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Season 6- Episode 24- Protection Provided by Will Skelton (Champions Cup Rd of 16 & Super Rugby Round 7)
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We are back, after skipping a week and having some technical issues (let's be real it was human error) we are back to bring you some laughs. On this episode, we are looking back at the Round of 16 in Champions Cup, from Glasgow's near comeback at the Stoop, the last second miss in Cape Town (and Will Skelton's heroics), to an under the weather Munster team putting in a shift at the Garden's and so much more. Plus, a quick skip around Super Rugby and all the lopsidedness there. A stop in Quincy to look back at all the kicking Miami did and what good it did them against the Free Jacks.
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Transcript
Introductions and Parenting Humor
00:00:03
Speaker
It is. The fantasy Europeans. My name is Jared Dyke. I wanted to say it's stupid and let's move on, but then you kept going. I'm Ben Glauser. I don't like any way anybody handled that. A collusion.
00:00:28
Speaker
Hey, everyone. Welcome back. It is the fancy European podcast. My name is Jared Dyke. I'm Ben Glauser. Let's go. Not as many to just talk about, but so many matches to talk about. Let's start with let's start with business first here. Business in the front party in the back or just party all over the place. I didn't get that matter. But, you know, beers, drinks. Life is a party when you have an eight week old. Yeah.
00:00:55
Speaker
Near eight week old. Yeah. Who I finally held. You did. And she proceeded to fart in my hand. She farted, yep. She gave you her traditional greeting. How you doing, everyone?
00:01:10
Speaker
Look, I didn't train her to do that. It comes
Issues in Rugby: Discrimination and Equipment Debate
00:01:13
Speaker
naturally. She's obviously yours. I think I told you the other day, he lucky farted and just I was like, Oh crap, you are mine. He's proceeded to do it more now too. So it's like, Oh,
00:01:30
Speaker
All right. No denying this one's wine. Oh, well. Rose screams the second she gets hungry. It's not like there's no... Oh, wow. It's like zero to 60. So she gets angry like that. All right. Oh, yeah. And then she'll do this thing where you start feeding her and she'll take a couple swigs and then she'll just go...
00:01:48
Speaker
And I'm like, Holy crap. I do the same thing when I'm like, when I'm angry and I get some food in me, I'll like to stop after a bite or two and just. So, no, definitely much better, much, much better over here. Both ends. She's definitely mine. She might not look like me. I hope she doesn't look like me. She's a girl for her sake. Yeah. Or actually, you know, even a guy shouldn't look like me. But anyway, different story for a different day. Other problems. Make sure that you are in the meantime, make sure that you are buying a good friend, George, the fancy where we geek a coffee.
00:02:18
Speaker
Especially if you are doing well in your chair, but it's got pools and not, you know, scrambling for, you know, extra point giveaways and stuff like that. Yeah, don't do that either. Don't be like me. Definitely don't do that either. But yeah, busy times for us also make sure that you show the geeks some love by buying them a coffee.
00:02:40
Speaker
As usual, there is no discrimination here on this podcast, nor should there be in sports or in life. I mean, we- So we missed a week. We did miss a week, but really it's just carried on, so it doesn't really matter. It's just been going. It doesn't stop. It does. And obviously we're going to- Don't stop to get enough, apparently. Right. And who has not had enough of world rugby at this point in there? I mean, all of us.
Coaching and Performance in Women's Rugby
00:03:03
Speaker
all of us. Treat women as these delicate little creatures who can't throw it all. Who the fuck said this is a good idea and said, yeah, publish that to the world. Like, right. You morons. What is wrong with you? Yeah, we missed that. Like, it wasn't even scientific. It was that, you know, marketing thing that was, you know, so this is how you treat men, women differently. And of course, world rugby thought that that was, you know,
00:03:28
Speaker
something worth adopting, some, I don't know. Same ideas that have issues with trans people playing in the sport, so, you know. Right. Which, as an aside, Dawn Staley is awesome. Yes. Not just because she comes from Philadelphia, and she does, but because she's, yeah, she gave a great answer to a douchebag asking her a question that, you know, doesn't even really need to be asked. Shouldn't be asked, that's for sure.
00:03:59
Speaker
Here's the thing that this comes down, this boils down to with both the issue last week with again, with that stupid misogynistic spreadsheet thing chart. And then this idea of, oh, wait, we need to make the balls smaller for the ladies.
00:04:16
Speaker
That was an idea I could, I was actually kind of like somewhat in favor of maybe, you know, when I first started playing,
Fantasy Sports and Rugby Match Analysis
00:04:24
Speaker
like, you know, 20 years ago. But ultimately what that boiled down to was the coaching, the women and it's still, that's still the problem that we're seeing. And obviously that chart follows suit with it is that,
00:04:41
Speaker
They're like, if you're not coaching women to catch and throw the size five ball, yeah, they're going to struggle with it. They're going to run into contact and it's going to shoot out. But that's the same thing is fucking true with guys. Yeah, I see guys struggle just as much when they're of a certain age, so it doesn't really matter. And so, yeah, I know I've come to, you know, just with experience and actually and also seeing the way that women are playing now that they're getting better training and coaching.
00:05:09
Speaker
Right. Because usually it was always like, oh, the worst guy on the team is like, all right, well, you're saddled with coach and the women because none of us want to do it. So you've got the shortest straw because you suck. So you do it. And it's like, yeah, if you give them that as their coach, the guy who can't catch himself, yeah, of course they're not going to learn how to do it. No, of course not. Has nothing to do with the ball size. And then that's before we get into your issue with it, which is much more an otherwise practical issue, which is you run a boys team and a girls team in high school.
00:05:39
Speaker
And now you're gonna have to buy double the balls. Yeah. And you have to make sure you're using the right one with the right team and separate them appropriately because I don't think they're that visibly different visibly that I don't think there would be that much different. I mean, half a size down at best. And that's not something that's going to be easily told, you know,
00:06:03
Speaker
You gotta look, you're gonna have to search for the goddamn number and if the number wears off, is this a five or a four? You gotta find, make sure you get five and two. Fuck that, fuck that. So among other things. I don't remember who it was exactly. I think it was somebody on Twitter that said, did you watch the World Cup final in 22? Like, did you notice anybody struggling to deal with the ball then? No. So what the fuck are we talking about here, honestly? Yeah, what are we gonna do in here?
00:06:31
Speaker
Like I don't get, I don't, I don't get it. I never will. And no, we won't. So right. I guess that's my ultimate question is you just like took a giant shit on yourself last week and you had to retract shit and now you're going to do it again. Like why are you still playing with fire? Don't stand too close to the sun.
00:06:58
Speaker
Don't get it. Like, and, and yeah, at some point somebody's got it. Like they, they gotta make some changes. Obviously it would be helpful if someone on the, on the higher ups boards and such, you know, was involved in the women's game, maybe a woman or two, just an idea, just an idea. Just throwing that out there.
00:07:19
Speaker
Prove for thought. Idiots. Anyway, speaking of idiots, make sure that you grab our Patreon. There should be some good stuff coming out soonish, especially for those of you waiting on Super Rugby lineups.
00:07:37
Speaker
The analytics are out. Okay, there you go. And that'll be helpful, especially because now we have bye weeks coming and no shit in bye weeks. So it's like the question of, okay, the average scores for each team and player or, you know, you're certainly not on an equal footing. So, um, hell no. That helps me make a decision, certainly in the, uh, um, the pink slips league as to what my trade would be. Oh yeah. That's helpful.
00:08:04
Speaker
That is true. That is true. So grab that. For those of us who win games in the Pink Slips League and can make those trades. Wouldn't know anything about that. I've changed my name on that in that league to sword space. Just keeping it warm for you. That was me last year. I feel your pain intensely. But it is one of those things where yeah, I feel bad for you. I'm going to give you a little bit of shit for it because it's the worst.
00:08:35
Speaker
My hands are permanently glued to my ankles at the moment. Yeah. Well, you got to wait for someone to start cutting players because they just don't have it. They need to lose forward. They finally need to lose forward. They're going to have to cut an outside back. You're like, ooh, maybe I can pick them up. Yeah.
00:08:54
Speaker
If I'm hoping in one of these bi-week leagues, I can pick up a couple of wins. Obviously last week did not go well, but maybe this week I got, I think I got demacked or maybe a Satoro doesn't matter. Honestly. Oh, neither one's fun. Neither one was awesome. Neither one was good. So, you know, okay. Uh, let's run ourselves over to champions cup. Uh, let's go to the steep.
00:09:24
Speaker
Queens and Glasgow. And I kind of watched this in a half trance because I had just gotten home from my high school game, but it kept me awake, which is to say a lot because it was very entertaining. I wanted to be whooping and hollering, but all I could imagine was a smoke. So but the fact that I stayed awake the whole time says a lot about how good this match was. Yes. And, you know, for
00:09:52
Speaker
You know, it was 21, seven and a half. It could have been a runaway and credit to Glasgow for coming back. Yeah, they did. They fired up. I mean, I have to say of all players, Glasgow to lose to the bin.
00:10:08
Speaker
near the top of the list has to, has to be C on a two week pillow too. I was like, Oh, that is not going to be good. No, I don't know much at the moment because my brain is fried, but I know that it's not going to be good. So it was, yeah, not good. That was in that, that didn't doom them, but it put them in a, in a real tough spot. Also, I want to point out that like early on, um,
00:10:32
Speaker
Oh shoot, who was it? Was it Finn Baxter? Yeah, Finn Baxter. Apparently, according to Stephen Jones, the next fly half for England, Finn Baxter. Somebody put a muzzle on that fucking idiot. Good God. He's hurting, is like looking to come out. And there's Joe Marlar putting Vaseline on his ears.
00:10:51
Speaker
And yeah, he's got a medical glove to do it, which, duh. Makes sense to me. He's going on so he doesn't want to have it on his hands. And they're like, why does he have a medical glove on? What's he doing? It's like you watched him put Vaseline on his ear. So once again, if you've ever watched like a combat sport, that's what they do. Right.
00:11:12
Speaker
Once again, the people who are on comms are not there because of their knowledge. They're there because they're decent on TV. Decent as communicators. Yeah, that was rather silly. Yeah, it was like you.
00:11:26
Speaker
You didn't think through that before you opened your mouth, did you? Right. Like, really, he has to touch a ball. Like, he doesn't want Vaseline on his finger. No, preferably not. Anyway, to the match play, actually. But, you know, maybe not Finn Baxter as your 10, but Marcus Smith as a 10 is pretty okay. Yeah, he ain't too bad. He's pretty good at this, this whole thing right here. Like, how? I don't know how you
00:11:56
Speaker
I watch games like this with Marcus and then we'll talk about Martankton a little bit. How do you sit there and say neither one of these guys is my 10 right now?
00:12:11
Speaker
Your game plan sucks, number one, if that's the case. In which case, I don't want to watch your matches. And I will be happily rooting against you. Just saying that. All they do is, well, all Marcus does is put the ball right where it needs to be when it matters. Yeah, no big deal there, right? He gives us the right person in the right spot for them to do their job. And they do it well. Look at that lineup up and down except for Oscar Beard.
00:12:40
Speaker
Yeah, they got to stop playing him. Strong lineup there. Yeah, they got to get Anyanwu. I don't know if he's been injured or whatnot. Well, he was in the last team squad, was he not? Did I make that up? No, he was in the last prime match. Yeah. What the fuck? Andre and Anyanwu are... Yes. That sounds like a nightmare to me, personally. Just throwing that out there. Yeah, fucking Oscar Beard, zero meters made.
00:13:09
Speaker
as we're 13. According to our friends at ultimate, what are we doing? What's going on here? Please clarify, because I am lost on this at the moment. One thing I do want to just hit on Glasgow for a bit, because they did play really well. But one thing I do want to just kind of look at,
00:13:38
Speaker
We know, so we know there's gonna be a shift in the back row for England and I wish Dom was more consistent in a white shirt like he is in the quadrants because there are days where I'm just like, this guy should be playing number eight for England. And then, and even in the quadrants, some days I'm just like, oh, that's not a good game. But when he wears the white shirt, it's like,
00:14:06
Speaker
man, and that sucks, and I feel bad for him, and there's a lot of people that have this issue. It's not just Don Rand, but I'm a Don Rand fan, so that's why I'm pointing them out. But here's his line from this week, according to Ultimate. 56 meters, he had an offload, a tackle, 17 tackles, excuse me, only beat one defender, but when he beat that defender, he made the break, so he made the one break. And how many carries did he have?
00:14:34
Speaker
That's not bad. Seven and 17. That's pretty good. No, that's pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. So seven carry, 17 tackles,
Rugby Match Critiques and Tactical Decisions
00:14:42
Speaker
56 meters. Good day for a back rower, you know, specialist, number eight specialist, especially. And it was a tough game. Glasgow's not a push up with her. They are where they are in the URC for a reason. No question about it. Thank you. He's actually the leading eater, eater for them.
00:15:02
Speaker
Yep, he was. He had the most meters. So, I mean, it says how tough it is to play against Glasgow and how out of sorts Quinn's went probably after half more than anything. Yeah. Yeah, just whatever. Anyway, Glasgow hats off to them.
00:15:22
Speaker
I, I like, I wish he was a little younger. I like a lot of George Horn and what he does. And I, I wish he was a little younger because I know he's not that young, but what I do see of him, especially in competitions like this, I, I enjoy watching. And when I, when I see him in Six Nations, same thing. I just wish he was a little younger and man, be great. Um,
00:15:47
Speaker
stain was kind of useful today in this game. So I don't know what that says. I still like row better. I do too. I agree. I thought he was better in this game too, but stain held his own. Another team bit by the 6-2 split. Yeah.
00:16:02
Speaker
You know, they had to play their backup nine as a wing cause they didn't have another wing. Well, yeah. Okay. He played well for 21 minutes, but I wrote it. Um, but, uh, obviously, yeah. Overall, I would, I would like him more in the first only for the national team. Um, and especially bites you when you have a scrum half and only a fly half. So you're really fucked if anybody else. It was kind of a silly decision on that one, you know? Yeah. I don't get that either. Um,
00:16:32
Speaker
I like Duncan Weir a lot, but, um, yeah, you'd probably want, and especially you ran a six two split and you didn't, you didn't even play one of the forwards. Right. So what was the point? What was the point? Please clarify. Cause I'm confused. Yeah. And I think that stuff like that is what costs them the game. Ultimately, I think silly decisions all over. Yeah. Silly decisions all over. Let's go down to.
00:17:02
Speaker
Southern Hemisphere for Bulls and Leon. Well, you know, we can go down there. Leon certainly didn't. I'm not sure they ever got cut on the plane. Maybe definitely not off it. No. I mean, yeah, there's really not much to say about this, that the Bulls just pumped them and they barely showed up, Leon. I was watching this because I have early clients on Saturday morning sometimes and they were just like,
00:17:31
Speaker
Is this usually how this type of match is supposed to go? I said, no, it's not. Cause this, the team in blue is doing a whole lot and I don't see a lot of the other team. I'm like, you're right. I don't know what's going on with the other team. Cause they look like shit. Yeah.
00:17:47
Speaker
No, no, no. Willie LaRue looked really good in this match. So that should, that shows you exactly what you're looking at in that case. Oh, gross. Gross, gross. Yeah. I mean, good. This is a, this is a pretty good team for, um, the balls, but at the same time, like most of them look like rock stars and that's saying a lot cause some of them are not right. So I'm really not.
00:18:14
Speaker
Yeah. They, I don't think this was, you know, they, they sat a couple of guys that could be playing too. Um, yeah. Ocker came off the bench. Mm-hmm. Like good when he did. Yep. Car car's probably okay. Better off the bench anyway these days, but yeah, still some, some guys that definitely should have been doing other things. They had three players over a hundred meters carried. Wow. Creole currently and Moody.
00:18:45
Speaker
Wow. Yep. Exactly. And Poppier and Elriglo both had 60 plus, so.
00:18:54
Speaker
Swiss cheese a little bit there, Leon, just a little bit. Just a lot bit. And there's some good pieces to this Leon team and that sucks that they came in and just completely laid a freaking egg, man. Yeah. Although I don't mind seeing that 10 get pumped. Same, same. I was thinking the same when I was watching this. I was like, oh, we can, they can pump them all they want and I'm okay with it. Honestly, I really didn't have any objections to it. It was just, you know, that team should be showing up more than they are.
00:19:25
Speaker
The good news is he's not coming to the Stonex. Huzzah. Huzzah. Two guys who are young and talented and will crush it. So no need for that. No need for that. Yup. So we did the dance over in Western province.
00:19:51
Speaker
I'm sorry, over in, um, over for over the stormers. Um, sorry, I'm forgetting still working on three different types of jobs in my brain. Still scrambled. Uh, anyway, stormers, lower shell. That's what we're, that's where we're going. We got there eventually. Uh, try to redo the whole thing there. Stormers, but I wouldn't advise doing that a second time because this is what happens sometimes. Cause it took, again, they left it till late and
00:20:22
Speaker
Yeah. They, they paid for it. They did. And this is a team. They, they, you know, the stormers should have like this shocked me because again, the same thing that, you know, Leon had, um, La Rochelle kind of had, I mean, they were, they didn't score a point in the first half. Right. They, they took them a while to get going, but once they got going, they got going. Totally. They get three second half tries. So like that.
00:20:50
Speaker
Was it? Yes. Yeah. Okay. Nope. Yeah. That, that'll always do you good unless you're, unless you've already spotted the other team sex in which case not, not awesome, but right. Yeah. The, I mean, shit, Noel had the most meters on this team. That's not good. That's not great. No, no. So that should, you know, should be a counter alarm bell for the storm is there.
00:21:16
Speaker
Yeah, you let Noel run on you a little bit.
00:21:23
Speaker
And I thought Aldrit was monstrous without the headgear, which was interesting. He got a little hot. He's like, I don't know if I need this anymore. This is going bye-bye. Baudia played very well, Baudia. Yeah. Skeleton was opposite of what he did last time that he went here. He was pretty bad that day. Skeleton, the card aside, was a monster and also obviously a gentle giant when he needed to be. I saw that, yeah.
00:21:51
Speaker
I don't remember who it was that was down. I was just like, ooh. I mean, hey, who better to protect you and make a wall than Will Skelton, right? Right, you are protected. Was it Ben Jason Dixon? He came off at 29 minutes. Yeah, that sounds right. That sounds right. Yeah, but yeah, it's... You're protected, don't you worry. Right. I will say, what Diamani is doing not,
00:22:20
Speaker
starting is baffling me. I don't get some of their selection sometimes. Him not starting is completely asinine in my brain, but that's just me. I don't know shit. Right. Also, can you get Manny Lebok
00:22:41
Speaker
a kicking coach, someone to help him. Something like that. Because I know he's struggled and certainly that's been one of the issues why he's not really, why he's certainly not fast-tracked as the guy for the national team, but that's got to be that last kick. That's got to be a make. It's got to be something he makes. Right.
00:23:10
Speaker
help him. It's not like whatever you're doing with him. It's not working. So get him, get him more help. No, I, yeah. Now it's costing you a big game, like a big game. Yeah, clearly. It's, I mean, they, they got to the semi final last year. Granted they didn't get off the bus then, but you know, right. Yeah. Disappointing, disappointing for the stormers. And I know they only lost it by one, but still they had a 13 point league going into half and
00:23:39
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. You should be able to put a team like that away, especially, you know, they're, they're traveling so far. Right. And as we talked about with
00:23:47
Speaker
really good team. This is not a team you kill off once you got to kill them. No, this is a monster that you got to kill multiple times. And Laura shell being two times champions at this point and being, they've been the final what three, four in a row now, something like that, something stupid. Yeah. So yeah, you got to kill them multiple times. Sorry. This is not one stone to the head giant. This is going to take a couple of them.
00:24:12
Speaker
I don't want to talk about this one, but we'll briefly touch on it because... Look, if Finn Russell doesn't get hurt 14 minutes in. Yeah. Game over. It's over. And look, I saw all sorts of like, oh, look at how good Exeter is. And I'm like, okay, if that's what you really think, have fun with that.
00:24:34
Speaker
I'm not impressed in any way, shape, or form. They're going to get harmed this week. Because let me tell you, when Bath made some critical tactical errors, every kick they made was away from their forwards, which was to kick to the chief's backs with tons of room and very little pressure on them. Right. Or if it wasn't that, it was Matt Gallagher kicking it out the back.
00:25:03
Speaker
man, what a bad day he had. And yeah, that's one of those. We won't miss you next year, Matty. Like we got to have the time, we'll be okay. I also, yeah, I'm, you know me, I'm a, I'm at the Glanville, uh, acolyte much more than him, that Gallagher. So same. Um, same. No, there are days there. These are days where I'm happy that as Harrison said, you can, you can go now. Bye. Right. Bye. Go ahead.
00:25:30
Speaker
And yeah, I look Faye Woboso was, it was excellent. He was the one player I thought who was actually any good on, on Exeter. Same. Um, everybody's talking about roots and like what he had 20 some carries. I'm not impor- like picking go doesn't impress me. Yeah. Well, I'm sorry. Is that really what we're trying to celebrate here? I pick and fucking go like, get the fuck out of here. Right. He had 20 carries for 20, more than 20 carriers for 50 yards. He had 20, 20 carries for 59 meters. That's it.
00:25:59
Speaker
three meters per carry. Get the fuck out of here. That is plot or status right there. Right. And honestly, if it wasn't for Alfie Barbary pulling a Billy Vunipola, Ross Vincent is a ghost in that game. Right.
00:26:16
Speaker
So I don't get the, you know, this to me is you have, you had what? Seven tight five players. And then Ross Vincent is, can, can move a little bit obviously in space. And your, your best back rowers on the bench. Yeah. This team's going to get home next round. So that'll be fun to watch. Yeah. I'm okay with watching these guys get bent over comparatively.
00:26:39
Speaker
Even Ollie Woodburn, who didn't win the play of the match, he had 87 meters on 11 carries. That's what needs to be celebrated, not the plotting for a couple meters because you went for 20. He's a fucking helmet anyway, so I have no time for him. I have no time for that shit. Unimpressed. Yep. He's unimpressive. Eek low is unimpressive, so I didn't get to watch this match at all.
00:27:04
Speaker
Cause I turned it on and it was like 38 three or something ridiculous score. So I'm like, Oh, well I'm done. Yeah. No, then they didn't even get the three. They, they scored one. Okay. Try near the end. It was the Bloomington got one and Willis got one. So let's, let's look at Bordeaux. And then I want, then we can talk about Saracen's in a different light. Um,
00:27:29
Speaker
Yeah, this is a really good team and they were talking about it during the broadcast. Like, this is a team that you would like to be able to move around and just make them work hard because they have a ton of power. But the problem is you have guys like Billy Barry and Boros and Penno and it's like, and even Molifano, it's like, that actually isn't gonna work very well, so never mind. Even Samu, like, very, very quality back row, like,
00:27:53
Speaker
No, like it doesn't work in this. So it makes it really hard to play against a team like this. And obviously they are better and there's no question about it. Um, even Tamifuna was an annoyance. This whole match didn't have a ton of meters per carry, but every time you thought you had him stopped, he fell forward for a couple. And I'm like, damn it. Can you stop that please? He does that, you know, it doesn't make a ton of carries only made 10 carries, but still he's just like, he takes.
00:28:21
Speaker
He takes like three tacklers. That's a huge problem for any team. It doesn't matter if you're talking about an English team, an Irish team, another French team, it doesn't matter. It's a problem all over.
00:28:37
Speaker
Yeah, credit to where credits do. This was a really good Bordeaux team. They played really well. So, everything's hung in there for a while and tried to... They needed every little thing, every little call to go their way. It started that way and then eventually Bordeaux's quality just took over and that's what did it. There were a lot of mistakes that happened. So, seeing as I couldn't watch the game, my general thought to this is that
00:29:07
Speaker
As always, Alex Goode is not a 10. No, no. And things got more interesting when Manu came on and he went back to 15. Right. What? You know, and I get, yeah, Manu's leaving and all that, but. I don't care. Play him. Play him. He's actually a 10. Yeah. That's, then that's my problem too. It's, he's actually a 10. And not only that, but you know, again, you know, Lewington can run and all that, but Maitland, man, you got it. Like this is not a defensive battle.
00:29:37
Speaker
No, you're, you're going to win this one with, with attack. And that's the thing. I think they, that the Saracens continuously get wrong as they try and play a defensive lineup and think that they can still attack with it. And it's like, no, no, no, you, you have the, the structure of the base for a very good defense. So no matter what players you put on there, they should be able to run it. And then, so therefore you should be putting on your best players that can attack.
00:30:07
Speaker
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Team Management and Player Roles in Rugby
00:30:08
Speaker
% of players can manage the defensive end of it, with you in far between, certainly at this level. So then you need the special quality of attackers to bring you to the top. And Farrell wasn't in this game. That sucked. Nothing to be done about it. You can't go back and change it. So it is what it is. And it's been the problem most of the season for the Saracens when they've done this.
00:30:35
Speaker
They try and play a defensive lineup and then find ways to score. And it doesn't work that often, unfortunately. It works less often than it does, which is not good. Right. And maybe, you know, this also could have been... McCall saying, you know what? We're focusing on the prep. Maybe. And ultimately, like, we want to play us out, like, use this as a game, but like, and try to, you know, not that you're not trying to win.
00:31:06
Speaker
But at the same time, like, is, is Shagan hurt? He must be. That's the only reason I'm accepting at this point. Right. This is his competition. This is what he's built for. Yeah. He should be out there. I agree. And again, three locks don't like it. I like Theo, obviously. Theo's a special human though. I will say that. He is. He is, but at the same time, and also Billy, putting Billy out there is kind of a give up move at this point.
00:31:36
Speaker
Yeah, it's so- When you have Tom Willis there, when you've got- Yeah, I know. Wal-Martine Gonzalez off the- Two of your bench flankers that you have are better than two of your flankers we're starting. And I'd much rather have Maro and Theo- In the second row. In the second row. No disrespect to stories. And then start either Willis and Gonzalez. It's six and eight.
00:31:58
Speaker
Right. Or six and seven, six and seven and put her all date. Doesn't matter. That's a, that's a winning formula. Not, not putting Billy anywhere near this team. Yeah. It's so Adam Coleman. I was waiting for him to give away a red card on us. I was like, Oh, you can give away a red card today. Not okay with that. So like you look at it the other way, like Matteo Garcia is not their top 10. No, but they didn't miss a beat. Then you look at those other, the 11 through 15.
00:32:28
Speaker
Billy Barrie, Moifana, Deporteiro, Pinot, Barros. And you're like, you know what? Like we were saying with, with, with Marcus Smith, all Garcia had to do is get the ball to any of them and let them do their job. Yep. And so look, look it up and down this thing. And I have a feeling that whatever happens the rest of the season next year is going to be hard no matter what.
00:32:52
Speaker
Um, and I'm okay with it. I will live with the growing pain of trying to bring in new tens, new, uh, new, new 10 new squad, like Mako gone. I'm okay with it. Judge gone. I'm okay with it. Um, I think, I think the spank signing today tells me that somebody in the back line, that's not a 10 is leaving probably Maitland. Um, pretty sure he's gone. And then.
00:33:20
Speaker
I could get, we could get rid of daily and I'd be okay with it. Um, they just re-signed him. I know. I know. Um, we'll see what happens with good. Right. I, I get the feeling he's probably, he might hang them up, which is okay. He deserves a good send off, but I'm okay with him hanging them up, but it might be time. Um, brings good quality. Still happy to have him, but at the same time, like 24 hour drink up for him.
00:33:46
Speaker
Yeah, no longer at that level. No longer at that level. And then we look at some of the guys on the bench, not Manu obviously, but like Willis, Maui, Riccioni, Hartley, Gonzales, Simpson, a couple more bodies that are coming in like, yeah, I'm into this and I'm looking forward to it. We saw Oliver Hoskins around. Yeah, no idea what the hell is going on with him. Yeah. Yeah, we lost Wollstonecroft to injury. He retired and that sucks.
00:34:15
Speaker
The O'Dan's just fine. The O'Dan's great. No problems with that. Yeah, I think it's time to keep a few of the core guys and let the rest just go. But the team has that much talent, and again, they know they're coming in a new guys in that you're saying, but...
00:34:33
Speaker
Um, they have enough talent that they should be competed competitive. Yeah. I don't think everybody put a ton of expectations on the next season, maybe two. But after that, I will be okay with the growing cranes that come with it. And cause I think on the other side of it, it's going to be awesome. Right. Louie Johnson, long-term, hopefully it will be. Yep. Fergus Burke should be quality. I'm looking forward to it. So.
00:34:57
Speaker
Yeah, sad that this is going to be, I had a feeling this would be the type of champions cup we would have. Right. It doesn't mean I'm not disappointed. But you know what, they're still in better positions than say, you know, our next people. Yeah. Lester. Yeah, Lester are adrift. I'd say. Yeah, I mean, Paul are pulling it together, but
00:35:28
Speaker
Told them together. Who else? It's a lot of work being done and the talent just isn't there. Yeah. I mean, what the hell Hathril and Cracknell are doing in this team? I haven't got a clue why they put Shillcock at 15 baffled me as well. I'd rather have Brown, which is saying a lot. Right. I'd rather have Brown. That's terrifying to say, but it is. Right.
00:35:57
Speaker
Yeah. Or Stuart at fullback, shit. Obviously. Yeah, Brown at wing, but yeah. Yeah, yeah. And Hustle Collins looked pretty decent, which is all right. Nice to see him wake up, Jesus. But yeah, with like, and I really thought, you know, with crack node seven and not Rafale, I'm like... As soon as I saw that, I was like, they are in so much trouble. They're in a lot of trouble. He is not a seven and nor is he close to being the same level of back rower as Rafale.
00:36:25
Speaker
I think most people would find agreement with that one. Yeah. Um, and lens are just too talented up and down that, you know, one to 23 that's that, I mean, Jamie Osborne is not a name that rolls off the tongue necessarily because people outside of the URC slash Island don't know who he is. But he, with the talent around him, he's made to look like he's a rock star. And that's how when sir, I've operated for you.
00:36:54
Speaker
A few years now. Ross, I was actually surprised that Ross Byrne was playing 10 in this game, I have to say. I was like, have we been moving in a different direction here? Got hurt and got pulled anyway, but still, it was interesting to me to see him in there. So it speaks to maybe what they thought of this match. I don't know. Because it's like, okay, we'll give up the 10 battle. You can have the better 10.
00:37:24
Speaker
We'll have the better everywhere else. Just about. Except for, you know, Visa's obviously world class, but didn't really play like it. He was still their best back rower. Right. Strongly was one of the better ones on the pitch, but, you know, in a very losing effort, unfortunately, and just, you know, there's only so much to do in those. He didn't, like, he did all right, but the opportunity, he didn't get the opportunities he really needed to get. No.
00:37:51
Speaker
No. And also in that, um, with that lineup, it's very easy to isolate him. Yes. Like to me, I'd be looking at, okay, we want to shut down Visa. We want to shut down Kata cause he, he's showing that he can be dangerous. Yes, absolutely. And then beyond that, who's your attacking threat? Really? You know, like they let Hassel Collins got, got loose at least once or twice, but did he score? He had three, three clean breaks, but no, didn't put it down. No, no tries. No.
00:38:21
Speaker
Yeah, and like I said, I don't agree with the Showcock F-15 move, just doesn't do enough for me. Doesn't do enough for me.
00:38:33
Speaker
Yeah. So Jason, so again, if you're a, uh, if you're a young nine, um, watch Jameson Gibson parks, first 30 minutes that inside trailing line. Yes. He scored three tries off like having to do very little work. Just pass the ball from the debt from the breakdown and then follow your pass and score a try. Yeah. That's how you do it. Get the ball to the, to, you know, when on the line break, get there and support and.
00:39:02
Speaker
Fun times are ahead. Weee. Let's go to Sunday.
00:39:11
Speaker
Saints and Munster, a, what sounds like a very ill Munster team too. So, you know, credit where credit's due for them. Like they hung tough in this game for a long time with a bunch of dudes that apparently were just chuking all over the place. Like they didn't puke themselves. Okay. Well, no, no, they did puke themselves, but they didn't bar fall over themselves. Not quite to that same extent. Right. Like literally they did, but metaphorically they did not. No.
00:39:38
Speaker
They played it real tough they showed all sorts of heart and guts. Without a real proper tight head replacement as well which was probably extremely annoying. It's like I would rather not do that ever again.
00:39:57
Speaker
But this match is definitely why you can see that Finn Smith, not Finn Baxter, Finn Smith is certainly putting his hand up and in line for that 10 jersey in white. And then there's, you see why Tommy Freeman is kind of a locked in, or has been a locked in, locked in starter for Six Nations. And why Ollie Slightholm should be considered for that, because holy shit, can that guy play. Yeah. And it's, it's kind of,
00:40:27
Speaker
It says a lot about how the Saint attack runs, that their tries were all scored by back three players. Freeman Ram and then Hendy for two. And Hendy, you know, two touches, two tries. And coming from like a total standstill beats three guys to the line. He's something special too. Yeah. Tall glass of tomato juice there. Yup. Yeah.
00:40:57
Speaker
Yeah, I so that's why you can you can play like that that forward pack is very, you know, if you talked about that's a defensive oriented forward pack. Right. Coles can can can attack a little bit moon can to a little bit but certainly much more than defense side and you can balance that out with
00:41:18
Speaker
you know, slight home Freeman, Ram Dingwall who can all and Odin doll who can just put, you know, punch it. Like you got to have that balance. They just have a whole back line full of playmakers. Right. And then when Hendy came on for Odin doll, it's like that's even more dangerous. Yeah, that was bad news for everyone around. Yeah. And it's, it's, and then you look at the other side though, Friesch, Nankovell. These are two of the most dangerous centers in this competition.
00:41:48
Speaker
Did they do much? I think I saw Freesh once. I saw Nankovic attack a lot. Yeah. I can bet he didn't enjoy that one. No. So just to your point about Saracens, just because you put out attacking players, that doesn't mean they don't have to defend. It just means that they're better in attack. Yeah. And that Saints defense is something fierce now. It is. That's where the fuck did that come from?
00:42:15
Speaker
This is, I mean, and this is what we've been saying around, you know, this is what could make this competition for them, because we've talked about Saints and how wonderful their attack are, and they've been able to squeak into prem semi-finals the last few years, but come up short because they just couldn't quite stop, couldn't really stop a nosebleed. And now you have a solid mix of fellows that are willing to be on the, put their bodies on the line for each other and defend, and also,
00:42:44
Speaker
you know, spin it wide, make some magic happen outside and put it down the middle. And it's dangerous. It's very dangerous. And it's, this is, you know, Munster are European royalty. There's no question about that. It doesn't matter who's wearing the shirt for them.
00:43:01
Speaker
So this is a club that just expects to be there and they, they put them to the sword pretty well in the end. And it's down to this, the fact that they can just house you and yeah, once they're scored 14 points, but man, they had to earn all 14 of them. Yeah. Who wants to play Northampton right now? Yeah. Bulls aren't going to be happy going there. I can tell you that much right now. No, that's going to be rough for them. Apparently Jake white pissing him on about how hard it is to get there. It's like,
00:43:30
Speaker
Okay. You know the deal when you get into this competition, dude. So right. That's what you, this is the life we have chosen. You guys, I mean, they advocated to get into this competition. So right. That's how it is. Um, like you, what you going to complain that, you know, yeah, sorry. You know, Leon had to do it. Now you got to do it. Yes. Yeah. Travel, travel, travel. And that's a bitch deal with it. Yep. Uh,
00:43:59
Speaker
Yeah. So it's, it's really good stuff. Uh, one more thing. We still have to lose Rossling. We do. And we'll get to that in a second. Okay. But, and I don't necessarily think he was player of the match, but was there maybe, um, I don't know if there was more of an underrated signing in the prime than Chris Langdon. Totally below the radar. Yeah. Like not in one of those guys who it's like, he's, he was never like,
00:44:29
Speaker
I never can maybe Jag is a little harsh for him. It's one of those men. He's all right. This guy can play a little bit. But what's is he gonna you know, meet his potential?
00:44:44
Speaker
And yes. Yeah, he's he's come alive when he went to Northampton here, barring the one hammerhead thing he did when they went to Munster and to pull play there. But other than that, he's been absolutely brilliant for this team and unseating Sam out of a sea is not a small feat, by the way. Just remember that. And I know that he was busy at the World Cup, but still like he doesn't relinquish that to Jersey at this point either. Right. It's more that Langdon is saying this is mine.
00:45:14
Speaker
Right. Exactly. Exactly. That's exactly what I said. Let's go over to Toulouse. Well, a little bit we could watch because I don't know if, and we know, and I would love to pin this on flow, but it wasn't flow. Sounds like it was the beach tower that just like got taken out or something. I don't know. But for what I saw, yeah, it never looked like Rossing was going to figure this out. Unfortunately, I will say of the
00:45:42
Speaker
you know, 14 other teams that Toulouse could have played in this round. You can bet that Rossing was near the top of the list that they didn't want to play because it's a opponent that's familiar to them. They've been this place before. This is not news to them, to this team. It was just a bit of shit luck for Rossing that they couldn't get like a wreck on there because he was still suffering from concussion issues. So that really sucked. And then they lost Khaleesi early. Uh,
00:46:11
Speaker
And then they, yeah, they lost their winger there too for pretty fast as well. Uh, didn't bode well for them. So sadly that was always going to be bad news for them. And then especially with DuPont, you bring in Christian Wade. Um, that's replacement note by no means. I agree.
00:46:31
Speaker
But then they had to replace the replacement back rower there. They had yellow. Come on. Yeah. Sankoni had to come on for him. I was like, Oh man, it's going, it's bad to worse. Unfortunately. And that's just how it was for the rest of the day for rusting. Um, too good, too much, too much town all the way around for this to lose team. Uh, it's yeah, another team that's going to be real tough to stop. I don't, I don't know. There's no.
00:46:58
Speaker
Where you think there's a weak spot, they have like backup on backup on backup. It's like, fuck off. Right. With you. Like Arnold and Mayafu, not a bad lock combination. Oh, out onto the bench, we'll, we'll just bring in T-Boflamal. T-Boflamal, it's like, oh man. Can you kindly piss off? Like, come on. Oh man. Yeah. No, not fun. Not fun at all. Yeah. Back row, same, same things like Willis, Kross and Ruma. Yeah. Just, oh.
00:47:28
Speaker
Yeah. Yep. Yep. They're going to be, they're going to be tough to stop. Godspeed to anyone that plays them next. Oh wait. Sorry. It's a really shitty team. Nevermind. Oh, I can't wait to. Yeah. They're going to, I think it was like a pound and they get pounded. Yeah. Last time I actually went to France, it didn't end well. I have to watch that hunched
Key Players and Fan Impact in Rugby Games
00:47:49
Speaker
over.
00:47:51
Speaker
Same. In Texas, you'd have to register as an adult before watching it. All right. Let's go to Super Rugby. Blues Force. Some competitive matches this round. Oh my god. So Blues Force was just a training run for Blues. There's no other way to run around it.
00:48:18
Speaker
Forester dealing with a ton of injuries and I feel bad for them, but at the same time, they're not very good. No, like both can be true.
00:48:26
Speaker
It's not untrue by any means. I mean, Harry Plummer played at 10 and he looked world-class in this game because he didn't, I mean, he didn't need to do much other than be like, ah, I got a lot of weapons here. Let's just be one of them and see what happens. You get the ball. I mean, between the back rows and his back line, like, yep. I mean, I know Forbes and Evans are not necessarily household names, but
00:48:54
Speaker
Yeah, they still look pretty good next to guys named you on Ian Clark. So yeah, like a world-class players as points like whole shit Evans try was that intercept, right? I believe so. Yeah, because yeah, and that was just a shame like, you know, that's one of those
00:49:09
Speaker
force had to do something, they had to try something, and just force, literally force the ball around and Evans is like, I'll just stand, I'll just wait and okay, you're gonna throw this really desperate pass and I'll just take it and bye. Yep. See ya. Thank you very much. And good night. And good night. With that, let's go over to Melbourne, because this is probably
00:49:31
Speaker
the more the most interesting match of the weekend was not for good reasons. No. Let's look at the the things that were of record and then we can talk about the other things because yeah. Yeah. Lamani definitely saw the red mist and and made a huge mistake. No question on it. I don't think he intended to hit him in the head. He wasn't he wasn't looking at the head, but
00:49:55
Speaker
You still, yeah, you rolls the dice and you take your chances. Yeah, that was not very smart at all. And yes, he was being a dick, but kind of, did he have it coming? Yes, but can you do that? No. No, no, you cannot do that no more, man. I can open it and slap. That's fine. Yeah, that's probably the best you were going to get away with. Yeah, but yeah, at the same time,
00:50:21
Speaker
So here's my issue that like before all this is that I really thought rebels were getting away with a ton of not dirty, but certainly not clean play. There's a lot of hits off the ball, late hits, things like that. Honestly, the referees were, the officials were just letting go. And I thought that that was inappropriate.
00:50:47
Speaker
Right. And to the point where I could see, I was like, yeah, I get why you are angry. But you can't respond like that. No. And obviously, do the same thing. Yeah. I mean, it's bad when the referee, you don't even get the yellow card. Review, it's just straight red for for Lomani and I never thought I'd see.
00:51:15
Speaker
this straight red, which we've talked about for a couple of years now, there were instances, and I still don't love the 20 minute red touch. Let's be honest, there's about 10 instances that these, that deserve this and only these two have gotten it so far. Right. So it's not a good record. Still don't like the 20 minute, but I'm glad at least that it was finally applied to a situation where, yeah, a couple of guys did some real violent actions that probably shouldn't be returning for. And yeah, I agree.
00:51:46
Speaker
And just shame on the Rebels fans for what they did. Oh, that's just horrible for there. Yeah. So if you hadn't heard racist, there was apparently a group of rebels fans who were seated. And so when they, they, they threw a lot of shit at Lomani racist crap at him when he got red carded. But apparently that was not the beginning of it. That was just like the boil over point.
00:52:14
Speaker
So yeah, rebels got to deal with that shit. Lock that down because that's unacceptable. I know they have financial issues, but you cannot be allowing that. So whoever it was, get the names, get the record, ban them for life. Cannot be here. To the point where, because they were giving shit to a lot of Drew fans who were there.
00:52:34
Speaker
Um, by giving shit, I mean being racist towards them, not just, you know, that's terrible, not just friendly pants or on that. And that is not the rugby way either. No, we are not, we are not football, uh, proper football. We do not do that shit here. Like we don't do that shit. We don't do that shit to the opposition fans. You give them a little razz, you have a little fun with them. You also buy them a beer at the same time. You don't fucking do that shit. So yeah.
00:52:59
Speaker
shame on you Melbourne. That's horrible. Deal with it and deal with it now or I won't be sad to see you leave this league honestly. So sorry. You'll be welcome to leave.
00:53:13
Speaker
Chief from Moana, it happened. Yup. That was a game. That was a game that happened. I don't think I watched the second half because- I had gone while I was doing work. Yeah. Well, I mean, I watched the first half live because I was feeding the little one. I was feeding the kiddo. And I was like, so here's the thing.
00:53:31
Speaker
This is a routine thing now on my Thursday nights and Friday nights, because I get the like the 1.30 or 2 o'clock feeding. So I'll watch, you know, some whatever rugby's on on my phone while I'm feeding her and holding her or whatnot. Sometimes it's a bad idea because it gets me all razzed up.
00:53:52
Speaker
This
Rugby Game Dynamics and Strategy Review
00:53:53
Speaker
one I didn't need to really break out of my stupor, my sleepy stupor. I was like, oh, okay, they're going to win. I don't have to, like, there's nothing to fire me up or anything like that. I mean, it was fun. Don't get me wrong. Great to watch, but certainly never in doubt. So, no. Yeah. I was like, okay, I could watch this with two bleary eyes without having to get too into the game. It was not really much of a contest. It was more for, for the fun of, oh, look at another try.
00:54:22
Speaker
Nope. No problems here. Um, and then Brumby's toss, like toss never got out of, out of like first gear. No, definitely not. It was a close game. It was close at half. It was like, was it tie? It was, um, wasn't tied, but it was, it was reasonably close. It may have been, it was like,
00:54:54
Speaker
One second. I can tell you. I think it was 16 nine or something like that. Maybe six. That might be right. Let me look to do. Oh, it was. Come on. You can do it Jared. I believe in you. Yeah. The Goddard try happened right before half. Right. So that was what?
00:55:22
Speaker
That was, yeah. I think it's 16-6 from what I'm seeing on the... 16-6. What's that? Yeah, so it was close, but it just never clicked. And they had ample opportunities. Like, Edmed had a couple breaks. Nwakon and Nawasi had a couple breaks. Peach, Jorgensen had some good runs, but they never ended in anything. Nope.
00:55:52
Speaker
Gamble had a reasonably, he had a decent day, but I think he got stripped at one point that led directly to a try. I think the Valentini try was off of Gamble getting stripped and tackled. Just not good stuff that, yeah. Good on the Brumbies, they're obviously quite good. Wartheis just, this is one to kind of burn the film. Especially, I hope Angus Bell's okay.
00:56:20
Speaker
Yeah. I'm not, I'm not convinced that the same result that happened a few weeks ago is going to happen this coming week. Cause they haven't convinced me a shit after that one. That's for sure. Well, let's go over to Quincy. Yeah, let's do that. Cause we did. Um, uh, I mean,
00:56:49
Speaker
If all you're ever gonna do is kick it goal until like the last five minutes, really, you know what, we can just stop at kick. Because that's basically what Miami wanted to do the whole fucking day. I didn't get it. Do they know who they're playing? I don't even know if they knew they were playing in general, honestly. Because this is a team that scores tries. Yeah, they did a lot of kicking for goal, some of it worked, some of it didn't.
00:57:18
Speaker
Actually, they have a decent, you know, they've been also on prior on the back row. Cavalli is obviously playing nine, but like they just decided to not play rugby.
00:57:30
Speaker
And I was like, uh, you sure that's a good idea? Cause there's not, you're going to need to score a couple of tries to knock this team off. I can tell you the teams that have managed to do it are doing that exact thing. They're scoring tries, but nope. Didn't even want to do that. I was like, all right, fine. You just, you're just going to get pumped and deal with it.
00:57:51
Speaker
That and I didn't yeah way too like and it was predictable like there was nothing They didn't really challenge the defense much and then after getting frustrated. They're just like alright. We'll just we'll just pull one up in the air right and then and don't with that only all the shitty weather like
00:58:09
Speaker
They get rain all the fucking time down there, like don't tell me that. And most of these guys have played in this while they're before, so don't give me that shit. They just, yeah, I don't know what their game plan was, or if they had a game plan, but either way it wasn't good. And Freejax didn't need to do a ton to beat them.
00:58:25
Speaker
they managed to do more than enough to get over the line. So no problem with that. Poor Derek Summers. I saw him stop and I was like, oh, he just pulled something, didn't he? And starts reaching for his leg. I was like, yep, that's the end.
00:58:45
Speaker
I was like, you are done and that sucks, but that's a fact also. But also, you're a ref. Pulling your hamstring makes it hilarious. Sorry, dude. It's bad when it's like, okay, you get run over or something unfortunate happened. This was like, dude, stress yourself. You don't even have to like, yeah, reffing is not...
00:59:07
Speaker
I mean, yeah, it's different when it's obviously at this level, but still it's not nearly as physically demanding as the people you're refereeing. So generally not. No. Although Ford, Ford showed why he's usually in AR cause he was not very good. No, it was not very good, but didn't need to be. That was the problem with it. It started to get, it started to get chippy and shitty. That's true. Cause he did not do a good job of keeping things clean. No. Yeah. You got to have that experience of being able to just be like, all right, listen,
00:59:36
Speaker
enough of the bullshit after the whistle. I don't care which team starting it, enough of the bullshit. And then if there needs to be TMO checks after that, then you go to that. Done. But he didn't even get to that level. So that's why I get a little shit at the end. And you took the bonus point try away. Lame. Look, was it the right call?
00:59:55
Speaker
Okay, look at just because it touched one of their players. That doesn't mean you can't go quick. Shut up. God damn it. Party pooper. Yeah. Party pooper. Whip around. Otherwise, Utah beat anthem shocker the day everyone beats them. Jackals gave a hell of a game to the Seawolves. Good for Dallas. Nice to see they're not laying down and just taking it this year. Yeah, I didn't get to see it. But Scott Green refereed it. So who knows?
01:00:24
Speaker
Oh, Jesus Christ. Did he? Yeah. Yep. There he is. Son of a bitch. Who knows how much that was the jackals and how much it was Scott Green being a douche because he's a douche. Because he is that Chicago beat NOLA. Like I said, they're probably the best competition in the East for New England. And then Oh, glory's tied Los Angeles. Like what the
01:00:49
Speaker
How do you tie a bunch of pieces? Tie your dicks or not? I don't get, yeah, nope, not good. That's a bad day. And Beau Chaudry did that game too. Wow, geez. So I was probably, so somebody played poorly. That's all I know. That's all I know. But hey, I don't mind it. Cause that means, you know, that's again, separation. It's more gap at the top. Doesn't bother me. Right. Well, this week's going to be a bitch. Cause Houston is not going to be fun. Going down there, especially. That's good.
01:01:19
Speaker
Don't have a great feeling about that game. So I'm gonna try and You know watch it with subdued Thoughts and ideas because it's just yeah, that's a tough that's a tough road game. I won't be well, I Hope we win it, but I won't be surprised if we come away with Nothing, let alone maybe a boss point, right? Anyway That's that this this
01:01:50
Speaker
We are going to jump ourselves over to fantasy corner time. Um, if you're going to join us over there, then we will catch you on that side. If not, um, enjoy yourself the quarterfinal of the champions cup. And also the, obviously the conclusion of another conclusion, but the continuation of super rugby. Anyway, we'll see you guys over there. Thanks for listening, everyone later. Cheers.
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