NRL Round 16 Preview: Another Knight free weekend!

Good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Muttley Crew and welcome back boys. Here we are, we're here in the game room boulevard, sometimes, one day. How we doing? I'm here with Kyle and Cody. How we doing this lovely evening? I'm fucking sick of this cold weather. I'm good man, I love the cold. Cold's good. That's alright. What's going on up there? Oh jeez. A couple of jokes. That was just another one where you just, when you had the Muttley. Muttley would I miss.

Absolute finest form. the greatest of forms. Anyway, we're back, back to talk to Rugby League and it's been a great couple of weeks here for football, sort of. I don't know. Been some ups and downs. Newcastle, shit. Rugby League. This is how it is. Origin 2 team just got dropped though a couple of days ago and a lot of changes with New South Wales but I think they're all positive changes.

But who knows? I don't want to talk about it too much because I'll get my hopes up and then we'll die and fuck Queensland. I'm pretty sure you've only lost one game in Melbourne since like 94 or something. But that's what they do. We're going to win this game, fucking look red hot, get that false feeling of we can win at Suncorp, and then it's going to be fucking dodo, some shit like that. I hate it already. I feel it happening. That's why we're wrestling Cobbo,

mate. Give him the game off, and then we'll bring him back game three. Just don't bring in Gagite, please. The Gags. I need him to play round 19. I've had him this whole time. The Gags. Yeah. You know what? I've heard just whispers from Billy Slater that he does want to fuck up your super coach, so he's picking Gagite. So does Madge. He fucking picks Latrell. You had to know Latrell was going to get picked, you idiot. But there was a slight chance he wasn't, and I got him like three weeks ago.

As soon as New South Wales lost that first game, Latrell was in. Nah, I still got him before a lot of other people, so he still helped me a lot. And I'd captain him every week because it wasn't too bad. I don't know. Are we talking about Origins Supercoach or are we talking about round 16?

We're talking round 16 of Rugby League and we're at the second bye round of the Rugby League. Major bye round. We've only got six games. Seven teams of byes including the beloved Newcastle Knights. So we get the two points. Yeah, yeah. I know you're really excited because you love your rugby league. I love getting byes. I'm winning. That's how you score your runs. That's why LMS is sort of good. You get your runs with byes. And Wads. And Wads, great. Shout out LMS.

But just, I know you get excited. You just need to slow down a little bit. Okay, going a bit quick. Yeah. Sorry, guys. Just to make it easier for our listeners as well. It's been a topsy-turvy couple of days. And by listeners, I'm sorry, but you were real sensual and sexual. Yeah, Monday's a bit more fresher, I guess. Usually Wednesdays are fresher too, but it's a bit later now. It's been a rough day. Just things are fucking up. It's been a while, mate. It's been a while.

You're not used to it. You're not in the rhythm. I don't know. Did you prep? That's true too. That's true. I prepped. Tinky winky. I prepped mentally for today. Sorry, what? Like I prepped mental notes, but I don't have any notes. I thought you were trying to say I prepped immensely. No, not immensely. I prepped mental notes, but not notes. So like some, but not really. Okay. Let's talk probably. Fucking strap yourself in, guys. I at least got some things going. The revolutionary Raiders.

That's a good one. He would never have thought that off the bat. Even if he had three days to type that out. Grab a roof from here, baby. Thursday night, boys, we start off with the under-19 State of Origin games. They're going to be red hot. We're not talking about that. I was going to say. It could be anything, Cup. But I would recommend watching them. It should be good. CBA. CBA. CYA.

Let's start. Let's start. We've got a good game here, Friday. We've got a top four. Mud Crab Chat. We've got a top four clash about of the Dolphins. About of the Dolphins. You got me with mud crabs. I just lost it. And then I was going to try to go mud crab Dolphins. That's what I was trying to get at. Okay, we've got the Dolphins versus Melbourne Storm. Up at Suncorp Stadium. This should be a red hot game. Bit affected by Audrey in both teams. Probably more the Dolphins with Hammer

out. and Melbourne, they're starting to look really good and they've got the big, big backing of little Pappy Housen in the fullback. So it should be really good for Melbourne. Pappy and Farlong are on the same team. And then I think this was Jerome Hughes. He's starting to play really good. Ellie Guetta, that right edge is going to hum and the Dolphins' left edge got really smashed last week by the Sharks, so I don't think it's looking good. I think Storm went well. Yeah, Storm. I'm on Storm.

I'm on Storm purely because the Dolphins have selected TPJ this week. What a comeback. Yeah. I wonder how that first training session went when he got back in there and Wayne Bennett and Katoa tried to tell him what to do, you know, because he doesn't take orders from halfbacks and coaches. You know what I mean? I wonder how that went at training. Especially a halfback that's 10 years younger than him. Oh, it was so good. Old Daddy Bennett, though, is looking after him. Yeah, look,

I went against Melbourne last week. That was dumb. Me too. Very dumb. Yeah. So I'm going Melbourne this week. Because surely the Dolphins can't keep winning. Although Herbie's looking... Not only does he look good, he looks good. He looks good. I like you bringing that up. When are we going to take the Dolphins serious? I've taken them serious all season. You just said they can't keep winning. That doesn't sound like you're taking them serious.

I am. Considering what was it, two, three weeks ago, I was surprised when he said we've got a top eight clash of the Dolphins versus the Raiders. Now I'm saying we've got a top four clash. Yeah, well. Well, I wouldn't have expected the Raiders to be there. They're still in there with a negative break. I know. Negative break even. Yeah, no, the Dolphins, I was expecting to play finals football. I thought I had them in my top eight at the start of the year.

But anyway. I'm pretty sure I had them. I know I had them up there roundabouts. I know, I definitely did. You had them close to your top four. That's what I was just about to say. I had them like 15th. I had them sixth. Yeah. Yeah, wow. I can't remember if I had Dolphins. But I also had Storm at 9. No, that's a good call. Oh, they're going to start to fall off. They're going to do a Rabideaus. Had Sharkies at 8. No, that's the Sharkies. The Sharkies are doing the Rabideaus.

They're falling. Caught it. Had Broncos second. That's not going to play out. Anyway, back to the round. Let's get to Saturday, boys. Let's get to Saturday. We have the Gold Coast Titans versus the Waz. And man, the Warriors have a good couple wins. They just play hopeless against the Storm. I'm going to say it. I think Johnson's done. No, mate. He was his first game back from his fucking injury. And they changed it up. Did you see what they said before it? He's the second fiddle now.

I think he... T. Martin. He's now playing how he thought he might have played last season. Don't say that because I've held him in Supercoach this whole time. Yeah, and he scored 19. I know. You held him in Supercoach? They've changed it. T. Martin's the... Seven. The dominant. Yeah, right. They completely changed it around. Because? And they said it could help Johnson in the long run. If it starts working, him being second fiddle, then he doesn't have to do as much. Team Martin just takes over.

Team Martin's playing really good. The problem is that game against Melbourne, Sean Johnson wasn't even playing fourth fiddle. I didn't see him. It was his first game back. They said it was going to be hard because they were killing it without him. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't want it to be true, but my – The Waz. The Waz are looking – They've looked a lot better without him.

They lost all their players, looked really good, and as they've been adding their players back in, games have been getting closer and closer. But big in, RTS again for the Waz, but again we'll see what that means, if that's going to actually help the team. I thought it was weird that he was 18th man last week. He must have not been quite fit. Yeah, but there's a chance. Imagine if he's not quite there and then he gets activated and fucks himself.

Yeah, but you'd hope he's only having to get through like 20 minutes, you know, not the full 80. At least Kalfusi. Gold Coast. I'm not surprised. I think they need to move RTS to the wing. Fullback. You can't take chance out of fullback. Yeah, you're right. They've got too many good players, but they're not doing good. It's very interesting. I reckon if you put RTS back on the wing, let him get involved that way. More runs then, more open space maybe. Yeah. Who's the other winger?

Well, Dallin's out, and it's Montoya. Montoya. They're just massive So it's hard I'm gonna fight Every fucking ref And just that whole Nevermind Just a whole different Fucking can of worms, Anything about the Gold Coast boys, they're playing, I don't know, they were playing all right, but then against the West Tigers, they looked like the bottom team again.

They played well in the first 20 minutes. They looked like they could have fucking killed them, and then they forgot how to play, hold the ball. They got Fit Feeder back. I don't think Campbell's a half. They didn't put Foreman back on the left edge. I don't know why he's playing right. Because he's playing halfback. It doesn't matter. Majority of the time, halfbacks play the right side. Yeah, which is dumb. Just put them over.

Unless, yeah. Just play both sides as a halfback. But you're right, Campbell's not a 5'8", but their fullback, Keanu Kinney, he is playing so good. Yeah, he carved that last week. I think someone needs to buy him because they've got Brimson, who I think will go back to fullback.

Campbell, they've got too many good players. They're sort of getting into that storm territory where they're going to have to give up good fullbacks because it's either play no minutes or in reserve grade or go earn money. And you just know when they leave, they're probably going to go really good. I don't know who to tip in this game. Yeah, I don't know. I'm going Warriors. Is. The Warriors are a better team here. I've gone the Wawa's.

The Warriors are definitely a better team on paper and I feel like they've still got more to play for. I feel like they still definitely should believe they're in finals chance. But like if you just look at that first 15 minutes against the Storm they looked electric and unstoppable. That's like the fourth or fifth game this year I reckon that they've been up double digits early.

And looking like they're going to run you off the park. And the commentators are saying they're like I feel like they need another try here when it was 14-0.

I feel like they need another one And then Storm just went Straight down and scored And it was like Ah shit And as soon as they get The other team has won It's like they just fall Bang bang bang Every time they got In striking distance Yep Just, Tip of the Warriors too Yeah the Warriors But I'm just I wouldn't be surprised If the Tits got the win This week Because the teams that they beat Are the teams they shouldn't beat And then the teams That they don't beat Are the ones they should pump,

Like Tigers South This is Eels It's an Eels team. I hope they win And then the Eels Oh no Have the Eels played this week? No, they didn't play. Because they're only four and against away from last place. Wow. Let's get to the Roosters. It's fucking crazy, eh? Roosters versus the Doggies.

The best defensive team of the Dogs versus the... The refs didn't help the fucking Eels last week. They probably would have been last. Oh, I was going to... Who did they play? Roosters. Yeah, oh, man. Oh, man. Dude, I don't know. I'm not going to get sad on that. Talk about Roosters. Dude, imagine... Imagine I could only imagine What he was like Because I was going to Fucking punch my TV If I was Watching it on my TV Oh people I probably would have Thrown stuff Oh.

Oh, fuck me. It should have been a penalty. Carry on. That's going to start a lot of stuff. Bruce's versus Bulldogs here. This is what I was going on a bit with the fucking refs earlier. We have the best defensive team in the Doggies versus the Bruce's. One of the best attacking teams in the league. Not one of, we are. Oh, you are? So 1v1. That's pretty red hot. You can't score almost 200 points in a month. The best attack and the best defense.

But we have a lot of players out through origin, which sort of sucks. We've got... Not that many. Teddy's in. Four. But you're right. Big in for the Roosters is, unfortunately, Teddy being dropped from New South Wales, but he comes straight back to the Roosters, and that's going to help them a lot. Dominic Young back in, which I think... No. Shit. What? He needs to go back to the Knights. No, he's going to have a great...

No, he's pissed me off. He's going to have such a good game, he's going to be like, oh, Dominic Young, get me out. He's fucking unreal inside our red zone, or inside the opposition's red zone, I should say.

The attacking red zone but coming out of our own end anything else outside the opposition 20 useless I reckon I could I could put an ashtray on the motorbike and still be more useful, but they are missing their big man Lindsay Collins but it means Terrell Maystarts which I think is really good for them great for super coach good for coach what?

And yeah doggies they're missing some players they're missing their captain and they're missing hey they've got Burton they're missing the fox that's the one thing they can't complain about that's all they wanted was Burton and their team they'd want to win They keep crying about it They got their wish I'm, Connor I think we're going to miss Connor Watson a bit Yeah definitely, And Lindsay Lindsay I'm interested to see how Francis Smith goes Oh BS goes

Yeah on the chat On the chat I was worried I thought Santa Smith Might have jumped him To be honest But he's back in So he must have had A good training week It's also probably They don't want to waste, Maybe you want to see How he reacts If he comes out Has a stinker Then you go Well he's not in it We were right.

Piece him off I think the Roosters are going to win He's going to go to the Rabbit Especially it's a daylight game Day day game Day day game Daylight game, They're going to win I hope both teams are playing during the day Jesus I think they're going to win well Who? Roosters Nah I don't think we'll win well I think we'll win well I think it's going to click I think Roosters are going to have a game What's the weather like?

Did you say it was good? Oh maybe I jinxed it If there's wet weather You know what happened last time Yeah we're in trouble Is Blake Taft playing? Because Blake Taft's playing Dom Young's only playing 5 minutes.

That's the original Fucking Swalee Walsh Right there Yeah no no Swalee's was an accident Dom Young's was also Dom Young's was also An accident But it was a swinging arm, I'm on the Roosters But I'm I only think That the Roosters Will get the dove here Because Croydon's out And that Their defence Might weaken off that Oh absolutely One centre, Dude He saved your ass In origin Even though he still lost Did you have a rooster, Cody? I don't know if I actually heard you.

I haven't made a decision yet. Because I just know what happened last time in the boil over. I wonder if that memory is still in their heads. But then, like you said, they don't have Crichton. Are they missing anyone else? Addo Carr's out. Preston's not playing. Oh, it's Preston out. Yeah, Preston's not playing. Oh, yeah, they're good. But they are coming off the bye. Josh Curran's back in, which is good. Kick-out. Kick-out's in the reserves. Yeah, might come in.

And Kick-out was the one that fucking... I've got to go. I've got to go, the roosters. I've got to go. Beautiful. Let's get to Saturday night. We're all three the same so far. Oh, shit. I don't think it's changing with this game. I don't know. But we've got Saturday night. This is a tough one. Hey. Yeah. We've got... Hey, Forrest. We've got the... We've got like the red hot Rabdos. They're on fire. They're versus manly, monly.

Monly. Manly with fucking nobody. Yeah. No DC. No Olaquatu. No Trevoivage. No Trevoivage. No Garrick. Yeah. Ouch. But The Ravidos are missing Their two best players In Luttrell and Cameron Murray But I think Cameron Murray only played One game brother They're still their best player That's why they're playing Origin.

So yeah It should be a good game But I think the Ravidos They're just in the form At the moment And even without those Two big dogs Cody Walker's just playing Good enough Damien Cook's playing Well enough Came out today Cookies going to the St. George That was a bit interesting Going to the Dragons It was Torxie Who's going to the Chookies Yeah No Dargons He's going to the Dragons. The Dragons paid more money, surely.

So I think Cookie's going to try to have a good last year of the Rabbitohs. He loves that club. He's been there for a long time. So I think they're going to try to keep... Back to the Dragons, too. Yeah, I think he did start there. He did debut with them and then retire with them.

Beautiful. Close the story. I don't think this is going to be close. I think the Rabbitohs are going to keep winning well. Yep. But it wouldn't be surprising if the Rabbitohs shit the bed at the same time. Because Jack Wharton has not looked that great at Firebase, just quietly. He's looking better than their other options. Well, he's looking better than what he was at centre. Yeah, so that helps. Kula Kula Matangi is looking so good in the middle. He is looking very good.

It's going to be hard to see what they do when Murray comes back to play full-time. I think he could move him up to the front row because he's just looking so good there. I thought he was playing in the front row. I swear he's played a couple of games in eight. Then they're like, oh, fucking Murray. I thought he was playing eight.

But yeah you gotta go I'll be on the the rebates as well yeah after I realised how many people were missing for Manly I thought this is such an easy tip I say easy but wouldn't be surprised if fucking Manly do an ambush, Manly they've got Aaron Shute playing who started the year with the Gold Coast they've got Aaron Shopp they've got Jake Simpkin who started the year with the Tigers Ethan Bullymore starting front row Carl Lawton is their halfback yeah that's the big one One for me.

I was like, fuck, he's an out-and-out hooker, second row. I'll tell you what, their fullback looks good. Oh, Lehigh Hoppawattie. Oh, yeah, he looks real hot. The young fella, he looks real good. Bro, they've got... The Hoppawattie's just pump him out. How old is he? Young, 19. Okay, so he's only going to have about another one year, and then he's going to have to go do his mission. Possibly. And then come back and be shit-ass. And then be another Hoppawattie. Yeah. Well, he is a Hoppawattie.

Who was the other Hoppawattie? Was it Will Hoppawattie? Yeah. Yeah, it started killed. Oh, he was everything then left to come back and then no good It was alright and then when England killed it came back. It was not good. Hmm I think he's got burbo though man. They got burbo Cooler sob.

They're good. Yeah, see you. And we finish it off with, oh, what a great game here. Sunday afternoon, boys. In the trenches, this game. We got the, well, they're coming off a win. We got the Wild West Tigers versus the Revolutionary Raiders. Fucking look at that. Look at that. That was good. That was a red hot. We're looking behind you, mate. Just some of those heads that are coming up right now.

Oh, fucking heck, Nick. Tigers versus the Raiders. Now, this is the one game where it's like a flip of a coin for me. They're at home, West Tigers, which is not like us, which hurts.

But they're going to have some confidence after having a good win last week, surely. And they've been given the money. They've been given the grants. They're going to do it up. No one's out. They've got Lockie Gavin back in, which can only help. There's a chance Adam Duhay might play, which would be pretty cool. First game in a long time. He signed back on for three and a half grand. Hey? Yeah, they were offering him fuck all. But he's extended, so.

They're right. That's all they should offer him. He hasn't fucking played 50 games in the rugby league In a year, He's played 50 games In But I don't know Where is he going to play, Because Is he going back in the centres Well he's not going to get He's not going to be a half Because they're going to invest In Lockie Galvin And then Luai coming Luai coming So, And Bulla's their fullback Right So it'll be centre He might be a Centre or

benchy He might be a low max type Maybe 13 Maybe could play 13 Put him on the wing, I could be a good winger If he gets fitter That's what I mean But yeah Look what I've done for Lomax. They're versing the Raiders who comes off the bye, so they should be refreshed. They've got pretty much their whole... Sorry, what was that? Refreshed, renewed to come off the bye. Raiders? They lost to the Cowboys. Last week. Did they lose to the Cowboys? Oh, yeah, they got fucking pumped. They look shit. Yeah.

I thought you said, oh, Raiders are refreshed coming off the bye. I was like, no, mate. I don't remember that. No, they came off the bye last week. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, there you go. Well, Hudson Young's in the team because he didn't get picked for New South Wales. We all fooled that one. They've pretty much got the same team, the Raiders. Still the young halves that are struggling. Hopefully, Fogarty's back soon for them. They're doing all right considering how young they both are.

Oh, yeah. Considering we all didn't rate KO weeks, he's not playing that bad. He's quick. He's very quick. He's definitely not a halfback. I actually think Ethan Strange has actually put together a pretty good season. Oh, absolutely.

To shoulder that load so early on With the halfback going down He's done well He's done well This is really tough I don't I don't know Because I can't trust the I can't trust the Tigers Away from Leichhardt, And I can't Raiders Trust the Raiders at the moment But the Raiders Oh fuck I've got no idea I'm taking Tigers Purely because they're the home team And I'm taking the Raiders Because I flipped the coin, I'm taking the Tigers Because I like Fuck I like them better than the Raiders

Fuck And that's clearly it and because they won last week which looked good. Can I change my tip now? I feel like you can but it's up to you. I don't know. I'll change it just before the game. No, well you can't do that on the Muttley crew but you can do it. Yeah, no. I'll stick with the Tigers. But you can do it everywhere else. I tipped the Tigers last week. I'll back them again. Yeah, exactly.

Beautiful. Well, that is it boys and ladies and gentlemen. Round 16 done and dusted. Six games. Five games. Five games. Fuck, only five games. But... Did you study accounting? Still a full game on Saturday. That's red hot and we've got nothing on Saturday. I'm watching Rapid League all day Saturday. Unless Jade makes me do something. We'll see what happens. Camping out. Yeah, beautiful. Bye.