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Speaker 3: gonna lawyer. Worked on a truck doing.
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Speaker 1: Like again, what's that got to do with it?
Speaker 3: So you're a driver.
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Speaker 4: What's that's hard labor.
Speaker 3: Buddy, what's that going to do with having a trade?
Speaker 1: Let's rip into a rugby league.
Speaker 2: Yet another week of drama, particularly down in the nation's capital.
Speaker 2: Corey Halls bro Ricky Stewart makes his feelings clear in
Speaker 2: a post match press conference and from there it's gone
Speaker 2: effectively south.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think it was already headed that direction, Dave. This
Speaker 3: has been brewined for a little while. They had given
Speaker 3: Corey permission to negotiate with rival clubs or a couple
Speaker 3: of weeks ago now before this incident, and Ricky just
Speaker 3: looked like a guy that was fed up. All right,
Speaker 3: this is not a nice feels an isolated incident. I'd say, well,
Speaker 3: that's completely over the top, right, But this has been simmering. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think Ricky has just had a loss to try
Speaker 3: and we'll get the best out of Corey. So there'll
Speaker 3: be a natural parton of the ways with him taking
Speaker 3: up a three year deal to join the Bears.
Speaker 4: I was going to say, you said gone south, because
Speaker 4: it's actually gone west, because that's where Corey's gone. Corey's
Speaker 4: ended up going.
Speaker 3: Well, how did you contain yourself? That's a good line,
Speaker 3: wasn't it? But how did you contain?
Speaker 4: Allow you to have? You say? Because I do that?
Speaker 4: How other people are talking? Then I come in with
Speaker 4: the pearls. Right, So it's gone west, baby hasn't gone south.
Speaker 4: And I think it's a great result for Corey. It
Speaker 4: feels like mixed right. They just need a clean break
Speaker 4: from each other, right, because there's been times when Ricky's
Speaker 4: got the best out of Corey and it's worked, but
Speaker 4: inevitably they've always ended up button heads because it's like
Speaker 4: oil and water. Right, it's a bit like you and
Speaker 4: me on this podcast. The things don't it just doesn't
Speaker 4: work like water, right. So that's what's happened at the end,
Speaker 4: and it's gone to w A And I think I
Speaker 4: think it'd be a great signing for them.
Speaker 1: I like it as a signing. Good player, yeah, best,
Speaker 1: he's a good football.
Speaker 3: You look at that starting front row now, Liam Harry,
Speaker 3: Corey haws Bro much better, got a bit much better.
Speaker 3: I think it's a good front row pair and I
Speaker 3: think they've done well to get that deals obviously.
Speaker 4: Long they don't end up in the sin bin every game. Okay,
Speaker 4: it's a bit loose, he's a bit mad. I like
Speaker 4: his madness.
Speaker 3: I like I like it. I think that's a good
Speaker 3: front row pair and I think you take that if
Speaker 3: you're the Perth Bears, and you know they flirted and
Speaker 3: you know went with try to sign Junior Parlor, and
Speaker 3: I think Corey Hawes Brough at this stage of their careers,
Speaker 3: is a better signing for him.
Speaker 4: I actually think it's really important they've got the front
Speaker 4: row is so important in the game now. Was seeing
Speaker 4: that in the way the salaries of props of skyrocketed, right,
Speaker 4: there's a real value of premium on good front rowers,
Speaker 4: good guys who can win the forward battle for you.
Speaker 4: As you said, I think that's a combo that helps
Speaker 4: them on that front. They've got some other holes and
Speaker 4: areas are going to fill, we know that, but I
Speaker 4: think it's a they're starting to put together at least
Speaker 4: the team that's going to be reasonably competitive, right, So
Speaker 4: that's important.
Speaker 3: For August Corey Hawes brother good signs to their fort.
Speaker 2: Do you think Corey has played his last game for Camera?
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no. I think you'll play again. I
Speaker 4: think you'll play. Josh Pop's got his last game coming
Speaker 4: up week or so. When two weeks, two weeks maybe,
Speaker 4: I think I would imagine you're playing that game. They've
Speaker 4: had a long relationship over a long time, and I
Speaker 4: think I think you'll play again the Camera. It's at
Speaker 4: least one more game.
Speaker 3: We lost for it. Like Camera, you look at the
Speaker 3: middle that they've lost over the last couple of years.
Speaker 3: Obviously Trey Mooney, Corey Hawes, bro Josh Propo, it's a
Speaker 3: blow for him.
Speaker 4: Uncertainly Hudson youngering around.
Speaker 3: As well, so it's a yeah, it's a tough there's
Speaker 3: a tough situation for Canberra in terms of that that
Speaker 3: Ford pack, Joy tipe and is obviously outstanding. No Martin,
Speaker 3: Hudson Young on either edge, and the song it's it's
Speaker 3: played sound up a back roll.
Speaker 4: So they've got some kids coming through.
Speaker 2: David picked up lip Boy hot Boy from the Dogs
Speaker 2: as a younger forward. Joe Roddy is one they have
Speaker 2: a lot of time for. Yeah, but you're right, let's
Speaker 2: talk about Hudson Young.
Speaker 1: How does this pan out?
Speaker 4: Look? I mean, Sam's agent's going down to Camp Canberra
Speaker 4: for the Brisbane game. So in about a week's time,
Speaker 4: some meat talks with Don Ferner. I think about that.
Speaker 4: Those two talks. Sam says to Don that Hudson would
Speaker 4: like to explore P and G, explore the possibility of
Speaker 4: going there. I would imagine Camber will open a small
Speaker 4: window for him to go to P and G and
Speaker 4: have a look around, and then hudsonall be armed with
Speaker 4: all the information he needs to make a decision. That's
Speaker 4: how I think it plays out date. I don't know
Speaker 4: where it lands right, I don't know how he whether
Speaker 4: he goes to P engine enjoys himself, everyone at the
Speaker 4: moment he goes there seems to sign for them. So
Speaker 4: if he if he actually besides he wants to explore
Speaker 4: that option, I'd be concerned. If I'm a camera fan.
Speaker 3: Big he would be a huge blow. Huge blow. But
Speaker 3: that's a good camera will put in a huge offer
Speaker 3: to keep him. Yeah, so and they feel like they're
Speaker 3: probably the only side that they could potentially lose him
Speaker 3: to is to P and G. But yeah, you can't
Speaker 3: from Canberra and you lose Huts and Young off the
Speaker 3: back of Hawsebra off the back of Trey Mooney, off
Speaker 3: the back it's they're blows to your forward pack for
Speaker 3: players that still have a tremendous amount of foot he's
Speaker 3: still in them, so, uh you know, I know I
Speaker 3: mentioned before Noel Martin's a really good player, and he's
Speaker 3: going to be an outstanding NRL player. You've got, you know,
Speaker 3: ideally Sims Song on an edge, so it's not the
Speaker 3: worst back row of combination with. But yeah, Huts and
Speaker 3: Young's elite.
Speaker 4: Regardless of where he lands. Huts and Young, he's going
Speaker 4: to be a very well paid young man.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, if he stays in camera, he's gonna be
Speaker 4: earning over a million dollars a year. He goes to
Speaker 4: P and G. We all know how that.
Speaker 3: Works, it'd be the highest paid back on the game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's going to evolve, right, I mean, this is
Speaker 4: how much more that's about them?
Speaker 1: Well, Sel wants one point too.
Speaker 4: That's if you're paying Hudson Young. I think Cameras offered
Speaker 4: around eight fifty nine hundred. With a ratchet, right, that'll
Speaker 4: end up one one, one two. Potentially, someone was obviously
Speaker 4: looking at one two. I would imagine wants to ratchet
Speaker 4: that as well. If you're West Tigers. I've said it before,
Speaker 4: I wouldn't someone is a really good play, he's young.
Speaker 4: It's going to be a long time.
Speaker 3: Let's be wind a little bit. Someone I find is
Speaker 3: asking for one point, that's it. That's the suggestion a season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you haven't picked up on that's the My response
Speaker 2: is your response too, I'm the same.
Speaker 4: I'd be saying good luck, Yeah, you go on the market.
Speaker 1: But this is why, Mick, this is with the West Tigers.
Speaker 2: This was the decision we need to let your own
Speaker 2: go early from next season that we can use that
Speaker 2: money to keep the asking price of Sam Weller.
Speaker 3: Find it, you don't have to pay it.
Speaker 2: Well, the West Tigers have gone on the record and
Speaker 2: so we're going to do everything possible to keep Sam
Speaker 2: Weller final and lat.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but whatever possible doesn't mean you go. I'll give
Speaker 4: you whatever he wants.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that.
Speaker 3: Let's look at the back rollers that had been like
Speaker 3: that are on the market.
Speaker 4: Yep. Jacob Preston, he'll probably end up with about eight
Speaker 4: hundred with a ratchet.
Speaker 3: Talis Duncan.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's worth that.
Speaker 4: You don't think Jake Preston's worth eight hundred with a
Speaker 4: ratchet in the market.
Speaker 3: He is just WA's Talis Duncan probably end up.
Speaker 4: Seven eight hundred. Ratchet nine with the ratchet.
Speaker 3: Are we saying Sam Well?
Speaker 1: No, we're not saying it.
Speaker 4: No, we're not saying management. I never said one point
Speaker 4: to me in that's the claim that that cannot be right. Well,
Speaker 4: maybe it's not.
Speaker 2: You know, he's management are thick that cannot be right,
Speaker 2: very thick with this is what we're here.
Speaker 4: That makes some calls me ring right now.
Speaker 3: I'm not ringing anyone right now. One point, what's you.
Speaker 4: What's your cap? What's your limit on SMI you reckon?
Speaker 4: See no less scaling up?
Speaker 3: He's twenty two, yep, all right, a five years deal.
Speaker 3: I'm scaling up to a mill I'm not starting there.
Speaker 3: He's behind Dylan Lucas who just resigned. I'm sure Dylan
Speaker 3: Lucas didn't resign for a million dollars. That's a young
Speaker 3: Jacob Preston Talas Duncan Britney correct?
Speaker 4: Do you have him behind Talis dunk? I reckon, I'd
Speaker 4: have him.
Speaker 3: I'd have him just because of the consistency of Sam
Speaker 3: Well is a great twenty two, great player. I would
Speaker 3: love to sign him right like, I'm not giving him
Speaker 3: a million dollars one point two.
Speaker 4: Let's got a play out let's se how that plays.
Speaker 3: Are you guys?
Speaker 4: No, no, no, And I hope the Tigers don't feel
Speaker 4: like the Tigers don't get as I said, hell.
Speaker 2: Over, this is a monster game tonight, Fellas Panthers Roosters,
Speaker 2: it's a Grand final.
Speaker 1: Preview declaring it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he said, my bulldog only two?
Speaker 2: What about your wars uh wars and sharkies can get there?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Hey what am i am? I going out on
Speaker 1: a limon say there's a potential Grand Final?
Speaker 4: You said you didn't say potentially, you said it is ad.
Speaker 3: I'm back and dave in because finally, this is what
Speaker 3: is what I predicted in the preseason Pends Roosters.
Speaker 4: That's almost to guarantee it won't happened.
Speaker 1: The Sharks might lose a game. Again about that game.
Speaker 3: Okayna.
Speaker 4: Quick quick change the subject tonight.
Speaker 3: This is not changing the subject on the coast you
Speaker 3: We're sticking it tonight. Your Sharks annoyed me, but they
Speaker 3: Dragon smashed them. But just when you think it's safe
Speaker 3: to say something good about Cronella and they dish up
Speaker 3: that rubbish. I'm off them. They cannot win the camp.
Speaker 1: Tonight's game tonight, It's game.
Speaker 4: Huge massive game, massive games.
Speaker 3: I think it's a shame to heed you need something.
Speaker 4: I would say it's a huge game for me, a
Speaker 4: huge game for the US.
Speaker 1: I'm disappointed to desk is not playing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, but I think it's a huge game for
Speaker 4: the russ Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't think they can win without James.
Speaker 1: I don't think they've been that good.
Speaker 4: Let's yeah, it's both missing a big but.
Speaker 3: I understand all this. Penrith can win the camp without
Speaker 3: his I the Roosters cannot win the camp.
Speaker 1: With that matter of fact, what you're saying, you've never
Speaker 1: seen it, what pen Y.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they can.
Speaker 1: Because they can.
Speaker 3: Well, they got Nathan in the in the game, You've
Speaker 3: got him in the Grand Final. Yeah, so that means
Speaker 3: they can win it. I've got I've got your coming back. Well,
Speaker 3: they still have to get to the ground final without him.
Speaker 4: We could come back before then, could be back for
Speaker 4: the past. I think it's a huge game. I think
Speaker 4: it's a bigger game tonight for the Roosters than just
Speaker 4: for Penrith because the Roosters record against penstylebolical, one of
Speaker 4: their last thirteen. Sammy Walker's gone go into the game
Speaker 4: under immense scrutiny and pressure after rejecting the contract offer
Speaker 4: huge pressure on the rooster. Yeah, they need to perform.
Speaker 2: And this is this is the fascination with this timing
Speaker 2: of the story dropping that management don't want to get
Speaker 2: this deal done right now. The thing is and mate,
Speaker 2: good luck to the Roosters if they win tonight, but
Speaker 2: if they lose and then they lose again next week
Speaker 2: and whatever happened, like if they get on this rush
Speaker 2: of all.
Speaker 1: Focus will come on seeing him.
Speaker 3: It's all on Sam. This whole, this whole end of
Speaker 3: season watch is on Sam Walker. He determines his value now. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he's taking it out of everyone else's hands, placed it
Speaker 3: in his hands. He determines how much he's worth now.
Speaker 4: He's a confident. I don't think it will affect him
Speaker 4: because he's that sort of guy, pretty unflappable, doesn't get
Speaker 4: phased by much. I don't think it worries him.
Speaker 3: But as Dave said, might work in the roosters.
Speaker 4: Could work and the Ruster, well, this is I think
Speaker 4: this is what It also could work against them.
Speaker 3: It cannot work against it because if he wins them
Speaker 3: a comp he's one of my comp.
Speaker 4: Goes through the roof.
Speaker 3: They've got to pay a lot more money for the camp.
Speaker 4: But I'm talking in relation to what they've got to
Speaker 4: pay him, not in relation to whether they win the compro.
Speaker 4: This is about the deal are trying to get done
Speaker 4: with Sam and the fact they can't get it done
Speaker 4: at the moment, at the price level they wanted. That
Speaker 4: he wins a camp, his price level goes.
Speaker 3: And it deserves to go.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it goes up.
Speaker 3: It does so.
Speaker 1: In the but it also goes up for the buying
Speaker 1: club too.
Speaker 4: What do you mean if he leaves? If he leaves,
Speaker 4: of course.
Speaker 1: That's right, so everyone's on the same But I'm.
Speaker 4: Sure there's club's out there now. He'd probably gives Sam
Speaker 4: huge money.
Speaker 1: Right now, taking them Rubbish about.
Speaker 4: Sam needing to prove himself a big games? Did you
Speaker 4: watch him in Origin this year? The first two Games
Speaker 4: of Origin? He was unbelievable. Sam's got nothing to prove
Speaker 4: in big games?
Speaker 3: Yes he does.
Speaker 4: I don't think he does. I think that's rubbish.
Speaker 3: He does why because he needs to lead his side
Speaker 3: to a Grand Final.
Speaker 4: He's shown he can perform in big games. Are you
Speaker 4: saying it's all on Sam Walker? Okay, He's basically saying
Speaker 4: if they don't win the Grand finals, Sam Walkers.
Speaker 3: To prove in big games.
Speaker 4: Of course he does.
Speaker 3: He wasn't done at a club.
Speaker 4: Level, No, but that's Sam's done it. In big games
Speaker 4: He's won too.
Speaker 3: He's won one Origin game.
Speaker 4: He's played well in two games he played. He's played
Speaker 4: well in two Origin games.
Speaker 3: How many games he's won Origin to go back, that's
Speaker 3: how games Origin He's one.
Speaker 4: Okay, but you're just saying he didn't play well in
Speaker 4: Origin mine, but he's won one Origin game. He's played
Speaker 4: well in two Origin games. They should have won the
Speaker 4: first one. If there wasn't a sad enough McCallum ponger,
Speaker 4: they should have won the series. He probably would have
Speaker 4: won the Wall Medal. Right, So he played well in
Speaker 4: two Origin games, and he's played well in big games.
Speaker 3: And didn't play well in Game three when the series
Speaker 3: of them, none of them did. I'm just this is
Speaker 3: not Sam Walker hate. This is still smells like it's
Speaker 3: definitely not. It's still no, it's definitely not. He's an
Speaker 3: elite half back. He's one of the top halves in
Speaker 3: the game.
Speaker 4: You just said he's got something to prove, though, how
Speaker 4: can you say that if he's saying he's got something
Speaker 4: to prove, saying he's the lead half, one of the
Speaker 4: best salves in the game. If you consider that, now,
Speaker 4: what's he got to prove? Have ever saying are already
Speaker 4: at that level?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: But is at the bottom of that level. Wins a comp,
Speaker 3: he'd be top two half in the game, top three
Speaker 3: half in the game.
Speaker 1: If he never wins a camp, he's twenty three or
Speaker 1: twenty two, or.
Speaker 2: He never wins a comp. Has he been worth the
Speaker 2: money that you're talking about?
Speaker 4: One the one talking about the money his management's talking about.
Speaker 3: We're actually not that far off in what we think
Speaker 3: he's worth.
Speaker 4: Three's No, I agree. I'm just arguing he doesn't meaning
Speaker 4: to proven big games. I think he's shown he can
Speaker 4: get it done in big games.
Speaker 3: I think I think the Roisters have reservations about.
Speaker 4: That too, understand they do.
Speaker 1: I think Guided bombed out the most recent final series.
Speaker 4: Well, he came back from a knee recoont play.
Speaker 3: And for a young half, you're not going to be
Speaker 3: in a better situation than which I have been at
Speaker 3: the Roosters with Kiri Tedesco. And then you've got d
Speaker 3: C there now so it's a pretty good existence for
Speaker 3: a young half. Yeah, he's a great environment for him.
Speaker 4: I don't agree.
Speaker 1: I think i'd find it stunning if you lose.
Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't think he leaves at all.
Speaker 2: I think it's all the big dance.
Speaker 3: Well, I actually quite like it because, as I said,
Speaker 3: the values now in his hands goes out dominates the price.
Speaker 1: So good tonight against Nathan Cleary tonight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I do a matchup for him? Is that against
Speaker 4: the Gun?
Speaker 1: Are you tipping in this one? Fellas?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's Penrith without Teddy.
Speaker 3: I'd probably still tip Penrith, would you? But without Teddy
Speaker 3: he's got a bit.
Speaker 4: Of a psychological grip on the room. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well Penrith got that lot with everyone except Melbourne. To
Speaker 2: be honest, this is a cracking weekend of footy, fellas,
Speaker 2: But there's one on Sunday afternoon. It's the final game
Speaker 2: of the entire round. The West Tiger is a back
Speaker 2: after a buye. I think my male is they put
Speaker 2: their feet up a little bit. So we'll see if
Speaker 2: if a mental re fresh away from football has helped
Speaker 2: the West Tigers against the Saint George La Horrors side
Speaker 2: that played. Look, it was their grand final last week
Speaker 2: against Coronella that terrific. Haimis Stewart's a gun. I want
Speaker 2: to ask you a question, Fellows West Tigers, Dragons. Who's
Speaker 2: got the most upside?
Speaker 1: Easy? Easy?
Speaker 3: Not even close?
Speaker 1: Dragons?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that fifty to fifty on the weekend right,
Speaker 3: Like the Dragons aren't certain is to win, but Dragons
Speaker 3: will finish ahead of the Tigers on the ladder next year.
Speaker 3: Lock it in.
Speaker 1: And it's not even where we're coming from on the
Speaker 1: basis of recruitment.
Speaker 3: Just not recruitment, just development of players. We've seen how
Speaker 3: their young players have come on this year, and plus
Speaker 3: the players that they've bought compared to where the Tigers
Speaker 3: are at, players that they've lost, the players they've got
Speaker 3: coming in. I think I think the Dragons are streets
Speaker 3: ahead of the Tigers.
Speaker 4: I don't agree heads a bit of a wretch. I mean,
Speaker 4: the Tigers won five with the first seven games this
Speaker 4: year when everyone was fit. They showed their competitive football
Speaker 4: team as opposed to the Dragons, who won three games
Speaker 4: all year and really haven't shown her that competitive. I
Speaker 4: know they have been recently, but they've also had mixed
Speaker 4: in with some of those performances recently, there's been some shockers. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and I understand the sign players for next year, but
Speaker 4: I've said to you, you both keep talking about him
Speaker 4: making the eight or pushing for the eight. It's not
Speaker 4: going to happen. It's not gonna happen, right, Yes it is.
Speaker 4: It's not. You're okay, So you're now saying they will
Speaker 4: make the.
Speaker 3: Ad push for the eight. I'm saying push for the
Speaker 3: quite clear, its not going to happen. Who finishes high
Speaker 3: on the ladder next year?
Speaker 4: Tigers believe that where are you getting hope from. We'll
Speaker 4: get hope from the opening seven games this year when
Speaker 4: they are really competitive, When they're really competitive, sign Jake
Speaker 4: who they signed for next year, Jake Abilla, Jad and
Speaker 4: Brady Jayden Bradley. I think it's gonna be a great
Speaker 4: signing for It is a great He may not be
Speaker 4: a great contributed on the field, it's going.
Speaker 3: To be we can't play eighty minutes.
Speaker 4: Okay, but he's going to be an amazing contributor off the field.
Speaker 4: That's really important.
Speaker 1: Did you stand that other signing up yet?
Speaker 4: Kurt Man.
Speaker 1: Just dropping bombs, are chasing him.
Speaker 4: I think I looked at him, but I think the
Speaker 4: Dogs are looking keeping him as well. Wait and see,
Speaker 4: do not have said that? Or it'll be done by
Speaker 4: next week somewhere it will be done, I think. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I think I've realized is going to be a good
Speaker 4: signing for or can he be really handy for them?
Speaker 3: Who plays in the harf ro? I'm actually ready.
Speaker 4: Probably do we in this bit of Talkavan Andrews are
Speaker 4: playing the house with him, so we'll see him. Ever
Speaker 4: has got the potential playing the halves, right, they've got
Speaker 4: a lots too far too, you know, but do we
Speaker 4: all run the show obviously, and when.
Speaker 1: That I'm going to miss k.
Speaker 3: Injuries. Yeah, their injuries have been terrible, no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 3: And I was super impressed with the Tigers at the
Speaker 3: halfway point, and my fear was that they'd fall away
Speaker 3: with me. Well, if the teams were as they were
Speaker 3: this year going into next year and there was no movement,
Speaker 3: I'd say Tigers are ahead of the Dragons. But when
Speaker 3: you add what the dragons Dragons easy, yes, with what
Speaker 3: they've got.
Speaker 2: Coming, yeah, yes, I think about six losses by eight
Speaker 2: points or less with the recruitment they've got they will standout.
Speaker 4: It makes me vomit. You're still lost. It doesn't matter
Speaker 4: what you lost.
Speaker 3: By I'm with you on that lost.
Speaker 2: How many points Dragons buying players that will turn those
Speaker 2: results around.
Speaker 3: Dragons have been bad this year. This is not This
Speaker 3: is not like Sunday's a toss of the coin Dragons.
Speaker 3: I'll tip the dragons. But it's a toss.
Speaker 2: Of the coin for mine, right, But I don't see
Speaker 2: how you can even have a toss of the coin
Speaker 2: the Dragons.
Speaker 3: Do. You watch the West Tigers going to have But
Speaker 3: you watch the Dragons against the Titans a couple of
Speaker 3: weeks ago, like they still one, They've still got it
Speaker 3: in them them. They are far from the finished product.
Speaker 2: The actually go better against teams above them, the one
Speaker 2: above them. What I'm saying is around their level, around
Speaker 2: their level, Titans, Tigers.
Speaker 3: They're far from their their last for a good reason.
Speaker 3: The Dragons a right, So let's not sugarcoat how bad
Speaker 3: they've been this year.
Speaker 4: But I haven't given up.
Speaker 3: What will to take ready? They are rubbish?
Speaker 4: I don't know. I just keep thinking back to those
Speaker 4: opening seven games when I drank the kool aid they
Speaker 4: were playing.
Speaker 3: It was good It was also great to watch.
Speaker 4: They were entertaining and they look like a finals team
Speaker 4: and then they got smash boy injuries and they never
Speaker 4: lost all their confidence and they haven't little I.
Speaker 1: Jumped on a plane.
Speaker 3: Next year Dragons finished eight, Tigers finished ninth.
Speaker 4: Three d I'll take seventh to eighth. Let's get them both.
Speaker 1: Who are you tipping?
Speaker 2: Tigers? Ready Dragons for me?
Speaker 3: Dragons really dragons next year? Dragons ahead of Tigers on
Speaker 3: the ladder.
Speaker 4: What do you what do you suggestion they'll come? Make
Speaker 4: those two teams next year? Get an early prediction from me.
Speaker 3: Tenth and fifteenth won't make the.
Speaker 2: Fellas as far as levels of importance, Dogs, Bunnies, Friday
Speaker 2: Night footy. Massive, massive for Canterbury.
Speaker 1: Huge for House, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got problems with the House. They're just so
Speaker 2: I don't know what they stand.
Speaker 4: Problems with a lot of people today, don't clubs.
Speaker 1: I don't know what they stand.
Speaker 3: They must be so annoying to follow. I don't know
Speaker 3: what they look.
Speaker 1: Like and what they're trying to be. What do you
Speaker 1: mean what some clubs?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I'm with Dave.
Speaker 4: What do you mean though?
Speaker 1: What do you what do you mean help explain?
Speaker 4: Explain it to me.
Speaker 3: They just look like a side that doesn't want to
Speaker 3: do the hard work. And you can't win finals games
Speaker 3: if you don't do the hard work. So it's frustrating
Speaker 3: Fire because they've got all the talent. I know they've
Speaker 3: had injuries, but they've got that's side that could contend
Speaker 3: for the title or fit, fit and firing right, but inexcusable.
Speaker 3: That's second half against Paramatta last week. Inexcusable. There's the
Speaker 3: side of playing for their season still and you dish
Speaker 3: that up in the second half. It's just yack. You disagree, No,
Speaker 3: I agree with you.
Speaker 2: New halves this week. Ashton Wood's gone for the rest
Speaker 2: of the season with a torn hammy. Bud Sullivan comes in.
Speaker 3: Their attacks, nothing about it. I know you got Cody
Speaker 3: Walker without him, their attack is no good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's an interesting stand about Bud Sullivan today.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: Apparently he started fourteen games and half back in the NRL.
Speaker 4: I guess somebody is one.
Speaker 3: Four zero.
Speaker 4: A bit of an ominous.
Speaker 1: Sign, sorry, Bunny, really yeah, he's got a.
Speaker 4: Great record coming off the interchange bench, but the starting
Speaker 4: half in the NRL, that's good.
Speaker 1: Research by you and have occasionally now and then.
Speaker 3: Yeah, anyway, can someone fact check?
Speaker 1: Ready?
Speaker 4: I like Bud he has a red hot gay, But
Speaker 4: that's that sort of makes me concerned him for all
Speaker 4: their losses. I'm just saying that. What makes me concerned.
Speaker 2: Bulldogs have to be favorite to you, right, like if
Speaker 2: they find their foot eat like that they led the Roosters.
Speaker 4: That game, but that game I should have won that
Speaker 4: game terrible and that could come back. I fear that
Speaker 4: might come back to hold them.
Speaker 1: That loss shattering. And I wonder if I think I
Speaker 1: have tips, I hope.
Speaker 3: I wonder if.
Speaker 2: They're just carrying, like if we're saying it, they're feeling it,
Speaker 2: they're feeling it how big that loss was, and whether
Speaker 2: they just carry this weight disappointment in this one if
Speaker 2: they get done, Yeah, they have to find if they
Speaker 2: get done, that's it done.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so gone.
Speaker 3: Yeah I'm tipping Cannabury.
Speaker 4: But yeah, you know what they are if they lose
Speaker 4: this game, they're knocking on death door. But like the
Speaker 4: hammer that's going on in the background, he started.
Speaker 1: Who you dip, Mick?
Speaker 4: I think I tip's house.
Speaker 2: He has no idea who he's tipped Bulldogs for me.
Speaker 1: Boy's my favorite time of the week.
Speaker 4: Oh is what he got?
Speaker 2: Bs messages of the week, those soft calls, those dodgy reviews,
Speaker 2: those by rounds, nobody wanted. Send us a message coach
Speaker 2: sports dot Com, DoD I you give us, Get it
Speaker 2: off your chest, Mick, that's what That's what we're trying
Speaker 2: to say to everyone. Send us a question that really
Speaker 2: lets you vents drill eels. Fans are up and about shock.
Speaker 4: What have they got for us?
Speaker 2: Tommy from Westmead he asks, what will happen to Junior Barlow?
Speaker 2: Now that Corey Horsbrough has signed with the Perth Beers.
Speaker 4: He's got no option does He's got to stay at
Speaker 4: paramatter they've got one year deal on the table for
Speaker 4: him and a job after that. Well, well they're not
Speaker 4: ruling out another year for him half after next.
Speaker 1: I've got to say they need him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they do it.
Speaker 2: They desperately need to keep you. Would they drop they
Speaker 2: get to drop the price?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't think they'd do that to Junior. No, they
Speaker 3: were pretty steadfast on this is our price. If you
Speaker 3: want to go to Perth, we understand, but we'd love
Speaker 3: to keep Yup. I don't think they'd do that to
Speaker 3: I'd be shocked if they started junior stays.
Speaker 1: They still have cap spaces to get it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because they budgeted enforcing them in the pack. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they budgeted for they need to.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, the Spencer stuff has just gone cold.
Speaker 4: I think, I think, I think it's still flatting around it.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't rule it out.
Speaker 3: Still, they'd love to have Spencer and Jack how there
Speaker 3: next year. Whether or not they get one too, none,
Speaker 3: not sure.
Speaker 2: Why do they go massive for Zabier Willison should really I.
Speaker 1: Need to get big.
Speaker 3: That's for the following year.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: It's not a bad shout though, Dave.
Speaker 1: Can you think of another player that.
Speaker 4: Passion? Obviously, but Wilson's a good one. I get the
Speaker 4: feeling Willison may stay. Yeah. Interesting the Brisbane boys have
Speaker 4: got a column mode and he's gone with the same
Speaker 4: agent that did the pain ass deal. Right, yeah, armed
Speaker 4: armed murhy.
Speaker 1: So that suggests that there could be movement.
Speaker 4: Well, just suggests a couple of things. Right, One, he
Speaker 4: did keon he did pain asks how much money those
Speaker 4: guys get about one point two men? Right? It suggests
Speaker 4: a Willison ain't coming cheap and the second part of it.
Speaker 4: It suggests that if he has to move arm it
Speaker 4: will move him. So Brisbane I have to pay through
Speaker 4: the nose to keep him yep, which will put pressure
Speaker 4: on other places in their roster.
Speaker 2: Well, Benny writes from Merriweather. Clearly a Nights fan up there, so.
Speaker 4: I should say he hasn't He hasn't officially changed. He's
Speaker 4: about to we you.
Speaker 1: Understand, Benny from Merriweather.
Speaker 2: He asked, come on, lads, don't you think Justin Holberl's
Speaker 2: dallim coach of the year. I said, any other thing.
Speaker 2: He's got a point to argue from last to a
Speaker 2: potential final series.
Speaker 4: What about if Robbi wins the minor Premiership?
Speaker 1: No, no, you should the Roosters my minor Premiership favorite.
Speaker 1: That's who I chose.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't have thought, so put a little vo my man, Robbie,
Speaker 3: I've got whole rook and Webster ahead of the Roosters.
Speaker 4: Well you got Websterster, I ask They've gone through a
Speaker 4: bit of pretty good team last year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's so?
Speaker 4: They finished? So they finished third?
Speaker 1: What's fascinating about the big deal?
Speaker 3: Well, you keeps shaking your head for you what you
Speaker 3: just relax.
Speaker 1: Webster Dallim. Coach of the Year is a funny thing.
Speaker 1: We give it to the bloke the ladder more than anyone,
Speaker 1: but not the guy that held a lot.
Speaker 3: I haven't the other three. I wouldn't have I wouldn't
Speaker 3: have Robbo and my mix.
Speaker 4: Well, then why would you consider.
Speaker 3: My three like the three No and eas are for
Speaker 3: the daily.
Speaker 4: I don't get this.
Speaker 3: I don't get this right, Andrew, So you're warriors came.
Speaker 4: I asked this question, Cleary, Why are you saying but
Speaker 4: not Robo justin Hobrook. What you're saying Ivan but not Robbo?
Speaker 4: I don't understand what I say Ivan Robot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because they've just maintained a level of consistency, right, you're.
Speaker 1: Given to doing for years gone by.
Speaker 3: It sounds like years gone by they still first finished
Speaker 3: my press in.
Speaker 1: The fact that he's held them there for years. M hmm, yeah,
Speaker 1: m hmm.
Speaker 4: But not Robo. If Robbo wins the minor Premiership, not
Speaker 4: Robot the year. Well, I think if Robinson wins, Trent
Speaker 4: Robinson wins the minor premiership, for me, it's Trent Robinson
Speaker 4: Justin Hobrook. Well, it depends how they finished the season
Speaker 4: the Nights if they finished seventh or eight? Yeah, he
Speaker 4: runs second for me, right, but I think Trent sixth. Well,
Speaker 4: the Russ went round one of the finals last year, right,
Speaker 4: sixth finished? What six did they?
Speaker 3: I'm saying nights? If they finished sixth?
Speaker 1: Is that enough?
Speaker 4: Let me just get to the Russ first. What the
Speaker 4: Ruster is finished last year? Sixth?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Okay? Or seventh, it's outside the four. That's the four.
Speaker 4: So he gets some of the minor premiership for me.
Speaker 4: He's telling him coach of the year. We should be
Speaker 4: Oh you bat, you're with me?
Speaker 1: No, no, so we should minor premiership is where the
Speaker 1: rooster should be the Knights, well, you probably question the final.
Speaker 4: You're saying they should be minor premiership.
Speaker 1: I fifty gets the Sharks of the top two.
Speaker 2: He's done an unbelievable job with what he has compared
Speaker 2: to what Robbo has.
Speaker 3: Just on Ready's point. So the Warriors finished sixth last year, okay,
Speaker 3: top four, Panthers finished seventh last year, Right, the Rousters
Speaker 3: finished eighth. Yep, right, by your metric?
Speaker 4: If they win the minor premiership if the metrics right?
Speaker 3: So no, so if the Panthers win the minor premiership. Well,
Speaker 3: they would have moved the same same level up the ladder.
Speaker 4: They wouldn't have because they had gone. Didn't you say there.
Speaker 3: Were six seventh first, first, yeah, the second.
Speaker 4: Yeah. But I'm not saying Robbers should win it if
Speaker 4: you finished the.
Speaker 3: Second, but so should I haven't win it.
Speaker 4: It should be yes, in the consideration he's in charge
Speaker 4: of a team that's won four premierships in the past
Speaker 4: five years. A bit different to Trent Robins.
Speaker 3: I still thing is, I don't know. I think it's
Speaker 3: just a whole book.
Speaker 1: Anyway back, thanks for joining us on the Cutdown. You
Speaker 1: next week.