Quick Hands Podcast - So Called , Non Crack Down EP.51

This week the boy's sit down and talk about Wayne Bennet, Hass, State of the game and the bunker

Episode Transcript

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Hi, I'm George Atha and I'mNick 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,
they don't want to pull the trigger. Why the hell do you bring
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years ago. Creates cats don't cookit like Nancy foot. Welcome back everyone,
Episode fifty one, George Idy,great to see you boys in in
Hey, how are you hope youall had a great week. It's fantastic
week of footy. It's good.It's good. Back now, I'm relax

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relax, I'll stressed out before nowif he relaxed, I mean, I
mean it's great. M Do youguys have a good week. Yeah,
it wasn't till paramatics George straight away. I can't say, I can't,
I can't say anything. It wasgreat, man, it was. It
was some good games. I thoughtthe Cowboys Broncos was a cracker awesome game.

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But yeah, it's good. Thebusy week in terms of regular league.
Some strange things happen over ye waitto say Jewish before we get to
that. You gotta tell us where'saround twenty three the cans in the can
and we've got a lot to coveroff. Man, We're gonna lot to
cover off. And I'm gonna apologizein advance if i start losing my ship
tonight. We all will. Thisis just so much to cover on the

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weekend before we sorry, before wejump in the league. Lads contacted me
during the week and they wanted tothank you and Idi for allowing me to
mention their play. Absolutely yeah,So they just just rang me to we're

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all fam We're all fair. Endof the day, we're all fa guys.
Again. Thank you for contacting meand thanking me. So I appreciate
it because they do listen. Theylike our content. Keep it up.
I can tell you've got at leastone year listener now as well. Look,
I haven't seen the boy Wonder allthe weeks. You know, he's
been busy for school and work.But when I did cross parts with him,

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and this was a couple of daysago, he was he was mentioning
that the fiftieth show was very wellreceived Nicola, to the extent of looking
to be one of our best showson record stuff, and he told me
that, well, we knew aboutNew Zealand going off, but England.

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England's swinging up and we can allwe can think about that is because Lord
and he's playing for leads. We'resaying, we're thinking that she's spread the
word there. Actually the boy Wonderis in content in the liaisons with her

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all the time. For some reason, I noticed that they're always chating.
So she likes our stuff and Idon't know why he hasn't posted the posted
to the interview it was. Itwas actually a great interviews as Yeah,
so again, thank you everybody.We're humbled. Yeah, thanks to everyone

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who listens and watches. And youknow, we we just come in and
beat ourselves. We don't have anyagenda. We don't. Yeah, Ardi
was joking before about how we puteverything together in about ten millions. We're
just ourselves. Were just come inand beat ourselves and we related as we
see it. People will agree withus, people will disagree with us,
and that's the beauty of it.Everyone had you know, everyone's got an

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opinion and that's great. At theend of the day, we're all fans,
that's right. And if we getworked up and shitty. It's because
we're fans, that's right, becausewe're hurting. Yeah, and before we
get worked up and shitty, canI give my flowers to some people?
I like the flowers to Daniel DanielTuper. He's been a winger for the

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Rusters a long term and at onestage a couple of years ago, we
thought I will go in to todrop in. Yeah, but he continued
to climb and I think he's signedfor next year. I'm not sure.
I'm thinking sure. I think he'ssigned for another year. Highest tri scorer
now, is he he's the highesttri scorer for the Roosters. Yeah,
that's what I was trying to That'swhat indicated he's the highest tri scorers there

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at the Rousters, which his namemeans fe because I've had some great players
over the years, and you knowwhat, he's safe as houses under the
bombers. Yeah, and he justkeeps on producing. And this year,
let's say Rusters have had for theman uncharacteristic, un characteristic Paul season,
but I think he's been one oftheir best. Another Paramatta Junior gone to
waste? Was he that for themto waste? For us? Yeah?

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In that in the same team,the Roosters. There's a youngster called Billy
Smith and he's had three new reconstructionsand I think a shoulder as well in
the corner. But the persevere withhim. He's twenty two or something.
He's very young. Yeah, Jesus, it's a lot of very young.
And I think he started paying backlast weekend. He started paying back that

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he's been good. Yeah, outstanding, outstanding game. So I think he's
one he's won for the future.Yeah. I want to give flowers to
one of his favorite fullbacks, jamand Campbell. Yeah, and yours on
the Tigers, isn't he Yeah,and our favorite coach has said that he

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will be the fullback and Brimston willbe the Brison will be a center.
You have to find a spot forboth of them. He has to come
eventually when he caring for and spot. He's got to find a spot for
both of them. They're both justtoo good for one of them to miss
out. Yeah. Yeah, hehas We try in Daisy with trust and

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you know what for for a fora not only a young man, but
a slightly built man in today's dayand age where they're all you know,
kilos, the kids the kids outstanding, isn't he. Yeah, I want
to give flowers to an old timer, Nicola, who has bounced back to

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some of his best form and indoing that, he's catapulted his team into
the top four. Shawn Johnson bringsa smile on my face. That's for
me, that's such a great notice, he says. Story. I mean
it obviously it is, But forme, it's just a happy story of
the year. I'm really enjoying theWarriors watching him and he should. Yeah,

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and he's so talented. We're finallyseeing it consistently as well. He
just seems to be happy, enjoyinghimself. He's the type of guy you
want to play with, you knowwhat I mean, you know, and
we'll cover it. But the othernight they got pushed that were that were
tight, and they still brought ithome. Yeah, that's that's the sign
of the table. And we'll talkabout it in that segment. And thank
you for saying that about him.Yeah, Shan did have an I'm happy

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three or four years, but youknow what at and I don't know hold
he I think he's in. He'sput everything together in terms of game management
and flair and he's something that Benjidid in the back end of his career,
and he's mirroring Benji. Benji Marshall, I want to give flowers to

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the reason. I call him liveand cleary. Yeah, I'll say it
again when he comes to Dependeth.The reason is him. It's not Lula
Why, it's not the front Rollers, it's not Nathan Theory, it's him.

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I disagree. I think it's feelgoold Pathways good, got the job
done, Pathways, that's good.He two. He is not getting enough
credit, but it should be.And I brought I brought Ivan up because
last week the man on my lefthere suggested he should be Coach of the

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Year and I and I said itshould be Webster who and when I deeply
thought about it, and unfortunately that'sthat's I shouldn't think about things like that.
But once deeply thought about it,I think I've come around to you.
I hope, I hope, Ihope Ivan gets it. Actually,
Whips has had a fantastic year.But I just think three years now,

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he's one of three years he's gotit. Yeah, exactly, And you
can make it, like I saidlast week, you could make an argument
for all three Yes, yes,but you know, almost like for three
different reasons, clearly has been astandout far and away the best coach of
the past three three to five years. Yeah, question, Kevin Walters had

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a really tough year last year.It was his first year, last year
his second, second second, Butto bounce back the way that he did,
he made a couple of tweaks theright, so he said he's bounced
back, and absolutely they're in finefor me and Webster. What he's doing.
He deserves it too, So youcould you could make an argument four
three, But if I think,if you had some peak one, it's
about time clearly gets gets what hedeserves. Not if it's not now,

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when is it? When is it? Yeah, exactly when he starts losing?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, I agree, I
agree, and clearly can easily justyou keep all these juniors and under two
books and win seven crumps in arow and then and then celebrate solutely.
No no, and you know what, celebrate that internally when they get caught
caps. Yeah, but we saythat, we laugh about that, But

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how many how many coaches slash administrationhas done that and and how many haven't
been caught? So make that mistake. We know we can touch on that
when we talk about its absolutely Iwant I want for the next guy who
I want to give for else,so I want to at over rate.
He could probably see my list.I love it. Yeah, man,
I told you the start of it. He is the best player to watch.

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He is. Actually told me lastyear I had the biggest smile on
the face because I heard a rumorthat apparently Flann again approached to him.
I think it's now and if thatcomes off, that would be a dream
for me. But I'd love himto stay in Brisbane, to be honest,
because it's Brisbane boy. But he'sbeen fantastic because I don't want to
put a dampener on things, butjust say not for nothing. He's having

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a great season. But he's numbertwo and the mistackles listening really behind red
money. Yeah wow, but youknow what it doesn't show when your team's
performing well, yeah, isn't it. Yeah, that's interesting. I wouldn't
have I wouldn't have picked that either. It doesn't stand out to me.
But I look, you know what, I had this feeling I haven't focused
on him. I had this feelingthat he probably defensively wasn't as sounders,

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you know the others, but Ididn't seek second. But it just goes.
It just goes to show him whenthe team around he's playing, well
he was tiny, yeah yeah,yeah, anyway else on at least absolutely
got a few more. I wantto give some flowers to one of my
favorites, drinking. He loved drinking. I love drinking, and the reason

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being he does the unexpected and hecan get you out of get you out
of some deep poo poo. He'sthe attacking force of the cowboys there and
I just love watching him play.I just love watching him play. The
next guy, he's a he's anEnglishman. Nicola unfortunately leaving his current team

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and going to the Roosters next year. Dominic Young. I think he's leading
the tri scorer, or keeps veryclose to he's leading the tri scorer.
And I was going to say ateam out of the eight, but I
think they're now. Yeah, hewas, he was. I know a
few weeks ago he was level withCevo, but Sevo has got a four

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game suspicion, so he get leftbehind. Now. I find that interesting.
I find Dominic interesting because we allthink that he had some sort of
career in Super League. He hadtwo games in Super League, then came
to Australia to prove his worth inNicolay. They put him in the Reggis
Newcastle on a train and trial sortof thing, and after three games they

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elevated him straight into first grade nicolaSo again we got this thing about he's
had a long, lustous career inEngland. But no, no, he
hasn't. He hasn't had a longluster his career. So he's fairly young.
He's very young. He's twenty one, twenty two, he's very young.
Well, it's still always be youngforever. That's his name, we'll

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call him forever. There we go, there's another one forever young, another
one who are three years ago i'dmentioned to me, and I should I
should never disregard his golden words.When when a nineteen or eighteen year older
comes up best, Oh yeah,yeah, I want to give my flowers

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to best. He's at his best, at the at the best. Yeah,
he's playing. He'll always be he'salways been the best. Yeah,
he's playing some sending in the leagueoutside our favorite sledger. And I think
there's the best to come for thebest best, Yes, yea, he's

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best to be ready for that.And last, but not least than I'm
bowing now and I'm on my knees, Nicola, and he's got the sword
to my best teammate, Calen Poe. Cubical cubicle, cubicle two. He
I've got admit. The last monthto six weeks he's put together something pretty

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specially origin. Yes, actually yeah, it's five weeks ago now, scrapes.
He came one, he's one usa bit more. It's about two
months two months now. But look, every time I see him playing,
he was the difference on the weekend. And every time I've seen him playing,
I gossmeck, I didn't think thatthat he that he had that And

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I'm going to say, I thinkthe Beasi get to come. How good
that watch? That's quite at leastthere, George. For Flowers, what's
your credit card? Live Flores lovesMess. All those players you just got
mentioned will be sending you a budgetFlowers voucher. We've saved it this week.

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I've got that Cornelius at the DoubleBay flourished for Cornelius. Let's let's
run into controversy, and you knowlet's skip the bullshit. Let's just start
with the bunker and everything that goeswith it. Where do we start?

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We got we've got Yeah, justhere, I'm looking at my notes.
There's the two send offs, theTom Burgess SimBin cameras forward passes. That's
not the bunker, but apparently theycan't see it's ball strip. Yeah,
I mean where does it start?Where does it finish? Do you want
to go up to over each incidentand individually or up to you guys,

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yea far away. One thing I'llfind surprising is the reason the whole bunker
came in into the real is toeliminate errors. And now we've got the
go in charge of admitting that there'serrors. Are some people make errors?
Well, Soccer introduced var to eliminateerrors, and the VA has not made
one error. Like every decision theymade, they always get it right,

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never get it wrong. Whereas thebunker. How can the bunker get it
wrong? They've got all the anglesthat listen to the commentators what everyone's saying.
Unless I'm wrong, because I sawa vision of it over the weekend,
I think there's three or four whenthey're in the bunker. What I
love about the processing. Soccer's muchcleaner, quicker. Yeah, there is
a video referee and he'll make acall to the referee that's decisive. Hey

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that was offside or you better checkit. Yea. If he makes the
call, it's incident. If hetells the referee to check it, the
referee runs to the sideline, looksat the TV screen on the sideline,
watches the replays that we all see, and makes a decision within thirty seconds.
Yeah, it's just so much cleanerand quicker. And you're right.

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I haven't. Maybe they've been mistakes, but I haven't seen any. You
know, you know it isn't Youjust said it. There the fifty fifty
calls get back to the referee andhe's still got control. Whereas the fifty
fifty calls in the n rual goto the bunker. It should get back
to the referee. And I lovethe fact that he goes back and he
sees the replays that we do aswell. It should get back to the
referee. You're right, and letthe referee make the calls because so once

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he sees those angles, he canmake it. Say. Oh, yeah,
admittedly, there's there's there's far lessincidents in a game of soccer than
Newas rugby league. To look atit, but it's not it's not the
fifty fifties that we're complaining about.It's the blatant mistake. And it's everyone's
fine with a fifty fifty. Youknow, you win something, you lose

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something, but you just you know, when we talked about it last week,
you know, apparently the technology can'trule on forward pass as everyone.
One of my best mates is acamera supporter, and and we're at lunch
today is cost them we're talking aboutthat forward pass that it was. I
was actually glad that they didn't callit because it was a great try from
Sebastian Christ If you don't know ifyou saw it, but that passed.

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My god, that was as blatantthe forward pass as you'll see. The
linesman, the fans with flags wereright there beside it. It was actually
near the sideline with it. Yeah, who's no one saw it and and
the bunker. Apparently they can't ruleon it because and I don't care how
many I'm an advocate for this argument. I can't stand the past thrown backwards

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and it floated forwards. I can'teat any scenario. I don't give a
shit. I just I won't.You know what, I'm not a scientist
or anything, but if I throwa pass from here to that door,
it ain't change in direction unless there'sa cycling behind it. Yeah, it's
not going to float anywhere. That'sjust my opinion, right, Nicola.

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Sorry, No, that's sorry,Nicola. They ask the players to get
better every year, they ask thecoaches to get better every year, and
you know what, somehow they getbetter every year. No one asked the
coach, no one asked the referees, no one ask the linesman, no
one asks the bunker to get better. They are protected species, okay,

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protected species. Now I don't likeI don't like this so called it's not
a crackdown. It's a crackdown.I don't like it. Okay. Now,
every one of those incidents which wassent off, I wouldn't send them
off. I just don't. Ididn't see it. I don't see it.

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I've watched the replays over and over. I don't see it. I
don't see it. I'll say itagain, where is where is this game
going to? They're destroying the fabric? Nicola of the game. They're destroying
the fabric, fabric of a gamethat I love so passionately. Now it's
still rugby league, and sure itshould change from the eighties. It should

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change. It has changed from theI wish it wouldn't. That's just me.
You know what, we're actually gettingcleaner play, actual play. But
where are we going If it lookslike it's a hard tackle, we're going
to call it a dangerous tackle andwe're going to give them ten minutes.
It's you know what, George Imentioned this last week as well. They

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can talk about the crowds are up, the ratings up, and I get
all that. I don't think thegame has ever been the worst state that
is now in terms of everyone justcomplaining about it. I mean, players
who were interviewed over the weekend arethrowing their arms up in here and saying
they actually said, you can lookthis up on Fox Sports. Sometimes we

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got to a captain's challenge because weknow it's a fifty fifty we've got a
chance of winning it, even thoughwe know we're in the wrong. Players
don't understand the rulings. Everyone Italked to just every week we're complaining about
decisions what kind of sport are wetalking about here? We should be talking
about other things. Yeah, andand and and the cap on all that

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is the forward pass that you alludedto the linesman apparently I reckon he's got
his eyes painted on or I don'tknow. I have no idea he was
right there. Let's throw that backto Okay, that was that was a
game where one team's challenging for atop four position and the corps went their

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way. Mind you, in thesame game, Luke Brooks was clearly offside
when he scored a try and theydidn't even check it. What go back
and look at that. I thinkthat they went back and they checked.
Not they and fox sported in andhe was on side. Yeah, I
didn't see that his feet were infront of the kicker this world. But
anyway, but again that regardless,there were two forward passes from Chamber,

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right, So the cause went theway of the team that won. They're
challenging for a top four spot.Tigers are coming last, right, But
how about we put into the contextof for example, last year's preliminary final,
Moses threw a blatant forward passed whichone paramount of the game put him
in the Grand final. Now,I'll be a monkey's uncle if anyone looked
at that pass and said it wasn'tforward. Everybody said, but four hundred

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million dollars of technology can't rule onit because we got these idiots sitting in
the office there at the NRL saying, I've said it a hundred times.
We have the technology. It's calledtelevision. He came out before we did.
Right, it's not hard, andyou know, and it's just like,
imagine that happened today. It's badenough in the premium because that decides

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of grandfather. What are they?What are they doing in the in the
in the in the bunker? Whatthe doing? Yeah, blame cakes having
smokes. I actually, I wantto go on the record here. I
do not blame the referees anymore.No, No, I never did,
because because they've got so much supportthat you can understand. You know,
back twenty years ago, the refereeshad to make decisive calls. Now that

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I don't have to because they've gotthe bunker behind them, which theoretically should
be a good thing. How's thatgoing for it? It's not working right?
And and I don't blame if you'rea referee. You don't want it
to sit on your shoulders by makinga call so the bunker can look at
it. But what they've actually done, the referee sees alive, then I
see the replace everyone else does.What they've actually done is they've emasculated the

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the referees. They've taken the abilityof the referee to control a game with
his mouth. Now, we talkedthat, we talked about this softfair and
the last guy who'd done that wasBill Harrigan. Now, yeah, we
didn't like him. I didn't likehim, Okay, but guess what,
Yeah, he was good for thegame. He controlled the game with his
mouth. I didn't like him forother reasons, but he's the best referee

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I'm seeing. How good when whenyou look at that whole period, you
think of you know, Tim Mander, Eddie Ward. We had some really
good refereences, really good. Yeah, we'll blow We had some really good
referees. What's his name, HollywoodHartley. And I'm joking about that one.
If you're not a paramount a fanand gomislor if you're not a New

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Stuff Wales fan, then yeah,but but I mean they controlled the games
and and yeah, the referees.Now they've they've almost got no control over
these decisions. Doesn't matter that it'sa captain's challenge or a try, it's
not their corey getting messy don't makethe core. But they know that that
call doesn't have to be a definitiveone. Yeah, it's going to be
checked. But you know it's funny. If they could listen to what the

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commentators say, it will cut outall this controversy as well. But when
they go against the commentators, anytimes I said it, the comments,
whatever they say, I'm doing itbecause even if it's wrong, you go
against it because I want to geta smashed for it, exactly. And
most of the times they're right,though the commentators they're more right. But
with the camera one right, theywon now, so they go to thirty

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points. If they lose that game, they're on twenty eight. There are
only one point from there are onlytwo points from Eels and Cowboys, you
know what I mean. So itdoes happen. It doesn't impact Tigers,
but it packs the guys underneath themdefinitely. That's actually a really good point
because we always look at the teamswho are playing. What about the teams
in frontly behind them. Yeah,it's massive victory. And we've seen that

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happen in the past. We've seenteams missing out or whatever because of a
bunk call in another game. Absolutely, And wasn't I say this year someone's
going to lose a massive game froma referee or bunker. You see this.
I never thought it happened. It'sgonna happen this sue. It's gonna
happen this sue. It's just it'sbecomes so finicky, it's become so precious,

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and so it's it's too far overthe top. Now. The problem
is the ror have gone so farwith all of this stuff, all the
tackles. There's a new one now, the scorpione. What's it going to
be next week to step out ofthe toe hold? But every week it
Yeah, and they've gone so farthat they can't really want it back,
and they've backed themselves into a corner. Now they're stepping in their own ship.

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And how do you fix it?The way to fix it is to
strip everything back and simplify it byapplying common sense, you know, by
having someone stand there and I'm aparamount a supporter, full disclosure, By
having someone stand there and go listen, that's the wrong call. That's a
stripe, stripped the ball. Let'stry, you know, award to try,

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right. Forget about the technicality ofhis fingers were bent on the but
that's all shit, right, thisis what happened. Make the call.
That's it. Logic, common sense. You know what the problem is with
common sense? No, the opposite, George. Everyone's in abundance of common
sense because no one ever uses it, right, no one ever uses it.

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You've got to apply. And it'slike, look at the judiciary.
No, I mean it's there's lawyersdefending players at the judiciary. What the
hell is that strip back to judiciary, pistol lawyers off, No more lawyers.
We don't need them. Right,every player whose charge shows up with
a representative from the club, wego over the charge and this is what

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it is, and forget loading andforget all this other garbage. You know,
look at the tackle and get youknow what, He's actually made contact
with the upper chest and it's bouncedup. You know, maybe it's a
little bit careless, you know,you've got a week or whatever, or
if it's direct contact with the head, yeah, that's yeah, it is
what it is, but put mein then I'll do it in for an

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hour, we'll be out of there, we'll be on. You know what,
how how far have have we goneoff kilter when you think about let's
say the seventies, eighties and ninetieseven compared to now. I mean,
as you said, you'll walk inwith your coach. Maybe the coach would
say, listen, I've seen worse, much worse incidents over the weekend than

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that one. That will probably beit now. Like you said, there's
lawyers, there's angles. There's thatthat Reese Welsh one from a few weeks
back where he what did he call? He swore the refor something four and
a half hours therefore, pretty simplestuff. I mean, I mean a
lawyer he's spending four and a halfhours and at a judiciary for rugby league.

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That's crazy. What's going on?So so I don't understand. What
do they want? It's not acourt of law? Oh, no,
one thing. What does the manwith feathers want the game to look like?
Tell everybody they don't even know,right, Valiere is an abdo They
don't even know It's It's obvious atleast to me that you know what if

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you have. You can't be inthat position and not have a ten year
strategy, right, show us yourroadmap, show us your plan, make
it public. What do you guys? Where do you want to go?
What are you doing? Because theyfocus so much on the commercial side,
that's great because the game needs tobe funding all the rest of it and
marketed and all that, but theproduct itself is the game. It's falling
apart. They're losing the fans andthere's going to be an a fense to

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support it. No, that's right, and what's going and they just they
enable all the garbage that we're talkingabout. You know, why can't someone
come forward and go right, listen, let's in the off season. Let's
sit down. We need to makesome changes here. Next season. We're
ruling on forward passes. And youknow what, he's the big thing.
If we can't find and this israre, If we can't find the camera

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angle that is definitive, how's thatdifference any other try that's scored. There's
there's inconclusive evidence. We're going withthe on field core, but not only
out of ten times you get itright, you know, using the footage
that you've got. How come.You can the Bunker can rule on a
knock on, but not a forwardpass. It aren't both situations where the

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balls propelled forward. What's the difference? Yeah, I don't want Bunker to
get involved with thought passes, tobe honest, mate, They'll just make
it worse, feel worse. Please, No, I don't think. But
one thing I think they really needto work on before this final series starts
is we need to know what's thedifference between a hip drop it's a SimBin,
a hip dropped, it's a sendoffand a hip dropped. It It's
not because I don't want none ofthe team, even playing for the top

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in the finals, to lose aplayer on a sendoff. It's going to
happen for a high tackle, andthen the other team has a player that
stays on for a high tackle,you know what I mean. That's going
to really anger the fan. That'snot fair on the teams and the fans.
So get that consistency right because obviouslya few times when a hip drop
has been just the report some SimBin. Just do it before finals, please.
My biggest fear was with the newHIA rules, someone will come off

(30:03):
the week before the Grand Final andmiss the Grand Final. Yes, so
I couldn't understand why they didn't inserta week off in between them, which
gives both Grand final teams two weeksto prepare and any hi, as that
happened, you'll be cleared. Butthat's okay now because we saw Trevoivich and
read money change that rule the club. So if so make their mistake about
it. If someone gets a Categoryone the week before the Grand Final,

(30:26):
they'll be cleared for the Grand nodoubt about that. Look, which for
me is common sense. Anyway,it's a dog's breakfast. And I wanted
to mention two things. I keepon mentioning this guy, anas Lee,
get sack, please resign, goback to the Gold Coast or something.
Please just get out. You areinfuriating people, okay, you're not helping

(30:48):
things, trying to explain something whichguess what, Scoop, we can see
it in front of us, okay. And then to say that yeah,
it was forward, it takes fifteenminutes of denial or why it was forward.
Then you say one would yeah,but it was forward. Well,
thanks Scoop, Thanks Scoop. Youjust you just gave someone two more points

(31:08):
and the other pushing for top fourfan fan fuckantastic And you know what I
want to talk about? What howhow much of a shambles and a real
really is? So let's let's compareNRL to the biggest sport in the country
Nicola. Okay, the AFL.Okay, Let's let's look at the AFL.

(31:29):
Okay. Let's let's see they getthey got a bigger television deal.
Tick, much bigger television deal.Guess what with less people watching? Because
the claim to fame for NRL ismore people watch the game on television.
That's right, But guess what theydon't get enough. They don't get more
money, more money from it.Yeah, let's go to the to the

(31:52):
ground. How many spectators go tothe ground? Guess what? AFL tick?
Many many more. And I can'tdo exactly, but you know every
time I watch television, it's fullhouse. Yeah, okay, okay,
let's let's see corporate dollars tick.It humbles, it humbles the NRL.

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How much corporate dollars they get?Okay, let's see, let's see their
their CBA's tick. We're trying topass something for two years and now we
can't get two people in the room. Okay, they thought they thought their
ship really quick and easy. Nicola. Okay, let's look at something even

(32:37):
simpler. Okay, halftime entertainment atat a Grand final. Guess what a
little band called Kisses in the countryat the same time. Okay, tifty
dollars fifty and you get them.Guess what both both guys could have had
a shot. Guess what afl tick? What did I say three months ago?

(32:57):
Thank you very much, Nicola,you said it? Okay, get
what. Well, we're gonna haveJimmy Barnes again. We're right, we'll
be We'll end up with Vanessa Amirossi. That's okay. Okay, let's say
they give me a very bad kissare playing the same stadium. The Grand
Final is in six days after itterrible, so there's a window of opportunities.
Yeah, hey, boys, getover here a few days early play

(33:19):
the Grand final. Terrible. ANFLwhose Grand Final is the day before the
NRL reached out in Melbourne, reachedout to him. Sydney's Kisses Giggs in
Sydney reached out to him and say, can you come out a few days
early and do this? You knowways we're better. So another missed opportunity.
So all I'm saying is they're notwhat they think they are. So
we live in Sydney and we thinkthat rugby league is the bey on the

(33:42):
end or guess what, we're farfar from from pushing the pace. Okay,
let's let's look at something else.Okay, Okay, draft because they've
got a salary cap. Okay,draft tick. Apparently it's a it's a
illegal to do to have a draft. I've never been a fan of it,

(34:06):
but it does work. I've neverbeen a fan of if you if
you've got a celler cap, you'vegotta have a draft. You've gotta have
It doesn't work any other way ocase. I just don't like the idea
of being told, hey, you, your wife and your kids are moving
to Adelaide next week and maybe Idon't want to get out of don't go.
Don't go. I don't think theyhave the option, do they.
They haven't got the option. Butyou don't have to go. You can
you can go and pay pack foryou garbage. That's garbage? Was it?

(34:30):
Was it? That's I mean,you run your own business. Imagine
me telling you next week you gotto get in Melbourne and paying the house
down there. You're gonna say,no, I'll stay in here. I
probably will. I probably will.I'm staying here. I'm staying here.
Yeah, oh, look the waythat will They know that the drafts on.
Let's it, they know the draftson. They don't have to.
I'm a fan, but because itdoesn't work, I'm just not a fan
at all. Yeah. Well,if you have a cellery cap, you

(34:52):
got have a draft just just allaround the world. That's the way it
works. And know only that thelast we're the only professional sport the salaries
are not publicized. Guess what Iknow exactly what every AFL player makes.
Like I said, NROL is theonly professional sport in the world. Really

(35:15):
may just yeah, google anyone.Let's see google any major sport. Let's
see again again. I'm I'm happywith that. We're fossil. Yeah,
no worries. It's it's like WayneBenner, It's okay. I just it's
one comps, It's okay. No, No, I just don't know why
we need to know what the placesalaries are to be transparent, to be
transparently gol, what's the what's theproblem with there? We want to know

(35:37):
how buzzer those anyway. I mean, there's a governing body there to look
after all that with the salary capitalthat. I just don't know that we
need to know that at all.That's just my opinion. Again, I'm
not saying it's right. I's justmy opinion. I think it's more for
the fans because I don't believe everythingyou read on Google either, because that's
printed by someone else's written an articletoo in what terms everywhere like you people,

(35:59):
people people forget that when they're readingarticles, these articles are written by
someone it's their opinion. Yeah,it's very rarely and their official you know.
But in terms of let's say thefeel we're talking there specifically, they're
transparent. They publish everything. Butthat's because they are transparent so they can
publish it, you know what Imean. But I'm just saying with Rugby

(36:20):
League, no, we don't.We don't know. And that's what I
understand your point of view, becauseit was if everyone knew about it,
people wouldn't be arguing about cheating andand all that, thank you very much.
But I just think that's what that'swhat the NRL is there for,
to ensure that that's not happening.How good are they're doing well? You
know? I mean, I thinkwe can all pretty much agree that they're

(36:43):
not doing a great job of it. I don't think so. I don't
think so. And Gordon tell Ussaid on three sixty and in the last
five to ten years, most teamshave won the comp have been able to
camp. Now he retracted that becauseagain, we can't have we can't have
ours, so we can't our mind. Okay, because he's a he's a
man who but tell Us has anagendas, you know what. Maybe he

(37:06):
slipped up on that, Okay,But one thing we do know because him,
I don't disagree. We know hishistory, okay, because he sat
out a year because he didn't wantto play for St. George. Okay,
he speaks his mind. Now helikes money more obviously, so he
retracted it. Okay. But youknow what, Will will know what we
all know what I'm talking about withthe agenda is and if you haven't noticed

(37:28):
this, you will. Every timehe's on three sixty replacing Paul kit let's
get into that. But every timehe talks about the Dolphins, he calls
him Redcliff. Yes, you knowwhy he does that? Because they're not
called Redcliff. Their official name isthe Dolphins, not the Redcliffe Dolphins.
The Dolphins. You know why hedoes that because Wayne Bennett hates it,

(37:50):
that's the truth. You know,hates being referred to as Redcliff. And
he keeps insisting we're not Redcliff.Where the Dolphins? So tell us who?
We all know. It doesn't speakto Wayne Bennet always causing Redcliff because
that's his way of throwing an upa gat. But that's fine. Look
everyone, we we we have agender that I even realize that because we
have opinions and we speak our opinions, you know. But it just sucks

(38:13):
that we should be sitting here talkingabout great games and you know, being
cited about the running into the finals, but we just keep talking about the
crap. It's disappointing. It isthat's overtaken the spectacle of the game to
some degree. And with you allthe one, and with you all the
one, and you know what,it's a shame I care so much,
or week care so much to worryabout the needy gritty, you know.

(38:37):
I mean to sit down and watcha game and and to for referees to
break your heart or you know,look, none of them on my team,
none of the teams that that Ilove, But I love all of
them. But and I still gethurt for teams. I really still get
hurt for teams. Well, Imean, look, I mean referees.
I mean, that's been happening sincethe beginning of time, right, the

(38:58):
beginning spot About what's scary is thefrequency of it. Yeah, you know,
if you see a bunk coll hereand there, everyone could live with
it, it evens itself out.But we're seeing it almost in every match.
And what's scary me is the amountof people I've met that are in
our group, our age group,you know, in the between forty and
sixty years old, who don't watchthe game anymore. Like I've spoken to

(39:19):
so many and they say I've stoppedwatching. I thought I struggled over a
year ago, the last two threeyears, and it's sad that we're losing
fans. I love it and withoutwithout realizing it, without realizing it,
I used to watch as many gamesas possible and without realizing yet that's whittled
down a lot now it is.And I didn't really see realize that happening

(39:43):
until a good friend of mine goes. He goes only watched the Tigers games,
and I thought, wow, like, there's a lot of weeks where
I could say the same thing aboutthe Eels. Yeah, and it's sad.
It is. It is because ofthe referees. It's because of everything,
because the emphasis is on there youguys game on Sunday. I wasn't
but that I mentioned it a whileago. Going to the games again,

(40:07):
your team scores a try and youryour goal kickers got the ball on the
tee for like a minute, andthen the referee does the sign and we're
going to go upstairs, which meansit's to no try. It just kills,
They deflates, the crowd kills somuch, you know, And it's
and it's you know, it's said, you're going watching a game on TV

(40:28):
from Cogra, an iconic ground andseeing only ten thousand or eight thousand.
That's one of the biggest grounds,most popular teams, and they can't even
get ten thousand people because the peoplejust fed up with it. The way
they're getting true and everything is justpathetic. And then all nearly need to
win those guys back. They've gotto get their trust back. Because it's
starting away NRL. But the NRLFinal I don't know that. I don't

(40:51):
know the I don't know the detailsof the of the the deal or the
agreement. But for example, Iknow that to some degree, the NRL
incentivizes the Bulldogs to play at HomeBush the same way they incentivize the Tigers
to play four games at Paramatter,which is ridiculous. Every Tigers fan I

(41:13):
know it doesn't want to go there. It's not their home ground. I'd
love to see the Bulldogs back atBelmore. Instead of seeing nine thousand people
in an eighty thousand seat stadium,you put nine thousand people at Bellmore.
What a difference optically, it's youknow, in the field, every time
the Dogs play there, they sellit out, even when they're going bad,

(41:35):
gust Ringers, they can fill itup and they'll make the money.
Well, what's the because they're gettingpaid more to play at Homebush. The
NRL is subsidizing that because they're payingthe Bulldogs I don't know how much,
but a certain amount of money toplay out of Homebush. And I mean
one of the fans like George,how many how many times have you been

(41:57):
to Homebush? This year to watchthe bull that, Oh I go home,
I can't see. I can't see. Well, there you go.
You ask how we're going to getthe fans back, I can tell you
how. The officiate they're going tofix up the bunkers and all that.
I'm telling how people are getting sickof it. It's bad decisions, and
it's always the same team as gettingpicked on. It's always Bauman, it's
always a Dragons, it's always You'llnever see Melbourne. How many games of

(42:19):
Melbourne lost controversially before before you go, Before you go in the corn.
We're so deep in the whole howare you going to get out of this
one? They're not gonna They're notgoing to reverse the amount of feathers are
going to turn around and say,you know, you guys are right.
The whole game just needs an enemy, right, Just fix them officiating,

(42:42):
fix it across the board. AndI have spoken about this over the years
because for a long time, Paramata, We're going badly, and I just
kept seeing all these calls go againstus when we played the big teams,
and I'm thinking, am I justI consider myself to be unbiased, trying
to be and I'm saying, amI am I anyone seeing this? Am

(43:02):
I being biased here? And Georgeused to explain to me, technically,
the better teams always get the runof the millment when it comes to cause.
As parents started to get better,I started to see calls going out
and it's right. And the betterteams they don't need the lack the other
ones do. But the better teamsget it. They get the lack because

(43:23):
they're they're moving forward, they gothere, they're playing the board just a
little bit more quicker. People saythat, and I pay extra attention to
that, and I don't see adifference. Honestly. I look to see
if these guys on side, andI can honestly see there's no difference.
People lying on the tackle time andI literally sit there and I count one,

(43:44):
two or three that's how long he'stalk And then I watched the other
team one two threats penalty and Ithink, okay, there you go.
But you know I do it,man, I play extra attention to that.
You know what really shits mean?It doesn't make sense, you know,
it really shits me. And I'mno expert for my friends or to
you. We watched the footage togetherand I'll say they're going to get a
penalty in this set. And it'susually regardless of who's playing. Let's say

(44:07):
one team has two or three repeatsets attacking the try line, the defending
team holds them out, they getthe ball back, they're getting a penalty
coming out. Yeah, for whateverthe reason, it doesn't matter. We
call it and it happens or sixagain, it's like pressure relief. It's
like, Wow, they're defended forfive or six minutes. Now they're going

(44:27):
to get a piggyback coming out.You just see it all the time.
You can call it before it happens. I could bet on it it's going
to happen. And that's another thingbetting too. That's another thing having a
betting sponsorship by betting agencies. It'sscary. They ruled out tobacco, they
ruled out alcohol, and they're advertisinggambling to children to children, and children
are getting exited interested in that.And you could bet on who's on what

(44:51):
drink you want to order before half, like, you can bet on every
aspect of the game, and they'llgive you a two minute spill on the
betting and then they'll quickly put ita disclosure up a disclaimer. Sorry at
the end, call this number ifyou need help. That's a lot of
sports. That's that's like bringing upthe drugs hotline and saying, you know,
I'm addicted to marijuana. We'll justpress hash. You know what I

(45:15):
mean, nuts man. Because therevenues, the money, Yeah, that's
what it is. I don't thinkany sports should have betting agencies as their
sponsors, regardless. It shouldn't happenfor any sing the Melbourne Storm doesn't.
There doesn't their chairman own a bettingagency that the players have equity in or
something. I think that he does. I think he doesn't found out recently.

(45:37):
We could sit here all night andjust talk about this. Let's let's
let's just talk about the game.Let's move on. What you got on
your little run. I don't evenhave to look at it. Pain has
rejected the Broncos. Pain, Idon't get this. He was at one
point one two five or something aseason. Yeah, it's over a million
dollars, which is what he wantedinitially last year. Remember when he took

(45:59):
the spirit, he would be notonly the highest played, highest paid player
in Bronco's history. But I believehe'd be the highest paid forward, Yes,
in rugby league history. That's correct. He's knocked the back and he
said he wants to leave to playfor One of his motivators is to play
for Return that's got a chance ofwinning a premiership. And you're looking at
it and Brisbane who else? That'sbizarre. I don't understand that one.

(46:24):
And the last thing I heard,I think it was yesterday footy Danny Whidler
is part of his negotiation. Hewants life after footy. Deal is built
in there so he wants a jobwithin the club. And Gallen was on
the show and said he's twenty twoyears old and he's asking for that.
It's a four year deal. He'llthe next deal after that run out.

(46:44):
So it looks it's good that he'sthinking that way. It is good and
I think anyone at that age who'sthinking that way won't have a problem get
in that. Yeah, but itdoesn't just happen, right, you know,
while you're playing dual a degree insomething or decide what you know,
unless you would end up working behindthe bar. Well, when you're thinking
about it, Nick's probably gone fora ten year, one million dollar deal

(47:06):
like DC may take him. That'sthat's what it sounds. Well that that's
everything that can really make sense withrespect to what you just said. I
don't know. I can't think.I don't know, George. Well,
there's only two players that I've hadthat it's DC into Malama years. That's
worked out at Gay it has ithas I mean, I can't do it.
Look, I've got nothing against someonetrying to get as much as they

(47:29):
can. You know, at theend the day, he has his reasons.
And I also think it's not alwaysthe players are They pay a lot
of money to hire managers and agentswho advise them on things, and and
a lot of it's like it's likeif you're defending yourself in a court of
law. Let's say, if you'vebeen charged with murder, any any defense

(47:50):
attorney will tell you to not doa public statement. But I want to
say I'm innocent. Don't do it. You know, you follow the lawyer's
advice. And I've got to thinkto some degree, he's just a kid.
His mother she's in jail for drunkdriving or something or whatever it was,
drugs or whatever. I just tendto get a feeling he maybe mean

(48:13):
maybe being misled a little bit byhis advices. Nicola I personally think he's
dug himself in a hole. Andthank god the Brisbane offers not going to
go off the table because he's sogood, because he's going to get offers
of one four one, I dothink so, because someone's stupid enough to
do it, well, then he'smaking the right move, isn't he.

(48:36):
Well wait, wait a minute,so we got one, one, one
four, and he's going to goand say to the Tigers fragment for argument's
sake, okay, which he's goingto handicap the Tigers and there's no way
in the world is going to bePremiership winners. He's I know, I
know he's not going to go,but that people because he's he's a Look,

(48:58):
he knows he's a franchise in changingplayer. He is. There's not
even a question in my he's hechanges clubs. Okay, So someone's going
to do someone will pull the trigger. Gus will pull the trigger. Okay,
Gus will give him a million andgive him fucking four hotels, okay,
okay, So so then he's gonnacome to Sydney. Yeah, I

(49:22):
was about to say that, tellUs said it on three sixty last Okay,
I didn't. Okay, So soyou know what, one point one.
Maybe he can get one point twooff the Broncos. Just silent if
you're going to take a few extraone hundred grand and move to Sydney where
the cost of living is almost twiceas much as Brisbane, exactly it Actually

(49:44):
it doesn't make fiscal sense, doesn'tsense. He's happy. I never ready
thought about that either, nor didBut he's he must he's happy there.
He's home, Yeah, he mustbe. His friends are there. I
don't know. I mean, look, he wants to go on the market.
He wants someone, someone stupid tosay, you know, one point
four. He'll go back to theBronco and say, listen to I'm getting

(50:06):
one point four. And that's whatit could be the oldest trick in the
ball, all right, to justget more out of the Broncos in the
time of the Broncos, to maketheir minds again just and I don't know,
I have no information, but partof me just feels that he's been
guided and lad and I don't knowhow much of it is him or his
advisors, you know, And youought to be careful to dangerous game because

(50:27):
he can backfire too. Yeah,the other ten that's in this conversation is
Melbourne. You know that. Yeah, they're the ones chasing him. He'd
fit right in there. He'd fitright in if John Us get then the
other teens he's thinking about. It'seither them or Bridgeman. Okay, now
the Bulldogs are a chance to Apparentlyhe knocked out Broncos Bulldogs and George and

(50:49):
the Tigers, he's knocked them back. Apparently just wants Melbourne. Well that's
what I heard last week, butit's changed again. But I heard it's
Melbourne. And last nine on threesixth year that said, yeah, that
Brent Reid I think it was BrentReid said it looks like he's going to
extend with the Broncos. And thenBuzz Rothfield said, three or four minutes
before we went on there, Igot off the fame with his manager and

(51:12):
he gave me the strongest indication thatthey're not going to accept the deal from
the Broncos. And then they didn'tso and apparently he actually said they want
to talk to the Bulldogs and theywant to talk to the Storm. That's
so I don't know different he knockedback those three clubs because he wants a
premiership and it was only milk.I think I know what you're talking about,
and I think I know where itcame from now. It was they

(51:36):
said it on three sixty last week, and when they were conversing about it,
they said, well, you canrule out those clubs because he's not
going to win to compare in thenext couple of years and whatever you said,
whatever you say in three sixties.The article on Fox Sports the next
morning, it's taken from the showthe night before, and that's where I
think that was from. But look, I mean, unless there's a reason
he wants to leave Brisbane as inthe city, yeah, sign a deal

(52:00):
and get on with it, man, because you can't ask for more than
what you're being offered. And you'reat home, you're in your comfortable environment
that you're familiar with, and it'sjust it ticks all the boxes, isn't
it for a couple hundred grand man? Yeah, stay home, Stay home.
And you know what those teams whoare going to offer you one for
pain is going to be your yourBulldogs, your tigers, you know,

(52:24):
all the blow old teams, Dragons. Good luck getting them out of the
good luck getting them out of ahole. Did you guys see Wayne Bennett's
press conference? For anyone who hasn'tjump on YouTube and watching it will make
your skin crawlay. They again puttingsome context behind it. The game was

(52:46):
in Perth. They played a doubleheader over there in Perth, two games.
Again, I don't know why we'remarketing to a city where we don't
have a team, but anyway,that seems to be their strategy. But
that's what were doing, marketing toa city Perth, which means that you've

(53:06):
got one chance to get over thereand sell the game. And in Wayne
Bennetts press conference, but there wasonly one reporter by the way asking him
questions. It was the It wasthe worst press conference I've scene time.
It just it just irritates me thatpeople like Wayne Bennett and Ricky Stewart amongst
others, that they're they're great atwhat they do, they were greatest players,

(53:30):
they're greatest coaches, but they're sounprofessional when it comes to the other
elements of their role. Your roleincludes media commitments. Stop complaining about it.
After coaching for twenty years and thirtyfive years or whatever it is,
you know, you've got to dopress conferences. To go in there and
do what he did is a disgraceand it's a blot on the game.

(53:50):
It's a terrible look. It's almostlike the dariest BOYD interview of was it
in Newcastle Saint? Was it atSaints? That's said, That's essentially what
it was. And this is worsebecause it was the coach. Because I
might be long winded, Yeah,no, take it mate, you know
what, how long can we howlong can we give these guys, especially

(54:13):
Bennett I get out of jail card? Because if Dmitri did that, Okay,
everybody, everybody will be blowing up. Okay, But because it's Wayne,
it's Wayne. You know, it'sWayne, you know, but you
know what, it's Wayne. Okay. If he did that to carry onas
okay, you know what, carryon if deserves it, if you've done
it the buzz okay, But youknow what he was at Perth Okay,

(54:37):
it was the only reporter in theroom, okay, the only newspaper.
He was there to promote a game. They went there apparently to promote a
game, Okay, and he gavehim that ship. Now, if he
said if he said a lot ofwords of nothing. Okay, but he
was he was just fucking rude.He was just being an asshole. It's

(54:58):
just been an asshole and the endof the kid because he's a young kid.
Apparently. Okay, he had him. He handled himself very well.
But how long. Okay, he'sone few comps. Good on him.
He's great. He's the best coachwe've ever had. Yep, no,
no problem. But doesn't mean youcan be rude, Wayne. It doesn't
mean you can be rude. Doesn'tmean you could be an asshole. I
don't care how good you are.You're great. They love your players love

(55:20):
you. In the meantime, acoach whose team loses a game because of
a blatant mistake by the bunk orthe referee mentions it and gets fine ten
grand where here we go. That'snot bringing the game into disrepute. He
did well, I'm curious. Well, I can't again, I can't believe
how he gets off. No one, no one said nothing. Nothing.
I question. Let me question toyou all, would happen if the Mitri

(55:43):
did that? Will there be afine? If? Absolutely? And I
don't care who the reporter is.That's io relevant unless unless they ask you
a disrespectful question or something that's different. But there's nothing wrong with kind of
questions. It's like Ricky Stewart,you know, they asked me a question,
Now, what did you thinking?What did you think? Mate?
We're not here because of what Ithink we're because if you think so,

(56:04):
how about you answer the question.I love it. I've got my thoughts.
But you know I'm keeping him tomyself. What does that mean?
I understand again again, if he'sin Sydney, I feel was a red
for noble and he's done it tocarry onas you know what. You know,
if I was a reporter, Iwould have said, what do you
have to be such a cranky oldimbecile? You're here to promote the game.

(56:25):
You at your age, you're notyour shoe size. Yeah, yeah,
look, you know what. Thisguy's been getting away getting it away
for decades. And were we justsay, oh, he's a foxy old
man this and that. You knowwhat, No, it's not. He's
just a fucking rude bastard. Okay, he's a good coach, absolutely is
a good coach. But that's wrong. What he was wrong? But he's

(56:45):
just a old cranky piece of rubbyshot one. He not only don't forget
the fact that there were four coachesover there, he's the one. He's
the benchmark when it comes to coaches, and anyone who watches suppresses or it's
they want to see Wayne Bennett,you know. And he's spat in the
game's face. He's spat in Perth'sface. He almost made it. If

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you're a Perth's not a fan,if you're a citizen who lives in Perth,
if you're a resident, it's almostlike you'd say, Wow, he
really doesn't want to be here.Yeah, and he's not shy about letting
us know that. That's how muchhe likes Perth or that's what he thinks.
That's how I would take it,absolutely, that's how I would take
it. You know what, hejust just one time, couldn't he be

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know he lost, but one time, couldn't he be a nice guy?
Well what it always plays or youknow what, you give him a green
light because always players love him.And and he's won four comps. Am
I right? Four? He's onefour five I think if you count super
League Okay, no, we'll countit was a comp too, so well,

(57:50):
we count it for newcast, sowe've got to count for the super
League. So so he's won fivecomps, he's the most successful. I
think he's on the most successful regularleague cache we've got here. I'm just
thinking. But two ninety three,ninety seven, two thousand, two thousand
and ten, am I right?Okay? But he's lost two Grand two

(58:14):
nd finals on one two I thinktwo, So that's seven. So in
twenty or thirty is his coach he'sbeen in seven, which is probably more
more than how many he's bell onlyone? If if you can't good questions,
here we go. If you countthose two that were stripped, how
many is he one? If youdiscount three or four? Four? Yeah,
well clear he's going to nearly catchit up to him because if he
wins this yere will be three.So yeah, I think it'll be close

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to catching how many two from Bennett? So none? That was that was
a rhetorical question. Maybe once I'vebeing in Jude. Look, all I
know is that being a good coachdoesn't make a good human being. And
guess what I found out. He'snot a good sun boom. Catching his
team is part of the role.There are other elements that go with it

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as well, which he does quitewell. We saw it on that documentary.
He handles a lot of that sideof it for the club quite well.
Put him in front of a camera, it turns into a dickhead.
Why it's okay to be piste offwith you know, with the game,
what's happened? But what taking iton a journal? All the journal's doing
his arking questions? You know whatI mean? Was it was eighty seven,
his first year with camera. Yes, so he's been catching almost forty

(59:22):
years, almost forty years. Hisassistant then he was, but it was
his first, right, so almostforty years. He's been catching thirty five
years. He still hasn't figured outhow to handle a loss in a press
conference. Come on, you thinkhe would have come on? It looked
at when I when I saw it, No one had to tell me.
It just sat wrong in my stomach. But Ricky Stewarts done the same thing.

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He had a press conference a yearor two. Again, it went
for sixty seconds. He gets I'vedone my job, I've turned up here.
No one can say anything. That'senough. Set and you got up
and left. No, yeah youremember it. No, I don't remember
what Pece like, what's wrong withthese people? He's another one. Understand
you're upset because your team last,and you're unhappy and now and now you're

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going to go in front the media, right, but you knew that before
you walked in. How come whenyour team wins you do an eight minute
press conference? It's then it's okay? You know what I mean? Kids?
There it takes everybody talks about thebarbecue machines in his press conference.
Not that's what we're talking about.He's blaming the referees. Again. I
look at a point at a point, look at the forward passes and all

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that. But dude, your team'scoming last. You got other things to
focus on. There's the other Warriors. You were on your mond. Well
you know it's funny. So letme ask you guys a question. Last
year, the Targets finished last andthen they signed a bunch of players,
and we all know whether we're rightnow and they can it get any worse
than it did last year? Canit get any worse next year? Probably?

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Yes it can because last year theyfinished sixteenth. Year they gonna fish
seventeenths So yeah, you can itworse because we've got a team in their
first year in the Calm, butthey've probably got more competition points and last
year because they've got the three buyersgives them. Yeah. But look,
it's a bed look for the game. It's you know, everyone has to

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yeah, well we'll have to eatshit at some point and keep your mouth
shut and just and but these butWayne Bennett, that wasn't He knew exactly
what he was doing. He didit on purpose, and it's just you
know, I'm a fan of Bennett, you know what I mean, But
I just I hate that part ofit. You know, I probably saw
the best press conference on the weekend. Ryan Card, Citizen George Guy's conference.

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It's fantastic, man, I likeit. I love it. He
mentioned two or three times about theworld. People around the world. Dude,
the world isn't watching this game.It was clearly anyone who's watching the
sports just blew up again about theofficials are baiting him, and he goes,
I'd rather have the guys that madethe decision come here and talking about
it, not me, because Idon't know what's going through there. Look,

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look, no disre be I saidto you that that was an absolute
fast act. We all know that, but I don't believe that was masterfying.
No, that were points ahead withless than twenty minutes ago. As
a Saints fan, it was refreshingto see a coach actually stand up for
the team and that because all theseyears we've had McGregor, they've just been
placid. They just said nothing much. It's like, oh, you know,
we're unlucky. But this guy,you could say, the passion in

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him. I'm glad. The goodnews is he's going to be the next
year. But yeah, I wasa refreshing prisoner. If he wants to
complain about something, he should becomplaining about his team. Considering three straight,
it was just good to see fora Saints what's the next topic?
Mate? You mentioned I don't evenhave to look at this tonight. You
mentioned the lands before, now thisagain. You guys mentioned the aerial PA

(01:02:49):
and the ongoing negotiations, which isabout o'clock two years. I think if
it hasn't already now, he saidI can get this done in two hours.
Why has any What's I know thatit's not it's not just his fault,
but why can't we just do this? He reckons the majority of the
big items are being ticked off.They're fine. It's the trivial ones that

(01:03:12):
they're arguing about. They want anew mediator in there, and he's landy
saying no, no, no,We've got a media in there. Why
change it. This guy knows everythingthat's happened. I'm not going to go
through it all again, so keepthe same one. But he said,
just get me in a room,just get me there and we'll do it
in two hours. I'm happy todo it. So it's not a hundred
points they're looking for. I don'tknow what it is, but it mast
have been kept gay. They're onbetter working conditions than they've ever been the

(01:03:36):
game. They're in a very goodstate. The other stuff he reckons,
he can just nut out with him. He just needs to get him in
a room. So it's not oned chat. Well, that's what Valandi
said in his interview. It's likeit's up to them to move on.
Newton wants his other mediator in there, and he doesn't want the other medias.
He's not I'm going to do itwith the people that we've imployed it
in there, and that's a faircall to him. I'm paying money.

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I just think again, I'm beingcritical of the NRL. I just think
they've got no backbone. I justthink they're so weak. You know,
I can't believe that last week theyhad tape over the jersey emblems. What
a pathetic look that was strapping tape. It didn't even look like normal tape

(01:04:20):
was Okay, Telstra was on thatlogo. Well yeah, Telsha was on
that logo that was covered up.Now, at what point does the NRL
go to its stakeholder doesn't say,okay, we're drawing a line in the
sand. I've said, this isthe third weekend a I'm going to say
this, we're canceling the day ms. Oh but no, no, no,

(01:04:40):
you've threatened us. We're calling it. We're canceling the dams for this
year and from next week on.If you thinks that returns to time normal,
you're not getting paid. It's thatsimple. You're not getting paid.
We're happy to tear up your contract. Is by the way, you're in
breach of it with the broadcast deal, and they are, it's part of
their contract. And I think checkhis media commitments, right, which is

(01:05:02):
why Ricky Stewart turned up to thatpress conference because he couldn't get fined if
he turned up and made a comment. Right, you're in breach of your
deals, so we'll tell your contractup. You can piss off and go
to England or wherever you want togo. We'll bring youngsters into your spot.
They'll cost less than half what youdo, and we don't take bluffs
and we don't take threats. Showsome backbone, flex your muscles. They're

(01:05:27):
letting the lunatics run the asylum.They won't measure what the other sporting codes
are thinking. We're looking at this. It's a it's a laughing stock,
mate. I grew up for yearsas a soccer fan with footy players laughing
at us. They lie down thescs now. Look now, look,
you know it's like TV. Alot of my friends we grew up watching

(01:05:50):
and loving wrestling. Yeah, andat school we were the minority man.
How can you watch that ship?It's fake? Well the shoes on the
other foot. Now we're laughing everyoneelse who watches reality TV back? Can
you watch that ship? It's funny, isn't it funny? I think around
what don't they publicize with the actualI don't think Clinton Newton wants that.

(01:06:13):
I think I don't think he wantsto do it. I think I think
he's enjoying the publicity. The guywas photographed down in Melbourne with the head
of the labor union or whatever.What this is not even a union.
Do you realize that ROLPA is nota union? Yeah? What's the union
got to do with anything? Hesaid? He got called down and to

(01:06:34):
be in a room with the colorof people and yeah, you're right,
it's happened to have a photographer takea photo of him shaking the hand,
which was on the front page orwhatever. The LA is not a union.
It doesn't hold under union laws.It's it's not a union. You
know what I see all around theworld, these things get sorted out of

(01:06:56):
the quick smart and here in thislittle country, in this little sport,
compared to the rest of the world, this make that mistake about it.
We can't no out a kid cat, that's what it is. A kid
cat compared to soccer. I don'tknow about I don't know about AFL.
But when when I think about soccerand after you're a big fans to feel

(01:07:16):
free to try and me into somewhatyou think whenever this kind of thing happens.
The governing body just puts their footdown and stomps and this is what
it is. And you just don'tsee. I've never seen soccer players going
stroke yeah, or put tape overtheir jersey emblems. I mean, if
you did that in Naples, you'dget shot on the way home. But

(01:07:39):
I don't know. Maybe I'm missingsomething. Yeah, didn't didn't they play?
Wasn't there a few years ago theywanted to create this super league,
this super thing, and all theseclubs were going to jump out of the
FIFA. They tried to the europeand the adventious round material. Fine,
you can do that. Those playerswill never be able to play in the
World Cup. Well, I honestly, within two days it was five or

(01:08:01):
six clubs off memory Real Madrid.Okay, within two or three days everyone,
but you've entersed in Real Madrid Withdrewleaving just those two. Because the
governing body put their foot down andFIFA had its own corruption problems, every
every organization practically does. But theyput their foot down and they said,

(01:08:25):
do you want to bluff us?We won't take the bluff. NRL,
it's not happening. It's not happening. Which tells me there's weak leadership.
It's like it's yeah, it's likeon field, they can't get they can't
get that right. They can't geta simple, a simple fucking work agreement
right. It's week leadership, Isn'tit funny? Because when you look at

(01:08:48):
the man of feathers and you thinkthey're strong men, but obviously they're not.
You know what it is. They'reobviously good at what they do in
a corporate sense. When it comesto the commercial aspect, they're just still
going to make them of the operations. But it's weak leadership. I mean,
at the end of the day whenwhen the ship you know, there's

(01:09:10):
an old saying, you know whatkind of company you're in when the ship
hits the fan. Every boss isa good boss until the ship hits the
fan. Then you find out whatthey're like. You turn to your leader
to stand up and take decisive action. The shots don't do it, Yeah
they haven't. It's weak leadership.And yeah, people can criticize that as
much as they want. I've Iknow enough and I've seen enough. It's

(01:09:32):
weak leadership. Obviously. Obviously beginningthey're letting the players push them around.
It's got such a bad smell toit. It does. Georgia brought it
up before AFL Grand Final. KissI just started bring it up again.
You know what, We're going toturn our televisions or go to the ground,

(01:09:54):
and most of us turn our televisions. Nicole up, We're gonna settle
down. We've probably a in frontof us because at that time of the
night, excited about pend of playingthe Broncos. And our stage comes out
in the middle of the film andwe're going to get Jimmy Barnes singing,

(01:10:14):
Okay, Sam, you know,I know someone's going to be happy with
case sad. But the week aweek before Nicola in Melbourne, the same
scenario will happen a little bit earlier. We might have a few chips because
it's getting a bit late Rugby LeagueGrand Final, and they might sit in

(01:10:36):
their stomach when we go to bed, and our stage is going to come
out, and then we're going tosee fireworks and we're going to see four
men with makeup makeup on and they'regoing to do a six songs set Nicola,
which will dazzle everybody in the crowdand thousand, hundreds of thousands of

(01:10:57):
people and they're doing six song set. I'm not sure. I'm just suggesting
there maybe a four song set.I suggest a six song set. Will
count it down, and they're gonnaroll off and we're going We're going to
be in a good frame of mineand we'll be singing, you know what
I mean, Detroit rock city andready to watch a Grand Final. On

(01:11:20):
the alternative, will be singing aflame tree. We all saw, we
all saw the pre match entertainment atOrigin three. Yeah, I still don't
know what I was watching. Andthere's a lot of kick back from the
public following that. Why why doesthe NRL continually get this part wrong?

(01:11:45):
Let's get let's go back a bit, Okay, why they get it wrong?
I believe Grand four one a week, forget the date. Grandhe a
week should be a celebration of rugbyleague. Okay, I know in Melbourne
the whole week is a celebration ofa felt with parades and this and that
and look, they've got kiss acouple of years ago, they had meatle

(01:12:05):
a couple of years They always seemto get Okay, for someone own reason
rugby league doesn't value now is it? Is it the money? I don't
know. Look, it's look,it's none of it's cheap, right,
It wouldn't be cheap to have himplay, But when you think about they're
playing that same stadium six days later, logistically it's all there. You just

(01:12:27):
need to get him out a fewdays earlier, which the AFL is doing
right the way I look at it, it doesn't matter who you get,
it's not going to be cheap.But I think I can only assume they
look at it. Well, it'sit's not a good investment for us because
there's no Roy, But what aboutinvesting fans? But it could have a
roa could Yeah, why not,you know, give the fans something to

(01:12:50):
actually enjoy instead of the garbage thatwe're subjected to every time there's a big
game or Grand Final and Origin orsomething. Garbage. I've got to bed
right, dear, scrap the singers. Whatever we get and get the underrates
to play those mini games, they'remore entertained on. They're more entertaining the

(01:13:11):
probably more in their budget than gettingJimmy Barnes out. So what's the difference.
And you know what, no respectof Jimmy Barns by the way,
but you know what, we mean, you know what I mean. So
I don't know. I thought itwas a golden opportunity. You said it,
and someone else reacted on that.I'm obviously a fan of Kiss,
I love it. It doesn't regards, but you're talking about when you're encompass

(01:13:35):
that, you're talking about the biggestrock band of all time. Not only
not only have they sold over onehundred million albums or whatever, that was
the first band to start using Pyro. They did all that before anyone did.
They have over five thousand merchandising licenses, over five thousand products. The
corporation is massive right as a whole, and we're gonna end up watching someone

(01:14:00):
who can't even sell out of publicNewtown. Again. It goes back to
the fundamentals of making making an event, making the grand fall on an event,
and the father do it if theyif they think that the game,
and yes, the game is thehighlight obviously, but you know what,

(01:14:20):
how more special would it be ifwe if we got bon Jovi or or
exactly or it doesn't matter, Taylor, I don't care. You know,
spend the money. You spend themoney and make it happen how you felt,
doesn't Yeah, well, they doit every year. They do it.
They get somebody special, you knowwhat I mean. So again,
you know, I'll enjoy watching teamand arena, but I would have preferred

(01:14:43):
watching someone, someone of international flavor. Well, at least I'll get to
see him six days later. Now, guys, good and Taylor's retracted his
comments about talking about the cheats ofhow many teams have won premierships and and
all that. Any thoughts on that, I'll let you take that one here,
because it was odd. I didn'texpect that. I didn't say that

(01:15:04):
one coming that just so do youmean the retraction or the attraction? Yeah,
like when he said it, Ithought, oh well, and when
he retracted, it's like you gotwell, he was obviously pulled into an
pulled into an office and said,you know what, you better take that
back. Yeah, a man whospeaks his mind. Nicola always speaks and
he claims on the desk, heclaims that he's a man who speaks his

(01:15:27):
mind. Okay, we we obviouslysaw the truth. He doesn't speak his
mind. And I've lost a respectfor him, and they've got a big
respect for him. You know what, He's right, you know what,
you know, we all know,but you could look at it another way.
George, he did speak his mindand then you know, his his
management pulled him in and said,if you don't attract this, you don't

(01:15:47):
lose your job, which I don'thave that happened, But it's pretty easy
to change the DUTs, isn't it. Well, he wouldn't have come out
and attracted it on his cot abit odd, which is which is even
worse because now even the media doesn'thave freedom of speech anymore. And that's
what I was alluding to. Yeah, that's what I'm going to allude to.
You know what in terms of himcompared to Paul what's his name,

(01:16:12):
Paul Kent? Paul Kent. ObviouslyKent is a professional, okay, and
well Kent works for the Daily Telegraphside Hustle. Yeah, yeah, I
don't know what terms or as asas as as a presenter as a professional,
I prefer to have Kent up there. But the only reason I like
Gordy because he says it how itis. He has the guests and his

(01:16:36):
words come out a little bit.You know what. He probably needs to
go to elocution lessons, is thatright? The way to speak like myself.
Okay, but you know what hesays, it how it is.
But after hearing him did retract that, I just lost a little bit of
respectful. Do you think any partof its fabricated? Tell us being not

(01:17:00):
those comments, but just in general, Like we all know that Paul Ken,
he's the controversial one on that show, right, tell Us seems to
since he has had to take overthat seat for this season, he seems
to try and be that guy.He's always been that guy. But yeah,
I don't know. That's why I'mjust curious, is it really him
or is it? No? No, he always he always spects his mind.
Who will you name? Me?And other players set out of here

(01:17:24):
of contract? That's that's for sure. Six ninety seven was it six ninety
six? Six? He would haveloved him in the Grand Final? Yeah,
so I had great respect for himfor that. But again, what
he what he did, and weknow it's not him, it's his management

(01:17:45):
or Fox or whatever told him toretract that. I don't like. Yeah,
and by the way, he's right, Yeah, I don't disagree.
He's right. I don't disagree.Ask do you have you got anything for
them? L ask Hardie, Yeah, that came up. Yeah, I
just got a quick one guys,any one one one question here for you

(01:18:06):
guys, current players that will makegood in our real coaches off a few
names. Just let me know whatyou guys, all right, So do
you reckon? Look Kirey, he'llmake a good in a real coach.
In the film you know about him. I've got a different opinion what I

(01:18:27):
do. I don't know what theother names are. But I don't know
where you're going. I mean,it's hard to say. I mean,
well, I don't I haven't seen. I know, I know, I
know a little bit about a littlebit that can't really share on here.
But when I look at maybe rugbyleague is different. But some of the

(01:18:49):
best coaches I've seen, we're notgood players, like Wayne Bennett, like
Craig Bellamy. The best players don'talways make the best coaches. In fact,
it's usually the other way around.That's just my people based on that.
I don't know, I think youwill. I don't really. He's
a thinking man. He's a thinkingman. What about Adam RELs Prisbane.

(01:19:13):
I could see that. Yeah,Now, Jake Drapovich, he's a topic.
He'll be rationally a motivator. Yeah, I don't know, Yeah,
I don't know. I mean motivationwise, he leads the team, he's
the captain without he's a natural bornleader. I don't know about the XS
and nose, but definitely as anatural born leader for sure. What about

(01:19:35):
the Chad would you have the chatas I would? I would my personal
He sounds like he's a good manmanager. Say that the halfbacks of the
smartest players on the field, rightthe game managers? Yeah, and Chad
is a few others that are putdown. He is Cameron Murray from the
sounds pretty knowledgeable. I think evenhe's a good communicators. He's a good

(01:19:57):
communicators sort of nice knows that aguided team around Yeah yeah, yeah,
maybe yeah, I'm not sure aboutthat. I'm not sold on that one.
But DC, Yeah, definitely,I'm a fan of dcs and especially
since the beginning when when I've seenhim speak to the media and he's so
well spoken and yeah, obviously veryintelligent and he's very smart football. He's

(01:20:18):
got a good foot, he'll probablyrun the country. But he's a good
Bill Gole coach as well. Yeah, well it went in about ten years
Tom. I wants and George tooffer these two guys a duo contract would
be good, right. I wantthe Control Freaking tightsan game well, to
be co managers. I'd love tosee them run the dragons, I reckon.
They would absolutely make Belly We looklike a pain take it look like

(01:20:41):
a oh pussy, these guys.Can you imagine them with the attack and
then Control Freak, Yeah, justphenomenal. Can you imagine them going off
at each other? Fantastic? Canyou imagine the box They're not watching the
game, They're just facing each otherjust well, giving everybody sprays game.

(01:21:03):
I wouldn't want to have a bigpart of that team is famous. Something
happened Bill. Bill him is absolutelygiving giving a spray on the walkie talkie
down to the down to the guywho's a run okay to go until you
know somebody to give him a spray, and he's fucking sprayed, spray sprayed,

(01:21:26):
So thinking Bob goes out, youknow, spraysing. When the thing
comes back, nothing changed. Hegoes down at a half time, he
goes, did fucking Ryan toll youwhat I was selling? He goes now,
he told me just to hit itup, and I think I said
nothing. It looks at it looksat the trainer you know, I mean
the trainers yellow jeez. Yeah,well they are the players I thought of

(01:21:54):
Mae. Jacob Arthur is not thatmill We live from Dad, Yeah,
from better days where he is.Yeah, thanks for that. Let's okay.
I've also got a couple of justthe penis rumors. She's getting creative
now. I've got an Amazon passall. They delivered to me the other
day. I thought it was fromAmazon. It was just Pennis. She

(01:22:14):
delivered in Vir Amazon. But anyway, pretty creative, delivered to Vir Amazon,
she said. The rumors. Soapparently there's going to be an eightieth
team. It's going to be comeout of Perth in twenty twenty five,
that's what she says. And MoyBennett's gonna be the coach. Good spokesman
compared is a good spokesman's highly theman highly sorted after wa they love him,

(01:22:38):
they love him, Yeah, Ilove And she also said the nul
are talking about half time entertainment.They really got someone stitched up Millivan nearly.
They can just do it out ofzoom. Don't even have to be
here. You put on a bigscreen, you know, what you know,
it's true on the on the backof the rain, on the on
the back of that, the millof Neily comment, I think she got

(01:23:00):
it a bit wrong. And Nicoleknows the band who's stand procedure. What
are they called it? I forgetwhat they called talking brother Louis, Louis
Louis, Brother Louis. If lookit up on YouTube, I'm the only
person who had never seen it before. These guys, George actually scared me
because you started seeing we know ifyou haven't seen it, more than the

(01:23:26):
best what they called on talking fromBrother Louis, the eighties hairstyles, the
eighties hairstyles killing President knew he knewgreat track so many times. Cut the
cold of days of that one.Actually first of one heard it was back
in grids. Jeez, yeah,that's better for me. Spamail now to

(01:23:54):
spad. Got a bit of spam. I checked out email address Nathan from
Bondai. He sent me a missagesaying, good to see something from the
Roosters. Show some passion and producea solid thirty stin on the field.
Thirty seconds. Come on, Nathan, come on, thirty seconds. He

(01:24:15):
took longer to bloody get dressed andon the field. Tysle from Newcastle Center
message to Jeez, I think he'sslitching. Tyson, the biggest your language,
your language and behave went from Redcliffepost retirement, he'll be opening up

(01:24:41):
a postgame conference course. He's avery stut public speaker, always has a
lot to say, so apparently he'sgoing to be starting that course. Wayne
looking at life after coaching Lee Wayne, public speaker, here's a public speaking
Apparently is really good man. Youknow what? Going back to what we're

(01:25:05):
saying about Wayne Bennett, Ricky Suttand these guys who they're really good at
what they do, but they're they'regood everything else. They're damn lucky that
they're good at what they do.If they were, they'd be saying would
you like fries with that? Thatwould be there or in jail. Let's
let's run through dun and dust andlet's just run through the games. I'll
run through the scores and you guyscan give me some quick comments. With

(01:25:28):
the exception of the paramedicine George game, I think I'm allowed to comment on
that. So Rooster's back in thewinning circle twenty sixty sixty and have a
Manly thoughts mate, that game lotsof penalties, man stops twenty twenty penalties
did my head in. But yeah, it was good to see them win,
and good to see James the discoverblinder sixteen runs, one hundred and

(01:25:49):
sixty one meters, broke seven tackles, so good to see good old back.
That's all I can say about that. George Nicola, I've decided that
the cricket ground is a soulless grounds. I hate watching rugular league. There
there's there's no It's not for rugularleague, maybe for cricket absolutely, but

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keep the keep the game away.It just it has no I think it
was because soccer, the Women's WorldCup probably, but it looked the games
the game, the game had noThe game looks like it's got no nobody,
no soul, no character to it. In saying that Manly reflects their

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their coach, which he hasn't knowhis soul or character either either, Nicola,
I don't care what you said.Russ has played good maybe, but
I know one thing mainly was terrible. That that can guarantee you okay team
trying to make the eight. Besides, this actually played well a team trying

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to make the eight nickola and inthe hunt. Okay, what they what
they produced was a load of fuckingh I wonder if shout the sea bowls
messaging yeah, how he maybe maybecomplicates well, you know what, longer,
longer, longer the season is going, and longer his tenure here in

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Manly. I'll said it once,I'll say it again. The coaches,
which we know, which we've seenwhat they've done. We'll just keep on
repeating the patterns and I can seeI can see this happening bit slower than
Brisbane, but I'd see the samethings happening. Look, the good thing
is they're written off of the yearand they might cause some problems. The

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roosters, look, they played alittle bit better at his right, Teddy
did did have a better game.We talked about young Billy Smith too,
who always tries to he looked goodmine, who always plays well even when
when when he doesn't play well,still looks like he's playing well. Because
we'll have that he will he'll dothat special something in that second now it's

(01:28:00):
like the gold scorer, and thenwe'll remember that special something even if he
has a bad game in general,you know, what I mean, and
solely whatever the rugby convert Nicola backon the wing and back where he should
be and look at look in thepad now looking in the general In the
general sense, the game was alow standard game, and I was happy

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when I heard the full time.But WHI saw I went in light of
you and East will not make theeight. Mainly they can think about Bali
and get some more tats good.I profess to see bold. If you're
asking what time it is, you'lltell you how to Absolutely that's probably about
that. Next game, Gold Coastwent down to the Warriors twenty eight eighteen.
It was eighteen or about ten minutesago whatever, mate. Titans did

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well to hang in there, consideringthey had a man. They were a
man down from the first from earlieragain seventeenth minute, I think onwards they
were a man down. So theTitans did very well, only lose boy
a couple of tries in the end. Shawn Johnson, I can't say enough
about this guy. Absolutely outstanding.That's got some nice tries to just they're

(01:29:08):
really good to watch. Two fantasticsomeone tries. There's a pass that the
lesbian acted that one wasn't absolutely fantasthree players. Three players. Human beings
shouldn't be able to do that.How the lesbian done that? He isn't
beyond pH career best form. Ohhe will again, he must have.

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He must really struck a he's happyhe'sn't joining himself. And and I've got
a special mention to this one guy, jackson Ford. Didn't play this guy.
This guy is amazing. He lookedfantastic jackson Ford. He's playing the
way he played in the juniors.And every time I see, every time
I see him play here in thewarriorsn't I'm trying to think about him playing

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in Saint George, I can't rememberit. Didn't play he was a passing
jer if he didn't even McGregor Ithink played him one old tub but nothing
was Was he that you We wentand watched Jorge a couple of years ago
with with GT. Was he onthat game? Wasn't that I was calling
should go back to the Reggies.No, he hardly played much game.
Man, he had had little shortstints. He wasn't as much, but

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in the juniors he was absolutely killingit. He was a standard in the
standard standing. Now I'm glad tosee him play so well, So good
on you, Jackson. He's oneof the key players. Nicola. The
Warriors went to the Gold Coast obviouslyfor some sun and games because they weren't
on their a game. But butthey weren't ugly. I was going to

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say, the good teams when they'rein the dog fight, they know they're
not playing the world, they stillcome back come out with the two points.
The media addressed the times, youknow what, our favorite coach or
one of my favorite coach. Coachesmust be licking his lips what he sees,
hear, what he's got, andwhat he thinks he can do with

(01:31:02):
him win what we know he cando with it. He's licking his lips
in checking it. Win a compwith him, he can win a comp.
Yes, yes, needs needs justa little a few more finishing pieces.
But has this got a basis ofwin the cop Have they got the
attack? Yes? Have they gotthe strike power? Yes? They just

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need a little bit of sprinkle sprinkleson you know, one or two players,
and he will do it. Weknow, I can guarantee you one
Titans will make the eight next year. That's what he does. That's what
he does the other year they willmake top four. That's what he does.
Now. After that is when thegood coaches kicking, because anyone can

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make the date. I guess whateveryone's going to make the date this year,
and I don't. I don't regardit as a good coach. I
don't regard it as a good coach. Okay, he might make the top
four maybe, but within the compis different thing. Sorry, look,
Nico hard he said it pretty muchthe lesbian act, just just what he
did with that ball. There hadthree players on him. I want to

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talk about the scent off because ifyou think about it, they'll playing with
twelve men the Titans all games.So just to be that close or being
in the window of winning it atone stage were outstanding. I don't want
to talk about the tackle because Ithought at best it would be ten minutes

(01:32:30):
at best. But we talked aboutthat. We spent a long time talking
about that. I guess what,Nicola Warriors got two points and then we
move on to next week. Yeah, and I enjoyed the game, by
the way, I really enjoyed it. Panthers twenty sixty six over the Storm.
Mate. The Panthers really showed howgood they are they're unbeatable. The
storm we're in it for twenty minutes. After that, when was the last

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time we saw the storm in abreaking twenty minutes? It's worth mentioning a
success. I watched it. Iwatched he'll be good and clear. His
kicking game will notice was outstanding onthat he had a really good kicking game.
What's all going to say? Really? Just quick? I don't think
the storm we're ever in the Nicola. I think from the kickoff, the

(01:33:17):
pediph playing with their food, behonest with it, be for you.
Yeah, they could you know whatthey could be twenty four nil up and
I know what's going to happen atthe end. You know what I mean?
You I'm going to talk about penrifI don't want to talk about I
don't want to talk about Melbourne.Melbourne's he's a top four team and and
they'll you know, they'll, they'llbe out the back door. I waxed

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lyrical about this team. A professionalevery week. You know exactly what you're
going to get. You're not goingto get a warrior's game Nicola, which
drops a little bit. It's theirbest and their worst is from eight to
nine. Yeah, that's their bestand that's their worst. They get you
into, they get you into agrind nicola, they get you into,

(01:34:05):
they get you into the washing machineand there and they'll go all the day.
They don't care, they'll go,they'll go, washing machine back forward
all day until they'll wait for waitfor you to make them an error and
they'll pounce and I'll just grind youout. They'll just they'll well, we've
we've dubbed them Damien and that's whatthey do. They just they just cheke

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you. It's groundhole day. Whenwe talk about the Panthers, same thing.
You know what, the biggest complimentcame The biggest compliment came from John
Crease. We know what, weknow what they do. Couldn't stop them?
How do you stop them? I'vebeen trying for three years, so
saying saying, say no more,and uh, I enjoy watching them and

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the Tager coming back soon. Wellasking did okay, didn't he for a
big fella to plant in the centers. Very good? But so Taiger's going
to come back and improve this teamand then you're going to kill on chugging
on and good luck to everybody,good luck to all the other teams trying
to win comps. If you askme, I know I enjoyed the game,
by the way, really enjoyed it. Broncos thirty points to fourteen out

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of the Cowboys, no Reynolds,no worries from it was fantastic. Was
it in Townsville or was it inTownsville? So they really show that they're
going to be their challenges or they'rethe second best team in the compoy the
looks of things, they looked verygood. But in saying that, Cowboys
weren't that bad either, I thoughtthey gave him a good run. It
was probably one of the best gamesI've seen. It's a great game.

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But Carrigan and Ezra Man they werethe stars of the night. Rhys Walsh
as well. They were the threestars of the night. They just turned
it around. Take them three outof that and I think maybe it gets
a bit closer, but it was. It was a good game. Cowboys
are still going to be fighting,They're still going to be up there.
I think they played good enough tomake finals and they might make a little

(01:35:57):
dent there. Man, once theyget in there, they won't chalk up
a win or two to scare thema bit. Yeah, I agree everything
that I just said Nicola. Regardingthe Broncos, I don't think the score
indicated the game. I thought thiswas probably one of the better games of
the year, if not the bestgame of the year, because both of
them just attacked. The attack,attacked, attacked. The question is has

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Cowboys blowing their shot. They cameback from a long way back. They've
played. They put sixty seven eight. I think nine games good together and
you can't last and obviously they werejust off a little bit. I hope
they hope this is the kick upthe bum they need, because I would

(01:36:41):
like to see them in semi finalcontention because at the moment then they're not.
They're not in the eight I think, and I think they're still gonna
have to win some games to getinto the eighth. So yeah, so
love that. Enjoyed it. Itwas an attacking, attacking smages board Nicola
reesewlsh special human, special special humanbeing, and he had mentioned that he's

(01:37:10):
a man. He was actually playplaying injured. Nicola and I've got to
give my flowers, and I don'tthink I gave flowers. Swim. Patrick
Carrigan just gets every week he justgot from strength of strength. He's amazing
for a young man. Amazing.I enjoyed it, Like I said,
one of the better games of theyear, this one. Cowboys have got

(01:37:31):
to buy next and then they've gotthe Sharks and then the Dolphins. Good
liked the Newcastle thirty points twenty overthe Dolphins. What a Newcastle. Uh?
Dolphins lost another type one first.The Wayne were very very talkative after

(01:37:54):
that. They'll leading most of thegame the Dolphins, but lost out in
the end due to goal kicking.This Looks scored the same amount of trials,
ended up being one one goal.Colin Ponga was just outstanding. He
finished with a try to try assist, two line breaks and nine tackle.
Bus Dolphins of only one one gameout of the Queensland so they cap away

(01:38:15):
from which is understandable. The firstseason they'll get better. Yeah sure,
first season. Forty two thousand peoplewent to watch his one Nicola. Yeah,
well, forty two thousand people wentto the person watch his game.
Good thing they were didn't watch thepress conference. Thank god they didn't watch
the press conference. And the Knightswere a touch of nicola, not much,

(01:38:41):
but enough to a jar the doorfof the dolphins. The Dolphins do
what they do. They just runthrough the sets. You're not they're not
going to beat themselves. But Itook what they tried to do. And
this is why. You know howmuch we gave him hate before, This
is how good he is. Youknow how he tried to stop Ponger.

(01:39:01):
He tried to stop supply, sothat would that would that would the the
edge forwards will run up and tryto stop. And you notice how how
how the sledger didn't have a goodgame or the control freak because I would
run and try to try to createa barrier between them and the outside banks.

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But you can't do that for eightyminutes. And the minute Pongler got
it in his hand, he absolutelyripped him apart, absolutely ripped him apart.
So I've got to give Look,he's a supercach for a reason.
You know what I mean. Youdon't stop him, you stop supply,
and he's for sixteen minutes. Hestopped the supply to Ponga, and he
stops supply to the major the majorcharacters. But this team is real,

(01:39:46):
this Night's team. There there area damn good team. And we we
not we might we we will havean assistant coach on the show. I'm
hoping in the next fortnight. I'mnot promising because he's followed me that before,
but we chances we'll have someone cohosting in a couple of weeks.

(01:40:13):
I shot a show. Who's onthe night's caging staff? Nikola, good
stuff. So let's say if thatcomes to fruition. Sharks twenty six to
sixteen out of the Rabbitos came crashingback down. In reality, they played
awful, but Sharks finally better topa side, which is good. They
played well. The sounds were bad, but it don't take any quit away
from Sharks. I thought they weregreat. One shout out there too,

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Trendle the half and Connor Tracy.I thought those two were really good and
made a difference in my opinion.So I think those guys injected them to
into the team. It's a differentSharks outfit. I think I think we
might see them do something in thenext couple of weeks and win a few
more games, and we think,yeah, but it was better performance by
the Sharks, which is good.Yeah, Nicola, and he's right.

(01:40:59):
Sharks, they knew they had todo something and they came with intent.
Their forwards buckled down bad though.I'll go, I'll go, I'll go
to the tray had one run forfour metutes. I'll go to them in
a minute. Listen, just theShark because were actually good. Nico came
back to some sort of form thatwe know. The Fourds buckled down and

(01:41:23):
yeah, well the idea was right. Tracy and the trendle and you know
what, we know the Trindle wasa good player. So they they they
they played decent, not an extremelyhigh level, bit decent. Now South
Sydney, there's there is trouble inParadise. Latrell didn't turn up. He

(01:41:50):
was there. It's funny because lastweek he didn't turn up, was being
Latrell ye playing to the crowd anddoing on that. But it's easy to
do. I get the team cominglast ye. Now I don't know why.
I mean, I'm positive that GrahamCampbell's playing injured. There is no
way. Six weeks ago he wasin such rare form and he's so poor

(01:42:14):
at the moment asaiass Nicola very disappointing. Alex Johnson finished his tries and we
know that I'm going to have respectfor Kadie I'm not going to mention Kadi
because he was uncited basically and formshe was a passenger. Okay, Lucky

(01:42:36):
actually went well. He tried tocover everybody and he probably tried a little
bit too hard, but he wasrunning everywhere, trying to do everything.
Jayara got injured unfortunately in Nicola,which is a big loss, and I'm
not sure how long he's going tobe injured for. There was no forward

(01:42:57):
motion, so Cookie was in affection. He wasn't cited. Thomas Thomas Burgess.
Now he got sent off for apparentlytackling somebody hard. War's official.
That was ridiculous. Someone hid hishealth, that was ridiculous. That was
just I thought that was just ahard tackle. Even the early guilty please

(01:43:18):
should afford it. Yeah, howthey're going now, they'll probably gave Hi
an extra week. But but mypoint is that Burgess hasn't been playing well
for the last month. I'm goingto wrap this up. Ide and myself
wax lyrical about Jason Demitri and wetalk him up a lot right here and

(01:43:41):
now if he's got anything or ifwhat I didn't me describe him and how
what kind of coach he is?This is where he earns his money the
next month. If he can doit, I'll be waxing lyrical again.
If not, I'm going to comeback to your camp, Nicola and say
I've seen nothing. We had thisconversation at start of the season. Here

(01:44:03):
it is in right now. We'llsee now the right now. Excuse.
Now, he's got an excuse everything. Everybody's back. It's up to him
to motivate him. And he wentin the press conference. I didn't like
what he said because he threw itback onto the players that maybe that was
the right thing. I don't know, but he cleaned his hands of it
and and said it's up to themto do to do it, So maybe

(01:44:26):
it is. Maybe they're right.He was twenty six Dragons swing. You
guys were at this game, firstgame i've seen live the Dragons play,
and I was happy for the Iwas excited. I saw I saw some
good signs there for next year.We've got some good players that potentially will
improve next year, which I hope. But I thought Saints with a better

(01:44:47):
team, to be honest, andyeah, I agree with that, and
that that no try would have madea difference twenty six twenty six, It
would have, but they shouldn't game. It's a different ball game. Saint
George would have. Yeah, Andwhen it was twenty minutes to go twenty
to ten, I said to Georgia, go watched the last twenty minutes of
Mitchell and watched the last twenty ofben Hunt. And you'll see why I'm

(01:45:09):
sort of off ben Hunt because hejust doesn't know how to close the game.
Mitchell was busy trying to rally theguys and brought him home. Don't
looked like a passenger. I wasplaying on on his side. He wasn't
really doing much. You'll get theball in the last tackle, and I
feel like Ammoni's Scott Shackles. Ijust feel like he's not playing his natural
game, which was sad. Theguy that stood out for me, I
thought Bryce Cartright had a good gamefor Para. I thought it was one

(01:45:31):
of the best. Arthur Miller madehis day. Boot scored a try and
then rev Lover scored four tricks onthat side. After that, they actually
replaced him, they moved him tothe other He started well after he's a
kid who dis a kid? Yeahagainst a giant in Revla. But yeah,
it was an entertaining game. NoParamounta did well. I think they
did just enough. But you're missinga hooker man. You really need Red

(01:45:55):
Martey patting more than a moment.But yeah, it makes a difference,
though, what about you, Georgetwenty four thousand people and he caught a
gram good atmosphere. Grammars, whowe had great seats, went to the
Julix box and I had good companywith me, Nicola and I witnessed.
Look, you can you can argueor about this, but depleted Parmat team

(01:46:18):
deployed Paramat. There's there's up tofive out. I'm sure there is.
I'm not sure when they're coming back. Arthur Mills Stevens a young halfback which
I deeply felt for his first runon game. We saw him close up.
He's not the biggest winger, Nicola, and he was up against whatever

(01:46:45):
Ravioli you got, there's another name. It was up against Ravioli and look,
Brad, Arthur moved him to theother wing, but it was the
damage was done. I feel forthe kid. I hope he gets back
and I'm sure when he came withBake would come back. Matter. His
wings are the biggest problem at themoment they had a total combined Wade if
sixty five. They're aware that they'renot even even even Sean Russell. He's

(01:47:10):
not a bigger, he's a bigHe's very very quick. He's extremely quick,
and he when he came over tothe Ravioli's wing, he actually done
a job on him. So he'svery competent. But he's a he's a
young always, he's nineteen twenties.He's a very young man. Paramatta did
what what Paramatta had to do hadthey had to go and get two points

(01:47:30):
and Nicola, they were off,they weren't at their best. Thank god
that Brown came back because he tooka lot of the ball plane Mitch.
Mitch was which was with his ballin hand running probably not there, but
he kicked kicks and George's death.Nicola always always click Goferson, busy,

(01:47:54):
Nicola always in big controversial moments likehe like he was. The pack Let's
say didn't perform as good as theyusually usually do, Nicola, but Nicole
will pointing out Bryce Cartwright if ifnothing, your coach is a magician to
get this guy playing the best rugbyleague is of a he's ever played.

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Let me go to Saint George becausethis is where I feel I had some
interest. Interesting, there's a there'sa backgrower Nicola which his name is?
Which one is in crowd Catchman RyanCatchman, the twin Remember the name Nicola

(01:48:41):
Catchman. He's a young backgrower wholooks a lot like Jack de Bellan,
and he's a beautiful defender. Beautifuldefender not only the way he tackles,
but where he stands, and he'santicipation. And apparently he's got a twin
brothers as the same who played firstgrade as well, but he got injured.

(01:49:02):
Okay, so I think he mightbe. I think he's playing this
week. So this week, Ithink we've got both of them on this
Okay, so they've got a hugefuture. Nineteen year old, nineten year
old. So the defensive specialist,NA I think he used to come.
They'll they'll have an attacking game.But when you when you watch, when
you watch him, look at theseCatchment kids, they're they're very good.

(01:49:23):
I'm going to I'm going to tobag one of my favorite players in Ben
Hutt. This hurts me. Whybecause I think that he's been famed in
for the last month and seen itlive really put a spotlight. Now,
why journais are not talking about it, I don't know. He's set up
to try and so it covers itlike he does two good things because he

(01:49:45):
kicked, because he kicked the passeshe gave that those type of bridge to
Rather. Yeah, he did acouple of good things. But yeah,
he did a lot of okay aswell. The first time he gave those
two passes, uh to Rather andRather beat seven the people and score tries.
But after that he was running awayfrom the ball. Nicolas off his

(01:50:09):
mistakes came the paramouna last tries verydisappointing. And if he doesn't want to
be there, don't simple go tothe Gold Coast. Go to the Gold
Coast. It's okay, No one'sgonna no one's gonna think worse of you,
uh lomax. He's just getting better. He had he had an incident.
I'm not going to talk about theincident because we talked about it earlier
in the year and Tyren Sloan.The potential of this kid, Nicolas,

(01:50:32):
Oh my god, the potential ofthis kid. I hope Flanna can get
the potential out because this you cansee it bubbling, but you need someone
to you need someone to take hispotential and and and fulfill it. Special
human being. But the most importantthing, Nicola Paramouda got two points,

(01:50:53):
and that was the aim of thegame. It's not gonna matter. They're
not going to make a conversation inthe coversation. Sorry for and thanks worrying
for the tickets. I was fantastic, Thank you, thank you, appreciate.
Raiders twenty two Tigers eighteen. Tigerswere unlucky not to win that because
of those forward passes, almost themirror of the game before it it was,

(01:51:16):
so they're unlucky. But yeah,the Raiders were awful. They completed
third out of twenty three in thefirst half fifty percent, which but still
they didn't enough to win it.So I don't know how they managed to
hang in there. And that's whyI think the Raiders are going to be
a threat in the finals. Iknow you've written them off, but I
think they've been playing finals footy.I think all year, all their games

(01:51:36):
have been tied close, so they'reready, in prime for the final series.
They're just waiting to get there,and when they do, they're going
to surprise a few teams. I'vegot a little bit of faith on the
Raiders making some upset. I'm goingto be QUICKI Nicola, the better team
lost on the day, both betterteams, doesn't It doesn't matter at this

(01:51:59):
time of the year. Idea isto get two points if you play good
or bad. That that's that's Nolanvoid. But I'm going to address Ardie.
I think, like their coach ratsa soul, a soul as when
they get into a dogfight, whenwhen they get into a washing machine.
I haven't seen them stand up.I haven't seen them stand up to it.

(01:52:20):
You know, only that they've gotso many areas in him. Nicola,
the top four teams were absolutely buryhim. That's my opinion. That's
my opinion on on on on today. I think Foggy was poor. I
thought publicly was poor. I thoughtI think Wolford should go back to the

(01:52:45):
Reggies. He's got a hooker personally, and hunts and young. I keep
on, I keep on waiting tosee something that he produced early in the
in the year. At the moment, he's barely a Reggis player. And
what do I say week about acertain player Nicola horsebor a cat, Yeah,
that was a cat that sorry thecat. Let's move on because it

(01:53:06):
looked like isn't that the songs ofa good team though? If you played
bad and win? Yeah, onething I wanted to point out, guys,
David Offaluma became the first player toscore hundred tries for the Joins.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, if anything goods come out a great
pass after that intercept where he wasn'tgoing to make it, and yeah,
that was really good. And thefullback bullets come out. He's a Queensland

(01:53:28):
and he's come out and said hedoesn't want to play for Queensland. Really
yeah, buller. He's got afew players in front of him and he's
got a big future in future,which let's run through quickly. The best
game in around Cowboys Broncos. Thoughtthat was fantastic. That was a good
game. It was a good gameCowboys Broncos that played well both the losing
them and a good guy I hadthe Night's Dolfins. Just a good closeness

(01:53:51):
of it. No good game,good game, good blood drives around russ
Is mainly too many penalties starts.I think he was twenty. I think
it was twenty penalties all up ahard Sea Bowl records was a tactic he
got stuff. No, no,he reckons the roosters were No, he
was filthy Emricans. It was justa deliberate ploy to slow the game.
Anyway. Reckon, I reckon,you should look at himself. And what

(01:54:14):
stood out this round for you guys. The referee sitting off that guy what
was it, the trainer close tothe Melbourne trainer. The way he said
get off, just get off,it was good. I think he said
something to him. He just justsent him off. So that was that's
what stood out to me. Andnot only that, I'll go further than
that. There was two cent offsin the in the w as well.

(01:54:34):
Oh well, so this week therewas no crackdown apparently in the club cracked
down apparently. That's a good point. That's a good point. Who gets
to John cre spray Nathan Brown?He had a long stint of what thirty
seconds before, So Nathan Brown mightget a bit of a spray for Yeah,

(01:54:57):
I don't blame the kid, butyeah, he'd be filthy in going
super coach, super coach, Yeah, super coach and who's been all the
player of the round. You knowwhat he has for me. I think
this guy's won it five times thisyear and that's the reason why he's having
such a good year, because Ithink he does it on purpose and he
loves my Norty sub Lucky pack.Honestly loves it even when he doesn't win

(01:55:20):
it. He goes every week,he flies away from from New Zealand,
loves Shaw Johnson. Yeah, he'she's gonna have three, He's gonna crystal
packs is in heaven. He's youknow what he needs to get. You
need to get that injection because ofthe lectos he needs to get that loves

(01:55:40):
he just loves it. Let's let'srun quickly through crystal Ball tips for this
week. So Thursday night we've gotmainly hosting the Panthers. I think it's
the Panthers. We can all agreeon. Whoever plays Penrith's Shark Titan.
That's gonna be a cracker. ButI'll go Sharks, all right, it'll

(01:56:04):
be tight, Okay, I'll goSharks with my mouth with no confidence.
Broncos at the gap, the gap, of course? What what? What?
What play Paramatta? Let's take it'sa Brisbane home game. Parents got

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a bit of wood on them.Haven't they usually win it. The Broncos
will win this the Broncos. Yeah, maybe the Paramatta had their eye on
that game. That's why they didn'tplay as strong. George. I'm just
trying to give you something. Georgeplayed really well. Then't take you anything
away from it. I don't know, man, but we'll see. Okay.
So I'm going Broncos Rabbit Dragon rabbits, let lone maxes out, the

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Belans out, Rebels out. They'vegot a lot of places. Are they
really approving anything? If they bouncedback this week? Exactly? If they
don't win this week, then theygot to get two points. How they
get to get two points smash regardless, you've got to get two points.
If they win by one point,it doesn't matter them at this At this
time, Tiger Warrior one winner,one winner. There were they playing the

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color but Tigers home game. I'mnot sure which ground. Did you see
it? Yeah, FMG stadium waycut to New Zealand taking it to let's
take it to New Zealand. Let'splay New Zealand against new Land. The
only club that did that. AndI've said before, every club should know

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you're right, that you're right thatyou're right. Rooster Dolphin, Rooster Dolphin,
Dolphin. Risters need to win,yes, and that's what the Dolphins
will win. Storm Raider Yeah,look the soulless Storm win and Wind will

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I'm gonna get Raiders. I'm gonnaget Raiders. They're gonna put a little
four. They're they're chasing top four. They might get it. They we'll
get it. I want to dois to finish off the night the night
cap on Sunday Night Bulldog closing outthe castle where God the sledger, the

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sledg It's going to be a greatgame. I'm going the nights. It's
gonna be a great game. They'regon, we're going to see something outstanding.
Coach, here what outstanding game plan? And this is this is the
game. You're going to see thegust recruitment really kick and they're going to

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finish off the night season. No, No Nights will smash him. He
never knowsins coming off a win,two wins, now buying the Dolphins.
We're coming off a roll, ona roll. It's in back to back
wins, back to back. Beforewe move on to George Tidbits, I

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want to introduce a new little segment. It's called it grass Roots Footy.
Saturday morning, I had the privilegeof heading down South Coast to watch some
under sixers play. So I wentdown to Albion Park at the Croom Complex
down in Albion Park and I watchedthe Shell Harvest Sting Rays play against the

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Albion Park Boys. So I thought, you know what George always talks about
following the plight of the English champions. I thought, you know what,
let's let's let's put a stake inthe ground for grass Roods footy still and
we'll follow the plight of the ShellHarvest Sting Rays under sixers. Obviously they
ain't keep score at that age,but it was great just being down there,

(01:59:44):
seeing the kids going around there.They play tag, they've got tags
on and it's just it's it's greatwatching them all get back in the line,
you know, And it was justreally good to be down there that
the girls were playing as well.There was four fields going on at the
same time. Shout out to littleHunter Orzak who had a good game playing

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for the Shell Harbor team, andalso a little player on that team called
Carter who this kid has. Youknow, when you see you have a
natural instinct at a young age.The way this kid was spotting gaps and
stepping and running, it's just it'sjust you expect to see. To me,
how many fields were going at thesame point, for yeah, is

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that? Were they playing all thesame clubs? I won't lie to you.
I didn't take much notice of theother games. I was only watching
the one. But there was ashipload of people down there, which was
really good, and it was andit was raining heavily. It was raining
heavily the whole time, so it'sjust great to see. It just reminded
me as well of how much peopleput in their own time, the coaches

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and the officials and all that.For the kids. You know, they're
putting their own time, and it'sjust really great to see. And I
don't see enough of it. SoI thought, you know what, We'll
start following the shore harvest sting rays, sting rays, and we'll provide a
quick update each week about how they'regoing. I've got to get the coach's

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name as well. He looked familiarwhen I saw him. I know I've
seen him before. Yeah, Yeah, it's a good idea. It's a
good idea. But it's just greatto see the kids go around and they're
learning the fundamentals. You know.Obviously they're not tackling at that age.
I mean, they don't keep scoreat that age. Young hunters five,

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he's playing in the under sixers.So next year he'll be playing under sixers
again. And what I'll like abouttag Nicola is they have to bend over
to take the tag off, sothey're in the habit of bend drive.
I mean, it was so cute. One one kid from the other team,
from the home team, the AbianParked team, got the ball and

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was running towards his own he speaks, smile on his face and everyone.
It was just really good. Itwas really good to see. It was
It was refreshing to me personally becauseI really had my first grade and it's
just it's just great to see,just great to see the kids at that
edge go around, you know,And I thought it's important that we start

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calling it. I'll do some researchtoo on the internet. But you keep
on bringing us, bringing us theirplight. On the back of that,
the boy wonder an athlete, yes, but never a big sportsman, had
played a bit of psycho in theseearly days and I guess he played at
school, but you know, nevernever really continued. He he's picked up

(02:02:45):
the rugby league ball and put sometags on his shorts and he's playing tag
with his friends, Nicola, Sowe're finally I started to rub off on
him, I think off the backof the show. It's slowly but surely
got his DNA there. And becausehe's the one who searched the other for

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it wasn't that someone asked him.He's the one who searched out for the
for tags. It taks after hisold man. He'll go all right.
I don't know about that, butit was interesting when I found out.
He didn't tell me by the wayI found it. So yeah, look
off the back of the sting rays, I thought i'd throw that in.
So we've got another tag player inthe in the room which is not here.

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Then we were off for the tidbits, yes, Nicola. As we
know, we're following the plight ofthe world champions Saint Helen's and this week
they came up Trump's, Nicola.This wasn't the feature game, but they
went down to Sulford and they beatSulford eighteen fifteen. Nicolaid result. That's

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a very odd odd number, avery odd number. I think Sulford had
much much of the bet of theof the game. But Saint Helen's been
Saint Helen's with their fall passes andthere whatever, and they get it.
They do it every time. Souh yeah, they win the company game.
They haven't played good all year andwhich they win anyway. Wigan,

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which I think is the best teamin the comp Nicola went down to went
went to Hull KR and they beatHull KYR sixty four six Nicola, which
was surprising because how Hull, kay, we're playing well. Castleford score didn't
score anything. It's got a duckin Nicola and Huntersfield scored twenty eight two

(02:04:40):
two battling teams in Nicola, thesort of they're not going to the best.
Warrington Nicola ten and got the LUNsscored thirty. They just the Warrington
just sacked their coach and they justhired Sam Burgess to come over next year

(02:05:00):
to coaching. But the meantime,for some my own reason, I don't
know why, because they're star startedthere are tatters. That was the feature
game and they didn't did not lookgood. Hull they have seen Gotta scored
forty two. Wakefield the team cominglast, and they said that they won't
win a game. They actually beatWarrington last week or two weeks ago.

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They are they AFC scored forty two, Nicorda and Wakefield scored four. And
our team Nicuorata the Leopards with theUglas jersey in the world. They beat
the leads team thirteen six. That'sa good win. It's a good which
which the top six in England looksthis way. Nicola cut the Lance first

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on thirty two, Wiggham twenty eight. Our team Nicola the lead Leopards with
the Uglas jersey in the world twentyeight. Saint Helen's how they fuck didn't
know? Twenty six? How dothey do it? They play like Buston.
But I'm not coming third last startedterribly for some my known reason.

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How I have no idea. Warringtonstill they're still in the Warrington Okay,
remember the last time they won agame, Nicotta. They're still in the
top six. They're coming fifth withtwenty two and how kr Nicotta rounds the
six up with twenty two. Asyou can see, a very tight,
a very tight table like the NRLis that relegation there promotional? Yeah,

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there is, there is. Sothe chances are that Wakefield will drive,
Wakefield will job and I think ourFrench teams coming first in the I'll call
them Reggie. They call it thechampionship there, I think. But they
have a playoff anyway to the topfour teams break and they have a play
Have you ever heard about the millionpound game? Have you ever heard that?

(02:06:58):
It's called the million pound game.That's the game that whoever wins we'll
get into the super League. Andthey call it. We'll see it later
in the year. They play ontelevision a million pound game. Yeah,
the women Nicola this week, I'llbe very quickly. Roosters lost last week,
as you remember against Canberra. Theygot a bit angry and they went

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to the Dragons and they put thirtyon them Nicola, and they didn't have
any reply the Dragons. But let'slet's remember that the Dragons are the best
team in the company. Their starstarted. I sorry, the Roosters are
the best team in the company.Their star started. The Cowboys are Nicola.
They scored twelve. The only smallPoland was the Bronco scored forty and

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that was been saying that the Broncosthe second most star started team in the
comp. The Sharks, who Ialways thought were a good team and they
looked good, went down to theTitans. Nicola tend to wait the Earls,
the unlucky Earls. We got aplayer sent off and Nicola early in
the game. It was a prettybad shot, wasn't it. It was

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very bad. Nicola was a verybad shot. But the Nights, the
last year grand finals and the lastyear winners. Nicola. They scored thirty
eight points and unfortunately we ami scoredfour, so we didn't do too well.
And the Raiders they continue on theirwinning way. West had not lost
a game Nicola, but lost theydid this week. The Raiders scored twenty

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eight and West scored twenty two.And despite the scores, it's actually a
pretty good They played some good stuff. They played rugby league. I enjoy
watching it. Nicola the World Cupdiplomats. They went on the junket.
They went to Malaysia to decide things. I could have decided over the phone

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in fifteen minutes. Nicola. NextWorld Cup is going to be in Australia.
Nicola, I believe it or not. Surprise yeah, twenty twenty six.
Uh, I think it's going tobe only a ten team ten team
camp or a ten team. Yeah, much better than what we had World
Cup something like something like that.The only problem is that Grace is just

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outside the outside the top ten Nicola, and we got to pull our socks
up because Serbia might take our spot. That's going to be a standings.
Australian Serbia play brothers, so they'regoing to stagger at Nikola. They're gonna
have Men's World Cup, then twoyears Women's World Cup. Then in between

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they're gonna have an ashes test AustraliaEngland three three three tests England and then
they're gonna have all the other bitsand pieces of the small tongue and all
the rest. So that's what they'vethat's what they've worked out. Took them
a whole week to work that out. Us we could have done it over
the phone in fifteen minutes. Butthere you go, nice Junker. I
want to talk about the sock onthe tillies are nic I'm going to stride

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over to you and Ardie whoever watchedit, I don't know who watched it,
but please somebody because I don't knowwhat I watched. I know,
I know, I watched the victorylast night all the other day. It's
a great game of soccer. Actually, Denmark came out they started really well,
but then Straightis scored a great goalforward I think her name was from
a nice long wall and nice throughball. That was a great pass.

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Yeah. And then in the secondhalf they scored the second to wrap it
up. Beautiful ball by Fowler.I think her name was right through two
players onto us another lady who laidit back for the other girl to school,
Rogus Larius or something something like that. Yeah, And they got away
with the two nil win against Denmark. So fantastic result in the semi big

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crowd. That's right, they're inthe semi four one and they're actually playing
against the winner of tonight's game,which would have finished which I'll look up
now it's either France. Are theyplaying well? They're playing really well.
They were an early storm a Denmarkwere all over them for the first fifteen
twenty minutes and missed an absolute sittershe took she had an ass wing.

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But Australia held firm and and reallytook over the game. I thought they
did really well in terms of theirplay, are they looking world class?
For arguments, say the leg ofa Better World? I don't know what
to compare it against because I haven'twatched many other games. I do know
a lot of the favorites are gone. Yes, Brazil, you were lost

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the penally shoot out and one ofthe best penally shoot that's i've seen.
It was really really close to penallyshoot out. I just saw the result
in Now Australia will be playing Francein the sem and they're a pretty good
side as well. So yeah,they're they're pretty good. They're a strong
unit. So they'll give that's onFriday night too. So look, let's

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let's hope they continue on. Ithink Albert Easy said if the Matilda's win
the World Cup is going to giveus a public holiday? Should? I
work for an American company, sowe probably won't have it. How could
have the crowd's been in the viewers. It's getting a lot of a lot
of viewers and the crowds sensational.I'll talk on me about FIFA, which

(02:12:18):
interests interests me? Do you knowthey make us cover from say, you
know Lang Punk, you know Wallyand all those statues out the front.
They make you cover those statues.Well, it's about FIFA, it's not
about it's our stadium, the ornament. I heard that on this podcast I
listened to, which I found strange. I know that they're very demanding and

(02:12:43):
that's and that's their brand and thatcan do whatever they want to do.
But there's some things which I thinkthey probably overstep. Probably all they don't
understand our sporting culture. A friendof mine nickname Puff, the Magic Sagon.
You know who you are, Puffy. He asked me to ask Gardie

(02:13:05):
on your on your trip, wherewill your where will your favorite places to
go? And will you go?Would you go again? Absolutely? Will
go again. We've been five times. Mate, you'll go again, Puffy.
But there's one beach we love inparticular. It's up the north Shore
called Lana Kai. It's a bithidden. We got to get between houses,
a little laneways between houses to getthere. But it's absolutely outstanding beach

(02:13:28):
called a Lana Kai. Fantastic Andif you love your shopping, my wife
always takes us to Wakeley Outlets,which is all your cheap outlets there to
buy some clothes, but a lotof a lot of things are doing Hawaii.
A lot of good eateries, soyeah, I recommend it good good
food. The beaches are amazing,even Waikiki Beach, the main beach.
We'll swimming and turtles were coming upto us. Man, it was just

(02:13:50):
it's pretty freaky. It was reallygood. How busy with the beaches packed?
I was pretty busy, but stillit's it's nice man. It's it's
summer over there. It's summer.Yeah, and the waters are so warm,
so is it really is it humid? Like here it's it's what's warm?
Yeah, it's humid, but atnight it was getting a bit cooler.
We're getting it. It's a bitcooler at night, but yeah,
it is. It is quite humid. But yeah, July, let's summer.

(02:14:13):
Pick someone now there so you're gonnaget hot weather around thirties every day.
Man. To round rounded off,we haven't got a play and review
this this week, Nicola, butwe obviously have got a song of the
week. And I spilt the beansbefore Modern Talking Brother louis by Modern Talking,

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So we'll get the boy Wonder atthe end of the show, like
always won't do it justice unless yousee their heads. And it's got to
be. That's a video. Clear, we can't help you go and look
it up on YouTube because the hairstylesare brilliant. Yeah, and that's that's
in respectful our friend Nicola. Iwas going to have I was going to

(02:14:58):
do play and review this week.What's that center? I said, from
the Broncos Steve Steve Reynold, Yeah, the Pearl. And then then I
thought about it, and I thoughtabout how much I hated him. So
last minute, yeah, I know, I did say that I didn't like
him. Of course I ripped everyteam I booked us up. Then then

(02:15:22):
last minute I was going to changeit, and I came to my senses.
I was going to do Benji,so I didn't get enough time.
So I'm going to do I'm goingto do Benji next week. But I
asked last time, has anyone gotany I don't hand marsh for you,
I don't handy for you. Hasanyone got any requests? Favorite players?
I did see? We always talkabout him. I don't think the younger

(02:15:43):
generation don't this guy. I'll goeven deeper for Tommy. Usually I go
just the normal you know, youknow what they've achieved or whatever. I'll
go a little bit there, butTommy and I actually saw Tommy as well
and his back on the end ofhis career in the late seventies. So
it's got some great stories. Soyou can still get some good stories.

(02:16:03):
I won't go we'll traditionally go.I'll go a bit further down. Maybe
I'll get maybe the boy one thatcan put some clips out, and we'll
get some clips of stuff. Iwant to do a big thing on Tommy
next year, next week. That'sthe stuff, and I'm done. Nico's
a rap. I'm done. It'sa rap. That's a rap. Episode

(02:16:24):
fifty one in the bag. It'sin the bag. Yeah, that was
a big one. It wasn't one. Yeah, yeah, not not Oh
yes, he was a big one. Actually it isn't. But thanks boys,
great senior again as always. Yeah, and just want to remind everyone
he peel starts this weekend story theLittle Jersey should I don't have anything,

(02:16:45):
Chelsea that fits me, but we'lluse this blue you going up with all
starts and fifty eight except except thebeanie in the scarf. Yeah, tell
a little about that, about that? About that? Who do you want
from Nicol? We should show thefootage of it I ordered to give it

(02:17:07):
the thing next week. Yeah,man, I'll show you. I ordered
a custom made nupoly hoodie from fromChina. And the best part is my
mother used to be a seamstress.She used to teach something. She used
to make clothes. All right,she measured me up. Go wrong.

(02:17:30):
They sent me even the head,even the hood was out of proportion.
I don't know what the fuck?All right, I've got nothing. We'll
just have to upload the photo.Give I'll show you a minute. It's

(02:17:56):
that way. I walked in andhe's put it on for me. I'll
go what the floor and Eppy's backto his knees. The arms are like
see it's a woody. You can'tcall it a woody. Use it asn't.
You could fit You could fit threepeople in the hood. You get
go see it? I sha,Yeah, it's just kills me. But

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that's it. Thanks to everyone.Always a pleasure, of course, the
pleasure is all ours. And havea great week and we'll see everyone next
week. Enjoy, happy good night.