WEBVTT - Round 2 Takeaways 0:00:01.280 --> 0:00:04.200 Cooper's to talk. Firstly, Roosters, Bunny. 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:05.960 We're going to focus on that game for a second, 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:07.760 but we've got to congratulate Alex Johnson. 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:11.320 Of course we've done it before. Fantastic. Yeah, well done Alex, 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:12.120 excellent mate. 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:16.079 What do you make of it? Money Alex Johnson. 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:21.360 It was incredible and people were saying, don't flood the 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:22.640 field at the end of the day for the Prime 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:24.840 Minister and walk on the field taking everybody else. I 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:28.120 believe he's been fined and suspended from the stadium, but 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:31.960 it was fantastic. It just marked the occasion and world 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:33.839 under the Fiens. I thought the Fians the way they 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:36.280 did it was really good. 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:39.080 I can understand why the anial were hesitant because there 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:40.200 could have been an issue. 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:41.000 I totally get it. 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:43.920 But the way that it played out, not too many 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:48.440 noticeable issues to be reported, but the scenes of the 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:53.000 fans storm in the field, Cam Murray's circling around Alex 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:56.280 Johnson once he felt safe. The South players and fans 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:59.480 have put Alex Johnson on their shoulders and they're clapping 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:02.400 and cell it. And what took less than twenty minutes 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:05.600 for play the fans to get off the field, Those 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:08.800 images will be iconic for generations, like this is a 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:12.520 record that was held for fifty odd years. Alex Johnston 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:15.280 has played two hundred and forty five games, scored two 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:18.360 hundred and thirteen tries, Like he's the greatest of all 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:23.319 time in our game. He deserved an honorable sort of celebration. 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:25.919 And I thought that that's storm in the field actually 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:26.360 fitted it. 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:30.080 What did you think the nineteen minute pause for the 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:33.400 players come off? How big it an effect did you 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:34.600 think had on the game. 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:37.479 So I thought South Sidney were going to run away 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:39.520 with it, Like there was a lot of talk around 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.720 Alex getting the try, he got it, the energy that 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:45.440 was in the stadium, and you felt like for that 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:48.600 pause that they had all the momentum they were going 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:51.200 to sort of run downhill and take over their rival. 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:55.480 But in the break, you saw Wayne Bennett grab his 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:58.600 team together, like basically immediately, so he had stopp knocking around, 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:01.960 stopped on this, stopped Hi five get over. He was 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:05.240 urgent and the roosters were sort of sitting around, chilling 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:08.120 out and taking their time, and you look at it. 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:11.480 I think it's because Wayne knows his playing group. I 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:14.720 think he knows that they can be flighting, and he 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:18.560 knows that if they're not concentrating, they'll get distracted. So 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.760 they had the momentum. Alex Johnson scored that try, and 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:23.519 then they come out on the second half and there 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:26.600 wasn't much else until the last moment. I was trying 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:29.680 to chase points. There was six errors in the second 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:33.480 half and three penalties. Cody Walker two eras, one penalty, 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:36.680 the Trell Mitchell two eras, one penalty. Now they're your 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:39.680 best players, they're your leaders. That's why Wayne Bennett said 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:42.160 focus because he knew there was a chance of this 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:45.840 team just got back in the rhythm, found momentum and 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:47.320 could have gone on to win that game. 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:48.840 But they did. They lost their way. 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:54.280 Duddy Tree Evans, I thought he was fantastic hit back 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:56.799 after the first week of disappointment. Ask you something, Coop. 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.880 In my opinion, he was chief playmaker out there. He 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:04.080 was chief playmaker. And all this talk originally where people 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:07.160 saying no, no, no, it's Sam's team. Deally is going 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:10.440 to play second fiddle. Deli has never played second fiddle 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:14.320 a club land like. He's always been the chief playmaker like, 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:17.800 and seriously, remove modesty here. If you'd left the Melbourne 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:20.280 Storm and gone to the Roosters like you did, went 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:23.000 back to back and Rob had said to you, well, 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:24.880 keep welcome to the club, just letting you know though 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:26.520 you're not going to be the chief playmaker, you're going 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:26.799 to be. 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:27.919 The deputy to this bloke. 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:30.520 I mean, you'd be out there just fighting yourself, be. 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:32.000 Like I would have gone back to Melbourne Storm. 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:36.280 No, but you know what I mean like that is 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:38.920 that that is two completely different roles. 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:39.880 Yeah, it is. 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:42.680 But there's a spirit and then there's the actual reality 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.640 of things. Right, there's a spirit that says Sam Walker, 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:47.880 who is the future. He's wearing the number seven, and 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:51.480 he comes up with the great play sometimes, but he 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:54.600 sometimes comes up the wrong play. So daily's no doubt 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:58.600 in there calling the plays. And I felt week one 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:01.440 he was quiet trying to allow Sam to do. 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:03.360 His lif I thought we two the same thing. 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:07.240 He came out scored that try. He was setting up 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:09.240 a lot of the players and the shift works, so 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:11.600 that tells me that he was calling it. And then 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:13.720 when the game was on the line, he was the 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:15.040 one that had the ball in his hand that give 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:17.599 them grab a kick for Tedesco, right, so in and 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:19.960 amongst all that he's not going to score twenty tries. 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:22.760 He's not gonna have thirty tries this this year, Chairry Evans, 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:26.200 but the decisions he makes throughout the game says that 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:29.080 he will be added value to what the Roosters could 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:29.440 try and do. 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:32.320 What I liked about the Roosters is the Daly and 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:34.840 Sam just let the forwards play a little bit more. 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:37.800 They did less, which sort of engage the Fords more, 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:40.440 where the week before they're trying to finesse the ball around, 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:41.800 got a little two sideways. 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:44.880 I think Dailey understands that from playing Origin and Test football. 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:47.720 He understands big moments, you've got a lot of got 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:48.719 to let the forwards win. 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:49.400 That ego battle. 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:51.920 Sam on the other hand, that's his learning because he's 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:53.600 the top of halfback that just goes. 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:55.599 I haven't touched the ball for three sets. 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:57.680 I'm gonna try and do something and sometimes going to 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:00.919 overplay his hands. So I think that combination is going 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:02.839 to be working progress for the next period of time. 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:06.360 But there was enough to say on the transformation from 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:08.360 week one to week two that this is a team 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:09.840 that will continually improve. 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:10.320 Coops. 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:12.200 What do you lot's been made of the south in 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:17.960 the left side, Cody, David, Feeder, Latrell, aj Jie Grace 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:18.680 sweeping around. 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:20.479 What do you think it's got all the ingredients to 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:22.200 be the left edge and the best left edge of 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:26.599 the competition. Cody's natural ability to just to guide across 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:29.480 the fenders. Yes, he's slowed up a little bit with speed, 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.960 but his footy awareness is still there. Latrell Mitchell is 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:37.080 devastating one on one. His ability to get Alex Johnston 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:42.039 in position for his tries remarkable, but it just needs 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:45.159 to be I don't know a little bit more details 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:46.159 of the way they go about it. 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:47.640 Coop, I think as well. 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:50.279 I think there could be an adjustment in the attacking 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:52.440 shapes a lot of times if you're going to play 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:57.080 the block sweep formations and as it separates Dave and Latrell, 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.640 that makes sense. I think having those two bloke shoulder 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.920 shoulder working in combination. I'll give you a couple examples here. 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:07.279 You can just see there were two occasions Aj the 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:10.200 record breaking try that he scored, and there was one 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:11.800 toward the back end of the game. We've just fed 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:14.200 Dave early and Dave had the opportunity to tip it 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:16.400 then onto Latrell or take him on himself. And I 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:18.440 just thought they looked a lot more dangerous. 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:20.520 Rule of thumb trying to get that right balance between 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:24.920 a powerful edge back rower of early ball and in 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:26.800 the line ball, if that's how you want to call 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:29.520 it is. The further you are away from the line, 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:33.039 the more momentum that David can have to take on 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:35.839 the smaller defender. The closer you get to the line, 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:38.440 the more combination work you need to do with your 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:41.120 players around you. Right, And if you're trying to work 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:43.240 out which back row has got the best balance of 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:46.520 that in their game, really aren't we kickout like a 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:50.160 huge threat, huge body, but he seems to get a 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:53.200 good balance of when to play, when to run, when 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:55.960 to be that guy that's leading the line in terms 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:57.760 of running the first man, second man. 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:00.640 Play for David Feeder, just go. 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:03.360 And watch Billie McKie. I think he's got a really 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:03.800 good balot. 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:07.920 What play by Ker Murray before his return has been fantastic. 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:10.240 One of the things people being sort of saying about 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:12.520 Cam at the moment, he's got a various football game 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:14.920 given the fact he's always in the middle. He's not 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:16.560 the biggest forward and he was start to get knocked 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:18.800 around a little bit. Really encouraging side on the weekend 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:21.200 he just ran just a little play, a little variation 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:22.960 what he usually does, and I thought it looked really 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:25.600 really good. That's a really simple one. It's not a 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:28.080 flash player or anything, but it's just a little variation. 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:29.800 I thought he played it really nice too. 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:33.800 That's a half facts mentality. Yeah, knowing that you've got 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.600 a player that you like and then feeling that there's 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:39.480 pressure and a far too white just slides off him 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:42.120 and he fears like their space and the show and go. 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:45.680 So there's no doubt that you have a tip sheet 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:48.480 against you as an opposition player and you start writing 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:50.360 down their strengths and weakness. Is when you feel like 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:53.240 teams are starting to read. You mix up the variation 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:54.760 and you'll catch. 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:56.360 Them out steeing out performances coops. 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:59.960 Look, the Warriors were good. You can't go and by that, 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:01.760 but I'm going to go the Knights. 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:05.920 The Newcastle Knights lost nine in a row at the 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:08.640 back end of last year. They made a decision to 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:11.840 get Justin Holbrook and on the weekend like that attack 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.840 was slick fast and Calen Ponger and Dylan Brown were 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:18.560 electric right and they got to a lead. It was 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:20.280 going to be great. Then the injuries occurred and I thought, 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:23.680 you know what, here we go as Manly were rubbish. 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:27.920 But on the flip side, Justin Holbrook is instilled a 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:30.640 speedy attack which they didn't have last year and a 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:35.720 defensive resolve that represents the community now. Justin Holbrook took 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:39.120 his players down to coalmine in Newcastle. Right that second 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:44.400 half was Newcastle coalmine mentality. They just kept turning up, 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:47.440 put the boxing gloves on and just didn't take no 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:50.720 for an answer and like to do that after everything 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:54.640 that's happened at Newcastle in the period of time, jeseus, 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:57.880 they were impressive, Like I really like what Newcastle. 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:59.840 Done week and talk about you. We said about Caleb. 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:04.400 I was that first twenty five minutes to try assists 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:07.760 and scores a try. Dylan Brown great signs where you're 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:09.640 just a little dummy straighten up. A little bit of 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:12.520 Cam Murray just did there. But some of the other 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:13.679 guys like Matt. 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:14.720 Croger was really really good. 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:19.880 Dylan Lucas continues to improve as a footballer. I heard 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:23.680 me Matt Croker interviewed after the game and what he 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:26.880 said was, he goes, we're just he said, we're just 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:28.160 a really happy. 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:28.880 Camp at the moment now. 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:32.520 But on in professional sport, that sounds very simplistic, but 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:34.480 my god, they carries a long way. 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:38.160 What would you do when Newcastle attack Now, no Kalin, 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.480 no Brown, would you play They're going to change position, 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:44.120 But would you play the same way or would you 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:45.839 slightly change it to accommodate. 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:49.320 I think I think you need to. It's got to 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:51.480 be an adjustment coop. One of the things I really 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:54.920 liked about Justin Hobrook's coaching has burned the fact that 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:58.079 he hasn't overcomplicated it. If you look at the first 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:00.400 try and how they're setting up with Kaling Klea on 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:03.240 the side, they were working just past the far post 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:06.240 and then just quickly getting the ball of Kalin's hands 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:07.680 right in front of it, right in his sweet spot, 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:09.680 right in front of that third last defender, which he 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:11.640 likes to isolate. They're going to have to do some 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:15.200 various They're gonna they're going to have to probably simplify 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:18.280 another level again. They've got to get more out of 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:20.200 Phoenix Crossland at nine, he's going to have to have 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:20.920 a bigger role. 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:21.880 I thought Sandra. 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:24.360 Smith was really really good sharp comes back. 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:27.080 I'd put him in. I'd put him in. 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:33.360 I mean, effectively, he's going to serve the same purpose. 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:35.959 That's how he plays. He's a hybrid player. I probably 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:38.040 want to keep him out of I mean, Fletcher, Fletcher 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:40.760 Hart was fantastic in the weekend. In the ideal world, 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:43.680 I'd prefer to put someone else in six to have 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:47.480 to look after the defencive responsibilities and put Fletcher at 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:49.960 the back. But I think there has to be another 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:52.920 level of simplifying films again. 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:54.600 And for the balance of the team, he probably plays 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:57.280 number six and then Fletcher Hunt full back, just because 0:10:57.320 --> 0:10:59.880 of the situation they're in. But if I'm justin Holbro, 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:04.720 I'm tweaking a little bit, but I'm not changing too much. 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:07.480 I would be doubling down on defense. Like I think, 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:10.480 too many teams lose good players and all of a 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:12.280 sudden thing, Oh, we need to change the way we're 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:14.440 going to play because we might not score the twelve 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:16.559 points with our good players. How about you stop the 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:19.559 opposition from scoring three tries? Yeah, then you give yourself 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:23.000 a chance, like if it's twelve eight with twenty minutes 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:26.000 to go against the Warriors on the weekend, maybe Sand 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:28.079 and Smith will Fletcher Sharp come up with a play 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:29.200 they win you the game. 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:30.520 I think they need to focus on. 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:34.120 The fence before I talk about the Wars and the Tigs. 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:36.640 While run the game, we'll talk about Manly and we're. 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:40.439 Talking about sides that you need to lift, and obviously 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:44.079 they're probably them and the Cowboys are the poster boys 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:45.000 for that Manly. 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:46.640 That performance yesterday me. 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:48.000 Well, I'm going to break it into two. 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:51.160 The first half was riven it, it was Calen Pongerverse, 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:54.800 Tom Travoyvitch and I'm loving what they're bothing delivering. But 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:57.520 in the second half there's a couple of players that 0:11:57.559 --> 0:11:57.920 you just. 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:00.000 Think, oh my goodness, what's happening here. 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.959 I look awhile Through scored with forty five minutes to go, 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:05.720 and this is what they deliver after it. Defensive set 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:09.120 here like there's no Kalin or Dylan Brown on this side, 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.000 and defensively their paper thin on the left hand side, 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:15.160 like no offense to the spine. But they don't engage 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:17.559 the line until here with Sand and Smith and they 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:20.120 just collapse too easily and score the tri So I'm 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:23.120 thinking in the second half, manly, if they stop Newcasts 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:25.360 from scoring points, they're a chance of winning this game. 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:26.760 But then their. 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:29.360 Attack is this, that's Luke Brook's on the last play, 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:32.960 your general playkicker throwing the ball back to Tom Dravoivitch. 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:34.920 She kicks the cover off a couple of rows back. 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:38.000 There was just clunkiness all over it, like last play, 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:39.000 trying to score points. 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:41.280 Where's the support around Tom? 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:41.920 No One? 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:44.640 Harrison Graham is the closest person too. It scoops the 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:47.000 ball up and runs away. And then this like this play, 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:51.800 this is this is zero care factor for what's happening 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.760 in the moment is I'm tired, I can't chase. 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:58.600 But that no one there, that is that's embarrassing. 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:00.720 One's bitterly anyone in the pitcher. 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:04.199 Like what's happened there is Ruben Garreck's taken an incept 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:06.760 and everyone else has put their hands on the hips 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:11.480 and gone, oh go Reuben. No one's fired up like 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:12.920 they weren't going to win the game at that time. 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:16.880 I get it, but just the care factor to compete 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:18.800 on every moment just wasn't there. 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:19.880 We're positive guys. 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:24.440 Let's talk about the Warriors, boy boy. I mean, they 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:26.440 have had a wonderful start of the season and they've 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:30.360 beat two heavyweight teams and they've got the formula. There 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:32.840 is nothing chance about what they're doing. There's not like 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:35.720 they're playing football where the ball just sticks that. Everything 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:41.080 is so methodical. They don't surrender possession made their kicking 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:43.559 game is really really strong, mate. They've got a high 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:46.520 energy defense, they play physical, they want to play through you. 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:51.679 They're just playing great football. And you know the evidence 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:53.160 of that too. I said this last night in the 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:55.480 Sunday Night Show. Evidence for a coach is not just 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:59.760 the results, but the improvement and the individual and the 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:03.360 ruban and guys like Jackson Ford. Jackson Ford I think 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:06.000 probably has been the standout forward in the first two 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:09.040 rounds of the competition. In my opinion, Tanner Boyd speaks 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:13.040 for himself. It's been unbelievable and Lea Helasiema continues to improve. 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:15.360 And I want to talk Halosima and Tanner Boyds for 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:18.920 just one second. Coops, Halaesimo, it's really important in his career. 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:24.160 He is so incredibly athletically gifted and how many times 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:25.320 we spoken about this before. 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:28.040 We've spoken about day for feeder about this before. 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:30.640 Is the willingness to sort of buy into the science 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:32.920 of the game, to have that plan. B. When someone 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:35.200 marks up against you and the physicality, he's just not working. 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:37.520 He needs something else. The thing I like about Halaeseima 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:41.000 he's been caged very, very well and he's starting to 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:43.800 be able to work with playmakers. You see when playmakers 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:46.960 wander across the field and he just compliments with a nice, hard, 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.640 straight run. To me, he looks like a player who 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:53.200 ideally likes the ball early, but it now has willingness 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:55.040 to do this. You watch this for Tanner Boyd and 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:58.000 he just rips across the field. And if Halaseeamer can 0:14:58.040 --> 0:14:59.880 do more of this, I'll tell you what he's going 0:14:59.920 --> 0:15:01.360 to go through a lot more than he's going to 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:01.840 be stopped. 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:03.560 Yeah, for an edgeback. 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.360 Rather the couple of rules of combining with your halfback 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.560 is the words I use is timing and intent. You 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:11.880 have to be where you need to be with the 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:15.040 perfect timing, and your intent needs to be like shot 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.800 out of a cannon. Now, for Tanna boy sometimes you 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:21.920 can overengineer your combination and try and get them too scientific. 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:24.640 But ultimately, when your back roller is running harder than 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:27.320 the fence is coming off the line, play short. 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:28.440 Tom, play short. 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:30.520 He might not go through, but you were ripped down 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:32.560 that short side and you might have an opportunity to 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:35.360 set up. And his timing and intent on that play 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:37.800 was almost perfect. 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:38.080 Right. 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:41.680 And when Fisher Harris and Adam fanil Blake sort of 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:46.280 swapped and moved around, like on the surface, Adam fanol 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:49.760 Blake probably had more sort of impact on a performance 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:51.920 for a team, right, You could make a case for that. 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:56.680 But James Fisher Harris has come to the Warriors and 0:15:56.800 --> 0:16:01.880 improved Hala Sema Aaron Clark Jackson forward and it's helping 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:05.680 Tanner Boyd right now. Like again, we're not in the 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:09.360 four walls of the Warriors, but whatever Fisher, Harris and 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:11.920 Andrew Webster are doing at the moment, keep doing it. 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:14.880 Because I thought the Warriors when they lost s Loop 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:17.960 Metcalf last year, they were a top four team on 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:19.920 the edge with him there. Then they lost him and 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:23.000 they were finding inconsistency. I thought, oh, they're going to 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.960 lose more games they win until Metcalf comes back. But 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:28.880 sometimes when you take a good player out, when a 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:32.000 culture like the Warriors set with Webster and Fisher Harris, 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:35.840 it's the responsibility of everyone to lift ten percent, not 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:38.040 wait for Tanner Boyd to start playing at a level 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:40.600 that we've never seen before. And I think they've got 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:41.520 the recipe right. 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:42.720 And context in their performance. 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:44.720 They lose Kirk k Well, one of the most important 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:47.360 experienced players in the warm up, they lose Chanelle. 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:48.600 Harris to Vita. 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:51.880 Seven minutes in they find themselves six nail down and 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:54.400 from there in the harass of the game to seventy 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:58.280 three minutes afterwards, they went forty in those conditions against Camber. 0:16:58.480 --> 0:16:59.880 Incredible resulting. 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:09.639 The guy I want to talk about individually, there was 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:13.720 the game, of course, Broncos up against Paramatter. Fear to say, 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:15.879 in that game, defense wasn't a high priority for me. 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:19.920 The side Philly reluctant defense. But the best player in 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:23.240 the field, by Mile Young was a mate. He is, 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:25.520 and we're going to see a lot of his meaningful 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:27.960 touches here. He does so much in the game. He's 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:29.840 so busy you can miss a lot of his stuff. 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:33.080 But you know you've got a bloke here who is 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:34.520 gifted athletically. 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:36.080 It's fast, your great footwork. 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:40.840 Crucially, he's tough, like he just never shies away with 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:43.320 that sort of stuff, and he's got great tactical Now. 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:47.520 I call that game and building up to it, seeing 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:49.080 how's this going to play out? 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:51.080 And it could have been anything like. 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:53.320 That game could have been anything and ended up being 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:57.679 everything in between the fact that you know there's different 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:00.800 moments in that game that you need athlete icism like this, 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:04.320 like just to hit the accelerator breakthrough a tackle. That's 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:07.040 the difference sometimes between winning and losing. And we call 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:09.160 it X factor in our game. Call it whatever you want, 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:12.840 but sometimes you need players that can do this, just 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:15.560 get that half a meter of space through their speeding 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:19.680 courage and they'll come up with a player. So the 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:23.000 Eels were poor against the Storm, they were poor for 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:28.920 parts against the Briso Broncos. But that combination of desert 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:32.280