NRL Round 26 Results 2024 🏉

Intro what's going on guys snaggy here and it's time to review round 26 of the 2024 NRL season if you watch the preview video I said I think we know what's going to happen this weekend but I wouldn't be surprised if there's a few crazy things go down I and I I didn't think anything this crazy would go down what a crazy crazy weekend lot of unexpected results crazy injuries crazy score lines well I don't know rugby leag man it's the greatest game of all I'm telling you I'm telling you it's quite funny I see a lot of people I see a lot of people in the chat and the um in in um just on Tik Tok comments and stuff like that like oh I can't pick a winner it's I get it like it's nice to win all the time but it's it's good it's it's good when it's hard we want a challenge I want to challenge on the punt Lads I don't want it just like if if it's otherwise it just ends up everything's a105 and you don't make win any money it's supposed to be hard and the skilled ones they end up winning talking about the punt guys let us know how you went let us know if you had any big wins we actually had a pretty poo one on the double Ups three from eight but we had a pretty nice Tri score which put us slightly up and when I say slightly I mean slightly like barely up but not too bad um considering how nuts the weekend was seriously I'm pretty surprised uh this is one of those weekends where the old account could have got drained guys so um yeah we'll have to wait and see I was I looked and I was like oh we actually slightly up and I went through my uh my history and I was like oh that's right that Tri score at the start of the weekend carried us through all right we're not too bad all right guys so let's go over all the results we'll have a look at the ladder we'll talk about finals implications and go over the games now obviously like I sort of said we will um focus a little bit more on the relevant teams obviously we're not going to talk a whole heap about the non-relevant teams in this one guys but a lot of teams are relevant a lot of teams are relevant right guys Cowboys get it done Against The bgrade Storm but well they were good Bulldogs sorry I was about to say defeat the seagull I'm used to the Bulldogs winning so much seagull defeat the Bulldogs 3422 Panthers get it done against the rabido 34-2 heel scrape home against I can't wait to talk about this one scrape own against the dragons 44 to 40 Dolphins defeat the Broncos knock win the Battle of Brisbane the redcliff Dolphins now the Brisbane Broncos 40-6 I forgot about this Shawn Johnson final game well yeah Warriors defeat the Sharkies 30 to 28 Knights beat the Titans 36 to4 and the Raiders how good with the milk seriously how it could with the milk can't wait to talk about that one too right guys let's have a quick look at the ladder all right so so crazy thing so Ladder & Finals Hopes first second third they were second and third and fifth all lost so it's only the Panthers in the top five that one um so roosters and sharks go down Bulldogs hold their spot Cowboys hold their spot SE Eagles hold their spot but there could be some movement next week cuz a lot of these teams are playing each other well these teams are playing each other um well sorry all these teams are playing each other fourth to seventh right so yeah fourth to seventh all played each other and they're all separated by a game and a half nuts man absolutely nuts and then we have the Dolphins and the Knights into e and n and they play each other how good is round 27 going to be man why are they still taking that's a bit dodgy of sports bet why they still taking money on I guess the dragons technically still can make it right Broncos can't make it though why are they taking money on that you know what I mean imagine him putting surely you're not dumb enough to uh pick that one but anyway all right so uh absolutely wild let's let's have a quick look at the ladder predictor real quick guys and just let's see what the finals was possibly going to look like all right so we're got to reset all uh so we're up to let's go to round 27 who we thinking Lads Broncos all the storms I think the storms get it pretty handily spoonball lads spoonball I do think the E win I actually think they're playing pretty good footy I know they fell off a bit at the end of that Dragons game but I think they do win it um roosters versus the rabido a lot of players down for the roosters but I think the roosters get that one dragons versus Raiders I'm loving what the Raiders are doing up the Raiders doggies cares now this depends if Burton's playing whether who I actually pick so yeah obviously you're still going to have to watch my tip video on uh on Wednesday morning guys these aren't my tips for next week I'm just sort of throwing them but I personally think the doggies have been the better team um especially lately I I was sort of half riding the Cowboys bandwagon there but as we'll get to in a minute I'm pretty disappointed with them last week pen get it done no trovich so I mean I probably would have tipped the seagull but I think maybe shakies might get this one and then uh let's go Fins Up let's have a look let's have a look at the first run of finals was going to look like if that if that plays out all right so we'll have storm vers the Sharkies then we'll have doggies verse the fins so the winner of this go will automatically go here and then the winner of this will go here I believe yeah then we'll have Cowboys vers the Cowboys vers the sea eagles and then Panthers at home that's big against the roosters with no Sam Walker I don't know if that's what how it's going to going to go down guys but it's that there's a very good chance this is what our finals is looking like guys very very good chance I wonder if it's going to I'm going to check that when we uh I'm going to check that when we uh you know when it actually goes down we'll see if we actually hit all right Cowboys versus Storm now a bgrade storm team rolled out and it was Era City at Cowboys Vs Storm the start first half 17 errors 28 Miss tackle to four um just it it was just disgusting this first half it was Cowboys had done took this to me at least twice this year maybe three times where they've won a game and I've thought less of them it's um not good uh I don't know it was it was bizarre to mean they came out and was slapping I was all here we go and then storm but did we just underestimate storm depth like storm have some depth I mean like a lot of these guys were in storm starting team last year you know like you know like SE and ton Mia and stuff like that they're all in there this dude is a beast Lazarus just added a zero to his uh not a zero you can't add a zero to your paycheck can you cuz everyone's on over 150 you used to be able to say he added a zero to his paycheck cuz if you were on a men used to be on about 30 to 50 whatever it was depending at the time and uh if you start to kill it you obviously you add a zero to your paycheck there you know so um I just thought that were awesome I thought Welsh was played pretty solid he came after everyone physically I'm loving McDonald he was awesome and that they really took it to the Cowboys who were are they full strength pretty damn close pretty damn close uh I was riding Clifford's nuts pretty hard um I wasn't overly impressed with him but like look you're a low a bad game but yeah it was I've sort of written in my notes right like you can leak points and still like you can like storm roosters penth they've all won games where they've like leaked roughly 20 odd points and you don't think like it's I don't know it just looks wrong when the Cowboys do it it just doesn't look right like it just look they looked bad and you know they just sort of scored enough to win it wasn't so much like storm have had a few games this year where they've won 30 8 to 28 but you just like they never looked in doubt and you know obviously they want that score to be low on Melvin storm they wouldn't be like sitting there going oh how easy how good was this you know like they would you know they want a clean sheet just like everyone but it just looks all right whereas when Cowboys have done it it hasn't looked right to me just that that performance was a Cowboys getting bounced first round uh it really is I mean they're playing the doggies next week doggies were ear spectacular obviously but uh yeah I'll be more than likely unless doggies are missing a bunch of players or something be tipping the the doggies in that one I mean C's got them about a month or month and a half ago maybe two Max at home in a close one but cows haven't been spectacular away from home um where is there away record I stand corrected their away records great seven and four I was thinking of the 2023 Cowboys H so actually not too bad jeez that's pretty good away record uh but yeah they got to be substantially better um yeah dog doggies are going to come in for and uh so yeah they're got to be a lot better um just quietly um penous went off I don't believe them that it was a cork there looked like there was barely any contact there but I guess you have to take the word for it uh Monster look in sharp again and I think tyan Wishard is Head and Shoulders the most improved player I think I've ever seen like he is he is talk about adding some some extra to his paycheck I think he's allowed to negotiate from November 1 a lot of chat where he could end up um do you stay in this sort of 14 mix to fix it role or do you go get yourself a team do you go get yourself where you're going to be the six you're going to be the seven whatever you're going to be the lock you're going to be the man it's going to be really interesting it's going to be really interesting uh I I I I personally think he should go somewhere else like if I'm just looking at just like putting myself in wish out shoes I think players that are that Mr fixer role we think of guys like orison I know gley did a bit at um at origin and I can just I'm thinking of a few players U more recently in the from he's at the Warriors now niur that one is actually um I feel like you sort of stunt your career CU you're a bit all over the place and like I I think your team appreciates how good you are but I don't think anyone else really does and I think you've sort of stunt your growth as a player um as as going on to be able to earn that big paycheck personally um I think it can it can help you and hurt you uh um in the to get into you know the origin Arena or rep Arena every team does need a good 14 but yeah I don't know it's an interesting one but I'd be looking for other pastures I think I don't know if penth have any money left but if I think he would slot into penth so good like a hard running like six that just slaps in defense yeah I know it's the problem is Melbourne to have just maxed their salary cap out like from what I've heard Sal Melbourne salary cap they they absolutely pushed it to the brim just to get Stefano so I don't know if there's going to be any money left um especially with B still they weren't able to unload big Nelson so we'll have to wait and see but yeah we'll have a quick look at this team actually look it it's not really worth looking at just because I guess it wasn't against an a grade team but look at these errors 15 to 13 like yeah this is yeah Cowboys I'm not I'm not I'm not saying you're going to get bounced in first round but if you do not play double as good you're getting bounced in the first round seriously that's uh that was pretty damn terrible all right doggies vers the Bulldogs Vs Sea Eagles manly seagull look I've been saying this to all the doggies fans everyone thinks I've been hating on the doggies but it's it's actually pretty hilarious so uh you know people think well because I'll be like I tip against the Bulldogs here and there that I hate them it was funny and I said in my preview video and on Tik Tok and on YouTube shorts you know that du a lost du a lost and everyone's like you're just a hater you're just a hater I can't wait to watch you apologize and talk about how good the doggies are after it and then after the game all the doggies it's doing videos going we were you a lot we needed this loss before the fin I'm like that's what I was saying before the game I just had the plums to say it before the game Lads um so yeah look doggies I I don't think any less of them I definitely like if doggies won this I probably would have thought more of them but I definitely don't think any less of them I still think they're the exact same team they were this weekend um but yeah like obviously a win would have been nicer because you go look they beat a red hot Manley team but um not red hot but a you know very good Manley team um with like to me Manley are easily a top four roster if if like if they won a few extra games and didn't drop a few silly games throughout the year that I think they'd be sitting where konala is you know they're that good um so I don't think overly I'm not overly concerned about the SE Eagles now I said in my preview video I don't think I could have called a game any more perfect if you want to go back and watch the tape I said I just loved the changes they made so essentially what I said was um so what they ended up doing which was even better they had actually had Dylan Nathan Brown in the starting time but I said you had to bring out I said Lodge all simply ended up bringing Lodge in I said slap through the middle you got to drop Chen Kong I think that's how you say his name and play kroer for big minutes cuz he you don't lose anything through the middle there and you have to play through the middle and play P light pain har give him lots of carries lots of touches big intensity go to you know like play that big power game and then you know and then they come off and you still have to have some speed and size coming off the bench so so you keep that W of going cuz Manley would get on top here and it would just all sort of disappear and then it would sort of could come back later in the game when p and all those guys come on and then kroer comes back on but you can't play good for 40 minutes or thir you know 30 minutes and then expect to win a game or expect because this is the thing right once you lose momentum it can be like rugby it can be impossible to get back like it's not basketball where you go time out and you can just have a little chill for a minute and you you work everything out and The Game Stops and you start from a set start again like it's right it goes you know you're on once the whistle starts go it goes if you if you lose momentum through whatever it's very hard to get it back so um I love this I love this um that's one of the reasons I think penth have been so successful over the years like they really focus on making sure the bench was good I remember for a long time you know it didn't matter if starters got injured like senson and speno started on the bench that would actually bring someone from Reserve grade A lot of the times not always Reserve grade into the starting team and leave their bench the same shows you how important your bench is it really does um but yeah it was it was a big power game now I just want to talk um a bit about Manley then we'll get to the doggies peka had one of his craziest games ever I mean he he put up I've honestly said this dude could literally be pay har it's just I feel like Manley can play a little too sideways to me it's just like give well Lodge EMP just C they're big they're strong they're powerful and they have lightning quick lightning quick play the balls for their size doggies could not handle it and he he well let's check let's check if he put up pay har numbers he wouldn't have quite done his minutes so I'm sure they're a little bit lower but let's have let's have a little look see what per did where are you P 178 m in less minutes so he played less minutes than Payne hwood off so PNE normally pays about 65 to get close to 200 uh PCA paid 50 so this is paying har numbers 855 post contact with seven 17 carries so every single carry was over 10 met oh barely but you know every carry was 10 m 85 post contract Dragon dudes um look at that play the ball 2.5 seconds that 2.75 seconds that is so quick um and Tackle efficiency 26 tackles no misses just one ineffective tackle he he's gone you got to go to him got to use him I feel like manly try to hit their edges a little bit too early sometimes play through the middle first earn the right and then like like you have a really good front rower there and you showed like he he like not dissing the doggies but he made that whole four pack look like he was so much better than every single player on the doggies in the middle and then that and then um Matt Lodge was you know probably second but quite you know he had a really good game but it was the P show he was just about UNH handable um he was absolutely incredible um so obviously turbo goes down in this one it's looking like just an AC so hoping it is um praying it is let's get some stem cells in that boy um now just doggies look like I said I'm not concerned I still think they're exactly the same team I think they're sitting exactly on the ladder where they should be and um yeah I'm not overly worried like I said I think they beat a lot of the team sixth down and um they're playing a team in six so um what was a little concerning they did leak 3 like I said this last year the blueprint to beat the doggies was knock the front door run run run at Reed man make him do a lot of work um and you know they're not big um they're fast but if you if you start to control if you start to Get You On Top of the Rock they are they you know they start to line tackles they start jumped the gun a little bit and they can't give penalty so what was a little concerning they got it's not so much they leak 34 points it's a little alarming but it happens like I said I'm not going to be like oh man the defense sucks I leaked 34 points yeah bro like for the second time this year like they it was they got skinned everywhere like they literally got skinned everywhere they got pumped through the middle they got skinned on their right skinned on the left skinned through the middle like when I say skinned I mean like they they scored tries left they went right scored a try next time just next time they shifted the ball left scored a try then they ran like I think it was an outside inside to laon and just scored straight through skinned skinned skinned I was like damn that was easy and it wasn't like you know sometimes teams might have you might have they might have identified a little thing when you get skinned everywhere in the first half that's I was like o um yeah so a little a little alarm Bells you know so um you know you you rather just have you'd rather get skinned in one spot and go right we know we we we've got to fix that when you like you get skinned everywhere yeah oh that's not good uh so yeah little little bit to work on for doggy Sero was not happy in his presser uh but yeah we let's let's have a little look really interest see the odds let's see if the odds are up yet for see if I can bring my dabble up if it's not up um so we have Bulldogs verse Bulldogs are favorites Bulldogs are still favorites that's about right for me not overwhelming favorites but yeah that's that looks about right to me all right so doggies oh where is that game actually is it Belmore a uh but yeah like a lot to work on now unfortunately it looks like Burton might I heard Burton might be out for this one um let's have a little look casualty Ward we'll see if it's been announced yet so Steven kon's back Matt Burton head knock doesn't so yeah we're not too sure there yet but hopefully he's back for that one uh as soon as he was off I was like yeah he's not a they need his long kicking game to win games if Burton's out of this one I might have to take the Cowboys even if kryon back it's just there's multiple sets where when Bulldogs make about 25 M and burn his boots at 7 completely nullifies the bad set and um whoever comes in won't have that kicking game unfortunately but shout to the SE Eagles and doggies don't stretch you'll be fine Panthers versus the Panthers Vs Bunnies rabitos now this guy wasn't like first of all no let's let's talk about this first first tyone Monroe it was everyone was going oh he could have had three tries no bro two was perfect one for his mom one for his uncle one for humdinger um it was actually pretty crazy we were streaming this game was I streaming it or was I just on anyway someone said oh apparent so in we we didn't put the two things together like they go oh you know he's he's old lady passed a couple days ago whatever and we're like man sucks and then um someone goes in the chat oh doesn't um isn't he Humdinger nephew or isn't Humdinger his uncle and I'm like no way is he and then a few people in chat like yeah yeah he is and I was like well and then like not long after they go um you know his uncle passed away this morning as well and I did he didn't click at the time and then I went on Tik Tok after I saw that Humdinger past as well I was like what the hell man two tries one for Humdinger one for his mom how good he was uh what a what an absolute Soldier man he was he was he was great he was absolutely great man he's um he regardless of gu I'm not now okay so I was just not just being nice I was being you know just talking about his character and what a legend he is but straight up before I'd sort of you know he looked like he looks like a genuine possible future Superstar he looks really good he gets fit and healthy this offseason keeps his life on track all that sort of stuff he looks he's got speed he's got the build just add maybe five to eight kegs to that frame he looks really nice see Sydney could have one there seriously they really could um yeah so um yeah I guess the question was a lot of people had here like are the Panthers back with the roosters dropping that ball there a little bit I feel a lot just not that they're my team but I feel a lot better about Panthers now than I did at the start of the weekend are they back I wouldn't quite call that um they did what they're supposed to do they coming they like equal second but let's you know say top four team playing a team that's coming like 14th and they beat him 13 plus like without absolutely ripping their heads off it's what they're supposed to do so I feel a lot better about it though cu the roosters and the shark slot so they've got it looks like they got a home final now finish in second big Advantage um also Sunny Tera back Lor is just not a Winger I think Lor's better player than Tera but to me he's a I missed a fix at four he's a [Music] um six or a one I personally think his best position is 14 I think he comes in and can fix any position um and also alamot is really good I don't know why but one of my most asked questions over the last month is who's better Alam mty or Casey McLean I think Casey McLean's going to be better I think Casey McLean's an next Critter but today pull out of Mod's better much better play solid fast I couldn't believe how fast he was cuz he doesn't he looks like a front rower his top speed is fifth he's been the fifth highest in the NRL he's nuts uh I love I love this Liam Henry and Fisher Harris starting with Mitch Kenny um and then Moses Le on the bench he's just you know like Liam Henry is not a Moses Leota but they need a an isaah not Isaiah yo they need a a Spencer new replacement on the bench and they got one you know so um and man this lindsy Smith dude I watched him last year in a few games and he was getting didn't look like he could handle the how old is he he like he would get he would get slapped he he would slap like in defense but when he had to come off The Back Fence he would get slapped but he um he's 24 so yeah most cuz he's you know some of some of the what you know you your Aussie props take you know you're not fully grown until you're about 24 you know so yeah he looks uh he looks real nice he looks real nice um some of those Islander boys are fully developed at 17 you know what I'm saying uh yeah look so I feel so if you're a Panthers fan like you should feel so much more comfortable with possibly getting the chip um May the fourth be with you um and uh obviously clear come back um as well Dylan edwood's looked a little down to me um but yeah it's to me just seriously if that if to me for Panthers to be out and out odds on favorites to win the comp clearly has to be there and fit not 100% but better than 80% he want a grand single- handly won a grand final last year with a torn MCL and snapped finger so doesn't need to be 100% but he needs to be uh needs to be better now couple reports on this one I believe but we'll see how they all pan out and uh bunnies let's just uh toss that one they uh get ready for next year Lads eels dragons I could not believe this one so I had neither team to 40 on my Punt and um I knew both teams could score 40 but what how I thought this game would actually go was I thought they would both score heaps of points but I Eels Vs Dragons honestly just thought like it wouldn't be like all P so the reason why it blew out this hard is normally what happens is like let's just use eels and drag e eels will score a few tries or two tries and then dragons will score one or two and it's sort of Cs but e just went and the dragons just went that's when the scores blow out it's usually when the teams going big runs like that we have these crazy high score lines if it's G try for try or like two tries two tries one try two tries two tries one you know what I mean it usually ceas like it just you just what I don't know why but for whatever reason the score doesn't seem to be as high but e would just scoring just about every time they had the ball and then it just flipped and then it was just like look at this one two three four five tries from the 70th minute that is nuts absolutely nuts I had nether team to 40 they both scored 40 I should lose money like extra money for [Laughter] [Music] that um dragons were just just so bad in that first half like I was just sitting there like if you are a dragons fan like I I've been riding you this year I've been super stoked with how you do but obviously sitly this this team doesn't deserve to play finals this last month of footy I know they beat minus the Melbourne game I was just sitting there watching them play footy and there was we had um we had dragons fans in the Discord chat and even there gone bro this is it's so hard to be a fan of this team it was just sometimes teams lose but you're like oh man you know like you don't really like when when like Couch Potato fans like me can sit there and clearly see what you're doing wrong like stylistically or you know like strategically or whatever like you you got issues you know like like just for example like Ben hun like bro was awful like bro was just Le rarl was just not NRL stand like see R I do not think you'll playing NRL ever again unfortunately you'll be off to the Super League Ben Hunt for the first half at least didn't I not did not look NRL standard like he was I just couldn't believe the decisions they made like they made who was that who made that break Sloan yeah that's right Sloan makes a break I think it's Zack Zack LX steaming up on your outside like did dragons did dragons players watch Zack L play state of origin like you know who's outside you right that's Zack LX bro's like like like Sloan looks inside looks outside sees Zack LX with his arm out looks in looks back out he's still like still what like they're both running and then obviously the fullback comes I remember if he passed or got tackled but whatever anyway doesn't you know I think he passed and then got tackled whatever correct me if I'm wrong there guys maybe he just got taken by the fullback Zack LX and so then obviously the ball gets played Zack Lomax and the Winger are still wide open and they pass left like there was no one on that side then they take get tackled then I believe there's there's still a five on three on that side and they go left again what like what like it was I was sitting going oh my God cuz I wanted dragons to school cuz I would have you know like I said did that thing where they when te the teams are both scoring you want the momentum to flow away but it was it was just I remember just there was three or four dragons fans in the chat is going man this is just hard to I cannot how did you not you had three full opportunities all you have to do was just pass the ball right to Zack Lomax on any one of those tackles and you score a try you pass left to to frustrating man um yeah look crazy game obviously we're not going to harp on about it too much um e was just like I think Trent Barrett said this in the uh in the preview and he's not wrong he said if the game was 60 Minutes long we' probably have the Mind Premier ship and look at this look at this it's true man like they're pretty good for 60 uh obviously they were far enough ahead this game that they didn't get run down um but yeah like I said we we're watching this and again in the in the Discord chat we're like man I'm want Chuck Mitchell MOS is back you know we got Zack LX coming and if when the new coach comes in if he BRS you know that a bit of that Melbourne into the eels if if the odds are good enough might take him for the eight because they've played some pretty good footy this year man and dags just with that extra he he can go missing sometimes when Mo Moses is there I think I know it's obviously not great for the eels but for next year just thinking about next year only obviously you want your team to go good every year just a lot more I you wouldn't call it miles in the legs but a lot more like being the man experience um you know cuz a lot of the times when the eels lose games it's like if if Mitchell Moses is just off you know like at least deal bags can sort of stand up but anyway um yeah shout out to the eels it was a highly entertaining game and dragons like I said good luck next year buy I'm off you this year I love you but I'm off you uh but yeah the red Ville will be back we streamed this one it was Dolphins Vs Broncos uh yeah just I've written down biggest win in their history surely not they put 40 on teams haven't they they put 30 34 on a team uh from the first Carry when they slapped pay house I was like dragons are hit but dolphins are here to play this to me I wanted I wanted Broncos to make the finals just CU I thought it'd be a better game like I thought they would sneak in and play the Bulldogs I was like that'd be better Bulldogs had handled the dragons and the Dolphins pretty handly this year I'd much rather a more competitive Finals game um but I'm really happy if the fins do get in they're going to have to play the Newcastle Knights next week to get in but I'm really happy if they do so I'm not mad at this at all um what's not like I was wanted the Broncos to win for any other reason then I thought it'd be a better game than the other possible results and um but that just great but like just to me this boiled down to an absolute Master Class an absolute out coaching like Bennett this the thing right Wayne Bennett it's not like he has the best coaching record or anything like that but the amount of times he's done this to another coach where he's just you know it's a big game there's a bit of like he did it to Ivan clear like absolutely took him to coaching school one day he absolutely weighed everything up made those those adjustments and additions and just made Kevy look like he didn't know what he was doing pretty damn incredible man he's he he can coach a team and he got him up for this one and it was great now we sort of said um this is a thing too we were streaming so I didn't really notice these changes until they run out and one of the Bros goes avillo and at six is wild I'm like what do you mean avillo at 6 worked bro it worked bro it was it was wild I I couldn't believe it just I cannot believe how good this worked absolutely nuts man and then raystone back to the bench and he just he started so it was it was absolute Master Class man you need your photo here Kev because you won this game I mean the boys won it but yeah it was absolutely incredible man um I thought tpj I mean he was even ripping the Broncos doing the doing the dance and all that but yeah it was pay har I don't know man I think he needs an off season I'm a little worried about paying har man like he's still been really good this year but just um just just seeing the decline of Jason talolo before our eyes right like if anyone hasn't seen if you're young maybe you're 18 19 17 whatever and you haven't seen Prime Jason Tom malolo I know a lot of people say pay har is one of the best I think that Jason I know he plays lock but back in that era not that it's not that long ago locks pretty much played as front rollers they were just that essentially a third prop that got that you know played more minutes almost um yeah he he he that to me the decline in pay half this year was pretty bad he I don't think people realize how much work he's done over his short career he's a young fell still uh how old would be 2 he's still only 24 he um he's been so that's what so he came when he was 18 and was carrying the Broncos in the middle so he's been carrying this team for six years just looked a little down look and and I'm not just talking about this before I just mean this year his numbers are substantially down if we um let's go let's have a look again I just I hope it's not because he is such a good guy such a good fell and um you know he's so yeah 2018 he's 24 and look at all this look at these win rates 40 48% 18% win rate like um yeah so let's go let's have a look at career meters gained average running met is 167 so it's not as high as I thought and then go 2024 1 36 that's down man well there you go look so his last three 187 163 168 175 13 he he looked down all year to me he looked down all year U so hopefully he's okay um but yeah just even just a few dumb like a few dumb penalties all that sort of stuff and we all know what's happened with his family and stuff so hopefully um hopefully he's all good man hopefully he's all good but yeah was wasn't just he he just I think he had I don't think he had a good run like he had a like good run but like not a pain half run like not the pain har runs where he used to but look at this I mean look at at these meters absolutely chopped them nearly 200 more post contact nine line breaks to two 32 tackle breaks 24 43 average set distance 35 like this is just a straight hiding absolute straight hiding shout out to the Dolphins man I think they deserve to be in the eight I really do over the nights too um yeah I'm I'm riding that Dolphins ban wagon I really am um yeah I can't wait I can't wait from to play foral it's going to be good uh but yeah I just I don't I don't know what else to say about them just because oh okay so this is one more talking point I wanted to talk about just um we're talking about like the gun players on the stream too A lot of people like do you think Hammer is better at Center at fullback actually do I think um I think there's this massive Temptation when you you've got a just an absolute weapon to put him at fullback because um they get more ball you know what I mean but sometimes you just want your best players to get good ball they don't need a lot of ball just they need good ball I think Hammer gets better good ball cuz who's stop it we've seen it at origin we've seen the best defenders in the world we' seen him at Australia who who stops Hammer one-on-one whereas when you're in the middle playing like that you quite often you know you got you're getting tackled by three blocks you're taking hit UPS into into a set line with TR and I I've said this personally a lot of people like oh what so you don't think Kalin ponger and REE Walsh are good fullbacks no no no no no it's not what I was saying what I the point I was making was I like the high energy High work rate fullbacks that can ball play a little bit um like to me I personally think let's I think turbo when he's absolute at full full full strength and fit and healthy I think he's the best fullback in the comp because he gives you the work rate plus good ball playing plus the effort areas plus he's just plus the backup play like the teddy backup like how many times have we just seen someone make a half break and who's there who's always there turbo like I I've never really called turbo the best fullback in the world because he's never really strong enough games together for me to call that but like just if you like just got all all his like his last five years and like compacted that into like two and a half seasons and pretend he didn't miss all that time like I almost think he is the best fullback he's just got everything he he can slap you 200 Meers of effort you can give you just all those effort plays backing up but he he'll also fire a cut out ball and hit a Winger uh that's it's just that stuff more comes second um but anyway back to this um I I I'd prefer the effort over the ball like like an effort guy that can ball play a little bit like turbo yeah and then have your good guys getting good quality ball um sort of thing you just have to obviously make sure like Cambra have a trouble with you got this weapon in tomoco that doesn't get any ball so it's just it's just find that bad that balance but they looked really nice with Fuller there and Hammer in the centers we're not as soon as I saw he was in the centers I was like bro this he's going to try tonight he's going to try tonight so yeah shout out to the the shout out to the Dolphins man I really hope they play finals this year shies W shout out Sharks Vs Wahs to Shawn Johnson you know the funny thing right sometimes I I think about what I'm going to say in these videos as they sort of going hang on one [Music] sec I think about these um what I'm going to say and sometimes I J down notes cuz on stuff I know I'll forget but I've just written a few notes down here and um it's I was going to delete them and rewrite them because they ended up being wrong not wrong but like I'll sort of read so I was just sitting there first 20 minutes just going same old Warriors like from 2024 same old Warriors good field position getting penalties all that stuff they got four points on the board like 20 minutes and then they just start leaking tries and then they go into the half at 22 to 4 I'm just I'm just sitting there going same old Warriors and then they start coming out in the second half and start scoring some points and I was like again I was still I was just like say Warriors now they're throwing the ball around now they're playing a bit of footy like they should have been the whole game and now they're going to fall just a little bit short enter Shawn Johnson but it was it was literally it's just this time they snuck the win it was pretty much same old Warriors that they've done all year except normally they lose that one but this time they had the footy guards on their side and they gave Shawn Johnson the eggsit he deserved well they deserved probably a finals birth but you get what I'm the best of a bad situation you know so um but it was it was literally same old Warriors great field position looking nice not playing enough footy getting points put on him mate throwing the ball around and going oh hang on we can score points yeah bro you should have been doing that the whole time but then yeah Sean I mean 20 seconds to go and he throws double cut out B hit DW you know the funny thing was I saw something say that's so rigged that was definitely set up I'm like why the sharks give up a home final so sha Johnson can beat them and have a good good final game it's ridiculous thing ever oh funny yeah I mean let's have a little look at Shawn Johnson's final Shan Johnson won a premier ship was he there with the can't remember 176 M two line breaks one line break assist three try assist three tackle breaks in his final game he'd been pretty poor since he announced his retirement and it was his time to retire like he he didn't like it was gone from him but he summoned some strength for that final 20 minutes he was really really good he set up something nice in the first half too it was his best game in oh his best game of the year but yeah it was it was his 100% his best game since he announced his retirement but it was probably his best game of the year so um yeah just shout out to the Bro man it was it was just so nice to see I had shark his fans going no I don't really mind would have been nice to win it but nice for Sean um like I said man this is um there's a lot of kids playing footy right now 18 19 20 year olds 15 16 all the way up to early 20s playing footy because of Shawn Johnson man so shout out to you bro H Warriors just on a hole you'll be back I think Sean I think um James Fisher Harris will add a lot um I think he will he just suits the way Webster wants to play better like yeah there was just a few things AFB did that just won't that um that it won't have it's just little stuff that we I mean we see it with spenc Cino at the roosters now just you tackle someone around the waist or something right a lot of like AFB right if he sort of like Dives for a tackle and sort of gets him around the waist and someone else helps and drags them down right AFB will just like lay there and just like roll out fish Harris in that situation Springs to his feet and locks in so you got two markers just just a little stuff like that he he will help them uh Warriors shout out to you I hope you play orals next year cuz that was a fun bandwagon to jump on and it was um it was fun to watch so big offs go enjoy your mad Mondays go get loose go get lit and uh make sure Shawn Johnson doesn't pay for any drinks and um see see you in Vegas boys let's go all right um onto the sharks real quick look they were pretty good good man I thought they looked a little they looked big they looked powerful they look strong they looked like a pretty damn good team it was just um like like I said it was just the footy gods were not on their side um I like trenle taking control of the game um but yeah a few things didn't go their way I don't mean that like Warriors Got The Run of it was just you know I felt like they Oran cfus and Rudolph were great but then I don't know I think maybe a little I know I said I love the size of the bench but a little too big on the bench they would love like a coming off this bench right here they would love like a Nathan Brown just to got like you know you got big U Royce hunt Hazelton or U who would run with whichever two of those three you want and then a guy with genuine leg speed through the middle um you know so they've got it I mean they've got it in cam McKinnis but he doesn't have he's not quite he's got good leg speed but it's not crazy I don't know it just it just felt like they got bogged down there for a little bit you know so uh yeah I don't really know how to fix it but it was there's nothing super wrong like they've been pretty damn good and like I said it sort of took a miracle from the Warriors to sort of beat them so they've got who do they have next week they've got the man that's say it's going to be tough they oh they're underdogs wow huh there you go Manley favorites what's that say so Manley could if Manley win this they're going to jump one of these two and get a home final that's wild so doggies or Cowboys could lose a home FAL next week huh Cowboys won this weekend didn't they yeah they bat them stor um okay so yeah big game big game for them um where is it four points nuts man yeah look uh I wasn't expecting the world from nicoo um let's have a little look see their number I just want to have a look at who did the actual damage there because I think we streamed this one not was Trindle who got all the TR assists Will Kennedy TR assists so what did what did nikoh hor do okay nik's got a lawn break assist and TR assist and a try right no no try oh that's right I got taken off him um have to tingle with it I like I like the idea as hin is a six and like more of a run first I think Tren i' really like i' really like trenle I think he's a really good player um this a thing right like like to me just cuz someone is like like for example you watch C if you watch Melbourne storm games right like let not so much this year it's been a bit of a rap rap year last year back like Drome Hughes does most of the work like he does all like monster gets the ball when you need monster to be monster you know like like I feel like niiko Hans is trying to be nicoh Hans all the time every game like I feel like yeah I feel like he I think he gets like overused almost and it becomes a little bit too yeah you know you know who's getting the ball one off the rock you know like pressure make him do something quickly whereas if they you're playing playing a different way different way different way and then it's all right cool where we're up by four it's a tight game you know what I mean w monster in space flick all right there's space out there for Monster W monster yeah you get what I mean like I feel like I feel like mahan's got overused like he got the ball he got so many touches I feel like you better off with him to get less touches Trindle to get more and then use Nick ohans as like your your Ace in the Hole you know so yeah we'll have to wait and see but yeah I'm not not writing Sharkies off at all they they like I said I think they've been the fourth best team all year they look good Knights Knights Vs Titans Titans look man the first half we had we we won our pun on this one actually so we needed Titans to score in the second half and we needed Knights over 28 or seven whatever it was and in the first half I was I was just like man these Knights absolute ass man then in the second half just went boss boss b i felt like every time they had the ball they scored and they were just absolutely obliterated them that would take getting if they didn't score they were running for 70 M and kicking the ball into a corner just Flawless rugby league like if the Melbourne storm or penth Panthers were doing what they did to the Titans in this game we'll be sitting there wow they're so good how good are the penth Panthers the knights were doing it and then all of a sudden just back into making 20 25 me to run leaking on the edges leaking through the middle like how can you look like a top two and then a bottom two team in the same in the same 20 minutes the same half like pretty wild but I tell you what when they're on I think they're probably my favorite team they are really nice to watch when they're on they're really really good when they're on um it's just who's going to show up are you going to play good enough in that period you know like to to to win it sort of thing so I mean Thompson scored a little consolation he tried not good consolation but they were only really good from the fifth from the 42nd to the is that that's not even 15 minutes is it it's like 13 minutes that yeah so yeah that's that's how good that that's how although they actually they slapped for about 5 minutes then it sort of went away obviously you don't have to be killing it to score a try but they're in that 42 to the 55th minute Mark wow wow um few dislay tries and stuff like that as well uh but yeah look badman best obviously wasn't 100% uh came off at the end with precautionary um but look it looked pretty good it looked pretty damn good [ __ ] ponga was just on one I had him as Captain as my super coach hell yeah um Fords were absolutely brilliant there for a minute but yeah like they just again I don't know I like Crossland but I just felt like they they yeah they chopped and changed their halves just way too much during the year and now it's like this is working like coger and Phoenix look pretty good together but it's like I don't know if they got the runs like you know what I mean like can they control a full game together doesn't look like it so yeah we'll have to we have to see how this all goes out and I made fun of the looks of this dude in the preview he's pretty good man I was like this I like this dude doesn't look like a rugby league player well from the neck down he is he just doesn't he doesn't have the mug of an NRL player he got the mug of an accountant but yeah he's uh he's pretty damn good he looks like a nice little player uh yeah so look Knights yeah we're going to have we're going to have to see it definitely wasn't right but look they've got a pretty damn good team here it just doesn't look Co easy I might be wrong but have they played good for 80 minutes let me know in the comments I can't remember them playing good for 80 minutes this year I can't so anyway bench is lacking a little bit too but I thought the bench actually did a pretty good job this time 1 through 13 it's a squad it's a squad uh but yeah I'm excited for the uh so let let's have a quick look so they they've got a pretty bad forign against compared to the fins so yeah that just dead set half to win and then dragons they've got a substantially better foreign against than the dragons and the Raiders so looks like Dr Raiders is technically a dead rubber unless dolphins and Dragons draw imagine can you imagine that if that happened imagine if Knights and Dragon draw I mean Knights and dolphins draw and then R I don't know dragons win technically not out of it technically not out of it oh man nuts all right let's get on the roosters now I just want to I'll just I'll just wrap the Raiders because Roosters Vs Raiders you know we just mentioned it's essentially impossible for them to make it um literally a miracle um so good they've beaten penrith they've beaten the roosters with foggy did foggy play in this game oh foggy didn't even play in this game like with fogy massive like positive winning record they're coming here against a red hot roosters and look a lot went their way injury-wise but as far as the game went it didn't go their way at all they had two sin bins someone said to me the other day how did the penth not I'm like cuz pen because the milk are good and can be gritty they're a good team they just got really unlucky with their uh injuries and just had a just just to a key player that they sort of you know they' built the way they played around him and when he went down it was you know which is you know losses are losses there's no excuses but they can be gritty they can be good they're a good team man and I'm telling you if if foggy was fit this full year they they they're playing finals so they're no joke so yeah shout out to the Raiders so much went against them here they awesome just just awesome uh yeah but let's talk about the elephant in the room the injuries to The Roosters cheese down Bradley down Sha Sha walk Sam Walker down Bradley looks like AC which so he might miss next week or maybe two weeks but something you can manage Sam Walker ACL and cheese M here that's half their spawn gone for the finals can they still win the comp did I I don't think so man I think this just became a two- horse race I'm I still think they're a top four team without those two guys like I'd look at that roster still and I see them beating every team fifth down whenever they feel like it most times enough times to make them in the top four but to win a grand final what do you have to do finish in the top four which they have tick beat three top four teams in a row can they do that with this roster don't think so man probably going to have to knock off penth and Melbourne Storm from third don't I don't think so I don't think it goes down unfortunately um yeah just I just don't think it goes I think they've unfortunately I still think they probably make a semi but I I just don't see him playing foral I I don't see him winning the comp from here um cheese just offers so much through the power game and he really does straighten him up he didn't in this game actually he was playing way too wide too not play they're playing with too much width the Sam Walker's short kicking game an ability to keep pressure ability to play outside the box and almost most importantly he's goal kicking it's pretty important we saw clear literally had a a kick to put this into golden point he missed it sand Walker probably slots it you know so goal kicking now an issue and what do you do does Joey Manu come in at six now you've essentially got two running halves it's tough man does sandon Smith come in does Conor wats going there's options here like I said I still think it's a top four team that's how good the roosters are they can literally lose half their spawn and Victor Radley pomm International and be top four teams says something but win the comp I don't know what do you guys think I don't think they can so we sort of did our ladder predicted in so who does roosters have next week they got the bunnies like I said I dare say they win that even without those guys and The Bookies agree looks like penis going to win stor going to win and so looks like roosters are probably going to finish they've got to going to have to play penth with Nathan clear back back Nathan clear is always so good after an injury it's going to be tough I think they lose that then they're probably going to have to play like the doggies or something who's going to go through yeah it's one of these three teams I don't know who it's going to be but I think I think I think it just became a two- horse race boys I really do unfortunately and um it sucks it really does it really sucks but anyway um all right guys that that's it for that one let's let's we've already sort of looked at these but let's have another look all right so we let me know in the comments um if there's any games you want me to stream on these ones so we have Broncos vers storm I was going to stream that one but now Broncos are out of it probably not we have the spoon bow should probably stream that one right the spoon ball F this could have been a real good game too then um I mean this this game this game technically will keep you still alive like I said you would then need one of these two to have a draw these two teams have a draw but technically technically uh then we have doggies KS massive game so these are on Saturday maybe I could stream these too in the spoon balll yeah yeah okay sorry fully zoned out that start thing I forgot I was recording all right so Saturday we have doggies Cowboys Panthers verse Titans and then man oh no that's that's so s Saturday's dragons Raiders Bulldogs cows massive game and then Panthers Titans and then this could be a big game depending on what sort of happens here uh and then this is for the wow it's awesome sometimes final rounds sort of suck they're all sort of like this like teams in the top eight beating teams that can't make it we got the we got a spoon Bowl we got keep your Miracle alive then we have home final to playoff then we have penth legit but not not nothing too crazy then we got top four home final implications and then we have finish with lital like winner of this wins um plays finals crazy man absolutely crazy nuts all right guys that's it if you made it this far you know what that means you're an absolute Legend thank you all so much for watching guys and I'll see you in the next one