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Season 6- Episode 31- Addition By Subtraction...Sort Of? (Premiership Semi-Final & Super Rugby Round 15)
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It's a big, but not too long episode with those American rugby knuckleheads. On this ep we talk about the passing of Rob Burrow and the courage he showed, all the way to the very end. Then we recap a big weekend in the Prem with the Semi-Finals at both the Gardens and the Rec. Then it's a wrap on the regular season in both Super Rugby and PWR, which we look back and chat about all of it. Then it's a trip over to Fort Quincy where the Jacks squeak it out and get back into the win column. Everything here and so much more. Kick back and join us fam!
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00:00:03
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It is.
Introduction and Podcast Overview
00:00:06
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The Fantasy Europeans. My name is Jared Dyke. I wanted to say it's stupid and let's move on, but then you kept going. I'm Ben Glauser. I don't like any way anybody handled that. Collusion. Collusion.
00:00:27
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Hey, everybody. Welcome back. It is the fancy rugby. Thanks. My name is Jared Dyke. I'm Ben Glauser. We're in. Let's pop these things. Not as many matches to talk about like last week, but still plenty to cover that we want. Chin wag about. Good and bad. Whole lot of beacon. That guy would not stop beacon.
Support for Fantasy Rugby Geek
00:00:55
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Discrimination in Sports and Society
00:01:25
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Indeed.
00:01:25
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As always, there is no discrimination here on this podcast, nor should there be in sports or in life. Um, you wouldn't believe that we still deal with this shit in modern day, but we do. And not even like, and I was just talking, talking with Ben about this and I was like, had to be one of those Southern States. Nope. Wrong. It's New York. It's New York, New York city, Harlem. Um, so for those of you who have been living under a rock for
00:01:56
Speaker
quite a while. There's a fantastic actor and just great all-around person named Wendell Pierce. Jared and my, because we're Ben, and as we assume most of you are who listen to us, one of our favorite shows of all time is The Wire. So I'm sure if you listen to us, you've at least heard of it. If not, I agree with us that it was awesome.
00:02:22
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and continues to be awesome. Anyway, the actor who plays the bunk, his name is Wendell Pierce. He's also a fantastic actor. He's a Broadway actor, has done all sorts of other shows, movies, other shows. He's on Jack Ryan. He's on an interesting show called Elizabeth, which I kind of caught pieces of and enjoy. And again, like I said, he's been on Broadway and he's done a whole bunch of other shit.
00:02:53
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a white apartment owner denied his application to rent an apartment because he's black in Harlem, in Harlem of all fucking places. Right. You wouldn't think that. Right. So what the fuck?
00:03:10
Speaker
For those of you who are not in the US, renting places and the real estate market in the US is completely fucked. This is just one reason, but ultimately redlining, which is making sure that certain people don't live in certain houses or live only in certain regions.
00:03:33
Speaker
Like this shit happens. And in other words, like there's there's been studies done where people like actually there are black people who will hire white families to represent them, to go and look at houses and put in bids because of shit like this. It's ridiculous. It's it's unbelievable that in this century, this shit is still happening, but it is. And yeah, it's got to stop.
00:04:01
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Likewise, we didn't talk about this, but I do want to mention it too. Pat McAfee once again can go fuck himself by talking about this whole Caitlin Clark kerfuffle where he called her a white bitch instead of a white basketball player. There's so many better ways to do it, but of course, because these people
00:04:28
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feel like they have to appeal to the toxic masculinity set. They say shit like this and stop it. Just fucking stop. It's unnecessary. Didn't we have a discussion already about like how dog shit that is and how it just does bad things? Pretty sure we did that last week, actually. Yeah. With Grayson Murray.
00:04:49
Speaker
Right. Yeah. Right. That's the, that's the point. Like you try to, you're trying to be this hardo and it's just like, no, that's not how we do things. That's, there's no reason for, for that kind of terminology and disrespect. Never, ever, never, ever, ever, ever, ever. There's your double, double discrimination bullshit. Yep. In the meantime, grab our Patreon, all kinds of goods come in there.
00:05:17
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per usual and, um, so we'll skip right
Rob Burrow's Legacy and MND Awareness
00:05:23
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past that. And we got, we got, we'll talk about premise on my final in a second here, but we of course have to acknowledge and, and more in the passing of, uh, Rob burrow and it's, uh, it, it's another shock and another loss. And yeah, he was a lead guy, but obviously everyone,
00:05:43
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was made aware in the rugby community because of, especially because of Kevin Sinfield and all he was doing and, you know, the great lengths he was going to raise awareness and raise money for MND and MND research and trying to find the cure for it. And yeah, you look at, I mean, you look at that number and you look at his face and obviously the goodbye message, my goodness.
00:06:10
Speaker
It's unbelievable to have recorded that news. He smiles the whole time and it's just. Wow. That's the impressive part is he was always smiling. Um, through everything he was going through. I don't know how, um, but the courage to be the face of, you know, of this disease, this horrible disease, um, and to be smiling through it and, and to, um, and again, like we were talking about the, you know, the.
00:06:39
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the outpouring of love and Kevin Sinfield never shy about just expressing his emotion towards Rob and it back and towards his family and all that. It's a sad situation, but a good representation of humanity in such a situation. Yeah, I wholeheartedly agree. It's
00:07:10
Speaker
You can't describe it any other way other than sad, really. Also odd that he died and I didn't know it until later because obviously we see our UK Twitters and social medias before the US really gets going, but it was on Lou Gehrig day. Of all days. Yeah, of all days. I don't know if they're related, but they're similar. I think they're similar at the very least.
00:07:37
Speaker
Yeah. So, yeah, nothing fun about either one of those things. No. Yeah. These are things that take down mighty people in the world and just shrivel them up and it's really sad. Yeah. Really, really sad. Not their heart though, that's the important thing. No, no, never ever. No, lots of guys doing great things despite being stricken with this and you gotta admire them.
00:08:11
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All right. Let's go to somehow move on from this. Yeah, I know. Right. Easy, easier said than done anyways. Let's
Rugby Network Deal Criticisms
00:08:20
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go. Let's go do Franklin's gardens and what's the first acknowledge that we, we are very aware that the hill that the rugby network has made with Fox dog shit. And, and I will say that, um, I reached out and they acknowledge it's pretty shit and they, they have no control of it. They, you know,
00:08:40
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They basically had their feet held to the fire and signed whatever was offered, and this is what was offered, which is giving a gay fox full control of which network they put it on, which sometimes puts it behind a paywall on that dog ship, but we can't do anything about it.
00:08:54
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Right. But hey, we went back to some old school style and we're like, you know, fuck a paywall. We're going to find ways around it. And we did. We did. Yes, we did. And and actually it was pretty pretty quality, ultimately. Only only dropped a couple of times. And it was mostly pretty, you know, it wasn't slideshow rugby. It was actually quite, you know, the days of slideshow rugby. I'm not messing up for God damn sure. No, not at all.
00:09:24
Speaker
Um, anyway, beyond that, um, the game itself was, was excellent. Um, the salary is really, you know, there's still issues and, you know, finding out afterwards that, Oh yeah. Faz was playing on a torn quad kind of puts a lot in perspective. Um, and the fact that he was still out there and, um, you know, playing on one leg, um, kind of puts into perspective some of the, the,
00:09:53
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non-faz-like performance. Let's put it that way.
Rugby Match Analysis and Player Performances
00:09:56
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A little bit. I agree. Because he was still throwing those late passes, like two guys who were getting wrecked right as they're catching the ball. And it's like, you're like, just take the contact yourself, Faz. And you're like, oh, that's why. OK. I'm not sure you can handle much more if we're honest. Right. If we're honest. What little he was going to get dished out. I think he was trying to avoid the rest. Yeah. If we're honest. And that's less than ideal when you play, obviously. It is. But ultimately,
00:10:24
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This, you know, Berger-Odendall scores the only try for Saints. And. Did not have that on my bingo board.
00:10:30
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No. And like that kind of that tells me, you know, they took away everybody else. I mean, hold on. I'm actually asking, did Sly Home play in this game? Because I. Yeah, he did. He's played several minutes. Barely saw him. Tommy Freeman was was was there. He was too dangerous. Furbank did play. Furbank was very active. Yeah, but that's very active. Saris do like to kick it so that that'll help that. Yeah.
00:10:58
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But yeah, they did a lot to stifle that Saints attack. And they did a lot to challenge the defense. So if that's how you're going to go out, ultimately what pisses me off is then this tells me that their effort in the last week really determine their fate. I think they would be in a final right now if they had just showed up versus sale last week. Right.
00:11:27
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So, um, but credit, you know, obviously credit to, to scenes cause they play the hell of a game too. This was a finals worthy match. Um, two teams really just going at each other and slugging it out. Um, and then of course there's, can we talk about one Martine Gonzalez? Oh man. Effort scale all through the roof, that boy, him and so fair to say that Hammond sent you were probably the two best players on series consistently.
00:11:56
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For the most part, I mean, you could say Earl, but Earl didn't start the year on the team because he was away with England. So really, you know, these two guys were in the team almost from word go. And I think the second round they joined in and oh no, maybe not, but it doesn't matter. Honestly, honestly, it's not relevant for me. Um,
00:12:17
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Yeah, Gonzo was the guy in the back row doing all the things and making some moves that look like he's a wing and he's a frickin' back rower, so. Right. And then, Sinti just needed to be on the field no matter what, no matter where you put him. Yeah. Good to see Lawz back out there again, too. That was nice. Just kind of a shame that Billy was out there, though, because how Lawz came on him was awesome, and I think that would have made a difference if Willis played 50 and Billy played 30.
00:12:47
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versus the other way around. In the end though, I wholeheartedly, hand on heart, Northampton belongs in the final. Absolutely. Without a doubt, there's no question in my mind that this is, we'll talk about the other one too, but this is the best final that the prem could ask for. And I think it's going to be a whale of a game. I'm going to be running home from work to catch it because I got to work on Saturday morning.
00:13:17
Speaker
Yeah, it's going to be great. I'm going to call it. Definitely. Yeah. That's it. Let's go to it. Let's go to the other match. Yeah. And trust me, I'm...
00:13:28
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if I could pick a B team, and I've said this for a while, it is Saints. So I'm not mad at them playing in this game. Yeah. And as any of you out there know, I'm a huge fan of just good rugby. So I've thoroughly enjoyed watching Saints, and thoroughly enjoyed watching this game, even with Sarri's losing. It was one of those, I was so mad, especially with what Hoskin, no, it was Theo Dan getting held up.
00:13:55
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I'm like wait a minute they deserve it and then five minutes later i was i was over it was one of those was hard to watch that you expected them to lose but it's hard to watch and then a half hour later it was you know
00:14:13
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There have been losses where, you know, three days later, I'm still stewing about it. This one and a half hour later, I was fine. Yeah. Cause I was saying, sir, that fucking good. Yep. They deserve it. And it'll be an, it'll be a nice send off. I mean, hopefully a better send off for his sake, um, for Courtney laws to get one more try it out at Twickenham. That'd be nice. I hadn't even thought of that. Yeah. That's excellent. I was going to be, you know, either him or Faz. There's a whole, yeah, there's a list of guys that it will be.
00:14:44
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Yeah. And then Alex Waller getting his run out to like, Oh, okay. Looking forward to it. Yep. And then, and then, yeah, let's go over to the rec and bath on Saturday.
00:14:55
Speaker
I may have said Quinn's because I was looking at Quinn Roo. There you go. I got my head jumbled there. Good job. You. You definitely need to read words and move your mouth when you read them, don't you? Yeah, or just not look away from my screen. That's the hardest part. Maybe don't. Anyway. Again, best team one. No question about it. You know,
00:15:26
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I don't want to rain on the dude's parade because he didn't play badly. But like, did Tommy Tom Curry really make that big of an impact on this game? I didn't really think so. I mean, he had some hits. Yeah, but if that's all you're adding, then yeah, great. But you need you need more, especially when your team's behind. Yeah, you need a little bit more. I mean, like, look at look at the kind of his opposite number, Ted Hill. Mm hmm. That try. Teddy. You.
00:15:57
Speaker
Y to double like he should be England six. No question in my mind. Of course, Eddie, are you okay? Um, I know we're not Eddie anymore, but we're still in that type of era these days. Seems like I don't care that he's a little undersized. He does all the things and then some, um, yeah. And he, that heart, you got it. You can't, you know, you can't underplay that.
00:16:28
Speaker
No, no, no, it's like, you know, Underhill because that's the other thing. Underhill is a similar player to me to Tom Curry. Like they're, you know, he laid a massive hit first off on the was at the.
00:16:40
Speaker
in the lead up to, I want to say the O'Flaherty try? Sounds right. He just lit up George Ford, just creamed him right after the pass. Man after my own heart. Yeah. I can't believe they didn't go back and show it because it was just vile. Crunching tackle. Absolutely vile. It's
00:17:11
Speaker
I think it says a lot with the way, with the way, um, sale wanted to play where you have two subs with eight tackles. Um, John Luke, Ben Curry, Ben Ryan and visa all with 10 plus, um, even Rod had had seven and they, and it's, it's okay to be comfortable without the ball. Let me just say that it's okay to be that way. And especially when you're playing, um,
00:17:40
Speaker
in a really crappy weather or you just know that hanging out in your end is not going to do you any good. That said, hang on to the goddamn ball and attack. The few times they did, it worked. They had good things and I realized they had two pushover tries for between Curry and Taylor, why they didn't keep doing that. I was wondering as well. That penalty kick from Ford right before halftime, what are you doing?
00:18:11
Speaker
That's such a, it's typically again. They had the two at that point, hadn't they? Right. And not only that, but I'm pretty sure Bath were on a warning. Oh yeah, that might be true. And he kicks for post. It's like, go to the fucking, like the comms are talking about how you have this dominant mall that Bath just can't touch right now. And you're kicking for post in a knockout game to make it a three point game. How about you? Yeah.
00:18:40
Speaker
Yeah. How about you? You've probably got a card out of them, honestly. Right. Right. Three minutes to go. Put it put it in the court and, you know, they did scored eight points afterwards. So, yeah, but still. You could have 12 or 14. Right. You could you could have been up going into half rather than down three. And I'm sorry, you're on the road if you get that. Give me that. That's the other thing.
Team Strategies and Missed Opportunities
00:19:07
Speaker
You know, you're on the road. You know, you need to.
00:19:11
Speaker
gamble at least a little bit in order to get yourself a result on here. It's one of the things that piss the fuck out of me when it comes to Saracens. We just always played this conservative game plan, especially on the road.
00:19:23
Speaker
And it never worked. Rarely ever worse, let's put it that way. So it's, yeah, it's just, you're on the road in the semi-final. You gotta throw the proverbial kitchen sink at these guys, or yeah, your shit's gonna, shit's not gonna go your way. I mean, you're not kicking your way to this semi-final for the most part. Not as the away team.
00:19:43
Speaker
Right. And Ford should know better at this point. Um, just, you know, poor tactics there. And, you know, obviously the, the, the scoreline, you know, four more points. Does it really matter? But you never know. Again, like you said, we were both said, what did you get a card? What if you get a try and a card now you're at halftime and you got a man up for the next eight, nine minutes, probably something like that coming out of half. Yep. And you, you know, and you're, you're in potentially in the lead. Yeah. In,
00:20:14
Speaker
You'll say, yeah, people are, people say, oh, although they lost by more than one score. Well, then that would have put you within one score and you could have gone for it. Right. Instead you're, you kind of were borked by the time. Yeah. Was it Annette scored? Annette scored. Yeah. You know, we've got a nice, a nice bookend to his season at the rec.
00:20:34
Speaker
stop doing silly things otherwise. He didn't even get on the field his first appearance at the rec, got a red card from the sideline. And his last day puts him in the final. Well done, Niall. Yeah, it's fun. I mean, overall, and people will say, oh, it was fixed from the word, yo, shut the fuck up. Yeah, shut up. Is there anything better that the prime could ask for than Finn Russell in their final?
00:21:03
Speaker
No, Finn and Finn. So you're talking about maybe one of the world class 10, one of the best in the world. Top five. Easily. Easily. And Finn Smith, maybe potentially the next big thing for him and Marcus that are your 10, basically locked in for the next however many fucking years, 10 years or so.
00:21:30
Speaker
You know, it's, you know, Finn Smith's chance to, uh, um, to shine here. Totally. And Finn Ralton, you know, against, against Finn Ralton. Yeah. Like, how do you, how do you do it better? You know? Also, I want to, you know, we'd be, I think, remiss if we didn't bring it up too. Um, Ben Spencer, you know, again, Eddie, are you okay?
00:21:58
Speaker
was was told you have to go to another team that's not Saracens and show them leadership and and blah, blah, blah. And then you'll be in, you know, then we'll talk. OK, well, look, he goes to bath and they were poop. And he's helped bring about their resurgence. He was one of the first big name players. And then it piled on from there. Mm hmm. And also the you know, the fascinating thing is
00:22:25
Speaker
looking at these two teams that are in, Saints basically built their own team. Really, their one big outside get here, well, two, I'd say it was Bergen-Oendahl came over after Wasch. You kind of fell on their lap, honestly. Right. Tom Pearson. Yeah, well, that's a big one right there, too. He's been out for a bit, but he's been massive.
00:22:54
Speaker
And whereas bath, you know, they had to go outside their, um, you know, their team a little bit with, uh, with Ted Hill, Barbary Spencer to an extent, but that was kind of a forced move. But, you know, one thing that I was thinking about the other day is all the players that are in this game that were at one of those three clubs, uh, Worcester being the particular one that came to mind because of guys like Ollie Lawrence and Vince Smith, um, Ted Hill as well.
00:23:23
Speaker
but even, you know, and then, you know, to your point, Barbary Odendall, we wouldn't see these guys in this game otherwise, and it just, yeah, you know, it proves, to me, it proves how poor this was in terms of those three clubs. Right, and I guess not so much with, with sale, although, I mean, Creevy came over, that's about it. From Irish, yeah.
00:23:51
Speaker
Tommy Taylor, I guess, from Wasps. But I don't know if that was before. I think it was before. You already made the deal. Yeah. You already made the deal. But then, you know, Gonzo, Sinti, Parton.
00:24:04
Speaker
Um, are you guys deal as well? Okay. Um, Hoskins, like there's, there's been a line, Tom Willis, like there's, but there's, you know, there's a, these, these teams have their, their mitts all over these, these finals. Um, especially she said Worcester, like, look at how good this talent on Worcester could have. They were, they were, look where they could be right now. If you, they still had Finn Smith, Ollie Lawrence, Barbary. Not Barbary.
00:24:33
Speaker
I don't know if nylon that's deal was made before or after his departure, but, um, or after their defunctness. Uh, yep. And then, and yeah. And like you said on the other side, you know, we have Finn Smith from, from Worcester, which was obviously, I think it just spoke how highly they were, they,
00:25:00
Speaker
how talented they already were with that team by the fact that Vince Smith just came into a team that was run by one of the better tends to play the game for a long time, Dan Bigger, and really didn't miss a beat. And that says a lot.
00:25:17
Speaker
No, we were actually, we saw Saints play Quinn's last October, not in 2023 and 2022, we went to see them and Dan Bigger was their fly half. And we were like, oh cool, there's Dan Bigger, that's all neat. Now it's like,
00:25:33
Speaker
They're somehow better. And it's not to say Finn Smith is a step up over Dan Bigger. No, no. It's just to say that Saints have taken that next step. Yep. And they've brought along Finn Smith with that. And Bigger was a part of that, too, bringing him along. Of course.
00:25:52
Speaker
Just amazing stuff there. I think honestly, the prem is better without, you know, that there's been a talent concentration, which you kind of, yeah, you hate to see people
Talent Concentration in Rugby Leagues
00:26:03
Speaker
like myself. I saw Ali Lawrence talking about how he was sad because he was one of the first people to get a deal after Worcester fell apart. And he was like seeing all his old, he's like my old mates.
00:26:18
Speaker
Some of them didn't get professional deals anymore. They, they went to play, you know, maybe nationally rugby and had to obviously supplement that by doing, you know, labor work or some sort. Yeah. So that's hard. It's, it's tough and you know, it's hard to discount that, but the overall prem product is better. I, and especially where we're going through this in more or less a problem where
00:26:47
Speaker
They're losing players to France, they're losing players to Japan because of the money. So yeah, you're going to have to consolidate a little bit. I think 10 teams is fine. I don't think there's a problem with that. I want to get away from, there's a standard and then there's things that you don't need to copy paste either.
00:27:10
Speaker
Do you, of course, do you want like 14 teams in the prime? Of course you do, but you also want a good product too. So that, and that's why you can't copy paste all the time. Cause there are two different countries. There are two different sets of rules. There's so there's, there's so much more at play other than just, oh yeah, we want to be exactly like this league. Well, good fucking luck because that league over there has different rules than this one. And this one has different rules than the one back there. So it doesn't, you can't do it. And so for the sake of the prems health and it,
00:27:38
Speaker
it showed in their performance in Jamie's Cup. They got two teams to the semi-final, both of which performed adequately to say the next. So it shows there, do other players kind of get thrown by the wayside? Unfortunately, yes. That sucks. It does. And then, so the next thing for the sake of Prem and RFU is
00:28:00
Speaker
to put more concentration into your lower levels, your championships, your national leagues. Put some more resources into those and stop being a bunch of dickheads to them because let's be honest, they're really just assholes to the championship teams for the most part.
00:28:20
Speaker
Cause yeah, you even, you know, you have championship teams that are struggling to fit in. So it's, it's not a preem problem. It's an England problem. It's an RFU problem and they need to address it. And they're, they're trying to in some ways by supplementing some, some funds, although we'll see because, you know, Maro and James's deal apparently wasn't done for a while. Maybe it still isn't. Um, but their, their ideas are at least good in terms of that. Uh, but again, they, I think they just need to put some more resources into your lower leagues because strong lower leagues means your top league is very, is going to be very good.
00:28:51
Speaker
Yeah, like, and you look, look no further than, you know, the, the product that's in the same country, which is, you know, the FA, the EFL, the, you know, the Premier League.
Premier League's Global Influence
00:29:04
Speaker
Trust me, those teams are all very good. And then you have the Premier League, which is unreal. We had, I was looking at the numbers the other day, like, it was a record breaking viewership in for the Premier League over here in the US this year. Wow.
00:29:19
Speaker
that says a lot about the product that they built for the Premier League. Now, I don't think it's going to ever be that, and I don't need it to be that. We just want it to be better and we want it to be the best that it can be. Is it going to be Premier League level? It's going to be hard to get there, honestly. But we don't need to. We don't need to. It can be a successful league without being all the way up to that level. It can be a very successful league with lots of
00:29:51
Speaker
Lots of stars, lots of great action. And again, you don't need to, it doesn't need to be an either or, it can be a both as well. I think that's one thing that I would like to get away from. If you don't love football, it's okay, I get it. It's all right, you don't have to. I'm a weirdo here in the US, I barely watch American football. I watch hockey and then everything else I watch is mostly European based between Woody and rugby.
00:30:17
Speaker
So I'm a weird American over here and I understand that's not how most people operate, but it still can be, with that said, you can still have either of both or just, you know, we still need new fans too. That's the other thing. We don't need to turn people away.
00:30:32
Speaker
I would say look at Major League Baseball being not what it used to be, but it's still a good product for the most part. You can pay players and it's still one of the better leagues for the sport and the world.
00:30:50
Speaker
And yet, it's not a top tier, but it's still well respected. So that's what I would shoot for, yeah. If the Premier League is some sort of combination of NFL and NBA, if you get the premiership to Major League Baseball level, you're good. You're in good business, for sure. And you'll attract more talent, and more people will be
00:31:19
Speaker
willing to watch the games, so on and so forth. Speaking of which, if you're in London this weekend, go Phil's. Go to the game. It'll be fun. Cheer against the Mets. It's always fun to cheer against the Mets. Don't cheer for the Mets. Don't be that guy. You don't want to subject yourself to that. Trust me. No, no, no, no.
00:31:43
Speaker
I don't know how to, how to describe it. That's a miserable existence. That's what that is. Right. It's like cheering for new castle, but with the fan base of Exeter. Ew. There you go. Ew. All right. Let's hop over the border and you know, the border of the, uh, the where that's the one I meant. Um, super rugby. There's several borders and then in between.
00:32:09
Speaker
Yes, there is. The other line. That's imaginary. Oopsie. Yeah. Let's go to the Super Rugby Crusaders Moana. I actually caught this match like half of it live because someone was a total dickhead. I caught both those Friday matches live for the most part. I watched the other one in its entirety live because someone was a dick.
00:32:39
Speaker
No, it wasn't me for a change. Um, so, I mean, the crusaders gave themselves a shot, but in the end they, they screwed themselves long before this. And this was the type of performance they needed like six, seven rounds ago.
Crusaders and Waratahs Season Reflections
00:32:56
Speaker
I mean, it does help that they're playing Moana Pacifica. I also agree with that. Tucked a degree of difficulty here. Oh yeah, totally.
00:33:08
Speaker
And, you know, I don't like first off, I did like seeing Fergus Burke play the way he he played. I thought he had a hell of a match. I'm very much looking forward to him in black and red. And I will say that Antonio Shalfoon had a very bad game. How do you get stripped by Tom? It's Henny. Hmm. First off, we.
00:33:37
Speaker
You got stripped by a nine. Mm hmm. Get the fuck out of here. And then I think he had a like a bad that he didn't get yellowed. I think something I guess he came off early. I don't know. I remember something else stupid happened with him. I was very disappointed in his performance as a lock. You got to be stronger than that. Yeah, most people agree with that one.
00:34:02
Speaker
Um, but Crotty got over and that's when I was like, Oh, it's this kind of game. And there we go. There we go. That's where we are. That's how this game is going. So they, they, they gave themselves a shot, but it was always going to be in trouble. Yeah. They always were relying on someone else. So. And it didn't work out with them. Um, you know, I'm watching number one again. I'm not.
00:34:27
Speaker
just hammering on referees because they're doing terribly against my team. James Dolman was absolutely atrocious at in Sydney. Oh, my God was I was like, do you do you know what do you know what you're looking at? No, you don't. No, you don't. Not even a good God. Oh.
00:34:46
Speaker
Uh, anybody that was mad at him, which was both teams, by the way, right? Here's your hint. Both teams are extremely annoyed with you. Like, yeah, not just a little annoyed. They're very annoyed with you. Take the fucking hint. Yeah. Jackass. Uh, anyway, but that said, um, the way this match went down is just like,
00:35:11
Speaker
in a way such a typical war toss performance for the year. And it's like, yeah, this looks familiar. Okay. Yep. It no longer matters. It no longer matters. Both in the game and in the season, it no longer matters. And they're like, oh, garbage time. Let's have some fun. Right. What do you... Shut up. Stop it. Just stop. Yeah, they got... Yeah, Holloway scored. I thought that was funny.
00:35:43
Speaker
Yeah, like, you know, peace gets over and they're in business, obviously. Right. But the sheer hammerheadness to give away a penalty in range a few minutes later, he's like, Oh, what are you doing? And it's like, you know, you got to feel a little bit for Coleman because he's like, you're just like, Oh, this is what his players have been doing for him all year long.
00:36:10
Speaker
At the same time, that's not very helpful, but at the same time though, like that's, you know, that's what coaching is. Making sure your players don't do that and working, working for, you know, that's, that's his, literally his job is to make sure they don't do shit like that. Yeah. No. And I get it. And it was also just a point where it's like, Oh, you guys are hammerheads. Maybe that's why he's ready to freaking jump out. Yeah. Damn. Well, he's out anyway. Right. And that was a very on war toss, like performance and
00:36:41
Speaker
Correct me if I'm wrong, rugby Australia now has a hand in the war toss as well. I think management wise, I think. Possibly. I don't know. I thought I saw that a while ago. Like they were trying to centralize them a little bit. So I before, especially with especially if they're losing rebels. Yeah. Now you're down to what? Four teams. Like, yeah, you better have a hand in them. So, yeah, let's go to rebels and then and then I'd
00:37:08
Speaker
I haven't I have an idea. We don't need to talk about the rebels too much because they just basically didn't show up in the second half. And that's not that game one. Well, to me that there was. The big story here is to me is Rob Leota getting the H.I.A. coming back and then just getting knocked the fuck out. Should he? What was that? What was that? Yeah. Also, I will say that
00:37:38
Speaker
The review of that hit was perfect. I love the way they went about it. They got it right. They did.
00:37:47
Speaker
And yeah, like Lomani was low. He was never high. And Leota got who was it? It was it kind of very took out his leg. Yes. And so he's fallen. He can't control himself. Lomani is already committed to his height. And he's he's at waist level. There's nothing more he can do. And boom, just head right to the shoulder. Like there's nothing anybody could do. It's a rugby incident play on. Yeah. It's one of those unfortunate things. Right.
00:38:18
Speaker
We play, we play a contact sport, right? Like we can't. And that'll come up again in a few more, get a game a little bit, but, um, that to me would, you know, again, that was, that's a good way to, to view that situation, an unfortunate situation. And again, I don't think Liotta should have been on the field and now you got to worry, you know, there's no way he's playing this weekend.
00:38:41
Speaker
No, I'm sure. And no, and that's unfortunate for them because... And that's their heart and soul right there. He's their leader. And I think that just took the... I don't know if it was tied at the time. When did they first score after half? They didn't score after half. They kicked for post. Yeah, they sure did. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. They'd kicked for post a couple of times. Yep.
00:39:08
Speaker
Or did they score? No, they scored tries. Nalaga had scored, that's right. And Ravik Tumod, all those two tries were delicious right after half. Okay. So, and then, okay. So that was, the game was kind of over at that point. So nevermind. Yeah. The other should not have been in. No.
00:39:27
Speaker
No, at that point you're, you're, you kind of got to know you're fucked. So yeah. And, and then, um, yeah. So with the rebels demise, which is confirmed at this point and sad, but still confirmed, I think we have a similar situation to with
Talent Consolidation and Future Competitions
00:39:45
Speaker
a rugby Australia, as we did for the prime where you're going to consult some guys are not going to get jobs again, which sucks. Hi, MLRs here. Got, we got you. Um,
00:39:56
Speaker
You know, and they're good and could you come play for the free? Lawrence has already played in the MLR. Yeah. Just saying. So with that, though, you you will you could have the consolidation of some talent and maybe that'll beef up these Australian teams and maybe they'll actually fucking compete, not named Brumby's or Reds like. Just rebels haven't been very good for a while now. I have the war toss and.
00:40:25
Speaker
neither. And the force really haven't been very good either. So, you know, just, I don't know. I'm, I'm, I'm sad. I feel bad for the players, but at the same time, it could be the, the several lining to the whole thing could be that you see some deeper talent pools in these teams.
00:40:50
Speaker
Right. I mean, I know it's a trip out there, but you know, the, the Gordon's being on the force could really change that team a lot. Something like that. Right. Yeah. Anywho. And then don't need to talk about it too much. Hurricanes did their part. They got five. They got five out of the whole thing.
00:41:16
Speaker
Which was great. So Ryasi was a beast. What else is new? Dewey had two, for God's sake. When Dewey gets two, it's like, all right, let's get over. Dewey had two in the first half, too. Yes.
00:41:29
Speaker
And then also Peronara's try was that, that movement between him and, and Al Mua was delish. Oh man. So good to see Al Mua back. I saw someone say something about like, Oh, you never see that. Like, this is incredibly like creative. I'm like, no, I, I've seen a lot. That's happened a lot. Yeah. I don't know what you're talking about. Like that's, that's just a good move and fun with, you know, an athletic hooker and you're, you're nine. Um, it's doing a two on one on one on one or whatever it was. Yeah, whatever it was.
00:41:59
Speaker
Well, man, he got banked up and they smartly, they brought him off because he should be. So hopefully he's able to start this weekend. I think they'd be okay without him, but I don't want to risk that. No, um, probably, but no. Yeah. Especially without regard, obviously coming back at all. Yeah, exactly. Big problem. So yeah, they, they did the job. They got done, um, guys, you know, for the most part, those are damn good team performance was.
00:42:29
Speaker
over to you Blues and Chiefs. Speaking of what happened later on, like later on that night. You know, I'm just, I don't like this Chiefs team. I think that that's been, if this is your first time listening this season. Yeah, there was a time when I liked them, but man, it's been like, it feels like it's been 10 weeks since I've really liked this team and it's kind of just gone downhill. And this is just kind of more of the same where I was like,
00:42:59
Speaker
I turned it off at 65 minutes after the, uh, after, after here, you want to try. I'm like, I don't need to see any more of this. I'm done. Like there's nothing more I need to know. Um,
00:43:13
Speaker
But hey, you know, suddenly Josh Iwani comes in, shocker of the day, Iwani comes in and they score two tries in 20 minutes afterwards. To buy a Iwani. To buy a first and then Iwani out. I may or may not have woken my son up when that second one went over because I was like, yes. I took away the bonus point. That's all I wanted. That's all I wanted.
00:43:34
Speaker
Yeah, that's all I wanted. So don't tell me that teams don't want to fuck with each other, by the way. Oh, absolutely do. They went up a notch when you want to came on and they knew this game is gone, but we're totally going to fuck you guys just because we can. So don't tell me that shit don't matter to these teams, you know, to the teams that actually get like want to play it, do it properly. They absolutely give a shit and they will freaking make your life hard. Yeah. And sure enough,
00:44:02
Speaker
this chief's team just says, ha ha, fuck you, Blues. No first place for you. Yeah. Just again, I don't know what to make of this team going into the postseason now. Reds are tough and they've already beaten the Chiefs once. I think at home too. This is not going to be an easy matchup for the Chiefs.
00:44:28
Speaker
I just don't know that they have that dog in them. You know, they have enough to like fuck with teams. Yeah, but that's there's a difference between fucking with teams in garbage time. And and being the kind of junkyard dog, no pun intended from the Reds, that you kind of have to be to win in the put like, you know, I hadn't really been happy with the way Saracens have played, but I thought, you know, that performance that they put in against the Saints was always there.
00:44:58
Speaker
Um, and I don't know that the chiefs have that kind of performance in them the way they come out, you know, they've come out the last couple of weeks. So if they can just flip it on excellent. I just don't know that they're gonna yeah. Blues are a wagon. And then, you know, it's one of those like, if, look, if you want to make a statement, this is the time to do it. Um, and I don't think they made much of a statement other than, yeah, we're kind of just playing out the string. Yeah. And then yeah, for some Brumby's.
00:45:28
Speaker
The only thing that really comes out of it is they're going to begin, the Brumbies are going to be in for some trouble when it comes to the loose heads. Um, I think they're, I think they held. Slipper out because they're really, they're hoping to save him obviously for this coming weekend. So, um, I bet that they're, I bet that he, he plays this weekend, but it sounds like shops are not going to be able to,
00:45:56
Speaker
make this dislocated shoulder. And if it's, here's the thing about dislocated shoulders for those that haven't had them or don't know what they are. It's when the head of the shoulder pops out of the socket. That's different than the separated shoulder, which is where the joint up a little bit higher in your shoulder basically spreads.
00:46:18
Speaker
That's awful. Number one, that is bad news all day. Dislocated shoulder is bad depending on how many times you've done it. The first time you do it, it is extremely painful and you're out for at least a few weeks without a doubt. If you're Venzi, you take a minute or so and then you're back in the game. I swear to God, the dude just, it popped in and out like it was just for fun.
00:46:42
Speaker
Yeah, depending on how many times you've done it, though, it becomes more and more often occurrence and to the point almost where it's it's painful, it happens, but you're able to pop back in and keep going.
00:46:53
Speaker
Yeah. Looks like that's not Shupp's problem right now. I think this is probably one of his first two or three, in which case, yep, it's going to be painful and he's out for a bit. And you get that fun point on your shoulder. Yeah. Afterwards, it doesn't go away. That's the weird thing. I have one myself, but not two. Thank God. But anyway, so Brumby's came in and did the business and they knew they needed to because
00:47:21
Speaker
they're talking about in the broadcast, which I was actually thinking about last year where, you know, by all means, they should have lost the hurricanes last year without a doubt. Most people would agree with that. Already got held up at the death and they got lucky. They had played a B team and or not very, not very good game the week before. And that was what they attributed to a poor performance against the hurricanes.
00:47:47
Speaker
that they still managed to nudge out. So this week, this week, this round, they were like, no, we're not doing that shit again. We're going to, we're going to give it a good old go. Even if we're conservative with the players that we play and or like how long we play certain players, they're still, they still put their foot on the pedal and kept it going. So I give them credit to that.
00:48:08
Speaker
They had, this is a force team that they obviously don't want to give any glimmer of hope to for next year either. They want to make sure the force understand. No, no, we're, we're, we're still the top dogs here. Don't you worry. This is, this is our house. You, you're going to have to take a lot from us to, to beat this. I mean, they pulled little CO at 51 and, and Lonergan, same thing.
00:48:29
Speaker
So, yeah, they gave the guys that they needed to a run, which is probably smart. Yeah. All of them at 51. Yeah, smart. Smart, smart, smart, smart. Shift change. Yeah. And then they also changed their props that of Alatoa and Pollock. Yeah, McInerney came off and, or not, came on rather. And, um, yeah, yeah. And especially with Alatoa, like dealing with injury recently, like
00:48:56
Speaker
You don't need, you don't need to be silly there. Even 51 minutes is a little, that's, that's almost stretching it for that, but definitely time to pull it off. Yep. So there it is. You have your eight everyone and I, I am extremely glad and I don't think it's going to necessarily mean a lot, but I'm extremely glad that the hurricanes aren't playing the draw because that is one of those trap teams that where if you don't bring your eight game, they're going to get you.
00:49:24
Speaker
And most people will say, well, that's most teams. Well, I think, I think certain teams could bring their B team and I'm not sure the Rebels are beating them. You know, just saying that out there. I think certain teams could bring their B game and the Drua are definitely going to beat them. Yeah. Big difference. And they're so, and they're so unpredictable in so many ways. So it's like, so I'm glad the Blues get to deal with that problem. Not my problem no more. Right. Good luck.
00:49:56
Speaker
We had another final weekend as well for the PWR first ever PWR season.
PWR Season Overview and Player Tributes
00:50:05
Speaker
Scores will be updated for those that are listening. Just not today. Couple of big results. First of all, let's not be silly and let's make sure that we acknowledge
00:50:22
Speaker
some absolute legends that left the game for particularly and specifically for Harlequin's. Yeah, there was three. Burford and Scott Brown, Shawna Brown and Burf like the three wonderful players that just put the sport in a lot of ways on their shoulders and carried the whole damn thing forward.
00:50:49
Speaker
Um, birth, I think is definitely one of the first ones to really just like say, get on my back. I will carry this whole damn thing if I have to. And I love her for it. And then Sean, Sean Brown.
00:51:03
Speaker
Was she the one who was injured when they won or was she on the field? Yeah, she was the one who was dancing around on her crutches. Somebody carried her out there. Yeah. And then same final, same final. Shauna Brown, like, you know, crying because we care. Yes, we all care, Shauna. We all care. And we appreciate your emotions and your honesty for it because, yes, that is exactly why we're all watching. Shauna Brown, always a place in my heart for a prop who can also play flank.
00:51:33
Speaker
She played number eight. Yeah. And she played six in this match, but it's still like, um, yeah, she's in the background. She's an athlete, tremendous athlete, you know, like, love it. Um, so yeah, we say goodbye to them and their legendary status. So off to the, off into the sunset, you go, you know, whatever they're going to do next, they're going to be great.
00:51:58
Speaker
Also, if you don't listen to Women's Rugby Pod with Burford, you're welcome. Go do that. Yeah. With the Quinn's though, Trail Finders put together a hell of a performance. They really did. 54, doubling them up.
00:52:14
Speaker
Damn. Good on those guys. For those of us who had Ellie Green as our kicker. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Pretty excited about that. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, that's a tough lineup. You know, KZ, Buka Boom, you know, some, you know, Abby Dow, of course. Right.
00:52:36
Speaker
Uh, Vicki Lathlin, like there's just a, there's some good players in there talent up and down that lineup. Craig just got herself a, uh, an England contract. Nice. Abigail Burton's off the GB sevens team as well. Okay. She's a, she's a hell of an athlete. Yeah. Yeah. Emma swords. That was another one that I remember. That's a good one. Yeah.
00:53:00
Speaker
Really good team. Uh, I hope they're, you know, it's, you know, the, the landscape of the league's changes quite, quite a bit year to year unless you're an England player. So I hope a lot of these players are able to return one to league two to the teams that they've been playing on.
Player Retention Challenges
00:53:14
Speaker
Um, we know that there they've been roof teams have been releasing lists of teams. Players are not, they're not going to retain, um, like sharks aren't retaining Honga tau, which doesn't shock me. I.
00:53:28
Speaker
I am 0% shocked that she's not being retained by them. She doesn't impress me and we've talked about her a couple times. Just a little too much, look at me and not enough, what can I do for the team? Maybe so realize that.
00:53:47
Speaker
But they did get a win to end the year as well. They did. Bristol? Kind of a shocker, too. They definitely showed up. Bristol showed a good team, too. Yeah. It was a tough Bristol Bears team that's in the playoffs. Kind of needed a win there. It's kind of shocker that they were the one team that's in the playoffs who didn't win.
00:54:10
Speaker
Again, let me let me see the table then. So, yeah, now they get to they get to travel to Saris, although at the same time, you know, they did have three in the bag, I guess, because
00:54:23
Speaker
What was it? She's had a bonus point when they, they smooshed it. I guess Bristol also had a bonus point in their loss. So that's what really pushed them over the, over the edge. They only needed the one point. So, um, not sure it was really necessary for them to win. As long as they, they got that one. Where do they get two? Did they score four tries? They definitely scored four. I'm pretty sure they did. Two bonus. Yeah. So that's all for two, uh, butchers and lava bond.
00:54:51
Speaker
Well, there you go. Yeah. But hey, good on sale for winning. Paris writing dotted down. Hell yeah. Yay. Go on, Eagles. Yeah, really good stuff. Speaking of, for Luftboreau, we get to the actual game of the week. Yeah. Because Kathy Trader dotted down, too.
00:55:16
Speaker
I'm not mistaken, right? No, she didn't. She didn't. Sorry. I thought she did. No, but she did. Hold on. I can tell you what. I thought she did some awesome shit, but I could be, I guess. Tell you your stat line in a second there. Excuse me.
00:55:37
Speaker
Played most of the game. Mm-hmm. Yeah, she not so much on the carry front more on the defensive front for this game Which is not like her so yeah, right, you know, it's series you're gonna expect a little bit of that. Yeah No, it was Raleigh had to she did. Yeah, Raleigh had to West Palm Evans did the whole friggin back three was the party. That's where that was for a loft. Mm-hmm. That's what it was Damn
00:56:07
Speaker
Damn, damn, damn. Sarah's pulled it off, though, and, you know. I mean, you got D'Gudi playing eight. That's pretty awesome. It's not bad. Yeah. That whole back row, Georgia Evans was awesome. And Casolo, did she have a try or did she have a...
00:56:28
Speaker
Yeah, she had a try. She had one. Yep. Let me show the first one maybe. Yep, she had her first try. There it is. Not bad there. Victoria Sellers was in her first two PWR tries. Yeah.
00:56:46
Speaker
She had herself a day kind of making it, you know, kind of making a name for herself at that point. I know it's a little late and it's, you know, not so much garbage time because it was still, it was a tight game, but certainly playing that nine position, showing that, you know, there's some serious depth there on Sarri's shocking statement to make Sarri's depth.
00:57:09
Speaker
Yeah, but also they showed that heart. Paige Fary is with that. The chase. I think it was, was it Westcombe Evans? I think it was. Yeah, it was. Or Raleigh, one of the two. Yeah, it was one of the two. I can't imagine she tracked out Raleigh. But maybe she did. Never know.
00:57:26
Speaker
You never know. Um, and Emily scarret, those passes she was making were ridiculous. Those cutout passes to the weight, like putting the ball where it needed to be. She fizzes the ball around real well. And that's what you, you love to have that in the midfielder is obviously your 10, but love to have that in the midfielder for sure.
Promising Player Combinations
00:57:46
Speaker
You know,
00:57:48
Speaker
Yeah, her enrollment together, that combination is filthy. Yeah, it's really nice. And again, I'm hoping that we see some continuity with the league changing the title and changing some of the assets that they have. And that'll hopefully lead to more teams able to keep their players together, even if they're not playing for England. So we'll see.
00:58:19
Speaker
Over to Quincy. I actually couldn't get to the game because I was attending graduation for my players. And I couldn't get to the game because someone... Someone was not cooperative with you, it sounds like. Yeah, it was a rough night, so it was one of those...
00:58:38
Speaker
going to skip this one and be okay with it. Well, you get to bring her to the next one. Exactly. We're going to have a full family day. Yeah. All hands on deck.
00:58:57
Speaker
Um, but anyway, they did. He said deck. Yes. Anyway. Um, neck, deck, peck, whatever. Anyway, they, they met the boys managed to pulled off and it wasn't the most glorious thing ever, but they don't ask how they ask how many. Right. And.
00:59:23
Speaker
Yeah, it was they did also have to completely incorrectly disallowed tries in the first half, which pissed me off. And that ball, who was it? It was the cigarette had it down on the line. You could see it on the replay that it was down. You could see that it was on, you know, you could see where the line was. That was down. It was on the line. And I don't know how they were like, we don't know.
00:59:49
Speaker
Because we can't actually see it on the line. You can see where it is. You can see it's definitely on the deck. Award you cowards. The other one where Mitch Wilson got penalized for rocking.
01:00:06
Speaker
I think they called it a tackle off the ball, but it was like he just cleared the guy out right at the rock. It's not like he tackled him five meters away. He hit him and drove him, drove him to deck from the rock like. And they called that back for the eye. I don't get that broken at all. That's not a news. That's not a news flash either. Yeah, the thing is like. With the TMO. And I'm glad we have it. I don't I would never get rid of it. But the thing about it is like
Role of TMO and Decision-Making in Rugby
01:00:36
Speaker
you look at all the other leagues and they don't, they have all the proper angles and they have someone actually making the decision with the referee, not just in, you know, for the referee with the referee. Right. And until we get to that point where we have enough angles and we can help the referee make the decision alongside the TMO, not just how the TMO do it for them, which is pretty bad. Um, cause let's face it. The reason that they're the TMO and not the referee is cause they're not that good of a referee probably.
01:01:06
Speaker
Um, and that's saying something in this league because holy shit. Um, so until that happens, the TMO is going to be like 60% useful and that's just how it is. Like I've never, I've learned to just not really hold, hold anything that, that that's how hope that it's going to result in anything good. If the TMO comes out, it's like, yeah, I, I assume, I mean, this is just going to go poorly for us one way or the other. And that's just where I, where I'm at right now with it.
01:01:39
Speaker
And yeah, it was that was just kind of just a frustrating, you know, point, and especially the way that the free jacks have been kind of fucked by refs lately in the league has kind of been fucked by rest. It's not just no free jacks. Yeah. As we were discussing the other week with Mr. Osburger.
Young Talent and Playoff Race Updates
01:01:59
Speaker
Yeah. But Ethan Fryer kind of put that to bed anyway.
01:02:03
Speaker
With his intercept and sprint try, that was awesome. But in the end, also, no disrespect. Holden Younger was excellent when he came into the league. And then when he came out, he was excellent for his age coming up, looked like he was going to develop in the next thing.
01:02:24
Speaker
Um, I, there's been like regression there. Yeah. You can clearly see why the, the, the, the Jax signed that, uh, Oscar Lennon. Yeah. And Bristol guy. Because younger, how many passes of his went to deck? Too many. Like not to a player, but just to deck. Like you just threw it out in the space and there was nobody there or just to go where it was completely inaccurate. Couple of, a couple of worm burners too. Yeah. Like just no, no, no, no.
01:02:54
Speaker
No, and that really fucked their attack too in the first half. They had a couple of real good chances that if there was good service, you know, Patrons played really well. This was his best game of the season, so that's good to see. It's nice that Reese is back. He almost broke through a couple of times, worked through a couple of times. He'll figure it out as...
01:03:14
Speaker
Yeah, the games as he gets back into fitness, right? But yeah, really good stuff Really good stuff. Yeah, and then Kyle sucks, but you know, oh he was awful. Yeah Not news not just more disappointing. Yeah And let's see. Where's the uh, and there's the standings because Sorry's also got to me. It was a
01:03:41
Speaker
You know, I'm sorry, so fucking free jacks had some kind of things bounce their way because the hounds were off this week, right? I think so. Looks like it. Um, Nola loses to Houston. So I'm not, I know we're doing, you know, kind of hitting the whip around, but at the same time, um, that just helps them get one step, you know, away. Now they're, they're six points clear for now.
01:04:08
Speaker
looking at a home potential playoff game, and then OGDC smacks around Anthem. And suddenly, that's a dogfight there for that... There are four playoff places now. They're doing four. That's right. Yeah.
01:04:32
Speaker
Honestly, too many. You're definitely going to get a dog shit team in one of these conferences, probably both. The first playoff game is going to be crap. Right. I mean, as we saw, Dallas are okay. I wasn't that impressed with them, but I know it's an away match. They're traveling pretty far, but Houston's good, Seattle's good, San Diego is underperforming, but they're still very good.
01:05:00
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You know, freejacks are, I don't know what to make of them. They're, they're at the top. So final. Underperforming is probably the way to go with. Yeah. With it at this point. NOLA at this point, I think are overperforming. Yep. I agree with that. It's actually potentially halfway decent. And then after that, the hounds are five, six, and they're, they're under 500. OGGC is actually 500. OGGC, or yeah, 500. They have two draws. Right. What are they? I don't know.
01:05:30
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They have, they were involved in the only two draws of the year. So it gets the hounds and, um, Los Angeles. That's right. I forgot the, oh, the tie with LA. Good God. Oh yeah. Well, there was LA just smacked around the sharks. Gave them the old mushroom stamp. Yes. Uh, they're long ago, you mean? Yeah, they can logo stamp them. Um, which is,
01:05:58
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problematic. How do you lose at home to that team? Nevermind. Yeah. And maybe, you know, it also helps now and maybe the free Jack's getting healthy at the right time. Although they're still, their injury report is scary. Like Jacobson's out. Um, yeah, a couple of guys who are now obviously being camrada, we know in John Paul and they're not coming back. Oh, um,
01:06:23
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Uh, set a Baker being hurt. Like they're, even the guys who are showing up and making an impact now are just are getting them. So cat caps been out for a bit. Yeah. Larson. Um, but listen, if they can muscle it over the line and, and get this home semi and get everyone healthy at the same time, like all bets are off after that. Right. So that's what I'm hoping for. Really. It's my, it's my semi-realistic hope.
01:06:53
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Let's see. Hold on. Let's let's schedule going down down the. So we've got GDC in there in DC weekend. Hopefully not home next weekend, which is the one we're going to write, which hopefully, you know, Utah's four and eight to to New Orleans, which is never fun, but doable, doable. And then home again to get one more.
01:07:20
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then home against Anthem. That's it. Okay. Well, which obviously needs to be a win cause Anthem haven't won a game yet. So, um, a lot of practice girl. Yeah. Like that, but that's a, Hey, that's a good way to go into the, the post season. So let's, let's, let's hope it's what I'm up before. All right. So we are going to go over to fantasy corner world and
01:07:49
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