WEBVTT - Lomax Code Switch, Walsh Stinker & DCE Nightmare Debut 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:09.160 Welcome for the Code Sports NRL podcast. Round one of 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:11.800 the twenty twenty six premierships out of the way, A 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.720 bumper weekend of footy. Who better to join me, Travis 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:18.080 Main than my great mates Dean Bulldog, Richie Tyson Jackson, 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:21.120 Let's go through this week boys. So Zach Lomax situation, 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:23.520 it's finally done. It's bared is off to the Western 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:26.159 Falls for two years. Tyson. Can we just move on 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:27.080 from this saga? Now? 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:30.240 Yeah, I've been I've been asking for weeks to stop 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:33.159 the Sack Clomax conversation and I'm sick of talking about it. 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:35.400 I'm sick of hearing about it. So yeah, today we've 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:37.680 revealed that he's off. He's off to the Western Force 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:40.199 for two years, which pretty much stamps him out of 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:42.800 the game for almost the entire period of what he 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:45.640 would have been if he was waiting for another NROL club. 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:47.840 And look, I think this is the best possible result 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:50.720 for all parties. Paramatta obviously don't have to go and 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:54.480 play against Zaklomax. Zak Loomax gets to play some type 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:57.160 of footy despite it not being rugby league. And I mean, 0:00:57.200 --> 0:01:00.160 if you're the Wallabies, you're cheering because sak Clomax is 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:02.480 a is a hell of a talent. So yeah, let's 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:04.840 move on with it now, Travie, let's stop talking about it. 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:07.800 Next topic, please, moving on from that. 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:09.959 You know the Paramatta Melbourne and that was a blowout 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:13.160 and went straight into the Broncos get absolutely annihilated twenty 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:17.480 six Niel by Penrith the first game of their premiership defense. Now, 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:18.880 Doggie and I, you've had a lot to say about 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:20.679 Reese Walsh of late. What did you make of Reese 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:21.360 and the Broncos? 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:22.560 Oh? 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:23.640 Mate, Reese had a thinker. 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:26.120 Let's be fair here, travel He gets plenty of accolades, 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:30.040 and rightly so, and he is a brilliant, exuberant young talent. 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:30.840 But he had a poor game. 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:33.959 There's no there's no trying to sugarcoat a performance like 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:35.840 that just because you are Reese Walsh. 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:36.720 He will bounce back. 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:38.920 But I still, as I said last week in my 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:42.720 column trave and Tyson, I still question whether Reese Walsh 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:46.400 can find a consistency over a sustained period to go 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:47.319 down among the greats. 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:49.320 When I talk about the greats, we talk about you know. 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:52.320 The Graham Mainland's going back many years and the Graham 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:54.640 eaties and the Billy Slater's slatter's probably the best I've 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:55.120 ever seen. 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:57.640 So, you know, can Walsh attain those levels? 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.440 It's going to take a lot for Reese to, I guess, 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:05.600 have to abandon that swashbuckling style which he uses, which 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:07.120 gets you more than glamor and glitz. 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:09.560 But does he have the ability to get rid of it? 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:14.600 Can he become more consistent on field and it doesn't 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:17.200 become too boring football for reicew Wash if he doesn't 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:20.440 try the impossible. But at the moment trying the impossible well, 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:23.799 certainly last week against Penrith it just didn't work well. 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:25.960 To speaking of that, They've got Paramatta this week and 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:27.919 that's a big game for both clubs, isn't it. Whoever, 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:29.959 losers will be zero and two to start the year. 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:32.480 It's a long way back from there. So Tyson, who 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:32.960 you pick him? 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:33.080 Mate? 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:34.880 You think the Broncos will bounce back or we see 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:36.320 a better improvement from Paramatta? 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:36.720 Yeah? 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:38.440 Look, I think I think both teams you got to 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:41.320 expect the improvement from because it it'd be pretty hard 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:44.200 to get worse than where they both were. I think 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:46.440 it's really hard to make a make a judgment on 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:49.480 the Broncos just yet, but from my perspective on their 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:51.919 game against Penrith, and Penrith looked like a million bucks, 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:53.240 but they just looked tired. 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:54.480 They looked they looked exhausted. 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:57.320 There was about ten minutes into that game where Penrith 0:02:57.320 --> 0:02:59.440 have taken a run on last tackle they've been tackled, 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:04.120 and I think it was right when Jack Giseski got 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:07.400 the head knock. They just look baffled. They didn't look 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:09.920 like they knew what they were doing or what kind 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:11.600 of they've just gone through. For the last ten minutes, 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:14.200 they looked really flat, a bit down. So yeah, look, 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:16.680 I think I think that's kind of where they're at 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:20.120 at this point. I don't think they actually played to 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:22.640 their ability because of how flat they were when it 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:25.520 comes to parent they just had no answers for Melbourne 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:28.720 and you know, like that they've gone through all this 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:31.400 battle with Zach Lomax during the off season to stay 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.160 strong and prove that they're a strong club. But you 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:36.080 need to prove that you're a strong club on the field. 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:38.680 That's that's where rugby league games are one and won 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:41.560 and lost, not in court rooms. So look, I'm expecting 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:44.280 improvement from both sides, Mitchell Moses and Jonah Pezitt. The 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:47.360 pressure is on. They've got to have better performances this week. 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:50.520 I expect it to be closer. But I think the Broncos, 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:52.800 if they can get their preparation right. 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:55.480 Should should put a score on Paramatta this week. 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:57.560 I think Travy should say that it was probably the 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:02.200 worst Broncost performance under mad Yeah, they're off a bit 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:04.680 from the very beginning. I mean the ben hunt starting 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:07.800 with Ezra Mam on the bench was a questionable decision. 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:10.000 But you know what it will do. It will bring 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:12.960 out the mad Haders. We've seen him at Brisbane for 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:14.800 the minute he walked through the door. I think after 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:17.320 last year, after Round thirteen they'd only won five games. 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:21.160 They're out in force then, but he came back Tom 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:23.239 with a sundn't shine. I guess you could say trev 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:26.520 and win the premiership. So you'll look, they'll be there again. 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:29.320 They're entitled to be there again after that first round performance. 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:31.120 But I think it's far too early to be riding 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:32.160 Madge off just yet. 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:34.720 Yeah, I agree, Doggie. Now one of the other big 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:37.320 sort of off season stories was DC's move from the 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:40.640 Northern Beaches down to Bondi there, Now, Doggie, you've covered 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:42.479 his whole career up there. What did you make of 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:45.839 DCEs Rooster's debut over from that big loss to the Warriors. 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:47.800 Yeah, again, a bit like reeths Walsh. It was poor. 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:48.880 There's no sugar coating it. 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:50.880 He looked every bit of He's thirty seven years old, 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:53.640 a daily Terry Evans, a couple of mistakes which led 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:55.400 to tries. He didn't, I think fall on a kick 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:58.400 which led to another try, and overall it was an 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:01.520 extremely disappointing day boot and the expectation and the pressure 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:05.320 that DC was under. We know he's resilient trave He's 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:09.600 resilient physically and mentally, and the Roosters rarely get their 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:11.919 recruitment wrong. So I'm not suggesting this is going to 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.120 be a right off season for DC. It won't be. 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:16.880 It just wasn't the performance that we thought we would get. 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:19.920 First up, the ticy spend a fair bit of time 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:21.800 there around the chalks. You think it's going to take 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:23.680 him some time in jail. I thought Sam Walker looked 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:26.839 quite likely on the weekend, but him and Cherry Evans, 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:28.520 the sort of seem like they just can't figure each 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:29.280 oller out yet. 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:32.120 Yeah, I think it's we're in a pretty tough spotrow 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:34.080 when you when you watch that game on the weekend, 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:36.360 it's really easy to point out all the doubt falls 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:38.560 that the Roosters at because they had a lot that 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:40.960 had a massive lob side of penalty count as well, 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:42.599 which I think we've got to look at like that 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:44.919 really disrupted the flow of the game, which would have 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:49.040 Walker and Cherry Evans combination throughout getting to gel a 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:52.159 little bit. But also they've had a horror off season. 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.640 To be completely honest, no one, no one's really touched 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:56.840 on it too much, but the loss of Rees Robson 0:05:56.839 --> 0:06:00.000 Spencer Lenu before the game, No Robert Toyer, the injury, 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:02.159 he is a pouring in for the Roosters, and you 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:04.839 look at on the weekend, Tommy Tolao goes down with 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:09.400 a knee injury which wasn't a contact injury, which you know, 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:12.280 throws out the terms a c l MCLs things like that. 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:15.600 They've had a really disrupted off season and a lot 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:17.520 of players haven't even taken the field. Huis of Ilan 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:19.880 is suffering a foot injury as well. So I think 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:22.800 we before we throw judgment out, we've got to remember 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:25.599 that their team is not how it's supposed to be 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:28.479 just yet. So those it's going to take time for 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:31.120 Walker and Cherry Evans to gel, but it's going to 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:33.640 be even harder right at this very second. While they 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:35.440 don't have a lot of their stars on the field, 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:38.120 like especially defensively. A lot of people want to highlight 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:41.040 our daily chair Evans defensively, Robert Toyer is a great 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:43.640 defensive center, So that's going to answer the questions. We 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.120 get Robert Toyer back in and their defense on that 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:49.200 side is still shocking. We know what the answer is, 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.600 but you know, let's let's see what it's like when 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:53.680 they've got their full strength side. I was just at 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:56.400 the Roosters before and they seem pretty confident. They know 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:59.400 what they've done. There's easy fixes there, and I think 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:00.840 they're going to be all there in about so I 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:04.400 think it's too early to make such a critical judgment 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:07.039 on their halves when they're brand new. We all saw 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:09.240 happen when Cooper Krom came to the club in twenty eighteen. 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.520 They lost the Tigers in the first round. Had a 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:14.880 shocking probably first ten rounds where it was just inconsistencies, and. 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:16.440 I think we can expect good things. It's just going 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:17.000 to take time. 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:19.800 Now, Doggie, you've been vindicated mate. The crash of the Titans. 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:23.040 It wasn't des Hazl's fault. One of the most deflating 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:25.840 round one performances we've ever seen, fifty to ten loss 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.480 to the Cronella Sharks now Cronala larn Song. 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:30.480 But the Titans, Doggie, what did you make of them? Oh, 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:33.400 they're embarrassing. There's no again, I say the same thing, Traip. 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:35.960 No way of sugarcoating it. It was a pathetic first half 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:38.200 performance thirty four nil. I think it ducked out to 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:41.440 forty and it travel in the second half. If there's 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:45.480 any consolation, I guess they found some resistance from a 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:47.320 midway in the second half to a full time. It's 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:51.040 scored a couple of tries, but it's typical Titans. They 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:52.800 just want to throw out the coach. They've done it 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:55.880 throughout their entire existence. Then there's one coach up there travel. 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:58.160 If I'm wrong, that was there for one hundred games. 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:00.760 I think it was CARDI wasn't it and the rest. Yeah, 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:03.640 the rest have been given the boot in double figures. 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:06.440 It's it's not that simple. You can't just keep burning 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:08.840 out the coach every time you lose. But do what 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:10.760 Josh Hanna is thinking already. It's probably looking out of 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:13.760 your shoulder after one game, but it was Vincage Titans. 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:15.760 Let's kick out the coach. He's the problem. 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:20.640 And clearly after that performance wasn't the problem, and it 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:22.280 is the playing group that is the problem. 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:24.080 There was a thriller there on the Northern Beach, as 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:25.920 at Brookie the other night, a golden point game, a 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:29.080 second golden point game of the year. Already Ethan Sanders 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:31.520 getting it getting it done for the Raiders with that 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:34.560 beautiful left footed field goal. I said to Ricky Shield, 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:36.480 we can't go through another year of this. He's now 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:38.720 abouting finishes for the Raiders. Tice, what did you think 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:39.160 of that one? 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:43.000 Yeah, to be honest, my books, that's got to be 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:45.400 one of the most anti climactic finishes in a golden 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:48.720 point game. Inan Sanders has kicked this field goal. Everyone 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:50.880 kind of just sat there looking pretty confused, like what's 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:53.240 going on the rest took a long time to. 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:55.319 Confirm it, Yeah, it was. 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:57.240 It was a strange game, right you look at how 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:01.040 mainly started that game. First of all, Tom, I mean, 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:03.360 it's great to see he looks like he's back to 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:06.040 that form that we're used to, that we we grew 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.520 to love with him, and hopefully he stays fit. But 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:11.200 for mainly to jump out to such a lead, let 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.559 Canberra crawl back, then mainly go again. But that second 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:16.920 half where the Raiders have climbed all the way back 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:20.320 into that competition and that they've it's a Raiders team 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:22.679 that should take time to click new halves, pairing new 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:24.880 everything to get to Golden Point. 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:26.839 Though. This is where this is where I'm a little. 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:31.559 Bit frustrated or frustrated when it comes to manly, Ethan 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:35.240 Sanders had no pressure on him in that kick at all. 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:37.640 Jake Travoyevitch was coming, he wasn't coming fast at him. 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:41.320 He's thirty meters out Who how is no one there 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:44.160 recognized that Ethan Sanders thirty meters out right in front 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:46.520 of the goal past is going to take a field 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:49.600 goal in Golden Point Like it shouldn't have finished on 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:49.960 that player. 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.439 There should have been a bit more of a challenge there. 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:55.880 I'm really concerned at this Manly side and what's going 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:58.880 through their heads in that critical moment, because all it 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.240 takes is one field goal, one point in that game's over. 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:03.560 And it did not seem like there was any sense 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:07.000 of urgency, like legitimate urgency in that last player to 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:07.880 stop that field goal. 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:10.280 Yeah, doggie, can you smell a bit of drama over 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:13.160 there at Manly? I feel like something's brewing there. They 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:15.400 came out of the blocks hot the other night, camberdon 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:17.280 touch the ball in the first twelve minutes or something, 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:19.640 out of a solid lead, and they somehow gave the 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:21.800 game up again. Like, do you think there's a there 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:23.240 a few issues bubbling away there? 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:25.920 I haven't heard them training. 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:29.720 If there are issues there, it hasn't reached my desk. 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:33.520 That's just to say there, right, Look, it was just appointing, 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:35.600 let's be honest, the way they lost it. And look, 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:38.320 Tyson's right, Jake Jaboivitch was the one putting pressure on 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:41.439 young Sanders and Jake is slowing up, so where was 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.720 everybody else? That's just an awareness on the fields. That's 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:47.480 an effort player that wasn't there. And they look back 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:50.040 at that video and Hopefully they're a been embarrassed about 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:52.200 that final play because there should have been three or 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:55.280 four really up there knowing it probably won't get penalized, 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:58.000 although they did get a penalty late in the game 0:10:58.040 --> 0:10:58.240 for it. 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:01.079 But I don't think there's a drama. 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:04.280 And to be fair to Manly, they took last year's 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:06.520 Minor premiers to golden points, so there are again a 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:09.559 couple of positives in that. I thought Tulu Cohler was 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:12.880 absolutely outstanding there at left center, and I think Tyson 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.319 mentioned Tommy Turbo he was back to his or near 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:17.560 his best, So there's some good times there at mainly 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:20.280 a couple as I said, effort plays probably weren't the 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.400 where they should have been for round one. But in 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:26.839 terms of drama, I haven't heard it, Travis, and I 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:28.960 don't think there is at the moment. But look, regular 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:32.200 JAG's Manly fans are already all over the websites complaining, 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:34.839 and they're retired too. They want their team to win. 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:37.120 But I think it's just again, let's just take a 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:38.680 deep breath just for now now. 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:42.240 I covered the rabbit O's Dolphins game Sunday afternoon there 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:44.559 sun Corpse Stadium. I thought some really nice signs from 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:48.960 South the Trell Mitchell, Cameron Murray sort of really out 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.280 of the bunnies. A good deboot from David Feeder as well. 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:53.040 And I got to ask you boys this, Wayne Bennett. 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:54.559 I asked him in the press conference, do you want 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:57.360 to see the fans run on the field when AJ breaks? 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:00.880 Alex Johnston breaks that try scoring record Ken Irvin's try 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.280 scoring records, so he needs two tries to break it. 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:05.720 It could up in this Friday night Ali on Stadium 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:09.160 against the arch rivals of Roosters. Doggie, what are your thoughts? 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:10.800 Do you want to see the fans on the field night? 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:11.040 Oh? 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:12.839 I just played to Alex Johnson last year, did a 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:14.640 big hit down interview with him, and he wants the 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:16.560 fans on the field. He wants that moment, which is 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:18.760 like a Buddy Franklin at the SCG a few years 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:22.160 ago when he broke the goal record for the AFL. 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:25.640 But look, it would be an iconic moment if the 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:26.320 fans went on. 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:28.440 It would be an iconic moment in terms of vision 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:32.720 which would be seen for years to come. But look, 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:35.520 there are some issues there. Travor Theenneral are saying no 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:38.640 we don't want it. How long before the fans get 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:41.600 off the field? How long before the game gets going? 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:43.920 And it could have been fifteen to twenty twenty five minutes? 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:46.760 Is there a health and safety issue too? If some 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:49.800 fan gets trampled running on the field, then we've got 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.760 major drama yet again. So I think the elenaal has 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:55.640 put an edict out to South to say please support 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:58.040 our stance here and not wanting players to go onto 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:02.120 the field fans on the field. Alex is saying other things, 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:04.280 but I think Alex might be told this week maybe 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:07.160 just don't say to gain a j because it's much 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:09.079 of it would be a great moment. I think there 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:11.920 are some issues that even fans look at this way. Guys, 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.600 you jump back the fence and someone's sitting in their seat. Yeah, 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:16.840 I know there are any little things, but it does 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:20.760 cause mayhem, and certainly for broadcasters if it ends up 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:23.000 being a broadcast game where there's a game after it 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:24.200 and it caused mayhem. 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:27.360 Yeah, look, I think they got they'll say the right things, 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:29.320 but what are they going to do if five people 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:31.400 started it? Or just be your bull rush. So look 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:33.360 that the biggest concern is if someone comes on there 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:35.120 and did something to one of the players, which you'd 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:38.400 really hope wasn't the case. Look, how do you think 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:40.040 it'll play out to us? What do you reckon? You're 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:42.400 the young bloke around here. Will they jump the. 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:43.760 Fence or yeah? 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.640 Look, I think I think we're at a point now 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:50.520 where it's bound to happen. I tend to agree a 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:53.000 bit like and you'd love to see her as sports 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:55.720 fans in general, that that image of you know, if 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:58.640 Johnson's cratered up on some of my shoulders, and all 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:00.839 the Rabbitos fans, all the NRAL fans out of there 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:03.120 are there gathered around watching like it's going to make 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:06.800 for some awesome scenes. But there is so much room 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.560 for something to go terribly wrong. And I want to 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:13.160 make very clear against the Roosters. If this happens against 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:15.160 the Roosters and you've got a bunch of Roosters players 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:17.160 on the field and then a whole bunch of Rabbitos 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:19.240 fans have run on the field, you know what it's like. 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:20.840 You know what fans can be like. Some of them 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.320 are there for the wrong thing, and that's the harsh reality. 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:25.880 All it takes someone to get in someone's face, someone 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.440 runs up to you know in Afar who white and 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:31.040 pushes him or something, or you know, something like that. 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.880 There's so much room for bad stuff to happen, So 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:37.000 I really hope that there are because I don't think 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:38.400 you're going to stop it, right, but I hope that 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:40.840 the NRL and that the clubs involved, the Roosters and 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:43.160 the rabbits have the right precautions. 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:46.360 You know, in kind attack to make sure that this happened. 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.080 If it does happen, When it does happen, no one 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:53.120 gets hurt, no one gets injured. The player's safety has 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:55.320 to be at the top of their priority list. Like, 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:58.440 there's just so much room for area, and all it 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:02.120 takes is one per to do the wrong thing, and 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:05.120 it could make a really beautiful moment in our sport 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:09.040 turn into something really nasty and really negative. So look, 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:11.560 if it's going to happen, except that it's going to happen, 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:14.160 realize that there's not much you can do to stop 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:17.160 thirty thousand people running onto a footy field, but come 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:19.280 up with the right solutions. 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.320 To ensure that everyone is as safe as they can 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:21.960 possibly be. 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:24.200 Yeah, I think the fear is we don't live in 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:26.400 such an innocent world anymore, right, So we've got to 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:28.280 say all the right things. You just hope that everything 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:32.640 pans out as hope. Now the room and mills and overdrive. Already, boys, 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:36.040 some coaches already under They are already under the pump, 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:38.720 none more so than Todd Payton up at the Cowboys. Now, 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:40.800 it's been a couple weeks since Vegas. He had a 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:43.360 pull loss over there. He's got a dream draw. He's 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:45.960 got the Tigers this weekend, My beloved Tigers. I finally 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:47.680 get to see them this weekend and see what they're 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:49.480 going to dish up this year. And he's got the 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:52.720 Titans next week. So very very soft draw for the 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:57.680 Cowboys to start the year. Essentially three bottom four teams. Doggie, 0:15:57.840 --> 0:15:59.160 what do you reckon of this game? What are we 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:01.520 going to see from the Tiger this weekend? And if 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:04.120 they win, what do you think that means for Todd Payton. 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:07.080 It's a good question for the West Tigers. 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:09.200 Travel When I say I don't know, I don't like 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:11.160 to sit on the fence, but I really don't know 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:12.600 the Tigers. You don't know what you're going to get 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:15.000 with West Tigers week in week out's the first time 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.560 we've seen them. Of course, this year from all the 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:20.640 talk out of Concord, it's been a very steady build up. 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:24.560 The players have been wrapping Benji Deluxe about his attitude. 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:25.680 They reckon he's got a harder reds. 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:26.360 This year. 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:29.000 Looks like that. 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:31.200 You know the halves will be settled. Do we move 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:33.120 in the six of happy he's there. So, look, it's 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:35.440 a fair roster. I'm not sure it's a top four, 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:37.800 top six roster, but I'm sure they would be thinking 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:38.960 it's a top eight roster. 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:44.600 It's like Art, it's packed house, it's a great atmosphere. 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:46.720 Having said that, their record at like Art isn't always great, 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:48.360 it doesn't reflect on the amount of support that they 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:50.200 get there. So look, I don't know whether the Tigers, 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:52.520 I guess we'll find out by five point thirty on Saturday, 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:55.120 whether they're a basketcase still, whether they have actually taken 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:57.040 another step toward getting out of this rut they've been 0:16:57.080 --> 0:16:59.680 here for so many years. But in terms of Toddy Peyton, 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:02.880 correct me if I'm wrong, Trail, there was some innu 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:06.760