Speaker 1: Well, Tommy, you lose about six or seven in a
Speaker 1: row and you have to beat Newcastle at Newcastle on
Speaker 1: Old Boys. How dare you?
Speaker 2: What an afternoon? It's always nice going and spoiling someone's
Speaker 2: old boys day, always nice and you were there even
Speaker 2: just coietly.
Speaker 1: You did not spoil my day.
Speaker 3: Quick summary. Just give us the summary of the game itself.
Speaker 1: The game.
Speaker 3: What did you like about the game? You were there
Speaker 3: at Old Boys weekend? So manly Newcastle, the Old Boys,
Speaker 3: how Tommy goes great? Give me some other things that
Speaker 3: happened in the game.
Speaker 1: Okay, Clayton for the score, it was forty six twenty
Speaker 1: six four the war. But I'll tell you what leading
Speaker 1: into the game I had I had a I was
Speaker 1: deeply concerned because of Tommy's return, but also Clayton in
Speaker 1: the sixth Folalo. I just when he went into the
Speaker 1: six jersey, I just had a feeling he was going
Speaker 1: to give you as an extra little bit of a
Speaker 1: bit of cutting edge and attack. Is a natural player.
Speaker 2: Oh natural footy players. You feel like he just put him,
Speaker 2: put him on the field and you get a job done.
Speaker 2: You know what he's done for us this year, in
Speaker 2: the last couple of years been exceptional. He was probably
Speaker 2: our best on the weekend him and unbelievable on that
Speaker 2: left edge, just such a good runner of the football.
Speaker 3: What about Fozz Like he came in after seabold one
Speaker 3: more than he lost in that period of time when
Speaker 3: that losing streak. Was there a change in the way
Speaker 3: that he coached or the way that he got the
Speaker 3: reaction or was it just the fact that you came.
Speaker 2: Back and you're no, no, no, it's definitely not been
Speaker 2: the case to change. Definitely not been the case. He
Speaker 2: was too kind of it. But no, I think he
Speaker 2: hasn't changed obviously, Like when he come in and you
Speaker 2: know the belief he gave us and the boys just
Speaker 2: got in the back of it. He probably thought that
Speaker 2: this job's easy. For ten years and coaching footy team's
Speaker 2: hard work, and you know, that struggling period, he probably realized,
Speaker 2: I guess a little bit how hard it is. But
Speaker 2: he still wasn't changing his demand. He still wanted us
Speaker 2: to go after the same things and still fully believed
Speaker 2: and you know, if we went out there and just
Speaker 2: did our job, we would get a performance done. And
Speaker 2: it was great that we could do it on the weekend.
Speaker 3: Because we've spoken about this. You and I aren't coaches,
Speaker 3: but imagine what forun did to get those wins if
Speaker 3: he started over coaching or changing his style. It's good
Speaker 3: to see that he did it right, because all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, you go from inexperienced coach that wins games,
Speaker 3: then you start changing. I think it's mixed messages.
Speaker 1: But the players just picked straight up.
Speaker 2: On yeah, yeah, yeah, But we also had a lot
Speaker 2: of personal changes that where's the line? What is over coaching?
Speaker 2: We obviously books, he goes down. He's got two hundred
Speaker 2: and seventy games first great experience. We're bringing Joey. How
Speaker 2: much coaching do you want to give him? What do
Speaker 2: you want to let him just play his own style?
Speaker 2: But you just got to find what works. And I
Speaker 2: think he's done a really good job with that. Tommy,
Speaker 2: and I'll ask you this too. And I was talking
Speaker 2: to somebody I forget who it is. It happens when
Speaker 2: you get past fifty. Conveniently, we got lots of things.
Speaker 3: Apologies in advance for this because this happens throughout the show.
Speaker 1: Jake now and but Tommy someone they were telling me
Speaker 1: they were in the box when you were in there
Speaker 1: and they said it was quite remarkable. You're talking about
Speaker 1: right now, this is where the ball's got to go,
Speaker 1: and et cetera, et cetera. And I just want to
Speaker 1: ask you this. I'm interested by this. Do do you
Speaker 1: do that on? How can I say it? Almost gut instinct,
Speaker 1: low broad brush or are you a number counter?
Speaker 2: I'm a number counter. Yeah, yeah, numb account all day.
Speaker 1: I will. So you where do you get your best
Speaker 1: bearings from?
Speaker 2: Oh? I just well, you know what, Like I guess
Speaker 2: I've been manly a long time and worked you know,
Speaker 2: on a different coaches, but we know what we're trying
Speaker 2: to do an attack, and I feel like I'm able to,
Speaker 2: you know, identify when we've got an opportunity and where
Speaker 2: to go. And I think being a fullback that helps,
Speaker 2: Like counting numbers and how you split the field up defensively,
Speaker 2: I feel like it helps them go into attack. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I definitely number coount and the.
Speaker 1: Fact that it helps you at nine nine mathematics and HSI.
Speaker 3: It's been a long time, so I've been a coaches box.
Speaker 3: But one thing coaches boxes are very reactive. Yes, they
Speaker 3: react to things as opposed to proactively seeking opportunities. So
Speaker 3: I like the current players who are injured or in
Speaker 3: a position where they can forward think as opposed to
Speaker 3: be reactive. There's enough people in that coaches box that
Speaker 3: blow up de lux because of a referee decision or
Speaker 3: a try get scored. I think current players in the
Speaker 3: coaching box actually see things a little bit more. Oh,
Speaker 3: there's an opportunity, are that players injured or they should
Speaker 3: attack more right because we're being about going left. I
Speaker 3: think it's a good thing that coaches do because just
Speaker 3: generally speaking, very reactive in the coaches box.
Speaker 2: They are different bunch of coaches, aren't they Just awful people.
Speaker 1: It's just awful people, boys. But just on the ladder wires,
Speaker 1: top of the pops, they're on the same points as
Speaker 1: Penrith and the Roosters one point in four and against
Speaker 1: one point better than the Panthers at the moment. And
Speaker 1: so it's Panthers, Roosters, Dolphin, Dolphins. Rap out the round
Speaker 1: up the top four, Sharks, Nights, Souse, Cowboys, Doggies, Manly,
Speaker 1: mathematical chance till Tommy, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Talking about the latter, do you think a team from
Speaker 3: outside the top four can win it?
Speaker 1: How they sit at the moment. No, I don't, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. The one the one side that
Speaker 1: I thought where if the Dolphins set outside. The Dolphins
Speaker 1: to me still like a team that could smash and
Speaker 1: grabbing win the title.
Speaker 2: What about mainly sneaking to eighth spots a massive chance.
Speaker 1: I'm off you No, no, on with Maddie.
Speaker 3: I think it's the three teams. I think it's Warriors,
Speaker 3: Panthers and the Roosters. On their day, the Dolphins could
Speaker 3: put it together. And as you said, smashing Graham, I
Speaker 3: think for the Sharks, if they like, they can still
Speaker 3: finish fourth. But I didn't carriage the Sharks to try
Speaker 3: and finish five or the Knights need to finish five
Speaker 3: or six because they are a better chance of progressing
Speaker 3: through September home week one and then getting a team
Speaker 3: that's hold hopefully being beaten up by one of the
Speaker 3: better teams in the.
Speaker 2: I think Sharks, Sharks are a chance getting through their back.
Speaker 2: They're a good footage.
Speaker 1: I just can't I just can't trust them, Tommy, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. We've sat on here a few
Speaker 1: times when they went through their great run and we're
Speaker 1: going and I forget what game was. It was the
Speaker 1: South game and the box. It was in the box,
Speaker 1: in the box, you know. And he's doing things that
Speaker 1: you don't normally associate with crawfitz Gibbon. And afterwards, when
Speaker 1: the week after they had the bad last year, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: he anticipated almost like intuition, felt that loss coming. And
Speaker 1: they just do that so much. And although they beat
Speaker 1: the Mighty Titans on the weekend, I just thought that,
Speaker 1: you know, they're a long way, a long way off
Speaker 1: what they have to be one of the top teams.
Speaker 3: They call the Titans mighty on the weekend.
Speaker 1: Absolutely didn't see.
Speaker 2: But the Broncos just think it's more up for grabs
Speaker 2: than we think.
Speaker 3: I just I just so you think someone from the
Speaker 3: bottom part can cause some damage and get through.
Speaker 2: Well, I just every everyone you go through, and obviously
Speaker 2: you want to finish in the top four, and they're
Speaker 2: the best chance. But they've got they've all feel like
Speaker 2: they've got to sleep up in the moment. There's no
Speaker 2: one that's really standing out for me that that's really
Speaker 2: taken the competition, you.
Speaker 1: Know what I mean, I feel like I feel it
Speaker 1: Tommy at the moment, the Wars to me over the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks felt to me like they're the
Speaker 1: most Finals ready because I look at Penrith. I'm looking
Speaker 1: at Penrith unsure where they are, you know, and what's
Speaker 1: their head with Yale they've lost Jack now Jack Coogo
Speaker 1: for three weeks. The Roosters have always got one of
Speaker 1: those performances yesterday in them. But the Wars are just
Speaker 1: at the moment just so consistent, and they've been playing
Speaker 1: that final style football all year.
Speaker 3: You can almost predict the Warriors we'll get to a
Speaker 3: pre limb, whereas I had the Rooster's favorites before the
Speaker 3: drop of the Tigers like to be able to deliver
Speaker 3: a performance against the Panthers the week before. Then the
Speaker 3: Tigers there's just a big gap of what their best
Speaker 3: is and on prelim, final Day or Grand finally, you
Speaker 3: can't have that gap because you're just sitting there thinking
Speaker 3: hopefully the best performance is coming. But for me, Penrith
Speaker 3: and now, who have been the most consistent team for
Speaker 3: the three quarters of the season, now has some huge
Speaker 3: challenges both team injuries, suspensions. They're getting all the challenges
Speaker 3: at the wrong time of the year.
Speaker 1: Right we're talking about the injuries there for a second,
Speaker 1: can we just test on Jack Cogaban now three weeks
Speaker 1: the Wars. They keep losing playmakers. They just keep replacing
Speaker 1: because the strength of the system. But another loss dalling
Speaker 1: with teams. The Leslianx broke his collar bone. Chance he
Speaker 1: may be back, very strong chance he won't be. I mean,
Speaker 1: what do you think. I mean, he's so important on
Speaker 1: those on kick returns.
Speaker 2: It's so good. But it feels like anytime someone at
Speaker 2: the Warriors goes down, they just have someone there ready
Speaker 2: to take his place. The lost Roger earlier on in
Speaker 2: the year, and he thought that's going to be a
Speaker 2: big loss. And then cart Peer comes in like a
Speaker 2: hell of semus An ascent, like they've just got players there.
Speaker 2: They're just ready to go death.
Speaker 3: Cant Perreira came in, Clok Star tool Picky. There's enough
Speaker 3: there to come a weekend. And this is the one
Speaker 3: thing that we're talking about here is the Warriors system.
Speaker 3: Is there any other team in the competition that can
Speaker 3: lose three halfbacks and still score forty points? Right? There's
Speaker 3: argument around a system which is structured, and we say, oh,
Speaker 3: this is the way you have to play. Then there's
Speaker 3: this argument around give the halfback full control and let's
Speaker 3: just play what we see top thing, there's a couple
Speaker 3: of pieces of vision that the Warriors system is stronger
Speaker 3: than any other individual company. They play from the middle
Speaker 3: of the field most of the time, right, And it's
Speaker 3: pretty simple because you split the fullback to one side,
Speaker 3: you put the other five eight on one side, and
Speaker 3: the half back ends up playing both sides of the field.
Speaker 3: Coming from a fullbacks position here, so they roll the
Speaker 3: middle of the field and see all the spine members
Speaker 3: half back on in the middle of the field to
Speaker 3: a picky and a five eight on the other and
Speaker 3: then the half back Harris Tova swings left or swings
Speaker 3: right as the fullback. How do you defend against this,
Speaker 3: because this is what makes the Warrior's defense attack great.
Speaker 2: Well, the thing is you can't really If you set
Speaker 2: five on that shorter side, they're obviously going to go along.
Speaker 2: If you go six, they're going to go back to
Speaker 2: that shorter side. And what I like about it is
Speaker 2: you've got someone like Harris Vita who actually plays that
Speaker 2: left half. But then when needs you can just fall
Speaker 2: into that system so effortlessly and you. So here they
Speaker 2: use Aaron Clarke through the middle of the field to
Speaker 2: be that extra ball player and great that opportunity out
Speaker 2: of the back.
Speaker 3: And it's easy for a hearth. That's whether it's experience
Speaker 3: or inexperience. Knowing that your ball players and your ball
Speaker 3: runners are in exactly the right place at the right time,
Speaker 3: all you need to do is then make a smart decision.
Speaker 3: So some teams that are disconnected attack, don't have the
Speaker 3: people in the right places at the right time. The
Speaker 3: Warriors attack. Yes, it's system base, but I'll tell you what,
Speaker 3: when Harris Tavita or Tanner Boyd or anyone else goes
Speaker 3: the line, the backrier is senting me to perfect the
Speaker 3: fullback or the five at is where they need to be.
Speaker 3: And the past selection from Wade Egan and Aaron Clark
Speaker 3: is top shelf.
Speaker 1: Before we get Darren Clark and way just for one
Speaker 1: second and I'll show you that Chanelle Harris to Vedas
Speaker 1: try Fame Hungers passed on Aeron Mia and when I
Speaker 1: was watching them at the weekend, like Fords and Fords,
Speaker 1: we oftentimes talk about the beauty of a short pass
Speaker 1: and how clever it is, but what the Warrior is
Speaker 1: doing really well. It's it's the players who are hitting
Speaker 1: the gaps. And I was watching them, Tommy, they're sort
Speaker 1: of idl and half on an even playing and then
Speaker 1: chopping late. There's there's just a method and a lot
Speaker 1: of work done to everything they're doing. That's a no
Speaker 1: look past there. It's obviously something they're working just so hard.
Speaker 2: Only the said that the timing on leads is so important.
Speaker 2: But also you often talk about you want to start
Speaker 2: outside that defend your leader on and cut across him
Speaker 2: so they don't see where you're coming from. And that's
Speaker 2: a perfect example of it. He starts I think it's
Speaker 2: outside three minutes at Sullivan there and just cut cuts
Speaker 2: across him. He doesn't see that lead runner and opens
Speaker 2: that hole.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we talk about ball playing, about communication, money and
Speaker 3: get into your target defender. The Warriors do it better
Speaker 3: than most. I get to second defender off the ruck.
Speaker 3: That means the lead runners going inside Sullivan in this instance,
Speaker 3: and once you feel their space, the decision is pretty easy.
Speaker 3: Imagine if the lead runner was two meters back two
Speaker 3: meters forward, it just doesn't make it effective enough.
Speaker 1: And I think, Tommy, that's what helps the halves a lot.
Speaker 1: Is the two blakes we're just talking about, Wade Egan
Speaker 1: and Aaron Clark. The fact that they're so they play
Speaker 1: so square and they just drag you know, they dragged
Speaker 1: those defenders in that sweet that half around the back.
Speaker 1: It really makes their decision making a lot easier. Like
Speaker 1: you've watched, let's look at some Awad's work over the
Speaker 1: course of the weekend, and he's got the ability to
Speaker 1: get out of dummy half and still get himself square,
Speaker 1: like you know, going around the backyard. They obviously work
Speaker 1: a lot on there. You know he's doing they look
Speaker 1: past us, so he's got a very good understanding where
Speaker 1: his sweepmen are. But just I mean, that's why they're
Speaker 1: self ficked.
Speaker 2: He's so good. This is why they're so good at
Speaker 2: attacking inside ten meters. You see him get out here
Speaker 2: and just isolate defenders one on one and even if
Speaker 2: they do go out the back, you see that. I
Speaker 2: think it's Harris to ed out the back. He is
Speaker 2: able to play square on his man. You don't get
Speaker 2: anyone pressing him from the inside because you can hold
Speaker 2: the ball up for so long and it's created so
Speaker 2: much time for your helf.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't often teach the no look past. But
Speaker 3: the reason why it's effective close to the line is
Speaker 3: once you isolate a defender and just tell a lie
Speaker 3: with your hips, tell a lie with your eyes and
Speaker 3: he rocks out slightly. Fisher Harris is going to run
Speaker 3: straight over that purse. It doesn't matter who it is, right,
Speaker 3: So Wade Egan's got the craft to understand that I've
Speaker 3: just got an isolated Fish Harris one on one. Now
Speaker 3: I'm going to tell a bit of a lie with
Speaker 3: my eyes. He just leaned at the south defender. Just
Speaker 3: lean out slightly. He's playing lights out at the moment,
Speaker 3: Wade Egan. Aaron Clark has this for every rap we
Speaker 3: give isaiaho Let's start doing it with Aaron Clark.
Speaker 1: Let's have a look at all these touches out of
Speaker 1: the course of the weekend and coeps Tommy he's having
Speaker 1: a Dali m type seasons. Only the fact that there
Speaker 1: is a natural well, I use bias. There's a natural
Speaker 1: thought towards more of the spine players. But I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what. Like you know, the end of a game,
Speaker 1: sometimes who gets the three two one? Oftentimes they go
Speaker 1: to the playmakers more and whatever. But he is having
Speaker 1: a dally Worthy suason.
Speaker 2: Yeah. What I like about him is he does everything
Speaker 2: in one hundred miles an hour, like he's consistently and
Speaker 2: he's such a not only a bo playing threat, but
Speaker 2: he's built. He's a board running threat and that opens
Speaker 2: up opportunities for him and he's very important for their side.
Speaker 3: You talking, I think you're right man about the dally m.
Speaker 3: He could be a smoke. He's a top five finisher
Speaker 3: for me in the daim like Nathan Tedesco, you know
Speaker 3: Calen Trindle. They're probably the ones that he will pick
Speaker 3: it up. But Aaron Clark will be accumulating votes for
Speaker 3: a team that might win the minor premiership.
Speaker 1: That was just the first half Jeezy guests.
Speaker 3: So the best part about him is the balance between
Speaker 3: running and passing. He's a run first threat ball player.
Speaker 3: What I mean by that is most of the time
Speaker 3: he's running first and then the pass is a second,
Speaker 3: second option. So he's just he has come on leaps
Speaker 3: and bounds under Webster's tutelage like he's a damn good player.
Speaker 1: Love the way the thirteens evolved The thirteen for a
Speaker 1: long time Bradley Clyde might have been there where they
Speaker 1: went from being the sort of creative thirteen to more
Speaker 1: of a yardage thirteen, which sort Tellmalalo play thirteen. But
Speaker 1: I really like the way it's evolved now at thirteen.
Speaker 1: Probably Isaiah was the first one to sort of break
Speaker 1: that male Glenn Stewart.
Speaker 3: Put Yo Radley, Cam Murray, Eric Clark sits along that
Speaker 3: and now to the point, depending on the makeup of
Speaker 3: your team, that's part of your spine at thirteen is
Speaker 3: a part of the spine.
Speaker 2: Now what do they all need a pass? Now?
Speaker 1: Don't they do?
Speaker 3: Otherwise you can't do it like Isaiaho goes down Lindsay Smith.
Speaker 2: Now that you need you need someone to link, especially
Speaker 2: out of yard and going into good ball. You need
Speaker 2: someone to link your middles out to your ages and
Speaker 2: you need that pass opportunity because teams just don't. They
Speaker 2: just can press up and go after yourself.
Speaker 1: Tommy, like when like watching you play, you do a
Speaker 1: lot of your really good working around the ruck. Do
Speaker 1: you what do you prefer now? Do you like that
Speaker 1: sort of instinctive, reactive sort of play or do you
Speaker 1: like see sequence bace football.
Speaker 2: I'm probably more leaned towards sequence bace football. I just
Speaker 2: feel like it suits me a bit more. But in
Speaker 2: saying that, like it all depends on play the ball.
Speaker 2: So if you're developing rock speed and you know you're
Speaker 2: winning winning the ruck and winning to play the ball,
Speaker 2: then it's all better off and you're just on the
Speaker 2: back of that. But for me, I feel like, well,
Speaker 2: a sequence based team, we kind of like to get
Speaker 2: to certain spots to open up different shapes, and like.
Speaker 3: He sums up perfectly, the way that he plays right
Speaker 3: system is a fallback to something that you can have
Speaker 3: something to go to. But when he's playing the best football,
Speaker 3: they'll they'll move a play and have a sequence shift
Speaker 3: to left hand post. If he doesn't get the ball
Speaker 3: and see he's a fullback or a little nine stand
Speaker 3: under the post, he just goes from left to right,
Speaker 3: becomes first receiver.
Speaker 1: And runs over the top of him.
Speaker 3: That's the best balance of having a sequence to protect
Speaker 3: and then having instinct instinct players to take advantage of
Speaker 3: queues or weaknesses.
Speaker 1: So on that, like Jamal versus DCE, because DC looks
Speaker 1: to me like a playlight. Watching DC, you sometimes like
Speaker 1: he just take off down to two meters sideline, you know,
Speaker 1: and just play very much off his head. How different
Speaker 1: are he and Jamal to play alongside?
Speaker 2: Oh, they're very different. Jamal's probably say more level headed
Speaker 2: when I say that, like he's got one style. He
Speaker 2: wants to play very good kicking game and likes to
Speaker 2: build a game where chairs Is would agree more of
Speaker 2: an opportunitist. He would come up with things that you
Speaker 2: know you couldn't see before, but he would go for
Speaker 2: things as well. So I think I think Jamal keeps
Speaker 2: us as a more stable footy team, great kicking game,
Speaker 2: chess could do things that no one else called.
Speaker 3: And that's probably a little bit to explain the Roosters
Speaker 3: against the Tigers. Him and Sam Walker very free wheeling,
Speaker 3: very opportunistic, as we say, and when there's not something
Speaker 3: to fall back on, it gets a bit clunky. Like
Speaker 3: if you're not truly dialed in as an opportunistic half
Speaker 3: back or ballplayer and you don't see the things that
Speaker 3: you're meant to see, then you go, oh, we'll just
Speaker 3: pass it, and there's no real plan to go.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you probably need to take a step back and
Speaker 2: actually look and see what we're actually trying to do.
Speaker 2: Because like they often talk about, like you don't want to,
Speaker 2: like you can't try and score on every play like
Speaker 2: you need it. You need to. That's why the Worries
Speaker 2: is so good. They break you down, they hit leads
Speaker 2: and they find a mismatch and they take it. You've
Speaker 2: got to build a game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, on that yesterday Broyce, we're just talking about doc
Speaker 1: insane and like when the competition is about timing, you've
Speaker 1: got to be playing your best football at the right time.
Speaker 1: Roosters gone through a really big six weeks. They've been
Speaker 1: up in the last couple of weeks and yesterday you
Speaker 1: just had that sense I'm going to be vulnerable against
Speaker 1: the side who's had a whorel back end of the year,
Speaker 1: the Tigers for the enigmatic, they can you know, when
Speaker 1: they're in the mood, they can turn.
Speaker 2: It on it.
Speaker 1: What do you think about that? Yes that lost yesterday?
Speaker 1: Is it one? If you're a Rooster's fan, I don't
Speaker 1: worry about It's just a minus slab. But there was
Speaker 1: no teddy or more of a concern. What do you think.
Speaker 2: I'd like to think it's a month they were playing
Speaker 2: some unbelievable footies. I know they'll be disappointed, but I
Speaker 2: do you'd like to think it's a mind sleep up.
Speaker 3: Look, look, I don't think there was too many people
Speaker 3: that thought the Tigers would actually win that, but if
Speaker 3: there was any, it would because the Roosters would not
Speaker 3: be to the game as opposed to the Tigers playing
Speaker 3: out of the skin. Look, in the years that you
Speaker 3: win a premiership, there's no doubt that you have slip
Speaker 3: ups along the way. I've been a part of teams
Speaker 3: that you end up winning, but in around twenty three
Speaker 3: twenty four, you've just dropped the game that you should
Speaker 3: not and you've played really bad. Where the Rooster is
Speaker 3: going to be premiers, going to win fifteen in a row,
Speaker 3: Probably not right. So is this the game that had
Speaker 3: to slip up? Maybe? I think Trent Robinson's probably saying
Speaker 3: I'm hoping so. Because their best performance was arguably against
Speaker 3: Penrith the Wicker go Yeah, then that their worst performance
Speaker 3: against the Tigers seven days later. There's something in there
Speaker 3: that says their best is really good. They're bad as well.
Speaker 1: They've done it before under Robert of the year they
Speaker 1: won in twenty thirteen Robbos first year, the last or
Speaker 1: round round twenty five they played the Titans at home. Mate,
Speaker 1: the Titans in this game were twelve dollars to boat
Speaker 1: them and roll them on the day, so they've got form.
Speaker 1: But it does happen. Sometimes you'd be looking over your
Speaker 1: opposition shoulder and and just get you get paced. The
Speaker 1: Big Dave, Big Dave Taylor in the past.
Speaker 2: Never stopped talking about the Titans.
Speaker 1: Or you just listen more often, Tommy, this is Titans TV.
Speaker 1: Come on anyway, we look forward to getting here with
Speaker 1: November one.
Speaker 2: So you can't afford him, mate, Protex.
Speaker 1: Absolutely you'll get your tax free Southeast Queensland tax free money.
Speaker 1: I think you're went a stage of Pali shape. She's not.
Speaker 3: A real Queensland.
Speaker 1: Dolphins mate. Like we always talk here Tommy about Isaiah
Speaker 1: Catar all the time and his ability to play slow,
Speaker 1: play fast, tell Live with the football. But yeah, you
Speaker 1: got him. You've got Max Plath, Kurt Dona who's out
Speaker 1: injured at the moment. But that back five mate, at
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, they're under legable.
Speaker 2: Watch they can just break tackles that will can't know.
Speaker 2: They're just so hard to contain. So you got Herbie
Speaker 2: and Cobbo out in that left edge, and then Bostock
Speaker 2: and Saka out in the right edge, and then Hamma
Speaker 2: just you know, links in the middle of them and
Speaker 2: such a good So when they're when they're playing their
Speaker 2: style of footy, I don't know if you can beat them.
Speaker 2: When when Kaitos going to the line, you got Nick Arema,
Speaker 2: who's just a footy player on the back of it,
Speaker 2: and they just they just most.
Speaker 3: Most teams get confidence from your defense, right, Like you
Speaker 3: think about the amount of teams that stop the opposition
Speaker 3: from scoring in the first ten or twelve minutes. Then
Speaker 3: they go down the other end score and they run
Speaker 3: away with the right. I think the Dolphins are the opposite.
Speaker 3: I think the Dolphins get confidence from their attack. I
Speaker 3: think if you're going to beat the Dolphins, I think
Speaker 3: you're gonna have the best defensive performance.
Speaker 1: Tommy, we had a few others here, but I thought, mate,
Speaker 1: while we got yeah, just a few questions, good, that's
Speaker 1: made this is sweet. This is this is not okay,
Speaker 1: But like, who are your competition favorites At.
Speaker 2: The moment, I want to go to worry if Yeah,
Speaker 2: I just really like what they're doing.
Speaker 1: That feels like a destiny, feel a bit.
Speaker 3: The roosters last week, but she's lost some weekends. Hard
Speaker 3: to do, but I'm staying with them.
Speaker 2: Dark horse, dark horse. I'm going to go to Sharks. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I just think Trindle when he comes back, yep, like
Speaker 2: he's their most important player.
Speaker 1: He's had the better season to Desco or Calm Ponger.
Speaker 2: Well, they've been the two best. I think I think
Speaker 2: Tesco just slightly. I just think what he does with
Speaker 2: that team, and because he does it every week and
Speaker 2: he's done it for so many years that we just
Speaker 2: expect it from him. But I just love what he does.
Speaker 2: But Klein, I think they're playing a style now that
Speaker 2: really suits him. They like to move the ball and
Speaker 2: him out the back of Shaw. I don't think there's
Speaker 2: more dangerous.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I thought last year the way they evolved little
Speaker 1: bit the Knights I played a little bit too much
Speaker 1: half field football, which was saying it suits the Warriors,
Speaker 1: but not so much in Newcastle a little better than
Speaker 1: they opened the field up. What about you know we
Speaker 1: talked about the Knights and Justin Holbrook Andrew Webster. I
Speaker 1: would he think Webster or Wholebrook who's had the better
Speaker 1: coach in season?
Speaker 3: I'm going Webster, the growth in the Newcastle Knights is undoubted.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't spoon to finals. But I don't think Newcastle can
Speaker 3: do anything in the finals. They might win Week one,
Speaker 3: but they win two. I think the Warriors are a
Speaker 3: dead set Premiership chance.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know Andrew Webster, like I wrote about him
Speaker 1: on the weekend, I do a bit of research on
Speaker 1: what he did. It just says a lot. I mean
Speaker 1: we're in an age at the moment where people want
Speaker 1: to get into coaching straight away, jump at a job.
Speaker 1: And his first first coaching job was in two thousand
Speaker 1: and five captain coach of the Connecticut Wildcats in the
Speaker 1: American League. Took him all the way to the ground,
Speaker 1: finally got beat by the Austin Balls. Neither club are
Speaker 1: going to be the twentieth term of the NRL. But
Speaker 1: then he's jumped from coaching Stue Ball juniors did one
Speaker 1: year a paramount of purely his work experience, and it's
Speaker 1: just taken a bit by bit by bit to get
Speaker 1: where he's at.
Speaker 3: I don't think this comes into Coach of the Year,
Speaker 3: but it's got a big part to do with Webster
Speaker 3: is the Warriors. Jersey is as powerful and as inspiring
Speaker 3: as it's ever been before. The Warriors Nation love it
Speaker 3: like they it'll be dead set the best ticket in
Speaker 3: town for their finals when they get home. And he's
Speaker 3: got a bit to do with that because of the
Speaker 3: way they're playing, and they've galvanized that country with supporter
Speaker 3: based like not too many others. So he's got the
Speaker 3: Warriors the part of his hand webster.
Speaker 1: Last one boy's Joey Marner double O seven.
Speaker 3: To he's playing half back?
Speaker 1: Well, that's the thing is everyone was waiting for it.
Speaker 1: What's double O seven going to be? And I see
Speaker 1: they put the silhouette out and the silhouette had a
Speaker 1: rather large cheating. Everyone's going, you say, Joey's got a
Speaker 1: large No, no, no, no, another good pickup.
Speaker 2: Where do you think they're all going to play? Is
Speaker 2: Joey Many going to play full back?
Speaker 3: Is he?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 3: I think like if when Joey Marney was at the
Speaker 3: peak of his powers in nineteen twenty and you're starting
Speaker 3: a new franchise, didn't he easy, Tommy easy? He's playing
Speaker 3: fullback right, but since being rugby, I think he goes
Speaker 3: back to center position like he's you've played the center
Speaker 3: position the ability off him have beat someone on the
Speaker 3: inside the flick pass like outside. I think at that
Speaker 3: age and the way that he's been taking his rugby career,
Speaker 3: I think he plays center. But I'll tell you what,
Speaker 3: you damn good pickup for someone to get him.
Speaker 1: That's tax three dollars in handy, aren't they. I mean
Speaker 1: he's doing a great job, but he's got the boat
Speaker 1: out of seeing the fisher diving into the boat, just
Speaker 1: trying to work out the John West.
Speaker 3: Now the titan's going to fight that man. How the
Speaker 3: Titan's going to fight. But you've got him coming off contract.
Speaker 1: Finally we'll find a way.
Speaker 2: It's a couple of Cholori boys doing a birth up.
Speaker 3: That's all we're doing.
Speaker 1: That's all we're doing. We're lesson out there for kids.
Speaker 1: You know, work hard at school, We good to your parents,
Speaker 1: eat the right stuff, and you could be a million
Speaker 1: tom sleep on before we did the show, mate, Yes, exactly,
Speaker 1: sleep on the couch at home of late anyway, that's
Speaker 1: what happens, Tommy.
Speaker 2: I said she was in China.
Speaker 1: She was she's back. Okay, yep, yep, Tommy, good one.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you coming in, mate, Thank you and good
Speaker 1: luck for the rest of the year.
Speaker 2: Appreciate that you'll see you in the finals. Sound good
Speaker 2: to see that