Speaker 1: Better than the legal.
Speaker 2: Madge.
Speaker 3: Compare the pressure of coaching State of Origin compared to
Speaker 3: club coaching.
Speaker 4: The difference, Maddie, I'd probably say the Origin is on steroids,
Speaker 4: but the enormity of it in a short period of
Speaker 4: time creates how big it is. And obviously the spotlight,
Speaker 4: the scrutiny and the chatter around the game is what makes.
Speaker 2: It pretty special too.
Speaker 4: So I've thoroughly enjoyed, obviously the right of being a
Speaker 4: part of the Origin. And when you compare them from both,
Speaker 4: I think the longevity of what a NRL season brings
Speaker 4: it presents a few different things compared to what it
Speaker 4: does in Orange because it's such a short compact time.
Speaker 5: But you can really feel it around the state. You
Speaker 5: know what it means.
Speaker 4: When you work at a club, you've got your maybe
Speaker 4: five hundred thousand or a million supporters, But when you've
Speaker 4: got a state, you've got every single where you go
Speaker 4: everyone's talking about it.
Speaker 2: That's you.
Speaker 4: I want part of what you feel from I guess
Speaker 4: the community and people when you're talking about Origin, the.
Speaker 3: Benefit you've got, Madge, and it's actually I'll take a
Speaker 3: step back with there. One thing I have noticed in
Speaker 3: the State of origin right the way across the board.
Speaker 3: But I've seen it certainly in the last decade, is
Speaker 3: that most coaches who go in going nice and relaxed,
Speaker 3: year by year you see them getting more edgy and intense.
Speaker 2: Its usually year three really keeps in.
Speaker 3: It's almost there are exceptions mal of course, with an
Speaker 3: exception and Wayne's clever. Wayne goes in for a series,
Speaker 3: dips out and goes back in again. But being a
Speaker 3: club coach, all the stuff you've been through, pushing good
Speaker 3: stead lighter, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well I've probably seen most of it, Maddie, from highs
Speaker 4: and lows and the pressures. But it's something there that
Speaker 4: I've always wanted to have a crack aut was the origin,
Speaker 4: watch it as the um Blake all the way through
Speaker 4: and then watched some good mates go in and coach
Speaker 4: at times and thought, it's something there that I'd love
Speaker 4: to be able to do.
Speaker 2: And the fact that I've probably.
Speaker 4: Faced most things in the game now, I'm just getting
Speaker 4: a lot of enjoyment out of coaching the top end
Speaker 4: of the talent, you know. And I had obviously the
Speaker 4: fortunate experiences of doing that with the kiwis as well,
Speaker 4: where when you're catching the best and you get the
Speaker 4: players and all you are in my.
Speaker 2: Position year it is actually coaching.
Speaker 4: It's one of the best jobs really because you're not
Speaker 4: having to worry about all the perofal stuff that's going
Speaker 4: on other than the players just coming in and just
Speaker 4: focusing on being at their best, and that's been really enjoyable.
Speaker 3: I'll ask you that then, match on coaching the very
Speaker 3: best players, because you're a very thorough disciplined coach, very
Speaker 3: thorough disciplined person.
Speaker 2: Is there a discipline itself not to overcoach at that level?
Speaker 4: If you check yourself, I think I've probably learned a
Speaker 4: fair bit as a younger coach and then going through to.
Speaker 2: Where I am now.
Speaker 4: Definitely you coach the talent that I have in the
Speaker 4: orage differently than what you do at Clubland.
Speaker 2: I mean, you don't have the young eighteen year old.
Speaker 4: You've got the top of the tree, so you're utilizing
Speaker 4: a lot of their knowledge and their expertise, and they're smarts,
Speaker 4: so sometimes you don't have to catch at all.
Speaker 5: You just got to make sure that you present them
Speaker 5: the arena to be able to go in and play.
Speaker 3: And you know, I really enjoy talking with the top end,
Speaker 3: because you are talking about the niche of how we're
Speaker 3: going to play the game, and they understand it very
Speaker 3: quickly and they can go and do it. I saw
Speaker 3: Jake in this second series, you're seeing the build up
Speaker 3: every time the camera has putting me.
Speaker 2: He looked far more comfortable in his role as captain.
Speaker 3: What about you, Matt, What did you learn personally as
Speaker 3: far as build up pressure pre.
Speaker 2: Game in Game one?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I learned a lot.
Speaker 4: Obviously the circumstance of that game, definitely through a curve
Speaker 4: board at me. You know, I think I prepared for everything,
Speaker 4: but probably what happened. Yeah, so it happened quickly. But
Speaker 4: I tell you what it did teach me was the
Speaker 4: fact that I had twelve players on the field.
Speaker 2: I learned a lot about the players themselves.
Speaker 4: That you do get stretched in a garden lot that
Speaker 4: to be playing for seventy four minutes with twelve players,
Speaker 4: you really get to find out about your players. And
Speaker 4: I was really proud of the players. Once we sort
Speaker 4: of regroupped, you know, myself included. We regrouped and got
Speaker 4: the team in the right headspace with about ten minutes
Speaker 4: Togo in that first half, all of a sudden you
Speaker 4: could start seeing the team come together and the effort
Speaker 4: and what they showed and the fight. Something there that
Speaker 4: I saw within the players. When you've got twelve players,
Speaker 4: you've got bigger spaces. They had to work a lot harder.
Speaker 4: And I obviously get all the data and the information
Speaker 4: and our middles. You'll be blown away by the numbers
Speaker 4: that some of the players had in around their GPS
Speaker 4: data being able to put the efforts in that they
Speaker 4: were doing throughout that game. So yeah, please, But I.
Speaker 2: Learned a lot.
Speaker 3: One of your strengths of coaching match is to recognize
Speaker 3: when the things haven't worked and then adjust. Now, the
Speaker 3: best example I can give you is what you did
Speaker 3: last year with the Couboys. First up against the os
Speaker 3: is the City Championships. You just really struggled. Then by
Speaker 3: the final, you know, you gave them a bath. Yeah,
Speaker 3: what is that match? Is that you're sitting just pouring
Speaker 3: out of take.
Speaker 4: A little bit of that many but actually probably spending
Speaker 4: more time just with my players to get another players. Look,
Speaker 4: I can't wait to get back into the third campaign
Speaker 4: now because we're at a different level again. You know
Speaker 4: from the first time when the players walked in they're
Speaker 4: probably wondering who they all madges and who the staff are.
Speaker 4: And then we rowled into our second campaign and they
Speaker 4: get an understanding and of how we want to do things.
Speaker 4: And now obviously we'll roll into our third one where
Speaker 4: we're at a high level again and no doubt opposition
Speaker 4: are going to be doing the same. But we're pretty
Speaker 4: focused very much on ourselves on how we want to
Speaker 4: do things. And I saw parts throughout our first half
Speaker 4: where we want to hang on to and there's parts
Speaker 4: here we want to improve.
Speaker 3: Onto now by accidental design match we just talk about
Speaker 3: the selections. You and Billy have almost yinged and yang
Speaker 3: as far as selections from game one to game two.
Speaker 3: Game one, our team was very much grit, grind out last.
Speaker 3: Billy went for pick a team's going to score points.
Speaker 3: What's funny is in game two Billy brought in players
Speaker 3: like Capewell and Confusi, players who are gritty, were grind,
Speaker 3: who were out last. You picked aside more about points.
Speaker 3: Did you recognize that or is it just been just
Speaker 3: the way out look?
Speaker 4: I think the team in the second one we're still
Speaker 4: about what we spoke about, but I guess it's also too,
Speaker 4: who's available. I started with a squad of thirty five
Speaker 4: when I first got the players in January and spoke
Speaker 4: about the fact that we're building a squad and at
Speaker 4: some stage someone's going to get an opportunity and someone
Speaker 4: may have to sit out and come game two. The
Speaker 4: players that I selected what I believe were the best
Speaker 4: ones for that to get the job done, and we're
Speaker 4: able to bring in some pretty handy ones in camp.
Speaker 4: Murray obviously, l Trell came in, Mitchell Moses, yeah, and
Speaker 4: then you know, even Connor Watson, like he came in
Speaker 4: and everyone had a sort of their thoughts around that
Speaker 4: versatile player, but he's a player that complained anywhere, and
Speaker 4: so being able to get your bench a certain way
Speaker 4: was something that I had to look at as well.
Speaker 3: Talk about the halves match who fantastic. Firstly, Mitch Moss
Speaker 3: best out of his career. The performance matched the swagger. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's now, and I thought this was really important. You know,
Speaker 3: when you're in the halves, do you have that first
Speaker 3: kick you hit it sweet? That's an important one. But
Speaker 3: Mitchell's a very headstrong, forthright sort of bloke. Did he
Speaker 3: challenge you in camp? No, he's actually really good. I
Speaker 3: was really pleasant.
Speaker 4: I've spoken to Mitch quite a bit prior to coming
Speaker 4: into camp, like I spoke to all the halves, you know,
Speaker 4: from Nicko to the ninth Clear and Jerome, so I
Speaker 4: had a really good understanding of each of the players.
Speaker 4: And Mitch he worked really hard, obviously to try and
Speaker 4: give himself the opportunity to be in Origin one, but
Speaker 4: he wasn't able to make it. And then obviously the
Speaker 4: Origin two comes about, and he came into camp full
Speaker 4: of confidence, knowing that he had the support of obviously
Speaker 4: everyone around him, and he just he played his part.
Speaker 4: And I think Jerome too, he look, you watch Jerome here, like,
Speaker 4: I've been so pleased with Jerome about how he's gone
Speaker 4: about his foot and I guess you that no a
Speaker 4: player until you get to coach him, yea. And my
Speaker 4: appreciation for Rami is he's a very smart player and
Speaker 4: the way he broke down the game and then you
Speaker 4: connect sort of Mitch with him and then dealing out
Speaker 4: the back and Richie Robson, he played a massive party
Speaker 4: in how we played, not even defensively, but with our
Speaker 4: attack just to get our plan on. So I just
Speaker 4: thought the spine came together in a really strong way,
Speaker 4: and then that just resonated through the tim with.
Speaker 3: I reckon he played with more poise and control than
Speaker 3: I've seen before. And it's funny you said there about
Speaker 3: you know, he's real smart because he's so through williant.
Speaker 3: Times you sort of underestimate that part of his game,
Speaker 3: and it's funny the other times. The other thing too,
Speaker 3: I think it's unfair on your own. He's a very
Speaker 3: exuberant character. He's coming here at Fox Sports before. What
Speaker 3: a fantastic guy. Everyone spoke so highly of him, and
Speaker 3: he's been criticized saying that, but yeah, there was no
Speaker 3: serio on.
Speaker 2: The bus or any of that match. He's pretty quiet.
Speaker 4: Actually, he's a family man, like what I guess everyone's
Speaker 4: perceived and the world creates that. But when you get
Speaker 4: him in camp made, he's with his kids and his
Speaker 4: family and look, he's just he buzzes about and he
Speaker 4: brings a lot of energy, which you know he required.
Speaker 4: But I just felt that he's probably now at the
Speaker 4: stage of his career where he can see that he
Speaker 4: can really take control. And to his credit, he's probably
Speaker 4: played a path or a part in how Penrith had
Speaker 4: played over years, but you've got to remember they're won
Speaker 4: three Grand finals four they've been four Grand finals, so
Speaker 4: he's played a part. And now obviously he's experided his
Speaker 4: game in a different way. So it'd be really interesting
Speaker 4: to watch him as he moves.
Speaker 2: Forward to a penalils.
Speaker 3: So I'm going to ask you a question, and I'm
Speaker 3: always certain I know the reply, but I'm going to
Speaker 3: ask it anyway. You've got a bloke who's on the cusp.
Speaker 3: We're returning in Nathan Cleary, who is the best playmaker
Speaker 3: in the game. If he was to come back and
Speaker 3: be ten out of ten, is there any place for
Speaker 3: him in the squad?
Speaker 4: The guy I've had a lot of discussions with Nath
Speaker 4: all the way through, and I know what he would
Speaker 4: say too. He says, you don't change what's working, And
Speaker 4: I think, you know, we're moving towards what we want
Speaker 4: to build and have having mentioned Jerome or Boot touch
Speaker 4: Wood that they all get through, we're building something very
Speaker 4: strong amongst that spoil and so look moving forward, you
Speaker 4: can see where we're going.
Speaker 2: Did he visit camp? Did? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Nath came up and Tommy came up. You know, when
Speaker 4: I first sort of started. I use those boys I suppose,
Speaker 4: which you call the leaders amongst the group, to give
Speaker 4: me a bit of an idea about how things are traveling.
Speaker 4: And one thing I probably got from all the group
Speaker 4: was how they're just so focused on making sure that
Speaker 4: your South Wales are strong. Yeah, I heard all the
Speaker 4: different stories about you know, whether or not they in
Speaker 4: all they're out and you know what passion they had.
Speaker 4: It is incredible being in and around this playing group
Speaker 4: and what it means to them and what it means
Speaker 4: to obviously for them, for.
Speaker 5: The supporters as well. I've got a lot of that
Speaker 5: from the players.
Speaker 2: Nathan. One's pretty clear cut. I'll ask you a bet
Speaker 2: another blake.
Speaker 3: Tom's provoid it right, and what we've seen with Billy
Speaker 3: is that in the last few series he will change
Speaker 3: a winning side if he if he believes he can
Speaker 3: make it better or suit the occasion. Tommy, is there
Speaker 3: any thought of him of maybe getting a bench spot.
Speaker 2: Like Tom Abilly did with Cobber. Tommy will be much
Speaker 2: the same.
Speaker 3: Really.
Speaker 5: I mean, I've got to get through this next weekend's games.
Speaker 5: So that's the first thing.
Speaker 4: That's the one thing I have learned about that you
Speaker 4: can't pick a team until you get to the Sunday
Speaker 4: night you work out what's what and who's fit and
Speaker 4: who's not. But as I said, I'm really confident with
Speaker 4: the group that I've got and Tommy he'll float in
Speaker 4: and around the camp if he's got the ability to
Speaker 4: get there. And that's something there that they've all done.
Speaker 3: We've spoken for a Mitchell most starting the game well,
Speaker 3: hitting the care right and there were a lot of
Speaker 3: very good one on one battles. You had the yardish
Speaker 3: battle both respective packs, but some fantastic one on one clashes.
Speaker 3: Stephen Crichton versus hammersa was prime time rivalry and early
Speaker 3: in the game. I think this is a really important
Speaker 3: moment and exerting dominance is the end coming up with
Speaker 3: an error, but first touch of the football going over
Speaker 3: Hammers Stephen Crichton. Little things like that, like that first
Speaker 3: good kick, you know, having dominance on that first run
Speaker 3: gives us sight a big lift.
Speaker 4: Well, I think you've got to win your little battles.
Speaker 4: I mean we've always spoken about that matter, isn't it.
Speaker 4: But what you see there in Creta know is what
Speaker 4: the forward pack. You've got to earn the right obviously
Speaker 4: through the forwards, and I guess you know, in our
Speaker 4: first game we probably weren't able to dominate in that space,
Speaker 4: and I felt that our forward pack were a lot stronger.
Speaker 4: Ll be that, you know with the areas. I know
Speaker 4: that they're hungry to get a better rat moving forward.
Speaker 4: You've got to have that dominance to be able to
Speaker 4: allow the boys on the edges. But someone like critter
Speaker 4: Steph Crichton, you know, it's nice to see. And I
Speaker 4: guess the one thing around Stephen is that not so
Speaker 4: much just his game, it's what he does off the field.
Speaker 4: And look, everyone's spoken about it, but I've been able
Speaker 4: to see that in real life now, to see the
Speaker 4: presence that he has in wanting to build something, and
Speaker 4: that's a fair credit to a young bloke coming through
Speaker 4: and being a leader.
Speaker 2: Creator is a defender and I haven't seen a better defense.
Speaker 3: Is one of the best center As far as decision
Speaker 3: maintenance concerned, Madge, it was very funny.
Speaker 2: He'd keept like there was never appeared to be a
Speaker 2: hard and fast rule for Reese Walsh.
Speaker 3: Sometimes he attacked him, other times he sat and went
Speaker 3: backwards again. Was it a tactic or was it simply
Speaker 3: Cretic just reading the situation.
Speaker 2: A little bit of both.
Speaker 5: To be honest, many look the position that Cretit gets
Speaker 5: himself in and how he moves.
Speaker 4: I reckon he's one of the best in the game
Speaker 4: in his body position, so that allows him to have
Speaker 4: the nature of going at him or staying back and holding,
Speaker 4: and then it really comes down to the players around
Speaker 4: him adapting to how he moves. And I think as
Speaker 4: the game rolled on, Mitchell, Moses and Zach really got
Speaker 4: a good understanding and that had a fear to do
Speaker 4: without training that they got together. But Critter is one
Speaker 4: of the best defensively in how he can move, and
Speaker 4: the more the players play around him, the better connecting
Speaker 4: you become.
Speaker 3: In a second, we'll have a look at Latrell Mitchell
Speaker 3: and as an example of his power and his presence.
Speaker 3: But what about his power and presence within the team? Yeah,
Speaker 3: coming into camp, what a difference did it make?
Speaker 2: Match?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Well, one thing Latrell, you know he probably is incredited
Speaker 4: for because he doesn't play as much center these days,
Speaker 4: is his defense. I thought he was actually really strong
Speaker 4: defensively out in the edge. So to be able to
Speaker 4: have those two boys out there on the edges. But
Speaker 4: Latrell has that presence. We all know that, and it's
Speaker 4: nice to see. He's got a real smile on his
Speaker 4: face and he's probably got that swagger back about enjoying
Speaker 4: his football and he's great to be around. We all
Speaker 4: have said that, you know. And the one thing he said, mate,
Speaker 4: on one little part of the team. You know, it's
Speaker 4: all about the team. And I think you know, when
Speaker 4: you've got your players in that headspace, especially someone of
Speaker 4: his caliber, you're in a good, pretty good play. So
Speaker 4: to have him back in there and smiling and buzzing
Speaker 4: about trying and it's according jaw.
Speaker 3: It was good look watching those two blokes, Crichton and
Speaker 3: Latrell on our side a great feeling because as a
Speaker 3: kid growing up watching New South Wales versus Queensland and
Speaker 3: watching Meninger and Miles operate on either side of the
Speaker 3: field and then in combination sometimes, oh my god, what
Speaker 3: a night there. But an example of Latrell's took Jerome.
Speaker 3: It's beautiful work by Jerome.
Speaker 2: But you see this with Val and Xavier.
Speaker 3: Coach Xavier just can't you can see he just can't
Speaker 3: quite leave him alone because he sees the mismatch that
Speaker 3: it watched.
Speaker 4: The drew work of Ramey and Mitch together just subtly
Speaker 4: holds them up. Then Rami gives the ball early enough
Speaker 4: to Latrell, which then squeezes the line in, which then
Speaker 4: puts the pressure on the outside. So all those little
Speaker 4: subtleties are going on across your team. And I think
Speaker 4: the way Angus was running the ball, which I'm sure
Speaker 4: you will talk about now, he's mad, He's doing great, He's.
Speaker 2: Doing a great job.
Speaker 4: Because you know, if you're a center and you've got
Speaker 4: Angus that might pop on the outside of Cherry Evans,
Speaker 4: all of a sudden, you've got a hold tight, but
Speaker 4: then all of a sudden, it opens up the ability
Speaker 4: to what may happen on the outside.
Speaker 2: And that's how the game's breaking down, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Absolutely it is match, And you know, little things make
Speaker 3: a big difference. Most people would sit and watch jer
Speaker 3: own there and they go, oh, it's good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Dron just.
Speaker 3: Gave a nice liuball. But as you know, he's timing
Speaker 3: of that pass was just perfect. One or two steps just.
Speaker 2: To commit, get the line the whole a little bit
Speaker 2: and shoot it to Latrell.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you watch Raimi, especially probably over the last
Speaker 4: little period of his development.
Speaker 5: You know, with Nathan not being there, he is playing straight.
Speaker 4: He likes the bounce, I guess inside, but he's got
Speaker 4: the ability to shall and go, So all of a sudden,
Speaker 4: you had to have Angus and Latrelle on the outside.
Speaker 4: And if you don't hold tight on your own mate,
Speaker 4: he's going to beata. So obviously things like that, you know,
Speaker 4: that's what you're building when you're out the field.
Speaker 3: Angus Crichton one of the best stories in the game
Speaker 3: of the moment because I haven't seen a career turn
Speaker 3: around like it, given what he endured in the previous
Speaker 3: eight of the months. You coached him as a young block,
Speaker 3: so you're not surprised by the power. I suppose now
Speaker 3: it makes about consistency.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 4: I mean when Angus came through, I remember his coming
Speaker 4: out school and he was this young, starry eyed kid
Speaker 4: and he brought him.
Speaker 2: To house and he's pound for pound.
Speaker 4: I reckon he's one of the most powerful players that
Speaker 4: I've coached at that age, Like he was strong, and
Speaker 4: to sort of see what he's doing now replicates obviously
Speaker 4: what I saw, but to see him now build consistency
Speaker 4: around his game and everything that he's been through. It's
Speaker 4: really nice to see a player that you've been able
Speaker 4: to coach quite some time ago and then reunite with
Speaker 4: him and then all of a sudden see these things.
Speaker 4: It's they're special moments to see a player go through
Speaker 4: all the ups and downs of what our game brings
Speaker 4: and then be consistent at this level.
Speaker 2: It's good to see, as you really went out and
Speaker 2: limb for Dylan.
Speaker 3: Therewoods picked him in Game one, he couldn't play because
Speaker 3: the thigh James de Desco came in. Teddy played good
Speaker 3: in Game one, played well. It would have been very
Speaker 3: easy to keep him, but you went back to Dylan.
Speaker 3: He didn't disappoint your mate. Full credit to Teddy two.
Speaker 4: I mean, he's one of the champions of the game
Speaker 4: and how he approached everything that's been put in front
Speaker 4: of him absolute champion.
Speaker 2: But I just felt it was time for Dylan.
Speaker 4: You know, he's been doing it for years and he
Speaker 4: probably had some challenges I suppose early on where he
Speaker 4: had to find himself as a fullback. He went back
Speaker 4: and built himself up and he's an incredible player. Just
Speaker 4: to watch him be able to do the things he's
Speaker 4: doing in the work rate. Everyone tells me how fit is,
Speaker 4: but he is super fit, you know when you're watching
Speaker 4: as close as what I'm doing now and what he
Speaker 4: does off the ball and what he does for players,
Speaker 4: and he's one of those players that you'd love to
Speaker 4: play with.
Speaker 3: Watching him match, you know, a lot of times I
Speaker 3: reckon it's a missed that we don't use them. And
Speaker 3: one of the stats is the fact we go this
Speaker 3: side has made so many tackles, but it's really tackle
Speaker 3: involvement and if you was dilling nothing, tires a big
Speaker 3: bloke out like missing a little bloke, and he makes
Speaker 3: it do a lot. But also when he runs the
Speaker 3: ball and he's stepping and he's skipping and he's twirling
Speaker 3: out of tackles. Mate, by the time they get into
Speaker 3: the ground, he's probably engaged five six seven blocks. What
Speaker 3: a toll that takes up the opposition.
Speaker 4: It's even before that matter, it's his support player that
Speaker 4: he's actually engaging a lot of defenders around Hi because
Speaker 4: he is in every single play. So if you're a
Speaker 4: defender and he's in your arena or in your space,
Speaker 4: you've got to be life, So you've got to be
Speaker 4: moving because there's every chance he's going to get the ball.
Speaker 2: And then when he does get the ball.
Speaker 4: He's got the ability to be able to get himself
Speaker 4: through and get a quick playaball. So yeah, he puts
Speaker 4: a lot of people on notice when he's running.
Speaker 3: The role of thaih and Jake Trevoivich, they're soon to
Speaker 3: be in game to match. Far more of an attitude
Speaker 3: to just get forward, but less of a pass attitude
Speaker 3: run first past second. Particularly with Isaiah, you know, because
Speaker 3: he's at Penrith, he operates just about like a half back.
Speaker 3: Was that your decision, your tactic or was it these
Speaker 3: blokes just reacting on the run to what they saw.
Speaker 4: Oh, I think it's more what they saw mad his eyes. Actually,
Speaker 4: he's really strong when he does run the ball. I
Speaker 4: mean that's one thing. Like you watch him here, he's
Speaker 4: got a powerful running game. And I guess because you're
Speaker 4: watching club Land and he plays a certain style, well,
Speaker 4: I mean a lot of what you're seeing now is
Speaker 4: that he's actually got one hell of a running game
Speaker 4: as well. He's got the ability to play the ball
Speaker 4: and build speed. So that's about recognizing how we want
Speaker 4: to play. And you see good push there and he's
Speaker 4: drawing in three defenders there, which is taking a fear
Speaker 4: bit of juice out of the opposition.
Speaker 3: Game one, they went to our right edge a lot
Speaker 3: and really tested out, test out Zach and they went
Speaker 3: there in the second half in game too and had
Speaker 3: a little bit of joy. Any concerns they're about tidying
Speaker 3: up that edge a little bit.
Speaker 4: We'll definitely go back into camp and look at those
Speaker 4: maney They're the things that you know the playing group
Speaker 4: will talk about.
Speaker 5: Yep, you know they've already spoken about that and how
Speaker 5: we want to look at things.
Speaker 4: So getting back into camp and going through the areas
Speaker 4: of what we want to improve on, it's definitely part
Speaker 4: of what.
Speaker 2: The group's about. Queensland. Imagine.
Speaker 3: I know that both you and Bility don't like to
Speaker 3: talk about the opposition, but you know it's do you
Speaker 3: anticipate change it chat? Well, there would be a change
Speaker 3: Avia coach as Daney's hamstring. So it looks as they
Speaker 3: probably saw when may come back into the side. David FRAFRIEDA,
Speaker 3: what do you think do you think can you see
Speaker 3: him coming.
Speaker 2: Into the squad, do you honest, Maddy, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I guess yeah.
Speaker 4: They've gone down the path where they pick and stick
Speaker 4: and they talk about that, so you know, they'll present
Speaker 4: whatever it is that we need to play, and then
Speaker 4: we'll go about our prep to make sure we nuther
Speaker 4: find whatever's in front of us.
Speaker 2: Their coinsland us.
Speaker 3: It's funny games and it's so entertaining, the Origin game
Speaker 3: through mat It's son Corps Stadium.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: In the past there's been so many ambushes at sun
Speaker 3: Corps Stadium and people say, well, no, no, that's not
Speaker 3: an ambush because they knew what was coming.
Speaker 2: Well, new stuff. Wild sides have known what they're going into.
Speaker 3: But even then they underestimate the intensity and the ferocity
Speaker 3: of what they have to endure and go through up there.
Speaker 3: And they oftentimes say that it doesn't matter how well
Speaker 3: you prepare if it's your first game up there, until
Speaker 3: you've gone through it, you've got no idea.
Speaker 2: But how do you prepare it match? What are you
Speaker 2: going to do?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Well, I think everyone around us, even yourself, is talking
Speaker 4: about it, so we know exactly what we're walking into.
Speaker 5: And it's been done a number of times before. To
Speaker 5: be able to go up there and do it.
Speaker 4: So I guess you take all that that's part of history,
Speaker 4: but you can also build your own history. And I
Speaker 4: guess the walks of my coaching career is that you
Speaker 4: can always do it if you're they want to. So
Speaker 4: I'll bring the group back together again and we'll talk
Speaker 4: about how we want to be as a team, and
Speaker 4: you know, we'll keep it fairly focused within around how
Speaker 4: we go about I.
Speaker 2: Thinks members too.
Speaker 3: Mortimer, he is the one the first series one he
Speaker 3: made the bus go down caston Street and he made
Speaker 3: him look and basically lead the hate feed the site
Speaker 3: to an extent on that match. The moment you take
Speaker 3: the side into the city of Brisbane, there's going.
Speaker 2: To be hostility.
Speaker 3: They're going to get it from all different areas, kind
Speaker 3: of come from everywhere. When will the side we moved
Speaker 3: to Brisbane.
Speaker 4: We'll go up there on the Sunday prior to rolling
Speaker 4: into the Monday Tuesday and then play on the Wednesday.
Speaker 5: But that's all part of it. Money look forward to that,
Speaker 5: that's right.
Speaker 4: I mean, we had the hot obviously here in Sydney,
Speaker 4: and the players regarded that we went able to give
Speaker 4: our crew know what they would have liked and then
Speaker 4: going down to New Melbourne and have a ninety thousand
Speaker 4: and we'll go up there and everyone's telling us about
Speaker 4: the hostility, but you know, as a group, we'll get
Speaker 4: together and plan how we want to be as a
Speaker 4: team and go up there and get stucky.
Speaker 3: When you go into a camp, represent a camp as
Speaker 3: a player, you go in there sometimes and there's always
Speaker 3: that one player that really surprises you different ways. It
Speaker 3: could be personality, could be their skill, intensity, preparation, whatever
Speaker 3: it is in there, which players surprised you.
Speaker 4: Match, that's a good one. Leam, Martyrs and Beauty. He's
Speaker 4: a good character to have around. Quiet, but then you're
Speaker 4: see him more across the white line and be mad. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's been able to look after him. But I've got
Speaker 4: to say a lot of the players have all surprised me.
Speaker 4: Paint House made he's an incredible athlete, incredible person. He's
Speaker 4: very impressive. Yeah, So I don't really want to sort
Speaker 4: of just isolate one of them. Yeah, may because they
Speaker 4: are all unique in their own way, and they've all
Speaker 4: bought into what.
Speaker 2: We're trying to create with this group.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And like we spoke about Jerome like he's great
Speaker 4: Latrell you know in his own certain ways. He's come
Speaker 4: into camp to Dylan zach Laimax like he had plenty
Speaker 4: of challenges at the start of the year and made
Speaker 4: he's one of the four players running around.
Speaker 1: So he'll get challenged, no doubt in this next game.
Speaker 1: And you have plenty of people you're doing an injustice imagine.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you he's starting to he's looking like a
Speaker 1: very good wing. Just just finish with and we're going
Speaker 1: to go into club land. But the bloke at the
Speaker 1: moment on blown when we spoke abou him a couple
Speaker 1: of times. But Stephen Crichton, is there a better player
Speaker 1: in the game right at the moment than Crichton. He's
Speaker 1: well and truly out there. And I mean that's what
Speaker 1: your class is a better player. I think what he's
Speaker 1: doing on and off the field, you'd class him up
Speaker 1: there with some of the best. And I guess you
Speaker 1: know one thing I probably didn't talk about with someone
Speaker 1: like a Russy Robinson in and around the middle. There
Speaker 1: he's a player in the middle that probably doesn't get
Speaker 1: too many raps. That's the style of player. When you're
Speaker 1: talking about a great player like he's locked down our middle.
Speaker 4: And you've got to remember in that first game he
Speaker 4: played eighty minutes as a hooker and he's the one
Speaker 4: buzzing around and didn't come off.
Speaker 2: So you're looking at efforts like that.
Speaker 4: I think players like that represent, you know, the Stephen
Speaker 4: Crichtons and the roofs and those style of plans.
Speaker 2: Well, Madge, congratulations again. Make game two, but game three
Speaker 2: coming up. Enjoy all the hostility, all the build up,
Speaker 2: all the pressure. I know you will. Thanks, Mate's good
Speaker 2: on your mat. TRAMHM