WEBVTT - ROUND 16 REVIEW: CIRALDO’S Bulldogs WON'T make finals. Here's the spine that will. 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:08.920 Welcome to another edition of Code NRL podcast. I'm Alex, 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:12.040 also known as NRL Soapbox. I'm joined by Dean Bulldog, 0:00:12.119 --> 0:00:15.680 Richie Mate and Fadema Kadou. We're going to get into tonight. 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:18.439 In today's episode, it is going to be a spicy one. 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:20.920 We've got some crazy results from the weekend. We're going 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:23.280 to analyze where New South Wales are at and discuss 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:26.200 the commentary around Laurie Daily. And there's also some killer 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:28.400 matches coming up this week that we need to explore. 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:32.159 So the big news from the weekend, Bulldog the Titans 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:36.040 have won against the Panthers, an absolute upset this time. 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:39.600 When Jaden Campbell's making that conversion, there's no trainer running 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:41.960 in front of him. They've got some things in their favor. 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:44.559 They seal the deal with Zane Harrison. The question is 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:47.040 how to rate their performance and are they finally becoming 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:47.760 a good site. 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:50.680 Yes and no wishy washy start up. Okay you have 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:51.520 to sit on the fence. 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:55.120 Yes it was a great performance. No, they haven't become 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:57.840 a great side. I did more than one win against 0:00:57.840 --> 0:00:59.560 an under strength Panthers side. 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:01.440 To put a bit of trust in the Gold Coast 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:04.000 every week. I'm sorry, I'm a long way short of that. 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:06.440 Just now. Good luck to them. It was a great win. 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:09.440 Obviously, the Panthers were without all their origin stars plus 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:12.800 Casey McLean. So look, I thought the Panthers looked lost 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:16.800 at times, quite pedestrian without Nathan there. But in terms 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:18.800 of the Gold Coast, it was a terrific win and 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:20.600 it's a building block for the rest of the season. 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:22.040 But there's a long way. 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:25.560 To go before there anywhere near being a consistently elite. 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:26.960 In a rule And do you feel like don't you 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:29.200 feel like the defense is improved dramatically though they had 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:30.000 some close results. 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:32.880 Yeah, no, it it looks like their attitude defense is improved. 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:34.280 That's what I sort of see when I look at 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:37.160 a game. And Josh Hannah is a very good coach 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:39.280 and it's going to take time. But we've said that 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:42.319 about everych every coach came back to when they came in. 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:45.119 God knows when we've had fifty eight rebrands and it's 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:47.760 the same side. They've been rubbish, let's be honest, And 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:52.240 it takes time to for a coach to rebuild the 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:57.080 structure the environment, but it is going North. I've got 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:59.520 no doubt about that, but there's a long way north 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:04.240 to go. Sorry, they've traveled about Tensify. 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:05.360 Still thinks you're rubbish. Sorry for Tima. How did you 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:05.720 see it? 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:09.359 They looked very good in their retro jerseys. Yeah they yeah, yeah, 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:12.960 yeah and Captain Charger. So yeah, they've got stuff going 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:16.280 for them in terms of that sort of things. But look, 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:19.200 they're beginning to look like an improved team. I think 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:21.880 the emergence of Zaane Harrison has been really important for. 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:22.760 Them for such a long time. 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:24.359 For years, like if you go back all the way 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:26.680 to Ash Taylor, they've sort of had a trouble with 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:29.200 finding that guy who's going to be there, you know, 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:32.120 long term number seven. At one point it was Ash Taylor, 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:34.560 it was Tanner Boyd, it was Toby Sexton, you know, 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:36.320 all these guys who had talked about is the next 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:39.720 big thing but never really came through for them. Zaane Harrison, 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:41.800 I know he's only twenty and he's only played what 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:44.560 six seven games now, but he does look like the 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:47.880 real deal when their spine finally looks at all. I mean, 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.200 we've seen what Keanu Kinney can do, Like he's just 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:54.520 an absolute, you know, live wire when he's in that mood, 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:59.639 good young forwards coming through Cooper Bye aramahou So yeah, 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:03.120 I think they've got the building blocks of a really really. 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:03.640 Good young team. 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:05.680 So you reckon Zane Harrison's the half they need to 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:07.120 stick with right now. 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:09.880 He's showing all the fundamentals of a number seven and 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.200 Jayden Campbell looks like he feels really comfortable in that 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:13.040 number six role. 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:17.000 Ye, so yeah, yeah, I think Zane Harrison's had incredible 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:19.600 composure for a young guy coming in and when your 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:21.960 ice games and if you're building when you're so new 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:24.000 into your career and you're already getting clutch moments and 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:27.160 finishing games, that's a very promising sign for a playmaker 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:29.040 that they're actually going to be a clutch player. Pretty 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:29.480 stoked for him. 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:29.720 Stoked. 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:32.440 He's also a new South Wales Blues fan. Hates the Queenslanders, 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:34.480 so very happy about that. There are a couple of 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:36.240 upsets over the weekend. So we have the Titans, which 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:37.880 is the biggest one. I know the Panthers had some 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:40.400 players out, but it's still a very impressive performance. Then 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:44.160 we also had the Bulldogs taking on the Eagles and 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.600 winning it, and then we almost had a very near 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:48.400 upset with the Dragons and the Nights. We'll get to 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:51.160 the Bulldogs in a second, but the Dragons finally started 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:53.080 playing some footy bulldog what'd you make of that one? Yeah? 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:55.840 I thought they were pretty unlucky, right, Yeah. 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:57.880 At the death, I think even Cole Flanning had the 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:00.080 chance to ground the ball and he couldn't quite do it. 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:01.960 Wasn't on Carle, of course, it was a difficult one 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:05.320 for him to catch and put down. 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:09.480 But there are some gentle signs coming through. I'm gonna 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:10.520 feel sorry for Dean Young. 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:12.440 It's the worst. 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:14.840 Let's go through this gip by being very diplomatic. 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:18.000 I'm trying to get the fire out of you. 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.240 Let's let's look at this way. Dean Young came in 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:22.600 when the club needing, and he's a club legend, as 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:23.320 was his father. 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:27.440 But of course him coming into a side that's really struggling, 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:30.960 it's going to impact on his ability to retain the 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:34.359 job full time and the same roster is there. Should 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:36.520 we judge Dean Young this year or on what he 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:40.000 could potentially do next year with a much improved roster. Look, 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:42.760 as much as they've improved. They nearly toppled the Knights. 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:45.080 I get all that, but they still got beaten. And 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:48.360 they've won one game this year, one game. So it's 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:51.320 very hard to talk positive about the Dragons. I want to, 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:52.360 but I just can't. 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.240 I think I'm beginning to shift on this. 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:58.919 Originally I thought, with you know, with a kind of 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:01.719 roster overhaul day Ne and how badly they were going, 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:03.840 and the fact that Dean Young was part of Shane 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.760 Flanagan's coaching stuff, that maybe they needed to look completely, 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:10.839 you know, they needed a fresh start, look elsewhere. But again, 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:13.360 I know they've only won game, won one game. Who 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:17.040 knows how many they'll win by the end of the year. 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:21.400 But there has been enough improvement to think that whatever 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:25.320 Dean Young's doing with that group, especially you know he's 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:28.200 he's picking a lot of young guys looking at the future, 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:31.200 particularly in the forward pack, enough improvement there to show 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:33.680 that the players are responding to him. And he's even 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:35.640 finally got a bit of effort out of our homes 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:36.159 and we're. 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:37.440 Going to touch. 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:40.720 But you know, even he has also found a little 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:43.400 bit of form, nowhere near his peak, But you know, 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:47.200 the players are responding to whatever he's doing. 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:50.279 But you can't. It's really crazy to assign a coach 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:52.479 for potential. Oh, he's going to get this squad and 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:54.680 they might start playing well. That would be a really 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:56.919 risky decision to put a coach in when you're right, bulldog, 0:05:57.080 --> 0:05:59.760 he hasn't got the wins on the board. The thing is, though, 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:02.040 the the Dragons beat the Knights on pretty much every 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:05.360 stat line, everything, possession, completion rate, off floats. They were 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:07.119 killing it, so they actually looked like they were playing 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:09.520 great footage. But you've got to ic your moments, and 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:14.040 I generally think that game was symptomatic of the Dragon season. 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:15.960 You can put all this effort in, but they don't 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:18.359 look like a team that believes that anything they do 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:19.320 will affect the result. 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:22.080 They're down on confidence. It must feel right now that 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:24.080 everything they try it turns to you know what, Yes, 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:27.120 and it is it has look next to you better 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:29.680 times ahead. But I don't like clubs that look too 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:31.680 far ahead. You've got to play for now. You've got 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:34.520 your fans. Now, you're asking sponsors to sponsor, you're asking 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:36.719 fans to play big bucks to turn up. You can't 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.280 just go next year be better. It doesn't work that 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:41.680 way now, not that simple. You've got to play for now, 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:44.360 and Dean Young is desperately trying to get some results 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:47.200 this year, but it's just not happening. And I feel 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:49.799 sorry for Dina because he's putting the effort in. But again, 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.520 I come back, it comes down to w's and l's. 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:55.240 That's right, and then the W column is one one tick. 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:56.200 It's not good enough. 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:57.840 No, it's not good enough. Well, speaking of teams that 0:06:57.880 --> 0:06:59.480 are trying to play for now and try and redeem 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:03.839 a season, Kennary Bulldogs got up against my beloved Manly Seagulls. 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:06.599 I've never been more angry watching a game of footy 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:09.440 in my life. I am furious over that result, and 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.920 not just because Bulldogs fans hate my takes on their 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:14.000 team and they were very much in my DM's bulldog, 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:17.080 giving me a lot of grief. But they did play decent, 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:20.520 They defended quite well. There were some amazing individual efforts 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:23.720 from Bulldogs players, but there's a lot of question marks 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:27.720 over that Bulldogs win. Fatima, How did you see well? 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:29.200 I thought the move. 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:33.960 Of Critter into the habs was interesting. We've seen in 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:37.320 and you know, mid game zero sort of go to 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:39.320 that when things aren't going well for them in attack, 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:44.040 which has pretty much been or if we're honest. Yeah, look, 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:46.440 they got the win, they got the winning golden point, 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:49.720 they won three from four. Now they've got an easy 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:52.360 ish run in the next month, so they have a 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:56.840 chance to springboard their season. But I think moving Critter 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:59.800 into five eight and then Burden out into the centers. 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:02.280 I always said Burden might be a better center, and 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:03.760 we saw, you know, he made a stack of runs. 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:06.880 I pick nineteen runs on the weekend. Still papers over 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:09.920 the issue that they have a massive halves conundrum. 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:10.480 Yeah, I think. 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:12.600 And the thing is they keep you know, now they 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:15.680 cycle Burden with Creator the rest of it. Lachlan Galvin 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:17.680 is their best five eight, but they can't play him 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:19.280 at five eight because they don't have a half. 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:21.160 Back, right, So you think Galvin should be playing six, right, 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:21.520 I do. 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:24.600 But this thing, I actually agree with Gus Gould when 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:27.200 he says he is their best seven at the moment, 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:29.000 but he's also their best five eight. 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:31.360 And this is where I definitely disagree with Phil Gould 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:35.240 on this one. So firstly, I think Bulldogs Fens are 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:38.720 pretty happy right now. That win covered a multitude of 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:42.160 sins like that was a terrible attacking performance by the Bulldogs. 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:47.440 It would blew my mind that Saldo has said Burton's 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:49.400 our six, he's our five eight, this is our spine, 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:51.720 this is the best one we've got. And then halfway 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:53.880 through the season he moves Burton to center, which what 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:55.640 everyone has been asking for. We've got to and then, 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:58.040 and then, and then fans would have been like, okay, great, 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:00.440 Galvin's going to go and play five eight. We're going 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:04.000 to put Stephen Crichton into five eight. And once again 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:07.679 you see that the Bulldog's attack is very pedestrian. They 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:10.520 scored one try off a lucky kick and one try 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:12.839 of Lachlan Galvin playing like a six which is a 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:15.200 dummy and run to score. So that's all they were 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:17.199 able to do with the abundance of possession that they 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:21.480 had against a very depleted middle forward pack from Manly Bulldog. 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:22.400 What do you make of their attack? 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:24.199 It was a. 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:26.320 Victory based on defense. I don't think it was based 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:28.080 on attack. And all I thought they were very lucky. 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:31.240 Let's be honest, Bulldogs fans would think, well, if Jamar 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:34.000 Foggley kicks one goal of his two misses, both hit 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:36.200 the post. I might add two missfield goals, but look, 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:37.839 you you make your own luck, and good luck to 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:41.400 the dogs. It was a much needed victory, but I 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:44.040 didn't see much there to give me any confidence moving 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:45.760 forward that this is a semi final side. 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:47.720 They had a great win. Have a penrith what about 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:48.640 eight weeks ago? 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:49.559 Was that's the key swin. 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:52.280 I have not seen one statement victory from a Cannaby 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:55.640 side that suggested me this side is surging towards the finals. 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.040 We've got the one of the best centers in the world. 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:00.280 They've had to move into five eight. I'm still yet 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:02.680 to be convinced crit is are ball playing six. Yeah, 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.360 it worked and they'll probably sticked with it this week. Yeah, 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:07.320 good luck to him, but there's still as you said 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:10.079 for Teama quite rightly, there's still a lot of issues there. 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.320 How many times is Cameron sirel though, and I don't 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:14.760 blame Sero here because he's desperately trying to find the 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:17.520 right combination to push him into those finals. But how 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.600 many times this year has he tinkered with his spine? 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.080 It seems to be every single week. 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:25.160 Yeah, and that's the thing, right when if you're going 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:27.800 to make such a big change in your halves at 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:29.480 this point of this season, it's just going to be 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:31.839 Groundhong Day with everything that happened with Toby Sexton, which 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:34.400 was probably around the same time, same time. 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:34.880 This year, you know. 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:39.800 So look, their attack is pedestrian, right, they're averaging less 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:42.000 than eighteen points, I think it's seventeen seventeen and a 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:45.440 half points per game. Only the Dragons have scored less 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:48.520 tries than them this year, right, But their attack has 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:51.199 been a problem for a couple of years and zero. 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:54.320 You know, he's just trying to find something that works. 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:56.560 But that tinkering is right now. 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:59.959 Yeah, this tinkering started with Toby sex and I mind ed. Yeah, 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:01.720 it's been rounds to go. 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:04.079 We're coming up to about a year now, That's what 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:04.320 I mean. 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:06.400 Yeah, put your cards on the table. Who should their spine? 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:07.160 But you go first. 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:10.160 I'd still go Look, I think Lachlan Galvin's are six. 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:12.360 I think it's generally accept you. But in this case, 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:14.079 I mean, I guess you have to look at Canby's 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:16.040 point of view at some point and go, well, who 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:18.920 is the seven? So look right here right now, going 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:21.320 toward the finals, I'd still go cretter in the center's 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:24.160 Burt at six, Galvin at seven. Well, I think we 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:26.200 know Galvin is a six incoming years. 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.720 Okay, great, what for you we're looking. 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:31.560 For right now, not the future, the future, Okay, So 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:35.319 I think Galvin should be playing at six, someone like 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:38.000 Sean O's Sullivan at seven. They do have they do 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:39.600 have a young kid called Alex Conti. 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:41.640 He's a half back. He actually was named on the 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:43.920 extended bench on the weekend. But he's also only twenty 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:44.440 years old. 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:47.120 So I don't know whether you do that to have 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:50.240 two twenty year old sort of you know, carrying the season, 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:52.640 and then I'd have tret out fullback. 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:53.640 Okay. 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:55.680 People don't like that idea. They're sort of like, you know, 0:11:55.840 --> 0:12:00.320 you don't use your Ferrari at fullback. But he's He's just. 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:02.800 He could be so influential for them in the same 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:05.800 way that Tommy Tobo is influential for many with him 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:06.360 at full back. 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:09.080 Yeah, I'd go move Hayward to Locke. We're losing that 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:10.880 ball playing ability that he has. Put whoever you want 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:14.000 in a hooker, they'll do better, and then play Sean 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:16.480 and Seldom for the experience in game management, Luckie Galvin 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:18.160 because he's actually been their best player. He'll be great 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:20.320 at six. Keep Connor Tracy at one because they need 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:23.280 him for that defensive backbone. So we've sold all those 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:24.560 problems for the Bulldogs are welcome. 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:24.880 Zero. 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:27.679 Let's talk about a couple of something I picked up 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:31.120 recently in three losses over the past two rounds that 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:34.959 is going to be incredibly detrimental to teams finals chances 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:38.160 is the goalkicking. So let's just lay this down. Last 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:41.480 week the Warriors lost to the Sharks because Adam Pompey 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:45.880 missed a penalty kick on the siren, was absolutely kickable 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:48.520 and missed it. They also stuffed up their field goal chance. 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:52.199 This week, our Holmes is sitting a meter away from 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:55.520 the right upright and misses it completely. And then for 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:57.439 the manly game they actually as well scored, so the 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:00.520 Dragon scored more tries than the Knights, the Eagle scored 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:02.760 more tries than the Bulldogs. Jamal Fogg and he misses 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:05.079 to Ruby and Garrett missus one. And then they botched 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:07.400 two field goals attempts, So that's five opportunities where they 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:11.200 didn't ice the game. Is goal kicking. Here's here's my 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:14.240 here's my hypothesis, and you guys can wrestle with this. 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:17.720 Do you need to have a clutch kicker in order 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:18.720 to make the Grand Final? 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:20.480 Well, you need a good goal kicker. 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:22.000 Does I want him to be clutched? 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:22.120 Though? 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:23.360 Can you the moment you. 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:26.640 Think all of them would be clutching? All of them practice? 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:29.400 They should all be striking these days and around eighty 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:33.240 eighty five percent that's the expected figure in the old days. 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:35.800 That's so like an old fart if you're kicking about 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:38.319 sixty five percent or a good goal kicker. Now, it's 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:41.000 true the roof. But look, clutch kicking doesn't come down 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:43.520 to practice. It comes down to pressure, and it's up 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:47.000 to the person as to whether he can handle that pressure. 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:52.160 And pressure does funny things to normally strong minded people. 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:56.400 But look and answer your question, yes, clearly, I get 0:13:56.559 --> 0:14:00.080 just as frustrated around field goals and the inability of 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:04.320 professional rugby league teams to position themselves for a match 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:06.800 winning field goal. Yeah, they fumble and they bumble, and 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:08.080 they go left, they go right. 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:09.600 It's not that flame and hard. 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:11.800 If you've got a right foot kicker, send a couple 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:14.480 down the left edge and come back and stand. 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:16.000 Back twenty minutes week. 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:18.719 It was rather than standing up neither defensive fly and 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:20.600 getting get charged down, it was a bumble of fault. 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:22.280 I was going to ask you about that, Sophie. 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:25.520 Then Manly set up in the late in the first 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:27.840 stanza of Golden Point, what we what? 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:32.600 I was dying. I was dying watching it. So clearly, 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:36.320 So the criticism of Jamal Foggerty from Raiders fancies that 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:39.720 he didn't It wasn't a clutch goalkicker in those key moments. 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:43.280 Now that's unfair. It's probably accurate, but it's unfair in 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:45.200 terms of well, everything else he brought you can't be 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:47.880 you can't be everything. He's not Nathan Cleary. Okay, So 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:50.360 he clearly though likes We've seen this before. I've seen 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:52.080 him hit a couple of field goals for Manly. He 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:54.240 likes to be twelve meters out in front and slam 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:56.560 it through. And so that's what that's the Clearly the 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:58.840 position he was trying to set up for the Bulldogs 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:00.560 are the best charge down to him in the camp. 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:02.760 They are so hungry and fast off the line to 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:04.840 get to that player. You can't do that. You have 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:07.600 to be you have to have the balls and bravado 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:09.880 like Critter to drop all the way back and now 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:12.200 all the attentions on you. You've really got to nail it. 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:15.000 But at least you've got space in time. So I 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:16.800 thought the same was with the Warriors as well. I 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:19.400 think it was Tomorrow Martin where they watch their opportunity 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:22.040 and you're right, the position, you're too close. You've got 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:24.840 to be clutch. So on that, who would you want 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:26.680 if you've got you've got one player to choose from 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:29.600 in the competition. It's the Grand Final, it's sixteen all 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.160 you've scored in the right hand corner. Who would you 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.320 want kicking for that goal to win the goal? 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:35.080 Or a field goal? 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:36.600 A goal guy, and then we'll go field goal. 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:37.920 Let me put him on the spot, all right. 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:40.800 The best treaker in the competition, I've got no doubt 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:41.680 is jermainus Zako. 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:42.560 That's who I'm going to. 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:45.000 Yeah. I think he's hitting eighty five. Yeah, he's killing it. 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:45.840 He's six and six. 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:48.920 Again, I think out there at Campbelltown on the weekend. 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:51.000 So if you're asking me for the best kicker, yeah, 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:51.760 i'd go Jamaine. 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:53.400 Okay, and then what about clutch for field goal. 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:58.360 Yeah, probably Nay or Cherry. 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:00.320 Yeah, Cherry doesn't many. 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:02.760 Yeah. Man, I got to tell you again, as a 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:05.480 Manly fan watching DC kick that field goal to go 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:07.720 up by a point, it was almost like you were saying, 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.200 see what you're missing, guys field goals. 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:10.800 Yeah. 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:13.160 And there's also that argument of like maybe teams need 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:14.880 to get more strategic and when you're ahead by six 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.120 or twelve, just get to get an extra point ahead 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:18.600 so you Can's almost. 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:20.880 They feel like it's a mental weakness to take the 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:22.800 one point. Yeah, you've got to go for the try. 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:25.480 It's a sign that you've surrendered by taking the point. 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:26.120 It's bullshit. 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:28.480 Yeah, if there's a point there and it's an important point, 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:31.000 take it. Take the point a bit like man, I'm 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:33.960 bit old fashion. If it's two points, take the two points. 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.120 It's hard to try, man, it's hard to try. So 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:37.640 it's easy to take the two. 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:39.840 Pretty clear that if your team's not going to win 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:41.920 the camp unless you've got a clutch goalkicker. Moving on 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:45.120 from last weekend's results, let's go back even further into 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:47.760 the past and talk about the abominable loss for the 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:51.480