Speaker 1: Some sides of the moment I think are benefiting greatly
Speaker 1: from doing less.
Speaker 2: I don't know if doing less is the right term,
Speaker 2: but put it this way, less long winded, structured said pieces.
Speaker 2: Less sideways like.
Speaker 3: What's required at the moment, as opposed to just playing
Speaker 3: this elaborate player.
Speaker 2: As opposed to go and let's take three to the
Speaker 2: far post.
Speaker 1: Four, it's more like go forward, go forward, and then
Speaker 1: reacting off that.
Speaker 2: Tiger is the best example, and we spoke about them
Speaker 2: last week.
Speaker 1: They started the game coops that every time they got
Speaker 1: a little bit of momentum.
Speaker 2: They just go sideways.
Speaker 1: They pushed the ball at the edge, they get excited
Speaker 1: and try to create through width. As the game started
Speaker 1: to go on there you can see them now starting
Speaker 1: to actually find their style more doing.
Speaker 2: Less, keeping the ball through the middle.
Speaker 1: When toroll May goes forward and creates a momentum, hey
Speaker 1: take another one.
Speaker 2: It's going to make us more dangerous.
Speaker 1: Let's have a look at some of this what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about here on the game of the weekend, and
Speaker 1: you see Leui just keeping the ball double drop under,
Speaker 1: keep things nice and tight in the middle.
Speaker 2: His may, he's just been enormous. He goes forward.
Speaker 1: Let's not go sideways yet, yeah, bird, he goes forward,
Speaker 1: and then the silver scoop goes over and scores and
Speaker 1: you look very very basically.
Speaker 2: Basic, but it works for him.
Speaker 3: It's scored points afterwards, just in a simple form like
Speaker 3: there's two ways you either make meters and score points.
Speaker 3: One you ford momentum to shift, or you shift to
Speaker 3: create space, and then the forward momentum. But at some
Speaker 3: stage you have to take advantage of what you've created with.
Speaker 3: It's a fast ruck, and you know, to the Tiger's
Speaker 3: point that is it's basically three hit ups for a
Speaker 3: crash over from whalf That's what it looks like. But
Speaker 3: it's death by a thousand cuts. Ford momentum, quicker play
Speaker 3: the ball, forward momentum. Quicker play the ball, and then
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, the silver first person to make
Speaker 3: a decision, realizes that he's got the opportunity.
Speaker 1: And I think the sides, and I think that what
Speaker 1: it feeds into there is that the sides who are
Speaker 1: doing less keeping the ball more through the center field,
Speaker 1: because let's face it, with the fast rucks in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five, the defensive vulnerability is in around that middle.
Speaker 3: And you can do a decoy play like not that
Speaker 3: close to the line, but say that's in around midfield,
Speaker 3: three runs targeting a big, slow middle forward and then
Speaker 3: have your footwork come back through the middle. For example,
Speaker 3: Lewis could turn a pass back inside for during buller.
Speaker 3: You take advantage of guys have made three tackles in
Speaker 3: a row twenty minutes at the end of their stint.
Speaker 3: So there's another way where you sort of target someone
Speaker 3: look like you're going away, but you can come back
Speaker 3: through that middle.
Speaker 1: There's some really crucial combinations starting to form with the Tigers.
Speaker 2: The one two dummy half.
Speaker 1: Punch of Da Silver and Appy Corus, how.
Speaker 2: Has been enormous.
Speaker 1: Da Silver has been fantastic, But the other one, the
Speaker 1: really big one.
Speaker 2: Leui and Galvin.
Speaker 1: On the weekend they took another step towards I think
Speaker 1: you're starting to really find their football together and it
Speaker 1: was a try.
Speaker 2: If you have a look at.
Speaker 1: Operating in tandem and the fact that Galvin takes them
Speaker 1: on here right and you watch the numbers that gathers,
Speaker 1: this is how seven and six should play. Lewis recognizes where.
Speaker 2: The ball needs to go.
Speaker 1: The line has been shortened right up I know where
Speaker 1: it's got.
Speaker 2: To get to, and that's seven and six.
Speaker 1: Wilson operating as a combination in the same play, still
Speaker 1: operating as a combination.
Speaker 3: The unspoken part about that, Yes, Galvin running and getting
Speaker 3: the ball to the threat in the vulnerable area, but
Speaker 3: the combination of Happy Chorus and Leui, that ability to
Speaker 3: move the other side of the ruck but then still
Speaker 3: pass back is not easy to do. That is because
Speaker 3: they spent time penrith That is repetition at training, and
Speaker 3: that is the reason why that happened. The ability for
Speaker 3: Leui to recognize their short on the one side, but
Speaker 3: then to be on the same page. How many times
Speaker 3: do we see that and a ball hits a deck
Speaker 3: or a dummy half turns around and just ends up
Speaker 3: running the ball because he can't get the pass to
Speaker 3: his half back. So, yes, good play, but I reckon
Speaker 3: the understand of Corus how they're tremendous.
Speaker 1: You didn't talk about sharks in a second before we do.
Speaker 1: Dolphins gone through a difficult period. But Isaiah katoa beautiful
Speaker 1: little sequence on the weekend. If we just have a
Speaker 1: look at this, coops and starts with the inside ball
Speaker 1: like these are like a mirror play because he goes
Speaker 1: inside on that little strain ball that's yu Blake's used
Speaker 1: to call it. So he creates the dent, mate Marshall.
Speaker 1: Marshall key picks up, makes twenty meters. Now watch this
Speaker 1: because first he's on that inside strain ball again, look
Speaker 1: a tiny little glance book out for the tunnel ball.
Speaker 1: Just that little deception he just set, tiny little look in.
Speaker 1: They just squeezed in the dolphins and made him vulnerable top.
Speaker 3: End half back player. That's got rep play written all
Speaker 3: over it. That is not something you just think of.
Speaker 3: That's something that you react to and practice over and over.
Speaker 3: And the pass to throw the long ball the farm worth, yeah,
Speaker 3: that is very difficult to do. Like the inside look
Speaker 3: you know, condensed defenders and then throw a rocket pill
Speaker 3: through the full back hit the.
Speaker 2: Center like Isaiah is he twenty one?
Speaker 3: Yeah, early twenties, mate, And like that team is struggling
Speaker 3: at the moment, but that kid has a big future.
Speaker 3: Like he just glimpses of what his half back player
Speaker 3: has been over his start to his career. Like you
Speaker 3: could cut it up and say like that is that's
Speaker 3: a kid older than what.
Speaker 1: He's been doing age, Yeah, he's producing pretty good players.
Speaker 3: Queensland I think, yeah, yeah, the half back play great
Speaker 3: way from cart but the Sharks, Maddie I thought. Craig
Speaker 3: Fitzgibbon summed up what Trindle and Hines are after the
Speaker 3: game tremendously well. There is a lot of noise around
Speaker 3: Nico rightly wrongly. I don't particularly care. But if you've
Speaker 3: got halves that have a team first mentality, a selfless
Speaker 3: approach to the game, I'd take that halves pairing over
Speaker 3: someone that wants to be dominant main man, wants to
Speaker 3: win a deli and all those things. Because we've spoken
Speaker 3: about this a thousand times when you and your brother
Speaker 3: were playing, when I was playing with some different halves,
Speaker 3: when one half is on the other one sits back
Speaker 3: and says, you know what you go And then when
Speaker 3: he's a little bit off and out one other one,
Speaker 3: the other half steps up and takes control of the play.
Speaker 3: What Trindle and Heines are doing right now that they
Speaker 3: sit probably below the Peneriths Melbourne and Brisbane in terms
Speaker 3: of recognition, but they're humming along beautifully underneath. And if
Speaker 3: that halve's pairing can continue to do that, like Trindle
Speaker 3: kicks two forty twenties. Nico Heines goes, all right, I'm
Speaker 3: going to step back a bit here, let Trindle go.
Speaker 3: But then when the game's there, hind season opportunity goes, no,
Speaker 3: give me the ball. I'm on, and then Trindle steps back.
Speaker 3: That is a good operation because I remember when I
Speaker 3: got to the Roosters. We struggled in twenty eighteen, and
Speaker 3: I spent majority of my career sort of attacking a
Speaker 3: three ind defender with the Bakraa and Billy Slater around.
Speaker 3: Tried to get that same look at the Roosters, but
Speaker 3: realized Kiri Tedesco they run east west quicker than most
Speaker 3: players we had in the competition. I had to change.
Speaker 3: I had to become a sort of a condensing of
Speaker 3: the few middle defenders to create space for these guys
Speaker 3: to play it off way more laterally, so my attacking
Speaker 3: didn't actually end up on the edges. It became more
Speaker 3: in the middle of the rock, creating space vi Kiri
Speaker 3: and Tedesco to do it. So I really liked that
Speaker 3: mindset what Trindle and Heindes are doing, right.
Speaker 1: I really like about the Sharks, and it took me
Speaker 1: back to the really early days of the Melbourne Storm
Speaker 1: eight ninety nine was at times it was almost like
Speaker 1: a five man kick return, like with the Melbourne Storm
Speaker 1: and those like ninety nine. You knocked the ball down
Speaker 1: field and the centers would turn and their centers would
Speaker 1: turn an end just sprint back and join a five
Speaker 1: better return. I remember saying to Robbie Ross one two
Speaker 1: was a fullback in the side, like, how do they
Speaker 1: do that? And he goes, you know, like as far
Speaker 1: as fitness and keep it up, he goes, yeah, they've
Speaker 1: just got him at he that's what.
Speaker 2: He tells him to do.
Speaker 1: And I thought the way they combined there was they
Speaker 1: really worked well as a combination on kick returns. Some
Speaker 1: of the beauties like Row and Maltalo did a couple
Speaker 1: of crackers on kick returns.
Speaker 3: To explain why teams are getting plays back behind the
Speaker 3: ball and kick chase is if the opposition kicks a
Speaker 3: ball down and puts eleven players in the defensive line,
Speaker 3: the poor old fullback is just running back against eleven players.
Speaker 3: So the more you can get behind the footy, I
Speaker 3: the wingers in the centers to put sort of doubt
Speaker 3: in that defensive mind. And they did a number of times.
Speaker 3: The Sharks of the weekend, their ability to sort of
Speaker 3: isolate one on one users spoon acceleration. Yeah, very good,
Speaker 3: very good.
Speaker 1: The only thing about the Sharks I've got coops is
Speaker 1: I still want to see more killer about them. Like
Speaker 1: on the weekend there was an opportunity for them to
Speaker 1: really drive it home and the second half like that.
Speaker 1: You can't boat the top teams. You can't win a
Speaker 1: competition playing forty minute football. Hassen Carrigan Broncos. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen a better yardish combination. Has is just he is
Speaker 1: having a phenomenal start of the season. In some ways,
Speaker 1: it's save as shadow the fact that I think Pat
Speaker 1: Carry is playing the best football of his career.
Speaker 2: But that you know, if you talk it like it's funny.
Speaker 1: I was watching Has and what's become a trend in
Speaker 1: the game, becurse of the speed and the rucks through
Speaker 1: the middle is the small thirteen. Yeah, who's built like
Speaker 1: a brick Shitthouse, low center of gravity, got good foot
Speaker 1: spured and good footwork. In a lot of ways, pain
Speaker 1: Has is that player, Like he has all those attributes.
Speaker 1: He's got a big center of balance, he's fast, he's
Speaker 1: got good footwork. The only difference he is his one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty kilos. He is just devastating at the moment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like the Broncos have the perfect ingredients like powerful
Speaker 3: forward pack, smart halves, athletic outside backs and when Paynehass
Speaker 3: and Carrigan put it together. I'd love to be Onnam
Speaker 3: Reynolds of Benhart because you're going to create momentum. And
Speaker 3: we just spoke about with the Tigers. You could shift
Speaker 3: to the to the outside, or you could play straight
Speaker 3: back through the middle with Reese Walsh.
Speaker 2: Like you can actually you can sit there.
Speaker 1: They are a guarantee, right, guarantee go forward, so you
Speaker 1: could sit there.
Speaker 2: You know we're working with the combination.
Speaker 1: You say, listen, coops, after this play, we're going to
Speaker 1: put this on because you know you're going to have momentum.
Speaker 3: Yeah, free Like Adam Reynolds could get really tricky with it,
Speaker 3: like he could say Rono Carrigan and has just drive
Speaker 3: two tackles around. I'd put re Swash out on the
Speaker 3: far left hand side and as pain House starts carrying
Speaker 3: the football, send Resquash all the way out the outside
Speaker 3: back to my inside and look like you're going to
Speaker 3: throw the ball out of the centers and just step
Speaker 3: back in straight through the the middle. Forwards that have
Speaker 3: to have back to back tackles on one Carrigan then
Speaker 3: painhasse and then if you throw a dummy like you
Speaker 3: go into the outside, they're going to clip. You go
Speaker 3: to sleep for half a second through that middle. I'm
Speaker 3: straight back through.
Speaker 1: Let's have some of the great artish combinations over the years,
Speaker 1: personally contemporary one Brian Totter and Dylan Edwards. Yeah hard
Speaker 1: when they go on one and two, and then at
Speaker 1: the back end of those sets you've got Fisher, Harris
Speaker 1: and Liota over the last four or five years. Go
Speaker 1: back in time, a great one two punch used to
Speaker 1: be Bradley Clyde Glenn Lazarus. Clyde would actually get back
Speaker 1: behind the ball and take play twos and then you'd
Speaker 1: have Laso later on in the set. Sarah and Blocker
Speaker 1: were great, like Siro was just you know, this huge
Speaker 1: man at the time, biggest guy in the league at
Speaker 1: the time. He'd take the yards, play quick and then
Speaker 1: Blocker would get on the right and Blocker had beautiful
Speaker 1: soft hands and skill awareness.
Speaker 3: A lot of Benny lies off the back of that too, right.
Speaker 1: Well, the two you know you speak to people almost
Speaker 1: of the half, the playmakers, the half and five a
Speaker 1: for Balmain in those days was Blocker and Benny and
Speaker 1: then mate, you've got and you look at it down
Speaker 1: back in the day when you know, to see how
Speaker 1: Sydney boys were flying, they win competitions. If you got
Speaker 1: the three Burgess boys, you got George, Tom and Sam.
Speaker 1: Like you have a look at that Grand Final, Sam
Speaker 1: and George working this combination. I usually thought George should
Speaker 1: have got the Clyde Churchill medal, but that's for another day.
Speaker 3: The only other sort of team that could match what
Speaker 3: Edwards and Fisher Harrison Liota in time would be the
Speaker 3: Broncos Lottie Takiri, Wendel sailor and put on the top
Speaker 3: of that web ce Simla Seba. Yes, but that is
Speaker 3: pure domination through the yardage game. Most games you play
Speaker 3: and you talk about, you know, the Broncos set it up.
Speaker 3: One of the tactics I found very interesting from the Cowboys,
Speaker 3: and part of the reason why they're three losses in
Speaker 3: the row is their detail and ability to want to
Speaker 3: defend and their fifth played defense, particularly Drinkwater on Adam
Speaker 3: Reynolds and Ben Hunt. There was vision there. Ben Hunt
Speaker 3: gets this kick right, It should have been perfect in
Speaker 3: a triscoring situation, Drinkwater is out of position when you're
Speaker 3: going into a game doing movements like this, sees bodies turned.
Speaker 3: This is play three off a set tap. Adam Reynolds
Speaker 3: has coordinated this to know that drink Water is not
Speaker 3: paying attention. And if Ben Hunt gets this kick right,
Speaker 3: it's try time. Drinkwater turned back. Eight is a space
Speaker 3: and he goes for the kick. Here drink Water is
Speaker 3: clocking off when he has to work, and it's hurting
Speaker 3: the Cowboys at the moment. And there was another time
Speaker 3: a little bit later with Adam Reynolds just straight through
Speaker 3: drink Water here today. If there's one thing that Adam
Speaker 3: Reynolds gets right when the fullbacks in the line is
Speaker 3: the early kick. Drink Water missed that kick by a meter.
Speaker 3: It's because he didn't work early enough and fast enough
Speaker 3: early on. So I think there's a couple of things
Speaker 3: going wrong with the Cowboys at the moment. But if
Speaker 3: you're going to play against Adam Reynolds, one thing you
Speaker 3: must do as a fullback is you've got to be
Speaker 3: on in fifth player. He picked him apart.
Speaker 1: On the weekend, he's kicking as beautiful on the weekend.
Speaker 1: He's one of those players. Dally chi Evens is another one.
Speaker 3: He did it again against the Raiders weeks well.
Speaker 2: He gets like those two blokes.
Speaker 1: I see them sometimes wander the line, particularly Daly, and
Speaker 1: he goes it almost puts them. They put himself sometimes
Speaker 1: in a culder sack, but they still find the right kick.
Speaker 3: It's ruthless, it's relentless. But with your kicking game as
Speaker 3: a halfback, if the open position have a chink in
Speaker 3: the armor and they show you a queue to it
Speaker 3: early on, you just keep going back to it daily.
Speaker 3: Jerry Evans did it against the Raiders. Big kick, last play,
Speaker 3: footsteps down, drop ball, except big kick, footsteps that. It
Speaker 3: just kept coming. It's very effective. And when you come
Speaker 3: up against a smart halfback and you spill the ball
Speaker 3: or you're out of position, you better fix it quickly
Speaker 3: otherwise are going to keep coming.
Speaker 1: Cowboys were a lot better, a lot better. But yes,
Speaker 1: oh and three yeah manly before we talked about the
Speaker 1: dogs and par and a straight talk made manly.
Speaker 2: It was very a very manly performance. Again, back home
Speaker 2: put Raiders to the sword.
Speaker 3: Yep. So for twenty the first twenty minutes they had
Speaker 3: an ample amount of possession and struggle to score points.
Speaker 3: Then the sinbin happened and they just turn it on.
Speaker 3: When Manly get hot. They are white hot compared to
Speaker 3: some teams. Terry Evans outstanding, Ola Clartu intimidatingly scary. But
Speaker 3: again I think the Perseca injury is a big thing
Speaker 3: for me only Yeah, I did too, Like they have
Speaker 3: the best attack in the comp when they put it together.
Speaker 3: But if they want to beat Brisbane, they're going to
Speaker 3: need a big forward pack to stop carrygan at Haas
Speaker 3: they want to beat Melbourne, they're going to need someone
Speaker 3: to stop Nelson and utah Wa Kamano and losing Prosecca
Speaker 3: is going to go a long way to hurting that.
Speaker 1: Just from that you just said about Nelson dispartment memory
Speaker 1: and then I too.
Speaker 2: Really impressed me the other night was Jack Cole.
Speaker 3: Ah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what really impressed me.
Speaker 1: About him was how he was able to on the
Speaker 1: run almost correct his game when Nathan went off the field.
Speaker 1: You could see he was trying to play the Nathan role.
Speaker 1: Some of the sequences while he was getting a cross
Speaker 1: field dum mean and yeah, those players that those little
Speaker 1: shows that Nathan do that look very simple and basically
Speaker 1: you see when Jack did it, he just wasn't comfortable
Speaker 1: and wasn't threatening. And then you know, about ten to fifteen,
Speaker 1: it's in. You can see him just go no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm going to go back.
Speaker 2: And play the way that I play. And when you.
Speaker 1: Consider coops, you know it's fourteen nil. When Nathan leaves
Speaker 1: the field, he has to take control.
Speaker 2: Of the of the team.
Speaker 1: He and Isaiah, Oh, Isaiahah was enormous again, but also
Speaker 1: Blaze come on, Blaze to Langy. It come on at six.
Speaker 1: So it's not like he had a six alongside him
Speaker 1: who could help with the organization. You know, he was
Speaker 1: him and Isaiah that they were having to control all things.
Speaker 3: Isaiah was the coming six, if you want to put
Speaker 3: it that way. Like his touches went through the roof
Speaker 3: his organization, just through when he decided to pass, run
Speaker 3: and play out the back. But I really like what
Speaker 3: Cole did, Like this was probably an opportunity where he
Speaker 3: could have got stage fright and gone, oh my Maine
Speaker 3: man's out, but he simplified it he ran the football,
Speaker 3: he got involved and he actually showed some signs that
Speaker 3: you know what, actually this kid might have something at
Speaker 3: the back end.
Speaker 2: Jenkins full back.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, And you know this is what we spoke
Speaker 1: about this last week. This young you know, the young
Speaker 1: Penrith side went to Manly against a strong Manly side
Speaker 1: in the trials, had four points park and put him
Speaker 1: to the sword.
Speaker 2: It's the strength of the system.
Speaker 3: And it's also like to win a competition, you need
Speaker 3: to have a good club, not just good players in
Speaker 3: your seventeen a good club club. I've done it four
Speaker 3: years and it doesn't look like it's going to stop
Speaker 3: any time. Man, they like with Nathan going off and
Speaker 3: everything that happening, like Melbourne were looking good, like they
Speaker 3: could have easily ran away with that. But somehow, whether
Speaker 3: it was Melbourne taking a foot off or actually Penis
Speaker 3: wrestling a little bit back, you can't do anything but
Speaker 3: tip your cap to what Penith?
Speaker 1: What did the other MEAs how filthy Bellyac would have
Speaker 1: been afterwards, because for him it would have been an
Speaker 1: opportunity to strike a psychological blow. But now it's actually
Speaker 1: I think probably the other way, I'd say Ivan would
Speaker 1: have went away and go, Okay.
Speaker 3: This is this sort of competition between these two this right, Valry,
Speaker 3: it's going to be around for a bit and particularly
Speaker 3: this year they're going to play again and again again.
Speaker 1: Talking about Rovalry beauty from the eighties and mate, I
Speaker 1: love this game yesterday, Dogs versus Power.
Speaker 2: I just I really enjoyable better Power were better. Power
Speaker 2: were better, a lot better.
Speaker 1: Zachlomax, what thirty two carries in football? Still a few
Speaker 1: defensive things is renowned for me.
Speaker 3: And thirty carries in the season, that's pretty impressive.
Speaker 2: Brief yourself. But I thought that.
Speaker 1: They got the momentum they got in that second half,
Speaker 1: they could smell that they could get a win. But
Speaker 1: like a lot of people have gone with the Bulldogs
Speaker 1: gone oh, it was pretty good informced by Bulldogs. I
Speaker 1: think totally the opposite. You go into games sometimes coops,
Speaker 1: and you have to win ugly or you have to
Speaker 1: you've got to find a way to win when the
Speaker 1: opposition is dictate, dictating the terms of the contest.
Speaker 2: And we've all been.
Speaker 1: In those games where you're going to halftime, you're feeling
Speaker 1: quite comfortable. For whatever reason, you come out in the
Speaker 1: second half the energy goes out of football and vice versa.
Speaker 1: The opposition climb and start going through the roof. And
Speaker 1: particularly yesterday, Paramount sense they could pull off an upset.
Speaker 1: And you know, when you've been around the game for
Speaker 1: a while, you get a gut fill. And I'm watching
Speaker 1: the game yesterday going Paramo going to piece this for
Speaker 1: all their effort, but the dogs won. The dogs hanging there,
Speaker 1: they defended their asses off and they got the win.
Speaker 1: That's the difference between the top four years and missing out.
Speaker 3: And I think Sireldo would have liked the way that
Speaker 3: his team put the overalls on and one ugly to
Speaker 3: put it simple, what do you make of Brown?
Speaker 1: I'm going through a mind gown at the moment, A
Speaker 1: lot's been set about Dylan.
Speaker 2: A lot has been set.
Speaker 3: We talk about it is because of that contract. Right,
Speaker 3: if this contract's not around, he probably doesn't get the airtime.
Speaker 3: But it's relevant, Coops.
Speaker 1: There is no doubt people predicted when he's sign the contract.
Speaker 1: It comes with a degree of pressure, and we are
Speaker 1: seeing that outside expectation is one of the most difficult
Speaker 1: things to deal with. And I'm looking at Dylan at
Speaker 1: the moment. My advice to Dylan would be this is
Speaker 1: that Just just play, Just play Dylan Brown football, get
Speaker 1: back to Berne. Just be a run of the football.
Speaker 1: Don't actually start to think, you know, or start to
Speaker 1: try to play the football that you think Newcastle need
Speaker 1: from you twelve months down the track. You know, don't
Speaker 1: worry about trying to finesse, don't worry about trying to
Speaker 1: push the side around the park. You just go out
Speaker 1: and play to your strengths. You know, at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, I can see that's just weighing on him.
Speaker 2: Coops.
Speaker 3: How would you unlock that?
Speaker 2: Well, Coops, how I would unlock it?
Speaker 1: You can't do that at the moment because of the
Speaker 1: fact there's no Mitchell Moses and you can't. It's very
Speaker 1: hard to move a Dylan Brown out of the halves
Speaker 1: because they're short on halves.
Speaker 2: Even though I thought Dean Hawkins was good on the weekend.
Speaker 1: Is that if I'm Jason Rowles, I'm thinking about moving
Speaker 1: moving him into thirteen just to then neck tie him
Speaker 1: to how he should play, you know, because I just
Speaker 1: think at the moment, I think at the moment, with
Speaker 1: all the expectation and the pressure, I don't think I
Speaker 1: think playing in the halves is weighing.
Speaker 2: Heavily on him.
Speaker 1: I think going back to playing eight, Dylan, you're playing thirteen.
Speaker 2: Just get it there, run the football mate, you know.
Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, Dylan's got to
Speaker 1: consider this is that the Knights signed Dylan Brown, Right,
Speaker 1: you just play Dylan Brown football. If later next year,
Speaker 1: whatever happens, whatever they need from you next year, or
Speaker 1: whatever they want to work you into, that's up to
Speaker 1: the nights. But at this point, just going back to
Speaker 1: play Dylan Brown football.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's an out for Roles to move
Speaker 3: him to thirteen and say, simplify the way around the
Speaker 3: outside noise. He needs his best players playing their best football.
Speaker 3: There's a team that's under immense pressure and he can
Speaker 3: put it together. Go watch some highlights of when you're great, like,
Speaker 3: get some mojo back in your play. The interesting part
Speaker 3: for me is what does Roles and the Eels do
Speaker 3: if they're two and six, are thre eight weeks or worse,
Speaker 3: no wins? Do they think about next year? Dylan Brown's
Speaker 3: not in there next year, how.
Speaker 2: Do you do that?
Speaker 1: That's interesting. I thought about that when he signed. I thought,
Speaker 1: if this season goes continues to get bad for Paramount
Speaker 1: and you get two thirds of the way through the season, you.
Speaker 2: Say, well, it's what do they do? Do? They decide
Speaker 2: to experiment?
Speaker 3: This is Mitch's team. Bring Mitch comes back hopefully sometime soon,
Speaker 3: and you start working with those combinations are going to
Speaker 3: help you be a better team in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3: Yeah you like doing hooks, Yeah, like you just work around.
Speaker 3: There's certain things that some halfbacks have to do, right,
Speaker 3: but one of the main things that you need to do,
Speaker 3: whether you're bought there to set up try and score them,
Speaker 3: is have a good kicking game and make your tackles.
Speaker 3: Like it's so simple. Just because you're half back doesn't
Speaker 3: mean you don't have to push away the other parts
Speaker 3: of the game. And he's got a decent kicking game,
Speaker 3: he's a bigger body, but make sure you do that
Speaker 3: first and then start creating space. Like obviously it's difficult
Speaker 3: because Dylan Brown's there as well, but you know it's
Speaker 3: a bit about the same thing, like, just do the fundamentals. Well,
Speaker 3: but the question is that is that going to win
Speaker 3: you the game on the weekend? Maybe not, might win
Speaker 3: you the game in a couple weeks if you get
Speaker 3: better at it. But yeah, they've got interesting little period
Speaker 3: coming up to the eels.
Speaker 1: And keep you want to do a bit of a
Speaker 1: dally M thing?
Speaker 3: What do you got thing for three rounds? Give me
Speaker 3: your top three? Who do you think come Dallym Night
Speaker 3: is going to be?
Speaker 2: Well? Okay?
Speaker 1: Three so far this season? My three best players in
Speaker 1: the first three rounds. Paine Hass it's a no brainer. Second,
Speaker 1: miss player, I've got two or may. I think he's
Speaker 1: been a revelation for the Tigers. He's proven to be
Speaker 1: some sort of signing. And number three. There's a number
Speaker 1: of players like Munster and whatnot.
Speaker 2: I've gone Kaylen Ponger.
Speaker 1: Wasn't it his best on the weekend, but he's first
Speaker 1: to his first two rounds performers were pretty special.
Speaker 3: I got I got a four. Is going to win
Speaker 3: the de.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think at the end of the
Speaker 1: my initial pick was Fanilla Blake my reason. Yeah, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: he just keeps getting better, Yeah, doesn't he?
Speaker 2: You know how old would Isaiah be now.
Speaker 3: He's got three in front of him.
Speaker 2: Three? Yeah.
Speaker 1: Because the thing about it is, I'm trying to get
Speaker 1: the right term here. You don't get more stupid. Is
Speaker 1: that the right way to say That's a stupid way
Speaker 1: to say it. You know, maybe it's perfect, but you
Speaker 1: don't you don't lose your intelligence as you get older
Speaker 1: in football, the thing that disappears is your athleticism, you know,
Speaker 1: and that's and for Isaiah, he's watching the way he plays.
Speaker 1: He's getting smarter and smarter the way he uses his
Speaker 1: players as far as direction is concerned, and crucially, he
Speaker 1: hasn't a lot lost, hasn't lost a first step speed
Speaker 1: oring like that.
Speaker 3: When you look at who's going to win the Deli
Speaker 3: and we think a team are going to win a
Speaker 3: lot more than they lose, and those Harry Grant's crucial.
Speaker 3: I think there's an opportunity for Harry Grant to really
Speaker 3: dominate because most people talk about Jerome Hues and Monster
Speaker 3: and now that Nelson and Stefano were there a good
Speaker 3: little one two punch for Rock Chaos, Parry Grant might
Speaker 3: be very influential this year. And Isaiah just touches the
Speaker 3: ball more than any other thirteen in the game. And
Speaker 3: Nathan's health is question at different stages, but he is
Speaker 3: rock solid and I think pei win a lot of games.
Speaker 1: This year, Coops, just I should have said you don't
Speaker 1: lose your intelligence rather than you don't come more stupid,
Speaker 1: stupid thing to say.
Speaker 3: It's a stupid thing to say from mischief.
Speaker 2: We'll just cut it.
Speaker 1: I'll tell Scott you just cut that out and replace it.
Speaker 3: Just keep it in there.
Speaker 2: We'll do. This is the magic you television. Just cut it,
Speaker 2: just go. I'll tell you what, Coops, Isaiah.
Speaker 1: One thing, as you get older, you don't lose your intelligence.
Speaker 3: Can you say most stupid? Mm hmmmmmm