Speaker 1: Coops. Billie's gone for the Hammer over ros Are you're surprised.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I am, Like, on face value, I thought Rece
Speaker 2: would be fullback and Hamber would stay on the wing.
Speaker 2: And then you start thinking about, oh, why would have happened?
Speaker 2: Like initially, like Bryce Walsh is the most dangerous player
Speaker 2: in our competition. When he gets front football space, he
Speaker 2: can beat any player. So I thought, like in a
Speaker 2: big game, he could win it with one play, one run.
Speaker 2: And then you think about it, Well, you think, well
Speaker 2: Lomax was isolating Ponger. There was a couple of errors
Speaker 2: from Ponger on the high ball. That's a tactic in
Speaker 2: New South Wales. Who's say from the high probably Hammer
Speaker 2: over Reese. And then you think about the Harves running
Speaker 2: the ball. You think about did and Harry Grant and Munster.
Speaker 2: Who would turn up on the inside and score a try?
Speaker 2: HAMI would I think Hammer would just see something pre
Speaker 2: empty and know that Months is going to step off
Speaker 2: his left foot maker line, breaking his back under the post.
Speaker 2: He did it for his four tries on the weekend.
Speaker 2: So there's a few things on. When you start going
Speaker 2: below the surface, you oh yeah, yeah, I can see that.
Speaker 2: But Look, I personally would have gone with Reese, but
Speaker 2: I can see why Hammer would be the solution.
Speaker 1: There's so much respect the way Billy goes about pick
Speaker 1: any sides coops because he will make really tough calls
Speaker 1: and unpopular, unpopular calls if they don't work, only.
Speaker 2: Trusts his gun like that's a It's a huge thing
Speaker 2: for a coach to do with all the noise that
Speaker 2: is surrounding Origin and our game good and bad. Right,
Speaker 2: but he must sit down and sive through all the
Speaker 2: noise and really work through. Okay, what what the why
Speaker 2: is the queens and oragor coach want to do? And
Speaker 2: it worked in game two, Let's say if it works
Speaker 2: for game three.
Speaker 1: Well, the chers of coops. He doesn't necessarily have favorites.
Speaker 1: He just picks the ball he believes or informed we
Speaker 1: can do the job.
Speaker 2: Because you could say that maybe he's had favoritism towards.
Speaker 1: Right because everyone was going fan and what would you
Speaker 1: have done? Look, I'm not I'm not surprised by it.
Speaker 1: Why the reason I thought, excuse me, he'd go for
Speaker 1: Roos was because, okay, if you're going to move Hammer
Speaker 1: ound of Sander, who you're going to put there, which
Speaker 1: brings us to the mount. When I talk about Shibasaki
Speaker 1: and just world under him, it's just a perfect example
Speaker 1: for young players to understand that. And actually balliac you know,
Speaker 1: he talks about it in his documentary with balliaate that
Speaker 1: something that balli Ak's dad told him growing up. And
Speaker 1: he said, son, if you work hard, okay, and thing's
Speaker 1: possible and you're going to get success. But he said
Speaker 1: it might take time, but you work hard and it's
Speaker 1: going to happen. And Shubar say, he's a perfect example
Speaker 1: since twenty eighteen, Broncos, Knights, Cowboys, Japanese Rugby, South's back
Speaker 1: to the Broncos. You know, that's all those clubs in
Speaker 1: six or seven years. And having looked through the list,
Speaker 1: he only played one or two, four or five games
Speaker 1: here and there. He's really been spread over the place.
Speaker 2: Great story. The other reason why I would say that
Speaker 2: Shibasaki was on the list is if you look at
Speaker 2: New South Wales in Game two, that second half they
Speaker 2: were coming and every time Latrell or Stephen Crichton touched
Speaker 2: the ball it looked like something was going to happen, right,
Speaker 2: and I feel like Billy's gone. Well if this is
Speaker 2: their plan to get the ball of the centers, which
Speaker 2: it will be. I need a big body. Toya has
Speaker 2: got Latrell and then you know, is it Valentine Holmes?
Speaker 2: Is it the hammer? Well, Shubasaki is a big body.
Speaker 2: He's going to be under pressure in an origin decider
Speaker 2: in New South Wales. But he's a big body and
Speaker 2: when Stephen Crichton comes at him, he's going to physically
Speaker 2: have to get the job done.
Speaker 1: One of the biggest storylines going in and I just
Speaker 1: love this. And I'm talking about this from a neutual,
Speaker 1: from a lover of the game, Josh Papale going that
Speaker 1: is I think, I think. I think it's a master
Speaker 1: stroke from me. We said this about Kirk Cable in
Speaker 1: the second game, Take an old Dog for a hard
Speaker 1: right decide away from home in Sydney, picked the big
Speaker 1: boys in great form.
Speaker 2: I suggest there'll be another change to the starting team
Speaker 2: because of the influence of Papa. I like it, I
Speaker 2: really do. I think him and Tina up front. I
Speaker 2: would if I was Billy, I'd make a late change
Speaker 2: and start Karragan. Reason Bean, you look at the starting
Speaker 2: pack for middle rotation for New South Wales, it'll be
Speaker 2: king Haus and Isaiao Haus is hard to handle. But Caragan,
Speaker 2: Tino and Papa I think could physically out muscle King
Speaker 2: when he runs a footing and Yo when they runs
Speaker 2: a footing. So I would say that the presence of
Speaker 2: Papa is going to ignite something in the Queensland forward
Speaker 2: pack and I would run all out to start the
Speaker 2: game Carrigan in the front row and go take him on.
Speaker 2: That's what I do.
Speaker 1: And if you look at the side the billy's picked
Speaker 1: and you said about Shubasaki, those blokes are emblematic are
Speaker 1: going to play a really tough physical game.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And if if you're going to lay the line
Speaker 2: with Payne Haas or Max King to shift the border
Speaker 2: Latrell or Stephen Crichton, geez, you want to make that
Speaker 2: as slow as you possibly can and it needs to
Speaker 2: be backwards more than forward. So I just think that
Speaker 2: Baba's a good move. Tino is going to be inspired
Speaker 2: by playing alongside of him, and I just think you
Speaker 2: start the game with Patrick Carrigan, I think could be
Speaker 2: a good thing.
Speaker 1: New South Wales there was talk the key on m
Speaker 1: Coman for Stefano. Stefano's kept his Jersey and I like that.
Speaker 1: I like that. I like the loyalty there. Corras eighteenth
Speaker 1: man Berdo thank god not our eighth man again almost
Speaker 1: got one hundred games, so it's better. It's good for
Speaker 1: the dogs.
Speaker 2: What do you think about New South Wales team and
Speaker 2: how they play?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like the team. I think there's certain aspects
Speaker 1: of our game that need tied in up. Of course
Speaker 1: the discipline. The discipline is a clear one. I think
Speaker 1: that coops we're going to get. We're going to get
Speaker 1: a lot of early ball. We just spoke about this
Speaker 1: to Crichton and Trail. We didn't get it there quick enough.
Speaker 1: And thinking about it is when you get blokes like
Speaker 1: and we saw it the other night with mainly Bewe Travoyvich,
Speaker 1: when you've got blow Clott Latrell and Stephen Crichton, you
Speaker 1: don't have to run really special shapes to create a
Speaker 1: numerical advantage with those plagues. Sometimes you just got to
Speaker 1: get it to him quick, you know, give them that
Speaker 1: one on one opportunity.
Speaker 2: I think this is where the game is one lost.
Speaker 2: If Stephen Crichton, Latrell, Mitchell, you have an impact with
Speaker 2: say twenty thirty touches. They'll set something up and score
Speaker 2: tries off the back of it. But if Queensland can
Speaker 2: shut them down, I threw Subasaki entire or the middle
Speaker 2: forgers stopping the momentum. I think that's where it's one last.
Speaker 2: Crichton and latrell play well, Queensland lose. If they don't
Speaker 2: Queensland win.
Speaker 1: It's interesting with you know, just mindset with with Nathan
Speaker 1: Nathan Cleary, in the fact that I love the way
Speaker 1: he players really gun barrel straight, gets up all the
Speaker 1: way to the line. I'd like to see him just
Speaker 1: very a little bit because I actually think my feeling
Speaker 1: will be the billy will say to the Senate of
Speaker 1: Shibasaki and toyur get up quick, rush, you know a
Speaker 1: little bit. Sometimes pre empt outside in. If he starts
Speaker 1: advancing the ball of the line, don't sit back, get
Speaker 1: up in their face.
Speaker 2: You think, what was that Panish spine? And like Lui
Speaker 2: back in they played a little oaten fish.
Speaker 1: I think sometimes I just thought I saw it, particularly
Speaker 1: Robert Toyer, sometimes pre empty outside in, and I think
Speaker 1: given that you don't sometimes you don't need to take
Speaker 1: the ball all away in the line. I think Nathan
Speaker 1: should vary how far he comes in. Sometimes you go
Speaker 1: one step and then just get rid of it. It
Speaker 1: might catch him in no man's land. So just a
Speaker 1: bit of variation.
Speaker 2: And I think the key defensively for Queensland for New
Speaker 2: South Wales would be they've just got to stop the
Speaker 2: spine running the ball. Stop months to running like he
Speaker 2: had fifteen carries or something. You just can't let him
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 1: And Coops in Sydney in the conditions says, you know
Speaker 1: the course stadium at this time of the year, night
Speaker 1: football is a wet weather game almost and that suits
Speaker 1: run first past second.
Speaker 2: And if they do, if they put all their eggs
Speaker 2: on trying to stop monster, which they will, someone like
Speaker 2: Harry Grant needs to take advantage of them. He would.
Speaker 2: He was dangerous early on, but it needs to be
Speaker 2: dangerous for eighty minutes.
Speaker 1: Okay, back to club Land, the round just that we've
Speaker 1: just witnessed. I think probably it's all about defensive integrity.
Speaker 1: You see where two thirds of the way through the
Speaker 1: years you've got the finals in sight and the best
Speaker 1: team best teams are starting to get their defensive heads
Speaker 1: on that that game Thursday night Penrith versus it's just
Speaker 1: evidence you don't need high scoring, high scoring games, having
Speaker 1: exciting contests. It was fantastic some of the desperation.
Speaker 2: You can change any rule to speed up the play
Speaker 2: the ball or make more attacking opportunities, but when you've
Speaker 2: got two teams redlining defensively and the intensity which they
Speaker 2: played with cracking contests like ball on the deck, it
Speaker 2: was me versus you, who's going to get it first.
Speaker 1: Some of the efforts they kind of trace you one.
Speaker 1: I'll have a look at a couple them here, Like honestly,
Speaker 1: you know, the effort and the desperation, like he's scoring
Speaker 1: fur money their plays and just fantastic effort. And that
Speaker 1: was a tailer tape the whole night. You know, he
Speaker 1: had quality attack against just remarkable defense.
Speaker 2: It's almost like a defense NFL, you know how, like
Speaker 2: there's yardage in NFL, and if you make that yardage,
Speaker 2: it gets to go again. Connor Tracy knew the goal
Speaker 2: line was right. There is just tracking across and if
Speaker 2: you didn't hit him with everything, then there's momentum probably
Speaker 2: comes over every inch counts.
Speaker 1: He come the Panthers first half of the season mentally,
Speaker 1: flat can understand, you know, they're looking to win five
Speaker 1: competitions in a row. You're waiting for the tap to
Speaker 1: be turned on. What it's turned on, and you see
Speaker 1: you can measure focus, desire through defense, and it's obvious
Speaker 1: they win eight six their back.
Speaker 2: Raiders, Dogs Storm getting a lot of raps for what
Speaker 2: they're doing, and rightly so. But this team was angered
Speaker 2: at the bottom of ladder, was one one of their
Speaker 2: first five or six or something like that, and they've
Speaker 2: turned it around and taken on the Dogs who have
Speaker 2: been at the top of the ladder for the majority
Speaker 2: of the season. The signs of how they played that
Speaker 2: game was Penrith of old Yeah, good completion rate, great defense,
Speaker 2: kicking game and when there was a moment to be won,
Speaker 2: they won it. The problem with We've said this before,
Speaker 2: the problem with Penrith had their gun players like chewed
Speaker 2: up everything they got to get their team back to
Speaker 2: where they are. I think it's delicate how Iven Cleary
Speaker 2: handles their origin players at the back end of the year.
Speaker 2: But they need to be rested and they need to
Speaker 2: be fined because it doesn't matter where they finished. For me,
Speaker 2: they could finish five to weight. They would be dangerous.
Speaker 1: To play producer Scott to said them a year, five
Speaker 1: weeks ago, they'll last. So this is the thing with
Speaker 1: the competition. Moment you have a good month for football,
Speaker 1: you just yeah.
Speaker 2: A lot of teams could put three or four wins together.
Speaker 2: But the way that Penrith have put three or four
Speaker 2: teams to get wins together, that's that's they're dangerous. They
Speaker 2: can they can beat those top four teams.
Speaker 1: And we're going to talk about Casey McLean is second.
Speaker 1: But this is the other thing about the Panthers. Suddenly
Speaker 1: Blaze start look like a Penrith player. Suddenly McLain is
Speaker 1: suddenly like he's had you've just seen in the last
Speaker 1: few weeks. He's come of age as a player. That
Speaker 1: game the other night, we'll talk about it.
Speaker 2: I will say that I've been that situation where you're
Speaker 2: struggling for your best footy. You know you should be
Speaker 2: better than what you are get through an Origin series
Speaker 2: and you're still grinding a way to work hard. They
Speaker 2: need to be careful that they don't burn the field
Speaker 2: because you get the finals and you think I've got
Speaker 2: to go again here because every other team lifts a
Speaker 2: level so they get there. They are dangerous but there's
Speaker 2: a delicate thing in terms of ivan how he handles
Speaker 2: those five origin players around. Can they play past week two?
Speaker 1: A different style of defense physicality? Now last week with
Speaker 1: Tom going into the center's I wrote an article and
Speaker 1: I said the move to center would be good for
Speaker 1: Tom because he won't have as much high speed impact. Well,
Speaker 1: did not look like a dickhead early on.
Speaker 2: You don't need to write an art if it will
Speaker 2: look like a look at that and I'll watch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good one mate, Now now high speed impact. Honestly,
Speaker 1: he's never been hit so hard.
Speaker 2: They were talking about him getting early balls and freedom
Speaker 2: and roaming around. That's good contact.
Speaker 1: And then I tear who's up on his toes at
Speaker 1: the moment Tony stags laid in the game and the
Speaker 1: Warriors we just don't come for the Broncos. And just
Speaker 1: he did a few things. This one here, that's just
Speaker 1: that's a great shot.
Speaker 2: And I like it is Harrigan stand over the top
Speaker 2: and it's a bit showmanship, but I like the intensity,
Speaker 2: which he doesn't like. It's me versus you. I'm going
Speaker 2: to win this contest and he hits him with everything
Speaker 2: he has. It's probably not my playbook to stand out
Speaker 2: of the top of someone. But I don't mind it.
Speaker 2: Like he's he's doing everything he can for his team,
Speaker 2: and he's pumped up like he is. He is a
Speaker 2: machine when he's playing, well.
Speaker 1: Mate, well in the coops and that standing over the
Speaker 1: top of it, that's a lot of that is the
Speaker 1: Broncos identity, the way Rice sort of is on film,
Speaker 1: that's the Broncos. When the Broncos winning comps. And I've
Speaker 1: said this to people before, when you went to play
Speaker 1: Brisbane in the nineties or you know, they came, they
Speaker 1: came to town, they just they it just gave you
Speaker 1: the shit so much because not only do all the
Speaker 1: players think they were better than you, even the blokes
Speaker 1: are carrying the water. What is crucial for the Broncos
Speaker 1: or Egan cooeps is how they stabilized their how they
Speaker 1: stabilize their game and stabilized the contests when they're not
Speaker 1: enjoying superiority. When they haven't superiority, man, they just can
Speaker 1: just roll through teams and rattle up points. But when
Speaker 1: the other side gets a bit of momentum and the
Speaker 1: tables are turned, I reckon. Sometimes scoreboard pressure in particular
Speaker 1: brings out the worst in the Broncos. It was a
Speaker 1: positive in the weekend. That second half was a real
Speaker 1: test to nerve because suddenly the Warriors are coming for
Speaker 1: them and I'm watching, going, okay, how they can handle this?
Speaker 1: But they got through it.
Speaker 2: Now the Broncos are a dangerous team this year. From
Speaker 2: now on, I think they'll finish fourth. I think they'll
Speaker 2: finish the top four. The reason why I say that,
Speaker 2: I think they're slow burn because they've always had this
Speaker 2: high octane score off any play we can, you know,
Speaker 2: score fifty points, and Malcolm McGuire is trying to bring
Speaker 2: this consistency of toughness and long game mentality to it.
Speaker 2: Adam Reynolds is exposed to it. But if they just
Speaker 2: meet in the middle and have that game style where
Speaker 2: they can play for long minutes and defend well, then
Speaker 2: also have the firepower to come into school points, that
Speaker 2: is recipe for success right there. I want to see
Speaker 2: where Ben Hunt comes back. I think he's going to
Speaker 2: come back in the nine Jersey, probably start off fourteen
Speaker 2: and then move in. But even that adds more sparkan
Speaker 2: dimension to it, because you know he can control the
Speaker 2: contest from nine as in no we're not shifting there.
Speaker 2: We're going to play short or we're going to kick early.
Speaker 2: And him and Adam Reynolds on the field together at
Speaker 2: the same time. I think is a good thing for
Speaker 2: the Broncos because it helps with decision making. But it's
Speaker 2: just Adam. There's you know, Catony Stags, Ares Rees Walsh
Speaker 2: going off as Ramm's going off too, and he struggles
Speaker 2: to reel them back in. But Ben h on the
Speaker 2: field at the same time. I think there's a bit
Speaker 2: more control of what Michael McGuire wants in that long
Speaker 2: game mentality.
Speaker 1: Heartbreaking for the Wires. Luke Metcalfe and heart you know,
Speaker 1: he came on the Sunday Show a few weeks back.
Speaker 1: Coops mate, what a fantastic un bloke. You love it.
Speaker 1: He's such a footy head. He just he loved it.
Speaker 1: All he wanted to talk about was was you know,
Speaker 1: the football and different terms and his players and what
Speaker 1: they're doing. And see him do the acl' that's a
Speaker 1: heartbreaker for him and also the Warriors Chanelle and tomorrow
Speaker 1: they'll take the reins without loot. They certainly they're going
Speaker 1: to miss a bit of thrust, running, thrust through the
Speaker 1: middle of the field. Huge responsibility on Wade Egan now
Speaker 1: massive responsibility.
Speaker 2: I don't really want to say this, but I think
Speaker 2: the Warriors, Yeah, it suffers the season. Like I think
Speaker 2: he came in after back of Shawn Johnson, bought a
Speaker 2: new sort of aura, excitement and footy like skills, and
Speaker 2: the Warriors really loved it, like they thrived on it.
Speaker 2: And yes they've got some depth there to cover, but
Speaker 2: I feel like this is going to hurt them towards
Speaker 2: they'll let up finishing the eighth, but I don't think
Speaker 2: they finished in the top four. They've got a good
Speaker 2: culture there. But you take Barnett also out of that
Speaker 2: and Metcal two of their key players. We said this
Speaker 2: about the Warriors season. They can't have too many injuries.
Speaker 1: They've got to resist the temptation and try to go
Speaker 1: outside the box to solve this. They're just going to
Speaker 1: play simple football. Simple football. You build the game, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, around Wade, and you play a really strong
Speaker 1: power game. Less Chanelle and Tamari, you know, find their
Speaker 1: football off that. But Wade is the man, you know,
Speaker 1: just center field power. You know, he's very good at variation.
Speaker 1: I'd like to I'd really like to see them have
Speaker 1: a lot more life still in their season. I'd love
Speaker 1: to see him really be able to go on with
Speaker 1: this challenge.
Speaker 2: Do you think they do coops?
Speaker 1: I think they will play above expect I don't see
Speaker 1: him has gone. Yeah, I've just got I just see
Speaker 1: there's something, there's something within this playing group. I think
Speaker 1: they'll find a way to continue h a trainspot of
Speaker 1: time keeping a little bit of something about scrums.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so there's delay of scrums, right, there's teams intentionally
Speaker 2: slowing down attacking possession to the opposition just because they can,
Speaker 2: and then they'll give away a penalty or something like that.
Speaker 2: So like if there's a line break in the game
Speaker 2: and you slow it down deliberately, people go to the sinbin. Here,
Speaker 2: the dragons not moving para matter here, the cowboys, back
Speaker 2: and forth, back and forth, time and delay.
Speaker 1: That's intentional, that's intentional.
Speaker 2: Just put in a rule right now that if you
Speaker 2: delay the game intentionally, you get captain goes to sin
Speaker 2: Because if someone makes a line break and stops some
Speaker 2: tent out from the trial and lays down intentionally to
Speaker 2: slow down to play the ball in its scoring position, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's professional foul in the.
Speaker 1: Bin and it keeps. People say, oh, send the captain off,
Speaker 1: that's harsh. Well, guess what, just don't do it. Don't
Speaker 1: do it as simple as that, because we're making all
Speaker 1: these rule changes to improve the game and keeps this
Speaker 1: This is this is the cat and mouse game that
Speaker 1: always goes on. Coaches are looking for the loophole, right
Speaker 1: and we always have to change the rule to cover
Speaker 1: the loopholes and keep the speed of the game going,
Speaker 1: make it as good as spect as possible. But even
Speaker 1: those little real changes, coaches will look and go, Okay,
Speaker 1: where's where's the opportunity for us to exploit the rule?
Speaker 2: But it's attacking scrum, it's six v six, it's one
Speaker 2: of the best opportunities to attack. And if a defending
Speaker 2: team is going to slow down the game intentionally, just
Speaker 2: send one.
Speaker 1: Of the binyah love with you. I'm with it, mark
Speaker 1: it down, mark the minutes now. Individual performance is Casey McClain.
Speaker 1: Every player of no young player has has a game
Speaker 1: that I think is a coming of age game. And
Speaker 1: I thought his was the other night, up against Stephen Crichton,
Speaker 1: who's the best, one of the best defensive centers of
Speaker 1: all time and in brilliant form would have probably been
Speaker 1: one of Casey's heroes. I'd imagine all that not a
Speaker 1: long way.
Speaker 2: He's been coming through the system, idolizing and.
Speaker 1: At full time. The other night you see Nathan go
Speaker 1: up and he just grabs Casey mcclaim and that's that's
Speaker 1: a slight mate. You've come of age.
Speaker 2: So the first running that Stephen Crichton and McLean had
Speaker 2: was a sure kick and he knocked it out and
Speaker 2: they had a little bit of a toss. Yeah, And
Speaker 2: then when the game was on the line and they
Speaker 2: won it, Nathan flew up to him again in big,
Speaker 2: huge I reckon that was set up in the coach's
Speaker 2: video room in the preview for that performance. Because Stephen
Speaker 2: Crichton is the captain of the Dogs, here is a
Speaker 2: physical presence and a beast young McLain nineteen years of age.
Speaker 2: I think that was his twentieth game. He had the
Speaker 2: job of stopping the most influential player for the Dogs,
Speaker 2: and he went after him. He didn't sit back and say, oh, yes,
Speaker 2: mister Crichton, Yes, mister Crichton. He just went straight for
Speaker 2: the juggular and fought him. For eighty minutes. He stopped
Speaker 2: it in the first minute and ultimately when it was
Speaker 2: the last minute, he was there to play a part
Speaker 2: and jot that down coming of age of the young man,
Speaker 2: like that is a hell of the performance.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit like Ivan would have said to him,
Speaker 1: dangled the carrocter in front of him and treat him
Speaker 1: with respect, but not too much respect.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've all had that where the coach dangles something
Speaker 2: in front says listen, I need you to do a
Speaker 2: job on someone today. And that was McLean's job and
Speaker 2: he did it.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what he early in the game, he
Speaker 1: got the ball, he put a bit of a bit
Speaker 1: of a bit of footwork on critter. Here. If it's
Speaker 1: anyone but Stephen Crichton, he scores here like Crichton is
Speaker 1: scrambling to getting that's that's you know, that's clear evidence
Speaker 1: the quality of this you blake footwork and he's like that.
Speaker 1: He scores on anyone.
Speaker 2: He is a threat to go on the outside twice
Speaker 2: back on the inside ones and then goes to the
Speaker 2: outside again. Point Stevin Crichton is the best center in
Speaker 2: the world on both sides of the footy. And anyone
Speaker 2: but him, he probably sets up a trial scores on himself.
Speaker 1: Xavier Willison another young player. I really like this kid.
Speaker 1: He's really impressive. The good thing about him he's got
Speaker 1: He's got great size and power. But crucially coop you
Speaker 1: can work with playmakers.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think when these young front rowers coming in
Speaker 2: the game, middle forwards and they're just big physical things
Speaker 2: and then they start understanding their strength. But Nelson went
Speaker 2: through a period he was just big and just ran
Speaker 2: and catapulted into players. Once he started moving using your
Speaker 2: arms and your shoulders and your footwork to separate. Willison
Speaker 2: is starting to run into the line and use his
Speaker 2: power upstairs to run over and through defenders. And as
Speaker 2: a half that is rock speed that you want and
Speaker 2: Reese Walsh Reynolds would love to have pain House Carrigan
Speaker 2: Willison every play the ball a threat to have momentum.
Speaker 1: And for Xavier the great thing at this point in
Speaker 1: his career he's playing alongside a halfback in Adam Reynolds
Speaker 1: that's done it all before and can educate him on
Speaker 1: the foot on watching him. No doubt they're doing extras
Speaker 1: together because you know he's getting the ball and he's
Speaker 1: drifting across an interest in the fence around I'm making
Speaker 1: the defense pause, then dropping off Xavier and the inside
Speaker 1: and he's hitting, you know, getting one on one tackles
Speaker 1: and just pushing through the line.
Speaker 2: But even paint Us is a mental pain. How do
Speaker 2: you get between defenders and separate so you come into
Speaker 2: line and they see the spin. It's something that paint
Speaker 2: Use would probably would have taught him this one here
Speaker 2: where he just isolates one, puts a bumpers through and
Speaker 2: gets through. Like paint House is playing a role in
Speaker 2: mentoring this young man.
Speaker 1: Sure, he's a very very good player. Okay, Coops, And
Speaker 1: we could be guilty of this podcast being named the
Speaker 1: Isaiah Catto Podcast. John's yeah, Coops, we could be Maddie
Speaker 1: Kronk and Isaiah.
Speaker 2: By the if it's going to be Cronker Mady, I tell.
Speaker 1: You, Scotty, we've got to get him here once. We'll
Speaker 1: sit him here and just show him all the nice
Speaker 1: things we were saying a bit, but it was like
Speaker 1: this week, I thought, right, we'll give the kid a break.
Speaker 1: We won't talk about but the performance he put in
Speaker 1: against the bunnies and he continues to do things that
Speaker 1: you just go, mate, So against the bunnies on that
Speaker 1: left side, he's attacking against Campbell Graham. Campbell is a
Speaker 1: fantastic defensive center. He's really intelligent. The founder picks off
Speaker 1: you know, picks off shapes very very well. But mate, Honestly,
Speaker 1: by the end of the game, Campbell would have been goaling, mabe, God,
Speaker 1: this kid's coming at me again. And he did the
Speaker 1: one that this is like. He can do certain things
Speaker 1: in the game which are just brilliant. But there's a
Speaker 1: situation once where stretch Campbell Grahams has come up and
Speaker 1: he's gone past the football right and Cady Nikarim is there.
Speaker 1: So what he does is instead of like he says
Speaker 1: to Cadid nick reb he just lobs the ball up
Speaker 1: and says, there's the space, beat him off the ball.
Speaker 2: There it is through the double pump and kemil Graham
Speaker 2: lent and as he rid of it back and he
Speaker 2: just loft it in the air. And it's brilliant ballplayer.
Speaker 2: But it's even better combination work with halves right, And
Speaker 2: I think this will be the next sort of phase
Speaker 2: and challenge for Isaiah is this is so good. He
Speaker 2: moves on the pass and runs through Nikoima has been
Speaker 2: complementing Isaiah's ballplayer through the roof. Yeah, now he's going
Speaker 2: to be out for an extended period of time, and
Speaker 2: we know that halves combinations are all about repetition and
Speaker 2: combination work. He realized that that double pump and he
Speaker 2: beat Gammel Graham on the move and ran inside. But
Speaker 2: Ken donnah here do this, Ken Avarrillo or someone else.
Speaker 2: So the Dolphins attack has been on fire because of
Speaker 2: this Halves combo Nickorema out. I think he's going to
Speaker 2: be the next challenge for Isaia Catala to still do
Speaker 2: those things.
Speaker 1: Without your player, without your deputy and adding to his game.
Speaker 1: We know about his finesse and his ability to disguise,
Speaker 1: but you see his running game starting to come up.
Speaker 1: Did a good, great line break for Hammer, and of
Speaker 1: course was telling the line with the football and bang.
Speaker 2: It's just it's just awareness that you can only get
Speaker 2: through doing multiple sets, multiple changes strong through the hips
Speaker 2: and he just knows that Hammer's there and he looks
Speaker 2: the left and throws it over his right hand shoulder
Speaker 2: without even looking. So that's maybe part of the reason
Speaker 2: why Hammer is fullback because of things like this. If
Speaker 2: this is Origin three in a decider that's Cameron Monster
Speaker 2: or Tom Dierden. Hammer won't be sitting back out a
Speaker 2: couple of passes wider admiring. He's going to shift straight.
Speaker 1: Through doing a great job with him, Christian Wolf doing really,
Speaker 1: really well. And you're not going to tell the Dolphins
Speaker 1: how to suck eggs. But what they've got him for,
Speaker 1: and the extension is i'd be I'd be bringing him
Speaker 1: in and going At the moment, Isaiah is on a
Speaker 1: good contract, it's on a good track, but it's but
Speaker 1: it's Wynders And if I'm the Dolphins, I'm saying, come in, mate,
Speaker 1: we're gonna extend this at the further fixes.
Speaker 2: You should be his agent.
Speaker 1: You are Moses. That'll do mm hmmmmmmmm mm hmm