WEBVTT - Tigers' Galvin Concerns 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:12.080 Welcome to the Daily Telegraph Enteral Podcast. Adam Mobbs here 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:15.280 with Fatima Cadou and you Wan. Want to introduce yourself 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:20.800 a star of Maddie in the Missile podcast several Paris Olympics. 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:24.560 I want to say, it's great to be back from 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:29.280 Paris to wool I went to. Yes, it's good fun, 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:31.080 but it's good to be back back to the finals 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:33.239 to run home. You crunch time in the season. You're 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:37.280 fresh or you're flat. I'm not sleeping great. I was 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:39.800 up at four this morning and I just stayed up. 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:42.159 I couldn't Wednesday. Wednesday. 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:46.080 Yeah, I'm getting there. I'm getting there. I can falling 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:48.520 asleep on the couch. I hate that because I smell 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:51.879 like a troop. Anyway, good times, good fun. 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:52.839 How was Paris? 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:54.600 It was amazing great. See I haven't been there in 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:57.360 twenty years and I wasn't a huge fan of the 0:00:57.360 --> 0:00:59.800 city when I went the first time. But this time, 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:02.280 I mean there was police everywhere, right, so the city 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:03.680 is clean and so it was. 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:06.679 It was cool. Just before the Olympics. Well maybe they 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:09.520 just snuffled away all the negative reports. 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:11.360 I reckon a lot of people left town, right because 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:13.480 the Olympics was there and so the town cleaned out 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:15.080 a bit. So it was pretty cool. 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:17.280 It's pretty cool. It's good for. 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:19.040 The Olympics are the best thing. I'll doing our job. 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:21.200 I reckon to get have you been to one? 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:27.559 Haven't yet? And you've got to get yourself to one more. Yeah, 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:33.800 go to l A you amazin. Yeah, get the media 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:36.039 center of Brisbane and. 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:38.480 Going to the Olympics. 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:41.000 We've got to Brisbane for two weeks, sixteen hours a 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:44.080 day inside probably the same as sixteen Brisbane. 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:46.120 Scared Tim Morrissey. He got out, he went to the Bay, 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:48.800 went and watched the Dream Team Tim did he? Yeah? 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:51.080 He was about the only time we left the media center. 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:51.520 Poor Tim. 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:54.600 But well he's got the golden elbows, he's collected more 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:57.840 teeth and my dentist lady played. 0:01:58.400 --> 0:01:59.600 Yeah, it was good times. 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.559 It was good back did he the foot? 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:08.320 So I downloaded the enter of watchapp watch what's yeah, 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:10.720 whatever it's called. So I'm going to claim that can 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:13.639 I claim that it's okay? So I watched still a 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:15.800 couple of games because the time was perfect. It was 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:19.200 like seven a m. Ten a m. Midday, that's when 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:21.200 the games run over there. So the time was perfect, 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:23.560 so I watched a few games here keep my eye 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:23.960 on things. 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:27.200 A little bit of drama. You've missed a little bit, trolly. 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:33.000 I don't know. We're still we're still for Tima in 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:35.840 the middle of the five business days for him to 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:37.480 respond notice. 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:41.399 And Tippy ain't going to fight it, just quietly reach 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:43.200 notices fronting the board as well. 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:46.800 And the Real Housewives of Dubbo Facebook. 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:52.400 Was a great look that's so believed, isn't it should 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:54.800 dubbo o good? 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:57.840 Oh dear, I just yeah, where do we start at 0:02:57.840 --> 0:02:58.200 for Tama? 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:02.200 I'm just who do you want to start at? The trail? Well, 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:05.480 we're considering, you know, another loss for South Sydney. I 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:08.040 think initially obviously he's been out with a full injury 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.679 anyway enough if I remember correctly, initially was sort of 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:13.920 scheduled to be back around that round twenty four. Obviously 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:16.280 that's been pushed out now to next season. Been Hornby 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:17.920 said he was sick during the week as well. But 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:23.760 you know, it's after everything that has happened at that club, 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:28.720 everything that came before Jason Demitri was sacked. It's the 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:31.079 last thing that they wanted, like an off field scandal 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:36.400 involving Latrel. So, yeah, he fronts the board this week. 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:39.560 I don't know if it'll be this week. Actually, I 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:41.680 think I don't know it'll be this week, but it'll 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:44.000 be soon. Yeah, I think Buzz alluded to it. I 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:45.920 think they're at the end of the tether with Latrell. 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:47.720 I think there was at a point now where it's 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:51.080 this is your last chance. Yeah, there's some whispers going 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:54.480 around on Friday that there was even talk about terminating 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:56.640 his deal that had been discussed. It's not going to 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:57.480 get to that point. 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:01.120 But I didn't tell him Wayne Bennett that you come back. Well, 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:02.600 you're not why you're going to do it. 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:04.800 But that might be the biggest thing of Latroll's favorite course, 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:07.440 it wasn't coming then. I think they would have been 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:10.640 tempted because if you look at his records, since he's 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:12.920 been in the most games he's ever played seventeen games. 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:16.120 I think it's eleven this year, or play eleven. And 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:17.600 you know, the hope is that Wayne will get the 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:20.480 best out of it, because Wayne traditionally has got well 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:24.960 the best out of Latrell well, but if he messes 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:27.560 up again, it's it's it's he's done, and he's on 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:31.240 a contract worth one one yeah, one wonder one one 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:34.080 million dollars a year, so he's got there's a lot 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:34.920 of risk for Latrell. 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:37.760 Two prelim finals and then a Grand final in their 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:40.400 three years together at the South, so you know, and 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:42.159 Wayne actually came out I don't know if he saw 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.680 his interview the other day in that Dolphins press that 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:47.800 talked about Latrell and said that look, you know, he 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:49.920 don't want him to be making headlines for this and 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:52.520 he'll get down there and look after him and have 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.120 him being remembered for what he's doing good on the 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:56.480 fir and all the good stuff that he does. 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:59.599 Do you know, he has amazing stuff. He's amazing for 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:03.080 a game troll, but it's just late. He's not even 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:05.159 of late. He's just had a history of making poor 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:08.520 decisions at times and they tend to overshadow all what 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:10.800 good he does to because he does amazing things for 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:15.200 not just the indigenous community, just for rugby league in general. 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:19.760 He's such a magnet right for young fans and he 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:23.240 just needs to just get it right off the field 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:25.880 and he can do it because we've seen him do 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:28.560 it and when he does it, he's amazing ambassador for 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:29.440 rugby league. 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:33.000 Yeah, we'll even just looking at this year from racism 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:35.560 saga with Ezra Men that he was suspended for the 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:39.280 Sean Johnson stuff then and he was in that statued 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:41.880 chop Mundane in front of your man Braith at Chin. 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:42.560 Chin that's right. 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:46.039 But then he emerges our origin savior and then he 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.640 gets injured and we are oh god, game three, can 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.239 we do it without him? And that's just Yeah. 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.400 It's sort of a snapshot of his career this year. Right, 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:56.360 It's like it's a roller coaster and I'm sure it 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:58.800 wears him down at times. We've seen he's spoken about 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:01.560 it as wears him down that you know, everything he 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:03.360 goes for and how much attention he gets. But all 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:05.800 of the time, look, sometimes he doesn't bring it on himself, 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:07.640 right and if but a lot of the times he 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:10.800 does bring the attention to himself. I love the trail. 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:13.640 I think he's fantastic for rugby league, and I think 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:15.560 rugby league is a much better game when the Troll's 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.760 in it. But he's just got to be really careful 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.120 at the moment because I think there's people at Souse 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:24.080 who are at a point where they're thinking, if he 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:27.360 crosses the line again, does the wrong thing again, that's it. 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:29.200 He's done. It's not worth the trouble. 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:32.279 It's a massive call for any club to make to 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:34.920 let our bloke light Latrell Mitchell. 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:37.240 Well, at some point you've got to all on the sand. 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:39.520 Has that ever been done with a player of that caliber? 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:43.640 I know that's a question. Without sorry, that should have 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:45.880 put it on the rundown, but not. 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:49.360 That, not of that caliber, not of that influence too 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.640 for doing about both on the field and off the field. 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:54.160 But I think with the trail at the same time, 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:58.040 and I do tend to agree with reading that maybe 0:06:58.040 --> 0:06:59.600 some of the stuff he brings on to himself, But 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:01.680 at the same time, there are some things where because 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:04.520 he's just a headline magnet, he gets with that attention. 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:08.159 But we also want to be careful that we don't 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:11.160 force Latrell into feeling like he can't be himself or 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:12.920 he has to be quiet. You know. I know that 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:17.240 Ezra man racism stuff caused a lot of headlines and controversy, 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:19.880 but he's got a right to be outspoken about that. 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.679 But he's going to then be willing to wear whatever 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:24.920 comes on the back of that. So it's a fine balance. 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:26.840 You know. Obviously he hasn't always got it right off 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:28.960 the field, but there are some things that he's just 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:31.960 a lightning rod even though he necessarily hasn't done the 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:34.360 wrong thing. So and I think if he can stay 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:37.120 on the field, like avoid suspension, avoid injury, which is 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:41.280 obviously not necessarily always in his power, the stuff that 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:45.040 happens off the field, it loses its potency a little bit. 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:46.960 But it's the fact, like you said, that he's missed 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:49.160 these prelims, his mister Grand Final. Then all of a 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:51.120 sudden people start we know how much money is on 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:55.520 People start saying, well, are South Sydney getting value for money? 0:07:57.160 --> 0:07:58.640 Well, but not at the moment that one. 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:00.440 Yeah, but that's why it becomes a bigger, sort of 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:04.160 a more important issue for South Inney and can. 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.320 People start thinking about what it means for me given 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:08.560 the fact that South beat the Tigers, which now puts 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:11.720 Paramatta back in Sorry, the Tigers beat South puts Paramatta 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:14.240 back in that spoon bowl. The Tigers were good though 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:16.680 the weekend were they you know, they keep fighting. 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:18.560 I think you're more. I think they're going to win 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:22.040 the spoon. What do you reckon? I think you're massive 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:23.320 spoon chances. 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:25.520 The dream buller injury to the Tigers levels of the 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:28.040 plane for a little bit, given all that Paramatta's got out, but. 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:32.920 You've got last round Tigers spoon. 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:35.640 Sorry, I guess it all depends. So Tigers have a 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:37.920 buying hand as well, and then they've got mainly. 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:40.280 Well they've got mainly this week and then the bye 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:45.240 and then and so Paramatta have Broncos in Brisbane, the 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:46.920 Dragons chasing a top eight. 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:49.480 I think I think they can beat the Dragons. 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:53.920 Yeah, well it's it's interesting because I haven't kept the 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:56.800 close hid the ladder, so at the moment the Tigers 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:03.160 para to ahead. But the have a buy so four 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:06.760 and against have two games where they're four. Against can 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:09.600 really take a hit if they get pummeled by Brisbane 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:13.200 or the Dragons. And but I don't think it will 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:16.040 come down to it against because I think they'll be on. 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:18.680 There'll be on Egal points and it's win. It takes 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:29.439 all around twenty is that game caut. 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:27.559 No good? 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:31.240 It's just but it goes back to that Panthers game. 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:34.040 Nels had that up by fourteen with eight to go 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:35.120 and what's going on. 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.199 When I went away, they were sort of they were 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:40.199 they were badly a bit, but they weren't playing terrible. 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:44.720 But they've been diabolical. Yes, what's doing with what's happening? 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:48.319 Tons of injuries, it doesn't help, But it's just. 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:50.480 A lot of talk about players getting moved on there 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:50.880 as well. 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:54.840 That tapping on the shoulder stuff doesn't help. Guo reg 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:58.040 has been inspirational, he's been so good. 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:02.000 Not that he's been tapped, but potentially someone like the Dragons, 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:06.000 you know, could be monitoring the situation. But yeah, Reggie's 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:10.480 been tapped. The Yeah. The Gutho story again on the 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.280 back of talk that he might not be captain next year, 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:15.360 is a bit strange for me. I don't understand it. 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:16.960 I mean, he's sort of the heart and soul. Well, 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:18.640 he's the heart and soul of that club and has 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:23.360 been for a long time. So moving somebody like Gutho on. 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:28.240 Can we burn those two thousand and one Paramatta Replica jerseys? 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:30.200 By the way, I don't think like they haven't won 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:32.199 a game in them, have they? The only thing I 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:35.840 think about one is the Knights game. It's that's not 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:38.959 the year where Paramatta said all the attacking records, they're 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:41.120 going to revolutionize the game for twelve months and twelve 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:43.640 months only it was that's what you remember for the 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:45.480 Grand Fall, and they've been diabolically. 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:49.440 That is a bit triggering for Oh yeah, I think 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:50.880 it's some of. 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:52.320 Fan see how they feel and can we get a 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:53.720 super soper at Alliant. 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:55.319 Floodball that one flood? 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:57.200 What's going on? 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:00.480 Apparently the issues of the drainage is that they they 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:03.600 have I'm told this morning that they didn't prepare the 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:05.920 ground so the water would go through. 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:11.679 Through the surface, pitchforks out, that's why the water did 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:17.040 that's from that's the early problemation, no official source for 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:17.640 anyone who. 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:22.880 Talking about that's got from a random that's the issue. 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:27.000 The pitchforks before the game, pitchforkstre before the downpour. But 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:30.000 shouldn't they have enough good enough drainage system to at 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:31.120 least mitigate. 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:32.240 Some of that, maybe not all of it wouldn't be 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:34.440 interest of the spent eight hundred and eighty million dollars 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:34.880 have forgot to. 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:40.640 Put draining there on Friday and the first game was 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:43.439 obviously up and Brookie and you know when it rains 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:46.080 and you never see you barely see the rain on 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:48.959 TV and watch it the other night and the rain 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:51.080 you can see it pooring anything that's gon to. 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:54.800 Be sideline, and that with no umbrella was unbelievable. It 0:11:55.160 --> 0:12:00.280 came from nowhere. It's brookly amazing. Like three four years 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.640 ago it was the worst ground the NRL by the 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:05.760 length of a straight brook. And now that surface is 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:08.320 ridiculously good. I mean it wouldn't even know rain there 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:11.280 the other night it's it was. I think they spent 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:14.560 a million dollars on it, or at all. It didn't 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:20.160 actually cost in terms terms of expenditure on stadiums. Replacing 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:22.920 that surface and putting in a surface of that quality 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:27.439 didn't actually cost that much money relative relatively. But that 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:30.319 surface now is ridiculous. And he used to be a disgrace, 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:33.440 a cow paddic and apparently can still get on there. 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:37.760 Yeah I didn't know you could anymore. But yeah, occasionally 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:39.719 leave the gates open and people will still take their 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:40.360 dogs out there. 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:44.679 Dogs having to clean up little lamb mines games. That's terrible. 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:48.480 But the manly gone well since I've been away. Yeah, 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:51.959 look they looked like the warming up man. They with 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:55.360 Tommy on fire and how good is he? 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:58.960 Very well and he's in that latrell but right the 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:02.800 game one Sky like him them back and playing as 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:05.000 well as they can. Because even if you're not a 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:10.200 Seagulls fan, watching Tommy the way he orchestrates defensive lines 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:12.600 and you just see him talking behind the scenes and 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.160 they just they look a totally different outfit with him there, 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:17.360 which is I mean, it's not rocket science to say that, 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:20.680 but it's interesting because then he got five and six 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:27.400 with Manly and Canterbury. There is and if if Cronulla 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:29.280 hadn't have got out of JAILI hiss newcast. So you're 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.199 talking about a top four battle that's still who knows, 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:36.200 still maybe open for someone to sneak in there. 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:39.160 Well mainly play the Dogs and Charks on the run home. 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:43.040 So yeah, I think I win their last three puts 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:45.680 a bit of pressure on they finish in the top four. 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:48.280 They're a dangerous team. They've got a lot of points 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:50.400 and a lot of attack and a lot of blakes fit. 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:52.120 Now they have a lot of injuries. At the moment, 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:55.439 super coach Steves is getting the job done. You man, 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:58.199 the great man, He's on fire. 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:03.160 That's where he was leading us there you go to 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:09.000 show back on track take control. But I just yeah, 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:11.320 those teams at the weekend and sort of just run 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:17.960 through that bull Dogs obviously stamping their authority again. We'll 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:21.200 get to the Hammaso Josh had a car stuff shortly. 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:24.760 But another team really the playing good footy since you've 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:25.360 been away, haven't they? 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:26.840 For the Dogs? 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:27.280 Yeah? 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:30.120 Yeah, well, I mean they've been good defensively all year 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:33.400 in their defensive systems, so sort of as the year's 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:36.440 gone on, have you know, become more reliable. They sort 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:39.520 of know the structures and the rest of it. But 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:41.680 what's really clicked, especially in the last couple of weeks, 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:43.800 has been their defense and they're just so much more 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:48.520 confident in defense. Choby Sexton obviously since coming in has 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:50.960 what is he now, how many games now? I think 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:54.800 one ten added maybe eleven since he's been back, so 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:56.760 he's made a lot of difference, really taken off a 0:14:56.760 --> 0:15:00.480 lot of pressure off Matt Burden. The Edges have been great. 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:06.440 So yeah, I mean it's it's not that I don't 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.720 believe they can be a dark horse in the in 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.800 the final series, but I don't know what their record 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:15.280 is like against those sort of two top teams that 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:18.360 we think the premiership is going to come out of 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:20.040 other than Penriths. 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:22.040 Film like a good record against Melbourne. I don't know, 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:25.360 I don't. I'm not saying that within the authority. I 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.080 just have a feeling that in recent years they've got 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:28.640 a good record. 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.480 And speaking of that minds, you see what Jacob Kiraz 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:39.320 left after that, try a big pile of But yeah, 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:41.840 I mean they're they're going good and they get the 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:43.600 job done every week and they're consistent. 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:46.720 I think they're still a year away at least, right. 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.480 I think they need some reinforcements. I don't think they can. 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:53.920 They need everything to go right to go with Melbourne 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:55.800 and Penrith and even the roosters, I reckon they need 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:56.760 everything to go right. 0:15:57.080 --> 0:16:01.280 Yeah, what I want to be doing three weeks out 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:02.840 from finals. He's playing that kind of. 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:06.680 Defense, yeah, exactly. And the other thing to talking about 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:08.840 where they finish, I mean, if you're canab into that 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:11.640 first week of the finals, do you want to do 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:13.960 you know one v four, which is probably going to 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:18.080 be Melbourne, or you know five v eight which it 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:23.000 might be the Dragons. So I think they will. I mean, 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:25.040 if you're a side coming up against them in the finals, 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:27.920 they're probably going to worry you a little bit. You're 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:29.200 not going to think that they're not going to be 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:30.920 They're not going to be themselves. As much of a 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:32.000 cliche as that is. 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:39.920 Yeah, we're going through run home. So seagulls, cowboys. What 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:41.040 do you make of the Dragons? 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:44.760 What can you make of them? They were good? I 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:46.320 reckon they were really good. 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:49.920 Yes, the other were diabolical, Yeah, most terrible. 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:50.520 Yeah. 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:53.720 Kenny scores with the first their first touch and they 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:55.720 were terrible after them. 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:59.680 And on fours of three hundred. Disappointing performance with that 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.440 back to back stinkers. They were really bad last week 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:02.840 as well. 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:07.080 So yeah, but I think when Kinney scored that try, 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:08.760 you almost wentf Is this going to be one of 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:10.600 those games with the Dragons, you know, because if they 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:12.560 don't have a good start, you can pretty much write 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:17.760 the Dragons off. But they were physical, they were aggressive. 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:20.240 The back roll is both Jade and Sewer and Lua 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:21.159 were pretty. 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:23.320 Good in that shame he took a personal yesterday. 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:25.960 Yeah. Yeah, and then in the in. 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:29.040 The what do you run for three hundred and forty 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:32.360 meters losing sight that a couple of. 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:33.920 Times this year, and then in the second half of 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:36.240 the for the Dragons they lose Jack de bell And 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:38.760 to a high shot, and you know, they're under the pump. 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:41.440 All the territories against them, all the possessions against them, 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:44.720 and they keep them out. So it was a really 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:47.560 good performance by them. That the thing is is can 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:49.000 they back it up next week and then a week 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:50.959 after and the week after, And that's been the challenge 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:53.280 for them since probably mid season. They haven't been able 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:57.520 to clinch back to back wins since then, so and 0:17:57.560 --> 0:17:59.480 I think a lot of it. It's funny because Ben 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:02.119 Hunts be up and down too, so they're sort of 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:05.640 Their results in the last ten weeks have reflected how 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:09.119 Ben Hunt's played, and he was pretty good yesterday. 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:12.240 So thoughts on Jack bird it five eight. I thought 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:13.160 he did a pretty good job. 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:17.359 Jack. He's good footballer, right, It's just he's just a footballer. Jack. 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:20.080 It's one of my favorite players. He's such a good fellow. Jack. 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:22.400 He interview him after the game on Triple M. He's 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:26.600 he's very entertaining Jack, but I thought they are. He's 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:33.400 good footballer. Jack. When he's happy and confident, and he's fit. 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:36.560 He's more than capable of holding down that number six 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:40.200 years until Kyle Flanningen gets back. He's just a good player. 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:41.480 Do you say anything about his future? 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:46.840 No, he's just jubid, one of the great chips in here. 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:49.880 Yeah, what about this? So the Dragons win by sixteen 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:54.639 the average winning marchin this year's fifteen point six points. Well, 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:57.880 the concern for them though, when they lose, they lose big. 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:00.919 Their average losing margin this year's twenty six point four 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:03.639 points per game. So and they've lost some big ones, 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:05.760 but that's you look at there for and against the 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:08.119 shocking for a team that's sitting in their minus ninety, 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:13.320 sitting in a innate spot there, but amazingly still in 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:15.800 their own control. A couple of games to come to. 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:18.639 Big game this week against the Sharks and against his 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:21.159 old team. Sharks have been a bit dodgy, haven't they 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:23.919 a bit diceive late? It's a game they could win 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:24.600 if they turn it on. 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:28.000