¶ Knights and Bradman Best
Talk about how the Knights know Bradman not their best. Welcome, my ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to another episode of The Motley Crue. And we're here in the... Where are we? We're in the big smoke. We are in the capital of Brisbane, baby. Well, you know, we're in Brisbane. Yeah, that's what I meant. The same. But we're not in the game room today. We're in the close quarters. We're in the game room. It was last night. Anyway, we're here. Yeah, we're talking to some rubber league,
and what a time to be alive in. It's finals football, baby. We're getting cracking on tonight, baby. Can't wait to start. We had a little teaser last night with the mighty West Tigers get their first win in W. Anyway, we're not talking about that. We're talking about the rubber league. Why not? We thought the Dragons were going to do another fucking 30-point loss. What about the weather, though? Hopefully, we get some better weather in these games coming up this weekend.
Shout-out to the NFL punting on one of the goal kicks that we saw last night in the NRLW, holding the ball on the tee. Oh yeah, a bit windy, a bit weather Is that illegal? She's doing the old, and I'm like, she's going to kick her in the head Old Cam Smith slip over and back and boom There goes your teeth, love Anyway, getting a bit excited here, but I am here with Kyle and Cody How are we doing this lovely day? How is your days off?
Really good mate, we're getting ready, primed Played a bit of volleyball over the next three days Looking forward to that Yeah, we're there, we're going to be there, we're going to be amongst it I'm just going to get ready. I did some preparation last night and taking some balls for the weekend. I'm really good at getting it up, it turns out. Yeah. Sorry, but who are you? My name's Jack, and I had a day at work. And it was all right. It was five hours, so I can't complain too much.
But lucky you're a flower lover, mate. Fucking oath. I like the flowers. I don't know if I like people who work in the flowers some days. Especially when he rocks up all pent up and Kyle and I do nothing but take the piss out of him. Bruh. Yeah. I was like, cruisy six knots up. I'll send you a message going, hey, Cody and I are going to Woolies. Do you want anything? Alcohol. First thing in the morning. And then he calls me. This is a New Zealand brother.
The worst one was just before when he called me and he's like, so how was your morning? I'm like, I can't vent right now because they're still here behind me. Yeah, I called him because I saw the message come through about alcohol and I called him up and I'm like, so a rough morning, hey, mate? And then I had to take a second. I'm like, yes, but it's okay. Breathe. Can't release that energy right now because I was just after my little powwow
in the meeting. I'm like, you boys. Oh, so you were on it too. Yeah. You can't want to go work here? That's it. Jeez, you're up on C-box. Shout out to them. I didn't say it to them. Shout out to them. I didn't say it to them. Jacob, Craig, and Stephanie. It's only two of them. Yeah. Oh, the third one was there. No, no. Jacob was in the meeting. You scheduled the meeting. My name's Jack. I bring my birthday gift next time for you, bruv.
Anyway. On the cob. Yeah, bruv. Good chinwag. Good chinwag. Miss it. And we could keep continuing this, but I paid for parking, so fuck it up. But yet, before this started, he was blowing up that it was going to be too short. Because I paid for parking, so it needs to be, you know, optimal time. Not two minutes that it fucking wasn't worth my time to get out of your car park. 20 minutes. We're over the chinwag. Oh, yeah, you're right. Let's talk some
rubber leg finals. Would you like that alcoholic beverage? Not yet. Unless we've got Jaeger? No, because then I can mix. I could give you a black liquid. Has it been that long? Shooting dust, brother. All right, Jake, what do we got here? What do we got? Rub a leg. We have, we're starting off with the qualifying, qualifier? I think they call it qualifiers. Well, the non-elimination finals. And we've got the mighty Penrith Panthers. Not so mighty. Versus the Sydney
Roosters. Last game. Playing for a week off. The last game at Penrith Park for a year or so. And what a game it's going to be. And I'm probably not going to watch it live. So just no spoilers. I'll be watching it maybe the later tonight or in the morning because I got asked not to watch it tonight. Why? You got asked not to watch it tonight? A little date night. She said, you know.
Oh, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. Oh, all right. And I was like, I should be able to watch it either the morning or later tonight. Well, no, it makes sense. It's a Roosters game. He doesn't give a fuck. No. Yeah, walks out. No, she was going to ask for date night on another night. But he's like, no, no, no. Can we move it to Friday? I'm very confident I'm not going to be able to watch any of these games live. And I'm not very impressed, to be honest. She said, I want a date night.
He said, you can peg me any night of the week, darling. I don't understand. I know. It's finals football. She's like, hmm. The first game of finals football. And she's like, I'm your wife. You're not watching it. He's like, what have I signed up for? And I feel like if it was Newcastle, if it was my team, I would be out of a bit of veto. But it's not. I reckon, yeah. I reckon if it was the Knights, if they were that good to make.
Have you told Omar and Whitney that you're going to be watching the game during their reception? No, the Newcastle game is at 8 o'clock. I bet you I was watching all of them on Monday. The Newcastle game is at 8 o'clock. It definitely should be –, Reception. Yeah, I don't remember how to do weddings. You just had one. Yeah, I didn't really have a reception. It's just Jake over in the corner. Fapping himself. Omer's a Newcastle fan too, so he might be intrigued.
He won't give a fuck. It's up on the fucking projector. Mate, he is a fake Newcastle fan. Yeah, he's a pretender. I'll take it. I bet you he doesn't even know Bradman Best is out. I bet you he doesn't. But anyway. He's got some other things on his mind though. Anyway, we're talking about Penrith and Roosters here. How we thinking? Kyle, let's get it, Kyle. It's your team, by the way. How, Kyle? How you feeling about this game? $2.94 outsiders doesn't look good. Fucking value.
Value. Value. And if you're a little nervous, I'd be punching the fucking line. How many points are they giving you? Hey, seven and a half. That's too much. And I think we're going to win. How will you win this game at Penrith when you guys haven't beat them in 12 times? Since 2020, round one. Without two of your starting spine players. But they have Sandon Smith. If you're going to ask me a question. I was keep getting the things out before
the question was sent. It's just a really long question. You're going to let me finish. He just doesn't know how to punctuate his questions. You don't normally go this long, so I thought you'd finish by now. You usually do. I left half an hour ago. I saw I came. I'm going to try my pill today, I think, first time. See what happens. Anyway, so over the recent weeks, Panthers probably the weakest spot in their defense is their right side with Cleary out there.
Tago's been like he's good but he's been a bit found out recently, Without Sammy Walker, the Roosters are going to go left more, and they should naturally anyway with Angus Croydon punching a hole at Nathan Cleary. He's going to try to blow that shoulder. But they can't just get one-dimensional and just keep hitting Angus Croydon with the ball to try and run over Cleary. They need to drop some unders. They need to do some other stuff.
But if – and I did see a stat that when Keery's the main half and there's no Sam Walker, they go left more and averaging – Keery's averaging one and a half try involvements down the left side per game. I reckon Keery's probably going to be a non-factor, to be fair. But Sandon Smith's going to put the boys on his back. Teddy's going to have a ripper. Sandon's going in for a man-to-match performance tonight. He's going to show you what I've been seeing and show you boys what's up.
He wants to lock down a half spot for next year with old Chaddy coming down. He wants to make sure he will be the other half. It's not even a question. I think Sandon Smith is a good player. But I do not think he is a prelim final winning halfback against the Pembroke Panthers defense.
We're talking about Santa Smith here. I'm just writing the young boy, and I feel like he's a really, really good player, and he might get better, but right now in his career, I don't think he's going to be the guy to win this for the Roosters. And that's fine. And if you think that, I think you are a bit delirious.
I think that Trent Robertson and the Roosters are loving that Sam Walker, secretly loving that he's not there, because everyone – no, not – obviously he's a great player, but I mean – Are you going to kick out Walker for the States
next year? No, no, no. Don't kick out a place for –, But Sandon Like no one rates Sandon So he's going under the radar Not no one No I don't think that's true Kyle's got high hopes Oh man I There's something about him And I just love him But And we're averaging over 38 points When he's a starting half So.
And Tommy vs Penrith Earlier in the year If And he's a really good kisser So If the fucking bunker Doesn't make a bullshit call In giving Dylan Edwards obstruction construction, when Hargraves ran through the line, we win. Do you remember that? I'm telling you, that one last week, Tudor will fight Noba. That's fucking play on, brother. That's a try. Anyway, we're talking about this game. But yeah, so I reckon it's going to be a red hot match, and I think the Roosters break the hoodoo.
Eat a close one. I reckon Sand and Smith. Oh, the gurus. Sand and Smith to hit a field goal. Who the gurus? The biggest question mark, I think, is also Nathan Cleary. How bad is his shot? It's been very quiet. What's going on with it? They reckon he's ticked all the boxes. They said he doesn't need injections to play. He doesn't even need injections. Cleary's a professional. He fucking works hard, so I'm sure he's done as much as he can to get it ready to go.
And I feel like if it was worse, they could have not played in this game and just seen what happened because I feel like they would have been still confident in this game at home without Cleary to maybe win this game. A week off at this end. So it's very interesting. They look like the season's wearing on them. I was saying to Kyle the other day, I feel like this season, out of the last four, Well, four where they won it, or three where they won it.
And then this year, they look like, you know, the middle they sort of look like they're whatever, but come back at the end when Cleary comes back from injury and everyone starts, then you start going, oh, here they come. Whereas this year, I don't feel like they've done that. No, they're definitely looking the worst. Because the injury again, it looks like they're playing a little bit tired. They're not quite there. It's almost looking like the four years is where it's starting to get to them.
And I think it's going to be tough. Like they're going to have to be, I don't think, in the other years they didn't really have to be at their best they just had to be better than the other team kind of thing whereas this one I feel like they're going to have to be at their best.
To make a run this year so with that theory I think maybe they're like well they're going all in this game because they need to win this game to get that week off because if they lose this game bold prediction here if they lose this game they have to keep going I think if they lose this game they're gone I reckon they bounce, if they lose this game but I think they're going to win this game and not bounce, so I'm tipping Penrith Panthers. 1-12 I think it's going to be close so we'll play better.
I'm going Penrith 1-12 and I think... So, hold on. Are you taking Panthers with the line? Are we doing lines or 1-12? Well, we did lines last week. Yeah, but he's... I don't like lines. They confuse me. Well, last week you got 13 points out of 16. How did you get your lines? You jumped to second on the tipping. Yeah. Because you got 13 points out of a possible 16. Bruh. Jeez. That's the first I've heard of this. Get in. So last week,
he got the storm. Oh, it was your tipping last week, Kyle. Shut the fuck up. Oh, he tickled himself. He's running on the grass again. Fuck it. Yeah, so you had six points after the first three games. You got the tip right and the line right. Because you had the storm with the line, eels with the line, roosters, but rabbitos with the line. Then you lost both points on the Dragons because you took the Dragons with the neg three and a half.
Backed the Cowboys as the underdog. And then you lost both. You got one point on the Panthers game because you took Panthers minus 18 and a half and everything else you got right. Jesus. So the line is seven and a half, you said? Well, it was. I'll check. Okay, yep. I'm going Penrith with the line. So Panthers to win. Panthers to win. Panthers to cover. Cover. And Brian to score any time. We're not doing the... Oh, we're not doing the Triathlon? No.
I thought we did for the finals. We were for the finals because it's even less games than last week. It could be everyone's picking the same winger, but it is what it is. Because it basically just keeps up the same amount of points possible, in a way. You know what I mean? Adding an extra leg, an extra two points to four games. So, Cody, are you going to come with me, or are you going to jump on Kyle's bandwagon? How are you feeling?
I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm sort of like Penrith. You can't go past Penrith, but Roosters have been looking real good, but I feel like they're both injured. They're both not at 100%, so it's hard to say which team is going to come out on top. I reckon I'm going to have to go with old Kyle over here and just say that Roosters have a little bit more momentum than what the Panthers do, and I'm going to take the Roosters...
And Daniel Tupo, nice and easy. You're taking Roosters to win. Outright. Yeah, right. Roosters to win outright. Taking the underdog with Daniel Tupo any time. Well, easy six points. No, easy four points, sorry. So, we obviously know where I'm going. Yeah, hopefully away from here. Fucking oath. Tedesco scoring. Yeah, good shout. I just thought Tupo was a little bit more safe because he's on that left-hand side. God, Tedesco is going to show in this game that he should be with Dalliam.
You're a joker. Fullback of the year. Oh, he's 100% fullback of the year. I don't know. Pongo, mate. Pongo played good last two games. Pongo played good for six games, remember? That's all you need. Beautiful. I think that's going to be a cracker of a game, that's for sure. And then we get to Saturday. And I think this game is a bit underrated right now. I think it's a bit underrated
because I think this is going to be a really close game. We've got the Melbourne Storm, top of the ladder Melbourne Storm, up against the Sharks, down in Melbourne at the 4 o'clock afternoon time slot. Now, this game, the bookies are giving the Sharks 10.5 points as a line, which is crazy. It's weird because the Sharks beat them last time down in Melbourne without Hines. Without Hines. But, you know, the big talk, Hines can't play finals, so we'll see what happens.
And I think – Well, Craig Fitzgibbon can't coach finals. Oh. He hasn't won one. Oh, snap. I'd love Craig Fitzgibbon, but that's just the stat at the moment. He hasn't won a finals game. Not a single one. As a head coach, no. Both teams are pretty much full strength, so they're looking really good. Will the Storm lose this game, guys? Do you think they will?
No. Or are they playing too good at the moment? Storm 13 plus. No. Sharkies looked good last week, but that was against a turbo-less Seagulls, and Seagulls without turbo are terrible. And Manly's defense can sometimes go walkabouts, which it did last week. Melbourne's defense, you know Melbourne's going to be ready for this game. It's the finals.
This is what they've been prepping for. They looked fucking red-hot against a shit Broncos team last week, but I don't see the Sharks scoring the points. They have it in them. They are a very good attacking side but I think the Storm are going to be so locked in and so focused on putting so much pressure on Nico Hines to try and break him. Braden Trindle's going to have to have himself an absolute fucking game. I reckon, sneakily, this is the games where Munster shines.
When everyone's in that thing and he's still playing that, I don't give a fuck. I don't even know what I'm doing. and that kind of shit. Everyone's locked into the game plan, and he's just out there with that fucking monkey and cymbals, clapping along, just playing footy. You know what I mean? This would be the one. He hasn't had, obviously because of his injuries and stuff, he hasn't had the standard of year that you're used to from Munster.
So I feel like here, coming into the finals now, I feel like he's really going to fucking explode. I've got the storm and cover in the line. Storm, cover in the line. And my anytime trial scorer is my boy, Will Warbrick. Our boy. Our boy. I wanted to go. I'm going to do it just because I'm going with Shaq. It's a terrible shout in a tipping comp to get a couple of points, but I'll just eat my boy. Fuck Warbrick. You would, though. Yeah. Give me the Wishart every day.
Nah, I'll take the Warbrick. I'm listening to you, boys, and I do think Melbourne will win this game, but I think in a finals game, 10.5 points is so much. I think Melbourne Storm will win, but I think the Sharks will cover the line. So I think it'll be closer than that. I just don't think the Sharks will score too many points, and I don't think the Storm will score that many either. So I think it's going to be like an 18-10 sort of score line, I'm thinking.
I think it will heavily depend on which defensive unit turns up for Cronulla too. Because there's been times throughout the season where their defense is... Who did they get pumped by two or three weeks ago? Wasn't it the Titans? Who put a decent score on them not too long ago out of just nowhere? It felt like they were cruising and then all of a sudden they just had a fair few points put on them. And I'm going to go... The Warriors put 30 on them.
Yeah, that's it. But I wasn't a pump and that was like 32, 30 or something. That was their shave, mate. It was all him. I'm going to go Ali Cattell to score. I just think he's been in such a good form, playing the edge there, and they're just going to go to him. Nice. And that's left edge. The Sharks are a little bit weak on the left edge, I think, so I'll go with that. Beautiful. Now we go on to the do or die games, the games that really matter this round.
Do they really matter is how we meant to say that. Yeah, interesting. Do they matter? Stats, if you come bottom four. No, it doesn't matter. If you come bottom four, you're not winning finals, but they definitely matter, especially this game to me, baby. We're going to Townsville. Well, Panthers need to figure out who they're versing next week, so these matter. We're going up to North Queensland Cowboys Townsville. We've got the Cowboys versing the Newey Knights.
Newey Knights are big outsiders, and the news of Bradman Best coming out yesterday does not help them at all. Yeah, that hurts them. Hurts them. That's just another attacking weapon that they're going to miss out. So now it does all eyes on the King KP, King of Newcastle. Sorry. I feel like this is one of those games that really comes down to battle of the halves. Both got really experienced half pairings, so it's really going to come down to who controls the game more.
I don't think so. I think this comes down to what offense. Offense, offense, offense. It comes down to does Cowboys attack really show up and do Newcastle Knights defense really show up? It'll be a good battle of the fullbacks. It definitely will be. It'll be which fullback's going to make a big impact on their team. I just think both fullbacks will play good. I think it's just will the Cowboys be on song? If they're on song, I don't know. No, Newcastle can keep them out. For me?
Dearden's my man. Dearden? Dearden is my man, and I feel like he is going to step up to another level. This year, after receiving the captaincy, he's gone to another level, I felt. I reckon he's pretty close to maybe being five out of the year, depending on pretty close up there with Burton and that. The other players seem to have more spikes in form, whereas Dearden is just constantly at a great level. So you see him play, and you just think, oh, that's what he did last week.
It's like, yeah, but he's doing good things. You know what I mean? He's sort of fallen into that mold at the moment.
But I feel like he's really going to step up And have himself a game He's just going to rip apart He's going to be selling a lot of dummies to the Knights Oh isn't he Definitely, Isn't he what The only confidence I have is that Tissues after the game He's left side And that's Tyson Fussell and Gagai So they're definitely our two Probably most experienced defenders in the line So I'm feeling good about them But still Dean is a great player He showed that origin He's just
playing better and better Is Fussell going to be able to handle Heal and Lukey or what Fucking oath mate He's going to Foodie Reckon comes in on centre Have they said that yet I've actually not heard Because I don't think I've ever seen, I don't think I've actually seen that he's officially ruled out. Oh, it's everywhere now. Surely it's happening. It's going to happen. Even the physio said he doesn't really get it right. Who's in their extended? Hey? Who's in the extended? Muppa Lungy. Nah.
Thomas Kahn, Will Price, the young fellas. Thomas Kahn. What Kahn? Dylan Lucas will go to the centre. I think Dylan Lucas will go to centre and Kai Pierce-Paul will come into the starting side. Signed? Signed. Ooh, Jackson Hastings is there. Or get him into the finals. If they change the halves into the finals. Jackson Hastings playing Locke, bro. I think Will Price would be fun, and that could be a little attacking play, but I just don't think he'll stand up against what?
Well, it'd be weird for him to stand up on the bench. What if he falls? Why don't you dickbag? What bench? You dickbag! Fuck me. You dickbag. So just as this is your team, Jake, what is... You fucking asshole. This is your team, jerk. Yes. How are you feeling? I'm great, man. I'm feeling good. Sorry, about the game. Not just in general. Oh, I'm talking about the game. General, I'm not feeling great. I'm feeling better right now. It's Friday afternoon. I'm meeting the boys.
Fuck, I've got to pay for parking, though. Fuck, hey. I'm going to be here in a minute. Yeah, and we're paying for it right now. I'm excited for this game. I feel like after halfway through this year, we're looking, no one even thought we were going to make finals still, so I'm happy we made the finals. I just hope you weren't making finals from the start. I called that. Yeah, you're a fuckhead. So I'm feeling really good about this game.
You got it on the last game, Bradbury. Come on. Yeah, I'll take it. Fucking hell. By winning. That's not Bradbury. Anyway, I'm feeling good about this game. I feel like we've been playing pretty good last couple rounds. And to be honest, the Cowboys are a team that I'm still... Pretenders. I don't know about pretenders, but they can have a bad game still in them. So in that case, I'm feeling good. Can they back it up after the doggies last week? Because that was a good game. Yeah.
Put 30 on the best defensive. But I don't love it up at Townsville. We don't have a good record. We have not won there for a little while. And we lose pretty bad, to be honest. Like your coach said, Cowboys just aren't battle-hardened. They've had a lot of battle where it wins. That is actually a fair chat, bud. We're finals ready because we've had to slug it out.
I don't mind that chat. You know what? I reckon it's going to be a field goal-a-thon at the back end of this game, and Scotty Drinkwater does not get a shot. I don't reckon that anyone in the Knights know how to kick him. What have you got, Gagai? I'm pretty sure he's the only one in the team who's kicked one, hasn't he? Oh, surely. Ponga, he's a king. A couple, and then he hit one the other week, but fucking some dude over there fucking got in the way, supposedly. Like over there? Bullshit.
Bullshit. Yeah, some bloke on fucking Main Street of Brizzy. Yeah, got in the way. Nah, I'm feeling good. I can't wait to watch this go. I just hope it's close. I hope we do it. So you're tipping the Knights? Oh, if you want me to go, I'm definitely tipping Knights. I can't not tip Newcastle. And I'm feeling like we could win. Like, definitely. Who scores? I've got to go. I've got to go there. King, KP. If we're going to win, he's going to score. Hey, he's due.
I'm not saying it. This dickhead was saying that shit at the casino last night I'm not saying it KP to score Oh it's due Drew Castleman I've got the Cowboys Eight and a half line Got them covering the line Okay And I've got Going him to score? No no no I've got drinky I'll go drinky Felt is 100% lock But I'm going drinky Drinky for the cookies, I'm taking the Cowboys And I'm taking the Knights with the line You said it was going to be filled with dice I feel like you had to Yeah And.
And I'm going Val Holmes. Of course. Ooh, Val. I like that. Because I feel like- He's been playing pretty good here at the back end on his way out. He's going to be a gag guy. Queensland boy. So you're going cows with the line, hey? Pumping or like winning by 10? Cows to cover. No, it's like 12. I don't reckon it's going to be close. It's one of those ones. Plus 20. I feel like there's a lot of games this weekend. It depends on the start.
I feel like if the Cowboys get out early. If the Storm get out early, keep going. It's on. Whereas if it's in that slug, then it will wear down. There won't be as many points. But if a team like the Cowboys who has had a lot of attack in them, if you give them ball and give them points, it'll just all of a sudden it's 24, 30 points and you haven't even fucking.
And I feel like that can happen more in these elimination games because if they're winning by 10 minutes a go, it's like but 12 these ones I feel like these two, these two should be the close ones because they've got more to play for yeah that's true they've got their plan for their season whereas the other ones they're not saying that you're going to take off but they've always got that little thing in the back of their mind that goes we've got next week
yeah you know what I mean like do we bust our purple valve to score 18 points in 6 minutes yeah if we lose by 14 with 5 minutes to go they'll be like nah we're done take clear this isn't the eels yeah. I don't know the Roosters have been I've been real good at letting in points late lately, and it's pissing me off. Okay, let's get to Sunday. Last game of the round. Last game of the finals. And this should be... I'm looking forward to this game. It's a bit of a quiet game at the moment.
This is 50-50, man, hey? There could be 50,000 Bulldogs fans here. Is this a backup? This was a game last week, wasn't it? No. No. No, it was Sharks. Bulldogs got pumped by the Cowboys last week. That's right. But yeah, looking like there could be 50,000 A's there. It's going to be packed. It's going to be massive. There's a shout-out to Big James Graham, too. who's bought $10,000 worth of tickets so people that can't afford it can get in. Oh, nice. Through his podcast and whatnot.
That's awesome. So he just wants it absolutely packed, wants it rocking. I reckon it will be. Canterbury Bulldogs, Manly Seagulls, pretty much even lines. We won't worry about that this game. Tommy Turbo back in for Doggies Manly. Josh Haddock Hart out. Lots of chat about him, unfortunately. I don't really know what's going on, but he's not playing. That's all that really matters. Just a couple of failed tests, mate. Sneaky, sneaky. Sneaky. Yeah, failed and then passed. Jerry back in.
Stood himself down, which is good. Matty Burnham back in. It's a toss of the coin, this game. And like I said, I don't know. How fits Turbo? Could be a basher. Supposedly they're going to be needling him fucking four places and everything. If it was the finals last week, he would have played last week. Yeah. He only had the week off because it wasn't finals. It's hard to trust him. For me. It's hard to trust him when he's fully fit.
I was going to say, we're talking about his shoulder and whether we can trust his shoulder. I still can't trust his hamstrings. Yeah, I know. Yeah. It's a hard one. For me, I just can't tip the dogs how they've been playing the last few rounds. I just can't do it. I just think they're playing that shit, and you don't want to form going into finals. And it's hard to back Manly, or it's hard to not back Manly when Turbo's playing. Yeah, it's hard, especially in a dry track.
Their points average, like, near on doubles when he's playing. Like, it's ridiculous. Lukey Brooks plays his first finals game. He's going to be so keen. He's going to be hot. He's going to be hot. He's got a good game. I wonder if that could be like a thing, too, from Serraldo to sort of go at him, put a bit of pressure on him because he's going to want to prove himself. It's his first one. There'll be a bit of pressure.
In all fairness, I think Stephen Croydon and Matt Burden are the only ones that have played finals for the Dogs in this team at the moment. Kick out. Oh, kick out, yeah. He won a couple of rings, mate. Oh, yeah. And Reed Marnie. James Salmon. All the Panthers, boys. And Reed Marnie because I think he played with the Eels. Yeah, that's true. in their finals, but I feel like I'm taking the dogs. Ooh.
He's going on the doggies to continue to run. Just purely the only – they've fallen off the defensive wagon in the last couple of weeks, but I feel like it's something you can get back when you – like if it's been there all season and it's just dropped off for a couple of weeks, you can fix that. And I'm purely taking the doggies because they are the better defensive team here. Manly – In the last two rounds as well. I know. I'm just like, no. But I'm expecting them to bounce back.
I reckon Yeah do you feel like The season's getting to them Yeah Maybe The long season's finally Catching up to them Like the one before him It is a lot of defence It is a lot of work Doing defence Week after week after week, And then it's like Their versus Manly with Tommy Is not an easy team to Look how fresh Cowboys are They don't defend a lick.
Yeah did you see how fresh The Tigers and Eels players Were last week It's like the first game Of the season They looked fucking great Ball control was next level Yeah I'm going doggies and I'm going to take... Don't take him. Villiami. Okay, good. I'm going Manly. I just think they're going to be too good. And I just, yeah. I've said all year, I don't really think the dogs are any good. So good props to the dogs making it. That was crazy.
And I think he's been a bit quiet lately. He's just fucking got props to him. He's fucking finished... Three positions, two positions higher than fucking Knights. Yeah. And they've been in the finals all year. Yeah, props to them. Props to them. Props to them, mate. I think I tipped them second last. With two weeks to go of the season, they were fighting for a top four spot. Yeah, props to them. They're still pretenders, but props to them. I just like him that much,
and I think he's true. I think Kool-Aid will score any time. Fair show. He said those words. Yeah. Guess who's getting a HIA early. Did I say those words? Well, I've got- You're like, he's true. I'm taking Kool-Aid. I'm going Manly. Can't go past it with Turbo playing. And the man himself. Big rig. Picking Turbo. Manly to cover the line. Oh, no. What is it? 1.5. 0.5. 0.5. Half a point. There's no line. There's no line. I better get two points if they beat him by one.
Well, you're getting none because the doggy's a winner, brother. It's going to be a draw. We're going into overtime, not just golden points. Imagine. It's going to be a 107-minute game. That'd be red hot. We're just going 17 minutes into overtime. I'd froth that, to be honest. Fuck, imagine. Except it's the Bulldogs-Eagles, so I want it to just go to the 80. Are we going to quickly do our whole finals brackets?
Yeah. Didn't do it. But I can spitball. Yeah, okay. So we've got our tips for this week, so then go on to finals two. Who have we got, boys? Does that defeat the purpose of doing our tips for next week? If we've already got our tips? Oh, but the games could be totally wrong. And we're all shit and get a run this week. Yeah, that's true. No, mate, I'm red-hot couture here, so obviously Roosters get through to the week off. Manly get off. Sorry, Melbourne get through to the week off for me.
So Panthers, they take on Sharkies. No, that's not. No, they're the two. Sharks are the week off, mate. No, I took Storm. So Sharks take on... Newcastle or Cowboys. First and fourth versus the highest loser. The lowest loser. Does someone have the bracket up? Yes, I got it. The lowest winner. So they versus the winner of Knights Cowboys. Yes. Right. So I've got Sharks versus Cowboys. Yes. I'm taking the Sharks. And then what else have we got? We got Panthers versus the Dogs. Yes.
Panthers. You just said they were going to get bounced. I did. Pussy ass. Yeah, no, I'll take the Dogs. Beautiful. And then you will have Sharks versus Roosters. Ah, Sharks versus Roosters.
¶ Finals Football Preview
And then Melbourne will do the Dogs. Oh, right-o, Piercy. Mitchell Pearce He's a thorn And then Roosters Melbourne Grand final baby Boys Melbourne, Sandon Smith Oh here we go For the climbing For the climbing, No I'm No I can't Because it is actually Roosters Melbourne Grand final And I actually Pick Melbourne here And then we actually do And I look like a fucking idiot So Roosters.
Beautiful Let's go K I tell you what If we do beat Penrith here I'm actually really I'm really I definitely think We can make the grand final Don't know if we can win it But if we're taking on The fucking, Winner of What So Sharks and Cowboys I'm fucking down with that So where have I gone You got the Sharks As Cowboys as well, Do I Yeah You tip Sharks To lose And you tip Cowboys to win Yeah you and I tip The same for the first three games Okay Okay.
So, Sharks versus Cowboys. I'm going Cowboys. Beautiful. Penrith versus Manly. We did say they were going to get bounced. Don't think too hard, brother. I don't know if you said it too. No, I reckon Panthers are going to beat Manly, though. I don't think you said they were going to get bounced. He just liked what you said. Yeah. And then, beautiful. Then you've got the Cowboys coming up against Storm. Nah, Storm. You can't get past Storm. And then you've got Penrith versus the Roosters.
Then we've got... Oh, no, you don't. No. No, wrong way, Val. Yeah, I was like... Cowboys versus the Roosters. Yeah. Yes. Cowboys, Roosters. Nah, the Roosters get that one done. And then Storm versus Penrith, baby. I'm going Storm it. Versus Penrith, yeah. Storm versus Penrith. Oh, that's the other one. Yeah, Penrith the beat. Yeah, I'll go Storm on that one. And then Roosters grand final for you too. So you're Roosters Storm as well. Yeah. But I've got Storm winning.
To be honest, if I wasn't a Roosters fan, I'd be taking Storm because I don't see us beating them. But you never know. Grand finals can be funny sometimes. Here we go. Old fucking Knights fan over here. I want to see how he gets them through there. I will have the Sharks coming up against the Cowboys. No, Newcastle. Yeah, baby. Sharks versus Newcastle. I think Newcastle can beat them. Newcastle, baby. Straight through. Then I will have Roosters up against Manly.
I think Manley will be just too strong an attack. Manley will get over the Roosters. Bounce, bounce. No Sam Walker not happening. He's just fucking taking the piss.
¶ Final Thoughts on the Grand Final
For you listeners, Jermaine, he just creamed. Because he got the Roosters out of the cup early. Hey, I meant to shoot him here. Fighting over our one listener. Newcastle coming up against themselves, the coach, Coach, the halves pairing. They'll be coming up against the Panthers. Panthers. Nathan Cleary's going to be out. His injury's going to be fucked. He's not going to... Nah, I can't. We can't beat Penrith. I'm going to go tip Penrith in that game. Neck minute.
Oh, I hope so. Could you imagine? And then I've got Manly up against Storm. And I think after all those good wins from Manly, it'd be too much. And I think Storm are going to win that. And for me, it's Penrith versus Storm again. I think they've been the best two teams again this year. You know, fuck you with your logical final.
And I'm all for it. Let's go. go penrith four years in a row you're a fuckhead because i don't know i hate storm i hate the storm like i really hope it's not a storm panthers final because i don't want i don't like melbourne looking at it and i i don't have a full fit i think they would have made it it'd be it'd be so good like you want another team to be up there other than the storm dead set my second it's not the panthers everyone's like because everyone was sick of the storm and
the roosters well it's all of them again yeah everyone's just sticking the storm roosters panthers lately it's like fuck Yeah Somebody else Like honestly My second favourite team In the final eight Is probably the Dogs Is it When was the last Non of those three Was like 2016 Fucking long time ago 2016, Maybe Well 15 was Cowboys 16 was, Storm When did the Rabbitohs win it Oh was it 16 I don't know 16 or 17 Oh I thought you spent The last time there was a Grand Final None of those three
teams in it That's what I meant Oh no Just like the winning Because it went Like 18 was Roosters Then Roosters Then Storm, than Penrith, Penrith, Penrith, isn't it? Or it was like Storm, Roosters, Roosters, Storm, Penrith, Penrith, Penrith. It's ridiculous. Either way, one of those three teams have made the grand final in the last however many. Ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. And it's going to happen again this year.
I think that's us, boys. I think that's the preview of round one of the rugby league finals. Round one. Oh, Cody, it was the Sharkies' last premiership winners in 2016. 16. But they beat Melbourne. They beat Melbourne. So 2015 was the last grand final without either of those three teams in it. Because that was Cowboys-Broncos. And then the Sharkies was the year before that. So it's been eight straight years. Did you see the moment, the top five on the ladder is the last five premiership
winners, all the way back to the thing. If the doggies win, it's the top six. Beautiful. Hectic. Well, that is Get Around It. And like I said, I don't think I'm going to catch many of these games live. I'm a bit sad. How about you guys? Are you going to be getting many in? We'll probably miss the start of the Roosters game because we're playing volley. Yep. But then probably miss some of the games on Saturday. Depending on when our games are, yeah. Yeah, not sure. Yeah. All right.
Well, hope you guys get some rugby league in and enjoy it. And up the Knights. Love you. Fuck the Knights. Up the Chooks.