NRL VEGAS 2026 PREVIEW - League 365 Podcast EP15

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Back guys to episode fifteen of the League 365 podcast. I'm your host Firgo. I'm joined every week by Jax Jax. How are you mate?

SPEAKER_01 0:08

Good, how are you?

SPEAKER_00 0:09

Yeah, a bit tired after last night.

SPEAKER_01 0:10

Yeah, yeah, good good night out of the uh Newtown Jets season launch. So yeah, that video we we did a few interviews and chatted to uh a few of the old boys there that had a 30-year reunion and uh we got around. So keep an eye on that YouTube video. We spoke to the coach and the CEO, so keep an eye on that as well this week. We'll pop that up there. It was a good night.

SPEAKER_00 0:29

Yeah, a few former grekes as well. So um as usual, guys, we're we're sponsored by uh Bearbet. Uh if you'd like a double on the footy, make sure you venture down to Bearbet. Um we're gonna do a big preview today, guys, of the uh the Vegas games. Um we have one fan question, and uh that's about it for today. We're gonna really deep dive deep into these uh these two Vegas games, go through the lineups and have a bit of a chat and do some tips and stuff. So I reckon we start straight away and we get right into it, Jack. So let's go through the team list. So the first game is the Newcastle Knights v the North Queensland Cowboys, and I'm gonna let you go through the Newcastle site.

SPEAKER_01 1:09

Alright, we've got Captain uh Calen Pongo, fullback. The wingers are Dominic Young and Greg Marzu, the centres. Dane Gagai, Bradman Best. Alright, halves. Fletcher Sharp gets the six over Sandon Smith, Dylan Brown's a seven. Front row, Jacob Safidi, Phoenix Crosslin, and Trey Muni comes from Canberra, he gets a starting position. Dylan Lucas, Jermaine McGuin, and Tyson Frizzell are the back row. The bench, the six-man bench now with the new rules. Standon Smith, Matt Croker, Thomas Kant, Basami Sorlaw, Fletcher Hunt, and Francis Manu Lelea making his debut possibly if he gets on. That's their 19.

SPEAKER_00 1:49

Okay, I will take the North Queensland Cowboys. Uh we have Scott Drinkwater at the back. The wingers, Braden Burns and Murray Talungi. Centers Jackson Purdue and Tom Chester are very inexperienced centers. The halves, Jake Clifford and Tommy Deerden. Up front, we've got Cohen S. Jason Tom Lalo and Reed Marnie hooks the scrum. Back rowers uh Helm Luke and Sam McIntyre and Reuben Cotter will lock the scrum. Their six-man bench is the former Panther Sonny Luke, uh Thomas McKay, Harrison Edwards, Kai O'Donnell, Griffin Neem, and John Bateman. So they're the two line-ups, Jacks. Now let's have a discussion. The first thing I want to discuss, so we're going to start with the Knights, is the elephant in the room, the halves. So all preseason, all we heard was the halves were going to be Dylan Brown and Sandon Smith. And at the last minute, they've done the 360 and gone with Fletcher, Sharp, and Dylan. Um, they were my combo I I would have gone with, but I'm very surprised now because it felt like it was always going to be Sandon and Dylan. What do you make of this late switch? Is it the former Sandon just not good enough? Or do you think he's just thrown everyone off and this was always going to be the case?

SPEAKER_01 3:06

Well, just looking at that back line, you know, the wingers Dom Young, Mazou, uh Dane Gaga, Bradman Bess, like Fletcher Sharp to start has got to kick someone out of that back line, right? KP's at one, he's not losing his spot. Sandon's a very easily, very easily fits into that side as 14. You pop Sandon Smith at 14, sweet. I think Sandon Smith is a more naturally uh is probably more naturally a half and probably better than uh Fletcher Sharp in the halves, in my personal opinion. I think Fletcher Sharp's position is probably more suited the fullback. But in saying that, I just don't know how you fit Fletcher Sharp in if he's not at six. I don't think he can really do the 14 roll as good as Sandon, so I think that's where that's sort of how it's gone, I think.

SPEAKER_00 3:53

Yeah. D do you think though the the coach thought that, or the coaches looked at his form and thought, oh, I might have made an error here.

SPEAKER_01 4:00

No, because I thought he did well in that first uh trial against dragons. I thought Sandon was good. Um and then none of them were good in that second trial, they couldn't score a point. Uh I brought that up last week that that was quite worrying that you play a trial game and you couldn't score. So maybe that was the the And Fletcher Sharp wasn't there. Yeah. So maybe maybe that that's the that's the way he's going.

SPEAKER_00 4:22

I just don't think the mail would could have been wrong, to be honest. It was very strong saying that they've been training there the whole offseason. Yeah. So I think something's done it. I think something's triggered it. I don't know what, but I don't think it's as because to me, when I said I thought these two should be the halves, and it was for the reason you just said, because Sanders very good coming out of nine, not maybe starting there, but coming on after 30 minutes.

SPEAKER_02 4:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:44

He was good for the Roosters when he played that role. So I felt for the fit of the side.

SPEAKER_01 4:49

Yeah, that I know I agree. I think the fit of the side, this is the best maker. But I think Sanders Smith's a better six than Fletcher Sharp. But you know, like Fletcher Sharp's a great player as well.

SPEAKER_00 5:00

Is he a better player than Fletcher Sharp?

SPEAKER_01 5:02

No, he's not a better player than Fletcher Sharp.

SPEAKER_00 5:03

I I I couldn't have that. Um see the mail was coming out that he was going to be on the wing, Fletcher Sharp. Now, they could have easily put him on a wing. Like, really. Well, you got two enigmas on the wing. Greg Marzu, yeah, his yardage is good, but he's got some flaws in his game. Yeah. And Dominic Young has he runs sideways more than he does straight.

SPEAKER_01 5:24

So I feel like Dominic Young's the only one you could have left out. I I don't think he could have left out Greg Marzu. Like Flesh Shard's quite slight build, and Dom Young's yardage work is awful. So I don't think he could have had both of them. I think it was either Dom Young misses out or this is how you this is how you do it. You couldn't have left out Greg Marzu.

SPEAKER_00 5:42

I think you're right. I think that that duck egg next to their name in that trial has played a massive part. Yeah. Yeah, I think it's played a massive part. So um okay, so looking at this side, um I like the look of it. I'll be honest. I like the look of it. Um the bloke that I'm gonna just make a comment on, and I'm not sure if you saw much of him, there's a bloke on the bench. Now he has played first grade before, like a fair bit of he's probably played, I'm just gonna guess he didn't say 15 games possibly. Thomas Kent. Did you see him in the trials, the size of Thomas Kent?

SPEAKER_01 6:14

No, but I saw he played a lot of footy last year. Yeah, yeah. And I thought he was quite good in some of the games he played.

SPEAKER_00 6:19

I'm telling you, he looks I couldn't believe it was him. Yeah. The arms were popping out of his shirt. They were that big. He was pretty big last year as well. Yeah, so he's forced his way into the 17. So it's really, really hard to kind of work this out now. What what what they're gonna do. Like, I'm looking at it now and thinking, well, Fletcher Hunt's probably there as if if they lose an outside back, they'll trigger him. Can't see him getting on unless there's an injury or HIA. Know nothing about the 9-8.

SPEAKER_01 6:46

Yeah, no, no, maybe.

SPEAKER_00 6:47

We're gonna have to do some research on him. I know zero about him.

SPEAKER_01 6:51

Um He's not getting on. That bloke's not getting on.

SPEAKER_00 6:54

Well, it just depends how the game goes, I suppose, but you probably think not, but why name him when you got Well because but why do you need you probably don't need Gamble when you've got Sandon there at 14 anyway.

SPEAKER_01 7:07

And then Fletcher Fletcher Hunt cut covers one through to five. And Sandon covers uh nine, seven, and six. So you don't need Tyson Gamble.

SPEAKER_00 7:16

Yeah. I suppose the nine's probably there as as uh insurance if there's a couple of HIAs. Yeah, that's right. So yeah. So is there anything else in their side that that's kind of standing out to you at all?

SPEAKER_01 7:28

Or nah, but I uh a lot of people don't have much raps on this side for this year, but there's some there's some good footy players in that side, especially in that back row.

SPEAKER_00 7:39

I I like it.

SPEAKER_01 7:40

Dylan Lucas is is is a uh in my opinion, a uh bolter for origin in the next few years, you know. Jermaine McGuin looked really good, he's a skillful back rower. You know what you're gonna get from um Tyson Frizzell, and then you got Trey Mooney and Dave uh Jacob Safidi, sorry, in the forward back.

SPEAKER_02 7:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:58

I don't mind it. Like there are there's there's some names there that people don't know too much about, and then you got the centers are good. Gay Gags and and Bradman Bess are good, KP's outstanding when he's on, and yeah, yeah, Dylan Brown Fretcher Shop.

SPEAKER_00 8:15

It looks like I know they got nothing in the trial, but seriously, it looks like there's points in that team. Yeah, it does. It starts on paper, it looks like it. I know it's different on on you know when they get out there, but wow, there's some attacking weapons. You've got Brown, you've got Sharp, you've got best, you've got Gaga's probably passed his attacking best, but he's still good.

SPEAKER_01 8:33

Even the wingers, like they're try scorers. That's right. I'm not a bit like I'm not a fan of Dominic Young at all, as you know, as his time at the Roosters, but he's a triscorer, and then like the the the question marks on KP really, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00 8:44

Like you don't you hope that he's question marks at the moment because he's surely he's fit.

SPEAKER_01 8:48

We just hope that his head's right and he wants to he wants to deliver for Newcastle.

SPEAKER_00 8:52

Yeah, yeah. So the the probably the the hole I see just looking at them, I think the one to thirteen's good, but depth is a problem. I'm just looking at their bench like Craker. I just wrapped Ken. I was more rapping, not rapping him, I was just saying about how big he is. Um and he's not a bad player, but Solo Hunt, the bloke we don't know much about. Man, Craaker, they're just they're toilers, aren't they? Yeah, yeah, they are. They look like it put it this way, if they lost one of the back rowers in Tyson Frazel, they're gonna be patching that forward pack up with blokes that are NRL quality just Well they lost uh Leo Thompson Kaipies Paul, you know, and that and that shows that their depth now is is gonna be tested if they copy injuries. Yeah, but it it is a hole there that you can see that if they lose one or two, they're gonna be in a bit of trouble. But I I I I like the look of their one to thirteen, I have to be honest. Yeah. Yeah. Alright, uh let's go on to the Cowboys.

SPEAKER_01 9:44

Your favourite side.

SPEAKER_00 9:45

My side. It's it's yeah, I've got him for the spoon, but there is some players in here I I really like as players, as you know. Like I love the fullback. I think he's a gun. Um although defensively he lets himself down, but he's a gun, drink water. Um I I I see a real problem two to five. A real problem two to five for me. I like Murray Telung, he's a good really good winger, but the rest Burns probably over underrated a little bit, but he's just he's just a first rate. He's one of them blokes that's in and out, he's in and out. Um queries on both centres. Like Purdue, good player showing signs. Is he a centre? Is he a six? Is he a one? I I d I I'm not sure. Chester coming off an ACL. Yeah, I think Chester's coming off an ACL. Clifford's Clifford's a bloke at six, he's a bloke that uh shows plenty of talent, but very inconsistent. Like sometimes you'll watch him and you go, he's the answer, and then other times you'll watch him and go, Well, what are they gonna do?

SPEAKER_01 10:48

Well, this whole side's uh uh season relies on dead and drink water. Simple as that, really, doesn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I really liked what I saw from Reed Marnie, the he's he's a couple of hit outs for them. Um and yeah, but yeah, they their side's not on paper not outstanding. And it just I think it's gonna rely heavily on uh dearden and and and drink water. And if they if they go down hurt, then I think your wooden spoon prediction could well and truly be on.

SPEAKER_00 11:17

Okay, you've done a bit of a 360 on the Cowboys. I see you're grinning slightly over there. Well, yeah, I never had them as a top eight side. I can't look at that one to seven, but you take drink water and dearden out, there's gotta be a water look and go, there is a problem there. Yeah, Jerry. There's a real problem there. Jeremiah I said it early in the year, there is a problem with their outside backs, and that now, looking at that, there's strengths in there for anyone anyone that can say to me that is a good outside that that's the worst outside backs in the competition.

SPEAKER_01 11:49

Yeah, but their strengths in their forward pack. Hess, Mani, Tamala.

SPEAKER_00 11:54

Okay, let's go to the pack. So you reckon their str this is where their strength is? Yes. Yeah? So Tamilala, you give him a bit of a spray and said he was basically done.

SPEAKER_01 12:03

No, you said no, that's out of context. You said origin. Yeah, and you said he's not up to origin standard, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:08

So you said their strengths in their pack though. Yeah. So if he's not up to origin level, their front row can't you can't put him, you can't say, well, their front row is important row.

SPEAKER_01 12:17

Their front row annihilates Newcastle's front row.

SPEAKER_00 12:20

Yeah, but we're finished with with Newcastle. We're on the road. I'm just saying. But but what I'm saying, like Cohen Hess I I don't know. I don't look at them two props and go, that's a good one-two punch to me. Like it's it's it's solid. Yeah. I'm not saying it's bad. I'm just saying I don't look at it and go, if that's their strength, I feel there's trouble. Reed Marnie's been punted from two clubs.

SPEAKER_01 12:44

I think Reed Mary's still.

SPEAKER_00 12:46

He's a competitor, I've got no doubt, but his skill level is very limited. But he is a competitor. I'll give him that. He's a he's a competitor. I'm a fan of Lukey, yeah. And uh you're 100% right with him. He's a really good back row, and I I don't think he's even touched the ceiling where he could end up.

SPEAKER_01 13:01

And no, no, he's not in this game, but he would normally lock down that other back row in front of Sam McIntyre.

SPEAKER_00 13:06

Yeah, yeah. And then you got Ruben at 13, who everyone needs a Ruben Cotter, basically, you know. Um okay, let's rock onto the bench. Um, what do you make of the It's not a good bench? It's not a good bench.

SPEAKER_01 13:19

You know, Sonny Luke, he's really struggled to play first grade. He was touted to take happy spot back at Penrith a few years ago, and he got beat out by Mitch Kenny. Um Thomas McKay, uh, I don't mind. You know, I thought he was good in the trials. Uh like Griffin Neem, you know, but John Bateman, Harrison Edwards, Kyle, not all. I'm not like I'm not a rap on John Bateman or Harrison Edwards. And I don't I haven't seen that much of Kyle Donald either, to be honest. Yeah but it's not a fantastic bench.

SPEAKER_00 13:54

J just going on to another side here, how do you reckon? So if anyone doesn't know me and Trevor got the $50 bet, how do you think Trav's feeling after watching what the Tigers have produced in the Trials? Because they've looked quite good. I'll tell you who looked good, Jerome Light looked outstanding in the trials. Yeah. I'm not talking about Tigers, but I'm just saying that I'm very confident with that bet after what I've seen.

SPEAKER_01 14:13

But um I'm surprised Matt Lodge hasn't got a spot on this six-man bench, he's a big boy as well. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 14:21

I think I Well again, could change. Yeah, true. Yeah, it could change. Like, I don't know. I I I don't know. Um I'm concerned for them, and I've been concerned for them the whole offseason, and now I've looked at them on paper and I know Nanoye's missing. No one else off the top of my head's missing that I can think of. Is that no no no no I I'm more confident now they're gonna finish bottom three. I I just look at that side, I just don't think it's up to I just don't think it's up to it.

SPEAKER_01 14:47

Yeah. Alright. Shall we go predictions for this game?

SPEAKER_00 14:51

Let's go predictions, but what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna throw something at you at the top. Um let's do a one let's let's see what comes out when we go one v one, two v two. Let's do the one to thirteen on who the better player is and see how this would turn out. Just if we can agree.

SPEAKER_01 15:07

Just for these these these Vegas games?

SPEAKER_00 15:10

Yeah, just for the Vegas games. Let's just see. Alright, so we go Kalen versus Scott. To me, you've got to go Kalen. Yeah, you just have to, even though drink water's great. No, no.

SPEAKER_01 15:18

Kalen's he's a better football player, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:20

I think Dominic Young probably wins one win spot over Braden Burns.

SPEAKER_01 15:26

Uh I me personally, I'd take Brayden Burns. Really? Yeah, I I like I like Braden Burns. I don't like Dominic Young, and I'll more wrap in Brayden Burns.

SPEAKER_00 15:34

Let's take Brayden Burns. I'd go the other way, but we'll we'll take Brayden Burns. So it's one-one.

SPEAKER_01 15:38

Just both Newcastle w centers.

SPEAKER_00 15:42

Um and Telunghi wins the win spot over Marzu. Yeah. So we've got three-two knights.

SPEAKER_01 15:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:49

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 15:50

Well, just take this out of it. You'd go Dylan Brown at six, Tom Didden at seven. I know we are we are.

SPEAKER_00 15:56

Yeah, and and Sharp Clifford's the dead heat. Yeah. Didden wins over Brown at seven. Yeah. Um so we go it was three two, so we're now four-three. Newcastle.

SPEAKER_01 16:08

I'm going Hess.

SPEAKER_00 16:10

Okay, I'll run with Hess. I I I I don't think there's anything in it. But you can run with Hess. You're gonna have to run with Marnie.

SPEAKER_01 16:17

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 16:17

Um so it's five-four, you've got to run with Tamalala at 6-4.

SPEAKER_01 16:22

Now this is yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:23

This is a tough one.

SPEAKER_01 16:25

I'm going Dylan Lucas.

SPEAKER_00 16:27

Yeah, I'd go Dylan Lucas as well. In twelve months you might have a different opinion. Yeah. But at the moment I think Dylan Lucas, I think Luke's more on uh what's to come, where Dylan Lucas has showed what's under his bonnet kind of thing, you know. So um so at 6'5, we go to McEwen and McIntyre. I go McEwen and McIntyre every day of the week because I think he's gonna turn into something. Yeah, 6'6, I got cotters.

SPEAKER_01 16:52

Probably gotta go cotter. Cotter for the first time.

SPEAKER_00 16:53

Cowboys come out in front 7-6.

SPEAKER_01 16:56

Um with their starters, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:58

With their starters. So, alright, tips. Let's do the tips. Jax uh your tip here I'm tipping an upset.

SPEAKER_01 17:06

Newcastle 1-12. I'm going.

SPEAKER_00 17:09

Yeah, 1-12 Newcastle. I'm going Newcastle 13 plus. Yeah. I think they could rack up a score on them.

SPEAKER_01 17:14

First try scorer at Vegas has been a centre every year. I saw that sat today. I'm going Bradman Best first try.

SPEAKER_00 17:21

I'm going Fletcher Sharp, first try. Um and I think it'll just be individual stuff. Like I think that they're going to be a little bit clunky, so it might be just someone that scoops up a lot uh a drop ball and runs 50 or something to score the first try. I'm gonna go right out there.

SPEAKER_01 17:37

I like Bradman Best to get a try. It doesn't matter which centre he's up against. They're they're undersized centres. Uh Jackson Purdue's very slight, slow as Tom Chester. Yeah, it's good. You know, Bradman Best running Bradman Best is hard to handle. He'll be running. I don't know who's who's out there in the centres, but Bradman Best is gonna try. He's gonna run over his opposite centre.

SPEAKER_00 17:55

Yeah, yeah. Well Bradman Bradman's on the left.

SPEAKER_01 17:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:00

Um just well, I well Purdue's always played on the left, so you'd think that Chester's gonna be on Bradman. It won't matter who's on who, they're both gonna be in a bit of trouble. Yeah, yeah. To be honest, because Gagai's a like a really good ball runner, too, like tackle breaker.

SPEAKER_02 18:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:13

Alright, so you've got Newcastle 1 to 12. I've got Newcastle 13 plus. I'm having a dig and I'm going 13 plus Newcastle. So let's move on to game number two, and it is the Canterbury Banksdown Bulldogs versus the St. George Illawarra Dragons. Now, the Bulldogs have firmed heavily. Um I've had a quick look at a few things and they've firmed heavily in the last 24 hours. So I don't know if there's any mail going around that there's an out. I haven't heard anything.

SPEAKER_01 18:41

No, dragons are just shit outs, that's why.

SPEAKER_00 18:44

Yeah. But but when they're firming from like 150 into 133 or 135, whatever they've firmed into, um, or approximately that anyway, I find it hard to believe they got the market wrong in the first place, the bookies. They're usually reasonably close. But to me, there's there's something in that, but I I don't know what because there's no mail coming out of anything. But you know what? I looked through the dragon side and thought, what could do that to the market? Who would have to be out?

SPEAKER_01 19:14

And I don't know who Well Valve's got the injury cloud, that's about it.

SPEAKER_00 19:18

Yeah, so but anyway, let's go through the sides. I'll do the Bulldogs, you can do the red V. Okay, so Connor Tracy's at the back, wingers Caraz and Montoya, centers, Bronson Sherry, Stephen Crichton, and Captain. 580 is Matt Burton, halfback, is with all the pressure on his shoulders. Lochlan Galvin. Up front, we've got Max King and Sam Hughes. Bailey Haywood hooks a scrum. Back rowers, very strong. Gilliarmy, kick out, and Jacob Preston. Jamin Salmon, the weak gutted dog, locks the scrum. The bench, the sixth man bench is Kurt Mann, Satilli Tupanoa, Tupanoa.

SPEAKER_01 19:55

Satilli Tupanoa.

SPEAKER_00 19:56

Tupanua. Uh Harry Hayes, Josh Curran, Sean O'Sullivan. I swear Sean O'Sullivan, every year you go through a team listing just sitting in a different club. And uh Jake Turban is the sixth man on the bench. Do you want to take the dragons, mate?

SPEAKER_01 20:12

I will. And the dragons line up with another outstanding one to 19. No, one to what, 19 these days? One to twenty. Yeah. One to nine. Clint Guthrison, Captain and at fullback, Christian Moneyman, Tui Poludu is on one wing, and the debuton Setu 2 is on the other. Val Holmes and Moses Souley are the centers, and the worst, one of the worst Harves combination in the comp. Carl Flanagan, Daniel Atkinson, front row, M Ray Gula, Damian Cook, Toby Couchman, Luciane Le Lua, Jadon Sura, the back rowers, Hamie Stewart's at 13. The interchange, Jame Sele, Josh Kerr, Blake, Mudguts with Laurie, Ryan Couchman, and then we got Leica King Tonya and David Farley.

SPEAKER_00 20:59

Okay. Alright. One thing stood out for me when I looked at these team lineups. I think Flanagan's done his homework. And he has gone big. He has gone big. Look at the bench.

SPEAKER_01 21:13

I know you've got the the Jame Sele Kerr, Laurie, Couchman.

SPEAKER_00 21:17

Couchman. Big, big boys, like four big fours. Now I know you've got the other two Farley's winger, isn't he?

SPEAKER_01 21:24

Yeah, David uh yes. Yes. Outside back. Yeah, he's an outside back, I think.

SPEAKER_00 21:29

So they're both there. To me, they don't see time unless there's an injury. Yeah, yeah. Maybe King Tonga, if they're chasing some points, he probably has got some points in him. What are you looking at me low for? Well, he's got more points in him than Atkinson and Flanagan. Yeah. He just can't.

SPEAKER_01 21:43

If you're throwing King Tongya on there to Yeah, but he can't fucking tackle. If you're throwing King Tonya on there to chase points, the game's done already.

SPEAKER_00 21:50

I'm telling you now though, he's got more points in him than the that's not saying much. No, I know. I know it's not saying much, but I'm just saying he's actually so to me, Flanagan.

SPEAKER_01 22:00

Gone well, yeah, big rotation.

SPEAKER_00 22:03

It doesn't always work though, especially early in the season with the dogs, yeah, like they're fit, and and you know, most of them will be injury free and not batted up and stuff, so you know, but you can see there's as soon as I looked at the side, I thought, oh, they are big, and I just think that that's what they're gonna do. I I don't think there's any doubt what they're gonna do. They're just gonna be trying to complete height and just go through the middle, try and knock the front door down, you know, because uh you got Bailey Haywood defending in there, you know. Max King is not a a a big prop. Uh Sam Hughes is big, but he's pedestrian-like, pretty slow to turn, slow laterally to move. So I I think it's very obviously what the dragons are coming to do. They're gonna go through the back door and run Cook off the back of it. That's what they're gonna be hoping to do. Easier said than done, though. Easier said than done. Yeah, definitely. What what did you when you saw these two lineups? What did you think? The Bulldogs probably you knew what was coming with the Bulldogs.

SPEAKER_01 22:57

Yeah, yeah, definitely. Um Setu getting a wing spot. Uh Tyrell Sloan's out of favour of Flanagan, and he I don't think Flanagan's a big fan of Tyrell Sloan. Um so he loses his wing spot. I'm surprised that they they didn't give the um Jacob Heller Halla Gahoo. You know, because I agree with you, I I don't mind him as a as a player as well. But apart from that, um I I feel like this was the both sides are pretty predictable. I think this was what everyone was expecting. Um from what I and what I've seen, I can only go off what I've seen in the trials, and what I've seen in the trials is that I don't know how Canterbury don't take care of dragons. I know that you think there might be an upset here. I d I I just can't see it. Like based on the two performances I saw most recently, dragons were awful and dogs are really good. I don't know how they're gonna be, uh I don't know how they're gonna score enough points to get through this dog's defensive system.

SPEAKER_00 23:58

Yeah, let's talk about the points because it it is the issue. Like you look at the side, where are their points coming from?

SPEAKER_01 24:04

On an edge, Sewer uh Luch, Luciano Lelua, and the centre's Soule and Holmes.

SPEAKER_00 24:11

Yeah, the thing with with Soule and Holmes, I think that they're their strike weapons, but they're up against fair two centre. It's not like they've got Purdue and uh Chester sitting on the opposite side. No, that's right. You know, there can be damage done there, but these two blokes, well, especially Crichton, like he'll be on Crichton be on the right and Souley be on the left, so he'll be on Souley, Crichton.

SPEAKER_01 24:34

Is Jacob Little hurt?

SPEAKER_00 24:35

Yeah, he's gone for a couple of months. Yeah, right. So cool. Did uh what did he do? Meniscus, maybe?

SPEAKER_01 24:41

There's no spark coming off this bench either. Like it's at as you said, it's those big boys.

SPEAKER_00 24:46

It's obvious what they're doing. It's obvious what they're gonna do. You know, they're gonna just be going complete high. You know what? If the Dragons get bagged all their like, and I'm gonna bag them too, they don't look great, but one thing they do is compete and can complete high. That's what kept them in games last year. Like there was a lot of games they they were in and lost by smaller, like sixes and eights and fours and twos and shit like that. What a couple of field goals beat them too, and that's through effort and completing high. That's one thing they do. So if the Bulldogs are off at all, the Bulldogs are that type of side as well, though. Yeah, they are. No side competes more than especially the last two years at the start of the season. I can't argue that Canterbury. I can't argue that. Um so yeah, so let's go through. Is there anything else that stands out to you that like does the size worry the size probably doesn't looking at the bulldogs now with Tupanua there and Harry Hayes is quite big as well, so nah, it don't worry me.

SPEAKER_01 25:43

Not nearly not not at this start of the season. Yeah. Like I don't know. I feel like this this dog's side's gonna be too fast and too fit.

SPEAKER_02 25:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:53

And I just yeah, I think they're gonna be too fast, too fit. You know, you look they Kurt Man fit, fast in the middle, salmon fit, you know, all these boys are like this.

SPEAKER_00 26:03

I'm glad you didn't say fast, salmon, because he's a slug.

SPEAKER_01 26:06

No, no, I couldn't say fast, but you know, they're yeah, they'll come at you all day.

SPEAKER_00 26:10

You can see what they've done on the bench. They got Sean O'Sullivan's back up. Yeah, and so if one of them goes down and Turpin's there is if Haywood goes. Yeah, or needs a breather. Because when you look, I'm just having a quick look through, they just don't oh I don't care. Man could go in there as well. Oh, yeah, true, true. Man could go in there. Um I was just saying, but yeah, you can't see Turpin seeing any minutes. So all right, let's do what we did to the last game. Let's go player by player and see how the points rack up here. Um I think Gutho wins the fullback spot. I agree. I'm not a big fan, but he wins it. I agree. I think Caraz wins the one of the wing spots. I agree. And Montoya has to win the other one. I agree. Bulldogs win 3-0.

SPEAKER_01 26:51

Uh two uh two-one at the moment. Can be.

SPEAKER_00 26:55

Even though Dragons are very strong in the Senate, they still are they're still not gonna probably win the centre spots.

SPEAKER_01 27:00

Well I'd take Crichton if I was picking two Senates Mahomes, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:04

But we're doing player by player, so I'm kind of tipping you're gonna have to go.

SPEAKER_01 27:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:09

Uh I'm tipping Gutho wins the only spot from one to five in the lineups.

SPEAKER_01 27:14

One to seven. Well, Burton's Burton's a way better player than Claude Flay. I'm not even arguing that.

SPEAKER_00 27:23

I think Laughlin Galvin's I looked at Galvin versus Atkinson, but then I just thought Galvin's form at the Tigers. Atkins has never been in that, you know. Like, I I'm no rap on Galvin, but he formed there for the better than Atkinson's.

SPEAKER_01 27:36

So what is it? 6'1 Canterbury. King or Guller? Well, you've probably got to go King. He played Origin.

SPEAKER_00 27:42

King's I know a bit.

SPEAKER_01 27:43

He's better than Emory Guler.

SPEAKER_00 27:44

Yeah. Yeah. Can't argue it. Cook gets Cooker. Yep. 7-2. Give me Toby Couchman. Yeah, yeah, Couchman. 7-3. King wins, 8-3. Preston. Preston's Sewer. I think you've got to go Sewer. Yeah, Sewer. I think you have to go Sewer. It's 8-4. I like Hamish Stewart. Well, Salmon's a slug. Hamish Stewart's got a he's gonna end up a better player than Salmon. He probably is a better player than Steven. Are they just part?

SPEAKER_01 28:11

Can we go even on that?

SPEAKER_00 28:12

I'd give it a Stewart. Yeah, so would I adjust? Yep, so that's was that 8-5?

SPEAKER_01 28:17

Oh, I don't think it was that high.

unknown 28:18

No.

SPEAKER_01 28:19

I think it was nine, I think it was 9-4.

SPEAKER_00 28:21

Really? Nah.

SPEAKER_01 28:23

Guffo, Cook?

SPEAKER_00 28:24

Cook, Couchman, one. Sewer one. Oh yeah, true, true. Yeah, no, you're right. No, it was 6-1 though. Wasn't it 6-1 in the back line?

SPEAKER_01 28:33

We took Guffo, we took Cook, we took Couchman, we took Sewer, we took Stuart. Yeah, five. You're right.

SPEAKER_00 28:39

What was it? What is it? 8-5. Is it? Yep. Okay. 8-5. So clearly win here. Alright, tips. Tips for this game. How do you I know who you're tipping? Yeah. Uh are you tipping a floggy or are you tipping a competitive dragon side of you?

SPEAKER_01 29:00

Well, I'm tipping. I'm tipping Canterbury. Canterbury just I can't, as I said last week, and I'll stick by it and I might have egg on my face in a week's time. I don't know how Canterbury loses this game. I don't know how.

SPEAKER_00 29:11

You're very confident, aren't you?

SPEAKER_01 29:12

Dragons were horrific. Horrific.

SPEAKER_00 29:16

You have watched rugby league before, though, eh?

SPEAKER_01 29:18

Yeah, but you look at Canterbury's defensive systems and how they come out at the start of the year, and I just don't know. I just don't know how Dragons are gonna score enough points to get through this defensive system. Yeah. You know? It it's hard to argue. Give me Canterbury. Give me Canterbury by ten or more. And uh Marcelo Montoya gets over for a meat pie.

SPEAKER_00 29:39

Okay, so no first try score. You're just gonna say he's gonna get one?

SPEAKER_01 29:42

I'm just gonna say Marcelo Montoya gets one, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:44

Yeah, okay. Alright. Um I was gonna tip the upset all week, but I've convinced you, have I? Yeah, yeah. I I I I I I was 50-50 who I was gonna tip today. Um early in the week, I was tipping the dragons, but just what you just said there, I agree. I I just they're gonna be fit and fast being the start of the season, the Bulldogs, the defensive line's gonna be moving constantly, and they just don't have points in them. And the only way I can see them winning is if they win eight-six.

SPEAKER_01 30:13

Or if they score a couple of fluky tries off kicks.

SPEAKER_00 30:15

I just they're gonna have to keep the Bulldogs to ten, and that doesn't even guarantee them getting the win. And I and looking at it now, yeah, I'm gonna tip the dogs. I'm gonna tip the dogs by four. I think the dragons will compete hard. I think it'll be low scoring. I think you're looking at 16-12, 14-10, 18-14. I reckon that's kind of gonna be the the score line. I think it'll be very low scoring, and I think the dragons will will give a good account of themselves. I'll be surprised if they don't. Like, because I wouldn't want to be on the plane with Flano for 20 hours on the way home if they get flogged by 40.

SPEAKER_01 30:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:53

So so yeah, so you're tipping the dogs.

SPEAKER_01 30:55

10 plus Marcello gets a try.

SPEAKER_00 30:57

Yep, and I am tipping the Bulldogs by four, and I am tipping the Tedu two will score on Deboo and go off like a firecracker.

SPEAKER_01 31:06

Like the m like the money man does?

SPEAKER_00 31:08

Like the money man. I think he uh I think he will get one. I don't know, is it just me or the rookies just seem to fucking score all the time? On debut. In the backs they do, yeah. They just seem to always get one. I don't know why, but they just seem to. But um, alright, so we're we're in agreement on that game. We get a lot of things. Yeah, but we're all in agreements in both games. Oh, we both agreed with the Knights. So alright, guys, so in the comments um on today's show, just put down who you like. Um tear us apart, um, but definitely put down who you like. But that's what we think of these two Vegas games. Um now there is a Super League game on, but I don't really like Super League. I don't know, fair enough. No, who's playing?

SPEAKER_01 31:48

Hull and Hulk, yeah, Hull and I think it's Leeds. Hull, is it Hulk A? Yeah, Hulk.

SPEAKER_00 31:52

Is that uh that's Willie Peters? Yeah, that's a side that just beat Brisbane in the World Club Challenge last week. Yeah. Well, let's talk about that. I got up and watched that. Um what did you did you watch it?

SPEAKER_01 32:03

Uh I watched bits and pieces of it. I didn't watch it live, no.

SPEAKER_00 32:06

Yeah, okay, yeah. So there was some concerning signs for Brisbane. Like I know the New South Wales side just uh not New South Wales, the Australian side just seem to get beat in that game all the time. But I I fear for them early. I I do. I think it's gonna be tough to recover that trip and coming back and I I I I I'll be tipping Penrith morals in round one now. Cleary got off. Yeah. Let's talk about Cleary actually. What what'd you make of Cleary getting off? I don't think the shot was that bad. I'll be honest, I was down with the Bearbet boys yesterday and we were talking footy, and there was a massive difference of opinion between blokes that know their footy. Like some blokes had him blessed, others don't even reckon they I don't think that shot was bad.

SPEAKER_01 32:49

Yeah. I thought f I th I thought first contract was up around the shoulders and it it got him just in the head.

SPEAKER_00 32:56

Can you rule out he hit him in the head though?

SPEAKER_01 32:58

No.

SPEAKER_00 32:58

You can't. Okay. So the issue I had, and I was a bit biased because I wanted him gone because we Cornella play him in round two.

SPEAKER_01 33:05

And we play him in round three, I wanted him gone as well.

SPEAKER_00 33:06

So you wanted him gone as well. So they've been stamping down for the last couple of years on Blake shooting out of the line. And they've said if they get it wrong, you'll pay the price. He shot out of the line to put a shot on. And to me he got it wrong. I think there is no doubt he clips his chin at some point. I and I I I I think the best way to look at this, if Macassini stays down, he doesn't get off. He doesn't get off in my book. If he if he whiplash and and concussed himself, which whiplash can concuss him, and he can't get up and he goes off, do you think he gets off?

SPEAKER_01 33:44

No, but that's uh this always plays into it.

SPEAKER_00 33:47

But I know that's the rule, and I hate I think it's ridiculous. I don't think the injury should come into it. That's just my opinion on it. But to me, you had to prove that he did not make contact with his head, and I just couldn't see any proof of that. I think he's clipped him for sure. He shot out of the line, which I think makes it worse. He came on to put a shot on him and he got it wrong. And I think he's lucky. That was my opinion. But as I said, I've spoken to other guys um and they have a different opinion. And folks that kind of know their footy form are folks that played NRL. So they a couple of them said should have gone off, some of them said no. Yeah, yeah, should have copped it.

SPEAKER_01 34:30

I I got a pretty simple way of looking at it. If he got the two weeks, I I I didn't have a problem with it. And with him getting off, I don't really have a problem with it, no. But I yeah, I like to take the game into consideration as well, like trial game, should he miss first grade? I like either way, I didn't think it was the world's worst shot. It definitely didn't deserve three weeks. If he coped the if he took the early guilty plead and copped it, then yeah, sweet. And if he got off, I don't think it's that bad of a shot. To me, I don't think it was that bad of a shot.

SPEAKER_02 34:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:00

But technically, do you get him in the head? Probably yes. But I thought first contact was shoulder-ish and then came up into the chin.

SPEAKER_00 35:07

Yeah, okay. So do you think other blokes gonna be that go down to the ju judiciary for similar shots are gonna be taking that and going, well, can you have a look at this one?

SPEAKER_01 35:17

Yeah, but everything's got context behind it. Yeah. Some blokes are gonna have points, some, you know, all that stuff plays into it. Reputation plays into it. You can't tell me that blokes that like lunatics out there that been to the judiciary ten times wouldn't get off. They wouldn't get off, you know.

SPEAKER_00 35:32

Is it is it is it suspect because it was Nathan? Uh yeah, like that. They want him there in round one.

SPEAKER_01 35:39

And he's got a pretty clean record when it comes to judiciary.

SPEAKER_00 35:41

Yeah, yeah. But they want him there in round one.

SPEAKER_01 35:45

Probably.

SPEAKER_00 35:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:47

Yeah. Anyway, but I don't know. I I I look I feel the way the rule is set, he should have gone. But I like he got off. Because but I hope they that's the standard now. I hope they don't that they don't fold under pressure. Because I kinda agree. I think he clicked him, but wasn't that much in it, to be honest. Um and I like it, but I I felt there was ones last year similar that went and they went they were gone. Yeah, yeah. And um, but I like this, and I hope that's gonna be the the standard now they set on them kind of shots. So but I'm glad he's there. I I I I'm glad as a fan he's there. Not a I'm not glad uh being a Cornella fan he's there, but um I am glad he's gonna go up there with that side because that game's gonna be a belter. Yeah, I think. You want Cleary there. Because if Cleary's not there, Brisbane at $1.25. Yeah, definitely. Definitely this year. I though I'm tipping, I think I looked, I think they were before, it was funny how the market flipped at before the trial, that it was 170, 210 or something, something around that mark. Soon as that tackle happened within five minutes, Brisbane Penrith were out to two sixty or something like that. Yeah. But I'm tipping it's I haven't even looked, but I'm tipping it's just flipped all the way back again to that. So but I I I like Penrith in that game. I think Brisbane, I don't know. Going back to something you said um before, and I meant to touch on it when you brought up Tyriel Sloan. We're going back, I know, but I just wanted to talk about Tyriel Sloan. He was a guy when I watched the Dragons, the charity shield game, he was the one I watched. I thought I'm gonna watch Tyriell Sloan tonight. Some of his efforts were fucking embarrassing defensively, where he just doesn't even chase, like just gives up. Like mate, I went, oh I he won't see first rate again, uh in my opinion. And he needs to get out of that club quickly, yeah. You know, um, but there was one effort I can't remember who scored, someone sailed through, and he was at fullback, and he wasn't gonna get to the low, but seriously, didn't even attempt, it was just like jogging over and it was an embarrassing look. Like I don't know if anyone else picked that up, but I picked it up and I went, Oh, that blo he doesn't want to Flanagan doesn't want him there for mine, and I don't think Sloane wants to be there either. Yeah, I just think there's just a stalemate there. But I I think if you're a club that's struggling, I I'd take a gamble on him. I would, I'd take a gamble on him because he's as I said, he's got speed and you can't coach it.

SPEAKER_01 38:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 38:15

Um I think it'd need a really strong coach though. It'd need a Bennett, it'd need a Bellamy, it needs someone like that. Um and I think we said it a few weeks ago about Sloan. Go get on a plane, go to Melbourne.

SPEAKER_01 38:26

Yeah, yeah, you brought that up. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 38:27

I think go to Melbourne, and in in a year and a half you'll know if you if you're gonna be an NRL player or not. If not, go to Super League. Yeah, no, I think that's um his hope. But uh I'll be stunned if he sees the season out at the Dragons. I reckon he'll be gone mid-season. Yeah, something will happen. So you can just see it. Um, I have got one question that we weren't gonna really do questions, but there was one here I found someone put in. Um okay, so it's our mate Benny. Um now he has brought up the origin eligibility, which we didn't, did we speak about? Yeah, yeah, we didn't see last week. What do you guys think of the new eligibility rules? I think I heard recently that the Polynesian percent in the NOL is now past 50%. That is correct, Benny. With the new rules and the increasing Polynesian players, it won't be long. More half the players play origin. It's one of these long ones again, Benny. When I asked your opinions earlier, you didn't see much of a problem with the eligibility criteria. Does the new rule change your opinion now? It will strengthen origin and national teams, but it will hurt the kangaroos. Yep. Okay, um we did speak about this last week. Um we did, Benny. Um, Benny did write the thing he hadn't had a chance to watch last week's show when he wrote this question, which was a few hours after that we we uh did last week's show. Benny, I don't know. What do you think? I'm gonna go with you first. Do you like you like it, don't you?

SPEAKER_01 39:50

Uh the new el eligibility rules.

SPEAKER_00 39:52

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 39:53

Yeah. Yeah. I do.

SPEAKER_00 39:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:56

But it's similar it's sort of how it is now. The Tongan and Samoan boys can play for New South Wales and Queensland and still go and play for um Tonga and Samoa. So it like it's not like Polynesian players were missing out and now all of a sudden they're getting their shot. That's how it's been. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, I know what you mean. So like your really good Polynesian boys are already been playing Origin the last f five or so years, and then they've they go and represent Tonga and Samoa at the end of the year. So does it weaken Australia? Well, of course it weakens Australia, but it strengthens the other sides.

SPEAKER_02 40:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:37

W which I think is not a bad thing. Australia's always gonna be strong at rugby league. But I think if we can get the other nations up there as well and make it a bit more competitive when we do have World Cup at the end of this year, I don't think it's a bad thing.

SPEAKER_00 40:49

Yeah, okay. But does it really affect these blokes are playing for different countries anyway?

SPEAKER_01 40:54

But that's what I mean. Yeah. But the Polynesian.

SPEAKER_00 40:56

That's not gonna make them any stronger because they're already playing there. No, that's right. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's it's it's the origins probably the issue. Is it gonna turn into a half tonga, half Samoa kind of match? You know, are they gonna gonna sit there, you know? Well no, I've thought of things like like I've thought of things and I've thought of this before, but they play the national anthem. Not many gonna be singing it.

SPEAKER_01 41:26

Well Yeah, well yeah, but the uh indigenous boys don't sing it either.

SPEAKER_00 41:33

No, but that's what I'm saying. Some of them are the indigenous, you got the well now you're gonna have Kiwis in there. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 41:42

High well we may have Kiwis, we may not.

SPEAKER_00 41:46

Why?

SPEAKER_01 41:48

Well s some of them they're a legible play, it doesn't mean they're gonna get picked.

SPEAKER_00 41:52

But you gotta remember, you gotta remember, the new breed coming through have now got the option. The like Jerome Hughes has gone and played 20 odd tests for New Zealand. So he probably is already set, yeah. These guys are gonna come through with well, we can play for Queensland or New South Wales and play for the Kiwis. Where Jerome's already played 20. You know what I mean? Like, so I think there's not gonna be many that turn their back on Origin and 30k or whatever it is these days. I I don't think there'll be many. Jerome's on a million a year.

SPEAKER_01 42:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 42:22

You know, there's gonna be other Kiwis like well, he's but you know, like you're gonna get Kiwi wingers and things like that that are on 200k. You think they're gonna knock back 30k? No, but so does it take away from the Queensland Passion, the New South Wales Passion, they're playing for the money. As Jerome Hughes came out and clearly said, if I pull that jersey on, I won't have the passion, like a monster, like so. Well, it might take away from it with a couple of places. That are are are thinking the same, but thinking, fuck it, I'm taking the 30k.

SPEAKER_01 42:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 42:56

You don't think that will happen? I'll guarantee you that's gonna happen.

SPEAKER_01 42:58

Maybe at some stage if this rule stays in place, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 43:02

So there's a few issues for mine. Um the the the point I made I didn't like I thought the ridiculous one was added for Noel Blake that had played one game in 2017 for the Kiwis and then was eligible from one game. I thought that was ridiculous. Like I thought, well, he should be playing like the other ones, I don't know. Britt Nicory, what he'd have to put been nearly 20 tests. He he don't know.

SPEAKER_01 43:30

Yeah, I don't know either.

SPEAKER_00 43:32

It's it's hard, it's hard because you know what happens Benny's right, there's over fifty percent Polynesian players. What happens if that number turns to seventy at some point? Which you could. It was probably twenty years ago and it was about fifteen. So if it ends up seventy and you're got a New South Wales side with three Aussies in it, how people gonna feel then?

SPEAKER_01 43:51

The New South Wales side's r already riddled with not riddled, but uh got heaps of Polynesian boys in it already. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 43:59

Yeah, but this is This will end up more.

SPEAKER_01 44:01

Yeah, we'll we'll have to wait and see. Yeah. They New Swales has got a a high uh Pacific Island population to begin with. Yeah. So we're n naturally we're gonna get blokes come through that um uh uh have Pacific heritage. But like if they're born in New Sawels, they play in New Sawels, but they also want to represent the family instead of the country they're born in. The rules allow 'em to now. Because yeah, it's a tricky.

SPEAKER_00 44:29

It's tricky. I like s part of me wants it because I want to see some of them blokes' names that were on that list playing. Like I wanna see it, you know. Um but then I think of the other the other way, like in ten years' time.

SPEAKER_01 44:43

Yeah, that's right.

SPEAKER_00 44:44

So you gotta prepare for that and there's no turning back for mine. Can't tell them they're they can play and then ten years go, we've fucked up here.

SPEAKER_01 44:53

No, well you can. You can always change your mind.

SPEAKER_00 44:56

Yeah, it'd be a tough one to go back on. It'll be a tough one. Um but anyway, Benny, um I don't know. I I don't know if I agree with you or not. Yeah, I don't know. I really don't know, Ben. I don't know. Um all I know is I'm happy to see the one that there was only seven, so that's fine. But there could be a lot more than seven down the track, you know, like there's other blokes that yeah.

SPEAKER_01 45:20

You just gotta wait and see how it plans out, you know, really, to be honest. If we want the bet if we want the best spectacle at at all levels though, I think it benefits it. Yeah. And I think that's why NRL's done it, to push the international game. Yeah. Because that's gonna now get stronger. Yeah, but to strengthen something, sometimes other things have to get to the world.

SPEAKER_00 45:42

The other thing it's done, there's never gonna be well, if they do a standalone state of origin, which they they they might again at some point, there'll never be a Samaran tonga test on the same.

SPEAKER_01 45:52

No, but that hasn't happened for a while.

SPEAKER_00 45:53

But there's always been talk of doing something like that, but yeah, they would then they would have to they'd have to decide. Yeah, that's right. They'd have to decide which way they'd go. But I'm I think they'd play for their nation.

SPEAKER_01 46:04

Oh, I think some of them would for sure.

SPEAKER_00 46:06

Most of them would. I'd be surprised like if they didn't. So but um, yeah, so Benny, it's a tough one, mate. I I don't know. Um my answer, I just don't know.

SPEAKER_01 46:13

Yeah, I don't know either.

SPEAKER_00 46:14

I'll tell you in ten years, Benny, if you if we're still flying here on this podcast, we'll let you know in ten years. Okay, um now is there anything else? One thing I do want to say tipping comp. Um, the tipping comp you've got to Sunday at is it two the first game?

SPEAKER_01 46:28

I think it's one something.

SPEAKER_00 46:30

One something, you've got to get into the tipping comp um before it closes. Um now there is another tipping comp um that you should look at, guys. It's called Load Up. Um, have you got a website for them?

SPEAKER_01 46:40

Yeah, yeah. Uh so check them out on Instagram and then click the link and it'll take you to their website. You can also just type in loadup.gg, and it should come up as well.

SPEAKER_00 46:49

Yeah, loadup.gg, I saw that. Yeah. Because a lot of people my age don't have Instagram and stuff.

SPEAKER_01 46:55

Yeah, just uh load up GG, you should be able to find it. Yeah, very easy and simple. Pop in your details, uh read the rules and then pop your tips in. Uh very easy app to use and a bit of a game changer when it comes to regular league tipping.

SPEAKER_00 47:09

I'm telling you, have a look at it, guys, um, because it's tipping like you've never seen before. It is free to play and there is big money on offer. So don't say you weren't warned if you miss out. Okay, so uh loadup.gg. Don't forget our little tipping cop as well. 250 to the winner. Winner takes all free entry for that as well. Um we'll post it one more time on our socials. Um, but you've got till Sunday to get in that one. So uh make sure of that. What else have we got?

SPEAKER_01 47:38

I think that's it.

SPEAKER_00 47:39

That's about it. Yeah. Okay, big shout out to last stop. Um, we mentioned at the start of the show we went to the Newtown um season launch in the celebration of the um 1996 Metropolitan Cup premiership side. We interviewed some legends here, so make sure we're gonna be filtering actually. I'm gonna pass it to you, Jas, because you do all our social media.

SPEAKER_01 47:58

Yeah, we're gonna be happy with that. Yep, yep, we're gonna pop um a few of those clips, short clips up. Uh, but we'll also throw an extended version out where we we get around to some of those old boys that played in that Metropolitan Cup team. Uh, the coach, the current coach in Newtown. Uh, we get we spoke to him and a couple other players, CEO, so uh and a few um uh people that work at the club that have a high profile at the club. We interviewed them as well. We will only be w putting uh a few relevant ones on the Instagram, but we'll put the full uh YouTube video up as well. So keep an eye on for that if you're interested, uh, or a newtown fan. Yeah.

unknown 48:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 48:36

Alright. Very good. Alright, so that's uh about it for our preview. Make sure you guys you get in and make your comments on who you guys like for the first two games in Vegas. My microphone's playing up a bit. Um, but guys, that's a wrap for today. Thanks to the guys at Bearbet. We'll be back for episode 16, and it will be a full round.

SPEAKER_01 48:56

Yep. Yeah, so just remember everyone, um Bearbet's our main sponsor, but also remember for free to and confidential support, call eighteen hundred eight five eight eight five eight or visit gamblinghelponline.org.au. Enjoy the Vegas games and we'll see you next week.

SPEAKER_00 49:12

For the full preview of round one of the NRL. Thanks, guys.