,no, So the whatever, it's given
the teams their choice or wherever theywant to. The first two the first
two weeks, now we all thoughtthat we're going to move it to to

(32:12):
Homebushka, but they didn't end updoing that. But that's it's ludicrous.
For number one, you're dennoying atleast fifteen thousand Shark supporters of seeing your
team at least Okay, Now,now you know what why they did it
is because the money goes to theNRL. Of the crowd, it doesn't
go to goes all to the NRL. So they don't care. Now it

(32:37):
feels if it was their their gate, they'll be going to the SFS,
s c G, They'll be goinganywhere. I had it wrong. I
thought it was a way around forme personally, I would play it at
Shark Park because you know what,at the end of the day, the
right you want to play at home. You want to pack it in age
and in fifteen thousand missile, unlucky, fifteen thousand missile. But we need

(32:58):
to take every advantage of we andand there's no advanta there's no advantage you
on a homebush. No, no, no, Well we called we called
the prison for for I called theprison for a reason, and we'll called
the prison for it. Was itlast year the year before there was a
season where they they were forced theyhad to Yeah, they had to,
That's what I thought happened. Theyhad to take everything. So a couple
of seasons ago the first the topfour they had the right to host their

(33:22):
finals that they're place. The bottomfour had to be centralized. Okay,
okay, So so when they droppeddown the top to the top four,
the losers they could take them totheir home ground, but the bottom of
four had to centralize it like bankwhears or or whatever, you know,

(33:43):
their sfs or whatever. So butthey changed that, they gave it.
They gave the right for the firstweek wherever they want to play. For
me, I mean, if youif you flip the script and you're talking
about the West Tigers and they're ina semifinal, well and they want to
play it like that oval rather thango somewhere else. And I know you

(34:04):
could fit twice as many people insomewhere else, but were you going to
get the best advantage from Yeah,you know, That's that's how I see
it. Anyway, Well, Idon't, I don't. I don't disagree.
The argument is that there's going tobe their people, their supporters or
their people are not not having thethey can watch it on they could put
some life sites in them all they'reat Caring or whatever or Corolla and they

(34:25):
can watch and then they go fora squeam if they want so, look
I would I'll do the same thing. I'll have it at the prison as
well, and tell me George,what's this talk about? And a real
trying to ban talk about referees anda real and in their antiquated thoughts next
year they want to ban any talknegative or positive. I assume referees can't

(34:52):
talk about you get fine. Justcan't say nothing about referees. You know,
it's ridiculous. You know when youwhen you come and say, you
know there was a decision. Can'tcan't talk if the reference to the job,
there won't be no we're talking.That's what you can't. You can't
just oh, this is the biggestcontroversial part of our game. Just everyone,
just shut up. We're gonna muzzleeveryone. I've got a difference scenario.

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Not only you can talk about them, not you can be free and
not get fined, but get thereferees after the game on that page to
press, to do a pressor totalk about why they did. Put real
pressure on them, you know,because they the orange is this is that
the well paid professionals who train fulltime to do our job. Okay,

(35:37):
now, players get criticized. Coachesget criticized when they're not performing, and
they get praised when they are performing. And I've praised referees if I pressed,
I just thought, I just thoughtof something that might be I just
thought of something that could be anulterior motive in the In the last round,
we saw Blinda Sharp and Casey Badgerofficiate a game, right, and

(36:00):
then I read an article and theydid a great job. And I read
an article the next year they're goingto look at start using the women to
officiate more games. Is just theway of protecting the women. Let's muzzle
everyone before we unleash the beast.That's interesting. I've just thought about it.
Now, if they do a betterjob than the men, which I

(36:22):
thought they did a great job,then it doesn't matter who they are.
Just every time i've seen Blinds Sharpreally good, it's good. Whoever's the
male? Hasn't Alan Harper retired now? Which the referee looks like the brother
from Two and a half Men?What's his name? Game? I think

(36:43):
he's retired. Yeah, yeah,he's long his longest serving referee, Nicola.
He's done more games than our favoritereferee, Billy. Billy's on more
than Billy Harrogan. So he yeah, look, he's had a long career.

(37:05):
Has he ever done an a GrandFinal? I can't remember. Yeah,
I like that referee. He's neverbeen in the spotlight. He's never
made many blonders either, So thereare referees that actually don't go in the
spotlight like him. I don't knowwhat his name was. The best referees,
the one you can't remember, goback to. The best referees is
the one you can't remember from thegame exactly exactly. And the fact that

(37:28):
we can't remember this guy's name,fantastic job. Yeah, good on him,
Ryan, Yeah, here we go, been coming toth we heard him
his name get thrashed? No,never, no, not coming. Yeah,
he's actually in his forties now.I think he's great refree. That's

(37:50):
a shame that he's good. Goodon him, Yeah, good on him.
You've got you've got a nice,nice sent off. Apparently did he
get a bubble? Got a bubblelike? We might have to start a
new segment next year called Brooks Barbies. Like it. Brooks's Barbie, I
like it. And we'll grill someonewhoever's getting grilled that week and give me

(38:12):
that one was getting roasted. Now, did you guys see Penrith win the
minor premiership was the Friday night?Did you see the presentation? No,
a fearless leader. He's fantastic.He really I wondered if I'm going to
get a lawsuit for this. Hereally made a full out of himself.

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So when he was doing the presentationspeech, he was talking up Penrith and
that's all great, And then hecalled out Dylan their Woods, the fullback,
and he called him up for onehundred and ninety three assists this season.
He's the thing. He's the thingright six, He's the thing.
Now. Whoever, because obviously hedoesn't do it himself, whoever prepared the

(38:58):
stats for him, made him asteak, right typo, whatever you want
to call it. But here's thething that everyone's concerned about. Anyone who
knows rugby league knows that the secondyou hear that statement is just wrong.
Without even knowing the numbers, onehundred and ninety three assists, it's impossible.
The fact that he didn't even realizethat statement was so dumb shows you

(39:23):
how little he knows about the game. And that's really bad. What's priceless
and I encourage you guys to YouTube. It was Diylanebl's reaction when when he
heard that, He's like, whatand let's put you know, this is
the CEO of the NRL now again. I'm not I'm not cooking him for
making a mistake. Obviously someone gavehim the data, but to actually say

(39:46):
one hundred and nineties three assists andnot realize, wait a second, that
can't be right. Can't be right. It's just can't be He didn't even
pick it up. It's terrible.Did you get everything, Elshot? I
don't know. I was laughing.I didn't hear anything else after that.
I was laughing too much. Butgood to know the games in good hands,
yea, as long as they're makingmoney. Now talk about jerem luy.

(40:14):
Penrith of offered him an extension apparently, I don't have to officially offered
it or not, but I reckonthey can only go up in the sevens.
Yeah, seven hundred thousand something,which is a bit surprising, but
but considering all the the salary situationthey've made a few resignings of late.
He kind of put himself in thatsituation because he sacked his management and one

(40:37):
of the rules for playing for contractnegotiations in NRL is that if you if
you split with your management group,you can't sign a contract for three months,
right, there's a cooling off periodthere. So unfortunately for him,
that three months was the signing frenzyat Penrith. So is he going to

(41:00):
take that much because he could getwhat? Could he get a million bucks
somewhere else? We'll think about it, right, if we get seven just
say seven hundred and eighty thousand fromPenrith, Right, and he's got no
agency, he pays no commission.Some of these guys play ten percent commission
or something. It all goes straightto him. So he with that he
lost his third parties as well.Yeah true mate, yea, yeah,

(41:21):
guess will Gus will bring the bill? Can he get can you get a
million dollars somewhere else? Is therea club that will pay? Will bring?
Junior is gone and I guess willbringing the billmore? Or Johne will
stay at pen I think what wouldhe want to go to Kennery with all
the stuff that I mean, youwouldn't. He wouldn't want to leave where
he's under any circumstance. But he'sin a situation now where he's fullback who

(41:44):
doesn't play origin. He's getting twohundred k more than he is can I
I'll be honest, and by theway, I think he's worth every cent.
Dylan Edwards jeez, I would loveto get lew Whites and George because
I was impressed with him at whenhe played in the World Cup. I
think he's more impressive when he's awayfrom Cleary than when Cleary's When he's away
from law, I thought it wasexcellent and having Luit and Ben Hunt together

(42:05):
that I we will work really well. Then we have got money. But
next year is the other year.I thought it was next year. I've
been one of his biggest critics becauseI just can't stand I can't stand players.
I don't like sledging. That's justme, right, you know,
because when we played back in ourday, if someone said something, you
just fucking hit him. Now youcan't do that, and that's why they've

(42:28):
all got big mouths now, youknow what I mean. Remember the old
thing when we were growing up.You lose the match, you win the
fight. That doesn't exist anymore.So I've always hated that part of it.
But I've got to say, sincesince he was humbled because Junior Origin,
he was doing his usual crap postinga fan of your your de kids
are going to go to work tomorrow. Then he got dropped and way the

(42:49):
ego took a kick to the guts. And but since then, haven't seen
that side of him. Just sethim, put his head down, play
really well and surprised. He respondedvery well, very well, and it
shows you how good he really is. He is good. Leave the crap
out. You don't need it,you don't need it. I hope he
does. I hope he grows up. And that is the reason I don't

(43:13):
think he'll leave Penriff. Maybe maybethe promising third plays. I don't know,
but I don't think he'll leave.Maybe the Chucks. He won't go
anywhere. Clear he's going to retire. After him, he's got another year
again and he can slide it theclip your spot who roosters might make a
play. You never know about ther they want to give. They want

(43:37):
to give some prize money. Theywant to change the prize money for the
minor premiers. They do they wantto give the minor premiers a two million
dollars two million dollars feet. Butwhat they want to do is not give
it the directed to the club.They want to split it up amongst the
was the top twenty, top thirtyto thirty players, and their their belief

(44:00):
is that it will mean more tothem. And then you know how well
they rest half the teams. Now, well, if it's a it's a
minor Premier battle, and you knowwhat the pen of player players in last
week for a different reasons. Butthat's the that's the opinion. Look,
I like, I think, Ithink it's I think I think I think

(44:22):
we undervalue the minor Premiership big time. In most countries, most countries around
the world, first past the pastis the winner. Yeah, we're likely
enough to have a semifinal series,and I think America has as well.
But we're like enough the semifinal series. And it's great, it's fantastic,
but you know what, how manyrounds is the season? Twenty twenty seven,

(44:43):
twenty seven rounds? It's a longand that and that move is incentivizes
the players. I want to getout there and play, whereas if the
money's going to the club, it'skind of I might have the week off
anyway. What do I need toYeah, so that's that's in the that's
in that's in the in discussions atthe moment. But what's what's assured is

(45:06):
the premiers But that's the club getsa million dollars for winning the premiership.
But that doesn't go obviously to theplayers. I go to the club.
I hope they I hope they getthat through because that's one of they split
it. A million bucks to theclub, a million bucks to the players.
Look, I'd like it look likemore winning competitions and winning the premiers.

(45:29):
Look, give them whatever you wantto give them. They forget the
club that wins the premiership, thepremiership, their sponsors will go up the
following season anyway, the value goesup. So if you if you've ever
seen a Penrith game, now,if you just look around around the ground,
just their sponsorship. You see theJerseys sponsorship. And apparently every club

(45:54):
has got like a committee, youknow, chasing corporate dollars. Apparently the
Penrith the commute. They say it'sso easy to when they ring they ring
companies up when you're winning, soeasy to get sponsorship apparently. So yeah,
and that's the reward win winning andwe'll building the dynasty like they're trying

(46:15):
to do. Okay, was whatI did was I put together a quick
little post mortem for the teams thatdidn't make the eight. Here we go,
so I'll just it's just like aparagraph each, but we'll run through
and can you get your guys thoughts. So in chronological order, South's finished
ninth set a new record in rugbyleague to the biggest implosion in NRL history,

(46:38):
at least in the top eight format. That became the first team in
history that missed the finals after sittingfirst at any point after round eleven.
I think that says it all,doesn't it. We already touched on it
before. But if they were removeit be titanically. But as they started

(47:01):
with a lot of promise halfway throughthe year, I thought, yeah,
this is the team to beat.They're the only ones are going to trouble
Penrith. Yeah it was unfortunate.Man, there's a bit of an implosion
there. I thought, I callhim for the Grand Final, Nicola.
A lot of people so implosion,implosion, implosion, and Dimitri Dimitri,

(47:22):
Dimitri, he better get it right, because you know what I can see
Sam Sam in the boxing in theyear or so, so I'd like to
no offense to Demitri. I justlove to see Sam Burgers there in some
way, shape or form. Look, I think Sam's I don't know what
happened, but as as a playeralready knows that. I'm well, we're

(47:42):
both massive fans. And look,I'm sure he'll become a good coach.
I'm sure actually what he's doing goingto Huntersville, it's probably the best thing
for him. He'd have to sawhis shoot out with Russell Crowe first.
Apparently that Kiss and make Ups tenthfailed to make the top eight after playing
in last year's Grand Final, adisastrous season which was compounded by poor recruitment
decisions and losing a lot of gamesby less than ten points. A massive

(48:07):
fail and one that should have seenthe coach moved on. God, I'm
just honest. To be honest,Paramatta played really well in patches, but
they were missing a hooker big time. That hands guy's going to do well.
He's gonna be a good player.But that getting rid of Red Marney.

(48:28):
I will never understand that. Thatcost him big time. That's why
I said poor recruitments for recruitment.Yeah, by the season. Josh Rutson.
Yeah, it's all down a badrecruitment. That's that's all I put
the season down to. Man,you know what, it wasn't one fact
that in this one Nicola. Itwas Yeah, bad recruitment for sure.

(48:51):
Injury suspensions. Don't forget the drawHow how you got that drawer? Yeah?
I didn't use it as an excuse. No, you can't use it
and excuse me in the draw.You're got to beat whoever's in front of
you. Man, they finished topfour last year, so they're a strong
team, but no one should haveThey got depleted was completely different, I

(49:12):
know, but that's their fault.But not anyone else but George Knights and
all that came in the top eight. They were you know, if they
got them at the start of theseason, you would said, oh beauty,
we're playing Knights. But they hadputting the strong sides. The Warrior
pissed me off about what The CEOSarantinos made a statement, he said,
oh, you know, yeah,it's not it's not our fault this season.
You know, we've we lost alot of personnel. Well that's your

(49:34):
you lost those plays exactly that that'sdirectly your fault, not anyone else.
Is the only thing I can sayis the youngsters you use brought up look
good. Yeah. And on Saturday'sgood was it was a showing, absolutely
absolutely, and I think that he'sprobably the club man of the year.
I'd say that. And on Saturdayus a plane the Flags playing the final

(49:58):
against the Dogs and apparently the paramountof teams absolutely stacked in that too.
Yeah, Carnaby stumbled in, butyou guys are just rumors about potential returns
to the club with Chris sand outat half back as well. Cowboys.
Cowboys finished eleventh, like the Eelsfinished top four last season, made it

(50:21):
to the prelim, failed to makethe top eight in twenty three. They
had a chance to make it witha winner in their last game. It
couldn't produce the goods against Penrith,But I think too many losses early in
the season made it too hard torecover from because they had a really bad
start. We also think maybe they'rea young team and I think they had
the bit of a hangover from lastyear. No one expected him to think

(50:42):
that as good as they did,and I think maybe they believed that they
would rump it in they believed alot of the hype and they didn't go
back to the hard work. They'vegot them there, and I think this
she will be a big learning tohim for him, and they'll be back
again next year, strong as ever. I think they recovered well in the
second but it's too late, toolate. They just yeah and yeah,
I think that. Yeah, that'sthat's my disappointing, very disappointing for the

(51:08):
list he's got for they must tobe top four. Yeah, is about
as bad as South Sydney, aboutas bad, not quite. Had a
lot of injury problems too, didn'tDid they have injuries earlier in the season?
Injuries? Lukey was a big one. He's a great player. I
love Lukey. But they didn't havereally that many, did they. Valentine

(51:30):
half a year early in the season. That hit pretty hard. Drink he
was out for a while, wasn'the. But they're pretty stacked. They
got a pretty deep they got alot of depth regardless. I don't know
what happened off season. Let's chalkit down to what he said. Something
that had to happen, and ifhe's under pressure, reservolvet top at least

(51:53):
at least if not top four comeNo one ever says bread. Arthur's under
pressure every other he's got to thefinals. I don't know. If he
doesn't get just to the finals thisyear, maybe he will be then.
But I bet you'll make his Ithink if you looked at the predictions,

(52:13):
right, a lot of the predictionsat the start of the year, Cowboys
were in the top list for alot of people. They were very very
everyone was coming on there. Yeah, the problem you say, get rid
of Arthur, but who you're goingto get now? Who is it now?
Again? It almost doesn't matter tenyears, ten years to get past
week two the finals once. Thatdoesn't cut it in any I don't care

(52:35):
how you speak for me. Thatdoesn't cut it, no problem. But
if you replace somebody, you gotto replace somebody, that's it. I'd
care for him. He's one ofthe great final season every WebStar, everybody
wishes that anyway. See, hewas twelve and up and down season Under
new coach Sea Bowl the Professor,they weren't able to lock down combinations,

(52:58):
especially in the halves. Are kindof misfired this season and was dropped for
the last couple of rounds. Turbosimply can't get through a season anymore,
and I'm going to get smashed forsaying this. It's time to retire.
So it's time to hang up thebos. He's cooked. He can't get
through a month of footy anymore.Yeah, something simple for Turbo. He's

(53:22):
got to give up reps. Hegot injured in Origin, definitely, so
he needs to stop and just giveManly back because he's let them down too
much with all these injuries. Ithink they've got some good young kids coming
through. But I was impressed withit. You know that cooler guys an
absolute bargain. He's gonna be atop player and they've got a bit of
promise mainly so they'll do all right. We got eight hundred k problem.

(53:45):
They've resigned shut stuff for eight hundredanything else a discipline when no one else
was bidding for him. Yeah,he'll be back in the background next year.
He won't be five eight that thatexperiment is good enough. We've all
seen it, right, it's upto the professor. The Professor's got a
big bit work. I don't understandmanly. I don't get manly. They
shared glimpses in games and games ofdecent forms especially earlier on Yeah, I

(54:12):
don't know. I just don't understandhim. Thank God for DC, he
had the season of his life andshe'll get the austrain. I think you
will be I hope already. Wellyou know what if you're going to pick
on form and in origin form,well he's he's the man, not even
the question. So I'll wait andsee. I'm a little bit skeptical and

(54:35):
I'm a little bit scared for manly, but I'd like to get proven proven
wrong because I know you guys likethe professor and I personally, I personally
like the professor, like I likeI like the professor. I just don't
think it cuts through. I mightbe wrong. I hope I'm wrong,
but I saw enough to say let'syou know, let's see next year.
But disappointed season, Yeah, disappointingDolphins thirteen. They won nine games in

(55:00):
their maiden season, which is morethan double the number of games of Tigers.
Won't. Plenty of distractions with injury, et cetera, but overall a
successful first You know what I wasthinking about the other day with the Dolphins,
Right, you keep hearing guys likeGus and the other guys saying we
need a five year plan to builda strong team. Well, Benniston,

(55:22):
in one year, he's built apretty solid team. Like he's done better
than says West Cannaby on nothing.And he hasn't bought superstars, which might
key play. Have they remember?No, he missed out a bunch of
market plays. He ended up gettingsecond stringing exactly, and look how good
he's made them play. So thesefive year plans. One of his most
important signings was Sullivan exactly. Hemissed half the season exactly, so they've

(55:44):
had the challenge and he persisted withhis young five eight like he kept playing
in more season. He struggled alittle bit, but he kept persisting.
Tim Gilbert was his big sign.It was a good signing for him.
He got injured early. He missedout most of the season. Marshall,
Marshall King, phenomenal job. SoDolphins everyone Adams would have spoon or bottom
spoon and they only felt further downthe ladder because of injuries because they started

(56:08):
there. They didn't have the depthsso they could have stretched. I told
you one thing that our teams thatthey do, our teams are they do.
They won't beat themselves. I meanbox and George where they'll beat themselves.
So outstanding, outstanding season, andwhat Wayne's put in there in terms

(56:28):
of culture is priceless exactly. Andhe leaves next year and all the kids
just flood through. The new coachcoming through, which I can't remember,
Wolf Wolf. He's going to beblessed with a club with culture, hard
work, and just youngsters to boot. He was drip feeding a few youngsters

(56:49):
in there, and they're all sensational. One is the way they came on
a couple of weeks ago. Hewas brilliant and it was twenty six or
something, but he looked apparently underneathis just numblived. The Titans finished fourteenth,
not a successful season by any stretch. Coach Holbrook sacked halfway through the
season, boosted by the long termextension to captain Tino signed a ten year

(57:12):
deal and for Feta signed a threeyear extension. Has it coming in preseason
November there I say we'll see adifferent team next year. We will.
But disappointing because a lot of peoplehad them to sort of push for a
top eight because of the roster.But they disappointed a few as well.
And they had a typical Titans year, like the top of you that this
year they had last year, theyear before the I think I already said

(57:34):
that typical Titans. Yeah yeah,right, I think you're curious to see
our FOURIGN games with under DESI.You know what, it was a whole
Brook the coach. Yeah, Holbrookgot moved on because they had a typical
Titan. Yeah yeah, and noother reason. I think that Deisi is
going to be a master straight becausewhen you look at their list, it's
not badly a lot of excitement,a lot of exciting player. Is a

(58:00):
big, hard nosed pack. Probably, no, definitely, one of the
best front rollers are in the game. One of the best back edge back
rolls in the game. Their fullbackwhich one but the fullback Campbell is exciting
as what's sitting back linking his lips. Yeah yeah. So I think I'll

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be very disappointed and and surprised andshocked if they don't make top eight next
year. He is too much toasking his first season or no, no,
he's got the cattle. Then he'llput the culture in there. He's
got falls, He'll put the culturein straight away in preseason. Give him
a month the first month and theremight be bit hit and miss, but

(58:44):
come middle of the year, comeorigin time, they'll be doing a Newcastle
cool. It's what he does.This is what he does. Bulldogs fifteenth
one word dismal. Finished twelfth lastseason and if the truly gone backwards under
camera Surroualdo. Yeah, big expectations, hiring feel good, hiring Surroudo.

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This team was expecting to at leastbe fighting for a top eight spot,
if not making it. They've gotsome fairly big names there in the squad.
Olo Arp who was a bit ofa head scratcher. They played half
a million dollars to get to playingthe halves and he's playing for anyway.
It's it's without at number seven Fornext season, I think they're gonna be

(59:32):
struggling. Approbably, we're going onapprobably, We're going Yeah. Well,
Dogs had a few injuries at thebeginning kickout, losing kick out early on,
and at the start they started okay, they're using kick out properly,
but losing kickout. But you can'tblame it on one player. He wasn't
the only one. They were verypoor. Their defense was abysmal. It

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was just terrible, paper thin,and unfortunately they're stuck with forty players turnover,
and I just feel like they weren'tgive him many players to go.
They have a couple of guys willgo in there, they'll make a mistake
out, another girl go in there, play a cup out, you know.
I mean they didn't persist with witha guy for the whole season.
And that's forty player turnover in threeyears. Is just towards your why.

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You can see what they're going tostruggle as we went through last week.
The defense is the worst. It'sbeen the worst. It's the worst.
And now with all this debacle aboutculture in that I don't know, it's
been disappointing year, but they finishedahead of the Dragons and the Tigers early
victories. You know what, disgraceful, disgusting. Mister popular, he's going

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to be very quickly unpopular, gustson the wrong, wrong path, the
wrong path. He can bring inanother twenty players, he can bring chriting
from Penner, he can he canbring the Australian team. Guess what he'll
lose. He'll give him six givehim three months and he'll lose the addressing

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room surrounding. It's a bomb waitingto go off. Nikola, You will
not get any better. And thisyear was the worst Canterby team I've seen.
You know what, I'm ashamed I'vesaying that I'm a Bulldox supporter.
I say first, I'm a RugbyLeague supporter, them, I'm a Bulldox

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supporter. And because they don't,they don't show me anything at least and
George showed me something. They showfight, they show. This is worse
than a couple of years ago whenthey got the spoon because they supported the
cattle. The cattle and you're alludingwhen when they had Dean Pay or even
Potsy okay, well under Dean Payokay and Potsy not under tread the effort

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was there though if it was there, the effort was there. So I'm
ashamed call myself a Bulldogs report.It's like they replaced the next Penrith assistant
coach with a current assist Prith coachand they've got the same results. Dragon
sixteenth horrible season, only managed ahandful of Wednesday season and coach Griffin was

(01:02:05):
sacked halfway through the year, whichdid see the performances improve a bit.
I had a lot of distractions withBen Hunt, a lot of uncertainty but
all that seems to be settled nowFlannagan coming in as a new coach,
and I think things are looking goodfor next year. Before you go on,
I heard that's going to go.Apparently he's committed to staying. He's

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good. He just came out sayingI think he's gonna twenty five. But
next year, he said. Hecame out and publicly said he's going to
stay. See how that plays out, Titans, he's going. I'm not
sure, but someone told me thatthere's a massive chance that. Yeah,
but we need to look not playat all. Yeah, what I could

(01:02:51):
be wrong, and he could bewrong, but he said that what he's
heard is that he's going to go. Yeah, but anyway, let's say
he's not. He's going to stay. He's got a contract and things like
getting rid of him. There's noway that players going to let him go.
Play Reggi as far as his concern, Yeah, this is my take
on it. Right start of theyear, the predictions were Dragons were going
to come last, second last,or because of a guy named Hook.

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He was there, Wis and Georgedid a movie Mine and waited for the
first ten rounds. It's just likethey wasted all the fans time this year.
It was just wasted year. Theyknew he was going to fail,
they just didn't want to pay himout. They didn't want to pay for
a new coach. I don't know, but something stupid, but they kept
him on and then tim weeks laterthey get rid of him. They finally
get flanning it in. But theseason's gone and all these hard on fans

(01:03:36):
going there to every game, it'sit's just at Debarcle music and Cannibals,
the Debarcle win you from the startit was going to be at Debarcle,
and the ended up playing one.We had no promise from the start and
and I fizzled time. That's whatwe said. So they talked about it,
and even the entry to the show'ssay they should have got Hook,
they should have got rid of Hookto you exactly. And it's just disappointing.

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I really hope the board of directorsreally a couple little flak because of
this season, because it's all becauseof them, not because of Hook,
not because of the players. It'sthe board. That board made that shit
decision. Now that we were flanningand we've got a bit of promise,
but it's going to take a bitof time now and we're lost. We
had juniors that we were going tobring through like Penrith, ready to go,
and it's just Sullivan's gone now,so we're losing that. It's just

(01:04:20):
the future is just but was lookinggood but then it's just gone to shoot.
What's there? It looks promising totwins it's Kyle Flanning and will end
up there right, Probably that's whatthe same And you know what, it's
a good hooker. Since he changedto hooker, he's played really well.
Maybe that's his future. Yeah,I think I think it's a good player.

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I think he's a good hook I'dsay he's a good halfback. But
him as a fourteen, I reckonthey're gonna get fourteen since since he changed
the hooker in the Reggies, Ithink it's say, really wild when he
has played first grade for the board'splayed wild at hooker back end of the
season. You know what? AndI see your face that no one's giving
him a girl, the poor kid. Yeah, you know what I think
about how he's been treated Crone,he was really good. He was remember

(01:05:06):
what he's played half back is theAdreeen then and he'll steering the team around.
So given give Flanner some times.Yeah, the last three years,
it's the worst movie he's ever done. He's been mistreated, honestly, you
know what I mean. And allwe have to go back to see that,
and and Nichola said, that's apress conference when he came out and

(01:05:29):
started crying, that's how horrible.They should have known. That's horrible.
They should have known his mental state. Yeah, exactly. Okay, So
so it's just the worst environment forthe kids. So he'll do well,
I'm doing if he goes, he'lldo well. Ye lucky. Last Biggest

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basket Case at the competition, theyfinished last in twenty twenty two, and
would make you think, well,it can only go up from here,
actually went backwards. They finished eventwhich is one spot worse than last year,
four wins or year less than halfthan what the Dolphins did. The

(01:06:11):
five year grand plan of Sheen's coachingfor two years and Benji taking over in
twenty five went to shit. TheShean's being sacked down in nine months in
and Benji's already taken over his headcoach. You know, much like the
Bulldogs, the Tigers have made someimpressive additions to their squad, but it's
had a little impact at the executivelevel. The hierarchies in the Shambulls led

(01:06:33):
by Lee had your pentalis and CEOJustin Pascuale, who you might as well
call the fugitive because you haven't beenseen in months. Too many balls ups
to list here, but it's goingto take something special for Benji to avoid
a third Wooden spoon. You knowwhat, I applaud Tigers because they saw
it was going to ship and theygot rid of Tim Sheens. Balls on

(01:06:55):
them to do that. You know, when they said that a five year
plan, Okay, it's not workingand they got rid of Sheens. That's
not Canterbury. Now. Wouldn't yoube happy if they did it now to
Canterbury if they said it's not working, man, let's get rid of him,
forget it, it's and then replacehim straight away. That's what they've
done. They've got the balls todo that, which I applaud and I
reckon they've released different but they've they'vegot players like Buller, They've got all

(01:07:15):
these youngsters that are coming through whichare going to be super stuck. So
I think the tigers have got morepromised than the dragons and bulldogs. And
the same people who sacchens are theones who put him in there after sacking
him last night. But it showsthat they've got high expectations. They don't
take ship. If a case,the ship they're getting removed straight away and
they're trying to fix things, thenyou up for a fail. I don't

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know, man, he needs agood assistant, right, But they've got
John Morris. John Morris will befantastic. He's not experienced the good.
In my opinion, someone like thatwould be good to get. I mean
John, he's a Flannagan boys.He went to what's his name Sause for
a bit, so he's got abit of good experience. He coached Sause

(01:07:58):
for a bit. Granella, youknow, I think you've seen it wrong.
I think meaning Will had you Pentella'smeaning Will. But he's obviously a
control freak. Yeah, okay.And what he did to Team, he
noticed Team's had too much power aroundthe place, too much control, and

(01:08:19):
he sneaked. What he'd done wasa bunch of a bunch of sneaky moves
to get rid of him, andhe did with the whole Fulton thing exactly.
By the way, you're going tosee breaking news. The Targets are
going to sign youngster Zach Fulton fromManly. By the way, I haven't
seen that anywhere, but I didsee that Manly are cleaning out a bunch

(01:08:40):
of players and he's one of them. So what's the bet he ends up
at the Targets. He's actually bad, actually not bad. Yeah, he's
actually quite Yeah, yeah, it'sgot a look, let's let's wait and
see. I have they haven't improvedseason next year. I do know one
thing. I really like Benji.We all like Benjing. We all know

(01:09:01):
what benj is like. And youknow what I'm thinking. He's been said
of the shit sandwich and in twoyears his name is going to be smeared.
Or it's a golden opportunity for himtoo. You know what if he
if he bring his fists of existsaround, will be calling him super coach?
What are we calling a super coach? Super coach? And John Morris
is going to help him. He'sgoing to be He's also got a nace

(01:09:24):
up. He's sleeved. I forgetin Wayne Bennett. Yeah, he said
he talks to all the time almostdaily, and I'm sure that Bennett would
have said I'm here for your asa mentor type thing, because they're very
close as to they are closed.He says that he's the one who's saved
his career. Benji says he's theone who saved his good. He went
to Bronco. So look, Ihope so because again by all reports,

(01:09:49):
what they've got underneath, and thereare a few years away, is very
impressive. Exactly. But that's whatthey said about Saint George as well,
a few years away. But whatthey've got, believe if he's better than
what West has gone. Yeah,let's run through, done and dusted.
Round twenty seven. We can skimthrough because a lot of these games were
dead rubbers. There were Storm thirtytwo, Broncos twenty two reserve grade versus

(01:10:15):
was the only standout was that kidfor long ago, for longer, he
was fantastic. Where did they getin? How good is it they're playing
each other this? Yeah exactly,and Broncos haven't beaten him fourteen times?
Yeah, I thought the water hard. I never realize that bad. So
yeah, that's all I made.He's got a cover Seagulls fifty four Tigers

(01:10:39):
twelve. Well, it's a goodfinish for the Sea. It was good.
And the good thing about that thehighlight Jack d boy Witch scored.
They gave it to him literally overthe line. They're toying with the Tigers
in the end, which is abit sad, but it was a good
finished by the seagull But yeah,we're pointing out games like this for teams,
Tigers and other teams very hard toturn up. They just want to

(01:11:00):
go home. I went to baryeah day before. Yeah, well this
one was important. The Roosters twentysix rabbit as twelve. I was.
It was an enjoyable game to watch. It was a very enjoyable game me
and George. Some key moments likeKatie Walker's passed wouldn't Sus had the chance
to score in the corner and hepassed to the ground. Yeah, just

(01:11:21):
some key moments let him down.And another key moment was losing Blake Taff
early. That would have hurt becausehe plays a huge role and that that
helped the Roosters a lot. ButI thought the Roosters were that much sharper.
They'll be switched on. They weremore hungry for the win and Suso
deflated after they lost Taff and afew others that would sort of starting the

(01:11:42):
deflated it. But they're hanging inthere, you know. Yeah, Look,
Robert had devised a nice game planto stop supply and and spot in
and around Katie because he knew thatwas the issue. On the other side.
On the other side, Campbell Green, he's just out of swords.
The poor guy just gonna get anoperation Campbell. It's a hard operation too,

(01:12:05):
stern hm. So you know what, they'll just that little bit better.
I did see some spirit, Isaid, some spirit fromselves. So
it's sort of ride off and somesome momentum going to next year. But
on the night the russ with abetter team, and and there could be
there could be a scary proposition.It would be a scary proposition. They's

(01:12:26):
gotta they've gotta just parden up theretheir error rate beside that. Yeah,
Dolphins finished with a strong wind athome, thirty four to ten. Over
of the Warriors rested. Most Dolphinsfinished on a higher that was fantastic.
With him what's his name is?Sako scored ends up getting the record in
Japan. Say you got the mostpoint scored in a season. I think
you have took someone so which wasfantastic for him for m for is it

(01:12:49):
for a maiden club for a maidenclub? Yeah yeah, which was great.
Yeah, So a lot of promisethere. For the Dolphins, They're
looking good, aren't they. Theyare a little good side. Wayne Bennett
has got him starting on a whata what a start of the year,
to their career, to their season, to their goodment next year they were
give them better. Panthers forty fourCowboys swolve out at Penrith off the Panthers

(01:13:15):
just smashed the Cowboys. They hadnothing. Panthers played everyone too. Yeah,
and a lot of people didn't expectthat, especially male tip cowboys thinking
Penrith are going to go out withthe eye on next week. But yeah,
Penrith were just too good. Cowboysare apparently nicola. During the week
they Ivan was going to rest themall, rest them all and it doesn't

(01:13:36):
care about the minor premiership. Butthey will approach to the Ivan and they
said they wanted to play. ApparentlyIvan wasn't really aware of what the story
was when they played the Cowboys upin North Queensland. Let's say some of
the Cowboys and especially Scott drink Water. Let's say got a little bit and

(01:13:56):
animated with Dylan Edwoods. They senda reserve, great team because you remember
it was Origin, Yeah, itwas during the Oranges, so they you
know, they rested of the playersand I think they the Penruph boys put
that in their memory banks and theygave it back in in multiple service.

(01:14:17):
And one of my favorite sledges therewas a lot apparently they told me on
SCND they said this, but oneof my favorite sledges is, I know
what we're doing next week? Whatare you Black's doing? And that was
the semi final for the Cowboys.I know what we're doing next week.
What are you Blacks doing? We'replaying semifinals next week, US or not?

(01:14:40):
So yeah, they toyed with fromhonestly, Yeah, it's going to
be hard to beat me. Night'sthirty two Dragons wave disappointing any into the
season. I feel sorry for RyanCarr. They dished out that ship for
the poor guy because they've been playingwell left then. But I think when
Tigers lost, I think the pressurewas off him. I think that's you

(01:15:01):
know what we guarantee no would havespoon and they just there was no intensity.
It wasn't there nothing. Again,it's real hard to show up in
a situation. But credits to thenights they played well, can I can
I just say something, you know, we we we talked about Tyson Gamble
and we have fun with him interms of a sledge of this and that
he's actually a very very very goodplayers. We played very hand I really

(01:15:26):
played well. And you know what, in the full team, he's a
he's a key, is a keypivot helping the control freak and giving some
good, good supply to the outsidebacks, best and poker. So you
know, we might go around withhim, but he's actually a good play

(01:15:47):
exactly. And they rested a fewplayers and they've got their ninth winn in
a row, which is the firsttime since two thousand and that is that
when they won the court might havebeen I don't know, I can't remember
two thousand one, but yeah,so credited the Knights Gold Coast City for
a bulldogs dirty you know, youknow what, it was a bludger,

(01:16:09):
but it was an exciting bludger.Some of the tries. It was.
I thought he had a cart trythe chip over the top of the double
chip I think that's the trial ofthe year. How exciting was that?
I mean, I got to admitI'm sitting back just laughing my head off
just seeing when I was watching,like defense zero for both teams. But

(01:16:29):
it'll see to tell you so foreignhat trick first time, you know,
and the and the way he scoredlike he strolled just strolled through the defense
in the middle of straight through themiddle. So well, look, gay,
you look. You know, bothteams were their brains were in Barbie.
So yeah. It was another gamerefereed by a lady called Badger.

(01:16:53):
Casey Badger made history second game.I should have mentioned the other one,
the other game that there was afemale refree. What do you think of
her performance record? It was great, It was great. Case has been
around for a while. She handedit really well. She's she's got a
husband. Who who to be thenext referee? Yeah yeah, I Actually
everybody everybody likes Belinda or she's onthe blind, the sharps on on high,

(01:17:18):
the higher profile. But I actuallylike Casey. I think they're both
really good. I actually like caseWorth mentioning here as well. The Bulldogs
canceled Mad Monday and did some charitystuff. Yeah, so they should,
So they should. That's worth it'sworth it, you know what. Good
on them? And if this isthe start of the new era of the

(01:17:41):
Bulldogs, and if we have toget rid of six, seven, eight,
nine, ten, how much didgust to another twenty twenty players,
forty players to to to find theright players and the right players who buy
into the culture. Here here,let's see I'm over slagging them. Let's
let's let's have an off season.Let's wait next year, and let's see

(01:18:04):
what happens. So we all know, we all know how I feel about
it. What's going to I've predictedwhat's going to happen. That's how it
doesn't happen. But you know,going this watch ality work I reckon In
the last game Sharks twenty four radedsix. That means the Sharks better top
eighteen. They did, and theyearned themselves a home finale. So goodwin

(01:18:27):
by the Sharks. That dangerous tacklethough, because sebast and Chris that looked
five weeks, five weeks, it'sa bad tackle was a terrible tame.
Yeah, but that Brandon trendle ismade a difference reckon the Sharks since he's
been at the Sharks. They've lookedso much better. Good play, so
good on the Sharks' game in theround Boys Rooster's House. For me,

(01:18:49):
that was a pretty good game forme. I like the Sharks one.
I'd almost go Dogs Titans because Ilove the close ones. You know,
didn't. Yeah, but if we'retalking quality and yeah, Roosters Roosters gravitas
for me, Yeah, I likethe Sharks is good. Yeah, but
I love the Roosters one too.I put Blood Jers Western Saints. They

(01:19:13):
it looks like they're playing their eyeson barley. They just didn't turn up
at all. Those two teams.Western Saints. Well I got Western mainly,
but mainly the game. The game, game Yeah, the game.
Yeah. What stood out for youguys this week? What stood out for
me was the Roosters beating the Southto make it in the eight, which
I never saw coming. I didnot think that the Roosters will be Ten

(01:19:39):
weeks ago, they were gone.I was down the bottom. So that
stood out for me. They justha come back from the Roosters some amazing.
I'm going to be a broken recordand and say that just solidified in
my head that if the if thePanthers want to win the competition. They
win the competition better if they feellike they want to win the competition.

(01:20:03):
Anyway, maybe next year, thisyear, who gets to John Cree spray
all of them? I've got aspecial one for this. Yeah, I
was really really angry last week whenI was swearing all three sixty because West
Tigers and Saint George I've been copyingit from Hooper and braith A NaSTA couldn't

(01:20:25):
get their grins off their mouth andall these you know, they're laughing at
them, calling them a circus andall that, and then when the Bulldogs
look like a circus, it's allserious, you know, like, oh,
you know the benchmark wouldn't mean youknow, like everything got serious,
and I thought that was you know, as a fan of the West and
the Dragons, you can't laugh atour clubs and they're not laugh at your
own for doing some stupid things.Left a really bad taste in me.
If you're gonna have biased guys likethat on the on the panel, get

(01:20:48):
rid of them. I want Iwant guys that are going to be that
are going to be fair on everyone, not just laugh at people. You
know, people's misfortunes like they dowith West and Saint George. It's terrible.
So my spray, he's get brathinkpro out of it. Commentary.
Man, I won't watch three sixtyagain. Bra. Yeah, he's terrible.
I'm gonna I'm going to back thatup. And and and in the

(01:21:11):
pre show I spoke about this.I don't I don't understand how the journalists
are all covering up or supporting thedogs. It's got me bugged. What's
happening at the Dogs at the moment. He's far worse than what's happening at
the Tigers, at Saints and West, far worse, far worse. I

(01:21:33):
mean, for God's sake, we'vegot someone suing the club for mental for
training for mental health health. Andthey knew he had he had a mental
history. So for God's sake,you know, call a spade a spade.
You know what I mean? Yourjournalists, get your fingers out of
the bumb out of your bomb.And you know what, we know,

(01:21:53):
they're all your mates, you've allplayed there, But do your job.
Yeah, and call it. Theonly guy who's calling it his buzz.
I can't believe I'm saying that.Yeah, I know, I can't believe
I'm saying that the only guy calledhis buzz okay and that they play with
buzz on on the end, andI haven't seen it. I went a
lot of you haven't watched three sixtyfor a couple of weeks because the same

(01:22:15):
as that it makes me angry,It just makes me angry, you know.
I mean, I've got it onthe app and I listened to it
sometimes on my phone. But look, you know what I call a spade
a spade. Journ call a spadea spade. Don't protect the bulldogs or
Gus say Gus North Serroudo you knowwhat I mean? Do your job?
And the way they're smiling and laughat the Dragons of West every time mock

(01:22:36):
them. They mock them hardy,don't they? What did what did Saint
George do? They had a rookiecoach backflip on and we're our big deal,
as if that's the biggest That's allPurple was saying, throwing all these
things because because Roles Mate, we'relucky he walked out because we ended up
getting Flanninggain. So I don't knowwhy you're criticizing him. They want the
West Tigers. They keep bringing upthe CEO wearing a muscle shirt or whatever.

(01:22:58):
That's why the guy never goes.That's why Pasco never goes on these
shows because ever since then there's beenprobably scarred, Like what am I going
to appear on the show? They'regoing to make fun of me? So
pretty guest the CEO for displaying hisapparent lack of knowledge for the game three
assists on live TV. Great,great, one hundred imagine the four against

(01:23:21):
them and the fact that he didn'teven realize he said something so stupid?
How one person to one hundred?Dylan Edward's response, his facial expression was
priceless. Who gets mynies player around? Or is a player of the season,

(01:23:41):
player of the round the team ofseason soon? But mate, this
is going to get to an absoluteguy who's already played one in a real
game for Melbourne Storm. His namewas log He was fan fantastic. Where
does Storm find these guys? Butwhatever, this guy's going to be a
star like he was phenomenal, thepay, he's the power, everything about
him was great. So Moe wentto the youngster Minori. He's gonna go

(01:24:03):
Who's is He's going to just thinkhe's a normal get off the rope.
No, that's an actual player.Man, he's a youngster. He's ever
seen. I want to be controversialhere, Nick going to be very controversial.
I'm going to give it to Blindthe Sharp. Yeah, well that's
good. But the Sharp the firstwoman to to reference in a real game

(01:24:26):
in the in the in the inthe one game, in the one referee
system, and she was actually good. I thought she was actually good.
Can I Can I be honest?I was? I wanted to Roaster,
I was, I was watching Roaster. She was good. She was good.
That was a friend. Uh.But blindas the cat, the catalyst

(01:24:48):
there, she's the she's the flagship. So yeah, look the I think
your your guy can pick up Berlindand then go together. I'm going to
give it to for bagging a hattrick for the first time and get him
down. Get the Actually he canpick up think he can hire a car
and pick all through of them up. What's something for us? Yeah?

(01:25:09):
Made, I've got a bit ofspam mail. First, the Sous want
to thank the Warriors for giving himtheir seveneen tickets to Bali. They're supposed
to leave this week, but theWarriors came to Souse instead. That was
unexpected. Cowboys also want to thankthe Nights for giving them their tickets.
They were going to get to Balleyto the Cowboys are going, Unfortunately Itels

(01:25:29):
have to wait till October. Thatdidn't think they're going to get a butt
because they thought they were going toBills have got a month of wait before
they go. So that's the thing. Everyone's canceling tickets, even from Penrith.
Yeah, he wrote that's what heguess. How long until Sarado starts
feeling tired. Remember, then hecan get the Tigers. Then he can

(01:25:57):
get to the Tigers. They won'tdo well there, and by the way
hawks available, you can get himto come in. Ivan must still have
a bit of a grid. Nobit of a grid. You know what
I found that. I found somethingthat Hook can't do as well. He
can't commentate. Oh my god,you know what. I'm so glad you
said that. I'm so glad yousaid that because I forgot to bring it

(01:26:19):
up. God. He was horrible, and I feel bad for the guy
because I like it. But Iwas thinking to myself listening, like watching
this game, imagine this guy inyour ear all day every day training.
He sounds like a wet baker.You know. It's terrible guy so bored,
he was so there, really ona roll. Now you can shoot.

(01:26:43):
We've gone wide with the war andoh man, I didn't even trying
to explain to young Glad you broughtthat up because I forgot about that was
so bad. That was that washorrible. And the last one Stephen from
Penrith, he just wasn't know ifthere's any good loyals. He had break
contracts going to get out of thatone was yeah, that's it, Nelson.

(01:27:06):
So what I've got here is Noyhas given me his team of the
year. Oh yeah, right,team of the year's got one year,
one to seventeen. Lovely, lovely. He's not really good with names,
so he's good. Yeah, sohe sort of give me some lack man
so fullback. He's got reflections reflection. Yeah, he reckons the boy looking

(01:27:30):
in the mirror, so reflections.He got the fullback of the years.
The winger went to our favorite nicknamemade by Niko there lesbian act. He
has had a great season. Yeah, it's got to be one. The

(01:27:50):
improvement in the lesbian actor is anamazing, And I'll go back to to
Reese what he did. What he'san issue comparedible in previous years. He's
the premier full back there he goes, we're not He's picking the right on
right on the other wing. He'sgot the frequent flyer Jermaine A. Sarco.

(01:28:10):
He's been to three clubs and twittersfrequent flyer. So yeah, one
of the centers, he's got thehammer hammer the hammer which is there,
and the other one. I didn'tunderstand. Number fifty three. He said,
you know number fifty three? Isaid, who's that? You know?
Three? Yeah, you know themovie Herbie Goes Bananas. The number
on the cars, number fifty three, Herbie farm. So he's got number

(01:28:35):
fifty three. Herbie fun Worth isthe center. Five eighth. He's got
the pocket Dynamo. He's a man, he's a little man, but they's
a dynamic player. And he's partneredin the halves with Lambrusco, which is
Shawn Johnson. He's like a redone. Just gets better with it,
just gets better with the Lambrusco.Yeah, I think my favorite, though,

(01:29:00):
he's come up with some good ones. The prop. One of the
props is Jerry McGuire, jure,Yeah, show me the moment he's gone,
Jerry McGuire, Chage, Champagne andChampagne. And the other prop is
Disney Aladdin Adam for Neil Blake,Ladd and Aladdin. I don't know.

(01:29:26):
I think he should have called hima ladder, not that. And the
hooker is back pain, which ishappy choruser. He's carrying the whole time.
Yeah, that's his background. Wasto swallow my tonguey which is poor.
And Joseph Pinna's dream and I saidthat one. I didn't understand jasp
Pinner's dreams. Well he reckons that. Patrick Carrigan's got really nice here,

(01:29:49):
and Jesse Pinell just loved and thelock was the lock was mister Reliable,
which is yea, he's just reliable, mister rel they'd be boring there,
mister. And he's finished his benchesguaranteed twenty which is Alex Johnsons. I

(01:30:13):
love these. We've got some newones. The Saint George Lock, which
is Tyson Brazil. It's Saint GeorgeLock, the King of the Sledges.
Mister tysone camera and fussill other andsort of lucky was the which is Tina
thumbs for Tina big Tina, whichfussil other is baked beans in Greek lay.

(01:30:39):
So he's got their man. Hehas even picked the rookie, but
he didn't make a nickname for that. His rookie was he likes the Terriver
guy. He's been fantastic, hereckons. It's his first year, isn't
it. So he got it rightthere. First year. His by of
the season was Reflections, which isagain Swash and the dud by of the
year is josh Udson. Yeah,so definitely. So that's so all these

(01:31:02):
guys have to go to his truck. We're going to send them about you
and they can get a free youknow what. That was outstanding and the
best part of that, you knowwhat? He got the he got the
team pretty much spot on. Thegood thing is I've got some nicknames out
of it. Would you would youguys put another player? Like is it
another drink? And he's there's anotherplayer you'd put in there instead of that?

(01:31:23):
Is there another guy that stood outto you guys should be in this
team? Yeah, if anyone,I mean it's hard to go past Reflections,
but I thought Jarene Buller was areal standout this season. He was.
It was a sort of fringe.Yeah, he had him and Bullers
and he had Preston's. He hadthose three is another one. So good
rookies were Tariva Buller in Preston's.I think you got You've got the wingers

(01:31:45):
right at the senders right. Yeah. He called bullet ice cream because you
know the bullet. You know what. I'm not sure about the five aide,
but I can't think of any otherone. Here's a man. I
know you like him. I knowyou like him and I don't disagree,
but I can't think of another.Which of the five month stuff? I
can't know he didn't he has outa good season. Who else would you

(01:32:06):
put? So? Yeah? Didput Tyson gamble the five eight? There
was the five. I can't believethat your favorite hasn't made the list.
Of the Newcastle full back he didn'thave enough games. He had him second,
he said, if he played moregames, he would have put him
a head of reflections. Whether heput and he caught him toilet boy because

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you call, of course, it'salways gonna be toilet boys. It's always
gonna be toilet boy. Yeah.Look, I like it too. As
I like it. I like it. I like it. It's good stuff
you get, mate. So that'sdo you like the new globlet stuff?
I was wonderful, wonderful some nicknames. There's good. Let's look forward to
a week one of the semi fourtscrystal balls, four cracking games, uh

(01:32:53):
seven fifty on Friday night. TheBroncos hosting the Storm talk to Me,
talk to him. Got a shockingrecord. Hey, they've lost fourteen in
a row or something. They're goingto win this, but yeah, I
think they're goin. I like themon pay for better than the Storm.
To be honest, records mean nothing. Once the whistle goes, that's true.
And it's at Sun's at home,isn't it? So, George,

(01:33:16):
I'm going to guess Broncos. Yeah, you know what, we know what
the Movement Storm are going to do. They're going to come out, They're
going to try to get the Broncosinto the grind and they're gonna wait because
they're a very patient team. They'regoing to wait until the Broncos start making

(01:33:36):
mistakes. Now, if they ifthey play an eighty percent completion game,
they'll do it, okay, andthey'll beat They'll beat Melbourne. They'll beat
them, They'll beat they'll beat them. Well. But if they do what
they always do and complete at sixtypercent, if you go back to your
stats n you'll see that they goon to complete sixty percent, and Reese

(01:33:59):
Walsh does what Reeswash does. Itmight make a few breaks, it makes
about it, and Melbourne jumps on, jumps on those loose balls and get
you in the in the in thein the grind and put sixteen on you
before you can think about it.I can see that. I can see
the formula for the Storm to win. I am going to pick the Broncos.

(01:34:25):
And the amy reason I'm going topick the Broncos. I just look
at the list and it's just somuch quality. It's embarrassing how much quality.
But if they if they do dothat, if they happen to make
mistakes, and if they happen tocomplete at sixty percent, you know Melbourn's
were going away. Yeah, Johncreased teams don't go away. Is the

(01:34:47):
halfback hundred percent? I believe sohe is because I know he was injured
just before what's your name, Hughes, I'd say he'll be noodled up.
He'll be needled up because he's crucialto everyone is at this half half the
teams and looted it up. Butyou know, the good thing is he's

(01:35:09):
in. Who did I he pickfor his half? Bake the see no
Labrisco Johnson, Sean Johnson. Canyou want a few awards? Yeah?
No, I would say who getdown in the air? Yeah, came
close was the second second favorite.I thought he went, well, I'm
going Broncos. But I'll tell youaward they better complete eighty percent because if

(01:35:33):
they don't, they're in trouble.I like the back line better for them.
When you look at the and like, I'm interested in how you put
Jesse Arthurst and not. Yeah,I'm interested in that very It's very interesting.
But when you look at the list, it's embarrassing how much cattle they've
got. It's embarrassing. On paper, they're the best team in the competition,

(01:35:57):
there's no doubt. The thing iswhen you get to semifinals, everything
steps up. We know that Melbourne'sbeen there, I'll step up. Yeah,
Broncos, this this this this teamhere, had this particular team never
been in a situation, they'll probablystep up, bub you're saying that it's

(01:36:18):
eighty minutes. Yeah. Saturday afternoon, four pm at Blue Bet Stadium,
Penrith Panthers hosting the Warriors. Toughtough outing for the Warriors, it is,
but with Webster, who knows theins and outs of Penrith, I
reckon I'll give them a better running. People think I think Penrith will win,
but I think the Warriors are goingto give him. I love the

(01:36:40):
Warriors story, but I cannot sayanyone beating Penrith exactly. Someone told me
that the Warriors I've got a reallygood chance because they play unpredictable rugby league.

(01:37:00):
Let me suggest to you because oftheir coach, they're as structured as
Penriff, so he's not going tochange anything. So we're going to have
two structured, extremely structured teams goingat each other. I really would love
to see the Warriors do well.I'm not sure if they can win.

(01:37:25):
I'm positive they can't win, actually, but I'm happy to see a really,
really good game. I actually thinkby the end of the game is
going to be thirteen plus. Itmight get a little bit embarrassing, but
for sixteen minutes they'll they'll be hangingin. I'm just you know what.
I look at their faces and youknow, for Noyl Blake, for nol
Blake is going to give everything thatthese these forwards are leto, and the

(01:37:49):
fish is going to give. Sohe'll be smashing our people. Sorrences in
Sirencens are in and the best backgroundLeon Martinson. Yeah, look, Penrifi
win and win will but they disregardthe Warriors. There's not disregard them.
It's not disregard them. The nextgame is interesting because seven fifty per at

(01:38:11):
points Bet Stadium Sharks are hosting theRoosters. And why I say it's interesting
is that they're both at dollar ninety, so they're split right down. There's
no favorite. Help pick them.Yeah, I agree with that. That's
a tough one, like the Roosters. I'm kind of fully I'll get up.
It's the toughest game out of thefour yea, the closest one apiece.

(01:38:32):
I'm going Roosters because Sharks can't beattop eight. First one against the
Raiders against a really bad Raiders.I'm not They're not a bad Raiders,
but weakened Raiders. So I'm goingto go Roosters because of that, and
I liked what I saw against Souse. I really thought they really picked it
up. The mining concern is Manu. Yeah, if he gets injured early

(01:38:56):
or if he doesn't play, thatmight help Cronella a bit. Do you
injured? You know what? Iactually don't know? Kind of Watson,
kind of Tracy the fullback, Apparentlyhe's injured, but the other guy,
Will Kennedy is back from injury,so there's a good chance. Kind of
Tracy might not play it last minute. Yeahs named, he's named, but
he's he got injured. He gottaken off twenty minutes before the game.

(01:39:18):
Is he only extended the list theother guy? Yeah, I think Will
Kennedy he's back from injury. Yeah, so William Kennedy's and his sensational two
look. I don't know. Ireally don't know, but I'm gonna I'm
gonna just point on one thing.I know that the Sharks their middles,

(01:39:40):
despite what we saw last week,their middles can't run run with the big
boys and the Roosters experienced club atthis stage stage of the year, they
just step up yea and crying andcame back to He looked good, looked
good. And you know what,may we've been waiting for him to I've

(01:40:00):
been hearing a lot of things.I've been waiting for him to produce something.
Last week he produced that. Idon't know if you noticed him.
So just on the just on onon that fact, Nicola, I'm going
to go Roosters because I know whatthey're going to do. And Radley has
also changed as well. He's he'schanged his game. I said it last

(01:40:24):
week. Radley's changed his game.He's becoming effective. I like it,
and he will just develop. It'lljust keep on developing. I really hope
so, because we all like Radley. In the last game Sunday afternoon,
four o five pm up at Newcastle, Night's heavy favorites against the Raiders.

(01:40:46):
Night's heavy favorites twenty three to fourdollars twenty Jackson, Jackson, the Senters,
Nicola, Frawley and Fog in thehalves and at the moment of Packed,
which is not really doing too toomuch and Newcastle doing things which I

(01:41:11):
never expected them to do. Yeah, what do you go for me?
I'm going to go Nights because Ithink they're stronger. But one thing that's
exciting about this. If the Knightswin and the Warriors lose, they play
each other the week after, that'sgonna be a cracking. Those two teams
are going to be good. That'sa Newcastle and that's a Newcastle because New
Zealand New Zealand will be New Zealandgame. But but I can't see any

(01:41:36):
the Raiders matching it with the Knights. With Ponger back, Hastings is going
to be needled up. He'll beback as well. So yeah, the
Book of Crosslands back. So yeah, you're not strong. Yeah, you
know what, I haven't seen Suffitia string two games good for his life,
and he's produced about six games outstandingquality. Nicola. This pack's really

(01:42:01):
moving on. Let me go tothe let me go to the other team,
the Raiders. He's rupping is inokay, so you know what.
Points only come through Rapper. Unfortunately, Jack's in the centers and Old have
him at five A because I wanthim to touch the ball as much as
he can. I think he's lostin the centers and he hasn't been playing

(01:42:25):
two well anyway, Foggerty, Ithought once upon a time was it was
a good half. I just foundout that he's not. I don't know.
He hasn't had the alright, Look, he's got a good kicking game,
but look, i'd like to seeand I think that's why he's got
Frawley next to him, because he'san actual ball ball playing half. And
this pack I know he really likesthey do, Miss Pappa. But look

(01:42:54):
they're not They're not playing. Zach'snot playing, Zach Wolford's not playing well.
Young Young Young is looking like aReggie. I'll put him in the
reggie fools if he was, ifhe was at the Storm, will be
in the Reggies now. I'll tellyou now. The suspended horseball all good
because that's that's a plus. That'sgoing to be a plus with the team
Nicola. The nice will win Nicolaand I think by the end of the

(01:43:17):
game they might win third in class. And I think we'll be talking about
another Dominic. We'll see another Dominique. Young outstanding trip. What about that
try scored against Georgie. He lookedhe was gone, Colock slept. How
he got it, I don't know. That's amazing. And he's six foot
six or something, six foot sevenfrom England. Mate first year isn't and

(01:43:41):
I think we'll be talking about KleinPonga another master class personally. Yeah,
that's it, isn't it, Georgie? What do you got for us?
Tidbits? Nicola? We're following theplight of the world champions as we know,
the Wigham Wigham and guess what theuh sorry falling Saint Helen's I apologize

(01:44:02):
and guess what, Nicola, they'rein the winner circle again. They beat
the Wakefield Trinity thirty two sixteen andwhen you see a bit later we were
on they're on the table. You'llyou'll be impressed. How left C twelve
demi problem leads called twenty eight Nicolahad his team Wakefield. They've waken sorry,

(01:44:29):
Warrington, they've waken up, Nicola. They put sixty six points against
Castleford and let me talk you thisgood destroy He beat all the team.
He beat all the team. Heran into the line a few of the
mists so he went left all theway across the field. He's just pushing
players off. It was just acomic of errors. Then he went back

(01:44:50):
the other way. They're coming back. He's just pushing them off. I'm
thinking, no, no, no, they's been the plumber. The plumber
revs. They've been another one that'sfifteen. He's just unbelieving he's a starter.
Hull KR twenty six, Cuts eighteen. They've hit a rocky road.

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The team that I think is thebest team in the competition Wigham twenty six,
soult Ford eight and our team Nicolathe lead levels of the worst jersey
in the world thirty four, theGiants sixteen. They're going all right,
this game broke a record, Nicola. It's the longest running game in history.

(01:45:42):
Yeah, yeah, they'll play,they'll plan and well, these these
places are all small towns in thenorth of England, you know, Sulfered
Leader, all small towns. Thetown had a power power shortage, so
the lights went out. They waitedfor an hour and the lights weren't going
to go on again. So sowhat they agreed to come back two days

(01:46:04):
after to play the last twenty minutesof the game and it was four hours
again. That's crazy. It wasfour hours again. So it was its
officially rated as the longest game inhistory. Wow. The main thing is
that our team the leleparts one Nicola, and this is how the standings are

(01:46:28):
at the moment in England. Wigham, Nicola thirty four cuts thirty four.
Okay Lee Leopards, Sorry, SaintHelen's thirty four? How did that happen?
Did happen? How did that happen? That will go Bustards at the
start of the Yeah, I'm they'regoing to win the call. They're going

(01:46:48):
to win the carp I swear anyway, coming fourth our team Nicola, the
team of the worst jersey in theworld, thirty coming fifth his team Warrington
twenty six and closing out the topsix whole KR twenty four. How many
rounds to go, George, They'vegot this two more rounds solely Leopards guaranteed.

(01:47:13):
Yeah, they're gonna get low onthe fifth. No, they're gonna
They're gonna be in the same miss. So the big talking point in England
is Saint Helen's are back. Yeah. The minute they got when matters,
well, yeah, they They've gotm boy and all of a sudden he
changed the whole fortune of the wholeteam. It's funny, but it's true.

(01:47:34):
That's awesome. I still think thatWigham is the best team in the
comp, but that doesn't mean they'regoing to win the comp. Four and
against much like between them is ittight there, it's tight as well,
really, so it's going to getWe'll put it up next week and we'll
see cool. See, we'll seehow it is. Then n W really
heading up now, Nicola. Asyou know, the year has gone extended

(01:47:59):
for the girls. And before whenthere was a short season, the games
were pretty much across the board tightall through the season. But now as
as the as the years extend,and well, because there's more teams,
of course we've got more rookies,some of the games are blowing out,
but there's still good quality. Sothe Raiders are twelve, the Knights twenty,

(01:48:23):
Broncos thirty two, the Sharks twentyeight. Close, Yeah, that
was a good game. The Cowboyssixteen. And this is the highest score
scored in an NROLL up to nW up to now the Dragons forty eight
or Nicola taking Berry score many takingBerry scored, not many, but she

(01:48:45):
scored. She scored Titans sixteen,Western Suburbs four, Nicola, the Roosters
on fire, Nicola and the premierteam probably they scored forty eight, just
underneath the Dragons forty. Sorry,that scored forty six, just un leaf
the Dragons forty eight. Unfortunately ourteam Nicola, the Els luckless once again

(01:49:13):
they consistent the twelve just twelve points. But again our halfback was missing.
The consistent, the consistent get himinto the top four. Yes, please,
maybe Bread they should drop Maybe Breadshould drop down the table and Nicola.
The Russ's are flying high with twelvepoints, second, the Knights with

(01:49:34):
twelve points as well, the Titansthird a shocker, shocker and mission in
the team Nicola with ten. TheBroncos are eight, the Raiders eight and
the Dragons just outside the semi finalwith six. But but in saying that,

(01:49:54):
there's there's three more rounds to goand they're probably the big improvers are
this week. This week's the localDerby's George, So that's that's what I
wanted to say that this week isthe first of all time local derby and
w it's a Thursday night as well, so you know we haven't got Thursday
night foot. We'll be watching goodso you'll be watching. That's right.

(01:50:17):
Nicholas going for a scouting mission totowns the weekend. We need around the
grounds guy's gone. He's looking foraround the grounds guy. He's looking for
an uber driver as well. SoI'm happen to find them at the local
bar. That's where I'll be thelocal bar. So we've got a local

(01:50:38):
derby, the Sharks and the Dragons. The Sharks are a good team,
but I told you what the Dragons, what I saw over the last last
week and how they're steadily in improving. Well, they beat the third last
Tigers, Mate, didn't they beatThey didn't bet a strong team. No,
they didn't be a strong team.And there coming low they're looking they're

(01:51:00):
looking good, trust me, becauseyou know what, they lost a lot
of they lost a lot of playerslast year and they've brought a lot of
they've been on so they're all beasticallya reggie like a new team. So
they put it together, you know. I mean it's a short season too,
Yeah it is. And then Nicolathe game, the game of the
year. On Sunday, the Nightsare playing the Roosters Top of the Top

(01:51:24):
of the Table Clash one I mustwatch. I think it's going to be
before the main game as well,so it'll be it'll be full house.
There are and marathon, so Ican't I can't actually I can't wait for
that one. The and the theour florist from Bay He's he's a Rose

(01:51:48):
of the Week, Nicola. I'vegot to do it. I've got to
do it. I've got to giveit to Racy and McGregor. She's she's
controlling this and George's team like aviolin. And he took her a while
to the hooking. But she's hookedin now and she's looking the goods.
And that's why that's the biggest reasonI think she'll beat the Sharks, because

(01:52:09):
not only passing game, but akicking game is outstanding. So any relation
to Mary McGregor McGregor at all,the much away the the Weekly State segment.
Nicola player, the player. Ihope you can remember him because he's
one of my favorite players. Hehad a short stint in the n Nicola,

(01:52:33):
but he made a big impact.You McGrady, how'd you know?
I was just thinking he played forthe Bulldogs. He had a five minutes
stint and he killed it, saidRyan Tenor, did you see no?
No, remember I remember your favoritebased off what he just said. Short

(01:52:56):
stint in the NRL. He justjumps out to me because I remember the
story. I think he won thedam and he wasn't sorry. I don't
want to. No, no,no, that's good, that's good.
Yeah you remember him, yes,absolutely, your very early nineties, yes,
early nineties. He was born inmore Read. He was a more
Read boy. Uh not Nik nineand eighty eight the Great Britain Lions came

(01:53:18):
out touring here and they played noNorthern divisions, just you know, for
for a loosener as they used todo. And you're you'ren't played in that
game. He scored, He scoredtwo tries, absolutely ripped him apart and
Northern districts one thirty six, onethirty six twelve. So you know what

(01:53:43):
the bull frog done. He jumpedjumped into a car and started to going
head into more Read. Honestly,that's what happened. He started heading two
more to sign him and he saidto his wife, there's no way I'm
coming home without the signature. Thisguy came on a scene out of nowhere,
nowhere, nowhere, nowhere. Sowhat they've done the bof the bull

(01:54:06):
frogs. Sorry, the they broughtthey brought him to the Canadaby and Nicola
and they and they put him inthey put him in the redgies and he
just ripped up the Redgies said theyhad to put him in in first grade.
His debut game was against It wasagainst the Roosters, Nicola, and

(01:54:28):
he ripped him. Apart from fromday one then ninety one, he was
regarded as the best player in thegame, winning the winning back then the
Rothman's Medal, which now was thedam Okay. Only one problem, Nicola,
he didn't turn up to remember that. They had to send the car
to get him with something on thenoll. If you remember, Jonathan Davis

(01:54:51):
was I think he had a suitthe Englishman. Yeah, Jonathan Davis,
the Englishman. He was. Hewas in that team and he was sort
of the only one who had reallyconnected. He was sort of an outsider.
So the bull Frog got the policecar, put Jonathan Davis in Okay

(01:55:11):
and zipped off to get him.So the whole daily ms ll Rothman's middle
back then had to wait an hourand a half before they got it.
They got him there, so they'reall they're all waiting with anticipation. When
he came into the room, Nikola, it was the shortest acceptance speech at
all time. It was time thateight seconds. It was time that when

(01:55:35):
he said, when you said oneof my favorites very short stinting in just
his name, just you know,you know it was one of my favorite,
one of the best short stint playersin the world. He killed a
short stint the well. Not theyear after that he was the top but
he was the leading tri scorer andhe was named the rugby League player of

(01:55:58):
the Year the Rugby League the rubRugby League Week played the year year after
that season, Nicola, he wentto the bull Frog and he just goes,
I want to go home. Yeah, he was, I want to
go home. So he came downthat year where they played against the Northern

(01:56:19):
Northern, the Great Britain played NorthernDistricts. They've put him in reserve grade,
ripped up reserve grade apparently, andhere's a youngster. Yeah he's old.
Okay. The other year they gradedhim, he got he got the
Rothman's middle of that year. Okay, okay, So he played the other
year, got the players play andI remember ripping, ripping, ripping him
up when the year season, whenthe season finished, he goes, I

(01:56:42):
want to go home. The bullFrocks is okay, you want to you
want to go home. Imagine imagineif he had if he had a gold
like he feels focused on how goodhe could have been exactly. Yeah,
I'll just finish just finished, finishedoff and something two seasons, four seasons.

(01:57:03):
What he did have? He wenthome. He went home and he
uh some Lang mac whatever was forcoaching West and some he didn't. He
go to West. Yeah, hewent to West. And he went to
West mid year the other year andhe played four games and he goes and

(01:57:25):
I still want to be home.He didn't want to play. Played he
said he'll come up and if heif he likes it'll stay whatever. Okay,
he played four games and he wentto the coach. Then I think
which I think was he goes,no, I want to be home.
Terry. He left West team.I'm not sure should maybe maybe so?
He just he went back and heplayed until he was in his mid fourdies

(01:57:49):
in his local club team. Seriously, he played one hundred he played.
He couldn't have done that. Where'dyou get the stats from? Ab though?
Maybe it's a type of yeah,he must be. He obviously played

(01:58:11):
for for Wheest. He played foryourself. I was country maybe thirty six
games. Yeah, was in onehundred and thirty six games. What's that.
That's four seasons in the world.I remember going to Bilmore Sports Ground,
Nicola. When you when you lookat the grand stand back in the
day, on the on the onthe right hand side you've gone to,

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you've gone many a times. Therewas a concrete little hill. Yeah,
I would stand on that and Iremember he was playing halfback and next to
him was bar. Every time hetouched the ball, the hairs on my
back, the hairs on my backjust stood out, stood up. Sixty

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games, yeah, one hundred andthirty six points, one hundred and thirty
six points, sixty sixty games.The hairs on my back would would stand
up, thinking he's gonna do something, and you know what, nine times
out of ten something would happen aroundHe was just electric. He's pace off
the mark, something like slippering.That's take him out of the team.

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I told you. Now we madethe semifinal both years because on his back
make that mistake. Remember you thinkdid a similar thing. He was just
sort of yes, yes, yes, Well when Coronela won the comp don't
forget Bimbub before so he was electricas well. But you and I'll never

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forget you and made me go toBelmore Sports Ground Weekly. You and McGrady
put a smile on my face leavingthe ground. You'll McGrady put a smile
on my face Monday mornings. Youknow what I mean. You'll McGrady made
me think during the week about histry so special player. Yes, yeah,

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like I said, limited time inthe NRL, but a lot of
memories left the mark. That's yeah. I took a yes, man,
sir. I didn't mean no,no, that's good. You know that.
I yes, exactly, And manyof many of times with Nicola Ad
that little hill which was a concretehe'll remember, we would, we would,

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we would go stand up there backback in those days. And not
only you and McGrady. But nextyear I want to get a Belmore for
munch a game because I haven't beenthere in well over twenty years. Okay,
it's usually forty degrees when they play, Yeah, yeah, but they
get sold out pretty quickly. Getswell, it's fun, it's it's it's
a great atmosphere. So that thatwas any any suggestions for any players,

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any favorites. We've done an artwith Tumpson Todler or Keith Black. Do
you want to joking? Ben Custer. I'm joking, Ben cast I know
his wife has man. I've beencasting. Actually, if you're listening,
I'll pick up. There's one guyI wouldn't mind you doing. There's a

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guy that played it. I thinkBalmaine Scott and Gail. Yeah, I
loved him. It was a greatChip and Chase. Yeah, study girls.
I'll think of someone too for canwe can we think? Can we
think of something else as well?Father's father and sons that have played in

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the So obviously the mor sports abouthow about we talked about that next week,
but I suggest something about that too. Yeah. Currently we've got Zach
Hosking and his dad played. There'squite a few Dad was Husking the King.
Yeah, mial songs playing yeah forsure, for sure, for sure

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yeah Yeah. And the last onefor me, the song of the week
Nicola. I couldn't pick. SoI know that these two songs or two
two bands are his favorites, andI know one one one of them is
seen recently, and I'm going toleave it up to two to pick.

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Nineteen eighty three were young and therewas a British invasion. Of British invasion
music coming from from England and therewas three young young women one I think,
two had blonde hair and when Ihad dark hair. The band was
called Bernana Rama. Yes, andthe song is Cruel Summer. Yeah,

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this is a cruel summer for youbecause it's no regular league, regular league.
I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. So that's
a song number one and number numbernumber two songs D eighty one a young
woman I think from England again andshe came blonde, beautiful young woman,
blonde hair, and she yes,and she actually broke Deborah Harry's a heart

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because everybody was blondie, blondie,blondie. She came on the scene and
it was Kim World, Kim World, Kim World, and of course the
keep Me Hanging On, keep MeHanging On, Well, the song is
keep Me hanging fantastic. And Iknow you've seen I've seen I think you've
seen both recently. I've seen Aramarecently, you saw Kim World recently.

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Your choice, which song would youprefer? Both crackers? Mate? What
was the song keep Me Hanging On? Keep Me hanging that? You gotta
put that on? Kip Me World. I'll have a choice for you next
week. Yeah, it's gonna behard fun course, because he likes everything.

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He likes rocky legs, poppy legs, looking forward. Pick pick to
rock songs you like, and that'swe'll pick. We'll really get. That's
it. That wraps us up.Well done. Enjoy this weekend. This
weekend's gonna crack. We've got foursmashing games. Really watch the games,

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looking forward to him. Thanks foranother great night, boys, have a
great week. Happy rugby league.Everything there's happy rugby league. And this
time next week we're going to belosing another couple of teams. Look forward
to it. Have a great weekand enjoy the semis everybody and Nicola.
Good scouting scouting. Yeah, whenyou go north Queensland. Oh of course,

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let's that's what I'll be doing.Good night, Dragons, What please?

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I don't stand yours? Why don'tyou play? You don't love me?
You just give me along? Don'tdon't you coming around? Play with

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my boy? What's don't take outof my Let me make the re new
start. Let me get over youthe way you get over be. Yeah,

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don't Why don't you store love me? Do be? Sleeve me?
Hang it up? You says they'lljust want stress the Bell steel Stress see

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bonning with the boy a body.I love my life that's not really loved

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me. You just feel me.Two hundful day to three Now that you
guys wants to hold me, No, I don't want me to buy myself.

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I love nobody, don't don't don'tlove me. You just get me
up. Why don't be a manabout it? That being bred? Like,

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don't put me to me, getup, get my mind. I
love the day by lie as hedon't love me. You just get me,

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get it up.