Speaker 1: Well, Coop's great round of football fantastic, some great performances.
Speaker 1: Special mention of Stephen Crichton. I thought, do you know
Speaker 1: watching Crichton twenty four years of age? He's only twenty four,
Speaker 1: I thought, who does to remind me of just his size, presence,
Speaker 1: skill and his leadership? Mate? Oh he no, someone else
Speaker 1: who works in this building, that Maulmininger. Yeah, he reminds
Speaker 1: me he actually mail. As far as his presence, I.
Speaker 2: Can't give this kid, he's not a kid, he's a
Speaker 2: man enough credit for what he did on the weekend.
Speaker 2: I think first step was Sirealdo, smart footy coach, knew
Speaker 2: what he had to say at halftime, knew what they
Speaker 2: had to fix, and he goes to Stephen Crichton says, mate,
Speaker 2: I need you to fix it for me. He goes
Speaker 2: out in the ten minute bursts and literally, this isn't
Speaker 2: against the team at the bottle of Ladder, flimsy defense.
Speaker 2: This is up against the rock solid Canberra team who
Speaker 2: were playing very, very good, and he threw that team
Speaker 2: on his back. Some of his runs the ability to
Speaker 2: just influence the game. And then once he got going
Speaker 2: kick out on the other side, started to get going
Speaker 2: and that moment was a second half round ten down
Speaker 2: in Canberra. Put that down as a little moment for
Speaker 2: the Bulldogs this year because I think they should go
Speaker 2: from here and Camra Ray is very a good team.
Speaker 2: I hope they haven't been scarred by that. But hell
Speaker 2: of a performance.
Speaker 1: Well done to camera, soeraldo. A couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: we had Toby Sexton and Max King on the shower
Speaker 1: and before the show it was the game. When they
Speaker 1: got they got belted? Who belted them? They go Broncos
Speaker 1: Broncos And I said, geez, how was half time for
Speaker 1: thirty six? I said, it was amazing? He said Cameron
Speaker 1: walked into the dressing room. He was really really calm
Speaker 1: and he actually he said sounds They said, sounds strange,
Speaker 1: But he actually gave us a lot of confidence coming
Speaker 1: to the second half. And I suppose that's perfect, perfect
Speaker 1: evidence of how he can.
Speaker 2: I think he's got that team in the party's handswer
Speaker 2: all they followed by Stephen Crichton.
Speaker 3: They're doing some good things.
Speaker 1: Hey, conservative request people just curious. So we oftentimes, in
Speaker 1: relation to Isaah cat Tol, we talk about telling a
Speaker 1: lie with the football and you know, he's looking in
Speaker 1: and playing out and why exactly that works?
Speaker 2: Well, you taught me, your brother's taught a lot of
Speaker 2: other halves, but the whole play in or look into,
Speaker 2: play out, telling that lie like did you start?
Speaker 1: Where's that come from? Now? We got taught it from
Speaker 1: Alan Bell, who I spoken about a lot, and yep,
Speaker 1: the real the only the real half. And what he
Speaker 1: would he'd follow us something from training and just sit
Speaker 1: sometimes an hour or two on the couch and just
Speaker 1: show us players. And he showed us. He said, like,
Speaker 1: just watch this principle. He said, when you go to
Speaker 1: the line and you've got a legitimate blake inside you're
Speaker 1: thinking about like that, he said, the moment you look in,
Speaker 1: he said, the outside defenders they will either they'll flex
Speaker 1: out or they'll push in, depending on where they think
Speaker 1: the ball is going to go. And they said, so
Speaker 1: when you look in, what they'll do is you know
Speaker 1: that might be me looking in there. They'll all of
Speaker 1: a sudden they go their man. When I look in,
Speaker 1: they'll watch and they'll actually start to gravitate in and
Speaker 1: they'll take their eyes off their man gravitating and that
Speaker 1: loves them susceptible. And I reckon the penny dropped with
Speaker 1: me with myself was a practical experience I have with it.
Speaker 1: We're playing the Broncos and I found myself. You know,
Speaker 1: they hit short and they rip around the other stuff
Speaker 1: coming around the other side. I found myself left center,
Speaker 1: opposite Steve Ranoff fair sale, shitting myself. But Kevy comes.
Speaker 1: Kenny rips around the short side right, and she was
Speaker 1: probably from a far post. He rips around and he's
Speaker 1: got alp and his inside pocket. And I'm opposite Pearl right,
Speaker 1: and I know what Pearl wants to do. Pearl going
Speaker 1: to go an outline as he does beaten on the outside.
Speaker 1: As Kevy gets the ball and he's looking at Pearl,
Speaker 1: but suddenly he just glances in only a little glance
Speaker 1: at Alf. And what happens when he glances at Alf.
Speaker 1: I glance in as well at Alf and when I
Speaker 1: look up, look back, Pearl's gone. He's on it. He's
Speaker 1: picked him up on the appall.
Speaker 2: So the context of it is when you look in,
Speaker 2: you're actually telling a lie of defenders to say, hey,
Speaker 2: rotate your shoulders in and look what I'm looking at,
Speaker 2: because in a split second, I'm going to bounce back
Speaker 2: out and catch you on the outside. So Alan Bell
Speaker 2: taught you. You and your brother have taught a lot
Speaker 2: of harves through my generation. But there was a moment
Speaker 2: on the weekend. Isaiah Cartai has done it better than
Speaker 2: most over over a.
Speaker 3: Period of time. This here is absolute top shell from
Speaker 3: a young kid.
Speaker 1: That's incredible.
Speaker 2: He over exaggerates the inside to a point that Mitchell
Speaker 2: Mo's in that right edge of the paramatter El is
Speaker 2: turned completely in and he catches them on the outside. Now, Cartel,
Speaker 2: when he looks in right now, look Mitch, Moses turns
Speaker 2: in with his shoulders and he bounces back out and
Speaker 2: Moses gone like that is I don't think we've seen
Speaker 2: better ball playing than that.
Speaker 1: That's as good as get. You don't get better than that.
Speaker 1: That's Gavin Miller style playmaking and keeps you know other
Speaker 1: things that we worked on during that time. It's hard
Speaker 1: to explain now it's sort of gonna need to take
Speaker 1: it down to a field to really get it. Is
Speaker 1: the rail shape when we said one's really important here
Speaker 1: with Katoa is that the man on the inside. That
Speaker 1: was a legitimate option. You just can't go sauntering the
Speaker 1: line and just got he's got You've actually really got
Speaker 1: it in your mind thinking you're going to put him
Speaker 1: away on the inside and keeps we we used to
Speaker 1: call it a rail, meaning the fact that you would
Speaker 1: just go straight, dead straight between the am b de
Speaker 1: fender and your whole mission when you yelled out rail
Speaker 1: was to put Billy away on that inside ball. But
Speaker 1: after two steps, when you realize, and you do because
Speaker 1: you've got good instincts, when you drive past the markers,
Speaker 1: if you're looking at Slater to put him away on
Speaker 1: the inside, suddenly you realize that that option's covered. When
Speaker 1: you yelled out rail, Ryan Hoffman would jem the hole
Speaker 1: outside the second defender, and so that opened up both
Speaker 1: options for you.
Speaker 2: Repetition of being the right place at the right time.
Speaker 2: But before the ball was even caught in your hands,
Speaker 2: you know if you're playing inside to slaughter because there
Speaker 2: was space second market down slow in between the first defender.
Speaker 2: If that space closed down, all you did was tell
Speaker 2: an absolute light here and then bounce back out. There's
Speaker 2: a moment the cartel this year as well, just to
Speaker 2: give the contrast of when you don't look into play
Speaker 2: out the effect of it that it can have because
Speaker 2: he did it well on the weekend, and this one
Speaker 2: against South's same field position, but no inside support, no
Speaker 2: legitimate look inside and plays the outside and look at
Speaker 2: all the South City defenders. They just lay off knowing
Speaker 2: that he's going to one position on the field. Now,
Speaker 2: I'm not saying if you hadn't looked in and played
Speaker 2: out that he scores a trial, sets up a try.
Speaker 2: But the contrast of this is exactly what we're trying
Speaker 2: to get across. Is the exaggeration of the inside helped
Speaker 2: that on the previous occasion that time then there was
Speaker 2: no exaggeration, no threat to go inside, no threat to run,
Speaker 2: and the defence just laid off.
Speaker 1: But they're comfortable and that glance in I what to do.
Speaker 1: There's no hard and fast rule as far as mate,
Speaker 1: They're going to come outside, inn't you? When you glance
Speaker 1: in and when you tell a lie with the football,
Speaker 1: whether it's you're looking out to pass in or vice versa,
Speaker 1: in to pass out, what it does it disorientates the
Speaker 1: defense line. The defenders in effect lose their bearings. Is
Speaker 1: that they're up the square, he's you've got your mark,
Speaker 1: who's your man? But all of a sudden, the playmaker
Speaker 1: looks in and they look in that half a second
Speaker 1: they look in, they just lose their defensive bearings.
Speaker 2: And on the flip side we saw the opposite. So
Speaker 2: that's looking to play out. But the Melbourne Storm did
Speaker 2: to the Tigers. There's sixty four points or whatever it was.
Speaker 2: They did a lot of looking out to play a game.
Speaker 2: They went straight through the Tigers.
Speaker 1: It's funny sixty four points and the wingers down score
Speaker 1: a try. It just shows you where their compass was.
Speaker 2: Because like, there's two reasons for that, in my opinion. One,
Speaker 2: Craig Bellamy made the Melbourne Storm aggressive and direct in
Speaker 2: the way that he coached their team. They weren't getting
Speaker 2: fluffy with the way they were going to play the Tigers.
Speaker 2: They were going nice and straight and aggressive. And the
Speaker 2: other thing that helped was the Tigers they defended like
Speaker 2: fence paling. What I mean by that is they were
Speaker 2: literally just stationary. There no line speed. It just sat
Speaker 2: there and instead of going pass past pass, which a
Speaker 2: fence paling defense wants you to if you play direct
Speaker 2: and a short pass. The reason why Pabo had four triers,
Speaker 2: the reason why Munster and Hughes lit it up. Is
Speaker 2: what you'll find is Monster Hughes ran the football or
Speaker 2: did a short pass back to back touches. Then the
Speaker 2: outside to play in. There is the outside to look in,
Speaker 2: to look out to play in. So they had it
Speaker 2: on a string yesterday and this is look at that.
Speaker 2: That's line look out, play back in through the middle.
Speaker 1: Because that's the thing we've spoken about this. The area
Speaker 1: of defensive vulnerability is in and around those rucks. You
Speaker 1: know those big guys in the middle of the rucks,
Speaker 1: they're working their backside of they're leading yardage. They're the
Speaker 1: ones making the majority of the tackles. They're the blows
Speaker 1: that are vulnerable.
Speaker 2: And the Tiger's defense had big gaps between bodies. And
Speaker 2: then what the Melbourne Storm did, particularly the halves, they
Speaker 2: attacked the person then skip to that space and the
Speaker 2: other defenders didn't move.
Speaker 3: They were just stationary.
Speaker 2: It's like they were static, like a fence paling and
Speaker 2: they just went straight through the front door.
Speaker 1: We're didn't talk about blade to lung in a second.
Speaker 1: Fantastic performance from him. It was almost like you're waiting.
Speaker 1: You know, I've seen you play great games or terrific games.
Speaker 1: In first grade, but as an outside back of paramounter
Speaker 1: for him to go in the halves. It was his
Speaker 1: breakthrough game. Elevates Latrello pretty handy twenty minutes. That last
Speaker 1: twenty minutes, he just just took the game.
Speaker 2: I got so much for respectful Latrella. How he can
Speaker 2: influence a performance. Try savor here on Mariner trysaver On.
Speaker 2: I think it was pain has as well that to
Speaker 2: be able to do that in driving rain, to kick
Speaker 2: that ball fifty five on the fly, like, there's not
Speaker 2: too many people that can do that.
Speaker 3: But for me, having played with and against.
Speaker 2: Latrell over a period of time, he is how going
Speaker 2: to say this the best moments player we have. What
Speaker 2: I mean by that is if there is a moment
Speaker 2: like he can deliver, can be quiet in between, but
Speaker 2: when the big moment arrives, he can deliver. There. I
Speaker 2: was watching the game and it was a second kick
Speaker 2: return I think, and Latrell catches a ball. He's got
Speaker 2: sort of outside back there, much smaller carry, he runs
Speaker 2: straight into paint half. I remember watching go on. Actually
Speaker 2: that's not what Latrell it does. So there's a little
Speaker 2: sign early on that he was up for something. Because
Speaker 2: I was watching going Actually that's when the trail plays well.
Speaker 1: He does things like that, and they needed him. That's
Speaker 1: the thing. There was no there's a lot of injuries,
Speaker 1: so I was looking down the barrel. Five losses in
Speaker 1: a row and the importance of that. You know what Wayne,
Speaker 1: as we know, is pretty understateable. Like if you went
Speaker 1: to Wayne and said, oh, mate, five in a row,
Speaker 1: and he'd go and sort of thrift. It's not important.
Speaker 1: It's early in the season. But the importance of that
Speaker 1: game was Wayne bringing Steve war into camp and having
Speaker 1: under the team. And that's that's Wayne, as far as
Speaker 1: I know. It doesn't really usually do that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: It just showed you the importance of that game. And
Speaker 1: and Latrell knew it goal.
Speaker 3: Kicking too, like he kicked. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: It was a specially what it was a it's called
Speaker 2: a fourteen twenty minute period.
Speaker 1: That back end place place to lane sider player one try,
Speaker 1: four try assist. We said last week you could see
Speaker 1: the combinations start form. Well, the combination is starting to
Speaker 1: form between Blaze and Nathan no better example and Coops.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's any coincidence that the moment that
Speaker 1: but that Nathan started playing really direct again was the
Speaker 1: moment that we saw Blades start to impact.
Speaker 2: I think Blazes to Lungey has had sort of moments
Speaker 2: at Paramatta in the Penrith Jersey of like, this kid's
Speaker 2: got some talent, but this one here is the first
Speaker 2: try he sets up. There's one that Luke Garness scores
Speaker 2: in a second that this is an impact of Nathan
Speaker 2: Cleary on Blaze to Lungey. This is, hey, Blaze, come
Speaker 2: with me down the forty fee We're going to do
Speaker 2: some practice. When Nathan steps off his left. See how
Speaker 2: that is exactly the same ye Blaze has been working with.
Speaker 2: Nathan said, when I do this, I want you to
Speaker 2: do that when you get your target defender. So it's
Speaker 2: the reason why Blaze lung he probably went to Penrith
Speaker 2: is to have a coach in Nathan Cleary next him
Speaker 2: on the field to say, hey, you've got some top
Speaker 2: end stuff. I've seen it, but you work with me.
Speaker 2: He can improve in this and you'll have a breakout
Speaker 2: game like that.
Speaker 1: That that that really direct run from Nathan. It's it
Speaker 1: creates for Blaze a lot of times a slight numerical
Speaker 1: advantage which then makes the defense just hold fraction and
Speaker 1: gives him opportunity, also creates We just see that that
Speaker 1: little corridor when he when he laid the triumph for Papaali.
Speaker 1: That Nathan playing straight looking short out the back to
Speaker 1: Blaze who rips around akin straight and it just opens
Speaker 1: a little corridor for him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, great space. That's what Nathan's trying to do and
Speaker 2: make it easier for Blaze so when his vision ces space,
Speaker 2: he can react to it much better. Nathan pointing arrow
Speaker 2: straight in the way that he plays, and just even
Speaker 2: the way that they pass the ball the same. Don't
Speaker 2: plant their feet outside leg not planned and over that
Speaker 2: left leg.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was good.
Speaker 1: We're going to dive into state of origin. He's talked
Speaker 1: about some stuff he's going to talk about mentioned Nick
Speaker 1: our heines. I just want to give him a mention
Speaker 1: he deserves. He's playing great football, a lot less coming around,
Speaker 1: a lot less on sweeps, more standing, playing a first
Speaker 1: receiver role up on the rock line, and.
Speaker 2: I like, he's going to Nicker and he's going to
Speaker 2: fuel Blake. Nicker charges hards, Skittle's defenders quick play the ball,
Speaker 2: split Fnel, Blake hard to handle, don't get out the
Speaker 2: back of Cam mcginners stand up first receiver for those
Speaker 2: two play if one carries.
Speaker 1: Probably laying, good, straight talking Queensland state of origin side.
Speaker 1: Give some injuries going on, some players out of form,
Speaker 1: who's your starting spine?
Speaker 3: So we got no Welsh, Ben Hunt.
Speaker 1: Out, Harry possibly Harry Well.
Speaker 2: I think I think Harry is going to be there,
Speaker 2: so I'm going to put Harry in there.
Speaker 3: DC. He's going through a bit of a form.
Speaker 2: Fight here at the moment in terms of manly, but
Speaker 2: I still think he's the seven Munster and I think
Speaker 2: Calebn Pongery my man out in.
Speaker 1: The back mainly at the moment, Gess just to detour
Speaker 1: for it. There's no doubt that this is that the
Speaker 1: whole DC thing that has gone on the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks has impacted him.
Speaker 2: I think he's had the right intentions Cherry Evans and
Speaker 2: no one still doesn't know what he's doing, but I
Speaker 2: think it's got to the point where like he probably.
Speaker 3: Needs to just get it out there and move.
Speaker 1: I think so.
Speaker 3: I think so.
Speaker 2: And the origin part to me is he's a captain
Speaker 2: of Queensland. He's had a really good REP career at
Speaker 2: the back end of it. This potentially he needs to
Speaker 2: stand up because that's my starting spot. It's Ponger Munster,
Speaker 2: Dc Grant.
Speaker 1: It's pretty decent, pretty decent the rookie because Billy likes
Speaker 1: to bring places Welsh a couple of years ago. He
Speaker 1: brought the hammer in a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like when you talk about there's a bit of
Speaker 2: back road Joscelyn around, Trent Liero could be there on
Speaker 2: a bench something that I think Kurk kate Well has
Speaker 2: great flexibility, so he could be on that bench cover.
Speaker 3: But someone like Pikra like he.
Speaker 2: There's no Dave Fea, so you're looking for like this
Speaker 2: back roller who could play in the middle that can
Speaker 2: hit hard, carry strong. Might be a chance to getting
Speaker 2: a spot on the bench and maybe his day, but
Speaker 2: he could have a little bit of an impact.
Speaker 3: As a rookie.
Speaker 1: For me, what do you think who's going to be
Speaker 1: the player this year for Queensland.
Speaker 2: So I've got did it on the bench on the
Speaker 2: bench for that cover. Ben hunts up there whatever, he
Speaker 2: will just not let down Queensland. So I just put
Speaker 2: him out there and let him do his thing. But
Speaker 2: I think if I had to pick up my moment
Speaker 2: or the player of the series.
Speaker 3: Like, it's got to be Monster.
Speaker 2: He's in good form, he's as fit as he's ever been,
Speaker 2: and he has got I'm not saying he's Wily Lewis,
Speaker 2: but he has got like moments like him, Like he's
Speaker 2: got moments like the good origin players have where he says,
Speaker 2: I want the ball and he can deliver. And I
Speaker 2: think after losing last year, I reckon Monster's our man Coop.
Speaker 1: So I think you can absolutely say Monster and Wally
Speaker 1: in the same sentence. If you look at Monster's state
Speaker 1: of origin record, what he's done from his debut even
Speaker 1: to the point during the COVID years, basically off a
Speaker 1: couple of days off the source after win the Grand Final,
Speaker 1: will be the player of the series.
Speaker 2: I just don't like compairing sort of generations all things
Speaker 2: like that, but he has definitely got characteristics like Wall
Speaker 2: and over to your mob, what do you got?
Speaker 3: Who's the heart? Give me the helps, give me the hearts.
Speaker 1: Well, look, if I'm naming it now, like the obvious
Speaker 1: one is clear of Moses, but it comes with a
Speaker 1: bit of a warning. I mean, it appears perfect, but
Speaker 1: there is always a danger. A picking two chief playmakers
Speaker 1: together because one has to suppress themselves a little bit,
Speaker 1: you know, And so there's an argument to saying, you
Speaker 1: know Cleary Leui, I mean they have got a relationship
Speaker 1: and a combination that has been formed. Leui is he's
Speaker 1: a pure six, although he's playing in that primary playmaking
Speaker 1: role at the Tigers. So there's a school of thought
Speaker 1: of that. And I go back to I want your
Speaker 1: thoughts to when you played alongside j two because it
Speaker 1: was very, very similar. Is if you go back to
Speaker 1: going back in time here, but ninety ninety a perfect example.
Speaker 1: On a kangaroo tour. They're up against Great Britain at
Speaker 1: Wembley in game one and the two best players in
Speaker 1: the world at that point were Alan Langer and Ricky Stewart.
Speaker 1: So Bob Fulton had a decision to make and then
Speaker 1: finally went, you know what, I'm going to put him
Speaker 1: in together, Alfred halfback, Ricky at six. It just didn't work. Work,
Speaker 1: it didn't work. It was oil and water.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, I think for me it's Cleary and Moses
Speaker 2: and it's Laurie's job to realize that the new South
Speaker 2: Wales Blues Jersey is more important than the individual performance
Speaker 2: and heroics.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: So using my experience with Thurston and Lucky at different stages,
Speaker 2: the thing that I had in my favor we had
Speaker 2: was Cameron, Billy myself right, So didn't no matter if
Speaker 2: it was the thirty fifth minute of the seventy eighth.
Speaker 2: We could fall into rhythm. And when Karen picked the
Speaker 2: ball up on his left side and hesitated, I knew
Speaker 2: he was bouncing back to the right and Billy reacted
Speaker 2: to that. The thing about John O is Johnno was
Speaker 2: the chief guy for the Cowboys for the whole time.
Speaker 2: When he sat there and wanted the ball, I had
Speaker 2: to make sure that he got the ball because when
Speaker 2: he wanted it, he saw something. So it was my
Speaker 2: job to maybe flip from the other side of the
Speaker 2: field to get the ball to Johnno. But the thing
Speaker 2: that made us work together was that the Queensland origin
Speaker 2: Jersey was way more important than any individual and that's
Speaker 2: Lurie's job. That's exactly what mel. He didn't say that
Speaker 2: to us, but when you arrived in camp you realized,
Speaker 2: yes we're both sevens, yes we both want to be chief.
Speaker 2: But what's more important, of course than for Queensland or
Speaker 2: being the chief.
Speaker 1: Right, And I think clearly, and Moses, I.
Speaker 3: Think, yeah, what about Jake Travoyovich.
Speaker 1: This is Jake is such a sweetheart, and everyone loves
Speaker 1: the people who are leaving Jake out. You can They
Speaker 1: always start with oh, and then they say, but god, God,
Speaker 1: you know, I'll tell you now right. I have a
Speaker 1: discussion yesterday with a bloke this we're having a bit
Speaker 1: of a chat of all things. Wasn't rugby league and
Speaker 1: we're talking about you know, in the turn going into
Speaker 1: the twentieth century, the two rules of war used to be.
Speaker 1: It was a British Prime minister the one said that.
Speaker 1: He said, real number one don't invade Afghanistan. Real number
Speaker 1: two is don't invade but Afghanistan. Right now, that lesson
Speaker 1: has origin. Now I'll tell you right now that lesson
Speaker 1: hasn't been heeded. That's that's an old people have learned
Speaker 1: over a long time. Yet people don't learn it. We
Speaker 1: seend the Soviets going in there, and then we went
Speaker 1: in there, and every time someone goes in it's they
Speaker 1: just don't. It's never a success. The rules of state
Speaker 1: of origin football, from the Blues point of view is
Speaker 1: don't get rid of Jake Voyevich. Two rules Jaja voivis,
Speaker 1: don't ax him, don't get rid of him, because because Coops,
Speaker 1: it's been done before, and almost every time that he's
Speaker 1: been left out of the side or been asked, he's
Speaker 1: been put in the side for the next game.
Speaker 4: Because spirit that right, because he's that's the spirit that's right,
Speaker 4: be course, because you know, regardless, you know, you look
Speaker 4: at those without Jake tr Voivig.
Speaker 1: We've got the talent, yes, you know, I got the toughness,
Speaker 1: Yes we got yeah this yep, yep, yep. But when
Speaker 1: he's in the side, he just gives an injection of
Speaker 1: emotion and spirit.
Speaker 3: Next question, yep, is he a captain or do you
Speaker 3: start him?
Speaker 1: I do start him. He doesn't have to be my captain.
Speaker 1: You know, he doesn't need to see alongside his name
Speaker 1: for me, that's not important one. But I do start him.
Speaker 1: I do start him in the side. I I'm really
Speaker 1: conscious that if we go, if we gave Cleary and Moses,
Speaker 1: I want to make sure that the start of the game,
Speaker 1: we're not going to We're not going to start by
Speaker 1: playing two weast west and too much passing. So I
Speaker 1: start with Jake and I bring Isaiah off the bench,
Speaker 1: keep Isaiah out of that early stuff, and then bring
Speaker 1: him on after about twenty twenty five minutes and then
Speaker 1: start to play a little bit more football. But I want,
Speaker 1: particularly at the start of the game, I actually want
Speaker 1: to see Nathan run the football more than pass. I
Speaker 1: want to see more running than passing to get himself
Speaker 1: because that's when I see Nathan start the game and
Speaker 1: start to take some bumps and get hit, That's when
Speaker 1: I gave okay, he's on and he's got his campass right.
Speaker 2: And then Isaiao comes on and provides that ability to
Speaker 2: promote the ball.
Speaker 1: Does a little bit more of the football. But I'll
Speaker 1: pick Jake because you know, he's not in great form.
Speaker 1: He's not a spring chicken anymore. But when I look
Speaker 1: over at the other Barker, what Coeensley have done over
Speaker 1: he is they would pick players who are terrible forms
Speaker 1: sometimes rout his here, and they put him in and
Speaker 1: he performed. You know, gil mister might be struggling little bit,
Speaker 1: but they put him in and he performs. And for me,
Speaker 1: Jake vorbish is one of those players back line, back line,
Speaker 1: and look, there's going to be you know, talks about
Speaker 1: fitness and all that sort of stuff. Let me just
Speaker 1: pick a side on the surface, what I would do
Speaker 1: on Dylan Edwards at fullback. On the wings, I'd had
Speaker 1: Tom Travoyvitch and one wing on the other wing. Next
Speaker 1: week is going to be a shootout between Brighton Toe
Speaker 1: and Lomax. Lomax comes back. I thought, there's no doubt
Speaker 1: that Brian looked underdone. He would be, he hasn't played
Speaker 1: a lot of football, but it would be one of
Speaker 1: those two. And in the center it's simple Stephen Krecht
Speaker 1: and Latroll Mitchell. And when I look at those blokes,
Speaker 1: when I look at I look at Dylan Edwards, Tom Travoyevitch,
Speaker 1: Toe of Lomax, Stephen Krech and Latroll Mitchell. And then
Speaker 1: I look at myhalves and go Moses and Cleary and
Speaker 1: I just go, they just can't beat us.
Speaker 3: Oh, there you go.
Speaker 1: That's that's what in my mind I say. I just look.
Speaker 1: I look at the talent of that side, you know,
Speaker 1: but you know there's leadership there. There's some very very
Speaker 1: special players in that group.
Speaker 2: And you just mentioned you've got the seventeen best players
Speaker 2: in the world playing for New South Wales. So who's
Speaker 2: the one that stands out? I went, Munster, who have
Speaker 2: you got the counter monster?
Speaker 1: Oh Cleary, Yeah, I think this will be his serious.
Speaker 1: I think it'll be his serious. And if I had
Speaker 1: an X factor player, like if we talk him at
Speaker 1: X factor our fourteen, for instance, it's Connor because the
Speaker 1: side that I would pick, I would not have a
Speaker 1: person when I looked at the side and I penned
Speaker 1: a few things down and things might change and whatnot,
Speaker 1: but I didn't have a player that if they could
Speaker 1: slip into that dummy half roll. Yeah, so the fourteenth
Speaker 1: for me has got to be Connor Watson. But I
Speaker 1: see you, mate, if I'm if I'm Laurry Daily, I'm
Speaker 1: sitting there yesterday going excuse me, I'm actually going, holy
Speaker 1: holy hell. How do I get Pappenhausen into my seventeen?
Speaker 3: I watch, you have the seventeen best players in the world.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know we can do with the and yeah,
Speaker 1: and we said last week about Toroll. Mate, my temptation
Speaker 1: would be to put to Rome in the seventeen, but
Speaker 1: the first game is up in a sun Corps stadium.
Speaker 1: I'd actually have Terrell eighteenth man and just led him
Speaker 1: experience the build up outside of being a starter.
Speaker 2: I I thought that Torell May's original audition was against
Speaker 2: Melbourne Storm to go down to Melbourne play their home
Speaker 2: deck after a big loss. Yeah yeah, after that performance,
Speaker 2: I think he's taken a back seat.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I'd have him. I'd still have him in
Speaker 1: the squad. I'd have him eighteenth men to get up
Speaker 1: there and just sample it first time around, right, our coops.
Speaker 1: Well that's the stat of Orogen series. Done and dusted,
Speaker 1: Blues three nil. Thanks for coming brother. I can imagine made.
Speaker 1: I can imagine the courier mail bomba bdew would be
Speaker 1: just there out to make front page disrespect.