Speaker 1: On to every sixty rugul league from every angle, join again.
Speaker 1: The great good and tallis has been the jas James
Speaker 1: Hooper and Dave rick yal And what a huge game
Speaker 1: it's going.
Speaker 2: To be tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: It is the Dogs taking on the Panthers right here
Speaker 1: on Fox League. Big for the Panthers, the Panthers chasing
Speaker 1: a top eight spot and possibly the unlikely five peet
Speaker 1: and it starts tomorrow And I Gordy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was so close to writing them off.
Speaker 4: But they've back in the eight and they they went
Speaker 4: over the ditch and had a great winn. And now
Speaker 4: it's the Dogs one verse eight and it we couldn't
Speaker 4: script it any better.
Speaker 5: Epic game and a lot of different subplots. You're at
Speaker 5: Cameron Serraldo up against Divan Cleary, got the ex Panthers
Speaker 5: in the Bulldogs side. Now in Stephen Crichton kick out Burton.
Speaker 5: Big job for Penrith. Well, they have got a relatively
Speaker 5: I'm not going to say easy, but they can do it.
Speaker 5: I don't think they can win enough games to finish
Speaker 5: in the top four, but I definitely think they're finishing
Speaker 5: in the top eight.
Speaker 6: I think I was with you Gordy.
Speaker 7: Besides, you just about to right them off, just put
Speaker 7: a big red line through them. But they've fixed their
Speaker 7: defense because that was their problem early doors. They were
Speaker 7: leaking points like Panther sides we haven't seen in recent times.
Speaker 7: And they've fixed that. They're right back on track. And
Speaker 7: this is a really important game for the Dogs to
Speaker 7: show where the dogs are at. But as far as
Speaker 7: the Panthers are concerned, absolutely, they can not only make
Speaker 7: the eight, they can go all the way.
Speaker 6: They could be that first team to win it outside
Speaker 6: the fall.
Speaker 2: And this is their run home.
Speaker 1: As you can see, they've got the Bulldogs, Buy Eels, Rabbit, Os, West, Tigers, Titans, Knights,
Speaker 1: Storm and their last three of the Raiders, Dogs and Dragons.
Speaker 1: So it's quite the tough run home. They've got the
Speaker 1: Dogs twice, they've got the Raiders, they've got the Storm.
Speaker 2: We just saw the numbers before this.
Speaker 1: They've got to win six out of ten on average.
Speaker 1: They've got to win six out of ten to make
Speaker 1: the top eight.
Speaker 3: You wouldn't back against it, No, you wouldn't be brave enough.
Speaker 3: The guys.
Speaker 8: They're making the top eight.
Speaker 5: They're making the top eight from where they are now.
Speaker 5: Six out of ten to ten. No chance you'd think.
Speaker 1: They would, right, But it confirms to me how important
Speaker 1: this game is tomorrow night. If they lose, that turns
Speaker 1: into six from nine. Yeah, so you know that's that
Speaker 1: makes it a lot tougher, right, So they would be
Speaker 1: putting all their eggs into the basket for the tomorrow
Speaker 1: night's game. And the dogs for them, they've got a
Speaker 1: point to prove. Are they as good as what everyone's
Speaker 1: saying they are? You know, they come up against a
Speaker 1: team that have won four premierships, who are on the rise,
Speaker 1: and it could solidify how good they are going and
Speaker 1: where they stand in his competition this year.
Speaker 3: And the battle off the field is intriguing as well.
Speaker 4: You've got Serrouto up against Ivan Gus up against his
Speaker 4: old club, and the Penrith Boys playing against Penwouth Boys.
Speaker 1: Basically, I was coach Kevin Serroudo won't be rushed when
Speaker 1: it comes to finding a permanent spot for the prize
Speaker 1: signing of Lachlin Gallon.
Speaker 9: I think what we've done really well over the last
Speaker 9: period is just take it one week at a time,
Speaker 9: nothing too far ahead. That's all I've done. This week,
Speaker 9: we've got to buy to refresh, and he's been brilliant.
Speaker 9: He just says whatever, you know, I'm ready to go,
Speaker 9: And it's the type of people we want here. Probably
Speaker 9: got Plan A, Plan B, Plan so again, but you
Speaker 9: know he's there. It's a bit of insurance for our
Speaker 9: backs and his plan.
Speaker 10: Possibly the using the lead in that heels game where
Speaker 10: it comes on a behalf and Toaby.
Speaker 8: Goes to Ninemen.
Speaker 9: Yeah, possibly, can't say too much, fat it's good that
Speaker 9: we've just yeah, we've got guys fighting positions and guys
Speaker 9: that can play a number of positions and play different
Speaker 9: number of different roles and do what's best for the team.
Speaker 1: Bulldog's cash Cameron Serroudo as usual, not giving much away.
Speaker 1: But what are they going to do with Lachlin Galvin
Speaker 1: and when are they going to do it?
Speaker 5: I think he finishes up in the number seven Jump
Speaker 5: a breath, But I think the reason Siro is holding
Speaker 5: his cards tight is because they've got to get through
Speaker 5: this state of origin period. They're going to lose a
Speaker 5: number of players back into the new South Wales side,
Speaker 5: most likely Matt Burton, even though he doesn't make the
Speaker 5: final seventeen for the Blues. So they need to keep
Speaker 5: Toby sext and happy and to do that, and in
Speaker 5: fairness to Taby, his form war and Sid's good enough,
Speaker 5: but he does hold his position in the site at
Speaker 5: the moment. But I think one state of origin is finished,
Speaker 5: then I think he has to make the hard, long call.
Speaker 5: It'll be Burton at six and it'll be Galvin et Ceca.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I agree, and probably more immediately this game tomorrow night.
Speaker 6: I think it is fluid.
Speaker 7: You know, we saw it in that in the most
Speaker 7: recent performance that Galvin.
Speaker 6: Played where he came on and Reid Marty.
Speaker 7: Was taken from the field. We spoke about at that time.
Speaker 7: Reed was actually surprised that it unfolded that way. Toby
Speaker 7: Sexton was surprised that he went to nine at the time.
Speaker 6: And I think it's the same again tomorrow.
Speaker 7: I think it's how the game is going and how
Speaker 7: Galvin gets into the game. But long term, and even
Speaker 7: at some point this season, Galvin will be starting in
Speaker 7: the halves. He is the future of the Bulldogs in
Speaker 7: the halves, and unlike Toby Sexton, who hasn't got a
Speaker 7: contract next year. And that's the bottom line.
Speaker 1: It is a unique situation where a club that is
Speaker 1: coming first, is still experimenting with what's going to be
Speaker 1: the best formula heading into the finals and to possibly
Speaker 1: make you run at the premiership.
Speaker 2: It doesn't happen too often.
Speaker 4: No, but that's a luxury and you think like we're guessing,
Speaker 4: but you think that's whoever's playing better out of the
Speaker 4: nine and seven, the other one gets the hook like
Speaker 4: it's pretty simple, like when you're sitting in the coaches box.
Speaker 4: But someone's feelings is going to get hurt.
Speaker 5: The other interesting thing around the whole halves can under
Speaker 5: Im Gordy is Toby Sexton has been the starting halfback
Speaker 5: for the Bulldogs for the entire season they lead the premiership,
Speaker 5: has played his form warrants selection in the side. But
Speaker 5: what I find interesting is he's been off contract for
Speaker 5: the entire season and his manager keeps yapping about all
Speaker 5: these other contracts and several clubs a million dollar offers.
Speaker 8: It's all waffle.
Speaker 5: There isn't Actually we're yet to see another club formerly
Speaker 5: table and offer for Toby.
Speaker 8: So that probably tells you.
Speaker 1: What hasn't any club sign him? And is there any
Speaker 1: offers on the table?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 5: I don't think there are, and that's my point, that's
Speaker 5: my point is that as good as he's playing, and
Speaker 5: as much as he's held his gloves up and posted
Speaker 5: above his weight this season, I think the fact that
Speaker 5: other clubs haven't been forthcoming with offers showsure that they're
Speaker 5: obviously also serned something else in Toby's game that they're
Speaker 5: not entirely sold on.
Speaker 1: It's incredible that the harsh reality for Toby could be
Speaker 1: that he's played the whole season at seven, as a
Speaker 1: dominant seven, leading the competition, he could finish a new
Speaker 1: South Wales Cup.
Speaker 8: Well, that is the reality.
Speaker 5: That is what will happen once they get through the
Speaker 5: state of origin period.
Speaker 7: There is also there is also the chance that he
Speaker 7: stays there and they continue to use Lachlan Galvin as
Speaker 7: an X factor from the bench. Both did you not
Speaker 7: win a camp with Jonathan Thurston on the bench who.
Speaker 6: Played it, who was very much.
Speaker 3: Not comparing.
Speaker 2: It's a possibility, but an.
Speaker 3: Ex factor from the bench, but they're not going to
Speaker 3: do that.
Speaker 6: I don't think they'll do it, but it's not out
Speaker 6: of the realms of possibility.
Speaker 5: Hoop, No, I don't think it happens. I think they
Speaker 5: bought Galvin. I think they've the conversations with Galvin that
Speaker 5: he will be wearing the seven jumper and I think,
Speaker 5: provided everybody gets through after the state of origin period
Speaker 5: without injury concerns, Galvin's wearing the number seven jumper.
Speaker 7: I think if no contract offers come for sext and
Speaker 7: from rival clubs, I wouldn't be shocked if the Dogs
Speaker 7: still keep it, try and keep him for one year
Speaker 7: on a cheap deal.
Speaker 5: Well, he does in fairtasy forms. He deserves to be
Speaker 5: a great Yeah, yeah he does.
Speaker 2: He really does.
Speaker 1: And it's just it really is fascinating. I hope we're wrong.
Speaker 1: I hope he does play in the team. I hope
Speaker 1: he does continue to be in that side, whether it's
Speaker 1: in the starting team or off the bench. I'd love
Speaker 1: them to use him and reward him for the hard
Speaker 1: work he's put in and the success he's had under
Speaker 1: pressure and a key position when no one really gave
Speaker 1: him a chance.
Speaker 2: It says a.
Speaker 5: Lot about the respect and the buy and that Camra
Speaker 5: Torado's got from that Bulldogs group. That Reidmarty wasn't happy
Speaker 5: the other week, Toby Sexton might not be happy in
Speaker 5: a couple of weeks once it all shakes out, but
Speaker 5: he's still we all got them all dilled in and
Speaker 5: invested in winning games. Tomorrow is huge if they front up,
Speaker 5: and I think it'll be a tight game.
Speaker 8: If they get another win.
Speaker 1: That's a big statement, huge for a number of reasons
Speaker 1: for both clubs, the Hoops the Seagles. Now you've done
Speaker 1: a bit of Dan today or throughout the week about
Speaker 1: them and where they sit at the moment, and apparently
Speaker 1: they are.
Speaker 2: Quite frustrated with DC and he's.
Speaker 1: Lack of I would say, I don't know to it
Speaker 1: to make a decision here and to tell everyone what's
Speaker 1: actually going on, who's playing for next year and how
Speaker 1: long that is and all the rest of it.
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, if I was Manly Braith, I think they've
Speaker 5: got to make the tough decision and the hardline decision.
Speaker 5: They need to take the captaincy off daily Cherry Evans
Speaker 5: and make Jake Traboyovitch the leader of that club because
Speaker 5: he's the spiritual leader. Anyway, there's all sorts of factionalism
Speaker 5: and infighting at the moment, and yes, from what I
Speaker 5: can gather, I think in those seven minute speed dating
Speaker 5: egg tim meetings that went on last while the reviews.
Speaker 5: I think that Anthony Sebold did speak daily about moving
Speaker 5: like just ending the distraction, because he's getting asked about.
Speaker 1: It at ever, so it has Seabel gone to DCE
Speaker 1: and said, mate, we've had enough.
Speaker 5: I don't know if he said we've had enough said.
Speaker 5: I think he said words to the effect of we
Speaker 5: think it would help the group, the team and the
Speaker 5: club if we could draw a line under it and
Speaker 5: we had some clarity right and that everybody can actually
Speaker 5: try and get our season. Well, he hasn't been forthcoming
Speaker 5: as he because we haven't heard anything about it. He's
Speaker 5: going to the Roosters, we all know that, but he
Speaker 5: still doesn't want to for whatever reason, he wants to
Speaker 5: go on with the game.
Speaker 3: Fellows.
Speaker 7: This is the situation the way I saw it when
Speaker 7: all this broke in and around DC's contract. At the time,
Speaker 7: I was a firm believer that DC needed to stand
Speaker 7: down from the Queensland State of Origin team to not
Speaker 7: only prove to the wider public but also every single
Speaker 7: manly fan that he was invested in trying to win
Speaker 7: this premiership for the Seagulls. Now he didn't do that,
Speaker 7: which is absolutely justifiable on his behalf.
Speaker 6: We've then see him drop from the Queensland Origin team.
Speaker 7: His form has never been the same this season, ever
Speaker 7: since the contract saga, and now we have this situation
Speaker 7: where the club is having internal talks about stepping away
Speaker 7: from the captaincy. How this has been handled has been
Speaker 7: nothing short of shambalic.
Speaker 2: Really, you mean.
Speaker 7: The entire situation from day one on and until now
Speaker 7: with still no clarity around DC's future.
Speaker 2: It's ridiculously been shambalic from.
Speaker 6: Club.
Speaker 7: And yeah, I would argue that, yeah, in relation to
Speaker 7: this is a you know one, he's a club legend.
Speaker 7: And how it's got to this point in time to
Speaker 7: hoops Hoops's development that they're having discussions about stripping of
Speaker 7: the captaincy now, I mean, but they shouldn't be happy happening,
Speaker 7: but collegend halfway through?
Speaker 1: So who should have made the call? Man Like, should
Speaker 1: DC have said months ago where he was going? Or
Speaker 1: should the club the club presty months ago and made
Speaker 1: him make that decision, or they've.
Speaker 7: Used kid gloves on DCE to try and propel him
Speaker 7: through this year.
Speaker 6: That's what I believe. It's back for anything, and it
Speaker 6: as well clearly the.
Speaker 5: How other harsh reality is it could well end up
Speaker 5: costing Anthony so Bold his second coming as an NRL coach,
Speaker 5: because they need to win Friday night against the West Tigers,
Speaker 5: and they need to back it up again the following
Speaker 5: week at Brookvale in front of their home crowd at
Speaker 5: four points against South Sydney.
Speaker 8: If they suffer two bad losses, I.
Speaker 5: Think the drums are beating and I think that mainly
Speaker 5: may Well make a tough decision.
Speaker 1: The perception is that some of the players are off
Speaker 1: the coach and some of the players were off each other.
Speaker 2: Is that true? Is there any truth to that?
Speaker 5: I think a lot of that's true. I don't think
Speaker 5: I've said it previously on R three sixty. I don't
Speaker 5: think Jake traboy Itch and Daily Cherry Evans since Daily's decision.
Speaker 5: I don't think Jake's a massive fan of Anthony Seabolt
Speaker 5: at the moment. I think Toddy's struggling with him to
Speaker 5: a degree after being shifted to the centers and the
Speaker 5: review that he had last week. And they're not the
Speaker 5: lone Rangers either, Like, it's not a good setup.
Speaker 1: What you just said to me, it sounds horrible and
Speaker 1: it probably explains why they are where they are now,
Speaker 1: it feels like it's like they've got to go backwards.
Speaker 1: They go forwards here like this is a bit of
Speaker 1: a mess. Like even if they get rid of the coach,
Speaker 1: if you know the players, if they're off for each
Speaker 1: other and on the same page too, that's an issue
Speaker 1: in itself. You need you probably need a new leadership
Speaker 1: kept to come in and just what the slate plant like.
Speaker 5: I'd say a bit of a mess As an understatement,
Speaker 5: I would say it's toxic at the moment.
Speaker 8: Yes to your question about leadership.
Speaker 5: That's why I'm saying they've got a daily As much
Speaker 5: as he's been a great servant for Manly, he's been
Speaker 5: well paid at the same time, but he's done them
Speaker 5: a disservice this year with the way their season has
Speaker 5: completely imploded based on his decision. We've never been told
Speaker 5: the truth. We've never been told the real reasoning. I
Speaker 5: know there's no problem with the coach, there's no problem
Speaker 5: with the management. No, no, there's no problem with offers
Speaker 5: or anything like that. I've just decided it's my decision
Speaker 5: on going in.
Speaker 8: A different direction.
Speaker 5: It'll come out at some point, but it has completely
Speaker 5: derailed and destabilized the Seagle season.
Speaker 8: And I don't know he needed to grow up.
Speaker 3: So once he made no one knew what happened before that.
Speaker 4: But once he made the decision, he's got to come
Speaker 4: out and just own it, and then I think everybody
Speaker 4: would move on. Has this affected Tommy Turbot? Is there
Speaker 4: pressure on the club now to sign the legend even
Speaker 4: though he's moved to center. Is there pressure on Manly
Speaker 4: to get some good news?
Speaker 7: I think the move to center actually delays the negotiation
Speaker 7: phase of resigning Tommy Travoivitch. If we think back to
Speaker 7: about three or four weeks ago, there was certainly discussion
Speaker 7: at that time to push forward and try and resign
Speaker 7: Tommy on a new.
Speaker 6: Deal we've spoken about here on the show.
Speaker 7: But now that he's moved to center, why a man
Speaker 7: why would Manly or for that matter, why would his
Speaker 7: management rush too Manly to re sign based on the
Speaker 7: fact that he if he's a center, he's not earning
Speaker 7: fullback money going forward.
Speaker 3: But he can still earn Tommy money.
Speaker 7: Tommy, well, depending on how this goes, Gordy had center,
Speaker 7: he's influenced. Well, Look, clearly, we know he's capable of
Speaker 7: having an influence, but that positional change could delay negotiations,
Speaker 7: No doubt.
Speaker 1: I think you'll get overs because of the time he's
Speaker 1: put in there and the player that he is, he'll
Speaker 1: get more than the usual story. So you know he's
Speaker 1: not going to get He'll get a lot less than
Speaker 1: he would have fall back, but he's going to get more,
Speaker 1: a lot more than the average center you would think,
Speaker 1: right or not.
Speaker 5: I think the styler like that Tommy is and the
Speaker 5: service that he's already given the club, he'll understand that.
Speaker 5: He understands the stage that he's at. He's twenty nine now.
Speaker 5: I've seen him interview this week and he's saying all
Speaker 5: the right things and he's putting up a brave front.
Speaker 5: I thought the CEO Tony Mestrov probout a little bit
Speaker 5: of a loose carry last week when he came out
Speaker 5: and said Sebes is safe at this point, and then
Speaker 5: he's tried to wind it back and hit reverse and
Speaker 5: smother it up this week with the no, no, that's
Speaker 5: not right. He'll be our coach until the end of
Speaker 5: twenty six, twenty seven. Well, I just don't see that upening.
Speaker 1: Just off the back of that, the sea Bowl succession
Speaker 1: plan he's micking a fat compleee or are there others
Speaker 1: in the mix?
Speaker 5: I don't think mis a fader comploye, not that manly
Speaker 5: certainly haven't had those conversations over the course the last
Speaker 5: twelve months.
Speaker 8: I think there's a push from.
Speaker 5: The old boys for ex players like Chad Randall, who's
Speaker 5: doing a very good job at Canterbury Banks down at
Speaker 5: the moment under Cameron Surreldo started his coaching career at
Speaker 5: the Seagulls, and also Matt Ballen who's up at the Bronco.
Speaker 4: And just as this question, what why are clubs doing
Speaker 4: their work in the dark and you watch Brisbane, it's
Speaker 4: a big brand. They could have opened it up, wouldn't
Speaker 4: you think, mainly with the club that they are if
Speaker 4: they're going to get rid of Anthony sid but don't
Speaker 4: you open it up to see who comes out of
Speaker 4: the woodwork.
Speaker 1: I don't like the different factions of old boys suggesting
Speaker 1: this or putting this person forward, like as a leadership group,
Speaker 1: as a board, be professional and seek every option you
Speaker 1: possibly can and do as much research as you can
Speaker 1: to see who is the next best coach and who
Speaker 1: would be best fitted and suited to our club, and
Speaker 1: what do we need in the coach that's going to
Speaker 1: bring out the best in us instead of our all
Speaker 1: he's an old boy, you played for us, Yep, we
Speaker 1: want that.
Speaker 2: That doesn't always work.
Speaker 7: At a lot of clubs know what they want and
Speaker 7: they just go get the coach they want. They know
Speaker 7: what their club and character is about, what they stand for,
Speaker 7: what style of coach makes this ticket our club, and
Speaker 7: they go get them. We saw it happen with the
Speaker 7: Bulldogs wanting Cameron Serata. We saw it at the Sharks
Speaker 7: wanting Craig Fitzgibbon. They know what they want mainly should
Speaker 7: know who they.
Speaker 6: Are, they are and what they want.
Speaker 1: Historically, some clubs just go for the new shiny toy
Speaker 1: or the biggest and best and whatever it may be,
Speaker 1: but it may.
Speaker 2: Not suit their club. It's like players, it's what players.
Speaker 1: Are going to fit into your group as well, and
Speaker 1: what's going to bring out the best of the guy
Speaker 1: next to him and the coaches similar well.
Speaker 5: In fairness, Camera Tororodo was the best shorty toy when
Speaker 5: Gusts signed him at the Bulldogs, but the first season
Speaker 5: that he had coming in as a defensive coach, and
Speaker 5: I think they looked seven hundred and fifty. It was
Speaker 5: a record number of points that at that stage, I
Speaker 5: think the jury was still out there.
Speaker 11: But he grew, He took Max to the roster, inherited,
Speaker 11: made hard decisions, done the work, you know, And it
Speaker 11: comes back to the coaches that have put the prep in,
Speaker 11: done the work, had the experience of success and failure,
Speaker 11: seen at first hand, worked under the best coaches in
Speaker 11: the game, know how to deal with stress and know
Speaker 11: how to deal with, you know.
Speaker 1: All the tough things as well as the success that
Speaker 1: comes with the coach. And I'm not putting I'm not
Speaker 1: saying don't go with Randall or Balance, you know, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't really know much about them as coaches. I
Speaker 1: think they're doing great things. I'm just it's more than
Speaker 1: just your old boys going all right.
Speaker 5: Well, he's an ex well on that point about elboys,
Speaker 5: I think historically Manly has always been a club riddled
Speaker 5: with factionalism and in fighting. And when Tony Mestrov came in,
Speaker 5: he made some really hard decisions and from an outside
Speaker 5: point of view, it actually looked as though it might
Speaker 5: have settled down.
Speaker 8: And when the Seagles are going well.
Speaker 5: When they're making finals that they were last year and
Speaker 5: they won Week one, the noise goes away. But the
Speaker 5: minute that the losses start the mount and especially when
Speaker 5: you're losing your sides like Newcastle, the Gold Coast and
Speaker 5: with respect Paramatta, well, all hell breaks loose.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 1: Despite signing is the Tigers chief playmaker Jerome Leway, he
Speaker 1: is happy to hand the seven jersey to Latu Feinu
Speaker 1: this week.
Speaker 10: Seen glimpses sixteen little bits here and there, but he
Speaker 10: hasn't played eighty minute yet, which is what I'm excited about.
Speaker 10: How you can impact the game for eighty He's sped
Speaker 10: forty here and there. But I think he's also excited
Speaker 10: to take the field in that starting seven. I've got
Speaker 10: full belief in him and what he can do and
Speaker 10: what he can bring to our team. And I think
Speaker 10: I'm just excited because he's king to get out there,
Speaker 10: strut his stuff and just beat him do what he does.
Speaker 1: Dram There signed to the Tigers to be the main man,
Speaker 1: but now looks like he's going to be happy to
Speaker 1: take a back seat to Fayner, who has got a
Speaker 1: lot of potential and could be the next half back
Speaker 1: long term?
Speaker 2: How do you guys see this?
Speaker 5: I like it if you look at what Fayner was
Speaker 5: able to do for the West Tigers.
Speaker 8: They trailed sixteen zil against Cambro.
Speaker 5: He came on playing in a middle forward ball, playing
Speaker 5: thirteen style of a role and he helped turn the game. Ultimately,
Speaker 5: it led to the young bloke five eight being pulled
Speaker 5: off and he finished up playing the five eighth role.
Speaker 5: But I mean leui. He signed with the West Tigers.
Speaker 5: He wanted to be batman. He wanted to be the
Speaker 5: main man. Has it worked well off the back of
Speaker 5: five losses? Isn't he a better five eight? Is a
Speaker 5: better six than he is a seventh? So I think
Speaker 5: it's good on Benji Joey. I noticed Joey Johns said
Speaker 5: it over the course of the last week and whether
Speaker 5: Benji heard it or not, and clearly he's decided to
Speaker 5: make that better.
Speaker 8: Vision is a great Robin of.
Speaker 3: Paris, wasn't it was?
Speaker 7: I hope he has as much influence because you're paying
Speaker 7: him a lot of money to sit outside a rookie halfback.
Speaker 6: So look, Tim will tell.
Speaker 4: But half backs are half backs and then they can
Speaker 4: run the show. And I think it took away and
Speaker 4: I thought that when he let Glvin run the show
Speaker 4: bed and then you know, I think Lola is better.
Speaker 4: He's he's better second option. He's a very good players
Speaker 4: and then.
Speaker 8: He was.
Speaker 5: Off the field and pay what they had to pay
Speaker 5: to get. Yeah, And I think in the long run
Speaker 5: it will be a good signing.
Speaker 8: But it's the best move.
Speaker 2: For the club.
Speaker 1: We've had a tough year with Galvin and all that situation.
Speaker 1: It's hard to have stability under those circumstances. Talent of
Speaker 1: Silver begins meeting rival clubs already.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's already met with Todd Payton at the Cowboys,
Speaker 5: some roles at Paramatta. I think he met with Anthony
Speaker 5: Sob at Manly today. This is a bit of a
Speaker 5: tough one break. I think this Tiger's local junior young
Speaker 5: gum will be out the door before June thirty. So
Speaker 5: I think this gets done. Yeah, in the next Well,
Speaker 5: it's got to be done by Monday, doesn't it. So
Speaker 5: I think he's still got.
Speaker 8: To gonment with the Knights.
Speaker 1: Front at this point or not that I'm aware the
Speaker 1: Yels Okay, ye, so well, the Tigers just let him go.
Speaker 5: I think they are going to let him go Gordon,
Speaker 5: and it's not particularly I don't like it, but.
Speaker 8: Happy Christ their captain.
Speaker 6: Can you like it?
Speaker 8: No, you can't.
Speaker 6: You can't.
Speaker 5: Happy he's there, he's their captain. They want to extend Ben.
Speaker 5: She's got to win games in the short term.
Speaker 4: Now, you're a Tiger's man. If I asked, is tell
Speaker 4: him better than happy right now?
Speaker 8: Not right now?
Speaker 3: No, but in eighteen months he's probably.
Speaker 4: Going to be he could well or twelve months, yeah,
Speaker 4: eighteen months.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, he's the future of the West Tigers.
Speaker 3: Yep, well he could have.
Speaker 2: He's not now.
Speaker 8: He's not now. He him unlucky gather. We've got a
Speaker 8: bit of the future of the West Tigers. Ye, that's
Speaker 8: out here.
Speaker 1: Is he's joined the list that we've concocted in our
Speaker 1: lab back cave, the lab Mitch Moses. These are the
Speaker 1: Goodbye Tigers, Tigers that debut but lost to other clubs.
Speaker 1: Mitchell Moses, James Deska and Woods, Ryan Papanous and Josh Hado,
Speaker 1: Carlochland Galvin and our talent is silver.
Speaker 3: I had because you left the club as well.
Speaker 2: When I left, they went downhill.
Speaker 3: That's a fair bit of talent.
Speaker 12: There.
Speaker 8: It was a kick in the guts back then.
Speaker 5: This is a this is an absolute kick in the
Speaker 5: guts for Tigers members and fans now because there's been
Speaker 5: so many false dawns at that club over.
Speaker 8: The course of the last decade.
Speaker 5: Off the back of three wooden spoons, the local juniors
Speaker 5: are something that they give you a bit of hope
Speaker 5: and they give you a bit of belief and you
Speaker 5: want to think that you look at the stronger clubs.
Speaker 5: The Panthers are the best example. They've got the biggest
Speaker 5: junior nursery. They arm off the back of that procession
Speaker 5: one and for the Tigers to just continually get boat
Speaker 5: to the punch in that respect, it's.
Speaker 8: A tough pill to swallow.
Speaker 1: The Ones for me is a little bit of a
Speaker 1: tough one though, because Talon didn't want to play with
Speaker 1: Appy and wasn't willing to sort of see out another
Speaker 1: year or so playing underneath him, right, So they've had
Speaker 1: to make a call on it.
Speaker 2: And it's not a simple call though, Gordy, I know
Speaker 2: you maybe think it is.
Speaker 7: I think it is, and I say it with the
Speaker 7: greatest respect to Appy and an absolute superstar of the
Speaker 7: game and what he brings to the West Tigers now
Speaker 7: and and second to that is how important he is
Speaker 7: for Benji.
Speaker 6: Let's not beat around the bushy.
Speaker 7: He's super important to Benji surviving long, longer term than
Speaker 7: his current contract at the West Tigers. But your future
Speaker 7: is your future and this kid is a local journe
Speaker 7: of the West Tigers.
Speaker 6: So his trajectory is like that. He currently has four
Speaker 6: NRL clubs chasing him and Appy He's.
Speaker 3: Not a bad player, man, He's not a very good.
Speaker 1: And I'm not I'm not arguing with you guys, but
Speaker 1: you three would have got rid of Corus out before
Speaker 1: the SILVERA Is that right?
Speaker 8: No, I'm not saying that.
Speaker 3: What about the line? What about so you can have him?
Speaker 3: But it's on the line. I'll tell you what's really
Speaker 3: got Harry Grant on the line is.
Speaker 5: When you look at the Melbourne Storm. Let's look at
Speaker 5: Melbourne Sale. When I had Cameron Smith and Harry Grant.
Speaker 5: They found a way to make that work. And you
Speaker 5: see at the stronger clubs at this point in time,
Speaker 5: the way the competition set up, the teams that are
Speaker 5: down the bottom are just getting better.
Speaker 8: Over all the time.
Speaker 2: In Melbourne with all their top talent in Melbourne.
Speaker 1: They the players want to be there, so they're happy
Speaker 1: to be patient and they're happy to wait their turn and.
Speaker 2: They probably going extra.
Speaker 1: You I've got it with Joan Peasant, happy to stay there,
Speaker 1: do his apprenticeship plan to the players. He would have
Speaker 1: been playing first grade any other club a year or
Speaker 1: two ago, but he sits back and because they know
Speaker 1: that it's a different it's just the Melbourne Storm and
Speaker 1: how they do it like, look like they've got all
Speaker 1: their players. Look at farl he'd be playing everywhere, starting
Speaker 1: every game for anyone, but he's happy to sit behind
Speaker 1: papping house and like so it's a hard, hard comparison
Speaker 1: when you've got talent who doesn't want to do that.
Speaker 2: You know, he wants to play and that's okay, that's fine.
Speaker 2: He's got every right to do that.
Speaker 3: You know, tell him got first grade money, proper money,
Speaker 3: would he stay? You reckon? Is it about money?
Speaker 2: Money?
Speaker 8: Want money?
Speaker 3: So he wants to start just twenty years old?
Speaker 2: He does.
Speaker 5: He's twenty years old and it is good enough Gordon
Speaker 5: to be playing in the NRL. So I think he
Speaker 5: just genuinely like.
Speaker 3: Him as I think he's really a tough one.
Speaker 6: So there's been some suggestions the bulldogs are having a
Speaker 6: look tell him.
Speaker 3: For you in the bridge.
Speaker 6: For you, I'm ruling the dogs out for you.
Speaker 1: Okay, going back to Talent Rookie who made the CALLA
Speaker 1: that would have been tough.
Speaker 7: There's been a suggestion that there absolutely has been suggestions
Speaker 7: throughout the game over the past month that Shane Richardson
Speaker 7: was preparing to back Talent of Silver, but at the
Speaker 7: same time said the Benji Marshall, look at your call.
Speaker 6: It's your call, and that seems all right.
Speaker 1: The great Lee had been tell us he's back, and
Speaker 1: guess what he has regret regrets about his position at
Speaker 1: the Tigers. Let's have a look at what he said.
Speaker 1: Not only do I not miss being chairman, I regret
Speaker 1: taking on the role. You have no real authority or
Speaker 1: power to affect any change. The real authority and power
Speaker 1: vests in those who own the club, the Holman Barnes group.
Speaker 2: He's fired some shots, well, is he right?
Speaker 8: In fairness?
Speaker 3: He is right.
Speaker 5: The homand Barnes group sit above the West Tigers n
Speaker 5: ROL club and they've got full control when it comes
Speaker 5: to the major decisions. As much as rich as the CEO,
Speaker 5: and he went in there with a brief telling every
Speaker 5: body that he wanted players who were in for the
Speaker 5: crocodile role and going to be prepared to do the
Speaker 5: hard yaka the Holman Barnes group.
Speaker 8: Whenever it's any massive decision.
Speaker 5: You look at the Lucky Galvin scenario, I think rich
Speaker 5: I actually wanted to fight and dig in on that
Speaker 5: and try and if they wanted to go the legal road,
Speaker 5: he was prepared to, but the Holman Barnes group overruled.
Speaker 1: Okay, interesting, all right, Cornella's halves are in the spotlight
Speaker 1: after a disappointing loss to the Broncos, but Brandon Trindle's
Speaker 1: not shying away from the criticism.
Speaker 12: Just when you lose games, it usually falls on the halves.
Speaker 12: So yeah, we just need to go back to the
Speaker 12: drawing board and prepare wealth this week. I think, Yeah,
Speaker 12: once we play a good game, I think those rumors
Speaker 12: are out the window. So he'll step up this week.
Speaker 12: Some really tough conversations and he's our marquee player and
Speaker 12: all the tension usually goes on him, but it's all
Speaker 12: our fault.
Speaker 2: But we'll move forward this week.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it's good to have those conversations and have a
Speaker 12: look at what we need to do this week, and
Speaker 12: some really tough conversations, but well well needed, and yeah
Speaker 12: it's going to put us in a better position going
Speaker 12: forward this week.
Speaker 2: Dave Fitz he's cool truth and honesty session.
Speaker 6: He has BRA today this morning. It was held down
Speaker 6: at Shark Park.
Speaker 7: And I must say, in across Craig fitgibbons tenure down
Speaker 7: at the Sharks, I've certainly heard of no meeting of
Speaker 7: the sorts. He is a straight shoot of seven minutes long.
Speaker 7: It's certainly longer than seven minutes the straight shoot of Fits.
Speaker 7: But my understanding this one was about as brutal as
Speaker 7: it got. Under Fits his reign spoke about discipline both
Speaker 7: they deserved it, both both.
Speaker 6: With the ball and without the ball.
Speaker 7: Seven penalties, forty odd miss tackles against the Broncos, and
Speaker 7: defense is a massive focus. You have to remember that
Speaker 7: Fitzgibbon is renowned as a defensive coach and the Sharks
Speaker 7: defense has.
Speaker 6: Been in reverse in recent weeks.
Speaker 8: So and there you have it.
Speaker 2: I mean, you've been working on to Dave's he's your status.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's straight out of the lab.
Speaker 7: Again, as we said, look, first year with Craig fitzgiven
Speaker 7: fifteen points on average conceited and twenty one the following season.
Speaker 7: It's strong yearing last year eighteen points average and now
Speaker 7: as I said, twenty three points. It's just not what
Speaker 7: the standards of what Craig Fitzgimmon is asking for. Clearly,
Speaker 7: this is a huge game now against the Melbourne Storm
Speaker 7: one Sunday afternoon in Melbourne. They have to respond.
Speaker 1: They have a good record against Melbourne in Melbourne, but Melbourne,
Speaker 1: I feel like they want to start flexing their muscles
Speaker 1: is a bit more. They've been winning games, but you
Speaker 1: know they nearly got beat by Cus. They've been leading,
Speaker 1: getting off the fast starts. It's a day game, I believe.
Speaker 1: So it's going to be very tough for the Sharks,
Speaker 1: isn't it good?
Speaker 3: It will bring out the best of them.
Speaker 4: Look watching them on the weekend when they got it
Speaker 4: right and they played good footing and they played through
Speaker 4: the middle of Sharks look pretty good and they just
Speaker 4: went away from what was working. So they halves their
Speaker 4: kicking game are their discipline was poor, the ball handling.
Speaker 3: But can we get another start up.
Speaker 6: On on drawing boards?
Speaker 8: On drawing boards and.
Speaker 3: Tough and tough conversations just before the end of the year.
Speaker 5: The storm daytime and the storm nighttime. We have a
Speaker 5: got that forty one to fourteen. They generally win an
Speaker 5: average score in the day and then of an evening
Speaker 5: it's a little bit more of a tight arm wrestle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that doesn't surprise me at all, Noll.
Speaker 1: And you know, like it's funny because Melbourne are clear favorites,
Speaker 1: or I think that they are, because if you look
Speaker 1: at all the teams now they're at the top, you
Speaker 1: ask the question, do they have another level? And I
Speaker 1: think most of them have reached their stealing the gun right,
Speaker 1: they can all win the camp.
Speaker 2: But you look at Melbourne and you go they're going
Speaker 2: good or really good.
Speaker 1: But they've got another level in them if they can
Speaker 1: get there, and then they will be very hard to beat.
Speaker 4: And the top four have separated from the rest of
Speaker 4: the competition really and all the others are inconsistent. And
Speaker 4: in the top four, Melbourne's the best side and if
Speaker 4: they had to play each other in around robin, you're
Speaker 4: back Melbourne.
Speaker 3: Every day of the week.
Speaker 5: In terms of depth, have got the best s depth
Speaker 5: of any roster in the NFL. There's a reason why
Speaker 5: they are still Premiership favorites even though they haven't hit peaks.
Speaker 2: Scary if they reached the.
Speaker 6: Don't be even more scary if Gordy's Queensland.
Speaker 7: So I'd pick up this series because Munster and Hary
Speaker 7: Grant will bounce out of that high on confidence.
Speaker 1: All right, Joanna is your key player matchups for a
Speaker 1: Round seventeen thanks to Ossie Broadband Hoops.
Speaker 5: I'm on the big game tomorrow night, Breath the Dogs
Speaker 5: up against the Panthers and Matt Burton and Penrith's chief
Speaker 5: playmaker Nathan Cleary all.
Speaker 7: It's that important game guys between the mainly Seagulls and
Speaker 7: the West Tigers and Tommy Turber we all want to
Speaker 7: have a look at him in the centers up against
Speaker 7: Adam Dewey