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Speaker 2: Tell me absolutely please?
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Speaker 6: Thank you?
Speaker 5: Is this one of the biggest days, if not the
Speaker 5: biggest day on the calendar?
Speaker 7: I think it is the best day on the calendar.
Speaker 7: I think the way that the NRL, all of the
Speaker 7: current players pay their respects and honor the men and
Speaker 7: women who went and fought for Australia and gave us
Speaker 7: the best country in the world today, Gordon, I just
Speaker 7: think it's fantastic the respect that is paid and the
Speaker 7: way it's done.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: And normally the games go down to the wire and
Speaker 8: players don't normally take a backward step, but that day
Speaker 8: there's a lot of emotions and it's and it wasn't
Speaker 8: like it wasn't big in my era, but it's one
Speaker 8: of the rounds that I really get jealous of what
Speaker 8: goes on around there. It's a especially the dragons and
Speaker 8: the roosters, they kick it all off.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if you're in the crowd that day, obviously that
Speaker 4: the back of your hairs stand up well on your neck.
Speaker 4: And it's an education for fans as well over the
Speaker 4: sacrifice that's been made for generations gone by.
Speaker 2: So it's a great day.
Speaker 4: It's a great event, and it's generally a great spectacle
Speaker 4: that Dragon's roosters clash.
Speaker 5: I finally, as a player, it's a real day of reflection.
Speaker 5: Like during the week you prepare for this game, and
Speaker 5: it's really emotional. They bring soldiers or war veterans that
Speaker 5: have served before and they come in normally tell us,
Speaker 5: tell us their story and what it was like. And
Speaker 5: then you get to the day and it's such a
Speaker 5: big build up and it's such a big crowd and
Speaker 5: it is an emotional day. Then you kind of hear
Speaker 5: the last post and then the national anthem and the
Speaker 5: silence is deafeniting in that moment, like in between sort
Speaker 5: of those two moments, those two moments, and you know,
Speaker 5: you think about your family, you think about your journey
Speaker 5: to this point, and it's really like it is as
Speaker 5: as a player. It's we spoke to the players last night.
Speaker 5: You've got to control your emotions because you know, for
Speaker 5: just a club game, it's like playing Origin.
Speaker 8: Or a street We say we go into battle and war,
Speaker 8: but we don't like when you hear their stories and
Speaker 8: I think that they're over used in the sporting well.
Speaker 8: But you know that you've got to trust your mate
Speaker 8: when you sit there and you know they say you're
Speaker 8: like and the word dig it because they didn't dig,
Speaker 8: they didn't survive. But all these old diggers come and
Speaker 8: tell you their stories. And that's when you go out
Speaker 8: there and you pull on a jersey to run around
Speaker 8: in this great country. You know you can't, but you
Speaker 8: can't not ever go.
Speaker 5: And the pressure is on to not disappoint, you know absolutely,
Speaker 5: because everyone is watching this first game, the Sydney Roosters
Speaker 5: up against the Dragons. It's been a great battle over
Speaker 5: the years, the Roosters a little bit out of form
Speaker 5: at the moment. The Dragons have found for him and
Speaker 5: surprised a few people and could have won a couple more.
Speaker 5: How do we see this one penny out.
Speaker 7: I think it's tight, especially given everything that your blokes
Speaker 7: have just emphasized about the magnitude of this clash. I
Speaker 7: love the battle of the fullbacks. Teddy has been in
Speaker 7: superb form even when the roosters have been beaten, and
Speaker 7: Clint Guthason for mine at this early stage, I think
Speaker 7: he has been the bye the year, and I think
Speaker 7: that proves a lot of people wrong because it was
Speaker 7: criticized initially when the Dragons went after him, But I
Speaker 7: think his involvement over the opening rounds of the season
Speaker 7: just shows the contribution that he's making to the side.
Speaker 5: He's so consistent, isn't he And he brings so much energy.
Speaker 5: You talk about experience, but he just turns up every
Speaker 5: week and it's at least a seven or eight out
Speaker 5: of ten. He is everywhere in the game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was the perfect player for what the Dragons
Speaker 4: needed because you go through that club. Out of the
Speaker 4: patlast couple of seasons, the Achilles Hill has been leadership
Speaker 4: and consistency. Lie brings both. There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 4: He's set the standard from day one at training and
Speaker 4: he's been really really good for the Dragons and takes
Speaker 4: a bit of pressure off an emerging halves combination as well.
Speaker 4: I probably have Threll made just ahead of him as
Speaker 4: by the year, but it's a very close second for.
Speaker 8: Mine Unlockedell Holmes as well because Vell sort of struggled
Speaker 8: a bit last year. Bell's probably starting to come back
Speaker 8: to his best. But as the young halves for the
Speaker 8: Roosters too, both on a really big emotional day.
Speaker 5: It is sant and Smith just hasn't been playing well
Speaker 5: this year. I think everyone's been a little bit surprised
Speaker 5: by that. That's just the truth. He's got to be better,
Speaker 5: because you know, with Walker being out, it was like, okay, well,
Speaker 5: Sanding can stand up, and he showed in the pass
Speaker 5: and he has done that and he's had a couple
Speaker 5: of good games this year, but he hasn't been good enough.
Speaker 5: And then Hugo Savala is really the one they're leaning
Speaker 5: on as a rookie half with his kicking game, and
Speaker 5: we saw that against the Broncos a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 5: how impactful that was. And then they come up against
Speaker 5: the Dragons halves pairing who you know, some labeled you
Speaker 5: know that the worst and the competition and Flanagan was
Speaker 5: quick through in mind everyone after the game last week,
Speaker 5: so they've got a point to prove and they don't
Speaker 5: believe that themselves. So this is the moment, This is
Speaker 5: the game to do that on the biggest stage right
Speaker 5: and one of the biggest stages on.
Speaker 3: That Dragon's halves pairing.
Speaker 7: They have come in for considerable criticism over the opening rounds,
Speaker 7: but I think it's the addition of gutheruson If you
Speaker 7: look at his triass this year, I think he's already
Speaker 7: ahead of Ben Hunt in terms of points that he's
Speaker 7: been able to create. That takes pressure off lockey Ilius
Speaker 7: and off cold Flood again.
Speaker 3: So I think they compliment one another.
Speaker 2: Well. It was such an important win last week. The
Speaker 2: way the Dragons went about it.
Speaker 4: They'll clearly the better side on the first half and
Speaker 4: could have led by a lot more, but they had
Speaker 4: the lead, looked like they're want to get run down,
Speaker 4: which has been a theme of the season. But to
Speaker 4: kick again and get that win was huge for Locke
Speaker 4: and Kyle.
Speaker 5: Gutherson's been a great buy. If he's not the best boy,
Speaker 5: he's up there in the top three. There's no doubt
Speaker 5: on the flip side. What's happened to Tom Young? He's
Speaker 5: been dropped this week for the Roosters. Cost a bit
Speaker 5: of money for them to bring him down from Newcastle?
Speaker 5: Can you tell us you the information is just.
Speaker 7: I got to say it was a surprise to me. Look,
Speaker 7: he's on big money. I think he's on about four
Speaker 7: hundred and fifty thousand dollars a season. Signed by the
Speaker 7: Rooster's first season last year. It's a four year deal,
Speaker 7: so he's still only very early doors into his tenure
Speaker 7: with the Chuks. Look, he has come up with some
Speaker 7: defensive misreads over the opening number of rounds. I think
Speaker 7: they put him on notice. Coach Trent Robinson has put
Speaker 7: him on notice earlier in the season about that, and
Speaker 7: he's just felt, for whatever reason, this is going to
Speaker 7: be the best thing for his confidence.
Speaker 4: I'm not surprised at all because of the defense, defensive deficiencies,
Speaker 4: the way he's sort of come in and been left
Speaker 4: exposed on that wing and some of his carriers coming
Speaker 4: out of his own end. You know, he's a big body,
Speaker 4: but he doesn't have the same impact. And you look
Speaker 4: at the form of Toyer Billy Smith and no longer
Speaker 4: needs to ask say, you have to get them more
Speaker 4: in the back line.
Speaker 2: So I wasn't surprised at.
Speaker 5: Because he's six foot five and he's big and he
Speaker 5: runs like the win. So like I'm like, what, why
Speaker 5: can't you get it right? You know, Like his decisions
Speaker 5: in defense have been pretty ordinary this year, and he carries,
Speaker 5: like you said, for the size of him and the
Speaker 5: speed that he has. If he has a crack, you know,
Speaker 5: he'll get back in the first grade. But he's got
Speaker 5: to work on his game. I think this is a
Speaker 5: really good move. I think it's good too. Obviously. Billy Smith,
Speaker 5: I mean, he was great two weeks ago, comes back
Speaker 5: after suspension. He made it. He was you know, he
Speaker 5: was instrumental in that win up in Brisbane. And then
Speaker 5: it moves Mark I'm need to ask there which the
Speaker 5: first time I stuff that up, But it moves him
Speaker 5: to the wing. He struggled with his defensive reason center
Speaker 5: and it makes it quite simple for him on the wing.
Speaker 5: You know, he's just got one job to follow his
Speaker 5: center and make the right decision. And his attack's been
Speaker 5: so good, Like you can see the Rugby union coming
Speaker 5: in him in attack.
Speaker 8: He's off lage. He's always promoting the ball. He's learning
Speaker 8: on the go, but like in attack, he's been outstanding
Speaker 8: and dom young he's on the end of everything and
Speaker 8: he has come up with some poor reads and the
Speaker 8: Rooster's on the have been pulled out of shape a
Speaker 8: couple of times this year, but putting him on the wing,
Speaker 8: I think it just keeps him out of it.
Speaker 5: So I think it actually works in their favor. So
Speaker 5: you know, it's a good move by the Roosters. They
Speaker 5: need a big game for them, isn't me?
Speaker 2: A huge game?
Speaker 4: Huge game for them because it was a bizarre week
Speaker 4: last week against the Pendrick Panthers because I thought that
Speaker 4: was the better side in the first half despite trailing
Speaker 4: by six, and then just got blown off the park
Speaker 4: completely in that second half, and you know they're going
Speaker 4: to start they lose this one, they start chasing their
Speaker 4: tail and losing to a side like the Dragons. So
Speaker 4: you think they compete if they're going to be in
Speaker 4: the top eight towards at that bottom of the eighth.
Speaker 4: So it's a huge game for the Roosters, a huge
Speaker 4: game for.
Speaker 5: The Knights as well, six pm, taking on the Warriors
Speaker 5: over in New Zealand. Newcastle's attack has just been it's
Speaker 5: been awful. It really has what's doing with Kaylen Ponger.
Speaker 5: You know, usually he's the man that saves them, he's
Speaker 5: the creator, he's everything. Now let's have a look at
Speaker 5: some numbers here with the Knights nose die average points ten.
Speaker 5: That's last average tries two. It goes on completion rate, terrible.
Speaker 5: Error is the same. I mean, look at their tackle
Speaker 5: busts and they're off fload. So it's a nightmare in
Speaker 5: Newcastle at the moment.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they've been putrid to only manage to score sixty
Speaker 7: points in six games. And if you actually break it down,
Speaker 7: you've got to go back to round two against the Dolphins.
Speaker 7: They scored twenty eight of those points in that picture.
Speaker 7: So when you factor that in for a backline that's
Speaker 7: got not only KP but also Bradman Best, Dame Gaguy,
Speaker 7: Fletcher Sharp's one of the best emerging players in the
Speaker 7: competition who's lightning quick and can create points. It is
Speaker 7: surprising they've been struggling. If you actually look at the
Speaker 7: raw numbers, they're struggling to hold the ball. It's just
Speaker 7: fundamental errors coming out of their own end. Basic mistakes
Speaker 7: that's really been biting them on the arms.
Speaker 4: That's been the concerning thing with hoofs. Their fundamental errors,
Speaker 4: things that they can control, is what's shot them in
Speaker 4: the foot. But you look at their they just haven't
Speaker 4: for the last couple of seasons. They just haven't settled
Speaker 4: at number seven. It's been an ongoing theme and while
Speaker 4: you're chopping and changing your halves each week with your
Speaker 4: number sevemans each week, you're not going to get that continuity.
Speaker 4: Their go forwards not quite there either with the players
Speaker 4: that have been missing, particularly in the middle of the field,
Speaker 4: so they haven't had that impetus to go forward, and
Speaker 4: that's where Kaylen plays well. Right, Kaylan plays off the
Speaker 4: front foot. They haven't had the opportunity for him and
Speaker 4: Fletcher Sharp's quite similar. Right, they're great front foot players,
Speaker 4: but if you don't have that go forward, they're really
Speaker 4: nullified and slow.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Adam O'Brien has survived tougher times, but is it
Speaker 5: true that he gets a two million dollars payer out
Speaker 5: if he got sacked, you might be able to contraction before.
Speaker 4: I don't think there's any get out clauses there and
Speaker 4: only any new deal to the end of twenty twenty seven,
Speaker 4: which he inked last season and extended and look.
Speaker 2: So he does you'll get a paid get full pair,
Speaker 2: full full payer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I mean most of them.
Speaker 7: I thought most of the club is now safeguarded measure.
Speaker 7: They usually like a spot coming out with a.
Speaker 4: Whatever the case may be. But it's my understanding it's
Speaker 4: full payout for Adam. Then that's off the back of
Speaker 4: making all the finals that he's made. I think he's
Speaker 4: made four in five years. And you know a lot
Speaker 4: of coaches would love that opportunity to make four finals
Speaker 4: in five years. And I just don't think they've got
Speaker 4: the cattle there to compete.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 4: The pressure will be on next year once Dylan Brown
Speaker 4: arrives and if they're dishing up the same sort of attack,
Speaker 4: well there's going to be some issues there, right, So
Speaker 4: I think he's safe. Well, it has to be four
Speaker 4: out of five finals in a side that does anyone
Speaker 4: have them make in the top eight this year?
Speaker 5: What if the're losing?
Speaker 3: Round continues Mick, what if you're losing?
Speaker 2: Had them in the top eight?
Speaker 6: Audio?
Speaker 5: Well they should have?
Speaker 9: You said them in your top eight. I didn't pick
Speaker 9: a top eight, but would you have had him in
Speaker 9: the top eight. Yeah, you think so, Calum Pong No,
Speaker 9: I did have them in.
Speaker 2: The top eight.
Speaker 5: Remember it's too long ago.
Speaker 8: But if you said they've made four out of five,
Speaker 8: they would expect themselves to be in the top eight.
Speaker 8: It's not what we think about them, it's what they
Speaker 8: think about them inside their own form.
Speaker 2: I just don't think they've got a top eight quality
Speaker 2: roster at the moment.
Speaker 7: If you look at their back line, Mick, yes, the
Speaker 7: halves have had a lot of chopping and changing, but
Speaker 7: the rest of that back line, the strike.
Speaker 3: Across them, they should, they should.
Speaker 5: You should come back then me what's changed this year
Speaker 5: competed to last.
Speaker 4: Well, I don't think the go forwards there either. Last
Speaker 4: year that Jacob and Daniel Soffidi playing a lot. Leo
Speaker 4: Thompson was obviously there, but Daniel's gone to the Dolphins
Speaker 4: and Jacob's been injured and that that hurts. Then you're
Speaker 4: throwing Adam Miller, Jack Hetherington, Dylan Lucas. There's your there's
Speaker 4: a starting.
Speaker 5: Forward back almost Thompson too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they definitely at the end of the year.
Speaker 4: Brown Dylan Brown, Well, that's why they've paid him a
Speaker 4: stupid amount of money to fix this problem, to help
Speaker 4: fix this problem because they can't score points, so they
Speaker 4: find a guy they believe can help score points.
Speaker 5: Which leads us to these details emerge of a potential
Speaker 5: three way players swap between Galvin, Brown, Peace Paul.
Speaker 4: Please explain, Well, there's lots doing the rounds at the moment.
Speaker 4: In terms of you, You've got all those three players
Speaker 4: that you mentioned. Ky Peace Paul's off contract at the
Speaker 4: end of this season at the Newcastle Knights. I think
Speaker 4: it's unlikely that he stays at new Castle, and these
Speaker 4: two potential suitors are Paramatta and the West Tigers. Right,
Speaker 4: then you've got Dylan Brown, Gun and Newcastle next year,
Speaker 4: and then who knows what the situation is with Locky Galvin.
Speaker 4: So theoretically, if you move Peace Poor to the Tigers
Speaker 4: and Galvin to the Eels and Brown to the Knights,
Speaker 4: there's a potential right now before Dune thirty. There's a
Speaker 4: lot of things that need to happen, right But are
Speaker 4: you hear there's been There's definitely been conversations at the
Speaker 4: very least between a swap between Kype Peace Paul and
Speaker 4: Dylan Brown.
Speaker 2: At the Paramatta Hills.
Speaker 5: Is that between the clubs.
Speaker 4: That's between the clubs, right, whether or not that eventually
Speaker 4: it's I think it's long to happen.
Speaker 5: You're suggesting or thinking that if Brown goes from Paramatta
Speaker 5: within weeks just so that does happen, which.
Speaker 4: Is paratter and in no rush to get rid of
Speaker 4: Ylan Brown, and especially there are no rush to get.
Speaker 5: Rid of him. But if he does, then Galvin comes
Speaker 5: into the frame.
Speaker 4: Well, if I'm Paramatta, I'm not releasing Dylan Brown unless
Speaker 4: I've got Lockie Galvin, right, because then you leave yourself
Speaker 4: short and you're going to throw away this season. So
Speaker 4: the only way that could work if I'm Paramount, I'm
Speaker 4: not saying sea Dylan Brown and I don't have Lucky
Speaker 4: Galvin done.
Speaker 7: It feels like there's a lot of Chinese whispers to this.
Speaker 7: It feels like it was brought up on radio on
Speaker 7: the weekend. There's a lot of fantasy football spitballing. I
Speaker 7: spoke to Kay Peers, Paul's agent at a sam Are You,
Speaker 7: and he said, look, under no circumstances have we asked
Speaker 7: for a release or will we be asking for a
Speaker 7: release this season. He also said that they're not going
Speaker 7: to be part of solving other people's problems or predicaments,
Speaker 7: which lends itself to the fact that clearly some of
Speaker 7: those other clubs are trying to maneuver behind the scenes
Speaker 7: to get this style of scenario into effect.
Speaker 5: Clubs and agents.
Speaker 3: I just loved you'd have to have the agents involved too, Sure.
Speaker 2: Three separate agents there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so that's a particular positive workout. It's not like
Speaker 4: one's got two or whatever the case may be. But
Speaker 4: there's no doubt that it's all. The Tigers are in
Speaker 4: for him, right, So the Tigers.
Speaker 7: I think there were some people pushing for the Tigers
Speaker 7: to possibly get him before June thirty.
Speaker 3: That then may have been perceived as well.
Speaker 7: Okay, the Tigers have had a bit of a victory there,
Speaker 7: They've got a good damaging edge back rower.
Speaker 3: Well, maybe then they might soften their stand.
Speaker 5: Pending what happens with the Galvin situation, which we'll get
Speaker 5: to all right. Shane Richardson's Shane Richardson sat down with
Speaker 5: a friend of the show, Brent Reid, to discuss the
Speaker 5: Lachland Galvin saga. Let's start with his comments on Galvin.
Speaker 5: Here it comes Lochland Galvin is a great person. He's
Speaker 5: a junior, he's come through the club. He's going to
Speaker 5: be well with us for the next eighty months. Just
Speaker 5: treat him the way you would treat your own son.
Speaker 5: I don't disparage his decision at all, except that I
Speaker 5: don't agree that Benji wouldn't make him a better player.
Speaker 5: He's never requested a release. The bottom line from the
Speaker 5: club's point of view is he's here for the next
Speaker 5: eighteen months. He's never said that Marshall Kart coach. Lachlan
Speaker 5: is a very honest kid. He's as simple as it gets.
Speaker 5: He loves his footy, so bred reed. He interview in
Speaker 5: the Dally Telegraphs today with Shane Richardson and these were
Speaker 5: the comments around Lachlan. How do we see these?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think they're pretty honest from rich oh and
Speaker 4: trying to defend a kid that they know he's trying
Speaker 4: to agitate to essentially get out at some point. So
Speaker 4: I think it's good that he's finally come up and
Speaker 4: got on the front foot a little bit. The fact
Speaker 4: that he said he's never requested a release. I don't
Speaker 4: know what that timeline in towers, because you know it's
Speaker 4: been confirmed that he has where there. It's part of
Speaker 4: Shane Richardson's regime or definitely the regime before him, And
Speaker 4: he did admit that Lockie said that he thought he'd
Speaker 4: plays best footy elsewhere.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I think it's a smart play from rich He's an
Speaker 7: experienced administrator. He's trying to show Lockelan a little bit
Speaker 7: of love off what was a brutal and extremely messy
Speaker 7: week last week. I think the suggestion that Lachlan's never
Speaker 7: bagged Benji, that's probably a little bit hard to cop
Speaker 7: because speaking to a lot of people around the game,
Speaker 7: that seems to have been a common theme that has
Speaker 7: been confirmed by a number of people. So I understand
Speaker 7: what rich I is trying to do, and I applaud
Speaker 7: him for saying we're not just going to roll over
Speaker 7: and we're not just going to release Lockeye, because I
Speaker 7: think that's been a major sticking point with a lot
Speaker 7: of people.
Speaker 5: We had the indication yesterday that the Tigers were going
Speaker 5: to dig their heels in and he just said there
Speaker 5: that he's here for the next eighty months.
Speaker 2: Do we just correct if does that ended?
Speaker 5: Hey, what he said is he's here for months?
Speaker 8: No, But I love that if I'm a Tigers fan,
Speaker 8: if I'm a Tiger's fan, if I'm a Tiger's member,
Speaker 8: if I'm a supporter, and they come out from my club,
Speaker 8: I'm thinking that's really good. So the young kid got
Speaker 8: put in this situation in the club goes no, we
Speaker 8: back you to play your best football here in the
Speaker 8: next eighteen months.
Speaker 5: Let's hear from Richo again and what he said about
Speaker 5: Isaac Moses to Brent Ree. Obviously it's not good this year.
Speaker 5: We've had challenges and they've all been with Isaac Moses' clients.
Speaker 5: I've got to deal with Isaac. He's got to deal
Speaker 5: with me. Benji deals with the player. I deal with
Speaker 5: the manager. So I deal with Isaac because Benji and
Speaker 5: Isaac have no relationship whatsoever. In fact, it's antagonistic. He
Speaker 5: certainly made it clear to everybody that Benji's not on
Speaker 5: his Christmas list, and I'm sure he's not on Benji's
Speaker 5: Isaac's smart, he's intelligent, and he's trying to do the
Speaker 5: best what is best for his clients. I get all
Speaker 5: of that, but he's not doing the best for the
Speaker 5: West Tigers.
Speaker 8: So I like that.
Speaker 7: Rich O's on the front foot, he's being extremely transparent.
Speaker 7: The players that he's talking about are obviously John Bateman
Speaker 7: David Klemer have both exited the West Tigers over the
Speaker 7: course the last six months.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 7: Lockie Galvin's the latest player in the headlines. I think
Speaker 7: he's simply spoken.
Speaker 3: The truth there.
Speaker 7: Look last week on the show, I suggested that Isaac
Speaker 7: and Clint Newton were close.
Speaker 3: This is not the case.
Speaker 7: There's no personal relationship between Isaac and Clint, and I
Speaker 7: certainly didn't intend to cause Clint any issues, of the
Speaker 7: RLPA any issues, or question anybody's integrity. But I like
Speaker 7: what rich Il has done here. He said all along.
Speaker 7: You can go back six months ago. He said, I
Speaker 7: want players who are in for the crocodile role. I
Speaker 7: want players who want to fight. And he's now showing
Speaker 7: the entire playing group that he is prepared to fight
Speaker 7: for a player, even though a lot of them, the
Speaker 7: senior players Mick, have clearly got a beef with how
Speaker 7: this whole thing has played out.
Speaker 4: Plaud Richard, Yeah, I think it was good from rich O.
Speaker 4: Didn't sugarcoat it said for him. Benji and Isaac don't
Speaker 4: get on. It's quite simple. They don't communicate, they can't communicate,
Speaker 4: So he's the intermediary and he's got to continue to
Speaker 4: be so.
Speaker 2: Because Isaac's got dream buller.
Speaker 7: You seem like you might still think that you don't
Speaker 7: necessarily subscribe lock He'll be there for the next day,
Speaker 7: ten months.
Speaker 4: I just if I'm the West tighs, I'm looking for
Speaker 4: a win, right, and what that win looks like, I'm
Speaker 4: not sure.
Speaker 7: But if isn't the win standing up for your club
Speaker 7: and standing up for the first it's going to drag
Speaker 7: a contract.
Speaker 4: Local not that if it's just going to drag out
Speaker 4: headlines and talking about contracts. Mate, they show clem of
Speaker 4: the door. They showing baitman the door, right, So it
Speaker 4: works both ways. Okay, you know, so don't talk about
Speaker 4: contracts because we know if a club wants to get
Speaker 4: rid of your they'll just this instance.
Speaker 7: In this instance, the club has done a good job.
Speaker 7: They've brought the kid through that enough.
Speaker 4: If you if you think that they can get through
Speaker 4: eighteen months without it being a distraction or headlines continuously
Speaker 4: keep him there.
Speaker 5: I think what's a bigger distraction though, is it him
Speaker 5: being there for eighteen months and trying to find his
Speaker 5: feet and regain that respect of the teammates and having
Speaker 5: him play for them, or is it letting him go
Speaker 5: and getting it three out of thousand of the player.
Speaker 2: Return depends on what you get in return.
Speaker 4: Break just depend if you can, if you can orchestrate
Speaker 4: the Klie Pierce poor thing, I'd probably do it right
Speaker 4: to make it happen and guarantee because what that's got.
Speaker 4: And then they've well, they've got lots too fine. No,
Speaker 4: that's no like for like Cordy, because he's not a
Speaker 4: like for like value. That's what praise point is. If
Speaker 4: you're looking for like for like, you're done. That's but
Speaker 4: then you've got lots too fine. And who you've said,
Speaker 4: who Tigers believe is their long term half. So do
Speaker 4: you keep him back for eighteen months?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 2: Do you kick start his development?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Well, I mean it's not even certain they'll stick
Speaker 5: with the combination they've got. Yeah, as you said with
Speaker 5: Gavin and Louis. If if Aynhu comes through and starts producing,
Speaker 5: because's okay. So shamee what. Richardson has just appeared on
Speaker 5: James Grahames by Around podcast, detailing the moment he knew
Speaker 5: Locky Galvin was gone take a look.
Speaker 6: I said to the to the player manager at the time,
Speaker 6: I said, look, I'd like to ring and confirm this
Speaker 6: with his family, with his family with him. Well, he's
Speaker 6: a nine year old kid mate, I've met his family before,
Speaker 6: and I know how close he is to his family
Speaker 6: and how close they are, and they're really good people
Speaker 6: and to be totally sold. Was surprised by the way
Speaker 6: that that's happened. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 6: but I wanted to talk to his dad. James was
Speaker 6: a great guy, and I said, he said, no ways
Speaker 6: at all, and so I tried to ring him that
Speaker 6: up and he didn't return the call and all the
Speaker 6: next day. So I became obviously I didn't want talk
Speaker 6: about it, which is their prerogative. And it also said
Speaker 6: to me that they were behind the decisions. In my
Speaker 6: own mind was fifty to fifty whether he stayed or
Speaker 6: not and what was going on outside, But it didn't
Speaker 6: become fifty to fifty, become not one hundred and once
Speaker 6: that decision may we needed to move on.
Speaker 5: Very interesting there from Shane Richardson, pretty telling where Lucky
Speaker 5: and his family were at with his decision.
Speaker 7: Well, it just confirms what has been reported all along
Speaker 7: that Isaac and Lockey go into the meeting with Richo's
Speaker 7: got the six year, six million dollar deal a ready
Speaker 7: to go. He probably thinks he's in a reasonably strong position,
Speaker 7: and Isaac says, don't even bother tabling it because beyond
Speaker 7: the end of his current contract, we're not going to
Speaker 7: be here. He didn't talk about the list of grievances,
Speaker 7: but obviously that was also part of the meeting, and
Speaker 7: then we've seen it unfold over the course of the
Speaker 7: next weeks since, with lots of different twists and turns.
Speaker 4: Yes, I can't argue with what Hoops has said. I
Speaker 4: think it's just that's why. I mean, I just don't
Speaker 4: know if it's just going to continue to be a destruction.
Speaker 5: All right, I'm sick you're talking about it, but I
Speaker 5: don't think it's going to go any away anytime soon.
Speaker 5: With the Bulldogs out of the race, manager, With the
Speaker 5: Bulldogs out of the race for lock Weing galve in
Speaker 5: the future of tobe Sex and has become a major
Speaker 5: talking point.
Speaker 10: When there's good players come on the market, you've always
Speaker 10: got to have those conversations and and look at look
Speaker 10: at what's best for the club and make decisions in
Speaker 10: the best interest of the club, but just.
Speaker 5: Shut down all the speculation. We'll get on with what
Speaker 5: we're doing.
Speaker 10: We've got a pathway system that we've put a lot
Speaker 10: of time and effort into and that's reaping some rewards
Speaker 10: as well.
Speaker 5: You know, we're a development club.
Speaker 10: We've been on that path for a number of years
Speaker 10: now and put a lot of time and effort into that.
Speaker 10: And you know, we won't be bringing too many people
Speaker 10: from the outside, not that I'm aware of Toby. Toby's
Speaker 10: done a good job. I think he's just hand on
Speaker 10: this whole period really well as a character. So team first,
Speaker 10: allever he's doing that and improving every week, then those
Speaker 10: other things will come. You know, I've said it before,
Speaker 10: I think our club is probably the closest thing to
Speaker 10: English Premier League or college football in our country. So
Speaker 10: walking from the Lee's Club down here on Bellmore days
Speaker 10: and on the weekend, being able to have that walkover
Speaker 10: from the hotel to the ground and everyone sort of
Speaker 10: lashed onto it. But you know, just talking to our
Speaker 10: leadership group then they loved it. You know, they understand
Speaker 10: it's a truly unique experience for what it means to
Speaker 10: be a Bulldog and yeah, something we'll definitely think about
Speaker 10: doing in the future.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I was prepping for the show this afternoon and
Speaker 5: this story popped up on my phone with the Dali Telegraph.
Speaker 5: It was Bomber Peter Bidell story Sexton and I'm thinking
Speaker 5: he signed, he's resigned here with the Bulldogs. I sent
Speaker 5: it to my EP go there you go, he's resigning
Speaker 5: and he goes mate read the article. I've read the
Speaker 5: article and he hadn't, so not too sure what happened there,
Speaker 5: but he brought it from White. I thought he'd done
Speaker 5: a two year deal and they'd got him at five
Speaker 5: under an year for two years. But why are the
Speaker 5: Dogs holding off here? They're not rushing into signing him,
Speaker 5: and why haven't they signed him already.
Speaker 7: Well, Bomber's gone to the agent and then he's just
Speaker 7: quoted what the agent's told him, which is apparently he's
Speaker 7: going to go and have a sit down with Gus,
Speaker 7: hopefully in the next couple of weeks, and they'll roll
Speaker 7: out the welcome Matt and perhaps he can convince Gus
Speaker 7: that Tabe does deserve a new two year deal. Look,
Speaker 7: I just think that I don't think the Bulldogs are
Speaker 7: in a rush because if you're listening to Cameron Sraldo there,
Speaker 7: they've got an awesome pathway system set up there and
Speaker 7: Mitchell Woods is one of the best emerging young halfbacks
Speaker 7: in the country. And so I just feel as though
Speaker 7: while they're on this winning role, they don't want any distractions.
Speaker 7: Rather than rushing into anything they can't afford to sit
Speaker 7: back and take their time a little bit. And they've
Speaker 7: got a cap that they've got to work within.
Speaker 3: They've got Leo.
Speaker 7: Thompson coming next year. I'm sure they'd love to get
Speaker 7: him this year if they could somehow maneuver that from
Speaker 7: Newcastles good half back.
Speaker 3: There's a bit to it.
Speaker 5: They're sitting on top of the table.
Speaker 8: I understand if they're sitting twelfth or something and he's
Speaker 8: playing okay, But when you sit on top of the
Speaker 8: table and your team's just in song you think.
Speaker 5: That you're keeping it shows they're not certain. Not paying
Speaker 5: a million dollars it shows they're not certain because it's
Speaker 5: a really big call for the club and that's why
Speaker 5: they're they're taking their time with it because if they
Speaker 5: spend too if they get him at the right price.
Speaker 5: It's fine because he's still unproven. The I mean it's
Speaker 5: still the next kid, definitely, and mich Woods isn't ready.
Speaker 5: He's a couple of years away. But you know, if
Speaker 5: they commit to sext and now and then a gun
Speaker 5: like a premiership or you know, and that's not a
Speaker 5: discredit section thing, because he could be a premiership half
Speaker 5: this year. We don't know that time will tell. He
Speaker 5: could win. He could they can win a comp and
Speaker 5: he's gone good enough to get the job done with
Speaker 5: them as well. He's gone really good. But it's a
Speaker 5: big call because they if they pay for Sexton and
Speaker 5: go all in, not all in, but enough to not
Speaker 5: let make a play at someone else, then they've locked
Speaker 5: in and they can't go for another seven that comes
Speaker 5: up on the market. So they've got to get this right.
Speaker 8: I get it for a Daly Cherry Evans, I don't
Speaker 8: get it for a young kid. I really don't get
Speaker 8: when you're on top of the table. I get it
Speaker 8: if he's struggling, but he seems to improved out of side.
Speaker 8: He was at the Titans and as he intended, Boyd
Speaker 8: now were in and out. But it looks like he's
Speaker 8: found a home and sitting on top of the table.
Speaker 5: I look like this. If they did get a Premiere seven,
Speaker 5: they could do what Pennis done like that. The team
Speaker 5: they've got there, but who was the premiergu There's not
Speaker 5: many around.
Speaker 3: Gus Butcherald I know, I know.
Speaker 7: And the fact that as much as they're not in
Speaker 7: right for d C and they've said they're not in
Speaker 7: for Galvin and I'm not suggesting they are right, but
Speaker 7: we all know they have had conversations about those two players.
Speaker 7: So the fact that they're even having those conversations just
Speaker 7: lets you know that it is definitely a consideration.
Speaker 5: And the fact they haven't re signed him.
Speaker 4: The story back of having the conversations like at ben
Speaker 4: Hunt last year, shows they're just I'm with you for
Speaker 4: the right price. And length as well is an important thing.
Speaker 4: If they could roll him out another twelve months, I
Speaker 4: think that would be ideal for Canny because two is
Speaker 4: where you.
Speaker 2: Go, okay, so you wouldn't split it for one. If
Speaker 2: for him, is there a huge market? Is there a
Speaker 2: huge market?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 7: His agents told the Bomber that there's at least a
Speaker 7: couple of other clubs in the mix as well. But
Speaker 7: in fairness to Sexton to your point from early Braith,
Speaker 7: I reckon he's actually been doing a really solid job offensively.
Speaker 7: His game has improved out of sight and if you
Speaker 7: look at when he first got off at the Bulldogs,
Speaker 7: he couldn't even make their starting solid. Well, they'll pick
Speaker 7: another player Drew Hutchison was being picked in front of him.
Speaker 7: He's fought his way into the team. He's been consistent
Speaker 7: the majority of the time. So I can understand it's
Speaker 7: a balancing and they've got him.
Speaker 5: Any player in the competition right now that deserves a
Speaker 5: two you deal, it's him.
Speaker 4: But it's amazing to think that it's when was the
Speaker 4: last time you know a half back of the site
Speaker 4: that's been undefered to open season and we're discussing what
Speaker 4: he's worth or should he stay at the club, And
Speaker 4: so it's a really awkward position.
Speaker 5: Real dominant spine.
Speaker 2: No it's not.
Speaker 8: It's not a premiership winning spine that the young kids
Speaker 8: walked into and he's jumped on their coat tat.
Speaker 3: Not by any stretch.
Speaker 5: No, Okay, Jamal Foggetty quickly is a deal done with mely?
Speaker 4: Mainly it will happen. They meet tomorrow bomb had this
Speaker 4: one as well. This one will definitely happen. He'll be
Speaker 4: at the Seagulls three busy, three year deal though that's
Speaker 4: the length is interesting, around about six fifty seven hundred
Speaker 4: thousand dollar mark Canberra. We're willing to give him one
Speaker 4: year at a second year with some triggers, but you
Speaker 4: know they're going to let him go with their blessing
Speaker 4: considering he's going to pick up a three year deal.
Speaker 3: He'll be taking that for sure by the surday tomorrow,
Speaker 3: are they?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Okay, that surprises me because I spoke to Rickie Stuart
Speaker 7: before the show and I thought him and Jamal were
Speaker 7: pretty close. He said he hadn't heard anything from Jamal
Speaker 7: at this point, so from Soris.
Speaker 8: And so that he's you were supposed to meet with
Speaker 8: Ricky but he got the flu, so Ricky said, look
Speaker 8: let's just hold it off. And then Ricky after the
Speaker 8: game we won him at the club but I think the.
Speaker 7: Match said he had the flu and then they saw
Speaker 7: him bouncing around. Did he like he just backed the
Speaker 7: winner at Ogle Farm at the football on the Sunday?
Speaker 5: All right, yeah, right, we'll keeping eye. Covid is a
Speaker 5: bugger Journo is your key playing match up thanks to
Speaker 5: Ozzie Broadband. Who are they for this week?
Speaker 3: I love them? What Max King is doing at the Bulldogs.
Speaker 3: He doesn't get a lot of wraps.
Speaker 7: He's unsung, he's unfashionable, but he's playing so direct at
Speaker 7: the moment and I love him coming up against the
Speaker 7: big gun Bronco's forward pack and specifically paying hass.
Speaker 4: Battle of the ones for Mine Melbourne v south Sen
Speaker 4: and Latron Mitchell back at full back against Ryan Papenhausen
Speaker 4: who's had a good good year so far.
Speaker 5: Thank you. Hoop's very professional, right mate, and Mick love
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