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Season 3- Episode 14-Jack and the Log Roll (6 Nations Round 2 & Premiership Round 9)
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Sorry this is getting out late, had a slight hiccup. It is the latest and greatest from those American Rugby dunderheads. On this episode we go through whether or not the best England XV has even touched the field yet, position by position, talk a little social media etiquette with players and preview the season of Super Rugby to come. Of course we look at all the action from this past weekend, including 6 Nations, the Premiership and THAT moment on the pitch for Jack Willis (get well soon big guy). We of course do our first Start or Sit for Super Rugby AU and of course the Premiership.
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Intro and Podcast Promotion
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Hey, everybody. Welcome back. It is the fancy. My name is Jared. I'm Ben Glauser. Let's get going. Yeah. Lots of lots of glance over here. Don't want to glance over certain things, though, by any means whatsoever. There's some things that need some some in-depth chatter, as it were. Well, let's get let's get to it. Let's crack these first and then we'll go. Don't have to ask me twice. Right. That one in a while. So there you go. You haven't. It's true.
Rugby Updates and Competitions
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Find us some on your favorite podcast apps. Um, make sure that in this very crazy time that you are checking out our friend, the fancy baby geek, because you're going to need all the help you can get with all the competitions going on. So, uh, pick, pick him out, especially if you're playing in multiples, like if you're playing in two different formats of prom, which we are, and then, you know, just extrapolate from there, it can get pretty crazy. So make sure you check him out and buy him a coffee at that.
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Well then TRM upgrades, make sure you don't miss out on that. They support restart rugby. And again, we're playing to both a rugby mat competitions right now. It's handy. It's very handy. Come Friday morning here. Very helpful. Yeah. When you know, squads are announced and whatnot, it just to look through and try to figure out who's playing, who's in, who's out, who's on a bench. It's socks. It's thick. The green dot. Green dot is a
Supporting Social Causes
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racial equality and the fact that there are some people that are just like, I don't want to watch the Six Nations because they're kneeling. Get off it. Good. Go away. We don't want you. So stay the fuck in your hole. Also, just because I don't want to get too deeply into it.
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But I do want to mention the situation in Texas right now, which sucks. But a reminder, when you hear about the deaths, unfortunately, a lot of people realize that it's a lot of the minorities, because that's how they set up the electrical grid, is that it's set up for them to fail first, the poor and minority and the vulnerable population. And so this is how they do. Look, Texas is fucked up. If you have questions, ask TFRI.
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Thanks
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Let us know. Things are fucked up in America, especially around racism. So if you have questions that we're not getting to, or you just want answered, reach out to us. We'll talk about it. Yeah. We can have a chat about that for sure. Yeah. And there's more of that to get to in the social media etiquette as well. Exactly. So we have more answers for you all.
Fundraising for Greater Boston Food Bank
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All right.
Social Media Etiquette in Sports
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Yeah, I don't want to go too deeply into this, but there's a little social media etiquette towards players on. And this happened within a multitude of ways this past weekend or over the past week. If you have something nasty to say about a player, do not fucking tag them. No, that is just proper etiquette and a story. Doesn't matter who it is. I don't care. It doesn't matter how mad you are. Just don't do it. Yeah, that's not cool, man. You got you a bitch about somebody on social media. Go for it. Do not fucking tag them.
00:04:47
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Right. If somebody else, if you, if, you know, somebody does the right thing and just says, dude, fucking, um, Xander Vegerson is a total knob and don't come in and tag and be like, how can you talk about blah, blah, blah that way? And it's like,
00:05:07
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Dude, don't do that. Like no snitch tagging, no tagging. Just if, you know, if you want to shit on a player, shit on a player on your own time and your own timeline. And then if you want to converse, we've seen instances. I've seen instances recently of people tagging somebody and been like, Hey, you nice job. And that's it. Just like you did awesome. That's perfectly fine. That's pretty cool. Actually. That's like a fucking, you know, what athlete wouldn't want to hear that if they had a good day instead of,
00:05:51
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And doubling down on that, like going into and fucking bothering a player with DMs is 10 times worse too. So, you know, there was reports of Jake Mumaga catching a shitload of stuff on social media. There's nobody that feels worse about the way he is playing right now than Jacob Umaga. I promise you, do not pile it onto the guy. We'll talk about it a little bit because that's what we do.
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Like, you know, some bullshit, like, oh, you kicked her, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
00:06:18
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But there's no sense in DMing this guy and tagging this guy because he's playing poorly. He fucking knows. I promise you, he knows. He's a young kid. He still knows. Okay. He's a professional. You understand? He's a young kid who's being expected to have literally the rugby world on his shoulders in a short order.
Rugby Team Preferences and Player Discussions
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And so there's
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You know, yes, he knows he's doing poorly. And that's nothing bad about him. Every athlete goes through it, especially at his age. You hit a wall where the things that just worked for you naturally don't anymore. And it's the great players that overcome that. And that's what he's working on. He's not a well-rounded 10 just yet. He's getting there. This is part of the growing pain. And he'll be like, any luck, he'll be just fine. But it's not with any luck. Best of luck to him in doing fine.
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But sometimes it does take luck to do to get through that. You see tons that we see tons of this is like around the time in American football, where guys are getting drafted, you know, and, you know, being evaluated as potential busts and they're out of the league if they have like a bad year or two. That's kind of but that's in. But that's him. But on international rugby, right? Like if he continues to fuck up and play poorly,
00:07:35
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that England 10 jersey is no longer in his future. And that alone, there's the mentality around that. Don't add to it by putting that much pressure on him. He knows the situation he's in. And respect that. We should all respect it. Yeah, absolutely. And I love the kids, so I really hope that
00:07:55
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He gets himself sorted and he readjusts as we talk about, the league adjusts to you, you need to readjust back and figure out what it is that's gonna help you continue to excel.
00:08:07
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That and then we'll get into a little bit more about Jack Wilson when we go over the England game. Knowing the results we know, we're going to play a fun game. It's called Your Preference. This one features the England 15.
00:08:25
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I'm going to go through one through position 15 and we're going to talk. I'll even let just let you shoot. Um, you know, great. One of the, one of the ones I listed or, uh, hasn't played slash not in the squad. Okay. Um, all right. So loose head, Macko Gens, Macko Bonapola, Ellis Gens, Ben Albano, or not in the squad. Okay. Hooker, Jamie George, Luke County, Dickey, not in the squad. Jamie George.
00:08:56
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Uh, tight head, Kyle Sinclair, Will Stewart, Harry Williams, or not in the squad. You know, I like Sinclair. I know you do. All right. Second rows. Any of those are fine actually, but I, my, my preference would be single. I don't know. I do either hear my Stewart Stewart. Um, second rows, Mara Toge, Johnny Hill, Courtney laws, Charlie Eules, or not in the squad.
00:09:27
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Mauro and Johnny. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't think the type five would have a whole lot of debate at this point. They're, they're, they're, they're, they're the best at their position in England right now. All five of them, five, six of them. Right. With the twinning on the tight head. Yeah. Right. Um, all right. Here we go. Here's the fun part. Uh, flankers, Tom Curry, Mark Wilson, Courtney laws, not in the squad. Not in the squad.
00:09:53
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Well, first off, I put Ben Earl at seven. Um, of course, let's also realize that Underhill is hurt. Um, he would, he would be my seven actually. So I'm going to, I'll put, I'll put Underhill there cause he should be there with, and if he was healthy, he would be right. Um, at the sixth position, I mean, I would prefer Wilson, but then I'd put Earl there cause I, I love fetchers and, and runners cause you know, Underhill's great defensively. He's not much of, you know, ball in hand guy. Um,
00:10:23
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He does something in ball in this kind of a shock. You're like, where'd that come from? And it's fucking amazing every time he does it. So it's like, why don't you do it more? But that aside, Ben Earl will do well ball in hand. So that's why I would use that balance there. Our favorite position right now. Not in the squad. One of them. Billy's going to pull up Ben Earl or not in the squad. Not in the squad because Ben Earl is my six.
00:10:49
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Right. Fair enough. Yeah. I think we all know at least one or two of the guys that need to go there. Sam or Dom. Yeah. One of the two of those guys. God, Billy's just played like shit. Don't have an excuse. Don't have a reason. He just hasn't played well. All right. Um, screw them half. Ben Young's Dan Robson, not in the squad. Robson. Yeah. And we get, I think that's a fair, fair assessment there. Um, 10, Owen Farrell, George Ford, not in the squad. Not in the squad.
00:11:16
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Yeah. Is it the same guy that celebrated a birthday this weekend? Yes, it is. Yeah. Marcus Smith. Yep. Yep. Yeah. He played pretty fucking well. He's my 10. Yeah. No shit. Um, midfield, Owen Farrell, Ollie Lawrence, Henry Slade, and not the squad. Owen Farrell. Okay.
00:11:33
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I would do that. I, I like that setup of the runner and, and, and, you know, as much as Marcus Smith is a hell of a passer, um, I would put him in that George Ford role anyway. And Farrell would still be my kicker cause he's fucking clangers. He's quite good at that. Um, and, uh, I would also provide Marcus a little bit of a, you know, a security blanket around him. Yeah, that's fair enough. Um, we're in the 13th church.
00:12:01
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Who's going to be my, is it still, is it still, is it still, is this either Lawrence Slade or not in the squad? Slade. Yeah. I do feel pretty bad in Lawrence. I do too. Um, I would, I, then I would, I would have him at that as my finisher. Yeah. There you go. Bring him on and have him pounded in. Um, yeah, I would let Slade open them wide and
00:12:34
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About that. Yeah. I feel absolutely terrible for all the launch. He did absolutely nothing wrong. The game plan was right. And he gets, and he pays for it, which is just bullshit. Okay. Wings. Anthony Watson, Johnny May, not in the squad.
00:12:52
Speaker
I look, Anthony Watson has shown that if you just give him the ball in a little bit of space, he's gone. So he's, he's my wing on one side, the other side. Um, I don't like Johnny May. I don't, I think he's just severely overrated. Um, so I might, I, I.
00:13:14
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I don't have an answer for that. I haven't, I haven't had time to consider it. Um, maybe Rory McConaughey, he can, he can burn too. He needs to come. He's going to come healthy. I mean, maybe I'd put daily there. Fuck, you know, I used to use his speed somewhere. He's, he has played wing before. Right. Um, cause you are a fullback options daily or mail-ins.
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And there you go. I have no problem putting mail-ins back there. Most people wouldn't have a problem sticking daily back there right now. Right. Or mail-ins, excuse me. Yeah. So I think that that would be my 15.
00:13:53
Speaker
Is there, is there a name that screams at you right now, besides the two guys that play eight, um, and the 10 that you already, like a sub that needs to come into the England squad, comma slash needs game time. Randall, Harry Randall. Yeah. That was, that was my first thought too.
England Rugby Squad Changes?
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Um, you know, last week, we'll dive into it in a second. A lot this past weekend should have been the time we saw Randall and a dog woo, but Eddie, Eddie Jones being the arrogant prick. He is like, Nope, I got to win. And I got to win big. It's like,
00:14:23
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Oh, Dogwood would have to be in the, in the hunt for that other wing Jersey too. That would be a hell of a rotation. So yeah, I forgot about him.
00:14:35
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So, and then there's several wings in the prem that will fucking tear it up, but they're also quite young and not ready. So it's like, I want to have some of them waiting on the wings and I don't want to start naming them because I'm sure I'll name people from other countries accidentally. Oops, don't do that. Right. But like, you know, like an Ollie Hassell Collins is showing promise.
00:14:55
Speaker
Right. There's a lot there. Right. And it's like some of these guys, you know, you talk about blooding them. I know that the first time I ever played at a higher level of any sport, it was a wake up call and it made me better. It was like, bring, bring these guys. They're young. Yeah. But you show them a glimpse of what it is at that level. And then even just a glimpse, they'll have a good next half of their season.
00:15:22
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will be a fucking fantastic just to get that one one glimpse it'll it'll ride it out and they'll continue to stay good but it'll they'll just be that much better right away maybe fall into some old habits but then you say that's why you keep them coming back if they do well and they show promise and then they develop it's cyclical but you got to get these guys a look at it
00:15:43
Speaker
Don't hit. Yeah. All he has columns has shown, you know, guys like him have shown, Hey, they can, they can tear up trees. They can, they can just still get the pitch. Yeah. And give him a chance. Fucking what's Johnny may shown you right now. Yeah. I mean, we'll get, we'll get, we'll get a little, except for that try, except for that try, but, but the knock-ons and that, the other bullshit, like, you know, if he's not doing something amazing, he's doing something.
00:16:11
Speaker
That's probably not a good, good way to go about it. Call me nuts. All right. Uh, let's talk a wee bit about super rugby, um, coming up this weekend, obviously, uh, I'm excited to have it back in, back in the fold. It's going to be fun. Um, so AU kicks off this weekend being the, being the first start. Um,
00:16:35
Speaker
I mean, is this, is this the Brumby's trophy to lose or is there a challenge? That's, that's a foot reds. I love what I'm seeing from the reds all the way, all the way through. So, um, it's going to be, and then the Brumby's are still pretty damn good themselves. So, uh, there's, there's a lot to like in this, um, in this competition, a lot of good shit.
00:17:00
Speaker
So are we talking another skunk job for the force or do they find a victory at some point? They'll, I think they'll have a winner too. Um, I think, you know, again, that was that same wake up call, but you can't, you can't improve your fitness so much during the season. Um,
00:17:19
Speaker
So the, you know, the adjustment to the game, they, they adjusted extremely well, but they still pooped out, you know, and maybe at the end of the, you know, at the end of the season, they were pooping out in like the 70th minute or the 75th minute instead of the 60th. But.
00:17:33
Speaker
Like it still wasn't enough, right? It was still enough to, to lose them the games, but I think they they'll react to that. And I mean, they're fucking a hell of a team. So yeah, they'll win a few here or there. No team's going to run away with it. They're all good. They're all super good. There was a balance that we saw kind of go towards the forest current Johnny sign Robinson signed. They pulled in a Carney from abroad, like
00:17:56
Speaker
Yeah, there's so there. Yeah, Miata, Cubelli, they both come into to bolster the squad. So there's something good going on with them. It's not going to be the same walk walkthrough. And you're right, the fitness is going to make a huge difference when you're not quite used to playing that extra 10 minutes.
00:18:12
Speaker
That final 20 turns really fucking long because that last 10 can be a bitch. When it's 10 more minutes on top of that, you're like, oh, this is going to end poorly, isn't it? I'm tired at 45, 50 minutes in. You start looking around at your mates like,
00:18:33
Speaker
How you guys doing here? Are you guys okay? How much time we got left? Oh, you got 35 minutes. Motherfucker. Not good. Sometimes you'd feel like you'd ask the ref, how much time? 30 minutes. Okay. How much time? 33 minutes. No. It went backwards.
00:18:55
Speaker
How do we go back in time? Oh man. Yeah. So it'll, it'll make a, it'll make a difference to them. Um, let's hop over the hub over the sea, um, to the islands there. Um, is this another year of the crusaders? What am I going to bet against them? Uh, yeah, it's hard to bet against them. Blue looked good last year. Who's improved.
00:19:20
Speaker
We did. They improved massively. Who has? Because, well, they lost Bowdoin. They did. But I think Terry Black's going to be OK. I think he'll be all right. I think he'll be OK. He definitely showed good.
00:19:33
Speaker
Yeah. We did see that they got him. Um, I don't think he's, I think he's like a good contributor. Like he's a good maybe off the bench reserve kind of guy for that team. Yeah. I don't know where, I don't know who he's, who he's playing for at this point. So like instead of he should, I mean, he'll be good when somebody gets hurt.
00:19:51
Speaker
Right. That's going to be a hell of a guy to call on and be like, yeah, Bryce teams going to come in. Okay. Scuds went to highlanders and he's, he's starting this weekend and they're friendly. So that should be very interesting there as well.
00:20:09
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know if anybody's improved enough to take out the Crusaders. He's lost Alamalo, which is a big, he was a key cog in that offense. They looked shit without him, and then suddenly he would come in, and that would change the dynamic of that team somehow. So it's bigger than just a player loss to me, unless I see something different. So I'm not feeling optimistic about this Chiefs team.
00:20:37
Speaker
And DMACC has not been the same. No. Even when he was doing some interesting things with the All Blacks, it wasn't working out well. So it's like, oh yeah, he did the same juke. He's always done, except this time he didn't beat the other player because he lost a stone. So yeah, I'm not feeling too confident in my chiefs.
Hurricanes Rugby Team Analysis
00:21:01
Speaker
Yeah, I think my hurricanes will fly under the radar and we'll see.
00:21:07
Speaker
But that nine and 10 is probably underrated, but I think it's also very good. So we'll see. Yeah, Garden Bashup is going to be good.
00:21:18
Speaker
Um, he was, he was, he was definitely wildly underrated going into that last year and performed for it pretty well. And they have this tank that plays midfield for them. His name's Lamont. He's almost impossible to tackle. He's going full steam. And then they put another one on the wing, by the way, if you didn't know that Julian survey is back and playing for the hurricane. So
00:21:44
Speaker
And then Artie's going to play eight. So I like the pieces I see. It's just a matter of can it come together? If it doesn't, then yeah, they're going to get their ass kicked. But if they come together, then it's going to, you know, the tight five is going to be the thing. Like there's not a lot of superstar power outside of Colsey, although I'm going to play really well last year. But yeah, other than those two in the tight five, I'm just kind of like, I don't know where we're going to buy some pop from the, from the tight five. Cause you know, the, the.
00:22:14
Speaker
Hurricanes love to run the 1-3-3-1, so that sticks Amua and Coles on the wing. I just don't know where the big boys are going to find some pop from, but there's plenty in the back row, there's plenty in the back, so it's just going to be a matter of can the Type 5 manage?
00:22:29
Speaker
for the hurricanes. So it should be, it'll be funny either way. The trans tasman competition is going to be fun when that comes around at the end as well. So it'll be, it'll be really cool. And we'll see some crowds, which will be also a good boost. Be nice to see that momentum has built, built for this potential Australia. I've seen that. Yes. I did see that. And I'm, I'm kind of glad about it. Um,
00:22:54
Speaker
I saw one that the UAE might host and it's like, no, no, no, please tell me that was a joke. No, it wasn't. Oh God. Of course they're just going to throw money at it. So it's probably going to happen there. Good God. No, it's like, yeah, I know, but maybe it won't. Maybe they'll be smart and take it to Australia. Okay. Um, so let's go to six nations. We'll gloss over this one a little bit because it was a complete show in the end. Um,
00:23:19
Speaker
England beat, beat Italy. How much they beat them by, I don't think is really the important part. It's just how they looked in it. Mike Addison did this, did this England team quite a few favors. I will say that. And.
00:23:34
Speaker
going to your point that you said about underdog and and the favorite and you know he didn't really hold England to a higher standard by any means whatsoever certainly gave them the rub of the green quite often so I think England can probably count themselves a little lucky that this game didn't get down to squeaky bum time and they were able to pull away
00:23:54
Speaker
Yeah, because Italy are looking good and like it's not a it's it's they're a pass or two away. So and, you know, it's not it's to me, it's different because they're playing rugby. Like it's not like previous years where it was like, oh, they have some talent. Maybe a guy who can bust through the line or whatever. But there's no no structure to it. No shape, no plan of attack. You know, just kind of the French play play play, but nowhere near the talent.
00:24:20
Speaker
Now it's like to have a little bit better talent, but they're also playing together as a team really well. It's just, just missing. And, you know, these are friendly tuned sports cars. So just one, one, you know, two gear tooth missed and whole things fucked. They'll get that they'll slip. They'll, you know, they'll mesh it up soon.
00:24:41
Speaker
right. I do like what I do like what I've seen. Yeah, they have they have some big errors that they need
Italy vs England Rugby Analysis
00:24:49
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to cut out. And that's those are the ones that obviously England took advantage of the Watson intercept. Yep. But a lazy tackling on Watson's other try as well.
00:24:58
Speaker
But yeah, there was, there was a lot to like, um, yeah. I love that guy. Love that guy. He was so pumped going in for that try. I was like, yup. Let's, and I'm so glad they used it too. Like you have a belly advantage fucking use the goddamn thing. Will you? So it was, that was great for them. Um, yeah. And
00:25:19
Speaker
It's a guy we, so May's try was excellent. Let's not skip over it. It wasn't a jump in a tackle. It was a dive towards the try line. And it was a very good one at that. I thought he was out for sure. And I was like, nope, I'm going to eat my words, aren't I? Yeah, excellent. Excellent stuff from him.
00:25:41
Speaker
And there's a guy that came on and we love him. And Dan Robson looked just as good, if not better than anybody out there when he stepped on the pitch. And I know he's against a tired Italy team. It's really easy to say. Um, but he's just got that spark that you really want in a nine. So it's a tired Italy team that Ben Young's was not taking advantage of and Dan. So how about that? Um, this is true. Um, we're going to talk, talk about the, uh, the thing.
00:26:09
Speaker
Which one? The bad thing. The, the, the Willis. Oh yes. The will. Oh, I was trying to block it out of my brain. All right.
00:26:20
Speaker
I mean, and you saw the elation, especially for like, again, she was really good friends with him. And that was just such a cool moment to see the two of them on the floor together when Jack scored. And I was like, yeah, that's what's up right there. I love that. I love that. And that's one more reason why Genj is growing on me too. He's definitely grown on me over the years. And the injury, you heard it and I'm like, ooh, that's not good.
00:26:49
Speaker
So, wow, okay, let's do this. When somebody has an injury and it's because of a law that you don't like, 24 hour rule, okay? Before you start bitching about it. And tagging the kid. Like, he's miserable right now. He's not even off the fucking field. And people, fuck you Ben Ryan, by the way. People are not even off the fucking field.
00:27:16
Speaker
And he's, and people are tagging him and saying, oh, this rule, that rule. Okay. That rule comes down to better coaching. Number one. So, you know,
00:27:26
Speaker
There's a lot of things you can do that aren't that, that aren't exactly that. Then you have, this is why I say, fuck you, Ben Ryan. Then you have Ben Ryan who's coming in and say, get rid of the jackal and it'll get rid of injuries. No, it won't. Because your answer, the only way to win the ball back, if you take away the jackal is counter-rucks. Have you seen the way dudes come in to counter-rucks?
00:27:50
Speaker
You are looking at some super haphazard guys coming in there and not giving a fuck and they're going to do it more if that's the only way to get the ball back. Yeah. So if you think that's going to eliminate injuries, you're going to just going to end up with brain injuries instead of leg injuries. Right. You know, I don't get, I don't, sorry, I don't think that's the answer. But let's, let's talk about the, the physics of this because here's, because you have to have a clear out right there. So if you, if you eliminate, you know, the, if you eliminate the crocodile role,
00:28:19
Speaker
Um, I mean, limiting the Jackal is stupid. You're right. Like, so we're not even going to entertain that, but eliminating the, um, it's not a serious conversation. Um, but eliminating the crocodile role, I completely disagree with because
00:28:36
Speaker
The position that, and I'm not blaming the victim here, because it's not, I'm not saying it's Willis's fault. I'm saying he chooses to put his legs in a position where he can keep his feet and like he has a very extremely wide base. He puts his legs out really wide while he doesn't. So like almost, you know, kind of like a split for a prop anyway. That's what that would be.
00:28:57
Speaker
Um, yeah, Jack's pretty flexible. Right. So because he does that to get that stability, you know, vertically, like you can't, you know, it's, it's, and he, he has his feet really far back. He's, he's doing a good job of holding, you know, of keeping that low body position and whatnot. But the only, you know, the push him off the ball.
00:29:19
Speaker
is losing the rock, right? At that point, or losing the ball would be a penalty. He's going to win that. So you have to take him down. That's what we have to get him. Yeah, get him to deck somehow, yeah. And you're not allowed to pull him. So the only way is to roll him. So it's like the position he chooses there, how he uses his body and how he gets in there means that, okay, this is how I got to do it.
00:29:44
Speaker
But the how he has his legs is why he got hurt. Yeah, is that you know, and he just it was an accident, really, because he got caught. It wasn't it wasn't like, yeah, it's not like somebody did this with malice. And, you know, the few times I've seen this happen in this in this type of move, it's because somebody's leg got caught, which happens all the fucking time and was like every if every time somebody gets hurt,
00:30:11
Speaker
Are we going to just say these laws need to change? Right. You know, I guess what I'm saying is, you know, and I'm not saying it was an accident. It was, and you know, he's perfectly within his rights to have his legs like that. It's, it's, it's just, you know, the convergence of all these different factors is, you know, is what caused the injury.
00:30:29
Speaker
Yeah.
Rugby Safety Concerns: Crocodile Roll Technique
00:30:30
Speaker
10 different things, Paul, under one. And, and it's, but that's like, so it's something, you know, something that's 99 times out of a hundred completely safe. And I'm actually even probably way more than that. It's, you know, we've seen hundreds of crocodile rolls without major injuries. It happens once in a blue moon.
00:30:47
Speaker
It's just rugby. It sucks worse because of who it happened to because he's had to fight like tooth and nail to get back from so many injuries. And he's such a good kid. And I really, I heard him on podcasts with Haskell and the likes the other day. I think engine that being the one that interviewed him the most along with Payno, but oh man, it was,
00:31:10
Speaker
He's such a down-to-earth cool kid and he just loves the sport and he's just really painful to see him like that. So I think that was the impact, the majority of the impact really.
00:31:25
Speaker
Yeah, I think the conversation comes up and then it fades because it's not really a conversation that needs to be held stable. So just hold your tongues for 24 hours, folks. If you still have something to think about, say at least you've thought about it and can articulate instead of spouting off like a fucking idiot. So yeah, that's my bid on that.
00:31:47
Speaker
Okay, so anyway, anyone figure out how to beat Italy, which isn't hard, but there's still a lot of work from the English and they got a big match coming up the next weekend. That was coming in the weekend after.
00:32:00
Speaker
Okay, let's go up to Mody Field and oh boy. If a team can ever figure out how to play with 15 against whales, they'll beat them. Totally. And that was just a knucklehead. Knucklehead, like, because he dropped his, like, the fewer kids watching this, or coaches.
00:32:23
Speaker
Ferguson just took his eyes off of what he was hitting. Like he just looked down. He just, he, he flinched two or three steps before he hit the rock. So he wasn't looking at anything he was hitting. So he had no chance to adjust, which to me is why it's absolutely like, there's no mitigation at that point. Cause he's not even trying. He doesn't know what he's hitting. No, he didn't. He did not know what the fuck he was hitting. Um,
00:32:49
Speaker
How good. The two outside backs in this game that I really just really need to stand up and I'm probably not even gonna do everybody justice because there's a couple but the ones that have clearly put their hand up in this are on either side, Stuart Hogg and Louis Rizamit. Like wow, the two of them like just the two of them were just having fun with each other basically it felt like.
00:33:15
Speaker
It was definitely a little bit of a rivalry there, seeming worse. Anything you can do, I can do better. Yeah. Yeah, they're just tearing it up. Resam it. Fuck sake. Imagine if they had him and, well, I don't know that they would have started him, but if they could have put him and Josh Adams on the same pitch,
00:33:37
Speaker
Right. All they do is score. Yeah, pretty much. I mean, but of course I didn't Liam have a, did he have a try? Liam Williams had a score. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I was glad to see Calam Shady play a good chunk of this game too, that, that warms me heart just a little bit. And I got to say, I appreciated Darcy Graham's effort.
00:33:57
Speaker
Oh, excellent try. It was a spark plug. Yeah. There's lots of like there. Yeah. That, oh, that, that innovation from Ali price. Wow. Love it. Love it. You would not see that from Greg Lee law. I don't care who you are. That is, that was, that was brilliant. A little bit of innovation from him. Like, yeah. Nope. Love Ali price. Just continues to win me over week after week for sure. Like definitely. Yeah. I, he's,
00:34:27
Speaker
You know, he might be the outside of DuPont. Is he the best scrum half in this, in this competition so far? This competition right now. Yeah, probably. I don't have another, I don't have an answer otherwise. Ben Young's has been pretty shit. None of the well scrum halves have done anything crazy. Same with Irish. Barney's probably in that conversation as well.
00:34:50
Speaker
Yeah. I've already done very from Italy. So I agree. Yeah. It was, uh, it was a absolutely brilliant match from both squads. Really. Um, it was a chain that had a good match too. Oh, the magic Finn was back. Yeah. He looked quite good in this match. Incredibly impressive. Yeah. He's kind of good. Um, and I love the way they're using Johnny gray. Love it. Yeah. He's a, he's a, he's a workhorse. He really is. He is, you know, what do you have? He had, he had nine tackles. He didn't miss any.
00:35:20
Speaker
Damn. 36, 36 years. It was, it was pretty good. Nice for a lock. Yeah. I always loved those four passes. Use those hands. Big guy. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah. No kidding. Right. Oh man. Yeah. It was, it was really good stuff from him. Just both teams. Absolutely brilliant. Really hard. Really sad to say that somebody had to lose this fucking match really.
00:35:47
Speaker
Yeah, it is a shame for Scotland. They were looking so good. And then, yeah, the red card changed it. And that's a shame. But that's also the thing, you know, you can't just start taking it easy on a team and, you
Scotland vs Wales Recap
00:36:06
Speaker
know,
00:36:07
Speaker
Start with sloppy discipline and put yourself in that position. Because whales will take advantage, as we saw. Always. Always will. Always will. How many points? Let's see. Let me look at the timeline. Yeah, Wing Jones scores right after the. I know. How about that? And he got on Sue Hogg for scoring a man down, though. That was pretty cool. Yeah. And then, I guess, the three-semit. Oh, man. That second try from him. Great.
00:36:37
Speaker
My word, how good like just he, he, the, the confidence in a young, what? 20 year old kid, something like that. Oh my Lord. This he's going to be around for a while and it's going to be fun to watch.
00:36:50
Speaker
Yes, it is going to be absolutely fantastic to watch. You know, we're talking about bolters that potentially put in the Lions tour. He's on the list of bolters along with, um, do I invite him or about right now for sure. Um, really good stuff from him. Wow. Okay. Let's go. Let's go Sunday. Wasn't, wasn't just, just a quick question. Cause we were talking about the England XV earlier. Wasn't Louis re Sam at England eligible?
00:37:17
Speaker
He was, but he made it very clear he wanted to play for Wales. Oh, okay. All right. I wasn't sure about that. Yeah. No, you've made it quite clear. He wanted to play for Wales. Okay. Eddie will do that to you sometimes. Oh, that's true. That's true. I was just, I was thinking if you hear one horror story, you go, nevermind. I'm out. You know, I wonder if some of the England guys in the Gloucester team had something to say about it. Yeah.
00:37:44
Speaker
Now, just, just the thought. Okay. Let's go Sunday. Um, 13, 15 France over Island, little squeaky bum
France vs Ireland Match Analysis
00:37:52
Speaker
time. Um, what can't, what can't Anton DuPont do? I haven't figured that out yet. The jackal to win it. I was just like, I thought, was it you that I texted? I was like, I think it was one of the centers. No, I know. I was, I asked who it was.
00:38:14
Speaker
Cause I was like, I thought that, yeah, I was like, does that, Oh no, I thought it was a flanker, but I was like, or a replacement flanker. I was like, I was like, but no, cause I was looking at a, I thought I saw a six, but no, I saw a nine upside down. Oh wait, that's upside down. Nevermind. Oh yeah. Wow. He's just amazing. Um, you know, I will say it's, it's a shame that people are just begging on the Ireland attack and really,
00:38:44
Speaker
I'm at a loss for what's up with it, but at least they've given it some sort of turnover in some of these spots. And I know it's because of injury, but still like I can appreciate it at the very least. And you know, it gives people some opportunity that probably wouldn't get them otherwise. I thought Gibson Park played fine.
00:39:03
Speaker
Yeah, no problem with his game. I had zero issue with him. I think he had some opportunities that he chose to not be selfish on. Like he went for a scoot and then then passed it to go wide instead of taking it himself. And rightly so, because I think he probably would have got tackled and maybe jackaled. So it's like, yeah, he made the right decision.
00:39:28
Speaker
You know, I, I'd like to see him have the confidence to, to put one down in that position and just test the defense. Yep. No, I, that's a minor. That's such a minor. Yeah. Yeah. That's, that's my new, um, Ross burn or Billy burns.
00:39:50
Speaker
I'm not, I wasn't really impressed with either. Yeah. I think Ross was the slightly live livelier of the two. That's, that's the, I'm leaning in that direction. Yeah. I thought, um, burns was. Yeah. He was, he was a little bit found out this week, I think. Um, I think, I think last week was silly. I thought he kicked very well, but I think last week was still a little bit in his head though. Yeah. Which is unfortunate.
00:40:18
Speaker
Well, that's, you know, just like we were talking about earlier with, uh, umaga, there's a lot of fucking pressure there, right? He knows it's, it's his ass. So yeah. And he didn't lose in the match, but he didn't win it. So it's like that, that's what you get when you put that much pressure on it. Hey, for. Yeah. To, to, to Irish rugby fans, like he's replacing a legend too, potentially. So that's, that's tough. That's tough.
00:40:41
Speaker
There's some expectations around this, uh, a little bit, just a few. Um, let's talk a little bit about killer and Johnny on the spot and the way he scored. I mean, it wasn't, that's not the most innovative. That's not like the most brilliant way you want to score, but no, not so much happier hookers got his head on a swivel and is able to do that just the same time. So sell the move by him. Um, yeah, you got it hookers. You gotta be, um,
00:41:12
Speaker
cheeky like that to be, to be a good hooker. So yeah, that's, and, and similar same with him. He's got a little bit to live up to. Um, bestie, him and him in a herring. Yeah. Right. Um, so, but he's got a future ahead of him too. How, how old is he? He's not terribly old. I don't think I'm checking him out now.
00:41:33
Speaker
23. He's got 23. Yeah. He's got time. There's a lot of, again, since that same age range, right? Herring's on the other end of it. He's got, he's, he's 30. He should be done. So there's a little bit of pressure on Callaherd to, to be the next bestie, um, potentially. And so you got to do shit like that. That's a good, that's a good start. Yeah. And, uh, let's talk about the olive on try.
Celebrating French Rugby Style
00:42:00
Speaker
Like that is just,
00:42:04
Speaker
absolutely the Frenchiest French that we could possibly hope for and that was just awesome for you know and it's funny we don't think of him as having some wheels but he scored a couple he's gone for a couple of scoots yeah so don't sleep on Nollie Vaughn and think that he's not gonna get home if you give him the chance he's gonna
00:42:25
Speaker
So it was really, I thought that was just an awesome try from that, from the French team. And then Pinot was on the other end was equally as good. Just, yeah.
00:42:36
Speaker
they can attack, they'll get it wide. And I don't remember who I saw talking about it, but like, they want to get it wide, but they don't want to get tackled out there either. So they're looking to either pass back in or butt back in one or the other. I was like, Hey, that works for me. That's, that's how I love that. I love that type of attack. Cause yeah, you don't like,
00:42:56
Speaker
Right. It gives you options, right? You go all the way to the one side. If you're pinned in, that just makes the next round of defense that much easier. So they keep it alive. They keep the defense off balance for the next phase. You want to call it French Flair. It's just a little bit smarter rugby. And it gives them the ability, the platform to continue serious attacking rugby. So much fun.
00:43:23
Speaker
Yeah, very good. Very good stuff. The French, we hope, we hope, we hope that the COVID things that come across their camp is just the coaches. We don't want it to be anybody, but we hope it's just the coaches because you can play a match, sans coaches and prepare sans coaches being there because, you know, we have fun things like Zoom and shit like that.
00:43:44
Speaker
But yeah, we just hope it stays with stays away from the players because this team's so good. And it's so fun to watch. It's so fun to watch. This is the world rugby is and I've said it before, I'll say it again, world rugby is at its best with a good French team without a doubt. Right? Because they're just they're fun to watch when they're good.
00:44:04
Speaker
Yeah. And like I show I want to show my high school kids this, you know, because this is fun stuff. And do I want them to do it all right now? No. No, without practicing it. But I want them to see that how fun it can be because nobody wants to watch boring rugby. Eddie, it's just it's just so much better to watch. It's not fun. I don't want to hear what we win. I want to watch fun. Congratulations. Nobody wants to watch your ass deal with it. New Jersey Devils.
00:44:35
Speaker
I was waiting for you to pull that out. Don't be the devil. I was waiting for you to pull something like that out. I'm speaking from experience. I've seen it kill a fucking sport. Oh, I know. I have to. Like don't do it.
00:44:52
Speaker
Yeah, they want jobs, but man, was it fucking hideous. I think the only one, one, maybe two. Two. I don't know. It was like, it was like one or it was like two over like seven years. Maybe like, like, what's his name? Lemieux. Claude. Anyway, let's move on.
00:45:10
Speaker
that. Okay, so let's a couple games to pick over for our typical breeze over from this past weekend in the prom sale and bath sale. Wow.
00:45:24
Speaker
I bet you that Alexander's never going to not pick AJ ever again. Yeah. You cannot lose that match. You're I'm sorry. Like I'm, I'm, I'm offended that you lost that match. I mean, I think if you're a sale fan, you should absolutely be offended that you lost that match. I mean, Beth have been just awful and then you're top of the table. Um, yeah, they had a shot at like for a brief moment, they were top of the table, live table, right?
00:45:50
Speaker
But that went backwards real quick. So there you go. That's a good dog. Yeah. And two guys I want to point out, we know Zach Mercer was pretty good on the other side. DDP returned with abandon. Mercer running out of gas. Yeah, he ran out of steam, poor kid. I was like, oh, no, keep going, keep going, keep going.
00:46:16
Speaker
Well, um, but the two guys that played really well from the bat, from the back, um, outside backs of, uh, bath, uh, Muir and his first start, um, looked pretty good. And then, uh, DeGlanville looked as lively as we were hoping he was going to be. We've been waiting on this basically the whole season. Cause he looked pretty good last last season. Um, and it just hasn't quite come to fruition this season. And this is this. And then the last game even was really what we've been waiting for from Tom DeGlanville. So much, much better. Tommy, keep going.
00:46:46
Speaker
Yeah, and Tom Dunn had a nice little match. He's such a machine. When he's on his game and on his horse like that, that bath are going to do well. Yeah, that dude is a machine. He allowed it.
00:47:00
Speaker
Yeah, that's maybe more the point. That's why I'm laughing at Sal. You let them get front foot and like, you just lock down everybody. But here comes a team that's struggling at the bottom of the table and floundering and you just let them do that. Yeah, pretty crazy. Pretty crazy. And then to kind of just kind of breeze over, Exeter, London Irish.
00:47:25
Speaker
Really? The main point for me is I hope, I hope Joe Simmons is all right, poor kid. He was goofy and fell on his ass twice from what
Exeter vs London Irish Match Recap
00:47:34
Speaker
the commentator was saying. I was like, that's not a good thing. So, um, I would anticipate Joe Simmons missing this weekend. Um, if he was that kind of loopy when, when he was trying to walk off the pitch, whoopsie daisy. Um, yeah. And then what you, you done, you dumb shit. Yeah. What the hell's wrong with you? No, no.
00:47:54
Speaker
You owe all your teammates a beer for that one, dude. Absolutely. Good Lord. That was stupid. Dummies.
00:48:04
Speaker
Right. Especially, you know, any chance you had at a comeback was gone. As soon as you go to Red. As soon as that happened and then, you know, Sam did his thing and... Yeah, and I'll give Harvey Skinner a bit of credit. He didn't let the ship fall apart when Simmons had to come off. So, good on him. And then in other news, Sam Simmons is very good. So, you didn't know that before, you know it now. He's quite excellent. Yeah, no shit.
00:48:33
Speaker
Okay. Um, let's go back to Friday night. Uh, Gloucester and Bristol squeaky bum time folks. Wait, wasn't there bum in this match? There was some bum. I don't remember. I don't remember which. I think it was, I think it was Jake Keenan. Oh, that makes sense.
00:48:49
Speaker
And then there was Dan Thomas. That was definitely Dan Thomas. That's who it was. It was definitely his ass. I was like, oh, that's a lot of Dan Thomas bum. Because then there was also, was it Chaparro who almost had bum, but he had, he was smart enough. He, you know, cause you're a prop, you know. Yeah. His underpants on. Yeah. He had his skivvies on.
00:49:07
Speaker
I, you know, it was his first start and I'm sad he had to come off so early. He looked really good. I really liked the way he looked. He fits this team very well. He does. And it's unfortunate. So he's leaving at the end of the season now. Oh, bollocks. Right. But they did say he's going to be available towards the end of the season. So he'll be back. It was like, I didn't catch what kind of injury it was. It wasn't terribly serious, except it was going to be a little bit of a
00:49:35
Speaker
recuperation period. Sometimes that's, that's the worst surgery. I think it's just, yeah. Yeah. Wait for it to heal. That's the worst sometimes.
00:49:43
Speaker
man. And you said burn coming off like, yeah, Brian burn. Yeah. I'm out. It's like, wow. Your work's done. I guess. Thanks for the try at least. Yeah. Oh man. But yeah. And yeah, hopefully he's all right. But, uh, and then Hughes had to come off. That was also a big, uh, oh, moment for them. Party came off like this. This was a game of attrition for Bristol and they still prevailed.
00:50:08
Speaker
Right. That's like, but this is, you know, you got to be able to do that. What happens if this happens in the championship match? They can at least dig down and be like, look, we've been here before, you know, we can do it. This is a championship effort right there on behalf of Bristol, which says a lot about Gloucester also.
00:50:28
Speaker
Yeah, gloss referred it up for this one. And I know they were kind of gifted two tries, but really, they held their own. Well, the the tholdy try was quite good as well. So, you know, they didn't to say that they didn't deserve to be here to be this close at the end is wrong, in my opinion. So, yes, they were kind of handed to. But really, they did a lot of the work to get to, you know, probably get a try even without the intercept. So right. Carreras. Quick.
00:50:57
Speaker
Good read, good read, good gamble and speed to burn. And even Woodward, like that's good to see. I'm glad to see a guy like Woodward coming good. And I think it helps to have Thorley and Carreras there. You have two guys you got to suddenly worry about. That'll open up space for your 15. So he hasn't been getting that. So I think that's been a big problem for him. Yeah, absolutely. His ability to control.
00:51:25
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely. And then, um, you know, he's not my favorite scrum half the place for Bristol, but the urine's done quite good since Harry Randall got the phone call.
00:51:35
Speaker
He's been fronting up. He's been definitely putting his hand up as I can, he's a starter at this point. I take him over Young's right now. Oh God, I know. But of course that's not saying much because I don't think Young should be on the team. And I'm talking about Lester right now. So, yeah, I just, you're in his,
00:52:00
Speaker
showing what he's capable, you know, they're the flashes that we've seen. Same with Randall. It's like, they're, they're coming good. They're, they're, they're in their own now. Right. So good for Bristol for having two scrum halves that can fucking go. I know. Yep. Definitely for sure. Um, let's go to, uh,
Quinns vs Leicester Match Insights
00:52:17
Speaker
Oh yeah. Let's go to Quinn's luster. The match we were watching while we drafted this past weekend. Uh, if you didn't listen, we had, we had ourselves a good, good laugh here and there, um, at many people's expense.
00:52:28
Speaker
Um, yeah, headgear, but no problem for Marcus Smith. Not even a little bit. Um, those hands on that. Okay. It was the Brownie try. The Brown try. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Like, yeah. And I've, I've, I've been, you know, the mush on Brown a little bit. So I, I could guess I'm the one who, you know, he must've heard me because whenever I talk shit about a player, they start
00:52:48
Speaker
It seems to, it seems to wake them up. But yeah, I mean, Smith's gonna put him through. That was all, that was all smart to Smith. Those silky hands. Leaving it right for Brownie to almost walk in. So yeah, good.
00:53:07
Speaker
good work by, you know, the midfield. That's why Marcus Smith would be going 10. Yeah, he's quite good. Um, and Louis Lina. Lina. Yeah. I was going to say, we talked about him this past weekend. Lina like seems to just be putting his hand up weekend and we got at this point, you know, he's gotten the game time under his belt and he's just getting more and more comfortable.
00:53:26
Speaker
And yeah, like he's, he's making, he's not outstanding except for every so often he'll, he'll make a splash play, which isn't, you know, it's to be expected of somebody with his speed. Um, but he's really coming up solid. Like he's, he's, his defense is looking good. Um, and he's putting himself in position to score tries. So what else do you want? Right? Yeah. And oftentimes with a, with a young, uh, outside back, uh, you know, outside center, um,
00:53:54
Speaker
You can, that can be your, your, your bugaboo is, is the defense. And if he's, if he's solidifying that, that's, that's only his benefit for sure. And to Quinn's, I'm not seeing, I mean, I'm not seeing anything to dislike about his defense, but I'm a prop. What do I know? Right. Um, on other side, um, is there a reason to unseat Julia Montoya from that hooker shirt right now?
00:54:19
Speaker
uh for who exactly yeah um tom young's no you're this is this is the the yes this is what they need now you have you have montoya there he's your hooker yeah he's he's rather good luster checked yeah um and speaking of the guys that probably shouldn't have their shirt given up
00:54:40
Speaker
Van Portly, young kid, full of bags of energy. It's clear that he's got that. He went for a couple of scampers, got himself over the line. This is what you want. That's what you want with that. Did I miss something? That's pretty much what you want out of your nine. I know he's young, so he's going to obviously have some knuckle-headed errors that comes with youth. But just the liveliness, the quickness that he wants to do. He wants to go. He wants to attack. And I love that in a nine. I absolutely love that in a nine.
00:55:10
Speaker
So yeah, I, I, I don't see a reason to unseat him from, from that. And I think that, I think in, you know, we know the reality is unfortunately that Ben Youngs will take that shirt when he comes back. Um, but I think while Youngs is away, there's no reason to take that shirt away from him. No. And I'm not saying that for the signed up either.
00:55:31
Speaker
Because Ben White, again, known quantity, he's not a, he's not a prems starter. He's a prems backup. So if you know you have a prems backup, why would you start him instead of, you know, get your, your young nine a ton of experience that you're right. He's, he's probably not going to get when, um, when Ben Young's is back, except when Ben Young's needs to rest after a bit and he needs to be ready. So it's like,
00:55:56
Speaker
Yeah, no, start the kid and he's showing good. So, um, speaking of which Zach Henry's showing pretty decent, not, not, you know, he's, he's still having his moments. Um, and I didn't expect a great match out of him today cause Quinn's are good against the 10, but still, um, not bad, not bad. So I'm like, he's getting there. He's getting there. So good, good for him. Yeah. And Windsor couldn't seem to have kind of ride their ship a little bit.
00:56:24
Speaker
on them. Um, and then let's just flash over to Sunday. It wasn't anything other worldly other than a man named Tom Willis.
00:56:35
Speaker
Woo! He felt his brother in his soul for sure. A little bit of determination there. I think that's a decent word to describe it. Yeah, he will determine to reach the try line there. Extremely. Yeah, fuck. That was an impressive as hell run.
00:56:59
Speaker
Didn't I text you game after that or something? Yeah, it felt like that. After they scored. Because once they don't score too many tries. It was the first try. Oh no, it was the Gaskell try. It was 20 minutes later when Willis went for his John. We knew that was it. For sure. For sure, for sure. I do hope that everybody out there started Nick David if they had him.
00:57:21
Speaker
It turned out okay. Right. You did all right. You did. You had 28 from TRM. I think you had about 15 or 20 from FRD. So, yep, you're welcome. Not too shabby at all. Yeah, it's back to winning ways for the likes of Lee Blackett and co. Well, you know, Wooster's what we'd call a practice girl.
00:57:48
Speaker
it can be. Yeah. It wasn't, it's just, it's blisters and Worcester are probably thinking their praises that there's no relegation this season because they look really disjointed. They don't have Searle. They won't have weir for the rest of the year. Um, they don't have who guard right now. It's, it's really tough sledding for them. Yeah. And they're not missing much. They're missing Ollie Lawrence. That's it. So, and I love Ollie Lawrence to pieces, but
00:58:13
Speaker
He's not going to make that much of a difference when he comes back from this team. He will make a difference, but he's not going to make that much of a difference. He's not the difference between a win and a loss there. No, probably not. Especially not with the guys that wasps would have back also. Considering, yes. So, yeah. See that matchup and Worcester get him and wasps get... Robson. Oh, even Robson. Fuck. I was thinking just...
00:58:42
Speaker
Fuck. Yeah, we'll go Robson. We'll go with that guy. I'm thinking Odogwu. Fuck, even Odogwu. Yeah, Odogwu would be helpful too, I think. Centers. If I'm talking centers, if I can, if you can have Feccatella and Odogwu, 12 and 13, and then Bassett and Kiberigi. Yes. Yeah, it's a lot of pace right there. Check, please. It's a lot of pace right there. I'm looking forward to them getting their, their guys back.
00:59:06
Speaker
Yeah, for sure. I'm surely black. It is too. Because they've had Bassett and did well, what, last week and in this past week it was Kiberige. Oh no, the Bassett did play. They did have both of them. They had both of them this week. Anyway, I just saw a couple of impressive things from Kiberige, so I'm glad he's back. Yeah, after that nasty concussion. That was really scary. Okay, let's go through some start sets.
00:59:37
Speaker
Roger. Yeah. Um, wait a minute. It doesn't matter. I guess. Oh, you're starting. Cause I was like, wait a minute. I know the answer to this. You start. Let's do, um, let's do super Ruby first. Okay. So reds versus Waratas. Um,
00:59:51
Speaker
As I said earlier, so did I say super rugby? Yes, I said super rugby. Yes, yes, yes. So reds versus ties. Yeah, again, we're kind of flying blind here, not not able to see anything. And again, news is is is what it is. But we know the lineup. We know the lineup already. So that's that's important. And just looking up and down this reds lineup.
01:00:15
Speaker
Uh, I want all of them, you know, they have the tie out on the wing. Um, so Stewart, Stewart, Pazami, Petaya, uh, and Doug Unu and camp. Yes. All of those, um, McDermott and Wilson and the great Scott young. Yes. Just, just keep going down the list. Um, I want all of them. So yeah, I don't hesitate if you got one of their players, especially this week, um, you're looking at points.
01:00:39
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, what do you do not play some of it starting right? Um, same, same thing for the toss. Uh, I had fucking, you know, love Dempsey, um, Gordon Harrison and, uh, was it, uh, Parisi new semantics.
01:00:57
Speaker
I would be very careful about James Ram this weekend. Now, I mean, play him because if you got him, play him. You're not going to get points at that position otherwise, but he's been nursing a groin injury and if you've ever had to deal with one, they don't go away easily. They flare up and he's been dealing with flare ups. So don't expect, you know, he could play 80, he could, you know, but he could also, you know, tweak it or do something where he has to come off early.
01:01:24
Speaker
And I'll hopefully test it in the warmups and training going up to it. And it'll tell you whether or not he's good. Right. So that's my one word of caution on that team is James Ram.
01:01:34
Speaker
Yeah, keep my fingers crossed that you can play 70-ish or so, then get rested. Ah, on the other side, Fours and Rumbies. Fours actually get a home-home game, believe it or not. I believe they're playing in Perth. That'll be great. I'm sure that Perth Faithful will be very, very happy. I don't think the results are going to be that good, but that's okay.
01:01:54
Speaker
Uh, for the force, um, Rob Carney is absolutely worth it. And I think he's going to thrive in under these law variations. So definitely play them. Most of these people at this point, you're probably playing this weekend, but I'm just going to tell you the ones that you should expect something good to be the current Johnny new kit. Same player. Don't, don't sleep on them. You should be just fine. Um, the one there's a couple of parts that I am worried about for the force, the front row, rumby's front row ain't no joke.
01:02:22
Speaker
So I think it's bad enough that I think they're going to get my points. So you might want to just keep them not on your team. On the other side and then Ian prior.
01:02:35
Speaker
Uh, I don't know how long leash is going to be with Cabeli on the bench. Um, so we'll see. Uh, again, it's probably worth throwing them in there. I don't think he's going to get negative points, but I would just temper those expectations just a tiny bit. Um, on the other side, um, for the Brumbes, um, Simone is, he came very much out of a shell last year. Um, so, and he should just pick it right back up. So I would expect some good things out of him. Um, Jerome Brown, who's going to play seven for them this weekend.
01:03:04
Speaker
sevens performed well for the Brumbies last year. So grab him. If you have the room, go ahead and throw him in your lineup. Um, Nick white should be fine this week, but keep an eye out to have a plan B the rest of the season. Cause I don't know what he's got to bring. He's getting older. Yeah. Just saying, okay. So just keep that this weekend should be okay. I own him at least one of our leagues. So I'll jot that down for later.
01:03:25
Speaker
Yeah, keep that in mind. And Lonergan's not a bad backup. So should he kind of fall to pieces, he's got a talented backup to replace him. So just keep that in mind. Andy Muirhead is usually an odd man out in the back line for FRD. I think he might be it. Yeah, that's the thing. He can disappear. I hope I'm wrong.
01:03:50
Speaker
But there's games where he'll score a try, but he doesn't do much else. So it's like five fantasy points. But or like doesn't do enough else that scores your points. Correct. He's a hell of a player. I'm watching him go. Yeah, he's good. Yeah, just fantasy wise. He might be the odd man out this weekend, but who knows? There might be enough points to go around. We'll find out.
01:04:09
Speaker
Well, you're playing it if you haven't because you probably, yeah, again, you're playing them just kind of at this point, we're tempering, tempering expectations until we get more team involved. If somehow you have a choice, if somehow you have four outside backs available. Right. Um, you went, you went super Ozzy heavy in your outside backs, basically is what it comes down to.
01:04:27
Speaker
Uh, let's do start census of the week for super rugby. Our first ones, um, sorry, this guy was on fire. Um, uh, last season and rose from the ashes that he once looked behind in Australia. Uh, he's a feel good story. He's damn well worth it. I think he gets off to a flyer this week in Brisbane. My start of the week for week one of super rugby is red. And while the bees fly half James O'Connor.
01:04:54
Speaker
That's yeah, that should be, you should have himself a day. He certainly found himself last year. So yeah, I was really happy about that. Yeah. Um, and on my end, just looking up to the lineups, um, I, you know, I mentioned him as, as playing a little bit out of position, but I think that means he's going to get a little bit more opportunities. Um, Jordan Pitaya, you know, Stuart and Paisani will, will do well, but if he's there running on their outside, fuck.
01:05:23
Speaker
Like, you know, he might not get the line breaks, but he's going to finish. Yes, he will. So he should get some meters and as a midfielder too at that.
Player Performance Reviews
01:05:32
Speaker
Yeah. Right. Well, he's he's at 14.
01:05:34
Speaker
Yeah, right. But I'm just saying he's his midfielder now. Exactly. So yeah, he's, so he's right. Excellent points from your midfield position. Yeah. He'll, he'll love that. My set. Um, it's really hard to have a set this week. So, um, start them, but don't expect him to save your, your week. Wait any means whatsoever. Um, I like this guy going back to his days for plant and playing for comic, um, a couple of seasons ago or last season, even, uh, but he's playing in the wrong position against the wrong club. Um, this team's improved.
01:06:04
Speaker
I don't envision a fun day for him though. Last year of the week for round one in super rugby is forces midfielder Kyle Godwin.
01:06:11
Speaker
And my set of the week is fairly easy because you mentioned them and it makes complete sense. I think they probably will. Like looking at the two front rows. Yeah, I don't, I don't really like their chances there. So my, I'm definitely gonna have a set of the week of the force front row. Force front row. Yeah, no joke. No joke. Oh, sad. All right. Let's go to Prim. Let us go to Prim. Am I leading in that or are you? I believe you are. Cause you got the Friday night game.
01:06:41
Speaker
OK, I do. Bath versus Gloucester. Both these teams are pretty leaky. Bath are the worst fantasy defense in almost most major categories. Yeah, Gloucester right there, too. Gloucester aren't that far away. So Bath, your front row. Yes, please. They're big scorers. I think they should score it again here. Tom Doon. Zach Mercer. Yup.
01:07:09
Speaker
At least priestland could be an option here. Um, as you know, scoring McConaughey, uh, if he's playing would get opportunities. I'm not sure what, what is healthy. Yeah. I'm not sure what his health situation is on the other side. Um, Gloucester front row are very much ago. Um, I didn't write him down, but now I just realized Ed Slater's back from his band this week.
01:07:28
Speaker
Oh yeah, that's right. Sign me up. That is a tasty, tasty treat right there. Um, and then Morgan is back also saw that, uh, that, that's also a tasty option. Still looks silly without the beard. He does, but we'll work on that. Um, uh, Hein Simpson, uh, whoever starting at, at, at nine, nine could be a go, uh, 12 trees in FRD only.
01:07:55
Speaker
And Thorlo out there on the wing, I'm guessing Carreras is not yet ready. Yeah, took a pretty good one. All right, Quins and Sail. Sail are still that goddamn black hole that nobody wants to play against, despite what happened last week at the AJ Bell. Still pretty tough defense to go against, and they're going to be poosed. Let's see what the Red Hot Quins can do, just the same.
01:08:20
Speaker
It is where fancy points go to die sometimes though. Marcus Smith should be fine. Sale aren't as tough against 10s as other positions. So give him the thumbs up and go right ahead. And he's matchup proof. Yeah, he's near matchup proof. Sale will pull him down to like a 28 point game instead of a 50 point game. Boo hoo. Yeah. Oh no.
01:08:43
Speaker
Yeah, several of these three of the last four weeks sale have surrendered a serviceable amount points to second rows and I know a lot of people have Stefan so Usually one player gets the bulk of it too, and I think he's he's the guy
01:08:56
Speaker
On the other side of the coin, there's two guys that I really love, but also don't see anything good happening this week to them. The Dominator, Taylor tough against eight. And if you can help to sit them, TRM, try and get away from them. FRD, you're probably stuck with them. So just ride it. And you know, the guy, the next number up, Danny Care.
01:09:15
Speaker
Absolutely love them. But this is just a really tough defense to play nine against. So we saw it was Ben Spencer last week. He got like three and zero like yuck. And I think I don't think cares numbers will be quite that bad, but they'll be bad. So that'd be Sony. I would avoid Queens on the other side. Siffered up a little bit phrasing since the day I was departure just outside the top four and TRM and middling an FRD.
01:09:42
Speaker
Um, certainly better than the bottom dollars that used to be.
Sale Sharks Inconsistent Performance
01:09:45
Speaker
And self seem to find guys, uh, with, with points out of nowhere, but it's not consistent in any way, shape or form. So it's really hard to predict. Uh, so for the sharks, uh, Langdon less than still last week, but Quinn's are terrible against hookers. So if you, if you, if you signed them up, go ahead, roll them out there one more time. Uh, assuming Ocker's not back. JP Dupree is still way too low. He scores 25 on average, give or take fields lineups for fun.
01:10:11
Speaker
Yeah, I picked him up one for one week and he kind of shit the bed on me. So I got, that was the one week he shit the bed. I wish people, so don't do anything. Ben's doing just take a flyer on someone. Don't, don't follow me. Wait to figure it out. Right.
01:10:28
Speaker
A couple guys that are fairly highly owned that I'm just like scratching my head about. Luke James has 20 plus and 10 plus in FRD, one out of five matches that he's played the full 80. And that was the 80 meter intercept match that he had against Bristol. Right. So no, like a whole lot of no, especially that fucking hairdo.
01:10:49
Speaker
Rob Dapria, Queens are tough against 10s and he's not match or proof by any way, shape, or form. Sit him if he's in, no matter what the position. AJ should be fine, but not Rob
Lester vs Wasps Match Preview
01:10:59
Speaker
Dapria. No, no, no, no. We talked about, notice the difference between the two, the way the two play. Like AJ was better in like 10 minutes when Dapria was just like, I don't know. So yeah, that translates to TRM sometimes. So definitely play AJ, but not Rob.
01:11:17
Speaker
All right, on to, oh, Lester wasps, which, again, kind of similar defenses these more in the middle of mid range so in this case you kind of expect your normal scores from some of these guys. Nothing, nothing outstanding nothing.
01:11:35
Speaker
Really shut down. So everyone should be an option if they're, they're generally good. Um, we'll, we'll talk about, you know, where strengths and weaknesses are. Um, Montoya, we mentioned him earlier. He's been a beast. He'll carry the front row. So if you have him in, in TRM, you're probably doing all right. If you have the Lester front row.
01:11:53
Speaker
in FRD, you're probably doing just fine also. Jasper Vis, I hope he's playing. I want to pick him up, please. I'm pretty pleased to add him and receive points. So I'm waiting for that to be able to happen. But yeah, so if you gotta imply him, if he's playing, hopefully he's playing.
01:12:10
Speaker
at least along with at least one of the flankers, maybe both. I'm not sure who's playing, but they've had at least one flanker score well, so I'm guessing whoever's at seven probably give them a start and then depends on six. We'll post that on our Friday.
01:12:27
Speaker
in Zach Henry and FRD, yup. And then the wings to be determined based on who they play. But keep an eye open on who's at wing. On the Wasp's end, Tom Willis, yes. I'm guessing Agree might be an option here. Agree's suspended. Oh, then no, he's not. COVID violations. Oh, fuck. All right. Dummy. Atkinson is scoring decently. Keep him in mind in TRM at this point, because if
01:12:57
Speaker
Cheap life, not bad. And, and, you know, ride him while he's hot. He'll, he'll get you, you know, he'll earn you, you know, be a little bit of investment. He'll grow. Um, again, Bassett and Kimberly together. Yes, please. Um, got birth has been tailing off in both formats because he's been splitting, kicking duties with both Charlie and umaga. So annoying to, to kind of be start being iffy on. Yeah, absolutely. I agree.
01:13:26
Speaker
Alright, Exeter, Northampton. Northampton is still one of the more generous teams out there, especially in FRD. Dead last. Despite all the players away, Exeter should still have plenty of good scores. Facundo, Facundo Cordero. If you haven't got him, go get him. Especially for the long-term in TRM. And he should not be a free agent in FRD if he just pick him up. Not at this point, no. I would hope not.
01:13:51
Speaker
This is probably a week to play the XR fly half, whether it's Simmons or Skinner. They're awful against them. So as much as Ben's been wishing on Joe Simmons, this is the week to play him. So go ahead. Yeah, I know. And Harvey Skinner's not a bad option either. I actually had him by accident. I had him last week because
01:14:12
Speaker
I needed to fly after that was going to play. And the only one that was left was somebody that was on the bench and it was him. I was like, Oh, well, lucky me. Um, on the other side centers, not named Slater Devoto at this point, cause Hendrickson shit the bed and sort of, and Ian Whitten as well. Um, and over Fox, don't get me wrong. Yeah. Uh, and center.
01:14:38
Speaker
Day viewers got fortunate last week, not likely happening again, so go ahead and sit his ass.
01:14:44
Speaker
Exeter on the other end, they're back to being a tougher outfit. Top four in both formats. Finding form again. Yikes.
Exeter vs Northampton Preview
01:14:51
Speaker
Shane, Saints should still have something to bring. Dave ribbons scored really well. Shouldn't be stopped this week by any means whatsoever. Sam out of AC should be fine. If you went ahead and picked him up last week, anticipation of his, his good playing that he's been doing, keep him. He'll, he'll be just fine. Saints front row actually should be okay too. Exeter front row is not that tough against oppositions, front rows and FRD. So give it the thumbs up.
01:15:14
Speaker
On the other side, Grayson or Biggs, this could be a tough day for them. Play them an FRD, but man, get the hell away from an TRM. Exeter pretty good against 10. So that's a hole that people go to die in. Not literally, but you know. And again, everyone's new favorite, Addendorf. Exeter do well against back rows. So I'm going to go ahead and say that that's a bad idea this week. But he's been doing not stupid things.
01:15:40
Speaker
I know that, but like, this is just the week that you don't want it. Like, like Marster, when, when they wished them, when they squished him, like almost nothing over tries this week. So no, so sorry. Not this week. And then unfortunately we don't have the, uh, other match that Ben would have done. So I'm going to pick it up and keep rolling. Uh, Irish and Bristol, uh, Bristol are another not fun matchup for London. Irish is two in a row for them. Yuck. Uh, top two formats. Um,
01:16:09
Speaker
could still find a few worthy players for the exiles. Steve mafia's performed pretty well. He's not super expensive. Not yet. And this is not a particularly tough position against the bear. So second row could be the place to find salvage for the exiles. Gus creepy, I believe was going to be okay. And he's probably gonna play a lot this week because my two is not gonna play this weekend. So
01:16:33
Speaker
He'll be on the pine for sure. And I don't know who their, their backup backup is. So Godspeed. I think he, I think that's creepy plays a shit ton this weekend. So that's good enough for me. Give him a thumbs up on the other side of it. Um, why does Tom Homer have like such a high ish percentage? Like 5% doesn't sound like a lot, but that's a lot. That's a lot of people that produce anything. Yeah. And doesn't play anymore. I mean, God, they gave part in arrest and they put Stokes back there this past weekend. True. No.
01:17:01
Speaker
Yeah, no, not noticeable that I teach him notice he wasn't there. It's Jim, please. Ben, Ben, me and the nine shirt isn't is just a biz for the London Irish. Don't play either him or or Phipps, please. They get negatives more often than not. It's not good.
01:17:19
Speaker
Uh, on the other side, um, exiles are starting to become a little more fancy, generous as they used to be last season. Uh-oh. Um, bottom four in both formats on average. Yikes. Um, they've, they've slept just a bit. Uh, Bristol are obviously all right if you haven't heard as well. So, um, we thought we talked about bubbles getting here last weekend. Cape one's fine too. Go ahead.
01:17:39
Speaker
Yeah. Just, you know, just one for the other. It's all good. Um, Jake Keenan, um, he's probably going to play eight for, uh, while without using Earl. And he did pretty well last week. Just, just to have him find Dave, Dave Atwood and run off him.
01:17:58
Speaker
CIP, a talent on the other side. Love him, just not a fantasy option. No, not really. He's a distributor. Do love him, but no. And then this is another guy that's starting to approach the need to see a territory. And I really like him. Luke Morehan hasn't quite produced. I think he's still trying to shake off an injury. I thought he was trying to shake off a piano. Yeah, he's looking pretty rough. So I need to see it from him. Start him if you have to in FRD, but other than that, move on.
01:18:25
Speaker
I'll let you do your first start of the week. All right. My first start of the week. Um, it's, it's a struggle because I, you know, um,
01:18:33
Speaker
There's a guy who I really like who we, I don't think you mentioned did list, not, not in depth, but Piers O'Connor has been just, Oh, he's been tearing it up. Money. Um, but this is also not a great week for him. It's not a good matchup. So yeah, like that Li are actually pretty good against centers. Um, so I'm not going to make him at my start of the week. Mine is going to be the caged beast, uh, unleashed.
01:18:57
Speaker
on bath and it's going to be Ed Slater. It's going to be funny because you had him on the other end of it for the first week. I did. We've come full circle. Yeah, we have. I'm looking forward to seeing him. That'll be great. I think we'll be happy to have him back as well.
01:19:16
Speaker
running clean for me once again this week. Start of the week. Despite his club not getting the results on the board that they want, he has played pretty well, especially concerning the parties that have been shuffled around at King's home in the back line. And it's just constant truffle. He's been a Baba, but not yet. But but not yet been the start of the week. Hmm. I think we need to fix that this week. My start of the week for around 10 of the prep is Gloucester's midfielder Mark Atkinson.
01:19:46
Speaker
Okay. He could certainly have a go. I like him. He's good for a try assist mostly, but I still like him just the same, especially really neither. If they keep opening up the outside backs, that's going to open up space for the centers too. It works both ways. Correct. Yeah, definitely not someone to sleep on, certainly. Atkins in there.
01:20:11
Speaker
for my sit of the week sits the week for me. I tend to try to follow say sale just a Bristol or what have you. I'm going to follow sale again this week. So, and go with a flanker who has been scoring extremely well in ways that I don't think will, will happen this week and will Evans. I would not,
01:20:42
Speaker
I would not have him on my team this week in either format. That's not a good risk. So he's my set of the week. I have him in one of my FRD teams, but I also have like three or four back rows. So I at least have options there.
01:20:55
Speaker
Um, most of the week, like I said, it's a theme. So let's figure out if you can see what it is. Um, I do like this guy, so I'm not naming him just a shit on him and nothing. And that's not the case ever. Um, it's a tough opposition though. He's out of form a little too highly owned, uh, a little, a little highly priced. Um, no batches, no matches above 20 in TRM and only one.
01:21:17
Speaker
above 10 in FRD this season so far. It's a little rough and I really like the guys. So I hope he comes good. Just don't think it's going to be this match. My say of the week for round 10 of the prem is Quinn's and England center, Joe Martian.
01:21:30
Speaker
Yeah, he's been, he's been riding the struggle bus big time inexplicably. Um, yeah, I think that's it. That's a good call. Uh, Quinn's are just struggling in the, in, in the centers center. That's right. Hasn't kind of came good this week, but it hasn't been, um, he's also been suspended and whatnot. So that whole thing, that whole thing, you know, that, that, that part is kind of, you know, there's the part where he wasn't on the play for a few weeks, uh, that, that, you know,
01:21:59
Speaker
Most important ability is availability. Absolutely.
Champion's League and Super Rugby Updates
01:22:03
Speaker
Let's have a look at some of the action in the Champion's League. Let's go to Six Nations. I kind of dug myself out of the hole I was in, jumped the spot.
01:22:15
Speaker
I am threatening to climb out of the basement. Yeah. I'm shaking my fist at Carrick. I'll get you. He's like five points away or something. I'm almost there. Yeah. Um, George came crashing back to earth as well. Justin jumped, George, George dropped three spots. That's a, that's a rough drop, man. I will say that as a rough drop. He still beat me into F R D though.
01:22:40
Speaker
Yeah, I was gonna say, we'll get to that in a second. Yeah, score to FRD. Couple tight ones. Duncan finally knocked off the dragon that was Anton. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. We all appreciate that. I owe you a beer.
01:22:56
Speaker
Yeah, by like less than two points or about two points. Geez, that was tight. Fucking Carrick rolled me. That was tight. There was so much, there was so much bad parts. And then Justin by the skin of his teeth, just help Mark. Point four. Yuck. Yuck. And then it looks like George to carry you pretty well there as well. George is trying to find form. Look out.
01:23:21
Speaker
And then in TRM premiership, Anton's still flying high. I've stabilized at least. I didn't drop anymore. I was definitely like a sinking ship. I was going bad. Yeah, I was the idiot that didn't captain Sam Simmons this week. What else do you want to do? And not only that, but you captain Bubbles. I know. I mean, he started well. He did. It was going the right direction, but he got hurt. That was the problem. I think he led the week in points per minute.
01:23:51
Speaker
That sounds probably about right. Yeah. And then when Sam Simmons frigging picks up a ball from his own inside his own 22 and almost brings it home. Like, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're going to go. Well, wasn't there. We're going to go. Well, um, this week, bring it.
01:24:10
Speaker
Bring it, sir. You bring it and you bring it hard. I'm freezing. Boom. Oh, yeah. I think you're going to kick my ass this week. I've got, I've got a lot of problems. I haven't looked in my team yet. Yeah. Well, we have to, we have the two match ups that are, that you and I go against each other this week. So we'll do the same. We did the aggregate between the two.
01:24:30
Speaker
okay so it's the total scored between the two and see if i can finally claim another dollar or if i have to ship this one back to you it's me it's round this dollar it's quite a hell that's around yeah you and me back and forth
01:24:48
Speaker
I think we have a total of like $5 at one point and that's about it. That's like the widest it's ever been. Yeah, it's never been. It's never been a big gap. Phrasing boom. Um, and this week we obviously kick off super rugby. Um, it's, it's me against Justin. Yikes. Um, that'll be interesting. Although I have, I have one, two, I have like four or five guys that are starting this week. So I feel good about it, including my front row. Um, we have Mark and Carrick.
01:25:14
Speaker
You're going against George. I can't get away from him. Yeah, maybe you can do that. And then, and then Duncan and Antonin are doing battle here as well. So that'll be very interesting. It's going to be so much fun, but let's do pick them and we can get the folk out of here. Uh, bath bluster on, uh,
01:25:32
Speaker
You know what? Let's start with the super. I mean, let's do that. Cause you know, that's happening. Yeah. This is going to start the weekend. Anyway, let's do that first. So early Friday morning for us and late Friday night, some brothers and middle of the day for somebody. Um, anyway, don't get it.
01:25:48
Speaker
Yeah, I'm so lost. Reds and Wartos. Uh, Wart, uh, Reds. Excuse me. I know Wart. I know Wart. Yeah. Reds are at home. Let's, let's do that. Um, I didn't mention it earlier. No, Hooper, um, be fucking ridiculous. Yeah. For the Wartos. It's going to be weird. Reds. Yeah. It's going to be really weird about him. Awkward. Yeah. Awkward. Yeah. I think Jake Gordon's our captain this year. Wow.
01:26:16
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It's just gonna be weird without him. Anywho, for some Brumbies, that's an easy one. Sorry, of course. I like you guys and all, but no. Yeah. Um, Beth and Gloucester going over the prem. This'll be interesting. I think it's Gloucester. And Beth, I'm not ready to trust them just yet. And Slater's coming back.
01:26:40
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Okay. You, you convinced me with that one. That did it. That did it. Uh, Quinton sail stuff. Quince. Yeah. I'm going to pick ones. They'll come back or sell bounce back, but Quince are playing really well. Yeah. I'm liking what the, what's going on with the, the quads there. And Sanderson still trying to sort out his team. Absolutely. He totally is. Lester and wasp. Lester.
01:27:07
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Yeah. That, that really feels weird coming out of my mouth. Yeah. I'm I had to say it quickly just to get it out. So it has to be done with it. Rip that fucking bandaid. Yeah. Bandaid. Right. Uh, uh, Exeter, Northampton chiefs exit, uh, um, and exiles and Bristol, Bristol, Bristol.
01:27:29
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So you're going to keep your, it looks like you'll keep your, your one, one win lead over me, but that's all right. There's, there's plenty to go. This is the time when it usually swings. This and champions copper usually when things swing between us. Right. Um, cause there's so much rush and there's chances to take more than, you know, like are either of us really going to take Northampton seriously in this? No. So like, but there's chances in champions copy can take where you're like, yeah,
01:27:58
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This is an away team that can bite it up. I'm going to take them. I hope. Thank you very much for listening. We will be back next week as usual. Don't forget to donate.
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01:29:12
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01:29:37
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