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Grand Final Fever · Talking Shed

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  Welcome back to The Talking. Shit podcast on my Lift the
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  puppy jeans. Yo, welcome back to the talking
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  shit podcast. You're here what you saw how
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  much you bring you the latest in sports pop culture and last big
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  questions. But it's a big week this week in
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  the sporting wheel. But it's the last week of footy.
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  That's right, last week of footy, man.
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  Well, in terms of the NRL, that is.
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  Yeah. Oh, you got Modi's coming up as.
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  Well, international footy's on its way as.
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  Well, yeah, yeah. Quite a few things coming up but
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  in terms of this weekend, big weekend ahead in the footy
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  circles it is the State Championship Grand final, NRW
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  Grand Final and of course the big one, the NRL Grand Final.
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  Yep Yep, some massive games going to be some good ones, some
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  storylines being written, some storylines being saved.
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  I know Billy are coming coming for after those that
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  heartbreaking lost last time they're in the state Cup final.
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  That's true. So we're trying to start a
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  dynasty. Broncos are trying to take back
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  their pride after being dropped the chopped it in overtime and
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  lost in a heartbreaking against Nathan.
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  It's a bad memory story in his mind.
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  I'm just, I borrow not to skip ahead of my take, but I'm hoping
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  he wins just for that low key, really.
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  Yeah, but. OK, OK, well, this is a bit of a
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  special episode, isn't it? We're purely just going to focus
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  on the rugby league grand final this weekend.
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  I mean three big games coming up but we're going to be touching
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  on obviously players, predictions, who we obviously
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  want to win, who we want to see when and our wise I reckon.
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  Yep, Yep, sounds good. What's should you start off with
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  a general. I got to I got to just want to
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  touch on the Delhi M's is my general update.
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  That'll be cool. So last night there was the
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  Delhi M Awards and so pretty much as A to sum it up, Tedisco
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  got Delhi M Player of the Year. Yeah, look and full back of the
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  year. I messaged our old mate Joe
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  Duffy on this one. Yeah.
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  And I was like, how did he win it?
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  Bro the dallians are honestly stupid.
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  They're ridiculous bro like it doesn't make sense.
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  Like the only reason these people are winning is because
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  they play every game every season.
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  They need to change it to like someone gets the vote bro.
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  Like they need to give like Breyton, Nestor and all those
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  dudes votes so they can actually choose.
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  But I don't care if Rhys Walsh played like 15 games if he bro
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  played a mean 15 games, which he did.
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  But I reckon we should reach all should have got it.
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  What The other thing isn't it if you get suspended as well, you
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  miss out straight away? Eh, you're done.
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  Oh. Yeah, he did He get suspended I.
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  Don't know, I don't know, but I reckon that's a ridiculous rule
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  too. That shouldn't count you out.
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  Yeah, like bro, it happens to everyone and.
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  What if you absolutely literal mature Joe Manu someone?
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  Unlucky to that person, I still don't think it should.
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  Count you bro. So this is pretty much what I
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  want to say. So I'll go through it and just
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  show that it's a little bit BS because bro, over the last 10
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  years, bro, seven of those people have been non origin
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  players. Say.
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  That again, out of the last 10 years, seven of them have been
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  non Origin players. So last year, so this year we
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  had Teresco, last year we had Jerome Hughes and the year
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  before that we had Kaylin Pogner, which was as close
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  between him and Shawn Johnson. Then you had Niko Hynes, who's
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  basically pretty much didn't play like because he was, you
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  know, he couldn't crack it. Everyone was like, oh, he's
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  telling him and he couldn't even make Origin.
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  And then then you had the outliers like Tom Trevoye, but
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  she obviously just had that crazy season, which was like he
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  already played half the games and still somehow won.
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  And then he had Jack Wyden, who he actually got it before him.
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  But then you had and then you had changed disco.
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  But then you also had Roger Tubasa Sheikh Bro, My hot take.
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  Gee, I reckoned Roger Tubasa, Sheikh Dalian was BSI.
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  Don't reckon he deserved it. What?
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  No, you're off it. Straight up, I don't, I, I
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  reckon he, I don't even reckon he was that good that year.
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  He always, he's bro, he's mean. He's mean.
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  Don't get me wrong bro. Warriors came last.
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  I'm pretty sure all second to last or third they were, they
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  were bad. And I, I always remember he he
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  he'd run for like 300m. I'm pretty sure he averaged like
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  250 or some shit. But but, and that's mean but but
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  I don't reckon he was the best player because I'm pretty sure
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  that same year, I forget the exact player, but I'm pretty
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  sure Teresco had a mean year that year.
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  Yeah, I'm not too sure who who was his competitor?
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  I I actually have to disagree with you on this one.
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  You did you rate that? I, I rated it because purely on
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  the fact that he stood out actually in every, I would
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  honestly out of the 27 whatever games it is that they play each
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  year, he he stood out in honestly 95% of those games.
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  He was insane. Wasn't those were like I I
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  remember that that year it was the first time I've seen the
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  full back save as many tries. No, that's what I was about to
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  say bro. He always let tries.
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  In no he saved. No, bro, he saved Charles is
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  better, better defender than him.
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  I swear, bro, he was a revolving door.
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  I mean, do you remember when he got whacked by?
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I do.
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  I do remember that. Really.
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  Who whacked him? Was it Caleb Palmer?
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  I can't remember someone. Yeah, I I, I remember that, but
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  on a tech bro, he was, he was a gun that year too.
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  He was like you said, he was averaging bro.
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  I don't want to know the I don't know the meters specifically,
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  but I I actually think it was, it was a valid daily inn that
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  year. There have been some daily Inns
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  that I've questioned and been like.
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  Well, who's who's? Who do you think is the most
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  overrated daily M of all time? Cameron Smith.
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  No, no way. Bro Cameron Smith is I.
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  I just saw it there. That one wasn't.
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  Pro OK what? What's the list of the daily
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  M's? OK, so I went in the last 10.
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  Tedisco Hughes, Ponga Hines Travoyevich, Jack Wyden, Tedisco
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  RTS, Cameron Smith on his retirement year.
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  Tamilolo Yeah, no, that's good. Oh yeah, him and Cronk got joint
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  one, remember? Oh, true.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. They got joint one.
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  That's. Right then I went Thurston,
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  Thurston and Hayne joint. Damn they were just giving out
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  too much joint ones. They low key then Cronk and
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  Barber. OK, no, actually, I'll write
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  that. That's a great all of them.
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  I do, actually. I vaguely remember the seasons
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  each of those guys had in those years.
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  And I'm for it. I actually do.
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  I like that because you know what, I competed.
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  I have to compare this to the AFL and when AFL get given
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  points and it is shocking. Have you seen what's happened in
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  the AFL? No, what do they do?
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  The oh bro teachers pitch get it or something.
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  Oh, mate, like there have been so many incorrect like points
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  given to different players because you know the given
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  points, but week on week, you know, in both in both codes,
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  this is and purely on your performance and mate, they've
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  been just some shocking calls in that code.
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  Absolutely shocking, like horrific.
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  And so NRL actually, this is a pretty good list.
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  I actually I'm for it. So RTS, I've just got it up.
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  He played 23 games. He averaged 178 meters.
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  Yeah, that's good. Bro Tamalalu averaged 179.
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  Yeah, but he's a problem. Bro. 2.
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  That that's correct for for a prop to be averaging that.
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  It's crazy bro. Titty averaged 193.
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  That year. That year.
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  OK, but what did he save as many trials?
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  As as. OK, so then we'll go.
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  I'll do the Venn RTS on this one now we'll.
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  Go to Triassus. I know RTS isn't setting up
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  tries. That's the other thing I don't
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  read about right. He doesn't sit up like bro he
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  won't even be on the top. Like see Tedesco he was, he was
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  top. No he wasn't, he was 7th.
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  That's still pretty good bro. RTS.
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  This is the year he won it. He won it, bro.
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  Blake Green's above him. Yeah, but Blake?
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  Green's bro. He had eight triassists all
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  year. And who had #1?
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  Thurston 23 Bro give it a Thurston.
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  That's half. That's 1/2 though.
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  Bro, but are you a foot blur, bro?
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  Ash Taylor was third as well. See, I just, but I just
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  recognize overrated today. I reckon it was overrated
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  Delium. I mean, yeah.
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  That's your opinion. So but yeah, that to my point.
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  Delium is stupid. They need to change the rules,
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  give it like a voting thing like the NBA.
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  So it's not just based on you play every game, no good players
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  in your team so they don't take points away from you.
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  I hate that I'm getting punished for having a good team.
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  Yeah, like that shouldn't happen.
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  That happens. So like, bro, that's why, like,
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  Ponder, for example, got so many points and beat Shawn Johnson
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  that year. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Because bro, no one was taking points away from him.
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  I was actually gonna say that was a year that I thought that
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  was a questionable year. Yeah, I've truly felt Johnson
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  deserved it that year. And everything went right for
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  him to win it that year as well. Because like, I'm pretty sure,
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  like, Tommy was out, Nathan Cleary was out.
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  Like, yeah, all the long. Yeah, yeah.
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  Actually, that's a great. But did you also see, I'm pretty
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  sure Nathan Cleary, he's never won it.
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  Yeah, he's never won it. Do you not recognize bullshit?
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  Damn, I'm pretty. Yeah, I'm pretty shocked about
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  that. That's because he's got
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  teammates. Who?
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  Who? Are taking away yeah so Isaiah
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  yo and Dylan Edwards would have been.
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  Very Brighton to all Stephen Toy.
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  Yeah, like they would have all been taking points.
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  Yeah, 100%. So he needed, he needed to get
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  it. One of those years.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, Oh man, I'm I completely
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  agree mate. He's been to the grand final
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  five years in a row, but. Crazy, I think.
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  One of those years, surely he gets it.
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  But that's that. That maybe is the argument as
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  well. Well, at the end of the day,
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  man, he is a star in his team though.
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  Like that's the thing. Like.
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  In the best team. Ever.
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  Best team ever. Yeah, Yeah, that's a good.
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  You're the best in the best team ever.
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  You're the best player by far, and somehow you've never won the
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  best. But you've won four in a row.
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  You've pretty much should have been five in a row and somehow
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  you've never got player of the year.
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  Yeah, you're lucky. Never been injured.
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  That mallow and I hit the shoulder a few years, eh?
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  But bro. Yeah, I think that's also what's
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  counted about the amount of injuries he's had.
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  But he was pretty good until he'd done a shoulder a couple
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  years ago, right? Yeah.
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  Yeah, he was, yeah. But that's what this counted it
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  because obviously he's missing multiple weeks.
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  Yeah, at that point. And so that's, that's, you know,
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  one to three points a week, you know, imagine him getting 3.
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  Points he should have got over Nico Hans.
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  He could have killed it that year, though.
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  He did. Kill it there.
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  He's trash now, no? He didn't win the semi final.
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  No, that's fair. That's fair.
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  That's up to you bro. What?
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  About you did you have an update or were you gonna jump into the?
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  No, I'm more the NRL man. I'm excited actually for the NRL
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  state championship this week. So statewide championship
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  between the Warriors and the Bailey Bears.
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  Yeah, both clubs that we we love, that we're passionate
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  about. Obviously we've both been at the
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  Bears, so we know a few of the lads there and then obviously
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  the Warriors, that's just home for us and we've always backed
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  the Warriors and know a couple of the lads in that team as
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  well. So mate, just to kind of kick
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  that off, that game kicks off at 12:20.
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  I think that's Queensland time that is.
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  So it'll be like 120 over in NSW time back in New Zealand, that's
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  probably 3/23/20 or whatever it is.
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  Yeah, so massive game this weekend.
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  Look, I thought the Bears and their performance last week was
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  really good considering the injuries that they had all
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  picked up during the game and then the Warriors on top of it
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  just have had a dominant season all year round.
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  Bro did they lose? Did they lose this year?
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  They lost once the Warriors. Yeah, no, they lost.
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  They lost, I think four or five. Games.
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  Yeah, all I think from what I've looked at, I've got it here.
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  They, yeah, the Warriors have won 23 or 27 matches in 2025.
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  So they're strong team men. And so looking at this here, the
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  coach David, he's picked the same 17 that claimed the NSW Cup
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  last week and they've got heaps of this is the thing that I was
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  looking at when I was looking at this team here.
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  They have multiple players who have played multiple NRL games
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  in most recent times that is. And I look at this team here
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  like just just to give you some, some names, Taintour, Piki, Ali
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  Layatour, Edward Corsi, Tanna, Boyd, Bunty, F4, Sam Henley,
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  Tanna, Stella Smith, Eddie Irmai, Toyava, Tom Alley, Freddy
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  Lasik all played. Ten of the 17 all played NRL
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  from from what I'm looking at I might have missed someone there.
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  They would have played like 10 plus as well, those dudes.
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  Yeah that's true. They played heaps.
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  Yeah, when we look on the other side, Bailey's list, Sami
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  Saluma, he's played NRL, Josh Rogers, Fletcher Baker, Paul
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  Roach. That's it.
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  So five of their 17. That's why I reckon people don't
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  understand about some of these teams as well, like New Zealand
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  Warriors, pretty much that whole NSW Cup team is pretty much
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  signed to the Warriors and so they get a different type of
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  training and training facilities and stuff to like Billy Bears.
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  We're like Billy Bears has three people coming down from from
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  Bronx and the rest of them train in Burley, which to be honest,
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  it's like a club footy ground. Yeah, but just with really good
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  players that go play. And it's like a Queensland Cup
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  in the Queensland Cup, Cup cup competition.
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  But like in terms of facilities and stuff and like signings and
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  that kind of thing. Lots of these dudes are just on
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  a regular like cup contract. They wouldn't be on like like a
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  they wouldn't have done a full NRL pre season and that kind of
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  thing. So.
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  Make most of those guys, yeah, yeah, Honestly, full in our pre
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  season mate. I can only see it like Maddie
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  Cohn has done that. But I don't reckon any of those
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  Warriors boys maybe sit to my but would have jobs like they
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  would be full time. Yeah, I reckon.
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  I reckon all of those Warriors boys would be full time.
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  I'm not. I'm pretty sure Sitsu's full
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  time now I I think. I wouldn't know, but that, that
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  that's a, that's, that's been an argument in the footy circles is
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  what's, which of the competitions, NSW Cup and the
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  Queensland Cup are stronger. And the, I mean the argument it
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  goes both ways depending on obviously you know, what, what,
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  what that individual thinks. But yeah, that's a great example
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  is, is a lot of those boys at Burley, for example, just
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  haven't had the, what's it called, the opportunity to go
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  into those NSW Cup systems, you know, where most of those NSW
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  Cup teams, like you mentioned that a lot of those boys are top
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  30. Yeah, bro, yeah.
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  Where is like you got barely Bears and their feeder club is
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  obviously the Broncos, but there's multiple teams feeding
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  to the Broncos. Yeah, yeah.
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  So yeah, so less, less people to pick.
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  Exactly that. So unlike NSW Cup teams, all
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  those NRL teams have their own teams underneath them if they're
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  based in the Sydney, you know, region or some sort.
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  So yeah, a couple of changes for Barely Bears for this weekend
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  though, Donk Nico merely he's going to fall back instead of
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  starting the centres for Creedence Toya and Summit.
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  So it almost is going to be starting the centres this week
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  as well. So he's back.
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  Yeah, he is obviously Guy Hamilton.
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  I've seen him get that, try a get the grubber.
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  Yeah, yeah, he grabbed it. A full guy.
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  Yeah, bro, 100% Guy Hamilton is playing despite, you know,
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  obviously having a calf injury and also.
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  Picking up. Injury, bro, he was limping the
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  whole game and he hit bro. He had some absolute ticker in
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  him for that game A. And true the.
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  Final against N Devils, bro, he picked up an early ankle injury
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  and then played the rest of the game, Bro.
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  He just yeah, unreal bro, and performed unreal as well.
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  And then they're missing their bench forward as well.
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  Kurt the law to a broken jaw. So our guy pup Sheldon uncle pup
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  pup the pup is starting. So, I mean, he'll be on the
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  bench and replacing Kurt. The law.
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  So that's I'm happy for pup A. Yeah, A. 100% bro.
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  So yeah, big game this weekend. School prediction brother.
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  What do you reckon? Bro I reckon the Warriors are
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  going to pump them a. Wow, OK, school.
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  I just reckon, bro, I'm just looking at the Warriors team.
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  They're pretty. They're like and you and then
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  after you just told me that guy's but like injured and it
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  seems like Nick will Nick will do a job at full work, but like
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  he might be out of position. I don't know how much he's
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  trained there. But he killed it in the grand
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  final. Oh, did he right?
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  Absolutely killed it when he he got slotted in there about 15
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  minutes into the game, Yeah. Bro killed it.
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  He he honestly was one of the men in the matches of the game.
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  Yeah, yeah, he played an unreal game, man.
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  There might be. Yeah, I don't know.
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  You never know. But like, it just looks like the
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  Warriors boys just have too much NRL experience.
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  Yeah, and like people are in their prime and stuff right now
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  as well, so I'll probably go 2610.
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  Damn, that's a pretty convincing score line.
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  Yeah. Wow.
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  OK, I'm actually gonna go against the country here and I'm
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  gonna go for the beers on this one purely on I like I like the
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  speed a of some of the layers like Troy Leo, bro, absolute
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  speed. I reckon that could get them out
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  of sticky situations and stuff like that.
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  When the boys start to shift it a little bit wide and experience
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  of Josh Rogers too, I think that's going to come in handy.
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  And his link hit the duo between him and Guy Hamilton.
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  I actually think they've got the one of the best, if not the best
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  cup combinations in the chemistry.
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  Chemistry bro. They just know they're on the
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  same page week in, week out and the kicking game as well.
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  They're both, yeah, Josh, both strong kicking.
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  Hands, but Josh Rogers specifically has one of the
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  best. Also think someone like Samir
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  and Kia Peter who who a dominant coming out of their line yeah
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  could be that would help game changer.
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  I think that could help them. Yeah.
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  You're. Right, you're right.
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  You're. Right, yeah, and the other thing
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  too, like Paulie Roach bro and Cole Guy, that's gonna be the
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  game changer, I reckon this weekend.
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  Yeah, the two hookers will change and dictate, I reckon,
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  how barely play this weekend. Cole Guy is known for coming out
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  of that hooker spot often, you know, like he runs out of
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  running, bro. And that is changing that chain
• 18:35
  has changed the game completely, bro.
• 18:36
  And I reckon him and Paulie Roach, Paulie Fast out of there
• 18:39
  as well. Yeah, those two together, I
• 18:41
  think they could, yeah, open up some of the the, the defensive
• 18:45
  line that, you know, the wires might have this weekend.
• 18:48
  So I'm going to say I reckon it's going to be a super tight
• 18:51
  game, this one. I'm going to say 20 to 18,
• 18:54
  barely. 2018 barely OK. Or as much as it pains, like
• 18:58
  pains me in that I love the wires because that's my
• 19:00
  hometown. Yeah, bro, I've got to back the
• 19:02
  boys on this one. Bro, I've got to back the boys.
• 19:05
  Yep, I've you that's a good argument.
• 19:07
  That's a good to be honest, there's a lot of unknowns for
• 19:09
  these days for me, the warriors team.
• 19:11
  I don't really know this Kailas Fatah Lofa or I saw that Eddie,
• 19:15
  Eddie Eddemir Tuiava play a few games Kalani going, but I've
• 19:21
  seen them play. He's he's a gun.
• 19:24
  Sam Healy Tennis Towers Smith Like I think they got some good
• 19:27
  work horses in the Warriors. Yeah, but I haven't really
• 19:33
  watched too much of this cup these cup boys play, but I'll
• 19:37
  just from youth. I think I just have to go with
• 19:39
  them. Yeah, I think that interesting
• 19:41
  pick in this one is Jet Clear. Yeah, yeah, that's a super
• 19:44
  interesting pick for me when I compare him to, you know, the
• 19:48
  likes of Cole Guy and and Paulie Roach like that.
• 19:50
  That's a, you know. Have a young half on the bench.
• 19:54
  Pretty interesting. I don't know where he's going to
• 19:56
  fit into a team. He'll obviously come on in and
• 19:58
  probably play hooker, you know, at that point.
• 20:00
  But yeah, I, I definitely don't know.
• 20:02
  Oh, but then he's Freddy Lassic on the bench.
• 20:04
  So yeah, I'm not too sure where they're kind of going with it.
• 20:08
  Yeah. So I think that's a bit of AI
• 20:11
  don't know, stab in the dark there.
• 20:12
  Maybe like he's there to to fill maybe outside backs or
• 20:15
  something. I don't know, maybe replace a
• 20:17
  half and one of the halves go to a different spot.
• 20:19
  I'm not too sure. So that's an interesting pick
• 20:21
  for me. But yeah, I think.
• 20:23
  But yeah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna back the beers in this 120 to
• 20:26
  18. So yeah, we'll see.
• 20:28
  Yeah, just on that as well. We'll see the just to give you a
• 20:31
  little history on the NRL state championship winners in the
• 20:34
  past. So last year N Devils won 2018,
• 20:38
  like you just said, they beat the Newtown Jets and Ryan Keely
• 20:44
  got play of the match. I'm going to play the matches
• 20:47
  because there's some good ones back in the in the past.
• 20:49
  So the 2023 S Sydney beat the Brisbane Tigers and Tyrone
• 20:53
  Monroe got the player of the match the year before that.
• 20:57
  Penis Panthers beat the North Devils and Jermaine Hopgood got
• 21:00
  the player of the match, so the year before that.
• 21:03
  Hopgood, the one that heals. Heals, yeah, he was for the
• 21:06
  Panthers and then so the the year before that, they skipped 2
• 21:08
  years because of the COVID, but Newtown Jets beat the burly
• 21:11
  Bears and Toby Rudolph got player of the match.
• 21:14
  True. So like another cool thing to
• 21:16
  see would be like whoever's killing it in this game and if
• 21:19
  they're young, most likely they're going to be playing a
• 21:21
  long NRL career. Yeah.
• 21:24
  The other thing to note as well, barely Bears, like I mentioned
• 21:28
  the start of the podcast, that 2019 grand final.
• 21:31
  If you have time go and watch the end of that because they're
• 21:35
  winning 1614 with no time left. They Newtown jets do a cross
• 21:42
  field kick. Everyone let's a bounce bro and
• 21:45
  this dude with a top one just catches it on the B.
• 21:49
  Or someone like Kate's period. Yeah, someone like that, Yeah,
• 21:52
  yeah, bro on the B goes straight through and everyone's just like
• 21:57
  low key just standing there like well, but what the hell just
• 21:59
  happened? But they lost it on the actual
• 22:02
  hooter. It was an insane.
• 22:03
  I watch, I've been watching that live.
• 22:06
  I could not believe that's the way the game finished in the end
• 22:08
  day. Yeah, felt for the boys back
• 22:11
  then. But man, that's just that's just
• 22:12
  the luck of the bound sometimes. Yeah, you just.
• 22:14
  Take a stab in the dark and man, sometimes it just.
• 22:16
  They don't want it enough. Man, well, you know, so yeah,
• 22:19
  hopefully we'll see what that game, how that turns out this
• 22:22
  weekend, man. Looking forward to that.
• 22:23
  But shout out to all those boys on both teams.
• 22:25
  All the best this weekend, lads. And yeah, getting behind you,
• 22:28
  fella. And
• 22:40
  another thing I've discovered lately, this week, Sunday, big
• 22:47
  gay men. Man, if this, if this song
• 22:50
  doesn't remind you of anything, I'll tell you what it brings
• 22:52
  better nostalgia back to the my days of playing rugby league
• 22:55
  live. What's this from?
• 22:57
  Rugby league live, Is it rugby? Live.
• 22:58
  Well, I think it is. I think it was maybe the theme
• 23:00
  song of being around. Oh yeah, they used to play like
• 23:03
  before big matches and stuff. A What the Do you remember when
• 23:07
  you loaded the game? Oh, was it the Best Song?
• 23:15
  Yeah, one of the good game, good songs, man, but nostalgia there.
• 23:18
  But this weekend, big game this weekend against Melbourne Storm
• 23:22
  and the Brisbane Broncos, First and foremost, I just want to
• 23:25
  point out Brisbane Broncos lucky to even be there.
• 23:29
  Where they are. I'll just say that right now
• 23:31
  like they, but at the end of the day, luck just goes.
• 23:34
  People's Oh yeah, because they shouldn't have beat the Raiders,
• 23:39
  Yeah, But like the Raiders, if they manage that game properly
• 23:42
  and then Rhys Walsh's league got taken out and then they end up
• 23:45
  getting in front of the post penalty like there's A and then
• 23:50
  and then last week against Panthers, where Panthers really
• 23:54
  should have closed that game. Panthers.
• 23:56
  Should have closed that game. I just thought that they, you
• 23:58
  know, last tackle, last tackle, kick options and stuff like that
• 24:01
  just didn't, you know, go into the spots where they need to.
• 24:05
  Also they I felt like when they had the lead.
• 24:07
  They're just trying to. Hold on to it.
• 24:08
  They're trying to hold on to it. They went playing with purpose
• 24:10
  in that last 10 or so minutes. I mean, they would, but you
• 24:13
  know, like I'm just saying, you know, you know what?
• 24:15
  I. Reckon it was bullshit but I
• 24:16
  reckon that case in McLean child was was a try.
• 24:19
  But if he was on bar he is on side.
• 24:23
  He didn't even leave early bar Yeah wow.
• 24:28
  Every single person leaves at that time, bro.
• 24:30
  And then lead, Yeah. And I guarantee like.
• 24:33
  Did they say he was inside the team though?
• 24:34
  That's probably what it was, eh? What?
• 24:36
  Do you mean because? You said he wasn't on side.
• 24:38
  Yeah, they called him back for off side, but did you see the
• 24:41
  slo MO of like when he. I didn't see that.
• 24:44
  Bro, he, he literally leaves. He they're like he plays it and
• 24:48
  then you know how you play it and you kind of start moving off
• 24:50
  the line anticipating he's gonna, that's pretty much all he
• 24:52
  does. Like he would have been half a
• 24:54
  meter offside. I reckon it was just a.
• 24:59
  That's just a pity call. I reckon it was pity.
• 25:01
  Yeah, that's a pity call. Yeah, like, and everyone's gonna
• 25:04
  probably argue the fact that art's in the rule book.
• 25:06
  Yeah, I don't. I'm not.
• 25:07
  But like, that never gets called, bro.
• 25:10
  It never gets called. You can't.
• 25:11
  Oh, yeah, I don't know. Yeah.
• 25:12
  Very really doesn't get called, you know.
• 25:14
  Bro never like offsides are hardly ever get called eh?
• 25:18
  Ever. Yeah, like, and the only time
• 25:20
  that offside gets called is when it's a last tackle kick.
• 25:22
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, if they're clearly in
• 25:24
  front and inside the team, that's really when it gets
• 25:25
  called. The only other off side is when
• 25:28
  you're in front of the referee on defense.
• 25:29
  That's it. Yeah.
• 25:30
  Like other than that, doesn't really get caught.
• 25:32
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 25:33
  So but to say that I do think Broncos, man, that they they
• 25:37
  have proven like, I'm not, you know, like I said, I said at the
• 25:41
  beginning of obviously this segment is, you know, look,
• 25:43
  they're lucky to be there, but at the end of the day, they have
• 25:45
  proven that they're an 80 minute team.
• 25:46
  Yeah, they have. That's what I've been really
• 25:48
  impressed about. And you know, when they they
• 25:50
  look like they're down and out, bro, they somehow turn it
• 25:52
  around. And like prime example of that
• 25:53
  is Reece Walsh, bro. He has just like put the team on
• 25:58
  his shoulders in those dying moments and come up with
• 26:01
  absolutely freakish plays. He's been so classed.
• 26:03
  Right the way he played against Canberra, unreal.
• 26:06
  Like to get sent off and for them to be down by bro they
• 26:09
  shouldn't have come back. They were down three tries or
• 26:11
  something like. That yeah, Three tries, yeah.
• 26:13
  And. For him to kill like that team
• 26:16
  the way. He he likes single handedly won
• 26:17
  that game. Absolutely bro.
• 26:18
  But then even in this game here, like he missed that kick to to
• 26:23
  be down by two. That was a bad kick.
• 26:25
  That was bad. Everyone knows it.
• 26:26
  That's why he didn't kick the last one He had to Adam Reynolds
• 26:28
  bro, because he was in his. You reckon he was nervous or you
• 26:29
  reckon Adam was like Nah bro you?
• 26:31
  I don't know. Nah.
• 26:32
  Oh, 100% no. He, he was nervous.
• 26:33
  Like I felt like in that moment. But then it's unreal to see
• 26:36
  someone like Adam Reynolds step up showing.
• 26:39
  That I knew he he had discussed in his vein.
• 26:42
  I was like, bro, this dude is the he really is the best person
• 26:45
  for this situation. A. 100% like I bet.
• 26:47
  I just think that Reece Walsh has just turned up in the right
• 26:52
  moments at the right time. Yeah, for someone to miss a kick
• 26:56
  in a crucial moment in the game. Yeah.
• 26:58
  And they're down by 4 at this point.
• 27:00
  Yeah. I just thought, like, OK, a
• 27:02
  normal player who doesn't have his type of experience or his
• 27:05
  type of confidence, Confidence, Yeah, would just be down and
• 27:09
  out. Yeah.
• 27:10
  They wouldn't be able to come back and put themselves in
• 27:12
  position to even, you know, win a game.
• 27:14
  But bro, Reece Walsh is honestly different.
• 27:17
  He is different. And and I mean that in the most
• 27:20
  respectful way possible because he just took it by the absolute
• 27:25
  chin grabs the ball, bro. And for him to break the tackles
• 27:28
  that he broke just to even get the pass over to the Mariner for
• 27:32
  the try. Unreal, bro.
• 27:33
  So I just think that this team, they've proven that they're an
• 27:37
  80 minute team. Honestly, they're a scary team
• 27:40
  to be playing in the airport. They've been here, they've been
• 27:42
  in the same situation not not too long ago against Peter
• 27:45
  Panthers. Obviously they're lost.
• 27:46
  They're taking a lot of experience from that and so I'm
• 27:49
  excited to see what they do in this weekend's game.
• 27:51
  But their opponents, Melbourne Storm, bro, deadly deadly
• 27:55
  haven't been performing the best in in the final series, even
• 27:59
  even just prior to the final series.
• 28:00
  Like they they haven't been performing at their peak, but
• 28:03
  they're just knowing to get to these, you know, situations and
• 28:06
  turn up when the moment counts. So yeah, what's your thoughts
• 28:10
  bro? Bro I'm actually happy with this
• 28:13
  final way because I reckon it's going to be a good attacking
• 28:14
  game. The main thing I've been like I
• 28:18
  reckon has been low key winning the Broncos a game like yeah,
• 28:20
  Reese Walsh, but I reckon they're backs in general way
• 28:23
  like Tony Staggs. I reckon he's been like crazy
• 28:27
  Shibasaki Saki he's he's been so good as well.
• 28:31
  He's such a strong bull runner. So is Josiah and so is Dean
• 28:34
  Mariner. Like I reckon they're back 5
• 28:36
  gets them out of heaps trouble and helps them in the back end
• 28:38
  of those games. So important.
• 28:40
  So I reckon them compared to like Will Warburg and Xavier
• 28:44
  coach can carry well, but I reckon Nick Maney and Holworth I
• 28:47
  don't reckon they carry as well. So and Papenhausen doesn't carry
• 28:51
  strong like Papenhausen's more of a support and like playmaker
• 28:56
  fullback. So I reckon that's something
• 28:58
  that can help the Broncos and the especially at the end of
• 29:02
  games when they, you know, the forwards are tied, You're trying
• 29:05
  to take the head ups to rest your forwards.
• 29:08
  And like, bro, these outside backs taking head UPS are pretty
• 29:11
  much like forward taking head like they're strong on us, bro.
• 29:13
  And. It's different when you know
• 29:16
  you're a Ford pack in halves and you, you know, in those moments
• 29:19
  in the game where it's, it's just, you know, it's Nick and
• 29:21
  Nick, yeah, you don't know who's gonna come out on top.
• 29:23
  And it's just different. It's such a relief as a Ford or
• 29:26
  half knowing that you got a back five that are just, yeah, deadly
• 29:29
  and gonna get you out of that 20.
• 29:31
  Yeah, and then like I reckon 4 storm bar I can who can The X
• 29:36
  Factor is, is Qatar right? Like, but he is deadly in the
• 29:41
  air, a runner, but how fit he is, how much work he gets
• 29:44
  through as well is crazy like, but he he he'll be he'll be
• 29:49
  doing runs and tackling hard for the whole game, playing 80
• 29:51
  minutes. So I think some of those other I
• 29:55
  reckon on the edges like we name and shaming who we we think
• 30:00
  they're going to be like weak or no, yeah, but I reckon, I reckon
• 30:04
  where. Who's the spot?
• 30:05
  I reckon the spots are like Sean Blair, Piakuta and Ricky.
• 30:14
  Like Piakuta is mean because he'll smash you if he connects,
• 30:19
  but I think he has tendencies to like like like hunt for a bit
• 30:23
  much and then Ricky and Bloor I feel like can just be a bit slow
• 30:28
  laterally. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 30:29
  That's actually a fairpoint. And I think the Bloor one, yeah,
• 30:34
  that's a good pick because I remember there was a time in the
• 30:37
  grand final against, I think there was the Panthers when the
• 30:40
  Panthers were there or suddenly it was a time where I remember,
• 30:44
  and he was the. Bro Nathan Cleary is winning.
• 30:47
  Try. Was it?
• 30:47
  Yeah, it was. When Nathan Cleary showed the
• 30:51
  guy win and Ricky didn't tie in but like yeah, sad.
• 30:57
  I'm saying I'm talking about. Oh, sorry, you're talking about.
• 31:00
  Sean Blair, I remember there was a time in the game where I think
• 31:02
  he was under fatigue at this. Point he like.
• 31:04
  Didn't tight. Yeah, well, it wasn't that he
• 31:06
  tied in. I think he was late into the
• 31:07
  line and then yes, he didn't tie.
• 31:09
  In Oh yeah but. And then flipped that to the
• 31:11
  outside. Yeah.
• 31:11
  I remember Ricky. Yeah, man, he did the same
• 31:15
  thing. And obviously that was on him
• 31:16
  and Reece Walsh, though. Yeah.
• 31:18
  And then grand final one. And I was like, you know, but
• 31:20
  yeah, you know, freakish. Yeah, yeah.
• 31:23
  So I think, I think that's, those are some interesting
• 31:25
  points to look at. And then we talked about like
• 31:27
  like the beach back in the cup as well.
• 31:29
  Like I thought Xavier Willison when he came on last week, I
• 31:33
  thought he was real good. A he was bro, he became a sick
• 31:35
  row. A yeah, he became a sick row.
• 31:37
  I quite like him coming in today.
• 31:38
  And then even Ezra, man, bro, he came in with some energy as
• 31:42
  well. So I got I got Broncos winning a
• 31:46
  school. I reckon it's going to be like
• 31:50
  2420. So you reckon it's a close game
• 31:53
  too? Yeah, I reckon this will be a
• 31:54
  pretty close game. You can, I feel like sometimes
• 31:57
  you can tell where the game's got.
• 31:59
  Like this isn't with the war games, but a lot of people have
• 32:01
  said this as well. You can tell where the game's
• 32:04
  hitting in the 1st 1015 minutes. It's a late game as well.
• 32:07
  That's the other thing. Like I remember the game last
• 32:09
  weekend with the Penrith Panthers in the Broncos, bro.
• 32:12
  It was quick, man. Yeah, super quick.
• 32:15
  The energy was high and whatnot. But then yeah, I'll notice that
• 32:19
  there was a bit of a difference in that as well.
• 32:21
  Everyone's talking about the two day game difference as well.
• 32:24
  That that could play a factor. The fact that the Broncos played
• 32:28
  two days later and Melbourne Storm played two days before.
• 32:31
  So they get a longer recovery rate and stuff like that.
• 32:34
  So I wonder if that will ever play a, you know, possibly play
• 32:37
  a factor, who knows? But but when it comes to grand
• 32:39
  final, every player is just froth in it.
• 32:42
  They're ready to go. They're ready to rock.
• 32:44
  Who are you going? Who are you going for your to
• 32:45
  take it out? Honesty, bro, man, this is hard.
• 32:50
  A like, I do feel like the Broncos are the more favorites
• 32:53
  in this one, and I always go for underdogs.
• 32:57
  Yeah, that's why I'm just gonna get like, man, I.
• 33:02
  Actually, I just love Jerome Hughes a that's pretty much the
• 33:05
  only reason why I want to choose the Storm is because of Hughes.
• 33:08
  But I just were just looking at the teams and I don't know, I
• 33:12
  think they're gonna struggle against like.
• 33:15
  Like I look at this team and man the the comparisons are really
• 33:19
  good, bro, like Ryan Pepinhausen and Reese Walsh that like their
• 33:22
  gun full backs will will work against Josiah Carapani.
• 33:25
  I think I'll go will rule book in this scenario, but Josiah has
• 33:29
  been clean it himself. Yeah, Katoni stags Jack, all
• 33:31
  with I'm going Katoni stags Nick Meaney.
• 33:36
  I'm going to ship a Saki. 'S in that one, but I like Nick.
• 33:39
  Manny. Yeah, he's good.
• 33:41
  Yeah. That's the only thing.
• 33:43
  Safe as well. Oh man, who am I going?
• 33:46
  So let me give you some quick stats here, maybe help your mind
• 33:49
  up. Yeah, right.
• 33:50
  So since 19 and 98, Melbourne Storm have won 43 games and
• 33:55
  Broncos have won 15 when they've matched matched up when the
• 34:01
  previous meetings this year, 4th of September the Broncos won 30
• 34:05
  to 14. The 7th of August the Storm won
• 34:10
  22 to 2. That was at the Storm's home
• 34:14
  ground, I think, yeah. So yeah, total points conceded
• 34:19
  this year. Storm has 491, Broncos have 550.
• 34:24
  They're pretty much scored the same amount so it's pretty even
• 34:27
  eh? I'm gonna go, I think no, I'm
• 34:37
  gonna agree with you on this one.
• 34:39
  I do think that the as much as I want the storm, like I want the
• 34:43
  storm to win, but I do think the Broncos will win.
• 34:46
  Yeah, but purely based on the the power of some of these
• 34:51
  players, bro, the the, you know, the The X Factor that some of
• 34:53
  these like players have like Reese watchers just able to do
• 34:56
  things that no other player can do in the game at the moment,
• 34:58
  bro. Yeah, just just being completely
• 34:59
  honest. I do think if Ben Hunt isn't
• 35:02
  strong meet like mentally this is physically he's always
• 35:06
  strong, but mentally if he doesn't make the right decisions
• 35:08
  and stuff like that, I think that might hurt them.
• 35:11
  But I'll look at that tempo. Payne House, Corey Pecks, Corey
• 35:14
  Jensen, like, oh, bro, Petty Kerrigan like that.
• 35:16
  And then is your man off the bench Kobe Hetherington, Xavier
• 35:20
  Williamson? Yeah.
• 35:21
  I just think Broncos are going to be too strong this weekend.
• 35:25
  I don't know the score. I'm just going to throw out
• 35:27
  1812. But I do want it to be 2014 to
• 35:32
  the Storm. So I am going for the storm in
• 35:34
  this scenario. Yeah, heart, heart.
• 35:36
  Same storm mind, same mind. Yeah.
• 35:38
  Like I'm the same, yeah. Yeah, that's the way I see it
• 35:40
  anyway. Play of the match, Who you
• 35:42
  going? I'm gonna go, but you can't
• 35:48
  really go past reswash. Yeah, I'm gonna reswash.
• 35:51
  I'm gonna say Cam monster, right?
• 35:54
  But you said Bronx are gonna win.
• 35:55
  Yeah, but I think Cam monster. Right, OK, cuz I.
• 35:57
  Want them to win. That's what I'm saying.
• 35:58
  You know what I mean? Yeah, I'm gonna say Cam Monster
• 36:00
  purely. He just, he knows how to win
• 36:02
  games. Yeah.
• 36:05
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