TWiL Episode 621: Almost As Good As Christmas

0:00Music Welcome to episode 621 of this week in League on Nate. And I'm Glant. Happy Kirk aversary mate. I'm so glad on this on this on this on this on this on this a spacious day. I'm so happy to be here with my number one choice for Kirk and time on this Kirk aversary. Oh, this is my favorite time of the year. I did not. It's almost as good as Christmas for me. Because it's just an epic run of days like you're probably not aware of this. But the 9th of December was recently made by the Japanese anniversary committee or whatever.

1:07Like whoever decides this day is the whole day. The 9th of December or September. So the 9th of September is an attack on Titan day officially as of this year. Commemorating the wonderful fucking manga and anime attack on Titan. Which is if you haven't watched the whole fucking thing. It's potentially the peak of all fiction ever made. I'm just saying the fucking the story is just fucking amazing. Anyway, and also the anime version of it is so fucking well made. Then you got the 10th of September, which is not just my brother's birthday and he's a missus birthday. But on the same day. But it's also the Kirk aversary as last year. Is that because they're twins? Yeah, I mean they very unidentical twins. Probably about as much difference between them as fucking Arnold and Danny. Oh, yeah, I guess.

2:09And also, you know, the 5 years between him is probably. Also, it makes it quite an inconvenient fucking gestation of twins. And then obviously then tomorrow. It's 9-11 anniversary. Generational run of dates. Generational. Name me another three days in a row that are better. Well, you can't. You just can't. So. If you weren't back last time, you're certainly back now. I didn't say it. Is it a thing? I didn't say it. I didn't say it. I knew you were controversial at all there. Two degrees from doing the three lines at the start again. Skeletons. Oh, that wasn't in your time though. Sorry, that was a step down. No, one of your time grades. So hey, speaking of that, someone sent me today on Instagram, the Joshi Reynolds Lowe's

3:15commercial. He walks around like he's got a fucking coat hanger in the back of the shirt. He's wearing he's so stiff. I've never seen anyone more uncomfortable in my life on video. And I mean, Bonnie Blue got fuck bought like a thousand guys. And even she looked more comfortable. Josh Reynolds. Is this a recent thing or a back when he was playing? I think like the way I saw it, I think it was recent. I think this is post, this is life after footy stuff. Yeah, right. At Lowe's. Because he's done. Lowe's selling like butt plugs as well. And that was a really way of walking so fucking uptight in region. The amount of starch in a low shirt is more than what we realize. I don't shop a lot. I don't think it's starch.

4:16I think it's just the fucking low quality, fucking Bangladesh, fucking material. We're already out of cotton. We can add his scab on. 100% genuine Bangladesh Hessian. Fuck. Did you? I don't know how we got there. Oh yeah, that's what I do. Skeletons. Yeah. Skeletons. It's been a little, it's been a minute and I do believe that there's some news that came out of the C-grade touch world. Last weekend. What was it? One for. One for. One for. Yeah. Look, can I just say that the lead up to the Grand Final was exceptional. We had a great training session the week prior and... Did you play the boys the speech that I did on the show? No. Well, like I said, now we're now working on where to point the finger.

5:18They probably listened to it because they do enjoy a bit of C-grade chat and I put it in the WhatsApp group chat every week. But you know, when we record... Every month. Yeah. This month's an episode and stuff like that. But look, we had a great breakfast and day at the Grand Final and it was pretty calm. I was really looking forward to the game and as I said the week prior, we unfortunately didn't have Maddie Waters who after scoring six tries in the qualifying final. Then went down with an injury, referring the last A-grade game of the day that same weekend. And the fraction, fraction his ankle and tall ligaments and all the rest of it. So he was in a moon boot and we...

6:19So we took the field with, you know, without a best player, most dangerous attacking player. And in some ways it showed, but I will say the performance of our team against... Clearly the best team in the comp is beating everyone 10-1, 10-2 all year. For us to go down, I think it was 6-3 in the end. And we were... You could tell that they were starting to think that we were a chance of getting them because they were starting to... It wasn't easy, like it happened all year for them. Correct. And you could tell because they weren't chirping at us, they were chirping at each other. And that's exactly what you said, that's what you were trying to get going. Yeah, and you could tell. So 6-3, two of those tries were breaks through the middle with Lee Roy, as I said before, just Italy, Sprinter.

7:31And so we, other than that, we defended him really well the whole game. And then there's one try where Dale had shot from Link, done everything right. Got his hands up to shut the ball. It's literally bounced off his hands straight into the arms of the Roy's... Same guy. Roy's quickest player. Who ran three strikes? Who broke the wish play? Yeah, we ran three strikes and scored untouched. All in all, that is a fucking performance to be proud of. And there's a lot of cliches that go around if you lose a grand final or big games and people talk about what you take out of it. And we were proud of our performance. And I can honestly say sometimes it seems a little bit hollow when you see teams say that. For us, in our little world of C-grade and our season and our team and the things that we faced, absolutely fucking proud of the group, proud of our performance.

8:37And we had one try where Brad was off the other side line and they called it back. It was right on half time and they called it back because they played the ball prior. They reckon that the hooter had gone before the ball was played. Very contentious because the ball gets played with throw two passes who get on the outside of the winger and he's off the other side line untouched. Yeah, I'm sorry, I love you. So, certainly had our opportunities. Royals were good. And over the course of the season, obviously, deserve. The best team we were here and deserve a grand final winners. But we stuck it all and I was proud of us. So we managed to celebrate that night at Tats in Tumber and many, many Vodkas.

9:38We had by my side by yours, Charlie. We played a lot of pool where sort of drew on my experience of growing up in a pub and played some absolutely fucking marvelous pool. I played some pool that looked like I'd probably be better off having the queue in my mouth. So it was very, it was an up and down evening at the pool table. But it was a great time. It was a great time. I enjoyed talking about it on this podcast where it's kind of become the C-grad touch this week and C-grad touch sort of thing. But I'm sure people fucking fast forward it. But you know, fuck users. My show talk about what I want and I enjoy it. I don't think people will be fast forward it. I think you do. Me. I'm literally fucking here listening to it right now. It doesn't have the ability to fast forward it. What are you talking about? As much as you wish you did. Well, no, any fucking wish.

10:39I can't fast forward it whatsoever. I've got to live it. It's funny. Everyone else has choices in how they fucking act with that free will. It's up to them as human beings with free will. For me. I have no choice. I'm slave to the fucking C-grad touch. I'm going to listen to the whole goddamn thing every time. He's going to eat it. I love it. Yeah, exactly. But, you know, I get to say like highly inflammatory things about fucking sport and a competition that I know nothing about. Yeah, yeah, good. Which is fucking amazing. Yeah, so presentation right next week. Next weekend. You're actually going to pick up anything this year? I don't think so. Is the president, is the captain thing like a, is it a perpetual thing until one stops being involved in the club or the captain's he could go to someone else? No, no, it changes every year, sir. Every year, so your term is coming to your reign of terror is coming to an end. Yes, the reign where I did absolutely fuck all but try and support the club wherever I could when I was around the touch football fields.

11:41You know. I mean, you did later, you did later, you did like a hateful, can't say shit about the entire sport, believe competition. Yeah. And actually, if you feel like that's necessary just to balance out some of the absolute fuck with that are involved in the touch football. So sometimes they need to realize that you can't say that. No, there's plenty that needs to need a reality check and maybe just need a couple little things, maybe take up knitting or balls or, you know, fucking. Maybe keep a few bodies in your basement, just need something to do other than touch football and just broaden your horizons a little bit. That's all I'm saying. Yeah. Well, I mean, you know, like the man, you know, took away that former previous number one hobby that, you know, occupied most of their time. Races. Which was like, well, yeah, up, yeah, up keeping on the, on the Roy N. Word brand, grandstand, doing the maintenance on the seats and whatever.

12:42So all over for another season of wind until we until we hear until we hear about, you know, the fucking awards that you get. That's a lot of mean. The thing is like last year, you fucking cleaned off. You fucking cleaned up. You like tell me to about 20, 20, one up there. That's fucking put on the plate. I can't see myself going back to back. I'm just a player and I've got to hang the caps and see that. But, you know, I always had that special hat that I had made for myself with. I don't know why you wouldn't be, why wouldn't you be player player? Because there's other far more deserving players. Well, it's, you know, it's not just the, you know, the quality of the player. Well, that's good. Otherwise, I would never would have wanted. Look, if it ever comes to the fact where they put a voting thing up, throw out people that just ticked that.

13:43You know what to do because you know you're wind by an absolute fucking landslide. That is fair and that's testament to to Twill Nation and all the people that, you know, I talk a lot of shit about, but ultimately they love me. Yeah, yeah. I had a few people reach out and ask how the ground final went, which was great. And I appreciate those. And Timmy Macinty gave me a nice rap too. And you know, I always love to talk shit about Timmy and Twill, Timmy, to his face, general. But he is a high quality human and as he's his wife. And he had some very kind words and said that he and Holly had taken up Oztag because of my, my foray into touch football. It just warms my heart that stuff. I want to help you that you inspired them into taking up a slightly better sport than touch football.

14:46Yeah. I mean, that's subjective. Well, I mean, you can kick in Oztag, right? I don't think you can, can you? I thought you can kick on the cat. You can kick on the last, doesn't it? Oh, maybe. If you can't, then I retract my prize. That is like what do you kick for field position and stuff or just for attacking? I don't know. I think people put in a fucking tors and fucking. I'm too timid to hear this, any of you will let us know. What's the attacking kicking game like in your general Oztag game? You throw it on a fucking bird. You throw it on a Burton bombs. To be fair, I've got one of the greatest kicking games in the board in Europe, but I just can't fucking, I can't exhibit it. Oh, I mean, like in the, in the annals of touch football history, then he said that you are the greatest kicker in general playing history touch football. Well, I mean, you know, to be fair last year, did top the tackle candy in a game of touch football and that can never be taken away from me. No, that's true. That's a lot of the white, white, they just keep attacking the winger.

15:47They must have seen something in the game. Or they took one look at me before the game started and went. The business guy's got the lateral movement. There's real opportunity there. Yeah. I think the gameplay should be, let's run it, let's run it, let's see, really, yeah, fucking jacks on them. Oh, because you shut them down. That's fair. I was a bit sad. You fucking locked down, we are. I think your game plan should be shut the fuck up, but no. I'm glad I held that back, because you actually, that's a good one. Yeah, because actually, yeah, yeah, of course. I was talking about, I was talking about what they were thinking. It's not what I think. I got a fucking nothing to respect for your fucking game. I see you drop that kind of into game of the non-contact sport. I see you drop that kind of great final last year. Man had a fucking family. Yeah. I really hope it's on the streets of Tumbo. Fucking bald, Steve, Matt, are they coming? After you fucking deleted the breadwinner of the family, you're a game of touch football, non-contact sport.

16:48Oh, enough, enough, enough. But I would much rather talk about touch football than rugby league. I'll be honest with you. Yeah, but look, you know, our team's kind of nervous anymore. And I'm not sure, not the one team, really. I don't know, I really hurt me that much. I feel getting rid of Steve, I'll teach you as a fucking gigantic win. There's always a good reason to come for me. Yeah. Because I'm with an awkward with fucking Fuzzball, the undefeated brand of football. And, um, do you want to, do you want to speak to, I mean, I feel like we've already spoken to the Tigers season so many times this year because after that, after that month, that first month, the deGlorious month, where top four look possible final or four. It was a fair, it's the first couple of months. I think we went five and two, five and three somewhere. Yeah. And he played the Raiders. He was fantastic. And did the Viking, Viking clap on the fucking hill. I can't like spastic. Got to fuck yourselves.

17:50Angered the fucking Rugby League Gods, who honestly, they've never been kindly disposed to the West Tigers for like 20 years. So like, what the fuck would you? But anyway, angered the Gods and the four came. All in all, um, a season that promised so much early on. And we spiraled out of contention and into the papers constantly. Is there a reason to feel optimism for next year? Considering that the roster is, you know, I guess one part of it, the roster's worse. Then the one you went in with high hopes this season has started off the season so well. Yeah. I guess the disruption's gone too though, so that's the thing. I mean, and you can't say on one here, like, you know, plenty of people saying, Lewoy, the Lewoy thing, the Tigers, it was an abject photo. Then he leaves and you say, oh, your roster's worse. Well, no, I say it's an abject photo.

18:51And I say on paper, your roster's worse. Cause on paper, I mean, who's fucking replacing him? Keep a straight face, but Jack Aberillo. Oh, that's right. I forgot about the bidding wall with Jack Aberillo. Where no team was willing to pay more than that. He was willing to pay more than $400,000. And he actually looked like he was very potentially going to Manly for a center roll to replace Garic at $400,000. And then the Tigers were like, oh no, he can be, he can play five eighths. We've been a pay 700 grand. And, yeah. And also that my team, nor any other team that we prepared to match. That's how we do things in the target team. Shockingly. Yeah. Paul and two. We're talking as always in the game. If they're not in the game, they'll pay $300,000 over Mark and failure to get back into the game. That's, look, let's see what happens with Dewey.

19:53It wouldn't be surprise if he ends up at the Bears in the off season. Which means we go in the next year with Latu and potentially Javon Andrews in the halves, which is very inexperienced, but potentially super exciting on and off. But two young halves, very inexperienced leading a team. Don't know about that, but don't know that that leads to a successful season where we win more games than we lose and make the final. But I will say, heavily disenchanted yet again at this time of the year. So come and talk to me again in December, January. And hope should be high again. You're not going to wait until a couple of trial games. You're just a waters bit.

20:54No. Because after Christmas, after Christmas, the Tigers, the Slates White clean and the Tigers are fucking good again. Yeah, that's fair. Yeah, the Tigers are definitely making the finals in quite again. Just like we always beat the Cowboys. Always beat the Cowboys. I wish we beat the Cowboys, we'd be in finals. That's fair. That literally was the guy that was literally the one, because we would have been one foreign against. That was the equation. But the big finals, he was coming up. Yeah, look at the other. And a different look, other than Penrith, if he different looks, which is good. Yeah, look for me. You bit a wholesome shit going on with the wires and the dolphins. Yeah, yeah, look for me. And it is a tougher road for it to happen to be giving it their face off against each other in the first round of the finals. But if we got a wires dolphin situation in the finals, in the grand final, that'd be a lot on me. Yeah. In fact, there's no other combination of teams that I'd be happy with.

21:55I'm okay with Penrith winning again. But I think the wires and dolphins probably the teams that people are actually keen to see do well if they're not playing against their own team. So couldn't get the fuck out of the sharks or the roosters. You're talking about Southland, you can't have solid. You know my thoughts on the Cowboys. Boris, wires and dolphins. It's good stuff. Yeah, wires and dolphins like, like, like, like, like, rabbits in Newcastle, fucked by them. Like, they fans did say, fuck them. I think the joy I wrote is actually getting a bit of a grand swear of, of public support for the bunnies. And, um, look, I think I've seen, I've seen like some international attention to that. Yeah. And like, it was, it was, it was truly like a, truly a nice thing.

22:56Yeah. It really is. You see George Kittle in the press conference. I did. No. Um, because he's, he's, you know, did a video for, for Joy Arrow and, um, said how inspirational and, you know, what, you know, what a true fighter he is and, um, said some really kind words. And they asked him the press conference if he's going to do the, if he scores a touchdown, he's going to do the arrows or celebration. You're right. And he said, I would love to, but I'll get fined because it depicts a weapon. Oh, oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah, because that's right. Yeah, Drake London got fucking signed last year for doing like a, a shotgun sort of thing. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Or like a, yeah, like a clay pigeon shooting thing. Yeah. Okay. That's a bit fucking rough. Yeah. You think they could do it like an exception just for that one, just because of the, you know, like suck up to the Australian hosts of the, you know, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But look, yeah.

23:56You know, these were just, they should have the press conference with Gidele and getting me out there. And just, he says, you know, like getting just a foot. Yeah. Just an absolute, you know, amnesty on arrows, celebration. Yeah. Only arrows, only arrows. Any other, any other foreign weapon, I mean, even though you're playing in Victoria, you can't do like a machete themed one. No. Like it's only arrows. That's it. Yeah. Anyway, like, I mean, like it was a nice story, the gyro thing, but I mean, you know, now that the screw he's gone off, Wayne's dropped him this week. So, I mean, you know, not that nice, really. I mean, dropping for finals. Wine, really? It means good, I mean, D. Like, hasn't he suffered enough wine? Like, putting it inside. Exactly. I mean, like, maybe you thought you know, after two weeks, after two weeks of this gyro fucking, this gyro, you know, trickery that the south's been springing on their opponents. Maybe I thought, well, you know, fucking in the finals, like, you know, Newcastle just put a kick off straight down his throat. Tackle one. And, uh, enough of this.

24:57I knew this, I knew this was coming. But I did. But also, I mean, you know, other nights, that tactically astute. I just can't. I just can't. I just can't. I don't know. But, uh. But, uh. Are we talking about Glenny? Are we actually going to be talking about these games now? We're probably starting, right? Yeah, I think, I think what we go through the finals games, I don't need, do we really need to go through last weekends? No, really. I do, I do. I thought, I don't know if you watched all the games last week, but I did see the stupidest fucking thing I've ever seen on a rugby league field last week. And keeping mind. I'm glad you watched what I was. It's very impressive. Because keeping mind that we're fucking old and have seen a lot of fucking things on a rugby league field. I've seen, I've seen fucking, I've seen John Hoppe-O-I-D-A, fucking finger man. Like, I've seen him finger men on a rugby league field.

25:58And yet, it was literally the last weekend that I saw the dumbest fucking thing I've ever seen on a rugby league field. Which is when, mainly go to the length of score try. Which puts him up 36 to 24 with a couple minutes left in the game. And told me to have my fucking just grabs a dude. Just, just grabs you by the arm and so it just chucks you into the ground. Look, immediately he was way out of play and it was ridiculous. But, in a situation where the referees at game, given mainly only a 30 on a percent possession, no six agains and everything was against them. Because the game was being refereed in such a way that the minor premiership race should be open to the very last game. Like, Pendereth would have to win. And you know, would have to win, you know, the way they wanted it was, Pendereth had to put a score on the win. But, mainly, they wanted to fucking play with that script. So they didn't allow it to happen.

26:59And then, despite only everything on a percent possession, they wanted to take the lead. But, always back to the fact that those days where you, you know, those days where you firmly believed that Manly would have won every game. They actually would have won every year. They had a lot of info. Since 1947, 14 years. If it wasn't for those pesky referees. I wasn't a lot of the 19th. They didn't, like, they didn't put all the games from 1947, you know, until, like, you know, the early 90s. They didn't put them on video. So I don't actually know about those ones. But, of course, of the ones I've seen, yeah. Absolutely right. I thought you might have grown as a human, but you know. Make too much fucking growth. I've grown so much that I've grown back into the person that was virtually my sense. I've had too much fucking self-growing. It's just a human doughnut. You just grew into an innocent...

28:00Of grown. Of grown. Of grown. And of grown and dyed and grown. Being born again and dyed and being born again and dyed. And as it turns out. I'm the same person. Reincarnation is real. Except the traumas of the previous lives lives on and some worse. And just, and we'll just wait until next year. No, I don't want to. The likes of which you've never fucking seen. You are going to absolutely regret pulling the fucking shotgun out of my mouth this year. Not me, bro. Not me. Oh, today's also... Today's... Today's... Today's... Are you okay? I don't know. I mean, is it... Is it... Well, the amount of shit I saw on Instagram today was today. Okay. But, um... Looks like, you know, I hope, you know... I hope everyone enjoys a corporate... Corporately mandated cupcake.

29:00And... And saying, are you okay to people when you're actually not equipped for them to answer no? With your empty fucking platitudes. But... I guess I do, you know... This year, I thought, you know, it's been a bit of a fucking... Oh, I cut cakes and they make me feel better, motherfucker. Let me know. Yeah. But are you okay? No. Fuck no. Do you want to talk about it, mate? Absolutely not. Well, you can fucking cupcake this. No, just, probably, a dozen cupcakes. With no judgment. Because people don't want to know if I'm okay or not. They just, like, give me another cupcake. Exactly. You know, that's exactly what it is. Anyway, every day is are you okay? Day in my house, Lenny. It's great to hear. Some days it just fuck off and leave me alone and don't annoy me and I'll be okay, that.

30:02Yeah. Oh, fuck that. And that's, like, that's actually me at the moment. Because I'm such a, so burned out from having such a fucking are you okay? Yeah. But, like, sometimes I just want to be just, buy myself. Just give me some fucking, just give me some free time to fucking sit in my own fucking thoughts. Yes. One performance I do want to mention from last weekend is, well, I... Clayton fell, Clayton fell, wow, fucking pure football, fucking reincarnation, clicking the word. Just about it enough, you know, of just about it enough here. You knew that he's the most pure football we've seen in the game in the fucking generation, though. Okay, just like... Sorry, what are you saying? What were you saying about Clayton fell, I was... First of all, the Raiders' Cab was going. First of all, the performance of the cab was fucking diabolical. Second of all, the Raiders finally put something together and played like they really should have played all year.

31:06But the performance... 16 rounds too late, but whatever. Yeah. The performance of Kobe Bla. Absolute fucking dynamite. And he may never play like that again. This may be, you know, lime green loop Brooks, but... As far as... He's had many great games. That's not a fuck up, particularly in the marine and white wine guy, a little baby guy, a fucking pump in those legs. Pump up those legs too hard until he's fucking ACL. Crack. And the performance, when you look at the issues that the Broncos have had this year with Reynolds and the way that they're sort of struggling with a succession plan, now that Reynolds has retired and they're not sure if it's going to be Duffy or Pesidle or what the fuck they're really going to be doing there. Obviously, Pesid's going to be the guy from next season, but they let that kid go and he's gone with the Raiders and just bite at his time and you're so fast-cuped. And he gets his shot and just was absolutely in everything pulled off some absolute horse shit.

32:11Just the things he did. But the fact that he had the confidence to do it and backed himself the way that he did was the outstanding. I was disappointed in the Cowboys performance given the leading to the finals. And I think they're going to get pretty well dusted by the sharks, but there they are. Although the sharks, you know, they fucking linked in the finals too without fucking Trindle. Yeah. Once again, you go to Heinz showing that he ain't it. No, he's most certainly not and hasn't believed for quite some time. But he hasn't been for exactly the amount of time that Trindle's been out. Yeah, exactly. And I think, you know, they are a good combination. There's no doubt about it, but it just goes to show, you know, Nico Heinz has had a lot of the wraps and I know he cops his share of flak. But the expectations of him as their, as they may mean and Trindle is really the guy A.

33:17He's the threat that he poses in an attacking sense. And the pressure that that takes off Nico Heinz and the space that Leo's Heinz is operating. I think people have probably understated that. And the fact that you take Trindle out of that saw and their attack looks miles apart from where it has been when they've been at the best season. And so, they're, yeah, the shocks are exposed, but I was, as I said, I was disappointing the Cowboys are expected. Then to put a far better performance in for the last game of the season, the warm-up for the finals and the Raiders came to play and the Cowboys were off and flat. And the Raiders made him, made it play. Now, you've just seen that, you just, you brought up Adam Reynolds in that, in that speech.

34:23It's fucking Broncos. They may have said fucking packet, can't organization is. They may as well have given him a fucking barbecue like the talking to us. They may as well give him like one of them little fucking little battery operated toy, toy ovens. Because like, at least like, Bruxy got like a real barbecue. Like he got something. And at the time, at the time, Jocus fucking clubbing the lead. What the fuck the way they fucking did, Bruxy. So did, did Reynolds. Not letting him fucking play. In what was to be his last home, you know, what, these last the opportunity of home appearance in Brisbane. Bro, I'm a fucking premier shit. Like, it's just fucking, and the thing is as well, like with Madge, I mean, like, this is a player that he's had in a Fendi with too.

35:29Yeah. What the fuck? What do you think? What is it? Like that's because when your game, I mean, their game was like the fucking bullshit like meme game where they tried out the rules, wasn't it in the last round? Yeah. Against Mountain. So what, yeah. So what the fucking, what the shit? Who fucking cares? And you got fucking pumped anyway. It's just, and then he goes to do his fucking little lap or whatever at the end. And he has to stand there at the dark waiting to fucking get his recognition from the fans while they play a fucking key right on the telly on the fucking big screen. And I'm pretty sure they cut it short, too, didn't they? Or at least they're in the middle of the fucking, I don't know how it looked on the TV, but just... I heard the boys talking about it at the grand final breakfast for, for touching. Yeah, it was pretty diabolicals, cut short. And... It's fucking disgrace. Yeah.

36:31So I don't know how that job is. No, as an organization, like the Priesthood Brokers, I feel like any success they've had has been more fucking luck. They get to grand final every now and then, they win a grand final every now and then. After the fucking golden age, you know, like when they first popped in. Like, it's the last 20 years have been fucking average. And to go from fucking grand final to the worst finish of defending Premier's ever fucking had. Hashtag fucked a Broko's. And look, they're doing it to themselves. So, you know, not be better, but I feel bad for Reynolds because what a fucking... Like, because he was supposed to be, you know, he's only a coach and shit, right? Yeah. I don't know how this goes through his job after 40 years, I said it a little bit. I heard someone on the radio saying that he was going to be... Because of the way that they've done him, you know, they were going to...

37:31Yeah, for his coaching job, like, he was going to be under a gag order. For a bit... For media or stuff. Because all the questions would be like that. So... Anyway. Yeah. It's fucking ordinary treatment. I don't eat right, Lenny, you don't eat right. Agreed. Should we talk about the final scams? Yes. The rabbit-oats, taking them to knights. As I already mentioned, Jaroge has been dropped. For this round. A terrible person. Won't be in it, obviously. It's satisfied with the combination from the last two rounds, even though they were... They had a very good win. It's also good to see that... A giant five-eighth. Good to see that the sentimental inclusion of you and Aiken has also come to an end. Exactly. No diagnosis is before coming in. But it's potentially the same diagnosis as Jaroge being dropped.

38:34A U&Aiken has been dropped down with a critical case of not a first grader. Oh, that's funny. More than your own hands. Now... Knights, favourites for this one? Which one? I'm not that fucking not. Sorry, sorry, I was looking at the wrong one. I was looking at the fucking not. It's $3 and so on. Sorry, I was looking at the line. Rabbit's... Yeah, very heavy favourites. I thought the heaviest favourites? No, not quite. We've got to get to some. That's crazy. It's crazy. I think it's came. I think it's came. I believe he is. And I believe he played amazingly well in this game. I believe he played amazingly well in this weekend's game. He's yet to play. It is yet to play.

39:34I've seen my clankers seen into the future. But look, it's funny to think about it. But the rabbits have... After a season where they were, you know, were amazing for the largest part of it. They have... They're one of the teams that's probably coming in in a reasonable vein of form. If you cast your eyes over it. Like, it's... Apart from the Panthers, it's kind of... Whiteish open, right? Like... I mean, you just look over the whole thing. Like, you've got the sharks and the roosters, you know, through, you know, key injury or just sputtering. Yeah. Right when you don't want to. Cowboys were never good. Knights probably overachieved this season. And blue like, you know, multiple golden opportunities to secure a home final for themselves. So... If I look over the whole thing,

40:34there's only really, for me, there's only, like, probably three teams that can win it. On camera form. And two of them were playing each other. But, um, okay, so in this one though, six V-7 is an elimination match. Grabbers first, Knights. Grabbers can move on, right? Yeah, I think. Grabbers win, and it's very interesting that, you know, a team with Jaden, they're going to have seven and Matthew, Dufftier won. Us such heavy favourites in the first week of the final campaign. But, um... I think the trail will rise on the big stage as he tends to do. But I just think that it's probably a bit too much class and... and structure defensively for the... for the Knights to cope with, and I think the bunnies will win well. How about that hit from fucking... Oh. Trail.

41:34That's one that's... Yeah, maybe the best one this season. Yeah. And you could see everyone wanted to complain that it was high. And then the more replays were just like... It just looked high because the Whiplash was so significant. That is so... that he's head rocked forward. He's chin rocked to his own chest. So much that it just gave that illusion. That is a perfectly acceptable and legal murder. Yeah, yeah. It's just amazing, amazing. Um... Grabbers to win easily. Yeah. Now, second B, third happens next. And this is a Warriors versus the Dolphins, first finals campaign for the Dolphins. I was actually tonight. I was down having dinner at our restaurant, the Dolphins restaurant. Yeah. They have to. So I was fucking obviously excited down there for the Dolphins campaign. And some new menu items for some of menu. They've got a burger named after a...

42:34Jettin Wolf. And they've got... No, they've got a... Who is the other one? There's one named after Christian Wolf. And there's one... I think it might be Cartoe. There's the other one. I think. Um... That I saw. Um... What, like Warriors? Absolutely exposed last week, by the coaching now, so the Curin' For and... She is. And so the Dolphins, if the Dolphins can take a leaf out of Fosble and see how truly easy it is to get around the outside of this team. What the fuck, they're so easy to get around the outside of this Warriors team. It's so easy to strip the numbs. It's so easy just to put the pace down and run around them. And look, the Dolphins have got the players to do it. Cobbos fucking on one at the moment. Here's... Herbie and Bostock. Great. Yeah, Osaka. Great. Yeah.

43:34Not far off the run around, I'd say. But the hammer. Holy fuck. He can probably do two laps without a hand on it. He can run around every... Exactly. I think it's going to be a cracker of the game. I think Wolf will have the Dolphins up for it. I think he'll prepare them. Yeah. I think the Warriors are going to be obviously up for a home final. And the crowd will be riding the game. And very boisterous. And, you know, as I've said before, if the Warriors win, good luck trying to get a scaffold for the fucking week's time. There will be nothing going on. Not a single scaffold will be erected in New Zealand, also around in areas, which means Australia. Australia as well. Yeah. And, um... Look, I have to tip the Warriors because I think, you know, just the way that they've played this season, the class that they've shown, and the fact that it's a home, and, you know, they'll be up for a big finals performance.

44:34But, that's not to say that the Dolphins don't have a shot. They most certainly... I've said it a number of times this year, I think they've got all the pieces. I think they're well coached. I think there's structure in their shape. It troubles a lot of teams. And they've got class and firepower, and most importantly, speed. So, it's going to be... This is the game I'm mostly looking forward to. I think it's going to be a cracker. Yep. Dolphins shocked the world. The shark. You're officially tipping... Yeah, fuck you. See, people get on the bandwagon the Warriors. Fuck the Warriors, and they're bandwagon honestly. Oh, and says, fucking Dolphin. If they... You just fucking did. No, I didn't. I'll tip them to the nodding cells. So, it's going to be a great game. Stop sucking their dick, bro. Jesus, bro. Fuck, no. Where's Bigin' Caramely?

45:35Dolphins. Dolphins the Wien. Yeah, fifth, first eighth. Elimination. What's the most... You love to see the end of both of these cards. It's going to be worse. You're going to be the worst games. This is worse, yeah, we follow up the best game. But the best game in the most anticipated game of the finals this year. With the most unanticipated game of the game. You know, battle of the ice-knife. With the battle of who gives a fuck. Yep, battle who gives a fuck. We always get a couple of them each season. And regrettably, the NRLs dish just went up in the finals. This is a showpiece time of the... Trimble's in. Is he 100%? Probably not. But you got a... What is... What is... I wasn't paying attention to his diagnosis and the timeline for recovery that they... Is he being rushed in? Or... I mean, there's no tomorrow. So, yeah. But look, if he slots back in and the sharks play like they did before he was injured.

46:35Then, fuck that or roll it. I mean, he probably doesn't need to be into rollercovers anyway. But if he is in and they have some sort of semblance. Of where they were before he was injured. Then, they roll the cowboys very easily. Oh, great. It's going to be a very boystress and poorly behaved crowd at Papyrs Draw Stadium. And Trindle being in, obviously, as I said before, freeze up Hines time and space. And I think some of the... A lot of accidental blakin' and some of the guys out there be a big aggressive outside back. Something big. Trouble the cowboys and the cowboys poor last week. Obviously, they should be better given this first week, the finals. But I think sharks at home... I'm expecting a small crowd at this game because, you know, the sharks fans... By and large, there's not that many of them. And the ones that there are, they're probably boycotting the game

47:36because they're fucking having to suck the... They're not playing it at the tip out there. They're usually fucking play out, so... Hey, wait, what? Yeah, because it's not up to NRL's stand. Oh, that's it, Aliens. Sorry. Yeah, it's just... No, no, no, it's not a reclaimed Australia Colosseum. It's a fucking... It's not a real stadium. Because it's finals. Football mate. You can't play finals. Football, the fucking tip out there. You can't play it in front of like fucking 12,000 people or whatever it holds. Yes. So, they're playing it at a real ground. And so, like the cowboys fans, I'll come down in droves. The sharks fans are boycotting though, because they're not playing a fucking reclaimed Australia. They can't be comfortable in a fucking... They can't be comfortable in an eastern suburb stadium, fucking with their racisms. So, the shark's gonna win. Yeah, great. If the ghost of Braden Trindall is even slightly spooks, Nico Hines into, you know... Playing. Being good.

48:36Yeah. And finally, the Panthers vs. Roosters, which I'm paper, a month ago, you look at this game, you're like, fuck yeah. This is like the same level of... Potential a grand final preview, you know, whatever. Yeah, not quite the same level of anticipation that we have for the... The worst dolphins game, but... Yeah. I still think it would be a cracking game. I've said it. This whole year that I think, you know, that season last year with Henry Feller bit short, and they had their trials and tribulations through the regular season and failed to make the grand final. Or we know, a fifth comp. You know, and we heard Jay say plenty of times, you know, how do you keep finding the motivation to keep playing to the level that you have to to keep winning comps when you won four in a row? And I think that was probably... Maybe dialing it back a couple of clicks. And... But I think what it did in the...

49:36Ivan's probably the type of coach that has inspired them to... put that fire back and show them... show the rest of the NRL who they are again. And they've spent a large part of this season doing just that. A couple of, you know, performances weren't quite so they're normal standard as the season drew to a close. But finals is a whole nother game. And I think no one's going to be better prepared and no one is more experienced in these type of games than Penraith. And I think everyone else is playing for second and it starts with the roosters this weekend. I think they'll get dusted. Yeah, agree, agree. So I looked to find another day but... Yeah, who do they play? Sharks, it's the Sharks one. Probably, yeah. Yeah. Well, you'll look either way, either way, like you're looking at, you know, what, based on... Well, we disagreed on the Warriors Dolphins game. But, yeah, you'll look... Yeah. You know, great.

50:36Look, there's not a lot of quality in the finals this year. There's like, I think there's like, you know... Look, I think the one two three four games, they're going to be the teams that ultimately progress through to the final four, I think. Yeah. Because I just don't think there's like anywhere near enough quality in the bottom half of the eight this year. Fuck me, they talk about, you know, the likelihood or the difficulty of, you know, a team winning the Com from outside the top four. Hmm. Fuck. This year. Definitely level impossible. Asterox on the, on the rabbit eyes. I think they beat sharks and I think, I think they beat the roosters. And problem, possibly the dolphins at, at the rabbit eyes absolutely best. Yeah, that's the thing, I've got to be that absolutely best side. Hmm. So, yeah. Yeah, look. You guys will find out. Anyway, that's the first week, mate. That's it. It's us done.

51:36We're back for another month. Yeah. Well, look, you know, let's, let's try, let's try to do all the finals. Yeah, I agree with you. You agree with me now, in principle. You agree with me now, in principle. Yes. Let's see how it pans out in practice. Yep. But yes. It's good to have you back, buddy. Oh, it's good to have you back, mate. I mean, it's good to have us back. Yes. Look at us. It's not me. Not me. Not me. Not me. All right. Everybody. Okay. Bye.