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In League With the NRL 2023 - Round 5 · Death by Multimedia

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This is thoughts from the metal cabin, where only one opinion
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matters. And it's not yours.
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How good is the footy with five rounds in?
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And everyone's very excited about how their teams are going,
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unless you are in the back three or four in which case you're
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sort of already starting to think about next season.
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I think. But the fans are back.
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Apparently, like the Broncos are back and so everyone's happy and
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Brisbane because, you know, the Broncos are going.
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All right, the usual. Specs, are there?
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The roosters are still up there, the storm of made a comeback.
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Again the Panthers are still winning, so big covering, just
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about every area at the moment to keep the main base, happy I
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think. So let's have a look at the
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week. That's just gone in round five
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of the NRL and we can see firstly, the the games that
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happened and we'll have a quick run of the rule over those.
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And at the end we'll have a listen to my Honda full tips for
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next weekend so you can put a line through them.
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I'm also going to talk about the fact that I went to two games
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This weekend and discussing the differences in the two games
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that I went to more not necessarily the results or the
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team is playing, but the grounds that I went to and what's going
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on, when you actually go to the ground at the NRL these days.
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So that's pretty much what I'll be talking about on today's
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episode of in League with the NRL right here on the podcast,
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that just keeps on giving thoughts from the metal cabin.
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Now, here is the weekly wrap up. You can pretty much gloss over
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the first game can tweet from last weekend.
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The Roosters play deals at the SFS, and even though the school
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long was only twenty eight to twenty, it was a lot worse than
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that and 7:32. I think it was with about 10
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minutes to go or at least it was when I left the ground, The
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Roosters played well enough and they were the better team and
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they deserve to win and I don't think there's any doubt about
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that. The Earl's played the game for
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20 Minutes with only 12 men having had to send beans which
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sort of cost them any chance of really getting into the game and
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a couple of head knocks and things like that and loss of
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players on the bench them's, the breaks the roosters were by far
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the better team on the night and I think that they'd be happy
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with the way they went the URLs. Now, r, 1 and 4 and they've got
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some real problems ahead. Be interesting to see how they
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go next week. They have to beat the What is
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next week and then I can rebuild from there if they happen to
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lose to the Tigers, you could just write on the season right
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now. This, despite having the Six
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Million Dollar Man in their team.
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On Friday afternoon at halftime, the game looked really close
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between the Raiders and the Panthers fertile in. 62, the
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Panthers at halftime and you thought well, okay, the Raiders
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haven't looked great, but they were right in the game.
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And then they got obliterated in the second half for the
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Panthers, putting on 40 points, the Panthers eventually leading
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leading 53 to 12. So what does that mean for both
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those teams? Well, for the Panthers, the
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premier's, they needed to win. They've played well, they've
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done well. Raiders are looking for answers
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again and again, they've started a Susan rather poorly and are
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going to be struggling to again push their way to make the eight
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because of the start. They've had to the season again
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and I don't know that there's any answers there at the moment
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for the coach and an interesting question was posed to me during
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the week, how many chances does Ricky Steward get before his
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position is put under pressure like many other coaches are in
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the NRL It's a fair question. I don't know what the answer is.
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Friday night, the rabbitohs played the storm in what was
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supposed to be the Blockbuster of the weekend and the storm
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just found a way again. And you would never believe that
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I can continue to recycle themselves and continue to be
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one of those top teams each season.
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And there are few doubts over a couple of games this year, but
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they outplayed the rabbitohs on Friday night.
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Well, and truly, and again, put questions against the rabbitohs
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ability to continue to try and make the Grand Final again this
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year. Again, monster was huge for the
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storm and Harry Grant. That's the to, if those to sort
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of get injured, then they're going to be in all sorts of
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trouble, the rabbitohs will be looking to pick up, pick up the
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pieces again next weekend. But again, they're sort of up
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and down and they're not really putting out a definitive answer
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to whether they are one of the top teams this year.
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Saturday afternoon. We had a game out at mudgy
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between the seals and the nights, that was entertaining
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because it got to 32 all, and that was the full-time score
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after golden Point as well. So we had a real draw for the
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first time in a while. Isn't it nice to have a real
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true? I should just have rules rules,
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what do we have golden point for?
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It's a waste of time. Now, let's get a listen to me
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saying that is a the seagulls will be extremely disappointed
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as it was their home game, but they took it out to my G.
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Does that mean that if they booted home that they would have
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been would have beaten the nights because of the hangry, an
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advantage or and did this nullify that or did the knights
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just play really? Well.
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That's an excellent question. And I don't really know the
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answer to it but the free-flowing game was excellent
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to watch and I'm sure that all the nine and a half thousand
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people who turn up at mode, you would have enjoyed that game
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immensely. Saturday afternoon.
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The dragons took on the Dolphins down there and win stadium in
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Wollongong. And although the game was close
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at halftime, the dragons blue, the Dolphins away in the second
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half very quickly into the second half too.
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I might add and ended up winning by thirty eight, to twelve.
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The Dolphins had a few injury concerns before the game and
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during the game, but the dragons played excellent football again,
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and they always play well at Wing Stadium.
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You just wonder why they don't play all their home games there.
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Saturday night and expected results between the Broncos and
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the Tigers up there at Lang Park.
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No one in their Wildest Dreams believe that the Broncos were
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going to lose to the Tigers and at 28 million halftime.
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That was certainly put to bed final score of 40. 11:54 was a
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fair indication of the game. The Tigers played a little bit
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better in the second half, but we all know they're in all sorts
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of trouble and people have been talking about it for the last
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two or three weeks. So, probably enough said this
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week, I don't need to say anything.
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In order not to wake them up so that they don't big deals next
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weekend. On Sunday afternoon, the Sharks
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played the Warriors, their Endeavor field, and who would
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have believed that the Sharks LED 22 Neal after 15 minutes and
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found a way to lose that game. They got to Golden Point again
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or should have my dog Point again.
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Sorry, but a penalty in the last 30 seconds allowed the Warriors
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to kick a penalty goal to win the game, 32 to 30 and the
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sharks Our another one of those teams who perform so well, last
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year, that questions are now being asked this year, can they
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ReDiscover that form in order to try and make the top eight this
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year? And there are three or four
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teams in that boat, but that's a game at 20 to nil that should
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never have lost. And it was, I'd say, I don't
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know how aggressive their coach actually gets, but if he does at
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all, I reckon he would have been after that performance.
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And then on Sunday night, we had the final game of the weekend
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between the Bulldogs and the Cowboys and the Cowboys once
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again, managed to lose yet another game that they looked
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like weaning when the school was you know I just can't believe
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through this Gap away, another game that went to Golden point
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and then it was Matt Burton. Who eventually kicked the
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winning field goal from 30 meters are close to the to the
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sidelines where they another terrific kick, but of course it
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was the hero. And so the Bulldogs found a way
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to get out of it and continue their Improvement this season
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and their charge up the ladder and the Cowboys much like the
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Sharks. As I just mentioned, another one
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of those teams that haven't been able to put it together this
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year, at all. And questions are now starting
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to be asked as to whether they are really our top eight
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material. And now here's this week's
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talking point. The weekend just passed.
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I took my 15 year old son. Josh 22 in our or games.
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Now I don't remember. The last time I went to to in
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are all games on the same weekend, back in the days.
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When I used to go to the footy a fair bit, of course, we used to
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have three grades and you could go and watch under-21s and then
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Reserve great. And then first grade, and the
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basically doesn't exist anymore, certainly not on the Thursday
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night and Friday night games. So I went to see the Thursday
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night game between the roosters alleles.
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And that was because of my very good friend.
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John who's a rooster's member and they had to spare tickets.
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And so they invited Josh and myself along and on the
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Saturday, we went to win stadium and we watched the dragons play
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the Dolphins now. First time I've been to the new
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ground at the SFS in Sydney and it's quite impressive.
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You can Can't beat it for the modern facilities.
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The fact that everyone gets a seat.
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It looks like you're going to get a good view, no matter which
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suit your in the section where Arenas and on about the the 20,
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25 meter line. I think at one end which was
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terrific and the facilities are all terrific and all that kind
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of stuff, where is it Wollongong?
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It's they've got all much more modern stands there than when I
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used to go. But I took Josh there to stand
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on the hill, on the Eastern Hill and wind Stadium, which I still
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think is the best place in Australia to watch rugby league,
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you are the ground is right up to the fence.
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There's no wasted space when in regards to the field and
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standing on the hill, you can choose where you want to sit
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over on the hill halfway up or like I lie like to do which is
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stand at the back at the very top and we stood about the 30
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meter line and had just a great view of the The whole game as
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well. And both games will really well
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attended at the time we tried to work out, how many we thought we
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were at the SFS and we guessed, it was about half full.
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So the crowd of I think about was 20,800 was about right?
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I guess so. None of the top sections were
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being used. It was all just the normal
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bottom sections, which sort of is fine, I guess, but it does
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seem to lack something with that and it will and Kong 16 and a
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half thousand people attended and it looked like it was Pretty
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full. I mean, you could probably
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squeeze another thousand or two thousand people if you really
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wanted to but you wouldn't want to because it was comfortable as
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it was. So there was good, crowds at
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both games and that was terrific.
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Now as I said, I took Josh up to both games and it was
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interesting with the suiting. Okay, so we sat in the member
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section and there was the four of us sitting up there end of
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one row, right? Where the oil is.
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And we had one Particular spectator, who was there with
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his eight to ten year old daughter and he must have had to
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go up and down past us about 20 times during the match.
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Now everyone knows there is nothing more annoying when
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you're sitting down and watching a sports event, then having to
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stand up to let someone pass and then sitting down, and then two
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minutes later. Standing up to let them go back
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and this went on and on and on and it was just a ludicrous
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situation and by the end you could hear the other people
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around is getting The annoyed about it, which begs the
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question, why would you bring your eight to ten-year-old
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daughter to a football game when they obviously had no interest
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in the game whatsoever? Now it's different at Wollongong
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because if you're on the hill and there's there are a lot of
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people like this. A lot of kids that like, between
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ages of 10 and 16, most of them weren't really watching the
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football either that were there to hang with their mates, the
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other mates, and they'd go and see them and they wander around,
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and they get into the fence and try and coerce some players to
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talk to them or whatever it was. Was, but that is fine because
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they're not interrupting the game or the viewing of the game,
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by The Spectators. So that's one of the great
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things about Wollongong on the hill.
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I mean, if you're sitting in the seats, you still going to cop
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that. But that was particularly
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terrible at the SFS on Thursday night and that's a poor decision
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made by that person to bring his door and whatever the reasons
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were, I still think you could have made a better decision to
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do than what you did. But if you lower, it feels like
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a social Gathering. Going to really did because
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there were a lot of kids. And a lot of older people like
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myself, who knew each other, who just didn't know, it would turn
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out the football, but there we were and we could catch up and
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all that kind of stuff. So, I really still enjoy that
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about the Wollongong ground when we come to the fiends.
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Well, I sat in the member section of the roosters.
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And to be honest, it just completely confirms my entire
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suspicions about the entire roosters.
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Has supporter base. These roosters fans were
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vehement from the very kickoff they are and I don't care what
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anyone says they were completely one-eyed.
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And continued to tell us all that the ref was a cheat.
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That all refs are cheats and they always cheat against the
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roosters that they always photo too, but they are the most
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penalized team in the competition.
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And I heard this on a dozen occasions throughout the match.
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And honestly, what just watch the damn Guymon except what
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happens strangely enough once the roosters kicked away to a to
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try lead, everything, quiet down a bit.
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And there was really, no, sort of comments about the Reps
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again, for most of the rest of the match.
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It seemed that all the all the forward passes that with our
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calling, for before suddenly weren't occurring, or weren't
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being seen perhaps the referees decisions as Depending on who
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was on who was offside or whether, you know, the fact that
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the roosters got four or five repeat sets at the other end,
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when they're attacking their lime, no, real problem with
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that. So suddenly, The Roosters are in
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front and everything goes quiet, and it's just like social media,
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the absolute diatribe agos on, and it happens when the roosters
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are behind all their lose, that just explodes on social media,
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but suddenly, when the roosters win, there's nothing So yeah,
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all suspicions confirmed, that that game is to just how the
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ruse to support is go. The dragons going for an another
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entrance. There were just as many dolphins
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fans at Wollongong as there were for the dragons and the dragons
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have gotten a few problems, but they've still got their, their
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long-term fans and they've still got fans there who are pretty
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vehement themselves, but you don't notice them as much and
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indeed, when the Dolphins had the ball and were attacking the
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line, there was just as much cheering going on, is when the
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Had the ball. So I really enjoyed that, and
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the atmosphere in the hill, is much different than it would be
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in different other sections in the crowd in the grandstands.
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But it's just great to watch football when there's not all of
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this animosity going on the whole time.
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Now, there are a couple of times when the dragon supporters sort
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of in unison, booed a decision and to be fair, it was a pretty
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ordinary decision to. So the support is still there,
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but it was a much more pleasant place to watch.
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Football and enjoy the game. And again, the dragons ended up
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winning fairly comfortably. So you have to take that into
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account as well. It's the same deal in the fact
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that one team got away with the match.
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And so the heat of refereeing decisions was taken out of the
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game. What else can we talk about?
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For those two games, one thing I suppose I should bring up is
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again the dragon soon to grow an extra leg when they play at
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Wollongong, they always seem to play well, and when they I cover
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that do I ky sometimes. But generally, but if they
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playing any other Grand that they decide to call their home,
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ground for the sake of sponsorship, they don't do it,
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but they come to Wollongong and they grow an extra leg In This
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Crowd, get behind them. And you just wonder, I mean, I
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know they're playing more games at Wollongong this year, but us
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wonder why they wouldn't just make it their home ground and
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let's bring that into it. At the very end of the game
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where her die down the other end of the hill with us, a Saint
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George, that, the st. George.
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And I thought, well, I have a listen to that.
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But 20-odd years and of course I felt like sort of going
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something like you Laura or do you lose?
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But of course you can't do that in this day and age because that
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means it's a divided Community. Just wonder for goodness sakes.
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Can is there any chance we can just change the name to the
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illawarra sand? George Steelers?
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Be such a much better name for that team, playing all that a
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Wollongong, get back to the scarlet and let's do it that
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way. And Make the team a Wollongong
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team for once and for all and really get behind them.
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Yeah unbiased and I suppose having said that at the roosters
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game on 25 30 years ago whenever it was when they first decided
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to bring in rooster man to the to the tune of Village people's
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much. Oh man.
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And we used to laugh out loud every time that came on and
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there was didn't come on. No rooster.
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Man, how are we supposed to go to the roosters games and laugh?
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Laughs when they don't play Rooster men anymore and yet they
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had some sort of thing over the last week ago, who's who, Sands?
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As if I ever, I was just going to say that at the same time I
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thought he said that I've been part of their name anymore.
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So why are they got that? I mean, yeah, get with the times
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people, if you're going to have something that at least had that
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name as a part of your name, anyway, finally look, let's be
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honest about this rugby. League is still too expensive.
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Don't watch. Now, I was lucky enough.
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I didn't have to pay to go on the Thursday night game which
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was good. Thank you to my mate Bono and
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his daughter, Amelia who invited the two of us along to rub our
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noses. In the fact that the roosters
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ended up winning 28 to 20, but the food and the beer is still
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overpriced. There, there's no doubt about it
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now. Well, I'm going to cost me 45
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bucks for Josh and myself to going to stand on the hill.
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If I wanted to sit another suits, we would have cost me
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more You know, that's a reasonable price, but I still
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feel. It's overpriced, if you want to
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get people to go to every game and there's no parking in
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Wollongong, which is a pain in the arse and even, you know,
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even if you go to the SFS, you've got to go into the
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parking lot, or you've got to go park at Fox Studios and you've
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got to pay your 30 bucks for parking me, which is ludicrous.
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At least in Wollongong, you can park down at McCabe Park, and
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you can spend 10 or 15 minutes walking to the ground and you
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don't have to pay for the parking, so that's at least
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something. But overall, All had a great
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time at these two games and it was good to go with my son and
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then just enjoy the games. And I'm hoping that I'm able to
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do that again. Sometime for the rest of the
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season. But what's happening next week?
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Right. Let's take a quick look at the
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ladder and add at the top. Well, who would have believed
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it? The Broncos are out on their own
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at the top. After five games with ten points
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from five wins and 0 losses. And we all know they did this
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sort of last thing last year as well.
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And even though questions will be asked of kevi Walters during
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the week as to whether that's a problem going forward in their
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heads and I'm sure he'll say no. Now we're not even thinking
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about it, I'll bet they bloody are the worries and the
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roosters. Equal second spot on eight
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points, the war. He is charging and playing some
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great football seagulls are in fourth on seven points.
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And then on Six Points, we have a plethora of teams, Panthers
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storm, Dolphins Bulldogs Titans and dragons, taking us from
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fifth spot, all the way down to 10th spot.
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The nights are in 11th on Five Points, and then we've got the
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tunes from 12 to 17 that are starting to just probably Worry,
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a little bit about how their students are going.
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The shocks, the rabbit eyes on the Cowboys are all on four
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points and that's all from five games.
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None of them have had the buyer yet and then we have the rules
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and the Raiders on two points. Also, without a by, and the
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Tigers are in last spot without a win on the board.
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All those teams are would be questioning just where they're
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heading at this point in time. I'd suggest.
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And it's still very early in the season, but you know what, it's
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a long. On way back, if you lose another
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couple in the next three weeks. In regards to that, let's talk
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about next weekend or this coming weekend.
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Indeed, and on Thursday night, we have this storm against the
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roosters down there and Amy Park in Melbourne.
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That should be a terrific game as long as both teams are
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without injuries. Now we know Tedesco is out with
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the 11-day head, knock rule, but the rest of the team is, I think
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as scheduled should be a terrific game down there in
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Melbourne, you've probably got to go at the storm if the
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roosters could. Win.
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They would actually set themselves up as one of the
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Premiership favourites at this stage of the season, but I lost
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sort of puts them back in the pack a little bit.
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I'm tipping the storm. Friday afternoon, Good Friday
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afternoon, we have the traditional game between the
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Bulldogs and the rabbitohs and this should be as bloodthirsty
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and bloodlust e. As most of these questions are
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on this day, who could forget back in 1985.
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I think it was when Peter Kelly got sent off after the first
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tackle and somehow the Bulldog still one, Will that be the same
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this game? Now, it won't.
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So this is at home, Bush. We're both of these teams, call
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their home. Ground, the Bulldogs are being,
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as we've said in good form, the rabbitohs are still searching
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for something. I think I'm going to tip the
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rabbitohs just because I believe that they know that they need to
24:02
win and that if they don't win this game, then they're going to
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be in a spot of bother. So I'm going to tip the
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rabbitohs. Friday night, we have the game
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between the Cowboys and the Dolphins, and this is probably
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not as exciting a game, as we might have thought it would have
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been a couple of weeks ago. The Dolphins have lost to on the
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truck now and the Cowboys are lost several times on the Trot,
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so new the tombs in form, it's going to be played at
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Townsville. The Dolphins as we know have
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those injury concerns, the Cowboys just aren't playing well
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at all. Surely at Townsville and I've
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said this a couple of weeks. I surely attends will that
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Between and then I didn't. But I'm going to tip them this
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week because I believe they're at home and the Dolphins are
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still going to be searching through their depth as to how
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they're going to go with these injuries.
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They have on Saturday, we have the 5-footer game between the
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Panthers and the sea eagles, which is out there at penrith
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stadium. To be honest, this is just about
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the match of the round. I think the Panthers, obviously,
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I found their Mojo. Again, the seagulls will be
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stinging about that draw against Newcastle last week and the fact
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that they played so well in recent times, this should be an
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absolute Beauty. There's lots of origin stars on
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both sides who will be trying to push their case to remain in
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that origin in their origin teams coming in the next couple
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of months. At home.
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It's hard to go past the Panthers and so I'm going to tip
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them, but I'm not going to tip them with any sort of genuine
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belief that they are absolute favorites.
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Saturday night at 7:35, we have the Broncos against the Raiders.
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And this feels like a mismatch much like brisbane's last game
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at home last weekend against the Tigers.
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The Raiders are in a world of hurt and the Broncos are in
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absolute Tip-Top form. So if the Raiders happened to
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win there would have to be stewards inquiry, there's just
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absolutely no doubt about that. So the Broncos to win that game
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then we have Sunday Sunday afternoon game at 40.
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Five is between the Titans and the dragons and that's up there.
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It does. Seabus Super Stadium of the Gold
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Coast Titans have been in readable form.
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They had the by last weekend, so we don't really know how they're
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going to travel off the bars again, to do them the world of
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good because they've been rested, or is it going to hurt
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them? Because they've had a week off.
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The dragons are coming off a really good win against the
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Dolphins but they haven't traveled well in recent times
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again. I'm just going to tip the Titans
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only because they're at home, but for No other reason, if the
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dragons play like they did last weekend, they are more than a
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chance of winning this game, but I'm going to tip the Titans.
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The Sunday night game is between the knights and the Warriors up
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there. At Newcastle.
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This is really interesting because the Warriors do a bit of
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traveling recently and have played really well and they've
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won their game with the weekend, but they've had to go home and
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they're going to travel back again.
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And whereas the last three years they've had to stay in Australia
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and and work their way from Australia.
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To they have, the traveling hasn't been quite so bad and
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I've got to get used to That again, the point is that they
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now at home and so they can fly home.
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Spend the week with their families and hopefully
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rejuvenate and then come back strong.
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But they've done a little bit of traveling.
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Now in the first five rounds of this competition and again
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they've had to travel to Australia.
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Will that hurt them this weekend?
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Hard to say, the knights, despite their draw with manly
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last week in, I'm still not convinced that they've found a
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way to get through their hips Jack And Hastings has been
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excellent for them this season. And the fact that he's been
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basically the team leader with Palmer being absent.
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I don't know. It's a tip of the coin toss of
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the coin. I think this one again, I feel
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like I'm just going to go with Newcastle because of the home
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team and not with any strong belief that they can win the
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game. If I was just going or form, you
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would have to tip the Warriors, but I wonder if the traveling
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over the last few weeks is going to catch up with him sooner or
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later. And then, on the Monday, we have
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the now traditional Monday Easter Monday game between the
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West tigers and the Earl's, we all know last year, the Tigers
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got up and won this game when they hadn't won a game all
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season and the URLs were just absolutely flying in the Tigers
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got up by a point. Honestly, Shirley lightning can
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strike twice. The Tigers have been absolutely
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woeful. The URLs haven't been great, but
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they've been in every game this season.
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Probably apart from last weekend, they weren't really in
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the game. The other games, they've been
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close enough and many times and looting at different times of
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those games against top eight teams.
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So, on form, the Earl should win this and to be honest, they
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should win this by 20 points. So, I'm going to tip If the URLs
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and keep my fingers crossed that that does not weigh heavily upon
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them. Alrighty, thanks to tips.
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