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Season 4- Episode 30- The Beast from The East (Premiership Round 21 & Super Rugby Round 6)
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Those American rugby dopes are back with another fun filled episode! On this episode, we get into all the happenings of the opening weekend of the Women's 6 Nations and how the competition has grown from year's past, hint...a lot. Of course, we take a spin around the Prem, including the big one that went down in North London and the bit of luck that might have been included in that one. We jump down to the events of Super Rugby, especially the big win recorded for one of the new franchises on the block. And yes, we have a look at the gigantic win in Atlanta for everyone's favorite...no? Well, our favorite boys from New England, the Free Jacks and where their season currently stands with a big stretch of home fixtures coming up. Grab something tasty to drink, relax and have a ball with us!
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Transcript
Introduction to Rugby Podcast & Upcoming Events
00:00:08
Speaker
Hey everybody, welcome back. It is the fancy rugby game. My name is Jared Dyke. I'm Ben Glauser. Let's get to it. Funny to talk about including, you know, Six Nations and the return of the prem and super and Jesus, Mary and Joseph, what the hell happened here?
Free Jax in Major League Rugby
00:00:23
Speaker
And your favorite MLR team out there for all of you out there has got to be the free Jax. Damn right. So we'll have that. We'll have a little bit to talk about there. All right, crack them.
Engaging with Listeners & Podcast Reviews
00:00:36
Speaker
Share us on your favorite podcast app. Download rate review, obviously. Ooh. A harpoon. I haven't had a harpoon in a while. I went out and had poon on Saturday.
Fantasy Rugby & Women's Six Nations
00:00:58
Speaker
He's still pretty busy because he's also doing work on the women's Six Nations fantasy games. If he followed his vice, I'm sure he did all right this past weekend.
00:01:09
Speaker
So give that a go. TRM upgrades, grab
Premiership Rugby Returns & Team Dynamics
00:01:12
Speaker
those. This past weekend, we returned to the prem and everybody else returned along with it with all the international players. So it makes things very interesting to see who's in and who's out. It's only you get more with the Quinn's coming back. So yeah, that complicates things even more this weekend. You might see some changes with Europe coming up for some teams. Yeah. And Lester having a bye week. So, you know, for those of you like me who have, you know, Dolly and Montoja,
00:01:38
Speaker
Oh, you are so bound to broker right now. I mean, I have I have creepy. So you always say you're creepy. All right. And I have more than I did. I made some moves so that I got a toji last week. I paid I paid the twenty twenty pound price to get a toji. So that way I have a lot of freedom of movement this week. So there's that.
00:02:01
Speaker
Yep.
Social Issues & Rugby Community Support
00:02:02
Speaker
And as always, Black Lives Matter on this podcast, there's no room for racism in sport or in life. Positivity. Yes. Finally. Actually, good news. Joe Biden signed into law anti-lynching federal legislation. So this is big for a bunch of reasons because
00:02:26
Speaker
Yeah, there was, you know, some civil rights laws and whatnot that that you could kind of go after in civil suits. And sometimes federal cases like the those folks who lynched Ahmaud Arbery. But this additional charge would kind of prevent people from, say, you know, taking a plea deal and stuff like that. It's like, well, OK, good, you did that. But now you admitted to the murder and we know why you did it. And now you get this additional federal charge against you. So
00:02:57
Speaker
kind of helps take some of the the the easement that that several, you know, of our states have chosen to look the other way, it kind of helps prevent that. And that's always good. It's always good to, you know, obviously, society has to change and laws are one way we make that change. So good stuff. Right.
Exclusive Patreon Content & Fantasy Rugby Insights
00:03:23
Speaker
Alright, and then obviously, you don't want to forget to grab the Patreon from us. It's a heavy chock full of good stuff. So we are obviously back in the prem. So we've obviously got our prem sheet out there. The super sheet will be out there soon. And yeah, like I
00:03:40
Speaker
I think that there's a lot to go, a lot of good stuff to go on that. I've been using that to the best of my ability. Although this past weekend in TRM, I did get myself a bit of a shame, but that was my own fault. Not the data that I had. It was my own brain. So it's days only as good as the person that uses this book, but still good stuff out there. And I'm, I'm pretty sure.
00:04:05
Speaker
Pretty sure we've got some people that are finding good things going on with it, so grab that. I believe so. The people who have the Patreon are doing quite well.
00:04:19
Speaker
Yeah, generally speaking for sure. Yeah. OK, let's dive into it.
Recaps & Highlights of Women's Six Nations
00:04:24
Speaker
Women's Six Nations. Candidly, I only watched the first game, unfortunately, because I fucking get completely spent out with time. Oh, I watch all of them. So I can. I'm sure you can speak to them quite well. I do know. I do know the good stuff with obviously the Wales game, but we'll go to the we'll go to Scotland first. Scotland and England. Happy Dow behave. Yeah. My favorite call of the weekend.
00:04:50
Speaker
But then, of course, just Marley Packer just lighten it up. Unstoppable. So yeah, that was just completely outclassed. Scotland didn't play poorly by any stretch. No. And really, they had chances and they just couldn't finish. Like, oh.
00:05:07
Speaker
God damn finish the damn thing, would you? Right. And Italy was a lot like that as well. Was it? Yes, they Oh, they that was a wide open match that France was just the one scoring the tries. God, like, for that, because it was like, Italy got so Italy were very Worcester like,
00:05:27
Speaker
Oh, so they get line breaks and then lose the ball. They do some really great work and then, you know, give away a penalty or something. It was just little thing. You know, they're almost there, though, and they're playing France. So right. It's not. But and say for Scott, I'm sorry, I drifted. But I figure we can kind of just lump them all together because it was it was just good rugby all around.
00:05:48
Speaker
Yeah, it was good stuff. Obviously, I was such a dunderhead. I saw the nine and I'm like, who the hell is Infante? I didn't realize I forget that shit got married. I was like, God damn it, I'm an idiot. I was like, that's not a new person. I'm just a moron. Stupid. That was my own brain tricking me on that one. It's like, I don't know who this person is. I was like, wait a minute, you look familiar.
00:06:17
Speaker
Idiot. Um, but yeah, there was, I mean, Marley Packard was just a fucking monster. Like there's no stopping that woman when she's on her, on a roll. Forget it. Yeah. I like, I like that a lot. We saw a scarlet return to the roses as well, which was nice. Yeah. That's the whole game. But what are you going to do? Right. But played very well. Yeah. I mean, wouldn't expect anything less or very enough. Right. Uh, it was interesting. Um,
00:06:44
Speaker
to have Maude Muir start. That was kind of something that people, I guess that was something that people had been banging for a little bit. So finally got the call and finally got the start. Did somebody have to shift to tight head though? Or did she shift? I thought I heard. No, I thought she was loose head. Yeah, maybe she was a tight head and she shifted the loose head, but doesn't matter. So I don't know enough about her to be perfectly,
00:07:12
Speaker
you know, transparent here. But I heard that she's kind of like a hybrid player, like she could play anywhere. So I think they put her at loose end because that's, you know, the not really a prop proposition. Sometimes, yep. So and you can get away with it here because Sarah Byrne was
00:07:33
Speaker
Mm hmm. Ridiculous in the loose end in the scrum. So she and Mark Davies can hold it down if Maud was having a problem. So that was that's a good place to stash someone if they're, you know, strong, reasonably strong can hold up up front and throw them at one until they sort out a little bit of, you know, what propping is. Right.
Scotland's Defensive Strategies & Performance
00:07:54
Speaker
Yeah. And the you look at the numbers for Scotland, especially in the defense, like
00:08:00
Speaker
Their forward's not bad. Like you start to drift into the back, so it becomes a problem, especially with the missed tackles, like Riefer Lloyd, unfortunately. Back row missed one each, which is not awful, but, you know, you want at least one back rower to make them all as well. So, yeah. Yeah. So it's, they're not there yet, but they're getting there, which is good. So I can say that, you know, confidently, I believe as well. And they have some just straight up
00:08:28
Speaker
talented players too that that helps too. You know it's not just they're building a team yes but I mean Chloe Rolly is yeah she's good and Hannah Smith also equally equally good so they've got some real talent out there um not to diminish the the rest of them Lisa Thompson played a hell of a match too um as did Ronald yeah they're all like I could just go through the names of all yeah they all played they all played reasonably well you just gotta um
00:08:56
Speaker
Yeah, the resources, the resources are kind of offside at this point. So right. You hope that that starts to change as the game goes forward here. Yes, and I think it will with with across. And I think that showed throughout the the weekend because you had the other Wales Ireland match. Yeah, let's go to that. Ireland were were were winning for a good portion of this one.
00:09:22
Speaker
It wasn't till Wales scored three tries in the last 20 minutes to really get the win and then pull away. And Ireland were right there the whole time and showing real strong. Wales just, again, it's that top level talent disparity.
00:09:45
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, jazz choice doesn't hurt by any means whatsoever. Everything that the Ireland team is doing off the pitch is certainly translating on the pitch. And from what I understand, the new coaching staff, which is still getting together, right? But certainly is much more supportive of the players.
00:10:07
Speaker
That's what I'm hearing. Yeah. And you see two teams that one wants to be where they are and one wants to, when one is still a little bit behind Wales, where, where Ireland are now currently in terms of their support and the bullshit that they've had to deal with, obviously Wales is still dealing with a lot of bullshit as well, which is unfortunate to hear this past week. Yes, exactly. Yeah. The right people are very irate about it too, thankfully, at least.
00:10:38
Speaker
But at the same time, you know, whales have got some contracted players now. And that is huge for them. And this is this is what I want. So good way to measure yourself up. I don't know if they actually got some bloody support from the IRF. You they might actually have done this damage. Right. And they'll get there. There's there's still I mean, they'll I could see them easily beating Scotland and Italy.
00:11:03
Speaker
I put them as probably fourth in the comp right now behind the England, France and Wales, which is no like. England and France have separated themselves. We know this is not it has. But it's also you take the looking at the way all six teams played, there's this this is this is down to margins.
00:11:27
Speaker
And, you know, England had the margins. Obviously, they want every margin. In this case, it was kind of split. And it was even split in the last one. But again, the one team can take, you know, knows how to how to take advantage. The other one's still building. So, you know, Ireland, there's a lot to build on with this. So.
00:11:49
Speaker
No reason to be ashamed.
Crowd Enthusiasm & Rugby Match Positivity
00:11:50
Speaker
And the crowds were great. Every match, the crowds were just fantastic. It was really cool. I saw a tweet from one of the women. It might have been an old England player saying, I remember 10 years ago, we were playing in front of 200 people at some random pitch. And now there's thousands of people in the stands. And obviously, there's
00:12:14
Speaker
The people who were poo-pooing this for years were just insecure and scared and apparently didn't want to make money because this is obviously a draw. I don't like change. And then France, Italy, as I said, there's not a whole lot to talk about other than Italy really, they played a very strong game that disrupted a lot of what
00:12:42
Speaker
uh, France were trying to do. And then again, themselves, uh, um, Italy really were, were attacking and, and lots of intent, lots of ball movement and really good play. Just, they weren't finishing and that's stuff that comes in time. So, uh, it's certainly nothing to be, you know, no reason to hang their heads. Yeah.
00:13:07
Speaker
Yeah, so it's it's all good stuff around. Sounds like and I mean, I will. I do want to watch all this. I was single out Emily Bullard because she comes into the game and there was a kick to touch from by Italy from inside their 22 that that was it bounced right around the 50 and she was there and she kicked it out like she'd like slid in and went off her foot into touch and it's like.
00:13:37
Speaker
All right. And then next thing you know, she's getting the ball and just running, splitting the entire defense and then scoring. So it's like, okay, made up for it. Nice. That's how you do that. But when you cut it up like that, especially as a sub, you come in, you can't, you know, you make a mental mistake. He backed it up. So, you don't want to mess that up. Right.
00:13:55
Speaker
You don't want to mess that up. All right. And then also, it'd be silly if we skipped over Kat Roach, the USA's finest.
Rugby Officials & Match Praise
00:14:05
Speaker
Oh, she did an excellent job, by the way. I'd say all the officials, all the officials did a wonderful job. Good to see you join. I will back out there and around. She always was on maternity leave for a little while. So right. Good to see her back out there and be bopping around the pitch and making people mad at her. Good to see stuff.
00:14:25
Speaker
All right, let's jump over to the prem. Friday night got all cocked up, so we don't have anything there. Fuck you, Dimes, once again. As I said to Jared, I'm not happy that we were missing out on rugby, but I am more than happy to blame Steve Diamond for it. I think a lot of people are. Shit. So let's jump up and go over to the CBS and WAS in Newcastle.
00:14:52
Speaker
Did wasps really deserve to win this game or win this game? I mean, no, but like this is where Newcastle are. So, you know, it's like I feel bad that was actually probably snatch this a little bit. But yeah, you know, like the fucking around was there, but you didn't have to find out because Newcastle, you know, outside of George MacWigan, who was awesome. And Adam Brocklebank with that run. Yeah.
00:15:22
Speaker
Big old Buffalo was out of gas by that one. But that was like, that was early in the match too. And he played, he played 77 minutes. So he played a lot of times. Like you, you put in that kind of effort. Yeah. Yeah. You deserve to win the match probably. Right. But, but at the same time, just to stay in for 77 minutes as a prop while you're running like that is something else. That's, that's like, you know, that one run is like 10 minutes at the end of the match right there.
00:15:51
Speaker
Right. I mean, and I hate to put it on the kid, but will Hayden would had a couple really critical errors, especially near the end. So and again, this is the growing pains you have when you have a young 10 and it's okay.
00:16:03
Speaker
You have to grit grit in your teeth and just take it on the chin. And that is how it is. You know, and you live and die with this stuff right now, because as he gets older and as he plays more, he will learn how to fix that. Yeah, that's just something you have to live with with, you know, like to him. And I was I really like this Freddie Lockwood character. But then again, how can you not like a Lockwood? Lockwood.
00:16:26
Speaker
one walkway to another. I know I've had three of them. Right. Yeah, I've had three of them on my team. So and then the go-go gadget arm from Joe Launchbury, which was I was like, he's not going to get stopped. He's too damn tall. He's going to freaking get cut at the knees and fall into the tricep, which is exactly what happened. I was like, yeah, he's not getting stopped. Sorry, guys. So yeah, totally. So but
00:16:54
Speaker
Yeah, no doubt, especially in that defensive midfield, no question. Yeah, and this is a WASP team that has got a little bit more experience on their side, obviously. You look up and down their team 1 through 15. This is a team that's going to make teams life miserable.
00:17:11
Speaker
going forward as they... And we saw problems with teams jelling a little bit this weekend overall, welcoming team players back into the fold, so on and so forth, guys getting back healthy, whatever, you know, what have you. So we'll see how that goes going forward. I think this is going to be a really tough team to play going forward once they start to figure it out. A Newcastle just ever so close to...
00:17:35
Speaker
They've had, I don't know, at least five of these recently, six of these recently, these really close one score games. Yeah, they'll get over the line. Yeah, they needed a lot more from Burl and what cookie cookie to not nearly enough. And that doesn't, you know, when you don't have the centers, you know, Radwin is good. Don't get me wrong. And actually all that that whole back three is actually quite
00:17:57
Speaker
lethal, Carreras, Radwa, and Penny, that's formidable. And they're just not getting anything done because it's not coming through the, you know, 10, 12, 13. Yeah. Nope, nope, nope, nope. And then over to, let's go to Brentford, and Irish and Saints. And I don't think we need to really look much further than that
00:18:21
Speaker
13 player period where exiles were, you know, had kind of handcuffed themselves a little bit. A little bit. Simmons needs to watch himself. I think he's not in tune with refereeing in the Northern Hemisphere. Maybe not. He's doing stupid shit that gets yellow and it's like, no, maybe that in Australia, that's not a yellow, but here, that's a yellow. That's yellow. Yeah.
00:18:51
Speaker
Yeah, just poor. Yeah, a lot of really silly stuff. And, you know, and I think the scoreline flatters them a little bit too. Because they got a bunch late. Yeah, they got two. Yeah, Phipps tries late to make it look better than it was. But I mean, it was eight. Let's not make no mistake, eight nothing to start the match.
00:19:15
Speaker
Right. And it was when they scored them quick, too. Let me get to the timeline of such. What the Northampton tries? No, the the Irish scores for Irish were four and nine minutes. Right. So Collins and Dipshit penalty. Right. And then you let so then eight, you know, eight points right there to nothing. You let up 42 straight.
00:19:47
Speaker
And the first try was at 22 minutes. Their last score was at 61. Nope, there's a 60, so they converted at 62. So that's 40 minutes right there. You let up 42 points in 40 minutes in the middle section of the game.
00:20:04
Speaker
You're going to lose like totally. That's it. And it's a good play. And so like you have shit kickers across the across the way, either you have Alex Mitchell, you have Dan Baker, you have the midfield that they have with Hutch and Dingwall. You have guys coming back. Yeah. Laws is coming back. Ludlum, you have, you know, truck, you have Dave ribbons, although he didn't last very long in this game. But the point being is there's a lot going on on that in that team. Tom Collins was on one this weekend. I don't know what the hell was up his ass, but
00:20:32
Speaker
He's been on one for a couple of weeks. He's almost like he's on a bender, essentially. Yeah, he's been. He's on one like, yeah, no, was never going to end well for Irish as soon as they gave in those two yellow cards. I was like, you are so screwed. Because Alex Mitchell with space is a fucking awful idea, especially with a nine not tracking him. It's like, oh, Jesus, good luck. And yeah, and they paid for it with a try on one part. So.
00:21:01
Speaker
Oops. A whole lot of oops on that one. Yeah. And speaking of centers being key, I mean, Hutch and Dingwall together are. They had a down spell in the middle of the year, but they're back. They're coming back. Yeah, no doubt. Yeah. And they picked a little bit on Sinti because that's not his usual spot. That's how Dingwall scored his. Yeah. Forced him to make a decision that he's probably not used to making. So that's how that one ended up.
00:21:32
Speaker
And Kyle Rowe hasn't really shown up except for that game against Sarries. Sarries, I know, fucker. Yeah, he just tore the shit out of Sarries, but everyone else, he's like, nothing. Yeah, he's just laid a freaking UJ. Super bitter about that, a little. Yeah, it's like, dude, where was this every other match? Right. Dick. Or you couldn't just do this against us, too, because we might actually want that match. Consistency, sir. Consistency. One or the other, pick it. What a jerk.
00:21:59
Speaker
All right, so let's go up to the wreck. Bath and sale. Candidly, I only got up to the Sam Underhill try, and that's kind of where I, you know, pit it out of time. So, oopsie daisy. Sale just, I mean, well, sale squeaked away with one that they didn't really deserve, getting the tie. Bath played an inspired match, like super inspired. I was really,
00:22:29
Speaker
I loved watching what they were doing. They were going all out. They were showing urgency. I want more teams to play like that because you really have two options when you're not a good team. You can turtle and just try to, okay, let's just do some of the little things right.
00:22:50
Speaker
only helps you so much." Or you can say, you know what? Fuck it. Let's try to play good rugby. And don't focus on these small fundamentals. Their line-out wasn't great. They had some errors here and there, but they're attacking intent. There was no mistaking that. Bayless and Underhill were
00:23:12
Speaker
Delights. He's got himself a yellow card outside of that. Outside of that, he was good. And that was kind of an unfortunate one. Speaking of which, I liked this ref. Yeah, this one. So we'll get to it a little bit later. But when a player knocks on the ball and one of his teammates is in front of him and catches it,
00:23:39
Speaker
That's a penalty. It's offsides. Even if it's like, oh, you know, you couldn't really avoid, it's human nature. In this case, I would have actually, you know, said, cause I can't remember who it was. It might've been like you and Richards or, or, or Will Spencer who was in front, who didn't actually like put his hand down for a second and then like put them up and the ball touched him, but he wasn't playing it. So that should have been accidental outside scrum only, but it's also fair to the ref to say, no, you tried to play it. So penalty. Yeah. Yeah. Come up again later.
00:24:09
Speaker
But either way, I enjoyed the referee too. So that's always good. How about that? We have a referee that was enjoyed. Right. Luke James. Yeah. Another try. Yeah. He's good. He's starting to come into it, which is great. Right.
00:24:34
Speaker
Aaron Reed also expressing himself quite a bit. Roebuck seems to be more of that defensive. It seems like his earlier offensive outburst was really just the intercept and then kind of a fluke run. He's not bad. Don't get me wrong. He'll burn you if you leave. Don't leave him open. Right. But he does have good value defensively. I like what I saw in spots.
00:25:03
Speaker
So it's good stuff there. Yeah. I mean, sale did make up for, they're, they're definitely a different team without AJ.
00:25:10
Speaker
There's no doubt about it. Yeah, I mean, we all this is not really a news alert by any means whatsoever. We know this, especially with Rob Dapriya playing 10 like. Yeah, not not a lot to love about that for most people, I'd say. No, and him and Jens van Rensberg and James weren't like they weren't connected defensively all the time. Cipriani had just I can't remember who scored the try. It might have been Will, but he scored. No, he didn't score, so it wasn't him.
00:25:41
Speaker
I might have been to Glanville running off of them. That might have been the try. Sips just kind of does a little like j-line and just cuts right through it. But I'm not sure which gap it was. And it just has all the time in the world to offload for the 2-1-1 with the fullback. I think it was off of the line out.
00:26:02
Speaker
a very simple move that sale the team that you know, the defense that sale has should have stopped easily it but sips just carved them up. So yeah, I mean, he still has that ability like does Oh, this shouldn't be a new shouldn't be a really a big news flash to anybody if it is the fuck you been.
00:26:24
Speaker
Yeah. It shouldn't be a news flash by any means, but he is. So he just needs to have a little time to come to have it come out. But yeah, no, it's DC. Did you see Ben Spencer's ridiculous 50 22 or I didn't think it was later. You that are my head was down. He had just like on the five meter line, like it was just a beautiful kick. So excellent. You know, good to see him because, you know, we've
00:26:54
Speaker
We've been bitter about, obviously, Saracens don't really have a nine right now. And Spencer was asked to leave Saracens to prove that he could, you know, you know, lead a different team. And then, of course, he doesn't get picked. And it's just been bad for both teams. But every so often, Spencer has a game like this and really comes good for them. So I would love to see it. I love to see it. Love to see it. Speaking of those guys in black.
00:27:21
Speaker
Let's go over to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, and quite the show was put on here.
Bristol vs. Saracens: A Thrilling Match
00:27:30
Speaker
I was really not quite expecting that match, but I'm not sad we got it. I wasn't, but I also never felt, even until the last play, like I never felt like salaries were going to lose. It was like it was tight and they gave him a run, no doubt about it. I just,
00:27:52
Speaker
You know, that last bit surprised me. I'm not going to. I mean, yeah, obviously it was one of these like you're going to fuck this up. But I mean, that for Saris, I wouldn't mean that for for bears. I love the king. And I'm I am sad that he fought for him that he fought. I mean, the past mile forward. I was like, yeah, I was like, this is going back as cool as that might be. This is coming back. I was like, great try, but that's that that cannot be allowed. So that will not be counting. Yeah.
00:28:20
Speaker
So I guess if you're going to have somebody make that line break, that's the guy to have make the line break out there probably. Yeah. Cause it was, I remember maybe like Jake Armstrong. Right. But it's like, you know, if you're, it was, I don't know who was out there. I think it was peers. And, um, I don't remember who, who was it who ended up scoring the non-try? Um, no, it was, I think it was one of the wings. Was it debates come off? I think it might've been him.
00:28:49
Speaker
It might've been Bates. No, he played 80. So it was probably Bates. And so it's like, if it's between peers and Bates and Joyce as to who's going to break through in a three on two, I'm going to take Joyce every single time. Yeah.
00:29:05
Speaker
never know. He's the likeliest to cock it up, unfortunately. Or he's the least like, he will not make it all the way himself. If he hears through, if you let Bates through, they're gone. So it's like, okay, we still have a chance to make up for it. And they put just enough pressure on Joyce to make him dummy and delay the past till the
00:29:29
Speaker
receiver was in front of them. So thank you. Oopsie daisy. Um, yeah, it was, you know, big, big exhale, but this is what good teams do.
Bristol's Inconsistencies & Player Performances
00:29:39
Speaker
Yeah. You know, they find a way, even if it's, and we talked about in the, uh, previously to the wash, like, you know, players getting reintegrated and rejelling with each other. Um,
00:29:50
Speaker
Yeah. And you know, and again, we saw Bristol, they gave it to him. And unfortunately, here's the thing with Bristol. This is the sign of a bad team in the fact that they play to the opposition's level, they will come up for the good teams. Right. Fortunately, they come down for the bad teams. And that's why they have they that's why they are where they are on the table. And I think even Pat Lamb will admit that.
00:30:10
Speaker
Because they're still, they're not, they're not, well, at least certainly not this team that they brought with them where with, with sheetie rides and Pia Tal on the bench. And it did almost work. So, but that's the thing, you're, you're not good enough to get away with that against, against the Saris. Like, so what, it is what it is. It's not a, you know, not a bad thing, but at the same time, like,
00:30:37
Speaker
When you play down to the opposition when they're bad and you lose to them, you gotta win the games that you gotta win. So this isn't one that I'm sure Bears had circled on their calendar at the beginning of the year saying we are winning this match. It's more like, this will be a good test of where we are heading into our home stretch. Obviously this season hasn't gone that way for them.
00:31:02
Speaker
Um, before we get off this game, of course, the one thing we got to recognize is our favorite human ice cream comb jinx two 50. Jeez. Um, yeah. Who 50 amazing. Wow. Whole and like, and lots of fun stuff going on and not in two 50 and not in those two 52 and he's 31. He could, he could, he'll get three. I bet you get three. I bet you get three. Like, damn. Yeah. And then, and you had a sequel. What's he had a hundred? That was a hundred.
00:31:32
Speaker
for him? I can't recall, but it was some sort of ridiculous milestone. I think for him, that's 100. Like, wow. At 23. And I'm thinking about when he first debuted, it feels like yesterday. It does. He's still like the young guy, like, oh, the kid. No, he's a grizzled veteran, even though he's not. Yeah. I mean, he's something you can lean on. So it's really good. Yeah. Really good for him. Really good for Jinx.
Tim Swinson's Career Transition
00:32:05
Speaker
Thank you, Tim Swinson, great season. I would much rather have preferred Theo McFarland instead of him. There's so many options that I'm ready to move on. Yeah, get away from Tim Swinson, please, please. I'm ready, please, with sugar on top. I hope that God, Hugh Tizard, is his replacement and just the sales off forever.
00:32:22
Speaker
happy for both of them. They're both fantastic people as far as I understand.
00:32:28
Speaker
Sorry. I mean, no, no, no. We've reached that point, Timmy. Love you. No, no disrespect to your career. You're done. But it's over. So yeah, you can come over here if you want. But like, right, right, you have a beer. Bring them bring them over here. We'll buy you a drink. All right. And play you can put on the stripes over here.
Challenges at Sandy Park & Rob Baxter's Strategies
00:32:50
Speaker
And then let's go Sunday down to Sandy Park, Exeter and Lester. And again, team's just kind of not quite gelling, but also still getting it done, which is what Lester did. There's, and it's sad, but it's good. And it makes me happy in a way. Like, what the fuck is going on with Sandy Park? Like,
00:33:16
Speaker
I don't know. So here's the other thing is that I'm seeing multiple people now on the Twitterverse trying to float Rob Baxter's name as a successful successor to Eddie. No, no, no, no. And so talk about a step backwards, like absolute step backwards, like the same approach to the sport problems. Plus, like,
00:33:44
Speaker
The lineups are just so, why is Ian Whitten starting in this match? Jesus, Mary and Joseph, why? Why? Why? Why is Ian Whitten playing 20 minutes in this match? Why is Harvey Skinner on the bench not seeing a minute in this match? And you scored two tries. Both of them were pushover tries. Fucking great. That's all you can do. There's no creativity. There's no real, like they might throw one phase of real attack at a team and then they'll just pound away at them hoping for a penalty.
00:34:14
Speaker
Okay, that's not working. Okay, let's look at the table, because right now, well, the way the table should be, Exeter would be outside the top four. Yeah, I wouldn't I'd fully anticipate close to getting at least four points out of that. And, like, also you're starting capstick at lock.
00:34:31
Speaker
And yours and like yours and familiar with that frickin flank and capsticks at lock, like your best fetcher is stuck in the fucking second row. You moron. Like it's one thing to say. We talked about it last week in France and Wokey. Like that's one thing if you have two guys on the outside that are totally mobile and totally willing to go get it. Right. Or able to go get it.
00:34:53
Speaker
They don't have that. No, they're you have you have locks at flank. So why would you put a flank at like it's so it's so fucking bass.
00:35:05
Speaker
Very, very. Yeah, no, I, I don't see it. So here's the thing you look at. So we know we're fully expecting Gloucester to get four out of that. So that knocks them out of the top four. Right. Hampton is within shouting distance at 53. And they have a game in hand. Yep.
00:35:25
Speaker
And there's there's a tough road in front of the exit as well for the schedule. I think they got they have to come to us. I know that. Good luck with that one. Yeah, we owe them. So I'm fully look forward to ramming up their ass.
00:35:40
Speaker
Yeah. Let me see. So it's, um, they play, they host bath this week, which is not at this point. Yeah. Then two saris, then two Bristol and then hosting exit, uh, hosting, um, uh, Quinn's. So right there, that's actually, actually saris and Quinn's is two. That's losses right there. Probably. Yeah. You know, that means if you want to, um, and
00:36:08
Speaker
Let's see, let's do, why don't we get into this just a little bit? Because say like Northampton, right? Because they're the closest one or even Gloucester. Let's see, Northampton has...
00:36:24
Speaker
coming up hosting bears at Bath hosting Quinn. Oh, that's rough at saris hosting Newcastle. That's really one too. That's a tough road for them too, especially with the bath game. That won't be a pushover because Bath are going to want to beat that one. And then Gloucester have.
00:36:43
Speaker
Let's see, hosting wasps at Bristol, hosting Bath, at Quinn's, hosting Saturday. Oh, this is not an easy... That one's a little... That one I find a tiny bit more favorable than the other two at this point, only by the slimmest margins there.
00:36:59
Speaker
But not fun. Hosting wasps and bath is super helpful. And they play us last, right? Right. We might be mailing that in at that point. Yep. So especially if it means exit or out. Yeah, please do. Please do. I don't know. I'm not normally one to subscribe to that, but sorry for these guys. Like, no, no, no. Go away. Reset.
00:37:28
Speaker
get rid of your stupid fucking chant at the same time. Yeah, that's the other thing I was I'm so happy to hear them lose every time they do that shit too. Yeah. But let's not dismiss what happened with the Tigers by any means. No, no, no, they were getting Chris Ashton turning back the clock. Right. I mean, if for all this shit I give extra, it's not easy to beat them, especially not at Sandy ass crack. It's it's
00:37:54
Speaker
really like the Tigers put in a really good performance, especially with 40 going out early. He was having himself a pretty damn good match, right? He wasn't doing too bad. And then and had to had to leave and Freddie Burns coming in and piloting the ship to you know, to land in an emergency landing situation.
Leicester Tigers' Resilience
00:38:13
Speaker
Yep. I got I got us guys, we'll get there. Yeah.
00:38:17
Speaker
Yeah. So, and this is, and Tigers have built themselves into a very, very good spot where they can do this and they'll just grind out a win. And it's not always pretty, but they have the depth now to do it. And that's, that, that's obviously a sign of a, of a high end team and they're in first. Yeah. I mean, you know, with Chris Ashton was a late, late year signing. Um,
00:38:44
Speaker
and has come on to perform. And, you know, they've built that depth, whereas, you know, exit or they're going to lose top of clarity next season again, too. So like they're losing all these guys. They're losing Skinner and Hill, too. So that's right. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. So I wouldn't be and I wouldn't be surprised if there's another one heading for the extra door as well. Yeah. And that's so much depth for a team that just all they do is pound away and never change the lineup. That's
00:39:10
Speaker
Not good. So, well, not good for them. It's good for the rest of us. Good for the rest of us out here. Jump over the other side of the hemispheres and go down to
Moana Pacifica's Landmark Victory
00:39:27
Speaker
Moana Pacifica and an absolutely brilliant win for them. I say that as painful as it is for the hurricanes. The hurricanes were awful for a good majority of this match. Like the word I would use was what we talked about before. We was stirred at the fucking hell, like had all kinds of opportunity to put this thing down really, really easily and absolutely spoiled just about every one of them.
00:39:54
Speaker
I agree. Barf. Good on the Moana for taking care of business when presented to them as well.
00:40:04
Speaker
you can be given all the opportunity in the world on the other side of the coin. And if you don't go through the damn door, it doesn't do you any good. So they did and good on them. So I congratulate them in their first server franchise when that is, you know, that's a huge feat for them. Yeah. I mean, you got it. You do have to like you got to love that sadly, even even as when it's like one of those you're the I was we went to Golden Point. I'm like, we're fucking losing this thing. That's the end. I knew we were losing this thing. I knew we were going to find a way to lose. And sure enough, there was I was like, well, that's no surprise.
00:40:34
Speaker
popped at it like popped out of nowhere, all of a sudden boop during your it's like, I was like, Oh, see you.
00:40:41
Speaker
Right. I mean, you know, in a game, as you said, where mistakes stopped you from from winning, really, of course, it was going to be a mistake that let's that's it. And you got to believe that every time both for the Pacifica and for the Drua, they they see a lineup across from that. That's less than, you know, top notch. And it's been picked by choice, which I'm pretty sure this was.
00:41:05
Speaker
they got to believe that's huge disrespect so they just want to jam it right up the other team's ass like no no arnie civilla he dropped late anyway so oh did he would never would not have seen him um but yeah still yeah we have you know like blake gibson and reed prince up on in our you know in our lineup um aden morgan playing 10 yeah yeah josh morby on the wing yeah he scored but like
00:41:29
Speaker
you got to believe that there's way better out there. You know, Ryasi came off the bench, you got a yellow card, but still, you know, even Reuben love being switched between him and Aiden Morgan would have been a difference in my head at least. Oh yeah. They played a lot. I thought they played a lot better with Reuben on. Yeah. And you know, and you didn't help that Barrett came off obviously. Right. But still can't, you can't leave it to that. So good on, good on Moana. They, they played their balls off and they really. They can only play who's in front of you. Yeah. So they played their ass off and they, and they did quite well. And
00:42:00
Speaker
Yeah, they totally fronted up when when called upon to and they had a couple moments where they really were called upon. So loads of credit to them. It was just a shame that they didn't have a crowd in because the the new the new regulations hadn't gone into effect that but damn, they were gone. Absolutely. That would have been that's that's true.
00:42:19
Speaker
Yeah, it really was. Over to Melbourne and Amy Park. And finally, the rebels are better than somebody.
Rebels' Determined Win
00:42:30
Speaker
Finally, they get off it. Like, yeah, just you saw it in the way the rebels took the first probably 20 minutes. And I was like, shit, these guys are here to play. And they are mad. And I was like, that's going to be bad news for them. So yeah.
00:42:47
Speaker
And we, we almost saw them find a way to screw it up. Was it the, was it the Revovo try that came out of nowhere? I was just like, okay, wake up everybody. Well, that was, that was a little too late. It might've been, I mean, that was 76 minutes. So, right. But, Oh, maybe the, it was the hooker. That was the backup. Yeah. That was, it was, that was the one and kind of.
00:43:11
Speaker
Because right after the Salawa, Salawa, fuck, I can't do it. Salawa was try. So, yeah, they scored 67 minutes, 74 minutes, 76 minutes. Right. So with those three, it was like, you know, get on your feet, guys. Let's go. You got to finish the match because we know how good the Fijian Druro are at.
00:43:30
Speaker
picking up, you know, late wins, you know, and making things real tight real quick because they score from everywhere. Right. And so it was 15 points at that point. So you're probably okay, but probably isn't really. That's not something you want to use around them. Not the rebels this year. No, no, especially the rebels. Yeah. Cameron or got one, got over, got one over the set, kind of shut that whole idea down. But I'm sure it was a lot of squeaky bum time going on over there. Um,
00:43:58
Speaker
I do want to point out, uh, one guy was really, oh, it was fucked. I didn't, I, I completely forgot that they had to put one over late. Yep. Um, one guy I do want to point out that's kind of was, uh, was obviously not on everybody's radar to start was Ray knew, uh, for the, for the rebels, but he has come in and, you know, Stacy was banged up and obviously we weren't sure what was going to happen with the center spot. We thought it was going to be Matt to move at 12 and Ilya 13 and you know, Carter Gordon at 10 and
00:44:28
Speaker
It's not how it's worked out now. And he's performed quite valiantly. Yes. So good on the rebels are finally getting of people who are on radars. And by that, I mean the referees radar. And by that, I obviously mean research. Damn it, dude. You got to stop. You got to stop, man.
00:44:50
Speaker
Oh, they, you are, you are that guy that people are just like, Hmm, what are you going to do? Screw up today. Right? Like they're looking for it now. So yeah, don't give them a fucking reason. Yeah. Stupid. So yeah, rebels get, get one, get off one finally. And maybe they'll actually start to win games. Who knows? They're on a buy this week. So
00:45:13
Speaker
They won't lose. Western Force and Brumbies and oh, what a squeaker we had here.
Brumbies' Red Card Challenges
00:45:22
Speaker
A little SPT. Yeah. Obviously down to the Tom Banks red card for a lot of reasons. What a.
00:45:34
Speaker
What a fucking stupid, stupid red card to take. Like, it's red all day. Go sit the fuck down. Like, how do you not...
00:45:45
Speaker
He's upright all the whole time. So that was his initial problem. Never bent, never trying to get low. So that was always going to be an issue. Yeah, that was one thing that I guess you missed from the bath sale match was Dan Dupree had taken a headshot from, I can't remember who it was. Oh, it might have been Sam Underhill.
00:46:07
Speaker
And, but, like, Underhill was as low as Lo can get when you're trying to really make a tackle without doing, like, the LCD diving at a knee. And was, you know, trying to wrap all that stuff. And Dupree just completely lowered his head. And it was like, you know, how guys will just use it as the battering ram. Yeah. It's like, nope. Well, you chose to do that. So you're an idiot. So, nope. It was like, you know, that's you. Yes. So they just went on. The try was going on the play anyway later. But, you know,
00:46:35
Speaker
Yeah, that's one thing. If you're trying to get low, you do get credit from the referees for that.
00:46:43
Speaker
This is just and I haven't seen if they've if he if he's caught a ban for this, but he hasn't. Oh, they did. They rescinded. They rescinded it. How they dismissed it. I don't know. This is this is the sands are fucking like that. We write the sands are we know and love, not really. But we don't really care about player safety or welfare. Like, fuck it. Let them just bash heads like a fucking bunch of morons. Yeah, it's awful. No, no. Not into that, man. Not into that.
00:47:14
Speaker
But other than that, you know, the Danny Muirhead show happened as well. It does. Every so often, like, you know, you get one. He has one of those games. One a year. And of course, it was the week I bench him. Right. I went against him in one league. I know that. So I was like, damn it.
00:47:39
Speaker
And you know, I was screwed as soon as I figured that one out. Was that me? But yeah, and you know, force just ever so close from bees hanging on. This is what the again, good teams find ways to hang on for dear life sometimes. And from bees did and are so close ever so close. So this is, again, this is this is a positive look for the force in a lot of ways because, you know, there were, they wouldn't have been able to do
00:48:09
Speaker
make this game this interesting a couple years ago. And it would have, or it would have been close. And then with about like, you know, 65 or so minutes in, it would just fall apart. And it would go, go away ugly. So, yeah. So good on the force. Your boy King Kateka looked really, really good when he was in there. I really liked what I see him and the guy I pointed out, not to LA, just making it happen. Yeah.
00:48:39
Speaker
Yeah, he's good. He's very good. Yeah, he's really good. So it's quite large, too. Yeah, he's a fucking huge human. So, yeah, it's it's bye week for the forest and they get to sit there and rub the wounds a little bit and hopefully they come up better on the other side. Highlanders and Blues. Is this the best I've seen the Highlanders play this year? I think so. Yeah, they looked like a reasonable team.
00:49:07
Speaker
Something to do with the zoo coming back, I guess. Probably.
Highlanders vs. Blues: Improvement & Skills
00:49:13
Speaker
Nice to see those fans back. Yeah. Mitchell Hunt is looking a little bit, you know, he's looking more comfortable and playing better at that 10 spot. They need that desperately. Yeah, that's that's opening things up a little bit. Yeah. And, you know, we kind of he started slow, but Sam Gilbert.
00:49:32
Speaker
might not be the most amazing 15, but he can finish. You can finish, no doubt. I don't think there's a question about that these days. He's got it in him. And to the Blues credit,
00:49:48
Speaker
They had to deal with a lot of, a lot of shuffling around, uh, yeah. Um, a pair of fed is kind of okay. Oh man. He's, he's been, everybody thinks right. Like when we went into the season, we were thinking Harry Plummer was going to be the backup 10 guys.
00:50:06
Speaker
Parafetters just put boots to that no doubt said no. Screw that I am taking that 10 shirt if need be and he's done a fantastic job when called upon. It always helps when you can have a you know, a 20 you know, that 23 position, who can either come in as a 10, or even slot into the back three, like, that's just
00:50:30
Speaker
That's almost as unfair as having Bowdoin Barrett who you could just play anywhere you want anyway, like the same kind of thing, you know. Yeah, to have two guys like that is not cool. No, not cool, man. Not cool at all. So getting over was also nice to see. Love that guy. Good Lord.
00:50:51
Speaker
He's a monster. He's on All Blacks Rest this week, I guess. Okay. So we won't see him. And then Caleb Clark, like, don't let him loose, man. Like, I was like, that's way too much space for something like him. And yeah, I knew he was going to score. I was like, yeah, see ya. And that's certainly not something you want 10 minutes into a match. No. Like, no, no, no. You don't want him to have his butt up that early. Yeah. Like, when his tail's that high, like, forget if you were not beating him.
00:51:20
Speaker
You're not beating him and he's going to make your life miserable. No question about it.
Chiefs vs. Crusaders: Performance Issues
00:51:26
Speaker
So better, better from Islanders. Blue's getting back to where they we believe they are. Maybe Islanders will get one eventually. Maybe, maybe not New Zealand, but maybe somewhere. Yeah, something maybe or maybe overseas here. Chiefs and Crusaders. All right, here's the deal. Chiefs played poorly.
00:51:50
Speaker
crusaders are the fucking crusaders. Yes, they are. You know, what's not needed at that point is, is the crusaders getting help from the referee? Like, okay, first off, the, the holding on penalties. Was this Doman? Yes, it was. Oh yeah. Doman's like, Doman, like I said, Doman and Mike Fraser are neck and neck for the worst referees in New Zealand. So
00:52:14
Speaker
You know, half of the times they got called for holding on, they were holding on. No, no doubt. But the other half, it was like there's a guy in the way, you know, a guy not rolling away in there and he's like, no, no, no, fine, whatever. And then the as I mentioned before, with the accidental offside, there was a guy who actually caught it.
00:52:33
Speaker
Yeah, I saw that. And then there was like, no, no, no, no, it was just an accident. We'll just go to the knock. And it's like, no, fucker, he's offside. Dick. That's a penalty. Like in real rugby, that's a penalty. So and I'm not I'm not blaming him. It was always going to be the Crusaders, the way they came out and the way the Chiefs played way too much in front of the ball carrier. Like there's, you know, when I said half the holding on penalties, it was more than that. But like,
00:53:03
Speaker
They're running in the loose and running ahead of the ball carrier. The ball carrier, yep. I'm done with Caleb Trask. Oh, I know you are. Absolutely done with him. And him and Quinn do pie. Two pie is on my radar again. This was this was a bad day for him. And he's not had many good days this year. So he needs to fucking turn it around. Trask needs to go have a sit. I don't know why he's playing. Oh, nice. Which put Joshua back there.
00:53:34
Speaker
I'll take him. If there's one thing that the Chiefs do not lack for anything, it's in the back free. There's no need for Trask to see the field again. He's not up to it. You have 14 other guys out there kicking ass, and then he gets around the ball, and I'm going to do something stupid. Yeah, can't have that.
00:54:00
Speaker
It sucked that Vitalik had to come out. But that's happened. We've all done that before. I think he's done his thumb. Yeah. Yeah. Is he starting this week? No. I didn't line upside out yet. Okay. And then, so if I said there was a battle at 13 in this match, obviously our heads are going to go to ALB and probably like Braden NR.
00:54:25
Speaker
Nope. Alex Nakaville, unless they're fighting your new cue. And Nakaville wins that. Yeah, which is the crazy part, which is the crazier part. Are you kidding me? He was amazing. Now I'm ashamed that I didn't bring him up during my rant, but I was ranting. This is a good thing. No, he was excellent. He carved up the Crusaders.
00:54:52
Speaker
I think he was the best player on the pitch. I did, too. Yeah, he was really good on that. He was really good on that. Actually, there was another guy on the other side named Will Jordan. That was a little better than him. Fuck that guy. That guy. He was everywhere. That's the other thing. Well, you know where he was? He was everywhere where Caleb Trask was fucking kicking. Yeah, don't do that. Caleb Trask, he gets, you know, he's back there to receive the kick. All right. Now he's going to kick it up the field. He kicks it directly to Will Jordan.
00:55:27
Speaker
Will Jordan is good enough on his own?
00:55:30
Speaker
When he gets the ball sparingly, do not give him the ball free of your own free will. Yeah, poor decisions. Yeah, no, no, not to slight his performance. It was excellent. Yeah, so don't give him the ball next time. Yeah, I mean, and again, we talked about we've talked about it in like our picking like our, you know, superl exemption stuff like
00:55:55
Speaker
Guy should never leave the all blocks. I don't know how you play, play your best team with him not in it. No, you can't either at 15 or at one of the wings. Yep. Got to be on there. Got to be on there. And then Reds and ties.
Reds vs. Waratahs & Streaming Woes
00:56:12
Speaker
I tried to watch this.
00:56:15
Speaker
But the fucking video kept screwing up on Flo, so I couldn't... It was pausing every freaking... I didn't even try to watch this. I was done with super rugby after the cheese. I was like, fine. I'm good. So I got through a little bit of it. You know what the fun part is? When Flo puts the thumbnail and has the final score on it.
00:56:36
Speaker
Yes. I was so fucking annoyed. I was like, you dickheads. I have to say, I'm not even sure how much brain power flow actually puts into this thing. Like they just kind of cut and paste and hope it works. Like they don't care about the rest. Like there's multiple like if you want to go into the super rugby and you want to watch a match, there's like
00:56:58
Speaker
three options and one of them might be the highlights and one of them is a one replay and one's another replay and like some of them work, some of them are like five minutes long. It's like dude, what are you guys doing over there? What are you doing over there? Like you already suck. Like you're just burying it right here.
00:57:14
Speaker
And there was one time, yeah, where I actually kind of similar thing, where I clicked on the highlights because it didn't, it wasn't, the writing is also somewhat faint when you are on the item you're looking at. So sometimes you'll see, oh, okay, this is like, you know, red's ties. So I'll click on it. And then you realize the highlights and like the right off the bat, they're like, oh, and the reds took care of, you know, how did the reds win this game 3220? Let's find out. It's like, fucker, I'm trying to watch the game.
00:57:43
Speaker
Yeah, sometimes I already have the games 12 for me, but when it isn't, I'd like you to keep that way. Yeah, super rugby. I get spoiled. I can't help it. I like I forget because I'm first thing in the morning. You wake up and I check, you know, throw. Oh, yeah. And it's like, oh, we lost her. Oh, we won. I'm like, I don't want to fucking see this. Go away. Yeah.
00:58:04
Speaker
Um, I do know that Todd has lost Will Harrison at the beginning of the half of the second half. So that's not great for them. Um, just came back from injuries. So that completely sucks. Um, James O'Connor was on one, apparently from what I, from what I understand. Yeah.
00:58:20
Speaker
So, run guy a little loose, definitely. So, the weather, nasty. I did get that far to find out that the weather was less than pleasant. It was hammering down for a little bit, so. I see Jock Campbell got over. Yeah, I mean, that's good. He's been good. Yeah, he's been good, but he's also
00:58:41
Speaker
not really scoring lately. So it's good to see him. No, yeah, you're right. He needs to get it. He needs to get himself over the line there again. Okay. Two post scored. Sweet. Yeah. No, he's, he's back. He's, he's feeling much better since that little.
00:58:53
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, and they had a red card. OK, that's not. But they still survived it fairly well. OK, so not too bad, not so bad. OK, so now that we get that, let's go to Silverback Park in Atlanta.
Free Jacks' Victory & Adjustments
00:59:14
Speaker
Yes, boys. Yes. That was very satisfying. So satisfying. And know what the best part was? Things started to go well as soon as they got rid of the fucking prop. God damn it. He fucked up. Like Jared was late. Yeah. And so I'm watching this and I'm just like. I'm like, they're letting up these line breaks from these short line runners, like not even a.
00:59:44
Speaker
um it's not even like it was uh you know a complicated play it's like guys were just coming it looked like guys were just coming off of their players to go look cover the outside guy and then i realized oh no kyle doesn't hear the ball every single time this happens and then oh yeah kyle's just tackling down he's the one who's leaving his man to come tackle down and they're just like oh okay i'll just give it to you then
01:00:08
Speaker
Dumb shit. Fucking hell. Yeah, that sucks. But they took them out and then they they suddenly that that little line breaks that stopped happening. And so amazing thing, isn't it? We are thankful. Yeah, we had our very own Amelia Luciano on the TMO as well, which was awesome. She did an excellent job. I wish I wish they would give her the whistle every once in a while as well.
01:00:31
Speaker
Yeah, boys were great. And, you know, shout to Trump. I like sounds like he had a very awful
01:00:41
Speaker
thing happened to him. I don't know. I don't know enough details to say what it is. I can always speculate, which I'm not going to. So, but it sounds like it was something very, very awful. So, buddy, we hope you are all the love. Yeah, all the everybody from New England is behind you. And just we hope that we hope you're you're gonna be okay. And you take your time. And we got you. You know, we got, we got the resources over here. Now, you you do you need to take care of what you need to take care of first.
01:01:11
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I did. I was pretty fucking annoyed with the yellow card against Sittama. I... Yeah, I know. He is very lucky to not get a red on that.
01:01:21
Speaker
Oh, it should have been a red. All day red. It was late. It was high. It was like total... The fucking level of this whole thing, too. Right. Total disregard for, you know, player welfare and whatnot. Just not... Yeah. And no remorse, either. He's just like, hmm. Right. I was like, oh, you wanted to do that, didn't you, you douchebag? Oh, totally did. Now I understand. Okay. You die next time. Got it. Harry Barlow, back to form. Awesome.
01:01:48
Speaker
The team's only good, only better when he, when he's clicking. So he's clicking. Dougie Fife is clicking. LaRue Milan is clicking. Yeah. Mitch Wilson was quite good in this game as well. Didn't pop up on the score sheet a whole lot, but like just his work around the patch was excellent. Um, yeah, not, not, can't say enough good things about the boys from from knowing and then, and Harry Boyle looked good when he had to come on. Yeah. That's, that was the best part. Like.
01:02:14
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We had, we had Poland and walks both come off fairly early, all things considered. And, you know, younger and boiled really didn't make it look like it was a problem. There's not much of a drop off there. That's fucking scary. That's awesome. For all of you. Yeah. Be aware. Like seriously, I, you know, I feel extremely confident in this team right now. I think that's obvious, but.
01:02:38
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Right. What team, what's like, this is, this is a dangerous team. This is a good club team. This is a good professional club level team, you know, not, not, you know, prime standard and all that, but I mean,
01:02:51
Speaker
This is going to be a tough team to beat. This is going to be a tough team to beat for any other team in this, like in this league. I, it's going to be, I mean, you look at what it took for Los Angeles to beat us. You know, it took a couple of notes and disallowed tries, one of which probably could have been a try. Yeah. Two of them probably should have been tries, two of the three, but exactly. So yeah. Hang on to your hats, kids. This is going to be fun, fun season to go forward. Um,
01:03:15
Speaker
There are other teams, right? Okay. Yeah, there are. O'Glory lost to New Orleans
O'Glory's Coaching Change & Toronto Arrows' Preparations
01:03:20
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at home. O'Glory have had their coach dismissed now to no shock there. Seattle lost to Los Angeles. Again, I think Seattle is way overrated. Utah lost to Houston. So maybe Houston's got something.
01:03:34
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Paul scored. Yeah, Paul scored. So hopefully he's back in the mix for the qualifier, the summer in July. And then rugby, New York lost to the arrows who are, yeah, they're on their way home to play their first home game, first legitimate home game.
01:03:56
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Yeah, it's a tough, it's a tough call for Atlanta after losing to us at home. Like, yeah, you get to go up to turn Dave. That's your reward is, uh, have fun, have fun. And then we get Nola.
01:04:08
Speaker
Cola comes to town. Let's frickin go. Yeah, yeah, bring it on boys. Because you guys apart from DC are the shittest team in this division. Right. Let's go. I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready. So yeah, we will be there. If you will to give us a shout. Yeah. Hopefully we bump into Bill this week.
01:04:31
Speaker
Yes, that'd be nice. That'd be cool. Bill, if you're listening, message me, please. Yeah, so excited in here for us. We are in first.
01:04:44
Speaker
Seven games played is equal too. That's the best part. That's the best part. Games played is equal. There's no games in hand at this point. Except everyone has a game in hand to Seattle somehow. They played it. Yeah. I don't know how the hell that happened. Much is wrong with you, Seattle. Yeah. A bunch of strange people. Yeah. I mean, God, you see how bad it is for DC, like one fricking point. It's bad. Yeah.
01:05:10
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Jackals had a little incident going on at their pitch too, I guess. Oh, walk away or something collapsed or something that they're like at their facility. So and a bunch of guys got hurt. Oh, fuck.
01:05:22
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So I don't know all the details. I think one guy broke his wrist, which is the worst of it. So okay. Yes, hopefully. Yeah, I don't know these what exactly something happened, where shit fell apart. That's what I've heard. I don't know details beyond that. Let's put it that way. Fair enough. So yeah, so hopefully they're okay. Jeez. That's really scary shit.
01:05:46
Speaker
But yeah, let's go, bring it on. We got a bunch of home games coming forward now as well. So that's been great. We've only had one home game. So seven matches, six on the road. Now it's time to come home and build that freaking fortress, man. And then there's going to be a crowd and we're going to be
01:06:07
Speaker
Drunken low. Yep. Can't wait. We're gonna have fun, man. We're gonna have fun. Yeah, it's got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven of the next nine of the remaining nine are at home. And I plan on making that eight or nine, depending on how things shake out. Eight or nine more. Cool. All right, so.
01:06:36
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That is that for this one. We're gonna jump over the fantasy pod in a second here. Yeah, if you're heading over there, we'll see you over there. If not, much more of the same next week, and hopefully we'll, yeah, we'll feel less to just come back really, because I feel this commodity right now. I will, that's all right. It's been a trip this week. It's been a fun one, but if you're coming over the fancy pod, we'll see you there. If not, catch you all next week. Have a good one, everybody. Later.