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Speaker 1: Better than the Lego.

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Speaker 2: Support Coops Rooster Sunday. He was nothing short of a disaster.

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Speaker 2: I've really seen anything like a semi walker, a C. L.

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Speaker 2: Brandon Smith shortly after a cl Victor Radley scapular similar

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Speaker 2: the one you did shoulder.

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Speaker 1: So he's going to delay surgery.

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Speaker 2: But I'm sure if he'd be back Nat Butcher Hia,

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Speaker 2: he'll be okay.

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Speaker 3: But I went from being genuine contenders to now sort

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Speaker 3: of a question mark with some of those. But in

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Speaker 3: terms of their performance on the weekend, like I think

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Speaker 3: even before Sam work at Walker went off injured, some

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Speaker 3: of their play, particularly their attack was very sideways. It

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Speaker 3: was past past past week going to score. Yeah, they

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Speaker 3: was looking for shortcuts to start with. But I think

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Speaker 3: sometimes you've got to find where the glass full approaches

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Speaker 3: to that because Kiri, in my mind, he did in

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Speaker 3: twenty eighteen. He's done it for a couple of times

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Speaker 3: where he's been the seventh, He's got it in his

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Speaker 3: kit bag, So you're going to be a test on

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Speaker 3: the scene. He players big time.

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Speaker 2: Cooper, it's funny, and you said that, let's go back

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Speaker 2: to their attack a little bit.

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Speaker 1: It was funny. I see the Rooster's occasion.

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Speaker 2: They get out in the game and their attack gets

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Speaker 2: very floury. As you said sidelined to sideline, that they've

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Speaker 2: got an idea in their head how they want to play,

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Speaker 2: but it's not really suiting the game, if that makes sense.

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Speaker 2: There was a little bit like an example, particularly in

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Speaker 2: the second half Torell Mate toyroll Mate. He was standing

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Speaker 2: in the middle of the field. Now to in my opinion,

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Speaker 2: is a bloke a little bit like Spencer. He just

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Speaker 2: wind him up and let him go. But he found

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Speaker 2: himself in the middle of the field trying to playmate

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Speaker 2: and just pushing the ball sideways.

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Speaker 4: And Lindsay Collins out of position.

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Speaker 3: They're just a zero thrust of going forward before going sideways.

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Speaker 3: And this is a real critical thing. And one of

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Speaker 3: the things that I picked up during the game is I

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Speaker 3: get this whole notion of ad lib free play, play

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Speaker 3: with your eyes, as people say, but sometimes when the

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Speaker 3: opposition gives you an advantage, structure needs to take over.

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Speaker 3: So what I mean by that is Jordan Rapen went

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Speaker 3: off with a broken nose, means that Weeks went to the

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Speaker 3: fullback and they moved a middle forward edge back rather

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Speaker 3: to three in defensive on the red in Simmessani right,

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Speaker 3: So you've got to get one on one space for

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Speaker 3: Tedesco to do his thing. So move to the right

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Speaker 3: side of the field, create a normal play where Tedesco

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Speaker 3: can be the threat, and then when Whitehead goes off

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Speaker 3: for twenty minutes, you've got an opportunity that a middle

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Speaker 3: forward is going to be standing next to a middle forward,

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Speaker 3: and that is the opportunity to go. Okay, the whole

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Speaker 3: eyes up approach. It's great, it's cool when it works.

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Speaker 3: But you know what, let's move two plays to the

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Speaker 3: right hand post and let's get speed and indecision around

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Speaker 3: these two guys. So I thought they were frantic to

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Speaker 3: start with and never really reset that approach to Okay,

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Speaker 3: oppositions given us something here. We need to go away

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Speaker 3: from this frantic free play and go you know what,

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Speaker 3: We're going to be a little bit structured here for

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Speaker 3: the next ten minutes because the team and the oppositions

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Speaker 3: given us an advantage.

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Speaker 2: It's funny, Coops, Yeah, that makes perfect sense. Forget about

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Speaker 2: all this other stuff. That's our target. That's where we

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Speaker 2: go set up player there. It's funny with the roosters

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Speaker 2: their natural game seems to be the sideways game, and

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Speaker 2: it takes them a lot of discipline to sort of

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Speaker 2: get back and start to drill the middle.

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Speaker 1: Can I make a suggestion that what I do, what I.

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Speaker 4: Will to do, you will? But what would you do? Maddie?

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Speaker 1: Thank you? And I'm waiting for you to push back

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Speaker 1: on this, which I know you will.

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Speaker 2: What's this going to be if you've got a situation

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Speaker 2: here where look, you're losing Brandon for parts through the middle,

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Speaker 2: You've got Sammy Walker who it was he was taking

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Speaker 2: over the team, so you need to play a little

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Speaker 2: bit different. I think if they try to play too

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Speaker 2: I would actually I'd put Joey Marno at six. I'd

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Speaker 2: put Kiriy at seven. I'd either put sand in Smith

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Speaker 2: of Watson at fourteen and bring him onto the field.

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Speaker 2: I think the best avenue for them to beat the

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Speaker 2: top teams is Manu and Tedesco just one two punch

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Speaker 2: through the middle.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Look, I'm not sure what they'll do, but from my position,

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Speaker 3: I think Luke Keery's got it. Luke Keirry has got that.

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Speaker 3: We've spoken about. You know, some of the great halfbacks

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Speaker 3: have spirit, They've got presents.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 4: Luke Keary's got that at the Roosters.

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Speaker 3: So give him the responsibility of running the side and

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Speaker 3: letting the other guys fall into place as opposed to

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Speaker 3: trying to be a bit at ying and yang and

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Speaker 3: work through it. At the end of the day, you're

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Speaker 3: missing some top line players. Get talent in the team

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Speaker 3: and work out everything else around it. But the key

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Speaker 3: players to the Roosters will always still be the same.

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Speaker 3: It's the leadership of Tedesco, Kiri har Graves when he

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Speaker 3: comes back. But they can't sidestep any challenges ahead. They've

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Speaker 3: already got a poor record against Melbourne and Penrith. What

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Speaker 3: Penrith is now potentially going to be an away final

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Speaker 3: against Bennerth. So going to stare it in the face

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Speaker 3: and take it on right.

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Speaker 2: What we're going to do in the week's lead up

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Speaker 2: to the Grand Final, We're going to pull the sheets

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Speaker 2: back on some keys.

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Speaker 1: My podcast. We're doing it.

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Speaker 3: I know what you do when you pull the sheets back,

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Speaker 3: you listen, listen.

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Speaker 1: So we're going to talk about the dogs.

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Speaker 2: We're going to talk about where they are, but what

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Speaker 2: they have done to get them in this position. You

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Speaker 2: know why they've improved out of right now the lost

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Speaker 2: versus manly. Top teams suffer surprise losses going in the final.

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Speaker 1: It's not a big one.

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Speaker 2: I mean a couple of weeks ago, the dragon's knocked

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Speaker 1: It just happens.

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Speaker 2: But the style of football coops, tell me, what do

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Speaker 2: you think? What what has got them? What has been

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Speaker 3: Real number one defensive way have gone from being the

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Speaker 3: worst to the best. That is a huge jump in

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Speaker 3: points allowed to the opposition, which gives you an opportunity

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Speaker 3: to win every football game you're in. In terms of

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Speaker 3: their attack, I like the fact that they've not got

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Speaker 3: how can I say this skill or high end talent

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Speaker 3: into trying to fix it. They've just gone with character

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Speaker 3: and reliable players. They've got footwork, they've got smaller bodies,

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Speaker 3: but then they go to the fringes and their fringes

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Speaker 3: Jerry got kick out there as well. So what they

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Speaker 3: They're not straight up and down the middle third of

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Speaker 3: a little bit. They do the old you know, we

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Speaker 3: talk about gaining momentum before we shift. They probably do

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Speaker 3: a little bit of shift to gain momentum if that

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Speaker 2: It's funny that I said last week side that they

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Speaker 2: way that chain passed through the middle and high IQ

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Speaker 2: middleman is the Tigers in two thousand and five, just that,

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Speaker 2: you know, just just a little bit of a different

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Speaker 2: way of playing for the forwards. And you know there

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Speaker 2: was little things. You know, they were very good young

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Speaker 2: blace that were scanned do a little bit of short ballplaying.

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Speaker 2: Of course Toddy Payton was a main state. But you know,

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Speaker 2: you think about the Tigers and you always think about

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Speaker 2: how they played sidelines to sideline, but it was very

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Speaker 2: much this that high IQ short passing chain passing that

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Speaker 2: brought him a lot of results and.

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Speaker 3: What they did with their middle forwards, not the biggest

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Speaker 4: Bit like the Dogs. So they're not going to ram

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Speaker 3: But what they did their big bodies got into contact,

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Speaker 3: got down, play the ball quick. Any ballplayer can play

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Speaker 3: for quick play the ball. That is gold standard, and

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Speaker 3: I think the Dogs have been doing that.

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Speaker 2: So you see they're like, I'll tell you what, Jiz,

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Speaker 2: he's going to be a lot. He's a lost k Kurkman,

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Speaker 2: a real loss. Kurt was at Newcastle. He was always

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Speaker 2: of had scattered folks.

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Speaker 3: We were talking about footy IQ that play the Kurtman

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Speaker 3: knows his target defender and he got there perfect the

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Speaker 3: same as then using kickout up as the threat condense

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Speaker 3: defenders and the space out of the back. Think that

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Speaker 3: need to get to. A big body, straight through, hard

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Speaker 2: Right up, he just said something there, Right, Let's talk

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Speaker 2: about their defense for one second, and you're right. You know,

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Speaker 2: going forward in the game, the middle of the field

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Speaker 2: If you've got really big forwards in the middle of

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Speaker 2: the third man that's got to get back.

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Speaker 3: Ye.

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Speaker 1: I mean that takes a big toll.

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Speaker 2: I was told at Souse when Wayne coached Souse and

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Speaker 2: they had the real big body, Tom Burgess in the pack.

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Speaker 2: Whenever Tom was involved in a three man tackle, regardless

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Speaker 3: Because his athleticism doesn't get him back to the line

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Speaker 3: to fill the line, make it thicker.

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Speaker 4: And you can't get up. Whereas the dogs complete opposite.

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Speaker 1: Right, yep, get backwards and forwards really quick.

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Speaker 3: You got morn Reid, Kurtman, Samonger's names off the top

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Speaker 3: of my head that have the ability and athleticism to

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Speaker 3: get back to that third line come up and feel

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Speaker 3: so no one's ever not in the line one of

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Speaker 3: the things. And I really love what the dogs have

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Speaker 3: done their desperation defensively, statistics show up, but the alarming

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Speaker 3: thing for me is they missed the most amount of

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Speaker 3: tackles in the comp right. What most mistackles lead to

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Speaker 3: is quick play the balls. What most mistackles lead to

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Speaker 3: is line breaks. And there was a couple of tries

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Speaker 3: on the weekend, Turbo's first try where a lot of

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Speaker 3: mistackles led to quick ruck which meant to fatigue and

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Speaker 3: retreating defense, which made a good team capitalize.

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Speaker 4: On the mistackle.

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Speaker 2: And you're right, Coop, so what it was, even though

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Speaker 2: they've missed a lot of tackles through the season, they're

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Speaker 2: not and I think we spoke about this.

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Speaker 1: They're not bad, Missus.

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Speaker 2: They're they're there, but still miss get up. Whereas on

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Speaker 2: the weekend sometimes I caught on their heels and they're

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Speaker 4: A lot of talk.

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Speaker 3: We've spoken about this before, the experience of big games

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Speaker 3: for Cameron Sireldo to talk about.

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Speaker 2: Let's have listened to a couple of things now, myself

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Speaker 2: and Cooper John's interviewed Cameron.

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Speaker 4: Coober Yeah for second favorite son.

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Speaker 2: We interviewed Cameron Serrauld at the start of last week,

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Speaker 5: I think we truly found our style until probably six

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Speaker 5: strategy was more around character than anything. It was all

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Speaker 2: Right up right up now. The other night, let's show

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Speaker 2: one more clipman seat. The other night, the big loss.

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Speaker 2: Let's not forget the fact that they didn't have Kurt Man,

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Speaker 2: who is so important to decide what a loss that is, because,

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Speaker 2: We're going to be okay. Particularly the importance that he

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Speaker 3: Don't care how old Stephen Kricht is. This is a

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Speaker 3: That's a bit, That's right, That's exactly what I'd be

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Speaker 3: asking him.

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Speaker 4: So his present.

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Speaker 3: And it didn't deflate the balloon, but it definitely came

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Speaker 2: Well slightly yeah, Well, let's have a listening to Cameron

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Speaker 5: The moment he walked in the doors of Belmore, there

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Speaker 5: His first week, Stephen was into an army camp and

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Speaker 5: feeds into that. And the scary thing he's only twenty

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Speaker 5: three and he's never going to stop having that hunger

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Speaker 1: Now, Coops, let's.

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Speaker 2: Go from a well a leader who's really at the

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Speaker 2: Blake who had the fairy tale finished, not the Grand

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Speaker 2: league double cut out pass for the try Seawan. I

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Speaker 2: never had the opportunity to play against Sean. What was

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Speaker 3: Didn't really notice him on the field until he did something,

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Speaker 3: genuine touch footy player. His ability to bounce left right,

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Speaker 4: Which he hadn't done for years before.

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Speaker 3: So I like that he evolved, and it's very poetic

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Speaker 2: For honestly, yeah, a tear like a tear, they've really lost.

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Speaker 2: It was evidence the other night was Luke Metcalf was

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Speaker 2: He wasn't going to push the ball sideways, he wasn't

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Speaker 2: He was fantastic, but the combination just didn't work.

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Speaker 3: And we spoke about they actually changed their system to

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Speaker 3: I'm sitting there going, yeah, where's that being? Where's that

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Speaker 1: I totally agree with that.

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Speaker 2: Right, Sewan Johnson, give us your top five entertainers entertainers of.

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Speaker 4: The NRAL era, NRL era.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm going to go I'm going to throw it

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Speaker 4: But he came in a little bit after that.

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Speaker 3: Chris Sandow right as a halfback. Chris Sandow was pure entertainment.

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Speaker 3: He could win or lose you the game with one play,

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Speaker 3: like the times you try to go after the biggest

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Speaker 1: I've gone g I you played a lot of food.

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Speaker 3: The only player that I've ever thrown the ball to,

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Speaker 2: Down some of that stuff he did, like he won

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Speaker 2: He went back to fallback was house. Everything changed, credible player.

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Speaker 2: They like they were a struggling team, you know, they're

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Speaker 4: He had.

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Speaker 3: If there was any young kid looking at how to

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Speaker 3: Matt Bown highlights. He throws a dummy. And most players

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Speaker 4: That's why you're so dynamic.

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Speaker 2: What a great shame he wasn't in that side that

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Speaker 2: deserved to be. Benji Marshall, of course, Benji Marshall one

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Speaker 1: Bush Gar.

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Speaker 4: You couldn't do that.

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Speaker 3: If you try that one hundred times, you'd probably get

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Speaker 4: And in a big that.

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Speaker 2: We won't show the vision of Billy because we've seen

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Speaker 2: At Wembley in the World Cup semi England lot they've

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Speaker 1: This is on the buzzer foot bang.

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Speaker 3: So we're in the this is semi final twenty thirteen

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Speaker 3: That was sold out Wembley, sixty thousand people there. England

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Speaker 4: Everyone left.

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Speaker 3: We played Fiji in front of like fifteen thousand people.

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Speaker 3: That is a moment of international rugby league.

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Speaker 2: There just when you I read a book about Wembley

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Speaker 2: great Champion Challenge Cup finals.

440
00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:20,600
Speaker 1: There's a vision. I'm going to urge people to dig

441
00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:20,879
Speaker 1: this up.

442
00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:23,960
Speaker 2: Get on YouTube, have a thing, type in Don Fox,

443
00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:27,080
Speaker 2: Don Fox, and I just reminded there when you saw

444
00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:29,879
Speaker 2: sure One have to hit that kick to win the game,

445
00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:35,159
Speaker 2: Don Fox, I think it might have been Featherston versus Leeds.

446
00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:37,679
Speaker 2: I'm getting this completely wrong. Well anyway, what happened was

447
00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:41,080
Speaker 2: they're down by four points, right and they do a

448
00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:44,560
Speaker 2: short kickoff in the rain, Sure kickoff pulls are that

449
00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:49,080
Speaker 2: kick kick kick again and score under the posts. So

450
00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:53,080
Speaker 2: those days three point try. So they're down by one point,

451
00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:57,360
Speaker 2: but it's right in front wet weather day, puddles everywhere,

452
00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:00,399
Speaker 2: leather ball, Don Fox puts the ball down. As he

453
00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:03,040
Speaker 2: puts the ball down, they announce over the loud speaker

454
00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:05,720
Speaker 2: that the Lance Todd Trophy winners Man of the Match

455
00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:09,440
Speaker 2: is Don Fox. And he moves in and misses in front.

456
00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:14,320
Speaker 1: Lee Leeds versus Wakefield. They could be living ten.

457
00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:20,240
Speaker 2: I defined Don Fox's life after it, he throws himself

458
00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:22,120
Speaker 2: on the ground and the great airy wearing goes, Oh

459
00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:26,240
Speaker 2: the poor lad, the poor And it's one of the

460
00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:30,280
Speaker 2: most awful moments to watch in sports history.

461
00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:32,119
Speaker 3: And I think about Sean Johnson just thinking about that,

462
00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:34,440
Speaker 3: Like you said, some clutch moments on top of that,

463
00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:37,280
Speaker 3: like you've done it for the Warriors, He's done it

464
00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:41,680
Speaker 3: for He's now at different stages. When a golden boot, yeah,

465
00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:43,440
Speaker 3: hell of a player, Hell of a player.

466
00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:48,600
Speaker 4: Dolphins, Uh did you see that coming? Did not?

467
00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:49,920
Speaker 1: Not not to that level.

468
00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:52,720
Speaker 2: We're going to show to Sean Thursday night and tip

469
00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:53,920
Speaker 2: the Dolphins and they got tipped.

470
00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:57,639
Speaker 1: It was it was it was Wayne. It was Wayne.

471
00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:00,879
Speaker 2: That's where when when Wayne absolutely has to win a game,

472
00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:04,440
Speaker 2: he generally wins it. Hopefully it doesn't happen this week.

473
00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:08,480
Speaker 3: The one thing I love about the Dolphins and Wayne

474
00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:12,320
Speaker 3: and the win on the weekend is that we interviewed

475
00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:15,320
Speaker 3: the Dolphins players after the game and he made those changes.

476
00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:18,200
Speaker 3: He moved cart out of half, moving to the bench,

477
00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:22,080
Speaker 3: and moved a few other players around the field, and

478
00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:25,280
Speaker 3: he trained in Brisbane the whole week without that system.

479
00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:27,520
Speaker 4: He knew the media we're looking.

480
00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:29,760
Speaker 3: He knew that, Okay, we're just going to play this,

481
00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:32,200
Speaker 3: play here, play that there, but really on game day

482
00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:34,359
Speaker 3: you'll be playing here, You'll be playing here, and this

483
00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:36,119
Speaker 3: is how we're going to do it. And he gets

484
00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:38,480
Speaker 3: there on the game and that is hard to do

485
00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:43,440
Speaker 3: moving x's and o's around that much. But take Jake

486
00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:46,680
Speaker 3: Avarulo from the centers to five eight and don't train

487
00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:48,240
Speaker 3: there that way. But this is how we're going to

488
00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:50,360
Speaker 3: play because the cameras are watching. And to go out

489
00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:54,320
Speaker 3: and execute that way like that is Wayne Bennett master class.

490
00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:55,880
Speaker 2: And the second we're going to show a try that

491
00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,480
Speaker 2: hammer sets up for Avrilla. But on Avarrilla, I reckon

492
00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:03,640
Speaker 2: there's a reasons he didn't make a public or announce

493
00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:05,440
Speaker 2: it to the team. He did wanted to leak out,

494
00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:07,840
Speaker 2: of course, and all that sort of stuff. But I

495
00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:11,960
Speaker 2: think for Jake Averillo. I think it was basically because

496
00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:14,600
Speaker 2: if he had to tell him on the Tuesday to

497
00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:16,280
Speaker 2: be playing a sixth, can you imagine the.

498
00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:18,400
Speaker 1: Head noise of Avarillo leading in the game.

499
00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:20,880
Speaker 2: He'd end up burning that much gas thinking make okay,

500
00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:22,639
Speaker 2: I've got to play like a five eight. I do

501
00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:24,879
Speaker 2: this when you spring it on him for the last second,

502
00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:26,160
Speaker 2: I just get out there and play.

503
00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:28,040
Speaker 4: He made a couple of changes, right.

504
00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:32,040
Speaker 3: He pulled Trey Fuller into fullback, moved Avarilla around, and

505
00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:34,640
Speaker 3: moves Hammer from fullback to center. Who are the three

506
00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:35,639
Speaker 3: best players on the field.

507
00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:38,800
Speaker 1: Incredible? Yeah, incredible, honestly Yeah.

508
00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:42,119
Speaker 3: In a battle of Brisbane to keep your season alive,

509
00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,800
Speaker 3: Layne Bennett made a change because they knew knew he

510
00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:47,840
Speaker 3: had to. And you've got the response out of three

511
00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:50,520
Speaker 3: players because if they don't do that, we're talking the

512
00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:51,320
Speaker 3: other way around.

513
00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:51,879
Speaker 1: Coops, you know.

514
00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:54,200
Speaker 2: And the great thing about the Hammer the other night

515
00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:58,440
Speaker 2: was his ability to roam. He plays center, but he

516
00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:01,080
Speaker 2: played like a times a second fullback.

517
00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:03,400
Speaker 1: You have a look where he comes from. Here there's

518
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:04,720
Speaker 1: he and Fullard together.

519
00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:07,720
Speaker 2: Set move Yep, he makes the run.

520
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:09,760
Speaker 1: Bak just appears blind pass.

521
00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:13,320
Speaker 2: Beautiful blind pass from O'Sullivan, Avarillo goes in.

522
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:16,120
Speaker 3: Normally, when they bring this play from the other side

523
00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:18,159
Speaker 3: of the field, it's called like a sort of a

524
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:20,800
Speaker 3: jockey or a hang type play. They're trying to get

525
00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:23,640
Speaker 3: a defender to rush out on top and then get

526
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:26,360
Speaker 3: him through that gap that the rushing defender would come from.

527
00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:30,679
Speaker 3: This time, Rogers from the Brisbane Broncos doesn't rush out.

528
00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:34,240
Speaker 3: So what happens because he's passive, Hamma just hits the accelerator,

529
00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:36,680
Speaker 3: gets a one on one and off floats to have realized.

530
00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:38,960
Speaker 3: So the play didn't actually unfold the way they thought

531
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:40,600
Speaker 3: it would, but eventually got the result.

532
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:43,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting. We have one more look at it

533
00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:46,000
Speaker 2: here right from where he comes from. You I reckon,

534
00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:48,280
Speaker 2: Coops the first couple of steps.

535
00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:48,440
Speaker 1: I reckon.

536
00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:50,600
Speaker 2: They thought that Hammil was going to almost come on

537
00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:53,720
Speaker 2: on the inside a little bit, almost like a like

538
00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:55,160
Speaker 2: an inside block.

539
00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:58,680
Speaker 3: Should I sALS doing a good job here.

540
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:02,720
Speaker 2: It's not until the lasts, really the last second, that

541
00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:04,440
Speaker 2: he appears he's going to be on the outside. For

542
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:06,720
Speaker 2: all intents and purposes, he could be like a little

543
00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:07,400
Speaker 2: inside balls.

544
00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:09,440
Speaker 3: So the ballplan here at Sullivan gets Peter coup of

545
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:13,160
Speaker 3: the Broncos edge to lean in slightly and that creates

546
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:16,040
Speaker 3: a space there for having to do his thing. So yeah,

547
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:17,200
Speaker 3: good play the play.

548
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:19,959
Speaker 2: Where the Dolphins right our second year. I know at

549
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,080
Speaker 2: the moment your public going, oh, can they get there

550
00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:26,080
Speaker 2: or not? Regardless, it's been an incredible start to their career.

551
00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:28,960
Speaker 2: To be one way, one win away from the finals

552
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:32,000
Speaker 2: and only your second year, when you're recruiting in age

553
00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:35,640
Speaker 2: where there's the talent is thin, he's done a remarkable

554
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:38,959
Speaker 2: Let's have a second years of expansion. Sides an NRL

555
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:44,560
Speaker 2: era Cowboys second year seventeenth, Warriors second year eleventh, the

556
00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:51,040
Speaker 2: Crushes rest in peace like last, the Perth Reds sixteenth

557
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:52,440
Speaker 2: and Storm.

558
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:54,119
Speaker 1: This is amazing.

559
00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:56,520
Speaker 2: They win the comp, but to be on the cusper

560
00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:58,600
Speaker 2: make the finals, that's that's a mighty effort.

561
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:03,120
Speaker 3: And another sort of reason why I think Wayne Bennett

562
00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 3: made the calls he did is this season, basically in

563
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:08,960
Speaker 3: the two years in the comp, has reflected one another

564
00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:12,120
Speaker 3: great start the year entrenched in the top eight, off

565
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:15,439
Speaker 3: the back of origin lose more than win, and he

566
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:17,200
Speaker 3: just didn't want to do it again. So he said,

567
00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:20,200
Speaker 3: all right, we're going to move these jigsaw pieces around

568
00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:22,360
Speaker 3: and the other thing it does doesn't only put these

569
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:25,400
Speaker 3: three players in different positions. It gives all the other

570
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:28,200
Speaker 3: players and the team going, you know what, actually we

571
00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:29,040
Speaker 3: need to change here.

572
00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 4: E gives me.

573
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:33,000
Speaker 3: If I'm player of fifteen on the bench, I'm going, oh,

574
00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:35,199
Speaker 3: I need to pick my act up here and do

575
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:35,600
Speaker 3: my bit.

576
00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:38,000
Speaker 2: It was almost like he looked at the side and went,

577
00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:39,800
Speaker 2: I've got to mix the salar up here.

578
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 1: Everyone's just sort of too comfortable.

579
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:44,400
Speaker 3: And then what do you think about this week? It's

580
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 3: funny how it works out right. So the last game

581
00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:52,600
Speaker 3: of the last regular season on Sunday afternoon finishes for

582
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:55,920
Speaker 3: eight spot win. It takes it all Dolphins versus the Knights,

583
00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:01,040
Speaker 3: with the Dolphins being the Broncos and the Dragons falling

584
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 3: over like they have like that's that's that's a poor

585
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 3: lost there for the Dragons.

586
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,359
Speaker 4: But the Dolphins got.

587
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:12,400
Speaker 2: All his cues form forming already up at Newcastle. Get

588
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,120
Speaker 2: into the ground. O great, what your heart's going to say,

589
00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:18,600
Speaker 2: but give me your head. Wayne concerns me. I've watched

590
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:22,359
Speaker 2: the Dolphins in the last month or so. They haven't

591
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:25,640
Speaker 2: looked up and I'm looking at Wayne, I'm thinking myself.

592
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:29,960
Speaker 2: This old bastard is he is he just holding on

593
00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:33,480
Speaker 2: holding and he's elevating them late, you know for that final,

594
00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:37,399
Speaker 2: you know, elevate pitch. A couple of wins get in

595
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 2: there and and I'll keep them up because if he

596
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:41,439
Speaker 2: had them up about a month ago, then there's a

597
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,120
Speaker 2: fair chance that they go into the finals and they're

598
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,200
Speaker 2: not going to make an impact. It's almost like he's

599
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:49,600
Speaker 2: only whip pulled the whip out last week and really

600
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,560
Speaker 2: elevated them and along the way knock out the Broncos

601
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 2: and then two of his old clubs who didn't finish

602
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:56,359
Speaker 2: on great.

603
00:27:56,480 --> 00:28:03,720
Speaker 4: He's got the Knights too, Dragons. I think I think

604
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:05,399
Speaker 4: Wayne is the key for the Dolphins.

605
00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 3: And like I hate saying this because we say it

606
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:12,400
Speaker 3: every time they the Knights, but Kaylas true. If Kaylen

607
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:15,879
Speaker 3: is on and is like ready to say Newcastle on

608
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:17,920
Speaker 3: his back, then I think the Knights can get it done.

609
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:21,080
Speaker 2: But let's finish with the Panthers just quickly. And look,

610
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 2: last week we spoke about them how they've started. They

611
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:26,879
Speaker 2: started slow, and they've just been the ground. They started

612
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 2: much faster, There's no doubt about it. Yo and Leui

613
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:34,120
Speaker 2: really got them going just thinking before. Just watch one

614
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,399
Speaker 2: of the tries they scored here, and you know the

615
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 2: inside balls, inside balls. But there's a thing called the

616
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 2: play for the play that we're always taught by old

617
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 2: A b.

618
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 1: Allen Bell. And what it is.

619
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 2: If you if you want to do a play for

620
00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:49,520
Speaker 2: the play, if you want to play to the keep going,

621
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:52,480
Speaker 2: you hit short because the pulls are defender from the outside.

622
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 2: If you if you want to play back across the grain,

623
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 2: then if you drop an inside ball, it will pinch

624
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 2: a defender or two from the other side of the ruck.

625
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:03,960
Speaker 1: And you see that and all of.

626
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 2: A sudden, what happens is into the tackle there it

627
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 2: does and they're just a little bit short, and what happens.

628
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 1: What happens is they.

629
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:13,640
Speaker 2: Sort of slide a little bit just to protect the

630
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:14,960
Speaker 2: three on two on the outside.

631
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 1: Is that's an example of a nice little play for

632
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:17,440
Speaker 1: the play.

633
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:21,760
Speaker 3: The smarts of Isaiah coming to play here, because the

634
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 3: first two defenders off.

635
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:24,680
Speaker 4: The ruck aren't line speed.

636
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:28,040
Speaker 3: They're going sideways on Isaiah and the outside defense actually

637
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:31,240
Speaker 3: can press outside in. So what it does is because

638
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 3: he knows he's a passer and the defense does they're

639
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 3: trying to pressure Luai out the back. So what he

640
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,040
Speaker 3: does is he takes the advantage, throws the dummy, and

641
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 3: watch the eyes of the South City defenders here completely gone.

642
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:44,960
Speaker 4: Yeah it's a bit like what Tyren Wishart did the

643
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 4: other week.

644
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right.

645
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:49,800
Speaker 3: So when you're throwing a dummy, use the outside guys

646
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:52,560
Speaker 3: as your decoys. Debate, and when you feel like there's

647
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 3: a bit of space in between you and that defender,

648
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 3: that's normally because their eyes are looking somewhere else.

649
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 2: That's clever from Isaiah because when you watch him there,

650
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,080
Speaker 2: he he's looked up like a really good really good

651
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 2: ballplayers can look at the structure of attends look at

652
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 2: it there and go okay, I know what they're going

653
00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 2: to do here, because you see him go up and

654
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 2: it's he looks out the back for Jerim and then

655
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:16,360
Speaker 2: throws a dummy. I think he knew exactly what he

656
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 2: was going to do before the ball hit his hands, because.

657
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 3: If he was passing out the back, I'm pretty sure

658
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:24,120
Speaker 3: his eyes are engaging on the tonguey more trying to

659
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,320
Speaker 3: get his eye contact, but his eyes go out pretty

660
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Speaker 3: quickly to lure.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be an amazing final round the season

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Speaker 2: as it's been, it's been a fence. It's been as

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Speaker 2: good a season as I've ever seen in the game,

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Speaker 2: and it's going to be a great finish.

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Speaker 4: You've been great too.

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Speaker 1: You don't need to say that.

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Speaker 2: I know