Speaker 1: Not on tinner three sixty league from every angle, gentleman,
Speaker 1: the great Gordon Tallis. Let's bring the general Australian Jack
Speaker 1: Souper and Dave Rikio.
Speaker 2: I've just noticed on the only bloke with hair on.
Speaker 3: This panal today we're in that top of.
Speaker 2: Sharks. They get enry at me.
Speaker 1: Boys, come on all right, Sharks up against the Storm's going.
Speaker 2: To be a big one.
Speaker 1: Nikko Heines is in form. The last two games have
Speaker 1: been his best. Kevin Munster obviously he's been in good
Speaker 1: form as well as have the Melbourne Storm. This sets
Speaker 1: up to be an absolute beauty.
Speaker 4: Absolute cracker and a really good test for the Sharks
Speaker 4: guys because as we know, they've been the Burke and
Speaker 4: Wills of the NRL. They've traveled far and wide and
Speaker 4: they finally get back home for the first time in
Speaker 4: about five to six weeks. It's a really good opportunity.
Speaker 4: They fell short against the Bulldogs at home their first
Speaker 4: series test against quality opposition. They lost to the Raiders,
Speaker 4: another quality opposition. I think they'll be primed for this
Speaker 4: to test the Storm.
Speaker 1: As we saw in the teaser, a couple of these
Speaker 1: games have got pretty under over the years.
Speaker 5: Made.
Speaker 6: I forgot about a lot of that, So that's that's
Speaker 6: that's a lot of niggel and it will start again.
Speaker 7: It'll be a salout one't Dave. Yeah yeah, Shark puck.
Speaker 6: But look, Melbourne Storm hit some really good form last week.
Speaker 6: They tended to give up later just put the Q
Speaker 6: in the rank. But I don't think that's going to
Speaker 6: happen in the Sharks. Well, Nico's starting to get his
Speaker 6: running game back and it's going to be a great battle.
Speaker 8: Now, there's an outstanding history in.
Speaker 9: Terms of the rivalry, and that teaser did a brilliant
Speaker 9: job of outlining at Will Chambers used to love it.
Speaker 9: He was the king of the sledge and the king
Speaker 9: of the niggle. He had plenty to say. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 9: I'm going to remember covering a few of those games.
Speaker 8: So there'll be plenty of feeling in this.
Speaker 9: An opportunity for Cronella because yes, you know they have
Speaker 9: been good to date, but Melbourne off the back of
Speaker 9: a sixty Ford to annihilation over West Tigers. This will
Speaker 9: give us a true reading on exactly where Coronell sit.
Speaker 1: Well, we know what well we can do and they
Speaker 1: are the premier Zape favorites of the mate.
Speaker 2: We'll go into that a little bit later.
Speaker 1: The Sharks are going under the radar and probably people
Speaker 1: underrest to make them at the moment, or do they.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is their first real test. They haven't
Speaker 1: not real tests, but they haven't really beaten any heavyweights
Speaker 1: this year. So this is their chance to, like you said,
Speaker 1: stand up and put their hand up and show we'll
Speaker 1: said the real deal.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: Well, they went awfully closed.
Speaker 4: Let's don't forget Las Vegas against the Raining Premiers.
Speaker 3: They went awfully closed in Vegas.
Speaker 4: And again that I mentioned it earlier, they had the
Speaker 4: opportunity down in Canberra. They blew that with only seconds
Speaker 4: to spare Bulldogs at home and this is their test.
Speaker 4: Look there without Hazelton and Tige Wilton. I think they're
Speaker 4: significant outs for the Sharks, but they do have depth.
Speaker 4: They keep on bringing young talented forwards into this system.
Speaker 4: Jesse Carlhourn's a great example. But to Hoops's point, we're
Speaker 4: going to get a really good read on where they're at.
Speaker 9: I think the fact that they've been beaten by the
Speaker 9: Raining Premiers round one, but then also the Bulldogs and
Speaker 9: the Raiders well as well, that probably gives you a
Speaker 9: decent read that I don't think they are the top
Speaker 9: four side that with the addition of Adam Fanoul or Blake,
Speaker 9: everybody expected that they would be. So they're also still
Speaker 9: finding their way in terms of their halves. Trendle was
Speaker 9: on at the beginning of the year. Last few weeks
Speaker 9: he's been a little shaky, whereas it's been Nicko who
Speaker 9: was shaggy at the start of the year and has
Speaker 9: been more dominant.
Speaker 6: It comes first break the forward pack dominating all the halves.
Speaker 1: Always the forward pack, always the forward pack. And you know,
Speaker 1: Adam Fanil Blake was great last week. Nico Hines, as
Speaker 1: I mentioned, has found his best form the last few weeks.
Speaker 1: Trendle not so much so. Trendle's been kind of in
Speaker 1: form on fire and Nicko wasn't so much. And then
Speaker 1: now now they've swapped, can they can they both get
Speaker 1: it together. If they can both find form at the
Speaker 1: same time, they probably go to that top four echelon.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Look, one thing I know is the absolute belief that
Speaker 4: Craig Fitzgibbon that to your point that these halves will
Speaker 4: come together in time, and I think that's the key
Speaker 4: point They're still very raw as a combination, still in
Speaker 4: its infancy as far as building that trust.
Speaker 3: How many games do you.
Speaker 8: Think they've played for nearly two years?
Speaker 3: No snow chance Nicko was away.
Speaker 9: All they were the starting halves for the Sharks that
Speaker 9: have been in the last year. Yeah they were, and
Speaker 9: Trendle got suspended, Niko got injured. Yes, they've been in
Speaker 9: and out, but still they've burned together twenty long half.
Speaker 8: I wouldn't say that it's in a hin.
Speaker 4: Hinds had injuries last year. We saw Rackings and play
Speaker 4: some games. They haven't played a long stretch of consistent
Speaker 4: football together. I think this is the season, no doubt,
Speaker 4: this is the season where you want to see them go.
Speaker 3: But it's a time thing.
Speaker 2: And you're right.
Speaker 4: Heines has been the dominant half and Trendle's been sitting back.
Speaker 2: Neither one of them have been poor stretch.
Speaker 1: It's just if they can both fire at the same time.
Speaker 1: I think that would get them to the level they
Speaker 1: need to be. Do you where do you happen to
Speaker 1: take advantage you?
Speaker 6: So what happens normally there's got to be a dominant half,
Speaker 6: and Niko was trying to be the dominant half when
Speaker 6: he was out, Trendle really stood up. Do they like
Speaker 6: and are they trying to be too polite? Break You
Speaker 6: need to get some guys and they and they don't
Speaker 6: run the side.
Speaker 7: They sit back a little.
Speaker 6: But one bloke doesn't put the hand up and go
Speaker 6: because Joey always take the rains made when he get injured.
Speaker 6: But Joey always wanted the rains. The good ones want.
Speaker 1: The rains in the I think he'd rather Niko be
Speaker 1: the dominant half because we know what he can do
Speaker 1: and second you know.
Speaker 2: That's you'd probably prefer there.
Speaker 1: They go into premiership contention if Niko is playing his
Speaker 1: best for their team and he's the sole playmaker or
Speaker 1: the dominant one. If Trindle is, they can get to
Speaker 1: the finals. Not sure they could win a camp. If
Speaker 1: Nico is playing great and Trindle's just playing a second fiddle,
Speaker 1: that puts him in the premiership contention.
Speaker 2: In my opinion, you'd prefer that the other way around.
Speaker 1: Now, Harry Grant returns just in time for Origin this week.
Speaker 1: Are the Storm clear premiership favorites?
Speaker 7: I think they are.
Speaker 8: I think that they have Bernal Susan Gordon.
Speaker 6: Yeah, last week, last week I think they they did
Speaker 6: the last time he was getting beaten by the Raiders.
Speaker 6: I think Dolpho's got them. You know, Saint George beat
Speaker 6: them millionaire. It wasn't the Melbourne storm of the past
Speaker 6: where they just shut you out and I thought that
Speaker 6: there was no clear favorite. They did beat the Tigers
Speaker 6: down there and that was the best eighty minute performance
Speaker 6: they put in at.
Speaker 9: If you look at their roster, David, I think they've
Speaker 9: got the best depth of any of the seven one
Speaker 9: teams in the competition.
Speaker 8: If we don't want to see.
Speaker 9: Anybody get hurt, but if anything happened to the Pap
Speaker 9: of Hours and they've got to back up in sw
Speaker 9: for Lockdow jonahezit's injured at the moment. But they've also
Speaker 9: got great in a month well there you go. See,
Speaker 9: so they've also got great depth in the halves. They're
Speaker 9: pack with the addition of Stefano this season and now
Speaker 9: Harry back this week.
Speaker 8: I still think they are the benchmark side.
Speaker 4: They're the benchmark side and they're the Premiership favorites because
Speaker 4: it all comes back to what we know what wins
Speaker 4: comps and it's the spine. They've got the best spine
Speaker 4: in the comp pappen hous and Monster Hughes, Harry Grant.
Speaker 3: Stop the fight seriously, most consistent spin absolutely.
Speaker 2: And what was so impressive about the weekend?
Speaker 1: And you could tell at halftime they had a big
Speaker 1: lead and they've given those leads away even when they've
Speaker 1: won games over the first half of the year. And
Speaker 1: you could tell that at halftime. Bellamy said to them,
Speaker 1: you win the second half and you don't con see points.
Speaker 1: And they were fighting until the last second in this game,
Speaker 1: which meant it means it been lots of them and
Speaker 1: there was definitely extra effort to not do what they
Speaker 1: had been doing so far this year. So they've got
Speaker 1: the potential to be clear favorites. They're I don't think
Speaker 1: they're quite there yet, right They've played the Tigers. Yes,
Speaker 1: they Ham and it was down in Melbourne. The Tigers
Speaker 1: were poor. We'll get a better read probably this week
Speaker 1: against Cronulla if they are clear favorites or if last
Speaker 1: week wasn't as good as what we maybe thought. You know,
Speaker 1: I think I think this is a big game for
Speaker 1: them as much as it is for Crnulla.
Speaker 6: To me, Melbourne pretty much always play at the red
Speaker 6: line they're always the most consistent, harder side to beat
Speaker 6: in the competition. Then you get sides that can go up.
Speaker 6: They can just change gears. Maybe Melbourne always play at
Speaker 6: that level and that's why they blow sides the way
Speaker 6: the Dogs and others.
Speaker 7: The others need to change some gears.
Speaker 2: The way the Dogs aren't.
Speaker 1: But about a month ago you'd still have Melbourne well
Speaker 1: and truly ahead of the Dogs just because of the team.
Speaker 1: They've got the spine you just mentioned. But the way
Speaker 1: the Dogs are playing, it's it's like they can beat Melbourne.
Speaker 1: I think they can. If Melbourne are off, the Dogs
Speaker 1: are a team, they can beat them. DC's contracts saga
Speaker 1: now a lot going on.
Speaker 8: We know that.
Speaker 1: Does it have the capabilities of entering the Queensland camp
Speaker 1: and derailing that at all?
Speaker 2: Do you think?
Speaker 7: Or is that wash your mouth out.
Speaker 3: Cooper?
Speaker 2: I think so.
Speaker 1: Here it is on the on the back page of
Speaker 1: the Caurier Mail. So there's normally Queensland don't do this
Speaker 1: to their.
Speaker 6: You don't normally have to address it when you're in there,
Speaker 6: but it'll be the elephant in the room, like where
Speaker 6: you're going, especially Lindsay Collins or whatever. But someone's got
Speaker 6: to make it a joke. That's where Elf. Elf has
Speaker 6: always been good in camp. But like then make it
Speaker 6: a joke, present him a rooster's jersey or a bulldog's
Speaker 6: jersey or whatever and get on with it.
Speaker 7: You know what I mean. But it shouldn't derail a
Speaker 7: state of origins.
Speaker 8: Is such a profession as the captain.
Speaker 9: I think the bigger issue, Breath is this game coming
Speaker 9: up this week and Tom Didn't has been playing out
Speaker 9: of his skin and Daily in a manly side that
Speaker 9: has been beaten and beaten at Fortress Brookwelle in the
Speaker 9: last three games. He hasn't been anywhere near his best.
Speaker 9: There is an argument that you could pick Tom Didn't
Speaker 9: ahead of Daily on form. However, then you look at
Speaker 9: everything that he's done in a Queensland jumper and the
Speaker 9: fact that he's the captain, and you know that Billy
Speaker 9: Slater will probably remain loyal.
Speaker 2: What's your opinion on with Queensland.
Speaker 3: Well, go back.
Speaker 4: I go back to the point of the decision being
Speaker 4: made in relation to deciding that he didn't want to
Speaker 4: be at mainly beyond this season. I go back then
Speaker 4: and think about his comments in relation to wanting to
Speaker 4: do everything and the utmost for the Manly Seagulls to
Speaker 4: try and get the most out of this season, including
Speaker 4: winning the premiership, And for me, playing state of origin
Speaker 4: impacts that goal of what he vowed to do at
Speaker 4: the Sea should playing.
Speaker 3: I don't think he should be there.
Speaker 4: From but I can understand why years like it's representative football.
Speaker 3: I gather it. But you can't have it both ways.
Speaker 4: You can't at thirty.
Speaker 6: Because I heard through the week that he doesn't know
Speaker 6: who he's signed for a block that spoke to DC
Speaker 6: and he said he hadn't made up his mind.
Speaker 7: So who is he going to? The rooster's definitely the roost.
Speaker 1: Are you saying that he shouldn't play for the benefit
Speaker 1: of Manly or he shouldn't play for them?
Speaker 8: Here?
Speaker 4: Are we going to sit here and not think it's
Speaker 4: not going to be the first question the journalists asked
Speaker 4: when he enters Maron's camp next week, Well, but seriously,
Speaker 4: is it not.
Speaker 3: Going to be?
Speaker 4: I know it's it's and that's a job Queensland will
Speaker 4: the Queensland coaching staff will tell you this will be
Speaker 4: the best thing ever for daily Cherry Evans because it
Speaker 4: takes him into our into our camp under our umbrella
Speaker 4: will protect him and it'll to Poops's point, he's so
Speaker 4: experienced and it'll free him up.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: While I don't know if he's playing, is he playing
Speaker 3: good enough for?
Speaker 4: Is he getting there on his legacy only at this
Speaker 4: point in time, maybe.
Speaker 9: On the last month for football you would say yes,
Speaker 9: absolutely would, but his legacy is pretty good.
Speaker 1: In that chairse no doubt he feels more comfortable going
Speaker 1: to Queensland absolutely with what's going on man, and he's
Speaker 1: probably thinking, you know what, this is a good.
Speaker 7: Break for me.
Speaker 9: Right, You make a great point, breath because off the
Speaker 9: back of that lost to Cronala last Sunday, there has
Speaker 9: been a lot of noise around that. There's worse than
Speaker 9: splinters in the Manly camp.
Speaker 8: There's a real divide. Divide at all.
Speaker 9: Centers goes back to that decision that he made on
Speaker 9: live television. The club was blindsided and there's been a
Speaker 9: massive flow on effect. What have you heard, Well, I
Speaker 9: think some players are just struggling, Yeah, of course, and
Speaker 9: your players. Some players are struggling and they believe that
Speaker 9: that decision has essentially derailed their season.
Speaker 2: Which is looking on we all thought that at the time.
Speaker 9: Were discussed on the show, and looking on current form,
Speaker 9: you'd have to say that that the way that.
Speaker 6: It is tracking if I put my foot in DC's.
Speaker 6: But how's that going to change? If I say, well,
Speaker 6: I'm going to go to that club, how's it going
Speaker 6: to change? You're still leaving them.
Speaker 8: You blokes played, though, goody you played.
Speaker 9: How would you feel if one of your team mates
Speaker 9: did what Daily did at the start?
Speaker 6: Well, Wendall did it and I was gutted, Like Wendell
Speaker 6: promised us, We're all sitting around in a grieve. I'm
Speaker 6: going to stay. Then he went to rugby union, right,
Speaker 6: and you do feel good. The senior guys that are
Speaker 6: really close do feel a little bit hurt when they lose.
Speaker 6: And I suppose the Bulldogs with Sunny Williams there might
Speaker 6: have been that feeling. Right the Melbourne storm with Cooper
Speaker 6: Krong there would have been that feeling, but soon that
Speaker 6: they would have addressed it. Right, Yeah, but I don't
Speaker 6: know whether he coming out and saying I'm going to
Speaker 6: that's going to ease the pain.
Speaker 4: If he Even if he doesn't come out and saying
Speaker 4: which he hasn't, clearly it all comes back to form.
Speaker 4: It all comes back to showing your teammates you're willing
Speaker 4: to rip in every single week. Now, we saw the
Speaker 4: really good performance against the Panthers and then the nowhere
Speaker 4: performance against the Sharks, right, and he has to show
Speaker 4: his teammates that he's willing to rip and tear for manly.
Speaker 4: At this point in time, I can understand where the
Speaker 4: teammates are going in on a sec Are you in
Speaker 4: or or you're out the big ones this Saturday night?
Speaker 4: If he flops and deed and fires, what do you
Speaker 4: think the questions will be going into camp next week?
Speaker 2: Do we totally agree with you?
Speaker 1: But I think regardless of the result, he's going to
Speaker 1: be there and Deedan's going to be fourteen.
Speaker 2: Right, That's that's what's going to happen. To have a.
Speaker 9: Questioning going well, I got to say, and you know,
Speaker 9: people say, will you like coming from a new South
Speaker 9: Welst point of view, but Coinsland, they did lose last
Speaker 9: year's series. It's not like coming off winning series. And
Speaker 9: you need to be loyal to that particular group of players, which.
Speaker 2: Leads me to this, and I'd love to get your
Speaker 2: opinion on this game.
Speaker 1: One Sun Court Stadium, DC's peaked at seven.
Speaker 2: They lose the game. Is that his last origin game?
Speaker 7: How does he play's average?
Speaker 2: What if he plays average? It might wait because the odds.
Speaker 6: Are it might be because you never owned a jersey
Speaker 6: like you run it for a long time. People deserve
Speaker 6: it for the next crack, I believe. But you never
Speaker 6: ever ever own a rep jersey. You always just borrow
Speaker 6: it for the time being an ad to it. So
Speaker 6: anybody playing for Queensland, if you don't go there and perform,
Speaker 6: and it could.
Speaker 1: Be your last because there's a lot more to this, right,
Speaker 1: his situation at club Land, his age, they lost last series,
Speaker 1: they lose game one and hard you know, maybe there's
Speaker 1: a change of the guard, right.
Speaker 7: Yep, And there's the age, and there's that whole you
Speaker 7: know this going around.
Speaker 6: There like of course, And I'm sure Billy Slater he's
Speaker 6: paid for these decisions. He'll make the right ones. And
Speaker 6: we're lucky that we've got someone like Tommy didn't that
Speaker 6: is shooting the lights out. Whether he's ready to run
Speaker 6: the state and put on the number seven jersey, it's
Speaker 6: a great jersey for our state. Who knows, but you
Speaker 6: know he's going to be thrown in there at some
Speaker 6: stage he sets.
Speaker 2: Up to be a big game for him and doesn't it.
Speaker 1: If that's the case, really, when you when you peel
Speaker 1: it all back and look at it from the outside
Speaker 1: looking in, the reality is this could be, you, guys,
Speaker 1: a last ogin game.
Speaker 9: Ever, well, it starts this weekend when he's got the
Speaker 9: shootout against Tommy did and if Tommy plays the way
Speaker 9: that he has been played over the course of the
Speaker 9: last month, it's going to be very hard, right. But
Speaker 9: then to your point, Brave, if Coinsland do lose the
Speaker 9: opening game and Daily is only average, then you would
Speaker 9: have to think that it's a decision Billy Slater probably
Speaker 9: has to make.
Speaker 3: One of the biggest games of his career in that context.
Speaker 4: It really is in that context because if he does
Speaker 4: not fire, there's no doubt. Gordon, I've got no doubt.
Speaker 4: Tom diedon like he's ready to go, ready to go,
Speaker 4: he went there.
Speaker 6: Was one of our best players, and he's got someone
Speaker 6: like Cameron Monter. He didn't play last year and we
Speaker 6: really missed him. So having someone with that experience would
Speaker 6: certainly help the.
Speaker 4: Fact that Billy Slater is considering Kurt Man as a
Speaker 4: utility option on his Marion's bench.
Speaker 8: Kurt Man, Yeah, yeah, wow and Deedon on the bench.
Speaker 4: Well that's the catch, right, So Kurt's, you know, such
Speaker 4: a valuable utility for the dogs. The Dogs have a
Speaker 4: huge opinion of Kurt Man. But to our conversation in.
Speaker 3: Around DC is future.
Speaker 4: If there is a dip there, you've got already made
Speaker 4: utility in Kurt Man.
Speaker 2: You can mail you go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll back myself.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, because people are watching this, going really
Speaker 1: kurk Man didn't I'm thinking the same thing.
Speaker 2: That's solid mail.
Speaker 4: It's a small to your point, you probably think it's
Speaker 4: a pretty small bench. Who the next time, I would
Speaker 4: think Lindsay Collins and Ruben Cotter come into the frame
Speaker 4: on the bench. Not a big bench, no small mobile,
Speaker 4: fast feet through the middle. That's that's the belief. I understand. Certainly,
Speaker 4: there's a lot of football to be played this weekend.
Speaker 4: Kurt obviously has to get through injury free. I've heard
Speaker 4: both for Moore's name come up as well as a
Speaker 4: bench option. So look, but my point is that that
Speaker 4: bench spot of the Barons, the number fourteen, it's suddenly
Speaker 4: a little bit more open with the kurk Man there
Speaker 4: all right.
Speaker 1: As always, there's plenty of questions around the Blues.
Speaker 2: Lineup forage and right than coach Lurry.
Speaker 1: Daily did he's best to answer them ELI today.
Speaker 10: There's still a few questions we need answered. You know,
Speaker 10: there's a.
Speaker 5: There's a sort of core group of people that were
Speaker 5: sort of settled on once the team's finalized, the captaincy
Speaker 5: will be easy.
Speaker 10: Jake did a terrific job last year. Well, he didn't
Speaker 10: play a lot of minutes. Inside the camp coaching staff, they.
Speaker 5: All spoke particularly highly of what he was able to
Speaker 5: do for a group. And then we've got other captains
Speaker 5: within the side that have led their teams, so we'll
Speaker 5: have another number of good captaincy options. It'll be a
Speaker 5: tough decision what the combination of the halves will be,
Speaker 5: but it's a good position to be in if they're
Speaker 5: all fit and available.
Speaker 3: No exactly great to seeing back. This would get one
Speaker 3: or two. Do those injuries continue?
Speaker 5: All, Yeah, that's that's a good good question. Because we're
Speaker 5: hoping that Zach will play this weekend, so we can
Speaker 5: have a look at Zach. Obviously, we can't watch Brian anymore,
Speaker 5: and they were two influential members of the team last year.
Speaker 5: We'll weigh that all up and see however performs on
Speaker 5: the weak again.
Speaker 7: What more does have to do with Oh?
Speaker 5: I think he's just got to keep playing like he
Speaker 5: has been. He's putting his best foot forward. There's no
Speaker 5: denying that. In a result like that, there's a lot
Speaker 5: of players not doing the job that's expected of them.
Speaker 5: I just want to see what they do when they're
Speaker 5: under pressure.
Speaker 2: Well, it's a luxury of riches for Laurie Daily or
Speaker 2: is it?
Speaker 1: This could become a well if it's not already a
Speaker 1: big headache for him. He's got so many decisions to
Speaker 1: make in key positions. He's got incumbents that have won
Speaker 1: the SERI Series last year.
Speaker 2: Does he stick with them? Does he go with new players.
Speaker 1: He's got their captain, Jake Chaboivich, who hasn't been in
Speaker 1: great form.
Speaker 2: Does he pick him or doesn't he? We'll start with him.
Speaker 9: It's a good headache breath, but I don't think it's
Speaker 9: a migrain. In terms of Jake, I love Jake. He
Speaker 9: is an absolute lion heart of a player for Manly
Speaker 9: and has never let New South Wales down to the
Speaker 9: point where when he's been dropped in previous series they've
Speaker 9: had to bring him back in in a rush when
Speaker 9: they lose the opening game. Such as is importance to
Speaker 9: the side. I don't think you can pick him on
Speaker 9: current form. I just don't think that you can.
Speaker 4: Okay, oh yeah, Jimmy sentiments, it's spot on. The game
Speaker 4: loves Jake Dravovitch. Everybody does, absolutely, But you've got to
Speaker 4: pick the best team and the best pack. Unfortunately, I
Speaker 4: don't believe includes Jake in it.
Speaker 7: Can it be the best mix of a team?
Speaker 6: Not always the best players were, And then Braith would
Speaker 6: understand that you can't pick all one seat.
Speaker 1: A champion team. That's the dilemma that Laurie's got. They
Speaker 1: had a champion team last year and some team of
Speaker 1: champions this year, Like.
Speaker 2: Where's that balance? Where's that mix?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 6: The balance of that hard work and guy, I know
Speaker 6: that if I play I reckon. Jake's one of those
Speaker 6: players like a Gary Larson and a Billy Moore And
Speaker 6: you get those guys and they just embarrass it. Miles,
Speaker 6: They just embarrassed you to stay on your edge, like
Speaker 6: they just do everything so and it's just team first.
Speaker 6: There's nothing selfish about them, and they sort of embarrass
Speaker 6: you to keep on pushing that little bit and I
Speaker 6: don't yeah, and you don't know what it is that
Speaker 6: I don't get the wraps.
Speaker 7: Like Wally Lewis.
Speaker 6: But Wally laws always thank Gary Larson and those hard
Speaker 6: working guys.
Speaker 7: And he that guy for New South Wales.
Speaker 2: Big decision.
Speaker 7: But you've got but like you've got to Zaya Yep, yep, yeah.
Speaker 3: You know, I mean like test captain.
Speaker 1: They've got enough creativity in the team too to have
Speaker 1: someone like Jakin if he's good for the team and
Speaker 1: good for the team bus in the environment and he
Speaker 1: leads off the field and they love him and he's
Speaker 1: you know, and he just gets a job done in
Speaker 1: the first ten to fifteen twenty minutes. And then they've
Speaker 1: got enough talent, you know, they've got enough creativity, they've
Speaker 1: got points. You know, it's not like they need a
Speaker 1: front rower or a lot to come out creating opportunities.
Speaker 2: You know, just do your job.
Speaker 7: He gets thirty five tackles in hi middle.
Speaker 1: He doesn't miss, he hits and sticks quickly. If he's
Speaker 1: not there, who captains the team?
Speaker 3: II? Yeah, he's the Australian captain.
Speaker 8: Stephen Krichton.
Speaker 6: I think what he's going to do for the James
Speaker 6: said Esco was the Australian captain and he didn't pick
Speaker 6: last year.
Speaker 8: We didn't get picked for strail last year.
Speaker 7: Was he injured? Look at the queens I picked as him.
Speaker 8: Crichton as a captain.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well general, like normally when you play it's a toss
Speaker 6: up and we can talk about it. But when you're
Speaker 6: playing good good sides, there's five captains.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like every Ara that's the strength of the team.
Speaker 6: Yeah like yeah, Like there's five club captains and in
Speaker 6: Queensland probably two or three club captains in there and
Speaker 6: they're all leaders.
Speaker 1: I love Stephen Krichton. He is a good leader. Look
Speaker 1: at this, he's what twenty three, twenty four this year.
Speaker 1: That what he's been able to do for the Bulldogs.
Speaker 1: You look at that game on the weekend against Camberra.
Speaker 1: He was the difference. He brought them back into the game.
Speaker 1: He's he leads by example with his actions. He's also
Speaker 1: very vocal. He's got both you know, and he's he's
Speaker 1: a freak. He's a freak of nature. I'd happily have
Speaker 1: Stephen Crichton as the captain of the Blues and he's.
Speaker 2: Going to be there.
Speaker 1: He's first pick for the next ten years. Like you're
Speaker 1: not going anywhere else.
Speaker 6: The only question mark is the guys that captain him
Speaker 6: at Penrith, what they think that That is the only
Speaker 6: question about you know, you go to another side of
Speaker 6: bloke left he wasn't captain, you were captain and he's
Speaker 6: got it.
Speaker 7: That'd be that'd be it. That's the only question mark
Speaker 7: over Apparently they're just in the podcast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Google work, what do you one of your best there?
Speaker 1: Apparently we're head to the Lachlan Galvin speculation now as
Speaker 1: a ramps up. We spoke about the Bulldogs last night
Speaker 1: and possibly a chance of him going there or speculation
Speaker 1: around it. What's going on here? Have we have we
Speaker 1: heard any Have you had any backlash to last night
Speaker 1: because we're pretty strong on it. We're trying to put
Speaker 1: the pieces of the puzzle together and we're thinking, you know,
Speaker 1: Paramatta haven't signed him. They're saying they're not close to
Speaker 1: signing him.
Speaker 2: The Bulldogs haven't re.
Speaker 1: Signed sext and you know Galvin wanted to go to
Speaker 1: a good a really good team to win the premiership.
Speaker 1: He coached by the right coach. He wants to learn.
Speaker 1: And I heard crickets today. Like normally when we do
Speaker 1: a story like that on this show, people from the
Speaker 1: club contact you and they'll say you're either right or wrong.
Speaker 2: And I haven't heard a thing, So it's just deafening.
Speaker 2: It's definite.
Speaker 6: Gustin Ring you not Gus you.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I love your work, breath, absolutely love your work.
Speaker 1: I'm just you're about to get the hose out before
Speaker 1: you go.
Speaker 3: This is how we roll.
Speaker 7: You know that, I respect you know.
Speaker 3: This is I'm not as hold on this as as
Speaker 3: what you are. I'm really not.
Speaker 4: I still I still think all loads, all roads lead
Speaker 4: to Paramatta.
Speaker 3: For Lachlan Galvin of.
Speaker 9: That super strange though, I'll tell you what running as
Speaker 9: the contradict. So he's come out he said, I want
Speaker 9: to I want to be the best educated footballer I
Speaker 9: can possibly become.
Speaker 8: I want to try and win premierships. It's not about
Speaker 8: the money.
Speaker 2: Right, So what would you know?
Speaker 8: What's paramatters? What's there appeal?
Speaker 4: Look solely playing alongside Mitch Moses an appeal. I think
Speaker 4: Isaiah Yongie is a series seriously, tell me, why wouldn't
Speaker 4: go to the bull That's more That's my point.
Speaker 3: I come back to the Dogs.
Speaker 4: I just know how much they believe in the development
Speaker 4: of Bailey Hayward as a half and a very talented
Speaker 4: young player in their lower grades.
Speaker 3: In Mitchell Wood.
Speaker 1: Years away, there's one where could play thirteen nine. There's
Speaker 1: rumors about Reid Marney whether they could he play nine
Speaker 1: or thirteen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he could.
Speaker 4: But I only saw what Bailey Hayward when he stepped
Speaker 4: up in the second half is great against the Raiders.
Speaker 4: He took on a more dominant playmaking role than what
Speaker 4: Toby Sexton did, and I firmly believe that this bloke
Speaker 4: is the short to medium term focus for the Dogs
Speaker 4: and the halfs.
Speaker 1: So if Gavin wanted to go there, you think they.
Speaker 2: Actually they'd say we're happy with Hayward. That's what you believe.
Speaker 9: I think at West Tigers it's obviously a legal standoff
Speaker 9: at the moment, but most people around the game think
Speaker 9: that the Tigers are now coming to the belief And
Speaker 9: I don't like saying it because I would have loved
Speaker 9: if they stood on their digs and said that a
Speaker 9: contract stands for something. I don't think a contract's going
Speaker 9: to stand for something. I think that Lachlan Galvin will
Speaker 9: be at a different club next year, and I think
Speaker 9: it makes sense that all roads lead to Canterbury because
Speaker 9: everything that we've heard out of his camp, dating back
Speaker 9: even six weeks before this story initially broke, was the
Speaker 9: decision was going to be all about the best coaching
Speaker 9: and where it could best improve his football development. And
Speaker 9: you look at the Bulldogs at the moment and whether
Speaker 9: it's experienced players like Stephen Crichton or emerging rookies like
Speaker 9: Bailey Hayward, the improvement in Toby Sexton, Siraldo has got
Speaker 9: that side absolutely humming. They're the best defensive team in
Speaker 9: the competition based on what he's implemented. Then you've also
Speaker 9: got one of his key assistants being Luke Vala, who
Speaker 9: was Lockey's coach at Westfield Sports High School, is his mentor.
Speaker 9: He's got the tattoo on the wrist with one of
Speaker 9: his favorite sayings.
Speaker 2: I've thought a lot about this, like the way he
Speaker 2: can to be applying.
Speaker 1: They're very systematic, right, they get the points on the field.
Speaker 1: They are relentlessly disciplined in what they do. Their defense
Speaker 1: is faultless, but their attack as well. They've got a
Speaker 1: game plan that they just stick to.
Speaker 2: They don't go away from it. Right.
Speaker 1: Sexton has a very simple game plan there. He's got
Speaker 1: a great short kicking game. He's got a good short
Speaker 1: passing game. He gets them to where they need to
Speaker 1: get to, and they execute with star power. Like Crichton
Speaker 1: on the weekend, Galvin goes into that team, he could
Speaker 1: do what Sexton does with a little bit of more
Speaker 1: star power, and he's got a great short kicking game.
Speaker 1: I just find it hard when I think they're not
Speaker 1: resigning Sexton, but they're doing that because they're happy with Haywood,
Speaker 1: yep and Mitch Woods.
Speaker 2: That's what you think.
Speaker 3: That's what at this point in time, one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: Who plays half back next year?
Speaker 4: The only to Hoops's point, the only thing that you're
Speaker 4: pulling me into the bulldog's argument is exactly that Luke Veller.
Speaker 4: Luke Veller shouldn't be underestimated, nailed to.
Speaker 9: Touch a little framers to market though, what do you
Speaker 9: think price of Paramatta?
Speaker 3: There's still my even money favorites.
Speaker 1: Even so that was months ago, six weeks ago.
Speaker 3: I'm not having a bet with you will settle this show.
Speaker 2: They were a dollar that was sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've still got Para, I've still got paramount favorites.
Speaker 8: I got Canterbury into a dollar ninety.
Speaker 1: What about the coaching thing, you know, rookie coach. Ye
Speaker 1: in mind, it's a contradiction of my and I think
Speaker 1: he's doing great things at the moment, really do. But
Speaker 1: it still doesn't really justify.
Speaker 3: It doesn't contradiction of the argument.
Speaker 4: I agree with you to Hoops's point, there isn't an
Speaker 4: increasing belief that this is all coming to an end
Speaker 4: of this season.
Speaker 2: Luckie.
Speaker 4: The album will finish up at the West Tigers this year,
Speaker 4: to the point of which the West Tigers are already
Speaker 4: looking across the market for a replacement next year, which
Speaker 4: is where Adam Reynolds's name has come up.
Speaker 9: So when do we think that the Tigers or Locke
Speaker 9: might be able to negotiate with other clubs. Is he
Speaker 9: going to have to wait till if that is the case,
Speaker 9: does he have to wait till November one? Or is
Speaker 9: it fast tracked under the Tigers just go? You know what,
Speaker 9: we know he's going. Just let him go, And I.
Speaker 4: Think it's I think it's when the Tigers find their answer. Right.
Speaker 4: If the Tigers can secure their replacement on your bike, mate.
Speaker 7: Who are they chasing?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: As I said, Adam Reynolds has been linked to the club.
Speaker 4: So far, all my inquiries to the West Tigers have
Speaker 4: led to denials that they that Adam will be coming down.
Speaker 3: The belief is that this stays in Brisbane.
Speaker 2: If they're denying it, where to start.
Speaker 4: Shane Richardson's son looks after Adam Reynolds off field sponsorship arrangement.
Speaker 3: There's a natural relationship there of which goes.
Speaker 9: Back along Way was a half back when one of
Speaker 9: the content that makes sense if an Adam wants to
Speaker 9: keep on play. Yeah, but I thought adam My understanding
Speaker 9: was he wants to stay at the Broncos.
Speaker 8: He's very settled up there.
Speaker 9: His family's happy, loves life in Brisbane and was happy.
Speaker 2: With what they're building. All right, do you know is
Speaker 2: your key player match up?
Speaker 3: Well? Thanks, he broadband, Well, I can't come.
Speaker 4: I can't get away from Saturday night's match and we
Speaker 4: spoke abou him. Nikko Hines up against Jerome mus is going.
Speaker 7: To be belt On gets the points Sharks at home
Speaker 7: Sharks in the dark.
Speaker 9: Okay, when we go on Friday night the Dylan Brown
Speaker 9: Cup between Parramatta and Newcastle. So Dylan Brown up against
Speaker 9: the side that he will be joining. I'm saying keep
Speaker 9: and I on him.