Speaker 1: Welcome to L three sixty Rugby League. From every angle,
Speaker 1: bats you buy Ford Everest joining me, the Great Gordon
Speaker 1: Tallis in the Journal Australian Buzz Rock and Brent Reid
Speaker 1: and on a weekend of rugby League it was the
Speaker 1: Broncos are back, the sharkis well, they're nose diving and
Speaker 1: the Rooster's really they're going right, they're going.
Speaker 2: They came out they Yeah, never in doubt, bro never doubt,
Speaker 2: that's for sure. Yeah, maybe maybe I did.
Speaker 1: Have you changed your mind?
Speaker 2: I've said on here several times break I think Frent
Speaker 2: Robinson's coaching his socks off at the moment, and I
Speaker 2: stand by that he's doing a great job with them.
Speaker 1: Really well. Put the line through them.
Speaker 2: I did put a line through them about two months ago.
Speaker 1: Said they wouldn't be in contention. What about the Sharks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, disappointing, mate. I can't defend them here.
Speaker 4: You can't blow sixteen point leads the manner in which
Speaker 4: they did yesterday.
Speaker 3: Very very disappointing.
Speaker 1: We're going to have to defend them in about ten minutes.
Speaker 3: Best Brady, it's hard to do.
Speaker 1: You always do your best. I love your opinions to
Speaker 1: Tom Draboviach has front of the media as the superstar
Speaker 1: fallback makes a move into the centers and mainly desperately
Speaker 1: try to get this season back on track.
Speaker 5: Yeah, look, it's that's just all external noise to us.
Speaker 5: We know where we want to go as as a
Speaker 5: footy club, and and yeah, that that's a a certain
Speaker 5: noise we're not going to get to us where we're
Speaker 5: focused on what we need to do.
Speaker 2: How'd you go on your set on the h Yeah?
Speaker 6: Good, Yeah, I went, well what did you have to say?
Speaker 7: What you do?
Speaker 5: I'm not going to go into everything that was discussed.
Speaker 5: It's just not a platform to do that.
Speaker 2: It's on the decision you to go to center this
Speaker 2: sweet is that one you made?
Speaker 5: Look, it's it's a decision that I think when you
Speaker 5: look at it. Obviously I had a lot of being
Speaker 5: pot from the coaches, but you know, we've got someone
Speaker 5: like Layer. There's a very good fallback and some different
Speaker 5: change for me and one of I'm excited for.
Speaker 2: I had the coaches done studies and all that with you,
Speaker 2: and there wasn't that much difference in the physicality at all.
Speaker 2: Is that is that right?
Speaker 5: Or so? I don't really dive too deeply into those studies.
Speaker 5: You'd have to ask someone smarter than meat and do
Speaker 5: it that out Danny, but at it, yeah, you have
Speaker 5: to ask him. I'm not I'm not hun. I'm not
Speaker 5: going to stand him before you. I'm an expert and
Speaker 5: physical output when it comes to playing in position. But
Speaker 5: all I know is I'm excited.
Speaker 1: This Friday night, that was a bit awkward there with
Speaker 1: Denny Turbo Thoms, Avoid's superstar fullback now center. Gordy says
Speaker 1: that the decision seems to be obviously made by the coaches.
Speaker 1: Do we think he looks or he's unhappy about it?
Speaker 7: I suppose it'd probably be a little bit of a
Speaker 7: hit to the ego because that was his position and
Speaker 7: he's arguably one of the best fullbacks ever to grace
Speaker 7: the footy field. But I think the injuries that he's had,
Speaker 7: the way Hop Hop Award he's playing, I think the move,
Speaker 7: you know, may have sort of forced their hand a
Speaker 7: little bit.
Speaker 1: Really you were there or were you there?
Speaker 2: You mean, didn't we got into the side break that
Speaker 2: was the TV interview that.
Speaker 8: Newspapers No, no, no, I didn't don't start me off. Look,
Speaker 8: he was disappointed there's no doubt about that break. When
Speaker 8: we spoke to him to the side, I actually said,
Speaker 8: we are shocked by and he said, yeah, definitely. And
Speaker 8: you know, he's a great player who's made his name
Speaker 8: as a great fullback in this game. And I don't
Speaker 8: blame him for being you'd be disappointed if he wasn't disappointed. Yes,
Speaker 8: in the fact he's been moved, and I don't think
Speaker 8: this is necessary a permanent thing.
Speaker 2: I think this will be. The reason he's been moved
Speaker 2: is get his confidence back, get some belief back in
Speaker 2: his body. And I think once he gets that, I
Speaker 2: think he'd be back at full back.
Speaker 1: Was it in the media before he found out?
Speaker 2: I don't think so, Broth. I think he found out
Speaker 2: at that meeting. He had those mid season reviews they
Speaker 2: had on Monday last week, and I think he knew
Speaker 2: about it. He was informed about it, and then it
Speaker 2: came out after that.
Speaker 4: So I find this a bit disrespectful to the player.
Speaker 3: We talk in all time club legend. We're talking.
Speaker 4: I've seen Slater, I've seen t Desk, I've seen Turbo,
Speaker 4: and Turbo is right up there and the best fullback
Speaker 4: I've ever seen play this game. And to move to
Speaker 4: such a dramatic move from wearing that number one jersey
Speaker 4: which he's owned at that football club for a very.
Speaker 3: Long period of time. It needs to be a joint decision.
Speaker 4: It needed turbos buy in, and I thought he's earned
Speaker 4: that buy in from his service to the club to
Speaker 4: do it in a joint decision with Seabolt. Now, the
Speaker 4: first we knew about this happening, I don't know if
Speaker 4: Turbo was told first. We read about it online and
Speaker 4: in the newspaper. For such a big move, I think
Speaker 4: it's disrespectful to the player reading.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure he's on board with this.
Speaker 2: I don't think he's Buzz's no doubt he's not happy
Speaker 2: about it. You could tell from his demeanor today. There's
Speaker 2: no doubt.
Speaker 1: He's not that.
Speaker 3: But you don't think he's earned from what he's done
Speaker 3: for that club.
Speaker 4: And you go back to the dalm You and I
Speaker 4: know he's missed a lot of footy games, so I
Speaker 4: know he's had he struggles with fitness.
Speaker 3: To do a decision, you need him on board.
Speaker 1: I'll ask you. You've played with some big, big names,
Speaker 1: something great of our game, and Tommy's up there right, Yes,
Speaker 1: do you think he deserved more respect and should have
Speaker 1: been consulted.
Speaker 7: I'm a consulted No, No, you consult the best player.
Speaker 7: So I got no doubt when Darren Locky moved from
Speaker 7: fullback to five eight, right, he would have been asked,
Speaker 7: and you know, and if he said no, in the end,
Speaker 7: if he goes no, but sometimes you've got to put
Speaker 7: the team first. I think Tommy would have put the
Speaker 7: team first if they asked. But I'm surprised if they
Speaker 7: didn't go to him, say listen, Tommy, we're thinking of
Speaker 7: moving you to the centers. What do you think.
Speaker 2: Let's remember during the off season, was he trained from
Speaker 2: memory at five eight at one point? You know, because
Speaker 2: I think about tinkering with the team. I think about
Speaker 2: tinkering with the side to fit the Eige hop Arty
Speaker 2: and the fullback. So you know, admittedly maybe this has
Speaker 2: been thrown on him in circumstances that shocked him. But
Speaker 2: the thought of moving Tommy and playing in other positions,
Speaker 2: the club's been talking about this for a while.
Speaker 4: I think manly. I think manly since the Cherry Evans announcement,
Speaker 4: have been playing like bustards. They've had two or three
Speaker 4: good games since then, the rest they've been terrible.
Speaker 3: I think there's a lot more.
Speaker 4: Going wrong at that football club than Tom Turbo at
Speaker 4: the back. Yes, I know he's struggling and he has
Speaker 4: not been himself this year, but there are other positions
Speaker 4: in that side, particularly where there's so lighter on the
Speaker 4: middles and they're down on strength and Cherry Evans his
Speaker 4: own form. They've got a captain leading them out there
Speaker 4: every single week who does not want to be there.
Speaker 4: I think there are bigger issues there and there's no
Speaker 4: question he's moved to the centers.
Speaker 3: Is a demotion.
Speaker 1: It is wrote a passionate defensive siege on the weekend
Speaker 1: in the paper. Is it the players photo? Is you
Speaker 1: tend to think it's the players that have the response? Well?
Speaker 1: I think so.
Speaker 2: The players are going to wear some of the responsibility
Speaker 2: for the way the team's going. I mean, Buzz just
Speaker 2: said it. Then they didn't play well since Day came
Speaker 2: out and publicly announced he was going to leave the club.
Speaker 2: We still don't know where he's going.
Speaker 3: I mean this, we don't know where he's going.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, he hasn't announced where he's going. We all
Speaker 2: know where he's going, but he hasn't announced, He hasn't
Speaker 2: ended the conjecture, Breath, you know, and I think Tommy,
Speaker 2: by his own mission, has been down on form this year.
Speaker 2: I think Tommy is open and Jake's openly admitted that
Speaker 2: he's been down on form. So it's easy to put
Speaker 2: the finger at Seas. But that's your three highest paid players.
Speaker 2: They've been missing Taniella Perseca since about round two or something.
Speaker 2: He's one of their highest paid players as well. There
Speaker 2: are extenuating circumstances for the way this team's playing at
Speaker 2: the moment.
Speaker 1: A big partner is for a coach to get the
Speaker 1: best out of it.
Speaker 2: That's true as well, Breath. I'm not saying I'm not
Speaker 2: saying he should be he's blameless. I'm saying that it's
Speaker 2: got to go both ways. And I think that Buzz.
Speaker 2: I think the idea of moving Tommy is also to
Speaker 2: help Tommy. I think the view is from Seas. Potentially
Speaker 2: I can get Tommy back, take a bit of heat
Speaker 2: off him. Playing in the centers, he can rediscovery find
Speaker 2: his confidence again, his body can rebuild itself and when
Speaker 2: he's playing well, they will playing with football. Because Tony
Speaker 2: Mastel said it today, buzz. He's still there be fullback
Speaker 2: when he's at his best.
Speaker 1: I don't disagree with it, and I said it last
Speaker 1: week Leo. He's playing very good. He's play his best
Speaker 1: at fullback. He's young, he is fit, He's only going
Speaker 1: to get better. Tom just seems to struggle with his
Speaker 1: fitness even at his best. At the moment, he doesn't
Speaker 1: seem to be one hundred percent fit and that's been
Speaker 1: for quite a while now. Yes, they if they didn't
Speaker 1: consult him about it, they should have. Definitely is a
Speaker 1: club legend. But really the actual decision I don't think
Speaker 1: is a bad one. Do you guys actually think it's
Speaker 1: a bad move?
Speaker 7: I don't.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Look, as I said, time will tell. You know,
Speaker 4: they've got two home games that winnable games, They've got
Speaker 4: sous and they've got the West Tiger, So time will tell.
Speaker 1: So what happens the next beat them too.
Speaker 4: If they don't beat them, those two Anthony Sea bubbles
Speaker 4: in big trouble. I heard you on the show last
Speaker 4: week you wanted to give him all time seeps.
Speaker 2: Well, Mestro said today he's our coach.
Speaker 4: You know what, Mestop keeps changing because last week he
Speaker 4: said at this stage, he kept saying.
Speaker 2: He's admitted today he said today that was a poor
Speaker 2: choice of words, and that Anthony Seabob will be their coach.
Speaker 1: And let's be honest, quickly, Becazz, they lose the next
Speaker 1: two against those two teams.
Speaker 2: You're he will finish the season break. I can't believe
Speaker 2: they would get rid of him. They're not going to
Speaker 2: get rid of him after the next two. Who they're
Speaker 2: going to put in, like, who's going to be the coach?
Speaker 1: So what happens if so, you think he lasts the
Speaker 1: rest of the year at least, Yes, what if they
Speaker 1: fall off a Clifford back end of.
Speaker 2: The year, Well, then he's in all sorts. It's pretty obvious.
Speaker 2: Next year you think, well he's in trouble.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I would have thought it's a long off season for him.
Speaker 4: Yes, so on paper, and we all said at the
Speaker 4: start of the year when they had that blazing start
Speaker 4: of the year, we all thought they were a top
Speaker 4: four roster and they fell in a heap after the
Speaker 4: announcement and anything outside the finals this year is a
Speaker 4: complete and failure and he will struggle.
Speaker 2: It's a failure if they don't play finals foot and
Speaker 2: he I'm sure Anthony will acknowledge if they don't play
Speaker 2: finals football seasons of failure.
Speaker 1: All right on your team, buzz. The Sharks are on
Speaker 1: the Verger, dropping out of the top eight after blowing
Speaker 1: a sixteen point lead against the Broncos. His how it unfolded,
Speaker 1: stiff it down.
Speaker 9: Short side, trend All away and Tarmacai scores for Cranalla Trendle.
Speaker 9: They've got that stretch will turn steps Walsh, Wilton all
Speaker 9: the way channe a skull trendies.
Speaker 7: Back to Walsh.
Speaker 9: What's the spiral, Bob, it's got it. It's allowed to
Speaker 9: bounce time and then mother tamer and white. Raymond's gonna
Speaker 9: say that forward there for Walsh.
Speaker 3: Fir flights up flat, had a John Lake shipper turkey.
Speaker 9: And a twenty three minute again and then Dreddall has
Speaker 9: put it out on the floor.
Speaker 7: Held by the arm.
Speaker 3: Gone away from that.
Speaker 9: I missed him on over the top. Tana Pani's guys,
Speaker 9: now one side that I don't sing that on that
Speaker 9: class I kicked towards her posts lies there it is,
Speaker 9: it's long, it's long.
Speaker 3: The game on the line down by six.
Speaker 1: That's a bad kick for a gun number seven.
Speaker 9: Where'sbona jump back bella.
Speaker 1: Thirty four twenty That was a turning point thanks to
Speaker 1: Ashley Martin Medical Hair Centers and what's going on with
Speaker 1: the Cronulla Sharks buzz.
Speaker 4: Look, I'm not one hundred percent sure I will say
Speaker 4: this about the Cronulla roster.
Speaker 3: It has been very, very stable for two years.
Speaker 4: And outside of signing signing Adam vanua Blake, they've hardly
Speaker 4: signed the player. So Craig fitz given backed himself to
Speaker 4: get more out of his current players.
Speaker 3: He's done that for two years. It's not happening this year.
Speaker 1: One of it.
Speaker 4: He's got two players on a million dollars. Adam fanua
Speaker 4: Blake started strong. I think he's really faded off and
Speaker 4: he doesn't have anywhere near the impact he had early
Speaker 4: in the season. I think that was there for all
Speaker 4: to see the last Nicol Hines, the other million dollar
Speaker 4: player at halfback, trying his guts out every week. But
Speaker 4: there are a couple of errors in his performance yesterday,
Speaker 4: particularly at the back end. A kick on the last
Speaker 4: tackle gave Broncos a seven tackle restart than he did.
Speaker 2: A knock on.
Speaker 4: Let's come and when you're on that brass as you know,
Speaker 4: you've got to shut games.
Speaker 1: To do and you think you should be moving a fallback.
Speaker 1: Is that right?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: You don't know what you do well.
Speaker 4: I said in McCollum today that Daniel Atkinson and Trendall
Speaker 4: as the halves combination for a large part of last year.
Speaker 4: We're getting Kranala the best results they've had in two years.
Speaker 4: Trendle when he has more control over that side from
Speaker 4: half back. That's what earned him a seven hundred thousand
Speaker 4: dollars contract playing whether Atkinson was soing so good Saint
Speaker 4: George signed him. I want to see that halves combination going,
Speaker 4: but Nicol has to be in the side somewhere.
Speaker 3: Is it harsh on Kennedy?
Speaker 4: Kennedy was leading the dally Ms early but not going
Speaker 4: Brilliants been dropping.
Speaker 7: For Yeah, Nico doesn't have the speed to go to the fullback.
Speaker 7: He doesn't score those. Yeah, I know, I know. But
Speaker 7: he played that six or eight games at the Storm
Speaker 7: and got this million dollar contract. And if I was
Speaker 7: going to move him there, I say, I'd have to
Speaker 7: move him to lock and telling him to put the
Speaker 7: mouth goat. Then I'll go by two and you're going
Speaker 7: to play that sort of role.
Speaker 1: We all know how Nico, how good Nico can be,
Speaker 1: like we've seen it. We've seen it, we just haven't
Speaker 1: seen enough of it. And at times his hear he
Speaker 1: showed glimpses of it, even in periods of games. But
Speaker 1: the problem with Niko is when the game's on the
Speaker 1: line and you said it buzz, you need your men
Speaker 1: and all the players, you need your big guns to
Speaker 1: stand up. And I feel like he's lacked confidence now
Speaker 1: for quite a while. And when you lack confidence, you
Speaker 1: play with hesitation. And hesitation in the hearts. I've said
Speaker 1: on the show before is the biggest killer, and you
Speaker 1: can see it. He just seems to hesitate. He seems
Speaker 1: unsure about himself. He's not that player that has give
Speaker 1: me the ball. I'm going to win our team game
Speaker 1: and he needs to be so he's under suppression Nico.
Speaker 1: But you tend to think that it's more Trendle not Nico.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't think Trendle's set the world on fire breath.
Speaker 2: I think it's easy to put the finger at nickover
Speaker 2: because he's the high profile guy that's been wearing a
Speaker 2: lot of the blame for the last year. Well, he's
Speaker 2: at the focus on over a year and now, yeah,
Speaker 2: some of it is, but I think Trindle has to
Speaker 2: wear some of its well breath. I mean he's on
Speaker 2: a good wick of too bu.
Speaker 4: The best fort him. When they charged himTo the finals
Speaker 4: last year, Nicko was hurting. He was dropped from Origin.
Speaker 4: It was trendle and that control and you can't.
Speaker 2: Play you can't play Nicko fullback.
Speaker 4: Think that's why when Rath asked me, I said, I
Speaker 4: don't know. I'm not sure if he's a fullback. He
Speaker 4: could be locked forward, but they're running out of options
Speaker 4: for a million dollar player has to start.
Speaker 2: I think Fitz has got Look, you put the money,
Speaker 2: you've invested the money in. Fitz's got to find a
Speaker 2: way to get him going. That's why Fitz's on the bay.
Speaker 3: We're seventeen. We're seventeen.
Speaker 2: You're too far on now, Halves. You've got to find
Speaker 2: a way to get a working buzz for me because
Speaker 2: they're not going to win a camp with Braden Triingle
Speaker 2: and Daniel Atkinson Harves, which you respect to those two guys.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but in the opening segment you were quite happy
Speaker 4: for Tom to move for the betterment of the Manly.
Speaker 3: So you're not happy for Nico to move because.
Speaker 2: They've got a better option. Mainly got a better option.
Speaker 2: Hop White is a good option. I'm saying, here's your
Speaker 2: best option.
Speaker 1: They are six points clear of fifth, but it's the
Speaker 1: way they're losing the concerns over a performance like yesterday
Speaker 1: in the last month. Really they beat the Dragons.
Speaker 4: They were tailed up by a rooster's side at Arliott
Speaker 4: Stadium and towed up.
Speaker 3: They conceded forty points.
Speaker 1: The Central coast. Think it was a buzz.
Speaker 4: Where it was and the Roosters were about five State
Speaker 4: of origin players. Now this should be Cornala's time of
Speaker 4: the year. They do not have one origin player. They've
Speaker 4: had no interruptions whatsoever. The Broncos were there.
Speaker 7: To be beaten. Yesterday. I was getting sent to the
Speaker 7: sin bin. Was I think nearly the stupidest sinmin that
Speaker 7: I've seen from a winger. There's like fifty seconds to
Speaker 7: go before the halftime break and they give it away.
Speaker 7: When they were playing through the middle. They really troubled
Speaker 7: Brisbane when they played off Brawley through the middle and
Speaker 7: the half backs chimed in. But when they but but
Speaker 7: then when the game was on the line and they
Speaker 7: tried to take control and grab their reins. They couldn't
Speaker 7: get from it, and they made errors that going through
Speaker 7: the middle was it was going through them, was terrorizing
Speaker 7: their three on both sides in between the half and center.
Speaker 1: They just count kept breaking them down that first half,
Speaker 1: and they went away from it. So let's let's round
Speaker 1: this off. Do they pull the trigger and move him
Speaker 1: or do they keep him at seven for the rest
Speaker 1: of the year.
Speaker 2: I think you've got to stick with him breath. I think,
Speaker 2: as I said, we were watching those highlights the first half,
Speaker 2: there was nothing wrong with the one Nico played in
Speaker 2: the first half. I mean you saw the highlights there,
Speaker 2: just creating tries, his scoring tries. It's there. It's there
Speaker 2: and hard.
Speaker 1: To hand someone confidence though, you know, like you say,
Speaker 1: Craig fitsgiven, it's up to him, but it's not really
Speaker 1: it's up to Nickeo.
Speaker 2: But it can go like that break. He can get
Speaker 2: it back in a second hand.
Speaker 1: But it's been missing for a while.
Speaker 2: But there's been games we've been really good they break.
Speaker 1: I agree. I don't want to just know it's not
Speaker 1: a Nicko bashing because we've seen him place in brillan
Speaker 1: footy this year. But it's just consistently throughout a whole
Speaker 1: game and then getting them over the line, which he struggled.
Speaker 1: So buzz is he a fullback or not? You look
Speaker 1: a bit well, you.
Speaker 4: Know I saw him play fullback very capably of Melbourne
Speaker 4: Storm and he did have speedback in those days.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: All I know is the spotlight is on him now.
Speaker 4: The blow torches on him now for one simple reason.
Speaker 4: He's on a six million dollar contract. When you sign up,
Speaker 4: it's the face of the club. On that sort of money,
Speaker 4: you expected to perform weekend weekend.
Speaker 1: You're not right, You're not wrong, all right? Now the
Speaker 1: Broncos are back baby Army Camps, Harbor Cruise, an absolute
Speaker 1: master stroke from the great Manage McGuire.
Speaker 4: Have you had a look at the premiership lad there's
Speaker 4: six points off fourth place, coming fifth bus Yeah, I
Speaker 4: know they're coming fifth.
Speaker 3: They've beaten the Titans and they've beaten from the second half.
Speaker 1: What do you mean you've got let imagine how's time
Speaker 1: to shine?
Speaker 4: Well, you know he's turned that club around, Reese Walsh
Speaker 4: has turned that club around.
Speaker 3: Against good on him.
Speaker 4: What I will say though, if beat them on the weekend,
Speaker 4: there'll be eight points outside of the top four. I
Speaker 4: think there's one side that could possibly win this compount
Speaker 4: side the top four, and that is the Penrith Panthers
Speaker 4: the Broncos. I think it's really exciting that they have
Speaker 4: come good, but there is a hell of a long
Speaker 4: way to go in this camp.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very sure, real well, I think they're back for me.
Speaker 2: I think that's pretty clear after the last couple of
Speaker 2: weeks buzz, it's pretty clear that you know, you know
Speaker 2: what was interesting. They look really fit on the weekend
Speaker 2: in the second half, so they're obviously training hard and
Speaker 2: it's paying off.
Speaker 7: I don't tell you something. I don't give Pain has
Speaker 7: some carrying arrest. They'll fall off Cliff like he's played
Speaker 7: I think sixteen games in a row. Painhasse was injured
Speaker 7: like they couldn't get back on site at some stages,
Speaker 7: and they kept on running them out. If they really
Speaker 7: want to give the title a shot, which they can,
Speaker 7: rees Walsh a measure man like once they get their
Speaker 7: running threat and they can just jump outside.
Speaker 2: It's hard than the rest players.
Speaker 7: They're going to have to listen.
Speaker 2: You can't when you're struggling.
Speaker 7: A really good point. What did Penrith do on the weekend?
Speaker 2: Well, that's true, that's true, So how hard was that?
Speaker 2: The good point?
Speaker 7: The confidence.
Speaker 4: Who's been the genius at rest the Origin players over
Speaker 4: the years of Craig Bellam and you look at the
Speaker 4: Storm success. They're always thereabouts with a minor premiership. You
Speaker 4: cannot with the intensity, big boys.
Speaker 3: You can't.
Speaker 1: You're desperate times, desperate measures, right, yeah, but you're both.
Speaker 1: I agree, felt sorry for Pain's.
Speaker 4: And you guys know this, with sports, you've got to
Speaker 4: take long term approach and it's far more important from
Speaker 4: rounds twenty to twenty seven to have them fully fit,
Speaker 4: fresh and ready to.
Speaker 7: Go and look looking like pain. Hans is not like yes,
Speaker 7: and you know what, what a game he had backing up,
Speaker 7: but he ain't looking like that. He ain't looking like
Speaker 7: he's running through his not free he needs.
Speaker 1: There were some mascuses on the Harbor cruise though, spar bar.
Speaker 4: Anthony about and what did they do on Fort Dennis
Speaker 4: and a cultural experience? They did ice bars straight after
Speaker 4: the Harbor cruise.
Speaker 1: Come on, give him some credit.
Speaker 4: I'm really happy for Seriously, it's great for the comp
Speaker 4: they're playing well, but all I'm saying is let's wait
Speaker 4: about six weeks.
Speaker 1: The jury is still out bus, the jury is still that.
Speaker 1: After ducking and diving for weeks, Bronco's CEO Dave Donnahey
Speaker 1: finally faced the music when he appeared on radio yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I met with Selwyn's management as recently as last week.
Speaker 6: To be candid, we're probably a fair way apart, but
Speaker 6: you know, we're not without hope having a challenging run
Speaker 6: at the moment on field, but you know he'll bounce
Speaker 6: back and we're well trying to wrap our arms around
Speaker 6: and to help support him.
Speaker 2: I think you've only got about three hundred thousand left
Speaker 2: that won't keep.
Speaker 6: So I think ultimately, you know, when we look at
Speaker 6: our salary cap hoops, there's a pie. It has to
Speaker 6: get cut up. They're the conversations that we're having internally.
Speaker 2: There's all sorts of headlines. There was all sorts of
Speaker 2: noise about since Michael maguire has arrived at the Broncos.
Speaker 6: I thought a lot of it was a lot of nonsense.
Speaker 3: We'd a challenging run on field.
Speaker 6: To look at it in isolations just a little bit
Speaker 6: narrow for me. We've got Ezra Man on the sidelines
Speaker 6: and Reese Walsh gets injured. So where not where we'd
Speaker 6: like to be in terms of wins and losses, but
Speaker 6: certainly be some positive progress.
Speaker 2: Do you believe that the club made the right decision
Speaker 2: to sack Kevy Wilders and to bring bad Gin?
Speaker 3: We made a decision.
Speaker 6: It was an incredibly difficult decision, and that's the reality
Speaker 6: of it.
Speaker 3: Kevy's a great of our club.
Speaker 6: He put his heart and soul into the place for
Speaker 6: four years, but thirty years, sorry, Gordy, thirty years four
Speaker 6: years as a coach and did a wonderful job. But
Speaker 6: we did feel that it was time for a change,
Speaker 6: and we do feel like it was the right decision.
Speaker 1: Yes, this was on Triple M yesterday afternoon, Gordy, you
Speaker 1: were there, went for about twenty minutes. What did you
Speaker 1: make of it?
Speaker 7: The cell on Cobo one was a little bit funny
Speaker 7: to me because I think he is the future of
Speaker 7: the organization. If you look the way Catni Stags. They've
Speaker 7: got two thirty five year old number sevens that was
Speaker 7: a priority, and they signed another hooker like they resigned
Speaker 7: another hooker where they've got five and they got this
Speaker 7: young talent and they leave three hundred thousand, which I
Speaker 7: think is a little bit disrespectful to a State of
Speaker 7: origin player. And I don't think he's lost that much
Speaker 7: mojo in my opinion. When I watched him play when
Speaker 7: Response was out and he went back to fullback, he
Speaker 7: kept them in a few of those games. But obviously
Speaker 7: they don't want him because I went that much money.
Speaker 4: Sell and Cobo was in Sydney last week or the
Speaker 4: week before and he visited the St. Georgialla set up
Speaker 4: and he spoke to coach Shane Flanagan. You know what
Speaker 4: money he was asking for. They're asking about six fifty
Speaker 4: seven hundred. That's what he's on there was it and
Speaker 4: St George were quite keen to do a deal for
Speaker 4: a little bit less than that, but wanted to him
Speaker 4: this year because they've had injuries in the three quarter line.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's going to be happened. But what
Speaker 4: it does show is how far the Broncos are off
Speaker 4: the pace with what the kid and the manager are
Speaker 4: looking for. They're not They're halfway there.
Speaker 1: Well, let's be honest. Like day you said there's still
Speaker 1: a chance of keeping him, but really they're not not
Speaker 1: three hundred.
Speaker 2: That's that's my point is that no, unless they foind
Speaker 2: another two or three hundred grand breath and clubs, the.
Speaker 7: Reynolds with the third party, the three hundred dinner.
Speaker 2: Clubs can do that, right, but they need to. Sometimes
Speaker 2: they just move a couple of blokes and juggle some
Speaker 2: funds around. They find the money. So but at the moment,
Speaker 2: you know, I know, Gord, you're saying you thought he
Speaker 2: was good when he played fullback for a couple of games,
Speaker 2: but don't need to fall back. They need him to
Speaker 2: play well when he's on the wing, and he hasn't
Speaker 2: been playing well. That's why he's in reserve bating. And
Speaker 2: the kid has come in.
Speaker 7: From maybe he's playing for injuries.
Speaker 4: Maybe maybe you talk about the old halves they signed.
Speaker 4: It's interesting one Ben Hunt because when he comes back
Speaker 4: from Indrey, I don't think he's going to play far day.
Speaker 4: I think as MAM's comfortable there and it is obviously
Speaker 4: the future. I'm not sure with that young hooker there
Speaker 4: God who has been Yeah, I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: I think he's off contract.
Speaker 3: But what I'm saying that.
Speaker 1: Would be a big call from who he plays out
Speaker 1: of pace Billy as well.
Speaker 4: Sounds yeah, But what I'm saying is signing Hunt for
Speaker 4: those two years not necessarily. The Reynolds extension might be
Speaker 4: what costs Selwyn Cobber a spot at that club long term.
Speaker 2: Well potentially, but I imagine that they're looking their spine
Speaker 2: next year as Ben hunted hooker, and he is a
Speaker 2: pretty good hooker, Bend hunts. Probably they've got their roster well,
Speaker 2: obviously Corey's not killing it because they're not resigning Buzz
Speaker 2: because they've obviously made a decision that as it stands
Speaker 2: at the moment, Benhunt and Billy Hunter, and they've got
Speaker 2: young Blake Mosa and the system is.
Speaker 7: Five year old halfbacks, but the future of the club
Speaker 7: are not two thirty five old half backs. When they
Speaker 7: won the Queensland State of Origin with a young nine
Speaker 7: year old half back, they could sit there and get
Speaker 7: some experience.
Speaker 2: He'll learn all those guys, I mean, he'll learn off
Speaker 2: those guys and at some point he'll probably ge an opportunity.
Speaker 7: But it's better plan. It's it's better getting a taste.
Speaker 7: And you look at the roosters now with their young halves,
Speaker 7: there's no better way to learn as at the cold face.
Speaker 4: The insing thing. And I heard Adam Reynolds on a
Speaker 4: podcast and I actually wrote him McCollum that he would
Speaker 4: not sign a new deal until the other boys are
Speaker 4: done because he didn't want to force anyone out.
Speaker 3: Well, he actually has he signed.
Speaker 2: Well, they had to make a decision because.
Speaker 1: I'm not blaming position his manager coming up on Heavy Hit,
Speaker 1: maybe you can ask him. We can ask him in
Speaker 1: the agreement when he walks out. And what about Panthers.
Speaker 1: That a big win, and then mentioned earlier they got
Speaker 1: the Bulldogs this week on Thursday on Fox leagu which
Speaker 1: would be a big one. But Nathan Cleary had that
Speaker 1: injury in Origin, didn't kick goals, struggled in the first half,
Speaker 1: got better as the game went on. Will he play
Speaker 1: this week? And how serious is his injury?
Speaker 2: Well, the train tomorrow, breath. I think they're pretty optimistic,
Speaker 2: your train, you'll play this week. He's obviously not one
Speaker 2: hundred percent, but we're sorry. How tough he was in Origin.
Speaker 2: It's probably one of his underrated qualities, Nathan and Cleary,
Speaker 2: just how tough he is. He's a tough boy. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I think they're pretty confident.
Speaker 7: But if there's any doubt. You don't force him to you,
Speaker 7: especially the way they played last week. Think if all
Speaker 7: the others come back, could he.
Speaker 1: Not playing this week or not playing until the decider?
Speaker 3: He wants to play. He's desperate to play for Penrith.
Speaker 4: There's some light at the end of the time, l
Speaker 4: after a tough open the end of the season, and
Speaker 4: this is Canterbury. This is potentially the game of the year.
Speaker 4: He's up against Burton cright and kick out his old mates.
Speaker 4: He's up against Cameron surround o and this is a monster,
Speaker 4: monster game. I know Thursday night is typically a bad
Speaker 4: night for crowds. I would not be surprised the way
Speaker 4: Canterbury fans are and it's penritheme game. They'll fill that
Speaker 4: stadium out there, clearial play and massive, massive game of footy.
Speaker 1: I agree. Can't wait on Fox League as I said now,
Speaker 1: actually Klimb remains NRL's top ranked referee. Really, how does
Speaker 1: that work? I'm here and he's going to get going through.
Speaker 1: Is that right?
Speaker 2: It looks that way, Brath. I think you all went
Speaker 2: through this game and they reckon. They missed three penalties,
Speaker 2: two queens there, two es was one for Queens and
Speaker 2: so after I Queens Anders, we didn't think he had
Speaker 2: a great game. After Origin two, you blocks didn't think
Speaker 2: you had a good game. We're all square, go to
Speaker 2: Game three.
Speaker 3: Fair breath. What the NRL do? I'll give them credit
Speaker 3: for this.
Speaker 4: Brock Chaffer came from South and now running referees with
Speaker 4: great Mannersley So they have a rating system and keep
Speaker 4: KPIs and every referee in every single category and then
Speaker 4: they add the points up after are we talking game management?
Speaker 4: We're talking how many decisions they got right, how many
Speaker 4: tries were overturned by the bunk or all those sorts
Speaker 4: of I don't know if it's.
Speaker 1: A pied charge.
Speaker 4: I suggest it was a spreadsheet. But what I'm doing, well,
Speaker 4: you think it's funny. I'm actually trying to give them
Speaker 4: a rap because it's a really good It's a really
Speaker 4: good way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 4: It's a really good way of keeping form on all
Speaker 4: these with if you do check in all these categories,
Speaker 4: what I can tell you is Ashley Client this year
Speaker 4: is a mile ahead of the second best referee on
Speaker 4: their ratings in just about everything. Yeah, and look Adham
Speaker 4: g wasn't rated very high. All that's why I missed
Speaker 4: out the finals.
Speaker 7: Some Origin players. It might just be some big game referees.
Speaker 4: What I'm saying is and I spoke to Bullderup before
Speaker 4: he published that story this morning.
Speaker 3: The nr rel have told.
Speaker 4: Me that he will have to have a shocker this
Speaker 4: weekend climb and particularly bad stuff up if he's to
Speaker 4: lose that job.
Speaker 7: Can I give you South Wales a tip? I think
Speaker 7: in the last say thirteen Origins, you've won ten of
Speaker 7: the penalty counts, so you.
Speaker 3: Want him Gordy.
Speaker 7: I'm just letting you know we've won three. Billies won
Speaker 7: three and game two was one that was Verry god Muscle.
Speaker 7: The other night Melbourne last year.
Speaker 4: Sorry I don't know count got well it was no
Speaker 4: one nil after forty five minutes.
Speaker 7: Buzz buzz bzz. Since Billy's taken over, right, I think
Speaker 7: you guys are about twenty five penalties ahead.
Speaker 2: I'd love to see Queensland considered fifty two penalties, Blues
Speaker 2: forty six and it's eighty infringements to sixty one, so
Speaker 2: you're twenty infringements better off. There you go, last three
Speaker 2: series wins three years, so you don't.
Speaker 3: Have to you know, well, you haven't done any research.
Speaker 3: He's just picked something out of from.
Speaker 4: But typically twisted the topics four topics the first forty
Speaker 4: five minutes. If that came the other day when your
Speaker 4: mob were perfect, which was absolute crap.
Speaker 3: They were not.
Speaker 2: Perfectly once we won the penalty, can.
Speaker 7: To you twist last year was fourteen eight to you
Speaker 7: sending you these text mess that's the big story coming
Speaker 7: to back.
Speaker 3: I can
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