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Speaker 1: Approach, production, approache production.
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Speaker 2: H No, I don't it's true, don't know, don't know, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I don't want.
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Speaker 2: Anybody else but you. No, no, no, no, no, no.
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Speaker 1: Don't Magic Crown.
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Speaker 3: That was.
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Speaker 4: Ship. So we actually have a couple of magic tricks on the show today. Magic Mark's coming in.
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Speaker 3: It's just would name Michael, okay.
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Speaker 4: And he's kind of a couple of Magic Round tricks for us.
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Speaker 1: You gonna magically help the dragons.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I don't think anyone that you need real magic?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, puff the magic dragon somebody them.
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Speaker 4: So let's talk about magic. So playing Magic Ground, was it awesome? Was it special? Or was it just the same as every other It's just.
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Speaker 1: Another Yeah, it just the one. He wasn't around for that.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 1: Well, the funny thing was Magic Round.
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Speaker 5: That same weekend actually was our home game game at Suncourt, which mainly used to always bring to ours, and I don't think they won a game ever doing that.
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Speaker 1: I scored, Yeah, I sed my four tries on one of.
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Speaker 5: Those games, right, and Magic Round when it started we were Friday Nights for the first few I believe I think we I think we won, but look, I can't say definitely, But for me it was just another round, you know, being at Suncourt, it's it's hard to not feel like it's just another around. Gus Gould loves the fact that the Broncos get an away game.
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Speaker 1: It's his favorite. He thinks it's so fair.
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Speaker 4: That you get this and or for a lot of the Sydney teams are not used to playing in front of crowds, so.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true, so you're welcome. It works is you know, you remember this.
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Speaker 5: Every team comes here and they love the place, whether or not the crowds for us or them, it's it's just the best feel like the atmosphere, like they always say it, and they come here to play the best game.
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Speaker 1: It's the vibe. It's it's the vibe.
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Speaker 5: The history of obviously of the stadium helps too, so imagine around.
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Speaker 1: I think it's magic for for more.
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Speaker 3: So the supporters like, yeah, the event is just so big now.
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Speaker 4: Tipping last week, Corey, you have gone from last to first.
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Speaker 1: First, your last and if you last.
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Speaker 4: Ricky Bobby, you're Ricky Bobby.
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Speaker 1: You're Ricky Bobby.
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Speaker 4: You've got six out of eight. Me and Sammy got four, appalling, Yeah, got half of them.
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Speaker 1: And Bronx is one of my losses.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there was a couple I picked just for gammon anyway, what I was doing, I don't care, that's what It's not for anything. So yeah, it's where's the government from.
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Speaker 1: Giving? Bruce has been trotted one of the multis every week. Well he's own exactly, hasn't I noticed that?
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Speaker 4: Bruce only ever said it's the screenshot of the ones he wins once it's already happened.
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Speaker 1: Slips.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but you two, did you pick a trio? No?
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Speaker 1: I wasn't allowed to. I didn't even Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I didn't be in a dick, he said, said Milky Jakie for three three, I should have picked buddy Greg Marjou for five.
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Speaker 4: You do that?
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Speaker 1: Oh my trailers?
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Speaker 5: I need a ponger or what's the Fletcher sharp? I just need one of those school and I was happy.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the rest of my life anyway, gamble responsible thanks responding, I.
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Speaker 4: Think we've got our first magic trick about to happen, have we.
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Speaker 1: All?
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Speaker 6: Right?
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Speaker 4: Magic time for for magic Ground. We've got Mike Tyler with us Magic.
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Speaker 1: Mike here you guys, there we go the closed version.
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Speaker 4: Yes, nice to see. Cory was Yeah, I used to do a show like that.
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Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, what did it get naked By the end of the show.
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Speaker 3: You made your clothes disappear, everything else, everything else disappeared.
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Speaker 4: You're talking about after the show came off.
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Speaker 6: But I just do close stuff. Now I'm married and got a little baby girl. Where can we find you a good reason?
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Speaker 3: Mike Tyler Magic Magic that's available for birthday's, weddings, funerals too.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, mainly corporate stuff now, awards nights and ye staff Christmas party stuff like that. But yeah, I do birthdays that as well, just not kids stuff. Yeah, I've done a I've done awake. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah man awake. Yeah. It was a weird one because she actually wasn't so I got there and then I was told she wasn't actually passed away yet.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so.
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Speaker 4: It's a bit I'm like, I think this really counts as awake.
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, she was about to so she's.
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Speaker 6: Having like a celebration, but I was there to bring up the mood. Yeah, just like that one after Yeah, it was like time Wish for the adults.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Magic.
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Speaker 6: There's a lot of naked talk with four guys in a roomy. Well they're still young. Maybe I will as well. Yeah, you know that's a little bit of a magic trick.
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Speaker 1: Next to this is just not fair. Deliberately put your bro the most gullible, easiest to feel.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought that was normally the forwards.
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Speaker 1: No, not the I do it for the laugh. Okay, yeah, you like the client.
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Speaker 6: Well I couldn't bring a little bit of a trick today twenty nine years he's been doing it was like, yeah, nine are you thirty one?
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Speaker 1: Hey thirty one?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's some city miles on the clock if.
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Speaker 1: You don't.
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Speaker 3: The job.
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Speaker 1: So I had that. Yeah, I get it.
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Speaker 6: I get anyway, Rugby themes Rugby League Magic round this weekend, right, and so for.
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Speaker 4: This trick, I want you, Cory, to think of just in.
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Speaker 6: Your mind, think of any of the Rugby League teams. So the seventeen plus, there's Morons, there's Blues and the Kangaroos, right, so twenty teams, I guess in total. I want you to think of one, don't do an obvious one like Broncos, and work out what.
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Speaker 4: I'm just gonna get a pin.
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Speaker 6: I'm going to drop down what I think maybe you're thinking of great great, alright, I've got something here. So the first time today out loud, what was the team that you were thinking of.
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Speaker 1: Some nights?
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Speaker 4: Newcastle Knights. Yeah, that's okay.
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Speaker 1: I'll a little bit of magic juice right here.
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Speaker 6: Put that in here, and I'm going to take my little bit my little guests here and what's this here?
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Speaker 1: Close?
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Speaker 4: We take it?
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Speaker 1: Were just oh yeah, what's your closes? You're going to make something that's nice appear? Just hat fan take that season? Is that a friend of it?
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Speaker 4: It was twenty bucks on eBay? Yeah, I'm starting by that. What just happened to?
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Speaker 2: Where?
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Speaker 1: Where did where did did that come from? Where's the fire going? Did you go to do his kitchen? Yeah?
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Speaker 4: Yeah? Cook? Come on, did you tell in Newcastle Knights before we started this? Didn't say that loud? I didn't tell them this is We'll have another magic trick before the end of the podcast.
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Speaker 1: Where did he do that? I'm always yeah, maybe we could learn it.
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Speaker 3: But if only I could make my love angels disappear? That you can? You can?
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Speaker 1: You don't?
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Speaker 4: Okay? So Thursday night we have the Women's State of Origin Game two.
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Speaker 3: Yes, that's it's it's well, this game it starts fiery usually this game I remember from previous last year.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was it was a good start.
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Speaker 4: Say New Southwest very strong, there was.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there was one point in time I thought Queensland could win the first game six meal and then New South Wales they back into the game, they score and then.
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Speaker 1: That lock for queens then or she can whack. She is amazing.
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Speaker 3: Joseph Kelly jo Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but I thought she was like they was their best player.
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Speaker 5: She was hidden and she when she went off, I feel like they lost a bit.
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Speaker 1: Of their they went off. Course she could knockdown but get knocked out.
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Speaker 3: It was actually just unlucky, to be honest, how she got it, But man, I with her that team, she isn't there and she was so close to score that I just had that that scrambled had scrambled. It was a crazy start to the game. The first hit up of the game, we lose the front rower. That doesn't help. Yeah, it was her first run.
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Speaker 4: Ever, do you reckon because the number of the players play with the fake eyelashes, would.
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Speaker 7: That be guys know the girl he's watched It seems going to be a distraction. I have never thought of it.
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Speaker 1: I wanted to think. I don't watch the game for.
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Speaker 4: That, and I think you're going to wear you're going out eyelashes for this game, but.
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Speaker 1: They do it. I don't think it would help.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, just checking out.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, because everyone always says that the lights player a fact that went like, yeah, there's right, But when the games, it's actually pretty crazy.
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Speaker 3: I never thought about it until now when you're playing and here at the moment, you don't even notice.
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Speaker 1: The lights when you're looking for the ball, right.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, And even in the rain, unless it's pelting down and blind sideways, the rain doesn't actually bother your eyes. So I'll be interested in I'll be very surprised.
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Speaker 1: If it does.
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Speaker 4: I'm interested to know the glue they used, because they can somehow handle getting tackled and the wet and all those things and they stay on there. It's incredible.
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Speaker 1: What do you want to.
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Speaker 4: Thinkers with that? That's good.
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Speaker 1: We should put it on as you get them on, and then that could be your punishment for being late.
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Speaker 3: Next shure, you've got to put fake eyelashes on for the next week.
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Speaker 1: We picked them. I say, yes, let's get this. I can't wait for now. Give me the full Camel.
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Speaker 3: Friday Night sho queens then anyway Thursday, Yeah, someone Girls even the series up and then down to the Gold Coast. So that's one of the advantages Queensland has this year. Sun Corp game too, and then Game three is down the Gold Coast last damn, I'm sure make me remember things. Yeah, I don't know, shut.
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Speaker 4: Shout the Bulldogs first, probably game Magic Ground. Bulldogs not going great.
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Speaker 3: I don't think either team played over the great no weekend. I don't know what's kind of the Dogs, no idea attacking wise, They've got no confidence at all. And you, I think you hit the nail on the head last week when you said the Dogs are a team that they get there they cyc up off their attacks, so if their attack is humming, their defense is humming. It's usually the other way around for most teams. But yeah, the Dogs, they just can't seem to be the attacking team that we know they can be.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, that's some absolute weapons.
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Speaker 3: Well yeah, and then like you said, I noticed it actually more on the weekend than ever, and I know it because I.
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Speaker 1: Was looking for it.
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Speaker 3: But when they did a good D set, I was just this attack set's going to be there's just one out.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and they just had nothing. I'm like, where's the dogs that going.
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Speaker 3: That we know, like, yeah, I was just spreading them to go eighty meters and school or you know, seventy meters after that really good set they just did and yeah, Like it's like there building too long into a game, you know, right, I don't know if they're waiting for something to happen or they do well. I think last year what was different for them Last year They had the ability last year to grind a team to death and then be able to score some points late to put them away.
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Speaker 1: And this year you just can't do that.
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Speaker 3: With the huge, big momentum swings that we have in our game through the six again calls, they just can't do it.
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Speaker 1: And like very very similar to the Melbourne Storm.
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Speaker 3: That's the style of football the Melbourne Storm has played for since their inception just about so.
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Speaker 5: I think they just need they need to play their game, like Galvin when he's on the board, just just play. I don't think there's any really building into a game anymore. They maybe got two sets starting and it's a window.
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Speaker 3: Bring the dogs defense that you know that they've been known as the dogs of war for how long bring that style of defense but then play all out attack, like just throw caution to the win.
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Speaker 1: Who cares? Whatever happens happens, agile middle and speed and all players. That's why I love watching the Dolphins.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so they don't mind having a crack from inside their own ten minutes.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, like stringing a few passes there, getting the ball. White.
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Speaker 4: Sharks are a team you can put on a lot of points, and I think, yeah, I think they will. I'm tipping Sharks.
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Speaker 1: Dogs. I've gone dogs.
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Speaker 3: I reckon last week really peeved them off because they should have won that game.
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Speaker 1: They really should have a right when they came semi did they play last week?
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Speaker 4: I knew he wouldn't know.
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Speaker 1: It again, Dolphins, what happened? What happened in the game?
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Speaker 3: Oh?
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Speaker 5: They just really Yeah, they lost it. Really they lost the game. It was the score again, forty four to twelve. Yeah, yeah, it was twelve all there for a while.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Dolphins put on an.
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Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. The start of the game. They didn't show me. I really thought, oh yeah, and then it just they're attacks dif Yeah, it did. He did actually watched. It really made me try.
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Speaker 1: To think back.
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Speaker 3: One of quatic animal beat him last week. I think the next aquatic animalill beat him this week.
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Speaker 1: Shout.
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Speaker 4: Speaking of dolphins, there the second Friday night game, Rabbit os Dolphins.
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Speaker 3: What a great game this is going to be. There's gonna be points. Leave the shoulders at home, guys, let's play a tax.
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Speaker 4: Let's like the NBA.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I want I want an NBA score. Yeah, what do you reckon?
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Speaker 5: I reckon We'll get over one hundred and sixty points in the first three games.
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Speaker 3: We could actually, we actually could imagine it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: I made the Rabbits with a few boys out whatever that kid's name was that day, but I can't.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Ye, and he's just bloody Early's good.
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Speaker 3: So Mitchell still out, No I think no, Yeah, I think he's going to be back. Okay, yeah, but so he has been named Yeah, but I think he'll be back. He'll want to get a game in before Origin selection on Monday, so he'll be in for this game and then he'll be fired up for this game too.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, I have the Sharks in that game after the ten minutes.
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Speaker 3: So weighing up against Christian Wolf, so yeah, I think this would be a great game, all out attack. I reckon the Dolphins have been like they've gotten better because Jeremy Marshall King is back. Yeah, he made awesome. He had a huge difference. I thought that Cody Nikarima back in the team too. Really freeze up Kataa. So I'm going Dolphins. What did you say to me after watching that game? What did you notice that same and I mentioned that you didn't think about and then watching that, what did you say?
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Speaker 1: How cute Herbie Farnworth was exactly.
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Speaker 4: Asako could have another try if Bosto could pass the ball, but he just he went himself.
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Speaker 1: He just hold it.
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Speaker 4: It was really it was interesting saying, yeah he had a bit too much self confidence.
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Speaker 3: Yeah it came true. Yeah, and like I said, him for one was good, but that's I missed that try And he said it was a blatant drawing past.
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Speaker 5: Yeah it was. He just went himself. But yeah, look, I've gone the Rabbits. I've said that, but it'll be bloody, it'll be a crap game of footy.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of points. I think we've all agreed that. But I do think the rabbit as are too good, playing just way too good.
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Speaker 4: I'll go to the Dolphins because it's kind of our home game, so the Dolphins on that.
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Speaker 1: You get your Dolphins, Dolphins, but it's you two versus me.
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Speaker 4: It is again. Yeah, well we've got to catch Ups and Morley. Yeah for a Saturday game. Tiger's manly, So Tiger's obviously coming off for loss. Manly flying.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, mainly going to be too good in this game because those boys are still out.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's out for a while, dreaming Bullers out for a while as well, happy happy back. He didn't get suspended. I don't know if it was one week or two weeks, so yeah, to kind of wait and see. But yeah, I just think Manly, they've got so much confidence at the moment, the way they're playing.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, I just think they'll be they'll be too good. Yeah. And I think is still out. Yeah still you've got too many.
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Speaker 3: Too many out for them. It still goes all right, Yeah, plays really well. I reckon he's better in the halves than he is at number nine. Yeah, Yeah, I found it hard. I think that after the Tigers last week, they'll be they will be up for this. But I don't know whether they'll be out for the whole game. I've gone mainly also, but yeah, I think they'll be into it. They'll be in the game for close to most of it. But I just think mainly be too too disciplined.
00:18:46
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going manly. I think if we're not at one hundred and sixty points by the end of Friday night, we will get there.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, what about the next one.
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Speaker 4: Roosters Cowboys the middle Saturday game?
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Speaker 3: Can we better on how many points are going to be scored this weekend?
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Speaker 1: Couldn't it?
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Speaker 3: This could be almost a battle for who is going to play in filling that half back role for the Queensland. You got Jake Clifford for the Cowboy. You've got Sammy Walker for We've got different opinions about that. We'll get to that. Yeah, we'll get to that later. We'll name our teams. Have you written your team down or I've written it down?
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Speaker 1: Where is it? It's in my head?
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Speaker 3: Okay, trying to find what a lock of that.
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Speaker 1: I like Jake Clifford in the squad, I do like that idea.
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Speaker 3: Well, we're talking about later, but this game, I think, you know, I think that you know they're going to struggle. I think without Tommy diedon for in the next few weeks. And yeah, I think the Rooster is just flying at the moment I could do to do pardon the puny.
00:19:50
Speaker 4: A ton of North Queenslanders in the stadium, you think.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the early game on Saturday, so magic around is you don't really get one sided cheers.
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Speaker 5: Yes, it's everyone's there just and a good time. Yeah, And I think that's the best, one of the best parts and rugby league Rugby league weather games by the looks of it all weekend.
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Speaker 3: Does it always rain when Buddy Major grounds on? And what I'm going by is the Rooster's ball controllers. I can remember that game. The ball control actually has been insane lately. It's near perfect. It's been a couple of halves where they've been one hundred percent or like ninety five.
00:20:34
Speaker 5: And that itself with the way the game is where Weather, you know, was losing Tommy, I just don't think they're going to give them an inch at all.
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Speaker 1: Like I think they'll strangle out of the game early on. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I even go back to the game the Roosters played against the Bronx and they bashed them.
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Speaker 1: At the start. That start was they couldn't stop them.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, absolutely bashed them, and then they got so much way to possession that the Bronx go with them. So I think there'll be that similar mindset star that will have to bash the Cowboys in their faces, stop them from getting any momentum, momentum at all, and then on the flip side of from the Cowboys threw caution from the wing, shift to shift. I reckon, they're some of their best players are on those edges.
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Speaker 5: Whoever's coming at half mate, just just just play straight and give the ball to you, to you, to you, to your Clifford and you drink waters. That's sort of game you got to play to actually be a chance.
00:21:29
Speaker 1: I reckon. You're right, But roostersss.
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Speaker 4: And then the Eels storm, So storm finally get a win and might might be able to put it to in a row. Yeah, maybe thoughts.
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Speaker 1: They always see this is my Yeah, the Eels.
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Speaker 3: Would have taken a lot of confidence out of they're playing tough.
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Speaker 1: They're playing tough.
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Speaker 3: They having a crack like they're not a great team, but they're.
00:22:01
Speaker 1: They're eighteen team. They're playing together.
00:22:05
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're leaking points, but like they then back their own ability to you know, jump down a short side and you know, you've got a great kicker in Moses that can kick him out of trouble if need be. You know, the game gets tight, he can slot the field goal. You know you didn't actually kick that great from the sideline because he would have sealed the deal if you could have done that earlier in the game. But I'm going to go to the Storm just because I think, yeah, they've they've got a lot of a lot more confidence out of what happened last week, and there'll be some smiles on faces. Yeah, yeah, I'm going to Storm.
00:22:40
Speaker 1: I'm not.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm going just too. But I was so close to go and powder. I think if they can't get a handle on Moses, they they do lose this game. They have to handle him and control him, not what they forget about the others. They've got some strike, don't get me wrong, but his kicking game itself. Because of the weather, if it is going to be wet, keep them in the game, and that could just frustrat a team like the Storm who are struggling for points and for confidence, you know what I mean. Like that, if that happens, I wouldn't be surprised if they do lose. But on Melbourne, like I think that weekend the game will just yeah hopefully bound to.
00:23:19
Speaker 4: Assassing form so all storm. But Mitchell Moses sou and a half half back.
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Speaker 1: Yep, I can't not pick him just but in origin to the names written there in the sharpie.
00:23:33
Speaker 3: Already his performance is in origin whether or not, he's always going to be doing well for Para.
00:23:39
Speaker 4: So he's five eighth. Then if if clear is half back.
00:23:41
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but they still play that role of half take a.
00:23:45
Speaker 4: Side each year. All right, So let's move on a Sunday. Titans three games on Sunday, So Titans Knights to keep.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be like a seven hundred point round. It's going to be.
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Speaker 4: Titans traditionally. They've played the Knights at Magic Round the last couple of years in a row and gotten beaten.
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Speaker 3: Ye I will say this though, I do feel for the Titans on the weekend.
00:24:09
Speaker 1: I thought they started well, they were robbed.
00:24:12
Speaker 3: They should have gone into halftime six sixail up Robert Toyer, Queenslander, but he dropped the ball as the trial line as clear as that and then Tedesco try Hugo Savale, he plays the ball and then he is inside the ten as Daniel Tupo knocks the ball back for Tedesco to score the try.
00:24:32
Speaker 1: That's real, that's real.
00:24:34
Speaker 3: And that's how many times that gets called week in a week out, and like it sometimes is shipped to be the ship team because you get the ship course. Yeah, and that's what I felt, and I felt for that because what that does going into halftime against the roost there's six nil up, after they've worked their ass off, like they had turned them away, turn them away, turn them away for thirty minutes of that first half.
00:24:57
Speaker 1: And they scored. Unreal, they scored in that last ten minutes.
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Speaker 3: There's two tries to then make him go up at halftime ten to six, and like that's the it's like so deflating as a team, and then they're chasing their tower from that point.
00:25:09
Speaker 1: I remember one of our games when Wayne was a coach. We were down.
00:25:14
Speaker 3: It might have even been against a team like the Roosters, well down that it might have been twenty.
00:25:20
Speaker 5: Two eighteen nil, and then we used to just always focus like we need to be we needed this score. They can't score before halftime and if we scored waye to walk in and go boys, we've got the momentum. Yeah, you're down twelve points.
00:25:34
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he said, but we're just going to make sure now we're next to school, right and if that when that happens, yeah, like you don't actually realize it until it happens, Like, holy hell you going there.
00:25:44
Speaker 5: I feel like you win it. You know those two quick tries. Yeah, they're only got four points in front.
00:25:50
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they're probably thinking we're about we're about eighteen twenty right now. And when you've busted your thirty minutes and you got the point, you can see on the big screen.
00:25:58
Speaker 1: That it's not a try. So why try so hard if we're not going to get the bands at the ball? Yeah, super frustrated. So how you tipping on god nights? But we feel for the time.
00:26:15
Speaker 3: When they gave my opinion, maybe changes if they beat the Roosters.
00:26:18
Speaker 1: If they beat the Roosters last week, I reckon they they're all confidence in because something they left. It's like their their home ground.
00:26:27
Speaker 4: Now this will be the absolutely crack of Warriors. Broncos Sunday.
00:26:32
Speaker 3: After points scoring Philly Coates making his debut on the wing.
00:26:38
Speaker 4: Yeah, is he built it all like Xavier?
00:26:42
Speaker 3: Yeah, he is exact same as It's just right like when he started to get more mature, just got bigger.
00:26:48
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.
00:26:49
Speaker 3: And Philly, he looks he's exact same as him. He can jump.
00:26:54
Speaker 5: And Xavier said to me, I will say this again. I've said it before, I bad it on this podcast.
00:26:58
Speaker 1: But he said to me, I said, jeez, I said, I said you had a younger brother.
00:27:02
Speaker 5: When I heard his name in originally it might have been eighteen, yeah, nine, And he goes yeah yeah, and he said, you know what, he's better.
00:27:10
Speaker 1: Yeah what yeah? Yeah?
00:27:13
Speaker 3: And congratulations to Vehoven too for scoring and try Yeah done, I only try his second game for the for the club. So just back on the remember cart Perrera, Yeah, Titans. Yeah yeah, he's on the left wing for the Warriors. Warriors. Take my hat off to him. Yeah, I think he's gone away. Well we're going over there. They picked him up.
00:27:36
Speaker 5: I never really had annoyed a lot at him because he was so talented, just had the Larry style and just was.
00:27:44
Speaker 3: You know, a little bit cocky, it felt. But buddy, Hell's working hard, He's taking the tough carriages. He's not being self, don't know, he's you know, if it's not on, he's taking that step in getting tackled.
00:27:55
Speaker 1: Quick player the ball.
00:27:56
Speaker 5: Yeah, and my god, he's been one of their better players. I would take my hat off to him.
00:28:00
Speaker 1: Squad done. What have you done? Yeah? I hope you have a ship game of week?
00:28:05
Speaker 3: Yeah?
00:28:05
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, So what's.
00:28:09
Speaker 4: Good for the Bronx? Ben Hunt's back? Still out back? Okay, that's good.
00:28:17
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's gonna be interesting now because you're both back. Yeah, you've got still there.
00:28:24
Speaker 4: Who's going to be on the bench then those two?
00:28:27
Speaker 1: Honest, she's still playing at hooker. We've got on the on the bench at the moment.
00:28:32
Speaker 3: And then you've got Xavier Willison's moved back into the middle. You've got Brandie's not back yet.
00:28:41
Speaker 1: We've got Jade and Hunt, I think Jordan Ricky in the back row.
00:28:49
Speaker 3: Nice uh and Preston Rickey he gets to start to in the front row with big x Xavier Willison.
00:28:55
Speaker 4: He's no relation to Jordan's, no relation at all.
00:28:59
Speaker 1: Just a lot of Benny told you. I think it's almost his.
00:29:04
Speaker 3: I loved watching Benny Tolty start, but I think the energy brings off the bench.
00:29:11
Speaker 1: That's a big boy. Just start at ten and bring him on for the next Yeah.
00:29:15
Speaker 3: I said to him the other week. I said that, mate, it's actually harder the score trials. And you've got the eight or ten on your back, you're probably a little bit better and easier to score tries.
00:29:28
Speaker 1: White Line. I don't know what it is.
00:29:31
Speaker 3: Sixteen school, but you're sitting there and you're watching the game, and then you're seeing how things are unfolding right, and then you have a chance to then run a tired defense when you when you start and it's like you're running that fresh guys and then by the time they're getting buggered, you're getting buggered and you're just waiting for someone to crack. And then sometimes it's that, you know, it's that interchange at the right time, and then you're sixteen comes on, it's an inside ball to Ben Tolty, or it's you know.
00:29:57
Speaker 1: Chip off the forward.
00:29:58
Speaker 5: I'd love to see if they do do it before kickoff, one of the boys off the bench, start then hard and then told he comes on after ten to fifteen minutes.
00:30:07
Speaker 1: Yeah, because that legspe it's underrated.
00:30:10
Speaker 3: But in this game now, oh, it's more important than anything else, like the size on the bench.
00:30:15
Speaker 4: I reckon now, it's way more important than size. Yeah, Warriors are going great this year. I mean it'll be absolutely in the eight, you think, but yeah, for the end of it.
00:30:23
Speaker 3: And there's another reason why, Like I like the Bronx in this game. Warrior is coming off a bye. It's probably a well needed rest for them. But sometimes you can it can be a slow start. So if the Bronx can start well, we always know that they're probably well. Except for last week we met better second half team. So but Bronx haven't been starting well. Well, we were second second half Teamince like you'd like to see him start better because I don't think last year is going to happen again.
00:30:51
Speaker 1: Not with the way the game is.
00:30:53
Speaker 3: You don't start well, you're chasing too much, Yeah, too much chasing. It's too quick, games, too too much. It's like the Roosters game. They couldn't chase thirty points there, just too much. But yeah, I think the Bronx have got there's a lot of good things in their favor this week. And again I'm a big fan. I'm a big believer in the bye too. Yeah, it's always.
00:31:12
Speaker 4: Harder Saral Tip and Bronx anyway. Yeah, and then the final game for a magic ground.
00:31:18
Speaker 1: Power upset, go to the Dragon Panthers, Dragon Dragon.
00:31:23
Speaker 4: I mean it's actually me.
00:31:25
Speaker 1: I'm going to keep on back in the Dragons.
00:31:26
Speaker 3: So it happens, and then you're going to go, oh yeah, good on back the Dragon.
00:31:30
Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean they're paying eleven dollars Dragon, and that's not enough.
00:31:34
Speaker 3: Look again, I'm going to go back to that my start with the Roosters. I don't know if you realize, but on the weekend, I think they dropped the ball the first I think for the first time.
00:31:44
Speaker 1: I think in sixty something minutes.
00:31:47
Speaker 3: Got the ball until twenty three or twenty four.
00:31:52
Speaker 1: New week, it's a new days, I think. I love the low percentage.
00:31:59
Speaker 5: The lowest percentage of completion have to be like eighty five, and I'm feeling good. I don't see it this week. Look all back then maybe once at something the Dragons. I'm sorry, I'm down. Pend Billy thought I'd be so proud of me picking the Dragon the Dragons. That's bold, all right?
00:32:19
Speaker 1: Why good? Where do you see him winning on the scoreboard?
00:32:25
Speaker 3: The boy it's coming from well electronically now they in the old days, they used to have kids sitting in the score they brought it up, but now it's all player.
00:32:35
Speaker 1: I want to see what I want to hear? What? What?
00:32:37
Speaker 5: Where on the field will Panthers defense, you know, be broken?
00:32:42
Speaker 1: Where there's the gaps? Where are they on the field?
00:32:48
Speaker 3: There will be three sin bins or ten ten? Yeah at the same time, yeah, because there will be there'll be a high tackle into a spear tackle. Whoever went low flipped them, but they only did that because someone hit him high fi double binning double wh Yeah, and then dragons winning, Dragon's winning the other way around dragons what happens then it won't happen blood, But we feel sorry for I did say ship teams get shipped calls before?
00:33:24
Speaker 4: Yea, let's put together a multi So who you like?
00:33:30
Speaker 3: My back in Bruce was triples and double Okay, five tries Greg.
00:33:41
Speaker 1: Eight tries in two weeks. He's been brilliants.
00:33:44
Speaker 3: It's actually Calen Ponger has really unlocked that left side of the Newcastle night so he's actually not a bad bet. But it is yeah, yeah, and it was funny when he when KP wasn't playing.
00:33:56
Speaker 1: They went down the right hand side of fair bit. They went the gag guy big Dom young.
00:34:00
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I am liking a player from Manly at the moment, and.
00:34:06
Speaker 5: Remember his name, yes, and you get there, hop WARDI he's scoring plenty of actually.
00:34:13
Speaker 1: I think he's scored in his last five games.
00:34:16
Speaker 4: So I'm going to go with tradition that Calen Ponger has a massive game against the Titans, So I'll go. I'll go Ponger to score. I think he got a triple last year. Ground.
00:34:27
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a small part of me I would love to actually got young Philly coats.
00:34:33
Speaker 4: Really yeah, yeah, that'll pay all right to Angus Christen.
00:34:38
Speaker 1: Oh nice, that would be value. Yeah, okay, that gives us value.
00:34:43
Speaker 3: Yeah well, well you only give us value when it comes to bedding.
00:34:48
Speaker 4: But apart from that, Crichton, Ponger and hop Awardi, what's pa like a dollar tene? Time for some more magic, all right?
00:35:08
Speaker 6: Fives back another magic tricks, A really quick visual magic. The first magic tricks ever learned. So I hope I can fool you with it. A little bit of tissue paper mixed with some flame, we get a little red ball. It's kind of like a clown nose?
00:35:20
Speaker 4: Can you onto that for me? Corey, I'm gonna grab my go over here.
00:35:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, its onto it.
00:35:26
Speaker 4: Actually I might get you to squeeze it for me.
00:35:28
Speaker 6: Sam.
00:35:28
Speaker 1: Just squeeze a real.
00:35:29
Speaker 6: Tight there in your hand, turn your hand over, perfect, and then we just go and then it goes into to have a look. Actually keep wavean use you for yeah, yeah, alright, you put your hand out for me. I'm going to get you to squeeze both of these balls real tight there. And if you can see him, you're okay. You guys know each other perfect and Corey maybe underneath it.
00:35:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is how.
00:36:01
Speaker 4: Combined, very ninety.
00:36:05
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:36:06
Speaker 6: So guys, I want you to think about maybe a favorite you know what, Sam, I'll get you to do this. I want you to think of a favorite food. Something you could eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner you can take away and you could eat this for every meal you. I want you to focus on it. All right, take your hands off and Kip, just open up. Let's see what we are Sam was thinking of.
00:36:28
Speaker 9: Yeah, and I love Peters Shak food was sport on Yes, I'm not sure if.
00:36:37
Speaker 1: This you go?
00:36:44
Speaker 4: All right, let's talk origin. We're not far away. So let's let's name a team and we'll start from number one because we've got a wealth of fullbacks. So who's going to be fullback? We've got Reesey Walsh, You've got obviously pong.
00:36:59
Speaker 3: Teams, and then and then go from there, go arguing after that with in your head you said it's kind of there, Well it's not really there. I've gone Walsh and then wingers. I don't even know who's available anymore. I've got I've actually got Cobbo yeah as one of the wingers. Yeah, yeah, the other one.
00:37:20
Speaker 4: I still don't it's coach out for the season. How long is Coach out for he's back?
00:37:24
Speaker 3: No?
00:37:26
Speaker 1: Probably who's Is Murray available?
00:37:29
Speaker 3: No?
00:37:30
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't know who I was available?
00:37:33
Speaker 4: Probably is Murray? Last year?
00:37:35
Speaker 3: Was he? Val is available? He's ruled himself out. But it doesn't mean that they can't be picked. They can't be putting in the squad. Whoever, maybe maybe should have written it down. Okay, so who's your team saying?
00:37:53
Speaker 1: Sorry, we all work. I've got I'm just going to go one to They're going to name twenty at the end of the day. So I've got one.
00:38:00
Speaker 3: I'm going to go one to twenty making Walsh, Cobbo, toy A, Wierdoh Taw, Lungy Munster, Clifford Farsa, Malai Grant, Carrigan, Finiky, I'll go on a nicer Cotter and then on the bench KP, I've got Capes Cape Well, I've got Trent Liero, Kurkman, Lindsay Collins and I've got big Tommy Flegler there as well, my twentieth man, My twentieth man, Cooper Bye, Okay, yeah's.
00:38:40
Speaker 4: Where's Cooper playing?
00:38:41
Speaker 1: He's at the Titans. Yeah, son of Marcus.
00:38:45
Speaker 3: He's good, he tough man, he's tough, he's very tough, play very and maybe last year played Queensland hundred nineteens. So yeah, I think you know it's not it's not bad to have him in that number twenty Jersey just being in camp and being around the guys. Honorable mention to Tommy Chester as well, the North Queens and Cowboys, Kobe Heatherington, Ethan Bullymore and Maxi Plaith. Yeah, and then you're gonna name twenty eight players and then actually Tommy Gilbert as well. I said, now I named my twenty and I said honorable mention and then they make it three is three games in state of origin. Mate, it's a long long time. There's games in between, so like you never know those guys might feature at some point in time. I kind of feel bad leaving Gemmon it out, but you know, hopefully you would have put him in if you felt bad. So I just in the sense that he knows that he's not playing his best footy at the morning. He's not confident Jake Clifford's ready. I think there's been games at the start of the season then that he was the better half out there than Tommy did it right, And I think he's a great goalkicker.
00:40:01
Speaker 1: He can also kick long. He's got a great long kicking game.
00:40:05
Speaker 3: He's a big half as well, so he can, like from a body point of view, if they're sending back rails ANWM all day, he can.
00:40:12
Speaker 1: He can make those tackles.
00:40:13
Speaker 3: And I think what happens then is he gets mentored and guided through the process with JT, who's a Cowboys legend who does some coaching every now and then up to North Queensland. He's in camp with him, mentoring them the whole week We've also got Tommy Dinnan who's a good mate of his and a teammate who he plays alongside week in a week out who is now injured, but even just come down and sit in camp and help him out. So that's why I think Tanner Boyd has been brilliant for the Warriors. But the hardest part is it's just that little bit of a smaller body out there and he will be a target big time. And like you were naming KP in the halves to go, they tried the experiment Newcastle. Didn't work having KP in the front line, Like he got knocked out three times he played, He played five and got knocked out three times, just because they're just going to target you and find you. I think what what they can do is they bring him off the bench and we we we play black dot. You split the field. You have wal She run on one side, you have KP running the other, and we just you know, get those hopefully fingers crossed opportunities to go all out attack.
00:41:26
Speaker 1: I think you're wrong anyway, at least finish mother back. You go to start at one or no, no, my god, I don't remember.
00:41:36
Speaker 5: Yeah, while she wingers co and t Lungy Murray and then Santa's you Val and then Santa's a bit toyer Hammer and what's his name spar and all ship, I don't know the little astress in between.
00:41:56
Speaker 4: She's going to pick pick one team.
00:41:58
Speaker 5: I'll have it then based off, based off, so you know, yeah, Munster and Ponger, Hooker, Harry Fronties.
00:42:10
Speaker 1: I'm going yeah, Tino, Paddy and I'm going to go I'm going to go Lindsay.
00:42:14
Speaker 5: I'm going to go back Rollers, Fine, Arki and Ruben Cotter to start on the bench. I'm going to go Gilbert, uh sorry, this is the eighteen in water. I really don't know six on the bench. So I'm going to go Gilbert, Cora, Hawsbroid because.
00:42:35
Speaker 1: Kurt Man again great coverall.
00:42:38
Speaker 3: I was thinking Kobe. I think he's been playing good form. I think he deserves a shot. You know what you'll get from him? Yeah, and he's played big games like that the final series. And I'm not like, in a weird way that blinde dude Cooper bye. Sorry as the sixth I just think, are you going to put him in the team? No, I just have having there like the six.
00:43:01
Speaker 1: Man bench he's not.
00:43:02
Speaker 3: I think he's been playing good footage deserve you actually know what you're going to get.
00:43:07
Speaker 1: He's aggressive, he's he's strong, he he's solid.
00:43:10
Speaker 3: He got some skill and knowses job, knows his role, and I think that's that's important in there.
00:43:17
Speaker 1: So Look, it's a scrappy it's.
00:43:19
Speaker 5: A scrappy order, but that's great honorable mentions to eligible player there is I love.
00:43:26
Speaker 4: I love your idea of Ponger on the bench. I got to say that idea because we nearly always get a major injury in the first couple of minutes, and he can slot in so many places.
00:43:37
Speaker 1: As well, N's and Capes.
00:43:40
Speaker 3: That's why he said Capes on the bench as well, because he can like and he's proven it in the past. There was one game in Adelaide he ended up playing in the centers and did did a fans actually drop?
00:43:49
Speaker 1: Caves does his job no matter what.
00:43:51
Speaker 5: The other funny story about Capes is when we were coming through the ranks, he was my whole winger and I was his back roller.
00:43:55
Speaker 1: Is that right? That's ridiculous swaps? Yeah, like yeah, it's it's nothing against you know, who would you be a doesn't matter.
00:44:07
Speaker 5: I'd put him in the squad just to watch and just to be there for that first the first game and the training week, all of that. I have him in that squad because then if the plan doesn't work, I think he's trading.
00:44:21
Speaker 3: If I'm a back rower and I've got KP in front of me, if i am liquor can't and I'm like, whoever my Clifford, Clifford, whoever my half is, I'm.
00:44:33
Speaker 1: Going early ball all day. I'm just elbows and the strongest defender. You can't say that he is.
00:44:39
Speaker 3: No, I'm not saying he's the strongest defender. I'm just saying he's a bigger body. I don't think he's much bigger than KP. I don't believe this year KP is as biggest and strong as I've seen him.
00:44:51
Speaker 1: I really do. I believe that. That's why.
00:44:53
Speaker 3: That's why would put him there. Just doesn't know how to tackle. Though he played middle band, the experiment just didn't work that time. When he played middle it did that game up. When he would come on as that lock defended, he held his own.
00:45:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, in the middle, it's.
00:45:07
Speaker 3: Different because you haven't got shape at to make a decision so you understand that's when that's when you get the head knocks and those types of things, because when you have to defend shape on a back row, it's hard.
00:45:17
Speaker 1: It's not easy. Yeah, to make a decision.
00:45:19
Speaker 4: Is the size of the body you both left walk around despite the fact that Rusters are absolutely killing it.
00:45:25
Speaker 3: He will, he will place out of origin very very soon, semi will. I think he's an out and out freak of a player. I think the size doesn't matter anymore. I think the game has gone past that now. But he hasn't done enough yet.
00:45:39
Speaker 5: I think the start of the year worried me about him, Like, I think he's still I don't think he's that peak yet.
00:45:45
Speaker 1: I've been serious. I think he's still got a bit more in the tank to hit his peak.
00:45:50
Speaker 3: You know, the best thing about it is that because we're having arguments about players, and it's good to be able to have those arguments.
00:45:56
Speaker 4: It's luxury.
00:45:57
Speaker 3: There's luxury that we have so many informed players that we from at the moment. So that's what that's what surprised me the most.
00:46:03
Speaker 4: Bad Mike Tyler's back with our final magic trick for Magic Ground.
00:46:11
Speaker 1: Let's do something, guys, I brought something very special, long fear.
00:46:13
Speaker 4: It's a little bit of a poster.
00:46:15
Speaker 6: I'm going to show you what it is just yet, but maybe you can hold onto that for it sure, Cory, being the closest to me here, I'm going to get you to choose a card in a moment. This is NRL related, so you'll come to that bit in just a moment. Now, firstly I should show you this is a normal deck of cards. You can see the difference. Now, Cory, as I go through, you to say stop for me, you're ready, Here we go. Well, they're going to bring it to the top.
00:46:37
Speaker 1: Have a look there.
00:46:39
Speaker 4: Don't show me.
00:46:39
Speaker 1: You can show the lads.
00:46:40
Speaker 4: Show the camera as well.
00:46:41
Speaker 1: The camera shots the camera guess.
00:46:44
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Sam whispered to guess about what was happening.
00:46:49
Speaker 1: That's why.
00:46:51
Speaker 6: Now, before I came in today, guys, I actually went on Chatt GBT and read it in that and got a list of one hundred of the top NRL players of all time.
00:47:00
Speaker 1: This is ridiculous.
00:47:02
Speaker 4: I'm not sure there's a lot of corries on there.
00:47:05
Speaker 1: I'm thinking there's a lot of core. It's a list of top hundred players of all time, best looking I'll be right.
00:47:12
Speaker 6: So, yeah, the oldest one in the top Like we've got Jonathan Kings. He's up there as well, so I guess it's pre NRL. But so seeing I'm like, you give me a number between one and one hundred. Don't make it top ten though, I make it somewhere. It's a bit seventy seven. Seventy seven a jump in my notes here, and I can't believe this if you go to my notes said the top list should be top NRL players player all time, all time.
00:47:38
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so we got Jonathan Thurston, I think the top there, Jonathan Thurst and Cameron Smith, Andrew Johns, Wally.
00:47:45
Speaker 4: I think maybe.
00:47:50
Speaker 1: Twenty nine. Yeah, where's where's the you know, go down to the fact, go down to number seventy seven for us.
00:47:58
Speaker 9: Genel didn't make it, he's not. I thought it was numb one hundred, Gene Miles, is you said number seventy seven any random? I didn't make you choose that or anything, right, number seventy seven? Okay, So I want to show Corey as well. Yeah, okay, number seventy seven, got it?
00:48:21
Speaker 1: You're famous, goods like that and like that.
00:48:24
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, okay, So We've got you to choose a card at random one to fifty two in the pack if you show is one of one hundred famous all time NRL players.
00:48:32
Speaker 4: Okay and Kip to recap. You've got a little prediction right there.
00:48:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, Corey for the first time today out loud, what was.
00:48:39
Speaker 4: A playing card?
00:48:39
Speaker 1: I can't leave his number number two.
00:48:41
Speaker 6: To the two the Too Heart Show, The Hearts and two Hearts and the number seventy seven on the list.
00:48:46
Speaker 1: Yes, number seventy seven on the list was Gordon the Raging.
00:48:49
Speaker 6: Ball Tour, Gordon Talas, Gordon Tallas in The Too Hearts. Kip, you've been holding onto that the entire time. Yes, unroll it carefully, show the lads, show the cameras what we've come up with, a very special photo of one Gordon Talis right there.
00:49:02
Speaker 4: And.
00:49:12
Speaker 1: There'll be plenty of magic and more magic.
00:49:15
Speaker 4: Yes, we'll be back to wrap up Magic ground on on the Wednesday podcast. Now, if you haven't followed the show, you can do that right now wherever you get your podcasts. Send us a screenshot to our socials and you could be in the draw for next week's meat. Trevor, this week's winner will be on the screen right now. Brody meets looking after You with a meat love to.
00:49:35
Speaker 1: Make a meat tray disappear. Yeah, that would be nice. That would be great. Into my freezer. I love me in and around. Can we start
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Speaker 2: H No, I don't it's true, don't know, don't know, I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Anybody else but you. No, no, no, no, no, no.
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Speaker 1: Don't Magic Crown.
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Speaker 3: That was.
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Speaker 4: Ship. So we actually have a couple of magic tricks on the show today. Magic Mark's coming in.
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Speaker 3: It's just would name Michael, okay.
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Speaker 4: And he's kind of a couple of Magic Round tricks for us.
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Speaker 1: You gonna magically help the dragons.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I don't think anyone that you need real magic?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, puff the magic dragon somebody them.
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Speaker 4: So let's talk about magic. So playing Magic Ground, was it awesome? Was it special? Or was it just the same as every other It's just.
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Speaker 1: Another Yeah, it just the one. He wasn't around for that.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 1: Well, the funny thing was Magic Round.
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Speaker 5: That same weekend actually was our home game game at Suncourt, which mainly used to always bring to ours, and I don't think they won a game ever doing that.
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Speaker 1: I scored, Yeah, I sed my four tries on one of.
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Speaker 5: Those games, right, and Magic Round when it started we were Friday Nights for the first few I believe I think we I think we won, but look, I can't say definitely, But for me it was just another round, you know, being at Suncourt, it's it's hard to not feel like it's just another around. Gus Gould loves the fact that the Broncos get an away game.
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Speaker 1: It's his favorite. He thinks it's so fair.
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Speaker 4: That you get this and or for a lot of the Sydney teams are not used to playing in front of crowds, so.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true, so you're welcome. It works is you know, you remember this.
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Speaker 5: Every team comes here and they love the place, whether or not the crowds for us or them, it's it's just the best feel like the atmosphere, like they always say it, and they come here to play the best game.
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Speaker 1: It's the vibe. It's it's the vibe.
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Speaker 5: The history of obviously of the stadium helps too, so imagine around.
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Speaker 1: I think it's magic for for more.
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Speaker 3: So the supporters like, yeah, the event is just so big now.
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Speaker 4: Tipping last week, Corey, you have gone from last to first.
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Speaker 1: First, your last and if you last.
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Speaker 4: Ricky Bobby, you're Ricky Bobby.
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Speaker 1: You're Ricky Bobby.
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Speaker 4: You've got six out of eight. Me and Sammy got four, appalling, Yeah, got half of them.
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Speaker 1: And Bronx is one of my losses.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there was a couple I picked just for gammon anyway, what I was doing, I don't care, that's what It's not for anything. So yeah, it's where's the government from.
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Speaker 1: Giving? Bruce has been trotted one of the multis every week. Well he's own exactly, hasn't I noticed that?
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Speaker 4: Bruce only ever said it's the screenshot of the ones he wins once it's already happened.
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Speaker 1: Slips.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but you two, did you pick a trio? No?
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Speaker 1: I wasn't allowed to. I didn't even Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I didn't be in a dick, he said, said Milky Jakie for three three, I should have picked buddy Greg Marjou for five.
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Speaker 4: You do that?
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Speaker 1: Oh my trailers?
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Speaker 5: I need a ponger or what's the Fletcher sharp? I just need one of those school and I was happy.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the rest of my life anyway, gamble responsible thanks responding, I.
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Speaker 4: Think we've got our first magic trick about to happen, have we.
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Speaker 1: All?
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Speaker 6: Right?
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Speaker 4: Magic time for for magic Ground. We've got Mike Tyler with us Magic.
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Speaker 1: Mike here you guys, there we go the closed version.
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Speaker 4: Yes, nice to see. Cory was Yeah, I used to do a show like that.
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Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, what did it get naked By the end of the show.
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Speaker 3: You made your clothes disappear, everything else, everything else disappeared.
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Speaker 4: You're talking about after the show came off.
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Speaker 6: But I just do close stuff. Now I'm married and got a little baby girl. Where can we find you a good reason?
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Speaker 3: Mike Tyler Magic Magic that's available for birthday's, weddings, funerals too.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, mainly corporate stuff now, awards nights and ye staff Christmas party stuff like that. But yeah, I do birthdays that as well, just not kids stuff. Yeah, I've done a I've done awake. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah man awake. Yeah. It was a weird one because she actually wasn't so I got there and then I was told she wasn't actually passed away yet.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so.
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Speaker 4: It's a bit I'm like, I think this really counts as awake.
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, she was about to so she's.
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Speaker 6: Having like a celebration, but I was there to bring up the mood. Yeah, just like that one after Yeah, it was like time Wish for the adults.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Magic.
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Speaker 6: There's a lot of naked talk with four guys in a roomy. Well they're still young. Maybe I will as well. Yeah, you know that's a little bit of a magic trick.
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Speaker 1: Next to this is just not fair. Deliberately put your bro the most gullible, easiest to feel.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought that was normally the forwards.
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Speaker 1: No, not the I do it for the laugh. Okay, yeah, you like the client.
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Speaker 6: Well I couldn't bring a little bit of a trick today twenty nine years he's been doing it was like, yeah, nine are you thirty one?
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Speaker 1: Hey thirty one?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's some city miles on the clock if.
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Speaker 1: You don't.
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Speaker 3: The job.
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Speaker 1: So I had that. Yeah, I get it.
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Speaker 6: I get anyway, Rugby themes Rugby League Magic round this weekend, right, and so for.
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Speaker 4: This trick, I want you, Cory, to think of just in.
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Speaker 6: Your mind, think of any of the Rugby League teams. So the seventeen plus, there's Morons, there's Blues and the Kangaroos, right, so twenty teams, I guess in total. I want you to think of one, don't do an obvious one like Broncos, and work out what.
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Speaker 4: I'm just gonna get a pin.
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Speaker 6: I'm going to drop down what I think maybe you're thinking of great great, alright, I've got something here. So the first time today out loud, what was the team that you were thinking of.
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Speaker 1: Some nights?
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Speaker 4: Newcastle Knights. Yeah, that's okay.
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Speaker 1: I'll a little bit of magic juice right here.
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Speaker 6: Put that in here, and I'm going to take my little bit my little guests here and what's this here?
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Speaker 1: Close?
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Speaker 4: We take it?
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Speaker 1: Were just oh yeah, what's your closes? You're going to make something that's nice appear? Just hat fan take that season? Is that a friend of it?
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Speaker 4: It was twenty bucks on eBay? Yeah, I'm starting by that. What just happened to?
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Speaker 2: Where?
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Speaker 1: Where did where did did that come from? Where's the fire going? Did you go to do his kitchen? Yeah?
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Speaker 4: Yeah? Cook? Come on, did you tell in Newcastle Knights before we started this? Didn't say that loud? I didn't tell them this is We'll have another magic trick before the end of the podcast.
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Speaker 1: Where did he do that? I'm always yeah, maybe we could learn it.
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Speaker 3: But if only I could make my love angels disappear? That you can? You can?
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Speaker 1: You don't?
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Speaker 4: Okay? So Thursday night we have the Women's State of Origin Game two.
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Speaker 3: Yes, that's it's it's well, this game it starts fiery usually this game I remember from previous last year.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was it was a good start.
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Speaker 4: Say New Southwest very strong, there was.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there was one point in time I thought Queensland could win the first game six meal and then New South Wales they back into the game, they score and then.
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Speaker 1: That lock for queens then or she can whack. She is amazing.
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Speaker 3: Joseph Kelly jo Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but I thought she was like they was their best player.
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Speaker 5: She was hidden and she when she went off, I feel like they lost a bit.
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Speaker 1: Of their they went off. Course she could knockdown but get knocked out.
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Speaker 3: It was actually just unlucky, to be honest, how she got it, But man, I with her that team, she isn't there and she was so close to score that I just had that that scrambled had scrambled. It was a crazy start to the game. The first hit up of the game, we lose the front rower. That doesn't help. Yeah, it was her first run.
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Speaker 4: Ever, do you reckon because the number of the players play with the fake eyelashes, would.
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Speaker 7: That be guys know the girl he's watched It seems going to be a distraction. I have never thought of it.
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Speaker 1: I wanted to think. I don't watch the game for.
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Speaker 4: That, and I think you're going to wear you're going out eyelashes for this game, but.
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Speaker 1: They do it. I don't think it would help.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, just checking out.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, because everyone always says that the lights player a fact that went like, yeah, there's right, But when the games, it's actually pretty crazy.
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Speaker 3: I never thought about it until now when you're playing and here at the moment, you don't even notice.
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Speaker 1: The lights when you're looking for the ball, right.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, And even in the rain, unless it's pelting down and blind sideways, the rain doesn't actually bother your eyes. So I'll be interested in I'll be very surprised.
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Speaker 1: If it does.
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Speaker 4: I'm interested to know the glue they used, because they can somehow handle getting tackled and the wet and all those things and they stay on there. It's incredible.
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Speaker 1: What do you want to.
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Speaker 4: Thinkers with that? That's good.
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Speaker 1: We should put it on as you get them on, and then that could be your punishment for being late.
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Speaker 3: Next shure, you've got to put fake eyelashes on for the next week.
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Speaker 1: We picked them. I say, yes, let's get this. I can't wait for now. Give me the full Camel.
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Speaker 3: Friday Night sho queens then anyway Thursday, Yeah, someone Girls even the series up and then down to the Gold Coast. So that's one of the advantages Queensland has this year. Sun Corp game too, and then Game three is down the Gold Coast last damn, I'm sure make me remember things. Yeah, I don't know, shut.
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Speaker 4: Shout the Bulldogs first, probably game Magic Ground. Bulldogs not going great.
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Speaker 3: I don't think either team played over the great no weekend. I don't know what's kind of the Dogs, no idea attacking wise, They've got no confidence at all. And you, I think you hit the nail on the head last week when you said the Dogs are a team that they get there they cyc up off their attacks, so if their attack is humming, their defense is humming. It's usually the other way around for most teams. But yeah, the Dogs, they just can't seem to be the attacking team that we know they can be.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, that's some absolute weapons.
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Speaker 3: Well yeah, and then like you said, I noticed it actually more on the weekend than ever, and I know it because I.
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Speaker 1: Was looking for it.
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Speaker 3: But when they did a good D set, I was just this attack set's going to be there's just one out.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and they just had nothing. I'm like, where's the dogs that going.
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Speaker 3: That we know, like, yeah, I was just spreading them to go eighty meters and school or you know, seventy meters after that really good set they just did and yeah, Like it's like there building too long into a game, you know, right, I don't know if they're waiting for something to happen or they do well. I think last year what was different for them Last year They had the ability last year to grind a team to death and then be able to score some points late to put them away.
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Speaker 1: And this year you just can't do that.
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Speaker 3: With the huge, big momentum swings that we have in our game through the six again calls, they just can't do it.
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Speaker 1: And like very very similar to the Melbourne Storm.
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Speaker 3: That's the style of football the Melbourne Storm has played for since their inception just about so.
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Speaker 5: I think they just need they need to play their game, like Galvin when he's on the board, just just play. I don't think there's any really building into a game anymore. They maybe got two sets starting and it's a window.
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Speaker 3: Bring the dogs defense that you know that they've been known as the dogs of war for how long bring that style of defense but then play all out attack, like just throw caution to the win.
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Speaker 1: Who cares? Whatever happens happens, agile middle and speed and all players. That's why I love watching the Dolphins.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so they don't mind having a crack from inside their own ten minutes.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, like stringing a few passes there, getting the ball. White.
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Speaker 4: Sharks are a team you can put on a lot of points, and I think, yeah, I think they will. I'm tipping Sharks.
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Speaker 1: Dogs. I've gone dogs.
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Speaker 3: I reckon last week really peeved them off because they should have won that game.
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Speaker 1: They really should have a right when they came semi did they play last week?
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Speaker 4: I knew he wouldn't know.
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Speaker 1: It again, Dolphins, what happened? What happened in the game?
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Speaker 3: Oh?
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Speaker 5: They just really Yeah, they lost it. Really they lost the game. It was the score again, forty four to twelve. Yeah, yeah, it was twelve all there for a while.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Dolphins put on an.
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Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. The start of the game. They didn't show me. I really thought, oh yeah, and then it just they're attacks dif Yeah, it did. He did actually watched. It really made me try.
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Speaker 1: To think back.
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Speaker 3: One of quatic animal beat him last week. I think the next aquatic animalill beat him this week.
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Speaker 1: Shout.
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Speaker 4: Speaking of dolphins, there the second Friday night game, Rabbit os Dolphins.
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Speaker 3: What a great game this is going to be. There's gonna be points. Leave the shoulders at home, guys, let's play a tax.
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Speaker 4: Let's like the NBA.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I want I want an NBA score. Yeah, what do you reckon?
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Speaker 5: I reckon We'll get over one hundred and sixty points in the first three games.
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Speaker 3: We could actually, we actually could imagine it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: I made the Rabbits with a few boys out whatever that kid's name was that day, but I can't.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Ye, and he's just bloody Early's good.
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Speaker 3: So Mitchell still out, No I think no, Yeah, I think he's going to be back. Okay, yeah, but so he has been named Yeah, but I think he'll be back. He'll want to get a game in before Origin selection on Monday, so he'll be in for this game and then he'll be fired up for this game too.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, I have the Sharks in that game after the ten minutes.
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Speaker 3: So weighing up against Christian Wolf, so yeah, I think this would be a great game, all out attack. I reckon the Dolphins have been like they've gotten better because Jeremy Marshall King is back. Yeah, he made awesome. He had a huge difference. I thought that Cody Nikarima back in the team too. Really freeze up Kataa. So I'm going Dolphins. What did you say to me after watching that game? What did you notice that same and I mentioned that you didn't think about and then watching that, what did you say?
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Speaker 1: How cute Herbie Farnworth was exactly.
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Speaker 4: Asako could have another try if Bosto could pass the ball, but he just he went himself.
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Speaker 1: He just hold it.
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Speaker 4: It was really it was interesting saying, yeah he had a bit too much self confidence.
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Speaker 3: Yeah it came true. Yeah, and like I said, him for one was good, but that's I missed that try And he said it was a blatant drawing past.
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Speaker 5: Yeah it was. He just went himself. But yeah, look, I've gone the Rabbits. I've said that, but it'll be bloody, it'll be a crap game of footy.
00:17:25
Speaker 1: There's a lot of points. I think we've all agreed that. But I do think the rabbit as are too good, playing just way too good.
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Speaker 4: I'll go to the Dolphins because it's kind of our home game, so the Dolphins on that.
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Speaker 1: You get your Dolphins, Dolphins, but it's you two versus me.
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Speaker 4: It is again. Yeah, well we've got to catch Ups and Morley. Yeah for a Saturday game. Tiger's manly, So Tiger's obviously coming off for loss. Manly flying.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, mainly going to be too good in this game because those boys are still out.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's out for a while, dreaming Bullers out for a while as well, happy happy back. He didn't get suspended. I don't know if it was one week or two weeks, so yeah, to kind of wait and see. But yeah, I just think Manly, they've got so much confidence at the moment, the way they're playing.
00:18:13
Speaker 1: So yeah, I just think they'll be they'll be too good. Yeah. And I think is still out. Yeah still you've got too many.
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Speaker 3: Too many out for them. It still goes all right, Yeah, plays really well. I reckon he's better in the halves than he is at number nine. Yeah, Yeah, I found it hard. I think that after the Tigers last week, they'll be they will be up for this. But I don't know whether they'll be out for the whole game. I've gone mainly also, but yeah, I think they'll be into it. They'll be in the game for close to most of it. But I just think mainly be too too disciplined.
00:18:46
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going manly. I think if we're not at one hundred and sixty points by the end of Friday night, we will get there.
00:18:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, what about the next one.
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Speaker 4: Roosters Cowboys the middle Saturday game?
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Speaker 3: Can we better on how many points are going to be scored this weekend?
00:19:02
Speaker 1: Couldn't it?
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Speaker 3: This could be almost a battle for who is going to play in filling that half back role for the Queensland. You got Jake Clifford for the Cowboy. You've got Sammy Walker for We've got different opinions about that. We'll get to that. Yeah, we'll get to that later. We'll name our teams. Have you written your team down or I've written it down?
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Speaker 1: Where is it? It's in my head?
00:19:22
Speaker 3: Okay, trying to find what a lock of that.
00:19:27
Speaker 1: I like Jake Clifford in the squad, I do like that idea.
00:19:31
Speaker 3: Well, we're talking about later, but this game, I think, you know, I think that you know they're going to struggle. I think without Tommy diedon for in the next few weeks. And yeah, I think the Rooster is just flying at the moment I could do to do pardon the puny.
00:19:50
Speaker 4: A ton of North Queenslanders in the stadium, you think.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the early game on Saturday, so magic around is you don't really get one sided cheers.
00:20:02
Speaker 5: Yes, it's everyone's there just and a good time. Yeah, And I think that's the best, one of the best parts and rugby league Rugby league weather games by the looks of it all weekend.
00:20:15
Speaker 3: Does it always rain when Buddy Major grounds on? And what I'm going by is the Rooster's ball controllers. I can remember that game. The ball control actually has been insane lately. It's near perfect. It's been a couple of halves where they've been one hundred percent or like ninety five.
00:20:34
Speaker 5: And that itself with the way the game is where Weather, you know, was losing Tommy, I just don't think they're going to give them an inch at all.
00:20:42
Speaker 1: Like I think they'll strangle out of the game early on. Yeah.
00:20:45
Speaker 3: I even go back to the game the Roosters played against the Bronx and they bashed them.
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Speaker 1: At the start. That start was they couldn't stop them.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, absolutely bashed them, and then they got so much way to possession that the Bronx go with them. So I think there'll be that similar mindset star that will have to bash the Cowboys in their faces, stop them from getting any momentum, momentum at all, and then on the flip side of from the Cowboys threw caution from the wing, shift to shift. I reckon, they're some of their best players are on those edges.
00:21:17
Speaker 5: Whoever's coming at half mate, just just just play straight and give the ball to you, to you, to you, to your Clifford and you drink waters. That's sort of game you got to play to actually be a chance.
00:21:29
Speaker 1: I reckon. You're right, But roostersss.
00:21:34
Speaker 4: And then the Eels storm, So storm finally get a win and might might be able to put it to in a row. Yeah, maybe thoughts.
00:21:45
Speaker 1: They always see this is my Yeah, the Eels.
00:21:51
Speaker 3: Would have taken a lot of confidence out of they're playing tough.
00:21:55
Speaker 1: They're playing tough.
00:21:55
Speaker 3: They having a crack like they're not a great team, but they're.
00:22:01
Speaker 1: They're eighteen team. They're playing together.
00:22:05
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're leaking points, but like they then back their own ability to you know, jump down a short side and you know, you've got a great kicker in Moses that can kick him out of trouble if need be. You know, the game gets tight, he can slot the field goal. You know you didn't actually kick that great from the sideline because he would have sealed the deal if you could have done that earlier in the game. But I'm going to go to the Storm just because I think, yeah, they've they've got a lot of a lot more confidence out of what happened last week, and there'll be some smiles on faces. Yeah, yeah, I'm going to Storm.
00:22:40
Speaker 1: I'm not.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm going just too. But I was so close to go and powder. I think if they can't get a handle on Moses, they they do lose this game. They have to handle him and control him, not what they forget about the others. They've got some strike, don't get me wrong, but his kicking game itself. Because of the weather, if it is going to be wet, keep them in the game, and that could just frustrat a team like the Storm who are struggling for points and for confidence, you know what I mean. Like that, if that happens, I wouldn't be surprised if they do lose. But on Melbourne, like I think that weekend the game will just yeah hopefully bound to.
00:23:19
Speaker 4: Assassing form so all storm. But Mitchell Moses sou and a half half back.
00:23:24
Speaker 1: Yep, I can't not pick him just but in origin to the names written there in the sharpie.
00:23:33
Speaker 3: Already his performance is in origin whether or not, he's always going to be doing well for Para.
00:23:39
Speaker 4: So he's five eighth. Then if if clear is half back.
00:23:41
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but they still play that role of half take a.
00:23:45
Speaker 4: Side each year. All right, So let's move on a Sunday. Titans three games on Sunday, So Titans Knights to keep.
00:23:51
Speaker 1: It's going to be like a seven hundred point round. It's going to be.
00:23:58
Speaker 4: Titans traditionally. They've played the Knights at Magic Round the last couple of years in a row and gotten beaten.
00:24:05
Speaker 3: Ye I will say this though, I do feel for the Titans on the weekend.
00:24:09
Speaker 1: I thought they started well, they were robbed.
00:24:12
Speaker 3: They should have gone into halftime six sixail up Robert Toyer, Queenslander, but he dropped the ball as the trial line as clear as that and then Tedesco try Hugo Savale, he plays the ball and then he is inside the ten as Daniel Tupo knocks the ball back for Tedesco to score the try.
00:24:32
Speaker 1: That's real, that's real.
00:24:34
Speaker 3: And that's how many times that gets called week in a week out, and like it sometimes is shipped to be the ship team because you get the ship course. Yeah, and that's what I felt, and I felt for that because what that does going into halftime against the roost there's six nil up, after they've worked their ass off, like they had turned them away, turn them away, turn them away for thirty minutes of that first half.
00:24:57
Speaker 1: And they scored. Unreal, they scored in that last ten minutes.
00:25:00
Speaker 3: There's two tries to then make him go up at halftime ten to six, and like that's the it's like so deflating as a team, and then they're chasing their tower from that point.
00:25:09
Speaker 1: I remember one of our games when Wayne was a coach. We were down.
00:25:14
Speaker 3: It might have even been against a team like the Roosters, well down that it might have been twenty.
00:25:20
Speaker 5: Two eighteen nil, and then we used to just always focus like we need to be we needed this score. They can't score before halftime and if we scored waye to walk in and go boys, we've got the momentum. Yeah, you're down twelve points.
00:25:34
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he said, but we're just going to make sure now we're next to school, right and if that when that happens, yeah, like you don't actually realize it until it happens, Like, holy hell you going there.
00:25:44
Speaker 5: I feel like you win it. You know those two quick tries. Yeah, they're only got four points in front.
00:25:50
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they're probably thinking we're about we're about eighteen twenty right now. And when you've busted your thirty minutes and you got the point, you can see on the big screen.
00:25:58
Speaker 1: That it's not a try. So why try so hard if we're not going to get the bands at the ball? Yeah, super frustrated. So how you tipping on god nights? But we feel for the time.
00:26:15
Speaker 3: When they gave my opinion, maybe changes if they beat the Roosters.
00:26:18
Speaker 1: If they beat the Roosters last week, I reckon they they're all confidence in because something they left. It's like their their home ground.
00:26:27
Speaker 4: Now this will be the absolutely crack of Warriors. Broncos Sunday.
00:26:32
Speaker 3: After points scoring Philly Coates making his debut on the wing.
00:26:38
Speaker 4: Yeah, is he built it all like Xavier?
00:26:42
Speaker 3: Yeah, he is exact same as It's just right like when he started to get more mature, just got bigger.
00:26:48
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.
00:26:49
Speaker 3: And Philly, he looks he's exact same as him. He can jump.
00:26:54
Speaker 5: And Xavier said to me, I will say this again. I've said it before, I bad it on this podcast.
00:26:58
Speaker 1: But he said to me, I said, jeez, I said, I said you had a younger brother.
00:27:02
Speaker 5: When I heard his name in originally it might have been eighteen, yeah, nine, And he goes yeah yeah, and he said, you know what, he's better.
00:27:10
Speaker 1: Yeah what yeah? Yeah?
00:27:13
Speaker 3: And congratulations to Vehoven too for scoring and try Yeah done, I only try his second game for the for the club. So just back on the remember cart Perrera, Yeah, Titans. Yeah yeah, he's on the left wing for the Warriors. Warriors. Take my hat off to him. Yeah, I think he's gone away. Well we're going over there. They picked him up.
00:27:36
Speaker 5: I never really had annoyed a lot at him because he was so talented, just had the Larry style and just was.
00:27:44
Speaker 3: You know, a little bit cocky, it felt. But buddy, Hell's working hard, He's taking the tough carriages. He's not being self, don't know, he's you know, if it's not on, he's taking that step in getting tackled.
00:27:55
Speaker 1: Quick player the ball.
00:27:56
Speaker 5: Yeah, and my god, he's been one of their better players. I would take my hat off to him.
00:28:00
Speaker 1: Squad done. What have you done? Yeah? I hope you have a ship game of week?
00:28:05
Speaker 3: Yeah?
00:28:05
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, So what's.
00:28:09
Speaker 4: Good for the Bronx? Ben Hunt's back? Still out back? Okay, that's good.
00:28:17
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's gonna be interesting now because you're both back. Yeah, you've got still there.
00:28:24
Speaker 4: Who's going to be on the bench then those two?
00:28:27
Speaker 1: Honest, she's still playing at hooker. We've got on the on the bench at the moment.
00:28:32
Speaker 3: And then you've got Xavier Willison's moved back into the middle. You've got Brandie's not back yet.
00:28:41
Speaker 1: We've got Jade and Hunt, I think Jordan Ricky in the back row.
00:28:49
Speaker 3: Nice uh and Preston Rickey he gets to start to in the front row with big x Xavier Willison.
00:28:55
Speaker 4: He's no relation to Jordan's, no relation at all.
00:28:59
Speaker 1: Just a lot of Benny told you. I think it's almost his.
00:29:04
Speaker 3: I loved watching Benny Tolty start, but I think the energy brings off the bench.
00:29:11
Speaker 1: That's a big boy. Just start at ten and bring him on for the next Yeah.
00:29:15
Speaker 3: I said to him the other week. I said that, mate, it's actually harder the score trials. And you've got the eight or ten on your back, you're probably a little bit better and easier to score tries.
00:29:28
Speaker 1: White Line. I don't know what it is.
00:29:31
Speaker 3: Sixteen school, but you're sitting there and you're watching the game, and then you're seeing how things are unfolding right, and then you have a chance to then run a tired defense when you when you start and it's like you're running that fresh guys and then by the time they're getting buggered, you're getting buggered and you're just waiting for someone to crack. And then sometimes it's that, you know, it's that interchange at the right time, and then you're sixteen comes on, it's an inside ball to Ben Tolty, or it's you know.
00:29:57
Speaker 1: Chip off the forward.
00:29:58
Speaker 5: I'd love to see if they do do it before kickoff, one of the boys off the bench, start then hard and then told he comes on after ten to fifteen minutes.
00:30:07
Speaker 1: Yeah, because that legspe it's underrated.
00:30:10
Speaker 3: But in this game now, oh, it's more important than anything else, like the size on the bench.
00:30:15
Speaker 4: I reckon now, it's way more important than size. Yeah, Warriors are going great this year. I mean it'll be absolutely in the eight, you think, but yeah, for the end of it.
00:30:23
Speaker 3: And there's another reason why, Like I like the Bronx in this game. Warrior is coming off a bye. It's probably a well needed rest for them. But sometimes you can it can be a slow start. So if the Bronx can start well, we always know that they're probably well. Except for last week we met better second half team. So but Bronx haven't been starting well. Well, we were second second half Teamince like you'd like to see him start better because I don't think last year is going to happen again.
00:30:51
Speaker 1: Not with the way the game is.
00:30:53
Speaker 3: You don't start well, you're chasing too much, Yeah, too much chasing. It's too quick, games, too too much. It's like the Roosters game. They couldn't chase thirty points there, just too much. But yeah, I think the Bronx have got there's a lot of good things in their favor this week. And again I'm a big fan. I'm a big believer in the bye too. Yeah, it's always.
00:31:12
Speaker 4: Harder Saral Tip and Bronx anyway. Yeah, and then the final game for a magic ground.
00:31:18
Speaker 1: Power upset, go to the Dragon Panthers, Dragon Dragon.
00:31:23
Speaker 4: I mean it's actually me.
00:31:25
Speaker 1: I'm going to keep on back in the Dragons.
00:31:26
Speaker 3: So it happens, and then you're going to go, oh yeah, good on back the Dragon.
00:31:30
Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean they're paying eleven dollars Dragon, and that's not enough.
00:31:34
Speaker 3: Look again, I'm going to go back to that my start with the Roosters. I don't know if you realize, but on the weekend, I think they dropped the ball the first I think for the first time.
00:31:44
Speaker 1: I think in sixty something minutes.
00:31:47
Speaker 3: Got the ball until twenty three or twenty four.
00:31:52
Speaker 1: New week, it's a new days, I think. I love the low percentage.
00:31:59
Speaker 5: The lowest percentage of completion have to be like eighty five, and I'm feeling good. I don't see it this week. Look all back then maybe once at something the Dragons. I'm sorry, I'm down. Pend Billy thought I'd be so proud of me picking the Dragon the Dragons. That's bold, all right?
00:32:19
Speaker 1: Why good? Where do you see him winning on the scoreboard?
00:32:25
Speaker 3: The boy it's coming from well electronically now they in the old days, they used to have kids sitting in the score they brought it up, but now it's all player.
00:32:35
Speaker 1: I want to see what I want to hear? What? What?
00:32:37
Speaker 5: Where on the field will Panthers defense, you know, be broken?
00:32:42
Speaker 1: Where there's the gaps? Where are they on the field?
00:32:48
Speaker 3: There will be three sin bins or ten ten? Yeah at the same time, yeah, because there will be there'll be a high tackle into a spear tackle. Whoever went low flipped them, but they only did that because someone hit him high fi double binning double wh Yeah, and then dragons winning, Dragon's winning the other way around dragons what happens then it won't happen blood, But we feel sorry for I did say ship teams get shipped calls before?
00:33:24
Speaker 4: Yea, let's put together a multi So who you like?
00:33:30
Speaker 3: My back in Bruce was triples and double Okay, five tries Greg.
00:33:41
Speaker 1: Eight tries in two weeks. He's been brilliants.
00:33:44
Speaker 3: It's actually Calen Ponger has really unlocked that left side of the Newcastle night so he's actually not a bad bet. But it is yeah, yeah, and it was funny when he when KP wasn't playing.
00:33:56
Speaker 1: They went down the right hand side of fair bit. They went the gag guy big Dom young.
00:34:00
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I am liking a player from Manly at the moment, and.
00:34:06
Speaker 5: Remember his name, yes, and you get there, hop WARDI he's scoring plenty of actually.
00:34:13
Speaker 1: I think he's scored in his last five games.
00:34:16
Speaker 4: So I'm going to go with tradition that Calen Ponger has a massive game against the Titans, So I'll go. I'll go Ponger to score. I think he got a triple last year. Ground.
00:34:27
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a small part of me I would love to actually got young Philly coats.
00:34:33
Speaker 4: Really yeah, yeah, that'll pay all right to Angus Christen.
00:34:38
Speaker 1: Oh nice, that would be value. Yeah, okay, that gives us value.
00:34:43
Speaker 3: Yeah well, well you only give us value when it comes to bedding.
00:34:48
Speaker 4: But apart from that, Crichton, Ponger and hop Awardi, what's pa like a dollar tene? Time for some more magic, all right?
00:35:08
Speaker 6: Fives back another magic tricks, A really quick visual magic. The first magic tricks ever learned. So I hope I can fool you with it. A little bit of tissue paper mixed with some flame, we get a little red ball. It's kind of like a clown nose?
00:35:20
Speaker 4: Can you onto that for me? Corey, I'm gonna grab my go over here.
00:35:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, its onto it.
00:35:26
Speaker 4: Actually I might get you to squeeze it for me.
00:35:28
Speaker 6: Sam.
00:35:28
Speaker 1: Just squeeze a real.
00:35:29
Speaker 6: Tight there in your hand, turn your hand over, perfect, and then we just go and then it goes into to have a look. Actually keep wavean use you for yeah, yeah, alright, you put your hand out for me. I'm going to get you to squeeze both of these balls real tight there. And if you can see him, you're okay. You guys know each other perfect and Corey maybe underneath it.
00:35:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is how.
00:36:01
Speaker 4: Combined, very ninety.
00:36:05
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:36:06
Speaker 6: So guys, I want you to think about maybe a favorite you know what, Sam, I'll get you to do this. I want you to think of a favorite food. Something you could eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner you can take away and you could eat this for every meal you. I want you to focus on it. All right, take your hands off and Kip, just open up. Let's see what we are Sam was thinking of.
00:36:28
Speaker 9: Yeah, and I love Peters Shak food was sport on Yes, I'm not sure if.
00:36:37
Speaker 1: This you go?
00:36:44
Speaker 4: All right, let's talk origin. We're not far away. So let's let's name a team and we'll start from number one because we've got a wealth of fullbacks. So who's going to be fullback? We've got Reesey Walsh, You've got obviously pong.
00:36:59
Speaker 3: Teams, and then and then go from there, go arguing after that with in your head you said it's kind of there, Well it's not really there. I've gone Walsh and then wingers. I don't even know who's available anymore. I've got I've actually got Cobbo yeah as one of the wingers. Yeah, yeah, the other one.
00:37:20
Speaker 4: I still don't it's coach out for the season. How long is Coach out for he's back?
00:37:24
Speaker 3: No?
00:37:26
Speaker 1: Probably who's Is Murray available?
00:37:29
Speaker 3: No?
00:37:30
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't know who I was available?
00:37:33
Speaker 4: Probably is Murray? Last year?
00:37:35
Speaker 3: Was he? Val is available? He's ruled himself out. But it doesn't mean that they can't be picked. They can't be putting in the squad. Whoever, maybe maybe should have written it down. Okay, so who's your team saying?
00:37:53
Speaker 1: Sorry, we all work. I've got I'm just going to go one to They're going to name twenty at the end of the day. So I've got one.
00:38:00
Speaker 3: I'm going to go one to twenty making Walsh, Cobbo, toy A, Wierdoh Taw, Lungy Munster, Clifford Farsa, Malai Grant, Carrigan, Finiky, I'll go on a nicer Cotter and then on the bench KP, I've got Capes Cape Well, I've got Trent Liero, Kurkman, Lindsay Collins and I've got big Tommy Flegler there as well, my twentieth man, My twentieth man, Cooper Bye, Okay, yeah's.
00:38:40
Speaker 4: Where's Cooper playing?
00:38:41
Speaker 1: He's at the Titans. Yeah, son of Marcus.
00:38:45
Speaker 3: He's good, he tough man, he's tough, he's very tough, play very and maybe last year played Queensland hundred nineteens. So yeah, I think you know it's not it's not bad to have him in that number twenty Jersey just being in camp and being around the guys. Honorable mention to Tommy Chester as well, the North Queens and Cowboys, Kobe Heatherington, Ethan Bullymore and Maxi Plaith. Yeah, and then you're gonna name twenty eight players and then actually Tommy Gilbert as well. I said, now I named my twenty and I said honorable mention and then they make it three is three games in state of origin. Mate, it's a long long time. There's games in between, so like you never know those guys might feature at some point in time. I kind of feel bad leaving Gemmon it out, but you know, hopefully you would have put him in if you felt bad. So I just in the sense that he knows that he's not playing his best footy at the morning. He's not confident Jake Clifford's ready. I think there's been games at the start of the season then that he was the better half out there than Tommy did it right, And I think he's a great goalkicker.
00:40:01
Speaker 1: He can also kick long. He's got a great long kicking game.
00:40:05
Speaker 3: He's a big half as well, so he can, like from a body point of view, if they're sending back rails ANWM all day, he can.
00:40:12
Speaker 1: He can make those tackles.
00:40:13
Speaker 3: And I think what happens then is he gets mentored and guided through the process with JT, who's a Cowboys legend who does some coaching every now and then up to North Queensland. He's in camp with him, mentoring them the whole week We've also got Tommy Dinnan who's a good mate of his and a teammate who he plays alongside week in a week out who is now injured, but even just come down and sit in camp and help him out. So that's why I think Tanner Boyd has been brilliant for the Warriors. But the hardest part is it's just that little bit of a smaller body out there and he will be a target big time. And like you were naming KP in the halves to go, they tried the experiment Newcastle. Didn't work having KP in the front line, Like he got knocked out three times he played, He played five and got knocked out three times, just because they're just going to target you and find you. I think what what they can do is they bring him off the bench and we we we play black dot. You split the field. You have wal She run on one side, you have KP running the other, and we just you know, get those hopefully fingers crossed opportunities to go all out attack.
00:41:26
Speaker 1: I think you're wrong anyway, at least finish mother back. You go to start at one or no, no, my god, I don't remember.
00:41:36
Speaker 5: Yeah, while she wingers co and t Lungy Murray and then Santa's you Val and then Santa's a bit toyer Hammer and what's his name spar and all ship, I don't know the little astress in between.
00:41:56
Speaker 4: She's going to pick pick one team.
00:41:58
Speaker 5: I'll have it then based off, based off, so you know, yeah, Munster and Ponger, Hooker, Harry Fronties.
00:42:10
Speaker 1: I'm going yeah, Tino, Paddy and I'm going to go I'm going to go Lindsay.
00:42:14
Speaker 5: I'm going to go back Rollers, Fine, Arki and Ruben Cotter to start on the bench. I'm going to go Gilbert, uh sorry, this is the eighteen in water. I really don't know six on the bench. So I'm going to go Gilbert, Cora, Hawsbroid because.
00:42:35
Speaker 1: Kurt Man again great coverall.
00:42:38
Speaker 3: I was thinking Kobe. I think he's been playing good form. I think he deserves a shot. You know what you'll get from him? Yeah, and he's played big games like that the final series. And I'm not like, in a weird way that blinde dude Cooper bye. Sorry as the sixth I just think, are you going to put him in the team? No, I just have having there like the six.
00:43:01
Speaker 1: Man bench he's not.
00:43:02
Speaker 3: I think he's been playing good footage deserve you actually know what you're going to get.
00:43:07
Speaker 1: He's aggressive, he's he's strong, he he's solid.
00:43:10
Speaker 3: He got some skill and knowses job, knows his role, and I think that's that's important in there.
00:43:17
Speaker 1: So Look, it's a scrappy it's.
00:43:19
Speaker 5: A scrappy order, but that's great honorable mentions to eligible player there is I love.
00:43:26
Speaker 4: I love your idea of Ponger on the bench. I got to say that idea because we nearly always get a major injury in the first couple of minutes, and he can slot in so many places.
00:43:37
Speaker 1: As well, N's and Capes.
00:43:40
Speaker 3: That's why he said Capes on the bench as well, because he can like and he's proven it in the past. There was one game in Adelaide he ended up playing in the centers and did did a fans actually drop?
00:43:49
Speaker 1: Caves does his job no matter what.
00:43:51
Speaker 5: The other funny story about Capes is when we were coming through the ranks, he was my whole winger and I was his back roller.
00:43:55
Speaker 1: Is that right? That's ridiculous swaps? Yeah, like yeah, it's it's nothing against you know, who would you be a doesn't matter.
00:44:07
Speaker 5: I'd put him in the squad just to watch and just to be there for that first the first game and the training week, all of that. I have him in that squad because then if the plan doesn't work, I think he's trading.
00:44:21
Speaker 3: If I'm a back rower and I've got KP in front of me, if i am liquor can't and I'm like, whoever my Clifford, Clifford, whoever my half is, I'm.
00:44:33
Speaker 1: Going early ball all day. I'm just elbows and the strongest defender. You can't say that he is.
00:44:39
Speaker 3: No, I'm not saying he's the strongest defender. I'm just saying he's a bigger body. I don't think he's much bigger than KP. I don't believe this year KP is as biggest and strong as I've seen him.
00:44:51
Speaker 1: I really do. I believe that. That's why.
00:44:53
Speaker 3: That's why would put him there. Just doesn't know how to tackle. Though he played middle band, the experiment just didn't work that time. When he played middle it did that game up. When he would come on as that lock defended, he held his own.
00:45:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, in the middle, it's.
00:45:07
Speaker 3: Different because you haven't got shape at to make a decision so you understand that's when that's when you get the head knocks and those types of things, because when you have to defend shape on a back row, it's hard.
00:45:17
Speaker 1: It's not easy. Yeah, to make a decision.
00:45:19
Speaker 4: Is the size of the body you both left walk around despite the fact that Rusters are absolutely killing it.
00:45:25
Speaker 3: He will, he will place out of origin very very soon, semi will. I think he's an out and out freak of a player. I think the size doesn't matter anymore. I think the game has gone past that now. But he hasn't done enough yet.
00:45:39
Speaker 5: I think the start of the year worried me about him, Like, I think he's still I don't think he's that peak yet.
00:45:45
Speaker 1: I've been serious. I think he's still got a bit more in the tank to hit his peak.
00:45:50
Speaker 3: You know, the best thing about it is that because we're having arguments about players, and it's good to be able to have those arguments.
00:45:56
Speaker 4: It's luxury.
00:45:57
Speaker 3: There's luxury that we have so many informed players that we from at the moment. So that's what that's what surprised me the most.
00:46:03
Speaker 4: Bad Mike Tyler's back with our final magic trick for Magic Ground.
00:46:11
Speaker 1: Let's do something, guys, I brought something very special, long fear.
00:46:13
Speaker 4: It's a little bit of a poster.
00:46:15
Speaker 6: I'm going to show you what it is just yet, but maybe you can hold onto that for it sure, Cory, being the closest to me here, I'm going to get you to choose a card in a moment. This is NRL related, so you'll come to that bit in just a moment. Now, firstly I should show you this is a normal deck of cards. You can see the difference. Now, Cory, as I go through, you to say stop for me, you're ready, Here we go. Well, they're going to bring it to the top.
00:46:37
Speaker 1: Have a look there.
00:46:39
Speaker 4: Don't show me.
00:46:39
Speaker 1: You can show the lads.
00:46:40
Speaker 4: Show the camera as well.
00:46:41
Speaker 1: The camera shots the camera guess.
00:46:44
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Sam whispered to guess about what was happening.
00:46:49
Speaker 1: That's why.
00:46:51
Speaker 6: Now, before I came in today, guys, I actually went on Chatt GBT and read it in that and got a list of one hundred of the top NRL players of all time.
00:47:00
Speaker 1: This is ridiculous.
00:47:02
Speaker 4: I'm not sure there's a lot of corries on there.
00:47:05
Speaker 1: I'm thinking there's a lot of core. It's a list of top hundred players of all time, best looking I'll be right.
00:47:12
Speaker 6: So, yeah, the oldest one in the top Like we've got Jonathan Kings. He's up there as well, so I guess it's pre NRL. But so seeing I'm like, you give me a number between one and one hundred. Don't make it top ten though, I make it somewhere. It's a bit seventy seven. Seventy seven a jump in my notes here, and I can't believe this if you go to my notes said the top list should be top NRL players player all time, all time.
00:47:38
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so we got Jonathan Thurston, I think the top there, Jonathan Thurst and Cameron Smith, Andrew Johns, Wally.
00:47:45
Speaker 4: I think maybe.
00:47:50
Speaker 1: Twenty nine. Yeah, where's where's the you know, go down to the fact, go down to number seventy seven for us.
00:47:58
Speaker 9: Genel didn't make it, he's not. I thought it was numb one hundred, Gene Miles, is you said number seventy seven any random? I didn't make you choose that or anything, right, number seventy seven? Okay, So I want to show Corey as well. Yeah, okay, number seventy seven, got it?
00:48:21
Speaker 1: You're famous, goods like that and like that.
00:48:24
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, okay, So We've got you to choose a card at random one to fifty two in the pack if you show is one of one hundred famous all time NRL players.
00:48:32
Speaker 4: Okay and Kip to recap. You've got a little prediction right there.
00:48:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, Corey for the first time today out loud, what was.
00:48:39
Speaker 4: A playing card?
00:48:39
Speaker 1: I can't leave his number number two.
00:48:41
Speaker 6: To the two the Too Heart Show, The Hearts and two Hearts and the number seventy seven on the list.
00:48:46
Speaker 1: Yes, number seventy seven on the list was Gordon the Raging.
00:48:49
Speaker 6: Ball Tour, Gordon Talas, Gordon Tallas in The Too Hearts. Kip, you've been holding onto that the entire time. Yes, unroll it carefully, show the lads, show the cameras what we've come up with, a very special photo of one Gordon Talis right there.
00:49:02
Speaker 4: And.
00:49:12
Speaker 1: There'll be plenty of magic and more magic.
00:49:15
Speaker 4: Yes, we'll be back to wrap up Magic ground on on the Wednesday podcast. Now, if you haven't followed the show, you can do that right now wherever you get your podcasts. Send us a screenshot to our socials and you could be in the draw for next week's meat. Trevor, this week's winner will be on the screen right now. Brody meets looking after You with a meat love to.
00:49:35
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