WEBVTT - 🏉 NRL Analysis - A look at Finals Week 1 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:11.040 Better than the Lego, better than let Hoover. 0:00:11.200 --> 0:00:13.080 Right a week one of the finals, Mate, we're going 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:14.200 to talk about first which game. 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:16.439 Yeah, we're going to do Storm and the Sharks. So 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:20.320 we've thought about, like, what are the strengths and weaknesses, 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:23.720 what happens, what has to happen in these games to 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:26.799 get the opposition on top. I think for the Storm 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:30.240 to win, I think they need to put Nico Hines 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:32.400 in a phone box. He needs to feel like he's 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:35.800 playing a game of football in a confined space. There's 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:38.240 already question marks whether they can deliver in a big game. 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:42.440 The Sharks were ultra impressive on the weekend. They haven't 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:45.360 won underfits given they're going down to Amy Park where 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:47.960 they won early in the year. But I feel like 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:51.320 a halfback has the presence and the spirit of their 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:54.280 team in the finals, and if he walks in like 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:56.800 he owns the joint at Amy Park, the Sharks could 0:00:56.840 --> 0:01:00.520 do something. But if he balks and the Melbourne Storms tim, 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:03.800 I think that goes a long way to Melbourne dominate 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:04.200 that game. 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:07.640 We said a few times about Nick it's I think 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:09.360 in this game for the Sharks to do less. 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:11.680 Now what we saw early in the year when they 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:13.000 beat Melbourne in Melbourne. 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:15.240 This go around to be is the fact that there 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:20.040 was Blake, Brawley and Atkinson and the halves. Before that game. 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:22.000 You're looking so Bradley playing a half beat. They're playing 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:26.000 the Melton's now chance. But they just they were forced 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:28.759 to do less, they were forced to simplify. Their power 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:30.680 game took over and they looked a far bet of 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:33.959 football side. When they've gotten in the finals before, They've 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:37.440 played two sideways, they've played two floury, They've skimmed across 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:44.280 the defense. I would almost it almost would Nicko. If 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:46.839 I'm coaching Nicko, I almost go to him and say, 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:49.960 in the lead up to the game, so nick how 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:51.720 I want you to go into this game almost with 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:55.920 the fullbacks mentality. And I think because you know, once 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:58.520 he gets into the battle, he'll fall into that same role. 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:01.000 But leading up to the game, it simulated is running 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:03.120 and probably just alleviate a bit of pressure going in. 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:05.280 And that's the example because on the other side of 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:07.640 the field for the Storm, I think if the Sharks 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:09.800 that a win down to Amy Park, they need to 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:12.400 stop their spine from running the football. Like if you 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:14.760 think about a play the ball anywhere on the field. 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:18.720 You've got Pappenhausen, Grant near the ruck, You've got Hues 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:23.000 and Munster at any stage and every play the ball. 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:26.400 These four guys could run the football. So if the 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:30.120 Sharks are a win, Nico has to be confident. But 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:32.680 there you have to defend for every play the ball 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:35.400 for the whole entire eighty minutes and come up with 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:38.760 a great defensive performance. Because Melbourne Storm when their halves 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:40.960 click and run the ball, they saw what they did 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:41.720 against Penrith. 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:43.160 They get confidence from that. 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:45.080 So I think if the Sharks the win, they were 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:47.000 shut down their spine running the balls. 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:51.480 It's always easy to get bias with what they called 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:53.280 it recency bias. 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:54.440 Anyway, it doesn't matter. 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:56.679 It's not fun, but you know where all of a 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:58.640 sudden you fall in love with the next player that 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:01.000 comes along. But I was sitting there and I think himself, 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:03.720 have I ever seen a half back with as good 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:06.799 a running game as Jerome Hughes and like alf was 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:09.120 rapid they have the line gap, but I don't know. 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:11.240 I don't think I have. 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:15.600 Well, I think it's the fact that he's got a 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:19.720 combination and he uses the combos he has around him 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.760 as support because he can go to Karto. 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:24.720 So then people start worrying about that. They went about 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:25.960 Monster on the other side of the field. 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:28.519 Harry Grant has a bit of craft around so they're 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:30.560 worried about that. And as soon as he feels like 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:34.360 there's space is right foot back inside. And his performance 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:38.280 on the weekend in that warming up against Brisbane was 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:39.040 pretty impressive. 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:41.920 He might have just sealed the dally Am with that performance. 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:46.560 Absolutely, day football, day football, I think will suit the 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:48.840 Sharks down there. Night football and Melbourne, you know better 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:51.560 than anyone, is very very difficult to suit you blokes Downley. 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:52.920 What do you think. I think it's going to be 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:53.640 a really tight game. 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:56.840 Yeah, I think it will be tight. I think Melbourne 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.640 Storm get the job done. I think they're halves and 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:02.640 probably about like Melbourne Storm. What do they need to 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:04.600 improve in the last couple of years to go that 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:08.560 extra mile? I think defensively they need to improve better 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:11.880 for longer periods of time. But their best players need 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:14.040 to play well at this time of year, and I 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:17.479 think they are all play well, including Nelson as a 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:21.880 solo owner. In that conversation, so Storm to get done huge. 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:27.239 Storm home by a fraction on the back of their spine. 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:30.520 But an upset would not surprise me at all. After 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:33.120 Sunday afternoon, one occasion, that's going to be the course 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:35.240 stadium be massively rocking. 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:39.880 Fifty sixty thousand people hopefully for the Dogs to win. 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:44.880 I think they need to attack the merely halves defensively. 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:47.440 I think we'll have a look at some stuff Brooks. 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.560 Cherry Evans can get caught out at different stages. He's 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.520 save Farth going through inside shoulder on Brooks and he 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:56.160 knows that the threat of Preston on that side of 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:59.000 the field up against Brooks. They need to power through 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:01.520 Brooks and make him make a lot of decisions. In 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:04.279 the eighty minutes here again comes up too far past 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:07.520 the footy and Presston goes straight through. So the fact 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:09.920 is Brooks gets a bit jittery. He doesn't know where 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:12.240 they go out come up last of football. If they 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:15.839 get that disconnects, I think that's what happens. Jerry Evans, 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:19.719 for an experienced half, he is reckless sometimes with the 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:22.240 way that he puts pressure on his outside guys. The 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:23.800 Dogs did it to him in the last couple of 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:26.080 weeks the Sharks did it to him on the weekend. 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:27.800 Here's another one, like you just don't come up and 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:30.719 turn in like that. It basically says to the dogs, 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:33.719 pass around me and we'll get the try in the corner. 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:36.800 This one here was crazy. You just come up, turn 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:41.320 in and don't give your outside players a chance to 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:44.040 follow you in. So I think Jerry Evans and Brooks, 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:47.240 I think Camera Seruada would have a look at the 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:48.880 game on the weekend and how they got them last time. 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:51.240 It's been a couple of years now at DCE, and 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:55.120 I like Kawa Tu struggling, and you're right, it's hard 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:58.800 to believe in a Blakelood DC who is such a quality, 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:02.800 experienced player and those the nuances of playmaking inside out 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:05.839 and could obviously ud shapes company's way that he still does. 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:09.440 If I'm Matt Burton, the further I am away from 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.560 the trial and I'm giving kick out early ball, I 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:15.440 don't think Cherre Evens can handle the physicality of what 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:18.520 kickout does. The closer I get to the line, I'm 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:21.960 going to make Cherry Evans make that decision defensively. So 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:24.240 give a big fire early ball once you get down 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:27.400 there put a lot of decisions around Cherry Evans rodo coops. 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:31.919 This is a game of whoever dictates the style of 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:34.280 the fight will probably win. Because you've got too big, 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:38.400 you've got mismatches, you've got dogs who are who's forwards 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:43.120 are smaller, lighter, more skillful bit of football IQ and 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:44.479 the big, powerful, manly pack. 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:46.800 Yeah, the Dogs have been on the skids defensively the 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:49.159 last couple of weeks, but I think the Cowboys just 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:51.680 show the blueprint to the whole competition how to beat 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:54.800 the dogs. The way that they played the Cowboys was 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:59.440 powerful and short passes through their middle create ruxby retreating defense, 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:01.440 and you go at them again with either a show 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:03.560 and go or a short pass. So I don't think 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:06.920 going around the dogs is the approach. It's about going 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:10.120 through them. And the fact is when you generate quick 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:13.120 play the balls and miss tackles, then it leads to 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:15.440 something what mainly did the other week against the Dogs. 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:18.679 Perseca decent play the ball, shift out to the side, 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:22.760 another mistackle, bounced off, ineffective. They get lucky here. But 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:26.760 when your misstackles, quick play the balls leads to opportunities. 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:30.800 So I think the Cowboys showed exactly the way to 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:31.640 beat the Bulldogs. 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.000 Can I ask you a question there, because you've been 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:36.160 in the position that a number of those sides have 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.720 been in in the fact that the Bulldogs will Whilst 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:42.040 they didn't have a home semi final locked in, they 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:45.160 had their final spot locked in to a certain extent, 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:46.120 they were treading water. 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:47.320 And I'll send new blokes to it. 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:50.080 At the Melbourne Storm where you're six points clear, you know, 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:52.520 eight points clear with three or four rounds, it's a 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:55.800 difficult situation to find yourself in because look at the 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:59.760 effort there defensively of Villi Army and also Bronson Cherry. 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:03.560 That is that is nothing like what they've offered this 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:05.800 year as far as effort is concerned. 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:09.600 Your hope that Sirealdo can turn it on and turn 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:13.160 it back on. But also remember it's been a long 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:17.239 year for the Dogs with that small pack working really 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:20.200 hard in defense. I hope they've got a little bit 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:23.320 of energy for this game because if they are on 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:27.720 the back foot making soft tackles, it's going to create 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:29.920 the rugsby that Cherry Evans. 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:32.760 Needs sensing an upset here, you know, thinking manly, no, no, 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:37.120 sensing an upset on sensing bull Dogs hitting back on. 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:40.360 The skids too, just could a bit of a gael. 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:43.280 I think that what we just explained is exactly where 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:47.360 this game sits. If Kickout can dominate Cherry Evans, they win. 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:50.520 But if the mainly forward pack can dominate through the 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:53.240 middle and generate quick play the balls, I think that's 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:57.280 enough for Brooks and remember turbos back to back Dogs, 0:08:57.679 --> 0:08:58.920 he will be hard to handle. 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:00.040 If that's a retreating to. 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:00.680 Dogs that I make. 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:04.320 This are really fast, personal, fast game, keep the ball 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:06.320 in play, try to fatigue that big pack. 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:08.400 Let's be honest, this is the biggest game in the 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:11.960 Dog's recent history. That's how big it is. It's going 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:14.720 to be fifty sixty thousand people at a core. There's 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:17.000 a team that hasn't got a lot of finals experience 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:20.079 outside of Crichton kick Our a little bit of burning 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:23.960 at our car. There's a huge game because they've turned 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:28.440 around the the ladder position, and if they go on 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:30.400 the skids three losses in a row, that's that's a 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:31.640 different way to go out of the final. 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:33.880 You're thinking there, I've forgotten the fact that I live 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.320 in the Manly area. And off to the dogs problem 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:38.280 because a lot of my neighbors are real dead shits. 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:40.280 It's you know, that's all right. 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:41.880 Your house sits on top of the hill and everyone 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:42.679 else is down below. 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:45.199 So they went to the hill close to the boast 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:50.280 of that Cowboys Knights. Yeah, this is interesting. And the 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:53.319 reason I give the Knights a great chance. 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:55.960 Talking about bias here or just generally thinking. 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:58.240 Generally, and I mean they see what you think about 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:02.840 it is that dolphins. Dolphins are very good crafting too. 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.440 They graft and they grind, they get in the arm wrestle. 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:07.200 Of these moments in the game the other day that 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:09.240 they're sort of just going there. They work, and I'll 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:10.760 starting to see a bit of the gas going out 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:11.120 of our. 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:14.240 Defense, and I'll see, you know what our defense, the 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:15.680 Knights defense. 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:19.040 The Red and Blues, And I thought, but they hung 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:21.360 in there and they got through it. What's the one 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:23.480 thing I reckon the Cowboys will struggle with this year. 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:26.080 Cowboys come out of it, They burst out of the 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:28.640 barriers and they try it. They just go for it. 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:32.000 Hence the reason why there's a big difference between their 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:35.160 best and their worst. And you just don't know what 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.480 you're going to get that for me, the fact that 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:40.200 the Knights can get there and they can make this 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:44.320 an ugly stop start game, and just to grind, I 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:45.560 think they can beat the Cowboys. 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:49.199 When there's a huge gap between your best and the worst, 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:53.240 the best way to highlight the worst. So I'll give 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:55.920 you the best chance of playing is bring the game 0:10:56.200 --> 0:11:00.080 into the trenches and make it really tough and uncomfort 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:02.600 If you make it stop start, if you make it 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:06.439 free flowing and flamboyant, then that team that can go 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:09.360 to a heighlight the Cowboys will find it. But if 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:12.800 you make it really ugly, it might just drag the 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:17.640 Cowboys out. But I think the Knights they've got to 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:22.679 wrestle around with the Cowboys inconsistency, and then Kaitlyn has 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:24.720 to strike like you did on the weekend on the 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:25.600 flip side. 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:28.040 Did you see the Cowboys performance on the weekend? 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:32.120 Wow, it was a statement in my mind that I 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:35.199 had question marks around the Cowboys and then they delivered 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:38.760 that and I'm thinking, holy hell, if they can do 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.480 that again for the month, they could just be. 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:43.240 A teams through this season. 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:46.040 We've done that four or five times, Yes, yeah, four 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.960 or four times I've going Wow, become the Cowboys, and then. 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.880 Their defensive intent on the weekend through the example of 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:58.520 Cotterer was tremendous I love. And then Diden's like direct 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:02.560 style in the that he ran the football forced everyone 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:05.720 else to follow him. So I think their leadership is 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.520 key to how the Cowboys. 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:14.400 Go Coops, Roosters and Penrith russus in there. 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:17.959 They've lost the last and nine times against Penrith. Okay, 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:19.760 you tell me how the russ is going to win this. 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:22.520 How do they change their formula so it's not ten 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:23.280 losses in a row. 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:23.720 Yeah. 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:28.120 See, I think most people will automatically think to scoring points, 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:30.160 and I understand that that's the way the game's got 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:33.560 to score more points in the opposition. But I think 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.679 they need to have their best defensive game of the season. 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:42.040 I know with Walker out Brendon Smith out, they lose 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:45.760 a lot of that scoring instinct play, but they actually 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:49.440 are a better defensive team with the players that come in, 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:54.599 So I think it's the best defensive performance of the 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:56.520 year might give the Russes a chance. 0:12:56.920 --> 0:13:01.320 Nathan is most likely he is He's a lot to play. 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:05.600 My male is he's going to play? Which I'm really 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:08.199 curious to see because he comes back into the side 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:11.400 and they reunite, he and Jerome. But he's coming into 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:13.840 the side and reuniting with Jerome. With Jerome in career 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:15.160 best form, does. 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:20.199 They worry what they've done? Last month? Panthers had fifteen 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:23.319 errors on the weekend. They won. Haven't been clunky, they. 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:26.200 Haven't really been able to use the slaterism get their 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:29.079 game on. Haven't been able to But again, I come 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:31.600 back to the fact that I give them the benefit 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:33.840 out a little bit like the dogs, is that there's 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:37.079 been an element of treading water and coops. 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:39.520 They've just they know what it takes. 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:41.200 And I'm not saying they can just turn it on, 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:45.120 but you know they've been and done it before. They 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:47.400 do know what it takes to I think. 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:50.440 They can turn it on. It's that autopilot for them. 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:54.120 And I feel like the emotional rush of Leui and 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.640 Fisher Harris, the last ride that this whole crew is 0:13:56.679 --> 0:14:00.000 going to get together, will be like that driving force 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:03.040 for them to not have the fifteen errors, to not 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:08.040 have the lapses in concentration. Nathan comes back in, But 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:11.320 how do the roost do the ruses have to play 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:12.040 a different style. 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:14.199 I said, double down on defense. 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:14.559 Yep. 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:17.760 They need to the score points with the football. They 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:19.600 need to play a style of football coop. They don't 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:21.880 need to be they don't need to be flash and 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:25.080 fancy and come up with miracle plays, but they they 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:27.480 have to. They've got to take the petrol out of 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:31.520 the tank of the big middles of Penrith's. That's the reason. 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:33.560 And I know it won't happen, but I would be 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:36.080 putting Manu to six and I'll be just I would 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:40.000 be just doing a middle field assault on those big 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:41.640 on those big fours from Penrith. 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:43.560 I mean, you look, and it's just one example. 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:45.160 If you have a look at you know that night 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:47.720 with Tyren Wishart sort of showed the way a little. 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:49.360 Bit and just go I'm not going to mark around. 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:51.120 I'm just going to go bang and take one of 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:54.440 those big guys on, take them on the footwork, make. 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:56.040 Them miss a little bit, takes a bit of petrol 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:56.520 out of the tank. 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:57.800 Well, that's why I think. 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:02.040 Doubling down on the and if this game is close 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:05.680 at the semith minute mark, the Rousters have the talent. 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:06.080 For it, said Esco. 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:09.720 To break through a Tideline or Swali or Marnu to 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:12.120 come up with a play. I don't think they're going 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:15.400 to blow Penrith away at home twenty eight to ten, right, 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:18.320 But if it is close and their defense is on 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:22.320 and it's frustrating Penrith, then I think if it's ten, ten, sixteen, 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:24.800 or would tend to go, one of their gun players 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:27.040 can do it. And I think that's why sometimes in 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:30.560 big games, you don't worry about how your score points. 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.120 You're more focused on how you can restrict the opposition 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:35.760 and just play it out in the long game. 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:39.520 I have Penrith as my competition favorite still that Melbourne. 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:40.800 The bookie is the favorites. 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:43.480 With Melbourne with Nathan coming back into the side the 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:46.200 way Jerome has been playing, I see Penrith getting it right. 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:47.240 They're still my favorite. 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:52.160 How confident about Nathan's shoulder, I don't know. Actually, like 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:53.040 a boss of a coin. 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:55.640 For me, it's a blind comment because I don't know. 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:58.200 I don't know the extent of it. They kept it 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:01.520 very much under wraps. I'm not sure, and they win 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:03.640 it if he's not there. I still think they can't. 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:04.880 I think they're still capable. 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:07.080 But yeah, I don't know. 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:10.640 There's obviously an injury there, right, so it can only 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:14.120 stand the test of time over a period however long, 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:17.560 what happens. But he's a true pro, like he is 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:20.760 not just sitting at home twiddling his thun playing PlayStation like. 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:24.880 Whatever medical assistance is there, he's done it. And the 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:28.840 fact is that he's playing tells me that he's super 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.320 confident about it, because I would consider him not playing 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:34.600 saving him, because Bendick would be confident enough to beat 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:37.360 the Roosters with that record at home to get through 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:39.920 to the prelim, right, But the fact that he's playing 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:42.720 tells me that he's close to one hundred percent. 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:47.920 Ken halfbacks go in with a bad shoulder and arm 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:51.840 injury and high enough but cower enough in the defense 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:54.040 line to basically not being supposed. 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:56.120 I don't know. I'll let you think about that the 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:57.000 course of the week. 0:16:57.600 --> 0:17:01.240 That's the nine terams who season he's done and dusted 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:07.160 and time's up. Let's debrief them, debrief they're quickly canber Raiders. 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:09.560 The question I'm going to ask you through this is 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:11.959 what went wrong? And I don't think for the canber Raiders, 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:13.720 I don't think that's the right term, what went wrong? 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:16.320 Because I thought that considering things that had a good season, 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:19.600 I suppose to Jamal Foggarty that lost the middle of 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:21.640 the year, that was that was a tough one. 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:22.040 It's not. 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:25.280 It's more around like how can they win more games? 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:25.560 Right? 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:27.800 Because they've been on the cusp for a lot. I 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:30.320 think they need to find a different way to win games. 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:32.680 If they're not got that gritty nature, they don't seem 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:35.520 to win. So I think their attack needes evolve. But 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:38.359 I'll tell you what, Yeah, Fogerty's was a miss, but 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:41.000 tarp and he was the best player. 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:45.040 By Yeah, he was very good. Young Strange had his moments, 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:45.920 good first. 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:48.520 Week weeks and was a good Yeah fine too. 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:52.280 So yeah, there's a lot to be a lot to 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:53.120 look forward to there. 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:55.679 I think going forward next year, I've got them in 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:58.320 between six and ten, probably around the same spot. A 0:17:58.320 --> 0:17:59.920 couple of extra wins will push them into the AK. 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:01.760 That's why they need to find different ways to win, 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:04.560 because if they lose a couple of those games by 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:08.320 two or four, they need some more fire powder to 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:09.080 score those points. 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:09.920 Dolphins. 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:12.879 Now, this is legitimate question what went wrong because in 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:15.440 the middle part of the season coupe, they are on fire. 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:17.520 They little like they're on course for top four. 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:20.679 The wheels just came off the last third of the season, 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:23.040 and I reckon. I reckon the bloke that probably typifies 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:27.000 that most is and his big fuseon Isaiah Catawa, but 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:30.000 like he was really at a gas plot. 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:33.239 I would say the area that that spine needs to 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:37.480 get better at is making the right decision in big moments. 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:41.159 There's a couple of times where if you had decided 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:44.000 to do something else, probably a better chance of winning 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:44.240 the game. 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:46.200 But his upside is pretty good. 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:50.199 Nick Remott a career best year, Hammer was good as 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:51.560 all his point of difference. 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:56.600 But I think if if their spine become a little. 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:58.960