League Indeed!

The Australian Postal Corporation has been tearing families apart since colonial control of mail started in 1809. Many will tell you that the rot truly set in when Tony Nutt was appointed to the Australia Post Board in March 2018, but believe me it's been happening basically forever. So when the APC (now known simply as Australia Post) took our Ben away from his podcasting duties, it was nothing new - in fact it was expected. However, what Australia Post didn't expect was the wave upon wave of fury, concern and sadness that gripped the Rugby League podcast-listening community... so Ben popped back in last night and we recorded a beautifully produced NEW EPISODE of League Indeed! Just in time for the finals!! Sucked IN Australia Post!

It's a pity there's no Halo like the F1 drivers have to protect Rugby League teams from getting destroyed by coaches, refs and players. You could say that Peter V'landys is the NRL's Halo but we'd argue that not only is he NOT the Halo, he's the Nicholas Latifi of Rugby League - hell bent on destroying everything in his path! Bit much? Well, you're lucky we decided in our infinite wisdom to edit out the 38 minute argument about were the Raiders dudded or not... that was definitely a bit much. 

A little bit of normalcy is restored this week after a whirlwind rep-round! We sincerely hope you all got out to a game on the weekend because let's face it: footy's just bloody tops! It's crunch time in the NRL, where bludger teams really start fooling themselves that they're going to make the Eight and where Parramatta inevitably start their slide but all we know for sure is it all adds up to a terrific spectacle!

Dr Simon Pettit stops by this week to have a chat with the League Indeed boys about concussion and all other things league... it took a bit of coaxing and several stubbies to get him on but we dun it and Rugby League Podcasting was the winner on the day. Now, if you'll excuse us, WE  HAVE A STATE OF ORIGIN TO GET READY FOR!

Where is an appropriate place to sledge your favourite player from your favourite team after a heavy loss? If you saw them at Thingz Gifts would you pick up one of those beautiful Arabian Nights-looking scatter cushions that they sell for a handsome price, point at it and say "look here at this cushion here Lachlan Fitzgibbon! This is what you looked like on the weekend against the Panthers and I'm not talking about your cushiony lips you big fkn pillow!" This is a sad reality facing footballers everywhere unfortunately and the question is - are they then allowed to punch you in the guts without ramification? 

The 2022 season hotted up to beyond melting point last night with an Origin BLOCKBUSTER that was one for the books! Unfortunately it was such a wonderful Rugby League spectacle that it took the gloss off the real news of the week - the continuing coaching merry go round that is not merry for first Baz now poor old Madge and Brownie! Sam has a solution to the problem that involves the simple wearing of swimwear! 

At League Indeed we strive to bring you the hard-hitting truth about Rugby League and its participants every week in an uncompromising, unflinching manner so would it surprise anyone that Payne Haas is off to the Roosters next year on a deal worth $320K per season plus $800k per in Fletch & Hindy appearances? It'd be almost laughable if it wasn't 100% true and as usual we're the only ones with enough SPINE and SHAPE to tell you, our terrific listeners, the truths you richly deserve!

Welcome to Indigenous Round 2022, our favourite round of the year! On this week's episode we chat to tireless NSWRL mainstay Marc McLeish  about all things country Rugby League including Royce's Big Walk which is doing amazing things and smashing the donations! As we finished going to air we heard that Payne Haas wants OUT of the Broncos IMMEDIATELY so we're very sorry we didn't discuss that although we did have a marvellous yarn about dairy products, so you can't be too unhappy about that! 

Did you all enjoy the final 2-point Magic Round? We here at League Indeed certainly did and we can't wait for next year's Adelaide Magic Round where every try is worth 12 points if the scorer has an H in their name! Also, click here to follow Royce's terrific work https://roycesbigwalk.com.au and sling him a few $$ that you 100% know you'll only blow on the punt or too much Chicken Treat.

After a well-deserved week off to combat various ailments, maladies and aches Ben and Sam are back with a BLOCKBUSTER Magic Round edition! We discuss poetry and pies and RUGBY LEAGUE FOOTY!

This episode is a little late this week because Sam had to go to the doctor to get his Glue Ear fixed... has Glue Ear ever kept a 1st Grader out of a game? Or is the only thing that'll stop these hard and fast men from playing the Beautiful Game of Rugby League a frisky scapula, clicky pelvis or sexual touching charges? Find out who's got what on this week's League Indeed!

If the Wests Tigers win on Easter Monday didn't renew your love of the League and leave you in a heaping, dripping mess on the floor then you either aren't human or you're an Eels fan! What pluck! What vigour! More this round please! And remember to get out this weekend and support the brand of forklift that respects our diggers - Crown!

Should WAGs be made to play Rugby League? We here at League Indeed say it's 100% the way to fix player misbehaviour and encourage a beautiful home life. We say Rugby League should be compulsory for everyone! Can you imagine an over-65s comp? It'd be bloody marvellous and it's definitely something that Justin Pascoe is going to slide across Andrew Abdo's desk on our behalf when he gets back from holidays.

Who were YOU thinkin' of when YOU were makin' love last night? Was it Des Hasler? Sexy T-Baz? Or are you into the husky crazy old Hook Griffin? Whoever you're into, it'll be guaranteed that they'll have their team absolutely FIRING this weekend for the Round 5 wrestling crackdown/penalty-a-thon! And if you're gonna have a punt this weekend, make sure it's a drop-punt from 22m out at your local sporting complex!  

League Indeed is not only Ben and Sam's show, it also belongs to YOU! Our loyal Listeners! So we want you involved! Follow the link and let us know your thoughts about Rugby League! Heck, we'll even help you get started - Give us a buzz and tell us who you think the BIGGEST FLOGGOFF in the NRL is and why you'd love to have them at your club! You can even have 12 schooners before you call, and we'll put you on the show! It's just so simple.

Boxing and Rugby League has always gone hand in glove with each other - big, silly people wanting to hurt each other being the common thread. We here at League Indeed maintain that if you want to slap anything, do it to another big silly human at the weigh-in! Don't waste your time trying to slap $$ out of pokie machines! We encourage Madge to get his players out of gaming lounges and into the ring! Just like Olaf 'Herb" Narvo did back in the bloody Thirties!

How was everybody's Round 1? Did it live up to the hype? The theatre? Was it UNREAL?  This week we unpack everything Rugby League of course, but we also discuss dainty jewellery, custard tarts and Matt Nable narrating your life in real time! Truely something for everybody here on LEAGUE INDEED!

Welcome to season 2022! We're back bigger than ever thanks to Ben's frequent delivery of custard rolls, jam donuts and creamed horns! We're easing into this year by running our studied eyes over the contenders and pretenders and just generally doing what we all love - talking Rugby League!

Does anyone have a massive truck? Have you named your truck? What would you call it? I knew a lorikeet named Steven once. He was a tremendous bird, beautiful feathers. Knew nothing about Rugby League though. Unlike your gracious hosts this week, Ben, Sam and Craig. They probably know too much about Rugby League as if that's even a thing come off it as if.

Like a heartbeat drives you mad
In the stillness of remembering what you had
And what you lost
And what you had
Oh, what you lost...

Have you lost a season of footy? Or are you thankful for what footy you had? Something to ponder in the next three weeks before you have to watch the fkn cricket again (heartbreak emoji).

If NRL finals don't get the grease running down your thighs, then surely you don't have a pulse! It's that time of year when the magpies steal your money, IKEA has new a range of bedside tables and you get to root for a team that you've hated all year because they're playing a team you hate more because your own dud of a team is already enjoying nude funday! Soak it in League Lovers, it's Springtime baby!

There are a lot of things you can buy for $40 000. $40k would buy you a 3-by-1 in Waugoola Street in 1989 for example. What it can't buy is dignity. Morals. Humility. All the things sadly lacking among the Roosters camp. Let's all pray that Tren's fine goes towards something useful, like crowd barriers at Wade Park in Orange. 

Will anyone ever tire of NRL bad bois? Gosh they keep us entertained and as long as it's not hurting anyone or sending people to jail then we're all for it here at League Indeed! Who doesn't enjoy the odd windmill? The occasional wristwatch? The frequentatomic blast? Keep it up Bhed Bois!

What do you do when the bed you're sleeping in at a one-star pub room in country NSW is so lacking in spring tension due to it's previous occupant being a 300kg truckie that you sink to the ground? Do you complain if you have to wear thongs in the shower that has no curtain? Of course you bloody don't! You certainly don't bring up the fact that Ricky Stuart has a dolphin tank in his 700m2 hotel room. YOU JUST GO GET BLIND AND GET ON WITH IT! Take note, NRL WAGs.

Ah it's that time of the week again, where two blokes who love Rugby League accuse each other of being Communists and Liars... wait a minute, that's just BEN GANGING UP ON POOR OLD KIND-HEARTED SAM! Bloody Gutho, he brings out the absolute worst in everyone, especially himself. And especially Ben.

Wild scenes at Roosters training breakfast this week when lead man Tren Robinson decided to slather himself in delicious Yoplait and League Indeed! cameras were there to capture the whole sordid incident! This kind of carry-on coupled with ridiculous 6-agains, it's a wonder that Rugby League isn't a basket case but it's not and it never will be!

You know what you should do if your fatigue is at a premium? Go and pop Turn It Up '85 or Thru The Roof '83 into your cassette player and dance the winter blues away. That's what we do here at League Indeed! when there's only 4 games of footy on... Thankfully, regular programming has resumed this week in the NRL so sit back and enjoy this week's episode with a nice cup of warm fatigue-busting Milo!

Did you know Jamaica have a Rugby League side? A Rugby League side that beat the USA to qualify for the world cup? Well, Craig from Gooloogong did! That's why we have him on League Indeed! - because what he doesn't know about The Greatest Game Of All simply isn't worth knowing! 

In the Rugby League world you take the good with the bad - the bad being NO REGULAR FOOTY this weekend and the good being the fact that the NRL is brim-choc full of HUNKS! Who's your fave NRL Dreamboat? Do you love the gummy ruggedness of Craig Fitzgibbon or are you more into the boy-next-door Alex Seyfarth type? Ben and Sam have their views on the matter that will SHOCK and DELIGHT you! 

The Antique Freak is back and he's uncovered a Communist plot to overthrow Rugby League! Listen in this week as we discuss the important issues such as this and we reveal the most popular Rugby League boot brand! YOU'LL NEVER GUESS WHAT'S NUMBER 5!

Did you watch Origin? What a shitshow! Luckily we at League Indeed sat through it for our loyal listeners so you didn't have to! Back to the drawing board for awful coach Paul Green.... plus check out crazy old Ben's WILD idea to fix blowout scorelines! It'll blow your mind clean out of your head! 

We had a terrific yarn with Cowra Magpies President Marc McLeish about the state of the game in the bush and you have to take your hat off to the wonderful people at grassroots level that are keeping Rugby League alive and kicking in the country! Get out and support your local team this weekend!

In a strange twist, Jared Waerea-Hargreaves was the only Roosters player from the weekend who WASN'T sent from the field for dog-shotting blokes! Their coach Tren is proud as punch that the NRL have taken his requests for smut to be taken out of the game seriously and couldn't be happier that most of his team is out for the next 12 weeks, except of course JWH!

It's round 10 in the NRL and that can only mean one thing - MAGIC ROUND! We here at League Indeed are hearing rumblings that there will actually be magic involved and that MAGICALLY Siegfried & Roy will be putting in an appearance at Suncorp by leading the Wests Tigers out onto the ground on their very own real-life tiger Montecore! If they manage to pull that off, then we'll certainly be witnessing the most magical magic that's ever happened. Get the fire extinguishers ready and settle in for another MAGIC episode of League Indeed! 

Is it any coincidence that two of Rugby League's silliest duds both have foreheads that you could cook a gross plate of chips from that nobody in their right mind would want to eat? Of course not! It's like forehead oil is the mark of a person's stupidity! Anyway, there's that plus a good dose of Rugby League history from The Freak of Antique ©,Craig from Gooloogong and much more on this week's League Indeed! 

If you're feeling a little desperational this week and you want to hear about what NRL players are up to outside of pub toilets and boxing ring corners, look no further than League Indeed! Ben and Sam part the smelly fog for you and get to the only thing that matters, another weekend of the greatest thing ever invented - Rugby League Football! 

The cream has separated from the whey and risen to the top of another curd-fuelled week of Rugby League! Listen in as we discuss all things footy including Josh Papalii's new Beat Poetry book as well as Rusty's ideas on how he can not only reunite KISS, but also reignite Freddy 'Boom-Boom' Washington's flagging career. Plus, check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3-e7ERQ0IY back in the days when they played a bit of nice footy in between stinks!

Tune in as we speak with Craig from Gooloogong who has a wonderful idea for today's Rugby League players - mandatory history lessons! Forget passing and tackling drills, players nowadays need to know what went down on the 1959-1960 Kangaroo Tour of Great Britain and France. Just terrific stuff... if you'd like to be involved with League Indeed, head to our Facebook page and let us know all your Rugby League thoughts, hopes and dreams! 

As we head into Round Four, there’s one thing we’ve learned here at League Indeed: Big fat idiot politicians shouldn’t be allowed in dressing rooms, especially if they're not even going to swill a can of mid-strength and wash it down with a bucket of chicken donut holes. Come on a journey of discovery with us as we tackle all the big Rugby League issues!

This week's fan mail comes to us from Mark, who may have just solved the biggest issue around footy at the moment: what to do with big stupid blokes who put other big stupid blokes out of the match ILLEGALLY! Just wonderful stuff, but it's what we've come to expect from League Indeed listeners. Also, this week we didn't go real hard on the sAinT gEOrGe iLLawARra DrAgnOms either, so there's that. 

There was a sprinkle of magic dust in the air last Thursday as the sweet chirp from the referee's whistle signalled TIME ON for 2021! Some things will never change: the cheese sandwich van behind Penrith Stadium, Rusty's deep horse connection and BJ Leilua loving too much.... it's all here on this week's League Indeed! 

Piss off cricket, NRL Season 2021 is upon us at last! A season that promises to be THE BEST OF ALL TIME EVER!! Let us all finally enjoy a season of footy where a balding smartarse won't be smirking for the cameras while he officiates the game from dummy half. Pull on your favourite slightly-too-tight-it-must've-shrunk-in-the-off-season-wash jersey and relax while Ben and Sam tenderly guide you through the ins and outs of the Rugby League world!!

Because there's only 7 more sleeps until the 2021 season kicks off (or one more if you're Sam Burgess), we discuss what every League fan on Earth wants to know - where did Trent Robinson find himself a grande chaîne d'oignons in Queanbeyan? We also uncover the SHOCKING TRUTH behind Ray Warren's ring as well as chat about all the goings on in the world of The Greatest Game Of All, Rugby League!

We had the pleasure of chatting with current NRL Indigenous Women's All-Stars coach Ian Bourke. Enjoy!

With the season proper approaching faster than Tommy Turbo can race drunks down the Corso, Ben and Sam tear apart another pre-season week jam packed full of League. Join us to hear the truth behind Corey Parker's SHOCK Broncos axing and find out why Laurie Daley is picking fights with little halfbacks!

We had the pleasure of chatting with Canberra Raider #105 - Mark Lowry. Enjoy!