Foz At The Wheel!!

Manly can score in a blink and still spend the next 79 minutes trying to escape their own end. We start with the usual life stuff, then rip straight into the Roosters game at Brookvale, including the thunderstorm lead-in, the wild opening moments, and the uncomfortable feeling that the scoreboard never quite matches how fragile the performance looks.

From there we dig into the details NRL fans argue about all week: kick chase, ruck speed, middle dominance, and why your back three ends up doing emergency carries when the pack is losing collisions. We also talk through the Roosters’ jaw-dropping “perfect game” numbers like completion rate, zero penalties, metres, kicks, and passes, and ask the real question: were they amazing, or did Manly make it easy?

Then the conversation turns into the big Manly Sea Eagles storyline that changed everything, with Seibold getting sacked and Kieran Foran stepping in as interim coach. We’re honest about what can actually shift in a four-day turnaround before the Dolphins, and we look at the bigger problems that don’t disappear with one decision: recruitment balance, missing size through the middle, and the hooker role that top NRL teams build their whole tempo around.

We finish by scanning the rest of the NRL, reacting to the biggest upsets, tipping Round 5, and laying down the marker that Penrith Panthers still look like the benchmark for relentless, repeatable footy. If you’ve got your own read on Manly’s next move or the wild state of the comp, subscribe, share the show, leave a review, and tell us which call you disagree with most.

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Hello and welcome to another episode of I've been doing it all day today. Far and in, T bold out, let's if Manly can shake it all about. Let's get stuck in.

SPEAKER_00 0:13

Nice. How's your week been, mate?

SPEAKER_01 0:15

Yeah, it's been really good, too, mate. Really good. Um That's it got it caught you off guard.

SPEAKER_00 0:23

Um shows the liveness of what we're doing.

SPEAKER_01 0:26

Yeah, it definitely. Um but you know it's good. Uh was uh coaching my first uh game of league this weekend. Getting stuck in, getting into the thick of it, yeah. Getting straight into the stuck of it, thick of it. Um up at the old Forestville Furrets um was going well, um, really well, and and unfortunately one of the girls uh had a quite a serious injury. Um but the game the game plan was going really well up up to there. She uh bless her, she was playing incredibly well as well. Up to that point, she was coming in off the wing and putting in some hard yards, um, which is a which is a bit of a bit of a bit of a shame. Um great to see them sort of putting in the game plan that we sort of uh discussed about uh and were playing with a little bit of freedom as well, so can't really argue. It was it was great to it was great to watch.

SPEAKER_00 1:11

Talking about game plans and playing of with freedom. Heard you had a couple of visitors as well on the sideline.

SPEAKER_01 1:16

Yeah, um old old uh Tony brought it up. Tony Seabold then uh Mastroff um well after the I think they came up to watch really the Men's A grade. Um but yeah, quick walked in. Uh very slim and very small, no, quite uh quite a a dot amongst the the beer bellies of Forestville ferrets, if I'm being perfectly honest. Quite a shock to see him. Um day after the big move. He got sacked as well. Yeah, uh he was on his hand super dry, so still doing a bit of uh calorie counting as well. Fair bad. Um but uh other than that, it was it was pretty chill. Uh not much else went on Sunday. Nice little coffee, nothing, nothing crazy. Went to Bunnings, uh, got a stick for the plant so it stays up straight, you know. I think that's gonna be a recurring feature, is the update on the plant. Uh, how about yourself?

SPEAKER_00 2:05

Quiet weekend, real quiet weekend. Obviously, we had the Roosters game, which we reflect on reflect on the week as a whole, as Manly fans in a bit. Um, just preparing myself for chocolate season, really. You know, like we've got a heavy weekend on the chocolates coming up, so thought I'd uh yeah, sample a few this weekend just to make sure they're all right for Easter. Next weekend, dropped a small fortune in Woolies on chocolates for the kids. Like you go in, you're like, I'll get a couple of bits. Next thing you know, it's like over a hundred bucks. And obviously, there was a few other bits other than chocolate in there, but I couldn't believe the price of some of it. And if the kids don't appreciate these chocolates, then next year they can do one. But um, yeah, went round uh uh school friend's house for a barbecue on Sunday, actually. Jump about in the pool, which was which was pretty good. But day for it, it was a day for it. I had a f I had a few little Sunday bevies as well, which was which was nice, which was nice. But what a week it has been. Yes, it has been so we were we had a bit of a blow-up last week around the situation in Manley and one week on. Oh, how different it looks. So let's review the week as a whole. Like let's think about what were your thoughts going into Thursday night roosters game. Obviously, we we said a few things on the on the podcast last week.

SPEAKER_01 3:22

And and when you take your rose tinted glasses off and you look at it as a as a whole, you're like, right, we're gonna get absolutely spanked here. I think the the I think I believed a lot of the hype around the rooster's name. Um saying that we had to deal with a massive thunderstorm beforehand.

SPEAKER_00 3:37

I got absolutely drenched. That was genuinely one of the biggest storms I think I have ever been involved in.

SPEAKER_01 3:43

Yeah, it was it was wild. Um, touch and go whether the game was actually going to be on. I was worried at one point for sure. You saw Brookie underwater, got to hand it to the the ground staff and the drainage. It it's it soon sort of disappeared in that sense. Um, and then made me way up to the ground, took my seat, and then I think it was the best 10 seconds I think I've ever seen of a Manley game.

SPEAKER_00 4:05

Uh it highlights some of the problems that Manley have with how we scored the opening try. Like two tackles in, whip it out to the edge, and we beat them with pace around the outside. I think that's been the issue with what we've been trying to do too much, and that's been highlighted a few reasons. But a few stats that I saw earlier around the Roosters being potentially that being the most perfect game ever played by a team since the stats or in in the modern NRL. Um, 96% completion rate, so 49 uh 51 sets, 49 completed, zero penalties. So one of the things that we spoke about before was their discipline record. It screwed them over the week before against the Warriors, I believe. Um, and zero penalties in this in this game, 2094 meters, which is the sixth most by the Roosters in a game, which is nuts. 35 kicks, most kicks in a game, 319 passes, second most passes by the Roosters, sixth most passes in the NIL era. And the interesting thing to me is I don't feel like the Roosters were that good.

SPEAKER_01 5:14

No, and and that and that's a point I made at the game is I can understand why the better teams are beating them. Yeah, because it wasn't just a case of Manley didn't have anything, the Roosters just ri didn't have anything either, and Manley just were worst at it.

SPEAKER_00 5:27

Um we talk about our forward pack as well, right? Not being the most powerful. They got absolutely Manley's forward pack got absolutely dominated by the Roosters on most tackles. We're getting driven back. Very rarely will we attack in from their that are but it goes to show that a pack that can run through the middle will cause them problems. Um, and I don't know, I just don't see like they're talking about yeah, there's there are a few things away from it clicking and it being it going right, but on paper, statistically, they've just had the most perfect game that you could have, yeah. And yeah, alright, they've beat us 30, what was it, 32, 33, 16, or something like that. But I wouldn't necessarily say it was the most like it didn't look that dominant. Manly were actually in the game for a very long period of time, and you did I did think at one point, hang on, are we actually gonna do this at half time? And then it just kind of fizzled out in the second half, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:20

And and what I think one of the biggest things in it is was the kick chase on on defensive kick. One of the reasons why Manley were playing so much out of their own half was how poor the the the kick take kick chase is on defensive kicks. Yeah, there's a reason why the back all back three of the roosters nearly hit 200 metres, um, and that's because of them getting a quite comfortable 20 metres of time as soon as they return. There's just no there's no urgency, there's no there's no pressure, and then if they're collecting at the ball at the 10 and the first tackles at the 30, a couple of tackles later only manning Manny's half and Manny's then having to defend themselves. And when your forwards don't take the ball out of your own half and it's reliant on the backs, like Hapawati hit 250 odd metres, yeah. Like it it it just it just puts you into a massive struggle, and that's that was the issue with Manley. You you we you you score first off a off a kickoff, which highlights what Manly's attacking play is because naturally in a kickoff you swarm towards the middle because that's where the biggest run run is. If you are switched on, it's probably the perfect time to run it, so you've got to you've got to credit in that sense. But other than that, other than little moments of brilliance from from the geezer is on one again. Like I think two breakaways from Kohler set up his own try as well as uh Turbo's second try. Other than that, Manley just didn't have an inch of anything, but then highlights more than just the player players. There's there's there's schemes being set out which just don't don't suit what's being out on the field, walked out of that game fuming, like boiling, like fuck Seabold, he's gotta go, like all this sort of stuff.

SPEAKER_00 7:59

Was actually quite surprised to find out the next day that he was sacked. Like I thought they might, because you hear all this stuff around our signed a new contract, two years. Thought that they might give him a bit more time to make a change, make things work, but I think the pressure was too much from the noise around what was going on, and they knew that they needed to make a change and make a change early, and they did. But typical manly fashion, I've heard today, like it's been an absolute circus of ordering which people got told, players found out from breaking news, even executives found out from that forum was taken over from news rather than being internal within the club. So even though Mashtroff is gone, it seems like the shit show is sits with Penn and the owners.

SPEAKER_01 8:44

Yeah, um was yeah, like you said, it was uh it was quite a surprise seeing a lot of it, a lot of people out and going, Oh, um what's what's going on? It's it's it's only three games in the season, you can't you can't do anything. And it's like, well, you know, if if if they if they can and they're not doing anything, then why why wouldn't you? Um there's been no progression from the last last season. As I've said, all I've seen is is going backwards.

SPEAKER_00 9:11

So part of me though does think it also sits on whoever's in recruitment, whoever's making business decisions, because you look at the players that we've bought in and you look at the players that have left. Now, all right, we can talk about Joshua Aloy, medically retired, Toff Sipley, moving on, but they're big bodies in the middle that used to run the ball hard and be physical presence in the middle. We haven't replaced that with like for like, like Kobe Hetherington, yeah, is great, he was solid against the Roosters, played 80 minutes as well, two dodgy knees, and he's managed to play 80 minutes four games into the season. But it just doesn't feel like we're recruiting for the right positions. Like you look at our hooker position, Jazz Tavanger last year was decent, but he wasn't he wasn't the next level. Where now we've brought in Jake Simpkin, even Brandon Wacom starting now. So I just think it's a position that we lack at. And if you look at all the top clubs, they have very good hookers that are just whipping the ball out quick, ruck speeds quick, and they're getting it to where it needs to be. Um, so I do think, and uh like I noticed as well that Jamal Fogerty's come out, Turbo's come out, they've all kind of apologised a little bit, saying the players have got to take ownership on it. And I do get it, there was a lot of errors in the Newcastle game, yeah, but like you said, some just something wasn't working, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:30

And then you you go from that, um, I suppose they're trying to dissect dissect a game after it, and uh Seabow gets sacked and everything comes in, and then you it comes in so quickly that that that Kieran Foren's taken over. Quickest, what is it, 200 odd days since he uh played his last game, the quickest ever from player to coach.

SPEAKER_00 10:54

So I'm no, I know the guy's a club legend, and he's won a he's won a premiership and he's made of tough stuff, had a few challenges in his career slash life that he's overcome. Um, and it is an interim job. I'm just a bit concerned that there's not much he can do with the players that we've got. Um now you look at Man United in the Premier League, they've brought in ex-players on a couple of occasions with Oli Gunnar Solskjaer, Michael Carrick, and they have actually had that little new manager bounce, like old player bounce. I do think we will see players play with a bit more freedom and a game plan because I don't know if you saw there's that thing about Jake standing up to C Bowl about the game plan about the game plan, and maybe it's just a case of bringing it back to middles running the ball, yeah, trying to get some yards like Ola Kawaiu's only had like 20 carries or something in three games. That's got to change. Big boys have got to take the load, they've got to step up, and I think I'm hopeful, like we'll talk about the team and stuff like that that's selected for this week, but I'm hoping we'll see someone step up and boys step up. Needs to, but it's an interesting one because we look forward to the future, and then there's um three candidates that have been thrown up for people to replace, which is Matty Balin, Brad Arthur, and Mick Ennis. Um can't say I know much about Balin because only been following the sport recently, but he's coached with a premiership winning, he's assisted coach with a premiership winning side, a state of origin winning side. Yeah, like it seems like and he's a manly. I don't quite get this. I don't know about you, but what the I know all the stats point towards an ex-manly player is taking them to premierships, but I think I don't know. I I don't know whether that's a pivotal factor in hiring the next coach. Um, but he seems the front runner for me. Brad Arthur, I think, would be a good choice, just what you've done with Parramatta.

SPEAKER_01 12:53

Yeah, he took them to the to the semi-final. Oh no, he took them to the final, yeah. Lost to the to the Panthers. Um it's all about how who who you build around you as well, I suppose. It's it's there's the um how you have your sort of assistant coaches, and and that's a met that plays a major part in it as well. Um, you've got the likes of as you said, meanes who James Graham was massively hyping up on uh on on his podcast this week about how much of it he impacted him off the field as a leader. So is it going to be exciting times? It always is when a new manager comes in, but I think there needs to be a lot more work within the structure and then within the within the core group as well to to help help with that.

SPEAKER_00 13:42

And the old Melbourne Storm GM, they're trying to scout him out and try and get him over to rebuild the football club. So be interesting to see. Look, Dolphins this Thursday night. We'll get into our tips a little bit later on, but it's one of those things where not much can happen because it was a Thursday game, yeah, changed on Saturday, first training session Sunday, game on Thursday. Realistically, what can change in four days? Yeah, I think the week after when we play is it Eels, Dragons, I can't remember who it is the week after. We might then see a different approach to how things are, but there were some big shocks this round, some big old shocks. And I think on Sunday, or was it Saturday? What was the what was the it was Saturday? We tipped the Warriors, we tipped the storm, and both of them have absolutely fallen apart somehow.

SPEAKER_01 14:36

I only got I only got one right last week, I think. Like I said, uh text you you like I I was a I was a Panthers slip away from presenting this in my underpants for getting a big zero.

SPEAKER_00 14:49

I don't think I've ever heard of anyone going zero on the on the tips, but cowboys up in Townsville, I can't believe this similar to how Melbourne went last year though, with their trip to the Dragons.

SPEAKER_01 15:03

Yeah, because is it the it it seems very very similar in in that sense so a same round round the same sort of time time um bit of a but we we we we talked about it when they played the Broncos as well as as well, where they just shut off in the in the sec in the second half, yeah. Uh is it is it something starting well you just you just don't know it's well they've got the Panthers up next as well.

SPEAKER_00 15:27

Well it's it it's just so it's just so hard to pick at the moment. It is, and look, we spoke about some sexy passes last week, and this is what I mean about the difference a number nine can make. So good. Harry Grant literally I I didn't even realise that Will Warbrick was on the side and he's just whipped it over three people, Warbrick's there to take it. And look, at that point, I was like, here we go, Stormer gonna come back and win this. But fair play to the Cowboys, Todd Payton fighting for his job, and that's how you want a team to play if you've got a coach that's fighting for your job, not the way Manley have turned up. But off the back of that, like I said, Storm have got Panthers this week, but at the moment, at current, at the present time in this season, it feels like Panthers are just gonna romp to the to the premiership. They put the eels to the absolute sword in the first 15 minutes. That game was done half time 30 points to four. But the biggest thing that surprises me is old the old white boy on the wing, old Tommy Jenkins. Milky Jenkins. He's 10 tries in four games is absolutely nuts.

SPEAKER_01 16:30

It's but the he's reaping the rewards of every everything else. Like when you have strong middles who are able to sort of penetrate the middle of the field, when you've got a uh a half who's who's able to open up teams, see things that you've got good good set pieces, good good set plays to to introduce in there. You you're you're creating things to open up space, everything is done by design, and he's he's doing his job out there, and and the Panthers are utilising it.

SPEAKER_00 16:58

They are, and they're just whatever they do, like they exploit the rules with the we mentioned the six again, they wear teams down, and they're just relentless in what they do, they just don't stop. And at the moment, there's no one looking like close close to them in terms of all-round game, like defensively, they took look fantastic in attack, they can just finish from anywhere, they got weapons. But the biggest surprise of the round not uh if anyone saw this coming, then fair play. Yeah, but the tigers beating the Warriors in New Zealand is absolutely nuts without Jerome Louis as well.

SPEAKER_01 17:34

I I I I believe this performance has put the the rest of the league on notice. Oh, that is that the Warriors ain't as good as they first looked. Tigers, because I did I did sit back and think about it as well, is when when watching that game and the week before when they when they lost and they were losing both Dewey and Louai, it it does really rock it rock the ship and rock your you as a team when you're losing two pivotal parts of your yeah, and you can understand why the momentum can shift from a team like that. But the two games where they've had two set halves in, they've absolutely ripped their opposition to bits, yeah, and they've played some some fantastic rugby, and and it's uh I this result puts the rest of the league on notice. Like, not not to go and storm and win the championship, but these tigers are and could well be within that middle within that mixture for the for the eight.

SPEAKER_00 18:33

It's the fact that they've got a backup as well in Jock Madden that should anything happen to Dewey or Louai could probably come in and play a bit of both. Um, I did say that the Tigers were nothing without Louai, and they've gone and beaten a team that's romped to a few victories. Devastating news for the uh well to positive for the Warriors from the game. Metcalf came back and seemed to a little bit early, but will work up to obviously his fitness. But they've lost Mitch Barnett again for four to six weeks because he broke his thumb. So obviously, just coming back from that ACL and then he and then he breaks his thumb. So does this derail them again? It'd be interesting to see how they go, but the last of the upsets of the weekend, um the knights beating the Bulldogs, but when you look into this, right? I don't know whether it is actually too much of an upset. Bulldogs have only scored 45 points in three games, they're not that great in attack. But you mentioned about the Tigers beating the um Warriors, puts the comp on notice. Yeah, I got a sneaky feeling that the Knights are gonna do what the Raiders did last year. Okay, everyone's like, I don't think they're gonna be minors, like I don't think they're gonna win the minor premiership, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if they find themselves around like that five, six, four, five, six spot because of the way they're playing right now, who they've not got playing to come back, I don't know. It just feels like um like Dom Young as well seems to have found his form.

SPEAKER_01 20:01

Which which is which is quite uh an interesting question because we had a conversation about it on Thursday as well, like how he uh essentially flopped at the at the roosters. Like I think the first season he he was there, he was he was really he played really well, but then when um the wing of Nitawase came in with Tupot, yeah, he you you sort of big Marky Mark was forced into the centres a little bit to fit all three of them in, and I think Jung felt the pressure a little bit and his performance started to drop with that, yeah. And then Marky Mark went to the wing, does what he's been doing, and then Dom Jung was dropped and ended up back up at Newcastle. But this is Dom Jung's playing as as he was pre-roosters, yeah, and and it's and it's great to see as an as an English Englishman, and it only it only encourages his for the for the England side as well, and it's great to see him starting to get it get in a swing bit more of form, and with him as well, like he's got but he's got two two big weapons in the fact long-range strike, he's quick, he can run away from most players, but also he's a big body, like huge.

SPEAKER_00 21:09

He's he takes a lot of stopping from the out just outside the goal line. Um, and Brad, they've got some they've got some very decent big boys on the outside, the war um the Knights. And don't know, just when Ponger's back, when Dylan Brown's back, I've just got a feeling that they could be mixed up, but then you say that is it because that their halves at the moment have got less pressure on them because they know well the superstars are too much.

SPEAKER_01 21:33

They they were ripping it up against Manly, so it was it was it was one of those, and they they uh didn't they beat no, they just lost the Bulldogs by a point, didn't no.

SPEAKER_00 21:42

Who's no they beat the Bulldogs? One thing about the Bulldogs actually that I just want to mention is I think they're Bronson Sherry's been named this week. They beat the Cowboys, I don't know. They beat the Cowboys, but Bronson Sherry's been named this week. I reckon they're they missed him. They missed him in the attack. Yeah, a bit of I don't know. No, just a bit of size, bit of speed coming out from centre. It just seems like and that the geese that came in, I can't remember his name, but he made a few errors as well. Um, but talking of the last year's minor premiers, the Raiders, I didn't watch much of this game against the Sharks. Sharks from the highlights I saw looked just pretty going through the motion, did well, finished well. Um, but you got it's a bit worrying times for the Raiders, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:24

It it really is. Um Sharks just again, just inconsistency is their killer. Um, I think really is with that with that team. They just like you said, going through their motions, they just looked so much better as a as a as a team again. Um are they gonna be like that next week? Who knows? No one knows. It's it's it's a bit of a flip of the court because especially with it being down in Canberra against against Canberra, you just don't you don't sort of expect that. But then, like you say, Canberra just didn't look comfortable within the game at all.

SPEAKER_00 22:57

And Corey Horse, bro. I I looked at the penalty, it's a bit I thought it was a bit harsh him getting sent sent to the bin so early, but he was right next to the referee when the penalty was blown. So I don't know whether like psychologically he thinks that he's 10 metres because he's standing next to the referee and then goes to make the tackle and gets sent to the bin. But it was a weird one that punished them them early. A couple of tries were scored by the sharks. Um, but the battle of Queens look, there's a I think there's another Queensland derby this week, actually. Oh, of course. It seems like they just get him out of the way early doors in the year, and yeah, Broncos Titans this this week, so they just rotate them, but Broncos showing, and especially Catoni Staggs showing that they the Suncorp is their house, yeah. Um and it just seemed like they're picking up you, but you ticked the Dolphins. I did the Broncos. I just think they're gonna find a little bit of football. Although, again, another stat that I saw just before I came in here, Reese Walsh has made the most errors in the NRL this year so far. Got to get that out of his game.

SPEAKER_01 24:02

I was quite disappointed with the Dolphins in this one. Um just uh it was I I suppose you I just expected more from them, and and they they had show sort of shown signs of of that. Um not being really uh just Broncos are turning, but just that with just that little bit more physical, just that a little bit more. Bigger boys paid, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:24

They wanted it a bit more, um, which is which is massive.

SPEAKER_01 24:27

And when you've got the likes of Kerrigan and Hass in the middle, yeah, when they start doing damage, uh it it does it does stop a lot of teams.

SPEAKER_00 24:34

It does, and then the final game of the round, which we said was would be a bit of a struggle, was those Titans getting getting that first victory, or it's their first home game and the first win. Uh bit of a nasty injury for Shane Flanagan in this, or Carl Flanagan, sorry, um, getting absolutely knocked out, like head clash, I think it was two players, friendly fire, collided heads. Um, bit of a struggle of a Sunday watch. This one though. Yeah, I was cooking dinner, I think, or like I was a bit off cut.

SPEAKER_01 25:08

It was it was that Burnley Fulham on a on a Sunday afternoon.

SPEAKER_00 25:12

Um absolute random one, right? I went to what the last game at Craven Cottage and it was Fulham against Leicester, and this was in like early 2000s, and there was this massive um like show put on to celebrate like Craven Cottage before they turned it into seated, it was stand in, and um it was probably the most boring nil-nil game I've ever been to in my life, and that's what this felt like. It felt like you're just watching two like fair play to the Titans, blues blue Stoke, nil-nil.

SPEAKER_01 25:42

Um, I think the highlight, I think I might have mentioned it on him. Gary O'Connor missed a header. Uh, and the BBC editor came on to BBC WM and was like, I'm gonna struggle to find 45 seconds worth of highlights from this game. Um, talking about football, um, one of the one of the the best uh sort of things I highlighted on Thursday is how much Tedesco looks like a an old style centre midfielder, English centre midfielder.

SPEAKER_00 26:07

When he was warming up, you're right. Like he just has his socks pulled up, he just black boots, like you were saying. He just looked like Lee Catamole. Yeah, he looked like he could just put him in the CDM role and he'd go around and literally not give a fuck about it. Get sent off in about 10 minutes, flying everywhere, but he's annoying. Like, let's get back to that game for a second. The amount that he badgers the referee and he's in there and he's in their ear hole, Turbo needs to take a little leave from his book because it worked, it worked, he got a couple of things his way. He did because that Ola Kawatu, um it wasn't Ola Kawatu, Wakum's try where Ola Kawatu pushed Tupo. Like, what's he meant to do? Olo Kawatu's eyes are on the ball, and Tupo steps in front of him. Is he just meant to run into him? Would that mean it's then a block block that escort? I'm not too sure, but we got the dolphins on Thursday. We'll get into that into a second. But for what it for what it seems like at the moment, everything is a bit up in the air apart from one thing, and that is the Panthers are dominating.

SPEAKER_01 27:02

Panthers are winning the comp.

SPEAKER_00 27:03

Panthers are winning the comp. You heard it here first. I'm not it's I'm not sure it's uh a visionary uh epiphany that that might happen. But let's get into what is it, round five? Yes, it is round five. We're kicking it off on Thursday night. We're at KO Stadium, we're up in up in Queensland. We got the Dolphins at a dollar thirty-five against the Manley Seagulls, three dollars nineteen. Yikes, yikes indeed.

SPEAKER_01 27:32

Only change Clayton Falalo coming in for Saba at the moment. Pretty much the same team um as as what started against the the Roosters. Um is there gonna be some changes later in the week? I I I don't know. Uh, is Joe Walsh gonna actually creep up to the bench? Um, but as I always do, gonna bat the boys and Manley gonna get a bounce back. We're gonna fuck all the stats of only 32% of teams actually win with their new coach, and we're gonna we're gonna win this up in Queensland.

SPEAKER_00 28:01

Yeah, fair play. One other thing that pissed me off from the Roosters game, and another thing that pissed me off about Seabold, Laffey only playing what 13 minutes? 13 minutes. Geezer came on, ran the ball off the back fence, actually fell forward, broke through a tackle, got up. I think he may have, I don't know, I think he may have got hit a little bit too hard. Um and also found out after the game as well Bullimore done something to his calf or Achilles or something like that. So, but he's been named this week, so it could only been a nickel. Um this one's a difficult one for me because I often use I try to tip with my head and not with my heart. I really want, I do really want Manley to do well in this, but I just think it's too short of a turnaround from new coach coming in. So I'm gonna go with the Dolphins in this one.

SPEAKER_01 28:51

Fuck that hurts us so and then we've got the Battle of the Accord Stadium. Well, as the South Sydney Rabbit O's on Good Friday, huge. On Good Friday at five past five past four, so a nice early kickoff. Yeah, we've got the South Sydney Rabbit O's at a dollar eighty-five against the Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs at$2.

SPEAKER_00 29:11

That's bonkers that the rabbit hose are favourites in this, but I can see why that is because of the stats in attack. Like, I don't think they've got much, and the rabbit hose left edge is humming. I'm gonna go rabbit hoes.

SPEAKER_01 29:21

I'm gonna join you, gonna join you with the rabbit hose, and then what a game Friday night.

SPEAKER_00 29:26

Is this a grand final preview? I do not know. We're at the Combank Stadium. We've got the Jesus, the odds in this. We've got the$1.40 Panthers against a$2.88 Melbourne Storm. Um, I'm gonna go Panthers. I can't see anyone stopping him. Genuinely, like I look at this Storm team. How mad is it about Kamakamitha as well, by the way, having a stroke? Did you see have you read that? That is nuts. Apparently, he woke up from his stroke. First thing he said was like he was annoyed that he couldn't play this week. What commitment! But how that's different mentality. I hope the geezer obviously best of recoveries, but Stormer having a bit of a bad time when it comes to brain like unexpected brain injuries and players. Never want to see either Katoas or Kamakomitas, so hope they rest up and uh yeah, he's back soon. But for me, Penrith Panthers.

SPEAKER_01 30:15

Yes, and then the first game on the Saturday at 5.30. We're at the Jubilee Stadium in Cogra. We've got the Dragons at$2.16 against the Cowboys at$1.70.

SPEAKER_00 30:28

This is the sort of game that the Dragons will turn up or the Cowboys will play terribly. Like, you know, when it's like the complete opposite of the week before, feels to me like another snore fest. Like Kogra overweighing exactly the best venue as well for games to be broadcast because it's quite like it's a bowl and it just doesn't feel right.

SPEAKER_01 30:45

I was setting on FIFA when you're properly zoomed out.

SPEAKER_00 30:48

Yeah, um Flanagan out, King Tong here in. People are slagging off Clint Gufferson as well, not looking any good. I'm gonna back the Cowboys to go back to back.

SPEAKER_01 30:59

Yeah, I'm gonna join you on that one actually. Gonna join you with the Cowboys.

SPEAKER_00 31:03

Then we got the Queensland derby number five of the season or four of the season, whatever it is. We're at the season.

SPEAKER_01 31:09

You can say that about Sydney derbies, though, always happening.

SPEAKER_00 31:12

Yeah, but that's what makes it weird because there's so little, there's only three teams. Well, four teams in Queensland, but three teams like within close proximity of each other, and they just seem to play each other every week at the moment. So we're up at the C Bus Super Stadium. I'm still tempted to drive up there, by the way. Well, even with a custod diesel, even well, I said petrol cars, but slightly cheaper. But C Bus Super,$4.35 Gold Coast Titans against the dollar 22 Brisbane Broncos.

SPEAKER_01 31:35

The Brisbane Broncos have to have to go up there or go down there and win. Um, they they need to put up a another performance uh and they need to fight like these odds are showing. And I'm gonna go with the Broncos.

SPEAKER_00 31:48

I do think the Broncos win this, I and I do think they win this fairly comfortably, but it wouldn't surprise me if the Titans start out hot and then the Broncos just outphysical them.

SPEAKER_01 31:58

And then we're at Super Sunday. Um we've got the Sharks at$1.57 against the Warriors at$2.41 at the Ocean Protect Stadium.

SPEAKER_00 32:08

So the Sunday two o'clock kickoffs commence. Um Sharks. I just think we're losing Mitch Barnett for Noah Blake just doing what he does in the middle. It's a big loss for the Warriors. Yeah, they've got Fisher Harris, but I don't know. I think um Sharks get this one done. Are they gonna back it up?

SPEAKER_01 32:30

I'm gonna go Waz. I'm gonna back the Waz away from home as well. Away from home. Well, the last time I played away from home, they absolutely rummed it away, didn't they? Yeah. So I'm gonna I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go the Wars, I'm I'm gonna get them to bounce back, and uh Cronola's inconsistency is gonna kill them.

SPEAKER_00 32:47

Fair enough. Then we go up to the McDonald's McDonald Jones stadium in Newcastle, the Knights$2.39 against the Raiders$1.58.

SPEAKER_01 32:58

This is a tough one, especially after watching the Raiders. Um I'm gonna I'm gonna go Knights.

SPEAKER_00 33:13

I'm gonna I'm gonna join you on that one. I believe that the Knights are on a bit of a buoyant run and the Raiders are struggling at the moment. Like, alright, they've been in the games, but I just something about this Knights team.

SPEAKER_01 33:28

And then it concludes on Easter Monday at five past four. We've got the Parramatta Eels at$1.68 against the West Tigers at$2.19.

SPEAKER_00 33:40

Again, these odds have got to be impacted by the fact that Luai isn't playing, right? Like that's what it is. But they did it against the Warriors last week. The Warriors are better than the Eels, which means the West Tigers are winning this game. West Tigers are winning the game.

SPEAKER_01 33:55

I'm I'm looking this this this could be a very good game.

SPEAKER_00 33:59

I think it could. It's a good one to finish on the on the Easter Monday, and then Roosters on the bye, and I saw I don't know if you saw Cherry Evans was on um Fletch and Hindy uh whatever the footy show, whatever it is after the game on Sunday, and he was saying this bye week is pivotal for them to be able to like reset and revisit kind of their tactics and stuff like that. Yeah, so expect them to be firing next week. But seems like we've got another cracking weekend of football lined up. Yeah, looking forward to it. Thursday night. Are we gonna go watch it somewhere Thursday night, or are we we're gonna just watch it from the comfort of our own home just on our sofas? It's gonna be a long weekend. Fair enough. That is. Well, if you haven't done so already, give us a like and give us a subscribe, really helping us bump up those numbers. Um, and if you've enjoyed the episode, drop us a comment below as well. What do you want to see? What do you want to hear us talking about? Um, and we'll catch you in the next one. See ya later.