Speaker 1: And this is how, my friends, we're going to put
Speaker 1: the magic into Magic Round twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: That's Magic Round Prime right there.
Speaker 3: From early five o'clock.
Speaker 1: Friday, it's the Sharks and the Eels that I'll get us.
Speaker 4: Going running into.
Speaker 1: From eight or thereabouts, the Roosters and the Dolphins doverywhere. Yep,
Speaker 1: that's imagine a half in.
Speaker 2: Itself as good as you will see.
Speaker 4: Super Saturday.
Speaker 1: Super Saturday on the Fox begins at the special.
Speaker 3: Time of two o'clock. The rabbit Os and the Knights.
Speaker 3: That's what they wanted to.
Speaker 1: Say, featuring another homecoming of the supercoach Wayne Bennett.
Speaker 3: Come on, where's his statue? No one saw that, judge.
Speaker 1: Next up, it's the Warriors and the Cowboys, both in
Speaker 1: form and.
Speaker 4: Ready to rock at seven pore.
Speaker 1: Then get your act together because Coach Benji has something
Speaker 1: very important this year, haven't your.
Speaker 3: Beie boys ad breaks?
Speaker 2: Yes, Lachlan, surely there's a way around this stuff.
Speaker 5: Actually there is.
Speaker 1: It's the Tigers and the Dragons. Add three of course,
Speaker 1: Sunday ticket on air from one the Titans and the Bulldogs,
Speaker 1: followed by not one but two blockbusters.
Speaker 2: Plain effect a good thing.
Speaker 1: First at four, the Panthers and the Broncos double.
Speaker 3: Stuff and not to be outdone.
Speaker 1: At half past six, it's the Storm and the Raiders labor.
Speaker 2: How good is that Magic Shop? First?
Speaker 1: Laddie John's and the Boys are here in Brisbane again
Speaker 1: to entertain the way only they cared before. It's Betty
Speaker 1: Buys some Magic Round twenty twenty five right here on Fox.
Speaker 6: Lead Dude b General three sixty rebeligue from every angle
Speaker 6: joining me in the Great Gordon Talis. There's been the General Australian,
Speaker 6: James Hooper and Dave Rickyo and it's been a drama
Speaker 6: field week, but still our game continues to thrive. We
Speaker 6: started in Vegas and now it's time for Magic Round.
Speaker 3: How good is it? O?
Speaker 5: Look?
Speaker 4: Vegas is an absolute extravagance, but Magic Rounds are juggernaut
Speaker 4: and the way that the NRL have implemented it and
Speaker 4: just continued to build it every single season. The rival
Speaker 4: codes have tried to copy us. They've got Ladder Round,
Speaker 4: which was a couple of weeks earlier in the year.
Speaker 4: They got eight games in eight different locations. You can
Speaker 4: go on a wine too. There's a lot happening there.
Speaker 4: But congratulations to the NRL.
Speaker 7: David, No, it's being a year on you success. The
Speaker 7: entire weekend sold out. That's an indication of how good
Speaker 7: this is. And I've got mates traveling up from Sydney
Speaker 7: that they're there on their way and they just they
Speaker 7: want to see as much footy as they can and
Speaker 7: that's what you get.
Speaker 5: Hopefully they get to a game.
Speaker 8: Yeah that's debatable, but the mates going to the footy
Speaker 8: or that's debatable se but it's actually huge.
Speaker 5: So Vegas is massive. Origin.
Speaker 9: There was nothing bigger than Origin but magic grounds catching
Speaker 9: it like just to hype around the place.
Speaker 5: I don't think there's a ticket left.
Speaker 8: You've got some break news for us hoops about the
Speaker 8: South in your abbituts.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So Jack Whiteen is out for four weeks with a
Speaker 4: calf injury, which is significant because the Bunnies they just
Speaker 4: can't take a trick with soft tissues. If you look
Speaker 4: at Latrell, Mitchell, Cody Walker, Jack mcaylee, Ravelaua Humphreys as well,
Speaker 4: that's a lot of players. But what it does mean
Speaker 4: is that the young English in Port Lewis Dide is
Speaker 4: going to get a crack at on the big stage
Speaker 4: that's starting in the halves have paid a lot of
Speaker 4: money for him. They need to find a way to
Speaker 4: try and.
Speaker 3: She spoke about last night.
Speaker 8: But Jack hamstring injury, he'll miss this week up to
Speaker 8: four weeks.
Speaker 3: Possibly not Hamster. It's his calf injury. All right.
Speaker 8: Lewis Dodd, which again comes into the team, gets his opportunity.
Speaker 3: This is his time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is Braith and that injury toelds a real
Speaker 2: worry now.
Speaker 7: And then there's senior figures of that football team that everyone.
Speaker 2: They're not just the backup players, are they.
Speaker 7: There's they're influential figures within that Bunny side. And Lewis
Speaker 7: Dodd gets his opportunity personally. Yeah, that's that's a magic
Speaker 7: round game.
Speaker 2: I'm watching now.
Speaker 7: I want to see how this Englishman goes because of
Speaker 7: how much conjecture there's been over firstly, he's signing his arrival.
Speaker 2: The poor bugger.
Speaker 7: He picked up a shoulder injury in pre season. He
Speaker 7: came back through the cup. He picked up a concussion, sorry,
Speaker 7: a suspension. He's missed some footy. He just needs to
Speaker 7: a crack. He gets that crack.
Speaker 3: It's a bit of a Stephen Brady, isn't it.
Speaker 4: And he needs to turn it into a gold medal
Speaker 4: because the door is open there. This is his window
Speaker 4: of opportunity. He's had a lot of setbacks, he's at
Speaker 4: weight for his crack. Well, he's got it now, but
Speaker 4: I think there's a lot of people who still have
Speaker 4: major question marks stay.
Speaker 8: Wayne must be one of them because he would have
Speaker 8: had a shot before now in that role as a
Speaker 8: half which has been brought to play in it sow,
Speaker 8: so there must be already question marks.
Speaker 4: Well, the thing that I found most interesting is when
Speaker 4: Wayne arrived back at the Bunnies. He loves Jack Watt,
Speaker 4: and he said to Jack, you're a center. You're not
Speaker 4: a five eight Jack. You are playing in the centers.
Speaker 4: Yet then this week when they're decimated and Cadie's out
Speaker 4: and Latrell's unavailable because of suspension and Joe Gray has
Speaker 4: to go back to fullback rather than give Lewis first crack,
Speaker 4: he actually shifted Jack until this calf injury, so doubt I.
Speaker 8: Would have gave him a shot anyway, just to really
Speaker 8: test him and find out whether he's got only one
Speaker 8: way to find out.
Speaker 3: That's right, So he gets that.
Speaker 8: Now, just back to the soft tissue injuries, South have
Speaker 8: had a number of these I think over a couple
Speaker 8: of years now, and a lot of fans have said
Speaker 8: to me, is there an issue there with that within
Speaker 8: their training.
Speaker 7: Or well, look, it's hard to say, right because they've
Speaker 7: gone through a coaching change and with that comes a
Speaker 7: high performance change.
Speaker 2: I would think. I'm almost certain Wayne.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they've got their own people in their Waines, brought
Speaker 4: new staff in that space.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so different under Demetrio compared to what Wayne's running.
Speaker 7: But it is a concern absolutely, And as I said,
Speaker 7: they're the most influential players in the South Side.
Speaker 2: It is a concern for sure.
Speaker 4: So have they got nine players out at the moment, Yes, yeah,
Speaker 4: nine out of the top thirty Yeah, certainly a thirtieth squad.
Speaker 4: So they are considering the effort they put up against Melbourne.
Speaker 4: I know they got hammered the wheat earlier against the Dogs,
Speaker 4: but they're punching above their weight the Bunnies. The one
Speaker 4: thing I wouldn't do is better against Wayne in magic
Speaker 4: round we saw with the Dulton.
Speaker 5: Yeah, has he got his toothpicked set? Wayne?
Speaker 3: I don't think he has.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 4: It was a bit of a casualty from the chocolate
Speaker 4: bullet in the dressing room after.
Speaker 9: Massive sweet tooth be before we move on where the
Speaker 9: Bunnies at all those injuries.
Speaker 8: You know they're coming off the back of a couple
Speaker 8: of losses. They did compete against Melbourne. I thought they
Speaker 8: did a good job considering where have you guys got
Speaker 8: them out because Jack has been one of their best.
Speaker 4: He's been their best player. Musc atsisted every week. I've
Speaker 4: still got them punching above their weight and against a
Speaker 4: Newcastle team that's attack has been putrid. I think there's
Speaker 4: a good chance.
Speaker 7: Well, I think I think there are a chance we'll
Speaker 7: have a Jian Gray's in the side.
Speaker 5: Guys.
Speaker 7: He's been this shining lights in a very very tough
Speaker 7: season so far injury wise the South. And if Jie
Speaker 7: Gray wasn't in the team, I'd be tipping the Knights.
Speaker 7: I reckon Greg can do something specially.
Speaker 5: It's a big battle with the fullbacks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, tough one to pick really, Yeah.
Speaker 5: You probably have to lean towards other Knights.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Well, with so many injuries, like experience gets your
Speaker 9: home normally and it's going to be a big occasion
Speaker 9: all right.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 8: The Panthers in Bronco's going to be a massive game.
Speaker 8: But Mage has declared that he still wants Rene to
Speaker 8: stay at the club.
Speaker 3: Now to do that, what's it going to take.
Speaker 8: Is Rene going to have to drop his price like
Speaker 8: we spoke about last night, or is there ways around it.
Speaker 4: I think it's all going to hinge on whether other
Speaker 4: rival NRL clubs come in and show interest and want
Speaker 4: to actually get serious about signing Adam Reynolds. If somebody else,
Speaker 4: like a West Tigers, comes in and offers eight hundred
Speaker 4: thousand dollars a season, which is probably about what Adam
Speaker 4: Reynolds is worth, that then is going to make it
Speaker 4: hard for the Broncos because the NRL won't cop a
Speaker 4: three hundred thousand dollars contract for Adam Reynolds. But if
Speaker 4: it's only the Broncos and they're bidding against themselves, then
Speaker 4: I think you will see the NRL show a little
Speaker 4: bit of wet.
Speaker 8: Shouted out some details today because we spoke about it
Speaker 8: during the day. What the actual rules are or what's
Speaker 8: the scenario around these four Adams and the Broncos.
Speaker 7: So basically brave, the NRL places an evaluation on every
Speaker 7: player's head when they are off contract and about to
Speaker 7: hit the negotiation stage, they put an for example, they'll
Speaker 7: put an evaluation on Adam. They'll assess his age, is
Speaker 7: he still playing, state of origin, how much experience is
Speaker 7: and is he allowed. There's a veteran allowance, a three
Speaker 7: hundred thousand dollars veteran allowance that clubs can apply for,
Speaker 7: of which I would be shocked if the Broncos don't
Speaker 7: apply for a three hundred dollars exemption, a three hundred
Speaker 7: thousand dollar exemption.
Speaker 2: On Adam Reynolds.
Speaker 7: But to Hoops's point, he will only be allowed to
Speaker 7: stay at the Broncos. Let's call it for around three
Speaker 7: hundred thousand dollars if there is no other suitor in
Speaker 7: the game, if there's.
Speaker 5: Only there's clubs that are going to well, it's going
Speaker 5: to be it's going to be.
Speaker 7: What if his agent just doesn't it a little phone
Speaker 7: calls a little bit different from an actual formal contract offer, Gordy.
Speaker 3: So that's what I mean. So if you're the agent
Speaker 3: of Reno, you don't need to talk.
Speaker 9: How do we how do we get our fans to
Speaker 9: believe in it? Where Ben Hunt was on a million
Speaker 9: dollars and he goes for six hundred and now we
Speaker 9: go a premiership winning half back where DC he didn't
Speaker 9: want to sign for seven hundred, and we've got Foguni
Speaker 9: going for two million dollars and we go he's going
Speaker 9: to stay for three hundred.
Speaker 4: How do we get fans? I get it, Gordy, And
Speaker 4: it doesn't pass. It doesn't necessarily pass the pub test.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 4: But in Adam's case, and to Brake's point from earlier,
Speaker 4: Adam wants to stay at the Broncos. He loves life
Speaker 4: in Brisbane.
Speaker 5: Right, try to sell on Cobbo.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: On top of the contract that Adam's going to get,
Speaker 4: there's also third parties, no question, he has a couple
Speaker 4: of those already existing, right, so he's going to end
Speaker 4: up on around six hundred and seven hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 4: a year to play for another season. It doesn't necessarily
Speaker 4: It does look a bit awkward and the rival clubs
Speaker 4: are blowing up.
Speaker 3: They're not happy here.
Speaker 5: What I because then?
Speaker 9: Because then Cobo can say I wrote on the board
Speaker 9: when I was a young fifteen year old kid that
Speaker 9: this is the only club I ever wanted to play for.
Speaker 9: I'm a Sherburg boy, my hero Stevehenoth played for the club,
Speaker 9: and that's the only club I want to play for.
Speaker 5: I'll play for five hundred.
Speaker 2: Look it. Ultimately, it's on the rival clubs to make
Speaker 2: a play for him. That's that's that's.
Speaker 7: How you I can come back against your argument, Gordy
Speaker 7: to if the rival clubs are winging me, how to
Speaker 7: do something about them off the back of fog and
Speaker 7: make a play for him, off the back.
Speaker 4: Of Foggerty leaving to go to Manly at the end
Speaker 4: of this season from the Raiders thought well, I'll check
Speaker 4: it out with canber maybe they might be interested. But
Speaker 4: they said no, We've got young kids that got faith
Speaker 4: in But I would have thought your parachute to play
Speaker 4: like him in there just for one year and all
Speaker 4: of a sudden.
Speaker 8: You don't want you don't want to player who doesn't
Speaker 8: want to leave and desperately wants to stay the Broncos.
Speaker 3: What would you drag him out of there just as
Speaker 3: a point? For what point? What are you going to make?
Speaker 3: What are you going to get out of it? Yeah?
Speaker 8: I actually think what will end up happening here is
Speaker 8: the Broncos will have to pay more for him in
Speaker 8: terms of sign on.
Speaker 3: I don't think they're allowed at three hundred.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 8: I reckon I'll go to or possibly five and they're
Speaker 8: getting third parties, get any seven or eight, and he'll
Speaker 8: stay there. Like, I don't think there's got to be
Speaker 8: some sort of leeway here. I mean, he is a
Speaker 8: player who is going to only play one more year.
Speaker 8: His family is settled, he's happy there, he doesn't want
Speaker 8: to play anywhere else, get his Mian dollar somewhere else,
Speaker 8: he doesn't want to, So like, there's got to be
Speaker 8: some sort of leeway there. I think I understand why
Speaker 8: clubs will get frustrated because you know of the situation
Speaker 8: with it with players at their own clubs and all that.
Speaker 3: But this is different circumstances.
Speaker 9: In my eyes, I just think, I just think of
Speaker 9: for three hundred thousand, the Tigers are taking, I reckon,
Speaker 9: the Knights are taking, I reckon the Dragons are taking.
Speaker 4: There's nearly sixteen clubs that were taking here for.
Speaker 5: Three hundred price. So that's what it's hard to swallow.
Speaker 5: It's really hard.
Speaker 8: We'll Madge have to move on players here, because if
Speaker 8: he does have to put that up, which I'm assuming
Speaker 8: he will, it'll get to four or five and then
Speaker 8: the third party is really be happy to move on players.
Speaker 3: Do we know that?
Speaker 4: I reckon it'll land to your point, brother at about
Speaker 4: five fifty five point fifty to six on the cap.
Speaker 4: I think everybody would accept that. Will he have to
Speaker 4: move on? Players? Will He spoke at lunch in Brisbane
Speaker 4: that I had a magic round and he confirmed that, Yeah,
Speaker 4: absolutely if they're going to try because they want to
Speaker 4: retain they want to retain Reynolds, they want to retain Stags,
Speaker 4: and they want to be in the fight to keep Colbo.
Speaker 3: I still want to keep they do.
Speaker 7: Stags is all but done, guys, it states and still
Speaker 7: just about to dry on the paper.
Speaker 8: But it's Cobber who then if they somehow needs to
Speaker 8: keep them. Cobbos a question mark. He's got to be
Speaker 8: someone who who has to leave. What happens with paying
Speaker 8: Hars he's off contract. What he can he can negotiate
Speaker 8: is it from November one or the number one number one?
Speaker 3: So he's going to get costs for they're not going to.
Speaker 4: They're not going to. They don't want him moving anywhere.
Speaker 7: That's my point right, So if but his price is
Speaker 7: only going up, so it's only going to become harder
Speaker 7: to keep him.
Speaker 2: He's throwing Perth new franchise.
Speaker 3: That's what That's what I'm saying though, That's what my
Speaker 3: point is.
Speaker 8: So if they do then prioritize him, and they want
Speaker 8: to prioritize as other players who actually.
Speaker 4: It's going to be it's going to be the players
Speaker 4: who are on the roster from position twenty to position thirty.
Speaker 4: Clearly they're going to be looking at reviewing that and
Speaker 4: they're probably going to have to try and make some
Speaker 4: odd decisions.
Speaker 8: Okay, all right, it's going to be interesting to see
Speaker 8: our pans. Yeah, what do you guys think is going
Speaker 8: to happen here in the end?
Speaker 4: I think Renalds stays so I think he signed for
Speaker 4: about five fifty six hundred.
Speaker 7: Yeahald Reynolds will stay. They'll be They'll be fall out though,
Speaker 7: it'll cop them somewhere.
Speaker 8: I'll get the shits. Everyone's going to blow up. He's
Speaker 8: not happy.
Speaker 9: Well, but I think Cobbo is the one that they
Speaker 9: keep personally. So you choose every day of the week
Speaker 9: and twice on Sunday. There's gonna be more competitions right now.
Speaker 9: If you're looking at a guy, and if they say
Speaker 9: he's the closest thing and then he was the best
Speaker 9: player he played fullback. And if Reswolves doesn't come back
Speaker 9: and be the reswolve, who's fullback for the Broncos.
Speaker 4: It's a fair question. I just watched that game Gordy
Speaker 4: against the Bulldogs last Thursday night and it was like
Speaker 4: watching Alfi Langa the way they played.
Speaker 5: And how many more games does he have? How many
Speaker 5: more he's definitely.
Speaker 4: Got next year? Sell one could have another ten if
Speaker 4: you wanted.
Speaker 3: Plus that's the catch.
Speaker 2: The catch is this, boys, how can the Broncos. I
Speaker 2: just can't see how they don't lose a player?
Speaker 7: Cobbo, ma'am, Reynolds, Carrigan, pain Hess, Catni Stags, Ben Hunt.
Speaker 4: It'll be more than one player. I'd suggest that could
Speaker 4: be out. Yeah, that's what I was trying to say.
Speaker 4: Journalist coming back to me with the.
Speaker 8: Baddy Johnson Cooper Krong gave identified an interesting change in
Speaker 8: Nathan Cleary's game.
Speaker 11: And I talk about Nathan specifically here, but we've said
Speaker 11: for a while I find those cross shapes like that.
Speaker 3: I find them dangerous.
Speaker 11: Now what I mean by dangerous what it starts to
Speaker 11: do to playmakers. In the long term, what actually starts
Speaker 11: to happen is you start to get into that mode
Speaker 11: of going across and you start if you're not careful,
Speaker 11: you start to.
Speaker 3: Lose your upfield punch.
Speaker 10: When your hips are east west, for example, as opposed
Speaker 10: to north south. But you become less effective as a
Speaker 10: gorse player. Right, So whether you can run across field
Speaker 10: four or five times, it doesn't matter, but you need
Speaker 10: to as some stage get your hips back. Yeah, a
Speaker 10: couple of things there, but they're they're easily fixed. For
Speaker 10: someone like Nathan, you can fee better than most.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Two of the brightest minds in our game there, Maddy
Speaker 8: John's and Cooper Krong spotting something about Nathan's play. It
Speaker 8: was a bit of a concern for them, and they
Speaker 8: make a fair point. You know, Nathan, when I look
Speaker 8: at this, like he used to set up with that
Speaker 8: play anyway.
Speaker 3: Like all the time, and then they'd have a shot.
Speaker 8: And when they had the shot, they had four or
Speaker 8: five options at any given time, and he could play
Speaker 8: any one of them and he was effective. And because
Speaker 8: they had so much strike power and firepower and X
Speaker 8: factor at the moment, they lack confidence, lack belief they've
Speaker 8: lost players and they just don't have that punch, so
Speaker 8: that set up play, he's not as effective. And they
Speaker 8: make a good point because I know myself when I
Speaker 8: was out of formers a half, that was the play
Speaker 8: you went to.
Speaker 3: And I see it in a lot.
Speaker 5: Of harder you go to that play.
Speaker 8: It's just the easy but to drop off and the
Speaker 8: only do you do that when you get a lack
Speaker 8: of have as many options and you're not.
Speaker 9: There's no cry and there's no kick out, there's no
Speaker 9: burden like. They've lost so much talent. So I believe
Speaker 9: that he used to run that play all the time,
Speaker 9: but he had been Yeah, so now there's gone, Oh god,
Speaker 9: there he is and these and no one's reading him
Speaker 9: as well as what.
Speaker 8: He's They've lost strike and a lot, but have they
Speaker 8: lost the desire among all the intimidation factor?
Speaker 9: I think they've lost that real hard edge that they've
Speaker 9: had where they just would never go away.
Speaker 5: And they're not going away but this Gordy.
Speaker 9: But but they're not as hard as what they used
Speaker 9: to be.
Speaker 5: For eighty minutes and the.
Speaker 4: Other factor as well, Gordy is and you look at
Speaker 4: that play there that reinforces it They are aside who
Speaker 4: had a lot of attitude and had a lot of
Speaker 4: confidence and even a little bit of arrogance and a swagger.
Speaker 4: You know, they walk in, lou I'd walk in with
Speaker 4: the boombox blaring, and it was they were an intimidating
Speaker 4: side to come up against. With all the players that
Speaker 4: they've lost, but specifically James Fisher, Harris, Stephen Crichton and
Speaker 4: now Jerome Lewi, I just reckon they've lost a little
Speaker 4: bit of that burned the side that every other side,
Speaker 4: every other team feared.
Speaker 3: Boys.
Speaker 7: I hear you, Gordy using the words desire hunger. I
Speaker 7: still think desire is there.
Speaker 2: But what I'm.
Speaker 7: Seeing is they're they're.
Speaker 5: Fatigue Championship rounds now through their errors.
Speaker 7: They are defending for the majority of their matches. They're
Speaker 7: conceding upwards of twenty points per game, which is completely
Speaker 7: unheard of from the Penrith Panthers, and sometimes we can
Speaker 7: view that as a lack of desire.
Speaker 3: But they're absolutely cocked. And I pushed back on that.
Speaker 8: I actually think it's they're mentally fatigued. It's therefore, yeah,
Speaker 8: they think they've got the desire.
Speaker 3: Don't disagree, Stay up for that long.
Speaker 8: Disagree, it's almost inhumane, Like, honestly, to be as great
Speaker 8: as they were as long as they were, and if
Speaker 8: you've won a comp to back it up the next
Speaker 8: year is hard enough land to do it for four Remember.
Speaker 9: I can't remember a player that's been so dominant for
Speaker 9: five years, Like, can you numb a player game for
Speaker 9: those five years?
Speaker 5: He was the greatest in that whole team's been up
Speaker 5: for that long.
Speaker 9: Like, it's really hard as an individual to stay up,
Speaker 9: so to keep a whole team up. They've done an
Speaker 9: amazing job, but they're not where they.
Speaker 3: Used to be.
Speaker 7: Liam Martin, guys, is just a warrior. He's one of
Speaker 7: my favorite players. To watch him come from the field
Speaker 7: against mainly with about twelve to fifteen minutes remaining in
Speaker 7: that match and not return to the field.
Speaker 2: It's probably at that point I'm going, what's going on here?
Speaker 7: When the warrior in Lamb Martin's coming from the field
Speaker 7: and just bandaged and strapped, And here we are in
Speaker 7: the early rounds of the season and he's not on
Speaker 7: the field when it matters most.
Speaker 2: That's a concern for me.
Speaker 8: I hadn't lost Hoebo desire in the pind and I
Speaker 8: kept saying every a week now they'll be right though.
Speaker 3: But after the weekend I think finally, I think, I
Speaker 3: don't think. I don't think they can win the premiership.
Speaker 5: I don't know win. Is it something like eleven? That's tough?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you guys agree quickly.
Speaker 4: They got to win twelve with their last sixteen.
Speaker 3: Gordy's been back.
Speaker 5: In the lab.
Speaker 4: Lookout lab again, Gordy, look out.
Speaker 3: Get used to this. We'll talk about Gordy if you can,
Speaker 3: please well, I'm.
Speaker 9: Not good at stats, mate, I just lean on them,
Speaker 9: but look look no, but but like to do that
Speaker 9: through state of origin losing and I think Cleary will play.
Speaker 9: I think there's three or four that might go right.
Speaker 9: So they might lose their fullback, they might lose their seven. Definitely,
Speaker 9: they're thirteen right and Leo Martin they'll put him in
Speaker 9: a penelty to shop out there and he'll play Origin
Speaker 9: because New.
Speaker 5: South Wales needing.
Speaker 9: Then they come out of that and they'll play some
Speaker 9: big sides on some sides trying to make a move.
Speaker 5: That's the tough part.
Speaker 9: It's not now absolutely, it's round twenty when they need to.
Speaker 3: Be the top four is pretty much gone. We've got
Speaker 3: to win fourteen from sixty.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I'll just take you back because a minute
Speaker 4: ago you're actually putting the pen through them.
Speaker 5: You don't think they can.
Speaker 3: Win the comps?
Speaker 5: Ye?
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay the first week?
Speaker 5: Do you think they can make the top eight?
Speaker 8: I think they can make the top I think it's
Speaker 8: going to be very hard. I would say most likely
Speaker 8: they won't, but I think they can if you know
Speaker 8: what I mean, like, there's a possibility they can.
Speaker 5: I'm just not gaming enough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think anyone is no.
Speaker 5: No, and you tread because of no.
Speaker 2: I don't think they can win the.
Speaker 5: Corp not anymore, Gordy. No.
Speaker 3: Okay, there you go.
Speaker 8: As the Panthers struggle their crosstown rivals full of confidence
Speaker 8: with Mitch Moses back in the team.
Speaker 12: People need to realize how much of an influential player
Speaker 12: that Mitchie is, especially with such a young team. He's
Speaker 12: one of those guys you just see lace up the
Speaker 12: boots and the shed and gives everyone confidence just to
Speaker 12: do their job. He's definitely been a real mature player
Speaker 12: of late, and it's certainly shining on the field for him,
Speaker 12: and that's why he is our skip.
Speaker 10: Anyone can see how much any impact of team, so
Speaker 10: to have him back on the field was awesome to
Speaker 10: or of that he brings.
Speaker 4: Do you just know that you have more confidence as
Speaker 4: a player.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: He's definitely a very special player and he's proven it
Speaker 4: on the big stage.
Speaker 8: With Mitchell Moses' returning. Is that enough to save the
Speaker 8: paramatter Ils season?
Speaker 5: Yes, I think so.
Speaker 9: I think that watching the way they play, I'm not
Speaker 9: saying that they're going to win every game, but I
Speaker 9: think that they'll have a They certainly have a better
Speaker 9: chance and they'll be in most games. His kicking game
Speaker 9: is sublime. I think he kicks man. He's one of
Speaker 9: the biggest kickers and he keeps them in play. And
Speaker 9: I think the confidence that they had with here on
Speaker 9: the field last week prove that.
Speaker 4: It's a long road back what was a very average start,
Speaker 4: But from what we saw from Mitch and the control
Speaker 4: and the composure that he's playing with against the Tigers,
Speaker 4: clearly he makes them a twenty to thirty point better team.
Speaker 4: The challenge they're up against Cronella this week, coming off
Speaker 4: that golden point epic loss against the Tigers fits he's
Speaker 4: going to have Cronell are up, so I'm excited about
Speaker 4: this game.
Speaker 7: The influence on the influence Mitch Moses has on the
Speaker 7: Yels is so significant, to the point of which any
Speaker 7: suggestion that Dylan Brown would make an early move to
Speaker 7: Newcastle for Lockie Galvin to come into paramount is dead
Speaker 7: in the water.
Speaker 3: One game until it won't happen. One game.
Speaker 7: Dylan Brown will see out the season with the Eels
Speaker 7: on the basis.
Speaker 4: Of Brown wants to stay now does he? Because Mitch
Speaker 4: is back this season.
Speaker 2: No early release.
Speaker 7: Mitchell's fall, absolutely because they you want to play as
Speaker 7: long as you can with someone like.
Speaker 8: To try and that squashed Galvin's have you the Tigers everyone.
Speaker 2: I didn't say that you.
Speaker 3: Got something else for us?
Speaker 4: Last week we had the three way fantasy Brown was
Speaker 4: going to Newcastle, Paul.
Speaker 2: To the exactly.
Speaker 7: That's that's why I think Mitch Moses. I just think
Speaker 7: he gives, he gives the club hope, and he does.
Speaker 7: He gives the club and on with Gordon, He's kicking
Speaker 7: games unbelievable.
Speaker 8: It was remarkable the impact he had and the difference
Speaker 8: in the side within and without him, like it was incredible.
Speaker 8: The Ques we're like okay, going into the game was
Speaker 8: hard to typically the paramount all the Tigers for that one.
Speaker 8: It was an interesting one. Galvin out all that and
Speaker 8: then Mitch just from the first from the get go,
Speaker 8: they were a different team and he can change their
Speaker 8: season and if they continue continue on that trajectory, you
Speaker 8: know who know who knows.
Speaker 4: Who's got a headache? Is Laury Daily as the new
Speaker 4: South Wales coach because he's got two incumbent halves Mitch
Speaker 4: and the seven Jumper and then Jerome and the sixth
Speaker 4: who were in fantastic form. And then he's got Nathan
Speaker 4: who for the first time in his career.
Speaker 8: This is the mean of the question for me this week,
Speaker 8: you guys change his Nathan Cleary a walk up start
Speaker 8: to get that seven jersey for New South Wales. Is
Speaker 8: he playing well enough to just take over from the
Speaker 8: incumbents in Moses and Law because it was going to
Speaker 8: be Cleary and it was out of Moses and Law.
Speaker 3: Could you be that confident now, given that they just.
Speaker 8: Won the series two of them and played great in
Speaker 8: that final game to reshape repick, drop them or one
Speaker 8: or the other and just have Nathan Cleary come in.
Speaker 8: Is it just cut and dry as it was maybe
Speaker 8: a couple of months ago.
Speaker 4: I think they'll go with Nathan in the number seven jumper,
Speaker 4: and they'll go with Mitch Moses a number six jumper.
Speaker 4: They'll pick both of those players. I know he isn't
Speaker 4: in career best formed by his standards, but if.
Speaker 8: You right now, I'd probably put him in there right
Speaker 8: right now. But there's a lot of play out between
Speaker 8: now and then. If the Panthers continue the way they are,
Speaker 8: it's a big call to then remove the encumbents, the
Speaker 8: successful ones. Some court his Division Game three, These two
Speaker 8: of the best players on the field.
Speaker 3: Do you pick and stick or not?
Speaker 8: Like it becomes a question now that may have not
Speaker 8: been a question a few months ago.
Speaker 4: Might no way out of line. Look at the beginning
Speaker 4: of the year, before a ball was kicked, if Nathan
Speaker 4: was fit, anyone would have said he's absolutely a walk
Speaker 4: up number seven. But I think given penrith struggles and
Speaker 4: we're not the only ones who are pointing out the
Speaker 4: fact that he's been a bit flat Mate Johnson and
Speaker 4: Cooper Krump put on a clinic other night with exactly
Speaker 4: the nuances of why he's finding some subtle challenges in
Speaker 4: his game, so.
Speaker 9: You're very over well, it's a headache, but it's not
Speaker 9: a migrat. He likes the pretender.
Speaker 2: He walks straight into the blues jumper. It's not even nothing.
Speaker 2: Clearly it's the.
Speaker 7: Staff back in the game and it's a toss and
Speaker 7: sitting there laughing at us because he knows what Queensland
Speaker 7: would do. They do throw throwing straight the queens What about.
Speaker 8: Queensland and the opposite. Queensland are the opposite, right, they
Speaker 8: would pick and stick. They're gonna winning combination there that
Speaker 8: one last year series. Cleary is well argue the best
Speaker 8: playing a comp best half in the competition, but he
Speaker 8: hasn't done that at origin level.
Speaker 3: He hasn't won three.
Speaker 8: Or four series. It's actually I feel it's the opposite.
Speaker 8: We're actually going to We're going to change a winning
Speaker 8: combination for a player that hasn't won that.
Speaker 3: Much at level.
Speaker 2: He's the best half back in the game.
Speaker 8: I know what you're saying, but you're if Queensland edition
Speaker 8: believe they keep them there.
Speaker 2: I'm getting to my point.
Speaker 7: The daily Terry Evans on form isn't in the Queensland.
Speaker 8: He's been a consistent like winner point of series for Queensland.
Speaker 4: For you know what, Origin is the final frontier for Nathan,
Speaker 4: that's the only level of the game. And I remember
Speaker 4: when Andrew John's got to the stage of his career
Speaker 4: where he actually publicly declared you were still playing at
Speaker 4: that time, he publicly declared, this is the final frontier
Speaker 4: for me. I want to dominate and he went out
Speaker 4: and he did it. I think Nathan, if you put
Speaker 4: him in amongst all those other elite players, and we
Speaker 4: pointed out earlier all the personnel changes at Penrith, I
Speaker 4: think you just click.
Speaker 5: It's a nice headache, but it's not a migraine.
Speaker 8: To get something clear. I love Nathan and I'm not
Speaker 8: saying I wouldn't pick him. I just think there's it's
Speaker 8: going to be a lot. It's going to be a
Speaker 8: tough decision for Laurie to make.
Speaker 3: And it's not as does.
Speaker 9: It does it Does it come down to the style?
Speaker 9: Does it come down to the style? Because like and
Speaker 9: they were saying that they were playing a Pendas style, right,
Speaker 9: So when it was Nathan, you know, they played the
Speaker 9: style that worked for them.
Speaker 5: In one on four comp with.
Speaker 9: Moses there they played a totally different style they played
Speaker 9: I stole that suited the team.
Speaker 3: Yes, and it worked and not a different coach.
Speaker 9: But you know, I mean do they follow that blueprint? Well, yeah,
Speaker 9: you'd pick You'd probably pick Nathan and put my that's
Speaker 9: the question and there's the end. What I think they're
Speaker 9: going to do. Is that what you're hearing? Or yeah, yeah,
Speaker 9: absolutely all right?
Speaker 8: Now what's going on in Queensland alone in Tiger Townops Tiger.
Speaker 4: Town, Well, there's been drama over the last twenty four hours.
Speaker 4: The board room of the Holman Barnes Group, which is
Speaker 4: the ownership group of West Tigers. Skeeth Richard has had
Speaker 4: the is that another there's been there's been there's been
Speaker 4: another coup Gordie at boardroom level where Julie Ramiro, who
Speaker 4: was the chair, the lady on screen, she's been ousted
Speaker 4: and stripped of that chair position. Dennis Burgess, as you
Speaker 4: can see the musician on the right hand side there,
Speaker 4: he's now one of the most powerful figures in Tina
Speaker 4: Tiger Towns.
Speaker 8: The new chair has been as well as being the
Speaker 8: new chairman of the Holman Group Barnes Group.
Speaker 3: Sorry.
Speaker 8: Dennis Burgess is a talented musician as well, the.
Speaker 1: Macys and Balbani are the heart of the game and
Speaker 1: the name of our Jean Westager.
Speaker 3: For years there's been blood is him?
Speaker 4: That is him?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 5: That is a cover for David Bowie or something.
Speaker 3: Is he with Joe's boss or now?
Speaker 5: Or don't head around here? Yeah.
Speaker 4: Look, it's a little bit complicated and without wanting to
Speaker 4: bore people because once you stay, once you start talking
Speaker 4: border in politics, a lot of people can glaze over.
Speaker 4: But the West Tigers' sorry, he's got a t dreadlock too.
Speaker 4: I don't know if he's still games.
Speaker 3: He's got that look. He's a die hard Western.
Speaker 4: Suburbs magpie has died in the wool Supporter. But he
Speaker 4: is now the chair of the Home and Barnes Group,
Speaker 4: which sits above the board of the West Tiger's n
Speaker 4: RL club. He's on both and they're essentially the ones
Speaker 4: who provide the money if the West Tiger he's getting
Speaker 4: When they paid out Tim Sheen's, they had to go
Speaker 4: to the Home and barnesbur and say, hey, we need
Speaker 4: to pay some cages.
Speaker 9: Tigers at home. Is he a businessman? What's his background?
Speaker 4: He's a musician.
Speaker 3: He's got a business too, I'm not sure. I think
Speaker 3: he's an agent for musicians as well.
Speaker 8: Okay, look at that today, what do you like? But
Speaker 8: he's a mean right, So what's the worst case scenario
Speaker 8: if there's any issues at the club is it? Do
Speaker 8: you think it's going to run smoothly? Or with this
Speaker 8: we're having Dennis? I think he's Dennis.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Dennis a menace. Now, look, it's a it's
Speaker 4: a nightmare because the Tigers have had enough turmoil as
Speaker 4: it is, between what's happened with Lockey Galvin and his
Speaker 4: contract standoff. They had three other directors that were on
Speaker 4: this board band for a collective fifteen years on New
Speaker 4: Years over this year because of historical bs, discrepancies and
Speaker 4: petty squabbling. The worst case scenari how is he's a
Speaker 4: mad Magpie. He's told West Tiger's board members previously that
Speaker 4: he's going to bring back the Magpies and then he
Speaker 4: could try and get rid of the West Tigers altogether. Allegedly,
Speaker 4: it could cause drama. It could the worst case scenario
Speaker 4: if he really wants to.
Speaker 3: Go clear surely they behind well we thought.
Speaker 4: They had, but then this come out of left field today.
Speaker 4: So they joint.
Speaker 8: Ventures all right, good luck Dennis, we get some tickets
Speaker 8: for his new show. All right, Jana is your key
Speaker 8: playing matchup?
Speaker 3: Well thanks to Osie Broadband.
Speaker 5: The Game of.
Speaker 4: Magic round I reckon he is the last game Gordon
Speaker 4: and he's the Melbourne Storm up against the canber Raiders.
Speaker 4: Forget about Gary Glitters. Hudson Young is marking Ellie Katalla,
Speaker 4: the inform back rowers in the competition. They will absolutely
Speaker 4: light it up.
Speaker 7: I'm sticking with the Tigers boys on Rockie Galvin up
Speaker 7: against Liking King. The Dragon's rookie gets his start. Should
Speaker 7: be a good match up with the two young halves.
Speaker 3: Beautiful, thank you very much.
Speaker 8: This Monday, Ossie Oscar Piastre shoots for his third straight.
Speaker 3: Winning the f ones.
Speaker 8: The Miami Grand Prix begins six am Monday, live on
Speaker 8: Channel five oh six