Robbie Kearns

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Episode 12 - Dirty NRL Dozen

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• Steal that Player (aka potential league converts) - Izzy and KHunt left us for fumbleball, but we stole Barich! What other sports can we raid to help potential expansion?

• Funny Does Not Necessarily Equal Good - Personality Players; Beau does not know Origin. We implore the NSW selectors to stop picking quirky characters and start picking more humourless drones.

• Our Suggestions for Improving NRL during Origin - drop anyone who has ever played rep football, play extra games at ridiculous hours, make young guys play with old guys (including UNIMMORTALS).

• Our Expansion - We suggest a few new potential teams; the Coffs Harbour Beachy Peachys and the More Norther Queensland Cairns’ Cans.

• UNIMMORTAL - Amos Roberts...nuff said. Too many tries to never play rep footy. No jokes, just amazement.

Suggest your own UNIMMORTAL, refute our flimsy arguments or re-affirm our miserable existence at leaguebythefireplace@gmail.com, Twitter, Facebook or iTunes.

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Episode 11 - NRL CEO Audition

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• Gallop Away - The four eyed silver fox hath relinquished. We reminisce on his reign and suggest some worthy successors...including ours truly. 

• Review of Predictions - Halfway into the regular NRL season we revisit our guesses on the premiers and spooners. Are we still confident or is a redaction needed?

• Jumping on the Bandwagon - Lobby’s spoon prediction the Titans are still going strong. They earnt some confidence by beating the bye, not by cooking baked beans on an open campfire.

• Loyalty - Is it ok to boo your own team? Are fans more loyal than players? How can NRL journeymen afford the change of jerseys for their young children...Hunter Mariners gear can’t be cheap.

• Raiders vs the Storm - Lobby thinks the Storms sponsor could look better on their jersey whereas Pedro think the Raiders are shit and no one wants to attend their pathetic games.

• 14th Man - The benches (like the NRL refs) need more respect; an award perhaps. Give the kids something to aspire to. 

• Shout out to Kingy - The pure specimen is out injured for 4-6 weeks. Enough time to appear on a certain podcast (cough cough)

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Hey Guys - We now have a Youtube channel

Episode 10 - The Tooth In Your Perineum

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Our personal butler Neeves opens the door to the log cabin and welcomes you to this weeks episode.

• Fanmail - Last week we asked what would it take to bail on a team and Jick has forwarded an answer. From following the Bears and then moving onto the Sharks, this gentlemen is obviously a glutton for punishment.

• Raiders vs the Storm - The boys agree on something; they would NEVER like their two teams to merge. A bad colour scheme, Dave Furner as coach and being based out of Albury-Wodonga are just some reasons it is bound for failure.

• Weird Injuries - Poor Adrian Purtell’s heart was bigger than his body gave him credit for. The following are also dangers to NRL players; trampolines, backyard BBQ’s, stray teeth, washing dogs and dressing as a ninja.

• Jumping on the Bandwagon - John Cartwright has been cranking our podcast to motivate his troops. Wayne Bennett on the other hand has merely been teaching players air traffic control skills.

• Former Players as Refs - We discuss the pros and cons of former NRL players donning the pink. Jaded partners, bites on the perineum, journeymen having less bias and concussion are just some aspects.

• Shout out to Kingy - Still no reply from our emails, rudely from South Sydney. How do the Footy Show do it? We find out Kingy is cutting his hair and hold onto the slight hope it may have a Samson effect and he’ll be easier to contact at his new club North Sydney.

Electronic mail is all the rage these days, and as much as we’d never like to see hard post disappear, we encourage you to write to us at leaguebythefireplace@gmail.com, contact us through Facebook, Twitter or leave some feedback on iTunes. We recommend Cognac or Tooheys Old as a listening companion to this podcast (kickbacks)

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BONUS - Origin Extra Special Happy Time Number 1

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Welcome to our first ever State of Origin special. We set up the mics and invited some special guests over to the Log Cabin (a lot of them didn’t make it, eaten by wolves..but thats another story) to watch the greatest sporting spectacle on Earth. Fueled by biltong and pure emotion, listen in as this special event was documented for the history books.

If you have any biltong recipes, are a gloating Queenslander or are a New South Welshmen who needs therapy you can get in contact at leaguebythefireplace@gmail.com, Facebook, Twitter or on iTunes. If this is your first time listening, you can download any of the previous episodes as we try no to date them too much!

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Episode 9 - We Are Grassroots

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This week we discuss:

• Manu Vatuvei - Manu is to NRL as Shawn Bradley is to NBA? Is he a game breaker, average or simply shit? Pedro brings some stats forward to argue the latter (with no help from David Middleton). If you were a coach would you put your life on the line for him?

• UNIMMORTAL - Another user submitted entry...North Sydney great Mark Soden. No grand final wins (we mentioned he played for Norths right?) and no origins. In fact his final winning percentage is tear-jerking. He can wash the shit out of a dog (literally) but he has not yet garnered a wiki page. With a 50% goal kicking rate, “he’ll wash dogs forever!”

• Bail on your team - What would it take for you to get over your team? Internet heroes are quick to abandon but so far alcoholism, canine sex and salary cap cheating have not been enough

• Shout out to Kingy - Still in pursuit of the one who is hirsute. Twitter, Facebook and emails to management have failed so we thought an email to his NRL club Souths might work. We appeal to their own thoughts of forward thinking, community spirit an player welfare.

• "Salary Cap Cops” - We implore Schubert to look into “the accommodation scandal”. Super league players being bribed with waterfront South Coast mansions. Nuff said.

• Appropriate sponsors - With the Sharks now being sponsored by ‘Sharks’ we discuss potential matching sponsors for other clubs

Please do not email any more suggestion about appropriate sponsors. If you would like to comment on other league matters, have bailed on a team previously or have a nomination for UNIMMORTAL, get in contact on leaguebythefireplace@gmail.com or hit us up on Facebook, Twitter or iTunes. Do you think a dog washer would wash a siamese twin?

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