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Welcome ladies and gentlemen and welcome to another episode of the Motley Crue Studios and we're here in the game room boulevard looking fucking fresh. It's been refreshed but also look at his head. It's been refreshed and reshaped. Looks really good Cody. Oh, are we talking about me? Definitely you. Do I feel a little bit lighter there big boy? I feel like I'm running. Running, yeah. I feel like I'm sprinting every time
I'm out and about. He was just trying to get nice and aerodynamic for nationals this weekend. Great idea. Great idea. Got my swim cap on.
That confused him a little bit Stand up You might hit you there, Anyway yes We're here on a lovely Monday afternoon I'm here with Kyle and Cody We're doing well boys Had a great Monday Straight into the working week Feeling awesome It was a nice relaxed way To get into the week Wasn't too busy After the weekend I had, Pretty hectic so I can agree I also I finished at 10.30 today boys Fucking out of there Right oh jeez There wasn't much going on And I was like,
I'll let my staffies keep working. And he was still late to the podcast. Doing his normal, oh, you know, if you guys can't make it, I'd like to see. Trying to get out of it. I'm not trying to get out of it, honestly. I'm a busy man. I've got plans and things going on. Oh, I wouldn't say man. Perhersive. That's all right. I could take it. Newcastle-ian. He's not Newcastle-ian. He said that. Australian. He's not Manchester-ian either. No, not really.
It's in the passports. It's the birth certificate. Oh, so you're Ipswichian. No, well, there's no passport. Yes, it does say, yes. Has it got your home address? Oh, no, it's place of birth. Yeah. So you're what? I'm Maitlandian. Where were you born, Carter? New South Wales. City. You just born in the whole fucking state where I am. I'm from LA. I am sort of a New South Welshman. It's now South Walesman.
It's New South Welshman You got it right the first time Yeah that one I don't know which one Anyway We're not here to talk about My birth Residence But we are to talk about It's still all up in the air Rubber League It's unknown Rubber League, Rubber League And we just had their Preliminary finals On the fucking weekend Pulled him out of a house fire, Just turns out His mum's ears are on fire. Anyway, let's talk about, let's quickly touch on the women's premiership semifinals.
And we had the Sharks and the Roosters going through to their grand final, respectively. Pretty good couple of games I enjoyed. Roosters just dominated Newcastle, unfortunately. We just could not score a point. It was really tough watching. I felt like we had the chances, but it's going to get through. And the Roosters were dominant in the final. We gave you a couple of points at the end. Yeah, at the end, which was too late.
Oh, was it? Yes, it was too late. They went trialist in the second half, the Roosters. So he did something right. Yeah, but they dominated us the first half. It was pretty bad. Bloody oath, they skittled you. And then for the Broncos, it was their first game, no points. And, yeah, got done against the Sharks, who up and down all year, but they showed up in this game, which Cody said that could happen. I called it. Well, fifth minor premiership, and they've only gone on to win it twice.
So they find it hard at the end of the season. And the Sharkies had a three-game slip, but they were the best team in the comp there for the first half of it. And they just bounced back into form. and to hold them scoreless, credit to them. Mate, I'm just – the real Roosters team won this weekend and that's all I'm all about. So it was a great weekend for the Roosters fans. I don't care about sport anyway, man. I'm just Australian. I'm just happy the
cricket won. Yeah. Those are the words from Jake Carter. Burns. Okay, Kyle. Tell us how you really feel. It does burn. Tell us how you really feel because let's get to that men's rugby league and we had – Mate, I'm still on a high from Sunday.
It's really put away It's really dampened those feelings I had from Friday night, You just had the chance to go for the double here I felt like you handled it quite well actually I think he sort of expected it Yeah deep down I knew it was coming It never got close either which always helps We were in the fight there for a little bit, Yeah when the bell rang Well it was 24-18 with 30 minutes to go. So we were in it and, you know, we just, Romy Hughes just killed us.
He played unreal. Brother, the spine. Yeah. Just the spine in general. Didn't they have something like seven tries between them? Absolutely ridiculous. It's just. I think losing Lindsay hurt us, I think, just in that forward rotation because he's a state of origin Aussie player. I know they lost Nas for 10 minutes, but when you lose someone as good as Lindsay for the full 10, and I'm not saying for the full game.
I mean, if we had someone like Lindsay play for the full game, I think we'd still lose, but I think he just adds that little bit more punch. And like we were saying too, we feel like he messed up their rotation a little bit and shouldn't have brought Spencer Lenu on that early. I probably would have. Nafu White or at least Terrell Mack. Just a little bit of size there to combat Nas, well, when he came back out anyway.
And he just keeps Spencer too to do what he's been really good at all year is that act and what he does for New South Wales where he comes on a bit later when they're a bit more tired where I don't think he really did that role this week because he couldn't have went on so early. And you're mentally not there either. You're thinking, you know, I'm not going to be coming on for 15, 20 minutes so you just sort of chill and
then all of a sudden coach goes, boost, you're in. After fucking 30 seconds you're going, holy shit. It's hard to get yourself in. Yeah. But it was just, they did some, like I said that I was going to be this would probably be one of the first times where if they're trying to push a pass that I'd be fine if it doesn't come off. But there was a couple of times like that try that they scored just before half-time. Hughesy's second one, I think. Or first one. Yeah, Hughesy's first one just
before half-time. Second one. Second. Yeah, second one just before half-time. It was off a stupid error. Like I can't remember who threw it but they just threw this pass out. We were under pressure and just trying to come out of our own end. And then... They tried to hit Joseph Suwali on this angle run. He puts it down and puts it straight under pressure again.
I was like, I don't mind pushing a pass, like if we're rolling upfield and you need to try and push it, but just out of your own end stuff is just rubbish. And on that hat-trick I just want to touch on, that was my big take, my hot take for last weekend was there was going to be a hat-trick scored. It was one of the first games by a halfback, G.A. Elgin. Bet you wouldn't have called that part. I thought it was going to be a halfback. I thought it was going to be Taruva
or Toto, to be honest. That's why I was like, that's a red-hot take. I thought it was at least going to be like a centre wing full-back. Not the half-back. They don't normally jag three. Grant this week. Grant last week. Grant this week. Yeah, hectic. That whole spine, man. Like, you've been saying all year, like, they haven't been 100% because they've been in and out in Munster, like, missed a whole bunch. And Jerome Hughes has sort of gone to that next level and taken control of that team.
But just seeing all four of them together just humming was ridiculous. And then you've got Tyrone and the chance to get on the bench. Yeah, the spine that they used to have and they've all gone on, retired and moved on and we're thinking, you know, what's Storm going to do? And then they just four-new straight back into the slot.
Pretty scary. I think watching this game, I think they really, really attacked Luke Keery in this game and I think this was a game where he tries his hardest, Luke Keery, but you can definitely see this was, he's near his end. He just looked so much slower than all their halves and all their rest in the line of defense and he just got very shown out.
He was either going on inside chasing the player and then they'll go on inside balls or he was holding his line and they just went around him pretty quickly. I think they really, yeah, showed him how to play football and just picked him out, unfortunately. Not play football. It's a bit rough. They just really picked out him. Wow. I think it was very obvious that this is his last game and that he's finished up.
And what about the Roosters though? They're going to lose how many players in this team? Six or seven at the end of this year, which is pretty crazy to think. Quite a few. Well, we're going to lose straight out of the team that played on Friday night. We're losing Sawali, Manu, Kiri, Tupinua. We're in our high graves. And I think that's it so far. But even still, and then there's still more. Yeah, it's a fair whack.
And then we won't have Sammy Walker to start next season. Yeah, but you've got the big fella coming down from up north. If I can carry that team. Old Chad. Chad the lad.
It's a fair whack so it's going to be interesting what the Roosters do bit of a rugby league guy they're never going to be a rebuilding club they're always they're not here they're here to try to win comps or be in the finals I'm waiting for the big signings to come out and losing prelims that's what they're good at so I'm sure they'll do that again next year and stuff like that this motherfucker I tell ya oh yeah that one that was a good one,
Yeah, at least I know what getting to a prelim's like. Doesn't feel like you can't lose them when you don't make them. That is such a sad brag. Yeah. Sad brag. Stat. Don't know what you'd lost if you never had it. Can't lose what you never had. Yeah. Jeez. Yeah, I think that's it for the Roosters. Goodbye. Unlucky. At least when we sign a fullback on big money, he delivers premierships. Goodbye, my lover. I like that he reneged and turned around and was like, oh, no,
I'm actually available now. I hope they don't pick him. Anyway, next game. Let's get to it. Saturday night, and we had the Penrith Panthers do what they do, win 26-6 over the Sharks. This is interesting. There's a 20-point gap there, and I feel like the Sharks did play all right and maybe deserved to be closer, but then it's also to say that they, I don't feel like they ever felt like they were going to win this game. So it was pretty tough.
And Penrith probably weren't even at their best either. Penrith were nowhere near their best. They made so many more errors than they would usually do, that's for sure. That's why they're so fresh at the end of the season most times, because they just only ever need to do what they need to do. They're not busting their ass for wins every week. I read it's been a hot minute since the Panthers' completion rate's been under 80%. Yeah, that's pretty rough. Was there a bit of rain?
Yeah, it pissed down rain just before the kickoff, and then it sort of stopped raining, but it was wet. But still, the fact that the Panthers completed at 79%, which is not a bad completion rate, especially in that weather. But we sort of talked to them. We're talking like, oh, man, they play like shit. What did they complete in the grand final last year, 98% or something? Yeah. In the fucking grand final? Like that's the sort of skills that they got.
But they just do what they do. They just play their sort of football the first, what was it? First 20, first pretty much 50 minutes. Like they only scored one try in the first 50 minutes and they just kept running hard, quick defense, line defense, whatever you call it. Line speed. Line speed, thank you. Kicking the corners very well. Just lots of pressure on Sharks. And it just, you could tell it was like, are the Sharks going to be able to keep going, keep going, keep going?
Good on the Sharks for scoring a try, which was a pretty great try from Gattell. Fucking pretty awesome. Was it a knock on? I don't know. No, I don't think so. No one's saying it's a knock-on except Carr, in my opinion, what I've heard. If Abbey Corras' house was a knock-on earlier in the year, that's a knock-on. We've been going back there. We're talking about the try.
No one else said it. Can I just – I have to – I was having a bit of a laugh at Ivan Cleary in his post-game presser because he was blowing up about the bunker. I'm like, brother, you won by 20 points. It was a terrible call, though. That's a defensive decision. Yes, it was a terrible call. But they were making – I don't know who was in the bunker. It was Chris Butler,
I think, because I think he said his name in the interview. but he confirmed that try before we even saw that angle where Katoa bobbled it when he was putting it down. So there was a back angle view. Yeah, but we're not seeing what the bunk is seeing. We're seeing what Channel 9 wants us to see. Fox League, mate. Or whatever it is. How clear it was going, how Ivan was going off in the pressure, I'm pretty sure he would have brought that try too if he thought it was a knock-on.
So like I said, I feel like you're the only one that thinks it's a knock-on in the whole bloody state of Australia. All I'm saying is if he had a call, he did not regain control before applying pressure. Is what I'm saying, which constitutes a knock-on. And again, you're the only one saying this. I don't need the whole nation to be behind me to be right. Well... You just need one good bloke. I can still be right and everyone else is wrong. Files interpretation. Yeah. Interpretation?
There's got to be an investigation into this. No, I can tell you right now, if Cronulla win somehow, that is getting blown up, along with that terrible decision If Granola had somehow found a way to win, I wouldn't have been watching the Grand Final. But Penrith going to win fucking 26-6, no one gives a shit that a try was called a try that made no difference. But there's not even been that much of a chat about the bloody no try that they
got. And that was a terrible call. That was a disgusting call. Like outside Ivan Cleary's rant post-game, I've not heard anything about it. Because there's nothing more to be said about it. Because he got a fucking on the head, on the nail. I love his analogies. We had a lot about that. We said the same thing the whole time it was happening. Yeah, but I'm talking about post-game. You're saying since that game, no one's spoken shit about the knock-on. No one has. No one has at all.
But no one's spoken about- They talked a lot about it all fucking post-game. Did you not watch it with me? Me and you talked about it. That's two people. That's more than just one person. We also- I just mentioned it to you. That's three people. You and I were also talking about Katoa's grounding. No, we weren't. Yes, we were. No, we weren't. Only you were because I disagreed. I'm like, it's true, mate. No one's even said anything about it. You didn't even- Done and dusted.
That cancels a conversation if he's talking to you and you're replying. Yeah. Just if we were talking about it. No, you were talking about it. And then you were like- If you responded, it's a conversation. No, because then they showed the- You even rolled it back. Let's not talk about that. Let's talk about how good the Penrith are, and let's talk about the man. I'm sick of talking about how good Penrith are and Melbourne are. Nathan Cleary, what a gun.
How can you be sick of talking about it? That's what we talk about every fucking week. That's why I'm sick of it. Yeah, that's why I'm sick. It's been the same thing. It's pretty crazy. And to be fair, you sit here and you go, Penrith versus the WBN. I know it was about four years ago, but it's like the same two teams in there amongst it. But at least you know it should be a good grand final. Oh, yeah. Both teams are pretty much 100%, depending on what happens with Nelson.
Four weeks is fucking rough. Fucking. Obviously priors, but four weeks is rough. I wonder if they're going to bring up the old Taylor May suspended sentence, serve it next year, play in the grand final thing. What was that? Was that two years ago when he got a suspended sentence and he didn't have to serve until the year after because old Peter Volandis come out and said, the best players deserve to be playing in the biggest games for the entertainment spectacle.
So we'll see if Craig Bellamy tries to throw out a few barbs or something.
I hope they I love it when they like the origin series when the coaches were sort of kneeling at each other yeah it doesn't have to mean anything you just do it because then the media plays on it but I just love that extra little bit of spice and the players actually coming out and being able to speak their mind and I love that shit it just adds that extra stuff because then like me and you will start bantering on it talking
a bit of shit about it like it's so much better it just adds that little bit more and then Jake's there like glass houses right yeah, mine's on blue steel I think they should let him play. It is correct that it's a grand final. This is it. Oh, well, that's locked it in. If Jake thinks he should play, fuck, he should not play, eh? Because that's what they live for, is to win grand finals, win chip. There's no way that's a grade three high title. No. Reckless. Grade three.
Me and you have already had this fight, so I'm not even going to start it again with you. Oh, mate. It was ridiculous. I think they got it right, though. I think it was a good call. I think it was Sinbin got it right. Play on. But not fucking grade three. I know. Grade three, four weeks. He has prizes. It's his fourth offense this year. He didn't go low. He didn't shoot him. He just ran into him. He just stood there. Well, his fault is fucking a monster.
Anyway, quick little mention, Nathan Cleary, man of the match, fucking such a good player. Three try assist, 40-20. I love when anyone against him tries to get a 40-20 and just misses. Then I reckon the next couple sets, he just hits a 40-20 and just big dicks energies. All these other halfbacks, it's pretty wild. Big dicks. So he's got more than one. Big dicks him. There's big dicks him, right? Big dicks. He gets the hog out, man.
But just the way that he can stay, like you can see now, normally it comes a lot later in a Harv's career where it seems like the game slows down and they fall into their pocket. Whereas some of the decisions that he can make on the spot, like now, it's scary to think where he's going to get 26. He was 23 three years ago. Yeah. Well, I said 23 on the other night and you're like, yeah, man. And I'm like, cool. He probably had a fucking couple of babies in him. Just agreeing.
You're like 24, 25, 26. I was like, yeah, one of them. He's somewhere between 18 and 30. But the way that he, like that one where there was like, there was some hectic stuff going on the left side. Lewis comes stepping inside, offload, offload, offload. And then Nathan Cleary looks and then just goes, oh, hang on a second. Fink puts in a perfect kick for Toto out on the wing. Like most other halves might have panicked, might have thrown a high ball,
might have wanted to run it. But he just summed it up so quick. Just went, bang, this is the option, bang, straight away. And that was three minutes after the Sharks scored a try Ryan had a little bit of hope that they might actually get over, and then he just did that, and it was like, ah, fuck. What's this then, slut? Yeah, basically. Bang. I have to admit, though, in a losing side, Braden Trindle played fucking red hot. They should do a contract swap.
Basically, yes. At the Sharkies. Put him in the big money. He's going to Brisbane, I reckon. Don't bring him closer to the Gold Coast. He's already had one run in this week. Send him to the Rabbitohs. Get out of our car there too. Wayne would love that. Yeah, Wayne would really love it. He would. None of them would be playing first grade, that's for sure. Acting like that around Benno. Anyway, so that's it. Yep. Storm versus Penrith Grand Final.
It has been five years since they versed last time. Four years, four or five, whatever it is. So it's pretty dope. But like Cody said, I think this is the grand final. Last year, the best two teams versus the grand final, which was Penrith and Broncos, and we had a red-hot grand final. I think it's the same this year. These two will be the best teams by far all year. And I think it's poetic justice that they are in the grand final.
And it's a little bit of that full circle because Storm probably sent them on their winning streak. Storm had gone away, sort of somewhat rebuilt. They've stayed there and thereabouts.
But now they're back up firing and see if the Penrith Panthers can hold them off or if the Storm can be like nah nah, we gotcha it's hard but I think Storm have been that little bit better probably all year consistently they've probably had a better run of injuries too all year and then these finals they've been probably that little bit better especially last week I think they were just that little bit better, especially attacking wise they've been looking that much cleaner and that their
whole spire has been clicking where Penrith still look a little bit just clunky still a little bit but I think Penrith know, that the grand finals is the game where you need to stand up and play your best so well and they're so used to so used to this week five in a row bullshit like. This time, some teams get there and they're probably overawed. They don't know what to do. This is going to be another week.
They've been doing it for, like you said, yeah, this is going to be their fifth year in a row. They just keep doing it. Kyle, can we play a little bit of replay from Saturday night? I'll be Ivan Clear. You be Kyle Lally. Oh, it's so hard to make grand finals. So just, you know, respect to all the boys making a grand final. Shut the fuck up, Ivan. Are you blowing up? Oh, man, he's sitting there in the fucking presser and he
goes, don't understand. You don't understand. how hard it is to make a grand final. And I'm just like, this bloke, taking the absolute, you've made it five years in a row, champ. Can't be that fucking hard. Well, they now have the all-time record for most finals games in a row. Oh, man, I was blowing up. I was like, fuck you, Ivan. Fuck you. What, do you want him to sit back and just be like, hey, peace, peace, boys. We knew we were going to be there.
We've had our fucking accommodation in the hotel booked all year. Yeah, basically. No, good on them. I still don't know who I want to win out of this, because I fucking hate Melbourne, but I don't want to see Penrith win a fourth one. Hey, if we all hate Melbourne and we hate Penrith, we might as well. It'll be the first four-peat since the Dragons went ham in the fucking 50s and 60s. There's been a few three-peats since then, but no fault. Four-peats.
I just want to draw at the end of 80 minutes and for it to go 120. Just a slugger. That's what you want. You just want a good game of rugby league. Whichever way it goes, if one team blows out another team, it's just never as fun. Boys, quick guess, who's the referee for this week? It'll be fucking G. It's Friday night. The referee for the All-Game, I reckon. Grant Atkins. Not Ashley Klein. It'll be somehow, it'll be fucking G, won't it?
I feel like it has to be one of the two grand finals, one of the same referees from Friday or Saturday, and I feel like the Friday night referee will be the guy. So which means, do you reckon the other one will be put in the bunker then? Surely. Nah, it'll be what's-her-name. Oh, Badger. It won't be Badger. It won't be Chris Butler. Chris Butler is terrible. It'll be the pair of them. Maybe like two wrongs make a right kind of thing. If you put them in together.
Does that mean we don't even have our little tips to go through? You don't have your laptop, Kyle? That's on a Wednesday, brother. We usually just touch our tips. Yeah, we could have extended it out. I think I've got five out of six. Five out of six? Yeah, I'm not sure. I think I had an absolute shocker. Well, you both. I went Storm, but Roosters Alliance, I know I got only one there. Who was your trial scorer? Pappy, 100%, surely, because I even had him in our bets. And then I went Panthers,
Panthers with Pluck. I'm pretty sure you went Tedesco. No, I don't think so. You went Tedesco in something. No way. You went Tedesco in something. Because who did you, you went Nick Meaney. Hey? You went Nick Meaney. I went Nick Meaney. You went Tedesco, yes. I went Pappy for sure. No, you went Teddy. I went Pappy. What did you go for, what did you take Teddy in then? Like in my bet, he was in my same game, huh? I was going to say there was one of them. Oh, yeah, there was.
One of them was Tedesco. Which I never actually got on, by the way. Oh, we were spewing. Yeah, I know. Because I think that was the only thing that didn't get up for me. Oh, no, I know I had one to 12 in the same game. Yeah, he come to me and he had this other one. He's like, oh, this one, this one, this one. And then he went, like he placed the bet and then he went, oh, shit, I didn't put Jake's on. And I was like, hurry up. And then as he went to try and transfer the money,
it's gone to live. And he's like, oh, no. And then we're watching it and said something happened. And then the storm did whatever. So we're like, I think you were like, Papine hasn't scored. Oh, no, that was your crucial then. Or whatever it was happened, and then Storm won the first half. And I was like, oh, no, oh, no. I'm pretty sure he missed the try scorer. Yeah, no. So Storm to win the first half. Or no, Storm to win both halves. Tedesco any time. And Melbourne won 12.
Yeah. And then I know I had Panthers. Panthers to win, but pump them. And I'd leave mine to score on that one. So I reckon I got five, I see. No, I don't know. You didn't have Lear Martin. I had Lear Martin. I had Lear Martin one day. No, I'm pretty sure you took the Sharkies with the line. No, I fucking didn't. No. No, I think that was me. I had Panthers and Sharkies too. Anyway, mate, we did do one job, brought you bloody utensils.
Yeah, but you rushed me out of the apartment. Oh, my God. Rushed you out of the apartment. Mate, you took two hours to get out of the apartment. That's a fuckhead. Yeah. Not like you didn't fucking get all hospitable and looked after him. And the whole reason why it took me time was because I was cleaning up. And he was just watching me clean the whole time.
But then I was like, I don't want to get home because the last time we did this and I left with him on the Saturday, I got home on a Monday night and it was just still messy. And I'm like, fuck this. So then I was like, no, I'm cleaning it before we leave. And he's like, Jade was making us pancakes. I told you that. I was like, yeah, you could have helped. I did help, mate. And then you took the wrong exit to Jindalee.
Delayed us by another 35 minutes. 35 minutes no no like 4 minutes 4 minutes, yeah he would have just drove faster boys quick question who gets the Deleon Wednesday night, it's gotta be Hughes man it's gotta be Hughes man he's been gunning it all year, after the Johnson thing last year if Hughes doesn't win it this year they need to I know they've only just changed the point scoring, but bloody hell he has been out and out the best player all year I know they
say like oh Tedesco's had some good games I don't reckon he's been as consistent as he had a bit of a slow start. Teddy had a lot of good games. But Hughes, he's just killing it. And he hasn't had anyone else to take points off of him. Yeah, like Teddy had a lot of good games. And if you want to talk about last year. I don't know, Wishart might have taken some. Ellie Catoa might have taken some. Warbrick definitely took a lot.
Warbrick definitely took some from him. Any time, like I was saying, any time Catoa scored points, it was because he's running off of Romy Hughes. So I feel like if he's getting two, he's getting three. Yeah, right. I still reckon it's going to be Tedesco, but anyway. Deserves it. Let's quickly list our players of the year, Dalliams, and whoever gets the most ticks will win on the weekend. Are you going to write them all down? I'll write them all down.
Well, I'm going Tedesco for Dalliam, and you boys are both going Romney Hughes. I meant like players' positions. Players or positions? Like positions. Player positions. But you said Dalliam. Yeah. So it's a team, Dalliam team. Fucking hell, mate. Just out of nowhere. Fullback of the year, Kyle, who you got? Oh, I wonder who. Probably Ponga. Okay. Tedesco, you fucking loser. Cody, agree? Fullback will beat Tedesco. Yeah, I'll go Teddy too. Oh, get your own fucking
theories, fuckers. Wingers, Cody? Hey? Wingers of the year? Oh, man. Lomax is going to be up there. Yeah. Lomax for sure. And then you can't go past. I don't know about the votes. Toto's obviously out and out one of the best wingers, but I don't know if he's had that sort of year. I don't think he's scored many tries this year. So just run it through. Let's quick it. I've jotted down. We'll see who wins. Well, you've thrown this on us here. I know. You're just fucking absolute curveball.
The first name that comes to mind for me is Zach Lomax. Okay. The second one, Will Warbrick. Yeah, I'm just thinking of him too. He's probably the one that would jag points because he's had some really good games. I can't think of any others. Like, you can play consistently, but whether or not you actually score points is a different story. I'm going Lomax and Toe for me. It's always a good shout. Okay, you're going Lomax and who are you going to lock in? I said,
I'm following him, Warbrick. Warbrick, beautiful. I'll go Senators of the Year. I think it will be Steven Crichton. Who am I forgetting right now? The other dude. I think... The other dude. Just the other dude. I think Val Holmes will still just get it. Oofed. Kyle? I reckon Croydon and Bradman Best. I don't know if he played enough games. Bradman Best? In Newcastle? I don't like it. Cody? Mate, I just... I'm not sure, eh? You know, how many games do you have to play?
No, there's no minimum. That's just who ever got most points in that position From Deleon. I'm going to fucking Throw out a little bit of a fucking left fieldy one I'm going to go Kira's I reckon he had a good year, That's why I said fucking games Dickhead So you're going Krita and Kraz Or you're going someone else and Kraz Or you think Krita's a lock He's a centre. Dickhead Gotcha bitch You especially can't do that when we're talking about...
Yeah, but you're the one I know you're saying he's a lock. He's never played lock ever. Or you can give it a red hot go, though. Kyle, you got a 5.8 from here? It's hard just fucking... It's hard just out of your... Just randoms. 5.8? 5.8. Ooh. They've been pretty scarce. It'd have to be Jerome Leroy. Ooh, Jerome Leroy. Go back to me, Senna. I'm going to go with Val Holmes as well already. Ooh, Holmes and Carras for Cody.
I'm going to go... I would like Luai, but I reckon Dearden will get more points than him. I'm going Dearden. Cody? Yeah, I've been on Dearden. Yeah. Halfback of the year? Romy. Yeah, Hughes. Hughes. Easy. Nah, probably Mitchell Moses, I reckon. Front rowers of the year, Kyle? On the same team, mate. Nah, I reckon it's going to be AFB and Tappany. I don't know. I reckon Tappany is definitely going to be one, and it's going to be a toss-up between AFB and Barnett for the other.
I'm going to go Tappany and Barnett because I think AFB has been a bit down this year. Still had a great year, but it's a little bit down. No, I'm going the Warriors duo. Yeah, okay, nice. Tappany didn't score any tries. Fuck you. I had to bring that up again. Well, by that case, that fucking Papali should be there somewhere.
¶ NRL Player Awards Predictions
I don't know. He would have got a vote for that game. Hooker of the year? Summer? Oh, Jesus Christ. Oh, that's good. Hey, that's really good. That's fucking quick too. I don't know if he can go past Harry Grant. I don't know if he played enough good. He had a very slow start of the year. I don't know who else he got, Bart. I think I might go Robson. He's consistent. He's up there. He's up there. I wouldn't be mad if Robson got it over. He's a goer.
I think Robson could get it. And it's his most consistent season he's ever had. You know what I mean? So he might be a bit more of a standout to go. Second rowers of the year. Who's yours, mate? I went Grant, yeah. Even though I feel like he's definitely been down, but I think he's still been the best. Second rowers, Angus Croydon, easy lock. And don't say it, Hamoli over Ellie Katoa. Nasty. I've got to go Katoa over Hamoli. and Angus,
Angus had a fantastic start. I don't know if anyone else would have scored points late. He did sort of fall off those last few weeks. But I reckon the start that he had, yeah, I'm going to have to go him because I don't think there's any other. Is it left, right, or is it just back rowers? Most votes, yeah, most votes. Yeah, it doesn't matter what side. It doesn't matter left, right? No. I'm going to go Alicator and kick out. That's what I'm going to do because fuck the Roosters.
You are such a hater. Bruh. I wasn't going to say anything. I was just going to just. Whatever. And your lock of the lock of the year. Hey, Villiam and Kikau did have the most charge downs of anyone this year. Great pick. Great pick. But he's also got the most errors. Who loves a good charge down? Fucking loser. Just imagine, though, if Kikau, Crichton, Appie were still at Penrith. All of them, mate. Burton. And the other guy. Oh, Burton. And the other guy.
Lock of the lock of the year. Oh, can I change my five-eighths to Burton? Fuck, I forgot about him. I was going to bring it up. And I was like, all year, me and you have been having the Burt and Deirdre and Burt and Deirdre. And then you're like, Luai. Fucking turn. Oh, fucking Penrith. But Luai. Yeah, I was just going off the teams that were in front of me. And Bulldogs went one. It's hard the last few weeks. There's been finals. And Luai's been playing pretty good now. Or they've been winning.
He's been playing. Though he was playing real good. Well, clear as it. I think Luai probably will get it. I like it. But I think Deirdre just gets that more points. Anyway, for Locke, it's Yo. It's Yo. Yo. Give me 14 of them right now. Yeah, I don't think there's any other. Patrick Carrigan was definitely down. Ruben Carter probably didn't have his best year.
Cam Murray was out injured. Yeah. If Kaloma Tungy had have fucking kept up that form that he had there through the middle when he was playing lock before they moved him back, he'd be a real good shout. But they pushed him back out there and he sort of got a bit more quiet out on the edge there. So you've got to go, Yo. That is the Muttley Crew teams of the week. Team of the year, sorry. Who's your rookie? Got them all down.
I did see the nominees. Kyle Leroy. And I was going to go the one that I was surprised. I sort of forgot it was a rookie. Jack Bostock. No, no, the other one. Kyle Leroy. No, the other one. That was the other one in the nominees. I don't know. I haven't seen the nominees. I haven't seen the nominees. I'm just going off good rookies. It's those two and there was another guy. Come on, buddy. I'm not going to find it. I'm going Kyle Leroy.
Unless he depends on who he says his name is as the other nominee. It's out and out. Lucky Galvin. 100% it's off. But that, I reckon they've got to change. So dumb. I reckon they've got to change it a bit, and it only should be if, like, big intent, absolute grub sort of stuff. You know what I mean? Like, it brings disrepute to the game. Like, if it's just a little bit of something, something, then you get weeks
for it. I don't think you should be ruled out of, because you can't ever win it again. Yeah, I know. Like, a Dallium of the year, make that harder, because you get another chance next year.
You get another chance next year. But the rookies Let them have a little bit of leeway The other one was Ethan Strange, But nah I think it'll be Kylie I think he He had a red hot start Yeah Eero Eero Come good And Strange sort of dropped off that bit Yep And those couple of games That he had to play in the centres there When they were mixing stuff up, Didn't help him And So Kylie Rowe for me.
So at least going through the nominees now, boys, we have chose, everyone has chose players that have been, except Kyle. Kyle chose one guy who was not even up for player of the year. Good one, Kyle. You know, rugby league. Who's that? Brabham Best. No. What? And you had Kikau somehow. Kikau's in the top five. As a nominee. He's a nominee. So can I change my Brabham Best? Why not? Because you fucked up. I'll change, I'll take that. No, but he's not in it. Not in it.
Gagai. He's in it. He played rugby league. Can I go Gagai? Gagai's not in top five either. Fuck. Who are the five? Herbie Ramien Staggs Crichton Holmes But you can't change Because it's locked in Ramien, Staggs He had a couple He had two games And he would have got Probably six Oh okay It would just be Ponga 2.0 Can I change it to Herbie? No you can't You're a fucking piece of shit Anyway thank you What an absolute scumbag What else do they vote on?
Catherine Lear That would be fucking Yo Ian Cleary Grant Yo Crichton Coach of the year That's And the Pro Bowl. What's his name? Cleary won it yet in this run. Surely. Surely he's got to get one. He would have got one or two. I don't think he has. I think he might have got one when it wasn't even in the five years. It's like Nathan's never got the Deleon. That's because he always gets injured. The last three years he spent time out. Not in those first couple of years, but.
But he wasn't what he was now. But the whole team's just so consistently good. You don't look like he plays really well and gets them over the line, but I wouldn't say that he necessarily carries the team. 1-1, Cody. The way Ponga does. What? Ivan Cleary won 1 in 2020. Yeah, when they lost. He hasn't won 1 while they've won. Yeah. Incredible. I know. Wasn't 2020 the first year they won? No, they won 2021. Not 4, yeah. You're right.
That's how it went. They always get who has done the best or improved. Won one in 2014 with the Warriors too. I reckon a good shout nearly though is Olmo from Bulldogs. He's up, yeah. Serraldo. I reckon he gets it. That's a good shout. Yeah, because we're sick of Panthers and the Storm. Well, we just proved the Panthers haven't won in that many times. Yeah, I know. But, you know, through the regular season Cleary had probably, you know, he didn't even come first.
Anyway, maybe just give it to Bellamy again. Just give it to the Ake. Give it to Kevvy. Yeah, do you actually have to be an active coach at the time of the awards to... What about a quick take, boys? Looks like Michael Maguire will be coaching the Broncos. I like the little bit of whispers that they must have gone to him first because it's... For something to come out of the blue like this and no one really know about it and then already have conversations with Michael Maguire.
Michael Maguire's already gotten permission from New South Wales Rugby League if he wants to step down. Like, obviously, there was a little bit of something-something behind the scene and Kevvy's just been fucking... From a New South Wales fan's point of view, fucking hate it.
But if I was a Broncos fan I'd be fucking loving it But the thing is It's going to be It's going to be interesting to see Because I don't know whether, It'll be interesting to see If the Broncos players Will buy into what Madge Or Madge's style Because I think It's going to be vastly different To what Kovu Alts was doing It's It's going to be interesting To see One The Broncos are very much A, Old boys team Old boys are in and around it Fucking love it Throffing it That's
why they all wanted Kevvy in there. He's, you know, Broncos heart and soul. He's won all these ones as a player. And now when you get him in as a coach, it'd be interesting to see if that sort of vibe stays around with him coming in. I reckon he's the type of player that would still get them all in and stuff like that and, like, embrace it. But then, yeah, seeing how these young fellas are going to take his sort of style of in-your-face, fucking do it this way, boys, let's go.
You're going to have to get in and get dirty. There's none of this staying pretty stuff. Yeah, I think it's perfect for the... And there's nothing to... There's things to go off. He's won a premiership. He turned the bloody Kiwis around, pumped Australia last year off of like one year. New South Wales Blues lost the first game, turned around. And the way that he got that culture back and then ended up pumping us, won the series. Like if you just buy in.
I think those things prove that he's relentless and he knows what he's doing and he's a smart coach. So as soon as he gets there, I think he's going to go to the old boys. He's going to go to like what Brisbane means and he's going to learn about the culture and history. He's going to do the study. And I think the old boys will see that he fucking cares about the Broncos because that's his job. He will be fully in, and I think that will help.
Because I think a lot of people right now are like, fuck, really? New South Wales coming to Brisbane? He doesn't know Brisbane. But he will fucking go all in. Well, he wasn't a Kiwi. He did the Kiwis. He just does it really well.
¶ Coaching Changes and Future Prospects
So I think they'll get around him. I think Adam Reynolds being there is a big thing because Adam Reynolds was halfback when he won for the Rabbitohs. So I think that's going to help a lot because Reynolds will be like, boys, he knows what he's doing. Let's get around it. But yeah, it'd be just those, there's a couple of egos and a couple of young fellas there that it might be a bit of a shock and we'll see what happens.
That's going to be interesting. But I think it was only, I think it was, yeah, I don't think there was anyone else that was really suited for the job. That's why I thought it was weird when they did it. Now it's all starting to make sense because it was obviously in the background there a little bit. Yeah. But at first it was like, oh my God, like who else is there? Yeah. Barrett. Wow. and then other unsuccessful coaches yeah but then now this has come out and it's like ahhh.
Little fucking knifey spoonie not bad right on that's it let's get around it boys we'll see you sometime again this week for our pre on a day that's a day that's not a day that is a day it'll be a day or maybe it might even be a night we'll find out it won't be night, bye love you.