WEBVTT - Round 6 Takeaways 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:08.280 Cooper until I really enjoyed. I really enjoyed yourself and 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:15.320 Jared and Shawn Johnson on the that was the Friday. 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:20.120 Yes, ma'am, Yes, it's a Saturday. Say are you watching? 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:21.880 Watched the Who watch the whole locks? I've got a 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:22.200 new dog? 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:24.720 Could Saturday was just one day. 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:27.680 Changed my ways, mate, and sitting there with Luigi a 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:30.520 new dog, and we're watching and I thought myself, my god, 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:33.559 what a grim panel that Cooper has to assume the 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:35.680 role as a funny guy. So we've done up a 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:40.000 few little clips of some of your zingers straight up. 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:48.320 Yes, we didn't so popular years ago. 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:54.280 Sitting here, coach Jared over three hundred games. I've been 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:57.400 working with him for six weeks. How did you do it? 0:00:57.520 --> 0:00:58.520 Nice like that? 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:03.080 But with the Kiwi brothers here? So help me out 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:06.040 which one was your favorite? Sean Jared help me out? 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:08.520 Goody in both of them. 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:10.640 That's good. 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:21.360 Knock On's mistackles very good. It might be taken over 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:24.280 your lounge sometime soon now. 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:26.800 Perth thought that was a zinger. 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:34.000 From you, by the way, well done, No problem me, Scotty, Yes, 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:37.680 take it out of the world. Oh man, Yeah, the 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:42.440 two games in Perth are Perth really fast, hard track. 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:44.360 I thought we're going to see some great football. But 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:47.560 we talk about the South and Raiders game off there 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:50.400 it it was god made. 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:53.400 It was the scrappy first half was weird, right, very weird. 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:55.400 You look at the errors, a lot of the errors 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:56.160 with South. 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:58.960 You look at it and you think it's so easy 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:01.800 to amend and if they can just move some of 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:05.360 that out, you go, honestly, there'd be such a difficult 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:07.240 side to be. But they get in this mood and 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:09.840 some of the stuff like that one from Latrell, it's 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:11.840 just it's frivolous, like he. 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:13.639 Must as you let the ball go. Mactually going what 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:14.240 am I doing? 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:18.040 I think sometimes when you go into these games where 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:21.080 you're making lots of errors, if one person has the 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:23.920 mindset that it's okay to make an error, that means 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:26.440 everyone's got the same mindset and you just can't do that. 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:30.920 I think Wayne Bennett coaches the player better than most 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:32.399 in the game, and he's got a bit of work 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:34.840 to do with some of those individuals to realize that 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:38.079 when you have the ball, you are the most important 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:41.000 player on the field. Because they have telling on the left. 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:43.520 I was worried about their right hand side not taking 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:46.760 advantage of opportunities. But they are delivering at the moment, 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:49.840 so they can be a good football team. But you know, 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:53.080 some of the fundamentals that catch pass, the coming in 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:56.560 and out of games, the completion rate. I think Wayne's 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:58.080 got a bit of a challenge a second. 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:00.600 We'll talk about the raids in particular Ethan Strange, but 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:03.760 we spoke about the left side of sous and they're 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:05.840 still trying to find a way to unlock it and 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:07.800 watching a coup. I think there's a lot of half 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:10.440 field football. This is a perfect example. How oat they 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:14.320 should do more right from one sideline. 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:14.320 To the next. 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:17.440 Now this naturally opens the space app have it looked at? 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:22.080 How much more dangerous, Like you know, with the space there, 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:23.960 you know, we dave and you could have a trail 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:27.200 floating around there. The spaces are bigger, the defense is 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:29.120 a little bit shorter at the very least, you get 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:30.040 in one on one tackles. 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:32.119 Yeah, well, Cody's got the ability to play from wide 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:34.760 field positions, but then also from short field position. He 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:38.720 runs on a forty five degree angle more effectively than most. 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:40.960 So the more times he gets the ball in that position, 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:44.680 the better it can be. I think maybe on that 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:47.360 play then maybe someone had to just go and engage 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:49.480 a couple of defenders off the ruck first, because once 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:51.960 you go long past long pass, that gives time for 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:54.080 the defense just a slide from the inside and start 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:54.680 pushing away. 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:58.240 On a positive for Souse, there's really good signs around Brandon. 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:01.560 Around Brandon Smith, I thought he's I thought he's. His 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:05.280 effort when he was at nine in that first half 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:08.920 was great, but mate Wayne using him the Melbourne style 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:11.240 this way. When he was playing thirteen, he just kept 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:13.680 poking his nose through and I thought when he moved 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:16.279 to that thirteen role, I thought south looked really, really good. 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:18.080 Do you think he's a nine or a third eight. 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:20.720 I think I'd like to combine him both ways. I 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:23.040 think I'd play in the first twenty five minutes at nine, 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:25.560 give him an extended break, bring him on the last 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:26.480 thirty minutes as thirty. 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:29.360 Yea, because I think when he plays nine, his service 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:33.000 isn't the best in the competition. I think what Cody 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:34.520 needs is a ball out in front so he can 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:37.680 move on that forty five degree angle. Yeah, he's way 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:41.480 more effective with thirteen. He's got this dog of mentality 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:43.360 that he'll scrap and fight for everything. 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:44.720 And if he can get back to. 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:46.560 That like he did at Melbourne, he could be a 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:50.200 very effective play particularly in his second stint. If there's 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:52.719 fatigue in there and he can come on and start 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:55.680 skipping a few defenders, he could cause cass But I 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:57.920 think for him to be at nine for long periods, 0:04:58.160 --> 0:04:59.920 I think that's a bit risky. 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:00.919 Ethan Strange. 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:03.160 Now, we spoke about Cooper a couple of weeks ago, 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:04.840 him playing on the right and you could see him 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:07.280 just wrestling with it, but we said, eventually make him 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:09.680 a better player. We're seeing signs of that now a 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:12.840 couple of players, Like last week he might have set 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:15.479 up a try off the right foot and he's left 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:18.080 foot centric, but it's forcing him to use his right 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:18.960 foot more. 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:19.919 Very very class. 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:22.960 But on the weekend he's learning how to use his 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:25.440 left to push out and you watch he steps off 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.039 his left, He moves sideways off his left to draw 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:30.800 in the defender creer that numerical advantage which set up 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:32.760 the last try of the game. You see that one, 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:35.720 that little step away that drawers in the center and 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:39.000 away he went, so you'll see this again for people 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:41.400 catch that ball and just bounces off. 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:45.560 A little tip for Ethan Strange, this little way shapes 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:48.080 to go straight and skips to the outside like that's 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:51.440 ball playing short sides one o one. One little tip 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:54.840 for Ethan Strange just to set up his passing game. 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:57.359 Is maybe one of his first couple of touches. He 0:05:57.440 --> 0:05:59.919 is right foot back inside in those field positions. Yes, 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:02.960 just because it says to the defense, oh, he's going 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:05.080 to run off his right foot, and then his second 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.480 time he might be able to do exactly. 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:08.720 That same play and skip to the outside. 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:10.880 Because you've always got to be able to get to 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:13.560 that first defender off the ruck as a ballplayer and 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:15.400 put him under pressure that you're either going to go 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:18.240 inside or out, and when you get to that position, 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:19.279 you've got him spook. 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:21.000 And I think it's a good lesson for young players, 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:23.279 young blaves coming through the grades. The learnt step off 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:26.320 both feet, you're going to have a focus on dogs 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:26.880 and panthers. 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:28.880 Ye didn't see that coming. 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:32.159 No, I don't think too many people did. But I 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:35.640 think Cameron Sireldos showed the blueprint of how to beat 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:39.320 Penrith in its real simple form. The line speed of 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:43.400 the Dog's middle forwards was outstanding. When Penrith got in 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:46.760 trouble last year, they struggled to get over the advantage 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:49.680 line and the dogs forwards line speed met them at 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:51.880 the advantage line and didn't get them to get that 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:56.159 forward movement. They just were fit fast and when they've 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:58.839 defended really well the dogs, this has been the blueprint. 0:06:59.160 --> 0:06:59.719 Look that coop. 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:01.880 You know we spoke about when the titles look at 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.000 the advantage line that that is good. 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:08.120 Just forcing Nathan and Penith panthers not to pass the 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:08.920 ball when they want to. 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:12.600 Yeah, hardly ever see that the lie. 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:15.240 And could We talked about when the Tigers upset the 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:17.560 Wires over New Zealand. We said, of all the things 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:20.640 you know they did well, the primary thing they got 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:23.200 on the win was winning that rock battle. 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:24.480 Winning the battle of one meter. 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.080 You know when you've got the football pushing through the 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:28.920 line of meter as opposed to being pushed back. 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.480 And you just saw there where dogs won that battle. 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:33.720 You know, whether it be chopping at the legs with 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:37.160 most allowed to stop in that man straight away or 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:38.560 tackling in groups and pushing back. 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:40.680 You go watch some vision of when Pender's got in 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:42.360 trouble last year when we were talking about it, going 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:44.520 sideways and doing a lot of drop off players, which 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:47.280 allowed the defense to stop them on the advantage line 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:49.400 if they read it, whereas now they've been a bit 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:52.040 more direct, not so many drop off players trying to 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:54.720 take advantage of that forward momentum. But what the dogs did, 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:57.520 they stopped it. Their line speed and fitness just to 0:07:57.560 --> 0:07:59.960 go up and back, up and back and still having 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:01.920 fact in their defense was the key to they win. 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:04.120 The other thing about you can't get away from the 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:09.600 fact that Penrith, Penweth, poor Penrith and Cooper Again, we 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:11.360 say this quite a bit on there, and it doesn't 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:15.320 matter how a leaded team or an individual is. The 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:19.320 old week of avalanche of positive press made how many 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:21.560 players the old the whole orat New South Wales side 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:23.040 should almost be Penwrith place. 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:26.440 Undefeated? Who are they going to be playing in the 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:28.559 Grand find? They could? You know all of that stuff? 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.080 And I asked Isaiah last night for the shower, I said, 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:34.400 you know, I said, I'm not asking to confirm it, 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:36.440 but I said, as you know, that stuff bleeds in 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:38.600 He said, yeah, no, it does here and all the stuff, 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:40.280 all the time of it, we're going to be undefeateed. 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:41.880 It just naturally does. 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:44.400 And it came into not only you know, their fringe players, 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:47.400 but it came into Nathan's performance at different stages. Isaiah 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:50.600 you know, had some errors. Liam Martin, so their leaders 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:54.200 and Dolan Edwards too. One of the things that I 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:57.520 really liked what Galvin did up against Oh yeah, clearly 0:08:57.640 --> 0:08:58.199 like he. 0:08:58.160 --> 0:08:59.280 Had a lot of good touches. 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:05.079 Galvin Galvin cops criticism, some attention, whatever, but I thought 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:07.440 he played really well in a big game for Nathan, 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:10.280 clearing Game two hundred. It was a points victory to 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:11.040 Lachlan Gals. 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:11.839 Got on a lot of. 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:15.080 Little touches, a lot of short passes, and he showed 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:18.200 the way of how to attack Penris left it like 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:21.400 he used up Presston perfectly, short pass and the inside 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:24.400 shoulder to lungy short pass on the outside, then played 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.280 out the back, gave Connor Tracy tries. So not never 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:29.880 the same look. I thought Galvin was very good. 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:31.079 I thought he was fantastic. 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:33.600 We've seen all these touches here and you see with 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:35.440 all this how much quality there is there. 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.960 And he has a lot of involvement, right, but he did. 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:41.720 He actually did far less than he did the last 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:45.120 previous couple of weeks, and by doing less allows him 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:48.040 to sit, sit, pick and choose his moments, play a 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:51.640 little straighter, far more quality, playing out the back, out 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.920 the back, out the back, and then look plays short inside. 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:58.000 So he's mixing his game up and blaze to Lungy's defending. Okay, 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:00.400 which one is Galvin going to do here the back? 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:03.080 Is it short? And that indecision? Yeah, I thought he 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:03.360 was good. 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:07.240 There was a couple of moments that Galvin would want 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.000 to have back, but at the end of the day, 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:11.319 that's the points victory over Nathan Cleary. 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:11.760 In a big game. 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:14.719 And we talked, you know, there's sometimes you look for 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:16.960 a sign in a game early on and you go 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:19.920 or hang on a second, they're off their game. Last 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:23.400 week we showed all Casey McLean's defense and like we said, 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:27.280 alongside Stephen Crichton, he is the best defensive player in 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:29.800 the competition. And early in this game there were two 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:34.040 defensive misreads and that's when you go, oh, okay, they're 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:34.560 off their game. 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:37.320 And not to say that this happened, but you imagine 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:39.680 Blaze to Luing and Casey McLean. We're probably one of 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:41.920 those guys guilty of thinking who were playing in the 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:42.480 Grand Final. 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:44.400 We're going to go course suit and if. 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:47.959 You are ten percent off, you know your dedication and 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:50.280 commitment to the game, you will get found out, particularly 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:51.560 when you come against the dogs. 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:55.480 When you're up against the side there's been criticized heavily 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:57.080 for two weeks and the need to win. 0:10:57.360 --> 0:10:58.040 You've got to be good. 0:10:58.080 --> 0:10:59.680 We're going to be knocked over and there was a 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:02.000 little I want to show a little thing around Galvin 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:06.240 and Cleary. Right, So similar kick in the same situation 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:09.160 of the field. This is Lachland Galvin. If he kicks 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.760 this on the trial under Brian Total it is a 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:12.640 try to karraz. 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:14.600 It is absolutely a try to craz. 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.600 So every moment, every kick is important in an erl 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:20.080 Nathan Cleary, you know in the second half, look at this, 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:24.800 puts it back shoulder on Montoya and Jenkins scores. Now 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:28.960 Galvin won that contest versus Cleary. But for Galvin's evolution, 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.480 if he wants to be a dominant half back of 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:34.520 this competition, when you're kicking the ball, put it in 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:37.160 the best spot for your attacking play, because that ten 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:39.640 meters off the line cost him a try if. 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:40.840 He puts that on the trial line. 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:43.760 I'm almost certain on putting your house on Kearraz takes 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:44.800 out the top of bryn Toal. 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:48.640 Question for you, Cooper, because you are a very very 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:53.400 good tactical kicker, like yeah, as far as pure kicking 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.280 genius that, but very very good at what kick was 0:11:56.280 --> 0:12:00.880 needed at a certain time. At what point did you 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:04.040 decide what kick we're going to use? Is it as 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:06.839 to play the ball's taking place? Certainly before the ball 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:09.920 hits your hands, did you were you perfectly clear in 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:10.240 your mind? 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:11.960 Did you ever really run to the line down? What 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:13.920 am I going to do? Were you're at it crystallized? 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:14.240 No? 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:16.920 So my number one rule for kicking on last play 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:20.080 is kick to space right. So if you're in that 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.040 position on the far side of the right side and 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:25.360 your left sides open up, I wanted every option available. 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:28.200 I wanted the short grubb a kick, I wanted someone 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:30.200 near the posts. I wanted to kick to the center, 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:32.240 and I would definitely wanted the winger. 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:33.400 Holding onto the sideline. 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:35.960 Now, when I caught the ball, I would survey the 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:38.720 ground and see where the space. If space was in front, 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:41.320 I'm doing the grubber kick. If the winger had come 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:44.200 off and given the left winger some space on the sideline, 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:46.160 flick that thing over there as quickly as you can 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:51.080 say for any half or particularly Galvin, you kick to space, 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.120 but you've got to have the options of running through that. 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:54.520 Nathan clearing the. 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:58.880 Ball hit the deck, he circumvented, looked up and saw space. 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:00.600 Now if he sprays, that's not a try. 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:03.360 Yeah, but he put the ball on the back shoulder, 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:05.640 gave Jenkins the run. 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:05.840 It was. 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:06.560 It was a good kick. 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:11.199 Some standout performances have the course of the weekend made 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:16.640 the Warriors were just outstanding and their young players were 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:19.120 just Hellison we speak about him all the time, but 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:22.600 Jacob Lavin has been fantastic this year and uh and 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:24.520 Vanmunge coming off the bench. 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:25.240 Was just mighty. 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:27.760 This was a We're talking about the storm in a second, 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:29.720 but boy, our boy, this is a great performance. 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:33.160 This is almost the best Warriors performance I've seen in 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:36.719 a long long time. A couple of things to pick 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:40.800 up before the match. We spoke to Roger two of 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:43.160 us as sheet before the game, and try to have 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:45.480 a little bit of a joke like Jawan Johnson and 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:49.720 Jaron are good friends with Roger and tried to loosen. 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:51.440 Him up a little bit. He had nothing of it. Yeah, 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:52.520 thought that interview was. 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:55.640 Like, well, okay, Rogers dialed in here. He saw what 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:59.800 he did to William Warbrick. They had savage defense to Warriors. 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:03.079 They were ruthless in the way they went about it. 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:05.520 And I'm going to give Andrew Webbs are a huge 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:07.800 rap because not too many I'm going to say this 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:10.720 astrain based coaches can go over and improve the culture 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:11.839 of the Warriors. 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:13.440 He has done that, sure. 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:16.640 But the care factor, the enjoyment, the play for one 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:18.679 another mentality they showed on the weekend. 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:19.960 That is all down to. 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:22.440 Yes, they've got a good culture, but give Fish at 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:25.680 Harris a big part of that. But also give Webster 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:28.080 a huge part of the back because it's been a 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:30.560 long time since they've been able to go to Melbourne 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:33.240 and beat the Melbourne Storm. And they had their backs 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:36.320 against the wall in Melbourne Storm and the Warriors smashed them. 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:36.680 Coops. 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:40.080 It was been fifteen years or more of dominance of 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:43.520 Melbourne Storm over the Warriors. And watch when the Warriors 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:45.600 got on top the other night. It was almost like payback. 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:49.120 They were particularly nasty, really sticking it to them, and 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:51.920 you just said about, you know, Roger being really stonefacers serious. 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.440 It takes me back to a story you know sometimes 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:56.480 you know, and you've captain a few times where you 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:58.360 go for the toss. When you do the toss for 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:00.440 the game, you get a real sense from it. Opposition 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:04.160 opposition captain. We're playing the Cowboys one night in about 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:08.000 nine ninety eight. Cowboys have really been struggling. We're we're 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:10.400 on this roll. So we turned out to do to 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:12.840 do the coin toss. And the captain of the Cowboys 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:16.400 is great Johnny Lomax, mate, one of the most aggressive blokes. 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:18.760 And we've got Dave his brother playing out side, who 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:21.120 was firing. So I'm waiting to do the coin toss 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:28.240 and the referee I was captain that day, chief had 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:30.840 ing obviously because it was. 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:33.360 Continue on. 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:35.440 So we're sitting on chatting to the referee and Dave's 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:38.080 running bit sorry Johnny's running a minute too late anyway. 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:39.360 Johnny walks in. 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:42.640 Hey, Johnny, here you go mate, mate. Jeess tee you 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:44.200 I don't know if you've been watching our days playing. 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:48.480 He's killing it any he turned the referees, they tossed 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:52.680 the coin and I'm like, oh, we might be in 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:55.840 trouble here. They knocked and sad like we just turned 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:58.720 up with that attitude and they were there. 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:01.200 For Sometimes working in the media, you can spot things 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:03.600 before the game. It doesn't necessarily tell you the whole story, 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:05.560 but it says, oh, okay, there's a little bit like 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:08.240 if you're joking around the sheds, but what Roger is 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:11.120 presence in that interview said that Warriors a doll. 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:13.120 They're looking to change history. 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:16.560 Yeah, telling me about the Storm. 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:19.440 So look at some of the clubs that are struggling 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:23.720 in the moment right Manly they moved their coach on 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:25.960 and there was obvious things in the way that they 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:28.120 were plan that you thought, oh, yeah, are the players 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:31.280 playing for their coach. Look at the Dragons. Look, they've 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:35.840 got some issues in their roster. Their halves aren't athletic 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.240 enough or defensively, they don't have any forwards in the 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:41.280 middle of the field that can really move the quick 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:43.240 play the ball, speed and things like that. You look 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:46.040 at the Melbourne Storm. I don't think there's anything physical 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:49.600 wrong there. Coach is great. They've arguably got three of 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:54.880 the best players in the game in Monthster Hughes. Defensively, 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:58.000 you know, there's some questions around that at different stages, 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:01.320 but Craig Belly knows a defensive game plan. Completion rate, 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:04.560 They've got the best completion rate the competition, so it's 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:08.760 nothing physical in what I'm seeing. I guess go back 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:12.760 to I've lost a couple of Grand finals and I 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:16.120 second guessed myself the following year, luckily enough, has. 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:18.080 Managed to win off the back of it. 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:23.360 I think, in you lose two Grand finals subconsciously, do 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:25.159 you start second guessing yourself? 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:26.960 Right? Does this actually really work? 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:31.040 What I've been doing for the last year individually and collectively, 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:34.439 can we do this again? And I think it's going 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:37.840 to take Melbourne storm not necessarily to throw everything out. 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:40.320 I think they've got to double down on what they're 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:43.320 good at, be stoic enough to say yes, this is 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:47.720 good enough, and be more better at delivering their performance. 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:51.520 I I can't see any other way other than. 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:57.000 The pressure or the hesitation of losing two Grand finals 0:17:57.920 --> 0:17:59.800 is playing a part in something. 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:06.200 It's interesting because I lost a Grand Final in England Bradford, 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:09.960 Bradford Northern Buddhists at Old Trafford. But the next day 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:12.800 I jumped on a planet, came home and when you 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:15.280 come home, people go, oh, Madie, where you've been. I've 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:18.240