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Speaker 2: State of origin just around the corner. Yes, New so
Speaker 2: Well's Blues versus Queensland Marines. But you guys know that
Speaker 2: we're going to pick our sides today previewing into the
Speaker 2: Sunday selection. Lots of speculation, lots of people out of form,
Speaker 2: lots of people in form. Who will they pick? Will
Speaker 2: they pick and stick? We don't know that. But lots
Speaker 2: going on in the game. We want to quickly touch on.
Speaker 2: Matthew twenty twenty seven. The Perth Bears are coming in,
Speaker 2: the North City Bears taking a return. A lot of
Speaker 2: speculation this week around the coaches. Malma Ninger's being tossed
Speaker 2: up or he has thrown his hat into the ring?
Speaker 1: Which fantastic?
Speaker 2: Do you like it?
Speaker 1: I like it? I like it a lot? Is if
Speaker 1: you have a look at when sporting teams will move
Speaker 1: to cities sometimes markets where they're the second team. As such,
Speaker 1: they'll put an iconic guy in to coach. So the
Speaker 1: two examples I'll use here the Sydney Swes. When they
Speaker 1: wanted to make an impact in Sydney, they had Ron Barrassi,
Speaker 1: who was one of the most biggest characters in the
Speaker 1: history of the AFL he came here. Then of course
Speaker 1: GWS when they come into the competition, they Kevin Sheedy,
Speaker 1: a guy who, just like Ron Barrassi, is just larger
Speaker 1: than live character and he was just incredible with the media.
Speaker 1: And so Meningo in my opinion, Malmonninger is perfect for that.
Speaker 1: He's such an iconic figure. I think he will draw
Speaker 1: being the Australian coach and having relationships with players, he'll
Speaker 1: get players over there, be able to recruit and I
Speaker 1: think of Mao similar to what did you with the
Speaker 1: State of Origin side with Queensland, you know that same model.
Speaker 1: If he had a couple of really strong younger assistants,
Speaker 1: I think that's a really good good mix. And they're
Speaker 1: talking a little bit of talk about Sammy Burgers too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he'd be good I mean Sammy, he'd be good too, right,
Speaker 2: he'd be the kind of Sammy Samy's a big personality,
Speaker 2: he's very well known. I imagine he'd be able to
Speaker 2: attract something. And Brad Arthur was the other one. I
Speaker 2: believe they were tossing up who's probably got more head
Speaker 2: coaching experience than the other two at an NRL club
Speaker 2: day in, day out, But you know, the other two
Speaker 2: were probably more big game profiles.
Speaker 1: You've got to sell You've got to sell it over there,
Speaker 1: and you've got to be really media savvy over there
Speaker 1: because you're going to have You're in an AFL state,
Speaker 1: and in an AFL state, Channel seven have the rights
Speaker 1: to the AFL, so they're going to make it hard
Speaker 1: for the NRL. The new club is going in there.
Speaker 1: Kerry Stokes is an AFL man, he's Channel seven. The
Speaker 1: West Australian newspaper have already started with some negative stuff.
Speaker 1: This is going to be the normal to get. It's
Speaker 1: going to be a lot from you the NRL getting
Speaker 1: over there. There's going to be they're going to have
Speaker 1: to deal with. But I just think of Black like
Speaker 1: Malmoninger being over there. They would make a big, huge
Speaker 1: news over there. And my understanding is what I think
Speaker 1: I think the NRL would love. I think I think
Speaker 1: the NAREL will go with now, but I think the
Speaker 1: NRL would love for Sam to coome over Males assistant
Speaker 1: for a couple of years. I mean, that would be
Speaker 1: a great team.
Speaker 2: They'd be an excellent team. But you see West Coast
Speaker 2: and Freemantle over there right now. They've got a big following.
Speaker 2: Perth such a big market, but they don't have a
Speaker 2: lot of sport. They don't have a lot of sport
Speaker 2: outside of probably their AFL following.
Speaker 1: Perth Worldcats are huge, really, Perth Wildcats are a massive that.
Speaker 1: They are a really big club over there. They've got
Speaker 1: a huge following. I dare say that have the biggest
Speaker 1: following in the NBL, even more the Sydney Kings. They're
Speaker 1: fanatical over there.
Speaker 2: Yeah okay, and I know that they've got their Netbule
Speaker 2: sides good over there as well. They don't know their
Speaker 2: their exact name, but I know they're a big following
Speaker 2: and I know they love their horse racing over there.
Speaker 1: And the Perth Scorches too. They've been the most successful
Speaker 1: team in BBL history.
Speaker 2: Yeah okay, but there's room for rugby league side of course. Serious,
Speaker 2: I'm trying to say, why can't we all work together?
Speaker 1: That's all worked, can I mean when the when the
Speaker 1: Western Reds come in coops, they were getting great crowds,
Speaker 1: that had a great following over there. They were they
Speaker 1: were a tough team. They were a very good side.
Speaker 1: And evidence of that was when you know the a
Speaker 1: lot of clubs collapsed plast super League. When when the
Speaker 1: reunification is that the Hunter Mariners and the Western Reds
Speaker 1: both died, but in essence they almost merged to form
Speaker 1: the Melbourne Storm. Now the Melbourne Storm o't club, But
Speaker 1: what I mean is they almost merged. The playing groups.
Speaker 1: If look at look at those initial Melbourne Storm teams,
Speaker 1: most of them moved from the Reds on the Mariners.
Speaker 2: That's right. Bret Comley, Robbie Ross.
Speaker 1: Richie, Richie Swain, you had Robbie Kern's, you had Rodney Howe.
Speaker 1: There was mile of players, good mans, always doing great things,
Speaker 1: always doing good things.
Speaker 2: Another big news as well, friend of the podcast, Brandon
Speaker 2: Smith test officially when they're recording this officially released from
Speaker 2: the Roosters going to the South Sydney Rabbit Oz. Can
Speaker 2: we see that Rabbit O's utilizing him this year?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I can. I think definitely. I think that
Speaker 1: I think a great year for Wayne would be South
Speaker 1: Sydney making the finals. They've had a lot to do
Speaker 1: with mile of injuries first up, but had the important
Speaker 1: win the other night. And I think Brandon coming in
Speaker 1: at the back end of that year, you know, with
Speaker 1: them being in finals contention, he would come in and
Speaker 1: give an enormous boost. Yeah, and Wayne, you just know
Speaker 1: Wayne's going to get the best out in Yeah. I
Speaker 1: think Wayne and Bellamy, you know what I mean, there.
Speaker 2: Was two coaches that are probably going to get would
Speaker 2: get the best out of Cheezel and I think, you
Speaker 2: know though, he's gone to one of them, Wayne Bennett.
Speaker 2: So I think, I mean it's going to be it's
Speaker 2: going to be deadly if if he can get him,
Speaker 2: you know, back from his acl fit firing, come that
Speaker 2: finals time and they can sneak into the eight. It'll
Speaker 2: be a scary sort of So they could win it
Speaker 2: from eighth with the talent they've got, if they're all
Speaker 2: peaking going in there in the finals. Latrell, Cody Walker,
Speaker 2: Jack whiteon Brandon Smith, it's pretty deadly.
Speaker 1: I was sitting there last night thinking about that. I
Speaker 1: was actually having he under Maddy Rose, the manager, and
Speaker 1: we're talking about the Bunnies, and of course he's a
Speaker 1: Bunnies man. He's got Cody, he's got Latreil and Jack.
Speaker 1: And he said, what do you see Brandon fitting in?
Speaker 1: What would you do? And I said, look on the
Speaker 1: surface of things, how it sits right now? You put
Speaker 1: me on spot, I said, Maddie, I would start him
Speaker 1: in the first twenty five minutes at nine, start him
Speaker 1: in there. But I said, then I'd give him about
Speaker 1: I'd give him a nice big break, about a twenty
Speaker 1: minute break, and he got the halftime as well, and
Speaker 1: I would move him into into thirteen, having him as
Speaker 1: a runner, using very similar to the same way Billy
Speaker 1: accused him. And what I would do there is I
Speaker 1: would actually I really juice up that middle. So what
Speaker 1: I'd do, I'd start the game with Jack White and
Speaker 1: at thirteen, possibly Jack whiteon playing there. I just said
Speaker 1: they're not getting enough out of him in the centers,
Speaker 1: so Jack White, and then the moments that Brandon moves
Speaker 1: into the thirteen, Jack might move in. He might move
Speaker 1: to center. There he might have somewhere else in the
Speaker 1: side that it just gives flexibility for Wayne to play
Speaker 1: around with the team.
Speaker 2: Yep, I don't mind it. I don't want I'd like
Speaker 2: I think if if they get him in this year
Speaker 2: and he comes back from his rehab and everything, I'd
Speaker 2: like to see him at fourteen. Start with fourteen. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: take the punch out of it, and then twenty minutes
Speaker 2: in let him off his leash.
Speaker 1: Definitely, you know, just because when.
Speaker 2: The impact he can have with his leg speed, Holy Hecker,
Speaker 2: that's a scary man. State of origin. All Right, we're
Speaker 2: we're a couple of weeks away now, but the side's
Speaker 2: getting picked this at the end of this weekend. We're
Speaker 2: going to run through. First of all, we're gonna run
Speaker 2: through the new Souwale side.
Speaker 1: He's got some depth's got lots of.
Speaker 2: It's actually a very hard team to pick. You know
Speaker 2: why it's very hard team to pick because there's a
Speaker 2: lot of people in form knocking the house down. But
Speaker 2: there's a lot of people who you know will show
Speaker 2: up and play good on the big stage, but they're
Speaker 2: not playing their best footy. You know, there's a lot
Speaker 2: of there's actually a lot of players. There's not a
Speaker 2: heap of players who are who have been there and
Speaker 2: done that and are in the form of their life
Speaker 2: right now. Yeah, it's a very hard team to pa.
Speaker 1: It's an interesting one for Lourrie because you got I'm
Speaker 1: a I'm not a huge fan of incumbency. There's a
Speaker 1: caveat here, particularly when it's a losing series. I used
Speaker 1: to frustrate the shit out of me coup All through
Speaker 1: those losing series we had when Queensland's on that amazing
Speaker 1: run with those amazing teams each single year, they go
Speaker 1: who are going to pick? And they go, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: but this guy's the incumbent. But hang on a second.
Speaker 1: Incumbency should not count for anything if you lose the series.
Speaker 1: Can I can. I'll give an allowance there to say
Speaker 1: that if you've proved yourself over a long period of
Speaker 1: time and you know, and you own that jersey and
Speaker 1: you've proved to be a great player, like then okay
Speaker 1: counts for a little bit. But for me, incumbency only
Speaker 1: counts coming off of, you know, coming off a victorious series,
Speaker 1: and we have that at the moment. Now, this is
Speaker 1: interesting for Laurie because, as you just said, some of
Speaker 1: the players aren't in great form. There's some players playing better. However,
Speaker 1: these blokes did it the year before and they got
Speaker 1: the experience. They know what it takes.
Speaker 2: So pick and Nathan Cleary. Oh shit, Okay, well.
Speaker 1: Let's just see do you want to go?
Speaker 2: Are we going to go? We'll go position for positions.
Speaker 1: Position.
Speaker 2: You start a fullback.
Speaker 1: I've gone, Dylan Edwards. I've gone, I've gone Dylan. He did.
Speaker 1: He did it last year. I mean, it took a
Speaker 1: lot for him to earn, you know, to get that jersey,
Speaker 1: to earn that spot. Last year he took it and
Speaker 1: he was fantastic. And the bottom line is with state
Speaker 1: of origin, ninety percent of the game is yardage and
Speaker 1: that's where he could That's where he is so good.
Speaker 1: He just works his ass off.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, I've gone a bit different. Okay, bear with me.
Speaker 2: I've got a bit different. I think Ryan Papenhausen, Wow,
Speaker 2: I think Perhaps deserves his chance. I think a couple
Speaker 2: of years ago he was really close to getting a
Speaker 2: fourteen spot, got hurt right in before it.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: But I think what Perhaps has been doing the last
Speaker 2: few weeks, well, I think all year when when Melbourne's
Speaker 2: I on. His paps is on and he's Yeah, like
Speaker 2: you said, the yardage. The yardage thing is one of
Speaker 2: those things where you know, perhaps isn't the biggest bloke,
Speaker 2: so they might target him, be able to get under him.
Speaker 2: But he handled He's really strong and he handles himself.
Speaker 2: And I think the players you put around him can
Speaker 2: give him a bit of expectedly bloke like Brian toe
Speaker 2: and stuff. They give him. They take a lot of
Speaker 2: the work off him in that yardage.
Speaker 1: Well, if if you're not big, which he isn't, perhaps,
Speaker 1: but you have to be, you've got to be quicksilver. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is I mean Billy? That was Billy. You know
Speaker 1: he gets through those half gaps and yeah, this is
Speaker 1: I reckon, Laurie. Coops will be sitting there now going
Speaker 1: how the hell do I get Peraps into my squad?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think. I don't think you can put
Speaker 2: him at fourteen just because I will come to that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you get to that, but that's what that's. That's yeah, Coop,
Speaker 1: and a lot of people with you. My god, we
Speaker 1: have so many good fullbacks. Perhaps we got Teddy, we
Speaker 1: got Dillan there, We've got Ton Travoi Latreil. Yeah, probably's
Speaker 1: probably another one or too we've left out there, but anyway,
Speaker 1: it's just dream is dream Buller I'm not eligible for
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I think he might be Fiji now
Speaker 1: that their two nations. Yeah, I'm not would be a plant,
Speaker 1: but I see what Jesus, it's a long line full
Speaker 1: weeks as well. Ko playing good playing, really play. It's
Speaker 1: the age of the fullback.
Speaker 2: Who are you wingers?
Speaker 1: Okay, A bit to talk about here. I'm desperate to
Speaker 1: pick Tom Tom Travoyvitch and once I named this back line,
Speaker 1: I'll go back and I'll read it out and you
Speaker 1: tell me if I just can't see if you pick
Speaker 1: the right side. I can't see how they give beats
Speaker 1: some of these iconic players. I'm desperate to pick Tom,
Speaker 1: but he's got to be for me. I want him
Speaker 1: to be at least ninety five percent fit. Yeah, just
Speaker 1: worry me a little bit in the weekend without knee
Speaker 1: seems to be carrying that knee problem a little bit.
Speaker 1: So okay, without naming, without just on the surface of things,
Speaker 1: without considering injury, I go Tom Travovich one wing and
Speaker 1: on the other wing. This is hard. It was done
Speaker 1: over a long period of time. But lo Max was
Speaker 1: so good last year. I almost this week Lomax and
Speaker 1: having like a shootout for that spot. But if Tom
Speaker 1: is ruled out one wing, Lomax the other wing. Again,
Speaker 1: state of origin is ninety percent yardage.
Speaker 2: Okay, so just just for your side, who are we Okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 2: you're sitting on a fan, Okay, Tom, Travoivich Brian to Okay, good,
Speaker 2: that's right. Like I had the exact same I had Turbo,
Speaker 2: and I think they've got They're both excellent yardage. Turbo's
Speaker 2: got a big you can kick for in big aerial
Speaker 2: threat and he floats. He's a little bit like that
Speaker 2: Jordan Rappner when when you put him on the wing,
Speaker 2: he can sort of show up anywhere, which is dangerous.
Speaker 1: Remember the year that they really wound the clock back
Speaker 1: New South Wales and Latrell and Turbo would swing together.
Speaker 2: Yeah swingers, yeah.
Speaker 1: So to speak. But I mean you think about this, right,
Speaker 1: with Tom having the ability to float, with Stephen Crichton
Speaker 1: and Latrell having the ability to float, I mean just
Speaker 1: just imagine for us second you've worked alongside and swinging
Speaker 1: around the other side. You've got let's say, for instance,
Speaker 1: Latrell and Tommy swinging around together to link up with
Speaker 1: Stephen Crichton.
Speaker 2: And even crit is a swinger too. Imagine it. Imagine
Speaker 2: closure eized thinking about this for a second. We had Latrelle,
Speaker 2: Critter and Turbo all swinging at like over one edge
Speaker 2: at one time.
Speaker 1: That's what I just said.
Speaker 2: It'd be like it'd be like rugby union. It actually
Speaker 2: be like a union's bloody back line.
Speaker 1: Like to think about that. Look, it's it's very very straightforward.
Speaker 1: Latrell left center, Stephen Crichton right center. It reminds like
Speaker 1: I grew up in the you know, origin through the
Speaker 1: eighties where Queensland had a great dominance through the eighties
Speaker 1: with iconic players, well Wally Lewis, but Latrell, Mitchell, Stephen Crichton.
Speaker 1: For me, that's like malmon Inger and June Miles, those
Speaker 1: two blokes. I look at those two blokes. When I've
Speaker 1: got Latroll, Mitchell and Stephen Crichton the side, I just go,
Speaker 1: how can they beat us?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I win the two sheet. You're in the opposition dressing
Speaker 1: you know, you're in the Queensland dressing room. All of
Speaker 1: a sudden, the team sheet comes through New South Wales
Speaker 1: and he's got the sounds like Troll Mitchell, Stephen Crichton,
Speaker 1: you got Tom Trevoy vision, You'll be going, okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's pretty it's a it's a scary back line.
Speaker 2: I had the exact same center, Combo saying, so we've
Speaker 2: basically got our centers and wingers are the exact same
Speaker 2: Latrelle Critter Turbo. We just I had, perhaps you had
Speaker 2: Dylan Edwards, but yeah, I think those centers and wingers
Speaker 2: are they nearly picked himself.
Speaker 1: A lot to talk about here as far as the
Speaker 1: halves concerned.
Speaker 2: Yeah, who have.
Speaker 1: You got Nathan locked in? I've got Nathan locked in
Speaker 1: at seven.
Speaker 2: I've got Nathan as my seven. I think. Look, and
Speaker 2: this was one of the ones where Penrith haven't been
Speaker 2: playing outstanding. Nathan's still been doing a good job, not
Speaker 2: not to the standard that he always has been playing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think in the last two weeks
Speaker 1: he's been very, very good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know, as a season as a whole,
Speaker 2: he'd be he'd be, you know, disappointed with how the
Speaker 2: team's been going. But I think Nathan's just one of
Speaker 2: those blokes where you put him on a big stage
Speaker 2: and he just delivers every time.
Speaker 1: He's the best player, in my opinion, is the best
Speaker 1: player in the world.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. At the end end of the day, he had
Speaker 1: he made some adjustments to his football. I've said this before.
Speaker 1: You know that the little drop off shapes, the X
Speaker 1: shapes they were playing where he was drifting dropping guys
Speaker 1: underneath him. That led to too much east west movement
Speaker 1: from he lost somebody his upfield thrust. But the last
Speaker 1: two weeks he has been playing game barrel straight and
Speaker 1: you can see the difference. It's not just made to
Speaker 1: the football side, but the difference has made to Blaze,
Speaker 1: to Laney. He's coming to his own and that is
Speaker 1: because of the adjustment Nathan's football.
Speaker 2: You seen that Cowboys game, Blaze had four triasis and
Speaker 2: a try, and I think three of those triaces come
Speaker 2: off off the back of something Nathan did. Nathan got
Speaker 2: a quick play the ball, Blaze got it, or Nathan
Speaker 2: just gave him a half opportunity to run and set
Speaker 2: someone else up.
Speaker 1: So you can sue the benefit Nathan being like his
Speaker 1: experience and how good he be as a coach given
Speaker 1: the fact that on the weekend, if you look at
Speaker 1: a couple of that tries the Blaze set up, it's
Speaker 1: Nathan going wosh dead straight, him feeding Blaze, coming around
Speaker 1: on the sweep, and then Blaze straightening exactly the same
Speaker 1: as Nathan. And I'm looking going mate, Nathan, showing you
Speaker 1: that Nathan's gone. Mate. When I do this, you compliment
Speaker 1: my play by doing exactly the same to go first, Yeah, yeah, gone.
Speaker 2: I picked Jerome Leui. I think my judgment come off
Speaker 2: the back of I've put Peraps at fullback, somebody who
Speaker 2: Nathan hasn't played with a lot, so somebody who Nathan
Speaker 2: knows game inside and out, Jerome Lewi. And I think
Speaker 2: I think perhaps would complement these players because obviously Nathan
Speaker 2: plays very straight and they both love coming back against
Speaker 2: the grain and sort of beaten tackles. Particularly Jerome, a
Speaker 2: bloke like Paps, who's always sitting on the inside, always
Speaker 2: looking for a gap in the defense. I think really
Speaker 2: compliment each other.
Speaker 1: Well, a lot of energy there and there a lot
Speaker 1: of energy, a lot of.
Speaker 2: Horrible to be a middle in coinslane when you've got
Speaker 2: those folks jumping around making your miss tackles.
Speaker 1: This is this could be. This is probably Laurie's biggest
Speaker 1: decision to make because Cooper Mitchell, like Mitchell, Moses and
Speaker 1: and Nathan. I look at that on paper and both
Speaker 1: with a caple, I go wow. Okay, however can be problematic.
Speaker 1: You know, Chemistry is just is so videly important. Chemistry
Speaker 1: in the halves is more important than your plays and
Speaker 1: your structures, having chemistry, that combination that forms, and you've
Speaker 1: got to look at those two. Okay, is Mitchell onely
Speaker 1: Mitchell can answer this. Are you happy, Mitchell too for
Speaker 1: you to take two steps backwards for Nathan or is
Speaker 1: it the other way? Now? I think it'd be Nathan
Speaker 1: being the primary playmaker. Mitche take a couple of stairs.
Speaker 1: But are you capable of doing that? Or are you
Speaker 1: to Blake's gonna play together like seven's and just step
Speaker 1: on each other's toes. And you don't really know that, Coop,
Speaker 1: until the pressure starts, you know, and there's fatigue, and
Speaker 1: sometimes unfatigued, you just fall back into what you normally do.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, I know what you mean. You know,
Speaker 1: with Jerome, you've got someone who plays alongside Nathan, has
Speaker 1: played alongside him since junior football he's you know, in essence,
Speaker 1: he is a six. He's a deputy, although he's doing
Speaker 1: a lot different now at the Tigers, and you know
Speaker 1: the combination works.
Speaker 2: Who have you gone?
Speaker 1: Which then why the fuck do I then go Nathan
Speaker 1: Cleary and Mitchell Moses. I've I've gone Mitchell Moses. I've
Speaker 1: gone Mitchell given what he did last year in the
Speaker 1: State of Origin. I don't think it, I know, but
Speaker 1: I'm just getting I'm getting a real sense of now
Speaker 1: what Laurie be going through. Laury be thinking. Laurie was
Speaker 1: on the ninety to niney Kangaroo Tour and in Game
Speaker 1: one the best two players in the world at that
Speaker 1: point were Alan Langer and Ricky Stewart. They were the
Speaker 1: two guys who were firing. So game one at Wembley.
Speaker 1: They played a few games against the against the English sides,
Speaker 1: Super League sides, both Alfin and Ricky. It was almost
Speaker 1: like squeal legend. Both of them were dominating whatever games
Speaker 1: they were in. So Bob Fulton just said, rode our
Speaker 1: Game one on Wembley, I'm going to play Alp seven
Speaker 1: Ricky six. And when you're reading in the paper, game mate,
Speaker 1: that's fantasy football, Yes, Okay, let's see how this goes.
Speaker 1: Just didn't work. It was oil on water. It just
Speaker 1: didn't fit right. And then they had to drop Alf
Speaker 1: in the second game and they brought in a pure
Speaker 1: six in Cliff Liones. That just shows you how big
Speaker 1: a decision this is going to be for Lourie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think Mitch could do it.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 2: I think Mitch has got a strong enough ability to
Speaker 2: play six with how quick years and everything that he
Speaker 2: could do it. It's just whether it would work in
Speaker 2: a short amount of time.
Speaker 1: Well. I asked Cooper Kronk about this, because when Cooper
Speaker 1: was the primary playmaker at Melbourne, of course he played
Speaker 1: alongside Jonathan Thurston, it stayed versus level who's primary playmaker?
Speaker 1: And I said, right, Coops, how did that work? And
Speaker 1: he said, we just made it? He said what we
Speaker 1: we spoke about this. We said, well, when we went
Speaker 1: into the side, we said, right, what's the most important
Speaker 1: thing here? He said, the Queensland Jersey. Queensland Jersey's number one,
Speaker 1: our self interests and number two the other thing that
Speaker 1: helped that combination. I remember watching it one night Coops
Speaker 1: at some Corps stadium from an elevated position, and I
Speaker 1: was seeing to himself Kronk and Thurston, you know, like, okay,
Speaker 1: how is this going to work? When they work the
Speaker 1: ball to the middle field and they're both dominant playmakers,
Speaker 1: and as you know, when you move the ball in
Speaker 1: the middle of the field, you generally end up with
Speaker 1: a five to five splits. So new the players got
Speaker 1: really a numerical advantage. And I was watching that game
Speaker 1: and in the first half of particularly they're both called
Speaker 1: off for the football. But the bloke in at nine
Speaker 1: was the genius Smith. Cameron Smith would walk up to
Speaker 1: the ruck and he would assess the defense knowing they
Speaker 1: were both calling for the ball and firing to the
Speaker 1: side that he believes was the thing.
Speaker 2: I remember Smith, you saying the same thing to Harry
Speaker 2: when we were young at Storm. So the whole thing
Speaker 2: because our spine at the Falcons was very similar to
Speaker 2: how they played. It was perhaps at full back on
Speaker 2: in twenty eighteen, myself and Harry, and it was perhaps
Speaker 2: always one of the footy. And he had the mentality
Speaker 2: like Billy Slater or he always wants the footy, he
Speaker 2: always wants his hands on it. Try to think attack.
Speaker 2: If he makes a mistake. Don't worry about it. I
Speaker 2: do the same thing. And then Smithy said, how you know,
Speaker 2: how do you dictate when to give it to that
Speaker 2: like when to give to that player? And he said
Speaker 2: this to Harry and myself because I was having to
Speaker 2: pass to perhaps a lot of the time. He said,
Speaker 2: let them call for it as many they might call
Speaker 2: for it ten times. You might only give it to
Speaker 2: him once. You base your judgment whether you not off
Speaker 2: whether they want the footy, but off what you see.
Speaker 2: I was like, you know, Smithy used to say that
Speaker 2: all the time, because if you give it to Slatsy
Speaker 2: every time he might drop it. He might drop it
Speaker 2: or make him a fullsome mistake. But you know, be
Speaker 2: very select make it. The best thing you can have
Speaker 2: is your player is the key players wanting the ball
Speaker 2: in their hands doesn't mean you have to give it
Speaker 2: to all well.
Speaker 1: Cooper Kronk said that when he first went into half
Speaker 1: back of the Melbourne Storm, he said, the first few
Speaker 1: months he found really unnerving because Billy just never stopped
Speaker 1: talking and never stopped tipping him inside ball. He was
Speaker 1: sitting here, look at this, they're short, he said. After
Speaker 1: a while I realized that noise was always going to
Speaker 1: be there. He was just presenting options to me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, you take the advice. Other times you ignore it.
Speaker 1: You black it out, blanket out.
Speaker 2: What's our front row? Yeah, I'll go first.
Speaker 1: See this is another really big one.
Speaker 2: I reckon. We might have a similar one here. At
Speaker 2: eight and ten, I had Pain Hess and Mitch Barnett,
Speaker 2: and then Ryce Robson was my number nine.
Speaker 1: Okay, so the middles in the front row. Okay, the
Speaker 1: front row okay, yeah, I've got Mitch Barnett, I've gone
Speaker 1: Pain Hass and my front row, my hooker is going
Speaker 1: to be is going to be Ryce Robson. Yeah, yeah, yep, So.
Speaker 2: That side sort of there. The incumbents really yeah, I
Speaker 2: think they sort of picked himself.
Speaker 1: And Mitch has proved himself. He suits origin level, He's
Speaker 1: tough as nails. He's playing great football at the Warriors.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as his pain Pain Pains playing outstands and Reece
Speaker 2: Robson's been doing it, particularly the last few weeks. He's
Speaker 2: been doing a really good job.
Speaker 1: He was fantastic last year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, he was unbelievable. He's got a good running
Speaker 2: game and he's a machine gets for a heap of work.
Speaker 2: Think about riech Robson. If he was a Queenslander, they'd
Speaker 2: pick him up. Of course, you know, of course he's
Speaker 2: one of those players. Of course would Let's get let's
Speaker 2: get to thirteen now before we do back thirteen. My
Speaker 2: thirteen is Isaiah. Oh, and he's the skipper. But I
Speaker 2: had Isaiah there. I think obviously everyone knows how good
Speaker 2: Isaiah is. But yeah, he's sort of picks himself. In
Speaker 2: my opinion, I've gone ja tro Voivich starting thirteen. Wow, Okay,
Speaker 2: that's a hot take.
Speaker 1: Yep. Let's talk about why I would select him. First
Speaker 1: of all, why, sorry, why I would not leave him out?
Speaker 1: Because coops A couple of times in the past, there's
Speaker 1: been a couple of series we've left Jake out of
Speaker 1: game one, they haven't selected him, and invariably for game
Speaker 1: two and three they select him. So what is it
Speaker 1: about Jake? What is about him that when he's not selected?
Speaker 1: What do they miss so much? And why do they
Speaker 1: have to get him back? Well, it's not his passing game.
Speaker 1: He's a hell of a defender. It's not really that,
Speaker 1: it's what he brings as far as emotion is concerned. Like,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, I think he's the most emotional player
Speaker 1: in the competition. How he gets himself sky high emotion, Coop,
Speaker 1: getting yourself up for a game is a skill. He's
Speaker 1: a skill in itself. And when you get a player
Speaker 1: who's like that in the dressing room, he elevates others
Speaker 1: around him. Okay, then why do I pick him at thirteen?
Speaker 1: And why do I put Isaiah on the bench. I'm
Speaker 1: really conscious that Coops, if we're going to have if
Speaker 1: my side, if I'm going to have Mitch Moses and
Speaker 1: Nathan Cleary to start the game, I don't know if
Speaker 1: I want another ball handler out there. I just pushing
Speaker 1: the ball east where it's pushing the sideways a little bit.
Speaker 1: So I'd start the game a lot more simple. I'd
Speaker 1: put Isaiah and on the bench and bring him on
Speaker 1: after twenty minutes when you can really start, when it
Speaker 1: starts to open up through that defensive vulnerability through the
Speaker 1: middle of the field. And the other thing on top
Speaker 1: of that is I want Nathan to start the game
Speaker 1: up on the advantage line, right on the rock line,
Speaker 1: and I want him running the football. I want him
Speaker 1: playing first receiver, and I want him playing nice and
Speaker 1: straight and challenging the line. And I think sometimes if
Speaker 1: you're going to start Isaiah, he may get into the
Speaker 1: groove of gone on sweep shapes, shapes all the time.
Speaker 1: I want Nathan out there finding his groove, okay, by
Speaker 1: his own accord. And then after about twenty minutes twenty
Speaker 1: five minutes, Isaiah comes on and that combination forms yep.
Speaker 2: I like the reasoning. I yeah, you've won me back
Speaker 2: pretty well. My back row, Angus Crichton and Leam Martin.
Speaker 2: I think everyone's got them as a lock at the moment.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of good back rollers, but I think
Speaker 2: I think they probably make their way onto the bench
Speaker 2: as opposed. I think what these two did last year,
Speaker 2: they were the two of the best people on the field.
Speaker 1: But Crichton was played with seriously want yeah aut Crichton,
Speaker 1: He's the lowest, But like I think he symbolized our
Speaker 1: dominance over over Queensland last year. Oftentimes it's Queensland Queensland's
Speaker 1: forwards and in the past bullying us made he turned
Speaker 1: the table on that. Some of the things Angus did
Speaker 1: in that game last year made he ironed out Ruben
Speaker 1: Cotter at one point I've never seen Reuben toppled over
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, even Lee Martin too, and Marn's kick chases. He's
Speaker 2: an animal. You terror both of them if you're half.
Speaker 1: And he's been and like and Liam and himself. He's
Speaker 1: had difficult starts at the season, but put him on
Speaker 1: that big stage and you know he's just he's going
Speaker 1: to go after it. He's going to be he's going
Speaker 1: to be eight out of ten.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go fourteen to seventeen.
Speaker 1: You do it, you're straight. I've got Connor Watson because
Speaker 1: I look at that wheat in my side. I had
Speaker 1: to look around and thought to myself, at one point,
Speaker 1: would I'll be able to slip Paps into fourteen? But
Speaker 1: I'm looking around the team and in my opinion, like
Speaker 1: there's if something happens and recent needs a break or
Speaker 1: he goes down touch what it doesn't happen. I don't
Speaker 1: know who else goes into that nine position. So And
Speaker 1: kind of was great there last year and he could
Speaker 1: play thirteen. He can, so it kind of goes into fourteen.
Speaker 1: Isaiah Yas has said before he's the next player on
Speaker 1: the bench. Hudson Young and Spencer and you Hudson. Hudson
Speaker 1: brings that speed and mobility. He's have a great start
Speaker 1: to the season. Those fast foot through the middle caused
Speaker 1: a lot of problems in Spencer again, a little bit
Speaker 1: like Jake. It's the emotion he brings.
Speaker 2: We've got a very similar one, except obviously I've got
Speaker 2: Jake Chavorovich on my bench. I picked Jake t morale
Speaker 2: and energy man emotion, but my number fourteen kind of
Speaker 2: Watson fifteen Hudson Young could have started, Honey. He's playing
Speaker 2: unbelievable the moment. Hudson's absolute peace. He's probably the form
Speaker 2: background of the whole camp sixteen Spencer Lanu, seventeen, Jake
Speaker 2: Travoyvitch and then eightieth Man. Tough to miss out Torell Mate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got him as well, eighteenth Tough tough to.
Speaker 2: Miss out Torell. But I think there's just a few,
Speaker 2: there's a few too many income but he might be
Speaker 2: one for a game two or three, depending on how
Speaker 2: they go.
Speaker 1: I think the whole experience going up as eighteenth Man,
Speaker 1: the whole build up, state of origin, it'll be really,
Speaker 1: really really good for Terrell. Sometimes, particularly at sun Court Stadium,
Speaker 1: you go into it. No, you have the rope, but
Speaker 1: you can't. You can go into it a little bit
Speaker 1: like the first oad of a State of Origin. I
Speaker 1: played as much as I watched it on TV. It
Speaker 1: wasn't until the second and third game that I actually
Speaker 1: understood how I had to prepare for it because such
Speaker 1: a different style of football. So I think as far
Speaker 1: as preparations concerned, I think Terrell going in as eighteenth
Speaker 1: and just watching how people like Jake roy Which prepare
Speaker 1: and Isaiah prepare, I think you put him in great stead.
Speaker 1: Big regret.
Speaker 2: As for is Ryan Pappenhausen, Yeah, perhaps deserves a crack
Speaker 2: and look teddy tough to miss out to another bloke
Speaker 2: who didn't really get tossed up. But when I was
Speaker 2: doing my research and look and I was like, he's
Speaker 2: tough to miss out too. He could. He could end
Speaker 2: up a really good forteen. He's big enough. Ethan Strange.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it hasn't been mentioned his Dale come. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2: He's young and he's but that Raiders team at the moment,
Speaker 2: he's a big part of it. And he's a gun.
Speaker 2: He's so gun and he's a big fellow. He could
Speaker 2: probably play through the middle if you couldn't find him
Speaker 2: in the background.
Speaker 1: That's an amazing thing, isn't There's some guys that on
Speaker 1: camera look like huge, but when you meet it not
Speaker 1: quite as big. Ethan always to me always like a
Speaker 1: smaller guy. And then I saw him and went, is
Speaker 1: that he isn't strange? He hides that size.
Speaker 2: And he played He played center all through junior's and
Speaker 2: played New South Wales eighteen's and that at center. So
Speaker 2: you can put he's kind of got that ford emability
Speaker 2: where you go put him in the halves. You can
Speaker 2: put him in the back line, and I'm sure he could.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you gave him a bit of tackle practice,
Speaker 2: sure he could play nine if he had to. Look,
Speaker 2: I've got a Queensland side.
Speaker 1: Okay, So what we decided to do is you said,
Speaker 1: you said you're going to do Coensland and we'll have
Speaker 1: a bit of discussion, Ay and your coueens Lands.
Speaker 2: Yeah, apsowee, So my back three little them straight off
Speaker 2: Kaylen Ponger. I think he picks himself at the moment.
Speaker 2: Brice Walsh out sort of makes a decision easier. Xavier
Speaker 2: Coats and Selwyn Cobbo my wingers.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, Wow, that's a great that's a great back three.
Speaker 2: That's a strong back three. Murray to a lungey. You
Speaker 2: even know what it's like out there moment.
Speaker 1: It's awful out there.
Speaker 2: He's tough to miss out as well as a gun player.
Speaker 1: But I think I'm just saying selling cobber Sell and
Speaker 1: Cobbo I made the observation, I think the best the
Speaker 1: best football I've seen him play at fullback. I think
Speaker 1: his football has been fantastic, But when he goes back
Speaker 1: to the wing, you watch him explode. All that work
Speaker 1: he's doing at full back as far as fitness wise,
Speaker 1: but also as far as tactical now will put him
Speaker 1: in such great steed. In the way he's played this year,
Speaker 1: I think he's setting himself up for a huge origin.
Speaker 2: Serious sellwyn word my centers, Valentine, Holmes and hammerso tabio
Speaker 2: I feeders.
Speaker 1: Have does Valentine wound wound? The clockbacks just show you
Speaker 1: change your club sometimes exactly what you need.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Val, he's going excellent. Hammo, he's a free you know,
Speaker 2: if you didn't have calin there, I mean he could
Speaker 2: he could slip in a full back. But he's one
Speaker 2: of those players he's like Turbo. You just put him
Speaker 2: in the side somewhere.
Speaker 1: Well, you think about last week that that last play
Speaker 1: Dylan Brown against the Dolphins. If Hammer's not the fullback there,
Speaker 1: Dylan Brown possibly scores and they possibly win the game.
Speaker 1: But he just turns around. Just picked him up in
Speaker 1: the strada too, just.
Speaker 2: Like that, Just like that, bam, and the dirty's gone.
Speaker 2: My haves Cameron Monster and Dally Terry Evans. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: think they. Munster is back to some really good form
Speaker 2: this year. I think he probably had a bit, you know,
Speaker 2: a bit in and out of games last year, but
Speaker 2: and he had some injuries that groin. But this year
Speaker 2: I think he's fit. He's playing outstanding. And Ches I think, look,
Speaker 2: chess is the chairs. You know, he's a champion. I
Speaker 2: know he probably hasn't been playing the best the last
Speaker 2: few weeks. For me, the whole team hasn't really been
Speaker 2: playing that good. But Chas you know, he's going to
Speaker 2: get in that jersey and he's going to play.
Speaker 1: Do you think that the d C stuff, the chess
Speaker 1: stuff has really impacted mainly I tend to think it has.
Speaker 2: I think it did. I think it does. But I
Speaker 2: think the identity of mainly the last three years is
Speaker 2: like start really strong and then they kind of fall
Speaker 2: off a cliff and like they're very they've been inconsistent
Speaker 2: the last three years as well. I wouldn't be confident
Speaker 2: enough and saying it's it's this contract thing that's hanging
Speaker 2: over there, ed because because it's been there identally the
Speaker 2: last few years where they have these purple patches where
Speaker 2: they're amazing and then they go a month where they
Speaker 2: play really poor football.
Speaker 1: I expect some bounced back last week. It's can give
Speaker 1: them the fact they come off the buy that a
Speaker 1: week rest. But poll, I think it's impacting daily. I
Speaker 1: think it has because you know, one minute, you know,
Speaker 1: to give them the fact that look, let's face it,
Speaker 1: he's had a fall out with the club and he's
Speaker 1: wearing the colors and going on there that that's I know,
Speaker 1: he's an experienced guy, he's thirty seven years of age,
Speaker 1: most experienced blake in the league. But still it impacts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure, maybe you're right. I know one Chez
Speaker 2: everything is water off a ducks back for chessa day
Speaker 2: like nothing. I've never seen anything really phasing right, So
Speaker 2: to me, I'm like I don't know if that's why.
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, I don't know if it has it's
Speaker 2: just that kind of personality, but the looks definitely something's
Speaker 2: going on, like they're too good a side to be
Speaker 2: performing like they have the last few weeks. But I'm
Speaker 2: sure we'll see him improve my front row eight to eight, nine,
Speaker 2: ten here Big Tino comes back into the side. They
Speaker 2: missed Team Dunboy last year. Oh man Tino is. He's
Speaker 2: what he's done for Bloody Gold Coast this year as
Speaker 2: well when he's been on that.
Speaker 1: Man's he's not a man, he's a machine.
Speaker 2: That's is it a man or a mountain? That man
Speaker 2: is a behemoth and he's playing excellent foot so shout
Speaker 2: out to your teen trying not to bring a ringworm
Speaker 2: all the way through the coins and camp.
Speaker 1: Is he patient zero?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's patient X.
Speaker 1: He is. He is.
Speaker 2: He's got the X number nine. Harry Grant, Harry Hooden.
Speaker 1: If you're going to be okay, you're gonna be fit.
Speaker 2: I think you will be. I think he will be.
Speaker 2: I mean when this comes out, he should be playing
Speaker 2: this weekend. He probably get one game under his belt.
Speaker 2: He's the kind of blow people like he doesn't lose
Speaker 2: a whole heap of fitness. He'll be working his ass
Speaker 2: off in a rehab to maintain that sort of fitness.
Speaker 2: And he always lifts. He just lifts. You gotta lift
Speaker 2: number ten.
Speaker 1: So you guy Sebastians his Achilles tandent.
Speaker 2: You've got Sebastian to his achilles. You should have should
Speaker 2: have stayed on the.
Speaker 1: Stadium, staying your laying Guy, just stick to music.
Speaker 2: Brother. Yeah, if you want to listen to guy's story,
Speaker 2: go back into early catalog. We had him on the
Speaker 2: potty last year. Yeah, didn't, and he was talking about
Speaker 2: how much he loved Afel. Remember he kept saying, here
Speaker 2: you feel this, hef all that. Well, that's what happens
Speaker 2: to man. You try to lace up the boots.
Speaker 1: Remember I said he must mate, you'll be careful. You
Speaker 1: might do your Achilles tandent.
Speaker 2: You did. I'm pretty sure it's plan. The number ten.
Speaker 2: Lindsey Collins Lynz Coggins is an animal. The Beast and
Speaker 2: him have an excellent feud. Back row Jeremiah and I
Speaker 2: and Baby Feet firmore good good selection both for more.
Speaker 2: I think they're really slim in the back row coins
Speaker 2: land A couple other blows jayd and Sewer and I
Speaker 2: think tough to miss out.
Speaker 1: But Moore is a great selection.
Speaker 2: I love both. I love it. I love him trotting feet,
Speaker 2: his little big he's an animal. And the other back
Speaker 2: row was SR Jeremiah and is on five. I think
Speaker 2: he's been playing really good. I think especially the last month,
Speaker 2: I think he just is it. He looked fit and
Speaker 2: he's back to competing on just everything. Remember we first
Speaker 2: come into first game. Every time a ball will go up,
Speaker 2: Jeremiah just go through charge and get up.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't matter what side he plays on. His
Speaker 1: combination with the center will be sweet because he's played
Speaker 1: with him and he's played with.
Speaker 2: Val Corrector third e and Patty Carrigan straightforward, straight forward.
Speaker 2: Now this is my bench fourteen. They've got a couple
Speaker 2: of good options. A lot of people don't talk about
Speaker 2: Kurt Man. Kirk Man has been playing excellently. He's Queenslander.
Speaker 2: I think Keller will do a really good job. I've
Speaker 2: actually picked Tommy Didon as the fourteen. I think he's
Speaker 2: tough enough to play through the middle. Tommy and you
Speaker 2: just put him out there. He's just a workhorse. But
Speaker 2: I mean killer Killer will do a good job. Took man.
Speaker 1: So who's fourteen? Tommy did pick himself.
Speaker 2: Tommy picks himself fifteen debutant Ring Ring Ring the debutante
Speaker 2: Bell Trent Liio. I've got twenty blue Eyes his debut.
Speaker 2: I think he's since he's moved to Locke for Melbourne
Speaker 2: the last couple of years, year and a half, I
Speaker 2: think he's been doing an excellent job and I think
Speaker 2: it's a time to get a crack on the bench.
Speaker 1: It's Jack Howarth. He's injured at the moment.
Speaker 2: He queens Queenslander, Queenslander Jackie. Yeah, j Howe is He
Speaker 2: calls himself j w H because his middle name is
Speaker 2: starts with the W, so he's been calling himself j
Speaker 2: w H. That's good. He does he point break? He
Speaker 2: wants to come on the potty too, does he really?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: He wants to come on the potty. He keeps saying.
Speaker 2: He keeps saying, mate, should I email your dad about
Speaker 2: getting me on the potty? He doesn't have a fucking email.
Speaker 1: Send him a text.
Speaker 2: And he's also nominated you for the ice pocket challenge
Speaker 2: as well. He ragged me the other day. I said, mate,
Speaker 2: I just went. Can you let your dad know I've
Speaker 2: nominated him for the Ice Pocket Challenge, I said, mate,
Speaker 2: the Ice Pocket Challenge. No one's done that since twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1: You fucking tell him to remove my name from his mind.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he keeps, he keeps sledging. But trentle Ero and
Speaker 2: then number sixteen Tommy Gilbert. Yeah, tough, tough, tough, he's
Speaker 2: tough man. They missed him last year. I think he's
Speaker 2: one of those blokes who play on the edge, playing
Speaker 2: in the middle and then lastly but not leastily, let
Speaker 2: me tell you that much. Ruben Cotter seventeen. Okay, I
Speaker 2: think he can play front row. You can put in
Speaker 2: the back staple.
Speaker 1: Mate. You know, mate, you've missed out one. I reckon
Speaker 1: in the costure, Corey Haws bro Big Bread, I know
Speaker 1: Big Red.
Speaker 2: There's actually two that I had from eighteenth Man, who
Speaker 2: I think are very hard done by, but Ethan Bullymore.
Speaker 2: I think Bull in China Shop has been playing really
Speaker 2: good for manly when it comes off the bench so
Speaker 2: much leak speed, put a lot of Bigcoin, Bully and
Speaker 2: then obviously Big Red, Corey Horse. I've been doing an
Speaker 2: excellent job. But I just sat. Yeah, that was the
Speaker 2: team I selected for Coins.
Speaker 1: And it's a good side. It's going to be some
Speaker 1: sort of series. It's gonna be great.
Speaker 2: You know what's this time of the year, guys when
Speaker 2: State of Origin rolls around. Doesn't matter whether you're single, divorced, whatever,
Speaker 2: you just have such a good time. The speculation, the rivalry,
Speaker 2: it's always a good game. It's always fine. You've got
Speaker 2: trel Mitt turning into treil Fit this year's kicking field goals.
Speaker 2: He's making try saving tackles. I am excited for this year.
Speaker 1: It's going to be a very in the build up,
Speaker 1: very almost traditional State of Origin builder, given the fact
Speaker 1: that on paper you look at the New South Wales
Speaker 1: side and you go, oh my god, it's just littered
Speaker 1: with stars. And then you look at Coinsland inside's got
Speaker 1: a number of stars there. They're going to be tough,
Speaker 1: hard working, so it's like it almost becomes this traditional series.
Speaker 2: But I didn't have Monster last year, you know Queensland,
Speaker 2: so yeah, and he's we all know what monsters like
Speaker 2: in State of Oregon.
Speaker 1: Okay, question for you. I've got my suspicions here because
Speaker 1: you were so urgent to mate, I'll put together MC
Speaker 1: queensly inside and just the way you spoke about them,
Speaker 1: that little green about Monster and talking about Harry. Who
Speaker 1: you going for?
Speaker 2: I go for you so well. No, I just I
Speaker 2: try to be objective, you know, as as as one
Speaker 2: of the great rugby league minds, Matt, I try to
Speaker 2: just be completely objective, not be biased, because when when
Speaker 2: bias starts coming to things. Yeah, I mean so, I
Speaker 2: try to speak just as excitedly about Queensland, which is
Speaker 2: easy for me because some of my best mates played
Speaker 2: for him as I do for you.
Speaker 1: So well, I'm with you. I'm just warning if you
Speaker 1: be objective, it's going to cost your relationship with Uncle
Speaker 1: Joey's what fuck?
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say that about him. It's his birth day.
Speaker 1: Next week next week, yeah, next week, next week, next Monday, Ridday, Coops,
Speaker 1: good job man who