Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome to the Daily Telegraph r L podcast.
Speaker 2: My name's Adam Mobs.
Speaker 1: I'm not telling the audience that I'm telling you blokes
Speaker 1: because I haven't been around a while. Michael Carranas still
Speaker 1: buzz Rothfield, How are you getting the gang back to.
Speaker 3: If you guys to join us? I mean, I don't
Speaker 3: know what seat to sit on because that's You've been
Speaker 3: my seat for the last few months, but.
Speaker 2: Lifted the numbers too. Can I say you are under
Speaker 2: massive pressure? Furst up from a long spell? How long
Speaker 2: have you been in the Paddict ten weeks? It's been
Speaker 2: a while.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's been a lot of people asking if you're okay?
Speaker 3: All good?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, these of.
Speaker 2: Time off, a bit of working from home, make pride.
Speaker 2: What's called.
Speaker 3: Salmon?
Speaker 2: No any onions on the barbecue? Yes? Yeah? Really?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Can I Facebook? The other day he brought a fire
Speaker 2: He went to Barnings to buy some concrete and he
Speaker 2: come over with a I've got a fire pit.
Speaker 3: That's very cold out your way. It's cold anywhere, but
Speaker 3: it's very cold out your way. I've got some big
Speaker 3: news to start with, Buzz. So you're trying to do
Speaker 3: something that ready, who's in Paris hasn't been able to
Speaker 3: do topple me on a Saturday in the ratings on
Speaker 3: the radio ratings?
Speaker 2: Is that true, your mate?
Speaker 3: Are you dabbling on the airways on site?
Speaker 2: I've been very critically you over the years for s
Speaker 2: and ABC, Fox, Sports, Daily Telegram, right, anything else you
Speaker 2: do this podcast? So what's happened? Ready and cham Mus
Speaker 2: have gone away and they normally rotate Saturdays. I've got
Speaker 2: a call from Triple Lamp and fill in there and
Speaker 2: I'm very very confident I'll be able to give their
Speaker 2: ratings a boost.
Speaker 3: Well, they need a boost on a Saturday. Don't know, mate,
Speaker 3: Yes you do?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: Don't you know?
Speaker 2: They clearly? But you're on a Sunday.
Speaker 3: Okay, what about Saturday?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: How do you know Sunday on Saturday?
Speaker 2: Because Sundays are great? Please, We're playing New so Cups,
Speaker 2: everyone's having a partner, everyone's having a bed. My daily
Speaker 2: station two K.
Speaker 1: Why have they brought your silence with this? This is
Speaker 1: what's going on? Are you usually critical?
Speaker 2: I'm not critics criticizing Triple M for three weeks.
Speaker 3: I was just trying to slide this under the radar.
Speaker 3: But I got sauces Buzzy and go head to head
Speaker 3: on Saturday. Are you going to Well?
Speaker 1: I do usually listen to the the National broadcast with
Speaker 1: Michael on there, so I.
Speaker 3: Know what you can do.
Speaker 2: So that's that's not fair. I'm ready. You're playing favorites.
Speaker 1: Well every other week I tuned.
Speaker 2: But I speak is a very very solid, solid radio performer.
Speaker 3: What you can do is listened to Buzz from twelve
Speaker 3: to two.
Speaker 2: Well you're not under two, so that's what we're lying
Speaker 2: a whole. You can critique me.
Speaker 3: I'm not care, but I will be listening on my
Speaker 3: way in Buzz so I don't stuck up.
Speaker 2: We drop this free club. We're going to give them
Speaker 2: a massive audience from this body.
Speaker 1: Well I'm a little concerned.
Speaker 2: I do have another little row to go on.
Speaker 3: Oh the Maddie John's. Yeah, this guy is just cashing in?
Speaker 3: What runs away?
Speaker 1: He is?
Speaker 2: Is he?
Speaker 1: They're going to rename Bossy, Brandy and MC shot of
Speaker 1: morning You're on every morning?
Speaker 2: I just get his money paid man in Sydney? Do
Speaker 2: you know?
Speaker 1: That was so he was so fatigued with s N
Speaker 1: this morning. They flicked back to him and he said,
Speaker 1: thanks guys. See lad and hung up and they weren't
Speaker 1: done with him.
Speaker 3: I didn't read Night with the Kids.
Speaker 2: Last night, and we stopped promoting other networks and actually.
Speaker 3: Give ABC from two o'clock on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Then there you go, right, well, we're better get into
Speaker 1: it because there's a fair bit going around busy.
Speaker 3: It's been good you broke this story this week.
Speaker 1: John Bateman is leaving the West Tigers effective immediately.
Speaker 3: For the end of the season and the end of
Speaker 3: the season apparently, so yeah, it was an interesting one.
Speaker 3: When John Bateman wasn't picked for this weekend's game, obviously
Speaker 3: started making some calls and around it found out that,
Speaker 3: you know, the Tigers have agreed to release him to
Speaker 3: go join Warrington. Sam Burgess coach Warrington for the rest
Speaker 3: of the year, and it's field speculation regarding where or
Speaker 3: not whether or not Bateman will return to the Tigers.
Speaker 3: I think it's unlikely. He's been linked with the potential
Speaker 3: move to South Sydney next season, which would be interesting
Speaker 3: under Wayne Bennett. And obviously that connection. You know, you've
Speaker 3: got Wayne Bennett coaching Souers next year. You got Shane
Speaker 3: Richardson at the Tigers, Sam Burgess at Warrington. All three
Speaker 3: are very close in close circles, so there is that
Speaker 3: connection and a natural conclusion to draw that maybe he'll
Speaker 3: be at South Sydney. It's important to say that South
Speaker 3: Sydney said this morning that it's unlikely to happen, but
Speaker 3: I have heard the same rumors coming out of the UK.
Speaker 2: Can I come up the long run here? Yeah? I did? Well,
Speaker 2: this is a podcast, you do. I went ballistic a
Speaker 2: year or two ago when the West Tigers gave not
Speaker 2: for a Luna to Melbourne Storm and it was Pasco
Speaker 2: Hadjapentalis and Tim Sheen's that signed off on it, and
Speaker 2: I wrote they've given up on their season because he
Speaker 2: was a triscoring machine back then, and for them to
Speaker 2: do the same under a different management. I just want
Speaker 2: to show you that I'm not just attacking Shane Richardson.
Speaker 2: I've done it previously. I just think it's so wrong
Speaker 2: me honestly, mate, I don't mate. They've got to win
Speaker 2: every single and that bloke should go back to New
Speaker 2: South Wales Cup, play his butt off and try and
Speaker 2: force his way back into that side. They are trying
Speaker 2: to avoid the Wooden spoon without a coach in Fiji.
Speaker 2: We've had a CEO in England half the bloody year. Mate,
Speaker 2: it's wrong.
Speaker 3: I don't have an issue with it.
Speaker 1: As a paramatteral Fan, I'm all for it. I think
Speaker 1: they should a couple more.
Speaker 3: Buzz just said, like, his form doesn't warrant selections, So
Speaker 3: if he doesn't warrant selection, every.
Speaker 2: Player we dropped now we'll send the super made.
Speaker 3: It's not everything, but a player that you can save
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty k off your cap potentially won't
Speaker 3: be there. Like if he's already, if he's I don't think.
Speaker 3: I don't know. If that, I don't I don't think
Speaker 3: that's a sign of them giving up on this year.
Speaker 3: I think it's a sign that potentially relationship there is
Speaker 3: beyond repair. He hasn't been playing well, but I would agree,
Speaker 3: come out and tell us the truth. I would agree
Speaker 3: with you truth. I would agree with you if he
Speaker 3: was their best player this year, I'd agree. Like on
Speaker 3: at the end this morning, they the boys were saying
Speaker 3: that Stefano signs elsewhere, they wouldn't pick him in first grade.
Speaker 3: I totally disagree with.
Speaker 1: That, Wayne Bennett, Justin Hodges, that would.
Speaker 3: Be giving up on this year. Right, it's the final
Speaker 3: hasn't been great the last few weeks, but he still
Speaker 3: arguably one of their top players.
Speaker 2: The whole place. No one wants to play there at
Speaker 2: the moment. Look, and I think will hear more Locklan
Speaker 2: Galvin the off season. I don't go back on what
Speaker 2: I said six eight weeks ago. He told people in
Speaker 2: that shed that he wanted out and look, it's obviously
Speaker 2: a really, really unhappy place and that comes from losing
Speaker 2: the line in the row. They came back and tend
Speaker 2: the row, was it? I just think it's some of
Speaker 2: the Stefano is going awful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he hasn't been good the last few weeks, There's
Speaker 3: no doubt about that.
Speaker 2: You know, Batement's not on his own, mate, But I.
Speaker 3: He hasn't been good.
Speaker 2: But as I said, you've got to think of the
Speaker 2: fan here, mate, the bloke he pays to sit on
Speaker 2: the hill like goes to Campbelltown membership at the start
Speaker 2: of the year.
Speaker 3: But I reckon if you pull the fans, they would
Speaker 3: agree with this. I don't.
Speaker 2: I think I think saying if you've listened to the fans,
Speaker 2: you'll finish up sitting out there with it.
Speaker 1: You just said we have to think of the fans.
Speaker 2: Well, I do, but you know, I think a senior
Speaker 2: moment to him, forget what you said? It smart, but
Speaker 2: I'm agreeing with you.
Speaker 1: It was self critiquing you three six.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I just was affluencing my performance last wasn't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, tell you what I'll do.
Speaker 3: I don't watch it now.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go home. I'm going to watch it
Speaker 2: and I'm going to text your rating. I'm not going
Speaker 2: to do a public I'm going to privately try to
Speaker 2: help you.
Speaker 1: Can you see me on this on this just for
Speaker 1: staff performance, but you know I look on you as
Speaker 1: a mentor of manager of.
Speaker 2: We've certainly got the gibber back up to ten weeks.
Speaker 3: Far more natural. But yeah, I don't know. What do
Speaker 3: you think? Mom?
Speaker 2: I don't mind.
Speaker 3: I actually don't have an issue.
Speaker 1: I always had a feeling, and whether this is warrant
Speaker 1: or not, that when they signed your own lay that
Speaker 1: this year it wasn't a right off. But I thought
Speaker 1: that they were just going to they'll get through this
Speaker 1: year and next year when it is when it really
Speaker 1: he starts, I thought, I don't know, that's just a vibe.
Speaker 1: It sort of felt like for me, and you know
Speaker 1: they've got to as you say, at the moment, they're
Speaker 1: trying to move people along. We'll get to that shortly
Speaker 1: about this part of the clean out and who they're
Speaker 1: going to try and bring in and who they're going
Speaker 1: to let go because obviously the Scott Fulton situation where
Speaker 1: they he brought in players and they're overloaded in positions,
Speaker 1: They've got a lot of they've got a lot of
Speaker 1: work to do there.
Speaker 2: But actually don't know Benji Marshall mate, because I don't
Speaker 2: think he did the apprenticeship. You know, he wasn't out
Speaker 2: of Robinson or Bellamy or Bennett systems. Tim Sheenz came
Speaker 2: back a long time in England, sacked from a couple
Speaker 2: of clubs over there, out of touch with NRL, and
Speaker 2: I don't think he did an apprenticeship't basically training at
Speaker 2: the deep end.
Speaker 1: Hasn't actually coasted a side, hasn't it coasted a reserve
Speaker 1: grade team or anything like.
Speaker 2: He's having a whack, guys, he's having a whack. I
Speaker 2: did that call HM a couple of mondays ago and
Speaker 2: he had two hours sleep then went the recovery and
Speaker 2: he's trying. He's working hard. That the stories early in
Speaker 2: the year. You know, Dog put it out there. Does
Speaker 2: he have that work? I think yeah, he's unusually plays
Speaker 2: golf at different times of the week, but I think
Speaker 2: he's having a red hot guard.
Speaker 3: It's a tough gig for that roster, it is, mate.
Speaker 3: It's a tough gig for a site that's been at
Speaker 3: the bottom. You know, facing three straight wooden spoons doesn't
Speaker 3: matter which coach you are. It's harder for a guy
Speaker 3: that hasn't coached at any level before, it's even harder.
Speaker 2: It's a bit like Ralsey when he got back to
Speaker 2: Georgia Lawara because of the you know, the size of
Speaker 2: the rebuilt and it took some hard head he'd been
Speaker 2: around forever and won a title to go in there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was the best. It's the best thing that
Speaker 3: happened to Benji.
Speaker 2: Benji didn't show a lot of patience. He had a
Speaker 2: great TV gig at Fox Sports. Didn't he yet his
Speaker 2: own show. He's seen him in the green room on
Speaker 2: Monday nights. But he wanted to be coached and they
Speaker 2: fast tracked him a year early. So I think there's
Speaker 2: a lot in there. And as much as Rich has
Speaker 2: got that tremendous record. This is a mass This is
Speaker 2: bigger than Canterbury.
Speaker 3: I reckon. Yeah, they have. The difference is they've got
Speaker 3: the foundations in particularly the key position right it provided
Speaker 3: they all stay. That's the advantage they've got. They've got
Speaker 3: their long term one, they've got their long term six
Speaker 3: and seven with lu I come in next year. They've
Speaker 3: got a star hooker and an emerging hooker. So if
Speaker 3: you look at their one, six, seven, nine, they're set.
Speaker 3: So then then you add some pieces in and around it,
Speaker 3: so it's not Honestly, I think the Dragons squad.
Speaker 2: Didn't you run last?
Speaker 3: I did not not camera Tigers.
Speaker 2: I did as I'm asking. No, I'm not accusing, I'm asked.
Speaker 1: I dug I dug them out yesterday and I.
Speaker 3: Sent them to one s flun against. He keeps telling
Speaker 3: everyone publicly that I tipped them to come last, and
Speaker 3: I said, I told him, where did you tip in
Speaker 3: the second last? You know what?
Speaker 2: That's that's the same thing I'm running with.
Speaker 1: Flat tipped the Tigers.
Speaker 2: Well shame when dallim Coach of the Year.
Speaker 3: I think it could come down to that game. In
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks between the dragons and dogs.
Speaker 2: I think I think it's crap. This Coach of the year.
Speaker 2: What they do They always give it to the rookie
Speaker 2: and the blake who's come from nowhere, and Webster got
Speaker 2: it last year. Great year. But can we please give
Speaker 2: it the Craig Bell of me or can we please
Speaker 2: give it the clear.
Speaker 3: I would have no issue with you. Neither of those
Speaker 3: two sides finished first, and the other one is I
Speaker 3: think Ben Bennett has done in our standing. Ja they
Speaker 3: make the top four, I'd go away and then either
Speaker 3: Serrouto or Flann again whoever. I don't think both of
Speaker 3: those sides will make the eight. I think one of
Speaker 3: them will, and whichever one makes the eight will be
Speaker 3: up in contention as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah there you go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then you've got poor Benji with that rebuild job.
Speaker 1: He's got to because what are they gonna do at
Speaker 1: the door in your.
Speaker 3: Nah he's gone, he went there.
Speaker 2: He's not going to Melbourne, You sure? I don't think.
Speaker 2: From what I'm told is his loves the football side
Speaker 2: of it, but his wife doesn't like Melbourne. I'm not
Speaker 2: journ she doesn't hate Melbourne.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it is a young kids. When the two
Speaker 3: young kids, right, they're young, he's they're a young couple
Speaker 3: as well, So it would be a challenge if.
Speaker 2: Melbourne storm in Sydney go there for sure, So.
Speaker 3: That means you've got him go to the Dogs bus
Speaker 3: because the only other club that we're in for him
Speaker 3: is the Dolphins.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I don't know.
Speaker 3: So I wouldn't rule the Dolphins on the storm out
Speaker 3: yet Dogs are there as well, but yeah, it won't
Speaker 3: be at the Tigers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, breaking use for you and spork on going up
Speaker 1: online just about now Bulldogs Yeah, Ford reinforcements not coming.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's an interesting one. Obviously we've seen John Bateman
Speaker 3: go to the Super League and the NRL signed off
Speaker 3: on that. The nrlte the Bulldogs sorry, went to the
Speaker 3: NRL and asked if they could sign Takyaho for the
Speaker 3: rest of this year after the June thirty deadline. Obviously
Speaker 3: he's been sacked from Catalan to the NRL. Well, that's
Speaker 3: why he's not there at the moment, but his body's okay.
Speaker 3: Hasn't played a game so far this year and that's
Speaker 3: why when he was going to sign for the Dogs
Speaker 3: last year it got he got scuttled because of the
Speaker 3: fact that he failed his medical but six months on
Speaker 3: a bit longer than that, they feel like his body
Speaker 3: is right, so they tried to sign him for the
Speaker 3: rest of this year after June thirty.
Speaker 2: So he got sacked two weeks during COVID years and stuff.
Speaker 3: August one, for a little bit that that transferred deadline
Speaker 3: was allowed to come back from Rugby was Haynes.
Speaker 2: But he come back from league though, wouldn't he It's
Speaker 2: probably fair enough. You can't have everyone. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I actually didn't mind the August one deadline. I liked
Speaker 3: the late horse trading and clubs going all in to
Speaker 3: win a comp. That's some salary cap space and whatever
Speaker 3: the case. Maybe I know it sets a false economy
Speaker 3: a little bit on the cap, but it.
Speaker 1: Gets cranky about other teams giving up the season.
Speaker 3: If you're letting go you could have, you know, I
Speaker 3: do wonder with this Bateman scenario, if we're going to
Speaker 3: see sides fall out of the eight send players are
Speaker 3: players that want to have a little bit of a
Speaker 3: life experience for a couple of months. Could point if
Speaker 3: they do go and play in a super league off
Speaker 3: the super league.
Speaker 2: That on radio, that's a very good point.
Speaker 3: I can see it. First, if you're you know, if
Speaker 3: you're a bottom four side, you've got a kid that
Speaker 3: wants to travel and see the world a little bit, go.
Speaker 2: And you save cap money, you can, Yeah, you save
Speaker 2: cap money.
Speaker 3: So it does I think we could say it potentially,
Speaker 3: especially those.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's your solution of power. Just let the whole
Speaker 2: turn go. Yeah, what do you reckon? You play in
Speaker 2: the same Jersey's leads, don't you just send them to
Speaker 2: the Leads family today. I'm going to use this between
Speaker 2: twelve and two Saturday Triple m don't I might skip
Speaker 2: in the Tony Squire.
Speaker 3: I'm going to do my secondary item on Saturday's column.
Speaker 1: So you're doing that too, doing a lot my goodness shoulders.
Speaker 1: Did you see way Graham speaking of that? Do you
Speaker 1: see the footage of the Origin call and Wade Graham
Speaker 1: was in there with Dean Ganain and I think Wally
Speaker 1: was Wally laws Pool while he was sitting down there.
Speaker 1: But every time those last couple of tries for the
Speaker 1: Blues wide, you could see what it meant to what
Speaker 1: it meant to the former Origin star. Way Graham was
Speaker 1: very happy to see the Blues win.
Speaker 2: It was the year our old Boys return to, wouldn't
Speaker 2: it you know? When we showed Queensland, ours was passionate
Speaker 2: as their.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I like the story coming out of the
Speaker 1: North Queensland as well. That because they had so many
Speaker 1: Origin players up there, whether there was a little bit
Speaker 1: of a bit sullen after Origin and they said no, no.
Speaker 1: The Blues Reice Robinson particular was pretty ugnanimous about it,
Speaker 1: and I said, but then it comes.
Speaker 2: Very much.
Speaker 1: He felt.
Speaker 2: I ended up for a set that jacket. Where's that from?
Speaker 1: I've got no idea.
Speaker 3: It's a bit old.
Speaker 2: I'm urging people listening to us to watch us. I
Speaker 2: was going to say, it looks very old, and it looked. Mate.
Speaker 2: I had to duck through layers to get some Mondays
Speaker 2: the other day, and I'm sure I saw that. I'm
Speaker 2: sure I saw it on the rack. Michael.
Speaker 3: The reason I'm wearing it because I was story. I
Speaker 3: was wearing it to three sixty last night and with
Speaker 3: the T shirt on and Mitch Diffin, the producer goes,
Speaker 3: you have to wear that on the point tomorrow. I
Speaker 3: want to see Buzz's reaction. And he's a listener to
Speaker 3: this or a viewer. You have to let him know.
Speaker 2: Your wife didn't buy it. I will now go on
Speaker 2: record saying it's the worst top I've ever seen.
Speaker 3: Brought this into the UK. When I was doing it,
Speaker 3: that is lows, I saw one of can we get it?
Speaker 3: Could be Gap?
Speaker 2: What is it they are? There's a camera Gap Gap?
Speaker 2: Oh Gay? Really Gap? GAP's not a bad brand?
Speaker 1: Actually, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3: Wow, I knew it wasn't.
Speaker 2: Had a spell put that one out for a spell too.
Speaker 3: I will see you in ten weeks.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we've got to pull together. Now it's Olympics time.
Speaker 1: We don't have many of us around.
Speaker 3: Do you like the Olympics?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Absolute wonder the Matilda's play Friday night, Saturday morning.
Speaker 1: Friday, Friday morning times.
Speaker 2: I'd nearly get up to what matildas are. Love them?
Speaker 1: Yep, yep, I think that'll be good. What about Paul
Speaker 1: mick On? I don't want to keep plugging in the
Speaker 1: other day. But BOSSI and Brandy ahead of the INNI
Speaker 1: of w season launch, we're very excited, saying that women's
Speaker 1: rugby league had ascended to the top of women's sports
Speaker 1: that are also played by men. They said, you're with us,
Speaker 1: and he went nah.
Speaker 3: Well, the Matilda's Hello, Tilda's cricket team.
Speaker 2: I've done, my saint on the launch of the nrl
Speaker 2: WS season.
Speaker 3: This is not a sledge of no, no, no, But.
Speaker 2: What I'm saying is I think it's sat in two
Speaker 2: thousand and eight, seventeen years there were four teams and
Speaker 2: it was an okay comp What it's grown into is
Speaker 2: the fastest growing area of the game.
Speaker 3: But that wasn't the question. But would you rank them
Speaker 3: along to see their origin? TV rating did three times
Speaker 3: the Wallaby got last week again, again not the question, right,
Speaker 3: would you rank the Matildas ahead of the nrl W Yes, okay.
Speaker 4: Thanks, Well, that's all I was saying that I thought
Speaker 4: it was very good that the Matildas and the cricketers
Speaker 4: were probably playing there.
Speaker 3: They've been playing for tenis, have been playing for ten
Speaker 3: years before they get into the elite programs where the
Speaker 3: rugby league players. Now, you know you've got those twenty
Speaker 3: twenty one year olds that have come into the system
Speaker 3: been playing four or five years before that.
Speaker 2: There's something we don't have a mery fowl, right, Well.
Speaker 3: I'm saying that in ten years time, when they started
Speaker 3: playing at six, seven, eight, nine. Really, quality will be
Speaker 3: far different and it will catch up to the soccer
Speaker 3: and the cricket. But it's not there yet.
Speaker 1: Please.
Speaker 2: I didn't say it was this conversation you've trained to
Speaker 2: from me saying I'll get.
Speaker 3: Up watching the team. That was the bloke in the chair.
Speaker 3: I on a wing.
Speaker 2: I thought tal on the show got waters and you're
Speaker 2: sitting there they do. I forgotten, Michael, Come on, come on.
Speaker 3: I gotcha there.
Speaker 1: Oh I got I want a little segment here called
Speaker 1: stay or go right and buzzes going, that's two and
Speaker 1: I might have to cut your micae off. All right.
Speaker 1: I just want to know where you think these players
Speaker 1: futures lie, because some are off contracts, some are uncertain.
Speaker 1: We just want to see where things are because some
Speaker 1: could be some different postcodes for some of these guys
Speaker 1: next season. So, and this is without any self the
Speaker 1: self grandizing here, Blaze t Lung yet, Paramatta, where do
Speaker 1: you see him next year?
Speaker 3: Stays Oh, yeah, what, I.
Speaker 2: Honestly don't know.
Speaker 3: I think we're just having an informed opinion here. I
Speaker 3: think it's not we're not locking it in concrete, but
Speaker 3: I think he stays. Dragons haven't heard much lately. It's
Speaker 3: been radio silence. The Dolphins are gone in hard for
Speaker 3: him as well. They've sort of slid under the radar
Speaker 3: a little bit. Newcast aren't in.
Speaker 2: Bold signing by Dolphins, they could.
Speaker 3: Well be a long term hards partner for Katoa gotcha.
Speaker 3: So yeah, they've gone big in for those So you
Speaker 3: add those two and it's quite a formidable side. But
Speaker 3: I think he stays.
Speaker 1: And you're talking obviously with Blaze. There's writer who is
Speaker 1: the young prop who was Schoolboy Cup National school Boy
Speaker 1: Cup this month as well. Again, so you maybe talk
Speaker 1: as a package deal. His dad's coaches in Cabramatta and.
Speaker 2: The third game. Yes, he's an outstanding through, he said
Speaker 2: right right as a prop, am I getting mixed up
Speaker 2: with the other kids from Yeah he had surgery. Yeah
Speaker 2: he is a very good player. He lockdown, isn't he?
Speaker 1: Do they have him? I like to check because he is.
Speaker 2: He is reminds me of the same age Hard Greats.
Speaker 2: Not saying he's going to be Hard Greas, but he
Speaker 2: tear away like Hard Grease was at that age.
Speaker 3: It was definitely a point of difference and saying we're
Speaker 3: not going to see him in the back end of
Speaker 3: the year. But he'll play plenty of first grade next year.
Speaker 2: Good good player.
Speaker 1: Okay, next one jo on Babman West Tigers, I.
Speaker 3: Don't think so.
Speaker 2: No, I think England or Souse.
Speaker 1: I agree with buzz Wow, Okay, Daniel Cepheidiat the Knights.
Speaker 3: I'm going to say Stays.
Speaker 2: I was actually told that he's not one of the players. Well.
Speaker 2: I spoke to Peter Sullivan accell and Peter said that
Speaker 2: he's not that dirty about and thinks his career might
Speaker 2: need a reset and a fresh start. Might be that
Speaker 2: being the case, I'd say st George Lawara.
Speaker 3: I just think it's the money. Buzz.
Speaker 2: I think George paid five hundred, Newcastle might pay two hundred.
Speaker 3: You don't have to pay more than that. All three
Speaker 3: a lot of money. That's the issue.
Speaker 2: That's but if you don't want someone, you've got to.
Speaker 3: Take a hit. You're going to take a hit. But
Speaker 3: when he gets to three hundred plus, you've got to
Speaker 3: replace him on one hundred and fifty thousand dollars players,
Speaker 3: So you're going to pay three. That's a five hundred
Speaker 3: thousand dollars player essentially, and he's worth that, so that
Speaker 3: it becomes there's a point in the cap where it's
Speaker 3: just not worth selling a player because you're going to
Speaker 3: have to replace. You have to replace them, and if
Speaker 3: you were spending three fifty out of your cap per
Speaker 3: season for them to play against you, I wouldn't do it.
Speaker 3: That's that's the only issue. Dragons are keen. He's done
Speaker 3: a medical. There was some minor concerns over his shoulder,
Speaker 3: just minor minor concerns.
Speaker 2: The same work today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I don't know. I'm not as convinced Dragons
Speaker 3: are Kane. But the Dragon is gonna have to up
Speaker 3: their offer to get the deal done, and if it
Speaker 3: doesn't happen, he'll be at the Knights.
Speaker 1: Okay, speaking of Dragons, Blake Laurie.
Speaker 3: Dragons or Super League, but he's got a long term
Speaker 3: deal there. Out of first grade at the moment hasn't
Speaker 3: been great.
Speaker 2: And I heard open clearly wrapping Blake Lurry the other day,
Speaker 2: wrapping in big time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he won't be playing against the Panthers this week.
Speaker 3: I don't think Blake Laurie so I.
Speaker 2: Think as the.
Speaker 3: Dan Lorry. Yeah, we're talking about Blake Lorry, Buzz Blake Lay.
Speaker 3: I wasn't sure where you're going with Sloan. Yeah, sorry, sorry,
Speaker 3: what a dope.
Speaker 2: Blake Laurie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he won their Player of the Year last year,
Speaker 3: Black Laurry. But he just hasn't what's happened. He just
Speaker 3: looks like he's just slowed up.
Speaker 1: Well, he looked he looked very, very spelt at the start.
Speaker 3: He saw him. I saw him, I need I went
Speaker 3: to pre season training at the Dragons and I said
Speaker 3: to him, mate, you're looking lean like you're looking for.
Speaker 2: I saw him too and watching Jim and he looked good.
Speaker 2: He looked too fit. Yeah, maybe he's lost a little size.
Speaker 3: Maybe, Yeah, but yeah, so.
Speaker 2: Sorry for him because he's had to carry that back
Speaker 2: for long time.
Speaker 3: It's been hard on him. Yeah, and he's a good
Speaker 3: guy and they love him around the club and he's
Speaker 3: a leader, which they don't have a lot of. But
Speaker 3: he's at the moment his performance just not up to it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Matt Arthur at the Eels obviously been granted permission to
Speaker 1: negotiate elsewhere on the back of his dad out the door.
Speaker 1: It's a blow for par because he was the good
Speaker 1: young hooker coming through the ranks that they saw as
Speaker 1: a long term pot a long term.
Speaker 3: Number one, it's a position that they struggled. An instance,
Speaker 3: red Man left Newcastle potentially for Matt Arthur.
Speaker 2: But that's going to depend on the guy. We're about
Speaker 2: to get to Jade and Brayley and what happens there.
Speaker 2: Where do you sell Jade and Bradley to with those knees.
Speaker 1: He's had decent, decent wage for the next He's off
Speaker 1: contract in the months.
Speaker 3: Right, So these guys like Sophiti and Brady in particular,
Speaker 3: Brailey isn't being forced out, but it's a conversation where
Speaker 3: mate like, we're not going to extend. If we do extend,
Speaker 3: it's going to be on a fraction of what you
Speaker 3: want on. So if you can find a long term deal,
Speaker 3: we'll let you go.
Speaker 2: It's the coach trying to pressure up there when I said,
Speaker 2: not under pressure his job, but was right raising the
Speaker 2: other day that there's a few unhappy there.
Speaker 3: I hadn't heard that, so funny.
Speaker 2: I had a manage to ring me on Monday, who's
Speaker 2: not involved with a big group of players there, and
Speaker 2: I started chasing it. Someone else confirmed it, and then
Speaker 2: someone told me Dave Ricky was talking about last week
Speaker 2: and Dave's got as you know, it's got certain connections
Speaker 2: in Newcastle and that's why I raised it. I checked
Speaker 2: it for Peter passaid. It happens in rosters when you're
Speaker 2: facing a clean out.
Speaker 3: It's just the timing of it, right, and it's the it's.
Speaker 2: Their two performances beaten by seven in two games straight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not great, and it's the players that they're
Speaker 3: letting go, like Seffiti and Brayley are extremely popular and
Speaker 3: well liked, right, they're guys that have a lot of
Speaker 3: respect in the playing group, and that doesn't if they
Speaker 3: if they were guys that are happy to see the
Speaker 3: back of it wouldn't come to this, right. But they've
Speaker 3: tapped popular players which also hurts, you know, but you
Speaker 3: know they've got a leadership group.
Speaker 2: I think, but they've got to tap of course.
Speaker 3: Of course, it's there's never a right time to do
Speaker 3: it because if you leave it late then it's unfair
Speaker 3: because these guys don't get clubs or whatever the case
Speaker 3: may be. If you do it too early, it can
Speaker 3: blow up your season and becomes a distraction. And I
Speaker 3: think it's on the verge of that happening at Newcastle,
Speaker 3: no doubt.
Speaker 2: But he's hit the ground running, Sally, haven't.
Speaker 3: He as he does? And like, is the heat on
Speaker 3: the coach for these decisions or they on Sally because
Speaker 3: the coach is not making all these decisions.
Speaker 2: Sally told me that the coach has given him, you know,
Speaker 2: the cards to make the course.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's it's going to be. I mean, his
Speaker 1: head on the chopping block things go.
Speaker 3: So it's got a lot, it's got a long term deal.
Speaker 3: He's pretty solid there at the side.
Speaker 2: You know, it's all right to say Wayne was the magnet,
Speaker 2: but they got knockbacks when Wayne was talking with Sally.
Speaker 2: Did a great job up.
Speaker 3: There, any job. But I think the paint with Newcastle
Speaker 3: is twelve months away from being rectified because, aside from seffiti,
Speaker 3: the guys that they're hopeful of leaving probably only have
Speaker 3: twelve months left on their deal, so it's not a
Speaker 3: huge wait to turn over that roster in a way,
Speaker 3: so they're not in a bad.
Speaker 1: Spot, all right, Big Red Corey Harsborough camera.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not sure about this one. It's been one
Speaker 3: that's been He's been on the raid of a few
Speaker 3: clubs in and out of first grade. You know. I
Speaker 3: think the Dragons looked at him. But I think once
Speaker 3: we see the domino forbus Stefano, who's the premiere middle
Speaker 3: on the on the market at the moment, we might
Speaker 3: see like one of those clubs that miss out of
Speaker 3: Sefano might go, all right, I want Daniel Seffiti, I
Speaker 3: want Corey hawes bro I might look at one of
Speaker 3: those players.
Speaker 2: You know, he hasn't had any luck at all, Cory
Speaker 2: this year hasn't.
Speaker 3: I think he's a good play. It's a point of difference.
Speaker 3: So i'd be if I was a club. You know,
Speaker 3: if you look at the titles, I don't.
Speaker 2: Think Camber would stand in his way if he wanted
Speaker 2: to go else.
Speaker 3: No, I don't think so. But Emery Willer is the
Speaker 3: other one that's sort of intimated that he might want
Speaker 3: to move on. So I don't think they'd let both
Speaker 3: of them go. Potentially, yeah, but you look at the
Speaker 3: Tigers will need to replace the Finos, so they might
Speaker 3: come into the mix for so I think once the
Speaker 3: Sefano decision is made, they're going to have ramification because
Speaker 3: Dolphins obviously have money, the Dogs still have a little
Speaker 3: bit of money, the Tigers will have a lot of money,
Speaker 3: So I think that's where we'll see the market height
Speaker 3: up again once that decision is mate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we can't wait to see those clubs over spend
Speaker 1: for players and get themselves into this trouble we're going
Speaker 1: to see in twenty four months time rugby league, Rugby
Speaker 1: league economy. All Right, we better talk some games because, yeah,
Speaker 1: although Friday is not the most appetizing for the general viewer,
Speaker 1: Super Saturday Buzz, Broncos, Bulldogs, massive ramifications for the top eight.
Speaker 2: Leave triple and get home as quick as I can.
Speaker 3: You're going to listen to ABC.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, well I need to hear the Broncos, Bulldogs, Cowboys, Sharks.
Speaker 1: Big game for your Sharkies.
Speaker 2: Magnet huge game, Big game for the.
Speaker 1: Cowboys and Rooster Seagulls huge. They were so disappointing last
Speaker 1: week the Roosters at the Great Aaron Wally Wallace at
Speaker 1: Fox went down to Melbourne to watch it. He said, look,
Speaker 1: he was exceptionally disappointed. He was honestly because I thought
Speaker 1: they looked cold, because they looked like cold and cold
Speaker 1: and disinterested cold. Ten minutes in you could see, oh,
Speaker 1: this is going to be one of those games and might.
Speaker 2: Be a blessing need to wake up call. Everyone was
Speaker 2: talking about them as potential.
Speaker 3: That is analysis.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he said, made it sounds crazy because they look cold,
Speaker 1: disinterested and like they didn't want to be there, and
Speaker 1: he has a look. He agrees it was cold, but
Speaker 1: they so much to play for and they were so flat.
Speaker 2: You agree they might need to wake up call.
Speaker 3: I don't know for wake up call.
Speaker 2: The hardsworld in.
Speaker 1: Melbourne, Well, they need to. They're backsiding you because history
Speaker 1: shows you need to finish top four to win a
Speaker 1: comp and if they keep if they don't get things
Speaker 1: right mainly could jump them into that top four mainly
Speaker 1: have a much easier run home for min Yes, this
Speaker 1: weekend is so critical for this so.
Speaker 3: Huge.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: We talk about how the roosters have a lot to prove.
Speaker 3: Mainly I've got a lot to prove too. If they
Speaker 3: mix it with the competition heavyweys. I think they can
Speaker 3: if they fix up their defense.
Speaker 1: Not convinced yet, you know.
Speaker 3: I just love their attack, Like they can throw the
Speaker 3: ball around, they can score points. You know, Tommy is
Speaker 3: freed up. Luke Brooks lake Brooks's look sensation. The last
Speaker 3: couple of weeks with Tommy back. But their defensive lapses
Speaker 3: is a concern.
Speaker 2: Yeah, mate, I don't mind their middles.
Speaker 3: Jake Turbar, that's a good side seconds back has been
Speaker 3: missing for a bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, simply can play.
Speaker 3: I think they're a great roster from Brown. Think they're
Speaker 3: a great roster, great Tommy and then you look.
Speaker 2: At that match winning talent they've got, who can low
Speaker 2: game even without Tyler, Yeah, even without young Hopper. Looking
Speaker 2: at this, this is this will be the game of
Speaker 2: the round and Sam Walker needs to do a lot
Speaker 2: better than the needed last week against Jerome Hughes, much much better.
Speaker 2: He's up against another maestro this week in Cherry Evans.
Speaker 3: Yeah, agreed. I agree with all that, buzz. I think
Speaker 3: it's a great game and I think it's a real
Speaker 3: test for both sides Premiership credentials. And he's running with me, Mickey,
Speaker 3: I am.
Speaker 1: I am pressure on you two as well Saturday because
Speaker 1: big games you can't afford to stuff up on radio
Speaker 1: on Saturday.
Speaker 3: You blokes stuff up.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, you know, when I started on radio,
Speaker 2: did you ever hear cold piercecall? I'm a bit earlier.
Speaker 2: I started before handling around the grounds.
Speaker 1: For vitamins on the hill at I can't fill rof
Speaker 1: Field eight years. Yeah, suggest that you're only as good
Speaker 1: as your last performance, am I? Speaking of performances? You
Speaker 1: want to get on.
Speaker 3: With mixed people with yes, listen, I just have to
Speaker 3: do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't print this out. This is poor form from.
Speaker 2: What we dinner. While we wait, I've got my daughter
Speaker 2: coming over and she wants chicken setzel.
Speaker 3: You make nice? What do you have it with?
Speaker 2: Buzz, some wedges, a toss salad and some gravy.
Speaker 1: Nice, that's very nice.
Speaker 2: What do you do?
Speaker 1: My wife's making lasagna from scratch, so yeah, beef egg
Speaker 1: plant just eg. Yeah, she does a very nice vegan
Speaker 1: vegetarian version, but I insist on a little bit of
Speaker 1: meat there.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I went over, what about you? My parents
Speaker 3: come over when I do three sixty, they come over,
Speaker 3: No lamb. So we've got some leftover Greek soup other
Speaker 3: lamona scored.
Speaker 1: Why would you you've done this before? Haven't brought that
Speaker 1: for us?
Speaker 3: They brought us leftover for me? Oh, they made it
Speaker 3: last night because I wasn't home and to help with
Speaker 3: the kids. And then nice they're still so.
Speaker 2: That possibly kept the question because you're telling us it's
Speaker 2: very boring. I don't want people.
Speaker 3: Do you ever cook the lamb? Have you cooked the
Speaker 3: lamb yet? Have you heard this lamb situation?
Speaker 2: I've been too time.
Speaker 3: There's this I made a girl more I've made There's
Speaker 3: a Greek dish really made. It was outstanding and the
Speaker 3: listeners have been asking for the recipe. So I've been said,
Speaker 3: I mean I would have. I've probably made about twenty
Speaker 3: or so copies now and only one person that's written
Speaker 3: back that they've made it. So if you've made and
Speaker 3: they died from the UK. So if you've made it,
Speaker 3: let me know. Jim wants to know Jim's Isn't it
Speaker 3: time to increase the number of day games. The fans
Speaker 3: love it, kids can watch at a decent hour, and
Speaker 3: it's better standard to play. Understand the broadcast aspects, but
Speaker 3: excessive night football increases areas with slippery balls on the
Speaker 3: fields and else. Should look into this well.
Speaker 2: The broadcasters pay four hundred million a year two billion
Speaker 2: over five years. They need to put product on when
Speaker 2: people are at home watching during the day, a lot
Speaker 2: of people are out shopping beach.
Speaker 1: I'm not a massive thing of the Sunday six fifteen game. No,
Speaker 1: I've been having the last couple of weeks. I'm with
Speaker 1: you on there, but how yeah, what other slots can
Speaker 1: they have for afternoon games? I guess is my question?
Speaker 1: Because on Fox on satur's great. You can watch a
Speaker 1: new SIL's Cup game into the three o'clock game. It's brilliant.
Speaker 3: I like that. So no, it definitely needs the two
Speaker 3: o'clock on Sunday is a mask.
Speaker 2: Interesting thing is when we have twenty teams, how are
Speaker 2: you going to fit ten games?
Speaker 3: Interest Well, when we get eighteen, they will go to
Speaker 3: I think three on Sunday, obviously two or four in
Speaker 3: a Sunday night game. And then when they go to twenty,
Speaker 3: hopefully they bring back Monday not forty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love you can't play Thursday through to Monday.
Speaker 3: We're gonna have three kind of four games on a
Speaker 3: Saturday or a Sunday.
Speaker 2: Can you we need more than two days of Tuesday Wednesday?
Speaker 3: But what kind of you kind of have too on Thursday? Right,
Speaker 3: it's impossible. We already have two on Friday.
Speaker 2: You kind have four on smarter people than you, And
Speaker 2: next please.
Speaker 3: Monday night forty bring it back. That was my favorite
Speaker 3: night of the week to watch forty mate.
Speaker 2: I want to hold this audience until the end.
Speaker 3: So can we move Dream Team back together? Are the
Speaker 3: Anerre still serious about purchasing the Super League?
Speaker 2: No idea?
Speaker 1: Why isn't it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're serious. They think they're just they've undertaken some
Speaker 3: due diligence and scene. What's out there to be scary? Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's not going to be worth a lot. I don't
Speaker 3: think the super leaks it's a good time to buy.
Speaker 3: Tom wants today. How many contracted players will we moved
Speaker 3: on for the twenty twenty five season At.
Speaker 1: The nights we're just discussing a little bit of that.
Speaker 3: I'd say at least two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you think to four?
Speaker 3: Did Mobbsy This is from James, Did Mobbsy attend the
Speaker 3: Bulldogs be Parry game with the forties five thousand people?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: Well, people have been very interested in firstly, when you
Speaker 3: weren't here for a while, what was going on? And
Speaker 3: then when melt.
Speaker 2: Mobscase up and go who cares whether you're who?
Speaker 5: Of course an audience Bloodski wants to know why, Yes,
Speaker 5: why is the Fiji bid not a better fit than
Speaker 5: P and G safe from the players closer ties.
Speaker 3: Uh, and they have more NRL players than PNG.
Speaker 1: It's all political.
Speaker 2: Reading. Bulldog is more excited than anyone in the history
Speaker 2: of the planet.
Speaker 3: And j Yeah. Matthew wants to know, is any mail
Speaker 3: when or if Lucky Craker will be back this season.
Speaker 3: I can tell you he's playing reserve grade this week,
Speaker 3: which is good because there were some concerns around neck
Speaker 3: and concussion doubts whether he'd play again or over the case,
Speaker 3: but right for him, he would be back on Sunday
Speaker 3: and news I think at Sunday New South Wales Cup
Speaker 3: emails from Harry is Joey mine who eligible to be
Speaker 3: picked for the Kiwi's at the end of the year.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't think so, mate. I think it's going to rugby.
Speaker 3: He went like it's well, his contract technically ends in
Speaker 3: November one, so he.
Speaker 2: Question is whether he's coming back next year and the
Speaker 2: silence would suggest to years.
Speaker 3: That's always been the hope from the Roosters was way
Speaker 3: back in December. Mike wants to know. With Sam Walker
Speaker 3: yet to re sign with the Roosters, should the Cowboys
Speaker 3: go all in for him.
Speaker 2: I didn't would be my long term half.
Speaker 3: Well, the partner did, and I'd suggest would be the yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: absolute potentially you know Tim isn't. This is an interesting one. Okay,
Speaker 3: we have to listen.
Speaker 2: Here, right, I have been You've had six guys, we
Speaker 2: were over due for us.
Speaker 3: I listened bars because I have been dabbling in derogatory.
Speaker 3: I have been dabbling in the idea of running my
Speaker 3: tech business like a modern day rugby league team. Okay,
Speaker 3: for example, my props are the sales guys doing the
Speaker 3: hard work, whereas the fullback would be my product manager
Speaker 3: of sorts out the defense, but chimes in on attack
Speaker 3: to finish the play. Okay, is there something equivalent in
Speaker 3: the journalism world. Who are the props? Who are the wingers?
Speaker 3: What position would you be? Is buzz like Nathan Brown
Speaker 3: a bench player who comes in far up the team
Speaker 3: and gets in stinks. Brent Reid a playmaker like Daily
Speaker 3: Cherry Evans, a Queensland and Enemy territory, carving it up.
Speaker 1: Listeners, I'm letting on a little secret here. I look
Speaker 1: down the bell. Brent Reid. I love him. He's a scatterbrain.
Speaker 1: He's not as controlled as Daily. He's not a controlling half.
Speaker 1: He is a Josh Reynolds. Josh, I should have said.
Speaker 2: I'm a Glenn Lazarus. No one took it up harder,
Speaker 2: No one carried teams like idea one all the time.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't call your brick with eyes.
Speaker 2: But wow, ready, I love what you say.
Speaker 3: He's ready Tyson Gamble then read really Gambles and Gamble.
Speaker 1: Well I was I was even gonna go step further
Speaker 1: and say he was the Brett Kenny who was more instinct.
Speaker 1: He plays what's in front of him.
Speaker 3: Mere Tyson Gamble runs around, doesn't know what he's doing.
Speaker 2: It's the Jackson Hastings of the side. Oh geez, what
Speaker 2: do you mean, Jenny, that's a bit of a Jackson?
Speaker 1: What do you make your know?
Speaker 2: Just who would you good?
Speaker 3: Better than?
Speaker 2: Probably worth five hundred in my cap. I just spent
Speaker 2: some George from that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no one.
Speaker 2: I don't have Sloan Spook, Carle Flannager.
Speaker 3: More.
Speaker 1: And I'm not a Benji Marshall style coach because i
Speaker 1: ain't get a happy hour off, the witching hour off
Speaker 1: to look after the kids.
Speaker 2: So he was tossing pancakes. I'm sure what his lovely
Speaker 2: wife was doing so well, I aren't sleeping, no doubt,
Speaker 2: like a lot of mum's out there.
Speaker 1: Definitely, but it has been good getting the game back.
Speaker 2: Together, terrific.
Speaker 3: Looking forward to Saturday carving up bars. I've been watching
Speaker 3: some good He's just a Freeman moment when I scooped you.
Speaker 2: Are you going to scoop me? Are you going to
Speaker 2: scoop me?
Speaker 1: All right, we'll see you all next week. Share, it's
Speaker 1: going to be back later