BTB Daily May 20

Groups 4 through 8 are revealed for the Mum's Bum Cup Day 1. Timmy Rawmeatakiss drops in to give his straight between the eyes review of where the Crocs are at currently. Old school is being polite for Timmy's views on the world.

Transcript

SPEAKER_04 0:00

So Mario, you never told me how how did your uh twins massage go last night? You're looking a little glum this morning.

SPEAKER_01 0:07

Oh it was okay, mate, you know I was a little bit disappointed. You go all the way there, I read the sign on the door, I have to go all the way back to my room and put on some underwear. I walk all the way back, I get in, I sa the music was nice and you know the smells were delicious. It made me very hungry to be honest. And I was laying there and the two girls came Hang on, two girls came out. Yes, mate, I know. It was the same beautiful gorgeous twins that was up there when I was having my swim. You know those girls they will not leave me alone, mate.

SPEAKER_04 0:43

You know, not two big burly blokes with hands like hams and uh you know a little bit rough. A lot rough to be honest.

SPEAKER_01 0:51

No, mate, I don't even know who you are talking about. I had the same two girls, little disappointing as I said, you know, something different would have been nice anyway. They get into their massage and they ask if it was very hot, could they would you mind if I mind? Would they just uh strip down and do it because I was sweating? I said yes, I don't mind. So I'm there and and they're massaging away and then one of them said can we pour some honey on your back, please, and massage you with honey? It makes your skin really soft and smooth. Now I did not want to hurt their feelings, so I say yes, go ahead. But you have one of the hairiest backs ever known to mankind. Yes, mate, we pride ourselves on our hairy backs in my family. My sister, she gets all sorts of shapes and everything shaved into hers. She's very good at it, looks after it well. So they put their honey on my back and they start massaging it in and then one of them says Look, uh do you mind if we lick the honey off? And I'm thinking, Oh god, this is going to take ages. So I said OK, go ahead. So they lick the honey off my back and as you know and as you said, it is a very hairy back and uh so it took them a long time to do it, and then they said flip over and you don't have to put your underwear on if you don't want.

SPEAKER_04 2:11

Oh my lord. Oh Mario, this is completely different experience to what I got.

SPEAKER_01 2:17

Well I said no. Your sign said you must keep your underwear on, so you put yours back on and I am keeping mine on, thank you very much.

SPEAKER_04 2:25

What's wrong with you, Mario? Literally, I don't know what's wrong with you.

SPEAKER_01 2:29

Nothing is wrong with me, mate, but there is such a thing as respect RESPCT That's wind out what you mean to me and they massaged me in the two hours it took forever, mate. But they said do you want to stay for some more? You know, we got uh other appointments but we can push them back. And I said Oh, I don't want to hurt their feelings again. So I said okay if you must keep going and they kept going, mate, and then you know it just in the end I just wanted to leave. I was very hungry from all those smells.

SPEAKER_04 2:58

I can't believe that. You that's and you walked out of there and that was it? Like that was it.

SPEAKER_01 3:03

Yes, mate, uh I was very relaxed on my side, but I don't enjoy because I still feel some of the honey in my back, you know.

SPEAKER_03 3:40

Hey man, at least it went in.

SPEAKER_02 3:46

Hello, hello, hello, welcome all you be the ballers, just fifteen sleeps to go. Be the ball 18, the Mum's Mum Cup tour weekend, a championship weekend if there ever was one, is getting very close now. Sure is. I hope Adelaide's ready from their golf courses to their nightlife because they're about to have forty-five blokes come in and test out every part of that city. The city of churches. They may be praying that we don't turn up.

SPEAKER_01 4:09

Oh, they won't be doing that, mate. They're all good boys, they behave themselves, and if they do not behave themselves, we know what happens.

SPEAKER_00 4:15

That's right. See you later. Thanks for coming, never again. And you, Sandy, how are you today? I am okay, thank you.

SPEAKER_04 4:22

Knocked around a little from a story Mario told me earlier, but I am starting to feel the real excitement in my gut, so the bus just keeps flying along at the moment, so we're all on board, and uh I'm looking forward to our destination in the not too distant future.

SPEAKER_02 4:37

Alright, well we released the first four day one groups yesterday, and I tell you what, there was some feedback. Some of the boys are getting around and have a look at it. They're all starting to understand, I think there is a strategy to this. The skippers don't just pluck names out of their bums and say, yeah, they'll go in there. They actually have a think about which way they want this to go. It's a competitive and we like to compete no matter how old you get or how young you are. We all have that competitive drive in us. Uh so received very well. And looking at those first four groups, I love it. I love the fact that the the first four ball is the skippers and they'll be taking up the rest of the field to make sure they stay tacked onto those top three groups. Yeah, I'm looking forward to the next four. Are we gonna get straight into that today? We're not gonna muck around, are we, with anything? No, we're not. We're gonna get hop straight into them in a moment. Uh we also have Bruce who bought it earlier. I don't know if you boys saw him.

SPEAKER_01 5:24

I did, mate. Oh, I had to hide in a room that wasn't mine. It was a massage room and I had to get another massage. I'm sick of the massages.

SPEAKER_00 5:31

Oh stop it, Mario. Please, you're killing me over here. I don't know what you two are on about, but I've been in my smoking jacket, sitting in the recliner leather chair in front of a little warm fireplace, and uh had a wonderful moment with myself with my Pinot Noir this morning. Absolutely scintillating stuff, and I feel pretty damn fine myself.

SPEAKER_02 5:51

Alright, well that's good. So Bruce is here and uh he chopped in this morning with Timmy Romudicus. Uh he's been out at the swamp for the last few days doing a full review on them for Bruce and the bosses above. Uh and he will be in here to give some forthright uh thoughts on the Crocs, their chances, where they're out as a group, all that sort of stuff. So that should be interesting. Oh, he's brutal. Tom Timmy, sorry. Uh nearly calling Tommy. I don't want to do that again because last time he did that he gave me a horse slap. That was so hard. The finger marks were on my thigh for three weeks. Definitely old school. No doubt about it. He uh he goes out to win and he expects his team to win. I understand why Bruce has put him in there because uh there'll be no fluff. Fluffing around, fluff, no fluffing at all, I would imagine. I hope no, there's no fluffing. Uh uh anyway, we'll get away from that while we can. Are you saying Timmy's a fluffer?

SPEAKER_01 6:37

That's why he stinks all the time, mate.

SPEAKER_02 6:39

What are you talking about, Mario?

SPEAKER_01 6:40

Well, when you're fluff, you're fucked, you're pus wind. That's what you do.

SPEAKER_02 6:44

I don't know that you're actually up with this conversation. I know that I am, uh with my uh business side, shall we say, I understand what that means. And Ron was right, let's move away from that. No doubt you've had lots of experience of it, Lottie. Maybe a little bit more lip balm here. Just noticing your lips are cracking a bit.

SPEAKER_03 6:59

Mum's bum cup, day one group's number 58. Nickerby rising.

SPEAKER_02 7:06

Croc. Okay, we're up to the fifth group and Nickerby rising from the crocs. Mikaby has thrown him out first in this group. So he's off 60, Nickerby. The pickup is 12. It has been confirmed by uh Grunt and Growen, Roger Lad Deva, Warwick Farm Fellow. The golf committee have said the pickup will be twelve still this year.

SPEAKER_00 7:24

I imagine that that's because of some of the higher handicaps. Yes, that's the way it should be. You can't have a guy off sixty picking up the ball off ten, you know. He can have a ten or two and still make the cut, you know. We want to get away from that. So twelve, I'm all for it. Well done, golf committee.

SPEAKER_02 7:37

Alright, so Nickobee here. What what are we thinking is uh Mikaby's thoughts? I think he thought with the first choice in group five that he's gonna throw Nikki in there. He has made the cut once or twice, Nickobee, but he hasn't done any real damage ever on the uh Mums Bum Cup tour, not on the golf anyway. And uh so I think he's thinking I'm gonna get one of my guys out here early uh and and see what the others throw at it. So I think he's just sort of thrown it up in the air and see what the other skippers do.

SPEAKER_04 8:00

Number four Rubble's pocket rocket wrangler.

SPEAKER_02 8:07

Well there's the answer right there. The Wranglers have come straight back here with Robbo's pocket rocket, uh 48 handicapper, maybe even out of 50 this year, can't remember off the top of my noggin. Uh so big handicap meets big handicap. Uh what do you think this is going to do for the rest of the field?

SPEAKER_00 8:22

Well, you've gotta stay patient, but that's what all these players in the back half of the field are going to have to do. This is only group five. There's no point getting all upset about it. If I was you'd grab an extra couple of beers, enjoy the weather, enjoy the golf. Hopefully the weather's great, mind you. And uh just be patient. And if you get frustrated, well you're not gonna make the cut in the mum's bum cup. It's that simple.

SPEAKER_03 8:42

Number eighty-four. Waxtar Jimmy Shooter.

SPEAKER_02 8:48

Oh, great piece of skippering there from uh Benzabear. Super effort that put Waxstar Jimmy in, he can take this group. I think Benz has looked at the group and said, alright, Nick could be rising 60, Robbo's pocket rocket. Although Robbo has gone close a couple of times over, he's 15 years in the tour, or 15 tours, 18 years in. Uh, but I think he thinks the shooters can take our top points in this group. So he's just jammed Waxstar Jimmy right in there. I think Jimmy's been pretty consistent making cuts, etc., the last few years. Nice work indeed, Benny. That leaves the King Brown, of course, to fill that fourth spot in uh number five group.

SPEAKER_03 9:20

Number thirty.

SPEAKER_04 9:22

Manscaper Nats.

SPEAKER_03 9:25

King Brown defending Mum's Bum Cup champion.

SPEAKER_00 9:31

Smart move by saving Private there too. A couple of great captains he moved those last two. Manscaped and Nats. The chances of winning, let's be honest, are next to nil. No one's ever gone back to back. Nobody's ever won the Mum's Bum Cup twice, and to have your handicap halved as he has done, I think that they may have turned up the head a little bit and said, We're gonna throw in a little bit of a disruptor here. We're gonna get someone in there who's socially out for a good time, not necessarily great golf, and I think Nadsey is in a perfect spot with some of these boys to to make it a very fun grip at the very least.

SPEAKER_02 10:00

Yeah, it certainly looks that way. Wax Star Jimmy would be the standout you think to take out these major points. Very strong team this year, the shooters with their golf. Uh so I I quite like it. I think the other boys, there's some smokies in there. Robbo can do it again, no doubt about it. He's made the final four a couple of times over the years, wore the yellow jacket once. So he is out there and his handicap is way out there, so he is a chance. Nadie, pure social uh disruptor status, I imagine, in this group. And uh he needs no encouraging, does Nickabee? I'm sure he'll be up for the social side of things. Uh, and he may play the odd piece of golf that's good. He could make the cut. He has slipped in there once before, uh, but very much so. The danger here, I think, with this group is maybe uh slowing down the rest of the pack. No, it won't be an issue at all. I don't think that's a problem. I think everything will be flowing along nicely. These guys know how to move it, they're all experienced, and they'll have a great day out there, and uh they won't be holding anyone up. Put it that way. Pit my balls on it. Pro V1s. There it is. Quick recap. Group five, day one. Leading out will be Nickerby rising. He was the Crocs first election into this group. Robo's pocket rocket, walk star, Jimmy, Manscaper Nads. There's your four ball right there.

SPEAKER_03 11:04

Hey Gilmore. You suck, you duck ass. Number sixty one, Craigsy 80s dude.

SPEAKER_02 11:14

Group six, day one, and Lebba has led off with a cattle dog called Craigs, the 80s dude, who we all know very well, former champion of the Mums Bum Cup. He his handicap's not in a position where you think he can win. He's a chance. He can play bloody good golf when he's going, uh, but he's thrown him in. Uh, and it'll be interesting to see how the captains respond. Do you think he can win it, Mario?

SPEAKER_01 11:33

I think Craigsy can win it, mate. I think he's been very quiet on the golfing front. I would perhaps back him a place. Uh, the top three looks pretty good. Uh he's very disappointed he can't do that himself. Uh, but I wouldn't write him off. I think he's a chance. Number 78. Strength and Johnner.

SPEAKER_02 11:50

Croc. Ho ho ho, get that, India, says the Croc skipper, Mickey B. McKenna. What a delicious matchup this is. These two, Craig's 80s, dude, strength and Johnna, strength and Johnna, Craig's 80s, dude. Being at each other all year, and I tell you, they've put them in. Can we get them in the same cart? That would just uh the TV cameras will just be following this group all day. Oh yeah, that is one of the best, I've got to say. As we know, they they like to uh stick the needles and pins into each other throughout the season. You've only got to look at the chat group for that. To put them in the same group, oh this is mouth watering stuff, unbelievable.

SPEAKER_00 12:22

I know I'll be spending some time there watching how these two get on. One of them could be thrown out of the cart at some stage or tipped out or anything. You just don't know. It's uh going to be very exciting. I'd love to get them in the same cat together. This may be the end of Croc John's uh big chance at winning the Mum's Bum Cup.

SPEAKER_02 12:38

Oh, I don't know if I'd go that far, but Craig's he being there will certainly make it interesting. That is just an inspired piece of selection from the captain of the Crocs, Mickey McKenna.

SPEAKER_04 12:47

Oh, it's like putting Rory and bracing DeShambeau together in the same group, isn't it? It's gonna be absolutely riveting stuff to watch. Uh there is the propensity if we get back and just look at it uh with a an overview, there in group six, which places them smack bang in the middle of the field, uh this could have some sort of effect on how Strength and Johnna goes because he is dead set playing to win, no doubt about that. Crazy eighties do maybe not so much, and we know the the words and the verbals will be flowing backwards and forwards this whole day. Uh oh outstanding stuff.

SPEAKER_02 13:22

Absolutely. If there's one guy that can rattle the pre-tournament favourite that is strength and journal, it's Crazy 80s dude. Oh ho ho ho ho ho this is m ramifications for the entire field.

SPEAKER_04 13:32

Number eighty nine Highwire Will Wrangler Oh Says Time has worked some magic into this mix as well. Has he what? Howwire Will handicapped sixty has not played golf since the last tour. He is gone in there very social, loves a good team. He's not as quiet as a church mouth is either, mind you. Strength and Jonah is under absolute attack in this group.

SPEAKER_00 13:59

Ho ho ho ho. How much fun is this? Not much fun for Strength and Jonah, hey? I'm tipping a few gear changes before he goes out to play on that day one of Mum's Bum Cup.

SPEAKER_02 14:10

Yes, no doubt about it. There'll need to be the blinkers applied, perhaps some winkers. He'll need to be ridden quietly and not get caught up in an early speed battle because these boys are going to be very social. There's going to be a lot of laughs, a lot of fun and uh and pretty loud.

SPEAKER_03 14:23

Number twenty-nine. Barnesy's boy Dave. Shooter.

SPEAKER_02 14:30

Yes, yes, yes. Bring him up here. I want to boff him. Benzamere, that is magnificent. What a group. He is under a 10 cent assault, the tournament favourite. Oh, we've got Barnesy Boy's Dave in there. He does not want to make the cat. That's the last thing he wants to do in his life. He's all for Ambrose. Ambrose with a Catalan A. He will just be out there on the Friday hitting golf balls, willy-nilly, everywhere. Here, there, everywhere. He'll be drinking beers, he'll be talking, telling jokes, carrying on. Oh, Strength and Johnna, he's gonna need earmuffs too, because uh this group here, oh absolute delight.

SPEAKER_01 15:02

Oh yeah, mate, I know which group I'm following. This is gonna be a fun group, and we may even see here one of the Mum's Mum Cup players in tears halfway around.

SPEAKER_02 15:10

Well, it is shaping that way for Strength and Johnna. He's gonna have to uh do a lot of mind work on himself here to get prepared for this because it's going to be an absolute onslaught from the social stakes. Uh obviously with our disruptor status, there's nothing over the top. The rules of golf are still in play, as is the etiquette. Uh, but that doesn't mean you can't tell jokes, have a laugh, and a few beers. You know, there's gonna be a lot to distract him. It'll be interesting to see whether he can push through that.

SPEAKER_03 15:34

Number sixty seven, Metro Matt King Brown.

SPEAKER_02 15:40

Okay, over to group seven on day one, and we have the King Browns leading off. Metromatt has been put forward by Saving Private. He was a big show last year. I followed him for quite a while. Absolutely lovely golf swing. His brother won it, of course. I'm sure that would inspire him to win it. And uh I think he's a very, very good chance of taking out the Mums Bum Cup this season.

SPEAKER_00 15:59

I agree wholeheartedly. Metro Matt is up there, he's a smiley kind of fella, great bloke to be around on tour, but uh there is a competitive streak in him, and I think he could be a real smoky this year. I know I'll be backing him for sure with the bookies at some point.

SPEAKER_03 16:13

Number twenty-four. Girias stuff cattle dog.

SPEAKER_02 16:20

Interesting choice here, Mario, to be putting Girias stuff. He's normally a front runner, he likes to be up the front, but he's in the middle of the pack on day one, group seven. Oh, but he does get on very well with Metro Matt. Uh Lonro Lever, is he changing up things a little bit here? A little bit sneaky on this selection.

SPEAKER_01 16:34

No doubt about it, mate, because Girias, he can win this former champion. He is out to the handicap where he won it. He plays a lot of golf, and he is a big threat to Metro Matt in this group. Yes, they do get on very well. So he may also be a little bit of a distractor to Metro Matt. You know what I'm saying here? Uh so this is a good pick by London O'Leba. I like what he's doing. Uh this is the looks like it could be a very, very good group, this one.

SPEAKER_00 17:00

There is one selection that uh much further cat amongst the pigeons, shall we say?

SPEAKER_04 17:04

Hey, I'm thinking what you're thinking, Ben.

SPEAKER_03 17:07

Number eighty one Josh be next crock.

SPEAKER_00 17:13

Whoop there it is. Whoop there it is. That's exactly the one I wanted to see. Well, it had to happen, didn't it?

SPEAKER_04 17:22

After the little teta tet the other day on the weekend. Joshaby next uh dropping that ball, the crocs and the King Browns, the emotions overflowing as they go into this. Metz for Matt, one of the key players. Joshaby next, obviously a key player in what went down in the central west. Oh, this is spicy now. Do you think they'll be sharing a cart together?

SPEAKER_02 17:42

Well, I don't know, it might be, but you couldn't have planned this any better. The captains did these teams over a week ago, so it's not like it's even been planned unless the skipper, Mikaby McKenna, got in the ear of Joshaby and said, let's roll this thing up. I wouldn't put a past the old timer. He's very experienced, he likes to win. Uh, he might be doing this to rattle Metro Matt, who is definitely one of the uh top end favourites to win the Mums Bum Cup.

SPEAKER_04 18:05

Oh, I am loving this. This trip has the potential to be enormous. There's one selection to go, and the Wranglers, who will they throw in?

SPEAKER_03 18:13

Number eighty six, Golddigger Gatherby.

SPEAKER_04 18:18

Wrangler. Oh, a nice little bit of captaincy there by Sideshow Sam. Golddigger Gatherby. He is not in it to win the golf. He's one of Australia's premier triathletes. He was also the centre folding gold miners monthly last month. A strategically placed miners hat over the gold nuggets. And I tell ya, he is much like Barnes's boy Dave was in group six. He is in there to disrupt. He is gonna be a great addition to this group because he's a calmly back sort of fella, always smiling. And he'll have lots to smile about in this group. He may even need to play Peacemaker. I'm not sure how this is gonna work out. Metro Matt Josh will be next. Up Garius, he'll be trying to play good golf, you know, and keep the group on track and moving forward, but that may detract from his chances of winning the Mum's Mum Cup. He may even struggle to meet the cut, so he's gonna have to be in there keeping them at an arm's length. And then you have Gavy, he'll just be floating around, smiling, having a laugh, a wee word here and there and hitting some pretty ugly golf shots, I'm imagining.

SPEAKER_02 19:24

Oh, it's an eclectic bunch, all right, and oh group six and seven. Uh the cameras won't be off these two all day. Oh, I can't wait to hear some of the tales when they come back in, though the ones that I don't get to witness with my own eyes. Yeah, and you should also put the handbraker bit on here on Gaverby. I'll tell you what, he finished with a net 72 last year, which was only a couple of shots outside the cut. He made the cut the year before. I wouldn't be going writing him off. You know, he this may be one where he sneaks up along the rails because the other three are so distracted with what there's what they're doing going on. Uh-oh, I don't mind Gaverby here. He's a smoky chance at just staying sticking to his lane, staying in his lane, sticking to his own business and just getting on with things. He is a supreme athlete, my friends, and don't you fucking forget it. Now you will go to sleep, or I will put you to sleep. Time for one more group today for Mum's Bum Cup day one, and it is group eight. And there'll be no putting anyone to sleep, especially after those last few groups were announced. Uh as we head over, who will be leading off this time? It's the shooters who will be picking, and they have selected number twenty six.

SPEAKER_03 20:22

Come Lina Ronstey.

SPEAKER_02 20:26

Shooter. Okay, the prodigal son of the tour has returned once again. Come later Ronsti. He does like the Adelaide trip, as we know. He's had a hiatus in between his last time there, Beat the Ball 11, with the rest of us, and he has come back in Beat the Ball 18. What's the thinking here from Benz Bear, Lori? Yeah, I think he's a bit of an unknown quantity, is our Ronnie at the moment. He's he's been uh travelling the globe, exploring deeply his mind, his feelings, all that stuff. I don't even know. I think that's bullshit too. I don't know what Ronnie's been doing, but uh, I tell you what he is doing in a couple of weeks, and that he's been on the Mum's Bum Cup, and I uh I don't mind at all. I think Benny's just throwing it out there to see what the other skippers do. Ronnie can play a bit, don't worry about that, and he'll be thereabouts. Uh especially if he's been practicing on the choir for the last seven years. Uh so let's see what happens next. Number thirty-one, Mustard Keen Matt. King Brown. Former champion green jacket wearer Mustard Keen Matt, he has been near the top of the table across all competitions this season, as usual. By far and away the King Brown's best and most consistent player over the past five years. How will he go in the golf, Ben?

SPEAKER_00 21:30

I'm not really sure. He uh as we all know, and it's been said as many times as Damian Cook is a beach sprinter, is that uh he's a mudder. He likes the wet, and uh the long forecast for Adelaide is that it might be a little bit of drizzle about uh obviously there's a lot of time between now and then and the weather could change around. But he's a chance, and him and Ronnie. This group's going to be have the two groups that were mentioned earlier in front of them. They may be in for a day of entertainment, if nothing else.

SPEAKER_01 21:56

He is a good player, mustard. He goes good in everything, mate. He is one of those guys who's just, you know, say let's go play tennis and and he will beat you six love, and then you go let's go and do this, let's go and do that, and he just wins. He's a winner. So I like his chances, mate. I've got a feeling that he may go very, very well. It depends on what the rest of this group looks like though. But at the start, him and Ronnie both laid back, good senses of humour, easy going. It all comes down to who's next.

SPEAKER_03 22:25

Number forty two. Londro Leber, Cattle Dog's captain.

SPEAKER_02 22:32

Boom. What a great pick. He's put himself e he kept himself out of that Captain Shindig up the top, and he sent in young Dukesrow and said, You take care of these boys. Uh I'm going to go and make sure we get a win somewhere down the track. He's plonked himself in group eight, Leber. Very selfless act. And looking at these three, he can win this group straight out. He has won the Mum's Mum Cup. His handicap is out to past when he won the Mum's Mum Cup. Uh so I think that's an inspired selection, Mario.

SPEAKER_01 22:58

Yeah, he has had a tough year with the knees, hips, and a few other things going on, Lebba, but I love what he has done here. He has put himself in a group which is there's not gonna be too high a temperature in the group. Not a lot of spice. They're just gonna enjoy the day, hit some good golf shots, and walk off hopefully with their twelve points for winning the group. I love you, Lebba. That is one of the great picks of uh Yeah, it does look pretty inspired, I must say.

SPEAKER_02 23:24

But there is one selection to go in this group, which could ruffle all their fellas, but uh we'll just have to wait and see who that is.

SPEAKER_03 23:30

Number ninety-three Jonoby Stiffler Crocs.

SPEAKER_02 23:37

Well there it is. This could be the most easygoing group that we have in the whole day. All four boys like to keep things light, entertaining, uh having a bit of fun, a laugh, etc. John Abby Stiffler. The one thing I will say was he was sent to Adelaide early, uh, deposed of by the skipper, Mickey McKenna, months ago, and said, get your ass over there, John Abby. I want you to come back to us with all the nuances, the ins and outs of each of these golf courses. I want you to have us prepared for it. Uh that's pretty good as well, you'd think. Uh I like it. I like this group a lot. I think they will be very relaxed, and I think as far as a group eight team goes, or a group eight group goes, uh they're two-thirds of the way back. Uh we're all off one T this year, unfortunately. Could not get a shotgun, uh, nor could we get two T. Um I think they have the right traits mentally and personality-wise to handle whatever happens in front of them. Uh, if there's a couple of stoppages, a little bit of slow play here or there, these guys have got the wherewithal to uh get through it. So very nice indeed. I have have to agree with everything you said there on.

SPEAKER_04 24:36

Uh I think that's a a really nice looking group. It's not going to have the fire of the two groups in front of them potentially.

SPEAKER_02 24:43

Uh and you could feign that there may be a couple that emerge from this group into the 16 because they will just take it so easy uh and and maybe play some of their best golf. So, yeah, pretty good overall. So there you have it, our groups. We'll do a quick recap of groups five to eight. That's all we're talking about today. Tomorrow we'll be back with the final four groups. Uh group five was led off by Croc, Nickabee Rising, Robbo's Pocket Rocket, Walkstar, Jimmy Manscaped, and Nads. They are in group five. Group six, Crazy 80s dude, Strength and Jonna, Highwire Will, Palms' boy Dave. You can't help but look at that group and just smile. Anything could come out of that group. Group seven, King Brown, Metro Matt, big chance. He leads off this group. Girias Stuff, Josh will be next, gold digger Gaverby. Again, a little bit of spice in this group. Uh, who knows the way this will play out? Uh, and group eight, one of the most easy-going groups, as we touched on. Come later, Ronstey, Muster Key, Matt, Lonro Leber, John Abby Stifler. Very peaceful group. The only thing missing will be some uh, you know, maybe massage music in the background as these four wander around. Uh, tomorrow we will cover groups nine to twelve in the final three group day one groupings for the Mum's Bum Cup. Uh, but right now we are over to none other than Timmy Romedekis, who has joined us here in the studio on the Luxury Coach on our way to Adelaide.

SPEAKER_03 25:55

The Crocs.

SPEAKER_02 25:58

Well, thanks for joining us today, Timmy. We know you're busy. Bruce has uh mentioned that you are around doing full reviews of each of these teams and uh giving a no holds bar roasting, I believe, of of each of these teams, uh old school style.

SPEAKER_04 26:10

Yeah, thanks for having me, fellas. Really good to be here. Uh I have been around, been a busy boy, doing what I need to do, get around and uh just get back to Bruiser and the fellas, uh just what's going down.

SPEAKER_01 26:20

Is it true that you're actually related to Bruce? Timmy.

SPEAKER_04 26:24

Good to see you again, Mario, for starters, and uh you haven't manned up any extra at all, have you? Uh yeah, I am. Our cousins' cousins, we're cousins' cousins, if you know what I mean, and uh we've been around. Bruce has got me in, and I am just doing what he needs me to do. He speaks a bit slower than me, he's a lot bigger than me. But uh yeah, I'm here to straighten shit out for him.

SPEAKER_02 26:41

You're a personal trainer, were you not, Timmy?

SPEAKER_04 26:43

Uh I know that you spent some time with some of the boys from some of these teams over the last few years. That's right, still am. Still get around, still toughen some of these books up, turn girl boys into boy girls, if you know what I'm saying. Or they're transitioning. They transition all right, Mario. They do exactly what I fucking tell them to.

SPEAKER_02 26:57

That's it, bottom line. All right, Timmy. So what was your brief from Bruce uh as you went around to each of the teams? We were going to do this, but it was a last minute decision to cut us out altogether for you to go in there.

SPEAKER_04 27:07

Pretty simple, my job is to go in and have a look, see, see how the operations run from top to toe, see what the skippers are doing, see what the players are doing, and see and what these teams where they fucked up, essentially. It's been a year where the Wranglers have once again dominated to this point in time. They can still get beat. Yes, they can, but it doesn't fucking look likely, does it? No. So I started with Crockswamp.

SPEAKER_02 27:25

Yeah, if you like. Well, as you know, uh Crockswamp's one of my favourite places, and I was brought out there last year to give a motivational talk. I think we might just throw to that quickly as a recap. Uh been asked by Mikaby to get up here as the patron saint of the Crocs and to give you a little bit of a you know pump up talk. Let's go, boys, let's go, let's go. Looking at the MVP ladders, these are the best ways to have a quick glide at how things are going. And I've gotta say, looking at Joshaby next, what the fuck are you doing, Joshaby? Seriously, man. Are you even trying? Come on, come on, pick yourself up. Ericaby arrives. You arrived all right, Eric, but you've done sweet FA since you got here. I know, I know, I know. I've got to back off a little bit here. Yes, practising, maybe putting up and down the bus lane, uh, in you know, in between carrying passengers. I don't know. But Ericaby, we need to do something. Snap snap. And by the way, let's get our snap snap right, eh? A bit of meaning in it from now on. Wynne Danielson, you have been one of the buys of the year, my friend. Yep. Mikaby took you from the Wranglers. He saw the potential in you, he saw the light in your eyes. And you are delivering, big man. You just keep it going. Keep it going. You're gonna be croc forever. Don't shake your head. That's a good thing. Nickaby, what are you smiling at? Hey? Hey, hey, Nickobee? You and Strength and Jonna are down there holding hands in Looserville. Come on, boys. Get going. The crocs. Snap, snap, snap.

SPEAKER_04 28:49

Well, if that wasn't one of the most self-indulgence pieces of shit I've ever listened to in my life, Ron. Worked wonders, didn't it? Yeah, look at them this year. How are the crocs going this year? Yeah, yeah, great, aren't they? Fuck off they are. Dead set. What have you done, mate? If anything, they're gone backwards. Well, I was just doing my best to pump the boys up, you know. It was it was tough. And where were they all by the time you finished this talk? Well they'd left the building. Well, say no more, sunshine, eh? So Tim, what what have you found this team about the crocs? Well the swamp, let's start at the swamp. Oh the swamp. Oh back in the day, you know, the swamp you get there, it was made of gold. All their shanties and shacks, gold, gold everywhere. As you walk through those gates, you knew you were walking into the promised land. Yeah, it was like that gearyest stuff's head. The shooter skipper was on seven spikes up there. Back to back to back to back to back. The crocs, they were the greatest thing. Oh, the Melbourne storm of the uh beatherball. And look at them now, they're doing exactly what the storm's doing, going fucking backwards. That's it. I'm telling you, they are up shit creek. That sounds a little harsh. They are running second overall. Yeah, but they're kilometres miles off where they should be, aren't they? Let's have a look at the team, shall we? Let's see what some of my other findings were. The swamp itself. Back in the heyday, you'd walk in there, Stevie Irwin down in the corner, wrestling crocs, not baby crocs, mind you, big, massive salt water mongrels, and Stevie would be there, holding a beer in one hand, wrestling with the other. The crocs would be in there too. They were tough and mean, and they had a bit of gumption about 'em. Now you walk in there, where Stevie once was with the salt water crocs, they've got baby tiny alligators coming out of eggs, and all the boys from the crocs are sitting around going, ooh, wow, look at that, isn't that beautiful? Fuck off, come on. What's happened to these guys? Well, I guess you start at the skipper, don't you? Oh, Mickey. He was one of the greats back in the day. He's a grandfather now, and he's gone all goo-goo-eyed. He's got soft, I tell you, soft as butter. He used to cut and hammer and knock this team into shape. You know, it didn't matter if you were blood, kindred, whatever. He would just piss you off if you weren't doing the right thing by this team. Now, he welcomes them all in. He's at the front gate giving people cuddles, saying, Welcome to the Crocs. Hope you go well, have a nice time. Oh, fuck that. Come on. Get that fire back in your belly, big fella. He's got to lead them back into this. That's what he's got to do as a skipper. And I think it's about time that he pulled his fucking finger out and had another red hot crack at some of these guys. Then you look at Roger. Alright, Roger, he proves himself years ago. Mick pisses him off over to the cattle dogs and says, They're a chance of winning this year, brother. Brother, I need you to bring them down. So what does Roger do? He goes on tour, tells all those cattle dogs that poor dumb bastards, you can take your ball out of the bunkers, place it anywhere you like on the fairway, and hit they all get DQ'd. Now that is one of the most brilliant plays ever in the history of BTB. But where's that these days? No, Roger's sitting back up there in uh old retirementsville, up there on the North Coast, Port Macquarie. Wanders down for a hit three or four times a week. He's hitting off about twelve these days handicapped. The fire's gone from that belly too. They need a new breed to come through. The older blokes, they're wanting to enjoy the victories. They've won their comps. What are the young blokes gonna do? So you're saying they need a succession plan of some sort. No, it's not what I'm saying at all. They've just got to get their maracas back. They've got to get those balls and blow 'em up and, you know, go out there chest beaten. Come back hard at these guys. At the moment, you look at some of the other players in the team. What Nickabee rising. What happened to that mophead kid who come around and tore get shit faced, not give a damn? With his loose ass. Look at him now, in his business suits, he's up there, he's in life, he's got the family, the kids, the business, everything. He doesn't give a shit anymore. No, he doesn't. Not about the crocs. He pretends he does. He's in there. Where's Nickaby? We need him coming through there saying. Nickaby is off setting up a beautiful life, and good on him for that. Got no problems with that. But when it comes down to the Mum's Bum Cup and the THE Premiership, more importantly, Nickaby has more interest in the business papers in the share markets than he does what happens to the crocs.

SPEAKER_02 32:41

Well, they've got strength and johnna. He might lead them back through the mum's bum cup.

SPEAKER_04 32:45

Oh, please. Strength and johnna. Talk about a wrong name for a wrong bloke these days. He just he's a ponce. He just punches around the globe, doesn't he? He's getting his photo at race courses hanging on to beautiful women. He's out at the uh golf courses of the world and he's just showing his stuff, strutting around like a dead set peacock, is Johnny. He's a winger trying to hang out with the forwards these days. That's what he is. I remember when he came in as a marquee, he was hungry. Hungry. He wanted victories, he wanted to win. Still doesn't have his name on that green jacket, eh? Hey, and the crocs aren't getting any closer to those wanklers. No, they're not. Johnny is a mirth. I'm telling you, and this group that they've put him in, they are gonna stitch him up big time. He needs to grit his teeth and push through. He could be the Crocs man, but I don't know if Johnny wants it.

SPEAKER_01 33:30

Well, there's Josh be next.

SPEAKER_04 33:31

Oh, yeah, I've been out to Gill. I trained with uh Joshaby all the seven minutes. He did three sit-ups and was howling for mummy. Mummy, come and save me. This hurts. Can we stop? The one thing they got with Joshaby that he can do is he can drink him under the table. He can take him on out there off the field if he wants to, but he's too fixated. This obsession with him and the highway will about who's gonna win the mum's mum cup first out of him. I tell you we'll be waiting until they're a fucking one hundred and eleven before either of them get it. They'll be the only two on tour, and they'll still find a way to lose the mum's bum cup between them. Joshaby ain't the answer. That's the tough and ride up, but he's gone into the baby way as well. They've become the Eastern Suburbs roosters of the BTB. Yeah, or cafe lattes and pushin' prams. He's not the answer at the moment, Joshaby. He needs to do a bit more to prove that he even deserves to be in this team. He's the only man who's been in this team his entire BTB career, along with his old man. Yeah, yeah. Well, Nick got cut a couple of years ago. Joshaby could suffer the same fate.

SPEAKER_01 34:32

No, it should not be allowed.

SPEAKER_02 34:33

John Abby Stifler, that was a wise move to send him to Adelaide by Mickabee. Oh, pig's arse. Stop it, stop it.

SPEAKER_04 34:40

He moved himself there. What man in his own right moves himself to Adelaide? No bastard does that. It's like Darwin. Everyone on the run moves to Darwin. They're all on the run for something. Adelaide, nobody moves there on purpose. Nobody does that to themselves. That's how much the stiff one is finding this team to be the limp ones. He has moved himself to Adelaide. My goodness, the man, he's just so down in the dumps. They've got to pep him up, pick him up, the crocs. But they think he's it was a wise move. We've sent him there to check shit out. He's moved there because he has that disillusioned with where the crocs are that he thought I might as well fuck myself right up.

SPEAKER_00 35:15

Big Win Near looked like an inspired choice back when they got him from the Wranglers.

SPEAKER_04 35:18

And it was. Big Win Near was sensational for the Wranglers. Absolutely cherry-picked him. And I thought, yes, we've finally got a player who's gonna bring us a bit more grunt. Bit more grunt. But he's turned into a granddad too. Fair inkham, him and Mick sit there now showing photos to each other. They should be on the practice range, they shouldn't be out there doing push-ups. Rocky should be blasting through the stereos. But no, these two are sitting there looking at us. Look at that cute smile. He's gone backwards going to the crocs. He had it all at the Wranglers, and he might be a bit dirty on him, but you can't keep them all. The draft does not allow that. When Danielson looks like he could be someone that could carry them forward into the future. Yeah, but he's gonna have to do it in a double pram, isn't he? Because he's had twins as well. I don't know what's going on with these crocs. They've just exploded, kids everywhere. They've all gone soft, I'm telling you. Soft and squishy, like a little toy. He's got the ability to let them into it, but he's gonna spend his next fifteen years under a bunch of nappies and empty bottles. He'll be showing photos to Neil, he'll be showing them to Mick, and Mick will be showing them to everyone else. The only thing Danielson hasn't done is what John of Stiffler did, who's also in the baby way. He hasn't taken himself to Adelaide, so he's got a little bit more hope. So that means Ericaby's to man then. Ericaby has a crack. He has a red hot crack, no doubt about it. Since he's come on board, he goes in every comp. Shit has him most of them, but he has a dead tear crack. That's what they need more of, that grunt, that new blood. They've got to get to the draft table. Mickey's gotta sit there next time and go, you know what? I am gonna be running last, second last, third, last, or not first. Let's just say they're fucked up first so many times the last few years, Mickey's gotta make some changes. That whole swamp's gotta be changed about. They've got to get rid of the skeletons off the front gate. They've got to get big salties back again. They've got to get out there and be hungry. The crocs in the swamp are shadows of their former selves. And Bruce and the boys have been told about this, and they have said that there will be changes. I'm not sure what sort of changes they mean. Probably with me. They'll probably fuck me off because I've become too hard. Who knows?

SPEAKER_02 37:11

Well, it's certainly been interesting getting your feedback on what your eyes are seeing out there, Tim. I think the crocs are going along just fine. I think Mikaby's doing a magnificent job, and uh I don't think there'll be any changes at all. They may make a couple of uh cosmetic changes through the draft. They just had a tough year tipping. Tipping?

SPEAKER_04 37:26

The only tipping this mob's good for is not tipping the baby out with a bath water. Fat ink and they couldn't even get one into the last nine weeks. You're fucking kidding me, aren't you, Ron?

SPEAKER_02 37:35

Oh no, I'm not. Thank you, Tim. That's all we have time for today, by the way.

SPEAKER_04 37:38

Oh that's right. That's what he's gonna do to me then, is it? Is it? Well you knew then. I will see you in the hallway. And it's not even a hallway, it's an aisleway because we're on a bus and it's a big bus, and you can run, but you can't hide, Ron.

SPEAKER_02 37:49

Oh my goodness, Ron's gone.

SPEAKER_01 37:50

Quite literally, mate. I've not seen him leave his chair and fly out a door in a studio that quick.

SPEAKER_00 37:56

I guess he figures getting a head start might take some of the sting out of it.

SPEAKER_04 38:00

He's gonna do more than sting, don't you worry about that. It's gonna hurt a hell of a lot when I catch him. He can run, but he can't hide. I think I hear the chopper on the roof, it's time to whisk you away. Where are you off to next, Tim? I'm going out to Cattle Dog Country. We're gonna go and have a look down there at uh what Lebba's done with his boys. Uh we're down there last year, looked pretty good, it's a pristine country, but I reckon that's my damn soft too. I'll soon be back to tell you about it. Hey, uh, we're looking really forward to that. Yep, thank you. Fuck off.

SPEAKER_03 38:27

I bet you would have kicked your own mother right in the face just to get a sniff of that liquor, wouldn't you?

SPEAKER_02 38:33

Has he gone, boys? Uh he has. I heard the chopper take off a few moments ago. You gotta have a very quick smart run. I don't think all his dogs are barking in the top patty. I uh he he's a terrifying individual. I I don't know if he's the man to do these reviews for Bruce and the boys.

SPEAKER_01 38:47

I have told you repeatedly, mate, Bruce and the boys, and they do not muck around, mate. Timmy, he's f for real.

SPEAKER_00 38:53

Man as a cat snake is absolutely tip top off his chops. Um I'm can't I don't know what to say except you boys and catadog country.

SPEAKER_01 39:03

Yeah, I better give Reba a ring and let him know Timmy's on the way and uh he's not gonna be pretty. This all comes back to the E-word.

SPEAKER_04 39:09

Ecuador, England.

SPEAKER_01 39:11

Ethiopia.

SPEAKER_04 39:12

You know. No, you missed it again, Ron. He's a screw loose, though, is that Timmy? One thing is gonna be short, is it's gonna be entertaining, if nothing else, heading into this tour.

SPEAKER_02 39:21

Alright, I think that's it for today. I know I need to go and have a bex and a good lie down. Uh, thank you for joining and listening to us if you came this far. Those groups, scintillating stuff, group six and seven. We'll be back tomorrow with the last pod for this week and 15 sleeps to go, boys. I hope you're all ready to rock and roll in the Mum's Bum Cup tour weekend of BTB 18.

SPEAKER_01 39:41

Bye bye, boys.

SPEAKER_03 39:43

Wherever you are, whatever you're doing, be the ball. You like that, baby? Let him know where that came from, yeah.