Speaker 1: It's queenslance to listen here, Grand du glanced.
Speaker 2: Queens, I come again. Welcome to the Code NRL Show.
Speaker 2: Michael carry Onis, Brent Red fresh from watching Origin two
Speaker 2: where the Delus have been humiliated, embarrassed and after a
Speaker 2: really poor performance. Ready, what did you make of it?
Speaker 1: You summed it up, mere, It was a disgraceful performance,
Speaker 1: shocking second half. They fixed up their first half, which
Speaker 1: has been the problem for the last three games, went
Speaker 1: out put up a purele second half. I mean it
Speaker 1: was as bad as bad as I can remember. You said,
Speaker 1: well side that were bad oriedge of one in the
Speaker 1: first half. This second half was worse than that. They've
Speaker 1: actually gone backwards. That's the worry.
Speaker 2: Let's peel back a little bit, ready, like is it
Speaker 2: a surprise after the Origin? And you were rightly, I
Speaker 2: was agreen with you, but you were banging on well
Speaker 2: you was essentially only one because Calum pong I got
Speaker 2: sent off, right, and I was one of the few
Speaker 2: that agreed with you with that. Right. It was a
Speaker 2: pivotal moment in the game and that changed everything because
Speaker 2: New South Wales didn't look like winning it all that game, right,
Speaker 2: so they got off with a get out of jail
Speaker 2: free cutting game one. That wasn't forthcoming in game two
Speaker 2: and they've been absolutely smacked.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's interesting, right, they fixed up their first half,
Speaker 1: but if you think back to the tries are scored
Speaker 1: in their first half tonight on at the MCG, there
Speaker 1: was a touch of luck about them. It wasn't through touch. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It wasn't through brilliant management, right, or or great play.
Speaker 1: It was deflections. It was it was you know, I
Speaker 1: dropped ball of fledglers from the kickoff. It was again
Speaker 1: I used this word origin once. It was fluky, right,
Speaker 1: And that's why they led the game. They didn't lead it.
Speaker 2: Through a master momentum and things like that.
Speaker 1: They build it through two fortuitous moments. Whilst Queens and
Speaker 1: when they created things it was through good football. It
Speaker 1: was through skillful movement. It was through you know, good
Speaker 1: rugby league the Blues when they scored it was again
Speaker 1: it just just had to touch luck to it, Mick.
Speaker 1: And that's that's again that's the worry. The first half
Speaker 1: was better, but again it was better by luck, really
Speaker 1: more luck than management.
Speaker 2: I reckon, do you remember your pregame prediction.
Speaker 1: I predicted Queens and by twenty. Wow, what was the score? Four?
Speaker 1: I did say it with a bit. It was a look.
Speaker 1: I didn't really think they win by twenty. I didn't
Speaker 1: think they win so comprehensibly like they did tonight. I
Speaker 1: really didn't. I thought they'd win because I just thought
Speaker 1: they were so much better at than new knowledge and
Speaker 1: won until it's end off. And look, I was obviously
Speaker 1: made some changes, will dive in and then Mick. Some
Speaker 1: of them work, some of them, well, none of them
Speaker 1: really worked, did they. Let's be honest, Marky Mark was
Speaker 1: pretty good.
Speaker 2: He was the one guy who was pretty good.
Speaker 1: But if you look at the other changes they made,
Speaker 1: they were maybe Mitch, you could argue Mitch wasn't great. Look,
Speaker 1: none of them were great. None of the changes they
Speaker 1: have are great.
Speaker 2: Let's not look at the changes yet, let's look at
Speaker 2: the players that were Okay, So we didn't have to
Speaker 2: do the player ratings, right, but if we had to
Speaker 2: sit down and look at the player ratings, how many players,
Speaker 2: because I don't think anyone from your south I was
Speaker 2: getting seven. I haven't seen out but sixers. I think
Speaker 2: we discussed three players when you'd give a six to Mark.
Speaker 2: Now we're going to need to say cam Maray and
Speaker 2: Victor Radley, no one else.
Speaker 1: And Victor is probably pushing it to get a couple
Speaker 1: of right, but no one else and that team played
Speaker 1: where near average. They're all below average. You know. You
Speaker 1: compare the contrast out with the Queensland team. Sam Walker
Speaker 1: outstanding of the game, kp Karen Ponger outstanding, Cobbo was brilliant.
Speaker 1: Cobbo was amazing through that.
Speaker 2: I think you're missing like Harry Grant who was the
Speaker 2: second best player on the field behind Sam Walker for
Speaker 2: cam Munster. All right, so when looking at Collins was ridiculous,
Speaker 2: Klum Ponger was probably the worst player on Coinsland spine.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's saying how good Sam Walker, Harry Grant and
Speaker 2: Munster were right, and you know Ponger was good, but
Speaker 2: those other three were a lead. And Harry Grant he
Speaker 2: was toying. He was absolutely toying with that rough defense
Speaker 2: of New South Wales. He was in sublime form. But
Speaker 2: let's stick with the Blues. Yeah, the changes that were made,
Speaker 2: so Dylan Lucas was the major one for Hamoloa, which
Speaker 2: attracted not so much the inclusion of Dylan Lucas, but
Speaker 2: the mission of created, such as the Mitch Moses coming
Speaker 2: in at five eighth, and there were a couple of
Speaker 2: force changes we touched on no longer colon move into
Speaker 2: the centers. What did you make of all them?
Speaker 1: Look, I mean I was believed that Mitch Moses should
Speaker 1: have been in the team. He probably looked a little underdone, right,
Speaker 1: he hadn't played a lot of footy, and in hindsight
Speaker 1: probably that back forward the Lucas one was no question
Speaker 1: that completely back for it, dropping em only Alakuatu, right,
Speaker 1: it was one thing. Dylan Lucas had a really quiet night.
Speaker 1: I mean, I can't remember him seeing it. I know
Speaker 1: he ran maybe seven runs or something. I can't remember
Speaker 1: seeing him on the ball. Mick, you know, and look,
Speaker 1: I mean Orange, you can swallow up guys right when
Speaker 1: you make your Origin deboo. Some of the greatest players
Speaker 1: in the game's history, their first Origin games had been
Speaker 1: really tough affairs, right. They haven't walked away from those
Speaker 1: games playing well. And I think Dylan Lucas and I
Speaker 1: got swallowed up a little bit by the occasion. And
Speaker 1: I think Hamoli Andrew John said in the coverage, HAMOLEI
Speaker 1: has to come in for Origin too, that in hindsight
Speaker 1: was a complete blunder by Laurie Daly, right, complete and
Speaker 1: under blunder. And it's easy to sit here in hindsight,
Speaker 1: but it was. There's no, there's.
Speaker 2: No This is not something that was said in hindsight.
Speaker 2: This was the time. So this is not one where
Speaker 2: the Mitch moses ethan Strange. If they lost, he was
Speaker 2: going to get smashed for whichever way he went on
Speaker 2: that call, right, So that one I can forgive him on.
Speaker 2: But the Kawau We're not sitting here retrospectively saying that
Speaker 2: was a bad call. We said it's been it was
Speaker 2: a bad or a couple of days ago. So it's
Speaker 2: a no brainer. Ready White to come straight back into
Speaker 2: the side her New South Wales in game three has
Speaker 2: to start right. I don't think that's anything that comes
Speaker 2: under consideration. That one of the biggest blights on this
Speaker 2: New South Wales game, and it was the same in
Speaker 2: game one, but they got away with it was a
Speaker 2: bench rotation. It was diabolical. Okay. We saw game one
Speaker 2: with Jacob Safiiti the only big man unused in game
Speaker 2: one right Game two, Murray and Radley first two players
Speaker 2: on played good minutes and impact. The players played big
Speaker 2: minutes right and did their job. Adam Finil Blake ten
Speaker 2: minutes less than ten minutes. It came on in that
Speaker 2: second half and was on and off the field in
Speaker 2: a matter of Blincoln and I no impact. Ethan Strange
Speaker 2: onto the field as a middle forward and then eventually
Speaker 2: shifted to five eighth for Mitch Moses. So the player
Speaker 2: sat unused Happy corrosal for Happy when New south Wales
Speaker 2: were chasing points, when New south Wales were trying to
Speaker 2: get some ascendency around that ruck, when New south Wales
Speaker 2: needed a spark, sits unused with the game at that stage,
Speaker 2: the game was in the balance, right, and we saw
Speaker 2: the benefit that the Blues got in Game one when
Speaker 2: Blake Brailey came onto the field. And admittedly things changed
Speaker 2: by the time Blake came on a couple of moments later,
Speaker 2: Calen Pongo was sent off right, but Blake Brailey had
Speaker 2: an instant impact as soon as he came onto the field.
Speaker 2: So what is doing with the bench rotation?
Speaker 1: Well, I think he's look, I've been critical law he's
Speaker 1: coaching in this series and well in the past couple
Speaker 1: of series. Right, he's been. I mean he's clearly been
Speaker 1: that coached. Again, that's pretty obvious, right, I mean think
Speaker 1: that's that's an obvious thing that that shows up straight away.
Speaker 1: And I think the use of the bench rotation shows that.
Speaker 2: And so I forgot to add Mitch Barnett played the
Speaker 2: open in twenty minutes, came all with five minutes ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean the easiest thing to do is
Speaker 1: city and pick apart Laurie's coaching, right, because it's it's
Speaker 1: it hasn't been great and I know he's a great
Speaker 1: bloke and we all love him. But last year lost
Speaker 1: the unlosable series. I actually said, Mick, and probably in
Speaker 1: hindsight I went a bit far and I said.
Speaker 2: This would be worse right if I lose this challenge.
Speaker 1: This probably isn't, This probably isn't worse than last year,
Speaker 1: but it's on the verge of being very close to it.
Speaker 1: They've got to now go to SUNCRP but try and
Speaker 1: win the decide of its Suncourt and the way they're going,
Speaker 1: I don't think they can, Mick. I just don't think
Speaker 1: that they Look you compare the two sides tonight, Queen's
Speaker 1: Hed looked like a well coached, well drilled, well led
Speaker 1: football team. The Blues look like a rabble right, let's
Speaker 1: be a complete nutter of rabble. And that was before
Speaker 1: Catani's Dagg's got well, they were they weren't even in
Speaker 1: the picture in the second half. Weren't even in the picture.
Speaker 1: So look, they're obviously going to make changes to performance
Speaker 1: like that. You've got to make changes, right, and Amali
Speaker 1: is an obvious one needs to come back in, but
Speaker 1: he's not the only one, so he can make we
Speaker 1: were talking about before the show. You can make six
Speaker 1: or seven changes.
Speaker 2: So Dylan Lucas is going to be a double digit
Speaker 2: origin player. Wine, Okay, agree with you. Doesn't play Game
Speaker 2: three on the bench. I would have him in Tame
Speaker 2: No right, Catni Stags had an absolute shoker on gets
Speaker 2: dropped right. Mitch Moses probably played himself out of the
Speaker 2: side after that. He needs to go back and play
Speaker 2: and have an opportunity at Paramatta and try and win
Speaker 2: a game on his own for Paramatta at some point
Speaker 2: because by this week but into the next week, so
Speaker 2: he looked terrible. Okay, well, Mitch Barnett, Mitch Barnett, he's
Speaker 2: a guy that's played no footy that she hadn't played
Speaker 2: since game one off the back of as and Mitch
Speaker 2: Barnett's a really good player, but off the back and
Speaker 2: so he's Mitch Moses off the back of a really
Speaker 2: disjointed start to the year. He looks underdone as well.
Speaker 2: He probably played him self out of a site. Right.
Speaker 2: So now we're sitting here and you're looking at what
Speaker 2: changes you make now all of Kawatu comes in. Cam
Speaker 2: Murray has to start the game.
Speaker 1: Well, game and Mick, we talked about Laurie's coaching, right,
Speaker 1: so many people said Cam Murray has to start this
Speaker 1: game and it wasn't us, it was football icons legends
Speaker 1: were saying Cameron Murray has to start this game. And
Speaker 1: Laurie ignored that went with what he did in game
Speaker 1: one when it didn't really work until the sendoff happened.
Speaker 1: And you report, you say, right, and the decision to
Speaker 1: ignore what everyone was saying and go your own way
Speaker 1: right with the Cam Murrays again, backfight on him.
Speaker 2: So let's start. Let's start. We should actually go position
Speaker 2: for positioning. That's how open this new South Wales side is.
Speaker 1: Off the back of Mulmost thirteen.
Speaker 2: After performances to performances, okay, heading in to Game three
Speaker 2: where they need a circuit break at to try and
Speaker 2: somehow win this series. Look, I'm keeping James to Scott.
Speaker 1: Fullback again, I agree with him, but I think it's
Speaker 1: actually open to debate, which is amazing. You know, I
Speaker 1: think you an easy amount an argument that Dylan Edward
Speaker 1: should play.
Speaker 2: Definitely could definitely you definitely could, right, But I'm keeping Teddy.
Speaker 2: The back line is huge, right, So you've got these
Speaker 2: are the players that could come into game three. You
Speaker 2: got Stephen Crichton who's been named to play for the
Speaker 2: Bulldogs this weekend.
Speaker 1: Latrell Mitchell Latrelle is a non negotiable.
Speaker 2: If he gets through eighty minutes for he has to
Speaker 2: has to get through the game, has to get through
Speaker 2: a game for South Sydney and look walks in right.
Speaker 2: Tom Travovitch back from Manley this weekend.
Speaker 1: Non negotiable has to be in the right.
Speaker 2: So who's out to Tony Staggs Obviously, unluckily Toler Kohler
Speaker 2: drops out. He wasn't he was a five out. He
Speaker 2: wasn't bad tonight. He he just didn't get much opportunity.
Speaker 2: But these guys are superior players to.
Speaker 1: It because it's even like Brian Tyres had a tough seat.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm not dropping Mark. I'm not dropping Mark's.
Speaker 1: The thing like Brian's been a mainstain that new said
Speaker 1: well side and he's never letting you said I'm down.
Speaker 1: But here's two games in this series. He just hasn't
Speaker 1: been Brian Tye.
Speaker 2: So what are we doing then? So we've got Latrell
Speaker 2: at one center. We've got I'm keeping marketing learning to
Speaker 2: us on the wing. Case of McLean's still injured so
Speaker 2: he's not going to be in the mix.
Speaker 1: I'd probably go right in the other center, Tommy potentially
Speaker 1: on the wing. Maybe even pick Tommy at fullback if
Speaker 1: he comes back and plays well.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't do that, Okay, I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1: I'd have him in the side though. Something.
Speaker 2: I would have him in the side if he gets
Speaker 2: back to playing some good football.
Speaker 1: Look for me. Latrell and Tommy, right, they if they're
Speaker 1: fit and they get through a couple of games, a
Speaker 1: game or two, they have to be in the side
Speaker 1: because they're the sort of players who will go to
Speaker 1: sun Cubs Stadium. It won't intimidate them. It won't worry them.
Speaker 1: They're they're guys who on the big stage, on the
Speaker 1: big occasion, that's when they are at their best. And
Speaker 1: you know what those black would love to mate. Can
Speaker 1: you imagine Tommy how much he would love to pull
Speaker 1: on news wast Jersey.
Speaker 2: So basically, so basically, you're not sure on Teddy the
Speaker 2: only one were I Doe'm kept picking Teddy. Anyone we're
Speaker 2: sure of is the debutante? No one I need to
Speaker 2: ask playing on the wing, were probably getting rid of
Speaker 2: tall stags and color, okay, just a few changes fight Well.
Speaker 1: I think Mitch look Mitch looked under undernight. So I
Speaker 1: think it probably depends how Mitch goes in club forty
Speaker 1: the next week or two. He's got he's got to
Speaker 1: go well in.
Speaker 2: Club footy and he gets one game well.
Speaker 1: Ethan strange putting all sorts of pressure.
Speaker 2: On all sorts of strange starts for mine five eighth
Speaker 2: with Nathan Cleary, he wasn't good to know.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to drop. I'm not dropping Nathan, but
Speaker 1: let's be honest. He had a really poor.
Speaker 2: Night, paying half prop pay so long they were like
Speaker 2: they were all bad. But we've got to pick some players.
Speaker 1: All right, So no, I'm not saying cluarly should we
Speaker 1: dropped k Payne's obviously the question who's.
Speaker 2: His front row partner? Are you picking a or you're
Speaker 2: dropping his.
Speaker 1: The mo I'd move out of the front row, okay,
Speaker 1: Rather than dropping I'd probably move into the front right.
Speaker 2: Ye, I'm comfortable with that back row of well, the
Speaker 2: hookers Reece Robson. Okay, hookers ree Robson. Because and Blake
Speaker 2: Brailey is on the bench. If Breake Browley was fit,
Speaker 2: I don't know. He's this He's like the bloke doesn't sweat, right,
Speaker 2: so he's the fittest human in the world. Okay, But
Speaker 2: if he gets a game back, he's a guy that
Speaker 2: I would pick even if he doesn't have a game
Speaker 2: between now and Origin three on the bench. If he
Speaker 2: gets a game back, I would be tempted to start
Speaker 2: in wow, but I'd probably stick with Robson and Bradley
Speaker 2: on the bench. You got, so what's the rest of
Speaker 2: your bench? Bradley and Bradley locked in as your bench players? Yep,
Speaker 2: I think Coler becomes you know, Cola. I keep Coler
Speaker 2: as my bench my bench back.
Speaker 1: Would you if you're bringing Hamoli in. Are you keeping
Speaker 1: Hudson Young in the back row with him, or are
Speaker 1: you bringing Liam Well.
Speaker 2: Liam Mardin is the one. Liam Mardin is the I'm
Speaker 2: keeping Hudson Young. Liam Marder is the player I'm tempted
Speaker 2: with to play on the bench because he's a guy
Speaker 2: who's played a little bit of middle in the NRAL
Speaker 2: as well, but he's more suited to an edge. But
Speaker 2: he's a bit of a lunatic.
Speaker 1: He's another guy, you know what, going to sun Globe Stadium,
Speaker 1: he'd love it.
Speaker 2: No, he's a bit of a lunatic and they're gonna
Speaker 2: need They're gonna need some madness in South Wales to
Speaker 2: try and win this game.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: So look, he's like, we're picking players and this is,
Speaker 2: you know, fresh off We've just watched this game, right,
Speaker 2: So this is fresh off a lot of these players
Speaker 2: we're talking about, there's no guarantee where their fitness levels
Speaker 2: are going to get out. Okay, So but if Liam
Speaker 2: Martin gets through, I'm picking him on the bench for
Speaker 2: New South Wales. I'm picking Jacob Saffiti. I liked him
Speaker 2: for Game one. I do think he should have played
Speaker 2: Game one. He's come back and he's played really good
Speaker 2: for Newcastle, so I'm keeping I'm putting Jacobs Saffiti in
Speaker 2: the side. Adam Finle Blake's touching go for me.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's there, Nicky. I don't think he's there. Look,
Speaker 1: I mean you said he's got no time tonight. They
Speaker 1: obviously don't faith in him, so you know, I don't
Speaker 1: think he's there for me. You know, So how many
Speaker 1: changes that.
Speaker 2: Just tell all the blocks that we've kept in. You
Speaker 2: just speared the whole.
Speaker 1: That's how bad it was.
Speaker 2: But that's how bad.
Speaker 1: That's how bad they That's how.
Speaker 2: Bad it's been. Let's not discount game one. Okay, let's
Speaker 2: not discount on game on.
Speaker 1: Serious should be over it should be over right, So
Speaker 1: lucky they're going to game three?
Speaker 2: So what's that? What's what's the new South Wales bench
Speaker 2: were going with that? We lost track of all the
Speaker 2: players off the top of our head. So we got
Speaker 2: Braley by Martin. Ye, all right, that's three.
Speaker 1: Are you moving Barnett back to the bench or you're dropping.
Speaker 2: Him Jacob Sefiti. So I've got Seffiti ahead of Barnett
Speaker 2: and and phanil Blake at the moment. Okay, so then
Speaker 2: you could need a half, right, do you keep Mitch
Speaker 2: on the.
Speaker 1: Bench having Burton on the bench, you know, I think
Speaker 1: Mitch start well.
Speaker 2: No, no, Mitch is well Mitch. No, No, I will
Speaker 2: keep Mitch on the bench because he's he's your five
Speaker 2: six on the bench, right, So you're only playing him
Speaker 2: if there's an emergency. You're not bringing him on. You're
Speaker 2: playing the whole Ethan Strange thing this week. Don't get
Speaker 2: me started on that, right, Ethan Stranger out standing in
Speaker 2: Origin one. Thank you, Ethan. You played really well. Unfortunately
Speaker 2: we've gone for Mitch, which means you're going to have
Speaker 2: to sit this one out unless there's an injury.
Speaker 1: That was complete.
Speaker 2: Was playing and they put him in in the middle.
Speaker 2: Like I know that he played well. I know that
Speaker 2: he's a good player. Unfortunately, sometimes good players, hello Dylan
Speaker 2: Edwards misses out on teams. Yeah, okay, so just park him, right,
Speaker 2: But I would have I would have Mitch on my
Speaker 2: bench in case. But he's only coming on if Nathan
Speaker 2: or Ethan go down, and then we still we need
Speaker 2: to by Jackson Ford.
Speaker 1: Okay, well yeah, fair enough. Just it's another new face,
Speaker 1: that's all right.
Speaker 2: Well, he's really the only Ye he's the only debutante
Speaker 2: that I picked. He'd be the only debutar. It's mass
Speaker 2: changes again, we're probably missing someone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it just shows how what you know what, they've
Speaker 1: got a massive bridge to climb, mountain to climb right
Speaker 1: now because they've been really poor in two games. They
Speaker 1: got flogged. They got flogged in Melbourne and they're going
Speaker 1: to sun Corp. That John's gonna be sold out. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be rocking. I'll tell you what if they win this,
Speaker 1: if they managed to win it, it's going to.
Speaker 2: Be one of the great And then a couple of
Speaker 2: years ago under Michael Maguire.
Speaker 1: Different coach, everything's different if they if they pull it off,
Speaker 1: it's going to be one of the great wins because
Speaker 1: they've been so poor in this series.
Speaker 2: Queensland Reelsh unused.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he almost came on. He had phones.
Speaker 2: That was cool. Old school was gone back into back
Speaker 2: in the ninety five when them but what are you?
Speaker 2: Tom didon far out?
Speaker 1: Look before this game, I was a believer that Tom
Speaker 1: didn't fit. You bring him in right because I just
Speaker 1: think he is such a good footballer. Rainning Wally Lewis
Speaker 1: medallist and Tommy is a walk up start for Queensland
Speaker 1: right when he's fit. But man, Sammy Walker was so
Speaker 1: good and there's been so good in these two games.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can change it. I think you
Speaker 1: bring back tom didn't. I think he comes back on
Speaker 1: the bench.
Speaker 2: Yeah, is a solution, though, so are you dropping Reese? Reese?
Speaker 2: And didon? Because then because the issue the talk around
Speaker 2: Reese for game one was well they needed chip Asarki
Speaker 2: and this time they went with Tolangi just in case, right,
Speaker 2: So what's I agree with? You? Did? It? Now becomes
Speaker 2: the Ezra man.
Speaker 1: And because Tommy has come on and played original off
Speaker 1: the bench and played a bit of hooker.
Speaker 2: And that's that's, that's.
Speaker 1: You know what. I probably I probably keep. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: probably keep. He'll get some more footy under his belt.
Speaker 1: And I think again, here's that break break glass in
Speaker 1: case of emergency, got right, If you need to chase points,
Speaker 1: so he's struggling in the game.
Speaker 2: You bring I still would have put him on, Still
Speaker 2: would have put him on when Queen's were in.
Speaker 1: Front, made everyone got when he put the headphones. This
Speaker 1: was before went down and the camera came on. In
Speaker 1: the crowd just you could hear the stadium got a
Speaker 1: little bit excited because he's a rock star. Right, so
Speaker 1: I probably have did and rec on the bench, And
Speaker 1: aside from that, I'm not sure do anything else with
Speaker 1: the Queens inside. I'm trying, I'm trying to think of else.
Speaker 2: Would would you touch it?
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think he missed out this time through injury.
Speaker 1: I can't even remember.
Speaker 2: I think it remains untouched and it will be the
Speaker 2: only and Reese Walsh and we're talking about bench plays. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so potentially an unchanged Queensland side and record changes.
Speaker 1: Wonder, wonder that we should have done some research research.
Speaker 2: We just finished a game three seconds ago.
Speaker 1: One of the record number of changes.
Speaker 2: We can look it up because we have just decided to.
Speaker 1: What, you know, drop everyone this game. I mean we've
Speaker 1: spoken about you know, I was ready to change the
Speaker 1: coach at halftime in Origin one, right and tonight you
Speaker 1: have to look at the way they played just as
Speaker 1: well and say, you know, obviously trav Travy Main there
Speaker 1: was a story done before this game about Laurie Laurie
Speaker 1: struggling to lift this side and follow them up, right,
Speaker 1: and Travis may cook a lot of flak for that story.
Speaker 1: But when I look at this game tonight, what I
Speaker 1: see is I said this, and I think some people
Speaker 1: said it in the lead up to this game. I
Speaker 1: can't remember who it was said, you know, they need
Speaker 1: to play for the coach now that this performance is
Speaker 1: for Lorrie. They needed to show Lorie that they've got
Speaker 1: faith him. I can't remember who said it was.
Speaker 2: Somebody I did start, well, well, isn't that But isn't that?
Speaker 1: No, No, it was about you need to play well
Speaker 1: for the coach.
Speaker 2: Generally those things happen at the starter games.
Speaker 1: Okay. What I saw was, as I said, the truth,
Speaker 1: two tries are scored, Mick were very for I'm just
Speaker 1: there's if we've if we've seen the card to arms
Speaker 1: for Lorrie and we've and we've seen that response, that response,
Speaker 1: and TRAVI man cook a lot of flak for that story.
Speaker 1: You know. I think you turn around now and you go,
Speaker 1: maybe Travy was right, Maybe that story had some legs
Speaker 1: to it. Now, maybe that story was more hitting the
Speaker 1: ball people the credit.
Speaker 2: The proof is in the results, yep. That New South
Speaker 2: Wales has been poor though poor last year, and they're
Speaker 2: on the brink of another series loss when they head
Speaker 2: to sun Corpse Stadium to to do something that's so
Speaker 2: rarely done. When they decided but as I said they
Speaker 2: did a couple of years ago, I did, I did
Speaker 2: a tip them this today. I didn't tip them. I
Speaker 2: didn't tip New South Wales today. That's not because I
Speaker 2: wanted Queensland to win. I thought Queensland were going to win,
Speaker 2: and I think Queenslan will win the decider. I just
Speaker 2: I was left so unimpressed by Game one. I was
Speaker 2: so unimpressed by what they dished out in Game one
Speaker 2: that I had no faith that that side could come
Speaker 2: out in Game two against the Queensland side who should
Speaker 2: have won Game one, and I didn't think. I do
Speaker 2: not think Queensland are twenty you tipped them. I don't
Speaker 2: think Queensland are twenty point better side than New South.
Speaker 1: Wales thirty better. I think that was like to get
Speaker 1: within twenty.
Speaker 2: They were, they were, but I don't think they are
Speaker 2: no right because so what's that a reflection of mick players, coaches, selections,
Speaker 2: bench rotation.
Speaker 1: You're fielthy with the bench rotation.
Speaker 2: Oh I would love I would seriously love to sit
Speaker 2: down like this, no lights on, no cameras, and someone
Speaker 2: run that through me to me because I just don't
Speaker 2: see it. I don't see how. I don't see how
Speaker 2: they get through this game and they're starting plays twenty
Speaker 2: minutes not to see in the last five minutes the
Speaker 2: only other big middle plays ten minutes comes off. They
Speaker 2: play a five eighth in the middle of the field
Speaker 2: and they're attacking spark hooker. Yeah, chilling back, relaxing, feed
Speaker 2: up a game big.
Speaker 1: I mean you're talking about an issue that is a
Speaker 1: coaching issue.
Speaker 2: That is that's a coaching issue. Yeah, that that's a
Speaker 2: b and percent of coaching issue. There's that's not the players,
Speaker 2: that's coaching. So what I'm Brent bounce in, Well, the.
Speaker 1: Series should be over. That's the that from me as
Speaker 1: a queen's lander. That's disimportant, disappointing thing this series.
Speaker 2: Well, o god, it's not because we get to watch
Speaker 2: the sider, we get to pick apart sides, we get
Speaker 2: to pull apart teams.
Speaker 1: A couple more basically sacked. Remember the New Well side.
Speaker 1: I've never normal it's me creating the carnage right and
Speaker 1: giving it to the Blues. But you've basically sacked every
Speaker 1: play on that side, I'll tell you what. And the
Speaker 1: thing about that is, Mick Teddy, the idea of Tommy
Speaker 1: and Latrell coming back into that side as a queen's lander.
Speaker 2: That scares the hell Tommy Latrell, Yeah, Tommy and.
Speaker 1: Latrol particularly for me, that scares that really. And Steve
Speaker 1: Crochton in there as well, if he's that's such a mate.
Speaker 1: That's that team is so big, like physically powerful.
Speaker 2: That is an imposing, powerful side that can man handle
Speaker 2: the opposite issue. And there's no bullies in New South
Speaker 2: Wales at the moment, and they need to bully their
Speaker 2: way to victory in Game of three if they're going
Speaker 2: to be any chance. Like I do to you sometimes
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Speaker 1: Why can you get about four coffees? Although I know
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