It's another episode of the Legends of League Podcast and another #ThrowBackThursday. This week Maroon is joined by two dead set Manly legends - Geoff 'Tooves' Toovey & Mark 'Spudd' Carroll.

The boys discuss what makes Manly such a great club, 'Silvertails' success in the 90's, the 1996 premiership, the importance of camaraderie; plus a nice heaping of banter.

In this episode:

• What is it about Manly!? (2:24)
• Silvertails success in the 90s (4:20)
• 1996 Premiership win over the Dragons (6:24)
• A classic Spudd story from a memorable trip to Thailand (12:12)
• Tooves discusses his ambitions to coach again; as well as the difference between playing in and coaching a Grand Final (15:10)
• The importance on camaraderie (16:58)
• The boys play a round of 'What gets my goat' in relation to modern day football (20:13)
• Who would win in a clash between the 1996 Premiership winning Sea Eagles and the 2008 Premiership winning Sea Eagles? (23:48)

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Just TWO ROUNDS TO GO before finals footy and the Legends of League Podcast is here to bring you a 'thorough INVESTIGATION' into the goings on around the NRL as we reach the business end of the season.

This week on the Legends NRL Wrap we are joined by Steve 'BEAVER' Menzies and it wouldn't be a real NRL investigation without Geoff 'TOOVES' Toovey who will also be joining Maroon in our 4 Pines Studio in Manly.

We look back at all the action from last weekend... cover all the big talking points from around the game... and look ahead to Round 19!

In this episode:

• The boys review all the Round 18 matches this weekend just gone... talking points include:
• Are the Rabbitohs 'genuine' title contenders (2:30)
• The Sea Eagles and the 'Tommy Turbo Effect' (5:00)
• Can Penrith 'win out' on their way to a Grand Final berth? (8:21)
• The disappointing Dragons... Maroon asks Tooves what the first thing that Hook needs to do as the Dragons head coach (10:59)
• Tooves says Broncos need three things: 1. Kevin Walters, 2. a big hug, 3. to learn to 'play footy' again (13:07)
• Was it an odd time for Knights coach Adam O'Brien to rest players - coming up against the red hot Roosters? (17:18)
• Round 19 match tips (22:16)
• Maroon asks Tooves and Beaver 'who their rugby league idol was growing up' (25:22)

NEXT WEEK TOOVES is back! and he is bringing his old mate Mark 'SPUDD' Carroll with him for THROWBACK THURSDAY - you won't want to miss this episode! Make sure you SUBSCRIBE to the Legends of League Podcast to be alerted when it drops next week!!

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This weeks #ThrowBackThursday is going all the way back to the 80's as Maroon is joined by Panthers legends - Darryl 'The Big Marn' Brohman & Greg 'Brandy' Alexander.

From 'The Big Marn' arriving at Penrith in 1979 all the way through to the Panthers first ever premiership in 1991... with some Gus Gould, broken jaws and hilarious yarns sprinkled in for good measure... this is a cracking episode for Panthers fans and lovers of rugby league in general.

In this episode:

• Brandy takes us back to what he calls 'the best time of his life' - his school boy days at Patrician Brothers Fairfield (2:44)
• Darryl left the Panthers for the Bulldogs in 1983 - before Brandy's arrival in '84 - but he still recalls the hype around Brandy's arrival in Penrith (5:06)
• Playing for match payments (7:28)
• 'The Big Marn' discusses his big move to Sydney and his arrival at Penrith in '79 (8:52)
• Darryl shares a hilarious story from his days playing with Gus Gould at Canterbury (13:09)
• 1991 Penrith Panthers win FIRST PREMIERSHIP in clubs history - Brandy discusses how it changed the club and the Penrith region (15:32)
• The polarising and enigmatic GUS GOULD (18:30)
• Maroon asks Darryl about his infamous broken jaw in '83 Origin thanks to a Les Boyd elbow to the face (26:08)
• After a stint at the Bulldogs, The Big Marn returns to Penrith in 1986 (28:29)
• The Big Marn didn't play much first grade in 1987 because of a brutal Tim Sheen's 'fitness focused' selection criteria (30:41)
• Maroon points out that The Big Marn was a glaring omission from Brandy's 'best ever Panthers side' (33:43)
• To finish Maroon and the boys discuss the 2020 Panthers side and their chances of taking out the Premiership (36:03)

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