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commentating this Sunday, Yeah, the Dolphins. I've also looked at our record and that we've never commentated a loss all season. We've never commentated a work. Sorry there was another loss right there. And I've also looked at hundreds of comments and texts over the last couple of months saying ban those two from doing commentaries together. Yes, completely, Yeah, unfortunately been and Diana available. He's stuck with us. If anyone's did the illusions how this works? If they aren't available,

we come on. That's one hundred see how it We're Yeah, and did you hear that people were saying talking about the axis of Evil at the game on Friday night? So when we took on the Eels, Yeah, you were commentating that's right, which was a massive commentator's curse. Yes. Plus Matt Heath was in attendance and drinking red wine. Yes, and he did a post about the penon WI did a post about the Pens from the ground. Yes, and G Lane was an atendant. So the g Lane curse.

The Warriors never had a chance. Why Why Like I am fully prepared to just be like I am a curse. Yeah. But however, last season we commentated allmost a shitload of games and we will win it. Yeah. But do I just stand down from the commentary and just you just do them all? No? Because I also have commentated eight games, seven losses, one win, so there's no win there either. It was extra deflating driving out to Mount Smart, walking in there, going up to the thing, seeing Trent Barrett

going in a photo on the field. But join us for tonight's game and then just boom, another huge commentator's curse. Game lost massively. Yeah. I just I know that it's a fan base that's hurting, and so they're looking for anything to blame it on. The Other thing is I hate when the Warriors, like up until last year, they would always be like, oh, Warriors have a dismal record, against this team. It's like, yeah, we have a dismal record against most teams, every single team, Yeah, pretty much.

So it's not like a massive particularly during that COVID era that we've already digested the Friday game. I just wanted to bring up the old the curse thing there. We're here to break down the team list that is going to get us back on track, because not even just not even just mathematically, I think I've been too down on the team, thinking we cannot make the eight. Yeah, but that's because people are be doing in correct maths. Yeah, because we can't. We have the buy at the end,

your bloody tack those points on. Now. The long and short of it is, we do need to win every single game from here on out. Four games so far plus to buy. If you look at the table which I'm bringing up right now, we're thirteenth on twenty one points. So you tack the buy onto this. I know we do this every week. We're up to twenty three, which puts us in eleventh place. We win, we are on twenty five and that is good enough for ninth. Yeah, right, okay,

so we're just knocking on the door there. Yeah, And that's after this week, mind you. So I don't think it's ridiculous. And I have already seen a few Ossie pundits who actually know rugby league say not only could they make the eight, I think the Warriors will still make the eighth. Wow, which I think could be clickbait absolutely because they know that Kiwis will click on that. Absolutely. But these are the same like do you remember the

start of the season, Aussie pundits were all about the Warriors. Yeah, they were predicting massive things for them. So and I think we are all still predicting. But until we are running out of back line that isn't I don't know. Well, this is the back line that has been run out against Wayne Bennett's Dolphins, which I would like to remind you are ninth so and they're on a downward slide. But they scored thirty whatever points against the Roosters at

the weekend. They are just so hard to be on any given day they could score so many points against us. Oh yeah, And so the Warriors teamless reads Dusty Shanes, Nicol Klushta, He's going to be in number one, Dell and Wa Tennis Lesnia will be and the number two Jersey ali Leta attains his center spot, but Moeler Graham Toolfer has been dropped, so Roger's in there, and then the Kazi club comes back on the other wing, Roger

back to center. This is obviously I wouldn't say a vote of no confidence in Mayler Graham Toolf for but I just think, I mean, he's he's been dropped in there. Well, he's had two games for the what maybe three, and from what I remember, his debut was excellent, as a lot of those players who have come on for us this year has been been excellent. And his next game against the Eels was one of the worst games I've

seen a Warrior playing a long time. He just missed so many tackles, dropped the ball so much, and it was just a clear example of a young Fewler not quite being ready yet pas needed and like all of a sudden he's playing center in a game where it's must win and it's a pack stadium, you know what I mean, Like he just wasn't quite ready so and leaked a couple I feel like one of those tries, uh just comes straight through his channel and they were

just through. I was saying on the Monday podcast. When we went down by like two three tries very quickly, I basically tourn my back on the game and hit the buffet. We were in the corporate box. Yeah, I was gonna come with you guys in the corporate box as well, but I was just too down, like with the realization with thirty minutes to go that we weren't coming back. And then all of a sudden, you've got thirty minutes of trying to like simultaneously make the audience

laugh and also make because Die is gutted. Die his emotions are one hundred percent reliant on how the Warriors go. Yeah, I'm just saying he drops the lip when you two commentate that. He's very proficional obviously, but I know how much it means to him, you know what I mean. And so thirty minutes of trying to like, you know, read out deck jokes on three two three sects or whatever, and yeah, you know, have some fun. You did get

like an eight minute street right at the end. Yes, but it was sort of like, it's so hard to get excited for that when you know, well I got angry. It was like, oh, so now we're scoring points. Oh, just quickly while we were on here as well. I didn't talk about it Die. What was the light situation going on in in the box? I've never seen Die

that worried before what was happening. So I showed up to that little commentary cupboard and the lights were off and I was like why and I turned the lights on. Oh that's bitter. And then two minutes later, a guy in full eels uniform comes down and goes, hey, can

we turn those lights off? And I was like, oh, yeah, no worries because your light switch controls our coaches box and Trent Barrett doesn't want the lights on because when the camera cuts to them, they want the lights off so you can't see them because they've been hounding him obviously because hes given the sack and they're playing like shit.

And then all of a sudden, it was just like this amazing opportunity to if they and we've got the live feed, if they cut to the coach's box, I could flick the lights on and off a few times and it would be hilarious. Die was not for it at all, yeah, because I think he was picturing all this hard work we've gone through to finally been commentating a Warriors game at Mount Smart and then me ruining it with a light gag. So were the lights? The

lights were off for your commentary? Off the commentary because they want when they cut to the coach's box, they wanted it to be dark in this he couldn't really see them to like to not encourage the cameras to keep cutting back and then but imagine they cut to Trent Barrett and just one light on light off. That would have been hilarious. I reckon on off, then just when he loses the plot, back on again. As soon as he goes the fuckers going hold of these lights,

that's when you flick them back on. But the good thing about this light switches, it's gonna be like that for every game. Yeah, So at some point, Craig Belly, we flecked the lights. If he comes back next season, I'm not sure what he's doing, but or we just peck a moment, recky Stuart. He sits on the sideline, he does see because he's had the lights. He's had the lights before and he's not about that. But next

time there's a coach and maybe we're pumping them. Yeah, little light switch with have sandstorm ready to go on our commentary or if we know that we're about to get kicked out of there again. Wow, exactly, and for some reason the relationship between us and then gets really bad. Yeah, Chanelle Harris to will be in the number six jersey. And actually, because the news came out after we recorded

the podcast on Monday, we haven't talked about this. Sean the fourth last game for the Warriors, fourth last game for Sean Johnson. How instant reaction from you? Well, were

you surprised that? My first gut reaction was absolutely heartbroken for myself because I'd just spent forty minutes on the podcast and I don't think he's going to retire because because I was on Mad Monday straight afterwards, Oh, right straight after, I was like, he's been he's had contracts thrown at him from other teams, so presumably he's been given a contract and we've found out since that yea

he had from the Warriors. Yeah, And I was like, when someone puts a contract with hundreds of thousands of dollars in front of you, you don't turn it down. Wells walked out of that podca, boy was it? We don't turn it down. Yeah, that's right. Sean Johnson doesn't care. I said this the lane on the Gender podcast. I was like, it's a ordering amount of money. He's like, oh, it's not that much. I said, if I walked in here and asked you for they just paid Seawan Johnson,

your eyes would water. It's not that much. What kind of a bullshit? Commented, that's a huge amount of money. Yeah, that's a huge amount of money. And then what I realized actually was there's something I've known for a long time. How rich you are isn't how much money you have, it's how much money you can say no to. That's a really good point. And he can say no to a lot of money. Evidently there's such a good point. Has done. He's also got other options as well, so

God bliss him. I think athletes don't often get a chance to decide when they want to retire, So if you do, then you should. Yeah. And also all time great Hall of Fame warrior. He's one of those like Benji Marshall types of saying this. I think I was on Hadaki I was saying he's one of those guys like, yeah, Benji Marshall, I can't even think of Stacey or but you type in Skucks into YouTube and a half an hour highlights package is going to come up. Or sunny Bill.

You're at a party and someone doesn't know about league, and you go, have you seen Shaw Johnson? Go? Nah, you fire up a twenty minute highlights but he have Sewan Johnson. Yeah, he's one of those guys that you show highlights of to really showcase how fucking amazing the game, the game campaign awesome it can be. So he's one of the coolest players that's ever but he also hasn't really, in my opinion, lived up to that potential yet, which

last season was awesome. Yeah, and I think it's his injury. He must be injured this year. Yeah, he must be. And knowing that next year it'll be similar to this year, you do. This is how every athlete's career ends, that all of a sudden start getting injuries that they used

to bounce back from and that don't anymore. But you're right, he's been involved in every incredible Warriors moment for the last decade, and you know, all of the highlights have been played around you know, him steping dudes and scoring tries for the Kiwis for the Warriors. I think was it him that put the kick in for a man that caught it and did a backflip and then through the I think it probably was, Yeah, I think it was so. Yeah. He has left a massive mark on

on the Warriors organization, the Warriors club. It's it's a weird one because Tomodie Martin's now been dropped. But you would presume that he's going to be the halfback for the Warriors next year. How no, no, how early? It is too early to just give a teenage of the keys to the entire franchise. Oh, Jet Cleary, weel then and say you see this, this is yours now fucking save us? Or do we give it to Luke Metcalf and say yeah he's that. Yeah, definitely. He said he's

always wanted to play half back. Oh really yeah. So I don't know. I think there's a few options. It's not like we're short on anything. Well, no, we're not short on options. What we're short on is having a chance to play these options together for an extended period of time. There's so many interruptions with injuries. How do you think it plays out for the next four weeks. Do you think that him announcing his retirement at Bolsters

the Boys? Do you think it's a distraction. I like to think I just called him the boys by the way. Yeah it's a good Yeah, you know, I'm part of the Boys as West Sweet. We can do it. How do you think we go for the next four weeks? I reckon, Well, certainly, the impact it had on me and I think I can speak on behalf of the rest of the team was I was like, Fuck, we're

gonna start winning. I feel like, all of a sudden, Shawn Johnson's stepping down four games left a chance to really end his career and like with a high, not that he hasn't finished on a high last I mean last year was amazing. He's and to go from pretty much the Delian when and Kadam pong Is stealing it and retiring a year later is pretty crazy. Well yeah, but people were calling for him to retire the year before that. Oh and I was probably part of for

a wee bit there when we were going horrifically. Yeah, that's just the stuff you do when you're emotional after another Warriors lost. But I feel like, hopefully it does make our players stand up and at least just play with some heart and like make those tackles that we've been sort of half aass on and yeah, just things like that. It makes us play a bit better. And yeah,

it's a theme for the rest of the seasons. Send Sja off in style, absolutely, because you want to be part of those highlights in that last game and those last few games, you know, they are all I mean, there's only one more home game left, but that's a sellout, I reckon. The other ones are going to draw massive crowds because we travel well. But yeah, I think that Shawn Johnson is going to go well over these next four weeks. I hope he stays healthy for these four weeks.

You're saying you're gonna bring him into your Super Coach Team final send off. I wouldn't. I would think about it. Yeah, I've thought about it, but that would mean dropping Nathan Cleary. Ah nah, you know so anyway, we're still naming the teamless. Yeah, the Ford Packs unchanged Adam Wadegan Barnett MA to Kurt Dylan Walker at thirteen and then the bench fretty lastic,

Tom Aley, Jess Tevanga. Good to see him back. From that hamstring injury and Liquor Hala Sema is going to be on the bench as well, which I think is great. He's had a great season so far. Liquor, Yeah, he's been great. They're just the three games that he's played, well, the three games for eight minutes that he's played, Like, just use them. We've got these fellows. Just freaking use them, you know. Yeah, for sure still does my head. But anyway,

he won't get on the field, soorry about it. Eighteenth man is not on your sheet, but eighteenth man is to mighty Mutton. Interesting, do again, what does that tell you? Well, to be on nothing? Yeah, there's absolutely nothing to be read to that. He's just a utility player, isn't He can play a cover a lot of cars. Ever tells

me anything? Is that? Maybe? Is it a way of being like, hey, you're still one of the most important players to us, and light of the news that Shawan Johnson's retiring is with he's just like keeping him on the hook. Yeah, keeping him as we say, you know, like, hey, you're so important to us that when me and the missus on the rocks, right, I have a feeling next year she's not going to be around, all right, trust me, trust me. Now, I can't have you in the changing kids.

Obviously you understand that it's going to be too political, but I still want you on the team. So just hang around, stay in the corner, and all it's going to take is two hit injuries and then boom you're back. That's right. You could be back this week. I don't know, but you could be, if you know, depending on how things go. So yeah, I think to Mighty Martin, I don't know if you're gonna have a side piece. You could do worse than oh, absolutely, And both on the

field and in the sheets. The thing that worries me is, sorry, that was disrespectful the Dolphins. Sorry, it was really disable to carry on. Is the Dolphins team? Just I know they've been on a bit of a slide. I'll be honest. I was surprised to see them outside of the top eight when I check the standings just then. But they, like the Sharks, real hot start and then they've just slowly tapering, but not fully tapering off. They are still

putting up a massive fight against these sides. No, in this team that I'm about to read you, it's not missing any massive players, so the hammer at full wack. Who when I look at that, I have visions already of him tearing us to bits and him just doing the scoring and then doing the arm thing that he does, which is so cool. By the way, Jemina Suckle is going to be on the wing if he plays. If he plays, he what did he ankle? Really nasty ankle.

But I think he has to get through training literally today and then should know by tonight whether or not he's playing. Jake Evarillo, who's been going well, he's probably our weak point to run through. He lets in a lot of tries. Herbsley Farnslington Worth the third he will be in the fourth Jersey. And Jack Bostock, who's been going very well this year. A little whipp it that dude, that whole left side. Isaiah Katara, who's still very young,

is such a gun. He's got that left side clicking man. Yeah. And Jack Bostock has been scoring so many tries things to that. I reckon he's gonna be a gun next year. Yeah, I think so too. Cody Niicarrima is in at the sixth Jersey. The forward pack is Jesse Brominch, Max Plath, who's starting at hooker. He started the season when he first came in at five eighth. He's been playing in the second row. He's been playing lock. He played a lot. Yeah, and this is for a Wayne Bennett coach team. I

love that. So that tells you Max Plath is a rugby league player one hundred percent. I don't care what Jersey's got on. Just get him out there. And the funny thing, he played in the halves his entire like junior age group and everything. He's a half back in five eight. He's just a big bastards as the thing, he's a rectangle, but he's also really skilled and he can tackle really well, so he's just the full package.

Shawn rugby league player retired professional boxer Tavita punk I Junior will be starting in the number ten Jersey and like I'm going to take another victory lap. He had brought him in as soon as he came back out of retirement and he's gone great guns for me. He's injured now, isn't he, Tavenda? Yeah? Is he not playing this week? Did he play last week? I don't think he did. I think he had an injury. We'll double check this after the ad break, we'll fact check, fact

check right now. Fell Connelly, Limouelu and Kenny Bromich is going to be in the thirteen Jersey. I've got a hell of a bench. Aaron Keeley, Mark Nichols, Ray Stone who I don't think I could tell a part if they're standing next to each other. And then Shaan O'Sullivan, the teacher's bet is going to be in there as well. Manaia. Who the hell is Aarn Keeley? I don't know. I bet he's a gun though? What if Old Bennett likes him. Tavita punk I Jr. Did not play last week. He

has been named to start this week. I think he just had a one week off situation. So yeah, that is the teamless as I look at it. I am gonna be one hundred percent honest with you and you at home. I think we're gonna lose this week. I think we I think we're going to as well. And can I just say I really and we both do we really hope that we're proven wrong, but just based on how the Warriors played against the Eels, based on like Cossi coming in on the wing and Roger's shifting

back to center. Like, I don't feel super positive, but if the boys can step up and really, you know, step up to the streets, step up to the streets, and honor of Seann Johnson in his final four games, yeah shit, it would really just get And also honor the on the treaty. But honor the treaty first of all on the jersey, yeah. Second of all, honor your

fucking put it. And then finally after that, honor the fans who have broken the record for the first time an entire season has been sold out like that is incredible, is incredible. It also means that you can't buy tickets anymore. That's how sell outs work. But thankfully, thanks to four and twenty we've got your chance with this is sew by the way, that's great man. Yes, the four and twenty four pack price pack each month for Monday team. That's us to giving away four tickets to Warriors and

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what to do in the waning stages of Supercoach season. Chris, I know you're keen to join the ACC team for a massive rugby league weekend in March of twenty twenty five. And it's the first weekend of March and twenty twenty five as well in Nevada. Yeah, in Nevada. Yeah, Okay, there's a massive, yeah, massive weekend of league going on in Nevada, first weekend of March. Not the big city there with all the neons of the yeah, yeah, yeah, is it there? That's the one. Yeah. I don't know

if New Zealand rugby league teams ever played there. Oh look, I don't think so. No, not in recent memory. No, not certainly, not last year. But they are next year. You joke it and if you can be, if you want to be there, you can takes Vegas to three two three six to book your spot. There's a spear spot going because I'm not going who's so to be Healley and Dy are already going out they yeah, right, sounds like, oh, Kizy's going to Vegas. I meant Nevada.

Wait are we potentially avoiding the words Las Vegas? Is it one of those situations where we can't say, yeah, the thing like the Olympics. Is it like that? Yeah, although I just said Olympics. So Warriors in Las Vegas? Anyway, Vegas three two three six. So we got this week, Chris. If you're playing in a hit the Head league, you will most likely be into your finals now. And I

know that's true for us. I think most people at this sort of time of the season, probably even a couple of weeks ago, switch their attention from overall to head to head when they realize they cannot win the overall. Well, that's exactly where I am, yeah, one hundred percent. The funny thing about overall, like, if I look at overall, I'm ten thousand, three hundredth of the world, you know, which isn't too bad out of one hundred and something thousand people, But I almost I want to finish higher

in the Mad Monday Monters group. Yeah, because you see these people every day no, I never do. Oh the mad Monday Month mounts the open group that all the listeners can join and we'll fire it up again next year. I just want to be like top ten in that for some reason. But I think I'm thirty fourth. But the issue is thirty fifth. Sorry. The issue is you can't play overall and head to head and do a good job of both. I found I've been half passing

either all season. Yeah, and like doing things due to matchups, like I'll be watching playing you, for example, and I'll make a stupid captain decision because you're captaining the same guy and I need to win and just like take a chance. Was overall that Rexia? Yeah, and so I've and that out in the office. Who was on the coverage pulling the fingers in an Eels jersey. He was because I'm playing him this week. He was giving me shits.

And also he was saying he might have an overall team next year and a head to head team, which is way too much number management for me, although great news for his girlfriend, because that's right. Yeah. My theory is any man who has more than one fantasy team is not cheating on his misses because it's just too much to manage. I should get another one, Missus, just another messas. Yeah, because nobody doing one fantasy team. You're only doing one missus. Head to hear missus. I needed

overall Missus. I've already got the overall. But actually, so anyway, each week we generally try to go through your buys sells, your drops in your buyers, et cetera. I think the drops are clear this week that this the buys of the hard ones. Well, this is where it's sort of going to be the difference maker, isn't it Because a lot of people have a lot of the players, like a lot of people had pain hearts. Did you have them? I literally brought him in last week? Yeah, and like

shit literally literally yeah. I think fifty percent of all super coaches had pain hearts. Yeah, and so he's now gone. How are you going to replace him? Because this is the biggest thing people are toying with here. Are you thinking Adam fanoa blake or are you thinking go safe Joey Tarpini? Yeah, well I think Jay Taps is the most broadened just plug a mid man. I know the thing is, I, as I said, I've switched to head to hit. I'm facing up against our producer Adam Pulmono,

who's not in here right now. And is this like a low key super Coach gun without really meaning to be Yeah, he his pendulum swinging up and I'd say mind swinging down. But I so I have edin fanoa blake and I need to fire a shot this week or this could be my last week if he had to hit super Coach And do you have where do you have like a if you lose this week, you've got another chance? Don't think so? Right? So it's all nothing,

So what are you thinking? Well, I have so I have six trades, great position to be and i'ven't got three and I have two hundred and sixty nine thousand dollars up my sleep because I was aiming to get Christen in next week. I'm gonna predict you're gonna get Okay Mitch Barnett, Yes, because he's expensive. He's eight hundred and some that he is eight hundred and twenty six. But I just was looking at them and I was like, yeah,

Joey Tappane, he scored ninety eight last week. This week just been I think he scored well the week before that too, but I need guaranteed high numbers, and that's Mitch Barnett. Yes, it doesn't matter what who you're playing against, doesn't matter, you know, Mitch Barnett just shows up and does a job. So his like three or five round average is about ninety or something. He's playing out of his skill. Oh yeah, might even been more than that.

It's it is ridiculous. So yeah, I'm gonna bring Mitch Barnett. And but I do think if you've got haus nine times out of ten, just brings up in. That's that's a clear difference between overall and head to head right there, because if you're going overall, don't bring Mitch Barney. I've already got him, which is great, but don't bring him in because they don't play around twenty seven. Yeah, so you're getting a guy for four out of what it might be five four games, whereas any play four. Whereas

you could get Joey Tarpini for five. Yeah, or if you didn't have him, to be honest, like you could get Ponger, you could get to disco like you could get Yeah, well this is this is the next this is the next thing. So everyone's got pain hearts. So you're going your throat, going all in with Mitch Barnett. Yeah. The next thing that's happened is Dom Young's gone down, but the roosters are on a by Yeah, so I'm gonna leave Dom Young because he could be back next week.

Anything could happen. And the amount of times I fucked myself this year by being like I'm gonna get ahead of the curve, yeah, because my team was doing well and I tried to snowball that win the winning into like getting even further ahead, and he turned a winner to a loss. I was doing things like jumping on Cleary that first time when he came back from the hammer, then he was out again. I jumped on Nico Hines when he came back Beauty broke his leak. Yeah, you know.

So I've been doing shit like that and it has really come back to bite me in these last few weeks. So you go full conservative. So I'm going conservative. Having said that, I'm gonna follow my own advice from last week, where I said, if you want to fire a shot this week, try bringing cam Munster and see how he goes. Now he went sixty three him in last week. Yeah, fine, sixty three is about part of the course for a

five eighth. Yeah, I was hoping he would really fire a proper shot, and then I wouldn't because what I did is brought him in when he was sixty grand more expensive than he is now, because he had a huge break even. I reckon he can get over one hundred against the dragons, and then they lost to the dragon. Yeah, and so I'm going to bring him in now. Yeah, I reckon. I saw some he looked good. I saw some stats about liftedges, the rabbit os and blah blah blah.

It's all hard. Who cares? I still think that's firing a shot to bring munster And what's upside, guys, isn't it. Yeah, Dylan Brown's my other half, so I'm not too worried about that. Ali Cartore's are the worrying news. Yeah, and he's out. So he's out. Obviously a lot of people have Angus Crichton, so he's on the by the good news is people that had all a kwaisu that he's now playing again. He was suspended. However, a lot of

people also had both Firmore, who's now injured. Yeah, so a lot of people are probably gonna have to bring in a back row this week. I would say, though, that most teams have an abundance of back rowers because there have been some great back rows the second half of the season. So there is a chance that you've been absolutely ravaged. But you know, like for me, I've got forfeeda Burbo. You've still got Burber, I've got Colin the tonguey. Yeah, but yeah, that's good. I do have

Josh Curran, who has been named but apparently injured. Yeah, that he was. He went down holding his shoulder right, So he seems like the kind of guy that would just strap himself up, take a couple of panadole and get out there. Though. Yeah, that's right, and that's sort of what I'm banking on because if he doesn't time and deep shit, well, the good thing about Josh Curran is, and this is something people should consider, is for the run home, I think the Cowboys might have one more buy,

which is a bit of a risk. But someone like Ruben Cotter, who can play front row and back row, he's injured as well. Is he not playing this week? I don't. I think he's back this week. Oh okay, I mean Fortunately, we've had plenty of times to prepare. He's in at thirteen. So and the reason I suggest Ruben Cotter is because there's no origin or anything. He has to play that play for like where they're going to stop in the eight, where where they're going to set,

and he can be front row or second row. So if any injuries happened and you're low on trades and you need to bring someone in, bringing in a dual position to play it safe can be a good option. Or fire a shot and bring in a big gun. Yeah, they go Cowboys play Broncos Raiders who suck at the moment. The Broncos they do suck at the moment, and then they've got the buy, then they've got the storm, and then they round out the season with the Bulldogs. So yeah,

I don't know. I was The other option I had was Tommy Dirden as well. But yeah, I don't think there are any clear buyers. I think if you can't be asked thinking about front row of wood and you got hars, just goes happen there and then other than that, patch it up where you can Ali Caarto. I if you I thought about just going cart or to Crichton because I need Crichton as well, but I don't know if I will get him because who knows what's going to happen over the next week. You know, Crichton could

break his neck and training. You just don't know. But also we might also find out that Ali Carto it is just the saying he's been rested because of his knee. Yeah, we don't know if it is arresting, or it could come out that actually he's out for six weeks, you know, like we don't know what the story is yet. No, we don't. So any other clear buys for you, KAYLM pong Oh, Yes, So here's my strategy for the rest of the season. I have Kalyn Ponger. I am all in.

Oh when did you bring him in last week against It was a few weeks ago now, right, Okay? So I am officially all in on the Knights from here on out. So if the Knights go well, they're playing the Tigers this week. By the way, they have got the best stretch of games They've got. Three of those games are at home, and they're all pretty easy with teams to play against that allow a lot of points.

Knights Sharks. They then play the rabbit Os. They then turn around and play the Tits, and they finished this season against the Dolphins. That's right. So these are teams that all are allowing like quite high scoring games. I am all in on them. I am all in on Ponger hopefully having another tier like at the end of last season. I've got I've got Origin Gags who's definitely

not Origin Gags at the moment. Have you got Ma, I've got Greg, Marju and I' It was even toying up bringing in like another night just to go really all in on them. But those are my three boys and I need them. I've also got Jaden Brayley as my rezeve hooker. But if the nights go well, I'm gonna go well, and I should be able to get through this hit to head finals stage, hitching your wag into the night. But also I had I had Pappenhausen, who scored eleven against the Dragons. Yeah, has been tough

this season. Like when you watch him, when you watch a game of rugby league and you see a player and you go far out he looks great. I have to have him in my team. The opposite of that, is what's happening with Pappenhausen. I watch him and I go he's not getting involved. He's passing the ball a lot. When he does get the ball in space, he tries to run but isn't as fast anymore because of his injuries. Granted, and he gets five injections on his foot before every game.

I think, if you've got Pappy, even though they've got a good run home, get off them to Pomo. It's not it's only one hundred thousand more. I think pong is cheap. Yeah, and chances they're going to need someone to cover the like you probably have to disco as well, so Teddy and Pommer. Yeah, captain c Now. All seasons I've been saying, look, if you've got clear and he's going, captain him, but you may need to try and win

your league. Well, this is the thing. Week he's playing like the third game of the round, maybe Friday night or something, So chuck a v on him and just sit a reminder or something to double check and make sure you do the loop properly because he's playing so early and everyone's going to captain Cleary, right, I don't know. Here's my other shot that I'm prepared to fire, right, I think you, I think you might agree with me. Pong is playing the Tigers. Oh yeah, he's my captain

and Clari's my vice captain. Yeah. I think that's probably the way I'm going to do it, and I will fuck up the VC loop. What okay, what does clearly have to score for you to not captain Ponger? Because I saw I had this last week. I like to think over one hundred and twenty, I'd be like, oh, yeah, okay, I had this exact problem last week with vale Home scored one hundred and thirty six and he was my vice kept That was on Thursday night game. Yeah, and

you stuck with Cleary though who got ninety? Who got ninety? But then whoever you brought in, if you'd done the VC loop probably would have scored. Your lowest scoring player would have got hardly anything. So it comes kind of comes out in the wash. I think about one thirty is sort of the Yeah, if it's over one thirty, you should do it. So you vice captain Cleary and if he goes for one of those like one fifty one eighty games, that's right. Yeah, Okay, that's the way.

That's the way I think everyone should play it. And if you don't have either of those dudes, you probably not listen to this podcast. And also if you don't know how to do it, just bring one of your roosters and it's on the by, yeah, after Cleary's game, and captain him, and then your lowest scoring person on the bench who isn't reserved, their points will count instead of the guy on the by, which last week for me would have been I think for me it was

David Moaly for the rabbit Os. He's scored forty three or something. Oh, none of my other dudes scored. Sweet, so you've got a free VC loop potentially, yeah, because your lowest scoring would have been the guy that you took out, oh which would have stayed, which would have been Dom Young just thirty. So yeah, yeah, so it is anyway. Yeah, so that's how I'm going to play it. I think Vice Captain Cleary kept in punger or if you're feeling a bit nervous, just kept in clear and

don't worry about it. The issue you've got with VC loops is that your VC is always on a Saturday night. Yep, And like traditionally looking back at the calendar Saturday nights, and I fit into this mold as well. You're usually quite steamed, and so you're in a position where you all of a sudden have to do some advanced mathematics and do a VC loop hungover, all hung over the next day, you can't even be bothered looking at the app until the game started, and then you realize, Yeah,

so it's a real dangerous thing to play with. That genuinely had it where I've been out for dinner and I'm like, oh fuck, I don't I didn't VC loop. Actually you and I was somewhere it might have even been in Bali. We're in Balley on a boat, almost dying, and I was like, oh fuck. And you go, you forgot to do the VCS because you're on your phone looking at something. You went, oh fuck, I did. Yeah, yeah, I did the same thing. Yeah. That's why it's so risky.

It's not because it's hard to do. You just forget. It's because it's hard to hear you get a factor in real life anyway. Okay, that's how we're going to play it this week. Good luck to all of you who are competing in the Supercoach. This weekend, we are going to take one last break and when we come back, we're going to put our hunch together. Well, welcome back

into the podcast. I'm just scrolling back through the the bet slip on the tab account because I think that we were you put together one of the all time hunches, one of the all time five parts last week. I loved it and it's something I think we need to do more of. Last week, Chris's hunch was every player who had been linked to leaving their club at the end of the season to score in the game. So

it was Blade the Lungy, Dylan Walker, and Jessavanger. Now two of those players will come off the bench or at least play reduced minutes. Yeah, and Dylan Walker got injured pretty early doors. Yeah, and Jesseevunger did not score. Blaster Lungion did he scored? Yeah. I was a big fan of that. Fifteen thousand dollars. So if that had come in with one hundred dollars bonus bet, that would have been all time. But it didn't happen. It didn't even look like happening. No, is there anything Jeez is

sewn Johnson The Vibe this week, Seawan Johnson retiring. I think Sean Johnson two or more tries, Shawn Johnson two or more. I love it to score two or more tries. But I've just pulled that out of my ass right now. I want you to know. Everyone pulls all of their beds right out of their ass. Sewan Johnson, they have two or more tries at fourteen dollars. Yeah, he'll be brimming Fuck it, we're on. He'll be AJ Brimson, He'll be AJ Brimming's son. And I am gonna place this

bit before we even walk out of the studio. That's going on right now. That is our heart, Sewan Johnson. To score two or more tries that is fourteen dollars if you want them at any time, that will knit you three dollars forty five, which I don't mind either. I see it when I close my eyes, I can see it. I can see him right foot step dotting down under the post and like doing the big arm, the Tiger Woods arms and all of the boys jumping all over him as the Warriors go down forty two

to sixteen against the Dolphins. I'm just joking. I can't see it happening. I can picture it now. It has to happen twice. So that's our thank you very much for joining us for the Mad Monday podcast. Myself and CAZy the Cursed commentary crew will be on four pm to watch Shawn Johnson score those two tries against the Dolphins on Sunday. Yeah, Sunday game on Sunday. We'll see you there. By Australia without rugby league. He's not Australia, right,