Not Another F*#ing Rugby League Podcast
The Whiteboard of Des-tiny
You didn’t ask for it and it’s back for another week. This week Brooksy is up and about after a very unexpected Dragons win, a rival podcast has Philpy worried and Barney has a theory about why Reece Walsh may be getting moved to the halves. Plus Des cracks out the whiteboard to send a message of support.Leave us a review wherever you're listening to this and follow the show on Instagram @notanotherfnleaguepoddy
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- Duration:
- 1h 13m
- Broadcast on:
- 07 Aug 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
(upbeat music) ♪ What the world needs now ♪ ♪ Not another ♪ (beep) ♪ Rugby League podcast ♪ (upbeat music) That's right, we're back for another week. Kids, the podcast no one asked for from three blokes whose opinion no one gives a shit about. You got Barney, you got Philpy, you got Brooksy. Gentlemen, welcome to the latest episode of not another fucking rugby league podcast. How are we? - I'm good, I'm good. I brought a couple of beers in. I know, got criticized for that a couple of weeks ago. How are you feeling, you're out? - Well, it's good that you actually shared these beers this time. So you're drinking the whole six back in 42 minutes. But yeah, we're good, we're good. - That's good, mate. I wanna be up to round 23 of the rugby league. - Yes. - Is that round 23? - Is it a little bit like the end of the Olympics, which by the way-- - End of Olympic round? - Yeah, yeah. - Oh, fuck, we should have an Olympic round, shouldn't we? By the way, if you listen to this podcast and you do like it, we released a Olympic edition, a bonus episode. - Talking rings two, I believe, it's cool. - The man with the viral poll. - Oh yeah, we spoke of a lot of poll vaults. So you can flick over there and have a look at that. But is it getting a bit like, in that episode, we talked about how the Olympics is about the wrap up and it's getting quite sad. - I've already in the sadness of the rugby league about to finish, like, no, it's not about to finish, but there's not long to go back. - For some teams, it is. - Oh, fucking hell. - Yeah. - So we're already thinking about 2025, some teams, some teams, yeah. - Yeah, I know. - Some teams. - Some players. - Yeah, some players are looking at 2026. They're like, oh, I'll play out next to you where I am, but let's get out of here after that. - If the Panthers win again, like don't we waste a lot of time talking rugby league for no particular reason? - The last four years has been a write off. - Yeah. - Like, you know, there's radio stations out there that just talk rugby league nonstop about who's gonna win this weekend. And inevitably, it's the same team all the fucking time. It's been a waste of time for everyone. - Yep, yep. - Well, that's the end of the game. - Anyway, enjoy this week's rugby league. - A contemplating their career. - The back of Steve Spiel, get an official segment. - They might. Maybe we get back to #TalkTheGameUp, all right? - That was a great year, wasn't it? - It was. - Like, journals were just hammering crowds, players, teams. Anyone that had a student was heckled. - Now, that said, the game is flying at the moment. - It's flying. - Now, before we start, I do need to do a quick thing. Can I, I'm just gonna give a little shout out to Condo, who is, he's a listener. He's recovering from a major surgery. He had a little bit of heart surgery and he's recuperating. Listen to this, he's a, well, he's a tiger's fan, so. Mate, maybe just work on the speaking class for years. - Yeah, but just, no wonder he's got a broken bloody heart. - Yeah, I know, that's why he's got that. I'd like to look into the stats of that, at like, hospitals, as to all the surgery. - They'll make fans and, yeah, so like, you know, heart conditions or, you know what, you know what's interesting, this is real side track. So, you guys know, when my youngest, like, he was, when he was four, he had leukemia and quite a bit of time in the, in the kid's hospital. He's fine now, listen, I don't worry about it, but he, quite a bit of time in hospitals and we used to get the, the sporting teams would come through and, and visit the kids. Right, which is great for the kids, but I feel like a lot of the time, especially with the rugby league teams, the parents were sort of more interested in the visit than say the four-year-olds. - Right, like my, my four-year-old didn't know who were the difference between a rabbit and a shark, and he's just like, whatever. Shark sounds tougher, dad. Right, but then I'm chatting to the palm, having a good time chatting to the players. I'm like, yeah, no, no, Damien Cooko, yeah, how's it going? You used to be a beach springer man, tell me about that. - I can see in your future, Damien, I feel like you're going to end up in the centers. - Yeah, yeah. - But that sort of stuff happens for, for sick kids and so it should, yeah. But is there an opportunity, maybe for rugby league to lead the way here? 'Cause there's a lot of rugby league fans at Crooked Times. Wouldn't you love to see the rabbit, I was just rocking to say, you know what, today we're going to Ward 3, Prince of Wales. Come what, mate, whoever's there. There's a rooster's fan, we'll give them shit. Maybe they won't get out of the hospital. Who knows? - I don't mind that. You know what I'd like to see is a bit of a reverse of that. I'd like to see in the sheds, just someone who's broken their arm. So the-- - Bring the hospital to the sheds? - Yeah. - So switch it around a little bit. You go, right, it's just about to go out. Just before we run out, boys. Here's Sandra, you know, over here. She's got chicken pox. - Chicken pox. - Chicken pox. - You had to be communicable. - Yeah. - Like, couldn't have gone with something. - She wants to try to Sandra. - She wants to talk to you about how tough her wigs be. Let's have a listen, right? The boys are like, "Yeah, right, I was still "for fucking Sandra, let's go." - I would have gone with shingles over chicken pox. - Well, she's short of the roosters and it could end up in the bird flu. That's all I'd say, right? So, chicken pox. - You want a bird flu, fucking roosters. - Fuck it. - Right, we're all ideas here on the podcast. It is a good start. So, big shout out to Conda. Hope you get well, mate. - Thank you. - And yeah, we're thinking of your brother. Now, it's time for our, well, our regular opening segment. - Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste, taste. Don't swallow. - Yeah, that's right. It's time for what caught your senses. And it's been a big week for the senses this week. And boys, if you don't mind, I might lead us off. - Go this week, go for it, why not? - You boys know, apart from rugby league, one of my great passions is the noble sport of hockey. - You do love a bit of hockey, don't you? - Which one? Nice. - Real hockey, mate. - So, I saw NHL. - No, real hockey. The one that real men play, and that is not this. It's not ice dancing with a stick, mate. Ice dancing with a stick. Well, this is the problem, right? We've had a good reputation as hockey players. But, what do you like it so much, like were you? - I played. No, I grew up in a town where the, your options were hockey or Australian rules football. And yeah, something happened at the, I played a little Aussie rules as a young boy, and then something happened at the AFL club, and Dad promptly pulled us out there. I don't know what happened to this day. - I think the West Coast Eagles won a few flags. - But after, yeah, no, it was pretty that, but it was, it may have been similar vibes. But anyway, we got pulled out of the, we were basically pulled out of the Aussie rules, and it was, guess what, you're a hockey player, son. Here's a stick, and you know what, I never looked back. And, you know, it put me on a good track in life, because that's, it's what, one of the things hockey does is it imparts a certain ability, a certain code of ethics. You can always tell a hockey player by the look in their eyes, and that is a good citizen. - Clean skins, clean skins. That's what it is, aren't these? You know what, these are the, these are the helpers, not the takers. - Who would be the NRL hockey players? - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Tim Manor, Tim Manor? - Yeah, man, he's got a hockey vibe. He could have, mate. - Jake Travoevich. - Jake Travoevich, you know what, he could have played inner. He's got a good big engine. - Inner, big engine, yeah, inner. - Yeah, it's a position. - Actually, you know what, I put him center half, really controlled, really controlled again. - Yeah. - You know what, I was thinking about the hockey, just, I'd sidetracked slightly, is that you know how we had the Brian Todd O-Vibes after Origin where he was wearing the kit? - Full kit, full kit, yeah, yeah, yeah. - He rocked up in the airport in the Origin gear. - I was watching the hockey, and they all looked the same apart from the keeper who's just dressed ridiculously in all these helmets and pads and looks hard to walk appropriately. - Yeah, now, how good would it be if whoever wins gold in the hockey at the Olympics, the keeper's just full kit still at the airport? - Yes. - Just in the helmet, still got the pads. - Still partying on in the pads. - He's just looking at the duty free. He's trying to grab, it's not gonna shoot off the shelves. - But you love hockey, Barney. - I do love hockey, mate. I'm loving that visual, isn't he? - It's just quietly. - He's trying to grab the Johnny Walker's two for nine. - Oh, two for nine. It got the, on the end of the stick by the time they lay, just put it through there. Like a bindle, like a hobo's bindle. But speaking of bindles. - Haven't heard of the word "bindle" in all. - Right now for a bad hobo's bindle. - Hobo's bindle. - Yeah. (laughs) - Jesus. Right, no, the news, what get on with the senses. What caught my senses is the great game of hockey has been brought into disrepute. - What? - Well, as we go to internet tonight, the scuttlebutt around Paris is that an Australian hockey star, they're saying athlete. I'm saying star 'cause they're all stars. Has been arrested for attempting to purchase cocaine. Which you gotta say, that's a couple of things I find with that. It's off-brand for hockey for a couple of reasons. One, noble nobility. There's the nobility argument I've laid forth. But if you don't believe in the nobility argument, the other thing I'm gonna say is it is not a sport where you get a lot of money. I wouldn't have thought of all the athletes kicking around the village. Maybe that's why the player got arrested. Maybe they didn't have enough. - I know. - They got dubbed in by the dealer. - I haven't seen Snoop Dogg once at the hockey. That's all I'm saying. - Right. - So, yeah, I know. 'Cause he knows. - Yeah. - Stay away. These are good people. (laughs) These are good people. - Are you surprised that an Aussie hockey player got done doing this before Snoop lit up a Jay, a joint, a spliff? - Yeah, potentially. - Feels like it. - What was the guy's name? - We don't have the name, you know? I don't think it's been released. Let me check the latest. - We're assuming it's a guy, are we? - I don't. - I don't exist. - I thought Brooksey revealed it on our Olympic podcast. - Did you, Brooksey? - Yeah, Tommy Craig. - Yeah. - Oh, I was Tommy Craig. - Yeah, me too, first names. - Maybe Barney hockey's not as reputable or noble as you might think it is, mate. Maybe it's up there with the same kind of white powder at the gymnastics. Maybe they're doing the same kind of stuff. - No, mate, this is, it's a water-based game for a reason. No powders, they just get soaked up. - Yeah, it's there. But it's, yeah, I think I'm disappointed. I'm not angry. I'm just disappointed, Tommy Craig. And I think, you know what? Maybe it's time for the Coca-Barras. Maybe they laughin' for all the wrong reasons. (both laughing) Maybe the Coca-Barras need to have a good heart long-hearted look at themselves about doing a bit of a cook. And, you know what, we'll come back better than ever. And maybe this is like, you know what, we've let a bad apple into the barrel. And maybe that's why we got knocked out in the quarterfinals. - Oh, I'm sure there's a redemption tour in LA, 2028. Before Tommy is if found guilty. But a lot of the events are around like Los Angeles and Vegas. I mean, they won't be looking for cocaine around there. - He'll be fine, he'll be okay. And also, at the start of this segment, we're trying to work out which NRL players clean skins hockey. Now, I think most of the NRL qualify. - To blend. - To be a hockey player right now. What caught your senses, Bruxy? - All right, I'm gonna take you to the Glitter Strip, the Gold Coast. Saturday, you know I like a three o'clock game. - That was a three o'clock game on a Saturday. - Are you advocating bringing back the daytime grand final? - No, I'm not. - See, I am, but... - I don't, I really don't care. But I understand why we put it on later for numerous regions, and regions. - Yeah, yeah. - But let me take you to the region of the Gold Coast boys pre-game, the Titans are pretty hot at the moment. They've won a few games, they're dumb and dumber. You're saying there's a chance, if they win out, they might sneak into the eight. - They're feeling a bit of Desi Magic. - I think Desi Magic, you know, the dojo is doing its charm finally in round 22. And you know what, I think when you throw good karma out, good karma comes back, they had a big win. But before the game, Fox League, they put cameras in the sheds, you know, to get those warm up sheds. So when they're talking about a player, they can get a nicer shot of them. Bit of a vacuum. - Oh, look at you. - They're just peeling the curtain back on the album. 10+ years in media, you know, you can't talk about it. - Someone's reminiscing about his day as a producer. - Yeah, pretty much got phased out of there. But anyway, you should just add it as any help to your mind. - Oh yeah, it's with The Great Sherva. Me and Sherva were in combo. Anyway, Desi, whiteboard. - Oh, sorry. - An average size dick between him. - Yeah. (laughing) - Let's not look at the pie chart. Anyway, the whiteboard are in the Titan sheds. - Yes. - You know, double-sided, you know? 'Cause it's great. You can have first half, second half, if you want. You can have backs forwards, whatever. Desi decided to use one to communicate to the team about the game, but flip the other side, camera side, and write congratulations to all our Olympians. We are so proud of you, all the best, the Titans. - Isn't that nice? - Isn't that great? Do you know if that filled it through to Paris? - Yeah, maybe that's what caused the problem with the hockey players. They're like, what would you do on the Gold Coast? (laughing) - Well, our Gold, white packet of powder. - There's a few Golds coming from the Gold Coast over the second week, and it got me thinking. I was like, I've seen a Titan's whiteboard before, and it was back in 2017 with the-- - Pre-Des. - Pre-Des, back in the old under 20s days, and it was from the under 20s coach, and he had three points for the young Titans for that game day. Know your job, accept your job, do your fucking job. And that was captured in the Fox League cameras. - Same whiteboard? - Same, I think it is, but yeah. - Same handwriting, that's gonna be the question. - It's similar, it's similar colors too, that's-- - So Des is a former, there's a former schoolteacher, so he'd have the proper, he would have, that teacher's college learnt, you know, this is your chalkboard font that you're writing up there. But that know your job, do your job, and know your job, accept your job, do your job. Do you reckon he was like, right, point one, what's your job, you're a rugby league player, right, accept your job, okay, I'm a rugby league player. - Now go do your fucking job. - What was that again? (laughing) - A good point. - A good point rugby league. - There's point two. - Is it just a shit version of the AFL banner? - No. - The AFL banner's the shit version of the AFL. - This is great. - I'd like to see him start running through the whiteboard, like I said, to come in. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - He got a right shit in there, just got to run out. - If anyone can fire up a team to run through a whiteboard, it's Des. - I reckon, yeah, he's ripped doors off before, so yeah. - Was Desi at the infamous 1988 Long Beach, not, it wasn't an origin as such, but it was an exhibition state of origin where-- - Peter Stirlo couldn't get through it. - Yeah, he got stuck in there. - I think that's the last, other than a Melbourne store, you know how the Melbourne store embraced the banner, 'cause they had banners. - They got the banners. - They've had the banners, they had the banners for Bellamy's. I remember we had the message for Bellamy, and he's Marky again, and I think when he ticked over 400, they had just said, "Good one, cunt." (laughing) - 'Cause you gotta talk to Bellamy in language, you understand, you know what I mean? - That's great. - Like, they're it. (laughing) The big question is, is it gonna be back again this way? - They're playing at home again. - Oh, you've gotta keep the whiteboard-- - We need some more whiteboard action. What I'm interested in is that, so they play at home this way. I think we'll say it, I think we'll definitely say it. - The following week, they play at Wind Stadium, right? Against your dragons. - Oh, oh, oh. - Now, are they packing it on the plane? Are they taking it with them? - You whiteboard until you lose. - Do you? - Just keep whiteboard. - 100%, you can't change it. - Do you start-- - Is that gonna be in their way, shed? So, what do you have to bring your own board? 'Cause I think they'll bring the same board. - It's a lucky board. - You can't let the away team supply the board. - That was a full-size board. You can't-- - You wouldn't get that on, like, what are you packing that on a jet star fly? - You can't, and you can't get that from an office work, so let's say, in Unendera or Thorells. - 'Cause, no. - 'Cause also, couldn't you do that thing, like, if you borrowed the other whiteboard, do you know that thing where you write, like, fuck off, Bellamy, you're a cunt. Like, what do you want to say? - I'm permanent. - Then you put your, like, the pencil, the lead pencil over the top of it. - Oh, the shading, yeah, you're shading, and then it reveals what it's written on there, so, like, the away sheet could write, you know. Hey, Titans, you're all a fucking, you know, ship no one likes going to the three-park pass anyway. - Stop sucking up to Olympians, Titans, or something like that. - And then, or just a big soon, B. - Yeah, mate, look, I'd love to see them take their own whiteboard down there, right? And start, like, throwing shade at the other team. So, when they get, 'cause that's the first away game. - Yeah. - In a couple of weeks, they write, like, "Hey, Jack DeBellen, more like Jack DeBellen." Like, "Oh, something like that." - Oh, yeah, yeah, I like that. - Oh, I thought you were going to say, "We're going to kick on the fourth." Or something like that. - We're going to kick on the fourth. - Or, what about that, right? - I'll fly a city. - Hey, that's just-- - Hey, Mike, the out scene doesn't have a, the coach doesn't have a son in the out scene, or something like that, like, you know, throwing a bit of shade at it. - Yeah, make it real personal. - Yeah, get amongst it, but I like that, mate. The whiteboard was exciting, but it's, my senses were caught heavily. - Yeah, cool. - Because we've got, like, so what episode is this? - This would be four? - Oh, at least four. - Yeah, a couple of Olympic episodes as well. - There's a few shockers at the start. - In, do you think we're the, like, most recent podcast of rugby league, or do you, what I'm trying to get to is this. There's been an incident, and-- - Oh, wow. - There's a podcast that's been released in spite, somewhat? - A spite podcast. - Yeah, pretty much, right? So-- - That's Larry Dave. - We were, and there's a podcast that's out there, already. And it's basically stolen our name, and it's basically got the same premise, right? So, obviously, we're not another fucking rugby podcast because there was too many of them. So, Friday night, at home, having a few beers invited the neighbors over, and we've got a few kids. We've got my kids have appeared on our show. Dempsey has done my son, my 70-year-old. He's done a couple of little ads for us where he swears. I'll let him swear on it. So, I was playing those to the kids, and the neighbors' kids thought it was great. They were like, "Oh, this is great," 'cause you know that, it's where they're saying. All the kids are, I think they're eight, seven, six, all those ages around that area. And so, the littlest one from next door, Harley, he's like, "Oh, can I have a go? "Can I have a go at this?" And he was like getting up and about. I've never seen him so excited, apart from what he sculled, like half of all the red cordial recently. But so, we're there. And I said to him, "Look, Harley, here's what I'll do." We're doing another episode. "I'll write you something for our podcast." Yeah. And you'd think that'd be okay. Have an hat. 'Cause I said, "Oh, I'm pretty late." Oh, I wrote those ones at Dempsey said. It wasn't, he didn't come up with them, right? You'd think that'd be-- A Tarantino podcast. Yeah, it does. You'd think that'd be good enough, right? But Harley, seven-year-old Harley Wright, didn't take that very well. He said, "I don't want you to write it for me. "I can write my own stuff." And I said, "Oh, no, that's what I do, mate." Like, "I'm a comedian." Oh, I'd love to. Right, there's stuff. And he's like, "No." And it got pretty heated, right? Like, in terms of, like, we were just mucking around. That's the creative process, man. Yeah, exactly, yeah. And he said, "You know what? "I don't want to do your podcast. "I'm gonna do my own." Tell me he's not doing bloke in a bar. (laughing) Dan and Camp hasn't stolen another one from us. 'Cause he's doing, yeah, he's doing baby in a bar or something like that. He's going, "Rotto, give me your phone, dad." So, Dan, his dad's going, "Here you go." This is how you press record. Dad's culpable with this. Yeah, absolutely. So, he goes inside, comes out. He needs some music. I helped him with it. Oh, he's still helped him with it. Well, I just... (laughing) I want to do a peer on his podcast. Oh, here we go. So, boys, I can exclusively play. You got the audio. The spite podcast from 70-year-old Harley Wright, who decided not to appear on our podcast, but create his own, not another, Bowser's not another fucking rugby league podcast. Let's have a listen to Harley's opener right now. Hi. You're listening to another bloody footy podcast. This is by Harley Wright. Teams. Rabbits, Panthers, Tigers. They're just some players. Spencer, Latreal, Mitchell, Hayden, and Place Walsh. They're just some good players. (laughing) Rabbits are gonna win against Bronco. I should have played him. Done. (laughing) Oh, give me a round. It's made up! (laughing) ♪ You'll catch the hell I'll make it strong ♪ (laughing) ♪ You're simply the best ♪ This is... I'll just check the charts. He's beaten us. He's above us on the apple charts. (laughing) Oh, okay, we started with a posh accent. Yeah, he does... He does very... He does love not. He does lend into it. In English accent, he's... Yeah, anyway. That's... Mate, any clearly... I don't know about you guys, but were you scared that he knew more teams than you did? Yeah. Who's that Harold Gordon? And that's just some... Hayden. Hayden. I don't know, he's got Hayden, but I'll tell you something. I'm gonna check RLP. (laughing) He did that about six times. I helped him with the music at the end. That's what I did. Six-take. And then he got upset because he... I think he realized Hayden wasn't a player, right? So, he's had a meltdown, born home, sobbed. This is probably 15 minutes. He finally comes back and he's in the corner so he could tell you he'd been crying. And I was like, " Mate, I said, "Hey, I tried "to give him his pep talk." I was like, "Holly, don't worry about it, mate." You know, like, you know, many times I stuff things up. You do them again, you get better, you practice a lot. And he just stands up. He comes straight towards me, he's seven years old. And he just sort of, as he's going past whispers in my ear, my podcast is gonna be way better than your podcast. (laughing) Like, mark, time, and date, selfish. Mate, the Spike podcast is on, not another bloody footy podcast. I don't want to make us sound like idiots. You know how we thought Hayden wasn't a player? I just looked it up. Hayden Lipp, he played 36 games in "Intrust Super Cup" for Ipswich. This kid knows ins and outs of rugby. I would have been impressed if he knew New South Wales Cup, given the fact that he lives down the road from you. But it's following Ipswich back in 2014 to 2017. He's across the Lippster. Yeah. So, boys, I suppose we've made it, you know? We've got a, we've already got competition. Yeah, they say flatteries, the, the, sincerest form. Oh, sorry, their date. (laughing) So, they say that parody is the sincerest form of flattery. But, yeah, no. (laughing) Can we get a cease to desist on this kid? We might, uh, have the head of the break. 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Well, I'll get something to Google once we finish this podcast. Yeah, you're on not-another-fucking rugby league podcast. Boys, time to chat a little bit of interim news. And, well, a bit of a round review of what happened last weekend. So that was round 22, correct, yeah. But what around it was, got off to a flying start to the first four games. Oh, yeah, I did the maths. 266 points in same, wasn't it? Yeah, so that's averaging 66.5 points a game. So if you were taking the under over for any of those games, I don't know what that would have paid. That is incredible. So, yeah, Tigers scored 30 in a loss to the Cowboys. He got 48. Warriors went down 20 to 30 to the Eels, which I didn't see that coming. I don't know about you, Blake's. Dolphins and Roosters, this was a tight one. 42, 34, the Roosters got over the Dolphins. And then the Titans, well, this was the game that lit up your Saturday afternoon there, Brooks here. Oh, there he is. Titans 46, Bronco's 18. Does that score flatter the Titans a bit in the end? Because that was tighter than that for a lot of the game. Yeah, the Broncos were leading in that game. It was 18, 10 at half time. And then the Titans scored 36 unanswered points from that 4pm to 5pm window. I can't get enough of this time slot, as you can tell. It was, yeah, it was golden hour on the Goldie. The Titans, you know, always been the little brother. I put this on social media, so my first memories of rugby league, I'm getting a bit nostalgic now, it was 1988, when your good selves came into the competition with the Brisbane Broncos and the Goldcoast Tweed Giants. It seemed like Goldcoast with the wasteland of interim franchises, losing the Giants. The Seagulls basically turned into the Chargers, who left, and they bring back the Titans. Even, you can include Southeast Queensland with the Crushers coming and going from '95 to about '97. And it's, as a Broncos fan, it must be tough. You are the big brother in that area. You have had a bad season, a couple of seasons ago, winning the wooden spoon. Remember when they were throwing the spoons on Red Hill? Oh, yes. I got a great fan base as just giving it to the team. But now, legitimately, the Titans and the Dolphins have surpassed the Broncos off the back of a grand final. Like, it's just, it's tough to see because the Broncos have been a team that you get around as a neutral, watching some of those games. They've got some flair, but they have lost some players to the Dolphins, lost players to injuries. The Titans, everyone was off them. They lost their first six games, so it was a bit of a tough start for Desi's era up in the Goldcoast. He lost his first, last seven games with the Seagulls, too. So, he had this massive losing streak either side of his two 10 years. But, you see all these young guys coming through, like Keanu Kenney, the full back, killed it, braided it. Great game. Like, they've had to shuffle Jaden Campbell and A.J. Brimpson to sort of fit this young prodigy in to the team. Into an important position like full back, Jaden Campbell's embraced five, eight. Kieran Forren's got at least another eight seasons left. It's, there's some, some special building on the Goldcoast. See, I feel like the difference in this game, and it showed itself in the second half in that Gold now, where the light is just magic. And I raised it last week. I've got a theory that Kevi doesn't know how to coach good-looking players. Yeah. And we talked about that last week, and it showed itself. Because Des, Des, there's an average looking like now. But, in his day, he was a good-looking rooster. Like, lethal weapon, Mel Gibson. Yeah, just the beautiful head of hair. Now, and not to say, he's not a good-looking, older rooster now, but, you know what I mean? Like, he's gone that gamut, where he can relate to the average-looking player. He can relate to the good-looking player. And, and we saw, like, you know, they got away with it for the first half. But when that light sort of dipped around that four o'clock, five o'clock hour, like where the photographers call it magic hour for a reason. It's a light just, if you've got a good-looking person, that's when they shine the best. And you could see Rees Walsh and company didn't know what they were doing in that time. Like, it was just, like, Rees Walsh got off to a flying start. But I think he scored two tries, like, but both in the first part of the, I think 10. Not the gold now, 10 and 14. Yep, early. Then he hits gold now. He's just walking down, "I'm a good-looking bloke." "No, I'm a good-looking bloke." "What am I doing, Hattie?" "No, tries here." "No." "Absolutely." So, I mean, do we think that there's, do we think that Kevin's missing a trick here? Does Kevin need Trent Barrett sooner than we thought? Yeah, he could do. He could do. I mean, there's a lot of beautiful people in the Gold Coast. Maybe the Broncos need to relocate. Ooh, you know, 'cause they're a beautiful-looking team. Maybe they need to switch to, like, like how the New York Jets play out of New Jersey. Yeah. Oh, so we've got two teams based on the Gold Coast. One's just called the Brisbane Broncos. Well, I mean, the Dolphins all feel a Suncorp, that's fine. Can they still play at Suncorp, but base themselves in Brisbane? Is that what you're saying on the Gold Coast? Is that what you're saying? Well, it's just workshopping it, but it's one of those criticisms of the Gold Coast in terms of the ground. And I suppose Canberra to a degree, and the Cowboys did this year, the Cowboys ground used to be well out of town. Right. And, like, it still had a lot of great games out there, but it was a bit of a shit fight to get to. The new stadium's right in town. It's unreal. Canberra's ground, way out of town. Gold Coast times. In fairness, fucking way out of town. In fairness to Bruce Stadium. Yeah. There's not a whole lot of town to be in in Canberra. Like, that whole place. Put 'em in fish week, man. Everywhere it feels like it's a bit out of town in Canberra. Remember when you were talking about Townsville? Remember, they just didn't give a fuck about that stadium. They'll, like, call it whatever. One 300 small stadium. Yeah, whatever. It didn't matter. Like, it was dairy farmers for a while, and it was a free number. One 300 small stadium. What's that? But, dentist, what's that? You hit up that way. But, yeah, you could have it. There is a theory there. I think you might be onto something with that. Like, maybe not playing the city that you're representing. I even just play over at the Carl Bergoff Centre. They seem to be comfortable there, where they train. Yeah. Dracula's? They train to win every session. They train to it. They train to it. The Dracula's theatre restaurant. Get it down there. What is Kevin going to survive this? Yeah. This is... I don't... Like, I've heard the rumours, and it's a brutal game. Like, you know, everyone's starting to go, "How's Kevin going to survive?" But, you've got to remember, Kevin was on the nose the year before, then takes him to a grand final. Everyone loves Kevin. Like, it's just sort of the rollercoaster of being Kevin, isn't it? And the Bronco's coach. And the Panthers curse, as well. Yeah, yeah. So, a parameter of dog shit after... Rabbidoes. Yeah. The Rabbidoes. It's a real grand final. There's a real thing, isn't there? Forming for that. But, look, without this... Like, I'm surprised. How long have we been going in this episode? - A while. - 32 minutes. And you haven't not once mentioned the dragons... Oh, I was waiting for you guys to talk to me. I think it's that sort of performance you don't really need to bring up as a dragons fan. And everyone's been talking about how good they're playing. You broke your curse. How many years was it? 1999. So, it's 25 years. So, the dragons won... I think it was week one of the finals at Olympic Park. Like, there was a track around that field. - Yeah. - Like, it's not in... It wasn't in its current formation the last time we won down there. And it was week one finals. Obviously, we lost a grand final that year to the storm in the rematch. Then, before 2000... Sorry, before the dragons played the storm in 2000, which was played at the MCG. Mundine of the Anthony variety came out and said these guys aren't legit premieres. Like, because the dragons gave up a big league in the grand final. Remember the dragons were up 18-0. - Yeah. And then Jamie Ainsko took the head off Craig Smith, scoring in the corner, which was a penalty try. They kick the goal, Matt Geyer kicks the goal, and the rest is history. Storm win in their second year. Anyway. - Sorry, that was a bit... - You've been forecasting a few years where Melbourne weren't legit premieres. Like, they won it, and then they take it off. It was the wrong years. And, you know, Mundine took one, and the dragons took one for eventual storm. What do you call it? Not ramifications. Anyway, they basically broke the league for a couple years. Anyway, so 2000, they spanked us 70 to 10 in the MCG after Mundine's comments. We haven't won down there since. - Oh. - Until the red... - There was no big... - The scarlet and white of the dragons go down and do a number on... Like, a premiership contender. - Do a number. - Yeah, by two points. - There's a camp. - There's a number. They weren't wearing the red V, so does it count? - Like... - No, it wasn't a red V. - Uh, it was a... - Choke this one up to Illawaramut. - Yeah. - Illawarasox. - And Illawarasox. - Yeah, and just a red... Yeah, so, great win, regardless of what part of the merger's jersey we were wearing. - Did you have a bet on them? - No, I didn't. I did not think they were going to win at all. - I thought they were. - How could you bet on them, or give them any sort of chance after what happened down at win stadium the week before against a panther? - Tyrell Sloane was back, though. - Sloane was back. - I had a beer with you, sorry, buddy. - Again? - Oh, yeah. - It was two weeks in a row. - And I think that's all right, yeah. - We had a beer together, and it was in the three. - It's like... - Is this when I'm doing the row? - Is that when you guys catch up? - Is he in the Google Dog? - Yeah, let's go for a beer. - Yeah, let's go for a beer. - We're editing this show for us, and then we'll have a beer. - When you walked into the pub, I said, "Oh, here it is. Let's go dragons." And what did you say? - I was like, "Where's Barney?" - Yeah. - Because I'm not hanging around for years, probably was the back end of that scene. - Oh, I basically said, "I don't think they're in with a chance." - Five percent, you said. - Five percent, five percent. - And over a chance. - Oh, I'm rattling off percentages. But there was no way, there was no way, and I think a lot of dragons fans were thinking the same. - Right performance. - What do you think the difference was? - Because Bellamy said his halves combination need to get back on the same page. It spent a long time apart with, obviously, injuries and stuff getting in the way there. - It's hard. If you're half-backs reading the book from-- - Yeah, different. - Yeah, what chapter are you up to? - Oh, God. - Months has just started the book. - What's this like? - What? - You're up to the Goblet of Fire already. - Yeah, because your relationship, you know, when you're streaming a show and your partner's at episode six and episode three, it can cause angst in the household, similar to what's happened here, it's not in the same page. - Especially if you're watching baby reindeer, right? - Oh, you could be an episode six. - You could be an episode six. - Hectic, isn't it? Oh, I think I know that. That is ridiculous, Tv. Anyway, funny you should bring that up. My, my, what, I was at a gig last night. My wife rang me to ask me. She goes, if you started watching this show and it was, um, what's that one that's on Apple TV? Yeah. Presumed innocent. Yes. Presumed innocent. She goes, you started watching that. I said, we actually started watching that together. Oh, wow. That's one of the shows where what she goes. Really? I don't remember it at all. And I'm like, she goes, Oh, so you want me to do a guilty of watching it? And I'm like, we watch this together. And then after the first episode, every time I'm like, do you want to watch this? She goes, no, that's pretty intense. I'm tired. I'm not going to be able to take that in. So we haven't watched it. I just said, just watch it without me, because otherwise, like, I'm never getting to watch it. But yeah, that's, that's, she didn't even remember that we watched it. So you know, we're going to take some halves of going through at the moment. Oh, yeah. Oh, mate. Call me monster. I'm out there. It's funny that you bring this up about, um, not remembering stuff. So this happens to me and I've broached it with my assistant coach in the kids' footies. Sue's who's an absolute legend. And she said, I have the next day after a night on the drink. She goes, I have to not mention anything that happened the day before. Because she, she will say something about what happened. And then Lauren, her partner will say, you fucking already told me that. And then she will say three more things. And she'll be like, you told me that already. Right. So she said, she said, she started on the same page. She said, she started writing down shit. Like, so she'll get up and go. Well, this, this, this, this. And then just self edit so that the Mrs. doesn't go. There we go. You're going to work. She's journaling that's the problem. The camera monster's talking about stuff. I think I told you, yeah, mate, you told me, can we just concentrate on the game, please? Or wasn't monster up in the box during all of this? Oh, you know, the whole time he's been injured. He's up in the box. He's hooked up a swear. He's bred a few pages ahead. Maybe he skipped their head or he hasn't been doing his homework. Oh, when someone drops off. Craig hates it, we're going to go. We do that. He tells me when up in the box. Are you still on the players? Yeah, he's like, Craig will be blowing up. You should see. Have a look at him. Look at him. Look at him. Oh, I went up. Is monster just a new Sean Johnson? You know, like, the boy is a fine now without Johnson when he comes back. They're dog shit. Right. So, yeah. Maybe it's concerning. There has been little rumors, by the way, that I have heard Barry, too. We will probably steal this one off me and then you can. Oh, yeah. Nothing to do with the nights, but it had been rumors that the nights are like, uh, vigorously chasing Joan a peasant, uh, former night. Yes. Half who has played there. And what I've heard a little bit of is they're not going to let him go because month, there's a decent chance monster might retire in the next year or two. Really? A lot of his injuries are a lot worse than first expected. Um, and he's. All right, Dr. Phil. Hi, I'm Dr. Phil. Coroner again. Are you having a relationship? Um, that's what I heard, boys. Uh, just on that one, but you know what the dragons win made me feel like? Um, that fuck, the nights can beat the Panthers. I was like, you know what? Yeah, we can beat the Panthers. Come on, here we go. If those Derek's can go down the Melbourne and get the two points, we're going to get out. Derek's going to Penner. The Panthers were dead set there for the taking. Like, you don't see Penra play like that. In a game where like, we didn't a couple of things. No, a couple of things happened in the game. Right? We probably scored up a forward pass and, uh, Isaac Tungo knocks the ball on somehow or did he? I don't know. Even certainly. So, but you just go, hang on, score is a level, not long to go. How did this happen? And then we just that about playing ugly bullshit that he talks about. Grab the fucking ball and take it by the hike. You don't get this chance ever again. Right. And we beat them. Right. This week, then we've got a relatively easy run up, not that crazy, but you just go, oh, we're up in a bit easier than the Panthers. Okay. No, Jesus. You were, you were blowing up again about the lack of use of Kalemponger. Oh, look, I watch, I've been watching him for three weeks now, obviously, not to buy around. I'm not a stalker, but I, I, every Instagram's a good follow. Everything that I mentioned, he did again. He runs around full back. He runs around like he's in the under sixes looking for the ball. Like he said, we go right. He, he drifts around right and then he doesn't get the ball. When we scored our first try, this happened. We, we set up perfectly to go to the left. I think we went to the left once. Then we're going to come back to the left. Yeah. That's the awkward moment where you think something's going to happen. Yeah. Yeah, usually just trying to try to read the Panthers out from your land. Happens when I'm in my kid's foot. I'm like, okay, quick, go left, pass it. And then some kid goes himself. I'm like, yeah, well done. My great, but the same thing happened boys. I've been happening on about is we've got a scrumfeed 20 out. But he, he actually switched sides. He went to the right, then he moved to the left and I was like, oh, he's getting the ball here. He has to get the ball here. Decoy. And it goes to the right. They give it a toss and gamble. He runs the ball and the game before, uh, nights, NRLW'd to make her up then gets the ball for scrum, does overs, hits the winger in the corner and we score a try. Like it's not like, yeah, if you're in a, if you're in the best attacking position, you've been in for a while, give it to your best attacking player. Yeah. Do you think Adam O'Brien's overthinking it going? Or they just saw our NRLW team do that? Yeah, right. And sit a left. Maybe he's, you know, overthinking these plays a little too much for me. I saw one of those, the, the Matty John's podcast with Cooper and Maddie and it's like, they're analysis, do they? Yeah. Got a podcast. Their analysis of the game is top shelf, in my opinion. And he, Cooper, two guys that played a shitload of NRL and have found it for a living. Yeah. Compared to air. Yeah. Yeah. Where are we sitting on the shelves? We're, we're fucking right there. And my, especially my part of that, I bring you guys down. Under the bar, Matt. Sorry. I'm knocking the pole off with my, you guys are knocking the pole off with your IQ and I'm, I'm going to ask you this. Are they picking Tyson Gamble? Like, should they pick Tyson Gamble again? Because he did not have a great game. He's part of that rotation of us. Well, yeah, he's due to be picked in round 25 and 27 by my calculations of the rotation. Do we think that the thinks that do we think Adam O'Brien thinks it's like the, the bullpen of the pitches, like in major league baseball play one, get rested for two play one, get rested for two. Yeah. He is the dolphins got any right handed butters because we should put our left hand left. Yeah. Brian Gordon, they're getting a job with the nights at the moment. He's rotating. I just don't, I don't understand. I don't, like, yeah, it's, it's infuriating. What, what, what, what Kuba Krong said on this podcast was Newcastle, this was like last year, I reckon. And he said, Newcastle don't know how to play ponger. Ponger is the best manipulator of overs. So like getting on the outside of a player and then bringing that next defender in and either like running it or hitting the next player and then you've got numbers in the game. He said the best player in the game ever. It didn't say ever, but and it won't be ever because he never gets to born the right spot. So he just had, like, to me, he doesn't know where he needs to be at fullback. Well, I've got to say this, Phil, be just to put your mind at ease. At least the nights aren't spending a shitload of money on him. I, I DMed Barry to you. Oh, no, the middle of the game. Why hasn't he blocked you yet? He didn't respond to this. Why don't we just sit Barry next time at the press comments. Can you just ask him why? Because it must, like, who's, boys, who's fault is it that he's not getting the ball for scrum? If anyone out there has Adam O'Brien's phone number, we need to put Phil P in touch with AOB. Your brother would right now. He went on the piece with him. Nick, give me a call. All right, let's move on from that before Phil P really melts down. Boy, it's a lot of feeling in the streets around Belmore. That's, that was another... Oh, doggies! How good was that to see on a Sunday afternoon bathed in sunlight, Belmore over, like, just a house in the background? A little bit of gold now. Yeah. You feel there? Yeah, yeah. And we got, you know, Sorelda, whoo. He knows he had a coach, a good-looking rooster. Yeah, well, you know, the thing that disappointed me though is the, um, the bloke that bangs the drum. Um, the... Well, the Raiders fan. Yeah, and he, did you see the footage of him? He was surrounded by doggies fans outside the ground. Oh, nice. They were pretty savage. They were up and about the dogs. Yeah. Wishing, shoving him. Um, yeah. I didn't, I didn't like that. I didn't, I wasn't a fan of that. I, yeah. It's hard, you are, like, I'm not condoning it, but you are, um, drawing attention to wearing the opposition jersey and a big drum around your body. But that's, that's what you do when you turn up to any game. Like, I'm all for a bit of banter, but intimidation is no good. But, I mean, there were scenes after that game in Belmore. A lot of, uh, horns honked. Flags out of windows. Flags out of windows. A lot of, uh, it was almost though they'd won a grandfather. Yeah. Um, do we think they've gone too early in Belmore? That, that was going off early. Yeah. Uh, definitely some, um, talk to pilot. You think? Yes. I was going to say there's some medication for that brought up. Yeah. Oh, we are around 22. Yes. No, it is. I think it was a, it wasn't necessarily a grand final celebration. It was a celebration that we are going to play some finals football for the first time in what is it? Eight years, I believe it is for the board. Yeah. So there, I think it was a celebration that we actually have a good team. You got to give credit to Phil Gould and Cameron Chiraldo, uh, for what they've done. We are potentially going to see a coach of the year and the captain of the year from the ball dogs this year. I think Ceraldo and what Creighton's done with that team, uh, when he's there, he was great against the Raiders. Raiders have some good outside backs. He dominated Matt Tomoko in one of the tries where Tomoko is a hard unit to move. Yeah. Yeah. And you just feel that there is a bit of ground swell for the ball dogs to be that fourth team to compete against the top three that we talked about last week being Panthers Melbourne and the Roosters. So, you know, some crazy things have happened in rugby league. We know top four is like prerequisite for a grand final win in modern rugby league. So I think they will, I think I said seagulls a few weeks ago. I think Bulldogs get out. Oh, my, you know, this, this team is just floating around. All right, it's floating around. Well, we're going to look forward just after this next break. And, but before you go, I want to get it on the record. I'm happy for the ball dogs fans and I'm a little bit scared of you. So if you got a problem, take it up with Steve, Phil, uh, damn me. I'll give you his address. Hey, there are more folks. It's your man Snoop Dogg and the houseman, Nizzle, standing in the rain like his belly, even drizzle. I've been having the most whack time in Paris for the games. I've been hiding in the 20-meter platform diving team. But I'm here to announce that I'm coming down under man, under no blunder to work with some of y'all sports teams. You may see me over here in the equestrian, like a there's been talking to the horses as I speak equine, mighty fine to your man, give it to the K to the E to the double motherfucking D has asked me to talk to his horses. And then Broncos and Brisbane. I'm looking forward to getting them high, hey, hey, on the ladder and also smoking some of that fine-ass, pain-ass, pain-ass. You're listening to another motherfucking rugby league podcast. It's a piece. Oh, fantastic. I reckon those breakers could be longer. Um, all right, boys, it's time to look at some NRL news. Now, the headline that caught my eye, it's Vita Pangai, Jr. There was rumours that he might follow the Great Wayne Bennett down to Souths, but obviously, salary cap issues prevent that. But he has, it looks like he's going to head to Cattlelands next year. Going to play for Cattleland Dragons in the Super League, and I was looking, there's quite a few NRL players heading over there, quite a class of NRL players. He's going to go live in the south of France, so he's going to join Luke Keery, Elliot Whitehead and Nick Chotrich. Um, the Chotrich. How do you reckon, so obviously, you go over first off, they'll all take their families eventually, but first, when you first land in a pre-season, you're going to probably sharehouse it. What do you reckon that sharehouse looks like in the south of France? Who's getting the big room? Well, they were all working out their sick notes, you know, so that they can get out of going to a gig, going to a training bike, going to a gig, going and seeing a Delle, like, "Yeah, see how tacky-o-ho" and Cody and Nick are rumours, so they're probably picking the brains of those, but they got sacked out, didn't they? I think they did, which is probably why they need a lot of signings for them. Get some more in, what music are they into? Cool, they're not coming here any time soon. Chotchrich sounds like a French cheese of some sort, don't you think? A soft, he's a bit soft, yeah, he's a bit soft, you know, like, a softish cheese with, like, one of those ones with a hard rind, that you have to peel off. Yeah, because Ricky'd been yelling at him for years, so he's got a tough exterior, um, they've, um, they were a team that was pretty good when they first launched, they had a lot of, that was the drawcard to go to Paris and spend a lot of time in the south. Um, but they've dropped off a little bit in recent times, um, as other clubs that have, sort of, warranted a flying, pretty well this year, Hull, K.R. are doing quite well, so I think they're looking at who they are in Hull. Yeah, this is Perpignon, this is south of France, this is honestly one of the best places in the world. You could live in the world, yeah. You talked to, like, you talked to Beaver Menzies about his time there, he writes it as one of the greatest places he's ever lived. And he's from Manley, so, I know, but when you think about Tevita's decision, you know, he's gone south of France or south of Sydney, and I think south of France is probably going to win in straight sets. I don't know, like, it's, so yeah, you're basically comparing your beau-jole in the south of France to your, uh, Carty Breiser, in the south of Sydney, on this, so do you think people look into that when they sign a contract? Like, so, if you were looking at going to, um, who was the big unit, Stefano, recently? You thought Ikamano? He basically got linked to every club. Is he, is he chatting to his wife and family going, do you want to live in Penrith? No, do you want to live in Bankstown? No, I can't agree. Is it a thing? I think that you'll find that, uh, like, it depends on the stage of your career. So, if you're, like, coming into the prime years of your career and you're going to go somewhere that can win a club and help set you up, yes, if you're going, I'm just going to do a couple of years in Super League, just to, sort of, pad the old Superannuation Fund before I'm out of here. Uh, I think Catalans all the way is the, like, cause what are you going to live in Wigan? Like, you know what I mean? Like, no, no, no, hey, no offense to our Wigan fan, um, cause I know we're getting upwards of four listens from the UK every week now, guys. Um, so I, I just think south of France, it's pretty nice. Yeah, it is. But, so I'll, let me go right back to, I'm going to peel the curtain. Is that what you called it before? Yeah. Yeah. I used to work at the NRL 40 show, right? Oh, I'm going to get it. Oh, that's a big curtain a pullback in the glory day. So let me help you with that. Oh, and all of a baron, like, oh, how about his baron? We're talking, we're talking logies era. Yeah. I won, um, 17 logies, by the way, boys, but we'll get on with that to another episode. But, um, James Maloney just finished playing for the Sydney Rooster's and he was looking for a club, right? And there was rumors, um, floating about of all sorts of stuff. And I went heavy recruit of the nights. Like, hey, I'm working here. So for the next six weeks, he was a regular on the show after he did that barbecuing alone, if you remember the famous perfect partners thing. So I, what I did was, I'd introduced him to the studio as ladies and gentlemen, please get off a Newcastle Knights latest signing, James Maloney. And I just thought, if I spoke about it enough, then yeah. Speak it into existence. Yeah. That's a, that's a Trump thing. It'll happen. Just keep repeating it. Yeah. Keep repeating it. Keep repeating it. Audience members would say, um, to me, is that true? And I'd be like, yeah, he's, he's sort of like a, so I just kept saying it. I kept saying it, saying it. He'd come up to me at the grandfather show, and he goes, he's a bit of a cheeky bastard. And he was like, hey, do you know how many? Do the boys. Hey, do you know how many fucking people have come up to me and said, you've signed with the Knights, mate. You've signed with the Knights. And I said, well, mate, fucking sign, right? Yeah. Sign. Like, why wouldn't you? And he goes, you know why? He goes, I, he goes, I'd like to play for the Knights, but you know what the story is? He goes, my missus, right? She doesn't like Newcastle. That's a, that's always a tough thing. He signed with Penrith. Right? Yeah. He wouldn't live in Penrith as opposed to fucking... I think he wouldn't usually, I don't usually advocate leaving, uh, partner, a long term partner. I think he was living in the shire, though, in commuting. But that's, well, that's the, any of the southern teams they all live. Like, most of the players live around the shire and commute, which is, like, I know, well, not necessarily even the shire, but round those. Canabary. Canabary areas. Cana-ra. I know, like, Aaron Woods has lived, he's played for five clubs and I don't think he's moved house once. What a journeyman. He's still playing. Yeah, he's played a bit of a reserve grab, I think. There was, there was a game earlier in the year where, um, the dragons, it was New South Wales Cup and you remember the start of the year the dragon signed Christian to a polado? Yes, yeah. From the seagulls? He was commuting from the northern beaches down to Wollongol. That's right. I was like, yeah, I'm still driving from Manly down here in the post match. I'm like, that is a horrendous drive. Shout out to Matty Russell, Fox Sports. He's lived the whole time down in Wollongol and does the commute into Fox Sports News and our time. That must kill him in tolls. Yeah, I was doing, I was doing, when I, when we were at Fox Sports, I was doing 300 bucks every 10 days in tolls. Or I could spend an extra hour and 10 minutes in traffic each way. I'm not doing that. Um, someone else is going to be in traffic boys. A bit of an unreal news here. He was, uh, Reese Walsh. Oh, yeah. He's, he's trained at, uh, six this week. So I've got a theory about this. Yeah, okay. So we, we know my big theory at the Bronco is all about the good looking players versus the, the non good looking players. And Kevin can't coach the looking ones. What happened when Caitlin Pongow got put into six? He's been in the line. He's been in the line. He got, yeah, he got, he got his head bashed up a bit. I think, I think Kevin's trying to get the pretty bashed out of Rachel. Reese Walsh. Yeah. I think that's what he's doing. So he put him on the line. He's had a look like mine before you know it. And then we'll be on the same page. Get on the same page. Yeah. Yeah. I don't mind that. You know what they should do with Reese Walsh is, um, manipulate the clock clock. You know how against the night. I said the clock, by the way. No, not the clock. Uh, do you know, at the end of that night's game, he took all his gear off because the game was over. Yeah, yeah. Like, they should get some, like, the phantom siren. Oh, yeah. Get the phantom siren out. So he just starts giving his gear away to kids in the crowd. Like, there's, there's 10 to play. Yeah. It's 20 meters out. He's got, he's got nothing on. He's just got his racing tights on. He's sowing in a pair of boots. I love that. You know what he scores? He does that mad flex. There's just nothing of him. You know, like, may put that flex away, mate. He's great. He's got value. I think the, one of the knocks has been that it's been a massive down year for him. He has been injured. He played, you know, he's had, he's had nearly fell off in origin. Yeah. But like, yeah. I feel there's a bit of jealousy among fans. Not only of New South Wales, but other, and our old teams because when he doesn't play, everyone's like, he's not the biggest star in the league. Like, who cares? Like, what he's doing for the game is bringing eyeballs of young kids. Girls, everyone, all ages. My grandma loves him. Yeah. He looks like a nice boy. Yeah. That sort of stuff. Yeah. Looks like a nice boy. Mate, he's sad. Yeah. He's sad. Yeah. But I mean, he's got a bad boy style. Yeah. That's why you, you're not like the bad boys. Be honest, Bruxy. Yeah. Yeah. Who doesn't? But I think to like, like, everyone's saying, "Oh, he's having a down year." But that happens when you, like last year, he really became the attacking threat in that side. So now, sides have had to adjust to him and they target him in terms of defense. They know where he is. They're trying to account for him. Of course, it's going to get harder this year. The big test long term will be, well, how does he respond next year? How does that look? Like, it's, I don't want to say it's second year syndrome, but it is that, is it touch of that way? Target on your head. Yeah. Now, you know, when you're one of the big players. There's enough tape of you doing really good things. We can now try and stop you. Yeah, we can account for you. So, I mean, I think he's, he's doing fine. I just think he needs, he needs, like, to look into the coach who's got pretty eyes and just know that they're on the same page. He might, he might get, sorry, he might get bashed up and, um, Bruce and someone who's got an injury this week is, uh, Titans forward, both for more. Yeah. Both for bruising. Yeah. Okay. You've got a bit of kidney bruising. You know what the symptom of that is? How you know? It's just, it's, no, so what happens is you, you'll get a bit of pain around the air, a bit of lower back. A bit harder. Where, where they really look to diagnose it is when there's a bit of blood in the old urinal. Oh. Yeah. Not the first guy on the Gold Coast to, uh, to have a bit, a bit of something unexpected come out when he peed. Do you reckon the doctor when he went in there and he goes, Oh, there's something on my pee. He's like, Oh, I know what's going on here. No, no, it's blood. Whoa. Whoa. So this is the first one that's, that's actually, you know, not sexually related. Yeah. The doctor checks the calendar and goes, fuck, it's not schoolies. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's the other hard one to, um, like I saw the post from the NRL physio on that. Um, basically saying, look, with internal organs, it's hard to know. Yeah. They're saying it probably one to two weeks, but, um, yeah. See what happens. It's a day by day. If you had to pick. So that's, that's obviously he's copped a knee, a strain knee or something in the, in the back. Um, if you had to pick a player in the, in the Bronco side that's done it to him, who should we accuse just without any evidence? Go on Brooks. You were saying. Sam. I don't know. Sam. I mean, Mike after the game, man in just giving him a quick one to the kidneys. Um, boys, uh, round 23 is coming up, which is always the case after round 22. Yeah. And, um, as a huge, you won't go through every game, but, um, the, the, probably the biggest game by far is given that the dragon's upset, uh, the Melbourne storm. First time in 20. Yep. 20 odd years. Storm. Storm. Rapido. Storm Thursday. Storm's looking to bounce back. Yeah. Night's Tigers. Um, no. It's the dragon's ball dogs. Yeah. Yeah. Two very passionate fan bases. I heard, um, some media types talking about moving the game to a bigger stadium and like, no, leave it. Like St. George wanted to be at Cogra, don't they? Like, yeah, you don't want to move a venue during a season. I, I am, I am a big fan of the dragons playing out of Alliance, not because I just live near there, but I think, you know, for, um, more monetary reasons. And like if we're going to spread games between Cogra and win, why don't we just play them at Alliance? Maybe play a game at Cogra and win, you know, for sharkies against the dragons at Cogra. If you play Sunday. It's 2024. Afternoon footy all has to be at, uh, down at Willongong. You play all the afternoon footy at win because that is, that's one of my favorite grounds to watch a bit afternoon footy. And, uh, I think, I like Jubilee. Yeah. You're just dirty because Sizzler's not across the road anymore. You can't get a feed. I was a big potato skin fan. Yeah. But yeah, it's a big one. Like it's great. It's sold out. Like, let's keep it there. Let's, let's make it a day. I think it's going to be a massive game. Dragon sitting eighth. Yes. So the dogs are currently in fifth. Um, and they're both just like, it's just an equation of dogs are looking for top four. So it's keep winning. Uh, dragons got to keep winning. Just have to keep winning because it's tight around that sectional ladder too. It is tight, but there's not a lot of like teams below sitting to keep losing. There's not much coming up, right? But the dragons have probably the worst foreign against of all the teams. So they're actually got to get a win over because if they finish in a tie for eight, they are out. So here we go. I can tell you exactly right. So the, the dragons are sitting on 26 points. Um, after, uh, after the 19 games played. The dolphins are just behind them on 24 points. So the dragons have a foreign against of negative 90. Um, which if they'd lost, that would have put them down to. 10th. Yeah. So the, so they're negative 90. You've got to go down to the nights on in 12th position to have a worse foreign against them. It's pretty bad, the nights. That's negative 105. Um, so I mean, which is the worries are in 13th. All right. So they're sitting even a point back from the nights and they're only on negative 32. So. They lose. Yeah. They lose. Well, that's been the story of the dragon season. Like we've had some massive losses versus put 60 on them nearly 50 against the Panthers. And they win tight games. Like they sneak home. Like there is a bit of a false economy with the dragons and where they're at. They're like the Raiders of 2023. Remember they were sitting in eighth with that negative 150 or whatever it was. Because they were eking out wins and getting belted. Uh, yeah, it's must win for dragons. I don't think they can keep this win loss, win loss in going. If they win this, it's, it's a foot in the door. It's a foot in the finals footy and that would be an amazing outcome. I tipped them bottom four. Yeah. My own team at the start of the year. So egg face all over it. If, uh, my boys get into the finals footy. As a fan, I think that's a sensible thing to do. Right. If you're up and about about your team, there's only really a lot of failure, isn't it? Yeah. We were a bit, we were a bit big on our team early season too. Phil, I don't know if you remember. We were sharing photos. The boys are training the house down. Look at those abs on these bastards. We've got Jack Cogger for now. He's a premiership winner. Yeah. Yeah. They finished, you know, they made the finals. They finished strong. They're going to carry that in. And now Jack Cogger is just one of premiership. We are going places. We've re-signed a coach. Yeah. Yeah. Good. Yeah. Evidently, that place was 12th. Yeah. Look, you know, like, I won't talk about our game much, but it's time to step up. Like, that ugly football bullshit's got to be thrown at the window because the Tigers, right, as shit as they are, they scored 30 points against the Cowboys, right? Yeah. Who were a finals team? So we know that the Tigers can score points and they're going to throw it around. Well, and the Knights, that's, 30 points are winning easily against the Knights. I think I heard a stat on the weekend. The Knights are averaging 18 points a game. So, yeah, there's a lot of teams that the equations just keep winning. The Titans sitting in 11th, they're taking on Crenella, who are probably in 4th and looking to slide, would you say? Yeah. Yeah. They've got a few injuries. I think Blake Brailey is playing half back because they're short. But yeah, it feels like Titans, Broncos against Cowboys, Warriors against Dolphins, your boys. This is last legit chance. If you lose, you're out. The other one that's going to be interesting is Raiders and Sea Eagles. And this is your, this is your 3PM game, Brooks. Ooh. This is your 3PM game. But it's Canberra. It's in Canberra. No, this is great because that Canberra 3PM game is one of the ones I like because you start and it looks warm. Yeah. And then the sun just dips a little and you're like, that looks like the coldest place on Earth. And the Viking club guy, the drummer, he's back home now. Yeah. Oh, is this the first, um, is this the first Viking clap since our old Billy Bond thought? Oh, yeah. Whizzly pipes? Yeah. It's the best sleep pipe. I'll stolen that from a movie. Half baked. Yeah. That bloke was surrounded by all those Bulldogs players. It was a little bit, some of that, don't you reckon? Yes. Some of that's like, here he is. A bunch of guys will try to beat him up, bash him up. Um, yeah. You know what, um, in times of games, like the 3 o'clock game, you'll have, like you're loving. The NRLW early starts can fuck off. Like, uh, like, there's a game on an 11 o'clock. Like, but the man's hung over. He's having beers with you. Oh, we're generally planning. Yeah. Should we, Tony? No. No, but, like, they want to grow the game and I, and I'm all through it. And I, yeah, I should know in the game zone. But, you know, early mornings, weekends, you're running around doing all sorts of shit, right? Yeah. You're zipping around kids sport, you're doing this and that. Or whatnot. Or if you don't have kids, you're sleeping in. The 11 o'clock, people are missing that game. Like, there's not a lot of people watching that game I reckon. Like, see the viewership on that. Well, when are you going to put it? Like, do you want it at 11.30pm after Super Saturday? Like, it is a tough one because you've already got 8 NRL games on now to finish the season. Yeah. And then you want to sort of give them their own time slot. But in reality, all the prime time slots are up. They're full. I think we're good. I fell it and have two at one go. I made it. I scored around the ground. It's Phil Rothfield. Mate, I could take any practice. No, these are in. I could take a leave Eels Panthers. We all know what's going on there. Let's just put them in the slot. I mean, the games that aren't going to be competitive. Can I say? Just put it on the alternate channel. Put it on, like, nine. Nine is the women's. And then, Jim, you get Panthers and Eels. Why don't we just use half times and full times and go, okay, we'll play 14 minutes of your game during the three o'clock half time. And then it'll be quarter time. And then at full time you can play 14 minutes again. They're not Philpies under a sixes. Well, that's, I don't know. It'll be TV spectacle. I don't know. I think it's double head off. If I'll still get screened. All series bus. You bring back Monday night footy and Mondays for the blokes. Thursday night is exclusively for the women. That's the tag line. And days for the blokes. Thursday night for the shield. What night do you want the women's? Thursday. Yeah, then you put sex in the city after it. Six hundred times like nine thirty. Imagine that. I think we've done the damage. We're going to get to a break, gentlemen. Coming back, I've got my fun fact. Good day. Brad Fittler here. Are you having trouble with your hearing? As someone who's copped his fair share of thunderclaps, clouds, lines and perforated eardrums, I've often struggled to hear a ref's whistle. Now my ningers torts. All my wife telling me to turn the TV down. And while I'm not necessarily struggling with tonight's or serious hearing loss, I am taking the money to do this ad. So get in touch with the blokes that turn them up.com.au. And with some first-class electrical tape, they'll stick a skin-caloured whistling hearing aid discreetly behind your ear. They come in many blending colors, too. Including pink, brown and cauliflower. That's Turnemup.com.au. You'll be hearing the neighbor's dog and leaf flower again in no time. So get yourself a Turnemup hearing aid today. And next time you see your mates at the pub, tell them you won't be shouting tonight. All right, boys, we are back. Pointy end of this podcast. And it's time for the fun fact. Now, I've gone something different this week because I noticed something. I was watching a bit of Channel 7 news this week. And I've noticed, I don't know if you realise this, Channel 7 have now started including the horoscope as part of the evening news bulletin. Oh, yeah. I have seen that. You also do a comedy segment with Mark Humphreys at the end of the news. And what I love about it, because it's really funny, Mark Humphreys, a very funny guy, a great guy, is that the Channel 7 viewers don't know what's going on. Yeah, they're like, "What the fuck?" So he gets on and does, like, he just takes to the news. Yeah, what I love is they blow up about that, but they're certainly happy with the horoscope. They're over the horoscope. Is it Karen Morgold? No, it does. Paces. Paces. Well, I've actually, so I've got, I've dug up a horoscope. I've put in some details about us, about a bit of a rugby league, and I've just got a horoscope throughout. Because I figured if they can do it, we can do it, right? Like in an AI version, you mean? Yeah, yeah. So this is what I've come up with. So what are your... I'm a Libby, uh, Libran. Libran? Libby, Libby, Libby, Libby, Libby, Libby. We have one gold and three bronze all on the track. I am Aquarius. You're Aquarius. Okay, so I'll do, I'll do us last. I'm a Gemini. So, Pisces, either a lover or a co, a colleague is likely to be irritable to you, towards you today. This is because you're particularly irritating. Cut that shit out and leave them in peace. Is that in Channel 7? Cancer. Everything you say and do this month will show your family your true colours as a cancer. Perhaps you should consider letting them know that your star sign is also cancer. Oh, wow. Capricorn. What is going on? Exactly. You may encounter feelings of frustration that you can never remember to take your reusable shopping bags to the supermarket. Don't blame yourself. Your poor memory is due to Mars being in retrograde and your crippling alcoholism. That's why I wanted to point it. Virgo. That organic deodorant you're wearing doesn't work. Get some proper anti-person, persparent or avoid people. Oh, try seventh. Leo. Leo was a better film than we expected it would be. Bill Burr was great as Squirtle the Turtle. Five stars. What? Scorpio. When watching rugby league, you might find yourself frustrated by refereeing decisions. This feeling will be exacerbated during Grey Manorsley Monday briefing when he acknowledges those decisions were indeed wrong but offers no solutions of how to top them happening again. Geez. Sagittarius. You were the only one in your friendship group who said the Bulldogs would be any good this year and aren't you making sure they know it. It's just a shame you didn't put your money where your mouth was and backed them to finish top four at the start of the year when it was paying $14.50. Dickhead. Aquarius. Aquarius. That's you? Aquarius. As you move towards September, you may find yourself feeling positive about your favorite sporting team. Don't. There's still the dragons and let's be honest. They're not going to win anything this year or for quite a few years to come. Oh, well. Libra. Stop being so hard on yourself. It happens to heaps of blocks your age and it's nothing to be ashamed of. If it really bothers you, try thinking about Gus Gould saying fuck Billy Slater. That should help. That's outstanding, mate. That's me. Gemini. People seem to like your fun facts at the end of podcast even if they give credit to one of your co-hosts. That said, you really didn't think this horoscope thing completely through. Maybe just stick to what you're good at. Oh, yes. Well done. Good job, mate. Well done. I like that. It's good. Yep. Anyone can do it. You just make shit up. It's that easy. Yeah. Absolutely. I'm looking forward to next weeks. Yeah. Yeah. Well done. Don't get too positive. You still listen, George, man. All right, boys. I think that's going to do us for this week. Enjoy yourselves next week. Are we going to have another little Olympic wrap up, do you think? Oh, we have to wrap the rings. I think we'll have a beer. Brooks, you know. Yeah. Yeah, let me know what you just saw when you have a beer together, boys. I'll see you's next week. Bye now. [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [BLANK_AUDIO]