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- 0:00This is thoughts from the metal cabin, where only one opinion
- 0:04matters and it's not yours. Welcome to this week's edition
- 0:08of the hindsight report, the show where we discuss Sports and
- 0:12other world affairs with the benefit of knowing the result or
- 0:16just ignoring the blindingly obvious.
- 0:18And proving just what a powerful tool that hindsight can be, this
- 0:22is where opinions can be expressed based on a basic zero
- 0:26amount of knowledge and expert opinion all with the like, Lee
- 0:30Hood that it comes crashing down around us in the fullness of
- 0:33time. This week we're going to
- 0:36concentrate on the outcome of match.
- 0:38Two of the 2023 rugby league state of origin series which the
- 0:42media generally the games exclusive host, the nine Network
- 0:46in Australia. Constantly berated us with what
- 0:49was the most important and greatest match to in history on
- 0:55the back of the shellacking. Queensland.
- 0:56Once again, handed the hapless New South Wales Side by 32
- 1:00points to six. Today, we'll take a look at
- 1:03three, serious aspects of Current State of the State of
- 1:07origin series. Firstly, we'll look at the game
- 1:10itself and just wear the winning and losing of the match.
- 1:13And what effect several incidents within the game
- 1:17contributed to that school Lon? Secondly, we'll take a look at
- 1:21the coaches and their selection issues and Ponder just what the
- 1:25final outcome of going to holds in store for them going forward,
- 1:30thirdly will dissect the TV coverage of the match itself and
- 1:34wish that our Her 14 year old son, was not interested in
- 1:37watching the match in the future, so that we could all
- 1:40just turn over to something else. that's today's discussion
- 1:45on the hindsight report where opinions and conclusions can be
- 1:49considered as reliable as the interpretation of the forward
- 1:53pass right here on thoughts, from the metal Cavern,
- 2:27There's pretty much two ways you can look at the game itself.
- 2:30That occurred last night. As I'm speaking to you on this
- 2:33podcast between Queensland and New, South Wales Earth.
- 2:36Basically that if you're a Queensland supporter, you would
- 2:39say it was the greatest performance you've ever seen
- 2:42from a Queensland team ever on top of all the other 50 billion
- 2:46greatest performances ever, I'm a Queensland team through the
- 2:49history of state of origin football.
- 2:52Of course, if you're a New South Wales supporter, you'd be
- 2:55looking at several aspects of what's going.
- 2:57Hang on and suggesting that, the game itself stinks.
- 3:01In the long run, let's face the facts.
- 3:03New South Wales might be able to list things that went against
- 3:08them and we can look at some of those now.
- 3:12Firstly the fact that Tom dragovich was off in the second
- 3:16minute of the game. Having done a pectoral muscle,
- 3:20trying to put a tackle on someone around their shoulders
- 3:23instead of around their legs and he went off and he was gone for
- 3:27the match, which there were several things wrong with that.
- 3:31That firstly, it left New South Wales with just three reserves
- 3:35for the rest of the match, which in a game such as this actually
- 3:39ends up being a pretty tough. Ask secondly.
- 3:44The select is had no backs on the bench, which was a joke of a
- 3:49selection. Instead of going with a balanced
- 3:53bench. They decided that they were
- 3:54going to pick two hookers. Whereas, in the first game that
- 3:58only picked one And even though they pick to last year that
- 4:02worked okay for New South Wales last year but this year having
- 4:05gone with one of the first game. Why do we suddenly go with two
- 4:08in the second game? Because that particular hooker
- 4:11was injured, did we really need two men to fill his position?
- 4:15Well at the two minute, Mark of the first half the answer to
- 4:17that was no, what we really needed was the man who was
- 4:20nominated as the 18th men in Matt Burton.
- 4:24Matt Burton can play 58. He can play halfback.
- 4:28He can play center and he can play.
- 4:29The full-back. The perfect man to come on in a
- 4:32situation where your main Center has been injured and gone for
- 4:35the match. But no New South Wales instead
- 4:39had to go with someone who wasn't a center.
- 4:42And to be honest, that's stuffed up, New South Wales, back line
- 4:46moves for the rest of the game because the man, that the coach
- 4:50decided was going to replace true boy, bitch, as Center was
- 4:55the replacement hooker, Damien cook.
- 4:58Now pour hot, Damien cornickleson He's going to end
- 5:01his career with this game being replayed for him forever.
- 5:06A guy who came in and did his absolute best in a position that
- 5:10he is not used to and the opposition exploited that
- 5:14perfectly. Now as Damon cook, was the only
- 5:17try scorer for news as well. Some may say well he did okay.
- 5:21But you could see that defensively and attacking Lee,
- 5:24he just wasn't in the right position at the right time and
- 5:27in attack that really hurting yourself.
- 5:29Whilst being able to use their backline and in defense, it
- 5:32allowed Queensland to get through those gaps, much easier
- 5:36than they would have apart from that.
- 5:39So the fact that you said was lost cohesion in the back line
- 5:42with that and the fact that Damien cook really isn't Center
- 5:45and was forced to defend as a center for most of the match was
- 5:49very unfortunate for New South Wales.
- 5:53Then of course you've got the two tries that were scored in
- 5:55the first half by Queensland that were Let's not beat around
- 6:01the bush. They were disgraceful.
- 6:03The fact that they were awarded is an absolute disgrace, upon
- 6:07firstly, the bunker, and then, secondly, the officials on the
- 6:09ground. So the first try was disallowed
- 6:13by the referee and sent up to the bunker saying that.
- 6:16He felt there was a knock on, with Josh at a car, going to try
- 6:19and catch the ball that was proven to be incorrect.
- 6:22And so everyone thought I will now, we got to go to the
- 6:25grounding and you looked at the grounding and there is no doubt
- 6:28that the ball was Just in the end goal and I don't care about
- 6:32the fact that the bunker actually, awarded the try, I
- 6:34don't care. That Queensland supporters are
- 6:35going to say yes, if you slowed it down to the 1/16 amount of
- 6:39speed, you can see there is one frame out of the four million
- 6:43frames where it appears that a finger from the Queensland
- 6:46players on the ball at the time that the ball is also touching
- 6:50the ground. So that is downward pressure.
- 6:52So that's a try. Well, let's just rubbish, we
- 6:55need to get away from this, slowing down the ball, to check
- 6:59things. Like this, you need to watch it
- 7:02at full speed or at least three quarter speed and just let the
- 7:05play Flow and make a judgment call on that.
- 7:08Because if you are getting down to this Nth Degree, it is a joke
- 7:13and honestly, and again, I say this, because I don't care what
- 7:16anyone else thinks. Looking at that, it still seemed
- 7:19to me that the ball was bounced in the end goal and was not
- 7:23downward pressure. It was a disgraceful decision by
- 7:26the bunker and once again just proves, why do we even bother
- 7:29having A buckeye, why we spending all this money on
- 7:31having on a bunker when they are making ridiculous decisions like
- 7:34this and then of course, the second try which had not one but
- 7:40two forward passes to complete the try and it was obvious to
- 7:44everybody. There is no one watching rugby
- 7:47league watching that game, who disagree with the fact that it
- 7:50was, there was too forward passes, except the officials on
- 7:53the ground who were right there to make the decisions, the
- 7:57referee and the two linesmen. Of them bothered to put up their
- 8:01hands inside, that was a forward pass.
- 8:04And in this situation, where if you gone, to the bank of you
- 8:08could absolutely 100% say that it was a forward pass.
- 8:13I mean, tell me what food I was in front of the man who passed
- 8:16the ball to him. Let alone, the fact that it
- 8:18didn't wait another mood of forward after that and you're
- 8:22telling me that we can't tell from the bunker whether that
- 8:25ball is forward and then the ball when then with the For the
- 8:29last play, where it was also forward and suddenly
- 8:35queenslander attend nil. Why do we bother having
- 8:38linesman? If they will refuse to make
- 8:40these calls? And they must be refusing
- 8:43because how could anyone not tell that that ball was forward?
- 8:45If you're a linesman, they just decided to let it go.
- 8:48And if it got called up by the ref, they'd say, yeah, I agree.
- 8:51It was Ford. And if it's not, well, the
- 8:53bucket can't rule anyway. So they're sweet.
- 8:57None of those officials in that game should be referring this
- 9:00weekend because they are just a joke.
- 9:03And then you've got the bounce of the ball that occurred from
- 9:06New South Wales, which was unfortunate again, with a bull
- 9:09for the trial that was scored in the second half by Queensland.
- 9:12The ball, as the rugby league ball will do and when things are
- 9:15going against you, the ball will bounce away from you and we'll
- 9:18bounce straight into the hands of your opponent's, who will
- 9:20then run away and school. So all of these things and
- 9:25several other things could be brought up.
- 9:26New South Wales as a list as to what went against them in that
- 9:30game. But it doesn't take away the
- 9:34fact that the blues had more position than coins lead.
- 9:39They had better field position then Queensland and they had an
- 9:4482 penalty count in their favor for the whole match.
- 9:49And yet they could only score one.
- 9:51Try in the whole 80 minutes they were completely outplayed.
- 9:57Now, queensland's defense May well have been offside
- 10:00especially when it came to the end of that first half.
- 10:02They Should have been penalized but they weren't, and they got
- 10:05two plays in user, wants to try and score.
- 10:07A tried to get it to 10 for or 10-6 at halftime and Queensland
- 10:11were holding down the play. The ball, they were obviously
- 10:14off, so, it's standing offside and yet the referee just waited
- 10:18for the full halftime siren to go and then he called playoff.
- 10:22So the point being still, the queensland's defense was
- 10:26magnificent last night and they had three attacking
- 10:30opportunities really in that first half.
- 10:32Their opposition's half and they scored off two of them.
- 10:35Both of them were not tries, don't get me wrong but at least
- 10:38they crossed the line with the ball there.
- 10:41And, of course, New South Wales couldn't do that at all.
- 10:46So there's no doubting the fact that Queensland was the better
- 10:49side. They were the more enthusiastic
- 10:51side. They wanted to win more than New
- 10:54South Wales. No matter what?
- 10:55New South, Wales supporters, coaching staff, long time, pass.
- 11:00Pliers will tell you. Cool.
- 11:02Iceland wanted this game or, and even though they had no
- 11:06position, no, Phil position and a lack of penalties, they still
- 11:11won the game by a massive margin.
- 11:21Let's talk about the coaches and there's the two differing.
- 11:29Opinions of what these two coaches have done in the past as
- 11:33players. And then what they were going to
- 11:35do as coaches. And let's face it.
- 11:39If it was coaching stint as New, South Wales coach has been beset
- 11:43by unorthodox selections and these unorthodox selections.
- 11:51Honestly have cost New South Wales at least two series and
- 11:57probably three series. If we look back somehow fitler
- 12:02won his first two series, as coach of New South Wales, and he
- 12:06was being hailed as the Messiah, and we're looking for the
- 12:10brand-new. This was going to be how the
- 12:16blues were going to just win forever.
- 12:18This was going to be there, time after Queens are had one for so
- 12:22many years. And then we came to the covid
- 12:25series of 2020, which was held at the end of the season.
- 12:29And was held like in three separate weeks to one after the
- 12:34other. And again it was the worst
- 12:37Queensland side ever chosen apparently.
- 12:40But of course somehow, you know, someone comes in Wayne Bennett
- 12:44of course and finds a way to win the series 2-1 again through
- 12:49what you would suspect were, poor selection Decisions by the
- 12:53coach and his selection staff. That first game that they lost
- 12:57was terrible in that series. These and then they won game two
- 13:00and lost game. Three 2021, New South, Wales won
- 13:07the first two games convincingly in Northern Queensland.
- 13:11And then at Lang park, it was ridiculous how much they that
- 13:14was in complete control. And everyone thought our last
- 13:17year was just a blip. It's all okay.
- 13:19And then in the third game, despite the fact New South Wales
- 13:22had some injuries. They got smashed, absolutely
- 13:25smashed. And then we had 2022, which was
- 13:31last year and again, we had some strange Selections in that first
- 13:34game. And again New South Wales, lost
- 13:36the first match of the series and then they change the
- 13:40selections around again, to what they should have been in the
- 13:42first game in New South, Wales one.
- 13:44And then in the third game, they probably just thought they had
- 13:48to turn up to win because they are so good and I'm sure that's
- 13:50pretty much what they are being told and yes they got beaten and
- 13:54so Billy. Billy Slater and his first used
- 13:58Queensland. Coach came away with a victory
- 14:02this year's been more of the same more selections.
- 14:06Just unbelievable selections. When you think about it, of
- 14:11course, we spoke about last week about the fact that Nick Al
- 14:15Hines had been picked on the bench.
- 14:17He'd been given a lever minutes thrown into the Sinners because
- 14:20of the injury to well, again, Guess Who?
- 14:24And then some Coughed up. A Troy that's on through, to
- 14:28school, to try, which won the game, and then New South Wales
- 14:32halfback, suddenly is injured for this game, but he's not
- 14:36picked as the halfback. In fact, he's not even picked in
- 14:37the squad and how did that look to everybody that you think that
- 14:43this guy has been the best player in club football for 18
- 14:47months but he's not good enough to play for New South Wales.
- 14:49When the number one half back has been taken out and he can't
- 14:53even make the squad anymore. Now, Mitchell Moses was chosen
- 14:57to play halfback. He had a reasonable game.
- 15:00He did some good things in the first half and went probably
- 15:02went missing in the second half but isn't that the perfect time
- 15:06to bring in a guy who runs his Club?
- 15:09Despite what we listen to Gus Gould and other people saying
- 15:11last week he runs that cronulla club.
- 15:14He's the one who runs every play, he's in the book, it
- 15:17touches the ball at every play and he's the guy in New South
- 15:20Wales needed and he wasn't picked.
- 15:23And then the guy they needed on the bench.
- 15:24Of course that burden instead Said, you know, someone there.
- 15:27Who could cover any backline position?
- 15:28I don't know. If someone gets injured in the
- 15:31back line will just throw someone in there.
- 15:33Well, you didn't expect it after 2 minutes.
- 15:34Sure. But you're supposed to cover
- 15:37those possibilities. It was just absolutely crazily.
- 15:41Ridiculous. And just pour selections.
- 15:45And again, the message coming from the coach just doesn't seem
- 15:49to be right, Hitler's coaching is going the same way that he
- 15:57did when he coached the roosters and that was a long time ago.
- 16:00Now he started with a bang came in with all guns, blazing into a
- 16:04team that had been built up by his predecessor and won a few
- 16:09games at the end of the season. And everyone thought, here we
- 16:12go. Freddy's going to turn the
- 16:13roosters around and make them a Premiership force.
- 16:17And the following year, everything started to fall apart
- 16:19and when the going got tough, Freddie had no answers.
- 16:23Well that's been exactly the same here as for New South
- 16:26Wales, when everything was going great for five years ago,
- 16:30everything was fine for New South Wales on Freddy as soon as
- 16:33it starts getting tough Freddy just can't handle it.
- 16:39Look at Billy Slater who came in and honestly, it was probably
- 16:43the last person that all of us expected would actually become
- 16:46the coach. We've sort of thought, maybe
- 16:48thirst and wood or Cameron Smith would or someone else with some
- 16:52experience would become the coach.
- 16:53But no, they trusted Billy Slater.
- 16:56He's built his own team around him.
- 16:58He's picked some players out of nowhere, a little bit and the
- 17:02last two years, but every single one of them has delivered and
- 17:06none more so than the daily. Terry Evans at halfback who's
- 17:09now Leading this time, so everything that he's doing is
- 17:14turning to gold now. Will he go the same way that
- 17:18fitler has? You can't see it, can you,
- 17:21because it's a different mentality and it's a different
- 17:24situation with the Queensland seen that it is when you South
- 17:28Wales. I don't think, anyone, anyone
- 17:31believes that fitler will survive this series?
- 17:35No doubt, he will Coach the third game this series but
- 17:39there's just no way they can bring him back again next year,
- 17:42having this kind of record and just the chaos that seems to
- 17:49surround the New South Wales team.
- 17:52What New South Wales need is a coach with no media interests
- 17:56who just wants to coach. I mean, the last two years has
- 18:01just been a channel 9 Festival rather than a true footy series,
- 18:07we go to Freddy in the Box, we go to Billy in the Box, let the
- 18:11guys coach, we shouldn't be talking to them during the game.
- 18:15It's just a carry on as if to say look at us a channel 9.
- 18:19These guys are employed by us. And we can do whatever we.
- 18:23Like, we could interview them whenever we like a, we can get
- 18:25brilliant insights, which are never brilliant insights because
- 18:28it's just saying, yeah, that's what's happening here.
- 18:31Yeah, that's what's happened there.
- 18:33We don't want insights from the coaches.
- 18:36You know what, we actually want? We want insights from the
- 18:40commentators. And that brings me to the next
- 18:43Point. Let's not beat around the bush
- 18:53Channel, 9's coverage of rugby league in general, but
- 18:56especially the state of origin series is abysmal completely and
- 19:02utterly chaotic, and it's painful from start to finish
- 19:06from the time they start with the pregame crap and they have
- 19:0972 people that they have to talk to To the time we get into the
- 19:13game until then after that, we have the postgame crap.
- 19:16And there's 42,000 people we have to speak to all employed by
- 19:19Channel 9. All former greats of the game,
- 19:22who are now offering their opinions exclusively to channel
- 19:269. Well, it's crap.
- 19:31They mine commentator and look, I could have researched this
- 19:35properly and actually found out what his name is because I don't
- 19:38know because I don't watch channel 9.
- 19:40I watch Fox and only time I watch channel line is four games
- 19:45a year and that's through state of Origin Games and it's one
- 19:48Grand Final because they were not shown on Fox and if they
- 19:51were, I'd be watching me. So I don't know his name but he
- 19:56is Dreadful awful. He sensationalizes everything He
- 20:01starts yelling at the start of the game and it hasn't even
- 20:04started. And these excitement levels,
- 20:06then have to go up, depending on what's happening with a hit or a
- 20:09tackle or a pass or a drop ball and everything.
- 20:14He says, says, it's the greatest thing that's ever happened.
- 20:18The number of times I've heard him talk about.
- 20:19This is the greatest origin game ever in the last two years is
- 20:23ridiculous. Is this guy even watched origin
- 20:26before? Does he know what Origins about
- 20:28or is he just going to keep saying this kind?
- 20:31Shit until is bleed. He's read fully awful and is
- 20:39very make. It look takes the enjoyment away
- 20:41from the game but he's not the only one because we also have
- 20:46Andrew Johns and Cameron Smith in the commentary box and how
- 20:50Goods that because Cameron Smith just there to fangirl the
- 20:53Queensland plays, that's what he does.
- 20:56And he generally doesn't even say anything.
- 20:58Until a Queensland played, does something really good And then
- 21:01he says, oh my goodness daily, Terry Evans.
- 21:03What a great chase that was, Oh, What a magnificent kick.
- 21:07Oh, Cameron Munster, you're amazing.
- 21:09How do you do all this kind of stuff.
- 21:11That's the kind of stuff we get into Kim Smith.
- 21:14But that is actually hard as it is to believe better than what
- 21:19we get from Andrew Jones because Andrew Johns.
- 21:22Only ever ever offers - shit. He's just trying to be Gus
- 21:29Gould. The way Gus girl has been Last
- 21:3120 years, just killed started out as one of the best and
- 21:35analyzers of rugby league that you could listen to when he'd
- 21:38finished coaching and he started commenting on Channel Nine.
- 21:40As just, the animal, there's the analyst.
- 21:43He was brilliant. He could see things happening in
- 21:46the game before they happen, and it was terrific, and he and
- 21:48Peter Sterling and Paul. Wharton together.
- 21:51Worked fantastic and rugby league was worth watching when
- 21:54those guys were doing it and then Gus killed started to
- 21:58believe that he was more important than the game that his
- 22:01Ian's were more important than the game that he was the one who
- 22:04actually set what was going on in the game.
- 22:06And so then he started to tell us this kind of stuff, and then
- 22:09he would start to sprout. Drivel when something happened
- 22:15that he didn't like, and we'd hear about it every single week.
- 22:19And now we've got Andrew Johns. And that's all he does.
- 22:23He shakes his head. He goes, oh my goodness.
- 22:26I can't believe that. I can't believe they've given
- 22:28that tackle. I can't believe they've called
- 22:30that high. That's not a shoulder charge.
- 22:33Come on, just let them play. And one of the worst things you
- 22:37ever hear is this is origin. That's that's, you can't call
- 22:42that this is origin. That's just different.
- 22:43There's different rules. There are not different rules.
- 22:46It's the same freaking game. Andrew.
- 22:49You can't keep telling me that a guy like last night who got
- 22:53tackled around the neck and was held around the neck in a
- 22:55Chokehold, pretty much. And if the full-back had
- 22:59actually twisted his arms just a little bit he would have broken
- 23:01this guy's neck and he's pulling down and it like it was like a
- 23:06wrestling hold and yet Andrew John said oh how is that?
- 23:09A high tackle. What a fucking idiot?
- 23:12You are Andruw Jones my goodness.
- 23:14I can't believe that we have to listen to that rubbish.
- 23:18You're supposed to be an analyst of the game, you're supposed to
- 23:22be offering us opinions on what's happening in the game and
- 23:26what's going to happen? It's as we all feared.
- 23:30We never knew how much we were going to miss Peter Sterling,
- 23:34until he was gone. He was there every week and he
- 23:37didn't say anything and then when he saw something that's
- 23:41when he spoke and that's what he offered and he offered insight
- 23:44to the game and he offered what has happened here?
- 23:48And what could have happened there and what may happen in the
- 23:50future, we don't get any of that anymore.
- 23:54All we get is just whinging from Andrew Johns and Buddy.
- 23:57Cameron Smith, taking his shirt off and waving to all the
- 23:59Queensland players saying look at me, look at me, I can't
- 24:03believe I have to put up with this shit.
- 24:05Three times a year because Channel 9 had the exclusive
- 24:09rights Anyway, that's probably over for that, but the
- 24:17commentary is awful. We know that I hate them.
- 24:19When they go to the coaches. I hate when they go to the
- 24:22dressing rooms and look at what's going on, the dressing
- 24:24rooms for an hour before the game and that it all the time
- 24:26through halftime. And then an hour after the game,
- 24:29give the play some Sanctuary. We don't need to see what's
- 24:32going on in the dressing rooms. Let's just if you have to talk,
- 24:36talk about the game and then forget about everything else.
- 24:40It's just an amazing waste of time, and that's what makes this
- 24:45so hard to watch now, and I honestly believe that, as I've
- 24:49said earlier, if my 14 year old son didn't want to watch it, I
- 24:53could quite happily not watch state of origin football ever
- 24:56again because the game doesn't matter anymore.
- 25:00What matters more is promoting Channel 9, making channel line
- 25:04being the biggest thing in the world.
- 25:06And oh look we've also got this state of origin game and every
- 25:09state of origin. Game is the greatest ever
- 25:10because they're showing it now. They didn't have the rights.
- 25:14There'd be nothing said on Channel Nine, about state of
- 25:17origin. How great the game is or
- 25:19anything like that. And that's where the problem
- 25:21lies if they just went back to broadcasting the game and during
- 25:25the game, we have our analyst telling us about the game as
- 25:29it's happening and just let the commentator call the game and
- 25:32don't get into history, Onyx and just call what's happening in
- 25:35the game, we'd be back to the nineties in the 80s again.
- 25:39Back when Rugby league was great to listen to back.
- 25:42When we listen to Rex Masa poor then we have grown Hughes, a
- 25:45team Maurice. And even the days of, oh,
- 25:48Maurice and Darryl loose like, calling it on Channel Nine,
- 25:51remember those days, they had their own little thing.
- 25:54But at least we had the commentators calling the game.
- 25:57And then we had analysts telling us about the game, and we don't
- 26:02have that anymore, and I don't think it can be fixed.
- 26:06I don't think this can be fixed until it's taken away.
- 26:09Away from Channel 9 and given to someone else and let them try
- 26:13and do something with it without just trying to shove it down our
- 26:17fucking throats. So as you may have guessed but I
- 26:30can't I don't know what it is, is it that I hate New South
- 26:34Wales losing? Which is always part of it duh,
- 26:38is it because I hate the fact that bad decisions of cost New
- 26:42South Wales which they have is it because I don't like bread
- 26:48fitler because it is, or is it just the state of the coverage
- 26:52that we get of the game and the complete shit house?
- 26:56Tree that we have to put up with, because they think it's
- 27:00entertaining, and they think that's what we want to hear.
- 27:03And that most definitely is it because I know that when I've
- 27:06watched the game, three last year, I turned off the sound and
- 27:13I had music on instead, as I said here, with my son, watching
- 27:16the game and it was much more enjoy.
- 27:18We didn't know exactly what was going on with the, a somewhat,
- 27:20the referee calling up plays and whatever, and I had to message
- 27:24other people in my chat groups to I asked them, what the hell
- 27:27was going on? Because I refused to turn it up
- 27:29to find out, but the game was so much more enjoyable even though
- 27:32Queensland one, and it didn't worry me because I was less
- 27:36pissed off about the game because I couldn't hear these
- 27:40bleeding yearly, idiots on TV talking about it.
- 27:44So there's probably the answer if it can get to a point where
- 27:47we did some 15, 20 years ago at on Pace over at the time you
- 27:53could actually choose just to hear the crowd and not.
- 27:56Here any commentary at all with when you're watching the
- 27:58football and that was fantastic. And if we could get back to
- 28:02that, I think rugby league and the state of origin series would
- 28:06be much better for everyone. Enough.
- 28:12Probably, I'll go and take a load and Shawn.
- 28:15For those of you who have bothered to listen.
- 28:17Thank you for getting in through this far.
- 28:19In this week's hindsight report, only the origin this week
- 28:22because it really did piss me off next week.
- 28:25I'll hopefully, we'll mix it up again for you.
- 28:27If you've got any ideas of things, I should be ranting
- 28:30about, you know, where to get in contact with me through all the
- 28:33usual channels. And there are other things on
- 28:36here to, of course, the Crickets going.
- 28:38On in England so that you can tune into the Casual man Caddo,
- 28:41which is coming out probably every week now and we have this
- 28:45hopefully more movies coming out shortly with my lovely wife,
- 28:48Helen and a couple of other ideas.
- 28:50I've got up my sleeve again though, for those who are here,
- 28:55thank you for tuning in and listening and supporting this
- 28:57podcast. And I do hope that you'll come
- 28:59back next week and not only check out the hindsight report,
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