Music. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Good to see you, mate. Good to see you, my friend. All right. Oh, where's the end? All right. No, my hooker, my welcome back to another episode of the Kiwi NRL podcast. Tonight, I'll be your host, Lenny Pikiora Brookie, full name. And tonight in the Valence Te Whare, all the way from Papamoa. Andre Oktober. Kia ora, kia ora. How are you, brother? Good? Good, bro. Busy, busy start to the year, but very productive.
Well, that's what we like to hear, man. Yeah, man. And good to be back. Good to be back. It's Waitangi Day tomorrow, so it's good timing, and the mother-in-law's up as well, so. Oh, there you go. Sit her on tap. Bit of babysitting. Yeah, bro. Yeah, Waitangi Day tomorrow, so don't forget. Toi tu. Tiriti. Anyway. Anyway, the Kiwi political podcast, let's roll. Get a few more views if you chuck a little bit of that in there. Shout out to Seymour, David Seymour.
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Four weeks, but I like to carry on through a bit, and these are a great tool. Is this going to be enough boxes to get you through the four weeks, you reckon? Maybe. That's per day. That's a bit of an issue now, but these are a great tool if you are trying to slow down on the piss a bit. Great taste. No alcohol can't really taste the difference hey you can't really obviously this is going to be the true blue good george, Taste bud specialists, I don't know how you put, what are they called?
Beer connoisseurs. Connoisseurs. Engineers. They're going to be able to tell the difference between a 0.5 and a 5. I'll tell you what, if on a hot day and you really feel like you want to knock a beer over on a Monday afternoon, these are perfect. What about at Mahi? You could probably break them out at Mahi and just get stuck in. Lunchtime. Lunchtime brew. You could probably, yeah, that's right. Monday lunchtime. Get into it. You'll send your kid to school with it.
In the lunchbox. in the lunchbox? That'll definitely get you in the dog box if you're trying to. I think it still has traces of alcohol, so maybe you're not allowed to do that. No more than a bit of aftershave though. No more than the old mouthwash. Yeah. The old gargle and spit. Or some swallow. I don't know. But it does, it still gives you a little shine, eh? Yeah. So you probably actually retract that statement. Don't put it in the kid's lunchbox.
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All right. Quite virtual. That's quite virtual. Virtual reality, yes. Non-alcoholic, hazy IPA. Yeah, I got a question for ya. Music. All right, I'll just dig them up. It's a bit slower today, Fano, because Jase has usually already logged in and got the questions ready to go. I'll get a question while we wait. All right, what is it? Is there any truth to the Reece Walsh situation? Did you see his catch? Yes, the old Tom Brady. Yeah, yeah. Tom Brady special. And the CEO was in the crowd.
Tom Brady said Reece would be worth about $25 million a season in the NFL. A season. What are your thoughts on that, Lenny? I mean, it's a hard egg to crack, though, as we've seen. But isn't a cherry that's been popped previously, is it? Not when someone's gone and become, and not onto like. Not with consent, anyway. Well, you hope there's consent, shit. No one's really gone. People have gone over to the NFL and done well-ish. Yeah. But no one's really gone over there and absolutely.
Brained it. Yeah, because Val was probably the most recent, eh? Oh, well, actually Jordan Maialata, but that's a bit of a different body shape. Yeah, because he was under 20 Souths, wasn't he? Yeah. And then from under 20. So he started pretty early, though. He transitioned pretty early, obviously. Is the bowl on today, actually? I think it is, actually. Oh, shit. May have missed it. May have missed it. It should have a bet on. Shout out to Usher. Halftime show. Drops a new album, too.
Why wouldn't you, though? You should have a go, right? Do you think you should have a go? Like an oath. Just for marketing, he'll probably still get paid a fair whack. Because they're investing a bit of money down in New Zealand, the NFL. And he's over there. He'll be over there in March, won't he? So there's probably a few scouts. Yeah. Yeah, there would be, actually. That game's sold out, isn't it, apparently? Probably all Aussies who have gone over there for a booze-up. I love a booze-up.
Alrighty. Let's see what we've got here. Whoops. Whoops. All right. This is from Pod Rugby League, Point of Difference Rugby League podcast. How are you going, mate? Thanks for the question. Who is your smokey to make the WARS team for round one? Hope you enjoy the cheer-chew when you're here, lads. Cheers, mate. Is there a smokey for you to play in round one for the Warriors? I would like to see Ali, to be honest. Every predicted lineup's got Rocco at centre, and obviously the RTS will get
a crack if he's fit and healthy. He looks pretty fit. Ali is my Smokey that I want. I think he deserves. He's got mad potential, man, that kid. Yeah, and he's one from one so far. He ticked all the boxes. He looked bloody good on debut. The most impressive thing was his defense in that game. Yeah, man. But he was sounding all over. For a debut, that was defensively, yeah, that's what stood out. It was his defense. Okay, Ali. I'm going to come up with one. Ronald Volkman.
No, not Ronald. Good to see the Wires are going to pay for his shoulder reconstruction, though. It's just what the Wires do, really, isn't it? Yeah. They were on my bad counting list, but now they're back on the good one. If the shoe was on the other foot, they reckon it'll... Maybe not. Maybe not. You know, it's just the way the Wires are, you know? I think the RLPA probably... Had a wee word. ...helped these days, yeah. I don't think they would have forced them to do it, but... Yeah,
yeah, yeah. I think the Wires would have come to the party eventually. Goodwill hunting. Anyway, that's way off topic. Do I have someone? Not really a Smokey, but maybe Tamati Martin. Maybe. But I can't see him going past Luke Metcalf. Depends where Chanel's going to play. I think Tamati had his opportunity and potentially didn't quite nail it. Yeah, we'll see. We'll see. We'd love to have him back. We'll see.
But, yeah, so it's smoky, so it's probably not. See, Fakula seems to be pushing as well, but I think he's injured until mid-season. Oh, is he? Yeah, I think he's done his knee. Red shit. So he was, I reckon he was on the fringe. Yeah, he would have been pushing. Just trying to think who else could be a smoke-ux. Kurt Cate will come in. It's just a straight swap, really, for Caranais. Oh, it's a straight swap. He goes in the starting line-up. Shuffle down.
A bit of a shuffle down for everyone else But that means there's no real Smoky opportunity there Yeah, It would have to be like a back Probably Ali I just don't think that centre position's locked in I just don't, Obviously Rocco was impressive towards the back end But I suppose the off-season If he does get first crack, obviously the heat's on Straight away, You've got to perform But you know, who knows I think Webby seems like a let the incumbent get first crack sort of guy. Maybe if he.
Is he on there? If there's a signature on there. DWC. That's a smokey. See that? Maybe Dallin's a smokey to make the team. DS is on there. That's bloody good to see. But Ali's a good one. That's a good one, man. That's a good smokey. I just think the number six obviously is quite a, no one really knows what's going to happen there. So there could be a smokey option in there. Speaks to the strength of the squad that is not real, you know? That's right. Yep. Yep, yep, nothing's locked in.
Nothing's locked in. Everything's almost up for grabs. Thanks for the question. Good question. JJ Moeke. Shout out to JJ. Hope you're good, my man. Thoughts on All-Star weekend doing 100-meter sprint, powerlifting, and other challenges like US sport? I like it. The 100-meter sprint would be cool. Bring it back. Yeah, they did it. Oh, no, that was like a cross-code one, eh? Yeah. Jared Hayden. Jared Hayden, the soccer guy one in the end, eh? Yeah, yeah.
Had an AFL player. Lockie was it? Yeah, from the Wallaboos. Yeah, I'm a fan. Cross a little cross-foot circuit, just like a little one. I don't think anyone would say they wouldn't be keen. I mean, the players might not be keen because they don't want to blow out a hammy or something. Sure, you can run 100. You could do what they do at the nines and chuck a couple of young bucks in there if you don't want to risk anyone's injured, eh? That's right, yeah. Blowing a football valve.
Yeah, that's a great idea. They should do it. When do they do it in the NFL? What's the structure? What time of year? I'm not great on American sports, I'm not sure. Neither are we. We need Brilli back on. So we'll just say yes, then. Yes, great. All right, all right. Brill 89 is with Speaker the Devil. He'll be a dark horse for top try scorer this year. That obviously must mean for the whole comp. Yeah. Smokey for the top try scorer.
I'm going to go. He's in that team there, actually. Dean Marriner. Yes. Was that how you're going to go now? Yeah. Well, him or Selwyn. Yeah. One of the Bronx outsides. Is Selwyn a dark horse? Selwyn will have his hands on the ball more, don't he? I guess so. He's a Bronco player and he's dark, so it could be a dark horse. He's a centre. Oh, he is a centre. That's right. Yeah, so that could be a bit of a dark horse.
Who else would there be? Because Herbie scored a lot of tries last year. Yeah, Herbie was a try. Was Isako top last year? Point scorer Was he top try scorer I'm not sure But that's probably Not a dark horse either Nah William White or I mean William.
Willie Warbrick maybe He could be a bit of a dark horse Could be Depends who the centre is I guess but, Yeah Dean Mariner could be A slight DWZ will take it The Warriors, Oh yeah Because they're going to win And then Wynna Prem's Top try scorer Dallin top try scorer He might play a full year And then just fuck around and get 30 something tries yeah but that's not a dark horse fuck around he's probably the favorite, thanks brally thanks mate hope you will i think that's it that's all of it we've
got one more from um do you got any questions we've got one here from jenny jenny tells jenny tells genitals oh oh sorry sure who done that no i don't have any quiz do i have a question. Who do you think, do you think it's going to be full strength Maldives and Indigenous team this year? Well, they've already started. The Roosters try to hold a few people back. Yeah. Fuck's sake. But the NRL is coming. I got real excited. I thought the game was on in the weekend just been.
I don't know why. What the fuck? I just was like. Sleep deprived. Flash goal. And then I was like, fuck, surely we would have covered it. Two weeks to go. Sleep deprived. Yeah. Still got two weeks to go. Close. I see Kalen pulled out. But that's, I think that's the right decision for him. prone to getting the old twack around the head. But I see the Roosters try to pull pin on a few boys, but the NRLs come down and said, you've got to still let the boys play. It's up to them,
not the club. What kind of stop them? What's the drive between having it in North Queensland? Just getting it around the countries? I think it's a higher concentration of Indigenous Australian population up there. Similar to Rotorua and NZ, like playing the game there. True, true, true.
I think. I don't know the Demographics of like The states of Australia That well But I'm pretty sure It's a high percentage Of indigenous folk up there What's the chances Of Isaac Luke playing I see that Do we not have anyone else I mean it's not To be rude to the bro But Surely there's some young kid Who wants a go, Yeah You better I personally think A young kid should Have a chance Roach is Yeah Roach Chuck Roach in there Is he or he I think he's just Was he Someone
I don't know if he's Maori oldie. Yeah, interesting, eh? I don't know. It'd be good to see Isaac play, but it'd be cool. He'd be mean, especially if he rolls out one of the wines to clock back for a bully performance of the ages. Yeah, only which he'll probably do for the first 10 minutes. But you know, because there's so many good young players who have been blooded in those games, eh? Who get their first chance in those games. Yeah, what's his name from last year? They played for the Eels.
Wurimu. Wurimu, Greg. Wurimu. This is his second year in a row, I think, playing for the Maldives. He always brings out a big game, mate, and even like Jermaine Tanoa-Brown. Yep. Yep. He's been good in those games. Josh Caron has kind of probably propelled himself into more people's, in more of a spotlight from playing those games. You know, you're not wrong, Len. So I prefer a young kid to have a little crack ski.
You're right, mate. You're right. Yeah, sorry, mate. Did you do your COVID test before you come in? Too many VRs. 0.5s Alright that'll be the questions, We're going to move on to our next segment Keep the questions coming We know it's early in the season But we really like to get them answered We like to answer a few questions And it's good to hear Good to hear from people, Shout out to genitals Sweet Alright we'll just play a little song Which one which one which one. Music.
From your head to your toes And I wanna move Alright, thank you Ludacris For that song Alright, we're gonna We're gonna break down The Queensland teams We going Bronx first are we?
Go with the big The elder brothers The Broncos, What we What Gase and I were doing Is trying to construct it ourselves But what we're gonna do here Is we're gonna Rattle off NRL And NRL Fantasies Combined posts Of their predicted team And then we'll just have A quarter to around What we think of it, So fullback Reece Walsh That's probably a gimme Number two, one wing, Dean Mariner, Kiwi boy. He's got wheels on him, and it's good to see another Kiwi fella up in the mix.
Salon Kobo, corner of the Kobo. Four, Ketone Staggs. Five, Jesse Arthurs. Big fan of Jess. Had an epic season last year. He might go close for her. Oh, he's on the right side there. Anyway. Yeah. Should he play well in the GFA? Bro, he was mean in the game. Made about three sort of breaks. Line breaks, yeah, bro. This carries just out of most amount of yardage too. Six, Ezra, your man, my man. Just about to sign the dollar line, isn't he? New contract deal, extension.
Yeah, that'll be a bit more than what he's on, I'd say. After that grand final performance. Seven, Adam Cordo Reynolds. Eight, pain in my hearse. Nine, Billy the Kid Walters. Ten, Corey Jensen. Oh, yeah, because now Flegg's gone. Forgot about that. Fleggage. 11, Brendan Piakura. 12, Jordan Ricci. 13, Patrick Carrigan. 14, Tyson Banana Smoothie. 15, Kobe Hetherington. 16, Fletcher Building Baker. And 17, oh, another Kiwi fella, Xavier Willison. Big boy. Cheddar butter. Big boy. Fletcher Baker.
They have a new signing, eh? Must be. Not familiar. familiar. They've got some front row stock and forward stock coming through, don't they? They always do. Big square fellas. And was it TPJ retired? And then now on talks with Broncos. Potentially in the mix after his fight in March or whatever. Yeah. Retired from the game. And then now he's coming back. Interesting. Back to the Broncos who were in the grand final. Interesting. Political old thing.
Probably wouldn't change too much about that. Would you change? Nah, well your obvious omission's there, so you've got Herbie's gone to the Finns, which further strengthens their line-up, which we'll cover off later. So that's just a straight in. Dean Mariner's carved up in that game last year, so he's slotted in. Yep. Can't really, that back line's fucking... Crazy. Ooh, it's a pretty explosive outfit, isn't it? Yep, nah, there's probably not much to change there.
Good to see Brendan Piakura get a few more games throughout the year too. He's a big lad. Has he pledged to anyone? Not sure. That's a Maori last name for sure. Yeah, but he's also a Cook Island. Is he? Yeah, so quite often they have a similar, they have their R's in their name. As the other islands usually use an L. They're all pretty much the same. Pretty close. It's the same. Pretty close. That's right. Yeah. And yeah, Fletcher Baker, I think, came from the Roosters, was it?
I'll pass I need to look that up I'll get back to you on that one But that was probably the easiest team to look through Because like you said Yeah I think those top teams They're going to be Pretty much locked and loaded They're going to go with the same I'm going to go out on a limb here And say the Broncos don't make their granny this year No GF I reckon last year, They might be top four But I reckon they'll get tipped I reckon Farnworth is a massive loss to them He quite
often turned the game for them created attack yeah and momentum it always do little shifty and massive one-on-one shifty shifty a massive uh gain for the fins so and also i just think that last year was a bit of a surprise package other teams didn't see them coming yep well people just got off to a really fly flying start i've done that in the past though and then i've just shat the bed because they do have a bed sheet in them as you'd like to say i love a bed they didn't shut
the bed yet last year well Well, to the last 20 minutes. But have they got another non-bed shit in them two years in a row? Do you got a clean nappy this year? We don't know. They get looked after, eh? I think they got like 10 Friday night home games again this year. How many games, mate? They're playing the Waz here, though, which is good for us. Yeah, bloody get over here, man. June 29th. I looked at the game the other day. Well, middle of winter.
Yeah, bleep. They won't like coming here. Nah, shit, nah. Sweet. All right, we'll move on. Next up, is it the Flying Finns? Might be, my co. The Finns. Finns up, baby. Everyone's second favorite team last year, wasn't it? It was until they beat your actual team, and then you're like, fuck you. When they rolled the Warriors a week before finals. That was our New South Wales Cup team. Yeah. Yeah. Didn't affect us whatsoever. Well, they got Jermaine on the cover there.
Geez, he's a good knicker, isn't he? Pretty good team. Good size pythons. Oh, yeah. Python. Doesn't muck around.
He's tripped up. Hamiso Tabuai Fido In the fullback position Jermaine Isako, one wing Jake Averillo, oh I forgot they signed Jake Averillo Jakey Great signing, in fact they got some speed, Four, Herbie Farnworth Oh and Flegler was the one that was Jersey Fleg, yep, he's gone over to them as well Jersey Fleg Tessie New they've got starting at the other wing, Is that the back five you'd go with? I guess he knew he was pretty good, man. He's got big legs on him,
eh? Can our boy Valance Tefade get a crack, you reckon? Depends how he squares up in preseason, eh? Could you use Jake Everlow? There's a bit of media about him. You wouldn't really buy Everlow. To play him on the wing or so. Yeah, we're going to put him test. Test might lose out. If anyone, but I don't. Test is pretty mean, though. Yeah, it's going to be a good fight to see.
But you'd probably run with that team Yeah The Fallons could squeeze on the bench Especially if he's fit He's Connolly on the bench That is surprising, who have they got? Kenny Brom Oh the old boys Anyway, Isaiya Katoa, 6 SOS, Sean O'Sullivan in the halfback position, Jesse Bromwich Saying it could possibly be his last year this year For the big fella What an innings he's had What an innings, what a knock He's got a 300 eh?
Surely. Must be. Must be. Jeremy Marshall King had a great year last year. It'd be good to see him play a whole season, hopefully this year. Thomas Jersey Flegler obviously has come over from the Broncos. This is an interesting one. Felice Cofusi, Kenny Bromwich in the back row there. And they've got Connolly Lemuelo on the bench. Tommy Gilbs. I suppose Lemuelo did start the year on the bench last year before Tom Gilbert
got injured. And Kenny Bromwich Was playing 13 For a while Yeah You wouldn't slot him Into a starting Back row spot You reckon. Lemuelu, I'd have him in there, yeah. Yeah, I'd have him at 12. I'd have Kenny on the bench because Kenny was covering the middle, eh? He can play, buddy. 5-8. They must have too many middles there, eh? Yeah. Mark Nichols back. Mark Nichols, Jared Wallish, and Connolly Lemuelu. Pretty big bench, eh?
Big sores, not bad. Then Cody Nicodemar at 14. He probably doesn't want that place, but that's probably where I'd play him too. He's just too good at that position. Yeah, he's the new Craig Wing, isn't he? But, man, he was good last year at fullback. He's not too bad cover at fullback, man. Yeah, he'll be there. He's just good to have in the team because you can play him anywhere. During that origin period, he'll be slotting in there, I'd say.
So probably the only other change I'd, and this is probably just because I like the Te Whare, but I might chuck him in there instead of Jake Averill. It won't happen, probably. Just saying, but I would like to see him in there. Hopefully he's roaring fit, smokes the trials, and then he gets a crack. Otherwise, shit, the Wards might be looking for, we impact Ford off the bench. Get him home. You know, we need a bit of leg speed.
That's probably one thing they're lacking on the bench, eh, is leg speed. Yeah. Old mate, uh... So you could probably, um, he'd be great at... I wonder if they've thought about moving him in a little bit. He played a couple of games closer in last year, but he just can't seem to quite nail down a spot. He needs to go somewhere where they're a bit less outside back. It's two huge acquisitions in Flegler.
Flegler's a massive get. Massive in. Because they signed him before he started firing last year. And the depth, because that's where they kind of fell short last year. They got injuries, all the rest. They're going great guns, and then the depth probably held them up a bit. But the addition of those two players. Huge. The local derby is going to be a. Whose house is it going to be? Whose fuddy is it?
Arnburner. Anything else to add to the Dolphins? This is also Wayne Bennett's last year coaching the Dolphins.
Any hands over to Christian Wolfe Nah do you reckon they'll go to Go top 8 this year They might squeeze in there eh There's no reason they shouldn't If you went off last year they'll probably improve their squad They probably should have been there last year But just injuries and shit obviously, Slowed them down a bit so I'd say yes I should probably write down who I think is going to be in the 8 Because I'm probably saying everyone.
At the moment Titans will miss out Fins up up fins up fins up baby go as our second team until we play the Warriors and then but definitely beat the Broncos and we'll be there to support you that's right next one the Gold Coast Titans. They've got that little fullback battle, obviously. It's well documented. But they've got Jaden Campbell starting there. Two, Alofiana Khan-Pereira. Three, AJ Brimson. Four, Brian Kelly. The other winger, Philip Sammy.
Six, Kieran Foran. Seven, Tana Boyd. Eight, Smokin' Mo Moake. Whatuaika. Nine, Sam Verrills. Ten, Tino Pa'asua-Molawi. Eleven, Beau Furmore, one of my favourite players. He's a great player. 12, David Fofoida 13, Isaac Lloyd 14, one of my other favourite players, Aaron Clark good to see him back, hopefully gets a season without an injury the little nugget 15, Damon Joloff 16, Kenan Paliasea, 17, Cleese Haas who is the brother of Payne Hinmai, Payne Hinmai Haas.
Kenan from the Bronx from the Bronx, yes Yes, everyone's just stealing Broncos players by the looks. Wow, when you're over the cap regularly, you just, you know, got to shed a bit of cap space. Are you happy with the Jaden Campbell over AJ Brimson? Brimson into centre? Yeah, look, obviously it's a hot topic at the moment. Did you see that bit of media around it and Bromo was sort of taking the piss?
See that? It's quite funny. He was kind of just punking the media about how competitive they were in that you're not going to play if one of them misses out on the spot. But, yeah, you'd have to think he squeezes in there just because every opportunity at every gate, he's passed the gate, hasn't he? He's passed go, collected his two undie. I mean, it's a hard one. And then you've also got one of the real up-and-comer who's looked great in the New Zealand A, the Kiwis A game was Keon.
Is it Keon? What's his name? The Kinney? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. What's his first name? Kinney. Yeah, sorry. His last name Kinney. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, sorry, so that's who Brimmo was saying, like we're both going to probably... I'm pretty sure his name's Keon Kinney. Yeah, yeah. He said they're both going to leave the fullback spot for him and then whoever didn't play centre wasn't going to play for the Titans this year.
The media are like, Brimson and Campbell are in a big tiff, like they hate each other. Sorry if I put your first name wrong, mate, but that Kinney... He's not in there, eh? They don't have him in this spot. But they've just spoilt for choice on the outside backs. It's absolutely crazy. But he has to get – I mean, we've seen him play. The guy's – the kid's an absolute weapon. He can't – then who do you take out? Pretty hard. Really hard. Pretty difficult. Yeah. A little Fianna.
Well, that Khan Paleta kid is out the gate. He's mean. Phillips. Maybe. Kenny might have another –. Sort of building season under his belt. Yeah, he doesn't need to play NRL this year, but I'd like to see him start making a name for himself. I'm just trying to think who's short on the outside back so he could use him. Last year they were playing Campbell in the halves. I don't know if it was Karen Foran injured or Tana Boyd. What were they doing there? I think so, injuries, yeah.
And the Brimps are not moving. They do a bit of a swap, so yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's one of those, they're sport for one position, but they don't actually have a specialist centre, so they're probably going to net-net. They're probably worse off, you would say, because Brimson's not really a centre. They're just trying to keep them on the field. They're trying to play too many. They've got too many good full-backs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they don't want to release them into the market.
Into the market, yes. Brian Kelly, a bit of a gun. Goes good. He goes good. Do you think maybe Keon, I mean, Kinney could steal his spot? Nah. I think he's pretty specialist, eh? He's real good on D. Real good on the D. And then he's probably not going to take a 14 spot because he probably can't play in the middle as much, but he might be able to. Interesting. Interesting. Where do they finish, man?
Not in the eight. I just don't think they're – Foren's obviously epic, but their spine's lacking a bit of cohesion. And just a bit of stay-in at Munner, I reckon. They're a bit topsy-turvy. They're a bit upside-down, topsy-turvy. But they got Dez Hadslow this year as coach, too. It's true. This is true. He's a bit of a wizard. He's a bit of a wizard, so he might make something happen. Interesting. A madman. He's a madman. Nah, but I just can't see them cracking that.
I think they'll do similar things to what they did last year. They probably haven't made enough changes to be like, they're going to be way different to last year. I mean, David Fofuita had a mean year last year. And I really like that Bo Furmore. Yeah, he is. Shit, he's epic, man. He's on. He's on. He's a mahi man. I'd have Aaron Clark at 13 and then Liu with a bit of impact off the bench. Yeah, a bit more size off the bench, eh? Because Aaron's got a bit more of a silky passing game.
Plus, just for Kiwi purposes as well to try to get him. Some more game time. Get him up there. Yeah. All right. Lut one. Lut one. Lut one. Cowboy It's the Cowboys Cowboy The Cowboys Yes. Predicted team They will go from the top Like the rest Fullback Scott Drink Drink three litres Drink three litres a day water. Two, Kyle Felt. How many liters do you reckon he does drink a day? Recommended, because it's a bit hot there up at Townsville. Oh, you'd have to drink plenty of water up there. Gallum.
He'd go through a Gall easy. He'd go through a Paul Gallum easy. Paul Gallum. Kyle Felt, one wing. Zach Laybutt, PNG player. Fuck, he's telling today. He's mean, bro. He goes, hey. I really think he deserves a spot in a proper crack at the NRL. He's got a blood, eh, that he used to play in the halves. Kyle Laybutt. Kyle, yep. He looks a little bit more rangy and tall and a little bit stronger than his brother. Than Zach. But those lay-buts, man, they hit. They can hit too.
Four, Valentine got smoked by Molitalo Holmes. Five, Murray Taulagi. Six, Tom Dearden. Seven, Chad Townsend, who's no longer captain. Eight, Jason Tomololo, who's also no longer captain. Nine, Rhys Robson, who had a mad year last year. 10, Cohen Hess 11, Jeremiah Nanai 12, Helium Luki 13, Ruben Cotter 14, Jake Granville 15, Jordan McLean 16, Griffin Neame the West Coast Polar Bear and 17, Luciano Leilua That's a pretty stacked line-up, isn't it?
Stacked team, man What happened to them last year it's very interesting how they had a team like that and couldn't really push on, Yeah They put that one Like a bit of a run together In the Origin period Origin Oh yeah It was a bit earlier on Yeah Putting one over the Panthers Yeah that's right A little, Gallon drink water Try Yes, Any changes Yeah.
Not really eh Well I think if Lukey can stay fit He keeps the 12 But Luciano Lele was Normally a starter as well He was Because even in the kind of shitty games, he was the one who looked likely to do something, eh? The most. Looks hard to tackle. Runs across the field and sort of just palms people off. He knows the arm. Tappity tap. Randy Flicky Flick. Griff Neen could be pushing for a study, you reckon? Yeah. Whose posse does he take, though?
But fuck, he's good off the bench. He is elite off the bench. And can play second row, too. Second row, front row, even the mids. That just makes him absolute. He might not be starting, but he's locked in his position. But I think he wants to push for a starting spot. Yeah, I think he is, yeah. Maybe Lukey? Maybe? Should it be good? Lukey's a good impact player too. They could just swap around. I guess they could use him depending on who you're playing. But yeah, Leitiano, that's a mean bench.
Like Leilua, Neem, Jordan McLean has probably seen his best years. How old is Jake Granville? 42. Shit, he's bloody making a career of it, isn't he? He was always annoying too when he played the Warriors. He's like, his little darts and dummy half and shit. He's a good player. He's a good player. He's great to have on the bench. And then to have Reece Robson, who's like one of the probably frontrunners for that New South Wales nine jersey this year.
To have that one-two hooking combo. combo, but even Jake was playing a bit of lock as well last year. He was, yeah. Doesn't mind the old tackle. Doesn't mind tackling, that's for sure. They've got the same, like they've got guys out of position, you would say, kind of thing, like Colin Hess. Yeah. I don't know if he's a through and through prop, but they're kind of manufacturing their forward pack a bit just to keep all their good players on the field. Yeah, same with Jace as well, I guess.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. He can definitely play a prop, but, you know. Is he best used as a prop? That's right. Who knows? But I think they're looking different. Are they? Well, they removed the captaincy from both of them, from Jason Tomololo and Chad Townsend. They've given it to Ruben Cotter and I believe Tom Deere. And I think the squeeze is on with the cap. And I think with Tomololo's deal, he was on $800,000 to start with, but I think he might be up at nearly a million as his deal got longer.
There was always a bit of a roll for them, eh? Rolling the dice for 10 years. How many years into the 10 would he be? Seven? Yeah, six or seven, I think. Shit. So I think there's a chat there of, you know, using him differently. Or if he doesn't want to be used differently, then he might need to look somewhere else. That's been going on for a couple of years. Yeah, he's been in and out a little bit. He had the old spat. He had the old spat.
Yeah. It's a bit of a theme, actually. Because remember he had the old, well, everyone was up in arms. But remember how David Kidwell put him on for like 10 minutes in that Kiwis game? Do you remember that? Nah. I guess it wasn't in the World Cup. It was like, it might have been a year prior. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He sat on the bench for most of the game, and even the commentators were like, what is this?
They actually forgot to put him back on, though, eh? Yeah, or something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, whereas Peyton has made an interesting decision to, like, just basically halve his minutes. Yeah. Which is a bit of a weird one. I don't know if it's a hard one, but do you think maybe he, it probably needs to happen, though, eh? Because you can't do play like that for all your life, for all your playing career.
Yeah but the yeah it's coincided with the Cowboys sort of falling off oh that first year they were alright but we'll see we'll see it's part of the guy they've got players he just doesn't have to do as much because remember those shit years, Tumululu was basically doing everything. That's why he was getting, obviously, part of the reason he was getting those mad numbers. But now he's got a bit more of a team around him. He shouldn't have to be the old Tongan superhero anymore.
Maybe he's best used in shorter bursts. Who knows? He's had a great career already, but he's still pretty. Pretty young, man. Young, yeah. He'll probably transition to a prop, you know, playing 20. A fresh start might be good for him if he goes somewhere else. I personally think so as well. So, Waz will be happy to... He could probably afford him and Nweli after losing, eh, Adam? Because he won't be getting... Oh, well, Jase, I wonder how much he'll be on
the open market these days, Tomololo. Nah. Seven. Seven, eh? He can't be up that mill anymore. Adam Fanoa's off. Maybe we slot him in there. Jase and Tomololo might come back, come home to Auckland. Who knows? Who knows? Imagine having him on the bench. Oh, baby. Where do they finish, man? They should be top six with a 16 like that. Should be, yeah. So much talent. Jeremiah Nanai, eh? He had an outrageous season the year before. Bit of injury last year. Yeah.
But he's a freak. He just pops up in the right places all the time, eh? Freak try-scorer. Yeah. And Lukey's just got the big levers too. Yeah. They don't have superstar spine, but they seem to make it work. So Reece Watson's obviously handy. Andy. Dearden's going from strength to strength. He's still on his way up. Scotty. Chaddy's probably. What, last year? What his cut is, eh? Yeah. He'd be due for a stint in the Super League pretty soon, wouldn't he?
But then there's just a lack of good halves. Halves he can kick to this place and do that. He's probably one of the most intelligent sort of players that are in the NRA because he's not real big. He's not real good on defense, defense, but he just gets the team around the park, does his job, slots them. The rudder. He's a bit of a rudder. He is. And it's always handy having a halfback who can do that so the rest of the team can play.
Interesting. It's interesting. Yeah, but the writing seems to be on the wall for Jason because I think that what they want to do is like, hey, we actually want to keep you, but it looks like more like 600, not 1 million because obviously they're being squeaked. Like if you've got your million-dollar player, you want that person on the field most of the time. Yeah. 80 mins. For your ROI. 80 mins.
Yeah. Could do some calculations around that. If he's only playing 40 minutes, That's how much he's actually. Permanent. Yeah, yeah, permanent cash, cash money. But back when they signed him, that's a, yeah, it's a funny one. Because back when they signed him, they locked him in. That's on them. And I guess they got the best out of him. He was on unders for a bit. Yeah. And this is the bit where he's now on overs, which was always going to come.
It's pretty ruthless that now they're like, oh, he's going to pay you for 10. Maybe if he's stuck with the Kiwis, it'll be all good. Oh, we don't want to start that. Don't want to start that at Aru again.
I agree Nah I wish him all the best I wish him all the best mate You pick Yeah two He's still got plenty of years in him I think, He looks like he does need a You picked your poison But yeah All the best All the best, I think he does need another start I mean I'm just trying to think of a team Someone like the Dragons You know He'd be a handy pick up for them He's quite ingrained in the North Queensland's Like Community and stuff Having his Labrador Like ingrained up there,
Yeah And his dog A part of the bloody, Furniture The kuri You can't sack the kuri surely No but I think he might have to take I don't think he'll want to go, This is the tricky bit And the part of that 10 year deal Is that he'll need to come down on money Which he probably will Just be easier wouldn't it You can't see him Being an aggressive negotiator can you, Nah But I think he might have this season To kind of prove like Yep Yeah.
I'm worth that. I can do that. But who knows? Yeah, it's an interesting one. It's very interesting. Prove us wrong, Jase. Prove us wrong. Get out there, mate. Get amongst. Get amongst it. And that's all then, isn't it? That's it, mate. The Queensland teams. That's the four. What do you got there, mate? I just took a picture of my granddad. It was his birthday. RIP. RIP. RIP, bro. Oh, candidate credentials. Who would be the next Kiwis coach?
They're still talking. This is just yesterday. So I've got a picture of Kalis, Marshall, Stacey Jones. They'd pretty much go on Benny, hadn't they? It's Bennett with these guys, isn't it? It's Bennett with those guys. I think so. I reckon Marshall could be good in the future. I guess it's very early days, but. Yeah, line them up. I think so, yeah. The little gang next to Bennett here, the Stacey, Jones, Benji, and Kalis, that's quite a nice little trio.
Yeah, I'd go far left, and work my way back the other way. Because Stacey's never really. And he doesn't want. Put his fist down any. He doesn't want that sort of heat. So I'll go, I'll go that end or that combo because you've got a half and a forward too, which is a good mix. Yeah, I'd like that. A couple of good heads there. They want to World Cup together. Correct. They know how to succeed in the black jumper. Bit of grunt, bit of….
Bit of grunt, bit of flair. Grease. Bit of grunt, bit of grease. And Benji Marshall's not afraid to make those calls by the looks of it. He's put his authority down at the Tigers, eh? Setting the standards up early. I like it. Noff is gone. Noff of Luma, you have seen a little bit of drop off in his form, and potentially that explains it. Because he played in the New South Wales Cup some games last year, eh? Yeah, and the year before that, he was one of the best swingers in the comp.
So where's the decline come from? He's been there a long time, too. Yeah, yeah. They've been losing for a while. Bit of a stale. He's a classic for needs of a fresh start. A little stale chip fell down the side of the seat or something, yeah. He'll be good at the count. Do you like Kyle Felt? He looks like a good person, but, I mean, as a player, do you think there's a lot of outside backs who are waiting behind other outside backs? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Kyle Felt. Surely there's other.
He looks annoying. He looks hard to tackle. He looks like a niggly bastard. But there's a lot of outside backs who he can't get a chance at the moment. Yeah. They might be in the market. Lnoff won't be that expensive. Get him in. He could go there. He could go there. He might go to Super League. Yeah. See how we go, eh? Remind me of Antonio Winterstein-like. Sweet. All right. Did you have anything else to add? Are you ready to go on Fantasy, bro? I have been.
I've reduced my Fantasy workload this year just because of a few other things going on. But I haven't really looked at my team, to be honest. Holy shit. Well, how's Jase going to have a team if you don't pick yours? He just replicate, eh? Duplicate. Duplicate. Around, how far away are we? February. 15th of Feb is the pre-season challenge. Oh, is it Trolls? Yeah. Yeah, so I usually watch the Troll games, and then that sort of tells you. You don't want to be picking too early. Nah.
Round one is too much. Round one, Teamless Tuesday is when you normally start to lock them in. It's less than a month away to the actual start. Are we doing any games this year? Going to games? Yeah, sure. We're going to heaps of them. Magic Round? Are you going to Magic Round? You can't. Can't go to Magic Round, but it's in the works. We're doing, I don't know if I'm allowed to announce it, but we've got something brewing for Magic Round. Good George Brewing.
And so I think at this date it's going to be like live potty. Wires play on the Sunday, so we'll do live potty for that. And then maybe one of the 7 p.m. Saturday night game too. Mean.
And we're working in with something with that Kiwi punter, aka Kainos friend of the show Kainak for a bit of a bender bender bit of a betting, betting bender betting bender bit of something there so once we've locked in some more details we can announce it but yeah we're doing brewing something for Magic Round wish I was going Brilli's going so he's going to be our man on the ground so you go? you said you were or you're not?
Just tossing it up we might be going to fidget for some mahi this yeah so that could be in May which means I probably won't go then mahi eh? Mahi Drysdale, yeah. But Mahi Drysdale and Fiji. Which team are you recruiting for over there, Kirst? Waz, come on, man. Can't disclose that sort of information about my clientele. Sorry, man. Apologies. Why don't we get more Fijian? Just know I'll be working very hard. Why don't we get more Fijian players? It seems a bit weird, eh?
No, we're actually going for... Potential purposes. All right, cool, cool, cool. Because a lot of other teams seem to get Fijians, and it's like, there's plenty of Fijians here. Correct. Particularly like Super Rugby Team Wingers. Yes. Stand out to me. Your Marikas. Your Marikas. Sivivatu. Yeah. And Sivuris. Where's he gone? Fuck. Sivuris. It's a bit of a, ha, ha, ha, ha, she. Get to the Warriors, my bruh. Sivuris. Sivuris. Mamanina Dolo. Remember him from the Aussie? Yeah, the big police unit.
Oh, no, he never played for Aussie. He always played for Fiji, but played for the Queensland Reds, eh? The Money. Ndolo, yeah. Is he the Queenslander? Played for Crusaders for a year. New South Wales Blues, New South Wales Waratahs as well. I might have him mixed up for someone else. I might be Waratahs. Sorry, I don't really follow much rugby. Waratahs, Waratahs. He's that big-ass joker, eh? Yeah, yeah. Still kind of playing. I think he played for the Crusaders for a year too.
Yeah. Yeah, we have to start letting players go because we're just winning too many comps in a row, my bro. Anyway, that's another potty. Who are you talking about, Crusaders? Oh, my God. Hey, that Alamayo, was that Alamayo? Is that how you say it? Solomon? Oh, yeah. He looks pretty good in the Tigers' colours, eh? He'd be going straight into an office spot or what? Probably, yeah, I'd say so. He looks pretty good. He comes from the Chiefs, eh? Yeah. But was it the Crusaders as well?
Yeah. Then upgraded to the Chiefs and then now it's over. And upgraded again to the Tigers. It'll be interesting to see how the Tigers go, man. I reckon they'll still get a couple of years in them before Benji's tactics start to work. I just hope they hang in there long enough for them to come to fruition. There seems to be a lot happening and Benji isn't going, it looks like, because the fucking head office all went down. And then players started to move on. So it seems like they're saying,
you run it how you want it. Clean it out, yeah. But like you say, don't give them one year. Shit. The classic. It's not working. Let's get someone else in. Yeah. Yeah. Give him a go, man. I agree. Give him a bloody go. Give him a taste. It's all in the, it's in his heart. It's all in the manua. It's in the manua. Keroto e te manua. All right. I think that's it, man. That's it, man. That's it. So for your karo or fatus, you can find us on YouTube. So subscribe to that shit as well.
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