Flagship Episode with Sam Shinazzi and Clinton Maynard

[00:00:00] SharkCast! SharkCast! SharkCast! SharkCast! Fafina got the ball back in the Shire. Tell you what, slides off because we're coming home with a trophy. Hey there, welcome to SharkCast, poddipodcast, dedicated to the greatest sporting club in the history of the world, the mighty Cronulla Sutherland Sharks.

[00:00:38] This show is brought to you by Dyson Logistics, the Royal Mady Yacht Club in Port Hacking and Jason Hawes at Crips & Crips Real Estate. My name is Sam Shinazzi, an OG from 2015, blessed to be supporting this team for a lot longer than that.

[00:00:52] And we are here for another episode of this podcast that we love bringing to you. And today we are joined by a regular guest host. He was the first guy to step in when our old friend Adam stepped out and he's always got a place in SharkCast land.

[00:01:11] He lives such a busy life that he just can't sometimes make it to the studio and sometimes all of our lives clash and we can't find each other. But tonight we have, and it's going to be a great episode, please welcome to the show Absolute Sharks Tragic,

[00:01:24] probably the biggest sharks fan I know and that's offending everyone else I know. Lifelong fan member, he's a bedroom musician. He appears on Late Night and currently Primetime Radio on 2GB. He's affiliated with Channel 9 as well on the weekends mostly. Please welcome to the show Mr. Clinton Maynard.

[00:01:44] Yeah! Clinton, Clinton, Clinton. He always did the most wonderful intro, Sam. Mate, thank you for that. Very kind. I have the most wonderful people on the show. It feels like I'm with you every week because of course I listen to all your podcasts every week.

[00:01:58] But I don't think I've been with you since probably the Christmas episode with all the boys, it's been a busy year. It's been a long time since Christmas, my friend. How are you going? It's frustrating as always being a shark supporter. It's challenging every weekend.

[00:02:14] It's been particularly challenging in the last month. I feel like we got you on at a good time. Yeah, it doesn't feel like I've been anywhere because we're constantly messaging the boys. Watching football games and after football games and then listening to everyone contribute on the podcast.

[00:02:30] But look, it's been, let's say, let's be positive for a moment because you know I am Mr. Negative. It's been an overall sensational year. I don't think anybody realistically was expecting us to be running

[00:02:40] in the top four and actually the top two for most of the season as we have been. So yeah, the last month has been terrible. Let's be honest, I've been in the Broncos game, but it's been a really good year overall. We're overachieving. So that's the positive.

[00:02:52] We're equals second, third on the ladder. We lost last week 15 to 14 to the dogs. We've discussed that show on a few episodes already, but Clinton give me some very general basic thoughts on that game. What happened? Your feelings, your emotions, your thoughts?

[00:03:07] Oh, just absolutely frustration that again our starts let us down. Yeah, I know there's a lot of focus on Nico missing the field goal, missing the conversions. Yep, three tries to two. But we shouldn't have been in that position from even have a shot at field

[00:03:23] goal in the first place. The dogs are a good side this year. Well, in terms of they're a good defensive side and I think they're surprising lots of people in the NRL clearly.

[00:03:31] Sorraldo is a good coach to take him a little while to get there with that team. But they're not a team of superstars. He's got some good players there. Crichton's outstanding, Burton's outstanding, but they're not a team of superstars on paper. We've got a better team,

[00:03:43] but as it's been happening all season, our starts just keep letting us down. You know, and look, you know, even to see the captain drop the ball in Camer Guinness has been just about one of our best players this year.

[00:03:54] It's just so frustrating and you know, there will be games where we just can't make that comeback and sure we made the comeback against, we made the comeback against the Dolphins, but fell short. But we've made plenty of big comebacks with it was the Raiders or the Warriors

[00:04:07] this year and and Stoll wins. But eventually it's going to catch up with you and it's catching up with us now. Yeah, it is. It is against the better teams. It's just not going to work every single time and you can't be relying on that style

[00:04:20] of football and we will cover the game in a lot of the letters sections. A lot of letters as you can imagine, they have come in. A lot of people are not particularly happy. It's not all doom and gloom, but there is a bit in there, which is,

[00:04:31] which is fine. So we'll cover that as well. In your intro, Clinton, you talked about how the season was sensational. Let's talk about the season we've had so far. We had a whole bunch of wins in a row.

[00:04:46] The one loss against the Tigers was all looking pretty good. We've won one in the past five games. Where do you think we've overachieved? Where have we impressed you throughout the season? It's the first half of our run out defensive game and it was probably

[00:05:02] probably up until the roosters game where we did concede over, whether we did beat the roosters up until the roosters game. I thought our defense was good and it changed from last year where it really surprised me probably the first two years

[00:05:15] that fits his coaching, that he was a defensive specialist, but he wasn't really coaching a defensive team. And I thought they've approached this year with a new attitude in defense which was good. Now maybe this is as a consequence of that.

[00:05:30] I've actually felt all year our attack is not as smooth as it had been in the past couple of years. And I think that, and look, I was a big advocate for his departure from the club in Matt Moylan, but they might have

[00:05:44] even looked like in the first part of the year that we missed Matt Moylan a bit. I think he actually does take pressure off of Nick a little bit, perhaps from an attack, a pure attacking silkiness, maybe not quite seeing the same impact from

[00:05:59] Kennedy in the first part of this year, even though I think Kennedy's just been about a best player this year and you know that from the points. I give him a lot of points every week. But I was actually okay with that because we just seemed

[00:06:09] to have a new defensive resolve in that first part of our run. That does seem to have disappeared in the last sort of months or six weeks, which is disappointing. I still think our defense overall is better than it was last season, but it's something's not quite

[00:06:26] clicking at the moment with the starts. And I don't think your attack's been quite right all year. It's definitely not as, the old slingshot move has disappeared and maybe teams have over that anyway that players can put that down. I have been, when you talk about individual players,

[00:06:44] you've often described yourself as being on Blake Island. I thought Blake Brailey this year has been really, really great. He's been one of those players who's stepped up little inconsistent in the last month, but I think he's been outstanding and I'll probably name

[00:06:58] half the team who I think have probably gone to another level this year. And I think that's where I'm saying overall, I think it's been a sensational year because perhaps I thought there are a few players that and Blake would be an example where I thought

[00:07:12] we're probably not going to go much further even though they've had the talent. I think in the first half of this year, I think we've seen Blake actually display much of his real talent, which has been really refreshing and I'm pretty sure I said it in that Christmas

[00:07:24] episode that we recorded that I really thought the sharks this year would be a team that would be contending for the bottom half of the eight and the fact that we are, you know, well and truly in the top four at the moment

[00:07:36] and if we can pick our form up a bit, given we actually have reasonably friendly draw, we should be able to finish in the top four. To me that is overachieving. I still feel we're a team that probably is about from, you know, 10 to 6 to be honest

[00:07:50] and I think that changes next year when for newer Blake comes as long as he gets his form back but given that wonderful step-up to the year, we've actually got a real opportunity to make the top four maybe when the finals are going to.

[00:08:00] Is there a chance that the past month, so we had the, well say past five weeks we had the Broncos win which was exceptional. Look at last week against the Bulldogs, we conceded 15 points to tries mind you which so defensively last week they'll fine.

[00:08:15] They're actually not bad at all. They weren't, they weren't challenged that much but they didn't concede, they conceded one try from a kick so the other try was whatever. Is there a chance the past five weeks is tiredness, complacency and they kick

[00:08:31] back into gear and roll into the finals because everything you just said about the start and everyone playing out of their skin maybe there's just a bit of a, I don't know just a bit of a second gear thing at the moment.

[00:08:43] Yeah it could be but I guess I would have hoped I was really hoping the buy would be the draw the line in the sand with that. Sure. And that they'd come through these games where you know the Dolphins again the Dolphins actually have been at

[00:08:55] top four side for most of the year. You don't look at them on paper as a top four side but they've been performing like that. Yeah. And you know we had Penrith obviously waft off the park but we played Penrith, Roosters, Broncos, Melbourne in Melbourne

[00:09:05] all these big games and we came through that period I mean the parent the Penrith game was just a shocker. Yeah. But we came through that period you know probably better than we'd expected and okay maybe we have tied in the end towards it

[00:09:18] but I would have thought the buy was the line in the sand and you're then playing a team that although the Bulldogs were overachieving as well. Yeah. They throw nothing at you in attack other than Burton's long kicking game

[00:09:29] and so I think to come out of the blocks and play such a bad say first 20 to 30 minutes again in that game like that's what I would have expected them to actually come out on fire and you know Sam I'm forever the pessimist

[00:09:42] and I jumped on the radio last Friday when we were talking some sport on 2GB and I was asked what do I think had happened and I said look I'm hearing good things from the sharks. I'm going to tip them because I think they're going

[00:09:54] to I think they're going to address the starts because I heard your interview with Siffer a week before and I just I had a bit of confidence they were actually going to turn around those starts and they didn't so I guess I actually I don't have a lot

[00:10:07] of given what we've seen in the last month I don't actually have a lot of confidence that we're going to turn it around the next few weeks. Sadly, I'm we'll talk and see what's coming up this weekend. I've been lucky enough for last two weeks

[00:10:17] to watch them in depth training and they look pretty good on the training field like they're ripping in there. It's all going okay. I just don't know what the what the reason is for the slow starts. Yeah, it's hard to put a finger on it.

[00:10:33] I don't think it's complacency. I don't see how it could be complacency when they've had these games like they had against Penrith like they had again. The Dolphins was just one of the most woeful first 20 minutes of football you've ever seen.

[00:10:46] So I don't see how any team could be complacent again and then so you're playing the Bulldogs. You couldn't have complacency going to that based on what's happened in the previous weeks and even where the Bulldogs are sitting on the table.

[00:10:57] I mean, I'm not going to deny that Bulldogs was a bad start but I pointed out to Kieran on Monday morning. I said, I said we had a drop ball and then a set of six against us turns into what? Two or three sets they concede.

[00:11:12] Most most teams concede after 18 tackles their own 20. It blows out to 12 but then we're sort of the dominant team for the rest of the game. It is a bad start but one of our listeners points out and I'll get to it later

[00:11:26] that watching the game back without the emotion or as much emotion, it's never as bad as what it seems and the Canterbury game, you know, completely should have been one from the first 10 minutes let alone the final few goal or whatever but result aside,

[00:11:42] it's not as bad as what we, including me are making it out to be in a scheme of things. Sorry, when it snowballs and there's four out of five losses. Yeah, that's bad but as far as the performance goes,

[00:11:56] I mean, it wasn't the worst performance of the year by any stretch of the imagination. So yeah, the funny thing about it and I've made similar comments on our group chats that this is before the Bulldogs game.

[00:12:08] I was most frustrated by the nature of our losses this year. Okay, the Tigers was just, we're blown off the park by a team that was running last at the time and I know there's the whole return to like hard thing

[00:12:20] but that was just one of the worst performances you've ever seen. The Penrith game, there's all this excitement about the fact that we'd finally started beating top teams and then we were never in the match. The Dolphins game, we have 20 points put on us in 20 minutes at home.

[00:12:38] That game was at home, wasn't it? What was the other loss we had before the match? Paramata at Paramata. Paramata and yeah, okay, well they had Mitch Moses back but again, we never completed in that game in the first half. It was the nature of those losses.

[00:12:52] If anything, the Bulldogs loss was one of the better ones. Not just because it was one point but at least we were competitive throughout the whole game. I think the Tybee Rudolph penalty was actually fair but listening to some other analysis during the week,

[00:13:05] a lot of people don't think it was fair. Are you serious? Who doesn't think it wasn't fair? Name names. I was listening to Denning Kemp's podcast tonight and they said it was a 50-50 call where I was more like,

[00:13:17] no, no, no, no, you probably shouldn't be flying anymore. I respect the heck out of Denning. It was 100% the call. Yeah, I might have been one of the other guys on the pod who was, they weren't blowing up about it but they were saying it was 50-50.

[00:13:29] They were definitely all like, no, no, no, it was 100%. No, I agree with you, Sam. Yeah. I completely agree with you. And that's not just why we lost it. We shouldn't have been in that position at the end to only be leading by two but it contributed obviously

[00:13:41] and the fact it was Toby probably showed up where Toby's out at the moment as well with his fitness set a lot, unfortunately. So slow starts is the key to all of these losses and that's where they need to address things

[00:13:56] and I don't know how else you do it. I know they've been doing a bunch of stuff and it's not working to where we need it to be so I guess you keep working at it. Let's just talk about a few things floating around

[00:14:08] in the news, Clinton, before we get to a good chunk of mail. Very soon, we thought it was going to be tomorrow. Now we're hearing it's not going to be tomorrow but very shortly and use that timeframe however you like.

[00:14:22] The Sharks are going to be announced as one of four teams going to Las Vegas, Nevada to play round one next year and it'll be either against the Panthers or the Raiders. I'd have my preferences there but it's happening. It's not officially announced.

[00:14:42] So if you book your tickets and it all falls through you cannot blame Shark Cars Pod but it is happening, we are going. They're just putting off announcing it for different unknown reasons. A lot of thoughts about this Clinton.

[00:14:54] There's pros, there's cons, there's lots of things to weigh up. I think that as a fan, as someone who can probably make it there it's going to be fun. There's ways you can make this a successful trip by promoting your club and your brand

[00:15:10] and attracting sponsors and that kind of thing. But what are your thoughts on the Sharkies in Las Vegas? Well, I'm the lone dissenting voice here. I honestly, I thought the first trip to Vegas this year was sensational. I've never seen so much excitement locally

[00:15:29] as you hear in Sydney about the NRL. I thought it was great. I thought we left the AFL for dead. There's always focus about AFLs playing all their matches in Sydney and Queensland and they're round one because we were going to be off in Vegas.

[00:15:43] Well, the excitement was actually back home with the coverage. So I thought, I actually thought it was a great initiative. However, I was over the moon that we weren't a part of it and I'll believe the dissenting voice here on this.

[00:15:55] I think it's stupid we're even being involved. I genuinely believe that. Now my reasons for that is that and I feared this when I say feared it in Warrimex, I went my teams but with the travel that was involved

[00:16:08] and with all the focus on playing in Vegas of all places, I would think that that would have an impact on the players and the staff of those clubs and they would come home flat and get their seasons off to a bad start. That's pretty much what happened

[00:16:23] and even three or four months down the track, you've got the Broncos and I'm not saying this is just because they played in Vegas but I just think getting off to a good start is really important for a club.

[00:16:33] You've got the Broncos and the precipice of missing the eight. Surely they've got Reynolds, Injured and Reese Walsh in and out and all that sort of thing. You've got the Roosters have found some form but they've been inconsistent. Manly's up and down. Sure, Tom Travoyage's, Tom's been out

[00:16:48] but that's all part of it and South's had a disaster of a season. They've come good in recent times because they know Wayne Bennett's on the way. I cannot see how flying to the other side of the world to play a game

[00:17:01] and it's not just flying to the UK to play in the World Club Challenge which usually also affects teams at the first part of the season. It's all the hype about Vegas. It's the fact it's in Vegas in the US.

[00:17:14] I think that will affect the start of the season for any club that's involved and I don't want our club to be put in that position. Then there's the aspect of why have we been selected? Well, the fact is and this has now been reported

[00:17:29] over the past couple of weeks, there are only four clubs left in contention. The Melbourne Storm pulled out a couple of weeks ago. No other clubs are willing to put their hand up at this point. That must tell us something. Why don't they want to be involved?

[00:17:42] I've heard Gus Good on his podcast and a couple months ago but say, yep, the Bulldogs be interested down the track, not yet. Right. Well, I struggled to see where the benefits are. Financially, maybe the first time this project took place

[00:18:02] helped us secure the funding from the sharks, loving brothers who live in the States. Perhaps it's going to attract some more investment for us, major investment. But other than that, I cannot see any advantage. I'm dead serious. I cannot see an advantage for it. Now, in saying that,

[00:18:19] look, I don't have the money to go over there myself and watch them. Perhaps if I had some cash and was going to go over there, I'd love the trip. I struggled to see what the advantage is. I mean, I think that there's two different sides

[00:18:31] to that Clinton of what you just said. Like anyone who could make their way over there will have a good time, win, lose or draw. Like that's not even a thing. It's a fun place to go. Woohoo, let's have some fun. Yep.

[00:18:44] The more serious side to what you're saying, I take on board and I'm not going to disagree with everything you say. I think that the team's performance is huge, a little bit circumstantial as you pointed out in one of those cases. So it's not necessarily the reason

[00:19:02] why some of these teams are struggling. There is an impact on the body and they'll have to do their research, their science and everything on it to make it as less an impact as possible. It's 2024. There are ways to do this sensibly and reasonably

[00:19:18] and come out of it okay. But I get what you're saying. It's a risk. It's all a huge risk. I completely agree with you on that note. You hear teams having a tough run on the road here in this country that you'll hear complaints,

[00:19:33] oh, we've got to play Two Engaged in Queens and then Space for Month or something like that. You know, the other side of the world. I think probably the deeply concerned for me though, Sam, is the fact that we're a 17 team competition

[00:19:44] and only four teams are willing to go. Now, the talk was after around the time that the first games were played that those clubs were keen to have another crack at it. Well, that didn't last long. That disappeared pretty quickly. And then what about every other club?

[00:19:59] And then the fact that if you look at who they're selecting, okay, the Warriors, I can see the advantages for the NREL because it's a different country. The Penrith of the Champions. Well, this seriously, the selling point for the Raiders

[00:20:10] is they got the same bloody logo as an NFL team. We are not a well supported club. We bat above our weight. But if the NREL had the choice of who they wanted to send, they wouldn't want to send us. No offense to us.

[00:20:24] We're a poor battling club from the Sublands Shire. I know he's on in good form particularly right now, but what about the King and Cowering by Nico Hines the face of the game? Americans wouldn't give us stuff about Nico Hines.

[00:20:34] They bet they could fall in love with him, you know. You look at the crowd numbers who were there. There was hardly any Americans there, Sam. They were traveling supporters. A lot of English people went over. A lot of English people went over from the Super League.

[00:20:48] Now, I know that clubs had to put forward, estimations about how many of their local supporters went. Honestly, if we have more than 5,000 sharks fans there, I'd be stunned. We don't get a Brookfile little on Los Vegas. All right, well, Clinton has put down the challenge

[00:21:02] and we have thousands of people listening to us. So I'm not suggesting you under any pressure to book your tickets, people, but Clinton thinks we're not going to travel. I think he may be wrong. All right, and Sam, don't get me wrong. I'm a lone voice on this.

[00:21:18] This morning it was in, it's where we're recording this on Wednesday, us Tuesday. This morning when it was in the papers at work, I've walked into the office and we're very much, we're at the rugby league station, one of the rugby league stations at Sydney TGV.

[00:21:28] So everyone's talking league all day long. And people were coming up to me all day and saying, oh, how good is that? Sharks are going. People were stunned when I explained my position. Then they started to go, oh yeah, maybe you're right. But no one can understand my,

[00:21:41] I think when I explain it, maybe some people can understand my logic. I know I'm a one off here. And that's just, that's the beauty of this podcast. We express different views. We do. I'd see very few redeeming features.

[00:21:52] I guess what I was hoping for that it would be a home game where we were going to be rewarded financially and given we have as much as small capacity ground at the moment, probably not generating much revenue. I did see that as an attraction.

[00:22:03] So when I read the, where the away team, I was disappointed about that. That has come in late in the picture because we were the home team. Well, when I say we're the home team, it was strongly suggested we were going to be the home team, nothing confirmed.

[00:22:17] And when that fell through, I think some eyebrows were raised and the calculator came out and they still thought it was feasible. So that's the club's decision. I'm with you completely Clinton on the performance stuff. Like I know I joke about Vegas

[00:22:30] and I can't wait to be drinking cocktails with all the crew and everything, but and don't get me wrong. I can't wait to drink cocktails with the crew, but I'm with you like the performance in and around that game and afterwards for at least I think a month

[00:22:46] is going to be under the microscope and and you know, this year, well all three years under Fitzgibbon we've had really good starts taking us a long way to the finals. So if we don't have that start and we're chasing our tails,

[00:23:00] well things could be a lot different for the Sharkies. So we'll see what happens there. And but I'm with you in in that I'm a little bit concerned about yeah, the effect on the players. And I just, I hope that the management, Dino and Steve Mase

[00:23:17] haven't been spending all their time lobbying the NRL for this one. Well, we had the CEO's report released today. The club is facing yet more delays the construction of the Leeds Club and we weren't spending time worrying about going to Vegas.

[00:23:31] Like, you know, get the basics right first please. Look, that's that's not a bad call. It's not a bad call. I don't know at the moment what they can do to speed things up, but that's not a bad call. It's over! NRLW star, Anessa Biddle,

[00:23:51] who had a great breakout year. She has resigned until the end of well, she signed a long-term deal until the end of 2027. So that's outstanding. NRLW is less than a month away. I cannot wait. I think this year Clinton, our team will go better than last year.

[00:24:09] I think there was a lot of expe- expectation on us last year. The core group is with us. We've bought some really good players in and I think that they're a good shot of doing something pretty special this year. I hope so. I enjoyed watching them last year

[00:24:22] when I was able to. Because of the hours I worked, I saw bits and pieces of the origin games because I'm actually usually working at that time. So I only saw either the first half or the second half of the origin games,

[00:24:34] but I was just impressed overall with the standard. Yep. Now, whether it's the kicking game, whether it's their defense, it's really, compare it say, two or three years ago. It's up to level level and there were some sharks girls obviously involved in those games.

[00:24:47] The fact that those games were sellouts as well. Yeah. I think really bodes well for the sharks when you bring it back to the shy. Now, that's where you've got to congratulate the club for being on the front foot in seeking a license quite early in the piece.

[00:25:01] Absolutely. For the NRLW. You've got other clubs that aren't yet taking part and the fact that we were actually knocked back a couple of times and eventually got there. I think that holds us in good stead because you can just see it

[00:25:11] that in five years it's going to be massive. Yeah. And they're building their own brand like they're the Kronella sharks but I'm not suggesting that if you follow the Kronella sharks you don't follow the NRLW sharks but their own team, their own superstars

[00:25:27] and they extend over the whole fan base and bring in a different fan base as well. Younger, different demographic sometimes they're going to be their own juggernaut within a few years and the caliber of who they're signing is just super impressive. So watch this base on Sharks NRLW.

[00:25:47] We can tell you that the shark jets went down 32 to 18 to the roosters. They played at Wentworth Park the legendary historic Wentworth Park. They're backing up this week against the Magpies at Henson. There'll be a flag match on before that. Our flag team won last week

[00:26:03] 18 points of six over the Chukis. They're sitting in 11th position but they have a game in hand as well as six other games remaining as well. So there's still a chance to make it. And Clinton, I did want to point out that

[00:26:17] we got a whole crop of young guys coming through lower grades and the past two weeks as I said I've been able to watch a bit of training and for both games they've had pretty much the same guys on the B team playing against the superstars

[00:26:34] and then believe it or not some of the superstars from the B team and they play against each other. They do structured plays the whole thing. There's a kid and he's a kid. He's 19 called Felix Fartilli and he plays flag and he's the height of Tsukuhatsu Pua

[00:26:54] and he is probably not as built as him. He's got a bit of growing to do but there is another giant amongst us. He's from New Zealand. They call him the white Kiwi I think that's his nickname or something like that. And he is a monster

[00:27:10] and he's legitimately still growing and I think he scored seven tries in seven games for the flag team and I imagine he might get a cup game at some point if he hasn't already but this guy Felix if he can get the body right

[00:27:25] we got another giant coming through our ranks so the whole prop thing might not be a problem in two years or so. Fantastic and I hear there's now I've not seen Newtown this year I must admit but I've hear there's really good wraps on the young fallback

[00:27:41] when we bought from Penrith. Yeah so he I've watched him the last two weeks of training as well as in the games and he's legit. Now the only negative you might say is that he's small in stature but he's tough, he's talented

[00:27:56] and he's very much very much involved in their training drills and I don't think he's next man up but I think in the next year if the number one goes down I think he might be the guy to go to because he's been just electric and he's essentially

[00:28:14] a prototype of Dylan Edwards and that's not a bad thing. So really good, really good player. I also saw I think his name is Riley Pollard young half we got from Penrith. He was doing some stuff down there and he looked really good two a half back

[00:28:32] so there's a bit of hope there they're a few years away but legitimate proper rugby league players with talent so watch this space again on that I reckon. Yeah it's good to hear the only the disappointment though with the answers coming through I guess there's still the plight

[00:28:48] of Kay Dykes. He was not running around the other day he had the leg up. Well he's out for the year. Yeah leg up it was in some sort of cast and he was icing it still him and Max Bradbury actually

[00:28:59] were together and it was quite a sad sight. I believe it's some sort of kneecap issue so I don't have much more info on that one but yeah for the year and it's a challenge for him to come back and I mean it's not out of the question

[00:29:13] that you just got to stay fit somehow so we wish him all the best with that one. Clinton we're going to jump to the mail because we do have a bit of a deadline on this episode. Now I do have to say we had to edit

[00:29:27] down some of the mail just because it was so long and I made sure I got all the good stuff. So if you hear me read out your mail and it's a bit different to how you wrote it it's still yours.

[00:29:38] I've just had to edit a little bit just a little bit of housekeeping for you. James says Hines should have made the field goal we pay him a million dollars a season to take those kicks you could blame the rest of the team

[00:29:50] but they laid the perfect foundation for him to kick that and he blew it our season is fast imploding sorry to be negative but something has gone wrong. And I replied to James saying you're not being negative you give me your feelings and that's all good

[00:30:05] there's a lot of thoughts on things like that so we'll keep rolling until we have a chat. Peter says one takeaway from this disappointing result is that Toby is the man to make way for AFB offers very little apart from errors in ill discipline he's had his moments

[00:30:22] but I'm afraid his time is up on the plus side Cam had a blinder keep up the good pod work appreciate that from Peter there's a lot of talk about Toby as well so we'll get to that Tomo says good job with the podcast

[00:30:37] we have a team that can win the comp but seem unable to put it together week in week out we did it for the first 10 of 11 rounds but now it's gone again I'm generally pretty negative so take this as you will but I think we're a big show

[00:30:53] of missing the eight from here on that point Clinton do you think we can miss the eight from here? No I don't think we can I have done the latter predictor in your respect is that early for you or is it about right? It's about right

[00:31:09] yeah it's been I did about two weeks ago okay now it was before I did have us down for a Bulldogs win mind you sure and I think I had us missing we may be missing the four but might have been around fifth oh boy now mind you

[00:31:21] that's me literally predicting every single match correct I'm running second in the TGV tipping comp though well that's it that's an interesting thing in itself you coming second can I shed some light can I draw the curtain back for our listeners yeah kickoff every time

[00:31:37] when we do that group text you're like I haven't got a good feeling about this one I often don't tip the sharks and I'm criticised for it don't worry but I think we will make the eight because it's a really it's actually a really tight competition

[00:31:54] getting off to such a great start is going to put us in very good stead now I think the cutoff the talk of her the cutoff today's could be about 32 points this year so what are we on 24 with a bite of come okay so we're so

[00:32:11] for for wins yeah I think we're pretty well positioned to make the eight and I certainly think the top four was well with insights still despite this bad run but as I said earlier I still wouldn't be surprised with finished six or seven at all so on Nico

[00:32:27] Tomo says I assume he'll be copying some heat but rightly so good halfbacks win games like that hmm I think we've paid over for a halfback that makes but makes a good pinup boy for the NRL in the club he showed he can be at a high standard

[00:32:44] but not enough games at that standard will keep going on max is a lot of hines to get through he also talks about Toby and says surely he's played his last game the NRL this season he's unfit and making too many errors in defense and attack

[00:32:58] he has to be dropped sorry for the long email but I had to vent somewhere that's from Tomo so that's cool you can vent all your life my friend Jordan is brief and says Toby the worst player in the NRL in my opinion for a spoiler

[00:33:14] because we're not going to do a preview on this episode Toby's been named on the bench so he's lost his starting position so I have a feeling Clinton that that bench is not settled so again I would be checking your team listen now before kickoff

[00:33:31] but I can assure Tomo and our listeners that that gentleman in particular Toby has been talking to the coach a lot this week so it's not all like everything's cool and peachy like he knows he's mucked up

[00:33:46] and it's up to him to sort of get himself out of that position so we'll keep moving on because there's a lot to get through and there's more on those two gentlemen as well Blake says coming off the bye we missed the jump Nico didn't touch the ball

[00:34:00] for 10 minutes at the start of the game his first touch was a dummy half pass in yardage and the second touch was a terrible kick he was out clutched by Burton in extra time he shouldn't have missed that field goal I feel for him I hope he's okay

[00:34:16] but I've seen enough from him at seven to suggest he should take the six jumper if we don't make the top four with this start and the draw remaining fits should be heavily scrutinized by the way I'm ready for the Heinz redemption arc

[00:34:33] the narrative is made for himself is his mentally weak and I bet that's what opposition players are telling him all the time so Blake's on his side but he needs to see a lot more from Nico what are your thoughts on him becoming a 5-8?

[00:34:48] originally if you asked me say two years ago I would have said yes because he's got that running flair but he's quite a dominant style of player I think I think he's which is why Origin was disappointing the way that turned out

[00:35:01] because it was his first crack of running aside and you know I feel so sorry for him over the Origin experience because what hope did he have with a 12 man side everyone was criticizing his kicking game but when you're playing a 13 man team

[00:35:15] and you've got 12 what pressure have you got in terms of you know having some people to protect you with your kicking game you're on a hiding to nothing I think he's our half back now I know he's our half back

[00:35:29] you've got to look at who the alternatives are I think Trendle and let's remember with both these players they're both young halfbacks or young halves I'm not seeing enough from Trendle that he should be the main man I guess I'd say gotcha okay

[00:35:45] so I think Trendle can be and we know Trendle's got a pretty good boot on him there's a good kicking game in there I think Trendle really needs to be the number two because I can't see Trendle as being

[00:35:57] the number seven going forward with Niko being the off-sider and the 5-8 is usually the sort of the off-sider I guess does Niko need a different 5-8 then or is that not that doesn't affect him sometimes wonder that I mean talking about our up and down season

[00:36:12] we've actually had inconsistency in the halves mostly because of Trendle's indiscretion you know Atkinson has certainly impressed but he's very he's actually very limited even though we won the Melbourne game with him running the whole show he is very limited as a half

[00:36:28] so I don't I probably don't think he's the answer it would be interesting I don't think we've seen we've seen Atkinson and Hines play together in the halves maybe once or twice you've given Trendle his out for five weeks or so I think Niko is our half back

[00:36:43] and I think that he's only played half to two and a half seasons now so on that let's keep going because the next letter is all about that it's from Ian I believe Ian might work at Channel 9 Clinton so I think it's the right Ian I've got here

[00:36:59] somebody I might know might be someone you know he said I'm perplexed about Niko even when we're having good winds I never really see him being in the same league as a Cleary or Moses people would talk about him over the last couple of years

[00:37:11] as if he was one or two or three of the most elite players in the game I never saw it that way he's played less than a hundred games and in that position it takes years to build the confidence to run your team

[00:37:24] I think everybody's gone off early on Niko is the greatest thing even on your show he gets labeled the King of Caring Bar which I know is a fun term but it still indicates he's somehow more special than anyone else and he hasn't earned those stripes yet

[00:37:40] who knows one day he might be alongside Cleary D.C. in Reynolds or even Andrew Johns but even when he's playing well he's light years away from that in my opinion I wish him all the best I hope he gets there

[00:37:51] but I don't think all of this championing and premature bestowing of greatness over the last two years has been good for him thanks for the show the massive podcast consumer and yours is my favorite well, what about that at the end? Sharkast is his favorite

[00:38:07] thanks for everything about that legendary comment look it's a great statement you've made just on our personal King of Caring Bar thing it's very much lighthearted and it's very much because of the location that the young man has found himself in

[00:38:23] and that was pretty exciting for people in Caring Bar so that's why he's the King of Caring Bar but I don't mind this shout from Ian at all and I think he's kind of onto something here and I'm mostly responsible

[00:38:37] because I've just been bestowing greatness upon this fellow and I think he is great and he's obviously not perfect and he's got a long way to go I was talking to our colleague Dave Ricchio today and he won't mind me saying this Dave is very obsessed with players

[00:38:52] reaching certain points of their career and 100 games is the minimum right to sort of be someone and get somewhere and he was talking about guys like DCE in particular how they had peak years so Nico had you know an amazing run he was player of the year

[00:39:09] went to the finals he had a great second year started off having a good third year that's not common with halfbacks but he did that DCE did that DCE was missing from origin for a number of years in between and this lull that he was in

[00:39:24] I mean DCE had already won a comp but take that aside again he had an amazing year and then he sort of just pep it out a little bit and I think that as Ian suggests Nico is kind of on that same journey

[00:39:40] we know he can be great we've seen him be great we've seen him miss chances at being great the guy's not perfect maybe once he's a 200 gamer he's kicking field goals in extra time for fun I don't know maybe he's not maybe I'm wrong

[00:39:57] but I think the fact that we signed this guy a long term he's our guy until you know almost the end of the decade we're gonna find out what he's made of but Ian makes a great point like he's barely played and we're all going

[00:40:13] you're the king, you're the best well he called the flip side of that Clinton is he was the best he was the best player of the year in 2022 you know I think this might sound a little bit flippin'

[00:40:24] but I think part of the issue is that we placed Nico on this really and the whole game does on this high pedestals one of the big personalities of the game one of the stars of the game that's not completely based

[00:40:35] on how good he is on the field some of it has to do with the fact he's a really good looking bloke seriously one of the faces of the game and the fact he has had this difficult upbringing you might say there's some challenges off the field

[00:40:47] and has come through that would appear to be one of the nicest people you'll get in professional sport and I think that means we all have high and then has a breakout season in his first year of the Sharks and I think that means overall

[00:41:01] there are then much higher expectations of him we could probably consider Nico actually as a 23 or 24 year old halfback not the 27, 28 year old he is because he's only played 2.5 years in that position compare him to Mitchell Moses who usually cops at left, right and centre from fans

[00:41:18] it's probably only in the last year people who actually considered Mitchell Moses elite we consider him now elite and he did play his after he was sensational in the state of origin game but he's missed a lot of football for Paramount this year

[00:41:29] but his team is sitting on his wooden spoon position at the moment and he played very well against the Sharks but his team has now lost to a game straight as well and he cops a lot because of you know the fact he's the number 7

[00:41:41] it comes with the territory of being a halfback it does but also being this big personality face of the game thing and perhaps if he didn't hold that position off the field there actually would not be as much pressure on him

[00:41:56] now do I think he's playing good in the last couple of weeks? No I've been disappointed with aspects of his game I don't think he handles the pressure of the origin not just playing the origin game but the whole speculation in the lead up to origin

[00:42:09] and then the fall out when the number 7 cops it for the loss I'd love to see him not part of origin for next year to see how he handles the whole season without that speculation it will be picked in the origin

[00:42:22] but that's reality of being a top number 7 I guess Yeah, yeah it is I've got confidence in the long term he'll be up there with one of our best players who we've had in the club He's a very good player

[00:42:34] he's under this spotlight that you just very intelligently pointed out and sometimes that spotlight gets too bright it happens to everyone and it happens to the King of Caringborough as well so it's up to him to correct that

[00:42:47] I know for a fact and I've seen it as well as knowing other stuff he's been out there practicing his field goals that's not no word of a lie, it's not a joke Look at his goal kicking up until the last this week he was kicking above 90%

[00:43:00] now in his first season we were all bagging him out for his goal kicking so he's obviously put the working off in the off season on that aspect of his game and he's come through Yeah Darryl Hulligan is down there every week now

[00:43:11] and they're taking it very seriously so I just I think the fact that he shanked the Dolphins kick that probably says a lot about the pressure he's been under with the whole origin for that I reckon it was very unfortunate it was unfortunate

[00:43:22] didn't hit the post and miss or go in or whatever it was unfortunate Neil says now this is a wrestling reference Clintons just hang on to your hat he said I thought smoke was going to cover up the field Uncle Hattie was going to appear it was bizarre

[00:43:37] scoring three tries to two and losing missing a field goal from unmissable position how can we turn this slump around that's from Neil the only way Neil and I hate to say it is to just practice and play hard and train hard to give you all the cliches

[00:43:55] and stand by each other don't let anything creep into conversations don't let outside influences come in just stay solid they're going to be fine Eddie says long time listener first time writer well thank you for writing in Eddie thanks for listening he's from Cofs Harbour

[00:44:13] but he lives in Tweed heads disappointed with performance against the Bulldogs I think Toby needs a stint with the Jets I love both of our centres I'd like to see them get more early ball it feels like we're always hitting our back rowers for crash plays that's interesting

[00:44:29] I'm also worried about the length of Nico's contract and the price tag that comes with it in some other news Greg Bird former shark plays in our indoor cricket team up on the Gold Coast and he's competitive as ever imagine facing Greg Bird in dog cricket

[00:44:46] that it's just a short little field and he also says Eddie also says regards to music my dad was a musician by trade in a semi successful band the 80s and 9 is called your fanatics he went on to be the drummer for Jenny Morris

[00:45:02] and tour Australia supporting in excess that's pretty cool that's pretty amazing as for me I'm a massive blink one a two guys saw them in February and they were amazing keep up the great work that's from Eddie thanks Eddie for the background and everything that's awesome

[00:45:17] tell Greg Bird that we said hi might leave it at that for now James says long time listening to the show since 2017 I think you're spot on with Rudolph he's unfortunately been off his game for the past year or two injury seems to plague him

[00:45:32] ACL injuries taking a toll for mine hunts game of late deserves a complete reevaluation of letting him go sign him up our team is pumping when he is on to come us also be on the bench you've also looking at BHU and Toby

[00:45:50] to maybe make way for the new blood good headache to have glad I'm not the coach and James also sent a photo in from the weekend with his daughter and Royce Hunt which was awesome so glad you got to meet Royce and thank you for listening James

[00:46:02] for so long what have we got here the great RCB shark has royalty has written into us he says a lot of good work is being eroded let's start with the gaffer that's an old term isn't it the gaffer

[00:46:15] he's a guy that speaks so well at the presses in midweek that I'd run through a brick wall for him I believe there's no way they can lose yet each week the team starts so flat and sluggish can you explain to me

[00:46:27] also why the centers do all the grunt work and never get the ball in the trial line what happened to the slingshot what happened to Kennedy's ball playing so just on all that RCB I'm not sure what happened to the slingshot maybe it was just becoming too predictable

[00:46:40] maybe they're keeping it in the back pocket let's talk about the gaffer Craig Fitzgibbon Clinton how do you reckon he's going I think he's going okay because I think that you know part of Couch's job is what happens in the off season yeah obviously

[00:46:57] and I think he changed a lot of aspects of our game in the off season and this is what I guess is the point of the last couple of weeks I just think we showed at the start of the year more resilience in defense

[00:47:09] and we had that whole problem with the left side which was sort of rectified at the end of last season that was certainly fixed this season we had the the whole world telling us we couldn't beat good football teams and there was something in that yep

[00:47:24] that was rectified as well it's really only been the last month we've seen things drop off um yeah I I think probably think the question for Fitz and the coaching staff probably now now need to confront is the starting side for the use of the bench

[00:47:41] we seem to get this great impact off the bench and it probably doesn't matter whether we're talking a Jack Williams Tom Hazelton was off the bench at the start of the year then graduated the starting side then back to the bench last week he was providing

[00:47:54] good impact off the bench first part of the year it's now been Royce in the last couple of weeks so he has been making good use of the bench but it's like now you've got to morph that into what's our best starting side yeah

[00:48:08] so I think that's probably the challenge you need to face now but I actually think overall he's having a good year Liz wrote to us and said how are you feeling about the halves and our depth would you bring in someone to help Nico

[00:48:18] or are we okay with him being the most experienced one out there and I think by that she means experienced half I'm assuming well and we sort of covered that a little bit Liz before and what makes me think of that Clinton is the fact that

[00:48:34] friend of the pod Chad Townsend has reportedly signed a deal with the roosters and that made me think about guys of you know not not even off contract but could you imagine a Kieran foreign for example as as given the idea to me by Dave Ricchio

[00:48:50] a Kieran foreign next to next to Nico Heinz of that I wouldn't be opposed to that one actually I would be I wouldn't be posted I can't seem leaving Dez to be honest no it was just a name but but but the fact that

[00:49:05] and look I've known Chad for years like you have but the fact that the roosters are signing Chad I think that says a lot about the market for experienced halves there's not a lot of options out there yeah and it does help me the

[00:49:17] I know the Tigers were flogged on the weekend by the roosters but up until that the Tigers had won two games in a row and probably had a bit to do with Aiden Caesar coming back into the side and lifting some pressure off Lockland Galvin yeah

[00:49:32] now it's not that Aiden Caesar some sort of well-beating superstar but it does show the value in one of these experienced halves I'm on to the the Warriors the moments into play better without Shawn Johnson with him and I like and you know I like SJ so

[00:49:47] as a what's going on there but it's I don't and this is you know the whole thing about it well let's get rid of Nico if we were to move Nico on who do we get like who's out there to buy anyway I can't

[00:49:58] address or really believe in the get rid of Nico that's that's a bizarre one to me I think it's more how can we make him more comfortable yeah yeah and I'm certainly not convinced Trindle is actually the long-term answer at 5A

[00:50:10] that there are times when you see his kicking game you know he's got a longer kicking down than Nico and you think well that should compliment Nico well and I think he had a good start to the year obviously he had the indiscretion

[00:50:21] I'm not yet convinced by Trindle but then in his defense he's also young half back in half back come good until they've got more spirits it's a tough one it's a real tough one I think we should take some positives out of the fact that he had shown

[00:50:34] more than glimpses of controlling games and doing it on his own or with other guys so there is positives there Lachlan says first time writing to you so thank you Lachlan a lot of newbies this week how good's that a die hard shark support of my whole life

[00:50:50] born and bred in the Shire up until eight years ago I now reside in Narruma T. Wilkins hometown I listen to your podcast all the time want to thank you for giving us shark support is something good turned to each week

[00:51:01] and for us to respond when times are hard and being a shark's fan that's most of the time it helps to hear you guys and cheer us up a bit when they lose so thank you for that and Lachlan apologies for having Clinton on this week

[00:51:14] hopefully he hasn't brought you down too much I want to know with Niko out of form is it a temporary thing caused by some other situation like origin I know he says he's forgotten all that but has he really or is it something much deeper

[00:51:29] he then talks about the slump and that kind of stuff I've heard that a lot of talk that Niko's problem is he's targeted at seven and his best position is fallback I tend to agree that's where we got him from we saw how good he was then so

[00:51:45] I mean I'm of the belief Lachlan and Clinton that it's nothing deeper than he's on a bit of a bad run I don't bind to the whole can't play under pressure we've seen him win at least two games from memory very much under pressure

[00:52:01] I know it's only two games out of a whole bunch there are more but I've seen him do it my own eyes so I believe you can do it again I don't and I think the origin stuff that'll just go away I think in a few weeks

[00:52:13] I don't know how long it'll take but I don't think it'll hang around all year origin dies down pretty quickly we have got a decided coming up so there'll be a lot of origin talk for the next two weeks but after that

[00:52:24] I think Clinton we're on our way into the finals and yeah I don't think it's anything deeper personally and I've and I've dug around to find an answer on this one and I'm told that he's doing just fine so maybe we can leave that one there

[00:52:37] he also says I'm a huge fan of Jesse Cole Hoon love to see him in the 17 and I think that Lachlan you'll see it soon enough so stay tuned on that one you'll see you'll see big Jesse back soon enough great to have my say

[00:52:52] and give opinions on the team good luck the sharks hope to hear that great theme someone Friday night and always up up so thank you for being in touch awesome anytime you want to drop us a line please do Josh has written to us

[00:53:04] and I was talking about Josh before Clinton he said once you take away the emotion of watching the loss live it's not as bad as it seems while we've slipped into some bad habits I don't feel like we are far away from our best 40

[00:53:17] or at least as far as I thought my man, Nicko Hines no excuses he should have iced that field goal there are a few other key moments where he needs to get better and something he can't hide from but all things considered

[00:53:29] I don't think he's going anywhere near as bad as being talked about defense is excellent did a great job shutting down Kikau I feel like he looks so much better unstructured playing both sides of the rock pushing up in support around the rock

[00:53:43] and having a run first mindset if he gets his running game back the confidence will follow and I think that he can get there let's look forward to a strong start in Koff's Harbour up up that's from Josh I think that's a fair statement

[00:54:00] Clinton he's not going as bad as what people want you to believe I think that's fair yeah I agree and I think it's you know the focus is that the miss field goal look you know I genuinely think he's going to be okay

[00:54:13] yeah and it was a beauty like we're not sugarcoating it it was a beauty like he should have got that one and let's not blame Sufa can you talk to your colleague about that what's going on there wasn't Sufa's fault he just knows one way

[00:54:27] I mean maybe they should have given it to a weaker forward I understand the goat gallon's point of view and I and it's actually factual but you can't come out with that just make the kick just got to run hard imagine if you kick the field goal

[00:54:41] all they're talking about is the run that's all you remember that run our friend Loosh from Melbourne said if the sharks were renegotiating Niko's contract now instead of last year do you think they still offer him a five year 1.2 mil per year contract hypothetical question

[00:55:01] that bears no real real significance to the current issues just curious as we're at to where people's heads are at and he did say to me if I wasn't comfortable asking this question if it was piling on too much and I went no no

[00:55:12] that's a totally fair thing to ask Clinton what do you think well if we were offering him a deal this week would it be the same length in the same amount pretty much it's no half facts on the market yep maybe not maybe one maybe one not 1.2 sure

[00:55:28] but I think they'd be offering a long term deal who else would they sign is there anyone out there who's off the not these half facts they're already talking about the clearies being locked up for the next 10 years as a repeat

[00:55:40] the roosters are about to sign the Chad the Chad good luck that says it all I've got a feeling you might be working or I might be working one of us might be working with Chad soon I reckon I reckon this yeah yeah I would not be surprised

[00:55:51] I think it's a bit more than just I think I think he's looking at the future and he's a smart smart dude Evan said it took me an hour to calm down after the game frustrating team to watch you don't beat the storm broncos

[00:56:04] and roosters away without being a good team why do we switch off against some and take 30 minutes to start playing I'm also worried about Niko not sure he's got them intelligently to us forward he's a big confidence player it's an age old question Evan

[00:56:20] why do you beat some teams not the other the amount of times I've met an opposition fan or I know an opposition fan and they say our team does this we're not going to beat West Tigers because we're expected to it's like every team has that problem

[00:56:34] but but not every team does it you know and this year we've kind of done it so I mean Clinton look at the game against Melbourne like that was just a thing of art look at the game against the roosters aside from you know a little bit leaky

[00:56:47] but that was a beautiful thing the game begins Brisbane beautiful thing why do we go to Canterbury and West Tigers and is it is it looking down on them is that what it is maybe it was maybe it was with the Tigers because

[00:57:04] where they're sitting on the table or where they were at the time as well but it could not have been against the Bulldogs we were coming off the Dolphins disaster we had the Bita reset we could not have been looking down upon them surely not

[00:57:17] all right let's get it through a few more before we let you go Clinton Andrew said I'm a massive Niko fan I'm a defender of his but now he's proving to me that the doubters have a point I'm not sure where we go on Fitzi I have doubts

[00:57:31] I highly rate him but come off and but to come off the buy and miss the opening 15 minutes again tells me he's not capable of changing their mental mindset if we missed the top four from here I can't move forward with Fitzi as the coach

[00:57:46] thanks so much for your podcast and allowing arm check and it's such as myself to have a voice Clinton let me throw it at you if we miss the top four is the coach I don't know not in doubt I guess because he's got a contract

[00:57:57] but is he are we thinking things about the coach if we miss the top four not not yet not yet I'll go if if he finished second in his first year he finished what fifth or sixth in his second year okay yeah

[00:58:10] we bombed out in the finals both times so I think we need to see even if they missed the top four say he finishes sixth I think we need to see a finals win to have a bit more confidence but even if it doesn't happen again

[00:58:24] who are the alternatives I'm so deadly serious I know you are if Fitz was on the market Josh Hane who do you think who do you think Paramount are be signing if Fitz was suddenly available they've been jumping at him I know I don't want to scare people

[00:58:41] but at the moment we're on track to play the Panthers at Penderith in week one of the finals fantastic so I'll leave that with you and then we'll play them in Vegas as well great I'll look look I'm happy to go to Vegas but

[00:58:54] I'd rather play the Raiders that's just imagine spending your 5k to get to Vegas having a great time then watching your football team whip 40 nil I've already got my answer I didn't come here to watch football that's my answer because I've thought about it

[00:59:09] Kira says good day guys I'm still a sad girl but mostly it's due to one win from four games all three losses against out of the eight teams in which we should have beaten I love Nico and Toby but Nico is not doing anything anymore

[00:59:23] Nico is not doing anything anymore I think he needs to be dropped along with Toby to get the form back hold the phone Kira I think you've gone off early here about Nico Toby you might be onto something but and I say that respectfully

[00:59:37] why are they losing these easy win games what's going on is there's something going on we don't know about I mean I don't think there's anything going on but it's a great question I just asked like what do we lose these games was supposed to win

[00:59:49] you make a great point Iroh and Rami and Harley got get the ball and you ask why is that and I have no answer to that but it is noticeable of late that the centers are not getting early ball they seem to shift out to the wingers

[01:00:02] a little bit more and there is success there as we saw with Gatoa I and again a team like cancer Barry Kira they had excellent defense so you sometimes need to do those cut out things to sort of make the numbers you say you love Cam McInnes

[01:00:18] he never has a bad game all I ask his fits needs to make some changes so the sad girl can be smiling again so thanks for being in touch appreciate you hope you are not sad for too much longer I hope we're all not sad

[01:00:30] for too much longer Brent says another loss and more Nico greatness I see and I think that's a bit tongue in cheek the overpaid half that still hasn't learned a thing it's time for changes the Titans will put points on us and we'll drop out of the race

[01:00:44] if we don't learn how to win again it's disappointing and that was a very unforgivable performance I fear the top four is slipping away I'm at the Brent you're killing me I'm at the stage of not wanting to watch them my blood pressure goes through the roof

[01:01:01] oh look man as someone who has an issue with that myself which is medicated and I'm doing okay don't mess with that stuff if it's not for you man just tune in the next day and see if we won or lost do we win hey we didn't ah

[01:01:16] I say that tongue in cheek Brent I hope you're doing well I have no idea what to do next I'm just confused as anyone about the team needs to be fixed and fixed before it's too late so your general point Brent and I love you writing in

[01:01:26] so please keep writing it your general point is we need to make some changes in your opinion I think that that's a little bit drastic but I would like to see a few changes and I think you've already seen them in the team less this week

[01:01:37] and you'll see some more look after that blood pressure Steve says I'm writing the sharks Premiership hopes off this year they're showing nothing to us fans other than embarrassment here's another one I don't even want want to watch the game I don't I don't even want to watch

[01:01:55] the game versus the Tigers I'm tired and does he mean Tigers next week or Titans this week the haters are loving this they never cease to disappoint this team some criticism for Rudolph you want to see Tuku come in I'm very disappointed and angry

[01:02:12] they keep letting the fans down I hope they start winning again well there's some nice hope there Steve thanks for being in touch Buck Witt says I'm livid about the performance and to say that is an understatement that's what he said Fraser said

[01:02:25] I'm laying low on the shark social media platforms and tour out of this form slump and that was in reference to Chad Townsend coming back to Kronala Fraser says I hope you've been hooking into the bear over the weekend so he's referring to season three of the bear

[01:02:42] I haven't started it yet but I'm really keen maybe this week will be the week I do it No, I don't want to don't want to spoil it for you Sam but I've watched the first two episodes last night Now were you on the fence

[01:02:51] last time we spoke about this or you were all in Yes, so I was on the fence after the first series Yes, yes I was very pro after the second series really liked the second series now without going into details

[01:03:03] was that season two finale something epic or what? Yeah, it was good like that scene with it was crazy like I just I have never seen anything like that in watching hours and hours and hours of television my whole life Yep That was so clever

[01:03:19] Well the first episode of season three will just leave you going WTS Okay I better get to it In further news the gentleman that plays the main guy do we know what his name is? Oh we all know he's in shameless the guy Yeah the main guy

[01:03:35] the bloke the fella Jeremy someone Jeremy Yeah, that sounds like someone Oh, I don't know Anyway, the guy we're talking about you know who he is he's going to be starring in the Springsteen biopic which is based on the recording of Nebraska Look, yeah and that's a

[01:03:51] that's a Netflix film it'll be filmed later this year I guess out next year In further news which is only pretty much important to me and no one else One of my best friends Adam Young who I play music with his daughter Odessa who's who I know

[01:04:09] she's a lovely actress very successful actress is going to play his girlfriend in the film it's locked in Wow That's awesome and I've known this for like a while I haven't been able to tell anyone but then the release came out I told everyone

[01:04:21] Yeah, look out for that that's going to be really cool but the bear I've got to get into the bear season three maybe I'll do that tomorrow Wait, what day is today Clinton? Tuesday Uh Tuesday Hey, it's my weekend Maybe I'll do it

[01:04:33] When you work the overnight shift you sort of lose track of days Yeah, yeah Okay, maybe maybe that's coming up for us Thanks for being in touch Appreciate it and Jake says Toby Rudolph is the absolute worst of the worst He's stealing a wage and then

[01:04:49] he doubles down on Nicco Hines and he said I've seen kids with crocs on kick harder feel goals Now I also left out some other stuff that Jake wrote but I don't know why if that's a last just that's where it is So Jake

[01:05:06] Thanks for being in touch Toby is not the worst of the worst and he's not stealing a wage but he's certainly not traveling too well and we'll see how he tries to get out of this form slump and I don't know Have you really seen a kid

[01:05:19] in crocs kick harder for your girl I'm just kidding Jake Thanks for being in touch Hey Clinton Thanks for joining us on this show I know you're a busy dude with a busy schedule and a busy you know you're a bit like me

[01:05:32] your times are all over the place and you set your alarms and you've got kids and that sort of stuff so I really appreciate you being here for this episode and you're going well you're going alright you off to Olympics in two weeks Yeah Shot put

[01:05:46] hoping to do alright Excuse me No, I'm not Oh that was a gag Sorry I'm not competing in the I'm not competing in the shot put Sam Yeah, I'm going over there reporting for the radio station I'll be away for the best part of a month

[01:06:00] it's obviously a pretty big deal so Yep, I'm hosting the 2GB drive show this week then back on the overnight show for a few weeks then off to the Olympics for a month or so So I'll be sort of keeping a close eye on the sharks

[01:06:13] from afar for a little while but up until the other finals pretty much Does the station have like the rights or you doing updates or what's the Yeah, yeah So 2GB is part of the 9 network we do have the rights so we'll be broadcasting So my actual program

[01:06:28] that I host won't actually be on air during the Olympics because given it's in Paris all the events are on overnight so that sort of works well and I'll be sort of going reporting on all the various events and metal winners and scandals and that sort of stuff

[01:06:42] I love the fact there's already scandals Well, that's what usually end up reporting on as a news person Do you need to freshen up on things or it'll just all happen in front of your eyes Oh, it's sort of you'll I'm actually going over a week before the

[01:06:56] opening ceremony and so part of that is sort of becoming a faith firstly with Paris and how it all works and what the venues are like and the build-up to it and you sort of during that time read up on the things that you need to have background

[01:07:11] on but it's the reality is that what we love of Australians is winners So you tend to focus on the events that we're going to do well in and then also the events that I guess provide the the human interest stories and it's it's I've covered

[01:07:26] a few Olympics before I've had the opportunity to do that previously and it's it's certainly something that whether you're an athletics fan a swimming fan gymnastics fan or whatever I think it is something that once it's on I think it does capture the the imagination of most Australians

[01:07:43] And that doesn't affect Channel 9's footy does it because it's like late night into overnight right? Yeah, and look the reality is for the way telly works now is that they're probably going to be four different Olympic channels on Channel 9 the did with the digital channels

[01:07:57] and then they've got the stand options as well so they'll be showing so much content and with us we as in 2GB we still have the broadcast rights rugby league as well so that's critical to our radio listeners so we'll still be broadcasting rugby league games

[01:08:11] as well as the Olympics Now you're going to be hanging out with former Sharks captain Luccabell Look, I hope to see him over there I saw the 60 minute story on Sunday night about his daughter the skateboarder and she's she's I think ranked in the top four

[01:08:24] in the world Oh yeah she's 14 Yeah and she may well if she wins gold medal or she may well end up being Australia's youngest ever gold medal winner and she's apparently sensational She is she's been doing for a while now and at at the top top of her

[01:08:39] of her game her level and yeah I might introduce you to guys because he'll be over there right? Surely he'll be over there Yeah, I would say would be we were watching on Sunday night with my wife and my wife doesn't really find you know she

[01:08:51] used to come to the football with me all the time but I since the kids came along she probably stopped that when we used to go together just us her favorite player was Luke Covell Oh Yeah and I just I I had to she was looking at a

[01:09:03] phone or something when I'm watching TV and I'm saying look look look at the Luke Covell Luke Covell his daughters in the Olympics it's it's fabulous you know what you know what would have made her more impressed was if you done the spirit fingers yes

[01:09:19] people still ask me about that and it's all back to Luke Covell that's awesome man congrats on that gig that's going to be great and you're doing great things and we urge people to tune into you you're you're an overnight guy this week at least for the past

[01:09:33] week you've been prime time which is awesome and yeah you're doing great things man so you should be congratulated should be proud of yourself Clinton Well they tell me not to talk about the sharks too much but sometimes it's you know the listeners know how obsessive I am

[01:09:47] about the sharks so particularly after a loss they can't help this way the programs broadcast to Brisbane as well so the dolphins came a lot of listeners took a lot of joy in the sharks performance that night Well this is what we do Clinton we put ourselves

[01:10:03] out there and you know it's like my life when the sharks go bad I get the inbox the inbox goes berserk and sometimes I'm even to blame so you know Clinton will talk to you soon I'll talk to you before you leave but our listeners

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