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Levels Podcast:
Willie Mason & Justin Horo present Levels Podcast, twice a week reviewing & previewing all the NRL games also giving their best tips.
Willie Mason is a former Kangaroo and NSW representative, is considered one of the most successful front rowers in NRL history. In 2004, he was a part of the famous ‘Dogs of War’ team that won the Grand Final, and he also received the Clive Churchill Medal during that match.
Justin Horo is a former NRL player who played 120 games for Parramatta and Manly from 2010 to 2015. In addition to playing in the UK Super League, he also represented the New Zealand Māori team.
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0:00 FINALS IS HERE!
4:30 BSC DAWGS OF THE WEEK
13:50 YOUTUBE REPLIES FROM THURSDAY HYPOTHETICAL FINALS QUESTION
14:41 HORO’S 2008 NSW CUP WENTY QUESTION
25:00 RLPA PLAYER OF THE MONTH
28:00 REVISITING OUR PREDICTIONS
37:32 TOP 100 PAID NRL PLAYER LIST
41:55 BRONCOS V STORM
48:17 SPOONBOWL RECAP
58:20 RABBITOHS V ROOSTERS
1:01:25 DRAGONS V RAIDERS
1:03:30 BULLDOGS V COWBOBYS
1:08:20 PANTHERS V TITANS
1:11:20 MANLY V SHARKS
1:18:00 KNIGHTS V DOLPHINS
42 Comments
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Love to hear your thoughts on a potential play in round after the regular season. Top 6 is locked in while 7,8,9,10 play off for the final two spots giving the top 6 a week off. Would make for a more interesting finish to the year for teams who would usually be out of contention with 1-2 weeks to go. Love the pod.
JT tough are you kidding half the crackdowns they are doing is because he cried like a sook from getting hit after kicking now kick pressure practically doesn't exist. JT and tough don't belong in the same sentence.
Great show as always. Been listening for a long time but only just recently started incorporating the Podi into my Monday routine. Get the first 30 or so minutes in while doing housework (mainly hanging laundry and stuff), then get the rest in while working out in the gym. Been excellent for my motivation.
Bro, everything Willie said in the first 1.5 mins of this video fucking nailed it on the head!! poetry!
Melbourne definately wouldnt see the Knights as an easy win, Knights won begining of the year and narrowly lost with no Ponga or set halves mid season. Knights tend to grit it up in games we are "supposed" to lose.
I still maintain that if Luki didn't do his ACL in 2022, Nanai would never have played for the maroons, late in the 21 season Luki utterly carved up
Taane Milne has huge value going forward in the modern game, play him as a middle forward off the bench who can cover a centre/wing in the case of injury. Plenty of teams would love that
Yous rippin in to the journos is never not a laugh 😂
Question regarding the footy season in general. Do yous think its time for an overhaul of the nrl season fixture? If in 5-10 yrs they wanna bring in a couple more teams, surely you cant end up with a 30 rd nrl season. I think avoiding the want to have every team play every team once is important. A 17-18 round home and away season with each team getting 1 bye. And then set up for a september/october rep period, Origin, Pacific Cup etc. Id love a 30 round season but sweeter than that would be a stand alone origin over 3 consecutive weeks; and then a fully fit less-exhausted superstar contingent putting on for the international games. L1 since day one, uce LFG
Can we get a dawg team of the year from you both and what’s on the cards for levels in the offseason? Any tri’s or runs planned skip?
What merch is in the pipeline for levels in the future?
Break the video up with labels fam. Good listen.
Im surprised at how good mason in at this haha what a character 😛
Hey Scope, after listening to Hindy on Jams Podcast. Could you please elaborate on the nude tree and your perspective? 😂
What an interesting scenario, picking who you play in the 1st week. If I was Storm and had the pick of the bunch, I'm waltzing right up to Ivan Cleary and sticking the finger up and saying "Let's go" haha. Na but in all seriousness, I would want to play Penrith, for many reasons, for starters it sends a message to your players "We aren't doing things the easy way, we want to fight". Then there is the strategic side of things: if we win, we go straight to the Prelim and they have to play an extra match, meaning in the Prelim we don't have to play them, as much as the Roosters or Sharks might be hard to beat, I wouldn't want to play Penrith in the Prelim, I'd rather wait until the Grand Final. If we lose, we still have the 2nd chance, so we go through the back door and avoid them until the Grand Final anyway (provided we win the other matches), so regardless of winning or losing that 1st match, we are taking the choice out of Penrith's hands (who we see as the most dangerous), we are playing them at home rather than away or at a neutral venue, so we get that advantage and we wouldn't have to meet them again until the Grand Final. It's a win win scenario all round.
Think about it from a Penrith point of view, going into the meeting you've made plans thinking that Melbourne would pick a lower team so that they get through easily, whether that is the Sharks or Roosters, or going really easy and picking an out of form Dogs/Manly. So in your mind you're thinking "Who should I pick? this team, that team…." Then BAM Melbourne pimp walks over to you and say "We choose you." That would be worst case scenario because now you have to play in Melbourne for your first final, in Melbourne, you don't get to play at your home and you don't get to choose your opponent, add in that you A) might not have Nathan Cleary back for that match B) Even if you do, he might not be 100% and might even get injured again. If Penrith going into selection were banking on choosing an easy team to play (and beat) so they could have a week off and get Nathan back right for the Prelim, they've had that choice taken away, they've underestimated Melbourne and now are forced into a situation.
Why ain't people like josh addo care got minders if there was ever a chance of him having a dirty test why was he aloud to drive why don't players mates get employed to drive them or pull there heads in when they are blind drunk the under 20s should have to look after the first Graders at events like mad Monday the boys should be aloud to have fun just like anyone .guys that build Ur house have a few lines at the pub noone says shit but an NRL player racks up they are satin
How dose the NRL treat player's that are on medical thc Lauren Jackson has a medical clearance with asasda any player's haveing them problems
Heard hindy talking about doing the nude trees at a mad Monday and I wanna hear scopes side of the story on the next poddy proper giggle 😂
Question for the triple OG , do you think cogger could play 7 next season allowing pryce to become the 6 and add the extra attacking option to take some pressure off ponga . Also allowing Crossland back to 9 and gamble possible 13 or 14
love it when yas talk technical on different moves, nice for us plebs who havent played the game at that level! x
Hey lads, absolutely loving this season of the levels podcast, finally mustering the courage to ask a contentious question.
Since the dally ms are about rewarding consistency and seasonal longevity, is it time to get rid of the points voting system? I feel in recent years, the award has lost a fair bit of merit because of how inconsistent the voting has been.
I would establish a system where you get 20 or 30 of the leagues smartest men to unanimously vote on who the best player was over the set course of 27 rounds.
Food for thought as I couldn't imagine someone like KP getting the award on a technicality over Hughes.
Would also love to shoot-out the Australian Sporting Cartel and my triple OG Luke White. Having my first BSC energy drink with the goal of being an absolute dawg on the field in my local touch comp.
Skip hindy was into you on jammers pod about your nude tree or lack thereof in 2012, is there any pg stories you boys can both drop from mad Mondays over the years?
Q. With the amount of flopping in the game, should the NRL introduce fines for flopping just like the NBA? eg. Guthoz flop
just gonna send a quick msg to the boys to say that, the penrith boys will most likely not be playing for samoa this year because it’s at the same time of critta and spenny’s weddings, so i think if luai doesn’t play this year, he goes straight to the tigers and should go straight into work with them if he wants a chance at the 8 next year, love the poddy boys keep up the good work up
the wahs and up
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Alright boys, huge fan of yours from over in Wigan. Big fan of the podcast I listen to a lot of NRL podcasts every week and since I’ve been on yours it’s definitely been number 1 – your knowledge is second to none and just too funny, cheers boys keep it up.
Question – if you could name one player who never played NRL but you just know would be a gun if they did who would it be? I’m a biased Wigan fan so I’m saying my man Sean O’loughlin.
Mase maybe one of the big forwards you played against back in the day Peacock, Farrell, Sculthorpe or your old mate Stuart Fielden? 😂
Can you guys confirm the rumours that NRL clubs have refused to allow their players to play for Lebanon in their series against France, and as result the tour is cancelled?
If true, it’s disgraceful and highlights how the game shoots itself in the foot when it comes to international growth
Haha Hindy was on James graham podcast and he was saying you wouldn’t do the nudie run and shower with your underwear still on , think your podcast needs a new name and should be big Willy with little Willy
Scope go double or nothing with Arthur for sharks to go down this week 😂😂😂
Nikora boys! What a GUN! The skills, the line running, the soft hands, the lines he runs, and he whacks blokes in defence. Best 2nd rower in the comp I reckon.
Chur the boys love the poddy got it going every Monday and Thursday like religiously
Ps heard scope loved doing the naked trees 😂😂
Tane Milne = Fijian-Maori
With Roosters awful record against the top 2 should they be implementing a style from other clubs ‘Parra and Cronulla’ who have a decent record against these two teams? The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Love listening every week. Can’t wait for the games this weekend given the phenomenal talent this year. QQQ: what do the young players need to do in the next few days to be psychologically prepared to go to that next level in their performance this weekend. What do they need to be focusing on (and avoid) to be at their best? How did you guys prepare?
Love listening to two manly legends talk their shit, wanted to say thanks to BSC as well, that pink energy drink was about the only thing that got me through my business studies HSC trial 🙏
Hi boys love the poddy, are finals games really a different game ?
Scope and Big mase love you boys and love the pod, not a finals question but scope you gotta elaborate on the Hindy nude trees clip, can’t just let that one blow over 😂
Hey lads, Big Lez here, just wanted to double check I’m not crazy here in thinking that the Knights are darkhorses in the finals if they beat the cowboys this weekend. KP, Gagai, Best, Frizzel, Thompson could go to another level. Let us know on the pod if I’ve lost the plot.
Hey boys love the pod, a question I had is with the dogs bringing in a lot of former players to be around the current side has there been any attempts to bring Hazem to give a few of the boys a more experienced kicker to work with? Or has there been and I just haven’t noticed?
Cheers boys
Hey boys love the podcast, have a been a fan of big willie from back in his afro days 😂 I've got a hypothetical id love for yous to have a crack at, if you had to pick a 13 of the 'toughest, nastiest and most feared hardmen' to ever lace up the boots, who makes the cut, I'm most interested to see who yous throw in the backline, the forwards have plenty of worthy candidates but who amongst the little guys do you blokes consider some of the roughest and toughest to ever do it
Scope, OG
Loving the poddy lads
Been converting all my teacher mates from sugar free v’s and mothers to the BSC cans. Boys are loving them!
What’s the hardest finals game to get up for? E.g position on the ladder, home ground etc
Cheers
Loving the poddy this year! Triple OG is the best
Sharks fan here! Im happy that we got storm instead of panthers and roosters. I feel we match up better and the last 2 games down in Melbourne we have won. Hopefully the boys can prove some fans and mostly the media wrong! UPUPCRONULLA
Thoughts??
Hey boys, love the pod. Question for the next show. Keen to hear what your top eight would be based off club fan bases and their fan support? Interested to know who you would have in your top eight for the final series to really catch fire?