Quick Hands Podcast - The Squeeze EP.52

This week the boy's sit down and talk about the last 2 spots in the 8 and who is going to squeeze into the semis, The Dragon's tough love and Hoas stays put

Episode Transcript

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Hi, I'm George and I'm Nickand welcome to the Quick Hands Rugby League
Podcast. This is the pod thattells it luck it is. They don't
know what to do, They don'twhat to do, they don't want,
they don't want to pull the trigger. Why the hell do you bring a
lawyer to it to the judystry.They should have got rid offul two years

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ago creates cats Don't Talk like Nancy, Episode fifty two. Welcome back to
the Quick Hands Rugby League Podcast.This is the pot that tells it like
it is. Gents, always greatto see you again. We all great
weekend. Yeah, we're back.We're back. It's true, true,

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true, very stressful time. Wehad trying to get the little going technical
group difficulties, but we're here.We made it and we around twenty four
joints in the can. In thecan in the can. You got something
for us before? Yeah? Beforewe go on, just to some house
keeping, Nicola, the boy wonderdropped the interview I did with the French

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rugby league player Lord and the boywanted me to mention the interview because it
actually turned out good. I meanI was I was pretty shit. I
wish one of you blokes. No, no, I wasn't. I wasn't
good. But she's she's a veryengaging young woman. And what happened was

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halfway through the interview Nicoela the boywant to put the headphones on and started
talking to her as well and askingher questions, and just something magical happened.
I don't know what happened, andplease listen to it and tell me
from well, I'm over a stepin. Something magical happened. She this
is, this is a woman whowho plays rugby league in a country where

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rugby league is not existent. Basically, she's made the French team at seventeen
years old. She's played in England, she's played in Australia, trying to
get back to the nrl W atthe moment, okay, last time we
spake to her, went back toLeeds. She's a woman who went to
Africa and started a competition and knockedout competition there for for young for young

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for young women, just to giveback and for twenty and she's she's finished
the university degree, mind you,and she works so for for a woman
who's twenty two years old. She'sdone a lot in life, a lot
in life, and and you findout about how she mentally prepares for a
game and interesting and those questions werethose questions were asked by the Boy Wonder.

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So you know what it's. It'sI think it's good enough for me
to say that people please listen toit. And that's that's off the bench,
off the bench. Yeah, it'soff the bench, is off the
in our platform, but just adifferent show and look to be honest,
and I'm assuming it's from her.It's doing some really good numbers in you

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know, in France, England andfor someone known crazy reason in America.
I have no idea why. Idon't know how, but maybe that's that's
what the Boy Wonder told me.So that's one thing off the one thing
I picked off Listen Nicola. Lastweek some people had an issue with a

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son some nail that that the BoyWonder did. What was it? Look,
let's not get into it because maybeit's them. Yeah, maybe the
wording was possibly be disrespectful, butI don't I don't go away from the
from the sentiment. Coach and RickyStewart, they're in this in for me,

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they're in the same basket. SoI don't I don't. I don't
go off that settlement. But look, maybe maybe disrespectful the wording, but
you know what, we're people whowho say how it is. And if
we are oversee disrespectful according to whoI mean, we can. We've had

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we've had some we've obviously we've hadsome literature through another thing, another thing
which I've questioned, questioned on BenHunt. Remember how I said that he
was mail mailing it in? Arethey Let's make it clear, I said,
I went back to and heard whatI what I said, and I

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said, I didn't say. Isaid that I thought ben Hunt was mailing
mailing it in. And people,some people, let's say, disagree with
me. Addie told me on theon the forums and yourself, what do
you what do you think about BenHunt in terms of what is he compared

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to his best to what he's doingnow, he's not definitely not playing to
what he's standard is And a lotof people are saying on the floor and
not everyone, but he's just goingthrough the motions. It's like he's waiting
for the end of the season.He's just he's not playing to you.
He just looks like he's just Idon't know, he's not. He's just
checked out. That's what it lookslike to us. And let me just

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say that he's had a tough season, but it looks so I should understand.
I don't know, maybe, butit just doesn't look like he's mentally
there a moment. And Addie andI have no mail about him wanting to
leave Nicola, just me saying whatI think if he wants to leave,
leave apparently saw him live and wecould actually see him live playing, and

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that's the impression is going to stay? He stay? Okay, So you
know what, I'm a massive fanof Ben Hunt, and what I saw
against a parramatter I didn't like.And I got upset in terms of it's
clear that he's not giving his bestor he's just out of form and I

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don't know. And and let mesay also that Haddie did not say that
he was mailing it in. Itwas me who said that. I who
said, well, we don't haveto apologize for anything to anyone. No,
I'm just clearing it up. I'mjust clearing it up. Yeah,
yeah, no, No, it'snot it's not that much apology. It's
just cleaned up. You know whatthese things usually the boy wonder some of

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these things the boy wonder handles iftheir slurs or whatever, or I don't
even get to see him. Theseones were a little bit, let's say,
out of his league. And Iwas going to answer him, and
I thought, you know what,budd of that? Because I'm not a
good words meeth anyway, I'll justsay it on there. Another one which

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is probably more not more concerning.But the gentleman who who replied possibly upset
Nicola. Now where Sydney lights.We live in Sydney. We don't have
the geography of Brisbane and all,and let me finish. Or Nicol was

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doing was reporting on something that GordonTalus said. Nico didn't say that.
He called the Dolphins redcliff, hesaid, And I went back and listened
to it. He said. TheGordon Talus was calling the dolphins. Yeah,

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yeah, now the gentleman, andI'm going to give him a pass
mark. The gentleman must have thoughtthat will disrespecting the dolphins, and we
were calling him the sorry the AndI want to make it clear that Nico
said Gordon Tallis was calling them hiffand not thing is this is about me?

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Let me avoid responsive general general thing. But I said Gordon talis caused
them red Cliff, which he does. And irrespective of that, if I
said it myself, I said itmyself, which I didn't, But if
I was, I'm not going toapologize for that either. I don't care.
Maybe some of you guys need togrow a thicker skin. At the

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end of the day, we'll saywhatever we want. It's well, you
know what, we don't know thegeography of of Brisbane's got nothing to do
with geography. Talis caused them Redcliff. Yeah. Yeah, what I'm alluding
to is that possibly is a Brisbanenight. He's obviously a Brisbane light and

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West Sydney lights and and obviously theI didn't mean live in the in the
southwestern part of Sydney or Western Sydney. And there's a stigma evolved to the
western part of Sydney. So maybethere is some sort of thing that which
we don't know Brisbane, you knowwhat I mean. So yeah, I
understand what you're I understand what justI understand what you're saying. But he

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possibly probably missed miss read the compalentingglasshouses. I just thought I'll clear that
up. I can't remember his name, but whoever you are, you'll know.
Yes, tipping is that fun everyweek? Every week? Tipping?
You know the show that the boywent the mate about tipping last week?

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Yes, tipping is that fun everyweek. And we've got no idea.
I've certainly got no idea. Whatwhat what? What's happening around me and
Lucky last? How about the till? Is awesome? Talk to me?
All I know is that I'm thoroughlyentertained. I think it's the longest penalty

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shoot I've ever seen? Is that? Have you seen one longer? I
have seen longer, but they're veryrare. I've seen where both keepers had
to take a penalty. Wow,she didn't have to take one, by
the way, she wasn't up yet. Usually the goalkeepers like the last option
when they've run through the whole list. But it was. It was a
good game. Australia had a fewchances. They could have won it easily.

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I thought both teams, yeah init like both teams back and forth.
But what a cracker tomorrow night,Australian England. Well done, Matilda
Yeah, and the crowds And didanyone see the footage of sam ko Jersey
to that little girl crowd. That'sthe best thing I've seen. That little
girl's face, that reaction. Ifyou haven't seen it, go and look

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it up on YouTube or whatever,just typing Sam Kurt Jersey and she gives
it to a little girl in thecrowd, and that little girl's reaction is
everything. Yeah, there's something aboutwomen playing sport at a high level in
terms of their compassion. Obviously everyweek in the NA or w sphere,
it's completely different the way they Imean, they're very aggressive and and and

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so are the atilities, but whenyou know that second is over, they'll
come and rush through it. It'sjust amazing. They had, They had
massive ratings. They had seventy fiveseventy six thousand in attendance. It was
sorry that was in Brisbane, I'mtalking about Yeah, it was a full
house fifty Yeah, it's a fullhouse again. He's tomorrow yeah whatever,
thousand and in terms of television,in terms of television ratings, it's it's

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the most ever ever seen. Soyou know, they're talking over six million,
which was amazing. Yeah, andtonight I ricked tomorrow night. I
think it's got a bit more thanthat. Everywhere I go they're talking about
it. Well, two games awayfrom a public holiday. I hope,
So, I hope, So Ihope, So I hope. So Nicola,
my god daughter, plays at ahigh level soccer and I'll go watch.

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I've gone to watch a play andthe level of the play is amazing.
It's so good, it's brilliant andit's just booming girl. So it's
good, see, really good.But check out that footage of Sam Kirk
given away a jersey because that's justpriceless. So before we move into tonight's
show, I just wanted to makea call out. Today would have been

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my parents sixty third wedding anniversary,So happy anniversary to both of them and
no longer with us sadly, butyeah, fifteenth of August, sixty three
years together would have been It wouldhave been yeah, yeah, wow,
So happy anniversary Mom and Dad.And let's move on to controversy corner.

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You know it else is about fifteenthof August. It's the Saint Mary Maria,
all the Marias and Peters and theSpiners, they're all celebrating today.
It's a big religious name day.It's Mary Maria, Peter and the spiners.
It's a first festival public holiday inItaly as well. It's called the

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feedo lost yeah, the public holidayall the way through the Greek Orthodox and
on the oh yeah, used tohappen in the fifteenth I don't know,
but but so I don't think I'veever told Nicole, you know, like
D and I introduced birthdays to us. Well, when I was growing up,
it wasn't never birthday was always namedday. So we will celebrate name

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days wood and that's why I stillfind it funny when when D doesn't birthdays.
It's the European thing. My myrelatives in Italy celebrate name day and
they messaged me and so happy nameday, and I'm like, I didn't
even know it was my name Dan. It's that's something we've ever done here
over the years because I've been withDean. My mum always drings me up
and other people will messaging me.But I remember, I used to remember

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the day, but now I don'teven remember the day. So I'm remembering
my birthday. Jeez, I forgotDean's birthday. Ringing this morning was birthday
was on Saturday? No? Yousorry? Yeah? You know believe that
the bad thing about celebrating name days, the Greek thing, right. My
dad was mister popular, right,So I remember when it was the Saint
Nick's. We'd go to three orfour parties in one night, one going

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into one, leaving that one gameto the other game in the air well.
When it was Yeah, it wasjust a crazy, crazy time for
the popular name. She never toldus you were related to Cameron's Rado.
His father's a popular I'm not thatpopular, guys, he's real popular now,
boys. One thing is in thebag, paint ass. He's finally
signed an extension with the Broncos tothe end of twenty six one point two

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million a season. Probably a smartmove because if he continues to play the
way has been, he'll get abigger deal in three years time. What
do you guys think, Yeah,very good deal. I'm glad he's staying
in Brisbane. I hope he stayshere for a year whole career. I
just like players juniors to stay inone club. So good news for the
Broncos. I think you'll do fantasticand happy days. One point two player

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in Broncos history. Maybe he's waitingto see if they win a camp,
you know, he wants to wina comp maybe wait in those three years
wrobably just a sweet spot and thendip and then it can just back out.
I think it's a smart move fromhim. Yeah, I think it's
a smart move, Nicol. Ithink it was the only choice really had.
If you ask me, one pointthree highest player player in the club,
probably the highest one of the highestplayed forward and in the comp is

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probably think how much how much theyjust signed for two? Yeah, he's
the highest paid forward in the inthe game. Probably he's home, he's
happy, he's young, they gothe's in his team's in a premiership window.
I think it was a no brainer. You know what I think of
it this way, when his deal'sover, he'll be twenty five. Yea,

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not even It's the first time thatI can remember a situation where all
seventeen clubs after a player, likewhen I read this afternoon was payn Ass
has officially rejected sixteen class. Wetalk about the demand crazy and he's worth
it. I think he is anyway, Yes, yes, absolutely definitely worth

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it. Worth He's a game changer, he's a franchise player. He's in
the conversation. They say, likespines win Comps and that's true. Spines
at halfback swin Comps. Throw himin the mix, yeah, throwing him
in the mix because he'll get he'llget he'll get the halfback where he wants
to be and he's the only onewho can do it. So I enjoy

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watching him play. And Tino DavidFafita, So Tina signed for ten years,
smart years, so he's twenty threeyears old, one point two twelve
million. I think it is forthe ten years. Whatever that was with
clauses and I'm not sure something it'sit's semi figures, whatever it is,
it's seven figures. And David Fafitaa million a year for three years has

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extended as well. Well, bigstatement from Tino, isn't it. Well
it's smart because Melbourne apparently offered hima ten year deal as well. Really,
I'm not sure for how much.So it's a struck. It's a
strike hair between the quality between Tinaand Pain. I'm going to suggest to
you Tino has got other attributes likehe's a genuine leader. Pain isn't a

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leader. Pain does what he doesand does it at at the best that
he does it, like no onedoes it better. Than him, but
there's but he's not a leader,so you're probably getting good value from a
big Tino. And with Tina,the best is you get to come and
you know what, out of theseten years, you might get eight years

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outstanding and you're you're weare the twoyears because you've got him. So let's
let's look at Tamilalo. What whatyear is on now? I'm not sure.
Yeah, he's I think he's onyou model something. I think so,
or he's six. Well then ifthat's the case, let's hope he

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plays a little bit better because buthe's what his own on a million?
Mate, he's a million. Soreally, if you think about it him
there, they're still it's a bigYeah, it's a big risk. Ten
years so long. I remember I'mnot sure what year it was, but
had to be late eighties, earlynineties maybe early nineties. I remember Ricky
Stewart signed a five year deal atthe Raiders and that was huge at the

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time. But hey, you know, I mean, all the signs are
there that he's the man. He'sthe one, absolutely and both of them,
but he's the man, yeah,for sure, Tina, what's speaking
of big, big money forwards?George Thomas's happening with Tavita Pego Jr.
Oh he did as a favor ofNicola. He's you know, he's,

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he's, he's he's a man ofa very strong character and hold holds close
to his word. And it's ait's a type of signing that only Phil
Goold can make, you know whatI mean, A genius of a guy.
He's decided to leave the club Nicoland go and be he's retiring from
tiring from the aerial apparently. Idon't believe for a twenty seven I don't

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believe for a second, but he'sretiring. He's going to be a boxer
and you know what, Nico orhe might have a he might have a
bout or two. But I canI can guarantee you who'll been back in
the NL rule within the year,probably with Wayne Dude. So do we
honestly think that he's going to walkaway from seven hundred and fifty k or
we know he's not. He's justgetting fun of the money to him when

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he's not registered with the NR anymore. Well, you know you know what's
going you know how it happened.You know you've got the tap on the
shoulder. You know how many yearsdid he have to go? I think
two, two or three year becausethis frees up seven hundred and fifty season
for the Dogs now to pursue someoneelse, and and eight hundred thousand when
we when when that English foard goesoff and get his name Thompson, Thompson.

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Yeah, when Thompson goes So there'snearly one point. I don't know
one point. He's not going tobe cheap. Well, then you go
to the crime's probably eight hundred exactly. Ye mind John, the performance of
last week, he'll fix away problems. So so yeah, I still pointed
again from my gusts, but yeah, look you know what he he what

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he shows on the field shows methat he's not happy. So good good
he made the decision because he couldhave dragged the two more years and picked
up the money. So it's goodfor him, it's good for the Bulldogs.
So I say, good riddens.But I shouldn't say that. If
he's happier, move on, andyou know that's both parties are you know,
lick their wounds and and go,Look he'll be happier now, I

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pretty probably doesn't want to play thelight next two games. But yeah,
look he's showed it on the field. Isn't here? That played State of
Origin this year too? Again,you know, strange, and I'd called
it when he saw when he sawthe sheet, he nearly he nearly went
into the spasim. He sput allhis whet picks out, and I thought

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I was giving it some air.But you know, in hindsight, I
thought it was a good st whenhe burst into the scene. I thought
his skll was going to be incompany. I thought it was gonna be
fen. He's got the but hejust can't can't produce it absolutely. Also,
the wee thing about this is Willkeep saying he's twenty seven. That's

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when you start already twenty didn't yousay he's twenty seven, twenty seven,
twenty seven, he's leaving at peak, you know what I mean, when
he's going to forget he was beforewhen he did half a year the Panthers
too. Okay, okay, wellI thought it was a bit younger than
I thought it was twenty five.But you know what, since the Panthers

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half a game, I haven't seenanything from him. He has showed me
nothing. He already showed me hisheartache, but he showed the Panthers that
he's got it, he's got theability. He's just in that system.
Put him in the storm, puthim under Wayne. Maybe he put him
put him under Wayne, and forsure a little doozy, but good luck.

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He's about a decision. And offhe goes, and off Canada,
he goes an off weeker. Yeah, and said the RPA and R.
Apparently it finally comes to an agrammar. Thank god circus is over.
Thank god. Yeah, that isgood news. Makes you wonder what was
it all about? Because I haven'theard anything groundbreaking. Look is it is?
It? Is it simple fact thatthe man of feathers came in and

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and and they know, they listenedto him, and it just happened.
I don't know what happened. Seehow easy needs to do it. You're
funny, funny, it's funny.I don't know. I don't know what
happened. I don't know how heclosed up so quickly in two days.
We had we had a year anda half of heartache, and in two
days it got sorted. Funny thatLook, I don't know the duos are

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going to come out. I'm happythat it's over because I couldn't bear another
another week of having to talk aboutit. I think everybody's happy they got
what they wanted. You know,the the Lord Lording, what's his name
as a god? What's the godfrom the r PA whatever they call him,

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calling him a god. That's whatCherry Evans called him. You know
what I mean? You know,I don't know. Someone gets me a
thirty seven percent pay increase, I'llcall him god to true true, true,
true, true true. Maybe Clinchwould be in charge of the NRL.
Maybe Landers who put him in welltogether. Ricky Shus press conference.

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Ricky Stewart, he's done it again. Eighty seconds right. Every time his
team loses it's a two minute presser, and every time they win it's eight
minutes. He's just done a classyRicky Stewart, he was just in a
foul mood, doesn't want to talkand look he copped a bad loss.
I get it, but how manytimes have we said it? Being professional?

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It's part of the gig. You'rea coach. The press offence part
of the gig. Yes, Idon't feel like being here, I mean
he have to be and just stayover a minute later he walked out.
When's he ever going to grow up? Seriously, it's good to see her
emotion though, he's like, youcan you're feeling, But I mean it
is. The lack of professionals isdisturbing. It's not park footie, you

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know what I mean. There arethere are major sponsors. There's a lot
of money going into behind what hedoes, and no one wants to say
that. You know, you wantif he's done it once twice, you'll
excuse him. You can see littlehe does all the time. He's done
it for ten whatever, fifteen years, and he and his counterpart there Wayne,
you know what I mean. Wecan say that he plays around with

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the media, he controls the media, but it's more disrespectful and non professional,
you know what I mean. Wegive him both I get out of
Jail card. We keep on givingit to him, given it to him,
giving it to him. But Idon't know. You know what you
taught me in use Watch Use watchsocco all around the world. Is there
anyone like these two guys? Youalways get your characters. Character and disrespectful

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two different things. But I mean, yeah, but you know he answer
questions, but he still sits thereand does the press conference, doesn't he?
Yeah, but he can be abit prickly towards the young and can
be a big prickly But that's normal. But that but that's normal too.
But I mean, just the waythe way Ricky does it, it's just
different. I'm here. I'm onlyhere because I have to be. Yeah,

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why don't you ask the players?Apparently they can talk now, I
mean, yeah, come on,really, is it that hard to go
out there and say, I'm reallydisappointed with how my team played? And
you know, the most disappointing partwas he was asked about Jerry Croaker,
who announced his retirement, and heguys, I don't want to talk about
it. I'll talk about tomorrow.Disappointed, you know what I mean?

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Like that? Does he deserve that? Croak deserve that? Seriously, you
can't park your ball all shit forthirty seconds to talk about Jerry Cracker.
I can't. I can understand thatbecause he doesn't want it. He's in
a really bad frame of mind andhe doesn't want to bring up such a
sensitive topic the way he is.He wants to wait till he's more calmer
than he could talk about it.That's called lack of professionalism, things that

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can't control his emotions. I doyou think of it this way? Okay,
there's idiots like h it's actually goonto their computers or the laptops and
stream the all the all the presses. Okay, so do they know that
people are actually watching their presses?It wouldn't be wouldn't be this. He's
this. He's disrespecting the fans basically, when you say nothing, and you

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know what, there's ways of sayingnothing and saying heaps. Yeah, and
I know this sounds harsh, butnot controlling your emotions when you're on Life
TV, that's lack of professionalism.Why doesn't he just send out an assistant
or something just to take his placebecause he just can't you know what that
stand? Why can't you just goout there and suck it up for five
minutes? Seriously? How hard isit? Yeah? You know what I

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had. Sorry, you should havesaid he's got mad, should go and
do it for me? So thereyou go. But he wanted, he
wanted to go. He wanted toshow everybody that he was pissed. So
that's what I mean. It's allof the agenda being him be it Wayne.
They go out because he didn't bringa player with him, didn't bring

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Cracker with him. I noticed that. Do you know what goes? The
reason I've been sympathetic with Ricky isbecause I think that if I was in
Ricky shoes, I'd probably the sameway. It's just that type of character
he is. He just he's justa very emotional when he's really pissed.
It's just hard to sort of theseare things that you see from someone who's

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be cashing twenty two years. Yeah, I know, I know, but
it just goes. I don't know. I got child. I understand what
you're saying, because you know whatI'm like. I'll be the same as
well. I'll be pretty pissed off, and you know, I'll probably have
tears in my eyes after they area loss. But it's been a long
time now. Yeah, he's aprofessional. Coaches, one comes on.
I don't know, I don't know. It's so to get over it.

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The press conference is part of yourjob. Stop complaining. He's talking about
it like it's been implemented this season, but he's been doing that for ten
years. The press conference is partof your job. It is get over
it. I feel as if hedoesn't feel like people watch it anyway.
He thinks it's just it's just garbage. I think he does. Maybe if
he realizes that actually people do watchit, maybe might I think he doesn't

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to send messages both of them,both of them do. Hopefully it works.
Hopefully they win this week for himbecause it's a big game. So
we'll see if it worked. Maybe. What's going on basically full strength the
other day. I'll tell you somethingin the color. Yes, we'll have
full strength. We'll full strength,Nick, And what is this show?

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This shows that what they do andthe billmore is wrong. Now we can
make excuses. We can talk aboutrecruitments, we can talk about you know,
grassroots rugby league. We can wecan talk about all the things that
Gus he's talking about. Okay,he's wrong, he's not going to do

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what he thinks he's going to do. Because let's look at this. We've
got a we've got a coach witha really strong track record because he's had
he went to England, he's wonGrand finals, he's come he's on what
a minute, No he hasn't.He's been once assistant coach too. Again
he said yes a lot to thebest coach in the game. Okay,
so let's get in his first season. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's

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his first season and he's said yes, yes, Ivan, Yes, you're
right, Ivan, Yes, Ivan, Yes, all right okay, So
so but you know what, we'reright because we've got the best, the
best guy to recruit talent, becausehe's gone, he's sorted out about three
or four teams on one minute.No, no, he's he went to
the best nursery in the world andhe's put some structures up and Ivan coached

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some kids. Yes, he putthe structures. Apparently he tells us didn't
feel good, I feel good.I feel good. Give him that.
Apparently he did it. Okay,so wait a minute. So what I'm
trying to say out to you isthat you know how, I say,
show me, Yeah, we knowwhat this he's going to do. We
know what, Well, guess what, we've got a coach. We've got
no idea what he's going to do. I know we'll cover it when we

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get to the game anyway, Butsome of those tries the other day on
Sunday, especially between and what's hisname, That's what I'm going to say.
So we've got a coach who's gotno track record. We've got You've
got Goold behind him, who's gota track record of what? Of coaching?
Yes, I agree coaching. Sayhe's probably playing role. He's doing
the ivan clear like he's doing thebehind the scenes. He's trying to help

(30:52):
Sla. It's not as if Sorroda'son his side. I feel like SODA's
got his hands. He's not reallythat. We know. That's why they
picked him because because what would whatwould you pick Flannigan? What wouldn't you
bought by Flannigan if you wanted toa successful team. We can't control Flanner.
Look, I'm still a fan offeel good but let's let's not forget
the last time you want one,you go if so, this is my

(31:15):
question thirty years ago, this ismy question to you. Okay, Now,
that team that ran on on Sunday, Okay, when you look at
him, they're not a terrible team. No, No, there's a lot
of names in there, lot ofnames in there. Okay, So you
tell me. I'm gonna ask youthis year, you tell me one player

(31:37):
that Cameron Serroudo has improved, becauseI can tell you a lot that they've
gone backwards. So it's like soone player, one player, one player.
I could only go to some ofthe youngsters who I suppose Carazlo,
who I think you're probably having abetter season they did last year. But
you know that better than me.I don't. Yeah, I can't figure

(31:59):
that one's playing. They paid fivehundred thousand dollars release clause for the youngster
half who's now gonna play. There'sa lot of money. Burton's kicking game
was horrible on the well, Burton'sgone backwards kicks defense was lazy read money.

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At the start of the season,he was a bye of the season.
He's shaping up a bit of dudby of the season, still leading
the list, mistackles, I thinksone hundred and six now absolutely, yeah,
it's it's with Ezra Man still stillsecond on ninety something. Yeah,
but I can't put a finger onit. I mean, they didn't start
the year like that. They startedwith a lot of energy and enthusiasm and

(32:44):
and I'm not talking about the trial. Everyone got excited over the first Trial
game. I'm talking about the firstfew games of the season. I think
they caught a few teams. Ithought they early they caught a few teams
not even not prepared, but definitelywith injury problems. They gave me Melbourne
the hold the Pleader. They hadprobably the worst injury told the company that
did the middle Yeah, but nowthat they've got a lot of their players,

(33:07):
was very far. You know what, I'm going to go this far
because because actions show, actions talklouder than words. Okay, he's lost
the dressing room. Look at him. Perhaps they're a mess and defense is
the first thing that goes that whenyou lose the dressing room. I'm telling
you now, Okay, there's toomany voices. Who do you who do

(33:30):
you watch? Because every time Isee Serrouto, I see a little short,
fat guy next to him with shortstalking more than Serrouto. If he
wants to coach, coach Gus,but don't, don't. Don't have Serrouto
there and and and and destroy hiscareer as well. He's like, you
know what, they're confused. Theyare confused. I don't know what's happening,

(33:52):
who's coming, who's going? Whoshould I listen to. I'm telling
you now, it's not going towork. It's been it's been work reported
and We've spoken about it many times, but they really need a half.
Yeah, well it is half therecruitment, which Gus does. And now
you're right again because we had this, we had this debate Sexton and what's

(34:16):
his name? He was playing boydokay, and I kept on sticking up
for Sexton after one performance or sawhim paramatta there, Okay, guess what,
You're right? He was playing secondgrade. You know, you've just
touched on what the problem is withKennedy because buzz I don't agree with buzz
that often. I don't know,but buzzed a stat that absolutely freaked me

(34:37):
out the other yesterday. In threeyears, Cannery's had a turnover of sixty
seven players. Yes, I sawthat, sixty seven players. So how
can you expect And now you're touchedon Sexton? Right, the guys had
three games, three games? Howcan you expect Sexton to succeed if you're
going to give him three games?And most of that's happened under Guss watch

(34:58):
exactly. Don't give guys time.Flan again. I guarantee he's going to
get on and he'll be good.And Kenri's said you got rid of lesbian
act. He's killing it. Montoyais doing Alrighty Milburn rumor Smith doing okay.
Those two guys are playing finals.Nick Meaney, he's taking a chance,
two, three or four errors.They're not good enough. So you're
later you're bringing someone else. Startagain. I'll start again. I wish

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they never got rid of Pots orPots. He brought out the best in
your players. Didn't Pay. He'sin the coaching star but he's not.
He's not the man. He's behindCameron, providing feedback to help the guys.
And wish they never got rid ofDean Pay. He was getting somewhere.

(35:43):
Dean Pay did better with a teamof nobodies. This is a star
started team. Yeah, go throughfor a second for him. Marshal King
about to think about yeah again,read money, Panglo Junior, Matt Burdon
car keep going. There's a lotof names there. That is my point

(36:05):
to you guys. This team,and sure it's depleted at some stage of
the year with injuries, but thisteam, let's say on Sunday, okay,
they're not a forty two nil team. They're not a forty to six
team, okay. And the waythat the Newcastle strolled through the middle,
that was too so for God's sake. Okay, So look, I'd like

(36:28):
to be wrong, and you knowwhat, I'd love to sit here next
year and you guys are saying tome that I told you you're wrong,
gave him another year this and thatI don't see it because I see no
track records of these guys. Arookie coach needs more than one year.
That's it doesn't matter how you lookat it. A rookie coach needs more
than one year. So it's hisfirst who's going to do and he needs

(36:49):
to settle droster man. He needsa roster that where guys have played together
at least twelve twelve games, atleast season together. You can't. Let's
have a whole season. Then let'sget rid of these at you now,
I'll tell you now, Okay,he's Gus is going to start ripping and
tearing again because some players are not. He ain't like like Liam Night,
I Bitchen your money. Halfway throughthe next year, He'll get rid of

(37:10):
Liamam. He's he's in the dangerzone. He's Gus. At what point
is the club going to turn aroundand say, what are you going to
say? Guss? The boards aregoing to say the sponsor sponsor Ladie,
if his friends to withdraw, I'lltell you now he's he's the best no
job man in the game. He'sthe best salesman as an eight season in

(37:32):
the game. Okay, in overwith the Cannery Club. Though you look
at the junior system, the juniorsare going, okay, top of the
league, and just said, justjust said last week that we're making progress
and all that we're not going backwards. But when you compare last season to
this season, they've gone backwards andyou look at all the stats. Yeah,
and then when the yeah, youknow what party did well and Pay

(37:58):
did well, really well, Paydid really telling him when he got six
seven games in a row with thatteam that he had, that was very
that was impressive. Give him CattlePay should be the next new seth worst
coach. You know you know whatwhen when when they got rid of Dean
Paid or Dean Pay said was oractually when they started getting some good players,

(38:20):
he goes, well, if yougave me some good players, maybe
I'll have a little bit. Hehe tried to bring back Josh Reynold too,
Like we're talking three or four yearsago, Josh and they wouldn't let
him. Yeah, he tried tomake some moves that wouldn't let him,
didn't. They have they hands strungthe poor guy. But look, you
asked me, what's happening out there? Well, I think it's a mess.

(38:42):
And Gus is trying to tell usthat everything's to plan, and I'm
suggesting to you it isn't the plan. And next year we'll be sitting here
exactly the same results, a completelydifferent team, and I'll be asking you,
okay, serroundo. Gus will takehim because he has to. Okay,
who's going to say? Guys?The thing is when he's had a
five year deal. When you thinkabout the old all the Cannery teams,

(39:04):
the good Canary teams, right atthe mortem of Brothers, the Hughes,
but they're all juniors that came through. Then you look at the other team
that one recently. They just didn'twant a Grand final. He had Sunny
Bill, he had Mason Braith,all those guys through the junior inks school's
coming there and you think, okay, Gus is going to just concentrate on
juniors. All he's done is byplayers, isn't He continues on now and
he continues on, like, justkeep taking your juniors because they're doing pretty

(39:27):
good in the juniors. So you'retelling me that they're doing good and they're
years away. So you know whatI'll be, I'll be lux George,
I'll copy losses. You find outthat there's all these gun youngsters coming through,
I'll be good good. But whatI see them doing on top,
it's a it's a fast but anyway, look, I don't know, I
don't know your guests as good asa moment. But I've got this funny

(39:51):
suspicion that we'll be sitting here andyou're going to ask me the same question
in what round is it? Youknow, if we're in the same position
next year, do you think uswill will survive? Yeah, I've got
a feeling he won't. He's gothe's got he's got a three year plan
the same plays out. I don'tthink so. Rather, I'll be there.
Put it that way, I don'tthink they're going to give him another

(40:13):
year of this. I'll give himthrough it three year, the third year,
and then and then if they're doinga little bit better, they'll hold
on. All their jobs were improvingwhere we came. You know forwardeen you
know. You know what's funny aboutthat. At the start of the year,
everyone had full of optimism with theBulldogs. Some of them had him
in the bottom mate. They thoughtthey're going to finish bottom mate. Some

(40:36):
had him tense and even even Gussand yeah, we're going to improve,
We're going to improve. And thennow when they're in the ship, well,
we all knew were going to bebad. No, you did usually
telling the fans. You know,a lot of my mates somersaults after the
first trial game. Don't take iteasy to trial game. You know,
so much expectation and it's just gonethe ship. Gus came out and said

(40:57):
the biggest slide. Look, Itold Cameron not to come this year.
God's go and get Yeah, Itold him to come this year. Please.
Gus thought he was going to beon the edge of aid. I
don't care what you did. Okay, okay, because because he thinks that
Surrounto is a super coach. Hehonestly believes. I think that Surroundo is
the super coach. He did couldsay for Barrett he thought he was a

(41:19):
super thought he did to him.Yeah, but you've got to think,
because what do I say about trackrecord. What's what's Sredo done? Said
a lot a lot of times.He said yes to Ivan, yes,
Ivan, Yeah, you're right,Yeah, no, good good, good
movie. I agree. You knowwhat I hate about this right talking about
you know, three to five yearplan right until about rebuild. Everyone's gonna

(41:40):
look look at Webster. Webster's done. He's done it in one year and
he hasn't even brought any recruits.He literally got the trossa that he had
there. He's improved, Jackson FordSean Johnson proved, he's improved, He's
improved more. He didn't have tobuy anyone all. He said, I'm
going to make these guys play totheir peak and we're going to be a
top side. I suggest to youthat both rosters Warriors a better roster.

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No, at the art of theyear, not everyone said that everyone had
Cannery roster better than the Warrior rosterwas full of underperforming players exactly so.
So so he went there and improvedlet's say half a dozen, half a
dozen Warriors. And I ask everybodywhen they when they talk to me,
because everybody talks about the ball Bulldogs, I say, all one player,

(42:30):
it's improved one. And you knowwhat most most people go to cares Okay,
craz is okay. Last year asthe Caress was better last year.
I didn't really really notice him lastyear. That's what I'm saying. Better,
I mean, you'd be better.Asked me, Crez was good last
year. I thought we really it'sa really good young play of years.
Yeah, and I thought Amarillo showeda lot of glimpses last year. He's

(42:52):
more consistent now for sure. Butwe're gonna We're gonna lose him, obviously.
Jacob Presson maybe anyone who's really excelled, Well, he was, he
was, he was Reggies, andhe was Reggie somewhere else like for the
next two games now as well.Yeah, well he's been pretty good.
I think he has been good.He's been very good. He's probably the

(43:12):
only shining light in the team,I think anyway. But I don't know
what to say. I look,time will tell, and let's have Gus
is right. But I don't know. I just think Gus is a lot
of talk and boys, let's let'stake a look at the ladder. We're
at that point now where who's goingto make the eight, who's not going
to make the eight? I'll runthrough one to eight. We've got Panthers,

(43:36):
Broncos, Warriors, Warriors in third, Storm, Sharks, Raiders,
Knights, Rabbit As and then inthe fringe you got Cowboys ninth, he
was tenth, Roosters eleventh, Seawas twelfth, and I'd say that's probably
the cut off. Here comes theChuggies. You reckon nah, And I'm
just saying it. The only teamthat's unlucky not to be in the eight

(43:58):
and should be in the eight isthe Cowboys. I think they are much
better team than nine. I thinkit's going to stay as it is,
apart from the other second. Ican't see who's going to go in and
I can't see who's going to comeout. Well, it's very tight,
Okay, so pen Riff, Broncos, Warriors to four four locks block,

(44:19):
Okay, Sharks or they have onewin one more game. I still how,
I don't know how the Sharks thecity in fifth, Well, they
play Cowboys this week. We're ontwenty eight. Once. If Cowboys boot
them, they're equal thirty. Biggame, big game, big And then
you've got Raiders if they win nights, if they win, they go in
front, Well, Raiders will dropout. Raiders will drop. Well because

(44:42):
of minus minus one two, theywill win. If they win, they
get thirty two. Yeah, butthey jump Sharks. Yeah, yeah,
they'll get they'll get the thirty two. But there's gonna be a lot of
teams on thirty two and thirty.Well, no thirty two, no thirty
twenty eight, twenty eight. Ifif Sharks lose, they'll thirty thirty thirty
and at the end of the year. Oh, end of the year,

(45:05):
at the end of the year.Because I think they'll win, they'll they'll
beat the Bulldogs, the Raiders,and then that's it. They won't beat
any anyone else, anyone. It'sactually difficult, it is. It's difficult.
Yeah, but they've got they've gotthe they got they got the Dogs,
and I'll do them. Okay,Cowboys have got a tough one.
They've got the Panthers in the end, and they've got the Sharks. The
big game for the Cowboys this week, they've got a bit shar because they've

(45:28):
got Panthers coming up, so itcould be only one win out of the
next three if they lose to Sharksand pen You know what, Nicola,
I think you're right. I thinkthat's pretty much the aid. The only
question mark is the Cowboys, andI've got this gut feeling that the Raiders
will give way for the for theCowboys. That's the way I see.

(45:50):
It's pretty and the only reason isfor negative because it's negative twenty looks playing.
These two are playing this week nightsand the Rabbitos. Oh, it's
pretty amazing that the Cowboys that they'reconsidering their first half of the season,
isn't it. I just hope tohave them run out of path. And
that's that's a very that's a that'sa very big possibility to run out of

(46:10):
the path. But I don't know. I hope not. I'm going to
find the Is it three weeks togo? Three games? Yeah? Three
games? The next three games intriguing, seriously, the next three games are
intriguing. Back to the top four. But the Warriors, they win this
week, they're blocked top four.Good, they've locked it. They can't
drop less than fourth. Okay,so that's good because then then they get

(46:32):
one game, yeah, phenomenal.Then they get one game in in look
at a prilling because they're going toeven if they lose, then they go
back to our new Zealand. Goodluck being them. In New Zealand,
Panthers and bronc Curs are on thirtyeight points with three games to go.
What's the highest that teams ever finishedon you know, three boys, that's

(46:53):
six points, that's forty two Iremember team have been really hope it stays
this way the top four. Ithink. I think Broncos playing each other's
going to be a cracker and it'sguaranteed one of them goes on one side,
and then Penrith and Storm go onthe other, and then hopefully in
the Storm game and then you've gotPenrith, Brisbane or Warrior's playing each other

(47:14):
in the final. Because I thinkthey'll be one of the best craps.
I think it's gonna I think it'ssomething. It's gonna sit as he is,
with maybe the Cowboys going in andsomeone dropping out. Yeah, don't
be surprised if there's Chucks. No, I don't think how they're only six
they'll win the next three games.Thirty two thirty two okay, but there's
gonna be a lot of teams onthirty two, So what's their four and

(47:35):
against That's what I mean. They'regonna be eighty four forget about it.
Well, they're playing Rabbittos, sothey can knock two points off them.
Yeah if they want, and Ithink they've got But they're gonna buy Robert
Rebberto's gonna buy as well, havethey They've got to buy. They're gonna
get in. Robberts will get rebbotothas got one more buy. Yeah,
so look, they're gonna bumble andstumble. I know what they're gonna do
when they're in. Okay, putthis way, this, this is what

(47:57):
I think about the Robotos, andthey'll be They've been absolutely trash the last
couple of weeks. All they haveto do is get into the eight.
That's all they have to do.And they're They're the only team that I've
seen the last how many years thatcan win the comp from eight. Last
game of the seasons. What agame? What a game? Like last

(48:19):
year? What a game? Ithink it's a fix. I think the
one team that can win it fromthe bottom eight is the Nights. They're
just playing exceptional and they have betensome of the top win what win surprise
quite a few teams and surprise comingmaybe even sneak into the Gray four I
wouldn't be surprised at the Knights keepgoing on how they are. So let

(48:39):
me let me explain to you thedifference between the top four and the bottom.
The bottom four is most of thosetop four teams I'm not sure about
Broncos can happy in the washing machine. Look if one guy is one of

(49:00):
those days who knows the tough no, yeah, yeah they have. They
can't do it. Man, Lookit's it's intrigued in This year's intrigued.
I love. It's gonna be somegreat games. We're gonna we're gonna be
treated to some great rugby league inSeptember and Gola, We're gonna be treated
to some great rugby league in September. Have have the itels any chance at

(49:22):
all? No, I told youa month ago. Now you've got more
injuries. Moses gone. Damn shame, damn shame that one. I knew
it five six weeks ago. Damnshame that one. Hels have been unlucky.
They've had been unlucky. The DylanBrown suspension absolutely hurt them. That's
not bad luck. That's stupid.The draw, that's stupid. The draw.
How they got these? No excusesfor me Georgia the end of the

(49:44):
injuries. You've got to win moregames than you lose. That's it.
Everyone four. Everyone has injuries,everyone has suspensions, everyone has Yeah,
I'm I don't make excuses for it. It is what it is. How
bulldogs on above above the Dragons andtwo points away from the Dolphins have got

(50:05):
me bugged. But anyway, wellthey beat the Dragons when we had hook
that's the key. Ye that werein front. I thought the Dolphins were
actually further ahead than than twenty two. But regardless, they've had a good
season one two of the last eightor nine. Yeah, but the great
season. Great. Yeah, noone expected it. And and let me
tell you, I don't know aboutnext year, but he needs to come.

(50:30):
They underneath, they're stacked. Theyare so stacked underneath. Let's let's
run through that and dusted. Theweek that was cover cover off from games.
Panthers open the account with the twentyfour to twelve win over the Seagulls.
Yeah, that was a Do youknow what was funny about that game?
Ruben Garrett? When the kick wasit again, it was like the

(50:52):
kick kicking fantastic. I loved it. But a time because he didn't kick
it back. He ended up scoringto Ruver, who I think he's a
super super talent. If there's oneCale says, it's him. He's a
fantastic player. To River the Winger. He just went right throng and that
was pretty good. I love that. But there was another molester. I

(51:14):
think that night was it no,oh, greatest thing or so Woods He
finally put in a big hit.Hey, fantastic. It was a great
hit. Non't play. That wasthe biggest while lot. I'm just thinking
back. I remember kicking you inthe State of Origin with Dashirah. Yeah

(51:37):
yeah, yeah, but it wastwelve all at half time, so mainly
were giving you as good as theycan, you know, but we Penneth,
I've been doing that a lot lately. They're kind of on part with
the team and then they just gotthey do. But I was impressed with
me and I thought they weren't asbad as the school show. Yeah,

(51:58):
Nicol Penrif went to to Brookie andno, well, there to be taken.
They will, they will, theywill, they will. They wanted
to be beaten, they will thereto be taken. There's only one problem,
you know, when you have acoach who's got so many ideas and
gives you the wrong idea. Yeah, they thought that they could beat Penriff

(52:23):
with trick shots, spreading the ballon early tackles, some idiotic, idiotic
kicks like the like the kick jeweland things like that. You can do
that. You can do that,and that's a great way of beating Penriff.
But there's one thing you've got todo with There's you can't run away,
but you've got to get into thegrind with him. You've got to

(52:45):
beat it. That's what he wastrying to avoid. That's what I was
trying to avoid. He even saidthat in the press conference. He said,
if we came here for the armwrestl, we would have lost. So
we we tried a few things.You know, Yeah, guess what.
It doesn't I know, but I'mcool. I'm I'm happy to see him
try something. They try a differentapproach. They tried to catch Penrith by
surprise because everyone he gets in thearm wrestle with them, you're playing their

(53:08):
game. You don't want to getinto washing machine with them. Yeah,
but you've got to get into thewashing machine and then from the washing machine
do the trick shots. They're tryingto avoid the washing machine. Anyone beat
the Panthers in that area yet,But so you've got no choice. You've

(53:29):
got no choice. You've got nochoice. You don't have to beat them
in the washing machine when they're inwhen you're in the grind. You don't
have to beat them in the grindbecause you can do trick shots off the
grind. But you've got to grindwith them. You've got no choice.
You've got no choice. But youknow what, at least they try something.
They did try. They did try, and Penrith knocked them out of
the season, knocked him out fromthe season. They'll they weren't good and

(53:52):
I wish that. I hope thePenrith lost actually because I think they needed
they needed a loss before they semifinals. And then I can't see them
drop any game. Yeah, Ican't see it either. I thought,
I thought that this is a ProfessorCoge team. It will continue to be

(54:13):
a Professor Cage team. How shulStar has got a contract at all,
He's beyond me. Good luck makinghim. He's going to be background a
year, Yeah, he's good luck. It doesn't really matter what he is.
He hasn't got any heart. Youknow, he doesn't look tackling much.
So yeah, they move on painof pain of two points and then

(54:35):
move on the cola and mainly showswho they really are. The Sharks thirty
six points to six over of theGold Coast. Disappointing from the coast.
It was but predictable Sharks playing ateam in bottom ete. He needs to
win that game. That's that's typicalSharks. That's the eleventh winning role against
the Titans, by the way,Really yeah, I would now one guy

(54:59):
that I want to put my headoff too. He's made such a difference,
is that trendle he's in the halves. Ever since he's coming into that
Sharks scene, they look like adifferent outfit. He's been really good.
He's another guy that I'm surprised teamsaren't circling because he's there. Should be?
Should be? He should yeah,should be? And I heard that
I think the Tigers did did takea nibble to try and get him.

(55:20):
So I've got to give the Tigers. They've got some good recruitment anyway,
they've got some good ideas and itwas smart of them to try and get
him early. But he was reallygood. He's made a huge difference to
the Sharks and all of a suddenmade them look like, i'd say,
a good threat, which is good. But yeah, the Sharks keep on
rolling, mate, They're gonna definitelybe in the eight. They wouldn't like
this against these teams. Nico,He's absolutely right. Trendle takes so much

(55:46):
pressure off Niko, and he letsNico be Nicko to fall in and out
of the game when he wants,and fall in and out of structure when
he won. Look, basically,the Titans, he's put put put the
queue in the rac Niccola. They'rethinking about they're thinking that, they're thinking

(56:07):
about Bali. They had some shshitl over a few weeks as well.
Yeah they have. Well, let'snot talk about our favorite favorite. What's
what's the guy anes Lee? What'swhat's his official title? Uh? Nicola
Niccola Addie gave praise to to Trendle. I want to give praise to Tracy

(56:37):
another one. Yeah, he's Idon't know why he didn't start at fullback
the other guy. Yeah, buthe's just as good if they're both great
players. Yeah, so he's ahe's a real live wire and guess what.
The falls actually stood up and I'vegot a problem with the chronical fads,
but in this game they stood up. Wait, Graham was good.

(56:59):
Wait Graham, Wait, g isretiring. And you know what Wade Graham
from from Penriff, you could seehe was I don't know, from an
elite player, but he's got somethingthat other players haven't got. Now from
a five eight to a back row, from a five eight to to a

(57:20):
back row. And don't forget he'swon a premiership at Cronola. Yeah,
he's probably he's going on too somekangaroo tools. So he was in his
day, he was an outstanding player. And I'm happy that he's not going
to cut the lance becausecause his wife'sFrench, he wanted to. He thought

(57:44):
about going to cut the lance.Cut Lands wanted him, but he's decided
not to go. I think it'sa good decision. Yeah, I think
it's good. It's time, it'syeah, it's definitely, and it looks
like it's time with his plane.So yeah, he'd done the right thing.
And Sharks just smashed times. Yeah, just smashed them. In the

(58:09):
next game, you actually see whathappened. Broncos fifty four Eels ten bit
of a bit of both their bitof Broncos on fire, and it was
very disappointing. It was the firsttime that Broncos twice in a year in

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a year since twenty sixteen. SoMitchell moses one fiftieth game, poor guy,
cheekban edge eye sockets a bit ofa shame. But did you notice
before that was before or after Demetriussaid that Elias is the best half back
South have had in the last tenyears. Nobody said so Reynolds, Yeah,

(58:50):
he's checking out. Somebody said,yeah, so Reynolds decided to take
that person. I think he saidhe's going to be the body it was
going to be. The Reynolds didtake a person because he commented on he
did Reynolds. He said, it'sa pot show. Yeah, but I'll
find Reynolds to be a special whenwhen his backs on the wall he performs.
That's that guy. He's the difference. I love Reynolds. If I

(59:13):
could get any player in my team, I'd get him to be honest,
He's really good. But disappointing forthe Eels man, I expected a lot
more. Thought maybe they had theireye on on this game. That's why
they called against Paris and George.But yeah, I'm not surprised at all.
I wasn't I wasn't surprised at all. Terrible. The rest of the
season will go like that too.It's the biggest win for the Broncos and

(59:35):
the fifth time they've got forty pluspoints in this season. Fifth time time,
fifth time. Man, So theBroncos can score points, that's for
sure. Yeah, yeah, man, Nicola, They're just I just love
watching the Broncos play. They're anabsolutely fun team to to watch. I

(59:58):
don't know, I love watching you. We shouldn't have this at the background
because we're all if we're having anairing guys, because we've got we've got
porkies running in the background. Howthat happened? But for that one walking
distracted? You know what? RuesWalsh just gets better. He's electric.

(01:00:23):
He's just there's something. He's justELECTRIFIV time he touches the board, you
expect something. It's electrifying. Canthey challenge Penrith in the big one?
I've got my I've got my viewon that. Do you want to hear
my view? One? You knowwhat? You know, you know what,
what's going to happen. This iswhat this is what I think is
going to happen. Penriff. Imean, Broncos have got a much better

(01:00:47):
at taking U team than than thanthan Penriff. Yeah, but this is
the issue. Okay, maybe maybethe first fifteen twenty minutes they get it
together. Maybe they scored twelve points. My question is, is Ruce Walsh
go into like always going to dropone or two or three ball balls?

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Yeah somewhere yeah, when this hasstep that in. So this is this
is let's get to the twentieth minute. The Broncos are twenty fifteen ahead,
okay, and they dropped the ballin halfway, thank you very much.
Okay, So we get we getdown there and clearly just kicks it into
the in gold. We get itback. Clear just kicks it into the

(01:01:27):
in gold. We're grinding. Now, we get it, get it back.
Guess what they get it the greatdefensive team, the Broncos, they
get it back right now. There'spaying us fifteen meter carries okay, that
don't exist anymore, that don't existwith this peneth pack. Okay, okay,
So so Reynolds is kicking out ofbad ball situations. Now, Okay,

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who gets the ball Taha, Iguess the ball brings it up.
Okay, then who gets it?Ed Woods. There's a lot of speculation.
Now this is what happens. Okaywith Penrith I'm talking about now,
that could go and blow them offthe park twenty neils, thank you very
much, and then put their headdown and get blown away. We know
that's not going to happen. Butwe've seen it. We've seen all I'm

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talking about his facts now, Yeah, okay, we don't know what Broncos
are like in a washing machine.Have you seen him in a washing machine
in this year? I haven't.They might not have to go in there
if they can win the arm wrestle, but well the washing machine. Yeah,
no, I'm saying they might nothave to go into that type of
grind with the players they have,Well, they have to go into the
grinds. It's not necessarily to avoidit. They can't avoid it. Even

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if they're fifteen ahead. They're goingto get at some stage in an eighty
minute game. They're going to getinto a grind. I would say if
anyone is able to beat Penrith,yes, it would be because they didn't
get into a grind with them.How did you get into a grind?
Well, ask me again in sixweeks. If someone manages to beat them
Reynolds, I'm not saying that theycan't beat them, but they're gonna have

(01:02:59):
to grow wind with them. Idon't know if I can do it.
I think Reynolds has got a betterkicking game than clearly. I think Reynolds
will be kicking them to death aswell. He'll be doing exactly what they
do to thing. But the bigthing for the Broncos is a lot of
these guys will be playing finals forthe first time because they didn't play them
and played for something. They've onlygot two parmitership when it's exactly so it's

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going to be really Look, ifthey play a perfect game, basically,
yes they can, they can beathim. But if they don't, if
they do what they done let's sayagainst Paramatta, okay and drop that much
ball, well, if if mainlycan give him a bit of trouble,
I think the Broncos can definitely givehim a lot of trouble. So give

(01:03:45):
because because better if they don't turnup. But yeah, what makes you
think they're going to turn up?They're going to turn Broncos and working them
off. They you don't know Reynolds. Reynolds will un on them. He'll
put a few nice tricky kicks aroundhim. You know he will. Undoubtedly
it will. And I'm not saying. I'm not saying that they can't beat
him, beat them. Yeah,all I'm saying is their game has to

(01:04:05):
be outstanding twinning. Yes they can. So which team do you think can
be Penneth? No way, nobody. Okay, decide that today we want
to win this game as we standnow, no one could be. If

(01:04:26):
they decide, if they're all asa collective, if they decide we're going
to win, no one could be. That's my opinion, and I'm pleased.
I'm very pleased to be wrong timetwel time mo twel In the next
game, the Rabbit is twenty sixover the Dragons fourteen. Some contentious decision
in this one. Through it,I honestly expected Saints to get a flogging.

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I thought, you know what,it's going to be a hard watch
this one. But credit to theSaints. Sous were awful. I'm not
going to say Sous played good,that they were awful. Where did they
play? Wherever? It was itwas in Kennes, but South scored.
Saints scored South School Locals try fortry. It was actually not bad.
A lot of errors and I wasproud of the boys, but that decision

(01:05:14):
was a bit of a tricky oneat the end. It was full twice
to three goal kicking was the factthat Saints how a heap of plays out.
So I was proud of the effortby the Dragons, but sause.
If they're going to play like that, they're going to get absolutely wallop.
They're going to be the first teamout of the finals. I noticed Katie
Walker did a hip drop and thenhe got put on report, which is
good. It's fantastic to see.But what marks this game? What marks

(01:05:35):
this game? What's his name?Two sets of twins for St. George,
the first time ever in in areal twins playing for the one team,
which was impressive and it was goodto say. And we've got a
lot of potential, I think Ican. I'm excited about the Couchman brothers.
They're just tackling machines. They're bigunits and we've got some potential.

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There sous a lot of work tobe done there. They want to be
finals contenders. Seals were extremely disappointedthat they were extremely It was like pulling
Watching this game was like pulling teethout because I actually like watching South Sydney
play. And you know what Ilooked. Murray wasn't in cided. Walker

(01:06:20):
wasn't insided litter all because he's big. He was cited, but he wasn't
sided With ball in hand. Someof those tries were I don't know,
four passes this, Yeah, soGeorge's dune well in not letting the score.
Look, they didn't go away,so George didn't go away, and
they didn't they didn't go away.I don't want to talk about Seves because

(01:06:44):
all they have to do is makethe eight and the chances are they'll make
they'll make the make the eight,and already talked about the Finny is it
for Finny Twins. They're terrible.They didn't have one of their best games.
I was just gonna say sorry,I was just going to say that,
look mistakes and maybe they've got tolook grow a bit, but I'm

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sure with Flannigan they will. MosesSuli is an animal. It was hard
to control with ball in hand whenhe's in the mood. When he's ball
in hand or who was in themood. Yeah, I think Bob and
I've got a man crush on theCouchman, the Cauchman Boys. I can't

(01:07:28):
wait to see them develop and havea start when when Flanna gets them and
grab a running game. We've lockedthem up for a couple of years.
For a few years, their futurethe very outstanding. And as as I
did when I started speaking at thestart of the pot Nicola, I still

(01:07:50):
think that Ben hadn't melded it in. But that's my opinion. I do.
I think Ben I melded in.Expect better like it from you,
a captain, from your million dollarman. The last tackle options haven't just
been the same. It's just likejust that's disappointing. The next one,

(01:08:11):
the next one was closer than Ithink we all expected. The Warriors thirty
points to twenty two over the Tigers. You've got to give it to the
Tigers were in there four tries tofive in the end. Yeah, they
have some bud calls go against them, you know what they did. But
I looked at the first Tigers tryand I still can't believe that was a
try because there was that was abit of a dubist, try to be

(01:08:33):
honest, but they again they coppedit as well. Warriors played there seven
times of the game since entering thecomperence five Alexander, Yep, that's it.
And they have one that was theirsixth game in a row. They
bit the Tigers. I think oneguy that I really like, and it

(01:08:55):
doesn't get much talk. We alwayshear about hasks, you know, but
WinCE for no blake going to beputting that same conversation as he was a
massive sign for now. He's asensational player. He was watching mainly.
He was just he was a SaintGeorge and we're watching him in the juniors.
He was a captain of the juniorgrades every day and then he got
some off field issues for assault.He got in trouble there, so Saint
George cut him as as for theinner room, and then he went to

(01:09:19):
mainly and then he had some issuesthere again and the Warriors picked him up.
And he's just been sensational. Andthis guy always had the talent.
But he's having an outstanding year.He'll be up there if he doesn't get
nominated in the top four. Topthree Massive player. Metcalf was great and
you know what, another guy I'mgoing to put up. This young fullback

(01:09:42):
they put talk whatever his name was. Did you see him? How good
was this guy? As good ashe was, brilliant, as good as
clock? Who is this guy?He was running? This kid, he's
going to be a sensational player.I'm telling her. He's another guy that
I like. Yeah, just asgood as Clause. They've got heaps of
them, there, heaps of them. And Webster, that's just Webster.

(01:10:03):
He just yeah, his system.They didn't change like they bring in another
player. They just continue playing thesame, very structured. So maybe Webster's
team can give Penrith try trouble becausehe knows the system that shows a good
system, isn't it? It doestwenty five thousand people at Hamilton Nicola and
what a great sil for New Zealandand good we've got to mention good for

(01:10:27):
the Tilers to take take that homegame away in New Zealand as well.
Let's give him, let's give himprompts because no one else did it,
and how good they did it.Sorry, in the press conference, Tim
Sheen's they said, that's great foryou guys to do this, you know,
and Tim Gay yeah, you knowit's good for the game, and
the money doesn't hurt anything, right, that's their money, that's right.
Yeah, but regardless, we've gotwe've got twenty five thousand people there who

(01:10:50):
would would have been deprived of agame. Look, the Warriors a touch
off. Yeah, we wait probablywaiting for the semifinals. Said it all
in terms of who played well,you mentioned you forgot to mention Sean John's

(01:11:12):
if he if he doesn't get adaim, I'll be a monkey's uncle because
he was a difference for for nolike maybe put him in the position,
but he was the difference. I'mtalking about the Tigers. They're not bad.
They they really they've improved so much. They've got everyone back right,
Well that too, Dane Laurie howgood was here losing Penrith. Yeah,

(01:11:36):
where he came from junior And youknow what I'm gonna I don't know.
I'm not gonna believe. I'm goingto say this Brooks all right, he's
not bad at all, so andhappy he's he's playing better now that he
played with Penrith. I really believeit easy. I didn't make a kick

(01:11:59):
goals almost. I don't know.He's playing that looking out around him there.
Look he's got around. He doeseverything. I'm telling you, if
you get tonight, we'll be takingthe bins out. It takes everything.
He does everything. I'm telling youknow what, Clemma, Clemma's playing well.
So you know what. They've improvedout of sight. I really hope

(01:12:23):
it's because of the coaching. AndI don't know. I hope it's because
of the coaching of Benji, Ireally do. I hope they keep on
improving because I don't want to seethem get any more cutlery. I don't
want to see him to get anymore cutlery. My concerns is that they're
losing Brook and they're losing Dane Laurie, and they're they're getting Amane England and

(01:12:51):
injury prayin and can I can Isay they're bringing back from Super League?
Forget his name now, I cameon forgetting his name, but I've been
watching him play and he's not playingwill in Super League? Is that peace?
No? No, not peace?The camera five eighth Caesar, Yeah,

(01:13:14):
they're begin Caesar Caesar player he played, Yeah. And if you if
you're if you're if you're playing ordinaryin Super League. The respect. Yeah,
but Sullivan, so man, he'sgoing to be the seven for sure.
They bought Sullivan for four years forthat reason. He's just a Provider's
good for them. But I'm thirtyto twenty two. There was actually not

(01:13:41):
a bad game to watch either.Yeah, so I enjoyed the watching this
one. Rooster's thirty points to fourteenover the Dolphins. Ruster's back, first
time they got back to back thisyear. I still in. Yeah,
the last two games, he expectedthem to win. This Friday, I
expect him to win against Parramatta isseverely depleted. We won't know with the

(01:14:02):
Roosters until probably the week afterward.I just don't think they can make the
aid. Yeah, too much damagedone early in the season. Yeah,
that was Luke curious two hundredth gamein the n ROW. Yeah. Like
I said, it was the firstback to back win for for the Roosters
since April, and Dylan Nappa madehis return after two years he's been.

(01:14:26):
Yeah, I was impressed with theirhalf. The Drudgenson he did. Okay,
he's steadied the ship a little bit. Manu is getting there. Look
slowly they're getting back, but they'veleft their unlate that's all. That's all.
Their issue is too late. Yeah, I'm with yeah, they're playing
better, they're improving. I'm notsure if they're they're playing well enough or

(01:14:46):
if they win enough games to makethe aid. The Dolphins they just you
know, they come to the season, they've got injuries, they're they're tired.
Those clubs, those clubs just wantto get it over and done with.
Look, you know why why he'swhy he's playing the hammer. Well
we know why he's playing the hammer, et cetera, because he's trying to
get nikerin marine and he's trying toget he's trying to put a square pig

(01:15:10):
in the round hole. Look,at some stage they will will They're willing,
They're will in the game half timewas six eight Nicola to the Dolphins.
But look too much class with therissles. You failed to mention Billy
Smith because it continues because they havea good game, because he ums,

(01:15:31):
they have a good game. Sothe back line next year is going to
look really good because they're gonna losesoil and they're gonna get Domini young.
So that's a pretty good little backline. He's next year, isn't he?
No? I think the guy leavehim. He's Daniel Tupo. Leave
it. I don't think so he'sstaying there. Okay, I don't think
next season okay, okay, good, good, good. Yeah. Look,

(01:15:51):
they'll they'll they'll be better. There'llbe much better next next year.
But you know what, they believethat they can make the eight. They
honestly believe. It's maybe they can. Yeah, maybe they can't. I
don't think they can, but maybethey can. Yeah, two weeks they
needed another two wins. And isn'tthe funny when you get a halfback like
Drew Hudgerson who squares, who squaresthe attack up so he goes straight into

(01:16:15):
the line instead of going crossways.Isn't it funny how everything works around him.
He's having having Kiery or having theother kid that is injured in reserve
grade, the youngster Walker Walker whoalways tends to go sideways. I think
he's back in. Is he back? I think maybe in the Redgies.
I don't think you can. Youcan't. You can't move Hudginson, Hudgins,
can you. Well, he's atforteen anyway, he's a benchy.

(01:16:41):
I'll put him on the bench anyway. We'll see how that plays out.
Storm forty eight Raiders too well,now Ricky feels about it. Not happy.
First time the Storm was beaten theRaiders at Double Amon Park since twenty
eighteen. Well, the Storm thatgood was the Rads that bad? I
think it was a bit of bothRods were bad. Man, it's not

(01:17:05):
much to say, but one guythat had an outstanding game and will be
replaced soon's meaning because popping houses andit's coming back now they find they find
a spot for him. He's beenso good, hasn't He's got to find
and he's been kicking too. Yeah, they've got to find a spot for
me. I don't know where.I'll probably put him in the heart,

(01:17:26):
but maybe this young kid, SteveMarion might move out. What about that
Smith Sentners and him on the wingor something. I don't know. What
about the timing of it all?If if it does roll out that way,
you get Pappenhus and play another coupleof weeks in Q Cup, but
comes into the team a week ortwo before the Semis. That's what they're
gonna do. That was always theplan. Yeah, he played eighty minutes

(01:17:47):
in the qu CAUP and I sawhim in the first game where he had
half a game and he really lookedwobbly. I go, oh, yeah,
it's going to take him. Yeah, I saw him this week he
set up three tries scored to hissback at his electrifying I'm sure it's que
Cup. We need to see anothergame in qu Cup and he's going to

(01:18:09):
John Chryst will put him straight inone and one thing that I think we
worked to his advantage. He's gota normal haircut. Now it doesn't it
doesn't look like his big thing,big big, big big thing, big
thing thing. Yeah, yeah,you didn't mention the half back hughes Adi
had an outstanding games. They alldid well, did they? And and

(01:18:32):
look bringing bringing Grant from the offthe bench was was a master stroke.
But but with with Raiders they wereapathetic. They had no backbone, no
spine. This team is showing.This team is showing the true colors.

(01:18:53):
If you ask me, from fromfull back Rapano to to the four was
made they just if you get youput a blow torch into the billy and
old crumble And what do we alwayssay about camera, I've still got a
bit of faith in the minute.I still think there's one thing we always
say about camera. What's that Osbury'sa cat? The cat and we move

(01:19:16):
on. I won't make the eight. Uh No, I mean I didn't
think they would. But they're stillin there. But they're hanging on.
Knights forty two, Bulldog six atone stage. At one stage the Knights
that they break a record. Isn'tthat like one hundred and eight to six.

(01:19:38):
That was the first team that we'regoing to get over one hundred points
to zero in a season against onesports Canady school. We missed that.
Yeah, well the Knights, Yeah, exactly, the Knights really that good?
Was Kendry that bad? Canby's defensewas terrible and like the first few
tries, if you don't have alook at I think it was kick out

(01:19:59):
and I'm not sure if it waspresident or I saw that. We just
went through the middle English softy,really soft and they and they identified it
too, like they spotted. Theyspotted it a couple of times. And
it's interesting. The Bulldogs started reallywell, like in the first few sets,
but the moment something went against them, they tended their tendants to just

(01:20:20):
fold. Yeah. The character,Yeah, I called it, I called
it. I call it the Rockythree. I called the Rocky three syndrome.
Remember his first fight with Club Lane. He comes out firing and then
he gets smashed. I see ithappened, So I'm apparently the same thing.
They went for ten minutes A lotof these teams do. But then

(01:20:41):
you know, the good teams justtake over. But Tyson Gamble was good,
so he had a blinder and theylost tastings with the Hia. The
Bulldogs had two sim means as well. Yeah they didn't help. You can't
argue with that Simons. That didn'thelp. But but Newcastle the coach was

(01:21:04):
smart, like you took off Pongowith twenty minutes to go here. Yeah,
good coaching the coach. But Ithink the Bulldogs. I think the
Bulldogs are in the same boat assome of the other teams we're talking about.
They just want the season to behaving now there's very little to play
for it. At this point,you're safe from the spoon. Now we're
near the eight, playing for pridefor all these clubs. He's just getting

(01:21:27):
tiresome. Now you're just three gamesto go and then we're going to BALI
I think a lot of teams feelthat way to be honest. You know
what I feel. I feel sorryfor the Bulldogs players because if I was
playing in that team, I'd bescared because if I make an air,
if I have a bad game,I could be shipped. And that's how
I feel like that team is playing. They're playing like a team that he's
playing for their life every week andit's not settled. It's like, oh

(01:21:50):
yeah, they're talking to this guy. They're talking to this guy. Every
time there's a guy link, they'retalking to him and it's that guy's position
is again, shit, they're goingto get rid of me, you know
what I mean? It's not goodman, Absolutely, it's absolutely so.
I know we can't do it inleague, but this is one thing that
I really like about some of theEuropean soccer competitions because they have relegation promotion.

(01:22:12):
So so when your bottom four teams, those games tend to be more
exciting than the top four at thispoint of the season because they're fighting for
survival exactly whereas our teams here likethese teams, it's just let's get it
over in the odd love a seconddivision because some teams deserved to drop in
a different You know what makes goodas well. These teams to fight to

(01:22:34):
stay in that division. They'll playagainst a team at the one and they'll
park the bus, so they'll playnot to lose, you know what I
mean. So imagine these teams justdefending their guts out because you could say
they're just determined not to leave theother team that can't win. But they're
just going to make it so hardfor the Whereas now these guys are just
buckling. Their minds are just gone. They're looking at Barling. It's not

(01:22:55):
good for the fans. I justto differ from this game obviously, in
how the VR works in Psycher comparedto what we've got outstanding, it's good.
Every decision they get is right,Okay, every check that the upstairs,
the bunker, they whatever their bunkerthey've got is right compared to our
our mess. I'll give you aninteresting stat I just found out the other

(01:23:17):
day about that. I did abit of research, or I found them
bit of research. In last season, over three hundred and eighty games,
So the whole season, VYR interferedforty eight times. No, we get
that in one weekend exactly. Andout of that and out of that forty
eight times, they've got six decisionswrong and the English che now got rid

(01:23:43):
of the guy in charge because sixaeras is too much, and they've got
another going charge and we've got analyst. He was just saying, oh,
yeah, well, you know wecan make mistakes. No, the technology
is there so you don't make mistakes, have you? Guys said I know
you have. Have you seen anyoffside technic? The line, why can't
we use that for four passes?Yeah? What the backs? Same thing?
Yes, I saw that. What'sthe difference? And it was apparently

(01:24:06):
the ball floats for well. Ijust thought what he's had up on the
television about Annesley saying about that thatself Sydney kick he finds a sort of
just couldn't believe what he's saying.I'm thinking, you're lying, you're lying.
If I'm the video you see uskeep looking at the television. It's
because Porky's is still on. Annesleyhad to go at Vossi and Alexander,

(01:24:30):
who called the game, because theywere they were horrified with that decision.
They looked at the okay, thevideo of the bunk and they said,
oh, well, this one's definitelygoing to be not gonna be called a
try and then they go what triesme confirmed? This is ridiculous and that's
what Annesley was upset about. Hegoes, I can't believe they is a

(01:24:50):
good candidate for an APSM commercial.You got to go on this game nights
were really good. It's funny whenin the control for it got injured and
came off and Nicola how There attacksstaggered. He's very, very important to
this team. He makes Klin's jobso much easier. He's been named for

(01:25:13):
this week too. You know what, if he does drop out, they'll
probably will still make the aid,but it's still going to be the same
time when we saw it in thesecond half and Cannerby are disgraceful. I
said it before. I'm not goingto go in and you know what I'll
be. I'm going to wait andenjoy seeing the next coach in two years

(01:25:39):
because it's pretty hard to defend them. So if so, if Good's gone,
reckon, I'll improve because Sarralla willhave full control. What would you
rather Good going also Rollo? Ifyou could choose one, I don't think
good, but I don't I don'tthink so out of a good coaches,
would you take first. It's hisfirst season. No, no, no,

(01:26:00):
no, no, listen, listento me wit a minute. Web
has gone all around the world andcoached. He's gone to Super League.
Mister popular has said yes to Ivanfor four years. Yes, Ivan,
you're right, yes, yes,no, no, no, no,
that's good. Yeah. What hashe done? What is it? Told

(01:26:20):
me what he's done? He actuallydoes have first first grade caching experience.
He took the Panthers for four gamesfor no no, you're right, no,
no, sorry games they all win, win all four they probably I
can't remember. Said boys, whatwas the best game in the round.
I'll put that down to the Tiger'sVerse Warriors teams. Yeah. I love

(01:26:43):
watching the Broncos play. Yeah,a lot of things just accelerating. Yes,
you know, signing it's exciting stuff. But if you're another end of
it. But it's just exciting theleague, it's exciting. What's the blooder
of the Round? Dragons and Houseout of Errors? That was just a
mistake. I didn't see the game. Yeah, it was terrible and I'm
going to go to the Dogs andyeah you get that one too. Yeah,

(01:27:05):
our teams. What stood out foryou guys this week? Mate?
The kicking jewel that yes to mewhen he got on the first tackle,
get go, what's happening here?This is good? So that's I liked
it too. Then then when Isaw what happened, I go, eighties
or the seventies, that isn't yetdefend the guy came, but no,

(01:27:27):
this is a tackle to just readthrough them like there was nothing. Don't
he got touched? It was sogood. My one is the how how
the standard has dropped, how lowthe standard is of rugby compared to early
in the year. And I getit, they're all waiting. They're all
waiting either to go to Bali orthe semi finals, but standards pretty low.

(01:27:48):
Yeah, yeah, and who getsto John Chris spray for you guys.
I've got sick of saying the bunker, so I went a different angle
here. I heard Gus say thatthere's been improvement issue. So I would
love the CE Canterbury being there andGus going up to him and saying we've

(01:28:10):
improved this year, which which clubsexactly? I want to John Crease,
we've improved this year, and Iwanted to just hear that spray just come
out of that would be the bestspray Gus s to Ricky Stewart. That's

(01:28:30):
another one, another one and whowas player of the around My one one's
got a bit of a drive.He's got to come up from Melbourne.
Nick Meaney, who used to bein Belmore used to frequent minorities trucks all
the time. He used to chaseme around. He loved his d So
now we've finally got one. SoNick Meaney one try to try assists one

(01:28:53):
hundred and seventy one meters ten tacklebreaks. That is phenomenal stats for a
young He's fantastic. He's been reallygood for any team should be snapping him
up. Canib should get him back. He was really good at Cannaby.
I know, I don't know wherehe left? Who mean mean yeah he
was, he was outstanding. Whatthe who we got whatever from outstanding play?

(01:29:24):
Nico. I want to give thepack to someone who who lives close
by. He doesn't have to probablydriven, can walk to the to the
ground. Never had the pack before, He's heard all about it, but
never had the pack before. Butunfortunately he has to take those pills that

(01:29:47):
everybody's passing around for the lactose trendle. Yeah, Trendle. I liked him.
I like what he did. Hetakes a lot of pressure off Nikko,
and I think Yoga will pick uppick up Trendle. Yep, then
go together. That's it, andI hopefully Minoly will will give him the

(01:30:11):
pack. You never never told us, Nicola, who you want for the
for the players round? Yes,maybe we can. They can car pool.
Okay, it's it's an odd one. I would have sayd and Reynolds,
I reckon from what I saw thisweek. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
he actually loves because when used tolive at South of Sydney read from

(01:30:33):
there. He'll he'll go off andand and get the pack. But he
never used to eat the chips forsome reason. Carbs didn't like carbs.
Don't like carbs anyway, Hardy,have you got something for us? Yeah?
You know what, I've no spammail this week because what happened had

(01:30:53):
a strike on the place. Buthe didn't let the players speak, so
I'm not gonna let the players seenany spam. So we're doing the reverse
now. But I've got some justsupoenarumors. Yeah, she's got some really
good ones. Now. Apparently theNREL looking at expanding and they're going to
be playing in on the Moon intwo and ex twenty six apparently space football.

(01:31:15):
They're looking at that. Yeah,and we actually didn't get spam mail,
but we actually got mail. Oh. Some guy asked, what's happened
to such a the uber driver.That's a good question, so I chased
it up. Look when he stayedin Hawaii actually was and he stayed there.
So he's got a bit of atouring business going and he's doing he's

(01:31:40):
touring Mate, he's taking plays around, tourists around to show him where,
you know, Dwayne the Rock Johnson. He shows him where he grew up
and how we lived, and thenhe shows him where Obama in a next
president because erics wine. So itgoes around and shows him where they grew
up in there. He's doing abit of a tour. Yeah, he's
going to stay there. We've lostthe uber drivers. We lost him.

(01:32:00):
The thing is, oh, lookI checked his business model. The thing
is he doesn't know where they grewup. He doesn't know, but he
just takes the random places and justpoints and says his stories. And I
see that traver there used to swingand all that stuff. So yeah,
session's gone. Mate, he won'tbe back. So that's that's the end
of the session. So the openingtools and that's it for me for really.

(01:32:24):
But I've got a bit of arant, go for it. I've
got a rant. In three weeks. The last three weeks, I've learned
something new about the inner rule manabout something. Apparently there's one rule for
sixteen teams and one rule for one. They're different. Apparently. Three weeks
ago I found out that if you'reover the line right and you're ground the

(01:32:45):
ball and I guess the Monk's natry for Saint George. But that was
coming and they're two weeks ago,right. We found out that if you're
running with the ball and the guyout of your hands and your player picks
it up in scores, it's nota rass, it's a what's it?

(01:33:08):
And this week we found out thatif you kick the ball and your players
are in front of you and you'reregathering and score, it's a try.
Now. The one about this weekthat irked me right was every time he
goes back to the bunker, thefirst thing hear him says, we check
the on side, it's a try, it's no try. Whatever. This
time there was no mention of offsidethat all for some reason that didn't even

(01:33:30):
check. So that's legit. Sothat rule must be legit. It only
applies to all teams except for that. It's just driving us, say George
supports up the war every week.I listened to podcasts and all we're talking
about is dud calls. When's itgoing to stop? There's just so much
hate. I don't know what itis. It's just becoming really, really
bad. And the guy I reallyfeel sorry for is since Ryan cars taken

(01:33:53):
over, I think he has donea fantastic job. We have been competitive.
He should have a couple more winson his resume after this year,
he's not going to be coaching,so we're going to look back in his
on his career and see interim coachwith two wins, possibly when he should
have a lot more. He shouldhave more more wins than mister popular.
When you think about it, they'replaying better football and I feel sorry for

(01:34:15):
Ryan Carr and this decision this weekwith the offside bullshit. Now I don't
know if Saint George World one orwhatever, but just imagine Seuse lost.
Cowboys were in the eight, sothey're causing a lot of you know,
inconsistencies which are going to impact Ididn't give a shit about Saint George,
but you're impacting the top eight.Yeah, you cowboys could miss out on
that two points to your point idea, I didn't want to say anything about

(01:34:40):
at the start of the pod ortoday, I said to myself, I'm
not going to trash the referees becauseI've been accused of that. That's other
things that have come through the interwebs. I got too hard on the refs
and be a bit more positive.So I tried really hard. But what
you're saying and this week, actuallythis week I could have went out this
week. Was there a tracious?They were a tracious the reference and to

(01:35:03):
your point to Saint George, okay, and to the Titans and to all
the other teams. That's happened tooas well. But let's say it's always
the bottom teams. Like I mentionedbefore, in the VR in England,
right last year, Bunker got involvedforty eight times. There were six mistakes,
right, I didn't I didn't seewho the six mistakes were, but

(01:35:25):
I think few of them were.One of them was against Arsenal, who
were first most of the season,it wasn't a bottom team. So I
hate this thing about unconsctionable bias,whatever it is, where you know they
tend to pick on that's that's alot of crap, unconscious by it's crap
that it's just crap. They're justpicking on a team. I don't know
what they're doing, but it's alwaysthe same teams. It's the Titans,
the Dragons and the Tigers that arecopping the raw end of the stick.

(01:35:47):
And meanwhile, meanwhile, I deependentplayer gets suspended, will defer it to
next ex. It's just becoming anabsolute joke now and then I will need
to step in because the guys thatare running are clowns. And then we've
got some guy who's just showing usangles from ridiculous angles where he blasts the
commentators Lock Vossi and and Alexander NoNo, their ship right, and they

(01:36:11):
were blowing up the luck not blowingup, but they could see the obvious
the guy was offside. They wereoffside, and for any to say it
was just terrible and he's got togo. I've just had said it before.
If you don't want us to wingeabout the referees and start getting it
right exactly. It's not spread spreadthe mistakes at least, you know what
I mean. Don't leave it onthe just the three teams, you know

(01:36:33):
what, We can excuse mistakes.But when when the touch is right there
and right in front of him,there's a two meter forward pass, you
know what I mean? Or whenthere's a kick, kick goes up and
in the v of the bunker saysfor the first thing they sa say is

(01:36:56):
they're all on side, and thistime they say it, and I was,
I what what? Okay, there'ssome blatant things happening. And you
know another thing, right, SaintGeorge Sport. Right, we can possibly
win our first Wooden Spoons since nineteenthirty eight because there's three games to go.
Tigers have got a soft draw andthey've got easier games. We've got
three top three teams, all right, They've they've got the Storm, the

(01:37:17):
Storm, the Warriors, someone else. We're four points clear. Right,
So Tigers are playing a week Dolphinsteam because they're gonna have a few hours
win that game, right, Andthen the Tigers are playing I can't I
think manly. And then they're playingsome other team so they're potentially going to
get they could potentially catch Saint George. Now, if those two bunk of

(01:37:39):
decisions were we're not scrutinized or wereincorrect and and done the right way,
So shouldn't be even thinking about WoodenSpoon. But they're potentially going to get
it now because of the Bunk.Think the Bunk is going to get They
have won three games all year.They're not going to win three in the
last year. You never know.They're playing all right. Now they're playing,
they're playing good, But Dolphins,they're in a lot of trouble this

(01:37:59):
week. They've got a lot out. I'm with you in terms of you
know how much I hate the Bunkerand when you I try to give referees
the benefit of the doubt. Butthey're they're really pushing my button, exactly
pushing my partner. If you lookat the drawer SAgs of the third worst
team, I'm not saying that they'reup in the top eight. They're easily
far better than Canterbury, but youwouldn't think it. And it's all because

(01:38:19):
of those Bunker decisions. I justmanipulate the latter. I just can't believe
it's around twenty four. We'll Sydneyafter the first week or two. Feels
like yesterday exactly. So that's myrent. I'm sorry about that standing.
We love the rents. We lovethe rents, and you're right, so
spread I can't. I can't faultyou. You're right at least spread the

(01:38:42):
errors around. We have some listenerquestions this week. Boys, we have
had him for a while. Yeah, We've got a few listener questions here.
Dan Dan asked who would you liketo be coached by? And he's
listed Wayne Bennett, Jason Demitro,if it's given, Benji or Website Wayne
Bennett, Who was it? Demitri, Demitri, Fitzi, Benji, Webster.

(01:39:06):
I read this question before he could. He suggested those, but it
could be anyone, Okay, onthe list, you know what, from
what from what I've seen this year? All right, Webster looks like he
gets the absolute best out of allthese players. If you want to get
the best out of him, yougo. Webster. Impressed the hell out

(01:39:28):
of me. Bennett's been good.If it's not, if it's not confined
just to this list, I'd sayCraig Bellamy. Yeah, I'd love to
be caged by Bellamy. Yeah,yeah, of course he does. You
know what, Craig's a bit different. So he gives you a job and
you stick to two things. Allyou do. All you do is two

(01:39:49):
things. I think Wayne's a bitdifferent. Wayne gives you confidence and build
you up, okay, and actslike a father to you. I'm not
sure if if John Crease does that, what what Webster who has done?
I don't know what his game isthere in terms of if he's a father

(01:40:12):
figure, if he's an excellent thoseguys, I don't know what he has.
But he's done outstanding. But youknow what, I heard Benjie talk
about Wayne once and when he wentto Brisbane, he was busted, he
was lost, and he goes.He spoke to me. He spoke to
me so simple, simple, simple, and understood. I understood what he

(01:40:34):
was saying and what he wanted fromme. He goes any and he backed
me and he goes. He justbrought the best out of me. So
I've got to say, Wayne,how much I have stays this stays for
him. I don't like the manas as a person on the outside,
but always players love him. SoI'm gonna go Wayne. But you know,

(01:40:56):
what, there's a there's a there'sa few of them. There's a
few young guys coming through, likeFitzy, Like, yeah, I could
see Fitzy being a Wayne or beingbeing being John Crease. Yeah, I'm
not convinced yet. I would liketo see the Sharks have a normal draw.
Yeah, me too. We're goingto get the pen out of any

(01:41:19):
huss the guys you's ever mentioned though, it was what about Cleary and Robert,
they'd be up there. I'd loveto be under clearly there you go,
clearly system. That would be fantastic, you know what. I don't
disagree. Okay, And he's doneWonders at New Zealand and he's done Wonders

(01:41:40):
at the Tigers because I mean,they'll bust it. In those two years
he was there. Didn't make theeight. I think they made the semif
No, they did make the SIFO. But they'll better. But he's he's
had a lot of stars the lastfour or five years. He's had a
lot of stars. So but yes, no, no, no, yes,
yes, yes, but I'm goodgive me Wayne. Yeah, I

(01:42:02):
just have to throw in an updatehere. The movie's finished and Pokis Too
is great. I just saw thatplace. Great, here we go.
Good good, Well, that's prettygood. Another question from THEO. THEO
asked, should there be a Dahlienfor the best fourteenth man or utility player?

(01:42:24):
And who would that be? Now? If it was question, it's
a great question, great question,best utility player. Okay, I've got
to think about that one. Youdo you have someone in mind, I'll
think about. Man. My thoughtson that I've been I've been saying this
for a long time too. Ithink the utility player should be a specialized

(01:42:45):
position. Yeah, like I thinkyou know, we signed halfbacks with signed
forwards, with signed centers. Weshould be signing a forty. It should
actually be a specialized role. Thebench player, the utility player. The
fourteen could play background. Yeah atthe moment, it's just like versatile players
who can feel that role. ButI actually think I agree if I was

(01:43:08):
a coach, would be targeting aspecialized fourteen. Yeah, and your role
is to play off the bench likeviruls something like that. It's virus you
know who are like at fourteen man, not utility forteen man? Is it
Spencer lyn you when he comes onhe makes a Discott Scott is starting at

(01:43:28):
the most. But I think he'soff the bench normally. They've got some
injuries. But that's a good question. Who's played the most positions, who's
covered, who's been the most versatile. It's a good question. I questions.
I can't think off the top ofmy head. Who's played the most
positions? Yeah, who's been themost versatile? Played half the half back

(01:43:48):
for Risters. Yeah, he's playedmost of the back lick. The guy
that I can think of that Iremember growing up was Brad McKay. He
played hooker, center, eight,lock, half. He played quite a
few positions. That's the only guyI know that play half. He played
five, eight those while players don'tdon't exist that much here. Ro Craig

(01:44:12):
Wing, Craig Ween. He wasa yes who could play yes or the
halves, hooker. Now he's yourhere's your perfect question. If the question
is who would win, now,he would win now forteen Spencer Linia first
spent off the bench. But buthe's just yeah because he makes a difference.
But as a utility, Jay,who would you have as a who's

(01:44:35):
a genuine util I can't think youhave an answer to a great question.
I want to have to come backnext week kind of what's It's a great
question. I put that once andlet's answer next week. It's a really
really good question. I think thatthe Cowboys, No, no, I
think the what's your name? Knightshave got a really good one. It's
the guy with a curly blonde hairwho plays Hargan now yes, yes,

(01:44:58):
yes, yes, yes, he'spretty who he comes on and makes it
this what I can't think of hisname, but yeah, he'd be the
guy. Yeah. Yeah, we'vegot a question from Bonnie. Is another
good one. Bonnie's asked, hehe's a six right, yeah, but
he's he can play every Phoenix crosslandcrossland. Yeah, he's Phni crossing.

(01:45:21):
Yeah, I've seen him playing backgrow, I've seen him playing in the backs
him anyway, he's playing hook andnow because that guy's into ye, what's
his name? So Bonnie's asked,how long do you think it's going to
take to have the same number ofwomen's teams as there is men's team?
What a great question. What agreat question, Bonnie. It depends on

(01:45:42):
this year how they go. Therehasn't been many blow out say, a
lot of the new teams are winning, so okay, so because I watched,
because I watched an r or wAt the start of the Nicola,
I was a little bit worried becauseI saw all these names I didn't know
and old young women. Okay,and at the first, the first game,
I actually got a bit worried becausethe quality was down and the new

(01:46:05):
women. But from from after that, it's just the quality has been really
good. Number one, the contactand the physicality. I'm not saying equals
men, but they're full, fullon. They're full hearted than they attack,

(01:46:25):
okay, because a lot of themcome from from touch ball in hand
catch pass are really good, reallygood catch pass okay. Some of them
come from from rugby nines and ninesOkay, so they've got a lot of
they've got a lot of they've gota lot of good. So I don't

(01:46:49):
think you'll take that long before everyevery team. We can't run away.
The future or the growth is withthe women, because the women bring women
bring men bring children to the tothe ground. I'm twenty now, in
ten years we'll be looking at himcompletely different, will be a standalone competition,

(01:47:14):
you know what I mean. Ireally believe it's so Bonnie. I
don't think it's going to take thatlong. But if you watch nrl W,
just for the contact, it's Walworthand there's, there's, there's,
there's a Newcastle. A young girl. She's seven and she might be eighteen
now, her name's Jesse Southwell.Okay, we've ball in hand at seventeen

(01:47:35):
or eighteen and we've ball in hand. She plays six. She's probably a
seven, but it doesn't really matter. She's as skillful as in terms of
you know, you know, youknow, I think per pound his skillful
was any man. She's got abeautiful past, she knows where she's running,

(01:47:55):
and there's more of them. There'smore of them, so you've got
to watch it. It's actually fantastic. So Bonnie, you know what,
in the next ten years you'll bevery surprised here. This game's going to
look for sure, very surprised.And one last question for Arthur. We've
got one of the names wrong.I just heard now, so I've got
Dan, THEO and Bonnie. Yeah, the actual question, say Sullivan not

(01:48:17):
a moon. Okay, So forthis question the Wounded the Dragon ask for
Arthur keeping Hunt and letting go ofSullivan. Do you think that's a mistake.
Yes, absolutely, because you wantto banking on the spine of Sloan
Sullivan Ammony to go through and andbetter things are our future. And Hunt

(01:48:41):
was there just to sort of goinghim through. If we had Hunt at
nine and then you had Sullivan andAmmoni in the halves and Slow at fullback,
I think that is a very deadlyspine. And we're losing Sullivan now.
Hunt reckons. He's going to commitfor the next two years, but
he's thirty three years old. Ifhe gets busted, Amons, what's his
name, Amoni. He's got acourt case hanging every head, so he

(01:49:03):
could even be jailed because they're prettyserious crimes. What's what they're trailing him
for? So let him go off. Sullivan's a huge mistake. I would
have kept him and Tigers, you'vegot a good one there. Only thing
is he's got a few injuries inhim. So if he stays injury free,
Tigers got He's injured at the moment. He's injured at the moment.
But if Tigers can keep this guyinjury free for four years, they're gonna

(01:49:26):
have a phenomenal player. Nicola,when I heard the finding and showed him
the door, I was staggered.He's got he's got plans. He has
got plans. But it's someone youbrought up. It's like a Penriph thing.
You brought you these four or fivekeys all together. They've been winning
corps underneath, and you're breaking thefive, you're breaking your Jerram, you're

(01:49:53):
Lulu Wire. It staggers me.Now, I'm not saying that Flanner doesn't
know what he's doing. His planhas been there. He knows what he's
doing, and maybe the injury partis the big question or the bighavior.
That's why he's doing it. Yeah, but I'll stay the one. Saints
have been bitten before. We hada god named Kyle Stanley who was the

(01:50:14):
next big thing. He was fantasticeven when he played those few games.
But I think he retired at twentyseven twenty eight because he just had injury
after injury. So maybe they cansee something with Sullivan. They've already been
bitten there before and they made That'sthe only thing I can think of,
because from what he showed him thejuniors is phenomenal. Oh stay good,
but look, you know what we'regoing to have to put our trust?

(01:50:35):
Yeah yeah, So hopefully he knowswhat he's doing. Run through crystal ball
quickly, Fellas upcoming around. CanI give you a rumor that I've heard
of true, Apparently there's either theChad or Flannagan. They're going to come
in Kyle. That's the plan Ithink for next year. The Chad the

(01:50:56):
Sun will definitely George George somewhat definitely, but that may be why they got
rid of Sullivan as well. Sothat's a rumor that i've heard. Well,
the North Queensland he's bringing back.Yeah, I know that guy,
that guy from a super league whichis going he's going pretty well then,
so maybe they which I don't getit because I still see him playing at

(01:51:17):
a high level of the chat,we'll see, so I don't understand what
he's doing. But maybe he's probablytapping him on the shoulder one year Twilly
than the one year too late flannMaybe I don't know, but I like
the chat. I'm a fan ofthe chat. He's all know that I'm
a fan of the chat. SoI don't understand it. But hey,
let's let's let's move on. Solet's let's go. So kicking off,

(01:51:41):
we've got Cowboys and Sharks Cracker game. That's gonna be a Cracker Cowboy or
Shark Tamils two fiftieth game is heplaying this week? He's a cowboy and
at home. Cowboys one sixth ofthe last seven QB and Sharks at one
nine out of the last ten againstthe Cows. They've got the wood on
the Cows. Yeah. I wantthe Cows to win really hard because I

(01:52:02):
think they can. But I thinkthe Sharks got the wood on him for
some reason. I don't know why. They've just buckle under the sharks.
Isn't up there? Yeah, theSharks have got the wood on a man.
I don't know what it is.Okay, I didn't. So I
want the Cows to win. Ireally do, for the only Egyptian support
in the world. But I gota feeling souse Sharks is going to do
it. Really Look, the Cowshave got to win because if the Cows

(01:52:27):
don't win, they're gonna they're goingto struggle to make the eight Nicolas.
So I'm going to pick the Cowboys. But what I saw last week from
the Sharks, I like, I'mnot gonna lie. They're on the improve.
I didn't be a good game.Yeah, be good game. Oh
wait, Thursdays a good one.Usually Thursdays and isn't a good one.
But this is going to be acracker Warrior Warriors raiming to win the sixth

(01:52:51):
consecutive in a row, first timesince two thousand and two, twenty years
ago. Warriors grand final year forthem, I think, so, yeah,
go warrioress Man. Look there's onlyone winner here. It's in New
Zealand. Look, I think theSeagulls play well against the Warriors and in

(01:53:11):
New Zealand, but I think thecoach is going to show up again,
the outstanding coaching of the Seagulls andWarriors will we'll just a little bit of
classier, a little bit classy undercorner and then they've got to win.
They're gonna keep out keeping the topfour roosters. It's a very interesting scenario
here. I'm very interesting scenario.Yeah. It was one last seven out

(01:53:36):
of eight at com Bank. TheRoosters have beaten in the last seven out
of nine. Roosters have got thewood on the heels, So I'm going
to go too many plays and theheels have got now Moses gone, So
who's who's playing instead of Mitch askedyou go to seek some brown goes to
he played well when he played onthe It's not a bad replacement. And

(01:54:00):
can I just I'm really liking aSimonson, I really think. I mean,
he's he's not a he's a local. Junior is an Niccola names from
camera. He's from camera. He'snot a speech I don't know where he's
from before that came from camera.Okay, Junior, Look, he's not
a speech star. But you knowwhat he's got. He's got a lot

(01:54:21):
of attributes. And they forget thatReggie's back. Theyver get Reggie's back.
So it's not a bad team.You know, it's a good team.
Paramount win, PARAMOUNI win this gamebecause I don't believe in what Risks has
shown me. I don't believe it. I don't believe Tiger Dolphin, Tigers

(01:54:45):
and Dolphins. Tigers have lost thelast four at comback, so that's sort
of very ground for them. Theyplaying comback. This is an interesting stat,
right, Steans is only one twoof the last ten against Wayne Bennett.
When's the last time he's got thewood? He's got the wood of
him. I'm going to get Dolphins. I'm hoping because I'm wishful. I'm

(01:55:06):
hoping the Dolphins when because I don'twant to say to get this boon.
Yeah, you know what, Ihonestly believe that the Tigers haven't been playing
bad right bad leg. They haven'tbeen playing bad rugby leg. I think
the Dolphins they're traveling to Sydney.They don't like traveling. Have they won
in the one site? They haven't. I think the trend's gonna continue.

(01:55:29):
In the corner four out of seventhey have won four last seven. Okay,
I think the trend's going to continue. I think they're gonna I think
the Tigers are going to get avictory and it'll be I will learned victory
as well. Titan Panther Is itin? Is it in Queensland? Yeah,
it doesn't matter, Panthers, Titansare nine bucks. There's there's not

(01:55:50):
much to say. Yeah, itdoesn't matter. What have you got on?
And I'm sure you've got there.Have only won two out of eight
against the top eight sides. Soyeah, Panther and Panther will win well.
Dragon Storm listens listens. Sydney Dragonshave only won two games out of

(01:56:12):
six at win Stadium. It's inwin. So the Dragons then hasn't been
that good. Nick Miney. He'son one hundred and ninety five points man
for the season. He's only secondbehind really and he's going to get dropped.
He's going to make it. Ihope he has won't. Storm should
flog him here. Storm will winbecause they've got to win, and they're

(01:56:34):
going to win and win well unfortunately, which it hurts me, but that's
an interesting thing. Hey, nextweek, next week, maybe Nick Miney
will be in the Redgies. ChancesI mean he's not, but chance will
be come off the bench, couldbe off the bench. You could be
off the bench. It's funny.Nights Rabbitoh, this is an interesting one,

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right, Nights are chasing the seventhstraight, and that will be the
first time since two thousand and one, two thousand and two, really twenty
three years ago, Rabbit has abought him twelve at the last thirteen haven't
defeated, and they haven't defeated theRabbitos at their own ground since two thousand
and eleven. Think for me,a lot of these stems somewhere the Hastings

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will in fact play or not.He's been named sounds like rabbittos with the
wood on him hard. I thinkI'm going to get in nights. Yeah,
I wasn't impressed with its lucky againstthe depleted Dragons. Okay, I
think they've got to stand up.They gotta win. They've got to win
a game to make the eight winsomething. I only got to buy next

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week. But they're gonna win something. So let me just remind you on
something, right, Tyson, gambleagainst Walker? How do you get help
Walker's game? You think simple gotto go like like within the first minute,
like Big wins Magic Off. Sorryfor Cody Colax, sorry for Code

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Radar, Bulldog, I'll go beforeyou, okay, because they both went
as bad as each other last year. I'll go before you. This is
going to be the only Raiders andwin for the rest of the year.
Yeah, I think the Raiders willwin. Look, Dogs, Dogs ever
won there since twenty and fifteen?Are they playing? Are they playing?

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Okay? Okay, so they wonthe last seven the Raiders, So there's
got to be the Raiders at theword of them boys. As as stated
last week, I'm going to giveit a brief weekly update on the grassroots
foot you let's call it down fromthe Illawarra District our team, the Shell
Harvesting Rays. Last Saturday they participatedin a Gala day which was the South

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Coast Group seven Junior Rugby League Undersixes and it was down at Gambaru.
I think Kevin Walsh Oval so asyou guys know, they're under the sixes.
That didn't keep score at that age, but all games were two ten
minute halves with a two minute ahalftime break. Our young man Hunter Orzak,
he had to pass a late fitnesstest in order to take the field.

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Bit of a groin straining. Wasflying colors. I had a blind
I got a few tags and mysources told me Georgie, there are a
few scouts down there as well.Maybe Flanne. I was hanging around.
Look words were they saw a flannoide with a hot dog and a and
a coke girl. We're just walkingaround. There's there's ongoing negotiations between the

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undersexers. The show harber Sting raisingKarl Flann again as well, so he
could be a could be a Marquissigning for him next sea. Maybe maybe
there there you go, there yougo. Look if we got a seven
year old playing in the halves there. Every charves is going to be what's
twenty years old because they're gonna havehunts on the seven feet. Some tidbits

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for us Nicola the Challenge the ChallengeCup final in England. As you know,
our team was in the Challenge Worldsort of Challenge Cup final. The
League Leopards and they'll plane they informHull KR. Mate. The last time

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the Leopards won anything was nineteen seventytwo. Long drought. They've been in
the second Division or sounds like paramousDivision a bit longer, I think for
a while now. So so twoyears ago, this psycho billionaire buys the
Leopards. It's a small little townwith fifty thousand people in it, okay,

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brings them up to League One.Okay, then win the comp again
and then she brings them up toto the Premier League or the Super League.
Okay. And he's pushed them upto well top two in the in
the competition and they've gone their firstsilverware Nicola Phil Gold in extra time,

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Young Lachlan lackland Land kicks the PhilGold and beats the whole KR seventeen sixteen.
So the first good sense to say, Adrian Lamb and his son,
because Adrian Lamb's the coach. Yes, so coach and son. It was
clearest watching the you're watching there wasunderstanding. Got yeah. I got up
two o'clock in the morning and watchedthe Nicola and he was great, scene

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scenes. It was a fifty fiftygame. But young young Luck was Lucky
is his first name. He absolutely, he's a starting in England. He
was good at roosters and no onepicked him up. He was you know
what, there's there's there's a kidin whole kr which they bought a month

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ago. He's They got him fromCanberra. He was a penny of junior.
They got him from Canberra Schneider.I don't know if you remember.
Well, there's a brand's played thePhoebe first grade. Okay, he he's
put has he? Yeah, Ican't remember him. He's put this whole
team on his back the last threeweeks. Okay, because he's a kicker

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as well. Okay, here's afive eight. Honestly, if you saw
him and well he obviously can't crackthe first grade team. Yeah, if
you saw him, you would thinkhe's a world beater. Seriously, he
was the one pulling them back.Every time the Leopards will score a try
and make break. He's the onedoing that. Something special, outstanding,

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game, sensational. The Leopards arefirst Traphies and there their psycho being their
boss. All he wants his trophies. That's what he's looking for, wearing
the full Leopards. All of theworld loves. He's the one who rebranded
him. But Nicola, he's madea very clear Yeah he's after trophies.

(02:03:00):
Yeah, he's looking for trophies.He's actually coming to Australia to buy half
the comp Apparently clubs had that ambition. I want to win tropes and I
roll w Nicola Dragons eighteen Raiders nineteenPhil Gold last minute. Yeah, there
was a contagious decision there. Theygot robbed the series. I didn't want

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to go and didn't know what itwas. It was it was a double
movement, It didn't it looked likea double movement, but I don't know
what happened because they were blowing upthe laps. I remember reading something.
It was everyone's going, that's whatit was. He pus. She put
her arm over and they watered orsomething like that. Water They didn't award.
Sorry, they didn't award, didn'tknow it was late. It was
the right call. No, no, sorry, it was the other way

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around. It was the wrong call. It was the wrong call. Okay,
I'm going to run this through theschool. The next week, I'm
going to start bringing up the table. I thought i'll give it a few
weeks out of good table sorts outbecause they're just all compressed in case.
Next week i'll give you more informationabout the games. The Cowboys sixteen,
the Tigers, which I thought we'regoing with the favorites in this game twelve

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Nicola first loss, second loss,really the second loss the broadcast twenty two
beat the unlucky Eels twelve Nicola.We haven't won a game that's unlucky as
much as it's just been ship.Look, we were depleted in the off
season, but these young girls aregetting experience, are getting experienced Nicola,

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and I think it stands well fornext year. They're not that far off
the pace. Really, Sharks twelve, the Roosters thirty six. I'm gonna
say it again, I say everyweek the Roosters stacked, Yeah, stacked.

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The Nights are twenty two, whichpretty close to the best team in
the camp, and the Titans,which all surprised ten. I just got
the table up, so I'll gofor the table. So they play a
top four Nicola. The Roosters area first at four points, the Knights
a second four points. No sixsorry six sorry? Six points. The

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Roosters, Knights, Raiders and Titans. Yes, so they're all got six
points. The Roosters, Knights,Raiders, and Titans. They're all on
six points. So that's why Ithought I won't bring it up. The
Tigers just outside Niccola with four,the Broncos after them four, the Cowboys
four, and the Sharks which arebetter than yeah, Dragons, which both

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teams, they're much they're much betterthan that. My favorite Tenergart whatever.
The fifth doing well, she's playingfive eight. She's not playing fullback.
Really, it's I heard enough.She's a fight, she's a fullback.
She's not a five eight. ButI'll pick some I'll pick some players this
week and I'll and I'll highlight them. It was minus ninety six. We're

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doing it tough. We're doing ittough. We're doing it tough. Uh,
they played the tough games or not. They're all tough games. Every
team, every team is good,but say they have played the Roosters,
nor of they played the Nights,nor of they played the Raiders yet.
So yeah, I went on aon an W's rant before how good they

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are. They're sleeping giants. I'mnot going to go on it. Nicola.
A mistake happened last week. Ididn't write down the song of the
week, so boy wind up brotherlu lu Lua. So unfortunately he didn't
put it on, but he willput it on this week. But let

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me let me tell you something aboutthe band, Nicola. Standard procedure,
standard procedure what they called. Youknow, yeah, I don't know what
filled even heard of that standard procedures. I couldn't remember what that was called.
And that just puffed into my head. I don't know I had modern

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talking. I'm still I love it. I'm still stuck on the hair.
Yeah, Nicola, there are GermanDus. They formed in eighty eighty three
until eighty seven. That massive fitslike You're in my heart, You're in
my soul, You're yeah, Sherryshowy lady, Yeah yeah, yeah.

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One of this is his favorite.Atlantis is calling. Yes, I was
for love got that to win.Yeah, me too, I think.
And of course your favorite Nicola brother, Louis Louie. Louis loved the blond
guy doing the fish pumps where Iwas playing the guitar hairstyles to kill it.
So boy, wonder will will putthat on you. I spoke about

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our favorite self case team, theShell. The Shell have a sting rays.
I'll get some information. I thinkour boy the route from the Russell
Rhino as a playing semifinals soon.So what we're gonna do is we're going
to go to the grand final orthe semi final and we'll log it.
I want to talk about at hisfriend last week, Cornelius, Cornelius Florret.

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Yeah, he wants to try mein Nicola and he wants to give
for an NROL W player the rowsof the week, and I thought,
better off without a flowers you gaveaway last week or yeah we'll be out
of business. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, Well he appreciated the call,
the call, so you know,giving giving him some no, no,

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some attention. Yeah. I wantto. I want, I want
us to meet Cornelius and something abouthim cut instructions because he might give him
a wreath. He's that time.He's a bit You've got to be really
accurate with what you're telling, giveme a whole breath. And he doesn't.
He thinks of the same men's differentthings. But anyway, he also

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wants to give this award in inin memory of his not his memory,
but he's not in seventy four teamNicola. He went to Kings King's School.
Unfortunately, didn't play rugby league.He didn't play rugby league. He
uh, he didn't play, right, he didn't play rugby league. Well,

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yeah, well we went to King'sSchool. He didn't play rugby either,
rugby either. He played darts childprodigy Nicola, a dard player.
Now there's there's this talk about Corneliusand his uh you know, you know
rich this and that, you knowwhat. He lives in a in a

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modest attend bedroom house at point Piper. This talk about him being wealthy,
Nicola, you can can that.I mean he took over the family business,
the florist took over the family business. He lives with his partner Stephen.
So so that's Cornelius. And thefirst rows of the week goes to

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and this is in respective aid hisfavorite and a row player. Uh,
Tonacata. Oh, well done,so she'll be should be getting along stem
Rose from It's fantastic from Cornelius's Shopand Nicota. Good news. The Toronto
wolf Pack is back. They've reformedafter COVID and the International Board has gone

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in there and he's trying to sortout the American comp because it's such a
big country. They've got they've gotcomps like all all around the country sort
of thing. So what they're tryingto do is make sort of the closest
proximity, make comps like little compseverywhere instead of having one because you can't

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travel right around the country. Andthey haven't they haven't got the money.
Okay, Toronto, they're having aninvitational tournament this year and they're trying to
get into the Super League again.It might take them a while. They've
got another Psycho being there owner aswell. So I thought that was good

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news with the Toronto wolfback forming upnow. Something I enjoyed doing the color
the player in review Tommy Rodonicas,Yeah, I enjoyed this. They look
at the screen because this is good. When I typed up Tommy Rodonicas,
you know what came up. Oneof a kind. Yes, that's very

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good one man. He was bornin Bathiste or not, grew up in
kra uh Dad Lithuanian, that's it, Lithuanian, mum, Swedish. My
father absolutely loved Tom Radonicas. Thisis where I want to get to.

(02:12:24):
And I don't know about that.But he's his father's Lithuanians Russian, I
know. But but his Orthodox Lithuaniais Orthodox, so somewhere along the way,
you know what I mean. Mymy dad loved Tom radonicas number one
because he played for West number twobecause he thought he was a Greek.

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Knew well Alexander the Great probably conqueredLithuania in the day. Something we don't
know about Tommy. He joined theAir Force as an engineer. He joined
He spent three years in the AirForce Nicola as an engineer. Nineteen seventy

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two Nicola, he won the rothWin's Medal as the best and fairest.
H yeah, the best, yeah, the fairest that you go, there
you go. Nineteen seventy seven hewon with his with his beloved Western Suburbs
team the MK Cup, the midweekcompetition. He played two hundred and one

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games for West May nineteen seventy eightwith Roy Masters, the famous firebro versus
Silver Towel's rival started and as hesaid, I loved he loved it.
He loved it. He made hima better player. But they forget that
team had some good players names likea Grady Boy, Donley Dora here,

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so there weren't chumps. How manygames with it a year last season?
Back then? How many terms werewe're back then? We didn't all Sydney.
It was all Sydney, so itwould have been ten twelves twice,
okay twice last year nineteen eighty tonine eighty two, Nicola he moved,
made the move to Newtown and asyou know, he played in a famous

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grand finale. We're Parramatta one onthat day. But if you remember the
game before the semifinal where it waslike a brawler thromb, Yes you remember
that one. It was more brawsthan rugby. League brought us all as
he says about, and gave broadUst the best head butt ever seen.

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He loved it. Uh made awardshe did you know how a May nineteen
eighty two he got picked for theTeam of the Century for West Magpies.
Made made him a magpoint more anew Town greatest import. They gave him,

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they gave him that badge of honor, the men of the League,
toughest player. Yeah, I areall greatest one hundred in the greatest one
players. Yeah. Obviously Hall ofFamer in the Hall of Fame. Made
he play for West new Town Brothersin Queensland. Queensland. Yep, uh

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he as you know, he coachedNew South Wales. That was fun.
Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'll retracked that he played for West
Newtown Brothers. He played for NewSouth Wals. He captained the first game
as well as you as you remember, he played for Australia and your South

(02:15:48):
Wales country. You know he coachedWest he did coach Brothers, Brothers,
caach Brothers. He coached Switch NorthDevils and New South Wales quint up there.
Yeah, he's lived up there after. Yeah. He who can forget

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the famous cattle dog call? Yeah, who can forget the famous will never
forget it? Johns will never forgetit. And he loves he loves telling
that story as well. I've gota story for you. Yeah. He
got picked for Australia and as anunderstudy Stephen Waram. I got picked for
Australia too, and they decided areally good idea to bunk him up with

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with Tommy. Okay, so hewalks in, Tommy walks in and ta,
he's got his bag on the onthe bed. He goes, that's
my bed, grabs the suitcase andthrows it out of the window onto the
street. I didn't know what todo. He went back and he wentn't

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asked. He went nice, hecan get moved, and they said no,
and we know that. Unfortunately hepassed away a couple of years ago.
Phil gool maybe can't coach, norcan he recruit, but what he
can do he can give inspiring talks. And he knows him very well as

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we all know. And he didnot a eulogy, but he on Channel
nine when he passed away he'd donehis famous talks and I've got and I've
got it and I found it,but I found it so inspiring. I
thought I've got to play for youguys. Yes yesterday morning, when the
news first brag that the great TomRadnahas had passed away, you could just

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feel the rugby league world stop.We all took a breath, exhaled It
was a moment of reflection and sadness. Rugby league had a lot of lost
its most charroristmistic, armistic, karamisticpersonality. This was a man that was
larger than life, the likes ofwhich we will never see again. You

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will hear many stories about Tom Radonagas. They will sound exaggerated, embellished,
and sometimes totally unbelievable, but trustme, they're all true. Tom came
into big time rugby leagues during thesixties and seventies. It was a tough
and violent era back then, butto say Tommy was very comfortable in that
environment would be a massive understatement.He reveled in it. He was a

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fierce combatant, a raw, passionate, unapologetic competitor. He feared no one.
He would never take a backward step. Tommy was an inspirational leader.
You never wanted to let him down. You felt an obligation to prove yourself
to him. His acknowledgment meant theworld to you. He turned boys into

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men. He built comraderie, unbreakablebonds, and lifetime friendships. He liked
to make people laugh, even athis own expense. Away from the competition
on game day. Tommy was akind and compassionate man. Tommy's greatest gift
was the way he made people feel. Whether it was a fan who just

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on the street wanted to get ahandshake, or the Prime Minister of Australia,
Tommy gave them all one hundred percentattention. He made them all feel
good. He never forgot anyone.Through all the success he had as a
player and a coach, and thenotoriety he brought him, he never forgot
where he came from. He wasalways true to himself and his friends.

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As the saying goes, if youcan talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
or walk with kings, nor losethe common touch that was Tommy.
He never lost the common touch.He was the man of the people.
He was the people's champion. Manywill be saddened by his passing. Each

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will remember Tommy in his own specialway, the moments that we experienced with
Tommy when he was giving us onehundred percent of himself. That's what Tommy
did. That was his gift.He gave us all our own special memories
of him. I'll tell you something, the first time I heard that that

(02:20:28):
didn't have the background music so theboy one that must have put the background
music into that, and it madeit even more dramatic. I'm not sure
how much you know of Tommy oryou saw him playing. Obviously obviously saw
him in the eight eighty Grand Finalbecause of my father, because I'm a
little bit older than Nicol, Iactually saw him in the serving is in

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that in that West team, andbecause of Dad, and because when he
take me to Lidcomovl, I sawa lot of him. And one thing
I'd do that he didn't leave anythingout in the field. And as I
say, and I is going toknow this saying, he always showed me

(02:21:09):
his heart, you know what Imean. So I actually, I mean,
don't get me wrong. I getupset when I hear players pass away.
I mean, Arty knows when wereported on Greeney last year, you
know, I mean I got upset. But this one when when he passed
away, I got upset for Tommybecause Tommy gave Yeah, Tommy gave a

(02:21:33):
look. Could he feel good withstruggling during he knewing well and and look
he had he had a great friendfriend in Singleton, in John Singleton,
which probably supported him and probably gavehim not only a lot of breaks,
but probably gave him at the endof the life solid that that he was

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living. But you know what oneof a kind I think is about the
right word. Yeah, perfect,but everything achieved. You know, you
just made us happier. Yeah,told me, just made us happier like
you last. The CDR starts nextweek, so I'll be reported on the
up body next week. But toldme idea about Liver. Yeah, we

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saw Liverpool Monday morning, one alldraw Liverpool. Liverpool got ahead one nil
and that just sparked Chelsea back tolife. And at the end of the
game Chelsea's then scored and had oneall draw in the first half and then
it finished that way. But bothteams going back and forth. But it

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was a great game, very entertaininggame. But yeah, Chelsea finished the
stronger one out of the two,that's for sure. And Liverpool just hanging
on. Saw a couple of offsidegoals. They are stopped Chelsea goal.
They disallowed a Liverpool goal by MillerMurders, both of them, may I
both Like my gentleman, the correctdecision was made. His arguments was a

(02:23:01):
penalty or said the hamball the highlightsthere was a haymball for a Chelsea player,
but they vlet it go because hisarms were tucked into hes got.
I don't know what it was.So a couple of contentious decisions, but
overall fair result won all both teams. They played really well, great game
of soccer. Good good. I'llbe asking every week. And Nicola.

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In terms of Napoli, have agot a similar team? Yeah? Pretty
similar coaches gone? They lost himthe defender. Oh yeah. And in
terms of caching, are you happywith who you got? Do you know?
Asked me again in a few months. The striker is he still there?
Yeah? Yeah? Good? Isher name? Coach? Not really

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know what's his name? Ruddy Garcia. He was a Roma a few years.
Yeah, okay, well okay,well that's interesting. He's a good
coach. He's actually got a goodstall a foot full of bedding. But
we'll see. You can replize thewrong way. You can tell us all
about it next Quicken this season andthat's mainly clue. Oh good, that's

(02:24:11):
me, brother, that's it.That's episode fifty two. Thank you Love

(02:24:37):
is a burning five because then theflames grows highest day. Don't let him
steal your heart. It's easy,It's easy. God, this game can't
last. We cannot live together.Dry. Don't let him take your love,

(02:25:05):
brother, You'll not good, giveyour seed rather, Louil Loui Louie,
I'm in love, Sis Debrie.Oh, she's only looking to me.
Only love breaks a heart, RatherLouie Louiluie only loves parit dyes.
Or she's only looking to me,Louis Louilie, she's looking to me.

(02:25:33):
She's cover, Rather Louis's doing soglory say, because this boy wants to

(02:26:05):
camber stay, loves more than hecan hand out come and stay by me
forever ever. Wow, But doeshe go on preach and ewhere his love

(02:26:26):
is never and in faith? Don'tlet him steal love. Brother, You're
not good? Can she see?Brother, Louiluiluien, I'm in love,
said to free. Oh she's onlylooking to me. Only love breaks a

(02:26:48):
heart, brother, Louiluilui only lovesparadise. Or she's sneaking to me,
Brother Louiluilli, she's to me,she is uncover Louis Louis loew wants to
do it and so may because ILouis Louis l she's something looking to Melui.

(02:27:37):
She cover Louis look Louie. Twous do it so Louie because Loui