WEBVTT - Round 16 Takeaways 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:03.240 Will it keeps good to be back. 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:09.360 Where where'd you go when it's completing tour over to 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:12.760 the warehouse? Yeah, yes, you're running for the prime minister. 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:17.480 No, I'll tell you what what it's an amazing event. 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:20.000 It was UC one of the event. Like I think 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:23.520 sport can learn from the UFC and that big event. 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:28.120 It was just the promotion, the marketing, the excitement, everything 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:31.159 around it. I reckon if you think I reckon the 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:35.360 sports history, the best sport and the best sporting organization 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:38.000 as far as marketing themselves has been. It's going to 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:38.600 send him suit. 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:41.000 The WWE, you took a leaf out of it because 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:43.960 you'll be around that backstage hat everywhere you went. 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:49.160 Self promotion. But you look at like the UFC. I'm 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:51.760 sorry the w W. I mean, this is a sport. 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:56.760 You wouldn't believe it. It's fake, but it's just got 0:00:56.800 --> 0:01:00.360 this massive worldwide following. It's just it's just to show. 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:03.960 And it's the UFC. They've taken the accues off that. 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:07.640 I think if there's things that we can learn. I've 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:11.679 always been critical Grand Final week in Sydney. You wouldn't 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:13.600 know it's to a certain extent, you wouldn't know it's 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:15.600 on little fan zones. 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:18.000 Yeah, more sort of throw at it to make it 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:19.800 definitely well. 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:22.319 I think I think the way how good the sport 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:25.600 is going at the moment, the NRL and just everything's 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:28.840 going on, we deserve a big Grand final week, a 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:31.600 tat a Grand final week, So I wouldn't surprise you 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:34.280 if they're a part of it. With Titans, why not 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:35.920 the Dolphins. 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:39.440 I'll tell you what, mat I agree. 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:43.200 Last six games, last six games, they have averaged thirty 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:47.800 eight points considered fifteen, so thirty eight fifteen everyge score, 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:52.360 seven tries per game, eight line breaks per game, just 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:54.480 on the up and up. 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:56.840 If there is a team's attack that can break down 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.480 the best defensive team in Penrith, because let's be fair, 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:01.480 if you want to win this competition, you have to 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:02.840 beat Penrith at some stage. 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:04.120 They do have it. 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:07.000 They have this attack that can literally tear you apart 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:11.400 in quick succession. But the one thing that they are 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:13.079 set up, they are well balanced. 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:14.120 They're a good team. 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:16.920 We will look at some of their individual brands, but 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:20.320 are they the team that lacks enough like real game, 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:22.720 genuine experience to win a compo over someone that's been 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:26.040 there four times like Penrith, h fly Kfusi is the 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:29.280 only one that's really truly done it number of times. 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:31.320 I hope I'm wrong here because I don't believe in 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:33.560 this theory that you have to lose one to win one. 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:38.120 But do they have enough experience to walk into Penrith 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:41.200 in a prelim final or a grand final and get 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:42.359 a ten out of ten perform? 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:46.080 Let's have their best squad right, all their best twenty 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.800 players right if they were to play, it's a very 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:51.160 impressive group. And as you said, look and the other 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:53.480 thing about they've got money in their Captistino side food 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:55.280 has been mentally retired. 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:56.880 There I'll tell you what they've got. 0:02:56.919 --> 0:03:02.880 Cooper Isaiah Atowa is a lot older than his pertificates, 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:05.600 see one like he's just a really the way he 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:06.440 conducts himself. 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:09.239 One day he'll be the smartest player in the colm. 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.240 No doubt, no doubt He's in the Greend final now 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:14.560 is yeah, then you have a flaglet you've got you know, 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:17.320 you've got Hammer, you got farn Worth who've got a 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:21.560 great experience, as you said, but even guys like Plath 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:25.520 and that who have now tasted state of origin. You know, 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:28.280 I mean the improvement in those guys and even look 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:30.520 I look at Kurt Donny who there right number fourteen. 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.960 Kurts only a very young guy, but again he like 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:38.080 he's smarts, his toughness, the way he can he ball 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:39.440 plays almost like a veteran. 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.080 A good team needs to compliment one another, right, So 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:47.120 they've got young, exciting, athletic outside backs, really smart halves, 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:52.280 a good balance between X factor and toughness. Like, yes, 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:54.920 we will highlight all the great players in terms of 0:03:54.920 --> 0:04:00.000 scoring ability, but what underpins that is Noles, Gilbert Stone, Flag. 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:02.640 But you cannot beat Penrith on the day unless you 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.560 take down Moses Lioda. Yes you can fight fire with 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:09.280 Nathan Cleary and Edwards. That someone needs to go after 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:12.200 Leoda and that forward pack. And they are well balanced, 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:15.680 but can they deliver on a big game and all 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:16.560 of it work at once. 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:19.000 Let's talk about some of their players and the one 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:20.800 we've spoken to me for a couple of years now 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:24.160 and he just he's been fancy is Isaiah can Teller. 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:31.400 He had a underwhelming Ciity Championships in the last year 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:33.520 and in some ways I thought this at the start 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:35.160 of the year at a slow start to the season. 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:39.360 In turn, so did the Dolphins. But certainly in the 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:40.880 last couple of months he's picked up. 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:42.760 The reason why I think he had a slow start. 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.360 He was bamboozling teams last year, and I think now 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:50.280 teams defend Isaiah tell not in the same defensive shape. 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:51.280 What I mean by that. 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:54.880 Is sometimes he'll get rushed, sometimes they'll be passive, and 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:57.520 when he's going to the line. In the first third 0:04:57.520 --> 0:04:59.800 of the season, he was unsure of what to do 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:03.640 that through his timing out. Now he's starting to manipulate 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:06.680 again where he knows to go to. So for example, 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:09.720 if a team rushes outside and like that, for example 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:13.279 from there from the Cowboys, he'll go back ten minutes 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:14.520 later and throw. 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:15.600 The pass over the top. 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:18.040 Yeah he's smart enough to know, Okay, they got me 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:20.720 that time, but this time, I'm going to throw the 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:22.440 ball over the top. Whereas the first third of the 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:25.200 season he was struggling to react to that because he 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:26.920 actually didn't know when he had the ball in and 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:27.800 what they were going to do. 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.720 And the strength of the system too. Coop, like, we'll 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:33.040 just take a little step back there. He wasn't there 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.960 On the weekend neither was all their origin stars. They 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.520 traveled to Campbelltown, very very hard place to win against 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:41.240 the side the Tigers, which was a really important game 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:42.880 for them, and they knock them over. So it's the 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:45.000 strength of the system. Let's move to Donna Hue now, 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:47.840 Kurt Donna Whoe. And I love this Blager as a player, 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:50.840 young player who I said before, He plays like a 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:54.960 real clever veteran. The way he conducts himself, old school 0:05:55.120 --> 0:06:00.599 skill and toughness, Like this is what I think about him. 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:05.240 Is to Cleary or Donna, who is to isaiac Otawa. 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:08.360 They are the new one and then maybe we're still 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:10.040 talking about them now, but in a year or two 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.520 times we're talking about them maybe as the dominant combination. 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:15.400 He's got a he grew up as a half, right, 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:18.159 so he's got natural intelligence of how but now that 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:21.360 this ballplane thirteen has come into play, he knows when 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:23.960 to skip a defender, he knows when to square up 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:27.440 and defender, and it's it's just what a new ballplane 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:30.200 thirteen has to do, Like he understands what to do 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:32.080 when to do it. But he's also big enough to 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:35.000 take a carry. That's one thing that that ballplane. Middle 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:37.480 needs to do is when to run, when to pass, 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:39.600 and if you're going to run, you still need to 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:40.719 be able to create momentum. 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:41.920 You just can't get smashed. 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:44.360 The most impressive thing about him was born in Newcastle. 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:46.800 Good ones that come out of there, that's in Queensland. 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.040 Moose places are apparently max Plath. 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:54.400 It's definitely a Queensland where he is from Max Plath. 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:58.840 And what Origin takes players who are good players in 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.880 terms of into genuine and stars. God, he's at an 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:02.880 Origin series so far. 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:08.800 He's a tackling machine, tough, uncompromising, he's got versatility, can 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:12.520 play nine and thirteen. One thing that goes on a 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:14.680 little bit under estimated he is. 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:16.040 In these Origin games. 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:19.480 He's come up with two significant passes that are contributed 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:23.000 to two tries. That one there for Lierra that ability 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:25.800 to catch and pass, and the other one was for 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:29.640 Monster's kicked for Cobbo. Ball goes up, toy catches it. 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:32.160 If he threw the ball in the first moment, it 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:35.040 gets stopped. But he threw this sort of call it 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:37.560 speculator but very controlled over the top and got the 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:39.640 ball the monster like this kid's got skilled to go 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:40.000 with these. 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:43.760 Tough, good instincts. That's just raw instincts. So and Cobbo, 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:45.840 let's look at all these touches from State of Origin. 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:47.400 This is one of the stories of the State of 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:48.160 Origin series. 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:49.720 So let's not forget six. 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:51.520 Months ago his career was on the brink, wasn't it. 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:55.320 People left the Broncos, they pretty much allowed him to go. 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:55.880 He went to the. 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:59.720 Dolphins, made his performance the other night. You know, Fedi 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:05.320 just the finest performed of his career and I just 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:08.920 look in hats off to Billy Slater. Whatever role he's 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:12.120 given him, however he's motivating him, has just been remarkable. 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:14.440 I think Christian Wolf deserves a big right for it too, 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:17.720 because he's the guy that has sort of mentored him 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:20.840 at club Land. Billy Slater and Jonathan Thurston have sprinkled 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:25.000 a little bit of magic dust on Selwyn. He's performance 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:26.920 the other night. Sam walk was Player of the Match, 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:29.160 but he was literally he could have easily got it. 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:32.160 And one is in the conversation for Player of the 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:34.720 series the way that he's been playing. But one thing 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:37.840 that Selwyn's sort of missed at different stages. He's had 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:41.680 some good performances that he has sort of an average one. 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:45.079 His backfield carries are as powerful as anyone on the field, 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:48.040 like it's Brighton to or Esk. He's charging into players 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:50.840 and skittling them. But then he's also got this finishing 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:54.640 ability to get the ball down in some really difficult spots. 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:57.040 So he's doing at both ends of the field. 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:59.959 And hammer the last week. Just a phenomenal athlete, phenomenal player. 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:02.640 But the other thing about him, whenever Queensland during State 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.719 of Origin could really need something in a game, so 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:08.320 often he's the bloke that does it, just does something 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:11.520 you're completely out of nowhere long range tries. 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:14.840 When he plays fullback, he's the best finisher in the game, 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:19.640 like he anticipates an opportunity just when there's a support needed. 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:23.120 He's the one that turns up inside the kick in 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:25.720 the finesse at different stages to set up someone else. 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:29.440 The other thing I really like about Hamma is he 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:32.520 hasn't been found out defensively. There's one question where you 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:34.840 go from fullback to the centers in the Origin arena 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:39.319 coming up against Stephen Krichton or a Catoni Stags that 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:43.000 maybe he doesn't have the awareness or all the toughness 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:45.360 to hold onto a tackle, but he hasn't been found 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:48.760 out defensively like he is. He's got a Queensland jersey 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:49.720 for as long as he wants. 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:50.040 It at the moment. 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:52.120 And we haven't spoken about Jack Bosstok, who's one of 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:53.920 the most improved players in the cop and we haven't 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:57.200 spent he will play Origin Jack and Herbie Farnworth, who 0:09:57.720 --> 0:09:59.400 there's an argument for the best center in the game. 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.480 All those things. The next month thinks the Knights, the 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:04.880 Sharks and the Cowboys. 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:06.000 I'll tell you what. 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:07.800 At the end, they're the second line of betting at 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:10.240 the moment, at the end of this that month before 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:12.000 they go into the boy they might be a lot 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:13.480 closer to than we think. 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:15.160 Seven wins in a row and the other thing that 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.160 I like about them, like Penrith has done in their 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:20.600 Premiership years, when their Origin players are out, the next Cropper. 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.080 Players stand up and take a victory. 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:24.960 The other team that I thought was super impressive on 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:29.040 the weekend with the Titans. That's they struggled for a 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:30.959 bit of consistency in the early part of the year, 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:35.080 but their last three weeks big win over the Broncos. 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:38.319 You had the moment Kana Kidney and what Zaane Harrison 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:41.920 delivered on the weekend, I think the Titans have found 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:46.000 their spine. I think with Kinney, Campbell and Zaye doing 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:46.520 what he's doing. 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:48.520 The one thing I really like. 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:52.439 Zay is a six game halfback, but he's doing things 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:53.559 that it takes a. 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:54.600 Long time to understand. 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:57.800 He set up a try for Philip's Army where he 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:00.640 played nice and straight and direct and the back role 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:03.320 played an inside pass for Campbell. Look what he does here, 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:05.400 doesn't sit back and go to the open side to 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:08.440 set a field position, rips down the short side and 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:11.080 just throws a cutout past for Sami. This sets up 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:14.240 a try and then moments later he's got the field goal. 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:18.880 Like he didn't hesitate like Jamal Fogy missed an opportunity 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:21.640 to kick a field goal on the weekend. He hesitated slightly. 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:25.160 This young kid. Because you're part of the recruitment committee that. 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:28.880 The Buttons have found the half back like this kid. 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:32.600 Well, it has delivered in his six I'm not saying 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:35.160 that he's going to be a gun for a long time, 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:38.360 but in the six games we've seen, there is enough 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:41.280 to say that Josh Hannah has a half bait. 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:45.800 They should investing Blake who deserves huge credit for Zay 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:47.440 and guy called Brad Davis. 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:49.400 Brad, where's creek boy? 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:49.719 I think? 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:50.600 But he ended up. 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.720 He came through his a very good schoolboy footballer, played 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:56.440 for the Titans in two thousand and eight and never 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:58.160 reached the potentially thought he was going to do. 0:11:58.240 --> 0:11:59.400 But he's doing. He's done. 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:03.680 He's worked with Zaane more than anyone, so he deserves 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:04.880 a lot of credit. 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:07.120 You told me before that no decision in terms of 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:09.720 recruitment goes past without your affirmation. 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:10.360 Mate. 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:13.000 They ring me and say what do you think? Then 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:16.880 they go completely the other way. Likely so Kiano Kinney. Look, 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:19.839 we've spoken a couple of times about this his last 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.760 five or six weeks, Cooper. The only thing that match 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:25.880 is he's brilliant and skill and billy to do things. 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:27.440 I know is his toughness. 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:31.520 Just that six minute spell against the Tigers. 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:34.439 Now I know they lost it, like, but he set 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:37.200 up three tries to get them back in the game. 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:39.920 Like he has just done things like this thing against 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:44.560 rees Foals the other week, mach Winner, like you just whatever, 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.000 he basically this is probably not good for you in 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:50.320 the retention committee. But whatever he wants price wise, you 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:53.440 cannot let keianu' kinney go. And he's fought hard for 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:55.560 it because there was an argument that Campbell or Brimston 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:57.439 was going to be the fullback to get out of 0:12:57.880 --> 0:12:59.960 serious injury that you had to get through last year. 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:03.079 There is like he's a star. 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:03.800 He is. 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:05.360 He is a genuine star. 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:10.480 And real well balanced kid too. Monster, you're fifty two 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.440 hundred and fifty games. Yeah, I know life accelerates as 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:15.920 you get older, but that's gone quick. 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:23.120 Plaid well too, Like Monster's got this larryic and rough 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:24.800 around the edges, and he plays up to it a 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:27.440 little bit, like he likes to make a joke about things. 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:32.000 But Jeezy cares about his team, Jez cares about Queensland, 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:34.640 Jez cares about the Storm. And when he gets that 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:38.880 balance between being free flowing and the emotion that's connected 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:41.600 to the jersey, like Game two last year when he 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:46.080 lost his father like that that that takes huge Khounas 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:48.319 to be able to do what he did captain for 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:52.600 the first time an emotional week. Monster is a very 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:58.040 good player two fifty the Melbourne Storm. He deserves to 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:00.800 be in the conversation after maybe there for another couple 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.040 of years and gets a three hundred, But he could 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:05.280 easily have contributed to that club. 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:07.319 Are equally along Smith and Slowes. 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:08.520 In front of the Weekend there was a lot of 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:13.880 sign and purely through affection mad dog Munster, and I thought, 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:16.520 it's not really it's not him anymore, you know what 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:19.960 I mean? Like you know, he has certainly turned his 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:23.120 life around, family man. Now he's a leader at that club. 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:25.160 Yeah, Coop. 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:27.040 He came in twenty sixteen and when Billy had his 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:30.480 shoulder coming in twenty sixteen, played fullback. When Billy returned 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:33.920 in twenty seventeen, he was forced to make the transition 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:35.880 from one to six, which is. 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:36.960 Very difficult to do. 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:39.480 Darren Locke, it took probably eighty nths to be able 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:42.840 to do it, probably get his head around that sort 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:46.080 of playmaking. But he just seamlessly went into it. I mean, 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:48.560 you're his half back. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe took more 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:49.200 time than I think. 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:55.680 No, No, I think he's carefree approach, but the actual 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:58.400 I really do care like he gets that balance right. 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.600 If you're going to transition to a position that's a 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:04.320 bit foreign, like you need to have confidence and when 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:06.800 you make an area, you can't really take two steps back, 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:09.560 which you need to keep improving. And he's done that now. 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:12.520 Like I think, you know, one of the things that 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:15.640 monster has done he's evolved over his time now is 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.600 the leader of Queensland. He leads in Melbourne Storm with 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:22.160 Harry Grant and I think what he's delivered to that 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:25.120 Melbourne Storm, he'll be a legend once his time's done. 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:27.000 Absolutely legend. 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:30.720 Dogs a third and twelve over manly they got the 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:33.680 result mainly had their opportunities tough loss, he'd have been 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:37.320 really disappointed. Karen for and interesting they rejigged the spine 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:40.320 against Stephen Crichton. The six Burton went to the centers. 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:42.680 I think it's sort of they simplify their game to 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:45.040 think I liked about their game and it was. It 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.760 wasn't a beautiful win, but it was a dog's win, 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:49.440 you know that traditional tough dogs. 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:52.080 Do you like that? Do you like the Burton Crichton swap. 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:56.800 For the short term? I certainly don't see it a 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:59.240 long term. I'd be surprised if he's still there in 0:15:59.240 --> 0:15:59.480 a month. 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:02.200 Stock Brighton's a better center that he is five eight 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:04.680 and Burton's a better five eight than he is center. 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:06.440 Yes, naturally, when you do that, you. 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:10.480 Think, okay, I think it just allowed him coop. What 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:14.320 I like to bet their game coops is what they've 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:16.720 sort of given up trying to prove to people. The 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:18.560 Galvin thing, you know what I mean. I think they 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:20.360 returned to what got him to the top of the 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:22.600 hill last year for a while, and that was an 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:26.600 attitude of high completions, focus on defense. 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:28.800 There's a couple of things that has helped the Dogs attack. 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.600 I think Salmon's not in the ball playing position anymore. 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:35.360 He's playing on the edge. There seems to be and 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:39.600 this is why I think the change happened. Connor, Tracy, Hayward, 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:45.400 Burton and Galvin. There's not a true genuine communicator, so 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:47.640 I feel like sometimes they might get a little bit lost. 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:51.040 Who's their best talker, Crichton. Yeah, move him close to 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:53.400 the ball for a couple of weeks, just to get 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:54.840 people in the right position. 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:56.400 Because yes they won. 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.440 Yes, Crichton's a star, but there was a couple of 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:03.360 passes that Burton would have iced better. There's definitely a 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.560 couple of kicks that Burton would have ice better. So 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:09.840 I'm with you. I'd be very surprised if they get 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:11.359 to the back end of the year and Crimet's played 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:12.840 half the games. 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:14.840 A bit of talk ground around that they might move 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:18.239 and people say that they should put into fullback. I 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:23.240 don't see that working. I just don't think the way 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:25.200 the full back. And there's a reason that the fullback 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:27.920 position has evolved to that sort of fast, rapid fire 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:31.000 guy given the real changes in the space. He's long 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:34.320 striding sort of player. I just and the other thing 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:39.800 is the importance of his defensive responsibilities. I just don't 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:43.399 see everything points to fullback should work for him. I 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:44.240 don't think it would. 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:46.840 I think the spine or an extension of the coach 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:50.280 when it comes to the attacking system, right, they get 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:52.879 the game plan and they call it and execute it. 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:56.840 Fear like. Crichton is probably their best talker in communicator. 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:59.040 They've just moved him close to the ball to make 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:01.200 sure that all those things that have been practicing jury 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:02.359 gets on. 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:14.720 Best state of origin. Now a decider. 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:17.080 The power Breakers would love this and decider up to 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:20.000 sun Corpse Stadium. Whi's always really, really special. We're going 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:21.919 to talk about game two A lot's been said about that. 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:23.760 We're sort of unning out of time. Let's focus on 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:27.720 game three. Let's talk about changes. We've got some, really, 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:30.240 Laurie's got some really big decisions to make. First of 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:34.159 with you guys, Tommy Didn't ninety sure he's going to 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:34.680 be available? 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:35.520 Where does he. 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:39.280 If he plays this weekend? You know, Rees Walsh was 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:42.720 on the bench yep, and he probably is the true 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:46.840 cover for a half yep. So if Didnt comes back 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:48.640 and plays, well, he probably gets on it. You're not moving, 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:50.919 Sam walk You're not moving Monster did. He might get 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:54.880 a spot on the bench. But I feel like without 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:59.240 the game having been played yet before Origin, it's pretty settled. 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:02.280 Like I don't think there's too much going on. I 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:04.320 want to hear what your New South Wales. 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:08.320