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to Visa Pang I place

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the yeah no. Crunk is

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my kind of place. It's

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a suburb where rugby league

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dreams do come true. Last

0:29

week I saw Raiders coach

0:31

Sticky Stewart picking up a

0:33

carton of tabby party cat

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litter and a bottle of

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Marlowe from that tabby life.

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It does superstore but said

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you can hang our hat

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on. So cute your place

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in the Crunk. Q and wait

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for your number to be called on

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bludgeoning on the blind side. Yes,

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I welcome back to blogging on

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the blind side and the secondary

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joy gets focused on homeowners and

1:02

think, Since we've been doing this

1:04

and obviously doing from aspire often

1:06

the health in the community is

1:08

gone up. I. Don't know

1:11

how I write that in terms of the

1:13

you know medical stats, but that's just my

1:15

feeling. Now if you want to get involved

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1:31

Yeah, just on the text a G as

1:33

someone from gunning probably Max. says.

1:36

The truth is that schools are the

1:38

Nrl have gone soft on Rugby league.

1:41

In the old days you would have several games

1:43

have tackled at recess and lunch. These.

1:45

Days you lucky to see again of touch fruity.

1:48

Really? True, that is true. Often played

1:50

on Asheville Yes, we conquered got as on

1:52

the edge of the money at the edge

1:54

of the picture. On the. would you want

1:56

to do and you're good at lunchtime or

1:58

playtime or recess became known.

2:01

The first thing you did was find the footy

2:03

and have a game of footy. I mean

2:06

you did. It was all

2:08

just Rugby League. Even

2:10

in Salatine. Rugby League.

2:13

I mean that's just the way it was. A

2:16

bit of snail mail here that's taken

2:18

a while to reach us. This lovely

2:21

card from John, who'd

2:23

like to say his

2:25

thanks to the program for helping him through

2:27

a very difficult period. I don't know where

2:29

he's from but he's a lovely card from

2:32

the Fitzgerald River National Park. Isn't that lovely?

2:34

So we wish John all the best and

2:36

thank you very much for that card.

2:40

And a book

2:43

has come through, H.G. from Greg Rieff.

2:47

It's called Rugby League History and it

2:50

describes the Western and Southern New South

2:52

Wales history of Rugby League between 1920

2:54

and 1976. Fascinating years. And it is

2:59

a fascinating assemblage

3:02

of wonderful aspects

3:04

of Rugby League played

3:07

in Western New South Wales and Southern New

3:09

South Wales over those years.

3:14

There was an example here, H.G., just to give you

3:16

a bit of a flavor of the book. When

3:19

describing the, this is in the

3:22

late 60s, Dubbo's Sims

3:24

and Parkes teams, they're

3:27

described as follows. Player

3:29

G Miller, age 24, height 5 feet

3:31

8, weight 13 stone,

3:34

occupation Clark. Now

3:38

the other occupations in the team include a

3:40

carpenter, a technician, a carpenter, a teller, a

3:42

clerk, sales manager, builder, a

3:44

van salesman, a laborer, deputy

3:47

town clerk, insurance inspector

3:49

and radio technician. It's

3:51

the deputy town clerk playing on the Wing

3:56

by the looks of things. The Deputy Town clerk

3:58

was A Kelly. Three

4:00

Six Feet One. Fourteen Stone

4:02

Big Winner. Yeah, yeah. You'd.

4:05

Have to say you know but you know

4:07

my same playing tell you you're almost saying

4:09

they are tearing up the Bills in leader.

4:12

In a big have intercepted a lot

4:14

of the try to cancel Jesus is

4:16

he'd be the post you'd say but

4:18

is that wonderful to and it's such

4:20

a great thing to include the occupations

4:22

of the of the players why not

4:24

Happy dad did I think that if

4:26

the occupies does rugby league player but

4:28

such ursa paper the understand what you

4:30

see we were we bring tackling this

4:32

issue bit by bit about your other

4:34

side bar issues that to or a

4:36

sidebar jobs that was at that remember

4:38

the yard the yeah well this is

4:40

the ice bath I saw thing that

4:42

was done around with Thailand Polgar as

4:44

I ambassador Strike is of a little

4:46

bit more time losers described as side

4:48

hustle side houses but as not say

4:50

like hunt with these years he said

4:52

a baby I didn't was your buddies

4:54

Detroit been hunt horses they get drafted

4:56

and testing on a full is that

4:58

was included in the program would be

5:00

greatly enhance. The. Ice photos

5:02

the idea or camp draft.game

5:04

drafter. And. Are there was

5:07

a terrific girl. Description

5:10

of the match between the

5:12

the non and Fifty four

5:14

Western Division Rugby League team

5:16

and to in Great Britain

5:18

team Right edge and representative

5:20

Origin sorry I'm not origin

5:22

that a representative. Sixty years

5:24

years and now we're at

5:26

Uk Rugby League. Players In

5:28

yesterday's match against Western Division

5:30

at best were quote experts

5:32

at the Art of Short

5:34

Sti Farm tackling some quote

5:36

debate. captain coach defeat Deacons.

5:38

It just dig and said I was

5:40

growing and punchy after the match as

5:42

result of that. Isn't. That interesting?

5:45

Do you think Bellamy should have a look

5:47

at the time? He would do? well? You

5:49

can define what happened nine. they

5:51

do said englishman machine like passing was a

5:54

highlighted the apply together with the loose forward

5:56

plywood nibbled an overlap in the backline to

5:58

give the fast flanking men a

6:00

scoring chance. You can see that, can't you?

6:02

You can. You can, especially if you're suffering

6:04

from a couple of short-arm jolts. Yes. The

6:06

English players are heading for much trouble over

6:08

the play-the-ball rule. Yesterday they just rolled it

6:11

between their legs. And they used to do

6:13

that. And they still do that a little

6:15

bit, don't they? But they're uneducated.

6:17

But what I love about this book, HG, is

6:19

that these games come alive. You

6:23

read the match reports and you can almost see

6:25

the match. There were over

6:27

5,000 people at Bathurst to watch

6:29

that game. They took 215 pounds

6:31

at the gate. 15

6:34

pounds! A fortune in today's books. Is a fortune.

6:36

Now can I ask, are these reprints

6:39

of newspaper reports of the time?

6:41

Pretty much, yes. Now are they

6:43

names that are attached to these

6:46

articles? Certainly, really.

6:49

Right. What a blow. Because what a blow.

6:51

You could probably follow, what did I say,

6:53

a season through the eyes of Cabbage McDonald's.

6:56

Well that's true. Writing

6:58

in the various papers. Yeah, no, the

7:00

authors or the writers don't appear to

7:03

be given much of a... But

7:05

you can still read it and get a feel for...

7:09

The history of the time. Well see, one

7:11

here is described as the observer. Macquarie

7:15

wins Drab Sim's game

7:17

by observer. You

7:21

can read that Tempest's Frayed during the second half and

7:23

fighting broke out on several occasions. I mean that the

7:25

game comes alive. I remember once one

7:27

of the local papers had a column, when

7:30

I grew up, called Wacker on the Wing. What

7:32

a great idea. And wrote, you know, created characters

7:35

out of the players. And it was great to

7:37

see so-and-so back or whatever. Did the games

7:39

come alive in the week? They did. Well that's

7:41

the key, isn't it? That's

7:44

the key. And I

7:46

congratulate Greg Riesch on

7:49

this book. I don't know where you can

7:51

buy it, but it certainly would be purchasable.

7:53

It's simply called Rugby League History, Western

7:55

and Southern New South Wales, 1920 to 1976. Yeah,

8:00

could you do that for Northern and Eastern? Of

8:02

course you could. I'm hoping someone will

8:04

pick up the bat, but Greg has thrown

8:06

down. Thrown down. Or the gauntlet, really, that

8:08

he's thrown down. Now, this

8:11

comes from Teza from Ipswich.

8:13

Uh-huh. He

8:15

says, I've been speaking to many people lately

8:17

regarding who should take over the role of

8:19

sports interviewer Guru following

8:21

the departure of Haim. Oh. Fascinating

8:24

idea. Right. What an interesting question this is.

8:26

Yes, he thinks this could be a terrific

8:28

poll question. He's wondering if

8:30

it could be Mel McLaughlin, Bryce,

8:34

Brian Taylor, your favorite, Luke

8:36

Darcy, Braith Anaster, Darren Lockyer, Jonathan Thurston,

8:38

Cameron Smith. Got to mean there's so

8:40

many options, aren't there? He

8:42

says, so many options, but just in case I

8:45

don't get through to lodge my poll choice, I'm

8:47

going to vote now for Danica. Danica

8:49

Mason. Yes, Danica. Danica's usually in

8:51

the dressing rooms, seeing

8:54

what's going wrong with the players. OK.

8:56

You know, that's horrific. A medical expert. A

8:59

medical expert. Yeah. Now, can I just raise

9:01

a question that I'm sure we will tackle

9:03

between now and when they begin swimming in

9:05

the same? Sure. Who

9:08

at nine is going to be able to get

9:11

Sikandah to work on their Olympic coverage? Todd Woodbridge,

9:13

for a start. Yeah, well, obviously. Obviously, Todd. And

9:15

they'd build a team around him, I

9:17

suppose. I don't know if Bryce

9:19

could be involved. Are you hoping that some

9:21

of the older hands from seven might be

9:23

able to get a look in on Sikandah?

9:25

Yeah. Yeah. I hope so. I hope so.

9:28

I hope it becomes a national effort, and

9:30

not just Channel Nine effort. It's up

9:32

to Seesby to reach out if he

9:34

ever wakes up. Can I

9:36

ask, are you worried that, in fact, how

9:39

do I put this, that the whole thing

9:41

could, because it's coming

9:43

at the climate to the rugby league season,

9:46

the AFL season, and obviously, the

9:48

probably international cricket of some sort? It's a

9:50

lot for the Australian public to take on

9:52

more. Thanks. Thanks. And we've got

9:54

to quarantine our thinking. We

9:56

do. We do. To that fortnight. Yeah. Because people

9:58

are going to be confused. for example, if

10:00

Danica is poolside and suddenly Danica's in

10:02

the dressing rooms. I mean, how's that

10:04

gonna work? I

10:07

mean, how is that gonna work? I just don't know. I haven't

10:09

got an answer for you at the moment. I just don't. He

10:12

says, in case, for

10:14

me, Danica has

10:16

those great Haim interview techniques. You

10:19

know, how do you feel? What

10:21

was that like? What was it like out

10:23

there? She can mix it up too. What does

10:25

that win mean? Now that is

10:27

a very good question. Very good question. How

10:30

do you feel after that? I

10:32

just hope one day she can include in her

10:34

vocabulary. What was that like? Take

10:36

us through it. She hasn't used

10:39

take us through it as far as I might be wrong, but I

10:41

haven't seen her take us through it. That

10:43

must be a bit of dry powder for South's

10:45

first win. Yes. You know, that's right.

10:47

That's right. Take

10:49

us through it. John from Orange has been in touch,

10:51

HG. He says, I

10:54

know things have been a little quiet on the Greyhound

10:56

Center of Excellence recently. I've heard very few questions. But

11:00

great news has come to hand as reported

11:02

in the Central Western Daily. Right.

11:04

Not a publication we see enough of. Indeed.

11:09

Because they got a great site, no website.

11:11

The contract has been signed for the old

11:13

Highlands Paceway in Orange and plans are on

11:16

track for the completion of the $15 million

11:18

project due for completion as early

11:20

as 2025. Isn't

11:22

that good news? Hey, I'm in a used time. In

11:25

a used time, yes. He says

11:27

the preliminary design plans for the Center

11:29

of Excellence include a restaurant,

11:31

public all weather sports field, onsite

11:34

function center, mini golf, vet

11:36

clinic, rehoming facilities, pet shop

11:38

and offices. They've

11:41

thought that through, haven't they? Haven't they

11:43

ever? Haven't they ever? This

11:45

comes from Luke from Tokyo.

11:49

What? Luke from Tokyo. Fair

11:51

enough. He says, I realize the bludge

11:53

doesn't often cover baseball, but this

11:55

story shines a light on what the man of feathers and

11:57

his rivers of gold could do for ugly league. baseball

12:00

star in the world, Japan's

12:02

Shohei Otani, who plays

12:05

in the US on a 700 million 10-year

12:08

contract. It's quite a contract. He

12:10

said the New York Times reports that

12:13

Mizuhara managed

12:16

to place 19,000 bets in

12:18

the US over a few years,

12:21

winning 142 million, but

12:23

losing almost 183 million in the process, a shortfall of about 40

12:25

million. Given the amount

12:30

of feathers believed that betting adds more excitement

12:32

to sport, Mizuhara must have had one of

12:35

the most exciting people on the planet during

12:37

the peak of his punting streak. Just the

12:39

sheer effort of placing on average 20 bets

12:42

a day, 365 days a

12:44

year for three years is an accomplishment in

12:46

and of itself. Well

12:48

that's true. That's true. Not when you break it

12:51

down though, 20 days or much is

12:53

it? No, especially if you're using a phone

12:55

account. You can do that with an AI now. AI,

12:57

you just have to think of it. You just have

12:59

to give it the right, nudge it

13:02

in the right direction. It's just a shame

13:04

he came unstuck before Rugby League could take

13:06

off in the US and benefit from this

13:08

level of frenetic punting. If

13:10

he'd kept going just a little longer, I'm

13:12

sure he would have finally made his money

13:14

back with a few well-placed bets on the

13:16

chooks or the bunnies. Now if Phil Mickelson,

13:18

he's the big guy. Oh yes. He's the

13:21

laborious one. Oh, a rebellion in losses. Yeah.

13:23

So you can only imagine how much he put

13:25

on because there must have been a couple of weeks along

13:27

the way. Is he here? Oh, I

13:30

don't know if he's living that like I don't

13:32

know. He might, let's say he is. Yeah. I

13:34

think he's got something to bet on. Rugby League.

13:36

Yeah. I hope someone's mentioned to him like shark

13:38

could say to him, yeah, we're trying to Rugby

13:40

League. What? What am I going to do? Same

13:42

game what? Same game, oldie. Count me in. Now,

13:46

this comes from Ted

13:49

in Ballina. Ted

13:52

says, I was watching a grey man

13:54

in his league's weekly trawl through the

13:56

weekend's refereeing decisions and

13:59

he's loving how he is injecting emotion

14:01

and personality into the game by

14:03

introducing overdue new terms to

14:05

describe illegal play. In

14:08

recent weeks there's been much talk

14:10

of cynical disruptors. Yes!

14:14

I like that. Yes, I noticed that. Yes.

14:16

Yeah disruptors has been with us for a

14:18

little while but not cynical disruptors. Now

14:21

these are disruptors who pretend they're going

14:23

to catch the ball, they've got no

14:25

interest in catching the ball, they're just

14:27

interested in disruption. If

14:31

you're going to rule, invent a rule to take them

14:33

out? I think so. I think so. Running

14:37

through on kicks to disrupt the player catching

14:39

you without any intention of catching the ball,

14:41

running into the drop zone.

14:44

The drop zone, yes. Well see drop zone

14:46

is reasonably new. Yeah. And I like it.

14:48

Yeah. You can really picture it the

14:50

drop zone. So a cynical disruptor in a drop

14:52

zone is not a good match. No, no, no.

14:55

Or a look for the league. It's not a

14:57

good look for the league. So thank you very

14:59

much for that Ted. That's a... There

15:01

is a fair bit of that though, isn't there? I

15:03

mean... Yeah, cynical disruptions. Well you know, even

15:06

watching the match last night, the

15:08

poor old eels seem to be in trouble

15:10

with that. And I would accuse Manly of

15:12

cynically disrupting at the same rate as the

15:14

eels. I'd agree with you. Perhaps cynical disruptors

15:16

should be weeded out of the game. Or

15:20

any slight shade of cynicism

15:24

in any regard should

15:26

not be tolerated. Could

15:30

we make rugby league a

15:32

truly cynic free zone? Good

15:35

luck with that. This

15:38

comes from Matthew in Mount

15:40

Hawthorne. He

15:42

says the phrase wasn't

15:44

us out there. Seems to have taken

15:46

a life of its own and morphed

15:49

into an accepted phrase. He's noticing that

15:52

Ross the boss line, super coach of St

15:54

Kilda, Uttered this variant apparently

15:56

without irony in a post-match presser when

15:58

invited to explain..., Tengo flogging by

16:00

the Bulldogs on Thursday night he said quite.

16:03

I'd like to think that's not us. I

16:06

support that you saw that I'd I'd certainly

16:08

so that many going it wasn't them at

16:11

the Ah. Now I just thought that was

16:13

subdued are a lot. Easier

16:17

route to get in trouble. Just

16:19

finally age she says consume the

16:21

seed. He says happy

16:23

Rugby league He says you visited the bell

16:25

or at art gallery or you. Opt

16:29

out here. It's a beautiful girl is modeled on

16:31

the tight. The. Same dimensions,

16:33

the tight. I didn't know that a

16:35

year, didn't know that is. It was

16:37

a lot of money during the gold

16:39

rush so that Buddha said i builds

16:41

terrific building or mean you could swim

16:43

in stainless hitter a ten you could

16:45

have close your eyes and imagine you're

16:47

in Paris. Such. As

16:49

the i started to the architecture and then you've only got

16:51

a walk into the gallery they are. you think you're in

16:53

the type. Of that's where the

16:55

Eureka flag it's yes yeah date the one

16:58

that paid a lot of people arise ye

17:00

olde as years ago as his of is

17:02

the better at art gallery and thought it

17:04

would be remiss be not to inform you

17:06

and therefore your listeners have some of the

17:09

finest horse butcher I've ever seen. Isn't

17:12

that a good rep? Wow.

17:15

You mean pictures of wings? yes yes

17:17

I don't know. wow a when lobby

17:19

what the exhibition is on the but

17:21

if they're encouraging in.are at or school

17:23

teacher that's as I don't want to

17:26

be of writing it is it is

17:28

already go to have your Archibald you

17:30

know doing portraits of people I mean

17:32

states anyone? they do that yet but

17:34

to get allies like to get the

17:36

ceiling of a horse. Mind.

17:39

Windsor Newton's and wouldn't be great as

17:41

if they chose the like No One

17:43

Cup winners Us or Super when as

17:45

years or or horse with Geeta. Well.

17:48

Indeed, You. Know that that

17:50

surprised looked I get. That

17:53

big cyber been on the yeah. Given

17:55

the Gps, the trust. of

17:58

people would love to see that gap is.

18:01

Red B League players. The Albert Coach is no longer calling. Own

18:04

part of a champion with the team from Rooting

18:06

King Lodge. Speak with the syndication experts, Weed

18:08

and Praxis Bruce Wooders on the Horsh

18:10

huff line as bludging

18:12

on the blindside. Bludging on the blindside, Roy,

18:14

anything on the text line? This guy, I'm

18:17

not sure. I'm not sure. I'm

18:19

not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not

18:21

sure. I'm not sure. I'm not

18:23

sure. I'm not sure. I'm

18:25

not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. This

18:29

comes from Richard in Canberra. She's

18:32

just saying it appears that FireAunt is now headed

18:34

for the Murray-Darling Basin, according to recent news reports.

18:36

It's a report I did see. He's

18:39

quoting, 110 invasive FireAunt nests

18:41

have been found at Schwartz Barracks. An

18:44

army airbase west of Toowoomba at

18:46

the top of the Murray-Darling Basin

18:49

River catchment. My question is,

18:51

where is Mr Bland is on this development?

18:54

Surely it's time to see the NRL

18:57

step up with all teams boarding military

18:59

trucks armed with flamethrowers, insecticides and bathhows

19:01

to be deployed across the state to

19:03

take them on once and for all.

19:06

That's Richard in Canberra. The thing about FireAunt,

19:08

they can, once they get into the rivers,

19:10

it's all over. They

19:13

make rafts, much in

19:15

the manner of, I don't know, Thorhyrdale.

19:18

Remember the Contigy expedition? Yeah, one is filming

19:20

one of them, Knut and Torstein. Well, the

19:23

FireAunts are just like that. They've got their

19:25

own Thors, their own Knuts, their own Torsteins.

19:28

And they do like making rafts.

19:31

And would they come, is a

19:33

climate of help here, would they? They can

19:35

survive in just about any climate I think. So they could

19:37

survive in Tasmania? Oh, God, yes. Or

19:39

the Snowy? Snowy, yeah.

19:41

I don't see why not. Yeah,

19:44

yeah. So, yeah, you've got to get

19:46

onto it. They've got to get onto it.

19:49

Well, leave you to the rugby league community, I think,

19:51

as a flawed thing, because rugby league isn't played everywhere.

19:54

Let's face it, the rugby league footprint doesn't cover

19:56

the whole of the country. No, but the

19:58

FireAunt footer is... can play well.

20:02

I think we're gonna have to reach out

20:04

to other footballing codes. Yes. Because they'll attack

20:06

the areas where these games are played. Where

20:08

games are... Of course they will. Yeah, of

20:10

course they will. I mean, I'm not stupid.

20:13

I mean, eventually the fire ants are going

20:15

to avoid rugby league playing areas and concentrate

20:17

elsewhere. You can't blame them. Now,

20:20

Terry Hill, obviously we were lucky

20:22

enough to see the best and

20:24

worst of Terry Hill. He

20:26

was a sort of bridge, Terry. Wasn't he

20:28

a bridge between, say, the really

20:30

bad old days and the bad

20:32

old days? And

20:34

he caught on early that entertainment was

20:37

the... Way to go. Way to go.

20:39

Was the saviour of a rugby league

20:41

player. Well, as you said,

20:43

those memories of gonads. Very,

20:46

very funny. I mean, that sort of

20:49

risque work, I don't think you can get away

20:51

with it on television these days. There's

20:53

no venue for it. There's no venue for

20:55

it. It's hard to get it into, you

20:57

know, tipping point

21:00

or... Yes, well, I was going

21:02

to say, the front bar. Oh, there's

21:04

an opportunity. An opportunity, but

21:06

they're not sort of stunt people.

21:09

Terry Hill was a great stunt person. Yeah,

21:12

that's right. And, you know, obviously he

21:14

loved his greyhound racing. And he loved

21:16

his fishing. Fishing, yeah, fishing. And often

21:19

let other people do the heavy lifting

21:21

with his fishing. That's right. That's right.

21:23

If, you know, Ness or, you know,

21:25

if apparatus for catching...

21:28

Lobsters, for example, who's left unattended, well,

21:31

Terry would make sure that they were being looked after.

21:36

Columitungi Stadium is the centrepiece

21:39

of the fabulous rugby league

21:41

housing development in the Upper

21:43

Hunter suburb of Croc. When

21:47

complete, 100,000 residents will sit

21:49

in state-of-the-art covers. Where everything

21:51

needed for a great day

21:54

of rugby league is at

21:56

your fingertips. The Columitungi

21:58

is another... five-star success story

22:01

from the team at Blushing

22:03

on the Blindside. Yes,

22:06

now look some very bad news.

22:08

I just want to preface this story with a

22:11

reminder that Jordan Milata has just

22:13

signed with the Philadelphia Regals three-year

22:16

deal worth a hundred million dollars.

22:19

Now this is a lad from

22:21

Bankstown, he's 203 centimetres tall, switched

22:23

to American football six years ago after playing

22:25

lower grade rugby league for South.

22:27

He was a bunny that's right. Now do you think

22:29

South's firstly let one go here? Of course I did.

22:32

Now with no American football experience

22:34

Milata was selected with the Eagles seventh round

22:36

pick in 2018 in

22:38

the NFL Draft. Now I think we

22:41

covered fairly much that last week. There's

22:43

been a major development though. This is

22:45

disturbing. You know in a week of

22:48

ANSAC, it's revealed that the Gold Coast famous

22:52

coastline will be beamed live into millions

22:54

of US owns as part of the

22:57

2024 National NFL Draft broadcast

22:59

on the same day as the

23:02

league launches a new Australian Academy.

23:05

Now this is really what we... A gridiron

23:07

Academy? Yeah, this is you and I have

23:10

been... We warned this was going to happen.

23:12

...nightmares about this. Well when

23:14

you go to Vegas you put up a flag, you let everyone

23:16

see what rugby league is about. You've got to expect this sort

23:18

of thing to happen. Exactly. We can

23:20

see the advantage of having some of these people play

23:23

the NFL. Now you'd have to be a lunatic

23:25

not to. I mean the

23:28

great thing about Jordan was he began early. So

23:31

many players leave it till they're too late.

23:33

Jarrad Haynes. It is

23:35

hard to adopt a new sport and

23:37

understand nuance as I said last week

23:40

of the new sport. Anyway so the

23:42

Philadelphia Eagles etc. Jordan

23:44

Milata has returned home to Australia to be

23:47

the face of NFL's second global Academy and

23:49

will be crossing live from the

23:51

sand of Queensland's Burley Heads Beach on Friday as

23:53

the team decides who to choose with pick 22

23:55

of the draft. Gold

24:00

Coast School, A.B. Patterson College has

24:02

become the launching pad for the

24:04

groundbreaking academy that will service the

24:06

entire Asia-Pacific region and add NFL's

24:08

first development pathway set up in

24:10

the UK. You mean

24:13

they're using Banjo-Patterson as

24:16

a hook to hang the bloody NFL on?

24:19

No shame. No shame at all. For

24:23

the first time... Is that legal? Are

24:25

they allowed to do that? Well, we're... Has

24:27

Albo said anything about this? Well, Albo's in

24:29

Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea. Walk

24:32

in the trail. Now, for the first

24:34

time, Australian students will be able to

24:36

combine full-time education along with American football

24:38

training conducted by world-class staff. I mean,

24:41

this is lunatic. This is

24:43

lunacy. Flag football will also be

24:45

taught at the academy move, so to set

24:47

up to Australia for a tour to an

24:49

Olympic medal following its inclusion in the Los

24:51

Angeles Games. 28-28. Oh,

24:53

no. When is the end

24:55

of the civilizations? We know it. The

24:58

North Hill School Gold Coast Council and Queensland

25:00

Government will fund the development of a high-performance

25:02

facility for the academy that is set to be completed in 2026.

25:05

Right. Right. Well,

25:07

we've got to start with teachers, haven't we? Pointing

25:10

out to all students that gridiron,

25:13

American football, is un-Australian. Yeah.

25:17

Yeah. It's un-Australian. Un-Australian.

25:20

Now, get this. Melida went

25:22

through the International Player Pathway

25:24

Program. What is Freddie doing

25:26

about it? He's the pathways man in

25:29

Australia. He's got to build a fork in the

25:31

road. He does. So kids might be

25:33

able to run around for a while pretending they're in the NFL and

25:35

then they come to a fork in the road and they come to

25:37

the NRL. I mean, this is the end of the NRL, as we

25:39

understand it. I know. He's got

25:41

to build a sort of fish trap, doesn't

25:43

he? A fish trap, that's right. That traps

25:45

everyone into the pond of

25:47

Roby League, where they can be scooped out

25:50

and put on the park. He's got to get

25:52

that message through that money isn't everything. I

25:55

suppose that's his part of it. Sure. A

25:57

hundred million dollars is great. But what are you going to do with it

25:59

when you start? You know, the whole

26:01

thing is just rigs of sort

26:04

of the worst possible Vegas result. Yeah, do

26:06

you know what I mean? Yes,

26:10

I'm prepared to take a pay cut to stay

26:12

Australian That's

26:15

it isn't it? Yeah, how much

26:17

do you love Australia? Yeah, how much do you?

26:21

Around Anzac we can ask that question. I think we

26:23

can and we saw the the

26:27

Rugby League putting its hand up saying we

26:29

love Australia. We love Anzac, Anzac

26:32

and Rugby League almost interchangeable

26:35

It was as if you know East's

26:37

went over to Gallibaly, you know and

26:39

climbed The neck.

26:41

The neck on the day. Yeah No,

26:46

no, no, that's absolutely right We've always said that and

26:48

we've got to say that they're not allowed to use

26:50

AB Patterson Park or whatever it is Put the foot

26:52

down there. We've got to put a foot down there

26:54

change its name if you want to yeah I

26:57

mean, maybe it could become you know,

26:59

Tola Shwift Park. Oh, yeah.

27:01

Yeah, sure like that that says American I

27:04

wonder why was named after Banjo Patterson. It wasn't known

27:06

as a Rugby League.

27:08

Well, he did write things like this a

27:10

famous poem called Rider in the Stand Oh,

27:12

yeah, it's a great and of course, he

27:15

was very connected with horse racing who wasn't

27:17

in those days But the other

27:19

thing about this is the federal government has to

27:21

step in and say this is un-Australian and they

27:23

need to say To young impressionable

27:26

people that you know, Rugby League is a

27:28

game which has values Yes,

27:30

not like the NFL which has no values

27:34

Now even worse than that is

27:36

this report which I've been sitting on for some

27:38

time because I didn't know quite how to

27:41

believe whether I believed it on superstars Latrell

27:43

Mitchell daily cherry Evans James Todisco and Damien

27:45

Cook have expressed an interest in finishing their

27:47

careers In the US if

27:49

the mooted professional league is established now,

27:52

I can tell you now with NFL

27:55

here the rugby league you might

27:57

it's stone dead in America now

28:00

They're never going to get this up. Every person

28:02

thinking, well, you know, a hundred million dollar, that

28:04

sounds like my cup of tea. It's going to

28:06

make a beeline for the A.B. Patterson College.

28:08

Sure, sure. Do you understand what I

28:10

mean? I do. Whatever. Did you say

28:13

that Carl Stephanovic had some interest in

28:15

rugby league in America? A

28:18

consortium of business people, Carl

28:20

Stephanovic included, is pitching the vision to

28:22

the NRL of a professional competition to

28:24

be establishing the US. Nine personality Carl

28:27

Stephanovic is among those prepared to invest.

28:29

While Manly Chairman Scott Penner has expressed

28:31

an interest. These are minnow. I'm not

28:34

knocking Carl. No. You know, but these

28:36

are minnows. They are. Perhaps

28:38

the 200 million a year for

28:41

the Vegas experiment, HG, was

28:43

poorly targeted. Maybe if we

28:45

were going to set up a professional

28:47

rugby league in the United States, some

28:50

of the players should be being played one or

28:52

two hundred million dollars. That would

28:54

send the message. Exactly. Now, coming to that,

28:57

you see, this is in a week where you

29:00

feel as though the reason why Souths ran

29:02

out in that confection the other night against

29:04

the storm who did a terrific job. I

29:07

take your body tightly about the Anzac celebration,

29:09

the smoke bombs and the red, the red,

29:12

the pin drop and all that sort of

29:14

stuff. Look back. The

29:17

thing about it is, is that that is

29:20

just to be set

29:22

against a person able to organize

29:25

a career in

29:27

which he gets a hundred million every three years.

29:29

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. And the

29:32

other thing that I find is that there's

29:34

no point doing this

29:36

unless people can raise this sort of money.

29:38

And at the point I was going to

29:40

try and make was the confection that Souths

29:42

ran out in the other night in the

29:44

storm match. Was that an attempt to raise

29:47

money through jumper sales? Because if

29:49

it was, we see that's the

29:51

busted ass nature of the whole operation. Did

29:54

a souvenir jumper that's an

29:56

absolute joke. Yes. Was I

29:58

just poorly advised? I

30:00

see that the coach I mean who's the

30:02

brains trust there who's doing Marty itself I

30:05

mean that's what you've got to look but

30:07

then marketing cannot generate the money that is

30:09

this you just can't you've got to

30:11

sell Taylor Swift style amounts

30:13

of merchandise you know pay the players

30:15

but all the players is you I

30:17

think you raised this a couple of

30:19

weeks ago the rugby league salaries have

30:21

to increase by a factor of 10

30:24

they do and now yeah you're right

30:26

and I mean we I mean

30:29

the arguments there I mean you don't

30:31

get mateship in

30:33

the NFL you don't you don't you hear

30:35

one day gone tomorrow yeah that's right you

30:39

don't make friends you know the

30:41

thing about rugby league is it's like a

30:43

family it is it's it's my

30:45

chip it's Anzac this

30:49

is a shout out to all

30:52

Aussies who love fun a

30:55

rugby league heritage listed toilets

30:57

of interest tour is now

30:59

part of the Sid Boggs

31:01

calendar tour buses will depart

31:03

from Broadmiddow railway station in

31:05

Newcastle at 3 p.m. sharp

31:07

each first Friday of the

31:09

month returning the following

31:12

Friday at midday travelers

31:14

must be over the age of 18 and be accompanied

31:17

by a non-drinking responsible adult

31:19

privacy will be guaranteed simply

31:22

go to the heritage listed

31:24

toilets of interest website and

31:27

follow the link terms and

31:29

conditions apply this is bludging

31:31

on the blindside now

31:34

sad story here to Roy don't know it's

31:36

sad or not really but rugby league is

31:39

so lucky to have Reese Walsh oh that's

31:41

true he's a marketers

31:43

dream and one thing I've noticed these days is

31:45

kids are less inclined to follow a team this

31:47

I should point out is Joey John's talking this

31:49

is Joey talking Joey talking he's less inclined to

31:52

follow a team but often followed players he's one

31:54

of those players that can transcend the sport now

31:56

that's rubbish isn't it that people

31:58

would think oh well I followed Broncos

32:00

because Reese is playing. I can understand

32:03

you being following the Broncos and Reese

32:05

is playing, but you're not following the

32:07

Broncos because the only reason is Reese

32:09

is playing. Interesting, isn't it? Well he's

32:11

become the face of that great fragrance

32:13

in America and you know in America

32:15

see that's the only way I can

32:18

see rugby league work in America if

32:20

these pathways to Hollywood and the marketing

32:22

and so on can be established through

32:24

Freddie's office. Yeah that's true, that's true.

32:27

Who is he with? Is it some sort of

32:29

toilet spray? Yeah that's right,

32:31

a fragrance, you know a

32:34

toilette. Yes very manly though

32:36

and look I've got to

32:38

say is that...

32:41

is this suggesting, is Joey suggesting I don't know if

32:43

I've got this correct or not, if

32:46

you take a play like Zach Lomax who's playing with

32:48

St. George at the moment, there are a lot of

32:50

St. George fans you know they've been disappointed for many

32:52

years but that's a separate issue. Should he

32:54

go to Parramatta as he's intended

32:56

to do and it looks like he is doing, do

32:59

the St. George fans who

33:01

enjoyed Lomax's work suddenly

33:03

start following Parramatta because

33:05

they like Lomax? Is that what he's

33:07

suggesting? You know if

33:10

you're a manager and you had Zach Lomax on your

33:12

books you'd be mad thinking

33:14

Parramatta was the place to go. Surely

33:16

you know the 49ers or... Yeah well

33:19

it's too late for Lomax I think to learn you still...

33:21

I reckon you're right. Yes. I reckon

33:24

you're right. Yeah. I mean what

33:27

I would question though as we might have mentioned

33:29

last week is the small amount of

33:31

money he's being paid. I mean it's 2.1 million I

33:33

think over three years or something. That's

33:38

because the money to remain, what do

33:41

they call it, money to stay in

33:43

the same place that they've turned for

33:45

it, it has to go up by

33:47

a factor of 10 so it's 20

33:49

million. Really? But you see that one

33:51

get him anywhere 20 million over three

33:53

years. There's nowhere near what the lad

33:55

who's playing for the Philadelphia Eagles is.

33:57

Oh no, no, no, no. Not

34:00

at all. Well, I don't know

34:03

whether more fans have gone to the Broncos or

34:06

not as a result of... Adam Reynolds.

34:08

Adam Reynolds has really turned them around.

34:12

Yeah. Now, speaking of

34:14

the Broncos, this is

34:16

great news is that former Brisbane

34:18

and Queensland origin villain Josh McGuire,

34:21

although Villa may be a bit

34:23

harsh there... Personality. Personality, yes. Or

34:25

character. Character. Yeah.

34:27

Yeah. He's back at the Broncos

34:29

now in a

34:32

coaching role. He's adding

34:36

dragons, Broncos, cowboys, origin, test

34:38

fire brand. He's played with

34:40

all those groups. Fire

34:42

brand, I like. Yes. Now,

34:45

he's back at Brisbane as the wrestling

34:47

coach. Good, good, good, good. Now, McGuire

34:49

replaces former wrestling coach Brett Bumpero-Farrell, who's

34:52

severed ties with the Broncos in the preseason.

34:54

So, it's a great lineup now. They're starting

34:56

to assemble on the coaching staff. Yeah. Because,

34:58

as you know, Adam does most of

35:01

the heavy lifting. He does all the heavy lifting. And Kevin

35:03

just does the... Kevin just does the barbecues every now

35:05

and again in the press conference. Yep. Now... So,

35:09

now McGuire is doing the heavy work,

35:12

read the fitness. Yes. McGuire, of course,

35:14

had a dramatic finish to his career, copping

35:16

two suspensions last year in the English Super

35:19

League for abusing rival players. Right. And so,

35:21

he had to come back to Australia. Obviously,

35:23

he was trying to get out. Now, the

35:25

former Baroons enforcer, who has a full-time job

35:28

working with the professional bull riders association. Wow.

35:30

Now, I'm not sure how many... Well, there

35:32

fits your bull riders. And how big a

35:34

group would it be? And could it be

35:36

several thousand people interested in bull riding? Don't

35:39

know. Don't know. We

35:41

don't get much bull riding news, do we? No, don't...

35:44

Keep it quiet. They do.

35:46

Now, I hope he can

35:48

get on the front foot with publicity, so we

35:50

do get bull riding. Is it legal bull riding?

35:53

Or is it going to be held out in the

35:55

bush after dark, sort of thing? No, I'm pretty sure

35:57

radio riding would have a number of bull riders. Okay.

36:00

very prominent part of the car.

36:02

Yes. You know there'd be barrel racing

36:04

and camp drafting obviously

36:06

and bull riding. Is

36:08

bull riding where you have to say the clown

36:11

in the... The clown to

36:13

rescue. Yes and they hide in sort of

36:15

the stack of tyres or something. That's right

36:17

and pop out. Pop out with. Pull the

36:19

head if things go right. Now

36:21

he wants to give back to the next Bronco

36:23

generation. I enjoy being at the club. Josh

36:26

said an extensive interview this week

36:28

with Cod Woodbridge and

36:31

whatever I can help the boys. I'm working with

36:33

some of the younger boys particular helping

36:36

where I can. I'm there to

36:38

help mentor younger fellows about the

36:40

highs and lows of playing NRL.

36:42

There's some fantastic people there. There's

36:44

a tier of guys coming through

36:46

like Xavier Willison, Toby Hetherington, Fletcher

36:48

Baker, Benny Takura and

36:51

they love to help them along the way. There's no

36:53

set schedule. My main job

36:56

is with the PBR. That's the Professional

36:58

Bull Riders Association. So I'm there to

37:00

help out if Kevi or Adam

37:03

needs me. You know it's great

37:05

to see the Broncos back where

37:07

they should be as a powerhouse

37:09

and I'm appreciative to be part

37:12

of it. So he's essentially what

37:14

I'd call a resource. A resource.

37:16

That's absolutely right. A resource. Okay

37:18

so Wiley's title officially is wrestling

37:20

coach. You've got to say

37:23

reading, listening to that. It's a lot more than

37:25

that. Exactly. He's there as

37:27

someone you can turn to. In a crisis.

37:29

In a crisis things not going so well either off

37:32

the paddock or on the paddock. No I think absolutely

37:34

right. You can go to Josh McGuire and have a

37:36

chat. Get some pretty sage advice. He's

37:38

known the highs and the lows. Hasn't

37:40

he? Yes and tell you

37:43

what a pathway from rugby

37:45

league to bull riding. Who would have

37:47

thought? I know. Did Freddie have

37:49

anything to do with that? I suppose he did. Maloof,

37:54

Maloof and Slater are

37:56

the wooden spoon compensation

37:58

specialists. Turn your

38:00

misery into cash in a class

38:03

action that may have you wishing

38:05

your team wins the spoon again

38:07

and again and again. Maloof,

38:10

Maloof and Slater. No

38:13

wins, big win. Terms

38:15

and conditions apply. This is bludging

38:18

on the blind side. Bludging

38:22

on the blind side and look

38:25

just a couple of more

38:28

stories about people with side hustles in Rugby

38:30

League. We mentioned we broke this story about

38:32

Zach Lomax and his ice baths. You know,

38:34

his ice baths could earn him more than

38:37

Rugby League and that's a sad indictment on

38:39

the sport. That's some side hustle isn't it?

38:41

Yeah it is and of course he's got

38:43

Kaitlyn Pong in our full time as

38:46

an ambassador. That's right. Sitting in the bath coming

38:48

in. He's got time on his hands now

38:50

to do a lot of that ambassador work.

38:52

He's foot's locked up for six

38:55

months. And Niko Hines is his other ambassador

38:57

but I'm pretty sure he'll be able to

38:59

sign more. Others, for instance Josh Attokar,

39:04

he's got a clothing label called Let's Trot.

39:06

Let's Trot? Yeah. Wow.

39:09

There's no shortage of clothing label ventures

39:11

in the NRL but Attokar has created

39:13

one of the most recognised brands with

39:15

Let's Trot after striking a

39:17

deal with Shoe Grab, one of Australia's

39:19

most popular online streetwear stores. As

39:22

exclusive stockists Let's Trot turned over more

39:24

than a million in its first 18

39:26

months. Good grief. I'm not sure what

39:28

he's... Have you ever seen anyone

39:30

wearing Let's Trot around town? No

39:32

I'm going to keep my eye out for it. There's

39:35

a picture here of, well it's a,

39:37

what would you call it, like a graphic with an

39:39

L and a T. Oh. The

39:41

L, T, get it? Let's Trot. Yeah, Let's

39:44

Trot. So it's fairly subtle but

39:46

remember the four B's? Yeah I do. The

39:48

Burgess brothers got into teas

39:51

and shorts and big... Very comfy.

39:53

Very comfy stuff. Yeah that's right

39:55

for larger people. Casual. Casual. That's

39:58

right. You can let... just

40:00

as casual. That's very casual but I

40:02

think they'd accept it in the medallion

40:04

club you know it's not it's not

40:06

loony. Yeah. Now um that's

40:09

wonderful isn't it? The other thing is of

40:11

course is property development. The rugby league players

40:13

are no strangers to property development. So

40:16

Damien Cook the South Star. Yeah.

40:19

He uh ventured in property market as

40:21

a developer and is currently constructing his

40:24

first project the duplex in

40:26

Carringbar. Wow. Cook first

40:28

tapped his entrepreneurial side in 2019 opening

40:31

La Cure, a wellness center

40:34

offering everything from cryotherapy to

40:37

infrared saunas. Now

40:39

he's joined forces with uh teammate

40:41

Alex Johnson to launch a player

40:43

marketing business. Top Deck offers athletes

40:45

advice on how to build and

40:47

monetize their brand through content creation.

40:50

Oh that's wonderful. That can't go

40:52

wrong can it? No isn't that wonderful? Let's go

40:54

put your book out how to be a millionaire.

40:57

Well yeah. People

41:01

buy it and suddenly you're a millionaire.

41:03

Exactly. And oh great idea. I wonder

41:05

if let's go. This infrared sauna right?

41:07

How does that work? Have you ever

41:09

had one? I haven't. I've

41:11

got no idea. I've got a sauna but I don't

41:13

know that I've had an infrared sauna. Are you a

41:16

nude or? No you don't have to be nude. I

41:18

wouldn't have thought so. You could when you like trot.

41:20

You could waste your gas or anything. I know. You

41:22

could wear your let's trot or your

41:25

four B's. Your

41:27

four B's they certainly. Now speaking

41:29

of property development uh

41:31

James Todesko is mad for property development

41:33

as well as adding a five million

41:35

dollar house to his property investments. Todesko

41:37

is an avid property developer. Now that's

41:39

an odd conjunction of words isn't it?

41:42

Avid property developer and his projects all

41:44

over western Sydney where he grew up.

41:46

The rucious fullback has built four townhouses

41:48

in Le Nia a house

41:50

with a granny flattened spring farm and

41:52

houses Menengle Park in Toon Gabi. Right.

41:55

So the rugby league community is helping

41:57

with the housing crisis it would say.

42:00

Certainly a number are. Yeah. Steve Smith

42:02

I think does a fair bit of

42:04

property development as well. The cricketer. I

42:06

didn't know that. I think so. I

42:11

think Victor Radley, the Inflicter draft.

42:14

Victor of course known as one of the toughest hard

42:16

tackling players in the area world. His

42:19

nickname, I didn't know this, the Inflicter.

42:21

As well as launching a range of

42:23

Inflicter t-shirts, Radley is leveraging the moniker

42:25

and has released a beer to go

42:27

with the brand. Now, would that be

42:29

the sort of advice? A Tuesday night

42:32

beer is it? A Tuesday night beer.

42:34

Would that be the sort of advice

42:37

the top deck would have advised him on what to

42:39

do? That's cookies go is it? Cookies

42:42

go with Alex Johnson. Yeah right. And they'd

42:44

be flat out wouldn't they? Wouldn't they? Well

42:46

every second player would be knocking on the

42:49

door saying give us some advice. Your

42:52

Inflicter aren't you? What about an Inflicter

42:54

beer? Oh fantastic. You've got

42:56

a great Tuesday night beer. Because Monday

42:58

night you've got a Leishman Low. That

43:02

night's spoken for. And then wait for it and

43:04

you're sitting down Victor, a book

43:06

on how to be a millionaire. How to be a millionaire.

43:10

I'm all there. That is fun. Just a

43:12

shout out to Darby who's in hospital in

43:14

Sydney. Oh that's no good. Yes,

43:16

fairly Shaz and Dave are from Nellijon on

43:18

the south coast and they've dropped in to

43:20

give them a bit of a back up.

43:22

Isn't that great? That is good news. Well

43:26

that's very positive. It is.

43:28

I haven't seen any Inflicter t-shirts around.

43:31

Have they got a big eye on

43:33

them or something? No, the Inflicter t-shirt

43:35

is in acquired taste. Bold

43:37

colours. It's in all colours.

43:39

Red, white and blue which fits the club. And

43:42

a cartoon figure which is not an

43:45

impression of. Victor Adley.

43:47

No, it's just an impression of

43:49

somebody who plays rugby league. A

43:51

generic image of rugby league. They

43:53

probably bought off an AI operator.

43:57

Oh okay, fair enough. I

44:00

mean it's good and it's bad, it saddens

44:02

me that rugby league players aren't paid enough.

44:04

Exactly! That they've got to have these what

44:06

we call side hustles going

44:08

on so that they can... Make ends meet!