Speaker 1: Okay, welcome everybody. Welcome to the Daily Telegraph NRL podcast.
Speaker 2: I'm here this morning with Russell Jackson and we've got
Speaker 2: Jason Hoskin digit team on debut and my name is
Speaker 2: Pamela whiley catching up after a big weekend of Magic
Speaker 2: Ground How to Go?
Speaker 3: I notice I just missed my camera shop before, so
Speaker 3: apologies there. I confused where I'm looking, but I got that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Magic Ground was was fantastic, really enjoyed. It has a
Speaker 3: lot of a lot of footy to consume, isn't there?
Speaker 3: But I thought we got off to an absolute flyer
Speaker 3: on Thursday night. I know it's not it's not officially
Speaker 3: part of Magic Ground, is it? But it should be
Speaker 3: if it's not. The women's origin was was fantastic. I
Speaker 3: love that. And then and then we finished off with
Speaker 3: pretty sort of scrappy affair there the Dolphins and Tigers unfortunately,
Speaker 3: but you can't have everything, so no, but some good,
Speaker 3: some great foot he played. We saw, We saw a
Speaker 3: few surprises. Loved what the Warriors did against Penrith especially
Speaker 3: that was that was fantastic. Yeah, what are you guys?
Speaker 4: What about just so many close games? I don't know,
Speaker 4: I mean but what is it is fourth or fifth year,
Speaker 4: but probably the most close games in one round. I
Speaker 4: would have thought, like just sensation of captivating the whole
Speaker 4: entire weekend. I thought it was great. Yeah, and seeing
Speaker 4: the Sharks sort of starting to make a name for
Speaker 4: themselves as well.
Speaker 1: I loved personally David Armstrong at the Knights. Was it
Speaker 1: a hat trick? He'squed a hat trick?
Speaker 3: I think it was.
Speaker 1: He was fantastic, just absolutely fantastic. He so he's played
Speaker 1: four games now the Knights have won their past four games.
Speaker 2: It kind of genuinely how do you leave him out
Speaker 2: of out of the side once Kailyn comes back.
Speaker 3: It's great seeing these guys, these new so Wales Cup
Speaker 3: guys were making the most of their opportunities. We're seeing
Speaker 3: we're seeing that. We saw it with the young Warriors
Speaker 3: or the Warriors fall back. He's twenty four, tan Yella.
Speaker 3: He was sensational as well. But I just love seeing
Speaker 3: these guys make the most of the opportunities. We're seeing
Speaker 3: with Green Atkinson from the Sharks as well. There's some
Speaker 3: really good players in that Miss Wales Cup set up,
Speaker 3: but Armstrong is just electrifying. He's so exciting.
Speaker 1: He really is.
Speaker 3: And who would have thought after Ponger gets injured and
Speaker 3: if you think, oh my god, you're hiding under your desk,
Speaker 3: if you're a Nights fan thinking what's going to happen here?
Speaker 3: But they just he's just providing so much spark. He's fantastic.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, What about the another big talking point out of it,
Speaker 2: Oh here we go, so yeah, here we go. We're
Speaker 2: having a look at his his highlights here.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: He just kind of has kind of come from nowhere,
Speaker 2: I think. And as I said, just once Kailn comes in,
Speaker 2: what do they do with him? Because they can't leave
Speaker 2: him out of first grade now, not with the.
Speaker 3: And I'm sure there's plenty of clubs interested in his services.
Speaker 3: I think that's the big issue. Like he's he looks
Speaker 3: out and out fullback, So what do you do?
Speaker 1: So what you're saying is what I'm saying is that's
Speaker 1: a six experiment.
Speaker 3: Times Taylor and pong has six experiment Unless you want
Speaker 3: to lose this kid. I think I think the clubs
Speaker 3: will be killing up for him. He just yeah, the
Speaker 3: spark is providing. He's just such a natural natural footy player.
Speaker 3: He doesn't need like sophisticated plays either because he's just
Speaker 3: so fast, you know, it's just it's just paced quite often.
Speaker 3: And there is some footy smarts there, of course, but yeah,
Speaker 3: he's just he's such an exciting talent. But you've got
Speaker 3: to love the resolve of this of this Night's team too.
Speaker 3: They're just finding a way out. They got a bit
Speaker 3: when Jackson Haysts are watching this footage of him, now
Speaker 3: a little push and sharp, he's got to he's got
Speaker 3: to rain it in a little bit.
Speaker 1: That was incredibly stupid. Yeah this is just done.
Speaker 2: Yeah this like this really could have cost Then it's
Speaker 2: the game, and I think many believe there was a
Speaker 2: little bit of.
Speaker 1: All Days believes that probably the Titans should have won.
Speaker 1: Yeah that no try, yeah, try, no try. What did
Speaker 1: we make of that?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I look, I had the first first look he's
Speaker 3: dropped it. I was surprised. Actually in commentary they said
Speaker 3: straight away, oh there's no problem there, and hang on
Speaker 3: a second. I rewound and when he dropped it and
Speaker 3: nothing I've seen, like I need to watch too many
Speaker 3: more replays of it, but I probably ended up watching
Speaker 3: another ten because we put a gift up on our website,
Speaker 3: so you keep watching those, they're pretty pretty good. But
Speaker 3: I still doesn't the gift. The gifts a bit smaller,
Speaker 3: so it makes it makes it look like you can't see,
Speaker 3: like clear separation or whatever.
Speaker 4: But the boor clearly bounces. I think it clearly came.
Speaker 4: I couldn't see. I mean, if it was warded to try,
Speaker 4: it would be here blowing up the other way.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's interesting. But just on Newcastle and Armstrong, I mean,
Speaker 4: they've really simplified their game.
Speaker 3: It seems to be we're just look, we're looking at
Speaker 3: it now like he's you can see him lose control
Speaker 3: of the ball quite clearly.
Speaker 2: I think the thought was that it had been potentially
Speaker 2: raked out as well.
Speaker 1: If so, I mean I'm comfortable with it.
Speaker 3: Yes, in the actor scoring a try.
Speaker 1: You can't break it out exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. So yeah, I think we highlighted too.
Speaker 3: Das has got bigger problems than the bunker. They missed
Speaker 3: forty seven tackles in that game, so they want to
Speaker 3: fix that up firstly, and at times their attack is yeah,
Speaker 3: it's pretty pedestrian, so they've got they've got bigger, bigger
Speaker 3: issues up there. It's usual story you've got to hit
Speaker 3: your weapons a bit more, and they got some serious weapons.
Speaker 3: Two edged backgraders.
Speaker 2: Go all right, so we interrupted you were about to
Speaker 2: give the Knights a rap.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just going to give the Nights a rape. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean they have sort of simplified the game and
Speaker 4: it sort of works out well for Armstrong and he
Speaker 4: sort of likes trailing up through the middle. Yeah, so
Speaker 4: it'll be interesting. I mean, Caylen's still out for I
Speaker 4: don't know, another eight six, eight weeks or something like that,
Speaker 4: A long time anyway, so they'll really settle into a
Speaker 4: combination and assuming they'll be pushing for the finals. So yeah,
Speaker 4: where do you put Kaylen when he does come back?
Speaker 4: You don't want to break up any momentum.
Speaker 1: Definitely genuine question.
Speaker 2: What about the Sharks. I think there was still a
Speaker 2: little bit. They obviously beat Melbourne last week and then
Speaker 2: there was still just a little hint of a doubt
Speaker 2: And I think I've said it too. Still not one
Speaker 2: hundred percent convinced. I'm now kind of convinced that they're
Speaker 2: a Premiership heavyweight.
Speaker 1: Do you agree?
Speaker 3: But yeah, I look, there's certainly making a strong argument.
Speaker 3: They played Niko Heines was fantastic. Dominic Young made a
Speaker 3: lot of aeras didn't We were just watching one there, But yeah,
Speaker 3: the Roosters were I don't know. I think there's a
Speaker 3: lot of upside in that Rooster's team Joey Manor who
Speaker 3: obviously wasn't there, which makes a huge difference. But yeah,
Speaker 3: as far as the Sharks are concerned, and they're getting
Speaker 3: such great value about of guys like you know, Tom
Speaker 3: Hazleton particularly, he has just been absolute phenomenon. But yeah,
Speaker 3: they're playing good footy that well organized defensively with Craig Fitzgibbon.
Speaker 3: They play a great style of footy too. I really
Speaker 3: what I liked about this game was just a style
Speaker 3: that both teams played with throwing it around. The Roosters
Speaker 3: in particular can be a little bit a bit careless
Speaker 3: at times and make a lot of a lot of
Speaker 3: silly errors, but great, Yeah, great adversement for rugby league.
Speaker 3: This game really good, really good game of footy, very
Speaker 3: open and this this try from Junior Power. And there's
Speaker 3: another guy who you know, makes the most of every
Speaker 3: opportunity he gets, you know, minimum wage guy, just battling
Speaker 3: away every time he comes into the team. He does
Speaker 3: a good job, but.
Speaker 1: That was an absolute coach killer.
Speaker 3: But exactly the only thing with the Sharks is they've
Speaker 3: they've got to get it done at the business end
Speaker 3: of the season. I think a lot of people like
Speaker 3: me will only be convinced when I see that happen,
Speaker 3: when I see Nico Hines win a big game for
Speaker 3: the Sharks and get I mean, I just need to
Speaker 3: see that before I'm totally convinced.
Speaker 2: I agree with you, I think. But last year they
Speaker 2: didn't beat a top eight side, did they not?
Speaker 1: All year? And they still finished I think they finished seventh.
Speaker 1: Wasn't it bit high than that? I think it was
Speaker 1: about seventh last year?
Speaker 2: And yeah, so I think they were very real doubts
Speaker 2: about them even though they have been winning.
Speaker 1: But this is Yeah, that's kind of convinced me.
Speaker 2: Too, Yeah, that they will be right up there.
Speaker 4: Oh it's interesting. I mean, yeah, massive two weeks for
Speaker 4: the Sharks, that they're big scalps in consecutive weeks. But
Speaker 4: it's interesting when you talk about Premiership contenders and you
Speaker 4: bring up the Sharks and the have just conceded thirty
Speaker 4: points in the game. So it's still plenty to work on.
Speaker 4: To get with those sort of top four sides and
Speaker 4: be able to grind out a victory.
Speaker 3: Yeah, still to be proven. I guess. It was almost
Speaker 3: like those teams the other night just agreed like defense
Speaker 3: is optional tonight, like let's just throw it around and
Speaker 3: have a bit of fun.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 3: It was loose. Fights were so loose like the Sharks
Speaker 3: normally see like pretty well organized defensively, but yeah, that's
Speaker 3: just everything went out the window with that game. It
Speaker 3: was like, and I like that about the Sharks. They
Speaker 3: sort of thought, well, we'll just and they came out.
Speaker 3: It started brilliantly, but they thought, we've got to go
Speaker 3: toe to toe with these guys. If we sit back,
Speaker 3: be conservative, they'll run around us. So let's let's try
Speaker 3: some shots ourselves. And that was pretty impressive that they
Speaker 3: can do that.
Speaker 4: It was a perfect round for it, party round. Party
Speaker 4: of crowd was up and about the atmosphere. Another entertained
Speaker 4: it was good fun.
Speaker 2: They get another test this week, obviously, so they play
Speaker 2: the Panthers.
Speaker 1: Where do they play that game? Let the other look here,
Speaker 1: So that's at home, so they play that. Yeah, incredible.
Speaker 1: The Panthers obviously had a bit of a misstep.
Speaker 2: They had a huge week this week with the tailor
Speaker 2: made stuff that came out which was terrible, and they
Speaker 2: just seemed to completely off their game.
Speaker 4: What do we think, Well, they got off to a
Speaker 4: fine start, didn't they try on the first ninety seconds
Speaker 4: and you know they seem to have the better of
Speaker 4: the Warriors. But but yeah, I guess his key players out,
Speaker 4: Cleary out, and a lot of other players out, and
Speaker 4: they're just sort of, yeah, they're just a couple of
Speaker 4: rungs below where they need to be.
Speaker 2: But even that penalty like the dealer of the Dylan
Speaker 2: Edwards penalty, but you know at the end that was
Speaker 2: that's something that usually yeah, would just be gravy.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, and you look at you know, Jerome Leui
Speaker 3: was just on fire early in that game. But you know,
Speaker 3: I think you see the difference between is probably a
Speaker 3: warning for the type for Tigers fans and shows that
Speaker 3: he does need to develop into that chief playmaking role.
Speaker 3: Like Nathan Cleary is so good at controlling a game.
Speaker 3: They were dominant and there's no way he would sort
Speaker 3: of let the Warriors get back into it the way
Speaker 3: they did through some pretty scrappy unpenis like play. I
Speaker 3: thought Dylan Edwards was fantastic, even though you know he
Speaker 3: did get out play by his opposite this, but yeah,
Speaker 3: I just that was the thing for me. Yeah, Nathan
Speaker 3: Cleary so sorely missed, not that he was goal kicking alone,
Speaker 3: that the shot at the end of the game would
Speaker 3: have been. Yeah, it would have been easy work for
Speaker 3: for Cleary as we're watching poor Jack Cole get cut
Speaker 3: in half by Bo Pompey and then yeah, sprad a
Speaker 3: bit of bomb after that. But oh, the front on camera,
Speaker 3: such an incredible hit.
Speaker 1: I really finished him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't see you guys get folded like that
Speaker 3: very often, but.
Speaker 2: It was yeah, no, I think just they just looked
Speaker 2: a little bit desperate and disorganized and they were trying
Speaker 2: to win the game and they just didn't know where
Speaker 2: to go, what to do.
Speaker 3: And they'll have a big talk about that because Taylor
Speaker 3: May we know it's going to be suspended indefinitely, so
Speaker 3: I'll be getting his life without him, So I'm sure
Speaker 3: Evan we'll be having a good chat to his guys.
Speaker 3: But there's no doubt that impacted them, without taking anything
Speaker 3: away from the Warriors, who were great, and it was
Speaker 3: terrific to see them win because some I think everybody likes.
Speaker 1: The Warriors absolutely, what about women's origin.
Speaker 2: So we had a that was a So it was
Speaker 2: just over twenty five thousand people there, which is actually
Speaker 2: a world record for standalone women's rugby league match, which
Speaker 2: is really amazing phenomenal. So yeah, it was just I
Speaker 2: sad he last week and thought Queensland would just absolutely
Speaker 2: dominate and the.
Speaker 3: Opposite they came out of that was such a good
Speaker 3: game and they got done in the conditioning stakes, didn't
Speaker 3: they They just looked off the pace Queensland chatman electrifiing that stride.
Speaker 3: It's incredible. It's just an amazing strike. Again, she's so fast.
Speaker 1: So fast, she's so tall, six foot tall.
Speaker 4: She got three tries in the Grand Final last year
Speaker 4: for the Titans, came unstuck.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, to play. But I meant to say at
Speaker 3: the top of the show, the thing that did catch
Speaker 3: my eye was and we're about to see something is
Speaker 3: Caitlin Johnston, Like she was just incredible that try. It
Speaker 3: was just the best thing I've seen in a long time.
Speaker 3: And everything that she had to deal with leading up
Speaker 3: to the game, online trials and whatnot. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 3: look at that. That's she's just the.
Speaker 1: Most fun player to watch. She had such a good
Speaker 1: time and.
Speaker 3: You can see the players like every time she did
Speaker 3: something in their game that just get around her. It
Speaker 3: was great, great to watch good footy, really good footy,
Speaker 3: proper play the balls. Like I'm a purist who hates
Speaker 3: the way the play the balls going in the NRL,
Speaker 3: We're seeing guys just get up and chuck it through
Speaker 3: their legs and we see technically some good stuff around
Speaker 3: their ruck. So I hope that. I hope that stays.
Speaker 1: I don't stay down and appeal for pan to.
Speaker 3: Watch milking the wrestling and all that, and you know
Speaker 3: it's going to come at some point probably they play
Speaker 3: more games and becomes more professional, but let's hope it doesn't.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I love those. As a regularly purist watching
Speaker 3: people play the ball properly, I love it.
Speaker 4: I just thought it was great. I mean, standalone, like
Speaker 4: you say, a record crowd and some magic moments, which
Speaker 4: and the women's game will start to build that sort
Speaker 4: of folklore moments now, so you have another sort of
Speaker 4: layer of football that more people get engaged with, and
Speaker 4: it's quality too.
Speaker 3: Is there anything like from Queensland perspective, is there anything
Speaker 3: they can do? Do you think we're expecting any changes
Speaker 3: or anything like that, or they just yeah, is there
Speaker 3: anything they can do?
Speaker 2: I think that they just kind of need to get
Speaker 2: I think the difference in this was I think a
Speaker 2: lot of people, me included, actually really underestimated that seven
Speaker 2: weeks that New South has kind of had together in
Speaker 2: camp and just you could see the relationship that all
Speaker 2: those players for formed together over that time, whereas Queensland
Speaker 2: had a week or so, even though they're they're pretty
Speaker 2: mainstay team.
Speaker 3: What was it thinking, is it's just an overside played
Speaker 3: Queensland Rugby League or how were they didn't have funding
Speaker 3: or what was the reason?
Speaker 1: The reason that New.
Speaker 2: South Wales did that was because there's no games played
Speaker 2: in New South Wales. So the New South Wales Rugby
Speaker 2: League like the Harvey Norman Women's Premiership that's now being
Speaker 2: played at the same time as the inner Ron Rubby
Speaker 2: later in the year, so a lot of the New
Speaker 2: South Wales players didn't.
Speaker 1: Have any games they're not playing, So.
Speaker 2: The New South Wales camp was as a way to
Speaker 2: fix that, to get conditioning into them to replace the
Speaker 2: fact that they're not actually playing club games whereas Queensland
Speaker 2: are playing club games and there are a few New
Speaker 2: South Wales girls who went up to Queensland to playing
Speaker 2: in the Queensland competition. It was to avoid a really
Speaker 2: poor kind of opening first game, lack of poor quality
Speaker 2: opening first and lack of footy.
Speaker 1: But Quentin really need to look at that.
Speaker 3: I think they might change their plan.
Speaker 1: They really do, because that was that was very obvious.
Speaker 1: The difference in that. What about? So let's move on.
Speaker 1: There's another big talking point this week.
Speaker 2: I think they obviously came out of magic ground but
Speaker 2: been bubbling along for a little while is what's the
Speaker 2: matter of paramatter? Yeah, a bit of heat has turned
Speaker 2: on to Brad Arthur. Now after that loss that was yes,
Speaker 2: so forty eight to sixteen lost to Melbourne.
Speaker 1: What do we think has Where do we think this goes?
Speaker 3: Do we think that well? There needs to be I
Speaker 3: think I think they're playing Sous this weekend and if
Speaker 3: they lose that game, no matter who's not there for paramatter,
Speaker 3: the blow torch is just going to be applied to
Speaker 3: Brad Arthur. At the moment he's got support at the club.
Speaker 3: But if they if they get beaten by his house,
Speaker 3: and from what I saw of Souse the other night,
Speaker 3: I think that's a very real prospect of that happening.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be big trouble for for Brad Arthur. But yeah,
Speaker 3: they just couldn't go with Melbourne at all, could they?
Speaker 3: And I suppose there's no disgrace in that when Melbourne's
Speaker 3: on like this, But you know, Paramatta is a big
Speaker 3: club and they shouldn't be sitting where are they fourteenth?
Speaker 3: They should just shouldn't be in this in this position.
Speaker 3: But yeah, no Guthus and no Moses.
Speaker 4: You know, there's some serious second half fade out this
Speaker 4: season for the years, isn't it. Yes, I kind of
Speaker 4: feel is I don't know, there's something bubbling amongst the
Speaker 4: grip Mike receiver. His involvement was like minimal, not for
Speaker 4: the first time, he's already been dropped this season. And yeah,
Speaker 4: just low energy.
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well they were in it with the Broncos, weren't they
Speaker 2: last week? And then just totally fell away. And then
Speaker 2: you know they have moments where you think, oh, you know,
Speaker 2: that looks pretty good and then it just is they
Speaker 2: can't maintain it and that's right, and I mean, you
Speaker 2: look at I know that they have injuries and obviously
Speaker 2: No Gatho is a big one and no Mitch Moses
Speaker 2: is huge as well, but they still.
Speaker 1: Have a fairly classy caliber of players.
Speaker 3: They've got, still got a decent pack, and we just
Speaker 3: see they get jumped over by CAFUSI. I think Michaels
Speaker 3: certainly knows that he's not wanted at that club anymore,
Speaker 3: but he should be more professional and they need more
Speaker 3: from him. I agree he's involvement, it's just it's not
Speaker 3: good enough.
Speaker 2: And I think, yeah, I mean he's not He's not
Speaker 2: the problem, is not the problem.
Speaker 3: He's an example of a guy who can do more. Like, yes,
Speaker 3: they've got those injuries to key positions and whatnot, but
Speaker 3: they need more from those experienced guys. Definitely, the only
Speaker 3: thing that seems to be working for them at the moment.
Speaker 3: I like watching blades Tellugi play. Yeah he's certainly, he's
Speaker 3: certainly a real threat in that sort of thirty metor zone.
Speaker 3: But yeah, again it's just a young bloke doing his best.
Speaker 3: They need more from their experience.
Speaker 2: He hasn't committed to the to the club, hasn't so
Speaker 2: and that is a warning sign, I think, because he
Speaker 2: is a player at the moment where you look and
Speaker 2: you go, here's a bit of a spark, here's something
Speaker 2: to look forward to. Let's fight, Let's figure out what
Speaker 2: to do with him, because he's he's in the future.
Speaker 2: If he hasn't committed, Yeah, that's a I mean, if
Speaker 2: you're a Nails fan.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, clubs are circling, Dragons circling big time.
Speaker 4: So yeah, and Eathan stands another up and coming signed
Speaker 4: with the Raid's right.
Speaker 3: Two of the guys that are standing look like they've
Speaker 3: got something. Yeah, it look like they won't. Well we're
Speaker 3: telling you, but we'll wait and see. But yeah, massive
Speaker 3: trouble for Brad Arthur, I think as it is. But
Speaker 3: if they get rolled by bys House, lookout.
Speaker 2: The hard thing is, though, now we're going to talk
Speaker 2: about you know, Wayne Bennett, he's going to South so
Speaker 2: it's going to be formalized very shortly. But where did
Speaker 2: they ill was go?
Speaker 1: Though? So that was the big thing, wasn't it. So
Speaker 1: you know Wayne Bennett is up for grabs. Who wants it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. Yeah, they sat back back, they backed
Speaker 3: their man. So you know, people some people might like that, Yeah,
Speaker 3: where do they go? They probably I don't know, like
Speaker 3: as far as experienced coaches go, which it looks like
Speaker 3: a job that's going to require somebody who's been around
Speaker 3: the traps a bit. But it looks like, you know,
Speaker 3: there's guys like Jason Ryles around who don't have that experience.
Speaker 3: So that's I don't know who the experienced coach would
Speaker 3: be that they could pick up, which is the issue
Speaker 3: for paramatter. Are they prepared to roll the dice with
Speaker 3: a Jason Ryles type character.
Speaker 4: It's interesting, isn't it. I mean, possible be the longest
Speaker 4: serving Eils coach now, yeah, it's just a stale voice,
Speaker 4: is that what it is? I mean, obviously guy can coach. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we've should have gone through with the South Sydney Demetrios saga.
Speaker 4: It's got to come back to the players. Yeah, seriously, Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's what we were talking about.
Speaker 2: You know, the class that's in that team and the
Speaker 2: experience and the leadership that should be there, and it
Speaker 2: just is there's no, it's nothing doing there at the moment.
Speaker 2: You know, it doesn't really seem like anyone's holding each
Speaker 2: other accountable, which is a shame because brought Arthur is
Speaker 2: a he's a great fellow and he's a good coach,
Speaker 2: and but maybe they do just need a changing voice.
Speaker 3: We've stopped stopped playing for him, haven't they. It's yeah,
Speaker 3: he's a huge concern.
Speaker 1: Well, but one club that has obviously made their change.
Speaker 2: It's a very good segue for the better, but hopefully South.
Speaker 3: So that is.
Speaker 1: Expected to be finalized very shortly.
Speaker 2: Potentially today, Yeah, potentially today, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. What do we think about the Wayne Bennett to Sous?
Speaker 1: Is he going to be the solution?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, I just don't know how long it's going
Speaker 3: to take for him to get them right. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: going to depend a lot on recruitment, I think is
Speaker 3: the middle forwards. They've got a pretty average middle, not
Speaker 3: being helped by the likes of Cameron Murray being out
Speaker 3: and Joy Arrah's playing Edge can play middle as well,
Speaker 3: and he's playing bustard while he's been amazing though if
Speaker 3: everyone had to go like him, Sous wouldn't have been
Speaker 3: in the trouble therein He's just he's been phenomenal. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I think it's going to depend on some key recruits.
Speaker 3: Our man crash Cretics spoke to Wayne Bennett last night.
Speaker 3: You read the story on the Career Mail, Tarto Telegraph,
Speaker 3: and Code websites. But Bennett's assured Crash that he won't
Speaker 3: be I won't be taking players with him from from
Speaker 3: the Dolphins. But we've heard these types of things before,
Speaker 3: haven't we. So yeah, I don't know what's going to
Speaker 3: happen there, but yeah, I think you know, once once
Speaker 3: they get a few guys backs house. So we're talking
Speaker 3: Bennett wise, you know, he gets like you play Ji
Speaker 3: Gray at fullback because I think it's pretty clear now
Speaker 3: like Latrell Mitchell ran for fifty one meters in this game,
Speaker 3: and that's just not that's not enough for a modern fullback.
Speaker 3: It's nowhere near enough, you know. I'm sure it's not
Speaker 3: enough for an ancient fullback. I'm sure they ran further
Speaker 3: in the Dali Message daily messagers played a bit wider,
Speaker 3: but Clive Churchill I probably ran more meters than that.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I think it's just not enough. I mean,
Speaker 3: he's great, He's still got plenty of striking him Mitchell.
Speaker 3: You know, his numbers everywhere else attacking stats are phenomenal,
Speaker 3: and you know I'm sure he'll he could. He's capable
Speaker 3: of carving carving paramatter up for sure. But yeah, they
Speaker 3: need more more from him at the back. But I
Speaker 3: thought they played okay, so so they look like they're
Speaker 3: getting really close to win.
Speaker 1: So yeah, just a scary thing came out of this week,
Speaker 1: isn't it. What are your thoughts, Jase?
Speaker 4: I reckon you'll turn it around, straight up. I don't
Speaker 4: think you'll have a problem at all. I reckon, you'll
Speaker 4: get some good recruits during the off season. And you know,
Speaker 4: they've got plenty of good players on the list already.
Speaker 4: And look at all about man management, isn't it. And
Speaker 4: he's the proven one.
Speaker 3: In the competition.
Speaker 4: You can just walk into clubs and pick boys up
Speaker 4: and take them along, and he's well, he's already done
Speaker 4: it withouts and a lot of that squad. So I
Speaker 4: just jumped straight on board.
Speaker 2: He brings that gravitas too, doesn't He brings players want
Speaker 2: to come and play with him, Players want to pi
Speaker 2: to the club as well, and they see that as
Speaker 2: him as the guy to kind of take their careers
Speaker 2: forward in a way.
Speaker 3: So a little bit of luck with injuries as well,
Speaker 3: and you know, things can things can turn pretty fast.
Speaker 3: But yeah, if there's one guy that can do.
Speaker 1: It, it's been about the Dolphins.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's a shame, isn't it. It's a shame
Speaker 3: because they're building. They're building something really good there. Do
Speaker 3: you reckon Joe soon? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Then they're a great side the ladder.
Speaker 2: At the moment, like and that's we're almost what are
Speaker 2: we We're going into round twelve and we're a good chunk.
Speaker 2: We're over a third of the way through the season now,
Speaker 2: so you know they're doing good things.
Speaker 4: Yeah, good attractive style of footy, classics sort of Wayne
Speaker 4: in its side. Yeah, it's really exciting. But yeah, where
Speaker 4: does it leave them?
Speaker 3: Well, you only got to.
Speaker 4: Look back in history to see the guys that have
Speaker 4: taken over from Bennett, and they all have a good
Speaker 4: footy brain. But I think it just comes down to
Speaker 4: the tapping into guys and getting the best out of them,
Speaker 4: And I think that's totally different skill that you know
Speaker 4: for Christian when many people know.
Speaker 3: So, I think the Dolphins will be quietly terrified about
Speaker 3: the curse of Wayne Bennett continuing, I hope it doesn't.
Speaker 3: I hope Christian Wolf is able to break the.
Speaker 1: Trend reassuring us, don't they that it's not going to happen.
Speaker 3: It's not that happens. It happened, but yeah it keeps happening,
Speaker 3: and yeah, I hope it doesn't happen. It is a
Speaker 3: shame that Bennett didn't do a longer deal, I think,
Speaker 3: but because I think he's building. He's building something quite
Speaker 3: good up there too.
Speaker 2: So Krishawolf is a really popular coach though too. I mean,
Speaker 2: players love him and he's just kind of been a
Speaker 2: coach in the making for a long time. He was
Speaker 2: obviously Overrits and Helen's and then he's done some stuff
Speaker 2: on the rep scene and he's been at the Dolphins
Speaker 2: for a while. He's been an assistant for a really
Speaker 2: long time. So he Yeah, look hopefully he can break that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I hope.
Speaker 1: So hopefully.
Speaker 4: It's an interesting space, though, isn't because with the announcement
Speaker 4: of another expansion team coming up in Bennett's name links
Speaker 4: to that, what does that mean for South's as well? Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean you've got to groom someone else that've already
Speaker 4: done that and now they've moved him on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's good in space. So after the three seasons,
Speaker 3: if he doesn't win a premiership, then the curse of
Speaker 3: Wayne Bennett kicks in.
Speaker 2: And yeah, that's yeah, well, this is the this is
Speaker 2: the swings roundabouts of rugby league.
Speaker 1: That right, this is the It's always a little bit
Speaker 1: of a merry go round.
Speaker 2: We'll finish off with a nice little segment. We're going
Speaker 2: to talk about TV shows. I know we've all been
Speaker 2: watching the sport. We've all been watching Weekend too much.
Speaker 2: It was so it was actually so much time Sunday
Speaker 2: that last game one Sunday world around.
Speaker 1: It was like, oh my god, when will this end?
Speaker 1: Not that I didn't enjoy it, but it was just
Speaker 1: it was full on. But what have you been watching us?
Speaker 3: I watched I watched the series. It was a six
Speaker 3: or seven part series called The Outsider. It's based on
Speaker 3: Stephen King book. Jason Bateman and Ben Bendelson plays a Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so there's a suburban parent who's accused of a grizzly
Speaker 3: murder and yeah, this, I won't spoil it for you,
Speaker 3: but this this thing that's going around killing people. He's
Speaker 3: able to morph into other people. So if we're talking,
Speaker 3: it's like a horror. We're sort of looking at CCTV
Speaker 3: footage of people being somewhere and you're like, well, hang on,
Speaker 3: we've got CCTV footage on and being here. How can
Speaker 3: you be in two places at the same time? And yeah,
Speaker 3: it's scary, it is.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not. It's not too supernatural because I sort
Speaker 3: of blew up when my wife put it on, and
Speaker 3: I don't want to watch any supernatural sort of stuff.
Speaker 3: But it was actually just enough supernatural to make it believable.
Speaker 3: So it's very good. I highly recommend it is like
Speaker 3: a short series. Yeah, it's like it was like six
Speaker 3: or seven episodes, but definitely worth definitely worth watching. Look
Speaker 3: at Yeah. Ben Mandelssohn is Yeah, he's the he's the
Speaker 3: lead detective, and he is He's phenomenal in this.
Speaker 1: I'm giving it five stars five stars. Oh wow, Okay,
Speaker 1: how about you watching.
Speaker 4: Look, you're probably asking the wrong person, Pam. I don't
Speaker 4: generally want to watch out much Telly outside of sports,
Speaker 4: but I did walk into a last week's version of
Speaker 4: Hard Quiz on a Wednesday night.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I just love the sendoffs. Yeah, that's
Speaker 3: always the best.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're so funny. I've been watching a bit of
Speaker 2: a comedy though to Hacks, I don't know. A few
Speaker 2: times I've heard of it, so it's on stand. It's
Speaker 2: about two female comedians. One's, you know, a legend of
Speaker 2: the comedy genre. One is a younger, like twenty five
Speaker 2: year old who's just been canceled for something that she tweeted.
Speaker 2: And then so they are working together to kind of
Speaker 2: build their careers. It's very very funny, only like half
Speaker 2: hour episodes or so, but yeah, it's just something funny,
Speaker 2: easy to throw on, very.
Speaker 3: Much into between the footy.
Speaker 1: In between the footy of course.
Speaker 2: Yeah afterwards when you need a little bit of a
Speaker 2: footy detox, exactly a thousand games.
Speaker 3: Me watching incorrect play the Balls, I need to leap
Speaker 3: down with a good TV show.
Speaker 1: All right, Well beautiful, Well, thanks so much for joining us, fellas,
Speaker 1: and thanks thank you for joining it.
Speaker 3: Thanks thanks for having us.
Speaker 1: Let's have a good weekend a footy. Hey, good week