Speaker 1: Better than the legal leg Coop Tedesco.
Speaker 2: He's played some great games for the Roosters, but he's
Speaker 2: in his two hundred and fiftieth. It was one of
Speaker 2: his very very best.
Speaker 3: I'm saying top five. It was that good. Obviously milestone
Speaker 3: for him, the club under a bit of pressure in
Speaker 3: a must win game for them. I'll tell you what
Speaker 3: he delivered. And he didn't do anything out of the box.
Speaker 3: He just did like all the little things. Just super fast,
Speaker 3: super aggressive, fast in the opposition and that pinball mentality. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it was. It was a captain's knock when the club needed.
Speaker 3: I thought it was a very very good performance.
Speaker 2: It's really funny, it's not Coops when you have It
Speaker 2: reminded me of one thing we've spoken before about. Sometimes
Speaker 2: you pick a team which necessarily might not have the
Speaker 2: best players, but he's going to neck tire team to
Speaker 2: how they should play. This one's the opposite. This one's like,
Speaker 2: who's our most important individual? Well, let's build a style
Speaker 2: of football that's going to bring out the best in them.
Speaker 2: And I thought Coops the lack of big sequence football,
Speaker 2: like put it this way, tedesc out of me on
Speaker 2: Sweet Place looks about six and a half seven out
Speaker 2: of ten. Dangerous first receiver through the middle, it's about
Speaker 2: nine to nine a half out of ten.
Speaker 3: Well, I think you'd all also put that penrith performers
Speaker 3: in terms of that first twenty minutes was the reminder
Speaker 3: that not only the russ but Toasco, they probably all
Speaker 3: got back to the basic things doing it better. And
Speaker 3: when Toasco has been the best player on the field.
Speaker 3: He's had that perfect balance between sort of yardage hard work,
Speaker 3: but then that finesse at the at the attacking end
Speaker 3: of the field. And he did that like some of
Speaker 3: his touches for Bradley Try and some of that connection
Speaker 3: there with Kiri as well, like he put it together
Speaker 3: the good balance of that footing.
Speaker 2: Couse, when we used to work together, we said, always
Speaker 2: start a training session where his hats out onto either
Speaker 2: side of the ruck and we work on just all
Speaker 2: the time, repainting the harbor bridge, just going over and
Speaker 2: over on that basic fundamental of how to pull an
Speaker 2: outside defender, how to get to an outside defender, or
Speaker 2: how to get bring an outside defender to you a
Speaker 2: target defender.
Speaker 1: And I think in twenty twenty four with the.
Speaker 2: Fast rucks, what Tedesco did for the first trip, Radley
Speaker 2: was almost picture perfect. Drove deeper than the markers were,
Speaker 2: two steps forward at the aid offender to the city
Speaker 2: on his whels and then jump out to the outside.
Speaker 3: Matter and today's game where everything is sort of sideways
Speaker 3: and get it on the outside for the winger to score.
Speaker 3: If you want to go through a team, your first
Speaker 3: move must be straight and you have to give the threat.
Speaker 3: You're going to take that first defender off the ruck
Speaker 3: on the inside shoulder. And the fact that he bounced
Speaker 3: off Matt Lodgers thought, oh, I have to come to you.
Speaker 3: And Radley did a great job in terms of pushing.
Speaker 3: But that movement is like when we work together, it
Speaker 3: was always hards that did that for work. It's almost
Speaker 3: now that every player on the field has to have
Speaker 3: that foot work about a fullback and a kick return.
Speaker 3: He isolates one defender, moves and goes. Even Isaiaho when
Speaker 3: he does his ballplane like he does a similar thing.
Speaker 3: Not as athletic as Tedesco, but that straightness and move left,
Speaker 3: move right, then bounce out hard. Yeah, there's one on
Speaker 3: one like if you won on one with the Senate.
Speaker 3: You have to give the threat you're going to go
Speaker 3: in and then you could move either way.
Speaker 2: And like Coope, it's not and it's not a necessity
Speaker 2: be fast as such at first, but you've got to
Speaker 2: be rapid.
Speaker 1: You've got to have that first step quickness.
Speaker 2: And if we haven't just a little glance again to
Speaker 2: get that one Scottie is that he speed spooked them
Speaker 2: so much that Nathan Brown, who was actually two defenders.
Speaker 1: Out, actually turned in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like he's speed was such they spook He spooked
Speaker 2: them so much that outside of the target defender even
Speaker 2: they turned in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, to strip them on the right of Tedesco, he
Speaker 3: needs to run left first, if that makes sense. The
Speaker 3: ability to go in this way brings them in and
Speaker 3: they go off the back of that. But yeah, sublime ballplane,
Speaker 3: Like it doesn't matter if you're Tedesco, Isaiah. Well, let's
Speaker 3: say Shawn Johnson and benjaminsh you've got the big skip
Speaker 3: in the jump. It's sort of going through the gears,
Speaker 3: go fast, tempo, and then go fast again. And that's
Speaker 3: why Lodge turned in.
Speaker 2: And we've spoke a lot about Okay, the two most
Speaker 2: dangerous players in the rooster's lineup. Now that seem's not
Speaker 2: on the side. Manu and Tedesco how to get operated together.
Speaker 2: The other night they managed to do it. But I'm
Speaker 2: drifting across picking up Marno on inside balls, who'd sort
Speaker 2: of wander back in and form combination with Teddy.
Speaker 1: So just some nice stuff through the middle.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think whenever you get the ball in Marnho's hands.
Speaker 3: There's been a lot of talk around him playing five
Speaker 3: to eight or whatever, but this kind of stuff where
Speaker 3: they're combined and get him across the field, get him
Speaker 3: at first receiver. He's got that footwork that Tedesco does,
Speaker 3: so like anything, it's the perfect balance. But right center
Speaker 3: is his spot for the Roosters right now because defensively
Speaker 3: they need him there. But the more times he can
Speaker 3: do things like that, I think it helps for the points.
Speaker 1: Young playmaker. I reckon keep. You'd have spent a few
Speaker 1: time working with Sandon.
Speaker 2: Smith last week toughest job in Rugby League first Finals game,
Speaker 2: playing Penrith in Penrith, full stadium, hostile environment.
Speaker 1: Nathan Cleary returned and.
Speaker 2: I thought, you know, he might have one or two hours,
Speaker 2: but I thought he held his hands up pretty good
Speaker 2: in this game.
Speaker 1: That was his reward.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he scored that try, and that was a pretty
Speaker 3: good try. Because sometimes you talk about playing Penrith and
Speaker 3: you start looking for all the flashy stuff. How are
Speaker 3: you going to break down Penrith. Well, the break down
Speaker 3: Penrith like any other team by going north south first
Speaker 3: before you go east west. And I thought his running
Speaker 3: game was good. He really terrorized mainly his defense at
Speaker 3: different stages, but then he also had the high percentage stuff.
Speaker 3: I thought his king game was improved and his defense
Speaker 3: was as well. So look, it doesn't get any easier.
Speaker 3: You're playing a final series at that young age, Like
Speaker 3: I remember my first few that you got into them
Speaker 3: hoping that you'd play well crossing fingers and I hope
Speaker 3: I play well. I hope we win. But hope doesn't
Speaker 3: get you anywhere. You've got to be a certain if
Speaker 3: you've got to be dominant, you've got to have an
Speaker 3: aggressive time to go after it. And I think the
Speaker 3: one thing that all players need at this time of
Speaker 3: year is don't hesitate, because once that ball is there
Speaker 3: for the taking, you've got to be first to it.
Speaker 2: I don't have much of a life cupis hence the
Speaker 2: reason why I go back and watch whole games. But
Speaker 2: I saw some of your games in your first final series,
Speaker 2: went back hadlog and what You've always got to have
Speaker 2: a certain I think focus when you're going in those
Speaker 2: first games. And what struck me about you Cooper when
Speaker 2: you played that first final series you didn't try to
Speaker 2: do too much. There was a lot of widthyr game.
Speaker 2: It was all mainly one meter passes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I played my strengths. I was Tanasius and the
Speaker 3: way they ran the football and then when I started
Speaker 3: running the football out a short pass and then my
Speaker 3: pass outside of that was basically the English or slater.
Speaker 3: So I never went fishing for the long pass. If
Speaker 3: it was game plan that there was a kick on that,
Speaker 3: I'd do that. But at this time of year, I
Speaker 3: think the simpler things are better. Yeah, And whatever you
Speaker 3: are as a player, whether your front rail, fullback or
Speaker 3: a half, bring your strengths to that simple game. Don't
Speaker 3: all of a sudden start looking to throw long passes.
Speaker 3: If you don't do them all you long, don't do
Speaker 3: anything different. Just be aggressive. And I think the teams
Speaker 3: that lost on the weekend, in terms of the Cowboys
Speaker 3: and Manly, just didn't have that intent. They didn't like.
Speaker 3: I really loved the mindset of what the Roosters and
Speaker 3: the Sharks particularly brought to their game. Like it was direct,
Speaker 3: it was intent and things like one of the best
Speaker 3: things you can find on intent is I know there
Speaker 3: was some carnage in the Rooster's Manly Game, but like kickchase,
Speaker 3: like that is one area that you can define your
Speaker 3: intent on. And what the Sharks did to the Cowboys,
Speaker 3: particularly trindle kicking game and the outside backs chase, although
Speaker 3: it was very good.
Speaker 1: It's funny.
Speaker 2: Like coops, it takes a lot of hard work to
Speaker 2: do things simple. Now what I mean I think as
Speaker 2: far as preparation and mental attitude, we can sit here
Speaker 2: and go, look, you attain the ball, you got you're attacked, simple.
Speaker 1: You get forward, you play the ball quick, kick well,
Speaker 1: you defend with energy.
Speaker 2: You don't do those things really well, you're going to
Speaker 2: win the football game.
Speaker 1: And you sit there and go, well, that's really easy.
Speaker 2: Well it is in theory, but to get out there
Speaker 2: and get yourself up for the occasion all the time,
Speaker 2: that's hard.
Speaker 3: And I thought, yeah, there was carnage at the start
Speaker 3: of the Rooster's Manly Game, but Hargroves he returned to
Speaker 3: the game, he's first carrying. Well, he didn't mean it,
Speaker 3: and you feel for Kohla, but that was a sign
Speaker 3: that his intent right.
Speaker 1: Well, you compare that to the week before.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the next one's Lindsay Collins. He's another front row.
Speaker 3: So just set the tie off two carries, and I
Speaker 3: think the top four teams playing this weekend. I'll tell
Speaker 3: you what. I think the open exchange is going to
Speaker 3: be so good.
Speaker 2: First, he thoughts on Manly suason inconsistent. I almost think
Speaker 2: it's fitting in some ways that the Cowboys and Manly
Speaker 2: have been eliminated simultaneously because they both of those sides
Speaker 2: almost been very similar.
Speaker 1: Hard to follow.
Speaker 3: I agree middle of the road teams because their defense
Speaker 3: is inconsistent. Their attack, for both of them is as
Speaker 3: good as anything in the competition. Talk about Manly brooks
Speaker 3: out at a dimension to them. Turbo is obviously a frequent
Speaker 3: what he does, and they've got speed on the wings.
Speaker 3: But if Manly's defense doesn't improve in the off season,
Speaker 3: they'll do exactly what they did again this year. They'll
Speaker 3: be good for a period of time. I'll fall back,
Speaker 3: they will score forty points, then they'll concede thirty and
Speaker 3: then they'll get to Week two of the finals again.
Speaker 3: If they want to take that next step, they need
Speaker 3: to improve defensively, and yeah, I thought the left side
Speaker 3: of the roosters cause chaos down the right side of
Speaker 3: Manli's But DC for me has been great at what
Speaker 3: thirty five thirty six in February twelve months ago he
Speaker 3: was a player of the Manly Seagulls. This year I
Speaker 3: thought he was terrific. But I think if he wants
Speaker 3: to go and win that camp before he's done, I think,
Speaker 3: and he's the front Lady's energy and mainly in the
Speaker 3: back end of the year, maybe the rep footy thing might
Speaker 3: be something that he'll put a question.
Speaker 2: Everybody gets they got at that point if they want
Speaker 2: to prolong their career, and mainly it's key individuals like
Speaker 2: Dali and Tom are great instinctive players, and with great
Speaker 2: instinctive players, we.
Speaker 1: Can't it gets.
Speaker 2: It's fast football, it's reactive football, and that sort of
Speaker 2: football does bring errors.
Speaker 1: So it's exactly what you said.
Speaker 2: They've got a tidy up there defense to defend absorb
Speaker 2: those errors.
Speaker 1: They just couldn't do it this year.
Speaker 3: Because they've got the kicking game through Cherry Evans to
Speaker 3: absorb long minutes so they can kick and kick and
Speaker 3: fight with other teams, but defensively they just don't hold
Speaker 3: their gloves up long enough. Physically, I thought they improved
Speaker 3: in the back end of the ear. I thought the
Speaker 3: forwards really stood up towards the back end, but obviously
Speaker 3: fell over the last Turtle.
Speaker 1: Players.
Speaker 2: I think coming out of Origin, which he would have disappointed,
Speaker 2: he just was never really given a chance at all
Speaker 2: in Origin. I think he came out of that a
Speaker 2: little bit flat, as most players do, but then he
Speaker 2: really picked up that last month Sharks could not have
Speaker 2: been more different than the week before. It must have
Speaker 2: been a great week of self reflection for the Sharkis.
Speaker 2: And we've said the best football comes from simplicity. Hit
Speaker 2: the line, hard, play the ball, quick, create space for
Speaker 2: your playmakers, kick well, defend your ass off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought, like if you go watch the Melbourne
Speaker 3: game where they lost, they dropped the kickoff, but they
Speaker 3: got it back towards halftime, and some of their football
Speaker 3: to get that score back was actually quite direct. I
Speaker 3: didn't mind some of it. There was some really poor
Speaker 3: stuff that cost them, but there was glimpses that they
Speaker 3: were almost there. But I'll tell you what I loved
Speaker 3: out of the Sharks game was Brandon Trindle's kicking game
Speaker 3: and the outside backs chase game.
Speaker 1: Oh wow.
Speaker 3: They scored two or three tries from kicks purely because
Speaker 3: of Trindle's placement and the effort and the desire for
Speaker 3: their outside backs to chase. If Mullatalo Cato doesn't chase
Speaker 3: those balls and get contact to them, that's not a try.
Speaker 3: And sometimes finals is all about just one effort, effort
Speaker 3: more than the opposition, and it will come down with
Speaker 3: the foot. I thought it was very good, well, Coop.
Speaker 2: We saw for about being one of Tedesco's greatest performances.
Speaker 2: Maltalo hasn't had a lot as long as career as teddies.
Speaker 2: I thought it was one of his greatest. He led
Speaker 2: those outside backs in every area. The outside backs, the
Speaker 2: back five had over one hundred runs.
Speaker 1: Coops.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that is so crucial to take when you
Speaker 2: when you're going to play the very best teams who
Speaker 2: are going to drill your middle and really go at you.
Speaker 1: You've got to help your forwards out.
Speaker 2: The forwards are going to retain some petrol and tech
Speaker 2: for the fence, and the Sharks do that probably better
Speaker 2: than anyone when they're firing.
Speaker 3: Because they're energetic in the back film and the hell
Speaker 3: of finishes near the trial line too. So I think
Speaker 3: they fight fire with five pth this week like they're
Speaker 3: back five vers Penis back five. And you know, let's
Speaker 3: give Heines a tip of the cap, right we talk
Speaker 3: about how you know, let's use a Melbourne storm spine
Speaker 3: as when Harry Grant's on Munster and huge step back.
Speaker 2: Look at Jerome last week, Monster's on Harry's stilling through.
Speaker 1: I'm going to take a step back here.
Speaker 3: And with all the pressure, he became a role player
Speaker 3: for Trindle, Like Trindle dominated the kicking, he had the
Speaker 3: hot hand, he was doing it all and heinz to
Speaker 3: his credit. When you know what, there's a team first
Speaker 3: mentality here, Brad, keep doing what you're doing and I'll
Speaker 3: do a couple of pieces here and there.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about nick O.
Speaker 2: I was going to talk about Braden first, but let's
Speaker 2: talk about Nika and I agree with that. One of
Speaker 2: the worst things about it about professional sport Coober and
Speaker 2: I understand it's professional sport and it's a tough school, right.
Speaker 2: But what begins so often as measured criticism or critiquing
Speaker 2: suddenly accelerates out of control and becomes this massive pile
Speaker 2: and takes on a life its own. And that's been
Speaker 2: the case a little bit with Nigger. Nick is not
Speaker 2: immune to criticism. And Nico's confidence has been down and
Speaker 2: he's been playing within himself. But sometimes, and I've said
Speaker 2: this number of times, coops, sometimes just what you don't do.
Speaker 2: Trendle went out there the other night and the ball
Speaker 2: was hitting his hands perfect. You have nights like that,
Speaker 2: and Nick goes down in conference. He could have done
Speaker 2: what equal to do one of two things slip back
Speaker 2: and deputize and compliment what he does, or.
Speaker 1: Go out there try to prove.
Speaker 2: Everyone wrong, demand the football, force yourself into the game,
Speaker 2: and I reckon they don't win.
Speaker 3: Yep, one hundred percent agree with that. You can't have
Speaker 3: one without the other. This game is loved by a
Speaker 3: lot and people will critique it. I think Nico Heines
Speaker 3: needs to put it in its own box like it
Speaker 3: is what it is. Feedback from those who see the
Speaker 3: game through a different lens. That's not your coach, not
Speaker 3: your playing group, not your mentors is irrelevant to be fair,
Speaker 3: and I think it's I think it's fair that nicko
Speaker 3: Hein stands up and plays the way he plays, because
Speaker 3: that's what will tell the criticism to go away. At
Speaker 3: the end of the day, performance is king. Winning is
Speaker 3: even better. And I've had stages through my career where
Speaker 3: you've been under pressure. That's just there. It doesn't force
Speaker 3: you to do anything greater, worse, or you can't feel
Speaker 3: like you're a victim. Just improve on the skills, go
Speaker 3: out and perform. And this might be really strange. Well,
Speaker 3: I think they've got a chance this week. I feel
Speaker 3: like if they can put the perfect game together. They
Speaker 3: match up nicely, I love the power of their back rowers,
Speaker 3: and maybe they can get it done.
Speaker 2: The last thing I just want to say on Nick
Speaker 2: out and I think applies to a lot of young players,
Speaker 2: is that it's never been tough to be professional sportsman.
Speaker 2: The wall of noise that comes at you all the
Speaker 2: time from social media, there's so many outlets. We're part
Speaker 2: of it. We sit here, we talk about it. We
Speaker 2: try to be measured, but there's times that people want
Speaker 2: more measured. Well, yeah, and you're vicious. I hear players
Speaker 2: sometimes say I don't care. Well, that's wrong. It doesn't
Speaker 2: I'll say this fifty three years of age. For me,
Speaker 2: it's taken a lot of a lot of kickens and
Speaker 2: a lot of stuff to go into my life to
Speaker 2: actually get to the point that you go, I don't
Speaker 2: care what a person thinks. Now that is not the
Speaker 2: domain of someone in their twenties. Is that you have
Speaker 2: to go through a lot and the day that actually
Speaker 2: you don't care is one of the best. You move
Speaker 2: at a really great party of your life.
Speaker 1: But in your.
Speaker 2: Twenties, you know, going into thirties, most people are thin skinned.
Speaker 3: I'll put it this way. Through my career, I think
Speaker 3: I could honestly respect four or five people's opinion. Cheers one,
Speaker 3: you two, God, No, that's how you put it together, right.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of people when we do it, we'll
Speaker 3: commentate on our game, find ganiche, find who those who
Speaker 3: you believe that the feedback is warranted, and trust that
Speaker 3: other than that, the rest is just noise.
Speaker 2: What I like to about Trendle again very similar, Nicko,
Speaker 2: is that all that brilliant stuff stemmed off simplicity. And
Speaker 2: we said before you know, they better off playing North South.
Speaker 2: We've done a lot of geography in this show. The
Speaker 2: better off playing Sidney to Mount Isa than Sydney to Perth.
Speaker 2: And a playmaker is in charge of that, and I
Speaker 2: reckon one of the things for playmakers to understand. I
Speaker 2: thought trindled it the other night, right at the moment
Speaker 2: that you would naturally call the football sometimes say it
Speaker 2: or forward. Just give me another one, Just give me,
Speaker 2: just give me another strong hit up.
Speaker 1: Play the ball quick, going to.
Speaker 2: Give me more momentum, going to give me more time
Speaker 2: and more space. They scored some brilliant tries the other
Speaker 2: night Sharks, but if you go back and look at it,
Speaker 2: it was just based off guys hitting the line hard,
Speaker 2: play the ball quick.
Speaker 3: I like his temperament because there was a big game
Speaker 3: in his career and there was a lot of noise
Speaker 3: about the Sharks in general not being able to win finals,
Speaker 3: and I beg it's a team that was probably in
Speaker 3: good form. I liked that he had the confidence and
Speaker 3: the temperament to go after it like some other hars. Okay,
Speaker 3: Niko as the origin player, I hope he goes okay today.
Speaker 3: I'm just going to sit back here and hold. But
Speaker 3: he didn't hesitate like he really dominated the kick in
Speaker 3: the early exchanges, started to find his rhythm, ran the football,
Speaker 3: set up some tries, and then he was scoring tries
Speaker 3: on the other side of the field too. That tells
Speaker 3: me that he's actually moving around and looking to be involved.
Speaker 3: So career best performance from him. It's very good.
Speaker 2: It was really good Cowboys season. Well, I mean whatever
Speaker 2: you just said about Manly just so, I love the
Speaker 2: fact that I love it when the Cowboys come.
Speaker 1: Out and they play fast.
Speaker 2: But eventually, sometimes through the game, you've got to tick
Speaker 2: all the brakes. You got to slay the temper, you've
Speaker 2: got to frustrate the opposition. You've got to be able
Speaker 2: to do both.
Speaker 1: And they just can't seem to do the second.
Speaker 3: It's almost like just at times they lacked the concentration
Speaker 3: of the focus to do things. Defensively, Yeah, they put
Speaker 3: a lot of effort into their attack, but they don't
Speaker 3: back it up with that grunt. Defensively, they have origin
Speaker 3: players throughout their list. Should be a team that should
Speaker 3: have done better. What is it two years ago that
Speaker 3: prelim final. I firmly believe that they should have been
Speaker 3: knocking on the door for prelim prelim pre limb.
Speaker 2: When they lost by a fraction of that prelim PARAMOUNTA
Speaker 2: knocked him over. I thought the next year, this young
Speaker 2: player I pushed off balance, similar to the Broncos, not
Speaker 2: to the extent, but similar, similar philosophies. And then so
Speaker 2: I thought, okay, this will be there. They correct have
Speaker 2: They've had a better season, but they'll still be deviled
Speaker 2: by the same problem.
Speaker 3: And they changed leadership. They went with did and kind
Speaker 3: of which I really like, like did and was their
Speaker 3: best player even both sides of the football. Is competitive,
Speaker 3: competitiveness defensively and his arrow straight attack, I mean captain
Speaker 3: for a long time there. But I just think they
Speaker 3: should have done better last couple years. And it's not attack.
Speaker 3: They don't need to do anything better attack. They are elites.
Speaker 1: It's manly defense like Luki. At the end there all
Speaker 1: things considered.
Speaker 3: Their back rollers like Nana and Luki, like if you're half,
Speaker 3: if you drink water or didn't to have athleticism, toughness
Speaker 3: and skill with their footwork. It's a dream.
Speaker 2: Next week Curbs Friday storm versus Roosters in Melbourne and
Speaker 2: Amy Park. Then on Saturday we've got the Panthers up
Speaker 2: against Kronulla at a course stadium. If I was to
Speaker 2: tell you that there is going to be an upset
Speaker 2: in one of those games is going to be a
Speaker 2: major upset, which one do you think it'd be most likely?
Speaker 3: I give both teams a chance. This is strange because
Speaker 3: I think Storm and Penrith have been on a collision
Speaker 3: course for a long time. It's going to take both
Speaker 3: the Sharks and the Roosters their best football to do it.
Speaker 3: But sometimes in rugby league it's not straightforward. I've played
Speaker 3: in games where you probably should win and you don't.
Speaker 3: Why because the other team have that pressure in mentality,
Speaker 3: the physical or aggressive, they unsettle you a little bit.
Speaker 3: I like the Sharks, but it's going to take their
Speaker 3: best performance under Craig Fitzgibven.
Speaker 1: To to like about it.
Speaker 2: It's the fact that they've had they've had this weight
Speaker 2: around their neck that was just it's just got heavier
Speaker 2: and heavier when they keep losing.
Speaker 1: And another one that the Sharks have lost it again.
Speaker 2: They can't do pressure on everyone from coach down to rookie.
Speaker 2: But that win, that that win the other night. It's
Speaker 2: a big mental adjustment now because they'll go into this game,
Speaker 2: they'll be buoyed. It'll be much more enjoyable week, and
Speaker 2: you know what it'll be the other thing, No one's
Speaker 2: going to really give them a chance.
Speaker 3: I think there's two things where the Sharks need to dominating.
Speaker 3: They need to stop Penis back three from being the
Speaker 3: meta eaters and the energy gives to that pair of team.
Speaker 3: But what I mean by that is Trindle needs to
Speaker 3: kick the ball deep and high and give his opposition
Speaker 3: he's wingers outside back as an opportunity. This is here
Speaker 3: in Melbourne versus Penrith. The ball goes up and William
Speaker 3: warbrick Out jumps Edwards, the score a try. You've got
Speaker 3: Taruvera and Edwards not the tall in the competition Raiders.
Speaker 3: Another loss from Penrith, the ball goes up Tole comes
Speaker 3: Forwardaby Savage catches it. So I think the kicking game
Speaker 3: of Trindle needs to be on and this is the
Speaker 3: type of kickchase that the Sharks need to do again
Speaker 3: right and they're outside backs are key to it. Shut
Speaker 3: down the back three of Penrith. But then also Moltalo, Jesse,
Speaker 3: Raymian Carter get through and compete on every fifth play
Speaker 3: on the flip side for them to score points, I
Speaker 3: think they need to bring out their outside backs. We
Speaker 3: spoke about and playing north south, but when Cronulla shift
Speaker 3: the ball from coast to coast and have that let's
Speaker 3: call fullback mentality of Heinz, Trindle, Kennedy and niker At
Speaker 3: doing things like that, that's the key.
Speaker 1: And you're right, Coop.
Speaker 2: Sideways ball movement is fine as long as there's a
Speaker 2: corrector there, and the corrector oftentimes, particularly on that right side,
Speaker 2: is Nickrup. You need, yes, a back rower there. Straight
Speaker 2: you need to correct push the ball sideways. Every sideways
Speaker 2: ballman at least needs a short ball option.
Speaker 3: Because I like Jesse Raymian's athleticism up against Alamoni. I
Speaker 3: just feel like there's not too many chinks in Pederis defense.
Speaker 3: But if you can nullify their back three, and then
Speaker 3: if the Sharks can have that type of intensity to
Speaker 3: back themselves and shift the ball to their outside bend
Speaker 3: and give.
Speaker 2: Them a chance one on one the Roosters versus the
Speaker 2: storm pack. For the Roosters, you know they need a
Speaker 2: comprehensive victory and yardage and they play the ball speed.
Speaker 2: Because when you talk about the major threat coming from
Speaker 2: the Roosters against the Melbourne Storm.
Speaker 1: That's what we said before.
Speaker 2: It's Tedesco drilling through the middle, the major threat, the
Speaker 2: Storm's major threat. Take your pick, Monster Hughes Grant, perhaps
Speaker 2: all through the middle in combination, back to back place.
Speaker 3: Yep. If this is a tight contest, the Roosters will
Speaker 3: be in with a chance because I think if they're
Speaker 3: going to go down there and win, it has to
Speaker 3: be their best defensive performance in a long long time.
Speaker 3: Because if you think of a play the ball, let's
Speaker 3: imagine the Rusters defending their troll on. You've got Harry
Speaker 3: Grant around the ruck. You've got months Are on one side,
Speaker 3: You've got Hues on the other, You've got Papaous and
Speaker 3: somewhere else. Every eye, every play the ball needs to
Speaker 3: be aware of those four because once one of them
Speaker 3: gets up and going. The Melbourne Storm get a lot
Speaker 3: of energy from their gun players playing well.
Speaker 2: And if you look at the history of upsets, coops
Speaker 2: their defense driven. You can do the things we're talking about,
Speaker 2: the short kickoff, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: it's driven by an underdog playing with an underdog mentality
Speaker 2: and attacking them with the defense.
Speaker 3: I don't mind the short kickoff idea, but it's a
Speaker 3: little bit like you must get the ball back because
Speaker 3: if you don't, it's a little of course, the balloon
Speaker 3: gets popped a little bit. So I don't mind the
Speaker 3: different approach, but it's got to work. It's almost like
Speaker 3: one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: Yes that mine.
Speaker 2: You're chipping over the top and it doesn't reserve thanks,
Speaker 2: who can beat him