Both Coaches Are GAMBLING With Game 1 — State of Origin Preview
5/24/202643 min
With loyalty calls and depth concerns dividing fans, both Billy Slater and Laurie Daley have made selections that could make or break Game 1. We dissect the squads, the style matchups, and the game-breaking talent that could swing the game— and we put our tips on the line.
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0:00-Matty’s Foul
3:30-Winner of the Bet
5:00-State of Origin
27:00-Styles
34:00-Game Breakers
39:30-Our Tips
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First 90 secondsCooper Johns· Host0:00
And welcome back to another week of the podcast. We're about to talk all things State of Origin, uh, previewing Wednesday night's match, uh, our thoughts on the teams and w- who do we think's gonna win and whatnot. But, uh, Matthew, uh, i- it'd be ill of me not to bring up the fact that you are in quite a foul mood.
Matty Johns· Host0:16
Mm.
Cooper Johns· Host0:16
Uh, because I'm sure the listeners will probably hear that straight away off the bat, but what's wrong with you?
Matty Johns· Host0:22
Couple of things. Shitty night's sleep. Um- [laughs] ... bit of an argument. Uh, Trish got up this morning and for some frigging reason wanted to go into the city and do a bridge climb. [laughs] She said, "Do you wanna do it?" And I said, "Absolutely not." And we got into a rousing blue, and it's, she- Why does she do it? ... she goes, "Oh, it's a great opportunity to see the city." It was great.
Cooper Johns· Host0:40
The Harbour Bridge?
Matty Johns· Host0:41
Yeah.
Cooper Johns· Host0:42
Why would she do that? Isn't it like she's lived here her whole life.
Matty Johns· Host0:45
Yeah. I don't know.
Cooper Johns· Host0:46
Isn't that mainly for tourists?
Matty Johns· Host0:47
Yeah, but she, you know, she's like... And, uh, so I had that and a shit night's sleep, and then I walk in here and someone thinks it's funny to put this- [laughs] ... on the wall. Like it's us, our family as children, our children, father, mum, and dad. We look like this, I don't know, family who are into incest- [laughs] ... who just crawled out of the mountains in Austria. Look at- It's like something out of The Shining ... look at Gail. She looks like a- Gail ... dead set. [laughs] They look like- Looks like Cooper ... they look, they look, they, they look like the Fritzls.
Cooper Johns· Host1:15
It is, it, I will say that is the scariest family photo that I've seen of any family. Like, if that, if that was on a poster for a horror movie- Mm ... it'd be a bestseller.
Matty Johns· Host1:25
Who would think that looking at that photo, if you're, you know, if you're cruising past