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Browny and Oates—Are They Related? · The Shed with Corey Oates, Sam Thaiday and Kip

• 0:11
  Speaker 1: I remember the first time I watched the Olympics and.
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: France came out with the national anthem. It's the Lions.
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: It was based off the French National Anthem. Yeah, I
• 0:42
  Speaker 2: had no idea.
• 0:43
  Speaker 3: Jonathan Brown with us for the podcast in the shed today.
• 0:45
  Speaker 4: Brownie, we didn't talk about this in the bonus round,
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  Speaker 4: but it was only a few months ago that you
• 0:50
  Speaker 4: had a major surgery.
• 0:51
  Speaker 3: You had a brain tumour.
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I did, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: It was a bit of a shock. Not the phone
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  Speaker 5: call you're expecting because I didn't have any symptoms. The AFL,
• 1:00
  Speaker 5: they've got a program in place where you can take
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  Speaker 5: your baseline test for your All it entails is a
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  Speaker 5: brain scan.
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  Speaker 3: So you didn't have any warnings? You weren't getting headaches
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  Speaker 3: or anything?
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  Speaker 6: No, no.
• 1:11
  Speaker 5: I might have fell out of the piss a couple
• 1:12
  Speaker 5: of times. Forgot Kylie's name from time to time.
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  Speaker 2: Just as long as you didn't call her a different one,
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  Speaker 2: it's all right. Cinnamon or cherry or something. Did you
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: pick the kids up cinnamon?
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  Speaker 5: No, that was a different life. As I may say, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I think you probably should have a baseline at the
• 1:34
  Speaker 5: start of your footy career. But it was for no
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  Speaker 5: other reason apart from Kylie or Cinnamon, I should say.
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  Speaker 2: Annoying me into it. I suppose all the publicity around
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  Speaker 2: CTE with handbox, which you would get in your sport, boys.
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  Speaker 5: And she had a few partners and mates of hers
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  Speaker 5: that the lads had probably followed it up. Anyway, so
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  Speaker 5: they followed it up. It was a neuro psych exam
• 1:58
  Speaker 5: and went for about four or five hours. The one
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  Speaker 5: where you sat.
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  Speaker 2: Down and did all the stuff. All the problem solving.
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  Speaker 2: I did that when I retired. It is a long day.
• 2:08
  Speaker 2: It's a long day, isn't it?
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  Speaker 5: And then I thought the easy part was walking up
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  Speaker 5: the hill to St. Andrews Hospital here and just getting
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  Speaker 5: a 15-minute brain scan. Now, I probably should have clicked
• 2:18
  Speaker 5: because I was halfway home to the Gold Coast and
• 2:20
  Speaker 5: I get a phone call from the hospital saying, are
• 2:22
  Speaker 5: you still in the hospital?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no. What was that?
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  Speaker 5: They said, oh, we just want you to come back
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  Speaker 5: and do a, an extra part of the scan. And
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  Speaker 5: I said, oh, is there any problem? They go, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 5: it's fine. Just can you come back in the next
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  Speaker 5: couple of days? That probably should have been the first
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  Speaker 5: red flag. Anyway, I went back a couple of days
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  Speaker 5: later and then because it was through the AFL, the
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  Speaker 5: next morning I had a lot of missed calls from
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  Speaker 5: the AFL because I had saved.
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  Speaker 2: Him your phone. I thought, what have I said on TV?
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  Speaker 2: And anyway, I.
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  Speaker 5: Finally got back to him as the chief medical officer
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  Speaker 5: at the AFL and said, there's a problem with your
• 3:01
  Speaker 5: brain scan.
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  Speaker 2: I said, well, I'm glad you found something.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of people thought it was just going to
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  Speaker 5: be a hollow case. He goes, nah, it's like he said,
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  Speaker 5: it's serious. You've got a big shadow on your brain. And, um,
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  Speaker 5: all I can tell you now is you'll be having
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  Speaker 5: brain surgery. And I was like, shit, are you?
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  Speaker 2: Hang on a minute.
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  Speaker 5: And so he said, you know, we need you to
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  Speaker 5: get to Melbourne ASAP. So yeah, it was pretty tough. Well,
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  Speaker 5: the first initial phone call, he goes, can we have
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  Speaker 5: a chat to you, preferably this afternoon, with your wife
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  Speaker 5: on the phone regarding your brain scan? I thought, fuck,
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  Speaker 5: that's probably normally not that good. So anyway, it all
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  Speaker 5: happened pretty quick. And within the next, I reckon, four
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  Speaker 5: or five days later, I was on, on the table
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  Speaker 5: going in for a brain surgery.
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  Speaker 2: So pretty surreal, really.
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  Speaker 3: And what, they got a tumour out?
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  Speaker 5: Tumour, yeah, it was about the size of a golf ball.
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  Speaker 5: I was looking for that golf ball. Yeah, sorry about that.
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  Speaker 1: Four?
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  Speaker 2: I said four.
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  Speaker 1: I do play with Sammy Walker a.
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  Speaker 5: Bit, so I don't know if I can blame Sammy.
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  Speaker 5: It might have been left over from the pre-season. But yeah, anyway,
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  Speaker 5: it was a nerve-wracking few days because the surgeon... When
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  Speaker 5: I walked in there to see the surgeon and he
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  Speaker 5: showed me the scan, I was like, fuck. It was
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  Speaker 5: like literally a golf ball in the middle of your brain.
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  Speaker 5: It showed up white on the scan. He said, there's
• 4:27
  Speaker 5: a few troubling features to this. It was like getting
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  Speaker 5: kicked in the chest by a horse. I was a
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  Speaker 5: nervous few days because mine was a cystic tumour, which
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  Speaker 5: can be, a cystic tumour can be a a glioblastoma
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  Speaker 5: which is grade four which you're pretty much you're in
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  Speaker 5: all sorts okay or it could be a fortunate enough
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  Speaker 5: for me a grade one like mine was but they
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  Speaker 5: don't know until they get it out and send it to.
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  Speaker 2: Pathology so even after you're still.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah well first and foremost you've got to be able
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  Speaker 5: to get to it safely because then you touch any
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  Speaker 5: of the brain tissue and you can be impaired for
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  Speaker 5: the rest of your life in a number of different
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  Speaker 5: ways so mine was on my frontal lobe um which
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  Speaker 5: is problem-solving personality. So it might have been an improvement.
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  Speaker 3: And they cut your skull open?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. So it's actually healed up pretty good. That's
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  Speaker 2: a nice job.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 5: Well, they take a big hole out of your skull
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  Speaker 5: and then I think they just put it in the
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  Speaker 5: fridge while we were doing the surgery and then they put.
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  Speaker 2: It back on. In the ASCII. Wow. Yeah, it was bizarre.
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  Speaker 5: So as you imagine, I was pretty nervous going in
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  Speaker 5: because I wasn't sure how I was going to wake up.
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  Speaker 5: And then when I woke up, okay, the TV was
• 5:43
  Speaker 5: on in my room and the Millionaire hot seat was on.
• 5:46
  Speaker 5: So I got to the $ 8, 000 question.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, fuck, I'm here. I'm going right. It's actually smarter.
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  Speaker 2: They want to tweak the cut.
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  Speaker 3: They souped you up.
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  Speaker 5: They did clips up on there. Anyway, and I got that.
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  Speaker 5: But then the weight was. So first of all, ticked
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  Speaker 5: that off. Got that off safely. The surgeon said it
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  Speaker 5: didn't hit any. of your brain tissue, which is important.
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  Speaker 5: He said, I've honestly never seen one like this in
• 6:15
  Speaker 5: my career. He said yours was wrapped in such a
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  Speaker 5: beautiful tight bundle that I could just make the neatest
• 6:21
  Speaker 5: incision and you're welcome, like he said. He said it's
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  Speaker 5: like it had a protective netting around it, like Spider-Man almost. Anyway,
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  Speaker 5: and then I had to wait for a few days
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  Speaker 5: to find out whether it was the bad one or
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  Speaker 5: whether it was.
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  Speaker 2: A better one. Fortunately enough.
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  Speaker 5: It was a good brain tumour in the context of
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  Speaker 5: whether it's going to kill.
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  Speaker 2: You or not.
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  Speaker 3: And what's the recovery on that then when they put
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  Speaker 3: your head back together?
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  Speaker 2: Well... You've got to find the right skull first. That's right.
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  Speaker 7: Make sure it's the right one.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 5: So they sort of put that back in. I was
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  Speaker 5: in hospital for a few days and wasn't allowed to fly.
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  Speaker 5: The surgery was done in Melbourne.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 5: Carly was wrapped with that. So I've been a bit,
• 7:05
  Speaker 5: two or three days, two or three weeks away from
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  Speaker 5: the kids. Carly had a great little holiday.
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  Speaker 2: Nice. No, it was, uh, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So we started in there and then, well, I haven't
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  Speaker 5: been allowed to drive for a few months and just got,
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  Speaker 5: I saw the surgeon a couple of weeks ago. I
• 7:17
  Speaker 5: got me license back or I'm allowed to drive.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Not allowed to have a, a beer yet. Still
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  Speaker 2: not allowed to have a drink. I think I'd rather
• 7:24
  Speaker 2: fucking get Ubers than fucking be allowed to have a drink. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have to go back for scans still?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I had a good scan a couple of weeks ago.
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  Speaker 5: So it's all going well. And, um, in the right track.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, it was unbelievable. But I guess the thing
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  Speaker 5: that had come out of it for me was you just,
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  Speaker 5: you never know what's around the corner. So I wasn't
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  Speaker 5: expecting that phone call. You just got to make the
• 7:44
  Speaker 5: most of life, don't you? And try to live every
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  Speaker 5: day in the moment.
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  Speaker 2: Is that how you get all your boys trips in there? Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: You never know.
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  Speaker 2: You just never know. What else are we doing? Superbowl?
• 7:57
  Speaker 2: Golf trips? See, now you haven't had yours done, have you?
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  Speaker 2: You don't want to do it?
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  Speaker 5: Nah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I want to know. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like, well, I mean, like.
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  Speaker 2: No, but I'm serious.
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  Speaker 8: I'll just leave him alone. If you die, you die.
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  Speaker 8: At the end of the day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Get a check, mate. It scares the hell out
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  Speaker 2: of me. Well, the thing is, I've lived a good
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  Speaker 2: life anyway. Bloody hell. It's the head knocks that scare me.
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  Speaker 5: Well, the head knocks, it's ironic, isn't it? The guy
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  Speaker 5: said it has nothing to do with head knocks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: He said you're actually fine from that. from a brain
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  Speaker 5: point of view, a functionality point of view. So it
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  Speaker 5: was quite ironic that that's the reason I went and
• 8:29
  Speaker 5: got the test.
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  Speaker 7: Mine grew, actually, my brain. I said, there's something there.
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  Speaker 7: I said, well, hey, you're building.
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  Speaker 2: Last time there wasn't anything.
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  Speaker 4: And Kyle's got a saying out of it, nagging wives
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  Speaker 4: save lives.
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  Speaker 2: Nagging wives save lives, exactly.
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  Speaker 6: She's got the merch range coming out soon. She's making
• 8:47
  Speaker 6: hats and T-shirts.
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  Speaker 8: It would, actually.
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  Speaker 2: I'm cooked now for the rest of my life, don't I?
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  Speaker 2: I've got to listen to Carl's. Oh, that is it.
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  Speaker 2: She's got a big one, hasn't she? She does. She
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  Speaker 2: really saves it. You take the good with the bad.
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  Speaker 2: Boys trips you get, but then you get nagging wife
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the way.
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  Speaker 5: Well, that saved a few arguments because when I really
• 9:04
  Speaker 5: go to one lane, then I really remember going, hang
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  Speaker 5: on a minute.
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  Speaker 2: It's probably saved me life, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: But, you know, look, it's... And it's funny because I
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  Speaker 5: didn't have the symptoms and I said to the surgeon,
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  Speaker 5: how would we have found it? And he goes, where
• 9:18
  Speaker 5: yours was placed, he said it would have been either
• 9:20
  Speaker 5: a stroke or a seizure.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. And soon enough. So you're sort of so grateful.
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  Speaker 2: Far out. That you weren't driving a.
• 9:28
  Speaker 5: Car or out doing something and something catastrophic happened, you know?
• 9:32
  Speaker 3: All right, so let's talk footy finals. We'll start with
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  Speaker 3: the AFL.
• 9:35
  Speaker 4: We've got the Lions trying for a little bit of
• 9:38
  Speaker 4: redemption against Adelaide. Adelaide, they had a win last weekend,
• 9:43
  Speaker 4: which is why they're here. Lions, they only put on
• 9:46
  Speaker 4: 40 points against the Swans.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're pretty poor. Yeah, very poor. Their head wasn't
• 9:50
  Speaker 2: in the game.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's the worst performance for the year, especially
• 9:54
  Speaker 5: in under man Sydney so I'd expected them to bounce
• 9:56
  Speaker 5: back buoyed by Zach Bailey's re-signing and they couldn't play
• 10:00
  Speaker 5: as bad Sydney had a lot of players play the
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  Speaker 5: best game they'll ever play in their careers and the
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  Speaker 5: Brisbane Lions had caught a lot of players that played
• 10:08
  Speaker 5: the worst game they ever played in their careers.
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  Speaker 7: It was hard to watch hard to watch the Dockers
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  Speaker 7: and the Lions I turned it off I.
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  Speaker 9: Was like yeah let's go and I'm like this this
• 10:18
  Speaker 9: is awful very similar and you just go so that
• 10:21
  Speaker 9: stage of the year if you're not quite up for
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  Speaker 9: it and the opposition comes ready to play you can
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  Speaker 9: overcome a lot of talent deficiencies like the Swans.
• 10:32
  Speaker 7: Do you think Fagan nailed it you know how they
• 10:34
  Speaker 7: always say you read don't press too much I feel
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  Speaker 7: like Both those teams probably read into their own press
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  Speaker 7: too much, and it looked like they all thought it
• 10:42
  Speaker 7: was going to come easy, but then you've got a
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  Speaker 7: team that's hungry. And like you said, the other team
• 10:47
  Speaker 7: played a great game, and they played awesome.
• 10:48
  Speaker 2: I think the free man was sort of that different.
• 10:50
  Speaker 5: You know, and Jay, the producer, would know about this,
• 10:53
  Speaker 5: you know, because he's a mad Fremantle tragic, because they'd
• 10:55
  Speaker 5: already booked his grand final flights and tickets.
• 10:58
  Speaker 2: Oh, Bruce. Bruce, you mean. Bruce. That's right, Brucey, is it? Brucey.
• 11:04
  Speaker 5: So Brucey mightn't get a trip this year, because they're
• 11:07
  Speaker 5: vulnerable on Friday night against the Cats. But I think
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  Speaker 5: the Lions were just, you're right, they'd read too much
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  Speaker 5: of that press, whereas the Fremantle, I think, suffered under
• 11:15
  Speaker 5: the pressure of the state.
• 11:17
  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And that'll be a Perth game, Frio take it on Geelong.
• 11:21
  Speaker 8: Geelong, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I thought, a lot of people did, thought it was
• 11:25
  Speaker 3: going to be Lions-Frio grand final.
• 11:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's the way it was looking this season. But do
• 11:28
  Speaker 3: you reckon they could bounce.
• 11:29
  Speaker 2: Back, Frio? Yeah, they can. They can.
• 11:32
  Speaker 5: It's dangerous. Geelong, they're well coached. I feel I've got
• 11:35
  Speaker 5: some improvement in them. It's the unknown of free men
• 11:38
  Speaker 5: or how they recover. We saw Adelaide Crows last year.
• 11:41
  Speaker 5: finished on top and went out in straight sets. And
• 11:43
  Speaker 5: it's a wonder whether the same thing's going to happen
• 11:45
  Speaker 5: to Fremantle. So senior players failed under the bright lights.
• 11:50
  Speaker 2: And we've seen that. And Geelong, they all thrived. Yeah, exactly.
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: Geelong thrived. They've got a lot of veterans that have
• 11:56
  Speaker 2: played well in big games.
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  Speaker 6: I reckon there was a little bit of that last
• 11:59
  Speaker 6: year's ghost hanging around for the Crows in that game
• 12:01
  Speaker 6: because they weren't great for three quarters. They hung in there.
• 12:05
  Speaker 6: The fourth quarter they kind of kicked. only off the
• 12:07
  Speaker 6: back of the Bulldogs making some.
• 12:09
  Speaker 2: Bad kicks in front.
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  Speaker 8: It's a good point, Sammy.
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  Speaker 5: I felt that at the stadium. I called that game.
• 12:12
  Speaker 5: You feel the tension in the stadium. Before it, there's
• 12:14
  Speaker 5: a feeling. So I've overcome that, but I think the
• 12:20
  Speaker 5: Lions should beat them.
• 12:21
  Speaker 6: Funny, I got to go down to Canberra this year
• 12:23
  Speaker 6: and watch almost a corresponding game with the Broncos versus Canberra.
• 12:27
  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah.
• 12:28
  Speaker 6: And Canberra got out in front, but it's like they
• 12:30
  Speaker 6: didn't know how to win or finish that game. And
• 12:32
  Speaker 6: that's kind of what I saw watching that game there too.
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 12:36
  Speaker 6: You know, hopefully the Lions take that on in this game.
• 12:40
  Speaker 6: I don't know what you boys.
• 12:41
  Speaker 5: Would like, but with the coaches, I know Lee Matthews
• 12:45
  Speaker 5: never went for the lever of we're going for three
• 12:47
  Speaker 5: in a row. He's always very much about game to game.
• 12:51
  Speaker 5: Every season he's unique. But he did go for it.
• 12:54
  Speaker 5: He reached for it in a prelim final, actually, in 0-3.
• 12:57
  Speaker 5: And it was the first time he'd mentioned it for
• 12:59
  Speaker 5: that whole season from the first day of pre-season. Took
• 13:02
  Speaker 5: him until, you know, the back end of September and
• 13:05
  Speaker 5: to go for it. Just almost that artificial lift for
• 13:08
  Speaker 5: the boys. And I feel like the players are smart
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  Speaker 5: enough and maybe Faggs has reached for that.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, boys, it's fucking hard to get back to this
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  Speaker 2: point in time.
• 13:17
  Speaker 8: Well, they've been in the last three. And they're losing
• 13:19
  Speaker 8: some players.
• 13:20
  Speaker 2: They'd be losing some players. That's right. You're losing players.
• 13:22
  Speaker 5: The list will never be the same. So I think
• 13:24
  Speaker 5: that'll be enough on Saturday night.
• 13:26
  Speaker 4: Faggs actually has been pretty good with the stuff that
• 13:28
  Speaker 4: he said. It seemed like Sydney just caught him by surprise.
• 13:31
  Speaker 4: They just weren't expecting Sydney to be this good.
• 13:34
  Speaker 3: Actually, no one was though. The bookies were. They lost
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: five and now six of their best.
• 13:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And they're still going strong. Is it done? Can they
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: keep this going? Surely they've had their win.
• 13:46
  Speaker 5: Well, they're based on the emotional factor. Look, the connection.
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  Speaker 5: Dean Cox done an unbelievable job.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Imagine he's in the foyer that day at the Pullman,
• 13:54
  Speaker 5: you know, when he got told who the players were.
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: He was a seasoned diver. You know, like.
• 14:00
  Speaker 5: Your best players, those three boys would have been in
• 14:02
  Speaker 5: the Australian team, which is. like your Dell EM team
• 14:05
  Speaker 5: of the year. So amazing what they did. But I
• 14:10
  Speaker 5: think when you get to the final four, I think
• 14:13
  Speaker 5: the cream rise to the top, and that's why you
• 14:15
  Speaker 5: ultimately win the premierships. And when you don't have your
• 14:18
  Speaker 5: best players out there, I don't think they're going to
• 14:20
  Speaker 5: be able to get it done. Now, whether they can
• 14:22
  Speaker 5: get it done in the prelim final remains to be seen.
• 14:26
  Speaker 5: But in terms of holding the cup up, I think
• 14:28
  Speaker 5: they'll be long, long odds still, even though they've got
• 14:30
  Speaker 5: the week off.
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: So on the back of that then, who do you
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: reckon is going to be in the GF?
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: I think... No pressure, just picking. I think it might
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: be a replay. It might be Brisbane-Geelong. Yeah. After the
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: Dodgers game, I think the same thing. And then Geelong winning. Yeah,
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: it'll be interesting.
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: It'll be unlikely because you'd have a team that lost
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: the first week and then a team that's come from fifth.
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 14:56
  Speaker 5: But you know what I love about this final series,
• 14:59
  Speaker 5: and take the Brisbane cap off for a second, is
• 15:01
  Speaker 5: that because of the massive upsets the first two weeks,
• 15:04
  Speaker 5: especially the Sydney one, and then Fremantle and Hawthorne, it's
• 15:07
  Speaker 5: thrown the finals wide open. So any of those last
• 15:12
  Speaker 5: six teams could win it. Like I've said with Sydney,
• 15:15
  Speaker 5: I think it's going to be tough for Sydney, but
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: any of those teams could win it.
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: You mentioned earlier that you've been playing a bit of
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: golf recently. with Sammy Walker.
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: So let's talk about Roosters. What do you reckon, and
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: this is for all three of you, what do you
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: reckon about the Roosters without Sammy Walker? Can they win it?
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: Ooh. Yeah.
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: They can without him?
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 15:37
  Speaker 8: Is it because of Hugo Savalas?
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: Thank you for saying the name. I had no idea.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: It's not even a hard name, mate. I was just
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: going to go with Hugo. It's a great name, isn't it?
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: The Cries have got Hugo. Every team needs a Hugo.
• 15:52
  Speaker 8: Every team needs a Ginger and a Hugo.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: And they've got all of them. They've got all of them.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: They've got everyone. Who's their Ginger?
• 15:59
  Speaker 8: Oh, DCE.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: There you go. Strawberry Blonde.
• 16:02
  Speaker 7: But anyway, I think DCE with the leadership, but then
• 16:07
  Speaker 7: that Hugo, he's played how many positions this year and
• 16:10
  Speaker 7: he's done.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: A bloody good job. It'll be the same in AFL.
• 16:12
  Speaker 7: When you get a guy in that is so good
• 16:16
  Speaker 7: at two, three, four positions, but his best position... Well,
• 16:20
  Speaker 7: for Hugo, it's 5-8. And now he gets to play that.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: He was killing it at centre too. But they've got
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: some players back. I've been watching it. I think they're
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: a massive chance, easily.
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Rhys Robson's great there at nine. Tedesco's there at fullback.
• 16:33
  Speaker 6: And then you've got.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: Radley back this week. You've got who else? The whole
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: team's back because they rested.
• 16:44
  Speaker 8: They rested everyone.
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: From a timing point of view, like, Crichton's back as.
• 16:49
  Speaker 7: Well yeah their whole team is back and I think
• 16:52
  Speaker 7: I said my pick was Roosters Warriors if that's still
• 16:55
  Speaker 7: a possibility with the way it all lines up that's
• 16:59
  Speaker 7: my that's still my pick.
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: There might end up being a master straight at Cherry
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: Evans recruitment because a lot of the year has been
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: criticised does it impact on Sammy's game and all that
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: Sammy had an amazing origin series but Maybe it might
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: be the Masters straight now because Sammy's not there.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And Cherry Evans can just control the ship on
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: his own. Yeah.
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: Well, I think if anything, DC has helped Sammy develop
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: his game even more, give him.
• 17:23
  Speaker 8: More confidence to play the game. I thought they were
• 17:25
  Speaker 8: really good together.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: It just took them a little while to get going,
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: didn't it?
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And they found their niche. But then when Sammy
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: was out in Origin, Hugo, like with Cherry, with Bailey,
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: it was pretty great.
• 17:37
  Speaker 7: Their team is so good. Tedesco stands up almost when,
• 17:41
  Speaker 7: Sam's not there. And then it kind of relaxes daily.
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: And I think they're just, the way that they work
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: and the way their team, it's always one of the
• 17:50
  Speaker 7: best teams I've seen for a while. Like when they
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: lose someone, there's no worry that the guy coming in is.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Going to do quite a good job.
• 17:57
  Speaker 8: They've got star power across the field.
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: Martin Awongeniwasa on the wing.
• 18:01
  Speaker 8: Say his name again?
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Mark.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Mark, Mark, Mark. Come on, Oatsy. Mate, I can't pronounce
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: my own name, let alone.
• 18:08
  Speaker 8: Nafahu White has been one of the best front rowers.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: English is my second language. Yeah.
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: It must be a country Victorian thing because Oatsy are related.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Country Victorian. Can't you tell? I think that's why.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: We're not great pronunciers. That's not a word. Yes. That
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: is an OT word.
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: I've said one of those words in some earlier podcasts.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: Now, you started talking about this before we got in
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: the shed.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: We did.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: You reckon you might be families from somewhere back in the.
• 18:42
  Speaker 7: Well, because my dad's family, they're all country Victorians.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Up in the outways, was it? Up in the farms? Yeah,
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: they're all still there. Well, they're still there.
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: So my granddad that just passed away, his family is
• 18:57
  Speaker 7: all there. That's where he grew up. And it was
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: only a couple of weeks ago when I seen him
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: for his funeral that they brought up Randy and said, look,
• 19:06
  Speaker 7: if you ever run into him like this, I asked
• 19:07
  Speaker 7: him if he knows about the relation.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: I went, wait, what? We've been related this whole time?
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: No one's told me.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Does that make it weird that you pashed that Mad Monday?
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: Yeah, maybe.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Hey, country Victorian. It's all right. Way on.
• 19:20
  Speaker 8: Six to go.
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: Well, you ought to know my grandfather, Corker Brown. But
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: the old man mentioned the other day. I said I
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: was coming. the podcast, The Boys, and he said, I
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: think we were related to Corey Oates and The Boys.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: That's a cracking name.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: You can't tell?
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: Corker Brown.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Corker Brown. He was born Roland.
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: You never hear Roland anymore.
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: And his old man, back in the days, would have
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: been in the 30s or 20s, I guess, and the
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: old man, the dads couldn't go to the birth.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: And then he'd come in to serve.
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: Young Roland and he goes, he's a big boy, he goes, Jesus,
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: isn't he a corker?
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: And from that.
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: Point on it was always corker. I remember the old
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: phone books, it was in the phone book. He was
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: a legend.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Friday night footy, we've got the Rabideaus who are just.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: On fire at the moment.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Rabideaus take it on the nights, this is a knockout game.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: The loser's gone.
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: I think this is a bloody good game of footy.
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: I think the finals this week is going to be exciting.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Footy, both. Both codes. I think it's a bloody good
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: weekend of sport for us. But this is a hard game.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: I really, I don't know. Because Knights, you know, they're missing,
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: what's his name, with the head, with the high tackle,
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: the prop.
• 20:38
  Speaker 8: What's his name?
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: The brother. Saifidi.
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: I just couldn't think of the name, mate.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: He's suspended. He's suspended.
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: But the Knights are, like, they're just, they're turning up.
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: Whoever comes in, they're doing a good job.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: They're the team with the most momentum. They are. They're
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: in the bottom four. Yeah. It's a really hard game
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: for me to pick. I really can't. I'm splitting them
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: down the middle.
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: Isn't it funny how you try and do your predictions,
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: but quite often history tells us the team that, can
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: just get that sweet spot of momentum in the last
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: six weeks of the year. So you get into early, mid-August,
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: from that point on, they can carry him through September.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: So that might be that team there.
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: And the Roosters wrestling everyone last week has that, you know,
• 21:22
  Speaker 7: made it harder now for the Knights to win this
• 21:24
  Speaker 7: game because the Rabbitohs.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Put on a, clinic they scored all those.
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: Points yeah high emotions though for the for the bunnies
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: the last couple of weeks with you know jive 99
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: and then 100 games that was amazing yeah so you
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: know that's that's got to be somewhat deflating at some
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: point in time as well you can't always be up
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: up up up um or the you know the flip
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: side is they use that for motivation.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: The whole way so yeah as a kid.
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: 1999 2005 was the last real state of origin, Victoria
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: versus South Australia, when the state of origin used to
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: be big in the AFL.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: Teddy Witten was our, oh, jeez, I'm trying to compare him.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: He was almost like the legendary player.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Like the king. Well, he was like the king, really.
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: And he was dying of prostate cancer, and he couldn't
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: be the chairman of selectors for the last game, but
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: he did the lap of honour. before the game, and
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: there was 90,000 people there. It was the most emotional thing, memory,
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: I think, of AFL football. And the Joy Arrow thing,
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: I think that was on the same level when I
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: saw the pictures of the imagery of that the other day.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: It was incredible. It was just profound. It was amazing, really.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: And it was a great initiative, too, by the NRL
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: to do that. I loved it. Yeah, I loved it.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: We've said they don't get a lot right. No, they
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: nailed it.
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: Sometimes they put the game ahead of players, and it
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: was really nice to see a player being put ahead
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: of the game for once.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, nice. That was good.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: Do you think South, though, surely they'll still have him involved?
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, he'll be there, yeah.
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: And I think Latrell's played a couple of games now.
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: He's got more minutes in his legs. He needs to practice.
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: He's the one that scares me. Yeah, if he turns
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: one on, it'll be great.
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: That left-hand side.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Oh, the hit.
• 23:12
  Speaker 8: Oh, he killed that young halfback.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: I feel sorry for him. I think I lost my breath.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Did you see anything else?
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: Oh, he was such a great guy. Haven't you seen it?
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: No, no, no.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: Mate, a young fella for the Roosters, he's.
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: I think, young halfback.
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: I think he's second game, He's had a couple of games, but,
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: But he's 80 kilo ring away.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: Good one to.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Remind a young fella just where he is. Just where
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: he is in the pecking order. He stood over him
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: as well.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: While he's like half concussed on the ground, Luttrell's just
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: gone walking to the first grade. So your young fella,
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: he's 13?
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's 13. But he's able to take him to
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: the league.
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: And I'll tell you what, I'm glad they're doing it
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: from a young age because it's hard for you boys
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: at senior level to be able to change your techniques.
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: But geez, they get sent off easy in the junior
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: stuff with head high and hips or shoulder charges. So,
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: Unless they're conditioned in the young box from a young age,
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: I think the IFL could do a better.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Job on that. Some of that tackling. Eight years old
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: now it is. Is it? Yeah.
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: And it's smart because I think some of the stuff
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: that gets to IFL level, it's... sort of almost allowed
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: or let go. When you get to senior level and
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: you've got to make your change, especially at AFL level,
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: it's bloody hard for.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: The current player. What's that like?
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: Is that like the style of tackle, like the height
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: they're hitting them at?
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: It's a head high. I think both coaches, haven't they?
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: They've got the spectre of litigation hanging over their head,
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: you know, with the court cases. So it's hard for
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: the authorities, but it makes it so hard for the
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: current players, doesn't it?
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: When the rules are getting changed all the time.
• 24:37
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: And the game is getting faster every year. Yeah.
• 24:40
  Speaker 8: It's going to be faster, fitter, stronger.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 24:42
  Speaker 8: And then they change the rules on you.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: And lower your hit zone. So the Trout did an
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: amazing job. Oh, he's getting that right.
• 24:48
  Speaker 8: He got it right.
• 24:50
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: Now, this will be a great game this round. This
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: is the Warriors taking on the Dolphins.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Now, is it a second chance game for the Lugans?
• 25:00
  Speaker 8: Yeah, for both of them.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: How good are the Dolphins, mate? So good.
• 25:03
  Speaker 8: So good.
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: One of our golf mates plays Redcliffe. You know Ronnie Jellick? Yes.
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: He's a big Redcliffe boy and all he does is
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: talk about the Dolphins.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: They've all jumped on board this year. It's been a
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: great story.
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: I think it's great for the NRL that they've come in.
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: Three years. Three years now.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: And final series. So I think it's awesome.
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: I'm Warriors all the way, but I think Dolphins, if
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: they lose this, they'll be hard to beat that next week.
• 25:34
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I reckon, yeah.
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: I'm going back to Bunnies on Friday night. I reckon
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: the Warriors should win this first game on the Saturday.
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: It's in New Zealand too and it's going to.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Are they playing at Go Media or are they at.
• 25:47
  Speaker 8: Auckland.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Auckland.
• 25:48
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah. Okay, that's good then. They could be... Because
• 25:51
  Speaker 8: I don't want them to go to Eden Park because
• 25:54
  Speaker 8: Go Media.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: That's the second game. If they win, I thought.
• 25:57
  Speaker 8: The prelim.
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: I think there's... Isn't there a chat about not going
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: to Eden Park for one of them?
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
• 26:02
  Speaker 8: Yeah, maybe the prelim. So if they win this, yeah.
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: We played a couple of games in New Zealand. We
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: played a game for premiership points.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. The cake tin in Wellington. Oh, yeah? Yeah, yeah.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: It's a cracking ball. I love it. Yeah, yeah.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Is there any plan to expand? Obviously, we've got Tasmania coming.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Well, they tried China. Yeah. That wasn't a great decision. Saving. Yeah,
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: they did.
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: They got to China and realised they had no ovals.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: What's the theory behind that? I don't know.
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: It must have been one of the club's sponsors was
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: a Chinese company.
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Not a great success.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: It's not exactly fake.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: I don't know how to say it. I don't think
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: it'll work ever.
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: I think they had to send the army out and
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: arrest about 15,000 people and lock them.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Into the stadium so it actually looked all right on TV.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: It's the joy of the communist country. Show them in
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: through a force of craft.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Now, Clay. You'd have people.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Aside, applaud, silence.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: That wasn't a great season. I think India is their next.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: They're going to try and go to India. They're going
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: to try and tap into that population.
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: Because obviously they've got the cricket ovals.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Which, you know, footy was... AFL was invented. It can't
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: be bad.
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: The origins of AFL come about because it was a
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: sport designed or an activity designed to keep the cricketers
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: fit during the winter.
• 27:40
  Speaker 8: That's right.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: That's why it's played on cricket fields. Yeah. Back in
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: the 1850s. So there you go. Yeah. So who do
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: you like?
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: Finns, Warriors, who are you tipping?
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: I think the Warriors.
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: Their defense has been hard. They're hard to score against
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: over there. So hopefully the Finns can make a run though.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: I'm going to go Finns in an upset. They weren't
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: convincing the Warriors.
• 28:01
  Speaker 8: It's not a bad thing.
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: They lose that game, they come back here to Suncorp
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: Stadium and they get another crack. And they've worked hard
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: enough to be where they are. But, yeah, I think
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: the Warriors at Go Media Stadium in Auckland there, which
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: is the old Mount Sparts stadium.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Oh, I love that place. It is my favourite away game.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: You scored a few tries there, didn't you, mate? I
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: loved it, yeah. No, because the crowd was just on
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: top of you. That was a leading comment. We were
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: supposed to tell you, mate. Oh, sorry. What was the
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: most tries you scored there, mate? I remember actually, yeah,
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: 20 metres. Took a carry, busted through the middle, fended
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: off fullback, ran 80. Yeah, I remember that. Right on
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: the buzzer. Yeah, it was. No, no, it was at
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: the start. And then I just went, I'm done.
• 28:42
  Speaker 8: And then we lost.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: No, we'd won that one.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: We were talking about momentum before, and then we got this.
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: The second Saturday night game is two teams that have
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: none of it, which is the Sharks and the Cowboys.
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: I mean, they're both.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is my game. They have.
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: The worst one of them all.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: Jeremiah Nanai trying to get through this week. He's got
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: a knee injury at the moment. Rubicota got off.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah. What do you think about Rubicota getting off? Well,
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: I go by a rule book. I go by the
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: way the whole year's gone. It's a kickoff, for one.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: It happened right at the first minute.
• 29:15
  Speaker 8: First tackle.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: First tackle of the game. And he's just chinned him.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: He's flush. He chinned him just flush as. How do
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: you get off that? There's intent. Yep. Like, you didn't
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: try and drop, and you've chinned him.
• 29:32
  Speaker 8: Good lawyer.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Great lawyer.
• 29:33
  Speaker 8: Good lawyers always win.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: You've got to choose who you hit as well. I
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: think that comes into play. Yeah. Papa Lee's a good
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: one to hit. Yeah. I go by the rule all year.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: I just feel like they haven't stuck to it. Finals, yes.
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: Cameron Smith missed the grand final because of it.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: I love seeing him back and playing.
• 29:54
  Speaker 7: I think it's awesome because you want to see the
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: best teams with the best players but Just the way
• 29:58
  Speaker 7: the year has gone, I'm surprised.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: What did you think about the wildcard and the AFL boys?
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: I loved it. Did you expand it? I didn't mind it.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: I enjoyed it. Yeah.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: So that was like, so the teams that were in
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: the eight, or the teams that had, was it in
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: the six?
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: Top six. Top six week off.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: And then you had two wildcard games.
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: We had this almost a silly week off, you know,
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: to try and. freshen the teams up for finals. But,
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: you know, it was a dead weekend. And I would
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: certainly give NRL a free kick from a TV point
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: of view. But they decided to fill that up.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: Yes, they kept doing it.
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and our fixtures all over the shop. Yeah, that's right.
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: Our fixtures all over the shop. So I think 7
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: played 10, 8 played 9 in that weekend off. And
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: maybe they got lucky that it was two big MCG
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: games because they were Melbourne clubs.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. It was 90,000, 80,000. But it was great.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: You know what?
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: The bottom rungs in the ladder, there's not really much
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: difference between the teams, is there? The difference between 7th
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: and 10th is marginal. So I thought it was a
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: great concept.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's exciting.
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: I think PVL, Peter Valandes, was talking about, again, he
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: throws a lot of different ideas in there, but having
• 31:13
  Speaker 6: almost like a plate final so that the other teams
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: that are not in just continue.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: To play on. So there's games. But in saying that,
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: when I'm done, I'm done. No, no, and that's what
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: I think. I'm charging.
• 31:25
  Speaker 8: They're like, why?
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: We ain't winning. So we ain't playing again.
• 31:29
  Speaker 8: If there was a money incentive.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: But then you've got to up everyone else's money.
• 31:34
  Speaker 8: Would you play? Would you have a crack?
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know how much though.
• 31:38
  Speaker 8: How much do I get?
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: You get a free plane to wherever you want to
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: go for your end of season trip.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: No, it's got to be worth it. Money. You know,
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: it's got to be 20 grand a player.
• 31:47
  Speaker 8: 20 grand a player.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: Cash. Yep, cash.
• 31:50
  Speaker 7: Because they're making that much so you've got to do
• 31:53
  Speaker 7: a spare change.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: The season's done. It's done. It's done.
• 31:56
  Speaker 8: I'm sorry.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: I don't think anyone will watch it Why are we
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: watching this? They're not the winners.
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: There's been a little bit to talk about this mid-season tournament.
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: I think the NBA do it. But it's harder doing
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: football cards. They do it in the UK, in the
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: Super League. You guys have got State of Origin, which
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: is huge. So the AFL almost needs something to combat that.
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: You're never going to combat State of Origin, but certainly
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: some extra content around that.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: It's a funny state of origin. Like, it used to
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: be big AFL. It's weird that it hasn't got the
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: same traction.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: Because you think there's still that passion.
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: Well, it was big back in the day when it
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: was more, and then we sort of become a real
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: national club in 87, and it's almost like there's too
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: many states involved.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: Because Perth get pissed off like that.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: So who do you play it against? The great thing
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: that works well is you've got the two states, the
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: two big states.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah. They hate each other. Yeah. They're genuine rivalry. Like,
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: I think the... Yeah.
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: Not the reason it came about. I know there used
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: to be state v. state, but I think it was
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: in the rugby league, it was the league that you
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: played in. So you had Queenslanders playing in the New
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: South Wales league that would represent.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: New South Wales.
• 33:02
  Speaker 8: New South Wales, yeah, yeah.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: Until Origin came along. Yeah, it was residents. Yeah, residents,
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: that's right.
• 33:07
  Speaker 8: Queensland residents, New South Wales residents.
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: And it wasn't until a few of the VFL administrators
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: back in those days took some of the ARL administrators
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: to a game of Origin, and they said, look at
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: our idea.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: And our concept, and they did it in rugby league,
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: and it's just taken off.
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: Which is so good. It's so good to watch, and
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: it captures the imagination of not only the two states,
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: but the whole of Australia, really, doesn't it? And you think, yeah,
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: there's sporting things. I spoke about opening the bowling for
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: Australia and wanting to do that, but origin is one.
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: Just a sports lover. You go, geez, I would have
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: loved to have played an origin game. You boys are
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: bloody lucky to have been able to experience that, I reckon.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: All right, so what do we think, though?
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: Sharks. I don't know. Tricky Trindle's back for the Sharks. Oh, well,
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: I'm not a Shark. Yeah, I think that's a big deal.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: He's in. I'm in with him.
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I just think the Cowboys, they like too many points.
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: They're the worst defensive team in the top eight. And
• 34:06
  Speaker 6: the Sharks, when they get on a roll.
• 34:09
  Speaker 8: They'll just score tries.
• 34:10
  Speaker 7: And they've been awful the last few weeks without him.
• 34:12
  Speaker 7: And I think they'll come out pretty good. Pretty hungry
• 34:18
  Speaker 7: to win, but if they do get a roll on that, they.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: Can run away with this game pretty quickly.
• 34:22
  Speaker 8: Yeah, pretty quickly, yeah.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, I'm going Sharks. Sharks as well, yeah. I'll
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: just jump in with you boys.
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: Actually, speaking of jumping in, Brian, if you were going
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: to play league, like what position?
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: Where are we going to put you?
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: I've lost the shoulders.
• 34:37
  Speaker 8: I reckon back row.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: I'm going back row. You're a prime back row.
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: I used to love Gordie when I, you know, early
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: days and I think Twera and Nicky was.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: Was he a back row or a second row? No,
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: he played back row and a bit of lock, yeah.
• 34:49
  Speaker 8: Yeah, with the beautiful mullet.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: He had the flat top mullet. Yeah, so good.
• 34:57
  Speaker 8: I think he's still got the haircut. Same haircut, I think.
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: You've got to be able to play to go with
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: a flat top mullet.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: I know, 100%. It was like.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: An Apache Indian sort of look.
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: It was.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: It was like he was going to war.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: He had the look.
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: I'm not sure that's going to work on a white
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: boy from the country.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Probably not. You've got a good mullet, actually. You've got
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: beautiful curly hair.
• 35:19
  Speaker 8: You'd be like Dillon Watanizale.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: You know what I've always wanted?
• 35:22
  Speaker 7: So my old man, their photo, their wedding photo has
• 35:26
  Speaker 7: his mullet.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: Grow it, mate. And I went, I'm so off it
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: that I can't have that hair. Because I've got to
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: throw it, mate. It goes up.
• 35:34
  Speaker 8: At the back, it loosens up.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: It doesn't, man. It just goes out and fluffy. It's
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: so crap. Well, just give it a try, mate. It's
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: like your hair. It's just horrible. I don't have any hair, mate.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: I know. You got rid of it. You finally realised it. Yeah, exactly.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Put it on his chin, mate. You'd do a good mullet,
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: wouldn't you? I used to have the mullet. Come on, man.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Those kids are.
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: Steve Kernaghan was a big, Styx Kernaghan was a legendary figure.
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: He's Carlton captain, premiership captain, and he had the greatest
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: mullet ever. So as a kid growing up, he was
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: the position.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: I wanted to play. So I just wanted to be
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: like Styx with a mullet. I pictured you with the
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: tape around the head too. Well, actually I've got a photo. Oh,
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: I'll send you.
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: Because Mum sent me a free haircut once and I
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: think she used to just put the bowl over my head.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: Well, didn't they used to say, because you can see
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: it now, they used to say that your hair looked
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: exactly like a Lego figurine.
• 36:20
  Speaker 8: Oh, Lego hair.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: That's Lego hair. Just bang it to the exact proportion.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: But that Lego hair has served you well now because
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: you've got the head wound and.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: It's just completely up. It's gone. It's coming up.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: You've just whacked the helmet straight on.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: Lego cut. I'm going to put it out there. Brownie
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: would have been a back rower. Back rower, yeah.
• 36:36
  Speaker 8: Like Jacob Preston.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Or Sutton 5'8. Oh.
• 36:42
  Speaker 8: Where is it?
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: Helham Lukey. Oh, yeah. It's like a ball running. Or
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: Matt Jewett. Just legs everywhere. The old egg beaters. It
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: used to be dangerous running next to it.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: Any second rowers are going to get bullied on them.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Yes. Love it. Remember the old undercut? Yes. We need
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: to bring the undercut back. No kids do that. That's
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: Joe Dirt. What was mum thinking?
• 37:12
  Speaker 9: What was she thinking?
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: What a bowl. What sort of bowl is that? Amazing.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: It's a long front. I'm surprised he paid. I hope
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: mum didn't pay for that.
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: All right, and then the last Sunday game, we've got
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: the Panthers taking on the Roosters.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: I'm excited for this game.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it should be a cracker.
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: I really don't know. This is a game for me
• 37:38
  Speaker 7: that I've.
• 37:39
  Speaker 8: Well, the defense.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: Someone else can play that. Well, they played.
• 37:43
  Speaker 8: Each other just recently. DCE scored two tries in the game.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: And it was the game of the year.
• 37:47
  Speaker 6: It was the game of the year. It was semifinal
• 37:49
  Speaker 6: football early in the season. And the defensive effort from
• 37:53
  Speaker 6: the Roosters was absolutely outstanding. They'll need to do that again.
• 37:58
  Speaker 6: Panthers did have a couple of players out. I don't
• 37:59
  Speaker 6: think Isaiah was playing in that game. But pretty much, yeah.
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: Everyone's back for, except for Walker, but everyone's back for
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: the Roosters and Yo's back for the Panthers.
• 38:09
  Speaker 7: And I want the refs this weekend to do, like,
• 38:13
  Speaker 7: ref the game the exact same way that game was.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: Let it go.
• 38:16
  Speaker 7: We're in finals footy. Let the game go. Let the
• 38:19
  Speaker 7: teams decide. Like, if I hear the whistle... more than
• 38:24
  Speaker 7: frigging 20 times in the first half, I'm just going
• 38:26
  Speaker 7: to be off it.
• 38:27
  Speaker 8: This is a weird one too.
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: So, Isaiah is back, but what he's done is he's
• 38:31
  Speaker 6: ruptured his pec.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: How long has he had off? He took a couple
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: of weeks off, yeah? Not even long enough. So, it
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: requires surgery.
• 38:37
  Speaker 6: So, at the end of the day, he is going
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: to be playing with … And everyone's going to be
• 38:42
  Speaker 6: hitting it.
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: 30%.
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: So, his big game is going deep into the line, passing,
• 38:47
  Speaker 6: linking with Nathan Cleary at half, and he tackles everything
• 38:51
  Speaker 6: that moves. So he's going to be very limited. He's
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: going to have to be tough. Oh, he'll have that
• 38:56
  Speaker 6: strap on. He'll have the leg to shoulder.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: So they go from here. The seatbelt. You ever see
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: the seatbelt? The seatbelt?
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: So it straps to your thigh. And you can't move
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: past it. The opposite leg. And then it goes up here,
• 39:06
  Speaker 6: and then it straps to your arm. So then you can't.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: You tighten it to whatever you want the movement to be.
• 39:10
  Speaker 8: So he won't be able to move his arm too much.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: So JT, I think, had two. He had both. He
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: had both. Seatbelts. I don't know how he kicked goals.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: He could lift them here. You can tighten them, I believe, to, say, here. Yeah.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: That's what he'll be playing with.
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: So does that become a problem? Do they have to
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: change the defensive setup or where he stands.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: In the line? Yeah, maybe, because then he'll have to tackle.
• 39:27
  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: More left shoulder than right. shoulder.
• 39:31
  Speaker 7: But I see them as a team that we're not changing,
• 39:33
  Speaker 7: so you either play or you can't play. But if
• 39:36
  Speaker 7: I'm Roosters, which they'll be doing this, they'll be saying,
• 39:39
  Speaker 7: whenever we get him on the ground, I want you all.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: To grab it. And just squeeze it as hard.
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: As you can. I'm sending Spencer Lin you into it.
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: I'm sending Nafahu White into it. Yeah, you step on him.
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: Put a step on him.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: Make him reach. You need to make him reach. She's
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: going to make it hurt. Look, I'm sorry to say it,
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: but that's just the way the game goes. Can you isolate,
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: just grab it and squeeze it as hard as you can?
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: What are you talking about? It depends who you are.
• 40:13
  Speaker 6: So who was the biggest person you've seen in the shower?
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: Look at that. There you go. But that was another
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: leading question. That was like, he said, just.
• 40:28
  Speaker 8: Grab it and squeeze it.
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: He said, um, that's, uh, speaking of Spencer Lenu, what about, um,
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: like the fire up between him and, uh, color.
• 40:37
  Speaker 7: Uh, yeah, I think that's where he was back in
• 40:40
  Speaker 7: before it did the second.
• 40:42
  Speaker 8: That's the shit I love.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: I love it. Yeah. The one-on-one battles.
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: And then again, Very, very smart from Robbo just to
• 40:51
  Speaker 6: take him off the field and not put him back
• 40:53
  Speaker 6: out there because, again, you want him to play semi-final four.
• 40:56
  Speaker 8: He was losing his head.
• 40:57
  Speaker 6: He had the ball in his hand and he kept
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: on going, kept on going.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: He shaped up.
• 41:02
  Speaker 6: But that's literally, again, sometimes you've just got to try
• 41:07
  Speaker 6: to out-bully the bully. And Keon did such a great job.
• 41:11
  Speaker 6: He kept his cool.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: Can you say his last name?
• 41:13
  Speaker 8: Kala Matangi.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love how your game is the names. Yeah.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: It's insane, isn't it?
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: I'll go up with Smithy and Smithy says, you know,
• 41:21
  Speaker 5: Channel 9 will have a... someone to come in and
• 41:23
  Speaker 5: help them with the pronunciation. There's a wording. Someone to
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: explain the names. We don't have any of that now.
• 41:32
  Speaker 5: The most difficult way we've ever had is Metropolis.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: It's good to have. It's good to have. It's good
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: to have. It's good to have.
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: It's good to have.
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: You've got some of the Greek names for Melbourne about
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: as hard as it gets.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: What about because i remember this is a maybe this
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: is an old wives tale brownie but uh that you
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: as far as getting fired up and you needing to
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: keep your uh emotions sort of in check that is
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: it true that lee matthews banned you from listening to
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: ac pre-game games yeah we threw a little.
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: Run when i was uh younger and I keep getting suspended.
• 42:11
  Speaker 5: But I'd always get eight fights in.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: I loved it. And then Lee comes up to me
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: one day, he goes, yeah, certain players, you know, they
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: get white line fever. You're one of those.
• 42:20
  Speaker 5: You don't need to be amped up any extra until
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: you've crossed the white line.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: That'll be enough. You guys, what are you listening to?
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: I said, ACDS. You guys, I reckon stop listening to ACDS.
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: Listen to Savage Garden instead. I'll be your dream, I'll
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: be your wish, I'll be your friend. I didn't get
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: suspended for the next 10 years. So did that really
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: fix it? That was your last suspension? Well, I didn't
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: get suspended for a long time. Wow. He was a
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: great coach. Smart, very smart. But he was smart. He
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: was smart.
• 42:50
  Speaker 6: I used to love the old Three Codes lunches back
• 42:51
  Speaker 6: in the day that we used to do. They were
• 42:53
  Speaker 6: really good and then And the three coaches used to
• 42:55
  Speaker 6: sit up there on stage.
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: Well, we had my first, uh, week at the Brisbane Lions.
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: Lee Matthews got all us young bucks in their first
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: years and got Wayne Bennett to speak to us.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: I still remember.
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: It feels like yesterday. One of the messages was, um,
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: Lee said to us, you know, it's later than you
• 43:11
  Speaker 5: think boys. So, you know, I want you to take
• 43:13
  Speaker 5: heed of this advice that Wayne's about to give you.
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: And it was 25 years ago. I feel like it
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: was yesterday. I still see that as an 18 year
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: old looking up at the great Wayne Bennett.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: And, uh, You know, so you're fortunate enough to be
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: coached by him and one of the all-time greats. And
• 43:27
  Speaker 5: obviously I was with Lee Matthews, one of the all-time greats.
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: So very lucky, very lucky. You take it for granted
• 43:33
  Speaker 5: at the time, don't you? But you look back, you know, geez,
• 43:36
  Speaker 5: we're lucky, not only in careers, but life going forward.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was lucky enough to see Wayne's all of it.
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: Just right there. A lot of the time, actually.
• 43:45
  Speaker 8: You were locking next to him, mate.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: I was a couple of ways. It was too many lockers.
• 43:50
  Speaker 8: He used to be a leg up drive himself too.
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: No, I'm not shitting.
• 43:55
  Speaker 7: Because you do your extras and he'd be done. He'd
• 43:59
  Speaker 7: come in and if he's done his gym session, he'd
• 44:01
  Speaker 7: just go for a shower.
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: I remember coming after all the.
• 44:04
  Speaker 7: Extras the first time I'd seen the whole thing. And
• 44:07
  Speaker 7: I remember, you know, head down, I was just got,
• 44:09
  Speaker 7: you know, I did some extras. I was, you know,
• 44:10
  Speaker 7: just take my boots off and he starts talking.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: I'm looking up. Oh, yeah.
• 44:15
  Speaker 8: Eyes here, eyes here, eyes here.
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: He has the leg up, nothing on it. He's just drawing.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: What did you say about Sammy Ford? He's a big introvert.
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, did you ever see Lee Nude?
• 44:28
  Speaker 5: I can't say I'm privileged to have done that.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: I think he might have gone separately. That seems like
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: a normal thing to do for a coach.
• 44:38
  Speaker 5: It would have been tough to share with the man
• 44:40
  Speaker 5: that was voted the greatest player of all time.
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: It would have been a little bit intimidating.
• 44:45
  Speaker 7: See, Wayne wasn't the greatest winger of all time, so
• 44:47
  Speaker 7: it's probably easier.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: It's very average.
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: Who are we tipping for Roosters Penrith? I'm going to
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: go with Roosters Penrith.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: Oh, geez. Okay. Yeah. They want redemption, the Roosters. No,
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: not the Panthers.
• 45:02
  Speaker 8: I'm going to go Panthers. Yeah, I'm going to go Panthers.
• 45:04
  Speaker 7: I just look at the year and I think the Roosters,
• 45:06
  Speaker 7: all year they've been one of my favourite team with
• 45:10
  Speaker 7: the Warriors.
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: All year to watch. Yeah. So, yeah, that's it.
• 45:13
  Speaker 8: It's got to be a good game.
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: It's got to be a good game of footy. Let
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: it go.
• 45:17
  Speaker 8: I'm going with that.
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: Jared, we're at Hargrove. He's a big bastard. He's a
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: big boy. I would have hated to try and stop him.
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: I loved it.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: I loved it. He's a great player, wasn't he? Angry.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: You would have had to go. We went ahead there.
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: He was taller than me.
• 45:33
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I used to stand tall, drop late, get underneath him.
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: Got him.
• 45:37
  Speaker 7: I remember that battle at Suncorp. One of my favourite
• 45:40
  Speaker 7: games of my life. It was just, that got me
• 45:42
  Speaker 7: amped up.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: The whole game, just Semmy and Jarrett going at it.
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: I remember the game, Suncorp. Oh, geez, it was awesome.
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: And I think we just got them in the end.
• 45:51
  Speaker 8: Semi-final, yeah. Yeah, and it was one of.
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: My favourite games of my whole career. I loved it.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: Except for when I used to have to run it
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: off the kick-off if Semmy wasn't up.
• 45:58
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, oh, no. Where is he? Where do
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: I go? Where is he? Well, we've got back rollers
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: that can take your head off. I was like, just
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: go just hard, son. Because he would come and give
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: me the ball.
• 46:10
  Speaker 8: Boyd Corner used to just cut you in half.
• 46:11
  Speaker 7: Yeah, Boyd Corner and then, I don't know, the props
• 46:13
  Speaker 7: they had, like, they all wanted.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: To kill me.
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: Because of you.
• 46:17
  Speaker 8: Sorry, mate.
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: I made him angry. Yeah. Well, you never started on
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: the bench, did you? It was any time he came in.
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: But then no one else wanted to run off the kickoff.
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: So it was like, Corey, you go.
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: All right, let's make a multi. Let's do an AFL multi.
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: We won't worry about.
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: Possessions because that gets too confusing. We'll just go player
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: to score two goals or more.
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: Okay, AFL. Logan then.
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: I'm going Logan for the Lions.
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: I'm going three. Yeah, I like that. I'm going three.
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: He was pretty unreal. Yeah, I'm going three. I think
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: he's unreal. I love watching him.
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: All right, so yeah, it's got to be at least
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: two goals for AFL. It can be any of the
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: four teams playing across the weekend. So did you get
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: one to read, Corey?
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: I've gone Logan Morris.
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: Logan Morris for two plus.
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: Three plus. Three plus. Okay, Brownie? I'm going to go
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: Jeremy Cameron.
• 47:11
  Speaker 5: He's kicked a shot of 800 goals in his career.
• 47:14
  Speaker 5: Hasn't kicked a goal since... June, though, which was against
• 47:20
  Speaker 5: Fremantle ironically last time.
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: So he's ready to go.
• 47:22
  Speaker 5: And he's copped out even punishment this week in the media.
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: So three plus. Three plus. Oh, I like it.
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: I'm sticking with Geelong, too. I'm going to go Shannon
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: Neal for two plus.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go a little conservative. So it might
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: be an upset, is it?
• 47:35
  Speaker 8: I think the cats might bloody towel up.
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: We're going three in that game.
• 47:41
  Speaker 5: The line's ten. You're going to give them a go
• 47:44
  Speaker 5: over ten, you think? Win by more than ten?
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: That's the line, is it? Yeah, that's the line. Line
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: 10 plus. What are you doing?
• 47:51
  Speaker 6: I reckon I'm going to go Patrick Dangerfield at least. No,
• 47:56
  Speaker 6: I'm going to go two.
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: Two points. Well, we have gone. We have gone. The
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: Cats better win here. The Cats better win by at
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: least 30. That's right.
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: Sorry to the Freo fans.
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: Sorry, Bruce. Sorry, Bruce. Sorry, Bruce.
• 48:11
  Speaker 5: He's out trying to sell his grand final tickets.
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: At least his flights. That pays 36 bucks.
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: That's a good multi right there.
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: That's a great multi.
• 48:23
  Speaker 5: Fremantle's defense is very vulnerable at the moment.
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: It is? It is.
• 48:26
  Speaker 7: If they really step up, then we may not get anything.
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: That's right. In what small team history? Paddy Dangerfield. Is
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: this his last season as well? No, he just resigned.
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: Is he 50 yet or what? No, he's 49.
• 48:36
  Speaker 8: He's the only player to kick.
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: He's the only player over 35 years old to kick.
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: five goals or more in a final in the history
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: of the game the other day. Because not many people
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: play longer than that. There's not many to go off. No, exactly.
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: And we'll build a NRL multi, so this is just
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: any time try scorer, one.
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: Player, any game. NRL?
• 49:04
  Speaker 8: Milky for a triple.
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: No.
• 49:05
  Speaker 7: Honestly, I reckon there'll be four tries in that game.
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it'll be it.
• 49:13
  Speaker 8: That'll be a defensive.
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: Game, that one, for sure. Stay away from that game.
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: Kip will probably pick something.
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: No, I'm getting on Kobo for the Finns, I reckon.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: Hey-ya! Hey-ya! Right-o.
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: That one's going great.
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: You had a week off. You got one?
• 49:24
  Speaker 8: Should be fresh, ready to go.
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: I'll go to the trail. Yeah.
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: I like that.
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: Just down there. About a 60 metre run.
• 49:31
  Speaker 5: 60?
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: You reckon he's got 60 in him? A couple of
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: fed dogs. A couple of runs out of juice. He's
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: getting old, the big fella. That's a good one. A
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: couple of don't argues.
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: There you go, Sammy.
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: I'm going sharp. I'm going Fletcher Sharp. Fletcher Sharp for
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: the nights. For the nights, yeah. Yeah, Fletcher's a good boy.
• 49:55
  Speaker 7: Although I feel like we're staying away from the game
• 49:57
  Speaker 7: that I think is going to have like 70 points
• 49:59
  Speaker 7: in it.
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: A lot of sharks and cowboys.
• 50:02
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm going to go.
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: A lot of deep thinking goes into these multis, boys.
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: We haven't won.
• 50:08
  Speaker 7: We've won by the roll, but we've put a lot
• 50:11
  Speaker 7: of thought into it.
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Braden Trindle I'm going. Oh, yeah?
• 50:14
  Speaker 8: Yeah, for the sharks.
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: I like that. Yeah. Yeah, nice. Okay.
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: Okay, we talked about the AFL Grand Final. Brownie, you
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: reckon it's going to be Brisbane?
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: It's a replay.
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: Hopefully, yeah. Who do we like for NRL Grand Final?
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: Who's going to be there? I'm sticking with Roosters Warriors.
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: Roosters Warriors. Could it be the game we'll see this weekend?
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: Can it be Warriors-Fins? Can that work out or no?
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: It can. It can? Yeah.
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's me.
• 50:42
  Speaker 8: Yeah, nice.
• 50:43
  Speaker 7: So the top four teams, the way they are now,
• 50:46
  Speaker 7: the Pools, the two winners out of that, that can
• 50:50
  Speaker 7: then be the final.
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: But when they lose, they swap.
• 50:52
  Speaker 8: Yeah, swap sides.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they can replay. Yeah, yeah.
• 50:56
  Speaker 5: It happened last year in the AFL. Geelong belted Brisbane
• 51:00
  Speaker 5: and then Brisbane belted the grand final.
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 51:04
  Speaker 6: Actually, the Lions go better when they have to play
• 51:06
  Speaker 6: every semi-final to then win a grand final, don't they?
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: Remember the first year they lost? They lost at home. Yeah. Well, no, yeah.
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: Or they lost at home. They won from outside the
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: top four. And they won, yeah.
• 51:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 51:20
  Speaker 6: NRL Grand Final, I'm going to go with the Panthers Warriors.
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Same here. I'm done, Panthers Warriors.
• 51:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: Best two teams. Yeah, yeah. Yep. Oh, did I get two?
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: Final scores for our tipping.
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: No, I did.
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: I got a seven out of eight last weekend.
• 51:39
  Speaker 8: I got a six from mate.
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: Corey got a two.
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: The person who's never played a game of NRL got 114. Sam,
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: you got a, that's me. Sammy, you got 108.
• 51:48
  Speaker 8: Yeah, that's how much I weigh.
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: And Corey, 104. That's how much I weigh. Yeah. Whoa,
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: and that's how much kip weighs. Yeah!
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: It's a glandular.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's got a bad heart. It's got a bad heart, man.
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: It's got a bad heart. Jeez, you got deep, man.
• 52:05
  Speaker 5: Anyway.
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: Well, thank you so much, Brownie.
• 52:06
  Speaker 8: Thanks for coming, mate.
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: Great to see you healthy. Pleasure to be on, boys. Yeah.
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: Family too. That's right. All the fans.
• 52:13
  Speaker 5: I need to check the family trail. It might be
• 52:16
  Speaker 5: a bit sketchy. That's okay. Everyone calls you family.
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: Everyone's related now. Lucky it's your dad's side and your
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: mum's side because that's the crazy side of your mum's side.
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 52:24
  Speaker 5: A few crooks on that side.
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: Crazy. I'm not going there now.
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: He's not even laughing about it, which makes me think
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: it's a little bit weird.
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's not going there. Okay, fair enough.