Speaker 1: Welcome to the Daily Telegraph and our OL podcast. And
Speaker 1: he's back, baby, Buzzy boy, welcome back.
Speaker 2: Well some people did the partners have?
Speaker 1: Some have not?
Speaker 2: All with fans demand well where have you been?
Speaker 3: I've had a little break. My shoulders can't aren't strong.
Speaker 2: Enough to carry me. Have you been listening?
Speaker 3: I've had a few buyers.
Speaker 4: He would not.
Speaker 1: Have listen, David Ricky, everyone welcome.
Speaker 4: He would not have listened to five seconds of it.
Speaker 2: Back into a couple of graps right now.
Speaker 3: Last time I was on a podcast with you, you
Speaker 3: weren't raiding Madge at all.
Speaker 4: It was a mess, wasn't the right fit?
Speaker 3: May just bring a wrapper thumb for him, a state
Speaker 3: of origin job and you you start sucking after and
Speaker 3: try and get the drop on the.
Speaker 4: Don't however, Yeah, it was a mess at the Tigers,
Speaker 4: but it's the right for the Blues.
Speaker 3: I'll say something here. I'll give you to a tip.
Speaker 3: It's very very important in this game that we do
Speaker 3: have the occasional flare up. But patch it up. Yeah,
Speaker 3: life's too short.
Speaker 1: Who have you patched it up with lately, buzz.
Speaker 3: No one in particular. I won't be patching up with
Speaker 3: Rich about who's your feud?
Speaker 1: You got me going last time that this time you're off.
Speaker 3: There's no ring the seventeen coaches and CEOs.
Speaker 1: I probably could now in paramatter, but no, I don't
Speaker 1: think I get all the coaches on the phone. That's
Speaker 1: some of the stun't spoke. I don't speak to well,
Speaker 1: I don't know something outside of Sydney that I don't
Speaker 1: really talk to that often.
Speaker 3: You know what, boy seriously and now have joh you
Speaker 3: can't go you without offending someone? Yeah, because people you know,
Speaker 3: we're not think.
Speaker 1: It happens well soon as your back buzz And we
Speaker 1: thought we'd do our mid year review. I had to
Speaker 1: crack at it in Sunday's paper. But a few things
Speaker 1: to get going. We'll start with the Coach of the Year.
Speaker 1: I went Wayne Bennett because of the way the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone had the Dolphins anywhey of the
Speaker 1: top four, let alone top eight at stages throughout the season,
Speaker 1: and they've had a massive injury run that have come
Speaker 1: out the other end of it. Look, I think there's
Speaker 1: a strong field of Coach of the Year candidates, but
Speaker 1: I've gone Wayne.
Speaker 2: What about you? Buzz?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would have joined if he's lost his last
Speaker 3: couple Yeah, two weeks ago would have been on board.
Speaker 3: Probably still got him a slight favorite. I think I've
Speaker 3: said all along while he's done with the Dolphins last
Speaker 3: couple of years, is better than the premierships he went
Speaker 3: at Brisbane in that the Brisbane side coached for five
Speaker 3: six titles. They were the Queensland origin team and half
Speaker 3: the Australian side. But others to test him, I think
Speaker 3: Shane Flanagan. Yeah, people say, are your mates with Flanner? Mate?
Speaker 3: What he's done with that Saint George's side to win
Speaker 3: eight games of rugby league after fourteen rounds is phenomenal coaching.
Speaker 3: And I don't know where you guys had him on
Speaker 3: the ladder, but I had him in the bottom three.
Speaker 1: I had him definitely bottom three.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, that was down the bottom for me.
Speaker 4: Probably not as low as that. But guys, the last
Speaker 4: two dem coaches of the years have been rookie coaches. Yeah,
Speaker 4: Andrew Webster last year and Todd Payton the year before.
Speaker 3: When you go a couple back, Anthony Sea Bob was
Speaker 3: a rookie coach, right, So I'm going down that path, boys,
Speaker 3: and I think Benji Marshall.
Speaker 1: No, no, okay.
Speaker 4: There's two.
Speaker 2: For me.
Speaker 4: There's Camra Seraldo and his job to get the Bulldogs
Speaker 4: into a rookie Oh, that's a fair point. Got me
Speaker 4: on that. I still actually still view him as a
Speaker 4: rookie coach. I don't know what to do, but I
Speaker 4: just feel like you know that. Yeah, he's not under
Speaker 4: the title of a rookie, but he is more inexperienced
Speaker 4: than others. And I think the job that he's done
Speaker 4: to get to the Bulldogs to be in this position
Speaker 4: of the second best offensive term in the comp And
Speaker 4: I don't care what you say. That forward pack isn't
Speaker 4: there at the moment, but the hears are still a
Speaker 4: massive work in progress, and so I think that's a
Speaker 4: huge job. But the other one for me is Craig
Speaker 4: fits given. And I don't think anyone, even you, Buzzy.
Speaker 4: I remember a phone call from you doors a bit
Speaker 4: worried about the Sharkies.
Speaker 3: Can you not give up private plane calls?
Speaker 2: Can? I say?
Speaker 3: I put him in the eight every year, and I
Speaker 3: reluctantly put him mates.
Speaker 1: Eighth as well. They didn't sign and slip flop in.
Speaker 3: Apart from young gab who they swapped with. Yeah, who's
Speaker 3: an SG ball part. They did not sign a player.
Speaker 4: And one of the big things with Fitzgiven is and
Speaker 4: it hasn't been highlighted, is that for the first four
Speaker 4: four to six weeks they had a high rotation of
Speaker 4: their forward pack Brandon Hamlenuelli out, Royce Hunt out, Toby Rubert,
Speaker 4: Rudolph out and outcome. Out of the ground comes Tom
Speaker 4: Hazleton and Oregon Cafusi to go head to toe with
Speaker 4: with the best packs.
Speaker 1: In the camp and Dulphernerkin's retirement to alfernerkins retirement, then
Speaker 1: they lose Nickohines and have to blood Daniel Atkinson to
Speaker 1: play alongside Brandon Trindle.
Speaker 4: Like, I think there's some really big coaching performances from
Speaker 4: Fitzie down at the Sharks to be where they are
Speaker 4: second on the ladder.
Speaker 1: The one that I had that I struggled with, I
Speaker 1: went for Wayne, But the one that I was considering,
Speaker 1: Ricky Stewart, because I had them I think I had
Speaker 1: a rating.
Speaker 3: I had him last time I was on this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Chris, Yes, I had him bottom four tirths, so
Speaker 1: I would have gone I've gone Wayne into there's been
Speaker 1: a lot. Wayne, Ricky Fitzdoo.
Speaker 3: We've discussed and that's half a dozen. He's a hope
Speaker 3: of winning the awards. Agreed.
Speaker 4: Agreed, you know what you're saying about Ricky And I
Speaker 4: don't think he would. I think privately, probably public he
Speaker 4: would admit it, but I think privately he would admit
Speaker 4: that he wouldn't have expected to be where he is
Speaker 4: currently with the youth that he's in. That well, I
Speaker 4: knew that it was a reset year to get the
Speaker 4: ball rolling on some very young players.
Speaker 1: It's been arguably his greatest coaching performance this year.
Speaker 3: Did he take Canaldo on the minor Premiership two thousand.
Speaker 1: And eight, Yeah, yeah, that was a good season. That was.
Speaker 3: First, but not just the Raiders this year with young
Speaker 3: Ethan Strange, et cetera. And I'm sure we'll get to
Speaker 3: him on Rookie of the Year, all those news I
Speaker 3: was under nine players he's signed. Yeah, that could be
Speaker 3: a real force. Yeah yeah, what else.
Speaker 2: You got Chris Mickey Player of the year?
Speaker 1: Boys quickly, I've gone Dylan Edwards from Penrith, Dave.
Speaker 4: Sitting this one out. I have not got a Player
Speaker 4: of the Year and and and listeners out there viewers
Speaker 4: tell me who the player of the Year is, because
Speaker 4: I don't think it's I can't see these open.
Speaker 3: Particular guys like at so many shop starts out Clearyea Witch,
Speaker 3: but I've never seen as many champions sidelined.
Speaker 2: Do you have a Player of the year, buzz?
Speaker 3: I just want to put him into the mix, and
Speaker 3: you guys will disagree with me because he had a
Speaker 3: couple of weeks. I think what Ben Hunt stunts and
Speaker 3: George and what he did in Origin was just outstanding. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he's having a good year, like Exach Limax.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred two points percent. He's in the mix.
Speaker 1: He's like obviously, I know there's Recncy vice against Niko Heines,
Speaker 1: but Niko would be in the mix as well given
Speaker 1: his you know, and starts to season.
Speaker 4: If you're going to the Dallian Path with Zach Lomax,
Speaker 4: but you think he'd be the I think is to
Speaker 4: be fair to be splitting points with Ben Hunt. But
Speaker 4: he'd be taking a lot of points each week, exactly.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 3: And I'm just about to get the daly m BE
Speaker 3: leader board up, and where is Ben Hunt? He was
Speaker 3: up very high. It's not a bad Ben Hampsong seven
Speaker 3: on twenty one, the leader of the daly Ms who
Speaker 3: said buds on thirty one, heins thirty, then Cherry Evans
Speaker 3: twenty seven.
Speaker 4: So even DC he's had a little bit of a.
Speaker 1: Dip, he was outstanding. He was outstanding origin But yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think he's been great for me only this
Speaker 1: year daily, but yeah it was outstanding. Yeah, he was outstanding. Well,
Speaker 1: well we're talking about good things. By the year I've
Speaker 1: gone Stephen Crichton. I think what he's been doing on
Speaker 1: the field not just so much, he's not just so
Speaker 1: much his play, but his leadership as well. There buzz,
Speaker 1: who's your by the year?
Speaker 3: Well, you've got a way up about you as well.
Speaker 3: And I presume he's on eight nine hundred. There's a
Speaker 3: cheapie that went from West Tigers to Manly and I
Speaker 3: think he's scored four tries last weekend.
Speaker 2: Interesting he's been.
Speaker 3: I'd have him in the top few, but I couldn't
Speaker 3: go against Crichton again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was so good on Monday. He's so big, fast, skillful,
Speaker 1: he's and then he's got it all.
Speaker 3: You know what I said on three six the other night,
Speaker 3: kind of traces all these Canterbury signings not bad. At
Speaker 3: the start of the year, I said they signed him
Speaker 3: the utility trace. He's been outstanding and Bronson's been really good.
Speaker 3: So they've got three the top ten best buyers in my.
Speaker 2: View for sure.
Speaker 4: What they bought was was first graders. Yeah, and that's
Speaker 4: what they needed to tell them.
Speaker 3: A lot of them, like not Hodkinson Hutchison were borderline
Speaker 3: first graders at their previous club.
Speaker 4: So how many games would have Hutchison played? Though at
Speaker 4: the twos he's better started at Saints.
Speaker 3: The one mistake Cament Surroundos made in my view is
Speaker 3: he stuck with Hutchison a little bit long, too long
Speaker 3: before he brought Sexton back. They've gone to another level
Speaker 3: with Sex and that. Yeah, I might have brought him
Speaker 3: in a couple of weeks before.
Speaker 4: How do you not know that Sexton's the motion to
Speaker 4: reserve grade. Yeah, no, I hasn't provided the springboard to
Speaker 4: what he's playing right now. That Sex is playing better
Speaker 4: footing now what he was last year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good point there. Rookie of the Year Ethan strains Yeah.
Speaker 4: Hard to argue mix, but I've got I've got Daniel Atkinson.
Speaker 1: Ethan's strange.
Speaker 4: This is different. I know it's different, right, kind of
Speaker 4: sitting second on the ladder, right, and that performance down
Speaker 4: in Melbourne by Atkinson at.
Speaker 1: You, that's very strange.
Speaker 3: It's a better rookie, and Ethan strange rookie too.
Speaker 1: I was going to go, no, no, he played games.
Speaker 1: He played twenty games last year or something, so.
Speaker 4: I countwer and Ethan's strange will be the Blues arms eventually.
Speaker 3: Yeah, make these se from strange. Right, He's got and
Speaker 3: I don't want to get too excited he's got I don't, man,
Speaker 3: he's got a little bit of Freddy, he's got a
Speaker 3: little bit of and you know what, Dave impresses me
Speaker 3: as much as his attack. Have you seen him belt bakes? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, No, he's back tracking right or Dave today?
Speaker 3: I didn't. I didn't want to because it is too early.
Speaker 3: But eighteen year olds and nineteen year olds, there's been
Speaker 3: about a dozen of picked in origin. I would suggest
Speaker 3: that next year if we're still making around with halves
Speaker 3: and new stuff, but they did nearly be in the
Speaker 3: equation yet.
Speaker 1: He's been so I think no, I think he's a
Speaker 1: click up. He's got rep player all and the thing
Speaker 1: that you don't see too often. You saw Joseph Saw.
Speaker 1: He is that young guys that you know they can do.
Speaker 1: Attack is generally easy for him, particularly out of the
Speaker 1: outside backs right, but defensively Saw he was amazing when
Speaker 1: he first came into the physicality and strangers. Got those
Speaker 1: same attributes which you don't see too often from young
Speaker 1: outside back. So yeah, he's got a bright future. And
Speaker 1: that leads me into the surprise of the year for me, Canberra.
Speaker 1: I had them bottom four, wasn't didn't have them anywhere
Speaker 1: near the top eight.
Speaker 3: I'm going to do column this week. I'm going to
Speaker 3: go and find your tips. Well, I haven't done very well.
Speaker 2: I'm owning up to it.
Speaker 3: I think your top four will probably.
Speaker 1: Be Nah, the only one that I wouldn't have, Tigers,
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, the only one that i'd have that's
Speaker 1: not in the eight right now, Camera, I'd in the
Speaker 1: top four or top five, maybe five.
Speaker 3: Maybe apologies to your breeders right now.
Speaker 1: I did it the other day on here about Camera,
Speaker 1: What did you get wrong?
Speaker 2: Bus?
Speaker 3: Better than You?
Speaker 1: Surprise of the year, Fuzzy Boy, Surprise.
Speaker 3: To the Dragons, Yeah, dragons.
Speaker 4: Surprise of the year for me is the Rabbits.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good cor Dave good Coll.
Speaker 4: I just think that that's been extraordinary, the decline in
Speaker 4: that footy club in the space of six months. To
Speaker 4: think that, you know, within weeks Jason Demtrio is sacked
Speaker 4: for a roster that should be that I think majority
Speaker 4: of us had in the finals, right, And who's to
Speaker 4: say that they can't make a charge at the back
Speaker 4: end of this year, like that'd be an awesome story.
Speaker 4: But for me, where they are, the way it broke
Speaker 4: down so quickly to start the year. The surprise failure
Speaker 4: of the year is the Bunnies.
Speaker 1: Yep, I agree, that's hard to argue there.
Speaker 3: I'm just going to have a look at their roster,
Speaker 3: and they got the Broncos this week, right, And I
Speaker 3: agree with what you're saying to date, but I saw
Speaker 3: a few signs up there against the Titans and the
Speaker 3: week before two. Ask myself, is there a possibility that
Speaker 3: this fully club could go on a run? With Campbell,
Speaker 3: Graham and Cameron Murray coming back? Can you stop texting
Speaker 3: when I talk?
Speaker 2: Column day?
Speaker 4: Column day doesn't matter?
Speaker 3: Okay, so going do doesn't matter? Could the Rabbits go
Speaker 3: on a run?
Speaker 1: They could, of course they could with co are playing
Speaker 1: better footing now as well, and Latroll put in that
Speaker 1: performance like he did last week. If those big guns
Speaker 1: start firing, of course they can go on.
Speaker 2: I don't walk and White working as they.
Speaker 1: Won't come last. I don't think so will come last.
Speaker 3: They definitely won't.
Speaker 1: Come down.
Speaker 3: This weekend a full part of the West Tigers. You
Speaker 3: know that Compscott divisions. There's a top division. There's about
Speaker 3: five teams, then there's about eight. Yeah, you know, looking
Speaker 3: for the last few. I reckon South are going to
Speaker 3: worry the out of those clubs.
Speaker 1: And I'll start getting blokes back as well. We Cam
Speaker 1: Murray is already back this week everyone.
Speaker 3: That's the center three.
Speaker 1: Quarter Camil bra yea toller how good center three quarter
Speaker 1: three explained to the listeners what center three quarter meant
Speaker 1: back in the day.
Speaker 3: I've always got him a center three quarter to Sander
Speaker 3: playing the the three quarter line, and what's wrong with that?
Speaker 4: That's great. We don't because we've gone away from prop
Speaker 4: we call the middle forwards.
Speaker 3: I don't call. It's really I don't call. There's no
Speaker 3: such thing as a backgrower anymore. There's no such thing
Speaker 3: as the second rowd anymore edge forwards. There's another little
Speaker 3: thing issue. How many texts you said?
Speaker 1: There's a lot? Can I say.
Speaker 3: It is dead set? The height of rudeness to be texting?
Speaker 4: Well, seriously, the big story are you working on? Do
Speaker 4: you think do you think Breaks just sits in the
Speaker 4: chair of three sixty texting?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Breaks, No, he doesn't.
Speaker 1: Expansion boys, Obviously big news there yesterday and today's in
Speaker 1: today's paper. Well, it was surprising when we started to
Speaker 1: get word over the last couple of days that, you know,
Speaker 1: everyone's assumed or everyone's thought, that P and G would
Speaker 1: be the eighteenth side, but now looks like they're going
Speaker 1: to the potential for them to be the nineteenth side,
Speaker 1: with Perth usurping P and G and coming into the
Speaker 1: competition in twenty twenty seven. There's a few layers to this,
Speaker 1: So the Commission will meet on the eve of Origin
Speaker 1: two to dissect exactly what the path to expansion looks like.
Speaker 1: And one of the plans they're seriously considering is fast
Speaker 1: tracking Perth into the competition in twenty twenty seven, and
Speaker 1: the layers to that a threefold I guess you know
Speaker 1: what sort of look that Western Australian side will look
Speaker 1: like the government in wa are hopeful and confident they
Speaker 1: can be a standalone entity. But there's also the Bears
Speaker 1: and the Newtown Jets have been having discussions with Perth
Speaker 1: about a potential alignment when they come into the competition.
Speaker 1: Doesn't affect P and GPNG will coming in two thousand
Speaker 1: and twenty eight ill, But boys, where do we stand
Speaker 1: on Perth becoming the eighteenth side before P and J
Speaker 1: the nineteen day look?
Speaker 4: I think it's probably the wright path to go MA
Speaker 4: because had I do have my reservations over the PNG
Speaker 4: bid only for the obvious location pathways, how how the
Speaker 4: entire infrastructure of a clean G team would look like?
Speaker 4: I just you know, I need some more reassurance there
Speaker 4: on what it looks like Perth. We know Perth, we
Speaker 4: know as an appetite for rugby league, and the game
Speaker 4: has been investing in Perth via Origin matches and NRL
Speaker 4: matches for a number of years. Over there, I think
Speaker 4: Perth Bears for me, Perth Bears has a has the
Speaker 4: right feel.
Speaker 3: Perth Bears or Perth Jets. Look. The Bears back brings
Speaker 3: more fans back than what the Jets might my view,
Speaker 3: it's a fairy tale story. A lot of their fans
Speaker 3: left and haven't been back, and I've always thought Perth
Speaker 3: is a much smarter.
Speaker 4: Thing to do than P and G.
Speaker 3: For the life of me, I can't see how P
Speaker 3: and G are going to sign players unless there's tax concessions,
Speaker 3: and I don't know how families are going to relocate there.
Speaker 3: So look, I think it's a smart mood to bring
Speaker 3: the Bears. In particular, there's a premium Western Australia who's
Speaker 3: a rugby league fanatic. He's not going to be there forever. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but they're behind the project at the moment, and to
Speaker 3: get Norse Sydney back and a few games at North
Speaker 3: Sydney over every year just outstanding. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I don't disagree at all. It's really interesting if they
Speaker 4: do go down the Perth in twenty seven path on
Speaker 4: what buzz is talking about the ability for P and
Speaker 4: G to attract talent and sign players Perth coming in,
Speaker 4: they need to sign players.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, I agree.
Speaker 4: So they'll suck the market. I won't say dry about it.
Speaker 4: It will dry the market out to a degree. Then
Speaker 4: two years later they need the Philippine.
Speaker 1: G team, So.
Speaker 4: Look, I think there's enough talent, and I think it
Speaker 4: speaks to the game needing to focus on investing in
Speaker 4: pathways even more so than ever before, so to country
Speaker 4: regular league investing more so than ever before, to ensure
Speaker 4: there's enough talent for Perth then PNG.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is a good point the day because I
Speaker 1: think it like P and G is going to come
Speaker 1: in in twenty eight as it stands, and they need
Speaker 1: that extra time to get set up.
Speaker 2: But I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I think it does affect their ability to.
Speaker 4: Bring in a new team first, Yeah, ahead of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be hard enough to sign players.
Speaker 3: You know, the figureheads of these clubs are going to
Speaker 3: be so important. Like Wayne Bennett was such a magnet
Speaker 3: and such a great man to have in charge. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the Dolphins, the fact that he took on board argue
Speaker 3: with the best equipment guy yea in Peter o' salaban
Speaker 3: and Perth and P and Jury and South News Zerland,
Speaker 3: who I believe will be the twentieth teams need to
Speaker 3: get that structure right. Unfortunately, there's only one way in Bennett.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's not a lot of times early. Yeah,
Speaker 1: twenty seven is not that far away. So you know
Speaker 1: it would need to you need that decision very soon
Speaker 1: to get it set up, because I see you.
Speaker 3: Now doing the sideline for ABC. We're in Perth and
Speaker 3: Perth off the stadium for a blockbuster.
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 2: I'm there, I'm there. The Jets are the Bears?
Speaker 3: Do you like to travel?
Speaker 4: It's got to be the Bears, don't mind.
Speaker 1: It got to be the Bears, mate, got to be
Speaker 1: the Bears.
Speaker 3: All right, Okay, just a little bit of.
Speaker 1: It's a lot going on.
Speaker 2: Two young kids, there's a lot going on.
Speaker 1: There's a lot happening quickly. Boys, Origin We're doing very quickly.
Speaker 1: We did it last week, but just after another game.
Speaker 1: Who's your full back day, Buzzy? Who's your saying? I'm
Speaker 1: doing Edwards as you said, a bus Lattrell, Dave Lattrell.
Speaker 1: Watch your what's your halves combination? Dave? Uh my halves?
Speaker 4: Cody Walker?
Speaker 1: Yep?
Speaker 4: And you got ones?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 3: Well I've got two different. I've got Moses and Louie.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: On with buzz we're any grants.
Speaker 3: But first, Blake pick before he names the full back
Speaker 3: before I want the full Dame Jersey to be chosen,
Speaker 3: first of all, and.
Speaker 1: I want Matthew Burton, what about Connell Watson is a
Speaker 1: smoke you for that fourteen.
Speaker 3: Spot Burton, he's a bigger body.
Speaker 1: He's a bigger body out. I just think Connor Watson
Speaker 1: fills that role perfectly because if there's not he was
Speaker 1: right in the frame before injured. And if he's not,
Speaker 1: if he's not just.
Speaker 2: Because you or magic, just because the.
Speaker 3: I don't write him in Origin player in Origin, but
Speaker 3: I don't believe.
Speaker 4: Did he rate Zach Lamax as an Origin player before
Speaker 4: he played Origin.
Speaker 3: After watching him in the first twelve weeks. Yes, Connor's
Speaker 3: been good, mate, Connor has been really good.
Speaker 1: And the thing with Connor Watson is that, say there's
Speaker 1: no injury, his role he can play that thirteen year
Speaker 1: old that he does for the Roosters, or he can
Speaker 1: relieve it at dummy half right, and if there's an injury,
Speaker 1: well he can shift there because we saw.
Speaker 3: At times, well, I'd say that Burton can play edge Locke.
Speaker 1: He can't half back, he has Connor has played all
Speaker 1: those positions. I just I just like the fact that
Speaker 1: you can you can pick a player that can adjust
Speaker 1: and move. But if it's not a worst case scenario, I.
Speaker 3: Want to see the hammer or Ruth Walsh under that bomb,
Speaker 3: same bomb that Clink Garthinson couldn't take the other day,
Speaker 3: remember that one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, wow, Yeah, I
Speaker 3: get it made mc g the bright line.
Speaker 1: Yeah it would be impossible.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, kicking further than the AFLA. Yeah yeah, I've
Speaker 3: nearly spun you around. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm happy with Connor Watson there at fourteen, provided he
Speaker 1: gets through this weekend's game and impresses Buzz. You had
Speaker 1: a good story in the front page of the paper
Speaker 1: the other day around the USA Roosters. What's going on there?
Speaker 3: Very I didn't you know. Well, the Roosts are spending
Speaker 3: five hundred thousand dollars to get themselves a team in
Speaker 3: LA in a six team California competition. But the big
Speaker 3: story is most of that money is going into a
Speaker 3: West Coast rag League academy and they hope to attract
Speaker 3: NFL or college footballers who don't quite make it with
Speaker 3: their dreams of what they're doing to come and experience
Speaker 3: and the season Saint Class with rugby Union, which was
Speaker 3: quite big in America, and happen to get some of
Speaker 3: their union boys and the big strong Joseph Swalih type athletes.
Speaker 3: And you know what, they don't have any juniors here.
Speaker 3: There's more juniors in Melbourne, right, So let's just say
Speaker 3: if they got two or three players out of there
Speaker 3: dominic young types the next five, I think it'd be successful.
Speaker 3: And anything Nick Politis tries, I'm not going to bag it.
Speaker 2: You know, that's pretty cool. It's a cool concept.
Speaker 1: As you said, I'm not going to bag clubs for
Speaker 1: trying to grow the game in different markets.
Speaker 3: Well, clubs are all out of New Zealand and the
Speaker 3: Pacific Islands, aren't they. They've still got their bush scouts
Speaker 3: as well, so you need to go into New area.
Speaker 1: Yep, I like it. Did you say?
Speaker 4: Look, I'm not being I know that that's a lot
Speaker 4: of money. I know that, But I would say the
Speaker 4: Rusters have found a sponsor to help to help sponsor
Speaker 4: these and therefore it's not a massive investment anyway.
Speaker 2: Maybe to get to.
Speaker 3: Strong foundations putting up the five hundred thous.
Speaker 1: Can you get your sharks multi million there to start
Speaker 1: doing that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, get him to start your man.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Speaking of which, let's let's this is we've been too seriously,
Speaker 1: this podcast did you guys. Did you guys, Did you
Speaker 1: guys ever watch prison Break? The TV Showy? Okay, Buzz
Speaker 1: so one of the actors, one of the main stars,
Speaker 1: is straying. Right. He put up a post on Instagram
Speaker 1: the other day watching three sixty. He did, and he
Speaker 1: said one of his comments was, Gordi and Buzz should
Speaker 1: have their own show. Dominique Purcell, big name. He's got
Speaker 1: one point seven one point seven million right followers. Me
Speaker 1: and the dogs sitting back watching my two favorite shows,
Speaker 1: and I roll three sixty and Maddie John's blah blah
Speaker 1: blah looking good. Gordy smartest out of a lot of them.
Speaker 1: You and Bars need your own show.
Speaker 3: There you go?
Speaker 2: You know you?
Speaker 1: What about that love your brother shout out? Maybe he's
Speaker 1: a big listener to the point we might have to
Speaker 1: tag him on and see how we go. But that's
Speaker 1: a big get. I don't know where he's based. I
Speaker 1: love prison Break. That was a good show and he
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Speaker 1: One of the great I don't know what's going on,
Speaker 1: puzz I just got that email. The regularly the chief
Speaker 1: of the Rugular League added up.
Speaker 3: With commercial arrangement.
Speaker 1: Well you got to bring it up with I just
Speaker 1: got an email, mate, So I just do what I'm
Speaker 1: told quickly, Dolphin signing to me to Peng Guy Jr.
Speaker 1: Do we like it? Don't like it?
Speaker 3: I love it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Personality player, the game needs personalities. Yeah, I can play
Speaker 3: if ever a coach is going to get the best
Speaker 3: out him again.
Speaker 4: It's way yeah, yeah, I don't mind it.
Speaker 3: I love it. I wish he was playing to Shark
Speaker 3: Park or not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think it's good signing obviously.
Speaker 1: The concerns a dark park Shark Park.
Speaker 3: We've got the season.
Speaker 2: Tickets questions first and then we can get to you.
Speaker 3: It's so cold.
Speaker 1: Oh you'll be right, man, you'll be right.
Speaker 2: Someone will give you a cuddle, all right.
Speaker 1: Mohammed wants to know two signings the Dragons can make
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five they will elevate the squad to
Speaker 1: the next level. Any thoughts on who the Dragons can
Speaker 1: sign for twenty five?
Speaker 2: Dave?
Speaker 4: They need an enforcer up front?
Speaker 1: Agreed?
Speaker 4: Who is that?
Speaker 3: Who is that?
Speaker 4: Where do we find that one from?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 4: I think you need a couple of dominoes to fall
Speaker 4: in the market to be fair. Is it one of
Speaker 4: the side fedie boys? Is it Leo Thompson from Newcastle?
Speaker 3: Are they under contract?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you need a couple of domino's a bit of
Speaker 4: movement in the market.
Speaker 3: Hunted Cranella.
Speaker 4: Yeah he's a twenty minute player.
Speaker 2: Yeah he's.
Speaker 1: It was good. He was good, but it's not what
Speaker 1: they need.
Speaker 2: I don't think. I think I like the last question
Speaker 2: and I make some and you just wipe me.
Speaker 1: I haven't bet I'm agreeing with let I think Tom
Speaker 1: would be sensational for him. He's got twelve months left
Speaker 1: on his deal. He'd be a good signing for the
Speaker 1: Obviously the final will be there, not be at the Dragons,
Speaker 1: but be.
Speaker 2: On the market.
Speaker 1: But they're all under contract except for to find out.
Speaker 4: What about Lucky Galvin?
Speaker 1: Lucky Galvin or Blaze to Lungey. Yeah, Blaze to Lungey. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's some good ones, all right. Chris, shouldn't Stephen Crichton
Speaker 1: be favorite to be the next New South Wales captain?
Speaker 1: I like this question.
Speaker 4: That's a good question, Chris.
Speaker 1: It would be him more Nathan Cleary. You'd assume Nathan
Speaker 1: Cleary probably has his or Cam Murray. Yep, true, they'd
Speaker 1: have their noses in front. And it's a good point.
Speaker 1: Buzzy then Stephen Krider. But Stephen Crichton is showing all
Speaker 1: the hallmarks of a guy that were one day captain
Speaker 1: New south Wales. Whether it's not the next captain, he's
Speaker 1: probably not the next captain, but he's probably the next
Speaker 1: next captain if that makes sense. Yeah, I disagree seahawk Rick.
Speaker 1: Why can Arpy play Origin and Willy Army kickout? Can't? Well,
Speaker 1: I don't think Willy Army is eligible to play for
Speaker 1: New South Wales or Yeah, he would have played his
Speaker 1: senior would have played his first year senior football too late.
Speaker 1: Where Arpy I'm pretty sure was born in New South
Speaker 1: Wales and played his you know, he's he was a
Speaker 1: Canterbury junior Arpy, so he played all his junior football
Speaker 1: at a young age. So he's got you know, due eligibility.
Speaker 1: He can play for Fiji, he can play for Australia.
Speaker 1: But vill Army is one of those rare players that
Speaker 1: has happened at times where they can't play for either
Speaker 1: New South Wales or Queensland.
Speaker 4: I'm not saying he won't make the Origin two team,
Speaker 4: but I will say this, the West Workers form and
Speaker 4: as a footy club have seriously impacted that He's representative opportunity,
Speaker 4: no doubt, and it leads me to question will Jerome
Speaker 4: Lewie head down a similar path once he gets to
Speaker 4: the West Tigers. And when your album when you're in
Speaker 4: a struggling site, and Jerome will largely Hopefully it's not
Speaker 4: the case. Hopefully they kick on with him there. But
Speaker 4: if you're a betting man, you'd say he's going to
Speaker 4: be playing on the back foor the fair beer next
Speaker 4: season at the Tigers.
Speaker 3: You're very good at looking down a camera, Dave, I'm
Speaker 3: just looking. I don't here's the camera all right?
Speaker 1: Last question?
Speaker 3: Am I looking at the camera now?
Speaker 1: I guess the directors in your ear buzz listen to again,
Speaker 1: ask you once to know can we have a Pacific
Speaker 1: or New Zealand pre season round next year?
Speaker 2: We have a lot of rounds.
Speaker 1: Why not just be expensive to have everyone there?
Speaker 4: Unds?
Speaker 3: Mate? I love burning for brain camps around.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's this weekend.
Speaker 3: I love that. And you know what, I've done a
Speaker 3: saint on sports. But because they're giving a thousand bucks
Speaker 3: to try, they gave seventy two files out. They tried
Speaker 3: July as well.
Speaker 4: And yeah, your invitations to shark whacked the beanie on.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Actually, well, Buzzy, you'll be concerned about geting out of
Speaker 1: the Shark park tonight.
Speaker 3: Well, mate, the way Fox cover rugby league these days,
Speaker 3: you've got your big TV. You're close to the fridge.
Speaker 3: You got the fly going going and he's so attractive
Speaker 3: to stay at home.
Speaker 2: What's your pre game meal for tonight?
Speaker 3: If you go to the game and I work on
Speaker 3: some snitty on going to get some snitty again. Yeah,
Speaker 3: if I was staying in I'd get jungle chicken carry.
Speaker 2: That's good weather for it. Yeah, Dave, you're at the
Speaker 2: game tonight, at.
Speaker 3: The game, so whatever, you'll be eating Mace's party pots, whatever.
Speaker 1: Thea could feed there now in the party in the
Speaker 1: press box at Chark Pard you reckon. That's just one
Speaker 1: of the worst, not anymore.
Speaker 2: No, No, there's it's like a corporate.
Speaker 3: Spread Chinese restaurant over there. I'm going to try that
Speaker 3: next week.
Speaker 1: Nice nice lamb cutlets. Lemon, there'll be some lemon car
Speaker 1: Uh'll be just vege, I don't know, be some sort
Speaker 1: of veg maybe some.
Speaker 3: You're looking in good shape, staying that way.
Speaker 1: Sweet potato, sweet potato, I don't know. Whatever, whatever the
Speaker 1: wife decide hard any sugar buzzes back. We see you again, Buzz.
Speaker 1: We'll see you in another when you guys need a
Speaker 1: bit of a mid season. Well, thank you for joining us, Buzz,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Dave. Enjoy a full round of footy before
Speaker 1: we dissect origin next week.