WEBVTT - The NRL Player Frenzy 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:11.640 Welcome to the Daily Telegraph and Roll podcast. I'm Michael, 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:14.240 carry on its Dave Rick over and read Howie blakes down? Good? 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:15.000 Nick pretty good? 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:16.000 Nick pretty good? 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:19.600 Nice, Yeah, staying out of the headlines ready, trying. 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:22.600 Mate, not working, not not doing a really good job 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:26.440 of it. But anyway, we'll just new bag of blokes 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:27.000 as well soon. 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:34.839 But well, speaking of dating countdown, he's on. Yep, it's 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:36.239 gone through the house. It's still good. 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:38.240 Okay, let's start with you, Dave, Nicko hines. 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:42.680 You had a chat to him recently, the first chat 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:47.479 post his origin snubbing. I guess we'll getting droped from 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:49.360 the new Southwest Side. Well, as you read on it, 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:50.360 how is he? Yeah? 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:55.440 Firstly, I was pleasantly surprised to see how upbeat and 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:59.360 and with clear of mind that Nick I was. 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:05.000 Wasn't holding any hard feelings. Look, it would be ridiculous 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:08.039 to suggest that he's not disappointed. Clearly disappointed. 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:11.880 He wants to continue to stay in those rep teams, 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:15.400 but at the same time, he understands its cutthroat didn't 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:18.480 make the most of his opportunity, knows that his kicking 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:24.520 game fell short, and ultimately wants to get back on 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:29.720 track with Cronulla, he was, Yeah, I would say that 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:31.600 twelve months ago, guys, he would. 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:35.080 Be in a much deeper hole, but certainly not this 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:35.679 time around. 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:39.759 And I reckon the cold hearted nature of that acting 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:44.240 coming on from the interchange bench into the centers for 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:51.680 whose taboo probably stealed him for this decision. He knows 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.040 that if a couple of things had gone his way, 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:57.280 maybe with the Spencer Lenu Troue, maybe the forty twenty 0:01:58.120 --> 0:01:59.680 things might have been a little bit different. But at 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:03.240 the same time, Blues, the Blues need to go and 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:06.240 win the series, and Mitch Moses has got the jump 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:06.560 on him. 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:08.440 Big back half of the year for Nico, isn't it, 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:12.359 because obviously it just fuels the chatter around him in 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:15.120 the fuck you know, there's a stigma not there yet 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:17.680 but starting to get there, whether it's fairly or unfairly, 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:20.919 around Nico being able to win big matches, And obviously 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:24.480 that's alleviated if you can guide into deep into the 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:25.640 finals of the back half of the year and. 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:27.560 The Sharks needing to bounce back right, was having a 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:30.280 bit of a hole themselves. The Sharks when they're struggling 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:35.280 defensive defense, horrible, So they can't afford for Nico to 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:37.519 have a bit of a lean patch now. And look, 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:39.239 I'm sure it'll be falling, as you said, David, and 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:41.880 he went through it last year, so he's I think 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.760 he's better equipped this time around to handle it. And 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:47.040 it's hard to argue that he should have been there. 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:50.880 I mean, he's didn't play well ultimately, and he's got 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:53.239 to find a way to fix that. One of the 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:54.120 things were smiling. 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:58.000 Is your coffee spilling over there? Leaking the cup? 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:01.120 Yes, a whole lot of leaks. 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:02.840 Got it like plug, It's. 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:06.079 Like an endorsement, he got there. You usually love a 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:06.720 leak though. 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:09.400 Yes, yes, my coffee sadly. 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:11.160 One of the things. 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:14.600 It was interesting talking to him about, you know, the 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:19.840 Dolphins performance last week all the Sharks and look, I 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:23.480 really don't think attack was their problem. Crinla, Like, they 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.520 laid on twenty eight points and put a huge comeback 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.120 on the defensively, they need to seriously have a look 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:32.119 at the start of that game was cool. 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:36.160 How do you feel about the kick? Just felt like 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:36.680 he was going to. 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:40.400 Yeah, so I asked him and he said, and it 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:42.560 looks I know the narratives then and I'm going to 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:43.440 get to that in a second. 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:46.320 But he goes, I got my blood I put my 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:49.880 bloody tea in the wrong spot. My ball position on 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:53.240 the tee was the problem. I stuffed it up. You 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:56.600 know that was his first miss at Sharp Park this season. 0:03:56.760 --> 0:04:02.480 Well he was so I'm talking about the conversion. Yeah, 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:05.360 he didn't place the ball on the tee like he 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:06.080 normally does. 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:08.320 Okay, that's a worrying sign. That's a sign of panic. 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:10.840 That's a sign of stress. There one hundred percent is 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:13.960 that's not a clear mind going into the What are 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:14.800 you talking about? 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:15.800 That? 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:19.680 That is a concerning that is worse than a miscue. 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:24.640 Really not placing the ball correctly. He wasn't in the 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:27.040 exact same well he placed the not readomly thrown on 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:30.760 the round. He got it wrong. We're going to get 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:33.000 fat wrong. That means his head's not there, mum in 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:34.960 a in a big moment. 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:38.720 That's a are you that's a strange because you would 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:41.160 have thought you'd take extra care because that was the game. 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:45.160 I thought it was a very detailed explanation on that 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:47.760 he didn't have jelly legs and sprayed the key. 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:50.479 I think it's a detailed explanation that his mind wasn't 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:51.640 totally focused. 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:56.080 It's a strange it's a strange mistake to make given 0:04:56.160 --> 0:05:00.359 the gravity of that situation, where you've been and the games. 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:04.680 Basically the line that's bizarre. It is bizarre. It's a 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:05.159 bit bizarre. 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:13.760 Guys, it's not a tribute. 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:18.120 One more point, one more point, and let me just 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:21.440 put this ability to handle pressure, no doubt, needs to 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:23.719 needs to continue to develop and mature as a half 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:27.039 back because he's three seasons into his half back journey, 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:27.839 three seasons. 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:33.760 Daily Cherry Evans Mitch Moses eleven years, eleven years. If 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:37.000 Daily Cherry Evans isn't kicking Nic off the park, well 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:37.719 there's a problem. 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:38.280 He should be. 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:39.560 He should be. 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:41.880 Is he working with someone on handling the big match, 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:44.360 that big one of his big match temperament? 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:46.880 Absolutely goal kicking coach. 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:54.080 Ironically, ironically, Halligan was down there two days before that 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:54.839 Dolphins game. 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:57.320 That is one of the strangest things I've heard. 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:04.600 Really, Yeah, I'd rather that he was nervous or like 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:07.480 he had jelly legs, Like the fact that you can't 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:09.920 in your moment to kick a goal to send the 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:12.560 game into golden point that you can't center yourself and 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:16.320 get your mind clear enough to line up a conversion attempt. 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:19.640 I've got to say it is a concern. Big matches 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:23.239 are becoming a concern when it goes and that becomes 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:27.440 it just it's just magnified compounds and compounds, and. 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:29.200 Its going to be it's going to be the native. 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:35.479 Plenty of player movement over the last couple of days 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:40.600 involving the Dragons and South. Let's start with the Dragons first. 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:43.600 They've signed Damian Cook. Well, they will sign Damian Cook 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:47.120 for the next two years from next season getting released 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:53.920 from his final year a Day't over hype it, don't 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:54.520 over hype it. 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:56.240 Both getting in the ring. 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:02.200 You're trying to try to no, Okay, what is she? 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:05.640 What is she? Twofold? Right? Like, I love what he's 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:07.320 going to bring to the club off the field, Okay, 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.400 because you look at that site and aside from Ben Hunt, 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:12.680 there's just no leadership, right, We've seen it at times 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.600 when Ben Hunt's been missing through Origin there's just no 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:19.240 senior players. So he brings that he's such a good guy, 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:22.760 he's a good trainer, he can change standards and the like. Right, 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:26.760 that's the positive The negative thing for me is that 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:29.840 he is a thirty two year old hooker who spent 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.760 some time in reserve grade this year on a two 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:35.640 year deal. Okay, so say the Dragons and there are 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:37.560 suggestions are that they're going to extend ben Hunt for 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:39.800 a further twelve months, So in two years time, the 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:42.240 Dragons will have a thirty four year old hooker and 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:45.320 a thirty six year old halfback. I'm not sure, aside 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:47.960 from Cooper kronk Le Cameron Smith, that that's ever been 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:53.080 set up for success. Right, the two year deal, I 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:57.880 feel like it blocks the Dragons potential now of signing 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:00.920 a dummy half for the next two years to potentially 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:02.360 be their their long term hooker. 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:08.440 They weren't going to get one next year, mooted, And like. 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:11.720 I honestly, I honestly believe at the stage of Cookie's 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:18.440 career now that he's not far far superior to Jacob Little, right, 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.480 And like, if I'm like Jacob Little, for me is 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:23.960 a backup hooker. Okay, he's not a week in, week out, 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:26.120 eighty minute. He's done a really good job for the 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.320 Dragons this year, but if he's your number two hooker 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.480 in your thirty man squad. I think that's a good balance, right, 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:34.880 But I just I don't know. And the other concerning 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:37.320 factor for me is that you've got Wayne Betett coming in, right, 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:38.600 What does Wayne want to do next year? 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:39.840 He wants to win? 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:44.439 So Wayne's in and Cookie only had twelve months left 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:47.559 on his contract. Okay, So if Wayne then believe that 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:50.240 Damian Cook could help SOUTHENDI win a cop next year, 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.719 regardless of the money he's on, he'd be at south 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:55.920 Ini next year. No, no, No, they need to Doy 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:57.920 need to shed players. They kept stuff. Of course, they 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:03.000 need to shed players, Dave. But if if Wayne thought. 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:07.200 But Cookie's gonna Cookie knows that he's still got football 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:09.920 left in him, he was probably going to sus and said, 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:11.680 I do you think you're going to extend me. 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:13.640 Beyond the next tour. But we've seen Wayne, We've seen 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:16.280 Wayne before go well no, like he did it with 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:19.199 was it George Burgess who was going to get released 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:21.040 to go to Paramatta knowing that there wasn't a contract 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:22.800 left for him long term as well, and he opted 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:24.480 to keep it because he thought he could win a comp. 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:29.120 If Wayne and Wayne could have convinced Cookie that mate, 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:30.679 I can get the best back out of you. If 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:32.520 he truly believed that he could get the best forty 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:34.839 back in Damian Cook, I think Damian Cook would be 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:37.360 still be at South Sydney well, but then they're not 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:39.400 signing anyone because they need to get rid of players. 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:42.959 Is another areas I think I agree with you to 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:48.199 an extent. I don't necessarily think it's a monumental signing 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:48.920 for the Dragons. 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:50.679 Like I said, I don't think it's maybe and I 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:52.800 don't think it's a monumental blunder. Yeah, do you know 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:56.160 what I'm saying, Like I'm sort of if we're like 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:58.920 I'm on the this side of being. 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.280 He'll do a good job for them, but they might 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:03.760 have been better serve keeping that money and directed in 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.640 another way because he's at the back end of his career. 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:09.600 But in South's case, I actually think it's a smart 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:11.599 move right because they've got Mamoizilla's there a lot in 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:14.959 he's been ordered. I think it's a smart hook with 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:19.040 the future and they need to direct funds into other areas, 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:23.000 notably the their front row and their middle so you know, 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:24.559 it freeze up a lot of cash from to go 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:28.880 and go and strengthen deficient deficiencies in their squad, and 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:33.360 Hooker wasn't a deficiency because Memoizilla's is there. So you know, 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:37.640 for Souths it's a great move. For the Dragons, it's 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:39.720 let's I don't know, let's wait and see. Now. 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:40.760 I think it's a decent move. 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:42.440 It turned out to be a master stroke. 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:43.480 I think it's a decent. 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:46.520 Move by Saints because I saw Shan Flanagan do it 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:47.240 with Michael Lennis. 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:51.400 One hundred percent different, totally different circumstances though, because Bernola 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:54.520 we're in a Premiership window. They needed that polished Michael 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:56.680 and Hiss game wasn't built on speed. 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:57.600 No, no, won't Cook. 0:10:57.640 --> 0:10:59.959 He's gaining, understand but he wanted experience. 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:03.480 Experience he does, he does, and any need that. 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:07.520 Now, Ben Hunt and Damien Cook, do. 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:09.439 You think it's a good It's good to have a 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:11.160 thirty four year old hook and a thirty six year 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:12.000 old I'm not. 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:12.520 Worried about that. 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:15.520 Cookies one of the fittest bikes I've ever seen. 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:17.439 But we've seen we know it used to be a 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:17.920 beach printer. 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:21.959 I'm not worried about the age. Yeah, I think you 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:23.520 have to be at that at that point when you're 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:27.240 gonna have your seven, I. 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:30.560 Think you're also completely dismissing the fact that you can 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:32.880 only fish with a fish are if you Saint Georgia Laura, 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:38.320 and right now they're not able to land big fish. 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:40.480 The idea of moving Coyle Flanning. I know Corl has 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:42.319 done really well at five eight this year. But what 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:45.120 happened the idea idea of moving Coyle Flannag into. 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:48.040 I've got the sense it was he's gone too well, 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:50.480 and I think it was he has gone really well, 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:51.840 And I think it was the sense of what they 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:56.959 could sign first sound if they found a gun high 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:00.760 then potentially that would have opened up the door for nine. 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:05.320 I think, you know, and he's been really good, has been. 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:05.880 I don't think. 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:08.640 I don't think the doors closed on the Dragons signing 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:09.120 a gun. 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:09.440 Half. 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:13.360 Look, you're you're completely locked into the ben Hunt thing. 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:16.760 I think Cole could play. He could play if the 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:20.319 Dragons went and signed a gun half. Cole could play 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:24.079 back up nine or fourteen. Yeah yeah you know, so 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:27.920 yeah yeah yeah, and still have a grading out there. 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:29.600 There's no gun anyone. 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:32.440 But that's why we see it so often with all 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:35.400 these players and you've just I don't know, they've been 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:38.920 pretty patient. The Dragon has been pretty meticulous in like, 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:40.800 they haven't landed a lot, but they've been they've been 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.959 going after some players. I don't know. I just so 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:45.000 the thing is to. 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:47.679 Build a roster, you've got to start with a roster, 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:53.520 and cook signing one becomes too very quickly. It gives 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:55.959 them a little bit more gravitass than what they've currently got. 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:58.079 I just don't think it. I don't think it's a 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:00.720 huge elevation the guys at news. That's what I was origin. 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:04.280 He was exactly like, where would you rank him? No, 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:06.719 if we're sitting down and it's hard because this is 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:08.640 off the top of your head, but if you're ranking hookers, 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:14.040 he's well down the pecking order, top top six seven. 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:19.920 So you got Rye Robson, Happy Happy har Harry Grant, 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:20.800 there's three. 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:25.880 Do you throw Blake Brayley in the mix? Brayley is 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:29.520 ahead of him, for sure, Yeah, fo Marny's ahead of him, 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:34.640 you know, Wade Egan's ahead of him. Okay, So Jerry 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:40.400 Mushall kings ahead of him. Jerry mush Jerry Marshall. I 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:41.880 would pick Connor Watson ahead of him. 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:42.640 You know. 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:48.319 What, Then then then you could argue. 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:51.600 You wouldn't. 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:54.560 When does Brandon rank, Canny rank. 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:57.760 She's slipping down lits pretty quick. 0:13:58.520 --> 0:13:59.679 He's top ten, thank you? 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:03.319 Top ten. Just I mean he's going to be good 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:07.400 for the next year. The issue's issue is what he'll 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:10.200 be like in twenty twenty. I tell you what, I'd 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:15.480 be worrieds chilling. You know, it's probably gonna be his 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:17.760 last year. So but it'll be good from next year. 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:20.920 It'll be an upgrade. I think. On on little, I'm 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:24.360 going to give some some depth Hooker and sow Saul. 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:27.240 You know they can go out and sign someone sign 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:29.880 the middle so to win win. 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:32.440 Next year quickly. The Dragons jack Bird, Yeah, if it 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:34.160 was a one year deal for the Dragons, I would 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:36.960 have been sweet with it. Jack Bird. Twelve month extension, well, 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:39.600 not an extension. It was that weird deal where there 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:41.840 was mutual options of Dragons opted not to take their 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:44.160 side of the option at X amount. It as significantly 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:46.800 high value. Jack Bird decided to take that for a 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.360 further twelve months at a lower value. So he gets 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:52.320 another twelve months. Doesn't hurt the club in their salary cap. 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:56.120 Jack's been okay this year. 0:14:56.440 --> 0:15:00.520 Yeah, the injury a bit too much that one. 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:02.680 In the meantime, if he does come out and play 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:06.600 well and then he can still leave the club. I 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:08.880 mean he's taken his option up, but it still it 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:11.800 allows him he can get out of that if you 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:13.600 think it's a better offer from a rival club in 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.480 between now and November, he can leave, Okay. 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:18.720 Is that the way that option works? 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:19.000 Yes? 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:20.560 Interesting, interesting option? 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:23.960 So what wouldn't you just take it up there? Exactly? Yeah, exactly, 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:26.000 that's strange. 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:27.120 When it's check back. 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:29.680 He should be back after the bike's got the buyer. 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:31.120 They're thinking he could be back after the bill. 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:33.760 He's good playing, Jack Feller, You. 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:35.880 And Aikan, So now let's stay our attention to the 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:39.000 South Sydney. Now looks like they'll sign you an Aiken 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:40.720 for two to three years. I think it's a good 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:41.280 depth signing. 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:42.240 I think he's twenty nine. 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:47.480 He's twenty nine, play out for a while. Screw the Dragons, 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:49.160 c back row. 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:52.000 He's a professional. He'll be good. 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.280 For what he's good in that in that balance for 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:56.920 squads and benchers when you've got to shift players during 0:15:57.000 --> 0:15:58.960 games and the like, and you know Wade knows what 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:00.520 he's buying there. I'll tell you what. 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:02.720 Anyone coming from the Dolphins is a good signing the 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:06.400 way that the way. But Bennett's got those Dolphins going. 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:12.400 Whe any other names on the raidar for South Boys. 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:16.720 Well you I think Royce Hunt's been met from Cornella. 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:19.480 He's been giving permission for twenty twenty six. 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:22.360 But we saw the way I worked with kind of Tracy, 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:25.040 and you work backwards and then if someone signs him 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:28.480 then it's smart, Like I Actually, this is an understated 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:30.520 thing that Cornelli are doing at the moment. We saw 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:31.840 it with kind of Tracy and we're seeing it with 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:34.160 Royce Hunt. Guys that they don't think you're going to 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:36.560 have long term futures at the club despite having twelve 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:39.120 months there. They're like, Okay, well if we sell them 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:41.640 while they're still contracted, what can we get out of it. 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:44.600 I think it's a pretty shrewd way to get And 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:47.880 if they're if they're with him for another twelve months, 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:48.920 they're not pushing him out the door. 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:51.320 So they're not going to told Royce stick around, mate, 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:52.520 there's twelve months there if you want it. 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:53.920 They're not going to look at the same time. 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:56.800 But I know that when Adam Vanilla Blake comes. 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:58.840 He looks like a guy planned for a contract. Last week. 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:00.560 Oh yeah, he was standing. Yeah. 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:03.120 The problem is and fan of Royty of what he's 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:05.200 doing at the moment, he's only got about sixteen minutes, 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:09.480 a good sixteen minutes, and he's twenty nine years of age, 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:11.320 so he's sursing. 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:15.320 How would he talk about like gosh, but I was 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:17.959 surprised by when I was speaking of someone when we're 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:20.520 doing that yeah story, like, oh you know, he's probably 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:23.840 chasing his last content years and I was like, wow, 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:25.359 I have to go and have a look at how 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:27.200 old he actually was, So that is surprising. 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:30.640 I reckon the clubs Newcastle now that Peter Sullivan's got. 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:33.680 For hunt for movement. Oh yeah, no, yeah, movement. I 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:35.480 think we've all heard names, right. 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:38.120 Yeah, but Peter O. Sullivan's there now, he started this week. 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:40.080 He's going to take a look at that roster, and 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:43.200 that roster needs a rejig. Yeah, I agree, So I 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:45.800 reckon there could be some movement there keeping on the Knights. 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:49.760 And finally Reach. It's interesting too. The one thing that's 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:50.840 just quickly meck is. 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:53.640 The Damien Cook signing at Saints rules out the Jade 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:58.160 and Brayley constant speculation and around his future at the Knights. 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:00.879 Yeah, well I thought he was end up with the Dragons. 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:02.600 Yeah, I think a lot of us did. I think 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:04.280 that if you said to me a month ago with 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:06.680 Jayden Brody could potentially play next year. I thought it 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:08.840 would have been. The Dragons had a sniff around Jerry 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:09.720 and Marshall King as well. 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:14.639 I think Adam locks Jayden and I think Sally losed Jaden, 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:17.280 so I think Jayden may end up staying. 0:18:19.800 --> 0:18:24.720 Yeah, given his relations week with Shane Flanagan, Adam, do 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:28.200 you Dave shut to him yesterday? Yeah? Yes, I like 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:30.880 this because well it works for both parties. Really. 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:36.000 Adam obviously coming back from three torn acls, fourteen months 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:38.160 out of the game, comes back in New South Wales 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:39.879 cuple on Saturday, and I thought. 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:41.160 He did a really good job. 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:43.879 Like if you if you went to like art Oval 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:45.920 and sat on the hill and tried to find the 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:48.159 player that's been out for fourteen months, you wouldn't have 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:53.000 selected Adam Dewey. He had some really nice moments clearly, 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:55.280 you know, first run back and it'll only be better 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:59.080 for that. Three days later, Shane Richardson calls him and says, 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:01.040 how about we get a com track done for next year. 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:04.960 They work out the terms. Adam's happy with the figure. 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:09.920 Listeners people watching Adam do He now represents himself. He 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:13.040 doesn't have a manager, did all the negotiations with himself. 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:16.600 He's happy with the terms and has resigned for next season. However, 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:20.000 in all that, he still remains will become a free 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:23.359 agent come November one. So if he does have a 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:27.800 good block of footy between now and November one, it 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:31.359