WEBVTT - Matty And Cronk Origin Series and Round 19 Takeaways 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:03.400 Well, coups on back, mate, that's been Where have you 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:09.000 been Washington? P and G and a terrible bout of 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:10.160 influenza and you've. 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:12.959 Come back with a terrible haircut on the way. 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:19.279 Let me well, then those drone shots in P and 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:23.680 G where it's happy with them. 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:26.760 I looked and I just went, Jesus, the boys might 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:29.240 have a point. But it will happen, mate, I'm too coop. 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:31.760 It'll happen. Don't worry. I mean not that long ago. 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:34.960 I was actually considering getting a perm at one point. 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:39.240 And then suddenly what happens is it just starts. You 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:40.680 start to see little things happen. 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:43.360 So you you're trying to grow new hair. 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:45.120 Now you get rid of my wife. 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:49.040 She started buying all these concoctions, but it was doing nothing. 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:52.280 It'll happen, mate, You'll be and I guarantee you. 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:54.960 You give you one of those blokes that's got one 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:59.320 hair and you'll just you'll put it around like a turban. 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:01.880 And every time the Norris change happened, I'll be just 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:03.680 this one here, just. 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:04.800 Like a lassu. 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:07.640 Anyway, the last three shows, you haven't been here to 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:08.679 be in the highest rating, so. 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:09.760 Continue it's bullshit. 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:16.640 Continue bullshit a state of origin, big big difference, Coops. 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:18.560 From your angle, what do you think. 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:22.360 Well, it's almost like criticism sharpens the sword for New 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:26.840 South Wales and praise just softens the mindset slightly. And 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:29.360 in origin decider like if you just get a little 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:31.760 bit of difference of what you've done for two games previous. 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:34.600 I think New South Wales played the way that we 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:37.520 probably all expected them to play throughout the series. They 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:41.080 got it done in the biggest moment, I thought, clearly, 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:45.520 obviously great painhas terrific. The back roll is just annoyed 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:49.080 the New Queensland halves, and there's just a couple of 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:51.520 errors at Queensland that just cost them big time. And 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:54.760 when you give a bit like Game one, New South 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:56.120 Wales had all those errors to. 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:56.640 Start the game. 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:59.920 Queensland dominated field positions called points and New South Wales 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:01.279 did exactly the same thing. 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:03.640 I thought. I thought New South bal was really simplified. 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.000 They were attack to Coops, I thought, I. 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:09.600 Mean, and I reckon, we see that the player that 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:13.120 I think symbolizes that most was Nathan, you know, and 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:17.000 Coops you were Nathan very very similar players, and Nathan 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:21.120 plays in a system like your Melbourne system at Penrith 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:22.880 at club Land, which is very complex. 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:24.120 It's a complex system. 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:27.079 There's you know, the players are like pawns. Everyone is 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:29.959 in their exact right spot, hitting the gap at the 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:32.680 right point. It's very hard and that but that and 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:34.480 that type of system let people don't takes you a 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:35.400 long while to master. 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:37.799 Yeah, there was a couple of moments to me early 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:39.600 on that said Nathan was in for a big game. 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:42.040 When we ran out in the field, like he smiled, 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:44.680 he looked like he was just dialed in and nothing 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:46.680 was going to phase him. And there was a state 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:48.800 when he scored that first try that was a statement. 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:51.400 That was statement that New South Wales's best player is 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:53.400 on in Queensland. You're going to have to go up 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:55.080 another couple of gears to stop him. 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:58.040 The similarities between you and you and Nathan, I see 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:01.320 that through the difficulty in the past that Nathan and 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:04.000 Teddy have had trying to form combination. I remember the 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:06.240 first half of the year you guys played together. It 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:08.200 was like you were playing one style of football, he 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:09.119 was trying to play the other. 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:13.359 Eventually he's got it right. And as far as. 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:16.120 That relationship in this game, you know, we're playmakers and 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:19.400 we have a playmaker bias. So I was always like, 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:21.560 come on, Teddy, you've got to bend and Nathan, you 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:24.040 got to play Nathan ball. On the other night, Nathan 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:27.280 played more Teddy ball. It was like straight a lot 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:28.120 of direct running. 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:30.600 To talk about the system, at the end of the day, 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:32.520 it doesn't matter what system you're in place. 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:34.000 If you're a spine. 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:36.000 As soon as you get a quick play the ball, 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:39.360 play north South, not east west. Take him on early 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:43.160 and just react to quick momentum. I thought Payton Hass 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:46.400 was brilliant, but it was just a big epic context 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:49.120 like how good is origin as a decider. I don't 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:51.080 miss football at all. But I'll tell you what, when 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.160 the game kicked off, that's the type of game you'd 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:53.880 like to be involved. 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:56.560 If you look the Blues tries coops you said about 0:03:56.560 --> 0:04:02.000 playing North South, just about all New South Wales tries. 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:03.440 Whereas the result of. 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:06.280 Playing through Coinsland, it's very different to the first couple 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:06.800 of games. 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:09.040 And you know, I mean he's one right foot. 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.000 That's a halfbacks stream to start the game. 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:11.720 It is close. 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:15.320 The line back roll comes off, sideways, run forward, beat them, 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.640 score and that just set the time like annoying months 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:21.640 to dear Lean Martin and clear is just you know, 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:24.480 the beneficiuy of some pretty good interchange of passing. But 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:27.200 it was a great start from New South Wales. Powerful 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:30.440 and I thought Reuben Cotton made an error. It was 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:33.320 almost like which team blink first, kind of made that 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:35.120 era at New South Wales scored two tries. 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:38.120 That was pretty soft, but that was the difference at 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:39.280 the end of the beginning of the game. 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.159 Quickly it's talking. I mean a lot's been said about it. 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.680 It was there's no doubt like when you look at 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:47.120 there was that angle where you could see it Flicky's 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.839 fingers and they said, oh, but the other angle it 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:52.440 went and you go, but hang on first angle the 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:53.960 seats it touched off. 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:55.520 Three key moments we'll do. 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:59.880 My first key moment is that coops for the first 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:02.480 minutes of the game, New South Wales were really under 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:05.680 the pump. I thought that Queensland were dominating yardage that 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:09.480 looked very good. And then sometimes just the tiniest thing 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:12.640 will happen, just a little thing, just that little pebble 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:15.680 in the pond, and you see the residual. 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:16.960 Effect and it was Jack Bostov. 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:23.200 Bostock just accelerates between defenders here like that is really simple, 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:27.520 but okay, gets up, gets it six again and New 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:30.880 South Wales could not get field positioned. Just that simple run, 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:34.120 that tiny little penetration there give him six more. After that, 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:37.320 New south Wales dominated yardage for the next for the 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:37.960 entire person. 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.240 If he doesn't bounce off his left and get through 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:44.600 to defenders, Nicker rag dolls him backwards. Yeah, and that 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:46.920 means they're what twenty meters off where the next play 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:49.560 the ball means means they're twenty meters further away from 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:53.960 the kick. One of the moments for me was Mitch 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:57.520 Moses kicking game just in general, like if there was 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:01.600 any field position or defensive lits win from Queensland, his 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:02.880 kick made it neutral. 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:03.440 Yep. 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.760 And it was good play from Nathan just to say, hey, Mitch, 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:10.480 whenever inside forty you take care of it. Because he 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:14.480 was turning average sets into good sets, he was turning 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:16.520 bad sets into neutral sets. 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:19.080 He just kicked the absolute cover off the. 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:21.600 Football and it really helped Nathan out because I mean, 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:25.120 Nathan has suffered from soft tissue injuries and I got 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.320 no doubt as a result of how much work. 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:29.200 He put to his long kicks and short kicks. The 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:30.360 alders to relieve. 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:32.800 Himself for that long kicking game and just focus on 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:33.760 the attacking kicks. 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:35.279 It's exactly how we thought would happen. 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:37.680 In Game two, we spoke about Mitch Moe's being the 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:40.800 five eight and just doing this like honestly, like he's 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:43.880 kicking a different football at times compared to Sam Walker 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:44.239 and Monster. 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:47.880 During this game, another moment for me was Stephen Crichton. 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:48.800 Stephen Crichton. 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:51.200 One of the things that defines to find the first 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:54.520 two games was the innability of New South Wales right 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:59.719 aage to control that favorite side with Nathan with Kaylyn 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.239 just wing into the left. Crichton coming to the side 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:04.720 was vital. There was a couple of defensive reads early 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.080 and I think gave confidence this one. He just backs 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:09.159 off a little bit, you know, he doesn't commit himself 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:09.840 to a decision. 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:13.960 Up another one here out banged. Now these ones. 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.400 Really interesting good center defense. It was just the presence 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:19.560 of him here. There is genuine opportunity there. But you 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:22.320 see him just go up and that just spooked Monster again. 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:25.280 They are only little body movements, but that's elite defense. 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:27.880 Like those players at Queensland were thrown at him. That 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:31.200 was pretty good. Cap Well Pong Munthster in and around it, 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:33.800 and he had his head on a swivel and made 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:37.040 some good defensive played. That is Stephen Krichton at his best. 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:39.880 He is the best center in the world and defensively 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:42.200 it is hard to get past. He's had some issues, 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:45.680 but that game was a moment for me. I already 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:47.600 said it was the rubn coottter error to start with 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:50.720 in a big game. Origin decided these two teams were 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:53.920 ferocious at each other and it's almost like who is 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:56.720 the first team to blink? And Cotda is a beast, 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:59.240 Codda is a worker and as soon as he dropped 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:02.320 that ball, it was just a little win, a little 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:03.520 victory for New South Wales. 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:06.640 So I think that set the tide for the game. 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:09.720 Kem Murray, there's another moment for me that Kem Murray try. 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:12.080 That was just evidence of how New South Wales was 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:14.920 winning the yardage game and how they're direct North South 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:17.880 type of football was working. I mean, as far as 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:21.160 Origin standards, I don't like the years that the word soft, but. 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:21.520 That is. 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.880 Adam Phil Blake came onto the field started causing some 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:30.880 rough speed and the fact that is it Reuben Cottter 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:34.360 there just allowed space. Kem Murray has the ability to 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:36.720 move his body in a way that he can get 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:39.320 through gaps and a meter out for the line to 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.280 have Ruben Kotta just a meter off of space allowed 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:45.360 Murray to spin turn and get that ball down. That 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:47.440 was a big play actually, because it went from being 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:51.120 a competitive game on the school board like Queensland school one, 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:53.800 like they did before halftime, that one blew it out 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:54.760 to a dominant start. 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:55.720 Yep yeap. 0:08:55.840 --> 0:09:00.280 Certainly some of the key performances Paynt hass was. I mean, 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:04.520 it's very very rare that he doesn't have a dominant game. 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:06.679 But what was interesting about this one Laurie had him 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:09.880 operating wher in a wider field position to get at 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:10.680 the east defenders. 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:13.120 Haven't seen him use much like that before. 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:17.000 Yeah, steamrolled Camera Munster a couple of times. He was enormous. 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:19.880 He was so good. Nathan gets a lot of apps. 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:22.440 But the couple of key performers for me is not 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:25.160 necessarily the new South Wales halfback. It's this guy, but 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:28.600 that that's one of one with a monthster on the edge. 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:29.720 That is game plan. 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.559 And then funny coops like we look at tackle counts 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:35.920 a lot of times aren't accurate. I think attempted tackles 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:38.280 should count because I mean, if you look at Pain 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:41.400 every time he takes the ball up, you know he's 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:43.720 basically until mostly he's got five guys attempting. 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:45.600 Look at this, Sam Walker, like, can't get the body 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:47.520 in front. Quick play the ball, the damage is done. 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:50.040 Next look at this, Yeah, bump down the road, get down, 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:53.520 play the ball. So when Paine starts tackle two on 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:56.199 Sam Walker or Camera Munster, it might be a three 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:58.320 second player the ball, but the fact is the next 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:00.880 one's a three and a half second player. Then the 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:02.599 try scored on a four and our second play the 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.880 boo because Queensland defense cannot set so Sam and months 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:08.400 to make a tackle. But as you said, it's the 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:11.080 compound effect of that quick play the ball that paint 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:14.040 Us generates that ends up scoring a try at some stage. 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:15.000 And just rolling off that. 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:16.960 If you're going to talk about Pain hats and that 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:21.280 combination working, then Adam Faniel Blake, paint comes goes off 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:24.319 the field, Adam comes on and we've been waiting. Well, 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:27.199 I've been waiting for Adam to play his best football 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:29.719 on that level because before the game, if you tell 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:31.920 me Payne Hasse and Adam fanil Blake are really dominant, 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:32.920 I just go, we're going to win it. 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:37.160 Laurie Daly got this change exactly right, brought him on 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:40.280 at exactly the right time. But credit to for noil Blake. 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:43.360 His first four or five charges were like that, that 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:47.440 is good sort of momentum, good statement. 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:50.880 No, he played well, like just there was just moments. 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:51.439 Look at that. 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:54.760 That's a big body find the front, fighting through ageinst 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:57.520 the offload. That's Adam fanil Blake at his best. Yeah. 0:10:57.559 --> 0:10:59.720 That late footwork is just so dangerous. 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:02.199 You get big guys, you know where reached defenders and 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.160 you get big guys running at you and you can 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:05.920 handle them to a certain extent. 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:09.200 At times, but when they've got late footwork made, it 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.320 makes them so different. It's so difficult. 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:14.000 One the other key performers for me mate from a 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:17.920 New South Wales point of view, the Hudson Young Leam Martin. 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:24.040 They were annoying physical presence. There was a Hudson Young 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:27.520 gave Way penalty on Sam Walker which ultimately was a penalty, 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:29.920 but I don't mind it because he's making a young 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.400 halfback realize that I'm about to know the hell out 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:33.480 of you for the next eighty minutes. 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:35.800 They came as advertised and that both of them came out. 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:38.199 They did, and just so we're going to go. We're 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:41.679 going to go like and that was instructed, no doubt 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:45.000 from Laurie to say, mate, come on, let's put this 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:45.560 guy on notice. 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:48.640 Take some kahounas to say that during the week and 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:51.080 then go and deliver. We've seen a lot of people 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:54.000 say things during the week like they're going to talk 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:57.400 a big game, but then not back it up. HUDs 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:01.560 and Young was great. Leam Martin's defense. He's intimidating as 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:02.520 anyone in the competition. 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:04.480 Yep, some of that shots he put on the times 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:07.080 and like you said before, I once go far to 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:10.120 say as so far to say, as you know, he's 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:11.440 in Monster's head all the time. 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:12.800 It's just it's just irritating. 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:14.200 He's not it's just a good battle. 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.079 But you could highlight clips and say months want of 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:19.959 victory there, Lean Martin's won a victory there. 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:23.120 But he is just he is just a He is 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.319 a rep player through and through Lear Martin. 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:27.319 And you see him in the sheds a couple of 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:29.400 weeks ago, had him in the sheds. He was doing 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:32.240 the breathing exercise and it was just evidence of how 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:33.800 he gets himself up emotionally well. 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:34.880 He knows he needs to. 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:36.680 There's a guy that's the lead, that knows where he 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:39.520 needs to be at and if he's redlining too much, 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:41.920 he probably gives away a penalty here there, it costs 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:45.040 his team. So those type of exercises, not only Martin, 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:46.960 every player in the competition is doing it to try 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:49.880 and get themselves in the perfect state to go and perform. 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:53.480 And he was brilliant like that is a type of 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:56.000 performance that has Lia Martin picked in every New South 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:57.320 Wales team from here on out. 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:00.360 We spoke on Mitch most as four coups and you 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:02.400 got to give Laurier Rappi. He took some. 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:05.240 He took some big gambles as far as selections, as 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:08.559 far as not so much changing the team but keeping 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.400 some of the guys in. There was the Tedesco situation 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:13.640 that I thought he was under threat from Dylan Edwards. 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:14.839 Moses is the. 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:19.240 Big one because that second game he struggled in that 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:21.800 second game, but more than that that the follow up 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:24.360 performance against Sow Sitting in that Friday night game, it 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:26.520 was as bad as you see Mitchell play, and. 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:29.480 He looked out of sorts. He looked a long way 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:29.880 from fit. 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:32.840 I asked Lori again, and I said, picking Mitchell, did 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:35.280 you have a conversation with Mitchell before Game three? 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:38.280 And did you consult Nathan? And he said no, I didn't. 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:40.280 He said, I picked him in game two even though 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:43.160 I knew he was one hundred percent fit with Game 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:45.440 three in mind, because you want there one nil up 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:45.880 in the series. 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:47.160 He knew how Portny was going to be. 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:49.400 He said, if I knew I picked him in game two, 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:51.080 he might have been a little bit off, but I 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:52.880 was backing to be right for game three. 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:57.720 That's like for every rat that Billy got last year, 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:00.679 for what dropping Cherry Evans bringing in did and ultimately 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:04.319 won the series, Laurie deserves exactly the same credit because 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:07.640 that was a balancing Do you bring Ethan Strange in? 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:09.000 Do you stick with Moses? 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:10.839 And I'm going to give mos a big rap here 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:14.800 for a guy that has confidence, likes to be the 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:18.360 main man. He realized that Nathan was on scored the 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:19.280 first two tries. 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:21.920 So what's Mitch to, I'm going to kick us to 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:22.600 victory here. 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:24.560 Every time we're in a bad spot, I'm going to 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:26.240 be the guy that kicks at sixty on the fly 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:28.760 and we're going to start winning this battle because winning 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:31.920 for New South Wales is way more important than someone 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:34.560 being the big dog on the night. So he definitely 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:38.360 played second field. But it was a class act performance 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:38.960 from Mitch. 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:42.760 Let's as we look at Nathan Cleary's all these sort 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:46.280 of quality touches and touches throughout the discussion about him. 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:49.560 I think there were two types of commentary going into 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.200 the game, and I thought both were inaccurate in some ways. 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.760 The first one was, oh, Nathan made if he does 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:56.480 name up here, he's never going to be remember it 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:57.920 as a great origin player and. 0:14:58.160 --> 0:14:59.640 Spot might be that's wrong. 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:02.280 To the other one, that was wrong too, mate, Nathan's 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:04.240 got nothing to prove, He's got nothing to prove gun 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:05.560 in the state of origent. I thought that one was 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:09.120 wrong as well, wrong right, mate, And what he did, 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:12.000 if anything he had to you could see he wanted 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:15.280 to prove it to himself that he could take his domination, 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:18.280 which he does at club level at Penrith and do 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:19.800 it at State of Origin level. 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:21.720 I don't think could play a couple of poor Origin 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.560 series and I still believe he's one of the greats, 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:26.600 Like he is a freak of nage. The way that 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:30.120 he's been able to develop his career control some really 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:35.040 brilliant moments. And the one thing for me that worried 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:37.680 me during the week and the lead up was him 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:42.760 owning a performance, owning a bad performance when an elite 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:46.040 player can sit there and go, you know what, Yeah, 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:48.840 I wasn't good. I didn't deliver on x Onye and Z, 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:51.320 but I'm going to work on that and I'm going 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:53.680 to deliver in the next one. That is the sign 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:55.440 of a gunplayer. And you just know the way that 0:15:55.520 --> 0:16:00.320 Nathan plays that two bad performances are never consecutive. There 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:02.840 is a big gap between a bad performance and his 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:06.640 next one. It just happened to be an Origin decider 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.080 and Queensland with a victim of his performance and will. 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:11.160 Done to Isaiah Ah two. He was captain of the series. 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:14.840 She had a lot of great leadership going into game three. 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:18.480 I thought I thought a lot of people thought that'd 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:21.680 start with Murray, but Laurie stuck with his skipper there. 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:24.640 So made he was terrific. And coming out of that series. 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:27.760 I look at, you know, Penrith in the last month, 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:30.600 during the origin period, there has been a lot of distractions. 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:32.160 It's a roller coach for those players. 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:34.720 But coming out of that series, the way the Penrith 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:37.640 players performed, you just got made. They're going to take 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:40.560 some sort of stopping three players coops you thought, and 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:41.640 enhanced their reputation. 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:46.640 Sam Walker, yeah, definitely elevated himself from a potential REP 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:50.880 player to a REP player, but Game three knocked him 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:52.600 back a little bit and Nathan went to another level. 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:54.080 He needs a final way to go to. 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:59.720 Nathan's level went on the back foote. 0:16:58.440 --> 0:16:59.480 For me, yeah, big time. 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.560 I thought he was Queensland's best player across the series. 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:04.560 If you're give in Queensland's best player, that was Selwyn 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:08.760 and Hudson Young before the game. Hudson before Game one. 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:10.800 Hudson would have been if he plays while he's in 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:13.240 the side, but if he doesn't, maybe Ola Kawa t 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:18.280 Martin fits in. His performance consistently and particularly Game three, 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:21.879 he's now elevated to He was probably already elite, but 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:25.520 he's very much intrenched into elite status. 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:27.720 I'm with you, Sam Walker, it was an obvious one. 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:30.520 Saw and Cobo as well. I also had Bradman best 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:30.920 down there. 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:34.960 For whatever reason, we underestimate him, Like whenever you think, right, 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:36.240 we're going who we're going to pick and you go 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:39.040 Stephen Crichton, Latrelle and have all these other guys. Bradman 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:42.639 gets forgotten to a certain extent, but he always aims up. 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:45.440 And the other one I've got is Max Plath. Yeah, 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:49.679