Speaker 1: Welcome to three sixty League from every angle, brought to
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Speaker 1: Dean Bulldog Richie. And what a time of the year
Speaker 1: it is to be alive. The Grand Finals coming up,
Speaker 1: there's daly m Knights, can smell the flowers, the weather's changing.
Speaker 2: Bulldog's getting shirt off of the beach.
Speaker 3: That's all great arrived, We've got Grand Final, We've got
Speaker 3: the daly M's. Where else do we do want to
Speaker 3: bee hoops?
Speaker 4: I'll tell you what. I can't get that image of
Speaker 4: you with your shirt off at the beach out of
Speaker 4: my head, Bulldog. But aside from that, spring is in
Speaker 4: the air. Rugby League's Nine of Nights said they are
Speaker 4: in the background on it's the green carpet this year,
Speaker 4: but plenty of glitz and glamor out there. Now, that
Speaker 4: is it. That's eleven out of ten bro anywhere that
Speaker 4: last year. That is an outstanding What you're excited to?
Speaker 5: No, I like it. I think it's fantastic.
Speaker 6: You know, the best player and used to go to
Speaker 6: these awards and they were a little bit different too,
Speaker 6: tonight it's just full of blows. We'd sit around there
Speaker 6: and I was never up for an awards, so they
Speaker 6: were quite boring for me.
Speaker 3: But that's a great note who was unavailable for them
Speaker 3: through set off?
Speaker 1: All right, the biggest names from the NROL and rold
Speaker 1: W are walking the red carpet ahead of the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four dam Medal Awards. Lara Pitt and Jake Duke
Speaker 1: Addressed to kill and ready to go go eys well
Speaker 1: or not, we've got coming up.
Speaker 7: Good evening, Brad. Yes, it's all starting to kick off
Speaker 7: here at the twenty twenty four Dallim Medal on the
Speaker 7: Green carpet. Here at Wigstand at Royal Randwick, who's who
Speaker 7: of rugby league are arriving. We'll be catching up with
Speaker 7: all the biggest names. Of course, tonight is about celebrating
Speaker 7: the season we've just had. We'll be handing out Coach, Captain,
Speaker 7: Rookie of the Year. But the big one, Jake, is
Speaker 7: the Dahia Medal for our NRL and nrol W players.
Speaker 8: Very close competitions. Who will take out those big medals
Speaker 8: at the end of the night. But of course we've
Speaker 8: got our green carpet show coming up at seven thirty
Speaker 8: on Fox League. We're going to give out a few
Speaker 8: medals as well, the Tackle, the Try of the Year
Speaker 8: for both the men and the women, the VB Hardest
Speaker 8: Working Player, and the Keern Irvine Medallist as well. So
Speaker 8: that is from seven to thirty. But it's going to
Speaker 8: be a wonderful leaving plenty of glising, glamor.
Speaker 7: Absolutely we have to get going Graith because everyone's starting
Speaker 7: to arrive. We' see you was seven thirty for all
Speaker 7: the action on the green carpet.
Speaker 1: Hey you guys, a big night ahead. But let's not
Speaker 1: beat around the bush. Who wins the Dali m Medal.
Speaker 4: I'm going the running man, Jerome Hughes, so robust, so
Speaker 4: dynamic in terms of what he's been able to do
Speaker 4: for the Melbourne Storm this season. They finished on top
Speaker 4: of the competition, probably the only thing that can possibly
Speaker 4: take aways all the other stars in that side on
Speaker 4: a weekly basis. That mean, perhaps Jerome doesn't always poll
Speaker 4: three points, but jeez put together an awesome season of football.
Speaker 9: It took control of that Storm side when your man
Speaker 9: Monthster went down with that groining around eleven. But he
Speaker 9: does start about sixteen points behind. When voting went behind.
Speaker 3: Closed doors, he was a long way behind Dylan Edwards.
Speaker 9: But of the games since that on twelve behind closed doors,
Speaker 9: Melbourne played twelve and they won eleven. So he can
Speaker 9: have to storm home to win. But I reckon he
Speaker 9: can stor him. I'm given that record.
Speaker 2: Storm home.
Speaker 6: There you go, you can get and tedessco. I reckon
Speaker 6: he had a really good finish to the season. And
Speaker 6: as you said, because last night Braith, when you said
Speaker 6: that he wasn't in the top ten, that surprised me
Speaker 6: the same, you know what I mean. And then Munster
Speaker 6: comes back and has a great finish to the game,
Speaker 6: so players have be taking points off him.
Speaker 1: It's a great night for the women as well. The
Speaker 1: female daly m Player of the Year thoughts.
Speaker 4: So Merka Upton has put together an outstanding season as always.
Speaker 4: I think she'll be right in the frome.
Speaker 9: Lauren Brown or Olivia Kernick for me being great ball
Speaker 9: this year?
Speaker 2: All right, what about the Coach of the year. A
Speaker 2: few contenders for this.
Speaker 1: I think it's Serroualdo and the two heavyweights spelling me
Speaker 1: and clearly.
Speaker 2: Is that right?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 4: You think it'll be a developed print. Fato between those three.
Speaker 4: I got a loan towards Craig Bellamy based on the
Speaker 4: fact they finished three games clear of Penrith as Minor premiers.
Speaker 4: Not too many people going the chance to finish right
Speaker 4: up the elite end of the ladder at the beginning
Speaker 4: of the season. He just continues to reinvent that side.
Speaker 4: They play an awesome brand of footy and he's in
Speaker 4: his tenth grader chance or not? I thought maybe the
Speaker 4: first week finals exit I heard him bulldog.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I think he had a great year, clearly, But what
Speaker 9: more does Craig Bellamy have to do? They win the
Speaker 9: Minor primship by three wins. He wins his first qualifying
Speaker 9: final straight into the GF. How can you not give it.
Speaker 2: To down with you? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Well, and I haven't gone for four Grand Finals in
Speaker 6: a row, but you'd go Craig when you I think
Speaker 6: with If you look at the Melbourne Storm side, that's
Speaker 6: not the strongest side in the competition and they finished
Speaker 6: on top, as you said, by three victories.
Speaker 2: Yeah, fair call.
Speaker 1: All right, Now to Stephen Crichton, just get the Captain
Speaker 1: of the Year or not?
Speaker 2: He was unbelievable.
Speaker 4: Surely Betting suspended brave flow. He was just off the charts.
Speaker 4: I think we all balked when Cameron Serraldo gave us
Speaker 4: some details about the army camp that they went up
Speaker 4: in Brisbane and the fact that all the SAS leaders
Speaker 4: had identified Stephen as the standout captaincy material had to
Speaker 4: take the captaincy off reed Marney, which I'm sure it
Speaker 4: was always a sensitive subject, but he was just phenomenal
Speaker 4: this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's got to get it.
Speaker 9: It was unbelievable, wasn't He's only twenty two, He wasn't
Speaker 9: supposed to be captain. It was a fair effort to
Speaker 9: come to a new club and also be given the captaincy.
Speaker 9: That's a pretty heavy responsibility and he did it with
Speaker 9: absolute a.
Speaker 3: Plumb and breaking.
Speaker 6: I don't think anyone predicted the impact that he would have,
Speaker 6: and not only on the field, but often for such
Speaker 6: a twenty three years of age, he's around that mark
Speaker 6: to come to a club under pressure of being their
Speaker 6: major signing, but then deliver, as I said, not only
Speaker 6: with his performances but just how much better.
Speaker 2: They played and they were all around.
Speaker 1: They turned the culture around there surround on Guss obviously
Speaker 1: have a big play to part in part to play
Speaker 1: in that. But the Crichton effect was as an ex player,
Speaker 1: I hadn't seen a player go into a club and
Speaker 1: have such impact.
Speaker 2: It was pretty phenomenal. Boarding.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: One thing you know about leaders, as leaders, someone of
Speaker 6: the people follow so we went there and they followed him.
Speaker 5: It's as simple as that.
Speaker 6: When he was on the field, they were much better
Speaker 6: side the improvement and the dogs and he was leading away.
Speaker 6: So he'll be right up there, all right. What about
Speaker 6: Rookie of the Year. It's a little bit different.
Speaker 1: You know, some play you're going to play a certain
Speaker 1: many games or not, and you know if you get
Speaker 1: to spend it, obviously you can't get it.
Speaker 2: But where are we at with this? Who's winning this one?
Speaker 3: I think Ethan Strange will win it.
Speaker 9: I think it's a bit of a travesty that Lachland
Speaker 9: Galant available. I mean, clearly he is the Rookie of
Speaker 9: the Year, is out and out winner, but he can't.
Speaker 9: So it's Boss stock Iro or Ero from Karnala and
Speaker 9: or Strange.
Speaker 3: But I think Strange wins it.
Speaker 4: Plays t Lagi another was nominated. Really strange scis Look,
Speaker 4: I know they finished fifteenth, but at the same time,
Speaker 4: Panthers there absolutely laughing, having signed him from their rivals
Speaker 4: for next season. Galvin can't win it because he was
Speaker 4: suspended against the Yeals for that hip drop. It is
Speaker 4: a shame, but they're the rules. Strange had an outstanding
Speaker 4: season as we.
Speaker 3: Like those rules that apply.
Speaker 9: Like Galvin has denied it when clearly he is the
Speaker 9: best in that category.
Speaker 5: Well, that's right, I missed out on all the.
Speaker 8: Year.
Speaker 6: Gen know what I think, if you can still get
Speaker 6: the points and you're the best player, if you win it, right,
Speaker 6: because if you get suspended where you don't get points
Speaker 6: in those games, but if you're still good enough to
Speaker 6: win it and you are the best player.
Speaker 5: But I love Boston.
Speaker 6: Underrated Dolphins games so underrated. He was in the top
Speaker 6: three players for the dolphinsnally every week.
Speaker 1: There's some good players have won that Rookie of the
Speaker 1: Year over the years, no doubt about that. Now, Hoo's
Speaker 1: what's going on with Liam Martin and Cameron Munson. It
Speaker 1: was a bit either beat up or not throughout the day.
Speaker 1: On the last couple of days you've been we've been
Speaker 1: reporting on it, we haven't.
Speaker 2: I think it was a Dally Telegraph. He did, and
Speaker 2: the music started for this one as well.
Speaker 4: But I love this rape. I think there is some
Speaker 4: genuine bad blood. You can hear Taylor Swift in the background.
Speaker 4: He is Cameron Munster, one of the great Alaricans and
Speaker 4: characters of the game. Liam is Loam. We probably didn't
Speaker 4: like each other in Ossie Kids. He'll want to take
Speaker 4: my head off and vice versa. He was just trying
Speaker 4: to get under my skin and it worked a fair
Speaker 4: bit a few times. I have to go out there
Speaker 4: and not get frazzled and just take over.
Speaker 2: So that was Cameron.
Speaker 4: I think now we've got Liam responding coming up shortly.
Speaker 4: It's just about to roll over here, it is. Can
Speaker 4: we get the music back again? That I was planning
Speaker 4: on going after him and the rest of the Storm
Speaker 4: team like I usually do. It won't change anything in
Speaker 4: that aspect. I thought we were sweet. I wouldn't say
Speaker 4: we were best mates, but I thought we were fine.
Speaker 4: I was quite surprised by it.
Speaker 2: That is what it is.
Speaker 4: I love the squad and I absolutely love it. The
Speaker 4: players have.
Speaker 5: To like everybody you played with.
Speaker 6: I didn't, especially from another state, but you've got to
Speaker 6: respect them when you're in a team. There's a mutual respect,
Speaker 6: but there's some players you just don't get along with.
Speaker 6: When you're on a tour and you're way for eight weeks,
Speaker 6: you get your little groups and you go have your
Speaker 6: meals or whatever, and it's happened. I think ever since
Speaker 6: then Australian side has gone away.
Speaker 4: I just love players being prepared to speak there and
Speaker 4: it used to happen in your day time. I remember
Speaker 4: you had a couple of great set tos with Ben
Speaker 4: Kennedy after the State of Origin games and that sort
Speaker 4: of thing, and that's the passion that comes out in
Speaker 4: big games. There's a lot on the line. I think
Speaker 4: Cameron that was a bit of a sneaky little half
Speaker 4: a kick in the in the State of Origin. So
Speaker 4: you can see bulldog where this stems from.
Speaker 3: You know what it smacks.
Speaker 9: Off to me, Queensland disliking any new South Welshman who
Speaker 9: dares to stick up for themselves.
Speaker 3: You want to go on and have a crack at
Speaker 3: a Queenslander.
Speaker 5: How dare you? We are dominant, you.
Speaker 10: Can't come near us.
Speaker 2: So that's what Lamb Markin is done.
Speaker 6: No, that's what That's the way Cameron plays. But nothing
Speaker 6: except stick up for his state Liam Martin.
Speaker 9: The Queenslanders don't like it when you take it to them,
Speaker 9: and what a camera did you stick up for himself
Speaker 9: with a knee.
Speaker 1: I don't want to burst the lines, Bubbly, but I
Speaker 1: spoke to the camera this morning and he was actually
Speaker 1: he'd be laughing.
Speaker 2: He was, he was a bit.
Speaker 1: He didn't mean it that way, and I know I
Speaker 1: hate the Percy Bubbly who's but he was disappointed because
Speaker 1: he actually likes the him a lot and he didn't
Speaker 1: want to put Field on any fire and.
Speaker 2: He's got a good relationship with him. They don't get
Speaker 2: along like their best mates or anything.
Speaker 1: And of course they're not going and they've got a
Speaker 1: Grand Final to play this week and neither team really
Speaker 1: like each other, let's be honest. But he certainly doesn't
Speaker 1: have an issue with him.
Speaker 4: Good smither Broth tell me that I was hesitant to
Speaker 4: say it, but a few between rival players, I think
Speaker 4: there is some genuine feeling that there's no doubt, sweetball.
Speaker 4: What's burning the papers aside? Come Sunday they.
Speaker 2: Will go anyway, no doubt.
Speaker 3: And that's awesome.
Speaker 2: Nice munster sense.
Speaker 1: He was inspired by the Panthers dynasty to remain in Melbourne.
Speaker 1: And I will speak first on this because I was
Speaker 1: obviously a part of the negotiations for Camera and State
Speaker 1: Melbourne and the key was for him, which I was
Speaker 1: surprised with.
Speaker 2: Throughout the negotiations.
Speaker 6: There was so much money on the line with the Dolphins,
Speaker 6: not only on field but off field.
Speaker 2: It was significant.
Speaker 1: It was it was more than anyone could ever imagine
Speaker 1: the difference if he would have left his Melbourne Storm
Speaker 1: to go to the Dolphins. The opportunity was incredible. But
Speaker 1: it just come down to the fact that he's a
Speaker 1: competitor and he wants to win premierships and and and
Speaker 1: really he can be validated this weekend by that decision
Speaker 1: if he wins the premiership, because it was really the
Speaker 1: sole focus. I mean, he loves the joint, that's a reason,
Speaker 1: but the main one was he wants to win more
Speaker 1: premierships and obviously watching the Panthers. He actually ranged me
Speaker 1: the second the Panthers won the premiership. He ranged me
Speaker 1: straight away and said I'm staying and I said you're sure,
Speaker 1: and he goes, yep, I want to win premierships.
Speaker 2: So it's right.
Speaker 1: It's actually a fact that it's watching that was what
Speaker 1: drives him and winning competitions, winning games, and that's why,
Speaker 1: that's why he plays the game. He was he was
Speaker 1: very close At different times.
Speaker 2: I thought he was.
Speaker 1: I've said that before, but he just loves Melbourne too much.
Speaker 1: He loves winning too much, and that's that's his DNA,
Speaker 1: that's what he's made up.
Speaker 4: To leave a million and a half dollars on the
Speaker 4: table body, that's a huge decision. That shows how much
Speaker 4: Cameron does care about the Melbourne storm. But I remember
Speaker 4: this story. I think the Panthers smash Paramatta in that
Speaker 4: Grand Final and he'd actually finished work for the year,
Speaker 4: and then all of a sudden it broke that Cameron
Speaker 4: wanted to stay. And the reasoning was because he watched
Speaker 4: Nathan and watched him dominate in that Grand Final and
Speaker 4: he was like, right, well, I want to be there again.
Speaker 4: I want to be back there. And here we are
Speaker 4: two years later and the stage is set. So it's
Speaker 4: a great.
Speaker 2: Stan and to that too.
Speaker 1: At the start of this year, hoops, I don't think
Speaker 1: anyone it was. If anyone did, it was, it wasn't
Speaker 1: many they thought that Melbourne could win the comp Realistically,
Speaker 1: if I were saying they were short on forwards.
Speaker 2: You know, they didn't really play great last year.
Speaker 6: They bowed out of the finals, and they weren't ahead
Speaker 6: of the Panthers Rooster's broncos. They were because they're so
Speaker 6: consistent and they performed so.
Speaker 2: Well every week.
Speaker 6: You can put them in your top You put him in
Speaker 6: the top eight and probably fourth or fire right.
Speaker 2: But I don't think anyone thought they'd been a Grand
Speaker 2: final this week.
Speaker 1: It's till halfway during the ear of course, but one
Speaker 1: pen is to start the year.
Speaker 4: I remember sitting on this show and they'll criticize for
Speaker 4: having a pop gun forward pack, and that includes Nelson
Speaker 4: Softa Solomona. I know we won't play this weekend, but
Speaker 4: there's certainly not too much pop gun about the way
Speaker 4: that Nelson plays. But you're right, Brave. None of the
Speaker 4: experts had the Melbourne Storm winning the minor premiership all
Speaker 4: being in the Grand Final. So it just goes to
Speaker 4: show that all that work that they do. They go
Speaker 4: and do the boot camp in Geelong over the course
Speaker 4: of the summer, Craig makes every new player that hasn't
Speaker 4: been at the club previously go out and get an
Speaker 4: actual proper job and know what it's like to do
Speaker 4: a hard day's yakker on the tools. The system works
Speaker 4: and it doesn't matter who they bring in. Yes, they've
Speaker 4: got the best spine in the competition, but it's also
Speaker 4: down to damn good coaching in the system that they've
Speaker 4: got set up.
Speaker 9: You can't blame the experts over not picking the storm,
Speaker 9: no way, King Howarth, Meani blow Liero, Alec McDonnell exactly.
Speaker 9: That's not in many ways a Grand Final winning side.
Speaker 9: And I say that with audibis X to Craig Bella.
Speaker 9: But when you see that on paper, you don't think
Speaker 9: we just said that, and I said it in a
Speaker 9: better way.
Speaker 5: He's going to I had the list and shaming.
Speaker 2: Had the list mate.
Speaker 4: He can be on for the cloth Churchildren at least
Speaker 4: type of performance. Bull.
Speaker 1: Let's get to the Panthers, right, Can they keep doing it?
Speaker 1: They're going for a four peet. It is out of
Speaker 1: this world. They can do it. I think that they're
Speaker 1: a big possibility of doing it. No one can deny that.
Speaker 1: What do you what do you guys think based it.
Speaker 9: On a last week and that's the only way you
Speaker 9: can judge your form at the moment. Certainly Melbourne's form
Speaker 9: was clinical, brilliant and impressive compared to the Panthers, so
Speaker 9: I thought were quite clunky. Whether Penrith had one eye
Speaker 9: on the Grand Final, I don't know whether they would
Speaker 9: be that arrogant or not, but maybe they did.
Speaker 3: But based on that, I can't go past Melbourne stall.
Speaker 5: No, I think they can do it.
Speaker 6: I thought at the beginning of the year, I'm thinking
Speaker 6: it's it's just because, and it's just history. I thought,
Speaker 6: you know, and the MODERNI and no side's going to
Speaker 6: win four. Halfway through the year they started to get
Speaker 6: a bit wobbly legs, there's a lot of injuries, I'm thinking,
Speaker 6: and now I think they can.
Speaker 5: I think it's I think it's a dead heat.
Speaker 4: It's a genuine toss of a coin, fifty to fifty game.
Speaker 4: It's going to be whoever grabs those big moments. But
Speaker 4: the thing that I think is a clear advantage for
Speaker 4: the Panthers is their Grand Final experience. Of course, they
Speaker 4: have got so many players in that side who've been there,
Speaker 4: done at one. They are tuned to the millisecond for
Speaker 4: this time of year. I think last to your point
Speaker 4: fam earlier Bulldog, I think against Cronella that they probably
Speaker 4: did have one eye on making it through and having
Speaker 4: to come up against the heavyweights in Melbourne this Sunday.
Speaker 4: But Nathan Cleary, he still just knows if you're going
Speaker 4: to hit the forty twenty when it come up with
Speaker 4: the tricing tax, which is.
Speaker 1: What matters in the Grand Final, and if you're going
Speaker 1: off the form of last week, you're spot on Melbourne
Speaker 1: probably ahead. But that list is an example for me
Speaker 1: that list have delivered all year, No they have, but
Speaker 1: have they won a premiership and do they know what
Speaker 1: it's like to deliver on the biggest stage of all
Speaker 1: when you've.
Speaker 2: Got the whole of Australia stop to watch.
Speaker 6: You, and when you haven't won to do anything special.
Speaker 6: But it comes down to big moments, healing pressure and
Speaker 6: that's monster, that's huge, that's Papaeus and that's grand. If
Speaker 6: those guys go there and do their job.
Speaker 4: And Nelson that's the advantage.
Speaker 6: That's where Penrith have the advantage absolutely, that's where they
Speaker 6: have a clear advantage.
Speaker 4: And in front of eighty thousand fans at the Course Stadium,
Speaker 4: you'd have to think eighty percent will probably be Penrith
Speaker 4: support it so it's going to be a very pro
Speaker 4: Penrith crowd. They've had so much success at that stadium,
Speaker 4: they know every blade of grass. I think the Panthers
Speaker 4: should be favorites.
Speaker 9: I worry about Nathan Shoulder, I really do. He's been
Speaker 9: training a week as to how he falls. He's doing
Speaker 9: all these techniques in preparation.
Speaker 3: Is serious.
Speaker 9: It's one tackle off being taken off the field and if
Speaker 9: he goes off, he's not going back on again, and
Speaker 9: that would destroy Penwrith emotionally and tactically.
Speaker 4: Can they not noodle it? Well, he's it's a Grand Final.
Speaker 3: I mean they won't tip and.
Speaker 4: They needle it because it's a Grand Final, and on
Speaker 4: tipping he gets through. He's showed previously he has a
Speaker 4: phenomenal ability to be able.
Speaker 3: To when it comes out, you're not playing on.
Speaker 9: And that was an unorthodox tackle last week. I think
Speaker 9: it was on young Era, wasn't it. That's when it
Speaker 9: came out again, That's when he went to grab it
Speaker 9: straight away.
Speaker 4: But then he played on after that. I know he
Speaker 4: ultimately came off after a couple more sets, but he
Speaker 4: made tackles. To me, I think if you needle it,
Speaker 4: I know that some of the fear fact amongers are
Speaker 4: all saying, what was the quote during the week from
Speaker 4: NRL Physio ticking was ticking time.
Speaker 1: Physio is getting the start off all the journeys this week,
Speaker 1: so he's becoming quite prominent.
Speaker 6: You're you're really worried about You're really worried about it.
Speaker 6: Earlier Buzz was sad the other night about Nelson. You're
Speaker 6: worried about Nathan.
Speaker 3: I just think break it to be a tragedy.
Speaker 9: Look at him and you can see him one tackle
Speaker 9: and he gets up and grabs it.
Speaker 3: I'm just need to be a tragedy for the game.
Speaker 2: I'm just worried about you too. Calls for I haven't
Speaker 2: clear and to coach the Blues. This is a big one.
Speaker 1: He's obviously had a lot of success, we know that,
Speaker 1: and Canny be successful for New South Wales.
Speaker 2: What does he want to be?
Speaker 4: I think he could be If you go back a
Speaker 4: couple of years when Freddy had lost the opening couple
Speaker 4: of games of his last series in charge, Will he
Speaker 4: went got to Ivan to sit the coach's box for
Speaker 4: game three they won. His son's the best player on
Speaker 4: the side. He's a future captain of the state. I
Speaker 4: think it can work. If I'm the new South Wales
Speaker 4: blues hierarchy, I'm straight out the M four on Monday,
Speaker 4: irrespective of what happened the man on Sunday. Well, because
Speaker 4: rick Ricky Stewarts ruled himself out, Laurie Daily will only
Speaker 4: go for it if they approach him. Guskuld ruled himself out.
Speaker 4: I just think of all the candidates, well, he's in
Speaker 4: a fifth straight Grand final. He knows all those penalty reason.
Speaker 9: He's in the fifth straight Grand final because he's not
Speaker 9: being disrupted during the season.
Speaker 3: No coach can do both. I'm adamant about that.
Speaker 9: Ivan's great success is that he's there preseason. He's not
Speaker 9: wearing a bad state of origin. He's not there or
Speaker 9: he's there rather than that big clump in the middle
Speaker 9: of the year and the emotional.
Speaker 4: Toilet takes on a coach given how successful they have been. Though,
Speaker 4: idea he is one of the fam What did you
Speaker 4: just say that.
Speaker 9: I think if he takes it, they're almost saying, look,
Speaker 9: we know we probably can't win it. I just think
Speaker 9: they're going to get there's no way that they will
Speaker 9: let him do it.
Speaker 2: Do you think if he takes it, he's giving out
Speaker 2: all the pants season.
Speaker 5: Got enough respect from the club that he could say.
Speaker 9: I'm just saying if he takes it and walks away
Speaker 9: essentially for six to eight weeks during the year.
Speaker 4: Is there a couple of years ago, remember he got
Speaker 4: crool and Camera Saldo had to take over.
Speaker 2: He didn't go to.
Speaker 4: Games, he was barely at training like he was actually
Speaker 4: genuinely in a fairly bad way. So I think Penrith
Speaker 4: have got that Juggernauts set up so well that you
Speaker 4: could allow Peter Wallace and Bed Garden of the assistance
Speaker 4: to take over for that six week block and it'd actually
Speaker 4: be great training for those two individuals. And I even
Speaker 4: could just focus totally on state of origin, not just
Speaker 4: six So you've got to.
Speaker 3: Do the whole season. You got your eye and your
Speaker 3: brain from round one.
Speaker 4: He's living it every week. He's living in every way.
Speaker 6: Has anyone spoken about Danny Bidiers as a potential candidate.
Speaker 2: I just thought about him today.
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 4: No, I hadn't heard his name, but I like what
Speaker 4: he's done in the jumper and he was obviously part
Speaker 4: of the coaching staff when Freddie was in there, so
Speaker 4: he understands how it all fits together from a playing
Speaker 4: point of view, but also from a coach's perspective.
Speaker 1: Adam Renolds has worn his teammates. Michael go I won't
Speaker 1: be holding back as the Bronco skipper opened up on
Speaker 1: the shock exit of Kevin Wilters.
Speaker 11: Yeah, a bit of mixed emotions, to be honest. Look,
Speaker 11: I've got a really good relationship with Kevy. I feel
Speaker 11: terrible about what's happened. I think as players when there
Speaker 11: takes some sort of ownership, and there was pretty much
Speaker 11: everyone in for that internal review, it was all pretty
Speaker 11: much anonymous, so I don't know what anyone said, but yeah,
Speaker 11: I was certainly a big porter of keV.
Speaker 4: I liked his coach and style. I thought he was
Speaker 4: a great coach.
Speaker 11: You know, I played some of my best football I
Speaker 11: believe underneath him, and that's above us as players. I've
Speaker 11: got a good relationship with Mudge obviously from over the years.
Speaker 11: He's a winner.
Speaker 4: He comes in, he.
Speaker 11: Demands success straight away, and he holds everyone accountable to
Speaker 11: their actions both on the field and off the field.
Speaker 11: And the boys, well get a bit of a shock.
Speaker 11: We need the hard processon. We obviously didn't have a
Speaker 11: good season last year and you know, no matter who
Speaker 11: the coach was, we need to bunk it down.
Speaker 1: Adam Reynold's there talking about Mage McGuire coming in and
Speaker 1: Kevin Walter's going out saying that Madge will ask some
Speaker 1: hard truths of the team. And I suppose Adam would
Speaker 1: know because he's played underneath him in the past.
Speaker 2: Thoughts on this.
Speaker 3: He's won a premiership with Maudge in fourteen.
Speaker 9: Madge will tip that club on its head, breath, and
Speaker 9: it needs to be tipped on the sea.
Speaker 3: The egos are out of control. And I'll tell you
Speaker 3: a couple of things.
Speaker 5: No players going on the board?
Speaker 6: Is he?
Speaker 5: Is he for the team? What's that?
Speaker 9: I think that some of the egos were out of control, Gordy,
Speaker 9: and you can either confirm will deny that.
Speaker 2: No, they're not.
Speaker 3: And I'll tell you what places walking through places on
Speaker 3: the place.
Speaker 5: Wasn't that bad? The injuries they have You won't see.
Speaker 3: That, I'm telling you. And you won't see no a
Speaker 3: polish either.
Speaker 5: You won't see on the fingers of.
Speaker 2: Wayne Benning.
Speaker 5: Okay, so Wayne Bennett was that right?
Speaker 6: A bloke walked in, he had a bad haircut, and
Speaker 6: I think it happened at the Dogs too. They sent him.
Speaker 6: He goes, you don't walk in this dress room. Won't
Speaker 6: they do that anymore? Because he loses the dressing room?
Speaker 3: Times have changed?
Speaker 2: Do you think that?
Speaker 1: Imagine maguire player, And this is no disrespect to Reese,
Speaker 1: but do you think he will allow this in the
Speaker 1: sheds at a night game, walking through with his versat
Speaker 1: on he's on. Do you think I can't visually see
Speaker 1: it or imagine, knowing Madge that he will allow that.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that at the end of the
Speaker 1: world that Reese has got freedom of choice to do that,
Speaker 1: But I don't think I cannot see it.
Speaker 2: Can you see this happening with Magic?
Speaker 6: I just think with all the young players now, you
Speaker 6: can't tell them what they were. You watch all them,
Speaker 6: you watch the Maddie John's couch. They've all got the
Speaker 6: labels on. They follow the NFL, they followed the basketball
Speaker 6: as you watch the more walk in in.
Speaker 2: The sheds though, like there's do you not look at
Speaker 2: that in the sheds?
Speaker 1: And like, I know it's a bit of judgmental, but
Speaker 1: you think Jesus confident this kid like he's you know,
Speaker 1: like which I like confidence and I like arrogance, but
Speaker 1: because you've got to have it to be the best,
Speaker 1: one of the best players in our game. You need
Speaker 1: that arrogance and that conference for the for belief and
Speaker 1: to think that you can dominate one.
Speaker 6: They wouldn't have said anything like Kathy Freeman in the
Speaker 6: suit Whendell Saylor wanted to wear when all Saylor wanted
Speaker 6: to wear silver boots in two thousand and we talked
Speaker 6: him out of it.
Speaker 5: Right, It's got to come.
Speaker 6: From the players, because if the coach does it, I
Speaker 6: don't think.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna ask one more. Do you think you'll
Speaker 2: see him like this next year?
Speaker 5: Absolutely? You do. Absolutely the coach five years.
Speaker 9: The coach sets the culture. And this is not a
Speaker 9: crack Kevi. I know you love Kevin. I love him,
Speaker 9: but I just think things will change and he will not.
Speaker 9: He being Ryche Walsh won't dream of doing that if
Speaker 9: that dressing room is different.
Speaker 2: All right, now, will Matt? There were getting there?
Speaker 1: Now, let's cross back to the daly Ms where Jake
Speaker 1: is with the night Skipper with.
Speaker 8: The reigning Dahim medalist Kaylen Ponger KP. Take me back
Speaker 8: to last year. How did it feel to have your
Speaker 8: name read out at the end there.
Speaker 12: It was pretty surreal, to be honest. There was a
Speaker 12: bit of a shock, a bit of a surprise, something
Speaker 12: that I look back on in many years, no doubt, and.
Speaker 10: Be pretty proud of.
Speaker 12: But yeah, it was as a special moment.
Speaker 8: I remember interviewing your mum on the red carpet last year.
Speaker 8: She didn't give you much of a chance, she said, No.
Speaker 12: She's my harshest critic, my mum. She thinks I'm slow,
Speaker 12: she thinks them all these sort of things. But she
Speaker 12: had a beautiful night. It is a beautiful night for
Speaker 12: many reasons, and no doubt tonight will be another one.
Speaker 8: How are you feeling You obviously had a very good
Speaker 8: back end of the season this year. Do you think
Speaker 8: another run on the cards possibly? Or what are you
Speaker 8: thinking for the daim Oh?
Speaker 10: Definitely me.
Speaker 12: No, I think I think Jerome Jeromes Hughes, that's my tip,
Speaker 12: but no doubt will get points.
Speaker 2: At the end.
Speaker 12: There was a it seemed like a lot of people
Speaker 12: hit for him back end of the year, and yeah,
Speaker 12: but I think it's it's room, is.
Speaker 5: Not OKAYP Thanks for your time going and joy the night.
Speaker 10: Thank you chis.
Speaker 2: While we're on the subject, did you like his hearings?
Speaker 3: Loved him thinking get anyone for Christmas?
Speaker 4: You you would you ever do the nails?
Speaker 2: The color?
Speaker 5: He doesn't want to put it in your little t Rex.
Speaker 2: Guinea pick.
Speaker 3: The show said you know a bulldo you? You called me?
Speaker 5: That's true?
Speaker 2: Now it will select Pong in the Australian team.
Speaker 4: I think it all comes down to whether Dylan Edwards
Speaker 4: and Nathan Cleary make themselves available after Sunday Night breaks.
Speaker 4: So there's been in a bait over the course last
Speaker 4: ten days of will you or won't he is in?
Speaker 4: Dylan Edwards be available. If he is, I think he's
Speaker 4: straight in and I think he wears a number one jumper.
Speaker 4: If he's not well, then all of a sudden, male's
Speaker 4: got to have a rethink. Does he remain with Tedesco,
Speaker 4: who is the incumbent captain, or does he go with
Speaker 4: Kalen who, in fairness did have an eleven out of
Speaker 4: ten performance against the Cowboys even though Newcastle were beat
Speaker 4: in one of the.
Speaker 9: Final Lineral has demanded that he comes back and makes
Speaker 9: himself available. He's done that, whether it be right or
Speaker 9: wrong in the first place, is another debate for another day.
Speaker 9: But if he is now available, and the enneral has
Speaker 9: pushed for this, how do you not pick him?
Speaker 2: But was it a reluctant availability?
Speaker 9: It was break But how does mal now say, Okay,
Speaker 9: you've gone through the protocols, you've gone through the process,
Speaker 9: you're now back your available. You've done the right thing
Speaker 9: about an a rule, But hey, I'm not going to
Speaker 9: pick you. It makes the whole process seem ridiculous.
Speaker 4: Well, no, not not if Dylan Edwards is available. But
Speaker 4: I think that's fair game. You're entitled to pick Dylan.
Speaker 4: He's one the star of origin series with the Blues.
Speaker 4: This year, he's been one of Penrith's best in the
Speaker 4: run of five straight Grand finals. I think that's okay.
Speaker 4: I think that's play on more with Klein. I don't
Speaker 4: know how much of a disservice he's done himself by
Speaker 4: the way he's handled it from start to finish, by
Speaker 4: not picking up the phone of mail, by just announcing
Speaker 4: it on social media that sorry, I'm not going to
Speaker 4: make myself available, no injury. It was all very confucious
Speaker 4: and perplexing.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have.
Speaker 9: Not if he came out and said I don't want
Speaker 9: to play. I wouldn't have forced him to play. I
Speaker 9: just would have said, okay, you've made your bed, You've
Speaker 9: got three years.
Speaker 4: I don't worry about it to play.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 6: Maybe too good to Maybe he didn't realize, right, he's
Speaker 6: had a long year, he's played.
Speaker 4: Did realize, well, now he does. No, he realized what
Speaker 4: he was doing. He put a statement out saying just
Speaker 4: letting you know, I'm more focused on trying to win
Speaker 4: a premiership with Newcastle than playing for Australia. So I
Speaker 4: withdrawing from the Pacific Championship. So I don't want to
Speaker 4: wear the greening.
Speaker 3: If I'm a Newcastle and I'm happy with that, and
Speaker 3: that's fine too.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but someone's gonna have to pay for that decision,
Speaker 9: and it's got to be him on the screen because
Speaker 9: he made it.
Speaker 3: And now, in my eyes, that's a three year ban.
Speaker 5: Your fingers a little good at that?
Speaker 2: Now, three Ben, that's huge.
Speaker 9: Well, Braith, what for Blake watched the Turney's back on
Speaker 9: the Green and Gold.
Speaker 3: I think there's got to be some punishment.
Speaker 2: We're all entitled to our opinion.
Speaker 1: That's fine, let's head back to the Darien as Jake
Speaker 1: is with the Bulldogs.
Speaker 8: Catch with Dogs coach Cameron Serraldo. Cameron, congratulations nominated for
Speaker 8: Coach of the Year. How you're feeling about going up
Speaker 8: against Ivan your old mentor and Craig Bellamy as well.
Speaker 13: It's a little bit weird, I've got to be honest,
Speaker 13: but it's just good to be here and have a
Speaker 13: few of our boys nominated and celebrate what was a
Speaker 13: really good season.
Speaker 10: But yeah, left us hungry for more.
Speaker 8: You mentioned some of your boys nominated. Stephen Crichton for captain.
Speaker 8: What did he do for this dog side this year?
Speaker 8: Why does he deserve that award?
Speaker 13: I just had such a massive influence he for someone
Speaker 13: to come new to a club and just leads straight
Speaker 13: away and lead with actions and experience, he's just brilliant.
Speaker 13: So I just thought he had such a massive influence
Speaker 13: and deserves to be recognized tonight.
Speaker 8: What about Jacob Krraz obviously had a really great season
Speaker 8: as well. He's up for Winger of the Year. Probably
Speaker 8: an underrated player, but he was fantastic for you guys.
Speaker 10: Yeah, not underrated in our four walls.
Speaker 13: We love what he does and he had such a
Speaker 13: good year and he carried a lot of injuries throughout
Speaker 13: the season as well, so really excited about him getting
Speaker 13: back to full fitness over the off season and see
Speaker 13: what he can do next year.
Speaker 8: Pest of the Year, do you think you've got a
Speaker 8: favorite for that in Reid Marney.
Speaker 10: Yeah, he's a pest every day, but we love him.
Speaker 13: He just goes out and competes, and yeah, he led
Speaker 13: that this year, so hopefully he gets an award for
Speaker 13: it somewhere.
Speaker 8: Just finally, obviously on the Grand Final. You're a big
Speaker 8: part of the Panthers, you know, I haven't so well.
Speaker 8: How unbelievable is that they're going to a fifth straight
Speaker 8: Grand Final.
Speaker 13: It's just awesome now, and it's no surprise because they
Speaker 13: work so hard and they tick every box and yeah,
Speaker 13: and their players just lead by example. It's just so humble.
Speaker 10: Never never have an ego get to him or anything.
Speaker 10: So yeah, they deserve everything they get.
Speaker 5: Camp.
Speaker 8: Thanks for your time and enjoy they're not thanks mane.
Speaker 1: Now it's time to present the Peter Frilingos Headline Moment
Speaker 1: of the Year. There was some amazing nominees, the Hammers
Speaker 1: amazing solo try, the Panthers incredible comeback, but the winner
Speaker 1: is Xavier Coach match winning try against the Warriors.
Speaker 2: And how good was this guy?
Speaker 5: That was amazing.
Speaker 6: With all the wingers what they do these days to
Speaker 6: get the ball down, this is probably the best I've seen.
Speaker 5: Great guy, what is he?
Speaker 6: Six foot five and looking at it in fast motion?
Speaker 6: He doesn't get that bulldown, does he? And then they
Speaker 6: slow it down? This is unbelievable.
Speaker 5: Dog. That's off the.
Speaker 9: Charts even for the wingers these days. And what they do.
Speaker 9: You look back at the old days and the great
Speaker 9: wingers like an Eric Growth example, but you know they
Speaker 9: couldn't do that.
Speaker 3: The wingers these days are so brilliant and they're so agile.
Speaker 3: It's unbelievable what they can do.
Speaker 4: What gives it even grammatically phenomenal bulldog, But what gives
Speaker 4: it even more gravitas is in the context of that match,
Speaker 4: they had to score that He had to contort himself
Speaker 4: the way that he did and ground that ball to
Speaker 4: win the game for the Storm. So to do it
Speaker 4: the full time siren was about the sound an outstanding effort.
Speaker 4: Also just an honorable mention. That foot race between the
Speaker 4: Fox and the Hammer, that was a highlight moment as well.
Speaker 4: That was brilliant vision.
Speaker 1: I'll tell he's been brilliant you too. You're very much
Speaker 1: outstanding the guinea pick things. I think you were a bud.
Speaker 3: I'll be back for early next year with my hearings.
Speaker 4: Give a long one a diamond, Diamond
Speaker 1: Who worked as a generous Steve bockeration, Billy Moore and
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