The Wizard Gutho vs Voldermort & His Eels

The panel preview the Dragons clash with Zac Lomax and the Eels. 

After a massive win over the Storm, it's important to back it up with another solid performance agaisnt the winless Eels

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Dragon Man's up.

Speaker 6 (01:02):
Well, good evening all on Welcome to the Mad Dragons
Podcast Round five edition, where we preview this Saturday's game.
We've got Saint Guffo, Saint Guffo's Dragons versus Voldemort's eels
as you would have seen during the in the ads
earlier today on the on the podcast pages, we've we've

(01:24):
called that former Dragons player he who must not be
named well just which we'll get into a little bit later,
but has man. Welcome to your first teamless Tuesday for
twenty twenty five.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
How you going?

Speaker 7 (01:37):
Yep?

Speaker 8 (01:37):
Yeah, good man, it's I've been in minutes since a
Tuesday show.

Speaker 6 (01:42):
So yep. And so can you take us through the
side that flannel Landers afternoon to take on the eels.

Speaker 9 (01:51):
I might be able to might be able to swing that.

Speaker 10 (01:56):
All right, there we go.

Speaker 8 (01:58):
So we've got King Guffer at fullback, Sloan, Sully Holmes,
Stuart Funny and Elius of the Halves. Up front, we've
got Toby Coutchman coming in from Ray Gaula, who's going
to be out for a few weeks with a bit
of naughty naughty uh. And we've got Cook Claimer comes

(02:21):
into the starting side. On the second second row, we've
got le Lewis and j dB and then on the
bench we got little my Man Block Laurie along with
Stewart and Dylan Eagan who had a very very good
debut last week. Matt Feeney is the antient man. They

(02:43):
Tyler Mariner now l K T and I don't know
who the hell XPT is Loco.

Speaker 9 (02:57):
And train train shut up to you and I'll finished.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (03:04):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (03:05):
Now we've got uh, we've got Jared Sutton this week, unfortunately,
but we've also got Casey in the in the bunker again.
So frequently those who cancel each other out. So yeah, Jesse,
there's a team for this week.

Speaker 6 (03:22):
Yeah, thank you as me And that's that's how our
side looks. So there's just a couple of changes there.
But we've already had behind emy lines, haven't we, Big Tea,
we had.

Speaker 12 (03:33):
You know, I'll just I'll just put the Paramount team
up on the up on the screen there because we
won't do behind in the yes and walked down in
the lane.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
We're released then after finishes tonight.

Speaker 6 (03:45):
So thanks to Troy for coming on as well.

Speaker 12 (03:48):
Yeah, well we'll go through the team. I own you
Russell pas that guy I'd like to say back five
popping down Smith, Paulo, Layingcataga and hop the Strong Past
by Jason Roynolds.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
Hasn't that a ring yet?

Speaker 12 (04:07):
Poor Ward Dylan Walker comes from the Innisia Warriors over
to over to PARAMOUNTA. I'm ready to have ARTI and
a Stropp. He's not Pops Poli, isn't it? Gormon Simons
and Hands and Volcan on the on the extended bench. Yeah,

(04:30):
you've been a good talk with with Troy earlier on,
so I'll released that after the show finishes because we're
a little bit of technically downlining it.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
So good.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yep.

Speaker 6 (04:50):
So that's an interesting line up. But we'll first we'll
get into our team. We'll start with you. We'll start
with you, Billy, What what do you make of the
side that I'm Flanner has named this afternoon obviously not
too many changes. We're expecting something or is it pretty
much what you expected?

Speaker 5 (05:09):
Yes? For me, it's pretty much what I expected.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
The four change with Emory goul having to be out
for suspensioned, it's pretty much so I expected.

Speaker 6 (05:21):
I'm yep. So Toby Cautchman again named for the for
the third week in the front row, youngie, but he's
been benched the last few weeks. Do you think he'll
actually start now with Emory Gouler suspended?

Speaker 7 (05:38):
Say that again? I missed that.

Speaker 6 (05:42):
Toby Cauchman. He's been named to start every every game,
but at in the last hour before Kickofflanda is putting
back to the bench in the in the last couple
of games. Do you believe that he Do you believe
he may start this time or with Wis Clamber or
do you think Blake Laurie comes into the side, which
we'll discuss a little bit later.

Speaker 7 (06:04):
Did well get him a bit of match fitness?

Speaker 13 (06:12):
How many minutes did he get last week? Was it five?

Speaker 7 (06:17):
Yeah? He only played one half, didn't he?

Speaker 10 (06:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (06:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (06:21):
I'd be guessing if I knew what coach was going
to do. But I'd be guessing. Clement I want to
get to match fitness on the board.

Speaker 7 (06:31):
So I don't know. I'm sure.

Speaker 6 (06:36):
Blake Laurie is the one that comes into the side
with Mr Gula suspended. Has Man, how do you believe
that will turn out? He had quite a gaming in
you South Whil's Cup. Some suggesting that he's too good
for that grade. What are your thoughts on his performance
in that and is it good to see him back
in the top grade?

Speaker 8 (06:53):
Oh well, ask the second question first. Yeah, obviously great
to see him. Great to see him. I came he played,
He actually played seventy minutes last week in yourself last
cup you had sixteen runs, one hundred and thirty six meters,
thirty nine tackles, one missed. That's it's about ninety eight

(07:13):
percent efficiency.

Speaker 9 (07:15):
So I mean the list. No, what say that, Yu,
I'm expecting Liam to take me to task. No, it's
good to see him get another crack. It's what I expected.

Speaker 7 (07:30):
So it's not Sydney quality team and that great team.

Speaker 9 (07:33):
You can do as well as you did last week,
that's coop.

Speaker 6 (07:38):
I know you're a fan of this bloke Hamish Stuart
what how to suspected facial fracture? But he's been cleared
he will take his place. Are you surprised that Planner
is going to play him or do you think that
there's a little bit more to go under the bridge
before Saturday? If he does play on the.

Speaker 11 (07:59):
Wouldn't be locker to scratch us out Hammi Stewart after
last week's injury. So we'll have to wait and see
what coach Fano does with him.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
Yep.

Speaker 6 (08:19):
And then we've seen big tea. We saw young Dylan
Eagan debut on the weekend. How good was it to
see his debut last weekend and knowing that he's got
that first game under the belt now he'll be ready
for better, better for the run this weekend.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
I'll be bigger, better than ever I reckon.

Speaker 12 (08:35):
Last week he made he made a fair few runs,
made a good good fifteen fifteen twenty run. I think
one of the runs were but they were all around
five to eight meters. He's making that line, so I
think it'll be bigger, bigger, bigger this week, probably playing
without the same amount of minutes, So I think I

(08:57):
think he will go well this week. Yes, jar And
I'm doing all right mate, thank you very much.

Speaker 6 (09:03):
And if I don't remember correctly, I think Joe said
a couple of years ago he was impressed with Dylan
Egan and the trials, and now now he's in Fund
himself in first grade a couple of years later. So yeah,
another another gering on product to come through the system.
And speaking of Dylan Egan, he had a media appointment.
He had a media appearance today and let's see what

(09:25):
he had to say about his dream debut.

Speaker 14 (09:35):
Yeah, definitely brown after a Dragon fan, remember coming sitting
on the hill here at win. He had to get
to win, and for my family and friends up there
was definitely a dream come true.

Speaker 15 (09:48):
You find it to step up because you know, from
watching it look like he played fifty odd games.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
He didn't miss it.

Speaker 14 (09:55):
No, Yeah, I played about two seasons in Cup now,
so my third year in here training with.

Speaker 5 (10:01):
The boys, so I felt that I was.

Speaker 14 (10:04):
Ready to take that next step up and just yeah,
I got a lot of help from those older boys,
so I felt just at home.

Speaker 15 (10:11):
Obviously it's great to get a lot of tackles, you know,
a couple of runs as well, but how special was
that to do have that run and then draw the
penalty right at the end there, which kind of almost
sealed the win for you guys.

Speaker 14 (10:22):
Yeah, Fann, I spoke to me the day before and
I just wanted to get my role right, focused on
my defense and hopefully the attack will come.

Speaker 5 (10:33):
So yeah, it was it was special.

Speaker 14 (10:34):
I just do the best for the team metered there
and that was that was to take that run and
I just sort of got lucky, and yeah, just was pumped,
pumped for the team and yeah, what.

Speaker 4 (10:46):
Do you tell you before you went out for the
first time.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
Not so much Flanner, but just the players.

Speaker 14 (10:52):
They just ensured me that I was ready and ready
to take that next step forward, which just instilled a
lot of confidence in me. And yeah, just to get
my job done.

Speaker 15 (11:05):
And I guess what it is about jerring on the
keys good football is obviously yourself, Hanne Stewart, you had
wish on the other side there, You've got Garrett as well,
Jackson Ford.

Speaker 4 (11:14):
What is it about? What are they put in the
water down there?

Speaker 7 (11:18):
No?

Speaker 14 (11:18):
I think I think everyone just loves their footy down there.
Like you go up at any any school Larva all
weekend and there's going to be kids up there kicking
a footy or playing us up there. We're surrounded by
a lot of leaders and great people there like mc cronin,
Scotty Stewart works in here, coaches first grade now and
it's just makes a real fun culture and everyone just

(11:41):
loves loves playing footy there.

Speaker 7 (11:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (11:43):
Do you have a lot of supporters out that we
was a nice photo of the three of you at
the end of the game.

Speaker 5 (11:47):
Yeah, yeah, I think we had half jarring longer.

Speaker 14 (11:49):
I think we gave way about seventy tickets just just
for yeah to watch. We always even had another boy
hated me, Candon playing Cup. That's from jerryng too, so
therefore us playing that day and there was there's definitely
a lot of Jerry On people out there to supporter.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
Saw nice young man.

Speaker 6 (12:11):
Yeah, anyway, a lot's being talked about. Guffer returns to
Combank Stadium this week and for the first time since
he left the club at the end of last year,
that man who must not be named big team. He
comes up against the Dragons for the first time.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
Yeah, it's been for them, isn't it.

Speaker 12 (12:33):
Coming up for the first time against the Eels, and
and the man he shall not be named him playing
against the Dragons. It's going to be a big game,
big battle. I hope they come up against each other
at stages of the game. H I just happened to
rip in tear game and they rip each other apart.

Speaker 6 (12:55):
And as men we've we saw Guphers say earlier in
the week that Gulfo is going out to rip Paris
heads off. What do you read it? How do you
read into that? What do you what do you expect
from Gulfo on Saturday.

Speaker 8 (13:11):
I am expecting really really big things from Gotho against
his old his old club.

Speaker 9 (13:18):
He's laid down the he said, right boys, I'm coming.

Speaker 7 (13:21):
For yours.

Speaker 3 (13:23):
Now.

Speaker 9 (13:24):
If he can, if he plays with.

Speaker 8 (13:27):
Half the intensity of what he did last week, he
will absolutely take paramatter apart.

Speaker 6 (13:35):
Yeah. Yeah. Another one that was was one of our
best in that game against the in that game against
Melbourne was was val Holmes, youngie. And he will be
up against that former Dragon on Saturday. That will be
a key matchup, that's for sure, don't you think.

Speaker 9 (13:59):
Actually, I think you find Suley's actually are going to
be on that side.

Speaker 6 (14:04):
Note now I've looked into it. Lomax has been playing,
so Voldemort has been playing right side for Para and
Valves on our left, so they will meet.

Speaker 7 (14:20):
Here. It should be a good class and it might
be the the game this week. What's that.

Speaker 9 (14:30):
One glamor up at him? Let him sort him out, just.

Speaker 11 (14:35):
Knock him out early in the game.

Speaker 7 (14:40):
It should be good.

Speaker 13 (14:41):
I'me's got a really nice try on the weekend, sweeping
move out the left and hopefully you can get a
few more this weekend too, So looking forward to that
class should be good.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
Yep.

Speaker 6 (14:56):
And we saw Jaden sewer that mighty tackle he played
with a with the next problem he picked up at
training last Thursday. He picked up a hand in your two.
But he's been named this afternoon, so whether or not
he'll take his place I don't know, but a mighty
effort from him, and that tackle was the match sail,
wasn't it, Billy.

Speaker 5 (15:16):
Yeah for sure, just being in the crowd.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Everyone had rapped it and took him five meters back
into the indo.

Speaker 5 (15:25):
That was such a game.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
Generally they could have shifted the ball knowing Storm just
fucking have danger every single time they touch it, so
just a little by the game by doing that.

Speaker 5 (15:38):
It was a really good moment yep.

Speaker 6 (15:41):
As we touched on in in b Ell, which you
can see later on. But Big T we spoke about
in that in that our poor record at Combat Stadium
has round for us, has it?

Speaker 12 (15:56):
It hasn't been a happy handy at all. I think
we've got one six is it went from five something
like that? Yeah, anyhow, but we the game we went
out a few years ago when Mary's last game, that
was the best game at Combent for us.

Speaker 13 (16:15):
But the other thing is two eels are four and
zero at the moment, aren't they They haven't haven't won
a game, so they're going to be desperate for They're
going to be desperate for points, which is dangerous for.

Speaker 7 (16:26):
Us especially need to be switched on.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
Yep.

Speaker 6 (16:30):
Like I've heard comments people saying like in this we're
in a similar situation last year where we went down
to Melbourne beat the storm down at Amy Park and
then the following week we had our pants pulled down
by Paramotta who were near the bottom of the table.
People are comparing the situation to that. The circus says
are different, No, this is different. We were fighting for

(16:52):
a spot in the semifinals. It's still early in the season,
round five, but we haven't had a great history recently
against param at any venue really, so we're gonna have
to overcome that. And last year that was an unwanted
record ever lost. Yeah, yeah, but yeah, it's gonna be

(17:17):
it's going to be a real conunder and what we're
going to do this weekend. But as we said on
Sunday Night Show, if if we don't back that up,
this will be that win over the Melbourne Store will
mean nothing because the teams that you play that I
haven't won a game when when we when teams are losing,

(17:40):
they're just desperate to get that win and then they've
got to win soon. So this could be a very
game with the Dragons.

Speaker 7 (17:48):
Need a string a few together.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
Yeah, that's what you've got to do that.

Speaker 6 (17:51):
Yeah, And to Joe's comment, Harm Sale will be returning
this week in New South Wilds Cup, so that's good
to see. Tom Eisen will return in the New South
Walest Cup. We'll continue there's the conversation, so we'll go
to to U Scoop looking at Paramount side. Where do

(18:11):
you think the attacking threats will be in that team?
Where do you think they could get us?

Speaker 11 (18:17):
I'm thinking in the back five of Irong, Sean Russell,
Voldemort and the Fox.

Speaker 6 (18:29):
Hooker.

Speaker 11 (18:29):
I don't really see much of Hooker. The youngest booker
Riley Smith right the bench is looking a bit belief.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
Se The spine is very young, isn't it.

Speaker 12 (18:44):
Yeah, it workout apart from from Brown. Apart from Brown,
twenty seven games, twenty seven games, we'll share the other players.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
I think it was the other Spine players.

Speaker 11 (18:58):
I'm calling an earlier crow here, Guys, I'm thinking by
mid June this year, Brown won't be out paramounter for
the rest of the year. I'm calling you. I'm calling
you earl Crow here.

Speaker 16 (19:10):
Oh, since they boil in Dylan Walker, I would not
be surprised if Dylan Brown that's told to walk out
the door, probably after this game or midway through the year.

Speaker 6 (19:27):
What's been spoken about Calf Flannigan and Lochlan Lewis has men.
They still failed to run run the ball on Saturday,
but Flannagan did a bit more in this game against Melbourne.
Do you expect they'll get better knowing they're playing against
Paramatta this weekend and looking to improve again again, getting

(19:48):
another game under the belt with this new look Spine.

Speaker 9 (19:51):
Yeah, we've got I don't.

Speaker 8 (19:52):
Think the opposition really make a difference. They are still
sort of learning there the ne combination, so you know,
as is the entire spote, it's going to take time.
It's frustrating, you know when we sort of have this
sort of disjointed attack that we've had. But I mean,

(20:14):
iliosmiss you know, the majority of us see, if not
all of it, but that injury didn't have much of
a pre season, so he's still getting back into first
grade football. And then he's got this new combination with
Flanagan that they're still trying to They haven't jailed yet.
They will, It just needs time. It's a yeah, they will,

(20:39):
they will get better.

Speaker 6 (20:43):
Yeah, that's what we want to see. I mean, there
were some signs there last weekend Californian started to kick
the ball. We've been calling for that well last year
and a few games Ano this year, and we've seen
we've seen we saw that against Melbourne. They weren't the
best kicks, but they did come off and results and

(21:04):
just give us a bit of raather. So if you
can just improve on that and build on on that,
that can get better as the season goes on. And
I'm sure everyone on the panel would agree that we'd
love to see Kaflan and get his hands on the
ball a bit more. Now we'll get into our viewers
question where where we get our viewers involved. So let's

(21:27):
let's get into this and we'll take it up a
little bit.

Speaker 17 (21:31):
And all right, so we'll get into the game.

Speaker 6 (22:23):
This game. Okay, So we're going back to twenty and
thirteen when we played the Eels in Wollongong. There is
one player in our team that would have been in
that game. It was only it was actually early in
his career. Let's see if you can name that player
who was playing just his second game of his career,

(22:45):
who's currently in our side today. And yeah, he played
round ten twenty thirteen against Paramatta in Wollongong. So see
if you can fight work that one out.

Speaker 7 (22:59):
I know, I don't think I know it.

Speaker 6 (23:01):
Is And he played, yes, and he actually played. It
was actually one of his two games for us back then.

Speaker 11 (23:12):
There's two I can think of.

Speaker 3 (23:14):
I think he's got it.

Speaker 6 (23:19):
No, note, not not you this time, Peter V. You
haven't got it right this time. Ian Johnson's gone. Jack Devellan, No,
that's not correct. But Rugby League Round Up you were
on the money tonight. It is Damian Cook.

Speaker 11 (23:36):
The money.

Speaker 6 (23:40):
That's been anyway. Yeah, so Damien Cook yep, a very

(24:01):
young Damian Cook in twenty thirteen playing off the bench,
and we actually won that game thirty two points to twelve,
with Josh Dugan getting a double. That was actually his
debut for the club, with Daniel Veto, Ben Cray and
Trent Nerron Quinn or goals or Paramatta Penny Terripo if

(24:25):
you remember him. He got two tries for them, and
Chris Sander kicked two goals or your Billy brother, your
brother Billy.

Speaker 3 (24:33):
Yeah, you told him.

Speaker 5 (24:40):
Now, but he's like this too.

Speaker 12 (24:45):
Rough to get him one maybe Dragons two?

Speaker 3 (24:51):
No, No, he does he support.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
I don't want to talk about whom he supports.

Speaker 7 (25:03):
If it's the Broncos, I'm mad of.

Speaker 5 (25:08):
The team that's in the East, the Roosters.

Speaker 7 (25:12):
The Cocks.

Speaker 3 (25:14):
Yeah, we're playing them soon. Yeah, let's go and bring
him on a Rooster fan.

Speaker 6 (25:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (25:24):
Nice, you might actually want to do it, so ask
him Mary.

Speaker 3 (25:29):
He's watching.

Speaker 6 (25:33):
All right now. Flano was highlighting in that game against
Melbourne that we need to we can't win games based
on that defense. Again. I mean, it's good to see
the intensity of how they were playing, but Youngie, too
many errors. We can We just simply cannot do that
every single game and hope we're going to keep doing it.

(25:54):
We've just got to hang onto the ball, isn't it?

Speaker 7 (25:58):
Absolutely?

Speaker 13 (25:59):
And given the Heels are due for a win, they're
absolutely going to be switched on. So yeah, I think
I mentioned last week our defense has got to get
better and I think it's got to get better again.
If we can get that right, we'll go right this year.
So that's going to be another key point is that defense.

Speaker 6 (26:20):
M Billy. So we saw Jacob Little scored the match
winning try. That was a remarkable effort from him. Now,
how do you how do you think that his role
will be a n key to this game on Saturday?
You think we've there's been talk that he should come

(26:40):
on towards the back end of the half. He's been
coming on to last twenty twenty five minutes for this
in recent weeks. So and it works this week when
he scored the winning try. What do you make of
his What do you make of his performance?

Speaker 5 (26:56):
Yeah, he's been performing well.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
Round one obviously out of don't like an average game
against the rabbit o's, but everyone has bad games.

Speaker 5 (27:07):
Brown three was great for us. Came on straight impact
off straight on the field.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
I think I don't know if it was his first
run of the ball, but I think he scored off
his first run, so that was real. I wotant to
see minutes wise, I would like to see him get
more like about ten more minutes thirty five thirty five
minutes on the field. I still think that playing it

(27:31):
could find a way to keep both of them on
the field at the same time, because I don't think
that was such a bad play at all.

Speaker 5 (27:38):
Kind of helped us defensively.

Speaker 7 (27:40):
Well. Actually got the opposite opinion.

Speaker 13 (27:42):
I reckon they've got the mix right because he's coming
on fresh, he's exploiting defenders that are tired, and you're
getting really good impact out of him. So just my opinion,
I reckon that that balance is about right. You give
him anymore, he's going to start getting fatigued. So I

(28:05):
just think the impact that you're getting from him is
about right.

Speaker 10 (28:13):
Now.

Speaker 6 (28:13):
Bloke that did that did have quite a good game
on it was one of our Maybe some people did
speak about him as one of our players at the match.
I'm not sure if you polled any points. But bloke
that did play with a bit of aggression was on
report during the game. But Luke, he has some thoughts

(28:39):
on how we can build on on that performance against
the Storm and take that into this game against PARAMOUNTA
this weekend.

Speaker 15 (28:51):
How good to get on the board and in such
a ready win in tough conditions.

Speaker 10 (28:55):
Yeah, it was. It was good within. Yeah, we didn't
start well this season, so definitely didn't want to go.
We had to get the win and it.

Speaker 15 (29:05):
Was good that buy that you had on the reset
you needed and just a weak off to sort of regal,
recalibrate and put the fun foot forward.

Speaker 18 (29:13):
Yeah, definitely, I think that helped us good through training
sessions in and would really.

Speaker 4 (29:19):
Good and looking ahead too matter.

Speaker 15 (29:22):
I mean, what a good time to get them and
get to in a row and then then you roll
into the Titans and and it would be really season.

Speaker 18 (29:30):
Yeah, for sure, we used we used the Melbourne game
at the as the sort of time to turn our
season around.

Speaker 10 (29:37):
And yeah, this this week is a big challenge for
us too.

Speaker 18 (29:41):
You know, don't be the team to lose your power first,
So yeah, giving us a challenge to get the win
must with What was.

Speaker 15 (29:48):
He most happy about after the game when you came
back in the sheds, what was he the first thing
he sort of brought up there?

Speaker 3 (29:54):
Yeah, no, he was he was good.

Speaker 10 (29:55):
He was good.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
He was.

Speaker 10 (29:58):
I was happy with our defense in the first time.

Speaker 18 (30:01):
I think a half time was about thirty eight playables
in our twenty and to fourteen.

Speaker 10 (30:05):
So yeah, he was most pleased with that.

Speaker 4 (30:08):
And when he comes down on the sideline, what's that
like as a player?

Speaker 15 (30:11):
Obviously with him there and he's talking to you so
to faces of those who over the walking.

Speaker 18 (30:15):
Talk, Yeah, I know, it's good. I came off when
when he came down it was we were stressing out. Yeah,
god say he but no, he's just.

Speaker 10 (30:28):
Getting the messages down and getting into the training.

Speaker 19 (30:34):
Also, you a lift for a great stile like Melbourne.
You've done two games in a row. Now, is there
concern that you know, you're playing a team that hasn't won.

Speaker 10 (30:43):
Yeah, yeah, you got to lift again. Not really concerned.
We want to try and be different to last week.

Speaker 18 (30:51):
I think last week we were really good game and
then we lose two, and then we went to and
then we lose three. You know, so, uh, this year
is we're trying to change that trying to be consistent,
more consistent and uh should change.

Speaker 19 (31:04):
This week has been any talking the locker room obviously,
you know, coming up against former teammates and lonx and
and obviously playing against his former team.

Speaker 10 (31:11):
Yeah, uh not really, not yet. It's still earlier in
the week. Yeah, we would be good. It would be
good going against low but yeah, not yet.

Speaker 7 (31:22):
No.

Speaker 10 (31:22):
Yeah, maybe captain Ron and.

Speaker 19 (31:24):
Tell me a bit about playing playing at three o'clock
fourth down a round yeah.

Speaker 10 (31:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, round one or around two would
be hot. But I enjoyed it. Yeah, it was good.
I like you early to the kids and get a sleep.

Speaker 19 (31:42):
Coming up against the power Pack, it's a it's a
different pack this season. What I mean Usually they're big,
very big. Yeah, they're completely mobile.

Speaker 18 (31:50):
Uh yeah yeah. Junior's lost him the way, so he's
he's looking real good. Yeah, like you said, the mobile.

Speaker 10 (31:56):
There's a lot offered in the game, so in their team,
so we're gonna look.

Speaker 19 (32:00):
After them and this round in particulars to me, I
imagine it's important for yourself.

Speaker 18 (32:06):
What God, Yeah, definitely uh yeah, were on in six
o five, so.

Speaker 10 (32:11):
Yeah, it means a lot to me.

Speaker 18 (32:14):
You know, my family headed and you know everyone and
everyone in the cross whole world it ginning our coatures
like Tolance more in school Islands.

Speaker 15 (32:22):
Everyone, Yes, what was it like going up against your
old club? Is the one you're as a fire fire
up for a little bit more. I mean, obviously why
Max is leaving here was very publicized, saying for Gartha,
you know they have they got to think something to prove.

Speaker 10 (32:39):
You have to ask them.

Speaker 18 (32:40):
And I really don't even care to the other side,
and I'm just gonna go out there and try and
get the wind for Guffer.

Speaker 6 (32:49):
So does everyone agreed there with lou Channel and all
that that they've got to just be more consistent and
look to get out of what they were doing last year.
We'd win loss, win loss, win loss, and become more
of the same and start playing more consistent. Like if
we can take a blueprint of what we did against
the storm, if we can have that intensity every week,

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we could win a lot of games.

Speaker 12 (33:12):
Yeah, Like, as I said earlier, we've got to win
a few games in the road to build momentum. You
got to build it out, That's right, Exactly've got to
build it up. So we've got a fairly easy run
over the next six weeks. I think we've got merely
in the middle, but the other games against teams we

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should read.

Speaker 6 (33:34):
I think we've got the Titans next week and they're
not going too bad at the moment.

Speaker 3 (33:44):
After that rooster's somewhere there. They're Ship roosters.

Speaker 13 (33:51):
The Tigers they spankers last year, though we need to
make amends for that.

Speaker 11 (33:57):
Yes, I've been playing like Ship this year.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
Different team.

Speaker 7 (34:02):
M hm.

Speaker 6 (34:04):
Alright, we'll continue on with the talk, so we'll get
we'll go into a bit of matchups. We don't have
cocaine one tonight, but well, Freddie, you will call it tonight.
We'll call it Billy's battles.

Speaker 3 (34:15):
So I love that, all right, think of.

Speaker 6 (34:22):
That, play this statement anyway, and then it'll be Billy's
battles to.

Speaker 3 (34:26):
The slugging it out in the middle of the few
the dragons.

Speaker 5 (34:35):
But Row is not his blocker.

Speaker 10 (34:39):
It's time to look at the one o one battles
that will.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
Decide the game. Will it be the chief position wars,
Will the fight be one out wide or will it
be one up front? Scrap yourself in.

Speaker 6 (34:56):
For a prog, all right, But Billie, so take us
through your key matchups for this game head to head,

(35:17):
who do you think, where do you think this game
can be one of last and where do you think
the key matchups are position wise?

Speaker 2 (35:25):
Well, for me, key matchup is obviously Limacks against Holmes.
That's gonna be huge. I think Homes should hopefully destroy him.
You know, I would be good to say good. It
would be good to see him throw a couple of
flick passes over the soil, and that's for sure. You're

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doing that a lot recently did a lot last week
against Many, so proving everyone that he's not really a center,
he's a winger. So yep, that's gonna be a good
matchup for for us hopefully. And another clash I like
to see.

Speaker 5 (36:05):
Oh, let's go to the.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
Two locks James Jack de Bellen versus Jermaine Hopwood.

Speaker 5 (36:14):
That should be good.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
Both have a variety, they can change it.

Speaker 5 (36:19):
Up during the game, running the ball, shifting.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
They're both fairly strong players as well, so that should
be good to see. And where this game can be won, well,
we should just exploit Lomas down that side there, because
you can't really defend the centers.

Speaker 5 (36:35):
He's missus tag one center. Yeah, it hasn't been good
in defenses.

Speaker 10 (36:40):
Here at all.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
And yeah that that back line has been really really
weak film they have not have not been able to
get any go forward on their runs, whereas our back
line is really huge.

Speaker 5 (36:54):
So you know those layers out of the back there
have been really good plot. So I think that's where
Weekend win the game.

Speaker 12 (37:03):
I want to say too, was up against Penaseni and
I think it's Russell on that side. So Pedascene has
taken on. The physics is about eighty six percent, so
runs sorely straight.

Speaker 13 (37:15):
At him too for first tri score.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
It'll be late again. He'll be up against the Fox.

Speaker 12 (37:30):
Will will running against the Fox as well, huge, a
huge panacen.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
He can't tackle and I don't think the Fox can either.

Speaker 6 (37:42):
So now has men. There's a lot to talk at
that About Guffo, he returns to to Para for the
first time since since leaving the Eels, has a bit
of reputation though he's captain's challenge record are horrendous. What
would be your message to him regarding captain's challenges, especially
against his old club.

Speaker 8 (38:02):
Uh, have a chat with DeBell in first, As you've
quite rightly said, he's not good. I think maybe I
think he's just getting sort of caught up in the
in the moment he wants to sort of be the
be the hero as much as he can. He needs

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to remember, you only get one. If you get that wrong,
then you're done. So you know, he needs to talk
to one of the one of the wiser heads and
come to some sort of a consensus when he's obviously
he's got to make the call as the captain, but
he needs to get some advice first.

Speaker 6 (38:44):
Yeah, like that one he challenged blatantly wrong last time.

Speaker 3 (38:48):
That that was one of the worst that was.

Speaker 9 (38:51):
That was Shane Watson level h That was dead set
Wadow level latch hit.

Speaker 6 (39:01):
Anyway, you're on the Mad Dragons podcast, proudly sponsored by
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of headlines regarding that the million dollar player, Dylan Brown,

(39:24):
he hasn't had a great game to start the year,
great great season to start the year, but Scoop, been
a lot of pressure on him. Do you think he
could lift against the dragons? This semer up.

Speaker 11 (39:39):
To be honest, I youture see, I'm gonna say that's set.
So the bat was ship. No, without mass I wouldn't
be a surprised. Like what I said before, I would
not be surprist. The paramanent Eels officials and that put
him in and say then you've been playing ship for us.

(40:00):
There's a dog walk out now we don't need you anymore.

Speaker 6 (40:06):
Do anyone think he could be due for a blinder
this weekend?

Speaker 3 (40:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (40:11):
I don't think you can never blind you without Moses.
Moses there to run the show so he can play
the game. Dan Hawkins isn't Mitchell Moses. So Brown's got
to try and run the game as well as well
as player his game. I don't think he can do it.

(40:32):
We're actually saying that with Trent Barrett, and he was
hap he couldn't. He couldn't handle both both jobs. So yeah, yeah,
I think you play the game without Moses.

Speaker 3 (40:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (40:47):
Now, now young many many people have said we've dodged
a bullet with Jason Roles now that he's with the
struggling Paramount side. Do you think we dodged a ball
by not having him as our coach. Now he's catching
paramounter after four games, or is it too early to
judge him.

Speaker 13 (41:04):
I think it's definitely too early to judge him based
on the team he's got at the moment. No, I
haven't Mitchell Moses and that team is a big loss,
so that's working against him for a start. So he's
just doing it a bit tough at the moment for
the players he's got off the field. Once he gets
a few of those big guns back, could be a
different coach.

Speaker 7 (41:24):
So Tom will tell I.

Speaker 10 (41:25):
Guess loss, wouldn't it.

Speaker 7 (41:33):
Everyone's going to turn on Lomax Now.

Speaker 6 (41:37):
Is this type of game that has mean if we're
a bit complacent, PARAMOUNTA could pull our pants down? Would you?
Would you be wary of the dragons. We know the
dragons that they can. I can have one good performance
and then the next week go to an absolute shit
os performance. Do you think the if if we don't

(41:58):
turn up, we could get our pants pulled down?

Speaker 8 (42:01):
Well, I mean the exact same thing happened last year.
We beat Melbourne and then got absolutely built it by Yeah,
we've got beaten twenty eight to ten by the Bulldogs
after the game of day Park last year. So yeah,
we're good beating Melbourne's great, but if we if we

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don't beat the absolute cellar dwellers, then you know, you
might as well have.

Speaker 9 (42:27):
Lost in Melbourne.

Speaker 8 (42:28):
Anyway, go into that game like it's just another game.
You know, it's nothing, nothing special, just one team versus another.
Just don't don't get ahead of yourselves.

Speaker 11 (42:46):
Yeah, I was going to say, see you put this
coming up up on the screen by Donald, here's a
you think the green with name.

Speaker 7 (43:00):
Scart of friends shot Penny.

Speaker 6 (43:05):
Did you hear his comment the other night?

Speaker 7 (43:07):
Young? What was that he said?

Speaker 6 (43:09):
Played Micha in the front rower. We don't even have him.

Speaker 7 (43:17):
And even if we did, I'm not sure. You go there,
that's my.

Speaker 9 (43:24):
Front rolls have actually got a tackle and he can't
tackle that falls over him.

Speaker 13 (43:30):
I think you could probably pay play him on an edge.

Speaker 7 (43:34):
You probably play on an edge, but.

Speaker 9 (43:39):
Make a massive hole like he doesn't win.

Speaker 12 (43:41):
Yeah, rather's not here anymore defense.

Speaker 6 (43:50):
In the last twenty four hours we've seen talk about
some high tackles and some potential crackdowns coming in. Now
we had any Andrew Abdo from the NRL. It's the
CEO of the NRL speak last night about about this. Now,
what do we think of this potential crackdown for high

(44:12):
shots in the game. You're a freeze expert, Scoop, how
do you see it?

Speaker 11 (44:18):
I think, Oh, I'm sitting on the fence mount this one.
I'm I'm all. I'm all for play welfare and concerned
with the percussion and all that. But what's this sing
being for every high tackle? That's a bit ridiculous. There's
gonna be an investigation into this.

Speaker 9 (44:42):
You'll do it for bloody three weeks now, forget about it?
What they usually do?

Speaker 3 (44:51):
Was it twenty one twenty one?

Speaker 1 (44:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (44:54):
Magic Round twenty twenty one. I think we lost about
ten players that game.

Speaker 3 (44:58):
I think.

Speaker 11 (45:00):
Around like five synbins and a center game.

Speaker 6 (45:04):
Yeah, there's that.

Speaker 12 (45:05):
There's a bugle player that was on Sunday night, Mighty Besters.
He was on playing the bugle on Sunday night.

Speaker 6 (45:13):
Yep, yeah, it is well how will how will? How
exactly will teams exploit it?

Speaker 7 (45:21):
Like?

Speaker 6 (45:21):
Will a player stay down if they are if they
are pit high, if they if they contacted high?

Speaker 3 (45:28):
What was so bloody?

Speaker 6 (45:29):
Will?

Speaker 7 (45:30):
How?

Speaker 6 (45:30):
Yeah? How do you said? Has been? What do you
do you think teams will get coach to lie down?
And if they do lie down, do you think I
should be assisted from the field or yeah?

Speaker 8 (45:43):
Yeah, I mean so that the issue with lying down
is you're opening yourself up to an HIA, So you
could be spending fifteen minutes off the field for basically
for play acting. Yeah, so you gotta be careful of that.
But I'm yeah, I guarantee you. You know, grubby clubs
like Melbourne Bulldogs have you, Yeah, they will absolutely get

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coach to lie down. Canberra went Canberra too shit to
be grubs.

Speaker 3 (46:16):
Then drums mate, they're the worst team in the col.

Speaker 6 (46:22):
And yeah, like we've seen, we've seen where as as
big T said, cracked down in twenty twenty one for
Magic Round, could we see a similar game this weekend?
The first game will be the Raiders and the Sharks
on Thursday and we'll get to see how this will
all work. Todd Smith, that referee has been I mean

(46:43):
you love him, don't you?

Speaker 9 (46:47):
Yeah, love like a red edd step child mate.

Speaker 8 (46:52):
That's money's actually read it, red dead head, don't although
I would actually prefer him than.

Speaker 3 (46:59):
Starting want.

Speaker 6 (47:04):
Scoop. Apparently you're Jeff two, scoop.

Speaker 7 (47:09):
It needs to be an investigation into this.

Speaker 6 (47:14):
Remember remember to be.

Speaker 11 (47:15):
Saying that, yeap, it was twenty fifteen.

Speaker 7 (47:19):
There's going to be some accountability.

Speaker 11 (47:22):
It was No, it was twenty thirteen.

Speaker 5 (47:24):
He's going to be accountable for this.

Speaker 11 (47:26):
It's train at fourteen. That happened when you said that.

Speaker 6 (47:30):
He said, if I'm not serious, if I'm not blind anyway,
that that that's a discussion that will have to be had.
Clubs have been worn against it too, so that it's
been sent as a memo to all the coaches. So
we'll have to see how that plays out.

Speaker 11 (47:52):
Put my two swithin.

Speaker 6 (47:54):
Go ahead, scoop.

Speaker 11 (47:56):
The game's gone to bloody soft. It's not like how
it used to be back in I'm going to use
an example of like Cosmon, Bigt and Jungies old days
where they had fights.

Speaker 7 (48:11):
He's just throwing me under the bus.

Speaker 11 (48:16):
Well, I'm insecure as well.

Speaker 3 (48:21):
It used to.

Speaker 11 (48:24):
Donnie's not that old. He's like more mid forties. They
used to have spear tackles, coathanger tackles, punches thrown in.
It's not how it used to be these days. The
games has gone too freaking soft.

Speaker 13 (48:40):
Yeah, but you've got litigation due to head injuries and
things like that. Now it's yeah, they had to do something.

Speaker 6 (48:50):
Anyway. Here's here's CEO Andrew Ada on that potential crackdown
on animal for sure.

Speaker 20 (48:59):
Look, you know refees are heavily scrutinized, and I like
to classify it into three B. First of all, I
acknowledge that the referees do a great job and get
ninety eight percent of the calls right, then there are
going to be some calls that are fifty and debate them.

Speaker 3 (49:14):
You guys were debating them earlier on.

Speaker 6 (49:15):
The show the LIODA trial. Was it a trial?

Speaker 3 (49:18):
Wasn't a trial?

Speaker 20 (49:18):
You looked at it about nine times, ten times, and
you're always going to get that in professional sport.

Speaker 3 (49:22):
And then there are calls where they's wrong. They were
hererors and over the weekend we identified.

Speaker 20 (49:30):
Direct forceful contact to the head with no mitigation.

Speaker 3 (49:33):
And that's a clear sense. It's not all high shots.

Speaker 9 (49:36):
It's just direct.

Speaker 3 (49:37):
Contact with the head one hundred percent, right.

Speaker 20 (49:40):
So you'll see high tackles that will be penalized or
there might be some mitigation, but the referees know what
the decision tree looks like. Direct forceful context or where
we saw shoulders directly.

Speaker 3 (49:51):
Into the head, no mitigation. Player wasn't falling.

Speaker 20 (49:54):
That's the clear synburon and we saw about four of
those occasions on this round and it was unfortunate.

Speaker 6 (50:01):
So so it's going to be just direct contact to
the head. Now do you believe how do you say
that direct contact with the head? Should that be an
automatic synbin?

Speaker 2 (50:15):
Really depends on the severity of the tackle. I mean,
it could be the softest tap on the head and
you're sinbin. I remember a couple of years ago revers
CRNLA and Cobra and it might have been twenty twenty
twenty one.

Speaker 5 (50:33):
Sinbin for a tap on the head. So it just
depends on the.

Speaker 2 (50:40):
Severity if they're going to sin be in them for that.
I think it's a harsh rule, but they got to
They got to find the right time to sink in.
Is force wound clear as they strain the head? Fine, man,
you can't.

Speaker 3 (50:55):
It can't be referee insipretation either.

Speaker 6 (50:59):
Yeah, a most likely intervene anyway.

Speaker 5 (51:03):
Yeah, well, the rest of the robots these days, they're
just standing.

Speaker 11 (51:07):
Bring back to bring back to send offs.

Speaker 13 (51:13):
Yeah, that's really you do that a minute, like, it's
amazing someone gets sent off straight away.

Speaker 6 (51:23):
You've just killed the game, Yes, Scoop, all right, so
we'll go back into the talk about the game. We've
got to Matt Hasles saying something to Scoop on the

(51:47):
performance based contract.

Speaker 3 (51:51):
Development development Gono.

Speaker 9 (51:53):
Well, he's got a long way to develop, that's for sure.
You thre eight pages. I can throw him to his cap.

Speaker 6 (52:06):
Anyway. Dylan Walker is the new player on the bench
for Paramatter. He's just come in of cross on the Warriors.
As as Youngie highlighted before, he's been that super sub
role for the for the Warriors in the last couple
of years. Do you think he'll play that same sort
of role at Paramatta And do you think he could

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be a threat. He's a premiership winner played origin your thoughts.

Speaker 13 (52:34):
It's certainly not lacking experience, that's for sure. He's been
around forever. I reckon he's been groomed. Did this take
over from Dylan Brown? And they might walk Dylan Brown.
I think Scoop might be on to this one.

Speaker 3 (52:49):
Valley mm hmm. I love Steve. I love Steve. I
think Dylan Walker will start at seven, start at six.

Speaker 12 (53:03):
You start at seven. I think it stays everywhere wherever
you put him in your play.

Speaker 11 (53:09):
I'm to say this on your big t but I
think he's more of a six. I hate this. I've
never seen thirteen.

Speaker 13 (53:20):
What's the major difference anymore? Like, you just play one
side of the rock, So so you know, what do
you playing? Left side, right side? It's basically the same
position there. So what do you see is a major
difference between a half and five eight? It's not like
it was twenty years ago.

Speaker 12 (53:36):
I think five acts more a running position and a
half eights more organizer.

Speaker 3 (53:41):
Organizer.

Speaker 12 (53:42):
Yeah, fack, but that doesn't mean it doesn't mean the sixth
can't the seven is going to be a runner.

Speaker 7 (53:47):
So, like you look at, it's just all all about
which side of the ruck you're playing.

Speaker 12 (53:53):
If you notice now, if you notice now, they're starting
to play the sixth and the seven on the same
side of the rock block like they're in the old.

Speaker 13 (54:00):
Yeah, back in my day when I played football, used
to be on the same side.

Speaker 7 (54:06):
You have an inside center and then outside center.

Speaker 13 (54:09):
Yeah, same here and then, and the forwards used to
play on the short side, and the backs used to
line out of the right or the open side of
the field.

Speaker 7 (54:16):
So it was all different.

Speaker 6 (54:18):
It was all different, And I know I'm not sure
if we will exploit this, but as we highlight, it's
only four or five games anyway his career. Uh, Cherry
Evans bombed him out of that game last Sunday and
we saw I only make a few mistakes. Do you
think Flanna would be watching that and he'd be instructing

(54:39):
Flannagan and the list to bomb young I Ony all
day Big Team.

Speaker 3 (54:45):
Oh for sure, for sure.

Speaker 12 (54:47):
I reckon we should bomb their wingers as well, Sean
Russell and the other guy, the Fox. That's right, I
bombed them all day Fox and a little blade put
to probably or or sorely above him. They're not going
to stop them. They're not going to stop them.

Speaker 6 (55:06):
And where do you think we can get some joy
against them? Has been? Where do you think we can
get some points against PARAMOUNTA this week? But they've been
conceding a lot of tries this year, not scoring many
of themselves. Where do you think we can get a
lot of joy against them?

Speaker 8 (55:21):
Down like exercide all day? Can't bloody defender saving himself
neither the wingers, so straight down like exercide.

Speaker 7 (55:35):
Every day.

Speaker 3 (55:37):
Yep has been yep, I hate to say this.

Speaker 6 (55:47):
Done he trying trying to kiss up to you has been.

Speaker 9 (55:51):
Yeah, suck up now boy.

Speaker 6 (55:58):
All right, So yeah, we we'll get into some tips
for the for the games this weekend. Then we'll Yeah,
we've talked a bit about the game and where we
think each where we can win the game and lose
the game. The important thing is not to get complacent.
We've got to back that up performance up and if
we do that well, we can get some joy when

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we get another bank another two competition points on Saturday.
But we'll go into what we think for the rest
of the rounds tips before we finish up with ours.
So we'll start with you, has Man. So the opening
game of round five is the Raiders and the Sharks,
both teams coming off losses out last round. Who do

(56:40):
you like in this one?

Speaker 8 (56:43):
Well, pretty evenly matched, pretty much going with Camera purely
because they're at home. This is one of the worst
games of the season for me to try and always
get it wrong. I'm going with Camera. Team looking the
crowd will get him over.

Speaker 6 (57:05):
Scoop, you'll go on the same.

Speaker 7 (57:08):
Reapers.

Speaker 11 (57:10):
Raiders and the Sharks, Scoop, I'm gonna go. The Raiders
have been going in the last few weeks. I want
to go Raiders.

Speaker 7 (57:22):
There's going to be another.

Speaker 6 (57:32):
All right. The early game on Friday is Penriff versus
North Queensland Penriff. Who would be thought we would be
thinking that Penriff would be on a free game losing
streak hasn't happened in six years. Big Ta. They do
get Nathan Cleary back, but they do lose Scott Sorenson
and Brian Tote. Cowboys are changed from there went over

(57:53):
the Raiders do the Panthers this week?

Speaker 12 (57:57):
I thought the Cowboys had a good win against the Raiders.
They they really held out in that game, having having
having Cleary back. How I'm not sure a little bit undone,
but I'm going to go because it's a combank. It's
not at Penriff. They haven't got home ground this year. Okay, Cowboys.

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I just liked, like like Clifford, I just like.

Speaker 6 (58:24):
Them fair enough. All right, Billy will go to you.
What's your tip on this one?

Speaker 2 (58:32):
I got Panthers by eight. I think it'll be tied.
I just think Cleari will pull it towards the Panthers
towards the end of the game.

Speaker 6 (58:44):
All Right, Friday, the later game, that's the book of feuds,
the one hundred plus year rivalry Young that's the rabbit
O's and the Roosters. The rabbit O's do welcome back
Latrell Mitchell. He'll play center with Joy gray Stain at
full back. Rabbits three from four been looking good and
the Roosters very.

Speaker 7 (59:01):
Rabbit going good. Yep.

Speaker 13 (59:04):
They looked a bit clunky when they when we played
them around two, but ever since I've been a quality side.
So yeah, I'm definitely tipping the Raiders the rabbit Oss Rabbits.

Speaker 6 (59:19):
Yep, and I'm going to back that well. I'm going
to go with the rabbit as as well. I think
they've been looking quite good. Twenty eight led penrift at
half time in that game last week. I just don't
see where the Roosters can get them.

Speaker 7 (59:33):
Coaches either, so.

Speaker 6 (59:37):
The benefactor it's playing a big part. I'm going to
go with the Rabbits. The Roosters unless they can do
one undred needed to return around, I can't see this
result going any other way. The five point thirty game
on Saturday, as Man, we've got the the the Southern
Queensland battle between the Titans and the Dolphins. Titan's been

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looking good. Dolphins still looking for their first win. Will
it come this weekend?

Speaker 9 (01:00:04):
Honestly?

Speaker 7 (01:00:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:00:07):
Uhh yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:00:08):
Titan has been admittedly pretty ordinary rest as side, whereas
uh the Dolphins were beaten by a kind of out
of sorts Brisbane still got beaten fairly comfortably.

Speaker 9 (01:00:25):
Yeah, I think Dolphins will be waiting another week.

Speaker 6 (01:00:29):
Yep, Big Tea, you're more of the same in this one.
You think that you're a mute non mute.

Speaker 12 (01:00:37):
Big Done was going to be someone someone every week,
isn't there? Titans, A J. Brinchmon and a little little
little Preston. They're looking the goods to me and they
got they got reading came of your yard. They've got

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players coming back everywhere. Don't I think they need caring
for him?

Speaker 3 (01:01:01):
Because A J.

Speaker 12 (01:01:02):
Brimson is blinding it in the five A spot. So
I'm going Titans in this one.

Speaker 7 (01:01:09):
I don't think Dolphins have they Titans have won every
they they lost.

Speaker 6 (01:01:15):
Titans have actually only won the one game against them.

Speaker 7 (01:01:18):
Is what I thought they had.

Speaker 13 (01:01:20):
Maybe it was the Trials that I saw something I
thought the Titans had it over him.

Speaker 6 (01:01:26):
Yeah, the Titans won one game last year, Dolphins won
every other game.

Speaker 3 (01:01:31):
Wow, I'm going Titans anyway.

Speaker 13 (01:01:35):
Yeah, Saturday, reason that Dolphins shouldn't win with that squad,
but they're just not clicking at the moment.

Speaker 12 (01:01:40):
Something that it's the benefactor. Every team he's left has
gone ship.

Speaker 7 (01:01:45):
Yeah, it's a curse.

Speaker 6 (01:01:48):
Young Anyway, On Saturday night, the Brisbane Broncos, they're taking
on the Tigers, Young, throw to you. Tigers don't have
Jerome the why he's out suspended and also has has
picked up a shoulder injury. Tigers narrow loss to the Warriors.
Broncos played in heavy rain against the Dolphins. But with

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the job, I'm guessing you're tipping the Tigers.

Speaker 7 (01:02:18):
I'd like to tip the Tigers.

Speaker 13 (01:02:19):
I think I think the Broncos will get them without
Jeronnai and those players missing. But yes, I'd love to
be able to tip the Tigers, but I think the
Broncos will get them sadly.

Speaker 6 (01:02:34):
Yeah, Billy, you're going to agree with young ee there?
Or do you think the Tigers bounce back and get
the winning Brisbane Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:02:41):
I agree with Young, No, Lie, I speak too big
a lass.

Speaker 2 (01:02:45):
For them to win against Brisbane, So yeah, Bronk goes
pretty comfortably.

Speaker 5 (01:02:50):
I reckon.

Speaker 6 (01:02:53):
Sunday afternoon is it's the back to the Battle of
Brookie Scoop. We've got Manly taken out of Melbourne, so
Nathan Brown is going to start with Josh li A
picking up an injury and and Top Simpley comes onto
the bench. Jerome Hughes returns on the extended bench to
Melbourne a week after that broken hand injury, so it's
going to be interesting to see if he plays. You

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wouldn't think so with a broken hand. Do Melbourne bounce
back or will Manly continue their undefeated run at home.

Speaker 11 (01:03:24):
I'm also going to add something in here to Jesse
for at your mess her Bird. Herbert Tom's also out
with injury, so I'm gonna tip Melbourne thirteen plus.

Speaker 3 (01:03:40):
Ship by one hundred.

Speaker 7 (01:03:47):
Traditionally always a good game.

Speaker 3 (01:03:50):
It is.

Speaker 12 (01:03:50):
Do you remember the the.

Speaker 3 (01:03:55):
Glen Stewart in Yeah, yeah, the stink.

Speaker 11 (01:04:03):
I'm growing I'm gonna thro crowing. I reckon, there's a
three I'm not I think there's gonna be a repeat
of twenty thirteen battle When was it twenty twelve?

Speaker 6 (01:04:21):
Twenty eleven twenty eleven.

Speaker 11 (01:04:23):
I'm going to say to send offs to syndins.

Speaker 3 (01:04:27):
Oh, it's gonna be crowing.

Speaker 6 (01:04:31):
Those two in a row. Has mad is it this weekend?

Speaker 8 (01:04:34):
No, Hi, Belly as really pissed off after off the
last week.

Speaker 9 (01:04:42):
He won't let that happen again.

Speaker 3 (01:04:46):
Yes, yes, but off thro the crowing, thro the growing.

Speaker 6 (01:04:50):
You're gonna go to the crow.

Speaker 3 (01:04:51):
I forget crowing.

Speaker 12 (01:04:55):
You're going to say, I'm going to say, mainly by
third place. Oh Tommy, Yeah, Tommy, No, that's worry about
Tommy anymore. They've got they've got cola, they've got Lehi Hoppawadi,
They've got people that could take place, take the place
of Tommy.

Speaker 11 (01:05:14):
Now, Coolers, your.

Speaker 3 (01:05:17):
Melbourne Thirday plus are mainly third plus.

Speaker 11 (01:05:20):
Well, Cooler's gone by the way too.

Speaker 12 (01:05:25):
I hate mainly to you, and I'm going to say
mainly Thirday plus, I hate Melbourne Moore.

Speaker 11 (01:05:32):
I like this by Johnson no longer singing.

Speaker 3 (01:05:36):
It will be the head growing where to use that.
We're going to use that this year. The crowing, I
love it. I love it.

Speaker 6 (01:05:45):
The round is on Sunday night, the undefeated Bulldogs, youngie,
they'll be taking on the Newcastle nights till coming off
the buy. Do the Bulldogs keep the undefeated run going
or can the Knights cause an upset?

Speaker 7 (01:06:00):
Well?

Speaker 13 (01:06:00):
Can I be the first one to upset all the
bulldog fans and say new cattle.

Speaker 11 (01:06:08):
No, I don't think it's gonna happen. How to break
your bubble.

Speaker 13 (01:06:15):
Newcastle? To knock them off their perch? Close one, close one?

Speaker 7 (01:06:21):
Yeah? Where's it being played? You think bull Dogs get them?

Speaker 13 (01:06:33):
If it was up at Newcastle, maybe I'll be saying Newcastle,
I'll get a Newcastle stuff.

Speaker 6 (01:06:39):
We got someone a green with your Yeah, you got
Rory on your side.

Speaker 3 (01:06:47):
Remember remember remember Rory is on the skoop side before. Yeah,
this one, you just get one.

Speaker 13 (01:07:01):
All the dog fans would call me out on the
sledging group and I bagged them out the other week.

Speaker 6 (01:07:09):
Billy, who do you like doggies.

Speaker 7 (01:07:11):
On the.

Speaker 2 (01:07:13):
Yeah, dogs have been really strong to that this season,
and I think they'll get the job done at home.

Speaker 5 (01:07:19):
I go dogs by for it'll be very high.

Speaker 7 (01:07:22):
They should win. Yeah, realistically, I just like to upset.

Speaker 3 (01:07:27):
We could have breat the dogs very rare out of time.

Speaker 7 (01:07:30):
If we did, we got they were lucky. They were Lucky.

Speaker 6 (01:07:38):
The Dragons fans, if you're at the game this weekend,
don't do anything stupid.

Speaker 3 (01:07:43):
Stupid.

Speaker 11 (01:07:45):
I'm making a fourth week in a row for stupid.

Speaker 6 (01:07:48):
No bag in the rest say things to him.

Speaker 5 (01:07:53):
We might need to buy again otherwise.

Speaker 6 (01:07:57):
Anyway, we'll get into predictions for the game against Voldemort's
Eels Dragons versus Voldemort's Eels. We'll start with you, Scoop.
You can you can set us up. You can start
to start us off. What's your predictions for this game.

Speaker 11 (01:08:17):
I'm gonna go. The guys are gonna hate me for this,
but i'm gonna go Dragons twenty four plus.

Speaker 3 (01:08:28):
We're in trouble now.

Speaker 7 (01:08:31):
He's just put the mock on us.

Speaker 11 (01:08:36):
I'm gonna goes. I'm gonna say anytime try school, and
my first try score of the game is going to
be foldemort.

Speaker 13 (01:08:54):
What why need you need to change Scoop's nickname to
the Crow? I reckon that sticks now for the rest
of the years. Crow Jay's that name. He is now
the Crow.

Speaker 3 (01:09:08):
I love it. We all got one throw. One crane
is throwing all right?

Speaker 7 (01:09:14):
Really? That sticks? Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:09:19):
I'll say Dragons twenty six to twelve, and then we
go any.

Speaker 5 (01:09:25):
Time trit scorer. No, let's go it is for a try?

Speaker 6 (01:09:30):
Yep, yes, all right, over to you, yngie.

Speaker 13 (01:09:41):
Two Plato anytime try scorer. And I like twenty six
twelve as well. If we get if we can be
consistent and not tap out halfway through the games that
we have in the past, we should win.

Speaker 7 (01:09:57):
So yeah, Dragon's by twenty six twelve the same.

Speaker 6 (01:10:02):
All right, we'll go to you now, as man, What
do you think is going to happen? Will Will there
be a bit of a staush between Guppo and he
who must not be named? Do you think there'll be
a bit of be a bit of a try or
or do you think Guppo could get a try against
or two against his old club?

Speaker 9 (01:10:24):
I reckon, I reckon? You want to.

Speaker 3 (01:10:28):
Now?

Speaker 9 (01:10:28):
I've got three tries down Voldemort's side.

Speaker 6 (01:10:32):
Two a plot.

Speaker 8 (01:10:33):
Who's going to go in first and do the whole
trame of the money bullshit? Sutton's going to sin been
at least four players head Highs will be dragons, and
Dragons will win by fourteen.

Speaker 6 (01:10:49):
Three have said fourteen? Okay, there's fourteen the magic number
for you?

Speaker 12 (01:10:53):
Too big too, No, Jesus Christ, I'm telling in now, Hey, fans,
Carla is gonna get double. He's gonna score first try
as well. Two, he's going to get three. So he's
going to get two.

Speaker 3 (01:11:10):
Wait right for crowing.

Speaker 12 (01:11:11):
The co people also scored at any time Little wool
score at any time in the Dragon's buy.

Speaker 3 (01:11:18):
It could be forty, could be, could be more, could be.

Speaker 7 (01:11:25):
He could be over again if.

Speaker 3 (01:11:29):
Leftar gets going.

Speaker 12 (01:11:31):
Yeah against Pennasini and.

Speaker 7 (01:11:35):
Yeah, that'll be where I'd be running traffic.

Speaker 3 (01:11:36):
T for sure.

Speaker 12 (01:11:41):
Pennscellina at a straight up them all the time every day.

Speaker 6 (01:11:45):
And Gooler, how much of a myth lossful? He beat?

Speaker 3 (01:11:48):
None?

Speaker 11 (01:11:49):
None, clem.

Speaker 6 (01:11:54):
Right, you've got Blake Larry, but.

Speaker 3 (01:11:58):
Don't laugh he had at last week in the Riggers.
We've got Blake Lawry going.

Speaker 6 (01:12:09):
You know what I would like? I would like to
see him charge over the top of Voldemort and score
a try. That would be god the best mate scoring
against him.

Speaker 3 (01:12:20):
Thames is going to step in blind. So yes, son, So.

Speaker 11 (01:12:25):
I've I'm going to go dragons by twelve.

Speaker 6 (01:12:28):
I think we can get the job done.

Speaker 13 (01:12:32):
Lake Laurie Blake Laurie to do the crow if he
scores the Troy.

Speaker 6 (01:12:40):
Did runs over the top of Voldemort. See you later.
I'm going to go Guffer to get a double. I
think he'll be he'll be pumped. As he said he's
going to tear some heads off. I think he's going
to do that this weekend and he's going to get
a double. He'll be pumped to return to Combank. Last
time he played there, he tore us apart. This time

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he'll do it to his old team. I think he'll
he'll have a blinder and he'll silence that that as Dragon,
he'll be crying all the way home. I think until
a lot will be in any time. Try I score
as well. I think Dragons by twelve and it should

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be a good battle and hopefully we can get the
job done and build off what we did against the
Melbourne Storm, because if we're going to if we're going
to be playing finals football this year, these are the
types of games we've got to win. These are the
types of games we've got to win anyway. So that
just about wraps us up for this evening. Thank you
all for joining us as well.

Speaker 3 (01:13:41):
For Love.

Speaker 6 (01:13:43):
Don't forget, we do have that behind enemy lines and
so that will be uploaded for you to watch very shortly,
so go ahead and watch that. You can find that
on our Facebook page and should be available on YouTube
as well, whichever you, whichever platform you prefer to watch it.
So yeah, we're back on Sunday, will don Donnie and
the crew will be back on Sunday to review Hutily,

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another Dragons win. So I'll prove of you has man
to sign us off, all right?

Speaker 9 (01:14:12):
Yeah, come on dragons fans for love it.

Speaker 3 (01:14:20):
Tails. She wears it on her See that's my tail.

Speaker 12 (01:14:24):
Tails of Dragons wins and June, Tony and the and
people will do live very.

Speaker 3 (01:14:31):
Pats knocked up again? Are the rest?

Speaker 17 (01:14:34):
Will be you objects the Mad Dragon podcast music, She
will come out of.

Speaker 3 (01:14:40):
You navigating wins down rabbit holes in the land, being
with me? And so what was the tails Mad Dragging
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