Episode 20 : Nfl ends, Nrl begins.

Episode 20: NFL Ends, NRL Begins
The torch has officially been passed! This week, the boys recap the fallout from Super Bowl LX. We break down how the Seattle Seahawks stifled the Patriots at Levi’s Stadium to secure the Lombardi Trophy and discuss Kenneth Walker III’s massive MVP performance. Was it a defensive masterclass or a missed opportunity for New England?
Then, we shift gears as the NRL preseason heats up. We cover the latest news shaking up the league, including the devastating ACL injury to Manly’s Caleb Navale and the Tigers' double signing boost.
To wrap things up, we complete our 2026 NRL Season Preview. We’re diving deep into the final four teams:
 * Sea Eagles: A new era begins without Daly Cherry-Evans. Can Jamal Fogarty successfully steer the ship? More importantly, can the Trbojevic brothers actually stay on the field for a full season, or is the Manly medical ward already prepping the beds?
 * Knights: Life with Kalyn Ponga and star recruit Dylan Brown. Is this the most dangerous spine in the comp?
 * Warriors: Can they recapture that "Up the Wahs" magic and find the consistency needed for a top-four finish?
 * Cowboys: Assessing their chances ahead of the massive Las Vegas season opener against the Knights.
Stick around for our weekly predictions, the usual banter, and a look ahead to the Vegas triple-header!

Transcript

0:02

Welcome to the Inca here in podcast.

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Episode 20. Boy. Is you excited?

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 0:14

Good day. Good day.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 0:15

exciting. There you go, man.

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Alright, this way we'll do a bit of a Super Bowl recap. Stick into some super league NRL trials. Do our season preview for the NRL. What he is been up to. Know Zach's at SCN working.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 0:33

Oh.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 0:34

Yeah, I've got, I've gone back to work this, oh, I went back to work last week, but yeah,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 0:40

Yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 0:40

a couple days and now I'm back into the swing again. Unfortunately.

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I was working all weekend, so I didn't get any trials. I got the Super Bowl., You, we'd you think of the Super Bowl Seahawks, NFL Champions. Why is it, why is it a conspiracy?

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:00

Pat got robbed.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:03

How

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:04

'cause they did.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:06

Well, I don't think they got robbed.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:08

they were clearly the better team and the referees were against them.

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You were clearly not, you weren't watching the same game everyone else was.'cause what I seen was the

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:19

Pat's got robbed.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:20

the Seahawks defense was. Very good. And the Pats defense wasn't so good and the Seahawks had heaps of space to run down and kick field goals.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:32

Conspiracy.

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Nah, I think full of it.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:38

Well, it's just like fucking cowboys getting robbed. Every year.

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Yeah, right. No, wasn't too bad a game. I don't think it was quite, spectacular is what I thought it was gonna be, but it was a pretty tight game for the majority of it. So Donald done really well and yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:58

for it.

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Oh yeah. Drake may be better for it. He had a lot of pressure on him. So the offensive line, was struggling to hold the Seahawks back and he was just under a lot of pressure. Like that's the first time that the Pats had been held scoreless for three quarters all season. So, I think the Seahawks deserved the win. It was just a defensive display and they capitalized when they could and shut the pats down in attack.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 2:29

Mind you, when the PAT score in that fourth quarter, they went bang, bang, 80 yards done, dusted in the corner.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 2:37

Yeah,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 2:38

Like they, they showed that they can still score. They just, yeah,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 2:44

the,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 2:44

few.

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the big positive that I'd take out of it, it's only Drake May's second NFL season straight from college. So, he's definitely gonna be their franchise quarterback for a long, long time. He is, he is the genuinely the good thing. So he'll, if he can get a team to a Super Bowl in his first full season. Then I imagine what he's gonna be like in five, six years time. So I think it'd be someone to watch in the future. And the Pats have had an unbelievable season. I didn't give him much of a chance at the beginning of it, but yeah. So, but I didn't give the Seahawks much of a chance either.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 3:27

You didn't give the pats much of a chance for the last six weeks.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 3:30

No, no. I did. I said the Pats were up there. I was on the rims and I did get one prediction right. Fri Stafford got the MVP, so

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 3:44

Yeah, that's who I picked as well.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 3:46

Yeah. Yeah, that's right. I said it first.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 3:50

I,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 3:50

what I've found is watching most of the NFL games is not much happens until really the last quarter is when touchdowns, Phil, goals and all that really come into play. Then

_1_02-10-2026_204453 4:02

yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 4:03

pretty much, pretty much, if you didn't watch the first, second, and third quarter and only watched the fourth quarter, it'd be, it wouldn't be too bad. You'd still all the highlights, I reckon.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 4:17

Yeah. Yeah. Well that's, that's generally what happens. That, they just go through their well procedures and stuff and get down there, take points if they can. But it really comes alive in that fourth quarter. And any, anything can happen. Look, I remember watching a game, oh, it was LA Rams or something. They were getting flogged in the first half by somebody, I think it might've been the Raiders or something, and they just come back and win it to win it in the last second. So it's just one of those things where it's never done till it's done. And yeah, the Seahawks run the, run the clock out, put a few more points on some interceptions. So I, I don't think the pats were really ever in it., I think the defense was just too good, so

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 5:07

In saying that

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 5:08

Aussie.

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Oh, yeah, yeah,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 5:12

knight him on board as a kicking coach.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 5:15

I was gonna say$25 million. He gets paid a season

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yeah. Just to kick the ball.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 5:23

and they worked it out. I think, I heard on the radio, I think they worked it out that he was, he's on the field for the whole entire, game for less than six minutes.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 5:34

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 5:35

in, in saying that I, I don't

_1_02-10-2026_204453 5:38

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 5:38

NFL players get so worn out. They're not out there anywhere near as

_1_02-10-2026_204453 5:45

Well.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 5:46

other sports.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 5:48

Yeah, well, league players a FL player, well league players, they're in the collision up, down all the time. That ties you out as you'd know from playing. And then you've got soccer players, a FL players, they're running long distances over a course of a match where an NFL player, it's all explosive. So that's what they're trained to do. They're not trained to do that distance stuff and, maintain.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 6:10

they're starting and stopping and then all the cold weathers, most of the games, they start off sunshine and then 20 minutes later you can't see nothing.'cause it's just

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 6:19

Well,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 6:19

everywhere.

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Yeah,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 6:21

New England,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 6:22

yeah. But, but it's, it, that's, that's what it'd be. It's the way that they're conditioned. They're not conditioned to run long distances and for long periods of time, they're only there for those short, sharp executions. And that's, that's what they go through with. So that's what they do game after game.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 6:39

that's what they do all the times that, that's right. They're conditioned to that,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 6:44

yeah,

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Yeah,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 6:45

one set, turn a ball over and they're blowing

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 6:49

yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 6:49

like they're.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 6:51

did, did you know that? They've got a punter, just punting the ball and then a kicker to kick the field golds.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 6:59

Yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 6:59

But it's not the same person.

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No,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 7:01

it was the same person

_1_02-10-2026_204453 7:02

no,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 7:03

done bow and

_1_02-10-2026_204453 7:04

no,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 7:04

and all that.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 7:05

Used to be

_1_02-10-2026_204453 7:07

no. They're all, they're all different.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 7:09

No, I thought it was the same person, but no, yeah, I only found that out. They're oh mate, they, that's all he does is just punt

_1_02-10-2026_204453 7:15

Yeah. Well

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 7:16

and

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 7:16

ki do

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 7:17

yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 7:17

kids.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 7:18

back.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 7:19

mil.

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Back a

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 7:20

hell

_1_02-10-2026_204453 7:21

back a long time ago, when I was starting the NFL and everything, that having the offensive and defensive teams wasn't even a thing. They used to just play both ways, but then they brought in the rules where you could have, you could set it up to have an offense and a defense. So they, that's what they did, and they went with, and I think, I think it works well. You've got your specialty players that specialize in those positions and stuff, and yeah, they, every, every, every play that they do, they're putting 110% into every play. It's not, it's not halfassed or, anything that. So, yeah, it's all predetermined when they've got their players, who they're gonna pass to and that, but if they, they've still gotta be able to give the quarterback options if it doesn't work out. So, yeah. All right, you boys, looking forward to the Super League this week. Kicking off Friday, York Knight's newly promoted to the Super league up against whole kr the premiers.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 8:22

Let's be honest, how often are you gonna get up to watch? It

_1_02-10-2026_204453 8:27

I can watch replays and stuff. I can watch a little bit of it. I'm not, I'm not too,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 8:31

simply bores me a little bit, but.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 8:34

it does me sometimes too.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 8:36

the NRL

_1_02-10-2026_204453 8:37

Yeah,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 8:37

and it's just something about Super League. It doesn't excite me anywhere near as much.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 8:45

no, but if you have a look last week in the challenge calf whole kr beat the team a hundred and what do I send you? 118 or something?

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 8:54

No, one of, I'll say one of'em was 102 to.

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102 nil. They beat.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 9:00

they put a hundred on Fuck the Bronchs.

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I think they'll put a hundred on the Broncos, but I'm a bit worried about York, they've just been newly promoted. So it'd be worth seeing whether or not they're gonna be able to handle that top tier of the Super League. So,'cause all their things, it comes back to financial stability and they've gotta gotta pass everything. So. Yeah. But it'll probably be, wing and Warriors, whole KR and probably St. Helenka and Dragons probably gonna be those top teams I'd say. So. Lee Leopards might have a push for it maybe, but No. Lee Leopards, Leeds Rhinos,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 9:45

there's

_1_02-10-2026_204453 9:46

yeah. Two different places. Lee. Lee are those ones with the stupid jerseys that look leopards.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 9:51

my just, yeah. Top, four or five don't ever really change in the Super League. my prediction would probably whole to be there again against St. Helen's.

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Well, I'm, I'm under the impression that Hole's lost a few players, so

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 10:13

Yeah,

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I'd probably be leaning more towards winging, maybe leads have Brad Arthur as coach now, full time.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 10:23

We

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so

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 10:24

just, yeah, we cans always thereabouts

_1_02-10-2026_204453 10:28

yeah, well they're at their proper rugby league. They've got a full on academy. They've had it for over a hundred years. They're,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 10:35

you, all you really hear about coming outta the Super League is Wiggin St. Helen's Hu

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yeah. Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 10:42

and I I think that's why it balls me so much.'cause that's all it is. It's just those few teams,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 10:48

Yeah. Yeah. I, I support the Warrington Wolves, but

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 10:57

so.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 10:57

sometimes they go, all right, they're about a mid table team really. So yeah, they, they sort of swap and change, teams will go through a bit of an uprise here and there, but majority of the time it's just the same teams up thereabouts. So, but they're trying to improve it. I still the idea of doing a, European rugby league, but I don't think it's ever gonna happen, but yeah. Yeah. Just say this week that, Peter Valis is trying to send to a team, to the, OR game to the Middle East.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 11:34

Yeah. What a fucking hell. It's trying too hard. I think

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it's just a way to grow the game Lebanon, Lebanon, play, play in the World Cup. But I did say the other day someone said that they should take the bulldogs over there'cause all the supporters would be there anyway. But,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 11:53

the worst, worst thing about it's is the time zone difference.

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I think it's because it's nearly similar.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 11:57

on the time zone they come out and tell us that game two state of origin next year in New Zealand gonna stay in the same slot and we're not gonna see kick off till fucking nine 30, quarter to 10 at night. What a fucking crock of shit.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 12:16

talking A Sunday game too.

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I thought that it was gonna be a Sunday afternoon game at four o'clock.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 12:22

No,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 12:22

still that, that's still, four o'clock for us, but that's still fucking six o'clock over there.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 12:29

you, you played on a Sunday. You, you lose your whole weekend. You gotta have a full buy around.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 12:37

true. But that's what they're talking, they're talking of a, a Sunday.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 12:43

Yeah,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 12:43

'em talking

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 12:44

nah. Leave the fucking thing in Australia at state of Origin, new South Wales fucking Queens.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 12:52

Well see what they were saying is they're gonna have it, so they'll, they'll have one game in Queensland, one in Sydney, and then one in Victoria. Then the following year it'll be one in Queensland, one in New South Wales, one in Perth, and then, yeah. So, but, so what they'll do is every four years they'll go to a different, the one of the games will go to a different area. I'm pretty sure that's what they'll saying.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 13:17

New South Wales versus Queensland. Plain and simple. It worked for years. You don't change what's not broke.

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They're just trying to, they're just trying to grow the game financially by taking the bids and,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 13:31

of other fucking games

_1_02-10-2026_204453 13:34

yeah, but it's the best, it's, it's prob it's the best against the best. Like

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 13:38

Bring

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I know that,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 13:40

New Zealand versus Australia Anzac Match.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 13:43

but that's still not the be that, that's still not the best of the best.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 13:47

It is, it's your best Australian side versus your best New Zealand side.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 13:51

Yeah, I understand that. But what I mean is the best players,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 13:55

Park.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 13:56

the best players are all Australian. So the better quality game's always gonna be origin.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 14:00

It's the best players aren't all Australian now

_1_02-10-2026_204453 14:04

No.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 14:05

because you've got all these players defected into other teams.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 14:08

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 14:09

So have that Anzac test, bring it back, have it at Eden Park. Leave state of origin alone.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 14:18

Yeah. No, I, I don't think they should be taking it to New Zealand, but they're gonna do what they're gonna do. I wouldn't be surprised if they end up making that a Vegas game at one stage, so.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 14:32

The state of origin. Yeah, but then you're gonna have to, are you gonna do there? You're gonna have to state of origin before the round kick off.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 14:42

Yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 14:43

Whatcha gonna do with the other two games? You can't, you can't do start of origin first round, then wait halfway through the season and do the rest of them.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 14:50

Yeah. Well, it'd be interesting to see what happens anyway. So what do you think about the pain harsh defect into the south?

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 15:02

Good.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 15:03

Good.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 15:04

I, I reckon that's all right. Like, that's very out of the blue. But

_1_02-10-2026_204453 15:09

I didn't expect it.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 15:11

a good pickup for c.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 15:13

It is.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 15:14

it's that out of the blue, he was always going,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 15:19

Yeah. Well,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 15:20

the 360

_1_02-10-2026_204453 15:21

they, they said, yeah, they said on, well, I read somewhere that they said that he was gonna 360 no matter what. It was a done deal. It's just that because it didn't work out, he just timed it a bit better than what Lomax did. So I think he was always leaving, but to go to Souths of all places is probably a little bit surprising to me. I thought he'd want have, oh, I got some more money from the Bears, or something that. But yeah, it, it'll fit, it'll make Souths a bit of a force next season.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 15:51

Well, I read, I read

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 15:52

Well, they do lose.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 15:54

they offered him less money but fi a five year contract, but less money.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 15:59

Yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 15:59

supposedly the, he said to the ra, his manager said to the rabbits, if you offer him the same amount of money, he'll, he'll convert to use

_1_02-10-2026_204453 16:07

Yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 16:08

that. He's on a Brisbane now,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 16:10

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 16:11

I think you can nearly lock old Uncle Wayne in

_1_02-10-2026_204453 16:16

Yeah, well apparently he's, apparently he's got, clauses in there that if Wayne Bennett's not the coach, he can negotiate with other clubs again. And there's also a clause in there if 360 gets up and running. So

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 16:28

yeah, the, the whole 360 thing one's, I think, a lot of teams will be keeping a close eye on that one.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 16:37

I think three sixty's dead. I don't think it'll get any following now that they've pushed it back.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 16:44

Yeah. But I wouldn't, I wouldn't be too surprised that you don't start seeing super rugby clubs throwing money at paint Huss when he is already said that he's considered going to rugby.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 16:56

Yeah. Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 16:58

So he is already shown that interest. So

_1_02-10-2026_204453 17:02

Yeah. Well he is already done everything in rugby league. That's, that's the thing. You can go make more money and travel the world or,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 17:09

him being a flanker.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 17:11

Thing is, I don't think he wants to travel the world. I think he wants to settle, up his family.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 17:16

yeah,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 17:17

'cause he

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 17:17

It brings you

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 17:18

of his brothers and sisters and

_1_02-10-2026_204453 17:20

yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 17:20

and it brings you back closer to home. Like being a Maitland boy. It's not that far down to Red Fern. Really

_1_02-10-2026_204453 17:27

No.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 17:28

and yeah, I am. Yeah, the South sl I pick up Pain Huss.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 17:37

Yeah. And the Bronch guys are losing Adam Reynolds as well. He is retired the end of the season.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 17:43

I did read something that it's still I, I read.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 17:47

in the air.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 17:48

Yeah, I read that it's done and he's announced it. But then I read article saying that it hasn't been finalized yet. made up his mind.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 18:00

He had an interview there the other day after one of the training sessions and Yeah, and he exactly said that. He goes, it's the thing that I wanna do. I wanna retire. But yeah, I'll just see how things are going with my body and all that.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 18:14

it'll come down to,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 18:16

retiring.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 18:17

if he gets an early injury, I think it'll, it'll announce it that he'll

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 18:24

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 18:25

say, but I dunno.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 18:28

Yeah. Would you seen,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 18:30

is, is Maj not made out for the NRL

_1_02-10-2026_204453 18:36

oh, I think he is, I don't think it's got anything to do with.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 18:39

Oh, you look at South and when he was there, he lost some good players. He lost good players at West Tigers. He's won Brisbane. he's won a premiership there. But. What, three months after winning the premiership, you're gonna lose the best prop in the game

_1_02-10-2026_204453 19:02

Yeah, at the end

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 19:03

out, after also coming out and saying, nah, we've got him signed. He's not going nowhere. locked in for years to come.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 19:12

he is won two comps at two different clubs. Like he knows how to get him there. It's just whether or not, you know.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 19:21

I just don't think he's like, he knows what he's doing. I just don't think he's the people person type of like state of origin really suited him.'cause he was there for 10 weeks and he could just walk away at the end of it. Like NRL, he's, yeah, he's there for the long haul. I don't know.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 19:45

Yeah, I, I'd be happy to have match at my club and if the players aren't gonna whinge that he works'em too hard, well that's the player's problem. They need to understand that, that's their profession. They're, they're supposed to work hard.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 19:59

Oh, a hundred

_1_02-10-2026_204453 20:00

He, he's only getting the most out of him. I think it comes back to the players, players mentality. Yeah. Well, Craig Bellamy's for being pushing his players hard as well.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 20:11

it's no different. The Penrith, when they send the boys off to the fucking bootcamp for

_1_02-10-2026_204453 20:17

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 20:17

or whatever it is,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 20:18

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 20:19

I ain. Mags been spoken about a lot more with how hard his sessions can be during preseason, but

_1_02-10-2026_204453 20:28

Hard, I think.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 20:29

well worked out for him last year because of the season the Broncos were done and

_1_02-10-2026_204453 20:35

I think, I think,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 20:35

found another gear

_1_02-10-2026_204453 20:37

I think that most of that's a, media beat up just to try and get views,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 20:43

But,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 20:43

to be fair.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 20:44

but now that Hass has gone there, or if he does go, if he doesn't back flip, who do you see replacing him? Like they're gonna, they're gonna have big money to go to the market. I,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 20:59

Yeah, they will. I think Tino's looking at staying with Josh Hanney on the Titans. I read something the other day where he is sort of, he sort of back flipped his mind on leaving. he'd be one that I'd probably chase if that was the case, but I'm not real sure.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 21:14

about Big Stefano

_1_02-10-2026_204453 21:17

Yeah, it depends whether they're off contract.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 21:20

Contracts don't mean fuck all.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 21:22

I know,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 21:22

this out.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 21:23

I know. It doesn't mean, I know it doesn't mean fuck all, but.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 21:27

Alright, come November one, or whenever it is now, June 30, right? They can be spoken to by other clubs.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 21:35

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 21:35

to

_1_02-10-2026_204453 21:36

And that's,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 21:36

contract, why you get.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 21:38

That's what I sent you the other day that confused you is,'cause I said June 30, it's because we go through last season, you get to November 30 and all those players are off contract. What I meant by saying that was yeah they can go off contract on November 1st, but don't announce it until after June 30.'cause you can cop six months out knowing that your player's leaving. But can you, rather than before the season even starts, we know Huss is going to the rabbit or Dylan Brown's going to the Knights last year and why can't they push it back to, well I don't know why they can't come off contract on June 30 of their last year over their contract.'cause you've still got six months. You can negotiate, send your team, they always say it so that the players have more time to relocate and all of that stuff. Well, why doesn't the NRL hop in and help'em relocate?

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 22:31

Why can't their wives relocate'em? Like they can go gas looking and

_1_02-10-2026_204453 22:36

Yeah,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 22:37

they, I mean they obviously, they're not gonna move all the boxes, but all on that much money that afford to bring in a removalist. They're not gonna move their own houses anyway.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 22:48

yeah. No, I understand that. But I think June 30 be, much more sensible. It gives you six months. I, I don't, I'm not as worried about players that signed to in the middle to the end of the season to go to another club the next season, but before the season's even kicked off, and you already know that your players are gonna another club.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 23:06

but bring in, in a penalty. Like if the, the club that you signed for, south releasing over the weekend before Hassett even finished telling all your Bronca players.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 23:18

I don't think the OSE released it. It was someone, someone in the media caught on that there was a contract lodged with the NRL to get approval.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 23:28

Yeah, but that's what you mean. Like South didn't have to lodge it straight away,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 23:33

I think they do for the 10 day cooling off period. I think they do have to do it and lodge it straight away. Plus if they don't lodge it straight away and he changes his mind over that period that they don't lodge it. Like you'd be, you'd be abusing the CF administration for not lodging it as soon as possible. I don't have anything against them lodging it,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 23:55

Yeah. But what I'm getting at is if so South have released it, CS should copy a penalty If, if ha's management comes out and announces it management cops are fine for it. Like

_1_02-10-2026_204453 24:08

yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 24:09

it should come down to the player

_1_02-10-2026_204453 24:11

Yeah,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 24:12

to announce it on his terms. That lets him tell all his loved ones, which most of them had known before you sign anyway, but.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 24:21

yeah,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 24:21

able to tell your teammates and shit that before it getting released to the media

_1_02-10-2026_204453 24:28

yeah. But

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 24:30

be copping phone calls left. Right. And fucking Santa right now from all different outlets.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 24:36

yeah. Could you, could you cop though that from November 30 they can start speaking to other clubs and agents and have the speculation build up, but you can't announce anything until, or you can't sign anything until June 30? Do you think that fixes the problem?

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 24:55

Well see. They reckon that, David Federer and Latrell, Mick was a major part in him signing with sea.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 25:03

Yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 25:04

So that's players talking to players

_1_02-10-2026_204453 25:06

Yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 25:07

yeah, it's not really managers and that

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 25:09

the, and has they would've played together.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 25:14

They played together

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 25:15

at the Broncos before he went to Titans.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 25:19

Yeah,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 25:20

So,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 25:21

and they played, they played in juniors together as

_1_02-10-2026_204453 25:23

yeah. They were best mates. They were best mates at the Broncos.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 25:28

that, yeah. So obviously that's gonna have a big influence

_1_02-10-2026_204453 25:33

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 25:34

and that only makes it worse for the rest of the competition because has going there could get the best outta feta. And we know what feta was during,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 25:48

it's,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 25:48

you got selected for Origin, one of the best back rowers in the game.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 25:53

It could be another David Taylor that when he played for the CFC, fucking the, the Reckon Ball, eh.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 26:00

Yeah. Yeah. All. Alright. You's been onto any winter Olympics?

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 26:09

I've been watching some of the downhill skiing and downhill snowboarding and a bit of the ice skating.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 26:14

Yeah, I've only, I've only seen clips. I've been doing clips mostly on curling. I don't know what it is about a rock sliding across ice, but it's just me mesmerizing.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 26:25

some she are getting air lifted. I seen

_1_02-10-2026_204453 26:28

yeah, I did.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 26:29

on that.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 26:30

Yeah. She had

_1_02-10-2026_204453 26:31

Was that the one, was that the 40-year-old that came back and was trying to prove something and she went down?

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 26:38

oh, I'm not sure. I didn't, I didn't see,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 26:41

I know there was one that hit their hand on the flag when they went past it and shattered it.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 26:46

Yeah. On the first, first flag,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 26:48

Yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 26:48

it

_1_02-10-2026_204453 26:49

Yeah,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 26:49

Broke it. Broke her hand it was swollen up bad.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 26:53

yeah. Yeah. Frigging crazy. I forgot how many cool sports there are in frigging the winter Olympics, that one where you ski and then you shoot and then you ski. That one's pretty cool. Like dunno how that ever became a sport, but Yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 27:10

let's see, the Russians, the Russians done brought that in.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 27:13

But they're not even allowed to compete.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 27:15

Yeah, they were back then. But,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 27:17

Yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 27:19

but see, I think, I

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 27:20

It is just going pig chasing you, run, you shoot, you run, you shoot, you run.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 27:25

yeah.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 27:25

All right. Zach's gonna join the Summer Olympics where he runs and shoots and runs and shoots.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 27:31

No

_1_02-10-2026_204453 27:31

tells me,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 27:32

is not made for fucking running anymore.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 27:35

I know it's made for rolling.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 27:38

on the the curl, I'm the fucking little rock getting slid across the office.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 27:44

Yeah.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 27:45

Hmm.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 27:45

you, you forget to let go of it and just slide down with it. Get down to the end there and just fucking knock'em all out with your hands.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 27:53

you dead man.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 27:54

Did you see the, the Aussie the other day actually on the skeleton luge by herself?

_1_02-10-2026_204453 28:00

yeah, she fell off and got back on.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 28:02

They're

_1_02-10-2026_204453 28:02

it that one?

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 28:03

down falls. Yeah.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 28:04

Yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 28:05

hell.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 28:05

Yeah. No, that was a bit, that was a bit how you're going. Well, I'll give you that. So, yeah. All right. Is ready for NRL preview Sea eagles.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 28:20

Bumper home,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 28:22

Hmm.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 28:23

the, the sea eagles, they the quite a difficult one

_1_02-10-2026_204453 28:30

Well, they've lost. They've lost. DCE

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 28:33

Yes, they've

_1_02-10-2026_204453 28:34

Fogarty. Fogarty

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 28:35

They've

_1_02-10-2026_204453 28:36

Fog Fogies a f Fogies A solid player. Into that team. And then you've got Luke Brooks at number six. Luke Brooks and Fogarty are gonna work well together. Then you've got Turbo who you dunno if he's gonna be injured or he is not gonna be injured. Jake.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 28:52

he's the captain, Turbo's the captain,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 28:55

Yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 28:56

and

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 28:56

I,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 28:57

players in that team calling him a clown. they've gone Oh, he, he's not really for a captain position. He is, he's more of the class clown

_1_02-10-2026_204453 29:07

Well I don't know why they wouldn't make Jake captain.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 29:10

Well,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 29:11

Jake's already been,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 29:13

too much as well.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 29:15

Yeah, well that's the other thing. Jake gets injured.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 29:18

also come out the other day and said one head knock away from early retirement.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 29:23

have you seen the

_1_02-10-2026_204453 29:24

yeah,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 29:24

he is wearing?

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 29:25

He, he's

_1_02-10-2026_204453 29:26

yeah,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 29:26

with full

_1_02-10-2026_204453 29:27

yeah. It's the same, it's the same pattern and everything.'cause what the NFL players wear over their helmets.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 29:33

I was gonna say, yeah. Like, it's huge. Like

_1_02-10-2026_204453 29:36

Yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 29:36

it's at least five centimeters thick.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 29:39

and

_1_02-10-2026_204453 29:40

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 29:40

big enough as it is.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 29:42

Yeah.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 29:42

The, the thing with those concussions and with the headgear and that it's, it probably limits a little bit of impact, but nothing's gonna in limit your brain from hitting the side of your skull, and that's where you get a concussion from. It's just putting a boiled egg, well, an egg into a, into a container full of water and then shaking it around. You can still crack that whap, that egg if you shake it hard enough. And that's all it is, brain bleeds. But I, they've lost Lachlan Croker, so they look, they've gotta fill that hooker roll. And if I'm being quite honest, I think Sea Bowl is the probably coach that's under the most pressure this season. And I think you'll be the first one on the chopping block if they don't, if they don't perform straight out of the gates.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 30:28

no, I re I reckon Knights Holbrook, he'll be, he'll be the first one. He'll be the first one I

_1_02-10-2026_204453 30:35

They're just stuck with freaking adam O'Brien. For how long you think they're gonna sack him first go? I don't think so.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 30:40

Yeah, but you wanted to keep Adam O'Brien until last year and then you were all for getting rid of him.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 30:46

No. I didn't Adam O'Brien's coaching skill, but I wasn't blaming him for the night's problems.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 30:55

No, but anyway, back to the Sea Eagles and back to that halves combination. I don't think that Fogarty and Brooks will be that much different to Fogarty with Ethan Strain. I think Brooks has got an all right running game that he'll be able to just do that and Fogy will control that team. I think your biggest drama Manly is gonna be whether you keep those two tra boy, rich boys fit, they stay fit. They win a lot more games. Turnberg can win games on his own, but we've seen it in the past and

_1_02-10-2026_204453 31:36

Yeah,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 31:37

Fogarty getting on the back of that. He'll, he'll be, he'll be able to manage. I've got him down the bottom by, I've, I think I've got'em in sixteenths, but

_1_02-10-2026_204453 31:50

no, you've got the, you've got the Dragons

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 31:53

so yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 31:55

in 13th. I do

_1_02-10-2026_204453 31:57

13th.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 31:58

Yep. 13th. I got Manly.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 32:00

I've got'em mainly in Fifteenths, not sixteenths. So, but that's simply because of that new house pairing and with the two Bubi brothers, whether they can stay fit or not.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 32:16

Yeah, I've got'em getting the spoon. cause I think they're gonna come out at a slow start. I think sea bolt's gonna get sacked and then I think they're gonna have injury wos and they'll just write this year off. Start again next year. So I've got'em getting the spoon. Mind you, they could finish higher, but I had'em between 15th and 17th, but I think, I think they get the spoon.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 32:42

We also well, most of Australia thought that were gonna get the spoon last

_1_02-10-2026_204453 32:49

Yeah. I thought the Raiders were gonna get the spoon last year. Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 32:53

them on their back and controlled that team quite well.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 32:56

Yeah. Yeah. I don't, I I don't think it's solely based around, around Fogarty. I think it's gonna be a team dramatic, a team dynamic type thing, manley's ign for board fighting and headlines and all that shit. Just as much as the West Tigers are. They just seem to get through it a little bit better from time to time. But yeah, I, I don't think the Sea Eagles are gonna have a very good season. But at the same time, I was one of the ones that had the Raiders as a wooden spoon last year. So I, these predictions aren't perfect and, they're more just a bit of fun bit of content, so, yeah. All right.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 33:36

my predictions are pretty perfect, or the ladder's only pretty spot on to what I'm predicting. Well, let's be fair.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 33:43

You'll stay full of yourself. That's it. I'm surprised you don't swallow yourself through your asshole. You're that full of yourself.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 33:50

It's, jealousy's a curse motherfucker.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 33:53

Mm-hmm.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 33:53

right, we're onto our teams now. They're gonna be biased or completely unbiased. Hey,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 34:00

Newcastle Knights. Let's go. Let's hear it

_1_02-10-2026_204453 34:04

Newcastle. 14th?

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 34:07

Yep.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 34:08

Yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 34:09

they,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 34:09

you've got the Titans 14th Uber

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 34:12

Yeah. Swap'em around.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 34:14

from what

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 34:15

Knights and Titans swap'em around.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 34:18

and lose the Titans.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 34:19

to, they can go to 15th.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 34:21

Nights Can go to 15th or Titans.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 34:24

No. Titans can go to 15th night's, 14th.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 34:28

Okay. Where do you albums at?

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 34:31

I've got'em finish in 14th.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 34:33

I've got'em finishing 13th.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 34:35

See? Fucking biased.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 34:38

One spot outside of what? You have one spot.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 34:42

They were wooden spoons last year. And you think they're gonna go that high?

_1_02-10-2026_204453 34:47

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 34:48

They're the, biggest movers on the market. Like

_1_02-10-2026_204453 34:52

13th is not that high

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 34:54

why, why, why do you think the Knights are gonna

_1_02-10-2026_204453 34:58

because I've got the Tigers, dragons, Titans, and Seas below'em.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 35:03

Yeah, but what, what makes you think that the Knights are gonna jump that high? Like. They, the

_1_02-10-2026_204453 35:11

Dylan Brown.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 35:12

they, they're gaining Dylan Bringham.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 35:15

And Smith?

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 35:16

They're also losing Paul.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 35:20

Yeah. Well they've got, they've still got Lucas there. They've still got Zel.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 35:23

Who else did they lose?

_1_02-10-2026_204453 35:24

They've got Kent.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 35:25

on his way out.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 35:27

tell tell you

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 35:27

Kent's coming off the bench, isn't he?

_1_02-10-2026_204453 35:30

Hey.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 35:31

really good on the weekend.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 35:32

Yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 35:33

good

_1_02-10-2026_204453 35:34

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 35:34

Well all the time. He frizzell's just one of them plays just keeps on giving

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 35:39

but the

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 35:39

and he,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 35:41

he,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 35:41

he, he's gonna be throughout the whole NRL when he retires, not just at the Knights and the Dragons.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 35:48

I think they're gonna have to worry about head knocks with him, but because he did get a head knock on the weekend as

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 35:53

So,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 35:53

he pa he did pass. yeah, he. The tackle that he was in, that he got head knocked, was pretty soft really to

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 36:03

yeah. But. I, I'm interested in the nights this week to see how many little mate Flex goes at one and Sandy

_1_02-10-2026_204453 36:16

it'll go. It'll go well.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 36:18

Oh, I've got no dramas in Flex being able to play position,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 36:21

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 36:22

just, I'm more interested in how Sandon and go,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 36:28

Yeah. Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 36:29

because Fletch can't, we, we've discussed this many times. can't go back to the wing

_1_02-10-2026_204453 36:35

No, I don't,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 36:37

and

_1_02-10-2026_204453 36:37

think he can. He's gotta be around that ball and his, his best position probably would be fullback. But the thing is, he was their best player on the field last year as a five eight.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 36:46

He was their best player on the weekend, on the field

_1_02-10-2026_204453 36:49

Yeah, I think, I think when the Knight signed Dylan Brown, I don't think they expected Fletcher Sharp to be as good as what he was otherwise they'd be looking for another kind of player. I think they've put themselves in a bit of a pickle.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 37:04

I think this is the last year we, we, well, there's been a lot of speculation, but I think this is the last year we see Kay and Ponga in the red and blue.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 37:14

Yeah,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 37:15

I think

_1_02-10-2026_204453 37:16

that's, that's why, that's why I'm not, I'm not worried if Kalen does sign somewhere else for the reason that Fletcher Sharp's there, we can fill that hole. That's extra money to put onto your cat and you can build a better team around that. But whilst ever Kalen PGA is there, he needs to be your fullback. He's still, he's still the best player on that team.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 37:38

So would you, would

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 37:39

or

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 37:40

would you say Keep ca Poer in fullback and they release Fletcher Sharper?

_1_02-10-2026_204453 37:45

No, because I, I believe that Fletch should be in the HARs anyway.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 37:49

but I wouldn't be surprised if you see some teams from Sydney, the roosters come looking for Fletcher Sharp.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 38:00

No, I, I wouldn't be, I I wouldn't be. They chased Armstrong when he was at the Knights. As soon as he debuted to go and play for them. Turned him down. Ended up in the Super League anyway.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 38:10

I could see Fletcher Sharp going to the storm.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 38:13

Yeah, he'd probably be a really good fit there. He is a, he's very pap and he has a liked,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 38:19

That's exactly right. He could

_1_02-10-2026_204453 38:20

yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 38:21

that fallback position. There no dramas for the

_1_02-10-2026_204453 38:24

Yeah. I,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 38:24

I

_1_02-10-2026_204453 38:25

I,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 38:25

he goes that far. I,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 38:28

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 38:29

he not long bought in Cessna. I don't, I don't think he's gonna

_1_02-10-2026_204453 38:35

none of that,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 38:37

far

_1_02-10-2026_204453 38:37

all that stuff. When, when players buy houses and stuff, David Klemmer, there's weeks before he left from the West, tigers bought a house at Fri,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 38:45

Yeah. But David

_1_02-10-2026_204453 38:47

Warners back,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 38:48

and Fletcher Sharp are completely different people. Fletcher's whole personality or? I known him since he was a little kid. Everything. Family, family,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 38:57

I don't, I don't see him wanting to leave the nights and I don't see the Knights letting him go.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 39:03

I don't think he leaves, but I wouldn't be surprised if you start seeing offers from Sydney this year.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 39:10

yeah. No, I'm.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 39:12

Kaylin's, uh, he's young enough, he's got a few years left, but Kailyn's also injury prone. So if I had my choice between Kailyn Pong and Fletcher Sharp and chasing Fletcher Sharp,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 39:26

I think it's just as much as the Knights baby him as much as it is that he is injury prone,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 39:31

so

_1_02-10-2026_204453 39:32

him back a little bit when he probably could have played.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 39:34

But if the Knights wanna start winning games and being top eight contenders, you're gonna have to let Kalen play.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 39:45

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 39:46

We've just got to,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 39:47

Yeah, I know, I know that. But I think, I think Dylan Brown makes a big, big difference and it's just gonna depend how they set it up. And we won't know until probably halfway through the season what, what Holbrook's got planned. And I don't think he's best spots to go back to The Wing. I don't think he ends up in the centers over gag eye and best, and that's why, that's why I've got him where I do because.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 40:11

Fletcher Hunt playing in the centers this week

_1_02-10-2026_204453 40:15

Yeah, they've got, they've got a lot more full strength team. This week. Dan G has got an injury. They're trying to get him ready for Las Vegas, so that's Why's in there?

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 40:24

the thing is dengue guy, that's no big loss. Really. He is.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 40:28

oh,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 40:28

He's getting, he is, he's getting a bit long in the tooth. I reckon.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 40:33

Dan Gag

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 40:33

you, you.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 40:35

Fra Brazil are very much, very similar

_1_02-10-2026_204453 40:38

Yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 40:39

but look what the knight's done to GGI last year. The end of last year. There, the big players were out. They fucking whipped him a horse. by the end of the game, he could not

_1_02-10-2026_204453 40:49

Yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 40:49

walk. He was fucking rooted because they, they'd, they'd put him from wing to senator fullback into the halves and all that, and yeah, he is,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 40:59

Yeah, but

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 41:00

he's, he's close to calling the

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 41:02

Adam, Adam O'Brien did run outta Queensland jersey for him just to get an extra 5% out.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 41:08

Yeah.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 41:09

this will be last year. Yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 41:12

this one?

_1_02-10-2026_204453 41:13

The Knights didn't wanna sign him. The fans pushed for him to get signed and he got signed and this will be his last season.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 41:21

but

_1_02-10-2026_204453 41:23

Unless he goes to Super League

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 41:25

yeah,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 41:25

there, there's still a possibility he could go to Super League and have a season or two over there.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 41:29

about Shila getting that nod for that center roll.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 41:33

Oh

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 41:34

injured this week?

_1_02-10-2026_204453 41:35

no, he is playing, he's on the bench.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 41:39

It's always in. He getting the nod over Fletcher Hunt if that position's being promised to ya.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 41:46

I dunno. They've had a new coach coming in too, so you can just easily turn around and say new system.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 41:52

I,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 41:53

Fletch

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 41:53

I would nearly,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 41:54

pretty good.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 41:55

yeah, no, I, don't mind Fletcher Hunt, and I think the more experience he gets, the better he's gonna be.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 42:01

I think, I think he, he should be thereabouts as well.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 42:04

3000 people in it. At Warren.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 42:07

But at, at the end of the day, the Knights have some good juniors that are coming through, they're starting to bear a little bit of fruit and it's gonna take a couple of more years. And players moving around and stuff and they're gonna be a really good team. They're supposed to be a really good halfback coming through. So

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 42:21

you have no room for a really good

_1_02-10-2026_204453 42:23

I,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 42:25

You just signed a halfback for 10 years.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 42:27

Well, you've got, you've got four of them all fighting for the same spot,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 42:32

yeah. But you, you'd still need that sort of fight in the club.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 42:35

You are gonna lose it. You're not gonna keep this

_1_02-10-2026_204453 42:37

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 42:38

half back.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 42:39

Oh no, I know that. I know that. So

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 42:42

just signed.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 42:42

or you're gonna lose one of the players you got now

_1_02-10-2026_204453 42:45

yeah, I think this year's gonna be more a test of what Holbrook does and if he brings any difference to the, to the team. I'm happy that they've got Holbrook. I think Holbrook's a really good coach. He done good things with the Titans. I dunno why the Titans let him go. He done good things with St. Helen's, I think.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 43:00

the results

_1_02-10-2026_204453 43:02

Yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 43:03

the Titans letting go with.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 43:05

Yeah,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 43:06

But I think if they stick with him, yeah,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 43:08

that's exactly right.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 43:10

So it,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 43:11

it'll be interesting.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 43:12

to be completely fair, he's not gonna get much different results at Newcastle.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 43:18

He's just gotta,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 43:19

wins.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 43:20

he's just gotta bring that pride and passion for the jersey back and it'll probably change everything.'cause the last game they played last year, there was just no effort whatsoever. It was embarrassing. So, yeah. All right, Zach, you put me on the spot. Do the Cowboys?

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 43:36

Yeah. So off to New Zealand. Let's go.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 43:39

No, you

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 43:39

New Zealand

_1_02-10-2026_204453 43:40

cowboys. Cowboys.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 43:42

doing, we off to New Zealand.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 43:45

All right. Uber, where you got your Warriors? Finishing

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 43:49

10th.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 43:50

10th.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 43:51

Yeah, I think they're gonna, they're gonna struggle the start of the season without med car. I

_1_02-10-2026_204453 43:57

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 43:59

Come on.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 44:00

Look, they could be 10th, they could be a lot lower because they'll play a good season. Shit season. Good season shit. Season worries.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 44:09

Yeah, they're getting a lot more consistent.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 44:12

They are getting a lot more consistent. They have thought about what they're doing now and they've got a few, a fair, few more leaders that are

_1_02-10-2026_204453 44:20

Yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 44:21

pulling the team together. But yeah, I, I see'em in temp. I'd to see they're, they're, are in my little bubble of, could, could be the bottom of the eight and could be outta the bottom of the eight.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 44:34

Yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 44:35

the bottom of the, yeah, bottom of the top eight.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 44:38

Well,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 44:38

the six. They're the six. They're one of the six teams that could make it into the eight that I've got there.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 44:44

I've got, I've got the Warriors finishing sixth.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 44:47

Yeah. Right.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 44:48

I think they're gonna have a good season. No, no.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 44:53

I, I've got an intent. I think last year good season for the Warriors. I don't think they can replicate it. think they slide.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 45:03

The thing is that they've got so medcalf out, they're starting half back. Chanel Harris is injured, which is one of the fill in five eights. you got boy 10 Boyd there, 10 boy's. Not a bad half act, but he does lack in a few areas

_1_02-10-2026_204453 45:22

I think, I think Tana Boy's very underrated. I think he's got a very good kicking game.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 45:26

he's, he's very, you can read him a book, exactly what he's gonna do. Like, Sean Johnson always used to kick to the fucking right corner, high balls to the right corner every time. 10 boy, you can tell exactly where he is gonna kick anytime.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 45:42

Yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 45:43

He's very readable. That's, that's the only thing I don't about 10. And boy,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 45:49

I, I wanna see Cleary get a crap either week or next

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 45:55

Clear.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 45:55

injured.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 45:56

yeah, he's

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 45:56

Well,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 45:56

the moment.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 45:58

he's probably not gonna get a crack this year unless there's a major fall in injuries in that halves region.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 46:06

I don't know why they didn't play in the end of last year. Really?

_1_02-10-2026_204453 46:09

I, I think, I think Jet Debuts this year at some stage,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 46:13

I would fucking know.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 46:15

whether it be off the bench or covering an injury.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 46:17

that's the thing. Med calf's out until round 10. So give him a shot beforehand. Like I think it's, I think it's gonna be too late for him if they don't hook in straight away. It's gonna be too late in the season for Medcalf to come back and try and pull'em out of the slums,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 46:32

well, I think you're starting halves. A boy in tomorrow, Martin, really they're gonna go for experience to get behind that Ford pack.'cause he haven't got a bad Ford pack at all.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 46:43

oh yeah. I would put Tamari Martin in in there for sure. is a

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 46:47

So.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 46:48

but they playing him off the bench. Tamari.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 46:51

Oh, he, he can come on, he play six, seven or slot into that nine role if really needed to. It's not the best nine, but he can do it.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 47:00

Well see, we've got a pretty good nine with, Wade Egan,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 47:04

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 47:04

Oh yeah, he, he, he's an, he's an 80 minute hooker,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 47:09

He's prone for head knock and they've

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 47:11

so,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 47:11

another hooker as well,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 47:14

so, but yeah, I, I've got him in 10th. I think they slide out

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 47:19

yeah,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 47:20

Metcalf. You've got, eh, I don't know.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 47:26

I think, I think they're gonna have a fair season.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 47:28

yeah, Barnett, he, he's back over round one or round two. I say they'll sit me at round one just to be safe bring him back in round two.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 47:37

He's got round one. Mm.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 47:40

I'm pretty sure it's the roosters round one. Then I think it's manly than knives.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 47:45

Save him for round three. Return to Energy Australia,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 47:49

see,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 47:50

Jones.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 47:52

hunter Stadium.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 47:52

yeah, I, I, I think round two's at home, so,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 47:57

Yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 47:59

and it's already been, it was already sold out

_1_02-10-2026_204453 48:01

Yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 48:02

year. They sold it out.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 48:04

I, I think they're doing good things that the Warriors and they're getting more consistent and I think they'll be better for it to be, to be honest.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 48:11

Yeah.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 48:13

some really good players. Alright, Zach, where have you got your cowboys finishing?

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 48:18

Top of the table. I told you,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 48:21

No you don't because I've got it written down.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 48:23

That's the other Queensland team.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 48:25

yeah, that's right. And fuck heads. Well, that could really blow up. Now I fucking, no, I've got the Cowboys finished in 12.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 48:35

Yeah. So do I.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 48:36

I I

_1_02-10-2026_204453 48:37

Okay.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 48:38

the Cowboys, I mean, I, I, it's just very disappointing season last year, defense. Defense let us down. Watching the trial on the weekend. Yeah, a lot of young fellas just having a crack, but we scored 20 odd points in 20 minutes and then we also conceded 30 straight points.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 49:00

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 49:01

defense is gonna be a big thing. Nothing wrong with our attack. Pretty close to a full strength side this weekend against Penrith.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 49:11

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 49:11

so yeah, they're gonna be working on combinations. Clifford's got the nod did this weekend, which is, they took, I wanted to see, I, I don't rate Perdu as a six.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 49:24

No, he is back out in the centers.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 49:25

think you've either gotta play him in the centers, use his speed out there, or quite possibly move him on

_1_02-10-2026_204453 49:33

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 49:34

because he, he's not, he's not a six. He doesn't, he, he's got a worse. Tackling game than Jonathan Thurston.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 49:46

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 49:47

So I don't Yeah. But I think the attack gets him over the line, gets him moving forward. But were saying about Sea Bowl being the first on the chopping board, but I think it's Peyton Peyton's under the most pressure to start this season.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 50:07

Yeah. Well, he'd be my second one, but I think sea bolts under a bit more pressure. He's had a superstar team for the last three years that he's been there.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 50:16

he's also got new combinations at Manley this year. Peyton's got well, the same side he's had for the last three years,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 50:24

Except for Mahoney.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 50:26

but it, that's a very much a for

_1_02-10-2026_204453 50:28

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 50:29

Lou Robo robos running game. I think Reed runs possibly a little bit more. So Robo picks his moments and picks'em well,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 50:39

Yeah,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 50:39

Reid. Reid brings

_1_02-10-2026_204453 50:41

Rob's Robson's. He's great in defense. He picks those moments, gives good service off the deck, or, I think he's gonna be a, I think he's gonna be a really big loss.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 50:52

different dynamic'cause it gives another kicking option. He, he's a lot Cam Smith. He, he doesn't mind jumping out and that ball go. He's kicked a few 40 twenties.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 51:05

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 51:07

what I the most about Marni is he's gonna bring a little bit of mongrel.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 51:11

Yeah. He's gonna be,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 51:13

not afraid to get in the big boy's face. And reminds me a lot of Mick Ennis.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 51:20

I think he's gonna be driven to prove a point as well,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 51:24

Yeah. Yeah.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 51:25

there was no reason for him to be the bull.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 51:27

day and said he, well they asked him why he was released, why he was dropped. His response was, well, when you figure it out, why don't you come and let me know.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 51:39

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 51:41

So yeah, I 18 months ago, he was all the talk to and Harry Grant were your two hookers for Queensland. So,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 51:52

Yeah, I,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 51:54

yeah, 12 be

_1_02-10-2026_204453 51:56

yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 51:57

could jump and go on a run and make the top eight or they're just,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 52:02

Yeah. I think they could make,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 52:04

They

_1_02-10-2026_204453 52:04

could make,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 52:04

Grace and go close to the wooden spoon. I don't think they win the wooden spoon, but

_1_02-10-2026_204453 52:10

no, I don't think they get the wooden spoon. I think they've,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 52:13

to finish 16th

_1_02-10-2026_204453 52:14

I think they've got good enough a team, and it's a big enough trip to go to Townsville to play against them, that it'd all keep'em away from the wooden spoon, but I,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 52:23

Townsville wasn't the we, we lost more games at Townsville last year than what we won.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 52:28

yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 52:29

we, we won more games on the road, which was complete opposite to how it has been in the past. We really struggled coming to Sydney,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 52:37

Yep.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 52:37

but last year

_1_02-10-2026_204453 52:38

Yep.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 52:39

was where we won our games and got all our points. So

_1_02-10-2026_204453 52:43

Yeah,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 52:45

I

_1_02-10-2026_204453 52:45

no. Bain's definitely under pressure. I think so. All right. Do you wanna do a recap of what our ladders So,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 52:52

mine looks this.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 52:53

yeah, yours keeps changing.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 52:56

my mind changed'cause I've dropped Melbourne down.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 52:59

So all having a look at our ladders and after we've talked and all that and done this over the last couple of weeks, what are some changes that you are gonna make? Or let's say that we can make three changes each to the to the ladder. What changes are you gonna make?

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 53:20

Fucking three.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 53:22

I have one. I have Melbourne falling. May finished. Sixth or seventh.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 53:29

Know which one is it sixth or seventh?

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 53:31

Sixth

_1_02-10-2026_204453 53:31

just push. Push the rest of them up.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 53:34

Yeah. Maybe it's six, seven.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 53:37

All right, so we'll put storm at six.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 53:40

I, I'd to, I'd to drop the sharks outta me. Top eight.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 53:45

You

_1_02-10-2026_204453 53:45

You wanna drop the sharks out.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 53:47

You are more drunk than Johnson.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 53:49

drop the sharks outta the top eight. And I'd to move the roosters up a bit higher.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 53:55

your reason for dropping the sharks here? That, that's what I

_1_02-10-2026_204453 53:57

Where are, where are you moving? Where are you moving the sharks to?

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 54:01

I don't know.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 54:02

Just outta the eight.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 54:03

yeah,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 54:04

the

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 54:05

yeah, just the end of the eight. I, I reckon maybe the sharks to,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 54:11

why.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 54:12

oh, I dunno. Because really shuffle any of the other teams up.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 54:17

Why? Why do the sharks fall out?

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 54:19

No, I,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 54:19

What

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 54:20

don't, I don't see'em having a good season this year.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 54:24

you've got probably,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 54:27

they've had the same team the last couple years, but they, they've always been around that same spot that haven't been improving.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 54:36

They fell one short of a grand final last year.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 54:39

Yeah, but still.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 54:41

you've got arguably top best hooker in the NRL, right? He's right up there. He's at him. Robbo and Grant are top three.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 54:56

Yeah,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 54:57

Then you've got seven and six. Like and Hines, both on their day, can win a game on their own.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 55:05

but that's the thing.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 55:06

And then Will Kennedy, he's. just such a consistent fullback. He's always thereabout. He fucking right. Yeah. Couple of defensive lapses, but I don't, yeah,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 55:20

the thing

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 55:21

I've got him top four. Pushing

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 55:23

their

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 55:23

top two.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 55:25

their half don't click together. one or the other in the game. They never clicked together.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 55:31

That's because Nico Hos needs to go to six and play as a running half,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 55:37

yeah. I dunno why they've consisted. I'd much be, I'd be much more comfortable if Trindle was seven.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 55:43

Trindle. Well, don't even have to wear the numbers but Trindle has gotta be the one pulling the strings.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 55:49

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 55:49

the one he creates the most. And we've seen in Melbourne that Nico Hines was one of the best running fullbacks in the game. happened to be that he had the little bloke called Ryan Ppen. Hausen. That was

_1_02-10-2026_204453 56:05

Yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 56:06

yeah,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 56:06

How, how far down do you wanna move them or do you wanna leave'em in seventh?

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 56:10

I can't believe you had an that load to begin it.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 56:13

yeah. I don't know. Look, I'll leave. I'll just leave it where they are, but I've got a feeling that they're not gonna make the top eight.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 56:23

All right. Well, I've only got one change as well. I'm probably gonna move the storm down to fifth, and that pushes the panthers to minor premiers. So, and the eels into the top four.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 56:35

Yeah, well the eels probably should be top four anyway.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 56:40

Yeah. Well, you've got'em third. Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 56:43

I do now. Yeah.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 56:45

So

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 56:45

but yeah, I, it's

_1_02-10-2026_204453 56:47

Hoover's got em 11th.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 56:48

Yeah, I got on 11th.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 56:51

the whole,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 56:52

All right. So

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 56:53

13 can quite easily fit in top.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 56:57

that's exactly right.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 56:59

who's, who's your,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 56:59

top 13 me got selected The.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 57:03

We'll see. See my, my, my top 12, reckon if they could all make they're all top eight contenders. The top 12.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 57:13

Yeah, well I'm, I'm sort of in the same boat from 14th, from the Tigers to one. They could all fit into the eight there somewhere at some stage. it's only really the dragons, titans, and sea eagles that I don't see making the eight at all.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 57:28

yeah, we'll see from 12th to seventh is my bracket, is the ones that I've got the bracket around from 12th to seventh

_1_02-10-2026_204453 57:34

Yeah,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 57:35

any of those teams could drop out

_1_02-10-2026_204453 57:37

yeah,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 57:38

come in.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 57:39

yeah, yeah. who, who have your boys, who's your pick for D whilst it's also mine?

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 57:47

I haven't thought that fucking far ahead. I'm gonna, oh, no, I'm gonna say Esco.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 57:53

No could happen. whoever your boys got as your dark horse for the season, that could surprise everybody.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 58:01

Cowboy hours.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 58:02

Cowboys are your dark horse.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 58:05

They, they really can. There's that team that can surprise everyone

_1_02-10-2026_204453 58:09

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 58:10

around eight last year, sitting in fifth then could have quite easily been first.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 58:15

Yeah. I've got the, I've got the dolphins. I think they finished off strong last year and if they put themselves in a better position and they could do anything really, I think they could damage a top eight if they were in it.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 58:26

Rabbits.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 58:27

Rabbit. That's probably fair enough. You do know they don't get hashed till next year. Right.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 58:33

I understand.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 58:35

Well, yeah, the true dark horse would probably be Parramatta.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 58:41

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 58:42

I, after last year's efforts, I think the back end of last year, Parramatta clicked and I think donor pea coming in is gonna, it could quite easily, very much police Mitch, Moses and Paramatta are gonna be kicking themselves that they never signed him long term.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 59:00

Yeah. Well, I think there's more involved in the signing than

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 59:04

Oh, a hundred

_1_02-10-2026_204453 59:05

what's face value. Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 59:06

I'm pretty sure he signed Brisbane prior

_1_02-10-2026_204453 59:11

It's just very, it's very, um, it's a very strange thing that they'd sign him for one season in an important position knowing that he's going to another club the year after. It just doesn't, yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 59:24

That's the

_1_02-10-2026_204453 59:24

But,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 59:25

pe going to Brisbane with all the good players. The next minute has is see you later.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 59:31

yeah. Yeah. Who do you reckon is the coach under the most pressure? Like I said, I think it's seabold.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 59:39

P

_1_02-10-2026_204453 59:40

Peyton

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 59:41

you,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 59:42

who's the dragons coach?

_1_02-10-2026_204453 59:44

Flanigan,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 59:45

Yeah, Flanigan.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 59:47

you think Flanagan's under the most pressure?

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 59:49

he's under pressure every year because he's fucking, keeps, keeps picking his son.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 59:54

Well, he is playing at six week, so

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 59:56

yeah,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 59:58

I, whole Brisbane with Pez, that could be, it's a whole new Hals pairing.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:00:05

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:00:05

Reynolds retires dozers probably. He's either, he is probably gonna retire too.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:00:12

Oh, well they've still got mam there.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:00:14

Yeah. But.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:00:15

I can see him going.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:00:17

I, I see Ezra Mann to Parramatta.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:00:22

Me and you were talking about this the other day.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:00:24

Mm. All.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:00:27

Yeah, I can see that being announced this year. has signed Ezra Mann.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:00:33

Yeah. All right. You just wanna try skip trivia.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:00:37

Yeah,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:00:38

We are not a trivia podcast.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:00:40

I know we're not, but I find it fun. All right, well that's about it for sport. You guys got anything else this week you guys wanna talk about? Oh, the NFL teams coming to Melbourne got an announced the other day, a hundred thousand people on a waiting list for tickets.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:01:00

same Fran and the Rams.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:01:02

Yeah,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:01:03

Why in Melbourne?

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:01:06

because they paid the most for it and because they've got the most capacity as well. It's gonna be pretty shit because an NFL field's smaller than an NRL field and they already have dramas watching the state of origin at the MCG little alone trying to watch fucking,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:01:21

Yeah, but I suppose they've probably done that too because of all the si, the size of the teams. At least they'll be fit on the sideline.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:01:29

no, because the, when they go to Vegas, the, the field's smaller. Smaller anyway. So, once you put it into one of those, one of a rugby league stadium, let's say, if you put it into,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:01:42

CES

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:01:43

no, not Cessnock. If you, if you put it into freaking the one at Parramatta,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:01:47

Bank

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:01:48

whatever, yeah. That the field's gonna be smaller to be able to accommodate those people being on the sidelines.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:01:56

Yeah. Right.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:01:57

So, what I mean? There'd be, there'd be plenty of room. It wouldn't be that, it'd be literally just for capacity. Melbourne probably paid the most to bring it there. They've signed it for the next five years. But I'm kind of impressed because that's a, that's a really good game. The reams and 49 ERs,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:02:13

Hmm.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:02:14

that's gonna be a really good game. So you've got two of the better quarterbacks.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:02:19

what I don't understand is we are sending four teams over.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:02:22

cause it's got nothing to do with the NRL.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:02:25

Yeah. No, but we then a l and the Australian government could have been asking for a second game.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:02:32

Yeah, I don't think they'll give them a second game.'cause the rest of the countries that get the the other games, they only get one. And the, the Rams are the ones that have the, they own the right to merchandising and stuff in Australia. That's why the Rams are coming. And we've always known that it was the Rams'cause they've got the contract for that. They didn't know who they were playing against. I thought it was gonna be the Seahawks, but ends up it's gonna be the 49 ERs. So. Yeah, they're just sending one game. It's just to try and grow their game and stuff. People are gonna take interest in it. Like I said, there's a hundred thousand people on a waiting list to get an email that they can buy tickets or when they can buy tickets.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:03:12

I'm

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:03:13

it's gonna be, it's gonna be very hard to get a ticket. All will be too. But yeah, and it's probably gonna be around September sometime that they'll come. So yeah, there's still a lot to be announced for it yet, so I'll be keeping an eye on it. It went a bit quiet there for a bit, but it's getting traction. It's definitely happening. So, and it's whether or not it's gonna be played on a Friday, Thursday, some say it's gonna be played on a Friday afternoon because it suits well with their Thursday night football. So yeah, it'd be interesting to see what happens. Anyway, so I think they played well. They played London every year. They do. Freaking Spain, Mexico. They do a lot of it, so

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:03:59

Tell you what though.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:04:00

yeah. All right, boys.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:04:02

bad. Friday ABO would

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:04:05

Oh, it's not,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:04:07

followed by a night on

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:04:08

yeah,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:04:09

and then go from sad. Fly home Sunday.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:04:13

No, that'll be actually pretty good. So who's gonna book the hotel?

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:04:18

Fuck Melbourne.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:04:21

You're not coming.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:04:21

No, I'm not going to Melbourne. It's a fucking kind of a town. I hate it.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:04:26

Not even to watch NFL.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:04:27

Nah, I'll stay at home. I will look out for on the.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:04:31

I'm gonna, Johnson's gonna be the streaker.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:04:35

Yeah.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:04:36

not.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:04:36

Mm.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:04:37

No, I'm not. Did you see the other day at the Super Bowl you got tackled by a fucking player?

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:04:41

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:04:42

Yeah.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:04:44

Mm.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:04:44

Did there, how many times in your life are you gonna say that you were on tv?

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:04:52

Me a few times.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:04:55

Yeah. But how many of are remembered by everyone else?

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:05:00

Well, tell me if you're gonna do it and I'll bet on a streaker running out on the field and

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:05:03

Correct.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:05:04

and getting tackled. Five steps

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:05:06

How much was that paying the other day?

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:05:08

Something ridiculous.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:05:10

Yeah, it was something ridiculous.'cause they said on the radio that frigging

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:05:13

he made

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:05:14

just go put a bet on it and then just go do it yourself and get the pay out bit. Yeah,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:05:17

what you do. Yeah. Yeah.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:05:19

yeah,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:05:20

A lot of people do that where they'll'cause I think you get fined 5,000,$10,000 or something

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:05:25

yeah. But you was gonna make a hundred grand on it. Like,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:05:28

Yeah, that's

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:05:28

The,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:05:29

Fucking know

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:05:31

and if we went over there and done it, it'd be oh, you banned or whatever. And it's well, so I don't even live here. So.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:05:36

will. Trump would probably put in fucking some dungeon.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:05:40

It would be a bit scary doing it in America though. They'd probably fucking snipe you or something, so.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:05:46

I think the worst thing doing it over here, you don't even just get banned from that code. I think you, you're banned completely from the stadium.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:05:54

Yeah.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:05:55

yeah, yeah. Over here. Yeah, yeah,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:05:57

Yeah.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:05:58

yeah,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:05:59

So, and that being the worst thing over here, because all codes play at the same stadiums.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:06:06

yeah. It would be interesting.. You just wanna do your bet.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:06:09

two seconds. Two, well, I looked at A FL State of Origin

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:06:17

I get played this week.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:06:18

this weekend. Yep. that's Western Australia versus Victoria. I've tipped Victoria,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:06:26

Yeah,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:06:27

It's

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:06:27

then

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:06:28

probably.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:06:29

did, did anyone look at the Maoris in the All Stars game?

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:06:34

that's not until the week after.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:06:36

is it?

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:06:37

Yeah, it's not this week,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:06:39

Right?

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:06:40

Yes it is.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:06:42

it's this

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:06:42

It is this weekend.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:06:44

that's

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:06:44

is it?

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:06:45

That's

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:06:45

It's the 15th,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:06:47

Yeah, it's Sunday. It's three 30 kickoff on Sunday.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:06:51

45,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:06:52

Oh, well there

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:06:53

no, I'm not doing the All Stars.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:06:55

Well, I'll, I'll tip the Maoris

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:06:57

All right. I'm gonna go Warrington moves over St. Helen's. Winging warriors to beat Castlewood Tigers.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:07:06

north Queensland Cowboys beat Pen of Panthers.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:07:10

Can you bet on that?

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:07:11

Yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:07:12

Yeah, you can better you go

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:07:14

And,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:07:14

the NRL, then you gotta go across to the, what is it, fucking ones.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:07:21

and the,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:07:21

all the trials on them.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:07:23

and the canary ranks down bulldogs to beat the Newcastle knots.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:07:28

They haven't got all the trials at the boot camp'cause they haven't got the, none of the Warriors trials there.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:07:33

Yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:07:33

And they,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:07:35

Who?

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:07:35

yeah. Warriors play. They're a dollar 17 war, Manley's$4 90.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:07:41

I didn't see that

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:07:42

You only go into Rugby league,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:07:45

oh, well there you go.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:07:46

so.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:07:47

the Maori's all Stars and the Victorian cause that's

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:07:53

Victoria.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:07:54

I didn't know they played a state of origin.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:07:57

It's a new concept. They haven't played for a while.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:07:59

Yeah,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:08:00

I don't think it was on the podcast when I was talking about it.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:08:02

yeah. It's been, it's been around since 1956.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:08:06

Yeah, they used to have one and then they got rid of it because players just didn't play in it. And yeah, so, but they're trying to relaunch it, so,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:08:16

yeah. So Western Australia versus Victoria.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:08:19

yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:08:19

yeah.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:08:21

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:08:22

about Sunday, six o'clock game?

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:08:25

For who?

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:08:26

It's Parramatter and Sharks this weekend, but I don't mind the time slot. I,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:08:32

I haven't really looked at any of the teams not, was six o'clock on a Sunday.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:08:38

yeah, it's hard. You got all,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:08:41

That's,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:08:41

all Stars play and then. There's, yeah. Sharks with para,

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:08:46

bit of a weird one.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:08:48

Mm.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:08:49

that late on the Sunday afternoon,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:08:51

but I, I

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:08:51

Usually at the start of the season during daylight savings, they have a seven o'clock game every year. Like until daylight savings finishes on a Sunday.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:09:00

gonna be the time slot. We'll see. I don't think they're gonna bring Monday night footy back. I think it's gonna be Sunday, six o'clock.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:09:08

yeah. Played three games on Sunday.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:09:11

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:09:12

So

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:09:12

The opening's there for it. I think it's when they bring in the.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:09:15

it'd be, yeah, when

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:09:16

rid of the Thursday night game. Two Fridays. Three Saturdays. Three Sundays.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:09:21

I can't, you gotta have Thursday.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:09:22

work out?

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:09:23

There's another extra game after next season.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:09:26

go. There you go. Keep the

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:09:27

And then, and then when they do the 20th team, there'll be another game again. You gotta find an accommodation for.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:09:32

Well, I, I think that's when they'll go to Monday.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:09:35

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:09:35

I, I think that's when they'll go to Monday nights.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:09:39

Yeah. And they'll keep the Thursday night

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:09:41

But yeah, I, I think it's gonna be three Saturday, three Sunday from next year.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:09:48

Well, Brisbane, don't have to worry because they'll be getting all fucking Friday night games anyway.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:09:52

or Thursday?

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:09:54

Yeah. So they don't have to worry about turnarounds.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:09:57

No, no. What games you been playing?

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:10:01

Oh, I, I haven't been playing much. I only got onto it there the other day. I played that Jurassic Park one

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:10:08

Yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:10:10

Shit,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:10:10

No, I it.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:10:11

don't it. I thought it was the one where you had the actual dinosaur and go around and eat people and all that.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:10:17

No, that's a completely different game.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:10:19

Yeah. Well that's the one that I was looking for.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:10:22

I think it's dinosaur survival or something.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:10:24

yeah. yeah. Well, ju Rassic Park don't it. I played the undisputed

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:10:31

Yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:10:33

look. I could probably get into it, but at the moment, yeah. I'm not that interested in it at the moment. I

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:10:39

Yeah.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:10:40

don't because I've just done the, the training camp to start off with. Yeah. I don't, don't the controls that much, yeah.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:10:47

yeah. No, it takes a little bit to get used to, but it's not, I it. I'll probably download it after this. So, because I, yeah. I've got, I've downloaded sub nortica. Subzero the other day. I was playing a little bit of that after work and I was playing a bit of Sky Room today, so just playing some old games, I suppose. You been up to Zach just a all weekend?

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:11:10

I did play a bit of arc, but I didn't play. Heaps this week. I, yeah, getting ready to go away for work again.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:11:18

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:11:18

Been doing a fair bit of computer work and paperwork sorting contracts out. So I've just landed another couple big ones.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:11:27

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:11:27

work's. Yeah, pretty well. Really taken off. I've just put on me first couple of workers, so.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:11:36

Hmm. Yeah, I've been, I've been watching heaps of stuff on Crimson Desert. I'm actually really excited about that. Probably gonna pre-order it. it looks really good. If you're into that sort of thing, that's people I've been playing skyra, so yeah. Alright. You just got anything else this week?

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:11:55

What we didn't talk about was bellyache resigning.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:11:58

yes, yes. Yeah. Craig Bellamy has resigned.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:12:03

It is kind of a, a big signing really, considering buying the house back up in Izzy and all the talk was he was going home

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:12:13

Yeah, I think,

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:12:14

so.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:12:15

I think that when he does finish up, I don't think he's done with the storm. I think he goes into that head of football sort of role and then he can come down a part-time sort of thing and work from home. and probably help the next coach through whether this next two years is trying to, one of his coaches just grooming them to take over. I'm not sure, but Bellamy does this every time his contracts up, he, he ums and ahs about it, says, oh, probably not. And then he signs anyway. So

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:12:42

And

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:12:43

think he just loves it too much and doesn't wanna walk away for him if he doesn't really need to. I suppose so.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:12:49

other big coaching news is Smith going to Brisbane. I,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:12:53

Yeah. Well he talked about that last week. They reckon that he's going there to replace Bellamy, but that, that's what I mean. I don't understand why he'd go to the Broncos.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:13:02

yeah,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:13:03

You'd think he'd just go to the storm.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:13:06

you think Brisbane are, gonna slip him a boot contract and he gets back out in the paddock. They running low on players by the end of this year where

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:13:17

yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:13:18

a number nine,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:13:19

Yeah, I don't think so. I think he's done so, but there's also Slater Slater.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:13:25

goes to Melbourne. I've

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:13:26

I think Slater takes that head coaching role more than Cameron Smith, so, yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:13:33

I, I've said for a couple years now that he's doing that job at Queensland, yes, he's got his horse farm and everything, but I think he goes to Melbourne. I

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:13:45

Yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:13:46

Bellamy's replacement

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:13:48

Queensland haven't resigned him past this season, so it could be writing on the wall. He might end up in Melbourne as an assistant and take over from Bellamy. But wait and see what happens.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:14:00

wherever he wants to go back down there either as well,

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:14:03

I'd say he would, I'd say he'd love that. He'd love the yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:14:06

Plenty of application gigs that could be available this year for keeping him closer to home.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:14:13

The cowboys are, yeah.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:14:15

I would take him

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:14:16

Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:14:17

I'd probably give him a boot contract to get him back out there.

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:14:22

Yeah. Yeah. All right. Oh, well that's it for me anyway. I'll, I'll talk you next week, I suppose, but yeah, share, subscribe to the page where you get your podcast from and try and drive some numbers up and yeah, see how we go. We'll be back next week. Yeah. Well, all right, little sports starting up now, so we'll have a bit talk about, see.

squadcaster-121e_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:14:47

See.

squadcaster-cb6h_1_02-10-2026_204448 1:14:49

gu

_1_02-10-2026_204453 1:14:50

Bye.

1:14:52

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