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Season 2-Episode 22- Can Confirm Eddie is Not OK (6 Nations & Super Rugby Round 1)
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Aww did you miss us? A little? OK we'll take a little. We are back with loads to talk about, not only was there a ton of rugby to talk about, there were loads of talking points too. Eddie...nope he's not, he's not OK. On this episode, we cover a little bit of player movement, talk a little MLR and what to expect in this 3rd season for professional rugby here in the states. Of course we wrap up all the action from this past weekend both in the northern and southern hemisphere. Also, don't miss our best advice on start sit for both competitions for this coming weekend. Get your listening pants on, kick back and enjoy.
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49ers vs Chiefs Game Review
00:00:08
Speaker
Hey, everybody. How's it going? This is the fans for OVYanks. My name's Jared Dyke. I'm Den Glaser. Welcome in. It was a busy weekend. Lots to get to and lots to talk about. A lot of talking points. Yeah, I mean, the 49ers Chiefs was amazing. Oh, oh. Besides that, I felt like I felt like making a joke on the social media, but I was like, everybody's made the fucking joke. So I'm just done. Yeah, I just I actually didn't.
00:00:29
Speaker
I actually purposely didn't talk about the game on social media Yeah, me neither.
Kansas City's Win Analysis
00:00:34
Speaker
I I think I mentioned I I took a I had an Instagram post and it had nothing to do with football and I mentioned football exactly zero times I'm I'm incredibly happy that that Kansas City won other than Andy and you read situation, but whatever I'm happy for him I Can I can I can forgive him for it in the grand scheme? Yeah Good for him. Mm-hmm
00:00:56
Speaker
But, Kansas City, as an entity, is so irrelevant that, like, we've just, everybody's moved on. Nobody cares anymore. It's like, ah, they won. All right, cool. We're done. It's not like, you know, when the Patriots win or, like, a New York team wins, God forbid, and we just hear about it constantly. Right. Like, I don't know when the parade's supposed to be or if it was today. Usually it's on a Tuesday or something like that, but it might have been today.
00:01:19
Speaker
Might have been today. I don't know. I don't care. It's great. I totally wasn't paying attention. Disappears into the ether like it never happened. That's perfect. Yeah, fair enough. All right. I'm thirsty. I don't know about you. I am very thirsty. Let's do it.
Podcast Promotion
00:01:34
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00:01:54
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Fantasy Rugby Tips
00:02:15
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make sure that you are looking at your TRM upgrades because it's like we said last week Six Nations short and sweet so you want to get as much advantage as you possibly can so that you're not suffering some sort of horrible punishment amongst your friends when you lose your fantasy league
00:02:30
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And if you haven't seen any of the ones that are over here for fancy football, check them out because there's some really terrible. Tattoos and like cars. Cars. Yeah. Nope. A whole lot of nope. Yeah. And then like certain things you have to do the following year. No, don't do it. Just don't suffer from it. Get your get your upgrade so you can get that advantage over your buddies.
00:02:49
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and just, you know, not, at least not finish last. That's a good, that's a good thing. Good starting point. Yes. And then we obviously check out our buddy, the fancy rugby geek. He had some good pointers this week, and I think you spot on a few of them if I'm not mistaken. And he and he's a good friend of ours. And if you're sick of us, check him out.
00:03:08
Speaker
Yeah, I still think he should replace Eddie. I would I'd let him replace Eddie in a heartbeat. I don't know about the rest of everybody, but hey, you know what? That works for me.
Fund for Michael Fadi Lofa
00:03:17
Speaker
All right. And then the last bit, Fadi Lofa has there's a Michael Fadi Lofa has a fund that's been started in his name. It's got a long road to recovery for the poor guy. Unfortunately, you know, medical insurance just isn't going to take care of it all. And he's a fantastic dude. And
00:03:34
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It's just a really, we talked about it, it was a super innocuous injury. Like it wasn't anything that like he did to himself or anything like that. Just, yeah. So, you know, pitch in whatever you can and it'll be greatly appreciated by the rugby community and certainly Wooster and obviously Patty Love and his family.
Chris Robshaw's Career Move
00:03:53
Speaker
Player movement a little bit a little bit of player news that dropped This morning really this morning slash last night Chris Robshaw is leaving Quinn's He's gonna come over here and play for rugby United, New York. Oh Well, you know what release we get to boo him twice again. It's yeah It's that time in his career. Yeah, he's been with Quinn's for 16 years
00:04:15
Speaker
Yeah. Wow. I mean, no, no small feat. No. No small feat. As much as I dislike the guy, I can still admit that he's obviously put himself together a decent career if he's been there for that long. Yeah. Yeah. And he's captain for many, many years as well. Captain England for a little while.
00:04:30
Speaker
Yeah, I mean good for him. So and what exactly is the salary cap situation of of Rooney? Because what if he's I have no idea I don't know. I don't know what MLL put a cap on this stuff or it's just like here if you want to blow your freaking money have at as I understand that there's a cap in season on what you can pay a player but out of season you it's
00:04:49
Speaker
Oh, that sounds ridiculous, but okay. I'm not sure I would understand how to even get around that. So like Bastero was making like a couple hundred thousand dollars, but in season it's like cheap. Thirty to fifty years ago. But he's also probably not training like more than once or twice a week. Right. And you know, okay, I'm tired sub.
00:05:09
Speaker
You're sweet tired. Put somebody else in. Yeah. Um, but speaking of MLR, it's, hey, we're, we are on the door. We are on the doorstep of season two here or season three. Excuse me.
Upcoming MLR Season Preview
00:05:22
Speaker
Yeah. Well, season one for the, well, really season one. It's the most important season because the free jacks are in it now. Right. Y'all had it easy. Um, I mean, quick thoughts on, on the coming season here.
00:05:38
Speaker
I'm looking forward to seeing that the quality of rugby because The last couple years it's been dominated by a lot of the West Coast teams With just their natural talent that seems to just come out of there Yeah, and there's a lot better support out west for rugby than there is on the East Coast. So yeah, it kind of makes sense I'm looking forward to it being a more balanced and even competition now that there's you know with
00:06:04
Speaker
Rooney and and all glory and the free jacks and I think that that's it You know, they were gonna bring a little bit of the balance back. Yeah, and Country won't be so tilted right and and it'll be that'll I think that'll be good for rugby. There's a lot more in the u.s Let's say there's a lot the bigger names, you know, you know, we talked just about Rob Shaw Bostro, right Drew Mitchell coming coming in and did you see his tweet?
MLR Team Dynamics
00:06:34
Speaker
He's like I can't get away from it because he obviously used to commentate for Fox Sports for all the Australian games For super rugby and he was watching one. Obviously he's not playing he's not doing that anymore because he's playing right playing over here He's just like I can't get away from it. He's like pretending to commentate. Yeah He was dying but yeah, so there's there's some good stuff to be wanting I believe is at Colorado and
00:06:57
Speaker
There's there's there's some good things going on over here. I don't know if you pay attention Obviously we have Kenny Hatake who's gonna hopefully lead the scrum along with our good friend Tony So it'll be really interesting. I don't I want to say that CL is not gonna repeat but it's fucking hard to pick against them because they they seem to have just like rinsed and repeat they didn't lose a ton and they added and
00:07:21
Speaker
Well, and I think the non new thing is going to really help San Diego. So yeah, that may be the thing that gets them over the line. Yeah. So, you know, while we just said there'll be balance, it's still likely, especially with the teams on the East Coast still forming. Yeah. Give it a year. Yeah. It's still likely to be a West Coast dominated season this year. Right. So I think those are my two favorites for Seattle and San Diego.
00:07:44
Speaker
I mean, easy, easy picks, honestly, but it'll be interesting.
Austin Rugby Team's Struggles
00:07:50
Speaker
And we can't talk a lot without talking about Austin at least for a minute or two. It's I think it's time to just let the Austin team.
00:08:00
Speaker
go by the wayside, I know they want a team in Dallas, move them to Dallas, let that be still the second Texas franchise and be done. Because Houston's got plans for, they're actually building a new rugby stadium, like I don't know how, it's only like 10,000 maybe. But it'll be a nice rugby-only, rugby-purposed stadium and they've got the right idea at least and they are, they're not changing their name every left, right and center. What's their new name?
00:08:29
Speaker
gilgronies what the fuck yeah it's a drink that has not been released what how do you we're giving this drink very secret like what the fuck it's a drink it's a drink but second off why look why at least there's a team that has a sillier name than the freejacks so yeah never again will anybody ask what a freejack is because this just beat it uh so thanks austin at least for taking that away from us you're awesome way to be
00:08:52
Speaker
So yeah, I do agree. I think Seattle will probably take it. They'll get to the final. Let's put it that way. They'll get to the final, no doubt. Who they play, meh. But they'll definitely get to the final, in my opinion. Okay. Let's go to the action of the weekend.
Wales vs Italy Match Highlights
00:09:10
Speaker
Obviously, we started off in Wales, the principality, Wales and Italy.
00:09:16
Speaker
Italy had intentions of playing with ball in hand, but almost to a fault. Oops. Yeah. Well, it's 42 Italy. Zippo.
00:09:27
Speaker
I was disappointed that that Thomas Williams didn't get over. Yeah, we were talking about that. I wrote early and I was like, he's definitely getting over because he's just he's was electric. He was he was very active and dynamic and he was finding space. You got it agreed. But that's the difference in a play, especially, you know, when you talk when you're playing Italy, who is for Six Nations Go substandard, no disrespect to them. It's just they're playing with very good teams. Right.
00:09:55
Speaker
When you have that advantage and you're getting that space, if you're a world-class nine or player in general and you're finding enough space, you got you finished. You came damn close a few times. You came close a few times but couldn't do it. Just, just, just. You know who could do it though?
00:10:14
Speaker
Nick Tompkins. Our boy. And who else? Josh Adams. A few times.
George North's Performance
00:10:21
Speaker
Three times. Only three. No big deal. That won't be his last international hat trick. I can promise you that one. Oh, no. Maybe not this year. Yeah, possibly not this year. Although I don't think he'll get over against New Zealand when they go down to play them. But maybe not in this tournament, that's for sure. I'd say he's got a pretty good shot at getting over a few more times.
00:10:39
Speaker
Yeah, he was totally does. Yeah, he knows what the trial line is. It's it's you know, it's there's a couple other guys that were very good this weekend as well but he's It's something to be said about that like knowing what the nose for that line is important
00:10:54
Speaker
Uh, George North at 13. Works pretty well. Love it. Works pretty well. I absolutely love it. Um, I'm not sure how that's going to work with, with, uh, Tompkins, uh, around, um, yeah. So I'm not sure, uh, if, if they're going to move, uh, North out to wing and put Tomo at 13 or if they're going to, um, I don't know, drop parks. I don't know if they would do that. I'm not sure if Tomo is better suited at 12 than 13.
Ireland vs Scotland Match Review
00:11:23
Speaker
Uh, yeah, that remains to be seen I suppose. Uh, yeah, north definitely can't bump inside. He's got to stay at 13. Right. He's got to stay at 13, but I like him better there. There was a, there was a point where he had the ball, uh, out towards the wing, you know, towards that, that five meter zone. And, uh, um, the whales 14 is out outside of them. I'm sorry. I don't have the list of the team in front of me. I'm just thinking of this one specific instance.
00:11:49
Speaker
And if it was reversed, if it was someone else with the ball there and North at 14, they would that that that 13 would have said, oh, you're big. You take the hit here. You get the ball. And then North would have gotten lit up because he's stagnant. He's static. And because he's so fucking tall, that whiplash of him hitting the deck is, you know, knocking his brain around. And we can't have that. So Johnny McNichol was the 14. That's right.
00:12:18
Speaker
So you got to, you know, having that option of him with the ball and with the option to take contact that he can prepare for and control is much. I think I like that better than him at the wing where he really can't control that contact. Yeah, he hasn't. He has not proven to be able to stay up and fit from that stuff. Right. It's for his safety more than anything. Yep.
00:12:42
Speaker
Yeah, agreed. Like I said, I commend the Italians for wanting to play with ball in hand, but it was probably to a fault. Minazzi can't kick. I think I figured that out. He wants to run the ball. He wants to run the ball. That's pretty much what he wants. So great for a wing. Not great if you're going to play fullback. That's a problem. That's a big problem.
00:13:01
Speaker
Um, they did have some bright spots calum braley and jake bledry and the likes braley was was excellent. Yeah, he was excellent. Um, carlo kind of played pretty well for himself. Um, it didn't wasn't Was a little under the radar because obviously it really got battered but you know, it didn't play too terribly
00:13:19
Speaker
So, gotta give him credit. A couple other new guys stood out. Canone stood out pretty well. Give him a lot of credit, especially without Freddy Rooza. 21, 2? Yeah, he's a baby. Yeah, especially without Freddy Rooza. That was a big one. They needed somebody like that to step up in that position. And he did very well. But yeah, whales do as they should have been. They absolutely tonk. Italy, 42-0. Ireland, 19. Scotland, 12. Lots of head scratching at the end of this, though.
00:13:47
Speaker
Just let's just fast forward to the end We know we know we know that there was obviously the fin Russell thing and that Scotland have a chance to at least tie and They don't get the ball outside of like two meters away from the rock Yeah, I know you just thinking about this match Calm down Maybe you are too calm. Maybe I need to fire a rocket up your ass Away, yeah Scotland at some point
00:14:17
Speaker
You can't, unless you're Ireland in this match, obviously, you can't kick four penalty kicks and expect to win an international match. Unless you're already ahead. Yeah. Which Ireland took care of early. Right. And there's Scotland late in the match, still, you know, 65 minutes in and they're down and Hastings is still kicking penalties. Yep.
00:14:47
Speaker
I'm sorry. At that point, you gotta score a try at some point. You're not even really trying. Well, I hate to point this out, but they had a shot at it and hog bottled it completely. Absolutely bottled it. I was like, what?
00:15:05
Speaker
Oh, oh, oh, oh boy. Oh boy. Oh boy. You won't hear the end of this for a long time. I'm sure his friends at Exeter won't say anything when he gets back. He'll see some of them this weekend. He'll see some of them this weekend. Oh man, yeah, that was, oh boy. Just, it's like an open goal. And all you had to do was just slide it into the... Just tap it into the... Just tap, tap, tap.
00:15:32
Speaker
Oh man, and obviously he came back to bite him because they only lost by seven. Can I give Ireland a little bit of praise here? I know it's because their try that they scored, the Sexton try. Sexton looked dynamic. When does that happen? He ran a loop in open play on the goal line.
00:15:52
Speaker
Yeah, you know no set piece. What the fuck? Yeah. Hey and uh, was it heli or furlong that had the hands I got started it. Yeah, I don't remember caught a short pop and he popped it off to yeah I don't remember who it was. Maybe it was murray. Um, but yeah, it was it was good good old prop hands Yeah, it was a very good sequence of actual rugby played by ireland on the goal line rather than the the smash smash smash try to get over
00:16:15
Speaker
that Scotland to no avail tried and then and then the last the last play I said it like why is Adam Hastings standing right next to the rock when he needs to get this ball wide like you're the fly half you need to be wide one way or the other I don't care which one pick one and get wide because this ball ain't going through the middle all right you got it you're gonna have to get this thing at least to the 13 channel you know whether or not it's you carrying it there I don't care but you need to fucking move it
00:16:42
Speaker
But yeah, it's kind of disappointing that they don't do playmaker balance on Six Nations. I'd be very curious about that. Because I really don't think. I know Ireland got it wide a little bit.
00:16:54
Speaker
But Scotland just didn't look like they were really doing anything with the ball. Yeah. We'll see. I mean, we'll see if this was not the this was not the match for Ireland to showcase their any any sort of pizzazz that they've put into their playmaking. Number one, this is Andy Farrell, who's a defense coach by trade his first match. Of course, they're going to just like rock up and play hard defense. So shocker.
00:17:18
Speaker
But so and Scotland actually have a decent bit of defense to play for themselves So this might not have been in first game under you under the new coach Sometimes you just not gonna quite see the razzle-dazzle and that's so I'll give them I'll give them one pass Next game. Let's see a little bit. Yeah, we got to see something. So apparently Ireland already in their team. They did Okay
00:17:40
Speaker
Interesting I don't believe it changed much it didn't ring roses out right aside from Yeah, and then I betcha Kaelin Doris did not recover from that concussion. No CJ Sanders at eight. Yeah, that makes sense Robbie Henshaw's in its center Okay, so nothing crazy changed. No, no, okay So we'll see him
00:18:02
Speaker
Okay, I'd like to see Max Dee, and I like him. Yeah, it's too bad Keelan Doris had such a short debut that sucks. That was definitely the one downer. But I'll give Adam Hastings a little bit of credit, and then we'll go on to the next match. The one thing that people were questioning, because the one thing that Greg Leglaw was useful for, was kicking goals. And I think people have now forgotten about that, because Hastings, I don't know if he missed more than one kick.
00:18:26
Speaker
So yeah, I don't recall at least at least if he's gonna keep the damn things make the damn thing, right? I don't recall him missing one so be just but again Yeah, they need to do more than that But at least at the very least he did hit the hit the ones that he was asked to hit so good on him Makes him maybe a little bit more interesting than fin for some reasons and some reasons not but we'll get into that Let's go to sunday le crunch
France's Victory Over England
00:18:51
Speaker
And all the talking points that came from it. I mean, hot start for France. Oh, unbelievable start. Love it. They love it. There are a lot of questions for them coming in with their youth and their experience now. They showed up big time.
00:19:09
Speaker
That all Yvonne is I think still scoring tries. I love it. He just scored another one. Yeah Yeah, I mean say what you will about the first one play the goddamn whistle number one number two that came directly because Ford Couldn't couldn't kick well because it went to a French player. He kicked it back He kicked it back for bank did not give a good pick kick him return and they return. I
00:19:33
Speaker
And then and then that was where that that was the eventual kick the belt led from. So, yeah, the first kick from Ford did not help. And then that led to four for a bad spot. He tried something and he didn't execute well. And yeah, the jitters. Yeah, he had a rough day. And that's I of all the people on on England and associated with England's program, I actually the only one I feel bad for is for a bank because he got to ride. Yeah, you got to ride a tough situation.
00:20:02
Speaker
Like sure and sometimes you're not gonna quite come out then. So I hope he gets another shot I hope this isn't the last thing last we see a judge for a bank, right? Although I don't know they have many other options Watson Watson's a decent. Okay. Yeah, he's kicking suspect, which is the one thing Eddie Jones wants back there, but fuck is he good in the attack? Right? So you gotta give him you gotta give him a little banks decent and attack to him Yes, it's just he didn't have much to work with
00:20:27
Speaker
No. And we saw the one thing that I continuously will hammer on this one player. George Ford doesn't know what to do when he doesn't have front football. He does not know what to do. He had one good kick and that eventually led to one of England's tries, but that was late. And you've got to figure that out sooner.
00:20:46
Speaker
And I'm sorry, but Owen Farrell knows what to do there. He had a bad day. He doesn't like 12. I swear to God. He wears the 12 jersey and something about him in his brain just disappears. He looked disinterested at times. And I don't, again, I don't blame him so much as Eddie for putting him there. Right.
00:21:04
Speaker
Fuck you don't he doesn't know what the fuck George Ford's gonna do because Ford half the time just is like puts his head down Like I'm just gonna run with it. Fuck it back So Farrell's sitting there like am I gonna get the I'm like gonna get the ball am I gonna get the ball? And then all suddenly comes he's like, oh shit. I'm getting the ball. He knocks it on Yeah, he's got to catch that ball. I'm not I'm not But at some point and then and Ben Young's first off
00:21:26
Speaker
You can't. So here's the thing. You can't start the two of them together. No, you can't. OK, George, I don't care if they play with. Here's the thing. I don't care if they play together. How good is Lester Lester?
00:21:38
Speaker
do tell where have Lester Tigers been hanging out in terms of the table. And I don't give a shit if they lose half their England guys for a few months at a time. They don't have enough impact when they're back to make a difference to the point where they can at least get to Champions Cup. So, again. And even when they're playing with Lester, I notice other players a lot more than I notice either Youngs or Fords. It's not as though I don't even consider them to be Lester's best players. They're decent, but they're not,
00:22:07
Speaker
Any kind of reason as to why Lester are not relegated every year? No, they're right now. I mean think back to the more or less the relegation match between Newcastle and them last year. They did not win that by a lot. No. They won it by nine?
00:22:22
Speaker
I don't remember. I think it was two scores, but it was also like a guy thompson intercept slash Smuggle that ended up being the the big thing that scored him the clincher But yeah, it wasn't like they blew them out of the water by any means whatsoever and that the new castle team probably Should have been blown out of the water by a talented team as much talent as lesser has but forden youngs just aren't that good no simple Yeah, I youngs isn't give great service ford definitely doesn't groove great service. So when you have a nine and ten
00:22:54
Speaker
whose weaknesses are passing the ball. You're not gonna have a good time. There's a problem. There's a big problem there. I'm pretty sure that's our number one job is to make sure the passes go where they're supposed to go. Right? You're a distributor. You're a distributor. But on to France. They got a little wobbly as the youth came on. Guys like Wokey came on and it got a little bit wobbly at times. Poirot made a big impact off the bench at the very least. He did. Poirot and Bomba, I thought, cleaned up the game pretty well at the end. Yep.
00:23:21
Speaker
So get a little wobbly, like I said. But for a friend's team to wobble and still stay strong to win the game is definitely a step in the right direction for them. Sean Edwards, I think, just upped his pay by like, I don't know, 10 Gs easily. 10 Gs a tackle, maybe.
00:23:40
Speaker
Uh, that French defense was on England's case and they never liked it. France just looked like an all around team right there. Their, their, their defense, like you said, was, was excellent. That was world-class defense, but their attack was, was again structured. They worked with each other. There was no, I mean, they were, they still, and it was great. They still had that, that flair. They're still doing fun shit with the ball. Yeah. They were definitely chucking around.
00:24:03
Speaker
But the structure makes it easier to do that. Because you know, OK, this person, his job right now is to be right there. So if I want to throw that pass, OK, good, he's there. Rather than, I will throw the pass and maybe he is there. Maybe not. This works out so much better. 50-50, why not?
00:24:22
Speaker
So I love to see it. It's good for the game to have France at their best is good for right. And and I they're they're pretty fucking good. It looks really good. So hopefully they can back it up with another one. We talk about Antoine Dupont. He's he's bloody good.
00:24:40
Speaker
He's slowly inching himself into that elite scrum half conversation in the world. Uh-huh. If he's not there yet, he's probably in his own category where it's DuPont, the elite guys that you might consider, and then everybody else is below that. Yeah. And how Eddie can look across the pitch and see all DuPont and Intimac. You're eight, nine, 10 over there. And then how he doesn't turn back and look at his eight, nine, 10. And see problems. And see big problems. Yeah.
00:25:09
Speaker
I don't I don't understand. He's named his squad for the weekend. It hasn't changed that much. Right now, the way they're playing, there's no 9-10 combination I would take. Just right now, this exact minute over DuPont and Nantimac. Oh, yeah. They played brilliantly, especially after that. Yeah, they played amazingly. Yeah. And then again, not to harp on it, but I'm going to harp on it. Is there in the Six Nations?
00:25:37
Speaker
Is there a worse combination 9-10 than Young's Ford?
00:25:44
Speaker
See i'm looking admittedly, but I would I would but you know what? I still like braley better than I like young so like tomasso allen more than I like ford Yeah, fair enough and I might even take kind of over. I don't know if i'd take kind of over for it Even though he played pretty well, but uh, yeah, it's tough. So I you know at the very least I think it's a a mostly universal agreement agreement that braley is probably better than young so they go right that being the tipping point alone Probably puts it down there
00:26:10
Speaker
I guess ultimately the answer to the question isn't the point. The point is that if you can ask the question and have to think about the answer. Especially with the resources you have. Yeah, that's bad. If you're asking, is there a worse combination in 910 combination in Six Nations than England's 910? What the fuck is Eddie doing? Something's up. Something's definitely up.
00:26:34
Speaker
Yeah, uh, so the french take care of business got to give it to him and um Could we see the first six nations title go to paris in? 2010 I think was the last one
00:26:46
Speaker
Yeah, so France 24 England 17. Let's check. Hey, you know what? Because we played fantasy with this one and we enjoyed it so much. Let's check some of the top scores by position. I know the team of the week has something different, but we have the likes of Nick Tompkins as the top scoring center right now with 31. Yeah, off the bench, not bad.
00:27:11
Speaker
Oh, okay. That's weird. They had to have George North there. I know. I don't know why they did that. I'm I I scratch my head at that one. Well, you know, but so I'm going as primary position. Obviously, a lot of these guys can move around. Lee half penny is actually the leading fullback. Twenty nine. Wow. Fly half. It's a three way tie between Intermax Sexton and kind of who's technically a fly half. Obviously, he played center this weekend.
00:27:36
Speaker
Um, but can be deployed and it's primarily deployed by his club as a fly off. So, uh, good on him. Flanker. Uh, I mean, give you two guesses at who's leading the flankers French. Yep. All Yvonne all 60. Yeah. Yep. There you go. Uh, hooker, Jamie, Georgia, Jamie, Georgia, and Julia Marchand from both from this, this game we just talked about with 26. Um, pretty good for Jamie George considering yanked early. Yeah. Um, his throws were shit. Yeah. He was off to use off. It was clear.
00:28:01
Speaker
He's been bad recently. Yeah, I don't understand what's going on with that guy. Um, he's been much better in the past like uh, it's not even that he's been bad for himself because Every time every player goes through a little bit of a slump back. He's been just he's not been bad Yeah, I don't I don't know what's going on there. It's not do I Unfortunately, yeah I don't like I hate to see it and I hate to say it but
00:28:25
Speaker
Same same um as guys that generally play out note eight cj standards 36 36 leads the way props It's a scottish prop zander fagerson 28. Um, Sutherland is right there with 30. Oh, no. Sutherland has 35 doesn't he? Yes, he does 30 30 30. Excuse me. Sorry messed that up. Um Which means I need to go back and look at something
00:28:48
Speaker
Anyway, um, so there's that and then scrumhafs dupal duh, yeah surprise surprise second second rose. Um, james ryan and alan wins shocker the fucking week and then Although scott cummings had 35 too. Yes, also also right there. Um, and then uh, I mean wing Give me a guess who eludes that one the guy that scored a hat trick. Yeah, josh adams then
00:29:13
Speaker
You can you believe that they're actually assholes out there who captained him motherfucker I actually was I actually had and I was gonna change it to tip Rick which wouldn't have been terrible He had 36, but yeah, I did 51 second in the US In front of me, but I was like, uh, how am I not first after one week? I'm surprised. I'm impressed by the person that's in front of me. I
00:29:37
Speaker
Yeah, I'm I'm seventh so I'll take it but I'm not that far off the lead so no you're probably not That's I'll take it. Oh, I'm eight points back. That's not bad. No, it's not bad. What did he do the different that I did? Ah Good choice good choice outside from his props. Everybody everybody kicked ass for him. Yep. Yep Dale
00:29:59
Speaker
Yeah, stocktail wasn't great. I had alarm. I had alarm on the bench and I should and I had stocktail on my team I should put stocktail. I did play jake bludgery though. That's I felt good about that So did I played pludgery stain? Mm-hmm. Yeah intermac played well Pico didn't play bad actually. Yeah. Okay. Cool. All right. So moving on never mind moving on moving on um, super rugby
00:30:21
Speaker
Hello, super. I'd be on an opening weekend a little bit opening match blues Chiefs Blues 29 Chiefs 37 Wow, I I liked what I saw
00:30:36
Speaker
I mean, you were, as a long time cheese fan. As a cheese fan. Yeah. As a three year, two year? Two. Three year. Two. Second year. Second year cheese fan. But yeah, I mean, what's not to like. And I mean, we have to talk about the halftime switches that came about and really made a huge difference. The first one was Sam Kane coming off, hitting his quote unquote quota. Yeah. But it was so cool. Made a huge difference. Why Aaron Crude didn't start the match. I have no idea.
00:31:06
Speaker
But I think Warren Gatlin would prefer to go back to that route the first time and not have Squeaky Bum time at the end. Might be nice. There's one other. What? Who came on? ALB. Oh, well, yeah. I mean, I knew he was going to make an impact on the bench. Can we talk about the first try score of Super Rugby in this season?
00:31:27
Speaker
the yank the american tony lamporn born and bred yank not at all kind of sort of shut up eligible through his parents or his grandparents probably i don't know which one but hey listen we'll take him listen this is the first season of super rugby for him to get the first try of the season is
00:31:48
Speaker
I'm super happy for the guy. That's fucking awesome. It's it's it's good for USA rugby. It's good for him Yeah, well love it. Love it. Love it. We don't have I think he's the only American that's playing a super rugby right now So yes, let's ride that as hard as we can baby. Well are drawn But that's Canadian. There's you can knock you different Still American. Yeah, it's a different kind of American
00:32:07
Speaker
So yeah, it was a it was a fantastic game 29 37, uh crude made immediate impact Yeah, but the blues don't look too bad either. So no, no those two teams keep them I would not keep them on your radar Yeah, those those are teams to watch and if they're playing against your team, you know Don't go to sleep. Yeah, definitely wear your brown pants that game Bring me a brown pants. Yeah What I what I love to see especially after the the
00:32:33
Speaker
I mean, well, not after, it was a prelude to, but if you want to contrast blues chiefs with, say, Ireland, Scotland, and you look at the blues and the chiefs both just going like toe to toe, heavyweight boxes in the middle of the ring, just throwing haymakers at each other. Like, I'm going to I can do this. Can you stay with me? And
00:32:56
Speaker
Just not you know, we're not gonna fucking box kick you to death and yeah, try to pound it over the line We're gonna try to just break your line and then speed right past you for it for tries that that this is the kind of rugby I've I you know, you'd love to see mm-hmm and it's You know, well, I mean, this is what I ever started watching to me There's there's too many coaches who are in the northern hemisphere who are just too scared to play like this hmm Probably a little bit
00:33:23
Speaker
But you see, you see the immediate impact of some of the coaches that go from the Southern Hemisphere, the runners, Pat Lamb, Chris Boyd, being the two big ones that come to my brain right away.
00:33:35
Speaker
and but they're in their little lamb is I think he I feel like he's struggling a little bit more this year for some reason because there's still that I think I think there's a little bit of regression I think there's a little bit of a oh this isn't how I think he's he's kind of buying into the northern hemisphere style a little bit don't do it bad don't do it right he's got it he's got a stay strong don't let him fool you the alamala try
00:33:58
Speaker
I was like, did he? Did he? He did. Yeah, he did. Wow. Wow. Athleticism. Right. That's freak athleticism right there. Placing it down just before he slides out. Yep. Just perfect accuracy. And he's got dudes coming to get him too, so it's like, hey, gotta go.
00:34:16
Speaker
There's a lot going on there. Absolutely. We all know what hockey would have done there so Yeah, so blues 29 Chiefs 37 Chiefs off to a good start Another the Aussie Derby that was on Friday Brumby's Reds also
00:34:34
Speaker
Very entertaining. Lots to talk about. Henry Spade going against his old team right away. I don't know who scheduled that, but I bet you he goes, all right, whatever. I'm good. And he gets one of the, he becomes one of the few people that have scored a try against every Super Rugby franchise as he scores against his old club. Yeah. So good, good on Henry Spade. He's a fantastic player. Too bad he didn't get picked enough as an international, but
00:34:56
Speaker
He knows what the try line is. So good on him Like I said 27 24 Brumby's win, but it was um, I was impressed with the young fly half That was his name loa lilesio Yeah, no lilesio, yep, he uh, he played pretty well isaac lucas played pretty well as well for uh for the red so a couple of youngins uh playing playing their playing playing themselves right into you know the eyes of uh, dave ranny possibly
00:35:26
Speaker
Possibly we'll see we'll see. Um, I mean, there's no barn our foley. There's no christian leofano Somebody needs to take that step up matt to move still around but so if you consider him the incumbent Then then you then you got you got a lot of roles still after that Yeah, well, you know, if none of them really step into it then curly bill's gonna end up doing terrifying
00:35:46
Speaker
Simply terrifying if I if I am australian ruby fan, I am hoping that god there is somebody else that steps up besides him, right? He's he's fine at midfield. He's He's fine. He's not awful at fullback. At least not club level but just yeah, no, i'm i'm hoping it's somebody else That's for sure
00:36:03
Speaker
And I'm not saying I know anything there, I'm just saying that, fuck it, it seems like Australia is like, oh, we can't, we don't have somebody here, all right, we'll currently build there. Seems to be, seems to be. James O'Connor played pretty well. I mean, we talked about his enormous comeback from obviously, as he started out real young and.
00:36:21
Speaker
Got a little too much of the spotlight when he was really young and it got to his head um went away has come back and and Rided the ship and seems to have figured out how to how to get this done as a professional So I give I give him loads and loads of credit for that one So good on him the two young scrum halves going out as well. Joel Powell and Tate McDermott, you know, there's no no Nick Phipps so um
00:36:44
Speaker
You know, that's up for grabs. It is that's definitely up for grabs that nine that nine shirt come this summer So as long as they can now play curly bill there Oh man, but this this was a brilliant match um a lot a lot of good stuff coming through I I was obviously haggity was haggity. He he's a machine. He's a machine so loads of credit loads of credit to the him and the reds for stepping up but
00:37:09
Speaker
Not enough. Not enough. And the Brumbies take it home. And then let's keep going a little bit further west and to the South African Derby. Sharks, Bulls. That was also not bad. This was not to the same entertainment level, but it was still very good. Yeah, it was excellent. The entertainment level is kind of lessened when there's a lot of
00:37:31
Speaker
players who just don't care for the ball. Yeah. Just chuckling around. Yeah. And I was like, huh, I wonder why the some of the centers, the midfielders for these clubs were still available later in the in the draft. That one out. Now I'm figuring that out because they just kind of throw the ball where they feel like that French you're talking about. They might be somebody there. I'll throw it there.
00:37:52
Speaker
Or they'll just drop it for no reason. I want to mention, because again, the coach in me came out with Mornay Stein, his tackle on Fosse in the open field. He's good. Fosse's got the wheels. He's broken the line. He's gone. And there's Stane back there who had kind of went back to cover, I think it was because he had kicked it. So he went back to cover full back.
00:38:18
Speaker
and lines him up and just waits on him and Fosse instead of avoiding him just runs a straight line and stains like okay here comes the shoulder and levels him just cleans him out and like that hurts the tack like it was one of those i was scared at first that it was going to be a like a serious red card dump tackle because Fosse's legs went flying up but
00:38:45
Speaker
Stain didn't lift him. He just hit him like right. He hit him right in the chest and de-cleated him. And yeah, and just went parallel and down to the ground. Yeah, we call that a de-cleater around here. That looked like it hurt. Nothing but snot bubbles. Big time. Snotted. And then Stain's boot. I mean, just the little flicks he's given inside his own 22. He has got such a strong leg. He does not need to do a freaking thing to send that thing a mile. Yeah.
00:39:11
Speaker
But yeah, so the Bulls have something going on there. Obviously, they didn't get the result this weekend. Sharks win 23-15, but the Bulls could be on the return a little bit. They obviously have some great pieces in the likes of Haan, Kendrick, Speckman, and then you look at their pack with Strauss, Andre Cougar returning, Visaji, you know, the two props of Kabaka and Kanya. So it's,
00:39:38
Speaker
They got a lot to feel good about. They just got to put it together. Yeah. So good on them. And yeah, and more I was thinking it hit drop goals, which is not something that a lot of people can do these days. So just, it's a weapon. It's a weapon. And I do want to just give a shout out to the quick little scrum half. So now I know Hamba from the Sharks. He scooted in for that last try that clinched the deal. I was like, damn, he is quick. My eyes popped out. I was like.
00:40:07
Speaker
Oh, this guy's cutting fast. Hello. Okay. So, um, loose shirt or your, your, your shirt might be in trouble. Just if this guy can, you know, a little Herschel again, cheese F thing might be going on here. Good. Look good. As long as he can give good service, it's going to be, um, that's going to be a battle for that nine shirt. Yes, it is. Good on this kid.
00:40:28
Speaker
And then the match that started on Friday and ended on Saturday for us. Sun Wolves and Rebels. Sun Wolves with a huge result. 36-27. That was surprising. They played some good stuff. It's a team that's only been together for four weeks playing like that.
00:40:46
Speaker
Uh, Garth, April pick, take a bow, take a bow, sir. He was like fourth banana in the shark system. And he says, screw it. I'm going to go play one season and get a shot and just get some playing time and see what I can do. And well, I think he's going to be playing in super rugby next year, even though some wolves aren't right. So especially if he keeps that up, I mean, it's one game. I don't want to make too much of it, but man, kid look good. He did. He looked really good. And then Ben tail.
00:41:11
Speaker
Hi, Bento. There he is again. Yeah. He's resurfaced. Hello. I remember you. And Fafita did, he equipped himself pretty well too. He was great. Good stuff. All around and Moria with the opening try to really set the tone was just, that was big.
00:41:29
Speaker
That was I mean less than 10 minutes and against a team that was scoring tries for fun last year. Yeah at many points Yeah, this is like that. This isn't Something to bat an eye at and say oh, this is you know, just opening week jitters Rebels are good squad. That's a very good team over there and uh
00:41:46
Speaker
Yeah, the Sunwools just came up to him out to play and they played very good rugby. This was um, just like uh, you know the Blues and Cheese leading it off this this was a an excellent uh display of of rugby by both squads. Yeah, um, they're uh, just the georgian hooker, Jabba. I mean you can't have a better name than Jabba as a hooker. Come on
00:42:09
Speaker
But yeah, he played very he's obviously a good professional tip for them to have as well for them to lean on Andrew Callaway on the other side for the rebels He looked like he was gonna take it every time he touched it. Yes, once he got that corner He looked like he was going he eventually got one but he definitely looked like he was gonna cause some damage So I would keep
00:42:26
Speaker
keep my eyes peeled for this kid. Yeah, he's gonna do some damage. I like it. Matthew wasn't great, but he wasn't terrible. There were a lot of parts that could have been a lot better. And I'm sure the rebels are going to be kicking themselves for letting this one go. They definitely came out slow. Right. Didn't help them.
00:42:42
Speaker
Yeah, and the travel doesn't help. No, um, and and so, you know, the symbols are going to get that that benefit when they have home games So it's it's one of these you you can't just I They're announcing that you cannot go to sleep on the symbols. You can't say yeah, we're traveling whatever we can still walk away with with uh, Four or five points. Yeah, they weren't not gonna happen. Were they in Fukuoka? Is that where they were this weekend? They were there someplace one of the big they were one of the big ones. I Don't know where exactly they were. Yeah, they were one of the big stadiums that they used at the World Cup
00:43:12
Speaker
Level five stadium. I'm not sure where that is. Okay. Well, that was uh, they were they're one of the big ones I remember that but either way some wolves 36 rebels 27 So do not sleep on the sun wolves when you go to japan bring it bring a good team because they they're they're obviously a little chapped and They're gonna go out with a bang at the very least
00:43:31
Speaker
I hope that's it. I hope they can reverse that. Yeah, you can only hope. Yeah, let's so let's go to the games that start on Saturday and in the Saturday Crusaders 43 or Taz 25. This actually got interesting to a point when and I'm going to do my goddamn best to say this kid's name because shit, he's got and we're going to have to learn how to pronounce it because we're going to say it a lot.
00:43:58
Speaker
Mark, Nawa-kanatiwase. Oh my goodness. I hope I didn't butcher it. I'll get it right eventually. Nawa-kanatiwase? Yeah, something like that, but he looked really- No, there's a lot. There's a dog. Ah, fuck it. Yeah, good luck. Anyway, he looked athletic, finished the first time, second time he intercepted it and went and took it home. Brilliant, either way. Young, needs to obviously grow a little bit, but very good. Very good nonetheless.
00:44:23
Speaker
Uh, give him credit and you know on the other side Richie mawanga coming off No problem. David heavily step up tick about kid because the dude I think he scored I think he scored a Good chunk of the at least half these points here that are sitting on their board on this board for 43 Uh, he uh, well as soon as he took started taking kicks i'm like mawanga can't be right if he's taking kicks Yeah, end of story because mawanga is a decent goal kicker. So I imagine
00:44:50
Speaker
You could say that. I was like, I think this is bad news for them. Braden Ennore picks up where he left off last year. Well, Jordan picks up where he left off last year. And then. Lester Feinga, excuse me, Feinga Anuku. Oh, my Lord. This dude is huge to be playing a wing. Sizable. Oh, my God. I do not want to be a wing playing against this dude. He is gigantic.
00:45:17
Speaker
So I mean crusaders are turning out more products surprise surprise The guy's leave and it's just like yeah, let's just reset reload. No big deal Cody Taylor didn't even start this game then I mean Yeah, Michael Leo didn't didn't look great in the first half. So key Cody Taylor came on at halftime
00:45:35
Speaker
Brett Cameron sufficed and serviced as one more longer came off. I think he just knew I don't need to carry this ball a whole lot I'm just gonna get to these guys and let them do the damage. Yeah, that sounds like a good plan to me Wait 10 just being a distributor. Oh, hey, how about that? What the fuck? novel concept I know
00:45:55
Speaker
But they must have lost, right? 43 25 Crusaders went over the war toss. Don't don't let the scoreline flow. War toss did fight back in this match. And they did. I made it interesting. I actually I couldn't get around to watching the second half, but I watched the first half and I was like, yeah, this game's over. So credit credit to the ties for for gutting it out. Yeah, sure. A little fight. Yeah. Do it on them. And then over to South Africa. Oh, man, I am on behalf of.
00:46:26
Speaker
As a Hurricanes fan for the days of like Jerry Collins and Tano Omega, anybody that watched this match and was hoping for something good, I am so sorry. This Hurricanes team played like absolute shit. They did not play well. They played like garbage and they're going to have to find a better answer at 10 because neither one of these guys look good.
00:46:46
Speaker
And I, you know, I'll I'll say I didn't watch a ton of the second half, but yeah, this is another similar thing where I didn't watch. Well, because the six nations came on and they were getting thumped. So I was like, I want to be happy. And I'm not going to be happy if I watch the rest of this. Let's watch Ireland Scotland. That'll be happy. Listen, I don't give a shit about them. So at least that wasn't sad. Right. So. Oh, no, that was Italy. Wales was the first one. Oh, there you go. So ha ha. Even better. Yeah. Jesus picking up where he left off her. Holy. Yeah. He's he's good to go.
00:47:16
Speaker
Yeah, he's good to rock plug him in man. There's a thing that uh, it's a it's kind of a big deal in the nfl You hear that the sophomore slump i'm not sure if that's something that that has i don't know if it's gonna exist on him Shoot certainly doesn't exist on him. He didn't look like it. Yeah, john him. He's a Man, this kid's gonna be electric for years to come. He is good on him. Uh, villain still played really well No surprise, right? Uh
00:47:40
Speaker
I really don't, Karifi was trying his ass off and made what little impact he could. Really, he was the only guy that I could say that about. You know, there's no Cody Taylor in this. Obviously, they're still trying to figure out their 10 situation. There's a lot. This could be it.
00:47:56
Speaker
This could be a year you don't see the hurricanes in that that that home Wild Card spot that they've been in for the last couple years if they sneak into the playoffs Maybe I don't think you're gonna see them in that spot at the very least. So unless they really shake it loose and
00:48:11
Speaker
Tj drives them on and kicks on just for I it's gonna have to be tj firing a rocket up their ass Yeah, at some point you got it. I mean, I I know that's not his natural position obviously, but but his brother did all right with air Um, did you move jordy to 10? I'm sure he's thought about it already. I'm sure it's been thought about a long time ago because otherwise you've got
00:48:32
Speaker
You've got a serious 11 through 15. Absolutely deadly. But without a 10 being that hinge. At some point, you might want to say, yeah, Jordy, you might not be your best at 10. But it's still better than anyone else we got. But we're better with you there.
00:48:55
Speaker
You know, I don't know. I don't know what else that decision but man It's gonna be it's gonna be tough and I know you know They have the likes of Kyle Spencer to possibly make that decision for them, which would be good But there's a lot to figure out with that one because it's gonna be you know Jason Holland's got a big task in front of me kind of got the job a little late because I
00:49:19
Speaker
When Fozzie got the job, then they called him Plum Tree. So it can kind of throw you off, and it's clearly done something to them. So yeah. Have you seen any update on CEO Khaleesi, by the way? I think it was grade one, MCL. Yeah, I comment on them. South Africa commentators are such fucking homers. They need to calm the fuck down. They kept watching the replay of the Khaleesi hit. I think it was Karifi that got him.
00:49:49
Speaker
It wasn't like watch it live. It was not that late. They kept watching it slow mo like oh, that's late I'm like, no shit. It's late. You're watching it in slow mo replay. You dumb dumb, right? Like use your brain and watch it live It was like he was committed. He was in he didn't actually like go for the knees. I think he just stumbled But anyway, you just shut the fuck up stop as you freaking idiots. Oh
00:50:09
Speaker
Anyway, Stormers win 27. They blade the Hurricanes, rightfully so. Hurricanes did not play very well and they did not bring their best squad by any means whatsoever. So good on the Stormers who are taking care of business. They're good. They're good players on the Stormers. I'm happy to see, get the victory on that one. So let that be said. And then to the last batch of the weekend, Jaguars picking up right where they left off, 38-8. I mean, obviously they didn't do well in the final, but they are defending home at the very least very well. So got to give them that.
00:50:37
Speaker
Right. And they, you know, bringing back that pretty much the same squad. Yeah. But he had left this game early, I think, which was not great, but, um, it seemed that, uh, Mottie just plug and plug and play. No big deal.
00:50:52
Speaker
Yeah, and then again similar they have the the the horses One through 23 to to kind of cover for that if they need to bring somebody out early seems it So I would I'd be this this you might you might see them back in the final you might you might say and you know what they may even host it although it's gonna be damn hard for them to top the Crusaders will stumble at some point if they don't stumble and
00:51:16
Speaker
I think you're going to see a little bit of a shift in the landscape in New Zealand.
00:51:27
Speaker
If what we saw with Blue's Chiefs is reality, if that's the way those two teams are going to play, they're going to give Crusaders enough of the game that's going to, you know, could knock them down one or two slots. I mean, look, there's nothing that would stop either of those teams or both of those teams from beating Crusaders.
00:51:48
Speaker
Which could make a huge difference. Yeah, they play like that. Absolutely. Yeah, so I you know, I think the not that the Crusaders are vulnerable It's that there's other teams that have now I think elevated at least it seems that if elevated their games to a point where they Could be serious contenders against them. Yeah strong again, and that could change the the whole landscape of the the the playoffs and oh, yeah, the jet the headquarters and
00:52:14
Speaker
Yeah, I mean to for them to be able to hope potentially host the final would i'm sure would be Immense be massive for the for the country for the for rugby in the country Could you imagine that match? I think it'd be I think it'd be wild imagine that the the Just the atmosphere of that game. Oh, they love that. They love that team crowd. They love that team
00:52:35
Speaker
And they're into it. They're into it the whole match pretty much. So I think you'd be fun. I'm kind of rooting for that. Yeah, kind of fun. Now that I thought about it. Now that we've given that some thought. You've talked me into it. Thank you. So yeah, Jaguar's down the lines. Not a whole lot to like. A lot of change from the lines. A lot of change from the lines. A lot of turnover. And not the change that needed to be made.
00:52:59
Speaker
No, unfortunately. His helping Yankees is still there. Still there, 10. Not great. Not great. Yeah, no Malcolm Marks, no Faf, obviously. It's going to be an uphill battle for them. 38-8 for the Haguares. Lions are going to go lick their wounds and go back to Joburg as they play this weekend.
00:53:19
Speaker
Yeah, there was there was that uh Notable scores villains to scored 33 this weekend son walls front row scored 19. Holy shit Can I say that holy shit? Yeah For those that are playing with ben and I in the 15 player lineup. Um
00:53:38
Speaker
the Chiefs now starting hooker, because Nathan Harris is hurt. I've pronounced too many hard names today, so I'm not gonna give this one a shot. His first name's Sam Asani, so you can go with that one. 19.1 from him as a hooker. When we do start sits on either here or on Twitter, just assume that anybody that's got a pulse and is starting is viable, unless they've really shown that they're shit, or unless a team's shown that they don't give up much against them. So locks, hookers, props.
00:54:07
Speaker
Viable viable options unless they've either shown. They're really really good or they're garbage right after that. It's a crapshoot good luck And even if they've shown that they're really really good you could still end up with like a negative five Oh easily so easily it it's yeah. Yeah, so that's a fun. That's a fun one to play have fun Hoskins to two two for the blues loose forward not Akira. You want he didn't start and he didn't start I was surprised but this guy proved everybody wrong. No big deal Locks dunce ended up being the top lock
00:54:38
Speaker
Good Hugh along with oh, no, wait, never mind Braden in our the other the other Crusader Center was the top was the top was the top Medfielder and then surprise surprise David heavily was the top outside back No shocker there. No, he's good. I ran to that buzz saw 50 points. Yikes. Oh Yeah, I was like, oh I'm losing I saw that I was like, I am so low I've so lost that's in our 15 league or is this in there? I think it was in the second I think it was in the second one where we just had the front row group
00:55:05
Speaker
Did so wait did you go against George cuz I know he nope He brought the heat he brought the deep breath and he brought the noise out. I was disappointed in myself I was well, I'm not disappointed so much as I think I was the highest scoring losing team of the the week In which league the second one in the second league I had 104 shoot and lost to a school of shark who had one Oh, man, that's a tough one. That's a loss. Yeah of four-point loss. I was I
00:55:32
Speaker
Alright. Displeased. Yeah, I don't blame you. Alright, start set. Six nations. Six nations. Ireland, Wales. I think that means I'm up. Because I think I did those. We've been seeing you. Alright.
00:55:46
Speaker
This is going to be one of those where, especially in Six Nations, you don't worry about the match-up so much. You don't really get a chance to figure out the match-ups. It's just here's who's going to do well for these teams. Here's the guys that are going to probably score you a lot of points. Right. So on the Irish side, Ty Furlong has been their higher scoring prop from the tight head. Odd, but go with it. It works.
00:56:09
Speaker
And the locks, Ian Henderson, Ryan, go with them. Van Der Fleer and Stander, the seven and eight, stardom, Murray, always, and Larmor. For your sits, Herring, I'm not sure how that's going to work out. I don't know. He didn't do well last game, and I didn't think you would.
00:56:29
Speaker
No. And, and Wales have a decent, uh, line out defense. So I keep hearing off your, off your team. O'Mahony, uh, I don't think is going to do so hot as far as fantasy points. Um, same with Sexton and Conway. I don't see them scoring a lot against Wales, uh, for, for Wales.
00:56:49
Speaker
You can't not start Alan win. I made that mistake. I have a hat He didn't even make my bench and I am mad at me. You say you kicked your butt on that one. Yeah Wainwright Tipperick Thomas Williams I still I think he's gonna see some space again problem and and have some more opportunities Hopefully he can learn from his mistakes and take advantage agree. I
00:57:13
Speaker
It goes without saying, start Josh Adams. Nick Tompkins, George North, those are guys you want on your squad, because Tompkins seems to find the tri-zone whenever he plays. It seems to. Sit the other hooker, Ken Owens, and sit Dan Bigger, because 10s, I think, against Ireland, especially the way they're playing. Yeah, it's going to be a little kicking. Not that that's bad for a bit Dan Bigger, but there's not going to be a lot of attack. Yeah, not what you really want from a 10. Yeah, you want somebody that's going to get you 30 plus in this situation.
00:57:43
Speaker
And I really think that Ireland's going to put the screws to Lee half penny and hold him to a low scoring game. So sit him. Better hope Sanjay's healthy.
00:57:54
Speaker
Calcutta Cup, take three, at least three in the last couple years here. This will be an interesting one, how this goes, especially since Scotland still holds Calcutta Cup, can they? We'll get into that when we do pick them. But for Scotland, Johnny Gray is a tackling machine, go ahead and start him. Hamish Watson, Hastings actually is still a decent start.
00:58:18
Speaker
Hog, I said he was the sitter of the week, and I eat my words on that one. I'm not making that mistake again. Fagerson or Sutherland, either one's fine. Jamie Ritchie's pretty good. Sam Johnson, if you have to, and he's a pinch. If Allie Price is your scrum half, you could do worse. Kinghorn is the one wing that I would play out of these guys. I would sit Maitland. If McNally's the hooker, play him. If Fraser Brown's the hooker, sit him.
00:58:47
Speaker
Um, so is that. Uh, on the England side, uh, Johnny May, you can't set him. Simple as that. You can't set him. He knows what the tri-line is. He's, he's finding it. Um, despite all our shitting on him, he's actually still a decent fantasy option. George Ford, play him. Uh, Mario Atoje, Jamie George are almost always good fantasy options. Yeah.
00:59:07
Speaker
Allah, George Ford, Ben Youngs, again, he's still a decent fantasy option, just not going to be the one I pick, that's for sure. Courtney Laws, Underhill, Startable. Owen Farrell only at 10. If he's at 12, I can set him and change your kicker too, Jesus. Thankfully, the only thing that he was good for was the few kicks that he made.
00:59:28
Speaker
Great. Sit. If Curry's here playing at eight, sit him. Maklo Sinkler and Elliot Dalier probably sits this week too. Scotland do pretty well against props and they've done well over the last couple of international competitions as well. So, sit him.
00:59:43
Speaker
Did you mention Johnny May? Does it start? No, he's a start. Okay, good. He's definitely a start. I missed his name somehow. Yeah, nope. You can't. You can't. Yeah, no. He's going to score a try. France versus Italy. This basically start France. So, Marchand, Poirot, Obama, I think all three will start.
01:00:10
Speaker
Allivant, Aldrit, DuPont, Intimac, Rates, Vacatawa, Thomas. Start all of them. The only sit I have on France at the moment is Ficu, because I think he's going to get bypassed in terms of the ball. He's going to open up the space for everyone else.
01:00:28
Speaker
Um, for Italy, uh, Bigi, I, I don't see how you, he's an excellent play. If, if you, uh, want to avoid, uh, using some Italians on your team. Yeah. So, um, I'm going to say, uh, Kenone again, uh, I'm going to ride him. Cause I, he impressed me. Uh, I heard good things going in, which is why I had him starting last week. So I'm rolling with that again. Uh, Poledri stain, Brailey, tomato, uh, Bellini, Kana Minozzi.
01:00:56
Speaker
As far as sits again, Sebastian Negri. Yeah, I'll touch him bait. He is bait. Maurici and Sarto. Yep. Yep. Agreed. Um, start of the week. Six nations from Scotland. Hamish Watson. There you go. And, uh, mine is, uh, the aforementioned Johnny May. Johnny May. It's a good one. Sit of the week. Six nations. Kyle Sinclair. Oh my.
01:01:22
Speaker
Props don't do well against Scotland. He did not do well last game. No, he did not. So I'm going to go ahead and go with the odds and and say amongst one of the most popular picked props, put them on your bench or put them in the stands. There you go. I just realized that my set of the week was the same as last week, so I got to change that real quick. So after after pondering that in my head for a little bit, I'm going to go with Johnny Sexton.
01:01:45
Speaker
Okay, fair enough. All right, so Super Rugby starts this. I get the Highlanders first match of the year. The easy ones are Frisell, Aaron Smith, Josh Iwani, Josh Makai. They've released their lineup, assuming they're all in. Go ahead and start them. I haven't had a chance to look at it yet.
01:02:02
Speaker
Thompson T. Thompson, Tompkinson, Walden, their front row, Lynchus, and Peretti are sits for me for the Shocks. I made the mistake of saying I fell a Fosse's a sit. I'm not doing that twice. You look really good. Shocks front row, Mac McPimpy, Bosch, Nkosi, Esther Hazen are all starts. Shooter, Hiran Andrews, and Lucanio Am are sits.
01:02:28
Speaker
Really, I'm as I said, yeah, like a point one. Oh, yeah, he was everywhere, though. I was the weird. It's how fancy works, man. I know. I don't make that shut up. Not my fault. So Brumby's Rebels Rebels just want, you know, watching the game, it's almost seems that they're they're vulnerable out wide. So for the Brumby's start, L'Olessio, Corradrani, Wright, Banks and sit the Brumby's front row, Powell, Banks, maybe Cusack and Kata. Ooh.
01:02:55
Speaker
For the rebels start their front row Matt Philip, Naserani, Lamani, Tumua, Korobetti, Meeks, Hodge, Callaway, Haley Petty, and Sit, Leota, and Cottrell.
01:03:08
Speaker
Yeah, he's definitely bait. He's definitely bait. You see him and you're like, he's part of the Rebels. He plays in the loose. Stop. Nope. Slap that hand away. I almost just smacked. Jared's like, reach it for him. No, no, no, no. Ow.
01:03:28
Speaker
Shit all right the other another New Zealand Derby for the Chiefs it still should make for some pretty good scoring just the same crude in Allamala or definitely starts assuming they they are starting. It's come on gallon get with a program here The hooker whose name I didn't try to pronounce definitely play him if he's playing because there's it's so rare to find a good scoring hooker You might as well write it while you can well Lachlan Bashir plays brains out for them and
01:03:53
Speaker
Start him, Chiefs front row, ALB, Tapia, very good last week. If he starts, especially if he's starting next to Anton Leonard Brown, play him. Sean Stevenson, Sowakula, awesome. He was in a half. Some of these guys did their damage in a half, remember that. So if they start, fucking play him. I don't care if it's a Crusaders. And then Sam Kane and Nankovil are your sets for the Chiefs. And then Crusaders, it's pretty much if it's a Crusader, play him. Haveli, Will Jordan, Enor,
01:04:21
Speaker
Feinga Nuku, Goodhue, Dunche, Drummond, Reeson, Banks, whichever one ends up being the odd man out or not the odd man out. Crusaders, front row, go for it. Brett Cameron, if he ends up playing as the only guy outside, because he might play for Molonga.
01:04:36
Speaker
Wartos blues. Shit. I'm going to have to say the name. All right. Uh, so for the ties start there, front row, uh, Michael Hooper, Jed Holloway, Jake Gordon, Phuketty Harrison, now walk on it. There you go. And Newsome for the ties. Uh, sit currently bill, unless he's at fly half or scrum half, he should not be an outside fighter.
01:05:00
Speaker
Switten and hunt the key the hunt here is that he is an outside bet He's listed in an outside back, but plays midfield. So you're just killing yourself with points if you got hunt Yeah for the blues start their front row Tony Lamborn, obviously. Yeah to to Ruru Bowdoin Barrett Fianny Marchant Talia
01:05:19
Speaker
uh sit rico yoani yeah yeah yeah until until bone bear comes back in like what five weeks or something like that yeah sorry the the the half backs aren't going to get done for the bombs yeah so i'm hoping that uh uh
01:05:35
Speaker
Yeah, if Bowdoin plays yes, but I guess he's not so guessing he's not Don't start black if he's playing. Yeah, please no or Harry Plummer really right if you're desperate for Harry Plummer find another option So for the line lines Reds unfortunately the last match for the lines didn't leave a whole lot to be desired Marnus Schumann was the biggest thing that came away with from that for me thankfully I have him in one of my one of our leagues and
01:05:58
Speaker
Lions front row is still probably still a decent option until they really get proven otherwise. That's a tough environment to go into in Argentina, too. Let's just be real. Guys that you probably burned high picks on, you got to play them. Skosan and Yanchis, Cozia, Similani, if you have them.
Reds' Young Talent
01:06:15
Speaker
Guys that you can probably get away from. Tyrone Green, Russ Coronier, Brink, Deo Amani, out. Reds, Reds played some good stuff just by going down. Harry Wilson, Bryce Hagerty,
01:06:28
Speaker
Spate James O'Connor Isaac Lucas Tate McDermott put I that's a lot of young young talent in that Reds backline and it's all really good Lucan Solokai low-till plays second row knees will sizzle is forward. So that is terrifying. So don't play him
01:06:45
Speaker
And Stormers versus Bulls. Slugfest number two. Right. For the Stormers, start their front row, Yaku Kotsi, Peter Steph du Toit, Herschel Jankies, obviously, Damian Vilemza, Segerl Peterson did a very good job. He collected that nice crossbow. That advantage is great. Yeah, that was brilliant.
01:07:07
Speaker
uh for the stormer sit uh kilesi i'm guessing he's he's not he i think he's probably not playing either way i i would kind of i would have put him on the pine um just because he'll probably have a recovery day in your week anyway but looks like he's out for more than that and sonatla
01:07:22
Speaker
Yeah, something about him just didn't didn't quite click for that for the Bulls start.
Super Rugby Players Critique
01:07:27
Speaker
Josh Strauss won a Stein or a Galant and my autocorrect kicked in when I made this note to Roscoe specimen specimen. Well, that's accurate. Specman specman because I actually and I think he and yeah, he's going to have, I think, a little bit of a bounce back game. He did not play well this past week. I think he's going to be a little angry about that.
01:07:52
Speaker
Yeah, he got bottled up by that shark's back. Yeah, so and he he fucked himself a couple times So I think he's gonna have to get his head right and then come out and and put on a show For the Bulls sit there front row Coates and Odin doll this doesn't seem quite yet. So I think I think JB Coates. He has no dead back. Just oh, they definitely know really scary Yeah, I think I remember seeing that being like you I would never touch that. No, thank you
01:08:21
Speaker
Yeah, I didn't notice that but that's even more reason. That's like the really ugly drunk ship kind of party even when you're drunk here like nope nope nope nope nope. All right, um Jaguar. Oh man, this is gonna be very painful for me. What did I do?
01:08:38
Speaker
No, I'm just... Where did I do now? If I did something, just tell me. Yeah, Jags and Hurricanes. Jags started hot. I don't see why they're going to fall back. Moroni, Miyoti, or Bernier, you can play the one. Bafelli, Carreras, Cruz Melia, their front row. Montoya actually played really well as a hooker and scored really well. So again,
01:09:05
Speaker
There's so few of them that score well. Ride it. Ride it while he's up there. Francisco Gorosan, who was the one flanker that actually did something for the Jaguars, and it was not Kramer or any of those other guys that are out there, so good on him. He scored really well last week's play. You could play Kramer, I guess it wouldn't be that big a deal if you really needed to.
01:09:25
Speaker
Or take a decio del geek who belly or your sits for the Jags I'm hoping that the hurricane hurricanes have had a rocket fired up their backside and play a little bit better Karifi was the one stand out from the last game. So go ahead and roll them out If booth plays as as a nine, maybe TJ gets a little bit of punishment You actually put really well so you can go ahead and roll him out there, too
01:09:47
Speaker
Uh, Gareth Evans, probably worth, probably worth a look at least. TJ, Lamb, Lamape, Jordy, play him. You, you, you wasted a pick up too high to not play him at this point. You're only in round two. This was round like 10. Okay. I understand. Um, you now know who you're good, who you're getting your bats. Sit. Um, hurricanes front row.
01:10:07
Speaker
Either fly half, get the fuck, get away from that. Get away, get away, get away, get away. Find something else. Really go to Harry Plummer if you're playing those guys, honestly. At least Harry Plummer's back in New Zealand. He's not in Argentina. And then West Houston's set. That was a bit sheepish, I can't say it too loud.
01:10:28
Speaker
Yeah, and I have him so yeah Didn't you name your team after him? Yep? super rugby said the start of the week I'm going with Just a guy who's lit it up and can will continue to light it up. Damien volimsa. Yeah, that's a good pick I like I like him. I like him I'm sorry, and you have to play a ton for the Saracens
01:10:54
Speaker
My pick of the week start of the week for a super rugby is Joe Martian Yeah For whatever reason they were a little leaky in the middle there. Yeah, so I don't know what it is I don't know Maybe they were just thinking about attack too much or whatever But so that's the one spot that they you know, I gave up a few points at midfield So I'm gonna go Joe Marsh out for my start of the week
01:11:17
Speaker
And my sit of the week is someone I previously mentioned, especially given the overall conditions that he's an outside back playing at midfield. Carmichael Hunt is my sit of the week. Yeah, it's terrifying. He actually did OK for me last week. I was in a pinch. I think I was missing both my midfielders.
01:11:35
Speaker
So I was like, I am so screwed. So I went, but I did. I did go to that. It didn't do too bad for me. No, but I don't think it's going to be something that you want to go to every time negative or not. But one of my I had to outside back. Sorry for sitting. We just talked about being outside back. Yeah, my city of the week is actually a guy you were talking up, Roscoe Speckman. I don't know if he's still got it.
01:11:59
Speaker
Yeah, no, that's that's that's uh perfectly valid. I think uh, he he really didn't he didn't acquit himself very well last week Um, and that that's he has he's one of two options one where he follows up when he goes off and the other
Scotland vs England Match Preview
01:12:14
Speaker
what you're expecting another tank so and stormers contained um the back the back three a talented back three at that for the hurricanes granted they didn't play at all well but still that's a lot to contain right there between who's and lamb jordy yeah there's a there's a lot yeah i i'm the only the only consideration i have there is that i think mornay stein is going to open up their defense a little bit because they have to watch the boot so yeah that's true
01:12:36
Speaker
That's gonna unlock him a little bit, but still speckman had his opportunities last week and didn't take him pooped on him So that's a I agree with your sit of the week there. All right pick him and we're out Don't lose it Fucking 80s Ireland Wales, Ireland Wales Wales
01:12:58
Speaker
I know it's in Ireland. Yeah, I know. I know. And you're right. Jeez. I got to see something from Ireland. At least Ireland doesn't have Joe Schmidt to tell him to keep the roof open this time. Scotland, England, up at Murrayfield.
01:13:16
Speaker
What is gonna happen here, baby? Because Scotland have retained the Calcutta cut for their second year and let's see if they can do it for the three years in a row. One of my notes from France England was, when did England turn into Ireland and Scotland? This is not an English team, depending on who Eddie picks, which it doesn't look like he's gonna deviate too much. He's gonna deviate a ton from it. I said they were gonna have to get talked for him to even
01:13:43
Speaker
Shake the cobwebs and think about oh, I might need to change something here and then they didn't the pod pod pod noticed that That Ben Young's is Sitting on 96 caps. I think it is trying to shove them to 100. So yeah, so he has to play every game match
01:14:00
Speaker
Welcome to fifth place, Eddie. Welcome to fifth place. And that's a bit of a knock on Italy. But yeah, you're going to be at the bottom next to Italy. Good luck. Yeah. And this will be the second time he does it. Does Eddie survive the Six Nations? Oh, yeah. He finishes Six Nations. But that's it. Is that it? That's got to be it. He doesn't make the summer tour or anything like that. I can't. How? I'm not disagreeing. I'm not disagreeing. No, I know. I know you're not. But I'm just like, he shouldn't have made it this far. That should have been at the World Cup. Thank you, Eddie.
01:14:30
Speaker
Yeah, you did. You did good. We got to a final, which is something that's really hard to do, but, you know, you done done blown it. But yeah, there's too much.
01:14:41
Speaker
Yeah, too many head games, too much contrunning control. And he would make an excellent football coach. That's a terrifying thought. That's not what rugby is. Rugby isn't you do what I tell you to do. I make the decisions for you. And he tries that too much. No. So I'm going with Scotland
Super Rugby Matches Predictions
01:15:00
Speaker
this match. OK. Shit.
01:15:04
Speaker
I At some point. I think the players are going to start to i'm i'm gonna i'm gonna find a kilton And let's go scotland. James is gonna be so pissed at us Sorry, james. Sorry anybody else that I know that's an english fan that they didn't make me believe at all. Um Back to paris, uh france and lee france. Oh, yeah fear the rooster
01:15:30
Speaker
All right back to super rugby Highlanders open the week and open their season against the Sharks down at We'll see I like the highlanders so sharks are far traveling There's a lot of there's a lot of play here sharks are traveling highlanders are at home. I don't quite like that highlanders squad this year But I still think they're gonna beat the sharks
01:15:55
Speaker
Yeah. They, they, they, they started, they have a good footing to build off of. So I'm going to go with the hounders. Um, Brumby's rebels. I'm, I'm going to go out on a limb and I'm taking the rebels there. They're going to wake up and get, and get a big old smack from their coach.
01:16:12
Speaker
I'm also taking the rebels. I think they're just a better team. Okay All right. Here we go. Here's the fun part chiefs and crusaders You gotta go with them. I'm going with them. You're hoping that we're in catlin skirts. Aaron cruden doesn't part him on the bench He's not eddy. Yeah, that's that's true. That's true. He figures out who's but yeah, I also think just the way that the chiefs played it they're at home the
01:16:34
Speaker
If they're going to beat the crusaders, this is that it's going to happen. Right. Still early. And they may not have Ritchie Mahonga. Yeah. Although chiefs won't have Damian Mack. It's already been said that he's going to be saved. Yeah, they didn't need him last week. So I think and I didn't realize it's a different situation, but they have such depth that that that outside backs those back three back three. It's not. Yeah, they'll miss him, but they'll still operate just as well. Yeah. In a in a in a in a track meet, I'm going to take the defending champs.
01:17:06
Speaker
It's definitely going to be tracked. Take the over in this mess. Yeah. If you've got a betting site that can take over under on this one, take the over. Toss blues. I'm going to take the... Oh, goodness gracious. Do I want to take the toss at home? Oh, man. Alright, you've written down my answers. Yeah, I'm glad you've done that. Shoot.
01:17:28
Speaker
Close my eyes and they'll take the war to us. Yeah, the other blue. Yeah. And again, I don't think this one's going to be a low scoring game either, though. Lions reds. I don't think any match that the Chiefs or Blues are involved in is going to be low scoring. You might be right about that. Lions and Reds.
01:17:47
Speaker
Yeah, I know. This is really tough to pick. Again, kind of the same situation as Rebels. They're going back home, at least, the Lions are. Reds are coming off a good game as well. They did lose. Lions got tonked, and they're going to get a freaking boot up their ass, I bet. So I'm going to go with the Lions.
01:18:03
Speaker
Yeah, I the travel involved The lion yeah, the the reds just traveled but I know it's australia, but still it's it's not the no Short trip and then now they got it traveled over to to south africa. So yeah, i'm gonna go lions on this way
01:18:20
Speaker
Stromer's Bulls. I love the guy. I'm going to take Mornestain and the Bulls. I really like him. It's bringing me back to many years ago where I watched him play against the Lions on that tour and he still looks every bit the part.
01:18:36
Speaker
See, I was not that impressed with the Bulls, and I was incredibly impressed with the way the Stormers played in week one. Well, they played some pretty damn good defense at the very least. Right. And that alone, I think, is going to. And they still are, you know, bringing along some of their players because they made some some big changes there, especially around the midfield. So, yeah, I'm going to go with the Stormers. Stormers of this. You had Bulls. Yeah, I went Bulls. We got a lot.
01:19:03
Speaker
We got we got we got a little bit of shift that's gonna come this week. I think this will help Oh, what are you gonna do here? Oh god, I listen I didn't back them in South Africa. I'm not gonna back them in freaking Argentina either. I'm sorry They're gonna come back going too. Yeah, that's just I think that was planned. They need some hoke. They need some hoke cooking Yeah, they need to make they didn't travel with their top squad. They kind of sent their shags a little bit Yeah, they get sent a few of them at least. Yeah
01:19:27
Speaker
That's for sure. Yeah. So I'm going to take the Jags. Unfortunately, I will still be cheering my ass off with the hurricanes to win, but I don't think it's going to see is I am now French. All right. This is pretty good. I like this. All right.
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