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Speaker 1: Cooper's to talk. Firstly, Roosters, Bunny.

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Speaker 2: We're going to focus on that game for a second,

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Speaker 2: but we've got to congratulate Alex Johnson.

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Speaker 1: Of course we've done it before. Fantastic. Yeah, well done Alex,

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Speaker 1: excellent mate.

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Speaker 3: What do you make of it? Money Alex Johnson.

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Speaker 2: It was incredible and people were saying, don't flood the

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Speaker 2: field at the end of the day for the Prime

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Speaker 2: Minister and walk on the field taking everybody else. I

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Speaker 2: believe he's been fined and suspended from the stadium, but

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Speaker 2: it was fantastic. It just marked the occasion and world

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Speaker 2: under the Fiens. I thought the Fians the way they

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Speaker 2: did it was really good.

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Speaker 4: I can understand why the anial were hesitant because there

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Speaker 4: could have been an issue.

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Speaker 3: I totally get it.

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Speaker 4: But the way that it played out, not too many

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Speaker 4: noticeable issues to be reported, but the scenes of the

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Speaker 4: fans storm in the field, Cam Murray's circling around Alex

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Speaker 4: Johnson once he felt safe. The South players and fans

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Speaker 4: have put Alex Johnson on their shoulders and they're clapping

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Speaker 4: and cell it. And what took less than twenty minutes

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Speaker 4: for play the fans to get off the field, Those

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Speaker 4: images will be iconic for generations, like this is a

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Speaker 4: record that was held for fifty odd years. Alex Johnston

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Speaker 4: has played two hundred and forty five games, scored two

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Speaker 4: hundred and thirteen tries, Like he's the greatest of all

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Speaker 4: time in our game. He deserved an honorable sort of celebration.

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Speaker 4: And I thought that that's storm in the field actually

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Speaker 4: fitted it.

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Speaker 2: What did you think the nineteen minute pause for the

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Speaker 2: players come off? How big it an effect did you

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Speaker 2: think had on the game.

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Speaker 4: So I thought South Sidney were going to run away

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Speaker 4: with it, Like there was a lot of talk around

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Speaker 4: Alex getting the try, he got it, the energy that

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Speaker 4: was in the stadium, and you felt like for that

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Speaker 4: pause that they had all the momentum they were going

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Speaker 4: to sort of run downhill and take over their rival.

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Speaker 4: But in the break, you saw Wayne Bennett grab his

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Speaker 4: team together, like basically immediately, so he had stopp knocking around,

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Speaker 4: stopped on this, stopped Hi five get over. He was

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Speaker 4: urgent and the roosters were sort of sitting around, chilling

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Speaker 4: out and taking their time, and you look at it.

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Speaker 4: I think it's because Wayne knows his playing group. I

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Speaker 4: think he knows that they can be flighting, and he

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Speaker 4: knows that if they're not concentrating, they'll get distracted. So

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Speaker 4: they had the momentum. Alex Johnson scored that try, and

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Speaker 4: then they come out on the second half and there

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Speaker 4: wasn't much else until the last moment. I was trying

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Speaker 4: to chase points. There was six errors in the second

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Speaker 4: half and three penalties. Cody Walker two eras, one penalty,

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Speaker 4: the Trell Mitchell two eras, one penalty. Now they're your

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Speaker 4: best players, they're your leaders. That's why Wayne Bennett said

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Speaker 4: focus because he knew there was a chance of this

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Speaker 4: team just got back in the rhythm, found momentum and

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Speaker 4: could have gone on to win that game.

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Speaker 3: But they did. They lost their way.

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Speaker 2: Duddy Tree Evans, I thought he was fantastic hit back

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Speaker 2: after the first week of disappointment. Ask you something, Coop.

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Speaker 2: In my opinion, he was chief playmaker out there. He

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Speaker 2: was chief playmaker. And all this talk originally where people

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Speaker 2: saying no, no, no, it's Sam's team. Deally is going

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Speaker 2: to play second fiddle. Deli has never played second fiddle

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Speaker 2: a club land like. He's always been the chief playmaker like,

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Speaker 2: and seriously, remove modesty here. If you'd left the Melbourne

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Speaker 2: Storm and gone to the Roosters like you did, went

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Speaker 2: back to back and Rob had said to you, well,

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Speaker 2: keep welcome to the club, just letting you know though

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Speaker 2: you're not going to be the chief playmaker, you're going

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Speaker 2: to be.

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Speaker 1: The deputy to this bloke.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you'd be out there just fighting yourself, be.

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Speaker 3: Like I would have gone back to Melbourne Storm.

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Speaker 2: No, but you know what I mean like that is

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Speaker 2: that that is two completely different roles.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is.

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Speaker 4: But there's a spirit and then there's the actual reality

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Speaker 4: of things. Right, there's a spirit that says Sam Walker,

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Speaker 4: who is the future. He's wearing the number seven, and

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Speaker 4: he comes up with the great play sometimes, but he

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Speaker 4: sometimes comes up the wrong play. So daily's no doubt

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Speaker 4: in there calling the plays. And I felt week one

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Speaker 4: he was quiet trying to allow Sam to do.

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Speaker 1: His lif I thought we two the same thing.

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Speaker 4: He came out scored that try. He was setting up

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Speaker 4: a lot of the players and the shift works, so

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Speaker 4: that tells me that he was calling it. And then

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Speaker 4: when the game was on the line, he was the

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Speaker 4: one that had the ball in his hand that give

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Speaker 4: them grab a kick for Tedesco, right, so in and

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Speaker 4: amongst all that he's not going to score twenty tries.

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Speaker 4: He's not gonna have thirty tries this this year, Chairry Evans,

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Speaker 4: but the decisions he makes throughout the game says that

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Speaker 4: he will be added value to what the Roosters could

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Speaker 4: try and do.

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Speaker 2: What I liked about the Roosters is the Daly and

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Speaker 2: Sam just let the forwards play a little bit more.

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Speaker 2: They did less, which sort of engage the Fords more,

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Speaker 2: where the week before they're trying to finesse the ball around,

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Speaker 2: got a little two sideways.

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Speaker 4: I think Dailey understands that from playing Origin and Test football.

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Speaker 4: He understands big moments, you've got a lot of got

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Speaker 4: to let the forwards win.

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Speaker 3: That ego battle.

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Speaker 4: Sam on the other hand, that's his learning because he's

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Speaker 4: the top of halfback that just goes.

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Speaker 3: I haven't touched the ball for three sets.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna try and do something and sometimes going to

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Speaker 4: overplay his hands. So I think that combination is going

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Speaker 4: to be working progress for the next period of time.

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Speaker 4: But there was enough to say on the transformation from

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Speaker 4: week one to week two that this is a team

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Speaker 4: that will continually improve.

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Speaker 1: Coops.

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Speaker 2: What do you lot's been made of the south in

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Speaker 2: the left side, Cody, David, Feeder, Latrell, aj Jie Grace

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Speaker 2: sweeping around.

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Speaker 4: What do you think it's got all the ingredients to

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Speaker 4: be the left edge and the best left edge of

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Speaker 4: the competition. Cody's natural ability to just to guide across

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Speaker 4: the fenders. Yes, he's slowed up a little bit with speed,

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Speaker 4: but his footy awareness is still there. Latrell Mitchell is

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Speaker 4: devastating one on one. His ability to get Alex Johnston

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Speaker 4: in position for his tries remarkable, but it just needs

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Speaker 4: to be I don't know a little bit more details

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Speaker 1: Coop, I think as well.

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Speaker 2: I think there could be an adjustment in the attacking

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Speaker 2: the block sweep formations and as it separates Dave and Latrell,

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Speaker 2: that makes sense. I think having those two bloke shoulder

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Speaker 2: You can just see there were two occasions Aj the

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Speaker 2: Dave early and Dave had the opportunity to tip it

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Speaker 2: just thought they looked a lot more dangerous.

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Speaker 4: Rule of thumb trying to get that right balance between

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Speaker 4: a powerful edge back rower of early ball and in

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Speaker 4: the line ball, if that's how you want to call

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Speaker 4: it is. The further you are away from the line,

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Speaker 4: the more momentum that David can have to take on

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Speaker 4: the smaller defender. The closer you get to the line,

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Speaker 4: the more combination work you need to do with your

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Speaker 4: out which back row has got the best balance of

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Speaker 4: that in their game, really aren't we kickout like a

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Speaker 4: huge threat, huge body, but he seems to get a

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Speaker 4: good balance of when to play, when to run, when

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Speaker 4: to be that guy that's leading the line in terms

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Speaker 3: Play for David Feeder, just go.

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Speaker 4: And watch Billie McKie. I think he's got a really

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Speaker 2: What play by Ker Murray before his return has been fantastic.

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Speaker 2: One of the things people being sort of saying about

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Speaker 2: Cam at the moment, he's got a various football game

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Speaker 2: given the fact he's always in the middle. He's not

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Speaker 2: he just ran just a little play, a little variation

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Speaker 2: really good. That's a really simple one. It's not a

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Speaker 1: I thought he played it really nice too.

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Speaker 4: That's a half facts mentality. Yeah, knowing that you've got

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Speaker 4: and he fears like their space and the show and go.

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Speaker 4: So there's no doubt that you have a tip sheet

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Speaker 2: Them out steeing out performances coops.

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Speaker 3: Look, the Warriors were good. You can't go and by that,

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Speaker 3: but I'm going to go the Knights.

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Speaker 4: The Newcastle Knights lost nine in a row at the

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Speaker 4: going to be great. Then the injuries occurred and I thought,

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Speaker 4: you know what, here we go as Manly were rubbish.

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Speaker 4: But on the flip side, Justin Holbrook is instilled a

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Speaker 4: speedy attack which they didn't have last year and a

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Speaker 4: defensive resolve that represents the community now. Justin Holbrook took

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Speaker 4: his players down to coalmine in Newcastle. Right that second

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Speaker 4: half was Newcastle coalmine mentality. They just kept turning up,

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Speaker 4: put the boxing gloves on and just didn't take no

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Speaker 4: that's happened at Newcastle in the period of time, jeseus,

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Speaker 4: they were impressive, Like I really like what Newcastle.

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Speaker 1: Done week and talk about you. We said about Caleb.

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Speaker 2: I was that first twenty five minutes to try assists

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Speaker 2: and scores a try. Dylan Brown great signs where you're

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Speaker 2: just a little dummy straighten up. A little bit of

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Speaker 2: Cam Murray just did there. But some of the other

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Speaker 1: Croger was really really good.

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Speaker 2: Dylan Lucas continues to improve as a footballer. I heard

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Speaker 2: me Matt Croker interviewed after the game and what he

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Speaker 2: said was, he goes, we're just he said, we're just

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Speaker 2: a really happy.

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Speaker 1: Camp at the moment now.

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Speaker 2: But on in professional sport, that sounds very simplistic, but

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Speaker 2: my god, they carries a long way.

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Speaker 4: What would you do when Newcastle attack Now, no Kalin,

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Speaker 4: no Brown, would you play They're going to change position,

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Speaker 4: But would you play the same way or would you

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Speaker 4: slightly change it to accommodate.

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Speaker 2: I think I think you need to. It's got to

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Speaker 2: be an adjustment coop. One of the things I really

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Speaker 2: liked about Justin Hobrook's coaching has burned the fact that

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Speaker 2: he hasn't overcomplicated it. If you look at the first

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Speaker 2: try and how they're setting up with Kaling Klea on

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Speaker 1: I thought Sandra.

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Speaker 4: And for the balance of the team, he probably plays

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Speaker 3: I think they need to focus on.

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Speaker 2: The fence before I talk about the Wars and the Tigs.

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Speaker 1: While run the game, we'll talk about Manly and we're.

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Speaker 2: Talking about sides that you need to lift, and obviously

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Speaker 2: for that Manly.

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Speaker 1: That performance yesterday me.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm going to break it into two.

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Speaker 4: The first half was riven it, it was Calen Pongerverse,

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Speaker 3: Think, oh my goodness, what's happening here.

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Speaker 4: I look awhile Through scored with forty five minutes to go,

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Speaker 4: and this is what they deliver after it. Defensive set

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Speaker 4: thinking in the second half, manly, if they stop Newcasts

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Speaker 3: But then their.

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Speaker 4: Attack is this, that's Luke Brook's on the last play,

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Speaker 4: There was just clunkiness all over it, like last play,

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Speaker 3: Where's the support around Tom?

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Speaker 1: No One?

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Speaker 4: Harrison Graham is the closest person too. It scoops the

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Speaker 3: But that no one there, that is that's embarrassing.

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Speaker 1: One's bitterly anyone in the pitcher.

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Speaker 4: Like what's happened there is Ruben Garreck's taken an incept

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Speaker 4: they weren't going to win the game at that time.

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Speaker 4: I get it, but just the care factor to compete

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Speaker 1: We're positive guys.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about the Warriors, boy boy. I mean, they

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Speaker 2: is nothing chance about what they're doing. There's not like

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Speaker 2: they're playing football where the ball just sticks that. Everything

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Speaker 2: game is really really strong, mate. They've got a high

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Speaker 2: They're just playing great football. And you know the evidence

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Speaker 2: of that too. I said this last night in the

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Speaker 2: Sunday Night Show. Evidence for a coach is not just

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Speaker 2: the results, but the improvement and the individual and the

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Speaker 2: And I want to talk Halosima and Tanner Boyds for

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Speaker 2: just one second. Coops, Halaesimo, it's really important in his career.

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Speaker 2: He is so incredibly athletically gifted and how many times

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Speaker 1: We've spoken about day for feeder about this before.

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Speaker 2: Is the willingness to sort of buy into the science

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Speaker 2: He needs something else. The thing I like about Halaeseima

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Speaker 2: be able to work with playmakers. You see when playmakers

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Speaker 2: he just rips across the field. And if Halaseeamer can

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for an edgeback.

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Speaker 4: Rather the couple of rules of combining with your halfback

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Speaker 4: out of a cannon. Now, for Tanna boy sometimes you

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Speaker 4: But ultimately, when your back roller is running harder than

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Speaker 4: the fence is coming off the line, play short.

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Speaker 3: Tom, play short.

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Speaker 4: He might not go through, but you were ripped down

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Speaker 4: that short side and you might have an opportunity to

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Speaker 4: set up. And his timing and intent on that play

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Speaker 4: And when Fisher Harris and Adam fanil Blake sort of

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Speaker 4: for a team, right, You could make a case for that.

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Speaker 4: But James Fisher Harris has come to the Warriors and

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Speaker 4: improved Hala Sema Aaron Clark Jackson forward and it's helping

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Speaker 4: four walls of the Warriors, but whatever Fisher, Harris and

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Speaker 4: Because I thought the Warriors when they lost s Loop

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Speaker 4: culture like the Warriors set with Webster and Fisher Harris,

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Speaker 4: it's the responsibility of everyone to lift ten percent, not

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Speaker 1: And context in their performance.

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Speaker 2: They lose Kirk k Well, one of the most important

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Speaker 2: Seven minutes in they find themselves six nail down and

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Speaker 2: The guy I want to talk about individually, there was

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Speaker 2: But you know you've got a bloke here who is

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Speaker 1: It's fast, your great footwork.

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Speaker 2: Crucially, he's tough, like he just never shies away with

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Speaker 4: I call that game and building up to it, seeing

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Speaker 3: And it could have been anything like.

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Speaker 4: That game could have been anything and ended up being

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Speaker 4: everything in between the fact that you know there's different

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Speaker 4: like just to hit the accelerator breakthrough a tackle. That's

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Speaker 4: but sometimes you need players that can do this, just

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Speaker 4: Eels were poor against the Storm, they were poor for

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Speaker 4: parts against the Briso Broncos. But that combination of desert

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Speaker 4: Moses and Iongi Yeah, like there's something there, There is

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Speaker 1: Yeah, No, this is a big play here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a massive play.

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Speaker 1: He's good player. A coops.

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Speaker 2: Tigers like hat Oval, dry sunny afternoon, perfect conditions for them,

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Speaker 2: but they delivered a really good twenty eight to two

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Speaker 4: It's almost like they were caged Tigers and the lead

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Speaker 4: didn't matter who that was going to be. I think

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Speaker 2: And the second the big teest and like the six again,

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Speaker 2: you'd see the Cowboys would beat ten minutes before half time,

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Speaker 1: They just couldn't come back from that. You saw it.

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Speaker 2: And for the Tigers are going there twenty eight two

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Speaker 2: something like that. And there were bad signs firstly after

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Speaker 2: they make three eras in a row, but Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: Scored and I thought, oh, here we go.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be one of those games that you

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Speaker 2: probably takes a little bit off for how good the

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Speaker 2: great signs. Ky Piece Paul is going to prove to

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Speaker 4: Adam Dewey's doing his thing just some having Dewey as

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Speaker 4: an older, experienced, more confident player to just do a

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Speaker 4: his ball playing and he's definitely helped Droame Luo b

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Speaker 4: his personality reflects their team. I think Benji's style of personality,

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Speaker 4: the way that he played, the way he lives his

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Speaker 4: life is transforming onto the Tigers and all those players

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Speaker 4: absorbing it and living it, and they will be great

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Speaker 4: like they did on the weekend. But when they come

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Speaker 4: up against some bigger and faster and stronger teams that

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Speaker 4: need to fundamentally hold their gloves up. I mean good

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Speaker 4: defense for long periods of time, good kicking, game completion

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Speaker 4: rate where you don't give a sniff the opposition.

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Speaker 3: They're going to.

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Speaker 4: Still have their challenges, but if they beat up the

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Speaker 4: teams below them on the ladder, that's a good thing.

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Speaker 1: And Cops, that's the thing. I think there's a couple

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Speaker 1: of really.

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Speaker 2: Important next steps for the Tigers. And firstly, what you're

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Speaker 2: talking about is going into those really big games, Coops,

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Speaker 2: and this periods of the game where you're under pressure,

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Speaker 2: things aren't going good. You know, the opposition is getting

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Speaker 2: ninety percent of possession in the last fifteen minutes, all

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Speaker 2: those things. The next step for the Tigers it's to

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Speaker 2: be able to still maintain some sort of control on

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Speaker 2: the contest and not have the scoreboard tick over. And

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Speaker 2: that's what happens, to be able to still hold their

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Speaker 2: own during difficult time and the game.

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Speaker 4: The way the new rules in the six again is

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Speaker 4: playing a part we've seen at different stages. And the

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Speaker 4: reason why I say this is that it doesn't matter

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Speaker 4: what real change you bring into the game. The good

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Speaker 4: teams will always be better. The bad teams won't adapt

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Speaker 4: quickly enough. Right and at the moment when there's possession

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Speaker 4: of six again, and the more times you have the

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Speaker 4: ball in your hand, the more fatigue that is getting

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Speaker 4: in the opposition. Now, if a good team gets multiple

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Speaker 4: sets again, the bad team defensively just won't be able

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Speaker 4: to get a breath and will fall over and try

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Speaker 4: as we'll be scored. So I think for the next

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Speaker 4: six to eight weeks, when there is a good team

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Speaker 4: versus a bad team, there's going to be score blowouts.

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Speaker 4: And when there's bad verse bad or good verse good,

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Speaker 4: we might be a little bit closer because at the

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Speaker 4: moment when a bad team can't handle it, the good

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Speaker 4: teams are just putting the foot down and going for

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Speaker 4: it and scoring set up the set and the score

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Speaker 4: lines are getting wicked.

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Speaker 2: Coops for did you think about the Cowboys? Then on

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Speaker 2: on the flip with Coin.

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Speaker 3: Look, we're not three sixty here, Matthew.

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Speaker 2: We talk a little bit to.

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Speaker 1: Twice.

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Speaker 3: There is something not right.

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Speaker 4: They played the Penrith Panthers and in a game where

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Speaker 4: Penrith sent their reserve grade team in the preseason and

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Speaker 4: the Cowboys were great. I was like, okay, they've changed

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Speaker 4: their tune here a little bit. They go to La Vegas,

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Speaker 4: just lost the moments and then for them to like

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Speaker 4: Todd Peyton knows what likeard Is knows what the Tigers

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Speaker 4: are trying to do and would have stealed his team

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Speaker 4: for this onslaught that was coming. He knew that was

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Speaker 4: coming and for them just to fall over the way

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Speaker 4: they did. Like yeah, at those days they get consistency

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Speaker 4: in their game, their completion rate, whatever. But last year

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Speaker 4: their best football was good. Their worst football is really bad.

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Speaker 4: They made significant changes in their coaching staff last year.

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Speaker 4: Look they're under pressure.

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Speaker 2: Just going ahead for this week, your massive Friday night

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Speaker 2: Fox League, we're going to start. You've got Panthers against

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Speaker 2: the Roosters, going to be mega. But afterwards you've got

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Speaker 2: the Grand Final rematching in the storm up against the Broncos.

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Speaker 2: Again we say it. I think it's absurd. But you know,

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Speaker 2: Madge continuing to say he's under pressure. I mean he

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Speaker 2: was under pressure before a ball was kicked last year

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Speaker 2: and before it.

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Speaker 1: Was ball was kicked this year. Unfair.

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Speaker 2: But I tell you what, I don't know, Cooper. I

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Speaker 2: don't know whether all this talk is bleeding into the

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Speaker 2: player group. It's basically whether it's distracting them or in

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Speaker 2: them an excuse. But attitude comes out in your defensive effort.

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Speaker 2: Their defensive effort against the Eels was so poor.

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Speaker 4: Madge's a premiership winning coach. He is a good coach

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Speaker 4: and he knows what to do right. But everyone says that, oh,

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Speaker 4: look what the Brisbon Broncos did at the back end

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Speaker 4: of last year. You can't replicate performances like that. It's

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Speaker 4: wishful thinking, like, oh, let's just get down by ten

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Speaker 4: and Reesel come up with a player Ezra or whatever.

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Speaker 3: Like it just does not happen.

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Speaker 4: If you go and look at what they did in

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Speaker 4: those moments to get back and win that comp in

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Speaker 4: the last four to six weeks, I guarantee you their

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Speaker 4: completion rate was pretty solemn. I guarantee you they save

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Speaker 4: tries defensively, and I guarantee you they were winning the

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Speaker 4: field position battle in terms of like knocking them back

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Speaker 4: a little bit kick by kick, right, They are the

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Speaker 4: things that you must do, whether you're the best team

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Speaker 4: of the worst team, and at the moment, the Broncos

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Speaker 4: aren't doing that.

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Speaker 3: Foraday minutes.

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Speaker 4: There was a period where they started against the Eels,

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Speaker 4: I was like, okay, re scores there, they're doing these things.

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Speaker 4: They're competing every play, the kick chase is violent like

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Speaker 4: it normally is. But then they started making errors defensively,

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Speaker 4: missing tackles, and then all of a sudden they find

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Speaker 4: themselves in that washing machine of trying to get back

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Speaker 4: in the game. So they are a good team, they

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Speaker 4: are talented, but it doesn't matter how much talent you got.

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Speaker 4: If you're not willing to do the fundamentals of our game,

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Speaker 4: you will get beaten and the pressure from externals will

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Speaker 4: come to that team.

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Speaker 2: And the other one will be a classic. Two Roosters

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Speaker 2: against the Panthers. We haven't spoken the Panthers yere, but

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Speaker 2: I just admire how the strangle hold that they've putten

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Speaker 2: on their opposition in the first two rounds. They must

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Speaker 2: be an awful slid to play because they just don't

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Speaker 2: let you play football.

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Speaker 4: So the point of difference between Penrith and the Sharks

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Speaker 4: on the weekend like it was a good game, Like

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Speaker 4: they were going at it for periods of time and

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Speaker 4: it was close. In that first half, Nathan Cleary kicks

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Speaker 4: a forty twenty, they go down and score. Blaze t'lungi

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Speaker 4: gets a ball and throws a ball over the top.

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Speaker 4: Tom Jenkins schools for the Sharks to improve against those

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Speaker 4: best teams. The Brayley Trendle hines when a moment comes,

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Speaker 4: they need to own it. Nathan and that spine owned it.

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Speaker 4: Dylan Edwards is back to his best footy. Yeah, I

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Speaker 4: think that that's a hell of a Friday night.

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Speaker 1: At Football Coops. Beauty Week two over mm hm