Speaker 1: Mister Fargo has had to pick stud Here's the old flight,
Speaker 1: here's past them straight through. I like the storm just
Speaker 1: but I do worry about a fifteen minute period. If
Speaker 1: there's a lapse, they'll get punished.
Speaker 2: Welcome to a very special edition of the Code Sports
Speaker 2: NRL Show. Dave Rickier with me is the red Man,
Speaker 2: Brent Reed and Michael carriyanas Let's rip into it. Fellas
Speaker 2: the Rugby League's Knight of Knights, the gala of end
Speaker 2: of the year, the Dally M Awards has been run
Speaker 2: and won and Rooster's captain and fullback James Tedesco he
Speaker 2: is a worthy winner.
Speaker 3: He went up by the length of us straight and it.
Speaker 2: Was it was pretty difficult to manage suspense, which is
Speaker 2: what we normally get with the Dalms, because he had
Speaker 2: had this wrapped up for a long time. Thought Luke
Speaker 2: Metcalf did a good job. Fellows, had he stayed injury
Speaker 2: free would have been in the fight. But ultimately Tedesco
Speaker 2: wins the twin twenty five Dalliam Award.
Speaker 3: I think he's a worthy recipient.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don' think it was ever a doubt. Was
Speaker 4: the day I think we all thought Teddy was going
Speaker 4: to win. A great year. He's had obviously big week
Speaker 4: for him. He pulled out of the Kangaroo to as
Speaker 4: well this week, so it would have been laid down
Speaker 4: Mosia to go on that Ashes tour, Teddy split it
Speaker 4: out teeth back in Late Night. But he was is
Speaker 4: worthy winner. Outstanding year for him, brilliant year. Yeah, so
Speaker 4: he's yeah, fantastic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hard to argue.
Speaker 4: You love him, You've loved him having the year.
Speaker 3: He's a freak.
Speaker 1: Yeah, most consistent fullback of the season, the most consistent
Speaker 1: player of the season deserves the award. Joins the rare
Speaker 1: class to win it twice now and you know at
Speaker 1: different stages of his career is what makes it even
Speaker 1: more remarkable. But great season in terms of yeah, I thought,
Speaker 1: look mech I'll surprise how high look Metcalf actually finished.
Speaker 1: I think he played up around seventeen was probably the
Speaker 1: last time he played before he here after that May,
Speaker 1: and it would have been that would have been neck
Speaker 1: and no guarantee he would have won the award, but
Speaker 1: it would have been close. But yeah, it was just.
Speaker 4: A significant loss. He was for the Warriors, doesn't it
Speaker 4: that game they were they were basically legless and directionless ones.
Speaker 1: It's a misar net going too. Yeah, you can't understand
Speaker 1: why they sort of fizzled out back the.
Speaker 2: An nrl W player tam Ga Upton was named the
Speaker 2: worthy award winner as far as the NRLW is concerned,
Speaker 2: and terrific player, terrific player.
Speaker 3: It was a great night.
Speaker 2: However, there's a little tip around fellows that we could
Speaker 2: see a split in the ceremony.
Speaker 3: Ibout than the contade next next.
Speaker 4: I'm not aware of this, but the AFL split it,
Speaker 4: don't they but they have seen as.
Speaker 2: Far as nrl W having their own awards night and
Speaker 2: the NRL having their own.
Speaker 4: The AFL is a bit different because there's seasons are
Speaker 4: separated as well, whilst our season's run together. But I
Speaker 4: think that'd be a good idea to separate them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, it'd be good because it does drag out
Speaker 1: a little bit, right. I think it's a bit it's
Speaker 1: a bit awkward for the players that both players any
Speaker 1: on stage for so long after the Team of the
Speaker 1: Year and then they go through the results of who's
Speaker 1: going to claim that the top gong. So I think
Speaker 1: ideally it'd be great to split it he's going to
Speaker 1: spend more time celebrating the highlights of both seasons then
Speaker 1: instead of sort of glossing over, and it'll be a
Speaker 1: shorter night. So yeah, I'd be a fan of it.
Speaker 4: Can I raise a concern I've come out of the
Speaker 4: ceremony with day.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 4: So Harry Grant and Joey Tarpenhay were ineligible for awards
Speaker 4: because he's got suspended for two weeks, get two weeks
Speaker 4: for longer. He ruled out, ruled out of eligibility for
Speaker 4: awards Captain of the Year. I think for those look,
Speaker 4: I'm happy with you say you cannot win the overall
Speaker 4: individual award if he gets suspended for two weeks or more,
Speaker 4: but I think it should be eligible to win other awards,
Speaker 4: such as Captain of the Year. Well, Joey tapers. For me,
Speaker 4: it was probably the captain of the year.
Speaker 2: Well if you if Ricky shewit's the coach of the
Speaker 2: year for the Camber Raiders, you would think the leader
Speaker 2: of that team, captain Joe Tarpani would be would be
Speaker 2: a worthy recipient. My only cast to that is I
Speaker 2: don't agree with you, read man, because you can't have
Speaker 2: you can't have one rule over here where they're ineligible
Speaker 2: due to suspension, and over here you are eligible to
Speaker 2: win the award.
Speaker 3: And I think it has.
Speaker 4: To be rules Rugby League make up rules on the
Speaker 4: run day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look again, I would have he I think you
Speaker 3: should have been Captain of the Year. You agree with me,
Speaker 3: But suspension.
Speaker 4: Costing mixed deciding vote. I'm torn fence.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I sort of agree that I agree
Speaker 1: on both points that you're making.
Speaker 4: My God, I don't have a distinctive tiebreaker.
Speaker 1: I would have given a joey You.
Speaker 4: Agree with me? Good man?
Speaker 3: Guys.
Speaker 2: This is a huge eighty minutes coming from Broncos fullback
Speaker 2: Bryce Walsh for.
Speaker 3: More reasons than one.
Speaker 2: Firstly being to win this premiership with the Brisbane Broncos
Speaker 2: against the Storm would be absolutely huge. But secondly, suddenly
Speaker 2: there's an Australian jersey legitimately up for grabs for Ruce
Speaker 2: Walston go and grab following the decision by James Tedsco
Speaker 2: to make himself.
Speaker 4: It's on the plane day. He's already on the plane
Speaker 4: there is. He just needs to get through this weekend
Speaker 4: and not get injured.
Speaker 3: So how many fullbacks are you?
Speaker 4: I think they'll take two fullbacks, but I think they're
Speaker 4: going to take Teddy and Reese. I think now they'll
Speaker 4: probably take Reese and Dylan Edwards.
Speaker 3: You thought Dylan Edward's going to miss out?
Speaker 4: He was gone, he was gone, sky wow, Yeah gone?
Speaker 4: And restarts, Well, that's a bit I'm not sure about. Well,
Speaker 4: I imagine was going on the plane. Imagine restarts. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: that's the male that.
Speaker 1: I've got no issue with that start. I would have
Speaker 1: started Teddy obviously, Yeah, but yeah, I'll be starting.
Speaker 4: He could light up the Ashes series Wolf. You can
Speaker 4: imagine the English supporters with Reese the way he is
Speaker 4: and the personality the way Mark.
Speaker 1: No longer need to say.
Speaker 4: He could become like a cult figure over there.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Huge, He could go global, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, super League style yes yeah.
Speaker 4: Club who would you pick a fullback game?
Speaker 2: I'm surprised you so adamant about Dylan Edwards missing out,
Speaker 2: and I appreciate he hasn't had his best season by
Speaker 2: his standards, but he's an elite fullback who has been
Speaker 2: the champion fullback for a number of seasons now.
Speaker 3: And you just ruled him out so quickly.
Speaker 4: I think Teddy's withdrawal has saved him yeah, I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't think he would have made the fine Dave. Yeah,
Speaker 4: just because his form has been a bit off.
Speaker 1: And the other guys have been That's the other point, right,
Speaker 1: It's not like you know, other fullbacks were struggling. Teddy's
Speaker 1: arguably in career best form despite his age, and then
Speaker 1: you have Reese Walsh, who's just the pennies dropped for him.
Speaker 4: Kenvy's got a relationship with Reese from when he was
Speaker 4: the Broncos with him.
Speaker 3: So that's a foot in the door.
Speaker 4: That's foot in the door.
Speaker 2: Well, one thing I will say is, and there's no
Speaker 2: way in the world I expect this to happen, But
Speaker 2: it's a game of rugby league and it can happen.
Speaker 3: If Reese doesn't play very well in the GF, does
Speaker 3: that hurt him?
Speaker 1: It does, But I still think he's on the plane,
Speaker 1: which other fallback would Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well unless Bryan Papanhouz maybe plays out of his
Speaker 4: I don't think.
Speaker 3: He's well no, well, then we will get the R
Speaker 3: three sixty debate in a moment.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I think Reese has done and dusted. I
Speaker 4: think they sat down. You were there with me, Dave
Speaker 4: when Peter Landy's announced that Teddy had been had withdrawn
Speaker 4: from the twur the other day and Peter acknowledged they
Speaker 4: basically picked day. They penciled in the twenty three man
Speaker 4: squad on Sunday Peter and the national selectors. So you know, Ree,
Speaker 4: my understanding Reese was in that squad yep. So he
Speaker 4: would have to do something pretty direct. He would have
Speaker 4: to play. In fact, he can't even play bad enough
Speaker 4: to fall out of that. Wow, the only injury rules
Speaker 4: Reese Walsh out and Mate, I'm so looking for I
Speaker 4: wish I almost I'm not going obviously, but I would
Speaker 4: love to be at Wembley if Reese Walsh is starting
Speaker 4: the number one jersey, to see him run out for Australia,
Speaker 4: I think it would be something specially well.
Speaker 2: This is a sold out Grand Fine, sold out several
Speaker 2: days in advance at a course stadium and Interstate Grand Final.
Speaker 2: As far as Sydney fans are concerned, between the Broncos
Speaker 2: and Storm, the two form teams have made their way
Speaker 2: to the decider. It should be an absolute beauty. Interesting styles.
Speaker 2: We've got the Melbourne Storm and their ability just to
Speaker 2: lock the game down, but also then the exciting and
Speaker 2: never say die. Brilliance of the Brisbane Broncos. How do
Speaker 2: you see this unfolding fellaws.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to be an interesting battle because I
Speaker 1: think for the Storm they're big guns fired for the
Speaker 1: first time in a while all together. But they've had
Speaker 1: these lapses the Storm throughout games, and if they have
Speaker 1: any of those periods of lapses, Brisbon will hurt them
Speaker 1: because they got strike everywhere and they don't fear Brismon,
Speaker 1: don't have this fear factor about them. They can chase
Speaker 1: points down.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: The only thing that if Brisbane do get in front,
Speaker 1: I don't want them to be conservative going to their shell.
Speaker 1: They need to keep playing that attacking brand of forty.
Speaker 1: But I like the Storm just but I do worry
Speaker 1: about it fifteen minute period. If there's a laps, they
Speaker 1: will get punished.
Speaker 2: I talk about form lines all the time, and you
Speaker 2: think about the Melbourne Storm.
Speaker 3: They've come through the Bulldogs and then the Sharks.
Speaker 2: And in both games you would argue that both Bulldogs
Speaker 2: and Sharks don't have the X factor yeah and brilliance
Speaker 2: that the Broncos do. And so therefore to your point,
Speaker 2: and both games, the Storm needed to fight to win.
Speaker 1: You talk about the X factor one hundred percent right.
Speaker 1: You look at and who they beat on the way
Speaker 1: camera have a massive X factor Kyle Weeks and obviously
Speaker 1: Ethan strange in a player. But you know they've got
Speaker 1: some players that turn a game like that Penrith. We
Speaker 1: know the spark they have across the field. So they've
Speaker 1: beaten teams that have that X factor. But yeah, at
Speaker 1: the moment, Brisbane have more than anyone.
Speaker 4: We know the Broncos the first of the game in
Speaker 4: eighty eight.
Speaker 1: How many times we have to hear that you're a
Speaker 1: Queensland there you go from Brisbane.
Speaker 4: What worries me is that Melbourne spine. Their record when
Speaker 4: all four of those guys play together is I think
Speaker 4: they've lost one. They plug played together maybe eight nine times.
Speaker 4: Is here lost once? That's what worries me, because that
Speaker 4: spine is the best spine in the game. They're all
Speaker 4: in good touch. Cap months has been unbelievable in the
Speaker 4: latter stage of the season. Harry has been crazy since origin.
Speaker 4: Jerome Hughes looked like there was nothing wrong with him
Speaker 4: last week. Perhaps is the one bloke who's been a
Speaker 4: bit down on form, but I thought he was great,
Speaker 4: great last week as well. So that's my concern is
Speaker 4: the broncos man that that spine is just so good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm tipping the storm, but I'm basing it on
Speaker 2: everything you said. Yes, the spine, but it comes down
Speaker 2: of the pack. And if Stefano you took him on,
Speaker 2: who can have a game like he did against Cronulla,
Speaker 2: that that's what allowed the Melbourne Storm spine to go.
Speaker 4: Well, he's got up well after his commentation.
Speaker 1: I've tipp him for the Clive Churchill really have the
Speaker 1: final Yeah, money can chat, but no, that's the key.
Speaker 2: Ultimately, Kronalla's pack were brought down and then their helves
Speaker 2: didn't look as good.
Speaker 3: I told you impending doom. It was spot on the
Speaker 3: storm packs led Stefano.
Speaker 2: Now this is up against pain half who he says,
Speaker 2: and we didn't say pains stuck up, but he certainly said.
Speaker 3: He things to Broo.
Speaker 4: That was named of pain, That's what I said. But yeah,
Speaker 4: that's a huge clash, right because pain is the unstoppable.
Speaker 4: It's the old unstoppable.
Speaker 3: What is it?
Speaker 4: The unstoppable force and movable movable object coming up against
Speaker 4: each other, and pain is the like the what's the
Speaker 4: watermark or whatever front row is now game at the
Speaker 4: telling the story. Yeah, but Stephan has been unbelievable since origin,
Speaker 4: so good and if he can hold his own and
Speaker 4: they could put the clamps on pain halfs that Melbourne spine,
Speaker 4: as I said, it's just so good, so good, and
Speaker 4: they've got they got so many game breakers. Brisbane had
Speaker 4: got rece Right and potentially Ezra Stags Stags, but in
Speaker 4: the spine, Melbourne had got just four players who can
Speaker 4: win the game of their own. Basically, Yeah, that's the worry.
Speaker 3: Anythink West Tigers fans watch watching Stefano and would hurt.
Speaker 3: It would leave him, It would hurt.
Speaker 4: There's a few former West Tigers there. Perhaps Harry spent
Speaker 4: a year there.
Speaker 3: I hate Sean.
Speaker 4: He spent a year there. They wanted to keep him Sean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, funny story, Sean was the trade between Justin Ilen
Speaker 2: Yeah and Sean bo.
Speaker 4: Can I tell your funny Harry Grant's story about the
Speaker 4: West Tigers. I spoke to his dad the other day,
Speaker 4: Piggy Paul, Piggy Grant, and he was saying, when Harry
Speaker 4: obviously went to the West Tigers, that a year of
Speaker 4: Cam Smith's career twenty twenty, I think it was. And
Speaker 4: his dad said to him, mate, don't go back to Melbourne.
Speaker 4: You don't want to play in Cameron Smith's shadow. You're
Speaker 4: only the bloke who follows Cameron Smith. And Harry said,
Speaker 4: now I want to get back to me. So if
Speaker 4: we listen to his dad, ro Grant might be a
Speaker 4: West Tiger right now.
Speaker 3: Fighting doors.
Speaker 2: Yeah boys, NRL three sixty, as Peter Orlandi's calls it,
Speaker 2: obviously three sixty, the impact of it, and the strategy
Speaker 2: to drop this ingrand final week to rain.
Speaker 3: On the.
Speaker 4: This was always the drop they don't care about. I
Speaker 4: don't care about rugby league.
Speaker 2: I don't care, which is why they're targeting final. They're
Speaker 2: strategizing and to rain on the NFL's parade. We'll just
Speaker 2: wait till next week.
Speaker 1: Then I think the NRL Grand Final is irrelevant to
Speaker 1: what's going on with.
Speaker 3: Just wait till next week. Then who these guys they
Speaker 3: beat to their own drum?
Speaker 2: We don't ever know who they are, what money they got,
Speaker 2: what broadcasting that don't came about it?
Speaker 3: That don't right. How legit is it? What's happening?
Speaker 4: It's legit. It's happening. The story is coming out in
Speaker 4: England now about the financial backing they've got. Where it's
Speaker 4: come from. It's come from private investment companies. It's legit, man,
Speaker 4: I mean they're about to They're sent out formal, long
Speaker 4: form contracts for players to sign. There's a handful of
Speaker 4: NRL players who will sign them. It's not going to
Speaker 4: decimate the code. The worry is that six seven, eight, nine,
Speaker 4: ten guys going out this year or next year. Sorry,
Speaker 4: at the end of next year. Other players over here
Speaker 4: see what they earn, see see what they're doing, see
Speaker 4: it's maybe a success, and they want to follow that lead.
Speaker 4: That's the concern, particularly the time when our game is
Speaker 4: going to expand we need sixty more players for Perth
Speaker 4: and p ANDNG. We can't afford to be losing players
Speaker 4: to rugby union.
Speaker 3: Let's cut to the chase.
Speaker 2: Answer the questions fans one to know when are these
Speaker 2: players need to signed by?
Speaker 4: Well, they've a lot of them signed letters of letters
Speaker 4: of commitment, letters of intent to start the competition of
Speaker 4: October two next year.
Speaker 1: October two next year, okay, which doesn't include preseason. That's
Speaker 1: when the first game, first game.
Speaker 3: That's right, so zach Lomax, Yeah, all right.
Speaker 2: If this is and zachlmax head is going there, there's
Speaker 2: no one in the world he can play for Paramatta
Speaker 2: next year.
Speaker 4: Well that's the decision for paramatter.
Speaker 3: Well you could use ultimate what could you're using for
Speaker 3: ten games and then let him go.
Speaker 1: Oh no, they wouldn't they, that's my point. But they
Speaker 1: could say we're not releasing you until the sure season.
Speaker 4: I'm told that this competition, our three sixty knows that
Speaker 4: in our real players a contract at October thirty one,
Speaker 4: and are happy to wait for them, let them have
Speaker 4: no preseason and just drop into the teams.
Speaker 3: When maybe it's around three or something.
Speaker 4: Yes, they're happy for that to happen apparently.
Speaker 1: But then if you're if you're a club and you've
Speaker 1: got a player in your books and you fall out
Speaker 1: of finals contention, you just release them, right.
Speaker 4: Because you get cat relief.
Speaker 1: You get cat relief. Sure, you go, well, I'm not
Speaker 1: paying you after round twenty seven if we're out of
Speaker 1: finals contention. That's a half months or one and a
Speaker 1: half months of pay that you save, and the player
Speaker 1: would have to four f that. So clubs will do that.
Speaker 4: Make the great example the other other side of it
Speaker 4: is a guy like Ryan Pappinez. If Ryan Papaouson goes
Speaker 4: Melbourne got a really tight cap, they've got to back
Speaker 4: up fullback so far long ago.
Speaker 3: It's a win for them.
Speaker 4: Maybe they go perhaps, if you're going to go, why
Speaker 4: don't you go? Now? Go to France. It's been six
Speaker 4: months playing rugby in France. Get yourself ready. It relieves them.
Speaker 4: I think he's on over nine hundred grand packs. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: that's a lot of money off their cap.
Speaker 1: That's a bit different to Zach Max. Zach Lomx plays
Speaker 1: at paramatty you do, I think so next year.
Speaker 2: And waits until the determination of whether the Eels make
Speaker 2: the finals before it works out.
Speaker 3: When they release him, I think.
Speaker 1: So what you guys don't think you'll play at Paramatta
Speaker 1: next year?
Speaker 3: I would shed them. I would shed the money from
Speaker 3: my cap. But he's not.
Speaker 1: For him. What do you think he's on fifty he's
Speaker 1: a good way you're signing for him.
Speaker 4: I look, there's suggestions that him or people close to
Speaker 4: him have eyed off leave him straight away going to
Speaker 4: French rugby, a bit like the suggestion of Saiventh peraps
Speaker 4: and money. Then they can go to our three sixty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, potentially.
Speaker 4: But there's all hinges on paramount and whether they will
Speaker 4: let him go.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Sure, but they've Jason Roll said that they're aware of
Speaker 4: what's happening. Yeah, well, they've been aware for weeks and
Speaker 4: they would consider they'd look at it.
Speaker 2: We were talking to the Eels at the daly Ms
Speaker 2: last night. What's where do they sit with it? Are
Speaker 2: they just waiting?
Speaker 1: They're just waiting? Right. They've come out and said obviously
Speaker 1: that that's told them about it. They've spoken about it,
Speaker 1: but they haven't spoken any terms. There's been no official
Speaker 1: approach for a release. It's all been very informal because
Speaker 1: of the noise that's been generated over the past couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. So they're probably anticipating the conversation, but one
Speaker 1: hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 2: What do we anticipated around the NRL's position on this
Speaker 2: and all types of examples and suggestions being thrown around.
Speaker 2: The players will be blocked from returning to the NRL,
Speaker 2: that'll be blocked from representative football, et cetera.
Speaker 4: I could cop, I could cop the block from representative football.
Speaker 4: Cop the block said, yeah you did? Yeah, that to
Speaker 4: be careful, but it can't be in blokes for life. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I just think that's unrealistic. Go Loo, Ryan Papers and
Speaker 4: he's off contract. I can't stop and go were he's
Speaker 4: still a rugby union players all the time, look at
Speaker 4: Mark no One. You need to so players flip between
Speaker 4: the codes. But if a guy breaches his tries to
Speaker 4: break his contract, or if he's been shopped to rugby
Speaker 4: potentially when he's under contract, I think they should be repercussions.
Speaker 2: There was a caller on SCN that suggested that in
Speaker 2: the case of a Zach Lomax that he must if
Speaker 2: he was to go over for three sixty for one season,
Speaker 2: he can't play at an arrival in RL club until
Speaker 2: the contract of what he was on at Paramatta has expired.
Speaker 1: Well, that'd be terms paramatter's release, right I think did
Speaker 1: the Sharks try and do that with al tight Holmes?
Speaker 3: Yeah, they may have here, you know, when he.
Speaker 1: Went to the NFL, I think they had a first
Speaker 1: rights or potentially.
Speaker 4: The PARA had the rights on Jared too, didn't they
Speaker 4: when he.
Speaker 1: Went to Yeah, so yeah, I think they would be
Speaker 1: part of the contract release. So well, you go, you
Speaker 1: can't play you can't play for another NROL eight.
Speaker 2: So yeah, you can't play with any other for another
Speaker 2: club till twenty nine unless we don't want you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think the n ROLL has got a meeting with
Speaker 4: some of the senior club figures next next week to
Speaker 4: discuss potential sanctions for players and who go and agents
Speaker 4: who are involved in this scenario. So I think we'll
Speaker 4: know a bit more next week day. They want to
Speaker 4: get the Grand Final out of the way and then
Speaker 4: they'll form a hard and fast stance on it.
Speaker 1: If a players off contract, I don't have an issue
Speaker 1: with them playing representative football. So it's like Mark right,
Speaker 1: he's going to go play rugby, he gets picked for
Speaker 1: the Ashes. I don't have an issue with it.
Speaker 3: Yeah right.
Speaker 1: But if you're intimating that you want to break your contract, right,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't be playing well, he's.
Speaker 3: Outside the Grand Final.
Speaker 2: It's been a bit of news as far as cummings
Speaker 2: and goings at other clubs, and one of those is
Speaker 2: a significant one for South Sydney and it's Lewis Dodds.
Speaker 3: Finally, at this release, Mickey Yura been all over it.
Speaker 2: What's the situation with Lewis and how does it impact
Speaker 2: the Bunnies cap and availability in that captive maybe get spending.
Speaker 1: Yeah, obviously it's been a just a weird season for
Speaker 1: Lewis Dodd right later, you know, seven first gay games
Speaker 1: and the end up playing for South Sydney. Started one
Speaker 1: game in his preferred spot at halfback, got hooked, so
Speaker 1: hasn't played a full game in that number seven Jersey
Speaker 1: out the door. They gave him permission to leave, so
Speaker 1: he'll go to Catalan's. So two years left on his contract.
Speaker 1: It's gone a three year deal originally worth around two
Speaker 1: million dollars, so South will have to contribute a significant
Speaker 1: amount at least next season, which will sit in their cap.
Speaker 1: So it doesn't give them a lot of space for
Speaker 1: next year, but it gives him a roster spot, so
Speaker 1: I don't think that clears the money for for Feeder clears.
Speaker 3: The spot depends how much the Titans are willing to
Speaker 3: tip in for feed and.
Speaker 1: I think David Wylie is the one that would need
Speaker 1: to go to accommodate David feed He's obviously signed for
Speaker 1: South for mainly for twenty twenty seven. If he fast
Speaker 1: tracked his exit, I think that would open up the
Speaker 1: door for David.
Speaker 3: I think that's likely, don't.
Speaker 1: You mainly don't have the cap space right right, So
Speaker 1: I've mainly got a few balls in the air. In
Speaker 1: terms of Locky Croker and his health concerns, if he
Speaker 1: gets medically retired or not because of concussions. They've got
Speaker 1: Josh a lawyer, but I'm not sure if that money
Speaker 1: is actually cleared. Yeah, in terms of his medical retirement,
Speaker 1: he won't play again. So if those things happen, that
Speaker 1: might free up davidfe to go to David Mahala to
Speaker 1: go to mainly Dave Feir to the South.
Speaker 2: Another interesting one is Lachlan Ilius has been in talks
Speaker 2: with the Goals Titans. Yeah, Goos Titans have been having
Speaker 2: discussions with Locke. The Dragons gave Ilius the opportunity to
Speaker 2: have a look around. He is contracted to the Dragon
Speaker 2: Dragons next season and this has it's risen probably over
Speaker 2: the last week or two.
Speaker 4: I'd love to see him go there.
Speaker 3: And I think it eventuates.
Speaker 4: It's a great fit for Lockie actually, because they need
Speaker 4: a half back big time and they've got enough talent
Speaker 4: where Jaden Campbell at six Primston and Brimston Centers that's
Speaker 4: a pretty damaging back line. Yeah, so I think it's
Speaker 4: a great move for Lot. I think he needs to
Speaker 4: get out with the Dragons. Yeah, that's pretty clear, right,
Speaker 4: I think we can all see that. So it's a
Speaker 4: good result for Lockie if it happens. I reckon good
Speaker 4: result for Josh Hannah your man.
Speaker 3: He's he's, He's.
Speaker 2: They like the fact that because Kieran Foran is moving
Speaker 2: out of the roster obviously through retirement, and the Titans
Speaker 2: like the fact that this is an experienced half. He's
Speaker 2: played Final Series and right through it to a prelim
Speaker 2: with South Sydney. He actually, you know, granted that's not NRL,
Speaker 2: but he did help lead the Dragons to.
Speaker 3: A grand final in New South Wales Cup. So it
Speaker 3: shows a player that still playing good enough footy.
Speaker 4: He needs someone to back him and believe in him. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's what he needs.
Speaker 2: That's that's what I understand has impressed Ilias most that
Speaker 2: the Titans are saying, hey, well, we're edible.
Speaker 4: And falls would be great for him. Karen foran shout
Speaker 4: out for Kieren who won the Ken Steven Medal. Great
Speaker 4: great speech, great great man, caring for and Organs be great,
Speaker 4: he'd be great for lock ealing yep.
Speaker 3: And he will be involved with He'll be attaching roll
Speaker 3: yep coaching role.
Speaker 2: So with the Ilias and again I expect this to
Speaker 2: unfold and happen. It will open up a roster spot
Speaker 2: for the Dragons. And they want Philip Sami.
Speaker 1: They just all swapped.
Speaker 2: They potentially could do a swap and and alleviate some
Speaker 2: cap space on both behalf.
Speaker 1: Already.
Speaker 4: The Philip Sami they need.
Speaker 3: He's a decent player.
Speaker 4: He's a decent player, but he keeps They need to
Speaker 4: keep sign a decent players.
Speaker 1: They need some speed.
Speaker 4: They need a Markeye name, a big gun.
Speaker 1: Thanks Scoop.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they realize that where are they where,
Speaker 2: who's that?
Speaker 3: And where are they going to? Don't you just say
Speaker 3: stuff without any depth.
Speaker 4: They don't find someone somewhere. Yeh, there's got to be
Speaker 4: someone someone.
Speaker 1: In any the marque for twenty six. Yeah's not gonna
Speaker 1: happen for it, it feel sudds Okay, I need someone, meant,
Speaker 1: someone that can about Camperrera won.
Speaker 3: The to the Warriors.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's the situation for the Drags. To read
Speaker 2: his point, I think they've finished shopping. See what happens
Speaker 2: with the earliest situation. But as far as the Grand
Speaker 2: Final is concerned, your final tip, fellas, how do you
Speaker 2: see it?
Speaker 4: As I said Dave broadcast man, I went to the
Speaker 4: first game, broadcast by two.
Speaker 3: Two, Storm baits Storm by two. Enjoy your footy.