WEBVTT - Round 10 Takeaways 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:04.240 I've been in for about ten minutes waiting for you, 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:07.280 So you're in the makeup chair. Seriously, when you come in, 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:10.240 what's happened. I don't know if you're embarrassed or you've 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:12.720 been at the sunhower red as your head at the 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:14.720 moment it's the Japanese flag. 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:17.520 Stop having a crack at me. At least my hair 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:18.840 is not fixed into my head. 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:22.520 Yeah, absolutely, as a firelight tail on my head. 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:23.920 Mate. 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:26.639 Once again, Magic Ground is upon us, Magic Ground. What 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:27.520 are you looking forward to? 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:30.960 Well, I'm looking forward to just the whole event. 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:33.960 Actually, it's like almost rugby Lely's version of school is this, 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:36.599 everyone comes out, has the time car. 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:39.600 But I'm more interested what you're looking forward to. 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:41.400 I ain'm looking forward to it. 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:41.920 Of course. 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:47.440 Let's just pretend you've played many many years at one club. 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:51.200 Let's just pretend you're now an owner of another club. 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:53.800 And let's just pretend on Magic weekend these two teams 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:55.279 play at two o'clock on Sunday. 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:56.639 Which corporate box you in? 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:03.880 I'll be watching it the Cats, That's what I am 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:06.679 looking forward to that game. But what one of the 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:09.000 things I love about Magic Ground is, you know, rugby 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:11.080 league is such a tribal sport and it's hard to 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:14.480 bring everyone together. But it's done that even the people 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:15.000 that hate you. 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:17.840 Yeah yeah, it does that. At home does a good job. 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:21.679 And the thing is that sometimes and the history of 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:25.080 magic round that some young kids, young players put their 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:27.880 name up in lights of Magic ground at different stages. 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:30.479 Someone has grabbed the attention of the rugby league world 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:32.520 and just made a name for themselves. 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:34.280 Two or three years ago, I remember Rye Walsh had 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:35.119 a breakout game. 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:36.200 For Happenhausen has done it. 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:39.360 Yeah, that's what it's called about. Four tries in twelve minutes. 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:40.920 It will happened again this weekend. 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:47.039 State of origin, of course, all happening. Tommy didn't bad 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:49.440 ankle injury. He's out of state of origin. Runner Coop, 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:54.960 what would you do, mate? Well, they're talking DC or 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:57.480 Ce and Walker at the moment. If you're going to 0:01:57.520 --> 0:01:59.400 go for a half back there, half back for a 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:03.160 half back, I sort of think it seems time. I think, 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:06.440 I mean DC, I mean he's got all the experience 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:07.920 in the world and every chance. 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:10.320 Believe I don't think he go back. He might, but 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:11.799 I don't think he go back. 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:14.040 What do you what are you thinking, ye. 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:18.440 Seam Walker will be an Origin player. But at the moment, 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:21.400 I think defensively, the way the game is whether it's 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:24.679 going to be if showed the same way he considered 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:26.640 to try on the weekendgainst the Titans, and that's just 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:30.919 not Origin level defense. So I think a little bit 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:33.239 left of center. I'm not part of the selectors or 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:37.239 anything of that, but I would seriously be considering Munster 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:40.839 at seven, Kaylen Ponger at six, res Walsh at number one. 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:45.960 Now I think Reese Walsh is the fullback. Kaylen Ponger 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:48.639 has played very well for QUEENSLA. Every time he's played 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:52.520 is physically he can get it and sometimes a little 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:56.640 bit of responsibility on Cameron Munster he rises to the occasion. 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:59.120 And coop yet without a shot over that. And the 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:01.480 other thing about it, if looking at the Newcastle Knights 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:04.839 and how they're operating with Brown charp and is playing 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:07.000 a bit of first receiver. He's sort of chipping the 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:07.960 organized kicking. 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:11.040 He's playing first receiver second receiver. There is a little 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:14.160 bit of a Rube's cube to solve. But I just 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:16.720 think getting your best defensive team out that you're best 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:19.480 attacking players and those two guys are it for me. 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:22.680 So I'm it's a bit wild, but I'm monthster half 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:24.000 back and Pong five a. 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:25.720 I don't think it's wild at all. And I tell 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:28.120 you what looks good on the team. Shoot, it's threat. 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:30.359 Yeah, it is a threat. And plus I just feel like. 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:32.720 You need to get your best defensive players out there, 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:37.520 and those two guys are rock solid for coins. I 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:39.760 think this is where it starts getting tricky, because now 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.000 you've got to understand the Eligibilly rules and some injuries 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:44.760 and different things like that. But I think you know, 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:45.880 Rob Toy. 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:46.560 Is the guy. 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:52.000 Ye Shibasaki is thereabouts. Jackson Purdue is doing a. 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:53.800 Really good jobs playing Cowboys. 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:55.640 He could be that guy with a six man bench. 0:03:55.720 --> 0:04:01.200 There could be something there. But I think Billy has 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:04.600 has a history of making strong decisions and if people 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:07.120 aren't playing inform, they're probably not going to get picked. 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:10.280 The big decisions he's made, they've really been they've really 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:10.760 been wrong. 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:13.200 Well with the one decision last year he won the 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:17.600 series down one nil, dropped Cherry Evans monster captain. He's 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:20.719 a player of the match game two, didn't player in 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:22.400 the match game three. In the Wild Laws medal, So 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:24.120 he'll make the same decision about. 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:26.880 Yeah, we'll get some tough ones to make though right center. 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:30.200 There's a little bit. There's a split, not totally split decision, 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:32.960 probably seventy percent with Crichton, thirty percent with Katony. I 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:36.400 go with Crichton. Stephen Crichton, he's playing below, he's best 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:39.840 of the Bulldogs, but hard there and he's big game performing. 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:43.040 There has been a history over the stage of Origin 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:46.279 where good players are out of form and they rise 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:48.520 to the responsibility of their state, like we have seen 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:51.080 it both on both sides. And Stephen Crichton is a 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:53.920 freak like he is absolutely the center for me, like 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:56.719 he on his day, and he will rise to the occasion. 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:58.600 He won't let New South Wales down. 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:01.240 Then we've got to right wing. On the left wing, 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:05.680 I'd go. I mean, Silkie Jenkins has been fantastic. I'd 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:08.360 go the Fox. Josh O car never less used to 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:11.080 New South Wales Down's got a lot of experience. Can't 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:12.480 beat speed, Yeah you can't. 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:14.120 Yeah, it's a good matchup. 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:18.960 I'm probably going to solve two issues with one decision here. 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:22.800 Tedesco is my fullback. Yeah, and I'd be putting Dealan 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:23.479 Edwards on the wing. 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:28.920 M he's played there for Australia job. 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:32.160 Yeah, I like it. It's such a it's such a 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:35.479 tough one. I mean you've just explained, you know, the 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:37.600 puzzle of Ruce Walls came and Ponger, how do you 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:39.800 fit him in? And there we have. We've got a 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:41.920 similar situation with Tesco and Dalan Edwards. 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:43.000 What are you doing with Teddy? 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:48.040 And I picked Dylan Edwards at fullback at the moment, 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.200 but I just I mean on a nineteen man bench, 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:53.440 on a six man bench, sorry, how do you leave 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:54.159 to disco out? 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:54.960 Yeah? 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:57.719 Okay, So that does come into play, right like the 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:01.599 six man banch specialist injury specialist position, so there will 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:04.599 be coverage. You would imagine there would be, let's call it, 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:07.719 a specialist outside back and a specialist half on the 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:09.960 six men bench for both teams. So there will be 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:12.800 an opportunity for someone to come in and play. But 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:16.240 in terms of the starting side, I think Todasco's your fallback, 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:17.120 Edward's on the wing. 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:20.080 It's a fair job. 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:22.680 Hookers. We've got Reece Robson and Blake Bradley. This have 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:25.760 been head ahead a little bit. I think the last 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:27.919 couple of weeks with Riss Robson's put his nose in front. 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:30.040 One thing about race Robson, you know, we know what 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:32.440 he's got, who have great and tenacity, is a really 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:34.719 good defender. But I thought the last couple of weeks 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:37.240 he's picked up his attack too, you know, poking his 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:40.760 nose through all the time. And then you know, I 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:44.120 don't know if you're picking Blake or you're picking Rece. 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:47.000 I don't carry the other one on the bench. If 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:50.400 I'm looking at a fourteen and with a six man bench, 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:53.920 maybe the fourteen men role has changed little bit. I'm 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:57.000 looking at ething strange. I like it. I like I 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:00.720 like what he did on the weekend. I from there. 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.400 How do you think the referee will be done in Orige. 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:05.159 Do you feel like it's going to be what we've 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:07.000 seen for the last ten rounds or do you feel 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:08.760 like it's going to be a little bit old school 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:09.840 and the whistles in. 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.320 The pocket with a bit slower and bit more physical. 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:14.840 I don't know how they scale it back, coop mate. 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:16.920 So I think that comes into play. How you pick 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:17.840 your six man bench. 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:20.560 That's a big one that it's going to be a ficient. 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:24.040 Because if you just do the Brailey and Robson argument here, 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:27.480 like before the season started, I had Brayley. Now the 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:31.440 last month Robson's come through. Why because the Roosters have 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:35.040 probably simplified their attack centralized it. When they've got a 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:37.760 quick play the ball with the repeat sets and everything. 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:39.760 He is just running arrow straight and he's. 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:40.720 Got tenasco next to him. 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:43.880 That that is the style of player that if fatigue 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:46.040 is set in in origin where the physicality is through 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:48.640 the roof in the first twenty minutes, that's going to 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:50.520 be the style that you will need, not a finesse, 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:52.160 crafty shift the ball around. 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:53.880 If you take half a step back there, you know. 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:57.080 I think what you've just explained there with the Roosters, 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:59.440 the dog should have a look at because the Roosters 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:01.840 were getting caught into playing sequence based football. A couple 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:03.640 of heres setting up all the time, couldn't get the 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:05.560 dummy half end of the game. And that's where the 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:07.520 Dogs are at the moment you get back to some 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:09.440 good old fashion, just momentum based football. 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.520 I think Melbourne Storm solved it too. That the last 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:16.680 few years with Harry Grant Munster and Hughes. They've been 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:19.800 shift to the ball and playing a very good looking 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:21.640 brand of football, right but. 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:22.760 Harry Grant had a day out? 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:23.200 How good? 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:25.080 Why because a quick blowing. 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:27.640 Ruck ran and then everyone else becomes support players Like 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:29.600 I just don't know where I just sits in that. 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:31.880 Though I'm a really big fan of the six agains, 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:34.439 I do understand what coaches are saying at the moment 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:36.920 where it's just like, hang on you six again? What 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:39.560 for a tea? What it has taken away to a 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:44.560 certain extent, was in the days before six agains and 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:47.960 it was just penalties. Well certainly I don't know after 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:50.360 I retire, but during the year when I played, the 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:54.200 referee would give a player sort of half a chance, 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:56.120 a little bit to keep the game flowing. Hey Cooper, 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:58.240 make your step off side, come on, make get back, 0:08:58.240 --> 0:08:59.679 get back mate, If you do it again, I'm going 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:01.840 to panel. Yeah, mate, Cooper, make sure we get off 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:03.600 him a little quick next time. Where now it's just 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:06.840 a six again straight away. I think they need just 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:10.520 a little bit more leeway. Don't don't think empathy is 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:12.800 a word, but just a little bit on the run, 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:14.600 just a bit more of a common touch talking to 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:15.040 the players. 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:20.640 I was always on side by the way. 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:23.280 I think when the penalty is given, there is now 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:25.360 This might not seem a big thing, but there is 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:28.840 twenty to thirty seconds rest for that defensive team, which 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:30.400 adds a lot of the back end of the set 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:32.800 to have enough energy to defend. Now the six agains 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:35.000 in play, I think that compounds the fatigue. 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:38.240 Right three left field smokies. Look as far as New 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:41.040 South Wales, I've gone. Dylan Lucas I think would be 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:44.480 fantastic on the bench. He's been fantastic, great in the 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:46.959 back Rowe. I've sing him play center. He's equally as 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:49.160 good in center. A lot of Bradman in best about 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:53.040 the way he plays center. Is Jackson Ford a smoky 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:55.800 I don't know. I suppose to a certain extent, you 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:57.640 don't know if they're going to be an origin player 0:09:57.720 --> 0:09:59.959 until they're there. I think they'll have a look at him. 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.520 I mentioned Ethan Strange before at fourteen, but also the 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:05.520 bloke we had on the couch last night to Fletcher Sharp, 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:08.200 I think could be a bloke you have as a 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:10.960 nineteenth bent a niche player where you get you've got 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:13.800 a situation there, that's ten minutes to go. Lorie days 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:15.599 in the box. We need to try. We've got to 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:18.880 come up with something. And made his a poacher for me. 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:21.880 I think Max Plath has Origin written all over him. 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:22.440 How good is it? 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:26.000 If Harry Grant wasn't available, He's probably the guy. But 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:28.360 he could come on and play long minutes and just 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:33.280 do his job. A half back's best friend is sometimes 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:36.920 an edge back roller and healing luky, like his combination 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.680 with Tom Diner, who won't be there, was outstanding on 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:42.000 the weekend. Like he is big and physical and just 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:44.080 runs a really good line. I think he could be 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:46.640 a guy. And I've very mentioned that Jackson Purdue like 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:49.880 in the way the game is him and Chester for 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:50.800 the cow. 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:52.200 Those two blokes go. 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:53.640 When they get moving. 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:56.839 It's like if a retreating defensive line tries to tackle 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:59.800 their ability to hip, swerve and move and just get 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:03.640 through traffic. Purdue could be a guy that is on 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:07.400 the six man bench covers basically every position in the 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:09.839 back line, so he could be a guy that when 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:12.319 points the needed, could come in or could cover someone to. 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:16.320 Talk about the weekend and the new Castle Knights they 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:18.880 put the clooners threw the dragons down and will and 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:20.880 going well done to Justin Wholebrook. I tell you what, 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:25.040 he's got their attack really humming and had a difficult 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:28.000 puzzle to sell to solve when you had Klein, Dylan 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:30.040 Brown and Fletcher Sharp. How's it going to work? 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.920 The team struggled for points last year, Yeah, struggled. 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:37.040 Yeah. Now they're just putting on clinics every week. 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:43.240 And some coaches are waited defensively, some coaches think about attack. 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:46.800 Justin Holbrook is a very good attacking coach. Like what 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.360 he has done to those players, and particularly the Dylan 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:52.240 Brown thing, like a lot of people were saying that 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:52.920 he couldn't fit. 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:56.240 We argued about it. But what they've done, they're doing 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:58.840 little tweaks to the traditional style of footing. 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:00.400 Very very good. Some of the ty was on the 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:04.280 weekend and Dylan Brown think I like about his game 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:06.440 at the moment, Dylan, he's sort of taken. Like on 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:09.320 the weekend, Calen was on song and Fletcher was doing 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:11.120 his thing. Just see you take a sort of half 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:13.600 step back. You not disappearing out of the contest when 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:15.880 I mean half a step back, just feeding early and 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:17.840 things like that. Actually, if we have a look at 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:22.000 the Dylan Lucas try here. The thing that the Brown 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:24.960 and Fletcher Sharp are doing very very well is just 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:28.480 letting the ball go at exactly the right time. They're 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:31.760 taking it just far enough to bring the defense, but 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:35.079 not too far to get as to Kaylen to get 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:39.120 jammed outside in. And it looks a really really simple thing, 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.520 but that the timing of that past sometimes Coop can 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:42.000 be tricky. 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:43.880 Yeah, I think when your ball playing and you know 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:46.839 that a team might rush in or stay back, you've 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:49.000 got a job to do in terms of engage a 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:51.400 first couple of defenders. But then once you've done that, 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:53.520 your eyes need to see whether the center or winger 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:55.959 is coming. And if you pass it too late, get 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:58.640 shut down past too early, they slide off. So there 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:02.600 is a perfect timing of that. And you know, Fletcher 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:06.360 Sharp and Kaylen Ponger and Dylan Brown, you know what, 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.840 like maybe the game has played into the hands like 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:14.559 slower defensive slower play, the balls, moving defensive line, having 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:18.360 playing mentality halves is not necessarily what his need in 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:21.400 today's game because it's fast, it's run first, and it 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:24.120 seems like they're going to an advantage line and pushing 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:25.520 forward and then looking to play. 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:28.600 Some beautiful variations on the player Greg ma Greig maar 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:32.400 Zoo Castle. He eat five tries on the weekend and 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:35.760 the last one beautiful little variation. You think Klen's coming 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:38.320 across on a block option or sweep option, but he 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:42.480 just goes early. That's that's just clever football because you 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:44.719 see the defenders going, Okay, it's going to be a 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:46.280 block shape. Is it going to be short? It was 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:49.640 going to be long. He hits short, but then Kaylen's gone. 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:54.440 So why I think they've done this is Klen Ponger 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:57.560 has the best hands at Newcastle Knights, and when you 0:13:57.600 --> 0:13:59.520 get to the center position, you see the long ball. 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:02.319 Sometimes a winger jams in and you need to be 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:04.559 able to tip that ball and light Latrell Mitchell does 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:06.880 all the time. So what they're trying to do is 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:09.600 they're trying to get Kaylin in that last past scenario. 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:13.280 Normally he's in the fullback position and a wedging defense 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:16.000 will try and stop Kaylan and he's got that ability 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:17.480 to skip it straight across. 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.040 Let's have Lou Kaylin like he's performance on the weekend. 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:25.040 Just all these touches here and he's come back. He's 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:27.760 coming into this season with a serious some serious fire 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:29.800 in the belly. You know the way he's playing, he's 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:32.200 playing really, really tough, not that he doesn't anyway, but 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:34.840 he's really got his head on the way he's leading 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:38.000 the side. He's just invested, made his chipping blokes and 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:40.520 see things there if they're not doing the right thing 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:42.000 in the fielding. 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:44.880 We said this about him last week that in the 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:49.880 background of all the plays is Kaylen Ponger's energy, Like 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.720 he is high five in he's a captain of this team, 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:57.360 is leading by example but also by spirit and whatever 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:02.240 Justin Holbrook has done to Instiller in bed this. I 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:08.080 don't know, confidence, belief, a game plan. Kayln Ponger is 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:12.240 executing that, but better than anyone from the Newcastle. 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:12.400 Last at the moment. 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:13.640 Yeah, well what was saying. 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:15.560 That's part of the reason why I've got him in 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:18.280 my team. Like he is just playing at a level 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:21.000 that you can't deny. Rys Walsh is just a player 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.600 that has to be in and Munster. I don't care 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:25.760 if Monster is playing one out of ten. He is 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:28.040 in my team. Anyone who thinks he is not. 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:32.120 I remember Wally Lewis saying once about the New South 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:34.480 Wales side, and he said, whenever the team she came 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:36.520 through with the new South wild Side and Brett Kenny 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:39.520 wasn't at six, they'd rejoice. I just think sometimes if 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:41.280 the New South Wales shared and all of a suddenly 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:44.040 comes through the starting liner and he got Munster and 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:47.680 Ponger in the six and seven, you go right, okay. 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:51.040 We' And if there's a guy who can create an 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:54.200 attacking system that involves those guys for the first time, 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:56.920 it's Billy Slater and Johnathan first and part of the 0:15:56.960 --> 0:16:01.160 coaching stuff. So look, you cannot go wrong with the 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:03.960 selection at this stage of the year because everyone deserves 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.400 or everyone has the ability to play origin. But I 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:08.680 feel like that is the best. 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:13.160 Mix for Queensland made her Dolphins were great performance. A 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:14.960 lot has been already said about the Dogs. We don't 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.560 need to go, it's sort of been more of the same. 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:21.840 But Dolphins. Isaacah Teller did a play on the weekend 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:24.840 which is coop in my opinion, the toughest pass to 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:27.400 throw for Dick Arima, which is the hang pass. It's 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:32.520 a blind pass. Jeez. He did it beautifully. So nice one. 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:36.320 The hang pass is normally something you've spotted in the 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:40.040 defensive line. So what they're doing here is Finny Fiuarku 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:42.560 lem Luel who going to the outside shoulder of Galvin. 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:44.960 In the video review room, they have seen that Galvin 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:47.400 takes his eyes off the ball player and moves out 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:50.160 and worried about the big back roller. What Cartawa does 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:53.120 gets through his target offender and Nickoreema comes from a 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:54.560 hidden position and just. 0:16:54.560 --> 0:17:00.040 Pops off that left hip. It's poor, it's very good ballplaye. 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:02.840 Was when you played Western I'm going way back here, 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:05.760 but the Western may Poise in the early nineties. They 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:08.359 would play in the nineties, there were teams that would 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:10.840 defend outside in and players would go up past the 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:14.359 football which lent itself to get a hang hoorn. Jason 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:16.600 Taylor would do a play where he'd have the straight 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:21.159 runner that was out there, like Furyaki there and he 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:24.040 go bang and go back and wait for the hangball, 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:27.159 then fire packet and just it was just it was 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:29.280 a very difficult player to defend. 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:31.480 That's the other thing too, Like for example, he might 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:34.760 Cartel and the Dolphins might go against Galvin next time. 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:36.679 This is what I would do, Get up exactly the 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:39.760 same play, get Nick Arema to pop out earlier and 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:42.280 throw the ball across Nick Arema to phinipi Ark. 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:44.000 You're doing his thing outside shoulder. 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:57.720 Whatever para matter. Mitch Moses has been came a Lowe's best. 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:00.400 But I'd tear what in that final ten minute he 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:02.160 just dragged him to victory. 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:06.879 Yeah, he's he struggled at different stages. Tom Didon's down. 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:10.920 They don't have another interchange the Cowboys, and it's almost 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:14.000 like they probably should have defended with twelve players. But 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:17.080 what Mitchell Moses did to get his team over line 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:19.840 that short side play like it was a short side 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:22.239 of three meters and he had no room really to 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:26.840 do anything. Missed that conversion to potentially win the game, 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:29.600 but then Seirra with a field goal like that. That 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:33.040 is Mitch's the Paramatta's best player and a moment of 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:34.040 absolute ney. 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:37.159 He stood up, missed the two conversions before there a 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:39.239