Podcast Introduction & Social Media Discussion
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Jarrod Dyke
Hey everybody, welcome back. It is the Fancy Rugby Yanks. My name is Jared Dyke.
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Grumpy Old Prop
I'm Ben Glauser.
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Jarrod Dyke
Did you miss us? We missed you. Let's go. We have lots. We have lots to talk about.
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Jarrod Dyke
We have lots to talk about. There was no rugby on this weekend at all. yeah Open up, you fucker.
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Grumpy Old Prop
Was there rugby on this weekend?
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Jarrod Dyke
I have a weak man today.
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Jarrod Dyke
Find us on your favorite podcast app where and make sure that you download great reviews, share, Feedback back always welcome per usual. um Those that have not seen my activity on the platform, probably me known as Twitter, um we're divesting. So I'm going to probably make the final decision tomorrow on exactly where I'm going to post everything. So it'll be fun. um Needless to say, keep your eyes peeled and we'll probably leave the all the links on our Patreon. We'll probably pin it to the top.
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Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah, we can make our own like like this joint account too.
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Jarrod Dyke
And that way, that way we can...
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Jarrod Dyke
Oh yeah, I think we will, we will. I think we will, yeah, I think that's the plan.
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Grumpy Old Prop
So we can have like our personal accounts and then and then this thing.
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Grumpy Old Prop
yeah This thing being the fantasy rugby yanks. Find us at, fantasy rugby yanks at blue sky or threads or but whatever Jared decides.
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Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, they'll be they' there'll probably be a multitude of things, because Blue Sky doesn't have a lot right now in terms of rugby.
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Grumpy Old Prop
Oh, yeah.
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Jarrod Dyke
So, ah while I would love it for it to
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Grumpy Old Prop
We that's that means that means people need something to go there for for rugby. Oh That's weird I've heard people say like throw there's there's no rugby people on blue sky and it's like well, let's go Yeah, why don't we go be those people?
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Jarrod Dyke
Oh, I totally agree. So we'll definitely do it. But, um, in terms of us like finding things, there is now
Support & Criticism of Rugby Organizations
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Jarrod Dyke
there is now.
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Jarrod Dyke
So anyway, um, yeah, just make sure that you're doing in that. Um, well, I'll change the ending as, uh, once we do that too. Cause I know it tells it, it tells everyone to follow us on Twitter.
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Jarrod Dyke
I'm aware of that. We'll fix it in how, in how much time I have no idea, but
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Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah, it's on the list. It's on the list. Just leave it at that.
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Jarrod Dyke
I promise it's out there.
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Grumpy Old Prop
It's not very high, but it's there.
00:02:34
Jarrod Dyke
It's out there. It's on there. Um, it'll get there by the end of the, by the end of the season, probably. Uh, any, uh, make sure that you buy our good friend, George, the fancy, you very geeky coffee or beer, uh, busy boy writing all them fancy articles for the official game and all that stuff.
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Jarrod Dyke
But, uh, so support the guy.
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Jarrod Dyke
He's worth it. He is worth it. Um,
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Jarrod Dyke
There's no discrimination here on this podcast, or nor should there be in sports or in life. Fucking Wales Rugby Union, like, could we be more cocked?
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Grumpy Old Prop
They they just like saw it sitting there and they're like, you know what? I'm gonna do I'm gonna step right in it and And watch me everybody world. Hey, look at this. I'm step. I'm i'm just gonna step right in what the fuck
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Jarrod Dyke
Stop, stop, stop, stop, like, oh my God. oh ah Like in in a time where obviously we know what happened over here in the States for with our election, like where that is like on in a micro ah on a microscope right now or under a microscope right now.
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Jarrod Dyke
Like, really? Really? You're going to do that?
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Jarrod Dyke
You fucking idiots.
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Grumpy Old Prop
And expect like, well, I mean, you know, Welsh rugby in general has built up so much goodwill these days.
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Jarrod Dyke
but We'll talk about that in a little bit.
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Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah, anyway, point being like, why why would you fuck over your women's players? And like, especially that, like, the the pressure, like, oh, you're signing within an hour, or we're just like, it's like, that's not, that's just not how you act. That's not, that's just not
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Jarrod Dyke
and and And no, on no planet would they ever do that to the men.
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Grumpy Old Prop
I can't, I can't imagine it.
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Jarrod Dyke
No matter how bad the men is are, by the way. And the men are not good as we all know right now.
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Grumpy Old Prop
They're not great. Yeah.
Rugby Season Preparations & Broadcasting Critiques
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Jarrod Dyke
And so like, on no planet would they do that ever to them.
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Jarrod Dyke
So it's just so
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Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, I mean, we said Irish rugby hold my beer.
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Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah. And it's like, the we are we should we need to be past this.
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Grumpy Old Prop
Ultimately, that's where we are.
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Grumpy Old Prop
but Like this should no longer be a thing.
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Grumpy Old Prop
Let's make it stop being a thing.
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Grumpy Old Prop
Please and thank you.
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Jarrod Dyke
Yes, no shit.
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Grumpy Old Prop
I don't know what else to say.
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Jarrod Dyke
I mean, not much else to say, you know, really isn't.
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Grumpy Old Prop
So but again, rugby players are rugby players.
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Grumpy Old Prop
like and We got to get to the, you know, to equal play but pay.
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Grumpy Old Prop
But at first, like, can we just. Just treat the ladies like human beings like they're actual like people who are actually doing a job.
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Grumpy Old Prop
That involves putting your body on the line for you. So, fuck's sake.
00:05:35
Jarrod Dyke
Absolutely. Especially when you have wonderful people like jazz choice pushers.
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Jarrod Dyke
Whoo. Anywho. um Make sure that you grab our Patreon that will be updated on PWR this week. I promise, I promise, I promise.
00:05:51
Jarrod Dyke
And then we'll, and yeah, and then we'll do, I will do one big entry for the first six rounds of um Prem before we get back to it, which won't be for a couple more weeks.
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Grumpy Old Prop
Oh yeah, I got to get you entries.
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Jarrod Dyke
So we get time, but I will try and to get it out there as soon as possible.
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Grumpy Old Prop
But by the way, did we officially let Julia change her kicker?
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Grumpy Old Prop
ah All right.
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Jarrod Dyke
Yes. I jokingly said all sales are final, but then I said kidding.
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Grumpy Old Prop
Fine. Yeah. Right.
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Jarrod Dyke
Totally messing with you, of course. I mean, she got it in under the gun.
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Grumpy Old Prop
She did. So.
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Jarrod Dyke
and So, what are you going to do, right?
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Grumpy Old Prop
I guess we'll abide by the rules then.
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Jarrod Dyke
Rules and all that stuff.
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Jarrod Dyke
I mean, listen, there were people that weren't abiding by any rules this weekend, but that's a different, we'll get to that. We'll get to that point.
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Grumpy Old Prop
Whatever.
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Jarrod Dyke
We'll get to that point. Um, anyway, um, well, you know, I would love to talk about the PWR game of the week, but you know, tiering kind of all of that.
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Grumpy Old Prop
yeah well I mean I you know what honestly um so I'm gonna make this about more than just that it's sort of the PWR because don't like Exeter can broadcast on YouTube they have their own YouTube channel that they I think they broadcast all their home games so why not like I mean Bristol Lester was always gonna be what that was
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Jarrod Dyke
Yep. The shit show that was.
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Grumpy Old Prop
um But I guess like, you know, I don't know. I, I, you
International Rugby Performance Analysis
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Grumpy Old Prop
wouldn't expect trail. Oh, I mean, clusters on the road. I don't know. I just, that was a closer game.
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Grumpy Old Prop
I don't know. I just, it seems like there's other rugby that you could potentially highlight to an international audience than people who can go get it on YouTube anyway.
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Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, they were, I mean, I know they're, they're working on trying to spread it out a little bit, which is, but yeah, in the, I think by the time we get to the point at the end of the season, we'll see a lot of Bristol, Gloucester, Harbury, Saracens, probably Exeter too, um, unfortunately.
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Grumpy Old Prop
Mm-hmm Yeah, yep, I Don't think I don't like and he I can't They are I can't hate the Chiefs women the way I do the men though because they actually play decent rugby and um You know, there's there's significant US players on that team.
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Jarrod Dyke
Um, and then maybe, maybe trail finders, trail finders are kind of hanging around.
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Jarrod Dyke
They have some of our gals on the team too, that helps.
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Grumpy Old Prop
So It's hard to not like yeah I Hope yeah
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Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, like Rachel. Most notably RJ and and Hope, but like, yeah, definitely RJ for sure.
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Jarrod Dyke
All right, um let's dive into it. We'll start Friday night.
00:08:27
Jarrod Dyke
I am, I can't tell you how extremely disappointed I was in this match in general, but especially with the way Ireland played.
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Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah, it was boring. It was like there, no.
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Jarrod Dyke
was not a good match.
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Grumpy Old Prop
um And they like, it's it's interesting the trend that we saw on the weekend that started with this, but it's just like, there's teams that play to kind of keep it close and maybe win at the end.
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Grumpy Old Prop
And then there's teams that are just like, you know, I'm just gonna play rugby for 80 minutes and um see how many points I can put up. And I think in the end, I'll have more than you.
00:09:04
Grumpy Old Prop
And like, that's that's how the All Blacks played. And um although we got to start with the haka, sorry, I'm getting ahead of myself because that haka was was fucking fierce. I loved it. And the the Ireland approaching them. Yes. More of that, please. And thank you. I where was Ireland's guts the rest of the game, though?
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Jarrod Dyke
i Worthy question.
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Grumpy Old Prop
What are they kicking for points for?
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Jarrod Dyke
Worthy question.
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Grumpy Old Prop
What are they kicking for points for?
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Grumpy Old Prop
It's a try scoring match.
00:09:34
Grumpy Old Prop
You know, it's going to be a try scoring match. And in the end, I mean, then I thought Ireland had opportunities and just.
00:09:44
Jarrod Dyke
Well, there were points where they had it and they totally spit them in.
00:09:47
Jarrod Dyke
I mean, one of the turning points sadly was um Tommy O'Toole going down as fast as as he did because
00:09:57
Jarrod Dyke
You know, Finley Beallen was gassed. He did a good job, but he was gassed. And then all of a sudden, he's got to turn around and go back on there.
00:10:04
Jarrod Dyke
And, you know, the All Blacks have fresh legs on at that point. It's like, oh, fucking hell.
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Jarrod Dyke
Even if it's just, Tonga Fasi's obviously class, but even if it's just Tosi as well, like, I don't think Tosi's necessarily that good, but like between the two of them, it's like,
00:10:17
Jarrod Dyke
fucking hell. Like you've got to be you're you're just mad at yourself at that point. It's like, what did I do to deserve this? ah You feel for him, you do. And really, I commend Key and Healy for what he's doing.
00:10:31
Jarrod Dyke
But they got to pick another one not named Key and Healy for the backup. Like Porter is the number one, like no question about that.
00:10:37
Jarrod Dyke
um He's one of the better loose heads in the world. But like, you need some and he'll he'll go as long until you you know, until you cut his legs off and drag him off.
00:10:46
Jarrod Dyke
but you shouldn't have to make him do that either.
00:10:49
Grumpy Old Prop
Right Yeah, what's the point of yeah Does does he need these seven minutes?
00:10:50
Jarrod Dyke
And I think they would be wise for Andy Farrell and company to move on from keen healing and thank him for what he's done for it and get on with it.
00:11:04
Grumpy Old Prop
I Mean, that's all you're gonna play that your backup prop um
00:11:09
Grumpy Old Prop
pick someone younger who's, who you're trying to develop, who you're trying to get a taste. This is like, Kean Healy's not even warmed up after seven minutes, after sitting for 73. Like, it doesn't, it's like, okay, you may be, you might get a scrum, you're still like sorting the game out seven minutes in.
00:11:19
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, that body doesn't move so fast anymore.
00:11:26
Grumpy Old Prop
What the, like, what the fuck's going on here? um
00:11:28
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, no. Getting yourself up to speed.
00:11:31
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah. And, cause every game has like a feel to it. It's where, you know, there's like a rhythm and then you can kind of learn it as you, as you get going. But like, when you just come in fresh, it's like, okay, what what's actually going on out here?
00:11:44
Grumpy Old Prop
Like, I don't care what I've watched. It's it's different being in and, ah yeah, get a young player out there who's gotta learn.
00:11:53
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, and it's it's like we would, it's like we would criticize any other team, especially like England or New Zealand.
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Grumpy Old Prop
Who doesn't do it?
00:12:00
Jarrod Dyke
Is Kean Healy gonna be, we will, we'll get there.
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Grumpy Old Prop
Which we, we're going to criticize England.
00:12:03
Grumpy Old Prop
you have Just wait around for that.
00:12:03
Jarrod Dyke
don't don't you Don't you worry, keep your shorts on folks, we'll get there.
00:12:05
Grumpy Old Prop
We'll go anywhere for that.
00:12:07
Jarrod Dyke
But is Kean Healy gonna be at the World Cup in Australia?
00:12:11
Grumpy Old Prop
Probably I mean Right he's he's Probably not Right Right and also Same thing goes in in the in the back row like
00:12:11
Jarrod Dyke
Probably not. Do you think so? I mean, I understand his he's got like alligator blood in or something, but like, is he gonna be there and like actually participating? Probably not. So you might as well get someone else going out loose head besides Andrew Porter, because there'll be a point where you can't use Andrew Porter anymore in the fashion in which he's being used right now. So might as well get used to it.
00:12:41
Grumpy Old Prop
Peter Armani has said his piece to Sam Kane.
00:12:44
Grumpy Old Prop
I don't think he needs to see him again. I think that that should be enough of a...
00:12:48
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, there's so many talented back rowers in Ireland.
00:12:49
Grumpy Old Prop
We're done.
00:12:52
Jarrod Dyke
You don't need a Peter Armani in there and you have you have leadership, you have been to play you have Doris like, burn, you have the leadership you need.
00:13:01
Jarrod Dyke
Like, I don't I don't get that.
00:13:01
Grumpy Old Prop
Got Connor Murray coming on, you know, like, yeah.
00:13:05
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, I'm not getting it. Like, yeah, why is why wasn't Casey at night unless he's hurt?
00:13:10
Jarrod Dyke
Like, did I lose my mind on that one?
00:13:12
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah, I don't know.
00:13:12
Jarrod Dyke
Maybe I did. But still, point being, ah if if he's if he's not hurt, then why the fuck isn't he out there?
00:13:13
Grumpy Old Prop
I i don't know, but I'm, I'm agreeing with you.
00:13:18
Grumpy Old Prop
Right. That's yes.
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Grumpy Old Prop
I was, that was how I was perceiving what you were saying there and agreeing.
00:13:23
Jarrod Dyke
yeah yeah, so but technical term.
00:13:30
Jarrod Dyke
Technical term. Yeah, yeah, either ah from either side.
00:13:30
Grumpy Old Prop
Uninspiring rugby match.
00:13:33
Grumpy Old Prop
Unfortunately, I got, yeah.
00:13:35
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, yeah, really, I think in a
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Grumpy Old Prop
Oh, and because, because part of this whole. updated thing is is narratives. um
00:13:47
Grumpy Old Prop
Damien McKenzie played a decent 10. But he didn't try to do too much.
00:13:52
Jarrod Dyke
that was and That was enough for him to get a player of the match.
00:13:52
Grumpy Old Prop
He didn't try to do too much.
00:13:53
Grumpy Old Prop
He just kind of like, yeah.
00:13:57
Jarrod Dyke
What a fucking joke.
00:13:59
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah, um he was, you know, good's good for him. Like, that's let's see more of that and then more, like, you you look at the difference between, like, Mackenzie's impact on this game his game and or this game and, say, Marcus Smith's, when he was allowed to make an impact in the last couple of weeks. Like, there's just a different level um as a passer and a runner that, you know, Mackenzie's just, he's a good fullback. Don't get me wrong. Why why don't you just keep him there? Oh, that's right, because you've got the best fullback in the world, you know, Jordan.
00:14:29
Grumpy Old Prop
Okay. Nevermind.
00:14:30
Jarrod Dyke
you Certainly have one of the hottest for election the world in the world Jordan. That's for sure Yeah, doesn't doesn't make sense to me either Yeah for sure All right, let's let's get on with this I
00:14:35
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah. Anywho. Anywho, Mackenzie actually kind of, he, he, I haven't, I have not, I can't say anything about him this week other than like, okay, job done. Good job for you.
00:15:00
Jarrod Dyke
I have no reason that to feel... Borthwick out, number one. Get the fuck rid of him now.
00:15:09
Jarrod Dyke
I'm so sick of this shit. I'm so sick of this shit. I was done with him a while ago. I'm very done with him now. like It's one thing, we'll talk about whales in a minute.
00:15:09
Grumpy Old Prop
I'm kind of done with them.
00:15:20
Jarrod Dyke
Whales are at least throwing some babies out there and some inexperienced guys out there and saying, let's see what you got. Put it on an international stage, put it on tape.
00:15:31
Jarrod Dyke
Let's see what you got. We can coach we can coach you better and then we can keep going.
00:15:34
Grumpy Old Prop
Right. We'll solve something.
00:15:37
Jarrod Dyke
This is supposedly gonna be England's team in Australia in 27.
00:15:43
Grumpy Old Prop
I mean, yeah, that's the problem.
00:15:45
Grumpy Old Prop
Look, why is, why why is, um, I don't know, why is Henry Slade on this team? I don't get it.
00:15:52
Grumpy Old Prop
um What did he, did he, what did he contribute?
00:15:57
Grumpy Old Prop
And not only that, but right, which is where he should be.
00:15:58
Jarrod Dyke
ah yeah I saw more of Ollie Lawrence, at least because he played 13, which is probably his best position.
00:16:03
Grumpy Old Prop
Right. And I don't mind having a distributor at all. Like I thought they, the concept could have worked, but then Slade just. He's not a great distributor and he's not a great runner. so And he runs, but he runs the hell out of the exit or defense that Australia just carved up.
00:16:14
Jarrod Dyke
I mean, put 42 points on.
00:16:19
Grumpy Old Prop
The same way all the teams in the pram are carving up the exit or defense. Because if all you do is blitz, all the teams have to do is, as there was a ah really smart person that we get on this pod every so often, same as Jared Duck, you heard of him?
00:16:35
Grumpy Old Prop
Anyway, um this this man among men, Um, said recently that like the exit or defense, you just like get a little bit of depth and go around them and you beat them on the, on the corner.
00:16:51
Grumpy Old Prop
And it's like, you know what, you know how teams are beating this exit or defense, both at the prem level and at the international level by just going around the corner.
00:16:59
Jarrod Dyke
It's an out the back and ah and a skip and you and and and it doesn't even need to be a wide skip.
00:17:00
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah. yeah
00:17:04
Jarrod Dyke
It can just be a one person mess.
00:17:06
Grumpy Old Prop
Right. it's It's a really simple movement that's winning every time. And even when it doesn't work, it's still working. Like there were times where I think it was like, it was a bad pass, like the skip pass like bounced. And I think it was Suwali just like picked it up, got a little bit of forward momentum,
Coaching Strategies & Young Talent Spotlight
00:17:27
Grumpy Old Prop
you know, in tackle. he was There was still a loss on on on the on the phase, but it's still pinned the defense so that they're still flooding around.
00:17:38
Grumpy Old Prop
And then Australia go back inside.
00:17:40
Grumpy Old Prop
I can't remember who it was. um It might've been L'Olessio on the inside ball. Like I'm but coming back to the right on the inside. And then off of that, he passes it wide and they they're gone.
00:17:52
Grumpy Old Prop
Cause like that they're behind the defense at that point. Like all the defense is flowing around. You run but like literally behind their backs. And then in the scramble, you just pass it out wide and there's the try. Like it's, it's okay.
00:18:06
Grumpy Old Prop
For those of us who coach at high school or college at level, it's fucking impossible. I could never get my players to do that. But these guys, like that that's what they do.
00:18:15
Jarrod Dyke
That's what this is.
00:18:16
Jarrod Dyke
This is the job.
00:18:16
Grumpy Old Prop
That's literally their jobs.
00:18:19
Grumpy Old Prop
And it's so easy to do that. If you just give them that little blueprint, you play it a little bit a couple times in practice.
00:18:27
Grumpy Old Prop
And then it goes onto the pitch and the fucking score tries for fun.
00:18:28
Jarrod Dyke
Doesn't take much.
00:18:32
Grumpy Old Prop
And look at the players who scored tries for Australia. Tom Wright, Harry Wilson, Jeremy Williams, Kellaway, Jorgensen. like These are often coming younger.
00:18:44
Jarrod Dyke
These are guys that are gonna be playing for a while.
00:18:45
Grumpy Old Prop
They'll be playing ah for you know and and probably two more World Cups, each of them.
00:18:52
Grumpy Old Prop
At least.
00:18:52
Jarrod Dyke
Give or take, yeah.
00:18:54
Grumpy Old Prop
um And like they're just you look at the the selection. It's like this is really Australia's best. They've thrown their best at you yeah Is Tom Curry really the best seven in England the fuck?
00:19:05
Grumpy Old Prop
No, get the fuck out of here.
00:19:06
Grumpy Old Prop
No I mean Yeah Right And like Slade is not where then you're near one of your best centers get it like what's the point?
00:19:09
Jarrod Dyke
Guy Pepper, Tom Pearson, either of those two, I'd take them. I'd take over him. Either of those two.
00:19:20
Grumpy Old Prop
You know Ford why is he why he's even even a rat like I guess why I get why he's around But is is Finn Smith hurt? That's the only thing I can I can potentially see Right Because like Right and Jake Gordon might be a little on the old side, but he's still really good.
00:19:29
Jarrod Dyke
That'd be the only justification. Even then still get, get the fuck rid of him. Put Lizoski in there. He'll, he'll do a way better job for both those players in place of.
00:19:49
Grumpy Old Prop
I Who's like, oh, I want to see a solid better.
00:19:49
Jarrod Dyke
Oh God, Nick White fell off a cliff.
00:19:51
Grumpy Old Prop
Right. No.
00:19:52
Jarrod Dyke
Like just good, good, good. And yeah, nose dive.
00:19:55
Jarrod Dyke
And he just became a complete pissant.
00:19:59
Grumpy Old Prop
So, and oh, how good is Angus bell? By the way.
00:20:03
Jarrod Dyke
One of the best, looks we talked about Porter. He's right up there. He's right up there. Genj, Porter, Bayh, and Bell are definitely in kind of their own category right now.
00:20:15
Jarrod Dyke
I wouldn't put, you know, DeGroote had the, had the potential to be there.
00:20:21
Grumpy Old Prop
Mm-hmm Yeah, he's good he gets a lot of carries though, but that's not like Yeah, no no Which is gonna be good for a prop like he's he's good for a prop whereas these other guys are good rugby players doesn't matter what position they play they they can do that and I still and you still I remember when we discussed Angus bells and
00:20:21
Jarrod Dyke
Eh, I like Skoomin, but he's not quite there. um he did he He does a lot of work, but he just doesn't do a lot with the work. um
00:20:34
Jarrod Dyke
Yep. Yes, I think that's a fair assessment. So yeah, no, he's definitely one of the best in the world.
00:20:48
Grumpy Old Prop
debut in in Super Rugby because it's funny that he was, uh, he got, um, pwned by his, his now teammate. Actually, his this fellow started and in Tupo. Tupo wrecked him to the point where bank Bell got carded on his debut.
00:20:57
Jarrod Dyke
Mm hmm. Yep, yep, yep. He got he got his he got some lessons taught that day.
00:21:05
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah. But, uh, damn, look at, look at how far he's come.
00:21:10
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, no, but really, really good player. um I don't want to digress too much. But to illustrate your point about Slade not being a attacker, I was I paused a moment during the England game because I watched the England, New Zealand game a couple of weeks ago because I watched it late. um Came back from a day at the pitch and I'm watching it and he's got a chance to skin Scott Barrett and break the line and potentially score and Barrett gets him. And I'm like, dude, like there's a big enough gap here. Barrett's a very good second row. There's no question about that. But still that's a forward against ah against someone that people are claiming is a very good attacker.
00:21:50
Jarrod Dyke
it needs to be it needs to be a line break and Barrett gets them. So, nope, nope, not convinced. Not convinced. Listen, let's give Joe Schmidt a ton of credit. He did...
00:22:02
Jarrod Dyke
He took his lumps in the rugby championship this year.
00:22:05
Jarrod Dyke
He knew he was going to get absolutely fucked by South Africa and New Zealand. He said, go out there and fuck it up, guys.
00:22:11
Jarrod Dyke
I don't care. You guys go out there and do your thing and get some experience. And, you know, there were some players out there that didn't belong, like did Trident quite a couple of times, like, me please don't do that again.
00:22:12
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah, I don't care.
00:22:22
Jarrod Dyke
um And there were a couple of like Donaldson.
00:22:23
Grumpy Old Prop
Well, you know, he's learning, too. He's sort of the tiktik.
00:22:25
Jarrod Dyke
I hate Donaldson.
00:22:27
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah, I know you do.
00:22:27
Jarrod Dyke
you know I dislike Donaldson heavily, so pass on him too. But really, for the most part, just said, yeah, let's let's go see what we have. He he knows who his best back row is, I can tell you that much right now. Wasn't gonna be a really a really big mystery, but we're pretty sure it's Valentini, McRite, and Wilson.
00:22:43
Grumpy Old Prop
I mean, it's hard to argue otherwise.
00:22:46
Jarrod Dyke
Right, I'm not sure.
00:22:48
Grumpy Old Prop
Good luck. And, you know, if the next guy out off the bench is laying, who actually, I'm kind of glad to see him getting time, but I mean, I'm not sure he's the next best, but it's the same time.
00:22:56
Grumpy Old Prop
Like this is, that's when you rotate people in, you know.
00:22:59
Jarrod Dyke
Right. You can, you can find that like they've given Tizano a shot, which was cool.
00:23:02
Jarrod Dyke
And you know, that's, that's what, but that's what you do.
00:23:03
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah. Mm-hmm.
00:23:05
Jarrod Dyke
Especially in a situation like Australia, where you have, you know, a lot of people kind of just flying the coop as fast as possible, which really sucks.
00:23:12
Jarrod Dyke
But you just, you know, you take the lumps and you deal with it and live with the fact that, you know, some new players are kind of probably fucking up for you now and again. But you also live with the fact that the new players are eventually going to figure it out and get you guys over the line once in a while, see Max Jorgensen, you know, like really awesome from him.
00:23:29
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah. Oh, that was a, yeah.
00:23:34
Jarrod Dyke
So I, yeah, I have no sympathy for England, sorry. you yeah ah Jamie George said ah said it best. First 20 minutes, they own the shit out of this game.
00:23:43
Grumpy Old Prop
And they stopped like that's Right And that that goes to my point of yeah that goes to my point about like, how you know Some of these coaches just go like okay you make it close But if if we get too far ahead then just chill they'll have to work their way back into it and it's like well You know when you say hey, they'll they they they' they'll have to work their way back into it teams will actually do that sometimes Shocker I know
00:23:44
Jarrod Dyke
And then they stopped. Just put took the foot off the gas and said, that's good enough. It's like, really? 15 points? I don't think so, guys. like You need a few more.
00:24:13
Jarrod Dyke
Wild ideas, you speak up, sir. ah Ah, shit. so Well done to Joe Schmidt in Australia. that was That was one of the more entertaining games of the weekend, to say the least. Good for them. We don't need to spend a ton of time on Italy and Argentina. What I do want to say about this is a couple of dumbasses were talking about this not too long ago.
00:24:37
Jarrod Dyke
italy playing our Italy are playing all the rugby this fall in the north.
00:24:39
Grumpy Old Prop
But yeah.
00:24:44
Jarrod Dyke
ah um Unless I'm mistaken. Hold on one second. Let me double check my work here. At least two of the three are up there. I can tell you that much because this was up north. I know they're in Turin. Maybe not next week, but the week after.
00:25:04
Jarrod Dyke
Where are they? Where are they? I think they're somewhere else this week. Hold on, time out. Sorry, I should have done my homework on this beforehand. My brain didnt my brain refused to cooperate.
00:25:16
Grumpy Old Prop
They are Stadio Luigi Ferraris. Luigi Ferraris.
00:25:19
Jarrod Dyke
Yes, which I believe is Bologna.
00:25:21
Grumpy Old Prop
I don't know where that is.
00:25:25
Jarrod Dyke
And I think that's up, I think that's also up north. This is how well I know my Italy dream geography here.
00:25:35
Grumpy Old Prop
It's in Genoa.
00:25:37
Jarrod Dyke
Okay. So it's up there, which is where all the rugby is being played, by the way, in Italy. It's not being played around Rome. And it was a very good environment, despite the fact that they got the shit kicked out of them.
00:25:51
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah. Well.
00:25:52
Jarrod Dyke
I think there are a couple of big mistakes from some of the Italian players that cost them dearly. And this Argentina team is very good, by the way, like don't don't get that wrong either. Like,
00:26:02
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah. I mean, that's a, that is, uh, stacked. I mean, that's, that's not even good. They're, they're just stacked at this point.
00:26:09
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, like, I like the Molina kid. Ruby Olo looked great during the rugby championship.
00:26:13
Jarrod Dyke
Gondana, we talked, we talked about a bunch.
00:26:16
Jarrod Dyke
All right, I love this Oviedo kid.
00:26:16
Grumpy Old Prop
Gonzo obviously.
00:26:18
Jarrod Dyke
Like, that's a, Fleabay Contemporme is cooking, to say the least. I think that's pretty obvious. I think there's some, still some guys that they could ditch, like, we talked about the, the Mattiasicises, they could probably get rid of them and nobody would, you know.
00:26:30
Grumpy Old Prop
Probably. Man, they're thinking of falling off a cliff.
00:26:35
Jarrod Dyke
Right. Um, Gomez Cadella is like 40.
00:26:38
Grumpy Old Prop
But, I don't know.
00:26:40
Jarrod Dyke
We don't need, to we don't need more of him, which I mean, great that he's getting rolled out there and still able to play, but like, probably don't need more of him.
00:26:48
Grumpy Old Prop
We can move on.
00:26:49
Jarrod Dyke
No, we can move on from that. But overall, Kanta Pomi is definitely onto something. So, uh, good on him, good on Argentina. Uh, sorry, Italy didn't get, I mean, it was 10, 17 at halftime.
00:27:00
Jarrod Dyke
Like they were in it.
00:27:00
Jarrod Dyke
They just didn't, you know, they're, they're learning.
00:27:04
Jarrod Dyke
They're still learning. We know this.
00:27:04
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah, i I still think this is a a testament more.
00:27:07
Grumpy Old Prop
It says more about Argentina than it does about Italy. Like Italy are are not a bad team, but Argentina are.
00:27:19
Grumpy Old Prop
They're probably I think they're maybe a top four side in the world right now.
00:27:23
Jarrod Dyke
They're gonna, I think they're going to get there by the time we get to 27. I wouldn't be shocked. You know, this is, there was a lot of good things that have happened with the previous coaches, Ledesma, Czechs, so on and so forth.
00:27:35
Jarrod Dyke
Kontopom, he's been cutting his teeth at at some really good places and now he's,
00:27:41
Jarrod Dyke
He's bringing it to the Argentinian side and I think it's going to do a lot of good. I liked him. but i I loved him as a player, by the way. I really did. So um I'm pulling for Argentina as long as as long as I can and as long as they're playing the good shit like this.
00:27:57
Jarrod Dyke
Like Albernaz has been great since they got rid of Santi Carreiroz as a 10. Like there's finally the world remembered he's not a 10, which is good.
00:28:06
Grumpy Old Prop
Okay. Yeah. Why, when are they going to figure that out about Mackenzie? God damn it. Anyhow.
00:28:11
Jarrod Dyke
Oh, I'm not sure.
00:28:12
Grumpy Old Prop
And for the same reason, for the same reason, by the way, it's not, and not to denigrate Mackenzie as much as the people who select him at 10.
00:28:13
Jarrod Dyke
Razor's gonna figure that one out.
00:28:22
Grumpy Old Prop
It's more about them than about him.
00:28:27
Jarrod Dyke
Um, do we need to spend much time on Francis return to start of France?
00:28:31
Grumpy Old Prop
No, it was the stopping. It was always going to be a stopping. Nothing like.
00:28:35
Jarrod Dyke
The version of Japan this time around is shit.
00:28:41
Grumpy Old Prop
This is not a good team.
00:28:43
Jarrod Dyke
I knew it was bad when we when we we, the U.S., were competing with Japan for a while during that Pacific.
00:28:49
Jarrod Dyke
So I was like, that's that's that's not good.
00:28:54
Jarrod Dyke
For those keeping score, that's not good.
00:28:56
Jarrod Dyke
The U.S. were pretty terrible.
00:28:58
Grumpy Old Prop
And not that the U.S. aren't, I mean, just be Portugal, um which for us is actually a big deal. That's kind of sad to say, but it's like that's there and Portugal aren't a terrible side.
00:29:04
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah. Fucking hell.
00:29:08
Grumpy Old Prop
Just, you know, I don't know. I think like, yeah, the U.S. and Japan, there's not that much of a gap there. There's definitely not as much of a gap, I think, between the U.S. and Japan as there is between Japan and France.
00:29:22
Jarrod Dyke
No, not right now. Frickin, um,
00:29:28
Grumpy Old Prop
But I will say um thank you to Boodenhut for um all the points as my super stub.
00:29:34
Jarrod Dyke
for your super sub. Yeah. Uh, I should, I should have picked a Frenchman as my super sub.
00:29:41
Grumpy Old Prop
That's exactly what I thought.
00:29:42
Grumpy Old Prop
I was like, I wish who am I picking of the on the bench? And then I was like, you know what? I'll i'll do the i'll do the loose forward. And he ah not realizing he would come on at 32 minutes, he came on in the first half and then
00:29:53
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, that wasn't supposed to happen.
00:29:54
Grumpy Old Prop
Right. And then put two down and yeah I was pretty happy about all that.
00:29:58
Jarrod Dyke
Yep. Didn't didn't go so bad. um
00:30:04
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah, my team was almost like, I think, I mean, show shows me, but I mean, there's not much you can do about it. My team was almost 100% England and French players. I had eight and on seven and seven, I think.
00:30:17
Jarrod Dyke
Those teams were scoring a lot of points.
00:30:20
Grumpy Old Prop
No, I had eight Frenchmen and two, four, six Englishmen and then two Welsh.
00:30:26
Jarrod Dyke
you fly to the E to the W.
00:30:27
Grumpy Old Prop
In the front row Dewey Lake and and Gareth Thomas.
00:30:34
Jarrod Dyke
let's Let's go to the principality on Sunday.
00:30:40
Jarrod Dyke
McBurn is going to be doing good things for this Fijian team, number one.
00:30:46
Jarrod Dyke
You know, he's been coaching a lot of these guys with the Drua for a few seasons now. So he's got a handle on Who's good? Who's not? He knows who his 10 is. That's for goddamn sure. Like he's been, he's already been working with months for a little while. So he's, he gets it. He understands that the kind of very same thing, you know,
00:31:06
Jarrod Dyke
crucial, crucial roles in this team. And then he's got some fucking houses, like Rad, Rad, Rad, we'll get to what happened to him in a minute.
00:31:14
Jarrod Dyke
Tua Soba, oh God, did you see Tua Soba sit down Thomas Williams?
00:31:19
Jarrod Dyke
That was like kind of a cartoon. I was like, whoops, and I'm pretty sure it led to a try. I was like, oh no, you just got posterized dude, in not a good way.
00:31:33
Jarrod Dyke
Oh man, I was laughing so hard watching when I saw that. I mean, I didn't realize it was him until after I saw the replay, but I was like, someone just got sat down by two itself.
00:31:42
Grumpy Old Prop
and then you kind of it's like okay well there's a scrum half so it's like but it brings down the degree of difficulty but it doesn't change the cool like you
00:31:51
Jarrod Dyke
Doesn't change to the humor factor for sure.
00:31:53
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah. Oh, and no, if anything, it's, if anything, it's funnier.
00:31:53
Jarrod Dyke
You can tell you that much right now.
00:31:58
Jarrod Dyke
I Mean he knew I mean like cutting himself when he scored his try He knew he was picking on he realized he was picking on he's like, oh, this is a nine.
00:32:01
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah. Yep.
00:32:04
Jarrod Dyke
Yay shove ah No, no, no you you stay back there sir, oh Man um Yeah, I I'm wondering
00:32:21
Jarrod Dyke
My one thing with the with the cards, and we'll talk we can talk ad nauseam about the 20-minute red card. It's stupid, don't worry about it. Just stop stop trying to remember the rules around it, because it's it it shouldn't stay.
00:32:32
Jarrod Dyke
um I'm having a hard time understanding how Tommy Riffles wasn't a high degree of danger, which is what they determined later on.
00:32:44
Jarrod Dyke
I was like, eh, that's a pretty high degree of danger-ish for me.
00:32:45
Grumpy Old Prop
yeah it looks yeah i don't know right
00:32:50
Jarrod Dyke
I think he was lucky to be coming back.
00:32:55
Jarrod Dyke
Not that he did a whole lot, but you know.
00:32:57
Grumpy Old Prop
No. And that's again, that's, but it's hard to know like, is, is, is there anybody better that whales have right now?
00:33:10
Jarrod Dyke
ah Jack Morgan.
00:33:11
Grumpy Old Prop
Oh, yeah. Is he, see Oh, we know he's on the boat.
00:33:14
Jarrod Dyke
The two guys that were on the bench, I would a billion times percent better have than him and Wayne Wright.
00:33:15
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah. That's, you know what? That's true.
00:33:20
Jarrod Dyke
And we, and you know, my I texted you, I was just like, holy shit, Wayne Wright's playing this game.
00:33:25
Jarrod Dyke
I saw him once and it was during like a whistle that came after a knock or something like that.
00:33:30
Jarrod Dyke
I was like, oh, there's Wayne, right? Like all the people that were freaking gloating about how great he is. I was like, I think you need to examine this game closely and understand how bad he is.
00:33:30
Grumpy Old Prop
right no there he is yeah that back yeah right it's not good and that like so that that gets me to the i've seen a lot about the you know fire gatlin he's like sucking up you know how we're too much money from the the wru and all this stuff and it's like it look it might be true but this
00:33:55
Jarrod Dyke
That might be true. the lot that that that one That one actual fact might be true.
00:34:00
Jarrod Dyke
Well, not fact, but you know what I mean.
00:34:02
Grumpy Old Prop
Right. Um, but at the same time they have to like, they're going to have to pay a coach and that's like, that's the market rate for someone like Allen.
00:34:12
Grumpy Old Prop
So do you want to pay a, I mean, do you want, you know, maybe, and maybe you want to take the chance with a lesser coach, but at the same time, are they going to get like,
00:34:23
Jarrod Dyke
Rob Baxter might be free soon.
00:34:25
Grumpy Old Prop
Right. But who are they going to get? That's like, but the the problem is a coach can do, you know, yeah, you can fuck up selections, all that stuff, but you can only make the players that much better when they're at this level.
00:34:38
Grumpy Old Prop
And the players are, and especially when they're young, like, you know.
00:34:43
Jarrod Dyke
Morgan hasn't played in a long time. He should, have I will say he should have started Sam Costolo. I thought, I thought, I think he's looking, he looks better every game he plays.
00:34:51
Jarrod Dyke
so And they kind of screwed, they screwed the boots with the 6-2. I think that's pretty obvious at this point.
00:34:56
Jarrod Dyke
um Cam Winette looks good almost every time he plays as well.
00:34:58
Grumpy Old Prop
Yes, he does.
00:35:00
Jarrod Dyke
Llewellyn, I like the Ben Thomas kid. I know they played him out of position during the summer, but that's fine. Blair Murray, hello. Like fastest try on debut ever, basically.
00:35:09
Jarrod Dyke
I'm pretty sure that's what it was. I like, um I like the Taines. I don't know how healthy Basham is, but I like Taines, Plum Tree, and Taines Basham.
00:35:17
Jarrod Dyke
They're both pretty good guys. They need to find something new in that lock department. They have got just crap and crap again.
00:35:22
Jarrod Dyke
Like Shinza probably should be in there if it's an if they're putting their best team out there.
00:35:23
Grumpy Old Prop
It's bad.
00:35:28
Grumpy Old Prop
Probably No Right, that's that's a problem that's a massive problem though pun intended but the like you need locks who are Maybe at some point like what's what ah what what the fuck are we doing here?
00:35:28
Jarrod Dyke
um Sadly, Captain Daffy might be the other one, which is stupid, but yeah. That's where they're at right now in terms of that. So they got to do some digging on that one.
00:35:44
Jarrod Dyke
Maybe they shove both of them forward. That might be more useful.
00:35:50
Grumpy Old Prop
Cuz Like that's you know
00:35:52
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, um I like Roland's overbeard, but I don't like either of them that much.
00:35:55
Grumpy Old Prop
Right. Not anymore. Anyway, I will roll owns of like seven years ago.
00:36:00
Grumpy Old Prop
Yes, please. and Thank you.
00:36:01
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, we can talk about that. But in the end, it was just an inspiration for Fiji, so no.
00:36:04
Grumpy Old Prop
but i Like a different coach isn't going to change. Yeah, a different coach isn't going to change this team from what it is. They're they're they're struggling and they need like, as just as a union wells wells meet like, I don't know, they they make the US seem stable and
00:36:24
Grumpy Old Prop
intelligent, even if you know they've got a better you know overall program.
00:36:28
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah. But yeah, i I'm really happy for the Fijians are on the up.
00:36:34
Jarrod Dyke
I don't think there's a question about it. I think the last World Cup is you know really the kick the kickoff for them. I don't think it's the peak.
00:36:45
Jarrod Dyke
I think it's the kickoff. And that's really cool to think about for their sake. really is. I think they're going to need a little bit of help in that, nine ru because um, because I don't think I know one of those guys is is young.
00:37:00
Jarrod Dyke
Crow value or Lamani. I know Lamani's not that young, but I mean, yeah.
00:37:00
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah. any Yeah.
00:37:03
Grumpy Old Prop
And he's again, he's gained the reputation. So they he's got to watch himself perfectly blunt. Now, like we know we saw it. Like, I think you were, we didn't talk about it last week, but you thought that was a, um, a pretty, yeah.
00:37:15
Jarrod Dyke
Bit of a harsh yellow on him for in the Scotland game. Yeah, I thought so too.
00:37:19
Grumpy Old Prop
But at the same time, he's been doing stuff like that lately. And I think the the word is out on the streets and you can't have that kind of reputation.
00:37:25
Jarrod Dyke
Hmm Unfortunately I Think I think if yeah, ah you might be right. I think if it was any other player you might he might not I got the card Might have even just called it a knock-on which I thought was I honestly thought that's what it was.
00:37:36
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah, which, but so yeah. um maybe I could have seen a pet only just because of the location on the field. um But yeah, the card. But yeah, like I said, reputation card.
00:37:49
Grumpy Old Prop
That's like a Thomas Lavignini card.
00:37:51
Grumpy Old Prop
Like, all right, I saw you do something, get the fuck off my field.
00:37:55
Jarrod Dyke
ah Yeah. This, I mean, and Mattavacie is not a pop, but like the the the the hooker situation for them right now is really awesome between a kind of battery and Mattavacie.
00:38:08
Jarrod Dyke
Like you, and most people would bite your hand off for our situation as as such. So good for them.
00:38:14
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah. And Maui was is crushing it.
00:38:15
Jarrod Dyke
Good for them. Yep. Well, I love that, dude.
00:38:20
Grumpy Old Prop
You're welcome.
00:38:23
Jarrod Dyke
The second one coming out.
00:38:32
Jarrod Dyke
To Murrayfield. Number one, fuck you, Peacock, for skipping this anthem. I fucking hate you.
00:38:36
Grumpy Old Prop
Mm-hmm Yeah,
00:38:37
Jarrod Dyke
Whoever the fuck let them have hands on international rugby again, like shame on you, all you. like and And I don't like flow either, so really, TRN, get your shit together.
00:38:47
Jarrod Dyke
Like, let's go.
00:38:48
Jarrod Dyke
Come on, come on. You can overtake both of these fucking jamokes. You just pull your head out of your ass.
00:38:48
Grumpy Old Prop
please Right And seriously if you like like seriously if you
00:39:02
Grumpy Old Prop
made it like even half of what the the the fee, like half of what ah flow is. I can't imagine you would not be doing well if you had all this the yeah subscriptions, all that stuff.
00:39:15
Grumpy Old Prop
Like I hate paying for all these subscriptions.
00:39:19
Grumpy Old Prop
Just bring, unite the clans, please.
00:39:20
Jarrod Dyke
Give me one. Well, I guess that at one point is the plan from world rugby, but like, please, like, let's get, let's get our shit together fast.
00:39:26
Grumpy Old Prop
ah Okay. Yeah.
00:39:30
Jarrod Dyke
Anywho. Um, but let's.
00:39:35
Grumpy Old Prop
I don't feel like this was much of like ever. When was this really?
00:39:45
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah, like was was this?
00:39:45
Jarrod Dyke
I mean, the second they like the minute it felt like they survived that huge wave of seven, seven followers coming on, they should have won this game.
00:39:47
Grumpy Old Prop
Did you ever at any point feel like Scotland where were but're going to take this game over and and win it?
00:40:01
Jarrod Dyke
Their tail should have been up there.
00:40:03
Jarrod Dyke
You know, their members should have been very hard and said, let's fucking go. And they went all in by going for threes.
00:40:11
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah. They, they, like, they were, they were scared to, to face, um, the box in a, in a set piece.
00:40:12
Jarrod Dyke
Made me go limb by going for three.
00:40:20
Grumpy Old Prop
And even though they weren't, they were kind of holding their own.
00:40:23
Jarrod Dyke
They were getting the, like on scrums, they were getting them away on their own, which was fine. You know, and I knew when they, when the box started asking for scrums, I was like, they're gonna get fucked.
00:40:33
Jarrod Dyke
And they did.
00:40:35
Jarrod Dyke
I mean, xander figures, it's not very good, let's be honest.
00:40:37
Grumpy Old Prop
No, there's that. Yeah.
00:40:38
Jarrod Dyke
And miller mills is not a step up at at all. So it's like, yeah, you have problems there.
00:40:40
Grumpy Old Prop
No. No, Harriet got all the rugby jeans.
00:40:43
Jarrod Dyke
But all that.
00:40:46
Grumpy Old Prop
Elliot is just kind of swimming in her week.
00:40:46
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah. Yeah, just kind of hanging out. Like you don't need to drive the goddamn ball over during a fucking mall of a line out to score.
00:40:59
Jarrod Dyke
Let's establish that. Like get creative of down there. Isn't that like part of the fun down there? Like ah you did did you see the healing drive from this weekend at the line out?
00:41:08
Jarrod Dyke
Oh, it was freaking beautiful.
00:41:09
Grumpy Old Prop
Oh, wait, maybe I did.
00:41:10
Jarrod Dyke
Like, so they They made like they were gonna throw it to the front lifter, whatever position.
00:41:18
Jarrod Dyke
And they actually skipped him and went to the second guy behind him and he had a hole and he went and he went right through.
00:41:22
Grumpy Old Prop
Wow. Nice.
00:41:23
Jarrod Dyke
It was brilliant. I was like, that's the type of, that's where you need the creativity right in there.
00:41:27
Jarrod Dyke
And I know you have guys like Etzabeth who, fuck you for being so goddamn good, dude.
00:41:32
Jarrod Dyke
ah You have guys like him that are just gonna cause a nightmare of things going on in that lineup.
00:41:37
Jarrod Dyke
But like, get creative. Get creative, get down there and put do a tap and go, for fuck's sake, when you're anywhere near the five. like Anytime, really inside the 22, I'd just be like, you know what, let's just hang out down here and make life hard on them, especially, because you know what, tires out players, even if they've just come on?
00:41:56
Grumpy Old Prop
Making tackle after tackling getting up and getting up and, and just like, it's, it's like doing burpees.
00:42:04
Jarrod Dyke
And burpees suck.
00:42:05
Grumpy Old Prop
What's up worse. Right. So you got to think.
00:42:08
Jarrod Dyke
I fuck it. by the as a fitness and As a fitness person, I fucking hate burpees. They're stupid.
00:42:12
Jarrod Dyke
But that's a different story for a different day.
00:42:13
Grumpy Old Prop
By the way, so so because I'm sadistic like that, I made ah one of the the fitness tests, 30 burpees for time.
00:42:23
Jarrod Dyke
You're an asshole. You truly are. You truly are.
00:42:23
Grumpy Old Prop
I have an evil bastard like that.
00:42:30
Jarrod Dyke
That's messed up, man. That's really messed up.
00:42:33
Grumpy Old Prop
These kids don't, that will that will relax over time, but man, these kids are out of shape.
00:42:38
Grumpy Old Prop
They're so out of shape.
00:42:39
Jarrod Dyke
Well, that's why you, that's why you call me dumbass.
00:42:42
Jarrod Dyke
Anyway, um, digress. Uh, let's, so let's address the elephant in the room. The Scott Cummings red. There are few times that the yellow card review has fucked up.
00:42:56
Jarrod Dyke
Like I, like I said to my buddy, Justin, like I can't remember the last time that in the recent, you know, history that it's been started to be used that they really botched one.
00:43:08
Jarrod Dyke
This is one of them, because that's not a red. it's not on It's certainly not on comings.
00:43:17
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah, no, I mean I get I get that they're trying to take that that croc roll out of the game But like Yeah At worst I yeah Um, I know like I could see a yellow just because it's like one of those man that could have been really bad if you had done it
00:43:23
Jarrod Dyke
I don't even know. And there's more dynamics to it with another player in there from the from the spring box. um i like Yellow at worst. I'm not sure it was even really a penalty, honestly. but you know
00:43:43
Grumpy Old Prop
Like just a little bit worse. So like you you rode the edge and instead it was like, no, no, no, you went all the way over the edge.
00:43:45
Jarrod Dyke
Well, really what...
00:43:48
Grumpy Old Prop
It's like, no, they didn't know. No, that didn't happen.
00:43:50
Jarrod Dyke
Well, Moser goes down and gets bent over backwards, which tells me he's going straight anyway.
00:43:53
Grumpy Old Prop
Mm hmm. Right.
00:43:58
Jarrod Dyke
You know, Darge is probably the only one that's not helping things.
00:44:02
Grumpy Old Prop
That's yeah.
00:44:03
Jarrod Dyke
You know, so if that's what's happening, he's not rolling.
00:44:07
Jarrod Dyke
He's driving straight. Like, if Moser can't keep his fucking feet, that's his own goddamn fault.
00:44:13
Jarrod Dyke
You know, like if he's got his teammate knocking him down, then most of you can yell at his teammate and slap him later.
00:44:14
Grumpy Old Prop
I'll agree to that.
00:44:18
Jarrod Dyke
Like there's, yeah, I don't know. I vehemently disagreed with the, and I thought the whole fucking referee and team cocked that up. So different story for a different day, but we'll get there eventually.
00:44:31
Jarrod Dyke
Anywho, um while,
00:44:35
Grumpy Old Prop
You know what, though, I got to say, let me time out for that. I honestly thought because I wasn't like.
00:44:40
Grumpy Old Prop
fully watching this, i you know, babysitting a little bit. um I honestly thought the red card was on, I guess. Who'd you say was there? Darge. I thought that Darge was the one like I didn't you know, I wasn't paying attention to the names or whatnot.
00:44:54
Grumpy Old Prop
um At that point, I thought it was on Darge. I thought for that sliding down and being in the like kind of going over the knee.
00:45:01
Grumpy Old Prop
I didn't realize it was for the dude driving.
00:45:03
Grumpy Old Prop
OK, you know, that's fucked up. That's even more fucked up.
00:45:06
Grumpy Old Prop
Like I, I could have seen a yellow on Darge there for what he did to slide down.
00:45:10
Grumpy Old Prop
And then that to me, I've seen players get carded for that. So I'm kind of with it.
00:45:13
Jarrod Dyke
And that would be, yep.
00:45:15
Grumpy Old Prop
Right. But no, then yeah, I don't, I have no fucking clue what Cummings did.
00:45:18
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah. I think that I think they balled up pretty hard, pretty hard.
00:45:21
Grumpy Old Prop
Okay. I'm with you then. I wasn't sure, but now I'm absolutely, you know, I was like, well, yeah, Darge, you know, there were like, you know, the player in Darge's position there. I'm like, well, you know, they're trying to crack down on that, but no, they didn't even, that's not what they carded.
00:45:33
Jarrod Dyke
They didn't even get that. And and I can, I. That's not why this law was put in anyway. like Darge was just stupid in general.
00:45:33
Grumpy Old Prop
What the fuck?
00:45:38
Grumpy Old Prop
Right. Right.
00:45:40
Jarrod Dyke
like We're looking at Jack Willis when he did his knee a couple years ago.
00:45:44
Jarrod Dyke
That's the shit we're looking at.
00:45:46
Jarrod Dyke
that's just um Who was it?
00:45:48
Jarrod Dyke
um Fucking Darcy Swain on, was it Vy?
00:45:50
Grumpy Old Prop
Yes. On. um No, it was. ah Oh, shit.
00:45:53
Jarrod Dyke
Oh, it was onpa on It was on Tupiah.
00:45:54
Grumpy Old Prop
Center. to but Yeah, Quinn. Yep.
00:45:57
Jarrod Dyke
That's the shit they're looking at. That's Red Tard right there.
00:45:59
Jarrod Dyke
That's what that is.
00:46:00
Jarrod Dyke
That's the stuff that they're looking at. they're not looking This was just either one and sheer act of stupidity and like, all right, you're an idiot, but let's, I'm going to, you know, we'll give you a card and that's probably all you're going to get because you were just dumb.
00:46:13
Jarrod Dyke
Not and not, you know, we're not looking to try and, you know, pretend that every time someone falls over or falls to the side or lands on a lower limb, it's a card.
00:46:25
Jarrod Dyke
It's still a rugby, and it sucks when shit like that happens.
00:46:27
Jarrod Dyke
like It's gonna happen, unfortunately, and I wish it wouldn't, but it is. It's a heavy collision contact sport. This shit happens, and it sucks, and I fucking hate that that's part of the game, but i don't we can't get everything.
00:46:36
Grumpy Old Prop
Right. But like, yeah. they were Right. And, but I also think I do agree with the, if you're, you know, if you're clearly not trying to keep your feet, if you're just going to deck on things like that, that makes sense.
00:46:47
Jarrod Dyke
Mm-hmm, yeah.
00:46:49
Grumpy Old Prop
And then again, that's what I thought dogs did, but like but that, but that's it.
00:46:49
Jarrod Dyke
No, I get that.
00:46:53
Grumpy Old Prop
It's like, if you're intending, like, you know, if you're just rocking, fuck that's, that's, that's rough.
00:46:57
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah. And some guys, you know, realize, Oh shit, I'm going the exact wrong way. And they just kind of like go and try and roll away as fast as possible and hope they don't land on someone's limb.
00:47:05
Grumpy Old Prop
Right. Yeah.
00:47:07
Jarrod Dyke
And I don't think, I don't think darkness. So I did that. I think he was just really dumb.
00:47:11
Grumpy Old Prop
No, yeah, I agree.
00:47:11
Jarrod Dyke
Um, but yeah, so that's not, that's not what we're here for guys. Like, let's go. Oh, anyway. Um, can anyone stop map? NACMA pimpi number one.
00:47:26
Jarrod Dyke
The answer is no. So that that didn that ends that game.
00:47:28
Grumpy Old Prop
No, they cannot.
00:47:34
Grumpy Old Prop
I'd like to see Jasper Visa get over, though.
00:47:34
Jarrod Dyke
im I mean, yeah, we we love a Thomas DeToy try around here.
00:47:38
Grumpy Old Prop
That was kind of cool. And Thomas G. Toy, because that's always good to see. That was a fun try, too.
00:47:44
Jarrod Dyke
um i I think the Springboks are facing kind of the same problems where when we're talking about guys that probably aren't going to be at the next World Cup. I don't think Ben Stodden is going to be there.
00:47:54
Jarrod Dyke
If Quagga Smith's there, they're fucked because I don't think he's very good at all. I rewind the tape. I was a huge Quagga Smith fan once upon a time.
00:48:02
Jarrod Dyke
Trust me, you know.
00:48:03
Grumpy Old Prop
I remember this.
00:48:04
Grumpy Old Prop
I mean, then I'm not saying you're not now. it's just He's not what he used to be.
00:48:08
Jarrod Dyke
No, I think it's crashed and burned. We're done. We're done with this. Jesse should be your number eight. And I think they need to bring guys along like um the Bulls guy, Hanukkom, you know,
00:48:20
Grumpy Old Prop
Oh, yeah. Yes.
00:48:22
Jarrod Dyke
I think they need to start bringing that guy around.
00:48:23
Grumpy Old Prop
They definitely do.
00:48:25
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah. um Different note. I did not realize how fucking big Stafford McDowell is. He is huge.
00:48:35
Grumpy Old Prop
That's all.
00:48:36
Jarrod Dyke
I was like, holy, i I saw him last weekend this week. I'm like, that dude's fucking enormous. Who the fuck is that? Holy shit. He is a large human.
00:48:49
Jarrod Dyke
Where are the stats on this motherfucker? Yeah, 6-4. For a center, hot damn.
00:48:53
Grumpy Old Prop
It's all right. That's okay.
00:48:56
Jarrod Dyke
That's a big boy. 2-27 and he is like nothing but muscle, like I swear.
00:49:01
Grumpy Old Prop
Rock. Chiseled.
00:49:02
Jarrod Dyke
Like 2-27 is not, for 6-4 is not that big.
00:49:06
Jarrod Dyke
So he's gotta be a rock. Holy shit. um Yeah, and then you have Hugh Jones and 2-2 in there too. So, all right, they're good for centers. Nevermind.
00:49:16
Jarrod Dyke
Sorry, Hutch.
00:49:18
Jarrod Dyke
but Sorry, hu sorry, Redpath.
00:49:18
Grumpy Old Prop
Oh, that is sad for Hutch.
00:49:20
Jarrod Dyke
Like, they're set for centers. They don't need anybody else.
00:49:23
Jarrod Dyke
Although, I think Hugh Jones is very young, so maybe they do.
00:49:24
Grumpy Old Prop
orley Yeah, they have a shot, but they're basically directly competing against each other plus whoever else shows up because you never know.
00:49:33
Grumpy Old Prop
Well, we don't know anyway.
00:49:34
Grumpy Old Prop
They might know.
00:49:35
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, they might know. But anyway, yeah, as as we said, I think I don't think the Springboks did a ton to win this game. I think Scotland and the officials ah just a little bit.
00:49:47
Grumpy Old Prop
yeah well
00:49:48
Jarrod Dyke
Did a lot to help them lose it.
00:49:51
Jarrod Dyke
And that and i I think that's really where it's at.
00:49:54
Jarrod Dyke
like No, I don't think the Spring Boss looks especially good. yeah There's and a seven month split. The day that fucking die dies, I'll be dancing in the street.
00:50:06
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah, it's not good.
00:50:07
Jarrod Dyke
I hate that. I hate that so much. It's just, it's arrogance. It's not even, I'm being clever. It's arrogance. It's all it is. ah barf, like barf into my water cup here, like bleh.
00:50:21
Grumpy Old Prop
and Don't do that.
00:50:23
Jarrod Dyke
I don't know, I'm tempted to.
00:50:24
Grumpy Old Prop
but Whatever. I'm not your supervisor.
00:50:29
Jarrod Dyke
You're not my robot supervisor.
00:50:35
Jarrod Dyke
Anyway, um yeah, sad, sad panda. Sad trombone.
00:50:40
Grumpy Old Prop
yeah yeah la
00:50:41
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, exactly. Cue sad trombone. All right. Let's get into the the fun bits. um Those that did themselves.
00:50:58
Grumpy Old Prop
who outdid themselves. um Yeah, I don't have a list.
00:51:02
Jarrod Dyke
I got a list.
00:51:04
Grumpy Old Prop
I was I had I have a young player. I didn't have a list of outdid themselves, but I'm going to.
00:51:06
Jarrod Dyke
Oh, I got a list.
00:51:07
Grumpy Old Prop
Oh, um my my obviously my first one is going to be Angus Bell.
00:51:11
Jarrod Dyke
Yep. I have the spell on there. Yep. Um, for being his first game of rugby, I know that he was playing the match, but first, first game of rugby union.
00:51:17
Grumpy Old Prop
Oh, well.
00:51:19
Jarrod Dyke
So like, yeah, it probably hasn't played since he was a schoolboy.
00:51:20
Grumpy Old Prop
In a while, yeah, ah he was. Like school boy, but I mean, yeah.
00:51:26
Grumpy Old Prop
I mean, he's still played a little, you know, something similar, but damn, it's, it's, I mean, it's, this this is a significant difference and he just.
00:51:30
Jarrod Dyke
his His physical attributes were clear as to what's going to make him good at this ah the code.
00:51:38
Jarrod Dyke
So, good on him and what made him good at the other code. um We talked about Auburn Oz as well already. Slates with two off the bench.
00:51:46
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah. He was quite good.
00:51:48
Jarrod Dyke
Good for him. Yeah, and one of them showcased by Marcus Smith is really fucking good. Really fucking good. Amua.
00:52:00
Jarrod Dyke
All black sucker, like, you know, first start getting thrown into quite a cauldron at the, at the Aviva play pretty well. Considering he's had some, he's had some stinkers in that black shirt, let alone in the yellow shirt.
00:52:14
Jarrod Dyke
So, um, good for him. That was actually not, bad not, not bad at all. Um, talk about cutting himself a little bit to his double.
00:52:22
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah, I mean, I'd say Harry Wilson, too.
00:52:22
Jarrod Dyke
That was good.
00:52:23
Grumpy Old Prop
Didn't he got over it?
00:52:24
Grumpy Old Prop
I mean, a lot of those guys that I named earlier.
00:52:28
Grumpy Old Prop
Right was just right was a fucking problem.
00:52:32
Grumpy Old Prop
All match.
00:52:32
Jarrod Dyke
Why i took that why it took him why it took so long to make sure that guy was a nailed-on starter I have no idea I don't either that's that that's one thing I Slapped a Bernie for like other you know, there's a lot that he did right.
00:52:37
Grumpy Old Prop
I don't get it. Yeah.
00:52:45
Jarrod Dyke
That's one thing you did wrong um I Thought he did a good job, but the Schneider guys the referee in the was it the arch was it the France game I
00:52:57
Grumpy Old Prop
No, it was, uh, yeah, the, uh, I think Fred's Japan. Hold on. I have it up.
00:53:00
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:53:02
Grumpy Old Prop
Uh, yeah, Schneider, Argentinian.
00:53:04
Jarrod Dyke
Argentinian but from Germany.
00:53:07
Grumpy Old Prop
Hmm. I wonder how your grandpa got here.
00:53:08
Jarrod Dyke
How'd that happen?
00:53:10
Grumpy Old Prop
Hmm. He was also, but yeah, he was also my referee of the week in that, um, I probably had one of the easiest assignments and just didn't bottle it.
00:53:21
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, true. True, true.
00:53:24
Grumpy Old Prop
and I didn't agree with him the all the way, but at the same time, he's, he's young. that i'm Get some time and be goose stepping around the field and notes.
00:53:28
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah. No, I, I can get behind that. I can get behind that.
00:53:33
Grumpy Old Prop
I'm sorry. That's not fair. Um, the that's just, it's so fucking creepy, man.
00:53:38
Jarrod Dyke
Well, there's two different goose steps that we have here.
00:53:40
Grumpy Old Prop
That's true.
00:53:41
Grumpy Old Prop
Cause I mean, like, yeah, like Marcus Smith. So, um, let's go with that.
00:53:45
Jarrod Dyke
Um, shot the bed.
00:53:53
Jarrod Dyke
Yep. Slay it again.
00:53:55
Grumpy Old Prop
And Slade, yep.
00:53:56
Jarrod Dyke
Yep. Ireland is a hole really.
00:53:58
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah, that's where I was going next.
00:54:04
Jarrod Dyke
Kristoff Ridley and that whole ref team in Scotland, like, and and and that includes Luke Pierce, who isn't a team and we, we are big fans of like the whole ref team.
00:54:14
Jarrod Dyke
It's on all you guys. There was a lot of bad decisions happening in that game and a lot of them. springbacks with a beneficiary of, and again, the, the, this whole, that whole game is at the feet of Scotland.
00:54:29
Jarrod Dyke
They did not go for it when they should have. So I'm not going to pin all on him, but he still did a dog shit job.
00:54:35
Jarrod Dyke
Both can be true.
00:54:37
Grumpy Old Prop
Yes. Agreed.
00:54:41
Jarrod Dyke
Um, and Wayne, right. We talked about. him just basically, we it's like, oh, hey, he's playing.
00:54:47
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah. OK.
00:54:49
Jarrod Dyke
What the actual, where where the fuck you been as a number eight?
00:54:52
Grumpy Old Prop
um like I guess Radradra has to be on that list of who shot it.
00:54:52
Jarrod Dyke
Like, come on, man.
00:54:56
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, if we're gonna be fair to be fair.
00:54:58
Grumpy Old Prop
we're gonna be You know, I mean, he literally shot it like he yeah got red carded for something fucking stupid.
00:55:05
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, just right break down and frickin' hit correctly, dum-dum.
00:55:05
Grumpy Old Prop
um And he was having such a great game.
00:55:06
Grumpy Old Prop
He just pooped all over.
00:55:10
Grumpy Old Prop
Mm hmm. Silly.
00:55:14
Jarrod Dyke
Anywho, um, try the week.
00:55:21
Grumpy Old Prop
Try the week. I mean, there's there's a couple, ah but the only one for me was Max Jorgensen.
00:55:24
Jarrod Dyke
Uh, I went from.
00:55:28
Grumpy Old Prop
There are a couple of good tries, but that one, um, you know, clock is red and you're, you know, beating England in England. You're Max Jorgensen who's like pop up common.
00:55:43
Grumpy Old Prop
Like could be, it could be a thing, could be not a thing. Well, I mean, it seems like a thing potentially. So yeah,
00:55:49
Jarrod Dyke
He's gonna be in England fans and players nightmares for a little bit.
00:55:54
Grumpy Old Prop
yeah they're going to repeat, be replaying that a little, a couple of times.
00:55:56
Jarrod Dyke
Him and Nicky Tyler, who fed him the ball.
00:56:01
Jarrod Dyke
I went with one from the same game. um I went with the Jeremy Williams try.
00:56:05
Grumpy Old Prop
That was also I mean.
00:56:06
Jarrod Dyke
Well well-created.
00:56:07
Jarrod Dyke
um Managed to keep himself in for not a back.
00:56:11
Jarrod Dyke
That's a really good job. but really like he like Barely himself in.
00:56:14
Jarrod Dyke
Some people will say he was out. Some people say I'm stud, so whatever.
00:56:19
Grumpy Old Prop
ah Yeah, I.
00:56:22
Grumpy Old Prop
I couldn't quite tell, so I'm again, it was awarded, so go with it.
00:56:25
Jarrod Dyke
Calling the field was was was trying.
00:56:28
Jarrod Dyke
You ain't gonna overturn it.
00:56:29
Jarrod Dyke
So there we go.
00:56:34
Grumpy Old Prop
thought they would by the way but they didn't i thought they would but they didn't yeah i thought they were going to return it yeah
00:56:36
Jarrod Dyke
What's that? They were gonna return it. I was so happy. that And I was like, count that motherfucker. as so as a guy that played lock for quite a bit of his career.
00:56:48
Jarrod Dyke
Count that motherfucker.
00:56:54
Jarrod Dyke
Coach, you're a young player. Yeah, I know you're rough, but what about Coach?
00:56:59
Grumpy Old Prop
Um, shoot, I had it, lost it. Give me a sec. Um, who I fuck, I Argentina's, uh, our, well, both coaches for Argentina and for Fiji. Um, I'm busy.
00:57:10
Jarrod Dyke
Got to pull me burn.
00:57:11
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah. Um, sorry, I didn't write it down. Um, I'm gonna, yeah, I'm have it.
00:57:17
Grumpy Old Prop
Um, I'm here. Uh, yeah.
00:57:20
Jarrod Dyke
Oh, I'm with you, my friend. I'm with you, my friend. I i did my homework last minute as well. I was dealing with a very angry child.
00:57:24
Grumpy Old Prop
yeah Uh, yeah. Um, anywho. but they're just, there's a lot of development there. And while, while teams are kind of staying stagnant, they're not afraid to take a couple of risks and they're not afraid to play young players and they're not afraid to lose.
00:57:39
Grumpy Old Prop
And it's paying off for them and all these teams that, all these teams that are like playing it safe and going with it, the ah quote tried and true veteran.
00:57:42
Jarrod Dyke
To develop, yeah, to develop their players.
00:57:47
Jarrod Dyke
and losing anyway.
00:57:50
Grumpy Old Prop
How's that working out for you?
00:57:52
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, still losing anyway. Good job.
00:57:55
Jarrod Dyke
um i I also went with McBern.
00:57:58
Jarrod Dyke
So, yep. Appropriate. ah Appropriate. We know your ref was Schneider.
00:58:07
Jarrod Dyke
I went with Luke Ramos doing the Wales VG game.
00:58:10
Grumpy Old Prop
Also a good one.
00:58:11
Jarrod Dyke
I thought he got a lot right and Especially for a French referee, which we all we all know a little of a jouer jouer Yeah, I thought that was I thought he did a really good job so good on him you If that's if that's what if the he's like the next big referee from France I Could I could I could do that.
00:58:17
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah, yeah.
00:58:30
Grumpy Old Prop
i'm I'm interested in seeing more. Yeah.
00:58:33
Jarrod Dyke
like yeah I'm sure he'll have some games. where I'm like what the fuck but for the most part I
00:58:36
Grumpy Old Prop
Right. But then you'll be like, okay, well, he's French. So, okay. That's forgivable.
00:58:38
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, right. and Well, he's French.
00:58:42
Grumpy Old Prop
All right. Fine. Yeah. That makes sense.
00:58:44
Jarrod Dyke
But we're French.
00:58:46
Grumpy Old Prop
i'll fetch What are you doing in England?
00:58:49
Jarrod Dyke
um Young player.
00:58:53
Grumpy Old Prop
Young player. Oh, like, I mean, first off, um, yeah we talked about Bell who's, you know, again, we were kind of, have to I guess, move away for a little bit from the, um, The typical because like a lot of these guys, they're there aren't many, like too many debutants.
00:59:06
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, i'm not thinking I'm not thinking that we're gonna find a whole lot of diamonds in the rough here.
00:59:10
Grumpy Old Prop
Right. So like Angus Bell Chandler cutting himself, you know, all those players for Australia, like just pick, you know, like um a lot of, a lot of good young players showing out this weekend.
00:59:22
Grumpy Old Prop
Slight home too.
00:59:24
Grumpy Old Prop
So I know it's probably the most applicable of all those because he's, he's a bit like barely played international. So, and he's just, yeah.
00:59:31
Jarrod Dyke
Mm-hmm, right, he's got like four caps.
00:59:34
Grumpy Old Prop
And he's just pooping out tries cause that's what he does.
00:59:37
Jarrod Dyke
Yep. Um, I went, I went with, um, Cameron up from Wales.
00:59:45
Jarrod Dyke
I think he's, again, he's growing every time he touches the ball. He, every time he plays like, like he does a lot of good things around it, especially, I mean, he's got no size whatsoever.
00:59:53
Jarrod Dyke
He looks like he's going to die every time he gets hit, he gets hit.
00:59:56
Grumpy Old Prop
yeah Yeah I and I want to see more of tom jordan For scotland Yeah should talk to his older brother will
00:59:56
Jarrod Dyke
I'm like, please don't die a little guy, please. But yeah, I thought he played well.
01:00:05
Jarrod Dyke
He was so close to having a great game. He just, he needs to learn how to finish. He really does. Like I think he'll be great. He just got to learn how to finish those things. Cause he had a couple of them. Yeah. Yeah. He knows, he knows the thing about finishing thing or two. Um, all right. So I'll play the week.
01:00:31
Grumpy Old Prop
This was I mean. This was a little bit tough, but again, I'm sticking with Max Jorgensen, because that's like who had a better experience this weekend than Max Jorgensen really um
Fiji's World Cup Potential & Player Analysis
01:00:42
Grumpy Old Prop
doing that.
01:00:42
Jarrod Dyke
Try to beat England. I don't know.
01:00:44
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah, um some good good performances overall, but like I didn't see many individual great individual performances, so I'm just going to go with the guy who had the best moment.
01:00:55
Jarrod Dyke
I went with months.
01:00:57
Grumpy Old Prop
That's ah another fantastic.
01:00:59
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, he almost outscored the whole, of the whole Welsh team by himself. Getting close.
01:01:05
Jarrod Dyke
Got a try. couple Got a few kicks. Like, yeah, not bad. Not bad. So yeah, I'm, um um this is what they think of what Fiji would have done if they'd had him at the World Cup.
01:01:18
Jarrod Dyke
Oh, it's so painful to realize that later on. it like They lost him so close to it too.
01:01:22
Grumpy Old Prop
and the thing is they still have i they still have Isaiah Armstrong Revula who is not he's a baby and he's not bad either so there's there's a future at that tense button in Fiji um
01:01:31
Jarrod Dyke
No, he's pretty good. He's pretty good as well. For the Fijians, yep, big time. um Dick or dicks of the week.
01:01:49
Grumpy Old Prop
Tommy Rafel, for one, for me, I thought that was ah just a silliness, um hurting your team for like no good reason, especially like you need to be one of the players who doesn't do stupid shit like that. um That's like your job, your one job.
01:02:08
Grumpy Old Prop
And honestly, Evanette's a bet for just crossing the line. There's no need. you youre Yes, you would get it. You're bigger than everyone else. like And you got penalized appropriately, but like, again,
New Zealand Rugby Strengths & Tactical Critiques
01:02:21
Grumpy Old Prop
don't be, don't, you know, there's no need to cross the line.
01:02:24
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, no, no need, sir.
01:02:26
Grumpy Old Prop
Oh, fuck. I just, and I just lost it. How did we not talk about Wallace to TT at all as a young player of the week?
01:02:32
Jarrod Dyke
Oh, oh yeah. But I mean, this week, unfortunately, it wasn't quite his week, but last week was last, like last weekend.
01:02:36
Grumpy Old Prop
Not quite as good, but damn, he was good. Like, I still thought to TT played, played the best of the like, yeah.
01:02:41
Jarrod Dyke
who He played well. Like there's no question about that. Yeah, no, there's no question about that.
01:02:48
Grumpy Old Prop
He's problematic.
01:02:49
Grumpy Old Prop
Anyway, sorry.
01:02:49
Jarrod Dyke
You know, anybody, anybody like us that's been watching super rugby noticed, noticed him a long time ago and now they're, the rest of the world's starting to notice.
01:02:59
Jarrod Dyke
Enjoy dealing with both him and Artie at once.
01:03:01
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah. Mm hmm.
01:03:04
Jarrod Dyke
That's the one thing that New Zealand's devil guy going forward is those two at once is not fun. Not fun at all. Maybe they could have a fucking seven that knew what they were doing, but that's a different story for a different day, I suppose.
01:03:16
Jarrod Dyke
Dicks of the week. I have multiple.
01:03:21
Jarrod Dyke
We have to just name Welsh rugby in general. We know.
01:03:23
Grumpy Old Prop
Well, yeah. All right. I went, I went too narrow on that one, but yeah.
01:03:26
Jarrod Dyke
Yep. um Yeah. No, you, you, you were in the right ballpark.
01:03:33
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah. No, you were there. Um, but for me, like what's working Townsend, like the, the directives from these.
01:03:41
Jarrod Dyke
For these players is clear. Like we're just going to kick for points unless we score from ah like a far, far away.
01:03:46
Jarrod Dyke
Like, I mean, apart from the Gens tap and go, um, that turning himself crashed over, like that's all I saw in terms of like going for it really.
01:03:59
Jarrod Dyke
like maybe one other that I'm forgetting, which is a possibility of a, I'm now two, two in by the way. So yes, there's a possibility um I'm there.
01:04:04
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah. im um
01:04:07
Jarrod Dyke
um But yeah, I'm just overall like really annoyed. Like this is what you're clearly telling your players
England's Conservative Play & Selection Concerns
01:04:13
Jarrod Dyke
to do. And it's like, ah you know, I get it into my kid's head.
01:04:19
Jarrod Dyke
You know, my, my captain, like, this is what we're doing. And most of the time they know I want to go to the headline or that I want to tap and go, you know, three when it's pragmatic. And I mean, really pragmatic.
01:04:29
Grumpy Old Prop
Right, right. Like no, again, no sad field goals. It has to be like, uh, you know what, we'll take, we'll, we'll take this.
01:04:37
Grumpy Old Prop
This is a, you know, we're kind of stealing, we're cheating. We're getting away with something. Okay. you can Take for you.
01:04:43
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah. Like you get down there, you get a cheap penalty. It's right in front. Yep. All right. Three done.
01:04:47
Jarrod Dyke
Thank you, we'll take the three and we'll get on with the game.
01:04:49
Jarrod Dyke
But like, some of case why these aren't that.
01:04:53
Jarrod Dyke
A whole lot of these aren't that. It's like, what the fuck are we doing here, guys? For real. i And i know town I believe more in Townsend than I do in Borthwick, I'll say that.
01:05:06
Jarrod Dyke
Townsend has got some good attacking instincts. He's obviously got one of, if not the best 10 in the world.
01:05:12
Jarrod Dyke
um Does a lot of good that can come from the Scotland team. England have the same potential, but they just clearly choose to just say, yeah, let's go for posts and hope that, you know, field goals are enough.
01:05:23
Jarrod Dyke
It's like, come on, man.
01:05:24
Grumpy Old Prop
It's it's horrible, yeah, it's got to go. And yeah every time you like, that's the other problem is every time you think they're done with it, They have a game like that where it's like, yeah, we're just going to, you know, shell up a little bit.
01:05:35
Jarrod Dyke
I mean, two weeks ago, two weeks ago, there was no attack that got them a try. It was a Marcus Smith intercept.
01:05:41
Grumpy Old Prop
Right. Right.
01:05:43
Jarrod Dyke
So yeah, this is, Suffice to say, it's a problem. And if England don't think it's a problem, then have fun getting knocked out of the next World Cup, honestly.
01:05:55
Jarrod Dyke
um so I think they were lucky to get as far as they did in France.
01:05:58
Grumpy Old Prop
You certainly were.
01:06:00
Jarrod Dyke
i If they continue with this mentality, despite the talent the talent that just basically pisses out of that country, and you decide to piss it all down the toilet.
01:06:08
Grumpy Old Prop
And, and that's the other thing is they're not picking their best 23. They're absolutely not.
01:06:14
Jarrod Dyke
I don't know.
01:06:15
Grumpy Old Prop
There's, there's three or four positions out there that that I could point to immediately and say, that's not their best guy, not even close to their best guy. And I don't think it's like even arguable at this point.
01:06:27
Grumpy Old Prop
Like Curry's not your best seven, a hundred percent.
01:06:29
Jarrod Dyke
Hey, hey, hey, you know you know what I want to do? When I need to change up off the bench, I want an exact replica of a dog shit player that I already have on the field.
01:06:36
Grumpy Old Prop
Right. Right.
01:06:38
Jarrod Dyke
Oh, God, I saw that.
01:06:39
Jarrod Dyke
I was like, geez.
Substitution Strategies Debate & Game Tactics Analysis
01:06:41
Jarrod Dyke
And everyone's touting how good of a... Ben Curry's not any better ball carrier than Tom Curry.
01:06:46
Jarrod Dyke
is I hate to tell you guys, they're the same player.
01:06:47
Grumpy Old Prop
it's He brings a dimension that, that, that Tom Curry doesn't have. I don't, what is that? Like, or no, or it's like literally it's the yeah like they're twins.
01:06:53
Jarrod Dyke
Really? Because they're the same guy. Literally.
01:06:59
Jarrod Dyke
You couldn't make it worse. ah So, yeah.
01:07:00
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah. Um, also.
01:07:03
Jarrod Dyke
Definitely more Borthwick, but definitely Townsend, too, a little bit this week.
01:07:05
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah. And also, but in general, the six, two and the seven, one, stop it.
01:07:09
Jarrod Dyke
For fuck's sake.
01:07:11
Jarrod Dyke
For fuck's sake.
01:07:12
Grumpy Old Prop
But also, also use that to your advantage.
01:07:12
Jarrod Dyke
Knock it off.
01:07:15
Grumpy Old Prop
Like, don't go a six, two against the seven, one, go five, three and run hard on the outside, like make their backs work, make, make their centers and and wings tackle because they can't be replaced.
01:07:28
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, I make them gassed.
01:07:29
Grumpy Old Prop
You can't, you can only replace one person out there. And that's, you know, what they bring, they had a scrum half out there.
01:07:35
Jarrod Dyke
I was really waiting for someone to just have to go for an HIA or something for the spring box, and then it's like, you don't have another back.
01:07:46
Jarrod Dyke
You don't have another back. You are you already have them on. Well, maybe not HIA, but something else, but the point being like, yeah, maybe just a bum um shoulder, a bum shoulder or something, you know.
01:07:53
Grumpy Old Prop
Right Right my shoe comes untied whatever like yeah, yeah like there's yeah Well Charlie horse where you can't you just can't go on
01:08:00
Jarrod Dyke
there's a lot of situations where that goes sideways.
01:08:04
Jarrod Dyke
ah Yeah, yeah, a cramp. That was the other thing I was thinking maybe a cramp.
01:08:05
Grumpy Old Prop
Um, but you'll be BRB right.
01:08:06
Grumpy Old Prop
And that's one of those were always the worst. Oh man, I can't go on. I'll be better next week. I know it. I'll be better in a day, but right now I can't do shit. And yeah.
01:08:13
Jarrod Dyke
Oh, yeah, you can't you are so just you're laying there. I'm like, please let this stretch out. Please let this fuck.
01:08:19
Jarrod Dyke
It's not stretching out and you just get up and you're like, I can't even walk.
01:08:22
Jarrod Dyke
Fuck this. And you know, yeah, you could have been Yeah, you could be better, but in this in that situation, you know, it's just like, yep, I can't even walk right now.
01:08:32
Jarrod Dyke
I'm going to be better in probably an hour, but we don't have an hour for me to get better.
01:08:36
Jarrod Dyke
So here we are.
01:08:38
Grumpy Old Prop
But they you risk that. And I mean, good, they won. So what what the fuck? But I think, you know, again, we they won against I don't think that was the best. Again, not the best tactics against them.
01:08:49
Jarrod Dyke
Nope. Nope. No, you got to, you got to match the the way because they went for tries at the very least.
01:08:55
Jarrod Dyke
I mean, I think they have one penalty.
01:08:59
Jarrod Dyke
And that was it. So yeah, you know, they went for tries and that was the difference. So I think it's really clear when you have five scores on the board and all of them are kicks, you know, turn three of those into tries and then we can talk.
01:09:15
Jarrod Dyke
Then we can talk about how bad referee was and all that stuff.
01:09:15
Grumpy Old Prop
And the funny thing is you you turn, yeah, you turn three of them into, right. You turn three of those into tries. That's even if let's say you get the full seven,
Podcast Conclusion & Listener Engagement
01:09:23
Grumpy Old Prop
that's 12 points. You know, you're looking at 27 32 now it's, now it's close.
01:09:28
Grumpy Old Prop
Or maybe that, you know, you're scoring a try takes one of theirs off the board and now.
01:09:32
Jarrod Dyke
Well, and they got 32 right at the very end too.
01:09:36
Grumpy Old Prop
Right. That's true.
01:09:37
Jarrod Dyke
So, yeah, no.
01:09:38
Grumpy Old Prop
I don't know.
01:09:40
Jarrod Dyke
town I think Townsend really spit that one. Really did. And I hope it doesn't reflect so poorly on Tui Pitholu too, because i I love him as a player. So, yeah.
01:09:51
Jarrod Dyke
All right, we're done.
01:09:53
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah, we made it.
01:09:54
Jarrod Dyke
We got there. Anyway, cool. So, Don't forget your PWR picks. I'll try and get the sheet up date updated tomorrow. um i can only I can only give the stats and point count the stats that I'm given.
01:10:08
Jarrod Dyke
Come on, PWR, please help us out.
01:10:10
Grumpy Old Prop
Let's do better, please.
01:10:12
Jarrod Dyke
um But yeah, so we'll get that out there and I'll get the the winners and losers from the first six rounds out as well. Other than that, we'll be back next week with more of this and enjoy the more interim autumn internationals.
01:10:26
Jarrod Dyke
Make sure you get your teams in and we'll catch you guys next week. Thanks for listening, everyone.