Speaker 1: Well, Coop, what do you think man, New so Wales
Speaker 1: was bloody good? Oh good that.
Speaker 2: I think we in our preview through the week we
Speaker 2: sort of spoke about how, you know, we thought New
Speaker 2: So wal was going to play. I think Queens they
Speaker 2: knew how New South Wales were going to play. I
Speaker 2: just think they just couldn't stop them. They were from
Speaker 2: that first set like they just looked unbelievable. You generally,
Speaker 2: in a first set of a Queen of an Origin game,
Speaker 2: you see like the physicality and teams really struggle to
Speaker 2: get out of the their half the first five minutes
Speaker 2: a real grind yeap, whereas you just saw New South
Speaker 2: Wales just.
Speaker 1: Roll them so early. It was a real hint of
Speaker 1: things to come because we dominated through yardage one of
Speaker 1: the areas we did, and we spoke about this before.
Speaker 1: Our outside backs are always so good in yardage, and
Speaker 1: you know we said the ones who were going to
Speaker 1: lead that were Edwards and Zach Lomax. Zach Lomax was
Speaker 1: mighty and a heat of things that come and that
Speaker 1: was the first set for New South Wales and a
Speaker 1: couple of strong runs and all of a sudden, Zach
Speaker 1: Lomax took the ball, boom, run, little footwork and then
Speaker 1: just drove through the line, made about twelve mooders, play
Speaker 1: the ball fast. Then all of a sudden pain has
Speaker 1: come on the back and we drove all the way
Speaker 1: to half way, which is almost You don't see that.
Speaker 1: You only see that very very occasionally in State of
Speaker 1: Origin football, almost never as far as first sets of concerned.
Speaker 2: When you see that, you're usually as a kid, you
Speaker 2: remember getting up and you go, I want to watch
Speaker 2: the first hit off the kickoff. Yeah, because the first
Speaker 2: set is so physical, blokes flying out. You just didn't
Speaker 2: see that from Queensland that they wanted to. But Lomas
Speaker 2: that second carry bumped Harry Grant and then went down
Speaker 2: half went on the back of him.
Speaker 1: Lomax destroyed their intent there, Like Queensland really they raced
Speaker 1: down and that second tackle they got into him when
Speaker 1: Lomax took that ball and just sort of just punched
Speaker 1: through the line. Yeah, it just took the wind out
Speaker 1: of the defensive sales early on and just as it said,
Speaker 1: destroyed the intent. They went to dominate through physicality and coops.
Speaker 1: Evidence of when New South Waleses dominated yardage and controlled
Speaker 1: the early exchanges. Is that in the first seven minutes
Speaker 1: Nathan had two attacking kicks. Attacking kicks, and we've said
Speaker 1: this before, are so important in big games. That's because
Speaker 1: a lot of times that's where the majority of points
Speaker 1: are going to come from. So if you can regularly
Speaker 1: put your playmaker is a position for attacking kicks, you
Speaker 1: are dominating the contest.
Speaker 2: Particularly when look at last year's Grand Final for example,
Speaker 2: people looked at it and went, what a boring game.
Speaker 2: But a lot of the tries and a lot of
Speaker 2: the dominate, Like a lot of the stuff where they
Speaker 2: were dominating come from just rolling down field and only
Speaker 2: having emphasis on their fifth tackle. You saw when you
Speaker 2: well was dominated that first half, it was all from
Speaker 2: their It was all from their fifth tackle kick game,
Speaker 2: getting results from Nathan putting up for Zach Lomax. When
Speaker 2: momentum eventually shifted, you saw that come from the opposite
Speaker 2: and Dali Chevans putting up for Jeremiah and I and
Speaker 2: getting results out of those attacking kicks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought that again. A further hint of things
Speaker 1: to come Cooper in the first ten minutes was the
Speaker 1: fact that they gave clearly a lot of time Nathan
Speaker 1: had a lot of time and space to it to
Speaker 1: operate in early on and from there, as you know
Speaker 1: as a playmaker, when your first few touches were really good,
Speaker 1: you find rhythm. It was soon after actually he got
Speaker 1: a ball and Harry really rasted him and Nathan come
Speaker 1: up with an error. Now that's the way they should
Speaker 1: have defended him early on, not let Nathan and Mitch
Speaker 1: Moses find their natural rhythm. They just gave him too
Speaker 1: much time.
Speaker 2: Agree, I think they come off the back of how
Speaker 2: dominant the pack work, though I think Payne Hass Lomacks
Speaker 2: rarely did I see Hass on his back once, Like
Speaker 2: every time Hass got the footy, it was a quick
Speaker 2: play the ball. Same with Lomacs, saying with so, I
Speaker 2: think it's a big rap to those three that allowed
Speaker 2: those two to have some.
Speaker 1: Time in that first ten minutes Lomax and has for
Speaker 1: the best players on the field. Let's move into the
Speaker 1: next phase of the game, that sort of period that
Speaker 1: goes up to the twenty minute mark, and it was
Speaker 1: here in this part of the match. I reckon Queensland
Speaker 1: enjoyed their best period of dominance and they didn't assert
Speaker 1: dominance through like we did through power running and punching
Speaker 1: through a defense. They asserted dominance through ball movement. They
Speaker 1: had a hell of success attacking news out down their
Speaker 1: right side, attacking New South Wales left side defense. The
Speaker 1: combination defensive combination of Latrell and Brian Tote, they just
Speaker 1: are a little bit out of sink. You know, they
Speaker 1: weren't defending as a combination, and you know one of
Speaker 1: the one Latrolley come in a little too acute and
Speaker 1: then you just seeing Brian sitting back a little bit.
Speaker 1: They just went on the same page and that's where
Speaker 1: you know queens and evidence again, let's come back to
Speaker 1: what we said before about Nathan. Evidence that Queensland enjoyed
Speaker 1: dominance in this period was two attacking kicks, asserting pressure
Speaker 1: on us through two attacking kicks. And I thought through
Speaker 1: this period in particular, I thought New South Wales played conservative.
Speaker 1: I thought in that period we went into our shells
Speaker 1: a little bit. So in that period, Coup from that
Speaker 1: ten to twenty minute period the best players in the field.
Speaker 1: I thought DC was very very good during that period.
Speaker 1: And I thought Rhys Robson for New South Wales Reece
Speaker 1: Robson tonight was the most dangerous, dangerous I've seen him
Speaker 1: as far as getting out of dummy hat ever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know, you're real. He's a good runner,
Speaker 2: but you don't see him get out like you see
Speaker 2: Harry Grant get out and tow people onto the line.
Speaker 2: He saw Reece Robson have a lot of luck. But
Speaker 2: like you said, with how they shifted from sort of
Speaker 2: going one out trying to get quick playaballs through their
Speaker 2: wingers into shifting to try to get quick playaballs, I
Speaker 2: think that was just a wrap to New South Wales defense.
Speaker 2: I think they they could, they didn't look like they
Speaker 2: could get out of their own end. I think Chas
Speaker 2: and Munster, I think they just got together and said,
Speaker 2: we need to start moving the ball because we're not
Speaker 2: we're not doing anything, but we need to try to
Speaker 2: make line breaks to get meters because we're just he's
Speaker 2: kicking out of our own forty the whole time.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, they really struggled for yardages that next period,
Speaker 1: that next tenanter period, you know, from twenty to thirty minutes,
Speaker 1: were starting to push towards half time. Now we're starting
Speaker 1: to get some really important moments. We score right at
Speaker 1: that period the start of that period. We tried in
Speaker 1: New South Wales and Zach Lomas scores the try right
Speaker 1: in the right hand corner. But a tear where it started,
Speaker 1: the pebble in the pond started with Mitch Moses. They
Speaker 1: were going to go to the right. He overcalled down
Speaker 1: a short sight from Ruth Robson, went to the line,
Speaker 1: put Angars christ Crighten through and that that incision, that
Speaker 1: momentum that created that space that ended up that that
Speaker 1: was the reason why Lomax scooed in the far corner.
Speaker 1: So that was just a nice little play there from
Speaker 1: mich Moses. Mitch Moses didn't overplay his hand. He let
Speaker 1: Nathan run the show. But that was a really nice
Speaker 1: little moment where Nathan's called the ball right and he's
Speaker 1: got no I'm going to overcall this. I sent something
Speaker 1: up the short side.
Speaker 2: You know what your brother Andrew John said right at
Speaker 2: the end of the game, Queensland spying looks dis connected,
Speaker 2: where on our own New South Wales spine they work
Speaker 2: so well together. You look at that passage to play,
Speaker 2: Mitch Moses, Nathan Watson on the right, he overcalls, puts
Speaker 2: Crichton through and it ends up being fifth tackle and
Speaker 2: seeing how quick to play the ball is and how
Speaker 2: disconnected the defensive line where for Queens and Nathan looks up,
Speaker 2: finds Paying Hals, he gets an offload, he gets it
Speaker 2: out to Edwards, Edwards finds Crichton like that spine, just
Speaker 2: everyone on the same page and the connection there where
Speaker 2: everyone goes hang on, it's fifth tackle. We probably should
Speaker 2: be kicking, but look what's in front of us. Let's
Speaker 2: just react to what's.
Speaker 1: In front of us. Isn't Stephen Crichton good In those
Speaker 1: instances where it's scrambling, the defense is scrambling, got the
Speaker 1: ball they think happening left, right and center. Of these
Speaker 1: people coming at him all over the place, he knows
Speaker 1: somewhere there's the right option somewhere. He has to find
Speaker 1: the pass or the dummy all the step or the
Speaker 1: little kick that's kind of set up to try and
Speaker 1: he just nearly always nails it. And that one you
Speaker 1: just tore down the field and just per perfectly time
Speaker 1: past the lomax to put him over, you know, and
Speaker 1: further evidence to that, I mean, you think back to
Speaker 1: that Grand Final where they'd be Brisbane and some of
Speaker 1: the plays late in the game that Stephen Crichton come
Speaker 1: up with vital plays. They've got penrith through. I don't
Speaker 1: as far as outside backs, I haven't seen many outside
Speaker 1: backs who can sum up the situation better than Stephen Crome. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and even you look at his opposite number, right, Hamisotabi,
Speaker 1: Fido's was the fastest blokeout there on the field, so
Speaker 1: he would have known himself. Crichton's not going to beat
Speaker 1: me with speed, but in a lot of instances tonight
Speaker 1: you saw him giving him time and space just because
Speaker 1: how worried he is of his fan, of his step
Speaker 1: you see. You don't often see that with Santa's who
Speaker 1: A lot of senatas are scared of speed, so they
Speaker 1: overchase and open up by that hamon As He's not
Speaker 1: going to give.
Speaker 2: For speed, but just the shear like a gitterly and
Speaker 2: footy IQ. That and skilled that he's got where he's going.
Speaker 2: He can beat me with footwork, he can beat me
Speaker 2: with a fan, he can run over me, or he
Speaker 2: can put a little kick in behind.
Speaker 1: Just just makes him dangerous. Just got so much presence,
Speaker 1: He's just so much presence. The next Queensland, New South
Speaker 1: Wales try it come soon after. It was an era
Speaker 1: coming into trouble from Queensland. And this is really this
Speaker 1: is really important, Coops. And we said, coming into the game,
Speaker 1: one of the things I was looking for from Nathan
Speaker 1: Cleary is for him to run the football. We interviewed
Speaker 1: Nathan in this room and we asked him the question.
Speaker 1: I said, my hunch with you, Nathan is you find
Speaker 1: your best football when you run the ball early. And
Speaker 1: he said, yeah, I do. He said, but it's a discipline.
Speaker 1: He can get into the mode of just passing past
Speaker 1: you shoved on the ball sideways. Now he ran the book.
Speaker 1: It's interesting the toe try which was a beauty. I
Speaker 1: mean the hands of Latrell Mitchell, such a big man,
Speaker 1: such velvet hands. It was an amazing pass. But Nathan
Speaker 1: set this up. He set this up by the previous
Speaker 1: two occasions he got the football, Coop. He ran the
Speaker 1: ball and made small incisions into the line. Now straight
Speaker 1: away he did that. Suddenly they're on notice. And the
Speaker 1: best ballplayers of the that threaten with their run game.
Speaker 1: That's what attracts the defenders, tracks the beast of the
Speaker 1: hunting pot. And so run the ball next time, run
Speaker 1: the ball. Third time he gets the ball, the time
Speaker 1: he sets up the try coop, he feigns to run
Speaker 1: and suddenly Queensland just squeeze in out the back to
Speaker 1: Moses Mitchell, a beautiful pass to Latrell Mitchell and just
Speaker 1: Bush Bush straight to toe.
Speaker 2: That was and the Queensland, the Queenslanders defense actually didn't
Speaker 2: do that much wrong in that. When you watch the replay,
Speaker 2: Cherry Cherry makes a decision to jam, probably a good
Speaker 2: decision in the moment because they all got held up
Speaker 2: by what Nathan did.
Speaker 1: Yep. But you see at this level where.
Speaker 2: You've got Nathan Cleary, Mitchell, Moses and Latrell Mitchell, three
Speaker 2: of the most deadly attacking players. If you're a half
Speaker 2: a second off at club Land, you probably get away
Speaker 2: with it. They probably land any more force an error.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: But you see the skill of those three players. Like
Speaker 2: Latrell's pass to Ice that had it literally barely touched
Speaker 2: his hands with the tap.
Speaker 1: He was incredible, and you know you can get it.
Speaker 1: You can get a short pass and sort of knock
Speaker 1: it through the hands quickly, but to get a long
Speaker 1: pass and be able to go bang bang when a
Speaker 1: guy's going to whack you outside in. It's just incredible football.
Speaker 1: In this period, that ten minute period from twenty to
Speaker 1: thirty minute, the best two players on the field were
Speaker 1: Nathan Cleary and Isaiah Yoe. Isaiah Yoe has been his
Speaker 1: contribution to the wind has been I think or will
Speaker 1: be understated. Yeah, Isaiah was so good because Isaiah he's
Speaker 1: such a clever footballer. He had to look around that
Speaker 1: team and he goes, Okay, I got too dominant, Harvesy,
Speaker 1: I've got Nathan Clear and I got Mitchell Moses. They
Speaker 1: don't need me to be a ballplayer. So all the
Speaker 1: way through the game, particularly in that period, he's taken
Speaker 1: it to the line, he's feigning to pass and then
Speaker 1: just punching through most of the Mate, you go back
Speaker 1: and watch Isaiao's performance, most of the time he carried
Speaker 1: the ball of the line, he punched through.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's what you said that during the preview
Speaker 2: on the week, that you would have actually started him
Speaker 2: on the bench so that Nathan could get him his
Speaker 2: running game early. Didn't fall into the trap of playing
Speaker 2: out the back of Isaiaho that they've they've sometimes done
Speaker 2: in the past. But Isaiah was outstanding out it just
Speaker 2: he set up shape around himself with the intent to run,
Speaker 2: just to create a one on one. And that's what
Speaker 2: shapes are built for, you know. It shapes up built
Speaker 2: for in a game to play out the back and
Speaker 2: just go through and try to score in the corner
Speaker 2: every time. Sometimes you can set a shape up, and
Speaker 2: if you're a smart footballer, you can just set it
Speaker 2: up so that you create a one on one, a
Speaker 2: quick playable for yourself, which Yoe he did tonight.
Speaker 1: Well, that's well. And that's the thing. You know, when
Speaker 1: you talk to ballplayers about that, you say to him
Speaker 1: sometimes even if you're even if you're a pure runner
Speaker 1: and your ball playing is secondary, set up a shape
Speaker 1: because they said before, when I said before that when
Speaker 1: Nathan acted like he was going to run, their schools did.
Speaker 1: When you set up a shape a flex and it
Speaker 1: gives you an opportunity in ball runners to punch through,
Speaker 1: use your footwork, show and go, et cetera, and so
Speaker 1: on and so forth. Okay, Coop, this is really interesting.
Speaker 1: This thing right the ten minutes before halftime where games
Speaker 1: are won, Queensland kickoff right, and all the way in
Speaker 1: the build up to the game, it was all about mate. Okay,
Speaker 1: Spencer land New's going to get his The crowds up
Speaker 1: for its. Spencer comes on, Spencer is standing in kick reception.
Speaker 1: Off the kickoff, they can be they kick the other way.
Speaker 1: They deliberately kicked the other way. And I kind of
Speaker 1: get it in the fact that you don't want him
Speaker 1: to get on motion and really charge off the back fence.
Speaker 1: But I reckon that's a victory for Spencer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it would have been a powerful thing
Speaker 2: for him to come on and the last plason you
Speaker 2: want to kick too, they just kick it to him
Speaker 2: and they get stuck into him. I think them not
Speaker 2: doing that was a real lift to the pack, particularly Spencer.
Speaker 2: But I think it was like I said earlier, I
Speaker 2: think that was a testament to the work that Paynhas
Speaker 2: and Lomax did early by really troubling Harry Gran and
Speaker 2: the middle to make their one on mines. I think
Speaker 2: they were a little bit like we just we want
Speaker 2: to try to win, like they were. I think they
Speaker 2: just looked at it a bit rattled through their middle
Speaker 2: like they wanted to win the tackle camp because they
Speaker 2: know when you're out there and you're not making good
Speaker 2: contact as a player and a lot of the times
Speaker 2: what you're thinking is is shit, I've lost the last
Speaker 2: four of my tackles. I need to start winning it
Speaker 2: because in video I'm going to get I'm going to
Speaker 2: get pulled apart. I have no doubt that Billy in
Speaker 2: the next camp will have them all in, show them
Speaker 2: a lot of because they just lost so much of
Speaker 2: their one on one tackles. There was a lot of
Speaker 2: time like players finding their front, which you don't see,
Speaker 2: particularly in the first twenty minutes of Origin. It was.
Speaker 1: It was really surprising coop and of course the trope
Speaker 1: for a half time. Yeah, a couple of big moments
Speaker 1: for half time and again New South Wales try in
Speaker 1: the right hand, right hand corner Lo Max again.
Speaker 2: Yeah it was it was it was as yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: It was Lo Max again. This time again Nathan, benefiting
Speaker 1: from his run threat, goes to the line nicest trait
Speaker 1: double pumps and with the the danger of Nathan running
Speaker 1: and the danger of the double pump, Hemisode just couldn't
Speaker 1: help himself. He just turns in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know, I think I believe it was
Speaker 2: the play before that Isaiao again took a quick play
Speaker 2: the ball got it got a real, real quick one.
Speaker 2: And then when you actually look at that try, they
Speaker 2: had enough numbers to defend it easy. I think whoever
Speaker 2: was the back row I kind of got to Nathan
Speaker 2: created so they all they had equal numbers. Just like
Speaker 2: you said, just the threat of having a quick play
Speaker 2: the ball, the good intent on shape, Nathan's run, threat,
Speaker 2: nice double pump, it just had him nervous. I think
Speaker 2: they were just they were just under the pump out there,
Speaker 2: and then it was easy through the hands from Edwards
Speaker 2: to Lomak.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at that period they just fought. Just on
Speaker 1: half time and I thinking coastly can't get back into this.
Speaker 1: Were so dominant, but then there's always something that happens.
Speaker 1: And the final played for halftime, Dally puts again the
Speaker 1: benefit of an attacking kick over excuse me, and goes
Speaker 1: up and of course and Brian grabs him and gets
Speaker 1: ten minutes of the sin bin, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you know it's game on again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, big controversial. Obviously getting sinned in not a lot
Speaker 2: in it, not a lot in it. But at the
Speaker 2: end of the day, professional foul. He hits him when
Speaker 2: he's in the air, good fair play, to Queens and
Speaker 2: they got they ended up getting the two points. I'll
Speaker 2: tell you right now if I mean, look, a lot
Speaker 2: of shit's been put on the goalkickers, particularly Nathan and
Speaker 2: Lomax towards the end of the game. It's all missed,
Speaker 2: a couple of sitters. But geez, if you go into
Speaker 2: that game at the end of there and it would
Speaker 2: have been twenty to two if they kicked all their goals,
Speaker 2: which is game over in Origin. If you go in
Speaker 2: mentally and you're going twenty to two, down fourteen to
Speaker 2: two and you know we only need two tries in
Speaker 2: it's so mental you're not having to chase.
Speaker 1: That scoreboard shows you the dominance of New South Wales.
Speaker 1: I mean, could have been twenty very well, could have
Speaker 1: been twenty into two at half time. Yeah at sant
Speaker 1: Corpse Stadium.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, like Linds, I can't remember the last time
Speaker 2: you see that at half time in a state of origin,
Speaker 2: Like that's so dominant.
Speaker 1: Jesus what after halftime? That this is the ten minutes
Speaker 1: half to halftime is a horror period for New South
Speaker 1: Wales because we've got twelve men left half time. When
Speaker 1: you've got twelve men, you need to be squeaky clean.
Speaker 1: You've got to complete your set. You've got to complete
Speaker 1: your sets. You drive the ball to touch, you walk down,
Speaker 1: you don't let the opposition get into a rhythm and
Speaker 1: you slow the tempo of the game. But we just
Speaker 1: I mean, we start the second half with the second
Speaker 1: seven tackles set from Mitch and this will lead eventually
Speaker 1: to the queens Land, to the Queensland. Try it first,
Speaker 1: queens lande In New South Wales, they just keep coming
Speaker 1: up with error.
Speaker 2: It's the error after what you said, like the way
Speaker 2: they played that first twenty minutes was perfect New South
Speaker 2: Wales in the first half. That was that it is
Speaker 2: such a good sort of case study for other teams
Speaker 2: to go this is how we want to play our footy.
Speaker 2: That first twenty minutes when they were down to twelve
Speaker 2: was possibly the complete polar opposite. Like you said, seven tackles,
Speaker 2: they defend a couple sets. They do a good job
Speaker 2: with twelve. First tackle Lomax drops it, yes, and then
Speaker 2: they go to a scrum where they end up picking
Speaker 2: up Valentine Holmes and dragging him over the sideline. You think, geez,
Speaker 2: they're not going to score here. Next tackle, first tackle
Speaker 2: Jeremiah and I flies out of the line and puts
Speaker 2: a shot on the trail who drops it? Which they
Speaker 2: go offload, offload and Xavier.
Speaker 1: Coach scores on the right hand corner.
Speaker 2: Like everything that could have gone wrong for you so
Speaker 2: well is that it did.
Speaker 1: At that point, I'm thinking to myself, man, I mean,
Speaker 1: we've let them back into the game. But they've got
Speaker 1: you know, the crowd of come back into the game.
Speaker 1: You know, they've got momentum. I'm thinking of himself, Well,
Speaker 1: here we go. They've allowed them to get back in.
Speaker 1: And as you know, when you're loading fourteen two and
Speaker 1: you've got complete dominance. Excuse me, that's all right, and
Speaker 1: you've got complete dominance, what happens is all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: the opposition score and they're back end of the game.
Speaker 1: My god, that's a momentum swing, and it's so hard
Speaker 1: to arrest that momentum, to get that momentum back, to.
Speaker 2: Wrestle it back, particularly when you've got twelve.
Speaker 1: For another.
Speaker 2: I think they slid another five minutes with twelve, and
Speaker 2: you like you're under the pump and you've got the
Speaker 2: spine of munster. Cherry Evans Grant and Ponga who were
Speaker 2: starting to catch fire, but they really didn't Queensland really
Speaker 2: didn't grab that chance. After that, they didn't.
Speaker 1: Really do a lot with the twelve.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with the particularly first half when you
Speaker 2: saw some of the expansive footy out of their own.
Speaker 2: They were shifting it, shifting it, and then they went
Speaker 2: to twelve. It was like they didn't want to It's
Speaker 2: like they didn't want to make errors, so they kind
Speaker 2: of just tried to play more through the middle when
Speaker 2: that was probably when they should have shifted a lot more.
Speaker 1: It was interesting about the second half of their Coinsians
Speaker 1: attack Coups was that in the first half they were
Speaker 1: having so much, so much success going to their right
Speaker 1: against Latrell and Brian, and she said they would disconnected.
Speaker 1: They just couldn't get their decision making right. Second half
Speaker 1: they barely go there at all. It's in the second
Speaker 1: half they always just attack to their left. And I've
Speaker 1: got no doubt and we said this before before the game.
Speaker 1: Leading up to the game, Billy loves to attack Zach Lomax.
Speaker 1: In Billy's mind, he sees that Zach Lomax puts so
Speaker 1: much effort and energy into his attack and his yardage.
Speaker 1: That can leave him vulnerable in defense. And sometimes he
Speaker 1: does clock off, sometimes he disconnects himself from from from
Speaker 1: his center. But the big benefit for Lomax Coops was
Speaker 1: that he was alongside Stephen Crichton. There are a few
Speaker 1: times in that second half the Coisler had an opportunity.
Speaker 1: If it had been a lesser defensive center, they probably
Speaker 1: would discovered. But Crichton his defensive decisions, and I've got
Speaker 1: no doubt he would have been just yapping and yappen
Speaker 1: and yappen to Lomax Cooper and Lomac's honest in defense,
Speaker 1: and so Coislan kept getting there. But they'll get no result.
Speaker 1: And you look on that.
Speaker 2: Side of Crichton and Lomacs. I had a theory of watching.
Speaker 1: I've had this theory for a while.
Speaker 2: But Hamaso taboo feedo at left center right, if you
Speaker 2: have a they created a couple opportunities there where Hamma
Speaker 2: just got on the outside of Critter and I looked
Speaker 2: under pressure having a center inside you who's an out
Speaker 2: and out speed stuff In Valentine Holmes with his wing
Speaker 2: was his winger. There was a couple of times there
Speaker 2: where they probably could have caught us out, but Hammer's
Speaker 2: speed was actually too quick for Valentine Holmes and he
Speaker 2: kind of dropped back a little bit, was forced to
Speaker 2: drop off back underneath, which allowed New South Wales to
Speaker 2: go man on and Zach Lomax to come in and
Speaker 2: just tackle him.
Speaker 1: And it was it was it was the inside pressure
Speaker 1: he was getting also from from Krichton crighton getting up
Speaker 1: and pushing him from the inside. He just couldn't get
Speaker 1: the angle to straighten into that gap that Billy was
Speaker 1: after in between Crichton and Lomacs with his Lomax speed
Speaker 1: was slightly disconnected. But let's see what coop in this period.
Speaker 1: In the second half, there was a lot of attack
Speaker 1: from New South Wales and I thought was really poor.
Speaker 1: I thought they went into there. I thought that were
Speaker 1: just too conservative of the second half and evidence of
Speaker 1: that certainly New South Wales will getting a lot of
Speaker 1: joy from just playing nice and straight, you know, with
Speaker 1: those short, short ball or sweep options, peeling Coeensland short
Speaker 1: in the second half for a lot for a decent
Speaker 1: period in the second half, lots of inside balls drifting across,
Speaker 1: picking them up on the inside, and I can understeer.
Speaker 1: What they're trying to do, they're trying to fatigue coinsland
Speaker 1: and they'll try to consolidate possession. But I just found
Speaker 1: it really ineffective, you know, and I just thought in
Speaker 1: the first half their attacking shapes were a lot better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's a bit of that Penrith the
Speaker 2: bit of Penrith ball they do. Penrith like to drop
Speaker 2: people off, come back through the inside, and really wear
Speaker 2: a middle out. I think under fatigue they sort of
Speaker 2: fell back into that pattern in the second half, probably
Speaker 2: went away from their game plan a little bit, which
Speaker 2: I think. You know, it obviously ended up working for them,
Speaker 2: but I think if that mold that they had in
Speaker 2: the first half with their attack where they didn't really
Speaker 2: they weren't really doing a lot of that drop off stuff.
Speaker 2: They were just charging down the middle with their rucks
Speaker 2: and then look when they got to quick play the ball,
Speaker 2: get on the ad line and try to find an edge.
Speaker 1: Well, Cooper even like that, even if they wanted to
Speaker 1: play a lot more simple, it's go forward, drive them back,
Speaker 1: play the ball quick, get the ball to a Nathan
Speaker 1: or Isa or a Mitchell Moses and just challenge them
Speaker 1: with his spoed and footwork just going them. You know.
Speaker 1: That was I thought that would have been more effective
Speaker 1: than drifting and dropping underneath, because in fact it really
Speaker 1: congested the middle of the field for New South Wales
Speaker 1: attack twenty minutes to go Coop. There's a really pivotal moment.
Speaker 1: Queensland are on attack and they've got a chance to
Speaker 1: make it a really big finish fourteen six. But they
Speaker 1: get the ball. It's a really really poor set. They
Speaker 1: gues sort of here and there, they do anything, and
Speaker 1: then Monster puts in a kick along the ground, a
Speaker 1: grubber Zach Lomax diffuses it and then draws a penalty.
Speaker 1: Queensland never looked likely again, Yeah, I think that was
Speaker 1: the Yeah, they looked.
Speaker 2: They did look very lost when they got down attack
Speaker 2: on the tryline, which was weird. They're very usually very structured.
Speaker 2: They did look a bit disjointed. I reckon a lot
Speaker 2: of that come from fatigue from the first half. When
Speaker 2: you're fatigued, you do a lot of work in the
Speaker 2: first half, your communication kind of goes out the window.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that, like you said, Lomax's reading that kick
Speaker 2: and saving that try because the hammer was coming through
Speaker 2: at a lot of pace.
Speaker 1: I thought Coops, I thought Monster he needed to run
Speaker 1: the ball a lot more than he did. I can
Speaker 1: understand his forwards didn't quite get dominance, but that's never
Speaker 1: stopped him before, and he's so unorthodox. I thought he
Speaker 1: just couldn't find his game. Yeah, tonight, and you know,
Speaker 1: if Monster's running the football and then you know he's
Speaker 1: punching through and all of a sudden you got tail
Speaker 1: and getting on the back of that daily doing his things,
Speaker 1: you know, Harry jumping down and done me off, all
Speaker 1: those things. You know, Monster is the one that actually
Speaker 1: could have kick started the yardage if that's well in
Speaker 1: attack anyway, He's the one that could have got the quick,
Speaker 1: played the ball and made things happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I mean it's easy for us to say
Speaker 2: that because we've seen him do it so many times
Speaker 2: before at the Origin level. You know that twenty twenty
Speaker 2: series when he basically put the team on his back
Speaker 2: and just did some spectacle. It had some great moments.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think I think tonight he's you know,
Speaker 2: obviously he's pack got dominated and New South Wales were
Speaker 2: just had him under the pump for half an hour straight.
Speaker 2: So we probably didn't see the monster that we are
Speaker 2: used to seeing at that level.
Speaker 1: I think there was a couple of.
Speaker 2: Nice moments from him, but you know, he never really
Speaker 2: looked likely to make it. A few line breaks and
Speaker 2: stuff like that, and.
Speaker 1: New South while school a final final try with ice
Speaker 1: is the game guess what to come off kick? Nathan
Speaker 1: Attacker attacking kickbacks, takes the ball eventually lose of Connor
Speaker 1: Watson try.
Speaker 2: Connor Watson didn't score it. Actually, Connor Watson had probably
Speaker 2: the offload of the year. He was basically was nearly
Speaker 2: held out and he just popped it up like a
Speaker 2: little rugby union pop. And Dylan Edwards scored. Mage maguire
Speaker 2: ye Image McGuire look alike.
Speaker 1: Yeah, h Cooper, New South Wales best. What do you
Speaker 1: think of me?
Speaker 2: I mean the best? For me? It was a It
Speaker 2: was a flipper coin just from what they did the
Speaker 2: first half an hour, halfs and Lomax. I ended up
Speaker 2: going Lomax just because hears went off. I think it
Speaker 2: has stayed out there, which he probably could have.
Speaker 1: He edges it, but.
Speaker 2: Zach Lomax what he did out of yardage and then
Speaker 2: just he just chased every one of Nathan's kicks. I
Speaker 2: mean it kicks only as good as it's Chase and
Speaker 2: Lomax was outstanding on Kickchase.
Speaker 1: Hayt has got Man of the match on the on
Speaker 1: the on the coverage. Can't disagree with that. He was mighty.
Speaker 1: I thought Mitch Barnett was great. I thought Mitch Barnett
Speaker 1: made like you know, sometimes we picks in the past
Speaker 1: have picked teams on what they can do more with
Speaker 1: the football than character and toughness. That made sense and
Speaker 1: I think that's what he's got tons of made. He
Speaker 1: was really physical, really got into him. A lot of
Speaker 1: the stuff you just don't see. Matter two was bloody
Speaker 1: good to Liam Bart was mighty. That's his best performance
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Look, I'm going through the team in my head and
Speaker 2: there wasn't a bloke out there who was under a
Speaker 2: six or a seven, you know as a rating. When
Speaker 2: you got a team that's everyone's sort of playing at
Speaker 2: a seven or above consistently, Like, how did we we
Speaker 2: were bound to win the football? Mate Max King, who
Speaker 2: come off the bench as well. It's really good King.
Speaker 2: He played big minutes and he did an outstanding job.
Speaker 2: I think I think there was a one to seventeen effort.
Speaker 1: Everyone did a real good job.
Speaker 2: Who was your best?
Speaker 1: The zak Lomax zak Lomac's I think Cleary combination was very,
Speaker 1: very dangerous all night as attacking kicks exactly always come
Speaker 1: up with him just quickly before we give our three
Speaker 1: two one Queensland's best. I thought it was either it
Speaker 1: was Nanni.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought I had Nana as well, just based
Speaker 2: on the big moments he had which changed the game,
Speaker 2: which gave him an opportunity to change the game that
Speaker 2: the Trell Mitchell hit and then he come up with
Speaker 2: about three big plays on Chase where they got repeat
Speaker 2: sets off it.
Speaker 1: But I thought Cherry Evans was really strong. To it
Speaker 1: was Tina. I thought Tina was good.
Speaker 2: Tino was good.
Speaker 1: When isn't he good?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Mate, the big fella they needed. They missed him last year. Okay, Coop,
Speaker 1: you won two and three points for the whole game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so one one point for me actually went to Nanai,
Speaker 2: just based on he got them back into that game.
Speaker 2: Two points for me he was paying hals and three points.
Speaker 2: I just said it before Zach Lomacs. Just effort all overground.
Speaker 1: I've got one point, Isaiah slightly ahead of Mitch Bunnett
Speaker 1: and Liam Martin two points. Zach Zach Lomac's paying hass
Speaker 1: for me gets the three points. Looking forward, Cooper tea
Speaker 1: men big win. As I said before next game, Game
Speaker 1: two is in Perth. Yeah, that all really certain. New
Speaker 1: South Wales it's a fast track. It's a dry track,
Speaker 1: you know. It's it's a track where when you look
Speaker 1: at games that have been played there, they've been high
Speaker 1: scoring games. Newcastle, Newcastle, New Southwall. I really able to
Speaker 1: push the ball around and get even give give Latrell
Speaker 1: and Stephen Crichton even more opportunity.
Speaker 2: Do you see changes, first of all with New South Wales?
Speaker 2: Do you see any changes? Like there was a lot
Speaker 2: of There was a couple of injuries to people who
Speaker 2: were on the bench who ended up coming in.
Speaker 1: I can't. I don't see any force. I can't. I
Speaker 1: can't see an injury.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't see anyone getting taken out. Queensland's the
Speaker 2: big talking point they were talking a lot of. Cameron
Speaker 2: Smith had a lot to say about you know, do
Speaker 2: they potentially look to did and into the starting line
Speaker 2: to mix it up with their spine They didn't like
Speaker 2: the spine. Weren't on tonight together. They all had their
Speaker 2: nice little moments, but they disconnected.
Speaker 1: Harry he split his head. Did he get injured because
Speaker 1: he went off? You went back on?
Speaker 2: He went off and did and went into nine and
Speaker 2: then he come back on the last fifteen, so he
Speaker 2: was all right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think they could could have used did
Speaker 1: bet up Billy. I would have used did as a
Speaker 1: running thirteen. Yeah. I think they letting go.
Speaker 2: I think they had to give Harry a spell just
Speaker 2: from the amount of work that because we were saying
Speaker 2: it during the game, they really found him a lot
Speaker 2: of one on one like they were really trying to
Speaker 2: work him over. Obviously he's so effective in attack, and
Speaker 2: by making him do so much work in defense, you
Speaker 2: take his a lot of his running game out of it.
Speaker 2: I think they had to give him a spell there,
Speaker 2: just didn't potentially they were talking about didn't potentially coming
Speaker 2: into the halves.
Speaker 1: Is that a chance? D reckon, What do you replace
Speaker 1: your Dce and Munster? You know, I don't see those
Speaker 1: blokes being replaced. I mean, if did was to replace
Speaker 1: Dali Tree even so, you would imagine almost drawl the
Speaker 1: curtain on his Origin career. I don't think they'll do that.
Speaker 1: I don't think they'll let Daily play the series as
Speaker 1: I said I would, I'd keep diading on the bench,
Speaker 1: but I would put him on in the thirteen role. Yeah,
Speaker 1: put him on after about twenty five minutes, get him going,
Speaker 1: keeps breaky radio on the water. I think it's to
Speaker 1: get a bit of sleep. Huh.
Speaker 2: It's no sleep for me, Broster state of Origin. I
Speaker 2: don't sleep. I just sit there in my bed like
Speaker 2: Count Dracula in my little coffin, and I just sit
Speaker 2: there just thinking about stuff. And I just text loves,
Speaker 2: I text loves and slatsy. I text lots and slatsy,
Speaker 2: just some good feedback and whatnot. No sleep till Brooklyn,
Speaker 2: No sleep. I text loves a couple of months ago,
Speaker 2: said I make good luck and he said, yeah, you know.
Speaker 2: And I said, I forget what he said, like set
Speaker 2: one back, saying and if you win, I'll give you
Speaker 2: I'll give you a nice little cuddle and a kiss
Speaker 2: on the cheek. And he never replied. What a weird message.
Speaker 1: I was in a bit of a I was had
Speaker 1: a couple of beers.
Speaker 2: I love, I love when I flashed up with the
Speaker 2: Coaches Box a couple of times, and like Lows was
Speaker 2: kind of sitting there like kind of like pretty calm,
Speaker 2: and the most like aggravated person in the box was Belly.
Speaker 2: He was just like he's there as an advisor, yet he.
Speaker 1: Was almost just like riding the wave worse than anyone. Well,
Speaker 1: he's a winner, oh mane he loves it alright, Coops,
Speaker 1: good on your man.