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jarrod_dyke: Thanks, my name is Jared Dyke.
Grumpy Old Prop: I'm Ben Glazer.
jarrod_dyke: Let's go. Lots to talk about all European things. There are other things that we would like to talk about, but because Champions Cup is going to take up so much effing time of these next two pods, all the news that we probably want to talk about, we're just tabling until we get back to Crem.
jarrod_dyke: So, still I'll be.
Grumpy Old Prop: Hi, George, Martin. Yay, coming series. Anyway, well but we talked about that.
jarrod_dyke: Among other things. with ah um Anyway, let's crack them.
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Grumpy Old Prop: Nice. I found a one more 12-pack of Pumpkinhead and my last. Okay, i guess I'll get that.
jarrod_dyke: Oh, man. That's got to be, like, gone soon, I have a feeling.
Grumpy Old Prop: Oh, it's totally gone. I found it just like there's no pumpkin beer anywhere anymore.
jarrod_dyke: Oh, yeah. Hmm.
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Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, I'm okay with it, but it's like, yeah, one last.
jarrod_dyke: i like that.
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Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah. it's Harpoon, too. Good for them.
jarrod_dyke: That's good. Damn. All right. It's a limited edition, though, so might might be yeah stocking up on that one.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm-hmm.
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jarrod_dyke: There's too many to choose from, folks. where and we have Because we have so so much time. Suffice to say, don't be an asshole.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, don't be a dick.
jarrod_dyke: And yeah, don't be racist.
jarrod_dyke: And fuck Joe Grogan. I think we can say that you universally, usually.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah. And fuck Diddy, too.
jarrod_dyke: Usually, not always.
Grumpy Old Prop: fuck Oh, and watch the... ah Make sure to watch that... ah um The Diddy documentary on Netflix, the one that 50 Cent did.
jarrod_dyke: Oh, I'll be interested.
Grumpy Old Prop: I'm going to watch it, but holy shit, that just the shit that I've seen from it. um
jarrod_dyke: Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: yeah Diddy was always a dick and yeah we'll talk about some other stuff later
jarrod_dyke: Interesting. I'm
jarrod_dyke: not shocked. Yeah, not shocked. I mean, he lost Tupac. Just saying.
Grumpy Old Prop: no he had Tupac and Biggie killed yeah so um yeah and for yeah
jarrod_dyke: Oh, I believe that. That would totally believe. i would tell That I would totally believe. Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: Long story short, there's some shit going down from that's been going down for a long time and nobody... So that's it I guess that's where we'll go with it. If you see your friend being a dick, stop them. um as ah as ah As a guy, don't just let guys be guys and don't just look the other way.
jarrod_dyke: Please.
Grumpy Old Prop: um you know
jarrod_dyke: Definitely.
Grumpy Old Prop: Put a stop to it. Let them know it's not acceptable while you can before he has two legends killed. So he couldn't further his career among all the other shit he's done.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah. Right.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Grumpy Old Prop: Anyway.
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jarrod_dyke: Okay, let's talk
jarrod_dyke: Rugby. um So we're going to do this thing as blocks of games, not necessarily one or two games, like one game at a time, because let's face it, we'd be here way too fucking long.
jarrod_dyke: right. So let's go to Friday.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: this was, I, this was a bit of a shock seeing as, uh, how, how far sale went up at first. Um,
jarrod_dyke: you In a way, yes.
Grumpy Old Prop: like the, the, well, you know, everybody had Ernst Van Ryn scoring a try on their bingo card.
jarrod_dyke: In a way, yes.
Grumpy Old Prop: Um, and then of course, you know, the backup, what, 20 year old, 19 year old comes in and, and, um, has a
jarrod_dyke: but Yeah, right.
Grumpy Old Prop: cuts a pretty good line for a try himself. And it's all of a sudden it's like, Hey, um, Glasgow, you might want to, you might want to do something about this. Although that that was, that, that was like a 20 point wind.
jarrod_dyke: Wake up. Yeah, wake up a little bit.
Grumpy Old Prop: So the fact that they came back and and put up, um, 12 before half, um, ah that kind of told, you know, told you where the game was going to go.
Grumpy Old Prop: I think, you know good, good start by sale, good 20 minutes.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: Um, And then the excellent response with, um was it 26 straight points? And yeah, sales scored late and made it interesting. um It was, you know, I think once, you know, once the second half started and, you know, the Glasgow had the wind, it was kind of over.
Grumpy Old Prop: You kind of saw it and Staines scored pretty quick, from quick on. And I was like okay, this is what it's going to look like.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: I mean,
jarrod_dyke: it was, the game was allowed to be a shit show because of fucking Bruce said, and it's like, this is why nobody likes French referees for the most part, because rocks are just a goddamn shit show.
Grumpy Old Prop: Oh, there's that too.
Grumpy Old Prop: Oh, they were terrible.
jarrod_dyke: And honestly, any, anybody that any, anybody like that Kiwis, they're not dissimilar either. Honestly, let's see Ben O'Keefe.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm-hmm.
jarrod_dyke: Like, The rucks are just a shit show. And that of course, shithouse or extraordinaire thrives in those situations. So it's like, he's having such a great game. I'm like, has he done anything other than just be an asshole at the ruck?
jarrod_dyke: Cause that's pretty much all I've seen.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, I didn't, la and I mean, that was just a a poop lineup from Sale, too. So, like, you know Tom Curry is really the only, and Nathan Jaboulou, but, you know, McIntyre, Jean, like, Ernst Van Ryn, that's seven, with the Ernst Van Ryn and Jacques Vermeulen as your two flankers is
jarrod_dyke: You're only preparing for one thing.
Grumpy Old Prop: right. and And then, so you don't you don't have zero carriers outside of Jubulu in the forwards.
Grumpy Old Prop: And then Masi White got hurt early. but Anyway, I think we're we've been talking, honestly, I think we've been talking about this game too long already.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: So, um yeah.
jarrod_dyke: No, i'm I'm not disagreeing. But, I mean, and then also, like, I watched, I actually had Bayonne and Stormers on the on the big screen and Bayonne spit the bit.
jarrod_dyke: There's no way around it.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
jarrod_dyke: they they they There were points where I thought, all right, they're going to turn it right here. And they just, oh man, I wonder where the, you know, and It didn't help that Segglunds had a very bad game. He was not good.
jarrod_dyke: And really, I think he makes, from what I understand, he makes the boat go over there. So um that actually makes sense in a lot of ways. But at the same time, it's the it's probably the reason that things went so sideways for them because he was not good. They couldn't you know they couldn't get it to any the runners like, you know, Maury, uh, to brain, like I, I, yeah.
jarrod_dyke: I'm in, know, these are not names that are household over for, for those of us that don't watch French rugby, but from what I've seen, like those were their more effective runners.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right.
jarrod_dyke: And yeah, they had a couple in the forwards too, but like, I'm, I'm sure, I'm sure their coaching staff was like, what did we do? Like, and I know,
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah. Well, I mean, that they're not really... with the they They were in this competition last year, if i'm not mistaken. Yeah. um So they should have a ah feel for it better than they did, especially with the South African team coming to them um and a somewhat depowered team at that.
jarrod_dyke: Mm-hmm. Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: So, you know, you're missing your nine and ten.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, i mean, they're...
Grumpy Old Prop: That's that.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, they didn't have their usual 9 and 10.
Grumpy Old Prop: hmm.
jarrod_dyke: Some of their back row was on the bench. Some of it was not not there at all. I mean, you had a guy that usually plays...
Grumpy Old Prop: hmm.
jarrod_dyke: Fullback playing 10, I'm pretty sure.
Grumpy Old Prop: Well...
Grumpy Old Prop: Swart.
jarrod_dyke: and So i what I do need to know Is um is there is this a loophole that I don't know that is not like an unknown thing? like Replacing 20-minute red with a guy that's already been subbed off tactically.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm-hmm.
jarrod_dyke: like That feels like a loophole. And I don't think it's a good one. Because...
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm-hmm.
jarrod_dyke: as much as we learned about, you know, even apart from say file play incidents that cause injuries, you can't replace someone that's been hurt with someone that's already been subbed. So why can you replace someone that's been red carded with someone that's been subbed?
Grumpy Old Prop: Right.
jarrod_dyke: So I feel like that's ah either a, either loophole that needs to be closed or a huge fuck up by the refereeing team, which it's Emma Shekelly.
Grumpy Old Prop: Especially.
jarrod_dyke: So that's a possibility as well.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, especially when Ronnell is on, you have, you actually have a player who hasn't been subbed on. So it's not like, yeah, and I know he's not that position, but at the same time, hey, you want 15 on the field.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: as so So as soon as they got back to, right, but as soon as they got back to eight forwards, that's when things really turned. Because while that 20-minute red card was out on there, that's when Bayonne took advantage.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm-hmm.
jarrod_dyke: And because they weren't getting their ass kicked in the scrum. And as soon as they got, as soon as the Stormers got eight back, they just, you know, for lack of a better term, they staffed the shit out of this thing and just shut the whole thing down.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm-hmm.
jarrod_dyke: And that was the end.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: So i think it's I think it's a big issue if it's not something that's been addressed. And i i think we get I think we got something we got to fix here.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm.
jarrod_dyke: Just saying. i think it's I think it's a huge issue. But anyway, yeah. Bound didn't did enough to to win this game in any case. So, know.
jarrod_dyke: whether it was be lineup or whatever you know play anything it wasn't enough so yeah stormers fully deserved the every point they got came over all right so saturday's saturday it's easy for us to talk about it's only one game at least the first one the start of it
Grumpy Old Prop: The only one that mattered.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, so Saturday early morning, I was watching this at, while was at work, because course because naturally we have a huge-ass TV in the gym, so we can we can watch that.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right.
jarrod_dyke: um But yeah, I got to, so I'm trying to not get too excited while I'm watching this to make it super obvious. I'm paying probably more attention to this than I should, but at the same time,
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, I mean, the the
jarrod_dyke: first Sinti try, was just like, it was so close. And I was like, I can't see through all the, I'm trying to see through the racks at the gym to see if I can see the TV. I'm like, did it go out?
Grumpy Old Prop: yeah
jarrod_dyke: Did it go out?
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: ah But good news, it didn't.
Grumpy Old Prop: Nope. Got it down. Yep. Got it down.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: And yeah, that then it was kind of like just a arm wrestle even after, you know, even through a yellow card. um
Grumpy Old Prop: Just a.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, i was I was worried when I kept looking up after after this yellow and I didn't see much going on for us.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right.
jarrod_dyke: I was like, what what's going on here, guys?
Grumpy Old Prop: Right.
jarrod_dyke: We got to take advantage of this. Like, this is this is the place and time to do it.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right. it was It was troublesome. No no doubt about it. But then it kind of just opened up the second Sinti try. um Max Malin is doing something that was awesome.
Grumpy Old Prop: Like, yeah, it's just and, you know, built from there.
jarrod_dyke: Oh, man, that was good. and And, you know, this is the reason why you...
Grumpy Old Prop: He's a wing. OK, can we can we agree that he's a wing now?
jarrod_dyke: He's had two pretty good games at wing, and he's had a few really shit games at fullback. I think we can stick him at wing and be done.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, I'm fine with that. Especially, you know, this this combination here, Calori and Malin's, I'm i'm dumb down with that.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah. No, no argument on me.
Grumpy Old Prop: And, you know, even Daly at fullback wasn't more than half bad.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right. Mm-hmm.
jarrod_dyke: He didn't play terribly this game. I'll give him that.
Grumpy Old Prop: right
jarrod_dyke: Yeah. you The chip through on the, the first Sinti tribal. He might've had a hand in the second one too, if I'm not mistaken.
Grumpy Old Prop: I think he did. he was He was good as a second distributor and um playing that well.
jarrod_dyke: Um,
Grumpy Old Prop: He wouldn't be my first choice like overall. like as ah as But it's one of those, okay, if he's not hurting them, he does he does have a little i running in him still.
Grumpy Old Prop: you know You don't need to be like the speed demon at fullback. does.
Grumpy Old Prop: I'm not saying it doesn't.
jarrod_dyke: It does help when you are, though. Mm-hmm.
Grumpy Old Prop: But i'm not saying it doesn't but um you know there's ah like it's not it as if you can do other things that's that's just as good especially if you have a boot like that's the that's the biggest thing is he can change field position so easily as long as his boots on yeah he hasn't been great lately right
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, when he's accurate, he's great. It's just, there for me, there's too many games where i'm just like, dude, what the fuck? That's my only issue with him. um
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, you know, I think in the end, while the one thing about the other card, though there was not any result of points, but there was a lot of looking in the same direction in terms of the camera.
jarrod_dyke: So there is, you know, while that's, yeah, it's a lot, it's a lot of work in there and, you know, I'm not a
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, a lot of work to defend being done. Mm
jarrod_dyke: you know i Yes, put making guys make tackles is a tactic, but it's the matter in what you execute it that I always have the problem with.
Grumpy Old Prop: hmm.
jarrod_dyke: It doesn't need to be a thousand pick and goes and death by a thousand paper cuts. It can be you know ah a one ball, a two ball, you know somebody ah somebody out the back and then a crash or whatever.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: and then you know Mixing it up is more what it's about, not you know going with one thing over and over again until you're f freaking you know till everyone's bored to shit so i think that's one thing i appreciate about the saracens they were trying different things and you can see it was just just missing here and there and it was like all right this this could turn into good things if we can keep the pressure up and that was my one worry is you know sometimes you just miss your chance and then you're in trouble um But thankfully, they were able to keep the pressure on, and good things happened afterwards. And what was the score at halftime? Pretty notable. 26-0, yeah.
jarrod_dyke: So the Hadfield try.
Grumpy Old Prop: yeah yeah yeah okay
jarrod_dyke: They all were going for Tiz, and Hadfield's like, ooh, hey, I like this. Easiest, probably the one of the easiest tries he scores for a while. But yeah,
jarrod_dyke: yeah it was, yeah, it's...
Grumpy Old Prop: and then tiz got his own later so
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, Tiz got one later, which was which was a nice little bit of play as well. So, yeah, this was a good start to the boys there. They're going to be going real, they're going to be in for quite a different trip coming up here.
jarrod_dyke: i I would really kill to know who got on the plane.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm-hmm.
jarrod_dyke: Did everyone get on the plane?
Grumpy Old Prop: Yep.
jarrod_dyke: Like, did only a couple guys, did only certain few guys, like, who got on the plane? Please, just, like, tell us.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm-hmm.
jarrod_dyke: like don't don't hold Don't hold that over us so anymore, please.
jarrod_dyke: ah the So the 10 o'clock window got a little funny for me because, or the 10, 15, whatever it was, because at 11, I was watching or eleven i was watching one one a kid I used to coach play
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: in the university se finalals over here so I was a little bit back and forth between bulls and Bordeaux and, and La Rochelle and Lester. And I got a little bit of both and I got, I have La Rochelle Lester on right now.
jarrod_dyke: Um, it's now, to the it's almost to the point where it's not in though.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, I think what I watched. Yeah, i watched um Bulls Bordeaux. Wait, hold on. I have the wrong. How did that happen? Where the fuck am I?
jarrod_dyke: Why bulls Bordeaux here? We can talk about that. That's fine. Um,
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, that's that's what I mostly watched. I didn't I saw a little bit of.
jarrod_dyke: Oh, I watched, I had that on my, I had that on my small screen while I had the, the, the uni game on, on the big screen.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: Um, yeah, it was, I mean, looked like it was quite a game.
Grumpy Old Prop: That was there's a fun game. It was fun.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah. it looked like it was quite a game.
Grumpy Old Prop: There was a lot of lot of good rugby, a lot of running, just like just excellent display. um of of know what the sport can can provide.
jarrod_dyke: Mm-hmm.
Grumpy Old Prop: and Bordeaux is just such a... like Both teams played really well. um Pollard looked a lot more dynamic than he did at Leicester.
Grumpy Old Prop: um
jarrod_dyke: It's wild.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah. um Just some excellent tries from... ah Acker had a a pretty sweet try. and To me you know, i I always kind of... compare him to LCD because I feel like sale chose Luke Cowan Dickey over keeping Acker.
Grumpy Old Prop: think that was a mistake.
jarrod_dyke: Well, they let Acker walk and they, the and LCD ended up falling in their lap to be fair, but they did let, the first thing of it is they let, they let Acker walk.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right. To be fair. That's true.
jarrod_dyke: So we'll say that, which did result in eventually LCD coming to them.
Grumpy Old Prop: Which the man. Yeah. I would have. Right. I would have tried to avoid that, but because again again his try in this game showed why, but man, you're just so it'
Grumpy Old Prop: it's just the hard. how You're overmatched in a match like this with, um you know, Pano and BLBRA both, you know they scored three combined tries like.
jarrod_dyke: Oh, yeah, yeah.
jarrod_dyke: Well, then you have Solicitor Riasi off the bench. Like, that's mean.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah. Right. Right.
jarrod_dyke: That's mean, dude. He had 87 meters. He was second in the game.
Grumpy Old Prop: And he only played 34 minutes.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, only to Seb DeClerc, who had 104. He had 87.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: Like, jeezum.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm-hmm.
jarrod_dyke: um
Grumpy Old Prop: Seb DeClercq was on fire, though.
jarrod_dyke: It didn't...
Grumpy Old Prop: he He was getting the ball a lot.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, he was good.
Grumpy Old Prop: Like, he had the try, but he was heavily involved the rest of the way, too.
jarrod_dyke: He was good.
jarrod_dyke: might Might see him wear green at some point. he's he's been He's been good for the Bulls this season from what I understand as well. Right.
Grumpy Old Prop: he had Yeah, he has. My fantasy team can attest to it. um Because he's on it.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, I haven't been watching him, but I've been seeing the points that he's scored, and this was my first real experience to to get to see what what he could do. And, you know, against two international wings, maybe two of the, certainly two of the best wings in the world.
jarrod_dyke: right
jarrod_dyke: m
Grumpy Old Prop: um
jarrod_dyke: yeah
Grumpy Old Prop: It's hard to say which one's better at this point. They they both bring a little bit different skills to the table, although also similar skills, just they apply them differently because Beal Berry is kind of tiny, and Pino is like, I will be a bully if I have to.
jarrod_dyke: Yep. A
jarrod_dyke: little bit. well He has the ability to be strong. I feel like BLBRA, give him like another year and he'll have the same type of strength that like DuPont has.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: Grant, DuPont's a freak in nature.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right. Oh.
jarrod_dyke: But like because people assume so much about DuPont the first time that we saw him.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: And then he rocked.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right.
jarrod_dyke: I don't remember who it was. i think it was someone from, not Italy, somebody else. Might have been Ireland and just absolutely maybe Wales.
Grumpy Old Prop: Was it Wales? Didn't he drag someone?
jarrod_dyke: Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: wait. Like a Josh Adams type. Someone big, too.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah. I don't remember. was someone very sizable and just stood right up, stood him right up and drove him back. i was like, okay, this is not someone that you just run at and assume that things are going to happen the way you want them to, just because he's a scrum half.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah. Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: He's a freaking ancient though. But I think BLB could be like a year from where he's at least strong enough to withhold his own in there. Right now he's still a little tiny, very fast, but tiny.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah. But it works for him because like, yeah, he'll just I'll chip and chase and then you can't touch me. has like Fuck you, dude.
jarrod_dyke: Oh, I know. but I was like, oh boy. There's so many cases of why you don't let the ball bounce this weekend too. Cause you just saw it go sideways on so many people.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right.
jarrod_dyke: Mail-ins we talked about earlier. This one for BLF. Like, yeah, don't let the ball bounce if you can help the kids. Cause it's a funny shaped one and you never know.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: It's absolutely a funny shaped one.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right.
jarrod_dyke: um Yeah. So that was, that was good. It was great. It was a great game. ah You know, I was, While I was thoroughly entertained by watching one one game, this actually had me pulling my eyes away quite often.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm-hmm.
jarrod_dyke: So it actually says a lot. um And then I got La Rochelle and Lester on. You know, they hung till half. And then Will Hurd got carded. And the wheels came off.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, well.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah. Jigoo try West, West penalty at the end. And then, and yeah, it was just, there was solid lull.
jarrod_dyke: I'm kind of in the lull right now here. Just, but there's a lot of, there's a lot more looking right with white attacking that way than looking left with green attacking the other way.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm-hmm. Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: So, you know, and and they're starting and Lester starting to,
Grumpy Old Prop: you can see I can see about a 20-minute completely flat period there. So, yeah.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah. And Lester start to bring on the subs, which their bench wasn't, you know, the bench you'd want if you're trying to win this game late.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm-hmm.
jarrod_dyke: it is.
Grumpy Old Prop: No. I mean, to be to be blunt, this will did all the the starters, you know, some of them, yeah. But, like, if you're starting, look, no disrespect to...
Grumpy Old Prop: you know, someone like Billy Searle or George Pearson or James Thompson or Josh Menz. You're not starting these players in a championship, in a Champions Cup match against, certainly against La Rochelle and thinking you're coming out better.
jarrod_dyke: No.
jarrod_dyke: Multiple-time winner, La Rochelle at that.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah. I mean, you know, Leicester are a multiple time winner, but you know, what, 20 years ago.
jarrod_dyke: La Rochelle much more recently with much with many of the players in this squad.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah. Right.
jarrod_dyke: Gregory, oh, man. When things go right for you, things go right for you. The Aldrich try that just fell into his lap because it was a it was a bo It was a bobble at the top of the line out. Clearly they were going for the drive and maybe, you know, Aldridge was going to be the guy to come in and secure it.
Grumpy Old Prop: Oh. Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: And it just fell into his hands and he beat, I don't know who, I think Charlie Clare was the hooker that was trying to defend that channel.
Grumpy Old Prop: Hmm.
jarrod_dyke: And then left he got skinned and it left Tom Whiteley to, poor Tom Whiteley to defend himself.
Grumpy Old Prop: Oh, that's mean. Don't do that.
jarrod_dyke: i don't remember who, I think someone else tried to help at the end, but it was mostly on Whiteley. was like, that's not happening anymore.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: but when good things happen good things you know when things are good things are good sometimes and that's just how it was for them um I will say because Ronegar was not in this yeah able to coach this match because he got another ban and while while admitting that French referees suck because he these are mostly coming from top 14 games that this happens. And the French media has issues. I think it's fair to say.
jarrod_dyke: Certainly French rugby media. If he could find a way to just button it for five minutes, because I feel like he's missing out on other of other opportunities because of these bans that are going on.
jarrod_dyke: And whether or not he's
Grumpy Old Prop: Probably. You don't want to.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, exactly. You don't want to just have your...
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah. I'm not going to hire a coach who who isn't going be coaching half the year.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And, you know, I don't know if he would... don't think he wants to go back to his native Munster or Island, honestly. But I think, you know, his name was being thrown around for the whales job.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm hmm.
jarrod_dyke: But if whales need a guy that's dependable... And he's not there because he can't shut his face. And I'm not saying it would necessarily be the same things over and over again, going from La Rochelle to Whalen's, that he would be complaining about.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right. Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: But he's he just needs to learn.
Grumpy Old Prop: But...
jarrod_dyke: how like He just needs to shut it. like He really does. this is you know We gave Rousey tons of shit because of this, and it was all deserved.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, but...
jarrod_dyke: At this point, he's just as bad, if not worse.
Grumpy Old Prop: But also, um you know, you don't want someone who's going to be tough talking bad about, ah you know, people who aren't doing their jobs properly.
jarrod_dyke: You know?
Grumpy Old Prop: um yeah well Well, let's put it this way. The people in charge of Welsh rugby do not want anyone like that associated with their program.
jarrod_dyke: No, because they know that they're they're they're also as responsible for something like that.
Grumpy Old Prop: So, yeah.
jarrod_dyke: I think it's fair to say. um so yeah. And then going over to – let's go over to um Dublin.
jarrod_dyke: um God, I have to say, like, wait, who had the Bulls-Bordeaux game with the with the whistle? No.
Grumpy Old Prop: Oh, I don't remember.
jarrod_dyke: Oh, Dickskin.
Grumpy Old Prop: Oh, yeah.
jarrod_dyke: But then we get, you know, Brace here, who who I saw a couple of penalties he gave to La Rochelle. I'm just like, nope. I can think of one Tigers fan that's probably throwing shit at the screen watching that. um And I wouldn't blame him one bit.
jarrod_dyke: And, know, we have Craig Evans, who is...
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm-hmm.
jarrod_dyke: I think there's only one referee that's worse than Craig Evans and Piardi, and we'll talk about him. Yeah. But damn, like Craig Evans is bad. But I also don't think it affected the outcome in this game.
jarrod_dyke: know,
Grumpy Old Prop: No. No, and and yeah, think I think someone in the comms booth said that, or maybe I saw a commentary elsewhere that you know you you have to wonder if Quinns aren't kind of kicking themselves a little bit because um you know starting Evans instead of Marcus and um You know, going with Laude and Carr rather than, you know, where's Chandler Cunningham South here? Where's Dom Brandt?
Grumpy Old Prop: um I don't, didn't Dom come off? her No, i don't think he did.
jarrod_dyke: No, i think he's okay.
Grumpy Old Prop: So I'm not sure. Like, if they went if they went just, the you know, if they went full noise, they they have a chance at this. Like, as they were saying, like, Leinster aren't what you think they are right now.
jarrod_dyke: No, no, certainly not this year. They're very beatable right now.
Grumpy Old Prop: But not if you put out your shags. um
jarrod_dyke: No, of course not.
Grumpy Old Prop: So, yeah, like where's, you know, Tyrone Green? Like, you know, that's the funny thing is like like from 11 to 14, that's a solid lineup.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, agreed.
Grumpy Old Prop: I'm not, ah you know, no problem with Northmore Beard, Cleaves and Murley. I know they can do a little bit better than that, but that's fine.
jarrod_dyke: Cleese was solid this game.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, Cleves had a sweet try, too. um
jarrod_dyke: Hmm.
Grumpy Old Prop: So, it's there. But Jared Evans is not winning you this game.
jarrod_dyke: No, no, no, no. It's really not.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: And then, yeah, I mean, you look at the cross and you look at the look at the bench that these guys are bringing on. Yes, there's a couple of relatively unknowns and or guys that are, you know, only starting to come into their to their own.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm-hmm.
jarrod_dyke: Harry Byrne played really well when he came on, which is...
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm-hmm.
jarrod_dyke: Ross, where you at, dude? um And then you got Rico Iwani who comes in and plays midfield.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: And and at club level, he's fine. I think at international level, he needs to get stuck onto the wing.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm-hmm.
jarrod_dyke: But club level, he's certainly fine. And especially when he's not going against the best guys across from him.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm-hmm.
jarrod_dyke: Plain and simple. Like Bryn Bradley, Lucas Friday. Lucas Friday should play a lot more than anybody else besides Will Porter in terms of their nines.
jarrod_dyke: I have to say that.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: Like,
Grumpy Old Prop: Yep.
jarrod_dyke: a Very good young nine. you know, English, English, ah very English. His English come. He won the U-20 World Cup with them the other summer. So, like, he he should be one of those guys that, you know, Borthwick picks up the phone and calls Quinns and said, hey, get this guy as much time as you can. i want to see what he turns into.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: That would also require Borthwick to have his head out of his ass.
Grumpy Old Prop: And they should, cause like, well, you know, we'll, we'll yeah.
jarrod_dyke: But, you know.
Grumpy Old Prop: And we'll Porter's not no slouch at at a nine, but like you got to balance what you got now, especially where they are as a club with, okay, we want to see this.
jarrod_dyke: Nope.
jarrod_dyke: h
Grumpy Old Prop: This guy needs the time.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, absolutely.
Grumpy Old Prop: But again, if you're Bortho doing that, how fucking hypocritical are you? Because you just played fucking George Ford over Finn Smith and games that you didn't didn't fucking matter whether you won or lost.
jarrod_dyke: Oh, and reference, see my see my reference about him pointing his head of his ass.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, oh, yeah. And this was, and I forgot i forgot they signed to him. Stu Townsend is the other nine that they've been using as well. and When you have Porter and Friday, I don't know why you did that.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, come on.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: and Especially when things are so tight. you have You have those two guys. Max Green is your break glass in case of emergency.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right.
jarrod_dyke: you didn't need to You didn't need to spend any sort of coin on Townsend at all. And I mean at all.
Grumpy Old Prop: No.
jarrod_dyke: So that was just silly in my opinion. But what do I know?
jarrod_dyke: um Yeah, this Linster team will be gettable by a team that actually puts it out.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right.
jarrod_dyke: don't don't Don't be mistaken by that. um
jarrod_dyke: Can't even really talk about Bath Munster because couldn't fucking watch it.
Grumpy Old Prop: Couldn't watch it.
jarrod_dyke: Thank you, Flo, you fucking douchebags.
jarrod_dyke: Love a company that doesn't understand that they're just complete shit. But, you know, whatever. um We can go to Parky Scarlet's, though. um Yeah, I... We talked about... I don't think the record for Team Take the Three was as bad this week as it was last.
jarrod_dyke: But it wasn't good. And Scarlet's are the first ones that come to mind.
Grumpy Old Prop: No, and this one, right. Yeah. We'll get to the anti-team kick, take the points in a second too. Well, not in a second, in a couple minutes.
jarrod_dyke: But did you did you hear Cuthbert making the comment about it? Like, oh, you have the momentum. Take three. i was like, time out.
jarrod_dyke: The math ain't math in there, dude.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: That doesn't add up. What are you talking about? You have the momentum, so take three. You have the momentum. Stick it in the fucking corner, you idiot. Like, oh.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: any I don't know, man.
Grumpy Old Prop: Like...
jarrod_dyke: I don't know.
Grumpy Old Prop: Again, the the team that scored three tries beat the team that scored one try. That math is mathing.
jarrod_dyke: it wouldn't have been as close if freaking Bristol could convert for their life.
Grumpy Old Prop: Well, yeah. But again, you know... Yeah, Worsley, he had a good game last week, so he's down due for an off week. I mean, as somebody said, this is your Bristol team. This is what Bristol have always have been. You know, they'll play great one week and then play like shit the next. I mean, this and in this case, they're they're playing like shit was enough to beat Scarlet's on the road.
Grumpy Old Prop: So I think it says more much more about Scarlet's than it does.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, and and really it was probably to their fortune that this was their game.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right. Like if they have one game in this, certainly in this competition that they can poop off for, it was this one. So you got away with it. Good job.
jarrod_dyke: yeah Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: Pick it the fuck up.
jarrod_dyke: Wake up.
Grumpy Old Prop: yeah wake up damn it
jarrod_dyke: Wake up! ah ah um Yeah, I just, you can see it on Patland's face. Like, are we going find a way to fuck this up a little bit here and there?
Grumpy Old Prop: yeah right um yeah but uh you know in the end rovovo and mata we're not gonna let them not score so there that little pop out to mata for i think it was his second try i can't remember which was which um
jarrod_dyke: Definitely worried. For good reason.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah. Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, that was unfair.
jarrod_dyke: Oh, I know.
Grumpy Old Prop: No, was his first try.
jarrod_dyke: and well, it was his first try.
Grumpy Old Prop: It was his first try.
jarrod_dyke: But yeah, I'm watching it. I'm like, Mata knew this was coming because they, they've played obviously here, um but they've also played together VG.
Grumpy Old Prop: Uh-huh.
jarrod_dyke: So I was like, Mata knew this was happening. like And that's why he was just able to grab it and go because he was ready for it.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm-hmm.
jarrod_dyke: He's like, number one, he's been training with this guy in at his club for a while now. And he's also been training internationally with this guy for a while now.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm-hmm.
jarrod_dyke: So he's like, this is his guys, the only one that ah one of you that doesn't that knows what's happening right now is Billy Mata. Everyone else is just like, I have no idea going to happen next.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, that happened. So good things happen in those situations, clearly. um Let's go to Sunday morning.
jarrod_dyke: Early Sunday morning here. Power Northampton.
jarrod_dyke: You know, do I charge ruined games?
Grumpy Old Prop: Yes, it's a fact.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: You can't win if you get red carded. Even if you've already scored. Well, I mean, it helps when you're the guy who gets red carded has already scored two tries.
jarrod_dyke: Twice.
Grumpy Old Prop: um
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, that's true.
Grumpy Old Prop: So, yeah.
jarrod_dyke: That is true. Mm-hmm.
Grumpy Old Prop: There's that. And then, you know, Powell really put up a fight, but this is this is not... You can see the difference in class. um And so put it this way. When you have we haven't talked about this in a while, um but I'm going to bring it up here.
Grumpy Old Prop: When you have funky hair that makes you really stand out, who is it? Thomas Jones? I can't remember if it's a soft J.
Grumpy Old Prop: Jones.
jarrod_dyke: I think it's soft, Jay.
Grumpy Old Prop: He stood out. I could see him everywhere. Every time like you could see that freaking mop...
jarrod_dyke: but Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: just like bouncing all over the place because he's hitting somebody or, or he's running with it. Like that's, you know, okay, good. Yes. You, you not only should you, I really, you know, you're allowed to have it.
Grumpy Old Prop: I would encourage it because like, that's one of those, like coaches see that too.
jarrod_dyke: a
Grumpy Old Prop: Like, you know, um it's going to be hard to miss.
jarrod_dyke: a
Grumpy Old Prop: So like, you're going to get playing time if you play like that with, with, you know, noticeable hair. um So good on you.
Grumpy Old Prop: but at the same time at the same time that the the guys on the other side um like if if vandermesh had like a half a hand um instead of dick hands um i'm pretty sure northampton would have had like two or three tries early pretty early on he kept knocking it on or or um like dropping it or throwing it forward um
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, free flowing. Yeah. Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: yeah
jarrod_dyke: yeah
Grumpy Old Prop: But like, and he wasn't the only one. It's just, but again, when you're fucking massive, it's hard to miss. um
jarrod_dyke: Yep.
Grumpy Old Prop: but Yeah, this this was a story of Saints like basically doing what they wanted and just, you know, when they fuck it up, that's that was the, that that was Pau's best defense early.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, but
Grumpy Old Prop: And so, yeah, it kind of played out the way, you know, played out that way over the course of the game too.
jarrod_dyke: the...
Grumpy Old Prop: Saints got a little on track and, you know, Pau, took their time. I mean, they were in the lead for a while, but it was like whenever Saints start clicking, this is over.
jarrod_dyke: yeah but
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, and they and they were another team that so the had, you know, three on their mind every time. It's like, what dude, get get yourselves.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah. True.
jarrod_dyke: They only ended up with three tries, didn't they? they making that up?
Grumpy Old Prop: I think that's they ended with, yeah, three tries.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: So two and only two palmy kicks, but still that's two, too many.
jarrod_dyke: Like.
jarrod_dyke: still it's too, too many to beat this team. You know, in the grand scheme of things, if you want to progress in this competition, you need as many points in the, in that table as possible.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right.
jarrod_dyke: So yeah, you were, you had your bonus, you're losing bonus point taken away by North Hampton.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right. It's this.
jarrod_dyke: They were, and they and they were smart. Like, Mitchell's like, do we have four? Yes, we have four. Okay, cool. Three.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: Certainly appropriate moment to take three right there to take away the the losing bonus from, you know, a team in in your group and to end the game.
Grumpy Old Prop: Uh-huh.
jarrod_dyke: Done.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yep.
jarrod_dyke: Perfectly fine. But and because Powell didn't bother to go get themselves a fourth try. They walk away with zero. and that's And to walk away with zero from your home game is really it is really devastating to your chances.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: You certainly cannot do that again in any game, and that includes your away ones now too. So it's a big ask after that usually.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm-hmm.
jarrod_dyke: Usually. right We'll see. But think they go two Quinns this week, right? You want to make that
Grumpy Old Prop: Who do we sorry? How are Bristol?
jarrod_dyke: I knew they were going to England. Just we put them on had the wrong team.
Grumpy Old Prop: That's still um yeah, that's that's still rough.
jarrod_dyke: m
Grumpy Old Prop: That's actually rougher. Like Bristol is going to be tough at home. um
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, Bristol have already had their poo match, so.
Grumpy Old Prop: As you know. Right. They've already had their poo match and, you know, gotten their Champions Cup rust off. So. Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: So, speaking rust, um to lose Sharks, I caught probably the best moment I could for the sake of the Sharks, which was shortly after halftime.
Grumpy Old Prop: but who The room alone. Oh, okay.
jarrod_dyke: Well, yes, LaRue Milan and and in general.
Grumpy Old Prop: Was what happened at the time?
Grumpy Old Prop: if No, he got it.
jarrod_dyke: But, no, I wish, oh, man, I wish I had seen his I didn't watch that.
Grumpy Old Prop: Well, I thought you searched over.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, I didn't see it either.
jarrod_dyke: I was... Good for him, though. That's great. Couldn't be happier for the dude. um
Grumpy Old Prop: May have to go least find the highlights. Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: Roland, yeah. That's the one thing that Flo's got right so far is the goddamn highlights.
Grumpy Old Prop: yeah
jarrod_dyke: um and i mean, in general, this was always going to be a to-lose game. It's just a matter of by how much.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right.
jarrod_dyke: But the Sharks fought back a little bit at halftime. They oh they read too they got down to, what, two scores, I think?
jarrod_dyke: No, not quite.
Grumpy Old Prop: No, it was never two scores.
jarrod_dyke: Not quite.
Grumpy Old Prop: They got it or 28-12, so 16 points.
jarrod_dyke: Not quite, yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm-hmm.
jarrod_dyke: twenty eight twelve 2812. Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: sixteen points
jarrod_dyke: yeah So, but still, it was like, it was a lull for Toulouse. They came out kind of flat, I think that's fair to say. um
jarrod_dyke: But then, yeah, never mind. Forget it. They were, after that, it's like, oh wait, we're Toulouse.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah. Well, it didn't help that.
jarrod_dyke: That's right.
Grumpy Old Prop: I honestly, think it really didn't help that Ntamak dropped late. And so Ramos had to slot in at 10. um
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, it's ah it's a shift.
Grumpy Old Prop: Because he didn't play well. Certainly not early on.
jarrod_dyke: Ramos.
Grumpy Old Prop: Ramos, yeah. He was playing. He had a little bit of mackenzie Damian McKenzie to his game where he was like clearly in a fullback mindset and had to switch it out into a
jarrod_dyke: Yep, okay. Yep.
Grumpy Old Prop: into the more distribution-y 10 position because it just it it wasn't clicking well.
jarrod_dyke: Gotcha.
Grumpy Old Prop: his his His passing was off. I mean, obviously it didn't exactly stop them from scoring, um but they could have scored a lot more if he if he was on point.
Grumpy Old Prop: I mean, like, yeah, they they crushed it. They had bonus point 24 minutes or 23 minutes in
jarrod_dyke: Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: But then they didn't score again for you half the game. It was 62 minutes before they scored. they They put another score in. So you know they scored the first quarter and the the fourth quarter. But the those middle two, they didn't do shit. So um
jarrod_dyke: Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: that was a little bit.
jarrod_dyke: Probably best that they had the opponents that they did in that case.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: And I imagine that the point where the dam broke was probably also where the sharks really put on many of their subs.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, but I mean, Dan broke the first 20 minutes already.
jarrod_dyke: So.
Grumpy Old Prop: And
jarrod_dyke: Hmm.
Grumpy Old Prop: um and then, of course, DuPont was ah you was was in by that by the time that the Sharks were were really making the getting into their subs. DuPont was already on, which was he was a problem.
jarrod_dyke: Hmm.
jarrod_dyke: That's yeah, that's a problem.
Grumpy Old Prop: As he is. i though That's shocking. Right.
jarrod_dyke: okay Generally not fun to follow. 44 meters, yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right.
jarrod_dyke: i would That would be super. Where are they going this weekend?
Grumpy Old Prop: Toulouse.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: They are going to. hold on
jarrod_dyke: I'm looking.
Grumpy Old Prop: ah Glasgow are going to Glasgow Gloucester.
jarrod_dyke: Munster? Glasgow.
Grumpy Old Prop: I know Glasgow.
jarrod_dyke: Glasgow. Yeah, my guy right here. Yeah, Glasgow. yeah That'll be an interesting. That's intriguing. That'll be interesting. That's interesting. I wonder, I'm going to be very, very interested to see how that game goes.
Grumpy Old Prop: Some fine Scottish weather on the horizon. I'll see see how that works out for for France.
jarrod_dyke: As there, as there was in the, ah in the other, in the last game, but we're not there yet. We're close.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: um Gloucester and cast. um You know, it was, so there was an, there was a pretty nasty one in this game. um
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm-hmm.
jarrod_dyke: It was favoring, it was clearly favoring one direction, maybe a little bit across the pitch, like towards the shed.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm-hmm.
jarrod_dyke: Um, but it was, so it was clear, very clear that it was like, you're going to need do shit in one half of the other. Um, and the, um,
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: And Cast went with wind into the wind to start the game hour and didn't do shit when they got the wind. And it took Gloucester, the better part of the game, to finally open things up and unlock this thing.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, think.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm-hmm.
jarrod_dyke: But it wasn't... Yeah, this was...
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, I mean, I just don't, I'm not convinced that Cast quite did did enough and they'd let Gloucester hang around too long. This is their home. They're, you know, they'll find some juice from their home crowd if you let them stay in it long enough.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: So you have to, on the road, you have to put them away.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right.
jarrod_dyke: And I know Cast is not necessarily a team that cares much about this competition, but like, damn, you know?
Grumpy Old Prop: Right.
Grumpy Old Prop: No, no, this was, yeah, they were kind of like, okay, whatever, let's play some rug, some footy and go home. um And they didn't start their best team.
jarrod_dyke: Mm-hmm.
Grumpy Old Prop: Like there's, this was a, just a kind of a fuck around. And then, you know, if you're going to go into the shed, it's, you got to go in, um you know, Finn Russell style.
Grumpy Old Prop: Like, I want to eat your heart and shush you after I make the winning kick.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: Like, that's that's the kind of, you know, rugby you got to bring to the table.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, something like that.
Grumpy Old Prop: And yeah, that that just wasn't in them this weekend. So.
jarrod_dyke: No. No.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, I'd say Baudiang needs to chill the fuck out. he yet He definitely got a hair across his ass in this game. I'd
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm-hmm.
jarrod_dyke: you know i
jarrod_dyke: i'd say And i was I was in particularly interested in this game in the referee because a lot of people are kind of meh on him. And if we're talking about looking for people that are younger and potentially going to be good, think he's there.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah. Right.
jarrod_dyke: ah think Sam Grove-White is there. Yeah. I think the one incident that he kind of got wrong in the balance of it was the little pushy shovesies where he gave a penalty to Ludlow.
Grumpy Old Prop: yeah
jarrod_dyke: But at the same time, Ludlow, you got to know, don't put yourself in that situation where the guy can take a half dive over the board and you're going to lose the penalty. Like, you're probably already going to win it because the guy decided to be an asshole and shove you for no reason.
Grumpy Old Prop: right
jarrod_dyke: Like, just cool your jets.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right.
jarrod_dyke: I did appreciate Avalabi Sotban just being like, No, you don't. Like, finger right in his face.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: Like, you, sir, you will calm down.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: You listen to me now.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: Appreciate that about him. But, yeah, just got to be smarter. just And, yeah, okay, so it was probably a sell job, and i and that's that is bad.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm-hmm.
jarrod_dyke: But I honestly don't know if Grove White had a bad moment otherwise. So i I give him credit. Like, you I hope, I hope this is not, not his best game.
Grumpy Old Prop: And...
jarrod_dyke: I hope this is his floor, not a ceiling. Maybe his average.
Grumpy Old Prop: But even getting that wrong is is you're still getting it right rather than doing nothing. Because we've seen the referees who will who who will just be like, okay, don't do that again.
jarrod_dyke: Oh yeah. Doing nothing. is
Grumpy Old Prop: like i don't want to see it anymore.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: And it's like, well, you keep seeing it. And why? Because you're not holding anybody accountable. Even if you hold the wrong person accountable or, you know, you you buy a sell...
jarrod_dyke: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: People get the message.
Grumpy Old Prop: right it's like okay fuck i can't do that again yeah and it's if it's just a penalty rather you know yeah oh god
jarrod_dyke: people People get the message. Yeah. And Amish Kelly is the first person I think of in that situation. He would definitely be someone that would do absolutely nothing about it.
Grumpy Old Prop: like guys cool it guys cool it guys cool it it's like yeah it's like dude he's needs a ah pep talk from uh yeah i know who is it uh um
jarrod_dyke: Yeah. Come on, guys. Knock it off.
jarrod_dyke: Do something.
Grumpy Old Prop: Fuck. Barksdale from Yvonne Barksdale. You're the ref. Fucking act like.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: like Do your job.
jarrod_dyke: but yeah yeah yeah
Grumpy Old Prop: like No do over. Because I don't cause i't like the result. What the fuck's wrong with you? Yeah. like
jarrod_dyke: yeah exactly um and so for Gloucester and then we'll get to too long and then we can wrap wrap that up um two names that stood out in the back line for me and besides Thomas Williams Thomas Williams had a great
Grumpy Old Prop: Charlie Atkinson.
jarrod_dyke: Had a great game and deserved his player of the match. Both were named Atkinson.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yep.
jarrod_dyke: Seven, Charlie. Both very good in this game. Charlie came on and clearly propelled them into what was mad game into, okay we got four tries and we're going walk away with a clear win.
Grumpy Old Prop: They.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: So, yeah, loads of credit to him.
Grumpy Old Prop: I was kind of surprised that that they brought on Rob Russell. um Instead of Charlie. When Llewellyn went down.
jarrod_dyke: Hmm.
Grumpy Old Prop: um
jarrod_dyke: I think Rob Russell played terribly.
Grumpy Old Prop: But.
jarrod_dyke: I thought he would, I think, i think he was doing the dirty work, which isn't flashy.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: And I know it's not what is needed all the time, but I don't think he played terribly either, but you're right. Charlie Atkinson, I think would have been better.
Grumpy Old Prop: Oh, yeah. I mean, it's not a and look. It's not my position to make that that kind of call. um I was just I was it was more like I was surprised.
Grumpy Old Prop: I thought that that he'd be the first on over over Russell, um especially at like a but potential center position.
jarrod_dyke: Hmm.
Grumpy Old Prop: But um I mean, it worked out like you just said, Russell played well. So maybe that was it. Maybe they really only wanted to play Atkinson 40. And that like, there was a plan for that. um
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, well they they well, they shifted Joseph in the middle until he got hurt.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, he was doomed.
Grumpy Old Prop: So.
jarrod_dyke: I was like, yeah, you're not fishing. Sorry, dude. Poor guy. Yeah,
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: yeah and then, so let's go let's go up to a very, very, very very rainy Edinburgh.
Grumpy Old Prop: So can, before we get into it,
jarrod_dyke: Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: I want to talk about you know talk about team take the points again, having your having a referee, which again, this is not a take the points competition.
jarrod_dyke: Love it.
Grumpy Old Prop: The one key thing, and I don't know if you heard it, and you know me, I don't i generally don't hear commentators say things, but this one um snuck through the filter. And it was that um Edinburgh, I don't think they have a penalty kick at goal all year.
Grumpy Old Prop: Like if they get a penalty, they're going to the corner every time.
jarrod_dyke: Right.
jarrod_dyke: love it
Grumpy Old Prop: Um, which is, is surprising, but and again, in this competition, that's what you do. Um, and I think it cause it was, uh, what Scott actually, they, they, they did actually have a penalty. Their first points were a penalty kick, which is kind of ironic, but I think they'd been there for a while. It wasn't anything, you know I mean, well, it was nine minutes. Eh.
Grumpy Old Prop: and Maybe it was just a free point situation. I don't remember. Or was that the really long distance one? That was like one at midfield. they're just like, fuck it, go for it. um But, yeah.
jarrod_dyke: I'll tell you in a minute, I'm watching it right now. I just looked over to it right now.
Grumpy Old Prop: But it was interesting because they did spend a lot of time kicking for corner.
jarrod_dyke: i'll say
Grumpy Old Prop: um Unless I have it backwards and that was too long doing that, but.
jarrod_dyke: It was... It's, um it they're they're setting it up right now. It's on the 10, their side, the attacking side, but it's dead in front.
Grumpy Old Prop: Okay.
jarrod_dyke: It's dead in front.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: So, and although in this crap weather, i'm not sure I want that either, but they clearly thought that they were going to be able to get this and they did.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah. And again, that's okay. As long as you continue to go for tries.
jarrod_dyke: Me-ah, dude would have had that from 50, holy shit.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: had that from fifty plus damn Yeah, this was not a joke team that that's too long said.
Grumpy Old Prop: It's got a little bit. Maybe, maybe it was the, the sis is, uh, well, he had, he ended up with three. Holy shit. Um,
Grumpy Old Prop: But yeah, it just
Grumpy Old Prop: some some solid play from from Edinburgh. And you know against a non non non-slouch team, too. So this was a... Right.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, just just fair play to to Edinburgh for for rocking up and and crushing it. and
jarrod_dyke: Well, as far as I understand, at the Hive, they are they've not lost at the Hive yet, don't think, this year.
Grumpy Old Prop: Ben White, though.
Grumpy Old Prop: to him right
jarrod_dyke: So 100% record, and that's hard that's always hard to break. So, yeah, they've got and they've got some, I think in an ideal situation, they're putting Westacuson at 13, but um so be it.
jarrod_dyke: They have Piers or Connor.
Grumpy Old Prop: right yeah it's true yeah um
jarrod_dyke: I might have stuck him in there instead. But it is what it is.
Grumpy Old Prop: But yeah, the the the the bends at Scrum half were were pretty pretty dominant this game too.
jarrod_dyke: When I got the job done.
Grumpy Old Prop: White had two.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, two two Scottish scrum halves.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, Velikot had one and in in response as well. So just no backing down in that Edinburgh team.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: and um
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, it was funny how the – obviously the Scottish nine, but the England forwards were –
Grumpy Old Prop: somewhat inconspicuous except for we'll get to my my beefs with ribbons later um losing his head but Sinclair Mercer Ludlam I didn't really notice them so much
jarrod_dyke: Mm-hmm, but Sinclair and Mercer.
jarrod_dyke: Mm, another one.
jarrod_dyke: Mm.
Grumpy Old Prop: kind of disappointing
jarrod_dyke: I will say for the sake of too long, well, the team they're putting together has a lot of wonderful names to look at and watch. I feel like they're still stuck in the old Galacticos mindset back when Johnny Wilkinson was playing for them.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
jarrod_dyke: And you can roll off the name the names that were on that team that won three in a row. I feel like they're still stuck a little bit in that because while there there are some there are players on this team on this team that are French internationals, there's also quite a few outside players on this team and contrast that with what you look at with Bordeaux and Toulouse, they've sprinkled in the non-French international players well and in the right places.
jarrod_dyke: I feel like Toulon's just trying to throw these guys in as Band-Aids and or think that this is actually going to answer their problems. and' like no Zach Mercer's good.
jarrod_dyke: Lewis Lotham's good. Ribeye's good. Ben White or BC Brex, all very good players. Sinclair's, yeah, quality. We know our our love for him.
Grumpy Old Prop: Garbisi
jarrod_dyke: But they...
Grumpy Old Prop: Garbisi was like held was like put in a cage it felt like for this game he didn't do shit he just he was just a passer and it's like how can you have that you have ah ah hell of a running 10 and you kind of just take the ball out of his hands I didn't I think that was that was problematic too um he's a guy i want looking for second touches or or that guy who's out the back like maybe you put um sinzel at first receiver with brex on his outside and then um garbisi slot you know swings around gets the outside and and has the option option to run or pass and it's like i don't feel like they were doing that enough with him putting him in position to be a runner um he certainly wasn't taken if they were
jarrod_dyke: Yep. Yep.
Grumpy Old Prop: Or it just wasn't nothing was there. And that's that's problematic because i don't think, you know, obviously him and Brex have their relationship from from Italy. And I thought Brex was also kind of poor, but so it's one of those you can't take these guys who do this one thing really well and say, OK, neither of you, you're not we're not doing that with you guys.
Grumpy Old Prop: And it's like I would do the opposite. I'd be like, oh, this is what you guys are good at at an international level.
jarrod_dyke: yeah
Grumpy Old Prop: would Do that for me, please.
jarrod_dyke: yeah yeah exactly no agreed so yeah I i think Tulan still find ways to get out of this group but
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
jarrod_dyke: The return to Champions Cup of Glory for them won't happen until they find a better formula than what's been going on there of late. think that's fair to say. All right. We got some superlatives.
jarrod_dyke: I'm trying to run through these somewhat quickly. um Stood out more than usual, perhaps.
Grumpy Old Prop: um Shoot, I had some guys for this, but I am losing them. A couple of the Leinster fellows, I thought... Who was it?
jarrod_dyke: Mm-hmm.
Grumpy Old Prop: they're fuck I'm getting back to the game. so i could Sort of how it was. it was good It was interesting to see Jack Conan have a better game than Kalen Doris. It's been a while for that.
jarrod_dyke: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Grumpy Old Prop: Frawley. Frawley had a pretty good game at 12, including that that pretty sweet try.
jarrod_dyke: oh cra all yeah
Grumpy Old Prop: so He's the one I wanted to point out.
jarrod_dyke: yeah he's been baed up so it's good to see him back out there
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, that's going to be key if Leinster are going to be anything this year in either of these competitions.
jarrod_dyke: like so as well
jarrod_dyke: um
Grumpy Old Prop: Max Malin's actually shown a little bit of a flash too. That was cool. um Tomos Williams hasn't been that great this in in the Prem, so good to see him.
Grumpy Old Prop: i mean, he's been solid, but um not quite as impactful as he was this game.
jarrod_dyke: it hasn't been the player he was last year. i think that's fair to say.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: Yep. Yep. Yep. Agreed.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah. Um, stain another one.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: That's one that comes to mind.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yep.
jarrod_dyke: I don't know how Josh McKay got player of the match in that game.
Grumpy Old Prop: Me neither.
jarrod_dyke: Probably because Indy good picked it. Cause he's an idiot. We had, we had that Muppet three times this weekend. had, I had one on mute the first time I want, I had it on twice.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: So I thought, Oh, okay. He only got one game. And then no bad news is he he was on three different times. I just happened meet him. The other two.
Grumpy Old Prop: ah
jarrod_dyke: Oh God. Uh, what a shame. Um, Anyway, ah shit the bed.
Grumpy Old Prop: I mean, Scarlet's and Bristol, that that whole game was a bed shit to be blunt.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: ah And you can tell by the score again, um this was definitely one of those where actually I pretty much throughout this competition,
jarrod_dyke: Bear.
Grumpy Old Prop: the scoreline matched, you know, the, the, the level of play of the team. Um, maybe not Claremont. That might be a little tough on them because 10 points, but it's Saracens at home. And that's a tough ask that that with that defense, that's, you know, whatever adjusting for inflation.
jarrod_dyke: Yep.
Grumpy Old Prop: That makes sense. So like Scarlet's Bristol had the third and fourth high, uh, lowest points for totals on the, um, on the weekend. So,
jarrod_dyke: Yikes. Yeah, that's like that's not a good sign.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, because it was it was cast 10. I'm sorry. um Claremont at 10, cast 14. Scarlet's at 16. Bristol and Bayonne tied with 17. And yeah.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, Bayonne.
Grumpy Old Prop: Oh, I'm sorry. Munster only had 14. Munster was in there with 14.
jarrod_dyke: Mustard didn't, yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: I didn't get to see that game.
jarrod_dyke: that but we did But we didn't watch the fucking game, so...
Grumpy Old Prop: So I'd
jarrod_dyke: Can't hold us accountable for that one. um Yeah. Yeah, Bayonne shatted too.
Grumpy Old Prop: go Munster in that, I guess. Because how do you only score 14? Yeah. yeah
jarrod_dyke: I don't know. I think it was a little closer at halftime, and then Bath just pulled away, but ah I wouldn't know.
Grumpy Old Prop: don't know.
jarrod_dyke: um
jarrod_dyke: ah Coach, yeah, young player, ref.
Grumpy Old Prop: Um... Coach... Um...
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, I'm not sure. Skivs, I guess. Getting a Champions Cup win.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: that Again, he's... His seat i has to be hottest at the Prem at the moment.
jarrod_dyke: I would say so, yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: So... um to do something like this is helpful for his cause
jarrod_dyke: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: Yep, it usually is. usually is. Yeah, that was that was a solid win. I think it's something you'd be happy with. um
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, I mean, ah so, and while he's not coach the week, I gotta believe Franco Smith sniffing out something soon because he's been a good coach at Glasgow for a long time.
jarrod_dyke: Um, has, has got them a URC title. Even, you know, they've competed in this competition quite well.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: m
jarrod_dyke: Um, doesn't always have the best options either and still makes good on it usually.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right.
jarrod_dyke: So I give, I give, him give them some credit. Um,
Grumpy Old Prop: That's a good shout.
jarrod_dyke: And then young player, young player. Like we talked about the Atkinsons, Charlie in particular, the Pearson kid from Leicester, 18, 19 years old, something like that.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: mean, apart from the card, didn't look like it was necessarily a card. um
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: Still good. Good. Keep doing that. Do that more often.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right. I mean, hell, I know we've've we've had him as a young player before in the Prem, but, you know, welcome to Champions Cup, Noah Kalori.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: um
jarrod_dyke: Yeah. Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, you can play at this level.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah. So I would not be surprised if we see him.
Grumpy Old Prop: That was a that try he had was um just like, well, by the way, I've got some speed to burn.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: Can you catch me? No. OK, then I'm just going to run.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah. yeah Guys like him, Kane and Moody, just freaks of nature. It's like, get the fuck out of here, man.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah. Oh, that, yeah.
jarrod_dyke: That's not fair. Yeah, Moody's try didn't count, but the way he just decided to get by, guys, on the top of the fact that he's enormous, i'm like, that that's just mean.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, that was... Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: That's just mean, man. um Yeah, so there's that. um And then, yeah, ref, I want to give Sam Grove white props. I don't i don't think enough people would.
jarrod_dyke: um
Grumpy Old Prop: Fair.
jarrod_dyke: i think there's I think there's potential there. So I hope what I saw of him in that Gloucester cast game is the average to the floor and not his ceiling. And if that's the case, then, hey, we might actually have a good referee on our hands.
jarrod_dyke: you know
Grumpy Old Prop: Yay. Been a while.
jarrod_dyke: we do have We do have some.
Grumpy Old Prop: We have some.
jarrod_dyke: they're They're just outnumbered by the shitty ones, unfortunately.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right.
jarrod_dyke: Like, Piardi had a terrible match at Powell. Like, oh, my God.
Grumpy Old Prop: He did.
Grumpy Old Prop: He was bad.
jarrod_dyke: Like, he admitted he fucked up the call, and he still got the correction wrong.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: Come on. and Jesus, man. What are you doing? and then, oh, the freaking knock-on that wasn't a knock-on.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: Northampton was going to score. Let that shit run and then come back for it if it's wrong.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right. Right.
jarrod_dyke: god Damn, you fucking idiot. ah Oh, one of the most overrated referees in the game for sure. um Anyway. um Try the week.
Grumpy Old Prop: Try the week. um I'm just going to frame the first, like, however many tries from Bordeaux Bulls. Um, because like,
jarrod_dyke: D all the above.
Grumpy Old Prop: like, yeah, Peno, DeClerc, BLBRA, those, those three right there, all in in the first 11 minutes of the game.
jarrod_dyke: okay
Grumpy Old Prop: It's like, this is why I, this is worth the cover charge.
jarrod_dyke: yeah
Grumpy Old Prop: This is it right here. Um, so I'm going to go with, with the the three of them, you know, one after the other, after the other.
jarrod_dyke: yeah this is why you buy tickets
jarrod_dyke: that's awesome all right player of the week
Grumpy Old Prop: Overall player the week, that's a tough one. um I mean, I guess I kind of have to go with BLBRA for being on the road and the probably the in in a match with who even won player of the match. I don't think I saw. And if it wasn't Louis, then what the fuck?
Grumpy Old Prop: um
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, there's some good ones.
Grumpy Old Prop: Because I thought he was I thought he was like the best player on the field. and And to me, this was so it's like I give it to him because this was the best game I thought overall game and he was the best player on the field or certainly one of them.
jarrod_dyke: I certainly think that's fair. um
jarrod_dyke: Dick of the week.
Grumpy Old Prop: Take the week I'm going with Dave ribbons for that.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, you said that you were going to do that. All right.
Grumpy Old Prop: Shoved to the look, it's like an open field, open hand punch in a way.
jarrod_dyke: here
Grumpy Old Prop: um Didn't like it, not. um not the Dave Ribbons we all know and love. And he was lucky to only get it yellow for it. I thought that should have been red.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, some guys are lucky in those situations, unfortunately.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: Wow, I didn't chuck ball around considering the weather conditions.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right?
jarrod_dyke: I'm impressed.
jarrod_dyke: um Okay. Yeah, fair enough on Ribeye getting his dicks.
Grumpy Old Prop: Who was yours?
jarrod_dyke: Um, PRD.
Grumpy Old Prop: ah Fair.
jarrod_dyke: Or flow. You make your break on that one.
Grumpy Old Prop: oh Yeah, they they're on there too.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, they are. All right. Um, yeah. Shout out to my kid who had a silly good offload that turned into a try on watching one of those uni games.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: Um,
Grumpy Old Prop: Yup. That was pretty sweet.
jarrod_dyke: Kept it in two hands, turned her shoulders. She knew she was going into contact, knew she had a friend there. ah Going into contact, pops it off and her friend's able to fall over for try. I was like, okay, I know where you, I know, I'll take credit for that. I know where you learned that. I know exactly where you learned that.
jarrod_dyke: Halfway take credit for that. was a good point. All right. Um, Okay, only one Friday game this week. Friday night. Don't pick them, by the way, if you haven't figured that one out. Leicester and Leicester.
Grumpy Old Prop: I went back and forth with this um but ultimately I went with um lester because I think lester just don't don't think they have it in this competition think they could, but like, um it was really down to that.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, I also went with Leicester.
Grumpy Old Prop: Like I said, Billy Searle, you're starting Billy Searle, you're not winning.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, i'm sure I'm sure they won't this week, but i also don't think Leinster's going to send the Shags.
Grumpy Old Prop: So.
jarrod_dyke: That's the difference.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right, right.
jarrod_dyke: So, um all right. Saturday morning, Stormers and La Rochelle in South Africa.
Grumpy Old Prop: I got stormers.
jarrod_dyke: Same. I anticipate Ryan Ake and Sasha will both be in the lineup. Bad news for them. ah Continuing on into South Africa, the Sharks and the Saracens.
Grumpy Old Prop: like I like, I want to make sure I'm not going with my heart on this one. So I was kind of looking through it and it really, i think as you were saying, i want to see who's on the plane. I really wish I knew. Um, But knowing that the sharks are also flying too.
Grumpy Old Prop: So they're both... it's Yeah, it's a home game for sharks, but both are going to have the travel blaze. And I don't know that the sharks...
jarrod_dyke: I think i think big andre I think Andre the Giant and Co. will be suiting after the Sharks this week though which is what worries me so i yeah in in South Africa we've not had good success down there thus far I'm i
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, likely them. Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: yeah
Grumpy Old Prop: No, but they kind of, Saturdays kind of need this one. So I think they're going to send the,
jarrod_dyke: Oh, well, they do. and i I will be jumping up and down if we pull this off, but I'm not picking them.
Grumpy Old Prop: yeah, fair enough. I will.
jarrod_dyke: Okay. All right. um Claremont and Sale?
Grumpy Old Prop: I got Claremont.
jarrod_dyke: Same.
Grumpy Old Prop: I don't think sale care much about this competition.
jarrod_dyke: yeah They just don't care about this competition as much anymore.
Grumpy Old Prop: They're on the road. Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: Bordeaux and Scarlet. Oh, God.
Grumpy Old Prop: This is a tough one.
jarrod_dyke: ha, ha, ha, ha.
Grumpy Old Prop: I had to think long and hard about this one. um But I do.
jarrod_dyke: You like long and hard. Yeah,
Grumpy Old Prop: um And I ended up selecting Bordeaux.
jarrod_dyke: fair. All right. um Monster Gloucester.
Grumpy Old Prop: Monster.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, tough.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: Tough place to go.
Grumpy Old Prop: It is.
jarrod_dyke: Anybody, I think, any team in this competition will tell you that.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, and Gloucester aren't that good. so
jarrod_dyke: No. No. Glasgow and Toulouse. Man, this will be interesting.
Grumpy Old Prop: In Scotland, I'm still going with Toulouse.
jarrod_dyke: i My instinct says yes. But I'll be... out Listen, I will happily cheer for Glasgow on this one too.
Grumpy Old Prop: Certainly. Absolutely.
jarrod_dyke: Same time.
Grumpy Old Prop: i I don't really want Toulouse to win this one, but I think they will.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah. Quinn's bound.
Grumpy Old Prop: I got Quinn's.
jarrod_dyke: Sunday.
Grumpy Old Prop: I'm guessing they'll they'll throw Marcus back in there, i'm I'm thinking.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah. Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: But even if they don't,
jarrod_dyke: I Bayona got take this competition seriously anymore.
Grumpy Old Prop: don't think it matters.
jarrod_dyke: anyway
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: Cast and Edinburgh.
Grumpy Old Prop: I have cast. not exactly pleased with it, but um yeah, going with cast, mostly because they're at most cause they're home.
jarrod_dyke: Okay.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah. I'm going to go the guys from Scotland.
Grumpy Old Prop: I don't blame you. I'm kind of looking at my, so I'm looking at my notes right now and I'm wondering what the fuck was I thinking with that one?
jarrod_dyke: We got some different ones week. Good.
jarrod_dyke: You were inspired.
Grumpy Old Prop: um No, I'm, you know what I was, I'm going to go with that and I'm switching it to Edinburgh.
jarrod_dyke: but Okay.
Grumpy Old Prop: Looking at it now, I don't like it.
jarrod_dyke: Don't like it.
Grumpy Old Prop: Don't like it going against my notes.
jarrod_dyke: Don't like it at all.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah. Toulon and Bath. This will be interesting.
Grumpy Old Prop: I'm going with too long at home.
jarrod_dyke: Okay.
Grumpy Old Prop: I just, I, this one I'm not changing.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah, this, this, it is.
Grumpy Old Prop: It's going to be hard to go against Baph, but.
jarrod_dyke: And ah and I think this is going to make or break what we see out of Bath in this competition too.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: So I will, I'm going to back Finn Russell, but I won't be surprised with two low wins.
jarrod_dyke: um Saints and Bulls.
Grumpy Old Prop: Saints at home.
jarrod_dyke: Yep.
Grumpy Old Prop: Bulls. I don't think they're going to take this one. i don't think they're going to send full noise.
jarrod_dyke: No, they're sending the binge used to this one. And then Bristol and Powell.
Grumpy Old Prop: Speaking of binge use.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah. think we'll see some more Benjuice here too.
Grumpy Old Prop: Bristol. I think Bristol's going to run him off the field.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah. Agreed.
jarrod_dyke: Yeah. And I think, the like we said, they got their Pee-wee one out of the way already. So or privacy we'll probably see them turn it on a little bit little bit better this week.
Grumpy Old Prop: h
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
jarrod_dyke: wonderly I wonder if we consider to see continue to see Worsley at 10 or Jordan gets a run there. I guess it depends on what their back three availability is.
Grumpy Old Prop: I'm.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right.
Grumpy Old Prop: I don't think it matters for this one.
jarrod_dyke: Not for this one in general, no. Okay. okay That's that, fam. So we got Fantasy Corner stuff. We're going to pop over there and do that real quick.
jarrod_dyke: If you're joining us over there, we'll see you there. If not, thanks a lot for listening to us, and we appreciate you guys all supporting us and giving us the nice words. And we'll catch you guys next week. Enjoy round two this week. Have a good one, everyone.
Grumpy Old Prop: Later.
jarrod_dyke: Cheers.
