Best TAB NZ Podcasts (2025)

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 42 | Final Episode for 2025 55:45

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Welcome back to another episode of The Advantage Line Podcast!It’s the final episode of the year, and the lads wrap up an epic season of rugby league. They review the last weekend of internationals, where Australia beat England 30–8 to sweep the Ashes 3–0, and New Zealand claimed the Pacific Championship over Samoa. A big talking point was Deine Ma…

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 41 | International Finals 47:58

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Welcome back to another episode of The Advantage Line Podcast! This week, the lads kick things off a little differently with a quick game of “All Say the Same Player’s Name.” Does it go to plan, or straight to shambles? They break down the good, the bad, and the ugly from the weekend’s action. The Tongan fans created electric scenes at Eden Park as…

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 40 | Worldwide NRL? 57:34

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Welcome back to another episode of The Advantage Line Podcast! Another big weekend of international footy is upon us, with teams looking to lock in their spot in the finals. Paul’s back and in charge, diving straight into the weekend’s punting with that 1980s spreadsheet.Find out who gets stitched up as the lads rank Paul’s top five Pacific players…

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 39 | International Footy 56:56

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Welcome back to another episode of The Advantage Line Podcast! The lads kick off the week with some better news than usual, coming off what could arguably be their best weekend on the punt as a collective. The social-media trend Blind Ranking makes its debut on the pod, as they blind rank five of the biggest test upsets. It wouldn’t be The Advantag…

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 38 | Kiwis vs Toa Samoa 53:33

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Welcome back to another episode of The Advantage Line Podcast! The lads weren’t too happy about a week without league, but Teddy is back fizzing more than ever after spending some time punting from the hospital bed. Our Top 10 segment returns this week, as the boys break down the best players that never cracked an international line up, those who, …

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 37 | Pacific Championship 57:50

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Welcome back to another episode of The Advantage Line Podcast! It’s been one hell of an NRL season and a long one at that! We break down the key turning points and the best moments from the Grand Final, as the Broncos claim their first title in 19 years. We also crown our 2025 Advantage Line Punter of the Year, someone please send Paul an NRL 101 g…

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 36 | Grand Final 1:05:49

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Welcome back to another episode of The Advantage Line Podcast! With the Grand Final just around the corner, the fellas break down their Dally M Team of the Year including some controversial nominations and the Dally M Awards up for grabs. The always-popular Top Ten segment returns, as the lads count down the Top Ten Grand Final tries of the NRL era…

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 35 | Prelims Time 1:09:58

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Welcome back to another episode of The Advantage Line Podcast. We’re down to the final four as we edge closer to the Grand final. The number one–ranked Raiders are gone, along with Teddy’s Bulldogs. The team reflects on the good, the bad, and the ugly from the weekend, before ranking the Top 10 coaching changes. It’s prelims time: Melbourne take on…

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 34 | Wahs Bow Out 1:03:53

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Welcome back to another episode of The Advantage Line Podcast. A disappointing weekend for the One New Zealand Warriors supporters, with the team bowing out in Week 1 of the NRL finals. There were also some remarkable wins for punters this week. In this episode, we review the Warriors’ awards night, highlighting the recipients of Rookie of the Year…

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 33 | Finals Footy is here 1:23:14

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Welcome back to another episode of The Advantage Line podcast We take a trip down memory lane as we look back at the predictions we made at the beginning of the season. There are some hits, but plenty of misses when it came to predicting the season that has been. Importantly the One NZ Warriors know who’ll they’ll be facing in the finals and it is …

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 32 | What would you give up to win? 1:15:54

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Welcome back to another episode of The Advantage Line. The boys discuss what they would give up for their team to win a premiership. Warning, it gets loose fast. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is back discussing the penultimate round of the season and they discuss the best ever rookie seasons in this week's Top 10s.…

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 31 | Top Ten most underrated players of the NRL era 1:17:22

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Welcome back to another episode of The Advantage Line podcast. Today we look back at the ladder ahead of the last two remaining games in the regular season, We ask are we going to make any change’s to the top four or any changes we would make to our final top 8 in each of our ladder predictions. Good bad and the ugly from the weekends action after …

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 30 | Top 8 Predictions & Devastating Centres 1:13:10

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Welcome back to another episode of The Advantage Line podcast Today we are looking at the ladder and trying to predict the final top 8 for the season. With everything still being so close the order of the table can change a great deal. Who is the NRL’s most devastating centre? That is what we are trying to find out in this week’s Top 10? After comi…

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 29 | Watching Footy in strange places 1:06:23

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Welcome back to another episode of The Advantage Line podcast Karl makes his return holiday and has some words for Paul and his running of the Advantage Line while he was away. #MayoGate is still being talked about this week after Teddy’s shocking comments about mayo on burgers last week. A punter won a 90k NRL bet, using just two legs, how on Eart…

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 28 | Trainers, Transfers & Mayonnaise 1:08:43

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Welcome back to another episode of The Advantage Line podcast As you know we debate the most important topics in Rugby League here on The Advantage Line podcast. So, it was only a matter of time until we debated mayonnaise. Does it belong in a burger? We do manage to get onto the topic on NRL and we are looking at the worst transfers in NRL history…

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 27 | More injury concerns 59:48

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Welcome back to another episode of The Advantage Line podcast We are on the final stretch. With only 6 games remaining of the regular season there is a heck of a lot that needs to be decided. The Wahs hold a top 4 spot and they’ll be looking to keep it by defeating the Eels on Friday. Of course, the team has been hit by another injury in the shape …

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 26 | Player rating controversy 1:10:27

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Welcome back to another episode of The Advantage Line podcast What an exciting time to be a fan of rugby league with the release of a brand new game, but instead of being a time to be joyful, fans seem united in disagreement. We look over some of the player ratings for each team and see if they are accurate *spoiler they ain’t* The Warriors took an…

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 25 | One small step… 1:09:20

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Welcome back to another episode of The Advantage Line podcast. No Metcalf, no problem. After the first 2mins fans would have been worried that the unthinkable was about to happen, but the Wahs got into gear and put on a dominate display against the Tigers. A lot of chatter had been about Metcalf’s season ending injury and if the team had the depth …

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The Advantage Line | 2025 | Episode 24 | Origin Decider & Wahs Return Home 1:05:19

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Welcome back to another episode of The Advantage Line podcast Don’t forget to set your alarms for Game 3 of Origin cause you won’t want to miss it. The final game of the series is set to be an all time classic and despite NSW being favoured there is really isn’t much between the two teams. And just when you think NRL action won’t get better than th…

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Bonus Episode | State of Origin Game 3 50:31

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Welcome back to another bonus episode of The Advantage Line podcast. Game 3 of State of Origin is here, and it is set up to be an absolute classic as both teams have traded blows and now they’ll be looking for the knock-out. Neither team will want to lose as this looks to be a series for the history books. So, who does our panel think will be comin…

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 23 | Injury Woes 1:10:26

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Welcome back to The Advantage Line podcast The Warriors have suffered back to back loses for the first time this year, but it may not be the loss fans are thinking about. No, Luke Metcalf is out for the rest of the campaign. Will discuss what impact that may have on the rest of the season and has it dented, or shattered top 4 hopes. While be trying…

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 22 | Panthers Pounce 1:14:28

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Welcome back to The Advantage Line podcast The Warriors suffered a tough defeat at home thanks to a Panthers team that was lacking a few starters, so was last week’s break a help or a hinderance for the Wahs? Of course, what has made the Warriors season so impressive this week is they don’t turn losing into a habit and they’ll be looking to bounce …

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 21 | Warriors take on the Panthers 1:08:35

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Welcome back to The Advantage Line podcast This week is a double dose of Advantage Line action other games to discuss other than Origin Game 2. Does that mean we won’t end up talking about the sizzling match up in Perth? Of course we will be talking about it. However there is little game on at the weekend, you may have heard about it. The Warriors …

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Bonus Episode | Origin Game 2 43:19

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Welcome to a bonus episode of The Advantage Line podcast Game 2 of Origin is upon us and that means we needed to create a bonus episode to breakdown all the latest team news, odds and stories leading into the second game being played in Perth. The Blues won game 1, and will be looking to put the series to bed before game 3, but the Maroons are alre…

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 20 | Halfway through the season 1:27:13

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Welcome back to another episode of The Advantage Line. We almost can’t believe it! Teddy is giving the Warriors heaps of praise and has nothing but good things to say about them and their incredible win against the Sharks. We breakdown the win and look at the future of the Warriors as a number young players had to step up in the face of an injury c…

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 19 | Top Ten Debate 1:18:57

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Welcome back to another episode of The Advantage Line. Last week we went through the top 10 most shocking call ups and we thought we couldn’t think of another topic that would ignite such debate, but we sure did. Karl asks who is in the top 10 all time greatest ever NRL try scorers and things get heated over one particular entrant. We look back at …

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 18 | Origin, Origin and Origin 1:24:52

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Welcome back to another episode of The Advantage Line. It is State of Origin day! We are having a crack at picking the winner of game one and who’ll big having a big influence on the outcome of this game and the ones to come. We look back at the Top 10 must shocking Origin call ups, and you can bet they’ll be plenty of debate about each and every s…

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 17 | State of Origin selections 1:16:32

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Welcome back to another episode of The Advantage Line. This week, we fly out the gate and get straight into the State of Origin chat. To ensure we keep things moving and not end up with a 8 hour pod, we have restricted Teddy to 60 seconds worth of opinion. We breakdown the teams for State of Origin, where are the weaknesses in the teams? Which team…

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 16 | Looking back through the ages 1:09:44

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Welcome back to another episode of The Advantage Line. We are a well prepared podcast as we look back through the years. We are looking back at the first 10 rounds of the NRL through the ages to see how this year’s league is stacking up. Who has a memory of an elephant and who is like a goldfish? A scandal breaks out as Blake accuses Paul at cheati…

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 15 | Warriors bring the magic 1:04:28

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Welcome back to another episode of The Advantage Line. Magic round lived up to its names this year! The Warriors produced another classic this year to keep the belief alive that this maybe the year. With all the teams heading to one location for Magic Round, should New Zealand be the next spot to host a NRL Magic Round? The top two on the ladder ar…

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 14 | Magic Round & Gorillas 1:05:12

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Welcome back to another episode of The Advantage Line. As you know, we don’t shy away from talking about the big issues and today is no different as we tackle the question: 100 men vs 1 Gorilla who would win, but of course we are putting our own unique NRL spin on things. It is that time of the season again where teams from NZ and Australia converg…

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 13 | Guess who’s back 1:06:51

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Welcome back to another episode of The Advantage Line. Guess who’s back, back again. Teddy is back, warn your friends. That’s right our good mate Teddy is back on the Advantage Line, which is a good thing as we enter winter as he’ll be able to warm us up with his hot takes on the latest news and action from the NRL. While Teddy has returned, Karl i…

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 12 | Lachlan Galvin Or… 1:11:17

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Welcome back to another episode of The Advantage Line. This week Searley and Blake join regulars Karl and Paul on the pod and we break down last week’s results including what happened in the first half of the Warriors vs Storm game. Is it something to be concerned about, or can we take some positives from the game. Paul shows us his moves and then …

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The Advantage Line | Episode 11 | Pip Morris off the bench 58:22

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Teddy is away, so we have gone to the bench and replaced him with an absolute legend in Phillipa Morris from Trackside. With Pip being a Panthers fan, we have to ask are the fans already waving the white flag this year? Blake Ayshford retires from gambling… only to return a few seconds later. Quite the emotional roller coaster. We launch the campai…

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 10 | Goodbye Teddy…for now. 1:11:50

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Teddy joins us for the final time before going on a long break, so does he have a few choice words before he leaves the Advantage Line. We try to look through the evidence to see if those “Massive Signing” rumours are true are merely a cruel April Fool’s joke? Speaking of signings, who has been the Warrior’s biggest ever signing, and we get overly …

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 9 | Dylan Walker leaves the Warriors 1:02:27

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In semi-breaking news, Dylan Walker has left the Warriors so Teddy and Searley give us their raw reaction to the news, but it appears there is a positive spin to this story. In this week’s good, bad and ugly the Warriors were good, while winning ugly. Speaking of the Warriors, how will the Warriors move on after the injury to RTS? In other big news…

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 8 | Conspiracies & Victory Parades 1:05:12

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Searley returns to the podcast after being MIA in Vegas, and we get the scoop on what happened. We go over the good, the bad and the ugly from last week’s games. Of course the Warriors have returned home and returned to winning ways, so what does the panel make of the performance compared the to Vegas game. We also discuss what happened between a f…

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The Advantage Line 2025 | The Good the Bad & the Ugly of Round 1 | Episode 7 1:04:10

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The Advantage Line discusses the good the bad and the ugly as they recap the fixtures from Round 1. Blake Ayshford is back to celebrate his Round 1 picks and attempts to organise a TAL sprint race. Teddy predicts the first coach to be sacked and whether the Knights have made a mistake as the team previews Round 2 of the NRL.…

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 6 | Vegas gamble backfires 55:07

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Karl gives us an overview of his Vegas travels. What do the trio think of the event in Vegas, was it a celebration of Rugby League and what can be improved next year. Teddy is already asking for changes after the first game in Vegas, and Teddy must have said something strange as Karl agrees with him at one point. We have a cheeky game of guess who,…

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 5 | Live from Vegas 34:45

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This is it! The beginning of the new NRL season, and we are in Vegas for the opening game between the Warriors and the Raiders. Karl is joined by Blake and Searley….actually Searley is supposed to be here, but I guess what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Karl and Blake talk about how Vegas has been treating the fans, but how the Wahs fans have jus…

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 4 | Viva Wahs Vegas 1:09:08

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The pre-season is over, the NRL regular season is about to begin, and the Warriors are in Vegas to kick things off. Does it get much better than this? What can we learn from pre-season? Is there anything to suggest that the Panthers won’t continue their domination of the NRL for many more years. We attempt to keep things PG as discuss what is the o…

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 3 | Can we learn anything from pre-season? 45:37

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The Wahs had a great pre-season game, but does it actually matter. Can we really read anything from pre-season games to predict how the season will play out? Teddy is quick to shoot down any excitement Wahs fans have from pre-season as he questions the the team the Warriors have played during the pre-season. We are looking at tips 5-8 from last yea…

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 2 | Co-Captain, No-Captain? 1:08:17

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The Wahs have announced Co-Captains for the upcoming season, so our Co-Captains Paul and Karl get Teddy’s thoughts on the announcement… and you can probably guess where Teddy stands on the issue. After Mahomes performance in the Super Bowl, which players has had a similar performance in the NRL? We continue our 2025 preview taking a look at the Bro…

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The Advantage Line 2025 | Episode 1 | Where it all begins…. Again 1:11:14

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New year, new equipment, same old Paul, Karl and Teddy. We preview the teams that finished at the bottom of last year’s table, and debate if they will be occupying the same position at the end of this year, or will there be a surprise package in the group? Paul takes a break from the NRL chat to reveal the real reason why the trade that shocked the…

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The Advantage Line Podcast | The saddest time of the year | Episode 43 55:26

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Welcome back to The Advantage Line podcast. Sadly it is that time of year again, where the league season has come to an end and we begin the long wait for the start of the next season. But, we still have some massive international league action to look back on. The panel of Karl, Paul and Teddy reflect on the final league games of the season.…

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The Advantage Line Podcast | Kiwis look to bounce back | Episode 42 51:56

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Welcome back to The Advantage Line podcast. Paul is in the bin this week, but we have managed to call in a late sub, so Blake Ayshford is joining Karl and Teddy on the pod today. We look back at the Kiwis vs Tonga game and try to figure out what went wrong, then right, then wrong again as the Kiwis came from behind only to lose the game. Where do t…

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The Advantage Line Podcast | Kiwis & Curries | Episode 41 1:00:41

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This week the topic of food comes up again and this one might be more controversial than a creamed corn in a sandwich. Karl and Paul are joined by Teddy and Searle and they attempt to predict the upcoming Kiwis vs Tonga game. They'll also be reflecting on last week's international action and where it went right, wrong and everything in between for …

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The Advantage Line Podcast | One Hit Wonders | Episode 40 1:06:33

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Welcome back to The Advantage Line podcast. This week we are blind ranking Kiwis who only ever played in one test match. We then start looking ahead to the Kiwis taking on the Kangoroos. Will the ‘Roos be jumping for joy or will it be the Kiwis who’ll be taking flight and landing on cloud nine? Paul, Karl and Teddy also look back at last week’s int…

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The Advantage Line Podcast | International Footy Begins | #38 1:01:15

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Advantage Line Assemble! Karl, Paul, Teddy, Searle & Blake join forces this week and are discussing the big international games coming up this weekend. Last week, the talk was all about Shaun Johnson possibly getting a call up and now that has gotten the call, what do the FAB FIVE think of his return? ToastieGate continues as more suggestions for t…

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NRL 2024 Grand Final Wrap | Panthers make it four | #37 1:03:14

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Welcome back to The Advantage Line podcast. It’s both a joyous time of year and a sad time of year for our Advantage Line panelists. On one hand we've just had the Grand Final, but on the other hand that means the long wait for the start of the next NRL season starts now. However there is some international rugby still to come. The trio look at bac…