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Season 3- Episode 16- The True Arse of Ruggers (6 Nations Round 3, Premiership Round 11& Super Rugby Round 2)
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It's those American rugby dopes, with more entertainment for you. This was a slow week, absolutely nothing for us to talk about...except EVERYTHING. We cover it all, starting with some player movement and the postponement of RWC 2021. On the back of the US Eagles v Springboks announcement, we discuss our favorite Eagles XV. Of course, we talk about the behavior of EVERYONE after the full time whistle at the Principality. Plus we wrap all the action from the weekend, including the matches in New Zealand, and that start/sit thing we like to do where we pretend we know what we're doing. No rugby players were harmed in the making of this podcast, just a couple hurt feelings. It's a doozy, so grab a couple and crack em while you tune in.
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Transcript
Introduction and Agenda
00:00:08
Speaker
Hey everybody, welcome back. It is the fancy word beings. My name is Jared Dyke. I'm Ben Glasser. Let's get it going. We got lots to cover and lots to do and there was...
Weekend Rugby Recap
00:00:18
Speaker
I was happy this weekend. I mean, I didn't get to, I didn't get to watch a ton of it on the weekend. I watched most of it like Sunday night and Saturday night, but I was happy. I was like, this, it was just a fun, unexpected prize in the box. So you're like, ooh, I didn't know I'd get double prizes this week. Yes. It was, you know, there were some, there were some bombs out there, but it was a satisfying rugby weekend overall. I went, I went away pretty, pretty pleased with what I saw in the most of the matches.
00:00:48
Speaker
Yeah, no, I think many of us did.
Listener Engagement Encouragement
00:00:51
Speaker
Okay, let's drink these. Let's drink some beverages. Obviously you want to find your favorite spot that you find your podcasts, download rate review, all that good stuff. Feel free to leave an email to the show to let us know what you think. Let us know how you found us. That's always a good one for us to find out.
00:01:11
Speaker
We like those moments. It's like what Jackass referred you to us, Nicklads. What's wrong with you? We're still glad you found us anyway. Yeah, just the same. We're not saying we don't like you. We're not saying we don't like you.
Rugby Geek and Player Rotations
00:01:26
Speaker
Buy the fancy rugby geek a coffee. Obviously this past weekend, if you weren't paying attention to him, you probably struggled if you were in multiple competitions like Ben and I are. So I struggled anyway. Yeah, I did too. I had a rough week in the FRD, especially. Yeah. But yeah, so buy him a coffee pirate. You can see is buying him a beer, which is always a way better option in my head. But hey, that's just me. I like coffee too. But you know,
00:01:53
Speaker
So that's someplace to check out. I think it's a web page trying to be clever. Yeah, of course it is. Wink, wink, coffee. Yeah, might've been. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge. And obviously you want to check out your two-year-old upgrades. Restart rugby is a huge thing, and they're supporting it through their upgrades. So make sure you grab that, especially with all the change. This past weekend was rough for change and rotations. It was.
00:02:21
Speaker
And this week, there may be Six Nations players coming back. So you're going to want that. Guys, guys, you might not be expecting to see maybe show in their face. So they are extremely helpful to that end. Yeah, absolutely. All of a sudden, you're not playing somebody because you didn't know they were starting. Oops. And it's probably something important if they're playing Six Nations. So there's that thought.
Racism and Allyship Discussion
00:02:47
Speaker
as always, Black Lives Matter on the show. I take it as a stance like Anthony Watson. He doesn't necessarily 100% believe in the movement itself, but the point of it is
00:03:00
Speaker
Racism is wrong and and you can't be you can't it's not enough to just be not racist you have to be anti-racist right now and that's and that's where we're at, you know, it's There were so many problems the discontinued compound who keeps pulling the gremlins out of whatever holder and to let loose the thing is that that we we've allowed it as a society over the years, so this is the
00:03:26
Speaker
Yeah, the pushback to that. It's so much easier as a society now to see things because there's internet and everyone's got cameras. And so a lot of shit that was so easily swept under the rug.
00:03:43
Speaker
there's no longer, you're no longer able to do it. And that the people who do that and try to sweep it under the rug are struggling to adapt. And the point is like, now is the time to be an ally because it's now that, you know, there's always going to be racism, but the socially acceptable racism is on it's certainly on its heels. And we just got to keep pushing it, pushing it back as far as we can. When we, you know, as well, we had the momentum.
00:04:12
Speaker
Absolutely.
Food Bank Fundraising Event
00:04:13
Speaker
No, you're not a meme man.
00:04:15
Speaker
Hey, we got a fun little thing going on in a couple of weeks here. Super Saturday Watchathon. Looks like it's alive and well too. We'll have a couple of matches to fill in, which is great. Although I think we can still sneak one of those Allianz 15s games in there. And I think we're gonna do that. That would be fun. I definitely think we're gonna do that. So I'm gonna look at their schedule and see what we can manage to shove in there. Frickin' boom. Have we determined, have we made it at the, do we know about MLR? What the story is with that kind of possibility?
00:04:46
Speaker
I mean, it'll be on likely. I got to look up who's carrying the free Jacks game that night. All right. And we'll make sure we have access to that. Yes, we will.
00:04:56
Speaker
So there'll be that. Obviously the whole thing isn't just because Ben and I actually want to stay up for 24 hours straight, but we want to raise money for the Greater Boston Food Bank. So quickly, thank you to Alex. Thank you to Terry. Thank you to George for donating. Much appreciated. Keep them coming. Don't stop. Don't stop. Keep that ball rolling. Here's the deal. I'll make you a deal. If we can hit our goal, which is pretty freaking slow,
00:05:23
Speaker
We'll open up to everybody. We'll open up the stream to everybody. You don't need your $25 donation necessarily. So, if we can get, you know, a hundred people to donate 10 bucks, bango, everybody gets to watch Ben and I embarrassed the shit out of ourselves. So, that's incentive right there for you. So, go ahead and get yourself on there. If you can't do it, just, you know, give something local to what you can. Everybody needs help right now. So, let's keep going with it.
COVID-19 and Food Banks
00:05:54
Speaker
And especially the thing is what's happening in the US now, um, where, um, even Massachusetts, because we have a Republican governor too, it's just like, yeah, we're reopening, even though like the nobody under 60, like they're not even at everybody at 65, I think, or no, it's 65 or like two or more comorbidities. It's like, that's what it is. Yeah. It's like, you need to be an extreme case to even think about getting the vaccine. And we're just like, yeah, we're just going to open everything up. Just like,
00:06:21
Speaker
Yeah, the restaurant thing really bothers me. I'm just like, oh, it really bothers me. Yeah. It's really stupid. Like we can't wait. You know, and Biden, this is happening just as Biden saying, hey, we will get everybody vaccinated by the end of May. All the, you know, every adult, which is huge. That's two months away. It is. I can wait. Like I can wait. You know, we've been waiting a long enough, but like,
00:06:51
Speaker
Why are we doing this? So yeah, it's going to be more important now than even it has been recently because the food bank is going, they're going to be valuable in the next coming weeks, unfortunately. Yeah, that is a fact. Okay, let's go to some other things that are way more fun.
Rugby Player Transfers
00:07:10
Speaker
Player moving around, Ben Velikot headed north of the border to Scotland and taking his talents there.
00:07:16
Speaker
Okay. So, well, I mean, yeah, they have, obviously they have Dan Robson. He's a backup prem scrum half. I mean, he's had a quality career and maybe he could become something even more, but I think. And he is capped by Scotland too, I believe. So, you know, it makes sense for him completely in that thought. Scott Baldwin heading to Worcester.
00:07:41
Speaker
That is a, that's a, you know, it's, and it's funny. Um, you think of the two guys and Annette's there right now and he's not terrible, but think of the two guys that they had at one point, they had both singles and two at one point. And that is a lot going out the window. If you look back at it, that's going to help them a lot. Absolutely. That's, that's a good get for them. Cause they've, they've needed something. They needed really something from, from the forwards and Waller's given it from the proposition, but that's, you know,
00:08:09
Speaker
That's he can't play every game and he's not going to play 80 and no, he won't like he's really like, you know, good for a prop means, you know, like what this past week, he had a 15 yard scam. They need some something, you know, a big guy with with.
00:08:28
Speaker
you know, with some movement. Kavecic has been decent, but... Yeah, he's not... Their back row's not terrible. They have a... He's not slippery like Baldwin. No. Like, that's an interesting dynamic to add to that mix. Right. Yeah. And in that same breath, we had Tom Cruise sign a new contract for Watts. So, like, well, the hookers seem to be going everywhere. So we're keeping one of ours, at least. And then that does open the door for somebody like Augry or Barbary to shift.
00:08:57
Speaker
as well. So there is that for them because obviously Tommy Taylor's heading out towards sale. Well, so I see we signed this week. They also signed Ben Harris as well. Wasta, they held on to him.
00:09:12
Speaker
So there's, yeah, guys are starting to put down. Did Louis re-semit re-sign? Did I see that? I saw something. I don't know. I got lost or re-signed someone, but I can't remember who it was. It's a rumor. JFR got re-signed. Oh, yeah. Well, that's always good. Yeah. I'm glad. I'm actually super excited for him about that. He's been bounced around and apparently that's a good fit. Seems to have found a home, which is always good. You want a player to find a home. You don't want them to become a journeyman if they can help it, you know?
00:09:43
Speaker
And he's one of the good ones, so. Yeah, he's good. He's a good lad on top of it all. I mean, props are the best anyway, so. They're entertaining. I mean, see Max LaHeeff and David Flatman on comms. Oh, okay. We'll get to it. We'll get to it. We'll get to that eventually. But yeah, I do love me some flats on comms for sure. Really, you know, mixed feelings and unfortunate.
Rugby World Cup Postponement
00:10:07
Speaker
Rugby World Cup 2021 pushed a year.
00:10:12
Speaker
I think it's, I think people are more outraged at the lack of official statement from world rugby. Um, it took them, I don't, I think they finally put one out, but it took them a while. Like people were reporting this was happening before they, like a lot of people were reporting this was happening before they finally did something. It's like, okay, like the leak has been sprung. You might as well get your, get your shit together and get it out there. Um,
00:10:38
Speaker
like once the leak happened, like they should have, they should have had a statement ready to go. Yeah, you can have a simple statement and then put out something more elaborate later. Right, but don't just let it fester like a chili fart. One of your chili farts. I have mixed feelings about this. It's, you know, it is the right move in many ways.
00:11:03
Speaker
because we don't want, you know, the world's in a fucking handbasket if you haven't noticed. But I almost, you know, you do feel because look at all the things they're making, they're bending over backwards to make the lion's tour happen. And, you know, and we know if this was Rugby World Cup 2023, it would happen. Yeah, they would find a way, yeah. So to that end, it's like, okay, it makes sense, but at the same time, I'm fucking annoyed.
00:11:31
Speaker
Well, it's also because the players put so much into it. They're ready for it. And it's right there. And now you're going to say, no, we're going to push it back an entire year. There's a training regimen for it to be ready for it. And maybe they might not yet be in that. I'm not certain. I mean, we know that the US women were preparing quite heavily for it, certainly to start the year off.
00:11:59
Speaker
And I, you know, I was with everything that is going on over in England and the players that are making it a huge impact, Cantona and Kate Zachary being the two that come to mind with Exeter, like these women were fucking pumped for this tournament, no doubt. You know, and I think Rachel Johnson scored two tries this week, this past week in our debut. Like these women are pumped to get to get to this. And, you know, it's just like, nope, burst your bubble. Sorry. Socks.
00:12:29
Speaker
It does. And and it also puts other because, you know, there's this post World Cup stuff. And if it does well, they could they could really do well to market the game on the back end of it. And now that pushes that out again. And and yeah, it's just everything is every it's more than just a World Cup that's on hold. It's like, yeah, like, you know, there's players that are kind of on the edge and that's a year later and that sucks. You know, so it's like, you know,
00:12:58
Speaker
there's people that are deaf that were probably planning on walking away at the end of this one. And they're like, can I really wait an extra year to do that? So they're, you know, they're putting some people in some really shitty decisions, unfortunately. And that sucks. Um, so as a collective,
00:13:16
Speaker
Let's try and continue to build the momentum towards the this world cup. Let's get some TV deals done so we can watch the damn thing.
Broadcasting Challenges in Rugby
00:13:23
Speaker
I'd like, you know, I don't want to bought that. I don't want to say they're going to do it. But fuck peacock. Get off your ass. Like do something useful for once.
00:13:31
Speaker
it doesn't have to be you know like the the french tv deal no just just something oh god nice that is a huge deal i hope i do hope that that means they're gonna brought to start broadcasting internationally again because i don't know who i don't know if they'd broadcast anywhere right now no right now no well they don't broadcast here that's they don't get they don't come here that's all i know that's really all they used to and that was that that was disappointing when that disappeared so now we've lost
00:14:00
Speaker
the, you know, top 14 and super rugby in, in one year, essentially. Yeah. It's been annoying. So hopefully this, hopefully this new DB deal gets, gets that back into the, into the saddle as it were.
US Eagles Rugby Team Debate
00:14:15
Speaker
Um, so it was fun. They, they talked, they were talking about this on the broadcast on
00:14:22
Speaker
Was it Friday? Um, AJ McGinty and you know, is he the best us player ever? And I was just like, Ooh, we already talked about something like this. So let's, let's, let's do this. Let's, this is a perfect opportunity with everybody. It's kind of head kind of having this at the foreground. Although there was a lot of other things that could have clogged it up, but Hey, we're not perfect. Um, yeah, let's do our Eagles 15, like either best or favorite or whatever. Um, I think Lu said it's gotta be McDonald, Mike McDonald. Yeah.
00:14:51
Speaker
I don't know who else you're going to put there. I'm not, I'm not, there's not really much of a, yeah, that's the thing. There's certain, there's certain ones that are going to be by default. Absolutely. And I totally agree. Um, is there somebody else not to fetch a, that we put a hooker?
00:15:11
Speaker
The only other one that came to mind was Hilt-A-Bram, but he actually didn't turn out to be that good. No, he didn't. So, no. Yeah, was it? I'll take Joty. Yeah, there was another one that played for Bass in a while. It's just the production that he has. If you want to talk about quality of technical aspects of being a hooker, fine. Maybe he's not the best at line-outs.
00:15:38
Speaker
But, um, let's play. He's, he's in there. I want him on the field. Yeah. He's a nightmare in this play. And you know, he, he, he did get a world player nominee. So it's hard to, you can't take that away from them. So, um, tight heads TTS. Yeah. Okay. So here's the fun part four and five can be one of two people. And then I'm thinking of somebody else as well. Um, so.
00:16:03
Speaker
Do you want manoa in the back row or do you want them in the second row? I want them in the second row. Okay. So manoa is one. Um, and then I can't think of anybody besides Peterson right now.
00:16:16
Speaker
You know, it's funny. He started out. He's just impressive. He started out as such a helmet. Yeah. The match we were watching, they were playing and I think it was the A.R.C. and he was just being a complete dink. And I'm just like, what is this guy's problem? I'm just like, he's been around Quilly too much. Yeah. But now he's but now he's been playing in a super professional environment in Newcastle and he's he's a mainstay on the he's a hell of a pro like.
00:16:42
Speaker
Yeah, it's hard to so it's hard to ignore him. So that leads us to the back three. And tell me if you have anything different in your head. I'm thinking, clever, Lyle, and Cam Dolan. Definitely clever and Lyle obviously. Yeah. How does it have to be Ken Dolan?
00:17:07
Speaker
I don't, I mean, he's a freak. So it's really hard to say no. Like he was a nightmare to pull. I do remember teams just be there. When Cam Dolan's in the lineup and he's playing eight and not second row, they, the U S is a pain. He has to play against for at least for the countries that we play against. Um, and we'll talk actually. So for somebody about somebody, they get to play soon. Um, so yeah, I mean, again, one of those guys might be by default, but where it's at. Yeah, I'll go with it.
00:17:37
Speaker
Nine. I think we have to put Mike Petri at nine. We do. I think we have to put like no others. And I want to hate the guy because he played for Nyack. It's not for much longer, though. For now, it won't be. No, no, no. Like I think Dahas is going to surpass him. Yeah, that's we're not that far away. I mean, it's really it probably is the next season he plays at Saracens. What's Petri? What's the highest level Petri played at outside of
00:18:07
Speaker
I act that's it. Yeah, exactly. Like in the World Cup, obviously. But yeah, that's because Tolkien was the fucking coach. But in the end, he's a terrific person. And he wasn't bad. Yeah, he's not world class, but he means whatsoever. But Tahaz has a chance to be so. Oh, I believe so. I believe so as well. Yeah, Gary Gold was just speaking glowing about him. I don't blame him. 10's AJ.
00:18:34
Speaker
I tried to make it in my head work for my carcass, but I was like, nope, it's AJ. Forget it. I think 12, I'd go Paul Emmerich. He was a, he was a mainstay in that midfield for a while. And then he had that intercept try in New Zealand against Ireland in 2011. That was, that made it fun. That's the other thing. I haven't seen much of Paul, unfortunately. And he, we know what he can do, but it's just been like,
00:19:01
Speaker
Where's Paul? It's been way too inconsistent. Where's Paul? Paul, we miss you. Yeah. Um, 13. Hmm. I have no idea. Yeah, I know. Um, you know, I mean, 12, 13 in my head for the longest time in my head was Bryson and Paul, but I don't know.
00:19:26
Speaker
hmm 13 is like the one problem position I'm thinking of right now yeah give me a second okay well in that case I mean does pretty I mean I oh duh why didn't yeah that's a great 13 holy shit why didn't I think of that because I haven't been able to watch this that's why yes Marcel brashi yes I totally agree 13 um
00:19:50
Speaker
But all right, here's the fun part. There's a lot going on in the way in like the wings. You have so you have Scully, you have Taku, you have Wiles.
00:20:05
Speaker
And you still, if you want to go old school, that the leading try score of all time for the U.S. is via Anatoni. Yeah, Anatoni. So it's like, who do you stick in there? I think Taku has to go because he's got the he's got one of the best tries ever. I mean, to his credit. Scully could play fullback. You could go wild, Scully, Taku. Yeah. Yeah. Wild is a good one. And, you know, without dismissing old school, I think that's the back three.
00:20:35
Speaker
Yeah. And then if you were to pick who you wanted as the coach right now, and there's two good ones that were recent that I would want, would it be John Mitchell or would it be Gary Gold? See, I'm not impressed with what John Mitchell did while he was here with the outcome of it. Let's put it that way.
00:20:57
Speaker
And I think Gary Gold has the US playing better rugby and more forward thinking rugby. I think Mitchell tried to do the best he could within what the players knew.
00:21:09
Speaker
That's true. Gold is pushing them to do better.
US Eagles vs Springboks Preview
00:21:16
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, he wants, he wants, you know, obviously we have the MLR now, which, which is huge in so many ways. And then we, and then, you know, he wants, but he does want guys to push in and go overseas when possible. Cause that's just a different experience right now. It really is. So, um, yeah. So in speaking of though, before we get to the matches, um,
00:21:37
Speaker
Eagles are going to play the spring box. This is ambitious.
00:21:41
Speaker
Listen, I am so down for this. I don't care if we get tonked. I watched them get tonked before. I'm okay with it. I'm okay with it. But the point being is, here's the thing that it could do. It could up the quality of play in M.O.R. Because on the table, the pot of gold is at the end of the rainbow right now for guys that are American qualified in the M.O.R. If you cannot fucking spring your bumhole up
00:22:09
Speaker
to want to get on the plane to play South Africa, you need to stop playing. That is the end. That is the end. I tell you this much. There's players who want to bake the national team who are shitting themselves at the prospect of making the national team. I know there's players who are like that.
00:22:32
Speaker
Maybe not so much the guys we've been talking about but yeah guys who may be fringe guys who who. So this is a chance for, you know, you know, those guys to either show that they want them on that plane or another guys who might be on the fringes.
00:22:49
Speaker
Absolutely. Because there's guys who will, that butthole gets mighty tight and face the prospect of fucking Lou Diager.
England Team Speculations
00:22:59
Speaker
Yeah, right. And even if they play a D power team, their backup second rows are still fucking enormous. Wouldn't it be ahead of the...
00:23:07
Speaker
A lot of headlines. You'll see a mixed squad, I bet. And that's still a fucking good deal. You only see one of lewd or snaming? Yeah, likely. Well, you have that, you have lewd, you have snaming. Yeah, it's just not, it's not fair, man. It's not fair. Oh, shit. So yeah, we'll see.
00:23:30
Speaker
And by the way, if you do, if you take care of all that shit, you still have to deal with Jeslin possibly. Right. That's a possibility as well. And, you know, I don't, I doubt, I doubt Sia plays, but it'll be.
00:23:42
Speaker
Yeah. And they're in the same boat as the U.S. where they haven't played in forever. So they're just like, yeah, let's make this happen. And then potentially England could be on the tour, too. Now, this will be a deep powered England because obviously they'll have guys playing with the Lions. But it's that. Well, how deep powered is that going to be? I know Sam Simmons likely actually. I mean, he might play if he plays in that match. I'm going to just I know a dog who's going to play in that match. They got to get absolutely capped. I get him capped. I get Harry Randall capped. Yep.
00:24:13
Speaker
there's guys that are going to play that are just going to be like, Hey, I'm better than you. Yeah. And they will be no doubt. Oh yeah. So it's, it's, it, again, it's a prospect that should just ramp up this competition and it should make you go, Ooh, this could be fun. I need to, I need to perform this season. You know, there's some, there's some fringe guys that a guy that just came in the news this, uh, this week, bomb and, um,
00:24:39
Speaker
he signed for Legion, you know, he's on the fringe. I don't have a whole lot of place for him right now, because he has not done well. When he was like early, wasn't he, I'm sorry, wasn't he like really young? Didn't he get like a look? Probably. He was like, he's been with the Eagles since he was like a puppy. And he never impressed me. I was always watching, I think it was him. Was it him? No, maybe it wasn't him. Balan's the guy with the, no, he's the one with the,
00:25:05
Speaker
He's the, he's the eastbound and down looking dude. Yeah, no, okay. I'm not talking about him. I like Balmain. He's a, he's a, he's a tournament type, but yeah, I like him. Yeah. Well, he plays for someone else. I play for Lester for a hot minute too. That makes sense. He has got the hair for it.
00:25:20
Speaker
Right? Yeah. And when Glooski who plays for Atlanta, I think he's another one that got, got sent to the World Cup and he, you know, cool. He made the team. He never looked, looked like he belonged. So this is a chance this year. He needs to prove he belongs. So, um, I think he'll do fine in MLR, but it's just a matter of can he up his game and say, no, I'm not going to just do fine in MLR. I'm going to dominate every fricking scrum I'm in. So guys like that need to just show their class and, and, uh, they'll be on the plane.
00:25:50
Speaker
so very interesting stuff speaking of England oh wait we got another one to talk about real quick six nations round three unfortunately we did not see France and Scotland although apparently Galtier's been exonerated of all well
00:26:09
Speaker
Really? Yeah. I don't know if there's anything being looked into about the players. He was the key that they were looking into. So I don't know. I had heard things about the players, but I don't know if those were accurate. What if Galtif threw himself on, tried to throw himself onto the bus to protect them? I don't know. I mean, I don't know. I'm trying to give the guy a good look. I don't know what to do with any of this.
00:26:31
Speaker
Yeah. So they are trying to reschedule the last match at the end of the competition. So that kind of sucks. But competition may be willing to decide about that. So we'll find out. Might be. Yeah, we'll find out. We'll have to lose at least one. Well, no, two, right? Because they beat Scotland. They beat Scotland. So, yeah, Wales would have to lose twice. And yeah, well, they'd have to at least if they lose to France, that could be an issue. Yeah. But don't they sell it a little play?
00:26:57
Speaker
Wales are playing Italy next, I believe. Yeah. So it could be wrapped well wrapped up this week. Yeah. But if they lose, if they beat France, then that's the end. Oh, it's true. Because that's true. Because that will know would be I'm just saying for Scotland's sake. Oh, yeah. They'd be out that it's basically just Wales first France. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it leaves an interesting triangle at the end. That's for sure. But anyway, six nations, Ireland and Italy.
00:27:25
Speaker
I don't have a ton to say about this one. Varney got dropped and it felt like the fucking air went out of the match. That was it. That was really it. They just had nothing that really is not the same quality. After they were willing to bring Braley in from the stands to start over palazzani. I don't know what that says about palazzani. Yeah. You know, but even when palazzani came in, he actually gave him a spark. Maybe he's just not ready to play full, full starting match. Yeah. Right. Maybe so. Really can just eat up, eat up the clock, unfortunately, which is what you did.
00:27:54
Speaker
Right, and just ill-disciplined all over from Italy and, you know. I just want to point out the awesomeness of John Meyer. He was the bright spot.
00:28:11
Speaker
It's funny when we do these competitions of like Six Nations and World Cup and fantasy, the forwards are actually where you can find some hidden gems that you don't need to burn players from the bigger countries and Meyer would be an example of that. So yeah, just something to keep in mind out there for when we come back around to like a World Cup fantasy or even this year in the Six Nations.
00:28:35
Speaker
He's totally worth playing in your, in your six nations DRM team right now. I think his last couple of matches are 30 odd and 20 odd. So yeah, he's a, he's a thumbs up for me. He's a, he was on my team this week. So I was that, yeah. Although I captain tomorrow.
00:28:50
Speaker
You can't. Wow. I thought I screwed up when I kept in tag type burn. You know, I kept tomorrow. You. It sounds like you and a lot of people though. So got a zero. Yeah. That was helpful. Yeah. He was getting penalties left and right. But yeah, it's just, you know, this is Ireland.
00:29:07
Speaker
taking over and they, they, they, the thing that they can do well is suffocate the shit out of you and then just take advantage from there. Um, I mean, they just got like, they were just on the front foot the whole time. That's, that's them, you know, they're good men have to dig their heels in, but Italy never really forced them to dig their heels in. Yeah. Ireland was always, uh,
00:29:30
Speaker
Heels up, ready to go. Yeah, tails up, feet forward, all that good shit. All that, all everything up. Yep. Although I do want to give a tip of the slipper to, uh, Traori who, who bumped standard. I was like, who are you just bump? And I was like, that was CJ standard. That's no, that's not a nobody. That's pretty good. So give him that. I yeah, I've, I've heard nothing but good things about this kid. And, um, I think this is our first opportunity to actually see him. Yeah.
00:29:57
Speaker
you did not disappoint I want to see more of him why it wasn't he playing earlier I don't know the one thing that though Italy
00:30:08
Speaker
Wow. Shit. Who's there? They're tight head who just signed with the Saracen. Oh, yeah. Riccioni. Yeah. There we go. Come to the series. I'm excited about that. He looks in the past. He's been like a guy who I've just not. I don't like when guys are all tatted up and then they suck. And that had been Riccioni for a while. And he showed. I thought he played very well this weekend. Yeah, he's a tough not to cry. Now I'm excited for the cycle. I'm excited for him to come to Saracen's and I'm excited for Saracen's to make him better.
00:30:37
Speaker
Yeah, that's the one thing I will say, like, you know, when teams like Italy, countries like the US, so on and so forth, they hear they're going, a player, even Scotland, like, they hear a player is going to a big name like Exeter, like the Saracens, they're like, ooh.
00:30:56
Speaker
Ooh, I like this. You go there and you stay there for a little while, please. You know, we will hold the fort for you. Get some playing time there because it's only going to help you, you know. So, yeah, definitely guys like Franco Smith are going to be very excited to see Riccioni going to a place like like Saracens.
00:31:17
Speaker
All right, let's, let's do it. Let's go to it. Wales, England, Wales 40, England 24. Nothing really of note. Wayne Barnes are free this one, right? Oh, no, no, no. I'm pretty sure the referee was French. Oh, that shit. Right on to the other one, too. I will say this.
00:31:45
Speaker
He got shit on unnecessarily. It was bad.
00:31:51
Speaker
There's a lot of bad shit around this game and bad energy around this game. Yeah. The rugby world showed it's our big time with this game. Every part of it, even even even into the post game and we'll get to that. But and the after the post game, it's like it just kept getting worse. It got worse and worse and worse. And like because because here's the thing and the pisses me off because it started with something that was actually innocent. The Josh Adams try.
00:32:20
Speaker
That's fair fucking play. Yeah. Like, I don't know if you've seen the Squidge video yet, but he did a really good job with it, breaking down the timing of it. And also relative to other matches where he's like, look, from the time that, because Airtel's have a word and to the time that he blows,
00:32:46
Speaker
play on play on is almost is over nine seconds and he's like in other matches like this club this team got three seconds and this team didn't get any it was like they didn't call time off at all he just said you know have a word you know usually you're you're left to yell discipline boys discipline that's all you can do that's all what the hell do you need more than that and they brought water boys on like nobody yeah that's on that's on both that's on that's on you like you don't they just assumed that um
00:33:16
Speaker
that whales were kicking for points. And whales had some water carries on too, but yeah, like don't assume shit. Like they had not declared a damn thing. And we are under, referees are under the cost to get these games moving, not fuck around. So two girls' heirs' credit, and I am not going to credit a Frenchman lightly.
00:33:41
Speaker
He's like, fuck it. Let's keep going. Yeah. And it was even the Den Bigger was like, just let me know when time is on. Like that's all. It was just a simple request. Please let me know when time is on. Yeah. And goes, there's like, Hey, you know what? Why isn't time on? Like the way he said it, maybe, you know, maybe goes there like think like, Oh yeah, that's a good point. Fuck. We're all ready to play. Right. All right. Yeah. Let's go. Yeah. Time's on.
00:34:06
Speaker
No, he's down. Yeah. And Squidge actually did a good job of showing how some of the players were fucking off and some of them weren't. Yeah. The short side, the left side of the defense, they like, it was Johnny May or Elliot Daly was sprinting.
00:34:20
Speaker
And nobody was going out the other way. And it's like, so, you know, half your team is, is, has their head out of their ass, but it's the wrong half of your team. Yeah. It was the wrong half. They're in the wrong direction. So yeah. Hey, good on whales for, for spotting that. And, and Faz throws away any, any remaining hope of a, of the lion's captaincy, um, by just melting down, um, to the ref about it and the, I get it you're pissed, but don't be pissed at him. He didn't do anything wrong.
00:34:50
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. I mean, that one's gonna pick for that anyway, so. Yeah, exactly. Well, then there's a Toje who definitely pissed it away. Yeah, he got it hard done by a couple calls.
00:35:02
Speaker
I will say, but there were a couple that I was like, that's really avoidable. I mean, when you, when you have like what, three penalties in the first five minutes or something like that. Um, that's not great. No. At that point, you're not, you can't really claim to be too hard done the rest of the match. The referee is just going to be like, that guy doesn't play within the rules. So yeah, he's already got it in his head. Like this guy's going around. Right.
00:35:24
Speaker
Yeah, and I'm all for somebody that can posterize George Ford. Yeah, so that was good, too. Oh, shit. Then the the the knock. I mean, to England's credit, though, after the after that try, they came back, they got points and, you know, they showed they showed some fight, but then they fucking went and lost their heads completely in the last, what, 15 minutes or so. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah. So the knock. Oh.
00:35:57
Speaker
For me, it was enough. Here's how I find this a very nuanced situation because there were two other instances this weekend of similar plays. One was Crusader's Blue as Mitch Hunt
00:36:17
Speaker
hits the ball forward and then reaches his palm out and knocks it backwards, like slaps it backwards. Okay, he's played it back. Nobody ever questions that. That's a played backwards ball. Then there's the Ollie Thorley, which- He did the same thing. But he backhanded it. So to me, it's like, there's no chance of him actually playing it or controlling it. He's just swatting at it. There's no- I think Pierce was blocked, so it didn't help. Right.
00:36:47
Speaker
In this case, the final act of LRZ touching that ball, he kicks it backwards, or it goes backwards. Now, he can't control that, but I don't know. He's fucking magical with his feet.
00:37:05
Speaker
It's up to interpretation, like it's leaving it up to the interpretation of the referee and the referee is French. So he's gonna, even though it's a knock on, he's going to say, well, it's happens and it's locked backwards. So play on. And Liam Williams was joining on the spot and just said, fuck it, I'm gonna score this thing. And on the off chance that we get it, great. You beat everybody to the foot race. Was he right to rule it?
00:37:32
Speaker
a play on? No, no, that wasn't, I'm sorry. Yes, he was right to rule a play on because it was, he ruled a play on on the field, but it was a knock. Let's all be honest. There was, in the other two, there was at least somewhat element of control of what they were doing with the ball, even if it wasn't super controlled. LRC had no idea what he was doing.
00:37:56
Speaker
He's like, I have no idea what's going on right now, but it happened. You know, so yeah. Yeah. Hey, the kids live in a very, very. Yeah. He's definitely living a charmed life right now. Good Lord. Yeah. Charmed is better. Yeah. Good Lord. Um, so to, but then the, uh, then the Kieran Hardy quick tap, like after that, how was Elliot Daly going to sleep on that?
00:38:21
Speaker
Everybody went to sleep on that. Like, I'm just going to walk away, like literally turns his back on the ball. Yeah. There were some real hammerheaded penalties that they gave away in that, in, in that second half, for sure. The Johnny Hill penalty, where you swung around and, Oh, I didn't, I didn't know what my arm was doing. Johnny, you knew exactly what you're doing. That was way too easy. I think that was the first sheedy penalty. And I was just like, yep. And here you go. Like too many dumb penalties in a row, like,
00:38:49
Speaker
And the referee is that point is looking he doesn't you're not in his good graces. No, you got to be perfect at that point. Just bonehead, boneheadery. Yeah. And, you know, there's.
00:39:01
Speaker
It's the same problem with their attack. They don't, they have two playmakers on, on the field that are supposed to open it up and they don't really open it up. The few times they opened it up, they had good things happen and they got into good positions and then they fucking went into a shell. Or Kelly had dick hands, which hands. Um, yeah. And then, you know, just the, the,
00:39:26
Speaker
Got to, got to put some love on Callum Sheedy for having the balls to get all three penalties without even blinking. Yeah. He's like, I got this guys. And more than that, he made, he like, he's played well. He played extremely well. He's played really well since he's, I mean, since he came into the squad lot in the fall, but especially here in, in this competition, he's played really well. I think I've mentioned it before. Some, there are some guys who like, they, they play at a higher level and they're like, Oh,
00:39:52
Speaker
This is how I do. OK, I get it. They just fucking torch. And he seems to be one of those types. Yeah, he's he's got it covered. He's done. He he's really done well. And, you know, the Corey Hill charges, I said, I was like, that's game. And so where did what? The other thing is that Wales, they're you they're freezing out England's line out like England only had five line outs in the match.
00:40:22
Speaker
Yeah, they were smart because they know England's line-out is going to be way too easy for them. And Squidge actually had the stat. Last year's Six Nations, there were only three tries that England scored that did not come after a line-out. And like one was a scrum and two were like interceptions or something, whatever. And it's like, that's fuck, that's ridiculous. Well, they did their homework because they didn't kick it directly to touch at all.
00:40:50
Speaker
The one time it went to touch was on a box kick that bounced. That's the only time that Wales kicked it out of hand that it went to touch. Yeah. So credit to them. They did their homework and they, uh, they understood what they were up against and credit to Kieran Hardy for playing a pretty damn good match. Even started off shaky by getting charged down by Maro and almost giving away a try, but, um, responded well and got his own try.
00:41:14
Speaker
It's like, welcome to the show, kid. Yeah, that was definitely a welcome to the show. Good morning. Maro's going to do that. Yeah. He did it a lot. So that was the thing. Like he's done it a lot in the last three weeks. So you cannot take, we have a, let's just slow, um, relax box kick. It's gotta be on. It's gotta be snappy and gone.
00:41:35
Speaker
Yup, it's going to be gone. So, uh, you know, credit to the whales. They've, they, they came into the six nations being dogged pretty hard. Um, and they responded by us too. Oh yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. We are not innocent in any way, shape or form. No way. Yeah, absolutely. By, by, by everybody, like killing people that probably believed this weren't even Welsh. It was well, maybe it was just the Welsh camp, but that was it, you know,
00:42:00
Speaker
So to their credit, that was good. That was good for them. Is this the end of the line for Eddie? Not right now, but after the Six Nations? I don't know. I don't know how you go on with this man. I don't know how you beat France. That's the thing for them. And if you lose three games at Six Nations, here's the thing. And I remember this a while ago after this match.
00:42:27
Speaker
There was one Six Nations that was awful for England under Eddie. It was second one. They were riddled with injuries and you know, riddled with injuries silly with some decent players. But there was some pretty key cogs missing and I'm like, and they got talked. They got talked for most of the Six Nations. So with the exception of I think Italy. So to that, this is not that team.
00:42:54
Speaker
And they're going to probably lose three matches. Yeah. Cause I wouldn't be shocked if Ireland figured it out. Oh, Ireland, Ireland aren't playing terribly. You know, so I won't be shocked if they figure it out. And if they lose to either of the next two opponents, I don't know how you keep going with Eddie. Like you're two years out, you're in the exact timeframe that you can manage to replace a coach.
00:43:17
Speaker
And who do you, like, really, are you really gonna go into the World Cup with fucking Ben Youngs and George Ford? Are you really gonna do that? You're not, you shouldn't. So why are they like, the selections don't make sense. The outcomes make sense based on the selections. So like, how can you, like, there's certain guys that I'm just like, I've seen enough of them at this level and they're not it.
00:43:44
Speaker
You know, the guys I mentioned there, Johnny May, what are they like? He had that nice finish. But other than that, which you didn't even finish this match. No, I mean, the nice finish in a different match. But in Italy, right. Yeah. Okay. You get a nice. You don't overland against Italy. I would expect any.
00:44:06
Speaker
any man wearing 11 for England to be able to do that. That's a play that you should be making if you're an England winger. That doesn't give you any special credit. It's the plays that he's not making in that jersey that are problematic. There's plenty of people in reserve there. I
00:44:29
Speaker
I'm, I'm, I'm unimpressed with a lot of the team and, uh, it's, I think a lot of people are sticking with them and he's sticking with them because they're his guys and that's not a good way to coach. No, no, no, no. And I get having a core group of guys, but a core group is like five guys, not the right group, right? Not 15. You know,
00:44:48
Speaker
Yeah, Eddie, you know, or Jamie George and Luke Howendicki are your core hookers. Nobody will question you. Nobody's second guessing you there. No, not their props. I don't think anybody's second guessing the props. No, I think Sinclair and Mac or exactly exactly the two guys you need right now. And even the backups. Right. They're they're just they're.
00:45:06
Speaker
Yeah, and for the people that fucking harass Ganj, fuck you. Yeah. Like for the people that were harassing Ganj and sending death threats, fuck you. You know, please come out from behind your keyboard, you sackless piece of shit. Let's go. God.
00:45:25
Speaker
And then locks. I mean, right now, even at Tojay, this last match notwithstanding and Johnny Hill, who you won over those two, right? Yeah. Into the flankers and getting the flankers and you're like, you know, the background starts to get a little funny. Curry played better this match. He was a little bit more active and did a lot of good things. Made a couple of bad moves, too, but I'm just I'm not impressed overall. He's better. But I mean, I would much rather see Zack Mercer in that seven, seven jersey right now.
00:45:54
Speaker
There's a lot of people there. I know he plays eight, but I don't give a fuck. Yeah, you could stick him at seven totally. Right. Well, when Dom Brannett said they used to put Mercer at seven and and Palitow at eight at Bath. That was right. There's no problem there. Right. And then Dom at six and Simmons at eight and eight. And fuck, I'm taking that. Like you don't I don't I don't really have much time for Curry. And I love the guys. I love.
00:46:21
Speaker
You know, Mark Wilson Wilson. Yeah. But if you're going to give me the option of him or Dom, I'm taking Dom and I'm not. Yeah, right now, right now. And I would be OK with Mercer being in reserve, but not Mercer. I'm excuse me, Wilson in reserve. But it's still like Underhill, but shit. Yeah, he's broken right now. It's broken. So what are you going to do? But yeah, like it's just so Eddie. Can we talk about the sorry to take it over for one more thing? Yeah, the.
00:46:51
Speaker
the post-game interview and the reaction afterwards. It was perfectly fine with what she did. I disagree. I think she did a very bad job, but that doesn't mean she gets to be abused. She asked a similar question about two different incidents. There's nothing wrong with that. But she asked three questions. She only asked three questions, and the three questions she asked, she knew she was getting no answer to them.
00:47:18
Speaker
So you never know. Owen was pretty hot. He was hot. But after the first one, that's it. You have you get one to test the waters. And then after that, ask some sort of insight. There's no insight out of it. And she knew she was getting after the first question. She knew she wasn't going to. So just no poor job. It turned into harassment. I'm all right. I'm all right with her asking those questions. I have no problem with that. If if Ferrell can't withstand
00:47:45
Speaker
Two questions about two different incidences. It's not about can he stand it. It's still bullying, right? It's not bullying. It's absolutely bullying. He's not bullying him. Give me a break. She's asking him questions in order to provoke him. She's bullying him. It was bad. He had to know it's coming. No, that's not an excuse.
00:48:07
Speaker
She's not everybody wanted to know what he thought about those two instances. Everybody wanted to. I wanted to. You want to. Everybody wanted to. We know he can't give us his honest thoughts. So it's not fair to put him in that position. So and she knew it. And so she she fucked up. But the harassment she took for it was way out of line. Way, way, way notwithstanding. That's bullshit, guys. Like, fuck you all. Yeah. Yeah, I think we'll agree to disagree on that one.
00:48:36
Speaker
All right. Let's go super rug because that was, that was still fun. Even though the freaking penalties, we saw this last year at super rugby without you're around one, lots of penalties. It got fixed. You know, it got fixed. It happens. One, you just get ill discipline. So that happens. Although yes, ill discipline. How did, how did Moody not get carded?
00:48:57
Speaker
I don't know. It's because it's been okay. The open, you know, I guess open fist, but he's hitting him with the the palm, you know, that the ball of his fist. Moody knew what he was doing. He's like, I'm not hitting you with my fist because I know I'm gonna get sent off if I do that. But like, yeah, that that maybe that works the once but we could throw like four or five.
00:49:18
Speaker
Yeah, you threw a few of them. At some point, you got to be like, yeah, you're just striking him for no reason, like literally for no reason. Like he's at that point just defending himself from you by trying to hold you away and you're still swatting at him. Like, no, just leave him alone and nothing. Yeah, should have been carded, but. Yeah, but they, well, I mean, and this was this was a lot of fun. Yeah, thanks to our unnamed benefactor for hooking us up with some two roll action, by the way.
00:49:44
Speaker
this was, it was comparative for a long time. And then the Crusaders did their usual thing and figured it out because that's what they do. Halamalo, former chief, did a very good job of keeping Crusaders off the board a few times out of it. Yeah, he's not bad. Did some excellent work on defense.
00:50:08
Speaker
Uh, you can only do so much. Yeah. There's only so much. Yeah. So barista is not bad at all. That's just a monster. He's not nice. Um, there was, there was a lot going on in this match. Really? Um, we had Will Jordan drop late. That didn't help anybody at all. Unless you're playing against him in fantasy. Right. Um, but that, yeah, I'm sure the Crusaders weren't exactly excited to find that one out. But it was, um,
00:50:39
Speaker
Yeah, it's pretty, this was a pretty good game for the most part. Um, Connor garden, Bashup got over for Zell with that seed from, from Aaron Smith. I was like, that was on a lot to that. You were going to get it right at the beak and probably break your nose. Like God catch that as much as absorb it. Yeah. Protected himself. Yeah.
00:51:02
Speaker
Like don't, not in the face. Not the face. Oh man. That was it. Yeah. I was off. I can see my goodness. Um, and some guy named Cody Taylor is pretty good too. He's all right. That was a hell of a line. He ran too. I was like, Oh wow. That guy's gone. Didn't you get that ball from white lock?
00:51:23
Speaker
I don't recall. I think so. I didn't, I didn't make note of it. I was like, that's not like a 10 handing him that ball. That was a fricking lock. This is, this is just mean. It was just mean. So yeah, crusaders figured it out 26 13 over the Islanders. Oh man. Um, yeah. And then over to the hurricanes. Yuck for my hurricanes. Good Lord.
00:51:44
Speaker
Yeah, that was lots of bad super ill-disciplined all the way around The hurricanes were and they just put it in the referee's mind that they were gonna be competing Committing penalties all day and that's basically what he decided to do penalize them all day a couple of cards like Yeah, was not good no but Dink holds replacement
00:52:08
Speaker
Aamua, yeah. Aamua, he can scoot a little bit. Yeah, he did quite well. Shot out of a cannon and just like, zoom! And literally like a bowling ball knocking over pins because nobody held him down. He just like, boom, and it falls. And then, all right, I'll just walk it back up and get over the line. Yeah, it was like he threw a strike. Yeah. Who bowled the strike? That was Aamua. Yeah, that was a good job from him. But I mean, really, yeah.
00:52:36
Speaker
the rest of the match. It's tough for the Hurricanes. I'm actually looking at the lineup right now, and I'm wondering who are going to be their match winners this year. Artie's a Superman right now, but he's only going to be able to do so much. So they're going to need some guys to step up. Peter Amaga Jensen didn't start this match. I think he will next match. That's only to my judgment.
00:53:00
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. We'll see. Dewey didn't play this match. Here's the thing. They used to have some decent second rows and one guy was a guy that used to play for Worcester. Once upon a time, last year, got hurt, unfortunately. Fatty Lofo was awesome for them.
00:53:17
Speaker
You know, Sam Welles, he was pretty good. And now they're down to like nothing like Scrafton, who's actually probably going to be out because he turned the shit out of his ankle if you didn't see it coming down from a line out. I was like, yeah, that's not good. That's broken. I bet it's broke. So, yeah, so he's done.
00:53:33
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know if they're going to find any purchase from the second row right now. Obviously, Amul is going to provide that along with Kohl's in the front row. And then the back row, like, I don't know who's really doing if he stops being a bonehead. He can he can be he can help, but he needs to stop being stupid. And then Artie.
00:53:55
Speaker
And the back line's got a lot, but you know, the, the, the forwards need to, they need to guys to step up. Cause I look at, I look across the way and that's a mean front row with the blues back and forth, like lay to a new coffee to uncle Fosse. Well, Nippo Lala's there now. Like, yeah, that's a mean front row. I, there's no messing around with that.
00:54:19
Speaker
So I don't know. I don't know. I think this could be a rough year. Yeah. But then you also, I mean, even the two Pilates block, just, oh yeah, a beast. And certainly that back row is just nasty. That was just not fun. Probably with the early try. Um, fucking, Oh, the two dunder heads that were involved in that Blackwell and Flanders. I was like, what are you two doing? Like, I think Fipita was in there too. Like,
00:54:46
Speaker
What are you knuckleheads doing? Just either if you can't kick deep to touch, then just hold the fort. Don't try to throw up through the pass. Yep. And you fucked it up. And it's done. Oh, so that was pretty awful. But to the Blues credit, they absolutely took advantage of every single thing they possibly could and did not miss. So good. I mean, Parafet,
00:55:11
Speaker
the Yawani try at the end was just the dagger. I was just like, that's the end. Yeah, that was, yeah. That's what I wrote too. Oh no, it was the, yeah, the parapetal, yep. Cause then, and then Rico. Yeah. Just kind of sealed the deal. I was like, all right, we can maybe get a, maybe get a bonus point out of this. Nope. Nevermind. Nevermind. Nevermind. So blues pickup right where they left off 3116 over the hurricanes. And I am licking my wounds. That's for damn sure. Yuck.
00:55:40
Speaker
That was not fun. All right. Let's go to the prem. Friday night, we had sale and Exeter. And this is what happens when you play AJ. Yeah. And you can hit kicks. You can take kicks when they're given to you. Like he's hitting basically anything that's inside the 10. That provides value. Last I checked. It certainly did on Friday. That's for damn sure.
00:56:09
Speaker
Right. They need every point. Yeah. And on the other side, though, I did like our text exchange, which was you asked what didn't Sam Simmons do today? And my response was you didn't win the game.
00:56:27
Speaker
That's not at all. What else could he do? What else could he do? Yeah, I honestly, the only thing he could have done would be to have caught that last line out and just said, fuck everybody, all you fuckers out of my life. Move out of the way. I'm taking this to myself. That's literally all he could have done. I know. And it's not so. Yeah, I'm not putting the game on him because he was the really the only one who showed up right outside of his brother and
00:56:57
Speaker
Yes. Joe Simmons had a good game. Finally. Yeah. We've been waiting on that one. Yeah. It's really tough to, yeah. It's tough to say that we saw the return of the lewd this week too. We did.
00:57:10
Speaker
We did and played okay. Yeah, he played all right. He looks pretty fit. He looks like he's ready to roll. Look out. 17 tackles. How many laps do you win? Like every one of them, but six. Yeah, it's pretty good. That's pretty good. Last I saw 38 meters in a clean break. Like, yeah, lock stuff. Good for him. Yeah. Yeah. Good on him. That's, that's the stuff you need out of your lock. Um,
00:57:35
Speaker
Was that first try not a forward pass? Did I miss something where if the ball starts behind the line and ends up in front of the line, it's not forward? Did we have a French referee in this match? No, we didn't. I don't know who the other ref was, but it wasn't good.
00:57:51
Speaker
Yeah, no, no do good. Yeah, that was, and then the team, they were even, didn't they look at it? No, I thought they did, but I don't think they looked at it. I don't think they looked at that pass. I think they looked at other stuff. I thought, I can't remember either way. Yeah, they didn't even give it a look, that particular pass a look, otherwise it would have been.
00:58:13
Speaker
disallowed probably. And then we saw another red card, unfortunately, at least I think it was the only red card we saw this weekend. No, it was. It was. Okay. So that I recall, we're, we're, we're, we're fixing things here slowly. And yeah, it'll new. Here's the, and here's the thing here. Here's the thing that drives me absolutely batshit nuts about
00:58:33
Speaker
Jono Ross, like Jack Handel is getting a red card and he knows and he just takes his medicine and walks off. Jono Ross has clearly committed infractions and at every fucking turn when the referee is whistling against him, he's like, I don't know what I did. It's like, you absolutely know what you did, you jackass. Jono, I seem to recall there was a penalty late in the game.
00:58:57
Speaker
on him, that the referee looked like he was going to his pocket. And I think the only reason that he didn't was because he's like, if I give him a yellow, it's got to be a red, too. And I think he decided he didn't want a red card, John O. Ross. And but that's like, that was a yellow, but I'm not going to make it a red because it's like, no, fucking that's John O. Ross. He needs another red because he's a dick. You know, dick multiple times, then, especially when you know you're on a yellow and you're a dick again.
00:59:27
Speaker
Yeah. You dick. Like, get out of my fucking game. Yeah, I'm sure, right? Sorry, Anton. I love most of you guys, but, well, some of you guys, but John and Ross is... That's not one of them. Not on the list. That's not one of them. He's a dick. Yeah. Bristol Lester. Thoughts? Lester looked very Worcester.
00:59:50
Speaker
Yeah, he did say that. That's quite accurate. Yeah. They get close and then they poop themselves. Right. They didn't really threaten much beyond the three penalty kicks. Those were off of like, hey, they did something. No. OK, well, at least they got a penalty out of it. That was basically there. That's Lester's game right there. Yeah, right. That was the summation of it pretty much. And Bristol also, the first half played a pretty Worcester match. It's just that they got over. They sorted it out for just a few minutes in spurts, and that was enough.
01:00:19
Speaker
Yeah. Just, just had enough, just had enough quality in there. Yeah. Like definitely a letdown game for Bristol. Yeah. They should have got a bonus point out of this. Yeah. And they didn't. But they were, luckily they were playing a team that just sat everybody. Yeah. I think what Blake said, all right, we're losing this game. I'm just going to park everybody. Right. And play some players who, uh, you know, gets them some time. Get some time. I will say that, um, the Moroni, uh,
01:00:45
Speaker
non-dump. Non-dump tackle? Fuck yes. Great job, man. Yeah, that's. I mean, he got carded later, but. Yeah, yeah, he he he he realized what was going on. He's like, oh, this is going to end badly. I need to. Right. Correct this. And so he showed some goddamn.
01:01:01
Speaker
common courtesy for the guy on the other team. Yeah. Like, don't let him on his head. Don't let him on his head. Right. And he just, he let him on his head, but he lowered him onto his head. Oh yeah. It was a slow, like, all right, here's a gentle touchdown. Do not kill yourself, please. Did the ref go over and thank him or something? Yeah. Something like that afterwards. Good job. Like, good. That's, yes. Appropriate player and refereeing and all that stuff. All that good stuff. Yeah. That's the kind of rugby we want to see.
01:01:30
Speaker
If we're going to see something potentially foul, like maybe not foul play. How about that? It's not that hard. Yeah. Let's try not to do that. Newcastle and Quinn's tough game. Probably one of the better ones of the weekend. Yeah.
01:01:48
Speaker
I think wasn't somebody mentioning that they were going to play Tyrone Green because I thought he might be coming due. Yeah, there it goes. Damn, he's fast. I can see why you were talking about him. Yeah, I just I was disappointed that he hadn't played much, but man.
01:02:06
Speaker
I hope they keep playing. That was pretty good. Or is that just that Harlequin's 14 jersey is blessed at the moment? It might be both of those, I don't know. Louis Lina, when he throws that jersey on, is something they'll do. Seems to be a Superman too, yeah. I agree.
01:02:23
Speaker
But yeah, I loved his first try off the line out. Just cut through the parting of the seas. But they ran a crossing play. So they had Baldwin, they had the jumper catch at the top, pop it down.
01:02:39
Speaker
Baldwin going one way, the scrum heft going the other as in the scrum hefts showing like he's going down the channel. Right. And the pop goes to Baldwin, who just sprints to the towards the center of the field. And all the defense is like, Oh, hooker, we're gonna have to run for him. And then fucking comes down green, green just cuts right behind him. And it's like, well,
01:03:02
Speaker
That's just a great play. You pull the gunner away, make him think that he's got to look the other way and you just run right to where you pulled him from. Excellent structure for that.
01:03:17
Speaker
But then the second one was just all him because he's like, Oh, he's gone. Isn't he? Yes, he is. He's gone. Damn. Yeah. He's tough. He's a bugger. Um, good to see him. Callum chick back for, uh, the new castle Falcons. That was a piece that they probably were very, very happy to be back. That eight Jersey, I think is talking about blessed jerseys. I think that eight Jersey for new castle seems to be pretty blessed. Um,
01:03:42
Speaker
Yeah, Connor with the spot start played all right. Yeah, there was there was this is a this is a gritty performance from Newcastle and a couple weeks off. I'm sure they were happy to just get out there and play. Yeah, you know, actually hit someone and do rugby things.
01:03:57
Speaker
Right. And, you know, here's hoping that I don't know what the news is on him, but man, I hope Adam Radwin is OK, because that was not fun. I'm hoping for one of two scenarios and hoping it's not the third. So yeah, this is one I think I texted you about on Saturday because I was giving you like tips on what to watch and what to look out for.
01:04:22
Speaker
Um, something not to watch. And I was like, there's about 60 minutes in, don't watch the replay. I saw it live. I was like, Oh, that's not good. I saw it as I was watching it. I was like, Oh, that I don't need to see the replay of that. Cause I know it's not going to be good. Yeah. That went the wrong direction. Yeah. That was not good.
01:04:41
Speaker
Oopsie, but the Falcons win and kind of get back to it. Gwen's loose for the first time. I thought Marcus Smith was going to be Superman and it didn't quite work out and be able to lead him over the victory. But so close, so close yet so far. All right, let's go to real quick. Was Irish much here.
01:05:05
Speaker
I think I recall mentioning about the scene of the crime from last year. This match was basically the same match as the opening weekend of last year when Irish walked into the Rico and walked out with a win. That was like an ugly win, but a win. Win just the same. There it is. Yeah. Hassel Collins over. Good for him.
Match Highlights and Key Plays
01:05:28
Speaker
Tom Willis still pretty good. Not bad.
01:05:33
Speaker
Good on that boy. Not bad. Nope, not bad at all. Yeah, just a sloppy one all around. Tough to, and then just the penalty at the end for Blair Cowan, just rescuing the game. Cause I could have, they could easily kind of knocked over the door at that point. Yeah. But yep. Blair Cowan to the rescue. But of course it's going to end at a penalty. It was just one of those matches that was going to like, you know, the team was going to get close to winning and then fuck it up again. And then that was it. Agreed. Agreed. Agreed. Um, Gloucester Worcester.
01:06:03
Speaker
Jeez. Um, Oh, so my thoughts on Gloucester Worcester are, um, was so Worcester figured out that if they don't pass the ball, if they just, if Nick David just catches a kick and runs, runs where everyone's and then scores that that's the way they're going to score. Cause, um, what their only other, the only other score that the match was a penalty try. So, um, they only got over once and that's, that's the only way they scored Nick David's pretty good too. So pretty good.
01:06:33
Speaker
Uh, so yeah, not, not really much of a match. No, we're pretty much in control other than, than that. I mean, they were scoring on their, their yellow car and it was not good for Worcester. No, it was less than great. Uh, 12, she's got over. So I'm sorry. Gloucester gave up the yellow and the penalty try because for, for Balmain.
01:06:54
Speaker
and then on the yellow card period, they scored two tries. So they actually won the whole fucking deal anyway there. How fucking Worcester. Yeah, very Worcester. Very Worcester. Even Chris Ashton gets Worcester. Oh God, he was scoring the try before he even had it in his hand. Worcester, it's Worcester. It gets in your blood. Yeah.
01:07:19
Speaker
I was like, oh, Ashley, what are you doing, man? And we had, we had Kyle Moyle bum. Yeah. That's, that's it. Kyle Moyle bum. We did have some Scott Barrett bum too. Oh, seriously, I didn't see that. Oh, his drawers were down, dude. Like he was trying to fix them on the field.
Record-breaking Performances
01:07:38
Speaker
I was like, oops, you had to pull those ones up, big guy.
01:07:43
Speaker
Uh, and then probably if it wasn't, if in the, in the league, if it wasn't the Friday night match, I think this was the match of the weekend, Northampton and bath. That was a hell of a fucking effort from the bath men from the young best man. Yeah. A lot of them. Tom James gets to, um, I'm sorry. That was Northampton. Sorry. I thought that's that's where we were going. Um, yeah. Well, Northampton and bath. Yeah.
01:08:08
Speaker
All right. I missed something. Yeah, you did. It's okay. Where did we go? Where am I? Where should I be? You cross the street there. You're talking about Baff and then you start talking about Northampton players. Oh, okay. Well, that's because fucking Northampton were awesome. At least those two. Right until the end. Yeah. Well, yeah. Because I thought the best really Baff, it was really bringing on Ben Spencer and Rory McConaughey.
01:08:34
Speaker
Yeah. Score your returns. He played pretty well when he got off the bench. Northampton came out 19, like they had almost a bonus point. They almost scored the fastest bonus point in the, um, try in the prem this season. So it's like, yeah, that's why I was talking about Northampton because that was, this is the only time to talk about Northampton was Tom James scoring two and, and Freeman getting them three. And then, um,
01:08:58
Speaker
And they didn't see the trial line again. Right. And then Spencer and McConaughey and someone else.
01:09:05
Speaker
The guy named Zach Mercer. Oh, him. Yes. I forgot about him. I had Eddie Jones syndrome. Yeah. I know. Right. Oh God. Yeah. This pork. I mean, go Mercer, go make him money in France, dude. You got stuck on the, you got put on the bench for a potential cap and Eddie didn't bring him on. Like what the fuck, dude? Like, you know, same, same thing with like George Martin this past weekend, belong nowhere on that bench. But if you're going to put him on the bench, like what the fuck?
01:09:32
Speaker
Yeah. And, you know, and it's not as though your players out there were doing so fucking hot. No shit. Why not? Why not? Fuck Eddie. Yeah. Yeah. Eddie, are you OK? No, that's why you got to definitely not. Definitely. The word is definitely not. And of course, we've got to mention Reese Priestlin smashing smashing records. Yeah. Wilkinson Wilkinson level records. Yeah. No, that's no that's no small feat.
01:09:59
Speaker
And putting and adding like it wasn't just that he broke it. He broke it and then he kept kicking. Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, talk about, you know, we talked about Sheedy having some clangers in that position, massive clangers on those. No problem. Some of them weren't easy kicks. It's not as though they were, you know, and even the easy ones when you're under pressure like that, they're not easy. Right.
01:10:22
Speaker
Yeah, it was just no, it was no problem for, for Reese. He's just like, yep. Another day at the office. No problem. The, and we have to, you know, he's not had a great season, but I have to talk about Spencer with the tackle on big T to save the dry. I was like, that is not a small, that is not a big, that is a big man. And Spencer is not a big man. And he just said, whatever. Well, for a nine, Spencer is pretty large. So, but still.
01:10:50
Speaker
Uh, yeah, well, it's Nairovoro. It's Nairovoro. That's not a nobody. Yeah. Good on the boy. That was an effort. And that's that Eddie, are you watching? Yeah. No, right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
01:11:05
Speaker
Big fellas back. It was a very entertaining game all around. It was. All the way to the end. It was tight. It was worth the watch. All it was going to take was one penalty either way to really set it. It didn't go into extra minutes. No, they stole it right at the end. Yeah, and just hoofed it out. Yep, that was the end. But yeah, it's certainly squeaky bomb time.
01:11:34
Speaker
Yeah. Good on path for they've continued to bounce pretty well here since, since that went against, um, the three in a row now. Yeah. I'm three in a row now against, uh, yeah. Since that one again, sale. So that's the streak for them. I'm sure. Yeah. Something like that. I think Stewart Hooper is feeling pretty good about that now. All right. Um, roll it over. I mean, see me rolling. Um, start set.
01:12:05
Speaker
I'm sorry to say, am I going first? I believe you are up. All right. So where am I? It's chiefs, highlanders. Oh, my chiefs. Yes.
01:12:17
Speaker
For the Chiefs, they're more back-based, especially considering that we're not going to get Bashir this match. So really start Webber, Gatlin, Nanai Satoro, ALB, and Wainui, that they'll get opportunities because whatever the score is, they'll be given them the ball.
01:12:39
Speaker
for the Highlanders, Frizzell should have some space to run through and again, Kane will be out there, but no Bashir, I think that gives Frizzell a good amount of space. Same for Joshiwani, Jonah Norecki, fuck, you're going to be starting him, and Mitch Hunt. That's who I'm looking at.
01:13:00
Speaker
There's a name that's missing and he'll come up later. Yeah. Um, Crusaders in the hurricanes. My hurricanes were not in the mood defensively last week, apparently. So could lead to some, some more big points for the Crusaders this week. Um, yeah. Defending James coming into town. Yikes.
01:13:19
Speaker
Oh, let's start with the, um, or actually, no, it's, I think they're going to the defending champs down. Excuse me. Um, anyway, for the, for the crusaders, uh, Josh Mackay looked better than Fiaki when he came in and there won't be well, Jordan for awhile. So that's probably your fullback. So go ahead and give that a thumbs up. And Sam Whitelock might be that undroppable second row in this league. So that's definitely somebody I'd be rolling out there every week. You possibly can.
01:13:47
Speaker
Well, on the other side, I'm not sure like anything in the back row for the Crusaders fantasy wise, it's somebody's going to have to stick their hand up and I'm going to have to wait on that for now. So nope. And then don't be fooled by Britain Hall last week. Yeah, he got to try. That helps. He's still only got like seven points. So that's when you balloon to seven points. Yeah, that's a problem. So don't.
01:14:12
Speaker
for the hurricanes. Billy Proctor was the better of the two midfielders. So if he's in, play him. Um, yeah, like I said, it might be a maga Jensen Lamape is playing. So it's probably going to be, it'd be one of the other two odd men out. Um, front row is actually viable because of Amua and Cole's. So I know Cole's is out for a bit, but I'm always certainly going to pick up the load for a little while. It looks like so.
01:14:34
Speaker
They still had like a ridiculous point total. So they had decent point total. Yeah. So give them a thumbs up there and a little entitled Lomax isn't bad either. I like him. Um, on the other side, if I have a feet, I might have to shift to lock this week because of Scrafton being out. So that's a near as a loose forward playing lock. No way. Um, don't risk it. And this is the wrong week to get cute with, um, Jonathan, Tom, and Channing, um, crusaders limited, Aaron Smith, Aaron Smith.
01:15:04
Speaker
Who? Yeah, that guy. So don't know. Don't get cute. Isn't he almost as good as Anton DuPont? He's probably two. He's probably number two. If you're not as good as Anton DuPont, what are you? Not the best player in the world. Are we offered to the audience? Over to the AU that we don't get to watch. Taz versus the Force.
01:15:32
Speaker
This one, I'm fascinated because the ties kind of threw a curve ball at us with Nwakatinawasi at 15 and Maddox at 14. Right. Odd, but I'm actually really looking forward to.
01:15:44
Speaker
Change the jersey sometimes as you get kind of would like to see it, but now I'm sad But it's interesting I think but I think that would also start them at those positions anyway because they're fucking good Tuzano and Harrison should score well as well after that it gets kind of fuzzy because you got to figure with some of the you know who may be subbed out quickly and and You know what that the score goes goes up. I'm
01:16:11
Speaker
I'm still, I'm not sold on Ram right now. I'm not sure that he's fully fit. I know we mentioned that he is nursing a groin injury. Um, he's not showing like he's, uh, the old James, the James Ram we saw last year. So don't know what to do with that. Um, on the other side for the force, um,
01:16:32
Speaker
to be decurring Drani love 13s and he's one that's going to get the ball a lot. Rob Carney scored fairly well at his last appearance. I don't think anything changes there. Um, that, uh, Kubely at nine should might have, uh, some open, some finding some openings. Cause, um, Jack grant is not certainly not the Todd's first choice. Um, no, unfortunately it's all for a bit. So, right. So what like eight weeks. So.
01:17:00
Speaker
Yeah, not great. I think Hubelli could find some space there at the Crafty Veteran. And shoot, Harrison. Where did I fucking get that name from? Don't worry about that. No, I'm sorry. There it was. It was on the wrong line. Kane Koteka.
01:17:20
Speaker
I think he's going to have a hell of a match too out of the seven spot. Cause again, backups from half service might not be as good. Seven should be all over that ship. There you go. Yeah. Yeah. Brumby's and rebels. Brumby's off to a rolling start. No one's, no one's surprised. Rebels putting up a fight, did put up a fight last week against the reds who are obviously a quality team. We'll see what that matchup next week brings when it's the reds of Brumby's that do battle.
01:17:47
Speaker
Anyway, um, for the rebels, Reese Hodge is probably uncitable right now for centers, especially because midfielders are, uh, can be tough. Um, so go ahead and roll that guy out there. Uh, Michael Wells might be startable, uh, as their eight man, they need nice Arani back, but he's probably startable. Just temper expectations. Yeah. I'm not, I'm not a big fan of eights in, in the super rugby competition for the most part. I don't find them to be scoring. It's certainly not as well as sevens do.
01:18:13
Speaker
Yeah. Well, Jerome Brown didn't store school the other week. I'll talk to him. Joe Powell might, this might not be the week this week. Um, the Rumbies did give up points to prior and Cabeli, but that was in a blowout and toss got squashed last week. The toss half backs did. So just
01:18:32
Speaker
Be on the lookout. Lachlan Anderson is another guy that might be okay, but avoid if you can. He's playing 14 for them I think this week, the Rebels. Yeah, Brumbies aren't nice to have outside backs usually. On the other side, Brumbies speaking outside backs. Mack Hansen performed well the last two weeks, so keep it rolling. Give him a thumbs up. Rob Valentini seems to be a better option than Brown of late.
01:18:52
Speaker
Um, he scored a little bit better than Brown has lost two games. So I'll give him, I'll give him the go. Nick white seems to not be doing what he used to do that scored him points. So, you know, I've talked about a couple of scrum hats that you probably shouldn't play, but you probably also stuck in the position where you got to play them. So just keep an eye on the, those expectation things. Um, Isaac finds he's not playing this week, but he's actually lifted.
01:19:16
Speaker
He is. I've picked him up in at least one of our leagues. He's out this week, but yeah, just keep an eye on that because he's not playing that back this year. Right. And then aforementioned Jerome Brown. Gotta see it now. You know, he's not, he's not performed well in the first two weeks. So we're just about there.
01:19:36
Speaker
of the weeks, you or me? I'll go. My start of the week, it's hard to know again, you don't, I'm not sure what the Highlanders are gonna bring. They're going against the Chiefs first, you know, first week. So there's just a little bit more there for the Highlanders and the Chiefs are gonna go through some growing pains. But I'm still gonna stick with the tossers of the force and Jack Maddox.
01:20:01
Speaker
Jack Maddox. I like that. I think I'm a lot. Yeah. I consider Nalka Tenawasi as well, but yeah, that's not well. And I can't do two start of the week. So no, you can't. Maddox is a good one. Um, I spoke about this guy, uh, during our draft and he got himself off to a fly or last week. Um, this week he plays a team that were very generous in games and years past. So I'm wondering, he has another big one this week. So my style of the week for round three, super rugby is highlanders high flyer.
01:20:32
Speaker
That's a quality pick. I didn't want to go against your team.
01:20:40
Speaker
twice. Fair enough. So do you want to do your sit and I'll do on mine? Yeah. Um, so my say of the week, um, I have this guy, so it paints me to say this. Um, but as his opposition has eaten this position, I mentioned him earlier, um, his opposition have had breakfast and lunch. He's dinner. My say of the week is wallabies and rebels halfback Joe Powell. Oh, harsh.
01:21:08
Speaker
Yeah. For someone with such glorious hair. I don't know. Well, I assume he still has that hair. He does. He does. I've seen the hair. Long flowing locks. It's beautiful. I miss it. I want to see you.
01:21:24
Speaker
Um, my, my sit of the week is a guy who, um, he's in firmly in my need to see it stage. And, um, Justin, if you're listening, I'm sorry, cover your ears. Um, but this guy, he suffered without, uh, I talked about alamalo earlier, you know, and the job he's done on the Highlanders, but without him on the team last year in games where Damien McKenzie had to play without alamalo. He.
01:21:54
Speaker
Didn't perform. Yeah. And and so to to really plant my flag on the gotta see it out of Damien McKenzie, I'm making him my sit of the week to the week again. Bear in mind, I'm the mush. Yeah, but maybe I'll go off, but he's my sit of the week. Yeah, so that's where it's at now. Personal reasons. So you say. So you say, all right, I think you're first up.
01:22:22
Speaker
I will be anyway. Lester versus London Irish. Lester, I just don't, I don't like the way they're playing, obviously. At least they played last week and I'm not liking their options this week. Montoya, obviously go for fantasy. Zach Henry has actually been putting up points. Say what you will about his fly halfery, but he puts up points. So, so bite the bullet. Don't, don't, don't let his, his,
01:22:53
Speaker
You know, growing maturity is a 10 and growing pains, growing pains. Yeah. Don't take that as, as he's not going to score your points because he still will score your points. Um, the Irish are really giving up a lot of points to locks, but, uh, Lester locks don't score against anybody.
01:23:09
Speaker
So stay away from them. But Tommy Rafel, yes. On the other side, the front row, Creevy and the props are just monsters scoring. You want them. Sean O'Brien seems to be heating up. He had one really good match fantasy-wise off the bench and actually in the match too. And then he had a high scoring match this past week as a starter.
01:23:35
Speaker
Yeah, whatever he picked up is not too bad. Right. So I'd be looking at Sean O'Brien if you, if you have, it's certainly, and I think he's super expensive in, in TRM, but in FRD, he's absolutely worth a flyer. And on the other end, I think it might be time to move on from Ben Loader. Yeah. He's in my, he's in my Joe Simmons category of, of, um, if you can trade him, maybe you can move a name. Speaking of which, I think I have him in like five leagues. I can get,
01:24:05
Speaker
Time to farm that one out. Yeah. I'm going to take my own advice here. There you go. Sail Newcastle also on Friday night and say, I'll get two Friday games or I'll lucky them. All right. Excuse me. Sail are still tough. Yeah. I mean, excuse me. Newcastle are getting a little tougher, but they still throw any points. So they're tough opposition, but not points. Why? Excuse me. Flip my lines there.
01:24:35
Speaker
But obviously sale our sale. So where are these points going to come from? Actually, sales front row is viable as long as Neil is playing seven because he's technically a hooker. So give that a thumbs up. Lude is back. Go get it. Go get him. You know, especially if he's not too expensive into your arm, I don't think. So there's that. Okay. So for the back end, number one, for the wrong end of this coin, number one, Cobus V.
01:25:04
Speaker
He's still 17%. I don't, I have no idea why. Like what the shit are you people doing? Come on, man. All right. Um, this one's for you Anton. Um, so there are, there are nine halfbacks that have played at least 400 minutes this year. That's about five or six games. Okay. Who got care? Mitchell, urine, monitor, Wiggles, Faf, Phipps, Spencer.
01:25:29
Speaker
In TRM, FAF sits eight out of nine in terms of points per 80. And in FRD, he sits seven out of nine in points per 80. All this to say, sit his ass. If he has a one-off match, his one-off match was 23.
01:25:49
Speaker
Like that's not for the price you're paying for him in TRM. No way. Oh yeah. No, no way. No way. And then I think it's seven or something like that. This is an FRD. Nope. That's not what you drafted him for. Get, get the fuck out of here. So yeah, sit him. And then on the other side for the Falcons, um, hookers are doing okay against sale. So, but we're going to get the thumbs up this week. Uh, likewise second rows. So apparently whatever the sale was, that sale was doing at the lineup is no longer a thing that they're doing at the lineup.
01:26:18
Speaker
So, second rows are go as well, especially the Eagle Greg Peterson. Give him a go. On the other side, sales still eat eight.
01:26:29
Speaker
We talked about breakfast, lunch, and dinner. That's all of them right there. Graham, Chick, Vanderbilt. Yikes. If you're stuck, play them in FRD, but man, get away from them in TRM if you can. And then Mickey Young or Annie Falcons nine, for that matter, won't have a good day against the squad. So just pine them quickly, quick as possible. Cut them even if you have to.
01:26:52
Speaker
Um, to the rec for bath versus Exeter, which, um, I very much remember this match from last year, both of them, but specifically this one where they tore up the pitch. Yeah. Destroyed it.
01:27:07
Speaker
It's hard to know where to go with them. They're mercurial as it relates to scoring. They're still giving up a shit ton of points fantasy-wise. Obviously, the aforementioned Tom James and Freeman. Despite the try, he still only had 18 points in.
01:27:27
Speaker
in TRM, which is fairly low. But on the other side, I mean, Pierce Francis had 30 against them. There you go. I mean, that's where the rest of them went. And to Killian or Voro, despite, I don't think he scored, still had 33. Yeah, he didn't score. So there's points dumping all over the place.
01:27:44
Speaker
Yeah. But the path front row are still a decent option. Exeter are leaky to front rows, hookers and props in every format. So, draft front row, don't hesitate against them. Priestland may still do well. He's fucking kicking. Ride that shit, you know? Yeah. And Rory McCrawny, he's in form, so he's still a possibility. And we talked about Zach. He'll still soar pretty well.
01:28:13
Speaker
It's almost so pretty good. But on the other side, it's all around. Looking at each level of their attack, Sam Skinner should be in for a big day. Richard Capstik has been scoring well when he's been the seven. So I'm hoping to see him. Obviously, Sam Simmons, yes. Even Joe Simmons is a good play this week. And little thought, don't be surprised to see Jack Nolle. Oh, there you go.
01:28:39
Speaker
Um, he may, he may be off the bench, um, but he's the, the past couple of weeks, uh, Baxter has been hinting that he's returning, um, supposedly their last week or this week. So he didn't come back last week. So, um, I'm thinking he's maybe this week. There you go. Um, was Gloucester train whites are middling to generous and fancy land, um, middling and FRD generous and TRM. So.
01:29:05
Speaker
That means we could have some fun, a fun day here. Um, a dog who could be back straight into your lineup. He goes, no questions asked, uh, Bassett or Kiberige, whichever one doesn't start. Um, because I'm guessing the dog was on the wing. Maybe he's at 13 again.
01:29:21
Speaker
If he's at 13, then there you go. But anyway, does the name Nick David ring a bell? Yeah. Okay. So play these guys too. It's fine. He did pretty well last week. If I remember correctly, um, might be a bad week to go reclaim. Will Roland's gloss are actually tough against second rows. And he didn't have a good week last week either. So that didn't help me a couple of weeks. Yeah. So
01:29:44
Speaker
And the one James Garberth has now reached, I need to see it. And that really disappoints me because I like the guy. Trust me, that's not something I say without pain. I hear it. I feel it. Yeah. On the other side of the field, Wasser middling, maybe slightly generous as well in either format. So again, points galore. Kyle Moyle could have himself a day.
01:30:08
Speaker
So let's go ahead here, grab him at least. I mean, God, he should be at least not an FRD squad. So give him a world. Maybe TRM, he probably doesn't too expensive. If you need a full backer wing reader, Ludlow was our second to last against flankers and TRM. So yes, yes. On the other side, Ben Morgan or Ackerman was our second.
01:30:31
Speaker
number two, second toughest against number eight. So that's where all their back row points, the outcome of the flankers. So Morgan or Ackerman, whoever's playing eight, I would steer away. 12 trees this week. I hope he's playing center. And maybe they play George Barton because was really good against fly house. Yeah. Barton, I think is going to, I think they're eager to see Barton there. I think so too. I think without the possibility of relegation, I got to throw them in there. Yeah.
01:30:58
Speaker
Oh, onto Wooster versus Bristol. I think we've been talking about Bristol's dominance defensively. It continues, and this is Wooster we're talking about.
01:31:19
Speaker
Yeah, about that. It's still Ethan Waller, Nick David, Ollie Morris and Huguard. You can start them in a pinch, but don't expect much. If you get 20 out of any of them,
01:31:33
Speaker
Just call it a day. Yeah. You've done, you've done all right. Um, or in an FRD, you get 10 out of any of them. Yeah. Oh geez. Yeah. Especially happy. So, but I still wouldn't, I don't expect much from them on the other side, Bristol, uh, whoever's at hook, if it's, if it's Cape on, he played all 80 last week. Yeah. Cause they have a, they have a young kid at the, at two right now. Yeah. Um,
01:31:58
Speaker
but don't play their props. Whistler actually pretty good against props. But the front row, whoever's at two should carry the front row. Whoever's at eight, don't know who it is, but play them. Probably. Probably, but they've been rotating guys around. That's true. Who knows? Andy Uren, well, yes. A big go. Yep. Whole lot of yes.
01:32:16
Speaker
And Piers O'Connor too, obviously he's been scoring extremely well. I think he may have had a step back. I can't remember if he had a step back this week or last, but worth it. He should be in your lineup. And then I would assume that Callum Sheedy is going to be involved in this match. I think so too. So yes, he's a start. Absolutely.
01:32:38
Speaker
All right, Quincy, Northampton, round out the weekend. Saints are middling in the middle of packin' TRM, but they are dead last in FRD. Yee-haw! Here we go, points. Funny enough, I thought we were talking about that. Liner or Green, whoever's wearing that shirt, give it to them. Get it, roll them out there. Also, Mike Brown should be back, and he better be back in the lineup. He's been playing really well lately, and I just don't see Northampton being able to do a whole lot about that. Well, Scott Baldwin owes him a bet, so...
01:33:07
Speaker
Oh yeah, that was cool. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, we paid out. He was, he was Baldwin. He wore a Welsh Jersey and they took a picture. That's pretty good. Yeah. It's some pretty interesting forfeits this week. Well, Carling had to have a daffodil in his, in his mouth, in his teeth instead of a rose. He was not happy.
01:33:25
Speaker
Not happy at all. Um, on the other side of the coin for the Quinn's, uh, Joe Marlar, way too expensive, not productive enough. And this is a tough opposition for this week. Um, the front row is probably okay, but definitely not Marlar. Sorry. Um, and Glenn Young just doesn't quite get it done when the visas in the lineup, especially if Louise is playing second row.
01:33:44
Speaker
Yeah, I know. Apparently he's the points machine. I don't know, you know, black hole, Stefan, the beast right there. Gone. Quinn, same thing. They're toughening up a little bit. Um, even with last week's loss, they're just outside top four in TRM, a little more generous in FRD. And so there's, those are considerations for that. Sam Mattivacy has been, been playing out of his brain. Absolutely. Unfortunately.
01:34:09
Speaker
Well, no, but just the general, the general run for him, he gets a thumbs up for me. I'm just complaining because I signed him just for this week. Well, that's your problem. Just for the week, but I signed him this week. I had him a quick. And so I was able to be saved by that. Big T is back.
01:34:25
Speaker
Yeah. Define option this week. Go ahead and give them a thumbs up. Neither Furbank nor Grayson should be in your team if they play 10 this week. No. Bigger? Okay. But if you can help it, don't play either one of them. If they're playing 10 in that position, it was just not good. Pierce Francis had a great week last week.
01:34:43
Speaker
No option this week. No. It's a fluke. It's a fluke. Especially if it's Grayson or bigger because that takes away his kicking as well. Yeah, that was big. But you know, he kicked two convert. That's four points out of 30, but he also had to try, didn't he?
01:35:06
Speaker
No, I didn't get another penalty as well. So yeah, there's that. So don't, yeah, the twins are tougher up the middle. So that's a no, no. Oh, the weeks. What you got.
01:35:24
Speaker
start of the week for Prem. I love this guy. You've been watching him. I enjoyed watching his brother when he was in the league. I think this is time for another big week for him. He had a pretty good week last week. He was limited in time as well. I think it would be on the wing this week. Assuming his coach doesn't completely botch that. So, but, cause I think hog is going to be back. My start of the week for premiership in round 12 is Xers, man with the magical feet for Kondo Cordero.
01:35:52
Speaker
I can't believe they took him out instead of Whitney. We didn't talk about it. Come on, man. That's the guy you're taking up, the one that can just score from nowhere. Like, come on. Oh, dick move, Rob Baxter. You deserve to lose that match. We didn't get into that. I'm sorry to bring it up. Oh, he lost at least. So there you go. You got what you deserve, dick. My start of the week, I mentioned him in passing, but he's actually going to be my start of the week. And that's Callum Sheedy versus Wooster.
01:36:22
Speaker
The Sheeds, man. He has just been on other level. So, yeah, another playing at another level at another level. And yes. And now he comes back to Bears. Yeah. Who have been in Pietow's inform. Yeah, he is running right right now. Yes. And O'Connor has been informed. Like everybody's doing. They're all doing quite well. Yeah. Give me give me sheeties.
01:36:49
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely. Um, so the week, another one, another guy I have in one of my teams. Um, so again, I'm not naming him because it's just doesn't get, this does not give me joy naming my own players. His opposition are tough, um, if nothing, but, but they're way more than that. In fact, um, anyway, not the point. Um,
01:37:07
Speaker
His team are struggling and they're just even against the, they even struggled against the struggling team. Like not good. Um, they face the lead leaders this week. It's not going to be good. My city of the week for round 12 of the prem is spring, his former spring Brock and current Worcester warriors nine Francois who God that's the decent sit. Um, as I said, don't, even if you started and don't expect much, yeah, I can, I can honor that sit easily. Um,
01:37:37
Speaker
On my end, um, I'm looking at a guy who's been, he's been good. He's been decent, but now he's playing sale and, um, there's value. He's been extremely valuable because he's a midfielder in, in, um, FRD, even though he mostly plays at 11 and scores 11 type points. I doubt he will do that this week because he's playing sale. Um,
01:38:02
Speaker
So yeah, even I own him same as him as you. I'm a guy who I own and have been relying on Ben Stevenson, though. Tough week for him probably. Yeah, I'm not feeling that I probably will end up starting him. But again, you're going to just do it with a squint. Be like, please, no, please, no, just get one. Have it. Have a Sam James match. So we're like one long long long try. Yeah, that's good.
01:38:27
Speaker
He's capable of it. That's for sure. He is. But I'm still if you have if you have other options that you're guaranteed, you know, you're you're feeling much, much better about that. Go with them. Don't you know, this is in case of emergency, break glass territory. Yeah, definitely. I know where you're going to meet here. Quick peek at Champions League. Fucking Joel Hodgson killed me, man. If if he had played and got 10 points out of one, I lost a mark by by nine.
01:38:57
Speaker
So I lost a mark, George, stop Duncan. Anton just got you buddy. And then in the pillow fight of the week, Justin, Justin beat Carrick.
01:39:10
Speaker
And over in super, truffa, Carrick got the win there. He smashed George. Likewise, Anton roasting Justin. What is wrong with you over there? Good Lord. Just absolutely hosed me.
01:39:27
Speaker
I guess the dollars back in your quarter that I won last week. So yeah, so we're back to where we're at. We were at before here. Yeah. Oh no, this is, oh, that's like I've actually doing well in. Yes. Yeah. And then, um, yeah. And then, uh, Mark, uh, beat of what looks like a struggling Duncan. He's struggling more than I am. Yikes. Um, let's go over to TRM six nations. Um,
01:39:52
Speaker
No, no, I kept it tomorrow. Yeah. Well, I kept in tight type burn. I wasn't helpful either. Yeah, there was some struggle week. The only one that got over 400 points was Duncan.
01:40:06
Speaker
Didn't, didn't he get, or no, didn't one, somebody got, there's number one overall still. I think Justin's number one overall or in the top 10 overall, like, yeah, that's ridiculous. And here I am fucking starting Maro Tochi or happening Maro Tochi. Right. And then was it, was it Terry that we saw or our friend Terry that got first overall this week? Yeah. Congratulations, Terry. Way to go, dude. Well done, buddy. I hope, I hope our advice helped.
01:40:37
Speaker
And then TRM prem, no, almost literally no movement. Oh wait, Carrick overtook Justin for last second, last place. There's a significant gap between myself and Mark is about 300 points.
01:40:54
Speaker
And then obviously there's all, there's a significant gap between myself and the top, which is about 300 points. So I'm probably not going to go beyond mid table and I'm okay with it. As long as I'm coming dead last, I'm catching slowly. I'm eating away at Anton's lead. I'm only, you know, 121. That's not bad considering, you know,
01:41:17
Speaker
Um, I'm still a hundred, I'm a hundred points away from, uh, Duncan say Duncan's trying to snack on you. He's only, he's only a hundred away. Right. So I'm still closer to third than I am to first, but that could change.
01:41:28
Speaker
Yeah. George had a, um, George had a good week too. He had five. He was the only one that got 500 nailed, nailed on like, so he, he was smart and captain Simmons. Um, Oh, he had Tyrone not captaining. I've made that mistake one too many times. So I definitely did. Yeah. That helped like good Lord. That helped. Yeah. So, well, good on him. All right. Let's go to pick him. Let me get the fuck out of here.
01:41:58
Speaker
All right, let's start with Super Rugby. Only Super Rugby in Premiership this weekend. Good and bad. Chiefs, Islanders. Highlanders. Yeah, I'm taking that, too. I have to, because Chiefs will be Chiefs again in Chiefs first week. Highlanders just played the Crusaders. Had their first week already. Right. Yeah, Wartos Force.
01:42:23
Speaker
Taws are at home. I want to take them. No, they're not there yet. Um, ooh, this is, this is the one I'm not going to pick my team this time. Crusaders and hurricanes.
01:42:38
Speaker
Yeah. Crusaders. They're just being mean. Yeah. They're as they do. Yeah. As they do. Brumby's rebels. Even when it's dirty, they're still just going to, Oh, that's right. This ever is as fast. And we have other kids in the ball and see ya. Yeah. Brumby's rebels. Brumby's. Yeah. Brumby's. They've been pretty dominant. Yeah. And I like the rebels. I really want, I want to pick them, but I'm not going to.
01:43:07
Speaker
Yeah, not this time. Not this time. Uh, so the problem Friday night, Lester Irish. Hmm. It's going to be ugly. Yeah, it is. My prediction is ugly. Yeah. Oh man. Ugly.
01:43:32
Speaker
You're ugly too too. Shit. I am too. I'm going to take the exiles out. Yeah. I'm taking the exiles as well. Sail new castle sale looking for avenge. They are. Um, the last minute one that they got, that they picked up at, uh, but new castle have been, um,
01:43:59
Speaker
They've been playing above their station and sale have been really, this was a step, they stepped it up last week. And maybe that's just because, as you said, AJ's in the lineup. So I'm guessing AJ's in the lineup. So it'll be sale.
01:44:13
Speaker
Yeah. I was like, I was like, I'm, I'm questioning yourself into that. Yeah. I'm like, I'm questioning sell right now, but I'm like, wait, no, I'm questioning sale when not in the lineup. Right. Yeah. Good Lord. All right. Um, Exeter bath. Exeter. Exeter. Wascloster. Hmm.
01:44:35
Speaker
Go Gloucester. Wasps are playing yuck right now. They are. Um, I'm going to take Wasps cause I'm going to gamble at a dog who's back. Oh, good call. Um, Bristol, Worcester, Bristol, Bristol, and Quinn's North Hampton. This is a bounce back game for Quinn's as much as I want to pick North Hampton and I like some of the stuff they've done better.
01:45:01
Speaker
Yeah, there's a bounce back. We came for Quinn's Danny care plays Don Brandt plays. Yeah, they'll be fine.
01:45:09
Speaker
True. Um, yeah, they lost by what, three or two the other day and Dom red didn't start care. It didn't start. So yeah. Give it to them. I was just looking to see what they did the week before used to be like, are they on a, are they going to losing streak or is this just the one? And it was just the one. So they hadn't, they had not lost this calendar year until that game. Okay. So yeah, I'm going, I'm going Quince. Cause we know the saints defense is still leaky as fuck. And Quince will take advantage of it even more than, um,
01:45:40
Speaker
Who was it? Newcastle. We're talking about, uh, yeah, the Quinn's are a little bit better in attack. So yeah, I'm going. Oh, yeah. Yeah. No, I think, um, that one, one of those teams and Mike Brown, Mike Brown's back this week, probably too. So that also helps. Yeah. And as you said, care and Dom and that's enough. Yeah. That's enough. It's over. Okay. Wrapping up. Um,
01:46:09
Speaker
But by, by, by the geek of coffee, get your arm upgrades. Yes. Super Saturday watchathon couple of weeks. Yes. We'll have us get, we're going to try and hammer out the schedule this coming week here.
01:46:21
Speaker
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01:46:41
Speaker
I am sensitive, damn it. I can't help it. I am sensitive. I can't help it, man. I am sensitive, yeah, no. But this is a sneak peek of... Yeah, that's true. It could be a sneak peek of what we get like. One of us is going to get grouchy, that's a guarantee. Yeah.
01:47:03
Speaker
We take bets on who it'll be. I know we could do that. Prop that. Who's the first to get angry? First to get off the couch in anger. First to put a beer down too hard.
01:47:19
Speaker
Hopefully it's, hopefully, geez, maybe it'll be coffee. We'll see. Yeah. Oh yeah. Fuck yeah. Jesus. No way. I'm not, I'm not, I'm going to be way too lazy. Okay. Well, but thanks a lot for hanging out with us guys. We appreciate you. And we will be back next week with more shenanigans. Have a good one everybody. Cheers.