WEBVTT - 🏉 NRL Analysis - The Cleary Factor: Impact on Penrith's Strategy 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:12.119 Better than the lego, better than One of the crucial 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:15.000 factors in Penrith three peding gun for four in a 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:17.919 row has been at times the absence of Nathan Cleary 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:20.040 and what it's allowed them to do is have a 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:23.959 look at areas of their game or their shortcomings that 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:27.840 Nathan basically covers. When he's there, they tidy up their 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:32.600 football he returns. The last month, I've formed an opinion which, 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:34.680 in Nathan's absence, has given me more certainty. 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:36.239 And one of the. 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:38.760 Things is Coops is that one of the great things 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:40.960 about Penrith has been that ability to hop in the 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:43.239 grind and just wear sides down with the grind. I 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:46.240 reckon in the last month is that Sides are starting 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:48.640 to be able to match him in the grind in 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:51.400 a lot of ways. I think Penrith are getting into 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:54.680 the grind too willingly and getting it too early. So 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:57.000 if you look like Penrith, We've spoken about this before, 0:00:57.080 --> 0:00:59.960 they build a game bit by bit by bit, start 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:04.720 very conservative, those inside balls, inside balls, inside balls. But 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:07.120 you've got to understand if you're going to get into 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:09.640 a grind and you want to stay in an arm wrestle, 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:13.520 then you are giving a side an opportunity to b 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:15.520 actually beat you at the back the back end of 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:17.760 a contest. Now, what we've seen a little bit with 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:21.560 Penrith is this sort of football there dismally. 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:23.600 In opposition and make it a tough arm wrestle. 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:26.840 Really works for Penrith because when you've got one of 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.720 the greatest pressure players of all time, when you take 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:31.640 him down in the last ten to fifteen minutes and 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:33.240 the games on the line, he'll win it for you. 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:36.320 But in the last couple of weeks, during those that 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:39.360 last ten to fifteen minutes and Nathan has not been there, 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:44.520 being in the grind has enabled a team like. 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:46.960 Camera just came out of nowhere and Snatcher win offs. 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:48.960 Do you saying they should change their stuff. 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:52.200 I just think I think they're starting there. I think 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:53.360 they're starting the game. 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:55.720 A little bit too conservative, or they're staying in the 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:56.640 grind too long. 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:00.880 Going to the grind football early is staying because they 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:03.240 don't have the ability to break it open without Nathan. 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:06.120 They're actually allowing teams to stay closer to them. 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:09.160 And you're leaving a situation with ten to fifteen minutes 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:11.560 ago where the oppositions in a position to beat out 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:14.160 or like we saw on the weekend against Canberra, a 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:16.960 couple of tough calls went against them. But that's what happens, 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:20.280 you know, like you're leaving yourself open to take in 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:22.639 the game into the last ten to fifteen minutes, leave 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:25.640 you open for a bad call or something the gas 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:28.240 goes wrong and an upset win by the opposition. 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:28.680 Pops. 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:31.560 I actually think Penrith, I think they'd be well served 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.400 open their shoulders and playing a little bit more football early. 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:39.080 I see where you're coming from. The chances of Ivan 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:43.400 Cleary opening your shoulder or changing or rejigging however youon 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:46.640 wifform it two weeks before they are on the cuffs 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:48.680 of trying to win four in a row. It's highly unlikely. 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:49.359 Totally. 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:53.320 Their style has got them to this point and they're 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:55.280 going to double down on what they're good at to 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:58.600 get the result. Now, the two results that they've lost 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:02.760 is close games. A penalty from Fisher Harris to Jerome 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:07.079 Hughes gave it away, Leui intercept Savage scores, so they're 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:10.400 still very close to those victories. Absolutely, But I understand 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:13.720 where you're coming from, because when you win comps, you 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:16.560 provide a style of play that shows the others, Okay, 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:18.440 if we're going to beat Penrith, this is how we 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:20.880 have to play, at least to get close to them. 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:25.400 And there's no doubt that the Storm, Roosters, Sharks Dogs 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:29.720 have changed their training to keep the ball in play 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:32.960 for long periods of time, to fight fire with fire 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:35.400 with Penrith. So when it comes down to that moment, 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:37.720 an X factor play might come up with it like 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:41.000 the Raiders did with the Intercept, very similar approach. But 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:44.720 I think Ivan Cleary is going to double down on 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.760 everything he's taught his team in the next six weeks 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:49.400 to go after that fourth title. 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:50.920 Yeah, I think so as well. 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:54.280 It served them well in my mind, hobbying the arm wrestles, 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:56.680 stay in the grind is really important. 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:58.480 I get all those things. It has been. 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:01.640 Basically, it's the donkey that's taken taken them to the 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:02.200 top of the mount. 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:03.200 You don't want to abandon that. 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:07.640 I think primarily you get into a grind if you're 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:10.080 a top side, if you're if you're a Penris, I 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:12.520 think you get into a grind. You lay yourself to 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:15.520 get into an arm wrestle when the opposition earn it. 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:18.640 And this is probably we spoke last week about the 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:22.560 timing of the Nathan Cleary card. Right now they're in fourth. 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.279 Is it week one now or is it week two? 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:27.720 Is it we like prelim final? Like when does he 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:30.599 come in to become that guy that can steer the 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.280 victory when the grind is in it late? Right? Because 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:36.159 you would have thought maybe him on the field against 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:38.880 Melbourne he comes up with a play. Yes, maybe on 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.640 the field against Canberra he comes up with a play. 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:44.960 Do they beat the Dolphins if Nathan's not there? Remember 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:49.920 they chase them down late. There's numerous games, close games 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:53.520 that Nathan has got them home visibility to handle pressure 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:58.440 greend finally an example I think almost without Nathan, I 0:04:58.480 --> 0:04:59.040 think they. 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:01.120 Need to just read their football a little bit. 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:03.719 They need to open the shoulders a little bit, but 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:07.320 give themselves a chance to skip clear by a fair margin. 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:10.360 And you're putting a lot of responsibility on then Jerome 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:14.240 Leui to be that dynamic. Can he control the decision 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:16.920 making of when we kick, when we go but then 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:20.080 still have that flare of eyes what opens you know what? 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:22.240 I'm going for it? Even though we're only eight minutes 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:25.200 into this contest and no one's made it error. I'm 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:26.560 going to do what I see. 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:31.520 Yeah, because the last couple of weeks looking at Melbourne 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:36.159 and what's the way Canberra play teams are changing the 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:40.120 dynamic of how they play Penrith. They're almost once they 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:42.200 get into the arm wrestle, they're almost doing a Penrith 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:44.720 on Penrith. And I use an idea like when you 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:47.320 watch Melbourne play Melbourne, we're doing a lot of little 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:50.280 inside balls. You know what they were doing is they're 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:53.760 engaging the Penrith middles. You know, basically the engine that 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:56.680 drives the Penrish ship are the middle players. So they're 0:05:56.720 --> 0:06:00.400 inside balls, inside balls, inside balls. And what was crucial 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:04.960 then is they started attacking those players directly, right the 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:05.599 spine players. 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:05.960 Here we go. 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:10.080 Wish Art is a perfect example. Don't worry a big 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:13.719 flowery attacking sequences. We're doing the job on them withinside balls. 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:17.320 Let's attack them directly. Canbra the same on the weekend. 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:17.719 Canbra. 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:20.240 What Canbra did to really take a toll on their 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:23.160 big middles. They played nice and straight. There was a 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:25.960 number of inside balls, but they just drilled through the middle, 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:29.000 kept drilling through the middle. Played nice and fast, a 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.880 little bit unorthodox and just pushing the ball around. Don't 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:34.240 go sideways just for the sake of it. They just 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:36.800 keep drilling the middle, put them under pressure, make them 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:40.520 miss tackles, quick play the balls and the more momentum 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:43.200 you get, basically the straighter you play. 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:46.359 I think to beat Penrith, you're either going to do 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:48.880 what Penrith do better than them or you're going through 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:51.599 something completely different. Now there's some signs that you've shown 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:54.920 that teams are starting to beat Penrith doing Penrith right, 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:59.080 and that's a good thing for those teams because they 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:02.160 are down a couple of troops Penrith multiple times. You're 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:05.800 seeing some younger players in positions they shouldn't or wouldn't 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:08.720 normally be without the injuries they've had, and they're forced 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:11.760 to come up with big players that Nathan should or 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:15.679 a middle forward should top thing. So it's white open 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:19.360 now like there is Penrith. Were we spoke about it, 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:22.560 they were in pole position and know Nathan a few 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:25.320 results what Melbourne Storm have done, you know they're probably 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:26.440 jumped up in the pole position. 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:27.200 What do you think about it? 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:30.800 You spoke before about Live Football Penrith loved that live 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:33.880 football keep it in play Delan ed Woods Brian to 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:35.400 really get the sets going. 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:39.800 When you're trying to break down how Penrith play, you've 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.240 either got two things right you're going to do exactly 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:45.560 what they do. So there's no doubt that, as I said, 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:49.440 the teams up in the top four mirroring their game 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:51.680 on how to beat Penrith, and that's live board, keep 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:54.880 it in for six, eight, ten minutes, moment at a time, 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:59.360 and when a penalty comes, you strike. Whereas if in 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:03.200 the Manly the Dragons and Cowboys, they can't go set 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:05.760 for set with Penrith, yep. But what they will have 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:08.120 to do is find a different way kick the ball 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:11.440 in the touch, give away penalties, hope Penrith give away 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:14.680 penalties make it this stop start affair. So the rhythm 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:18.840 of Penrith without Nathan feels it's quite sort of static 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:21.960 and not really getting there. Whereas they'll save those teams 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:24.440 I mentioned will save a lot of energy. They'll be 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:28.480 attacking the good part of the field more often than not, 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:29.480 and maybe. 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:30.640 That's how they get them because you look at the 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:33.040 way Dylan Edwards returns the ball then Brian gets on 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.280 the back of that, which means you know that they're 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:39.360 such great yardage players that the guys like Fisher, Harris 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.559 and Leota don't have to go that far back to 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:45.000 get behind the football, Whereas if you kick the ball 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.439 in the touch, you know, yes, a slow's company, they've 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:48.520 got to get all the way back. 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:49.920 They don't get them that natural rhythm. 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:53.360 It's interesting, like the Broncos into the late into the 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:56.199 late nineties, you had there were similarities. You had Lockyer 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:58.520 who returned the football, but then on the back of 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:02.400 that you had Sailor and Hearing. So what sides used 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:05.640 to do not the very top side, but well, actually, sorry, Paramount, 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:08.080 we're a top side then, is what they used to do. 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:10.600 Brian Smith come up with the tactics. Let's keep those 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:11.760 three blokes. 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:14.880 Out of the game by kicking the ball deliberately into 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:17.680 the touch. Now that's Johnny Simon knocking it there, knocks 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.920 another one downfield. But there were some occasions where they 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:22.800 picked the ball up from done me half round, halfway 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:25.240 and just kick the ball five, just put into touch. 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:29.000 Better to do that than to let Lockier return it. 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:30.959 Then Sailor and Lottie and. 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:33.680 This is the tactical difference, right, Like I remember teams 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:35.679 used to do this to Billy Slater at different stages. 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:37.839 Just kick it. Theare take Billy. 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:39.320 Out of the contract, change the rules, isn't it. 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:42.720 And at certain stages it was frustrating, right, But the 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:46.840 issue with doing that is you're showing your hand that 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:50.800 you're worried about the back three. You're trying to go, Okay, 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:52.720 we're going to take you out of the contest by 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.079 kicking the touch is frustrated, but then you're also showing 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:56.960 a sign that you're worried about it. Yes, So the 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.120 thing is get the ball back into play as quickly 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:01.280 as you can get your back through going. So there 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:04.760 is like this game of chess that goes on and 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:08.360 when if teams do that kick into touch, Penrith need 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:10.400 to get their back three touching the ball and one 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:13.120 two three to get back into rhythm. So if they, 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:16.360 for example, find touch, the last thing Penrith need to 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:18.520 do is put Fisher Harris in the first carry, put 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.480 Leoder on tackle two, because then they're burning the juice 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:25.120 quicker than what they were before. Still do still do 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:27.240 edwards and get back into the rhythm. 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:27.520 Of it. 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:31.200 It's amazing how things change suddenly. Penrith third favorites. 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:35.160 Yeah. We said in the week saying it's there's still 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:37.439 my favorite. Yeah, I still like him. 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:41.560 Interesting Melbourne yesterday morning walk into their training facility, suddenly 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:46.120 their competition favorites. Does Craig address that anyway you shape 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:46.480 or form. 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:49.840 No. So Craig is I mean three veget type of guy, 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:52.760 really simple the way he views it and doesn't overcompimicate. 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:54.360 A source on his chops a little. 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:56.240 Bit of that. Yeah, what he will say about the 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:59.720 Minor Premiership is that it's value. It shows that we 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:02.880 are consistent of the things that we wanted to improve 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:06.680 in our game. But then the Minor Premiership is rewarded 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:09.680 to the most consistent team. The Grand Final is rewards 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:11.800 to the most consistent team for four weeks, so they 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:14.319 need to go to another level. The one thing that 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:17.120 I really like what Melbourne are doing this time around 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:20.120 compared to previous years, I think they're defending better, which 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:22.840 is a big thing. The team that wins is always 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:25.240 and one of the best defensive teams. But the one 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:27.199 thing that probably let them down the last few years 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:31.320 is that Papenhausen Grant Munsa and Hughes. They're playing full throttle. 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:36.359 What that spine did on the weekend dismantled the Dolphins. 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:40.320 They all hit the scoreboard, they all did something, and 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:44.480 I like that Their best players are playing really well, mate. 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:47.440 I think that's the thing that makes them comp favorites. 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:53.000 Billy got Wayne again. BILLI is Wayne's krypton at forty 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:53.480 eight six. 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:57.200 Let me tell you a nuanced tactical thing that why 0:11:57.320 --> 0:12:01.440 that to describe that domination, He's Bennett traditionally he was 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:04.360 spoken about it. He's a passive defensive line. It comes up, 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:07.520 stands still and use a sideline to slide sideways right 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:12.079 where is Craig Bellamy's defensive is up and then coming 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:14.280 in if the decision has made. So I think the 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:17.240 one thing that Craig Bellamy does well against Wayne Bennett 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:20.400 coach team is he tries to play through the passive 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:23.120 defensive line as opposed to around. There's a lot more running, 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:26.280 there's a lot more short passes than finess finesse, try 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:29.800 and get it around. So tactically, I think Craig Bellmy's 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:32.800 style of playing football suits that of Craig. 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:38.040 As playmakers, we love playing against that passive slide defense 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:40.880 because it allows you basically time to do it. 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:43.800 Wll like offence paling with gaps in between it, and 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.040 he just played to defence pail in a short pass 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:48.679 and just do touch after touch, particularly the half you 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:50.760 might run the ball and then a short pass, then 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:52.560 then get the ball again. Run the ball short pass 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:54.360 as opposed to lateral passes. 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:55.840 And people will get there and say, well, if that's 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:59.520 the case, wasn't everyone to defend aggressive outside it because 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:02.439 it's tax and it's hard. It's an exact science. You 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:04.200 know you're getting up there. You've got to get things right. 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:07.199 And I suppose these days were hitting guys high. It's 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:11.360 high risk, as we saw with Origin with Joseph. It's interesting, 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:14.520 like the relationship between Wayne and Craig. 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:17.120 I like this true. When Wayne went. 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:19.480 To the Raiders in nine to eighty seven as co 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:23.200 coach with Don Ferner, he brought this fitness regime and 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:24.680 he worked. There was his ten and a half k 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:30.400 run in around camera and Wayne won it every time 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:34.400 except once when he did a run and this guy 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:36.600 who he didn't really know that well, had missed most 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:39.360 of the pre season with the car for an Achilles injury, 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:42.280 and Wayne's off on this run about nine k's in. 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:43.960 He's winning easily, and all of a sudden he hear 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:48.240 this footstep running on what that looks around and this 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:50.720 play didn't know a lot about just went straight past him. 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:52.760 Craig Bellamy, I. 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:55.440 Think one of the other stories too, is sort of 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:58.480 his analogy for the way they coach is when Craig 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:01.079 was assistant to Wayne at the Bronze Goes. I think 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:03.560 Craig would do this, all this analysis on the opposition, 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:06.280 their strengths and weaknesses, bring it in and show Wayne 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:08.440 and Wayne will go, we don't need to worry about that. 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:10.920 We've got this great team here. Let's focus on us. 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:13.360 And when he goes to Melbourne. The one thing that 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:16.560 Craig Belly does every week is he makes sure that 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:19.120 his team's prepared of what's coming their way. Like that, 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:21.360 every time I played under Craig, I knew what the 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:25.440 opposition was going to do before then. So the understanding 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:28.480 of what is coming, the strengths and weaknesses to stop, 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:31.600 and then where to attack. We haven't even spoken about 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:34.400 what we style a play first, so it's two approaches 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:38.000 that are super successful. And to be fair. Wayne got 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:40.400 into the Hall of Fame the other day and Craig 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:42.080 Bell and he's got a hell of a record against 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:45.000 the Hall of Fame coach like that's it's a matter 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:47.240 of time when he retires that he gets his passing. 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:49.680 Interviewing him last year, I love those stories he spoke 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:51.760 when he went to the Broncos and he was like 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:55.240 you because he came through the Sheen system where everything 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:59.240 very detailed detail. You know, I understand the opposition. 0:14:59.360 --> 0:14:59.720 He comes to. 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:01.680 I got all this stuff in the opposition, he said. 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:04.600 He listen, don't worry. We get ourselves right now. 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:05.080 One boots. 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:08.840 We've got Sailor Takiri Lockier, we got Alf, and we 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:11.280 don't worry about the opposition. We've got this. 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:12.080 Well, he said. 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:14.680 The first training session he was there and he was 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:17.040 assistant case but he was strength and conditioner as well. 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:19.760 So he said, but I'm standing there right and he said, 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:22.920 right up, we're stretching and he said, I'm looking over 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:25.400 and Alf's just leaning on the fence and he's chatting 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:27.760 to some bloke, some old punds just walking past me 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:30.680 and he chatting away, and Billy said, he's watching Alf 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:34.600 and he's gone, and he said, he said, I can films. 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:35.440 Getting more aggravated. 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.520 Anyway, I finally look over it said now I've got 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:40.960 to do something Alf And I walk over there and 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:42.560 weigh and grabs him and says, what do you think 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:44.720 you were doing? He goes, I'm going to go and 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:48.000 chip alf hecause you just that's what he does. 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:51.080 Well, here's one. So I remember preparing for a game 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:53.280 against the Roosters when I was at the Storm, young 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:56.160 kid called Roger two of Varsas Sheck played five games 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:59.200 and Craig has ten clips on Roger two of varsas 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:01.120 k who's eight in years of age. And I'm sitting there, 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:04.240 why are you showing this kid has played five games 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:06.440 and there's ten clips. He goes maybe because he runs 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:09.080 across the field and his left foot big inside step 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:11.320 and he runs from dummy half, and I was like, 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:13.240 watched it was. I didn't even think any of it. 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:15.400 And then five minutes in the game, Roger two of 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:17.600 us shit goes to dummy half runs across field. He's 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:19.560 running to me and all I thought was left foot, 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:21.560 left foot inside. He did a left foot and I 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:24.840 tackled him. Whereas like it's just this auto pilot that 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:27.160 comes in your head that the detail that he provides you. 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:30.040 What's really interesting is the relationship between he and Wayne. 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:31.000 They've been on it. 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:32.840 I don't know, I don't know where where it is 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:35.800 at the moment, but it would have been two thousand 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:37.920 and eight when I was down there working with you boys, right, 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:40.360 and just beat the Broncos convincingly. 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:44.120 And two thousand and eight, that's right, you were blame 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:45.280 for the forty grand five. 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:49.200 Yes, yeah, a few early Yeah, that's right. It wasn't 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:50.560 Cameron doing the chicken point. 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:58.480 Mate, anyway, you just bleat them in Melbourne. 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:03.960 Yeah, and belout game. He really got the ships. I said, 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:06.760 what's the problem. You know, he's burning him And he said, Wayne, 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:09.920 press conference, come in. All he was talking about was 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:13.320 the wrestling. The bastard won't give me any credit. That 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:14.040 was it, you know what I mean? 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:17.560 That was I thought a really interesting insight because it's 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:19.919 true when you would, when you guys would beat the Bronco's, 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:22.280 the first thing Wayne would do is to walk into 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:23.480 the press conference. 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:25.119 And talk about the wrestling. We've got to get this 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:25.760 out of the game. 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:28.920 Back during the week, we're all about the headlines. 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:34.720 Mainly hard scene to follow. Said that before, but Tommy, I. 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:39.200 Was really disappointed in Manly's performance. Luke Brooks hasn't played finals. 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:41.360 He's about to play his first final with many goes 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:43.800 back to like card against his old team. I thought 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:46.119 it was a big game for him. But it just 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:50.280 shows how important Turbo is because every time Turbo touched 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:51.879 the ball the other night it looked like he was 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:54.520 going to do something. But I think Turbo's back. There's 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:57.120 a little sequence of play that says Turbo is back. 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:59.679 Here he runs out the left hand side and just 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:03.040 big body just gets through and you think, okay, he's 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:05.560 warm to this occasion, the ball gets reset to the 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:07.520 middle and WA's where he is He on the left 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:10.000 hand side. Quick PLAYA well, this is fifth play And 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:12.680 when Turbo won the daim he did this all the time. 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:16.120 He just went from left side fifth played young Heath 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:19.120 Mason standard ay, he said, don't worry about the kick here, 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:20.639 give me the ball. I'm going to run and just 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:23.480 that flick says that he's up for this. Then there 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:25.919 was occasions when the game was on the line that 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:27.879 he just missed the mark a little bit like a 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:31.320 pasta sal he catches that puts sub away. They probably 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:35.280 win that game. But I think Turbo's back and if 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:38.800 Cherry Evans and particularly Loop Brooks can be a foil 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:42.520 for him, jeez, he puts it together. I don't think 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:43.800 there's too many better than him. 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:46.520 Well, it isn't funny. For all his skill and ability 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:49.720 to do things that's simple. Give me the ball tied 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:51.200 to the right, let me just take on the A 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:53.360