#025 - Results, Running, Ranting and Sports fun. With a little bit of Tossing

This week John and Martin round up the cricket and basketball seasons, indoor athletics, all the footy codes plus the art of tossing

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Good evening and welcome to Sportsbiz with more frivolity, fun, and pheromones of Mr. Martin Winnell, aka the dog, and myself, John Briggs or Briggsy, as some of you prefer to call me, the only podcast you'll ever need in your life. Because we hit all the open cracks in all sports, all the time, because sport in life is life, and life is sport. No, wait a second, before I ask that question.

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What have you done, mate? This is episode number 25. Yes, it is.

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And it is our landmark quarter of a century. We've nailed it. We have.

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Indeed, so what's happening? Martin. Well, on this auspicious day, uh with all of our 25 episodes. Yep. What have we got? Dude, we got everything as usual. AFL, NRL, soccer, athletics, MBL, cricket, wacky sports. What have you got? A bit of boxing, a bit of union, a bit of golf, a bit of a bit of everything? Tennis. You name it. And uh there's so much going on. There's so much fun. Absolutely, and there's so many important things that need to be said. But before we start, Martin, I have a joke. Yes. I know what I want to say to it already. Well, we have to go your joke first. No, no, but I'm feeling good. Okay. Got good thoughts. Picture this. Uh, eyes are closed. Indeed. Picturing. I don't know eyes are that well, but anyway, there you are. Picture this.

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A policeman on the door of a house. Yes. And she says, as the gentleman answers the door, I'm sorry, sir. But it looks like your wife has been run over by a truck. Ow. The man smiles and says, I know. But she's got a great personality and goes off like a firecracker in the sack.

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You idiot. I think we should cheers that. Oh, you're gonna cheers that? Yeah. Oh, mate. Okay, ready? Go. All right. Cha-ching. Cheers, my good man. Indeed. We're back at Stone and Wood. Byron Bay, Mullin Bemby, beautiful. Little hazy pale ale. So you can slam it down, hand. So you can slam it down fast. Nice. See who catchy's on. Anyway, right. Well, quick bites. Yes. Yes, yeah. Have a look around. See what we got. In the cricket. Which cricket?

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Oh, some of the one day stuff in Pakistan. Boom. Yeah, no, rubbish, isn't it? Sheffield Shield. The pit bull. We'll come to that in a second.

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Ah, yeah, we bloody will. I know. Don't worry about that. The pit bull. He's still around. Who's the pit bull? Dummy David Warner. When did he become the Pit War? Well, he's been known as that for a little while. Really? Yes. That's escaped me. Well, look. Well, he was. He's not the big show. He was the scapegoat. He called himself the escape goat at one point. Oh, well, that wasn't sandpaper. He was the official goat of uh of sandpaper. He got into yet another physicality.

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What did he do? It's probably the 20-year anniversary of the Joe Root attack in the pub. Well, he decides to have a go at Paul Mo and Alley.

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I know. Is he still playing? Yeah, in this 2020 crap. Yeah, okay. They can play until they're 70, can't they? Well, that's right. Okay. Yeah, well, all right. So what did what did Mo and Alley do wrong? Well, we don't know. Nobody actually knows. That's the whole thing.

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But apparently Warner is stuck his face in his Mo and Alley's face and grabbed him by the scruff and then nagging trouble.

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He's in a bit of trouble. Sounds good. He's not that good on you, Dave. Hey? Why do people still think he needs to be bright? Haven't we understood yet? Well, he's unfair expectations on the lab. There is a continuum later in the episode.

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However, uh, tennis, Yannick Sinner, sinner by name, sinner by nature, perhaps. Sinner by behavior. Well, indeed. Won the Miami Open, and in doing so, because he won the Indian Wells, won what's known as the Sunshine Double. How nice is that. Is that a thing? Apparently so. They've made it a thing. The Americans have made it a thing.

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Oh, lovely. And and where the uh Indian Wells and where? Miami?

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Yeah.

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Are they both in Florida?

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Is Miami in Florida? Well, yeah. Where's Indian Wells? No idea.

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Huh. I don't know. Somewhere sunshine here.

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Yeah, state and city knowledge of uh the USA, isn't there?

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So as a I I feel this is a fair question to ask at this time. Since it's in America, does it matter?

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No. Okay, fair enough. And I find it a bit of a weird end of the hardcore season because the Australian Open was really the end of the hard court season.

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And then they go back to America. To do a couple of half-ass three seasons.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. Okay. They're not that big, but they try to make them out to be that big tournament.

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Well, if you join them together, you got two things and you join them together to make thing one. This is true. So, well, yeah, indeed.

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Good one. Adam's family. No. Of course. Thing one thing two. Adam's family.

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Hang your head.

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Well, no, there was a thing in the Adam's family.

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Oh, there was, yes. This is true. But it wasn't thing one. He was just thing. Exactly. That's right. Anyway, thing one. I feel we've digressed from sport to literature. Nothing wrong with that. That's well, yes, there is. This is a sports podcast. If we want to do a literature podcast, maybe we need to set that going. Mark Twain enjoyed horse racing. Oh, did he? Yes. William Shakespeare. He enjoyed enjoyed wife carrying? Right. And probably some punting in the River Avon.

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Probably. Yes. Probably. Indeed. Let's get back to your tennis. Another thing that's increpied. So yeah, tennis is now. We're coming into the clay court season. Oh, that's exciting. And the Monte Carlo Open is happening at the moment. We're only first round, so we don't really know. But it is quite a big one, and it's all leading, obviously, to the French.

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So the French. And now who wins the French without Nadal? Is it just Alcatraz? Yeah, no, Alcatraz and Cinner. Again, they're those. Well, that's bloody uninteresting. If they win on clay, they win on grass, and they win on asteroid.

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And they're so far ahead of the number three, who is Sverev or Djokovic, which take your pick. Um, that it's silly.

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Well, one's one's never gonna make it, and the other one's too old to make it.

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Yeah, yeah, of course. But but yes, now you're right. I know. So the number five, well, who knows who it is? It could be Jack Draper, it could be Cameron Nori, it might be uh demon. But those guys are on the win. Yeah, he never cracks five. Yeah, they all interchange around that five, six, seven, eight. You know, yeah. Ah, look, who knows? But there may be somebody who comes through, we don't know. Oh, go clay. So, yeah, so that's that. Uh the Premier League.

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Hang on a second. Didn't get way not in the last week, did it? Well, in the international and FA Cup finals, so Premier League took a week off.

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The Arsenal is still miles ahead. Yeah, yeah. However, what I was going to talk about was actually Leeds have a tough match away this weekend against Manchester United.

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And I believe the Hammers have got wolves. Have got the wolves. Yeah. So this is 18 versus 20.

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I know, and this if this sort of goes wrong for Leeds, we're right back in the problem in the in the the poop. We are. So then it comes down to And West Ham. If it's the week after, we're playing Wolves or something like that. Yeah, I think you do.

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I think I saw that, yeah. So it's a bit up and down, but if it goes wrong, then the pressure is on Leeds. Yes. And there's a little bit of pressure off the hams. That's right.

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Yeah.

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And uh Tottenham are just it's they're just destined for destined for relegation.

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Tottenham sells a new manager, we said this last week, and they're hoping for a miracle.

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So well, look, you do do tend to grab a miracle in that first game. I know. It's not unheard of, yeah. But it's Tottenham. So it's unheard of. Let's hope. They've got the players. They've got the players. They just don't have the belief. Dear idea. Yeah.

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But let's move on just quickly before you go on to yours. Because you've got shitloads.

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Oh, there's well, there's so much football. We could stay on this though if I do an early rant.

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I just want to stay on the FA Cup. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, don't.

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And I get it, because I'm actually very unhappy, but at the same time, I'm not that unhappy.

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Yeah, exactly. And I wouldn't have been like that.

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Yeah, so you go, you go and announce why you're happy. Well, of course, Leeds United. The followers.

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The one and only beat West Ham in the FA Cup quarter final at West Ham, mind you. Yes. We were 2-0 up uh in the 90th minute, and then in two two injury time, uh two injury time goals, West Ham managed to pull.

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You kind of didn't deserve to.

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Oh, look, not really.

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But you hung on, and then what happened? Yeah, we won on penalties. Yep. Which is a little bit shitty. I'm not feeling it.

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That's part of the game.

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But during that time, I remember thinking, you know what? I don't really mind if we lose. Yeah, it means that now the ham the West Ham have got nothing to do but get out of regulation, get out of relegation.

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It would have been the South Elise if it was the other way around. So now we've got double focus. The squad isn't really big enough to put the best 11 on for the FA Cup semi-final. If you do, you risk injuries that were buggered for the Prem.

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Oh, this could benefit us. Is that what you were thinking earlier? Oh, I'm gonna say yes. Does that sound alright?

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I know. But however, Leeds do go to play at the hallowed turf. Which is Wembley Stadium. Uh yes. For the semi-finals. First time we've been there.

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Who's through? Chelsea, Sunderland. No. Sunderland are out. Nah, didn't they beat Arsenal?

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Yeah, no, not in the if they did the in the FA Cup, it was around earlier. So there's only four teams left. Yeah. So Leeds are going to play Chelsea. Yep. And Man City play Southampton.

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Southampton, not Southern London. Who always close? Well, they're Southampton. They're in the Championship. They beat Arsenal.

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Yes, that's right. They're in the championship. So they will probably get promoted up to the Premier League, by the way. So they're a good team. They always have been. Yeah, yeah. They're one of those teams that just goes up and down the premiers to the Champions League all the time. We all know Southampton. So anyway, so there's that, and that's where we are. Anyway, I'm gonna hand over to the next thing for you.

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I'm torn. I'm a little bit torn on where to go at this point, John. Right. We could stay on the bits. The bitch. The bits and pieces. Oh, right. Or I could launch into a double-barreled rant of soccer unhappiness. Go for it. And I feel like since we've been talking soccer, this is the right time to do it. And you might as well. So we had on March 31st, I had a couple of friends that went to Melbourne for this game. The Socceroos versus Curacao. Yeah. Now we all know the island of Curacao. Sounds like a cleaning agent. Bloody blue. Well, it sounds like a blue um vodka alcohol film. Well, that's true as well, yeah. Uh great little island, just uh north of South South America, uh-huh in the bottom of the uh Bahamas. Caribbean. Um, we won. Right. I'm okay with this. Big big win. 5-1. Yeah. Big enough. Yeah. No problems at all. Yeah, yeah. Secure us out. My God, there's like a hundred people there. Yes. So pretty easy. But here's where my rant starts. And I'm gonna put this picture up on our socials. I'm gonna show it to you now, John. Yes. What the bloody hell is that? That's a black man. I can't well, okay, I wasn't looking at that bit. I believe Australia is now turquoise green and orange. Um, yeah, what are they doing? Now the women when they played. No, that's the point. Kira was in white. So apparently green and gold does not sorry, it clashes with white now. Oh, rubbish. You remember last time when Australia played Iran and Iran wore white, and therefore green and gold clashed, so we had to wear black. What the hell is going on? Where has the green and gold gone in soccer? God knows, man. Absolute travesty. Nobody turns up to watch turquoise green and orange run around a park playing soccer. It's the green and gold, or it's nothing. So soccer. It's gold and green, isn't it, by the looks of it now? Pull your heads in. Yeah. Get back to what got us into the World Cup all those years ago with John Aloese, taking the green and gold off, running a lap of the oval after the penalty against Uruguay. With his shirt. Swinging the shirt around. Did he swing turquoise green and orange? No. Did he swing black? No. He swung green and gold. No, it's John Alowisi. So that's the first half of my soccer rant. For God's sake, Australia.

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I'm looking at that picture now. That's not Australian. 95% green and a little bit of gold there.

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It's like gold is orange. It's orange, kind of yeah. Ochre. It's got an ochre fiddle to it. Across the shoulders. And then we go to stage two. This is a little, this has been a uh a circle. We've been on this topic a couple of times, and it came across my radar last week, and I thought to myself, this is just not right. This is way beyond not right. Right? So we're gonna regress about eight weeks. We're gonna go back to the African Nations Championship of Senegal. Now, when I first broached this subject, I was a bit angry and I ranted. Oh, you did? And then when it came back the second time round with the penalties, I was even more angry and I ranted a second time.

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Yeah.

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You ready for the third one? Let's do it. The Powers to Be have made a formal decision last week. Yeah, that because Senegal left the field during the game, walked off over biased decision and refereeing, that should have forfeited the match. Right. So they've stripped Senegal of the title and handed it to Morocco. Yeah. The home nation who unquestionably cheated all tournament with reffing, with behavior on and off the field, with assaulting players on the field with their officials. And they are now officially the African champions.

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So they go through to the World Cup.

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Well, I guess so. Yeah. Yeah. So Senegal's out. Sorry. Morocco. Sorry, guys. And we look, we did question this at the time. Can you leave the pitch? Well, obviously. And not forfeit the law. Well, obviously you can't. I get that, but you can't hand that to Morocco. Soccer. Yeah, I know. This is why you're never football. There's obviously something. You are not football because of these things. Jodgy decisions and bad uniforms. You're just upset because West Ham got booted out by L. No, I'm upset because soccer is making itself it's running second to international joke of sport behind heavyweight box. Until I talk about the Angle Cross. So yeah, no, that upset me. I'm gonna rent. I reckon that's gonna come back next week. Alright. I'm upset by that. Morocco. Just unacceptable. But if we flow through some stuff now, uh let's let's talk very quickly the roundups. MBL uh Australian basketball. When we last spoke, it was two-all. It was in the series best of five, Sydney versus the Adelaide 36ers. They rolled into that fifth match. It went to double overtime. I saw it. So hell of a good match. Yeah. For regular time, incredibly even. For the first overtime period, incredibly even. The second overtime period, Adelaide forgot that it was played. Yeah, they sort of did. And they kind of dropped about 10 points in a heartbeat. In a few seconds. And that was it.

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That was it. 12 years.

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So all over MBL for the season. Sydney Kings are champions, 36ers. In all honesty, would you say that is the right result, even though you are Adelaide Anne? No.

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It's the best team over the whole competition.

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Look, Adelaide spent more time in the top two than Sydney did. Okay.

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Yeah.

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But in the finals, what I would say is Sydney won two finals by a lot.

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Yeah.

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We won two finals by two points at one point. We then pushed two extra time. I think in the series of five, Sydney probably played better.

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Yeah. Yeah. And then after that, it was just, there was 10 points before he knew it. And that was it. Absolutely. You know. Yep.

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Yep. But on a brighter note, last time we spoke, it was at the end of day four of the Sheffield Shield Finals. Hey, done well. Victoria versus South Australia. Yeah. Evenly poised. So we forgot one detail. No one likes Victoria. Except for the Victorians. And South Australia in particular does not like the Victorians. Yeah. And they had them wrapped up before lunch. Fell apart. Five wickets they needed. Victoria needed 94 runs. Victoria did not even get close. I think they only scored 40. Yeah. And uh the five wickets were done and dusted. Yeah. So that is the it is official. I thought it was last time. Yeah. But officially the first time in 150 years that South Australia have gone back to back in the Sheffield Shield. So bring it on, boys and girls. We are back for a massive huge effort.

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We are three-peating. Before you go on to your next one, I just want to re- otherwise I'll forget. The English county season has just begun, and only yesterday, the incredible Jimmy Anderson.

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Oh, I think I saw this. Yeah. Okay. At the age of 43. Yes. Yeah. Remember what was Melancashire. What was the stat for that I saw? It had nothing to do with Pfeiffer for Jimmy Anderson. I don't know. It was obviously Jimmy Anderson plays a lot of international stuff in his career, not a lot of county. Yeah. But I think it's Jimmy Anderson has now taken a minimum of one wicket in a county season. Uh-huh. I think for the last 22 or 23 seasons.

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Right.

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So I don't know how many people even play that long. It might be more. Hardly. How many test seasons did he play? I actually don't know. I reckon fifth. I reckon it's more than that. I reckon he was closer to 20. Yeah, he could be right. But it's been 20. I think it was 22 or 23 in a row where he's taken at least one wicket or more. You're probably right. It will be closer to 20. Yeah. Yeah. Um, quite extraordinary. And another Pfeiffer. Incredible.

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Yep. And ah, nothing major just yet. I want to go on record. Sports, episode 25. Yeah, yeah. Where are we heading with this? Shout out for a name. And it's a name that you won't forget. It's a weird name anyway, it sounds a bit funny. Acer Tribe.

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Could be the next big thing. Batsman. We're we're oh uh cricket. Yes, yeah, yeah. And and where is he from? He's from he's from England. Oh, he's another traditional English name. Yeah. Acer tribe. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What tribe is he from? We're not sure yet. Where did you poach him from? It could have been the British. Which country? It could have been no English. Yes. Well, we say this a lot. Born in the British. You know, Moan Ali is British. Born in the British Isles. Oh, so he's just the country or an island that you took over 130 years ago. Would you like me to give you his colour? Or are we going to give trouble with this? I don't need to do that. I'm just asking the question.

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And a very valid question, I believe. A Caucasian, everyday sort of bloke. Acer trial. Next big thing. Really? So yes, the reckoning is of Bethel sort of caliber. But we don't like to put that pressure on.

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And how old is Acer Tribe? He's only young, he's 20, 21. Well, it's not the next big thing. That's the that he should already be playing, shouldn't it? Well, yeah, but when you try to knock on the door of an established team, it's not that easy. So he'll be. I'm sorry. Have you established with them? So the English cricket team is an established team. Well, when they're losing. We've had this conversation many times before. Maybe you should just bring him in against Australia. He might play okay in the ashes. You could get rid of, I don't know, everybody but Bethel. Oh, you could keep Joe in there. Moon. Everybody else. Where does where does Acer play? Where does he back? Any anywhere from one to six. Oh, well, I can think of one, two, five, and six. There you go. He's got four options in the current team that he could be in. Oh, aren't we? Three, godly Bethlehem boy. Four, a good route. And the other positions are all up for grabs. Could he keep wickets better than Smith? No. Are you sure? He scored 100 the other day. I was hoping he didn't. Who cares? You know Smith can't play. Under pressure. He can play, but he can't play under pressure, which is useless.

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From the melting pot.

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Yes. Right, moving on. Okay, what do we got? Well, let's let's cover some basics. In fact, we'll go something uh simple. A couple of weeks ago, we uh we finished up with the World Indoor Athletics Championships. Yep. Now there's a few little things that happened here. I'm gonna give a a shout out to Great Britain. Right. So remembering it's four countries rolled into one so they can be competitive. Wow, it even says it here. Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It's actually three plus another country. Argue with the organization smart. Oh, it's it's it's what it is. United States did their best indoor, so uh just a very brief overview of this indoor athletics as opposed to outdoor. Yeah, it's on a 200-meter track, not a 400-meter track. Were we purely talking track here? Not no, no, no. Uh predominantly track.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, high jump?

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Yeah, okay.

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Um, long jump as well. Great question. Surely they'd have long jump. Where do we have? Let's have a look. What have we got? We've got there's no 100-meter sprint, but there is a 60-meter sprint because it's inside a 200-meter track.

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It'd be a bend in there, otherwise.

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Um, so they do all of your uh relays and normal track events. Yeah. Uh they do heptathlon, pentathlon, they do shot put, discus, no javelin because it's thrown too close to 100 meters. Yeah. High jump, long jump, triple jump. No pole vaults? Uh or not the maybe. Great question. I like your question. That's okay. Let me see if there is yes, pole vault. Yeah, that's definitely because Great Britain won a gold year. So uh Josh Kerr. Don't save your king. Josh Kerr went round again with the 3,000 meter title. So uh Josh Kerr is winning everything for Great Britain at the moment. At the moment, yes. Keely Hoskinson, the same. She's great runner. She is super. Yes. Yeah. Yep. So United States topped that medal tally. It's probably not a big surprise. 18 in total. The next best was Great Britain. Four. Now there are a couple that did more than that, but Great Britain only won four medals.

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Yeah.

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But to be fair, they won four gold. There you go. So yeah, no, that's a pretty good. Yeah, but we still won a few golds, but no other medals. Yes. Yes. That's so we go one, two, three, four. It was in Poland, by the way. These indoor because it's there's indoor stadiums all over Europe. So for the listeners, Martin. Yes.

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Um the track. So when we're looking at beating times compared to outdoor and all the rest of it, how does that have a bearing on the overall ties? Is it the bends? Is it the tightness of the bends because it's indoor?

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Or what is it? So there's two things. The tightness of the bends means that you have to slow down. Yeah. You cannot run at full speed as outdoor athletes do. Because it's more like, let's say, a hairpin in four kilowatt. Yeah, it's so much tighter to get round. Yep. Um, and but but the benefit is no wind, no rain. Yeah, of course. No conditions to worry about. Yeah. So uh so the times are not comparable at all. Um, they're completely different world records, yeah, yeah, national records, etc. Completely different. An indicator. Yes. So that's all. Oh, well, it's an indicator on form and racing. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so where's Australia? Because that's what's most important. Well, two things have happened here. One, Australia, 17th overall. Five medals, though. England, uh, sorry, England, Great Britain. England probably bloody run none. And Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland probably won.

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So is King's so solid.

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Five, four in total for Great Britain and Northern Ireland, five in total for Australia. So screw you. But we didn't win a goal. So, but what we will say is Kathy Freeman would be the last. Jessica Hull. Oh, I don't think Kathy Freeman won an indoor. No, I'm not talking indoor. I'm talking general. Uh, general? Wouldn't she be the last gold medal of any description of any major meeting? No. Well, who? No, no, who? Who? Well, post world championships. No, I'm talking Olympics, world championships, anything major meeting, big world meeting. In athletics, yeah. Specifically on the track? Yeah. Yana Pittman. Did she win gold? Yes. Did she really? Yeah, yeah. World championship, not Olympic, world championships and uh Commonwealth gold. Right. Yeah. Commonwealth's a bit soft. Not back then. It is now. But we're talking 20 plus years ago. She didn't have a dodgy knee then. No. No, dicky knee. Because we all heard forever. So Jessica Hull has continued her unbelievable form.

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Yeah.

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Silver in the 1500 and bronze in the 3000. She could be a potential rival for Keely Hodgkinson then. Well, she's a Olympic silver medalist.

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Yeah.

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As well. So yeah, she's um she's incredible. Um, Nicola Olasagas, high jump. We've won a couple of gold medals in the high jump.

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Yeah.

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Um, with Nicola. Uh and McDermott. I was talking track. But anyway, yes, no, no, I understand that. But Nicola won silver. Adam Spencer popped up in the 1500 for a bronze, and Curtis Marshall for the Polville with a bronze. No. Uh Dmitry Markov.

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A great Australian name.

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A great Australian name. One World Championship gold medal. God. Did he have KGB written on his furry hat? Yes. But he didn't wear the furry hat because he it was warmer in Australia. So uh he's just gone back with it all written down on the back. And then uh uh who was the the other guy? Uh Paul Volter, who won gold in the world championships? Hooper. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he was alright. Yep, yeah, yeah. So he won as well. So, yes, mate, we've got nice stuff happening everywhere. You're done well. All good. So world championships done and dusted, they were very good. But I'm gonna add one more little detail here for athletics, because you know that's a that's a great spot for me. Yeah. So with the athletics, something happened in Australia, and we are going to take a look at it.

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Oh, where is it to look up? I don't know.

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But what I can tell you is Did I already post it? Oh, I hang on, I can find it. What are you telling us, Von? New key going. There is a new record that has been set in uh Australian athletics. Is it your is it armate gout gout? No, it's not gout gout. Okay. What's the um distance if it is tracked? Ten kilometers. Oh yeah. Okay. Let me let me get this get this down for you. Because this is important.

SPEAKER_02 31:50

Well, while you're looking that up, I'm just gonna give a pre a pre to the next section. It's a new section called Joker or Choker. And ironically, I was gonna bring this up last week and we ran out of time. But when I was going to do it on a particular sporting event, and I'll see if you can guess what it is, um, that happened a number of years ago. I didn't know exactly how many years ago when I was mentioning, well, I was going to mention it last week. Yeah. And it was just about great sporting collapses. Do you have me saying we're gonna do this? Now, yes, I have no idea that this week is the 30-year anniversary of it. Oh, wow. It's so prevalent. Roll it out. Well, I can't, because you've got to do what you're gonna do. Oh, okay, and then we'll we'll go back to that.

SPEAKER_01 32:44

This is this is important for me. Kai Robinson. Right. Kai Robinson, great 10k runner for Australia. He has now set a new Australian record. Yeah. And part of the reason why this is critically important is because he is the first Australian to break 27 minutes for 10k on the track. Well, that's pretty damn good. So that's a solid pace. He has blown through at a 2657, dropped eight seconds off the national record. Yeah, right. So first guy under 27 seconds 27 minutes. That's unfreaking believable. It's all right, isn't it? So anyone that wants to try that pace, get on a treadmill in your local gym. Two for one K. Crank it up to the highest possible pace it will go to, and you won't be going fast enough.

SPEAKER_02 33:40

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 33:41

So it really doesn't matter what pace it is because you won't be going fast enough on a treadmill. That's right. Meanwhile, let me go on to Joker or Choker Djokovic. Incorrect. Okay. Thirty years ago. Augusta. I'm sensing Augusta. This is gonna be an Australian.

SPEAKER_02 34:05

Well, you just read it. No, I actually didn't.

SPEAKER_01 34:08

But once you go, if you go choking, it's going to be peeking on an Australian because it's all you've got from Northern Ireland, which is where you're from. Sorry, sorry, I make a mistake for the all the listeners. John is not from Northern Ireland, it's Wales. Are you sure? To be sure. Plunker. So 30 years ago. 30 years ago, what happened at Augusta? The Masters. The Masters at Augusta, indeed. I'm sensing nostalgia. Well, it is. It's past collapses. Yes. And who collapsed.

SPEAKER_02 34:44

Well, look, you know, Greg Norman, the great white shack, had been number one in the world for a record of 350-something days. Hang on. Yeah, we're on going to that. He had two previous masters efforts where he was in the lead. Yeah, sounds right. And it was a little unlucky one year Jack Nicholas pulled off an incredible chip to win the whole thing. It was reduction.

SPEAKER_01 35:07

And lose to Jack and all that stuff. Exactly. Oh, he could probably call. Yeah, you could call it. So he lost that one.

SPEAKER_02 35:14

He lost another one prior to that.

SPEAKER_01 35:16

Did Jack ever drive his car into a tree or a fence? No, I guess.

SPEAKER_02 35:20

Jack's a good guy. Exactly right. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 35:23

There's a bit of that going on at the moment. Tiger Walls isn't the only one. So that's a collapse.

SPEAKER_02 35:30

So anyway, this time, the story went a little bit like this. Right. Norman was a six shots ahead of Nick Faldo. Oh wow. Coming up to the last round. Now that's at that level, that's a big solid lead. Especially with two quality players like that.

SPEAKER_01 35:48

Yeah. If the guy in the lead is an unknown, you can expect him to crack under the pressure and all the rest of it, right? So And how did how did Greg equip himself at this point? Look, apparently not very well.

SPEAKER_02 36:01

And it all started in the bar the night before the final round.

SPEAKER_01 36:06

Well, that's as Australian as you're gonna get back in the 80s of 90s, isn't it?

SPEAKER_02 36:10

They were all in the bar. Did he do a shoey? Including an English reporter. Oh dear. Whose parting words to Norman before leaving the bar were well, if anybody can fuck this up, you can.

SPEAKER_01 36:35

It's just brilliant. I don't know. So so forgive me for asking, John. It's it's a question without notice. Yeah. I don't know if you if you can find this answer or if you have it. Uh-huh. What's that bloke's name? I did have it and I didn't button it if you know that I can find it. It would intrigue me. Such a font of prediction. I know. Yep. So there you are. And uh and Greg. Well, in the in the final round, he shot an absolutely horrific 78. A lay down mare of a round.

SPEAKER_02 37:11

To Faldo's 67.

SPEAKER_01 37:14

Oh, that's a problem. And uh Norman Man. There's 11 strokes different. Turn around.

SPEAKER_02 37:20

Double bogeys, water, uh, evaporated confidence draining under the heat of Augusta. Well, Faldo, as cool as the proverbial field marshal Montgomery at the Somme, breathed down the shark's neck. There was blood in the water, but this time it was Greg's. A virtual self-assisted death on the course for the Great White. Missed putt after putt, Ron Club selection, a constant looking up to the heavens, changing his grips.

SPEAKER_01 37:50

You name it. It all went right. So essentially, the shark shot himself. Well, he had a liking for the water on that day.

SPEAKER_02 38:00

Well, yes. Yes, well said. Maybe he was missing the surf at home. Now, at the end, when Faldo won, and he what look, he wasn't the nicest guy on the tour. And I'm English. I I believe this is a well-known. He gave him an embrace, gave Norman an embrace. Oh, yes, and script. No, it was actually not a chubby. It was sound, it's like a real nice thing to say. Don't let the bastards get you down. Now, that's a pretty nice thing to say. But Norman took it completely wrong and said it was like all for the cameras, all for the news, all for this. Because Nick Fowler was a turd. That's what he was saying.

SPEAKER_01 38:41

Okay, and he's but is Norman right? Was Nick a bit of a turd?

SPEAKER_02 38:45

I don't know, because I'd never met the guy and I could only I don't know. But apparently he wasn't that nice a bloke sometimes, a bit prickly. Okay. But look, you know, but in another interview. Wow. Norman comes out with a very sad excuse. I woke up on the morning with a bad back.

SPEAKER_00 39:09

Well, we've all done that. But you don't say it.

SPEAKER_01 39:13

Even if it was true, which I'm sort of thinking about. We've all woken up with a bad back. Yeah. I once hurt my back unpacking a suitcase.

SPEAKER_02 39:24

Well, that's right. I've got putting the seatbelt on my car. So was it a choke, or was it that faldo as cold as ice? Like the foreigner song. I would suggest brilliant as applying pressure. Nope.

SPEAKER_01 39:39

Nope. He was famous for it. Yep, but nope. It was a stone cold choke. I'm putting that one on, Greg. That is a choke and nothing more. And Faldo capitalized as he needed to. No issue with that. That is an absolute choke. You could be right. From the night before, when he listened to some dodgy English bastard in the bar. In the bar after a couple of beers, which maybe he shouldn't have had. Thought he was home and hoes, didn't he? Well, there's another water reference. Indeed. I watched the highlights this morning, actually, for the purpose of. Oh, no. It was lovely. Yes. I'm going to change tact from here. Go on. Because we have we have not spoken for the week for AFL or NRL. No. We need to just cover that off because you know you can talk golf all you like, but eventually we have to talk about the greatest game in the world, which is the AFL.

SPEAKER_02 40:39

Well, just it is the Masters this week as well, the anniversary of the Masters. Nah. Starting, I think, tomorrow.

SPEAKER_01 40:44

Anyway, but Gather round this weekend.

SPEAKER_02 40:47

Yes. Gather round. I know, isn't that ridiculous?

SPEAKER_01 40:50

What a great weekend. Again. What the hell is that? Sporting capital of the world. Victoria. Adelaide. Because that's where Gatheround is. Everything that's good in the world happens in Adelaide. You don't see war, you don't see anger. Adelaide is just perfect. So you don't see Steve Martin or Anderson or Anderson. And I left it a long time ago. No, none of them. I left it a long time ago and uh happy living on in Queensland. Well indeed. Okay, so what happened? Speaking of Queensland, last round of the AFL, Brisbane found their mojo now. Good lord, the defending double champions for the AFL, the premierships. Yep. May they are starting to fire up. And who did they fire up against? A rather hapless Collingwood. My pies. Almost doubled them, not even remotely close to a contest. Yeah, sorry to say that. That's probably where Collingwood is. And it's where Brisbane are rising to. So holy crap. Can I ask you a question? Yes. You're more, far more of the AFL man than me. Yeah, yep.

SPEAKER_02 41:55

Yeah, yeah. Go. So the majority, is it 70% of the matches played that are played in Victoria?

SPEAKER_01 42:01

Oh well, no, let's say probably 60%. 50% of the teams are in Victoria.

SPEAKER_02 42:09

Yeah, which is a hell of a lot, really. So when they play away, they're really playing at home sometimes. If Geelong are playing Collingwood or if uh Melbourne are playing. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. The Victorian team in the options.

SPEAKER_01 42:23

In Melbourne.

SPEAKER_02 42:24

When they play interstate, they're away diff it's a big difference.

SPEAKER_01 42:29

Are you making excuses? No, not at all. It's a question.

SPEAKER_02 42:32

Yeah, no, no. It's a quite genuine question. So when it's the other way around, though. So when the Suns, for example, or Brisbane play at home, of course they play really well. What are they like away? I know Brisbane won last year, and Suns did okay.

SPEAKER_01 42:46

But um what are what are Fremantle like? It is tough travelling as an interstate team into Victoria constantly. Yeah. Um, you don't play as well, and the conditions are very different. So, for instance, going from Queensland to Melbourne, conditions are very different as you go through the season. Melbourne's pissing cold, yeah. Raining in winter and like 12 degrees. Yeah, yeah. Gold Coast is still 22 and a bit of humidity and sweat.

SPEAKER_02 43:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 43:16

So it's very different conditions, for sure. However, traditionally, one of the strongest traveling teams has actually been Collingwood. Yeah, right. They played very well away from home because Collingwood played well when everything's against them and they're the underdogs. Um, you know, and everybody hates Collingwood, so therefore, Collingwood, yeah, they circle the wagons and that tripey bullshit. Didn't bloody work for you on this one. No. Um now, Collingwood could lose. We know Essendon are no good. Essendon are just the worst ever. They're bombing it. Right now. Oh, they're bombing it really badly. Um and everybody said, Oh, didn't they play well in the last quarter against the dogs? The dogs basically stuck the queue in the rack. Way and tried to minimise injuries that they were getting in the game. Yeah, okay. So though Essendon still got done by six. Uh Brad Scott. Okay. He didn't do much at North Melbourne. Yeah. Now he's doing very little at uh at Essendon.

SPEAKER_03 44:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 44:15

Sydney, well, they went over to the West. They're traveling. Yeah. Thinking West Coast, they're not a great team, but they've just come off two wins in a row. Yeah. So West Coast are going alright. They've got a bit of mojo about them. Sydney got injuries that are no injuries really this season. Last season they were decimated. So what did Sydney do in Perth? 163 to 35. Yeah, right. Wow. Wasn't too difficult. So, but if you needed a team that helped Collinwood look good and helped Essendon look good, you've got one in Melbourne. Brilliant. They're called Carlton. Now, Carlton could be bad. Is that is it not Voss, is it? Yeah, Michael Voss is the coach. Carlton could be bad. They could be considered a substandard performing team. Yeah. They are just shit house. My lord, they can't play after half time. There was a joke made that maybe they need to put the banner up again and run through it and run through it after half time. So the players think it's the first half. Because they did it again, dropped 32 points in the last quarter. It's weird, isn't it? And got done, but this time they got done by North Melbourne. Yeah. This is not a good team. Yeah, right. This is not a good team. So then we just touch on the two Adelaide teams. Yeah. Adelaide again, another bloody close loss. Really frustrating, but against Fremantle, very, very good team. Expected to be top three. Yeah. We played it with eight of our best 23 out due to injury or concussion. Yeah. So we're getting those players back, I think we'll be okay. We could talk about Richmond versus Port. For all the people that listen, that listen to the AFL and know me. Port won, so I don't care. I don't really want to talk about that at all.

SPEAKER_02 46:14

Right.

SPEAKER_01 46:14

It was much more fun last time when they got beaten by the Western. What about the Hawthorne Geelong match? Now, Easter Monday. It's a game that's played every Easter Monday, Hawthorne versus Geelong. Now I thought Adelaide had been a part of some cracking games this year against the Dogs, against Geelong, and against Fremantle, where I would have said they're three of the best games we're going to see. And Hawthorne said, Hold my beer. And they rocked up against against Geelong, sorry, on Easter Monday, and holy crap, that was a good game. Yeah, I saw all of it. Oh, yeah. And I saw the first quarter, and I said to my wife, this could go down to the wire.

SPEAKER_02 46:59

And I didn't realise how used to the wire.

SPEAKER_01 47:02

You didn't realise how often those games go to the wire. So 92 to 91, Hawthorne got up. Yeah. That was a probably the best game of the season. That was a great season. Very even. So I'm going to give a shout out to Amanda Andrews at this point. And to her husband, Chris. Good on you. Chris, Swan supporter. Guessing you're pretty happy right now. And Amanda, a lifelong Geelong supporter. Bad luck. That's what happens after you beat us. Does she wear a white headband like a lot of them do when we play for Geelong? They wear their wear their jumpers sitting in their garage with the big screen TV watching it. Right. Yep. There you go. They uh I'll tell I'll tell you what happened with those two, and I'll have to uh I apologise if you don't. They met at a Gold Coast Suns match. Oh, right. And Chris proposed to Amanda at the Gold Coast Suns match, I believe out on the ground. How about that? But like was he around wearing a white headband? No, no, no. No, red and white. Red and white. Why do these Geelong players have long blonde? This is the men's team, by the way. With the white headbands? Yeah, because they have pathetic long blonde haircuts. That's what I just said. The ones with the long blonde haircuts. Yeah, yeah, because I don't know. Maybe we need to look into this.

SPEAKER_02 48:29

Are they trying to do Warwick Kappa sort of reincarnated? Is that what the idea is?

SPEAKER_01 48:33

Well, maybe, but the problem that they have, and this I might even put up a thing on the socials of the highlights of Warwick Kappa. He was better. Warwick Kappa was a god. Not a bad guy. And you don't realize how unbelievably talented he was as a full forward in the 80s. When you used to get belted as a player. Yeah, right. None of this, you can't touch the forwards like they have now. Yes. Kappa was an incredible player. Right. So I'm going to put footage up of this. Okay. Of his highlights. But yeah, that wraps up the AFL. Very quickly, NRL. What happened? Well, some weird stuff happened in the NRL. Um, not weird enough. Because St. George lost again. My team. So they are now firmly last. Where is Illawarra? Uh South. Right. South. So St. George and the Illawarra Steelers uh merged. Ah, went. Oh no, 15 years ago. Oh no, well, maybe longer. Oh, maybe 90s. Yeah, it might be even longer. Yeah. Yep. Same as um Balmain and West. They merged.

SPEAKER_02 49:52

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 49:52

Balmain Tigers and the West West Sydney Magpies. Right. To create the West Tigers. Yeah, okay. Yeah, so these things happen. But as a quick overview, Manley found their mojo 52 to 18 over the Dolphins. Rabidos beat the Bulldogs. Fair enough. Melbourne Storm faced up against Penrith. Now we know Melbourne Storm, they're pretty good. Pretty solid. 50 to 10. Penrith are just unfreaking stoppable. John O'Rowe, loving your Penrith right now, buddy. Oh, the Cowboys 32 to zip on the Dragons. Let's just bloss over that. Broncos got it going again against the Titans. Yeah, they started to go to the Twitter. Yeah, 26-12. Titans, let's face it, they're dismal as crap. Without St. George, they'd be the worst team in the league, but they've got St. George to add that out. Sharks beat the Warriors 36-22. Knights, this is the team that finished last last year. They're now second. Yeah, right. Beat the Canberra Raiders who finished top last year.

SPEAKER_02 50:58

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 50:59

32-12 in a freaking canter. And then the match of the round. Parramatta versus West Tigers. Absolute match of the round into extra time. Those eels. Yes. They didn't they disappear last year for a little while? They weren't really in it last year. Am I right in saying that? They're very up and down, yes, they were. Yeah, they were roundabout, and then suddenly they dropped. Yep, now they're back again. But West Tigers, mate, West Tigers have been perennial wooden spooners for the last three or four seasons with Newcastle. So if I go to the ladder, Penrith, runaway freaking leaders.

SPEAKER_03 51:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 51:37

Because they just can't. They struggled to win by less than 30 right now. Second, West Tigers.

SPEAKER_02 51:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 51:44

Who have been the worst team for the last five years.

SPEAKER_02 51:47

Amazing. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 51:48

Third, Newcastle. Yeah. Who were the worst team last year? Yeah. Where has this come from for those two teams? But they are flying. Has to be grassroots coming up through the program. Mate Benji. Benji Marshall. Maybe he's got the West Tigers finally going. I hope he has. Yeah, yeah. But uh yeah, Penrith. Holy moly. They look incredible. John O. Good darts, buddy. Good darts. Good darts. All over it. So that gives me my entire covering of compendium. Except for because we've gone a bit long, but we have to do a wacky. Come on, then. We have to whack off, Martin. We have to whack one out. I believe that's how it goes. So, John, we had a bit of a chat about this, and you suggested that this was a great option. I don't know how to actually I like the way you throw me under the bus, sir.

SPEAKER_02 52:41

Yeah, you pull intended. Ah, very nice.

SPEAKER_01 52:44

You launched me in. Uh, I don't know how to cover this. This is still a little sport. Don't sell yourself short. Like too short. It was massive in the 80s. It started in Australia as pub entertainment. Yeah. Now we could call it three things. We're 2026. So we could call it little people tossing. That actually doesn't sound right. However, back in its heyday in the 80s, it was dwarf tossing. It's disgusting, isn't it? Well, look, it's not a great sport, let's face it. It did happen, and it happened all over the world. Started in Australia. Yeah, right. Not Finland for once. How far do they throw these people? Oh, I've got some distances. Don't you worry about that. Now, obviously, this is not a wide, a wide good there? Just not a wide sport around the world right now. Yeah. I think there that might be fair enough. Yeah. I'm not sure, but I think there are some possible issues with such a sport as dwarf or midget tossing. There'd be some injuries. Well, there's some medical issues. However, they were always. Let me read this to you. It was a pub attraction or activity in which people with dwarfism wearing special padded clothing or velcro costumes. I remember that. Now, are you ready for this? Go on. They were thrown onto mattresses. Yes. That sounds rather okay. Uh-huh. Till we go to the Velcro. Because when you wore a Velcro costume, you were just hurled against a sticking wall and stuck to the wall. So, oh, there's some medical issues with this. They had helmets. I'm not sure that's enough. Uh, and padding. Now. Well, my concern would be for the the person throwing because of the technique. Well, even with the shoulder problems.

SPEAKER_02 55:04

There'd be a fair bit of rotation.

SPEAKER_01 55:06

I'm assuming if it's like a shot hub sport, these guys are not highly trained athletes. Indeed. So you've got some rotator cuff issues. Oh, absolutely. I reckon you've got some lower back issues. So who's more at risk? Both. Yeah, okay. And then there's alcohol. Well, that's probably. I would suggest that's where this was conjured up. I'd say you've been there. In the back corner of a pub with a little too much alcohol. However. Chuck that little guy over there. Exactly right. Oh, yeah. Chuck him towards the bar and he can get the next round. Exactly. So however, this did morph. Dwarf, did you say? No, it morphed. Right. The dwarf morphed into. Now I need to get this out. Into bowling. Yeah. Ten pin bowling. Right. Now, I thought just the tossing was bad. Yeah. And the velcro into a wall seems unnecessary. But apparently then it was decided to stick a helmet. It's a bit ripoff. I know. Stick a stick a helmet on. Put them on a uh little skateboard and hurl them down an alleyway and see how many pins you could knock over. This uh I'm even gonna say at that point, it's probably not right. Uh it it does sound funny, but it's probably not right. So we know probably not the right way to go as a sport. There is now conjecture all over the place. There are laws against this in Australia, Canada, France, and the USA to ban it. However, these countries stopped short of actually banning it and just made it more difficult to do. Except France, who decided, no, we're just gonna throw this out in Parliament, not even do it at all. Right. So it's still completely legal over there. Fantastic. Uh, it was it was made illegal in the United States. However, that was challenged in 2011. And let me quote you what Mr. Workman went to court with. He overturned the making it illegal, and he said, and I quote, if a little person wants to make a fool out of themselves for money, they should have the same right to do so as any average-sized person. I couldn't agree more. Because referring to them with short is that's shortism, or and you can't do that, that's unfair. Could it well, what if they were really tall? I mean, would that be illegal as well? It's it's not it's not shortism. Go on, it's heightism. Heightism, huh? It's heightism, and the reason I say this is because the goodies did an episode on this with jockeys. Well, yeah, they were. And they it was heightism.

SPEAKER_02 58:08

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 58:08

So very quickly, you asked a very good question, John.

SPEAKER_03 58:12

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 58:13

Around uh around some distances. So let's find some records. So the 33s or 45s?

SPEAKER_01 58:31

Well, mate, 33s, they're shorter. Uh so the the record is 4.7 meters for a for a toss. For a flat throw. For a flat toss. Yes, yeah, yeah. Yes. Now, the bowling, well, the record would be 10 pins, so we we kind of get that. Can I ask for the belt throat was flowing into a wall, so there's not really any distance with that. With the bowling, do you know if they tape their arms to their sides or are they allowed to use full wingspan to knock out over the pins? Not stated in the rules of bowling.

SPEAKER_02 59:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 59:06

Yeah, not stated. Are they allowed to not lean? Are they allowed to lean? I mean, they wouldn't get much. Well, they'd lean on the board to go straight. Yeah. Or if if it was like a uh like a uh a 16 split. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They'd have to lean to get the wouldn't get that much inch. Now, would they? No, not too much length. So, just to round this off, we've got the world record there 4.78 meters. Yeah. Um, for the longest toss. However, in 2019, we morphed. Yes. Morphed. Well done. Yes. We morphed this sport again. Yeah. It's gone from tossing to velcro walls to bowling. Yeah. And in 2019, it went to launching. And I will put a video up of this. Is that what seems far more acceptable? And the truth is, I've actually seen this on Jack Ars as well. So this is when you sit, you know, those big uh like finger style um uh water-based balloons where yeah, where you sit at one end, yeah, two people jump off a high platform on the other end, launches you up. Right. So we've done that with a uh with a dwarf. Fantastic. And he has set the record of the now known as dwarf launching.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:32

Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:33

Not dwarf tossing, dwarf bowling, or dwarf velcrowing.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:36

So can I ask a question? Yes, you can. So because these are done, are they on the sea?

SPEAKER_01 1:00:41

Is it a port? Oh, because it was near a port. I don't know, I don't like when this is. Oh yeah. Oh, that's terrible. Anyway, moving on. So, no, no, that's that's kind of it. Dwarf toss it, what a bloody awful sport that must have been. It must be terrible. But it must have been funny to watch it. Got money. But the dwarf launching seems eminently doable in regards to just being fun.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:11

I've got a couple of mates. Anyway.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:13

I reckon that's actually that's borderline okay. Are we are we done? Hell of a bloody wacky sport, though. Are we at the end? I believe. Well, I am. I I've got nothing more to offer. What time do we have left?

SPEAKER_02 1:01:28

We're over. We're over. However, just oh, really? You have incredibly quick clicker. A very, very short one. As always, Martin, you know, had a bit of trouble finding it. However, I understand you do. Last week we had Le Tigray with his SUV on the driver. Oh, yes. Not the driving range, the wrong driving range. Yes. This week I did tell you that after Mr. Davy Warner, I'm going to punch somebody. Uh yeah. There was an addition. Right? Same thing. Yes. Mr. Woods. Oh, Mr. Oh, Mr. Woods. Mr.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:08

Warner. Hang on, which one?

SPEAKER_02 1:02:10

Mr. Warner, drink driver. Pulled up for drink driving yesterday, I think it was. No!

SPEAKER_01 1:02:18

Yes! I've not come across this in Pakistan. I'm not certain. I'll find out the details. Can you drink in Pakistan? Oh I didn't even know you could. Yeah, well, I'm not sure. I didn't even know they had alcohol there. So yes, so we can. Oh Davy. He's in a spot to bother. He's he's uh he's hang on, hang on, you ready? Go on. He's found himself in the woods. Very good. Oh, I'm leaving it there. I'm gone. That's me out for the night.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:48

We will have to leave bouncing off the helmet for next week with Mr. Favola.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:52

However, it is well, it's good night from me. And it's good night from him. Good night.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:04

Very good.