WEBVTT - Origin III Preview and Round 17 Takeaways 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:05.920 Coops. Billie's gone for the Hammer over ros Are you're surprised. 0:00:06.040 --> 0:00:09.600 Yeah, I am, Like, on face value, I thought Rece 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:12.440 would be fullback and Hamber would stay on the wing. 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:15.280 And then you start thinking about, oh, why would have happened? 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:18.400 Like initially, like Bryce Walsh is the most dangerous player 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:23.040 in our competition. When he gets front football space, he 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:25.119 can beat any player. So I thought, like in a 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:27.960 big game, he could win it with one play, one run. 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:30.880 And then you think about it, Well, you think, well 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:34.360 Lomax was isolating Ponger. There was a couple of errors 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:36.080 from Ponger on the high ball. That's a tactic in 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:39.440 New South Wales. Who's say from the high probably Hammer 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:44.040 over Reese. And then you think about the Harves running 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:48.000 the ball. You think about did and Harry Grant and Munster. 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:51.440 Who would turn up on the inside and score a try? 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:56.240 HAMI would I think Hammer would just see something pre 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:58.120 empty and know that Months is going to step off 0:00:58.120 --> 0:00:59.959 his left foot maker line, breaking his back under the post. 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:02.840 He did it for his four tries on the weekend. 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:05.240 So there's a few things on. When you start going 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:07.560 below the surface, you oh yeah, yeah, I can see that. 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:11.080 But Look, I personally would have gone with Reese, but 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:13.560 I can see why Hammer would be the solution. 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:16.119 There's so much respect the way Billy goes about pick 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:19.039 any sides coops because he will make really tough calls 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:22.640 and unpopular, unpopular calls if they don't work, only. 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:25.119 Trusts his gun like that's a It's a huge thing 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:27.040 for a coach to do with all the noise that 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:30.160 is surrounding Origin and our game good and bad. Right, 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:33.680 but he must sit down and sive through all the 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.200 noise and really work through. Okay, what what the why 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:38.440 is the queens and oragor coach want to do? And 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:40.800 it worked in game two, Let's say if it works 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:41.560 for game three. 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:44.280 Well, the chers of coops. He doesn't necessarily have favorites. 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:47.240 He just picks the ball he believes or informed we 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:47.800 can do the job. 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:51.040 Because you could say that maybe he's had favoritism towards. 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:55.200 Right because everyone was going fan and what would you 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:59.280 have done? Look, I'm not I'm not surprised by it. 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:02.560 Why the reason I thought, excuse me, he'd go for 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.640 Roos was because, okay, if you're going to move Hammer 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:07.760 ound of Sander, who you're going to put there, which 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:10.440 brings us to the mount. When I talk about Shibasaki 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:13.480 and just world under him, it's just a perfect example 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:19.480 for young players to understand that. And actually balliac you know, 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:22.160 he talks about it in his documentary with balliaate that 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:25.440 something that balli Ak's dad told him growing up. And 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:29.160 he said, son, if you work hard, okay, and thing's 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:32.720 possible and you're going to get success. But he said 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:35.079 it might take time, but you work hard and it's 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:38.200 going to happen. And Shubar say, he's a perfect example 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:46.839 since twenty eighteen, Broncos, Knights, Cowboys, Japanese Rugby, South's back 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:49.920 to the Broncos. You know, that's all those clubs in 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:52.320 six or seven years. And having looked through the list, 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:55.520 he only played one or two, four or five games 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:58.520 here and there. He's really been spread over the place. 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:00.960 Great story. The other reason why I would say that 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:04.760 Shibasaki was on the list is if you look at 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.880 New South Wales in Game two, that second half they 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:11.440 were coming and every time Latrell or Stephen Crichton touched 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:14.360 the ball it looked like something was going to happen, right, 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:18.200 and I feel like Billy's gone. Well if this is 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:20.400 their plan to get the ball of the centers, which 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:23.639 it will be. I need a big body. Toya has 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:27.400 got Latrell and then you know, is it Valentine Holmes? 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:30.400 Is it the hammer? Well, Shubasaki is a big body. 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:33.440 He's going to be under pressure in an origin decider 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:37.280 in New South Wales. But he's a big body and 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:39.920 when Stephen Crichton comes at him, he's going to physically 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:41.640 have to get the job done. 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:44.640 One of the biggest storylines going in and I just 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:47.720 love this. And I'm talking about this from a neutual, 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:51.600 from a lover of the game, Josh Papale going that 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:53.680 is I think, I think. I think it's a master 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:56.480 stroke from me. We said this about Kirk Cable in 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:58.240 the second game, Take an old Dog for a hard 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:02.680 right decide away from home in Sydney, picked the big 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:03.760 boys in great form. 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.839 I suggest there'll be another change to the starting team 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:09.280 because of the influence of Papa. I like it, I 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:13.920 really do. I think him and Tina up front. I 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:16.159 would if I was Billy, I'd make a late change 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:19.320 and start Karragan. Reason Bean, you look at the starting 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:23.360 pack for middle rotation for New South Wales, it'll be 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:28.839 king Haus and Isaiao Haus is hard to handle. But Caragan, 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:33.680 Tino and Papa I think could physically out muscle King 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:35.640 when he runs a footing and Yo when they runs 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.520 a footing. So I would say that the presence of 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:41.640 Papa is going to ignite something in the Queensland forward 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.400 pack and I would run all out to start the 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:47.320 game Carrigan in the front row and go take him on. 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:47.960 That's what I do. 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:49.760 And if you look at the side the billy's picked 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:52.800 and you said about Shubasaki, those blokes are emblematic are 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:54.920 going to play a really tough physical game. 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:56.800 Yeah. And if if you're going to lay the line 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.440 with Payne Haas or Max King to shift the border 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:02.719 Latrell or Stephen Crichton, geez, you want to make that 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:04.440 as slow as you possibly can and it needs to 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:07.320 be backwards more than forward. So I just think that 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:10.520 Baba's a good move. Tino is going to be inspired 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:13.800 by playing alongside of him, and I just think you 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:17.320 start the game with Patrick Carrigan, I think could be 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:17.920 a good thing. 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:19.960 New South Wales there was talk the key on m 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:23.400 Coman for Stefano. Stefano's kept his Jersey and I like that. 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:26.640 I like that. I like the loyalty there. Corras eighteenth 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:29.599 man Berdo thank god not our eighth man again almost 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:33.000 got one hundred games, so it's better. It's good for 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:33.480 the dogs. 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:36.320 What do you think about New South Wales team and 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:37.000 how they play? 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:41.080 Yeah, I like the team. I think there's certain aspects 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:44.440 of our game that need tied in up. Of course 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:47.920 the discipline. The discipline is a clear one. I think 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:52.040 that coops we're going to get. We're going to get 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:53.680 a lot of early ball. We just spoke about this 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:55.839 to Crichton and Trail. We didn't get it there quick enough. 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:57.960 And thinking about it is when you get blokes like 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:00.760 and we saw it the other night with mainly Bewe Travoyvich, 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:05.159 when you've got blow Clott Latrell and Stephen Crichton, you 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:08.359 don't have to run really special shapes to create a 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:11.400 numerical advantage with those plagues. Sometimes you just got to 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:13.400 get it to him quick, you know, give them that 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:14.320 one on one opportunity. 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:16.000 I think this is where the game is one lost. 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:19.560 If Stephen Crichton, Latrell, Mitchell, you have an impact with 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:22.960 say twenty thirty touches. They'll set something up and score 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:25.280 tries off the back of it. But if Queensland can 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:29.520 shut them down, I threw Subasaki entire or the middle 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:33.040 forgers stopping the momentum. I think that's where it's one last. 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:36.760 Crichton and latrell play well, Queensland lose. If they don't 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:37.640 Queensland win. 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:43.400 It's interesting with you know, just mindset with with Nathan 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:46.040 Nathan Cleary, in the fact that I love the way 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:48.000 he players really gun barrel straight, gets up all the 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:49.719 way to the line. I'd like to see him just 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:53.880 very a little bit because I actually think my feeling 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.120 will be the billy will say to the Senate of 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:59.320 Shibasaki and toyur get up quick, rush, you know a 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:01.799 little bit. Sometimes pre empt outside in. If he starts 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:04.200 advancing the ball of the line, don't sit back, get 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:04.880 up in their face. 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:08.119 You think, what was that Panish spine? And like Lui 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:10.480 back in they played a little oaten fish. 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:14.679 I think sometimes I just thought I saw it, particularly 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:19.040 Robert Toyer, sometimes pre empty outside in, and I think 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:22.320 given that you don't sometimes you don't need to take 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:23.960 the ball all away in the line. I think Nathan 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:26.600 should vary how far he comes in. Sometimes you go 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:28.280 one step and then just get rid of it. It 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:30.320 might catch him in no man's land. So just a 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:31.000 bit of variation. 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:34.520 And I think the key defensively for Queensland for New 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:36.400 South Wales would be they've just got to stop the 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:38.920 spine running the ball. Stop months to running like he 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:42.080 had fifteen carries or something. You just can't let him 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:42.440 do that. 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.880 And Coops in Sydney in the conditions says, you know 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:48.040 the course stadium at this time of the year, night 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:50.720 football is a wet weather game almost and that suits 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:51.880 run first past second. 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:54.400 And if they do, if they put all their eggs 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.880 on trying to stop monster, which they will, someone like 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:00.000 Harry Grant needs to take advantage of them. He would. 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.080 He was dangerous early on, but it needs to be 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:03.240 dangerous for eighty minutes. 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:07.840 Okay, back to club Land, the round just that we've 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:11.240 just witnessed. I think probably it's all about defensive integrity. 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:13.640 You see where two thirds of the way through the 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:16.000 years you've got the finals in sight and the best 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:19.320 team best teams are starting to get their defensive heads 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:23.280 on that that game Thursday night Penrith versus it's just 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:28.040 evidence you don't need high scoring, high scoring games, having 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:31.520 exciting contests. It was fantastic some of the desperation. 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:35.200 You can change any rule to speed up the play 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:39.600 the ball or make more attacking opportunities, but when you've 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:43.760 got two teams redlining defensively and the intensity which they 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:47.600 played with cracking contests like ball on the deck, it 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:49.640 was me versus you, who's going to get it first. 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:52.080 Some of the efforts they kind of trace you one. 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:55.760 I'll have a look at a couple them here, Like honestly, 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:58.480 you know, the effort and the desperation, like he's scoring 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:02.800 fur money their plays and just fantastic effort. And that 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:04.480 was a tailer tape the whole night. You know, he 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:08.360 had quality attack against just remarkable defense. 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:11.760 It's almost like a defense NFL, you know how, like 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:14.120 there's yardage in NFL, and if you make that yardage, 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:16.520 it gets to go again. Connor Tracy knew the goal 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:19.000 line was right. There is just tracking across and if 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:22.200 you didn't hit him with everything, then there's momentum probably 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:25.000 comes over every inch counts. 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:29.680 He come the Panthers first half of the season mentally, 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.240 flat can understand, you know, they're looking to win five 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:34.880 competitions in a row. You're waiting for the tap to 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:37.200 be turned on. What it's turned on, and you see 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:43.760 you can measure focus, desire through defense, and it's obvious 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:45.880 they win eight six their back. 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:49.880 Raiders, Dogs Storm getting a lot of raps for what 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.959 they're doing, and rightly so. But this team was angered 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:55.560 at the bottom of ladder, was one one of their 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:57.840 first five or six or something like that, and they've 0:09:57.880 --> 0:09:59.640 turned it around and taken on the Dogs who have 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:01.440 been at the top of the ladder for the majority 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:04.920 of the season. The signs of how they played that 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:09.760 game was Penrith of old Yeah, good completion rate, great defense, 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.079 kicking game and when there was a moment to be won, 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:15.800 they won it. The problem with We've said this before, 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:19.560 the problem with Penrith had their gun players like chewed 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:21.360 up everything they got to get their team back to 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:23.880 where they are. I think it's delicate how Iven Cleary 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:26.320 handles their origin players at the back end of the year. 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:28.640 But they need to be rested and they need to 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:31.000 be fined because it doesn't matter where they finished. For me, 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:36.400 they could finish five to weight. They would be dangerous. 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:38.200 To play producer Scott to said them a year, five 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:41.839 weeks ago, they'll last. So this is the thing with 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:43.840 the competition. Moment you have a good month for football, 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:44.960 you just yeah. 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:48.440 A lot of teams could put three or four wins together. 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:51.200 But the way that Penrith have put three or four 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:55.679 teams to get wins together, that's that's they're dangerous. They 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:57.559 can they can beat those top four teams. 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:00.320 And we're going to talk about Casey McLean is second. 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:02.640 But this is the other thing about the Panthers. Suddenly 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:07.520 Blaze start look like a Penrith player. Suddenly McLain is 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:10.520 suddenly like he's had you've just seen in the last 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:13.200 few weeks. He's come of age as a player. That 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:14.640 game the other night, we'll talk about it. 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:18.520 I will say that I've been that situation where you're 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:20.960 struggling for your best footy. You know you should be 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:23.440 better than what you are get through an Origin series 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:26.400 and you're still grinding a way to work hard. They 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:29.120 need to be careful that they don't burn the field 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:31.800 because you get the finals and you think I've got 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:33.760 to go again here because every other team lifts a 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:38.480 level so they get there. They are dangerous but there's 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:40.920 a delicate thing in terms of ivan how he handles 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:44.800 those five origin players around. Can they play past week two? 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:47.959 A different style of defense physicality? Now last week with 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:50.440 Tom going into the center's I wrote an article and 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:52.640 I said the move to center would be good for 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:56.480 Tom because he won't have as much high speed impact. Well, 0:11:57.559 --> 0:11:59.760 did not look like a dickhead early on. 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:01.760 You don't need to write an art if it will 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:05.760 look like a look at that and I'll watch. 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:09.559 Yeah, good one mate, Now now high speed impact. Honestly, 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:10.720 he's never been hit so hard. 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:13.440 They were talking about him getting early balls and freedom 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:17.240 and roaming around. That's good contact. 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:19.960 And then I tear who's up on his toes at 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:23.880 the moment Tony stags laid in the game and the 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:26.640 Warriors we just don't come for the Broncos. And just 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.680 he did a few things. This one here, that's just 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:30.559 that's a great shot. 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.600 And I like it is Harrigan stand over the top 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:36.400 and it's a bit showmanship, but I like the intensity, 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:39.800 which he doesn't like. It's me versus you. I'm going 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:41.880 to win this contest and he hits him with everything 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.640 he has. It's probably not my playbook to stand out 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:46.160 of the top of someone. But I don't mind it. 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:48.640 Like he's he's doing everything he can for his team, 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.120 and he's pumped up like he is. He is a 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:52.640 machine when he's playing, well. 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:55.560 Mate, well in the coops and that standing over the 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:57.400 top of it, that's a lot of that is the 0:12:57.400 --> 0:13:00.800 Broncos identity, the way Rice sort of is on film, 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:03.920 that's the Broncos. When the Broncos winning comps. And I've 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:06.640 said this to people before, when you went to play 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.360 Brisbane in the nineties or you know, they came, they 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:13.360 came to town, they just they it just gave you 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:16.000 the shit so much because not only do all the 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:18.120 players think they were better than you, even the blokes 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:20.680 are carrying the water. What is crucial for the Broncos 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:23.439 or Egan cooeps is how they stabilized their how they 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:26.480 stabilize their game and stabilized the contests when they're not 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:30.440 enjoying superiority. When they haven't superiority, man, they just can 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:33.439 just roll through teams and rattle up points. But when 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:36.559 the other side gets a bit of momentum and the 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:41.520 tables are turned, I reckon. Sometimes scoreboard pressure in particular 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.920 brings out the worst in the Broncos. It was a 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:47.160 positive in the weekend. That second half was a real 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:49.720 test to nerve because suddenly the Warriors are coming for 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:51.960 them and I'm watching, going, okay, how they can handle this? 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:53.079 But they got through it. 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:56.679 Now the Broncos are a dangerous team this year. From 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:59.200 now on, I think they'll finish fourth. I think they'll 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:02.200 finish the top four. The reason why I say that, 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:05.160 I think they're slow burn because they've always had this 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:08.560 high octane score off any play we can, you know, 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.840 score fifty points, and Malcolm McGuire is trying to bring 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:15.120 this consistency of toughness and long game mentality to it. 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:18.400 Adam Reynolds is exposed to it. But if they just 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:20.800 meet in the middle and have that game style where 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:23.120 they can play for long minutes and defend well, then 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:25.760 also have the firepower to come into school points, that 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:28.880 is recipe for success right there. I want to see 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:30.640 where Ben Hunt comes back. I think he's going to 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:32.840 come back in the nine Jersey, probably start off fourteen 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:36.080 and then move in. But even that adds more sparkan 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:39.360 dimension to it, because you know he can control the 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:41.960 contest from nine as in no we're not shifting there. 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:43.840 We're going to play short or we're going to kick early. 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:46.240 And him and Adam Reynolds on the field together at 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:48.520 the same time. I think is a good thing for 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:51.800 the Broncos because it helps with decision making. But it's 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:55.600 just Adam. There's you know, Catony Stags, Ares Rees Walsh 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:58.520 going off as Ramm's going off too, and he struggles 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:00.280 to reel them back in. But Ben h on the 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:02.680 field at the same time. I think there's a bit 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:05.200 more control of what Michael McGuire wants in that long 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:06.040 game mentality. 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:10.360 Heartbreaking for the Wires. Luke Metcalfe and heart you know, 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:14.400 he came on the Sunday Show a few weeks back. 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:18.120 Coops mate, what a fantastic un bloke. You love it. 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:21.640 He's such a footy head. He just he loved it. 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:23.960 All he wanted to talk about was was you know, 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:27.560 the football and different terms and his players and what 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.400 they're doing. And see him do the acl' that's a 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:33.680 heartbreaker for him and also the Warriors Chanelle and tomorrow 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:39.720 they'll take the reins without loot. They certainly they're going 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:41.480 to miss a bit of thrust, running, thrust through the 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:44.360 middle of the field. Huge responsibility on Wade Egan now 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:46.760 massive responsibility. 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:49.680 I don't really want to say this, but I think 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.640 the Warriors, Yeah, it suffers the season. Like I think 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:55.680 he came in after back of Shawn Johnson, bought a 0:15:55.720 --> 0:16:01.000 new sort of aura, excitement and footy like skills, and 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:03.760 the Warriors really loved it, like they thrived on it. 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:07.040 And yes they've got some depth there to cover, but 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:09.800 I feel like this is going to hurt them towards 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:11.880 they'll let up finishing the eighth, but I don't think 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:14.200 they finished in the top four. They've got a good 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:17.160 culture there. But you take Barnett also out of that 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:22.000 and Metcal two of their key players. We said this 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:24.640 about the Warriors season. They can't have too many injuries. 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:27.880 They've got to resist the temptation and try to go 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:29.880 outside the box to solve this. They're just going to 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:33.280 play simple football. Simple football. You build the game, in 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:35.840 my opinion, around Wade, and you play a really strong 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:39.000 power game. Less Chanelle and Tamari, you know, find their 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:42.840 football off that. But Wade is the man, you know, 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:46.640 just center field power. You know, he's very good at variation. 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:51.400 I'd like to I'd really like to see them have 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:53.320 a lot more life still in their season. I'd love 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:54.920 to see him really be able to go on with 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:56.440 this challenge. 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:58.040 Do you think they do coops? 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:00.880 I think they will play above expect I don't see 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:04.440 him has gone. Yeah, I've just got I just see 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:07.840 there's something, there's something within this playing group. I think 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:19.200 they'll find a way to continue h a trainspot of 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:20.960 time keeping a little bit of something about scrums. 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:26.000 Yeah, so there's delay of scrums, right, there's teams intentionally 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:30.440 slowing down attacking possession to the opposition just because they can, 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:33.000 and then they'll give away a penalty or something like that. 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:36.359 So like if there's a line break in the game 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:39.920 and you slow it down deliberately, people go to the sinbin. Here, 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:45.120 the dragons not moving para matter here, the cowboys, back 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:47.080 and forth, back and forth, time and delay. 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:49.040 That's intentional, that's intentional. 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:51.760 Just put in a rule right now that if you 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:55.439 delay the game intentionally, you get captain goes to sin 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:59.040 Because if someone makes a line break and stops some 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:01.520 tent out from the trial and lays down intentionally to 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:04.000 slow down to play the ball in its scoring position, Yeah, 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:05.520 that's professional foul in the. 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:08.320 Bin and it keeps. People say, oh, send the captain off, 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:10.600 that's harsh. Well, guess what, just don't do it. Don't 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:12.199 do it as simple as that, because we're making all 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:15.000 these rule changes to improve the game and keeps this 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:17.200 This is this is the cat and mouse game that 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:20.600 always goes on. Coaches are looking for the loophole, right 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:23.040 and we always have to change the rule to cover 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:25.399 the loopholes and keep the speed of the game going, 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:28.040 make it as good as spect as possible. But even 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:31.200 those little real changes, coaches will look and go, Okay, 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:34.560 where's where's the opportunity for us to exploit the rule? 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:38.360 But it's attacking scrum, it's six v six, it's one 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:41.320 of the best opportunities to attack. And if a defending 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:44.280 team is going to slow down the game intentionally, just 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:44.720 send one. 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:48.520 Of the binyah love with you. I'm with it, mark 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:53.600 it down, mark the minutes now. Individual performance is Casey McClain. 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:57.680 Every player of no young player has has a game 0:18:57.720 --> 0:18:59.320 that I think is a coming of age game. And 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:01.959 I thought his was the other night, up against Stephen Crichton, 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:05.040 who's the best, one of the best defensive centers of 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:09.439 all time and in brilliant form would have probably been 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:13.240 one of Casey's heroes. I'd imagine all that not a 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:13.720 long way. 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:18.040 He's been coming through the system, idolizing and. 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:20.800 At full time. The other night you see Nathan go 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:23.600 up and he just grabs Casey mcclaim and that's that's 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:25.560 a slight mate. You've come of age. 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:30.080 So the first running that Stephen Crichton and McLean had 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:31.920 was a sure kick and he knocked it out and 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:33.480 they had a little bit of a toss. Yeah, And 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:35.199 then when the game was on the line and they 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:37.960