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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Daily bespoke content that you won't find on the radio show, the Hodaki Breakfast Podcast.
Welcome along to the podcast, Wednesday the 13th of May, 2026. I know we're going to talk about it on the show, but on the radio, see Luke Midcastman granted a...
an opportunity to talk to other clubs about a release from 2027 onwards well I'd rather have that than him withering on the vine well this is the issue he was definitely withering on the vine we can all agree that he was on the vine and he's withering yeah he was when was he ripe Just before he did his ACL. Yeah. When he was the Dallium. Yeah. Lead award.
I mean, I could say that through injury and no fault of his own and no fault of anyone else, that's been a complete disaster.
Chapter 2: What recent news about Luke Metcalf is discussed?
If he just disappears... Yeah, well, it will. Often. It's been a complete disaster. If they kill him, that'll be a disaster. It's cost the club heaps of money. Yeah. And they've got nothing out of it. Well, I don't know. I mean, a couple of games last year, but not many. Half the season. I mean, it was around 14, 16. Oh, was it? I didn't realise that.
I thought it was sort of more sort of early beginning of the season. It was just after they took the Dell EM voting offline, which is round 16. It goes incognito mode. It goes incognito mode. Into the dark web. Yeah. And all we know is he was still the best player in the National Rugby League, despite the fact he wasn't playing in the National Rugby League.
I'll probably say this again on the radio show, so forgive me if I repeat myself. My read on this, and this is a guy that doesn't know anything, because I know a lot of people think, oh, you know, you must talk to everyone. They must all call you up and ask your opinion on this stuff. They don't. Who?
Chapter 3: How did Luke Metcalf's injury impact his career?
Who's they? Oh, you know, Webby, Stacey. Murray Deeker? Cappy. Murray Deeker? Yeah. Nah. Murray Deeker doesn't want his opinion. No, he doesn't want my opinion. No, I'm talking the decision makers. Tony Beach? No. Okay. Cameron George. Yeah, Cam George. There you go, Jerry. Be sensible. Peter Volandes? Peter Volandes, Andrew Abdo, these guys. Okay. Phil Gould. Gus Gould. Wow.
And what I'm saying is they're not, you know, but there is a perception out there that they are. Yeah. There's a perception that, oh. Gus Gould's got you on speaker. Yeah, that every time I say something, it's like, well, you know, he knows something because he's pretty well connected. And obviously I am, but I'm just saying that they don't, you know, I don't know anything on this front.
So you're about to say something, but you don't know anything. Yeah, but I don't know anything. Okay. And I want to make that clear because I know a lot of people, they see me as the... Oracle? Yeah, the Oracle. Doyen? The Doyen of rugby league. Fingers and pies sort of stuff. The mad butcher of rugby league? Well, there is one of those, but I... I'm sort of like the- The Finbush. Graham Lowe.
If Graham Lowe was, I don't know, brought up in Waimate- In rural South Canterbury. Born in the 90s. Yeah. And never played rugby league. Wow, if he played one game for the Kalgoorlie brothers and then realised that they had 12 hour each way bus trips to play their games and then pulled out. Wow, that's a long way. That is a long way. Yeah, so if you, then that would be you.
Then you would be the Graham Larkin. I consider myself. A lot of people do. Lowey. Lowey. Shorty got low. Shorty got low, low, low. So anyway, what I think has happened is halfbacks get paid more than any other position. And so I think Metcalfe's agents or the managers, you know, the people that- The powers that be. The powers that be, his team. His people. His people today, our people tonight.
I reckon they would have gone to Whibby and gone, hey. We agreed, we're signing an extension, you're going to play him at halfback. So what's going on?
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Chapter 4: What strategies can you use if your partner snores?
He was back last week and you played him off the bench. You started Tanner Boyd. So if you're not going to play our client, the position that we agreed, where, I'd like to remind you, he's likely to make the most money, then what are we doing here? And we'd like to seek compassionate grounds to leave. And I reckon that's what's going on here. And he's, yeah. Okay, Graham. Well, wait a second.
Doesn't he already sign a deal? Yeah, well, this is the annoying thing about the National Rugby League. What they need to do is sort this transfer window out because so many... Because what happens is a player requests a trade. Say they're signed for another two years through to the end of next year, like he is. And I'm not saying, again, I'm not saying he's going to do this, but...
Then what you do is you just make it so toxic at that team that they're like, I will fucking leave now then. You know what I mean? And that's the leverage. That's basically the only leverage they've got. Because you can, and we've seen it. I mean, the Tigers it's happened with in recent times, it happens quite often where it's just like, I will fucking go now then.
So what happens in this situation? So he breaks his contract. Well, they don't break it. The team will say, we're going to release it. We'll release it and someone else has to pay you the same amount of money that we paid you. That's an interesting point. I don't know how that works. I think they do just buy the contract off them. You'd think so, eh? But I don't know.
Well, they get to renegotiate. Does that contract get torn up like this? Like this. I was wondering what you'd do. They go like this. Here's the contract. Here's Luke Metcalf's contract. There they go. But what about the copy on the email? That sounded great. And they tear it up. What about the email copy? Yeah, I think they do. Well, you just delete that. I mean, sorry.
And delete it from your trash bin too. And then the recently deleted files. Yeah. And that's gone forever. Careful with the recently deleted. That's what I'm going to say to both of you. As men in your, well, let's say mid-40s and mid-30s. I'm going late now. Careful with your recently deleted. And on that note, can I issue a warning too off the back of your warning?
Yep.
Close your browser. Close your browser. Just tidy up behind yourself. Just a little bit of housekeeping if we could. Tidy up behind yourself. Don't leave a mess on the floor. And in the basin, turn the water on and give it a clean. Can I issue a warning? In the basin?
If you're using your phone and you think you're going to be using your headphones, make sure it's not linked to the family Bluetooth. Oh, I would. That is just a piece of... You're always focused on that.
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