episode 8

The podcast episode discusses the team of the week in the NRL. The hosts mention players who performed well in various positions, as well as players who made poor decisions or had disappointing performances. They also discuss trades made by one particular player, Monty Matthews, who has made a high number of trades but still has underperforming players in his team. Episode 8. We're back. Break even pod. Teamless Tuesday. Let's get into it. Alright, well, as per usual, Louch, you can start us off with your team of the week, big fella. Alright, we'll start in the hook bottom, the wing fullback position. That's what we normally do. Brady Bird to the Cowboys, picking up the double. Very interesting, what does he actually mean to play? And late form for 21 years, he had a little... Brady Bird. I see, but yeah, back in... I need to go to Remus, mate. So double against the Parramatta Heelers. Play the game, mate, play the game. What do you think is the best player on the team? Fair enough. I'm just going to name two of them. Just chuck them in the wild card pairing. With Charnes and Devane. I love it. Edge, I'm going to go Hudson Young. Fuck Brady, take all of them. Hudson Young, he was, yeah, he got a double. It seems like everyone's going to get a double, isn't it? Mid, they're awesome, but... I'm just going to go half-double for his fancy. Then hooker Harry Grant with a double as well. Yeah, nice. Good team, good solid team, everyone performed well. Will Lusky. You were up to a bit of mischief as well on the weekend, I saw, on Teardown Story. Yeah, what's fucking new? Kidding slight? No. So in the wing fullback, I've got Armstrong. Hattrick. I'm sure he's going to be a common name. Ah, there they are. Hattrick, yeah. Played on one leg. On one leg. Is he out? Yeah. He's injured. I reckon he's got kicked a spot out, played unreal. Half, we've got C&K, moving to six. He's fucking on a trip. I was watching with like one eye, but it was good. Edge, Hudson Young, double. Can't really go past that. Ed, even though, you've got to get one. Got him for one. Did well in fans, he got 67. And then hooker, unfortunately, Harry Grant, on my head. Cost me the week. Did you lose this week? Yeah, unfortunately. Still holding the one though, so it's no worries. Alright. Yeah, wing fullback, we've got Armstrong, pretty obvious. Shout out to Kiera as well. Had himself a week. Had himself a week. At centre, we've got Ruben Brown. Had a good game against the Bronx. Found himself a try as well. Halves, we've got Chance, clearly. First game playing in the halves. Did a great job. Unreal. Edge, Hudson Young, got himself a double. Got himself back into the tries. Mid, we've got Hopgun, just for going into the half on 17 points. And finishing with a 68. Wow. Was great for the team. Wow. Man. Yeah. Yeah. Hooker, we've got Harry Grant for his double. But shout out to Paul Roach, who had an incredible game for the Wilds. Paul Roach, man. He should be there this week. Yeah, Freddie Lussac, not that hot of a take, should not be starting. He's a bit of a trash can. Yeah, he played well. Paul Roach played mean, man. He came on after fucking like 10 minutes as well. He had 69 minutes. Yeah. He wanted it more. He did want it. Well, my team, I don't think it's biased at all, but wing fullback I had, Tane Toypicky. Oh, yeah. I thought he was fucking brilliant. It wasn't really a fantasy relevant game, but, fuck, I thought he was awesome. Centre at Arleigh on one leg was brilliant. Half chance moving into the six was electric. Yeah, well, edge, I've actually got Jaco Ford. Thought he was fucking brilliant. Mid, I've actually put respect on Hayne Haas. Went off, couldn't even put weight on the foot, and then came back with 10 minutes to go. Somehow played again. Literally walked off, couldn't even put weight on the leg. And then hooker, sticking with the theme, I've got my boy Paul Roach. 69 minutes, 38 tackles for one miss. So you've got 12 wires. You've got 12 wires. The wires played very well, yeah, yeah. I was very, fuck, yeah. Best performance of the year from the wires. Seriously, I'm the man. Yeah. I couldn't be a bit faster. We were just waiting for the Panthers to blow away. Yeah. It's the kind of shit the Panthers win. Like, they just win it somehow. Panthers are playing like shit. We're down by six. They actually played better in the second half. And we just lifted and played even better than them. I thought they were edging us out just to fuck us again. Make us think we were close. Edging us. When they got that penalty, I was like, oh yeah, here we go, we'll blow it. And then some fucking hell. Yeah. Last, it's your segment big time. Oh, worst team of the week. Who was it? Well, just our good old friend down at fucking Cargill, Monty fucking Matthews, right? Do you want to run us through his trades this week that he just did? I'll just run you through everything he's missed. Cool, we'll do that. So Monty picked up Droloff, dropped out injured for six. It hurts. He had Madison as well, and Madison just decided he had the flu and couldn't be fucked showing up. So he didn't play. And then still got fucking Danny Levi on his bench. What did he post? He posted 845, which was the lowest score by over 50 points. Wow. We don't want to review his team too much. Yeah, we're going to cover his team. We're coming back to him. Yeah, regardless, kids in the bin. He's maxed trades and he's fucked. Lars, I guess we'll give him the honour. And for the third time in four weeks, I've taken top of the league. Yeah, not really much to say. The team's actually just cooking right now. Yeah, what was the total? 1,021, I think. You haven't had one ever until this year. Actually, just quietly my first 7,000 bomb. Yeah, congrats. Feels good, feels real good. Yeah, it took me a couple of years. Team's hot, team's hot. Well, moving on, let's go with grub of the week. Everyone's favourite Sigmund. Yeah, well, I'm sure he was. Fucking Isaiah, I think he blew it for me. Yeah, I think he blew it for you. It was fucking hilarious listening to the press conference after. Ivan Cleary was fucking eerie. Was he? What'd he say? Oh, mate, he didn't even want to answer a single question, eh? Yeah. And Isaiah's like, oh yeah, I don't like your discipline. He had a question, we went to Ivan, how does it feel to basically lose to a resentive grade? And then Ivan's just like, excuse me? Excuse me? And then the guy's just like, oh, how does it feel to lose to a team that had a lot of injuries? Yeah, Ivan was eerie. Carter? I've got to agree with Isaiah. It was just blatant fucking trash, really, from the big man. Did he get more fucking stupid than that? No fucking answer, either. No, he does. I don't care enough. Brett Nadin, is it? Yeah. Yeah, Brett Nadin. Brett Nadin. What'd he do? Just comes out, the guy's already on the ground with the ball, just comes flying down, shot into the air. No. On the ground. Did he get a red card? Nah, it's in the van. Probably on the van. Yeah, well, mine is a dude who I personally think is a big grub in general, and that's Jordan Rapata. Yeah, Jordan Rapata's a cunt. And a card kicker. Yeah, he's a grub, bro. He's a big grub. He's my grub of the week. And probably shout-out to Clem, I'm sure he was lippy on the field. Yeah. And Marty. And then Reid. Clem is always a grub of the week, too, he's a cunt. Yeah, weak-ass dog, he wasn't playing like a woman. Yeah. Alrighty, well, fuck through the rest of the team list. No, player of the week. Oh, play of the week? Player of the week, and then we'll follow that with surprise play. Oh, so, surprising player of the week. I'm going to give it to Ali. Ali came out, weak Warriors team, well, weak professional Marts Warriors team, and him and Pompey fucking stepped up, really. Pompey and Ali just left no hold out there, and they were fucking chilling. Both got in, clutched up big time. Both did get in. Surprise player of the week. I'm going David Armstrong. Pulls a Hattie out of his ass for a 90 bomb, which was good. Player of the week. I really have one. Neko Hines had himself a good game. Good to see him healthy again. Yeah, I've got Neko. Barlow. I'm just going to name a few Mars players. Jacob LeBar, Paul Roach, and Ali. They were all just unreal. Surprising, I'd say. Tied to a brickie. Yeah, everyone. The whole Mars. It was just surprising. I'll also, I'll copy you one with David Armstrong for my surprise player of the week. For my player of the week, I'm just going to go with my boy Paul Roach again. Just a fucking dog. Yeah, fair enough. Fucking Roach. One, I think you've got a couple of teams for us, big fella. Yeah, a couple of teams. The first team that we're going to run through, this might take a while. We might get him up, actually. Monty Matthews, also known, team name Half No More Trade. Half No More Trade, Monty Matthews. Where do we fucking start? Alright, I'm going to run through his team from top to bottom. And we'll just comment on some key players. So he's got Brayley starting at Hooker. Then he's got Joey Topps, Nedo, and Jollof at his mids. So, Jollof, he brought in last week to replace Tyhoo Harris. Who's out for two weeks. Which resulted in a switch from Jollof and a need to trade him out this week. I just don't get how you've already used 20 trades, and then you trade out Tyhoo with a trip trade. Who's one of your best players? After round 13, the guys. We'll actually mention that Monty has used 23 trades already. So he's only two trades off max trading. Just bearing in mind, the kid's used 23 trades, but still has Joe Chan and Danny Lee. Yeah, he's found a way. So he's traded 23 times, but not got rid of probably two of the shitter cashies of the game. Yeah, he has a brain of cash. Yeah. Tyhoo Weeks. Yeah. Still no Tyhoo Weeks. No, no. So he's got, he doesn't own David Armstrong, but he's got Joe Chan and Levi in his team. He went for Willison as the option over Armstrong. It's close to that. It is. It is. It's stupid. It's a stupid trade. So we'll see who's gone out of his team. He traded Jacob Carras in round six. That's not a bad trade. He got Joey Bonner. Yeah, true. He did get Joey Bonner. Let's actually just look at his round two trade. Ruben Cotter left the team in round two. He traded him in round two. In round two. He traded Ruben Cotter for 586k. Yep. That is disgusting. And he traded to Raul May a week earlier. Yep. Me. Guy's not buying good fantasy, are they? Yeah, no, he's not. He's got a closet. I think he's definitely a contender for the closet. He's been sliding for three weeks and I honestly just don't see him winning another one. You can't recover, really. He's fucked. He's fucked. He's got 12 points. His value's at... His value's at 12.5. So, I'm playing with the whole... What am I playing with? I'm playing with a trefoiler more than him every week. I'm going to deck Lomax more than him every week. It's just like... And it's fucking dangerous. We're fucking like five more trades. Yeah, we're five more trades, actually. Yeah. Monty, you're fucked. You're in the bin. It's your fault as well, man. Monty, I hate this trade. They're just bad trades. Yeah. But I put a 10 on you for the closet. Yeah, man. I paid about nine bucks, I think. Oh, maybe more. More. No, go home. Alright. I think that's about enough. That's about enough for Monty's team. Because, yeah, I don't know. I don't really see a way of fixing it. I'd say... Yeah, dude. My advice is get Joe Chan and Danny Levi up as quick as you can. My advice is don't trade for five reads and get out of the woods. And the thing is, he's max traded, but I actually, like... If I was him, I would triple trade again this week. Like, Jollof needs to go. Joe Chan, don't fucking hold him. And Danny Levi is just losing you coin. No, you have to play Danny Levi this week, because Jaden Bradley's out. Oh, he does, too. Yeah, he's fucked. He's fucked. Call it. He's fucked him. He's got Croydon. Croydon to Origen. Hyde to Origen. I'd say, fuck, get used to the taste of Cody's cuz. He's fucked up. He'll be alright. Start drinking Cody. Don't tell him to wait. He'll come, like, 16th. Start saving him. He'll come 16th. We've got one more team. Joe Fell. Which is... Young girl. A team named Dallien. Top of the Christchurch League, by the way. Top of the Christchurch League, alright. D-L-L-Y? D-L-L-Y. We'll just start with his starting line-up. Start with his starting line-up. He's got a good team. He's got a good team. He's got a great team, actually. He's got a few nice pods. Not many people have him. And that's a good sign. I'm gonna need to go with Josh Curran, either. Yeah, he doesn't even need to try. He might have already traded, but he doesn't really need to trade. I wouldn't trade if I had to. You haven't got two up. He's got Faino. He's got Faino in the emergency. He's got a full hold team. I think you're in a great spot, Fell, to be honest. Just hold. You've probably played Faino over Sam Hughes. No, you probably loop. You just loop Faino and Sam Hughes, and I think you can low-key drop a good score this week. When do they play, though? Don't even think about Faino for a reason. Fucking shit. Just hold next week and maybe send your team back to us next week when Oregon comes around. If it's in the league, Fell, don't force anything. Yeah, that team's a good team, actually. You're in a good spot, man. They're a good team. Don't worry. They're the mob. That team's a smoking bomb, aren't they? Yeah. Yeah. I need 5-volts trip codes. 5-volts has got the infamous trip codes. All right, we can use the team moves. Louie, do you want to get Tim Moss up? No. Dogs, Dragons. Dogs, Dragons is fucking... I'm bringing us up. Any changes on the ins and outs? Not many changes. James Stammen, hold the start. Yeah, Stammen. I don't reckon he'll hold it, though. I reckon Preston will start. You've always said that. Yeah. Yeah, but I reckon Preston starts game time. What's their obsession with not... Tough as nuts, right? Yeah, Sam Hughes. Max King, pack up, probably. Maxie King. Yeah, Maxie King is a great pick-up last week. If you don't have him, get him. Or don't. Or don't, yo. You don't have to, but... I definitely think he's a great pick-up through Origen. Plays all the top rounds. Yep. Good head of Zachy Lomax back in the squad this week on the wing. He was a Dragon spy last week, wasn't he? Yep. I think if you want to try squabbling Zachy Lomax, there's a lock this week. Is he? Oh, mate. I don't know. I'll put Tim on it. Alan, starting at 13? Yeah, it's ADB. Matt, finally. This is about this time last year as well, isn't it? Yeah. He could be. Yeah, watch all he gets on. He could be. In the mid-short, if they buy round, there's a bit of shit there. He's a gun mid, though, bro. They buy too much noise. Yeah, he's a gun. He's got two edges on the bench. Yeah. And then you cross, meaning... Yeah. That would... That would be ADB. He actually could go for ADB. Keep an eye on him. Yeah. It's only good he'll lose some cash. It's good, though. He's losing cash at the moment. I need to wait till he plays ADB. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I'm not picking on him until he's played ADB. No, look. It's good, though. He's losing a lot of cash. Even if he's played ADB, I'm like, I ain't going to waste his roll. Yeah. He plays ADB, though. He's the best. Better than weak-gutted. Yeah. Yeah, sure. I don't know why. All right, we'll move on. Calvin Tigers. Drinker needs to get out of the fucking train. Yeah, brain burns. How about the Tigers have two fresh centers? Tito, Casey, and Josh. I think it's because they lost both of their... Where's Oliver? I think he's been there. I think they lost both of their yellow. Oliver and... Brent Nated and Oliver both yellow. Yeah. Crap. Yeah, so... Brent Nated. Calvin... He's on the retirement list. If you don't have him, unlucky. You probably missed him. No, you haven't missed him. He's still going to score great every week. He dropped 63, man. Tigers have a pretty good lineup. Finu. Oh, shit. That Alex Toile, back to the bench, definitely wasn't a pickup. Yeah. Who the fuck is Justin Lux? Someone did pick him up. Who picked him up? Pilon picked up Toile last week. No, I think he had him this week. I had him in this week. I hope you didn't hear that. I'd say Papalese back to 11. Shit, they haven't started him. 13. What, Papalese? Yeah, I thought they were going to put him at 13. That's probably good for him. That means he'll play 80. Yeah, if I knew, he'd be 80 again, obviously. He's going to get kicked out of the line-by-line roster. Yeah. Oh, Cotter's at 13. Oh, he is at 13, yeah. Yeah, right. Sorry. Orichin is 10. Helium Sky. So he's going to be playing 80. 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