Speaker 1: Big week of NRL. Some clubs two and zero, others
Speaker 1: zero and two. Some people finding new homes for next
Speaker 1: season already after two rounds. Dave Ricchio hot take for
Speaker 1: the week.
Speaker 2: Oh look, Mobzi ready, this one's got me a little
Speaker 2: bit bothered. And I and you know what, so often
Speaker 2: halves in our game, copp and absolute pasting for what
Speaker 2: they're worth and what they're getting paid and their input.
Speaker 2: And the Titans have got a one point one million
Speaker 2: dollar forward who's sitting on the bench right at the
Speaker 2: Gold Coast Titans in that in their first clash against
Speaker 2: the Bulldogs. And I'm sitting there going, what's happening here?
Speaker 2: The entire preseason to get ready? When you are investing
Speaker 2: that much in a forward and for him to be
Speaker 2: sitting on the pine for that long.
Speaker 3: I think they're getting flogged as well.
Speaker 2: Getting flogged getting flogged?
Speaker 1: Why did we not see David Fafeta for fifty odd
Speaker 1: minutes in that game?
Speaker 2: It's DESI will have his reasons. He'll have his GPS
Speaker 2: numbers on it and all the data on it, and
Speaker 2: he'll have his and he's the coach. That's that's as
Speaker 2: he's prerogative. But how is that smart management of your
Speaker 2: roster and your cap management when you got a highly paid,
Speaker 2: influential forward sitting on the bench for that long. I
Speaker 2: want to see a response this weekend from Day for
Speaker 2: Feeder and what they played.
Speaker 3: They play the Knights right, it's hard to respond the.
Speaker 2: Hopefully well, hopefully hope the response is more minutes right
Speaker 2: and the Titans can respond because I sat in this
Speaker 2: chair last week speaking about why I feel that the
Speaker 2: Titans are a spoon team, and they didn't do much
Speaker 2: to change my mind last weekend.
Speaker 1: They're in a hot field, but definitely yeah concerns. What
Speaker 1: do you think the Roosters are thinking having missed out
Speaker 1: on Davidfeeda last season?
Speaker 2: Well, you wonder, surely you know Dave's part of it,
Speaker 2: but I would just wonder how much this is a
Speaker 2: coaching decision. You know, would he be used differently at
Speaker 2: the rooster So I hear what you're saying. On the surface,
Speaker 2: that looks like they does the bullet, but you know,
Speaker 2: there's just always so much uncertainty around how to use
Speaker 2: Dapa Furder at the Gold Coast Titans. It's been going
Speaker 2: on for two to three years now. I really want
Speaker 2: to see him be that machine wrecking ball that we
Speaker 2: all know he can be.
Speaker 4: Yeah, agreed about you read let's get your hot under
Speaker 4: the court.
Speaker 5: Well, I was watching the footy on the weekend and
Speaker 5: I like seeing Plass celebrate tries. We all like seeing
Speaker 5: Plass celibate great moments in the game. We going to
Speaker 5: score a try, gets up, does a bit of a dance.
Speaker 5: I saw Christian tipplelo doing these ones doing this. I
Speaker 5: didn't have a problem with it. What's what's the big deal?
Speaker 5: The Blake wants to get paid, he's scoring tries.
Speaker 3: Just leave him alone.
Speaker 5: Then I see Flannels told him no more, no more celebrations.
Speaker 3: So I'm disappointed. I'm disappointed.
Speaker 2: As a monarch a little bit.
Speaker 3: Blake enjoys footing a catch here.
Speaker 2: Ready we went down on the school board at the time.
Speaker 2: We explained weeks before against the Dogs. Yes, sorry, mob,
Speaker 2: do you go?
Speaker 1: So I just explained, So christ off contract end of
Speaker 1: this season, no deal for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 5: Yeah, show me the money, the money I score. He
Speaker 5: wants he needs them bachlor of Qualm to help you.
Speaker 3: Show me the money.
Speaker 2: Well, that's all right, the bloke squad didn't he So
Speaker 2: let's all let's this is a team sport, and if
Speaker 2: if the Dragons that get out of this R and
Speaker 2: two position, they need all hands on deck, focused on
Speaker 2: the team. Bloke's focused on himself, trying to get a contract,
Speaker 2: trying to get the love and the and the and
Speaker 2: the support of the fans.
Speaker 5: Mate, he's scoring try for fun. He looks like a
Speaker 5: team player to me right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, of which aren't resulting in victories.
Speaker 3: We should be doing this on this show. Heys, what's doing.
Speaker 2: Actually, I'll join We're all doing it.
Speaker 1: Listen if there's two vacancies on these seats next week.
Speaker 4: I had nothing to do with this. Look.
Speaker 2: I love a try celebration. Absolutely, don't think I'm yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm doing Santa Claus. He was a time and a
Speaker 2: place though, and they're not going that well at.
Speaker 3: The time of the places. After you put the.
Speaker 4: Ball down.
Speaker 2: After the game.
Speaker 4: I liked it after the victory.
Speaker 3: I like a bit of character, a bit of fun.
Speaker 4: I like sticking it to a bit of character.
Speaker 1: Got bigger issues than the triscoring winger there, But my
Speaker 1: gripe is critics Round one critics. Everyone was so quick
Speaker 1: to hop on everybody and say.
Speaker 4: How bad Oh no, no, I'm ready to.
Speaker 1: After round one, everyone's saying Luke Metcals not a seven,
Speaker 1: he's a six. We told you that everybody is an expert.
Speaker 1: Comes out in week two, the Warriors sharpen up their attack.
Speaker 4: They target daily.
Speaker 1: Chair evens on one side, Luke books on the other side.
Speaker 1: I saw Luke Metcalf running riot but directing play. And
Speaker 1: for all the criticisms he and Andrew Webster copped, I
Speaker 1: think they've really shopped it in faces.
Speaker 4: After round two, I.
Speaker 5: Was gonna say, I'm not I'm not willing to declare
Speaker 5: it outright success just yet.
Speaker 3: It's round two. You've got the other day, You've got completely.
Speaker 2: Have you tipped the Warriors to beat the Roosters?
Speaker 4: Yes, wow, I tipped the Warriors last week too.
Speaker 3: Did you chip the Roosters?
Speaker 2: Yeah no, I went to Warriors. Yeah yeah, yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: with you. No, no, And that's a good matchup.
Speaker 4: Sand and Smith first met another kid who's been going.
Speaker 3: Very well well for one week.
Speaker 1: It's only two weeks into the NRL season and already
Speaker 1: your coaches under the blow torch. And I'm talking of
Speaker 1: course Cowboys coach Todd Payton. Uh, there's been some disappointing
Speaker 1: results in the first couple of weeks. The Cowboys not
Speaker 1: immune to that, and they come up against it against
Speaker 1: the Broncos, where there's already speculation about whether Todd Payton's
Speaker 1: going to be their.
Speaker 4: Long term days. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, there's plenty of layers to this one, I reckon,
Speaker 2: and it probably speaks to maybe where the inconsistency of
Speaker 2: the Cowboys have been probably for the last two years.
Speaker 2: You know, their Finals bound one year and then they
Speaker 2: miss it the following Jason Talmalalo and Jeremiah now straight
Speaker 2: out of the blocks left out of the team. My
Speaker 2: understanding is they're hugely influential on the playing group. They
Speaker 2: are leaders within the in the group, and they have
Speaker 2: allies and when they do when players do have as
Speaker 2: much influence as those two boys do in the group,
Speaker 2: it's very much, very easy for the rest of the
Speaker 2: playing group to side with those leaders. And that's where
Speaker 2: Todd needed to open up the lines of communication with
Speaker 2: his playing group about why this was happening. I understand
Speaker 2: that has needed to happen, that Todd needed to speak
Speaker 2: to the players about some reasoning behind those two players
Speaker 2: missing out. Now I don't see any coincidence whatsoever, they're
Speaker 2: back in the team. They are back in the team
Speaker 2: against the Broncos because everything I just said how influential
Speaker 2: they are. Second later this, I don't know if they're
Speaker 2: going to move on Todd Payton so soon as what
Speaker 2: you might expect if the results keep going this way.
Speaker 2: They are a conservative board up there. They don't make
Speaker 2: rash decisions, and I just don't feel as though they
Speaker 2: are at the level of frustration that maybe fans are
Speaker 2: and experts in the media are compared to what he's
Speaker 2: going on in house. So I still think Toddy Payton's
Speaker 2: got a bit of time.
Speaker 4: Left read men.
Speaker 1: Should they even be considering moving on Todd Payton, because
Speaker 1: I mean, we saw what he did as an interim
Speaker 1: at the Warriors, and.
Speaker 3: Honestly, they made the finals last year, second week of
Speaker 3: the finals.
Speaker 5: We're two games end of the year, and I don't
Speaker 5: think there's any pressure on Todd at board level. Like
Speaker 5: Dave said, he'll get the year at least at a minimum,
Speaker 5: I think to turn around. I think the pressure on
Speaker 5: Todd is, like Dave said, the internal rumblings and the
Speaker 5: whispers that are coming out of that dressing room that
Speaker 5: maybe play are unsettled and not happy with the way
Speaker 5: things are going. And Dave summed it up perfectly. I mean,
Speaker 5: Jason is the most influential player probably at that club,
Speaker 5: and has been for a long time.
Speaker 3: He's been a really low servant.
Speaker 5: He's got immense respect in the playing group and within
Speaker 5: the club. And we've heard the rumors about Jason now
Speaker 5: for how long that the club was trying to medically
Speaker 5: retire him last year because he's obviously got that long
Speaker 5: term deal. Then he comes out this year he does
Speaker 5: Liz Frank while playing with tong Or. I think it
Speaker 5: was that the Ladies preseason, and the club will tell
Speaker 5: you that it wasn't Todd's decision to play him in
Speaker 5: the Queens Cup last week. The club will tea was
Speaker 5: Jason who went to Todd and said, I'm not ready.
Speaker 5: Now that's what the club's telling us. I don't know
Speaker 5: that's necessarily true. We haven't heard it from Jason tom Lo,
Speaker 5: but we haven't heard anything to suggest that's not true.
Speaker 5: So that's the case, and he's straight back in this week.
Speaker 5: He paid fifty He paid fifty odd minutes and Queens
Speaker 5: and Cup it went really well, you know, I think
Speaker 5: that that will help a peace. He's some of the
Speaker 5: he's some of the unsettled. Unsettlement is a word. That's
Speaker 5: not a word, is it? The unsettled unsettled nature and
Speaker 5: nature and the footy club. So you know, I think, look,
Speaker 5: he's going to get time, Todd, and he deserves time.
Speaker 5: He's got a good record. As I said, second week
Speaker 5: the finals last year, that's pretty good effort. But there are,
Speaker 5: as Dave said, some rumblings of discontent up there that
Speaker 5: somehow he needs to calm down.
Speaker 3: And look, I know it's crazy. We're two weeks into
Speaker 3: the day.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, they'll probably lose right in the Broncos,
Speaker 5: so they'll probably be going three. But even then, we're
Speaker 5: three weeks into the season. Let's you know, let's let's
Speaker 5: calm down. Everyone on the first black the cour for
Speaker 5: a coach's head, but let's calm down.
Speaker 4: Well, we don't have to go too far back.
Speaker 1: But obviously the decision a couple of years ago to
Speaker 1: call out Jason Tamalala on his minutes and Jason's a
Speaker 1: proud guy and he did not like that, and that
Speaker 1: that sowed some seeds at the time, and you saw
Speaker 1: how well, Jason played for Tom and when he.
Speaker 4: Did that injury, as to what he's still capable of.
Speaker 1: Doing, I mean he was compared to the guy that
Speaker 1: was batting out twenty thirty minutes for the Cowboys.
Speaker 4: Just chalk and cheese. Right.
Speaker 1: So, but Mannie John's has written a really good column
Speaker 1: it's going to appear on Code Sports website around how
Speaker 1: the players are actually letting Todd Payton down because the
Speaker 1: message isn't getting through, you know, when when they made
Speaker 1: that twenty twenty two prelim final, they fell just short
Speaker 1: of that Grand Final thanks to the Mighty Eels.
Speaker 4: But sorry, I digress. Yes, there was some razzle dazzle
Speaker 4: in that attack, but.
Speaker 1: It was built off hard nosed defense where they are
Speaker 1: compacting really well.
Speaker 4: Up and in they were, you know, and the message
Speaker 4: isn't getting through the players that they're and they're not.
Speaker 3: But it's not the coach's job to get blame the players.
Speaker 5: But I always say it's so much easier to get
Speaker 5: rid of a coach and is to clean out addressing them, right,
Speaker 5: So ultimately it falls on the coach. And you know,
Speaker 5: there's been from the outside looking there's been this power
Speaker 5: struggle between Todd and Jason, for you said it when
Speaker 5: he called him out a couple of years ago. Then
Speaker 5: all that talk about potential medical retirements last year, it
Speaker 5: just seems as though they've again I don't know this
Speaker 5: for a fact, but it's outside looking in. It just
Speaker 5: seems as though they haven't always been on the same page.
Speaker 5: And if you're going to pick Jason up against Todd,
Speaker 5: Jason's going to win that nine times out of ten
Speaker 5: because he's such a loved and revered figure in North Queens.
Speaker 5: And as Dave said in that plane group, so you know,
Speaker 5: while ever that friction's there and I've got stress, I
Speaker 5: don't know that there is still friction there. As I said,
Speaker 5: it's just an outsider looking in. Well, ever, if there
Speaker 5: is friction there, that's the issue that needs to be resigned.
Speaker 2: I don't forget this as a byproduct of a ten
Speaker 2: year deal. To Rudy's point, it's hard to move Jason
Speaker 2: towmlalo on. To your point, maybe medically retire him because
Speaker 2: of the length of this deal. There was a million
Speaker 2: dollar investment every single year.
Speaker 1: Which almost has the almost three years still to run.
Speaker 5: That's right, But if you'll get a good fifty minutes
Speaker 5: Jason tomal Allow every week, mate, You've got a good
Speaker 5: football on your hair, exactly like a really good footballer.
Speaker 5: And you know he was putting in punching out fifty
Speaker 5: minute spells last year that were really effective, and they've
Speaker 5: quality minutes. So I'm not sure given what they've got
Speaker 5: up there, do you really want to know if this
Speaker 5: is the case that there was a push to medical
Speaker 5: retirement at some point in hindsight, did you really want
Speaker 5: to do that?
Speaker 1: What does Todd Payton do now in the short term
Speaker 1: to try and turn this team around.
Speaker 2: Well, he has to galvan I as the group, and
Speaker 2: it has to start with the defense. Yeah, Jeremiah and
Speaker 2: I was dropped for he's meek defense in round one,
Speaker 2: and the only way back is a response from Nati
Speaker 2: and I reckon, that'll be the greatest indicator we've got
Speaker 2: that this is a group that's on board.
Speaker 5: Really, don't you think he's been like he hasn't been
Speaker 5: a great defender ever since he's come in the first grade,
Speaker 5: Jeremi Now and I he's always been a bit vulnerable defensively,
Speaker 5: but they put up with it because well, I probably
Speaker 5: tried to fix it.
Speaker 3: Right, it hasn't really haven't really fixed it.
Speaker 2: I might be taking a broad brush to this, but
Speaker 2: this is one little concern I have, and correct me
Speaker 2: if I'm wrong. I just feel as though those there,
Speaker 2: there's elite players in that group and they've stagnated. Ribon
Speaker 2: Cotter Nanai I did and telled his own no doubt
Speaker 2: about it getting the Queensland Origin team, and I just
Speaker 2: feel like tell Malala is another example whether they're getting
Speaker 2: the maximum output and performance in some elite players. That's
Speaker 2: my concern.
Speaker 1: Canterbury PARAMOUNTA games are always massive occasions, but I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what this year takes on probably greater meeting tale
Speaker 1: of two coaches who in very different situations at the moment,
Speaker 1: have some real similarities day with having a look at
Speaker 1: what Jason Roles is going through at the moment and
Speaker 1: comparing that to I mean, things look great at Canterbury
Speaker 1: at the at present, but that wasn't always the case
Speaker 1: for Camp Serreldo.
Speaker 2: There's been an immense pain and turmoil as far as
Speaker 2: getting rid of players and cleaning up that roster, paying
Speaker 2: out players. At one point the Bulldogs were paying up
Speaker 2: paying out almost four and five players that were at
Speaker 2: different clubs, or let go to the English Super League
Speaker 2: and this is two years ago, and remembering too, Gus
Speaker 2: advised serraalto not to come in that first year, stay
Speaker 2: at Penrith for another year. There's just going to be
Speaker 2: too much blood in the water for you to handle
Speaker 2: as a rookie coach in that first season, and Serraaldo banging.
Speaker 2: Serrato said, now, I want to get into it now.
Speaker 2: And they were hard days and if you're a Paramatta
Speaker 2: fan you should maybe take some solace in that that, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's hard going at the moment. And I'm not
Speaker 2: saying that it's all going to pan out exactly the same,
Speaker 2: but certainly clearly Jason Ryles has a vision of which
Speaker 2: he's ripping and tearing into in the hope that it
Speaker 2: can end up what the dogs are in now.
Speaker 1: Really, the thing that worries me is that I don't
Speaker 1: think Paramattera have hit the bottom yet. I know there's
Speaker 1: been two really bad losses to start the year. I
Speaker 1: think things can potentially get worse.
Speaker 5: Well, it's going to be difficult until Mitch Moses gets back, right.
Speaker 5: I mean, we know how much this team's built around
Speaker 5: Mitch and Dylan Brown, so it sort of hasn't really
Speaker 5: taken the reins while Mitch's been out. They get Dean
Speaker 5: Hawkins back this week. I mean Dean Hawkins was bought
Speaker 5: to be Mitch's understudy, and when Mitch wasn't available, Dean
Speaker 5: Hawkins was supposed to be the guy who stepped in
Speaker 5: because he's got more of a kicking game, he's more
Speaker 5: of a number seven general.
Speaker 3: But obviously he was injured as well.
Speaker 5: I had to play Ronald Wolkman Ean played in a year,
Speaker 5: So everything that could go wrong for Jason Rowholves in
Speaker 5: the first two rounds has gone wrong. But you know
Speaker 5: there's going to be better days ahead and days right.
Speaker 5: It's been such a huge cultural shift at that football
Speaker 5: coman Brad Arthur was there ten years well, we all
Speaker 5: knew Brad. It was a completely different operator to Jason role.
Speaker 2: It was his club.
Speaker 3: It was his club, and Rosey's put a brooin through
Speaker 3: the joint.
Speaker 5: You know, it's got a different feel about it the
Speaker 5: football club and that's going to just take some time
Speaker 5: to settle in, to bed in and for everyone to
Speaker 5: get on the same page. But it will change and
Speaker 5: it will head in the right direction. Because he's a
Speaker 5: smart guy and a smart coach. But it's really difficult
Speaker 5: when you know, you make all these changes, then you
Speaker 5: get to round one. You haven't got your captain in
Speaker 5: half back, your talisman, you haven't got his deputy, your
Speaker 5: fire that goes out and signs a mega deal with
Speaker 5: another club, right, a guy who you're relying on to
Speaker 5: both basically stepping and help.
Speaker 3: Where Mitch is out. You know, he's got this other
Speaker 3: distraction going on, like it's just it's just been disaster.
Speaker 1: Really, you have to go to Melbourne, which you know,
Speaker 1: who don't lose round one. Round two was especially disappointing.
Speaker 1: But you look at that and you know that first
Speaker 1: half Mitch Moses is their paramat. Scored a couple of
Speaker 1: tries that they looked rudderless in attack, didn't they They
Speaker 1: just for all the ground they made. They dropped a
Speaker 1: lot of ball, but you know the positions and they
Speaker 1: should have scored. What disappoints me and probably disappoints Roles
Speaker 1: the most, is their defensive efforts.
Speaker 4: Right, he has spent the off season. They've done more
Speaker 4: defense in.
Speaker 1: The last six months at training apparently than they have
Speaker 1: done the last ten years.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: Line speed, transition defense in the middle and all that
Speaker 1: is a work in progress, but it should be an
Speaker 1: easier fix to say, guys, line speed, you need to
Speaker 1: get your back sides up quicker. You're letting them get
Speaker 1: far too quickly down the field.
Speaker 2: That's a byproduct of the errors they're coming up with.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: If you're defending all the time, your line speed's going
Speaker 2: to be pretty slow. We're doing it all the time.
Speaker 1: So if you're scoring points, you're getting the ball back,
Speaker 1: you've got your possession. But still the Yeah, that's a concern.
Speaker 2: Yeah, look, yeah, we know Josh Hadoka. We'll come back
Speaker 2: into this side this weekend. We saw him listed in
Speaker 2: the reserves. But the winger is going to change everything.
Speaker 2: But what I'm what I'm saying is you do need
Speaker 2: that experience out there in those tough times. And we
Speaker 2: know Fox is an energy player. It brings a bit
Speaker 2: of intensity and excite to the group. For me, I'm
Speaker 2: still looking for more out of Zac Climax and I
Speaker 2: still can't get around the center. Id I we're talking
Speaker 2: about last year being the I would call him almost
Speaker 2: the world's best winger.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 5: I think he's been pretty good Zach what so you know,
Speaker 5: I was going to go on the bat he's been
Speaker 5: one of them.
Speaker 2: I think he's been decent players. But yeah, I think
Speaker 2: he's been decent. But he is an out and out
Speaker 2: gun winger. And when you are searching for points and
Speaker 2: yardage carries and a little bit of.
Speaker 3: Extract dropped back from last tackle.
Speaker 4: He did, he was dropping back there and.
Speaker 3: I have a hybrid role, right, Yeah, I don't mind.
Speaker 3: I don't mind that.
Speaker 1: I wonder if that was a bit more out of
Speaker 1: necessity because they didn't really have the guy to do that,
Speaker 1: because when.
Speaker 2: Was the last time the Melbourne Storm and the Penouth
Speaker 2: Panthers come up with a hybrid role to win them.
Speaker 1: The miniature wingers now they've been exposed after five years.
Speaker 2: But this is the thing, like, stick to what the
Speaker 2: guy is absolutely outstanding at and he's the world's best winger.
Speaker 2: So bang, you've got Fox, You've got Limacs. Okay, you're
Speaker 2: starting to look you know, you look like some points
Speaker 2: of attack Aeriel.
Speaker 4: Targets.
Speaker 2: There are there's green shoots, no doubt in the world.
Speaker 2: It's just a matter of that we haven't spoken about.
Speaker 1: The dogs before we get there at okat ready you've
Speaker 1: got a piece come up in Sunday papers and sports website.
Speaker 1: But behind the scenes into his signing with the Eels
Speaker 1: and what he brings.
Speaker 5: Basically how just about how it came about, you know,
Speaker 5: the meetings that took place, and just obviously at the
Speaker 5: time there was a bit of a smell around Joshua
Speaker 5: left the Bulldogs, just how he won over Paramatta and
Speaker 5: convinced them that he was the right guy to sign.
Speaker 5: So it's a bit of a look at that, and
Speaker 5: we'll look at what he brings to a footy team,
Speaker 5: obviously because Dave mentioned it before him. And he's a
Speaker 5: bit of an energizer bunny. He's a good guy to
Speaker 5: have around the dressing room. He's happy guy, very up.
Speaker 5: So let's look at all that's mainly, it's look at
Speaker 5: how this unfolded.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I reckon the Dogs will go after him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they probably will do he hasn't played, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I reckon. Well what do you make of the eels
Speaker 1: attempts to smother him on the extended reserves list?
Speaker 4: Honestly, anyone think he wasn't going to play this week?
Speaker 1: But I know I joke before about you know, saying
Speaker 1: the winger all change anything. But what josh Ada Carr
Speaker 1: does bring in defense is a lot of talk. Because
Speaker 1: you're on the wing, you're not playing a lot of defense,
Speaker 1: but a lot of talk, a lot of enthusiasm, and
Speaker 1: when those guys backsides are hanging out a bit further in,
Speaker 1: when he's giving him those those rev ups and encouraging
Speaker 1: them and going on, that can make it.
Speaker 2: One of the most disappointing parts of the Eels game
Speaker 2: was their left edge defense, and I reckon Fox will
Speaker 2: line up on the left wing and to your point, Mob,
Speaker 2: he will. He'll be able to set the tone for
Speaker 2: the rest of the line defensively. So hopefully I fixed there.
Speaker 5: Let's not underratee what he brings. The tri screwers to him.
Speaker 5: And even though he's only played I think I looked
Speaker 5: it up last night. I think he's played twenty nine
Speaker 5: games the last two years, he'scored twenty two tries. He
Speaker 5: can still score a try. Josh had that car so
Speaker 5: ify get down the end of the field. Somehow they've
Speaker 5: been able to do it much the first two weeks.
Speaker 3: You know, he gives them a guy who.
Speaker 5: Knows his way to the triline can score tries and look,
Speaker 5: I mean we need to improve the defense, but the
Speaker 5: need to score points as well.
Speaker 4: No really, Army kickout, No Matt Burton concerns for.
Speaker 2: You, it's gonna be different, certainly going to be different
Speaker 2: because where's the kicking game come from? So much now
Speaker 2: on Toby Sexton shoulders. Bailey Hable will start in the
Speaker 2: six jersey. He's played right, he haste, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: And there's a lot of hope and promise within the
Speaker 2: Dogs about Bailey. But it's a combo. We haven't seen it.
Speaker 2: The high pressure of NRL. Then you've got kind of
Speaker 2: Tracy at the back, not a noted kicker. Then you've
Speaker 2: got Reed Marny. He does kick out a dummy half
Speaker 2: every now and then, not a specialist. So where's the
Speaker 2: dogs kicking get to? Stephen Crichton still get involved with
Speaker 2: his kicking game from center, so that's gonna be The
Speaker 2: concern for me was the Doggies kicking game?
Speaker 1: Great Paramatta one to twelve, wait thirty plus rumor real time,
Speaker 1: the public flirtation between Bran and Smith and the South
Speaker 1: Sydney Rabbit O's finally ended up in a love match.
Speaker 5: Read me, Yeah, beautiful stuff. Wayne finally got his man
Speaker 5: after a couple of years. He's been great. He's gonna
Speaker 5: be great signing for Sydney. Great signing and Wayne. I
Speaker 5: spoke to Wayne on Wednesday and made it pretty clear
Speaker 5: that he wasn't signing signing necessarily to be a hooker
Speaker 5: because he's really happy with Peter Membozulas. Brandon's versatile, can
Speaker 5: play lock and play back row. He's going to be
Speaker 5: a bit like a forward scrabble blank, as Brian Smith
Speaker 5: used to call him off the interchange, scrabble blank, mate,
Speaker 5: you can use multiple spots, bron Smith. So yeah, he'll
Speaker 5: be a great signing for them. On the issue now
Speaker 5: is whether he's there pre June thirty, right, that's that's
Speaker 5: the question.
Speaker 1: That a couple of months. Will he be at South
Speaker 1: for the back end of the season. Will the Roosters
Speaker 1: let an asset go to their most hated rivals for
Speaker 1: the back end of the season. If Souse looking to
Speaker 1: make a finals push.
Speaker 3: If the money's right, I reckon they let him go.
Speaker 4: Yeah, final couple months of the year, that right.
Speaker 3: That's all right?
Speaker 5: That means what you might be able to get three
Speaker 5: hundred grand back on your salary cap. You can Paylkes Forward,
Speaker 5: you can upgrade some of those young forwards at the Roosters.
Speaker 5: You can use that money. I mean, three hundred grand
Speaker 5: might sound like a lot, but if you can bring
Speaker 5: it forward, paid Likekes Forward, or upgrade guys, that's one
Speaker 5: half decent player that you can add the following year.
Speaker 5: So you know, Connor Watson's done a good job hooker
Speaker 5: for them too. They don't necessarily need.
Speaker 3: So I reckon good young forward. Ye, what do you reckon?
Speaker 4: What price is spite? Three hundred grand?
Speaker 2: That's the that's the actual million dollar question. What price
Speaker 2: is Spite?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think throughout anything less than three hundred I don't
Speaker 2: think it's worth it. It doesn't alleviate too much on
Speaker 2: your cap two hundred and fifty k too, Okay, I
Speaker 2: think it has to be a significant figure, and I
Speaker 2: think it will determine. It'll be determined on whether the
Speaker 2: Roosters are at to finals bound or not.
Speaker 3: You know, even in the finals mix, they.
Speaker 2: Won't bother sign Look. I like this signing. I based
Speaker 2: on what they're paying him, and it's about half of
Speaker 2: what he was on at the Roosters. And so therefore
Speaker 2: to get a good you know, and I'm basing this
Speaker 2: on Brandon coming as as the quality player that he is.
Speaker 2: It's a goodbye.
Speaker 4: Where does he play if he's not going to be nine.
Speaker 5: He won't play lot because Cam Murray is there, right,
Speaker 5: So I'd imagine maybe he plays off the bench is.
Speaker 2: A fourteen, but he could give Cam Murray a spell.
Speaker 3: He could plays forward on the bench and.
Speaker 5: Murray and Murray Murray can play on the edge potentially, right,
Speaker 5: Wayne thinks Brandon could play on the edge as well,
Speaker 5: So I mean maybe he plays an edge forward.
Speaker 3: Potentially he can fill some plenty of roles for them.
Speaker 2: He he looks Saliva Hevil has been playing that utility role,
Speaker 2: and you'd think Brandon just maybe replaces Saliva and and
Speaker 2: Peak made Monzilla's is still applying his trade as an
Speaker 2: NFL player, good going, good going good, but is a
Speaker 2: coach hooker. But he's he an eighty minute hooker week
Speaker 2: in week out for the next three years. That's where
Speaker 2: Brandon becomes valuable as a backup nine.
Speaker 5: They don't find a role for him. He's just one
Speaker 5: of those typical Wayne players. He's got a bit of
Speaker 5: a spring twinkle in his eye. And he's cheeky and
Speaker 5: Wayne loves that.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 2: He runs with so much bloody ferocity too, Like he
Speaker 2: does damage. That's what you want, you know, you want
Speaker 2: the defensive line thinking God, not this blood. Yeah, And
Speaker 2: that's what he does.