WEBVTT - Mid-Season Review 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:11.200 Welcome to the Daily Telegraph and our OL podcast. And 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:14.080 he's back, baby, Buzzy boy, welcome back. 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:16.880 Well some people did the partners have? 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:18.079 Some have not? 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:25.239 All with fans demand well where have you been? 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:30.400 I've had a little break. My shoulders can't aren't strong. 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:32.040 Enough to carry me. Have you been listening? 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:33.720 I've had a few buyers. 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:34.440 He would not. 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:37.280 Have listen, David Ricky, everyone welcome. 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:40.400 He would not have listened to five seconds of it. 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:43.800 Back into a couple of graps right now. 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:46.440 Last time I was on a podcast with you, you 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:48.120 weren't raiding Madge at all. 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:52.239 It was a mess, wasn't the right fit? 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:56.120 May just bring a wrapper thumb for him, a state 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:58.680 of origin job and you you start sucking after and 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:00.000 try and get the drop on the. 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:05.720 Don't however, Yeah, it was a mess at the Tigers, 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:07.840 but it's the right for the Blues. 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:10.319 I'll say something here. I'll give you to a tip. 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:13.720 It's very very important in this game that we do 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:18.200 have the occasional flare up. But patch it up. Yeah, 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:19.480 life's too short. 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:22.560 Who have you patched it up with lately, buzz. 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:26.480 No one in particular. I won't be patching up with 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:30.840 Rich about who's your feud? 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:35.000 You got me going last time that this time you're off. 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:42.600 There's no ring the seventeen coaches and CEOs. 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:48.040 I probably could now in paramatter, but no, I don't 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:50.840 think I get all the coaches on the phone. That's 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.920 some of the stun't spoke. I don't speak to well, 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:56.800 I don't know something outside of Sydney that I don't 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:57.720 really talk to that often. 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:00.440 You know what, boy seriously and now have joh you 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:04.920 can't go you without offending someone? Yeah, because people you know, 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:06.880 we're not think. 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:10.600 It happens well soon as your back buzz And we 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:12.919 thought we'd do our mid year review. I had to 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:16.440 crack at it in Sunday's paper. But a few things 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:21.839 to get going. We'll start with the Coach of the Year. 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:26.079 I went Wayne Bennett because of the way the Dolphins. 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:29.000 I don't think anyone had the Dolphins anywhey of the 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:32.840 top four, let alone top eight at stages throughout the season, 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:34.960 and they've had a massive injury run that have come 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:36.919 out the other end of it. Look, I think there's 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:39.680 a strong field of Coach of the Year candidates, but 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:41.240 I've gone Wayne. 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:42.160 What about you? Buzz? 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:44.600 Yeah, I would have joined if he's lost his last 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:48.320 couple Yeah, two weeks ago would have been on board. 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:52.560 Probably still got him a slight favorite. I think I've 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:55.280 said all along while he's done with the Dolphins last 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:57.600 couple of years, is better than the premierships he went 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:01.679 at Brisbane in that the Brisbane side coached for five 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:05.880 six titles. They were the Queensland origin team and half 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:12.160 the Australian side. But others to test him, I think 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:17.280 Shane Flanagan. Yeah, people say, are your mates with Flanner? Mate? 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:19.560 What he's done with that Saint George's side to win 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:24.680 eight games of rugby league after fourteen rounds is phenomenal coaching. 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:27.920 And I don't know where you guys had him on 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:29.760 the ladder, but I had him in the bottom three. 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:31.760 I had him definitely bottom three. 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:34.200 Yeah yeah, yeah, that was down the bottom for me. 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:39.280 Probably not as low as that. But guys, the last 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:43.160 two dem coaches of the years have been rookie coaches. Yeah, 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:47.120 Andrew Webster last year and Todd Payton the year before. 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:49.760 When you go a couple back, Anthony Sea Bob was 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.360 a rookie coach, right, So I'm going down that path, boys, 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:54.080 and I think Benji Marshall. 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:56.520 No, no, okay. 0:03:57.480 --> 0:03:57.880 There's two. 0:03:57.920 --> 0:03:58.160 For me. 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:03.160 There's Camra Seraldo and his job to get the Bulldogs 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:07.400 into a rookie Oh, that's a fair point. Got me 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:10.520 on that. I still actually still view him as a 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:12.520 rookie coach. I don't know what to do, but I 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:15.960 just feel like you know that. Yeah, he's not under 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:18.960 the title of a rookie, but he is more inexperienced 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:21.200 than others. And I think the job that he's done 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:23.240 to get to the Bulldogs to be in this position 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:26.720 of the second best offensive term in the comp And 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.400 I don't care what you say. That forward pack isn't 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:31.880 there at the moment, but the hears are still a 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:35.760 massive work in progress, and so I think that's a 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:37.719 huge job. But the other one for me is Craig 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:41.560 fits given. And I don't think anyone, even you, Buzzy. 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:44.480 I remember a phone call from you doors a bit 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:45.640 worried about the Sharkies. 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:47.520 Can you not give up private plane calls? 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:49.680 Can? I say? 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:51.520 I put him in the eight every year, and I 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:53.200 reluctantly put him mates. 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:58.680 Eighth as well. They didn't sign and slip flop in. 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:03.960 Apart from young gab who they swapped with. Yeah, who's 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:06.839 an SG ball part. They did not sign a player. 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:09.080 And one of the big things with Fitzgiven is and 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:12.600 it hasn't been highlighted, is that for the first four 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:14.800 four to six weeks they had a high rotation of 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:19.040 their forward pack Brandon Hamlenuelli out, Royce Hunt out, Toby Rubert, 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:22.039 Rudolph out and outcome. Out of the ground comes Tom 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:29.440 Hazleton and Oregon Cafusi to go head to toe with 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:30.680 with the best packs. 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:34.120 In the camp and Dulphernerkin's retirement to alfernerkins retirement, then 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:37.240 they lose Nickohines and have to blood Daniel Atkinson to 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:38.760 play alongside Brandon Trindle. 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:41.920 Like, I think there's some really big coaching performances from 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:43.920 Fitzie down at the Sharks to be where they are 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:45.200 second on the ladder. 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:47.640 The one that I had that I struggled with, I 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:50.160 went for Wayne, But the one that I was considering, 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:53.920 Ricky Stewart, because I had them I think I had 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:54.720 a rating. 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:57.040 I had him last time I was on this. 0:05:57.240 --> 0:06:00.440 Yeah, Chris, Yes, I had him bottom four tirths, so 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:04.440 I would have gone I've gone Wayne into there's been 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:09.279 a lot. Wayne, Ricky Fitzdoo. 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:11.279 We've discussed and that's half a dozen. He's a hope 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:12.360 of winning the awards. Agreed. 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:15.600 Agreed, you know what you're saying about Ricky And I 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:18.560 don't think he would. I think privately, probably public he 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:21.160 would admit it, but I think privately he would admit 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:23.320 that he wouldn't have expected to be where he is 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:27.320 currently with the youth that he's in. That well, I 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:29.599 knew that it was a reset year to get the 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:31.640 ball rolling on some very young players. 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:36.080 It's been arguably his greatest coaching performance this year. 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:40.160 Did he take Canaldo on the minor Premiership two thousand. 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:43.080 And eight, Yeah, yeah, that was a good season. That was. 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:50.680 First, but not just the Raiders this year with young 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:52.919 Ethan Strange, et cetera. And I'm sure we'll get to 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:55.720 him on Rookie of the Year, all those news I 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:59.120 was under nine players he's signed. Yeah, that could be 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:03.159 a real force. Yeah yeah, what else. 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:05.720 You got Chris Mickey Player of the year? 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:10.560 Boys quickly, I've gone Dylan Edwards from Penrith, Dave. 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.280 Sitting this one out. I have not got a Player 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:16.960 of the Year and and and listeners out there viewers 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:18.800 tell me who the player of the Year is, because 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:22.120 I don't think it's I can't see these open. 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:28.600 Particular guys like at so many shop starts out Clearyea Witch, 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:33.680 but I've never seen as many champions sidelined. 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:34.880 Do you have a Player of the year, buzz? 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:38.920 I just want to put him into the mix, and 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:41.000 you guys will disagree with me because he had a 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:43.800 couple of weeks. I think what Ben Hunt stunts and 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:51.320 George and what he did in Origin was just outstanding. Yeah, 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:55.080 he's having a good year, like Exach Limax. 0:07:55.640 --> 0:08:01.080 Yeah, one hundred two points percent. He's in the mix. 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:04.800 He's like obviously, I know there's Recncy vice against Niko Heines, 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:07.200 but Niko would be in the mix as well given 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:10.280 his you know, and starts to season. 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:12.679 If you're going to the Dallian Path with Zach Lomax, 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.160 but you think he'd be the I think is to 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:18.080 be fair to be splitting points with Ben Hunt. But 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:20.760 he'd be taking a lot of points each week, exactly. 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:21.200 I know. 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:23.560 And I'm just about to get the daly m BE 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:28.080 leader board up, and where is Ben Hunt? He was 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:32.839 up very high. It's not a bad Ben Hampsong seven 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:39.120 on twenty one, the leader of the daly Ms who 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:43.520 said buds on thirty one, heins thirty, then Cherry Evans 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:44.400 twenty seven. 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:46.600 So even DC he's had a little bit of a. 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:51.880 Dip, he was outstanding. He was outstanding origin But yeah, 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:53.440 I don't think he's been great for me only this 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:59.760 year daily, but yeah it was outstanding. Yeah, he was outstanding. Well, 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:03.680 well we're talking about good things. By the year I've 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:06.800 gone Stephen Crichton. I think what he's been doing on 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:11.400 the field not just so much, he's not just so 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:13.680 much his play, but his leadership as well. There buzz, 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:14.959 who's your by the year? 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:18.319 Well, you've got a way up about you as well. 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:22.200 And I presume he's on eight nine hundred. There's a 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:27.000 cheapie that went from West Tigers to Manly and I 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:29.160 think he's scored four tries last weekend. 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:32.880 Interesting he's been. 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:35.199 I'd have him in the top few, but I couldn't 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.640 go against Crichton again. 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:44.040 Yeah, he was so good on Monday. He's so big, fast, skillful, 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:45.559 he's and then he's got it all. 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:48.320 You know what I said on three six the other night, 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:51.760 kind of traces all these Canterbury signings not bad. At 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:53.679 the start of the year, I said they signed him 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:58.560 the utility trace. He's been outstanding and Bronson's been really good. 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:02.280 So they've got three the top ten best buyers in my. 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:03.120 View for sure. 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:06.640 What they bought was was first graders. Yeah, and that's 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:07.880 what they needed to tell them. 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:16.479 A lot of them, like not Hodkinson Hutchison were borderline 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:18.679 first graders at their previous club. 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:21.880 So how many games would have Hutchison played? Though at 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:24.640 the twos he's better started at Saints. 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:27.840 The one mistake Cament Surroundos made in my view is 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:30.480 he stuck with Hutchison a little bit long, too long 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:34.920 before he brought Sexton back. They've gone to another level 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:37.640 with Sex and that. Yeah, I might have brought him 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:38.760 in a couple of weeks before. 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:41.840 How do you not know that Sexton's the motion to 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:45.000 reserve grade. Yeah, no, I hasn't provided the springboard to 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:47.520 what he's playing right now. That Sex is playing better 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:49.600 footing now what he was last year. 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:55.160 Yeah, good point there. Rookie of the Year Ethan strains Yeah. 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:59.440 Hard to argue mix, but I've got I've got Daniel Atkinson. 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:01.559 Ethan's strange. 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:06.200 This is different. I know it's different, right, kind of 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:10.880 sitting second on the ladder, right, and that performance down 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:14.640 in Melbourne by Atkinson at. 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:16.840 You, that's very strange. 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:22.520 It's a better rookie, and Ethan strange rookie too. 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:25.600 I was going to go, no, no, he played games. 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:27.679 He played twenty games last year or something, so. 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:31.120 I countwer and Ethan's strange will be the Blues arms eventually. 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:36.560 Yeah, make these se from strange. Right, He's got and 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:40.240 I don't want to get too excited he's got I don't, man, 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:42.320 he's got a little bit of Freddy, he's got a 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:46.280 little bit of and you know what, Dave impresses me 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:50.760 as much as his attack. Have you seen him belt bakes? Yeah? 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:58.080 Yeah, yeah, yeah, No, he's back tracking right or Dave today? 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:01.400 I didn't. I didn't want to because it is too early. 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:04.080 But eighteen year olds and nineteen year olds, there's been 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:08.120 about a dozen of picked in origin. I would suggest 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:11.040 that next year if we're still making around with halves 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:13.120 and new stuff, but they did nearly be in the 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:14.080 equation yet. 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:17.760 He's been so I think no, I think he's a 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:22.400 click up. He's got rep player all and the thing 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:24.959 that you don't see too often. You saw Joseph Saw. 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:28.920 He is that young guys that you know they can do. 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:31.680 Attack is generally easy for him, particularly out of the 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:34.920 outside backs right, but defensively Saw he was amazing when 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:38.280 he first came into the physicality and strangers. Got those 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:41.439 same attributes which you don't see too often from young 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:44.640 outside back. So yeah, he's got a bright future. And 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:48.080 that leads me into the surprise of the year for me, Canberra. 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:51.480 I had them bottom four, wasn't didn't have them anywhere 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:52.199 near the top eight. 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:54.000 I'm going to do column this week. I'm going to 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:58.640 go and find your tips. Well, I haven't done very well. 0:12:58.720 --> 0:12:59.679 I'm owning up to it. 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:02.560 I think your top four will probably. 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:08.160 Be Nah, the only one that I wouldn't have, Tigers, 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:12.800 I think, yeah, the only one that i'd have that's 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:15.760 not in the eight right now, Camera, I'd in the 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:18.800 top four or top five, maybe five. 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:22.600 Maybe apologies to your breeders right now. 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:24.120 I did it the other day on here about Camera, 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:25.320 What did you get wrong? 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:25.840 Bus? 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:31.480 Better than You? 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:34.600 Surprise of the year, Fuzzy Boy, Surprise. 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:37.120 To the Dragons, Yeah, dragons. 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:39.640 Surprise of the year for me is the Rabbits. 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:41.280 Yeah, good cor Dave good Coll. 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:44.680 I just think that that's been extraordinary, the decline in 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:48.240 that footy club in the space of six months. To 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:52.559 think that, you know, within weeks Jason Demtrio is sacked 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:57.959 for a roster that should be that I think majority 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:01.120 of us had in the finals, right, And who's to 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:02.880 say that they can't make a charge at the back 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:05.480 end of this year, like that'd be an awesome story. 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:09.440 But for me, where they are, the way it broke 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:13.680 down so quickly to start the year. The surprise failure 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:15.559 of the year is the Bunnies. 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:18.520 Yep, I agree, that's hard to argue there. 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:20.720 I'm just going to have a look at their roster, 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:25.280 and they got the Broncos this week, right, And I 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:27.840 agree with what you're saying to date, but I saw 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:30.360 a few signs up there against the Titans and the 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:37.480 week before two. Ask myself, is there a possibility that 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:40.960 this fully club could go on a run? With Campbell, 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:45.960 Graham and Cameron Murray coming back? Can you stop texting 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:46.560 when I talk? 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:49.640 Column day? 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:51.440 Column day doesn't matter? 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:55.520 Okay, so going do doesn't matter? Could the Rabbits go 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:56.160 on a run? 0:14:56.800 --> 0:15:00.480 They could, of course they could with co are playing 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:03.200 better footing now as well, and Latroll put in that 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:05.880 performance like he did last week. If those big guns 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:07.800 start firing, of course they can go on. 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:11.880 I don't walk and White working as they. 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:14.760 Won't come last. I don't think so will come last. 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:17.280 They definitely won't. 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:17.560 Come down. 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:21.920 This weekend a full part of the West Tigers. You 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:25.160 know that Compscott divisions. There's a top division. There's about 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:29.600 five teams, then there's about eight. Yeah, you know, looking 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.520 for the last few. I reckon South are going to 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:35.600 worry the out of those clubs. 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:42.240 And I'll start getting blokes back as well. We Cam 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:44.200 Murray is already back this week everyone. 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:46.480 That's the center three. 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:51.680 Quarter Camil bra yea toller how good center three quarter 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:55.880 three explained to the listeners what center three quarter meant 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:57.000 back in the day. 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:59.600 I've always got him a center three quarter to Sander 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:03.200 playing the the three quarter line, and what's wrong with that? 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.720 That's great. We don't because we've gone away from prop 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:08.600 we call the middle forwards. 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:15.200 I don't call. It's really I don't call. There's no 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:18.560 such thing as a backgrower anymore. There's no such thing 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:24.120 as the second rowd anymore edge forwards. There's another little 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:26.080 thing issue. How many texts you said? 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:29.160 There's a lot? Can I say. 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:34.600 It is dead set? The height of rudeness to be texting? 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:39.520 Well, seriously, the big story are you working on? Do 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:42.480 you think do you think Breaks just sits in the 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:43.960 chair of three sixty texting? 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:44.400 Yeah? 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:47.840 Breaks, No, he doesn't. 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:55.560 Expansion boys, Obviously big news there yesterday and today's in 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:59.120 today's paper. Well, it was surprising when we started to 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:02.520 get word over the last couple of days that, you know, 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:05.040 everyone's assumed or everyone's thought, that P and G would 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:07.040 be the eighteenth side, but now looks like they're going 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:09.160 to the potential for them to be the nineteenth side, 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:13.879 with Perth usurping P and G and coming into the 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:17.600 competition in twenty twenty seven. There's a few layers to this, 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:21.640 So the Commission will meet on the eve of Origin 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:25.960 two to dissect exactly what the path to expansion looks like. 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:29.080 And one of the plans they're seriously considering is fast 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:31.960 tracking Perth into the competition in twenty twenty seven, and 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:37.119 the layers to that a threefold I guess you know 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:41.200 what sort of look that Western Australian side will look 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:44.560 like the government in wa are hopeful and confident they 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:47.280 can be a standalone entity. But there's also the Bears 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:51.200 and the Newtown Jets have been having discussions with Perth 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:55.640 about a potential alignment when they come into the competition. 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:58.240 Doesn't affect P and GPNG will coming in two thousand 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:02.800 and twenty eight ill, But boys, where do we stand 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:07.119 on Perth becoming the eighteenth side before P and J 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:08.160 the nineteen day look? 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:10.359 I think it's probably the wright path to go MA 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:13.119 because had I do have my reservations over the PNG 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:23.480 bid only for the obvious location pathways, how how the 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:27.720 entire infrastructure of a clean G team would look like? 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:31.880 I just you know, I need some more reassurance there 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:34.879 on what it looks like Perth. We know Perth, we 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:38.879 know as an appetite for rugby league, and the game 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:42.119 has been investing in Perth via Origin matches and NRL 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:46.400 matches for a number of years. Over there, I think 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:49.760 Perth Bears for me, Perth Bears has a has the 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:50.400 right feel. 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:54.960 Perth Bears or Perth Jets. Look. The Bears back brings 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:58.080 more fans back than what the Jets might my view, 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:01.959 it's a fairy tale story. A lot of their fans 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:06.119 left and haven't been back, and I've always thought Perth 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:08.200 is a much smarter. 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:11.280 Thing to do than P and G. 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:14.960 For the life of me, I can't see how P 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:19.040 and G are going to sign players unless there's tax concessions, 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:24.280 and I don't know how families are going to relocate there. 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:29.320 So look, I think it's a smart mood to bring 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:32.760 the Bears. In particular, there's a premium Western Australia who's 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:35.760 a rugby league fanatic. He's not going to be there forever. Yeah, 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:39.399 but they're behind the project at the moment, and to 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:42.200 get Norse Sydney back and a few games at North 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:45.080 Sydney over every year just outstanding. Yeah. 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:47.919 I don't disagree at all. It's really interesting if they 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:51.399 do go down the Perth in twenty seven path on 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:53.639 what buzz is talking about the ability for P and 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:57.280 G to attract talent and sign players Perth coming in, 0:19:58.000 --> 0:19:59.119 they need to sign players. 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:00.359 Yeah right, I agree. 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:04.480 So they'll suck the market. I won't say dry about it. 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:08.280 It will dry the market out to a degree. Then 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:10.600 two years later they need the Philippine. 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:11.080 G team, So. 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:15.119 Look, I think there's enough talent, and I think it 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:18.440 speaks to the game needing to focus on investing in 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:23.320 pathways even more so than ever before, so to country 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:26.600 regular league investing more so than ever before, to ensure 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:29.280 there's enough talent for Perth then PNG. 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:32.320 Yeah, that is a good point the day because I 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:34.159 think it like P and G is going to come 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:36.000 in in twenty eight as it stands, and they need 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:38.199 that extra time to get set up. 0:20:38.280 --> 0:20:39.240 But I'm with you. 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:41.080 I think it does affect their ability to. 0:20:41.240 --> 0:20:43.639 Bring in a new team first, Yeah, ahead of them. 0:20:43.840 --> 0:20:46.240 Yeah, it's gonna be hard enough to sign players. 0:20:47.080 --> 0:20:49.639 You know, the figureheads of these clubs are going to 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:54.880 be so important. Like Wayne Bennett was such a magnet 0:20:55.000 --> 0:20:58.520 and such a great man to have in charge. Yeah, 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:02.400 the Dolphins, the fact that he took on board argue 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:05.520 with the best equipment guy yea in Peter o' salaban 0:21:06.760 --> 0:21:10.880 and Perth and P and Jury and South News Zerland, 0:21:11.040 --> 0:21:14.639 who I believe will be the twentieth teams need to 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:19.360 get that structure right. Unfortunately, there's only one way in Bennett. 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:22.240 Yeah, and there's not a lot of times early. Yeah, 0:21:23.000 --> 0:21:26.080 twenty seven is not that far away. So you know 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:31.160 it would need to you need that decision very soon 0:21:31.359 --> 0:21:33.040 to get it set up, because I see you. 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:37.240 Now doing the sideline for ABC. We're in Perth and 0:21:37.359 --> 0:21:40.360 Perth off the stadium for a blockbuster. 0:21:40.760 --> 0:21:41.879 Why not? 0:21:42.160 --> 0:21:44.840 I'm there, I'm there. The Jets are the Bears? 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:46.959 Do you like to travel? 0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:48.600 It's got to be the Bears, don't mind. 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:51.359