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Season 4- Episode 25- Running a 2 Minute Offense (Premiership Round 17 & Super Rugby Pacific Round 1)
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It is those American rugby dopes, here for all the good stuff. This week, we are sticking straight to the rugby because there is oh so ver much to talk about...what are we going to do next week? Well...we might be boned, but this week we are covering all the stuff including the opening weekend of Super Rugby Pacific. Also, we get into the MLR whip around and why one of us might not like so many teams in a certain state. It's a whole lot of rugby chatter packed in here so grab something good in a glass and have at!
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Transcript
Introduction and Upcoming Content
00:00:08
Speaker
Hey, everybody, welcome back. It is the fancy rugby game. My name is Jared Dyke. I'm Ben Glauser. Let's get to it. We got lots to get through and we'll have you more next week. Crack them if you got them. Oh, I got them. Yeah, I know you have something cool over there. I have a good beer, but not nearly that cool. Yeah, I've got some Troggs, Master of Pumpkins. So first off, I like it because Troggs was I grew up in Pennsylvania. Right.
Ben's Beer Nostalgia
00:00:33
Speaker
So I've been drinking this since
00:00:36
Speaker
I'm sorry, after I turned 21, certainly. Lies. Lies. You've been drinking that since you were 16. But no, it's good stuff. Yeah, right.
TRM Upgrades Importance
00:00:52
Speaker
My friends and I were elitist pricks, but what we're going to do, we were not drinking, but we were like, look, if we're going to do, if we're going to break the law, let's just put a few extra bucks into it. Silly people. Yeah. So make sure that you get yourself, get George a copy and or however you want to do it.
00:01:13
Speaker
Lots of action this weekend coming up, obviously. Ken confirmed. George is busy. Like we said, George is very busy boy right now. So, yeah, give him some support if he can.
Discussing Social Issues
00:01:23
Speaker
Also, grab your TRM upgrades. We're back in the Six Nations this weekend. Again, you don't want to get those lineups crossed up. You want to make sure you get the right player in the right spot. All that good stuff. So, grab that. Oh, put Louis Resemit in because... No, you will not because he's probably playing for Gloucester, not Wales. Right color is wrong team. Right.
00:01:44
Speaker
Yeah, and as always, Black Lives Matter, and there is no room for racism in LA for anywhere. Okay, yeah, we... Number one, the books that are being banned. I'm gonna get like a library for my kids when we have kids. That's gonna be all the banned books. Be like, here, read these. Why? Because they're not gonna let you read them in school. Although here, they're probably more like that. But like, yeah, I don't know, maybe they'll have a cousin or something that visits and be like, what are these? You should read that book.
00:02:13
Speaker
And then I do want to.
00:02:17
Speaker
you know, make mention of June Knightley, who was a protest organizer and, you know, part of a group of elderly women who helped, well, not elderly, older women who were helping. I mean, she was 60. That's not really that's not really elderly, but we're not there yet now. Yeah. Older. Older is fine. Yeah. Vintage. And she was like, you know, helping to make sure everybody's marshaled and stick into where they were planning to be. And, you know, and
Police Accountability Concerns
00:02:46
Speaker
Neighbor who seems to not like, you know, the Black Lives Matter movement and have has deep troubles with people unhappy that police are just murdering up, you know, straight up murdering people with no accountability came and shot a bunch of them so and sadly June lost her life, but
00:03:06
Speaker
You know, this is the kind of shit we're going through here. And it's not going to get better until people start like, you know, calling it out more and cleaning it
Patron Updates and Upload Errors
00:03:14
Speaker
up. And, you know, this guy was known. He was known to police and they just kind of were like, well, we're not going to do anything about it until this happens. And yeah, it's just so unbalanced. Very. Yeah. Shit, man. I don't get it. I don't get it. No. All right. Yeah.
00:03:36
Speaker
So also, Patreon, we've got some new stats up if you haven't looked to our patrons. And if you're interested, we have Six Nations, both FRD and TRM. I did screw it up with the first upload, but I got it right the second upload.
Rugby Match Analyses: Bristol vs Worcester
00:03:50
Speaker
We will fix mistakes. Yeah, that's why we say, you know, give us feedback when we post it, because we might catch them pretty quick. Please tell me. Right.
00:03:59
Speaker
We want to know. We want to fix it. Yeah. Right. Because I mean, I depend on these stats, too. Yeah. I'm looking for the stats just as well. And also welcome Kevin to our news. Thank you. Thank you, Kevin, for coming along and hopefully you find the information very useful and super rugby. We won't post for this week. I'm still.
00:04:18
Speaker
sorting out the spreadsheet, but it's only one week. So I'm going to do my best to have it up for next week. Yeah, that'll be certainly by week three, but my goal is week two and you'll have my sincere apologies if I don't hit that.
00:04:33
Speaker
Yeah. Oh yeah. I can tell you that I did like a lot of the monkey, see monkey do stuff on for the six nations. Yeah. Everybody give Ben a pat on the back for whenever you can. Cause that was a lot for me. And I can't imagine what you did from scratch. So it's super easy. It's not super easy. It's it's annoying, but you can do it like very tedious. It's a lot. It's just a lot of legwork, busy work, but it's, I mean, it ends up making sense in the end, but man,
00:05:01
Speaker
Yeah. So everybody give Ben a little pat on the back because that's
Rugby Match Analyses: Bath vs Leicester
00:05:04
Speaker
six nation. The, um, the prem one was a beast. And I'm sure this super everyone will be equally a beast. Um, all right. Let's get, let's dive in. Um, prem first, uh, Western Bristol. Uh, well that's Bristol season right there. It was, it really was that they're done. Um,
00:05:25
Speaker
really a pretty shitty cave job by them. And I don't feel like they showed up really. They didn't play like their season was on the line. They kind of were. Yeah, I didn't like it. I mean, I liked it and I liked how certain people played like Strang. I thought had a fantastic game till he till he came out. You know, especially for it being his first like he just signed with the club like Wednesday. Something like that. Yeah. So damn.
00:05:55
Speaker
a really good performance by him. I can't say enough about Fitz Harding. I was everywhere, how he still had cast. I had no idea. But then, you know, that's really all I want to talk about with Bristol. Like those guys, you know, special credit to them.
00:06:17
Speaker
And Thackeray came on with his shoot, and the heif, the heif with his prop try. Yeah, love the heif. But it's like, you got to start giving credit to the other side, and going quickly through that too. Like, Batley was immense. I am very much thinking he's a kind of a for real type of guy. Don't believe it.
00:06:41
Speaker
You know, Batley and the man they called Duhan was other good as well. Just sending people to the floor left and right. Yup. I just really like there. I mean, yeah, I don't like there. I mean, there is there is a little bit of a diamond in there, just assholery that they were, you know, winning for spite and good for them for finding a way.
00:07:10
Speaker
Yeah. Just impressive job by Worcester. I thought, I thought they showed up and I don't feel like Bristol did. No, no. I'm sure that all the fans were quite happy about that. Just the
Northampton vs Sale: Performance Highlights
00:07:20
Speaker
same. Yeah. Oh yeah. It was that, that stands were rocking. That was good. Yeah. It's always, always fun. Do it for the fans, man. Do for the fans. Um, and then Saturday, uh,
00:07:35
Speaker
We had a good old ding donger at the rec, Bath and Lester and man, oh so close Bath, oh so close. I mean, just, I thought they got hard done by at the end. But I mean, what's it, you know, if it's going to be Freddie Burns scoring, you know, scoring to try and kicking the conversion to get the winning points.
00:08:00
Speaker
At the wreck, I mean, I can't knock it too much. Couldn't be a better person. Yeah. And he's the right person to do that. But the absolute scenes with Bill Bayless' try. Oh, beautiful. Just, OK, I guess he's back. I guess he's healthy. Yeah, seriously. Seriously, I'm surprised he's not. He can get called into the squad. No, I don't think he's. Yeah, I'm not sure he's ready for that.
00:08:30
Speaker
but just the same very good stuff from them and you know there's there's a lot of good things that are starting to come back and that you know they showed the bodies on the sideline for and yes Lester missing a bunch but the bodies that are missing for bath and
00:08:44
Speaker
You know, it's there, there are teams that have injuries and there are teams that have injuries the way that bath does and the names that just are out there like Underhill, Obano, Reed, like, goddamn, just keep going. And it's like, Oh, my God, these guys, you know, Watson is not there. Cocoa Singa is not there, like,
00:09:02
Speaker
Yeah, there's a lot of Square McCarney. He's not playing right now. Right. Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Like that is. Yeah. There's a team that you would be happy to have just right there. And it is. And yet even like in a way with England, you know. Yeah. And Will Muir is scoring. Max Adjomo is scoring. Yeah. Good for John. These guys are players that, you know, and Hughes is looking. Hughes and Falatow together. I mean, it's a great combo. That was a great combo. Yeah.
00:09:31
Speaker
And, yeah, there's just so much credit to Beth for for showing that like they had so much fight to them and showed so well. And it's just Lester. I mean, they're good. They're good. They're good. I thought Joe Hayes was particularly good in this match, the the tight head for for Lester and England hopeful. I thought he's good lately. Yeah, he's better. Great season thus far. He has deserved all his England audits that he's gotten. And he hasn't even got on the field yet. Right. Just you wait.
00:10:00
Speaker
Um, so yeah, but at the same time, it's Lester and we know they're, we know that they are at the top of the table for a good reason to this point. So, you know, what are you going to do? Um, all the credit to bath, but of course Lester are going to find a way. It's the result we expected. It's the result we expected.
00:10:16
Speaker
Um, Beth really like the, as far as the win and loss, but that's scoreline, Beth. Um, I think that says a lot about that, that scoreline right there. A lot of, a lot of good teams have had that scoreline against Lester, you know, 4.3 point win, uh, to Lester, like even at home. That's, that is not, you know, there's no shame in that at all. That's that's, you know, if, if you can be happy with a loss for a team like Beth, um,
00:10:45
Speaker
Like this is it. And I hate fucking saying that, but that, you know, you need to hang your head on something. And, you know, they play like this week in, week out, they'll, they'll leak out a couple more wins. Yeah, no doubt. They'll get a handful of wins there the rest of the way out. If they can play like this. Yeah, I agree. I agree. I agree. All right. Let's run over to the gardens, Northampton and sale. Just Northampton looking a little bit better and
00:11:11
Speaker
a little bit more like we're used to, but just at the end. I say the decision to kick was not the best one because of where it was. That's a shitty fucking spot with the wind, the way it was blowing, obviously, with the storm going over.
00:11:31
Speaker
kick to the corner and try your luck there. Maybe you can eat an off-sides penalty or something in the midfield and then you could knock it over. And I don't give any shit to Fairbank like, whatever.
00:11:46
Speaker
Yeah. And you have to have the captain to overrule him. And I know, I know, um, and Alex Waller was on the field at the point who was the club captain right now. So, you know, I'd empower him. I've been like, listen, I love you and all, but no. Right. So, but whatever he, he tried. So I give him credit and, um,
00:12:05
Speaker
This is, oh, my God, the one thing I just have to point out, holy shit, Aaron Reed, what timing that was. Oh, I was like, that could have been an NFL pass. Like, he's Mack Hanson there. That's better than Mack Hanson. Mack Hanson did a kick off. That's a freaking boss kick. Right. Yeah, amazing. But OK, so here's let's let's let's put it in this perspective.
00:12:32
Speaker
The sale back line won them the game. Their forwards were almost invisible. Their back line won them the game. Sale. Right. Sale. Right. Like, I mean, six weeks ago, if you if I said that to you that, you know, six weeks ago, if I said that in six weeks, this is what this is, this would happen. I'd stab you because I would believe it wasn't you. There's an imposter here.
00:13:00
Speaker
No way, not a chance. I mean, and obviously, Sam James is not as good as Luke James, but still, you know, he's he's fitting in well back there at 15. So I just that Dupree and Van Rensburg, Van Rensburg and Dupree center line, center combo is suddenly like
Quins vs Wasps: Key Insights
00:13:17
Speaker
It's working. Dangerous. Well, because people are worried about the outside. They're no longer worried about up the middle, that in the space is opening up. You know, this is right. It's the opposite of what people believe, where, oh, you got the middle and then get out wide. No, sometimes you've got to go out wide until the middle opens up. And this is exactly what's happened. We have you have Roebuck and Reed, who people are now worried about, very worried about. I mean, Reed Speed, like, oof.
00:13:38
Speaker
Yeah. And, you know, Roebuck, we saw that a couple of weeks ago, too. Yeah, he can haul ass, too. He can haul it. Like, this is a dangerous, you're right. I mean, they just said they're dangerous. There's speed out there. And, yeah, defense has to actually guard the whole field. And that's, yeah, that's what will open up the middle. Let's try to open up the middle. So now, you know, guys like DiPrio isn't anything special. They have space to run. Right. And they're still players, so you got to respect them. Right. They're still rugby players. They're just like, yeah.
00:14:04
Speaker
Yeah. Get on it. Right. They're not international quality, but they're, they're certainly prem quality to this point. Yeah. Um, so yeah, it was a much better outing from North Hampton and, um, uh, big crowd there as well. Cause they had the doubleheader with, um, Loughborough afterwards, which one at the death, it sounds like, or right at the, right at the end there. Um, uh, Charlie Jacoby scored. Yeah.
00:14:29
Speaker
weed. That's our girl. Um, anyway, so yeah, much better from Northampton. This is a lot better than some of the stuff we've seen in the past weeks. So if they keep bringing this them, you know, they'll continue to fight for that top six spot. Right. Won't be bad. Won't be mad about it. No, no, no. No, but yeah. And it's like, like we said, it's fucking tight in the tape. That table is toy right now. Yeah. It's a little loosened up a little kind of, but no. Yeah. Like, yeah. Like 10 down is no longer a factor, but that's it. Right.
00:14:56
Speaker
Yeah, but it's like now instead of what, four points between like, I think it was between like three and nine. Now it's, it's more like, yeah, there's seven points, but that's, I know it's still tight, but still. Yeah, 10 and down are just in their own. They're their drift for sure. In their own space. Let's jump to the stoop. Quins and wasps.
00:15:20
Speaker
Um, dare I say, well, Edwards was an upgrade over Tommy Allen, which is not really, I think more of a compliment to Edwards than it was a disc to Tommy Allen. I a hundred percent agree with that. So just kind of pointing that out. I'm just looking at it as I watch this match and like, is this team running better because Edwards is playing or am I drunk? I don't look, I don't know that it's because he's playing, but I have noticed that when he plays, they do better than when Tommy Allen plays.
00:15:51
Speaker
And it's not that they do poorly when Tommy Allen plays, it's just they're missing, it's like a, you know, a timing problem or just something isn't, gears are grinding a little bit instead of, you know, smoothly. And Edwards can pilot it smoothly, or at least he is.
00:16:10
Speaker
more smoothly than Alan does. And yeah, they play different. Mm hmm. I don't know. Yeah, I don't like. Yeah, I wish. I mean, again, I'm not trying to knock Tommy on the analysis, but kids, kids seems to have it figured out or they just seem to find a way to play better with him in there. I don't know which one, but yeah. And then we had the man known as Andre's Giant Bum. Yes. Oh, my God. That was a lot.
00:16:40
Speaker
That's a lot of air. Oh, my God. I was like, you said you told me there was bomb in that game. I'm just like, so I went to watch it. I'm like, yeah, hard to miss. Yeah. Big ol' cheese. Right. Just streaking down the field. We have a streaker. Oh, wait. That's that's that's that's the dwell. That's Andreas. He had underoos on, too. So someone got a hold of all of them. Right.
00:17:10
Speaker
He was also very good on the day too. Again, what other sport do you see anywhere near as much bomb as you do in rugby? Very rare.
Saracens vs London Irish: A Frustrating Match
00:17:22
Speaker
It's super rare anywhere else, but in rugby, it's like, yeah, once every few weeks you see some bomb.
00:17:28
Speaker
I didn't know we signed up for pornography. That's softcore porn right there for you. It's rugby. We kind of get used to it. On the other side, for the WOS, one guy that stood out to me, especially after he's had a couple of bad performances because of a certain color card, was Jacob Umaga. Very, very good on the weekend.
00:17:51
Speaker
Doesn't love the 15 shirt, but it's obviously taking the sacrifice to play there. So Atkinson can play 10, so give him all the credit in the universe for that one. Yeah. Well, he also kind of has to be humble right now because he's coming off of two bands. So it's like, you pull, you, oh, you want to complain about where you play right now? Yeah, but you'd be happy to step on the field of law. So it's like, yeah, we need Atkinson at 10 so that he knows what he's doing when you're fucking banned. So you get to 15 right now.
00:18:16
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely. How about our old friend Sam with the commentary on Louis Lina? Oh, that's right. I was laughing so hard. I was dying.
00:18:37
Speaker
Oh, I was laughing so hard. I was like, yes, this is amazing. And I laughed myself to, you know, a fit. It was great. I was like, yes, thank you, Sam. This is why we like you. Yeah, shit. That was. Yeah, it was just brilliant. But overall, obviously, much, much better performance from from the twins.
00:18:58
Speaker
Oh man, wasn't it just great to see Jack Willis back on the field? Yes, very much so. I saw him strip off when they were looking for the injury sub. I was like, yes, he is back. Tough old road for the boy and he hasn't given up yet. And he goes right back in. He went right back into Jackal.
00:19:20
Speaker
No, right. No hesitation. No, no anything. And look, as someone who has torn up his knee, there was for a little bit, there was some hesitation about like, yeah. And you and you nobody would blame me for it either. Right. So and damn, I mean, what a like, like just guts and just kind of confidence and you love it. I mean, what else would you would you expect? He's out there with his brother and kicking ass together. Yeah.
00:19:48
Speaker
Um, and you said something about this guy a few weeks ago and it, and you were onto something, Sam Spink looks like a player. I'll give, I'll give him credit for that one. I'll give you credit for that as well. Just yeah. It looks like every bit, the part that, uh, should be out there and at a 13, I don't, I don't think you can take him off the field if you can help it. No, I mean, he's 22 also. So it's this guy who it's like, just, just have him out there. He's working with, uh, with, um, a dog woo.
00:20:17
Speaker
really well. And Bassett enough, like he's good at working with the players around him. And especially when Wasps get this new 12 in. Odendall, yeah. Yeah, Odendall, fuck. I mean, if he can be their version of Esther Hazen, and then spinks outside of him, that's
00:20:37
Speaker
That's dangerous right there. Be nice for them. No doubt. Yeah, I don't I don't see anything wrong with that. You know, we've we've we've talked for forever about wasps. Well, at least this season anyway. And last season wasps having like just dog shit at the centers. Spink looks. Yeah, yeah. I obviously agree. He looks like someone who who's like, no, no, no. OK, he's better than dog shit. We put him out there. Yeah. Chuck him out there. Not going to do any worse. Rolling him out there. Yeah. No doubt.
00:21:06
Speaker
All right, and then down to Brentford. We just go to Newcastle. I don't really want to go that one either. Oh, fuck, I don't either.
00:21:18
Speaker
That one hurt. Yeah, that one really put a bad taste in them. Yeah, that would love to sour taste too. Yeah, it was it was a painful one for the series. Just, you know, and as mad as you want to be about anything on that's going on with anybody else that's not your own team on the pitch, you have to look at yourself first. And there's a lot of reasons that the Saracens didn't say we completely cock this and they know it.
Newcastle vs London Irish: Coaching Critiques
00:21:43
Speaker
And I'm sure I'm sure they're being read the riot act right now as well. So
00:21:46
Speaker
And they go they got a lot of time to think about this because they're off this week as well. Yeah, I just I don't
00:21:56
Speaker
I don't understand how they can show up. Like it's not, I don't think it's like the things that they do. It's not the, it's not always the execution, although sometimes it's the execution button. A lot of it is the, it seems like the game plan. I don't have much blame for the players. I think they're like, cause when they do stuff that you're like, why the fuck are they doing it? It's because they're coached to do it. You know, they're not making a mistake. It's like, no, this is what they're trying to do in this situation. And I'm just like,
00:22:23
Speaker
Ah, like use what works. And they really seem drilled, almost over drilled. Like I feel like there's almost over, they're being over coached. It feels like they're not, it seems feels like a lot like Eddie Jones used to feel, you know, not so much this, not that they have like, you know, different players in place, but yeah.
00:22:44
Speaker
you know, we're kicking here, we want to achieve, you know, get the ball or knock at the ball either way, where, you know, we're going to take a couple cracks at an attack, maybe, and then then just box kick out of our own end. And it's like, you know, the smart teams are playing the situations better. You know, that's that's where they're losing, you know, like the individual players may play or they're playing extremely well, I feel, but
00:23:12
Speaker
the strategies that they're using are losing them like, you know, segment of play match-ups, you know, like they're not, they're not winning, you know, the little battles, you know, stoppage to stoppage. They're kind of, you know, they're losing ground or they're turning the ball over or what have you. And it's like, why don't you just, you know, when you, especially when you can attack attack.
00:23:37
Speaker
Like, why not? That's what the better teams are doing. And they just aren't playing like the better teams are. So that's that's my problem. It's like if you see something that works in this league, and you have the ability to do it, and you restrict yourself away from doing it intentionally, I don't like that. So that's why it's hard to watch salaries when they do shit like that. I agree. And I wonder if and we'll get into on an Irish in a second. I wonder if the just the players sitting in wearing the nine and 10 jerseys currently
00:24:08
Speaker
are not either one, given the license to make the audibles and whatnot, or two, just aren't comfortable doing it right now. And, you know, I love Manu and all, but he's still fairly young in many ways and still not as experienced in that tension as obviously the guy that usually wears it, which is Owen Farrell.
00:24:25
Speaker
And then, you know, and then you look at and then poor DeHaas could not have had a worse start to his, you know, the first extended action he was going to get in the prem. Now, a bad kick and then a freaking charge down that turns into a trial. Like, only up from here, Rube. Only up from here, kiddo. You'll be back. I mean, shit, if that's the worst it gets, then he'll be all right. But, you know, I'm sure he took a little bit for him to shake it off. And he picked it up after that. It took him a second to get in the game. Head from between cheeks, as it were. Right. And Shagan, I thought,
00:24:57
Speaker
I, he had a try and stopped running and then knocked the ball on and then yelled at Gudy about it. And it's like, I'm pretty sure he was right. And you were like, Nope, you don't. Yeah. Like if you kept running, that's like, he's gone and I, he makes bad decisions. And, and I, it doesn't start on the reg. I know. It's just, I'd like.
00:25:18
Speaker
There's a lot of disappointment there because he has so much talent and, you know, he's 25. He should be beyond these things now. Yep. So that's, yeah, he's late. He's behind schedule. Get off your ass, Roddy. Right. On the other side,
00:25:35
Speaker
Did not have a banner, a double on my being no board by any means whatsoever. But here we are. And they were both on the wing. Get your ass into the middle there. Yeah. I did not see that coming any way, shape or form. And nobody did really. No. And especially because I had started as Hassell Collins. So that first one was like, oh, great. It's out to OHC. And then it was like,
00:26:00
Speaker
Wait, no. Oh, well, I have him on them as a much larger human. Right. That's not all. He has some columns. He doesn't even have frosted dips. No, not even close. Right. So and then they see him on the other wing. Yeah, you're right. Just. What the fuck did the Irish have there? Exactly. Right. I fuck. I did not see this coming. He's been excellent for weeks now. Yeah. I don't know who scouted him, but they picked up a decent one with him. They really did. Yeah.
00:26:31
Speaker
Not too shabby at all. And then Ollie Hoskins is just very good. That's all I know. He's very good. You know, he's only got one Australia cap, but shit, he's deserved that. He earned it. Every bit of it. I don't doubt that. Yeah. Just a, just a fucking.
00:26:49
Speaker
rugby player who happens to play tight head. Yeah. Talking about excellent tight header. Yes. I mean, I have a soft spot. Well, I have a soft spot everywhere, but I have a specific soft spot for my fellow tight heads. That is, it's becoming a more of a power position of dominance in the loose too, which you got to love to see.
00:27:12
Speaker
You know, with with the Hoskins and you're all you're all weird. And you're all weird in the head. It's all I know. No, no, no, no. The fucking loose heads are weird in the head. Well, they're they're unstable. I want to argue against that. All right. Let's jump up to the tune and get rid of this one as fast as we can.
Super Rugby Week 1 Preview
00:27:36
Speaker
You know, and talk about like the first like 70 minutes or so. Yeah. Well,
00:27:41
Speaker
I think we need to address the number one. Let's, let's give will Hayden with all the credit in the world finally starting to come around. It looks like, which is great. Dean Richards do not stop playing him. Keep playing him. Keep playing him. Keep playing him. It's only going to be good and down the road. You know, but Connor ain't going to be your answer for a long time and Hodgson definitely ain't it. And we know that for a lot of reasons at this point. Um,
00:28:02
Speaker
Yeah, I think he's got that. And why he fucking, why Dean Richards brought off Nordly Kalamany? I have no idea. He was playing just fine. Unless he was completely smoked. Right. But he played like 75 minutes. I don't think he was. I don't think he was. Yeah, he didn't. He looked fine. He didn't look like he'd lost his step. All you needed him on there was to fucking feed that goddamn scrum. Right. Right. Which was, he totally, that's fucking bottled. Totally bottled. You can't, like,
00:28:28
Speaker
If you're a professional athlete, you have no business not being able to roll a ball into a scrum. The rules about it are so fucking easy. And right there, you just do it. It's not like it was...
00:28:42
Speaker
But even 10 years ago when you had to put it down right down the middle and it's like, oh, if you had a backup scrum half in the match, it's like, yeah, you're fucking this up. We all know you're fucking this up. Yeah, it was like a 10, you know, I'm saying at the club level. Now it's like, yeah, even even even the like your shittiest.
00:29:01
Speaker
you know, backup fly half should be able to roll a ball into a scrub. Yeah, it was just extremely frustrating in so many fucking ways. And you know,
00:29:13
Speaker
Could Newcastle have been more to win this match? Absolutely. But still, at the same time, they had done enough. I think most people will feel. And it's just, you know, and especially considering the effort they had to put in with check getting sent off, which was the right decision in the end and just sucked. Yeah. But I also do agree with Dean Richards, though, about the referee. I thought the officiating was atrocious.
00:29:40
Speaker
Yeah, was that Ridley? Yeah, I'm pretty sure. That's right. And was it, um, was this the match that had Claire as the TNO? Yeah. And the problem is that Claire, right. And she kept looking for shit. She kept pinging in for stuff that like was maybe, maybe not. And then like, you know, I got in Ridley's head and made him make decisions and it's like,
00:30:05
Speaker
I don't like when she's TMO in the first place because she intrudes on the match. I feel way too much. And then Ridley is.
00:30:15
Speaker
I don't know how to describe it exactly. He seems kind of like gutless about it. A little bit. He will let someone else lead him to a decision. And it's like when you have a TMO who wants to intrude on a game, I mean, we've seen that. There are officials who like to make themselves the game, not so much the game. I feel like that's the way she is as TMO. I fucking hate it.
00:30:42
Speaker
And yeah, he'll just let himself get trot on. And I think that kind of helped the result be what it was. Really shit. You know, lots to be proud of for Newcastle and their fans. Man, that traveling club that was coming from Argentina, they were freaking great in the stands. Yes. They made up for a lot. But, you know, not so much the ending, but they made up for a lot. Yeah, they were fun. They were a fun bunch. And I'm sure everybody at the tune was very happy to have them.
00:31:11
Speaker
I'm sure. I mean, like, we need more of that. We do. We need like, you know, I I haven't heard, you know, it wasn't Worcester. They were singing a lot, too. And I was like, yeah, we need more of that. I don't feel like, you know, they do the that, you know, come on, you whatever team, you know, we all do have the same one, which is weird. But it's like they do the chance. But like. Singing would made it like super fun. Then you think like that more. Yeah, it's fun.
00:31:40
Speaker
especially those guys they were just singing shit like I don't you know their own like I'm sure that you know their local songs and whatnot but it's like hell yeah right and they were enjoying the game because they had I mean they had people on both sides yeah so it's just like fuck yeah let's let's enjoy it and cheer for our people
00:32:01
Speaker
Yeah, that was. You knew when Gredanza came on, or Gredanza came on and, you know, you knew when Cordero came on. Yeah, that was a good one. That was funny. Yeah. And they were cheering for all their boys over there. So it was, yeah, it was a lot of fun to watch them, to watch them listen. So I wish, yeah, do that more, guys. Do that more. Yeah. Heartbreaker for Newcastle. Unfortunately, I actually keep on trucking, which is not something that's
00:32:25
Speaker
Really going to make me that happy, but hey. No, not pleased. Not displeased. Sorry. They'll be at stone next to him and we can fucking stomp on him. I hope so. All right. Hey, let's go down to Super Rugby. Long time no see, Super Rugby.
00:32:44
Speaker
Yeah, it was indeed super. Yeah, it was quite it was a pretty good weekend. Taz and the Fijian Drua. I mean, unfortunately, this is probably the result we expected, but it was still awesome to see the Drua out there and just, you know, run about and, you know, they did their little
00:33:01
Speaker
they did their native dance beforehand, which was really awesome. And man, that just got me going. I was like, yeah, of course it does. It was gonna be fun. But then when you, it just came down to the game. And the kids are sweet too. Yeah, those kids are really nice. But I will say this, unfortunately,
00:33:18
Speaker
Sam well, it's a walk you used to play for rugby, New York, they got their current tight end. So, but this is what it's good for. It's going to make him get better and make them also look for a better tight head, same time, try and develop that. So, you know, this is what it's good for. Yeah, they're going to get, they're going to get probably, you know, woken up a little bit in the next few weeks here while they sort themselves out, because there's a lot that they still need to sort out. It's pretty clear.
00:33:47
Speaker
But to say that, you know, I was disappointed, no way. Not a chance. That was, that was just, it was just great to see them out there again. And a little bit of shithouseery left and right. I will say lucky, lucky Swinton is all about the shithouseery. He needs to knock it the fuck off, man. Like, yeah, he's a, he is a really good six when he's not doing stupid shit like that. But he does quite a bit of it quite often. So it's like, I think Jed Holloway is kind of rubbing off on him now again. I thought he did.
00:34:15
Speaker
a little bit of it as well. Mm hmm. But in the end, Todd gets done, you know, right. Right. Because, you know, it's the first ever match. So, yeah, what are you going to do? But let's open the drawers. I mean, none of the none of the teams in this company are terrible. So. Mm. Right. Right. So it's this is where it is. But, hey, right. Welcome to the G intro. Because you get you get a fairly easy one to start off. So have fun.
00:34:44
Speaker
Let's talk about the next one. Yeah, let's jump over to see your boys. You know, we talked about they're on the South Island right now, so playing with no crowds, unfortunately, but that's right. They're still playing. But they're still people. There was still a crowd. They were just outside the stadium. There was one group that was sitting up that looked like in a bar. I was like, yeah, I want that seat right there. Hell, yeah.
00:35:10
Speaker
But I mean, this is a thorough butt kicking from from start to finish. Chiefs were somewhat in control. It felt like fairly early and and yeah, I.
00:35:22
Speaker
I was very pleased by what I saw in this match from, from the, the chief's perspective. I thought there was, they showed that they were dangerous, you know, almost one to 15. Um, certainly that like Peter Soakula, as we, as I said, has, has really come around. Um, and yeah, I have no problem with the hurdle try. Um, if you're going to dive at his knees and he, you know, you're not allowed to jump into contact, but.
00:35:48
Speaker
If, you know, he wants to step over you or you, you know, get set. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's, it's not big enough to hurdle. He just took a high step. Yeah. I understand the whole idea of, you know, you shouldn't be jumping into contact. That totally makes sense. But I mean, if that guy's on the deck, you're stepping over him is what it ends up being. So he was half on the deck. He was like almost.
00:36:15
Speaker
Yeah, so it's not like he was waist high. It's not like, you know, when you see like the NFL guys like hurdle somebody, which is awesome because half the time they're just they're trying to tackle high anyway, and they just jump over him. This was a guy diving like he was at like at or below knee level at the time. And so Kula just was like,
00:36:35
Speaker
OK, I'm going to just walk over you. That's the if that becomes a problem as far as penalties go down, that needs that need to look as far as the law goes. And I would be remiss if I didn't say this. I believe last week I had mentioned something about I will take the Brody Retalic for DMAK trade.
00:36:57
Speaker
Yeah, he was good. Does DMACC make that pass? No, DMACC tries to finish and fucks it up. So, fucking Brody would add that behind the back offload. I was like, oh, that's the Brody we know. That's the Brody we know and love. It was wonderful. It was wonderful.
00:37:18
Speaker
As soon as I saw that, I was like, well, I feel justified now. Oh, shit. That was good. Yeah, it was really good stuff. So it's. I didn't see much from the Highlanders. Yeah, which is really sad. We're talking a lot about the Chiefs. Obviously, I will talk about the Chiefs a lot. I very much enjoyed that performance. But I don't I didn't
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00:37:39
Speaker
have any like, first off, Mitch Hunt fucking. Bit it hard this match. He was like.
00:37:48
Speaker
He was awful. I hate to say that, but he hurt them much more than he helped until late in the match. He got better the last 20 or so, but that was way too little too late. Yeah, the match was almost out of hand at that point. To me, that was like, oh, hey, Mitch, you finally showed up. Yeah, I know shit, right? No, it's like, okay, you're showing that you actually can play 10. Good. Now try doing it when the... Where the fuck you been? First whistle.
00:38:17
Speaker
Like in Ocean's 11. Fuck you, Ben. Yeah. Shit. All right. Let's jump over to the next one. Saturday. Crusaders and hurricanes.
00:38:29
Speaker
Will Jordan is really fucking good. And so is Lester Frango, a new kid. Yeah, I was like, oh, he gets scored one. Oh, he scored two. Oh, OK. Three. Yeah. Yikes. Yikes, yikes, yikes. Fergus Burke did it, did his job. Yeah, you know, I'm I'm considered as I'm very happy with the way he played. Yeah, I got a card, but, you know, whatever. Yeah. Take that. Take that with the rest that he did. Absolutely.
00:38:57
Speaker
Yeah, he he like kind of I don't say he earned the card, but like he played well enough to be like, OK, yeah, you can overlook it. Yeah. OK, you know, just unlucky. He was even with a card when you're much more in the positive. That's that's a good day.
00:39:13
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely. I thought Reuben Love on his opposite had a pretty decent day, too. He did. I don't think he was the problem at all. No, no, no. I don't think there was a problem. It was a little bit of rotten luck, really. I think the only problem I had was the disallowed tribe on the Ben May knock-on, which was not clear and obvious. I hate Mike Fraser. I hate him worse than O'Keefe, which is a lot to say as far as the Kiwi referee.
00:39:40
Speaker
Mike Fraser is a fucking joke for a referee. So the fact that he was the TMO, I knew we were in trouble. I was like, something's going to go fucking wrong. Sure enough, as soon as he calls that, as soon as he buzzes down for that one, I was like, Oh, fuck. I knew the Amul one wasn't going to stand. I was wondering about the already one because I couldn't see the angle. That's the first one. And then to call back that try for man, that is not clear and obvious by any means whatsoever. And if that's what they're looking at, looking for in that.
00:40:07
Speaker
thought that that was not clear and obvious. I don't even think so. Um, but yeah, Artie was immense. He obviously was very pissed when he fucking came off and found out that I was disallowed. Yeah. Um, but he was, he was very good platform. And then the subs subs made an impact Sullivan and garden bash up. I mean, Oh yeah. Garden bash up. And they're both starting this week. So that's interesting. Um, I thought Yossi did well. I mean, he got carded too, right? But other than that, like,
00:40:36
Speaker
had it had himself a solid day, very, very Barbara, again, very Barbary, like just came in and was a fucking shit storm to deal with for the opposition. Yeah, he's generally going to be a problem. I have a feeling as it goes down. But just very clinical from crusaders. Yeah, extremely. Yeah. Yeah. Bastards just such fucking bastards. Very good. I can say that with with all due respect, with all due respect, sir. Yeah.
00:41:03
Speaker
Yeah, no, it is. It is with all respect like that. How do you how do you have a machine like that? I don't understand. And I fucking applaud it. I just hate seeing it because it's not fair that everybody can't do that. Yep. Yeah, it sucks. But hey, it is good for them. Did you did you see at halftime Kieran Reed?
00:41:24
Speaker
No, I did. My word that boy has gotten skinny. Okay. I heard that. I mean, I talked to him. Okay. And that's what happens when you stop playing sports. You go one way or the other. Usually you either get a little chubbier or you're a little skinnier depending on what your frame was originally. So he's a, he's definitely thin down a little bit. I have to go back and look.
00:41:42
Speaker
Oh yeah. But it was cool to hear him. Oh yeah, it's great. I'm really excited to see that he's part of that team down there because I am a, you know, he wasn't an amazing player. He was a good captain and I really am a fan. And after I've listened to a couple of his interviews, I am a big fan of Karen Reid as a person. So yeah, like him, like him, like him. All right, let's jump to Brizzy over to
00:42:07
Speaker
Reds and Rebels in the rain. Yeah. Jesus. This thing couldn't make up its mind what it wanted to do, but yeah, just torrential doubt boy at one point. Well, that was, that was bad. Right. Yeah. It got really bad. Really quick. Really fucked. I mean, that, that was it for the rebels because reds already had the lead at that point. So all they had to do was just maintain and the rebels just
00:42:31
Speaker
Literally could not get traction on the wall. No, no, no. It was really impossible. It was a greased pill out there. And it really was. And at that point, Reds are just like, all right, we'll just play some shithouse rugby and leave it be. See what happens. Yeah, it was, you know, there were
00:42:54
Speaker
There were a couple guys, and you know, I completely spaced on this when I was kind of trashing the rubles last week. They have our guy, Seth, and they have our guy, Ryan Martin. So I don't know why the hell I was trashing them so much last week. I don't get it. I want them to do well. Oops. But in mouth. But yeah, like I said, I liked Wells. I thought Wilkin and Wallace were also quite good as well. So not a bad back row there.
00:43:19
Speaker
Well, it's hit on O'Connor was. Ouch. The old Riptikler on that one. And then you know, O'Connor's laughing on his way down because he's like, oh, I got got. He's like, oh, this is going to be real bad tomorrow. Ouch. Ouch, man. And then.
00:43:42
Speaker
Harry Wilson. Wow. Just he, you know, he did. Obviously, he got they talked about it throughout the whole broadcast, you know, we got left off the Australia squad for the tour. So right a lot of they also told him that what they wanted to see from him, which is fair. That's what you should do. Yeah, I agree. And yeah, okay. Coming in hot kids heads up. He's looking good. Right. I still I still believe and
00:44:10
Speaker
I believe this and I'm going to be the crazy person.
00:44:13
Speaker
I still believe when he's informed their bet, the best hooker for Australia is USA, not fine guy, but that's just me. Although fine guys scored also, but he always scores those. That's not a figured thing, you know? Yeah. But USA just can't stay healthy and he can't stay informed. So that's the problem, which is a problem in itself. So that's, that's not to say that he's going to be Australia's two or any means whatsoever, but just saying like, but you're right. I thought he had a, I thought he had a fantastic match.
00:44:40
Speaker
Yeah, I thought he was pretty good, too. So we'll see. Maybe he gets maybe he gets his ass back in there. All right. And then Brumbies and Forest. This was also a very good match. Hello, Forest. Wow. So I have to ask, because I this when you told me you were watching it, I texted you. OK. I screamed at the end of this match like stood up and yelled at my TV.
00:45:09
Speaker
And this was like, I was watching this on, I think it must've been Monday. Yeah, it was Monday. So like days after it happened and fucking your score.
00:45:24
Speaker
and you get the ball back with two minutes left. So as I talked about with coaching and working with players on things, this is part of the problem with rugby being only recently professional. They're still sorting out some, and a lot of teams are still sorting out situational rugby. Let's talk about the miracle of the Meadowlands.
00:45:51
Speaker
in football, right? Because that's what this was. But it won't be seen that way, which pisses me off. This was the miracle of the Meadowlands. And what that was, was it was the New York Giants were playing the Philadelphia Eagles and beating them at the end of the game and decided to run the ball to run out the clock.
00:46:08
Speaker
and they're running back fumbled the Eagles Herman Edwards actually hello you play to win the game that Herman Edwards picks it up and I think I'm pretty sure it was him he forced the fumble or he picked it up and ran it back for a touchdown um and so the Eagles won and it's like that from then on everybody pointed to that and be like this is why the teams kneel to run out the clock right
00:46:29
Speaker
this match, you get the, you have the game in your hands. We have two minutes left when you catch that ball and you kick it away immediately. Immediately. And not even with a couple of phases either. Right. It was like one phase and I was like, Oh, that is a horrible kick by God. And it was, yeah, the whole thing. I mean, they had it been a better kick. Maybe you could save it, but it was awful, awful kick. And he was under pressure the whole time too.
00:46:56
Speaker
Yeah, I just think these clubs at this level should have their two-minute offense, which is not really an offense. Who cares if you go backwards, run a phase, and then this is where you pay guys to rock, right? That's your job. You win that rock. You're professionals. And then you trust your team will win the rocks, and you train them to take the tackle in such a way that they'll win the rock. And then
00:47:21
Speaker
you know, you wait till the referee says, use it, and then you do it, do it again. And then you wait till the referee says, use it, and then you do it again. And then you say, hey, is the time up? And the referee says, yep. And then you kick it to touch. And that's the game. Like, who cares if you go backwards? Hell, if you go backwards and there's like 30 seconds left and you want to, you know, and you're in your own 22 and you have enough phases that you can just kick to touch, fucking do that. Waste time. And then they get one shot off the line out. And if they miss the line out, then they're fucked and the game's over anyway. So like,
00:47:51
Speaker
something else other than just kick it away immediately. Like, there's got to be some thought to it. And so, yeah, no, I screamed at the TV because somebody's got to fucking figure this shit out. Yeah, for the force other than God, God was terrible kick. I thought.
00:48:07
Speaker
And this was kind of that little, no, little unknown person that we didn't know about it because there was another guy in front of him that was playing really well. I thought Rhys Jan Prasatoa played really well, uh, for the force. And I can see why one, he wanted to go get himself some playing time and two, why the force decided let's start this kid. Oh, okay. This is wow. He's really good. So, um, yeah, didn't, didn't finish the match, obviously. And Jake McIntyre did a pretty good job coming in, obviously. So he did try. Um,
00:48:37
Speaker
Yeah. Damn. Pretty good. But two into the Brumby's credit, it was a beautiful try with, you know, support and everything that you could ask for on a try. It doesn't matter if it's a game winner or not. So yeah, the fact that it was a game winner, obviously just sends it to another level. But man, like, I mean, it's a hooker try at that. A lot longer and freaking gets it. Yeah. Really good stuff from, from Brumby's to finish it off. But this was.
00:49:06
Speaker
This is the type of battle I hope the force bring every time they play. Because if they do, they'll do well. I mean, the Brumby's are a good team. Yeah, they're not a bad team. And the force gave them all they could handle and then some. So that's why that's why I made you that you did all that work, all that work and you're beating a great team.
00:49:26
Speaker
And then you literally kick it away. And yeah, just on for that. The players deserve better than that. And yeah, I hope the coaching staff starts to, you know, instill some late game tactics in them. Yeah, it's it was and it was I mean, the frickin the front row battle was really awesome for me because you had Robertson, Katoa, Medrano on one side and Al Atoa and Feinga and Slipper on the other side. And I was like,
00:49:53
Speaker
Man, this is going to be a freaking war in there. It was like, yeah, you saw the two, all six players, they were just beat when they came out the field. Didn't matter if they came off earlier late, they were just smoked. And we'd be remiss if we didn't mention Isaac Rada and his awesomeness this match too. Yeah, he was really good. Welcome back to Australia, Isaac. Yeah. Good to see you. Yeah. So if this is what we see out of the forest more often than not, then this competition just got that much better. And that is awesome. That is exciting.
00:50:23
Speaker
That was very exciting. Sweet. MLR week one, MLR week one. Sorry, I don't mind my head. Super rugby week one in the books. In the books. And lots, lots more to come. Can't wait. Speaking. All right. Let's go to MLR. First of all, obviously, we'll talk about our mighty free jacks. Yes. Taking down the, oh, glory. And that man, Bo Deen, waka waka. Waka waka. MLR player of the week. MLR player of the week, Bo Deen waka. Put some respect on that shit. Yeah, absolutely.
00:50:53
Speaker
Yeah, no, he was fantastic. And they all glory was not good. And really, the score line looks a lot friendlier to all glory because I think free jacks kind of just get let off the gas at the end. And I think all glory what they had two tries in the last whatever. Definitely at least one garbage time. Yeah, at least one garbage time try. So which is annoying to me because I really wanted the free jacks to
00:51:24
Speaker
to get some good, you know, point differential out of this one. Yeah, because the nice old Gloria has been terrible at that. They're like the last in the league at point differential. So Oh, yeah, they're bad. I was hoping for bigger than 16 point spread, but I'll take it. Not Yeah, it's still better. Still better. And it's on the road to right on the road.
00:51:42
Speaker
Right. Yeah. And this is this, you know, this is this was no Johnny Poland either. So that that was something. But no, Dougie Fife. No, Dougie Fife. Fucking still care. I saw I finally saw the incident. I get it. And so it makes sense. But the fact that I don't care the fact that he's sitting in that fucking Coleman dickhead and Noah is still playing his bullshit. That that is bullshit. It is because freaking that dude was going on only going for a freaking walk his head.
00:52:12
Speaker
Yeah, it was and it was good stuff and, you know, good on the staff for for the free jacks for grabbing, snapping up younger. And because man, I'm not sure you could be and would have been able to do that job, you know, as as much as I want to believe in our young guys. Right.
00:52:27
Speaker
Yeah. So good on him. He didn't have to do anything special. JP is very special in a lot of ways. Younger didn't try and do anything, especially just no, but himself and he did a hell of a job. Yeah. Yeah. So I have an appreciation for that. Mitch Wilson, no Fife, no problem. Right. Right. Yeah, no problem. He was, he's not on Fife's level, but he still was excellent. Yeah.
00:52:50
Speaker
That Nakatini yellow card, man, that killed them too. That was the start of the end right there. Because that is a big unit to be missing from your scrum. And, you know, the free jocks got a pretty damn good scrum if you haven't noticed. They do. Especially with Diagra in there at high tide. I love him. And I said this on Twitter, and I still say this, MLR, we are in year five.
00:53:12
Speaker
Let's get our shit together and get everybody's name spelled correctly on graphics. Yeah. And pronounced correctly in our games because we still have a shite commentary. That's Diego. I'm like, no, he's not a fucking drink from college, you idiot. Right. The yoga. They're a bunch of frickin yahoos down there. It's all of them, though. It's the only one that the only one that can get done is Dan Power and our boy down. That's it. Of course, we're always going to get down to fucking professional.
00:53:41
Speaker
I know it's also a power. Well, I know, but I mean, you know, I don't mean like, I mean, like, well, down to the world top. So, I don't know. But I mean, like, he's a true professional commentary kind of guy. Like, he's not just dicking around because he can be a rugby guy and not the Dan Powers. And I'm not not taking I'm not not saying anything about that. But Dan Powers, I mean, I'm down as our guy. So, yeah, he's my guy, too, because I, you know, he's a dude.
00:54:04
Speaker
Yeah, I've he's the dude he sees and I can tell you in real life, this is just how he is. He loves champagne rugby and he loves having fun. I know. So like he's yeah, he's a lot of fun and represents him in the game. Well, so I'll love them. Yeah. Love that. Love that. M.L.R. Fucking stops sucking. God damn it.
00:54:26
Speaker
All right. And then a quick quick round, um, Atlanta and New York, New York, get it done. Ed Fido is a problem. I watched a little bit of this game. The dude is not fun to play. We play against right now. Yeah. So yeah, he's, he's, I think he's been had two really good games in two weeks. So we got them soon. That's going to be really, really scary.
00:54:46
Speaker
Yeah, we have Los Angeles this week. LA. LA. To everybody's happiness, Toronto Arrow's down, NOLA. I watched this a little bit, and NOLA are the same shithouse team that they were before. NOLA are 0 and 3. Yeah, and I'm not mad about it.
00:55:01
Speaker
All right. As as previously stated, they are definitely one of my big enemies. Right. No, thank you. I know we're supposed to dislike D.C. in New York and Toronto. Nope. Fuck that. Fuck Nola. No, it's like, yeah, they piss me off way too much in too many ways. The whole thing, just the whole thing. That's really annoying. Austin and Austin B2, a little bit closer game this time. Also, it's not bad, but at the same time, like,
00:55:29
Speaker
They've played all their games at home. So let's see them go on the road. And Utah right now aren't as good as they're going to be in like three weeks. Yeah, when policy gets back. Welcome back, big fella. I can't wait. I wish it was with the free jacks.
00:55:45
Speaker
Yeah. But I mean, he was always going to go home. He was always going to go home. Of course. That's all it was. And Tavete is hopefully this way. Yeah. So we'll see. Dallas just barely lost to Houston. So maybe they're better than we think. Or maybe the teams that they've that have ran them close are shit. We'll find out. Yeah. Yeah. We'll find out. Dyer got the winner who's an eagle and actually was quite good in that.
00:56:11
Speaker
I remember him vividly only because of the second match that we that we had against England. And San Diego lost to Seattle up in Seattle when it was always going to be a tough one on Sunday night, you know, Seattle. Was that in Seattle? No, that was in San Diego.
00:56:28
Speaker
Yeah, it was. Actually, you're right. Damn. That sucks. Yeah, they lost it home to Seattle. That's not a good thing, then. That's a problem. That's problematic, then. And I know they're missing a bunch of dudes, but fuck. You can't have that. Yeah, Seattle. I'm not that impressed with Seattle yet. Right. The results are there for them, but I don't think that the
00:56:49
Speaker
I think it's more the opponents that they've had than it is. They're 3-0. I mean, I don't know how, but they're 3-0. They are. They are. They are. They are. I don't want to figure that one out. Yeah. So they're a soft schedule. Yeah. So far, so far, so good for them. Yeah. I mean, there's still there's still four teams undefeated in this league. Us, New York, Austin and Seattle. Seattle. Yeah.
00:57:19
Speaker
See how that goes. Yeah, we're we're traveling. Austin is getting no. Well, wait, who signed Matina was Austin. So you said you were on his right.
00:57:28
Speaker
We have Rich Carrot, Richard. Yeah, we'll see. I'm biased. That's your dude. That's your guy. Yeah. What's going down this week? We're obviously playing in Los Angeles. Oh, that's Sunday. Fuck. Okay. Actually, it's probably better because Saturday's going to be a fucking shit show. Yeah. Oglori in Toronto, Dallas, and New York. We'll see. That'll be a good measure of how good Dallas actually is because New York's a good team.
00:57:58
Speaker
Seattle and Austin. OK, that's going to be that should be something tough. And that looks like Austin going on the road. So, right. Yeah. OK. And then Houston and San Diego and at Aviva. I love that stadium. I really wish Houston was not the shit team that they are. Yeah, right. At least not the shit team they've been. Let's put it that way. We're heading out to Los Angeles. Take on take them on and down is going to be calling the game, too.
00:58:26
Speaker
Yeah. And one thing I will say, I do want to say that maybe it shouldn't bother me so much, but the fact that MLR has put a lot of, and I don't know if it's investment or whatever, capital of sorts into the state of Texas does worry me a little bit.
00:58:45
Speaker
As Ben and I both know, Texas is just a wee bit backwards these days. So, yeah. Right. Makes me uneasy. Austin, as a city itself, is very progressive for the most part, because the university being there helps. But just, yeah, the whole thing is like, can we shift one of those teams out of Dallas, Texas? Yeah, out of Texas, because there's three. There's three teams in Texas.
00:59:11
Speaker
That's yeah, we don't, yeah. No, like, I know, I know Chicago wants a team, like get the franchise to give the franchise rights to them. Please. Like, yeah, no, no, it makes me uneasy. Just, you know, I love the sport and all that. So just, but I don't want, I don't want to see us, you know, pour money into that state. Unfortunately, sorry. Yeah. Understand is fucking up. I want you guys to have a rugby team, but not three. Yeah. No pass pass.
00:59:41
Speaker
We have one for all of New England. Yeah. Get bit. I don't want to hear no that shit. And there's still there's still no Philly team. So, of course, my, you know, I love the free jacks. I think and I have no problem cheering for them and will root for them even if there is a Philly team, but I would like a Philly team.
01:00:02
Speaker
Of course you do. Of course you do. There will never be a quarantine. So I don't need that. So that's good. Right. I mean, I will always be a free Jack's fan and I will always be that they'll be my number one team, but it would be nice to have like a team like, Hey, I'm glad Philly has one. Right. Yeah. I don't, I don't think I have that problem right now. So I'm good. Right. All right. Cool. Uh, Hey, look at that. We got this done in a semi timely manner. Nice. Who knew?
01:00:29
Speaker
Um, cool. All right. So that's that for us this week. Um, if you were hopping along to the fantasy pod, we got a doozy on deck for you. Um, lots of stuff from all three competitions. Yep. And champions league and good Lord have it all mighty. Yes. Let's get in. We'll get into that. Um, if you're coming along to that, we'll see you over there. If not, um, we appreciate you hanging out with us this week and, uh, we'll catch you on the next one. Have a good one. Everybody later.