Yep. These guys are squatting more than what the world records for single ply were a few years ago. Jezza and Ray will hit, health allowing, a 500kg squat in the next two years.
Jezza has had issues with bad calls for a long time now. Part of the problem is that he is a box of meat. Ray has much more height so its easier to see knee lock out and squat depth, compared to Jezza.
Jezza also has problems getting a deadlift past his massive quads. His short bench press arms do not help. He struggled and dropped his first deadlift but then, with his coach giving him some reminders, absolutely creamed it on his second attempt.
Yes, I think Jezza had a real chance to break the record and take gold in the squat. He had Ray against the ropes, so much so that he opted to skip his third attempt. I suspect he only did that because he had the advantage after Jezza was timed out. Twice.
I was going to have a go, a while back, attempting to just unrack the world record weight. But I can't. The gym I'm at only has those shit 45lb plates so you can only get about 8 on the sleeve. I dream off a decent stack of eleiko thin 25kg calibrated powerlifting plates.