#0 - The Round-Up: The System

He laughed at me. Wow. Brother, you're not good enough or close enough to him.

Nah, because he'll go in and fucking change it. Yeah, nah, all of a sudden you'll be like, hang on a second. He never hit that. Welcome, brothers and gentlemen, and welcome to an episode of the Motley Crue, and we're here on a beautiful afternoon. Been a while since I've hit that. And boys, I've hit it. I've hit it because Rugby League is back. It is back in our life. We're already on. I thought we were into it. What a Sunday of Rugby League we had.

I was umpiring cricket, but I was not missing that first game. I was watching that whole game up on my little screen. I was... It was the only game I was happy to miss. I didn't want to miss. It was first game and, oh, ripped in. Vegas, what a show they did. Does seem like it was a long day. And we went to Magic Round and three games was a fucking long day. So I don't know about four games in one setting. I think they've come out and said that they're going to cut one.

I'm lucky to the ladies. And I think they said, what, it finished around 12.30 p.m. In Vegas. That's a late night. Yeah. If you go to the football and enjoy other things, usually when you're there, that's a big night. But... Alcohol. It was a Sunday afternoon. And some other substances were also used, I've heard. It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon here in Australia. In Australia. And we watched some beautiful Rugby League. Well, did you guys even watch Rugby League?

Yeah. Get around it? Did you guys... I watched all three of the ones that I cared about. Yeah. Did you touch an Australia-England game? Huh? I watched that whole thing. I watched the second half. Was that enjoyable? Because by the time I... Bro, Taryn Aiken, holy shit, bro. She was calmed up. Some of the pills that she was passing and then some of the lines that surges when she came on and Isabel Kelly down that left-hand side, bro.

Holy shit. There was a couple of pills. And even like there was one where she like faked the under, like went to go short and then just threw this beautiful face ball to Julia Roberts, Julia Robinson to score in the corner. I was like, oh, nah. Like it wasn't just a normal blowout. It wasn't like. No, it was disgusting. In all fairness, I think Julia Roberts could have scored a try. Like the actress. Oh, yeah. No, because she was, but the thing was, it was good footy.

It wasn't just like, oh, here's a back rower, and the back rower just runs 40 and scores. It was like good line running, good offloads, good passing, good peel, good footwork. That's why I was loving it, because it was like genuinely good footy, where I just go, Tara and Aiken come across and just throw a cutout ball, bang, beautiful line, I go, oh, footy. Okay, a shy good football, but the England team, do they look like they've never played rugby league?

Some of those girls? As I think Dan Ganane said in the telecast, that basically the Aussie girls are professionals and the England girls are semi-professional. They've only got two NRLW players. Yeah. And that's just the difference. So you can spend your entire time practicing and playing compared to you've just got to find time to do it when you're not working your full-time job.

But then like they said too like the professionalism of the australian girls like they haven't even come back to their pre-season yet yeah they've had to just stay fit themselves, and get ready for this and prime and like the english coach came out and said like we watched a lot of film and our intensity at training was like crazy high he's like but until you face it you just don't know what you're in for with like these girls and just like man like tamika upton dude like she's just going and

going and going and going yeah i was really just see the knights they had one good fullback and they've they've lost them anyway my name is jake and i'm here with kyle and cody and we are the muttly career let's talk some rugby league we are talking rugby league yeah but i forgot just because you don't want to talk about the ladies i forgot to introduce ourselves and if we spend 20 minutes on the ladies game that's not great,

When I didn't even watch it. Wow. Oh, just because you didn't watch it, we can't talk about it. And we're talking about rugby league. Sorry, did they not play rugby league? It's rugby league. One team did. Women's rugby league. What was the score? 94. They could have got 100. 90 to 4. No, it was only 90 to 4. They could have got 100, though. That would have been crazy. Well, 102 if they don't miss any goals. Bloody Aiken. And what's the name? Had one. Brigham Shaw. Oh, I'll save this.

Missed. Aiken's like, I'll have it back. Well anyway before that we had game one of the national rubber league and we had a doozy we had the raiders they show up they showed up in a town bigger than their whole city and damn did they dominate the new zealand warriors in every way you can think of with a 30 to 8 thrashing and then damn then we had the show-stopping game two absolutely heavyweight matchup the build-up on this game.

I was sort of getting sick of it because, fuck, man, Ennis was just blowing Nathan Cleary so hard. But the build-up, the vibe... I would too. The build-up and the vibe, the whole game just... The grids and chin. It seemed like, fuck, it was a big finals game or something. The grids and chin. It was red hot. But unfortunately, or fortunately, I don't know, however you want to put it, it was a similar story and result. And the mighty four-time premieres, the fit Penrith Panthers,

just get the win. And this don't get... Rugby League Out-wrestled Out-dominated And they just beat the good old Same old Flat track bullies Cronulla Sharks 28-22 So obviously we've got two winners and two losers boys But where do you want to start? Let's have a quick little depth look into anything you want to touch on Who are your big winners and losers of these two games? A bit of a deep dive Here you go A bit of a deep dive What do you got?

I think the winner here is Rugby League Oh yes I feel like it was another successful campaign over in the States. That's my first winner. Beautiful. Yeah, it sounded like it was bigger and better than last year and it's going to keep getting bigger and bigger. And it sounds like maybe they dragged it a little bit too long, but the whole week sounds amazing. Everything I've heard from there was red hot. They should try and put it over two days. That's a lot, but yeah, maybe.

Like smaller. Yeah, it could be a bit of a Magic Rand style. Yeah. I see people still trying to push for the World Club Challenge I think, yes. That'd be red hot. Cleary said that massively, and you could see it. They had that England game there, the game one, and they looked like they were pretty fit. They looked like they played pretty good.

That's the thing, though. They pumped the Wolves or whatever it was, and Cleary and them played Mint, and you just look at it and go, man, I wish they could play, because those two were meant to face off against each other. But it's hard, though, with it being round one of the NRL. Yeah, I know. That's why they, like, you know, how the logistics of it need to work out. But, like, that'd be sick, having that game, because it would be a big... Well, Super League's only in round three, though, man.

They only started a couple weeks ago, too. But even the Super League... Yeah, I know, but... Just, like, in the middle of their year. Like, yeah. Yeah. So who gets the points? Like, what happens? Yeah, that's who it means. Well, the Super League can just deal with it for the end of our home. No, but like they said. They just have that game, and their round one game will be the Sunday of next week. Yeah, but then, it's technically their bye, but they didn't have a bye.

True. So it's like, I understand the concept, and it would be really red hot. But I don't think you can do it. The team that wins the comp the year before gets an extra bye? Well, just do it. If you're the premiers, you want the big, the big odds. Yeah, God, you just do it. Just fucking do it, mate. And if you win, then I'm sure you get money or something, and you get to say you're the best club team in the world. I reckon just do it. Panthers don't want it because they keep losing it. Oh, yeah.

You say that because the Knights will never have to worry about it. Yeah. I just don't want to hear excuses, mate. I just want it. I want it. I'm telling you what the players and the- Because I feel like if we're fit and the rugby league teams are taking it serious, the national, we're fucking pumping every England team. They're shit. Okay. The last time Panthers versus Wigan, we lost. Like I said, it didn't matter. Whatever. Didn't care. In the year before that

too, I'm pretty sure they lost as well. Yeah, they lost again. As I said, it doesn't matter. But as I said, if they do it when it matters, in Vegas, it'll matter. And we'll fucking... Mate, they're going to fucking England when it's negative 10 degrees, fucking rain. I don't give a fuck either. We lost to them in Australia too, but... Yeah, and it was negative 10 degrees at Penrith and it was shit game. Oh, fuck. There's a bit of wet weather. They can't play in wet weather.

Anyway. Oh, Jesus Christ. Tell me your bias without telling me your bias. But I didn't really watch that game at all. It was early. But it looked like that was a red hot game and everyone's saying it was a good way to start the day. Did you get to watch that game, Kyle? I didn't. No, well then we should just not talk about it because if that's how Jake rolls. We'll talk about the whole weekend of being a winner. He didn't watch the ladies game, so we don't talk about that.

No, that's just because he's sexist. We should just not talk about this one. Yeah, that's true. I'm surprised with the life that he leads that he doesn't want to raise the women up and respect them. I sort of feel like it's disrespectful talking about that game. Anyway. Just not talking about them at all. Well, I want to respect the other women in the game who got absolutely, I don't want to say the word. Rail. Yes. Yeah, that's probably the better way to. Better R word,

definitely. How it ended up. How it ended up. I knew where you were going. I thought the game was getting held in Paris. Yeah. Well, my big loser of this game, guys. That's for sure. I've got a loser here, and, you know, it might be a little bit tough on them, but, you know, we're here to grill, and that's what I'm going to do. And yes, it was against the Penrith. Yes, it was the first round. But it's the fucking Cronulla Shark halves.

Nico Hines, Braden Trindle. I got so much ick from them in that game. You guys disagree? I feel like Trindle played really well. Trindle played fucking great. And I reckon Hines didn't let them down. I just feel like, again, they got in each other way too many times. And I just didn't like it. It's also round one. I'm not repeating myself. That's what I'm sick of this shit. I even did that saying. And then he's like, obviously I fucking even said that, mate.

Dead set. That's what happens when you can't come in with no fucking, fucking free work. And then don't even listen to me when I'm talking. No, I heard you say that I know it was round one. So I don't need to say that when I already said that. Yeah. But I feel like it's pretty harsh. I feel like I got ick. I didn't like them again. You got the ick. I got the ick. I feel like so many times they didn't make room and played all right,

and then they just get on each other's way. I feel like the only thing that they went wrong is they didn't play the full 80. And Penrith just took advantage. I thought the Sharkies looked the better team for a long, long time. My feeling from that game was that the Panthers didn't actually win it, that the Sharks did lose it. But not in their halves. Sharks yesterday beat everyone else in the comp nearly with the way they played except for the Penrith Panthers.

Exactly, because they're the same old Sharks. I do find it kind of ironic that a guy whose team can't get halves. Again, see, this is why we even get them. This is why we get them. He internalizes it. See, that's how he's grown up, all right? Why are we in Boller? We're doing winners and losers about two fucking games here and he's wanting to start talking shade. If you want to pick some losers, right?

If you want to pick some losers and you want to put it somewhere, which is where I thought you were going to go, the Warriors halves is where you should go. Well, I did leave that. I left that on the table because I feel like you guys might not have done any research here. Maybe because they were the worst halves pairing of the weekend. But that's also expected. If you want to pick one, say Hines. Why would you say Trindle?

I thought Trindle played well. Again, I didn't want to disrespect anyone in particular. Oh, except for the women's game. Did you hear what I said? Again, you said, listen to me. I didn't want to respect any individual soul. So I didn't want to say Nico Hines is shit, overrated. Sorry, what? Sorry. I need you to pronunciate that a lot better next time. So I just said their halves again gave me the ick. The Warriors halves for me are the losers.

They just, I don't know if it was different with Metcalf playing the seven instead of the six. I just felt like they weren't organized. They weren't finding their spots. They weren't hitting their marks. They just looked like they were searching a lot. The other players didn't really know what was going on. I felt like especially like they could have utilized two of us to check a lot more. But it didn't always stop at them. It would stop at, I think, Pompey on that side.

I felt like they could have run a lot more. It felt like it was all last minute. There was no like organization like, oh, you do these ones. And then we're going to swing it back here and we're going to do this. It was kind of like, oh, my ball, you run there and I'll pass you the ball. It seemed very reactive instead of trying to set up and work to things. It was very expected. And that's why if anyone tipped the Warriors like you guys, don't understand rugby league. Also.

But it's only round one. Wow. And round one, two halves have never played together and barely played football. Barely. They have played together. Different number of jerseys on their back. My loser was also from the Warriors game, but I thought it was more of the coaching decision from Webster to put Mitch Barnett to lock and put Jackson Ford up the front. I didn't like that because I felt like the Warriors lacked go forward.

And in Mitch Barnett's first stint, he didn't have many carries at all. When was their lineup changed? It'd probably be that when you submit an hour before kickoff. Because I was going to say. You submit your final team list, so. Yeah, because it was like, it was kind of accentuated in the way of Ricky, or Sticky, when he did his, changed it, bought Papali in and went three big boppers. And he sort of changed and like moved, you know what I mean?

But with the way he moved it, he sort of went smaller. That's what I mean. So he's gone smaller and then the Raiders have gone bigger, so it's made it look more obvious that he made the wrong choice. Yeah. I just thought Mitch Barnett was possibly the best player for the Warriors last year at front row. Him and AFB. And if you put him and the fish together, I just didn't like it. I feel like no matter what number's on your jersey, your first stint,

if he wants the spot. Not really. Not going forward. When you're coming out of your D, if you're playing centre, if you want the ball, you get the ball and run up. Nah, not everyone does that though, mate. You're saying Joshua Parley played a lock coming on the bench? Starting at lock? No, but Brough would have gone back to lock. Yeah, Brough would have played lock. He just said on the team sheet, they just did that swap because it was easier.

So Barnett might have played forward. Jackson Ford might have played lock. Who knows? Who knows? I felt like Jackson Ford was taking a lot more hit-ups than Mitchell Barnett. Because he wanted to go for it, but Mitchell Barnett being a little bitch, maybe. Wow. I know Mitch is listening. That's what happens. He should tee up or run it straight. Because he shouldn't have lost. McNelson. Shouldn't have left Newcastle. That's what happens. Oh, he's still salty.

How dare he leave the Knights and go get a rep jersey with the Warriors? He beats up every single player that leaves the Knights. and picks up every halves pairing that isn't the best. Only if they leave Newcastle and play better, which he did. Which is everyone that does. Yeah, Tappany. That's two. He gone. Jack Cogger. Fuck off. Daniel Saifidi will. Fuck off. Caelan Ponga will. Dominic Young probably what he is. Nah, he's always been shit. Nah, he's definitely gotten worse. Oh, yeah.

Well, a big winner for me, and I'm trying not to say the team, so I'm just trying to, you know, be a bit more precise. No, no, no, excuse me. Before, you didn't want to be precise. You wanted to say it as a whole and now all of a sudden you want to flip it around. I never went whole, I went like Haas. So instead of saying the whole team, I'm going to be again precise, so you listen to me. No, I bet the women's game and everything there, you didn't want to be direct.

You wanted to respect it all as a whole and you couldn't respect it as a whole, so you didn't want to. You didn't want to target anyone, so now all of a sudden you want to target and you don't want to respect the whole. Big winner for me was the Raiders' young backline team. Throbbers. The throbbers. Savage, I reckon, is one of his best games ever. It wasn't just his fucking intercepts and runs. It was just his whole gameplay.

His tri-assist when he was playing a fullback as a winger was pretty red hot. Tomoko looked so good. Chris just finishing so good. And the young Tamale, what did he do? Like 10 tackle breaks or something? It looks like he's a hard man to tackle. A mini Brian Totto. And so, yeah, got around that. Ethan Strange looked really really good. And yeah, I, did you say someone tipped Raiders get last? I did. I seen it on there. They were like, I was nearly going to rewind it and record

it. So what Ricky Stewart said was to you. Talking about Ricky Stewart and he goes, he's like, oh, if I run last or if we run last, it's going to be a hard comp. And then as they're sort of panning out, there was like, nah, there's no way anyone's picked this team to come last. And I thought, Yep. Right here. I'm your guy. Yep. Don't even have them winning a single game. Mate, first game they've already got two people suspended.

What are we doing here? Downhill. If they keep that up, they're not going to get through their top 30. Jesus. Downhill. Bunch of grubs. Yeah, quick jump on that. They're both losers. They were both gross plays and they deserved to get banned. So I'm happy with the calls early. Well. Shoulder charge is stupid. That's what I mean. It's not a gross play. It's just dumb and stupid. There was no danger. He wasn't anywhere near the head. It wasn't dangerous.

It was just stupid. I think Savage was a little bit gross. I felt like it kicked out. I feel like there was another kick out in the... I'm glad that got called a kick out. Oh. It was one Penrith game. No, it was in the Raiders Warriors. It was, I think, Charnsey. Against Horsburgh, yeah. Oh, that's right. Charnsey on Horsburgh. When I seen that, I was like, nah, he's gone out. And I'm glad they challenged it.

And it came out and I'm like, oh, here we go. That's going to be like, oh, you know, he's in his landing area or something. But it was because that last little bit, he just straightens his leg and I was like, I'm glad that it actually got called out. Yeah. Oh, yes, I got the call wrong. That's right. Savage got the... Really? He got the suspension on the taking out the kick leg. Yeah. Do you reckon... I'll make sure we get suspended for the kick out. Dude. Maybe.

Or... Put a chansey. Yeah. No. Like, it's all like... If it hit him in the face, maybe. If it hit him... I know them were doing if, buts, and maybes. Optics, bro. I don't know if, buts, and maybes. I do absolutes. The Savage one though. I reckon if he goes for the body, he makes contact before he kicks it. Because as he's coming in, I'm like, oh, no, this is going to be fine. He's going to make the tackle because it looked like he was that close.

But instead of going the man and wrapping, he went past him in a way to get to the leg to try and charge down, which then put him in the leg. Whereas I reckon if he put head on the other side, used his left shoulder and just made the tackle, I reckon everything's fine. Yeah, but he didn't. No, no. The timing of it, I reckon, was fine. Except it was just that his leg. Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? Like, if he goes about that a different way, I reckon it's fine.

He was still on the ground. It's just that he's gone for the leg. Fucking wingers. Yeah, mate. They're just, they're basically fast front rowers. And then I guess my final winner. My final winner. It's fucking boring. And now I'm being a bit overall, I guess. I might have missed that one That is one of the worst rugby league takes I've ever heard.

Not a lot upstairs is what I'm saying Sort of yeah But fuck Wingers are just fast front rowers What a spray Does that then in turn mean That props are just slow wingers Yes, Just fat old wingers That's all, Oh, Jesus. Oh, that's the clip. That's the name of this podcast. Right there. I can't explain myself. Anyway. I can, but it'll take me five minutes. My final winger. Because I'm one of them front rollers. Oh, fuck. I'm one of them bat wingers.

Yeah, righto, Jake. What's your next winner? My final winner is just, I guess, the system. The system. The system of this stupid. What the fucking system? Stupid Penrith Panthers team, man. Yeah, but fucking... What an intro. What the fucking system? Well, the game of this game, five, six players out. They lose their starting winger. They got a different 5A. They lose their starting winger and then they lose their starting winger.

Yes. But then they still look like they're the same fucking team out there. Just fitter, hungrier, stronger in defense. Just go, go, go. Oh, we need to try because we're a little bit behind. Buss, buss, buss. Try. Oh, how good's it going to be if I say he starts getting some meaties?

So dumb. and definitely need to get him into the stupid coach then and it's already been one game already and they've showed that if you want to win this comp you've got to beat this team and you know what I love well especially about how Jack Cole's come into it yeah he's basically the halfback because he doesn't do much clear is the one running out the back doing little chip doing little chips over the side and running around wrapping around on the left hand side

running little plays out there and Jack Cole's just a link man it's like Cleary's the halfback and the leader, but the 5'8", and this is why the grand final that we say about, what's his name? Cogger. It's because he came on and he didn't try to do anything. He wasn't trying to do a Luai. It was just, I'm going to do this, this, and this, and then I'm letting Cleary do everything else. And that's probably the best thing that Jack Cole can do for the team, is don't come in and be here.

And that's probably why he, you know, in a way got the spot over Talungi. Like, I know Talungi's carrying a little bit of an injury cloud, But Talonghi's going to be that more of a, oh, I want to show my talents and do my things as well. But it isn't really the best for the team in a way when you've got Cleary out there just running amok. That's his first game back from a shoulder injury. I know.

No trials, no nothing. And he's coming out there running trick plays, chips over the top, and just landing them perfectly. Yeah. Give me 14 of them right now. It's just ridiculous, man. I tell you what, the GOAT debate's over. It's Nathan Cleary. If he keeps this up. You can't even... Joey John's never heard of her. He just needs to do it at origin level. Yeah, that's where he seems to... Which he's yet to be. He plays three bad games a year and he wears a sky blue jersey every time.

Yeah, he hasn't got that system of his system. But then, like, you know, the winger goes down, concussed, then bloody Laurie comes on and fucking kills it on the wing. They don't even miss a step. Well, no, it's ridiculous. And what, Penrith, the only team this weekend that had a full-on back winger on the bench ready to go? And everyone was talking about... Well, Laurie can play anywhere,

really, because he was a full-back there for a bit. But then, and then the other one too, that like everyone was like saying about, you know, the other McLean and stuff like that and go, you know, what do they don't trust him? They've gone and put Garner out there and Garner killed it too. Yeah. See, Garner, I was worried about because I was like, he's a back row. I can defend in the centers. I got a bit worried. He just came in and done his part. Was it their first try

down that edge and Garner looked like he got done? Yeah. I was going to say defensively. But then he, so many times right at the end, the last 10, 15 minutes, they kept going his way and then he just started sticking on his tackles and not letting the team do it. Yeah. So you could probably say that the atmosphere and the moment got to him early. At the start.

But I did feel that the Panthers were still great, but I did feel like their defense was a little shakier than what it has been previously. They were making a lot more defensive errors. Had to rely a lot more on scramble defense. Normally they just shut down and it's real methodical and you're not getting anywhere. Whereas this one I felt like it was effort on effort to try. They were still stopping the tries. Oh, yeah, yeah.

But it was like, it just looked like a little bit more unorganized and just big efforts from the boys. Yeah. Because there was a couple there around the post and a couple out wide where it was like, oh, that's a great tackle. A lot of those wide, those were, I think, Luke Garner, the other winger got done at that side. AFB's trial was pretty soft, especially for Penrith. Then it also goes back, this was their first game.

Most of these players haven't had one trial game too, so I think that's a big thing for Penrith. Well, especially, yeah, because they pulled out of that other one as well. That's why it's just really annoying that they still won this game, they just come back from Ryan and go, bang, we'll score a try. We're back ahead. But that's like you said, with the winner being the system. Yeah. Because it's just next man up. They don't, you know, it's just the same thing.

And they can do it year on year and they just tweak their plays a little bit more. Like that other one that they had where, well, especially with the little chip, no one's expecting that chip. They don't chip very often. And then all of a sudden he stands on the left and then runs. They give it to Yo. Yo goes out the back to Cleary, a little chip and chase. Yeah. And because he's over on the left, the fullback's on his right thinking, oh, he's coming down the short side.

Then all of a sudden he whips across, bang, bang. He doesn't have enough time to react to the kick. And they just keep reinventing it. I just feel like their big dogs all had moments in this game. Yo, that first try, Cleary throughout the game. Dylan Edwards, one of his try saving tackles right at the end of one of the front row forwards, or Cameron McGinnis, I think, right at the end, it was fucking wild. Liam Martin, the last 20 minutes, he just was a different animal out there.

It was crazy, so it's just... I'll tell you what, though. Moses Leota looked quite good out there without Fish, and Fish didn't look that good without Leota. I think Fish was missing his brother a little bit more than Leota was. Because Liotta's got that big, Lindsay, is it Lindsay Smith? No. Oh, Lindsay Smith is so good. Lindsay Smith, yeah. Played 60 minutes. He made like 45 tackles or something. Oh, man. I was trying to find a way to get. He scored like 71 in super coach, no attacking stats.

I know. I was trying to get Lindsay Smith into my team somewhere. Oh, was that Moses who got 71? No, no, no. It's Lindsay Smith. Yeah. And, well, Lindsay Smith, you've been on there for, you've been talking about him. But I went Max King over fucking Lindsay. So I think I might regret that. But anyway. Boys, do you want to go over the tips? Let's get into it. I know I got both my tips right, but how else did we go, Kyle? Because you got Mr. Spreadsheet in your sheets. Yeah.

Do you like to spread the cheeks? Do some work in the sheets, boy. I'll spread his cheeks in the sheets. So, Jake, you went two from two on the head to head. You got both lines right too. So four points from there. Yes. Cody, you got one head to head. Yeah. And one line. So two points. I went a big fat 0 and 4 across those. I got none. But... Yeah, so between the three of us, so Jake and Cody, you had a potential three points from tri-scorers. You both got zero.

Yeah. I had a potential four points and got four points. AFB scored. Yeah. Fuck. So fuck you, you're not leading the comp. Can we have two different arm? Two. So he'll be able to calculate that up, but it's going to be that final column that says he's on four and you're on four. Yeah, so total points. Jake and I tied on first with four points. Who fucking decided this? You get it. You did.

Jesus. Yeah, so happy days. So I've got no tips right, and I'm still tied first. I hate it. Jake. Jake. Jake sits above you, though. Jake sits above you. Yeah. You could have gone three points for a proppy. You went four. No, three. Three. No, it doesn't matter because I would have just got, that means I would have got more points. Hey. I would have got more points. You got AP3 and RTS1. Yeah. Oh, I see what you got. I got you, got you, got you, got you.

I thought for some reason you went four all up. And are we going to go through the plays on the weekend, the bets? Yeah, we'll go through that in this one. We've only got a couple to run through. Yeah, sweet. So same old stories last year. Yeah, we've started basically the exact same as last year. So I started us off with the Raiders versus Warriors. Just a little recap on those legs. Was Canberra plus six and a half? Tick. Total points under 42 and a half? Tick.

I thought I was screwed with Roger Tuovas at Sheck. Oh, yeah. He was like got the hex. Yeah, the hex. Oh, when he won, when Kurt Capewell scored that try down the left where RTS was meant to be, but he took the carry inside the play before. And then when he dropped the ball, trying to ground it off the kick, I was like, that's 0-2. Oh, when that comes through, I was like, oh, yeah. Yeah. out. But yeah, check anytime. $7.50. Tick, tick, tick. Profit of $37.50. Kyle gets us off to the flyer.

Cody, you took the second game. You had Dylan Edwards any time? Yeah, that went well. Yep. Isaac Tungo any time? Tick. Tick, baby. Luke Garner any time? Spilling. And it doesn't get much better from there either, boys. No. Crucial, I was the only one that got one there with two of us a sheck.

Cody, you took Dylan Edwards. Yeah. And Jake, you got- off in the big buck yeah and then jq took ko weeks didn't look close no what was your uh what was your bet i were very close in my raiders your one that you went off on a tangent my raiders game i went raiders 13 plus which was playing a lot and they won 13 plus i had tomoko to score who scored so i was two legs up and i had leo tower who he got close to one one spot i was like holy shit

because if he scored no i did not put money on it i don't think anyone put money on it so i I would have been filthy. So I was very happy in hindsight that it didn't get up. Yeah, now Big Buck. I was close to the Sharks. Yeah. What? In hindsight. What height? He got no sight. He would have scored more tries. Fucking idiot. Anyway, Big Buck. Not trying to target anyone here. Yeah. Jake took Nathan Cleary anytime. Oh, I'm trying. And he got robbed a try. Did anyone with me?

He got robbed a try. No, it's a loose carry. No, they changed the rule that if you're going to put a try, put the ball down and someone knocks it out. No, you can strip it and it's play on. How is that not a strip? It's a loose carry. If you can just knock it out, it's a loose carry. No try. Not a try. Okay, I'm going to trust you guys because I thought that was a try all day. If you make a stripping motion and pull it out, play on. You know why you thought it was a try?

Because it was Nathan Cleary. Because it was Nathan Cleary. If that was... He's going for the ball. If that was Reynolds against the Knights. Then you try to tackle him, try and knock the ball out. I thought it was play on. If that was Reynolds against the Knights and Reynolds... Not a try. Exactly. Yeah. Because I fucking had him in the big bark, even though I know he's like, plus the super coach. And I thought it was a trial. Bloody Luke. So Cody, you had Luke Metcalfe.

And I'm filthy because, you know, I don't know if you guys remember, you can just listen to it back, how I changed. I went Will Kennedy, but I was going to take AFB. Yeah, but then you went Will Kennedy. Yeah, but I think it's because you went AFB for your... No, no. Because I was like, last year with the big barks, who I was going wasn't working. That's why you went Will Kennedy. Yeah, because I was like, I like AFB.

Because you thought he was going to be shit. Yeah. And he was. Yes, he was. Yeah. So I could have gone 100% for the weekend. Didn't bloody Will Kennedy get absolutely trucked by Liam Martin? He did, yes. I'm surprised he got up, eh? Dude, when I watched it in the slow-mo, I can't be like, he put his head between his legs as he was tackling him. I'm like, what sort of position is that to be in? Just got... Anyway, so... Red hot start. But at the end of that weekend,

we're down $12.50. We're still down. Yeah. Yeah, but we outlayed, what, $45? If you take our Crucials and Big Bucks individually and don't put them in a multi, you're actually up money. That's boring. Yes. I know. You don't like that. Oh, if we were hitting just single leggers. Yeah. Because, yeah, we're outlaying, what, $65 now a week. $65. So, I made a profit of $41.10. Cody lost $20 and Jake lost $15. And I'll lose more. You had the same gamer.

True. Makes sense. But there it was. Onwards and upwards, hey. Any great ticks, we'll take it. We've won one in two games. Well, that's right, right? So that means we're going to win two over the next six games. Three in six. We're at 50%. Yeah, I know. That's why I've started. I'm hurting. Jesus Christ. I was trying to work out how many games there's going to be. It looks like you're in pain too. I'm glad there's no cameras on you.

I couldn't remember how many games were there. It looks like, you look like Jake when he's trying to speak English. When he's trying to message through to a group chat and no one understands what he's saying. If you know, you know. Brother, you don't know. If you know, you know. I'm like, you know someone's got to know. And then I put those random letters. Fuck, that was good. And then even, what's him? Who'd they get? Dylan.

It would have been even funnier, Jake, if you had replied like, yeah, you're not wrong. I just love Dylan when he's just like, what the fuck? I'm like, my point exactly. Welcome to the Molly Crew chat. Yeah. I was already worried after that chat today that left the group, left the group, left the group, left the group. Yeah. I was like, there's going to be a lot of people. This is what's happening. It's pretty chill. Like it's easy to just mute and stuff. Anyway, onwards and upwards.

Gamble responsibly. What have you got to lose? But welcome back, Rubby League, and hope you enjoy the podcast and cut the stream. Yeah. What's your name? Get a dog up here. Fuck the dogs. Mitchell, peace.