Speaker 1: Welcomes winner All three sixty reveling from every angle, brought
Speaker 1: to you by Telfast last night, the Game United has
Speaker 1: won the celebrated Our Brighter Stars at twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: dally M Awards in a thrilling final count. Our game's
Speaker 1: highest honor went the under the wire.
Speaker 2: Well, good evening and welcome to the twenty twenty four
Speaker 2: Dally Messenger Awards.
Speaker 3: It's almost like we're writing these scripts at Rugby League Central,
Speaker 3: but I can assure.
Speaker 4: You, as an avid watcher of NERL three sixty will.
Speaker 5: Tell you which is not that good.
Speaker 6: I think he's got a real confidence about himself. Now
Speaker 6: he's all embarrassed there because to be shaking his head.
Speaker 3: Olivia Kernig from the Sydney Roosters is your twenty twenty
Speaker 3: four NRLW Dally M Player.
Speaker 7: Of the Year.
Speaker 4: Jerome, you scored six points and you're Daim Winter of
Speaker 4: twenty twenty four his drime heurees for the Melbourne Storm.
Speaker 8: How good was that?
Speaker 1: Joining me Gordon Tallas, let's been the general Australian Buzz
Speaker 1: Rothfield and James Hooper.
Speaker 9: We've got a massive show coming up.
Speaker 1: We've got Penrith Panthers legend, Craig Gower, Melbourne Storm legend
Speaker 1: Will Chambers. We even't got the goat Nathan Lyon coming
Speaker 1: up too with a huge summer of creecket on Fox.
Speaker 9: Here is he ready to come on the show. So
Speaker 9: it's all happening here on.
Speaker 10: Great Feller And I'll tell you what, Galle and Chambers.
Speaker 10: That could get a lot of fun. Two of the
Speaker 10: great characters of the game.
Speaker 7: But you enjoyed it made it was a really really
Speaker 7: special night.
Speaker 11: The right Blake won it. I just want to wrap
Speaker 11: the NRL and the Dally M compared to the Brown Low.
Speaker 11: If Jerome Hughes was playing AFL, he could not win
Speaker 11: the award for accidentally bumping into a referee. We had
Speaker 11: the rulest allow him to win the most prestigious award
Speaker 11: in the game. And I was I wasn't happy, you know.
Speaker 11: I felt for Teddy because he had such a great
Speaker 11: season after missing, but that guy was the right winner.
Speaker 10: Teddy had a great season, You're right, Buzz and Daily
Speaker 10: Cherry Evans was also fantastic, but Jerome Hughes deserved it
Speaker 10: my view, and I think most people widespread agree. He
Speaker 10: was the best player consistently in the competition all season.
Speaker 10: His dynamic ball running has been a huge part of
Speaker 10: why Melbourne Storm finished three games clear of everybody else
Speaker 10: at the end of the regular season and why they're.
Speaker 11: In the Gray even sat out around twenty six, So
Speaker 11: that was another potential might costume Cowboy was so exciting
Speaker 11: in there made it was a great night.
Speaker 1: Record ratings last night for the dally Ms and it
Speaker 1: was an amazing event and I watched it on TV
Speaker 1: after the show and I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 9: But Andrew Abdo had a bit of a sledge at
Speaker 9: us last night.
Speaker 12: Did you say that, did you?
Speaker 8: Guys?
Speaker 11: I did, Yeah, sort of went through to the keeper.
Speaker 11: Were you upset or.
Speaker 8: He could ring?
Speaker 13: And he said he just was about you.
Speaker 7: I like the one who's been angry all year. You
Speaker 7: still haven't got.
Speaker 8: Over it, I know, and I won until next year.
Speaker 11: It was Kevy Gowing has destroyed your.
Speaker 10: Laughs about the bunker though, what about you've gone drop
Speaker 10: several times?
Speaker 12: Well, I think there's had to be peace talks.
Speaker 11: Well, no, no, no, no, I'm on board with Wayne Bennett,
Speaker 11: I'm and Cleary and every other senior person in the
Speaker 11: game that we need a major review of the way
Speaker 11: this game is officiated.
Speaker 8: And the people that run the game.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and what did he It was a jap, wasn't it.
Speaker 9: It was a bit of Yeah, I thought it was funny.
Speaker 11: You're just said he didn't name you, give you grap
Speaker 11: you love that.
Speaker 1: I've got you back to Let's keep the fun going.
Speaker 1: Peace in our time. Now, Munster and Martin are all
Speaker 1: loved up all of a sudden. Last night they were
Speaker 1: apparently going to war and hated each other, but now
Speaker 1: they are.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I prefer that when they were feuding, breath. I
Speaker 10: think it's great for the promotion of the game. The
Speaker 10: fans buy into it. Look, yeah, okay, they've posed up
Speaker 10: for a bit of a happy snap down there by
Speaker 10: the harbor today. But come Sunday, no question, they'll both
Speaker 10: be straighted each other like balls at gates. And I
Speaker 10: can't wait because it's going to be one of the
Speaker 10: exciting matchups. Last night, you just tried to harvest, That's
Speaker 10: all you did. You've just that's just charm offensive, That's.
Speaker 7: All that is convinced. It's a lovely story.
Speaker 11: How mum got involved, I presume Cameron's had to be
Speaker 11: pulled in the line by mum a little bit.
Speaker 7: How old is he? How is Cameron? Whatever? Age? You know?
Speaker 9: How life stories?
Speaker 11: No, but I love the fact Mum read the story,
Speaker 11: rang him up and said, son, come on, we can't
Speaker 11: have this.
Speaker 13: It's beautiful. Which one do you believe? So do you
Speaker 13: believe that? He said, I don't think if he comes
Speaker 13: at me, or do you believe? Just pose them for
Speaker 13: a pat.
Speaker 7: Now, I think there'll be friction there on Sunday.
Speaker 9: When isn't there friction?
Speaker 12: The title win a great final, it'll be all Breton Reggies.
Speaker 1: He wrote a good article today keron Monster's career saved
Speaker 1: by a Swedish ski machine.
Speaker 9: This was interesting.
Speaker 1: Now it's called the skier by the way, which I
Speaker 1: use every day. But I'm amazed to get more detail
Speaker 1: on this bus.
Speaker 11: Yeah, interesting story, ready, wouldn't it? He chose the lengths
Speaker 11: Cameron and the storm. Physio is prepared modern day physio
Speaker 11: wasn't working with him. Wasn't because you send him in
Speaker 11: America like a lot of players have done.
Speaker 7: They've gone the ski machine. It's worked.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 9: It's very common though. But I was like, it's a skier.
Speaker 7: No, I don't know. I'm not into sports. Science or
Speaker 7: physio therapy.
Speaker 8: We're just going to a gym.
Speaker 7: No, I'm not.
Speaker 10: Apparently Ready's at the Upper Eleonora where he lives. He's
Speaker 10: had the ski poles out at an't just do a
Speaker 10: little bit of practice himself.
Speaker 12: He's looking at getting an erg.
Speaker 10: He's looking at getting a legitimate skier into his home
Speaker 10: so that he can now try and follow Cameron's routine.
Speaker 10: But on a serious note, they're in every gym. As
Speaker 10: you know, Broth, I think most funny players are. Absolutely
Speaker 10: it was one of the hst foot places.
Speaker 13: And yeah, Robert, I can't run story. I used to
Speaker 13: jump on a roll. Well, now this is a totally
Speaker 13: different all body workout.
Speaker 9: Maybe go to a gym.
Speaker 11: Maybe I'm surprised he does that because I've had a
Speaker 11: few spotted sent to me regularly. Manly Beach at seven am,
Speaker 11: tops off, you'll find Ready with the mitsign and boxing.
Speaker 8: Oh wow, jeez, with glasses on or off.
Speaker 7: Gordon, I'd like.
Speaker 9: To see you, and really reveals his grand final breakfast.
Speaker 9: This was interesting.
Speaker 1: Now six coke zeros, two breakfast burgers and a large
Speaker 1: bowl of chips and add the aola. He says, that's
Speaker 1: that's not too bad the day of the game.
Speaker 10: Well, the funny thing about this is there was another
Speaker 10: yarn kicking around that the Panthers have burned on the
Speaker 10: carnivore diet, which Gordy, I think you've earned following for
Speaker 10: a lot of this year as well, and would give
Speaker 10: a big rap too, but that you'd be crookers rookwood
Speaker 10: and if you had six, I think he's zero, you
Speaker 10: know what for him because he runs so far in
Speaker 10: a game.
Speaker 9: It's just the energy. I think it's just the energy
Speaker 9: in carbs and he burns it off.
Speaker 11: There's there's no glue case or suregar to replace. Can't
Speaker 11: he have a gataade or it's.
Speaker 8: A galler rade.
Speaker 9: Well you're a dietician.
Speaker 13: You're not a sports signist, but you're a dietician.
Speaker 7: Well, there's better things to do than coke zero.
Speaker 8: You know what.
Speaker 13: I'll play with some guys where the diet didn't affect
Speaker 13: their performance. When the Sailor was one of Alan Langer
Speaker 13: was another one. You'd go in Alfred had toasted seamise
Speaker 13: chips and a strawberry milkshake.
Speaker 8: I could never have that.
Speaker 13: So jealous games and then and you will would get
Speaker 13: on the bus with a leader of coke and chocolate
Speaker 13: and chips and then have a burger and they didn't worry.
Speaker 11: Here in the old day and Johnny Raper's legendary for
Speaker 11: this having a night out before the match of the
Speaker 11: day at the cricket ground, a mixed grell and eggs
Speaker 11: for breakfast and run out and win man of the match,
Speaker 11: you know.
Speaker 10: And in the modern day with whatever Brian is doing,
Speaker 10: its working course because and that's why I wouldn't be
Speaker 10: changing it.
Speaker 12: I'll be sticking to.
Speaker 9: The superstition too.
Speaker 1: A lot of players if they have the same meal
Speaker 1: and have success eating that meal, they don't change it.
Speaker 10: It's like I still reckon six coke zeros, wouldn't you
Speaker 10: feel a bit cooked?
Speaker 8: Might have added a bit of gst to.
Speaker 13: Just like you, well, make you goodbye three and get
Speaker 13: three free one of those deals.
Speaker 1: But all right, but you got some genuine male on
Speaker 1: Nathan Cleary the kicking session, really.
Speaker 7: Interesting story today.
Speaker 11: The ground round is normally out of bounds of Core
Speaker 11: Stadium until the Captain's run and the NRLW teams and
Speaker 11: the NRL teams will both get access for a couple
Speaker 11: of hours on Saturday and they're staggering and so they
Speaker 11: don't bump into each other. But Nathan went to home
Speaker 11: Books today and had about an hour and a half
Speaker 11: just goalkicking. Apparently he's banging them over from everywhere as
Speaker 11: you'd expect. It's a really interesting story in that I
Speaker 11: reckon these sides are so close that goalkicking is going
Speaker 11: to be so important. Most Penrith tries are six pointers
Speaker 11: and can Melbourne do four or six pointers?
Speaker 7: I looked at their averages.
Speaker 11: Cleary kicks eighty four percent, Nick Mooney kicks seventy eight percent.
Speaker 11: But it just shows some professionalism offered to.
Speaker 8: Both clubs or both kickers thing what's happening.
Speaker 7: I don't think it was offered.
Speaker 11: I think Penrith rang up and asked for it, and
Speaker 11: I'm sure if Nick Moondy did the same thing that
Speaker 11: allowed that tomorrow.
Speaker 10: Does goalkick in change breath from stadium to stadium or
Speaker 10: is it not?
Speaker 12: Really?
Speaker 1: I mean, well it can if they're more stadiums are
Speaker 1: more exposed, and there's more breeze and more when that
Speaker 1: comes into play, but not really. I think it's mostly psychological.
Speaker 1: And if there's a psychological avengage, we know who's got that.
Speaker 1: No one's better than Nathan Cleary and again big moments,
Speaker 1: so they probably do have the advtage there buzz and
Speaker 1: that helps as well. I think that Melbourne Doorbe tried
Speaker 1: to get on Alliance, but they're renovating the turf because
Speaker 1: they're staying in Double Bay and they couldn't get on there,
Speaker 1: so they've been at Lighthart I believe. Anyway, Pirate Pete
Speaker 1: Peter fit Simons wants to bed the kickoff.
Speaker 9: Are we back here again?
Speaker 8: Look?
Speaker 11: I mentioned the show on Monday two thousand, six hundred
Speaker 11: and twenty two kickoffs this year and less than a
Speaker 11: handful of concussions. It's silly. It's maybe something we'll have
Speaker 11: to at least discuss in the future. I've just given
Speaker 11: you the averages of how often it happens.
Speaker 7: And twenty two it's one every six hundred games, nearly,
Speaker 7: you know.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I like that the giggle breath when I saw
Speaker 10: it up there and Pirate Peets hopped down off h
Speaker 10: m A. S. Mossman and taking the bandanna off and
Speaker 10: he wants the lecturous about rugby league again. Last time
Speaker 10: I looked stick to rugby. The last time I looked
Speaker 10: the Wallabies weren't going. I think they've just lost another series.
Speaker 10: The game's half part going around the spend in Australia
Speaker 10: as it is.
Speaker 12: I'll be more worried about. Look, I don't know what
Speaker 12: he wanted be like me.
Speaker 7: Writing about concussion. Happens in a sports you know, I
Speaker 7: don't think you.
Speaker 1: We have rugby league reporters writing about rugby union at
Speaker 1: the moment and concerns about this.
Speaker 12: But would you wait into rugby union?
Speaker 7: I often do, Yes, I do.
Speaker 9: If someone, if someone.
Speaker 1: After coming through as teenagers, Nathan Cleary injury, Loui will
Speaker 1: have one last ride for the Panthers in Sundays Decider
Speaker 1: and Jake Duke caught up with the star halves earlier today.
Speaker 2: Well, these two are playing their last game together for
Speaker 2: the Penrith Panther is a pleasure to be joined by
Speaker 2: superstars from Penrith, Nathan Cleary, Drome Loi Boyce. First of all,
Speaker 2: how are you feeling about your last game together in
Speaker 2: the Panthers colors and it just happens to be a
Speaker 2: Grand Final?
Speaker 14: Yeah, I think it's more excitement than anything.
Speaker 5: Obviously.
Speaker 14: I think I might sinking after the game that it's
Speaker 14: coming to an end, but for the time bands trying
Speaker 14: to soak up each day and we're lucky enough that
Speaker 14: it's the biggest day of all in your Grand Final,
Speaker 14: and yeah, honestly just excited to do it one last
Speaker 14: time with him. I've just been out to build this
Speaker 14: combination where we sort of just know each other's game
Speaker 14: and know what we're going to do without actually even
Speaker 14: saying it.
Speaker 5: You guys have had themes over the years.
Speaker 2: I remember Undisputed was one of them, Like, what's been
Speaker 2: the theme coming into this Grand Final of the Penrith
Speaker 2: side and how you keep motivating.
Speaker 5: Yourself to get up drome the team one?
Speaker 15: Yeah, for me, I just really dialed into a personal one,
Speaker 15: and you know that for me was being the last road.
Speaker 15: As everyone knows, a lot of boys are going through
Speaker 15: the same sort of situation. So it's motivated me in
Speaker 15: a positive way to make sure that I've won every day,
Speaker 15: make sure that I'm my best and it sort of
Speaker 15: trickles throughout throughout the group as well. So hopefully I've
Speaker 15: done that. We're on the biggest stage this week and
Speaker 15: hopefully I can tact that with me.
Speaker 2: Nathan the shoulder all good, no concerns, how's it held
Speaker 2: up with a week of training.
Speaker 14: Yeah, it feels good, honestly, just carry on. To be honest,
Speaker 14: there's probably more, just a little scare in the game
Speaker 14: and obviously it blew out of a portion from there.
Speaker 14: But it feels really good. Been able to get through
Speaker 14: a lot of exercises this week that I needed to
Speaker 14: and get my prep right. And yeah, it's just a
Speaker 14: question that's constantly an answer at the moment, but it's fine.
Speaker 8: Drum.
Speaker 2: Do you think Leah Martin's going to be shooting out
Speaker 2: of the line looking for Cameron Munster because I heard
Speaker 2: that they've been into each other in the media, but
Speaker 2: I just saw them cuddling back over here. But I
Speaker 2: still imagine Liam will be had to get him on
Speaker 2: Sunday night.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I hope.
Speaker 15: So I'm sort of counting on you know. But Motto's
Speaker 15: an ultimate competitor, especially when it comes to rugby league.
Speaker 15: He loves the game so much and I know he
Speaker 15: loves this group of boys. He loves winning as well,
Speaker 15: So I think you can guarantee he's going to go
Speaker 15: out there and give it his best.
Speaker 2: Just finally, on the Melbourne Storm, your assessment of them,
Speaker 2: you played them, twice this year they've got the better
Speaker 2: of you, but they've been very tight games. How do
Speaker 2: you stop a team with such attacking flair on Sunday?
Speaker 14: Yeah, well, pretty much anytime I versed him over the
Speaker 14: last five years. So it's been a tight, tight game.
Speaker 14: And you know, they've got the better of us this
Speaker 14: year and they're a great side. Have a lot of
Speaker 14: admiration for what they've only done this year, but they've
Speaker 14: done previously and consistently at the highest level. So it's
Speaker 14: going to be a great challenge. But saying you know,
Speaker 14: we're really looking forward to I think just from a
Speaker 14: fans perspective, like it's the two best teams this year,
Speaker 14: it's it's.
Speaker 5: Just going to be great.
Speaker 8: So yeah, I can't wait.
Speaker 2: Jerome, you're the last word. How's the How do you
Speaker 2: think you'll be feeling come come Sunday? Do you keep
Speaker 2: yourself levelheaded? Do you think the emotions will get to
Speaker 2: you as you're kind of walking into a course stadium
Speaker 2: boombox blaring?
Speaker 5: How do you think you'll be feeling?
Speaker 15: I don't want it to be much different than what
Speaker 15: I've already experienced, you know, and I think experience is
Speaker 15: the greatest teacher. I've been able to lucky enough to
Speaker 15: be a part of this great team and be in
Speaker 15: a lot of big games. I don't want it to
Speaker 15: be much different. I want to enjoy the occasion, and
Speaker 15: I know the competitor inside me is going to be
Speaker 15: excited to get out there and give them my best shot. Man,
Speaker 15: So with my big dog here, you know we're going
Speaker 15: to ride out for sure.
Speaker 2: It's been a pleasure watching you two play together. Don
Speaker 2: want to enjoy it one more time. Thanks for your time, boys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been a very special relationship. Those two players
Speaker 1: who have had so much success, a lot more than
Speaker 1: many others that have played before them in our game,
Speaker 1: and they've got one last dance together.
Speaker 11: Thoughts on this I was just saying to Hoops as
Speaker 11: I looked at those two men and the success they've had,
Speaker 11: and you start thinking Sterling, Sterling and Kenny, start thinking
Speaker 11: Daily and Stuart and Langer and Walters.
Speaker 7: You know, that's the one of these grand titles, the
Speaker 7: great players.
Speaker 11: It's sad. I don't want to keep saying the words sad.
Speaker 11: I think it's a shame that he's going to West
Speaker 11: Tigers next year. I loved dynasties, and I love the
Speaker 11: fact that you know they don't play repforty.
Speaker 7: I guess they came for New South Wales in the future.
Speaker 11: But I've got them up there alongside those great comminations.
Speaker 8: Months to beat them.
Speaker 13: Raman Monster would have beaten them in two Grand finals
Speaker 13: that they played against them, and that's probably who you
Speaker 13: judge them against. And you've got Elf that played against
Speaker 13: Ricky and Alf and you've got the Kenny that was
Speaker 13: like a little bit before. You can only judge them
Speaker 13: on who they play against.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 12: Yeah, to make five straight ground it's unbelievable.
Speaker 10: It's a salary cap Yeah, you're right, that is a
Speaker 10: phenomenal achievement. I don't think it's sad buzz that Jermes
Speaker 10: leaving because it's a salary cap era and you can't
Speaker 10: keep everybody.
Speaker 7: He played life together.
Speaker 12: But the different there was no salary cap back there.
Speaker 8: Ricky went to the dogs.
Speaker 9: To be happy.
Speaker 11: You know, I don't want to use the word it's
Speaker 11: I like seeing dynasties. I love seeing champions play alongside
Speaker 11: each other. It turned the television on every week to
Speaker 11: watch that Harves combination.
Speaker 7: Same with Melbourne. As you said, well when.
Speaker 10: You make the comparison with Peter Stelling and Brett Kennedy
Speaker 10: they obviously won two eighty three. Well these blokes have
Speaker 10: replicated that but in the modern era. So it is
Speaker 10: a very fair question, winning mate, But it is a
Speaker 10: fair question and a fair conversation.
Speaker 9: All right.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Melbourne hasn't won a title since Kemern Smith retired.
Speaker 1: Jake Juke spoke with captain Harry Grant and the coach
Speaker 1: about creating their own.
Speaker 2: Legacy Pleasure to be joined by Melbourne Storm coach and
Speaker 2: captain Craig Bellamy. Harry Grant, gentlemen, thank you so much
Speaker 2: for your time with Grant final week.
Speaker 5: Craig, I want to start with you.
Speaker 2: A fantastic night last night for the club, Jerome Hughes
Speaker 2: taking home the main award and some other awards amongst
Speaker 2: the team.
Speaker 5: How pleasing were you to see you're half back win.
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I was wrapped.
Speaker 6: I think everyone in the club was wrapped. You we
Speaker 6: know he's what he's done for our team this year,
Speaker 6: like on the field, but he's just such a lovely blake,
Speaker 6: really humble guy. You know, he doesn't expect anything of
Speaker 6: anybody that he's not willing to do himself, you know.
Speaker 6: So he's very popular around the club and obviously the
Speaker 6: whole club was wrapped to see him take the award
Speaker 6: last night.
Speaker 2: Harry, obviously our first Grand final, you weren't there in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty when the storm last one. What's it mean
Speaker 2: to you to kind of finally be here, arriving on
Speaker 2: the big stage and how are you feeling?
Speaker 16: Yeah, I'm excited. This is what you play footy for,
Speaker 16: and this is what you go through a pre season,
Speaker 16: throughout the whole season, and this week's probably a reflection,
Speaker 16: a chance to reflect and you sort of realize how
Speaker 16: much time effort you put in to putting yourself in
Speaker 16: this position. Then it's all about what we can do
Speaker 16: this week to prepare well and make sure we play
Speaker 16: well on Sunday, because yeah, there's one more game to
Speaker 16: go and you don't want to miss out on that opportunity.
Speaker 5: So it's really important.
Speaker 16: It's exciting, it's a great opportunity and yeah, something we
Speaker 16: don't take for granted.
Speaker 5: What's it been like captaining in this context?
Speaker 2: Obviously it's your first years captain, then you're coming into
Speaker 2: your first Grand Final as well. Obviously there's guys on
Speaker 2: the team that have been there before. How have you
Speaker 2: handled that leadership role this week?
Speaker 16: Yeah, it's probably a little different, and I've definitely asked
Speaker 16: some questions this week, lent on a few other people
Speaker 16: within the club or without so externally that aren't involved
Speaker 16: in the club as well, And probably it's probably get
Speaker 16: sick of me asking questions at times some people. But yeah,
Speaker 16: for me, it's it's no different. You know, I haven't
Speaker 16: been here, so I don't have the answers. You know,
Speaker 16: it's probably Craigs the ones here in the ship through
Speaker 16: the week.
Speaker 2: Without giving away too much of your game plan, how
Speaker 2: to I think you get the best of the Penrith
Speaker 2: Panthers on Sunday again.
Speaker 6: Now, we've got to be be aware of what their
Speaker 6: strengths are. And yeah, they're they're out Tide three make
Speaker 6: a lot of moves for them and do a lot
Speaker 6: of work for them. But the main thing for us
Speaker 6: is to make sure that.
Speaker 12: We know what works for us.
Speaker 6: As well, and we've just got to make sure we're
Speaker 6: doing that right from the start.
Speaker 2: Just finally, Craig, obviously this is the first Grand Final
Speaker 2: when none of the original Big three are left. Does
Speaker 2: it feel different? Does it feel like it's almost the
Speaker 2: start of a new legacy or era for these guys now,
Speaker 2: the new big four that you've got in your side.
Speaker 12: Oh, I think the new era. I felt like a
Speaker 12: new era.
Speaker 6: Yeah, when Kevin retired in twenty and then Harry come
Speaker 6: back and we had to find a way of getting
Speaker 6: back and burning competitive or staying competitive to be quite honest,
Speaker 6: And yeah, I think we've just found the players and
Speaker 6: then coach them and see how they they've combined. And
Speaker 6: I think the players have done really good job.
Speaker 5: Gentlemen, Thank you so much for your time, good luck
Speaker 5: on Sunday.
Speaker 6: Thanks thanks Mane, Thanks Lott, thank you Ja.
Speaker 9: Yes, it is the new era for the Melbourne Storm.
Speaker 1: They haven't won a premiership since the likes of Billy Slater,
Speaker 1: Cooper Kronk and Cameron Smith, so it really is a
Speaker 1: big test for them and I wouldn't call it a
Speaker 1: monkey on their back, but it definitely the big release.
Speaker 9: If think you get it.
Speaker 1: Done without those superstars that left a few years ago.
Speaker 13: Now, I think you know, when you lose someone like
Speaker 13: Cameron Smith so dominant, one of the greatest players ever
Speaker 13: to play the game, you've got to probably reinvent yourself
Speaker 13: and with Harry Green, I think the way that he's
Speaker 13: added to his game, I think that they're ready now.
Speaker 13: But it's to lose such a dominant player as in
Speaker 13: Billy Cooper and those guys. I think, you know, this
Speaker 13: is their time and then, like if I put myself
Speaker 13: back in the Brisbane situation, I didn't feel like that
Speaker 13: I won a Grand Final. I want to play with
Speaker 13: Health and Kevy. Once Elf left, I felt like we
Speaker 13: won in two thousands. I know Munster and those guys
Speaker 13: will have that feeling.
Speaker 10: That's interesting, and you raise a great point in that
Speaker 10: this is their time. They get the chance now to
Speaker 10: write their own legacy. But if they don't win on Sunday,
Speaker 10: then you say the monkey on their back. It isn't
Speaker 10: a monkey on their back yet, but if they don't
Speaker 10: win then it will become a question as they continue
Speaker 10: to roll.
Speaker 7: Through it, what do you forget? Who's that Grand Final side?
Speaker 11: I think they've lost twelve of them and ten of
Speaker 11: them are still playing at other clubs. And we talk
Speaker 11: about Canterbury all the time, taking the three great Penrith
Speaker 11: players and them losing all those high profile players. Melbourne
Speaker 11: done the same and Melbourne don't have the junior league.
Speaker 11: They've had to just be the smartest recruiters with Frank
Speaker 11: Ponosi and Paul barn So what they've done down there
Speaker 11: losing as many is just extraordinary, unbelievable.
Speaker 9: It's fascinating.
Speaker 1: Kueber Kong has the outline a plan for Melbourne to
Speaker 1: target a vulnerable Nathan Cleary.
Speaker 9: Take a look.
Speaker 3: Nathan is the king of Penrith and going to go
Speaker 3: into stop them from doing. You need to go after
Speaker 3: the king directly. Now this is a weird one. If
Speaker 3: I'm the Melbourne store, Nathan is at the forty meter line,
Speaker 3: just in off at the front line. I'm actually going
Speaker 3: to kick it to Nathan, and I want him to
Speaker 3: take the first carry, and I would make a statement
Speaker 3: physically about picking up, dragging him out, throwing him around,
Speaker 3: just make him he didn't land the ball about thirty
Speaker 3: meters other thirty meters a little sandwich, little sandwich, and
Speaker 3: he has to get it and then just everyone take
Speaker 3: the handbrake off.
Speaker 1: Very interesting take there from the great Cooper Kronkit.
Speaker 9: I'm not a bad or do you either?
Speaker 1: I hadn't thought about that, but Cooper aren't one of
Speaker 1: the best in the game with his analysis could ruffle
Speaker 1: some feathers early.
Speaker 10: I'm not going to question the tactical journeys to Cooper
Speaker 10: Kromp when you played as many Grand finals and one
Speaker 10: all the competitions that he has.
Speaker 9: I like it.
Speaker 12: I think it could have some merit and.
Speaker 8: You could Tom he started thinking like a Ford.
Speaker 12: Do you like it?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Absolutely, don't you like you? You go out.
Speaker 13: I'm like, all your chips in and let's go like
Speaker 13: it's a grand point.
Speaker 8: You put all your happen because of the professional.
Speaker 11: When you say it's unlikely to happen. And I thought
Speaker 11: it was a really nice touch last night when Cooper
Speaker 11: was on stage that Jerome Hughes acknowledged the assistance he'd
Speaker 11: been given and the coaching as a consultant there at Storm.
Speaker 11: And I wouldn't be surprised if in some way he
Speaker 11: might be tactically involved, you know. Would of course Craig
Speaker 11: Bellamy had sound him out, wouldn't he.
Speaker 9: And I don't know, you're you're telling the story.
Speaker 11: Well, I'm just telling the story of what Jerome who
Speaker 11: said last night. You know, I mean Keeper had a
Speaker 11: bit of a bump over it, you know, at times
Speaker 11: it was, but it was really nice.
Speaker 9: They still do. They still work this, Cooper still work
Speaker 9: with it.
Speaker 11: I don't think Cooper still works with the NRL squad
Speaker 11: at the Roosters. He's got a very soon your Rile
Speaker 11: bringing through the next generation of Harps and yeah.
Speaker 7: Well Jerome here thanked him last night.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, maybe playing with him and.
Speaker 11: The transition Hughes has made is one of the most
Speaker 11: extraordinary transit I've ever seen for battling fullback. Lost his
Speaker 11: spot to Papenhouse and had to find somewhere to play.
Speaker 7: He's the best half of the comp. He's up there
Speaker 7: last night with the biggest.
Speaker 1: An amazing job. And Cooper worked with In for a
Speaker 1: number of years there, so I'm sure he played a
Speaker 1: deep part in that. Now plenty tipping one of the
Speaker 1: great Grand Finals, I certainly am. Do you guys agree, Yeah?
Speaker 10: Absolutely, Look, they've been the runaway best two teams of
Speaker 10: twenty twenty four all season. You can go through from
Speaker 10: match up to matchup, whether you want to go Munster
Speaker 10: and Cleary with Loiam Martin and Sean Blah opposing each
Speaker 10: other on one side, then you flipped to the other
Speaker 10: and you got hughes up against Jerome Lewie with their
Speaker 10: creativity and the forward packs. The only question mark that
Speaker 10: I have is just the loss of Nelson and how
Speaker 10: big that that is because he is their enforcer, he
Speaker 10: is their big alpha.
Speaker 1: He's a corner up with Fisher, Harris and the Oder
Speaker 1: and you know, like the Melbourne Storm play above their
Speaker 1: wait and have done all year. Can they do it
Speaker 1: again on the big day against guys that you know
Speaker 1: are going to turn up that that's the big.
Speaker 7: Challenging twice this year? Is that right?
Speaker 12: Yes?
Speaker 7: Yeah, well there you go.
Speaker 11: I've seen some wonderful Grand Finals, the ninety seven Newcastle
Speaker 11: Manly Cowboys Broncos twenty fifteen. I think, Gordy, we're going
Speaker 11: to have something similar, something is exciting, possible, even Golden Point.
Speaker 7: It is so so evenly matched.
Speaker 14: It was.
Speaker 12: Last year's was one of the all time epics as well.
Speaker 8: Unbelievable.
Speaker 13: Like I remember when they wanted Brisbane to play camera
Speaker 13: like those two big poweruses. I got the feel about
Speaker 13: these two. They've been the best side of all year
Speaker 13: of the two heavyweights. They got the probably the best
Speaker 13: coaches in the game and they're going at it. So
Speaker 13: for me, you know, we have to pick a team,
Speaker 13: but I don't know who's going to win. You just
Speaker 13: don't know what's going to happen. And that's and that's
Speaker 13: exciting for a Grand Final.
Speaker 11: And that's where technically it's so interesting because we've got
Speaker 11: two super coaches in the boxes were walking, talk is
Speaker 11: yelling and screaming me more than Cleary.
Speaker 7: One little call from that box could change. You know.
Speaker 12: It's a great point, buzz Is.
Speaker 10: It's hard to split because they've been the best two
Speaker 10: coaches there for the last five seasons. But is there
Speaker 10: a coach like does Craig Bellamy experience in the game
Speaker 10: and he maybe has a little advantage in terms of
Speaker 10: tactically or do you know what?
Speaker 13: Do you know you're watching you try to read into things.
Speaker 13: Last night watching the dai MS, Craig had a sip
Speaker 13: of a bit. I know, it doesn't mean he looked
Speaker 13: more relaxed than I've ever seen Craig Bellamy. You know
Speaker 13: how intense is he looked so relax He walked in
Speaker 13: and he's got and said black he didn't have the
Speaker 13: beetlejuice jacket. And he walked in and he sat there
Speaker 13: and I watched him, and he's laughing and he's having
Speaker 13: a bit that's not normally a coach paint like that's
Speaker 13: not normally the Craig ballamy that I know. So maybe
Speaker 13: he's done all the work. Maybe he's got a couple
Speaker 13: of tricks up his sleep, and then I haven't always looked.
Speaker 7: Like, yeah, I haven't.
Speaker 11: Didn't go last night, which was interesting, you know, with
Speaker 11: such a big week, and I'm not going to bag
Speaker 11: him for not being there. There were about eight coaches there,
Speaker 11: but Bellyate was really relaxed.
Speaker 10: History does tell us that the Melbourne storm, they've been
Speaker 10: so good at uniform and whatever little more neuent weakness
Speaker 10: it is in oppositions and then exposing it.
Speaker 1: He said that in the interview too, So he's done
Speaker 1: his homework Craigville and he needs to keep it all
Speaker 1: out and hopefully goes down to the wire. Now that's
Speaker 1: a more a one year anniversary.
Speaker 4: From the long runch long.
Speaker 9: Lunch with the Tigers base. It's one yearniversaries today.
Speaker 11: Yeah, we thought we'd sort of had a few problems
Speaker 11: for the West Tigers at that lunch. But not long
Speaker 11: after that, my mate Lee had your pan tell Us
Speaker 11: and justin Pasco, were packed, said packing, but I put
Speaker 11: an off around here in the last television rich, how
Speaker 11: I'm prepared to sit down with your mate, take you
Speaker 11: from work.
Speaker 9: On the lunch before you employed Bingji? That was that
Speaker 9: one or at dinner.
Speaker 7: That was changing? You get it right? Why would you
Speaker 7: put this up with my grandfather? Seriously?
Speaker 9: It's a month and the producer I.
Speaker 12: Think it was.
Speaker 9: No, all right? How much time does Benji get quickly?
Speaker 11: I think he gets twelve weeks, Like I was going
Speaker 11: to give Keny Walters twelve weeks.
Speaker 7: They're one from twelve, which they could be. I reckon
Speaker 7: he's done.
Speaker 12: Surely he gets twelve months. I know he got.
Speaker 10: It was his first full season in charge this year,
Speaker 10: but what are they signing to a five year.
Speaker 7: Paying four straight premierships?
Speaker 11: They're playing for four straight Wooden Spurs understandable.
Speaker 12: You know how they've got.
Speaker 11: Before against when Tim Schoen's was there. You know he
Speaker 11: did and he catched this year.
Speaker 12: So you're saying the West Tigers the sact ben.
Speaker 11: I'm saying, if it's a year, if it's a disaster,
Speaker 11: they need to get they can't wait for mate, Can
Speaker 11: I answer? Can I think about the Grand Final and
Speaker 11: come back, come on, we've gone for.
Speaker 7: You think we've got.
Speaker 9: I think Benji.
Speaker 10: Deserves a full twelve months, given where that club is,
Speaker 10: given where that club is, the monumental challenges that it's facing,
Speaker 10: you've got to give him twelve months with Jerome Leui,
Speaker 10: Sonny Taruba and maybe they get some other players in
Speaker 10: over the off season.
Speaker 9: I think that's fair enough.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, to thank you, buzz Se Monday.
Speaker 9: We'll see you Monday after the Grand Final. Beautiful.
Speaker 1: I'm going to miss you over the weekend next Small,
Speaker 1: Chambers and Kaiga will preview the Grand falling tomorrow night
Speaker 1: at six thirty pm on Fox League.
Speaker 9: It's Finals Footy with Maddie John