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Season 2- Episode 3- World Cup Opening Weekend
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Loads of good matchups to be had after the opening weekend of RWC 2019. First off, we urge you all, to take it down a notch on twitter. This is something enjoyable for all of us, let's not put efforts in to make it the opposite. On episode 3 of the shiny new season, we talk about all the action that took place including a huge Saturday packed with action. We give our fantasy takes on each match this past weekend, our best start sit advice for TRM's 2nd game week and the start of the 3rd game week (real life getting in the way) and of course, pick 'em! Tune in and see what kind of foolishness we've come up with to give to you for your ears to download.
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Transcript
Introduction and World Cup Excitement
00:00:08
Speaker
Hey, everybody. How's it going? It is. My name is Jared. I'm Ben. Welcome back. It's week two of the World Cup. And we are excited. Everybody have fun watching the World Cup this weekend. Lots, lots and lots and lots of lots of good rugby. It was an excellent weekend.
Rugby vs. NFL: A Preference
00:00:22
Speaker
It was I. So for again, for those who are not in the U.S., I didn't even bother to watch the NFL on Sunday. I just watched rugby. I didn't watch a lot of it. Honestly, I had my iPad set
Avoiding Spoilers
00:00:33
Speaker
up with Red Zone.
00:00:33
Speaker
Yep, and then I had the games on here that I missed because I was away all day saturday all day sunday So I was like I got some catching up to do right and we yeah, we were we were uh Both of us were pretty much gone all day saturday for our own rugby. No spoilers We didn't get we didn't get any spoilers No, one of one of our guy tried to one guy tried to and I shut that down quickly Yeah, and overall he was wrong anyway
00:00:57
Speaker
So he
Spoiler Shutdowns and WhatsApp Groups
00:00:58
Speaker
tried. He asked me if I if I thought South Africa played bad. I was like, I haven't seen it. Don't shut up. Quiet. And I'm like, dude, watching the game, they actually went and we'll get to it. But said asked the son of a South African. Right. So he had a vested interest in it a little bit. But at the same time.
00:01:15
Speaker
That was that was as close as I came to getting spoiled by any of the matches It helps that nobody else has actually bought the package. So everybody's way behind out Because I'm in our WhatsApp group and everybody is way behind on that I think so. I think they just got a couple of them just got it. Okay, so they're gonna be either catching up or just saying screw it and they'll just watch the next the next batch coming up coming up late tonight for us and
00:01:40
Speaker
Yeah, week one. All right. Week two rather match one. Starts middle of the night tonight. Yeah. So I'll be waking up and popping that on at work tomorrow because when you work for yourself, you get to do fun things like that.
Perks of Self-employment and Rugby
00:01:51
Speaker
Must be fucking nice. Let's let's pop open the beers and pour them into these lovely glasses. They are lovely glasses. I feel weird defiling the glasses with these. But that's what they're meant for. That is what they're meant for. I think it'd be weird if we didn't defile glasses with beer.
00:02:09
Speaker
It'd be weird if we to follow the glass with something else that's not beer. That's what it is.
Banter and Branding
00:02:14
Speaker
If it was like some nice glasses with our new logo on them and everything. Wine spritzer or something like that. Thanks, Sharon. You fucking rock. So how you like in your career?
Rugby Management Software
00:02:28
Speaker
It is pretty pimp. Yes, and it's not even the full upgrade, right? It's just kind of like the we have the basic so and it's still like when I'm going through looking at players I would so I came back late Thursday night after rugby practice and was Decided to do some tinkering as you do it, you know, of course at 11 p.m. After rugby practicing exactly and it actually I think it worked out to my benefit but I
00:02:54
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, it was just so nice to be able to see, oh, who's starting, who's not even rostered without even having to...
Upgrading to Rugby Mag
00:03:00
Speaker
Big ol' red dot next to your name means not even in the team. I was like, oh, that's really helpful. It's a nice flag to say, get her out, get her out, get her out. And then it's helpful. You can click on the players once the games are going on. And as you're accumulating points, you can see how you're getting them.
00:03:18
Speaker
You could say oh, I love I love the new the new live update right with that They did they did about halfway through the year last year and it's awesome, right?
Player Performance Analysis
00:03:25
Speaker
I really do like so you can see like oh Scott Barrett went off. Oh, that's pretty amazing Oh wait, he had a ridiculous breakaway. Yeah, I can't expect that again But right it's nice to know that that's what he did so you can kind of see where he got his points and be like alright So I can't expect to try there were a couple of those
00:03:40
Speaker
And a couple, then he made a bunch of tasks and there were some like, I think it was, um, I think it was my hooker. Um, I think it was Hori who I had as my backup. Um, I think he made something like 18 tackles or something ridiculous. Yeah. That's a lot. And I'm like, whoa. That's not something I expressed it out of that. No.
00:03:57
Speaker
So crazy, crazy stuff. But yeah, so everybody make sure that you are investigating the rugby mag upgrades.
World Cup News and Updates
00:04:04
Speaker
It's not too late for World Cup. And of course, if you're going to play along with the likes of us for Premiership and Super Rugby, you're going to want it there too, for sure. It carries over. It's no big deal. Just do it. You won't regret it, I promise. And if you really want to ball out, then let us know how that goes because we're liking this. So I can only imagine what it would be like to ball out to the next two levels. So yeah, everybody make sure you're checking those things out.
00:04:28
Speaker
News and notes, not a lot of news per se, there's some injuries, but we'll get to the injuries as we go through the games, because obviously that's when they happened.
Fan Behavior on Twitter
00:04:39
Speaker
But for me, and we were just actually having this conversation about two minutes ago, before we started recording,
00:04:47
Speaker
Twitter's a place that can be one of two things, an absolute train wreck or very magical. Sometimes at the same time. Yeah, sometimes at the same time. But you choose, and those that are choosing to just be complete jerks right now, can you please stop? It's the World Cup. Nothing is really that heavily on the line. There were a couple games this week that had some implications, but we know the teams that are likely to get through.
00:05:12
Speaker
until it comes to, like, knockout stage time. Can we just dial down the bitchiness and enjoy it? Right. I saw Ali Stokes talking about on the Twitters, talking about somebody with some people are bitching out the refs.
Refereeing Decisions and Praise
00:05:25
Speaker
And I'm like, I don't like, you know, I don't see any of them having a particularly bad game for any of them. No. I mean, Barnsy can't officiate a scrum. We know that. Yeah. But it was also a garbage weather, too, that did not help in any way, shape or form.
00:05:38
Speaker
So what else is there to complain about right? I mean there I thought there was some excellent refereeing I thought there was some good decisions that were made in this week The one that sticks out in my brain is the california anthony watson tackle. Okay, where it was just a penalty, right? they decided california he was really trying to get low and watson just happened to be falling down and
00:06:00
Speaker
They decided penalty only, no foul player. I don't even know if they gave a penalty. But either way, there was no card, there was no malice, and they recognized it. And they made the decision quickly. I was like, yes, quick decisions. And as always, Nigel did an amazing job. Oh, I love that man.
00:06:18
Speaker
And I want to point out a series, a sequence of plays where Japan took a kick. I think it's either 22, the, I think it was the winger. I'm not sure which one ran it out and just got, just got outside the 22.
00:06:33
Speaker
and russia weren't releasing him in tackle he got his knee down and so he uh he tells russia he's like release release it's a tackle you gotta let him go they let him go he says thank you and then he immediately tells japan you're outside which fantastic he's telling them the condition outside of where they're playing you're outside so japan they play the next phase the guy was tackled inside the 22 and it says now you're inside and then they boom they kick at the touch like
Refereeing Styles and Consistency
00:06:59
Speaker
That kind of officiating, just talking to the players, letting them know what they need to do, how they need to do it. That's huge. It's appreciated by the players, I can tell you that. Yeah. But that's his style. And then there's another style with the New Zealand official who refereed, was it Fiji, Australia that I was talking about? O'Keefe. Yeah. Yeah.
00:07:21
Speaker
Where kiwi's just aren't as community could know that I know there was a there was a ball That was questionable as to whether or not it was out of the ruck. I I don't remember how it happened It was just inside Australia's 22 or right around Australia's 22 and Fiji saw Oh free ball. Is that okay? And the referee kind of just looks at him like oh
00:07:38
Speaker
You know keeps like you whatever you do what you're gonna do and the Fiji player jumps on it and he's got penalty You can't do that. It's like well, why can't you just tell him tell me next time? And that's not that's not bad officiating because it's his interpretation and he doesn't have to tell you what what you can know He doesn't have to so
00:07:55
Speaker
That doesn't mean it's a bad official. It just means that's how he communicates You can always ask him you can always just look instead of looking at him for him to say something You know is that ball out and he might he might he can answer no. Oh, yeah, but they didn't bother to do that. So It none of that is bad officiating I didn't have any problem with any of the the French referees that I normally do so I don't know where people are having such yeah, I had one I had one glaring issue, but it wasn't that I
00:08:21
Speaker
It wasn't a real glaring issue.
World Cup Anticipation Continues
00:08:23
Speaker
So, you know, and it wasn't anything that I wanted to put down. No, none of them cocked up any games and none of them changed any had any impact on any outcomes. So what more do you want from your officials? How can you complain about that? Yeah. Show your boots, guys. Show your boots. Yeah. We just started this. Yeah, we are. We're not even a weekend because we started Friday.
00:08:45
Speaker
We went over the weekend. That's it. Okay. And now maybe that nobody has any more time on their hands and hopefully they're working. Well, I don't know. We're not that, we're not working that much. Let's be real. Um, but hopefully that we'll dial that down just a touch. Hopefully so. Good Lord. Good Lord. There was somebody, um, was it Paul Williams that's on Twitter that we're friends with and said something like, no matter what happens, we'll be, we will, we will be nice to each other on Twitter. Yes. Yes. Yes. That was exactly it. Yeah. Yeah. Please.
00:09:14
Speaker
This should be enjoyable. This should be a positive experience for everyone. So let's make it that way. I know the Japanese fans are making it a very positive. They're doing a great job. Very positive experience. Love those guys. Yeah. So like Namibia scored. And there's like one lone Namibian guy, poor guy, that he scores. But they're just like, they don't have any allegiance to anybody. So they're like high-fiving with him because he's obviously very excited that they scored. Yeah. Why wouldn't he be? Your team scored a World Cup try. It's a good time to solve it. They scored first in the game. They did. That was great. That was a good one.
00:09:46
Speaker
Yeah, let's go jump right into it. That's the opener. Japan, Russia, any big news or any big notes off of that one? I mean, it was a decent opener. Japan were probably a little bit in the mud to start. Russia came out like a house on fire. Russia impressed me for all the talk that we, and we're not the only ones who have said that they don't belong. No. They proved that at their best, they belong on the stage. But then there's the but.
00:10:15
Speaker
But they still got blown out by 20. Yes, and it still really wasn't that close a game So and they scored they scored first Didn't they did they take a 10-0 leader? Was that no my no, no, they got 10 later Okay, but they had they yeah, Japan fucked off the kid fucked the kickoff, right? Receive real real bad and that's how they and right and Russia put the pressure on him and put it over. So That's gonna happen
00:10:43
Speaker
But yeah, I thought Japan responded well. At their best, they played very well. But they still have, you know, this is a good warm up match. I'm sure there were nerves. I'm sure there were a ton of nerves on their on their side. Yeah. Homework up. There's some higher than usual expectations for this team than.
00:11:00
Speaker
Any Japan team I can think of in the past right and just to be at home to have that that additional pressure Yeah, you're gonna you're you're going to have a little bit of nerves and you're gonna You know shit the bed a little bit and they did but they recovered really well I would say it's a lot of their their players impressed the hell out of me for guys that like Hori, I kind of knew he was gonna be I I haven't I've never I don't know enough about him, but he plays the symbols. He was amazing. He was all over the field
00:11:30
Speaker
Um, and maybe that'll change as they play a little tougher competition. He'll slow down a little bit. Yeah. I mean, you might still make 10, 12 tackles, but just not 18. No, but I mean, he was, he was taking a lot of carries too. Like he was doing a lot, like the way we have been talking about leech in the past to me, Hori played that role in this match. Yeah.
00:11:51
Speaker
You turned a bit of a disappointer in terms of fantasy. It was really unfortunate, but, you know, he didn't get the carries that he normally gets and wasn't as... Those all went to Hori. Yeah, he wasn't as ever present on the part. Right. Well, really, also think about, you know, they had Matsushita... Right. ...scoring. Matsushima, excuse me.
00:12:10
Speaker
Scoring a hat trick, right? Good call by our friend george randy geek. Oh, it wasn't george It was uh, yeah, it was he called it. Oh, okay. He called it for sure Um, but that was uh, that was a heck of a call. Yeah, if you captained him I tipped my hat to you then you you had an inkling better than I don't think I don't think anybody captained him he did either but um Yeah, we'll get into more of the
00:12:34
Speaker
people in our group scores and stuff like that. For a fantasy perspective, Lubbashogne, the flanker that was able to rip the ball away and run off for a try, probably ballooned him just a wee bit.
00:12:51
Speaker
A little bit. Yeah, I mean there's a there's a a turnover and a uh, and a running a try there Yeah, a lot a lot of points stacked up into one play So I mean it's great when you get it obviously and you know This is the thing you have to keep in mind that I always say don't chase tries Especially in the forwards backs it is what it is But forwards in the forwards don't chase tries if you know a guy's a known try score it's one thing but like
00:13:18
Speaker
If a guy scores a try one week, but he hasn't scored for three years Maybe temper that expectation just a touch like we were saying with Scotty Barrett like See about 20% off of that yeah take it down 20% You tomorrow fantasy wise didn't have a terrible game
00:13:40
Speaker
But just eye test, they pulled him early. I was like, ooh, this is, he was missing kicks left and right. This game should have been more out of hand, but if his boot had been on, this game would have been way more out of hand. So maybe just take note of that. Keisuke Himino had a great game in place of Mafi. Maybe unseated him for that spot. I would definitely consider putting him into the lineup
00:14:08
Speaker
Hopefully you were smart and we discovered this after we had our fancy preview pod. Hopefully you were smart and you left all seven possible spots to add because you can only make one subtract then add.
00:14:24
Speaker
Yeah, it's helpful to have that space, especially the first week because you're going to want to add players and you're going to have to find some people here and there. Yeah. Personally and going forward, I'm not sure how much I mean, Matsushima is not a bad player by any stretch. So he's not somebody you shouldn't have on your squad.
00:14:41
Speaker
But you might do better to rotate your wing against your attacking wing of whoever's playing Russia. Yeah. Find out who there is a lot. I mean, they like to rely on because clearly, I mean, in terms of overall points against Russia, definitely led the way in points surrendered to wings just by him alone. Right. But their other wing did OK, too. Thirty three. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty good. So between those two, that's nearly 100. Yeah. Pretty good. Pretty good haul. Not a great thing.
00:15:11
Speaker
Their hooker actually didn't do too bad. 28, pretty good stuff. Give them credit for that. They have Andre Osterkopf in the lineup, which definitely helps. So that helps his points right there in almost an automatic fashion.
00:15:29
Speaker
And I feel like hook hookers, um, so we saw what did we see we saw wings put up a lot of some some high scores flankers the loose forwards put up a lot of locks put up some big points and hookers, so you know you it's if you
00:15:45
Speaker
Didn't do well from your hooker position This this first round I I um, you know, I I almost think it's your fault because they were like hookers put up Points everywhere. Yeah, five guys almost five guys had 30 point right points Uh at hooker so pretty good pretty good stuff and one of those guys you can start a flank
00:16:05
Speaker
So that's a that's a good one. And well two of them really because I mean Hori McAnally got twenty nine. Oh, yeah. That's right. You did say that. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Oh, by the way, Hori for Japan flanker eligible. Yeah, that's that's huge. It was mind boggling when you said that I was like say what?
00:16:22
Speaker
So yeah, Japan took care of Russia 30 to 10, and they're opener. They get the job done, they get four bonus points, four try bonus points, excuse me, and they put Russia in the sword as they were expected to, so nothing bad about it.
00:16:39
Speaker
the the big one to lead off the super saturday big time like talk about a super saturday really was you know i can't remember a saturday like a saturday filled with that much great rugby in a long time a lot of a lot of a lot of just you you hear the names and just like i want to see them play i want to see them play i want to see them play what do i do good thing they weren't all at the same time right um
00:17:01
Speaker
Australia Fiji let us off and Came out like a house again a house on fire, especially the Fijians. Oh my goodness Australia have a reason to be nervous. Yeah, that was that was I mean if you want to see a 15 minutes of just
00:17:19
Speaker
smashing and exciting rugby. Watch the first 15 minutes of this match and tell me that you're not excited about watching rugby because holy shit, the Fijians put on a show. Right. I mean, and it's it's exactly the kind of rugby I love where on defense, they're extremely physical. And then on offense, they're finding gaps and they are exploiting the hell out of them. So they save their their physicality for defense. And boy, did they put some hits on Australia. Australia is going to be taking ice baths till next week after that.
00:17:48
Speaker
They're gonna be feeling it for for a while. Yeah, uh, piscilla yatto Got them out got them off to a hot start. He could basically play anywhere on the park. He plays flanker Uh, man, this guy was a beast and for them. Oh my goodness. I mean just Large large man with with some wheels can fly. Yeah, terrifying terrifying in the loose. You see that coming at you. You're just like go go go ahead. Go ahead I'm not i'm not i'm making a a life decision right now and it's to go that way i'm good
00:18:18
Speaker
Yeah, I have to think about my career after this. I've got I've got some kids at home Something to that effect. Yeah, you need a young guy to stop him probably But uh and he stopped himself. Um, yeah, hia hia and then he did not did not pass it no, he came out about like two minutes after that the ten minutes had gone and Kind of was looking around like where do I go and and i'm sitting there watching like
00:18:40
Speaker
go onto the field and no. And they said, well, he's taking a strapping off. I was like, yep, he's done done crap. But speaking of guys that, you know, getting in the way, Reese Hodge, that poor man, he got cluttered by this team. Still down the tracks. And yeah, a couple of couple of trains. Yeah. Ooh. First, was it Red Roger at first and then to your silver afterwards and then you got nailed while he was carrying as well.
00:19:08
Speaker
Yeah, that's not fair. Like the two of the first two, he was trying to play defense and like he was going to look like he was playing offense. He was in good position. It's just that they were in better position. Those two, they just smashed them. I was like, oh, and you know, it's too bad because if you haven't watched Reese Hodge play, he's actually a very good player that did not do him any justice. No, it didn't. And that that's one of those, you know, even the best have their days. And yeah, he did.
00:19:36
Speaker
And yeah, and and he wasn't put in the best position because he had to He couldn't just set his feet So he was getting run into as he was setting his feet, which is my that they were they were already at full speed right there They're at full speed and he's has to to make decisions in defense and so it's not as though he's you know clear that that Roger Roger I was getting the ball or that that's where he was going he so he's kind of sliding over after that the pass to to play defense, but
00:20:06
Speaker
Oops, nope. They already had other ideas that they look out I'm not gonna try to evade you I'm just gonna run you over and then out and then keep running very fast down the field
00:20:17
Speaker
But, and I mean, and this is the unfortunate thing about this team, it's so full of talent and so full of top end players that you would just back all day. But it's only a 15. But it's only one through 15. It's not a 23. You know, there's a couple of guys on the bench that you could probably back, that you'd probably back. But other than that, there's other guys you're just like, you know, it just sucks. Well, I mean, it's clear, at least from a fantasy perspective. Their experience is very unfortunate. Yeah, from a fantasy perspective, Avoca,
00:20:47
Speaker
Had had 24 off the bench and i'm guessing he was the one who replaced. I don't remember Probably yado probably the one who replaced yado. So everyone else uh Madawalu had nine No one else cracked you had more. Oh, uh, yeah, no one else from on the reserves from Fiji had more than six And that was the hooker who again the hookers get a little bit more points for the lineouts. Yeah, but
00:21:10
Speaker
Uh, the the props had negative one and two and then the back, you know back up nine had had nine and then the other wings had one and two points So these are guys who and goneva should have done better, but I think though that was kind of you you called that one Um speaking of props though campisi mafu
00:21:27
Speaker
When he was during the anthem so passionate so I love and this is this is another reason you love watching the World Cup so much passion into these anthems and Just you know you see the the tear shed because they don't necessarily hear the anthems all the time They don't necessarily get to see you know a bunch of fellow countrymen all the time especially guys that are playing for these tier two nations and just so much passion into it and
00:21:52
Speaker
Moff who's shedding a tear and I don't make fun of him for it. I appreciate it. That's the passion. I mean like these These these players are representing their country on a stage that It's unlike any other
00:22:07
Speaker
Um, you know soccer has its you know, yeah that that that's a pretty big moment too, right? But but just like even just in the rugby world there's nothing right. There's nothing like it right? No, there's nothing like it and especially for those like you said there's island nations don't don't get many Don't get me any opportunities to test certainly not the the amount of test matches that other countries get so by far It's it's very important for them and it's good to see um, um, I was disappointed, uh that I want to note that
00:22:33
Speaker
And again, we talked about it off off the pod, but, you know, the the real the winning and sealing tries for all the the tries that sealed the game, really, for Australia were scored by champions. Yeah, it's it's it's a little painful. Yeah.
00:22:53
Speaker
But that's it's what happens if this was if this was russia playing these guys that had rocked up like this You wouldn't be as noting it but it's just because they're playing their felt their fellow countrymen of where they were burnt born It's it sucks. But yeah as fans of american rugby, we can't really complain about that too much We don't have all because we wouldn't have any players without that Yeah, certainly back in the day where we don't where when we were fielding mostly expats
00:23:18
Speaker
Todd clever and everyone else was a funny talker. Yep, for sure. It's a little bit different now, but it's still not quite all red white and blue here Michael Hooper had himself a day Latu, you know, and it's funny Latu pops up as the obviously the top scorer for Australia He actually did a lot of damage in fantasy for the Brumbies, too So I wonder if this is something that people can start to think about
00:23:41
Speaker
There is crossover here. Obviously. I don't know if it'll cross over just as well against like Wales But against the other countries if he's playing you probably well, they're okay to back him again. They have a good lineup line out But I could throw to Rory Arnold. I'd have a good line out, too
00:23:56
Speaker
Yeah, that man is huge so that that alone is going to get you significant points because that's you know Easy easy one-pointer every time they they have a line out and every time there's a penalty you're like, all right cool Money in the bank. Yeah, right and that that'll get you that that adds up
00:24:12
Speaker
Um, I thought um, I thought sama karevi definitely stepped up for this for the aussies at some point He was he played the full 80 I believe and he was Really trying to just get into the stretches and make sure that he could stop the damn stop the bleeding When fiji were up what nine at one point right, you know, and then he eventually got himself over after the it
00:24:31
Speaker
The yellow card was clearly the turning point when Fiji got had a man put in the bin. I was like, that's the end. That was Australia realizing that, okay, well, we can whoop their ass in the scrum and we can maul them to death. So let's do those two things. And that's what they did. And that earned penalty, penalty, penalty, penalty, yellow card. And then a yellow card, eventually a yellow card on their end. Yep. Not much. The referee really had no choice at that point.
00:24:56
Speaker
Right of the two guys that stepped into the um, the fly app position. I thought tamua played the better I didn't think lily fano has best game. Well, he got the shit kicked out of him also He got a ribber. He had a rib cracker for sure. I was like, oop that hurts, right? And and he was not happy after that. No, he was very unhappy and that was fairly early And so that that can take a guy like that out of his game because he's not he's not a a bulky gentleman No, um, so a hit like that can kind of rattle a guy
00:25:24
Speaker
Yeah, that uh, can't blame it for that one by any means whatsoever. And I thought nick white played Reasonably well, he wasn't a standout. He wasn't no, but there were better scrum have more Celebrated scrum halves and we'll get to them Soon. Yep, that played a lot worse than nick white did
00:25:40
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, no that he he was solid he didn't flash the he wasn't a flash but he also didn't cross them anything by any means That's that's you know, if you're if that's what you got from a scrum half you could do worse. Yeah Yeah, as long as the rest of the team can pick it up. So yeah Australia take care of Fiji and Fiji are you know still not they could still beat whales if they rock up, you know
00:26:03
Speaker
Yeah, the Fiji aren't out of it. They just have to put a full game together. Yes. Yeah, they got to find a way to maybe start some of those middling bench players and bring in some of the better guys. And I understand the thought, you know, start strong. But sometimes you could maybe get two guys in there that are off the bench, hide them a little bit. Yeah. And just, you know, you you tuck into like lock, maybe you don't fuck up. Yeah, that's all. You just follow a couple of other guys around and just try and help them. OK.
00:26:32
Speaker
Let them make the tackle, you be the tackle assist, and if they offload it, then yeah, make the tackle. But other than that, just don't fuck up. I did notice that the announcers said, again, I don't think it's right in terms of the scrum half, but everyone else, they thought that Australia finished with a better 15 than they started.
00:26:53
Speaker
Yeah, it's and that's in some ways some ways. Yes somewhat. I mean we had a true fullback at fullback we had We said matt to move probably played the better of the two, right? Um, I don't know about uh, solokai lotto I I like him, but I don't think he's the better of the choices at flank. No, not really But um, yeah, but yeah, you're right guinea probably is still number two to nick white So that's definitely I think that's that for sure thing. But yeah, they did they did they finished with a strong 15. It was obvious
00:27:23
Speaker
And I think that'll probably, when they, when they go into the, the, the whales match, and then if they make the knockout rounds, then, then I think they'll probably end up with, um, uh, with halo petty at fullback.
00:27:35
Speaker
Yeah, that's probably that's probably not wrong. They'll figure that out. Yeah. France and the Aji's. What a great match. This was entertaining as hell. If you weren't entertained by this match, then just quit. Great stuff, man. Oh my goodness. And obviously came down to the wire and Camille Lopez with the
00:27:57
Speaker
Big ol' cajones to knock that thing through. Knocked it through a little early, and I thought for sure that might have been bad, but then Befellia missed the penalty, and I was like, yep, worked out. And that, yeah, that was a little early for the droppy, but you know what, you have it, take the lead. Sometimes it doesn't work. Because France was controlling the match, I felt like, in every way, but the scoreboard at that point.
00:28:20
Speaker
What I didn't understand was the decision to kick a penalty after that, because... Right. You extend the lead a little bit, you know, make it—but at some point, what I would have liked for France to do
00:28:38
Speaker
um would be to kick for the corner because you're now you're you know, you you even whatever you do you kick for uh You know you you kick for points You get a 22 and you miss it and who knows what could happen like they can kick it deep And I think that's what happened. They kicked it deep Um france was running it out got a penalty and then that's that's what gave argentina the the opportunity If you kick it deep and you put it in the corner with like two minutes left
00:29:02
Speaker
and then but it's your ball in the corner you can hold that mall for a good 30 40 seconds if you wanted to now you're really just running time off the clock um and you're not only that but you're in their end and if they want to get you know from from their end to a point where they can kick a penalty they're gonna have to they need to get three penalties to win right one and one deep in their own end you kick it out maybe get towards midfield
00:29:27
Speaker
Maybe another penalty there. You're still not in place to get closer. Yeah, so you still need another phase of play and and to me Take the time in the distance and you're not in that position that France was were in late in the match to where they're kind of You know holding their bums for that kick. Yeah, they were holding on to the bums for sure Both both team I thought played incredibly. Well Guido petty stood out for sure
00:29:53
Speaker
It's 50th cap stands up and just says me, I got you guys and credit credit the hell out of him. That was a that was a great game. Unfortunately, here's here was where where the bugaboo and this is a really bad place to have you go awry. I thought Cabelian Sanchez both had not great games. I agree. So if that's where your your games going awry, that's a very bad place for it to happen.
00:30:18
Speaker
Yeah, you're nine and ten comment. You need them working together like dupont and intimac did. I thought they were both brilliant, right? I thought, you know, Intimac missed a early penalty and a late penalty. But other than that, like between the last five and the first five, I thought Intimac was brilliant. He was. And I don't see a reason to drop him from certainly not from a squad that you plan on using against a top team. That last penalty kick was a hard ask, too. Yeah. That was not something that you want. I mean,
00:30:46
Speaker
he's not you know he might have that that leg on him but but he still you know he still has a lot of development to do physically not just you know and mentally yeah uh you know maybe in five or six years yeah i'll i'll take that kick and not think about it but but with someone that young and and that distance and that angle i probably would have gone
00:31:07
Speaker
That's what that's another reason I would have gone to corner, but yeah, so I don't blame him for missing that That was one of these like give it a shot. Let's see what happens. See what you got kid But that all that drop kick then you could see the Argentinian player looking at it. It's looking up and No, no, no, no just cleared. So I did just by a wee bit But it was a it was a great match Looking at looking at the numbers here
00:31:34
Speaker
So do we think so? Because we know he's been a liability in the past. Do we think Gail Fikou played to his potential at center or do we think he got lucky? I know he got player of the match. Let's toss that out.
00:31:46
Speaker
uh, I would say he played to his potential more than anything because he He just looked at like the confidence and the the the quick decision-making And the you know, he saw a gap and he would attack it like he wasn't you know, he was finding space It wasn't as though he was you know put into holes and it just oh yeah, he did well on it completely on his own. Yeah
00:32:11
Speaker
I think that that was just a combination of the good connection between the 9 and the 10 means that one of your centers should be having a good day. And in this case, yeah, maybe they spotted something in Argentina's defense that they said, we think we're going to have a day out of our 12 rather than our 13.
00:32:30
Speaker
Um, or they just then they just put him in spots that that worked out. Well, um, I think that was I think I don't see any reason that that he couldn't continue to do that do that Well contrast that with getting started on the wing against england and the six nations and well being very out of place, right? And he looked at it and it that wasn't his fault. It was the freaking coaching staff I don't know what the hell they were thinking with that one. So I was like
00:32:53
Speaker
Maybe you don't start a guy that's played center most of his life on the wing Yeah against a team that's looking to get the ball to the wing and or kick right? So just just the thought but he looked good Pennell looked worth his value. Yes you are So yeah, there was I mean if you see a guy that's worth that looks like he has a big score on this It's probably was probably where it was probably right. There's no there's not a lot of flukes on this one. I
00:33:18
Speaker
And I swear I had a note about uj, but I can't remember. I thought I don't think he did much of anything He was I say that he was there. He was mostly invisible. Yeah Um for argentine obviously pedipag was uh, quito pedi was awesome, right? Uh, palo matero is his usual self Yes, he was and that and really that was the end, you know
00:33:34
Speaker
Montoya did a little bit better than Creevy did. But that was the end. There wasn't a lot. The fact that Nicholas Sanchez got replaced fairly early by Urdu Polito was pretty telling for me. I was like, yeesh. This is like a guy that you should be able to ride. And you're pulling him early in a big match where it could decide whether or not you get knocked out in the pool stage or not. So that's a lot to me. In the end, Nicholas Sanchez probably needs to pick it up just a bit.
00:34:11
Speaker
All Blacks and Springboks. That was... You know, you had your appetizer and your main course. Let's get to the main course. Big time. This was... You know, okay. So here's where I'm gonna be a bit of a poopy pants here. Because this is... I shall be a poopy pants. I shall be a poopy pants on this one with my favorite foil, Fafte Clerk. He's a foil, all right. Can you hit a fucking 10?
00:34:28
Speaker
And we have the big one.
00:34:41
Speaker
Yeah, you his service was not great. It was terrible his service and not great And you know, I was actually talking about this with the aforementioned south african brothers, right on our club about um, I think faf is the third best Uh scrum half on that team and I think he's incredibly overrated. Um and this game I think uh Shows why because there were a ton of I mean he gave
00:35:06
Speaker
New Zealand a ton of opportunity just because he was throwing it behind his tent. Yeah, don't do that. Don't no. Don't do that. Just a thought. No. Bad fast. Just a thought. So that's that's me. That's my one poopy pants for this for this match. You're allowed. And just to translate it to later, Eddie, are you watching? Do you see what happens? Okay. Do you see what happens?
00:35:32
Speaker
Do you see what happens when you start a shit scrum half against the All Blacks or a scrum half that can't hit his connections? And we'll get to England later. But if Eddie was watching this game, when you're playing New Zealand, start Willy. Yeah, start something that can hit his target, please.
00:35:49
Speaker
Uh, yeah, because faff was just uh, he's he was a liability in that match and that's that's unfortunate because everybody else played Very very well Well, I thought all right. Well, not everyone maybe maybe there was so and maybe this was a as it was a cause from The bad service, but I didn't I was not even look on you on was was very invisible to me and I thought I don't know why you bench Jesse Creel that that really baffled me, honestly
00:36:16
Speaker
Yeah, that's um, that's a question mark um, I I to me I I think it's when when you have They're not your your 10 doesn't get good ball Um, your outside centers doesn't get it doesn't get much of a chance That might be a part of that because you're scrambling at that point for for possession, let alone
00:36:35
Speaker
Attacking yep It's it's sad that they won because Hanson's gonna continue to think that the Barrett 15 Wonga 10 things gonna work I just don't think I'm going to I think what I think when the chips are all down on the table I think this he's gonna have a problem and to put Ben Smith on the bench. Yeah is really baffling too long a mist though He missed a couple and that's not that's not like him. Nope, so I
00:37:02
Speaker
Yeah, I that's it's it's it's maybe that's an alarm if he's right if he's gonna If monga is gonna play like that in this Competition, it's definitely better to have him on the bench and and and start boating it at 10, right? Yeah, it's I mean it is another level and Barrett's done this Barrett's played in the final
00:37:21
Speaker
You know, it's it's yeah, you can't discount that. I was extremely happy and Even a little bit kitty that Anton Leonard Brown played as well as he did. Yeah, this is somebody I've been ringing I've been ringing the bell for for a while now and I wanted him to get back into the all-blacks team You know, he played very well for the Chiefs this year and I when I saw him on the on the the the initial list I was like
00:37:46
Speaker
I was I was just very happy because I think he's an excellent player He does a couple things he can both make you miss but he's got the speed to burn Yeah, not quite several speed but right he'll he'll make you look silly
00:37:59
Speaker
But I enjoyed the strategy on this one, which was the, I can talk, which was the all old man 12 with Leonard Brown at 13. So you had Crotty and then he came off for Sunnyville. So it's like, all right, look, we're going to wheel you out there for 60 minutes. Just last that long and we'll get you a sub at 20. Okay. Cool.
00:38:23
Speaker
So that was that was a Right that that was that was a fun combination because I think that frees up Leonard break He can you know he kind of has that then they have two different games karate and sunny bill, but they have about similar speed Yeah, they're not gonna be burners. They're gonna be guys who you're gonna run right off of them and and they'll help you out They'll put you in the right spot
00:38:45
Speaker
Yep, I don't know before we get into fancy stuff And you were you were happy about this cuz he had a bad game anyway But Mac my pimpies very lucky to not get a yellow card. I thought that that was an excellent decision at that moment in time I don't I don't love I don't love the decision penalty only I was like
00:39:08
Speaker
He definitely did everything he could to slow that fucking ball down. He did. Yellow card, but, you know, Jerome Gross says French referee gives him surprise. Oh, let this one go. Don't do it again. Yeah, sure. I'll stop. I won't stop another try. Good God.
00:39:25
Speaker
One thing I wanted to bring up, because it did involve this game a little bit, because it happened to Colbay and Colbay did it once. It wasn't just in this match, it was in many of the other matches.
00:39:40
Speaker
Where there's the little bit of a cynicism around the the player in the air going for the ball and challenging them Um, there was a lot of oh i'm going for the ball Oh i'm ducking and and kind of undercutting the guy who's in the air and a lot of it's very dangerous But they're they're making it look like they're going for the ball like to me that that hopefully the uh The referees saw it over the course because it's hard to see when it's just your game You know in the mail like or in the email be like guys, right? Can we please watch out for this shit?
00:40:09
Speaker
it happened like once in like three or four matches once or twice and it's like
00:40:14
Speaker
Yeah, it's on the line, but let's let's cut that out. Let's err on the side of player safety rather than, oh, he's going for the ball. What else? No, no, he's not going for the ball. He's making sure he can tackle the guy in, you know, before he can. Yeah, let's not do that. Please. Good God. That looks that that just sounds so dangerous. I thought he had an amazing game, too. Colby. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. He looks brilliant. I mean, he's fucking fearless for his size. He was outmatched out there. Second smallest guy besides Faf.
00:40:41
Speaker
He's and he's challenging george bridge in the air. Yeah That's that was actually the one reason why I didn't want to start him this week was And I didn't say that because I didn't want to tip anybody off and I was wrong anyway So what the fuck do I know? But uh, yeah colby having to defend george bridge i'm looking at the two of them and i'm like
00:41:02
Speaker
I see a thing that could be a problem here. I know call me a height supremacist, but No, this is a that I am I'm not gonna question Colby again. He he was amazing though. I
00:41:20
Speaker
And I wasn't even telling like talking to my wife about him before the match I'm like he will find space like there's nothing there and he'll just wriggle through and suddenly he's so damn small like a shot Yeah, and he's so and he's got great acceleration. So yeah, very good player fantasy wise we talked about Scott Barrett maybe having a bit of a balloon after that offload that he carried home and
00:41:40
Speaker
Uh, I mean great good job on him for being there. Yeah. Oh can't take that away from him You know got to be there to make that happen But uh, other than that, I mean that would have apart from that that would have been Yeah, maybe a a 20 point game, which is still pretty good But at the same time like nothing to write home about right, but he had like a 25 meter run for a try. So
00:42:01
Speaker
They'll do it, especially because locks obviously gather points much faster than wings do, you know, in terms of meters run. So that's 10 points for a try. The 34 and, you know, 25 meter run. How much I think it was at a point for every five meters. So that's like as a lock. Yeah. Yeah. So that's like a 25 point.
00:42:20
Speaker
You got that right something like that something that neighborhood um 15 point play right there so that that takes me down to 24 Yeah, so I'm sorry 29. That's that's so decent. It's not somebody you don't want to have on your team I'm not trying to say don't you know don't add Barrett? He's a guy to have on your on your roster as long as he's playing as long as he's playing because yeah And we'll see what the rotation is with the remaining games because we talked about how the right position This pool isn't exactly stellar
00:42:46
Speaker
So, um, and Anton Leonard Brown, the thing that he got a lot of his points were from the things you expect from him, defenders beaten and he was gained. Right. Like those are the things that he does. So, you know, if that's what he's going to do against a pretty good spring box team, then you can probably back him pretty well. Uh, on the other side, the obviously Colby back him. He's going to make some guys look silly. He's going to make guys miss. Um,
00:43:08
Speaker
And now in the, but Pimpi is going to do all right that this was a, especially against the competition. This was a, I think I feel like this is a one-off, um, maybe against the top tier. Yeah. Maybe consider this as a, a warning. Um, I know I will cause I had started him instead of Colby. Uh, but.
00:43:26
Speaker
Yeah, I wouldn't sleep on I wouldn't put away my pimpy just yet, but this is disappointing as hell. Yep And you can and one final note and you kind of did leave the field injured He's probably done for the majority of this competition if not the whole thing Yeah, it was pretty bad looking So yeah all blacks take care of the spring box and take control of their pool and probably are in the driver's seat to win the pool
00:43:52
Speaker
Italy and Namibia. I actually was very interested in how Italy was going to do in this match and it did not start well. Maybe it came out roaring with a try on first five minutes or so, something like that. I was screaming, go on, Namibia. Let's go.
00:44:09
Speaker
Yeah, five minutes in, Damien Stevens got over the line. But Italy did eventually show their class. The guys that they needed to play big played big. Oh, can we talk about Freddy Ruzza? He is naughty. Naughty. That offload.
00:44:25
Speaker
Oh, yes. That was beautiful. I only honestly in this match, I only saw the first try. Just kind of was cutting was cutting in no, no look off his shoulder. And the way he knew the wing was going to be there and he took off like about it. I was like, this is the second row we're talking about. Yeah. Yeah. Very, very good stuff from Freddy Ruzza. Only 27 points. But yeah, still good stuff. Good looking stuff for him. Tommaso Allen played very well. Actually, both fly has played fairly well here.
00:44:53
Speaker
You know the competition was very obvious and the bbos started to just kind of give up not give up, but they just started to get out class That's just that's what's going to happen. You'll upset expect that I mean if nothing else the maybe is not going to present Anything to italy that italy haven't seen already by no means so it's really that the question of can they continue to apply that pressure after that opening try and uh
00:45:18
Speaker
only for so long. Yeah, Tabaldi, Allen both score well, both score very well. Jake Pledry comes off the bench, gets himself over the line. I think hopefully that's the hand up like, hey, I need to start please. Which he does. He does. He definitely needs to be on the starting field.
00:45:34
Speaker
Um, yeah, so that's something to keep in your team. Um, Tabaldi and Alan are both very good options. So apart from the, uh, apart from the games you don't expect them to do great, I'd say one of the others is going to do well, even against like the L blacks or the, or the, no, which pool are they in?
00:45:51
Speaker
Yeah, the all blacks they're in that pool. I knew that I swear to god. I swear to god. Um, so yeah Anyway, it'll take care of maybe a 47 22 and maybe I put up a good fight Give them all the credit in the world. They have some guys that play professionally over um over in europe But uh some doubt that are like in academy systems in south africa But you know the majority of them came from their domestic league, which is well, unfortunately lesser than mlr. So
00:46:21
Speaker
I don't know what that says. Can we say one quick thing? Or can I say one quick thing? Fire. Italy is at the top of the pool. Point differential, we'll do that. And bonus point. Oh, that's right. Because they got it. New Zealand did not get the bonus point. No, they did not. That was a tough ask against South Africa. Oh, of course. I just wanted to note that after the first round of pool play, Italy is at the top of the pool. Because I don't think we're going to be saying that the second round. Probably not.
00:46:50
Speaker
Probably not. Although maybe they play Canada. They could get another bonus point win. They could be at 10. They actually might, yeah. That'll be interesting.
00:47:03
Speaker
to the All Six Nations clash that was a very wet one, unfortunately, which made things not great to the eye. But you know, it's just it's really unfortunate when that happens because I know Scotland wanted to do some some fun things. But when that ball is a bar of soap, it's extremely tough.
00:47:24
Speaker
I mean, they they should have at least tried. I think they tried. They just wanted to. Everything just kept flying through their hands. It's really shit. Yeah, I just I mean, you already know my I hate watched this game for a little while. I watched it. I was interested. And then about 20 minutes in, I was like, this isn't that interesting. And then to watch the halftime like, all right. And then it pretty much everything I watched after halftime was just hate watching. I'm like, I hate this fucking match.
00:47:51
Speaker
I mean, so all I'll say is, I've said it before, I don't like Ireland style.
00:47:59
Speaker
Out of this match, you have Bandiaki, you have Peter Romani, and you have Hamish Watson going out early, very early, all three of them. And you have Johnny Sexton. Every time one of them was down, he's down, too. Yeah, he was the person I grew up in. So, you know, you're the number one team in the world somehow.
00:48:21
Speaker
And you put on a. Yeah, we talked about that. That's right. It doesn't mean shit. But like the display of rugby was just it was just too overly physical. You know, we lost Hamish Watson for the for the tournament, hopefully just the tournament. But I'm hoping I'm fearing that it's a lot worse than that.
00:48:39
Speaker
Yeah, he was in a brace on the side. I wouldn't shot that up to the playing style. He got caught a really awkward way in the ruck. Right, but that's a function of everybody just throwing bodies at rucks and being more using the ruck as an offensive weapon rather than a way to retain possession. I'm sorry, when did Ben Ryan land in America and come into this podcast? Good God, man.
00:49:01
Speaker
No, it wasn't it's it's it's in a ruck. It's injuries happen in Iraq. They do because I've got but he also he also I didn't like the way that that he that he rucked there. He kind of came past Kind of came past Watson and then drove him like kind of pulled him down sideways. I he was almost you missed
00:49:20
Speaker
Yeah, he knew he missed he knew he made up for missing by fucking taking out his knee That that to me that's just a well. It wasn't it wasn't don't don't talk about like it was dirty It wasn't dirty. It wasn't dirty, but it wasn't clean. It wasn't dirty. Just be be real. It wasn't dirty We'll talk about Keenely entire for long the one of those players are dirty players true. So let's be let's I just don't like down 20%
00:49:45
Speaker
I just don't like when you guys roll people over their own legs like that or roll them over themselves. Yeah, it's it's tough. It's not. Yeah. At that point, just let him go and let him play on a little bit longer. But it is what it is. You know, Ireland, you know, did what they do, which is just.
00:50:03
Speaker
They kicked for possession for field position and then bullied over the line a couple times. They did. Ian Henderson was good in the loose. He's a he's he's he's a he's a hell of a loose loose forward that's playing long. Quite, quite. James Ryan was very good. This this this game as he as he usually is. Yeah. James Ryan doesn't know what it's like to lose very often. No, to be fair. And bestie played fucking out of his mind. Yep. Although that also was not a try.
00:50:29
Speaker
Well, I don't I don't see where the try was there. I didn't either I'm like, uh, the scotland's arms under the ball and and bestie has the ball is actually over the top of bestie's left hand and maybe he had his right hand on it, but I don't see I didn't see I didn't see any Downward pressure on that try. Yeah, so it's like, okay
00:50:51
Speaker
But it was hard, but once the ruling has been called I I have downward pressure or I have it I have it touched I would say touch I have no doubt that it touched the ground I just don't see any downward pressure on it from from Ireland But again, I couldn't quite tell where bestie's right hand was it may have been pushing it down to so I want to dispute it so once it's the decisions made and the questions asked as it was it was and It is how it goes
00:51:16
Speaker
Yeah, so yeah a lot of good scores, um, uh, Chris Farrell came in and did very well for himself, uh, off the bench for a bandiaki. Uh-huh. Uh, Connor might got himself a line, which helps, uh, CJ Sander was, was he the man of the match? Yeah, I think he was the player of the match. I didn't watch that long. He was used to find out.
00:51:33
Speaker
He was, he had like 15, 16 carries. He was the usual horse that he is. He was. For a long ends up being the prop scoring, not Healy. Damn it. Yay. I had Healy. I had for a long. Yeah. Oops. Oh, well.
00:51:50
Speaker
Um, but there was the yeah, there's some good there's some good things to take away fantasy wise from this Oh a lot of good scores from from ireland. Yeah, because they just made tackles all day That's what they do. And then their locks had amazing runs and Henderson I agree run right for sure and did Henderson no Did it Henderson had the run and ryan had the try or something like that? Uh, who had the try at the end? I can't remember off the top of my head. I know the end but you know, yeah
00:52:16
Speaker
Um, no, he oh, yeah. Ryan had the try. Okay. Well, either way, um, island move island, uh, moved to the top of their group for now or yeah, sort of either way. Um, they they've taken control of, you know, what people believe will be the, a lot of people will believe will be the two teams that get out of this group, uh, 27 three. And that, and they, and they will be awaiting Japan.
00:52:41
Speaker
Should be a good game. Yeah, we'll talk about that in a few minutes. Yep. Just just getting there uh england tonga. Did you watch this? Yes. Okay, uh, what are you big notes? Young's is garbage. Yeah, we we ship service they and and it showed the um The handling errors they the the the the commentators kept coming back to all these handling errors and yeah, there were a ton there were it was mostly because that either the first or second pass and
00:53:10
Speaker
and away from the breakdown. When it was the second pass, it was because the first guy was getting shit service and trying to make up for the timing that got disrupted by the bad pass from Young's.
00:53:24
Speaker
It to me there was it was no uh coincidence that and and it didn't show up fantasy wise Um, but when uh, willy hines came on the handling errors went way down so to me that that's a clear indication of who's getting good service and and um And how that's affecting the team play at large. Yeah, but um to spin this as a fantasy as best we can real quick here, um
00:53:51
Speaker
Young's 18 points isn't a terrible isn't laying up the world though by no no hope your scrum house gonna get you 25 plus right Hinds came in to get five whatever Hookers we talked about it big surprised England's hooker does well and their backup hooker does well Get over the line that was a great try to yeah trying on the spot good job Luke
00:54:12
Speaker
Anthony Watson did fairly well. Tulangi, is this his one-off, or is he gonna be able to write it out? You know I've been talking about it, like, okay. You've been on him, so. So first off, for the people who haven't been paying attention, I am not a big Lester fan. And so if you're new to the pod, Ben will, Ben hate watches Lester matches. Right, so it's Lester and Ireland, or my hate-watching team at this point of my rugby watching, and for the styles that they play.
00:54:39
Speaker
Maybe one of the reasons why I'm not such a big fan of Young's and Ford also the fact that they're not very good, but But to a laggy has been just a battering ram. That's all he's been and Though to me the biggest The cool though the most fun play that I saw I think it was Johnny May finally gets off like a fucking rocket and
00:55:03
Speaker
And I'm pretty sure it was May. It was either May or it might have been Daley. And who's running there right next to him? Tui. But Tui. And so it's like, oh, this guy can actually move now. And maybe it took him a little bit to come back from his injury, but I feel like he's also slimmed down and gotten himself in a position where
00:55:21
Speaker
I mean, the two tries that he scored to a laggy were the essence of what he can do. And the one is, I'm just going to bowl you over from five meters out and take three or four guys and carry him over the line, like, you know, like Billy Vunipola, who also is looking slimmer. But then the other try that he got where he was, again, shot like a cannon, right, you know, right through the line. It might have been an offload, too. And the pace that he showed, he was running away from everyone.
00:55:48
Speaker
That's the tool Aggie that they need. Yep. Um, so I don't think it's a one-off. I think this this summer he's looked Starting from the summer. He's he's looked much better much more fit much more mobile. Um, I I fucking love him now This is what he's going to be given. Um, yeah, no, I think this isn't I don't think this is a one-off I think this is what you're going to get from tui the rest of the way out
00:56:07
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Okay. That next is my plant. So yeah, England, England, England take care of business 35, three whole Tonga scoreless. One note for Tonga, Tony Takalua did not do himself any good service in this match. Now some more points than Young's though. Yeah, they're, they're rocked up in defense, but their offense was pretty much in existence.
00:56:28
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I mean, they only scored three points. So there you go And that's the that's a credit to english defense. It really is um, well as georgia happened this morning for us um Wales take care of business the georgians rocked up in the second half for sure. They uh, they played very well in the second half I think they were winning the second half up until the last like minute or so. So good on them. Um, georgia. Yeah, I think georgia wants to try to give will's technically the lead in the half but or tied
00:56:55
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Either way, they did themselves a service, but they came out of the blocks very slow. Yeah, they did. Surprise, surprise. Yeah, it's unfortunate. It is for them. Because if they had come out hard, that was the only chance to really have a shot at the game. Right. That was his name.
00:57:11
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Shileshava does himself well the the bench players played probably a little bit better than the than the starters again You know going back to that theme how their props had their backup props had 20 points each Yeah, and one of them came off injured. So this is that speaks to that Tomas Williams played most of the second half. So that's why you see his score balloon North had a long try Davies had a nice line that got himself over which yeah them and
00:57:37
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He's kind of good at that. So if you're looking for a center and you want a Welshman, that's probably your guy right there. I mean, if you need a center and you just are unsure of and you have a Welshman spare, go with him. And Sanjay got himself over too. Yes, he did. He played very well.
00:57:55
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Trying to think, and then Tipperick, his score was ballooned. He, he, did he intercept, either intercept one or he got a free one. He had a long run that ballooned his score just a bit. I know loose forwards don't get nearly as far knocked down as. He had four defenders beaten. Yeah. So that's, that's pretty. Might've been, might've been technically on that play. I'm not sure. When you look through his stats, like he had eight tackles, a hundred percent tackle rate, which helps.
00:58:21
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That's a that's a bonus point. I'm there too. He passes from a flanker is pretty impressive. Yeah, he's doing the old Out the back type of stuff. Yeah for them. So well, let's take care of business very easily 4314 they'll be they'll be in the they'll be in the cold tub later, but mm-hmm Because the Georgian did smack them pretty that's what they do and that's what that's what they're good at They know how to do it a lot of these guys play in France, which you know, it's just full physicality. Mm-hmm for the most part
00:58:49
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So yeah. Real quick. Let me get through this before we get too out of hand here. Top scoring players by position. So I have five lists that I'll put them up later, but I'll just go through each one individually.
00:59:09
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And I listed the players as one position. I'm just gonna keep them there for the whole entirety of the tournament if If if TRM pigeon hold them into one position, that's where I put them if I know they played another position That's where I put them and if I just if they started a position that was kind of it was kind of a crapshoot That's where I put them. Those were the those are my reasonings. You don't like it find somebody else to ask and
00:59:32
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Okay, uh center manu 41, uh full back. Uh, Liam Williams with only 21. There weren't a lot of true fullbacks actually played this weekend. No. Um, so Liam Williams leads the lay with 21 at fullback. Uh, Tommaso Allen 38 at fly half. Justin Tipperick with 46. We just talked about him as a flanker. Uh, total a lot to 44 for the hookers. Uh, Kresge Hermano, the eight men leads the eight men with 42. How about that? Right. Um,
01:00:00
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props weren't particularly high scoring, which they sometimes aren't tight for long, leads the way with 24. Tito Tivaldi from Italy again, 46. So obviously half back combination, kind of a good day. Guido Petty, who had an outstanding performance for Argentina, it reflected very well for him, 65 for Argentina as a second row. And then Matosima obviously leads the way for the wings, 64 with his hat trick. So that's good stuff. So if you have room on your teens for some of those guys, maybe
01:00:29
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Have a look and and one last thing about one of the guys you mentioned tomato Tomasso. Mm-hmm He plays every position pretty much. I mean we look back at him So he played you can put him at fly half-center fullback So if yours if you're kind of like me and I'm like, I don't really like my fullback options. I
01:00:48
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You have a fly half there who can play who you can slide in at fullback. And that that's that's valuable. Yeah. At 38, even if you take away some of his kicking points, he'll be in the high 20s. Right. So that's that's the other thing. That's good. Yeah. I always look always like for guys that are versatile on my bench. He got me. So he had 18 when they have that for your bench. So he got like 36. Like, yeah, I don't know how much he really was a factor there. OK, maybe not. Yeah, that's crazy. OK. Very good stuff. OK.
01:01:19
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to the second game week. The second game week's kind of funny with TRM. We're gonna have kind of a changeover in the middle of the week from game week two to game week three in the middle of the night for us. So be on your A game, kind of look out for, and we're gonna talk about actually a couple of those games in game week three because next time we are able to do this.
01:01:38
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game week three will have already started. So just kind of a heads up and we'll give you the best advice we possibly can and we'll preview it to the best of our ability but it's a week away. So what are you gonna do? So since you went first last time, you're going for, or since I went first last time, you're going first this time. Russia and Samoa.
01:01:58
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And we talked about there's not a lot that you want from there, but we did mention a couple guys from russia earlier So maybe we consider them for this match as well. Yeah, I would say that they're you know, I would look to japan And how that game went for for this match as far as position players So you look at the the players who did well for for japan That was you know hookers
01:02:22
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I think that's what their flanker did all right. Oh, yeah, they're right. Yeah, that's not the one you're talking about. They had a yeah One of their flankers and then their eight meno got over 40, right? So you're looking at good points there and then a winger so I would be looking At some always lineup and looking at those positions because what what worked well against Russia for Japan probably gonna work well against Russia For Samoa in different ways
01:02:49
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Right. Likewise, I would look at Russia and say, OK, which of their players did did fairly well? I mean, their their fullback got 26 points. That's right. So that that's.
01:03:04
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That's that's a possibility. Yeah, he's listed. Oh, well, he played 15 and then they're 11 still did all right. And their hooker did okay. So I'm not sure if that's going to carry over exactly. I would think that their lineup would still be fine against Samoa.
01:03:21
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I wouldn't think Samoa is going to be challenging too much. They want to play in the loose, not fuck around in the set pieces. So that's where I would go. I would really look to that Japan game and not maybe not expect the same kind of points. I wouldn't expect 64 out of out of out of a wing. Probably not. But at the same time, I'd expect a fairly decent score out of out of those same positions. Yeah, fair point.
01:03:47
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So I had, so we have Fiji, Uruguay, Fiji and Uruguay have actually both released their lamps as well. So that's helpful. Okay. For all of us. Nakarawa is playing at eight. Yes, he is. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. Yeah, for sure. I wrote to, you know, Wawa from the Saints is playing lock. I would go ahead and roll him out there. Gunova and Rod Rodra are both, are both in the lineup. Rod Rodra has been moved into center. So, which means he's outside center even better. So he's going to get the ball a little bit more. Go ahead and rock that.
01:04:15
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Volko played very well when he came in, so I would go ahead and let that guy go as well. He's in the lineup, so go ahead. Josh Matovasi is starting out of position. Don't play him. Don't play him. He's a center by trade. There's a reason he's a center by trade. Bolivol is not amazing. Matovasi is not as good as him. So take that for what that's worth.
01:04:37
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Um, for Uruguay, there are a couple of guys that you can probably give a consideration to. Um, these are guys that are based on, and I found some stats based on either last, the last world cup, uh, line breaks, tackles, points, all that stuff. Um, does it, uh, or Miceo who's there, Scrum half. Usually he sent him only this game because, uh, the back end of week of this week, he actually might, he's probably going to start. So, and he's actually very good. He does a lot of things.
01:05:07
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Kix, runs, you know, he can tackle pretty well. He's quite the hero for them. And a lot of these guys actually play over here in the US. They play for them in the MLR, so that's kind of cool. givenara, Biloseka, and Berchezi, those are three guys that you can consider if you need a Uruguay, and if you need a tier two guy, and you're kind of stuck on other teams. Maybe looking for a semi favorable matchup, although I don't know how favorable Fiji is. It's a depowered lineup. That's what I can say about that. So there you go.
01:05:37
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And for Italy and Canada, if you're looking for Canadians, God love you. Tyler Ardern. Tyler Ardern. That's about it. Sears Zuru's the prop. Yeah. He might be a little bit Maco-ish. He could be. We'll see. Right. Depends on if he starts, I guess.
01:05:59
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Yeah, exactly. I would assume he would, but you look at Namibia's props did not do well against Italy. Nobody. No props did well. I'm not going to be fair. And that's fair. To be fair. To be fair.
01:06:14
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I so I'm not sure I would advise that but and like you said Rosa had his His offload and whatnot. I would very much look at paladri because I I assume he'll be starting I was bad. He's playing on match and He's starting roll with that. Yeah, don't for sure. Don't does well on the premiere ship. There's no reason he won't do well He did well off the bench here
01:06:36
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Yeah, so so so he could get your points even so if he's not starting if he's on the bench He might be worth stowing away on your bench To get some points out of that And I'm not sure what the you know, we don't know the starting lineup at this point So we're kind of just guessing but you know the Tabaldi and Allen did did amazingly so again Tommaso Allen guy to think about playing out of position
01:07:01
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If you already have a fly half that you like to or he could be you could do well as a starter I mean 38 points is nothing nothing to shake a stick at so Certainly not someone you can just I mean he was the top scoring fly half. Yeah, he was my team Yeah for week one. Yeah, so so he's somebody to continue to consider as long as he's starting right absolutely
01:07:22
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All right, our boys and hopefully they don't get too fucked. Yeah, and neither Ben nor I have a start of the week yet. So be patient with that. We'll get it out tomorrow. Just show your boots. There's no start of the week or so. The week will get out tomorrow.
01:07:41
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Anyway, for England, basically all the names I named last week, just go ahead, because that is probably, this is definitely gonna be the lineup that they kind of dial it back and they're still gonna fuck us pretty good. So when I say yes, I mean the Eagles, because the US Eagles are just not that good. Yeah, so like the likes of McConaughey, Kaku Nasinga, Pierce Francis,
01:08:02
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The likes this I would sit the centers because those those guys are gonna have to run through Paula Sica Yeah, and I would not be signing up for that if I were them not so much. No Bryce Campbell's on the bench. So If Lucy gets tired, he's he's gonna come in and just do the same thing, right? So I would maybe sit the set the starting centers whether it's Pierce Francis or slate or whoever it is Luke Cowan Dickey go ahead. Yeah, obviously did very well Lewis loved them He's usually gonna do well
01:08:27
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Mark Wilson's a name you might want to look out for, but at the same time, these are guys who you might not even want to have on your team. Because again, you might not be the only game that they play. Right. They might play one or two matches. So these aren't guys you're going to have long term. So again, I'd probably look at that and keep that, keep that in mind. I mean, you know, I'm guessing launch where he's going to be playing in this game. I would not advise playing him. And then I'm really going to regret saying this, but play forward, play forward.
01:08:55
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I agree with that. In this match. I feel dirty saying that. He'll be playing, so yeah. So names that you might know for the U.S. Joe T said
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01:09:06
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them. That's a pain in the ass of the lineup to frickin' deal with. But Mauro won't be playing. Laws won't be playing. Laws is gonna probably play. You think Laws will be playing? I think he's gonna play. Alright. If not Cruz.
01:09:18
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You have a cruise isn't the same. I think cruise isn't the same Disruptor and I mean he can just shut the line out. Don't get me wrong. It's just not the same as as mario toji out No, it's not but so I would be very fearful of that. Yeah for sure Names you can I would consider starting the back row for the two of the back rows for the u.s tony lamborn and cam dolan guys that have played
01:09:41
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Not in the US. So go ahead and roll them our boy AJ If he's your fly half and you need a fly half and you're looking for an American AJ You could do worse than AJ will hooley another name. He's gonna play fullback. He can kick. Well, he can run Well, he's he'll get opportunities. He even loves to kick he plays in that he plays for he's on the Saints payroll Gets loaned out quite often, but maybe he puts his hand up and says hey fuck you with him didn't watch it Why don't you keep me on the team is here? So maybe he does that or you get to move to another club?
01:10:10
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So I think he's got to play his brains out this year. So yeah, that's another name to consider.
01:10:16
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So then I get Argentina Tonga and this one's a, this one's a tough one. I mean, first off, um, I, I don't expect him to, to put up 65 again, but Guido, but, but Guido petty, uh, he's somebody who at this point, um, he's a very strong consideration just because of the work he did not around the try scoring, but the, uh, the, the, you know, the line out all that.
01:10:41
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He's going to continue to throw up points. You got to figure that Cabeli and Sanchez are going to have to, they're going to use this game to work to get better and work with each other. Right. But still that there's other options. And then Matera, I mean, you know, at this point, if you got your guys for, for this kind of match, for Argentina, I would be good anyway. Yeah.
01:11:05
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I mean that this isn't I'm not you know, gonna Set the world on fire here with some somebody somebody somebody knew that you don't know about no This is these are the guys that you're gonna the guys who were gonna do well the ones you already know about for For Tonga Takalua, I think we'll put up a little bit more I would expect him to do far better this match that he did that match that was well I mean England's defense is
01:11:31
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really really strong they are you know so to be to to be fair to him yes that's really him that was just a bad matchup for him his kicking boot wasn't on fire though by any means and then um you got the the centers uh vuna and and piatal didn't do so i should do well against uh right
01:11:49
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I would say pia tao. I would I would look in hard in his direction In this match, even though he didn't do so hot Last time and then um california might actually have he might Be someone you kind of just keep an eye on right? Um, he was a little bit out of position at six um Against england. I know he likes he he plays eight for for lester lester in the in the premiership And I think he does a really good job there Um, and vai pulu didn't do so hot so i'm not sure what maybe they switch that up. Maybe they switch that up
01:12:19
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But he's somebody I would I'm not high on him, but he's somebody to consider if you're really hard up for eight men for sure Japan and Ireland so I have a lot of sets unfortunately because we despite the fact that
01:12:34
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You know say what you will about the irish playing style their defense doesn't want a lot through so you and right japan do love the expansive open game Which is not going to play well into this it might though because if they if they get a little deeper and they get away from Ireland's initial launch I mean if you look at what the way England beat the beat up on on ireland on the on the scoreboard it was because they
01:12:58
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They did some trickeration with the ball and didn't just take a one-up or a two-up hit. They made two or three passes and changed the defensive organization in that.
01:13:09
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You know that that could be good and that could that could work to be yeah But this is this is also like that get right game for Japan and this is a bad team to try and get right against as well That's also true. That's the unfortunate part. So I'm gonna go ahead and say tomorrow leech Maki laba shagna is probably a one-off your boy Hori's probably not the best guy to go with this this match especially since the Irish lineups usually a little tough to
01:13:34
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Take it around complete around Um him I know I won't say no because he's probably gonna see the ball a lot as as the eight man The props for scotland actually scored very well uh against island so, you know it maybe if you need if if you have it if you if you just for whatever reason you were a fan of one of the japanese props for I don't know what reason you had but hey
01:13:56
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You had your reasons. This might be a place to launch them. If Matsushita plays, play them. I mean that's kind of a turn over here. For Ireland, I don't know what kind of lineup they're going to put out. They're probably going to put a mixed bag out. So Sexto might sick, but I would play Jack Carty if you're ready to go with that. Connor Murray, Ring Rose, go ahead. Aki Farrow, go ahead.
01:14:17
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Bestie, yes. Only best. Any Irish hooker, not in Rory Best, do not do it. Don't bother. Do not do it. CJ Standard, yes. And then obviously the starting props, I'd go ahead and do it as well. Furlong and Healy, if either one of them play, go ahead.
01:14:32
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So for South Africa versus Namibia Don't worry about Namibia Pretty much don't don't if you have a Namibian on your team. Well congrats on living in Namibia But I wouldn't Not where I would play if you're looking to score some fantasy points The real question is who's gonna be playing for South Africa?
01:14:59
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I would look at the wings because they should do fairly well. And then I assume at this point that it's going to be Herschel Yankees, who's going to be the... Or Cobas. Or Cobas. That we wanted to. We wanted the two. Figure out who the starter is. I think they would go with Herschel on this one to bring the young guy along and maybe have Corbus on the... That could be fun. As the backup.
01:15:21
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Willy LaRue, if he's back there, might be a good option. And then the forwards, it's really going to be a question of, again, who's playing. Malcolm Marks didn't not have his best game last time, so I'm wondering. Tough opposition. Yeah, extremely tough opposition. I'm wondering if they play him again.
01:15:39
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They uh, and the the locks go with the locks. Um, whoever whoever's playing lock for um Give me some it's probably gonna be snaming. Um, and sebeth or monster one of them is gonna get at least one of them is gonna have a seat um And then uh, you know, it's really a question mark as to the rest of it who plays so I would look again back three Um, yeah, you said back back threes from half And and locks is where I would be looking at for for south africa
01:16:09
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I liked that idea. George and Uruguay. Very much the same for Uruguay, as I said before. Yes, it's weird. They've got to play twice in this game week. Can't do anything about it. But add in Ormachea, the guy that said to sit, because I would be willing to bet he'd play this game. If he's not playing that first game, he's definitely playing this one.
01:16:29
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Georgia, the likes of Chilachava, Goji Ashvili, and Mamuka Gogadze, I roll with them as well. You can probably look at, you know, maybe a Georgian wing. I thought, whoever the hell the guy was, though, a sport in 11 was looking pretty good, but neither one of them were bad. So go ahead and roll those guys out there if you have them. If you don't have them, don't bother adding them. Just, you know, because that'll be a one-off, unfortunately. There you go.
01:16:56
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Australia, Wales. This is start of week three, by the way, remember that.
01:17:00
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Okay, yeah, so that's that's when we're bumping into the next one because we're we're a little ahead of the game Well, we are a little behind the game. So we will be behind the game for sure next week so look for Australia to have a similar lineup till the last time I think I really do think Haley Petty starts this one just because Dan bigger will run currently be all the fuck over the field And he's not nearly as fast and that's gonna be problematic. So I would look for
01:17:30
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uh first off uh as i just said dan bigger he's he's one to uh to to look out for he scored well and it's not a fluke right um and then the obviously all of their back three um adams north williams had it had a good good match early i know it was only georgia but um i would still look for them to to do well they're quality players and they're they're their back row also yeah naviti tipperick mariardi right the likes they'll probably be mariardi in this one not not wane right
01:18:01
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Right those those those are my players there Australia It's a question, you know, I'm not sure who are they gonna start at 10 on this one if Not Bernard Foley not Bernard Foley I agree You know the hooper is always a good he's always gonna get his his carries He's always gonna get his yeah, if he got his in that last game, he's gonna get his and pretty much everything else
01:18:28
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right and i have a feeling that this match is not going to be terribly um it's not i don't you know obviously depending on weather and we're a little bit farther far out i could see this being a uh a fairly open match um it'll be for for as wales and australia go it's not going to be you know 50 to 40 but i could see it being like a you know the a race to 30 points okay for the for the winner um
01:18:56
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They both have issues defensively and they both have the ability to At times I should say now Wales is fairly solid in defense most the time, but you can you can sneak around them every so often and Same thing for Australia. They're there. There are gaps there that that both of these teams will take advantage of it's gonna It's gonna be like a I think I could see it being a slugfest but more of an open slugfest It's not gonna be the Ireland Scotland. It's gonna be more of a Expansive slugfest in that back and forth still about a bit of battering to go with it, right?
01:19:26
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a good mix of both so again Nick white still a good option there, too. Yeah, and then finally Scotland Samoa we talked about the Samoans a little bit last time obviously Alan Alatoa has been Is our is playing in the first in the their next game if he plays again, I'd definitely play him Vui a seat wall. That's another one that I would definitely rolled out there and
01:19:52
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Don't play ken pc. Don't play log will be moola moola if they play they're no wicked traps Um, so yeah, don't do that for scotland. Um, if adder hastings is the fly half in this match Set him do not play him if you're if you have him as if you're trying to be sneaky with your fly house And you're trying to play him bad bad, uh scrum house in this for scotland. No, no, no bad bad um, but darcy gram like the back three
01:20:20
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Like trying to send someone to what ben's talked about hog king horn gram, whoever it is. Seymour Good way to go. Definitely, uh for the Scottish team in this one mack now He's always the guy you want to roll out there. Yep, and johnny gray. Uh, I think it's gonna be yeah, you can send changes He produced because he knows how he he can do it in multiple ways He can he'll break the line. He won't freaking run run away with it by any means but he'll also make a lot of tackles
01:20:43
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Um, when's the law lineups? He's, he's, he does it in a lot of ways. So he's a steady Eddie that you can probably applaud. And to me that, that last bit you said about the tackles, that's going to be the big question. Cause we know some of them, some of those Island nations that loves to move the ball and not take tackles. So just cause you have a guy like Johnny Gray, who is a tackle machine, uh, it could be seen a lot of offloads. So, um, it's not something to, I would not sit him based on that. Um, it's just something to consider. Yeah. But like I said, he, he finds otherwise.
01:21:12
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Okay. Let's run through, pick them really quickly here and then we'll be done. Um, Russia and Samoa. I got small. Yeah, me too. Sorry, Russia. Sorry, not sorry. Sorry, not sorry. Uh, Cameron, no brainer. Fiji Uruguay. Fiji. Fiji.
01:21:32
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Italia and Canada. No, I got Italy. Yeah, Italy. That would be a shock. That would be a bigger shock than a lot of other ones. And this next one's going to be a shit show. England, USA. My heart says England. My heart says the US, but my brain says England. I'm not going to pick any winners. I'm just going to say USA is going to lose. There you go. The Argis and Tonga.
01:22:02
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See, this is the interesting thing, because what if Argentina, what if this gets in their head and they kind of shit the bed a little bit against Tonga? Is that going to be enough for Tonga to, can Tonga take advantage of that? I don't know. I mean, they played their toughest match probably. So if they can kind of get their confidence up and get their tails up, then they can probably play with most teams. They've beaten France before
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01:22:23
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they woke up. Um, will Argentina be the next one? I don't know. I don't know, but I'm not going to pick them. So I'm going to pick Argentina. I'm not going to pick Tonga on this one. Right.
01:22:33
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Japan and the Irish. I know where you want to go with this. I'm really trying to figure out a way where I can say Japan will win this game. It's tough. I really want to pick them. I know that. And you know what? Since this isn't even for money, I'm picking fucking Japan. OK, fair enough. I'll take the Irish. Because I think if any team can sneak up on Ireland and play a game that Ireland just isn't prepared to handle, I could see it being Japan. Right.
01:23:02
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Georgia and Uruguay. I gotta back the Georgians.
01:23:06
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Even if they just smash the shit out of Uruguay over and over again. And just kind of like step over for a trial like we talked about last week. I could see them doing that. All right. Here's a big one. Australia and Wales. We're not going to even give Namibia a chance to win here. No. Okay. Sorry. I already penned them in like two minutes ago. Okay. I was like, Oh, well, sorry. No, sorry, Namibia. You're, um, you're,
01:23:33
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your closest neighbors don't back down unfortunately do you know and then we start to start week three Australia and Wales now obviously it's a long way out the the other ones will there's still some things to be sorted out but I so man I'm having a hard time picking it damn bigger I'm I can't I'm going with Wales yeah and then I
01:23:57
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Scotland and Samoa. I'll give the Scots the nod because this is their get right game and they can. It's a tough team to do it against, but if anybody can hang with the Samoans in terms of their offload and their free-flowing play, I think the Scots can because of guys like Vin Russell and Stuart Hogg.
01:24:18
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Yeah. Those guys will be different speakers. They have a lot of mobile forwards. That was their problem in the last match. Well, they have one less than they should have. Right. But still, all their forwards are very mobile. That's kind of been the thing. They either have really fat forwards or they really have mobile forwards, which means they're a little smaller. So it's kind of pick your poison on that one. Right. And I think I'm going to agree with you.
01:24:40
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I think Samoa are going to make this a lot more interesting than Scotland will like. Oh, by far. So I think it's going to be a squeaker. If there was a spread, I'd have to see the points before I made my decision. But if we're talking just outright and we are, I'm going to go with Scotland. Yeah. Scotland by a nose.
01:24:58
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So it's really going to come down to Ireland, Japan as to who actually finally takes the lead here. That's another reason. I'm going to go, I'm going to go big or go home. Go big or go home. Swing for the fence. I've lost this before. I can do that again. I'm all right with that. It's not a new adventure for you. No. And it's usually because I do shit like this. You know, it might pay off one time soon. Eventually.
01:25:21
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blind squirrel fights do that something like that right okay um win a little bit over the time we wanted but that's okay we wanted to get as much advice out there for you guys normally we would have only done four matches we did five so so be it it's gonna happen um
01:25:36
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01:26:04
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Signing Off and Social Media Follow-up
01:26:20
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