WEBVTT - Round 3 Takeaways 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:03.480 Coop said in the show last night to Kieran four 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:06.040 and I said, it's fairly clear that Penrith have ended 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:07.880 the twenty twenty sixth season with a bit of chip 0:00:07.920 --> 0:00:10.320 on their shoulder, with the point to prove they are 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:11.760 just a moralizing. 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:14.000 Opposition to a different level of the moment. I think 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:17.720 the blessing this guy is that there are best players, 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:20.880 had a good preseason, that they were healthy and they 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:23.960 could get lots of reps in and that has influenced 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:26.319 their inexperienced guys or newer guys to see how the 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:29.360 best go about it. And they are like no other 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:31.880 team in the competition. Are the Warriors. Actually they've got 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:35.520 the game on. Penrith seem like they have their house 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:38.080 in order in round three and they're only going to 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:40.720 get better as the season goes on. And there's a 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:43.280 big bunch of teams that's hovering around the middle that 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:46.480 are still trying to find where they are after four 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:47.280 months of pre season. 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:49.279 It's almost like Coops, the way they're playing at the 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:53.360 moment as a byproduct of the last few seasons, that 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:55.600 makes sense. They've sort of changed a little bit. Like 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:58.400 I thought last year they had the really slow start, 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:00.680 but then then later on in the year, I thought 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:03.880 it times they played two conservative just dropping players underneath, 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:07.280 you know, and by playing so conservative a lot of 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:10.040 times they allowed lesser teams to stay in the context. 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:12.480 I think at the moment, you can see they've just 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:14.640 got the perfect that they've got the perfect balance. The 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:17.120 first couple of games they played, they really strangled the 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:19.199 life out of the out of the two opposition sides, 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:23.840 the Broncos, and then then it was the sharkis but 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:26.480 just against the Roosters, mate, they opened the shoulders up 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:28.440 a little bit and then but then we're able to 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:30.600 hand the ball back and just tear in all. 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:33.880 Yeah, And they don't change a lot, because why would 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:36.240 you after you won four comps and got them pre 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:38.520 limp So it's not as if they just because they 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:40.200 didn't win a Grand five. You don't have to throw 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:43.000 the whole game plan out. They built a dynasty on 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:46.120 doing some fundamentals better than anyone else has ever done it. 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:50.520 Right defensively, so strong like stop the opposition from scoring 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:55.440 two tries Nathan Edwards to or you know, they were 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:58.080 blazed along it. They'll score three tries at some stage, 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:00.920 So that's their blueprint of success, and I think against 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:04.480 the Roosters on the weekend, they let's say they both 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:07.960 had a similar game plan, right like powerful, aggressive through 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:10.079 the middle and then when you get the attacking era, 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.120 get it on the fringes with some footwork on athleticism. 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:15.919 One thing I like about love Bear Penrith and why 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:18.480 to be a dream to be a playmaker in this 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.760 system is they've got the ability on the run. If 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:23.680 a play breaks down, they know exactly what to do 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:25.800 behind it. And if you look at the first try, 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:27.840 I mean it was a really unorthodox try. They went 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:30.160 just up that short side three times in a row. 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:32.560 But if you have a look, like if you have 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:35.280 what may have been part of the plan, if they 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:37.760 don't score there, you know where the space is going 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.480 to be. We talk about shot shot mentally on the 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:43.120 far side. So they hit it there, targeting the side 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:46.840 with Dali there and then at the short. 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:49.000 Side, find him again, find him. 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:53.440 Again, and then bag they go again and you just 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:55.880 have a look for find him again, find him again. 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:57.040 So three in a row. 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:59.679 Now have a look. Now if they don't score there, 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:03.480 the numbers around the football in that title space there's 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:05.959 seven players, so you know, if it breaks down there 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:07.920 straight away, they're just going to go dink ding thing 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:09.120 to the other side and catch it. 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:13.080 That is an issue that the Rusters will have to 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:17.320 face at some stage. There will be some pressure coming 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:20.160 with the Rusters when they lose and some applaudits coming 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:23.400 when they win. But you could see that Nathan and 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:27.400 Penrith Panthers through Ivan's coaching, had a game plan power 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:31.120 through the middle with some short passes, match the physicality 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:33.400 of the russ and then when you get an opportunity, 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:37.720 attack either rich because that time it was daily short pass, 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:40.840 short pass, third short pass, quick play the ball try. 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:44.120 And on the other side is Sam Walker too. So 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:48.240 I think one thing that the Rusters to improve their performances. 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:51.520 It's not necessarily the halves score more points. It's the 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:55.040 halves stopping more points that will help the roosters. 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:58.160 Going forward to try was a beauty. What wasn't spoken 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:01.240 about a lot of times is that just the skill 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:04.440 level across the board from Penrith, Like in that instance 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:07.720 they're like quick tic tac toe through the Hends. But 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:09.920 this is this is clever stuff and that's on his 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:10.800 Greatest Hits album. 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:13.680 Well sometimes you say that, you know, there was more 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:17.160 pink jerseys in the pitcher than Russ's jerseys. But watch 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:19.680 this shift to the right hand side, step back defense. 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:21.680 So they take advantage of the good skill, but the 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:24.599 Russes actually have numbers around the ball. This is just 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:27.880 really good from tol but you can I don't think 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:29.800 they could have done much more than that. And Brian 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:34.039 to or like, he is a good personality, great having 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:36.320 our game, but I'll tell you what, he's a very 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:39.600 good winger. Good play like he defensively really strong and 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.560 that is Yeah, you don't want to overstate it, but 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:45.800 that's almost try the year already. It's that good. And 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:49.359 to back up the Panthers game plan, I think it 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:52.000 was the Dylan Edwards try, you know, towards the back 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:56.719 end of that game, that first half, Dylan Edwards in 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:58.599 the lead up, there's a couple of plays before and 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:01.440 they go into Sam Walker and they generate quick play 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:04.479 the ball. Normally they would then shift back, but quick 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:06.200 play the ball happens. They think, goes, you know what, 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:08.640 let's keep playing here, So they shift the ball back 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:10.320 to the other side of the field. And where do 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:14.160 they get to Dally get the daily he jumps into 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:17.160 in a soft dish tackle quick play the ball instead 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:19.520 of reset in the middle. What does Nathan do. Let's 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:22.680 go again, we're on the front foot pass pass, get 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:26.800 Dylan Edwards in around Sam Walker, try to So the 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:29.720 fact is that compounding quick play the ball on quick 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:32.080 play the ball doesn't give the russ time to set 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:34.240 and I think that's where the russ Hearts are going 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:35.280 to have to improve. 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:36.760 And what and it was just what we're talking about 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:42.080 there is that every situation they've got the Panthers basically 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:44.280 they as I said, if breaks down, they've got a 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:47.080 playing boog to follow it and that ability there. You 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:50.200 know you said it just before to not reset the 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:50.880 middle of the field. 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:53.239 We'll say, if daily Cherry Evans makes a strong tackle 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:56.960 on Luke Garner, I'm pretty certain Isaiah carries the ball 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.400 into the middle of the field and then they reset 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:02.400 to either side. That's that's exactly right, because there was 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:04.880 a quick play the ball. Isaiah, like a half fact 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:07.640 mentality said this is the time to reset. I get 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:10.200 the ball to Nathan, Nathan gets the bored Edwards retreating line, 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:10.640 try to. 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:14.160 The third try that's scored is for me, it sort 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:18.480 of represents this the way once they evolved, but they're 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:22.200 back to playing to really give themselves opportunity, an opportunity 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:25.080 to blow the opposition off the park. And last year 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:27.160 a lot of times it was very much dink dank, 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:29.240 dank dnk get out of there or drop a player 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:31.360 of him and there. Thing I liked about that. To 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:34.680 actually stop the yardish game from Penrith, you need to 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:37.839 compress a little bit. Here's an example where the Roosters 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:42.080 obviously just compress a fraction too much and they gave me, 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:43.520 we're going to we're going to fight in the war 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:45.360 in the middle where actually this is where they look 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:47.400 to push straight away through the hands. So you want 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:50.159 to tighten up on us, stop our yardage and early tackles. 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:51.800 We'll guess what, We're just going to go around you. 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:56.599 And just I mean that that that that is not 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:59.200 high risk ball movement at all. It's just it's just 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:00.839 it's clever play, good vision. 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:03.479 It's attacking the space right like, unless you've got the 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:06.800 skill or the ability to do that, you can't attack 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:10.320 the vulnerability. Most teams would power in the middle, keep 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:12.760 going trying to knock down or get a dend in them. 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:16.200 But the Rooster's middle defense is strong, so they're trying 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:19.560 to get to those edges quickly and get their powerful 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:21.400 running outside backs going. 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:25.480 What about them could evidence of what a toll they're 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:28.000 taking on the opposition sides. Have a look at every 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:31.640 side that they've played in the first couple of rounds. 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:35.200 Each side the next week has really struggled, Like they 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:37.600 be Brisbane first up and they really put the squeeze 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:41.400 on Brisbane. The next week against paramounta May Brisbane defensively 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:43.720 is as bad a performance as I've seen. Their energy 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:46.640 was so low. And then the Sharks, you know, they 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:49.320 do a number on. The Sharks just don't give an opportunity, 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:54.040 an opportunity to play whatsoever. So I thought they were 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:56.440 I thought against the Dolphins, I thought the Sharks were 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:56.880 really flat. 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:58.560 So you're telling me that daily and the Rooster is 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:00.520 going to walk in at four points bark or Thursday 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.920 night with no energy, no field to take on. 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:06.760 Well, if the current forms on, I tell you what, 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:09.920 But there are certainly so I said last night on 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:11.640 the show, I said there was one season of the 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:13.640 Knights what they used to do with the draw coup 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:17.040 all season. Oftentimes you would follow the same side, certainly 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.320 for a block of the season. And there was one 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:21.800 season that May we had we had a dream run 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:24.400 for about nineteen weeks. We followed the Warriors and it 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:26.840 was the Auckland Warriors where they had a big pack 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:28.840 and even though you might have beat them, they just 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:31.520 beat the hell out of you and so we follow them. 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:33.840 So each week we're following the Warriors teams who were 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:37.160 just being patched up together. And you look at it. 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.360 If you followed Pendra through this season, I tell you what, 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:41.320 you get a decent run. 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:43.840 What about Still and Broncos? Maybe would you make of 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:44.200 that game? 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:46.760 How important a win was it for the Broncos? They 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:50.319 needed a man and when you're offending premiers there's always 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:51.960 going to be a spotlight on you. But they lost 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:54.679 the first two in a row. Three Well, we'll put 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:58.160 it this way. It's what we said before. Never before though. 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:00.520 Soon a bloke who's won a premiership going to the 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:03.160 next season for some reason under pressure, and each week 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:05.839 it was building with every loss, big win. 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:08.080 There's something here for the Broncos. I think there's a 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:10.400 huge lesson in what they did in that second half 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:14.520 Mike McGuire is a good coach. Two premierships. He's got 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.200 a good team. And if you go back and have 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:20.959 a look at the three finals matches last year, so 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:23.520 the Canberra Penrith and the Melbourne Storm and the Grand Final, 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:26.280 then the Melbourne Storm again the other night in the 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:29.679 second half when they've come back, their completion rate has 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:33.200 been eighty two percent or higher. So for them to 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:36.359 be dialed in from word go to have the intensity, 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:41.400 good execution, chasing through on all the attacking players. If 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.079 they can get their completion rate to a point from 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:47.240 the start, they will be a team that is willing 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:49.640 to take down Penrith and potentially go back to back. 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:52.280 But if they don't want to focus on the fundamentals 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:54.360 for half of the game, they're going to get caught 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:56.679 where they have to catch fire for forty minutes. They 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:58.680 can do it, but I think it's up to the 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:02.440 players to understand what is important. You cannot beat Penrith 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:05.440 with one arm behind your back and complete at sixty 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:08.920 percent unless Rees walshen as your man catch fire and 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:12.000 Cantoni Staggs for forty minutes. So how about you do 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:15.120 it from the word go and give yourself a chance 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:16.160 in every one of those games. 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:19.720 What is that cold? Such a high quality side was 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:24.640 high quality skill? When something like that is so lutantly obvious, 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:25.920 what do you think it is? 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:29.240 I think sometimes there's an idea that when you talk 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:32.480 about completion rates, you hold the ball under your jersey 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:34.640 and don't throw it around. That's not what I'm talking about. 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:39.960 I'm talking about pure execution every time you touch the ball. Now, 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:43.800 if there's thirteen players on the field and every player says, oh, 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:46.680 it's okay if I make one error, well guess what, 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.319 there's thirteen errors that you have to come back from. 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:53.040 So individually, when you've got that football, not saying hold 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:55.560 it under your jersey, I'm saying, focus on the moment 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:58.120 you're about to pass, run, or whatever. If you treat 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:01.839 that like a gold nugget, you're going to complete your 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:03.880 pass or get your off, float away, or get up 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:07.360 playing the ball properly. So individual accountability, like I am 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:09.720 the most important person, the player on the field right 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:11.800 now is going to do that. Now, if thirteen of 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:14.840 them have that mentality, I tell you what, it's going 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:16.880 to be a very good defensive team that stops that 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:17.880 team from score and point. 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:19.920 We just saw that Penrith try coming out of trouble 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:23.400 and we said, traditionally you think ball movement carries risk, 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:25.640 but the way they move the ball there, it was 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:28.559 very simple. The little block formation, tink tink through the hands, 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:32.200 alimony goes down the field try. It's a lot of 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:34.120 times that it's not the ball moved as a coop. 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:36.840 It's the fact that once the ball starts to move, 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:39.080 adrenaline sort of starts to pick up to the side. 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:41.800 Someone gets the ball and suddenly tries to do one 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:44.160 of those. That's where the error comes. 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:46.520 But adrenaline is okay as long as your skill is 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:48.719 ten out of ten in that moment. So the concentration, 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:52.280 the focus needs me good. But on the other side, 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:56.320 Melbourne Storm so twice now they let it half time 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:58.920 again and the Brisbane Broncos have run them down in 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:00.880 their home patch in a Grand Final. 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:04.200 Is that a scar? Do you think? 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:07.120 Well, the more it happens, the more it becomes a scar. 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:11.840 But for me again, there's a couple of moments in 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:15.400 that second half that is a little bit alarming for 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:18.760 the Melbourne Storm. On the left hand side, they scored 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:21.400 a couple of tries. This is the one that comes 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:24.240 through here. You watch Moses Leo here. Now he's a 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:27.160 rugby seven's guy. He's a second marker, and when you 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:30.040 have multiple reps in rugby league, you understand your second 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.600 marker on the short side, when you're out numbered, you 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.880 have to go. It's alarm bell straight away and on 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:39.560 the reverse angle it just see it doesn't move quick enough. Yes, 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:42.120 the Melbourne Storm got the numbers wrong there, but when 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:44.880 you're playing lots of rugby league and you understand that 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:49.199 it's gone quickly at second marker and Monster here he 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:51.800 just overthought that. There's one rule at the Melbourne Storm 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.400 under Craig Bellamy, you do not give up your inside 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:57.640 shoulder and camera. Monza just had eyes for Reese Walsh. 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:00.960 This is the threat of Reese Walsh. Wherever he is. 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:02.960 Most people think he's going to get the ball, and 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:05.360 I think that's really good ball playing in a tight 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:08.920 game to use Welsh up as a decoy. Munster thinks 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:11.760 about it. He puts eyes to Walsh and the short 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:13.920 pass from Stags go through. It ends up being the matron. 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:18.360 Yeah, wow, coops. Other stand up performances of the weekend. 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:21.480 I thought again the Warriors. You know, we just touched 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:24.960 on it three in a row. I thought, I thought 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:28.079 against Newcastle on the weekend, I thought early doors, the 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:30.760 early exchanges, I actually thought they looked flat. I thought 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:32.520 early on they lacked energy and I thought, well, here 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:35.400 we go, opportunity for the nights even without their their 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:41.600 key men. But uh, Coops Tana Boid, I think he's 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:43.600 gone to the crossroads and don't deal with the depth. 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:47.800 I have a look at his all his meaningful touches 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.839 here and Coops, it's just mat could be happier for 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:52.360 the bloke and everyone you talk to. 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:56.360 He's a good kid. He just a nerd. They so like, 0:13:56.520 --> 0:14:00.880 loves his football. That's so he's watching and all and everything. 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:03.920 And that can be a good thing because it adds 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:06.280 to you as a half back. Your knowledge improves quickly. 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:07.840 And you're right and the other side of it, if 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:10.720 you'r footy head, that's always want to do that. Sometimes 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:12.560 put a little bit puts a little bit of pressure 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:14.840 on your own shoulders. But Coops, the thing I like 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.720 about Tanner's game, and again it's great coaching for Andrew Webster. 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:20.960 Tanner has built his football, He's built his football this 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:25.920 season on simplifying things and building confidence through the simple things. 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:27.800 And early in the season you saw him right he 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:31.680 do the one run of football or pass it early 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.560 and his main focus was just on kicking, like kick 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:37.440 kick well all the time. You just know that he 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:39.760 was said to him, I need two things. I need 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:41.480 you to just make your tackles and needs you to 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:43.840 kick well. And that's how he's built his confidence. And 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:46.920 now what we're seeing is bit by bit, brick by 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:49.960 brick every single week, you're seeing him start to build 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:53.560 off his game, like on the weekend against In my opinion, 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:55.680 that is by far the best game I've seen him 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:56.320 play in the NRL. 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:59.280 And to your point about the simple things, he should 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:03.560 deliver the simple things every week. If it is kicking, defense, 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:06.600 and let's say it's running, just do them all the time. 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:09.600 Don't start throwing harbord rid passes and hit in the 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:11.240 winger because you think you can all of a sudden, 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:13.720 because you've you've had some really good games. It's a 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:16.520 challenge for him to still do the fundamentals and the 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:19.520 simple things better. But to your point, when you run 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:21.880 the football and you're a threat to break the line, 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:24.040 all of a sudden, defenders turn in on you and 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.760 it opens up passing lanes, So he needs to do 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:27.480 the simple things. 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:30.280 Well again, just watching this coup again, it's actually a 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:32.000 better game than even thought he had. When you can 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:34.320 press together all these moments, jeez, he had some. 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:39.040 So he continues on this trajectory. Luke Metcalf comes back 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:39.840 in a couple of weeks. 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:45.480 Yeahs three or four weeks, Metcalf six, Boyd holds seven 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:47.920 and probably thinking about Chanelle at fourteen. 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.520 Yeah, I tend to agree like this is up to 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:53.080 Tanner Boyd to take control of all the good things 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:55.920 that have already done this week this season, because if 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:58.760 they can get that, those two playing well, Metcal's coming 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:02.520 back from a long term injury hopefully hits the ground running, 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:04.680 but he might take a few weeks to get back there. 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:08.280 But that is a pretty dynamic harves combination. If Tanna 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:11.480 stays at that level, he shouldn't change the way he's 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:11.880 been playing. 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:13.960 You don't want Andrew Webs to break his heart. You know, 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:16.240 he's put so much work in his fire and then 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:19.400 says we'll make the my number one, so back, thanks 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:21.520 very much. In New South Wales Cup, I just can't 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:23.800 see it. I agree with that any others Coopers sort 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:24.640 of mate. 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:27.360 I thought the Eels, yeah, I thought the Eels in 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:32.400 a tight contest. Everything yet spoken about it, and rightly so. 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:36.760 Moses and Pezet had some touches, But I really like 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:40.240 what the back rollers do for the Eels too long. 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:42.200 He had the game of his life against the Brazil 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:46.960 very good. And Kowtonga is big and physical, and I 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:50.920 think it's a thing for Peasant and Moses to use 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:54.280 up physical back rollers with Io in and around somewhere, 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:57.440 and they can create a little bit. I think they're 0:16:57.480 --> 0:17:00.840 tackle breakers, the good line runners, and I think a 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:04.800 halfback's best partner is the back rower. 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:05.800 Absolutely. 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:09.320 You can form a good combination where it is senting 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:12.480 me to perfect the ability to run inside shoulder, outside 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:15.080 shoulder drop off at the right time. You can start 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:18.119 building good combinations off the back of that. And I 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:22.639 like what the Eels have got going there. The Dragons, yeah, 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:24.800 so there was a moment there in the second half 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:28.359 where I believe the Dragons had an opportunity to go 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:30.880 on and win that game a bit like the Melbourne still, 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:32.400 and they got to the lead and then just fell 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:34.520 away at the back end. But this time wasn't defense, 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:37.679 it was their attack. So Geimer went off the field 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:40.200 ten minutes of the cinemon. He was playing right center 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:43.040 at that time, and he's got Mitchell Moses on the 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:46.000 other side. This is the first try they scored with geimrothfield. 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:49.320 I think, beautiful, get Moses Sourly the ball. But then 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:52.639 after that, the time they got the ball to Moses Soulely, 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:55.520 Mitchell Moses is defending in the center, it'd be like 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:59.399 you defended mal right, Just get the ball, Melvininger, Just 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:00.200 get the ball. 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:02.920 And Malice teachers to leave. Guitarists and coultures or were 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:03.240 filled in. 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:07.240 But see where Moses Soulli is there. Like the game, 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:10.240 management of the Dragons halves was poor at the back 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:13.399 end of this game. I think when Charlie Gone went off, 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:15.919 they should have won. Get the ball to Moses Soully 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:19.320 multiple times on Mitchell Moses, and don't take it into 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:21.280 the line. Look where's Moses there? Get the ball to 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:23.520 Gee someone passing the ball. 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:25.840 I was driving into work. Listen to that on the radio. 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:28.520 Doesn't give you those pictures there. That's a boy that 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:30.600 is a missed opportunity that one on the left there. 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:32.280 And they see they just keep coming back to the right, 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:35.919 drift across here to the left, and there's just not 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:38.879 the opportunity. There was a moment where they went with 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:43.919 the short side play just clunky. There was a moment 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:46.159 when they went to chian Leu at the back of 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:50.439