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Season 4- Episode 28- Fair Weather Fan #1 Sir! (6 Nations Round 4, Premiership Round 20 & Super Rugby Pacific Round 4)
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We have a doozie, but hopefully it's the last super long one of the season, hopefully. On this episode with those American rugby knuckleheads, we cover it all. Obviously we'll start with the happenings in Cardiff, Rome and London. We'll get into the patience required by some and the excitement that should be flowing for others. Yeah, we get into the Premiership including a couple of block busters on Sunday at the Gate and the Gardens. We get into the happenings in Super Rugby with a couple of teams that made us take notice, one in a win and one in a loss. Yes, of course we get into the MLR whip around with the might Free Jacks opening up their home slate in some rather chilly conditions. Have yourself a seat and something to drink, this one should be entertaining at least.
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Meet the Hosts: Jared Dyk & Ben Glauser
00:00:08
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Hey everybody, welcome back. It is the Fan at New York Beach. My name is Jared Dyk. I'm Ben Glauser. And perhaps the biggest fair weather fan out here. Just gonna fly out on that one. No, I have a habit. I miss the openers. I'm good with that.
00:00:25
Speaker
Yeah, whatever you want to do to justify yourself. Whatever you got to do to justify yourself. All I had to do was look at that weather and I was like, yep, I'm good. I made the right choice. Honestly, it was fine. It looked worse than it was. It really did. It looked fucking miserable. Yeah. Well, it was miserable for the players. Yeah. The rest of us that were bundled up.
00:00:47
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minor minor detail yeah it was better when it changed from snow from rain to snow which happened very quickly i couldn't tell and it just was like i i stuck my head out like in about an you know a little over an hour before match and i was like it was just that rainy misty but it was cold and i'm like and and fucking windy and i'm like
00:01:09
Speaker
No, yeah, it wasn't too bad. I mean, it was there, but it wasn't too bad. Yeah. Yeah. Like right at Anthem is when it switched from rain to snow. So, okay. Yeah. Yeah. I was, I'm, I'm comfortable with my choice. Yeah. Now you have to wait all the way till April to watch on the film. Yeah. I'm okay with it. Yeah.
How to Support the Podcast
00:01:29
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I need a beverage. Oh, fuck. You're going to be right now.
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Find us on your favorite podcast app. Obviously that's why you're listening to us. So that's where you found us. Um, mentioned to your friends, download, download, rate review, all that good stuff. Holy shit. This is a cider. I did not realize. Surprise. Yeah. I, I,
00:01:57
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either didn't realize that I'd bought a cider or I'd forgotten because I bought it a while ago. We went ahead a trip up to the total wine and you just load up there because it's super cheap. By our friend, the fans who are a geek, a coffee. George was very busy the last couple of weeks. He's not as busy this week as neither a week. But I've been saying enough on this. Sure.
00:02:20
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For sure. Yeah. If you found any sort of success the last couple of weeks, well, things have been jam packed. That's the guy. That's the guy you want to think probably.
00:02:29
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Grab your T arm upgrades. Obviously we're going to be only six nations this week, but next weekend, the return to the premiership comes and it's going to be a doozy because you're going to have all the names coming back hopefully. Um, but I'm sure some will be on enforced rest. So of course you want to know who's in, who's out and who's skipping out for that weekend. So keep, keep that in mind. And then there's folks like Mac max mail-ins who were released this week, who probably will be available next week.
00:02:56
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Yeah, I would say with the rest. Yeah, so yeah, good for my team. Yeah, I'm OK with that, because who knows what's going on with Tyrone Green? Oh, true. Yeah, we'll get that. We'll get to that later.
Brittney Griner's Arrest in Russia: What's the Media Response?
00:03:09
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Black Lives Matter, as always on this podcast, there is no room for racism in sports or in life. The biggest story that's not talked about right now, we kind of breeze over ourselves and shame on us for doing it. Britney Griner, who plays basketball in Russia,
00:03:24
Speaker
arrested for almost nothing. But we know why. We know why. But we also know why she's not being talked about. One, she's a woman. Two, she's black. If there's anything else that I'm missing, please point it out. And they're accusing her of having cannabis oil, I guess, which is like... First off, okay.
00:03:52
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I doubt she's stupid enough to fly into fucking Russia with cannabis oil, but it's also something that they could because of, you know, her race. And I'm sure they're willing to, you know, we've heard of cops planting drugs on suspects. You know, we've seen it enough to this could just be a case of that, too. And I would assume it's my assumption is is that more than anything, even if they're like, hey, this is what we found bullshit.
00:04:19
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It's not being talked about enough here. I'm sure that's one of the reasons why leagues like NHL have just suspended dealing with Russian leagues at this point because you can't trust whatever's going on there.
Impact of Russian Suspensions in Sports
00:04:38
Speaker
We, I don't think we even know where Brittany Griner is. Like this, this whole thing is fucked up. I can, hopefully she's not being made of, made of it. Yeah. That'd be pretty fucking awful. If I do say so myself, um, yeah, that sucks.
00:04:53
Speaker
Hopefully, yeah, hopefully we can get she I think she would forgo playing in the Russian League right now to come home. So probably let's let's get her home. I'm assuming that that happens when when all this is over with. Yeah, let's let's work on that part. This is bullshit. Yeah, bullshit, among other things in Russia.
00:05:11
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Yeah. Grab our Patreon. We have. And it's the fucking Ides of March. Where the fuck are you? Oh, true. Russian Senate. Let's go through your thing. Didn't even think of that. I know there's no Russians. That's well, whatever. Doesn't matter. There's not really a Russian government outside of Putin. But the point being, get on that shit. Yeah. You know, do the right thing. Fuck you all.
00:05:36
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Grab our Patreon because, of course, now we have everything up there now, including as accurate as possible things because we both made little oopsies on the last one. So yeah, it happens. It happens. But now that we got it, the bugs are mostly out of the the super rugby sheet. I did find a couple that were were pretty obvious that the over 10 points and under five for some reason aren't working right. Oh, shit. Oops. I'll have those fixed. But you can also tell that for sure, because you're like, you know, there's
00:06:05
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when it's like somebody who's played three matches and their lowest is like a 15. It's like they've only had one above. Yeah, Ted, it's like, no, that's definitely. That's not true. So that's not true. I'm not sure what the hell's going on there. But we'll figure that out. Yeah, that's sort of easy. But it's a shit ton of good information that, you know, it's easily verifiable elsewhere if you think there might be a mistake. Yeah, at least there's a
00:06:33
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No, at least the most of the good stuffs up there, like the, right. Then we have team stats. Yep. Team stats. That's an important one as well. And the points over position average and an opposition average, um, are in there too. So color me happy. Yeah. Oh, that, that actually was super helpful in, in my starts and sets this week too. So yeah, I was, I was referring to that a few times as well.
00:06:55
Speaker
Oh, all right. Well, we don't have a whole lot of time for all the Gavin. So let's get to it. Well, was there rugby this weekend? Yeah, I know there's three. We'll start to Friday night. Friday night. Weird shit. Wales in France.
00:07:11
Speaker
We know this is the game that the France, the French French up and they didn't, they did the wall. Yeah. And this is good teams got to win ugly and they did it. And that's not their 40. And obviously we love when France is free flowing and all flared about, but really they have to understand that they can't always do that. And they did. And they buckled down and they got the job done. So get on these boys. This is a, this is a, I think the rest of the world needs to be very, very terrified of this French team.
00:07:41
Speaker
They do, and Wales did everything you could do to disrupt the France attack. And ultimately, France's defense, I think, is what really was the difference of the match. There was just nowhere for Wales to go. Yeah, it just wasn't much room for running. It was all a little bit of the defensive effort that Wales made
France vs Wales: Defensive Strategies
00:08:10
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really made it close to, because France were trying. It just wasn't, they just did a really good job of shutting it down and playing, you know, good, jammy, well, shrugby.
00:08:22
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just enough. Yeah. There's, I mean, there's something to be said about if you can kind of make the other team play, play their game plan, but it's a little bit of what Wales was doing, but also at the line out, they made things very, very difficult on Marshawn. I think it was Roland's that was the one that was being a complete pain in the ass who, um,
00:08:44
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You know, where has this Will Rowland's been? I mean, we've seen it in pretty consistently in the past, but it's been gone for a while. Yeah, agreed. Good to see him. That was a good pop up there for him.
00:09:03
Speaker
Good to see Josh and beat you back. That's, that's a, that's a, that's a sad thing to see again. So that's a, that's really nice. And, um, man, Karen Hardy had to do all the work because Thomas Williams was knocked out very early. Yeah, he was. Oh man. Ruffled, ruffled game for that one. Yeah, that was.
00:09:22
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but get it for Hardy to at least rock up and get that done. Talk about Rob to the man of the match. Freaking Jonathan Dante played an outstanding game for France. I think he had one missed tackle in the midfield and he had about 12. Yeah.
00:09:38
Speaker
No, he had none. He had none. No mistake. Yeah, 12 tackles too. And it was a nightmare otherwise. I don't know if the selector was watching what was going on with the line out, but Julian Martian was not the choice. Yeah. And a distinct lack of nutsacks beard stroking on Twitter about, oh, was that really the man of the match? Of course. And gee, I wonder why.
00:10:05
Speaker
Yeah. Fucking England. Right. It's not England and it's not Marcus Smith and it's Munga. Yeah. We got plenty of reasons. We got plenty of reasons. Yeah. Just a mediocre performance that.
00:10:23
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you know, because that's the thing. You want a man in a match to somebody who did their job, right? And Marcin did not do his job well. Yeah, he might have done. But that line out was awful. He played. He played 53 minutes. He made three tackles.
00:10:40
Speaker
Nothing. I mean, what work did he do in the loose? He had 29 meters? Like, and I know sometimes it's unseen stuff, but like the eyeball test and the numbers, neither one of them passed. So probably should have been someone else at the very least. But everybody wasted their.
00:10:58
Speaker
Why is that person? Yeah, morning's already been done. Right. Yeah. It's like, maybe use it for a more appropriate time. Like, like this, you know, this was probably more accurate. Um, Italy, Scotland, we won't spend too much time on it. Um, but we got to see a mission and Darj together. Yeah. We got to see it. It was, it was, it was fun.
00:11:23
Speaker
Yeah, it was and it was better from Italy as well. We saw some good things and you know, they're still not quite used to finishing their opportunities, but they'll get there. Well, imagine if, you know, Capuazzo played the whole match. I know. Yeah, Capuazzo was very good. They have so much
00:11:46
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just good shit going on there. The front row is not quite ready for prime time, but you have Riccioni who's hurt, who will be around hopefully in the future.
00:12:01
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9 was, you know, Braley played pretty well, I'd say. Yeah, he's not Varni. Yeah, he's not Varni. Garbisi was excellent. Like, and that, you know, this then just a little bit of a gap at 12. But yeah, still wanting out what's going on with that. Brex, although he also. He was less than standard. He was below his standard. He was, but still an impact on the match.
00:12:28
Speaker
And then Patavani, I thought he had that beautiful tri-assist early. And then you have Kapowozer coming in. There's a lot of good shit there. He's a baby. And so there's plenty of room to grow here. And all the people who are saying, oh, get them out, put somebody else into Six Nations, it's going to be a massive step down. And that's going to be pretty clear, not in the too distant future. No, that'll be.
00:12:55
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Yeah, no, and the U20s beat Scotland as well.
00:13:00
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beat England and Scott. Yeah, they've been, they've done, they've done well. There's stuff coming in, in, in Italy. So it's not something to be taken lightly. Right. Um, I mean, and Scotland on the other side, you know, this is obviously the most they've, the best they've probably performed since the England win. Um, you know, lots of space obviously. And that happens when, when you play Italy sometimes and they took advantage and every one of their, pretty much every one of their guys was able to find room.
00:13:28
Speaker
And even if they couldn't find room, they fucking stole it. I'm looking at you, Sam Johnson. Yeah. Oh, my God. That stain that was on the wing. That was like, yeah, dry and dry. Stains in position. That's his that's his try. And Johnson's like, no, I'm going to fuck you. I'm going to just take it from you. What a dick. What a guy. I was like, oh, no.
00:13:49
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that point. Oh, no. Oh, man. I was like, did he just feel a try? Yeah, because he had like, he had to like, he made like a 50 50 play on the ball to catch it. It's like you have a guy who got 100% play on the ball. Just let it just this isn't your.
00:14:04
Speaker
I couldn't believe it. I was like, what are you doing? Oh man. It would have been the most Scotland thing ever if he had knocked that on. True. Fucking hilarious. True. Yeah, Poggy didn't knock anything on. That was good. No, he didn't. At least he remembered that. Yeah. Really good stuff. I did like the, was it?
00:14:23
Speaker
I think it was staying that assisted end up assisting on the Harris, the first Harris try. I was like, okay, that's pretty fucking nifty. I'll give them that one. No doubt. Yeah. Love, love these. This is like something that started to come in recently is this little, that little like, all right, I'm not going to get a pass to you, but here take this chip and run into the middle and I'll get it to you there. Right. That's a new skill that's kind of started to come through. It's really, it's really cool to see.
00:14:51
Speaker
Let's jump over to London. Twickenham. You had one job, Charlie Eules. Yeah. One job. You didn't do it. Your job is to make your tackles and stay on the pitch. That's it. That's all you have to do. Because you don't do anything else anyway.
00:15:14
Speaker
I just, it's so annoys me. It's such a, and I like Charlie Uels. So don't, we're judging on a different scale here. And there's no reason for, you know, there's just so many players on this England team that I don't know what they're doing at this level. And Uels is one of them. And that's, you know, when you play against an Ireland,
00:15:41
Speaker
you don't put a blockhead out there and he can be a bit of a blockhead because that's, I mean, again, that's his job is to make tackles hit rocks. Like don't touch the ball, never touch the ball and don't tackle high. So it's like, why would you, there's so many more impactful players that really could have made a difference here. And that's just across the board with them. That was like, they had the guys who have been playing well who just,
00:16:09
Speaker
This was a very subpar match for England, almost across the board. Like Freddie Stewart. Oh, oh, my. Was that bad? Couple of blunders. Just no doubt. But how many 50-20 twos did Ireland kick? Two or three? Two or three. One other one that came from Conway was a frickin' boomer, not unlike Dan Biggers on Friday. Dan Biggers had a huge one.
00:16:33
Speaker
they came from kicks from Stewart because he was just being dumb and like holding it to the last minute and then getting off a kick under pressure and putting it in a place that's like really it should not be because you're telling your players that go to go chase it and then you know there's no time for them to chase it and then cover again so you you just put them in a bad situation and you know he had too many he had a turnover too because he took a ball into tackle and when he should have passed it like everything he just did so much
00:17:02
Speaker
I mean, that's not his game. We've talked about that going into the Six Nations. It's that, you know, he can, he'll catch that bomb, but just don't make him run. Don't let him do anything else. Yeah. And really, this is, I would say, I think everybody one pump the brakes on the England team, you know, these are the growing pains you must go through. Here's the, here are your choices. You go through the growing pains now in the Six Nations, or you go through the growing pains next fall in like a World Cup quarterfinal.
England Rugby: Analyzing Performance & Potential
00:17:28
Speaker
Which one would you prefer?
00:17:29
Speaker
Yeah. But I mean, is, is Charlie you was going to be on, he probably will be on that. He might, he might not be, but point being, like you see the other players that just didn't play well because of one reason or another youth experience, whatever you want to chalk it up to. It doesn't matter. Um, yeah. Like this is where you're going to have that these moments and I'd rather do it here.
00:17:49
Speaker
If I'm an England fan, then to do it in the World Cup final. And here's the other thing is that England were they could have won this game fairly like you can't say easily because that's not obviously not right. But at the end, they had every opportunity to win that match. And my problem is they they control. OK, so they control so much of the ball when and they really put Ireland on the back foot with that attack.
00:18:16
Speaker
until they got a penalty within range of the T in laws pointed to the Post. And it's like, I recall from the last couple of Six Nations, England, when they have been scoring,
00:18:31
Speaker
the majority, like, I don't know what, but they had like the highest percentage of teams who score off of the line out. Yeah, they were up there. It's like, you still have that great line out. You have Jamie George, you have laws in a toji up there. This is a team that will. Yeah, you can use that. And then you have the backs who can finish off of it. Why? No point did they kick for the corner and really try to score. Then there has to be a point where you have to say, go for the regular. Right. Has to be especially down to down a player.
00:19:00
Speaker
Yeah. What do you have to lose? Why are you kicking for points every single time? And then that only held up for so long. That was maddening because Ireland were on the ropes until there were like 20 minutes left and they were like, hey, wait, are we up a player?
00:19:16
Speaker
Yeah, and they started to figure it out. And there was no room for Ireland to hide in a lot of ways. Their scrum was getting absolutely housed. Tyke Furlon's a fantastic tight head, but Alice Genge made him look silly. He did.
00:19:31
Speaker
Where did this Ellis Genji come from? This was one of the best Ellis Genji performances I've seen for a long time. We're big fans of Genji and that right there just makes me love it more and that's awesome for him. So starting Lucid for England for now until he decides otherwise.
00:19:52
Speaker
right there. For the Irish though, one player I want to point out besides that some of the obvious was Gibson Park and he was the player of the match but like he knew what was going on with his team and so he took it the initiative to say, all right, I have to pick the tempo up while we have the advantage and he did and it paid off, you know, and that was so to his credit, he was able to keep that up and sorry, Connor Murray, that's not your game. So that's why he plays to start and you don't.
00:20:20
Speaker
Although they they did score two tries after after Murray came on about, you know, 70 minutes in or so. Right. But nothing to do with him. Right. It's just, you know, frequent coincidence at that point, because Ireland had been threatening. I think, you know, England just kept it up for, you know, they they put up a fight. Couldn't hold out so long sometimes. Right.
00:20:47
Speaker
And James Lowe is just fantastic. Yeah, he's pretty good. He's pretty good. He's he's definitely come into his own the last year and a half or so. Yep, so much for that. James Low, he saw the first six stations around like this is a different player and he is a very, very good wing. And I think people need to always remember him when they see the island team sheet and he's on it. Yeah, and I'm kind of shush. No, I don't know if Mack Hansen's hurt, but
00:21:17
Speaker
That could have been even worse if it was him instead of Conway. Yeah, you know, not that Conway's a bad player, but he wasn't particularly useful in the attack. It was 50-22. Right. Oh, yeah, exactly. An attack. Well, yeah, wasn't too threatening. Yeah, it was so it's.
00:21:36
Speaker
It's a happy day for the green and it's not so happy day for the roses. Yeah, it's again, this is everybody chill the fuck out and as much as I would love to smash Eddie and blame him to the hills. You can but really it doesn't make a whole lot of sense at this point. There's just so much more to this to going forward with the single team. There's a lot to love that's going on. Yes, there's some still some things that you make you scratch your head but
00:22:05
Speaker
There's still a lot of good things. Still need some wings. Yeah, kind of a couple of speedsters. Although, Malins, I thought, he got the brunt of a lot. He wasn't, and he wasn't good either. He wasn't good. I know that. Not to spare him. I mean, Jack Knoll was the best of the back three.
00:22:20
Speaker
That's not a compliment though. It's not a compliment because he played mediocre, which was a huge step up for him. But the other two just bottom fell out. Completely pooped to bed. No doubt. But there's lots more to come for this England team.
00:22:37
Speaker
Just hold your water, be patient. Hey, who knows? Maybe they put up a performance and...
England Rugby Injuries: Future Implications
00:22:42
Speaker
Maybe it's Barbary and Dom Brant and Sam back there. I don't know. I mean, he's... It's possible. They're all in the camp. They're all going to France. Willis is in.
00:22:55
Speaker
No, I thought Willis got released. Did he? I didn't see that part. That's right. And he probably doesn't need to be thrown into that right yet. I could be wrong. I'm going by. Underhills in there. I know that. Yeah. So might see him in there as well. Okay.
00:23:12
Speaker
Yeah, still still lots of still lots of good, you know, hopefully Kerry's Tom Curry's OK, but he was on crutches. That's not a good right. Yeah, he'll hope he won't. He's not in the team that's traveling. So I would say he'll be out for a couple of weeks for the next couple of weeks for sale as well. So yeah, might be missing might actually be missing their champions. So many injuries this week. Jeez. Yeah, a lot of bang arounds. Yeah. Yuck. Yuck. Yuck. Let's jump to the pram over to six ways.
00:23:41
Speaker
What's the 35 Exeter 31? I can't say that I've seen the red card yet, but there hasn't been a whole lot of argument on anybody yet. So it's a it's a no contest on that one. Yeah, no, it was an absolute red on Henderson.
00:23:58
Speaker
I just remember seeing I was like, oh, he's I remember texting you like, oh, he's in trouble. This isn't good. And I thought you meant like injury. And you're like, no, the other. No, the other kind does like, oh, he's getting readied. She. Yeah, it was no. It's certainly a red card.
Exeter's Tactical Decisions Critiqued
00:24:13
Speaker
No, no argument from anybody. And then still, I thought, you know, obviously, even with that exit or might have had a chance, but again, it comes down to tactics.
00:24:27
Speaker
I'll not not Ollie Woodburn. Where is he? Yeah, because he would bring came out and said, Ian Whitten. So you're down a man for 80 or four. Well, hold on. How long did Hendrickson play? He played 15 minutes. Downer was right for 65, 65 minutes. And of all the people to take it to to leave in for 80, it's it's Ian Whitten. Fucking kidding. And like, yeah, it was
00:24:53
Speaker
It was, that's an easy, like you got, you know, Hart Skinner and Cordero on the bench. Whitten is, you know, one of the first guys, you know, but yeah, he's, he's the guy who's coming out. He's the first guy that's coming out for me. Jesus. And, and he just never came out. So it was played 80.
00:25:09
Speaker
Oh, Flaherty came out at 63 minutes and would burn it at 69. And it's like, why would you take both of them out? Either of them off. It makes no sense. Like, yeah. Over, over witten by any means whatsoever. Like he's at the top of the pecking order. Those two need to be somewhere in the bottom and less there.
00:25:25
Speaker
having the worst game of their life. And even then, I would still fucking take Ian Whitten off first. Rob Baxter trusts him for some reason that I don't know. Not for me. Not for me.
00:25:42
Speaker
But the, the, the, the Warriors played very well to take advantage of said red card as well and they certainly did to their back, their back three was electric to say the least. Oh, especially. Oh, yeah. And you weren't shit. Yeah.
00:25:59
Speaker
Shit, he was just running all over the place. It's like it's it's crazy when when back we still had a pretty decent game gets that overshadowed. So by by the by the wings to our old wing in full deck. But yeah, I mean, I mean, neither of those guys are the first name that roll off your roll out, roll out of your mouth when you're talking about wings in the premiere ship. But no, right.
00:26:25
Speaker
Both played quite well. And, um, you know, there's still, though, there's still no Jamie shellcock back there either. They can manage to squeeze in a back three that includes him and these two there. That's, that's not suit. That's not too shabby. Not too shabby at all.
00:26:41
Speaker
That's not bad at all. No, no, by any means whatsoever. Yeah. So this warrior team is no longer a joke, at least as much as it pains me to say that with fucking dimes at the helm. But right. That's that's where it's at. So we'll see. I mean, look out. Nobody goes six ways and try and just knock them over because they'll they'll still they'll still get the job. Yeah. I mean, it also it also helps that exit status is a little.
00:27:10
Speaker
I think a little overblown. They're not totally totally in real life. Yeah. Yeah. They'll get out soon. No doubt. Right. It's just a kind of kind of a blip there. And, you know, in a team that's not good, that gets a red card like that. There you go. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah. No, they did get the I don't get. Yeah. We're talking about tactics. I just don't get yours at six or I'm at five. Like.
00:27:39
Speaker
And you take Armand off before you take Ewers off. And I know he scored, but he scored the classic Exeter score. So any one of them could do that. It doesn't matter. You don't need Ewers for that. You don't need dumbass Dave for that. You can do something else like bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh. So much bleh. But that's ultimately the reason why Baxter,
00:28:03
Speaker
has out you know he's one of those like good in the regular season but you don't want him in the knockouts although you know they did the double that one year but other than that they've always been in disappointment no yeah they found a way to screw it up somehow right and that's because i i
00:28:19
Speaker
Selection. Yeah, it's really down to selection and tactics and all that. Yeah. It's not like they don't have a good team. You know, there's plenty to learn about that. But like, you know, once the Six Nations is over and guys come back, you know, Ian Whitten is still going to be playing. But Josh Hodge won't. And it's like, you're fucking kidding me. And you'll have viewers out there. But like Grondona and CapStick. Yeah, those guys won't. And it's like.
00:28:49
Speaker
Well, there you go. That's why you lose. Yeah, no joke. No joke. Let's jump up to sale and the Sharks. And it was very exciting match for a very sad match for the likes of Ben and I. This is a fucking tragedy is what it was. Hopefully he's okay. I mean, he tried to soldier on, but he did.
00:29:13
Speaker
That didn't look good when he had to come off. That kick was unkind for him. It wasn't. And as soon as I saw like the kick and it didn't go well and I kind of was watching him, like I thought he maybe might need a knee with a camera who it was. Was it Alemano? He might have been, yeah, one of the big boys. But he didn't. He just didn't. He was not happy. He wasn't happy. It wasn't to be. Nope. So hopefully this week off is all it takes.
00:29:43
Speaker
And you know, a little bit of strapping, a little bit of PT, he'll be okay. Yeah. Hopefully not going wood. We need, AJ, we need you for the qualifiers. Don't break. We suck without you. So playing simple. Um, but you know, both teams, you know, played pretty well at times and Gloucester really.
00:30:04
Speaker
They had this, they had this to a point at least. Although, you know, if the Charlie Chapman try goes the wrong way, get this thing over. That's like, oh, you got it, bye.
00:30:23
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, man. That's one of those where I'm like, and I get it. I hate when those are yellow carded after the fact, because it's like he's trying to do this. But at the same time, you know, you're shooting your shot either. And the rest. And that was it. The game was on the line. So, yeah, that's what he was. That's the calculation. I'm sure that had.
00:30:45
Speaker
You know, he's what 19 that had nothing. There's no such calculation in his head about that. It was just the ball. I want to get it. But either way, it was the correct tactical decision because the game's over if you don't do it in the games over if you miss. But certainly, but game on if you get it. Yeah, totally. And we we saw the.
00:31:11
Speaker
I mean, jeez, words I never thought I'd say like, Luke James, and right? Wow, like, talk about a guy that can make a difference in the back line. Like, he is that like, I think we were praising this back three.
00:31:27
Speaker
But then he got hurt. And I think he is the key, honestly, which is really terrifying to think about from years past.
Sale Sharks: Luke James' Standout Performance
00:31:34
Speaker
But hopefully this also means that Salah turned a corner and they know they have a nice back three that they can rely on, especially with Luke James back there. And sorry, Sam James, it's not that fucking good. Right. He had six defenders beaten. He's a little bit of a
00:31:52
Speaker
His agility and his evasiveness are really what that's why it's that, you know, you have and then you have to deal with the speed of Aaron Reed and and Robux not not showing so well, but he's still a threat. It's one of those like you can't just ignore him just because he's having a couple of bad matches because, you know, you take we've seen it at the wheels. He's got the wheels. Yeah. You go to sleep on him and he gets in a little bit of space. You're watching his heels. Yeah, he's he's done. He's done time again. Right.
00:32:22
Speaker
And a guy that I don't care for, but fuck, he's played really well in the last two matches. That's fast. You know, he's, he played really well this one. He played well last week, despite the whole team basically that last week. This is what happens when he, when he plays well and he stays out of the bullshit and the team plays well, you know, you get some good things going on. Obviously the two Dupree is not hurtful in any way, shape or form. I was going to say Dupree had a great game, which one? Yes.
00:32:50
Speaker
Yeah, all of them. Take your pick. Take your pick. Yeah. What? The three tries between them or something like that? Something like that. Yeah. Jean-Luc had one. Didn't Jean-Pierre have one? JP had one. Yeah. I don't know if Dan had one. Dan, no, he had a try assist. Yeah, try assist. Robert did not. But that's Robert. That's okay. But he had a good game for him. So that's all. For him, yeah. Good job, Robert.
00:33:16
Speaker
Definitely, definitely. And yeah, one more note for Gloucester. I mean, they were talking about Sesino, and I don't know. Julia Montoya's back up at the World Cup in 23, probably at this point. Like, I don't know if there's another one, and there might be that I'm totally missing, but right now, I don't have another choice. I don't see another choice out there because he's playing out of his brain.
00:33:39
Speaker
This was also the week of the Argentinian hooker. This is true. This is
Argentinian Hookers: A Rugby Highlight
00:33:44
Speaker
true. It was a huge week for if you are Argentinian and you are playing hook. Right. No doubt. So, because did Montoya didn't have a try? Did he have a try? Maybe he had at least one. Yeah. Maybe he had one, but yeah. No, he didn't have a try, but he had a try assist. Either way, it's a good week for them.
00:34:05
Speaker
I guess we'll get to that game in a little bit, but yeah. So Sino was, um, it was excellent. Yeah, he's been very good. You know, that's a, that's a nice one, two punch that they have now at hooker when singles is healthy. So ridiculous one, two punch. Really good. Really good for them. Um, let's go down to the, uh, let's do that. Let's go to Lester and London Irish. Um,
00:34:28
Speaker
I, man, I picked Curtis Roerner as my stay of the week. Wasn't that really counting on that happening, though? No. Wasn't my plan. But at the same time, he was he was in consideration for mine as well, because I think I had someone. Oh, I had. I was somebody who didn't who ended up not playing at all. But yeah, we're not playing. And so I went with
00:34:55
Speaker
with Voldemort, but it was like, it was close, Ronan was close to mine. Because Lester are quite good against, against the backs. So I wasn't expecting this from, from the Irish, where it was like, their, their whole back line was just, except for Ronan, of course. But yeah, yeah, the whole back line was very good. Even the young kid, Arendelle,
00:35:22
Speaker
Like, yeah, this is that's talent right there. There's no doubt about that. So they can, you know, they can nurture that and harness it. They got some reason not to look at that. Look at the talent that they've developed over.
00:35:39
Speaker
you know, over the just the last couple of years that have massively improved like year in, year out. You know, Rona, Rona has has I know he's still young, but like he's really grown into that. I mean, that's his 13 shirt. And yeah, you know, maybe two years ago, it was like, yes, he's like he's a he's a good player. But now it's no he's he's absolutely quality and a guy you want.
00:36:06
Speaker
Obviously, you've seen the development of Hassel Collins, who's going to continue to be amazing. And Loader. Yep. And Loader. And Martin back there. We see Tom Pearson coming through for these props that they have that are all fairly good at this point. So good. There's lots to like what's going on over at Brentford. But, you know,
00:36:31
Speaker
over at Walford Road where the salary cap apparently doesn't matter and you don't suffer any points consequences for some reason. Can we just check everybody's books now please? Let's just do that at least. But yeah, Nodolo
00:36:50
Speaker
I was watching one of them and I was just like, oh, that's mean. That's not going to happen. Jeez. Oh boy. Is that three? Yeah. Two and a tri-assist or ludicrous tri-assist. That's right. I was like, oh man, that's mean. That's not nice. That's not nice. You know,
00:37:16
Speaker
Guy, I want to give a little credit to when he kind of started off with a couple of stinkers, but has really just kept this Tigers tank rolling. It's Freddie Burns. And, you know, had a couple of stinkers to start his return to Wellford Road. Which happens you're on a new team and it takes a while to gel with them.
00:37:35
Speaker
yeah but damn but he's a pro he's one of the like you know it's going to work out eventually and yeah just it's working out wow just wow like he has he has really really held the glue and you know we remember last year we were asking who's going to play 10 when ford's away with england right because they were losing both their 10s that they had at the time as backups
00:37:57
Speaker
problem solved. Freddie Burns, come on down. You've done right. Yeah, he's done great work since, you know, stepping in here and really just held it in, you know, bar the I believe he was that he was a 10. No, it was Florida was that Saracen. So even there that you can't even put that on him. He's at 15. I think that day. Right. But yeah, so like bar that
00:38:21
Speaker
Really good, really good from Freddy. So yeah, loads of credit to him in this really tough period of Six Nations where it's really easy to just stumble and drop points. And we've seen a lot of teams do it. A lot of really good teams do it. Lester's kept rolling. So Chris Ashton now scored for every single team. He's close. He's close. He scored for Western was there. One or two championship sides maybe, but I think everybody else.
00:38:49
Speaker
Yeah, he's got a few on his list, no doubt. But that's all right. We still love Ashley. And then we won't spend too much time up at Kingston Park, but a nice little return for the series to get it back at it after picking up the win last week. This is one of those games where you could be let down. But they really could have. And it was right around that.
00:39:19
Speaker
to me it was the Lewington on brown, like, and maybe it was, did they go easy on brown because he was already on a yellow? Maybe, honestly, that is the only thing I can come up with to say that right now, because, yeah. We saw in the first half, Shagan went up for a ball, knocked it backwards, so he made first contact with it and gets called for,
00:39:46
Speaker
taking the man out in the air, you know, while he got the ball somehow, that's I don't understand that. And then, right, that hit on, you know, the friggin
00:39:58
Speaker
wrap around the neck. It's like, well, that's an easy yellow. Like it's at least certainly a penalty and and nothing. Yeah. That's that's the point for you right now. It is. It really is. You had to be talked into the the the the yellow on the brown. Yeah. As soon as it happened, I was like, well, there is a yellow and a penalty. Try it like that. I thought it was. I thought it was too. I was like, this smells like it. This smells like bad news for Mike Brown.
00:40:25
Speaker
Yeah. Cause, and he was never trying to catch it and all that. And so, but he ended this still the tempo had to be talked into the, like, no, you actually have to do something about this. Yeah. Oh, okay.
00:40:35
Speaker
Yeah, oopsie. But yeah, yeah, they got it right at least. So yeah, and then yeah, sorry, I just was going to always be a struggle for Newcastle the way it just would Brown going off the pitch in that moment, it was always it was just going to be a struggle and they balled up well Hayden, but he's been very good in the last few weeks. And this is this is a team that's angry in a lot of ways. So, you know, there's there's a lot of guys trying to prove a point on this team. So
00:41:03
Speaker
Right, and Saris really needed, they've had a...
00:41:06
Speaker
Um, they had, they've had a rough loss and they need to, they need to make sure that they get some something in the standing. So they really needed a bonus point when they got it. They got it. Let's go to Sunday, Franklin's dark gardens, um, saints and wasps.
Recent Rugby Matches: Excitement & Speed
00:41:23
Speaker
This both Sunday matches were terrific, by the way. Um, the, this, this was really good. And then we'll up the Annie in a little bit here. Um, Will Porter.
00:41:36
Speaker
wow like was what are you doing over there with the scrum? Like why did you sign Francois Huguard? Because I don't know what he added to you because you have so many good young scrum haps. I don't get it at this point because and he's been hurt so Will Porter's just been putting his hand up next to Robson like yep I'm here and he's getting to the point where I mean I'm seeing it on I somehow
00:41:58
Speaker
I've been followed by a bunch of WASPs people. I don't get it, but I follow them back because I generally try to do that with rugby people because I love supporting rugby people, obviously. It seems like there's not a controversy, but a little bit of a push to have Porter starting over Robson, just because Robson hasn't been playing all that well.
00:42:23
Speaker
Um, he's obviously very good at disrupting and being a Dick to the opposite nine, but, um, they're just seeing what, you know, that the fricking wire live wire that, that Porter is and then what more of it than I don't blame them. Yeah. Cause there's, there's, I mean, the centers are like a whole 15 is a hole when umaga is not playing it. So it's like, you want to see, you know, there's gotta be something between, uh, umaga and the wings around, you know, and the nine can help fill that gap, but.
00:42:53
Speaker
Yeah, it's kids electric, can't deny it.
00:43:00
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, got away with one. Got away with one. I was like, yeah, that's, that, that might have been a knock on. Yeah. Whoops. Missed that one. There were a couple of, this was, this was, I thought this, this match was very well refereed for a Southern hemisphere match. Was that forward? Who cares? Let's just try. It was really cool.
00:43:25
Speaker
Okay. We'll find out. Yeah. Oh, man. No. Yeah. I was like, oh, that's that's nope. That's not good. That's bad. That's a bad one. But let them play about that. Right.
00:43:40
Speaker
Oh, shit. He tried to throw it backwards, whatever. Oh, man, that's so bad. We did see the good and the bad that James Grayson brings. Lots of good in open play, but off the tee, kind of miserable. A little bit bad. Which is possibly why he's not playing tennis as often as maybe we want.
00:44:04
Speaker
Probably. Yeah. Oops, but he did. As you said, he he put he moved Saints around the park really, really well through some dimes and
00:44:19
Speaker
I mean, just generally operated the attack super well because there's a lot of underperforming saints, I'd say, recently, and I don't think that's unfair to say, given where they are in the standings and where they used to be.
00:44:38
Speaker
Great. I thought I thought they operated really well with Grayson in there, which is saying something. You know, Hutchinson had a huge day. Dingwall has been struggling and he came up big. Yep. Harrison and Augustus both are kind of in need of. A step up and they did that ribbons doesn't need to step up, but fuck, did he step up? Good. Like, OK, you want to bring in, you know, blood and new lock for England.
00:45:08
Speaker
If it's between duels and ribbons, which I mean, give it to, you know, let's see what Dave can do. Cause goddamn. 18 tackles. Didn't miss any as got some of the most line out wins. Was this a hundred that he did or 50%? I don't remember which one it was.
00:45:27
Speaker
It was a marketing number for him anyway. I guess his dad came in from South Africa to give him the shirt, which is pretty awesome. So great day for Mr. Ribbons and the Saints. Good time at Franklin's Gardens. Hopefully we see more of that and less of the very big disappointments that we've seen. And you know, they've been
00:45:51
Speaker
that close a few times. We finally got one over the line at least. And I'm sure they were all thinking that when Porter scored his try, like, oh no. Right. Here we go again. Yeah. Let's not do this again, please. Right. And then up to Ashton Gate and
00:46:14
Speaker
like these two teams have played any, you know, exciting matches before exciting matches lately. Except all of them. Fuck. Right. Just
00:46:29
Speaker
Well, it was the kid and Murley show until he got hurt. Yeah. No kidding. No kidding. He tries in the first like five minutes or something. Yep. And then like 12 minutes in, it's, it was like 14, four. And they never just, both teams were chasing the clock. And yeah. And so in the first half, anyway, it kind of slowed down after that, but. Right.
00:46:48
Speaker
It did settle at some point. I don't think you can keep that kind of shit up for that. No, it was like it had the promise of everything. And then it kind of settled a little bit right before half. And then, you know, there's a couple of things that in the last couple of weeks that have kind of
00:47:10
Speaker
told me perhaps this is why he's not as picked as often or why he wasn't picked at certain points in his career. Danny Kerr making a couple of really decisions that have gotten him yellow carded in. These are the things that are in his game that people can criticize and they've reared their ugly heads unfortunately for Danny Kerr and I still love the guy that he's a great
00:47:34
Speaker
but he's just been a little bit too shasty with some of these things. And I'm just like, eh, that's definitely a yellow card. Like he thinks he's going to get away with it. And there's an eye in the sky and there's a couple other sets of eyes, a little unfortunately. The odds of you getting away with it are not very big there, DC. So just saying, just saying. Right. Probably keep that in your pocket. But future Saracen Q-Tizzard. Whoo. Electric this match.
00:48:01
Speaker
Like so much better this season. It's it's really it's really awesome. Yeah, the playing time. He's clearly understanding, you know, the game slowing down a little bit for him and and he's able to really express himself and.
00:48:15
Speaker
I like what he has to say. Yeah, agreed agreed. And there's a there's a lot to say in the fight that Bristol has continued to play. They've not shied away from the way they played. I will you have to give them that the problem has been execution and injuries.
00:48:31
Speaker
And one can probably you can pinpoint on what one on top of the other, honestly. Right. So, I mean, you know, just having PSO for this match, how big a difference would that have made? Absolutely. Yeah. Or, you know, either of the nines. Yeah, either Randall or Yaron.
00:48:50
Speaker
Or you're yeah, or even going down to a frickin white Lee. You know, right? Like he would have even been a little bit of a difference, but they're calling guys that are either, you know, Academy products or, you know, loanies. And it's just really, really rough in those cases. And then they lose, you know, they lose Sam Jeffries and luatua. Like, yeah, yeah, boom, boom. And it's tough. It really is. So I give them I give them all the credit in the world to continuing to stay true to themselves and the way they want to play. But you know, this is
00:49:20
Speaker
the give and the take with that type of stuff. And it's where it's at. And this is why they're there. And that's that's not. And this is this is a growing year. They, you know, losing. I think we it's hard to. Quantify, you know, the effect of losing Ben Earl and Max Manlinson, those guys just fit really well into what Bristol were trying to do, like super well. And, you know, that helped with a lot of the depth issues that we're seeing now.
00:49:50
Speaker
And so now I'm having to call on players that they wouldn't have normally called on. Right. And learning years for them. Right. And it's a learning year. And then I feel like next year, they're really, I mean, just the talent that they're bringing in. It's clearly, okay, let's build our depth this year and then add to the top of the, you know, add to the cream of the roster.
00:50:15
Speaker
Yeah, they got AJ, they got Magnus Bradbury coming in. Ellis Gens will be there. There's a lot of good things going on with it. So, yeah. Frustrating if you're a Bears fan now, but there's lots of good coming. Right. And it's always going to, you know, it's just like we see in the NFL where teams have hangover years. They make the playoffs and maybe do well and think too much about themselves, where they do poorly and it kind of weighs on them.
00:50:44
Speaker
The Bears are right in that kind of spot. And, you know, this is this is their hangover year. They'll be they'll be ready next year. Let's jump down under Super Rugby Blues Highlanders.
00:50:59
Speaker
Disruptions for the blues pre-kickoff. You wouldn't have known it. No, you really wouldn't have. Parafetta. Yeah, it's very good. Jumping in at 10 and like we've seen it with, with Goudy at, at Sari's where 15 playing 10, it's a, can be a bit of a crap shoot. Cause sometimes they want to play it like a 15. Uh, I thought Parafetta played a pretty good 10 game.
00:51:24
Speaker
So, mad props to him for that, for switching that up last minute. Yeah, and obviously we did a really good job of it.
00:51:37
Speaker
Tane Plumtree, that is the son of former Hurricanes coach and current All-Black assistant John Plumtree. Like, yep, got dad's blood in there somewhere, I guess. Yeah, I guess, because like I was looking at, you know, you look at that back row and you're like, yes, a 2-2 in Papa Lee. OK, those guys are the ones who are going to be doing the damage. It's like, no, Plumtree is just going to be. Thank you again. Nope. Thank you again. Just give me the ball in space and I'll just score a try.
00:52:02
Speaker
Yeah, not, and not much to again, we talked about it last week, not much to really lean on for this, for this highlanders team. They're, they're going to, they're in for a long FNC season. They really are. Cause there's not that there's honestly, there's not much going on defensively there. No, there there's just gaps, gaps on gaps. They're, they're struggling mightily to say the least.
00:52:26
Speaker
And speaking of teams that are struggling, but a little better. Rebels. Yeah, a little better. I mean, they're playing the Brumbies, so it's hard to. It's tough to measure that. Yeah, yeah. But Richard Harvick's try was the best try. They probably scored apart from, I think, the new try. They scored against the Druer. But yeah, like that was a really well-worked. Yeah, muah, love it. Do more of that more often than you'll be in a good spot.
00:52:57
Speaker
but yeah just playing this playing this properties team is always going to be difficult and it is you know i mean especially with tom banks and tom right and yep yep a valentine like a valentine yo yeah yeah he's a he's just a nightmare and lolisio is really coming into his own he is um even the kid that they had come in for him uh uh yona yona yeah like whoo it's funny because like
00:53:24
Speaker
both Kunzel and Passatoa left this team to go find playing time. And the Brumbies clearly didn't bat an eye because they knew what they had in the locker. I was like, damn, all right. You knew what you were doing. Good for you. Good for you. Shit.
00:53:42
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Just the, this is a team that's going to have to find little tiny wins as the year goes on. If the rebels are going to try and salvage anything out of this season, because the actual wins on the scoreboard, I got to be really hard to come by and for sure. I mean, I don't see, I don't see this team winning a match this year. I don't know. I hate to say that, but they're not.
00:54:03
Speaker
It's gonna be tough. Tough sled and sorry, sorry, Ryan. Yeah, but that's okay. We saw it. Look, we've seen it with the free Jackson. And I have every faith in the world that Ryan Martin will fix that attack, because we've seen it happen. So truth. I mean, when he took over with the free Jax, that attack was just not mlr worthy. No, and
00:54:29
Speaker
He threw guys in different places. He sorted out the different styles and got it right. So he'll get them right. Yeah, believe it. Go over to Saturday. My oh my. Take a bow, Chiefs. Yes.
00:54:49
Speaker
I was a little happy with this result. Yeah, I bet the hell you were. Damn. First time in what, like something six, they say 16 years or six years. They take it. I think it's six years. Six years. But yeah, still, still a while. Yeah, I don't recall the time exactly. But been a minute. It was. Yeah, it's been a minute. And I thought the Chiefs really
00:55:16
Speaker
they had many more opportunities throughout this match than the Crusaders did. And they just were getting them wrong. They'd get that overlap. They had that same movement going to the left side every single time that the bump play and then the bump into the blockers. And they would either make the wrong decision or they pass it too late or they just run a poor line off of it and it just wasn't working.
00:55:44
Speaker
until like the last 10 minutes or so. We've made every wrong decision. Let's make every right decision, see how that works for us. See how that happens. Yeah, save it till late, boys. Why don't you? It was, yeah, I mean, just- And Cortez Radima. Yeah, like- Not bad. I want to get into some technical details here, because as you know, not everybody thinks about it so much, but like when you're in nine,
Chiefs' Tactics: Challenges & Triumphs
00:56:14
Speaker
The first doctor coming into a game already and it's, you know, it's his debut, right? So it's, it's, there's a whole lot going on there and he's clearly a runner and to be able to break off a run.
00:56:28
Speaker
you know, take the tackle, and then you're still in position for the next phase, which is a quick ball, and you deliver an accurate pass like you know you take the tag you get up off the deck you get your in your crouching and get off that pass like I think the he did it and it was like the first one was a little high, but it wasn't a terrible throw which
00:56:51
Speaker
you see experienced scrum heads do all the time in that kind of position. Some even without going for a run. But, you know, he had that one that was just a little off, but everything else after that was just, you know, whether or not he was running and taking hits, he was throwing an accurate ball and just a threat too. So I'm very excited about that because that's one of those, like, if you can pull, you know, have him and Weber, like Weber is your starter and then
00:57:20
Speaker
You pull him, okay, great. The other team can relax. No, they can't. If this is how he's going to play, if this is the standard, then yummy. Totally. Yeah. No, it was really good. And on the other side for the Crusaders. No, no, no. No other side. There's a little bit of Bryn Hall that I liked. I don't say his name often enough in terms of praise, but
00:57:43
Speaker
Yeah, like, okay, he's that that they need that Britain Hall more often. I will say that like, and then they'll be a lot harder to beat. But obviously, today was this match was just not happening. They, they could not get out of their own way, really, like in the thankfully, the Chiefs were able to knock that door in finally. But I mean, look at the tackle count 215 tackles to 96.
00:58:08
Speaker
And the Crusaders only missed 27 tackles. That is damn good. And, you know, as hard as it is for them to eat this loss,
00:58:19
Speaker
I think the defense coach should be very proud. Um, sure that I'm sure, I'm sure razor Robertson is very pissed, but, um, cause they did get unlocked. They got, they got pants. So he's going to be mad because they do it enough. You give them enough chances though. Like Jesus, how many times you want to hand them a chance to do it. Right. And it's like, and if I'm him, I'm like, they did the same fucking thing all match. And that's what beat you. You fucking kidding me. Like I would, yeah. And, and it's.
00:58:49
Speaker
That's just, again, because of the standard. It's the Crusaders. They're fine. They'll be OK. I agree. Obviously, you don't win championships by being satisfied with a defensive performance like that.
00:59:04
Speaker
Right. But man, so he'll be mad because he's supposed to be, that's just, that's how he is. But you know, they'll take it on the chin and they'll keep going forward. So yeah, I, I, who's, who's 15 tackles. God damn who they have next. They got, um, they have all the blues. Oh, that'll be a, I don't want to be the blues. Yeah. Team that you want to, yeah. But I mean, that's also the blues are pretty damn good attacking team. So on the blues, I'm licking my lips and being like, Hey,
00:59:32
Speaker
game on. Like, nothing to certainly don't back down from this. And they won't. But man, these guys will come out real fast, no doubt. Yeah. They'll want to attack more, I'm sure. Unquestionably. Reds and Dura, I only got through the first half of this thing, but it was a wild end of the half. You missed the game, really. Well, I mean, it was still an entertaining bit. It was just the...
00:59:57
Speaker
This is a really weird end of the half with the TMO coming in for how many cards? Three? Three cards. Yeah, three. Right. We got to review this. Okay. Now we got to review this. Oh, wait. And we got to review this and all the results in yellows. And they were all quality. Yeah, they were all absolute yellows.
01:00:18
Speaker
well i guess you can't i mean you did your job so can't be mad at that game turned into like oprah you get a yellow and you get a yellow everybody look at their seats you've all got yellow
01:00:37
Speaker
You get a card and you get a card and you get a card. Oh, man. Shit. Yeah, there was. I mean, looks like did pick up his his first try of the for the Reds, even though it was the first one was chopped off, rightly so. It was probably a far pass. Yeah, it was. But I mean, he had a huge day, too.
01:00:59
Speaker
And yeah, but he got his first. So he got that spoiler alert because again, you haven't seen the end of it, but he gets the game winning try and the match ending penalty or turnover. I'm sorry. Yeah. So it's like.
01:01:19
Speaker
And then Josh Nasser throws just a wicked dummy to score his second try and pulling both calves in the process. I think he stumbled because one of them went
01:01:40
Speaker
And then you try to throw the dummy, and I think that may have been when the other one did. And then he falls over and immediately likes to help. Of course, his teammates want to celebrate, but they're too busy trying to help him with his calves. And it's all funny walking on the bench. It's like, yeah, we've all been there. It gets pulled right after that. Oh, man. That's the worst.
01:02:05
Speaker
to Drew to get back in his first off, they look like a professional team. Yeah. So it's coming together for that. They look like they've got a plan. And it just kind of hit me watching this match too, as they're making this amazing comeback that it's like,
01:02:23
Speaker
Yeah, the Fijians are always going to be, they always have that quick strike capability. I mean, we saw the Ratave try were just burned right through the defense, followed by the Tamani try, which was off of just a loose pass. And he kind of came through the line and picked up and ran. They were two minutes apart.
01:02:45
Speaker
the difference between the two of them didn't look, didn't really look like much, but Tamani's a forward. We're talking about a wing. It's like, so- Right. Well, that's what they do. That's what these teams do, you know? But to have the structure and the discipline that they showed, it's just so good for Fiji. I'm starting to really kind of,
01:03:07
Speaker
like, except in my head, like, this is actually how good it's going to be for them and for the whole. Yeah. So just excellent and a good fight back from them. And, you know, going into to the Reds and and winning is always going to be a tall order, no doubt. Yeah, a very tall order. Come back and tie them and and have the game in your hand.
01:03:34
Speaker
Potentially. I know the win to have the lead. And yeah, just unfortunate. Very. Yeah, no, no question. And, you know, they'll they'll all they'll all just be like, Hmm, what do we do? But as the as they get used to it, they'll start to figure out, all right, this is how we get over the line this time. Yep. So, yeah, good on them. And you, again, you can only hope
01:03:58
Speaker
You can really only hope and it's only gonna be good for rugby let alone super rugby. But this team to just come in and start making noise and knocking teams over and that's, that's what we want. This also had the
Rugby Tackle Humor: Spencer Jeans
01:04:10
Speaker
comedy moment of the season of the season so far.
01:04:14
Speaker
with Spencer jeans making a tackle on I can't remember which forward it was. It comes because jeans, you know, jeans around his ankles. And the color just starts cracking up about it. Jeans around his ankles.
01:04:33
Speaker
Yeah, they went off on that for a while. That was hilarious. Well done to them. And it totally wasn't planned. It wasn't something that the comms had thought about. He was calling the play. Gene's had it by the ankles. Gene's around his ankles. He's running with Gene's around his ankles. So it's like, yeah, we've all been there.
01:04:53
Speaker
It happens some days, man. You wake up and you realize, oh, I'm in trouble and you got to run off the door and run ankles. Pulling them on as you're running away. Nobody's ever done that here.
01:05:11
Speaker
Ever ever. Hmm. It's going to toss and force. And I tried watching this. Oh, I know. Fucking hell. So annoying. Fucking flow starts the whole game, starts the game 13 minutes into the broadcast. And the Montella tries on the board. It's like, fuck you, Flo. Like, God damn it. Because I tried watching this live. And so obviously they didn't get the broadcast in time.
01:05:41
Speaker
which is weird because they usually start like an hour early right like i'd much prefer that right and so i was like it was saturday night i was
01:05:51
Speaker
Pretty stoned. And it was like, oh, whatever. I'm going to watch me some super rugby because it was I know it was supposed to start at like nine thirty or something. It was like kind of starting early. Yeah. And yeah, for us. So I was like, oh, yeah, this is watchable. And then I couldn't. I was so disappointed. But it turns out all I had to do was wait 10 more minutes. But I didn't know. I mean, it's not in the movie. Sometimes you are not. I was like, no.
01:06:16
Speaker
Yeah, force a little old Worcester ish and getting into the right on the pitch, but not getting the job done. And that's yeah, I mean, so many times. And I don't I have to say I did not really like Damon Murphy. I don't think he's a very good official like
01:06:36
Speaker
Definitely in the running for one of my least favorite officials in the Southern hemisphere. And he's typically a sevens guy and is not able to convert himself to the 15s game very well at this point. So that kind of annoys me. But digress. Yeah, there was Will Harrison's back. Will Harrison is back.
01:06:57
Speaker
And I don't know who this Jake Gordon guy is, but Jack Durant threw him a seed to get his try on the wing. And that was, I was like, we sure Jake Gordon's hurt because that was, that was a nice ball. Yeah. So Will Harrison's back and everybody needs to look out because this team's getting better now that he's on.
01:07:14
Speaker
on the pitch for them. Frickin Mattiele and Parisi with a foot race. Mattiele, old Mattiele would have got through, would have got home but years have caught up to him. So not so much and Parisi is a young spry little boy and he got to him. I was just like, he's gone. No, he's not gone because I see a Parisi tracking him down right now. So
01:07:37
Speaker
Yeah, lots of lots of good young talent on this wartime team. You know, I was in already play because I didn't I didn't say I signed him because I saw his his stats. I was like, I'll give him a flyer. He's very good. Got me a fairly good score. So I'm quite pleased about it. But I know, you know, Charlie and the mustache.
01:07:56
Speaker
Oh, oh, oh, he's got a wicked like Ryan Martin mustache. Oh, it is. It is thick. Yeah, no, quite good.
01:08:11
Speaker
you know, didn't have to necessarily do a lot on defense, but was a nightmare on the breakdown. And yeah, I guess he had to try. I just, yeah. And he obviously got over as well. So that does not hurt. Usually it doesn't hurt. But yeah, so he's, he does a lot of the grunt work, but is able to, you know, he's got, I think he had three penalties that he won. So, okay. And how's, you know, I kind of know was he, he only played briefly at the end.
01:08:36
Speaker
Yeah, that's a cameo right there. That's all that was. Yeah, he's not looking forward to hoping. Yeah, he'll get better as he gets more minutes under his legs. He's definitely still coming off the boil. The Tizano yellow card near the end that... I mean, I swear Murphy was trying to will the force over for another try or another score.
01:09:01
Speaker
They eventually, the force were able to eventually just kick a penalty to get a losing bonus point, but wasn't totally in agreement with Tizano, yellow card, and he looked a little puzzled and so did I. So yeah, nope, not my favorite. So I move. Yeah. So I cringe when we get to Murphy for the hurricanes matches. Please no, please no.
Free Jacks' Home Opener: A Strategic Win?
01:09:26
Speaker
This weekend's match. No, obviously not this one.
01:09:31
Speaker
Yeah. Whip around for the MLR free Jack's home opener and they got it done. And it was not the prettiest of anything whatsoever, but it was done. And that's all that counts. The sixes and sevens are scoring. That's fine. Good man. Freaking.
01:09:47
Speaker
slave walker walker and walk on the first one that I was like oh that's that's cheeky that is that is just yep that's good that's the good stuff right there that's what we want right and that's like that it's the perfect thing to do in the in the conditions like that you put it up there you let the wind blow it around and you don't even try to field it you just kick it down the field again then try to grab her it like that and boom done joining on the spot yeah
01:10:14
Speaker
Yeah, really good. Um, I was disappointed that they let the arrows get over for their bonus point. Try for their buzz. Um, that's that'll, that'll annoy Matthew too. So it will, um, I'm sure he'll give the boys a good ball for that one, even though the game was in hand, but still, yeah, but you had the wind and I, like, I feel like neither team.
01:10:35
Speaker
use the wind to their advantage enough. I feel like the freejacks did, but they really should have, especially towards the end of the match, just keep them down there. Because the attack for arrows really wasn't...
01:10:51
Speaker
Wasn't too threatening for much of the match. It wasn't much going on. Yeah. The only time wasn't really enjoying this referee, but the only time arrow seemed to find ways to move the balls with penalties. So if you stayed away from the penalty, then they would have nothing would have happened. Honestly, of course, the, uh, was it a late yellow? Yes.
01:11:10
Speaker
Who had the yellow? Larson. Larson, yeah. Unnecessary. Like, you know, we already saw the arrows lose their cool and get their props sent off. Yep. Just keep your cool. That's all you got to do. Yeah, well, that's one of his international teammates. I think he was at Rumble that he got into it with. I think, yeah, I think you're right on that. Yeah, so. Some secret community. Probably some personal history in there.
01:11:36
Speaker
Oh, fuck you, eh? My mother's syrup is sour, eh? Shit. That's a good one. Okay, you know what? Them's fighting words. All right, I get it, Josh. I get it.
MLR Match Results & Insights
01:11:51
Speaker
Shit. Whoop around for the rest. Atlanta beat Austin. Again, I'm not completely sold on Austin. They are good.
01:12:00
Speaker
but they've only played two games at home and they've actually played a good team this time and they lost. So just, we'll see. We have them this week. So that's going to be tough down there. Can we just not go to Texas ever? Ever. Yeah. Right. Houston beat Seattle. So again, I'm not sold on Seattle. Right. Nola barely beat Dallas. So Nola is not that good clearly. No. New York beat San Diego. San Diego is still a really good team there.
01:12:27
Speaker
their record might not be 100% what they said, but yeah, they pushed New York at in New Jersey all the way. So I don't think New York's that good. So yeah, I think that's up there as well.
01:12:41
Speaker
LA got problems, although they might get a solution or two coming their way with Joe Defete on the way over. I'm glad we played them already. Same. Same. Although we we have to play Utah when they have Paul. So that's going to suck. Oh, no, thank you. Do not want. Yeah, well, actually, they'll be here. Oh, that's better. Yeah, I like that.
01:13:12
Speaker
I'm okay with that. I'm getting a picture with Paul. So, yeah, we'll see.
Strategizing Against Austin
01:13:20
Speaker
Lots to still sort out this year, but we are now second in the East. So, yeah. Let's keep it there and we'll move up. Let's keep going that way, please.
01:13:30
Speaker
Please, please, please. Yeah, it's going to be a tough old battle down in Austin, but I think we can get done. We just got to be smart. That's all. Their centers are a problem, but I like our centers, too. Right. And I like our outside backs a lot. Yeah, I do, too. I do, too. Dougie Fife was back. He was back. I said to Fife on the way off the field while he was walking up the field, I was like, just like home, Dougie, he was not amused at all.
01:13:57
Speaker
took his head with a little bit of a grimace. Like, I was like, come on, man. Let's go. Oh man. I thought that was 40 though. I was like, good. So I was like, I got to kind of react. That was a good one. Yeah, exactly. That's the,
01:14:13
Speaker
You gave me what you were looking for, but damn, at the same time, I know I'd be fucking like, shut the fuck up. Leave me alone. That's probably what he was thinking. I'm going to get warm. Get me out of here. Shit. Oh, man. All right. Awesome. Cool. So that's that.
01:14:32
Speaker
If you're, we are going to head over to fancy pod
Six Nations Finale: A Preview of Key Matches
01:14:35
Speaker
in a second here. So if you're coming over there, we got, uh, not as much as we usually choose to talk about because there's no problem this weekend. Right. That's all right. Gives us play a time to babble. Um, so we do our experts at this point. Um,
01:14:49
Speaker
But yeah, if you're not coming over there, we'll be back next week. Conclusion of Six Nations this weekend should be a doozy. And we will, of course, just pull apart every little thing about certainly the Scotland, Ireland, England, France match and then whatever else we can of Super Rugby. Right. Yeah, we got we got a we got rivalry match unless we take it to Wales somehow, which I wouldn't be mad about, honestly. No, I wouldn't. Yeah. So this if that happens, then yeah, we're definitely going to dive into that one. Yeah.
01:15:19
Speaker
But until then, like I said, if you're not coming, we'll see you guys then. If you're coming over to the fancy pod, we'll see you in a little bit, but we appreciate y'all for listening and we'll catch you guys next week. Have a good one. Later.